Thunder spreads across the sky like cracks in glass, each bolt carrying the wrath of heaven.
But Lin Yu stands unmoving at the heart of the storm, his eyes calm, his body shining with divine light.
He has already reached the ninth stage of the Fourth Stage Extraordinary, the peak comprehension of law beneath divinity.
To him, the Divine Seal Tribulation is not a threat—
It is a hammer meant to forge him.
The first bolt falls.
A pillar of thunder thicker than a mountain slams into his body.
Flesh tears.
Bones fracture.
Blood evaporates into mist.
But Lin Yu doesn't flinch.
The body is irrelevant now—
His true core is the Divine Seal within his soul.
All wounds are meaningless.
Another bolt descends, even more furious—
Lin Yu spreads his arms, allowing it to burn him completely.
Thunder floods his limbs, forging his flesh with divine tempering until his body glows faint blue.
Cracks run across his skin, glowing with lightning.
Then—
Boom!
The final bolt crashes down like the heavens collapsing.
Lin Yu accepts it all.
He channels the thunder straight into his Divine Seal, refining it, compressing it, and engraving the immortal concept deeper into its structure.
When the last arc fades—
Heaven recognises his survival.
The clouds shift.
The world trembles.
A beam of pure energy—the gift of heaven and earth—descends from above.
It pours into Lin Yu like a waterfall of cosmic essence.
His Divine Seal drinks it in greedily, stabilising further, growing brighter, heavier, stronger.
Around him, the strange, lingering Weird energy of the dead world starts spiralling toward him—
devoured, refined, and transformed into divine power.
His cultivation surges.
The Divine Seal Realm pushes open before him.
Fourth Stage → Fifth Stage
The power continues rising beyond what a normal divine being could endure.
Fifth Stage → Sixth Stage
The Divine Seal shines like a miniature sun inside his consciousness.
Lin Yu breathes once—
and the world rumbles beneath his feet.
Sixth Stage → Seventh Stage
The moment he reaches the Seventh Stage, the heavens darken again.
Thunderclouds spiral, forming a vortex hundreds of kilometres wide.
Bolts of black and silver lightning dance inside the storm, their aura far more terrifying than before.
The sky roars.
The earth trembles.
Even the dead world's will stirs, recognising something unnatural:
A second tribulation is coming.
Lin Yu looks up calmly.
"So the seventh stage is not the end," he murmurs.
"Good."
Thunder gathers again, sharper, heavier, divine in its fury.
The Thunder Tribulation descends a second time.
A spear of silver-black lightning tears through the sky and slams into Lin Yu.
His body ruptures instantly—skin peeling, bones glowing red from heat—yet he remains expressionless as the thunder refines him.
He channels every bolt directly into the Divine Seal at his core, letting the immortal concept stabilise and expand.
The world shakes as thunder continues to fall.
Seventh Stage → Eighth Stage
The gift of heaven and earth pours down again, filling him with divine essence until his aura swells like a rising sun.
Before the essence fully settles—
Boom!
A stronger bolt descends, forcing the advance further:
Eighth Stage → Ninth Stage
The Divine Seal rotates inside him like a celestial wheel.
Lin Yu's Law comprehension erupts past its old limits, and yet the tribulation does not stop.
Instead, it thickens.
Dark clouds twist together into a massive vortex, and lightning within turns blood-red.
The peak tribulation has arrived.
Lin Yu stands in silence as the world seems to collapse above him.
The Ninth Stage Peak Tribulation.
The first bolt strikes—
Lin Yu's flesh burns away, leaving only a golden skeleton.
He draws in divine power and instantly reforms his body.
The second bolt hits—
His spine shatters, organs dissolve, and half his skull vaporises.
He rebuilds it again from pure divine essence.
The third bolt falls—
His body explodes completely into drifting particles of light.
In a single breath, he reforms again.
The tribulation grows deadly.
Bolts carrying the power to erase laws themselves fall on him.
His physical body is destroyed again and again—more than a dozen times.
Each time, he reorganises it, using the Divine Seal as the blueprint.
Finally—
after the last thunderbolt tears the sea floor apart and burns through the dark skies—
Lin Yu passes the tribulation.
The storm breaks apart.
Light falls.
The gift of heaven and earth descends once more, thicker and purer than anything before.
Lin Yu closes his eyes and absorbs it.
But this time, something else flows with the thunder—
The laws of the dead world.
During the tribulation, lightning carried fragments of the world's laws, and Lin Yu seized them.
He refines the fragments and threads them into his immortal concept.
With faith gathered from worlds anchored by his immortal concept, the second truth of immortality reveals itself:
Second Stage of Immortality — The Anchor of Faith.
If a being believes in him—
even if only one remains—
He cannot truly die.
Even if slain, erased, or destroyed,
He will return from silence through the anchor formed by faith.
The immortal concept surges violently, combining the captured world-laws with faith and thunder.
