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Chapter 419

In the year 468, a piece of news shook the Xuanhuang Realm.

The White Mist Barrier, which served as the dividing line between the provinces, inexplicably began to expand outwards.

The Heavenly Alliance sent Sky Warlocks to investigate the matter.

In year 469, the White Mist Barrier expansion ended. The Sky Warlocks, however, investigated to no avail.

In year 490, a group of cultivators came out of the white mist. Dressed in the garb of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance of that year, they were clearly dead, but could still move freely. And they did not know that they were dead.

Since they did not know about the establishment of the Heavenly Alliance, when the Sky Warlocks who had blocked off the scene arrived, these already dead cultivators of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance clashed violently with them.

In the end, it was only with the help of a team of Level 6, or Harmonious Dao Battle Force, Sky Warlocks that they were forcibly taken away.

In year 524, Han Wuyou broke through to the Soul Transformation realm.

In the year of 539, the golden obelisk of the Xuanhuang Realm erupted for the third time.

The heavens and earth still shook, just much more slightly than the previous two times.

In year 580, Han Wuyou received a secret invitation to meet him at a secret stronghold in Tianyu Province.

The cautious Han Wuyou did not choose to go.

In the year 592, Han Wuyou learns the news that the Tianxuan Soul Locking Formation as a whole has failed for about a tea time within the Zhengqiong Continent.

The Heavenly Alliance had once again issued the [Heavenly Execution Order], offering a reward for the capture of the cultivator named Liu Yihang.

In the year 595, Han Wuyou once again received an invitation. Along with the invitation was a small, round stone disk.

According to the letter, the original disk was called the [Doom Stone], and after being stimulated and carried on the body, it had the effect of shielding the perception of the Tianxuan Soul Locking Formation.

Han Wuyou thought about it again and again, and eventually changed and went to the appointment.

This time, the location of the gathering was changed to a hidden valley in the territory of Tianyun State.

A cultivator introduced himself to Han Wuyou.

They called themselves the [Overwhelming Heaven Society], one of the rebel organizations that had called on the world’s cultivators to fight the Heavenly Alliance to the death in the first place.

Ever since the great defeat of the cultivators, they had hidden underground and waited for the time to move.

For hundreds of years, they have been silently absorbing suitable candidates.

Gu Xinghan, who released the Letter of Declaration to Cultivators of the World back then, Lan Yu Chang, who risked his life to expose the existence of the [Eternal Immortal Wall], and Liu Yihang, who managed to cause the Spirit Locking Formation to fail not long ago, were all members of the Overwhelming Heaven Society.

In the Overwhelming Heaven Society, the most elite forces of the only remaining cultivators in the world were gathered.

Although their numbers were small, geniuses came out in endless succession.

They had also researched many methods over the years on how to fight against the Tianxuan Soul Locking Formation.

The [Doom Stone] was one of the results.

It was created from the secondary body of the Tianxuan Mirror, the [Doom Destruction Stone Disc].

In the course of years and years of research, the Overwhelming Heaven Society had discovered a possible blind spot in the Spirit Locking Formation.

That was the secondary body of the Tianxuan Mirror.

As sub-bodies created by chance by the Tianxuan Mirror, they all maintained a certain characteristic of the Tianxuan Mirror to a greater or lesser extent.

It was because of the existence of these characteristics that, to a certain extent, would cause the Spirit Locking Formation to misjudge.

Treating it as a part of itself, thus neglecting to monitor it.

The number of secondary bodies of the Tianxuan Mirror was already scarce, and the Overwhelming Heaven Society had sacrificed numerous cultivators to find such a piece of the [Doom Destroying Stone Plate].

In addition to the [Doom Stone] that could shield the Spirit Locking Formation, the Overwhelming Heaven Society also had the existence of a great killing weapon called the [Steller Ruining Arrow].

Liu Yihang was able to temporarily disable the Spirit Locking Formation this time, relying on this Steller Ruining Arrow.

The source of the materials used to make it was the various [Anomalies] that were occurring more and more frequently throughout the Xuanhuang Realm.

The existence of this anomalies was like a virus that infected heaven and earth.

Since the anomalies could affect heaven and earth.

