Chapter 1 Rogue, Heaven's Decree

  "Yang Chunxue, you demon who devours people without spitting out their bones... If I don't die, I'll make you suffer a million times..." As Ye Hao plummeted into the dark depths of the Abyss of Annihilation, his muscles and bones were torn apart piece by piece by the raging winds within, he cursed with great indignation in his heart.

  At the edge of the abyss, a white-clad woman floated in mid-air, her beauty surpassing all others, rendering everything else colorless.

  "What a pity, this half-Heavenly Decree..." The woman let out a gentle sigh, her delicate eyebrows furrowed in a way that could shatter the hearts of men everywhere. In an instant, she transformed into a white mist and vanished into the horizon.

  ……

  "Rogue, come and take my life!" A furious shout, the sword's edge gleaming like autumn water, brought with it wave after wave of chilling air, striking towards the young man who had suddenly become as still as a wooden chicken.

  The chill of death's sword tip was upon him before the icy air stimulated the young man into a shivering awakening.

  "Your grandfather's..." The young man cursed loudly, his body twisting and turning in a flash of movement, as agile as a butterfly fluttering through flowers. But immediately he let out a miserable cry, blood splattering everywhere, two deep wounds appearing on the back of his left shoulder that exposed bone.

  "What a body, can't even support the basic steps of walking on flowers and touching grass." The young man muttered, his two fingers emitting a jade-like glow that pointed at the wound, stopping the flowing blood.

  At this time, the young man finally had a chance to look at the girl who was chasing him, no, should be chasing that unlucky guy whose body he had taken over.

  At this sight, Ye Hao was taken aback for a moment. He thought that he had seen countless beauties, but this girl in a silver-white flowing dress with a slender figure and delicate features like a porcelain doll still made him stunned for an instant. Especially, this girl had a loli face, but her figure was devilish, exuding all kinds of charm, innocence and seductiveness, two qualities perfectly blended in this girl.

  "Frost Sword Decision!" Mo Xuanxuan saw that Ye Hao had dodged the fatal blow, gritted her teeth and shouted. Her jade-like finger pointed at the Frost Iron Sword in her hand, and suddenly the sword left her hand, suspended in mid-air, its body slightly trembling, emitting a series of clashing sounds like golden armor.

  "Cut!" Mo Xuanxuan formed a hand seal with her right hand and pointed at Ye Hao.

  The Han Tie sword's blade suddenly burst forth with a cold glow, and with a loud whoosh, it slashed towards Ye Hao.

  "My little sword technique, I... really can't withstand it." Ye Hao's strange footsteps reappeared, and he slipped away in a flash of smoke. In the next second, the spot where he had been standing was split open by the cold iron sword, revealing a several-meter-long fissure filled with snow-white frost.

  "Slash!" Mo Xuan's face was slightly pale, continuing to seal her handprint, controlling the Cold Iron Sword to slash towards Ye Hao. It could be seen that this sword technique was not easy for her to perform.

  Ye Hao narrowly dodged again, his heart also secretly anxious. This body had an old illness that had recurred, and now it had added new injuries. His vitality was almost exhausted. The girl's moves were deadly, and he feared she would not let him go at all costs.

  "Cut, cut again!" Mo Xuanxuan gritted her silver teeth, unable to understand how Ye Hao had become even more slippery than a loach, hadn't he just been at the end of his rope?

  Ye Hao was swept by Han Leng and flew tens of meters away, unable to get up again. The spiritual energy in his body was completely exhausted.

  Mo Xuanxuan was also unable to support the Yu Jian technique, she put away the Han Tie sword, took a few deep breaths, and stepped in front of Ye Hao, looking down at him with an air of superiority.

  "Little beauty, we have no father-killing feud and no wife-snatching grudge, there's no need to make it a life-and-death matter." Ye Hao seemed to be unable to cry without seeing the coffin, and he forced himself to sit up, smiling wryly as he joked, not even noticing the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

  "You're a big scoundrel, a stinky rascal, not worth dying for. If I kill you today, it's also a way to eliminate a scourge from the entire cultivation world." Mo Xuexue's sword tip pointed at Feng Hui, her silver teeth clenched so hard they seemed about to shatter. She seemed to recall the grievances she had suffered, and her beautiful eyes turned red, but the killing intent in them only grew more intense.

