A rift opened in the sky.
Not torn by blades or spells, but by acknowledgment—as if the heavens themselves could no longer ignore Lin Xuan's presence. The karmic threads of the Valley of Echoing Debt unraveled behind him, and the Fifth Pillar pulsed in his Chaos Core like a second heart.
Lightning veined the clouds in reverse. Rain fell upward.
He had awakened five of the seven Nexus Pillars.
And now… the sixth awaited in the one place mortals feared to imagine.
> Heaven's Boneyard—the resting place of slain gods, banished cultivators, and truths erased by divine will.
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🌌 Entry Into the Forbidden
The rift led Lin Xuan into an expanse of silence.
No wind. No time. No stars.
Only bones.
Massive ribcages arched like mountains across the void. Broken spears the size of towers floated among cracked golden skulls. Divine blood—still glowing—floated in globs, suspended in deathless air.
His feet touched nothing, yet he walked forward.
A presence stirred.
> "Who dares trespass where even Heaven dares not bury its shame?"
The voice echoed in all directions—ancient, hollow, tinged with sorrow.
Lin Xuan didn't answer.
Instead, he raised his hand, and the five Pillar flames ignited within him—Chaos, Memory, Dream, Karma, and Void.
The world reacted.
Skulls turned. Bones rattled. Forgotten wills awakened.
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Suddenly, a figure appeared—a man cloaked in shadows, carrying a broken halo. His face was cracked porcelain. His eyes held galaxies once destroyed.
> "You awaken what we died to protect."
"What do you seek in this grave of gods?"
Lin Xuan spoke plainly.
> "I seek the Sixth Pillar. I seek the truth buried under your bones."
The figure studied him, then gestured behind.
And the void shifted.
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A throne appeared—shattered, half-floating in air.
Beneath it, buried deep inside a cage of celestial ribs, stood the Sixth Nexus Pillar. It was pale—ghostlike—shimmering between reality and memory.
> "To reach it," the figure said, "you must prove yourself not to the dead... but to the forgotten."
Suddenly, Lin Xuan was engulfed by vision.
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🩸 Trial of the Forgotten
He stood at the peak of a world erased from maps.
People bowed to him—not in reverence, but fear.
He had power. Too much power. The Chaos within him had gone too far. He ruled not as a liberator, but a tyrant.
> "This is what you may become," a voice warned. "If you lose yourself in power."
> "Will you silence the heavens… only to become the next sky?"
Lin Xuan watched this dark version of himself burn cities, erase records, enslave hope.
His heart twisted.
But then—he saw a child pick up a book, hidden in the ruins. A page written in Lin Xuan's own hand—words of rebellion, courage, and truth.
Even in tyranny, fragments of his old self remained.
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Back in the present, Lin Xuan stood again before the Sixth Pillar.
He clenched his fist.
> "I am not afraid of becoming lost," he whispered. "So long as I always return."
He stepped forward.
The bones cracked.
The throne dissolved.
And the Sixth Pillar lit with ghostfire.
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🔥 Chaos Core Phase VI: Soul Sovereign Awakening
New Ability: Soul Echo Construct
Lin Xuan can create brief temporal projections of his past selves or memories to assist in battle, advice, or deception.
Heaven-Snare Domain
Suppresses celestial law within a radius, rendering divine techniques inert or reversed.
True Name Resistance
Immune to fate-manipulation and divine commands that rely on naming or destiny threads.
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As the sixth flame sealed itself into his body, Lin Xuan fell to one knee—not in pain, but in exhaustion.
This was no longer mortal power.
This was becoming something else.
A ripple echoed through existence.
From the highest sky, the Heavenly Tribunal opened its eye.
> "He has entered the Boneyard."
"Then we can no longer wait."
A final voice, calm and cold, spoke from beyond the stars:
> "Bring him to us. Before he reaches the Seventh."
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Lin Xuan looked up.
The wind returned.
For the first time in centuries, Heaven trembled.
And he... smiled.