“I didn't kill Master!” Ma Laibao roared, but the corpse lying in a pool of blood, his own hands drenched in it, made his every protest ring hollow. Worse still, he discovered that someone had planted a Heart-Devouring Gu in his chest. Every time he used his power, it burned away his life.
That rainy night, all thirteen people in the martial arts school were slaughtered. When Ouyang Zhiwu, young lord of the Martial Alliance, “happened” to arrive with his men, all they saw was Ma Laibao standing there in a daze, a bloodstained sword in his hand. Overnight, he went from the martial arts school's most unremarkable servant to a fiend accused of murdering his master and wiping out his household.
On the run, he felt the jade pendant his master had pressed into his hand on his deathbed suddenly grow hot, revealing a clue to the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Techniques. Hunting him are not only Zhu Rongwei, the ruthless assassin sent by Ouyang Zhiwu, but also Wang Rufan, a strategist said to calculate every move flawlessly.
More ironically, the only person willing to help him, the stunning young woman Wu Qiongqiong, is actually...
“Ouyang Zhiwu,” Ma Laibao said, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth as golden markings appeared in his palm. “The Gu you planted inside me will become your worst nightmare.”
