I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

"Think about it carefully."

The tiny man's voice became extremely soft, as if he were giving a final diagnosis to a terminally ill patient.

Why did your teacher choose you?

"Is it because you have extraordinary talent? No, you're just a piece of trash at the eighth rank."

"Is it because your resolve is strong? No, you can't even withstand a few words from me now."

"Is it because you have a past connection with him? No, you are just an ordinary young man passing by."

He chose you for only one reason, a very simple reason.

"You were the first person to find that ring, that's all."

"You are neither special nor outstanding."

"You don't even deserve to be chosen."

"You're just...lucky."

"And now..."

The little man looked at Li Han one last time.

Those small, dark eyes finally revealed their true fangs.

"Your luck has run out."

Your teacher is gone.

"From now on, no one will shield you from the lightning anymore."

"No one will show you the way anymore."

"No one will ever burn their life to save you when you're at your wit's end again."

"You, Li Han, will have to face this world of cultivation alone."

"Based on your true nature as a useless eighth-grade spiritual root."

"Are you ready?"

Li Han did not answer.

His eyes lost focus.

His Dao heart, which had remained steadfast through countless tribulations, completely collapsed at this moment.

It wasn't because of the death of a loved one.

It wasn't because of the blood of a beautiful woman.

It wasn't because of a curse from an enemy.

Rather, it was because he discovered that all the achievements he was proud of in his life were built on the shoulders of another person.

And that person will never come back.

"No--!"

Li Han roared to the sky.

There was no anger or resentment in that roar.

There was only uncontrollable fear and despair.

His true energy went completely berserk.

The shattered fragments of the first-grade golden core surged wildly within the dantian, causing the laws to backfire and the meridians to shatter one after another.

His Daoist heart was shattered, his magical power went out of control, and he suffered a qi deviation!

……

Beyond the white void.

Above the Sea of ​​Absolute Spirit, the thunderclouds that had previously dissipated began to re-form.

But this time, the thunderclouds were no longer the golden purple of the heavenly tribulation, but an extremely ominous pitch black.

That was a celestial phenomenon indicating the backlash from inner demons.

Li Han's physical body sat cross-legged in the cave, blood gushing from all seven orifices at the same time.

His first-grade golden core had been completely shattered, but the fragments did not transform into a nascent soul.

Instead, it transformed into streams of extremely violent and raging true energy, rampaging through his meridians and tearing his body and soul apart.

He went mad with qi and his path collapsed.

Just as Li Han was about to be completely incinerated by his own rampaging magic power at the last moment.

Within the ancient ring, the ancient remnant soul, weakened to the point of being almost transparent, opened its eyes.

The remnant soul watched as the disciple he had taught for over two hundred years was being devoured by inner demons and was burning to death.

A trace of utter desolation and helplessness welled up in his barren eyes.

"Foolish child."

"Why can't you get over this hurdle...?"

Without hesitation, the remnant soul burned its last vestige of essence.

His soul, his memories, all traces of his life.

At that moment, it all transformed into an extremely gentle golden light, which surged into Li Han's sea of ​​consciousness.

The light did not suppress the rampaging true essence, nor did it repair the shattered Dao heart.

It did just one extremely simple thing.

They forcibly pulled Li Han back from the brink of demonic possession and saved his life.

That's it.

The moment the golden light dissipated.

The last trace of divine soul energy on the ancient ring vanished completely.

The remnant soul vanished without a trace, leaving no chance for reincarnation.

In the final instant before he vanished, a faint sigh echoed deep within Li Han's consciousness.

"My disciple...live well."

……

Inside the cave in the Sea of ​​Absolute Spirit.

Li Han suddenly opened his eyes.

He is still alive.

However, his cultivation level was forever stuck at the half-step Nascent Soul stage.

The golden core shattered, but it did not transform into a nascent soul.

Once the Dao heart is broken, it can never be repaired.

His most prized first-grade golden core was completely destroyed during the tribulation of inner demons.

And his teacher.

The person who accompanied him for two hundred years, taught him everything, and sacrificed himself to save him in every desperate situation.

To save his life, he disappeared from this world forever.

Li Han lowered his head and looked at the dull and lifeless ancient ring on his hand.

The ring is still there, but it's empty inside; there's nothing left.

The inner demon was right; without a teacher, he was nothing.

He couldn't even refute that statement.

Because the teacher proved this to him with the last breath.

Even at the very last moment, it was the teacher who saved him.

Li Han sat in the dark cave for a very long time.

Then, this first-grade Golden Core cultivator, who once stirred up the winds and clouds of the Southern Wilderness and made all the major sects tremble with fear, was now a chosen one of destiny.

Two lines of tears flowed silently down her cheeks.

He did not roar, nor did he have any intention of rebuilding his true essence.

th.

He had no more attachments in this world.

The old house in the far south had long been burned to the ground by Chu Tiankuo and his men.

Her parents are dead, and Su Wan is dead.

Now, even the only teacher in the world who protected him without reservation has left him forever.

What's the point of him fighting for this great path?

What good is it to just live?

With this broken, half-step Nascent Soul body, should I face a phantom that will only ever laugh at me for being a piece of trash?

He was tired, utterly exhausted.

Even more fatal was the dissipation of the remnant old man's soul.

The secret-concealing array, which was used to hide the secrets of heaven, lost its master and collapsed instantly.

The chaotic energy from Li Han's failed breakthrough was like a bright lamp in the dark night, exposed without any concealment to the entire Southern Wilderness.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

However, it only took half an incense stick's time.

Three Nascent Soul auras, tearing through the void and carrying the power to destroy the world, descended upon the sky above the Sea of ​​Absolute Spirit.

The Supreme Elder of the Cangxuan Sect, the Ancestor of the Blood Shadow Sect, and the Master of the Myriad Sword Valley.

The three true Nascent Soul cultivators looked down at the disheveled, blood-covered youth below as if he were an ant.

"Li Han, hand over the Primordial Chaos Inheritance, and I'll leave you with a whole corpse!"

The majestic voice made the isolated island tremble.

In the past, with the help of his teacher, Li Han might have been able to fight to the death and find a chance to escape.

But at this moment, he had lost all Daoist resolve and his will to live had vanished.

Faced with the oppressive aura of the three Nascent Soul stage monsters, he didn't even have the strength to look up, let alone draw his sword.

His inner demons have become a reality, and his greatest trump card has vanished.

He just knelt on the ground, his hands clutching the pitiful bits of ring dust.

He was crying and laughing at the same time, acting like a madman.

"Teacher...they're here to kill me...please come out and save me..."

Like a child who has lost his protection, he instinctively calls out for a voice that will never be heard again in his desperate situation.

In mid-air, the three Nascent Soul elders saw this and their eyes flashed with extremely cold disdain.

A madman whose Dao heart is completely shattered is no longer worthy of their further words.

Without any hesitation, three Nascent Soul level killing spells were unleashed simultaneously.

"Boom—!"

The island sank, and seawater flooded in.

This once renowned and arrogant chosen one of destiny in the Southern Wilderness vanished completely without even a shred of resistance in his madness and collapse.

Along with the Primordial Wilderness Inheritance he had seized, and that fragment of the Profound Heaven Treasure, they all fell into the hands of three Nascent Soul experts.