The Spirit Locking Formation now took the place of Heaven, and the anomalies could naturally affect the Spirit Locking Formation as well.

After understanding the many matters within the Overwhelming Heaven Society, Han Wuyou raised his doubts.

Why did they give such an exhaustive account of the hidden secrets of the Society on their first meeting?

Wasn’t he afraid that he, Han Wuyou, would report to the Heavenly Alliance?

The other party smiled and introduced Han Wuyou to someone.

It was none other than one of the original [Rebirth Immortal], Medicine King Sect’s Linghu Chang.

It turned out that when the Rebirth Immortals suffered a catastrophe, the survivors each fled for their lives.

In the subsequent big hunt, Linghu Chang was not captured by virtue of the Medicine King’s True Cauldron.

Since then, he had been hibernating in the wilderness, and later joined the Overwhelming Heaven Society by chance.

It was also by relying on the blessing of the Medicine King’s True Cauldron and the many resources within it that the Overwhelming Heaven Society was able to develop under the blockade of the Heavenly Alliance. As time passed, more than three hundred years passed, and some of the Medicine King Sect disciples sleeping in the Medicine King’s True Cauldron were also awakened by him one after another.

For example, that Liu Yihang was the righteous son of the former Medicine King Sect Leader Liu Ruchen.

The meeting of the deceased caused Han Wuyou to recall the scene of the tragic death of the people from the Realm.

With reddened eyes, he formally joined the Overwhelming Heaven Society.

After only half a day in the stronghold, Han Wuyou returned to the Heavenly Alliance.

In the year 603, the golden obelisk began its fourth eruption.

This time, it lasted even longer than the previous three combined.

Above the dome of the sky, channels of green lines ran across the sky, resembling a giant net that enveloped the beings of the Xuanhuang Realm.

Since then, the cultivators of the world privately called the Tianxuan Soul Locking Formation with the Tianxuan Mirror at its core the [Xuan Net].

In the year 610, Han Wuyou received news from the Overwhelming Heaven Society that within the territory of Zhu Yu Province, a giant mountain had risen out of the ground, destroying all of the original landforms.

In this drastic change of heaven and earth, there were no survivors in Zhu Yu Prefecture.

The province’s Xuan Net seemed to have been equally affected.

The stronghold of the Overwhelming Heaven Society has since moved to Zhu Yu.

In year 690, during an assembly, Han Wuyou learned that the number of Celestial Ruining Arrow, the Overwhelming Heaven Society had manufactured in recent years had amounted to as many as three thousand.

Unfortunately, the Xuan Net was protected by peripheral formations, so with such a number of Instigating Heavenly Arrows alone, it was feared that they still wouldn’t be able to injure the core of the Xuan Net.

It is still necessary to wait patiently again.

Han Wuyou pondered.

In 698 year, Han Wuyou comprehended the blueprints of many formations from the Formation Breaking Disc.

In Anchor 710, Han Wuyou secretly met with Linghu Chang as well as Liu Yihang to show them the formation blueprints.

In Year 711, Han Wuyou received a transmission from the Overwhelming Heaven Society, confirming that this was the original formation structure of the Xuan Net. And excitedly asked where the blueprints came from.

Han Wuyou gazed at the formation-breaking disk in the secret room for a long time and remained silent.

He then used a secret method to seal the broken formation disk.

……

In the year 934, a stray child accidentally picked up the Formation Breaking Jade Disc from the ruins.

Thinking that he had picked up some kind of treasure, he was overjoyed and brought it with him day and night.

Then the resonance was created.

The sky no longer appeared green, but gray.

In the year 935, the surviving people of the land passed down legends from a hundred years ago.

The earth trembles and the sky shows cracks.

Above the firmament, the figures of the gods fighting were reflected.

World-destroying lightning punishments continued to descend, turning large swathes of land into nothingness.

After a long time, a pair of giant hands tore open the firmament.

The dust settled and the winds calmed down.

But the infighting among the gods angered the great Father God.

The world has been forsaken.

Ornate buildings are in ruins.

The gods that flew high in the sky are no more.

The world is falling into disrepair.

In the year 936, the wandering child was killed during a hunt.

The broken formation jade disc lies quietly in the wasteland.

Only occasionally did a curious beast come by to check it out.

