Shattered Martial Legacy

Ling Cang, a Martial Venerable of his generation who dominated the martial world for a century, was betrayed on the eve of breaking through to the supreme realm by his trusted junior brother and an allied clan. He fell in the Black Abyss Deathlands. Reborn, he returns to age sixteen, reduced to an outer sect disciple of the Qingyun Sect, his meridians riddled with hidden injuries and his future bleak. In his past life, he pursued martial arts with single-minded devotion, walking the world alone. His closest kin passed away, his good friends all died, and he ended up abandoned by all. In this life, returning with a century of martial experience, he sees through the traps in cultivation methods and discerns the good and evil in people's hearts. At the sect's minor tournament, he crushes his hypocritical enemies; in ancient martial ruins, he salvages lost legacies; as he retreads the martial path, he also retreads his own heart. The martial road is long. He must not only ascend once more to the position of Martial Venerable, settle old blood debts, and protect those around him; he must also investigate an age-old mystery—why in this world, each generation of martial arts is weaker than the last, and the ancient martial legacies are being severed one after another. Among fragmented scrolls and ancient steles, he meets a kindred spirit also exploring the secrets of the martial lineage, and together they set out on this long martial road buried with an ancient conspiracy. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Shattered Martial Legacy — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