Chapter 30: Shifting the World

Seven years could change much. While Zuo Meng lived quietly, chaos engulfed the martial world.

Cold Mountain Temple first erupted in turmoil. Monks split into factions, clashing violently. Led by third-generation disciple Jie Ming, a group defected to form their own sect. Soon, rumors spread of a new martial art called “internal power.” This energy, surpassing existing boxing and leg techniques, swiftly dominated the Jianghu sects.

Top clans obtained the original manuals, refined them, and developed unique internal techniques. Gifted elders switched to cultivating internal power with astounding results. The imperial palace surpassed all sects, pooling talents and resources to rapidly evolve internal power methods. It became a true dragon’s den—ordinary masters risked detection merely approaching its walls.

Zuo Meng observed these upheavals but didn’t interfere. Spreading internal power was his plan—to harvest humanity’s collective wisdom for a stable path usable in the real world.

Night lay still as water.

Zuo Meng sat cross-legged, two centuries of internal energy swirling around him. The visible magnetic field lifted nearby furniture. Undisputed as the world’s strongest, he could crush all martial artists combined.

“Two hundred years is indeed the limit.”

Unearthly light flickered in Zuo Meng’s eyes. In the real world, he’d blamed meridian pain and stagnant power on physical limits. But through his creator’s vision in the Dream World, he saw the truth—law chains binding his dantian.

Dense chains coiled around the energy core. One black chain particularly constrained growth.

“Birth, aging, sickness, and death.”

Touching the chain, Zuo Meng gleaned its nature. Though not fully reclaimed his creator essence, he perceived key truths.

“The 200-year limit stems from lifespan!”

Mortal lives ended; their martial arts couldn’t transcend mortality. Breaking the bottleneck required surpassing lifespan limits, evolving martial arts into fantasy-tier cultivation.

Easy in the Dream World by resuming creatorhood. But the real world?

“Perhaps this world’s geniuses hold answers.”

For seven years, Zuo Meng monitored prodigies. Jie Ming shone brightest—a literary monk who fused Buddhist teachings with internal power to create the Three Precepts Divine Skill. Now abbot of Cold Mountain Temple, he’d founded his sect.

Others emerged too—Daoist Qing Yan, swordsman Du Gu. All pursuing internal power would eventually hit the same wall.

The solution? A great change reshaping heaven and earth.

“It begins.”

Zuo Meng glanced outside. The moon burned blood-red.

An ancient tree materialized overhead, blotting sky and sun like primeval divinity.

“Ancient?”

The projection radiated Ancient Era aura, yet time had altered both it and Xuan Gui.

*Buzz!*

Invisible ripples pulsed from the moon across the Entire World.

Time froze.

Zuo Meng’s true spirit emerged, resuming indescribable creator-form. Below, the world hung like amber. Law chains clinked melodiously as if levers shifted reality—changes imperceptible to ordinary people.

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“Has another reached law-manipulation?”

Piercing the chains, Zuo Meng glimpsed a golden entity straining to bend laws. Unnoticed, he merged back into scholar Xue Chuan’s body as time resumed.

“Clever law-application.”

The being’s energy-efficient method—forged through eons—inspired Zuo Meng. As creator, he’d brute-forced law changes. This subtle approach would prove vital for altering fate in the real world.

Breathing deeply, Zuo Meng detected new energy permeating the air.

“Pry at laws through weak points, using fulcrums to shift the world.” Simple in theory, yet demanding: find vulnerable law-links, establish backlash-resistant supports, then apply sufficient strength. Master these, and even the real world’s laws could bend.

With this energy saturation, extraordinary beings—Immortal Cultivators, witches, spirits—would emerge within weeks.