The Immortal Emperor has returned, his cultivation intact, invincible and overwhelming. In his previous life, he was cowardly and incompetent, watching his family fall apart, his mother die prematurely from overwork, and his sister suffer bullying, all while he was powerless to do anything. Those who once despised and insulted him now stand tall, a height he needs to look up to. In this life, now that he has returned, his cultivation intact, all of this will be rewritten. He will personally atone for those regrets and settle those grudges.

The first emperor in the world was betrayed by his confidante and died. One million years later, the emperor's soul returned and was reborn as Ye Yan, a son-in-law who was kicked out by the Chu family with a divorce letter, and restarted his supreme journey.

Open the immortal gate, kill to the ninth heaven, and make a name for himself again!

The Reticent Blade is, first and foremost, a wuxia novel, meaning that the world and its character’s powers and abilities are more grounded. Instead of cultivators who can soar through the heavens and shatter planets, you will find martial artists who can still perform superhuman feats but not so fantastical as to tear through space or achieve immortality.

The world of The Reticent Blade is one of medieval China, loosely based upon the time period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a time of chaos and strife, where war and death are rampant. We follow the intertwining story of several protagonists and antagonists as they navigate the chaotic times, unraveling the threads that connect the past, the present, and the future of the world.

The Reticent Blade is a story of heroism, love, revenge, and cruelty.

The Reticent Blade is a story of both the righteousness and vileness of the Jianghu.

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Official Blurb:

Someone once asked me, "What is the jianghu?"

I thought for a moment, and what came to mind was…

A jug of unrefined wine on a weathered table,

A lone silhouette fading into the distance under the setting sun,

A nameless grave bathed in moonlight,

The smoldering incense in my grasp, its final wisps dissipating.

They then asked me, "Where is the jianghu?"

I smiled faintly and lifted my gaze beyond the window. Out there, beneath the vast heavens, countless jianghus lay.

A single soul carries his own story.

When two paths cross, a jianghu is born.

The genius pharmacist transmigrated into a pitiful farm girl’s body. Ignored by her own father, abused by her stepmother, and bullied by her stepbrothers. Her “twin” brother was given to distant relative and she went as the “extra” to live under someone else’s roof.

Luckily she possessed mad apothecary skills. Collecting herbs, plowing herb fields, formulating medicines and treating the ills, she refused to live an ordinary life as she slowly uncovered the truth of her real identify.

Inadvertently, she saved a dashing man who was in reality a big, bad wolf hiding under the skin of an innocent little puppy. He pulled out all his tricks: I have no other means to return your favor of saving my life. What say I repay you by marrying you?

My name is Xu Chen, I am a time traveler, and I have become the master of 100,000 systems.

Every system is vying to please me, turning into a bootlicker.

The Godly Rich System: "I have trillions of spirit stones. For every 100 million the host spends, I will give you 1 billion!"

Krypton Gold System: "Spend money to become stronger!"

Respiratory System: "Breathe and you'll get stronger!"

Black Technology System: "Create a two-dimensional foil and sweep away the demons!"

Tyrant Sword System: "Master the peerless sword technique and crush the stars with one strike!"

God Demon Dugu Nine Swords System: "Mastering the God Demon Dugu Nine Swords can break thousands of moves, including the Tyrant Sword."

Ba Dao System: "...I can dress as a woman."

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My name is Su Jingyao, and I am a reincarnated person.

In the upper realm, I was ambushed and killed by a powerful enemy, and was reincarnated into the lower realm.

In this life, I must become an emperor, or even reach the legendary holy realm and wipe out all my enemies.

I joined the Qingxuan Sect and became a disciple of a ruined mountain. I had a handsome but abnormal senior brother.

My senior brother is very weird every day.

Xi Heng traveled to the end of a dynasty in another world where there was chaos and devastation, and became a lone girl living in a remote village, going up the mountain to collect herbs for a living.

Although she had the lofty ambition of a time traveler, she fell off a cliff while collecting herbs due to her weak health.

Fortunately, when she was dying, Xi Heng discovered that she had a system that could save and load files.

Once you die in this life, you can bring your own cultivation level and an item back to the time when you traveled through time and start everything over again!

In the cycle of time, a broken mirror can be mended, and people can meet again after a long separation!

In her second life, Xi Heng sought medical treatment and medicine to cure her stubborn illness.

In the third generation, Xi Heng achieved martial arts and killed King Liao.

In the fourth life, she is the supreme master of martial arts, unrivaled in the world!

After a long time, Xi Heng searched through various legends of gods and immortals, and finally found the trace of immortals, but was told that the way of heaven had collapsed and the road to immortality was full of thorns.

But no matter how difficult the path to immortality is, as long as she can reincarnate for a hundred times, she will surely be able to attain true immortality in her mortal body!

Lin Yan had transmigrated into the world of Immortals and had become a Heavenly Emperor who was already defeated by the protagonist along with the ten Heroines at the beginning of the plot.

But as Lin Yan was about to die, he awakened a power that he could use to rewrite his past doings.

So, Lin Yan has begun to rewrite his past.

When Lin Yan was still a child, he struggled to feed Xiao Yanran, one of the heroines, who was then younger than him. He had to strip his Supreme Bone and give it to her, protect her from the obstacles. He made a vow, “As long as I am here, no one will be allowed to bully you.”

Later when Lin Yan’s cultivation rose, he had run into Xiao Mei, yet another heroine and the two of them spent time together and eventually got married. When the Devils were about to invade their world, Lin Yan said staring right into his wife’s eyes, “I will protect you with my life…”

And soon he rose to become the Heavenly Emperor.

Everything he did was to shelter his loved ones and protect the world.

However, his actions were misunderstood by the world.

…

Let’s see what all Lin Yan had done in the past…

Lin Mo traveled through a strange world where gods did not appear and became a remnant soul in a mass grave.

When he was almost dying of hunger, he accidentally absorbed half a pillar of residual incense, and unexpectedly awakened the Shinto talisman, becoming the only true god in the world.

>At first, he just wanted to survive: relying on the little incense to drive away the evil spirits, protecting the refugees and gaining the title of "wild god".

>Until the Hundred Ghosts slaughtered the deserted village at night, he burned all the incense to manifest a golden barrier.

>The girl knelt on the ground and cried, "Please, God of the Land, please show up!" The wishes of all the people were instantly added to her.

The moment the City God's Dharma image condensed, Lin Mo looked towards the gloomy government office and sneered, "Who said this world... doesn't have gods?"

As the senior disciple of the sect, Song Wu has always been diligent and hardworking in order to uphold the sect's reputation, and has taught her fellow disciples.

Unexpectedly, her fiancé complained that she was not gentle and considerate enough, her fellow disciples said that she was rigid, strict and lacked empathy, and even the sect leader advised her to be more generous and kind.

Disheartened, Song Wu forced a breakthrough and lost her life, but unexpectedly she was reborn back to the time before she became a disciple of the sect leader.

Song Wu decided that this time, whoever wanted to be the senior sister could be it; she was quitting!

His sword cleaves through wind and thunder, obscuring the sun and moon; he controls heaven and earth, shattering the netherworld. Of the six billion people in the world, only I reign supreme. The Azure Emperor of the Celestial Realm is reborn in a dazzling, decadent metropolis. Beautiful policewomen, charming stars, aloof beauties, foreign princesses… and so it begins…