Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yujun, Su Qingyue, and their companions departed Jade Night Snow City aboard the enormous Ice Erosion Cold Boat, leaving Fu Mengxue and another elder to oversee the city's decade-long renovation. The vessel headed toward the distant overseas regions, while onlookers across the continent watched its overwhelming power in stunned silence.

• Yuan Yujun handed management of Jade Night Snow City to Fu Mengxue and another branch elder before leaving for headquarters with Su Qingyue and the others.
• Yan Xiujin eagerly anticipated the long journey, while Wu Yanlian, Xi Xianlan, Bai Jingshu, Yao Yueyan, and Pei Suxia felt reluctant to leave their home.
• Ling Wuyuan and the others boarded the Ice Erosion Cold Boat, which rose into the sky and cast its shadow over Jade Night Snow City.
• Guan Xiangfei, the ruler in White Mist Royal Palace, and other regional powerhouses saw the warship's immense size and fell silent.
• The Ice Erosion Cold Boat sped away toward the overseas regions at a pace too fast for Divine Ability Realm cultivators to follow.

Aboard the Ice Erosion Cold Boat, Yan Xiujin asked whether Ling Wuyuan could see the scenery at the ship’s tremendous speed. Ling Wuyuan said he could with Abyssal Divine Speed, and agreed to Su Qingyue’s test of his vision.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected on the Ice Erosion Cold Boat’s defenses, Ship Spirit, and puppet forces, comparing it with the still-functioning ancient ruin.
• Yan Xiujin said she could not see anything outside the fast-moving ship and asked Ling Wuyuan if he could.
• Ling Wuyuan said he could see outside by using Abyssal Divine Speed, surprising Su Qingyue and the elders.
• Su Qingyue proposed testing Ling Wuyuan by rapidly showing him numbers to recite in order, and he agreed.
• Yuan Yujun, Xi Xianlan, and the others watched Su Qingyue’s raised right hand as the test was about to begin.

Ling Wuyuan tested his eyesight by identifying the numbers Su Qingyue flashed at ever-increasing speeds, impressing her and the headquarters elders. He pushed himself until his eyes were injured, then rapidly healed them through Self-Devouring.

• Su Qingyue flashed numbers too quickly for Yuan Yujun and the others to see, while Ling Wuyuan correctly identified them.
• Ling Wuyuan asked Su Qingyue to repeat the test at successively doubled speeds, and she agreed.
• As Su Qingyue approached Void Glimpse Realm speed, Ling Wuyuan's eyes grew bloodshot, leaving the observers confused and the elders shocked by his ability.
• Ling Wuyuan called a stop when he could no longer see faster movements, and his eyes began bleeding and visibly shriveling.
• Ling Wuyuan reassured everyone that he would recover, then used Self-Devouring to consume dead tissue and regenerate his eyes, stunning the onlookers.

Su Qingyue discovered that Ling Wuyuan had extraordinary mastery of Flesh and Blood Reorganization and suggested he cultivate it into an Acquired Divine Ability. Ling Wuyuan accepted, though he planned to wait until he had refined his understanding further at the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion Headquarters.

• Su Qingyue recognized that Ling Wuyuan had restored his eyes through Flesh and Blood Reorganization and asked whether the ability came from his physique.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that his recovery ability came partly from his special physique and partly from mastering countless body-tempering techniques.
• Su Qingyue explained how Acquired Divine Abilities and Divine Ability Marks worked, then recommended that Ling Wuyuan condense a regeneration-type ability.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted the suggestion, revealing that he was already close to condensing the ability but wanted to perfect it using the knowledge and materials at the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion Headquarters.

Ling Wuyuan considered how his exceptional talent would let him build a Power System from Acquired Divine Abilities around his Innate Divine Ability, while Su Qingyue explained why regeneration abilities would benefit him. Su Qingyue then laid out a three-month journey to headquarters so the group could observe the different regions beyond the Golden Mist Continent.

• Ling Wuyuan recognized that his evolving talent would let him learn many Acquired Divine Abilities and give him more room to construct his Power System.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that cultivators chose Acquired Divine Abilities to complement their Innate Divine Abilities and that mismatched choices could block their path to the True Form Realm.
• Su Qingyue had recommended a Regeneration Type Acquired Divine Ability because it could offset the strain of Ling Wuyuan's Abyssal Divine Speed, improve his endurance, and extend his life.
• Su Qingyue decided to make the journey to headquarters last around three months so Ling Wuyuan and the others could observe the sea regions they crossed.
• Su Qingyue warned that regions beyond the Golden Mist Continent had different rules that could negatively affect travelers, and Ling Wuyuan and the others acknowledged her guidance.

