"Seth… I want more…" On the bed, the woman's cheeks were still flushed. Her lips parted, and the words that spilled out were sweet enough to intoxicate. Seth Santee stared up at Evelyn Showyer's breathtaking face. Heat surged through him all over again. "Alright!" Yet just as Seth was about to pull her back into that dizzying peak, a crushing wave of exhaustion slammed into him. His expression stiffened with unmistakable embarrassment. "How about we stop for today," he said, forcing a laugh. "We've got plenty of time." "Already tired, Seth?" Evelyn's voice turned teasing, soft as silk. "In a month, it'll be our wedding day. After that, you're not allowed to slack off, okay?" She nestled against his chest. Her body was warm and pliant, and the contact alone sent his mind drifting. Who would have imagined that Farwind City's famous frost beauty could be this feverish, this wild? "In a few days, when my Dao Bone awakens," Seth said, breath unsteady, "I'll shake the whole world. Then I'll marry you in grand style." He instinctively tightened his arms around the beauty in his embrace. The exhaustion hit harder. His limbs went slack, as if all strength had been drained from his bones. Even the True Essence in his Elixir Field refused to stir, no matter how he tried to summon it. Something was wrong. Seth's face changed in an instant. "No… I've been poisoned!" "You only figured it out just now?" Evelyn's laugh was thin and cruel. "You really are stupid." At some point, she had already risen from the bed. She stood there in the dim light, eyes like ice, filled with contempt and indifference. She looked nothing like the woman who had been clinging to him a moment ago. "You poisoned me?" Seth's voice shook. "Why would you do this?" He could not believe it. His childhood sweetheart, the fiancée who had been by his side day after day, had drugged him with her own hands. "I said you were stupid, and you're even dumber than I thought." Evelyn slipped into her clothes with unhurried elegance, her tone dripping with disdain. "You have no background, no power. Did you really think I'd fall for you? Let me tell you the truth. My father has already made contact with the Warth family of the Imperial City. They'll come to propose before long!" "Then why did you come to me?" Seth roared, veins standing out in his neck. "Why throw yourself at me?" "For this moment." A blade appeared in Evelyn's hand, its edge gleaming with a bone-deep chill. "Your Dao Bone will awaken inside my body. That is the only reason I can marry into the Warth family!" "You're vicious!" Seth's stomach churned as he remembered every tender touch, every whispered promise. It all turned rancid in his mind. She had offered herself as bait, all to steal his Dao Bone and climb into an Imperial City noble house. "Instead of blaming others for being ruthless," a cold voice drawled, "you should blame yourself for being a fool. Just like your father." The door swung open. A middle-aged man stepped in, wearing an icy smile that never reached his eyes. "You still have the nerve to mention my father?" Seth snarled. He recognized him instantly. Jace Showyer. His father's sworn brother. Evelyn's father. After Seth's parents died, Jace had taken him in as an adopted son. He had even arranged Seth's marriage to Evelyn. That was why Seth had trusted them. Completely. "When I killed your parents, I didn't care," Jace said with a mocking snort. "Why would I be afraid to bring them up?" "What…?" Seth's vision swam. "You animal!" Rage nearly tore him apart. All these years, he had been calling a murderer "father." "I didn't want their lives," Jace said, spreading his hands as if he were the wronged one. "Blame them for giving birth to you, and for telling me your secret. You were born with a Dao Bone. If I wanted to control it, I had no other choice!" He threw his head back and laughed, unrestrained and triumphant. With the Dao Bone, Evelyn would become the most dazzling genius in the Skyreach Kingdom. "Jace Showyer. Evelyn Showyer." Seth's voice was hoarse with hatred. "You two are venomous to the core. As long as I live, I'll carve out your hearts and rip out your bones with my own hands!" Hiss, hiss! The blade sliced into Seth's body. Blood burst out in a violent rush. Evelyn's flawless face, once the picture of beauty, looked like pure malice to him. Boom! Golden