Chapter Summaries

Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s extreme methods and Ling Wuyuan’s growing strength deterred its enemies and inspired worship among cultivators. By absorbing Fu Nianzhou’s knowledge and recent intelligence about the Starlight Heavens, Ling Wuyuan gained a powerful advantage for future plans.

• Ling Wuyuan and Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion used overwhelming force, convincing other factions that provoking them could mean total annihilation.
• As Ling Wuyuan absorbed resources and benefited from Torrent of Destiny and All Things Known, Yan Manyan could no longer judge how strong he had become.
• Void Glimpse Realm cultivators began worshiping Ling Wuyuan because of the pressure his strength exerted on them.
• Ling Wuyuan spent two or three years digesting the benefits of Fu Nianzhou’s blood-red crystal, including his knowledge and karma.
• Fu Nianzhou’s knowledge gave Ling Wuyuan up-to-date intelligence about the Starlight Heavens, complementing Ji Yinghan’s outdated inheritance.

Ling Wuyuan struggled with the Silver Mist Sea Domain’s lack of resources as his power approached the Immortal Realm, though Karma Fun sustained his cultivation. He decided to expand the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s territory rather than pursue distant special regions.

• Ling Wuyuan recognized that his immense power made the Silver Mist Sea Domain’s environment inadequate and dangerous to the surrounding life.
• He recalled that richer Starlight Heavens and Domains offered far greater spiritual energy, treasures, and opportunities for breakthroughs.
• After bringing hundreds of Domains under his command, Ling Wuyuan gained karma from the people living within his territory through Karma Fun.
• Karma Fun supplied enough high-level energy to keep Ling Wuyuan cultivating despite the region’s scarcity.
• Ling Wuyuan chose to expand the Pavilion’s territory to thousands or tens of thousands of Domains instead of immediately seeking distant special regions.

Ling Wuyuan considered delaying his exploration of Starlight Heaven until he was strong enough, while the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion prepared to formally establish a super empire. Pei Yiman and Xi Xianlan asked when he would hold the founding and coronation ceremony, and he agreed that the event would affirm the new empire’s legitimacy and the Pavilion’s place within it.

• Ling Wuyuan judged that the Silver Mist Sea Domain suited him better for now and planned to explore Starlight Heaven after reaching a higher realm.
• Pei Yiman and Xi Xianlan told Ling Wuyuan that Pavilion Master Su and the others were ready for him to take over and name the newborn empire.
• Xi Xianlan remarked that Pavilion Master Su and the others seemed more eager for the ceremony than Ling Wuyuan was.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that the ceremony would establish the empire’s legitimacy and reflect the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s growing power.
• Ling Wuyuan and the others kept the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion as an independent department directly subordinate to the emperor rather than making it the empire’s main structure.

Ling Wuyuan accepted that a super empire, rather than Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion alone, would best integrate the factions, though he still struggled to name it. On the Black Omen Battlefield, Void Mist Sea followed an unusual ripple of karma to a clash between scouting forces, where one figure caught his attention.

• Ling Wuyuan and the others abandoned plans to make Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion the empire’s sole foundation and instead kept it as the leading faction in a super empire.
• Ling Wuyuan let the empire’s structure take shape but remained undecided about what to call it.
• Void Mist Sea wandered the Black Omen Battlefield, scavenging and marking dangerous locations while judging that he needed to reach Fate Defiance Realm to roam safely.
• Void Mist Sea detected an unusual ripple of karma and followed it toward a battle between scouting forces from True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
• Void Mist Sea noticed one combatant among the otherwise unremarkable Eternal Life Realm fighters.

Ling Wuyuan recognized a powerful being on the battlefield as a surviving Thorn person but chose to keep Void Mist Sea hidden rather than capture it. As the Thorn person’s reconnaissance unit faced defeat, a force summoned through an item annihilated their enemies and gave the unit one final chance to find its target.

• Ling Wuyuan identified the giant-squid-like being as a Thorn person and sensed a faint karmic connection between them.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to keep observing secretly instead of having Void Mist Sea capture the Thorn person.
• Ling Wuyuan watched the battle and noticed the Thorn person’s karma stirring as the unit neared defeat.
• An immense force descended through an item carried by the Thorn person and erased the opposing reconnaissance unit from Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
• A projected four-armed figure warned the True Abundant Spirit Realm Reconnaissance Unit that failure to find its target would end its mission, then vanished.

