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Chapter 25 – The Opening Gambit
Within the ancestral mountain, inside Han Shin Tao’s private chamber, two figures sat cross-legged facing one another.At a glance, they resembled siblings.They were Han Shin Tao and Han Tian Yi.Han Tian Yi had remained behind under the pretense learning under Han Shin Tao. Leaving immediately after he asked him to be his master would have invited suspicion.Silence lingered between them until Han Shin Tao spoke.“I am curious, Little Yi… how did you accomplish it?”Han Tian Yi tilted his head slightly, confusion flickering across his face.“Grandfather, I do not understand.”“Spare me.” Han Shin Tao’s voice hardened. “You are not clever enough to deceive me.”It was an unspoken rule among cultivators: one shouldn't pry into another’s methods. Techniques were lifelines. To expose them was to invite death.Yet here he was—asking.Han Tian Yi lowered his gaze faintly, lips curving into
Chapter 24 – Blood That Isn’t His
After reading the jade slip, Han Shin Tao did not speak for a long time.His fingers tightened slightly around the slip.Dao Assimilation.Dissolve the core instead of shattering it.Do not resist the Dao.Do not challenge Heaven.Become nothing—So that nothing can be rejected.His jaw stiffened.He had pursued supremacy his entire life. So had every cultivator. But wanting the peak and reaching it were two entirely different things.Peak Saint Realm.That was where almost everyone stopped.The Dao God Realm… was a myth dressed as possibility.The Han Clan having five Peak Saint experts was already abnormal.But the Han Clan itself was abnormal.The higher realm was not a single world. A world only qualified as a “higher realm” once its spiritual density could nurture cultivators all the way to the Dao God Realm.And every such world had a ruler.An Immortal Clan.There were ten.The Han Clan was one of them.Each ruling clan possessed at least one high-rank secluded domain — a world
Chapter 23 – The First Move
Another month passed.Still no summons.Still no pressure.Still no word.Inside his room, Han Tian Yi’s brows slowly tightened.“That old fox…” he muttered, fingers tapping lightly against the armrest. “Why hasn’t he come for it?”He had dangled the greatest temptation in existence — a method to ascend into the Dao God Realm.Any cultivator at the Peak of the Saint Realm would go mad for it.Yet Han Shin Tao remained silent.No probing.No testing.Nothing.Was he waiting for him to grow anxious?To make a mistake?To approach him first?Han Tian Yi exhaled slowly.“So that’s how you want to play…”Silence as pressure.Patience as a blade.“Fine.” he murmured. “I’ll wag my tail first.”But his eyes were cold.He retrieved a jade slip and began inscribing the method — the real one. Each character carved carefully, spiritual sense guiding every stroke. No hidden traps. No false lines.He would not risk the contract backfiring on him.When he finished, he stood and left his residence.-
Chapter 22 – The perfect mask
A week passed after the encounter with Han Shin Tao.And for seven days straight, Han Tian Yi lived as Han Tian Shi.At dawn, he stood before his own ashes in the Hall of the Fallen. The air there was always cold, heavy with incense smoke that lingered like unwilling spirits.He knelt.His shoulders trembled.His fingers clutched at his robes until the knuckles turned white.Tears slid down slowly — not too many, not too few.His breathing was uneven, fragile, as if grief had hollowed him out from within.Anyone who saw him would feel pity.Anyone who watched long enough would believe it.He remained there for hours.Long enough for servants to whisper.Long enough for his clansmen to sigh.Long enough for his parents to feel the ache in his chests.There was no flaw in the performance.Not in his posture.Not in the way he lowered his head.Not in the slight tremor of his lips.Han Tian Yi did not imitate his younger brother.He replaced him.If not for the mark embedded into his sou
Chapter 21 – Unseen Variable
A month had passed since Han Tian Yi’s death.For thirty days, the one who bore the name Han Tian Shi had risen before dawn and walked the same path toward the clan’s resting grounds. His steps never faltered. His breathing never broke rhythm. Even the servants had begun to sigh at his devotion.Today, the sky was still pale with lingering mist when he arrived.Although it was called a graveyard, it was nothing more than a vast, solemn pavilion full of urn, supported by pillars engraved with mourning seals. A cold, heavy aura lingered in the air, mixed with faint traces of spiritual essence.The outer ring housed the ashes of collateral kin.At the center, where spiritual pressure pressed down like an unseen mountain, rested the direct bloodline.He walked straight to the central ring.Before the urn that contained his own ashes, he fell to his knees.His shoulders trembled. His forehead struck the cold stone floor. Tears slid down his face and fell soundlessly as his voice cracked wi
Chapter 20 – His awakening
A shock tore through him the moment his soul left his body.The curse buried deep within his Curse Body Constitution shattered in an instant. It evaporated, vanished, as though it had never existed. Freedom poured in, a breath long denied, filling every corner of his being.And then the memories came.Not gradually, not gently—they came in a torrent, relentless and blinding. He was a man touched by the Dao itself, gifted beyond comprehension. Within him resided the spiritual roots of reincarnation, a rare blessing that allowed him to walk the threads of life and death again and again.Countless lives flashed before him: the righteous, the fallen, the demon, the mortal, the betrayed, the triumphant, the broken. Each incarnation a star igniting, exploding, painting his mind with light and shadow, sorrow and ecstasy, blood and ashes.He saw himself as a child of a noble clan, learning virtue with every gesture, every thought measured against the scales of righteousness. And yet, even th
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