After a month of tedious herb gathering and a humiliating sparring match against the bullying inner disciple Zhou Ming, Kane pushed himself to a breakthrough, reaching Qi Condensation Stage 2. The moment he succeeded, his soul was violently ripped from his body and hurled into a brutal world with two suns: one blood red, one electric blue. He landed in the body of a dying miller named Tomas, caught in a desperate battle against the Seventh Band, raiders corrupted by the red sun's maddening light. Kane fought alongside the villagers, killing for the first time, and witnessed the horrifying transformation of humans into monstrous Sun-Touched creatures. Just when they thought they might survive, a terrifying Skybound, a robed figure with reality-bending power, appeared and annihilated the village, killing Kane with a single spell. He awoke back in his own body, the entire ordeal having lasted only a few minutes in the cultivation world, but the experience left him shaken and determined to find a way to survive these forced trips.

Desperate to gain control over his soul-jumping, Kane chose the World Tree Sutra, a legendary but incomplete cultivation method ranked Beyond Heaven, from the sect library. The method promised to create a tree whose branches pierce dimensional boundaries, a perfect solution to his problem, but it came with a 99.9% failure rate and a horrific warning of transformation into a tree. Elder Chang, the librarian, revealed that the tablet resonated with his soul, a rare occurrence, but Senior Sister Liu, who had watched a previous disciple slowly turn into a tree and lose his humanity, pleaded with him to choose a safer path. Kane, however, was convinced that only a method that bridged worlds could save him from his chaotic soul. He spent a week of intense cultivation, completing four of the five steps to create the Genesis Seed, but was stopped by the final step, which required otherworldly energy. The breakthrough to Stage 3 triggered another soul-jump, this time back to the Two Suns world, but Kane was ready, willingly embracing the pull to acquire the energy he needed.

Returning to the Two Suns world, Kane used his prior knowledge and the Tri-Essence Harmony Technique to survive the initial battle longer, but the Skybound, Vayara, captured him and forcibly transformed him into a Sun-Touched, a monstrous creature of the red sun. The transformation was agonizing, his bones snapping, his skin etching with living tattoos, but his consciousness, protected by the incomplete Genesis Seed, remained intact. He was able to separate his soul from his transforming body, watching in horror as his physical form became a mindless beast under Vayara's control. The experience was a living nightmare, but it also gave him exactly what he needed: a sample of pure, otherworldly energy from the red sun. When he snapped back to his own body, he found a miniature, blood-red sun hovering in his inner world, the key to completing the World Tree Sutra. He used this energy to finally awaken the Genesis Seed, completing the First Stage of the method and achieving a measure of control over his soul, feeling a choice where before there was only a violent pull.

With the Genesis Seed awakened, Kane needed elemental essences to progress the World Tree Sutra. After acquiring water essence from an underworld merchant in exchange for a future favor, he and his friends, Wei Lin and Lin Mei, journeyed to the Wei family estate to secure wind essence. The trip was a welcome respite from sect politics, offering a glimpse into the world of merchant clans and the complex balance of power between sects and noble families. At the estate, Wei Lin's father, a shrewd businessman, agreed to give Kane the wind essence, but only if he could defeat the family's hired expert, Chen Wu, a 5th Stage Qi Condensation cultivator, in a one-on-one duel. Kane accepted the challenge, seeing it as an opportunity to test his new abilities. He had three days to prepare, and with his soul now under his control, he chose to return to the Two Suns world for a final, focused training session in the Skybound Academy, aiming to master the red sun's power and learn the flying rune before facing Chen Wu.