Chapter Summaries

Li Yu discovered the deeper purpose behind Fang Xian Dao’s scripture, while Marquis Champion built his power through the Tianji Merchant Guild. When the Qian Emperor sent Marquis Champion to deal with the South Sea and investigate the Qiankun Bag, Marquis Champion saw an opportunity and prepared to outmaneuver him.

• Li Yu realized Fang Xian Dao’s pill refinement and artifact forging were ways to study the principles of material transformation and incorporated that path into his Great Dao of Domination.
• Little Tingting opened her Sea of Bitterness, and Li Yu praised her before taking her out to play.
• Marquis Champion left Jade Capital for Qing Province, where he established the Tianji Merchant Guild with help from Yun Meng’s noble chieftains and made it profitable by producing glass.
• The Qian Emperor sent Marquis Champion to the South Sea to confront the Yun Meng Fleet and investigate the Qiankun Bag after the Witch Ghost Dao found clues to it.
• Marquis Champion accepted the mission because the Qiankun Bag could strengthen his spatial abilities and might contain Great Zen Temple’s wealth and scriptures.
• Marquis Champion saw that the Qian Emperor intended to keep him away from Qing Province and resolved to turn the scheme against him.

Marquis Champion traveled from Qingzhou to the wilderness beyond Great Qian’s Southern Sea to seek the Qiankun Bag, then intervened when the Divine Eagle King pursued Huang Yan Yan. He captured the Divine Eagle King and learned the fleeing woman’s identity, leaving Huang Yan Yan in his grasp.

• Marquis Champion used his Heavenly Radiance Horned Divine Armor and Void Shuttle to reach the wilderness, suspecting the Qian Emperor had sent him after the Qiankun Bag as bait.
• Marquis Champion flew through the air with Soul Power and encountered Huang Yan Yan fleeing from the Divine Eagle King.
• The Divine Eagle King used Word is Law to halt Huang Yan Yan and warned Marquis Champion not to interfere.
• Marquis Champion seized the Divine Eagle King with his Human Immortal Blood Qi and stored him in his Storage Space.
• Marquis Champion forced Huang Yan Yan to reveal herself, then grabbed her hand as she introduced herself.

Yang An, the Marquis Champion, brought Huang Yan Yan to Heavenly Sever Mountain and destroyed the Flying Yakshas with a roar. He identified himself to Monk Jingren, who attacked him upon learning he served Great Qian.

• Li Yu had the Divine Eagle King's soul memories and Phoenix Woman's bloodline scanned, then waited for Yang An to bring him the Qiankun Bag.
• Yang An took Huang Yan Yan toward Heavenly Sever Mountain, shattered its illusion array, and revealed the Witch Ghost Dao's settlement.
• A swarm of Flying Yakshas attacked Yang An, but he killed them with a roar powered by his human immortal Blood Qi.
• Monk Jingren confronted Yang An, who introduced himself as the Marquis Champion of Great Qian.
• Monk Jingren declared he would never coexist with Great Qian and swung his Blunt Copper Staff at Yang An.

Marquis Champion defeated Monk Jingren, recruited him to join his rebellion, and destroyed the Witch Ghost Dao cultivators with a single roar. He recovered the Great Zen Temple’s Qiankun Bag and discovered it was made from human immortal skin.

• Monk Jingren attacked Marquis Champion, but Marquis Champion stopped his staff strike with one finger and offered him a place in the rebellion.
• Marquis Champion told Monk Jingren he would rebel against Yang Pan, and Monk Jingren agreed to join him.
• Marquis Champion killed the fleeing Witch Ghost Dao cultivators with a roar of pure yang Blood Qi, revealing that he was a human immortal.
• Marquis Champion took the Qiankun Bag from the fallen Witch Ghost Dao Sect Leader and recognized that it was made from human immortal skin.
• Marquis Champion stored the Qiankun Bag in the Storage Space, and Li Yu noted that it contained many good things.

Li Yu scanned the Witch Ghost Dao's scriptures and found the Living Tathagata Scripture's intent of Solely Honored useful for his Great Dao of Domination. Meanwhile, Marquis Champion took over Heavenly Sever Mountain and found a Witch Ghost Dao cultivation method in the Qiankun Bag, which he planned to use as cover while he investigated the Qian Emperor's scheme.

• Li Yu had the system scan the War God Demonic Scripture and the Present World Tathagata Scripture Outline, then chose the Tathagata Dharma Form's intent of Solely Honored as a reference for his Great Dao of Domination.
• Marquis Champion killed the Witch Ghost Dao's higher-ups at Heavenly Sever Mountain and took control of its territory with Monk Jingren's help.
• Marquis Champion assigned Monk Jingren to manage Heavenly Sever Mountain and recruit disciples, privately treating the appointment as a test of Jingren's loyalty.
• Marquis Champion brought Huang Yan Yan into the Qiankun Bag, where they discovered the Great Zen Temple's enormous stores of wealth, weapons, and provisions.
• Marquis Champion found a Witch Ghost Dao cultivation method in the Qiankun Bag and decided to use it as cover while he continued to play along with the Qian Emperor.

