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At the edge of the ancient ruins, Smoke Glow Ridge.

It was only eight hundred li from here to Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven. With a cultivator's means, the journey could be made in half a day.

Of course, that referred to low-level Sea of Bitterness Realm cultivators. Cultivators at that level could not yet fly and could only travel by mount or on foot.

In the endless years of the past, this place, including the area where Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven stood, had all been part of the Primordial Ruins. The three-thousand-li Smoke Glow Ridge was shrouded in misty haze year-round, its clouds and rosy vapors rolling endlessly through the vast and boundless void.

Smoke Glow Ridge!

It was an area on the outskirts of the Primordial Ruins. Ancient trees towered into the sky here, and there were many over twelve zhang tall. Every one of those old trees required three people to wrap their arms around it.

All kinds of rare birds and strange beasts lived in this haze-shrouded forest, including many special species with powerful bloodlines.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant here, producing all kinds of rare medicinal herbs. The disciples of Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven loved entering this place in search of opportunities.

Whether hunting savage beasts and unusual species, gathering spiritual herbs and medicines, or simply trying their luck, there were also cave abode ruins left behind by predecessors who had passed away here.

There was not a single patch of peaceful land in the ancient forest of the Primordial Ruins. This stretch of Smoke Glow Ridge was no exception. Many savage beasts and vicious birds dwelled within it, and no one knew how many bloody incidents had occurred here. Cultivators, savage beasts, and strange birds alike had died.

Rumble—

Suddenly, bursts of clanging sounds came from every direction. They were bird cries, so shrill and piercing that they seemed capable of splitting metal and stone. The surrounding mountains shook, vegetation rustled, and leaves scattered wildly through the air.

Savage beasts were also stampeding across the ground, surging in like an erupting tsunami. Their immense waves flattened vast swathes of ancient trees, accompanied by towering dust clouds and flames.

Then, dazzling God rays shot up from all directions, endless and densely packed, numbering in the thousands and tens of thousands. Boundless God brilliance drowned the world in every direction, turning it into a sea of golden light. Amid deafening crackles, like golden rain, it engulfed the entire forest.

For a moment, blood-red light surged into the sky. In an instant, the ancient forest of Smoke Glow Ridge was reduced to ash, flames soared high, crimson as blood, and vaporized blood mist reflected beneath the sunlight in a scene of tragic beauty.

Such terrifying commotion alarmed cultivators within dozens of li. Every one of them stared in that direction in utter terror, chills running down their spines, unable to speak for a long time.

Here in the sky, furious, piercing cries rang without end, clanging like violently colliding metal. They tore through the heavens and split metal and stone, making listeners' eardrums ache and causing the land within ten li to buzz.

At that moment, every cultivator saw it and recognized what it was. Their faces drained of color, and their entire bodies went cold.

In the distant sky, streaks of golden lightning darted rapidly through the air, tearing across the heavens with blazing radiance brighter than the sun.

They were Lightning Birds, the most terrifying unusual species in these ruins. Even Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm cultivators in the Life Spring Realm would have to flee for their lives upon encountering a lone Lightning Bird, let alone a flock of them.

The cultivation realms of this world.

The Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm could be divided into four realms: Sea of Bitterness, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore.

The Dao Palace Secret Realm could be divided into the Heart Divine Treasure, Liver Divine Treasure, Kidney Divine Treasure, Spleen Divine Treasure, and Lung Divine Treasure. The order in which these Divine Treasures were cultivated could be freely chosen.

For cultivators of this region, the Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm was the pursuit of a lifetime. The Dao Palace Secret Realm was an unattainable realm inhabited by towering figures.

Even among the Yan Kingdom's six Cave-Heaven Paradises, the strongest experts were probably no more than Other Shore Realm cultivators of the Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm.

This place was close to Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven, which was also one of the six Cave-Heaven Paradises.

The ancient forest where Smoke Glow Ridge was located had been ravaged by the Lightning Birds.

