Immortal Ascension Tower - Book 1: Reborn! [CH 1 - 75]

Chapter 1 - The Dirty Eight Years Old Boy - Edited

The Heavens and the Earth. Two completely different worlds that rarely had anything to do with each other, yet tales and legends of the Heavenly Realm, the Jade Emperor, the might of his powerful guardians and the battles against powerful foes caught the ears of the mortals nevertheless.

Especially tales like the one of the Evil Saint that tried to destroy the world which, by the way, was also every mother's favorite if their child didn't refused to go to sleep.

If that happened, they would say stuff like "If you don't go to sleep soon, the Evil Saint Xū Líng and his army of monstrous beasts will come and eat you!" At that, the child would tremble in fear and immediately go to bed.

This... 'Evil Saint'... was actually a person whom the heavens had angered. A man that, together with his army of Heavenly Beasts, humans and many kinds of monsters who also had grudges against Tian's Nine Heavens, fought for all other living beings' freedom and rights!

He had no intention on destroying the world, but it happens quite often that History is laid down by the winners. It didn't matter what had truly happened: in the eyes of the common people, what those in power said, it would be the truth!

The losers had no say in this, and Xū Líng had, unfortunately, lost. Following that, his righteous ideals were distorted and he turned into the enemy of all that lived beneath the Heavens.

His nickname, Evil Saint, which was bestowed upon him many years prior, also didn't help on restoring his image and he was thus branded as a criminal.

After all, while people would also fear those who had power they would at the same time bully those who hadn't. Xu Ling had lost and had been killed, so mortals immediately started to distort the truth even more with fake stories about his cruelty and ruthlessness.

He was branded as weak and was thus slandered, as that is the way both human and all other corruptible living beings have lived, live and will live for many more years.

People, though, would also admire and encourage those that went against the odds, as they would pity the weak, but once that person won, their actions would make a 180 degrees change: admiration would turn into envy and their encouraging would turn into scorn.

One of the many reasons, apart from the lack of talent or external support, that true geniuses are rare is that some of them couldn't endure this change of attitude and would subconsciously restrain their abilities. If reasons like that didn't apply to a person, then that person would undoubtedly rise higher than anyone else in the world. Rise higher and then dominate every single being besides him.

If a person with unmatched talent, a willpower capable of shaking the Earth and make the Heavens tremble and apathy towards the envy and scorn of others existed... What then?

Would such a genius be restrained by the Heavens? By Death? By Age? What can any of these weak shackles do in the face of insurmountable power?

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A black blur shot through the forest at speeds at the very limit of what a human body could handle. It kept speeding down the mountains and running through swamps for at least half a day before finally slowing down.

When it finally stopped on top of a tall cliff, the figure could finally be seen a bit more clearly: it was a young boy. He was wearing ragged clothes, and carried a huge backpack on his shoulders.