Ling Wuyuan recognized the figure seen through Void Mist Sea as Mulad, the grown son of the Intelligent Mind Core’s creator, Pavel, but decided not to use the Core to contact him. A year later, Ling Wuyuan traveled with Su Qingyue and a vast escort fleet to Golden Mist Continent to retrieve the ancient mobile relic, confident that he was strong enough to take it.

• Ling Wuyuan traced the figure’s karmic ties and identified him as Mulad, whom he had once observed as a child through the River of Time.
• Ling Wuyuan considered using the Intelligent Mind Core to draw Mulad’s attention, then kept it as a keepsake instead.
• Ling Wuyuan decided it was time to advance to the Eternal Life Realm.
• A year later, Su Qingyue complained when Ling Wuyuan requisitioned Ice Erosion Cold Boat, so he had her pilot it for his journey.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan that they were nearing Cangyun Domain and Golden Mist Continent, and he explained that he was returning to retrieve the ancient mobile relic.
• Ling Wuyuan assured Su Qingyue that he was now strong enough to take the relic and said he wanted to make a grand homecoming with an escort fleet of tens of thousands of high-grade Floating Rune Warships.

Ling Wuyuan’s immense fleet crossed Cangyun Domain, prompting its subdued super factions to ask whether they could seek an audience with him. He agreed to meet them at Golden Mist Continent and slowed the fleet so they could arrive in time to welcome him.

• Ling Wuyuan’s fleet appeared over Cangyun Domain, and the few who recognized its flags were shocked by his arrival.
• The local super factions contacted Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion headquarters to ask whether they could seek an audience with Ling Wuyuan.
• Su Qingyue told Ling Wuyuan that the factions wished to meet him, and he directed them to gather at Golden Mist Continent.
• Su Qingyue warned that the factions might not arrive before the fleet, and Ling Wuyuan ordered the fleet to reduce its speed to one-fifth.

Guan Xiangfei was pulled from secluded cultivation as the Golden Mist Continent mobilized for the arrival of an unknown major figure. He reflected on how the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had taken control of the Cangyun Domain and realized that Ling Wuyuan’s fame had spread across hundreds of millions of miles.

• Guan Xiangfei listened to rumors about a major figure arriving while resenting being called away from his cultivation.
• Guan Xiangfei recalled receiving the Imperial Genesis Transformation Art from Ling Wuyuan and nearing the Enlightened Intent Realm.
• Guan Xiangfei remembered the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s decree declaring the Cangyun Domain under its rule.
• Factions from across the Cangyun Domain and other Domains sent vast delegations to the Pavilion’s sole branch in the region.
• Guan Xiangfei understood that Ling Wuyuan had meant he could find him by following the legends about him overseas.

Guan Xiangfei reflected on the vast gulf between himself and Ling Wuyuan, but held onto the hope that he might someday catch up and challenge him again. He wondered whether Ling Wuyuan was the great figure visiting the Golden Mist Continent and anticipated the possibility of seeing him.

• Guan Xiangfei realized that finding Ling Wuyuan would require crossing dangerous Domains and reaching at least the True Form Realm.
• Guan Xiangfei remained unwilling to give up on challenging Ling Wuyuan again, seeing the goal as a way to prove himself.
• Guan Xiangfei comforted himself with the thought that he might be a late bloomer who could one day catch up to Ling Wuyuan.
• Guan Xiangfei wondered whether Ling Wuyuan was the great figure who had come to the Golden Mist Continent, though he thought the empire’s founding would keep Ling Wuyuan busy.
• Guan Xiangfei considered how people in White Mist Country struggled to believe that the roughly fifty-year-old Ling Wuyuan had reached the Heavenly Position Realm and ruled the surrounding Domains.

Guan Xiangfei learned that Ling Wuyuan was returning to the Golden Mist Continent and reflected on how public opinion had shifted from doubting him to worshipping him. He explained that he had never been close to Ling Wuyuan, but his companions did not believe him, leaving him troubled by his family’s use of Ling’s name for protection.

• People who had once doubted Ling Wuyuan now praised and worshipped him, while Guan Xiangfei dealt with his fanatical supporters.
• Guan Xiangfei heard that Ling Wuyuan was coming to the Golden Mist Continent and was stunned by the news.
• A companion asked Guan Xiangfei whether he could arrange a meeting with Ling Wuyuan, and Guan said he no longer had the status to approach him.
• Guan Xiangfei said that neither he nor Jiang Xing had been close to Ling Wuyuan and that Ling had given them a cultivation technique for his own reasons.
• Guan Xiangfei's companion dismissed his account, while Guan reflected on how his family used Ling's name and his gifted technique to protect themselves.

