Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

The Star Ancient God sat firmly within his divine temple, gazing at the starry expanse beyond his Divine Kingdom as he sank into profound bewilderment.

The development of events had spiraled completely beyond his control, and Su Yuan’s actions were utterly incomprehensible.

Every single member of his alliance had fallen, and he had gained absolutely nothing from it.

Even that 99.9% refinement progress on the Big Dipper had just vanished moments ago, instantly wiping away all traces of his imprint in a single breath.

This conclusively proved that Su Yuan had merely been amusing himself while allowing him to refine the Big Dipper earlier.

“Goddess of Fate, have you once again seized control of destiny?” the Star Ancient God sighed deeply.

His earlier speculation had been perfectly reasonable—what could a newly ascended Rule Ancient God possibly possess that would make the Goddess of Fate willingly submit?

There absolutely had to be some extraordinary encounter or treasure involved, and the blatantly obvious presence of the Big Dipper made it impossible for him to ignore.

“What should I do now?”

The Star Ancient God sighed again as he propelled his Divine Kingdom through the starry sea.

With each brilliant flash, the massive Divine Kingdom would traverse vast stretches of cosmic space, arriving in completely new regions.

He was fleeing from Su Yuan’s pursuit, desperately seeking a remote location where he could hide.

He had a backup destination in mind—a spatial rift containing a temporal dimension inhabited by numerous spacetime creatures. These beings naturally possessed spacetime disruption properties that could mask the fluctuations of his Divine Kingdom.

Thinking this, the Star Ancient God accelerated toward that location.

However, as he soared through the starry expanse, an inexplicable force seemed to traverse the infinite cosmos, subtly influencing the Star Ancient God’s will.

“Hmm? Who’s there?”

The Star Ancient God’s expression shifted sharply as he perceived that his future was being artificially manipulated!

“The power of fate is interfering with my judgment! The Goddess of Fate has made her move against me!”

His face darkened with grim realization—this was a consequence he hadn’t anticipated. Once his assassination attempt against the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign failed, the Goddess of Fate, as Su Yuan’s subordinate deity, would inevitably turn against him.

The Goddess of Fate was among the deities least worthy of offense, yet he had offended her nonetheless.

“Frustrating! Now that the Goddess of Fate has her sights on me, continuing with my original plan is likely impossible.”

The Star Ancient God furrowed his brow. “I must find a way to shield myself from the Goddess of Fate’s influence!”

Time was pressing, and he knew the Goddess of Fate’s methods well—she could make people unwittingly walk the fateful path she had woven from the beginning, or simply subject them to endless misfortunes that would bring unbearable suffering.

Moreover, the longer fate’s influence persisted, the greater the danger became. The initial period was actually the safest, representing the golden window for countering fate divine arts.

After careful consideration, the Star Ancient God conceived a plan.

“With Ragnarök descending, no deity wants to provoke the Nameless Mist. Those Corrupted Breaths can pollute a god’s divine spark, corrupt their divinity, and muddy their divine soul. But actually, the initial Nameless Mist isn’t that powerfully contaminating—at least for Rule Ancient Gods, it’s bearable and purifiable!”

“I can locate a Nameless Mist and intentionally expose myself to some contamination, thereby disrupting the Goddess of Fate’s influence!”

After pondering further, the Star Ancient God felt this was an excellent plan with high feasibility!

The Goddess of Fate’s fate divine arts would also be helpless against the Nameless Mist;

otherwise, she wouldn’t have needed to become the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign’s subordinate deity.

The Star Ancient God changed direction, randomly heading toward a realm currently under assault by the Nameless Mist.

Little Cai was currently dealing with a calamity.

This particular calamity had developed quite well in this realm, having achieved considerable scale and advanced to the peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, just one step away from breaking through to Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Since Little Cai happened to pass by, she decided to devour this calamity first.

Just as she finished dealing with the calamity and replaced it as the catastrophe of this large realm, she noticed a powerful Divine Kingdom approaching her location.

“Could this be an Ancient God’s kingdom?” Little Cai grew somewhat tense.

This was her first time facing an Ancient God, and she wasn’t sure about the proper procedures.

Under Little Cai’s nervous vigilance, the Divine Kingdom approached this realm but didn’t take any startling actions.

Instead, it began rubbing against the Nameless Mist dispersing from the large realm.

Black mist enveloped the Divine Kingdom, instantly obscuring the divine radiance that normally surrounded the Star Ancient God’s kingdom.

Little Cai’s expression turned peculiar. “What is he doing? Delivering himself right to my mouth?”

She found it quite amusing—the Nameless Mist was essentially her body, so this behavior was equivalent to shoving himself directly into her stomach. The contamination process was normally quite difficult, meeting fierce resistance from Ancient Gods, but now the other party was essentially handing over his safety completely to someone else.

What astonished Little Cai even more appeared next—the Ancient God within the Divine Kingdom actually deliberately reached out and directly contacted the Nameless Mist. Corrupted Breath enveloped his body, plunging him into the black energy.

By this point, Little Cai had developed profound contempt for this Ancient God’s intelligence. Just how foolish did someone have to be to commit such an idiotic act?

She was now a calamity at the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal level herself, and the Star Ancient God wasn’t a Creator God—this was utterly suicidal behavior!

A look of delight appeared on the Star Ancient God’s face.

“It’s gone! That influence of fate has disappeared!”

The Star Ancient God smiled faintly—this was precisely where his cleverness lay. The moment he sensed the fluctuations of fate, he immediately took action, using an external element like the Nameless Mist to isolate the effects of the fate divine arts!

Next, he just needed to cleanse away the Nameless Mist, and he could continue toward the spatial rift.

However, when the Star Ancient God began using rule power to wash away this Nameless Mist, he immediately sensed something wrong. The cleansing speed was hundreds of times slower than he had imagined.

The Nameless Mist that should theoretically be purified very quickly still clung to his body’s surface, and the mist covering his Divine Kingdom’s surface even showed signs of thickening.

“Something’s wrong! There’s something unusual about this Nameless Mist!”

He finally realized something was amiss.

The dense Nameless Mist abruptly began churning violently.

Looking deep into the Nameless Mist, he could see an enormous giant fish swimming toward him. The massive fish body was as vast as a galactic river, appearing to stretch for several light-years at first glance!

“This is a mature-stage Nameless Mist! How is this possible?”

The Star Ancient God panicked in terror. He could confirm that the Nameless Mist he had initially contacted was definitely in its growth stage—how could it have transformed into the mature stage in the blink of an eye?

In reality, the surface-dispersing Nameless Mist belonged to the original calamity, which Little Cai hadn’t fully devoured yet.

Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, the Star Ancient God had barged in at the worst possible timing—one could only say that fate played cruel tricks.