Vol. 13The Empire and the Hidden War

Ling Wuyuan reclaimed the Metal Fortress, built the Illusory Mist Realm Country into a vast empire, and subdued the Xikong Immortal Realm. As True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven moved toward war, he concealed Void Mist Sea in their battlefield and aimed to reach World Creation Realm before intervening openly.

  • Ling Wuyuan returned to Golden Mist Continent, reclaimed the Metal Fortress, and moved Jade Night Snow City to Ice Mist Snow Island.
  • Ling Wuyuan sent Gray Mist through the Xikong Immortal Realm toward its Mortal Realm as war loomed between True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
  • Ling Wuyuan infiltrated the Xikong Immortal Realm, learned its cultivation system, and grew powerful enough to challenge Ke Mingyu and the Immortal Kings.
  • The Xikong Immortal Realm used its rules to suppress Ling Wuyuan, but he began corroding the forces holding him down.
  • Ling Wuyuan subdued the Xikong Immortal Realm, strengthened his Undying Nature, and advanced to the Immortal Realm before being crowned emperor.
  • Ling Wuyuan expanded his empire across more than ten thousand Domains and urged Su Qingyue to delegate routine affairs.
  • Ling Wuyuan strengthened the Illusory Mist Realm Country while hiding Void Mist Sea in the war between True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
  • Ling Wuyuan revealed his former life on Earth to his companions and continued gathering battlefield resources as he sought to reach World Creation Realm.
Chapters 1226–1325 Read from ch. 1226

Arc 49The Metal Fortress and New Realms

Ling Wuyuan returned to Golden Mist Continent, reclaimed an ancient Metal Fortress, and moved Jade Night Snow City to Ice Mist Snow Island. As war loomed between the True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven, he sent a hidden wisp of Gray Mist into the Xikong Immortal Realm and onward toward its Mortal Realm.

  • Ling Wuyuan decided to establish a super empire with Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion as its leading faction, while Void Mist Sea encountered a battle between reconnaissance units from the True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
  • Ling Wuyuan recognized Mulad through the karmic connections surrounding a Thorn person, then set out with Su Qingyue aboard Ice Erosion Cold Boat to retrieve an ancient mobile relic.
  • Ling Wuyuan arrived at Golden Mist Continent with a vast fleet, welcomed local factions, and passed over Guan Xiangfei as the people below received life-giving spiritual rain.
  • Ling Wuyuan decided to move Jade Night Snow City to Ice Mist Snow Island, then recovered the enormous Metal Fortress from beneath the Dead Green Poison Swamp and gained management authority over it.
  • Ling Wuyuan explored the fortress with Su Qingyue, studied its records and dead reconnaissance force, and explained the distant realms and powers connected to its history.
  • Ling Wuyuan transported Jade Night Snow City, its people, and its surrounding land to Ice Mist Snow Island, while leaders in the True Abundant Spirit Realm prepared for a possible all-out war against Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
  • Void Mist Sea reached the Eternal Life Realm and sensed that a major battle was approaching, while Ling Wuyuan sent Gray Mist into the Xikong Immortal Realm and slipped it through a spacetime singularity toward the less guarded Mortal Realm.
Chapters 1226–1250 Summaries Read

Arc 50The Xikong Realm Showdown

Ling Wuyuan infiltrated the Xikong Immortal Realm, studied its cultivation system, and grew powerful enough to confront Ke Mingyu and the realm’s Immortal Kings. Their battle turned the realm’s own rules against him, but Ling Wuyuan began to corrode the forces holding him down.

  • Ling Wuyuan entered the Xikong Immortal Realm, secretly absorbed knowledge from sect libraries, and transformed himself to match its cultivation system.
  • Ling Wuyuan survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, drained nearby cultivators, and became known as a revived ancient demon.
  • After ascending through the Divine Light of Reception, Ling Wuyuan entered the Immortal Realm, devoured Demonic Path cultivators, and learned the limits imposed by his Killing Quota.
  • Ling Wuyuan spent years strengthening his avatar until Ke Mingyu and eleven other Immortal King Realm cultivators confronted him in the desert.
  • Ling Wuyuan defeated Xie You with a precisely placed finger-spear, then triggered hidden power that left Xie You near death and demanded the Immortal Kings serve him.
  • Ke Mingyu and the Immortal Kings rejected Ling Wuyuan’s offer and fought him inside a special battlefield, where his Gray Mist copies engaged them all.
  • The Immortal Kings unleashed their full strength as the Xikong Immortal Realm rejected Ling Wuyuan, cut off his access to spiritual energy, and used its rules to suppress him.
  • Ling Wuyuan chose to play along with the suppression, then broke apart into gray mist as Ke Mingyu’s group heard something being forcibly corroded.
Chapters 1251–1275 Summaries Read

