[Urban High Martial Arts + No System + Martial Arts Taught by the Dead + Ruthless + Ensemble Cast That Always Has Each Other's Backs + Victories Against Stronger Opponents]
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His master dies suddenly, the martial arts school goes under, creditors surround the door, and the annual review threatens to revoke its license.
Chen Wang, a seventh-stage martial apprentice, is left guarding Linzhou's poorest martial arts school, Iron Mountain Martial Arts Hall. All he owns is an old wooden plaque with nearly all its paint worn away.
The Tianshu Consortium offers three million for the land. "We'll smash the plaque along with everything else, and let you walk away alive!"
Chen Wang refuses to sell.
Because that very night, the broken plaque speaks:
"You won't sell even for three million? You're even stupider than your master."
Only later does Chen Wang learn that this battered plaque, named [Record of a Hundred Defeats], holds the spirits of ninety-nine martial arts experts once defeated by his master!
The quick-blade of Linzhou from forty years ago, a chief examiner who was struck from the records, a rooftop-running master who was never caught...
They're dead, but they haven't left. They call Chen Wang useless, yet teach him step by step how to see through an enemy's "way of dying"!
Offer blood to summon a spirit, and sever the water with one slash!
Consortium prodigies? Top scorers in martial arts exams? Grandmaster's disciples?
With a cigarette between his lips, Chen Wang pats the old wooden plaque above the door:
"Don't rush. Our school's full of failures. Which senior's way of dying would you like to try today?"
