Ascension to a Third-Level Continent

Long Live was examining the buildings listed on the Heavenly Derivation Display. Only one day remained before the protection period ended, leaving them little time to prepare. Then something struck him.

His face went deathly pale!

There was a gaping flaw in the Mortal Domain's battle plan!

A flaw big enough to destroy the entire Mortal Domain.

Years of struggle and hard work could be plunged into ruin overnight.

He staggered, nearly losing his footing. Shoving aside a subordinate who came to steady him, he stumbled out of the Strategist Pavilion. He had to find the Domain Lord.

Inside the Stone House in Cave One on Nameless Mountain.

Chen Fan sat alone at his desk and poured himself a pot of cold tea. He no longer had the patience for hot tea.

He did nothing.

He simply sat at the desk, staring into space.

He had done everything he could.

The rest was up to fate.

He thought back to when he first crossed into this world, when he had started at Jiangbei Chen Family Station No. 37 in the Jiangbei Wasteland and built his camp bit by bit. It had taken years—nearly ten, perhaps?

He could hardly remember.

Along the way,

there had been joy, pain, melancholy, confusion, and helplessness.

But he had made it through.

As long as a person lived, no matter how much pain they endured, it would become clouds of the past and eventually scatter on the wind.

The battle ahead

might be the last of his life.

If he lost, he would have nothing.

If he won, a new chapter would begin.

He was not afraid of losing. He had arrived in this world with nothing. Having had nothing to begin with, why fear losing it? He simply did not want to see his