The Divine Venerable Defies Fate: Starting in the Blackstone Prison

On a stormy night that shook the Tianyuan Continent, Lin Hao's blood dripped onto a letter of broken engagement, awakening the black stone that had lain dormant for seventeen years. Three years ago, he was hailed as Qingyang Town's greatest prodigy. Now, the pressure of an elder from the Yunlan Sect forced him to kneel on black iron rock, while the icy blue blade of his fiancée, Chu Qingyue, hovered three inches from his throat. Reflected in its edge, the phantoms of three thousand gods and demons roared across a stone stele.

“What's so impressive about the Spirit Martial Realm?” When the black stone devoured the sword energy that had shattered the black iron rock, Lin Hao opened his eyes in the forbidden grounds of an ancient stele, and the fragments of memories from ninety-nine cycles of reincarnation were reflected in his pupils. The truth behind the massacre that wiped out the Lin family three hundred years ago, half of a broken jade pendant his mother had left him as an infant, the cloud patterns on the mask of the Blood Moon Guard who had descended from the sky, identical to those on a Yunlan Sect jade pendant... Every clue pointed toward an ancient forbidden secret, nine severed rivers of time locked within the God-Burial Abyss.

The world knew him only as a fallen prodigy whose engagement had been broken, but no one knew that every wound devoured by the black stone was reforging his divine-demon battle physique. In the Tianlan Secret Realm, when Lin Hao crushed the Yunlan Sect's Holy Son's life-bound sword with his bare hands, the Demon Sect's Saintess, Su Jiuyue, who had been watching from the shadows, suddenly clutched her chest. The black stone pendant at her neck resonated like a war drum with the blood mark on the young man's brow. Thousands of miles away, Chu Qingyue watched the phantom of a nine-tailed fox appear in her mirror and finally understood why the blue light that had cleaved through her spiritual platform three years ago so closely resembled the sword scar left by Lin Hao's mother.

On the day the Eastern Wasteland battlefield opened, a blood-red decree descended from the Ninefold Heavenly Palace. The black-robed man who had massacred the Lin family three hundred years ago removed his bronze mask, revealing a face exactly like the current Human Emperor's. The moment the Ancient Reincarnation Hall appeared in the starry sky, Lin Hao's black stone transformed into a key and pierced his chest