All Chapters of Rebirth of the Weakest: Chapter 21
- Chapter 30
102 chapters
21: The Beast Beneath the Roots
What if the thing hunting you is not the beast you can see?Ken woke before sunrise.For several seconds he lay still, listening to the forest. Something was wrong. The camp was too quiet. The usual chatter of birds and insects had not returned.Ken slowly opened his eyes. His Shadow Panther appeared beside him, ears raised, a faint thread of thunder rippling through its dark fur.Level 13. He was still at the same level. Still stuck.Ken clenched his fist. He hated that feeling. He had fought, trained, refined pills, practiced forging, and pushed his Beast Qi almost every day, yet the barrier remained. Close. So close. But refusing to break.Inside his soul space, Mirinda opened her eyes. “You are thinking about your cultivation again,” Mirinda said.“I am stuck,” Ken said.“Yes,” Mirinda said.Ken frowned. “You could at least pretend to encourage me,” Ken said.“You do not need encouragement. You need patience,” Mirinda said.Ken sighed. “I hate patience,” Ken said.Mirinda’s lips m
22: The Five Clans' Hidden Plans
The morning after Jiang Wei's death felt different. Nobody joked around the campfire. Even the loudest disciples spoke in whispers.Ken sat with his back against a tree, staring into the flames. He had barely slept. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw Jiang Wei's final expression — not fear, but disappointment. The boy had wanted to enter Pai Zhua Sect. He had wanted to grow stronger. His life had ended before he got the chance.Ken clenched his fist. I cannot let that happen to me.His cultivation still sat at Beast Geek Level 13. The barrier toward Level 14 had cracked but not broken. He needed to grow. Not tomorrow. Now.Mu Qing stood over him, arms crossed. "You look terrible," she said. "Thank you," Ken said."Not a compliment.""I know."She sat beside him, quiet for a moment. "Thinking about Jiang Wei?""Yes.""He was not your friend.""I know. But he wanted the same thing I want." Ken looked at his hands. "Some people have better Martial Spirits. Better teachers. Better reso
23: The Place That Swallowed Them
The forest had gone silent.Ken stood at the edge of the northern trail with the other young cultivators, staring at a strange black symbol carved into the ground. Seven people were already missing, and the mark before him looked almost like a broken eye.He crouched and studied it without touching it, his expression turning serious. He had seen something like this before, not exactly the same, but close enough that his stomach tightened. The black fragment inside his storage pouch carried a similar pattern."Ken," Mirinda said from inside his soul space, her voice sharp with warning. "Do not touch it.""You recognize it?" he asked silently. "Not completely," she admitted."That is not very reassuring.""I said do not touch it."Ken almost smiled. "You know, for someone who claims to be my teacher, you spend a great deal of time telling me what not to do.""Because you spend a great deal of time attempting dangerous things."Before he could argue, the expedition leader stepped forward
24: The Abyss Beneath the Forest
Ken fell again, and at this point, he was beginning to suspect the Canine Forest held some kind of personal grudge against him specifically.Darkness swallowed everything. No ground, no ceiling, no direction, only cold wind tearing at his clothes as he dropped through the void. Then he heard Suzuki's voice cutting through the black."Le Ken!""I am here!" he shouted back."Catch me!"He spotted her falling several meters away and stretched out his hand at once. "Give me your hand!"Their fingers brushed, then locked, and Ken's shoulder nearly tore from its socket as he caught her full weight."You are heavy!" he grunted. Suzuki glared at him despite the wind screaming past her face. "Are you insulting me while we are falling to our deaths?""I am trying to keep you alive!""Then stop talking!""You are the one who started shouting!"Even in freefall, she somehow found the composure to look murderous, and Ken almost laughed despite himself. Then something enormous moved in the darkness
25: The Rebels Of Heaven
The ancient skeleton raised its sword, and the question it had asked still hung in the air like smoke that refused to clear."if Heaven decides who is guilty, then who decides whether Heaven is right?"Ken's whole body locked up under the pressure rolling off the thing, his knees trembling despite every instinct screaming at him to stand firm. Peak Beast Geek Level 20 against his own measly Level 13 wasn't a fight so much as a formality, and he knew it.Beside him, Suzuki's Heavenly Swan shimmered faintly, her jaw set. "We cannot fight it head-on," she said, voice clipped and tight.Ken tightened his grip on the Devouring Beam Sword until his knuckles ached. "I noticed." When the skeleton took a single step and the whole battlefield shuddered, sending broken weapons leaping off the ground like startled insects, he swallowed hard and offered, weakly, "Maybe we can negotiate?"Suzuki shot him a look that could curdle milk. "It's a skeleton.""I was trying to be optimistic," he muttered
