Ch. 1266Still at War with Itself: Xikong Immortal Realm

Ling Wuyuan absorbed immortal qi and studied Xikong Immortal Realm’s cultivation system, planning to repeatedly advance and restart his avatar’s cultivation before his true body arrived. Meanwhile, the Immortal King Realm’s rulers remained unable to agree on how to monitor the Mortal Realm.

  • Ling Wuyuan stored the lightning-battered Myriad Souls Banner in a gap between spacetime and decided to strengthen it later.
  • Ling Wuyuan absorbed immortal qi and realized he could quickly transform his avatar into an Immortal Body and Immortal Soul, but chose to wait until he found a secluded place.
  • Ling Wuyuan recalled repeating the Mortal Realm’s cultivation path tens of thousands of times, gaining deep knowledge of its Power System and maximizing Doomfall Calamity’s effectiveness against its cultivators.
  • Ling Wuyuan resolved to raise his avatar’s cultivation and repeatedly start over to prepare for his true body’s arrival and the uncertainties on the Black Omen Battlefield.
  • The Immortal King Realm’s rulers continued arguing over how to construct a formation barrier to monitor the Mortal Realm, unable to agree on a plan.

Ch. 1267Scouting Unit About to Become a Main Combat Force

Ling Wuyuan’s scouting avatar grew powerful enough to rival the Xikong Immortal Realm’s strongest natives, while the realm’s overseers began investigating abnormal immortal qi consumption. When Ke Mingyu confronted him in a desert, Ling Wuyuan revealed his identity and welcomed the chance to fight the Immortal King who had sent Shen Zhenhai into the main spacetime.

  • Ling Wuyuan kept his avatar hidden beyond the planned five years, allowing it to approach the Heavenly Position Realm in strength.
  • Overseers monitoring the Xikong Immortal Realm detected abnormal immortal qi consumption and began investigating, while Ling Wuyuan sensed that his concealment was nearly over.
  • Ling Wuyuan traveled to a sparsely populated desert and challenged the figures hiding nearby to come out.
  • Immortal King Du Rong—Ke Mingyu appeared with eleven others and said Ling Wuyuan’s aura seemed familiar.
  • Ling Wuyuan sensed their karmic connection, removed his mask, and revealed that Ke Mingyu had led him to the Xikong Immortal Realm.
  • Ke Mingyu recognized Ling Wuyuan as the man who had defeated his human puppet, and Ling Wuyuan eagerly prepared to fight him.

Ch. 1268The cautious [Immortal King Realm] cultivators

Ling Wuyuan confronted Ke Mingyu and the other [Immortal King Realm] cultivators after cultivating to the peak of the [Heavenly Immortal Realm] in the [Xikong Immortal Realm]. The cultivators reinforced their restraints and sent Xie You to test him, and Xie You began unleashing a corrosive domain.

  • Ke Mingyu and the other [Immortal King Realm] cultivators realized Ling Wuyuan had advanced from the [True Form Realm] to the [Heavenly Immortal Realm] with astonishing speed.
  • The cultivators secretly strengthened the formations and barriers to keep Ling Wuyuan from escaping the [Xikong Immortal Realm].
  • Ling Wuyuan asked whether they would fight him together or one at a time, while Ke Mingyu prepared to duel him before another cultivator stopped him.
  • The man who stopped Ke Mingyu summoned Xie You, a formidable [Golden Immortal Realm] fighter, and ordered him to test Ling Wuyuan while staying alert.
  • Xie You rose and released a blood-red domain that corroded spacetime, which Ling Wuyuan judged could affect even ordinary [Eternal Life Realm] cultivators.

Ch. 1269Won't Waste Too Much of Your Time

Ling Wuyuan faced Xie You, who mistook him for an outsider disguised as a native and challenged him to fight. After Xie You unleashed his power to absorb matter and energy and strengthen his attacks, he struck at Ling Wuyuan, who still showed no concern.

