Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan defeated and captured Ruibote in a single strike, then began wiping out the Anwan Sea Tribe forces. Ruibote realized Ling Wuyuan intended to eradicate the tribe and gave up on pleading for mercy.

• Ling Wuyuan pierced Ruibote’s arm and chest, seized his spine, and imprisoned his soul with gray mist.
• Ling Wuyuan heard Yan Xiujin and the others complain that the battle had ended too quickly, while he reflected on how little Ruibote’s strength troubled him.
• Anwan Sea Tribe members rushed toward the battlefield, but Ling Wuyuan recognized that they were buying time for their clansmen to flee.
• Ling Wuyuan sent the gray mist after the attackers, killing them and continuing its expansion toward the remaining Anwan Sea Tribe members.
• Ruibote understood that Ling Wuyuan meant to exterminate his tribe and chose not to beg for mercy.

Ling Wuyuan’s gray mist engulfed the Anwan Sea Tribe’s territory, killing its members and Sea Beasts while stopping at the coastal defense line. Bound in gray-mist chains, Ruibote realized Ling Wuyuan was refining him into a puppet as a blood-red crystal grew brighter from the power of the dead.

• Ling Wuyuan’s gray mist spread through the Anwan Sea Tribe’s territory, decomposing its people, Sea Beasts, buildings, and defenses.
• Sea tribesmen and Sea Beasts tried to flee, but the causality-guided mist pursued and swallowed them.
• The mist stopped near the coastal defense line, leaving the sea beyond it shrouded in fog and baffling those who could not discern what had happened.
• Ling Wuyuan watched a blood-red crystal grow brighter as the mist devoured more targets.
• Ruibote, bound by gray-mist chains, recognized that Ling Wuyuan was using an evil art to refine him into a puppet.

Ling Wuyuan turned Ruibote into a puppet while refining the resentment of the Anwan Sea Tribe and the Sea Beasts into a blood-red crystal. The chapter ended with the crystal merging into Ruibote’s body and the former High Priest opening his eyes as a flesh-and-blood puppet.

• Ruibote saw the blood-red crystal’s evil nature and offered intelligence about a treasure in exchange for mercy for his clansmen.
• Ling Wuyuan refused the bargain, saying he had attacked because their deaths mattered to him, then silenced Ruibote and continued using him as material for his techniques.
• Ling Wuyuan reflected that he had mastered the evil-path techniques on his first practical attempt, despite having only studied and mentally simulated them before.
• Ling Wuyuan watched the crystal absorb the deaths of the Anwan Sea Tribe and the Sea Beasts without changing his stance toward them.
• The blood-red crystal merged into the unconscious Ruibote, who opened his eyes as a flesh-and-blood puppet.

Ling Wuyuan returned to the Golden Mist Continent’s Northern Domain and located the Mobile Ancient Ruins beneath the Earth Flame Desert. He sent his flesh-and-blood puppet into the sword scar in the ruins to test them.

• Ling Wuyuan left the coast with his newly created puppet, and the gray mist over the sea dissipated.
• Ling Wuyuan crossed the Golden Mist Continent and arrived in the Northern Domain within a few dozen minutes.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized the scorching landscape as the Earth Flame Desert and recalled its eruptions and valuable resources.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed the Mobile Ancient Ruins more than three million kilometers underground and found them unchanged.
• Ling Wuyuan cast his flesh-and-blood puppet into the sword scar in the ruins.

Ling Wuyuan sent a flesh-and-blood puppet made from Ruibote into an ancient mobile ruin, where invisible metal puppets killed it repeatedly. After its blood-red crystals restored it 126 times, the puppet was destroyed beyond recovery, and Ruibote was annihilated in body and soul.

• A flesh-and-blood puppet entered the ancient mobile ruin through a sword scar under Ling Wuyuan's influence.
• An invisible metal puppet ambushed the intruder and chopped it apart before it could activate its damaged abilities.
• Blood-red crystals restored the puppet and allowed its [Innate Divine Ability] and [Domain] to activate.
• The invisible metal puppet sensed the restored puppet and attacked it again, killing it 126 times in succession.
• The metal puppet reduced the flesh-and-blood puppet to fundamental particles, leaving no trace of Ruibote.

