Chapter Summaries

News spread that Ling Wuyuan had defeated four True Form Realm cultivators and driven off the survivors, leaving Qu Yichen to study a memory crystal of the battle and speculate about the source of Ling Wuyuan’s extraordinary speed. He suspected an external object was enhancing Ling Wuyuan’s abilities.

• People across the region doubted reports that Ling Wuyuan had killed four True Form Realm cultivators while outnumbered, though powerful factions verified the story.
• Qu Yichen obtained a memory crystal from one of the escaped cultivators and watched its recording of the battle.
• Qu Yichen concluded that Ling Wuyuan’s extreme speed had let him overcome opponents who could not react effectively.
• Qu Yichen considered whether Ling Wuyuan’s abilities came from an innate divine ability, a nonhuman race, a special bloodline, or ancient equipment.
• Qu Yichen favored the idea that an external object enhanced Ling Wuyuan’s speed, since he doubted Ling Wuyuan could otherwise sustain its immense power and cost.

Qu Yichen searched Wenying Tower’s records for an external source of Ling Wuyuan’s extraordinary speed and suspected he might have merged with an injected substance. Meanwhile, Ling Wuyuan recovered from his costly victory over seven [True Form Realm] cultivators, while powerful figures across the world turned their attention to him.

• Qu Yichen calculated how impossibly much energy Ling Wuyuan’s displayed speed required and suspected he relied on an external object.
• Qu Yichen found the Profound Gold Body Tempering Potion in Wenying Tower’s records and wondered whether Ling Wuyuan had injected something that merged with his body.
• Di Zixuan arrived after Qu Yichen called him in to discuss Ling Wuyuan.
• Top cultivators and others throughout the world became intensely curious about how Ling Wuyuan had defeated multiple [True Form Realm] opponents.
• Ling Wuyuan lay severely injured after defeating four of seven cultivators, while the other three escaped.
• Ling Wuyuan regretted that his surviving opponents had fled and remained certain he would have won if they had continued fighting.

Ling Wuyuan recovered from his recent battle in a medicinal pool, enduring the pain as his regenerative ability healed him at an extraordinary rate. Pei Yiman told him that reports of his exploits in the Northern Domain had reached the Southern Region, and the chapter left him expecting the story to appear in the News Report once it was verified.

• Ling Wuyuan recovered from his injuries in the medicinal pool as his cells regenerated at an accelerated rate.
• Ling Wuyuan restrained his body's instinct to numb his pain because he preferred to remain in control and treated pain as a measure of his shortcomings.
• Pei Yiman contacted Ling Wuyuan and told him that news of his Northern Domain exploits had reached the Southern Region and confused several sect elders.
• Ling Wuyuan and Pei Yiman discussed how news writers were unlikely to report the claims until they verified them.

After reassuring Pei Yiman that he could handle threats from the Southern Region, Ling Wuyuan recovered in a medicinal pool and sensed his body evolving toward the Divine Ability Realm. He also connected his mysterious ability’s increased power to the influence he exerted on the outside world and planned to test the theory as news about him spread.

• Ling Wuyuan told Pei Yiman that he could manage the danger unless a Heart Domain Realm cultivator personally intervened, and said he would fight one if necessary.
• Pei Yiman ended their remote communication after reminding Ling Wuyuan to recover and avoid getting injured.
• While resting, Ling Wuyuan sensed that his injuries were prompting an evolution and thought more battles might help him reach the Divine Ability Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that battle and slaughter brought him satisfaction and growth, though he knew they could not be his entire life.
• Ling Wuyuan observed the vertical eye in his Sea of Consciousness devouring the Law of Karma faster than before and suspected its strength depended on how much he influenced the outside world.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to study the ability as news of his actions spread across the Golden Mist Continent, giving him a chance to test his theory.

Ling Wuyuan confirmed that his awakening ability grew stronger as his influence spread, accelerating his cultivation, though it absorbed only a tiny fraction of the Law of Karma his actions generated. While recovering, he reviewed how he had survived and overcome the previous battle, and concluded that the ability’s full nature would remain unclear until it awakened.

