Return to the Peak of Blood

Li Xuan keeps surviving by being the man no clan wanted. He spent twenty years learning how the big schools got power training wrong, and now the city has turned into a trap full of heat-hunting dead and people who lie for food. His pills keep coming out one tier weak, which should have made him a joke. Instead, the missing strength has been gathering for three years inside a small object in his workroom, and that impossible build up may be the only reason he is still alive. He keeps helping people for reasons he would rather not name, and each good choice leaves him with more blood on his hands. The worst part is that the people hunting him may be right about one thing.