Heavenly Spirit Sect, residence area for one-leaf disciples.
One Leaf disciples clad in dark teal sect uniforms gazed up at the sky, each with a wooden plaque carved with leaf patterns hanging at their waist.
Mu Yong, who had only just advanced from a Seedling-grade disciple, was among them.
Yet strangely, despite having only just advanced, his uniform looked exceedingly worn and did not fit him properly. Many places were even frayed to the point of coming apart at the seams...
After a while, the others gradually withdrew their gazes. Mu Yong alone continued staring at the sky, lost in a daze.
Compared with the others, he—who could well be called a 'child of destiny'—had seen far more through his resonance with the world's will.
In a haze, it was as though some 'thing,' some 'concept,' or some even more elusive existence was slowly precipitating out from the deepest depths of the world.
He had even seen two other versions of himself...
The same experiences, the same chance to start over.
Yet no matter which version of himself it was, everything they experienced after 'rebirth' differed from what had happened in his memories.
Likewise, a group of audacious cultivators who had appeared from who knew where disrupted everything.
For one such 'self,' the Blood Vajra Temple he belonged to had actually been exterminated by that group of brazen, unknown cultivators!
Later, those brazen, unknown cultivators had even attacked the Heavenly Spirit Sect.
The great battle shook heaven and earth.
And in that battle, he, having just advanced to a one-leaf disciple and intending to take refuge under the sect's protection, was refined together with the other one-leaf disciples by a single blood-baleful divine ability of a sect elder. His body and soul were annihilated, leaving not even bones behind!
Meanwhile,