Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan read Shen Zhenhai’s scattered memories and discovered that Shen had been an immortal king reborn from another spacetime, though an unknown force had controlled his fate. Ling Wuyuan concluded that a powerhouse from the Immortal Realm was watching main spacetime, but he considered the threat limited by the realms’ incompatible rules.

• Ling Wuyuan used [All Things Known] and [Torrent of Destiny] to sift through Shen Zhenhai’s scattered soul fragments while disguising his Gray Mist True Essence from the unknown force.
• Ling Wuyuan learned from Shen Zhenhai’s memories about the Immortal Realm and an immortal king reborn by possessing another body.
• Ling Wuyuan suspected Shen Zhenhai had been a pawn of a powerhouse from another spacetime, whose force had silently dictated Shen’s fate.
• Ling Wuyuan recalled that otherworldly threats such as the Subterranean Beasts had long affected main spacetime.
• Ling Wuyuan judged that the Immortal Realm’s powerhouse could probably cause only indirect trouble, and he valued the combat and cultivation knowledge in Shen Zhenhai’s memories.

Ling Wuyuan extracted valuable cultivation knowledge from Shen Zhenhai’s soul fragments, while Ke Mingyu learned that his puppet had died and prepared to recover its remaining intelligence. Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal Kings discussed their plan to reach the Main Spacetime, but they were running low on the rare soul fragments needed to make more puppets.

• Ling Wuyuan used [All Things Known] and the [Torrent of Destiny] to recover useful cultivation methods from Shen Zhenhai’s soul fragments.
• Ke Mingyu sensed Shen Zhenhai’s death and dismissed the attendants from his palace.
• Ke Mingyu told the other Immortal Kings that his Calamity Fire Light Escape was retrieving Shen Zhenhai’s remaining soul fragments and intelligence.
• Ke Mingyu promised to share the recovered intelligence if the other Immortal Kings shared what their own puppets learned.
• Ke Mingyu explained that the Immortal Kings were nearly out of Eternal Life Realm soul fragments for making puppets capable of reaching the Main Spacetime.

Ling Wuyuan used the power carrying Shen Zhenhai’s residual information to learn as much as he could while avoiding the danger of reaching its destination. Around him, the other powerful figures increasingly saw him as a future leader and hoped to benefit from his rise.

• Ling Wuyuan learned that human puppets possessed only an imperfect version of Xuanji Wuchang, a power rooted in their incomplete nature.
• Ling Wuyuan focused on reading Shen Zhenhai’s residual information and planned to disperse his will before the power reached its destination.
• Ling Wuyuan considered destroying the residual information but could not overcome the power’s priority of protecting it.
• Su Qingyue asked Ling Wuyuan whether he was troubled by Shen Zhenhai’s escape.
• The Void Glimpse Realm experts judged Ling Wuyuan’s future to be extraordinary and avoided criticizing him, hoping to gain from his eventual rise.

Ling Wuyuan returned to the Yuting Martial Arts Tournament after killing Shen Zhenhai, and the crowd celebrated his victory. The other Domains’ Void Glimpse Realm cultivators rallied behind him, leaving him poised to unite their forces as a torrent of destiny gathered around him.

• Su Qingyue wondered whether Shen Zhenhai’s disappearance would cause further trouble, and Ling Wuyuan told her Shen Zhenhai was dead, though a power had taken some fragments of his soul.
• Su Qingyue led Ling Wuyuan back to the Yuting Martial Arts Tournament, where spectators assumed he had won and cheered his return.
• The Void Glimpse Realm cultivators rose to applaud Ling Wuyuan, and contestants wondered whether the tournament could continue after the arena’s destruction.
• Ling Wuyuan waved to the crowd and realized the cultivators’ support had shifted the balance of power in his favor.
• The Void Glimpse Realm cultivators hoped Ling Wuyuan would reach a higher realm and guide them, while a vast torrent of the Law of Karma flowed into his Torrent of Destiny.

After winning the Yuting Martial Arts Tournament, Ling Wuyuan used the next several days to study Shen Zhenhai’s remaining information and sensed that its destination was the Immortal Realm. When his Torrent of Destiny warned him of danger, he triggered Calamity Fire Light Escape to protect Shen Zhenhai’s information, drawing a faint reaction from Ke Mingyu.

