Published at 12th of November 2026 6:02 am

Chapter 4633: Replacement

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After exchanging a few more words, Lu Yin left for the Godless Territory, taking a large amount of cultivation resources with him.

These were the exact resources that were used to cultivate the powers of Mountain, Moon, Illumination, Dusk, Reverse, Tide, River, Return, and Void. The purpose was to help the god assigned to a new territory offer blessings to the civilizations within that region. Unfortunately, these resources were useless to Lu Yin. The Godless Territory simply had no megaverses at all.

Of course, that was what Yan Gong and the others believed.

Lu Yin, however, happily left with these cultivation resources. He could have some experts from the Trio use them. This would not increase their power level, as the powers of Mountain, Moon, Illumination, Dusk, Reverse, Tide, River, and Return were fundamentally useless to them. The purpose was to hide their own power and register with the Divine Palace. It was all to prepare for the future.

The Trio had always been targeted and watched over by countless eyes. Now that humanity had finally managed to break free, Lu Yin did not want them to be quickly exposed again. The Divine Palace was the best place for them to hide. He would shroud humanity beneath the Divine Palace.

He departed through an altar. Before leaving, Lu Yin glanced back.

Had Yan Gong truly overlooked this matter? No. He had not overlooked anything. He had deliberately not done anything. From beginning to end, Yan Gong had never trusted Lu Yin, unlike Yan Zhong.

At the same time, Yan Gong did not know how to deal with Lu Yin, so he simply allowed things to play out and had thrown the newcomer to the Godless Territory. Ultimately, one more Return Realm god would make little difference, and one fewer also made little difference.

Yan Gong had already comprehended the power of Origin. All he wanted was to peacefully and smoothly transition to join the Divine Palace’s sequences. Once that was accomplished, not even the divine envoys would be able to do anything to him. Compared to that security, it was better to toss an uncertain factor like Lu Yin as far away as possible.

However, this also matched Lu Yin’s own desires. It was time for the Human Trio to reappear.

Yan Gong paid for the trip to the Godless Territory, covering the cost of teleporting between altars, but if Lu Yin wanted to return to the Divine Palace, he would have to pay himself. He believed that Yan Gong did not want him to return anytime soon.

Of course, Lu Yin also felt that it was not possible for him to return in the near future.

As he looked out at the emptiness that surrounded him in all directions, he failed to find even a single megaverse anywhere within his sight. Upon arriving in the Godless Territory, Lu Yin spent half a month examining it with his Mirrorlight Art, yet he failed to find even a single megaverse.

It could even be said that he had failed to find any evidence of living creatures period.

Outside the Godless Territory, there were megaverses. The region was sealed off on three sides, isolated after the battle between those two powerhouses. Normally, it was only possible to move to other territories in one direction, but that side was relatively distant, and it also bordered two other territories, both of which were quite strong.

As for the three isolated directions, the temporal and spatial chaos could not stop Lu Yin at all, even if most other creatures were obstructed.

In that case… Lu Yin raised a hand, and Manifest City appeared. It quickly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, the Tianyuan and the Nine Odysseys Megaverse were restored.

They were only two megaverses, and in the emptiness of the Godless Territory, they were very inconspicuous.

With the appearance of two megaverses, the people within them were of course able to freely enter and leave.

Looking around, Master Qing Cao sighed. “This place really is perfect for us. If we were in a territory already filled with other creatures, we would not be able to appear so quickly.”

Lu Yin nodded. “Yes. We really should thank that Divine Envoy Wu Hen.”

Greater Sancte Green Lotus asked, “What do you plan to do next?”

Lu Yin thought for a moment. “I have two ideas. First, we need to keep our human civilization hidden while we have everyone slowly cultivate until we are confident that we can resist the Primacy Paths.”

This goal left Green Lotus and the other Immortals silent. Resist the power of the Primacy Paths? When would they ever be confident that they could do that? The Nine Ramparts had failed, and it was a dream for the current human civilization to even reach the level of the ancient Nine Ramparts. Unless they could surpass the Nine Ramparts, how could they even consider resisting the Primacy Paths?

