Death becomes the teacher, and 721 has much to learn. Unnamed and enslaved by the Red Dawn Sect, he serves as nothing more than expendable force—cannon fodder in a grinding machinery of war. Yet when each death ushers him backward through time, waking 24 hours prior, he glimpses fragments of his forgotten self and charts an improbable course toward freedom. The Martial Arts Alliance teeters toward collapse as warfare engulfs the wuxia realm, its great sects and ancient families rotten with corruption from the core outward. In this fracturing murim world of ruthless combat and martial supremacy, a nameless soldier climbs toward the peaks, each step purchased with suffering, each victory weighted by bone and blood. A narrative focused on close-quarters brutality and a deeply flawed protagonist who learns through catastrophic mistakes and relentless dying. Expect unsparing darkness in the opening chapters, where death arrives frequently and graphically, rendered with black comedy's sharp edge. Yet light persists: redemption waits beyond the tunnel's mouth, threaded between the horror and the hope. You'll encounter dying—brutal, frequent, and ugly. Daily updates arrive during the opening two weeks. Subsequent chapters release Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.