Chapter Summaries

People at Haidu Island speculated about why the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion valued Ling Wuyuan, and a confident Heavenly Martial Hall member considered challenging him in the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm. Ling Wuyuan ignored the slander around him and welcomed the chance to use it to cultivate the Law of Karma.

• Onlookers questioned why the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had made an exception for Ling Wuyuan, though they concluded he was likely a formidable enemy.
• A Heavenly Martial Hall core member argued that his sect could produce talents who surpassed Ling Wuyuan and said he was not inferior to him.
• The core member considered fighting Ling Wuyuan in the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm, deciding that exposing his identity could be worthwhile.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed the crowd's negative emotions but stayed unconcerned, viewing the slander as a way to cultivate the Law of Karma.

Cang Jingjing oversaw the opening of the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm and allowed outsiders to enter after Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s people. As the entrance opened, Gao Xinrong of Huanmai Gold City asked to challenge Ling Wuyuan.

• Cang Jingjing ordered a female cultivator to open the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm.
• The female cultivator activated a metal token, and the secret realm’s entrance appeared as a huge spacetime gate.
• The female cultivator explained that outsiders would enter after the upper sect’s personnel, and Cang Jingjing left the arrangements to her.
• Gao Xinrong identified himself as a cultivator from Huanmai Gold City and asked whether the masked Ling Wuyuan was Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s prodigy.
• Gao Xinrong requested permission to challenge Ling Wuyuan and measure the gap between them.

Cang Jingjing assessed whether Gao Xinrong of Huanmai Gold City was worthy of becoming a stepping stone for Ling Wuyuan’s first battle outside the sect. Ling Wuyuan accepted Gao Xinrong’s challenge.

• The narration established that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was among the Silver Mist Sea Domain’s strongest hegemonic forces, while Huanmai Gold City was a powerful but lower-ranked force.
• Cang Jingjing considered Gao Xinrong’s strength and reputation only to determine whether he was a worthy opponent for Ling Wuyuan.
• Cang Jingjing’s silence made Gao Xinrong and the surrounding onlookers fear that he had offended her.
• Ling Wuyuan stepped forward and accepted Gao Xinrong’s challenge.

Ling Wuyuan accepted Cang Jingjing’s approval to fight Gao Xinrong inside a sealed battlefield, while Gao Xinrong boasted of his reputation and rankings. Ling Wuyuan then appeared before him and offered him the first move, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Ling Wuyuan volunteered to fight Gao Xinrong, and Cang Jingjing approved, telling him not to take too long.
• Cang Jingjing sealed off an area for the fight because the group still needed to enter the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm.
• Gao Xinrong entered the battlefield and cited his strength, reputation, and Prodigy Ranking honors as reasons Ling Wuyuan should not underestimate him.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that his own fame and rankings had brought him influence that could nourish the Torrent of Destiny.
• Ling Wuyuan used space-time power to appear before Gao Xinrong and told him to strike first because otherwise he might not get a chance.

Ling Wuyuan provoked Gao Xinrong into unleashing Huanmai Gold City's supreme arts, then stood motionless as Gao's intangible blades formed a deadly attack around him. The chapter left the spectators waiting to see how Ling Wuyuan would respond.

• Ling Wuyuan told Gao Xinrong that he should attack first because Gao would likely have no chance to retaliate if Ling struck first.
• Gao Xinrong grew furious, and the gathered spectators watched with curiosity as Ling invited him to display Huanmai Gold City's supreme arts.
• Gao Xinrong conjured countless intangible blades, but Ling dismissed the attack as useless against him.
• Gao Xinrong unleashed a storm of blades that formed a complex formation as it swept toward Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan neither moved nor tried to stop the formation or its blades from reaching him.

Ling Wuyuan effortlessly endured Gao Xinrong’s invisible blades without his protective true essence even rippling, revealing an overwhelming gap between their strength. Gao Xinrong’s attacks could not break through Ling Wuyuan’s defenses, and the chapter left Gao Xinrong despairing and convinced Ling Wuyuan possessed a powerful defensive Innate Divine Ability.

