He Fan was pulled into a nameless space.
He looked around and found that he was floating in a vast space filled with fog.
He was completely immobilized.
He felt puzzled and bewildered, but his mentality was strong. He immediately composed himself.
The three hanging moons were made of white fog, emitting a faint light that brought a dim brightness to all the small worlds at night.
The stars visible outside the Divine Spirit World were nothing but countless Small Worlds scattered across the vast sky. They were all bound together by the Fourth Wall, which both protected and confined them from higher-dimensional threats.
Not long after, a giant shadow appeared before He Fan.
He was completely in awe as he looked at this being.
The giant shadow spoke in a thunderous voice that echoed everywhere, a voice that seemed to energize anyone who heard it.
"You are finally here!"
He Fan looked at the shadow and said calmly, "It did take me longer than expected. I had no intention of leaving any clues for those beings!"
He Fan possessed a completely fearless personality. He was confident and bold.
He looked at the shadow and asked, "So, what is the reason for me being here?"
He was unaware of why someone had left clues scattered across the geography of the Divine Spirit World, but from the way the giant shadow spoke, it was clear that this was some arrangement of an ancient being.
The shadow smiled faintly. "Are you not afraid that everything you've done is meaningless? Those clues are all part of an Immortal's trap to lure you."
He Fan looked at the shadow as if at a fool. "I have nothing—why would they make a trap to lure me? I was already at a dead end with no way forward. My cultivation journey was nearing its end, so all I sought was an opportunity. So what if it's a trap by those Immortals? As long as there's a chance, I'll take it. If I fall due to my own greed, then Heaven will be my witness. I will have no regrets."
The giant shadow laughed. "There is indeed a way to break the deadlock. It lies in the four tokens you possess. These tokens can help you advance to a higher cultivation stage—a stage that offers the chance to gain pseudo-freedom from the Immortals."
He continued, "There is nothing in this Inheritance that can truly help you. It is just a false inheritance. I will give you only one piece of information—the way to open the true Inheritance."
He spoke slowly. "The name of my Inheritance is the Grand Inheritance of Ascendance. It can help you ascend to the God Realm. It holds the secret that can make you a true Immortal and grant you true freedom."
He Fan asked, "How can I obtain this Inheritance?"
The shadow looked at He Fan and sighed. "I don't know."
He Fan narrowed his eyes.
The shadow continued, "I only have a few fragments of information that might help.
The Inheritance can only be opened by a Wanderer. Wanderers are beings from outside the Nine Heavens and are direct creations of the Heavenly Dao. They all possess unique special abilities—abilities so strong that they can directly counter the Immortals' influence. You must wait for the appearance of the Wanderers and use them to open the Grand Inheritance of Ascendance."
He Fan asked calmly, "When will the Wanderers appear in the Divine Spirit World?"
The shadow replied indifferently, "I don't know. Wanderers are the chosen ones of the Heavenly Dao. The Dao selects them and places them anywhere, at any time, to create randomness and disrupt the calculations of higher beings. This ensures that no one can have perfect control over the future. I only know it will happen during Saturation Point."
"I can give you one piece of advice—cultivate the Power of Belief. It may help you in the future."
He Fan nodded.
The shadow saw through his thoughts and said, "If you want to ask something, you may."
He Fan nodded again. "Well, if you say so. I just want to know—who are you? Why are you helping me?"
The giant shadow laughed.
"Just know this—I am the Timeless Demon God, the creator of the world you live in. If you want to know more, remember to open the Grand Inheritance of Ascendance."
As he said that, he waved his hand, and He Fan was thrown out of the Inheritance.
He appeared back where he had been before. Looking around, he realized that no time had passed at all.
However, the slight change in his expression was noticed by the Immortals.
The way he had used eight ordinary objects, traveled to four different places, and placed them in a specific order—then showed a moment of confusion to check his surroundings—immediately made them wary.
It was definitely not normal, and if they failed to notice something amiss, they wouldn't be worthy of being called Immortals.
They instantly probed He Fan's thoughts and memories and realized the truth—
He had been pulled into an entirely different space!
They connected all the dots at once.
He Fan possessed Absolute Perception as his Spiritual Imprint, and they had long known that.
The one watching over the Divine Spirit World was Immortal Zhu.
He murmured faintly, "It's all part of the Timeless Demon God's plan. Why did he create all these small worlds? What is he trying to achieve?"
"The Supreme Goddess did warn us to be wary of his schemes. It seems she had already suspected something about him. So... is He Fan the pawn of the Timeless Demon God?"
Immortal Zhu focused more on He Fan's actions but chose not to interfere.
He was tasked only with preventing any Warrior from ascending to the God Realm and reporting any abnormal activities.
