The Oath of Eternity
Rhen Jorik has wandered the world for 112 years without cultivating a single day. Born with a Hollow Core that can't absorb qi, he's spent a century as a storyteller, healer's assistant, and nobody. Then a marriage contest for the continent's greatest war goddess forces him onto a stage he has no business standing on -- and the Hollow Core wakes up. It doesn't absorb qi. It forges Oaths -- sacred bonds with willing partners that grant both sides power beyond imagination. The deeper the bond, the greater the reward. The catch: one lie, one betrayal, and the Oath shatters, killing them both. In a world where the Five Sacred Sects harvest special-bodied cultivators as immortality elixirs every 500 years, the last man alive who can forge unbreakable bonds is either the world's salvation or its most dangerous weapon. And the ancient Empress sealed beneath the Celestial Altar has been waiting 10,000 years for someone exactly like him.
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- Chapter 1: The Old Man on the Stage
- Chapter 2: Three Seconds
- Chapter 3: The War Goddess Falls
- Chapter 4: The First Oath
- Chapter 5: The Body Remembers
- Chapter 6: The Golden Pill
- Chapter 7: Seclusion
- Chapter 8: The Ancestor
- Chapter 9: The Wedding Swap
- Chapter 10: The Lie That Burns
- Chapter 11: The Primordial Star Realm
- Chapter 12: The Hidden Path
- Chapter 13: Running
- Chapter 14: Fate Reversed
- Chapter 15: Jian Tianshan
- Chapter 16: Domestic
- Chapter 17: The Man on the White Horse
- Chapter 18: The Kill
- Chapter 19: The Aftermath
- Chapter 20: The Seventh Level
- Chapter 21: Suyin Ascends
- Chapter 22: The Solar Supreme
- Chapter 23: The Gathering
- Chapter 24: Into the Altar
- Chapter 25: The Quiet Between
- Chapter 26: The Amphitheater
- Chapter 27: The Vow's Agenda
- Chapter 28: Conqueror
- Chapter 29: Fourth Death
- Chapter 30: The Holy Maiden
- Chapter 31: The Eternal Vow's Price
- Chapter 32: The Plan
- Chapter 33: The Heist
- Chapter 34: The Reckoning
- Chapter 35: Departure
- Chapter 36: New Roots
- Chapter 37: Training Days
- Chapter 38: The Black Robes
- Chapter 39: Interrogation
- Chapter 40: The Ambush at Three Rivers
- Chapter 41: The Division Talisman
- Chapter 42: Heavenly Position
- Chapter 43: Heart of Heaven
- Chapter 44: Suyin's Resentment
- Chapter 45: The Vow's Timing
- Chapter 46: The Dead Ark
- Chapter 47: Night Music
- Chapter 48: The Assassin
- Chapter 49: Before the Storm
- Chapter 50: The Arbiter
- Chapter 51: What Remains
- Chapter 52: Loose Threads
- Chapter 53: The Monastery Boy
- Chapter 54: Dawn Harvest
- Chapter 55: The Offer
- Chapter 56: Homecoming
- Chapter 57: The Summit
- Chapter 58: The Formation Makers
- Chapter 59: The Other Prisoner
- Chapter 60: The Third Oath
- Chapter 61: Specifications
- Chapter 62: The Arbiter's Price
- Chapter 63: The Training Months
- Chapter 64: Liu Mei's Message
- Chapter 65: The Defector's Son
- Chapter 66: Proof
- Chapter 67: Ambush at Altitude
- Chapter 68: Three Weeks
- Chapter 69: The Eternal Vow Speaks
- Chapter 70: The Eve of Battle
- Chapter 71: First Blood
- Chapter 72: Rift and Ruin
- Chapter 73: The Operative's Choice
- Chapter 74: Costs and Counting
- Chapter 75: The Fourth Body
- Chapter 76: The Broken Lands
- Chapter 77: The Fire Woman
- Chapter 78: Five Years Alone
- Chapter 79: The Return
- Chapter 80: The Compound Full
- Chapter 81: The Solar Bond
- Chapter 82: Planted
- Chapter 83: The Man in Gray
- Chapter 84: The Fifth Cardinal
- Chapter 85: The Northern March
- Chapter 86: The Arbiter's War
- Chapter 87: Twelve Hours
- Chapter 88: Inside the Seal
- Chapter 89: The Sovereign
- Chapter 90: Forty Minutes
- Chapter 91: The God on the Plateau
- Chapter 92: The God in the Kitchen
- Chapter 93: The World Reacts
- Chapter 94: Three Thousand Poems
- Chapter 95: Debts Unpaid
- Chapter 96: The Taihua Raid
- Chapter 97: The New Order
- Chapter 98: The Storyteller's Return
- Chapter 99: Seeds and Soil
- Chapter 100: The Oath of Eternity
- Chapter 101: The First Roots
- Chapter 102: Old Roots
- Chapter 103: The Sword and the Signal
- Chapter 104: Behind the Line
- Chapter 105: Seventy-Two Hours
- Chapter 106: The Cracks in the Foundation
- Chapter 107: Down
- Chapter 108: The Ward
- Chapter 109: Two Fronts
- Chapter 110: The Cost of Three
- Chapter 111: Close Enough to Hurt
- Chapter 112: The Wall and the Mirror
- Chapter 113: Dead Zones
- Chapter 114: The Long Road North
- Chapter 115: Qian Min
- Chapter 116: Underwater
- Chapter 117: The Eastern Wing
- Chapter 118: Six Crystals
- Chapter 119: Extraction
- Chapter 120: What Speaks in the Dark
- Chapter 121: Fifteen Days
- Chapter 122: The Sovereign's Voice
- Chapter 123: The New Students
- Chapter 124: The Diviner's Warning
- Chapter 125: Trust and Traps
- Chapter 126: The Trap Springs
- Chapter 127: Three Against One
- Chapter 128: The Decision
- Chapter 129: Sixty Percent
- Chapter 130: The Hollow Core's Roar
- Chapter 131: Breakthrough
- Chapter 132: The March Home
- Chapter 133: Homecoming
- Chapter 134: The Failsafe
- Chapter 135: Six Days
- Chapter 136: Scattered
- Chapter 137: The Distributed Alliance
- Chapter 138: Five Strikes
- Chapter 139: The Teacher's Road
- Chapter 140: The Numbers Game
- Chapter 141: Twenty at Once
- Chapter 142: The Letters
- Chapter 143: Declaration
- Chapter 144: Preparation
- Chapter 145: First Blood
- Chapter 146: The Equation Changes
- Chapter 147: The Mobile Lab
- Chapter 148: Ascension
- Chapter 149: The War Council
- Chapter 150: The Soil Needs Time