• Gao Xinrong’s invisible blades struck Ling Wuyuan, but neither he nor his protective true essence moved or showed damage.
• The blades vanished when they touched Ling Wuyuan’s protective true essence, making Gao Xinrong realize that even his strongest desperate attack might not hurt him.
• Gao Xinrong cried out in disbelief and guessed that Ling Wuyuan had a terrifyingly powerful defensive Innate Divine Ability.
• Gao Xinrong recognized that his own attacks could not break through Ling Wuyuan’s defenses.

Ling Wuyuan told Gao Xinrong that his attacks had failed because Ling Wuyuan was simply strong, not because he possessed a defensive Innate Divine Ability. As Ling Wuyuan clenched his hand, the invisible blades around them slowed and Gao Xinrong felt sharp pain in his mind.

• Onlookers debated whether Ling Wuyuan's defense came from an Innate Divine Ability that strengthened his True Essence or from some other source.
• A Heavenly Martial Hall spectator concluded that True Essence of such intensity would require exceptional strength in both body and soul, while his companion hoped Ling Wuyuan relied only on a specialized defense.
• Ling Wuyuan raised his open hand and told Gao Xinrong he had not deliberately defended himself and was simply strong enough to withstand the attacks.
• Ling Wuyuan tightened his fingers, causing the formation's invisible blades to slow down.
• Gao Xinrong, who controlled the blades, felt an unbearable stabbing pain deep in his mind.

Ling Wuyuan seized control of Gao Xinrong’s invisible blades and compressed the returned True Essence into a sphere powerful enough to kill even True Form Realm cultivators. Just as everyone expected Gao Xinrong to die, Ling Wuyuan crushed the sphere in his fist and unleashed its energy as a torrent of light.

• Ling Wuyuan gradually stopped Gao Xinrong’s invisible blades and took control of them.
• Ling Wuyuan drew the blades into his palm and compressed their True Essence into a miniature sun.
• Yu Jincheng said the attack would give him at least a ninety percent chance of death, and another spectator concluded Gao Xinrong was doomed.
• Ling Wuyuan closed his fist and crushed the sphere of light, releasing its destructive energy in a torrent.

Ling Wuyuan crushed the destructive burst from the orb of light in his bare hand, leaving Gao Xinrong and the spectators stunned by the immense gap between their abilities. The onlookers abandoned thoughts of challenging him as the fight revealed that even powerful cultivators could not contend with him head-on.

• Ling Wuyuan crushed the small-sun-like orb of light, releasing a destructive burst of uncontrolled energy.
• Gao Xinrong mobilized all his power to defend himself, believing the explosion would kill him.
• Ling Wuyuan trapped the burst between his fingers and suppressed it completely without injury.
• Gao Xinrong realized that Ling Wuyuan's strength vastly surpassed his own and that his earlier attacks had failed because of that gap.
• The spectators and members of the Heavenly Martial Hall lost their confidence and concluded they had little chance of defeating Ling Wuyuan in a direct battle.

After Ling Wuyuan effortlessly gathered and extinguished Gao Xinrong’s devastating attack, the onlookers recognized the enormous gap between him and even the strongest young cultivators. Ling Wuyuan challenged Gao Xinrong to use Huanmai Gold City’s illusion-based arts, leaving Gao Xinrong to stake his last hope on them.

• Yan Xiujin asked a fellow disciple why Ling Wuyuan’s display had shocked everyone, and the disciple explained that he had contained an attack powerful enough to threaten True Form Realm cultivators without being hurt.
• Cang Jingjing reflected that even Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s finest young Divine Ability Realm cultivators fell far short of Ling Wuyuan, whose talent overshadowed his peers.
• Ling Wuyuan showed Gao Xinrong his unharmed palm and urged him to stop using ordinary attacks and unleash Huanmai Gold City’s illusion-based techniques.
• Gao Xinrong agreed and put his hope in the illusion and phantom methods his sect excelled at, since Ling Wuyuan had easily overcome his destructive attacks.

Gao Xinrong unleashed Huanmai Gold City's ultimate technique, Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light, against Ling Wuyuan. Ling Wuyuan deliberately let the attack reach him to discover what weakness the illusion would exploit.

