NOVPUBThis brief journey to the Netherworld left Liang with an inexplicable feeling—one he couldn't quite identify yet.
Before leaving the Heaven Fortune Domain for the last time, Liang had researched everything he could find about the female revenant. Fortunately for him, her story wasn't shrouded in mystery.
The female revenant is known as Sia, an ancient figure who appeared around the same time Dong Tianlong ascended to the divine level, though the exact timing remains unknown.
When she first manifested, she was spotted in the Martial Rising Realm, specifically on Azure Light Continent—a small, unremarkable planet where the strongest cultivators were only at the Core Formation Realm.
Legend says that when Sia first awakened, the Azure Light Continent was split in two!
Yes, her awakening alone not only devastated this small, beautiful planet but also marked a day of reckoning for every living being there—none survived.
While such cataclysmic events are not uncommon in the vast starry sky and usually don't attract much attention, what happened next made this incident infamous.
After the continent's destruction, a strange domain filled with death and Yin Qi suddenly appeared. This ominous domain expanded at a terrifying rate, engulfing planet after planet. It wasn't until the tenth planet was consumed that the expansion finally ceased.
Naturally, this alarming phenomenon caught the attention of the Martial Rising Palace, which dispatched three Void Transformation experts to investigate. But none returned.
The palace then sent a half-step Void Return Realm expert, hoping for better luck—but he too vanished without a trace.
Furious, the Martial Lord himself decided to investigate. The half-step Void Return Realm expert was his direct disciple.
Several days later, the Martial Lord emerged from the domain in a pitiful state—barely alive.
No one knows what transpired inside, but since then, no one dared to enter the domain again—except one person: the Martial Lord himself.
Yet, each time he returned, he was in a sorry condition. This cycle continued for nearly ten thousand years, until recently, when the strange domain began to recede and gradually disappeared.
Such a perilous region was closely monitored by several powerful experts, and what happened next shocked them all.
When the domain finally vanished, a woman emerged.
The experts who witnessed her said they had never seen anyone so breathtakingly beautiful.
She walked out barefoot, her snow-white robes drifting like mist, untouched by the ash-stained wind that swept the ruined land. Her beauty was ethereal, not the kind crafted by mortal standards, but the sort that compelled even ancient beasts to bow in silence. Her skin was pale as moonlight, unblemished by the ages, and her hair fell in a cascade of silver strands that shimmered with each step.
But it was her eyes—those terrible, luminous eyes—that silenced the world.
Twin emerald flames danced within her gaze.
Not metaphor, not illusion. Actual fire—vivid green, cold and otherworldly—burned in her irises, coiling and writhing like sentient serpents made of Yin Qi. It was a trait that had been whispered about in only the oldest tomes and among the oldest of cultivators.
A revenant.
There was no longer any doubt.
Only revenants bore the Green Flame of Eternal Grudge, a mark from the underworld itself—a sign that the soul had defied its own destruction, returned not through reincarnation, but by ripping itself back from oblivion.
The gathered experts—all of them Void Transformation and above—took a step back in unison. Instinct, older than training, drove them. Even the most arrogant among them dared not advance.
In the months that followed, strange occurrences began sweeping across the domain.
First came the Dreamless Plague—entire sects and clans found dead in their beds, their bodies untouched, their minds dissolved into void. Not even soul jades cracked—they simply faded into dust.
Then appeared the Broken Lotus Phenomenon—a rare celestial sign, where seven black lotuses bloomed across the sky of a solar system before it wss annihilated. These planets, no matter their defenses or cultivation levels, ceased to exist within days.
It's said that during this Broken Black Lotus Phenomenon a Void Return Realm expert died, body and soul destroyed!
After then this woman vanished completely for almost five thousand years when she finally appeared again In the runestone solar system, yet unlike what happened before nothing extraordinary happened, since then she appeared near the headquarters of all the major forces.
Another thousand years later , it was siad that someone saw her in the Heavenly Yin Cliff, and since then this place become her region.
Liang was initially stunned upon reading this information.
He couldn't help but admire Kai's luck—how had he forged a bond with such a figure?
Liang realized that from that moment on, dealing with Kai would become significantly more difficult.
Their relationship was peculiar. Though they knew their paths would eventually collide, neither acted with open hostility. Both sought strength and wouldn't hesitate to use each other to achieve it.
Thus, Liang resolved to find a way to counter Kai's overwhelming advantage.
That was one of the reasons he chose runic cultivation.
Kai was a manifestation of extreme Yin, suited for soul cultivation. Liang, by contrast, was its opposite. Soul cultivation was not his path.
Instead, he scoured ancient texts for alternatives—and found a few. One of them was the Ghost Dao.
Though ghost cultivation couldn't rival true soul cultivation in power, with the right supplementary methods, the gap could be closed.
But it was easier said than done.
Extreme Yin methods—corpse refinement, gu, poison, insect, ghost cultivation—all faced rejection from the Origin. Even with countless techniques available, most were incomplete. Few could take a cultivator past the Core Formation Realm.
Then, by sheer chance, Liang witnessed a battle between Tian Shu and another mid-stage Void Transformation expert.
To his astonishment, Tian Shu, only at early Void Transformation, won using strange, unfamiliar techniques.
Intrigued, Liang investigated for a long time—and finely discovered the truth.
Tian Shu had an infamous reputation. Known as the Soul-Silencing Daoist, he was a shadowy, elite assassin—one of the golden members of the Nine Hells Court, the most fearsome assassination organization in the domain.
