Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan moved Jade Night Snow City intact to Ice Mist Snow Island, delighting Yuan Yujun, Yan Xiujin, and the others as he planned for the city to prosper again. Meanwhile, the True Abundant Spirit Realm learned that Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven might launch another all-out offensive and began preparing for a devastating war.

• Ling Wuyuan joined Jade Night Snow City seamlessly to Ice Mist Snow Island, bringing its buildings, people, resources, and earth veins with it.
• Yan Xiujin hugged Ling Wuyuan in excitement, and he teleported everyone to his former residence in Jade Night Snow City.
• Ling Wuyuan outlined plans to restore the city's prosperity as the branch members returned, while Su Qingyue and the others accepted his arrangements.
• Leaders in the True Abundant Spirit Realm discussed intelligence that Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven might launch another all-out offensive.
• The True Abundant Spirit Realm's leaders ordered preparations, knowing that a war on that scale could kill countless people, including supreme powerhouses.

The True Abundant Spirit Realm prepared desperately for an all-out assault from Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven, whose factions argued over their contributions and spoils. Meanwhile, Void Mist Sea continued feasting on battlefield ruins until it noticed vast Torrents of Karma gathering and wondered whether a super-sized buffet was coming.

• The True Abundant Spirit Realm’s leaders imposed harsh orders and mobilized native factions to prepare for an invasion they could not afford to lose.
• Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven’s factions bickered over troop commitments, battle assignments, and how to divide the spoils before securing victory.
• Void Mist Sea reached the Eternal Life Realm and eagerly feasted on ruins across the Black Omen Battlefield.
• Void Mist Sea noticed vast Torrents of Karma gathering rapidly and wondered if a super-sized buffet was about to begin.

Void Mist Sea sensed that a major conflict between the True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven was approaching, so Ling Wuyuan prepared to wait out the war while reconsidering his plans. Concerned that a decisive victory could cost him future opportunities, he sent a wisp of Gray Mist toward an alternate spacetime to seek power.

• Void Mist Sea detected that the Black Omen Battlefield’s karma had become increasingly chaotic and inferred that a major battle or general offensive was near.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to have Void Mist Sea find a suitable place to wait while the True Abundant Spirit Realm and Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven fought.
• Ling Wuyuan grew concerned that one side might win decisively and end his chance to exploit both realms’ resources and secrets.
• Ling Wuyuan chose the alternate spacetime of the person who had impersonated Shen Zhenhai as a target, believing its strongest inhabitants were within his ability to defeat.
• Ling Wuyuan sent a faint wisp of Gray Mist toward the spacetime coordinate he had marked years earlier.

Ling Wuyuan analyzed the hidden spacetime called the [Xikong Immortal Realm] and created a secret art to infiltrate it. His Gray Mist passed through the outer barrier at great cost, and he committed most of its remaining power to concealment as it neared entry.

• Ling Wuyuan located the [Xikong Immortal Realm] and used information from Shen Zhenhai's memories to identify it.
• He analyzed the realm's spacetime laws and combined methods from his gathered knowledge into a custom secret art.
• Ling Wuyuan mastered the secret art and sent a wisp of Gray Mist toward the realm's spacetime barrier.
• He adjusted the secret art in response to the barrier's resistance as the Gray Mist merged into it and moved deeper.
• After the Gray Mist lost roughly two-fifths of its power, Ling Wuyuan spent eighty percent of what remained on concealment while his main body used the [Torrent of Destiny] to assist remotely.

Ling Wuyuan used the Torrent of Destiny to secure five years of relative safety while infiltrating the Xikong Immortal Realm. After finding loopholes in its defenses, he created a fleeting passage from the Immortal Realm to the less guarded Mortal Realm and entered it.

• Ling Wuyuan reduced his goal from remaining undiscovered indefinitely to staying hidden for five years, spending the equivalent of three months of Law of Karma gains.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that he had entered the Immortal Realm of the Xikong Immortal Realm, where the strong lived after ascending.
• Ling Wuyuan discovered that the rulers had linked celestial bodies into a realm-wide formation and secretly modified spacetime, but had not fully controlled its drifting energy and fundamental laws.
• Ling Wuyuan used a carefully timed expenditure of true essence to create a fleeting spacetime singularity connected to the Mortal Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan sent his wisp of Gray Mist through the singularity toward the less closely surveilled Mortal Realm.

