The truth behind Chi Yuan's village massacre exposed! Divine Tone Technology erased all love and emotion-the fifty-thousand-year immortal was a living weapon!

"A madman," Lie Yan said softly. "A madman who would give anything to bring his beloved back to life."

"But it is precisely madmen like him..." Tang San began slowly, a hint of deeper meaning in his voice, "who can accomplish what ordinary people cannot."

"Because he won't accept 'impossible' as an answer," Huo Yuhao said with a trace of wistfulness. "He will find the truth, even if that truth... is crueler than he ever imagined."

"And that truth..." Gu Yuena's voice held a hint of conflicted emotion. "Perhaps it lies hidden in the slumber of that 'Immortal Chi Yuan.'"

"Where is she sleeping?" Tang Wulin pressed.

"I don't know." Tang San shook his head. "But Otto will find her. Because that man... never gives up."

On the Light Screen, Otto's figure slowly disappeared into the twilight atop Mount Taixu.

Behind him, the seven figures "creating an ascension phenomenon" were still tirelessly dancing with their longswords.

They did not know that a madman from a foreign land had seen through their carefully woven lie at a glance.

They did not know that the master they believed had vanished completely had, in fact... never truly left.

Still less did they know that the madman was about to find their master, awaken the sleeping immortal, and... bring everything they had so painstakingly planned crashing down.

"Ascension?" Otto's voice echoed through the twilight, carrying a hint of mockery and anticipation alike. "Heh... let's see how much longer this charade can last."

On the Light Screen, the scene atop Mount Taixu changed once more.

Twilight faded, but dawn had yet to break. Fu Hua's figure slowly appeared. This was no longer the scene of seven swords piercing her heart in the training grounds, but somewhere utterly unfamiliar—a long-abandoned village.

Ruined walls and broken buildings