• Gao Xinrong overcame his fear and resolved to use his ultimate technique against Ling Wuyuan.
• Gao Xinrong unleashed Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light, whose shifting radiance filled its targets with hallucinations and could rapidly age them.
• Ling Wuyuan judged that his protective True Essence could resist the attack, but deliberately dispersed it and took the blow.
• Gao Xinrong and Cang Jingjing were baffled when Ling Wuyuan let the technique strike him.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted the illusion so he could experience an inner demon and learn what weakness lay within him.

Ling Wuyuan endured Gao Xinrong’s Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light and found himself reliving memories of his past, but the illusion failed to unsettle him. He shattered it almost immediately, leaving Gao Xinrong shocked by how easily his ultimate technique was broken.

• Ling Wuyuan watched an illusion of his younger self waiting for a bus outside the orphanage and recalled his early struggles.
• Ling Wuyuan compared those hardships with the torment he had endured traveling through the spacetime passage and decided his memories were not a meaningful inner demon.
• After the young figure caught the bus, Ling Wuyuan used a thought to shatter the illusion.
• Gao Xinrong sensed that Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light had been torn apart before he could reinforce it.
• Ling Wuyuan's gaze quickly returned to normal while Gao Xinrong was left stunned and heartbroken.

Ling Wuyuan easily escaped Gao Xinrong’s Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light, leaving Gao baffled by his spiritual resilience. When Gao asked to see Ling use a move, Ling turned back and prepared a technique modeled on Gao’s illusion art.

• Gao Xinrong asked how Ling Wuyuan had escaped Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light, and Ling said its illusions had felt weak and easy to distinguish from reality.
• Gao considered whether Ling’s spiritual strength was overwhelming or his mind lacked spiritual weaknesses, but could not understand how Ling had become so formidable.
• Ling Wuyuan denied Gao’s suspicion that he had traveled under a false identity and said he had always used his real name.
• Gao Xinrong stopped Ling from leaving and asked him to use at least one move so their encounter could count as a battle.
• Ling Wuyuan formed deep-gray energy at his fingertip and said he had imitated Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light, though his version would likely be weaker.

Ling Wuyuan defeated Gao Xinrong with an unfinished illusion technique that made imagined injuries real, leaving Gao severely wounded. Cang Jingjing disqualified Gao and ordered preparations to begin for entry into the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm.

• Ling Wuyuan used his newly created gray-mist technique to overwhelm Gao Xinrong’s defenses and make him collapse.
• Ling Wuyuan left Gao alive, having restrained his power because the unfinished move was difficult to control.
• Cang Jingjing asked Ling Wuyuan what would happen to Gao, and Gao suddenly vomited blood high into the air.
• Cang Jingjing declared Gao had forfeited and ordered the administrator to prepare everyone to enter the Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm.
• Cang Jingjing and Ling Wuyuan showed no concern for Gao’s fate, viewing his challenge as a risk he had chosen to take.

After Ling Wuyuan entered the [Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm], his strength left the [Heavenly Martial Hall] and other groups debating whether to follow. Inside the spatial passage, Ling Wuyuan considered how his growing influence could earn him more Law of Karma, then reconciled with Wu Yanlian after she teased him.

• The people from the [Heavenly Martial Hall] hesitated over entering the [Youyue Great Marsh Secret Realm] because Ling Wuyuan's strength made them fear the risks.
• One member of the [Heavenly Martial Hall] argued that Ling Wuyuan had no reason to attack them, and the group decided to enter.
• Other people chose not to enter, either because they expected no gains alongside Ling Wuyuan or because his display made them feel weak.
• Ling Wuyuan noticed that demonstrating his abilities was rapidly increasing his influence and Law of Karma, but he worried that attracting too much attention could trigger dangerous events.
• Wu Yanlian teased Ling Wuyuan for acting profound, then pressed against his arm; he forgave her, while she exchanged a knowing glance with Pei Yiman.

Wu Yanlian acted on her feelings for Ling Wuyuan, and he responded by wrapping an arm around her and Pei Yiman. Their unexpected embrace left the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion sisters shocked and gossiping, while Yan Xiujin feared she would be left behind.

