It wasn't the first time He Fan was born into the same family where the Immortals hid the four Orders.
Immortals were shrewd.
He Fan only had pseudo freedom. If he unlocked his memories, the Immortals would immediately lock onto him and shift away the four Orders. Before unlocking his memories, however, he was harmless. He wouldn't go after the four Orders, nor would he make any schemes against the Immortals.
At the same time, Immortal Zhu always "eliminated" most of He Fan's reincarnations soon after they regained their memories. Unfortunately for them, He Fan's ingenuity exceeded their expectations.
It wasn't all about calculation. He Fan had tried many times and failed. But as they say, if you keep striving, no matter how long the road, success will one day open its doors to you. Those who persist are destined to succeed.
He Fan would send his reincarnations in patterns that covered almost every region on one side, forcing the Immortals to shift the four tokens away from those reincarnations.
But there were four tokens. He needed only one.
He Fan would then send one of his reincarnations in the opposite direction, farthest from all the others.
To reduce the casualties among his reincarnated clones, he came up with a three-layered memory preservation system.
In the first layer, all his reincarnations would regain their memories after reaching five years of age, forcing the Immortals to deal with them early.
In the second layer, his reincarnations would regain their memories after reaching the Rank 7 stage.
In the third layer, all of his reincarnations present in the world would regain their memories if any one of them obtained one of the four Orders.
Immortal Zhu and Immortal Chen were completely unaware of the third layer. But even if they were, what could they possibly do? He Fan's reincarnations had completely stripped away their advantage — the advantage of having absolute control over the world. They could never figure out where his next reincarnation would be born, or which one of them was him before his memories returned.
He Fan obtained the Soul Order after reaching Rank 5, inheriting it as a family heirloom. At that very moment, not only he but every single one of his reincarnations awakened their memories, catching the Immortals completely off guard.
He Fan's reincarnations were everywhere — Northern Continent, Central Continent, Western Continent, Eastern Continent, and Southern Continent.
He had thousands of reincarnated clones, each with cultivation ranging from Rank 3 to the peak of Rank 7, beside the already existing reincarnations with Advance Stage Cultivation.
They all held stable positions in their respective societies.
It was like pseudo-control over the entire world.
He Fan controlled the world under the noses of the Immortals.
At the same time, the clone of He Fan in the Eastern Continent grew rapidly after obtaining the Soul Order.
Within the next hundred years, he transcended once again and became an Emperor.
He created another sect in the Eastern Continent and named it the Heavenly Soul Sect.
The secret of He Fan being the Soul Emperor did not remain hidden for long. With the help of all his clones, He Fan secretly began crafting another legend—
The Return of the Soul Emperor.
According to legend, the Soul Emperor once fought the Outer Deities—beings infinitely stronger than Warriors—and remained at a stalemate for countless years. Eventually, he broke the deadlock, triumphed over the enemy, and returned victorious. During that battle, he was gravely injured and died. But how could he truly die? He came back!
With the spread of this new legend, the Warriors of the Eastern Continent gave him a new title—Renascence, the first Emperor to regain his position and return after countless years.
His fame soon rivaled that of the Timeless Demon Emperor.
With this, he began gathering even more Belief Power—and with it, his strength grew stronger still.
He struck at the Immortals' greatest weakness.
Immortals could only read memories and manipulate the thoughts of Warriors. Unless those thoughts were extreme enough to surpass a Warrior's bottom line, there were no limits to their manipulation.
This granted the Immortals an overwhelming advantage, especially against Demonic and Vile Warriors—people with little to no bottom line, leaving them completely at the mercy of Immortals.
Unfortunately, that was all! They can't take any direct actions, and this was their biggest weakness.
After reaching the Emperor stage, He Fan began his preparations.
He was already aware of the existence of "Chosen Ones." These Chosen Ones possessed immense luck.
Over the course of history, he noticed certain patterns in their appearance.
The more the world developed, the more it gave birth to them. However, the number of these Chosen Ones could not exceed a certain limit. Since opportunities within the world were finite, if the Heavenly Dao created too many such existences, they would consume all opportunities, leaving nothing for others. That would go against the Heavenly Dao's core principle—it treats all creatures equally.
