Immortal Reverse Scales: From Shattered Dantian to Master of Time

“Every time you reverse time, the Heavenly Dao takes three inches off your allotted lifespan.”

When Lin Han clutched half a bloodstained disciple token and glimpsed the tangled threads of karma between Su Qingyi and Mu Baiyu on the seventh step of the Heart-Testing Path, he finally understood the origin of this three-hundred-year cycle of nightmare. An abandoned sect disciple with a shattered dantian, he held a mysterious black stone capable of reversing time and space, yet had to bear the curse of burning away his lifespan with every rewind.

After living through nine lifetimes, he saw through the supposed paragon of the righteous path, who was nothing more than a puppet of the Southern Frontier Witch Clan. He also discovered that the forbidden grounds of the Azure Cloud Sect suppressed an ancient dragon corpse whose bloodline resonated with his own. In this life, he crushed the Profound Yin Stone three months early and, before the Ice Soul Sword could pierce his heart, used the restrictions of the Heart-Testing Path to turn the soul-devouring parasite inside Su Qingyi against her.

“Don’t you want the Lin family’s Great Void Heavenly Evolution Art?” Lin Han stepped into the void, his foot on the blood sigil between Mu Baiyu’s brows. Behind him, all nine hundred stone steps crumbled away inch by inch. “Then take a look at the one hundred and twenty thousand god-slaying array inscriptions I carved at the end of the earth’s veins!”

When the nine fragments of the Time-Sand reunited, the celestial tracks of the myriad heavens would reveal the truth erased a hundred thousand years ago: the so-called cultivation world was nothing but a prison where ancient clans raised fate-wheel parasites. And the black-clad woman who always reset the threads of his fate at the end of the eternal night wore a silver bell on her wrist identical to the one enshrined in the Lin family ancestral hall...