"I'm not dead!"

Jing Ke wakes from his faint, looking in shock at his still intact body!

His head was still there, his eyeballs moved actively, emanating a divine light!

"Emperor HuangTian, you decapitated me, gouged out my eyes, severed my limbs, annihilated my clan, this hatred, this vengeance won't be shared under the same sky, and will never disappear for all eternity!"

Jing Ke sprung out from bed, his arms trembling. However, there was no surge of divine power as he had expected. Instead, he saw his arms – frail, skinny, looking weak like firewood.

"How did this happen? Am I not dead?"

Jing Ke closed his eyes, and a flood of complex memories rushed into his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, the divine light within them was dull.

"I see! The world's number one assassin, Jing Ke, from ten thousand years ago was indeed torn into pieces by Emperor HuangTian! Fortunately, a strand of my soul managed to survive and was coincidentally reborn in this young man named Qin Ke!"

Ten thousand years ago, Emperor HuangTian annihilated all sides, unified the nine provinces and established the most glorious empire ever known, the Huang Empire!

At that time, Emperor HuangTian had monopolized the path to heaven, and coerced all cultivators to serve under him!

The family Jing Ke belonged to was a rather glorious family of swordsmen from ten thousand years ago.

As they had refused the Emperor’s recruitment, the entire clan of tens of thousands was exterminated overnight!

Only Jing Ke, who was eighteen years old, managed to survive by chance.

For revenge, Jing Ke lived under an alias and spent an entire five hundred years cultivating from the first level of heaven to the tenth!

Moreover, he single-handedly established the largest assassin organization known throughout history, Sky Path Assassins!

The name signifies playing the role of the Heaven's agent in punishing the tyrant, Huang Tian Emperor!

Simultaneously, "Sky Path Assassins" was also the code name for the top-secret plan of the entire organization!

Unexpectedly, just as Jing Ke was about to assassinate Huang Tian Emperor, he was betrayed by his own trusted disciple, Chu Qianlie!

The "Sky Path Assassins", painstakingly built up over a century, was dismantled overnight by Huang Tian Emperor!

At the same time, Jing Ke also became Huang Tian Emperor's captive prisoner!

Huang Tian Emperor even implicated all of the 'Jing Clan' due to this!

He issued an edict, ordering the extermination of Jing Clan within the nine provinces!

Jing Ke watched with his own eyes, under the edict of Huang Tian Emperor, as the heavens changed color and countless divine thunders fell from the sky!

In an instant, across the lands of the nine provinces, all ‘Jing Clan‘ members were reduced to ashes under the divine thunder!

Even more, Huang Tian Emperor swung his royal pen to issue a heavenly edict forbidding the use of the character 'Jing' across the heaven and earth!

With just one edict, he erased the character 'Jing' completely from the heaven and earth!

"Huang Tian Emperor, you would never have imagined that I, whom you banned with your edict, have returned!"

Jing Ke, with raging fury, strode towards the desk and swung his brush, wanting to write the characters 'Jing Ke’ on the white sheet!

With the brush moving fluidly like a dragon or a snake, the trails of ink were as sharp as swords!

The ink treasure was about to be formed, but at the last stroke of the character 'Jing', no matter how he tried, he couldn't complete it!

The wolf brush in his hand experienced resistance as heavy as ten-thousand weights, unable to move!

"Desolate Sky Emperor, you've issued an edict, eradicating the character 'Jing' from the nine heavens and ten earths, signifying its total extermination from this world! But, I am insistent on penning down a large, bold 'Jing' character!"

Jing Ke's anger surged through his arms, his fingers straining to create a complete 'Jing' character!

But no matter how hard he tried, the wolf brush in his hand seemed to be welded in place, unable to move an inch!

Crack!

With Jing Ke's gradually increasing strength, the wolf brush in his hand suddenly broke!

Unwilling to admit defeat, Jing Ke swiftly picked up another wolf brush!

The brush was swung and the ink was scattered!

Crack!

The wolf brush snapped once again!

Not until he had broken all twelve ironwood wolf brushes on the pen rack did Jing Ke sigh and settle down on the ground.

"Desolate Sky Emperor, this vengeance, this hatred, so profound that we can no longer share the same heaven, will last for eternity! Now that I, Jing Ke, have been reborn, even if I have to ascend to the divine realm, I will make you pay in blood!"

Creak!

At that moment, the door was pushed open, and a little maid stumbled in. Seeing Jing Ke sitting on the ground, she jumped in fright, "Oh, Young Master, why are you sitting on the ground? Please get up quickly, if you catch a chill, we won't have any money to buy medicine!"

Jing Ke's eyeball moved slightly, recognizing the girl as Qin Ke's personal maid, Qin Yue'er.

The Qin Ke he was reborn as, was a child born out of wedlock in the Qin family from the Liefyang Kingdom, always neglected and unloved.

Additionally, with mediocre talent for cultivation, he had no remarkable edge among dozens of brothers, and therefore was further neglected by his father, Qin Lieyang!

As a result, he ended up only with a little maid his mother had left behind before she died, depending on each other for survival, living in the only broken house in the entire royal mansion!

The living conditions and his status were even lower than that of the Qin household's servants!

"Yue'er, I'm fine, don't be nervous," Jing Ke quickly adapted to his new identity and accepted calmly, "Since Jing Ke can no longer reappear, then I'll be Qin Ke from now on! One day, I will have my revenge and rule over all under the heavens, making the entire world remember the name 'Jing Ke'!”

"Young Master, get back to bed quickly. Are you still uncomfortable somewhere? I'm to blame for not protecting you well and letting Qin Bao and the others harm you,” The eyes of Qin Yue'er were filled with tears. With her frail body supporting Qin Ke, she was about to help him onto the bed.

