Floating down a river, a singing old wooden boat floats by; looking at it, there is nothing of significance about it. It's just like any other old, rickety wooden boat you can get on any river, but when you look more closely, you find a man bound to it.
That man is Yanga Black, a man who has had a rough life, and today is one of the roughest days of his life.
Today is his birthday, and it was supposed to be the best day of his life, but somehow it has changed to the last day of his life.
Born in one of the poorest parts of southern Africa, when he was 5 years old, his father was killed in a fight with another man when he was caught in that man's bed with his wife.
From that day, the people of the village never again looked kindly on him and his mother, as if the actions of his father were theirs. With the death of his father, the sole breadwinner of the family, his mother had to start working to support the family. That's when his father's last gift to the family showed up.
Yanga's mother started getting sick and was eventually diagnosed with AIDS. Not long after, she could not work anymore, and Yanga had to step up and take the responsibility as the breadwinner in the family. Yanga Black was not like other children. He started talking at six months, not baby talk, but full intelligent conversations with a high, untested IQ.
His eidetic memory, that allowed Yanga to earn enough money to feed himself and his mother and also afford his mother's treatment even at the age of six. Yanga was able to live in general happiness until the age of ten.
Yanga could never forget that night. It was the night Yanga learned that wealth needed strength to protect it. One winter night, in one of the worst winters in years, crops and livestock died, and most of the families in the village were suffering and unable to put food on the table.
When they learned that a ten-year-old Yanga was not having the same problem, they chose to take what was Yanga's for themselves, and under cover of a dark and cold, moonless night, they broke into Yanga's house to kill them.
That night, Yanga saw the strength of his mother, the sick woman, surrounded by three men with large machetes while she only had a small knife. She managed to kill them all before they could take her life, and Yanga left the village that very night after taking a long and tearful look at his burning house.
After he left the village, Yanga found his way to the biggest city near his village, and they started again, this time on a larger scale. Six months after Yanga got to the city, he was able to establish his own gang made up of almost all the young street kids that attracted the attention of one of the biggest drug dealers in the country.When the drug dealer came for Yanga and his gang, a lot of kids died that day, and he was left with a deep emotional scar. With Yanga's help, that drug dealer went from being one of the biggest drug dealers in the country to the biggest drug dealer in the world.
After 25 years, Yanga met a girl, got her pregnant, and for his unborn child, Yanga found a way to get the drug dealer arrested. Yanga thought that was the end of it, but two years later, he was out and came to find Yanga.On that day, Yanga tried everything in his power to save his wife and child, but they were killed in front of him.
The drug dealer then took him captive to force out some information out of him, but Yanga escaped, killing the drug dealer and all his men in the process.Yanga disappeared from the world at age 35. He came back under a different name, a different face, and started a business that is now on its way to being one of the biggest companies in the world.
After years of research, the company was going to release a world-changing product that could change the world and make his company the biggest company in the world. That was where Yanga was supposed to be, and that was where Yanga was supposed to be, not in this boat.
Today is the day for him to rise to legendary status, but it was all gone. When people saw the potential of his company, they wanted to buy it, but Yanga always said no. And like before, Yanga underestimated how far one of them was willing to go to have his company.They wanted it bad enough to put him in this boat and send him to the Ever After.
Yanga lay in the boat as the second passed by, slowly taking him to his death. The only thing that was on his mind was the unfairness of it all. How was his luck so bad, to the point that everything he touched was taken away from him? Rage filled his heart.
As the boat finally reached the waterfall, the boat fell, and then a rage-filled voice like a dragon's roar could be heard over the raging waterfall.
"I WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS!"
Blackness and cold, which eventually turned into bone-chilling cold. This is not among the feelings that Yanga would have associated with death, but that changed when it opened his eyes.
Yanga was shocked to find out that he was not dead but lying on the floor in the cold, damp cave. The cave had little light in it, so Yanga, after looking around, could see that there was nothing in the cave except for a golden skeleton in the middle of the cave.
The skeleton shone like polished gold, lighting up the cave. Yanga's eyes were fixated on the golden skeleton for a long time without knowing what to do. In his long life, he had never encountered something like this, and he had never thought that such a thing was even possible.
A loud and powerful voice started to ring out of his mind: "How cruel can fate be? Even in my last moment, he is still playing with me, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" From the skeleton came the voice inside his head.
Yanga was so shocked that the only thing he could do was sit there in the cave looking at the golden skeleton without even moving a muscle. ''Young one, you and I are connected by fate, and that fate is so great that every moment of your life has been leading to this point".
Those who woke Yanga up and looked at the golden skeleton and asked, "What do you mean bythat?" as if it did not hear him, the golden skeleton continued and eventually told him its life story and Yanga's part in it.
Turns out that the golden skeleton belonged to a powerful immortal by the name of the Boundless Sword Sage. The immortal managed to get his hands on a powerful inheritance left behind by a powerful ancestor.
A lot of powerful sects wanted that inheritance, and so the Boundless Sword Sage had no choice but to run for his life. In the end, he managed to escape his pursuers, but the damage was already done, and he died right after making it to Earth.
Thanks to his very presence on the planet, the planet started to evolve into a cultivation world. As for how their fates were connected, it was because Yanga was born with the saint physique known as the Boundless Saint Physique.
Since Earth was not ready to give birth to someone with a saint physique, the world tried everything in its power to kill Yanga, and that is the reason why nothing in his life ever went right.
He should have died a long time ago, but in his last moment, Yanga managed to find a Boundless Sword Sage, another man with the Boundless Saint Physique and the inheritance left by powerful ancestors for those with the Boundless Saint Physique.I am out of time.
"With the last of my energy, I will open a path for you and how far you walk. If you ever get the chance, avenge me".