“Second.” Lu Yin swept his gaze over everyone. “Replace the Divine Palace.”

Everyone was shocked. Chang Tian stared at Lu Yin in astonishment, as though seeing the younger man for the first time.

Replace the Divine Palace? That was truly daring to even consider. Regardless of whether the Divine Palace was actually backed by a Primacy Path or not, it had thirteen divine envoys, which meant thirteen Immortals, not to mention the unfathomable lord of the Divine Palace. Replacing the Divine Palace? That would require a massive war, but even if humanity won, how would they replace the Divine Palace?

No matter how they considered Lu Yin’s goal, it did not seem realistic.

But Chang Tian did not know Lu Yin very well. Mister Mu and the others were different. They understood Lu Yin all too well. If he shared an idea, it meant that it was feasible.

“How do you want to do it?” Mister Mu asked.

Lu Yin shrugged. “Right now, we simply don’t know enough about the Divine Palace, so we can’t prepare a complete plan. I’m only sharing a general goal to work towards. Our first step is, of course, to wait for all of you to fully recover so that we can handle any unexpected developments. Only after that can we start truly plotting.”

Master Qing Cao's eyes lit up. “Using the Divine Palace as a shell to conceal our human civilization is a good idea. If that can be done, not only will humanity be hidden, but we will also be able to spy on a Primacy Path. Of course, the premise is that your suspicions are correct and that this Divine Palace does belong to the Temporal Primacy.”

“That should be the case. I heard Gui Xing mention ‘Temporal Sequence.’ Back when the power of the Primacy Paths appeared, that one burning the incense also said that I could become a Life Sequence. These ‘Sequences’ seem to hold a special meaning for the Primacy Paths,” Lu Yin said.

Jiang Feng agreed. “Since we cannot outright suppress a Primacy Path, we need to take an indirect path. We must first understand them before we can deal with them. This should be possible.”

Lu Yin glanced around at everyone present. “Then I must ask that all of you recover your strength as quickly as possible. Once you have recovered, we will immediately begin laying our plans against the Divine Palace. Aside from this, we need to now choose one creature to enter the Divine Palace and become a divine envoy. That will be the first step in helping us to learn about the Divine Palace.”

One living creature. That did not have to be a human.

The two megaverses had two non-human Immortals who could potentially become divine envoys. One was the golem, while the other was Ba Rong.

However, neither was easy to deal with. The Immortal golem had once been a scavenger, selling the coordinates of various megaverses. It appeared simple, yet it was actually treacherous and cunning.

As for Ba Rong, there was even less to say. The fish was desperate to live and terrified of death. It wanted to get as far away from humanity as possible.

If either one were allowed to enter the Divine Palace, then if the Divine Palace posed too great a threat, or if they believed humanity to be incapable of resisting the Divine Palace and the Primacy Path behind it, the two Immortals would very likely betray them in a heartbeat.

They had to think of a way to make things safe.

“Leave this to me,” Jiu Wen suddenly spoke up.

Everyone looked over at him. Jiu Wen had not done anything since he had moved to the Trio, but no one dared to underestimate him. He was even older than Green Lotus, having lived since the Nine Ramparts era. He was also a two-law Immortal and had plotted against Hong Xia for countless years. He could not be disregarded.

“Senior, what do you plan to do?” Lu Yin asked.

Jiu Wen said, “One of this old man’s laws is Cloudiness. The cosmos is cloudy, and the mortal world is cloudy as well. If wine becomes cloudy, it becomes the most poisonous wine.

“Choose one of the two to enter the Divine Palace. I will give that one wine to drink, guaranteeing that it will never dare betray us. Should they, then even an Immortal will unquestionably die.”

Everyone felt an inexplicable chill as they stared at Jiu Wen. In the future, they absolutely could not drink with this old man. It was no wonder they had never really heard about the cosmic laws he resonated with.

