Stealing fortune and changing the course of destiny, the path of fate is ultimately altered.

Deep within the abandoned ancient demon cultivator's Immortal Cave, it had already been altered beyond recognition by Nightmare.

On the ground, an incredibly complex and eerie Demonic Path array base was outlined with the Annihilation Nether Spring, and the aura of the Nether Spring, where all things return to silence, became the most stable Foundation of the array.

The core eye of the Demonic Path array was precisely that remnant of reincarnation wood, its tender shoots swaying slightly, emitting a soft green light that stabilized the Divine Soul and confused the Heavenly Dao, enveloping the entire Immortal Cave.

Su Wanqing, in a white robe, sat cross-legged with her eyes closed directly beneath the reincarnation wood.

Her expression was calm, her Profound Yin Body Origin driven to its limit, and pure extreme Yin Qi surged like a tide, making her the core hub and conversion furnace for the energy flow of the entire array.

Nightmare hovered above the array, his expression solemn.

Before him, that mass of thoroughly refined karma mud floated slowly, emitting a strange fluctuation that made one's heart tremble.

Mo Yuan and the others guarded key nodes throughout the Immortal Cave, doing their utmost to maintain the outer Restriction, all of them looking tense, as if facing a formidable enemy.

They knew that what their benefactor was about to perform was a Heaven-Defying act!

"The time has come."

Nightmare spoke slowly, his voice low and filled with unquestionable power.

His hands suddenly began to change, casting countless dazzling ancient Demonic Arts!

Every Demonic Art that landed triggered a part of the array below to light up!

Hum—!

The entire Secret Curse of Stealing Fate and Exchanging Heaven array was completely activated!

The black and white radiance of the Annihilation Nether Spring soared into the sky!

The green light of the reincarnation wood illuminated the Divine Soul!

Su Wanqing's Profound Yin Qi connected heaven and earth like a bridge!

Countless Demonic Path runes flowed crazily, forming an immense, extremely complex three-dimensional Demonic Path array, enveloping Nightmare and Su Wanqing within it!

Inside the Immortal Cave, energy boiled, Laws were in chaos, as if it had formed its own Small World!

Nightmare's gaze was like lightning; he suddenly bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of life essence blood, merging it into that mass of karma mud!

"With my blood as the guide! With Reincarnation as the base! With Profound Yin as the cauldron! With Karma as the thread!"

"Stealing Fate and Exchanging Heaven, seizing your Opportunity! Reversing fate and changing the trajectory, it happens today!"

"Ye Fan! Your Luck, your Heavenly Destiny, belong to me now!"

As his thunderous incantation resonated through the Immortal Cave, the mass of karma mud that had absorbed the life essence blood suddenly erupted with an ink-black light!

Countless tiny, almost invisible Karma threads spread crazily from the black mud, piercing through the Void Realm, ignoring distance, instantly plunging into the mysterious River of Fate, and precisely winding around the already shattered Luck Foundation of Ye Fan, who was far away at the Xuntian Alliance Headquarters!

At the same time, most of Ye Fan's Luck that Nightmare had plundered and had not yet fully digested also suddenly boiled, as if summoned by its Origin, creating a violent resonance with those Karma threads!

"Ah—!"

Far away at the Xuntian Alliance Headquarters, in a secret chamber where he was in secluded cultivation healing his wounds, the haggard-looking Ye Fan suddenly let out a scream that was extremely shrill and filled with endless pain and unwillingness!

He felt his Soul, his Foundation Origin, being forcibly stripped away and sucked out by an irresistible power!

That pain far exceeded any previous time! It was as if the most important thing in his life was completely leaving him!

The Luck canopy around him, which was already dim and thin, was now like a candle in the wind, crazily swaying and flickering, turning into wisps of golden silk that were forcibly pulled out by those invisible Karma threads, crossing endless space, and surging crazily toward the direction of the Southern Wilderness!

"No! My Luck! My Heavenly Destiny! Who is it?! Who the hell is it?!"

Ye Fan roared in despair, blood flowing from his seven orifices, yet he was completely unable to stop any of this from happening!

The wisp of cyan Creation Power within his body tried to protect its master, but it was firmly suppressed by the even more majestic Karma Power and Demonic Path array power!

Inside the Immortal Cave, Nightmare was enduring tremendous pressure!

Guiding such a massive transfer of Karma Power and Luck, even with the secret curse array and the assistance of many divine objects, was an extremely terrifying burden on his Divine Soul and Demonic Essence!

But his eyes were crazy yet determined, holding on firmly!

Through the Karma threads, he seemed to see Ye Fan's collapsing fate trajectory, and saw the Heavenly Dao Will that had been protecting Ye Fan from the mysterious void, now roaring in anger, but because of the shielding of the secret curse and the chaos of Karma, it was difficult to intervene precisely, and it could only futilely descend with even more terrifying pressure, attempting to crush this traitor who was stealing Heavenly Destiny!

Rumble!

Outside the Immortal Cave, the heavens and earth changed color!

Heavenly Dao tribulation thunder, ten times more violent than before, struck down crazily!

Terrifying Heart Demon tribulation power surged like a tide, impacting Nightmare's Divine Soul!

The sky over the entire Southern Wilderness darkened, as if the end of the world had arrived!

"Benefactor!" Mo Yuan and the others watched with palpitating hearts, desperately maintaining the Restriction, blood already overflowing from the corners of their mouths.

"Steady!" Nightmare roared, suddenly driving the power of the rule fragment!

A fluctuation that transcended the Laws of this world permeated out, forcibly stabilizing the shaking array and temporarily isolating most of the Heavenly Dao backlash!