Ling Wuyuan returned to the Mobile Ancient Ruins, used [Torrent of Destiny] to collect valuable items, and sensed that he would one day take everything there. Back home for breakfast, he told Cang Jingjing he had already explored the ruins and agreed to show her the outside before they eventually returned to the Silver Mist Sea Domain.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected on the invisible metal puppet's superior combat abilities, then headed for the Mobile Ancient Ruins.
• Ling Wuyuan used [Torrent of Destiny] to locate and take valuable items, while his attempts to sense the invisible metal puppets failed.
• As he left the ruins, Ling Wuyuan foresaw that he would return and take everything there.
• Ling Wuyuan returned home for breakfast, where Cang Jingjing asked whether he had dealt with the sea folk and explored the ruins.
• Ling Wuyuan confirmed he had done both and agreed to take Cang Jingjing to see the ruins from outside, warning her not to enter.
• Cang Jingjing asked about their return to the Silver Mist Sea Domain and said she wanted to explore the land where Ling Wuyuan grew up.

The chapter explained how the invasion of [True Abundant Spirit Realm] by [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] became a prolonged war after hidden [Observer-Class Lifeforms] and [Observer-Class Civilizations] joined the local resistance. It left the two realms locked in the dangerous [Black Omen Battlefield], where even safe zones could not prevent chaotic disasters.

• [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] initially swept through [True Abundant Spirit Realm] and seized vast territories.
• [Observer-Class Lifeforms] and [Observer-Class Civilizations] emerged, united local powers, and halted the invaders’ advance.
• [True Abundant Spirit Realm] combined native and external spacetime technologies, opening a path toward outward exploration if it could defeat the blockade.
• [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] refused to abandon [True Abundant Spirit Realm], and the conflict became a prolonged war of attrition.
• Disasters in the [Black Omen Battlefield] reached beyond its war zone, and Ling Wuyuan’s transmigration after being smashed by Yao Beast Flesh and Blood was cited as one such incident.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on how Void Mist Sea had begun scavenging battlefield debris and feeding valuable knowledge and strength back to him, while developing a rudimentary intelligence. As Void Mist Sea drew closer to powerful beings’ notice, Ling Wuyuan planned to spend more Law of Karma hiding it and divide their roles between scavenging and building strength.

• Void Mist Sea continued scavenging debris at the edge of the Black Omen Battlefield, gaining information, energy, and nutrients that benefited Ling Wuyuan.
• Void Mist Sea developed a rudimentary intelligence that Ling Wuyuan recognized as an extension of his own feral instincts.
• Torrent of Destiny increasingly warned Ling Wuyuan that Void Mist Sea was entering certain individuals’ field of vision, so he considered using more Law of Karma to conceal it.
• Ling Wuyuan attributed Void Mist Sea’s success to the abilities and knowledge he had built up, which let it safely find, understand, and absorb battlefield debris.
• Ling Wuyuan planned for Void Mist Sea to keep scavenging in the Black Omen Battlefield while the main body converted its discoveries into strength and expanded his influence.

Void Mist Sea detected an Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven scouting team and fled before they could locate him. The team sensed they had been watched and decided to move elsewhere before planting their Profound Void True Talismans.

• A prompt from the Torrent of Destiny caused Void Mist Sea to abandon some battlefield junk and flee into spacetime, leaving a faint wisp of mist behind.
• Void Mist Sea used the wisp to observe a scouting team from the Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven, then destroyed it to avoid detection.
• Several members of the team sensed that someone had been watching them and concluded the observer had already left.
• The captain decided to change locations before setting up the Profound Void True Talismans, and the team agreed.

Void Mist Sea traveled through dimensional rifts to evade Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven's scouts, then fled when a powerful battle sent a destructive wind across the Black Omen Battlefield. In the Main Spacetime, Ling Wuyuan examined footage of an ancient massacre and regretted that he lacked the strength to witness the battle.

• Void Mist Sea used an ability adapted from scraps of powerful beings and engines to travel rapidly between dimensions.
• A tremendous wind swept through the rifts, and the Black Wall appeared to block it with its active defense mechanism.
• Void Mist Sea recognized that beings at the Fate Defiance Realm or Creation Realm were fighting and returned to the three-dimensional world rather than risk observing them.
• Ling Wuyuan examined an External Ultra-High Pressure Information Storage Disc containing footage of the figure who had slaughtered a fortress's inhabitants.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that a tiny fragment of the recorded attacks' true essence had injured him and regretted lacking the strength to witness the battle.

Ling Wuyuan speculated that a powerful figure from Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven had died inside the mobile fortress after fighting True Abundant Spirit Realm’s exploration team, leaving its treasures potentially untouched. Years later, he learned Grand Elder Yan Manyan was preparing to break through to the Heavenly Position Realm and urged Pei Yi to suggest waiting until he could verify and complete the information guiding her advance.