• Wu Yanlian gathered the resolve to show Ling Wuyuan her feelings, encouraged by Pei Yiman and reassured by Su Qingyue's hints.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to accept them all and put an arm around Wu Yanlian and Pei Yiman.
• Wu Yanlian and Pei Yiman blushed and pinched Ling Wuyuan while the Pavilion members reacted with astonished exclamations and gossip.
• Xi Xianlan wondered how Wu Yanlian had managed to act secretly while she had not noticed anything.
• Yan Xiujin felt betrayed that Wu Yanlian had made her move first and began watching her Senior Sisters warily.

Ling Wuyuan and the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion entered the Youyue Great Marsh together, arriving in a foul-smelling nest instead of being scattered across the secret realm. They discovered that a powerful creature was waiting beneath the poisonous swamp, and the group prepared to face it.

• As the group approached the secret realm, Ling Wuyuan comforted Yan Xiujin and the others prepared for a dangerous arrival.
• Rune artifacts linked the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion members together and kept them from being scattered upon entering.
• The group appeared above a vast nest filled with rotting animal carcasses and endured its terrible stench.
• Ling Wuyuan and a Divine Ability Realm cultivator recognized that the nest could hold valuable resources despite its danger.
• The group sensed the nest's owner waiting beneath the poisonous miasma, ready to attack.

Ling Wuyuan killed the giant creature hiding beneath the Youyue Great Marsh and cleared most of its nest. Afterward, Yan Xiujin and Wu Yanlian fought over Ling Wuyuan’s attention, while Bai Jingshu asked what the group should do next.

• The Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion used detection arts to find the creature concealed beneath the marsh.
• The giant creature ambushed the group, but Ling Wuyuan killed it instantly by destroying its mental will.
• Gray mist spread through the nest, clearing the poisonous air and destroying the venomous insects in its path.
• Yan Xiujin tried to reclaim her place beside Ling Wuyuan, but Wu Yanlian embraced him and knocked Yan Xiujin down.
• Bai Jingshu asked what the group should do next, and Pei Suxia replied that only Heaven knew.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on rune technology and the weak political position of ordinary people before preparing a Floating Rune Warship as the team's mobile base for exploring Youyue Great Marsh. The chapter ended with him noting that the Secret Realm Spacetime’s rules restricted him to about half his strength.

• Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's metal puppets dismantled the giant creature and carefully collected its organs, blood, venom, and other resources.
• Ling Wuyuan considered how rune technology compared with the technology of his previous world and why automation and public welfare were less widely pursued in a world ruled by individual strength.
• Ling Wuyuan deployed his eight-kilometer Floating Rune Warship as the team's base for exploring Youyue Great Marsh.
• Ling Wuyuan assessed that the warship could withstand most creatures in the marsh, while Secret Realm creatures generally relied on their environment rather than civilization or advanced techniques.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that the realm's suppressive rules limited him to around fifty percent of his strength until he had time to adjust.

Ling Wuyuan’s expedition entered the Youyue Great Marsh, where time flowed twenty-one times faster than in Main Spacetime, while Yan Xiujin learned her senior sisters planned to put her through intense training. Outside the marsh, Cang Jingjing watched over the expedition and considered how to deter anyone who might target Ling Wuyuan.

• A Divine Ability Realm member of Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion told Ling Wuyuan that time in the Youyue Great Marsh flowed about twenty-one times faster than in Main Spacetime, giving the team roughly four hundred and twenty days to explore.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed that an important secret lay in the marsh but set aside divining it, focusing instead on gathering enough of the Law of Karma to decode his metal discs.
• Yan Xiujin felt relieved that she would not be separated from Ling Wuyuan for a year and a half, but Xianlan warned her that her senior sisters would make her train intensively.
• Cang Jingjing ignored the leaders of nearby factions who came to pay their respects and relied on tokens and other methods to monitor the expedition’s safety.
• Cang Jingjing watched the locals try to save a motionless cultivator and judged that Ling Wuyuan’s displayed strength might attract people with ill intentions, so she remained as a deterrent.