The [Ice Erosion Cold Boat] reached the [Boundary of Domains] between the [Golden Mist Continent] and the surrounding sea, where enormous tsunamis marked the meeting of different rules. Yuan Yujun observed the boundary as Su Qingyue explained how its dangers depended on the difference between the two Domains’ rules.

• The [Ice Erosion Cold Boat] descended as it approached the sea region outsiders classified as the [Golden Mist Continent]’s [Nearshore Area].
• The passengers saw colossal tsunamis collide at the [Boundary of Domains], sweeping sea creatures into the waves and tearing them apart.
• Yuan Yujun admired the sight and sensed the tangled, changing rules within the boundary.
• Su Qingyue explained that overlapping rules washed over anyone who entered the [Boundary of Domains], and that the severity depended on how different the two Domains’ rules were.

Ling Wuyuan observed the turbulent rules of the [Boundary of Domains] while Su Qingyue explained their dangers and gave the weaker travelers [Domain Crossing Pills]. The group prepared to cross into a nearby [Domain] whose rules were similar, though the tsunamis remained deadly without a powerful protector.

• Ling Wuyuan watched the colliding tsunamis and considered how the chaotic rules of the [Boundary of Domains] could offer cultivators a chance to study the laws of the world.
• Su Qingyue distributed [Domain Crossing Pills] to Pei Yiman and Yuan Yujun's other disciples so they could better withstand the rule changes.
• Yan Xiujin eagerly swallowed her pill, while the passage noted that she was the weakest person aboard the ship.
• Su Qingyue explained that the next [Domain] had rules similar to their current one, but warned that its tsunamis could kill even [Bone Forging Realm] cultivators without a powerful protector.

As the Ice Erosion Cold Boat entered the Boundary of Domains, Ling Wuyuan rapidly adapted to its chaotic rules and used the experience to improve his understanding of them. The group endured the rules’ baptism with help from the Domain Crossing Pill, and Pei Yiman showed a striking rise in strength.

• Ling Wuyuan quickly adapted to the Boundary of Domains and found its internal rules easier to understand.
• Ling Wuyuan used the Torrent of Destiny to spend stored Law of Karma on analyzing the rules, making his power more efficient to wield.
• Ling Wuyuan checked on Pei Yiman and the others, reassured Yan Xiujin, and encouraged her to remember the unpleasant sensation of the baptism.
• Yan Xiujin said she could endure the baptism, while the Domain Crossing Pill helped keep her experience relatively safe.
• Pei Yiman adapted to the rules almost instantly, and a brief release of cold energy revealed that her strength had increased, pleasing Su Qingyue and the others.

After more than two months of travel, Ling Wuyuan reflected on the extraordinary sights he had seen and thanked Su Qingyue for bringing him to distant lands ahead of schedule. He and Pei Yiman expected to reach the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s headquarters on Ice Mist Snow Island the next day, where Ling Wuyuan planned to cultivate and investigate a mysterious crystal cube.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled the strange landscapes and creatures he had encountered and wondered about the unchanging sun and moon.
• Pei Yiman observed that Ling Wuyuan enjoyed discovering new things, and he agreed that traveling while growing stronger suited him.
• Ling Wuyuan said Su Qingyue’s help had let him reach distant places decades or centuries earlier than he otherwise could have.
• Pei Yiman said they would reach the Silver Mist Sea around noon the next day and soon arrive at Ice Mist Snow Island, where Ling Wuyuan could study its books and resources.
• Ling Wuyuan said he intended to grow stronger through cultivation and future travels, but first needed time to develop the resources he had gathered.
• Ling Wuyuan remained unable to determine how to use the black crystal cube from the Mobile Ancient Ruins because his Law of Karma reserves were insufficient to trace its history.

Ling Wuyuan and the others arrived in the prosperous Silver Mist Sea Domain, where Su Qingyue explained its scale and the authority of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. Their journey was interrupted by a pirate attack on a merchant ship, and the pirates noticed the enormous Floating Rune Warship looming overhead.

• Ling Wuyuan accepted that he still needed to lie low while recognizing he had gained power of his own.
• Su Qingyue described the Silver Mist Sea Domain and the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's influence as the group crossed into the region.
• Su Qingyue explained the sea's silver glow and the increased danger from violent Sea Beasts during that period.
• Ling Wuyuan spotted more than ten ships attacking a merchant vessel and heard the pirates' lewd remarks through his spiritual power.
• The pirates and merchant crew looked up as the Floating Rune Warship cast a vast shadow over the sea.