26: The Judgement Beast
Ken stood before the golden doorway, fingers tightening around the Devouring Beam Sword until his knuckles ached. His shoulder throbbed where the ancient blade had punched through it, and most of his Beast Qi had already burned away in his first, reckless attempt at the Four Fingers of Heaven. His body wanted nothing more than to collapse. Something in the darkness ahead, though, kept pulling at him — not his exhaustion, but the inheritance buried in his chest, humming like it recognized what waited beyond.Suzuki stood at his shoulder, her Heavenly Swan circling lazily behind her, wings trailing pale light. "We should leave," she said, arms crossed."You're finally saying something sensible," Ken muttered, glancing sideways at her."I'm serious.""So am I." He looked back the way they'd come — the passage had already caved in behind them, sealing off retreat as neatly as a closing fist. Suzuki followed his gaze, jaw tightening."We don't have another path," she said."Exactly." Ken l
27: The Forest Without a Voice
The Grand Le Clan expedition had spent days in the Canine Forest, and the mood had curdled from excitement into dread. Le Bao walked near the front, his Iron Bear Martial Spirit looming behind him, eyes scanning the treeline. "Have you noticed it?" he asked.Mu Qing fell into step beside him. "There are fewer beasts.""Exactly. Yesterday we saw twenty before noon.""Today? Three."Chen Rui swallowed hard. "Maybe that's good."Nobody answered him. He scratched his neck. "What?" Le Bao turned, flat-voiced. "When an area this large goes empty, you ask why — not celebrate it."Elder Han's hand shot up, freezing the column mid-step. He crouched, pressed his palm into the dirt, and his face hardened as he lifted a fistful that held no moisture, no insects, no roots. "The soil is dead," he said.Mu Qing frowned. "Dead?""We've entered the outer edge of a dead zone." The words rippled through the group like a struck bell. A disciple protested that the route still had ground to cover. Elder Ha
28: The Forest That Eats Beast Qi
The expedition moved fast, nobody complaining about pace anymore, nobody caring about herbs or crystals, only the dead zone at their backs and the gray, leafless trees closing in like a held breath. Elder Han led with his Stone Eagle circling above, Le Bao near the younger disciples, Mu Qing glancing over her shoulder again and again. Chen Rui limped beside her. "How far until the safe zone?""Three hours," Elder Han said without turning."Three hours?""Unless you'd like to carry yourself.""I suddenly feel much better," Chen Rui said, and Le Bao barked a laugh — the first anyone had heard in hours. It didn't last. A strange wind slid through the trees, and every Martial Spirit in the group flickered at once — Mu Qing's Moon Fox blinking out, Le Bao's Iron Bear thinning to mist, Elder Han's Stone Eagle nearly collapsing mid-air. "What happened?" a disciple asked, voice cracking.Elder Han stared at his trembling hand. "The Beast Qi is being drained.""By what?""I don't know," he sai
29: The Hunter in the Dread Zone
The forest had gone silent, not peaceful, but the kind of silence that pressed against the skin like a held breath. Ken stood among the expedition members, the Devouring Beam Sword resting against his shoulder, his eyes fixed on the dead zone ahead. Something had spoken. Something had recognized him. And he hated that more than he wanted to admit."Everyone stay together," Elder Han ordered, voice sharp enough to snap the disciples into formation.Le Bao fell in beside Ken, still panting from the last skirmish, sweat darkening his collar. "Did you hear that voice?" he asked."Yes," Ken said, jaw tight. "What do you think it was?" Le Bao pressed. Ken's gaze didn't leave the tree line. "Something that doesn't want us here," he said.Mu Qing frowned, arms crossed. "Then we should leave," she said. "For once, I agree," Ken said, allowing himself a small, humorless smile.Suzuki crossed her arms, scanning the shadows. "We need to move before whatever caused that voice finds us," she said.
30: The Finger That Tore the Void
The golden footprints lingered on the road long after the expedition left the dead zone, fading slowly like a held breath finally released, though Ken couldn't shake the feeling that whatever left them wasn't gone, only waiting. He walked near the back of the group with Suzuki at his side, pain flaring through his ribs with every step."You should rest," Suzuki said, glancing at the blood soaking through his sleeve. "I'm fine," Ken said, waving her off. "You're bleeding," she said flatly. He shrugged. "Not enough to complain about," he said."You always say that," she said, crossing her arms. "And I'm usually right," he said, smirking. "No. You're usually stubborn," she said, and he laughed despite the ache in his chest.The peace didn't last. A sharp whistle cut through the trees, and the whole group froze as Elder Han raised his hand. Footsteps echoed closer, and a group of men in dark-gray robes stepped out from the shadows, faces hidden, clothes bare of any clan symbol."Who are t