Ling Wuyuan arrived near Golden Mist Continent and discussed making Gray Mist the distinctive feature of his future personal warship. Local factions welcomed his fleet with an elaborate display, while he and Su Qingyue watched the ceremony unfold.

• Ling Wuyuan reached the coast of Golden Mist Continent aboard the Ice Erosion Cold Boat, feeling calm about returning home.
• Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue he was considering the style of his future personal ride and suggested using Gray Mist as its defining feature.
• Su Qingyue agreed that Gray Mist would make the vessel distinctive and noted that its design would also need real power.
• Welcoming parties from local factions approached Ling Wuyuan’s fleet, lowering their altitude in deference as music parted the clouds.
• The factions launched fireworks and spiritual-energy rain that healed and benefited people across the surrounding lands.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on the suffering of the Golden Mist Continent’s people and the vast gap between his strength and that of the cultivators who came to welcome him. As the fleet departed, Guan Xiangfei thought he glimpsed Ling Wuyuan aboard the Ice Erosion Cold Boat.

• Ling Wuyuan heard the people of the Golden Mist Continent thank their gods for the life-saving rain and felt sorrow at their desperate circumstances.
• Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan received several dozen Void Glimpse Realm cultivators, who bowed and greeted Ling Wuyuan aboard the ship.
• The Void Glimpse Realm cultivators sensed that Ling Wuyuan could erase them with a thought, and the most composed among them addressed him respectfully.
• The fleet set off, with millions of high-grade Floating Rune Warships crossing the skies as the rain continued below.
• Guan Xiangfei watched the Ice Erosion Cold Boat pass overhead and thought he saw Ling Wuyuan’s familiar dark gray eyes.

Ling Wuyuan returned toward Jade Night Snow City and decided to move the city and its surrounding land to Ice Mist Snow Island. Su Qingyue agreed, provided the branch's personnel were given advance notice.

• Guan Xiangfei watched Ling Wuyuan's fleet overhead and reflected on the difference between their circumstances.
• Ling Wuyuan used the Torrent of Destiny to observe the lives of acquaintances including Yang Zutao, Jiang Xing, and Guan Xiangfei.
• Ling Wuyuan spotted Jade Night Snow City and felt that the city was one of his homes.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to create a portable Artificial Grotto-Heaven and move Jade Night Snow City with the surrounding land.
• Su Qingyue agreed to the plan but told Ling Wuyuan to have the branch's personnel prepare beforehand.

Ling Wuyuan and Su Qingyue traveled to the Dead Green Poison Swamp to retrieve an ancient mobile ruin buried deep underground. Ling Wuyuan lifted the enormous metal construct from the depths, revealing a structure whose weight and dangerous contents demanded even his attention.

• Ling Wuyuan and Su Qingyue oversaw preparations to move Jade Night Snow City and its surrounding land back to Ice Mist Snow Island.
• Half a month later, Ling Wuyuan and Su Qingyue arrived at the Dead Green Poison Swamp, where Ling Wuyuan sensed an ancient ruin tens of millions of kilometers underground.
• Ling Wuyuan silently split the swamp open, astonishing Su Qingyue with his precise control.
• Ling Wuyuan raised a metal construct over two thousand kilometers across from beneath the swamp.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed that the construct contained vast energy and dangerous equipment, and that its weight rivaled the matter and energy of an entire river of stars.

Ling Wuyuan used a stolen Authorization Code to gain management authority over the Metal Fortress and studied its records. After reading its centuries-spanning Operation Log, he learned how it had entered the main spacetime, been shot down, and ended up abandoned on the Golden Mist Continent.

• Ling Wuyuan projected his psychic power into the Metal Fortress and temporarily controlled it as it prepared to attack.
• Ling Wuyuan transmitted a stolen Authorization Code from a deceased True Abundant Spirit Realm commander to the fortress's central intelligence.
• The central intelligence verified Ling Wuyuan and registered him with management authority over the Metal Fortress.
• Ling Wuyuan absorbed the fortress's operating manual and remotely read its Operation Log.
• Ling Wuyuan finished reviewing the log and learned why the fortress had been shot down and left on the Golden Mist Continent.

Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan explored the safe areas of the Metal Fortress, where Su Qingyue learned that its invisible metal puppets had already surrounded them. The puppets revealed themselves to her eyes, but remained undetectable to her senses.

