Yang Lee was already 28 years old. He was transmigrated from the earth to this world. Because the clan leader believed that Yang Lee was a threat to his position, he had to eliminate him. Yang Lee's reputation in the sect was more than the leader because of his kindness and the habit of helping mortals including his enemies. He had never once killed anyone, not even his enemies. After being falsely accused, he was killed. Yang Lee's reputation in the sect was more than the leader because of his kindness and the habit of helping mortals including his enemies. As a result, he was killed.
However, his destiny was not to end here, it had something else decided for him. He ended up being reborn again into another body. (Remember that the timeline is the same, he was not sent into the past, but was transmigrated into another body, continuing the time.)
There, the body he transmigrated into was known as Yang Zhai. His talent was not high. Yang Zhai always felt that he had transmigrated to a place worse than his previous clan because of the treatment he got.
Time went on, and he left the clan and began his journey.
While growing black flower leaves, he came across a woman named Cho Byeol. She had been betrayed by her lover and her mother also died because of this. She blamed herself for her mother's death.
However, soon Yang Zhai and Cho Byeol fell in love with each other. So much so that they could not live without each other. Time passed and a man named Chen Ki entered their life.
Yang Zhai and Chen Ki fought. However, because of his habit of not killing anyone, he spared him as well.
However, he came back again, giving Cho Byeol a wound that could not be healed. This increased her suffering and she was feeling more and more pain with every passing minute. Time went by, and a day came when Yang Zhai killed her with his own eyes.
A man who never killed, for the first time, killed the one he loved more than his life. He became a man whose kindness resulted in regret. He killed Chen Ki after a few years.
Time moved on, his journey took him to many places.
One day, thousands of cultivators of higher rank gathered to kill him. He had become someone who only cared for himself. To him, killing was nothing now.
In the final war, he fought, killed thousands, injured all, destroyed many families, and his terror spread across the skies and earth. However, even he was a human, he too had limits, his heart was pulled out of his chest, but he managed to keep himself alive for a while.
As it turned out, he had made the plan of his own death. There was a sword with him that also died with him. Both of them died and entered the time's lap.
Yang Zhai was reborn 1100 years back into the past. However, this time around, he had made himself reborn. With him, came a half-refined Aurora. He forgot a path, and everything related to it, but he remembered the materials needed to complete the Aurora.
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There began a new journey, from the start, but this time around, he was the hunter. He awakened his aperture, and came across a small inheritance from where he got the Bloody Storage Ka.
The day when a class leader was to be chosen came. With a little bit of effort, he became the class leader easily. It was needed for his future plans. He sacrifices two souls to refine the Strength Ka. With its help, he advanced quickly and his strength also increased.
However, as his red lines had just appeared in the aperture, he could add any beast's ability in them, he took a risk, but was caught in a trap and almost lost his eyes. He could only see blurry things now and needed to look closely to discern what he was looking at.
He started to make the disciples adapt to him and mold them into someone who listened to his orders without any hesitation. He threatened Elder Cu Gil into giving him a Blue Gem. Yang Zhai threatened both the inn manager and the librarian who were responsible for him almost being blinded into listening to him.
The class competition began, putting the class leader position as a reward. As Yang Zhai didn't want that, he went at it with the mind to win. Even though it was difficult with his almost blinded state, he still won because of his tactics. He remained as the class leader.
He used Ha Kun to reach rank 1 Perfect or the Over stage. A stage unknown to the world. As the name suggests, this stage was over the peak of this world and was a perfect stage. Meaning, perfection had been reached and a cultivator could not go beyond that. Here, his essence water reached 100 percent limit, and his flaws and injuries were healed. His almost blinded state was healed, he could see again.
The guests of the Ma clan arrived. With them were Elder Jun Nie, and his son Jun Haru.
Jun Nie had planned with Jun Haru to kill the Bai clan leader's daughter; however, in reality, his real plan was to kill his own son to start a war.
Yang Zhai was pulled into a fists fight with Yen Hu, Jun Nie's personal disciple. On the other hand, while working on his plan, Jun Haru was attacked by two Ma clan disciples who had accompanied them to the Bai clan.
He was almost at death's door when he was saved by Yang Zhai. Both of them sat to discuss. It turned out that Yang Zhai had sent a letter to him through the librarian, informing him of Jun Nie's plan. They had also met the night before Jun Haru was attacked. In return, Yang Zhai asked for three things(105) in return from Jun Haru. In his previous life, a war had occurred, but this time around, Yang Zhai managed to stop it.
Jun Haru was scared as to what to do now. But Yang Zhai handed him a letter and sent him to Jun Nie. Yang Zhai had instructed Jun Haru to not open the letter because it had Red Wood Clay on it.
Jun Haru handed the letter to Elder Jun Nie. Jun Nie was left helpless to do anything after reading the letter(106). Yang Zhai had managed to trap Jun Nie with just a few words.
Then after that, he reached rank 2 and managed to hunt Moon Bull this time. The orange lines gained the ability of the moon bull.
After that, they departed for the Ma clan. But on their way, they were attacked by a few black-cloaked men. They had come to kill Jun Nie and were ordered by Zihao De. Zihao De thought that Jun Nie was the one responsible for Tai Qi's son's disappearance.
The battle continued and Yang Zhai defeated a rank 2 body cultivators. He got a storage bracelet from that cultivator. There, he found two rank 2 Blue Gems.
Both academy leaders took action and defeated all of the left black-cloaked men easily.
Yang Zhai activated the Blue Gems to reach the third stage from the early stage, easily.
