Chapter Summaries

Powerful factions in Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven convened to plan another campaign against the True Abundant Spirit Realm, then investigated why previous campaigns had gone awry. They concluded that at least fifty other Starlight Heavens had secretly interfered to prevent them from producing a Boundless Realm cultivator.

• A powerful expert rang the palace bell to end the argument, and the meeting laid out who would organize the campaign and how Rogue Cultivators could participate.
• Several experts accused Rogue Cultivators and other Starlight Heavens of sabotaging previous campaigns, citing inexplicable mistakes and losses.
• A faction leader urged everyone to share intelligence about outside interference, arguing that Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven had to protect its plans for the True Abundant Spirit Realm.
• Experts named suspicious Starlight Heavens, and their combined intelligence implicated at least fifty realms in secretly meddling.
• The campaign leaders grew furious but recognized that the other Starlight Heavens had coordinated their interference to stop Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven from gaining an overwhelming advantage and producing a Boundless Realm cultivator.

The factions of Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven realized that at least fifty Starlight Heavens were interfering with their war against True Abundant Spirit Realm. They chose to proceed with their planned decisive battle on a larger, more cautious scale to expose the outsiders’ methods without leaving their home base vulnerable.

• The factions of Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven recognized that the Starlight Heavens were obstructing their conquest because they feared Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven’s growing strength.
• The factions concluded that they could not quickly overcome the interference of at least fifty Starlight Heavens and would have to contend with them over time.
• The powerhouses in the palace agreed to continue their planned decisive battle against True Abundant Spirit Realm while investigating how the outsiders were interfering.
• The factions decided to jointly increase the decisive battle’s intensity and scale by three to five times to draw out and observe their opponents’ methods.
• The factions rejected a much larger show of force because it might invite opportunists to attack Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven’s home base.

As a major battle with Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven drew near, True Abundant Spirit Realm’s rulers reviewed their preparations and discussed their uneasy cooperation with outside beings. They accepted that defeating Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven had to come first, while remaining wary of their allies’ future ambitions.

• True Abundant Spirit Realm’s powerhouses met to prepare for an imminent battle, aware that they were vastly outnumbered and weaker than Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.
• The realm’s leader urged everyone to ensure that their preparations had been carried out as planned.
• The attendees voiced hostility and suspicion toward their outside allies, fearing those beings would become even more dangerous if given the chance.
• The leader argued that Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven was the immediate priority and told everyone to endure the alliance for now.
• The powerhouses asked what their allies would require in exchange for cooperation, recalling that they had previously supplied resources, gathered intelligence, and intercepted rising talents.

As Ling Wuyuan's hundredth birthday approached, [Void Mist Sea] sensed both sides manipulating the [Black Omen Battlefield]'s spatial and temporal rules to create terrain advantages. He concluded that the main force of [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] was about to enter the war and fled toward safer regions to avoid being caught in the coming battle.

• The powerhouses of [True Abundant Spirit Realm] agreed to help their outside collaborators only when they could, refusing to risk their lives for people they knew wanted to weaken both sides for their own gain.
• As Ling Wuyuan's hundredth birthday neared, [Void Mist Sea] sensed a fundamental change in the [Black Omen Battlefield]'s temporal and spatial rules.
• [Void Mist Sea] determined that the change would weaken native beings of [True Abundant Spirit Realm] and disable some of their equipment, giving [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] a home-field advantage.
• [True Abundant Spirit Realm] tried to restore the battlefield's original rules, but [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven]'s force blocked a full restoration.
• [Void Mist Sea] followed the [Torrent of Destiny] toward safer regions, anticipating that large-scale fighting was imminent.

As Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven and True Abundant Spirit Realm fortified their positions instead of attacking, Rogue Cultivators waited for the fighting to begin and covert moles carried out their missions. One mole noticed that Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven was sending in more war-machine maintenance personnel than expected, prompting him to investigate as the moles grew uneasy about unforeseen changes.

• Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven and True Abundant Spirit Realm reshaped the battlefield and strengthened their positions while avoiding an immediate clash.
• Rogue Cultivators waited for permission to move freely and hoped the major factions would begin fighting so they could profit.
• Moles among the Rogue Cultivators pursued different missions, including relaying information, estimating enemy forces, and preparing to eliminate targets.
• A mole monitoring Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven noticed that more war-machine maintenance personnel were entering the battlefield than he had expected.
• The mole disguised himself to investigate further, while other moles also became anxious about unpredictable developments.

The [Black Omen Battlefield] erupted into war as weapons from [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] and [True Abundant Spirit Realm] exchanged attacks beneath the [Black Wall]’s surveillance. [Void Mist Sea] stayed hidden as the surveillance weakened, while a colossal fighter emerged to open the battle with a punch.

