Fallen Dominion: Blood of the Seven Districts
锈砚 Rust Ink
Ling Ling washes up in Seapolis with nothing — no ID, no past, no power. The city runs on underground fist manuals, gang territories, and grudges buried under high-rises. Starting on the bottom rung of Heng Street, he claws his way up through gang politics and tactical martial-arts combat to rewrite the power structure of all Seven Districts. Complete trilogy (803 pages), martial arts urban fantasy.
Progression: Martial-arts tier progression: the protagonist climbs explicit power tiers through underground fist manuals and combat mastery (author pitch: 'every tier-up hurts'). Rise from bottom rung of Heng Street gang hierarchy to ruler of all Seven Districts across the trilogy; combat grounded in martial arts rather than energy-blast cultivation.
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