• Tianji City continued the tournament despite Shen Zhenhai’s defeat, and Ling Wuyuan won the final victory as the crowd cheered.
• Ling Wuyuan used the following three days to organize his gains and remotely examine Shen Zhenhai’s remaining information, burning the Law of Karma to accelerate his efforts.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed a brief connection to his previous-life hometown and marked its spacetime coordinates through the Torrent of Destiny.
• Five days later, Ling Wuyuan sensed Shen Zhenhai’s remaining information nearing the Immortal Realm and felt his Torrent of Destiny urge him to flee.
• Ling Wuyuan detonated the Gray Mist True Essence and Self-Will he had left in the information, triggering Calamity Fire Light Escape to protect it.
• Ke Mingyu faintly sensed the attempted interference across the spacetime barrier and wondered if it was an illusion.

Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal Kings found Shen Zhenhai’s returned puppet harmless and learned from his fragmented soul how Ling Wuyuan had defeated him. In the Main Spacetime, Ling Wuyuan recovered from detonating his Gray Mist True Essence after marking the Immortal Realm’s coordinates, then resumed secluded cultivation.

• Ke Mingyu sensed a faint disturbance in the Calamity Fire Light Escape but concluded it had caused no damage, and the Immortal Kings safely brought it into the Xikong Immortal Realm.
• Ke Mingyu and the Immortal Kings inspected the returned puppet, found no hidden intruder, and extracted useful but incomplete information from Shen Zhenhai’s shattered soul fragments.
• The Immortal Kings read Shen Zhenhai’s final battle and were shocked by Ling Wuyuan’s Gray Mist Transformation and his ability to evolve during combat.
• Ling Wuyuan detonated Gray Mist True Essence inside the Calamity Fire Light Escape, marking the alternate Immortal Realm’s spacetime coordinates before the blast.
• Ling Wuyuan took pills, tended to his injuries, and continued secluded cultivation.

Half a year after the Yuting Martial Arts Tournament, Ling Wuyuan’s fame spread across the Silver Mist Sea Domain and nearby domains, while factions prepared to court him and the region grew more peaceful. As he emerged from seclusion, he began sorting through the millions of years of memories remotely obtained from Shen Zhenhai.

• Various factions promoted Ling Wuyuan as the tournament’s strongest victor, hoping to secure his future allegiance and influence.
• The Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion told those asking about Ling Wuyuan’s age that he was under five hundred years old, concealing that he was only twenty and already in the True Form Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan let Su Qingyue and the others manage his reputation, caring mainly about harvesting the Law of Karma and avoiding interference.
• The Silver Mist Sea Domain and surrounding domains became more peaceful as factions coordinated around Ling Wuyuan’s growing reputation.
• Ling Wuyuan prepared to emerge from seclusion and organize the vast trove of memories he had accessed from Shen Zhenhai, which Ke Mingyu had created to support Shen Zhenhai’s false identity as an Immortal King.

After six months of study, Ling Wuyuan had greatly strengthened his Gray Mist True Essence and advanced his Soul Beacon's control over the Dragon Beast Sea Ridge. Yao Yueyan confessed that meeting him had transformed her life, and Ling Wuyuan accepted her feelings, leaving their relationship newly affirmed.

• Ling Wuyuan assessed his improved Gray Mist True Essence and reflected on his progress toward the Heart Domain Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan noted that his Soul Beacon was eroding the Dragon Beast Sea Ridge's deep-level permissions and might be developing into an independent incarnation.
• Yao Yueyan told Ling Wuyuan that meeting him had opened up a future beyond what she had imagined and thanked him.
• Ling Wuyuan told Yao Yueyan that she was one of his own, and she kissed his forehead and asked him to take responsibility for changing her life.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted Yao Yueyan's feelings, and her smile grew brighter.

Pei Yi casually encouraged Ling Wuyuan to win over several senior sisters at once, then told him that the sect was preparing for his future rule over dozens of Domains. Ling Wuyuan felt the pressure of their expectations, but promised Pei Yi he would not disappoint her as he continued to grow stronger.

• Pei Yi learned why Yao Yueyan had acted strangely and suggested that Ling Wuyuan win over Senior Disciple Sister, Second Senior Sister, Fourth Senior Sister, and Fifth Senior Sister all at once.
• Ling Wuyuan agreed to do his best to win over the senior sisters.
• Pei Yi told Ling Wuyuan that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and other factions were preparing to integrate dozens of Domains around him.
• Ling Wuyuan said the factions' trust put pressure on him, and Pei Yi praised his strength and rapid improvement.
• Ling Wuyuan promised Pei Yi that he would not disappoint her.