In Year 1032, there were no longer any wild beasts appearing.

In 1573 Year, the sky is dark and the earth is silent.

In 2078, the world is dead.

In the year 3024, the long-lost sunlight shone on the broken jade disk.

In the year 3036, it was really activated.

(End of chapter)

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    Whatever happened to that puppet guy (Jiao Xiuyuan) .. I think he got captured too at some point and hung on that wall
    Else he would've joined resistance
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    Holy moly
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    a golden little fish being killed led to all this shi is crazy 💀
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      OH MY GOD! I wasn’t even thinking of this before—it was so long ago—but you’re right! This entire chain reaction started because the MC casually killed a fish! 😮 There was another prerequisite: the MC selling the info to the puppet master businessman, who then spread the rumors. That move amplified everything. But still… the butterfly effect is terrifying.

      For those who don’t remember the chain of events (only Li Fan’s direct actions are bolded—everything else is butterfly effect):
      1. MC killed a giant Liuli Fish.
      2. This caused a sea creature with dragon bloodline to gain sentience and begin seeking transformation materials.
      3. It destroyed the Spirit Mist Grass Island, as the grass was useful to it.
      4. The destruction of the grass triggered scarcity.
      5. MC sold this intelligence to the puppet master businessman for profit.
      6. The businessman used his network to spread rumors through puppets.
      7. The price of Spirit Mist Grass skyrocketed.
      8. Powerful cultivators destroyed other grass-producing regions, worsening scarcity.
      9. The Tianxuan Mirror was forced to announce the Wood Element Subworld’s riches to stabilize the situation.
      10. This drew the Five Elders Association’s full interest in stealing the Five Elements Subworlds.
      11. Instead of a minor conflict, a full-scale war erupted.
      12. The war became the catalyst for the Skynet Formation’s development.

      Unless, of course, the war being the catalyst for the formation is just an excuse—which, in hindsight, I find highly likely. Initially, the alliance’s official narrative was that the formation existed solely to identify Five Elders Association spies via their soul contracts. In that context, the war—enabling the capture of many enemy cultivators—made perfect sense as a catalyst. But as we now see, it’s not a spy-detection tool at all. It’s the Tianxuan Mirror’s attempt to replace the Heavens. Most likely, the formation was already in development long before the war. The spy pretext? Possibly just a convenient excuse.
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        MC’s butterfly effect really is getting bigger and bigger now, he is actually able to control so much wow

        At this point in time, I agree with the idea that some form of this formation was already in production, maybe even longer than we could have imagined before Li Fan was born, and we can probably assume it wasn’t for tracking down spies, and that was probably a smokescreen,

        The goal makes sense because the end result was the Tianxuan mirror achieving Dao Transcendence

        It’s hard to connect all the dots, but I think for right now we can say two things
        1. dao transcendence is something someone wants but we don’t know if it’s limited to just this lifetime /the years li fan has been around
        2. the alliance wants to control cultivators (and that the spy tracking formation is likely just the way it showed itself in this lifetime because of Li Fan’s butterfly effect making this the best smokescreen for them to decide to use, so who knows what will happen with difference events)

        If we decided on these facts, I guess we can try asking the question about what Li Fan can do to control his butterfly effect? Should Li Fan change his actions? or should he just try taking advantage in some way? or try rushing his actions before this takes effect?

        But maybe asking these questions is pointless for now, this story is complete and we don’t have to wait for new chapters, so maybe the best thing we can do now is think /understand what happened and continue reading rather than try to predict,

        as long as we understand what has already happened we won’t get loss in this next lifetime
        ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
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    Pls like or thank crisp009

    Are these gods and the great father gods just normal cultivators that would be nascent realm and are called such because the cultivation era ended and they are rare? Or are they new characters above longevity immortal realm?

    Is this reality inevitable or did one of MC’s small actions cause everything, I assume he sped it up a tiny bit is all, but I guess it’s time for him to restart life again

    But if it’s inevitable will mc start dismantling the 10.000 immortal alliance by taking their treasure over life times like what he plans to do with pearl girl heavenly treasure that infinitely makes cultivation techniques, I guess it’s time for the long game (well duh, mc has many second chances, and bit by bit will win, even if he loses a couple times along the way, he wins in the end)
    ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
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      Hello again, fellow daoist.

