Chapter Summaries

Fu Mengxue and another Heart Domain Realm elder aboard a Floating Rune Warship attacked the Sea Tribe before it could complete a formation beneath the ocean. The warship’s cannon obliterated the hidden Sea Tribe forces, leaving the coast safe from their plans.

• News of Ling Wuyuan’s strength spread, and ordinary people in White Mist Country and nearby regions rejoiced that the Sea Tribe would no longer threaten them.
• On the second night, Fu Mengxue and her Heart Domain Realm teammate watched the ocean from their Floating Rune Warship and spotted the Sea Tribe constructing a formation beneath the water.
• Fu Mengxue decided that the Sea Tribe could be killed or spared according to circumstances, while her teammate doubted Wuyuan would ever return to the region.
• The Floating Rune Warship charged its Rune Cannon, and hidden Sea Tribe members surfaced in confusion at the blazing muzzles.
• The cannon fired across more than five hundred thousand kilometers and detonated beneath the sea, annihilating the water and creatures within a vast sphere.

Fu Mengxue and the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion struck the Oceanic Alien Race with a Rune Cannon, devastating its forces but leaving its leader alive. Fu Mengxue then froze the surrounding sea and sky, preparing to cripple the wounded enemy.

• Fu Mengxue's Rune Cannon blasted a vast crater into the sea, killing about one-third of the Oceanic Alien Race and leaving many more wounded.
• Fu Mengxue explained that she had reduced the cannon's power to protect distant coastal nations and said she intended to spare the enemy leader so she could fight them herself.
• The wounded leader rose from the vortex and sent enormous sea wyrms and lightning toward the Floating Rune Warship.
• Fu Mengxue froze the sea, air, wyrms, and clouds across the region, stopping the leader's attack.
• Fu Mengxue told the leader she would cripple them.

An immense cold wave swept across the coastal regions after a brilliant flash, forcing cities to activate their protective formations. At the war front, powerful fighters sensed the distant force behind the phenomenon and were left wondering how Ling Wuyuan had defeated an existence of such power.

• A sudden cold wave plunged temperatures across the coast, freezing objects and forcing cities to activate their city-protecting formations.
• The war front’s temperature fell to around minus one hundred fifty or sixty degrees, and soldiers and cultivators feared the changes might signal an enemy attack.
• An Enlightened Intent Realm general sensed the immense power behind the cold wave and realized it far exceeded anything he could comprehend.
• Powerhouses from multiple factions recognized that the distant force could destroy their entire defensive line with ease.
• The general and his colleagues questioned why the Sea Clan’s hidden powerhouses had let them repair the defensive line and how Ling Wuyuan had killed a Heart Domain Realm opponent.

After the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s attack halted the sea clan advance, residents of White Mist Country celebrated the news as a frozen landscape spread across the region. A concealed squad from the frontline command headquarters reached the battlefield and discovered an enormous, nearly indestructible ice field, leaving its long-term impact uncertain.

• Residents of White Mist Country emerged into a snow-covered landscape and learned that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had inflicted heavy losses on the sea clan.
• The residents celebrated the report, placing their hopes in the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion despite knowing little about the faction.
• A concealed squad of Divine Ability Realm cultivators traveled from the frontline command headquarters to investigate the battlefield.
• The squad found a vast frozen sea and a gigantic vortex locked in ice, with sea clan members and beasts trapped inside.
• One cultivator struck the ice and made only a shallow pit, revealing its extraordinary hardness.
• The squad realized the ice could endure for thousands of years and might permanently change the ocean’s environment.

Su Qingyue reshaped the snow-covered region by raising its mountains and linking them through earth veins while discussing Fu Mengxue’s conspicuous battle against an injured Sea Clan powerhouse. She planned to strengthen Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s branch formation and environment before exploring an ancient ruin with Wuyuan, and arranged for an elder to remain until Yujun reached the True Form Realm.

• Su Qingyue caused the snow mountains to rise and linked them through earth veins, sending the local beast herds into a panic.
• Su Qingyue asked Fu Mengxue why the cold tide had spread so far, and Fu Mengxue explained that she had made the battle conspicuous to deter people from challenging the sect.
• Su Qingyue planned for a headquarters elder to stay behind after she, Wuyuan, Yujun, and the others returned, until Yujun successfully broke through to the True Form Realm.
• Fu Mengxue asked about Su Qingyue’s plans, and Su Qingyue said she would spend about forty days strengthening the formation barrier and reshaping the surrounding region before exploring the ancient ruin with Wuyuan.

