Sequence Eight: The Tribulation of Cause and Effect

He thought being reborn was a gift, until he discovered that with every reincarnation, an invisible hand tightened its grip.

The rogue cultivator He Buwei died. Hunted to the edge of a cliff, he plunged into the abyss.

Then he woke up, back at the moment before his fall. A being called the “Wheel of Fate” told him: You have been chosen as a “Reincarnator” and may reincarnate nine times with your memories intact. The price is that the “Karmic Tribulation” will follow you like a shadow in every life.

This isn’t being reborn with a cheat. It’s being reborn with a death warrant.

In the first world, he killed his pursuers and thought he had escaped disaster. In the second, the Karmic Tribulation took human form, and another “himself” hunted him. In the third, the Karmic Tribulation was no longer an enemy, but the very laws of the world: every time he used an ability, the world came one step closer to collapse.

Nine reincarnations, nine worlds. Swordsmanship, talismans, demonic spirits, divine kingdoms... Each time, he started from scratch, and each time the Karmic Tribulation descended in a new form.

But He Buwei discovered something: all the other Reincarnators had eventually “vanished.” They hadn’t died. They had been devoured, turned into fuel for the Wheel of Fate.

And he was the eighth.

With the first seven having all failed, how could an unremarkable rogue cultivator break a cycle that had endured for tens of millions of years?

“I’m not trying to become the strongest. I just refuse to accept that someone else gets to decide where my journey ends.”