It rises—
Into the Sixth Stage of Law.
Lin Yu breathes once.
A tremor spreads through the heavens.
Then he feels it—
A new tribulation begins forming above him.
But this one is different.
The sky does not gather clouds.
No lightning forms.
Instead—
The tribulation is born from the void itself,
a law-erasing destruction capable of devouring worlds.
If unleashed here, it would annihilate the dead world.
So Lin Yu acts instantly.
He tears open space with his bare hands.
The fabric of reality splits, revealing endless darkness beyond.
He steps into the void—
and the tribulation follows him outward,
roaring silently in the emptiness between worlds.
The Void Tribulation takes form.
At first, it appears as black lightning—thin, quiet, harmless.
But when it strikes, the void itself buckles.
Space collapses into nothingness.
Time twists into spirals.
Reality ripples like torn cloth.
Lin Yu's expression remains calm.
The first bolt hits.
His body disintegrates instantly—flesh, bone, and divine energy evaporating into blank silence.
Yet his Divine Seal shines and rebuilds his form.
The second bolt descends, thicker, sharper, containing fragments of void law.
Lin Yu raises his palm, trying to redirect it—
But the void lightning passes straight through his hand,
erasing half his body from existence.
He reforms again, slower this time.
The third bolt falls.
A spear of complete annihilation.
Lin Yu braces himself—
But the lightning does not tear him apart.
Instead, it removes him.
Every trace of his body, aura, and energy is swallowed into nothingness.
His Divine Seal shatters.
Cracks spread across it like broken glass.
The immortal concept flickers.
Then the next bolt descends.
And the next.
And the next.
In the void, there is no sound, no scream, no resistance—
only the endless destruction of existence itself.
The tribulation continues until there is nothing left of Lin Yu at all.
Only a single object remains:
A worn-out Divine Seal, its surface cracked, its edges dim,
floating alone in infinite darkness.
The void becomes silent again.
The tribulation ends.
Time loses meaning.
A hundred years—or a thousand—pass.
Then…
The worn-out seal trembles.
A faint pulse beats within it.
It begins to absorb the void energy around it,
devouring fragments of pure emptiness and law decay.
Slowly, cracks seal shut, the dim surface brightens,
and divine runes reappear.
A faint silhouette forms around it—
first a haze, then bones, then flesh, then divine essence—
until a brilliant figure stands reborn in the emptiness.
Lin Yu returns.
His body shines like a radiant star, illuminating the void without end.
His aura spreads across the emptiness,
announcing the birth of a being who has passed through destruction itself.
He has stepped into the Fifth Stage—Void Immortal Realm.
As his divine power fully condenses into immortal power,
His lifespan limit disappears.
Eternity spreads through his veins.
Across the worlds connected to him—
His descendants and close relatives receive the echo of his breakthrough.
Their bodies tremble.
Their bloodlines ignite.
His children rise instantly into the Demigod stage.
His close relatives gain one or two cultivation stages,
ascending as if touched by heaven itself.
The worlds rejoice without knowing why.
Lin Yu floats in the endless void,
listening to the distant hum of origin laws awakening around him.
A cold realisation settles in his heart.
"If I hadn't comprehended the second step of my immortal concept…"
"If no one in any world believed in me…"
"…I would have truly died."
He closes his eyes for a moment—
not in fear, but in solemn gratitude.
Then he turns, facing the infinite darkness.
He has returned from silence.
And now,
The path beyond immortality awaits.
Lin Yu tears open the void and steps back into the dead world.
The ancient caverns tremble as void light pours behind him, but he ignores it and immediately travels to the seven fragmented worlds.
One by one, he gathers his wives and children from each separated fragment, bringing them all into the dead world—
a world now fully suitable for cultivation, thanks to his immortal concept.
For the first time, all his wives and children from different worlds meet,
and they finally learn the full truth—
Lin Yu had seven clones, each living, cultivating, and reincarnating in different worlds.
Before they can settle, a delegation from the Corpse Temple arrives.
Lin Yu is, after all, within their sphere of influence.
They deliver a cold message:
Join the Corpse Temple—or leave the continent.
After discussing with the stage-four Extraordinary of the Zhou Dynasty,
Lin Yu and the dynasty make a unified decision.
They cannot coexist with the Corpse Temple.
So, they choose to leave the continent entirely.
Lin Yu searches the ocean and finds a massive island—
twice the size of the Zhou Dynasty's previous territory.
He activates his space teleportation array,
and in a single massive pulse of power,
the entire Zhou Dynasty, including its divine kingdom,
It is relocated to the new island.
Immediately after landing,
Lin Yu assists the divine kingdom in wiping out the original inhabitants.
Divine warriors sweep across the land,
slaughtering all local powers.
Within days,
The entire island belongs to the Zhou Dynasty.
Then Lin Yu begins preaching the Immortal Demon Body cultivation method,
spreading the immortal concept through doctrine and practice.
