Body Snatching

The mark on his arm burned like a scorching flame, as if it were about to devour Xiao Ran. In an instant, all kinds of memories of the Li Family's salt shop began to surface before him.

But these memories were completely different from the ones Xiao Ran had seen at first.

"Just a lowly salt merchant, nothing but a commoner!!"

"This year's salt tax—fall one coin short, and we'll shut down your shop."

"What?? The son of a salt merchant?? Hahahaha, that's hilarious. What's the use of a salt merchant's son studying? Do you even know the words of the sages?"

"I'm from the Cui Family of Hexi. What are you, exactly? The lives of your whole family aren't worth as much as one of my toes. You dirtied my shoe, so your whole family will pay with their lives!!"

Scene after scene, story after story. Once the disguise fell away from these memories, what emerged was a life of pain.

It was the struggle of someone born at the bottom, unable to change his fate—and the reason he had turned around, taken up a blade, and unleashed a catastrophe.

And the owner of these memories wasn't one of the Li Family's ancestors. They belonged to a single person...

"Huang Chao!!"

There was no way Xiao Ran could mistake that voice. He snapped his eyes open, and Huang Chao's figure appeared reflected in his pupils.

He wasn't outside. He was inside Xiao Ran's body.

Xiao Ran could feel a terrifying mental force instantly flooding his consciousness.

The power rapidly gathered into Huang Chao's likeness inside Xiao Ran's mind, carrying with it an irresistible force.

It was as if what had rushed into Xiao Ran's consciousness wasn't merely Huang Chao's Consciousness Body. It seemed the will of this entire world,