Vol. 8The Rise of Ling Wuyuan

Ling Wuyuan survived pursuit and ambushes, broke through into the Divine Ability Realm, and returned to Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. His growing fame and effortless defeat of a challenger left the region aware of the gulf between his power and theirs.

  • Fu Mengxue investigated Ling Wuyuan’s strength as he recovered aboard the Floating Rune Warship and planned to return to the Southern Region.
  • Hou Jinxuan’s group used divination to pursue Ling Wuyuan and approached his warship.
  • Ling Wuyuan defeated four Wind Eagle Dynasty cultivators, recovered, and awakened his third eye, which revealed a coming ambush.
  • Thirteen cultivators prepared to trap Ling Wuyuan in the desert as Su Qingyue and Fu Mengxue struggled to divine his fate.
  • Ling Wuyuan survived the desert battle, broke through into the Divine Ability Realm, and defeated Zhong Yunxuan and Wei Yanchen.
  • Su Qingyue arrived through a spacetime portal and welcomed Ling Wuyuan as one of their own.
  • Ling Wuyuan returned to Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion, explored his divine abilities, and allowed the News Report to publish his achievements.
  • Ling Wuyuan killed a challenger with a strike no witnesses understood, while Guan Xiangfei chose to pursue his own path.
Chapters 714–815 Read from ch. 714

Arc 29The Divination Pursuit

Ling Wuyuan recovered and grew stronger while Northern Domain factions used divination to track him and contest the Heavenly Star Gold Stone. As Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion prepared to bring him back, Hou Jinxuan’s group moved to intercept an approaching warship.

  • Fu Mengxue learned from Pei Yi that Ling Wuyuan had killed four True Form Realm cultivators, then began investigating him and considered bringing him and his companions to headquarters.
  • Ling Wuyuan recovered aboard the Floating Rune Warship, advanced to the second stage of the Enlightened Intent Realm, and decided to return to the Southern Region when he could.
  • Northern Domain powers connected Ling Wuyuan to a figure in their portrait and suspected he had won the Heavenly Star Gold Stone, while Pei Yi warned him to remain cautious.
  • Hou Jinxuan joined Yang Zhengyu and Deng Yong in seeking the Heavenly Star Gold Stone, and Tang Shucheng used her Floating Rune Warship as a divination medium to discover Ling Wuyuan’s route.
  • Ling Wuyuan recognized that Di Zixuan’s ship had enabled the divination, chose not to destroy it, and prepared to face his pursuers after recovering further.
  • Su Qingyue prepared to lead reinforcements to the Golden Mist Continent, while Ling Wuyuan studied the laws of karma and found his control over fate and divination growing.
  • Hou Jinxuan told Tang Shucheng, Yang Zhengyu, and Deng Yong that the Pavilion held the Heavenly Star Gold Stone, and the group decided to pursue their target before the Pavilion could conceal him.
  • Tang Shucheng spotted a huge approaching Floating Rune Warship, and Hou Jinxuan’s group formed an array and approached it cautiously.
Chapters 714–738 Summaries Read

Arc 30The Desert Ambush

Ling Wuyuan’s Floating Rune Warship drew the attention of the Wind Eagle Dynasty, and he defeated four of seven True Form Realm cultivators before recovering and awakening his third eye. After seeing a future ambush, he chose to continue toward the desert, where thirteen cultivators prepared to trap him, while Su Qingyue and Fu Mengxue struggled to divine his fate.

