Spending It All to Buy the Road to Heaven

Chu Yuan, the young master of the Great Qian Empire's foremost merchant guild, was born with Stone Bones and destined to have no affinity for martial arts. Yet the imperial family covets the guild's wealth, and the family crisis looms imminently. To find a powerful patron, Chu Yuan lavished vast sums of spirit stones to fabricate a heavenly phenomenon, and with peerless fine wine as an aid, he outright tricked the foremost Sword Sovereign of the Yunyin Sect into becoming his master. He thought he could keep being a bullying wastrel, but the lie was exposed; his furious master threw him into the forbidden rear mountain, and he was saddled with a shocking wager to fight a prince to the death in one year. "Since my aptitude is lacking, then I'll use money to smash open a peerless road to heaven!" — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Spending It All to Buy the Road to Heaven — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