Chapter Summaries

Fu Li and Song Shige witnessed a nuclear explosion in the Western Extremity, while Su Luo prepared to undergo the Qi Awakening Ritual amid the ruins of the Azure Cloud Sect. The chapter ended with Su Luo seated on the jade altar as an ancient sound of the Dao began.

• Fu Li and Song Shige saw a distant city struck by a tremendous explosion, and Song Shige spotted a charred humanoid figure at its center.
• The Azure Cloud Sect lay devastated after Qingyun Zhenren massacred its elders and families, refined Outer Sect disciples into a blood pill, and departed.
• Su Luo cultivated a Lower-Tier Heartfire Body and kept the captured Cang Yue, whose Talent reflected damage nearly a thousandfold, bound in a cage.
• Su Luo examined the Young Lord's memories and learned that her Talent involved receiving gifts for burying corpses, but could not access the memories locked in her essence.
• Su Luo studied the Azure Cloud Sect's puppet and magic treasure techniques, then went to the Qi Awakening Altar and sat down for the ritual.
• An ancient sound of the Dao rose as Su Luo waited on the altar.

Su Luo completed the Spiritual Awakening Ritual, gained a Spiritual Root, and was recognized by the world’s cultivation system. After his essences emerged in restricted form, Yun Xiaoxiao appeared, and Su Luo immediately assigned her work on a fusion reactor and temporary vehicle.

• Su Luo gained a Spiritual Root in his dantian and soul, then glimpsed the Foundation Establishment, Violet Palace, and Golden Core stages of the cultivation system.
• Su Luo released several essences but found that he had no Mana and could still use [Storage Conversion].
• Yun Xiaoxiao revealed herself among her Nanorobots, and Su Luo questioned why she counted as one of his essences.
• Su Luo tested his unlocked essences and found their powers limited to Perfect quality, while Heartfire threatened to scorch his Spiritual Root.
• Su Luo infused Yun Xiaoxiao with basic immortal cultivation knowledge and ordered her to build a fusion reactor and a frame for a temporary vehicle.

Su Luo awakened Luther's cultivation essence, killed him, and preserved a sliver of his soul while considering the value of the Large Dungeon. Meanwhile, Ansen and Mu Hongyuan attended instruction at a Yin-Yang Base, where Daoist Hehuan singled Ansen out during a lecture.

• Su Luo woke Luther and had the Azure Cloud Sect cultivator perform a Qi Awakening Ritual on him.
• Luther's ritual succeeded, awakening an ice-blue jade stamen and producing the Legendary [Unfallen Cape]; a powerful consciousness then erased Su Luo's Heartfire from Luther's spirit world.
• Su Luo killed Luther with a giant palm, saved a sliver of his soul, and examined the [Unfallen Cape].
• Ansen and Mu Hongyuan received instruction among more than a thousand cultivation furnaces at a Yin-Yang Base in the Zixiao Kingdom.
• Daoist Hehuan demanded to know whether hardship or shit tasted better, and Ansen replied that shit tasted bitter.

Ansen wrote a third Fairy Tale to protect himself while traveling with Mu Hongyuan to the Qi Awakening Platform. As they approached, two airships collided above the platform, sending cultivators and corpses falling toward it.

• Ansen searched unsuccessfully for Mu Hongyuan after she disappeared during Daoist Hehuan's lecture.
• Ansen wrote a third Fairy Tale with an ending intended to keep him from dying.
• Ansen reunited with Mu Hongyuan, who agreed with him to find another way to manage their World Influence after Qi Awakening.
• Mu Hongyuan considered using cultivation furnaces to influence a Golden Core Dao Lord, but Ansen said he could not control people through contracts.
• Mu Hongyuan and Ansen boarded an airship for the Qi Awakening Platform, where Mu Hongyuan studied cultivation methods.
• Ansen saw two airships collide above the platform and described the falling cultivators to Mu Hongyuan, who corrected him.

Kundina fought the black-haired Lan Cijiu and [Food] after they were revealed among the cultivators near the shattered airship. Lan Cijiu escaped with [Food], and Kundina proceeded to the Qi Awakening Ritual before learning that he had vowed to return.