  • Hou Jinxuan refused Di Zixuan’s demand that she return, but they reconciled after he promised to seek a path to the Heart Domain Realm with her, and Ling Wuyuan waived Wenying Tower’s compensation to repay Di Zixuan’s favor.
  • Ling Wuyuan studied the Floating Rune Warship as rumors spread about the Heavenly Star Gold Stone, and Wind Eagle Dynasty cultivators recognized the ship as one that had belonged to the supposedly dead Chi Tianyou.
  • Pang Qichen and four companions confronted Ling Wuyuan over the warship, and Ling Wuyuan killed four of the five before the three survivors fled.
  • Qu Yichen examined a memory crystal of the battle and concluded that Ling Wuyuan’s extreme speed had let him defeat the cultivators, while Ling Wuyuan recovered and studied his Gray Mist Vertical Pupil.
  • Ling Wuyuan confirmed that news of his deeds accelerated the eye’s absorption of the Law of Karma, then fully healed with help from pills and the Heavenly Star Gold Stone.
  • Ling Wuyuan’s third eye awakened and showed him a coming ambush, so he identified a desert along his route and slowed his ship to test whether he could alter the prediction.
  • Thirteen True Form Realm cultivators waiting in the desert learned Ling Wuyuan was approaching more slowly and strengthened their formation to stop him escaping.
  • Su Qingyue learned Ling Wuyuan would keep his original route, while Fu Mengxue sensed the chaos around his Destiny and Karma and obscured his fate from divination.
Chapters 739–765 Summaries Read

Arc 31Ling Wuyuan’s Breakthrough

Ling Wuyuan survived a battle against thirteen True Form Realm cultivators, broke through into the Divine Ability Realm, and defeated Zhong Yunxuan and Wei Yanchen. Su Qingyue arrived through a spacetime portal and welcomed him as one of their own.

  • Ling Wuyuan’s battle against thirteen True Form Realm cultivators unleashed destruction across the desert, while the deaths of innocents overwhelmed him with the Torrent of Karma.
  • Ling Wuyuan shut out the false sounds, fought by instinct, and strengthened his perception enough to break the divine ability impairing him.
  • After an hour of battle, Ling Wuyuan fell into a crater near Jianshui City, completed his breakthrough, and absorbed spiritual energy from across the region as his Innate Divine Ability awakened.
  • Nine True Form Realm cultivators interrupted Ling Wuyuan’s advancement, but he emerged in the Divine Ability Realm and killed five attackers before facing the survivors.
  • Ling Wuyuan fought Zhong Yunxuan, whose [Within Sight] ability let him attack across distance, and countered him with overwhelming speed until Wei Yanchen intervened.
  • Wei Yanchen bound the battlefield in his pale yellow domain, but Ling Wuyuan killed him before he could use his Innate Divine Ability and spared Zhong Yunxuan as promised.
  • Su Qingyue emerged from a spacetime portal, welcomed Ling Wuyuan as one of their own, and heard him say he had casually killed Wei Yanchen.
Chapters 766–790 Summaries Read

Arc 32The Fame of Ling Wuyuan

Ling Wuyuan returned to Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion, explored his new divine abilities, and gained fame as the News Report spread his achievements. When old acquaintances sought his help and a challenger confronted him, his effortless victory stunned the region and reshaped Guan Xiangfei’s ambitions.

  • Su Qingyue brought Ling Wuyuan back to Jade Night Snow Mountain, where Pei Yiman and Yan Xiujin welcomed him and the sect learned of his Northern Domain accomplishments.
  • Ling Wuyuan studied Abyssal Divine Speed and Torrent of Destiny, discovering their uses and limits while suspecting a third innate ability might awaken at the Divine Ability Realm.
  • Ling Wuyuan agreed to let the News Report publish his deeds, and its account of his cultivation and victory over a Heart Domain Realm cultivator spread across the continent, drawing him increasing Laws of Karma.
  • Yuan Yujun decided Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion would not take responsibility for the Sea Folk crisis, while Ling Wuyuan told Fu Mengxue he felt no hatred toward the Sea Folk expert who had once harmed him.
  • Guan Xiangfei and Jiang Xing visited Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to ask Ling Wuyuan for help against the sea race, and Ling Wuyuan told them a sect member had already dealt with the threat.
  • When a man challenged his claim to the Divine Ability Realm, Ling Wuyuan killed him with compressed air accelerated by Abyssal Divine Speed, leaving witnesses unable to understand the attack.
  • Guan Xiangfei admitted that the gulf between himself and Ling Wuyuan had made him despair, then chose to pursue his own uncertain path, which Ling Wuyuan sensed through the Law of Karma.
  • Footage of Ling Wuyuan’s strike spread among regional factions, and Yi Guangxiang, the White Mist Royal Family, and other observers recognized that they could neither understand nor withstand his power.
Chapters 791–815 Summaries Read
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