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The System Interface & A Stirring in the Ye Clan
A faint golden light shimmered before Ye Ling's eyes as he sat in a lotus position within his secluded cultivation abode. Thirty years had passed like flowing water, silent yet profound, and today, on the cusp of a new chapter, he finally decided to fully observe the fruits of his decades-long journey.
With a thought, the system's interface appeared before his eyes.
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[10,000-Fold Sign-In System Interface]
Name: Ye Ling
Age: 47
Cultivation Realm: Nascent Soul – 9th Stage (Peak)
Physique: Primordial Dao Physique (Unknown Tier – Evolves with Comprehension)
Cultivation Method: Immortal Dao Compassion Technique (Heaven Peak Tier)
Combat Techniques:
Nine Heaven Slashing Sword (Heaven Peak Tier – 9 Forms)
1st Move: Heaven Cleaving Slash – Cuts through spiritual defenses.
5th Move: Void Severing Sword – Cuts through void-based techniques.
9th Move: Kill Heaven Through Sword – Locked until Immortal Threshold.
Void Steps (Heaven Peak Tier) – Enables void traversal across thousands of miles silently.
Defensive Technique:
Holy Golden Bell (Heaven Peak Tier) – Summons an indestructible golden bell shield, impervious to attacks from lower-tier immortals when mastered.
Concealment Techniques:
Great Dao Concealment Technique – Masks cultivation from all cultivators beneath the Immortal Realm.
Immortal Dao Compassion Technique – Hides the reincarnated intact soul from Divine Senses and Celestial Wills.
Treasures:
Heavenly Flame Sword – Enhances all fire-based sword attacks.
Void Shadow Cloak – Grants concealment in space-based domains.
Mystic Soul Ring – Stores spiritual herbs and treasures, dimensionally locked.
Pills and Herbs:
Heaven Mending Pill – Restores meridians and soul damage, even beyond mortal limits.
Nine Suns Essence Elixir – Boosts cultivation base temporarily; enough to challenge half a major realm above.
World Root Grass – Heaven-tier herb that nourishes spiritual roots over centuries of growth.
System Functions:
Breakthrough Barrier Function: ACTIVE
Prevents the leakage of spiritual energy and qi fluctuations during major realm breakthroughs.
Conceals breakthroughs from heavens and cultivators alike, avoiding calamity and misfortune.
Other Functions: Sealed
[Will be unlocked upon touching the immortal threshold Realm.]
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After observing everything in silence, Ye Ling closed the interface with a wave of his hand. Thirty years of quiet cultivation, hundreds of signs-in, and carefully chosen enhancements had placed him at the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul Realm. Only one step remained: the Divine Formation Realm, where one's soul and body fused and compressed into the beginning of a true immortal foundation.
But just as he intended to continue cultivating…
Boom!
A tremor of spiritual force passed through the Ye Clan grounds. Ye Ling's eyes opened sharply. He could feel the ripples of pain, desperation, and internal chaos surging through the clan formation.
An emergency talisman burst within the sky over the Ye Clan's ancestral compound.
"Ye Tian, the current Patriarch… has been gravely wounded."
The message swept through the inner regions like wildfire.
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Back in the ancestral meeting hall…
Ye Tian, the last true protector of the crumbling Ye Clan, lay unconscious, his core severely wounded. His cultivation – once at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm – was crippled after being ambushed by rival clans. Rumors swirled that insiders of the clan had leaked his path to the enemy in exchange for wealth and survival.
The Ye Clan, already hanging by a thread, now stood on the brink of utter collapse.
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In his private abode, Ye Ling sat in silence.
This clan… in truth, had little to do with him anymore. The people of the Ye Clan had long cast him aside, seeing him as a "crippled trash" for most of his early life. His journey, his cultivation, his physique – all of it had been achieved alone, in the dark.
But…
He looked at his own hands. This body had still inherited the bloodline of Ye. The treasures, the techniques, the blessings he had reaped—so many came from this clan's forgotten legacy grounds.
"Though I walk alone, I have not forgotten the roots that nourish me in silence," he murmured.
And so, for the first time in decades, Ye Ling stood from his secluded chamber. Dressed in black robes that merged with the shadows, he stepped forward. No longer as a discarded cripple, but as the hidden peak of the Ye Clan—the one who would silently shift its fate.
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To be continued…
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