[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete":3,"chapter-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-9":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from the Apocalypse, I Alone Severed Eternity",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2312391,4518,"Chapter 9: Notes of a Foundation Establishment Disciple of the Heaven Sword Sect (1)","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-9",9,"\u003Cp>Notes of a Foundation Establishment Disciple of the Heaven Sword Sect (1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>March 3rd, clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, Brother Jin went again to challenge Brother Li to a fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outcome, as always, was another crushing defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some say Brother Jin possesses an indomitable spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He will surely go farther on the arduous path of cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I do not think so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Jin is a scion of a prominent family within the sect and has always looked down on disciples without background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Li was born a beggar and entered the sect already at forty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, he should have missed the best age for body tempering and Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Brother Li’s talent is unparalleled, as if a celestial immortal had descended to earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grasped the sword intent in ten days, drew spiritual energy into his body, and became the first among his peers to achieve Qi Refining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stirred Brother Jin’s envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet every challenge ended in defeat against Brother Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it is not envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is resentment—resentment at being trampled by a lowly beggar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I come from an ordinary family, with only a few acres of poor land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My parents rented land from a local wealthy household to farm and support the family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus I played in the fields from childhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was close friends with the children of other tenant farmers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day, the wealthy household’s son came to the fields for no apparent reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing one of my friends was strong, he challenged him to an arm-wrestling match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My friend had labored in the fields since childhood; though his diet was poor, he possessed real strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He easily defeated the wealthy boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wealthy boy refused to accept defeat and began regularly challenging my friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That year, drought struck the fields, and the harvest failed entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My friend had no food, lost his strength, and was easily defeated by the wealthy boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, the wealthy boy sneered: “Lowly peasant, you only won by trickery. How could a noble like me possibly lose to a peasant?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, my friend froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through all those matches, my friend had come to regard the wealthy boy as a friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never expected this—upon returning home, he was utterly despondent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At year’s end, my friend’s family had no grain left and sold him into servitude to the wealthy household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A year later, I heard the news: my friend had been beaten to death by the wealthy boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, after I began cultivation, I went to seek revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked the now fat, bloated wealthy boy why he had done it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He replied: “A servant must behave like a servant. How could a servant ever be stronger than his master?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, I flew into rage and tore that fat pig apart limb from limb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, I see the shadow of that pig in Brother Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Brother Jin ever wins, he will never spare Brother Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, thinking again, it is impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Li has already comprehended the sword intent like a rainbow; Brother Jin is still far behind.\u003C\u002Fp>",510,"2026-06-20T12:43:33.559Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4250f6fb0d62b19565f3c931c8d6ad3eadf975b7a894169bb9606129d5308854","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-10","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-8",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-cover.jpg"]