Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan explained that the creators of the black cube had followed a different technological path, while he continued accumulating the Law of Karma and studying many disciplines. After he asked to test his strength, Su Qingyue agreed to seek dangerous opponents or arrange suitable elders for sparring.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected that the black cube's creators had likely combined metal machinery with individual martial strength, unlike the Thorn Civilization's biotechnology and psychic abilities.
• Ling Wuyuan noted that he was still earning substantial Law of Karma from the Golden Mist Continent and the Silver Mist Sea Domain despite staying in seclusion.
• Su Qingyue recalled how Ling Wuyuan had spent the past year studying widely and receiving unusually generous access to the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's resources.
• Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue he wanted to fight someone to test his strength, surprising and intriguing her.
• Su Qingyue offered to find suitable secret realm opponents or powerful criminals, and to arrange elders for sparring if no better targets were available.

Su Qingyue brought Ling Wuyuan to the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s Sin Prison so he could practice against its prisoners, whom she said he could kill without restraint. As they entered the prison, Ling Wuyuan recognized that its gorge existed in an artificial Grotto-Heaven, and Su Qingyue confirmed it was built for suppression, defense, and concealment.

• Su Qingyue led Ling Wuyuan through the formation barriers to the secluded Sin Prison, where Yuan Yujun explained that it held sect offenders and external enemies.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan that the prisoners chosen for his practice had little value and that he did not need to hold back; she had restored their strength with pills over the past few days.
• Ling Wuyuan thanked Su Qingyue, and she told him to stop thanking her because they were close; he agreed.
• As Ling Wuyuan entered the gorge, he sensed that its space-time lay outside the main material world and asked Su Qingyue about it.
• Su Qingyue confirmed that the Sin Prison was an artificial Grotto-Heaven designed for suppression, defense, and concealment.

Ling Wuyuan followed Su Qingyue into the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s Grotto-Heaven prison and discovered that its poisonous air and spiritual energy steadily weakened prisoners. After analyzing the toxins, he asked Su Qingyue who had created them, and she recognized his exceptional senses and pharmacological knowledge.

• Ling Wuyuan considered how Void Glimpse Realm cultivators created Grotto-Heavens and why the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion could use one as a prison.
• Ling Wuyuan followed Su Qingyue into the canyon and sensed toxins in the air and spiritual energy that weakened prisoners over time.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that his adaptive evolution could eventually let him resist the toxins, though he estimated it would take at least a hundred years.
• Ling Wuyuan analyzed the toxins and asked Su Qingyue who had created them, noting that they seemed unlike ordinary poisons.
• Su Qingyue praised Ling Wuyuan’s keen senses and inferred that his pharmacological knowledge surpassed that of ordinary alchemists and apothecaries.

Su Qingyue explained the origins and power of Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s poison-producing runic treasure as she led Ling Wuyuan to Sin Prison’s guarded entrance. After entering, she was informed that Elder Qin and the arranged prisoners were waiting at Arena Number One.

• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan that generations of elders had refined a runic treasure created from a predecessor’s Innate Divine Ability, enabling it to produce deadly toxins.
• Ling Wuyuan and Su Qingyue reached a metal gate guarded by tens of thousands of motionless metal puppets arranged in a battle formation.
• Su Qingyue used a token to open the gate, and veiled elite members of Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion welcomed their Pavilion Master.
• Su Qingyue explained that the guards took turns at the entrance to limit the effects of Sin Prison’s toxins, while the elites watched Ling Wuyuan with curiosity.
• A greeter told Su Qingyue that Elder Qin was waiting at Arena Number One and that the prisoners she had requested were ready.
• Su Qingyue ordered the greeter to lead them to Arena Number One.

Ling Wuyuan entered Arena Number One to test himself against a sequence of powerful prisoners while Su Qingyue, Xie Yiyao, and Qin Xiyu watched. The arena’s suppressive formations activated, and the three women predicted how many opponents he would defeat before the first match began.

• Xie Yiyao and Qin Xiyu watched Ling Wuyuan, unable to discern his true strength but sensing his unusual power.
• Ling Wuyuan signaled that he was ready, and Su Qingyue instructed Xie Yiyao and Qin Xiyu to activate the arena’s formation barriers.
• The barriers suppressed speed and destructive power, allowing the arena to contain even Heart Domain Realm Cultivators.
• Xie Yiyao asked how many rounds Ling Wuyuan would last, and Qin Xiyu predicted twelve while Su Qingyue predicted fifteen.
• Su Qingyue, Xie Yiyao, and Qin Xiyu expected the first three Divine Ability Realm opponents to serve only as practice targets for Ling Wuyuan.

