In the Shangguan lord mansion, Southern state, Yuanzong province of the Yuan Dynasty-

"Mother, has that bastard been dealt with yet?"

"Almost Yue'er, he's already been punished by your father and is now in suppression room. With his current cultivation it'll cripple him but seeing as he is basically useless there's probably not much difference."

"This means that there's no way he will make it the family banquet in a year without losing face since father would never allow shame to befall the Shangguan name. Plus he's already been humiliated by that Ouyang Xuan and now that we've made him take the blame for the stolen spirit essence pill his reputation is as broken as his cultivation!"

Shangguang Yu, the current subject of the topic, who fainted in the suppression room suddenly opened his eyes. His tattered clothing and broken body lay unmoving on the ground. Only his eyes showed signs of life.

Shangguang Yu pushed himself up from the ground and slowly dragged himself out of the suppression room and then staggered into his courtyard.

'ah I am really so stupid to have fallen for Concubine Xin's scheme. She and Shangguan Yue certainly sacrificed a lot to harm me. Because of her, my foundation was broken and that destroyed my chance to go to the holy city.'

'It certainly feels nice to be back Shangguan Yue, Concubine Xin.'

Shangguan Yu who was now sitting cross legged on the ground abolished what was left of his previous cultivation, the seven star triagram method, which was recommended by his older brother Shangguan Yue, was totally unsuitable for him. It messed up the elements of his essence qi making cultivation ten times harder. His innate elements had a tendency towards the yin; water, ice and such cold elements were easier to cultivate for him probably as a result of his mother's extreme yin body type. However, this meant his features were more smoothed out, gentle and rather 'pretty' for a man and so was his figure. He had compact muscle lines and non of that explosive power that was often characteristic of the Shangguan familly. He had a complex ever since he was a child about this and it became a point of weakness for Shangguan Yue to exploit which was what pushed him onto the wrong path of martial arts. He became obsessed with strength and power, comparing his weaknesses to others' strengths and so naturally he fell behind, plagued by heart demons.

He finally got rid of these demons when he met him and they walked side by side as they explored the continent, aiming for the very top of the world. By accident, or perhaps by fate they found the reverse incarnation manual that was lost by the upper realms years ago.

The reverse incarnation skill could be used when two people who cultivated the skill in the demi-god realm or above dies simultaneously and it reverses time in accordance to how much cultivation base is sacrifcied. Just based on Shangguan Yu's cultivation alone he could've only reversed till 1,000 years ago, however, that man just had to destroy his own life core to send him back another 4,000 years. Once the skill was used it would send both users back in time, however, if the life core is sacrificed then the single life core left is shared between them. The two people's lives were connected, if one died the other could only die as well.

This reverse incarnation manual could only be used once and there were many people vying after it. If Shangguan Yu didn't get the manual by chance when it had fallen to the lower realms he would've died.

At the current time in the Shangguan household Shangguan Yu was considered the least 'talented' of those in the younger generation. At that time he was still naive, sheltered by his mother the first wife who was the third princess of the royal family. She had an extreme yin body which made her cultivation of yin type arts five times as fast as normal people. However, this constitution also meant her lifespan was shortened to a mere 50 years unless she could ascend to the sage realm. Now she had passed away at 50 but Shangguan Yu had only just turned 15. Without his mother's protection he finally realised the dog eat dog world of jianghu. Before he came back he took years to finally pick up himself and get it back together.

Shangguan Yu shuffled his thoughts, pushed back his tangled hair, dragged his broken body down onto his equally broken bed lay down and just slept.

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