Early in the morning just as the sky lit up above. The Celestial Dao Palace burned crimson. The heavens, once untouched and eternal, trembled as the war drums of betrayal echoed through the divine halls.
Jiang Tian, One among the Celestial God, stood alone on the inevitable floating jade platform, his white robes soaked in golden blood. His golden hair shining across the room, His silver eyes, once filled with the wisdom of countless ages, now burned with cold rage as he beheld the ones who had betrayed him.
Before him, stood in place the twelve stronger Immortal Lords, each wearing the sigil of the Heavenly Tribunal significing their status in the heaven's. They encircled him like wolves closing in on their prey. Among them stood the one who had once sworn eternal loyalty. Lord Mo Xuanye, Jiang Tian's sworn brother and the Supreme Elder of the Immortal Court.
"Jiang Tian," Lord Mo Xuanye's voice was cool, calm and collective. but his eyes gleamed with ruthless intent. "For too long, you have defied the heavens, your actions have caused us so much. You have reached a realm forbidden to all beings. A disposable person like you deserve to die. Today, your reign ends here and now." He said.
Jiang Tian exhaled slowly, his breath shattering the space around him. The void rippled under his power. "So… after everything, you have chosen the path of dogs, bowing to the will of the Heavenly Will?" He asked.
Silent filled the air for a moment.
As ripple of unease passed through the gathered Immortals. Even now, Jiang Tian radiated an aura of authority unlike any thing they have seen, so overwhelming that reality itself seemed unwilling to contain him. But he was wounded—gravely so. The Heaven-Sealing Chains wrapped around his body was effective and pulsed with divine power, suppressing his cultivation. The traitors had planned well for this special day at hand.
Lord Mo Xuanye stepped forward, his divine spear glowing with the radiance of the Nine Suns Dao power. A special Skill known to god's. "We were once brothers, Jiang Tian. But you sought to overthrow fate itself. You wished to claim the Throne Beyond the Heavens. That is a crime even the gods themselves cannot forgive!" He said.
Jiang Tian chuckled, the sound low and mocking. "You fear what you cannot control, Mo Xuanye. You fear that one day, a man might rise beyond the heavens and rule over all, even the Dao itself. So Tell me, do you not wish for the same? To shatter the cycle of fate?" He asked. While fixing his gaze on him waiting for his reaction.
Lord Mo Xuanye's face showed no emotions as his grip tightened on his spear, but he did not answer.
Without wasting much time, One of the Immortal Lords, Lord Feng Yulong, stepped forward, his eyes gleaming with murderous intent. "Enough of all this nonsense talking. Execute him now!" He shouted.
The Twelve Immortal Lords immediately took action unleashed their ultimate techniques upon Jiang Tian. Blades of pure energy law, torrents of divine flame, and spears forged from the will of heaven itself descended upon Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian's eyes burned with unyielding defiance. "If I must die, then I will die standing." He said out loud to them.
Even when in his weakened body, he still manage to move and suppress some of the immortal lords.
With a single step, time shattered. The force of his movement crushed the divine formations around him, and for an instant, the heavens trembled. His right hand blurred—then the Shadow Immortal Art ignited within him.
"Impossible—!" one of the Lords gasped.
"How did that come to be stop him!" Exclaimed another lord to his right.
Before the immortal lords could gather themselves back, A black crescent slash erupted from Jiang Tian's fingertips, cutting through the void itself like a flash of light. Immediately Three Immortal Lords screamed out in pains as their bodies were severed in an instant, their souls obliterated before they could even get a chance to escape and get reincarnate.
This made the remaining lords looking so trouble and outrage.
"Someone hurry up and stop him before he kills us all." Cried out Lord Feng Yulong who was already in a panicked mode.
Jiang Tian turned his palm, ready to destroy the rest within minutes.
But before he could take action, The Spear of Judgment was let flying and it made it way in Jiang Tian direction as it pierced right through his heart.
Jiang Tian staggered almost falling from the inevitable floating jade platform. Lord Mo Xuanye's divine spear, forged from the essence of the Primordial Dao, had struck deep into him. Golden blood sprayed across the floating palace, staining the white jade floors.
Jiang Tian vision became blurred. The chains tightened around him body, trying to keep him in place like a loose lion.
Lord Mo Xuanye exhaled, took some steps forward, his face pale. "You fought well, brother." He said.
Jiang Tian felt his strength leaving him. The Shadow Immortal Art flickered, unable to resist the combined force of the Heavenly Dao Suppression Formation keeping him in place.
But he refused to kneel down or give in to what they want.
"You think… this is the end?" Jiang Tian's voice, though hoarse, carried across the heavens.
Lord Mo Xuanye's expression darkened. "Jiang Tian… do not force me to." He said with a bit of regret in his voice.
Jiang Tian laughed out loud and then his eyes darkened.
"The heavens do not decide my fate. I do." Said Jiang Tian in a loud and clear voice.
With the last bit of his strength, Jiang Tian's lips curled into a defiant smirk. His golden soul ignited, shattering itself into a million fragments as it float away.
BOOM!
As the massive explosion rock the heavens, Part of the Celestial Dao Palace collapsed, sending the floating immortal lands crashing into the lower realms.
Lord Mo Xuanye and the remaining Immortal Lords barely shielded themselves from the devastating blast. When the dust finally settled, there was nothing left of Jiang Tian's body, only his robe stained with blood was seen.
"He… he's gone," one of the Lords murmured.
"Yes, we finely chopped him off." Said one of the lord with a wide grinned on his face.
"Goodness me, some peaceful time."
Lord Mo Xuanye stood in silence, gripping his spear tightly. Even in death, Jiang Tian had chosen to defy the will of the heavens, but finally he has be put in his place.
But none of them noticed the tiny black speck drifting into the void, sinking deeper into the Abyssal Rift, where no soul had ever returned.
A soul that refused to die. Jiang Tian.
1000 Year Later Far Below, in the Mortal Realm…
In The Eastern and Western Wastelands, a land of ruined kingdoms and forgotten graves.
A crippled youth lay dying in the rain, his body broken, his spirit core shattered.
His name was Ye Bai, the discarded son of the Ye Clan. His fiancee had abandoned him, his dantian had been crippled, and his family had cast him aside and tagged as a worthless failure in the family household.
He was left to die at the outer line of the clan boundary, he was a big disgrace to his family and clan, a reject by all.
Ya Bai body lay in the waste side of the clan boundary near the void of the death. he was thrown by the clan to roughing their. But fate had it's own way of doing things. Most of the clan members have come out to witness his sentence.
Suddenly a bolt of Lightning flashed across the sky. except it wasn't normal lightning.
And then.
A black speck of light shot down from the heavens, entering Ye Bai's forehead with a force.
A burning pain erupted in his soul. He tried desperately to fight it out, but all to no avail his body was too weak to respond to him and his spirit was already at a Lost.
Memories not his own flooded his mind. Visions of celestial wars, divine betrayals, and the fall of a god all appearing and disappearing in his mind.
Then a cool calm and collective voice whispered in the depths of his mind:
" This world belongs to use, For the will of my father must be filled, Rise young star, This is our time. The heavens cannot stop us."
After those words, Ye Bai's eyes snapped open and close again. No longer the eyes of a broken youth, but the gaze of a god who refused to die. A fragment of Jiang Tian soul have force it way in to Ye Bai. The energy was too much for ye Bai to handle at this point, since it was new to him. So he passed out without any warning.