2026-06-26 18:12:16The central plaza of the Iron-Blood Sect was a sea of laughter and clinking wine cups. Lanterns bathed the marble floor in a warm, festive glow, completely masking the rot underneath. At the center of the grand stage stood Young Master Chen, raising a jade cup to the roaring applause of the inner sect disciples.
Beside him, Kai’s sister, Meiling, stood perfectly still. Her hands trembled beneath her red bridal sleeves, her eyes downcast as she suppressed a sob. "Smile, dear cousin," Chen whispered, his voice a low, venomous hiss as he leaned in close. "Your useless brother is already digestion for the beasts in the Abyss. If you want your crippled father to survive the winter, you’ll play the happy bride." Meiling flinched, a single tear spilling over her lashes. High above the pavilion, clinging to the shadows of the tiled roof, Kai watched. His blood boiled, but his mind remained terrifyingly cold, honed by the fast-paced calculation of his new power. The Shadow Veil kept him completely invisible to the drunken guards below. [Ding! Target scanned: Young Master Chen.] [Cultivation Realm: Mortal Cultivator (Tier 3).] [Warning: Surrounding Elders are at Tier 5 and above. A direct frontal assault has a 94% chance of suppression. Advise tactical ambush.] "Then we strike fast," Kai thought. He didn't need to defeat the elders yet. He just needed to create absolute chaos and seize his prize. Down on the stage, the High Elder stepped forward, clearing his throat. "By the authority of the Iron-Blood Sect, we bless this union—" "I object." The voice wasn't loud, but it cut through the festive music like a lightning bolt. The laughter died instantly. Heads snapped toward the entrance of the plaza. A figure stepped out from the darkness into the bright light of the lanterns. His clothes were torn and stained with dried blood and green spider ichor, but he walked with a straight back and an aura that made the air grow heavy. "Kai?" Meiling gasped, her eyes widening in sheer disbelief. "Impossible!" Chen’s cup shattered in his grip, wine spilling over his knuckles. "You... you were thrown into the—" He stopped himself, realizing he was speaking in front of hundreds of high-profile guests. His face contorted with explosive rage. "Guards! Who let this escaped prisoner into the banquet? Kill him!" Four Tier 1 enforcers—the very same ones who had dragged Kai to the cliffside—lunged forward, drawing their heavy steel sabers. "Stupid cripple, you should have stayed dead!" the lead enforcer roared, swinging his blade down in a vicious arc meant to split Kai in half. To the crowd, Kai didn't move. To Kai, the blade was moving in slow motion. Agility +8. Strength +14. Kai sidestepped the blade by an inch. Before the enforcer could recover, Kai’s hand shot out like a striking viper, gripping the man’s throat. With a brutal twist, a sickening CRACK echoed across the silent plaza. [Ding! Enemy defeated. Extracting...] [Extracted: +4 Strength, +2 Agility.] Without pausing, Kai used the dead enforcer's body as a shield, letting the second enforcer's saber bury itself into his comrade's back. Kai kicked the corpse forward, sending the second guard crashing to the ground, and smoothly intercepted the remaining two. He spun, his palm striking the third guard's chest with the full weight of his Tier 2 cultivation. The guard’s ribs shattered, and he flew backward into the banquet tables, scattering food and wine everywhere. The fourth guard dropped his weapon, terrified, but Kai’s shadow-wrapped hand gripped his face, slamming him mercilessly into the stone tiles. [Ding! Extraction successful! Total attributes accumulated. Advancing to Mortal Cultivator (Tier 3)!] A shockwave of spiritual energy erupted from Kai's body, blowing the red decorations off the nearby pillars. The absolute silence that followed was suffocating. In less than ten seconds, four armed guards had been completely slaughtered by the sect's most famous cripple. Kai stood amidst the wreckage, his eyes glowing with a faint, predatory blue light. He locked eyes with Chen, who was now trembling, his face pale with sudden terror. "You said I was an eyesore, Chen," Kai said, his voice echoing with a dark, suffocating pressure. "I'm right here. Come take them out."Author Here!
