A Mission From Birth

To Ji Ping, being alive was no different from being dead.

The girl he had wanted to spend his life with had been taken from him by illness. No matter how hard he tried, he could not bring her back.

When he had needed help the most, he had lowered his head and turned to his family.

Yet all he received was a cold response. No one had offered him a helping hand, all because the ancestral rules stated that the Earth Warding Clan could not marry outsiders.

He did not share his ancestors' lofty ideals and ambitions. Slaying demons and banishing evil, protecting the peace of the world—Ji Ping thought it was all bullshit. He only wanted to live happily with the person he loved.

He was just an ordinary man who wanted to choose the life he wanted.

Now, all of that had been destroyed.

The girl's departure had filled him with utter despair, while his family's indifference chilled him to the bone.

Yet there was nothing he could change.

After the girl was gone, he chose to live alone, leading a life that outsiders saw as utterly depraved.

With no source of income and crushing loans hanging over his head, he could only scrape together pocket money through various grind-heavy mini-games to survive.

Even now, nothing had changed.

Now that he was twenty, those cold family members had returned once more, hoping he would go home and undergo the baptism.

But Ji Ping did not want to.

What would baptism change? What use was gaining great power? This was not the life he wanted. Nor did he want to become an exorcist like his father and forefathers, walking through the night, living not for himself but for others.

So, no matter how many times they tried to