Su Qingyue’s Ice Erosion Cold Boat destroyed a pirate fleet and continued toward Ice Mist Snow Island, the heavily defended heart of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. As a welcoming procession approached, she explained the island’s defenses and its ability to sustain the Pavilion even if its outer territories were lost.

• Su Qingyue’s Ice Erosion Cold Boat disintegrated more than a dozen pirate ships without harming the merchant ship nearby.
• The merchant ship’s crew wondered what had saved them, unaware that the vessel belonged to the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• At dusk, Ice Mist Snow Island came into view, and Ling Wuyuan saw ships and flying creatures keep their distance from it.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan and the others that the island had restricted sea routes, guarded airspace, and defenses against intruders from below.
• Su Qingyue explained that Ice Mist Snow Island could serve as a self-sufficient stronghold for the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• A large procession of Floating Rune Warships sailed out to welcome Su Qingyue and her companions.

Ling Wuyuan and his companions met the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s senior elders, who were impressed by his powerful True Essence and disciplined will. Zhang Zhirui asked to examine his body because some of Su Qingyue’s claims about him were difficult to believe.

• Su Qingyue led Ling Wuyuan and the others into the pavilion’s grand palace, where many powerful elders had gathered to see him.
• The elders remarked on Ling Wuyuan’s appearance before turning their attention to his strength.
• The elders sensed that Ling Wuyuan’s True Essence and the will within it far surpassed what they expected from someone in the Divine Ability Realm.
• The senior members approved of Ling Wuyuan’s strength, talent, will, and effort, while reserving judgment on his Innate Divine Ability.
• Zhang Zhirui introduced herself as a Grand Elder and asked Ling Wuyuan’s permission to examine his body.

Zhang Zhirui and the elders examined Ling Wuyuan and his companions, praising the disciples’ aptitudes while finding Ling Wuyuan’s body extraordinarily unlike that of an ordinary human. The examination ended with Zhang Zhirui accepting that he was very young and, at least by appearance, human.

• Ling Wuyuan agreed to Zhang Zhirui’s request to examine him, confident that the tests would not reveal anything he needed to hide.
• The elders’ examination turned chaotic as they marveled at Ling Wuyuan’s unusual organs, strong body, and abundant true essence, while Yan Xiujin and Su Qingyue watched uneasily.
• Yuan Yujun scolded Yan Xiujin for questioning the elders’ conduct and struck her on the head.
• After several hours, Zhang Zhirui and the elders examined Pei Yiman, Yuan Yujun, and the other disciples, praising their aptitudes and Pei Yiman’s compatibility with the sect.
• Zhang Zhirui concluded that Ling Wuyuan had countless abnormal bodily features but was exceptionally young and still looked human.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on how his reconstructed body and extraordinary vitality made him unlike an ordinary human, though he did not care what that meant for his identity. After Wu Yanlian and Yan Xiujin challenged the elders to determine his race, Ling Wuyuan agreed to be examined, leaving Zhang Zhirui and the others to investigate the matter.

• Ling Wuyuan considered how his multiple hearts and brains, unusual body, and powerful regeneration set him apart from humans, but he decided that his identity did not matter to him.
• Wu Yanlian asked Zhang Zhirui for a direct method to determine whether Ling Wuyuan was human, and Yan Xiujin backed her up.
• Zhang Zhirui and the other elders recognized that the younger women’s defense of Ling Wuyuan showed how close they were to him, but Zhang privately planned to double their coursework for mocking the elders.
• Zhang Zhirui and the others weighed whether to investigate Ling Wuyuan’s race, concerned that the truth could complicate his place in the human faction Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• Ling Wuyuan invited Zhang Zhirui to examine him if she had a suitable method, and the elders agreed.

Ling Wuyuan underwent an examination on the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s rune platform, but his passive abilities initially blocked it. Once he suppressed them, the platform confirmed he was human, shocking the Pavilion’s leaders who had doubted his claim.

• Su Qingyue explained how the rune platform examined newcomers and asked Ling Wuyuan to dispel his True Essence shield.
• Ling Wuyuan activated the platform, but it remained unable to examine him because his physique blocked external detection.
• Ling Wuyuan suppressed some of his passive abilities and told Su Qingyue to try the examination again.
• The platform successfully examined Ling Wuyuan, and the leaders exclaimed in surprise that he really was human.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that the Pavilion’s high-ranking members had never believed he was human.

