"Get out! You're not welcome here!"
Lily Abbott stood at the door, tiny and trembling, trying to block the way.
Carter Blake—reduced to this, needing a maid to stand up for him. Liam Carter let out a cold chuckle, eyes flashing with malice.
He casually swatted his hand. Lily’s body flew like paper, crashing hard into the doorframe.
"Lily!"
"Liam, you bastard!" Carter roared, eyes bloodshot.
His limbs thrashed, but he couldn’t move—his legs were dead, useless. He was trapped in that broken bed like a ghost bound to chains.
Just half a year ago, he was the pride of the Carter Clan, the prodigy that made every genius in Fengtian City look like dirt.
All of that vanished in one day.
His Chaos Sacred Vein was ripped out.
His dantian shattered.
All his cultivation turned to dust.
And his heart, pierced through.
Since waking up, he’d been left to rot in this crumbling, forgotten room of the Carter estate. No one came. His legs—cold, numb.
"Still thinking you’re the young master of the Carter Clan?"
Liam sneered, stepping inside with a swagger.
"You survived a heart being skewered? Guess I underestimated you!"
“How’s being crippled feel? Can’t even lift a finger, can you?”
"Let me spell it out—tomorrow, Lucas is planting a new spirit vein into me. Your Chaos Sacred Vein? Already his."
The moment Lucas Carter’s name was spoken, Carter’s eyes narrowed to slits.
The man who took everything from him.
That ambush in the Beast Mountains—Lucas crushed his dantian, ripped out his Sacred Vein, and put a sword through his chest.
Now, just hearing that name made Carter's body tremble uncontrollably.
The rage boiling in his chest was enough to tear mountains.
"Don’t you dare bully Brother Carter!"
Lily, bloody and weak, had pushed herself up again. She clung to Liam’s leg, teeth grit, refusing to let him go.
"A filthy little maid dares act tough here?"
Liam scoffed, disgust flashing on his face. His leg twitched slightly.
Lily’s small body slammed into the stone wall with a sickening thud, blood dripping from the corner of her lips.
"Lily!"
"Liam Carter, I’ll kill you!" Carter’s voice shook with fury and helplessness.Facing Carter Blake’s furious roar, Liam Carter seemed to enjoy it thoroughly, a mocking grin slowly creeping up his face.
“Hahah! You’re mad, huh?”
“But what can you do? Even if I killed her right in front of you, what could you possibly do? You, a cripple bearing your mother’s surname, ever thought you deserved to be the Carter heir? Look at you now—just a broken, useless wreck.”
“Oh, right, in half a month, Qingmin Sword Sect and the Fenglin Dynasty will be holding a disciples’ selection in Fengtian City. Whoever makes it through gets the Sea Trial Sword Token from the sect.”
“Tell me, if I’m the final winner, would the Carter Elders be outraged if I killed you on the spot—or would they applaud me?”
“Hahaha! Just wait, Carter Blake. In half a month, you’ll be dead. Both of you.”
Laughing wildly, Liam spun on his heel and strode off, hands clasped behind his back, as if he could already see himself standing victorious over Carter’s corpse.
“Brother Carter…”
Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Lily Abbott wiped away her tears and turned her worried face back to Carter Blake.
“Does it hurt, Lily?” His voice cracked slightly.
She shook her head stubbornly, face set in defiance. “It doesn’t hurt. I’ll go find some herbs. Brother Carter has to get better.”
She limped clumsily toward the door, her small figure slowly vanishing from his sight.
“Ahhh!”
Once she was gone, Carter Blake screamed, rage bubbling in his chest. He clenched the pale green sword talisman so tightly that it sank into his palm, blood quickly dyeing it crimson.
“The sword talisman… It’s all because of you! Why did you have to show up in my life?!”
He had found it by chance in a cave behind the mountain. Thought it was some fortune—turns out, it was the start of his ruin.
If Lucas Carter hadn’t noticed that sword talisman and examined his body…
If he hadn’t discovered the Chaos Saint Meridian within him…
Maybe he wouldn’t be in this state now.
“Buzz…”
Just as he seethed in helpless fury, the sword talisman flared with dazzling light.
It hovered in midair, glowing faintly, and then in a flash, it turned into a beam and shot straight into his brow.
By the time Carter opened his eyes again, everything had changed.
The air around him was thick with mist, hard to see through. Only one thing stood out—right in front of him, a massive bronze structure shaped like a soaring greatsword radiated soft green light, otherworldly and ethereal.
“Eternal Sanctuary? What… what is this place?”