The Evil Sovereign of Nine Realms

In his past life, he was the supreme mercenary commander who walked through darkness—ruthless, iron-hearted, and absolute. A single death, however, delivered his soul to the mysterious Xuanxu Continent, where he awoke as Shen Ye, the notoriously dissolute and utterly crippled third young master of the Great Yin Dynasty's Marquis of Zhenbei's household. The once-legendary marquisate now teeters on the brink of annihilation: the old marquis clings to life from mortal wounds, the eldest son fell in battle at the northern frontier, the second son has vanished without trace, and enemies close in from every direction. The imperial court covets the Shen family's military power, noble houses circle like vultures over the marquisate's remaining assets, lofty sects look down with contempt, and traitors lurk within the very walls of the manor. All await the final fall of the Shen family. But they do not know that the worthless young master, supposedly slain by poisoned wine, now harbors a soul forged in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Deep within his sea of consciousness rests the Nine Prison Divine Pagoda, a towering artifact of forbidden power that unlocks nine layers of ancient, god-like abilities—body refinement, soul tempering, ten thousand poisons, beast taming, blood burning, fate gazing, and more. With each sealed prison he opens, Shen Ye draws closer not only to the truth of his own rebirth, but to the greatest conspiracy spanning the heavens themselves. He knows mercy will buy no reprieve, nor concession preserve his house. Since the world forces him into this game, he will wield poison as his blade, blood as his chess piece, and crush the power struggles of the imperial capital, lay waste to the geniuses of the great sects, reforge the northern iron cavalry, topple the old dynasty, and subdue all races. When all nine prisons stand open and the gods descend upon the mortal realm, Shen Ye will come to understand one final truth—his transmigration was never a gift of fate, but a cage laid across ten thousand ages. And he is the one destined to shatter that cage with his own hands.