Chapter Summaries

Qiao Kai found Xia Yueze alive but grievously injured after Ling Wuyuan defeated him. As Qiao Kai took him away for treatment, they reflected on Ling Wuyuan’s overwhelming strength and the possibility that he had grown much stronger.

• Qiao Kai found Xia Yueze in the chasm, badly wounded but still conscious.
• Xia Yueze asked whether Ling Wuyuan had left, and Qiao Kai confirmed he had gone without hesitation.
• Qiao Kai lifted Xia Yueze with psychic power and prepared to teleport him away for treatment.
• Xia Yueze speculated that Ling Wuyuan had grown much stronger, while Qiao Kai suggested he might always have been far beyond them.
• Qiao Kai and Xia Yueze vanished, silently recalling how Ling Wuyuan had flicked Xia Yueze aside as casually as an insect.

Ling Wuyuan returned to camp and explained that mysterious artificial devices were hidden inside the Secret Realm Spacetime’s sun, raising concerns that an alien race had once monitored the sect’s activities. He reassured the group that the alien forces likely suffered a disaster or lost control of the realm, and said the Grand Elders would soon investigate.

• Xi Xianlan realized the people from Heavenly Martial Hall had mistaken Ling Wuyuan for a treasure or fortuitous opportunity after being drawn by the commotion he caused.
• Ling Wuyuan removed his mask and asked Yue Jingwan and the other Divine Ability Realm disciples to gather in the main hall once matters settled.
• Ling Wuyuan explained to the assembled disciples that mysterious artificial creations were hidden inside the sun of the Secret Realm Spacetime.
• Yue Jingwan and the others grew alarmed at the possibility that an alien race had monitored the sect in a realm near Ice Mist Snow Island.
• Ling Wuyuan reasoned that the alien forces had likely been wiped out or lost control, citing the lack of resistance or interference from the hidden devices.
• Ling Wuyuan reassured the group that the Grand Elders would soon enter the realm to investigate, and the disciples relaxed somewhat.

Wen Qingyan and two other cultivators from Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion left the Floating Rune Warship and used a secret art to breach Youyue Great Marsh's spacetime barrier. Su Qingyue learned they had succeeded and hoped their mission would proceed without unexpected trouble.

• Cang Jingjing confirmed she would remain outside Youyue Great Marsh as a guard, with more reinforcements expected to join her.
• Wen Qingyan and the other two departed the Floating Rune Warship and entered deep spacetime.
• The trio located Youyue Great Marsh and worked together to form a rune bridge through its spacetime barrier.
• Wen Qingyan and her companions crossed the barrier and entered Youyue Great Marsh.
• Su Qingyue learned of their successful entry and hoped nothing beyond expectations would go wrong.

Wen Qingyan and her two companions entered the Youyue Great Marsh’s secret spacetime, where its rules sharply restricted their power. After locating Ling Wuyuan and the others, they consumed a distant Blue Giant Star to create ultra-dense, high-energy matter, leaving the star completely collapsed.

• Wen Qingyan and her companions appeared in the secret spacetime and found that its rules limited how much power they could use.
• The three assessed their weakened abilities and concluded they had enough strength unless they encountered an expert of equal or greater level.
• Wen Qingyan and her companions surveyed the nearby celestial bodies and used their methods to lock onto Ling Wuyuan and the others’ coordinates.
• Wen Qingyan drew energy and matter from a distant Blue Giant Star, compressing them into ultra-dense, high-energy matter.
• The Blue Giant Star collapsed and was completely devoured by the newly formed matter.

Wen Qingyan and the other two women turned the remains of the Blue Giant Star into external energy sources and used them to jump through spacetime to Youyue Great Marsh. After examining the nearby stars, they discovered hidden artificial dimensions and energy pathways linking them together, and considered the civilization behind them a potential threat.

• Wen Qingyan distributed the three azure crystals refined from the Blue Giant Star, and each woman turned one into a wearable power source.
• The three women tested how much power they could draw from the crystals and found their abilities remained severely restricted.
• Wen Qingyan and the others used spacetime jumps to reach Youyue Great Marsh and locate Ling Wuyuan and the others.
• The women spotted artificial alternate-dimensional spaces hidden within three nearby stars and energy pathways connecting the surrounding stars.
• Wen Qingyan and the others judged that Youyue Great Marsh concealed major secrets and that they might need to destroy whoever had created it.

Wen Qingyan and the other two inspected the altered starry sky and agreed with Ling Wuyuan that its creators had likely been absent for a long time. They chose to investigate discreetly while the explorers acted as usual, leaving the truth of the Secret Realm spacetime unresolved.