  • Xie You's blood-red ghostly lights failed to harm Ling Wuyuan, despite Ling Wuyuan displaying only Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivation.
  • Xie You deduced that Ling Wuyuan was an outsider and demanded that he reveal himself and fight openly.
  • Ling Wuyuan denied disguising himself and said he had built his power from scratch in Xikong Immortal Realm.
  • Xie You gathered blood-red ghostly lights into a hole at his spear tip, which devoured nearby matter and energy to increase his destructive power.
  • Xie You launched his spear at Ling Wuyuan while Ling Wuyuan remained unmoved.

Ch. 1270After This Battle, Come Be My Lackey!!

Ling Wuyuan countered Xie You’s perfected spear technique by instantly understanding and copying its principles, then broke Xie You’s attack and weapon. He left Xie You defeated and told him to become his lackey after the battle.

  • Xie You’s crimson ghostly light failed to affect Ling Wuyuan, so Xie You gathered it around him and launched a swift, masterful spear thrust.
  • Ling Wuyuan’s abilities analyzed Xie You’s lifelong spear arts, allowing Ling Wuyuan to reproduce their principles with a finger-spear.
  • Ling Wuyuan struck a crucial node in Xie You’s [Hole], breaking the attack through precise technique rather than superior force.
  • Ling Wuyuan’s finger-spear continued forward and shattered Xie You’s spear, leaving Xie You stunned by the defeat.
  • Ling Wuyuan swept past Xie You, praised his move, and told him to become his lackey after the battle.

Ch. 1271After This Battle, Be My Lapdog!! (2)

Ling Wuyuan grievously wounded Xie You and declared that he would make the Immortal King Realm cultivators his subordinates, both to strengthen his forces and to harvest the Law of Karma. Ke Mingyu and the others rejected his proposal and enclosed everyone in a specially created battlefield to fight him.

  • Ling Wuyuan triggered the power he had planted inside Xie You, badly damaging his body and soul and leaving him near death.
  • Xie You tried to attack Ling Wuyuan again, but a second eruption of power made him collapse unconscious.
  • Ling Wuyuan claimed Xie You’s silence meant he had agreed to become his lapdog, then invited the Immortal King Realm cultivators to serve under him after the battle.
  • Ling Wuyuan explained that he wanted the cultivators as strong subordinates and as sources of the Law of Karma.
  • Ke Mingyu and the other cultivators rejected Ling Wuyuan’s proposal, and golden light enclosed everyone in a special battlefield.

Ch. 1272The So-Called Conquest

Ling Wuyuan declared that he had come alone to conquer the Xikong Immortal Realm, then fought Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal King Realm experts when they attacked. He turned their coordinated assault into a series of one-on-one battles, with the conflict still underway.

  • Ling Wuyuan told Ke Mingyu that he would either kill or use everyone in the Xikong Immortal Realm and said his only reinforcements were himself.
  • An Immortal King Realm expert struck Ling Wuyuan with a rule-level instant-hit sword attack, but the blow failed to harm him and Gray Mist surged toward the attacker.
  • Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal King Realm experts launched coordinated attacks, restraints, and weakening effects against Ling Wuyuan.
  • Ling Wuyuan transformed into a sea of Gray Mist and sent out identical copies of himself to engage each Immortal King Realm expert in a separate fight.

Ch. 1273The So-Called Conquest (2)

Ling Wuyuan fought more than ten Immortal King Realm cultivators, matching their attacks while rapidly learning and refining their techniques. The Immortal Kings decided to stop holding back and end the fight quickly, as the battle’s destructive particles and dark gray mist threatened the wider Immortal Realm.

  • Ling Wuyuan used Abyssal Divine Speed and Xikong Immortal Realm techniques to keep the Immortal Kings from gaining an advantage.
  • Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal Kings realized Ling Wuyuan had not fought seriously and grew wary of his rapid growth.
  • An Immortal King warned that Ling Wuyuan had already learned most of his commonly used moves and was modifying them.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others agreed to get serious and defeat Ling Wuyuan before he improved further.
  • The combatants saw that their attacks had reduced the surroundings to dangerous fundamental particles containing chaotic wills and dark gray mist.
  • The golden curtain held back the destructive particles, which otherwise threatened the Immortal Realm and could have decomposed Xie You.

