Cheng Shifei had originally been just a petty hoodlum in Capital City, living quite comfortably on his daily swindling and cheating.
Unfortunately, his luck had turned this time. Zhang Laosan, who had always led him in those scams, had cheated him instead. After losing money, Zhang Laosan had pledged him to the Silver Hook Gambling House.
The Silver Hook Gambling House had sold him straight to the palace to be castrated and made a eunuch.
Fortunately, he knew a little rudimentary martial arts and had some wits about him. He discovered a sealed tunnel in one of the castration chambers. After crawling inside, he unexpectedly reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Prison, which was controlled by the Eastern Depot.
There, he met a legendary master from thirty years ago, Invincible Urchin Gu Santong.
Perhaps Gu Santong knew he was certain to die, or perhaps he thought Cheng Shifei looked somewhat like his wife. Whatever the reason, he passed his lifetime of accumulated power and the entire Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill to Cheng Shifei.
He also tattooed all the supreme arts he had obtained from experts of the eight great sects onto Cheng Shifei's body, leaving him to learn them gradually.
Gu Santong had only one request: once Cheng Shifei mastered those martial arts, he was to challenge Iron-Gallant Divine Marquis Zhu Wushi and defeat him, avenging the half-move defeat Gu Santong had suffered back then.
Cheng Shifei escaped along the tunnel back to the palace's castration chamber, only to discover a group of black-clad men running out with someone wrapped in black satin. Cries to catch the assassins rang through the palace.
In his panic, he fled to Jingyang Palace.
"Phew... at least nobody spotted me. What rotten luck, running into something like this right after escaping. Those imperial