Arc 51The New Emperor

Ling Wuyuan subdued the Xikong Immortal Realm, strengthened his undying nature, and advanced to the Immortal Realm. After his enthronement, his empire expanded across more than ten thousand Domains, and he urged Su Qingyue to delegate its routine affairs.

  • Ke Mingyu detonated his Immortal King Seal to destroy Ling Wuyuan, but Ling Wuyuan survived by using [Abyssal Divine Speed] to reduce the attack’s effects and then forced Ke Mingyu and the other experts to submit.
  • Ling Wuyuan returned to [Ice Mist Snow Island], explained that the Immortal King Seals bound Ke Mingyu and the others to the Xikong Immortal Realm, and said he would take Yan Xiujin there someday.
  • Ling Wuyuan refined his power and strengthened his Undying Nature, while the Gray Mist Imprint gained the ability to revive its holders if their souls had not been completely annihilated.
  • Ling Wuyuan set his coronation for New Year’s Day and told Su Qingyue he expected to advance to the Immortal Realm beforehand.
  • Ling Wuyuan answered Guan Xiangfei’s distant toast, then completed his Immortal Realm advancement while grilling barbecue with Pei Yiman and the others.
  • As auspicious signs spread across the surrounding Domains, Ling Wuyuan was crowned emperor, and his spiritual medicine droplets spread opportunities through his territories.
  • Over the next ten years, Illusory Mist Realm Country expanded to rule more than ten thousand Domains, while its metal puppets subdued powerful cultivators and frightened local forces.
  • Ling Wuyuan shaped sixteen crescent islands around [Ice Mist Snow Island] into the Sixteen Island Ring Continent, then told overworked Su Qingyue to delegate routine matters and focus on the empire’s overall direction.
Chapters 1276–1300 Summaries Read

Arc 52Two Fields of Power

Ling Wuyuan strengthened the Illusory Mist Realm Country while hiding Void Mist Sea in the escalating war between True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven. After revealing his former life on Earth to his companions, he continued harvesting the battlefield’s resources and aimed to reach World Creation Realm before intervening openly.

  • Ling Wuyuan adjusted the Illusory Mist Realm Country’s spirit and earth veins, planned to connect it to Xikong Immortal Realm, and began expanding the country’s spiritual energy and resources.
  • Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven and True Abundant Spirit Realm uncovered interference by at least fifty Starlight Heavens, then prepared for a larger battle while distrusting their outside allies.
  • As the Black Omen Battlefield’s rules shifted, the two realms clashed, and Ling Wuyuan kept Void Mist Sea hidden while scattering incarnations and using Torrent of Destiny to obscure his presence.
  • Ling Wuyuan expanded the Illusory Mist Realm Country, sent forces to explore secret realms and clear safer forbidden zones, and drew a vast alternate spacetime into its surrounding dimensions.
  • Ling Wuyuan celebrated his hundredth birthday with his family, then used Gray Mist Imprint to show his companions his memories of Earth and reveal that he had once been an orphan there.
  • Ling Wuyuan explained how his abilities helped him survive the meteorite and cross into Main Spacetime, and he told his companions that Earth belonged to True Abundant Spirit Realm, which was at war with Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
  • Ling Wuyuan expanded public cultivation and infrastructure in Illusory Mist Realm Country as Void Mist Sea spread gray mist across the battlefield and gathered information and resources from its remains.
  • Ling Wuyuan judged that the opposing realms were still probing one another, and he planned to use the battlefield to advance toward Boundless Realm after reaching World Creation Realm.
Chapters 1301–1325 Summaries Read
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