Ascension: The Unbroken Vow

A young cultivator named Kaelen Vane loses his family, sect, and first love to a rival clan massacre because he was too weak to protect them. Surviving through cowardice (hiding while others died), he makes an unbreakable vow: "I will become strong enough that loss becomes impossible. I will never again be the one who remains when others fall." 
His path takes him from the ashes of his former life to the peak of cultivation, accompanied by two women who become his equals and partners—not followers. Together they challenge the very foundations of a cultivation world that worships individual power above all else.