[Blurb]
Liu Shanzhong is a nobody in the martial world, afflicted with a stutter, a limp, near-blindness, and poisoning all at once. He is slowly making his way to his sect to cheat them out of his own funeral expenses. After all, he just took part in an unprecedented treasure hunt in the martial world, where righteous heroes, demonic cult witches, master thieves, and ghost doctors all fought one another. Killing some two-bit martial artist along the way was child's play. But the weather is unpredictable, and on that journey, he really does lose his life.
What kind of ridiculous martial world is this? Why is someone dying every single day?
Liu Shanzhong fumes. Just then, a swindler dressed as a beggar passes by his corpse and asks with a cheerful smile, "Kid, you look pitiful. Want to live one more time?"
"Live! I'll live to the fullest. No one can outlive me!" Liu Shanzhong raves, then opens his eyes and finds himself back more than twenty years earlier.
And so, he is reborn... and witnesses miracles.
He meets the legendary number-one demon of the martial world and even mooches a meal off him;
He finds his senior brother, who has been wandering the streets, and brings him back to the mountain;
He finds the future most beautiful woman in the martial world and begs the little girl for a tiny red flower from her hair;
He meets the hero who will become the greatest under heaven and drinks a cup of his wine;
He does a favor for a young master who will become the richest man under heaven, then swindles the boy out of ten taels of gold;
He asks the poison doctor, who can kill someone by sticking needles in them, to extend his life, driving the young miracle doctor into a frenzy;
Over the decades of his life, Liu Shanzhong has witnessed his share of upheavals. He has one wish left: next year, on his birthday, he wants to invite his friends for a drink.
[Reading Guide]
1. No CP, with a touch of an ensemble cast.
Old Liu was too old twenty years ago, and young Liu is too young twenty years later. Romance is completely out of the question; he hasn't even come of age emotionally.
2. Liu Shanzhong is a spirited young man of the martial world with multiple secret identities. He's chuunibyou and a bit of a flake.
3. Happy ending. No matter how gruesome things get along the way, everyone is alive and well at the end, living to the fullest and happily.
4. Martial arts system:
Assuming the same number of years of training: inner force > techniques; self-created arts > inherited arts. With the combined boost of self-created cultivation methods and techniques, five years of training is enough to dominate.
5. High martial arts, low fantasy (after all, rebirth is a rare thing). The era is entirely fictional, and the sects are made up.
[Content warning: Updates are irregular. The author is a poor, overworked office drone and truly cannot guarantee a schedule. Please accept my apologies in advance!]
Theme: Keep the spirit of youth alive, honor the beauty of human nature, and cherish all that makes the world worthwhile.
Happy writing, I really like martial arts~