After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Speaking of Bai Xue, one cannot help but mention her father, Tianji Laoren.

The Old Man of Heavenly Secrets, a remarkable figure from the Chang Le He Huan Sect, did not delve into any of the sect's martial arts techniques. Instead, he took a unique path and began studying the legendary "Da Yan Zhan Tian Jing" (Great Evolution Divination Scripture).

This mysterious ancient book is said to be able to see through the ways of heaven. Although both the righteous and demonic sects have fragments of it, very few people actually dare to cultivate it.

As the saying goes, "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed, and the will of Heaven cannot be presumed." The essence of the "Dayan Zhantian Jing" is to defy fate and change destiny. Every time one tries to peek into the secrets of Heaven, one must pay the price of one's lifespan.

Therefore, most cultivators who practice this scripture stop at the Golden Core stage due to the exhaustion of their lifespan.

Before the Celestial Mystery Elder, the only successor of the "Great Evolution Divination Scripture" who cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, after breaking through, only performed one divination before pointing to the sky, laughing wildly, and dying in madness. The mystery of what he saw remains unknown to this day.

However, the Heavenly Mystery Elder, relying on this heaven-defying cultivation technique, cultivated all the way to the Nascent Soul Realm, astonishing the world!

As early as the Nascent Soul stage, the Old Man of Heavenly Secrets had already gained fame and was hailed as a remarkable person who could "divine a divination once every hundred years and predict a hundred years with a single divination."

Perhaps, as his Daoist name suggests, guided by the secrets of heaven, he first took the position of sect leader of the Chang Le He Huan Sect, and then quickly led the sect to become one of the five major sects of the demonic path.

After breaking through the Nascent Soul stage, his personality changed drastically. He abandoned his previous indifference to fame and fortune and led the Chang Le He Huan Sect, which had never been involved in the conflict between the righteous and the demonic, on a journey to unify the demonic path.

Unfortunately, he died before completing his grand ambitions.

The Heavenly Mystery Elder and his legendary later life have become a hot topic of conversation among cultivators, both on the righteous and demonic paths.

As for the person who caused the fall of the Heavenly Mystery Elder, it was none other than the current Demon Lord—Huo Yu.

The Old Man of Heavenly Secrets adhered to three principles throughout his life: he would not pry into the ways of Heaven, he would not predict fate, and he would not divine the future for others. However, all of this was shattered by Huo Yu, and he ultimately paid the price with his life.

He made an exception and performed three divinations for Huo Yu: the first concerned human affairs, the second touched upon destiny, and the third directly approached the way of heaven.

When the first hexagram was cast, the weather suddenly changed; when the second hexagram was cast, a thunderclap rose from the ground; and by the third hexagram, the body of the Old Man of Heavenly Secrets had begun to dissipate.

Until the divination was completed, he could only look up to the sky and sigh, "The way of Heaven cannot be reversed," before his body and soul perished.

In exchange for these three divinations, Huo Yu promised to accomplish three things after the passing of the Heavenly Mystery Elder: unify the demonic path; remain in charge of the demonic path until ascension; and protect his daughter's lifelong peace.

In his past life, when his soul was consumed by fire, he fulfilled the first two vows, but broke the third one with his own hands, and ultimately died because of it, as if everything was predestined.

However, Huo Yu knew that even if he hadn't died at Long Yucheng's hands, he would have no hope of becoming an immortal. It was then that he understood the last words of the Heavenly Mystery Elder.

In fact, the third hexagram was completed before the old man of the Heavenly Secrets perished and the Way disappeared. The hexagram was "The Way of Heaven cannot be reversed".

The way of Heaven cannot be reversed!

Huo Yu only understood the profound meaning of this sentence at the very end of his life.

The so-called "Way of Heaven" means that the outcome is predetermined the moment each person embarks on the path of cultivation.

In the instant his soul dissipated, he glimpsed himself in countless worlds through a crack in the Gate of Heaven.