Ch. 1274The So-Called Conquest (3)

Ling Wuyuan discovered that the Xikong Immortal Realm empowered Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal King Realm experts while suppressing him, turning the fight against them. He began to fall behind as they attacked with the full force of their home-field advantage.

  • The golden barriers holding back the destructive currents threatened to fail, risking catastrophic damage to the Immortal Realm.
  • Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal King Realm experts stopped holding back to limit losses and unleashed their full strength.
  • Ling Wuyuan realized the Xikong Immortal Realm continuously replenished the experts’ energy and life force, letting them recover from even severe injuries.
  • The Xikong Immortal Realm began rejecting Ling Wuyuan, cutting off his access to spiritual energy and reducing his strength to around one-third.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others attacked Ling Wuyuan, and he fell into a disadvantage as his power dwindled while the rules of the realm aided them.

Ch. 1275The So-Called Conquest (Four)

Ling Wuyuan realized that Ke Mingyu and the others were using the Xikong Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Heart to suppress him, but he remained confident and viewed the realm as a valuable discovery. Ke Mingyu’s group believed Ling Wuyuan was close to exhaustion and began considering capturing him alive, just as an eerie sizzling sound came from his latest transformation into gray mist.

  • Ke Mingyu and the others used the Heavenly Heart to turn the Xikong Immortal Realm’s rules into an active force suppressing Ling Wuyuan.
  • Ling Wuyuan judged that the suppression would weaken him but felt reassured that the realm had no opponent capable of fighting above their level.
  • Ling Wuyuan recognized the Xikong Immortal Realm as a rare, valuable subject for studying spacetime rules and decided to play along with his opponents.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others exchanged messages, concluded Ling Wuyuan was running out of energy, and considered taking him alive.
  • Ling Wuyuan broke apart into gray mist again, and Ke Mingyu’s group heard an eerie sizzling sound as something was forcibly corroded.

Ch. 1276The So-Called Conquest (5)

Ke Mingyu and the others tried to exhaust Ling Wuyuan after cutting off his access to the Xikong Immortal Realm’s spiritual energy, but he began devouring the chaotic fundamental particles produced by their battle. As the struggle fed his recovery and power, one expert prepared to detonate their [Immortal King Imprint] and fight him to the death.

  • Ke Mingyu and the others realized that Ling Wuyuan’s mist form was frantically absorbing the violent fundamental particles around them, causing it to expand and replenish his energy.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others tried to transfer the chaotic particles away, but their authorities could not move them.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others attempted to isolate Ling Wuyuan with formation barriers, but he repeatedly destroyed them and devoured their attacks for nourishment.
  • Ke Mingyu and the others watched Ling Wuyuan recover toward his peak and appear close to growing stronger still.
  • One of Ke Mingyu’s companions declared that they would detonate their [Immortal King Imprint] and fight Ling Wuyuan to the death.

Ch. 1277The So-Called Conquest (6)

Ke Mingyu volunteered to detonate his Immortal King Imprint to stop Ling Wuyuan, who was close to breaking through despite facing more than ten Immortal King Realm cultivators. The imprint shattered, alerting every living being in the spacetime that a momentous event had occurred.

  • An Immortal King Realm cultivator proposed detonating his Immortal King Imprint to attack Ling Wuyuan, accepting the immense cost of weakening himself for a million years.
  • Ke Mingyu insisted on taking the task, saying he had brought Ling Wuyuan there and would deal with the consequences.
  • Another Immortal King Realm cultivator stopped the first volunteer from arguing, while the man admitted he had hoped to use the sacrifice to grow stronger as he recovered and gain compensation.
  • Ke Mingyu shattered his Immortal King Imprint, and every living being in the Immortal and Mortal Realms sensed the rule-level rupture.