• War Weapons from [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] attacked [True Abundant Spirit Realm], whose defenses countered them across the [Black Omen Battlefield].
• The [Black Wall] scanned the battlefield, and [Void Mist Sea] realized his concealed position was still detectable.
• [Void Mist Sea] restrained his power and waited for [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] to interfere with the surveillance.
• [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] released chaotic information that weakened the [Black Wall]’s ability to identify [Void Mist Sea] and track his actions.
• A fighter from [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] grew to a size beyond the universe and announced he would begin the battle with his own hands.
• The fighter’s voice shook spacetime and destroyed rivers of stars as he threw a punch through the air.

Void Mist Sea and Ling Wuyuan witnessed a clash between World Creation Realm experts whose power overwhelmed the battlefield and threatened the mist Void Mist Sea had left behind. Ling Wuyuan reflected on the vast gap in strength and suspected Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven was trying to reclaim its losses and gain an advantage in the Black Omen Battlefield.

• Void Mist Sea failed to track an enemy's punch and expected the True Abundant Spirit Realm experts to stop it.
• The True Abundant Spirit Realm answered the attack with pure-golden flames, and the collision darkened the world before erupting in intense light.
• Void Mist Sea shielded himself from the battle's aftershocks, but the spreading golden power erased nearby mist and rapidly depleted more distant reserves.
• Ling Wuyuan observed the clash, acknowledged that World Creation Realm fighters could kill him instantly, and reaffirmed his goal of reaching the Fate Defiance Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan compared the forces deployed by Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven with earlier battles and suspected it intended to recover its losses and seize an advantage.

Ling Wuyuan judged that the Black Omen Battlefield was too dangerous for Void Mist Sea to scavenge, so he kept it dormant and began splitting it into countless hidden incarnations. He left himself considering how to turn those incarnations into a formation while waiting for the war to weaken enough for safe scavenging.

• The True Abundant Spirit Realm and the Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven began a massive battle that filled the Black Omen Battlefield with powerful forces and heavy casualties.
• Ling Wuyuan ordered Void Mist Sea to remain dormant rather than risk being destroyed while harvesting fresh battlefield wreckage.
• Ling Wuyuan kept Torrent of Destiny operating at full power, but powerful beings on the battlefield greatly weakened its divinatory ability.
• Ling Wuyuan began scattering Void Mist Sea into billions of incarnations hidden at different spacetime nodes, though monitoring them all would consume vast amounts of the Law of Karma.
• Ling Wuyuan considered using the incarnations as nodes for an immense formation barrier, but chaotic interference made the plan difficult to carry out.
• Ling Wuyuan kept Void Mist Sea hidden and waited for the war to ease enough for it to scavenge the battlefield.

Ling Wuyuan kept Void Mist Sea dormant in the Black Omen Battlefield, using the Torrent of Destiny to make the Gray Mist seem like a harmless byproduct of the war. To fund this concealment and expand his reserves of Law of Karma, he worked relentlessly across other spacetimes, leaving his subordinates overwhelmed with overtime.

• Ling Wuyuan used the Torrent of Destiny to mislead investigators and encourage both sides to dismiss the Gray Mist as an accidental phenomenon.
• Void Mist Sea stayed dormant, allowing the Gray Mist to spread through battlefield ruins and gradually consume them.
• Ling Wuyuan expanded his territory, advanced the [Nationwide Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Energy Intensity Adjustment Plan], and hunted for prey in the Sea of Spacetime to gather Law of Karma.
• Ling Wuyuan's relentless workload forced his subordinates to work around the clock, and Su Qingyue split off avatars to help manage the work.

Ling Wuyuan expanded the Illusory Mist Realm Country’s development of secret realms and campaigns to clear dangerous zones, increasing resources and karmic returns. He left the story with the country proceeding cautiously, clearing manageable threats while sealing off dangerous sites for later.

• Ling Wuyuan calculated that changes to the country’s laws and regulations and the batch management of secret realms had increased the law of karma harvested.
• Ling Wuyuan ordered cultivators to make secret realms accessible year-round, while the country’s forces uncovered rare resources, ancient legacies, and strange artifacts.
• The Illusory Mist Realm Country sent powerful cultivators to clear Life Forbidden Zones, crushing most of the weaker ones with coordinated force.
• Ling Wuyuan used divinations and prophecies to assess suspicious locations and prevent his subordinates from triggering threats like the ancient mobile ruin.
• Ling Wuyuan established a policy of clearing easier targets first and sealing off dangerous locations until the country could address them with concentrated forces.

Ling Wuyuan continued expanding Illusory Mist Realm Country and preparing to eliminate its internal threats while reflecting on his approaching hundredth birthday. He asked Pei Yiman and the others to hold a family banquet, having gained new insight into the passage of time.

