A Difficult Choice

Without question, Ye Zhen would enter the martial inheritance trial of a terrifying existence from ten thousand years ago like the Earth Core Fire Marshal.

Any martial artist unwilling to enter could not possibly be one truly devoted to the martial path.

Ten thousand years ago had been an era when martial arts reached the divine.

None of that was surprising. What surprised Ye Zhen was that the first trial of the Earth Core Fire Marshal's martial inheritance was actually listening to a story!

You read that right—it was listening to a story!

It told of the emotional entanglements throughout the life of the senior known as the Earth Core Fire Marshal.

According to this lingering spirit image, the Earth Core Fire Marshal had been dashing and romantic throughout his life, with beauties everywhere he went, yet he had also loved deeply. During the last hundred-odd years of his life, he had spent every day in pain.

Day after day, he had stood alone, recalling past bonds of love, until he finally coughed blood and died of longing.

His first trial was the emotional dilemma this senior Earth Core Fire Marshal had faced.

Throughout his life, the Earth Core Fire Marshal had been romantically entangled with several hundred beauties of the martial world, but there had been only three relationships he truly cared about and valued.

In the end, it was also because of these three relationships that he had coughed himself to death.

His first beloved had been his junior sister. Spending every day together, the two had secretly developed feelings for each other, pledged themselves to one another for life, and sworn to stay together forever. She had been the Earth Core Fire Marshal's first love, and his feelings for her had run exceedingly deep.

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