• Ling Wuyuan sensed that Wen Qingyan and the other two had arrived and waited for them.
• Wen Qingyan reported that the starry sky had been deliberately shaped and its works appeared abandoned, possibly because its creators had perished.
• Ling Wuyuan asked whether they should eliminate the other explorers, but Wen Qingyan and the other two decided to leave them alone for now.
• Wen Qingyan instructed Ling Wuyuan and the others to proceed as usual while she and the other two investigated quietly.
• Ling Wuyuan briefed the arriving Divine Ability Realm cultivators on their tasks, and Su Qingyue and the others raised the matter's importance after hearing the discoveries.

Wen Qingyan and the other two uncovered and studied ancient artificial structures throughout Youyue Great Marsh, while the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion planned to take control of the vast Secret Realm Space-Time. As the expedition neared its forced end, Ling Wuyuan noticed that Pei Yiman was close to advancing to the Spirit Infusion Realm.

• Wen Qingyan and the other two restrained the gravitational fields around three dark-gold metal spheres and began examining them.
• Over the next several weeks, the three women traced connections from the spheres to hidden complexes, equipment, and facilities, including some buried beneath Youyue Great Marsh.
• Their calculations indicated that the artificial creations had gone unmaintained for more than twenty million years, leaving many damaged and easier to investigate.
• On day 350, Ling Wuyuan considered how the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion intended to redirect and control the enormous Secret Realm Space-Time, while his Abyssal Divine Speed let him disregard its movement restrictions.
• Ling Wuyuan listened as the others discussed their discoveries and homesickness, then told Pei Yiman that she seemed close to breaking through to the Spirit Infusion Realm.

Pei Yiman told Ling Wuyuan she planned to remain in the [Source Gathering Realm] and strengthen her foundation before advancing. As the exploration of [Youyue Great Marsh] neared its end, they decided to set aside time for the group to enjoy the region before returning.

• Pei Yiman said she would keep honing herself in the [Source Gathering Realm] rather than advance too quickly, and Ling Wuyuan encouraged her to continue working hard.
• Pei Yiman acknowledged the heavy expectations Su Qingyue and the other [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion] leaders placed on her, while Ling Wuyuan reflected that he could benefit from the resources they invested in her.
• Ling Wuyuan asked Pei Yiman whether she had anything else she wanted to do before the exploration ended.
• Pei Yiman suggested that they take time to have fun instead of spending every outing exploring and gathering resources, and Ling Wuyuan agreed, thinking Xiujin and the others would enjoy it.
• Other explorers remained wounded, suffered through the journey, or died and were eaten by local creatures as time passed.

The explorers escaped Youyue Great Marsh, where at least one-fifth of them had died, while Ling Wuyuan noticed Gao Xinrong’s recovery and dismissed his determination to catch up. As a challenger stepped forward near the pickup vessel, Ling Wuyuan knocked him away and boarded without hearing him out.

• The explorers returned from Youyue Great Marsh, and their losses showed how deadly the marsh had been; Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s team had suffered no casualties.
• Ling Wuyuan saw that Gao Xinrong had survived his earlier attack and recognized the man’s lingering fighting spirit, then turned away.
• Gao Xinrong felt the gulf between their strength and vowed to train harder, while Xia Yueze also resolved to challenge Ling Wuyuan again.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed Cang Jingjing watching from the enormous warship as a Floating Rune Warship descended to collect the group.
• A challenger declared that he wanted to fight Ling Wuyuan, but Ling Wuyuan struck him away with a casual slap and said he was not free.

Ling Wuyuan effortlessly defeated a famous body-refinement prodigy who challenged him, shattering the confidence of the young cultivators gathered to test him. As Ling Wuyuan prepared to leave, fifteen of the strongest Divine Ability Realm cultivators stepped forward together to challenge him.

• Ling Wuyuan quickly knocked out a challenger before the man could finish his opening remarks.
• The gathered prodigies recognized the defeated man as a renowned body-refinement expert with a record of overcoming stronger opponents, and many lost their confidence.
• As Ling Wuyuan approached the vessel to leave, a few cultivators worried that retreating would damage their resolve and future cultivation.
• Fifteen of the strongest Divine Ability Realm cultivators present, including three members of other races, stepped forward together.

Ling Wuyuan faced fifteen cultivators who had stepped forward to challenge him and said he would defeat them with one strike. He revealed that 1,829 Divine Ability Realm cultivators present harbored hostility toward him, then began gathering light in his clenched fist as the crowd watched.

