Within the Dark Sea, above the Seven Realms, once a hundred races vied for supremacy, but now only humans and demons stand side by side. Millions of years ago, the unparalleled emperor, His Majesty the Ancient Dragon, emerged, leading the human race to drive the demons down into the Dark Sea. With overwhelming power, he created the Celestial Court Continent, suppressing the demon race.

　　However, a million years ago, the Immortal Emperor mysteriously disappeared, the Celestial Court collapsed, and the demons counterattacked the Seven Realms, forcing the humans into retreat, teetering on the brink of destruction!

　　A soul from Earth traverses into the chaotic Seven Realms of the Dark Sea, becoming the "good-for-nothing and cowardly" young master of the The Carter Family clan.

　　Estranged from relatives, at odds with neighbors. Only a loving father and a young brother depend on each other for survival.

　　On the verge of despair, he obtains a heart demon severed by the Immortal Emperor at his coronation...

　　A brand new era thus begins: cultivation advances by leaps and bounds, formidable foes submit at his feet, and the creation of artifacts and pills is done with a mere wave of the hand!

　　Humans and demons contend—humanity shall rise!

Chapter 1: The Whole World Says You’re Useless

　　Andrew Carter sat quietly in the thatched pavilion, the warm winter afternoon sunlight filtering through the sparse grass curtains, falling upon him like a mother’s gentle whisper.

　　He still felt a bit of a headache, but was gradually adapting to this body.

　　In the distance, a few servants were pointing and whispering about him behind his back. Andrew Carter found it secretly amusing—they must think he couldn’t notice, right?

　　The previous owner of this body had only reached the third meridian stage, and indeed didn’t possess such keen spiritual senses.

　　But now, with Andrew Carter’s soul occupying the original owner’s body—perhaps due to the merging of two souls—at least his spiritual perception had become extremely sharp.

　　Although he still couldn’t make out exactly what those servants were saying, it was nothing more than the usual words: useless, coward, fool...

　　He truly didn’t care about these things anymore, having been given a second chance at life.

　　The scene of that blindingly bright heavy truck roaring toward him was still vivid in his mind...

　　He and his classmates had all grown up listening to their teachers’ lessons on how to be a good person, but after entering society, everyone gradually abandoned those principles, becoming short-sighted and cold-hearted.

　　He never judged others; he only insisted on what he himself should do.

　　After graduating from university, he joined a large company as a junior employee, working diligently and without complaint. With some effort at flattery, he finally made it to middle management.

　　But at that moment, he discovered that a business acquisition the company was orchestrating was suspected of fraud. If successful, hundreds of employees on the other side could lose everything!

　　That night, his boss invited him to a bar. Under dim lights and seductive music, the boss’s beautiful secretary opened a suitcase full of cash.

　　All he had to do was keep his mouth shut.

　　He smiled, because his boss didn’t know that he secretly sponsored two impoverished students in the mountains, sent what little he could each year to the nursing home in his hometown, and even volunteered to buy dog food four times a year for a guide dog foundation...

　　Forced by life, he might sell his labor or even his dignity, but people like his boss would never understand that in a world where everything seems to have a price, there are still things money can’t buy: conscience!

　　And so, on the way home, he encountered that “out-of-control” heavy truck.

　　Then, for reasons unknown, his soul, which should have perished, arrived in this world and took over this body. Coincidentally, the original owner was also named Andrew Carter, the eldest son of the third master of the The Carter Family clan.

　　He spent three days slowly digesting the original owner’s memories, learning that this world had seven continents floating above the boundless Dark Sea. Above the Seven Realms once stood the Celestial Court, but millions of years ago, the Celestial Court collapsed, the Immortal Emperor vanished, and the human and demon races plunged into war once more.

　　He learned that this world’s history was long and profound, its civilization far older than his previous world. From the Taiyong Aeon billions of years ago to the New Era that began a million years ago, countless heroes had risen, and every era was marked by epic events.

　　The path of civilization was martial cultivation. Every protagonist in these stories possessed world-shattering power. Even the Seventh Realm, the “Land of the Dead,” was originally part of the main continent, but was split off during the “Million War” between humans and demons, becoming the Seventh Realm of the Dark Sea.

　　He learned that in this world, only those who awakened their “Martial Light” could be considered true martial artists, and the size and brightness of the Martial Light was the most direct measure of a martial artist’s strength.

　　He learned about sigils, pills, artifacts, spirit mounts, and other knowledge of this world. In short, it was a fascinating world.

　　But... Andrew Carter revealed a bitter smile. It seemed that all the “fascination” of this world had nothing to do with him.

　　Even though he felt extremely unwilling to have a second chance at life turn out like this, even he felt powerless.

　　“Does that Seven-Leaf Ginseng Soup really need to be given to that good-for-nothing?” came the sound of arguing outside the pavilion, with no regard for whether Andrew Carter the young master could hear them.

　　“It’s the standard monthly supply for every young master in the family.”

　　“Heh, you really treat that coward as a young master? If he were even a little bit useful, would he need to hide here? Ever since he ran back from the ancestral land, he’s disgraced our The Carter Family clan!”