They reached the Ma clan. It turned out that they were there to negotiate about the inheritance. And as a result, a competition was decided upon, or to be exact, a death game began. In Yang Zhai's previous life, the competition didn't happen, indicating that the butterfly effect was taking shape.
Yang Zhai got the two materials he had wanted from the Ma clan with the help of Jun Haru, fulfilling one out of the three conditions.
The competition began, and the first round was won by the Ma clan. The second round's date was going to be announced a month later.
Knowing the consequences and the workings of the competition, Yang Zhai disappeared. He knew that he could only trust himself.
He had appeared in the mortal village that was the den of the ones hunting the rank 1 newly awakened cultivators. Yang Zhai too was almost blinded because of this.
While investigating, he came across an unusual phenomenon. When he was passing in front of a house, he felt a little revitalized. He investigated and found out about the two kids. Both of them were siblings whose mother was burned to death by a cultivator. They hated cultivators to the brim.
Their physiques were unusual and strange. They were Si Yu and Li Na. Yang Zhai thought of something and decided to recruit them. However, he wanted to make sure that they felt they owed him greatly. Thus, his manipulation of them began.
He also investigated and got involved with those newly awakened cultivator killers. However, when in the forest, something happened to him and he killed many cultivator killers in the forest. He didn't know what happened, but to be safe, he killed everyone present on the scene. His plan failed.
However, he quickly devised a new plan and killed the cultivators involved in killing the newly awakened cultivators with the help of Si Yu and Li Na.
And the leader of that group turned out to be that village's leader. Yang Zhai got rid of him as well and got a lot of essence stones.
After that, he went back to the village as the second round was about to begin.
There, he rented a house. He also reached rank 3 and suppressed his aura with Blue Gem.
The second round began, Si Kim won and Ai Hao lost, the Bai clan was about to lose, but Yang Zhai arrived just at the right moment. Everyone suspected that Yang Zhai did it on purpose. Of course, he placed the blame on Cu Gil, to increase the conflict between the Bai clan and the Ma clan.
He also ordered Si Yu to place a bet on him, but asked for the essence stones and the Ka from the Ma clan. The Ma clan considered it a mocking from the Bai clan. Yang Zhai won and benefited. He also got rank 3 the Blood Demon Ka.
Zihao De asked Yang Zhai to kill Jun Haru. The next day, when they were returning back to the clan, Yang Zhai and the other two disciples were attacked by an arrow, but were saved by the academy leaders.
However, after investigating the one captured by academy leader Yu Ene, it turned out that the arrow wasn't for the three disciples, but for Feng Qi. Someone from the clan was trying to eliminate Tai Qi's inheritor.
While on his way back to his house on a certain night, Ci An attacked Yang Zhai. Yang Zhai defeated her and was about to know who sent her, but she was killed by Elder Jil Lu, who was one of the few elders protecting Yang Zhai. Yang Zhai knew that Jil Lu was a traitor.
A traitor protecting him during the death game was like a sword hanging above his neck all the time. As a result, Yang Zhai told Cu Gil that her daughter was killed by Jil Lu, hoping he would kill Jil Lu. He also bought the night owl and stored its ability in the Yellow Line.
As a result, a fight broke out between Cu Gil and Jil Lu. Yang Zhai took advantage of the situation and ran.
Then he sent a letter to Cu Gil, and after two days, he sent a letter to the Clan leader. Of course, in the letter were mentioned Tai Qi's wife and Cu Gil. But Yang Zhai also added Jil Lu to the clan leader's letter.
As a result, Cu Gil and the clan leader's wife ran with the clan leader's daughter, or to be more exact, with their daughter.
Yang Zhai killed both the Moon Bull Inn's manager and the librarian just to be careful after discovering that the one ordering them to kill the newly awakened cultivators was Zihao De.
The competition between the two academies—Si and Bai—was about to begin. Yang Zhai was preparing two deadly bottles of poison. One for Lie Yi and the other one for Ai Hao.
He knew that winning against Hyun Hae was almost impossible, so he was going to poison Lie Yi a little bit and ask her to lose, but the competition got postponed.
Yang Zhai managed to fool Ai Hao into drinking the deadly poison because he wanted to be more secure and get out of the clan's schemes of using him to trap the Ma clan. As a result, only two competitors were left to battle the final round of the death game competition.
However, a cougar attacked the competition venue. Yang Zhai managed to use many lives to save himself.
Later on, Ai Hao died and it turned out that the cougar was Tai Qi's wife, forcefully metamorphosed¹ into a cougar.
Yang Zhai managed to save himself from the allegations of killing Ai Hao.
The noble selection came and Yang Zhai refused. He extorted essence stones from Wei Li but still did not become a noble.
In the end, as only Si Kim and Yang Zhai were left, they were forced to live in the clan leader's residence just to be safe, a strong fortress with many elders protecting it, even Tai Qi.
Yang Zhai also extorted Tai Qi and Zihao De and managed to increase his body cultivation.
The final round started. Si Kim won his battle.
Yang Zhai and Jun Haru were about to battle, but the Ma clan tried to bribe Yang Zhai. A fierce battle of bribing Yang Zhai began between the Ma clan and the Bai clan.
The author became invisible, but fate had something else in store.
However, Yang Zhai managed to take advantage of the situation. He won and the Bai clan won the round.
And the preparations for a war began.
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1 Change or cause to change completely in form or nature.
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Author's note: For those wondering why I couldn't publish last year, I was going through a difficult time and struggling with my life. My mind wasn't in the right place. Although I could have published a few chapters each month, I held back, fearing it would negatively impact the story.