In a luxurious courtyard in Kaifeng, a boy of about ten watched the servants come and go, his gaze indifferent.
He was Wu Xuantian, now known as Zhao Wu. He had never existed in the original course of history. The youngest son of Consort Lin, he was also her youngest child.
He had two older brothers: Zhao Yu, the twelfth son, and Zhao Si, the fourteenth. He was the fifteenth.
Unfortunately, he had been unable to speak since birth, so Shenzong paid him little attention. In the Imperial Family, that meant the throne was forever beyond his reach. If so many sons of the Great Song emperors had not died young, a mute like him might never even have been made a king.
He had also had an elder sister, Zhao Wanyi, but she had died young.
He was no longer surprised by being reborn again and again. He had grown used to it.
With each rebirth, he had to rebuild his true qi and physique, but his Divine Soul was genuinely at the Innate level.
Thanks to that Innate-level Divine Soul, even an ordinary First-Class Martial Artist was no match for him.
He had secretly traveled the martial world more than once. Armed with foreknowledge, he had acquired the Lingbo Crossing Steps, the Northern Abyss Divine Skill, the Formless Skill, and other arts.
With centuries of insight into martial arts, he could see that these techniques were fragments of a single art.
After obtaining them, he fused them into one and named it the Everlasting Youth Skill.
He also incorporated their principles of enduring youth and formlessness into the Formless Hunyuan True Scripture.
The Formless Hunyuan True Scripture remained the foundation of everything he practiced.
Over the years, his status as a prince of a kingdom had ensured he