light erupted. A Dao Wave rippled outward. Evelyn's eyes lit up with greedy brilliance. That was it. Seth's Dao Bone. "Thank you for fighting for the Showyer family all these years," she said lightly, as if she were rewarding a servant. "Thank you for seizing Mineral Vein Resources for us. What a pity your Cultivation Level is bound to your Dao Bone. From today on, you can only be a cripple." Her voice remained calm, almost gentle. "Don't worry. I'll let you live a few more days. If the Dao Bone doesn't fuse with me, I'll still need your blood." She paused, then smiled as if remembering something pleasant. "Oh, and your sister Ember? I already arranged a good match for her. In seven days, she'll marry Old Demon Cutmore. You don't need to worry." Her words kept reaching him, but Seth's consciousness faded, thinning like smoke. He felt it. His Dao Bone was being dug out of his Elixir Field while he was still alive. Blood poured endlessly. Pain hammered through him in relentless waves until, at last, the world went black. "I can't die… I can't die…" He did not know how long he remained in darkness before a thread of awareness returned. "My parents' deaths. My Dao Bone. I'll take it all back!" "Old Demon Cutmore is over fifty. Three wives died in his hands. How could Ember fall to him?" "Jace Showyer… Evelyn Showyer… even if I'm damned forever, even if I sink into darkness for a thousand lifetimes, I'll make you pay your blood debt in blood!" Seth's fury, his unwillingness, his silent screaming… all of it condensed into an unbreakable obsession. Even if he had to die with them, he would not let that father and daughter keep breathing. Boom! In an instant, Sacred Radiance flowed through him. Vitality bloomed. Wounds that should have been fatal knitted together at a speed visible to the naked eye. "Dao Bone!" His body jolted. Rune Light streamed around him, wrapping him like a cocoon. He felt it clearly. Inside his Elixir Field… there was still a Dao Bone. "Did my Dao Bone… regenerate?" Endless characters seemed to be born from that Dao Bone, surging wildly into his Sea of Consciousness. His blood, his mental intent, fused with the newborn Dao Bone. A terrifyingly powerful Dao Intent coursed through him, as if forging an invincible Dao Body. "Nirvana Dao Body, reborn through blood!" An ancient voice suddenly echoed through Seth's Sea of Consciousness. His awareness was yanked into another space, eerie and unfathomable. It felt like a prehistoric age, vast and desolate. There was no sun, no moon. Only the Stars of All Heavens hung above, releasing a blood-colored glow that made his heart tremble. Seth lifted his head. A strange sensation rose in him, as if those endless Blood Stars were all under his control. Images flashed through his mind, each one shaking the soul. A galaxy became a battlefield. Sun and moon turned like wheels. The Myriad Worlds were nothing but dust. A majestic being tore open chaos with its body. With a single long howl, it shattered sun and moon, and drenched the Stars of All Heavens in the blood of its enemies. It was an undying epic. A legend carved into eternity. "Undying Dao Body…" Seth finally understood why his Dao Bone had regrown. He was not some ordinary Innate Dao Body. He was an Undying Dao Body! And the regenerated Dao Bone had truly awakened the might of the Undying Dao Bone. This space had been sealed within the newborn Dao Bone itself. Countless rune were carved into it, containing the inheritance of that majestic being's entire life. "Undying Heavenly Art!" A peerless, world-shaking art appeared within Seth's Sea of Consciousness. "My blood vengeance… will be repaid soon." Seth trembled with fierce excitement. The Undying Heavenly Art had been created by that majestic being specifically for the Undying Dao Body. Forge an Undying Body. Condense Undying Blood. Prove the Eternal Dao! With this art and this inheritance, why would he fear the Showyer father and daughter? Rumble, rumble, rumble! Suddenly, the stars shook violently. The blood-colored glow that coiled around the heavens turned even more sinister. One by one, evil, horrifying faces surfaced in the void. They stared at Seth, grinning with twisted, uncanny smiles. In the blink of an eye, one wicked face opened a cavernous, bloody maw and swallowed down at him, as if it meant to devour him whole!