Published at 13th of November 2026 6:19 am

Chapter 4635: Elimination

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Wait, why only for a period of time? Why not forever?

Right, I’ve been poisoned… That human's cloudy wine is inside my body. Damn it!

The human civilization was actually using poison to control the Immortal golem. The more it thought about that, the more upset it became.

Outside of the Divine Palace, beneath the eyes of countless creatures, the golem slowly walked towards the fourteenth gate, one step at a time.

In front of the gate stood Divine Envoy Yan. In addition to assigning territories, it was also responsible for various miscellaneous matters, including welcoming new divine envoys. Although this was just a miscellaneous matter, it did have to be done by an Immortal being.

As it watched the golem approach, Divine Envoy Yan's aura remained gentle, its voice held warmth, and a smile glowed on its face. "We welcome you in joining us, Divine Envoy Gang."

The name that the golem had registered with the Divine Palace was Gang Zi,1 as this was the name that Lu Yin had given it. Although it did not know what the name meant, the Immortal golem inexplicably felt that it somehow sounded wrong.

According to Lu Yin, since the golem was a stone, it was filled with masculine and violent energy, so the name Gang Zi suited it best.

The golem did not want it, but Lu Yin had insisted, and thus, it had become Gang Zi.

The golem faced Divine Envoy Yan and also offered a warm greeting. "Thank you. It is my honor to join the Divine Palace."

"Haha, Divine Envoy Gang will certainly not regret it. Our Divine Palace…

"Does Divine Envoy Gang have any requests…

"Divine Envoy Gang—"

The golem finally interrupted, "Can you stop calling me Divine Envoy Gang?"

Divine Envoy Yan was stunned. After a moment, it said, "Of course, but then, how should I address you?"

"Stone."

"Divine Envoy Stone? That is also fine. Divine Envoy Stone, if you have any specific requirements regarding your residence, you may…"

As Divine Envoy Yan led the new divine envoy through the gate, Yan Gong and the other combat gods could only watch on. There was no opportunity for them to interject, and thus they could only leave.

They had only been trying their luck.

Divine Envoy Yan led the golem to visit every divine envoy currently within the Divine Palace. How should the golem express its feelings about this tour? It felt that all of the divine envoys looked very powerful. Each one was shrouded in the majesty of the Divine Palace, and they were also constantly being flattered by the subordinate gods, who addressed the golem as “senior” with every sentence, and they kept saying, “Please give us your orders.”

The golem was growing increasingly delighted with its situation.

"By the way, Divine Envoy Yan, have you ever heard of a poison capable of killing even an Immortal being?"

"Poison that can kill an Immortal being? I have never heard of such a thing. Could it be from an Immortal being that is skilled with poisons? Why ask about this, Divine Envoy Stone?"

"I am just curious."

"Oh. While I am unaware of what kind of poison could kill an Immortal being, I do know that, within the Divine Palace, there is one divine envoy who can definitely counter such a poison."

"Is that so? Which one?"

"Divine Envoy Gui Xing. It is a very formidable Immortal being and skilled at karmic calculations."

The golem grew excited. Karmic deduction? That was wonderful! Lu Yin was also skilled in karmic deduction, which was why he had become so powerful and succeeded in everything that he did. The golem had personally seen the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm, the Karmic Dao, and more. Anyone who could comprehend the power of karma was a formidable expert. Such an existence would definitely be able to help it remove the poison.

Wonderful!

It then sent Divine Envoy Yan away. The golem intended to wait a few days before inquiring further about Divine Envoy Gui Xing. It would then find a way to ask Divine Envoy Gui Xing to help it remove the Cloudiness that had poisoned the wine.

As the golem walked, it came to the conclusion that, if the poison could be eliminated, it would no longer have to worry about human civilization. In joining the Divine Palace, it could break free. That was truly wonderful. Lu Yin had probably never imagined that there could be a being within the Divine Palace who was capable of helping the golem.

"It seems that things went very smoothly for you," an unfamiliar voice commented from behind the golem.

It turned back and was confused to see a Dukkhan standing in a corner. This fellow actually did not bow. Also, what is with that look in its eyes? Why does it feel inexplicably familiar…?

