Ninefold Sword Seal

Lin Chen, a side-branch member of the Lin family at the third layer of Qi Gathering, is the laughingstock of the entire city. On the registration day for the grand tournament, a direct-branch prodigy steps on his face: "A waste like you deserves to stand here?" At the brink of life and death, the ancient sword seal dormant within him for sixteen years awakens. The Ninefold Sword Seal, each layer a new heaven— The first layer, Listening to the Sword: all swords pay homage; The second layer, Wielding the Sword: one sword destroys a city; The third layer, Ten Thousand Swords Return: sweeping across all directions. Those who once humiliated me now kneel before me. But as the sword seal unseals layer by layer, Lin Chen discovers that his mother's poisoning and his father's disappearance are part of a scheme laid out over ten thousand years. Is he a pawn, or the one playing the game? If fate wants me to be a pawn— Then I will cleave the heavens with my sword and overturn this game. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Ninefold Sword Seal — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