Year 2035
Ling Tao was chilling on his sofa while scrolling through the feeds of the game "The Sect Master". It was a game released in the year 2030 boosting ultra-high virtual reality graphics and completely realistic NPC interactions. It was termed "the next world" because of its super realistic world and never-repeating scenarios. It could have been the biggest running game in the world in terms of players, as even now, no game could come close to it in terms of features and quality, but it lacked only one thing...
Along with him, only a few people were left in the game and after last Sunday''s event he was the only player currently active in the game, which made him really famous, people were really into his streaming of what was going to happen next.
As he was thinking about its only shortcoming, suddenly the world went blank...
As he was thinking what happened, suddenly he felt a pain he had never felt, he felt like he would be erased from the world but then a white light shined on him....
Anything after that, he doesn''t remember, it was really making him anxious and irritable. As he opened his eyes he saw himself in a room built completely of red-black wood, painted with beautiful red, blue, and yellow colors, the whole room was very airy with windows from which you could see the trees adorned with shining fruits standing around a shallow lake. the windows were circular with sitting tables arranged around the windows and double curtains with one part being sky blue translucent and other part being dark heavy blue color.
The moon was shining from the window making reflection on the water''s surface, the whole place being picturesque. Suddenly the tranquility of the whole place was broken like a stone falling in water, shouts containing anxiousness and hurry were reverberating all around the place. He could hear everything even when his residence was located far away from most of the places.
Suddenly his door was opened by a man in white robes, with borders colored sky blue and a gray star in between the borders on his chest.
He was Hei Niu (literally meaning black bull), he was 8 feet and 5 inch tall, completely black. he found him on the streets when he was a kid, thinking that he could use Big Niu to bully some people.
Ling tao could not understand how he could remember all these things like he was himself present during that time, all said and done, he simply could not make out what was happening.
As Big Niu entered the room with snot and tears running down his nose, he started blurting things Ling Tao could not understand. It started irritating him more and more, so he snapped at Big Niu.
Ling Tao: Big Niu what is the matter, speak clearly.
Under Ling Tao''s pressure, Big Niu snapped from his emotions and slowly said
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Big Niu: Master,..Sect Master,...he,..he..he is severely injured, the physicians have taken him to the "Healing Winds Hall", hurry... go.. the madam is completely shattered after seeing the state of Sect master...
As soon as Ling Tao understood the situation he felt sudden hard feeling in his heart, as he thought about his father in this world and what his presence signified, the importance of his presence meant to his existence in this sect, he stood up and started running towars the "Healing Winds Hall".
As he was running towards the "Healing Winds Hall", various things were going through his mind, the ling tao of his past was a super scum, at the age of 9 he tried to lay his hands on his crush, his father saved him, at 12 he raped the maids, his father covered for him, at the age of 15 he managed to create enmity with the current enemy of his clan, this ling tao of past even created a death flag 2 years ago when he forcefully took and made a village girl his concubine......all in all a total scum.
At present his clan was at war with the 2 core formation sects, all due to all powerful super scum of the earth Ling Tao.
Ling Tao''s father was a cultivator in Core Formation Realm''s Core Stabilization Subrealm (3rd sublevel of core formation), apart from him, there were only 6 people in Core formation, one was his grandfather Ling Zhengyu (in the 6th subrealm) and his mother in 2nd sub realm, while the other three being his 2nd uncle and 7th uncle and 7th uncles father.
Out of all these people, his father was the only person who stuck to last to Ling Tao to help and fix his bad habits, if he did not his grandfather would have left him in the cave of ice rats to punish him, and even his mother could not save him from him, and that was the small part, even in the clan, his uncles had tried various times to sabotage his position as the heir, but his father thwarted their plans without letting the seeds of conflict in the family to rise, one could say his father was the gem and he was the dirt removed from the gem.
As he reached the "Healing Winds Hall", which was surrounded by a lot of guards, he was directed to the 2nd floor of the hall. Even in hurry, he did not miss the disgust for him on the faces of his clan members and servants, many women especially tried to hide away from him. He really felt anger rise in his chest, but due to the situation and the place he controlled his anger and reached in front of the surgery room.
As he reached over there, he saw his grandfather sitting in waiting place outside along with all other important members of the sect. As all the people looked at the last arrival in the waiting room, all except one turned away their gazes from him in disgust and anger, while his mother who was filled with the emotion of helplessness looked at him.
Ling tao first greeted his grandfather, who did not reply, and then went close to his mother, he did not ask anything at that time and sat close to his mother, uttering only one sentence.
Ling Tao: He will be fine, I believe in him.
His mother looked at him and patted him on his head agreeing with him. As they sat there for a while his 7th uncle, seething with anger could not stop himself and berated him saying it was all because of you.
His 7th uncle was an upright man, with a height of 6 foot and 9 inches, fair color, and loved blades, he believed in the motto "blade is the strongest", and he was also very upfront.
His name was Storm Blade. Considered the 3rd best fighter in the clan and due to his nature, he was the man most trusted to be impartial when dealing with internal family issues.
While his 2nd uncle gloating in his misfortune was silently enjoying the scene. His second uncle was the person you could say was the one always trying to gain power no matter the way. One of his ways was to discredit him on every occasion, but today he was silently having fin. Ling Tao was sure his second uncle was laughing like a donkey in his mind. There was another reason for him being silent, and that was his grandfather.
Ling Tao''s grandfather, Ling Zhengyu, was a man of strong will, he was the one who set the whole clan 350 years ago, fending off enemies and bringing the clan to its current height. But it all seemed to fall due to Ling Tao''s actions.
In the Healing Wind Hall, he was the only person everyone disregarded while at the same time looked in rage,..., the center of attention, the last piece of tender meat in front of hungry wolves. The one that was needed to be executed. If there was a meme that could describe this situation, then it would be all people grabbing his neck and his face being puffed like a balloon with his tongue hanging outside.
116 years back from the present, year 105000 of the Cosmic Star Calendar:
When all the moons of the world were shining in all the glory, a humanoid beast opened his eyes, after trying to look at blurry things, it felt tired and went back to sleep.
105114th year of Cosmic Star Calendar:
A man filled with despair went to the grave of his parents, quietly assassinated by the scum of Heavenly Breaker Sect, with tears in his eyes and proclaimed to avenge them and deliver the justice he believed in.