• Ling Wuyuan reasoned that the mobile fortress remained intact because its attacker had likely died inside it or lacked the strength to destroy it, and he hoped its treasures would still be there when he returned.
• After seven months on Golden Mist Continent, Ling Wuyuan and his group boarded the Ice Erosion Cold Boat and began traveling back to Ice Mist Snow Island.
• Two or three years later, Pei Yi told Ling Wuyuan that Grand Elder Yan Manyan was about to attempt a breakthrough to the Heavenly Position Realm, encouraged by information he had obtained.
• Ling Wuyuan warned Pei Yi that Yan Manyan should wait until he had gathered more corpse fragments and checked the incomplete information more thoroughly.

Yan Manyan arrived determined to attempt advancing to the Heavenly Position Realm, confident her regenerative Innate Divine Ability would protect her from the worst consequences of failure. Ling Wuyuan accepted her decision and wished her success, though Yan Manyan noted that an absent sect member might already have advanced first.

• Pei Yi agreed with Ling Wuyuan that Yan Manyan should be persuaded to wait before advancing.
• Yan Manyan arrived and told Ling Wuyuan she had decided to attempt advancement, trusting her Innate Divine Ability to withstand the backlash if she failed.
• Ling Wuyuan and Pei Yi learned that Yan Manyan’s regenerative power could bring her back from death and made her exceptionally difficult to kill.
• Yan Manyan explained that Ling Wuyuan’s fragmented materials supplied a crucial piece of knowledge and that she hoped to use her experience to develop guidance for the sect.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted that Yan Manyan had made up her mind and wished her success, while Yan Manyan joked that a sect member away from home might already have advanced first.

Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan she felt both joyful and unsettled that Yan Manyan’s breakthrough could soon fulfill the sect’s generations-old wish. She also reported that the pavilion had refined several hundred kinds of his pill formulas, though few could be produced in quantity, and revealed that a batch of breakthrough-enhancing pills would be ready within two days.

• Su Qingyue stayed in Ling Wuyuan’s courtyard after Yan Manyan left and explained that the sect’s long-awaited breakthrough left her feeling anxious despite her excitement.
• Ling Wuyuan reassured Su Qingyue that the sect’s future would extend beyond the Heavenly Position Realm and asked how work on the pill formulas was progressing.
• Su Qingyue said the pavilion had refined several hundred kinds of pills, but scarce and unfamiliar ingredients meant only a few could be produced in large quantities.
• Su Qingyue revealed that a batch of about twenty pills that could raise the chance of advancing from the Void Glimpse Realm to the Heavenly Position Realm by roughly ten percent would be finished within two days.

Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had gathered ingredients for the Return Origin Spirit Ascension Pill and could make three more batches. She revealed that only two or three sect members qualified to use the pills and that a key ingredient came from the Secret Realm Space-Time beneath Jade Night Snow Mountain’s branch division.

• Ling Wuyuan was surprised that Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had gathered rare pill ingredients so quickly.
• Su Qingyue said the sect had obtained ingredients for the Return Origin Spirit Ascension Pill and named its most skilled alchemists as those responsible for refining it.
• Su Qingyue estimated that the ingredients could produce three more batches, or roughly fifty to sixty pills, but said only two or three Grand Elders currently qualified to use them.
• Su Qingyue explained that most Void Glimpse Realm cultivators lacked the talent to reach the required level, and that she herself was still far from qualifying.
• Su Qingyue revealed that a main ingredient came from the Secret Realm Space-Time beneath Jade Night Snow Mountain’s branch division, which a sect elder had discovered by chance years earlier.

Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan discussed when the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion should begin integrating the surrounding Domains, and agreed the sect could act after Yan Manyan advanced. Pei Yiman was left wondering when to advance to the Divine Ability Realm as she compared her progress with Ling Wuyuan's.

• Su Qingyue recalled that the founder of the Golden Mist Continent Branch had vanished while seeking a breakthrough and might still be alive.
• Su Qingyue explained that she was unsure whether to begin integrating the surrounding Domains after Yan Manyan advanced or wait until Ling Wuyuan reached the Heavenly Position Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan advised beginning the integration after Yan Manyan advanced, while noting that waiting for more Heavenly Position Realm experts would make resistance easier to crush.
• Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan agreed that the sect could gradually integrate the surrounding Domains once Yan Manyan stabilized her cultivation, or wait until it had more experts.
• Pei Yiman worried about when to advance to the Divine Ability Realm because Ling Wuyuan had already reached the Heart Domain Realm.

Pei Yiman considered rushing to the Divine Ability Realm, but Ling Wuyuan urged her to cultivate steadily and dismissed others’ judgments of his companions. After a month of spiritual rain heralded the completion of the Return Origin Spirit Ascension Pill, everyone looked to Yan Manyan, who promised not to disappoint them.

