Chapter 1 (1/2)
It was a hot summer day at River City’s high-speed railway station.
A thin figure appeared from the crowd.
It was a young man dressed in a T-shirt and a cap, a sling bag over his shoulder.
He looked perfectly normal.
The ID he squeezed in his hand said that his name was Ye Chen.
“It’s been five years.”
Ye Chen walked out of the station, but when the tallest building in all of River City appeared before him, he suddenly froze in his tracks.
As he raised his head, his gaze was as sharp as a hawk’s, and he murmured under his breath,
“River City! I, Ye Chen, am finally back! Five years ago, during that banquet at Cloud Lake Manor, the Ye family was wiped out, and I’m left as the only survivor. If my mother had not pushed me into East Coin Lake with the last of her power, the Ye family may have disappeared from River City forever!”
At that, Ye Chen abruptly clenched his fists, and a powerful malicious aura erupted in all directions. The tourists around him felt as though an invisible hand was choking them by the throats!
That very moment, they were in hell!
“Zheng Jingming! Master Long! And everyone who stood by and watched as my parents were killed! I’m sure you don’t know that I still live!
“Perhaps I should thank you. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been rescued by my master, and I definitely wouldn’t have returned with such earthshaking techniques!
“This time, I swear, I’ll make everyone involved in this pay for what you have done, a thousand times over!”
…
A few seconds later, Ye Chen finally relaxed his grip and flagged down a cab, heading toward the center of the city.
If he had delayed by even a few more seconds, the passersby behind him may not have escaped a terrible fate.
On the way, memories from the past flashed through Ye Chen’s mind, and the pain was almost suffocating.
He had originated from a powerful family, and he had never had to worry about a meal in his life. Although the people in the circle said he was useless, he enjoyed life with his parents nevertheless.
However, during that assembly at Cloud Lake Manor five years ago, his fate had been irreversibly changed!
In order to save a little girl, his father had offended a man who sat at the top of the food chain!
The man had lost his temper, slapping his father on the face! He even killed Ye Chen’s father in front of countless others!
Throughout the whole thing, no one had stepped out to stop him!
Not even the families who had flattered the Ye family in the past!
Not even his father’s old friends!
Not even the uncle he had always trusted!
Ye Chen had gone berserk, struggling, and even rushing at that man with a dinner knife!
In the end, however, the man stopped him with just one hand!
He could clearly remember that man’s emotionless gaze and ice-cold voice as the latter said,
“River City’s Ye family, huh? Who do you think you are? Even if you’re a family at the very top, I can still kill you with a snap of my fingers! And you, you insignificant trash, I hear you’re famous in these parts for being useless. Haha, and you want to kill me? Even if I give you a hundred years, you’ll still be useless!”
To everyone’s surprise, a woman suddenly rushed forth then, using all of her strength to push the boy into East Coin Lake!
The instant he fell into the lake, the boy had watched his mother rush at the man!
She ran with the determination to die.
Ye Chen thought that his life would end there, but he had floated down East Coin Lake and was unexpectedly rescued by an old man.
The old man had taken him into a land isolated from the rest of the world and taught him the ultimate skills of alchemy, training him to cultivate the Nine Heaven Dark Sun Technique.
Over the past five years, no one knew what had happened to Ye Chen in that ethereal land.
All they knew was that the place had unleashed upon them a demon who went by the codename Bloodthirsty Berserk Dragon!
…
At the Magnificent Group offices in River City.
Ye Chen looked at the slip of paper in his hand, and then at the logo on the front doors. Once he was certain he had the right place, he walked in.
He had initially intended to go straight to Capital City and search out the man that had appeared at Cloud Lake Manor. After all, that was the man he wanted to kill the most over the past five years. All he knew about the man was that the people around him called him Master Long and he came from Capital City. Everything else was a blank to him.
When he left, however, the old geezer he called his master had insisted that he make a trip to River City and find a girl called Xia Ruoxue.
The old geezer had once wandered to River City, and while he was there, he had a complicated relationship with Xia Ruoxue’s grandmother. Ye Chen even suspected that Xia Ruoxue might be the old geezer’s granddaughter.