The Eight Empresses Betrayed Me, Only to Deeply Regret It After Being Reborn

A single punch shattered a Great Ascension cultivator.
Everyone from the Eternal Teachings Sect, without exception, had their eyes widened at this moment, filled with utter disbelief.
Great Ascension!

That was the Great Ascension Realm!
The pinnacle of the First Heaven—a cultivation realm so high that, without a Heaven-Hiding Pill, one wasn’t even allowed to remain in the First Heaven!
And he got one-shotted?

One-shotted!!!
Back then, Lu Ye had cracked the sect-protecting formation—dealt the Eternal Teachings Sect a psychological blow. When he shattered the formation entirely, that psychological wound deepened.
Now, he had killed a Great Ascension cultivator with a single punch.

The fear in everyone from the Eternal Teachings Sect had reached its peak.
No, no, no!
They must be hallucinating.

This couldn’t be real!
It absolutely couldn’t be!
The stone sword soared into the sky, unleashing an overwhelming surge of sword intent.

One became two, two became four, four became eight...
In the blink of an eye, a sea of swords filled the sky.
"Go!"

The sea of swords came crashing down.
The entire Eternal Teachings Sect began to collapse, countless miserable screams echoing through the air.
Lu Ye then swung the Human Sovereign Banner with great force. Rolling black mist surged forth, and within an instant, the piercing wails it emitted could make one’s very soul feel as if it were being torn apart.
The true power of the Myriad Soul Banner lay in its myriad forms of spiritual assault.

Shock, rupture, illusion, pulling, explosion...
Some disciples of the Eternal Teachings Sect were directly dragged into it by the malicious spirits bound to the Human Sovereign Banner. A mountain of people, one soul per seat, taken into the banner—henceforth, fighting for the prosperity and happiness of the human race. Even if they became soul oil, they would burn themselves to illuminate others.
What a truly selfless spirit of devotion.

"Lu Ye, though my Eternal Teachings Sect spans all nine heavens, do you truly wish to become our eternal enemy? You may be invincible in the First Heaven, but can you guarantee invincibility across all Nine Heavens?"
"Today you slaughter my Eternal Teachings Sect—tomorrow, when you enter the Second Heaven, you shall become our sworn enemy!"
Feng Changye roared.

Lu Ye said nothing. Countless disciples of the Tribulation Sect and Mountain-River Pagoda Sect had died—some may have been innocent.
But Lu Ye had never gone to those two sects seeking vengeance.
The Eternal Teachings Sect, however, had never once been innocent.
Back at the Ancient Battlefield of Heavenly Talents, it was the Eternal Teachings Sect that had provoked him first.

And that was far from the end—they provoked him again and again. And now, they still dared to threaten him?
The stone sword fell into Lu Ye’s hand.
Kill!

"Splurt, splurt, splurt..."
Blood mist burst into the air.
Where Lu Ye’s sword passed, nothing could withstand it.

Everything was split clean in two.
Black smoke soared into the sky. Sword light howled.
Lu Ye charged straight toward Feng Changye.

Even a Great Ascension cultivator had died to a single punch. Who else could stop Lu Ye?
The answer was obvious.
No one!

By the time Lu Ye had wiped out the entire Eternal Teachings Sect, the second cultivator undergoing tribulation hadn’t even finished crossing it.
Lu Ye’s figure vanished.
He had already appeared beside the tribulation cloud.

The cultivator undergoing tribulation glanced at him, his expression twisting in horror.
With Lu Ye here, the result was already clear—the Eternal Teachings Sect had been annihilated...
A sect that had stood tall in the Great Wilderness ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ for so long had become a thing of the past today.

"No need to be nervous. Just focus on your tribulation. I’ll kill you after you’re done," Lu Ye said calmly.
…
Out of the three undergoing tribulation, two died on the spot from shock and fear.

Only one succeeded in crossing his tribulation—only to be greeted by a punch. A very heavy one.
And with that, the Eternal Teachings Sect was no more.
Lu Ye began to sweep the battlefield.