• Kundina exposed the hidden Lan Cijiu and [Food], then attacked them with sword light and dark red flames.
• Lan Cijiu recovered from being cut apart, used a blank book to identify Kundina as a dangerous passive-skill opponent, and crafted a Wind Pill from the surrounding clouds.
• Kundina's soul-form domain and giant struck both opponents apart, while peach blossom petals infested their souls.
• Lan Cijiu escaped a hundred li away with the unconscious [Food], promising that he would return.
• Kundina cleaned up the battlefield, completed the Qi Awakening Ritual, and questioned Ansen and Mu Hongyuan about the fight.
• Ansen told Kundina that Lan Cijiu had said he would return after powering up and kill her.

Su Luo turned the Azure Cloud Sect’s dead into materials for puppets while refining Cang Yue and himself, then went to inspect Yun Xiaoxiao’s Qi-powered fusion reactor. He planned to leave that night for Dieyi Daojun’s cultivation grounds, while Yun Xiaoxiao worked on building him a fast, durable mount.

• Su Luo ordered the surviving Azure Cloud Sect cultivators to gather funeral supplies and dig over a thousand holes, then used the Young Lord as a puppet to handle simple tasks.
• Su Luo refined Cang Yue with spiritual materials, talismans, and formations, enduring reflected damage as he also replaced parts of his own body with pure Inner Circulation.
• Su Luo discovered that the sect had collected the Outer Sect disciples’ remains in jars, then tested Cang Yue’s puppet body and confirmed that its damage was reflected onto him.
• Yun Xiaoxiao told Su Luo that she had built a Qi-powered fusion reactor but lacked materials to finish a vehicle, and Su Luo ordered her to make one for their journey to Dieyi Daojun’s cultivation grounds.
• Su Luo put Cang Yue and Heartfire into the reactor, assigned Xiao Luo to strengthen Heartfire and refine Cang Yue, and immersed himself in the cultivation realms of the world.

Su Luo began cultivating this world's Qi Refining path and demonstrated how the Heavenly Dao aided breakthroughs, first failing Foundation Establishment with his unrecognized technique before succeeding with a new one. He then advanced toward Violet Palace, while Qingyun Zhenren watched and recognized Su Luo's innate Divine Ability.

• Su Luo began cultivating Qi Refining and was preparing to proceed to Foundation Establishment when Qingyun Zhenren returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and approached him.
• Su Luo identified Qingyun Zhenren's failing condition, then forcibly created meridians and a dantian in his body and began demonstrating the Dao path.
• The Heavenly Dao's aid made Su Luo's first Foundation Establishment attempt erupt into chaotic Qi, but he suppressed it and devised a technique the Heavenly Dao would recognize.
• Su Luo successfully established a Dao Foundation with the new technique, and Qingyun Zhenren described his own years of cultivation.
• Su Luo adapted the Azure Cloud Sect's Violet Palace technique, then used Heartfire to melt and devour his Dao Foundation as Qingyun Zhenren recognized his innate Divine Ability.

Su Luo reached the Violet Palace in half a day with the Heavenly Dao’s help, while Qingyun Zhenren died after witnessing his breakthrough. Su Luo reflected on the mixture of externally bestowed growth and self-made cultivation, then recalled Riddle Cat’s words about Great Beings and their Uniqueness.

• Su Luo met the conditions for the Violet Palace, and the Heavenly Dao gathered immense power and opened one in his mental world.
• After four hours of transformation, Su Luo completed the Violet Palace, expanding the breakthrough’s celestial phenomena across eight thousand li.
• Qingyun Zhenren remarked that Su Luo’s path was too simple, then passed away; Su Luo summoned the Young Lord puppet to carry him away for burial.
• Su Luo considered the differences between [Transmigration Theory] and [Source Theory] and concluded that all cultivation paths were mixtures shaped by external forces.
• Su Luo remembered [Starry Sky] and Riddle Cat’s statements that Great Beings were numerous, possessed Uniqueness, and had unknown strength.

Song Shige and Fu Li crossed the Void Sea toward the Central Continent, where Song Shige warned that powerful sects and Dao Lords made a direct route dangerous. After Fu Li used his Galgame System to win over a sect elder, the two fled, and Fu Li revealed that the system measured affection and lust.

