After around a hundred years have passed, Lin Yu's immortal concept remains at the third level.
During this period, the Arrogance clone successfully reincarnates into a new world as its consciousness enters the dream space.
It is born only a few hours ago, yet with its preserved spirit and clarity, it instantly understands where it has appeared.
It discovers that it has been born into a royal family ruling forty per cent of the entire world.
And in this life, it is the first son of the emperor, named Claudius Drake.
A few months pass, and Claudius gradually understands the empire's current state.
The empire stands at the edge of collapse as its ancestral pillar—a Demigod—is on the verge of death.
The noble families have grown powerful to the point of standing equal to the Drake family, and only the Demigod ancestor's existence keeps the empire unified under the Drakes.
Yet none of this troubles Claudius, because once he recovers his strength, he can easily restore the Drake family's supremacy over the continent for eternity.
At fourteen years old, the emperor, Claudius's father, dies, and the Demigod ancestor follows only a few days later.
Claudius, quiet and low-key all his life, is placed on the throne, and no one realises he has already recovered strength equivalent to a stage-three Extraordinary.
His Void Law reaches the peak of the third stage, and he deliberately avoids cultivating any other law so he can step into the Demigod realm with it.
Seated on the throne, Claudius allows himself to act as a puppet emperor, while outside, the empire falls into increasing turmoil.
The noble families fight among themselves in the shadows, though none openly rebel against the Draco throne—yet.
Five years later, the Walken family finally rebels openly and surrounds the royal capital with overwhelming force.
The ministers and royal army, spineless and convinced that the Drake Empire is finished, open the city gates without resistance.
As Claudius sits calmly on the throne, members of the Walken family stride into the throne room as if it already belongs to them.
One steps forward and says with disdain, "Why are you sitting here? Crawl and lick my boot, and I may allow you to live."
Claudius lifts a single fingertip, and a dangerous aura fills the throne room.
In that moment, the so-called puppet emperor becomes a ferocious beast in their eyes, a monster ready to devour them alive.
The arrogant man who insulted him bursts into atoms without even a second to struggle.
The remaining Walken family members tremble violently, and before any can speak, they too disintegrate into dust—except for the strongest among them, whose head Claudius intentionally preserves.
With his Void Law stepping into stage four, Claudius enters the Demigod realm, making it effortless to annihilate them.
He grasps the severed head and hurls it into the city square, where the citizens have gathered to hear news of the Drake family's supposed downfall.
Instead, they see the strongest Walken family member's head fall before them.
Then the emperor's voice echoes directly into their minds, cold and unyielding, ordering them to exterminate the Walken family.
Three days later, Claudius stands in the throne room, looking at the gathered ministers quaking in terror under his mere presence.
Claudius has no interest in taking their lives and says, "Nothing changes. You will manage the empire as before. Now leave."
They scramble out of the throne room in panic.
Moments later, the elders of the royal family enter the hall.
One of them asks, "Why did you let them live?"
Claudius looks at them with open disdain.
"I didn't see any of you when the Walken family walked into the throne room," he says, "but now you suddenly dare to come forward."
The elders exchange uneasy glances until one of them steps out and says, "We have come to you for an important matter."
Claudius replies without interest, "What?"
Another elder clears his throat and says, "After discussion, we have reached a decision: you are not fit to be emperor."
Claudius stares at them like they are idiots and turns to the royal guards.
"Remove these fools from my sight."
The guards step forward instantly, and the elders prepare to resist—only to discover in horror that they cannot mobilise even a trace of their strength.
Like powerless mortals, they are dragged out of the throne room.
Claudius then returns to cultivation, beginning the process of merging his Void Law with his immortal concept.
A decade later, he succeeds, and his aura spreads across the entire world as he steps into the God stage.
His past strength returns as the Void Laws of his previous life and this life finally align with a deeper understanding.
Within a year, he fully merges them, and although his immortal concept grows, it still refuses to break through the fourth level.
To accelerate the compression and refinement of his Void Law, he orders temples built across the world.