Ling Wuyuan sensed Yang Luo and Yang Zutao being hunted and used the Law of Karma to locate them. As Yang Luo and his son faced a powerful Source Gathering Realm enemy, Ling Wuyuan became aware of their plight, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Ling Wuyuan sensed images of familiar figures fleeing and recognized a karmic connection to Yang Luo and Yang Zutao.
• Yang Luo told Yang Zutao to escape with the others while he stayed behind to hold off their pursuers.
• A distant enemy trapped the group with spiritual energy and demanded that Yang Luo and Yang Zutao surrender.
• Yang Luo realized their enemy was in the Source Gathering Realm and despaired at the gap in their strength.
• Yang Zutao regretted giving up on pursuing Ling Wuyuan and wondered whether greater effort could have given them a chance.

Yang Zutao and Yang Luo regretted giving up their former lives and fleeing the White Crow Gang’s home during the sea clan invasion. As violent winds threatened them and pursuers closed in, they believed their choices had left them with no way back.

• Yang Zutao recalled his past achievements and the moment Ling Wuyuan had effortlessly crushed the Cloud Piercing Gang, then concluded that his life had reached its end.
• Yang Luo regretted abandoning the White Crow Gang’s base, since Ling Wuyuan’s reputation had once helped the gang grow and brought him hope of reaching the Source Gathering Realm.
• Yang Luo remembered fleeing the sea clan invaders, who had overwhelmed the White Mist Country and driven the White Crow Gang’s members to abandon their home.
• Yang Luo later learned that Ling Wuyuan had reached the Divine Ability Realm and that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was far beyond the sea clan invaders’ reach.
• Yang Luo realized that returning could not restore the disbanded White Crow Gang, and lamented that he had failed to recognize Ling Wuyuan and seize his opportunity before pursuers appeared.

A mysterious power took control of the spiritual energy around Yang Zutao and Yang Luo just as a Source Gathering Realm cultivator prepared to capture them. A giant lightning eye appeared in the sky, killed the cultivator with a single strike, and then vanished, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• The Source Gathering Realm cultivator prepared to bind Yang Zutao and Yang Luo, confident that capturing them would be easy.
• An oppressive force enveloped the area and wrested control of the surrounding spiritual energy from the cultivator.
• The cultivator looked up and saw a gigantic lightning eye appear amid a vortex of dark clouds.
• The lightning eye struck the cultivator, disintegrating him and blasting a vast pit through the mountain and deep into the earth.
• The lightning eye and dark clouds vanished, leaving the surviving onlookers staring at the clear sky in shock.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on why he had intervened to protect Yang Zutao and Yang Luo, then concealed the karmic traces connecting him to his past. Investigating those ties, he discovered that the Azure Lake White Stream Palace still had a tiny surviving branch and resolved to remember its location for later.

• Ling Wuyuan concluded that his old debts with the White Crow Gang had been settled, but he had acted because Yang Zutao and Yang Luo were targeted while others investigated him.
• Ling Wuyuan manipulated the Laws of Karma to obscure traces of his past and make it harder for powerful experts to divine the whereabouts of people connected to him.
• Ling Wuyuan investigated his past karmic ties and found that Dragon Beast Sea Ridge and the Mobile Ancient Ruins carried immense, dangerous karma.
• Ling Wuyuan discovered that a branch of the Azure Lake White Stream Palace had survived, though it was barely holding on.
• Ling Wuyuan used the Azure Lake White Stream Palace Legacy to locate the branch, learned it had sixteen members and none above the Bone Forging Realm, and committed its location to memory.

Ling Wuyuan sensed a special karmic thread connecting him to Earth and wondered whether he would return to his former world. Far away, Yang Zutao and Yang Luo realized Ling Wuyuan had struck down their attackers from a distance, leaving them to fear the forces pursuing them.

• Ling Wuyuan focused on a strange karmic thread that seemed connected to Earth and suspected that his former world had suffered a catastrophic impact.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed that other karmic ties might connect to the same thread but could not investigate them with his current strength.
• Yang Luo stared at the deep pit and clear sky in shock, while Yang Zutao recognized the dark gray vertical pupil as resembling Ling Wuyuan's eyes.
• Yang Zutao concluded that Ling Wuyuan had intervened from afar and told Yang Luo that it was probably him.
• Yang Luo inferred that the attackers had targeted them and hoped they would not involve more innocent people.

