In the room filled with old-world charm, Xiao Yi suddenly woke up.
"Eh, I'm not dead?" That was his first thought.
In the very next moment, he noticed he was in unfamiliar surroundings. Without any hesitation, he raised his hand to pat down on the bed, preparing to leap up.
This was the instinctive reaction of an excellent assassin.
As soon as his hand came down, intense pain struck, rendering his arm weak.
Why am I so weak?
...
Xiao Yi, a Huaxia person, a martial arts prodigy.
A master of Xingyi Fist who had cultivated Inner Strength.
When those ignorant foreigners mocked Huaxia martial arts as merely ornamental and useless in real combat...
He struck out in anger, sweeping through the underground fighting circuits around the world and setting a miraculous record of three hundred consecutive victories.
Not a single golden-belted champion could withstand even ten moves against him.
The name 'Xingyi Fist' became taboo and feared throughout the underground fighting world.
He was also an assassin, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, universally recognized as the Crownless King.
Since his debut, his mission success rate had reached a terrifying hundred percent.
People lined up to hire him, even at extravagant costs.
However, his professional ethics as an assassin, combined with his bottom line and responsibilities as a Huaxia person, meant he refused any job that could harm Huaxia.
He loved his motherland and viewed all forces and individuals trying to harm Huaxia with hostility.
Though he lived abroad, his heart always remained with his homeland.
When an SSS-ranked mercenary group ignored his warning and brazenly accepted a secret mission against Huaxia...
He unleashed his fury and carried out a bloody massacre on this top-ranking mercenary team, wiping them out in a single night.
Since then, Huaxia had become a Forbidden Land for mercenaries. No matter how notoriously ferocious, no mercenaries dared to cause trouble in Huaxia.
When the self-important agents and spies from the Country M planned to sneak into Huaxia to steal secrets...
He mercilessly assassinated those agents without hesitation.
After several agents, who had been legends in the Country M's espionage circles, met with their untimely deaths...
Those self-important agents from Country M finally realized his power and cruelty.
Since then, Huaxia had become a terrifying place that foreign spies dared not whisper about. No matter how well-trained or exceptional, none of the foreign agents dared step half a foot into Huaxia.
Naturally, this made him countless enemies.
People who wanted him dead were as numerous as the hairs on a cow.
On the global underworld bounty list, the reward for his assassination was frighteningly high, consistently topping the list.
Yet, when one top assassin after another, one legend after another, vanished without a trace upon accepting this assassination mission, no one dared mention the job again.
Killing Xiao Yi had become a taboo on the underground bounty list.
The bounty was out there, but no one dared to take it.
A few days earlier, he received news through special channels.
A foreign mercenary team, disguised as archaeologists, had snuck into Huaxia and unearthed a treasure at a heritage site.
And they had secretly transported it out of the country.
Naturally, Xiao Yi could not sit idly by.
Such a treasured artifact of the vast Huaxia could not be lost to foreign lands.
He immediately followed the mercenary team and eliminated them, retrieving the artifact.
Just as he was preparing to leave nonchalantly...
He was surrounded by hundreds of armed individuals.
He instantly recognized these people, some were elite agents from Country M, some were notorious mercenaries, others top assassins...
Xiao Yi immediately understood that this was a conspiracy.
A conspiracy specifically targeting him.
The mercenary team was just a decoy to lure him out.
Multiple forces had joined together for the sole purpose of killing him.
No matter how astute he was, he had still fallen into the conspiracy laid by these multiple forces.
But Xiao Yi was not afraid.
He was confident he could fight his way out despite his severe injuries, and there would be time later to settle accounts with this group.
Just as he was carving a bloody path to escape...
Blood from his wounds dripped onto the Huaxia artifact in his arms.
A sudden change occurred.
He felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his body went numb and his limbs felt powerless.
He could only watch helplessly as his enemies walked toward him with sinister smiles.
Nobody knew that Xiao Yi always carried a powerful bomb on him.
This bomb was powerful enough to reduce everything within a hundred meters to ashes.
Even on the simplest of missions, Xiao Yi would carry this bomb.
It was to guard against unexpected events.
As he detonated the bomb, his enemies' sinister smiles turned into panic.
The fierce explosion engulfed both him and all his enemies.
Xiao Yi's saying was always to keep an ace up your sleeve, so that, even in death, the enemies wouldn't have the last laugh.
...
"Hahaha..."
Xiao Yi could not help but burst into laughter.
Worth it, even if I died, having you all buried with me was enough.
"Ah, it hurts." Xiao Yi's laughter abruptly stopped as a wave of weakness swept through his body.
"No, I'm not dead." Xiao Yi was stunned, utterly baffled.
Feeling the weakness in his body meant he hadn't died!
Within the next second, a flood of strange memories entered his mind...
"Holy shit, I've actually transmigrated!"
Even though Xiao Yi had long been indifferent to life and death, having experienced many trials and tribulations.
He couldn't help but curse at this moment.
This place was no longer Earth but a different world known as the Flame Dragon Continent.
It was somewhat similar to the ancient Earth.
In this world, the strong were revered, and martial artists roamed freely.
As long as you had enough strength, you could rise above all.
And the reason he hadn't died was that he transmigrated and possessed the body of a recently deceased family scion.