## Death, Then Rebirth
> The sect discovered that I was born with a useless spirit root and casually abandoned me in the forbidden grounds.
> Among the piles of corpses, I found a shard of bone inscribed with the Nine Tribulations Nirvana Scripture.
> “Die nine times to attain eternal life?”
> The first time, I drew in the earth’s flames and burned alive. When I awoke, my spirit root had mutated, leaving the elders astounded.
> The fifth time, I severed my worldly ties and watched helplessly as my Dao companion’s soul was scattered, while the power of reincarnation surged within me.
> The eighth time, the Immortal Emperor smashed me to pieces with a single palm. My consciousness reassembled amid chaos.
> On the day I completed the nine tribulations, my body became billions of stars, and the will of Heaven trembled in the sea of stars. “What… are you?”
> It turned out that every death was a discarded shell, shed by my former self.
