Heart Over Sword - Chapter 245: Royal Bloodline

In a world where 70% of the population possesses powers managed by a LitRPG chip, Kang Ji-Hoon, a timid young man, joins the prestigious Apex Academy to save his sick mother. Ranked last at F with his seemingly useless ability to summon a dagger, he becomes the target of relentless bullying. Pushed to his limit, he unleashes the true power of his weapon, a dark and destructive force. As he transforms into a ruthless anti-hero, a cosmic threat emerges to assimilate humanity. Ji-Hoon then realizes his dark destiny: to save everyone, he must destroy everything.

What is a genius? Capable of comprehending any battle skill regardless of the skill itself and sweeping away the bottlenecks while cultivating a new technique; this is a true genius! He Yiming was originally an ordinary youngster in the He family’s estate with not too extraordinary aptitude in learning martial arts.

Xu Liang travels back to 2004 and becomes a criminal defense lawyer. Looking at his client who has been sentenced to death, he takes a deep breath.In court.“You mean, it's understandable that your client committed intentional assault, intentional murder, desecration of a corpse, and endangering public safety?”“No, the fact is, my client has never committed these crimes, none of them hold up!”“Then according to you...”“Innocent!”As soon as these words were spoken, the entire courtroom fell into silence.The other party looked at the autopsy report in hand, then at Xu Liang with righteous indignation in front of him, and said through gritted teeth:“Who on earth made him a lawyer!?”

A young orphaned boy named Mu Yi is saved by an old travelling Taoist Priest. They travel the world ‘scamming’ people by ‘exorcising ghosts’ and ‘slaying demons’, that is until the old Taoist Priest dies and Mu Yi is forced to realise that all is not as it seems. He was told stories of armies of ghosts, hordes of zombies, horrifying demons, and worst of all, the cultivators who controlled them.

Mu Yi takes his first steps towards rising to the top of this dark and cruel new world.

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