      Regarding the questions you posed in this comment, I’ve shared several speculations in my reply to the comment above yours. I’d be very interested in your thoughts on them.

      Other than that, I find it extremely unlikely these represent new cultivation realms, given the ever-increasing power gap between higher realms. More likely, these cultivators were called "gods" because they went extinct and became legendary.
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    If the cultivators knew who caused all this, they would have killed the protagonist. I'm shocked, he took it and brought the world to ruin.
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    **Chapter 419 – A Thousand Years, and at Last, True Return**

    Anchor Year 468 — A piece of news shook the entire Xuānhuáng Realm.

    The *White Mist Barrier*, which marked the borders between provinces, had inexplicably begun to expand outward.

    The Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals dispatched Celestial Artisans to investigate.

    Anchor Year 469 — The expansion ceased, yet the Celestial Artisans returned without results.

    Anchor Year 490 — A group of cultivators emerged from the mist. They wore the robes of the former Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals. Though long dead, they still moved freely, unaware of their own deaths.

    Uninformed of the Alliance’s founding, they clashed violently with the Celestial Artisans who came to contain them.

    Only when a squad of six Celestial Artisans at the level of Integration Realm intervened were the revenants subdued.

    Anchor Year 524 — Han Wuyou broke through to the Divine Transformation Realm.

    Anchor Year 539 — The golden obelisks of the Xuānhuáng Realm erupted for the third time.

    Heaven and earth trembled again, though less violently than before.

    Anchor Year 580 — Han Wuyou received a secret letter inviting him to a hidden location in Tianyu Province.

    Ever cautious, he declined to attend.

    Anchor Year 592 — News reached him that in the territory of Jingqiong Province, the *Heavenly Profound Spirit-Locking Formation* had failed for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense.

    The Alliance again issued a *Heaven’s Execution Order*, offering a bounty for a cultivator named Liu Yihang.

    Anchor Year 595 — Han Wuyou received another invitation, this time accompanied by a small round stone disc.

    According to the message, the disc—called the *Calamity Stone*—could conceal the bearer from the Spirit-Locking Formation’s perception when activated.

    After much deliberation, Han Wuyou changed his appearance and went to the meeting.

    The gathering was held in a hidden valley in Tianyun Province.

    A cultivator introduced himself as a member of the *Heaven-Reversing Society*, one of the resistance groups that had once fought the Alliance to the death.

    Since the cultivators’ great defeat, they had gone underground, biding their time and recruiting in secret for centuries.

    Among them were Gu Xinghan, who had once issued the *Proclamation to the Cultivators*; Lan Yuchang, who had risked his life to reveal the existence of the *Eternal Immortal Wall*; and Liu Yihang, whose recent act had disrupted the Spirit-Locking Formation—all members of the Heaven-Reversing Society.

    Though few in number, the Society gathered the finest surviving cultivators in the realm.

    They had long researched methods to counter the Formation.

    The *Calamity Stone* was one such creation—derived from a secondary body of the *Heavenly Profound Mirror*, the *Calamity-Destroying Stone Disc*.

    Through their studies, they discovered that these secondary bodies retained fragments of the Mirror’s nature.

    Because of this, the main Mirror sometimes mistook them for part of itself, leaving them unmonitored—creating rare blind spots within the Formation.

    The *Calamity-Destroying Stone Disc* had been found only through the sacrifice of countless cultivators.

    Besides the Calamity Stones, the Heaven-Reversing Society had also forged a powerful weapon—the *Heaven-Felling Arrow*.

    Liu Yihang’s temporary disruption of the Formation had been achieved through this arrow.

    Its materials came from the strange phenomena—*Aberrations*—that had increasingly spread across the Xuānhuáng Realm.

    These Aberrations were like a sickness of heaven and earth.

    Since the Spirit-Locking Formation had usurped the role of Heaven itself, the Aberrations could infect it as well.

    After hearing all this, Han Wuyou asked calmly,
    “Why tell me so much at our first meeting? Are you not afraid I might report you to the Alliance?”

    The speaker only smiled and introduced another person—none other than Linghu Chang of the Medicine King Sect, once a member of *Restored Immortality*.