• Song Shige explained that the Central Continent's factions and airspace would prevent them from traveling recklessly, while Fu Li suggested forcing their way through.
• Song Shige said they would reach the Xunyang Kingdom soon and identified the nuclear-blast survivor in the Western Extremity as an example of adaptation.
• Song Shige found Fu Li outside a sect after Fu Li had used his phone to win over its white-haired grand elder, then declared that they should break up.
• Fu Li said his Talent and class together created a Galgame System that measured affection and lust, causing Song Shige's affection score to fluctuate.

Song Shige and Fu Li escaped a Violet Palace battle after discovering a Golden Core Dao Lord was watching, then encountered Lan Cijiu traveling with [Food]. After the Dao Lord struck, they joined Lan Cijiu’s airship and learned that [Food] considered him a new friend, though Lan Cijiu claimed hunger had consumed him.

• Song Shige and Fu Li watched Huoxuan True Person fight three Violet Palace cultivators over the death of San'an True Person.
• Fu Li spotted five romance progress bars and warned Song Shige that a Golden Core Dao Lord was watching, so they concealed themselves and fled.
• Song Shige and Fu Li encountered Lan Cijiu’s airship, where [Food] was watching a giant pot of boiling soup.
• A golden sun fell into the distant mountains, signaling that a Dao Lord had made a move, and Lan Cijiu turned his airship back.
• Song Shige and Fu Li boarded Lan Cijiu’s airship, where [Food] called Lan Cijiu a new friend and Lan Cijiu claimed hunger had consumed him.

Su Luo reached the Violet Palace and traveled to the capital of Yunmeng Kingdom to attend Dao Lord Dieyi's harem elimination contest. After arranging passage to the cultivation ground, he considered how to use knowledge from other paths to forge his own path toward [Source Theory].

• Song Shige confronted Lan Cijiu, and their clash overturned Food's pot and vaporized the meal.
• Su Luo arrived in the capital, where the ruler of Yunmeng Kingdom congratulated him on reaching the Violet Palace.
• Su Luo asked the ruler for a seat at Dao Lord Dieyi's contest, and she invited him aboard her Magic Vessel and offered to take him to the cultivation ground.
• Su Luo shielded Dao Lord Dieyi's golden scroll and reviewed his companions and belongings in his assigned room.
• Su Luo resolved to explore different paths, discard their powers after understanding them, and use their knowledge to strengthen [Source Theory].

Su Luo refined spiritual materials while pursuing his plan to reach Golden Core through his own methods, then traveled with Yunmeng Zhenren toward Dieyi Daojun’s abode. He introduced himself as Jinli and asked to inspect the three thousand people being transported there, claiming he hoped to retrieve a naive junior.

• Su Luo began refining spiritual objects from the Azure Cloud Sect and the materials Yunmeng Zhenren had given him, using Heartfire to purify their Qi and life energy.
• Yunmeng Zhenren sensed the surge of spiritual energy from Su Luo’s room, withdrew to avoid disturbing him, and accelerated the Magic Vessel toward Dieyi Daojun’s abode.
• Su Luo and Yunmeng Zhenren reached the Heaven’s Gate entrance near dusk, where Yunmeng found that she could not sense Su Luo’s cultivation.
• When Yunmeng asked for his Daoist title, Su Luo chose the name Jinli, and Yunmeng praised its supposed meaning.
• Su Luo asked to inspect the three thousand men and women being escorted, and Yunmeng explained that they were being brought as cauldrons and recalled a young woman who had secretly entered the abode seeking a Fortuitous Opportunity.

Su Luo and Yunmeng Zhenren were intercepted by Jin Cai Adept and Shen Haozi, who delivered an order forcing Yunmeng Zhenren into the Dao field as a Talented Lady. When Shen Haozi and Hengjin Jun attacked Su Luo, his robe reflected Hengjin Jun’s blow, and Su Luo raised the surrounding air to nearly one hundred thousand degrees as Shen Haozi charged him.