  Ye Hao's eyes rolled around, his soul had just taken over the body and was being pursued, he hadn't had time to merge with the residual consciousness of this body, so he didn't know what had happened, but for now, he must preserve this life.

  However, Mo Xuanxuan didn't give him another chance to speak, the cold iron sword in her hand flashed towards his heart like lightning.

  Just then, Ye Hao's body suddenly plunged forward.

  With a "poof" sound, Ye Hao's chest was pierced by the Cold Iron Sword, and the chill it carried instantly spread to his limbs.

  Almost at the same time, Mo Xuanxuan let out a sharp cry and surprisingly loosened her grip on the Cold Iron Sword, turning to hug her chest with both hands.

  Ye Hao's paw was sliding down from Mo Xuanxuan's towering chest, and he pressed a few times on her upper abdomen and lower abdomen.

  Mo Xuanxuan suddenly felt her body go soft, and she fell to the ground, unable to muster any strength, with only a pair of beautiful eyes staring at Ye Hao in extreme shock.

  Ye Hao stumbled and staggered, his mouth twitching twice, as if he wanted to smile, but suddenly a few mouthfuls of fresh blood spurted out, all splashing onto Mo Xuanxuan's face and body. Immediately after, he fell down, also pressing down on Mo Xuanxuan's soft jade body without any difference, and fainted.

  "From the beginning of time, from the end of space, wanting to hold up the sky and stand, first die then live to temper the soul..."

  "Wherever sex goes, the Tao is born; following nature and acting spontaneously, all things are the Tao..."

  "Open the heavenly pulse in the middle of the dan Tian, draw the power of heaven and earth, nourish the soul inwardly, and nourish the spirit outwardly..."

  In the midst of emptiness, a faint and ethereal voice drifted in from nowhere, thread by thread, emanating from the depths of the soul, gradually becoming clear.

  A scroll radiating golden light was unfolding in Ye Hao's Sea of Consciousness, which was exactly the half of Tian Kun's Divine Art that Ye Hao had obtained.

  Xiang Ye Hao was a former orphan abandoned by an immortal in the vast and mysterious Heavenly Secret Realm. The Heavenly Secret Realm was a place where the younger generations of the heavenly world would stay, but they could not become immortals immediately after birth. Instead, they had to enter the Heavenly Secret Realm and undergo nine calamities before they could ascend to heaven and become immortals. However, even in the Heavenly Secret Realm, those who became immortals were few and far between. The descendants of these immortals continued to multiply and thrive in the realm, hoping that one day their children would ascend to the heavenly world.

  Ye Hao narrowly escaped death, repeatedly encountering strange fate, practicing the Idle Cloud Wild Crane Decision passed down by a senior, doing everything as he pleased, roaming in the flower cluster, having gone through eight heavenly tribulations, and became one of the top strongmen in the Secret Realm of the Vast Heaven.

  However, Ye Hao later obtained the Half-Step Divine Slaying Heaven Decree and was attacked by a group of powerful beings in the Huang Tian Secret Realm, suffering severe injuries. In the end, he was forced by Huang Tian Secret Realm's number one beauty Yang Chu Xue to jump into the Abyss of No Return, where his body and Dao were destroyed.

  However, Ye Hao's life was not destined to be extinguished. Although the Primordial Spirit was destroyed, the half of the Heaven-Supporting Seal he obtained at a critical moment rolled up a wisp of his soul, tearing through space and attaching itself to the body of a notorious little hoodlum in the cultivation world who shared the same name as him, Ye Hao.

  This little rascal Ye Hao, originally a well-known immortal family's son, was extremely intelligent but didn't use it for good. Instead, he was extremely lustful and enjoyed teasing virtuous women, taking advantage of them with his hands and feet, although not to the point of forcing himself on them. However, this unlucky guy used despicable means to knock out an unknown stunningly beautiful girl, actually just wanting to touch her small hand and face, indulge in some lewd thoughts, and didn't dare to really force himself on her. Who would have thought that this girl had a special physique, with an extremely short unconscious time, and suddenly woke up when he reached for her face?

  This is getting out of hand, the girl's identity is the thousand-year-old daughter of the Lotus Sect's sect master, Xiao Qinglian. The Ye family almost got exterminated because of this, but thanks to the Six Harmony Sect, which has a deep connection with the Lotus Sect, they managed to save themselves. However, Ye Hao was stripped of his cultivation and expelled from the family.

