“Li Tian, do you admit your crime?”The words did not just fall from the high platform; they crashed down like physical weights. The voice belonged to Grand Elder Wu, vibrating with a cultivation base that made the very air hum with lethal intent.Across the vast Judgment Plaza, ten thousand disciples stood in absolute, suffocating silence. They formed a sea of pristine, white robes, their faces masked with expressions ranging from cold indifference to twisted satisfaction. Every single pair of eyes in the stone arena was locked onto the center of the plaza.There knelt Li Tian.He slowly forced his head up, the movement dragging a sharp groan from his throat. The heavy Spirit-Sealing Shackles bound to his wrists dug deep into his flesh, their cold iron biting into his skin. Dark blue runes pulsed along the metal, actively suppressing his meridians and turning his blood into sluggish ice. His once-proud disciple robes were shredded, stained dark with the copper-scented blood of a thre

DONG!DONG!DONG!The ancient bronze bell atop the Ancestral Peak did not merely ring; it screamed. The sound waves rippled across the mountain range, shattering the clouds and causing the spiritual energy in the atmosphere to churn like a violent storm. It was a sound that had not been heard in twelve hundred years.Across the Heavenly Sword Sect, thousands of disciples bolted from their meditation chambers, their faces pale with confusion. In the lower valleys, spiritual beasts panicked, stampeding through the forests.Above the inner city, a dozen streaks of brilliant light pierced the sky as core elders broke through seclusion, rushing toward the Hall of Ancestral Records. At the front of the vanguard flew the Sect Master, his grand robes billowing, his expression more terrified than anyone had ever seen it.Inside the deepest, most heavily guarded vault of the sect, a massive stone pedestal was violently vibrating.This pedestal had once housed the Heaven-Breaking Jade, the absol

Whoosh!Li Tian plummeted through the freezing white mist of the lower fissure, his hair whipping wildly around his face.His eyes, enhanced by his new cultivation base, pierced through the dark, immediately locking onto a massive, glowing red magic circle at the absolute bottom of the pit. Chained to the center of the array was a breathtakingly beautiful woman with long silver hair, her body tightly wrapped in thousands of ancient yellow sealing talismans.As Li Tian descended like a falling star with his gray sword qi swirling around his fists, the silver-haired Empress looked up. The previous arrogance on her face completely vanished, replaced by genuine shock and panic as she realized he was diving straight for her throat.But before Li Tian’s feet could even touch the ground of the sealing chamber, a deafening, world-ending BOOM echoed from the heavens above.Thousands of tons of colossal sealing stones, infused with the Heavenly Sword Sect's entire mountain-flattening array, beg

Li Tian didn't hesitate for a single microsecond. He turned his heel and slammed his black boot directly down onto Zhao Feng’s neck.CRACK.The brother who had betrayed him for ten years didn't even have time to scream. His windpipe shattered like dry twigs beneath Li Tian’s peak Foundation Establishment strength.[Ding! Slain a Qi Condensation traitor! Extracting blood essence and soul fragment!]A thick strand of dark soul energy violently ripped out of Zhao Feng’s twitching corpse, flying straight into Li Tian’s chest. The black vortex of his Death Core hungrily devoured it, sharpening the gray Primordial Death-Sword Qi humming around his knuckles."Master, the invaders' spatial arrays are locking onto this coordinate," Shao Qing hissed, her foot still crushing the Sect Master's throat. Her silver hair whipped wildly as the shockwaves from the distant golden war vessels rattled the plaza. "Those three old monsters at the front... their cultivation base has touched the laws of Spiri

The violent spatial currents whipped against Li Tian’s face like razor blades, tearing his skin and forcing his eyes shut as he plummeted out of the dimensional rift.CRASH!He slammed face-first through the dense canopy of an ancient, pitch-black forest, snapping thick, rotting branches before cratering into wet, ash-colored dirt. The impact jarred his fractured Core Formation base, sending a wave of agonizing pain through his torso that forced a ragged gasp from his throat.[Ding! Spatial transit completed.][Warning: Host's physical body has sustained 74% structural damage. Core Formation base is severely fractured and unstable!][Current Location: The Ghost Domain of the Southern Continent—The Ashen Forest.]Li Tian spit out a mouthful of dirt and coagulated blood, his fingers digging into the cold, dead earth as he forced his upper body upward. His left eye still burned with a faint crimson fire, but his right eye—the one carrying the golden light of the Heaven-Breaking Jade—was