Some spend their entire lives as mortals, dying peacefully in their old age; some become giants of the righteous path, dying while defending morality; but many more, like him at this moment, painstakingly cultivate, only to exhaust a thousand years of cultivation at the moment of ascension, failing at the very last step before the gates of Heaven.

In those worlds where the Gate of Heavenly Dao was blocked, some died at the hands of Long Yucheng, just like in this life, while others never encountered Long Yucheng but perished under endless tribulation lightning. The Gate of Heavenly Dao, however, remained unmoved, without exception.

Only in this world, Huo Yu, who had glimpsed the secrets of heaven, became an exception.

The golden divine light flashing on Long Yucheng's body seemed to be mocking him: this sliver of heavenly secret was only revealed because Long Yucheng accidentally opened the gate of the Heavenly Dao, not because of Huo Yu's power.

The way of Heaven cannot be reversed! Huo Yu, from the very beginning, was destined to be denied ascension in the myriad worlds.

Heaven bestowed upon him extraordinary talent and strength, yet closed the gates to immortality the moment he embarked on the path of cultivation. This is the irreversibility of Heaven's will!

But Huo Yu refused to accept his fate!

His reappearance here is the greatest challenge to the Heavenly Dao. Just as he said before his ascension:

"If the heavenly tribulation obstructs me, I will undergo the tribulation; if the immortals obstruct me, I will slay them!"

If Heaven's will is in his way, he will defy it!

In his past life, Long Yucheng killed him, but also allowed him to glimpse secrets he shouldn't have known. Long Yucheng was the variable that allowed him to defy fate.

Therefore, Huo Yu decided that this path of defying fate would begin with finding Long Yucheng.

In addition, Huo Yu also needs to find Long Yucheng to resolve some of his doubts about the Prism.

However, Huo Yu had no idea where to begin searching.

In his previous life, the reason why Long Yucheng was able to kill him was mainly because Huo Yu himself burned his divine soul to bombard the Heavenly Dao Gate.

However, Long Yucheng was able to withstand the pressure of the Heavenly Dao Gate with his Nascent Soul stage cultivation, and even had the strength to attack Huo Yu, which shows that he was no nobody in the cultivation world.

In his previous life, Huo Yu was only focused on ascending to immortality and was indifferent to other things.

He had neither interest in nor bother with the ambitions of his sect leaders to counterattack the righteous path and unify the cultivation world. He would only intervene when the demonic path was on the verge of collapse; otherwise, he knew nothing.

In other words, as a reborn individual, Huo Yu remains completely unaware of the future turmoil in the cultivation world.

Not only were they completely clueless about finding the person, but they also had very few leads on how to repair the soul.

In his previous life, he had unexpectedly obtained several magical artifacts that targeted the soul, but now they were either hidden in natural ruins or enshrined within the sect.

Given his current state of spiritual damage, it would be difficult to obtain anything from any part of his body.

After careful consideration, Huo Yu decided to make the Qiongshan Sect his first target.

The Qiongshan Sect is located in the western part of the Zhao Kingdom. Within the Zhao Kingdom, it is just an insignificant little sect, and it is even more unknown in the cultivation world.

At this moment, Huo Yu looked like a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the only difference being that the spiritual power in his body far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Qi Refining stage cultivators can only fly by controlling objects; it is essentially a kind of object manipulation technique.

Foundation Establishment cultivators, on the other hand, can use spiritual power to fly through the air at a speed far exceeding that of flying with objects.

However, Foundation Establishment cultivators' spiritual energy reserves are insufficient to support prolonged flight, so most cultivators choose to use flying artifacts to conserve their spiritual energy. Although the speed is not as fast as flying, it is still faster than using an artifact to fly.

But for Huo Yu, the spiritual energy consumed by flying away was naturally negligible.

The Zhao Kingdom was not far from the Caiyun Kingdom, and Huo Yu arrived at the Qiongshan Sect's mountain peak in just half a day.