• Ling Wuyuan confirmed that spreading news and influence had caused his ability to absorb the Law of Karma and increase his growth rate dozens of times over.
• He estimated that the ability could fully awaken within a week and push him into the Divine Ability Realm, though its absorption could not keep pace with the commotion he caused across the Golden Mist Continent.
• Ling Wuyuan suspected the ability had functions beyond speeding cultivation and providing gray mist True Qi, but decided to wait for its full awakening to reveal them.
• As his injuries mostly healed, Ling Wuyuan reviewed the battle and recognized that his opponent’s Innate Divine Ability could link life force and True Essence and make targets share damage.
• Ling Wuyuan concluded that his perception had saved him from a potentially fatal opening strike, and that he had worn down the opponents by exploiting his superior recovery and speed.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on how tactics and opponents’ poor coordination had let him defeat seven stronger enemies, while considering how their abilities might have changed the battle. He concluded that he needed to keep growing and remain cautious against unknown opponents.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled using archery before reaching the [Qi Nourishing Realm] to injure a stronger cultivator and claim the [Azure Lake White Stream Palace Treasure Map].
• Ling Wuyuan reasoned that the seven opponents’ loose positioning, greed, and lack of teamwork had given him openings to defeat them.
• Ling Wuyuan considered how a coordinated [True Form Realm cultivator] could have linked and redistributed all seven opponents’ vitality and True Essence, making them far harder to beat.
• Ling Wuyuan identified retreat, killing the cultivator before the [innate divine ability] activated, or using [Abyssal Divine Speed] at suicidal force as his possible responses.
• Ling Wuyuan acknowledged that he still needed to develop and warned himself to beware unknown abilities that could force a mutual kill.

As Ling Wuyuan recovered from his injuries, his true qi began transforming into true essence and his powers rapidly grew stronger. He gained a brief vision of the future showing that enemies would ambush and besiege him soon.

• Ling Wuyuan considered his weaknesses against higher-level opponents and decided that increasing his hard power was more reliable than relying on tricks or equipment.
• After hours of recovery aided by pills and the Heavenly Star Gold Stone, Ling Wuyuan fully healed and began transforming his true qi into true essence.
• Ling Wuyuan felt a third eye awaken between his brows and briefly saw fate, karma, and fragments of future events.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized from the visions that he would soon be ambushed and surrounded before he could react.

After his extraordinary vision of the future faded, Ling Wuyuan used a map to identify the desert where he expected an ambush and considered how his enemies had found him and overcome his senses. He chose to continue toward the desert at reduced speed, preparing for the attack and testing whether his decisions could alter the predicted future.

• Ling Wuyuan found that he could no longer observe or reproduce the clear future scenes he had seen through his third eye.
• Ling Wuyuan studied his map and identified a vast desert along his route as the likely site of the future ambush.
• Ling Wuyuan suspected the escaped enemies had tracked him through his blood, his true qi, his travel route, or methods available in the Northern Domain.
• Ling Wuyuan considered changing course but decided to continue along his original route because he wanted to test his abilities and learn how the enemy had ambushed him.
• Ling Wuyuan reduced his sailing speed to one-tenth and began testing whether his choices could change the predicted attack or the inertia of Destiny and Karma.

Ling Wuyuan slowed his Floating Rune Warship to test whether he could change the attack predicted by Destiny and Karma, and the expected assault never came. Meanwhile, thirteen True Form Realm cultivators waited in the desert and prepared their formation for his delayed arrival.

• Ling Wuyuan slowed his ship to one-tenth speed and remained outside the desert during the period when he had originally expected an attack, but none came.
• Ling Wuyuan observed that his actions changed the Laws of Karma, though his Gray Mist Vertical Pupil absorbed only a tiny fraction of the resulting changes.
• The thirteen True Form Realm cultivators waiting in the desert learned that Ling Wuyuan was still approaching but had slowed down and would arrive about a day and a half later.
• The cultivators debated whether Ling Wuyuan had detected their ambush or was recovering from his injuries, then decided to strengthen their formation to prevent his escape.

Su Qingyue hurried toward the Golden Mist Continent while discussing Ling Wuyuan’s planned confrontation and recovery with Yuan Yujun. Unable to reach him in time or reliably divine his fate, she hoped he could survive until she arrived, while Fu Mengxue tried to further obscure his Destiny and Karma.

