Awakened: The Spirit King!

Chen Wei Qi escaped from the assassin with severe injuries, but the first thing he did after waking up wasn't heal himself. Instead, he crawled his way to the guards at the city gate and reported the assassination attempt on him to the authorities.

The officials of the Blue Moon City already knew about the matter of a mysterious group killing talented blacksmiths and understood that Chen Wei Qi had become one of their misfortune targets. They assured him that they would apprehend the criminals not only for him but the other people who died under their hands too and advised him to rest and recover.

He went into a coma after hearing their words.

After a while of investigation, they found no clue as to who the culprits were at all.

They gave up on finding the criminal when the higher-ups warned them to stop investigating this event!

How could Chen Wei Qi, who has lost his entire life, not do anything in the face of such incredible injustice?

After waking up from his comatose state, he found out that the officials were no longer doing anything to give justice to him or his wife and unborn child.

He felt greatly angered and kicked up a storm, but they punished him by putting him in jail for half a year, and after they released him, soon powerful cultivators came and wiped the floor with him!

He had no choice but to swallow his anger and frustration!

He went out to investigate alone and found many clues that pointed to the winner of the tournament the third elder held at the black unicorn sect being the culprit.

As for why he did that, it was simple.

He wanted to become the disciple of the third elder. So he chose the easy way, which was to eradicate anyone more talented or as talented as him before they could participate in the exam!

Chen Wei Qi and people like him, who were talented but didn't have a background nor were they influential, fell prey to that person's insidious scheme.

While Chen Wei Qi was looking for more physical evidence in the valley, a bear attacked him.

He fought it and realized that while the assassins failed to kill him that day, they put a deadly curse on him!

Because the curse was extremely vicious, each time he used spiritual techniques, he would feel terrible pain as if several dozens of insects were biting him.

It wasn't too hard for him to create a spiritual object as he only needed to use a technique a few times while making one, and he was strong enough to endure the pain while remaining focused on his task.

However, it became impossible for him to hunt above level 20 beasts as killing them required a cultivator to use dozens of spiritual techniques, which meant a death sentence for him.

The adventures in the city that weren't capable of hunting level beasts above level 20 sold their materials in the nearby shops, and those people who were capable sold their materials in auctions. A poor man like him never won a material against the super-rich of the city, so he always failed to get materials to create a third rank object.

He could only purchase and get rank five and sometimes rank four materials and use them to develop low-end spiritual objects.

How could a blacksmith advance to the next rank under such circumstances?!

Thus, he always remained on the fourth rank.

He saw no way of advancing forward in his professional while his enemy and the target of his revenge quickly became a rank two blacksmith under the guidance of the Head of the Spiritual Object Refinement Hall.

He quickly realized that he was a useless man that couldn't kill the hands behind the murder of his wife and child and used alcohol and wine to dull the pain in his heart.

As time went on, his temper got worse, and he started to remain intoxicated day and night.

He was waiting for death!

"That bastard is really insidious."

Xie Yang wasn't unfamiliar with the tactics Bai Xian used to win the tournament as many people did that ten thousand years ago, but he thought that since the empire had rules and laws, people wouldn't think about executing such evil plans.

However, Bai Xian proved with his actions that no matter how good a household or how well the time, evil will exist.

"His background must be huge since he is still alive after committing such a huge crime."

Xie Ye wasn't unfamiliar with the emperor's desire to cherish talents.

His master, Xie Yong, was the childhood friend of the Emperor.

Xie Yong was once the emperor's study companion and later became his drinking buddy.

It was after his relationship with the Ancient Xie Family took a bitter road, and he left the capital to make a name for himself that the contact between him and the emperor lessened.

Thus, Xie Yong knew a lot about the emperor, and whenever he got drunk, he would talk about the emperor pissed his pants or how that person got scared and jumped into a pool that time when he scared him to Xie Ye.

From his master's mouth, Xie Ye also found out that the Emperor liked to go overboard when punishing sinners who secretly take out their rivals just because they are talented.

It was because the Emperor's brother died under the hand of his cousin because of the same reason.

The emperor wasn't a remarkable person in his youth, so the assassin didn't target him a lot, but after his brother's death, he exploded with talent and became the emperor and also took care of the bastard that killed his brother.

Ever since becoming the emperor, he had cherished talented people as if they were his own people.

"Why didn't you look for a way to undo your curse?"

Xie Yang asked the blacksmith why he was living with such a frustrating condition and doing nothing about it.