I Was Just an NPC Until I Became the Tang Dynasty's Last Hope

For three hundred years, I lived as a humble apothecary in Qingyang Town—just another forgotten NPC in a cultivation game set in the Tang Dynasty. Then the system broke. Blood rained over Chang'an, corpses walked the streets, and I remembered everything: I'm not real. I'm a "Substitute Vessel," my true self murdered by my own master, the smiling Xuan Xiaozi. Now I receive three cryptic clues each dawn—truth mixed with lies—and survival is the only way to unlock what really happened. The immortal sects treat humans as disposable weapons. My master's kindness masks a killer's heart. So I play th…