2026-06-24 17:09:34Today is the day he and Lana Hayes get their marriage license.
Nine-thirty in the morning. Ten o'clock. Eleven o'clock. Still nothing from her.
Dane Mercer paced the hard concrete steps outside the city hall. The morning sun was getting hot, buthis blood felt ice cold. He stared down at his phone screen.
Twenty messages sent. Zero replies. What was happening? Maybe she was touching herself up to look beautiful. He thought as he could not help but smile to himself.
He tried to send Hayes another message to add to other previous message, he had sent to her asking where she was, they were marked as read. She saw them. He noticed the last ten messages did not even go through. A bright red exclamation mark sat next to every single one.
Lana had blocked his number. What was happening?
Today was the day they were supposed to get their marriage license. In five full years of dating, Lana had never once been on time. Not for his birthday, not for their anniversaries, not for anything.
But this time was supposed to be different. Just yesterday, Lana was the one who looked him in the eyes and suggested they finally get married. Dane was so excited he could not sleep for a single second all night. He had carefully packed all his documents into his worn-out backpack. He had arrived thirty minutes early.
He waited for an hour and a half, looking like a fool.
A bitter smile crossed Dane's face. He slowly unzipped his bag and tucked the marriage documents inside. He was just about to turn around and walk to the bus stop when his phone buzzed violently in his hand.
It was a text message from a college classmate.
Dude, Take a look at this. Your girlfriend just said yes to someone else's proposal at the girls' dormitory entrance.
Dane heart stopped taking hair. Below the text was a high-resolution photo.
In the picture, Lana was wearing a beautiful white dress. She was smiling brighter than she ever smiled at him. She was holding a massive bouquet of red roses and accepting a giant diamond ring from a man in an expensive custom suit. A huge crowd of students was cheering around them.
Furious, Dane did not wait for the bus. He ran to the street, flagged down a taxi, and paid the driver extra to speed straight back to the university.
The entrance to the girls' dormitory was packed. Hundreds of students were gathered around, clapping and taking videos on their phones.
Dane shoved his way roughly through the crowd. "Move!" he barked.
He broke through to the front circle and locked eyes with Lana. The diamond ring was already sparkling on her finger. The man next to her had his arm wrapped tightly around her waist.
"Why Lana?" Dane demanded. His voice cut through the loud cheers, making the crowd go dead silent. "Why did you say yes to someone else's proposal? Weren't we supposed to meet at ten in the morning today to get our marriage license?"
People in the crowd started whispering and pointing at Dane. He was wearing faded jeans and a plain white t-shirt. Compared to the wealthy man standing next to Lana, Dane looked like a beggar.
Lana did not look guilty at all. Instead, she crossed her arms and sneered at him.
"You are just a poor student," Lana said loudly, making sure everyone could hear. "I am the heir of the Hayes Family. My family is wealthy and powerful. Why would I ever get a marriage license with a loser like you?"
She proudly leaned against the man in the suit. "Cade is the only son of the nation's richest man. He is the heir of the Mercer Family. He has absolute power and limitless money. He is the fiancé I truly desire. You are nothing compared to him."
Dane stared at her, then let out a low, dark laugh to himself.
The heir of the Mercer Family? Dane was the true heir of the Mercer Family.
