The day Lin Guanchao was expelled from Jiangcheng Martial Arts Academy, everyone said his life was over.
His meridians were hollow, and after three years he still hadn’t opened a single acupoint. He couldn’t even become the most ordinary martial artist.
But on his way home, he ducked into a sewer to avoid the city inspectors and found an egg that could cough.
What hatched from it wasn’t a dragon, but a strange creature that looked like a Shiba Inu.
It wouldn’t eat meat or drink milk. It fed only on other people’s malice toward Lin Guanchao.
When people called him useless, it grew with a burp.
When people tried to hurt him, it opened its acupoints and evolved.
When people tried to kill him, it began to transform into a dragon.
From that day on, Lin Guanchao discovered that his so-called “crippled meridians” weren’t something he was born with.
His records had been altered, his nine acupoints sealed, and his old man, who ran a ramen shop, wasn’t an ordinary person at all. He was the Ninth Blade of the Ministry of Justice, who had disappeared twenty years ago.
The Directorate of Celestial Observation had its eye on him, the Martial Arts Association wanted to take him in, and the dead from old cases were waking one by one.
The ley lines beneath Jiangcheng were stirring, and the return of the Nine Acupoints was on the horizon.
All Lin Guanchao had to do was take that still-growing dragon with him and reclaim, inch by inch, the life that had been stolen from him.