Ling Wuyuan sensed a powerful karmic tie to his previous life and used [Torrent of Destiny] to see that Earth had transformed after the meteorite struck. He traced the tie to a scout near the meteorite crater, a man connected to Ling Wuyuan’s former orphanage director, and chose to observe him from afar.

• As Ling Wuyuan prepared to drink Pei Yi’s soup, [Torrent of Destiny] reacted to a significant karmic tie from his previous life.
• Ling Wuyuan spent the Law of Karma to view Earth, which had grown far larger and was marked by enormous dark-red vortices.
• He recognized one vortex as the crater left by the meteorite that had sent him into transmigration and saw a fifty-person team conducting reconnaissance nearby.
• Ling Wuyuan traced a scarred scout’s origins and discovered that the man was the orphanage director’s grandson and only surviving adult descendant.
• Unable to divine why the scout mattered or exert much influence across the distance, Ling Wuyuan continued watching from the shadows.

Ling Wuyuan sensed a disturbance on Earth but could not reach it, so he kept eating and told Pei Yi only that Earth was his distant first hometown. Meanwhile, a fifty-person Human team advanced silently toward a colossal meteor crater as mutated creatures grew more dangerous.

• Ling Wuyuan sensed a disturbance on Earth and told Pei Yi it was not urgent yet, but he lacked the ability to go there because it was too far away.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that Earth was his first hometown, but he withheld its location because speaking about it might let others learn of it.
• Pei Yi accepted his decision and asked whether they should call everyone to eat, and Ling Wuyuan agreed that eating came first.
• On Earth, a middle-aged man connected to Ling Wuyuan led his teammates quietly toward a meteor crater while carrying heavy supplies.
• The team knew that mutated creatures near the crater were growing stronger and that future missions might become too dangerous for humans to approach.

Ji Lang recalled the meteorite catastrophe that destroyed much of humanity and transformed Earth, then reflected on how civilization had struggled to survive. He took heart from humanity’s remaining resources, technology, and fighters.

• Ji Lang remembered how his family became wealthy shortly before the meteorites fell.
• Dark-red meteorites struck Earth, killing much of humanity and destroying nations while Ji Lang and his father survived a car crash.
• Ji Lang recalled recovering from his injuries as shortages and environmental upheaval killed many more survivors.
• Ji Lang considered Earth’s reduced human population, the few surviving nations, and the spread of mutated creatures.
• Ji Lang drew confidence from humanity’s surviving foundations and declared that humans could overcome the mutated creatures.

Ji Lang explained that he had joined the dangerous mission to earn the merits needed to buy Sublimation Potion No. 13 for his son. After hearing how the potion could help infants survive and grow stronger, his teammate considered whether to obtain one for resale and began reconsidering his decision to remain single.

• A teammate asked Ji Lang why he had joined the mission instead of staying home with his son.
• Ji Lang said he wanted to earn enough mission completions and merits to buy Sublimation Potion No. 13 for his son.
• Ji Lang explained that the rare potion was designed for infants, improved their constitution, and carried little risk of failure.
• The teammate considered buying a dose to resell to wealthy people who lacked the qualifications to obtain one.
• The teammate began wondering whether he should have a child, since the potion could improve a child's chances of surviving.

A team led by Ji Lang pushed through dangerous terrain toward a destination still about fifty kilometers away, fighting off mutated creatures along the way. During the march, the team debated why mutated beasts adapted to meteorite energy more easily than humans and argued over competing theories about the meteorites.

• The route planner told the team they had about fifty kilometers left, and the captain encouraged them to continue despite the risks and difficult terrain.
• The team advanced at fifteen kilometers per hour, using scouts and satellite surveillance to avoid hazards, though two members suffered minor injuries from mutated insects.
• After Ji Lang's teammate killed a mutated rat, he questioned why mutated creatures grew stronger from meteorite energy more easily than humans.
• Ji Lang suggested that aliens might be experimenting on Earth, prompting members of the team to argue for alien, geocentric, and divine explanations for the meteorites.
• Ling Wuyuan watched the debate from across time and space and found the competing theories complicated.

Ling Wuyuan used Ji Lang as an anchor to observe Earth and pieced together its current conditions from the team’s conversations. He learned that humanity had survived the meteorites but lived under severe, militarized pressure, while he remained focused on the meteorites’ origins and secrets.

