Amidst the vast expanse of the universe, scattered with countless stars and galaxies, there existed a solitary being. Her realm was known as the Abode of the Paragon. This place lay beyond the reach of even the Heavenly Dao, constructed purely from unimaginable and ultimate power. The air shimmered with the primal elements of creation, while rivers flowed with liquid Qi. Yet, despite such grandeur, the realm was perfectly tranquil, for its sole inhabitant, Xue Lian, was the only being in the entire cosmos who had attained this ultimate level of existence.
Her age remained a mystery, even to the universe itself. She appeared as a seventeen-year-old girl, her face sculpted as flawlessly as jade, her eyes carrying the wisdom of eternity. Her power was so boundless that she had frozen her physical form at this moment, never to deteriorate with age. Her body was a strange paradox—soft and delicate in appearance, yet housing infinite power capable of reshaping galaxies with a mere thought.
The path of human cultivation was long and arduous, structured into several major Tiers, each containing countless Realms and stages:
Beginner Tier: Mortal Realm, Body Tempering, Spirit Gathering, Innate Stage, Qi Refining, Meridian Opening.
Foundation Tier: Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Bone Refining, Muscle Refining.
Advanced Tiers: Ascension, Immortal, Divine, Dao, Transcendent, and finally, the Ultimate Tier—each comprising countless Realms.
Xue Lian had surpassed all these Tiers to reach the pinnacle Paragon Realm of the Ultimate Tier, a truth known to no one. Ancient cultivators had only believed that the Creator Realm was the ultimate summit of existence. Her contemporaries had long since faded, their knowledge lost to the pages of history. Now, only a handful of high-level cultivators and sect leaders retained fragmented understanding beyond the Immortal Tier—but even they could scarcely comprehend anything beyond the Creator Realm and the title of Absolute Transcendence.
Xue Lian sat in a lotus posture atop a frozen blossom of starlight, her senses extending across the vastness of the cosmos. For countless millennia, she remained perfectly still, observing the rise and fall of civilizations, the birth of stars, and the endless cycles of life and death. She had witnessed everything, yet a silent loneliness had taken residence within her heart. Though she resided at the very apex of all existence, there was no one with whom she could share this ultimate state.
One day, a strange, unfamiliar desire stirred within her—something she had not felt for an eternity. It was a yearning for something new, raw, and unrefined. She wished to return to a world where she could walk among others as an ordinary cultivator, to once again experience the struggles, joys, and challenges from the beginning.
With but a single thought, the entire universe trembled. The Abode of the Paragon vanished—not into emptiness, but transformed into a single point of light, cradled within Xue Lian's palm. The supreme power she possessed was now restrained, but it was not lost. She had suppressed it, locking it away within herself so completely that even a Dao Emperor would see her as nothing more than a weak mortal.
She selected a destination: a small, lower-tier Mortal Realm known as the Broken Star Realm. This realm was filled with weak cultivators, incapable even of sensing the Qi around them. It was the perfect place for her to relieve her boredom.
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