And the Origin Luck belonging to Ye Fan, which surged like a torrent, passed through the Karma threads, was converted and purified by Su Wanqing's Profound Yin Body, turned into the purest Fate Origin power, and continuously poured into Nightmare's body!

Nightmare's body trembled violently, countless golden fate runes appearing on the surface of his skin, and his aura began to climb crazily at a terrifying speed!

Peak of the Late Nascent Soul Stage!

Half-step Soul Transformation!

Although his cultivation Realm did not directly break through to Soul Transformation, his comprehension of the Laws of heaven and earth, especially his understanding of fate and Karma, reached an unprecedented height!

The essence of his Divine Soul was undergoing some kind of astonishing transformation!

More importantly, he felt that his connection with this world had become closer and more "reasonable," the sense of rejection from the Heavenly Dao greatly weakened, replaced by a sense of smoothness like a "protagonist of heaven and earth"!

It was as if the whole world was making way for him, and countless Opportunities were beckoning to him!

Conversely, on Ye Fan's side, his aura had weakened to the extreme, and his Heavenly Destiny status had completely collapsed!

From now on, he was no longer a child of destiny, just an ordinary Genius with worse Luck than an average person and a severely damaged dao foundation!

I do not know how much time passed, but when the last wisp of Origin Luck was extracted, those countless Karma threads suddenly retracted, plunging into the karma mud and disappearing.

The light of the secret curse array slowly retracted and calmed down.

Inside the Immortal Cave, silence was restored.

Nightmare slowly descended from the air, standing with his eyes closed, carefully feeling the changes in himself.

Powerful! Unprecedentedly powerful! It was not a surge in power level, but an essential improvement! A vast feeling of controlling one's own fate and glimpsing the Laws of heaven and earth!

The "Secret Curse of Stealing Fate and Exchanging Heaven" was a success!

He had successfully stolen Ye Fan's Heavenly Destiny and reversed the fate trajectories of both parties!

From now on, my fate is up to me, not Heaven!

He slowly opened his eyes, and deep in his pupils, it seemed as if the Universe was being born and dying, with Karma flowing, so profound it was suffocating.

"Congratulations to Benefactor (Master) on the Major Achievement of your divine art! Heavenly Destiny has returned to you!" Mo Yuan and the others, feeling the completely different yet even more terrifying aura on Nightmare, knelt on the ground in excitement.

Su Wanqing also slowly opened her eyes, her face pale, but she looked at Nightmare with complex eyes.

As the furnace, she had participated in this Heaven-Defying act from beginning to end, knew the terror of it, and her awe of Nightmare had reached its Peak.

Nightmare nodded slightly, feeling the surging power within his body and that mysterious perception of fate.

His mind stirred slightly, attempting to deduce Ye Fan's current situation and location.

However, just as his Divine Sense was using the newly acquired Luck power, attempting to cross space to peek into the Xuntian Alliance Headquarters—

A sudden change occurred!

His Divine Sense seemed to have collided with an extremely tough, incomparably obscure dark barrier!

That barrier enveloped the secret chamber where Ye Fan was, not only isolating all peeking, but even in return transmitting a terrifying aura that was cold, dead, and filled with a sense of destruction!

This aura... was vaguely similar to the source of that sigh he had felt that day deep within the underground Blood Pool black hole!

But it was more solid, more... close to reality!

"Hmm?" Nightmare's brows furrowed suddenly!

Almost at the same time, the System notification sound in his mind rang crazily, more urgent and... horrified than any time before?

[Warning! Warning! Detected intervention of ultra-high-dimensional power!]

[Power nature: Destruction, Ending, Annihilation! Same source as the karma mud!]

[Target: Ye Fan (has lost Heavenly Destiny status)]

[Judgment: Unknown existence is forcibly intervening! Attempting to reshape or replace Ye Fan's fate!]

[Danger level: Highest! Immediately disconnect! Immediately!]

Nightmare's heart shook violently, and he immediately cut off the Divine Sense connection!

His expression became incomparably grave.

What is going on?!

Ye Fan's Heavenly Destiny had clearly been completely stolen by him, why would such a terrifying existence intervene?

And its power nature was actually related to the source of the karma mud?

The owner of that sigh... what exactly do they want to do?

Did it choose Ye Fan, who had lost his value?

Did it fancy his tenacious will? Or his special Physique? Or... was he just a chess piece casually placed?

Countless questions instantly flooded Nightmare's mind.

He had originally thought he had completely resolved Ye Fan, this confidant threat, but he did not expect to have drawn out an even deeper, more terrifying existence!

This game of chess seemed to be far larger than he had imagined!

"Ye Fan... it seems that it is not yet time for you and me to completely settle things..."

Nightmare's gaze pierced through the Void Realm, looking toward the direction of the Sky Patrol Alliance, his eyes becoming incomparably profound.

"However, no matter who is standing behind you, no matter what you want to become..."

"Next time we meet, I will crush you, along with the mastermind behind you, all together!"

He restrained his aura, suppressing the waves in his heart.

The top priority was to completely consolidate his current Realm and digest all the benefits brought by this act of stealing fate.

As for Ye Fan and the unknown existence behind him... we shall face them as they come!

Now that Heavenly Destiny was with him, and he had the System and rule fragments in hand, where in this world could he not go? What enemy could he not fight?

"Pack up, we are leaving the Southern Wilderness."

Nightmare ordered calmly, his tone carrying unprecedented confidence and majesty.

A new storm might still be brewing, but he was already prepared to welcome all challenges.

The path of the Demon Venerable had only just truly begun!