"Send back the cultivation method for Origin as soon as possible. Lord Lu is still waiting." After the Dukkhan finished speaking, it glanced at the golem before turning around and leaving. Lu Yin had already obtained the method of cultivating Origin. This message was merely a warning.

The golem was frozen in place. Damn it! How is one of Lu Yin's people actually here? How is that possible? He has people inside the Divine Palace?

Just these few sentences might as well be a basin of ice water dumped on the golem’s head. The few disrespectful thoughts that it had in regards to humanity vanished at that instant like drifting smoke.

It could not betray that civilization. It absolutely could not. Lu Yin was simply too terrifying, and he knew everything.

At this moment, Divine Envoy Yan returned for the golem. "Divine Envoy Stone, there was something I forgot to say just now. Well—"

The golem very somberly stated, "Please call me Divine Envoy Gang. My name is Gang Zi, and I will forever be Gang Zi."

Divine Envoy Yan was confused. "?"

***

The addition of the golem to the Divine Palace did not bring many changes. Although many creatures sought to follow it, the golem was careful to fully obey Lu Yin's orders. It neither behaved overly ostentatiously, nor was it overly servile. It made sure that it got along peacefully with the other divine envoys. Even if it encountered hostility, it did not show animosity.

In this manner, 1,000 years passed.

Everyone both inside and outside the Divine Palace knew that the newest divine envoy had an unusually good temper and that it got along with all the other divine envoys. It was a creature that anyone was willing to interact with.

Elsewhere, Lu Yin examined the intelligence that the golem had sent back, gaining a better understanding of the other thirteen divine envoys.

That damn turtle really had not lied. It really did stand beneath only the lord of the Divine Palace. While most had no idea of what sort of combat power the turtle had, its ability to deduce and sever karma meant that it was often able to produce unexpected results in the Divine Palace’s great wars. Whoever it decided to help would gain merit, and whoever it opposed would suffer misfortune. Because of that, no divine envoy would dare to offend Gui Xing, and it felt as though it could practically walk sideways through the Divine Palace.

Lu Yin cared most about two specific details. The first was the lord of the Divine Palace. The golem still had not seen that being, and it was said that the lord was in seclusion.

The second matter concerned the Divine Palace's wars. Lu Yin had always wanted to know just who was at war with the Divine Palace, and he finally had an answer.

There were still other cosmic civilizations. Once a new civilization was discovered, war could erupt, especially if they encountered a fishing civilization. Other than that, there were also the other Divine Palaces.

There was more than one Divine Palace, which was why wars between the Divine Palace existed.

If Lu Yin’s guess was correct and the lord of the Divine Palace was a Temporal Sequence, then the title of Sequence was equivalent to a ranking. There should be a first, a second, a third, and so on. In that case, did the wars between the Divine Palaces represent wars between the Sequences? Was it just that the Sequences did not act personally, instead relying on their subordinates to handle things?

While this was merely Lu Yin’s conjecture, he felt that it should be rather accurate.

With the power of a Primacy Path behind them, as long as the Temporal Sequences had some level of personal strength, they could absolutely establish organizations like the Divine Palaces, especially given a long period of time. The significance of the Divine Palaces lay not just in the conflicts between the Sequences, but more so in regards to harvesting time for the Temporal Primacy.

That was why there were so many branches of the River of Aeons gathered here. Most of those branches did not come from megaverses, but were rather from the time that was harvested from myriad creatures.

The most important piece of information the golem had sent back to Lu Yin was in regards to karmic chains.

The Divine Palace’s Immortal beings did have karmic chains, but theirs were different from the karmic chains that Lu Yin was familiar with. These karmic chains were hidden in places believed to be the least likely to be seen by others. The reason was that these karmic chains could be shortened.

This caused Lu Yin's heart to drop like a rock, as this actually confirmed another one of his suspicions: karmic chains were not a natural restriction that the cosmos itself placed upon Immortals. Rather, karmic chains originated with the Karmic Primacy.

Karmic chains were the result of the Karmic Overlord deliberately placing restrictions on all Immortals. Since they could be deliberately given, it was only natural that they could also be shortened, or even eliminated entirely.