    It turned out that when Restored Immortality fell, Linghu Chang had survived using the *True Cauldron of the Medicine King*.

    Hidden in the wilds, he had later joined the Heaven-Reversing Society by chance.

    With the cauldron’s protection and vast resources, the Society managed to grow even under the Alliance’s relentless suppression.

    Over three centuries, Linghu Chang had gradually awakened several disciples who had been slumbering within the cauldron—including Liu Yihang, adopted son of the former Medicine King Sect Master Liu Ruchen.

    Seeing his old comrade again, Han Wuyou’s eyes reddened as memories of the fallen surged forth.

    He formally joined the Heaven-Reversing Society.

    After only half a day at their base, he returned to the Alliance.

    Anchor Year 603 — The golden obelisks erupted for the fourth time—longer than the previous three combined.

    From the heavens spread countless green lines, weaving into a vast net that covered all beings of the Xuānhuáng Realm.

    Henceforth, cultivators began calling the Spirit-Locking Formation by a new name: the *Mystic Net*.

    Anchor Year 610 — The Heaven-Reversing Society reported that in Zhuoyu Province, a colossal mountain had emerged from the earth, obliterating the land.

    Almost all life in the province perished, and even the local Mystic Net appeared damaged.

    The Society relocated its headquarters there.

    Anchor Year 690 — During a meeting, Han Wuyou learned that the Society had forged more than three thousand *Heaven-Felling Arrows*.

    Yet, because the Mystic Net’s outer layers were reinforced by defensive formations, even such numbers would be insufficient to destroy its core.

    Patience was still required.

    Anchor Year 698 — From the *Array-Breaking Disk*, Han Wuyou comprehended numerous formation blueprints.

    Anchor Year 710 — He secretly met with Linghu Chang and Liu Yihang to show them the designs.

    Anchor Year 711 — The Heaven-Reversing Society confirmed that these were indeed the original schematics of the Mystic Net, and in excitement, they asked Han Wuyou where he had obtained them.

    In his sealed chamber, Han Wuyou stared at the Array-Breaking Disk in silence for a long time, then sealed it away with secret arts.



    Anchor Year 934 — A wandering orphan stumbled upon the broken jade disk among the ruins.

    Believing it a treasure, he carried it day and night, forming a faint resonance.

    The skies, once green, turned gray.

    Anchor Year 935 — The survivors of the earth spoke of an ancient legend:

    The ground quaked. The heavens split with cracks of light.

    Above the firmament, shadows of gods clashed.

    World-ending lightning fell, reducing vast lands to nothingness.

    At last, two giant hands tore open the sky.

    When the dust settled and silence returned, the gods’ war had angered the Great Father.

    The world was forsaken.

    Majestic cities became ruins. The gods vanished from the heavens.

    The world sank into decay.

    Anchor Year 936 — The orphan died while hunting.

    The jade disk lay quietly upon the desolate plain, occasionally disturbed by curious beasts.

    Anchor Year 1032 — Even the beasts were gone.

    Anchor Year 1573 — The sky was black. The land was still.

    Anchor Year 2078 — The world lay in silence.

    Anchor Year 3024 — At last, sunlight returned, falling upon the broken jade disk.

    Anchor Year 3036 — *True Return* activated.

    *(End of Chapter)*
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    All of this because our MC killed a Giant Fish shocked3 bruh
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      No this is because of the speculation on grass.
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        No he killed the fish first then unknowingly made the dragon thingy grow too big since it had no competition and then it ate the grass then the subworlds were discovered then in the next life he repeated while plotting on the grass therefore the fish killing came first not the other way around
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          Yes the fish came first. But in the previous life he killed the fist, the price went up then decreased and that was it. The thing that blew it out of proportion was him speculating.
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            If this really is a butterfly effect, then there were two prerequisite events—so both of you are right. However, I think it’s highly likely it wasn’t a butterfly effect at all. At most, it may have accelerated things by giving the alliance an excuse. I won’t go deep into my thoughts here, since I’ve already detailed them in my reply to the current top comment (LustyReader69’s, for those who came later).
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    goddamn this is cool
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    Nas
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    All this because he picked up a fish meme_12
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      i forgot, what fish
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        the golden liuli fish
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    The alpha worldline
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