Ling Wuyuan assessed Arena Number One and met Feng Rong, a Divine Ability Realm prisoner who had been sent to fight him. Feng Rong learned that defeating him would earn her freedom, and Ling Wuyuan gave her thirty breaths to prepare for battle.

• Ling Wuyuan sensed that Arena Number One's suppressive effects were manageable and discovered that its space had been expanded to three hundred thousand square kilometers.
• Feng Rong appeared before Ling Wuyuan and was shocked to find a man inside the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion].
• The arena revealed that Feng Rong was a Human and Grand Elder of the Blood Shadow Charm Sect, imprisoned for causing billions of deaths, while Ling Wuyuan was a powerful official member of the [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion].
• Feng Rong focused on the promise that defeating Ling Wuyuan would earn her freedom and tried to charm him.
• Ling Wuyuan told Feng Rong to prepare for battle and gave her thirty breaths.

Feng Rong recognized the status of the observers outside the arena and grew increasingly wary of Ling Wuyuan. She launched a surprise attack before his countdown ended, but the chapter left the outcome unresolved as her soul-based ability and claw struck him together.

• Feng Rong recalled her hatred of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and realized the veiled observers’ badges marked them as important figures.
• Ling Wuyuan continued counting down while Feng Rong gathered her strength and prepared to fight.
• Before the countdown ended, Feng Rong used her Innate Divine Ability and teleported toward Ling Wuyuan to attack his throat.
• Feng Rong’s soul attack hit a barrier around Ling Wuyuan, but she renewed it and struck at his throat with her claw.
• Su Qingyue, Xie Yiyao, and Qin Xiyu watched as Feng Rong’s mental and physical attacks landed on Ling Wuyuan.

Ling Wuyuan let Feng Rong unleash her strongest attacks, then killed her with a single, impossibly fast sword strike. Su Qingyue, Xie Yiyao, and Qin Xiyu watched him win his first arena match and judged his strength greater than they had expected.

• Feng Rong attacked Ling Wuyuan with all her strength, but his True Essence shield stopped every blow and rendered her Innate Divine Ability useless.
• Ling Wuyuan continued his countdown as Feng Rong realized she could not harm him and tried to retreat.
• Ling Wuyuan drew and sheathed his sword faster than Feng Rong could follow, severing her head with one strike.
• Su Qingyue praised Ling Wuyuan's decisive victory, while Xie Yiyao and Qin Xiyu were impressed by his formidable abilities.

Ling Wuyuan faced his tenth opponent, a powerful True Form Realm cultivator, and used Abyssal Divine Speed to end the fight effortlessly. The observers continued debating his strength as the arena’s opponents grew stronger.

• Su Qingyue rejected Xie Yiyao’s suggestion to skip the next two Divine Ability Realm opponents and kept the original order.
• Ling Wuyuan fought his tenth opponent, a powerful True Form Realm cultivator, and activated Abyssal Divine Speed.
• Qin Xiyu estimated that Ling Wuyuan had revealed his normal baseline strength, while Xie Yiyao argued he could win even without using his Innate Divine Ability.
• Su Qingyue marveled at Ling Wuyuan’s ability to challenge opponents across realms and recalled his past victory over a Heart Domain Realm cultivator.
• Ling Wuyuan used his fivefold speed increase to outpace his opponent and land a fatal blow.

Ling Wuyuan defeated opponents eleven through nineteen with overwhelming speed, then faced a twentieth opponent whose Innate Divine Ability could equalize their physical strength. He let the ability develop, curious about its limits, and recognized that it did not affect the boosts from Abyssal Divine Speed.

• Ling Wuyuan defeated opponents eleven through nineteen, increasing his acceleration multiplier from fivefold to tenfold as their strength rose.
• Su Qingyue and the others realized that Ling Wuyuan’s speed let him win with basic attacks, and they hoped the twentieth opponent could reveal more of his abilities.
• Ling Wuyuan let his twentieth opponent activate an Innate Divine Ability that forcibly divided and equalized their physical strength.
• Ling Wuyuan studied the opponent’s translucent scale True Form and determined that the ability had little effect on true essence or the boosts from Abyssal Divine Speed.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized the ability’s limitations but waited to see how the opponent would use it.