Ch. 1278The So-Called Conquest (7)

Ke Mingyu detonated his Immortal King Seal, unleashing the Xikong Immortal Realm’s laws to destroy Ling Wuyuan, and the Immortal King Realm experts joined the attack until even space-time was shattered. As Ke Mingyu prepared to leave, a pleasant melody and slow applause came from an unseen source.

  • Ke Mingyu detonated his Immortal King Seal, causing the Xikong Immortal Realm’s laws to surge toward Ling Wuyuan and reduce him to invisible particles.
  • Ling Wuyuan began reassembling himself, and Ke Mingyu ordered the Immortal King Realm experts to erase him before he could adapt to the attack.
  • The experts unleashed all their powers, shattering the space-time where Ling Wuyuan had stood and leaving no visible trace of him or the Gray Mist.
  • Ke Mingyu concluded Ling Wuyuan was dead and that no reinforcements were coming, then said he would return to condense another Immortal King Seal.
  • A strange melody played and an unseen presence applauded as Ke Mingyu prepared to leave.

Ch. 1279The So-Called Conquest (End)

Ling Wuyuan revealed that he had analyzed Ke Mingyu’s spacetime-based ultimate move and could withstand its effects. After his avatar’s apparent defeat, Ling Wuyuan’s main body made a dramatic entrance and prepared to conquer the Xikong Immortal Realm by force.

  • Ling Wuyuan explained that [Abyssal Divine Speed] had given him years of accelerated thought, letting him reduce the effects of Ke Mingyu’s attack by eighty percent.
  • Ke Mingyu demanded to know why Ling Wuyuan had survived, while the other [Immortal King Realm] cultivators grew uneasy at his untouched appearance.
  • Ling Wuyuan descended golden stairs to hidden live music, which he had arranged to accompany his entrance.
  • Ling Wuyuan stopped clapping and released his immense power, making the world seem to fall silent and filling Ke Mingyu and the others with despair.
  • Ling Wuyuan announced that the avatar’s defeat had begun the second stage of the battle and vowed to conquer the Xikong Immortal Realm through absolute force.

Ch. 1280Perhaps, I Will Never Forget This Rare

Ling Wuyuan defeated Ke Mingyu and the other Immortal King Realm experts, then ordered them to integrate the Xikong Immortal Realm or face death. Unable to give up their hopes of advancing further, the battered experts reluctantly accepted the task and set out to recover.

  • Ling Wuyuan dismissed Ke Mingyu’s claim that the battle had not pleased him and said the experts had served as worthy punching bags.
  • Ling Wuyuan reminded the defeated experts to integrate the Xikong Immortal Realm and threatened to kill them if they disobeyed.
  • Ling Wuyuan left through a spacetime gate, while Ke Mingyu and the others considered why they had not sacrificed themselves to fight him.
  • Ke Mingyu and the other experts chose to preserve their chance to reach greater heights rather than die, despite resenting Ling Wuyuan’s control.
  • The injured experts rose and returned home to plan how to heal and complete Ling Wuyuan’s order.

Ch. 1281Ice Mist Snow Island Under Reconstruction

Ling Wuyuan returned to [Ice Mist Snow Island] after swiftly settling matters in the [Xikong Immortal Realm], where extensive renovations were already transforming the island. He told Yan Xiujin that his opponents had been capable but that the island would become his home and foundation for a much greater future.

  • Ling Wuyuan surveyed the rapidly advancing renovations across [Ice Mist Snow Island] and estimated that the project would be preliminarily complete in two or three years.
  • Ling Wuyuan envisioned transforming [Ice Mist Snow Island] into his [Heavenly Kingdom] or [Hall], with the possibility of making it the core of a [Starlight Heaven].
  • Ling Wuyuan appeared in his bedroom, startling Yan Xiujin, who asked why he had returned only four or five hours after leaving.
  • Ling Wuyuan told Yan Xiujin that he had settled matters in the [Xikong Immortal Realm] and described Ke Mingyu and the others as capable opponents.
  • Ling Wuyuan reflected that the [Immortal King Seal] let the [Xikong Immortal Realm]'s forces control spacetime and gradually wear down most outsiders.

