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In the Nine Celestial Realms, his name invoked awe and fear.
He was the Tyrant of the Nine Skies—undefeated, unrivaled… until betrayal struck at the moment of his ascension.

Slain by those he called brothers, his soul was torn apart and cast into the abyss.

But fate is cruel to cowards—and kind to monsters.

He is reborn, not as a powerful immortal, but as Jiang Chen, a crippled disciple in a declining sect, scorned by peers, dismissed by elders.

With millennia of knowledge, forgotten forbidden arts, and his wrath as his blade…
The world will learn to fear him once more.

Cultivation realms will tremble.
Sects will burn.
And the betrayers will kneel.

This time… he will ascend not as a man, but as a God.

Rebirth of the Celestial Tyrant

The skies cracked like porcelain under pressure.

Clouds spiraled like serpents, and celestial lightning licked the edges of reality. Beneath that thunderous dome, a storm god descended—not myth, but man. Clad in celestial armor forged from meteorite steel and phoenix blood, General Bai Tianxu, the Blade of the Emperor, arrived.

> "Tyrant Jiang Chen," he bellowed, "by decree of Heaven, your existence ends here!"

The earth groaned under his step. His blade—a twisted relic made from the spine of an ancient fallen dragon—cut the air just by being unsheathed.

> "Then let Heaven break," he replied.

He stepped forward, Tyrant Halberd aglow with the Obsidian Moon Flame, its essence pulsating like a second heartbeat. Around them, the world stilled. Mountains lowered. Trees bent.

The clash began with such force that ripples of qi tore open the clouds. Bai Tianxu's first strike split an entire valley. Jiang Chen answered with a counter-swing that redirected the storm into the heavens.

🌀 Scene III: The Tyrant Evolves

At the peak of the battle, Bai Tianxu invoked the Heavenstrike Protocol—an ancestral technique that summoned the full might of a thousand thunder realms.

Jiang Chen was caught in the eye of it, torn and burning.

> "You are mortal," Bai Tianxu sneered. "No flame can last under the judgment of the divine."

As Jiang Chen fell to one knee, the Obsidian Moon Flame flared—not with rage, but with purpose.

A third core emerged within him: The Sovereign Flame.

He stood again, body wreathed in tricolor fire—black, violet, and gold.

> "I am the flame that shatters gods."

With new power, Jiang Chen invoked a forbidden form—Tyrant Domain: Skybreaker Horizon.

Jiang Chen's halberd struck not at Bai Tianxu's flesh, but his will.

The Celestial General screamed as his divine core ruptured. He fell—not just defeated, but stripped of rank. His soul shattered and scattered into wind.

And then... the Heavens cracked for real.

Above, a thousand golden eyes opened in the clouds.

From their divine palace, the gods whispered.

> "He must not reach the Seventh Flame."

> "The Tribunal must be assembled."

Chapter Fourteen: Heaven Breaks