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Chapter 86
The vision of the decaying dragon husk did not fade gracefully; it burned itself into Kai’s retinas like an iron brand pressed against tender flesh.Inside the vast, silent cavern of the Hourglass, the suspended grains of crimson sand began to lose their luminescent glow, falling back toward the black-iron floor with the soft, persistent sound of dying rain."Subject 00..." Meiling repeated, her voice barely a whisper above the gentle cascade of dust. She stepped closer to Kai, her eyes fixed on the pale-gold ring hovering within his pupils. "Kai, what does that mean? If the Supreme Master is Subject 00... if he was an Anomaly like you...""It means the whole System is a recycling loop," Kai said. His voice was unnaturally flat, stripped of the manic, predatory fury that usually defined his battle state. "He didn't build the Cheat Engine to transcend the cosmos. He built it because his own inner universe collapsed ten million epochs ago, and he’s been using us—every successor, every '
Chapter 85
The backward flow of the crimson sand created a sound that wasn't sound at all. It was the collective friction of a billion dead civilizations scraping against the walls of reality, pulled upward by an absolute gravitational tide centered entirely on Kai’s open chest.Every grain of pulverized star-core, every speck of fossilized sovereign bone that sped past the black-iron altar was no longer just ambient cosmic dust. It was ammunition."IMPOSSIBLE!" The Supreme Master’s avatar thundered.The colossal crimson silhouette tried to raise its lightning hands to sever the connection, but its movements were sluggish, caught in the temporal drag of a Reset that had just been forcibly put into reverse."The Master Control Key was shattered! I buried his soul in seven layers of conceptual iron!" The avatar’s red eyes flared with a desperate, chaotic fury. "You are a stray dog from the lowest ocean! You cannot process the laws of the First Engine!"Kai didn't answer him.He couldn't.Inside Ka
Chapter 84
The crimson void-lightning hand clamped around the golden skull with a sound like grinding tectonic plates. Fine, glowing fractures webbed across the skeleton’s jaw, spilling pale-white essence that evaporated into the screaming vortex of falling star-sand."KAI!" Meiling screamed, her boots skidding across the black-iron altar as the sheer pressure of the descending avatar forced her down onto one knee.Her Monarch Void-Flame flickered wildly, the dark-gold fire burning blue around the edges as it fought off the sheer density of the incoming entity’s presence. She didn't retreat. Driving her dark-iron shortsword straight into the metal plating of the altar to anchor herself, she released a blinding crescent wave of dark-gold dragon fire aimed directly at the massive wrist of the lightning hand!BOOOOOOM-FLAME!The dark-gold fire hit the crimson wrist, but instead of severing it, the fire simply scattered across the lightning like water hitting heated iron. The colossal silhouette de
Chapter 83
"I want to make the Supreme Master pay for every grain of sand in that glass," Kai replied.Without another word, Meiling thrust her dark-iron shortsword straight into Kai’s chest plate where his Genesis Sun burned!Instead of piercing him, the blade acted as a conductor. Her Monarch Void-Flame fused with his pale-gold Genesis light, creating a massive, dark-gold tether that shot out from Kai’s chest, wrapping around the one-thousand-mile Cosmic Sovereign-Destroyer anchored above!CLANK-RUMBLE!The massive flagship groaned as it was dragged down by Kai’s inner gravitational pull, dissolving into a stream of pure light that flowed straight into his chest, settling safely into the orbit of his sixteenth planet!"FIRST STEP DONE!" Kai yelled above the roaring vortex. "NOW FOR THE REST OF THE SEA!"Kai expanded his hands outward, driving his claws into the bleeding spatial tears around them."GENESIS REALM BOUNDARY: TOTAL SPATIAL HOOK!"BOOOOOOM!Sixteen dark-gold light pillars shot out f
Chapter 82
The crimson sand falling through the narrow neck of the colossal hourglass did not drop in silence. Each golden-red grain struck the lower chamber with the echoing scream of a dying realm, sending conceptual shockwaves ripples across the True Ancestral Abyss.Every second a grain fell, a piece of the lower world’s spatial anchor dissolved. The obsidian walls of the trench turned translucent, revealing the shimmering, fragile lines of lesser worlds suspended in the infinite dark—universes now fraying like sun-bleached rope."The Final Reset..." Meiling whispered, her dark-gold dragon scales flickering as the background atmospheric pressure vanished entirely. She hovered fifty leagues away, her shortsword pointed down, but her eyes locked onto the planetary hourglass hanging in the crimson vortex. "Kai... look at the sand. Those aren't rocks or divine quartz."Kai didn't need her to point it out. His triple-ring golden star pupils magnified the image by ten thousand times.The sand wasn
Chapter 81
The silver-haired Enforcer did not descend from the white-gold battle-realm. He simply took a step into empty air, his white robes fluttering gently as if caught in a summer breeze. Yet with every stride, fifty leagues of space beneath his boots caved inward, crystallizing into pale-silver glass under the raw, oppressive mass of a Tier 15 Transcendent Godhead."The third star on the left shoulder," Kai muttered under his breath, his voice lost beneath the screaming wind of collapsing spatial walls.His dark-gold star-ring pupils remained fixed on the youth, silently scanning the intricate, glowing constellations woven into the Enforcer’s white robes. There, nestled right at the junction of his left shoulder plate, sat a tiny, spinning ember of indigo light—so dim and faint it looked like nothing more than decorative stitching. Without the Ashen Elder's final decoded memory, even Kai’s triple-ring vision would have dismissed it as background noise."He's maintaining his conceptual for
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