"Those who defy the heavens must be prepared to pay the price."

Zhu Rong dared to forge a divine grade weapon in the mortal world, an act the heavens deemed a challenge to their authority. 

In response, the tribulation descended with fury, striking him down and ending his life in a blaze of divine wrath.

But death was not the end.

In the moment his soul scattered, he awoke once more... in the body of his 17 year old self.

With his memories intact and the mistakes of his past laid bare, Zhu Rong is granted a second chance, to repair the regrets that once shackled his heart, to reclaim the strength he once lost, and to finish the masterpiece that cost him everything.

This time, he will forge his legend anew.

And this time, not even the heavens will dare to stand in his way.

After the man disappeared, Zhu Rong found himself frozen within his sea of consciousness for a moment. He wondered what was happening outside, and the answer to that didn't take long to arrive.


As soon as his body was reconstructed, he found himself staring at the aftermath: from the complete loss of his cultivation base to the formation of that strange new core, and the massacre of the creature that, just moments ago, had caused chaos and terror within the secret realm, releasing an aura that even surpassed that of many Spirit Realm cultivators.


It didn't take a genius to realize that the creature was likely close to the peak of the Spirit Realm. 


But that wasn't the shocking part, what truly astonished him was that the crimson mist he had used for all this time as a massive reserve of pure Qi had been converted and condensed to form the new core within his dantian, one that had already reached the fifth stage the instant it was born.


Chapter 180 - Fragments