Many savage beast corpses lay on the ground, innocent victims caught in the disaster. There were Striped Saber-Toothed Tigers five meters long.

There were Silver-Scaled Flying Pythons as thick as water barrels and a full ten meters in length.

There were even Mammoth Elephants with antlers, thirteen meters long and over ten meters at the shoulder. Now, however, they gave off the smell of roasted meat, their bodies charred black, long dead.

Even after half an hour had passed, no one dared approach. The Lightning Birds had been flying around this area and screeching wildly for a long time before finally leaving.

As they departed, the Lightning Birds swooped down like lightning, snatched away some prey, and flew off while screeching curses.

On a hillside, there was a ravine still emitting black smoke. It had once been a bamboo forest stretching for a hundred li. Now, every bamboo stalk had been blasted into burning stumps. A figure charred black as coal twitched faintly. On his body, a fist-sized black lotus faintly rotated, its purple-black eerie glow flowing...

"Cough, cough..."

Jiang Ming woke up and immediately coughed up blood. He spat out a charred lump of flesh with faint golden lightning still coursing over it. When it landed on the ground, it actually sizzled.

"Damn it, I'm dead. This time I'm definitely dead. Definitely dead. I'm only twenty-four, still a bachelor. My parents only have one son, and my little sister is only ten.

"Ah, my head hurts so much. What happened? Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven... the Li Family... My name is Jiang Ming. My wife is the Smoke Glow Fairy, Gu Lingzhi, and my daughter is Jiang Tingting...

"That's not right. This sounds a lot like the plot of Shrouding the Heavens, the novel I read half a year ago.

"But why the hell is there also the plot of Chinese Paladin 1? Nü Yuan, the Demon-Locking Tower, becoming a demon."

Jiang Ming clutched his head involuntarily, feeling as if it were splitting apart. A flood of information surged into his mind—memories from three worlds that were gradually merging together.

After a full three breaths, Jiang Ming slowly recovered and perfectly fused the memories. It turned out that he had transmigrated twice. In Chinese Paladin 1, until he found release, his memories had never awakened. Then he had transmigrated again into the world of Shrouding the Heavens. Now that he was about to die again, his memories had truly awakened.

He had already been in the world of Shrouding the Heavens for twenty-one years. His daughter was already three years old.

When he was thirteen, his exceptional talent had been discovered by a deacon elder of Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven, who found that he possessed cultivation talent. He had joined Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven. During his cultivation there, he met his wife, Lingzhi. She was known as the Smoke Glow Fairy and was extremely popular in Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven, with many talented young men admiring her.

Yet in the end, the Smoke Glow Fairy had become his Dao companion. The two envied mandarin ducks, not immortals, and had a precious daughter named Jiang Tingting. The name meant that they hoped their daughter would grow up as beautiful and graceful as the Smoke Glow Fairy.

Tingting was three years old.

The couple had long discovered that Tingting possessed a special constitution. They had planned to establish her foundation when she turned five and had been secretly collecting spiritual medicines ever since.

They had come to the Primordial Ruins this time because they had discovered a Three Yin Cold Lotus here and intended to harvest it.

But the moment they entered the area where the medicine grew, they encountered a beast riot. They had not even had time to collect the herb before ending up like this.

Why!

Jiang Ming instinctively looked beneath him. The Lightning Birds' lightning had fallen in dense waves. Both he and his wife were Sea of Bitterness Realm cultivators, utterly unable to withstand it. At the critical moment, Jiang Ming had used the Green Wood Sword, a magical artifact, to dig a huge pit. He pushed the Smoke Glow Fairy inside, then lay across the opening to shield her from the Lightning Birds' attack.

The Lightning Birds' attacks had seemed to lock onto their location. And that was not all. Other savage beasts had attacked them as well. An Earth Flood Dragon Worm had ambushed them, and Jiang Ming and his wife, who was on the verge of breaking through to the Life Spring Realm, had joined forces and desperately slain it.