Ling Wuyuan entered the [Xikong Immortal Realm], studied its inhabitants, and created a body before arriving unseen in one of its cities. Meanwhile, Ke Mingyu and the other [Immortal King Realm] beings discussed news from beyond their realm, unaware that an outsider had entered their home.

• Ling Wuyuan appeared high above the [Mortal Realm] and surveyed its creatures and vast landscape.
• Ling Wuyuan analyzed millions of local humans and designed a body suited to the [Xikong Immortal Realm].
• Ling Wuyuan formed a body matching his true appearance and teleported to a city with a population of just over three hundred thousand.
• Ling Wuyuan walked invisibly toward the city's busiest street and noted how few locals cultivated.
• Ke Mingyu and other [Immortal King Realm] beings discussed information from outside the [Xikong Immortal Realm], unaware of Ling Wuyuan's arrival.

Ke Mingyu and the other [Immortal King Realm] experts joined forces after discovering a path beyond the safe but stagnant [Xikong Immortal Realm], bringing an unprecedented peace while they debated consolidating its resources. Their talks over dividing power and benefits grew increasingly heated, and Ke Mingyu suspected they would have fought already if the outside world were not holding them together.

• Ke Mingyu and the other [Immortal King Realm] experts chose to pursue opportunities in the dangerous outside world rather than remain content with the limits of the [Xikong Immortal Realm].
• The experts set aside their old grudges, shared intelligence, and cooperated, which stopped large-scale conflicts between the righteous and demonic paths.
• Ke Mingyu and the others began discussing how to consolidate the [Xikong Immortal Realm]'s resources, populations, and territories while disagreeing over how to divide governing power and benefits.
• As the negotiations grew heated, Ke Mingyu sighed and thought the experts would have started fighting without the lure of the outside world, admitting he might have joined in.

Ke Mingyu told the Immortal King experts that the Mortal Realm lacked the spiritual energy needed to sustain large formations and barrier arrays, and urged them to prepare for outsiders who might attack Xikong Immortal Realm. The experts agreed to strengthen their defenses, unaware that another ambitious outsider had already infiltrated their realm.

• An Immortal King expert asked Ke Mingyu how preparations to protect the Mortal Realm with formations and barrier arrays were progressing.
• Ke Mingyu explained that the Mortal Realm's thin spiritual energy made the arrays difficult to sustain and suggested diverting spiritual veins from the Immortal Realm.
• Ke Mingyu warned that the outsider they had captured might have revealed Xikong Immortal Realm's coordinates and that powerful outsiders could come seeking vengeance.
• The Immortal King experts agreed to prioritize fortifying their home realm against external threats.
• Another ambitious outsider secretly infiltrated Xikong Immortal Realm while the experts remained unaware.

Ling Wuyuan sent a wisp of Gray Mist into the Xikong Immortal Realm to learn about its powers and prepare for a future invasion. The wisp infiltrated an ancient sect’s library and used All Things Known to absorb its entire collection without anyone noticing.

• Ling Wuyuan measured the time difference between the Xikong Immortal Realm and the Main Spacetime and decided the wisp had about a year to prepare.
• Pei Yiman noticed Ling Wuyuan was thinking seriously, but he told her it was nothing.
• During its first week in the Xikong Immortal Realm, the Gray Mist double reached a powerful, ancient sect in the Mortal Realm.
• Guided by the Torrent of Destiny, Ling Wuyuan passed through the sect’s defenses and entered its library undetected.
• Ling Wuyuan used All Things Known to absorb the knowledge in every book and jade slip while the sect’s guards remained unaware.
• Ling Wuyuan left for another target, intending to repeat the process at sects throughout the realm.

After two years studying the Xikong Immortal Realm, Ling Wuyuan disguised himself as a native cultivator and triggered a Heavenly Tribulation on a remote mountain. Onlookers recognized it as a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and noticed that its lightning seemed unusual.

• Ling Wuyuan integrated knowledge from hundreds of thousands of sects and deduced much of the Xikong Immortal Realm’s cultivation system.
• Ling Wuyuan went to a barren mountain and transformed his body, soul, and energy to appear native to the realm.
• Ling Wuyuan adjusted his strength, summoning a vast Heavenly Tribulation across the surrounding skies.
• Cultivators from nearby regions gathered their attention on the masked stranger and wondered why he was facing his tribulation alone in unfamiliar territory.
• Knowledgeable onlookers identified the clouds as a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and remarked that the lightning looked abnormal.