• Fifteen cultivators advanced in formation, while Yue Jingwan and the others recognized many of them as powerful opponents.
• Ling Wuyuan told the fifteen to take one strike from him and said he would accept their challenges if they could still fight afterward.
• A black-robed cultivator questioned whether Ling Wuyuan could defeat all fifteen with one strike.
• Ling Wuyuan clarified that he sensed hostility from 1,829 Divine Ability Realm cultivators and said the fifteen were merely the ones brave enough to step forward.
• Ling Wuyuan raised his right hand toward the sun and clenched it, causing unprecedented light to burst between his fingers.

Ling Wuyuan unleashed a casual attack that overwhelmed 1,829 opponents by crushing their mental wills. The fallen experts were left incapacitated, while the onlookers realized he had barely exerted himself.

• Ling Wuyuan expanded his palm and sent a tide of radiance surging toward his opponents, leaving them unable to move or defend themselves.
• The radiance shattered the targets' protective true essence and struck their minds with Ling Wuyuan's domineering will.
• Ling Wuyuan's mental attack overwhelmed all 1,829 opponents, causing their consciousnesses to collapse into chaos.
• As Ling Wuyuan lowered his arm, hundreds of opponents fell to the ground, bleeding and barely conscious.
• The onlookers watched in disbelief as the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion members realized Ling Wuyuan had defeated them with a casual strike without noticeably expending his true essence.

Ling Wuyuan left the defeated cultivators behind and boarded the Floating Rune Warship with Pei Yiman and Wu Yanlian. The onlookers erupted in disbelief as the ship departed, while the survivors grasped the overwhelming gap between themselves and Ling Wuyuan.

• Ling Wuyuan turned away from the injured cultivators and headed for the Floating Rune Warship staircase, with Pei Yiman and Wu Yanlian supporting his arms and the others following.
• The defeated cultivators tried to speak but coughed up blood, realizing their mental injuries had begun to affect their bodies.
• The cultivators recognized that Ling Wuyuan had defeated all 1,829 Divine Ability Realm cultivators while carefully sparing their lives and retaining much of his strength.
• The defeated cultivators grew furious and humiliated, but Ling Wuyuan ignored them and continued toward the ship.
• The Floating Rune Warship retracted its staircase, rose into the sky, and flew toward the main warship as the onlookers erupted in astonishment.

Ling Wuyuan and the others returned to the warship after their long training in the Youyue Great Marsh, and Cang Jingjing welcomed them back. She assessed Pei Yiman’s growth and was astonished by Ling Wuyuan’s enormous True Essence reserves, though his reported speed helped reassure her.

• Cang Jingjing welcomed Ling Wuyuan and the others back aboard the warship after more than four hundred days had passed for them in the Youyue Great Marsh.
• Cang Jingjing sensed that Pei Yiman’s cultivation and physique had greatly improved, bringing her close to advancing to the Spirit Infusion Realm.
• Cang Jingjing decided Pei Yiman should cultivate in the Main Spacetime for the next year or two rather than enter another Secret Realm Spacetime.
• Cang Jingjing found that Ling Wuyuan’s True Essence reserves had increased at least a thousandfold and exceeded anything she had encountered among True Form Realm cultivators.
• Cang Jingjing recalled that Ling Wuyuan had moved far faster than the others in the marsh and felt relieved about his astonishing reserves.

Cang Jingjing praised Ling Wuyuan for defeating more than a thousand challengers and assured Xi Xianlan that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion feared no faction. Meanwhile, after the main-spacetime explorers left the Youyue Great Marsh, Wen Qingyan and the others began rearranging its stars to mobilize the secret realm's energy and matter.

• Cang Jingjing praised Ling Wuyuan's attack on the challengers, while Xi Xianlan worried that his conspicuous actions might bring trouble to the sect.
• Cang Jingjing told Xi Xianlan that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had no need to fear anyone in the Silver Mist Sea Domain or nearby Domains.
• Cang Jingjing privately wondered whether Ling Wuyuan might end up marrying Yuan Yujun's disciples, while Xi Xianlan grew nervous and Ling Wuyuan sensed Cang Jingjing's strange thoughts.
• After the main-spacetime explorers departed, Wen Qingyan and the others pushed entire star systems from their orbits and arranged them into a formation to mobilize the Youyue Great Marsh's energy and matter.