• Ling Wuyuan sent five thousand teams and hundreds of combat puppets to investigate and clear spacetime secret realms and life-forbidden zones across Illusory Mist Realm Country.
• Ling Wuyuan resolved to eliminate high-risk threats eventually and strengthen Illusory Mist Realm Country to protect the concealed Deadly Silent Deep Shadow Sea and the Supreme Path.
• Ling Wuyuan conquered a vast alternate spacetime and drew it into the dimensions surrounding Illusory Mist Realm Country.
• Pei Yiman and the others asked Ling Wuyuan what he wanted to do for his hundredth birthday.
• Ling Wuyuan recalled his life from begging in Black Stone City and agreed to celebrate with a family banquet.

Ling Wuyuan celebrated his hundredth birthday with a small family banquet attended by Su Qingyue and close companions. Su Qingyue considered retiring, but Ling Wuyuan urged her to keep working, and the chapter ended with everyone enjoying the feast.

• Ling Wuyuan held a modest birthday banquet and set aside his concerns about the Black Omen Battlefield for the day.
• Su Qingyue congratulated Ling Wuyuan and reflected on how far he had advanced in just a century.
• Su Qingyue said she wanted to spend her remaining years in peace, but Ling Wuyuan insisted she still had important work to do.
• Su Qingyue recognized that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion was now closely tied to Ling Wuyuan and the Illusory Mist Realm Country.
• Pei Yiman and the others finished preparing the dishes, and Ling Wuyuan was fed by them as the guests enjoyed the banquet.

Ling Wuyuan confessed that his hundredth birthday and age were not accurate, then brought Pei Yiman and the others into his memories to explain his past. He revealed that before arriving in the Main Spacetime, he had lived at Origin Orphanage as a child, and prepared to tell them how he had crossed over.

• Ling Wuyuan decided to tell Pei Yiman and the others the truth about his age and birthday.
• Yuan Yujun and the others questioned why Ling Wuyuan had lied about his age.
• Ling Wuyuan used the Gray Mist Imprint to bring everyone’s consciousness into his memories.
• Ling Wuyuan showed them Origin Orphanage and gave them knowledge of Earth’s languages.
• Ling Wuyuan revealed that the child at the orphanage was himself in a previous life.

Ling Wuyuan showed Xi Xianlan, Yuan Yujun, and Pei Yiman the meteor that had struck him and sent him into the Main Spacetime. As they struggled to understand how an ordinary person could have survived the meteor and a spacetime rift, Ling Wuyuan explained that he had smiled because the impact had hit him perfectly.

• Xi Xianlan asked whether the meteor was the piece of Yao Beast Flesh and Blood that had sent Ling Wuyuan into the Main Spacetime.
• Yuan Yujun and Pei Yiman sensed the spacetime laws violently rejecting the meteor and realized its impact could have destroyed Earth without that rejection weakening it.
• Yuan Yujun and Pei Yiman concluded that Ling Wuyuan should not have survived the meteor, the spacetime rift, or the differences between the two worlds.
• The meteor struck the Ling Wuyuan in the memory after he adjusted his position, and everyone saw him smile.
• Ling Wuyuan told the others that he had smiled because the meteor hit him dead center and made for a rare, impressive way to die.

Ling Wuyuan explained how his dormant abilities, Yao Beast Flesh and Blood, and adaptation to spacetime currents had let him survive his journey into Main Spacetime. After telling his companions about his origins, he dismissed the need for secrecy now that he was powerful in his own stronghold.

• A meteorite shattered the mountain where Ling Wuyuan had stood, and he vanished into a spacetime crack as Yan Xiujin wondered how he had survived.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that his abilities repeatedly restored his body and soul, helped him draw power from spacetime currents, and let him adapt to Main Spacetime’s laws.
• Ling Wuyuan declared that his survival and rapid rise were natural for someone destined to reach the summit, and his companions accepted his confidence.
• Pei Yiman embraced Ling Wuyuan, pleased that learning his origins brought them closer.
• Yuan Yujun worried that enemies might extract Ling Wuyuan’s secret from the others, but Ling Wuyuan said secrecy mattered less now that his word was law in his stronghold.

Ling Wuyuan reassured Yuan Yujun that his origins from another spacetime posed little danger, then promised Yan Xiujin he would take her to Earth if they ever had the chance. He explained that Earth was caught in a high-intensity war between powerful spacetimes, leaving the others to learn why he had kept its troubles secret.

