I am a little jiangshi. I spent a million years deep beneath the Netherworld, until baleful energy seeped into my soul and awakened my mind. When heaven and earth first formed, yin and yang converged and gave birth to all living things. The jiangshi are a different breed: they are outside the cycle of reincarnation and beyond Yan Wang's jurisdiction. I only wanted to emerge and see the jianghu, but as soon as I broke through the earth, the orthodox sects surrounded me as a calamity and beat me until my body and spirit were destroyed. But I refused to accept it. My soul would not disperse, and my resolve only burned brighter. I borrowed a wisp of my remnant soul to rebuild my corpse, vowing to rise from the ghostly path and become an immortal, trampling the golden reputations of those so-called righteous sects beneath my feet. This world has never been ruled by good or evil. The strong make the rules. Since I cannot die, I will become the greatest tyrant in all eternity, making the heavens tremble and every clan bow its head. The human path? The path to immortality? I'll trample them all underfoot. In this life, I will prove the Dao through my corpse, command life and death, and set the world in order.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.