Ch. 1282Tiers of Strength

Ling Wuyuan told Yan Xiujin how he had taken control of the Xikong Immortal Realm and explained why Ke Mingyu and the others could not escape or resist him. The chapter left Ke Mingyu and his allies bound to serve Ling Wuyuan, with their Immortal King Seals tying them to the realm.

  • Yan Xiujin asked Ling Wuyuan how he had dealt with the Xikong Immortal Realm, and he said he had spent a year and a half scouting before resolving the fighting in minutes.
  • Yan Xiujin wondered whether Ke Mingyu and the others might rebel, but Ling Wuyuan said they had no way to oppose him.
  • Ling Wuyuan explained that the Immortal King Seals gave Ke Mingyu and the others great power while binding them to the Xikong Immortal Realm.
  • Ling Wuyuan concluded that Ke Mingyu and the others could neither escape nor defeat him, leaving them with no choice but to work for him.

Ch. 1283The unassuming things that carried enormous weight

Ling Wuyuan explained that he had brought Ke Mingyu and the others under his command for their usefulness, though he might someday give them a chance to escape the Xikong Immortal Realm. After describing how immense and valuable alternate space-times could be, he agreed to take Yan Xiujin to visit the Xikong Immortal Realm, and she asked how close he was to reaching the Immortal Realm.

  • Ling Wuyuan considered Ke Mingyu and the others useful underlings and said he might help them escape the Xikong Immortal Realm if the opportunity arose.
  • Yan Xiujin learned more about the Xikong Immortal Realm and said she wanted to visit it someday.
  • Ling Wuyuan agreed to take Yan Xiujin to the Xikong Immortal Realm and said he could eventually attach it to the Main Spacetime.
  • Ling Wuyuan explained that the Xikong Immortal Realm was a valuable alternate space-time that factions could use as a resource-rich base.
  • Yan Xiujin asked Ling Wuyuan how far he was from the Immortal Realm.

Ch. 1284Ling Wuyuan's Fear

Ling Wuyuan told Yan Xiujin he expected to reach the Immortal Realm in about a year and a half, then spoke confidently about his future as the greatest cultivator. When Yan Xiujin asked him to help improve her cultivation so Yuan Yujun would stop punishing her, he refused rather than risk being lectured too.

  • Ling Wuyuan estimated that he would reach the Immortal Realm in about a year and a half, and Yan Xiujin praised his unprecedented progress.
  • Ling Wuyuan said future disciples could follow the path he had paved to reach his current realm, but no one would match his ultimate achievements.
  • Ling Wuyuan explained that he feared neither powerful predecessors nor rivals and intended to claim whatever he wanted.
  • Yan Xiujin clung to Ling Wuyuan and begged him to raise her cultivation so Yuan Yujun would not keep beating her.
  • Ling Wuyuan refused to help Yan Xiujin, afraid Yuan Yujun would lecture him if he intervened.

Ch. 1285Head of the Family

Ling Wuyuan considered how Yuan Yujun’s discipline of Yan Xiujin fit his plans to guide his wives’ cultivation, while reflecting on his position as the head of the family. After advancing to the [Eternal Life Realm], he examined his rapidly growing, destructive life force and found it increasingly difficult to control.

  • Yan Xiujin grumbled about Yuan Yujun’s authority and feared the beating she expected from her Master, while Ling Wuyuan stayed silent.
  • Ling Wuyuan decided that Yan Xiujin should let Yuan Yujun discipline her, since he had tacitly approved Yuan Yujun pushing her to cultivate.
  • Ling Wuyuan reflected that he cared more about Yan Xiujin and his other women than his subordinates, and that he had laid out reliable paths for their cultivation.
  • Ling Wuyuan examined his life force after reaching the [Eternal Life Realm] and found that its already immense, corrosive power was growing so rapidly that it was difficult to release.
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