He bestows the "Void Priest" profession upon those who truly dedicate their faith to him.
Over the following decades, the entire world gradually becomes his devout domain.
As faith pours into him, his comprehension of the Void Law advances to the third level of the fifth stage, and the immortal concept finally breaks into the fourth level.
His immortal concept stabilises completely, and Lin Yu leaves to hunt divine beings, since he has created three clones already and still needs four more.
Using intelligence from the Black Tower, he hunts four Divine Weirds and retains their cores.
He refrains from cutting off another emotion because his soul has not yet healed from separating Arrogance.
A couple of years later, Li Niyue gives birth to his daughter, whom he names Lin XianYi.
A few years after that, Doha opens his eyes as the stabilised immortal concept calms the world's laws and prevents destruction.
Doha surveys the world—now only a quarter of the original remains—and begins pulling in the floating fragments to refine the world anew.
During this process, he notices his comprehension of the laws increasing even though he is not intentionally cultivating, and the power does not come from Lin Yu or anyone else.
He checks carefully and discovers the reason: with his immortal concept anchored into the world, the world's laws now slowly transfer their structure into him.
A shortcut appears in his mind.
Lin Yu returns to the Extraordinary Heart World, and with his immortal concept, he attempts to infiltrate the world's laws.
However, the world's laws are complete, perfect, and he cannot find any opening to enter.
Although he never spread his faith in this world, the people instinctively believe in him after he killed the Void Demon.
Using that faith as fuel, he burns the offerings and forces his immortal concept into the core of the world's laws, beginning the process of parsing them.
A couple of years later, Jingxuan stands in the shattered sky, locked in a fierce battle against a fifth-level God realm expert of the Soul Clan.
Although Jingxuan's cultivation remains at the third level, his comprehension of the laws has already reached the sixth level, allowing him to stand toe-to-toe with the higher-realm opponent.
Black and white thunder coils around Jingxuan like two divine dragons, their roars echoing through the void as he launches forward.
The moment he moves, the sky splits, and a tidal wave of lightning crashes toward the Soul Clan expert.
The fifth-level god raises his hand calmly, and a vast curtain of Soul Law spreads across the heavens, shimmering like a translucent ocean of minds.
When Jingxuan's thunder meets the soul curtain, the collision releases a shockwave that vaporises clouds and cracks distant mountains.
The Soul Clan expert's eyes glow with pale blue fire as he whispers, "Soul Dominion."
Invisible blades of spiritual power pierce through the air, each one sharp enough to tear a god's consciousness apart.
Jingxuan's pupils narrow, but he doesn't retreat; his black and white thunder twists, fusing into a spiralling cyclone of opposing laws.
The cyclone meets the incoming soul blades, grinding them to dust—but several pierce through and stab into Jingxuan's sea of consciousness.
His head throbs, his vision darkens, and for a moment, his body falters.
The Soul Clan expert laughs, "You dare challenge my clan with such weak cultivation?"
Jingxuan's aura suddenly flares, and the thunder around him erupts like an awakened ancient beast.
"Cultivation isn't everything," Jingxuan growls, "and you are far from qualified to judge me."
He slams his palm down, and a thunder formation forms beneath his feet—twelve rings of alternating black and white light.
The moment the formation activates, thunder devours the sky.
The lightning storm swallows the Soul Clan expert, who responds by manifesting a massive spectral skull above his head, its hollow eyes dripping with soul energy.
The skull opens its jaw, swallowing Jingxuan's thunder whole and sending a mental shockwave toward him.
Jingxuan's body trembles as the shockwave tears into his spirit, but then his aura steadies, anchored by his sixth-level law comprehension.
Black thunder erupts from his left eye, white thunder from his right, and the two forces spiral together into a spear of annihilation.
He throws it—
The spear tears through space, leaving a trail of broken dimensions in its wake.
The Soul Clan expert's expression finally changes, fear flickering across his face.
"Soul Barrier!"
