Dream Sacrifice: Reborn Without Return

On a rainy night, Lin Yan died in a horrific car crash, consumed by resentment and regret. When he opened his eyes again, time had turned back to before the tragedy. A comeback System awakened alongside him. He could settle scores with his enemies, make up for his regrets, and reclaim the family business he had lost. For a time, Lin Yan firmly believed this was fate granting the unjustly dead a chance to live again. But cracks in the world began to show in the smallest details. The System’s rewards felt uncanny, and they surged during sacrificial festivals. The people around him seemed vividly real, yet traces of bamboo-strip skeletons lurked in the shadows. When the offerings made by the living grew sparse, the System’s functions weakened and failed. What people called being reborn was never about defying fate. This was an ancient salvation ritual called the Sacrificial Dream. Grief-stricken relatives in the world of the living had summoned a ritualist to create an illusory dream, weaving an entire, complete human world from incense, paper money, and longing. The lovers, friends, and enemies around him were all paper spirits born of his obsessions. When the dream reached its happy ending and his obsessions faded, his soul would depart for reincarnation. Accepting the illusion and peacefully living out a false life before passing on was the ending everyone had arranged for him. But Lin Yan refused to accept this predestined fate. He broke through the cage of illusion and entered the perilous divide between yin and yang. The ritualists guarding the great formation, wandering ghosts seeking freedom, demonic cultivators bent on seizing the power at its heart, and spirit wardens who governed the order of yin and yang all took the stage in turn, revealing secrets from three lifetimes buried for a thousand years. As the Sacrificial Dream formation began to collapse and the barrier between the worlds of yin and yang teetered on the brink, countless paper spirits and restless souls raced toward the final battlefield. The battle blazed to its utmost intensity