Chronicles of the Mortal Realm in Another World

Synopsis of The Sword-Casting Chronicle of Another World

What is it like to pretend to be useless from the moment you're born? Zhao Yan knows. In his previous life, he was a loose immortal who had survived nine tribulations. In this life, he was reborn in a world of swords and magic as the legitimate son of the Zhao family, the empire's foremost clan. His grandfather is a Sword Saint, his father a great general, and the Zhao family has rendered such service that the emperor wishes their entire clan dead.

He chooses the safest path: becoming a playboy. At the child-selection ceremony, he reaches only for rouge and powder, and the whole capital laughs at him as a womanizer. He deliberately drags his feet in cultivation, leaving everyone shaking their heads: the Zhao family is doomed.

No one knows that while still in the womb, he secretly removed a chronic curse from his mother. At ten, he took in a bookish servant with the makings of a natural swordsman. At fourteen, he entered the Cangqiong Academy, where he lazed around in public while secretly improving the ancestral Dragon-Forging Art and gradually putting the cultivation techniques from his previous life to use.

At twenty, the emperor boots him off to a desolate territory. Everyone thinks he's finished.

He just smiles. What a great place to build something.

Later, the God of Light descends in person to destroy him.

He storms the Divine Realm and kills the God of Light with a single sword strike. The gods tremble, and the angelic legions are routed. Someone asks him: Do you want to become a god?

He shakes his head and goes home to hold his child.

This book is also known as From the Womb, I Pretended to Be Useless Until I Became the Greatest Under Heaven.