  Ke Ye Hao, however, had a strange encounter and recovered his cultivation. He also acquired a skill that allowed him to disguise himself and escape danger. With his reputation in tatters, he simply became notorious as a great rascal. Any woman from the immortal realm who caught his eye would be subjected to his harassment, molestation, and peeping while they bathed or used the restroom.

  It's not just that, this rascal is quite arrogant, for example, when it comes to peeping, you can sneak a peek without anyone noticing, but he has to leave his own special mark, so that the girl who was being peeped at can discover it. Can you say that others will let him off easily? So, either this rascal is flirting with beautiful women or he's running for his life.

  Ye Hao groggily woke up, his hands pushing down to lift himself up, but what he felt was a full and firm sensation. He lowered his head and saw Mo Yuanyuan's face flushed with shame and anger, tears streaming down her face as she was pinned under him, while his hands were pressed against her high chest.

  Ye Hao's body flipped over, and he rolled off Mo Xuanxuan's body in agony, gritting his teeth and shouting at the poor little lamb: "Cry, cry to death! If you cry again, I'll strip you bare!"

  Mo Xuanxuan was frightened by Ye Hao, her pretty face turned pale, but tears still flowed uncontrollably down her face. She was even more afraid, she didn't want to cry, but she couldn't control it. It seemed that she would be stripped of her clothes by this stinky rascal.

  Ye Hao reached out his hand towards Mo Xuanxuan's waist, seemingly wanting to untie her belt. Mo Xuanxuan was shocked, her lips trembling, but her whole body felt weak and numb, unable to make a sound.

  However, Ye Hao simply pulled down the spatial bag hanging from her waist and easily broke the seal on it. This low-level seal he could break a hundred of in just one minute.

  Ye Hao shook the space bag down, and a pile of miscellaneous things suddenly piled up on the ground, with several pieces of colorful cloth fluttering and falling.

  Ye Hao took a piece and it felt smooth and soft in his hand, very comfortable.

  "This little pouch style is not bad, if you add a small array of fixed support on top, it's perfect. This can prevent those treasures from sagging and the occurrence of various women's diseases." Ye Hao said with a professional tone after flipping through it repeatedly.

  Mo Xuan almost fainted, these were her personal small pouches, but they were touched by this rascal. She didn't want to live anymore. However, what he said seemed to make some sense, if there really was such a small array... What was she thinking about? Was she driven mad by him?

  Ye Hao rummaged through the pile of things on the ground, found a few bottles of Dan medicine, and opened them one by one to smell.

  "Immortals preserve, let this great rascal choose that purple bottle, it's the highly toxic Blood Dissolving Dan, turn him into a puddle of blood water." Mo Xuanxuan prayed in her heart.

  Ye Hao didn't do as she wished, instead he picked up a red bottle and threw away the rest. He poured out a few grains of medicine and took them orally, then ground a few more into powder and applied it to his chest and back wounds. He muttered to himself: "You're still a disciple of the Smoke Cloud Sect, one of the top sects in the Immortal Path, and you have such low-quality healing medicine? How embarrassing."

  Is this a low-grade Dan medicine? Mo Xuanxuan glared at Ye Hao, her Huixiang Dan being a renowned healing sacred medicine throughout the cultivation world, and also the exclusive Dan medicine of the Huixia Sect. Many sects had sought it but to no avail; even as an inner disciple of the Huixia Sect, she had spent considerable time and effort accumulating this one bottle.

  Ye Hao was now sitting cross-legged on the ground, cultivating his internal energy to dissolve the medicinal properties in his body.

  Mo Xuanxuan tried to get up, but she didn't know what kind of forbidden spell Ye Hao had cast on her body, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free. Thinking that this big rascal would humiliate her innocence after he recovered, she became so anxious that tears fell down her face like rain.

  "Dad, mom, come and save your precious daughter!" Mo Xuanxuan cried out in anguish and regret, wishing she hadn't impulsively snuck out of the sect to sulk, only to run into this infamous rogue of the cultivation world.

  Half a time later, Ye Hao's injuries in his body had recovered seven or eight points. He opened his eyes and revealed a strange expression, ignoring the terror that emerged in the eyes of the little beauty beside him, but was lost in thought.

