A Long Grind to Daoist Monarch - Chapter 45: Ninghai Zen, a Person’s Name

'They always said knowledge is power but what if, Power is knowledge.'At the brink of extinction, with no other options humanity decided to take the leap forward by inducing evolution, with a serum meant to take us to new length became the bane of our existence.Levi Kane, after witnessing the massacre of his family is bitten and mutated into a being beyond both vampire and human, with a promise only to destroy all vampires.After waking up from a coma to find the world he left nothing like the past, as vampires ruled both day and night.With the threats of Vampires, world organisations and even humans. Levi threads the line between human and creature as he navigates the delicate and fragile new ecosystem.Find out why evolution doesn't happen in a lab.When the Earth says it's time to leave, just leave.Because there are certain things worse than even death.

Leo was going to awaken as an Aura Farmer.All he wanted was to become the strongest. You know, normal kids stuff.Yet, being the strongest doesn't come easy. As he finds himself thrown into a forgotten era to solve mysteries, passing its trials to furthermore become stronger than any being that had ever existed.Still, the battle for power doesn't end there. Thrown into a battle for influence and power, Leo finds himself battling against other Aura Farmers both internal and external. It also just happens to turn out...everyone wants him either alive or dead, as long as it benefits them.Have you ever seen countless dragons paint the azure skies?Have you ever seen a whole continent reduced to dust by the flick of a finger?Aura is magnificent. Aura is absolute. But for Leo, an adoptee of the notorious Atlantis Clan, Aura is also a death sentence. Carrying a mysterious legacy and the weight of a slaughtered clan, Leo must navigate a world of madness, ancient mysteries, and a hierarchy of power that would rather see him helpless than awakened.From mysterious trials to the heights of the Bastard Volume, follow Leo as he dives deep into the harrowing mysteries of the Aura System and the dark truth of humanity’s past.

“Let’s change the job’s contract.”“Sorry?”“Let’s switch it. From a work contract… to a marriage one.”Theo Kingsley doesn’t believe in soft edges. He’s spent years burying the version of himself that once felt too much, the kind and gentle side. His world is built on control, silence, and icy precision.Then comes Daisy Sinclair. The chaos.Former heiress. Newly broke. All pink, perfume, and polished nails. Once a pampered princess trying to piece her life together after her family’s downfall… a downfall Theo might’ve had something to do with.She shows up expecting a job.What she gets is a marriage contract.To Theo, marrying Daisy is a calculated move, a way to silence the side of himself he can’t afford to let out.To Daisy, it’s absolutely insane. But her credit cards are maxed, her options are few, and the Ice King is surprisingly… tolerable. Sometimes?Thrown into a world of cold suits and colder stares, Daisy's mission becomes simple: survive.But as sparks start flying and walls begin to crack, one thing becomes dangerously unclear:Is she melting the Ice King’s heart or just falling for a man who doesn’t know which version of himself is real?

drop out of school

When I got home, I reopened the blacksmith shop.

From then on, this blacksmith shop was no longer ordinary.

The best knives in the world are born here.

The thrust-to-weight ratio of the handmade micro-turbojet directly exploded.

The micro-drones flourished in his hands.

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