Ling Wuyuan faced an unusually powerful Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation without trying to alter it, wary that tampering could trigger endless Heavenly Punishment. As onlookers mistook the barrage of Purple Tribulation Demon Subduing Lightning for proof he was an ancient demon, Ling Wuyuan stood unharmed and used the lightning to strengthen himself.

• Ling Wuyuan decided not to add to his tribulation because he feared exposing flaws in the identity and karma he had stolen or provoking Heavenly Punishment.
• Purple Tribulation Demon Subduing Lightning struck Ling Wuyuan, and its purple radiance erased sinister beings across tens of thousands of miles.
• Onlookers panicked and fled, identifying the lightning as a weapon used by the Immortal Realm to execute demons and suspecting Ling Wuyuan was a resurrected demon lord.
• The lightning shattered observers' secret arts and injured their souls when they tried to inspect Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan remained motionless as he countered and redirected the lightning's power, extracting its energy to strengthen himself.

As Ling Wuyuan endured the Purple Tribulation Demon Subduing Lightning, nearby demonic cultivators mistook the tribulation for a trap and fled or waited for him to weaken. When some approached the lingering lightning to probe his condition, Ling Wuyuan caught them with hands formed from Gray Mist.

• A demonic cultivator feared Ling Wuyuan was luring onlookers to use as living pills and secretly fled, while others shared his suspicion.
• Ling Wuyuan remained focused on studying the Purple Tribulation Demon Subduing Lightning and did not investigate why people feared him.
• After the eighty-one lightning strikes ended, purple electrical radiance obscured the barren mountain and blocked vision and detection.
• Several cultivators believed Ling Wuyuan was recovering from injuries and agreed to test the dangerous cloud-like lightning.
• Gray Mist hands reached from the purple radiance and seized the approaching cultivators as Ling Wuyuan remarked that they had discussed their plans right in front of him.

Ling Wuyuan used Demonic Path techniques to torment the cultivators who had attacked him, then disappeared after devastating the crowd. Reports portrayed him as a revived ancient demon, leaving local cultivators unwilling to pursue him and expecting the [Immortal Realm] to handle him after his ascension.

• Ling Wuyuan seized his attackers, forcibly read their memories, drained their power and life force, and turned them into tormented human-shaped tools.
• Ling Wuyuan judged the frightened onlookers to be easy prey and ensured that many more cultivators suffered drained strength and damaged cultivation.
• News spread that an unknown ancient demon had revived near a barren mountain in the Wind Bamboo Tree Sea and survived the [Purple Tribulation Demon Subduing Lightning].
• The report claimed the demon had turned half the assembled cultivators into dried puppets and weakened the rest before vanishing.
• The cultivators chose not to seek revenge and left the threat to experts of the [Immortal Realm].

Ling Wuyuan studied the [Ascension Realm] as its spiritual energy transformed the body and soul he was simulating, using the process to learn about the [Immortal Realm]. He began gradually adjusting his simulated state toward that of an Immortal God while Ke Mingyu and the others continued discussing a barrier for the [Mortal Realm].

• Ling Wuyuan judged that his earlier disturbance was not severe enough to draw the [Immortal Realm]'s attention and focused on experiencing the [Ascension Realm].
• Ling Wuyuan learned that cultivators in the [Ascension Realm] gradually became Immortal Gods and would eventually be guided to the [Immortal Realm], which made others wary of provoking them.
• Ling Wuyuan observed the transformation of his simulated body and soul and used it to deduce what an [Immortal Body] and [Immortal Soul] were.
• Ling Wuyuan realized the process offered insight into the [Immortal Realm]'s spacetime laws and began gradually adjusting his simulated state toward that of an Immortal God.
• Ke Mingyu and the others continued studying outside knowledge and discussing how to build a super-large formation barrier in the [Mortal Realm].

At the end of the third year, the Divine Light of Reception descended on Ling Wuyuan in a restaurant, revealing that he had reached the pinnacle of the Mortal Realm. After rewarding the restaurant’s head chef and proprietor by raising their cultivation, Ling Wuyuan vanished as the light dispersed.