  "Qing Tian Jue, I never thought it would be like this..." Ye Hao muttered to himself. When he was in the Secret Realm of Huang Tian, after obtaining half of Qing Tian Jue, he studied day and night, but had never been able to figure out even a single move. He didn't expect that after his residual soul attached itself to a new body, he would finally catch a glimpse of its essence.

  This Heaven's Decree, unexpectedly wants to break and then stand, with death seeking life, in the process of life and death, and from death to life again, will refine the soul from the root, creating an innocent soul. This is a prerequisite for cultivating Heaven's Decree. If there is no such condition, even if you study for 100,000 years, you will gain nothing.

  After cultivating an innocent soul, the heavenly pulse must be opened in the midst of filth. In this world, there are nine yin pulses, nine yang pulses, seven absolute pulses, six combined pulses, three life pulses, flame pulses, ice pulses, curved spirit pulses and other kinds of special body pulses, also known as immortal pulses. Because any cultivator who possesses these rare and unique body pulses will have a cultivation speed that far surpasses that of ordinary pulse cultivators.

  However, the Tianmai was said to be unattainable, and even more so, it wasn't something that could be achieved through innate talent, but rather through postnatal cultivation. Just this alone made the Tianmai decision not ashamed to be a world-class immortal decision. Although Ye Hao only possessed the first half of it, he still managed to provoke almost all the strong practitioners in the entire Huangtian Secret Realm, and was finally forced to jump into the Abyss of Despair.

  The opening of Tian Mai is not difficult, as long as the fetal movement begins, it can lead to the opening of the heavenly pulse in the Zhong.

  Now, the biggest problem is that Ye Hao had just circulated his internal energy to dispel the medicinal properties, and at the same time, he also investigated his body, but sadly discovered that for him, truly starting to cultivate this Half-Step Heaven Ascension Technique was not as simple a matter.

  According to the Xiu Zhen realm hierarchy, it can be divided into: Qi accumulation, fetal movement, foundation building, golden elixir, yuan infant, divine separation, great vehicle, and crossing calamity. Each level is further divided into nine sub-levels, and after passing through the nine heavenly calamities, one can ascend to the heavens.

  Now Ye Hao's grade has reached fetal movement second heavy, in theory, it should be possible to open the heavenly vein.

  However, Ye Hao was originally abandoned for his cultivation and had a shattered meridian. Later, he only managed to recover his cultivation by practicing an extreme technique, and even made further progress, but the damage to his meridian could never be restored.

  And now Ye Hao, who was already a top-notch expert after crossing the Eight Heavens Tribulation in the Secret Realm of the Vast Heaven, how could he not see that this extreme cultivation method, although it seemed to be against the heavens in the early stages, actually destroyed one's foundation and had no possibility of entering the true threshold of cultivating immortality - the Foundation Establishment stage.

  Even if I were to activate the Heavenly Pulse now and greatly increase my absorption of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, I would still be unable to cultivate the Heaven-Defying Technique, and in the end, I would still be a useless waste.

  Unless he abandoned his current cultivation and rebuilt his meridians before starting anew.

  Rebuilding the meridians, Ye Hao knew the method, but with his current strength, it would take a considerable amount of time to gather all the required spiritual herbs. Moreover, after abandoning his cultivation, he had lost his ability to protect himself. In the world of immortal cultivation where the strong preyed on the weak, he was at the mercy of others.

  Ye Hao hesitated for half a second, and then made up his mind. He would abolish his cultivation and rebuild his meridians. He would rely on this Heaven Supporting Decision to once again reach the peak.

  "When the first snow falls, I made a vow when I jumped into the abyss of despair, I will never forget for even half a moment. By the time I, Laozi, have passed through the nine heavenly tribulations and arrived in the immortal realm, you stinky girls must have already been enjoying yourselves in the immortal realm. At that time, I will definitely fulfill my vow." Ye Hao's still somewhat handsome face suddenly became ferocious.

  Mo Xuanxuan, who was watching Feng Hua from the side, was shocked by Ye Hao's ferocious expression and thought he was going to assault her, saying that she would be raped and then killed.

  Ye Hao's gaze shifted to Mo Xuanxuan, who was terrified, and seemed to have thought of something, revealing a sinister smile.

  "Little girl, let's make a deal."