Lin Yuan's bitter smile gradually faded as the room grew into heavy silence. His eyes swept across every familiar corner of the room and everything was exactly as he remembered it being in his past life. He slowly lowered his gaze to his hands, they were young as he flexed his fingers. "So... it wasn't an illusion." Almost instinctively, his hand moved to his chest and his fingertips pressing against the spot where the Soul-Sealing Dagger had pierced through his heart. There was no wound, yet he could still remember the unbearable pain as vividly as if it had happened only moments ago. Boom !! An invisible killing intent burst from his body, and the wooden table beside him trembled before cracking down the middle. Lin Yuan slowly closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Calm down." His voice was hoarse. "You're no longer the Heavenly Emperor." He extended his spiritual sense out of habit, but nothing happened as his once limitless sea of spiritual energy had vanished with

A strange silence settled over the awakening square as thousands of eyes drifted toward the ash-gray scripture above Lin Yuan's head. It was unlike any cultivation technique they had ever seen in the entire history of the cultivation world, showing no dazzling light, no elemental aura. It simply hovered in the air, weathered and unremarkable. The Grand Elder frowned deeply. "Bring it here." With a wave of his sleeve, a strand of qi wrapped around the scripture and drew it toward the elders' platform. The scripture offered no resistance, floating quietly before the Grand Elder. "No spiritual fluctuations..." He reached out and gently touched its worn cover, but nothing happened. The book remained as lifeless as an ordinary piece of parchment. One elder rose from his seat. "Allow me." He examined the scripture carefully, injecting a stream of qi into it as several breaths passed, but still nothing showed. "It rejected my spiritual sense." "No..." The elder shook his head. "It isn

The moon hung high above the Lin Clan as silver light spilling across Spirit Mountain, bathing the trees and stone paths in a quiet glow. Most of the clan had long since fallen asleep as only the chirping of insects and the occasional rustling of leaves disturb the silence. Inside his courtyard, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged beneath a willow tree. The Origin Scripture floated quietly before him, its ash-gray cover returned to its ordinary appearance, concealing every trace of the miracle that had occurred moments earlier. With each breath he took, countless strands of Heavenly qi drifted past him as he ignored every one of them and guild the Origin qi into his meridian Several hundred meters away, on a quiet cliff overlooking the Lin Clan, a young girl sat beneath a pine tree, her eyes closed as she cultivated while soft silver qi revolving around her body like flowing water. Suddenly her eyelashes trembled as she slowly opened her eyes. "Hm?" A faint look of confusion appeare

Lin Yuan walked along the narrow mountain path with steady steps While his expression remained calm, but his sharp eyes constantly swept across the surrounding landscape. "In my previous life... this mountain could have changed my destiny." Stopping beneath a pine tree, Lin Yuan closed his eyes and focused on his dantian, and a single strand of pale gray Origin Qi quietly circulated through his meridians he nodded slightly. [First Layer of Qi Gathering] Although his cultivation was only at the first layer, he wasn't discouraged. Ordinary cultivators absorbed Heavenly Qi directly into their dantians, causing their spiritual energy to increase rapidly. Lin Yuan, however, refined every strand of Heavenly Qi into Origin Qi before storing it. The process was far slower, but the result was incomparable. "If a First Layer Qi Gathering cultivator possesses ten strands of Heavenly Qi," he murmured, "then one strand of Origin Qi is worth at least ten of theirs." That was why he had ef

"You said... they are coming." His eyes remained fixed on the old man bowing before him. "Who are they?" Guardian Mo Chen slowly rose to his feet as his face was calm, but with a trace of solemnity in his eyes. "You are not ready to know." Lin Yuan frowned. "I was once a Heavenly Emperor." Mo Chen shook his head. "In this era, that title commands respect. But in the eyes of those beings, it is merely the beginning." Lin Yuan's heart trembled after hearing the words from Mo Chen. In his previous life, he had believed that the Heavenly Emperor Realm stood at the absolute peak of cultivation. Countless geniuses had spent their entire lives chasing that realm Now the guardian before him spoke of it as though it were insignificant. Seeing the disbelief in Lin Yuan's eyes, Mo Chen sighed softly. "For millions of years, the world has believed that Heaven created cultivation. That is the greatest lie ever told." He slowly turned toward the ancient murals covering the walls. "Before t