Lü Jin used her Innate Divine Ability, Power Distribution, to steal half of Ling Wuyuan’s physical attributes, but he remained confident that he could kill her. He urged her to push the ability further, and Lü Jin sensed that she could still die if they fought.

• Lü Jin activated Power Distribution and evolved it to unilaterally halve Ling Wuyuan’s physical attributes and add them to her own.
• Ling Wuyuan felt his strength draining but remained composed and told Lü Jin she was about to die.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that his Abyssal Divine Speed could still let him defeat her, and that using it herself would likely kill her.
• Ling Wuyuan encouraged Lü Jin to push her ability further, and Lü Jin grew enraged before sensing that her current power might not save her.

Lü Jin realized she could not break through her limits against Ling Wuyuan and surrendered to survive. Ling Wuyuan spared her, ended the fights, and was transported away while Lü Jin prepared to return to her cell.

• Lü Jin noticed traces of True Essence from Divine Ability Realm and True Form Realm experts who had been in Number One Arena, and feared what had happened to them.
• Lü Jin unleashed her full power but realized she had not broken through her limits, so she deactivated Power Distribution and surrendered to Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan paused in surprise, then spared Lü Jin and told Su Qingyue that the fights were over.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that he had gauged his normal combat strength and discovered that unusual effects could still threaten him.
• Ling Wuyuan vanished through space, and Lü Jin awaited the force that would return her to her cell.

Ling Wuyuan declined to spar with Qin Xiyu or Xie Yiyao, explaining that breaking a Heart Domain Realm domain with his speed would badly injure him until he addressed his weaknesses. He planned to begin mastering Acquired Divine Abilities, then told Xi Xianlan that ordinary True Form Realm cultivators were no match for him while she quietly worried about falling behind.

• Qin Xiyu offered to spar with Ling Wuyuan, and Xie Yiyao agreed, but Ling Wuyuan refused because testing himself against a Heart Domain Realm cultivator would cause him severe injuries.
• Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue that the test had revealed shortcomings and that he wanted to address them before fighting opponents two realms above him.
• Ling Wuyuan said he was ready to begin mastering Acquired Divine Abilities, and Su Qingyue offered her support.
• Xi Xianlan asked Ling Wuyuan about his combat test, and he said ordinary True Form Realm cultivators were no match for him but warned himself not to underestimate enemies with Innate Divine Abilities.
• Xi Xianlan congratulated Ling Wuyuan while privately worrying about the gap between their cultivation levels, and Bai Jingshu silently rolled her eyes.

Xi Xianlan invited Ling Wuyuan to explore a nearby secret realm with the other disciples, and he agreed while Yan Xiujin was left behind for being too weak. Ling Wuyuan then considered the permanent risks and limitations of engraving Acquired Divine Abilities, leaving his cultivation choices under careful study.

• Xi Xianlan told Ling Wuyuan about a secret realm opening near Dragon Continent in three months and invited him to join the sect disciples exploring it.
• Ling Wuyuan confirmed that the secret realm was nearby and limited to Divine Ability Realm entrants, then agreed to go with everyone.
• Yan Xiujin protested that she was the only one excluded, but Xi Xianlan and Ling Wuyuan explained that she was too weak to endure the realm's dangers.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that Acquired Divine Abilities helped complete Innate Divine Abilities as cultivators advanced toward the True Form Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan considered how poor compatibility and flawed abilities created by their makers could permanently limit Acquired Divine Abilities.

Ling Wuyuan reconsidered how cultivators used Acquired Divine Abilities and conceived a way to surpass them all by dismantling and recombining their fundamental knowledge. He left the chapter with an immense, difficult goal: to master every mystery and evolve beyond all cultivators.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected that cultivators used flawed abilities to cover weaknesses and amplify their greatest strengths.
• Ling Wuyuan rejected following the usual path because he wanted to surpass every cultivator past, present, and future.
• During the test, Ling Wuyuan realized he could dismantle Acquired Divine Abilities into fundamental knowledge and reassemble them as needed.
• Ling Wuyuan considered combining the strengths of different abilities during reconstruction to create versions more complete than the originals.
• Ling Wuyuan resolved to gather not merely the strengths of a hundred schools, but everything, despite the many obstacles involved.

