A Genius Dies, An Immortal is Born

After closing his status window, Xu Tianran's thoughts shifted to his next step — ascending to the Immortal World.

Of course, a clean ascension wasn't enough. He wanted to erase all his presence from his current world while ensuring no suspicion could ever fall on him. After a brief moment of contemplation, his plan was set into motion.

First, a clone formed and walked straight to the sect's mission hall to accept a mission in the wilderness area. At the same time, another clone teleported underground, directly below the sect's soul tablet hall, fully concealed by the system's Heavenly Concealment.

Once the mission was secured, the clone headed toward the wilderness. As an added precaution, Xu Tianran spread his spiritual sense to detect anyone following him. Unexpectedly, one of the demonic spy Peak Masters insisted on escorting him — acting as a so-called 'protector'.

Xu Tianran merely sneered. Another clone instantly morphed into a Unity Stage snake beast, silently lying in ambush behind a nearby mountain. As soon as the clone and the Peak Master approached, the snake clone swallowed Xu Tianran's clone whole — destroying the body and causing the soul tablet in the sect to shatter, triggered by the underground clone at the same time. It all happened so fast that the Peak Master stood there, frozen in disbelief.

The demonic spy hesitated. Returning to the sect would only invite suspicion, so the Peak Master fled back to his Heaven Devouring Sect. This alarmed the Heaven Sword Sect's leader — but after exhaustive investigation, no clues were found. All they could conclude was that the Peak Master was a spy who had killed Xu Tianran. The so-called genius had just stepped out from seclusion and now died tragically. For the first time, the sect master felt useless, helplessly watching talented disciples die one after another. He knew Xu Tianran died, but waging war over this would only lead to the sect's annihilation, something he could not afford. At best, he could only kill one of the enemy's geniuses in return.

Once Xu Tianran confirmed that no further eyes were watching, his true body, hidden a million kilometers underground, moved toward the western edge of the world — a desolate desert region where no soul could be found. There, under Heavenly Concealment, he activated the World Transverser function.

Instantly, 349 space rifts opened. Each portal led to one of the High Heavenly Dao Worlds — coordinates Xu Tianran knew by heart from his past life. Fifty clones emerged, each carrying 500,000 Soundless Chaos Star Bombs, along with Xu Tianran's mastery over the Law of Technology and Heavenly Formation.

Each clone slipped into its target world under Heavenly Concealment, embedding themselves deep underground near the demonic sects, evil clans, ghost domains, and monstrous beast territories. Across all 350 worlds, including his own, these clones constructed Soundless Void Annihilation Formations — fully concealed by the system's Heavenly Concealment function and set to detonate exactly 10 years after his ascension to avoid any suspicion.

In one year, all 50 clones completed their work, using a total of 25 million bombs to set up the formations deep underground, waiting for the timed detonation.

With all preparations complete, Xu Tianran focused entirely on cultivation. In that single year, he pushed his realm to the peak half-step Human Immortal Realm, standing at the very threshold of ascension.

Now, the Heavenly Tribulation loomed above him, though hidden by the Heavenly Concealment function so no one could detect it.

Based on his physique and talent, this tribulation would be the strongest possible — one capable of obliterating any lesser genius. Yet Xu Tianran only smiled. Thunder? It was nothing more than breakfast.

As the tribulation descended, purple, gold, and black lightning roared from the sky, each bolt carrying power capable of rewriting the heavens themselves. But Xu Tianran didn't resist — instead, he devoured the lightning with his Eternal Chaos Thunder Body. Every cell greedily absorbed the destructive power.

After enduring this heavenly punishment for a full day, Xu Tianran's body was unscratched, now glowing with chaotic thunder. Every muscle, bone, drop of blood, and even his soul was baptized anew. When the storm ended, he stood transformed — like a living Thunder God, his presence infused with primordial authority.

Without hesitation, he stepped onto the Ascension Platform in the western region, once again activating Heavenly Concealment to mask the entire process.

Upon arriving in the Immortal Great Dao World, Xu Tianran didn't linger in the skies. His first move was to dive deep underground, hiding beneath a massive magma lake.

Only then, safe from all eyes, did he allow the Immortal Great Dao's Will to sense his arrival — and without hesitation, the Immortal Dao Seed formed. In his sea of consciousness, a black seed appeared, wrapped in golden-purple-black thunder, pulsing with immortal authority.

He then directly stepped into the First Human Immortal Realm, and as a result of absorbing the thunder during his tribulation, both his Law of Thunder comprehension and Chaos Law comprehension advanced to 11%.