The Divine Palace was subordinate to the Temporal Primacy. As one of the Primacy Paths, the Temporal Primacy must have the means of communicating with the Karmic Primacy and reducing the karmic chains of its own Immortal beings.

This was the true nature of karmic chains.

Lu Yin had tried every possible way to reduce his own karmic chain, but no matter how he struggled, he remained beneath the power of the Primacy Path. Whether it was Time, Space, Karma, Fate, or any of the others, everything existed beneath that invisible power of the Primacy Paths that shrouded the entire Aevum Inch.

This was the true nature of the cosmos. This should also be the reason why the Nine Ramparts had gone against the Primacy Paths.

Once one saw the truth clearly, they essentially saw that everyone had always been trapped in a cage. Even if one did nothing, so long as the Karmic Primacy chose, an Immortal’s karmic chains could be used to completely lock them down. Karmic chains were essentially a blade hanging over every Immortal’s neck. No one would be willing to accept that.

Even those who were not Immortals could be bound by karmic chains. When the power of the Primacy Paths had wreaked chaos in that region of the Aevum Inch, that was exactly what had happened. However, after humanity left that region, the karmic chains had vanished from everyone who was not in the Immortal realm. It seemed that even the Primacy Paths could not act against the entire cosmos without knowing the target’s location.

Registering to join the Divine Palace was actually what made one's karmic chain qualified to be eliminated.

Even Lu Yin found this laughable. Countless creatures had exhausted every method possible in order to reduce their karmic chains, including fishing civilizations such as the Plume Immortals, the Mudwater Dominion, and the Divine Realm. But no matter how powerful a civilization might become, they always remained beneath another’s control.

This truth was far too cruel.

However, this truth arrived a bit late, as even without knowing it, the Primacy Paths were still humanity’s final and greatest enemy.

But Wang Wen should also be subordinate to the Primacy Paths. If it was possible to reduce karmic chains, why was he wary of his growing?

As for the power of Origin, Lu Yin had successfully cultivated that shortly after the golem joined the Divine Palace. With his die's Possession ability, Lu Yin had continuously Possessed Origin Realm combat gods, and because there were not many such Combat Gods, he even managed to Possess Yan Gong.

Sure enough, Lu Yin’s suspicions were correct. It was true that Yan Gong had deliberately not sought out Divine Envoy Yan and had simply gone with the flow of events to allow Lu Yin to be assigned to the Godless Territory. This was both because Yan Gong did not trust the unknown creature, as well as the fact that he did not want to create any unnecessary complications.

At the time, Yan Gong had only wanted to cultivate by relying on what the Third Sequence had left behind, and he did not want to have any trouble with Divine Envoy Wu Hen. Lu Yin had been sacrificed for Divine Envoy Wu Hen to vent its anger on.

The Divine Palace currently had seven Sequences, which meant there were fewer Sequences than divine envoys. Even so, there were dozens of Origin Realm combat gods. The seven Sequences could be considered the Divine Palace’s peak Dukkhans, and the First Sequence was even an Aberrant.

Lu Yin had also Possessed that creature, and had let out a sigh at how varied the cosmos was. Every kind of innate gift seemed to exist.

1,000 years had granted Lu Yin sufficient knowledge of the Divine Palace. Although it was impossible for him to know every divine envoy's innate gifts, abilities, battle techniques, and cultivation methods, he did not need to know about those things. Being able to simply crush them was already enough.

With a sufficient understanding of the Divine Palace, the next step of the plan could take place.

On the mountain behind the Heavens Sect in the Tianyuan, Long Xi brewed tea.

Wei Rong remained as respectful as ever to her. "Many thanks, miss."

Long Xi offered a faint smile before dismissing herself. Since arriving on the mountain behind the Heavens Sect, she had become more and more cheerful, and she smiled much more often.

After she left, Wei Rong delivered a detailed plan to Lu Yin. "This should allow us to use the Divine Palace as a shell and allow humanity to step back out again. Lord Lu, please see if there is anything more to add."

Lu Yin took a sip of tea. "No need. We’ll proceed according to your plan. You’ve worked hard."

Wei Rong smiled. "This is only what I should do."

1. Gang means solid/rock/tough, while Zi is an address from a father to his child.

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