• Ling Wuyuan told Yuan Yujun that her [Gray Mist Imprints] and his [Torrent of Destiny] could protect her, and that exposure of his origins would not greatly affect him.
• Yan Xiujin asked whether she could visit Ling Wuyuan's former hometown, but Xi Xianlan pointed out that a meteorite had devastated Earth.
• Ling Wuyuan agreed to take Yan Xiujin to Earth someday, while warning that its ongoing high-intensity war made a visit unlikely within three to five years.
• Wu Yanlian asked how a weak planet like Earth could be involved in a war that made Ling Wuyuan cautious.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that Earth belonged to the powerful [True Abundant Spirit Realm], which had long been targeted by the even stronger [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven].

Ling Wuyuan’s [Void Mist Sea] continued spreading gray mist across the [Black Omen Battlefield] while both sides grew accustomed to it and mistook it for a harmless natural phenomenon. The mist quietly gathered Laws of Karma and information, but Ling Wuyuan had to keep its corrosion slow to preserve its cover, so he accelerated the broader plan instead.

• [True Abundant Spirit Realm] and [Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven] grew used to the gray mist and collected information about it, but concluded its effects were negligible.
• Observers began to suspect the mist was a natural battlefield mechanism that purified wreckage, a misunderstanding [Void Mist Sea] hoped to encourage.
• The mist disrupted pursuits and prevented people from recovering battlefield remains, allowing [Torrent of Destiny] to harvest Laws of Karma through the resulting consequences.
• Ling Wuyuan invested the gathered Laws of Karma into plans, while the mist’s slow corrosion of battlefield remains occasionally supplied him with useful knowledge.
• Ling Wuyuan endured the limits imposed by [Void Mist Sea]’s need to remain hidden and ordered it to spread gray mist faster.

Over several years, Pei Yiman, Yan Xiujin, and the others grew closer to Ling Wuyuan by learning about his life on Earth. Meanwhile, Ling Wuyuan transformed Illusory Mist Realm Country with rapid expansion, public infrastructure, climate management, and universal access to cultivation, leaving the country flourishing under policies driven by his desire to harvest Law of Karma.

• Pei Yiman, Yan Xiujin, and the others asked Ling Wuyuan about Earth's customs and culture to better understand his origins and outlook.
• Ling Wuyuan welcomed their curiosity and shared truths about Earth, enjoying how their understanding brought them closer.
• Illusory Mist Realm Country expanded its territory and built cities and infrastructure at extraordinary speed.
• Ling Wuyuan's National Natural Climate Integration Management Department adjusted regional weather to secure reliable supplies for commoners.
• Ling Wuyuan advanced the Universal Cultivation Plan, opening Library Towers with free cultivation materials and instructors throughout the country.

Ling Wuyuan’s self-serving policies made Illusory Mist Realm Country prosper and earned him a reputation as a benevolent Saint Emperor, while Torrent of Destiny ensured his investments paid off even when they failed. As Void Mist Sea secretly scavenged the Black Omen Battlefield, Ling Wuyuan continued strengthening himself by gathering knowledge from the remains of the True Abundant Spirit Realm and the Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven.

• Ling Wuyuan realized that his efforts to feed pigs and fertilize chives had made him seem unusually generous compared with other rulers, earning him praise despite his selfish motives.
• Ling Wuyuan benefited from Torrent of Destiny, which rewarded him for influencing his subjects whether his investments succeeded or failed.
• Illusory Mist Realm Country grew so powerful that people from surrounding regions flocked to join it, astonishing Su Qingyue and the others.
• Ling Wuyuan continued cultivating because he knew he could not afford to fall behind in a world governed by individual strength.
• Void Mist Sea expanded its Gray Mist across the Black Omen Battlefield and used All Things Known to collect valuable information from battlefield remains, boosting Ling Wuyuan’s cultivation.

Ling Wuyuan weighed his plans to exploit the war between the True Abundant Spirit Realm and the Illusory Color Extreme Profound Heaven while he secretly built strength through the Illusory Mist Realm Country and the Black Omen Battlefield. He concluded the conflict was still a probing phase, leaving him time to grow, and sensed his weight in the river of Destiny and Karma increasing.

• Ling Wuyuan reflected on quietly stealing resources from the conflict because he was not yet strong enough to fight openly.
• Ling Wuyuan considered the Illusory Mist Realm Country and the Black Omen Battlefield his bright and dark fields for gathering power, with the latter meant to help push him into the Boundless Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan realized the two sides’ battle had not reached a final decisive stage and seemed to be probing one another, though he did not know what they were testing.
• Ling Wuyuan judged that reaching the World Creation Realm would let him use the Black Omen Battlefield to crush both realms and establish a path toward the Boundless Realm.
• Ling Wuyuan noticed his Undying Nature growing stronger and his weight in the river of Destiny and Karma rapidly increasing.