Myriad Realms: I Became the Strongest After I Died

Chen Tianjian has died 7,300 times.

Every time he comes back to life, he says nothing. He draws his blade and kills. Once the killing is done, he dies. After dying, he opens his eyes again.

On his 7,301st return, he kneels on the bluestone paving on the day his family is slaughtered. When his enemy's blade comes down, he tilts his head, and the edge slices off half an ear. Blood runs down into his collar. He doesn't even twitch an eyebrow.

The System chimes.

Plane Trading activated.

Resentment full. Exchange condition: kill one person, die once.

"Trade."

Just one word.

Seventeen steps, seventeen heads. He gets back up seventeen times, with nine broken bones. When he takes his father's head down from the crooked tree, his hands are steady. He wraps it in a rag and tucks it against his chest.

The System appears again:

The Nine Nether Platform. Thirty-seven enemies. Your father is beneath the platform. Choose one.

He doesn't choose. He walks east. A long trail of bloody footprints follows him.

"Aren't you going to bury your father's head?" someone asks.

He doesn't answer.

"You'll die if you go to the Nine Nether Platform alone."

He doesn't answer.

"Why don't you speak?"

At last, he stops for a moment.

"The dead don't need to explain themselves."

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