Dragon Raised Sage Book 1: Dragon's Descent

Long Chen should have died on a frozen mountain pass at three months old. His parents were dead — killed by hired trackers. The cold was taking him. And then a dragon, grieving the loss of her own murdered child, found an infant trying to nurse from her claw and made a choice that would reshape two species.
For fourteen years, he was raised in a mountain lair among spirit beasts. His mother was a Verdant Jade Dragon. His siblings were a wolf pack. His first language was body language. His cultivation path was forged not by manuals or masters, but by watching predators hunt — the wolf-pack's coordinated strikes, the cliff-cat's instantaneous pounce, the serpent's patient constriction, the tortoise's immovable defense. His body was remade by dragon milk into something neither human nor dragon: bone density four times human standard, meridians coiled in dragon spirals, qi-perception that works through scent, temperature, and pressure.
He learned the dragon's law: the strong protect the weak.
Now, at fourteen, his mother has sent him down from the mountain. He must walk among humans — learn their alchemy, their forging, their formations. But Long Chen has never met another human being. He doesn't understand money, hierarchy, face, or why humans bow. He calls things exactly as he sees them, which reads as profound or insulting or naive, never neutral. He treats everyone by what they can do, not what station they hold.
He enters a dying sect in a dying kingdom on a dying continent, where spirit veins are fading and a planetary extraction organization called the Void-Bone Sect harvests cultivators the way wolves harvest prey. They will notice the boy with gold-slit eyes and dragon-bone density and scale-patches at his knuckles. They will want him. They will try to take him.
They have no idea what the dragon taught him.
The Dragon-Raised Sage is a progression fantasy about a boy caught between two worlds — the beast-realm that raised him and the human world that wants to consume him — who gathers the discarded, the crippled, and the overlooked into a pack, builds an empire from a dying sect, and discovers that the dragon's law is not just a moral code. It's the foundation of a cultivation path the world has never seen.