The moment Lin Yunche's chaotic spiritual energy resonated with the Twelve Bronze Tripods, a deep blue rift suddenly opened in the center of the training ground. Qin Yixuan's black iron sword was sucked into the rift and shattered into dust in the chaotic flow of time and space. The sect master staggered backward, his pupils reflecting the huge bronze coffin suspended deep in the rift - it was clearly the place where the first sect master, Qin Yitian, had passed away!
"Yun Che, stop it quickly..."
Before Qin Yixuan's warning was finished, the young man had already been consumed by the rift. The remnants of Su Hanyi's soul awoke in his consciousness sea, and an icy blue shadow surrounded his spirit: "Don't be afraid. This is the test set by the first-generation patriarch for the Nine-Arched Crystal Bone."
The temporal and spatial turbulence tore at his meridians. In the throes of intense pain, Lin Yunche could make out the inscription on the surface of the huge coffin: "Chaos is the furnace, and the body is the charcoal." The coffin lid crashed open, revealing inside a skeleton identical to his own, with a half-blood-colored celestial tablet embedded in the center of its brow.
"I am Qin Yitian, and I am you too." The withered bones suddenly spoke, their voice carrying the echo of a dislocated time and space. "The Nine-Cavity Lustrous Bone manifests in this world every nine hundred years. Only by devouring the previous Bone Master can one awaken the complete Heavenly Tablet."
Su Hanyi's ghostly figure suddenly expanded and transformed into a blood-colored chain, entangling the withered bones: "Yun Chée, hurry up and leave! This is a devouring rune. He intends to take over your body!"
Lin Yunche's right hand uncontrollably grasped the fragment of the blood-colored Celestial Pillar, and the chaotic spirit energy and Su Han Yi's ice soul power erupted within his body. The eye sockets of the withered bones glowed with a dim light, activating the chaotic array patterns in the training ground, enveloping the entire Cloudlance Sect in a blood-red light curtain.
"So that's it... " Qin Yixuan was pounding the barrier outside the light screen frantically. "Qin Yitian, you had already calculated this day long ago, using the blood of your descendants from the future to resurrect yourself!"
Lin Yunche's bones made cracking sounds as the Nine Orifices Crystal Bone reassembled in excruciating pain. Su Han Yi's fragmented soul suddenly pushed him into the huge coffin and was sucked into the withered bones itself: "Remember, the true power of the Heavenly Stele is to reverse life and death..."
The huge coffin slammed shut, sealing the young man and Su Hanyi's remnants of spirit into a time-space compartment. When Lin Yunchee opened his eyes again, he found himself surrounded by countless stars, each star being a floating bone tablet.
"Welcome to the Chaotic Realm, Ninth Generation Bone Master." The voice of the first patriarch came from all directions. Twelve bone tablets projected different training scenes. "There are three kinds of inheritances: the eternal moment within the long river of time, the mustard seed universe within the space rift, and... "
"I want the method to bring Su Hanyi back to life." Lin Yunche interrupted, his fingertips concentrating chaotic spiritual energy, creating cracks in the air. Suddenly, the stars began to collapse, revealing the frozen body of Su Hanyi behind them. Her chest was pierced by half a blood-colored celestial tablet.
The ghostly image of the first patriarch appeared: "You are indeed as stubborn as Qin Yitian. To resurrect her, one must endure the backlash of the 'Chaos Nine Transformations'. Each transformation requires experiencing death and disappearance of the spirit. On the day the ninth transformation is successful, the celestial tablet will be reunited."
Lin Yunche broke his tongue and dropped his essence onto Su Hanyi's forehead: "The first transformation, I want to reunite us."
The entire secret realm suddenly plunged into darkness, and Su Hanyi's frozen body began to thaw. Lin Yunche felt his bones reorganizing, and the nine-pronged crystal bones emitted golden light, drawing the fragments of the celestial tablet within Su Hanyi's body into his consciousness sea.
"Yunche, don't... " Su Hanyi's remaining spirit was weeping in the darkness, "If you keep going like this, you will become..."
The voice of the young man echoed through the void: "What to become? To become the celestial tablet container that all of you desire? In that case, I will use this body to carve out a way to survive!"
When Lin Yunchee opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in the mass grave on the back mountain of Yunlan Sect. Su Hanyi's physical body had vanished, but his right palm had a blood-colored pattern - that was the mark left by the completion of the first transformation of "Chaos Nine Transformations".
"Yun Ché, have you succeeded?" Qin Yixuan's voice reached from above. The master's pupils reflected the faint image of the celestial tablet that emerged behind the young man. "But do you know that Su Hanyi is not a human at all..."
Before the words could be finished, the protective barrier of the Yunlan Sect was suddenly pierced by a blood-colored light beam. Ten thousand cultivators were horrified to see that nine blood-colored celestial tablets appeared in the sky, each engraved with the same face as Lin Yunche.