Fate's turning point began in a freezing, bone-chilling abyss.
Gu Qingyun, an ordinary young man, never imagined that his accidental fall into a lake had been a carefully planned “salvation.”
Beneath the lake's surface lay no silence, but the beginning of a drastic change in his fate.
There, he encountered Jiang Zhou, a legendary assassin on the brink of death.
“An immortal strokes my head, then binds my hair and grants me eternal life...”
In the icy water, Jiang Zhou used the strength of his entire life to unleash his final secret art.
It was a dark inheritance passed on at the very edge of death.
When the black mist cleared, Jiang Zhou was spent. He pressed a lotus-shaped black iron token into Gu Qingyun's hand, engraved with the words “Earth Rank Number One: Jiang Zhou.”
“Take it... Go to Canglan City... Find ‘Zero’... Avenge...”
To repay this life-saving debt, given at the cost of Jiang Zhou's life and laced with manipulation, Gu Qingyun set off alone for Canglan City.
He walked through the unfamiliar steel jungle like a living magnet for darkness.
At last, “Zero” came looking for him. By the organization's ironclad rules, whoever carried the token was the previous successor's heir.
Jiang Zhou, codename “Shadow Erosion,” disappeared. In his place stood the new “Phantom,” Gu Qingyun, bearing the name of a legendary assassin and a crushing burden of blood debts.
As he grew stronger, Gu Qingyun gradually mastered the violent power within him and awakened a unique gift in his bloodline: Shadow Intangibility!
He could truly merge with darkness, becoming a ghost with neither form nor substance.
Over the years, he walked the blade's edge to earn money and cultivate, while weaving a network of informants in the darkness to hunt for his enemies.
But on this perilous journey through the shadows, he was not alone.
A fatal tenderness had quietly woven another net, and now it had caught him.
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