"The Heavens may inscribe fate for all beings…But if there is one who dares to rewrite destiny for another with his own blood—Then that one… is more terrifying than fate itself."
Stone Cavern near the Frozen Bone Spring
Hidden within a cave after the battle, Lâm Mạc sat motionless.Upon his lap lay the unconscious Empress—her breath faint, her Dao Soul fractured, her life force dissipating into ash.
He made no plea.No cry.No desperation.
Only silence.
Then, slowly, he drew an ancient dagger from his sleeve and sliced open his wrist—letting blood drip, drop by drop, onto the center of her brow.
"If you once defied Heaven for me…Then I, in this life, shall offer my blood—To rewrite your fate."
One hand pressed upon her heart, where her Dao Soul crumbled.The other carved into the void a sigil of blood—an ancient forbidden rite:
"Script of Fate Reversal – Inscription of Death to Breathe Life."
No one had ever succeeded with this ritual.To rewrite another's fate…The one who performed it must be erased from the Heavenly Record—forever barred from reincarnation.
The moment his blood fused with her Dao Soul—The skies outside exploded in lightning.
A voice, ancient and cold, thundered from the laws of the cosmos itself:
"Who dares alter the fate written by Heaven?"
BOOM!!
Heavenly thunder descended.
Lâm Mạc did not move.Did not dodge.He knelt—not in surrender, but to anchor the ritual—To bear the full weight of heavenly punishment on her behalf.
"This is my blood,This is my Dao,And this… is my choice."
"If Heaven cannot contain me,Then I shall rewrite what is called the Heavenly Dao."
Within her crumbling soul, the Empress felt a searing warmth flowing into her heart.
Her eyes fluttered open—And she saw him—Shattered, blood-streaked, dissolving into ash under divine thunder… all for her.
"You're insane…To do this… for me?"
Tears fell—Only the second time in her life.
Clasping his hand, memories flooded back.
She saw:
He had once stood alone before the Celestial Realms to protect her.
He had slain his master, defied his sect, and turned his back on all—All for the vow:
"She alone is reason enough for me to defy the heavens."
In a past life, it was she who had sacrificed her Dao Soul to preserve his existence.
Now—He returned that vow.
A cold wind swept through.Ash spiraled into the air.
She rose—her soul no longer shattered, but alight with silver-grey brilliance.
The Empress now was no longer one who lived for an oath.She was someone who chose—of her own will—To protect the man before her.
"You once bore the burden for me.Now let me… carry it with you."
At the very moment she fully awakened, a celestial transmission spread across realms:
"The Life-Severing Ritual has failed.The rebel has shattered the Heavenly Seal.One branch of Heaven's Law… is lost."
Chaos swept across the realms.
In the final moments of the chapter, far away within the Celestial Temple,a hidden figure stirred—
The Supreme Arbiter of the Heavenly Court opened his eyes for the first time:
"You are the first…to rewrite destiny with your own blood."
"And you shall be the last."
"Issue the Decree of Dao Erasure—Let it fall upon him."