Chapter 1 001: Prologue!

In one of the remote locations of the East Continent's 15 provinces, the Land of Darkness was a cursed land strictly forbidden for people to enter.

In this Land, no trees grow, no animals or even humans.

It wasn't because of a curse that made the location of the Forbidden Land of Darkness but because of the many poisonous gases. Plus, nothing of value in it makes it impossible for someone to live in it.

But that fact was debunked today in a place people thought was dangerous, where one of the Swordsman lived.

Unfortunately, that Swordsman traveled to the Land of Darkness instead of making it his home but a place to hide from the pursuit of the bad guys.

The Swordsman was not in good condition. Upon entering the Land of Darkness, one would find a heavy internal gash on his chest if one were to take a closer look.

That Swordsman is none other than Lin Xian, a warrior who a dangerous organization has hunted for carrying a mysterious object. Lin Xian ran to the Land of Darkness because nowhere else was safe from the pursuit of the organization.

Lin Xian stopped at one of the boulders, holding his chest; he leaned back against the boulders with his eyes looking up at the sky.

"It seems I really can't survive this time..."

Lin Xian smiled faintly as he felt his internal injuries being quite severe. No one here can treat it; even if there is, it must be difficult because the medicine that cures it must be very rare and expensive.

Lin Xian sat down, his breathing was getting heavier, but his smile was clear.

"My life also has nothing of value; there is no regret if I die here. At least I died to protect the world..."

Lin Xian's hand reached into something under his robe and took out the mysterious object that the organization had hunted. That thing was the White Crane Pearl.

Lin Xian stared at the White Crane Pearl before gripping it so hard that the pearl crumbled and shattered into pieces.

"Because of this Cursed Thing, I shouldn't be here now…." Lin Xian scattered the remaining pearls onto the ground and stomped on them heavily.

Had it not been for someone important to Lin Xian, he might not have stolen the White Crane Pearl.

But what power now everything is finished, the pearl will not be owned by anyone. The mission was successful with the aim of the White Crane Pearl not falling on bad people.

The intense pain returned to the point where Lin Xian vomited blood. It wasn't long before his breathing became weaker, and his eyes began to dim.

Feeling that his life would be gone in just a matter of time, Lin Xian remembered his past when he was alive.

Lin Xian was from the Lin clan, under the Hill Mountains; his life could not be said to be good as a swordsman due to his low talent since childhood.

When he was a teenager, Lin Clan enrolled Lin Xian in an academy in the Capital, far away from where he lived. During his two years studying at the academy, Lin Xian didn't expect that his Clan would be slaughtered to the end.

Lin Xian was scared when he heard that it happened for fear of being finished off by someone in the academy; he decided to run away just like that to find a place to hide.

With his martial level low, Lin Xian fled from place to place for many years.

His experience of constantly moving from place to place made Lin Xian's understanding of the outside world so broad. Lin Xian realized that strength in the martial world was the measure of whether his life would be good or bad because the world of cultivators is very cruel.

Lin Xian ultimately chose to train hard alone, but after a while, he realized that training without someone to guide him was difficult.

If it wasn't for the chance that he met his Master in a hut in the middle of the forest, he wouldn't have been able to survive in the martial world.

Lin Xian's Master is a very mysterious person. He trained with her for eight years until he was 27 years old. The moment when Lin Xian reached a high level in the martial world, his Master suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"Even now, I don't know my Master's name..." Lin Xian always refers to his teacher as "Master," so he doesn't know her real name; his Master also never tells him her name.

After feeling his strength surpassed others, Lin Xian decided to return to the Clan that had been slaughtered, leaving the buildings collapsed and the houses empty.

Arriving at his old house, Lin Xian found something secret in it, namely that there was an underground room. Upon entering, Lin Xian found two letters, possibly from his parents, before the slaying; reading the contents was quite shocking.

There were two pieces of information in the letter, one of which was about the crystal necklace he was wearing; it was the necklace his mother gave to little Lin Xian back then.

As that thought crossed his mind, Lin Xian pulled out the crystal necklace around his neck with all his might. The letter states that the crystal he uses has the greatest power.

The contents of the letter indicated that the red crystal in Lin Xian's necklace was an ancient treasure that had been lost. It is said that the crystal is named "Crystal Translucent Time."

"Come to think of it, the crystals on this necklace are strange. I've seen this thing glow brightly just now." Lin Xian once fought life and death and lost and died; at that time, the necklace around his neck reacted like it was glowing.

Before he checked further, the crystal on Lin Xian's necklace suddenly gave off a bright red light. Lin Xian immediately threw the necklace away because he instinctively sensed something dangerous in the crystal.

Sure enough, something shocking happened after that. The original red crystal on the ground could move on its own and float; it had also separated itself from the necklace.

"Wait, How come," Lin Xian would have said like that if there was no blood in his mouth.

Lin Xian wanted to crawl back to see the crystal's light getting brighter, but unfortunately, the crystal moved quickly and entered his body.

Just as he wondered whether the crystal was dangerous, all those questions were immediately answered seconds later.

Suddenly the crystals in Lin Xian's body reacted; the crystals absorbed something that Lin Xian couldn't expect, which was absorbing his life energy.

Lin Xian screamed in extreme pain; the crystal also sucked his cultivation, so it dropped drastically. After feeling stuck at the foundation of Lin Xian's cultivation, he immediately collapsed helplessly.

Interrupted at the end of his life, Lin Xian could only accept the situation. From the bottom of his heart, he wished he could change or know the answers to everything.

Lin Xian wanted to know who massacred his Clan and the reason, he also wanted to know the identity of his Master, and most importantly, he wanted to know who he was.

Not many seconds later, the White Crane Pearl that he crushed suddenly reacted to emit a very bright white light.

As the white light appeared right in front of Lin Xian, the white light seemed to devour Lin Xian's body and disappeared instantly.

Zhep!