Her eyes shrank and she retreated with haste as fear took its grip on her. In the face of that powerful claw, the old man drew a sword. A sword wave flashed, and the crimson claw was turned to nothing. "Humph, the Chaos Heart is nothing great," the old man stood in the wind with his sword ready while disdain was all over his face. Lin Tian smiled and waved his palms. "Xiao Feng, stop being so arrogant." Boom! As if endless thunders were rumbling, the sky was covered by thousands of crimson palms, bearing down on the three. Each palm was twice as big as the claw. Such power reached a new height that even the three elders were left speechless. How can this be? Xiao Feng sucked in a cold breath at the sight. As they watched, they could feel fear coming over them. Not even any one of them together were a match against the crimson palm that was descending toward them. Xinyi's face grew paler as regret gnawed at her heart. Who'd have thought that Lin Tian had mastered many of

Moonshade grove was silent except for the rustling of trees while two figures dragged Li Tian through the forest like a sack of grain. Their hands were like iron shackles around his wrists, and every attempt for Li Tian to break free ended in failure. Li Tian gritted his teeth and tried to circulate the little qi he possessed, but was simply too weak for cultivators like Li Bao and Li Hu, both grade seven Soul Awakening experts and inner-circle disciples of the Li Celestial Clan. Resisting them was as impossible as pushing back a mountain. The three finally entered a clearing beneath a massive willow tree, and without warning- THUD! They threw Li Tian into the dirt. His cheek scraped across loose gravel before he came to a stop at someone's feet. Li Tian slowly lifted his head and saw himself lying before a pair of white boots. Standing beneath the willow was a young boy around Li Tian's age. Invisible pressure radiated from him, making the surrounding air noticeably heavie

After the whole incident during the day, Li Tian stood outside his family's worn-down home, letting the cold breeze pull at his thin robes. He simply stared into the darkness, as though waiting for something that refused to come. The cold bit at his skin, but he barely noticed, his body trembling from weakness. He closed his eyes and let his consciousness sink inward, examining the body that now belonged to him. His expression darkened after he found that his host's meridians had been severely damaged from birth. The boy had only managed to reach Grade 2 of Soul Awakening, but after the incident at Moonshade Grove, the meridians had been damaged to the point they couldn't carry a single thread of qi. Li Tian let out a deep breath. "This is worse than I imagined. With a body like this, I won't survive another week if I run into a fight." He lowered himself onto the damp ground and crossed his legs, trying to find a way to circulate the qi in his surroundings toward him, but to h

As Li Tian came out of the Ashen Veil Forest after a life-and-death battle with the Swift Wolf, he came to a stop at the market that stood at the edge of the Li Celestial Clan's territory. It was already overflowing with life. Vendors shouted over each other to lure passing cultivators, hammers rang from distant forges, and arguments over spirit herbs, weapons, and pills rose and fell like waves. Li Tian adjusted the worn sack on his shoulder and stepped into the crowd, his eyes moving once across the market. He came to a stop before a pavilion, raising his head to read the name. "Supreme Pavilion." Li Tian chuckled. "Which person goes about calling his shop 'Supreme Pavilion' when he's still staying in this small region?" Without another word, he entered the pavilion. Inside, a merchant stood behind a jade counter. His gaze skimmed over Li Tian's bloodstained clothes. The merchant gave a polite smile. "What brings you here, Young Master?" Li Tian didn't answer as he untied the

The dark aura didn't just gather. It seized him, coiling around Li Tian’s body like a living entity before surging inward in one violent motion. It crashed into his chest and slammed against the chaos heart, forcing him into the air. For a brief, breathless moment, he hung suspended.Then it merged.Silence fell.As the aura died down, Li Tian dropped lightly back to the stone floor. He stood perfectly still, feeling the power settle deep within his meridians. His fingers clenched.So I only unlocked the first Hell of the Phantom Path of the Seven Hells… His gaze lowered, calm but analytical. The chaos heart of the Chaos God is truly something else.He rolled his shoulders, loosening his muscles, and muttered, "Time to test it."The moment his foot touched the ground, his figure snapped forward. No stepping, no dashing. He skipped space itself, erasing the distance. A faint afterimage lingered behind him, vanishing a second later.Li Tian stopped and glanced back, measuring the moveme