Su Qingyue completed her adjustments to the earth veins beneath Jade Night Snow Mountain, greatly strengthening the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s territory and its formation barriers. She told Ling Wuyuan to prepare for a trip to a moving ancient ruin and sent Pei Yiman back down the mountain, while Ling Wuyuan continued enduring the summit’s extreme conditions with his body alone.

• Su Qingyue finished adjusting the earth veins after encountering dangerous underground phenomena and discovering special resources and an ancient ruin.
• Su Qingyue observed that the changes had increased the region’s spiritual energy and would strengthen its peaks and formation barriers.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan to prepare to visit the moving ancient ruin at this time the following day.
• Su Qingyue advised Pei Yiman to leave Jade Night Snow Mountain with Ling Wuyuan because the summit’s conditions were too dangerous for her to endure for long.
• Ling Wuyuan withstood the summit’s extreme cold and gravity without using true essence, and his body continued adapting to the conditions.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on his evolving body and reassured Pei Yiman before asking Su Qingyue to take him somewhere on the way to the ancient ruin. They arrived in Kushan Town, where a family patriarch celebrated buying local businesses cheaply, until two unseen figures appeared before him.

• Ling Wuyuan considered how his cultivation and evolving body might reveal his third Innate Divine Ability.
• Pei Yiman worried that she could not keep pace with Ling Wuyuan, and he promised to protect her while secretly placing a Gray Mist Imprint on her.
• Ling Wuyuan asked Su Qingyue to take him somewhere before they visited the ancient ruin, and she agreed.
• Su Qingyue brought Ling Wuyuan to Kushan Town, where a patriarch celebrated the family's bargain purchases as the sea race threat eased.
• The patriarch and his family discussed the risk of attracting powerful forces, then he noticed two unfamiliar figures whom nobody else seemed able to see.

Ling Wuyuan confirmed through Yin Chenshu’s karma that his family were true descendants of the destroyed Azure Lake White Stream Palace because they still identified with its legacy. He gave Yin Chenshu a spatial ring and left with Su Qingyue, leaving Yin Chenshu bewildered.

• Ling Wuyuan examined Yin Chenshu’s karma and learned that his ancestor had been an elder of the Azure Lake White Stream Palace who had tried to rebuild it.
• Ling Wuyuan confirmed that Yin Chenshu’s family still recognized their heritage and the duty to rebuild the Azure Lake White Stream Palace, despite having lost most of their inheritance.
• Ling Wuyuan tossed Yin Chenshu a spatial ring and told him to drip a drop of blood onto it.
• Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue he was finished, and the two vanished while Yin Chenshu remained behind holding the ring.

Ling Wuyuan repaid the Azure Lake White Stream Palace’s karma by giving Yin Chenshu its inheritance and changing the Yin Clan’s impending fate. As Su Qingyue prepared to open a spacetime tunnel, Ling Wuyuan felt his Torrent of Destiny and mind grow slightly more complete from karma’s feedback.

• Yin Chenshu realized Ling Wuyuan and Su Qingyue had been beyond his clansmen’s perception, then returned to his study with the spatial ring Ling Wuyuan had given him.
• Yin Chenshu bonded with the spatial ring and found the Azure Lake White Stream Palace’s Heavenly Dipper White Stream Golden Body cultivation method inside.
• Yin Chenshu recognized the inheritance as the sect’s long-lost legacy and wept, believing his ancestors’ wish might finally come true.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed that repaying the Azure Lake White Stream Palace’s karma had restored a piece of his Torrent of Destiny and made his mind more complete.
• Ling Wuyuan revealed that he had also changed the Yin Clan’s fate, diverting those who planned to attack them toward a ravenous demonic beast.

Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan crossed a spacetime passage from the Southern Region toward the Northern Domain, and she asked about his family. Ling Wuyuan revealed that he had been abandoned as an infant and said Pei Yi was the only person he considered family.