“This Qin Ke was too weak before, relying on a little maid to protect him. Such an embarrassment! No wonder he was beaten to death, providing me an opportunity to resurrect using his body!” After merging with Qin Ke's memories, Jing Ke finally understood that the original owner of this body was beaten to death by his own servants!

“Rest assured, I will avenge this for you!” Hearing Jing Ke's oath, the residual thoughts of Qin Ke at the bottom of his mind finally completely dissipated.

From then on, Qin Ke is Jing Ke! Just as the little maid helped him to the edge of the bed, Qin Ke looked up and suddenly noticed the other half of Qin Yue'er's face, which was swollen red!

Even a vivid slap mark stood out excessively glaring!

Qin Ke grabbed Qin Yue'er's wrist and asked, "What happened? Who hit you?"

A surge of anger rose in Qin Ke's heart!

He is not the weak young master who used to obey orders meekly anymore, but the audacious man who dared to assassinate the Emperor of Huang. His every move was marked by an immense aura!

Seeing the suddenly unfamiliar and terrifying young master before her, Qin Yue'er was so frightened that she almost cried!

Seeing Qin Yue'er's fearful and evasive expression, Qin Ke realized that his previous demeanor must have been too frightening. He strived to put on a gentle expression and looked at Qin Yue'er, asking, "Tell me, who hit you? I will cut off his hand!"

Qin Yue'er was clearly frightened, like a startled little rabbit, she fearfully dodged to the side, even more reluctant to meet Qin Ke's icy, knife-like gaze.

"It was... it was Qin Bao!" Although Qin Yue'er had difficulty adapting to the suddenly terrifying Qin Ke, she knew that Qin Ke was the person closest to her. She avoided his gaze and said in a low voice, "I went to get you some medicine, Qin Bao saw it, he wanted to snatch the medicine, I didn't let him, so he slapped me and... and took the medicine away."

After the maid finished speaking, she sneaked a glance at Qin Ke and apologized with a heartbroken, "I'm sorry master, it's all my fault, I didn't protect the medicine properly."

"Silly girl, look, I've been healed and don't need the therapy," said Qin Ke, showing a hint of tenderness in his eyes. He gently stroked Yue'er's head, saying sympathetically, "Don't act foolishly again in the future, is it just some packets of medicine? If he wants it, just give it to him, don't get yourself injured again."

"Um!" Qin Yue'er obediently nodded her head.

Bang!

Suddenly, the wooden door of the shabby courtyard was violently shattered!

A cloud of dust was stirred up, billowing!

As the dust dispersed, three teenagers dressed as servants of the Qin family strode in.

"Qin Ke, why hasn't this weakling croaked yet? It seems the young lord's worries were indeed valid. Well, well, since you're still alive, let us guide you on your final journey!" roared Qin Bao, the leader and the boldest among them, roared with a lunatic laughter from afar.

Qin Ke, with a flash of cold light in his eyes, defended the shaking Qin Yue behind him, glaring at the three men in the yard, roaring, "How dare you insolent dogs rebel, from servants to oppress your master. Do you really think I would not dare to kill you?”

How overpowering was Qin Ke's presence?

This roar was like a thunderclap out of the blue, frightening the three of them, almost causing their knees to buckle in fright!

However, Qin Bao and his men were accustomed to bullying Qin Ke, so they quickly calmed down, thinking that Qin Ke was simply struggling in vain.

"Mr. Qin Ke, you're right, I'm just a servant. Unfortunately, I serve the young lord, and as for you, a waste of a master, you're not qualified to be my master!”

Qin Bao laughed coldly, his hands moved like lightning!

His hands transformed into claws, his fingers trembling, akin to a hawk capturing a rabbit, causing a whistling wind as he aimed at Qin Ke!

"Blind are your cursed eyes!"

There's an explosive increase in the chilly gleam in Qin Ke's eyes, with a roar he thunderously strikes!

Qin Ke, though slower to start, was the first to hit, his clenched fist filled with vast power!

Boom!

With a single punch, Qin Leopard was sent flying!

Spurt!

Qin Leopard crashed onto the collapsed gate. Unfortunately, a broken doorway nailed him right through the heart and lungs. He spat out a mouthful of black blood and died with his eyes still open.

"Qin, Master Qin, we were wrong. We were blind... Please forgive us for our lacks!"

"This was all commanded by young master Hou. We were just following orders, young master Qin Qian. Please, spare our lives!"

Pa-tah!

The two servants who followed Qin Leopard were already scared to near death!

Even Qin Leopard was killed with a single punch - this kind of aura had already terrified them out of their wits.

When it came to life and death, all they hoped for was to survive.

Qin Qian too was a bit surprised - he didn't expect Qin Leopard would die like this!

Originally, he was already exhausted after knocking Qin Leopard away with a punch. Fortunately, these two servants were useless, scared out of their wits by Qin Leopard’s death. Otherwise, if they decided to fight, Qin Qian could only take the beating!

"My body is too weak now, without even a bit of cultivation. It seems I need to increase my cultivation level as quickly as possible!"

Qin Qian mused silently, his gaze still cold as ice, staring at the two kneeling servants. He shouted, "How dare you, you lowly dogs! Even at the point of death, you try to shift the blame onto young master Hou! A horrible way to die indeed!”

As soon as Qin Qian's scolding fell, two surging blasts of sword light shot in from outside the courtyard, piercing the heads of the two servants.

"You dare to smear it on this Lord! In your next life as dogs, you should keep your eyes wide open!”

A proud and aloof voice echoed from the sky. The young master Hou, dressed in a golden python robe, descended upon his mount!