Chapter Summaries

Su Luo watched Hengjin Jun, Jinli, Jidianhuang, and Five Elements True Person battle while an unseen Narrator described their thoughts and actions. As Su Luo prepared to intervene, Five Elements True Person recited a poem and unleashed a strengthened Five Elements Pearl at him.

• Hengjin Jun proposed joining forces with Five Elements True Person, while the Narrator exposed the fighters’ private thoughts and plans.
• Jidianhuang struck at Jinli, and the four combatants entered a melee as Su Luo searched for the Narrator and evaded attacks.
• Hengjin Jun attacked Jinli with a golden rainbow, but Jinli countered with a giant palm that wounded Hengjin Jun.
• Five Elements True Person ensnared the others with five elemental chains while Su Luo’s Fire Domain consumed the golden sea and suppressed the thunder sea.
• Five Elements True Person recited a poem, empowered his Five Elements Pearl, and sent it toward Su Luo; the Narrator then abruptly complained about his freshly done nails.

Su Luo suppressed the Survivors and Five Elements True Person with his Fire Domain, then regrouped with Kundina to count their spoils and discuss how Resurrection and World Influence would shape the next era. He left the group preparing to gather more allies and cauldrons, while the search for Mana and Epic items remained unresolved.

• Hengjin Jun and Jidianhuang recited poems to empower their golden and thunder seas, but Su Luo unleashed his Fire Domain and overwhelmed both forces before challenging Five Elements True Person.
• Su Luo and Kundina compared their losses and spoils, confirming they had killed seven Survivors but found no Epic-quality items.
• Kundina explained that Survivors could resurrect in later eras, and Su Luo concluded that World Influence and unlocked Essences would determine who advanced.
• Su Luo and Kundina realized that unlocking Essences did not provide Mana and considered searching the world's border for Survivors with the right Transcendent Seeds.
• Su Luo had Yun Xiaoxiao count the surviving cauldrons, dragged Jin Cai Daoist away from her work, and placed her and the unconscious ruler of Yunmeng Kingdom beside Mu Hongyuan.
• Mu Hongyuan said Ansen had joined him with hidden favorability, and Su Luo told him to raise more allies for a mark-and-recapture plan in the next era.

Su Luo and his companions reached Dieyi’s training grounds and discovered that its dual-cultivation tournament was staged like a bizarre ranked competition. The newcomers received their rankings and match rules, and Mu Hongyuan was exempted from the knockout round and sent straight to the placement matches.

• Su Luo taught Mu Hongyuan and Ansen a temporary cultivation method while Kundina began recultivating Qi by her own means.
• The group arrived at Dieyi’s training grounds, where Jin Cai Adept was taken away for investigation and the others received golden scrolls.
• Su Luo and his companions watched veteran contestants Caiwei Fairy and Lingyun Fairy compete in a match that Caiwei Fairy won with the Great Desolate Prisoning Heaven Finger.
• The tournament rules announced free-for-alls, group stages, and knockout rounds, with special ranks and rewards for the top contestants.
• Mu Hongyuan’s scroll listed her as a fifth-dan Chosen Maiden and exempted her from the knockout round, advancing her directly to the placement matches.

Su Luo and Kundina explored Divine Firmament Heaven's Gate and learned that Dieyi Daojun's palace was guarded by a powerful harem of Violet Palace cultivators. As they set out to confront them, an ancient mirror appeared and called for Su Luo's help.

• Su Luo and Kundina left the competition and flew toward the Leyline to recultivate, while Mu Hongyuan and Ansen stayed behind.
• Su Luo discovered that the dao field's residents were ranked and exploited according to their closeness to Dieyi Daojun.
• Su Luo stopped Jin Cai Adept's escort, questioned her about the palace, and learned that Dieyi Daojun had an empress, four consorts, and nine beautiful consorts of formidable strength.
• Su Luo and Kundina judged the palace's cultivators manageable but remained wary of Dieyi Daojun returning through space.
• Kundina spotted a cracked ancient mirror in the river of Qi, and it flew up, calling, “Luosu, save me!”

