His ultimate goal isn't power or conquest, but absolute freedom — liberation from death, from the control of powerful lords, and from the confines of this world. Meet Wuyi, formerly a gangster's accountant, now reborn in a world torn between the Righteous and the Demonics. Gifted with a unique ability by the gods of his previous life, Wuyi possesses an exceptional edge in this new realm. While Wuyi yearns for a peaceful life, he's not afraid to become the villain that this world might need. Determined to secure his freedom, he's prepared to upheave this world, paying no heed to its moral divides. He will not rest until he attains the deepest desire of his soul.
If Luding continued gathering, he would soon reach a level that would at least appear to challenge his peers – already the mighty black serpent of the Gray Hills was awake to him, raising, as it were, a scaled black eyebrow at Luding's speedy accumulation of power and lesser creatures, men, and resources. The old Shadowmaw in the mountains did not love him either. And at some future point, the Yanshi, scarcely people and more like cruel animals as they were, would come to resent his chains and find a way to throw them off.
So might one feudal lord of this wild be alarmed—or at least deeply curious—when learning that a neighbor of theirs had called in his vassals and raised an army. Luding will have problems.
But it was not his fault that he was better than them he had once been a man—a man capable of raising armies.
Before he'd learned the truth.