Unfortunately, in the end, this place had been engulfed by lightning. Even the earth had been blasted through. Rocks, vegetation, and bamboo stalks as thick as factory smokestacks had all been reduced to charred ash.

By all rights, he and the Smoke Glow Fairy should have been blasted into dust, leaving neither corpses nor bones behind.

How was he still alive? The pit beneath him had long since been erased, and the ground had sunk three zhang.

This entire slope had been blasted into a ravine.

"Heavenly Calamity Lone Star System activating..."

"Congratulations, Host. You have caused the death of your only beloved confidante and obtained a four-star reward: bloodline constitution, Heavenly Tyrant Body. It has automatically fused."

At that moment, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice sounded in the depths of his sea of consciousness.

"I..."

Jiang Ming froze. He felt what seemed like a warm current emerge from the depths of his Sea of Bitterness and spread through his body. Half a second later, he understood what it was: the benefit granted to transmigrators, a system.

But this was far too damn despicable.

His beloved confidante, the mother of his child, his only wife, had died, yet this bastard system had actually said congratulations.

It had even slandered him, claiming that he had caused his beloved confidante's death.

"System, I f—ten thousand words omitted here."

What a sin!

He had died gloriously in his previous life. How had he ended up with such an unreliable bastard system?

Jiang Ming knew he could not stay here any longer. He secretly wiped away his tears, picked up half of the charred magical sword from the ravine, and fled the area while cursing the system a hundred times over in his heart, then another hundred times—

The Lightning Birds had blasted the hillside into a ravine. The mother of his child had been struck so thoroughly that not even scraps remained.

After all, even a Life Spring Realm cultivator would have to flee for their life upon encountering a single Lightning Bird, let alone a flock.

If this Green Wood Sword had not been given to him by his master, a Life Spring Realm cultivator, it probably would have been blasted into ash as well.

The main reason he had found it was that he had refined the magical sword, leaving a faint connection between them.

In his first life, he had been a bachelor.

In his second life, his beloved confidante had been a fox demon. She had been a good girl. What a pity. And there was her daughter, Jiang Wan'er.

In his third life, his beloved confidante, the Smoke Glow Fairy Lingzhi, had also been killed because of him.

Damn Heavenly Calamity Lone Star System. Fuck!

Jiang Ming hurt so much, the pain piercing his heart and sinking into his bones. He truly hated it all—he hated the heavens, hated the earth, and hated that bastard system.

As Jiang Ming fled this region, consumed by regret and helplessness, a purple-black glow flowed over his brow. A black lotus the size of a grain of rice slowly rotated there.

At the same time, billowing demonic energy surged in the depths of his soul, black as ink and containing boundless fury, violence, unwillingness, destruction, resentment, and other emotions. Its dark light was grim and chilling, radiating terrifying fluctuations capable of destroying heaven and earth.

The demonic energy emitted an intensely bright, soul-shaking dark glow. It was as though endless nether demonic flames burned within it, their demonic blaze surging to the heavens, vast and boundless.

After cursing the system for a while, Jiang Ming continued sorting through the memories of his three lives.

His memories as an Earthling were not important for now. He could think about them later.

He also set aside his memories of Chinese Paladin 1 for now. The more he thought about them, the angrier he became. If he kept thinking about them, he felt he would truly become a demon.

The priority was his memories of life in Shrouding the Heavens.

His home was in Clearwind Town, just over two hundred li from his sect, Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven.

He had been especially valued in Smoke Glow Grotto-Heaven. His talent was genuinely quite good, and in a small place like this, he could be considered half an immortal seedling.

At the same time, Jiang Ming naturally thought of the cause of his death. If he had read more carefully in his previous life, he would have known. It was the Seventh Young Master of the Li Family who had killed him. That bastard had entered the sect at the same time as him.

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