Song Shige and Fu Li met Ye Zizhen and Brutus, learned that twenty quadrillion Demon Insects were threatening the world, and headed for Dieyi Daojun’s Dao field at the Divine Firmament Heaven’s Gate. They shared information about Lan Cijiu and [Food], then Fu Li summoned a trembling Violet Palace Mid-Stage cultivator as the Magic Vessel sped toward the gate.

• Song Shige killed a Violet Palace Adept, whose death caused strange phenomena across the surrounding region.
• Song Shige and Fu Li met Ye Zizhen and Brutus, who said the Dungeon had no future and that many Survivors were gathering at the Divine Firmament Heaven’s Gate.
• Ye Zizhen revealed that twenty quadrillion Demon Insects were preparing to corrode the world and that the Eastern Wilderness had already fallen.
• Song Shige, Fu Li, Ye Zizhen, and Brutus exchanged information about Lan Cijiu and [Food], and Song Shige said Lan Cijiu seemed to know him unusually well.
• Song Shige accelerated the Magic Vessel toward the Divine Firmament Heaven’s Gate, while Fu Li used a remote control to summon a trembling Violet Palace Mid-Stage cultivator.

Song Shige and his companions arrived in the Yunmeng Kingdom, where a clash between [Wu Guang] and a Golden Core Dao Lord pulled them into a deadly battle. Inside the Divine Firmament Palace, Su Luo learned of the fighting and confirmed that the Golden Core Dao Lord was not the person Qi Yuan remembered.

• Fu Li and the others resumed cultivating before their Magic Vessel reached the Yunmeng Kingdom, where Song Shige confirmed the Scholar had awakened at Heaven's Gate.
• Song Shige received a copy of Yun Xiaoxiao, exchanged information with it, and prepared to leave for the Divine Firmament Palace.
• A Golden Core Dao Lord crushed a populated area with a massive palm, while [Wu Guang] retaliated by sending black fog toward a distant city.
• Song Shige, Brutus, and Ye Zizhen prepared to fight after Ye Zizhen identified [Wu Guang] and the Golden Core Dao Lord.
• Su Luo learned that Song Shige's group had entered the battle and showed Qi Yuan the Golden Core Dao Lord's face, which Qi Yuan did not recognize.

Su Luo examined the hundreds of identical Dao Foundations left in Hengjin Jun’s limb, while Qi Yuan infiltrated Dieyi Daojun’s immortal palace in disguise and offered a strange game-board treasure to distract its consorts. The board transported its first user into a space of Chaos containing a black flame.

• Su Luo concluded that Hengjin Jun’s Talent had let him duplicate Dao Foundations and tried to possess and modify the more than 360 identical foundations in his severed limb.
• Qi Yuan entered Dieyi Daojun’s immortal palace in Jin Cai Adept’s form, accompanied by two Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivators.
• Qi Yuan learned from Jin Cai Adept’s memories that Jin Cai had served three powerful consorts and had usually lived in a white-haired loli form.
• When the palace’s pearl turned blue, the consorts changed to yang forms, leaving Qi Yuan as the only one in yin form while the Dao Lord was away.
• Qi Yuan offered Daddy Jin Cai a board said to help Violet Palace cultivators comprehend the Great Dao, and Daddy Jin Cai entered a space of Chaos containing a black flame.

Qi Yuan and his allies used a Dao artifact to subdue the empress and disrupt the immortal palace, while Wu Guang’s group fought Red Glow Dao Lord after Fate’s Choice gave them four teammates. The chapter ended with the Survivors still battling Red Glow Dao Lord.