After Ling Wuyuan’s test confirmed he was human, Su Qingyue announced that she would formally bring him into Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion despite the sect’s longstanding rules. At a gathering ten days later, she declared him a member and named Pei Yi a Pavilion Master Candidate, leaving the guests bewildered by Ling Wuyuan’s unprecedented admission.

• Ling Wuyuan accepted the test result confirming his human identity, while Su Qingyue and the others apologized for doubting him.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan she would publicly announce his membership in Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion, and he agreed.
• Ten days later, Su Qingyue gathered the sect and invited guests on Ice Mist Snow Island and announced that Ling Wuyuan had joined the sect.
• The assembled guests were shocked by Ling Wuyuan’s admission, but the sect’s elders and Grand Elders showed approval.
• Su Qingyue announced that Pei Yi would become a Pavilion Master Candidate, though the crowd remained focused on Ling Wuyuan’s rule-breaking admission.

At a gathering, Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s decision-makers openly demonstrated their confidence in Ling Wuyuan, leaving guests and sect members stunned by the treatment he received. Ling Wuyuan remained convinced he was not yet strong or outstanding enough, while his name spread among the Silver Mist Sea Domain’s top experts.

• A guest questioned a Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion Grand Elder about whether the sect’s extraordinary treatment of Ling Wuyuan was worth it, and the Grand Elder declared that he was the sect’s future.
• The guest and others inferred that Ling Wuyuan’s talent must be exceptional enough to make the sect’s leaders break ancestral rules for him.
• Sect members who had doubted the decision saw Ling Wuyuan and instinctively felt his presence set him far above ordinary cultivators.
• Ling Wuyuan calmly surveyed the gathering and thought he still had much to prove because some people did not yet accept him.
• By the end of the day, Ling Wuyuan’s name had become a focus of attention among top experts throughout the Silver Mist Sea Domain.

During a peaceful year of study and cultivation, Ling Wuyuan consolidated his abilities by reading extensively and refining himself. On his birthday, Yan Xiujin sought his attention and reminded him that he was turning eighteen, a milestone that stirred memories of his previous life.

• Ling Wuyuan spent most of the past year reading, cultivating, and refining his knowledge and abilities.
• At dawn, Ling Wuyuan read in Library Tower Number Twenty-Two while Yan Xiujin tried to sneak up on him.
• Ling Wuyuan noticed Yan Xiujin immediately and continued reading despite her complaints and playful death stare.
• Yan Xiujin wrapped her arms around Ling Wuyuan’s neck and asked him to play, explaining she had finished her morning lessons early to wish him a happy birthday.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that turning eighteen felt significant because of his previous life, though his body had not yet fully matured.

Ling Wuyuan celebrated his birthday after Yan Xiujin was the first to wish him well in person, and the two went shopping before joining the others for a banquet. As the celebration continued, Pei Yiman watched the women around Ling Wuyuan and judged them all to have combat power below five.

• Yan Xiujin congratulated Ling Wuyuan on his birthday, and he thanked her by promising to make a hundred dishes.
• Yan Xiujin asked Ling Wuyuan to carry her while they went shopping, and he agreed before playfully smacking her when she clung to his back.
• Ling Wuyuan and Yan Xiujin returned to the courtyard, where Wu Yanlian reproached them for going shopping without the others.
• Ling Wuyuan's group held a birthday banquet after the dishes were prepared and Yuan Yujun arrived.
• Pei Yiman watched the others drink and assessed them as trash with combat power below five.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on how reading had helped him grow stronger while considering the limits of his knowledge and his lack of combat experience. He received word that he had fully taken control of the Incubation Control Tower in Dragon Beast Sea Ridge and considered using its resources to deepen his infiltration.

• Pei Yiman asked Ling Wuyuan about his unusually happy mood, and he said celebrating his birthday with others had made the day his happiest in a long time.
• Ling Wuyuan told Pei Yiman that he had read over ten million books and that reading’s core purpose was to help him grow stronger without slowing his cultivation.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that his body, soul, will, martial skills, knowledge, and third Innate Divine Ability had all advanced during his year of reading and cultivation.
• Ling Wuyuan considered finding someone to spar with because he had not fought anyone for more than a year.
• Ling Wuyuan received feedback that he had fully privatized the Incubation Control Tower in Dragon Beast Sea Ridge while preserving its connection to the base.
• Ling Wuyuan considered forging higher-level permissions to infiltrate the tower more deeply, then thought of the black cube crystal and unread metal discs.