A dome of soul force forms around him, thick enough to warp reality, but the thunder spear pierces it and shatters it like thin ice.
The spear slams into his chest, blasting him backwards thousands of miles, his body carving a burning line across the sky.
He coughs blood, stunned that a mere third-level god could injure him so severely.
Jingxuan appears before him in the next heartbeat, thunder swirling silently around his body.
"This ends now," he says, and the world trembles.
Jingxuan raises his hand, and black and white thunder gathers at his fingertip, swirling until the air itself vibrates with unbearable tension.
Across from him, the Soul Clan expert steadies his breathing, his spiritual ocean surging violently as he forces his injuries down.
"You… are dangerous," the Soul Clan expert admits, voice low, "but you cannot defeat me."
Jingxuan doesn't respond; instead, the thunder at his fingertip suddenly expands, condensing into a sphere of pure destruction—an embryonic sun of lightning.
Seeing this, the Soul Clan god's pupils shrink, and his aura erupts to its peak.
"Soul Emperor's Shadow—Descend."
A colossal phantom materialises behind him, its presence oppressive enough to distort the world.
The phantom's hands stretch forward, merging with the Soul Clan expert's attack as he summons an ocean of pure Soul Law.
The sky splits.
The earth trembles.
Dimensional cracks spread like spiderwebs.
Jingxuan whispers, "Immortal Thunder—Break."
And the sphere collapses into a lance of pure immortal lightning, sharper than any weapon, heavier than any mountain, its power enough to erase gods.
The Soul Clan expert roars, and his soul ocean surges upward, merging with the phantom as it lashes out with a world-shattering strike.
Both attacks meet.
The world turns white.
Thunder drowns all sound, and Soul Law drowns all thought.
The collision ejects mountains from the ground, twists clouds into spirals, and sends shockwaves that tear the heavens like fragile cloth.
The two forces grind against each other, neither yielding, Immortal Thunder melting into Soul Ocean, Soul Law devouring lightning—
Then everything explodes.
Jingxuan is hurled backwards, crashing through several layers of torn space before stabilising, blood dripping from his mouth.
His right arm shakes uncontrollably, scorched black from the soul backlash.
His consciousness flickers, but he forces himself to remain awake.
Across from him, the Soul Clan expert floats unsteadily, his chest sunken inward and his soul-energy fraying at the edges like a torn cloth.
His breathing is ragged, his aura collapsed.
He wipes blood from his lips and laughs weakly.
"It seems… neither of us wins today."
Jingxuan exhales heavily, thunder fading around him, leaving only exhaustion behind.
"A draw," he says quietly.
The Soul Clan expert gives him a long look—complex, grudgingly respectful, and deeply wary—before turning and disappearing into a fracture in space.
Jingxuan watches him leave, then sinks to one knee, his injuries screaming through his body.
The battlefield falls silent again, the storm fading, the sky returning to its broken stillness.
The fight ends not with triumph, but with survival.
Lin Yu stops his infiltration midway and returns to the Blood Lake.
There, he separates his Greed emotion and begins refining a divine Weird core containing the Law of Transformation.
Once refined, the Greed clone descends into the Soul Well and enters reincarnation.
Lin Yu then returns to the Extraordinary Heart World and resumes infecting the world's laws with his immortal concept.
In the dead world, Jingxuan finally wakes after healing his wounds.
He sits up slowly, feeling no desire to continue cultivating; instead, he feels a heavy, lingering tiredness pressing on his chest.
He looks around the dim cultivation chamber and thinks, "I should go out… clear my mind for a few days."
With that thought, he pushes open the stone door, sealing the chamber.
Dust scatters into the air as the massive slab grinds aside, and Jingxuan steps out for the first time in years.
Sunlight spills onto his face, warm and unfamiliar after so long, and he hears gentle bird calls echoing from the mountain behind him.
The guards stationed to protect his retreat quickly kneel when they see him.
"Lord."
Jingxuan gives a simple nod and continues walking toward his residence.
