[Political intrigue] + [struggle for supremacy] + [villain protagonist] + [human nature] + [clever characters]
“Ninth Brother, take your own life, and I’ll make sure your body remains intact.”
Candles flickered in the Eastern Palace’s great hall.
Crown Prince Ji Yunxiao held a cup of poisoned wine. Behind him, three hundred thousand Imperial Guards had the place surrounded, with the tacit approval of the five great aristocratic clans.
Everyone thought the frail Ninth Prince, Gu Changye, would kneel and beg for mercy.
But Gu Changye smiled.
He looked at the future emperor with no fear in his eyes, only the greed of a predator eyeing its prey.
He said nothing, merely activating the forbidden text known as the Heaven-Stealing Record.
In an instant, the temperature in the hall plummeted.
Frost mysteriously formed on the wine cup in the Crown Prince’s hand. The healthy color in his face faded to gray at a visible pace, as though some invisible force were being wrenched from his body!
“Imperial Brother, you should drink this ‘Wine of Longevity’ yourself.”
Gu Changye seized the poisoned wine and poured it down the Crown Prince’s throat. His voice was as gentle as a demon’s whisper:
“Your fortune, your cultivation, even the karma behind you… it all belongs to me now.”
He transmigrated into the most useless Ninth Prince of the Great Yin, and from the start he was facing certain death?
In this chaotic age, where spiritual energy had run dry and might made right, Gu Changye discovered a shortcut to the summit: the Heaven-Stealing Record.
No need for painstaking cultivation. All he needed was a plan.
Drive someone to despair, and he could steal their life force;
make someone fall, and he could steal their Dao fruit;
bring a nation to ruin, and he could steal its Mandate of Heaven!
The Crown Prince was his scapegoat, the aristocratic clans his crops to reap, and foreign enemies the pigs he fattened for slaughter.
Would every theft saddle him with overwhelming karma?
Then he’d make the countless millions of souls lost in this chaotic age take his place in death!
