An overwhelming sense of comfort flooded Li Yuan from every direction. He felt as though he had returned to a warm, protective womb. The withered flame wrapped around his soul and the ancestral seal that shielded it.0

His physical body—flesh, blood, muscles, and bones—had completely disappeared, leaving behind only a white jade skeleton in the snowy field, a mere shell discarded like a cicada’s molted skin.2

The material body was gone. What remained was the primal Yang energy, the very source that gave birth to matter itself, now working to reshape him anew.0

But this time, Li Yuan was not being reborn from his mother’s womb. He was being reborn from Heaven and Earth itself. Compared to when he advanced to sixth rank, when his life essence first changed, this was on an entirely different scale—a transformation hundreds, thousands of times greater.0

Even the incomplete sixth rank shadow blood techniques used by sixth rank martial artists could extend one’s life by a hundred years. But this technique, which rebirthed him through the power of Heaven and Earth, might grant a lifespan beyond imagin...2