He waited sixteen years, only to get a broken sword and a sharp-tongued old man.
Everyone in Iron Sword City knew that Lin Feng of the Lin family was a good-for-nothing.
At sixteen, he was still stuck at the third layer of the Body Tempering Realm, unable to even beat his eight-year-old cousin. His father had disappeared, his mother had died of illness, and he lived worse than a dog in his own family.
Everyone said his life would amount to nothing.
Then, one night, the broken iron sword his father had left behind split open.
An ancient, ghostly figure drifted out of the sword and looked down at him:
"Third layer of the Body Tempering Realm? That's it?"
"You're sixteen and this is all the cultivation you've got? I've lived for a hundred thousand years, and I've never seen such a useless talent."
"Still... the bloodline flowing through your body is rather interesting."
"Kneel and call me Master. I'll teach you how to kill."
From this day on, no one under heaven would ever step on him again.
Lin Aotian called him useless. Three months later, at the family tournament, Lin Feng shattered Lin Aotian's pride with one punch.
The young master of the Bloodfiend Cult called him lowly. Lin Feng severed Xue Wuhen's tendons with his sword tip and laughed, "Say that again?"
At the grand gathering of immortals in the Immortal Realm, he cut down a Holy Son with one sword, announcing to the entire Immortal Realm:
He's back.
But he never expected the truth to be ten thousand times crueler than he'd imagined.
His father was still alive, imprisoned in the deepest part of the Immortal Realm and tortured day and night.
The Demon Lord was about to awaken. Once he arrived, all living beings across the myriad worlds would suffer devastation.
And the sharp-tongued old man who called him useless every day had once been the strongest Sword God across the myriad worlds. He had only a wisp of his soul left after sealing the Demon Lord.
The old man said, "Kid, when you reach the Sword Emperor Realm, kill someone for me."
He asked, "Who?"
The old man was silent for a long time.
"The Demon Lord. My... younger brother, too."
