Chu Yang, the Ninth Master of the Nine Tribulations Sword, sacrificed almost everything he had for the sake of improving his martial arts, including the love of his life. After spending three years locating the fifth fragment of the Nine Tribulations Sword, he was ambushed by all sides at that very place. Mortally injured with no means of escape, Chu Yang executed a sacrificial technique by plunging the Nine Tribulations Sword into his very own heart. “With the blood of my heart, ten thousand tribulations will collapse!” After witnessing the death of all his ambushers, Chu Yang’s vision began to darken. At a distance, moments before his death, he saw the mastermind who had plotted his downfall — Mo Tian Ji. With that, his eyes finally closed. However, with a start, Chu Yang once again awoke to find that he had returned to when he was sixteen years of age! Furthermore, the Sword Spirit of the Nine Tribulations Sword now resided within his Dantian, the energy center of his body! From that very moment, Chu Yang would then begin to right all of his past regrets, and carve his very own legend by fulfilling his destiny as the final Master of the Nine Tribulations Sword, and defeating the Heavenly Devils beyond the realm of the Nine Heavens Continent.
Pop! One more! Pop, and another one! Pop…
Ling Hanyu sat on the ground, as though completely rooted, unable to move at all. He wanted to close his eyes, but it was as if his eyelids were refusing to listen even one bit to his command.
Just like that, he stared with his eyes widened big and round.
Watching in total fear… Only the front and back areas below his hip were still leaking some kind of stuff uncontrollably…
Mama… Nine of them! There were a good nine ghosts here! Nine!
He looked at the row of human heads in front of him and then around the graveyard. There happened to be exactly nine tombstones there…
Could it be… could it be that…
The next moment, next to the nine human heads, blackened arms reached out neatly. All five fingers on each hand were pitch-black and their joints made cracking noises as they pointed at Ling Hanyu simultaneously…