• Jin Cai Adept ordered Yunmeng Zhenren to relinquish her rule and enter Dieyi Daojun’s Dao field as a Talented Lady, while Su Luo watched.
• Shen Haozi attacked Su Luo, but the force struck Su Luo’s robe and was reflected at nearly a thousandfold strength, blasting Hengjin Jun away and exposing his mechanical body.
• Hengjin Jun identified Su Luo’s robe as the source of the reflected damage and sent a warning to Shen Haozi.
• Shen Haozi charged through Su Luo’s black Heartfire, which could not detect a soul within him, while Jin Cai Adept bound Yunmeng Zhenren and fought her.
• Su Luo heated the surrounding air until it became a plasma field approaching one hundred thousand degrees, setting the nearby airship’s wooden hull on fire as Shen Haozi reached him.

Shen Haozi attacked Su Luo by phasing through his defenses and destroying his brain, but Su Luo’s Spacetime Hourglass froze the assassin before he could escape. Su Luo began analyzing Shen Haozi’s ability and identified it as technology that moved his atoms aside when they encountered ordinary matter.

• Shen Haozi drove his hand through Su Luo’s defenses and shattered his brain, losing his right hand in the process.
• Shen Haozi tried to flee and wait for another chance to kill Su Luo, but a burst of light erupted inside his body.
• Su Luo’s Spacetime Hourglass activated Bullet Time and Lock-On, freezing Shen Haozi for half a second.
• Su Luo used his soul to control his damaged body and examined the frozen shadow at microscopic and gravitational levels.
• Su Luo concluded that Shen Haozi’s body avoided ordinary matter by moving its atoms out of the way, though the hourglass could not freeze his microscopic particles completely.

Su Luo used a miniature nuclear fusion blast to destroy Shen Haozi’s pale shadow, then pursued Hengjin Jun as he began advancing to Foundation Establishment. Jin Cai Adept captured the Yunmeng Kingdom Lord and revealed a personal fixation on her, while Yun Xiaoxiao stayed behind to guard the airship and furnaces.

• Su Luo explained that the pale shadow only slightly suppressed atomic movement, then triggered nuclear fusion inside Shen Haozi and drove him away as light.
• Hengjin Jun recognized the fusion attack, began advancing to Foundation Establishment, and sent an object to intercept the Young Lord puppet.
• Su Luo left Yun Xiaoxiao to guard the burning airship, its three thousand cultivation furnaces, and the wounded shadow before chasing Hengjin Jun.
• Jin Cai Adept overwhelmed the Yunmeng Kingdom Lord, restrained her with a rope, and kissed her after capturing her.
• Jin Cai Adept asked whether the Yunmeng Kingdom Lord remembered a youth who had watched her at Yunmeng Marsh, but the Yunmeng Kingdom Lord could not recall her.

Jin Cai Adept revealed her long-held obsession with the ruler of the Yunmeng Kingdom, while Su Luo pursued Hengjin Jun through the Purple Thunder Zone. Yun Xiaoxiao watched the Violet Palace Adepts and prepared to collect fragments of the pale shadow’s corpse as Su Luo cornered Hengjin Jun.

• Jin Cai Adept recounted how she had cultivated for a hundred and fifty years to approach the ruler of the Yunmeng Kingdom, then explained that she had sought to lower the ruler’s self-esteem by taking her as a Talented Lady.
• Su Luo entered the Purple Thunder Zone, was charred by reflected lightning, repaired himself, and covered the Young Lord puppet with the Cang Yue-brand robe.
• Hengjin Jun flew in a straight line through the thunder, absorbing its energy as he tried to gain distance and wait for his Dao foundation to solidify.
• Su Luo pursued Hengjin Jun through the storm, and when Hengjin Jun reached a clearer area, Su Luo’s Heartfire spread into a black curtain as a chill entered Hengjin Jun’s mental world.
• Yun Xiaoxiao recorded the Violet Palace Adepts’ encounter and began preparing laser collection boxes for the scattered fragments of the pale shadow.

Yun Xiaoxiao prepared to collect laser-deflected fragments and met Mu Hongyuan and Ansen as they arrived by magic boat. Meanwhile, Su Luo confronted Hengjin Jun, whose Heartfire defenses and rapidly multiplying Dao foundations revealed that he was exploiting a cultivation loophole.