• Pei Yiman told Ling Wuyuan she wanted to advance quickly so she would be worthy of standing beside him.
• Ling Wuyuan advised Pei Yiman not to rush her cultivation and said he would protect his companions from anyone who questioned them.
• Half a month later, rosy clouds formed over Ice Mist Snow Island and spiritual energy fell as rain, benefiting cultivators across the island and surrounding seas.
• The spiritual rain continued for a month as Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s Grand Elders refined the Return Origin Spirit Ascension Pill, drawing the attention of other factions.
• A strange fragrance announced that the pills were complete, and Yan Manyan confidently promised she would not let everyone down.

After Yan Manyan advanced to the [Heavenly Position Realm] in secret and stabilized her cultivation, [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion] began preparing its members to integrate the surrounding regions. The chapter ended with the sect’s expansion plans awaiting Yan Manyan’s revised breakthrough insights and the other Grand Elders’ advances.

• Ling Wuyuan surveyed [Ice Mist Snow Island] and found it covered in spiritual-energy ice blocks that could replenish cultivators’ true qi.
• Su Qingyue arranged measures to maintain order on [Ice Mist Snow Island] and prevent disputes over the ice.
• [Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion] distributed handbooks and began training members for the integration of surrounding forces and territories.
• Yan Manyan had advanced to the [Heavenly Position Realm] in a [Secret Realm Space-Time] the previous month and had stabilized her realm.
• Yan Manyan revised Ling Wuyuan’s breakthrough materials, while the sect prepared for the other two Grand Elders to attempt their advances.

Yan Manyan explained that each cultivator needed to follow their own path to the Heavenly Position Realm, then demonstrated how her new abilities let her alter reality. She left Su Qingyue, Ling Wuyuan, and the others witnessing her control over time, space, and the surrounding grotto-heaven.

• Yan Manyan told Ling Wuyuan, Su Qingyue, and the others that descriptions of the Heavenly Position Realm could seem contradictory because every cultivator's path was different.
• Yan Manyan warned them to treat her information as reference rather than copy her path outright.
• Yan Manyan silently changed the flow of time around everyone in the Artificial Grotto-Heaven, and Ling Wuyuan detected the change through the Gray Mist Imprint connecting him to Pei Yi and the others.
• The others realized Yan Manyan was manipulating time at different rates around each person.
• Yan Manyan demonstrated her ability to warp space, earth, air, and spiritual energy, raising and reshaping mountains and drawing underground waters into new rivers and lakes.

Ling Wuyuan witnessed Yan Manyan demonstrate how a Heavenly Position Realm cultivator could reshape the world and suppress weaker cultivators. After the group left the Artificial Grotto-Heaven, Su Qingyue and the others decided to wait until their sect had more Heavenly Position Realm cultivators before consolidating the surrounding Domains.

• Ling Wuyuan realized that a Heavenly Position Realm cultivator’s will could manipulate phenomena and reshape the surrounding world.
• Yan Manyan explained that her will could cover Ice Mist Snow Island and nearby regions, letting her alter the environment, attack from afar, and seal weaker cultivators’ power.
• Yan Manyan suppressed everyone present, and Ling Wuyuan felt his strength fall drastically as the surrounding space-time rejected him.
• Ling Wuyuan concluded that the realm gap made fighting above his level increasingly difficult, though he remained glad to be somewhat special.
• After Yan Manyan finished demonstrating her power, the group left the Artificial Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Qingyue and the others decided to wait until their sect had one or two more Heavenly Position Realm cultivators before consolidating the surrounding Domains.

Ling Wuyuan, restless after years of absorbing resources and insights from the Void Mist Sea, searched for a suitable way to test his strength. Since powerful individuals would not dare fight him and the Silver Mist Sea Domain lacked suitable opponents, he considered exploring dangerous forbidden zones and used the [Torrent of Destiny] to select a manageable target.

• Pei Yiman and the others discussed the power of the [Heavenly Position Realm] after watching Yan Manyan’s demonstration through the [Gray Mist Imprint].
• Ling Wuyuan calculated that he was not far from naturally advancing to the [Void Glimpse Realm], thanks to the treasures and insights supplied by the Void Mist Sea.
• Ling Wuyuan grew restless and wanted an opponent or expedition where he could apply what he had learned, but his strength and status made ordinary sparring difficult.
• Ling Wuyuan considered the Silver Mist Sea Domain’s forbidden zones of life as practice targets because they were dangerous but had no factions behind them.
• Ling Wuyuan used the [Torrent of Destiny] to search for a suitable forbidden zone, hoping to find a challenge that would not become a life-or-death crisis.