• Ling Wuyuan explained that damaged, unstable areas of the Metal Fortress were off-limits, and Su Qingyue eagerly asked to explore the safe zones.
• Su Qingyue entered the fortress and discovered its interior was vastly larger than its exterior, with ancient corpses and the remains of more recent explorers scattered inside.
• Su Qingyue activated her power to sense the invisible metal puppets but failed, blaming the fortress's unusual environment and wondering if none were nearby.
• Su Qingyue asked Ling Wuyuan to bring the puppets out, and he told her they had already surrounded them.
• Ling Wuyuan ordered the thousands of metal puppets to become visible, shocking Su Qingyue when she saw them despite still being unable to sense them.

Su Qingyue learned why the Metal Fortress had remained unknown and why its metal puppets were so dangerous, while Ling Wuyuan explained his knowledge of the fortress. The chapter ended with Ling Wuyuan beginning to teach her about the True Abundant Spirit Realm, Starlight Heaven, and other spacetimes.

• Su Qingyue realized that the Metal Fortress had killed nearly everyone who encountered it, and that Ling Wuyuan's control of it had prevented countless deaths.
• Ling Wuyuan reassured Su Qingyue that the metal puppets were powerful weapons capable of fighting Eternal Life Realm cultivators, and that even he had struggled against them in the Void Glimpse Realm.
• Su Qingyue asked whether Ling Wuyuan's knowledge came from the External Ultra-High Pressure Information Storage Discs, and he explained that his Innate Divine Abilities had also helped.
• Su Qingyue asked about the other spacetime and the Metal Fortress's arrival on the Golden Mist Continent, prompting Ling Wuyuan to start explaining the True Abundant Spirit Realm and Starlight Heaven.
• Su Qingyue stopped Ling Wuyuan to ask what Starlight Heaven was, and he began explaining it while processing information from the central intelligent brain.

Ling Wuyuan told Su Qingyue about distant realms, leaving her confident that she and the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion could rely on him to rise. He brought her to the Metal Fortress’s central control room, gave her a device to explore its database, and turned to business while secretly setting up an anti-addiction system for her.

• Ling Wuyuan answered Su Qingyue’s questions about the [Eternal Life Realm], [Starlight Heaven], and other distant powers, and she decided she could trust him to carry the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion to greatness.
• Ling Wuyuan remotely teleported himself and Su Qingyue into the Metal Fortress’s central control room, where he considered the reconnaissance unit’s fate and the danger posed by [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven].
• Ling Wuyuan gave Su Qingyue a crystal-ball-like device connected to the fortress’s internal network and told her to play games or browse its information.
• Su Qingyue followed his instructions and became engrossed in the device’s vast database.
• Ling Wuyuan secretly installed an anti-addiction system for Su Qingyue, then went to handle business.

Su Qingyue hit the daily online entertainment limit, and Ling Wuyuan partially unlocked it for her after finishing his work as administrator. He then entered the ruined core of the Metal Fortress to examine the elite reconnaissance force’s corpses and the aftermath of the battle that had destroyed them.

• Su Qingyue discovered that a pop-up blocked her from using the internet after she reached her daily entertainment limit.
• Ling Wuyuan finished stabilizing the Metal Fortress while Su Qingyue waited, bored and unable to get online.
• Su Qingyue asked Ling Wuyuan to remove the restriction, and he agreed to unlock it only partway before she returned to surfing the internet.
• Ling Wuyuan entered the Metal Fortress’s devastated core, where ancient energy storms and lingering hatred marked the site of the final battle.
• Ling Wuyuan examined the corpses of the elite reconnaissance force’s powerful members and concluded that a vastly stronger intruder had nearly wiped them out before escaping wounded.

Ling Wuyuan scavenged the remains of powerful experts in the Metal Fortress, then finished relocating Jade Night Snow City with his spacetime abilities. He left its former site as a vast artificial inland sea, complete with dangerous sea beasts.

• Ling Wuyuan examined the dead experts’ remains for research and information, salvaged valuable equipment, and left the core residential area after several days.
• Three months later, Jade Night Snow City completed preparations to relocate, using Floating Rune Warships and Ling Wuyuan’s Artificial Grotto-Heaven to transport its people and belongings.
• Ling Wuyuan removed Jade Night Snow City, Jade Night Snow Mountain, nearby ranges, soil, and spiritual veins with such precision that the surrounding area suffered no disturbance.
• Su Qingyue and Ling Wuyuan’s subordinates praised his ability to move the city intact.
• Ling Wuyuan opened a spacetime passage and filled the enormous pit with seawater and dangerous sea beasts, turning the city’s former site into an artificial inland sea.