Second Breath [Timeloop Xianxia]

Ren died on a cull-day, a reed still in his fist. Dawn put him back in his bunk. The wound had closed. The ugly hip-turn his dying body invented stayed. Each death rewinds the cull-day to the drum. Each death leaves a technique in the meat. A clerk on the ridge marks boys as yield and never comes down. He intends to keep the lessons. Then he intends to put that man into the mist. Hollowreed sent Yard Seven into the Bone Mist with sickles and a blessing. The testers had already stamped his root insufficient. Outer disciples don't get manuals. They get work, and then they get used. The inner court has been counting this yard as furnace-yield for eleven seasons. What to expect - Checkpoint time-loop: the day rewinds, skills and cultivation stay - Techniques earned from deaths and leftover furnace-qi — not a menu, not a grandpa in a ring - Outer-yard grind, inner-court harvest politics, fights learned on the tooth - Daily chapters, 2,000+ words - An outer-yard sweeper who keeps every death and goes back for the clerk on the ridge