Meanwhile, He Fan's cultivation improved as time passed.
A hundred years later—
He Fan had prepared everything and began ascending to the Emperor Realm.
Immortal Zhu wanted to stop him, but he had no means. Even though the world's development had reached its peak, it still lacked strong Warriors.
The strongest Warrior besides He Fan was only at Rank 7 peak. No one had the ability to stop him.
Immortal Zhu understood this and chose to hide his cards for now. At the same time, he realized it was time to promote the world's development. He couldn't allow such a situation to occur again.
He Fan smoothly ascended, becoming the first Emperor of the Divine Spirit World.
People were in awe of his strength and called him the Soul Emperor.
But the moment he became Emperor, everything changed.
Immortal Zhu discovered that he gained more room to act against He Fan the instant he ascended.
The cultivation stage of Emperor had never existed—it was merely an intermediate stage between Warrior and Immortal.
When He Fan became Emperor, the Fourth Wall treated him as an Immortal. However, because of his lower-dimensional existence, he wasn't exiled from the Small World.
Immortal Zhu immediately took advantage of this situation and suppressed He Fan's conceptual power.
In this way, He Fan couldn't extend his lifespan. Normally, an Emperor could lengthen his life through conceptual powers.
Being cornered, He Fan merely looked up at the sky and smiled faintly. "You'll lose in my hands."
He then began to deduce the Power of Belief. He remembered the shadow's advice from the fake Inheritance—that the Power of Belief could be helpful.
The Power of Belief was nothing but the faith people had in you. The stronger their faith, the greater your power. It could also help bypass an Immortal's suppression and allow the use of conceptual power.
There were two ways to collect belief power.The first was to let people worship you—this was the most efficient, as it gathered the purest form of belief.The second was to spread your name across the world and make people awe your strength. Just knowing your name could generate belief power, though its quality depended on the depth of their awe.
He Fan chose the second method since it was least influenced by the Immortals. They could control people and eliminate worshippers over time, but what if he made people admire and fear him across ages?
He made another plan to bypass the Immortals' control.
He created a secret technique that would allow him to reincarnate. As an Emperor of the Soul Attribute, no one understood such matters better than him.
After living for five thousand years, he "died" secretly.
However, the Immortals knew he was still alive—they had seen through his reincarnation technique.
They not only suppressed his conceptual power but also began influencing the world and interfering with every Warrior's mentality to stop him from gathering belief power.
Unfortunately, they underestimated He Fan's ingenuity.
After his death, He Fan began altering history.
He spread his reincarnations across every continent, each growing independently and threatening to become another Emperor.
The Immortals were forced to manipulate the world to prevent him from obtaining the four tokens. If he acquired even one, he could once again ascend to Emperorhood.
But this created another problem.
If they allowed the four tokens to fall into the hands of another talented Warrior, that person could replace He Fan and become a new Emperor.
He Fan's plan was perfect.
He split his soul and spread his reincarnations all over the world. Every hundred years, he released thousands more across every continent.
Each had two goals: to seek the tokens and to rewrite history.
They began reshaping the past, creating the legend of the Second Emperor, the Soul Emperor.
They fabricated tales of the Timeless Demon Emperor—the first emperor who caused a catastrophe and slew the gods worshipped in various religions.
The Immortals couldn't suppress both of his efforts simultaneously. They prioritized securing the tokens while trying to weaken his historical influence. But as time passed, more and more people began to believe He Fan's forged history.
They revered and feared the Timeless Demon Emperor, the so-called first Emperor.
He Fan was that first Emperor. And because mortals believed that the First Emperor had caused a catastrophe and slain their gods, all their belief power—born from awe and fear—flowed to He Fan.
This marked the end of the Religious Era, when every single human, whether Mortal or Warrior, believed in certain deities and belonged to a particular faith. Even though various cultures are still preserved, they now exist only among minorities. The majority prefer 'benefits' over anything else.
He Fan became the illusionary, non-existent Timeless Demon Emperor.
Millions of years passed.
While the Immortals continued to stop He Fan from reclaiming the four tokens, one token eventually fell into the hands of a boy named Kong Xuan, in a remote village.
The Immortals had never expected the sudden rise of Kong Xuan after obtaining the Spatial Order. They had hidden the Spatial Order in a remote place where no Warrior had appeared for thousands of years and no Awakening Ceremony was ever held.
Who would have thought it would backfire?
The moment Kong Xuan obtained the Spatial Order, something awakened within him. His potential surged, and he grew at a frightening rate—even faster than He Fan in the past.
He reached Rank 3 by the age of thirteen, moved to another town, and underwent his Awakening Ceremony there.
The Immortals tried to control his thoughts to stop him, but they never expected him to be even more terrifying.