The Otherworldly Spirit Martial Emperor

The discarded prince spent sixteen years bound to an ordinary life. When a broken blade revealed his shocking origins, he finally realized that the divine lightning punishment had not been retribution, but a seal.

Behind the truth that cultivation was useless and the five elements were severed lay a forbidden power sleeping within him, powerful enough to make the Heavenly Dao tremble. And the tender abandonment on that rainy night years ago had not been an act of giving up. It was the only path to survival his mother could pave for him, using the rest of her life.

When the old servant who had escorted him long ago came bloodied to knock at his door on the night of the full moon, the pursuit that had wiped out the entire escort party sixteen years earlier began anew. Only this time, the positions of hunter and prey would be reversed.

He spent sixteen years learning to bow his head. The moment he gripped his blade again, the entire dynasty would tremble beneath his feet.