2026-06-24 17:11:16Outside Mara's home, Dane walked back and forth. His Assistant stood on the wood porch. He hit the door hard and yelled Mara's name loudly. The house stayed quiet. No one answered. They waited for a long time. The quietness made Dane feel very worried. Finally, the wood door slowly opened. A mean old woman stepped out. She rubbed her eyes like she just woke up from a deep sleep. She looked at Dane. She seemed very angry and crossed her arms tightly.
"What is all this yelling about?" the old woman said. "Is our young lady's name something you can yell in the street? You missed her. She went to Mr. Croft's mansion hours ago to sign a deal. That paper will lead to her marrying Vaughn Croft today. From now on, she will be a very important person. She won't be someone just anyone can call out to."
Hearing the name Vaughn Croft with the word marriage, Dane stopped still. He knew who Vaughn Croft was. Vaughn was an evil man who hurt people. Cold fear grabbed Dane's chest. That fear quickly turned into hot anger.
"Get back in the car!" he yelled at his assistant. "Drive to Vaughn Croft's home! Drive as fast as you can!"
The car moved very fast. The tires made a loud sound on the road. Dane sat in the back seat. His hands were shaking because he was so mad. He prayed he was not too late.
Inside the high walls of Vaughn Croft's huge mansion Mara was thrown hard onto the cold stone floor in the main room. She cried out in pain. Vaughn Croft rubbed his big hands together. A sick, evil smile grew on his face. He jumped right at Mara. His heavy hands tried to tear her clothes off.
They were right out in the open. But all the workers and guards in the house had run away. They were scared for their lives. They knew their boss did terrible things. Nobody would dare to bother him now.
Mara fought back hard. She kicked her legs. She screamed for help until her throat hurt. But the giant house hid her cries.
Vaughn lifted his heavy hand. He slapped her hard across the face. "Be quiet, girl!" he yelled. "Stop fighting me, or I swear I will kill you right here today! Just be good, and you might even like it!"
Mara's eyes could not see straight. Her mean stepmother had secretly given her sleeping medicine before bringing her here. The medicine was taking over her brain. She felt totally weak. When her arms finally lost their strength and fell to the floor, Vaughn laughed. He used his heavy body to hold her down. He was getting ready to do whatever he wanted.
CRASH!
A loud sound of breaking wood filled the room. The heavy wood front doors of the house were kicked open. They were kicked with so much power that the metal parts broke off.
Dane ran into the room. His hands were closed into hard fists. His eyes burned with pure anger. He looked right at the him holding Mara on the floor.
"Let her go!" Dane yelled. His loud voice shook the room. "Who gave you the nerve to touch my woman?!"
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Chapter 208
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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