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Dane Mercer had played the part of the pathetic, struggling mercenary flawlessly for three agonizing weeks. He had slept in the freezing mud. He had endured the arrogant mockery of the outer-sect disciples. He had allowed the smug, condescending Young Miss of the Ye Clan to parade him around the gladiator pits like a purchased attack dog. He had forcefully choked down the world-ending power of his newly forged Heaven Grade meridians, completely subjugating his own pride for one singular, uncompromising purpose.Today was the final day of the tournament. Tonight was the Blood Moon Festival. Tonight was the night the Shen Clan planned to drag his wife onto an ancestral altar and butcher her.The grand colosseum of the Shen estate was a monolithic structure of white marble and reinforced spiritual stone, currently packed to its absolute maximum capacity. Over a hundred thousand immortal cultivators from every major faction on the continent filled the towering grandstands. In the elevated
Chapter 207
The impact sounded like a dry tree branch snapping in a quiet forest. The cultivator’s eyes bulged in absolute, breathless shock as his rib catastrophically fractured, instantly collapsing his lung. Before the immortal could even gasp for air, Dane ruthlessly swept his legs out from under him, slamming the young man onto the blood-stained stone. Dane dropped his knee directly onto the cultivator's sternum and raised a battered, blood-soaked iron gauntlet directly over the man's face, freezing the strike a mere inch from his nose.The referee, a towering enforcer of the Shen Clan, immediately struck the gong, formally calling the match.Dane staggered backward, keeping his head bowed, heavily clutching his bleeding shoulder as he limped toward the iron gates of the exit. The massive crowd booed loudly, throwing garbage and copper coins at the arena floor. They were thoroughly disgusted by the ungraceful, ugly, barbaric victory. They wanted elegant martial arts and explosive spiritual l
Chapter 206
Restraint is a far heavier burden to carry than absolute power.Dane Mercer stood perfectly still in the center of the massive, spiritually reinforced colosseum, the deafening roar of fifty thousand immortal spectators crashing down around him like a physical wave. For ten brutal years in the secular underworld, he had fought to unleash his potential, breaking his own bones and pushing his mortal limits to conquer the earth. Now, standing on the blood-stained white stone of the Ancient Hidden Realm’s most prestigious arena, he was fighting a desperate, agonizing psychological battle to completely contain it.He had buried the blinding, heavy golden light of his newly forged Heaven Grade aura so deeply within the absolute darkest depths of his core that it physically ached. It felt like trying to compress a nuclear explosion into the size of a single heartbeat. If he allowed even a fraction of his true, world-ending power to leak into the atmosphere, the Shen Clan’s highest-ranking eld
Chapter 205
Dane Mercer understood the mechanics of warfare better than any immortal god. He had not spent a decade conquering the secular underworld, bringing international syndicates to their knees, and ruling a global corporate empire by carelessly kicking down the front doors of heavily fortified enemy strongholds.He stepped out of the violently swirling dimensional rift and planted his heavy boots onto the solid, ash-covered earth of the Ancient Hidden Realm. The blinding, chaotic vortex of the boundary crossing snapped shut behind him with a deafening crack, completely severing his connection to the secular world, to his loyal vanguard, and to the billions of dollars he had voluntarily left behind. He was entirely alone in a hostile universe.But this time, the world did not crush him.The impossibly dense, heavy spiritual gravity that would have liquefied his mortal organs a mere twenty-four hours ago now flowed entirely harmlessly over his skin. Deep within his chest, his newly forged me
Chapter 204
Navigating purely by the architectural blueprints she had cleverly coaxed out of Elder Vane under the guise of "logistical planning," Berry made her way deep into the western wing of the estate. She slipped past terrified servants and bypassed the violently shaking courtyards, finally arriving at the towering, bronze doors of the Shen Clan’s restricted ancient library.The massive chamber was pitch black, silent, and smelling heavily of ancient dust and dried parchment.Berry moved quickly through the towering rows of mahogany bookshelves. She knew exactly what she was looking for. Her mother had not been a helpless victim; she had been the unparalleled Saintess of this clan, a woman brilliant enough to steal a sacred artifact and escape an immortal prison. A woman like that would never leave her legacy entirely unprotected.Following the subtle, almost imperceptible structural anomalies in the stone masonry—a trick she had learned from inspecting hidden corporate safes in the secular
Chapter 203
Berry Sterling spent exactly seven days dismantling a four-hundred-year-old immortal dynasty from the inside of a locked bedroom. She did not throw a single punch. She did not summon a drop of spiritual energy. She simply weaponized the ancient, festering greed of men who had spent centuries pretending to be infallible gods while operating like primitive, uneducated thugs.The elders of the Shen Clan were terrifying combatants capable of leveling entire cities with a wave of their hands, but in the ruthless, modern arena of political and economic warfare, they were absolute children. They had operated for generations on a stagnant system of blind feudal loyalty and brute force. They had never faced a Chief Executive Officer who had survived the bloodthirsty corporate battlegrounds of the secular world.Through a series of highly orchestrated, heavily guarded secret meetings within her suite, Berry flawlessly executed her strategy. She did not act like a terrified prisoner begging for
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