Chapter 1: A Second Chance
Deep within the endless void, all things had returned to stillness. It was here, amidst the wreckage of spatial storms and the aftershocks of a world-shaking battle, that a flicker of consciousness stirred once more.
Xiao Ning awakened.
There was no pain. He could no longer feel his body—nor even the presence of his soul.
Only an endless, bone-deep cold stretching infinitely in all directions.
His physical form had long since perished, reduced to ash beneath Meng Qingxuan’s near-Immortal-level strike.
That blow had not only annihilated his body, but erased all traces of his presence from the world.
And yet... something remained.
His consciousness, perhaps. Or the last remnants of his Dao heart. Maybe just the stubborn will of a man who refused to vanish.
Whatever it was, it lingered—suspended between heaven and earth, clinging to a sliver of existence thinner than a strand of silk.
In the stillness, broken thoughts rose like ripples on a calm lake.
A golden blade.