Okay, so if you read the synopsis written by the author, I was plotted against and killed by my own subordinates, with the help of some hero only the heavens know where he came from.
Apparently I was a tyrant and ruled with an iron fist, blah, blah, blah, killing without remorse type shift... wait, can I say type shift?"
[A: Well, this is a cultivation novel in ancient times soooo... no.]
Okay, basically I was the villain, but I never understood how. I mean, I only killed when necessary, and I never even slept with a woman... Wait.
... I died a virgin?
[A: ...]
I did, didn't I?
Well, frick, don't let me catch you, HERO!!!
...
Okay, so how am I alive?
Simple, I had created a tether back in my youth, when I was an elder of a sect in the mortal realm when I attempted to ascend to the heavenly realm.
Basically it will allow me to go back in time to the day I was about to ascend if I had failed to ascend or was killed in the process of ascension.
Of course I succeeded...
...
...
[A: He wants you guys to praise him.]
YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW HOW DANGEROUS ASCENSION IS; I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS TO ASCEND!
*Heavy breathing*
Forget it, you puny mortals would never understand; that is why I have a book being written about me, and you don't. *smug look*
[A: *Eye roll*]
Anyways, I never thought I would have actually needed it, since my path after ascension was so smooth that I literally became the king of the heavenly realm and ascended to the spirit realm. [A: Where he was killed]
I allowed them to; I got bored! The girls there were ugh...
[A: ...]
... I ... was keeping my yang energy intact so that I won't get weak...