The Immortal Emperor by the Female CEO's Side

The rain poured down, washing over the neon-lit nightscape of Yuncheng’s central business district.

In an alley beside an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city, a young man’s battered corpse lay curled up beside a trash can. Rain mingled with dark-red beads of blood, forming a winding stream across the ground. Suddenly, the corpse’s fingertips twitched. A nearly transparent golden wisp of a soul fell from the void and slipped into the corpse’s brow like a kite with a severed string.

“Ugh…”

Lin Chen’s eyes flew open. Pain shot through every limb as unfamiliar fragments of memory surged into his mind like a tide. The original owner of this body had also been called Lin Chen. A lonely laborer with no one to rely on, he had been beaten to death for refusing to join a criminal gang. But Lin Chen had once been Xuanchen Immortal Emperor, ruler of the Three Realms and sovereign over all living beings. As he broke through toward a higher realm, he was betrayed by his trusted aide, Blood Shadow Demon Venerable. The backlash of the Heavenly Dao shattered his immortal body, leaving only a wisp of his soul to escape to the lower realm and possess this freshly dead body.

“My immortal power is gone, and my meridians are blocked…” Lin Chen braced himself against the wall and stood, sensing that only one ten-thousandth of his immortal power remained. A cold glint flashed in his eyes. He wiped the rain and blood from his face and was about to channel what little power he had left to heal himself when hurried footsteps and shouts came from the entrance to the alley.