You! Get over here!
Li Xiaoyao, at the third level of Qi Refining, is cornered by four rogue cultivators in a ruined temple. He hasn't eaten in two days, and hunger makes his stomach cramp. Their leader, Wang Hu, grabs him by the throat and lifts him up, eating a meat bun right in front of him. Just as all hope seems lost, the copper medallion on Li Xiaoyao's chest suddenly grows hot. An irritating voice explodes inside his head.
"Mockery System successfully bound. I'll lend you my voice once. No need to return it."
Li Xiaoyao takes a deep breath.
"You! Get over here!"
Wang Hu drops to his knees on the spot, smashing the stone tiles with them. His buns roll everywhere.
Only later does Li Xiaoyao learn that this golden finger, which can roar people to their knees, was sealed inside the copper medallion by his grandfather. The Heavenly Sword Sect has been hunting his father for twenty years, all because of the Li family's bloodline. At Falling Phoenix Slope, three Golden Core cultivators surrounded his father. Before his blade shattered, he roared two of them to their knees. The third stood upright from beginning to end. At the entrance to a secret realm twenty years later, that man's disciple is waiting.
"The place where your father shattered his blade is where you'll meet your end today."
Li Xiaoyao grips his blade in his left hand. The Golden Core sword scar on its surface whimpers in the wind.
"Then let him come."
A low-level rogue cultivator from the start, with the Mockery System controlling the battlefield. Two generations bound by fate, from Falling Phoenix Slope to the Nether Abyss. The blade has shattered, but the man has never knelt.
