[Not AI-written, no System, no cliches, no mindless plot, expansive worldbuilding, not a wish-fulfillment story, ensemble cast, slow burn. Readers who mind these elements, enter with caution.]
I am Gu Ling, a walking corpse whose body temperature is maintained by a demonic heart!
Whenever the heart in my chest, a heart that isn't mine, begins to beat, the memory of blood spraying from my wife's chest as she cut it open explodes in my mind. The scene of Ling Sha carving out her heart for me decades ago is seared onto my retinas like a wound that will never scab over!
To resist injustice, Ling Sha once launched the war that descended into the mortal realm, nearly destroying the entire lofty world of divine revelation.
I died at the last sacred site where I fought alongside her: the Skybound Realm!
The narration switches to third person starting from Chapter 24, so readers who mind first-person narration and POV writing can still jump in without worry.
The first major viewpoint arc (Chapters 2-8) is told in reverse chronological order.
Two main plotlines run in parallel through the early and middle stages, then merge into one later. (The two plotlines are: the scarecrow Gu Ling journeying across the Central Continent, and Nan La and the royal power joining forces to resist theocracy on Li Continent.)
The opening features traditional martial arts moves (low-level martial arts), which will later develop into high-level martial arts.
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