Ling Wuyuan clarified how My Own Path and Doomfall Calamity would support his cultivation and self-improvement as he pursued his goals. Three months later, he joined Pei Yiman and the others for their secret-realm expedition, leaving Yan Xiujin behind to complain.

• Ling Wuyuan decided My Own Path would gather and develop his knowledge, while Doomfall Calamity would detect weaknesses in both enemies and himself.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that his three Innate Divine Abilities could help supply the talent, knowledge, and resources he still needed.
• Pei Yiman looked forward to exploring [Secret Realm Spacetime] with Ling Wuyuan, confident that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's protections would keep them safe.
• When the expedition began three months later, Ling Wuyuan joined the group despite his ongoing studies because Pei Yiman was excited to go.
• Yan Xiujin protested being left behind, but Xi Xianlan and the other Senior Sisters dismissed her pleas, and Ling Wuyuan could only shrug.

Yan Xiujin secured permission to accompany Ling Wuyuan into the Secret Realm Time-Space, and Su Qingyue made her a protective talisman. As the group reached their transport, Su Qingyue introduced their escort, Grand Elder Cang Jingjing, who stood beside the Floating Rune Warship.

• Yan Xiujin complained that she would miss Ling Wuyuan during the year he would spend inside the Secret Realm Time-Space.
• Su Qingyue agreed to let Yan Xiujin come along and offered to make a talisman that would shield her from the realm’s unusual rules.
• Yan Xiujin thanked Su Qingyue, embraced Ling Wuyuan, and joyfully declared that he could no longer shake her off.
• Ling Wuyuan secretly used the Torrent of Destiny to add safeguards to Yan Xiujin’s Destiny Thread.
• Su Qingyue explained that Grand Elder Cang Jingjing would escort the group and advised them to respect her and try to curry favor with her.
• Su Qingyue finished Yan Xiujin’s talisman, and the group arrived at the Floating Rune Warship, where Cang Jingjing was waiting.

Cang Jingjing joined Su Qingyue, Ling Wuyuan, Pei Yiman, Yan Xiujin, and the others on a Floating Rune Warship bound for a Secret Realm Space-Time, despite her misgivings about the sect’s arrangements. They reached the island where other explorers were waiting for Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to enter the realm first.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected on the overwhelming strength gap between himself and Heart Domain Realm and Void Glimpse Realm cultivators as he greeted Cang Jingjing.
• Cang Jingjing questioned why Yan Xiujin had come, and Su Qingyue explained she had given her a protective talisman and added her to the expedition.
• Cang Jingjing agreed to accompany the group, then boarded the Floating Rune Warship with them.
• Cang Jingjing sensed that Su Qingyue hoped the expedition would deepen Ling Wuyuan’s bonds with the women, and she sighed over the sect’s unusual arrangements.
• The Floating Rune Warship reached an island where explorers were waiting for Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to arrive and enter the Secret Realm Space-Time first.

Ling Wuyuan and the others arrived above Haidu Island aboard Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s Floating Rune Warship, bound for the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm. The island’s nations and factions recognized the warship’s authority and began preparing to welcome the powerful visitor.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled information about Haidu Island and the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm as the Floating Rune Warship approached.
• Ling Wuyuan and Pei Yiman admired the Silver Sea Period scenery while the warship sailed over the island.
• The Floating Rune Warship’s immense shadow covered Haidu Island’s harbor, alarming the armed personnel and local dignitaries.
• People across Haidu Island heard bells announcing the arrival and recognized that a powerful figure from Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had come.
• The island’s nations and factions rushed to prepare a welcome and wondered why the visitor had arrived.

Yan Xiujin and Yao Yueyan prepared to enter the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm as Cang Jingjing arrived in the port city. Cang Jingjing’s overwhelming presence subdued the onlookers, who then noticed the masked Ling Wuyuan standing prominently among the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.

• Yao Yueyan scolded Yan Xiujin for assuming the bells welcomed her and stopped her from making Ling Wuyuan carry her.
• Cang Jingjing watched the group and felt pleased that events were unfolding in her favor.
• The group descended toward the port city aboard a small Floating Rune Warship as the assembled crowd waited in silence.
• Cang Jingjing disembarked, and her presence filled the onlookers with fear and reverence despite her doing nothing.
• After the group lined up, the onlookers noticed Ling Wuyuan standing near the front of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s ranks and scrutinized him.