As expected of the top power in the First Heaven, the Eternal Teachings Sect was on a different level. Heaven Pavilion and Netherworld Sect had become half-reclusive; while their disciples were fierce, they didn’t have the same numbers.
If it truly came down to a fight, they couldn’t compete with the Eternal Teachings Sect.
The Human Sovereign Banner floated midair, strands of black mist rising and falling from it without pause.

A group of powerful cultivators surged toward the Eternal Teachings Sect.
What they saw was a scene of utter devastation and bloodshed.
Everyone froze.

Lu Ye appeared in the void, glanced at them, and said, "Since you’re here, help me deal with the corpses."
The Great Flesh Pill shouldn’t be refined carelessly.
At the very least, it shouldn’t be refined from people. If he did that, what would distinguish him from those ancient, undying monsters?

In truth, among the protagonists of the dark chaos, there were once the most elite human cultivators.
They had lived incredibly long lives.
Some had even lived out a second lifetime.

In the beginning, they fought to the death against the dark chaos—guarding the world, protecting all living beings.
But there were too many of them, and they were too powerful.
So they lived another life. And fought again.

And lived another. “Daoist friend, would you move over a bit? This poor Daoist just arrived…”
Time was the most ruthless force.
It would bury all ambition. It would wear down every grudge and love alike.

Lu Ye had more or less collected all the high-grade treasures of the Eternal Teachings Sect.
He arrived at the final Eternal Hall and fixed his eyes on the statue of the Eternal Heavenly Venerable at the very top.
This bastard was one of the major black hands behind the dark chaos.

Still, Lu Ye didn’t bother to strike the statue. There was no point.
He took out a key and moved behind the statue.
The most primitive form of security was often guarded by the most primitive of means.

Formations could be broken.
But this sealed chamber, forged from billions of catties of ten-thousand-year black iron, could hardly be accessed without a key.
Clack-clack-clack...

The grinding of gears echoed out.
A hidden door opened.
From within the dark entrance, thick spiritual energy surged forth, accompanied by an exotic fragrance.

What a fine place.
Lu Ye stepped inside.
Statues of all sizes were arranged along the walls.

On the surface of the ten-thousand-year black iron, priceless spirit silver had been inlaid to form an enormous formation—a formation wrapped within a formation, all used to obscure and shield against heavenly perception.
At the very center was an absurdly complex formation.
A teleportation array?

Lu Ye glanced at it a few times and instantly understood its function—it was likely used to transmit resources from the Upper Realm to the Eternal Teachings Sect.
Suspended silently in the void was a pristine white conch.
It radiated the aura of a supreme treasure.

A semi-innate treasure?
The conch itself was once a powerful and unique living creature, and its shell was made of a strange material, akin to an innate object.
Someone had refined it into a semi-innate treasure—a clever and unorthodox approach.

Lu Ye took the conch.
He channeled true essence into it.
The conch immediately glowed with a soft white light. The strange lines on its surface began to shine.

An inscrutable aura flowed into the void, forming a mysterious link with something extremely distant.
The connection was established.
Silence.

A deathly silence.
Neither side spoke, yet each had already guessed the other's identity.
"Lu Ye?"

A clear, graceful female voice came from within the conch.
"Mhm."
"So incredible… As expected of you. In such a short time, you’ve already become invincible in the First Heaven," Jiang Die said with emotion.

"Then are you ready?" Lu Ye asked.
"Ready for what?"
"Death."

Jiang Die paused. Her voice turned soft and pitiful.
"Lu Ye, could you really bear to kill me? I’m the woman you’ve cherished the most."
The corners of Lu Ye’s lips curled upward slightly.

"You’ll find out when the time comes."
"Then I’ll be waiting—waiting for you to come kill me. We’ll see whether it’s you who kills me, or I who kill you. Lu Ye, this time, you're dead. You’re absolutely dead!!!"