• Qi Yuan used the chessboard to gather Dao resonance, and the empress joined in before a Black Flame bound his embryonic Golden Core.
• Su Luo, Kundina, and Yun Xiaoxiao emerged from the shadows; Su Luo reclaimed the chessboard and ancient mirror while Kundina headed toward the Leyline.
• Qi Yuan discovered that the area beneath the immortal palace had not changed back.
• Red Glow Dao Lord evaded the Survivors’ attacks with spatial authority and struck the Demon King with rosy light.
• Ye Zizhen appeared and smashed Red Glow Dao Lord in the face, but his counterattack knocked the group off their feet.
• Wu Guang’s Fate’s Choice rolled a great success, granting the Survivors four teammates and doubling their recultivation rate if they held out for two hours.

While the Red Glow Dao Lord fought Song Shige and the others, Fu Li kept Dieyi Daojun occupied with his phone, whose gifts sharply raised her affection and lust levels. Dieyi Daojun explored Fu Li’s apps and e-books as the battle continued, ending on a suggestive passage that made her frown.

• Song Shige and the others joined the fight against the Red Glow Dao Lord, while Fu Li distracted Dieyi Daojun by raising her affection level with gifts on his phone.
• Dieyi Daojun’s lust level surged as Fu Li used the phone, and she began sending herself gifts until her affection level reached eighty-five.
• Xuanmo Daojun warned Dieyi Daojun not to use the phone on him, then left without helping the Red Glow Dao Lord.
• Fu Li checked the battle and saw Song Shige land effective attacks, Ye Zizhen fight with terrifying strength, and Brutus remain out of sight.
• Dieyi Daojun explored the phone’s apps and e-books, then read a passage about Zhao Yun and Changban Slope that ended with a suggestive double meaning.

Fu Li survived Xuanmo Daojun’s attempt to kill him while Dieyi Daojun intervened, and their clash shifted when Fu Li sent Xuanmo Daojun a mysterious item. Meanwhile, the battle above the Yunmeng Kingdom ended as the expanding Fire Domain forced the Red Glow Dao Lord to withdraw toward Heaven’s Gate.

• Fu Li wondered about Scholar’s combat ability, then Xuanmo Daojun’s sword qi struck him; Dieyi Daojun shielded him and confronted Xuanmo Daojun.
• Xuanmo Daojun attacked again, and Dieyi Daojun intercepted the sword while the two exchanged blows in the void.
• Fu Li sent the remaining mysterious item to Xuanmo Daojun, prompting Dieyi Daojun to abandon his restraint and attack him in earnest.
• The Red Glow Dao Lord and the Survivors fought above the Yunmeng Kingdom as the Fire Domain’s black flames spread across the sky.
• The Red Glow Dao Lord stopped fighting and left for Heaven’s Gate’s Fire Domain to prepare for the approaching [Returning Sea].

Su Luo arranged for Ansen, Mu Hongyuan, and the Woof Woof Squad to keep the Dao Lords at Heaven’s Gate occupied while he cultivated at the Leyline. He began pursuing a Golden Core and sought to turn Heartfire into a perfected Divine Ability, but still needed five distinct powers to meet the Heavenly Dao’s requirements.

• Yun Xiaoxiao told Mu Hongyuan that Dao Lords had appeared beneath Heaven’s Gate and were fighting the Demon King and the others.
• Su Luo asked Ansen to create another Fairy Tale, Mu Hongyuan to send people to fill a nine-part board, and Kundina to collect things at Heaven’s Gate.
• After Mu Hongyuan agreed, Su Luo ended the call and focused on cultivating at the Leyline, whose source he recognized as the Golden Core Fruit Position.
• Su Luo began pursuing a Golden Core, meeting the attribute requirements and growing five Dao Platforms from his Violet Palace.
• Su Luo realized he needed five perfected Divine Abilities and a Golden Core cultivation technique, then began restoring Heartfire to its fundamental form.

Su Luo completed his Five Elements Divine Powers and began condensing Golden Nature to attain the Golden Core Dao. Finding the process too slow, he devoured vast amounts of Qi and unleashed a Black Flame that consumed Heaven's Gate and spread across the mortal world.