He doesn't bother suppressing his aura, so Li Niyue senses him immediately from inside the house.
She rushes out and looks him over from head to toe.
"You're out," she says softly.
Jingxuan nods, and they embrace in silence for a moment.
Concern shadows her eyes as she asks, "How is your injury?"
"Fine," Jingxuan replies, brief but sincere.
They walk back toward the house together, and as they move, Jingxuan senses the faint aura of her immortal concept radiating from her body.
She has reached the peak of the third stage, Extraordinary.
She cultivates his Immortal Demon Body technique, meaning her foundation is built on his cultivation and his laws.
And as a fourth-stage Extraordinary, Jingxuan now possesses a trace of divinity—enough to help others break into the Demigod stage.
Not many, but Li Niyue is someone he can help.
After they enter their room and Li Niyue helps him remove his outer robe, Jingxuan says, "Do you want my help to advance to the Demigod stage?"
Li Niyue pauses and looks at him, surprised.
"You can do that? I never heard from the two ancestors that they could help someone reach the Demigod stage."
Jingxuan heads toward the bath.
His clothes and body are not dirty, but after years of intense cultivation and a near-fatal battle, stress clings to his bones.
The bathing pool glows faintly, steeped in precious herbs meant to relax the body and soothe the spirit.
He steps into the water, letting the warmth sink into him, and slowly closes his eyes as the tension inside him begins to unwind.
"They can," Jingxuan says, voice low, "but they don't have divine energy to spare."
Li Niyue removes her clothes as well and slips into the bath beside him, the water rippling gently around them.
"Is there any consequence for you if you use your divine energy?" she asks.
Jingxuan knows the truth clearly.
His cultivation is stuck at the third realm of stage four; he cannot advance until the main body, Lin Yu, breaks through to the fourth realm.
Once that happens, Jingxuan will no longer exist as an independent entity, so the divine energy within him is essentially useless for his own path.
"No consequence for me," Jingxuan says softly, "but there will be for you."
Li Niyue frowns.
"What consequence could there be?"
"After you break through to the Demigod stage with my help," Jingxuan explains, "your cultivation will halt until you remove the traces of my law from your body."
Li Niyue falls silent, thinking deeply.
Jingxuan adds, "For you, as my partner, it will be easy to remove them during dual cultivation."
Li Niyue smiles, her eyes warming.
"Then what are you waiting for?"
She sits beside him in the steaming water, and Jingxuan raises his hand, channelling a trace of divine energy.
The thread of divinity leaves his palm and enters her body like a gentle spark.
Two days later, after her body adapts and her cultivation surges into the Demigod stage, Jingxuan asks, "Where is our daughter?"
Li Niyue sighs and says, "Six months ago, she ran out of the house, determined to become a hero like her mother and father."
Jingxuan gathers another little divine energy and forms a divine clone.
The clone rises from the house and shoots into the sky, searching for the girl.
With a light deduction of fate and aura, he catches her location, and the divine clone flies toward her.
The clone finds his daughter travelling with a group of friends through a remote mountain range.
A glint appears in Jingxuan's eyes as he watches through the clone.
He decides to give his daughter a proper martial arts experience.
With a single thought, a mountain is hollowed out from within, forming ancient ruins resembling a long-forgotten sect.
He arranges a mist array, places several treasures inside, and patiently waits for his daughter and her friends to discover it.
A year later, when she returns, she excitedly tells him about the cultivation ruin she and her friends found.
He listens silently, feeling a rare warmth spread through his heart.
After spending a few months accompanying his daughter, Jingxuan returns to his cultivation room.
There he sits once more, beginning to comprehend the laws and deduce the next layer of his immortal concept.
Only a few days pass before a ripple stirs inside the dream space, and the consciousness of the Greed clone finally awakens from reincarnation.
The moment its awareness stabilises, information floods in—sensation, bloodline, instinct, and the pressure of the new world's heavens.
Then the Greed clone pauses, stunned, as it realises what race it has been born into.