Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Rewritten Thrones and Broken Time

🏛️ Heaven Dou Empire – Crown Library of Echoes

Scrolls shifted. Ink bled upward from pages as time unwrote itself.

Crown Prince Xian Zihao sat cross-legged inside a temporal stasis field. His quill was divine—a relic stolen from a forgotten god of history. Every word he wrote into the Book of Absolute Records twisted the present.

System – Sovereign Rewrite Engine➤ Rewrite Activated: "In the year 2343, Dai Mubai died at age six due to a bloodline failure."➤ Timeline Response: Ripple Strength – Moderate. Divine Resistance Detected.➤ Rewrite Accepted. Adjustment Time: 12 hours.

Zihao smirked.

"They'll never even know he existed."

🐅 Star Luo – Deep Forest Exile Grounds

A pulse of divine essence exploded mid-air as Qian Tian and Qian Renxue emerged from a tear in the skies. The trees were ablaze. Beasts howled in confusion. Temporal echoes distorted everything.

System Warning:➤ Rewrite Detected. Event: Assassination of Dai Mubai➤ Probability: 98% Reality Collapse in Star Luo Line➤ Countermeasure Available: Activate Chrono Severance?

"Not yet," Qian Tian muttered. "We find him first."

🌿 Ancient Shrine – Forgotten Temple of Beasts

There, buried under crumbling statues, a boy lay dying—white-haired already, with fading tiger stripes across his back.

Dai Mubai, age six, eyes flickering shut.

"I… don't want to disappear…"

System: Soul Residue Detected. Spark of Regal Qi remains. Compatible with Chrono Lotus.

Qian Renxue fell beside him. "He's alive, but fading. You said you could save him!"

Qian Tian nodded, his halberd radiating divine frost and flame.

"Then let's rewrite the rewrite."

Unique Skill Activated: [Time Echo Severance]➤ Target: "Dai Mubai's premature death via bloodline collapse."➤ Action: Sever rewriting thread and overwrite with divine narrative.

A surge of heavenly fire and ice burned away the false history. Time itself screamed as it recoiled from the edit.

Dai Mubai gasped—and awakened.

🌀 Meanwhile – Tang Sect Relic Vault, Nuoding Mountains

Tang San stood before the Chrono Lotus, a silver-blue lotus pulsing with temporal energy.

It called to him.

Tang Sect Scroll Unsealed:"If time becomes a weapon, this lotus will shield your soul."

The instant his hand touched the lotus, images flooded his mind—visions of Qian Tian, of the Heaven Dou Prince, of multiple rewritten timelines collapsing like dominoes.

Tang San fell to his knees.

"They're… rewriting the world…"

Lotus Bonded: Chrono Lotus - 43% Synchronization➤ Skill Gained: [Future Recollection] – See fragments of rewritten history.➤ Mission Generated: Anchor the Tang Line in True Time.

He whispered, "Then I'll make sure history remembers us, not them."

🕊️ Spirit Hall – Divine Archives

Qian Tian stood before the Grand Archive, Chrono Fragment in one hand, Dai Mubai standing beside him, barely stabilized.

"You were supposed to be king of a continent," Tian told him. "Someone decided otherwise."

Dai Mubai, now glowing faintly with golden tiger essence, nodded.

"Then I'll become the king Fate tried to erase."

Qian Renxue stepped forward, radiating twin spirits—Angel and Solar Phoenix.

"Brother, the Convergence is speeding up. More Reincarnators. More Systems."

System Notification:➤ Second Reincarnator Engaged.➤ Third Reincarnator Detected: Ling Yuhan – Possesses the Abyss Devourer System. Currently infiltrating Heaven Dou's spiritual academy.➤ Risk Level: Catastrophic

Qian Tian turned toward the north, halberd igniting with divine fire.

"Time to hunt some gods-in-the-making."

🏯 Heaven Dou – Black Spiral Academy

In the dark corridors of a twisted academy, Ling Yuhan consumed another elder's soul, his body expanding with abyssal flames.

System – Abyss Devourer Online➤ Soul Count: 318➤ World Root Consumption: 2%➤ Unique Skill Unlocked: [Void Crown Ascension]

He smiled into the shadows.

"They think Time is their ally. But I've devoured Eras."

📖 End of Chapter 8

Next Time on Chapter 9: Heirs of the Rift

Qian Tian assembles the first anti-system resistance: "The Echoblade Pact."

Tang San confronts his first Reincarnator—and nearly dies in the process.

Ling Yuhan's void-spawn begins infecting Spirit Hall temples across the continent.

The Fate Convergence Threshold nears—when five Reincarnators awaken within the same century, the world itself begins choosing a True Sovereign.