• Su Luo reproduced the Five Elements Divine Powers with Heartfire, completed his five Dao foundations, and began attaining the Golden Core Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao burned Su Luo's divine powers and Qi to condense Golden Nature, but the process was projected to take at least sixty years.
• Su Luo used Heartfire to refine Golden Nature himself and drew in Qi from the Leylines, even taking Qi meant for the Heavenly Dao.
• Su Luo turned the Zixiao Thunder Sea into a vast cocoon of Black Flame that devoured the Leyline and began consuming Heaven's Gate and the mortal world.

After Wu Guang mysteriously vanished, Song Shige and Fu Li realized that someone had fatally damaged Xuanmo Daojun’s Dao path, possibly through fate manipulation. Brutus was drawn into a vision of his seaside home and killed Ye Zizhen, turning him into a people’s fragment.

• Song Shige watched Wu Guang as Wu Guang’s dice and black mist churned, then Wu Guang vanished amid an indescribable sensation.
• Fu Li told Song Shige that someone had struck a Dao Lord’s fatal weak point and suggested Fairy Tale might have manipulated fate.
• Brutus sensed an unknowable presence over his eyes and was drawn into a vision of a gray seaside and a beckoning figure.
• Brutus walked toward Ye Zizhen, and a pale figure burst out of Ye Zizhen’s chest, turning him into a people’s fragment.

Ye Zizhen discovered that the Demon Tide was spreading a corrupting sludge across the Central Continent, while Su Luo’s attempt to condense a Golden Core was forced to fail by Fate’s Choice. Above the Void Sea, two players discussed the coming calamity and the choice between remaining bound to the world or abandoning it to survive.

• Brutus crushed Ye Zizhen’s head, prompting a stronger Ye Zizhen to emerge and reveal that expanding sludge had been clouding their senses.
• Ye Zizhen realized the sludge was spreading across the land as waves of Demon Insects rose from underground in the approaching Demon Tide.
• Su Luo received a Fate’s Choice result that guaranteed his Golden Core breakthrough would fail, but he continued condensing Golden Nature while considering a backup plan.
• The chapter described the forty-nine Fruit Positions, their Dao Lords, and the rumor that one position had escaped the Heavenly Dao’s order.
• The black-stone player urged the white-stone player to sever the world’s Dao chains and flee the coming calamity, but the white-stone player insisted he was staying to hold back the Demon Tide.

Su Luo studied the Golden Core Fruit Positions and chose Space as the one he wanted to attain, then investigated how spatial storage worked. He found that storage bags used portals to an unknown place, but his experiments revealed no visible changes in space.

• Two ancient players discussed the absent Two Principles and Human Dao Fruit Positions, and the black player gave up [Returning Sea].
• Su Luo completed more than half of his golden nature and reclaimed most of his formation plates, refining the black pieces into golden liquid.
• Su Luo reviewed the forty-nine Fruit Positions and chose Space because it was available and suited his plans.
• Su Luo examined a storage bag and concluded that it used a small spatial portal rather than a spatial fragment.
• Su Luo created nuclear fusion in an ultra-high-energy environment, but saw no change in space and wondered whether a world's strength affected how space could be manipulated.

Su Luo studied the Chaos beyond the Spatial Rifts while his Golden Nature neared completion, questioning how space and time worked in this world. Meanwhile, Kundina left the ruined Divine Firmament Heaven's Gate and fought Red Glow Dao Lord after he attacked her.

• Su Luo examined the Chaos beyond the Spatial Rifts, tested it with a fusion burst, and reflected on whether space and time were truly inseparable.
• Su Luo drew together knowledge from his past experiences as his Golden Nature passed halfway to completion, then fell into deep thought about the silvery-white rift.
• Kundina learned that a captured cultivator's Violet Palace had been pulled away, then continued her journey after filling her chessboard with Violet Palace cultivators.
• Kundina crossed the burned remains of the Divine Firmament Heaven's Gate using a transparent bead that parted Su Luo's flames.
• Red Glow Dao Lord attacked Kundina, who absorbed the surrounding flames and summoned a towering Giant of blazing flames to fight him.