• The Divine Light of Reception struck Ling Wuyuan at the restaurant, drawing cultivators from across the region to watch and seek enlightenment.
• The restaurant’s head chef and proprietor realized Ling Wuyuan was an Ascension Realm powerhouse and nervously greeted him.
• Ling Wuyuan praised the food and used a gesture to raise both workers’ cultivation by three realms.
• Ling Wuyuan vanished, and the Divine Light of Reception dispersed.

Ling Wuyuan arrived at Lixiang Tower and asked for its best private room and signature dishes, drawing the manager’s immediate respect. When one of Young Master Zhao’s lackeys challenged him, the man was killed instantly, leaving the restaurant and nearby diners terrified.

• The manager worried as Young Master Zhao and his notorious followers arrived at Lixiang Tower and demanded their usual meal.
• Ling Wuyuan asked the maidservants for the best private room and the restaurant’s finest signature dishes, regardless of price.
• The manager saw Ling Wuyuan and immediately abandoned any doubts, offering to escort him himself.
• When Young Master Zhao asked who Ling Wuyuan was, Ling Wuyuan ignored him and followed the manager’s lead.
• One of Young Master Zhao’s lackeys challenged Ling Wuyuan and exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
• The other diners recoiled in fear, while people approaching Lixiang Tower changed course to avoid trouble.

After Ling Wuyuan killed a lackey at Lixiang Tower, Young Master Zhao and the restaurant staff chose not to provoke him. The island’s factions arranged to serve him without investigating his identity, while the manager grew more confident that Ling Wuyuan only wanted a meal.

• Young Master Zhao pretended not to notice his lackey’s death and left Lixiang Tower with his companions.
• Young Master Zhao ordered his men to eliminate Liu Rong’s relatives, blaming Liu Rong for nearly getting them all killed.
• News of the incident spread across Qingbai Island, and the Island Master instructed Lixiang Tower to treat Ling Wuyuan well without probing his background.
• The manager received word from a maid and became more assured that Ling Wuyuan had come only to eat.
• The manager served Ling Wuyuan more confidently and wondered whether he might receive a tip.

After Ling Wuyuan left Lixiang Tower, the manager, head chef, and others struggled to understand the immense strength he had granted them. The island lord learned what had happened, and powerful visitors soon arrived to investigate, recognizing Ling Wuyuan as the force who had been plundering the Mortal Realm’s factions.

• The manager, head chef, and serving staff discovered that Ling Wuyuan had greatly increased their strength.
• The island lord of Qingbai Island arrived and questioned the manager about the sudden change.
• The manager explained that Ling Wuyuan had raised their strength with a casual gesture, leaving the island lord in disbelief.
• A group of powerful visitors arrived and examined the people Ling Wuyuan had empowered.
• The visitors discussed Ling Wuyuan’s raids on the Mortal Realm’s factions and expressed relief that he had left.

Ling Wuyuan entered the Immortal Realm and was classified as a heavily sinful Demonic Path cultivator, placing him in a dangerous region. As he absorbed immortal qi and underwent the realm’s cleansing, nearby Demonic Path cultivators rushed toward him, only to be seized by his dark gray mist arms.

• The Divine Light of Reception examined Ling Wuyuan’s karma and sent him to a dangerous region for Demonic Path cultivators.
• Ling Wuyuan welcomed the prospect of being attacked and entered the Immortal Realm, where its laws began cleansing him.
• A Demonic Path cultivator spotted Ling Wuyuan’s arrival and hurried to capture him for his Myriad Souls Banner.
• Hundreds of local Demonic Path cultivators gathered after seeing Ling Wuyuan’s immense vortex of immortal qi and lightning.
• Ling Wuyuan reached out with arms of dark gray mist, seized the approaching cultivators, and dragged them away screaming.

Ling Wuyuan arrived in the Immortal Realm and turned nearby Demonic Path cultivators into a terrifying black banner, prompting a monitoring array to appear. He learned that the Immortal Realm assigned everyone a yearly [Killing Quota], setting how much killing could occur before the array intervened.

• Ling Wuyuan welcomed the nearby Demonic Path cultivators as his first meal in the Immortal Realm and devoured them with Gray Mist.
• Ling Wuyuan wove the cultivators’ remains into a black banner, while some observers fled and others watched in awe.
• The Immortal Realm’s monitoring force scanned the area and delivered a golden sheet to Ling Wuyuan.
• Ling Wuyuan read his [Killing Quota] and learned that exceeding it would trigger the array barriers to capture and punish him.