The reason it created these special existences was to introduce unpredictability.
This "unpredictability" appeared to counter him.
He Fan could grasp the general direction of the future and predict events thousands or even tens of thousands of years ahead by collecting information from all his clones—despite the Law of Unpredictability.
Unfortunately, as the number of years increased, the Law's effect intensified exponentially. The Law of Unpredictability altered the future the moment someone became aware of it.
Because of his immense foresight, He Fan was breaking the balance between "Smart Existences" and "Foolish Existences." He had gained too much control over the world—life and death itself lay under his will.
To restore that balance, the Heavenly Dao created the Chosen Ones. They behaved with greater unpredictability—some were too smart, some too foolish. When they would appear, where, for what purpose—everything was random. There was only one constant: they themselves embodied balance. Neither righteous nor vile—something in between. Hypocrites.
Hypocrites are the balance between Righteousness and Vileness. It isn't bad to be a hypocrite, for it allows one to build connections like the righteous and seize benefits like the vile.
With the existence of these Chosen Ones, his ability to predict the future was reduced to less than a hundred years. It had already been hundreds of millions of years since they appeared. There was no way to tell who was a Chosen One and who wasn't—sometimes even an ordinary person could have a fate similar to theirs.
But who was He Fan?
He possessed Absolute Perception.
With this ability, he could directly perceive these special existences and their connection with Little Heaven.
Based on billions of years of history, he understood how these Chosen Ones appeared.
By calculating the rate of their increase and the amount of resources available, he predicted the Saturation Point of the Divine Spirit World.
In fact, he could have done so much earlier, but he didn't want the Immortals to realize it—or to trigger the Law of Unpredictability by exposing it. The Law of Unpredictability's effect increases as the time span increases.
Moreover, he lacked sufficient Belief Power. Besides, the information wasn't useful until he himself became an Emperor capable of resisting the Immortals' control and leaving his own arrangements.
His Belief Power was too constrained. He had to use it not only to help Kong Xuan but also to conceal his identities and plans. Remember, he was using Belief Power to forcibly evoke Conceptual Powers to suppress the Immortals' influence. The consumption was enormous. He couldn't use it constantly—only when contemplating crucial matters.
He calculated the earliest time he would need to reincarnate—before the number of Chosen Ones grew too high to increase further. The supposed Saturation Point.
It should be noted that this was the Saturation Point of the Divine Spirit World only, not of the God Realm.
He decided to make that moment a checkpoint from which his next reincarnations would emerge. However, before that, he needed to make sufficient preparations to ensure his next incarnation's safety.
He went all out.
He created a new path of cultivation — The Cultivation of Weaponry.
In fact, it couldn't be said that he "created" this path. It had always existed—he merely discovered it.
Weapon Cultivation existed even in the God Realm, but in the Divine Spirit World, no one had discovered it yet.
The beauty of this cultivation was that no matter how young his reincarnations were, as long as they could cultivate their Weapon Realm to its peak in one lifetime, they would retain the same realm in the next the moment their memories returned.
He began making arrangements for the future.
He spread the truth about the Four Orders throughout the Divine Spirit Realm—claiming that whoever collected all four could enter the Grand Inheritance of Ascendance and attain true Immortality.
He also revealed the powers of the Emperor Realm, their Conceptual Abilities, and the method to attain them: one must possess one of the four Orders to reach the cultivation of an Emperor.
He Fan had long discovered that the Immortals' control over the world was limited. They couldn't eliminate the six sins that lay within all beings.
It was impossible for them to suppress the greed of the masses. It was impossible to truly hide the Four Orders.
He wanted more and more variables to appear in the future so that when he reincarnated again, he wouldn't have too much to handle.
He hid a great Inheritance in the Eastern Continent, ensuring it could only be opened by selecting a specific Spatial Node out of infinite possibilities.
How could anyone find this node?
Unless it was a Chosen One with immense luck, no one could. He also ensured the Inheritance would remain completely sealed until his next reincarnation.
At the same time, he decided to choose a successor—someone who could potentially become a new Emperor and trouble the Immortals in his absence.
While he was still alive, he selected a highly talented prodigy from the Southern Continent.
The boy's name was Wu Yuan.