Wuxia: Born with Severed Meridians, I Hunt Down Criminals to Restore Them

Jiang Ran transmigrates into a wuxia world, born with the Nine Death Meridians. He is fated to die at twenty, and medical texts say no one has ever survived that threshold. Raised by an old drunk for twenty years, he learns all his skills in medicine and swordsmanship, yet his life grows shorter by the day. Then the Bounty Hunter System awakens: capturing wanted criminals extends his life, and catching a single thief earns him sixty years of inner energy. His Nine Death Meridians begin healing on the spot.

While taking shelter from the rain at a mountain shrine, Ye Jingshuang rushes in, covered in blood, and begs for help. The man pursuing her is Zhang Dongxuan, former chief of the Heavenly King Stronghold, whose Iron Palm and Black Fiend Formless Hand are renowned throughout the martial world. The authorities have offered a thousand taels of silver for his capture. Jiang Ran meets Zhang Dongxuan's palm with his own. Zhang's meridians shatter, and he collapses to his knees, spitting blood. With his dying breath, he asks Jiang Ran's name. The moment he hears it, he dies.

Jiang Ran finds a Heartless Token on Zhang Dongxuan, uncovering a connection to the Heartless Ghost Manor and the massacre of the Ye family. He sets off for the prefectural office with the wanted man's head, ready to claim his reward and extend his life. Along the way, he also learns the Lightness Skill, Nine Steps of Heavenly Qian. The pursuers behind him keep coming, even with their arms severed, while the wanted list ahead is still a long one. Jiang Ran fingers his sword and thinks: Every villain in the world is medicine for me. Not one of them is getting away.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.