• Su Qingyue learned that Ling Wuyuan planned to keep to his original route and slow down rather than change course.
• Yuan Yujun told Su Qingyue that the Heavenly Star Gold Stone had completely healed Ling Wuyuan’s injuries.
• After her connection with Yuan Yujun and the others ended, Su Qingyue checked her navigation map and saw that she was still nearly three days from the Golden Mist Continent.
• Su Qingyue’s distant divination of Ling Wuyuan yielded only vague information because of the barriers between sea regions.
• Fu Mengxue sensed a chaotic vortex of Destiny and Karma around Ling Wuyuan and used her power to make it even harder for others to divine his fate.

Ling Wuyuan arrived at a formation trap, and his enemies revealed themselves after he taunted them. He began fighting them with a devastating sword strike while considering whether prophecies and Destiny and Karma made outcomes impossible to change.

• The Floating Rune Warship approached the hidden formation barrier, and its waiting enemies expected to capture Ling Wuyuan alive.
• The warship stopped short of the trap, leading the enemies to suspect Ling Wuyuan had noticed it.
• Ling Wuyuan appeared unharmed and wondered whether the predicted encounter with enemies had been unavoidable.
• Ling Wuyuan challenged the concealed enemies to show themselves, and his taunts enraged them into attacking.
• Ling Wuyuan drew his longsword and unleashed a tremendous strike that lit the sky and sent heat and shockwaves across the desert.

Ling Wuyuan’s battle against the True Form Realm cultivators devastated the desert and killed countless innocents, whose entangled Destiny and Karma overwhelmed his senses and weakened him. His opponents noticed his sudden vulnerability and mistakenly believed one of their allies had used an Innate Divine Ability.

• Ling Wuyuan’s battle sent destructive aftershocks across the desert, causing massive destruction and casualties in nearby countries.
• The deaths of innocents created a Torrent of Karma that Ling Wuyuan could perceive through his forehead’s vertical-eye tattoo, flooding his mind with faces, voices, and emotions.
• Overwhelmed by the Torrent of Karma, Ling Wuyuan lost his bearings and struggled to fight, allowing several attacks to graze and badly wound him.
• The True Form Realm cultivators noticed that Ling Wuyuan’s senses had faltered and celebrated their newfound success, assuming someone had used an Innate Divine Ability.

Ling Wuyuan shut out his senses and withdrew his true qi and spiritual power, relying on instinct and danger prediction as he faced the fighters surrounding him. The observers mistook his condition for a hidden ability, while he began striking his enemies with devastating precision.

• The fighters and distant observers assumed one of the thirteen had secretly used a powerful ability to blind and disorient Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan closed his eyes, ignored the false sounds, and withdrew his true qi and spiritual power, trusting his instincts to guide him.
• Ling Wuyuan became utterly still, making his opponents feel as though he were a distant, lifeless part of the landscape.
• Ling Wuyuan suddenly moved faster than before and pierced an enemy through a gap in his defenses.
• Ling Wuyuan swept his sword sideways to cleave the enemy, then rushed among his targets and attacked according to instinct.

Ling Wuyuan broke free of an enemy’s ability that had interfered with his perception of Destiny and Karma, gaining a clearer sense of how to fight. A distant observer recognized that Ling Wuyuan’s talent and combat strength were unprecedented and began to fear him.

• Ling Wuyuan’s perception advanced and shattered the divine ability that had been weakening his awareness of Destiny and Karma.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed distant observers and realized that stronger perception might let him trace their causal connections, though he could not do so at will yet.
• A distant figure found that his renewed attempt to interfere with Ling Wuyuan was blocked and suspected a powerful diviner from Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was protecting him.
• The figure watched sixteen-year-old Ling Wuyuan fight thirteen True Form Realm cultivators without losing ground despite being in the Enlightened Intent Realm.
• The figure judged that no cultivator of the same level could withstand Ling Wuyuan and feared his unmatched talent.

Ling Wuyuan continued fighting a coalition of powerful opponents, whose coordinated Divine Abilities made the battle increasingly difficult, while onlookers wondered at his extraordinary speed and durability. As Ling Wuyuan fought without sight or hearing, the dark-gray eye tattoo on his forehead grew brighter and steadier, signaling that the strange power within him was nearing full awakening.