• Su Qingyue opened a spacetime passage through the dangerous forbidden zones and led Ling Wuyuan into it.
• Su Qingyue’s power shielded Ling Wuyuan from the destructive spacetime turbulence as they traveled.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed his connection to the Soul Beacon grow stronger, though he knew he could not yet traverse the void alone.
• Su Qingyue wondered whether the people Ling Wuyuan had visited were relatives, then asked him about his family.
• Ling Wuyuan said he had been found on a garbage mountain as an infant and that neither he nor his adopter had considered the other family.
• Ling Wuyuan said Pei Yi was probably the only person he considered family, leaving Su Qingyue troubled by his detached attitude toward his past.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on the family and success he had gained in this life before explaining how My Own Path let him thrive in the hostile underground environment. He located the moving ruins below them, and Su Qingyue began drilling a tunnel toward them.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled his harsh childhood in an orphanage, his gratitude toward its director, and how he repaid the old favor after becoming wealthy.
• Ling Wuyuan compared his slow rise and death in his previous life with the rapid growth and newfound power, wealth, and family he had gained in this life.
• Ling Wuyuan absorbed the dangerous energies around them, using My Own Path to turn the hostile underground environment into nourishment.
• Su Qingyue asked which way to go, and Ling Wuyuan sensed the moving ruins several tens of thousands of li below and to the left.
• Su Qingyue formed the energy around herself into a powerful drill and carved a tunnel toward the ruins.

Su Qingyue discovered a colossal, moving metal sphere inside the ancient ruin and used divination to assess its danger. She concluded she could not safely approach it, leaving Ling Wuyuan puzzled about how he had survived the ruin in the past.

• Su Qingyue spotted a pale golden metal sphere nearly two thousand kilometers across, which moved through the underground depths and destroyed everything in its path.
• Ling Wuyuan saw an immense vortex of karma surrounding the sphere and abandoned his plan to explore it, deciding to scavenge elsewhere in the ruin.
• Su Qingyue divined that the ruin foretold great misfortune and death, and inferred it might be an automated fortress that attacked anyone who came too close.
• Su Qingyue wondered how Ling Wuyuan had survived the ruin as a Spirit Infusion Realm cultivator, then told him her divination forbade her from approaching it.
• Ling Wuyuan questioned why approaching was impossible when other explorers had reached the ruin, and Su Qingyue insisted it would attack her if she got too close.

Ling Wuyuan decided to enter the moving ancient ruins again, believing they would not attack him as long as he avoided certain areas and objects. Su Qingyue stayed outside to study the sword scar, while Ling Wuyuan headed for the ruins’ former library and sensed dozens of invisible metal puppets watching him.

• Ling Wuyuan guessed the ruins attacked those strong enough to threaten them, while ignoring weaker visitors, and Su Qingyue agreed that they considered her dangerous.
• Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue he planned to explore again and collect more objects; despite her concerns, she agreed to wait outside.
• After Ling Wuyuan entered through the sword scar, Su Qingyue wondered about the ruins’ origin and the power of the person who had cut them open, then began studying the scar’s Sword Intent from afar.
• Ling Wuyuan went toward the library areas to search for a way to read the information stored on the metal discs he had found before.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed surveillance from all directions and detected at least dozens of invisible metal puppets nearby, realizing he could not act recklessly.

Ling Wuyuan used the [Torrent of Destiny] to search the Mobile Ancient Ruins and found a black crystal cube that triggered a sharp but brief sense of danger. He gathered other objects and left the ruins with a [Gray Mist Imprint] planted there, preserving a way to locate the site again.

• Ling Wuyuan judged the invisible combat puppets too dangerous to fight and considered how difficult it would be to claim the ruins without authorization.
• Ling Wuyuan burned through roughly one-third of his stored Law of Karma while searching the ruins with the [Torrent of Destiny].
• Ling Wuyuan found and took a nearly weightless black crystal cube, after which the feeling of being watched and a piercing danger intensified briefly.
• Ling Wuyuan continued searching for items he could safely remove and left a [Gray Mist Imprint] in the ruins to track their coordinates.
• Ling Wuyuan gathered numerous unidentified objects and retreated when his Law of Karma reserves had fallen to about one-third of their initial amount.

After emerging from the ancient ruin, Ling Wuyuan learned that Su Qingyue had been injured by the sword scar’s Sword Intent. Su Qingyue speculated that an Eternal Life Realm swordsman and the ruin’s war fortress had destroyed each other, then saw Ling Wuyuan as their sect’s best chance to claim it.

• Ling Wuyuan emerged from the ancient ruin and noticed Su Qingyue was weak.
• Su Qingyue explained that the Sword Intent in the sword scar had severed her mental power and injured her across space.
• Su Qingyue refused to recuperate, saying the encounter had broadened her understanding of higher-level power.
• Su Qingyue judged that the Sword Intent and the self-moving ancient ruin were likely at the Eternal Life Realm level.
• Su Qingyue speculated that the swordsman and the fortress’s controllers had perished together, leaving the ruin without anyone in control.
• Su Qingyue decided Ling Wuyuan might be able to claim the war fortress, leaving him confused by her approving gaze.