The Fracture in the Wheel of Heaven
"When the Dao stumbles, it does not fall quietly."
✦ [Somewhere Beyond Time]
A ripple, imperceptible to all but the supreme, carved its way through the void. Not a tremor, not a quake—but something deeper. A wound.
The Wheel of Heaven, which spun the threads of karma, time, and causality across the ten thousand realms, jerked—halting for the first time since creation.
Something… was calling.
But not all were surprised.
Some had been waiting for this moment all their lives.
✦ Fang Yuan – The Immortal Demon Venerable
(From: Reverend Insanity)
The winds howled like ghosts across the Ruined Heaven. Planes of shattered fate floated around Fang Yuan, who sat cross-legged within his secluded cavern.
Dozens of Gu insects buzzed silently inside his soul, their auras suffocating to all but him.
He opened his eyes. Cold. Calculating. Boundless.
"The River of Time is resisting me," he murmured, adjusting the Time Path Gu in his palm. "But not out of defiance… out of fear."
Across his many lives, Fang Yuan had defied fate, betrayed love, murdered gods, and shattered truths. For power. For control. For freedom.
He had abandoned humanity, kindness, and identity. Yet in this moment, as the ripples of the fractured Wheel reached him, he paused.
A thought, unbidden, stirred.
"So. The endgame begins."
Suddenly, a tear in space appeared before him. No light. No sound. Just a vacuum—perfect and ancient.
It did not pull. It waited.
Fang Yuan stood, brushing aside cosmic dust.
Behind him lay sealed jars—each containing clones, plans, contingencies.
"Interesting. A new board. New pieces.""Let's see what eternity tastes like… again."
Without a backward glance, he stepped through.
✦ Han Jue – The Cultivator Who Rejected Karma
(From: Top-Tier Providence With Hidden System)
Beneath a starlit jade sky, Han Jue sat inside the 33rd Heaven, surrounded by thousands of meditation circles. His descendants, disciples, and companions cultivated in peace.
He had long since severed his fate from the Heavenly Dao. No one could detect his presence. Not even the Dao itself.
And yet… he felt it.
A whisper.
"Return. Witness. Ascend."
Han Jue frowned, eyes closed.
He had mastered the Grand Dao Reincarnation, Transcended the Infinite Calamities, and rejected his very origin.
But this? This ripple… it wasn't from any realm he knew. It was older.
From nearby, a soft voice called. "Master?"
His youngest disciple, a mortal girl with barely a hundred years in her soul, stood at the entrance.
He smiled gently. "Yueran, guard this Heaven for me."
"But Master… where are you going?"
Han Jue rose, robes flowing like stardust.
"To sever something that should have never been born."
As the sky split above, he stepped into the void… and was gone.
✦ Zhuo Fan – The Demon Emperor's Steward
(From: Steward Demonic Emperor)
The Drifting Shadow City burned.
Smoke coiled through its obsidian towers, and the cries of betrayal echoed in the wind. A dozen nobles lay dead in a banquet hall, wine still dripping from their mouths.
Zhuo Fan stood above it all, swirling his wine as though watching a theater performance.
"They poisoned the wine, didn't they, Lord Bai?"
A ghostly voice stammered behind him. "Y-Yes… you drank it anyway?"
Zhuo Fan smiled darkly. "Oh, I did. I just rewrote my blood to enjoy the taste."
The sky darkened unnaturally.
Thunder rumbled—not from the heavens, but from the cracks between them.
He raised his head.
"Well now… something dares to move without me pulling the strings?"
He turned to his demon generals, bloodstained and loyal.
"Keep the empire. Or lose it. I've been summoned by something far more amusing."
A tear of mocking laughter still lingering in his voice, Zhuo Fan vanished into the rift—leaving only an empty goblet and a battlefield behind.
✦ Yang Kai – The Space-Time Sovereign
(From: Martial Peak)
On the edge of the Myriad Domain, stars twisted and screamed as Yang Kai tore through a pocket dimension.
"Damn it. This Void Beast is faster than it looks."
He twisted in midair, space folding behind him, time halting just long enough for him to launch a spear of condensed Dao Essence through a tear in reality.
The beast screeched—and fell.
Yang Kai wiped his brow. "That's the third one this week. Universe is getting rowdy."
He turned back to his floating realm, where Xia Ning Chang and his children awaited.
A peace, hard-earned.
And then—crack.
He felt it.
Like a claw across the skin of existence.
"...What was that?"
Space ruptured beside him. Not unstable. Not wild. Designed.
He narrowed his eyes.
"A realm jump without anchor? That shouldn't be possible."
He touched the rift—and a vision flooded his mind.
A battlefield. Gods screaming. Laws bleeding. Thrones waiting.
He turned toward his realm once more.
"I'll return. Keep the sky steady until I do."
With a small, sad smile—he stepped through.
✦ Luo Zheng – Body of Chaos, Soul of Tower
(From: Apotheosis)
Within the Celestial Tower, Luo Zheng meditated under the glow of countless divine runes. He had long ascended beyond mortality, his body forged by ancient chaos, his soul tempered in the fires of forgotten realms.
But today, something whispered even beyond the tower's protective runes.
"You have passed every trial. But you were never meant to win."
He stood, hand tightening around the hilt of his divine blade.
"I don't believe in 'meant to' anymore."
From the sky above, a fracture appeared. Not a threat—but an invitation.
His father, watching from the upper terrace, called out: "You don't need to go."
Luo Zheng glanced back.
"That's the point. I never needed to. But I want to."
And he soared upward—toward the lightless crack in the heavens.
✦ Chen Fan – The Urban Immortal Reborn
(*From: Rebirth of the Urban Immortal Cultivator)
The modern skyline of Jiangnan City glittered beneath his feet. Chen Fan stood atop a skyscraper, overlooking the world he had once ruled… and once lost.
His phone buzzed—another investor asking for immortality pills.
He chuckled. "Mortals never change."
A soft voice behind him. "You're leaving again, aren't you?"
It was Bai Qiaoqiao, her mortal body aged barely a fraction since their last parting.
Chen Fan looked to the sky, where clouds twisted unnaturally.
"Something older than time itself is calling me."
"You always say you'll return."
He turned, touching her forehead gently.
"This time, I promise. I just need to kill a few gods first."
The skies opened—and Chen Fan, with the arrogance of a star reborn, leapt into the breach.
✦
Across realms, the six entered.
Six titans, six legends. Each unknowable, yet bound by the same unseen pull.
What awaited them was no realm.
It was a stage.
A land with no Dao.
A battlefield where power was lawless.
Where fate no longer held dominion.
In the Void Between Destinies… the game had begun.