"Those who defy the heavens must be prepared to pay the price."

Zhu Rong dared to forge a divine grade weapon in the mortal world, an act the heavens deemed a challenge to their authority. 

In response, the tribulation descended with fury, striking him down and ending his life in a blaze of divine wrath.

But death was not the end.

In the moment his soul scattered, he awoke once more... in the body of his 17 year old self.

With his memories intact and the mistakes of his past laid bare, Zhu Rong is granted a second chance, to repair the regrets that once shackled his heart, to reclaim the strength he once lost, and to finish the masterpiece that cost him everything.

This time, he will forge his legend anew.

And this time, not even the heavens will dare to stand in his way.

The small world within Zhu Rong's secret realm, unlike all the other secret realms, was particular, unique, in a certain sense, 


because the matter that composed it was not a small fraction that had been assembled to give shape to a separate dimension with some precise type of purpose,


but rather the matter here had been condensed into a true, standalone world, with its own rules and laws which, no matter how weak they may have seemed at the beginning, possessed the ability to become stronger.


Zhu Rong's past self had created this space while taking into consideration many factors and situations that could occur in the future, all in preparation for a single moment, one for which Yuan Lan herself had needed to do something that no cultivator, whether of the Mortal Realm or Spirit Realm, would have ever even thought to attempt in this plane of existence.


Chapter 225 - The World’s Core