Even Lu Yin felt a chill. Moon within the wine, heaven within the gourd had appeared several times when Jiu Wen had taken action in Crimson Starshade. As for the man’s cosmic laws, they had simply never appeared. Apparently, that was not because Jiu Wen had not wanted to expose them, but rather that they were unsuitable for direct battle.

This Cloudiness would be difficult to use in battle, but if infused into wine, it could actually create a poison deadly to even Immortals.

That was certainly terrifying enough.

“Why did you not poison Hong Xia and kill him back then?” Chu Songyun asked.

Jiu Wen shrugged. “Hong Xia is more cautious than anyone. Throughout countless years, he never drank with me.”

“It’s no wonder why even we never knew your laws, Senior,” Xi Shangfeng observed.

Lu Yin said, “Then we will leave this to you, Senior.”

Ultimately, the golem was chosen. Compared to Ba Rong, the Immortal golem looked much more simple-minded, yet it was actually far more cunning. As a scavenger, it had seen too much, and it would be able to gather as much information as possible.

Before long, the golem emerged from a megaverse, a miserable expression on its face as it approached Lu Yin.

At the moment, only Lu Yin was present.

“You know what you need to do?” Lu Yin asked.

The golem answered in a bitter tone, “I know.”

Lu Yin studied the golem. He could not tell that it had been poisoned at all. “How did Senior Jiu Wen's wine taste?”

This prompted an unconscious shudder to run through the golem. Clearly, it was still shaken by the incident. “It was- it was all right…”

That was enough. This reaction was no act.

Lu Yin patted its shoulder. “Don’t worry. As long as you do well, humanity will always have a place for you.”

The golem was struck speechless. This human civilization had already been hunted into a corner, and whether it would even be able to survive remained unknown. And yet there would always be a place for it? Why would it need a place like that?

Although it did not know the power of the Primacy Paths, the indescribable terror of that day had left too deep an impression on it. Could this human civilization truly survive?

It felt that its future was completely hopeless, but who told it to be controlled now?

The golem left. As for how it was to join the Divine Palace, it needed to find its own way. As for Lu Yin, it was time for him to pay a visit to his neighbors.

As soon as he had arrived in the Godless Territory, he had discovered that he could not summon a branch of the River of Aeons.

Within the Divine Palace’s domain, harvesting time required branches of the River of Aeons. Generally, several territories would share a single branch. It would not belong exclusively to any specific megaverse, which was different from the Tianyuan’s branch of the River of Aeons. These regional branches were also far larger.

Essentially, these branches stood as an intermediary layer between the main stream of the River of Aeons and the branches that belonged to individual megaverses.

Before being sent to the Godless Territory, Lu Yin had been taught how to call upon that river, but when he had tried earlier, he had discovered that the branch was being pulled by an external force. Every time he tried to draw upon it, it was restrained by that other power.

There was no need to ask; he knew that it was the efforts of his neighbors.

Was this deliberate? If so, that was rather interesting.

***

In a territory that neighbored the Godless Territory, loud laughter rang out. “How many times has it been?”

“Five times, haha!”

“Let that fellow understand just who is in charge around here! In the future, he can forget about using the River of Aeons. Actually, he doesn’t need to use it. There is not a single living creature in that entire Godless Territory, so his only option is to offer up his own time.”

“Hmph! I will make it so that he is unable to do even that much! If he doesn’t come and pay us a visit, he is courting death.”

“Being sent to the Godless Territory means that he offended one of the Divine Palace’s divine envoys. Otherwise, even offending a sequence might not be enough to end up like this. We’ll just play him to death.”

“Haha, there’s no need to bother with him.”

“Let’s see just how long he can endure. If he visits us brothers, offering some nice words and benefits, it isn’t impossible for us to help him. It all depends on whether or not he understands what’s good for him!”

“Hahahaha…”

An altar in the distance trembled. A moment later, two figures that were shrouded with mist figures stepped out.

“Is this the place?”

“Lord Lu said that this is it. Both of them are right there.”

“This saves us a second trip. I am very curious just how strong the peak Dukkhans in this Divine Palace are.”

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