C1 The Betrayal

Ten thousand years ago, Heaven's Pride, Lin Hao was born. His strength in Sword Force was unique and he was no match for anybody. After a hundred years of Cultivation, he finally achieved the position of the Supreme Sword God.

However, just as he was about to ascend the throne and head the Divine Realm, he was betrayed by his betrothed, Ling Feiyu. She had spread his secret to everyone in the Divine Realm and Seven Divine Kings attacked him at the same time. He ended up not ruling the Divine Realm. He bled to death leaving behind endless regrets. His legend came to an end.

In the True Martial World, border of Eastern State, in the Lin family of Green Cloud City. There was a 16 or 17-year-old youth who was sleeping in a woodshed.

Looking closely, his face was pale. On his clothes, there were dried blood clots. Although he was unconscious, his face showed that he was filled with pain.

After what seemed like a long time, his face gradually became calm. His eyelids quivered as he opened his eyes slowly.

As soon as he opened his eyes, fierce rays of light flashed in them.

It should be known that he was the Sword God, Lin Hao, who was supposed to ascend the throne but was cut off. As luck would have it, a wisp of his Divine Soul escaped and wandered in emptiness for a long time. Now, by chance, he obtained a new life.

At that point, he thought about what happened in the past.

Lin Hao clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and exhaled deeply. Then, he said to himself, "Ling Feiyu, it won't be long before I use my sword to make you pay dearly for what you did to me back then!"

All of a sudden, he felt a very sharp pain in his abdomen. He pushed his clothes aside and saw a bloody hole in his abdomen. Because of his emotional agitation some seconds ago, the injury ruptured, thereby causing blood to gush out.

At that very moment, memories of what happened in the past began to flash in Lin Hao's mind.

This body, also known as Lin Hao was the only son of the Lin family, which was the number one family in the Green Cloud City.

He had constantly shown his talent for Cultivation ever since he was a child. He was called a genius by everyone and a genius like this could only be seen once a century in this city. In just six years, his Cultivation reached the Qi Ocean Stage level 3 after he crossed Body Tempering and Pulse Opening.

The realms of Cultivation were the Body Tempering, Pulse Opening, Qi Ocean, Elemental Pill, and Elemental King. He was an Elemental Emperor, Elemental Sovereign, Elemental Sage, and Elemental Monarch. Every realm had the Tenth Level and above the Elemental Emperor realm, there was the God realm.

In the entire city, the person with the highest cultivation was only at the peak of the Qi Ocean Stage realm, and he had been cultivating for decades. From this, it could be seen that Lin Hao's talent was indeed top-notch in the Green Cloud City!

Six years ago, Lin Hao's father, decided to arrange a wife for his son. The girl in question was the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, Xiao Qi. In the city, everyone knew that the strength of this family was just below that of the Lin family. Xiao Qi was very beautiful and her talent in Cultivation was also very good. The anticipated marriage between these two became the talk of the town.

Three months ago, Lin Hao's parents went missing and the strength of the Lin family fell drastically. Despite this, the attitude of the Xiao family towards Lin Hao didn't change one bit. They still abided by the terms of the engagement and would complete the marriage contract once Hao turned eighteen.

Xiao Qi also was very concerned about Lin Hao.

But who would have thought otherwise?

All this was nothing but a plot by the Xiao family.

In fact, they were very ambitious and had ulterior motives. Their good attitude towards Lin Hao was because they wanted to obtain the sword technique skill of the Lin family, the Lone Peak Thirteen Swords.

Three days ago, after so much pestering, Lin Hao passed the secret of the Lone Peak Thirteen Swords to Xiao Qi. After obtaining the sword technique, the Xiao family changed their attitude towards him. Thereafter, they made a public announcement that Lin Hao had evil intentions towards their daughter. They lied that his character was vile and had failed to live up to the expectations of the Xiao family. That was how the engagement between the two families was canceled.

How could Lin Hao endure such injustice and humiliation? In anger, he went to the Xiao family house to look for Qi, only to discover that she had been hiding her true realm from him all these years. Her strength had already gotten to the second level of the Qi Ocean Stage and now, she had also found the secret of the Lin family's Lone Peak Thirteen Swords. She pierced through his Dantian with her sword and destroyed all of his cultivation before throwing him out.

After all this, the Grand Elder in the Lin family, Lin Nantian, refused to treat Lin Hao because he disgraced the Lin family. He left Hao to fend for himself.

Lin Hao, who was seriously injured, tried to hold on for three days before he finally gave up the ghost.

Ultimately, this gave the Sword God the chance to be reborn.

At this moment, Sword God, who had obtained this body, could not help but grit his teeth in anger, remembering what he passed through. He breathed deeply to calm himself. Right now, the most important thing was to treat the injuries on his Dantian. Only when he was fit enough could he return, in ten folds, the humiliation he suffered in the hands of the Xiao family.

If one's Dantian was pierced through by the sword, he would never have the chance to restore the Cultivation in their lifetime and would only become as feeble as a child, even much weaker than ordinary people.

However, since Lin Hao was the Sword God, this little injury was nothing to him.

This was because...

The Cultivation Method he had mastered was called Law-Defying Sword Manual!

This was his biggest secret. In his previous life, when he ascended the throne, it was precise because this secret was leaked by Ling Feiyu that made the Seven Divine Kings afraid of him. Which was why they had joined hands to destroy him.

As to why the Seven Divine Kings were so afraid of this Cultivation Method, he had no idea for now.

Lin Hao adjusted his breathing. After that, Vitality circulated rapidly within his body. There were traces of Sword Qi attached to the wound on his Dantian. As his Vitality circulated, they were extracted and refined into a wisp of pure Sword Qi that belonged to him.

Immediately after that, Lin Hao controlled this wisp of Sword Qi and stabbed the already broken Dantian!

This was how the Law-Defying Sword Manual works.

He had to first break his original Dantian before he could create a new one!

His Dantian was completely broken. The pain was unbearable for an ordinary person, but Lin Hao didn't even make a sound. He gritted his teeth and focused his mind as he tried to control the wisp of Sword Qi to reform his Dantian!

Once he succeeded, all the Elemental Energy he absorbed and refined would be transformed into Attack Power with the strongest Sword Essences in the world!

During this process, even though Lin Hao used to be a Sword God, he had to be very careful.

Three hours passed.

The wisp of Sword Qi had finally turned into an illusionary Dantian shape and appeared in his body. However, it was still very weak, and needed him to continuously refine it!

Currently, he was strengthened a bit. The number of Sword Essence in his body was equivalent to the first level of the Open Pulse State.

Once it was fully solidified...

Lin Hao would be able to restore his original Qi Ocean Stage level 3 cultivation!

At this moment...

There was a commotion outside the woodshed where Lin Hao was.

All of a sudden, the tightly shut door of the woodshed was blasted open by a strong force. Two people wearing the uniform of Lin family's servants stood in front of Lin Hao.

When they both saw him sitting on the ground, looking perfectly fine, their faces revealed a hint of surprise. As they both stared at each other, the surprise they felt turned into joy. Quickly, one of them said, "I didn't expect that you would have such a long life. It seems like you have some good stuff on you. Hand them over, Lin Hao, and we can ease your suffering, or else, don't blame us for being impolite!"