Yang Jiao, Ancestor of the Undead, in Honghuang

A modern-day fan of Investiture of the Gods wakes up to find he has transmigrated into Yang Jiao, the eldest son of the Yang family, who was destined to die young on the eve of the Investiture of the Gods.

Half-immortal bloodline, a mortal father, an immortal mother, and a younger brother destined to become famous across the Three Realms: Yang Jian. From the start, it looks as if Yang Jiao has landed the protagonist’s script. Unfortunately, he nearly dies on the spot before he has been awake for three breaths. According to fate, the entire Yang family is about to be wiped out by the Celestial Court, and Yang Jiao is nothing more than a background character in the great calamity, not even worth remembering by name.

No System, no wise old mentor, and not even time to cultivate. Celestial soldiers break down the door. His father’s soul is scattered, his mother is taken away in chains and imprisoned, and he, a mere mortal boy, fights the soldiers with a wooden club. One blade pierces his chest, shattering his soul.

His fury ignites his bloodline. In a mortal body, the boy strikes back against a Golden Immortal of Great Unity. The immortal self-destructs, tearing open space and sweeping Yang Jiao’s broken body into the burial grounds of the ancient fiend emperor Shen Ni. The baleful aura of ages floods his body, the resentment of demons clings to him, and beneath the blood moon, his corpse-like eyes open.

He died in a pool of blood, then crawled back from hell in the body of a zombie.

The God-Slaying Spear, the World-Destroying Bow, and the Beast Emperor Seal: three supreme treasures in one hand. The Chaos Fiend Emperor’s Reversal Dao Scripture lets him prove the Dao through slaughter, growing stronger with every battle. The Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations, divine arts that can manipulate creation and reverse yin and yang: supreme techniques on par with the very first creation of the world. From then on, a zombie who defies heaven walks beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements. The Heavenly Dao cannot control him, divination cannot discern him, and immortals and gods can only consider themselves unlucky when they cross his path.

The fiend emperor’s tomb remade his bones, and his blood-moon eyes reflected the past. Since he had become a corpse in this life, he would roam the world as one and trample the Lingxiao Palace to dust.

Yang Jiao said, “If Heaven rejects me, I’ll defy Heaven. If the earth won’t accept me, I’ll trample it. I’ll settle every debt owed to me across the Myriad Worlds, one by one.”