One Move Shatters the Void

(A cunning, troublemaking protagonist, no System, humorous, traditional fantasy)

The purpose of Ji Nian's birth was for him to die in someone else's place.

After learning the tragic truth about his birth, he turned to the clan chief with tears in his eyes. “Grandpa, this isn't fair.”

The clan chief sighed. “Alas... When has there ever been fairness under the Heavenly Dao?”

Ji Nian endured the agony of his body being torn apart for a full ten years. Just as he was about to die from it, the arrival of a blind old Daoist finally gave him a chance to fight on equal terms.

It was an Age of Declining Dharma, when heavenly tribulations had all but vanished. Yet a violet-gold Dao-Destroying Tribulation descended upon him, and even the blind old Daoist lamented, “The Heavenly Dao really isn't giving him a chance to live.”

Who could have guessed that, in the face of certain death, he would break through the first shackle? Rising from ruin and reviving from annihilation, he became both cunning and a master of causing trouble. From then on, he and the big yellow dog who had grown up with him began a life of digging pits for each other: one digging, the other covering them up...

(The blurb doesn't do it justice. Read the story itself.)