• Ling Wuyuan found that Ji Lang’s status as the Karma Anchor limited his view of Earth to the area around him unless Ling Wuyuan spent an enormous amount of the Law of Karma.
• Ling Wuyuan’s experiments led him to conclude that Earth was structurally fragile, even after the meteorites had expanded its surface area and transformed it over several decades.
• Ling Wuyuan observed Ji Lang’s team advancing through a few manageable accidents and recorded information they revealed in casual conversation.
• Ling Wuyuan learned that Ji Lang’s country subjected its population to military-style management, intensive education, and exhausting labor to support force and technology.
• Ling Wuyuan inferred that people in less industrialized regions faced even harsher conditions, and that many survivors of the meteorites had endured prolonged suffering before they died.

Ji Lang’s team reached a mountain overlooking an old nuclear crater, where Teacher Huang’s measurements revealed that Earth’s environment was changing drastically. He warned that the region was becoming physiologically incompatible with humans and that spreading changes could threaten humanity with extinction.

• Ji Lang’s team reached a few kilometers from their destination and saw that it was an eighteen-year-old nuclear bomb crater.
• The captain dismissed concerns about radiation, explaining that the team’s Sublimation Potions made them resilient to the remaining exposure.
• Teacher Huang reported that meteorite energy, oxygen concentration, bacterial count, gravity, and soil density had changed significantly in the area.
• Ji Lang asked how the environmental changes would affect humans, and Teacher Huang explained that Earth was rapidly becoming uninhabitable to them.
• Teacher Huang warned that if the changes spread across the planet, humanity could face extinction as Earth’s natural environment became incompatible with human physiology.

Teacher Huang learned that the authorities had likely anticipated Earth’s ecological crisis and were already preparing for it. The chapter ended with officials reviewing plans to preserve humanity as Earth became uninhabitable.

• Teacher Huang explained that Earth’s latest environmental changes seemed like a targeted purge rather than the expansions and reinforcements seen before.
• The captain questioned whether the meteorites were alive and controlling the changes, but Teacher Huang said the idea remained unconfirmed.
• After reporting the discovery, Teacher Huang inferred from his superior’s calm response that the authorities had known about the situation for months and relayed their order to continue investigating.
• At a military base, an official reviewed a report predicting Earth would become unsuitable for ordinary humans within fifteen years.
• The authorities chose five costly plans to pursue simultaneously, including producing enhanced individuals, building space bases, and creating enclosed human preservation bases.

As Ji Lang’s team approached the nuclear crater, he realized he needed to obtain [Sublimation Potion No. 13] before upheaval made it harder to survive. He considered hunting mutated creatures for Merits, while assessing which ranks his team could take on.

• Ji Lang understood that [Sublimation Potion No. 13] might become essential for survival and resolved to obtain it as soon as possible.
• Ji Lang considered hunting mutated creatures during the mission to make up the Merits he lacked.
• The chapter explained Human Civilization’s four mutated-creature classifications and the danger posed by their higher ranks.
• Ji Lang’s team neared the nuclear crater, and he hoped to encounter a small number of three- or four-star [Elite Class] creatures they could defeat.

Ling Wuyuan watched Ji Lang and his team study nuclear radiation around a meteorite crater while they camped for the night. A Mutated Golden Condor spotted them from the sky and began a supersonic dive, leaving the camp under attack.

• Ling Wuyuan observed Ji Lang and his team arrive at the nuclear blast crater and investigate radiation and mutated creatures.
• Ji Lang and the researchers discussed how nuclear radiation was decaying faster, possibly because the meteorite was absorbing it.
• After nightfall, Ji Lang's group rested in a concealed camp protected by dim lamps, scent-masking powder, and infrared sensors.
• A Mutated Golden Condor spotted the camp and decided to seize people as food for its chicks.
• The Mutated Golden Condor dived toward the camp at supersonic speed, and the sentries opened fire, waking everyone.

The Mutated Golden Condor ambushed the elite squad, killing six and injuring twelve with the force of its low-altitude dive. The survivors used self-detonation charges to wound it, and it retreated into the night while Ji Lang and the remaining elites were left behind.

• The Mutated Golden Condor swept over the squad, killing six members, injuring twelve, and swallowing several people amid dust and flying debris.
• The captain ordered the survivors to form up and prepare to detonate their charges if the condor swallowed them alive.
• Ji Lang and the other survivors accepted the plan as their best chance to survive or kill the creature.
• The Mutated Golden Condor seized four more people, but two self-detonations inside its mouth inflicted injuries and scattered its prey.
• The Mutated Golden Condor judged the humans too difficult to swallow and retreated into the night, leaving the surviving elites behind.