• Ling Wuyuan began turning the battle in his favor with sustained acceleration that astonished the watching cultivators.
• Heart Domain Realm cultivators held back from attacking him, wary of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and suspecting the battle was a trial arranged for Ling Wuyuan.
• The battle continued above the desert for an hour, and the fighters’ powers caused extreme weather and destruction across distant regions.
• Other powerful figures tried to stop the battle or force their way in, but none could intervene.
• Ling Wuyuan’s opponents gradually combined their Divine Abilities to intensify their attacks, especially after his five senses failed.
• Ling Wuyuan enjoyed fighting without distractions, treating each action as a verification of his choices as the eye tattoo on his forehead brightened.

Ling Wuyuan adapted to the intensifying Laws of Karma during the battle, turning the ordeal into a trial that strengthened him. Meanwhile, strange weather swept across a city before a blazing red object struck nearby and raised a huge mushroom cloud.

• Ling Wuyuan sensed his perception strengthening as the Laws of Karma began to aid rather than merely interfere with him.
• Ling Wuyuan treated the battle as an evolutionary trial and resolved to learn from the way his senses had been secretly affected.
• A cultivator and the commoners in a city endured bizarre shifts between sun, rain, and freezing weather.
• A red gleam streaked across the sky, split the clouds, and struck the ground near the city, producing a vast crimson mushroom cloud.

A crimson meteor devastated the Suolan Mountain Range before crashing near Jianshui City, where the nation’s ruler hurried to claim what he thought was a fallen treasure. He found Ling Wuyuan lying in the impact crater, and Ling Wuyuan opened his eyes as the ruler approached.

• The crimson meteor melted and smashed through the Suolan Mountain Range as it descended toward Jianshui City.
• The meteor struck the ground about a hundred kilometers from the city, creating a mushroom cloud and shockwaves that shook the region.
• Jianshui City's city-protecting grand formation shielded its people from the worst of the blast, though many residents were left struggling.
• The nation's ruler raced to the impact site, hoping to seize the meteor's presumed treasure before other powerful figures arrived.
• The ruler found Ling Wuyuan lying motionless in the crater, and Ling Wuyuan opened his eyes and looked at him.

Ling Wuyuan recovered in a pit while You Kuanhong recognized him and tried to capture him for his connection to the Heavenly Star Gold Stone. Ling Wuyuan struck You Kuanhong down, completed his breakthrough, and unleashed a massive Spiritual Energy Vortex.

• You Kuanhong watched Ling Wuyuan heal and recognized him as a cultivator of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• You Kuanhong decided to capture Ling Wuyuan and mobilized his power, hoping to trade him for benefits tied to the Heavenly Star Gold Stone.
• Ling Wuyuan crossed the distance in an instant and punched You Kuanhong through the soil, shattering his protective true essence.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that venting his frustration with the punch had completed the last step of his breakthrough.
• Ling Wuyuan released an immense Spiritual Energy Vortex.

A citywide earthquake and the failing protective formation left Jianshui City's residents helpless as the battered You Kuanhong was flung against the shield. Meanwhile, spiritual energy from across the country and surrounding regions surged into the crater where Ling Wuyuan was ascending to a higher level of life.

• Jianshui City's protective grand formation rippled under the distant explosion, and residents feared it would collapse.
• A massive tremor shook the ground and thrust up a mound of earth outside the city.
• You Kuanhong's mangled body burst through the soil and landed against the protective grand formation, where the explosion's heat continued to roast him.
• The clouds reversed course and poured toward the crater as spiritual energy drained from the surrounding area, leaving cultivators unable to absorb it.
• Spiritual energy from across ten thousand li and beyond streamed into Ling Wuyuan through the crater, driving his ascent in level of life.

Ling Wuyuan advanced toward the Divine Ability Realm as the nation’s gathered spiritual energy transformed his body, soul, and True Qi. His Innate Divine Ability awakened, allowing him to devour and manipulate others’ Destiny and Karma, and he delayed his opponents from finding him so he could continue advancing.

• Ling Wuyuan absorbed the concentrated spiritual energy and rapidly evolved as his True Qi, body, and soul sublimated.
• Abyssal Divine Speed and the Gray Mist Vertical Pupil took root and awakened as parts of his Innate Divine Ability.
• Ling Wuyuan’s forehead tattoo devoured the surrounding torrents of Destiny and Karma, strengthening his fortune.
• Ling Wuyuan foresaw that his opponents would find him in about ten minutes and used stolen Destiny and Karma to delay them through a chain of small events.
• Ling Wuyuan closed his eyes and focused on experiencing his advancement.