Wu Guang met Silk Woman beneath the Central Continent and learned that the Demon Insects’ advance had been blocked at the Void Sea and possibly the Kongling Ocean. After a new Golden Core attempt drew their attention, Silk Woman began sinking the Central Continent.

• Wu Guang’s scattered flesh sank beneath the Central Continent and reassembled in the black world beneath it.
• Wu Guang questioned Silk Woman about her preparations and the Demon Insects’ stalled advance.
• Silk Woman said the Void Sea route was sealed by two Dao Lords and the Kongling Ocean might be blocked by the Heavenly Dao.
• Wu Guang and Silk Woman considered the threat of the Heavenly Dao and the other Rainbow Badges.
• A beam of spiritual light rose toward the Grand Void as someone attempted to attain a Golden Core.
• Silk Woman ordered the Central Continent to sink, and cracks spread through the black stone ground.

Demon Insects poured toward the Central Continent, but black flames and armed defenders burned or repelled the swarms while Wu Guang abandoned the planned invasion route. Dick Lang reached the continent, adapted to the Fire Domain, and went looking for its strongest fighter; Song Shige knocked him away with the Blood City.

• Endless Demon Insects emerged from tunnels beneath the Central Continent, where black flames and defenders destroyed the swarms reaching the surface.
• Wu Guang headed for the surface as the Demon Insects changed tactics, widening their passages and advancing behind shields made from their dead.
• Dick Lang climbed out at the Central Continent, healed himself with a lingzhi offered by a Woof Woof Squad member, and adapted to the Fire Domain.
• Dick Lang ate a Demon Insect, asked who was strongest, and crossed space toward Song Shige after receiving his image.
• Song Shige unleashed the Blood City against the stranger emerging from a Spatial Rift, sending Dick Lang flying a kilometer away.

Song Shige escaped Dick Lang as the Demon Insects overwhelmed the Central Continent and the Threefold Heaven's Gate collapsed. Su Luo survived a failed Golden Core breakthrough, formed his Golden Core with a single thought, and crushed the Space Fruit Position, becoming the Primordial Sage Black Emperor.

• Song Shige used Blood City to stop Dick Lang, then vanished; Dick Lang sought out another opponent and found Dieyi Daojun and Fu Li.
• The Central Continent sank into the Black Flame as the Demon Insects advanced, and Wu Guang concluded that the world was nearly lost to them.
• The Threefold Heaven's Gate collapsed, briefly halting the Demon Insects, while a first burst of golden light faded after Su Luo's breakthrough failed.
• Dieyi Daojun explained that Su Luo might survive by relying on his Golden Nature, and Fu Li stopped worrying.
• Su Luo formed his Golden Core, ignored the offered Fruit Positions, and crushed the Space Fruit Position.
• All living beings learned that Su Luo had become the Dao-burning, supremely free, all-laws-return-to-ash Primordial Sage Black Emperor.

Su Luo attained the Dao Lord realm, used his control over space to divide the Central Continent from the upper world, and then began explaining the structure of space to the assembled Survivors and Dao Lords. He left off describing the Rule Layer, with the Dao Lords listening and debating his ideas.

• Dieyi Daojun recognized Su Luo's astonishing rise to Dao Lord, while Wu Guang hesitated over whether to challenge him.
• Su Luo emerged from the Dark Domain and used the Fruit Position to tear open spatial rifts, separating the Central Continent from the world above it.
• The world named Su Luo's feat Severing the Heavenly River with one palm, and the resulting Space Storm blocked the Zerg of the two capitals from entering the upper world directly.
• Su Luo created a tranquil place in the Dark Domain and invited those present to hear him expound the Dao.
• Su Luo described Base Space and the Rule Layer as two layers of space, prompting the Dao Lords to discuss his ideas.