Disciples, believers, and warriors absorb his teachings,
strengthening the foundation of his domain.
Only then does Lin Yu return to cultivating.
But to advance further,
He must create a new cultivation technique—
a method for the Void Immortal Realm,
the true fifth stage of his evolving path.
In this world, the fifth stage extraordinary is still called the Divine Way—
a path based on increasing authority over their world through law comprehension.
But Lin Yu's path is different:
He must comprehend laws,
merge them into his immortal concept,
and elevate his immortal nature to the next step.
To accelerate law comprehension,
He creates a new batch of divine clones
and sends them into the seven fragment worlds.
Each clone infiltrates the world's laws
with threads of the immortal concept,
studying and devouring law patterns from within.
While his clones cultivate,
Lin Yu spends his time with his wives and children.
He helps them push toward the fourth stage before their lifespans run out.
His children, bearing his immortal constitution,
have far greater lifespans and comprehension abilities.
Two of them enter the fourth stage, Extraordinary,
but their wives remain stuck at the Demigod realm.
To assist them,
Lin Yu uses his own laws to forge God Crystals,
gems that carry the authority of divinity.
When his wives refine them,
They break through to stage four, Extraordinary
and gain the necessary lifespan to continue cultivating.
They become members of his personal divine gate,
and he resolves their cultivation obstacles one by one.
But during all of this,
a thought enters Lin Yu's mind.
He remembers his eldest daughter
and her mother in the Battle Spirit World.
He left them behind when they couldn't even reach the Demigod stage.
If his daughter still lived,
she would certainly have received the void-immortal breakthrough gift.
She would have become a Demigod at minimum.
But her mother—
Her chances of surviving this long are far lower.
His mind then wanders to another place—
The Thousand Spiritual World.
Now that he has reached the Void Immortal Realm,
There is no reason he cannot return.
The Nine Nether Sect will not trouble him anymore.
They remain strong, holding multiple fifth-order Extraordinary cultivators—
But Lin Yu has now reached the same realm.
He can meet them as an equal.
And since he was once a member of their sect,
even as a slave,
That status technically allows him to return.
Very likely, they will still reject him.
He has formed his own Immortal Concept,
utterly different from the Nether Concept they cultivate.
But even if they refuse,
The Thousand Spiritual World remains filled with opportunities—
especially with the threat of the Ancient Divine Race rising again.
However, Lin Yu's method of law comprehension has changed.
Now he can only comprehend laws by infecting world laws with his immortal concept,
and the Thousand Spiritual World is currently at war.
But the world itself is undamaged—
fully intact, no law fragments exposed—
which means he cannot infringe on its laws.
So he decides:
He will stay in the dead world,
comprehend every law it contains,
and only return to the Thousand Spiritual World afterwards.
If he reaches the late fifth stage before returning,
Even the Nine Nether Sect will think twice before moving against him.
With this in mind,
Lin Yu enters deep cultivation,
assisting his divine clones as they refine the laws of the seven fragmented worlds.
Three thousand years pass.
His immortal concept becomes the anchor of all the fragmented worlds,
linking them through divine essence,
threading their laws together like roots forming a single tree.
Then Lin Yu acts.
He takes control of all the fragments,
guides their rotation,
and begins refining them—
forging them back into a complete world.
The moment he starts,
The heavens shake.
Beams of light pierce the sky.
The smell of burning leaves fills the air.
Every Weird creature in the dead world senses the change and attacks.
Dozens, then hundreds, then thousands—
monsters of law and chaos rushing to stop him.
But fifth-stage divine beings from across the dead world also appear,
rushing to Lin Yu's side.
For if the world is healed,
their injuries—accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years—
will also heal.
The battle rages across the skies.
Weirds scream and dissolve in divine fire.
Fifth-stage beings clash like stars colliding.
Lin Yu stands at the centre,
pouring immortal concept into the fractured world.
Days turn to months.
The continents merge.
The seas fuse.
Laws re-align.
And then—
The dead world becomes whole again.
A single, complete world.
As the last fragment sinks into place,
Lin Yu feels a sudden closeness to the world—
so intense it shocks even him.
The laws of the dead world become clear to his senses,
visible like glowing symbols drifting in the air.
His immortal concept infiltrates these laws,
flowing through every layer—
life, death, soul, void, destruction, silence.
Then he senses something else.
Hidden deep within the dead world's law structure
Is the concept of Weird?
a living embodiment of an alien concept,
secretly trying to rewrite the world's laws—
just as Lin Yu is attempting to do.
He slows immediately.
He seals his aura.
He moves carefully.
Lin Yu begins to infiltrate both
The Dead World's laws
and the Weird Concept
at the same time.
One misstep…
And the Dead World will reject him
—or the Concept Weird will devour him.
So he moves with absolute precision,
like a needle sliding between the fibres of creation.
The next step
will determine whether he dominates the world's law…
or becomes part of the Concept Weird's meal.