• Yun Xiaoxiao used damaged airships to gather materials for a laser collection device while the remaining furnaces stayed in formation.
• Mu Hongyuan approached with several magic boats, and Yun Xiaoxiao recognized Ansen and congratulated him on becoming invincible without his little general.
• Hengjin Jun noticed Su Luo's Heartfire attack, discarded a burning Soul Fragment, and switched to a growing body to escape the flames.
• Su Luo tried to attach Heartfire again, but a profound power protected Hengjin Jun as his cultivation surged past Violet Palace.
• Hengjin Jun seized control of some of the Qi Su Luo had summoned and asked what had happened to Shen Haozi.
• Su Luo deduced that Hengjin Jun had created multiple Dao foundations and exploited the Heavenly Dao's realm-based blessings to surpass ordinary cultivation limits.

Su Luo fought Hengjin Jun, who used the authority of thousands of Dao Foundations to overwhelm the battlefield and then sacrificed them to raise his strength. Su Luo crushed Hengjin Jun in close combat and trapped him inside a Heartfire domain, asking whether 1,080 Dao Foundations was his limit.

• Hengjin Jun used an inky Magic Seal and his Heavenly Dao authority to attack Su Luo, but Su Luo countered with his own seal and charged through the resulting chaos.
• Hengjin Jun sacrificed up to 3,000 Dao Foundations, surrounding himself with golden flames and raising his strength to perfected Violet Palace.
• Su Luo revealed that his combat state came from stacking his states, then shattered Hengjin Jun's fist and destroyed his head and torso with close-range attacks.
• Su Luo formed an airtight Heartfire domain around them and asked Hengjin Jun if 1,080 Dao Foundations was the maximum his body could hold.

Su Luo fought Hengjin Jun to a stalemate while Heartfire secretly consumed the golden ocean, until a thunder-wielding fighter and the Five Elements True Person arrived. Meanwhile, the ruler of the Zixiao Kingdom asked Yun Xiaoxiao about the missing ruler of the Yunmeng Kingdom and clarified his relationship with Mu Hongyuan.

• Hengjin Jun repeatedly resurrected through exploding souls and bodies, but Su Luo endured his attacks and recovered by absorbing matter, energy, and remnant souls.
• Su Luo and Hengjin Jun reached a stalemate as Heartfire steadily devoured the golden ocean surrounding Hengjin Jun.
• A towering thunder-armored figure rose from the Zixiao Thunder Sea and announced his arrival, then the Five Elements True Person appeared and weakened the battlefield's phenomena.
• The Five Elements True Person asked Su Luo's identity, and Su Luo introduced himself as Jinli.
• The ruler of the Zixiao Kingdom asked Yun Xiaoxiao where the ruler of the Yunmeng Kingdom was, and Yun Xiaoxiao pointed toward the distant horizon.
• Yun Xiaoxiao asked about the ruler of the Zixiao Kingdom's relationship with Mu Hongyuan, and he said they had a mother-and-son relationship.

Yun Xiaoxiao helped Mu Hongyuan expose Survivors among the cultivation vessels, but her systems were suddenly disabled and the Survivors began fleeing. As the Young Lord puppet and Kundina intervened, the airspace erupted into a chaotic battle and more Survivors escaped.

• Yun Xiaoxiao sent Ansen to collect shadow fragments, then spread out as a net and asked Mu Hongyuan to turn everyone aboard the vessels into her dogs.
• Mu Hongyuan began screening the six thousand cultivators while the Young Lord puppet arrived to help encircle them, and Yun Xiaoxiao discovered that she was developing feelings for Mu Hongyuan.
• A disguised Survivor disabled Yun Xiaoxiao’s systems and fled, while another Survivor burst out of Mu Hongyuan’s interview and chased after him.
• A blood-wreathed Survivor refined hundreds of nearby vessels and attacked the Young Lord puppet, but the puppet reflected the damage back at him.
• The gold-glasses Survivor used a giant set of scales to declare Kundina guilty, and Kundina and the injured Survivor joined the fight as other Survivors took advantage of the chaos to escape.