Wen Qingyan and nine other Void Glimpse Realm cultivators powered the Golden Light Soul Chasing Shadow Seeking Technique until it formed a vast sphere of light, then released it to scan the Secret Realm Space-Time. The golden radiance spread across Youyue Great Marsh and into the cosmos, passing through all matter and souls without harming them.

• Wen Qingyan and the others began arranging the surrounding star systems into a formation after Ling Wuyuan and the others had withdrawn and no survivors had been found.
• Ten Void Glimpse Realm cultivators poured energy into the Golden Light Soul Chasing Shadow Seeking Technique until its sphere of light became immense and heavy with runes.
• The cultivators agreed that charging the technique further risked triggering a super-explosion, so they slipped into cracks in space-time.
• The sphere expanded explosively and bathed Youyue Great Marsh in golden light.
• The golden light passed harmlessly through living beings and spread faster than light to scan the cosmos.

Wen Qingyan and the others used the Golden Light Soul Chasing Shadow Seeking Technique to scan the Secret Realm Space-Time and fed its vast discoveries into a powerful rune artifact. The scan revealed countless ruins from a once-dominant alien civilization, and the group decided to prioritize uncovering what happened and protecting the sect before exploring further.

• The Golden Light Soul Chasing Shadow Seeking Technique spread through the Secret Realm Space-Time, scanning planets and transmitting enormous amounts of information.
• Wen Qingyan and the others transferred the data into a black, translucent rune artifact that processed and organized it.
• The artifact began listing thousands of confirmed ruin coordinates and countless suspected sites, confirming that powerful alien civilizations had once ruled the region.
• One of the cultivators remarked that exploring the ruins would keep them busy for a long time, and the group discussed using puppets or sect disciples to help.
• The group decided to wait until the technique had broadly scanned the realm and to prioritize discovering what had happened and safeguarding the sect from hidden dangers.

Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion used three Great Evolution Dark Spirit Crystal constructs to calculate Youyue Great Marsh’s path through space-time and determine where to pull it toward a target area. Their calculations were proceeding smoothly, though the constructs consumed spiritual treasures at ten times their usual rate.

• Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion observed Youyue Great Marsh’s movement through dangerous space-time currents.
• A cultivator operated three Great Evolution Dark Spirit Crystal constructs in parallel to calculate the secret realm’s trajectory.
• The operator estimated they would need another three days in Main Spacetime to find the optimal point for redirecting Youyue Great Marsh.
• The group confirmed Wen Qingyan and the others were progressing smoothly and that the constructs retained more than ninety-nine percent of their peak effectiveness.
• Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion accepted the heavy spiritual-treasure consumption and urged the calculations to proceed quickly.

After returning from Youyue Great Marsh to Ice Mist Snow Island, Bai Jingshu reflected on how much her junior sisters and Ling Wuyuan had grown, then regretted not rubbing his head more when he was shorter. Su Qingyue thanked Ling Wuyuan for uncovering the marsh’s secrets, and he casually explained that he had found the place while looking for somewhere to sleep.

• Yao Yueyan worried that many of the Secret Realm creatures and plants brought back from Youyue Great Marsh would not survive in the main space-time, but Bai Jingshu accepted the risk.
• Bai Jingshu remembered her junior sisters and Ling Wuyuan as children and regretted that she had not rubbed his head more before he grew taller than her.
• Ling Wuyuan and the others met Su Qingyue at the center of Ice Mist Snow Island after Cang Jingjing guided them there.
• Su Qingyue thanked Ling Wuyuan for discovering the secrets hidden in Youyue Great Marsh, which earlier expeditions had missed.
• Ling Wuyuan said he had gone to the area because he was bored, found a suitable place to sleep, and accidentally made his discovery.

After Ling Wuyuan revealed artificial ruins inside one of the suns of [Youyue Great Marsh], Su Qingyue rewarded him with greater authority and valuable privileges in [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion]. The chapter ended with Ling Wuyuan reflecting that openly demonstrating his value had earned him better treatment.

• Su Qingyue recalled that an earlier expedition had found little reason to explore the suns of [Youyue Great Marsh] further.
• Su Qingyue considered Ling Wuyuan's extraordinary strength and felt proud of having recruited him into [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion].
• Su Qingyue raised Ling Wuyuan's authority to Level Twenty-Five and granted him special access to high-level manuals, treasures, and future discoveries in [Youyue Great Marsh].
• Ling Wuyuan welcomed the rewards and recognized that Su Qingyue was investing in him because of the potential he had demonstrated.
• Ling Wuyuan concluded that openly displaying his value had brought him better treatment and spared him unnecessary trouble.