All 347 people in Lin Family Village were slaughtered by evil cultivators overnight. Eight-year-old Lin Bei hid in a woodpile, watching his parents and younger sister fall in pools of blood. He clenched his teeth until they cracked, not daring to make a sound.
That night, he awakened the trait [A Master of the Way of Caution], which lets him check a target’s danger level. The more cautious he is, the greater the rewards.
That night, he dug the family heirloom out from beneath the stove: a battered black banner, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which could devour souls and evolve without end.
From that day on, the child laid down three ironclad rules: If you can kill, kill, and leave no survivors; if you can’t win, hide until you can; if you can grow in safety, never take a risk.
He would wipe out every evil cultivator under heaven, refining all their souls into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner so they could never be reborn.
After surviving in the mountains for three months, he saves the seriously wounded eldest daughter of the Liu family and receives the inherited cultivation technique, Verdant Wood Sword Canon. Thus begins his path of cultivation. In Qingyun City, he meets Liu Qingyun, a proud female cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage, and uses himself as bait to strike a deal: break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining within three years in exchange for cultivation resources and protection.
But he knows all too well that no one in this world can protect him forever. The ninth-level Foundation Establishment evil cultivator “White Bone Adept,” who slaughtered his village, will come for him sooner or later.
An eight-year-old child, a battered banner, and a woodcutter’s knife.
In this cultivation world that devours the weak, he will carve out a path through bloodshed.
Hide and grow to the utmost, then kill everyone who deserves to die.
[Decisive Killing · Cautious Growth · Multiple Female Leads · Ten Thousand Souls Devour the Heavens]