Li Yu used Marquis Champion to test a fusion of the War God Demonic Scripture, Shangmang Divine Spear, and Heavenly Radiance Horned Divine Armor, allowing Marquis Champion to unite his Martial Dao Will and Soul Will. The experiment succeeded but revealed dangerous strain on the treasures, while Li Yu resolved to keep simulating safer methods for a Yang God breakthrough.

• Li Yu ordered the system to link Marquis Champion’s cultivation method, spear, and armor through the War God Will.
• Marquis Champion experienced War God Shang’s final battle and awakened the armor’s true form, gaining a blood-red vertical eye.
• Marquis Champion fused his will of conquest and plunder with the War God Will and used the Immeasurable Killing Dao to unleash combined martial and soul power.
• Li Yu reviewed the experiment and found that Marquis Champion’s strength had increased by twenty percent, but repeated use could destroy the spear and armor.
• Li Yu decided to use simulations to search for a safer way to merge the Human Immortal body and Ghost Immortal soul for a Yang God breakthrough.

Marquis Champion believed swallowing the Qiankun Bag had greatly strengthened his abilities, unaware that Li Yu had secretly granted him enhanced storage and teleportation. After Marquis Champion released the Divine Eagle King and made him swear loyalty, Li Yu learned that the Resource Library preserved living creatures in unchanging silence, explaining the Divine Eagle King’s horrifying ordeal.

• Marquis Champion swallowed the Qiankun Bag, and Li Yu secretly gave him access to part of the Resource Library’s storage and extended his Void Teleportation range.
• Marquis Champion celebrated his apparent gains and restored Heavenly Sever Mountain’s illusion array to conceal it from outsiders.
• Marquis Champion remembered the Divine Eagle King, released him from his Storage Space, and accepted his surrender.
• Marquis Champion planted the Mysterious Heaven Soul Capturing Curse in the Divine Eagle King after demanding that he not resist.
• Li Yu asked the System about storing living creatures and learned that the Resource Library preserved them exactly as they were when collected.

Li Yu recognized that his drive to compete with Son of Yi had become an obsession, let it go, and took Little Tingting and the three foxes to Jade Capital City. There he met Hong Yi and revealed that he had given him the Past Amitabha Sutra, then offered him a scripture about the Present.

• Li Yu realized he had lost his calm by obsessing over Son of Yi’s progress and regained a clear state of mind.
• Li Yu took Little Tingting and the three foxes into Jade Capital City, explaining the sights along the way.
• Li Yu met Hong Yi, who had passed the provincial examination and established his own household.
• Li Yu told Hong Yi that the Past Amitabha Sutra was his and asked him to return it after reading.
• Li Yu offered Hong Yi a scripture about the Present, and Hong Yi suspected Li Yu was Emperor Yu.

Li Yu gave Hong Yi the Present Tathagata Sutra while taking the Past Amitabha Sutra, hoping to preserve Hong Yi’s future path and secure the Book of Changes. After discovering a Wusheng Cult chamber in a restaurant, Li Yu seized its statue and worshipper, and heavenly punishment destroyed the cult’s statues across Great Qian.

• Li Yu took the Past Amitabha Sutra from Hong Yi and gave him the system-deduced Present Tathagata Sutra, encouraging him to rise in the coming age.
• Hong Yi recognized Li Yu as Emperor Yu and vowed not to disappoint him, while Little Mu complained about Li Yu acting like an elder.
• Li Yu played with Little Tingting and the little foxes, then found a hidden chamber behind his restaurant room and discovered it belonged to the Wusheng Cult.
• Li Yu learned the cult was trying to decipher his Emperor Yu’s Heavenly Book, which contained Soul Clan techniques written in another world’s script.
• Li Yu used his Word is Law power to bind the Wusheng Cult statue and its black-robed worshipper, then absorbed them into the Resource Library.
• Li Yu’s heavenly pronouncement killed an old woman in the Crown Prince’s Eastern Palace and shattered every statue of Old Mother Wusheng across Great Qian.

Li Yu captured the Vacuum Cult leader after destroying the Wusheng Cult, then combined the Future Without Birth Scripture with the past and present scriptures to comprehend its wisdom. He began cultivating the scripture in West Mountain Secluded Valley and awakened a wisdom halo.

• The Vacuum Daoist fled toward Crown Prince Yang Yuan’s Eastern Palace, but Li Yu froze him in midair and collected him into the System Resource Library.
• The Vacuum Cult’s divine statues shattered, and news of heavenly punishment against both great evil cults spread across the realm, alarming the Qian Emperor and Hong Xuanji.
• Li Yu returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley and ordered the system to extract the two cult leaders’ memories, recover their scripture and halos, and recycle the remaining resources.
• Li Yu combined the Future Without Birth Scripture with the Past Amitabha Sutra and Present Tathagata Sutra, deducing the Future Buddha’s meaning of Infinite Future.
• Li Yu used the Bodhi Tree’s power to enhance his wisdom and began comprehending the scripture, forming a wisdom halo around his True Self Dharma Appearance.

Marquis Champion took command of the South Sea Fleet and sailed toward the open sea after learning that the Yun Meng Fleet had assembled. Suspecting the conflict centered on the Qiankun Bag, he secretly reached Heavenly Sever Mountain, manifested his Demon God Body, and possessed a foot soldier to wait for the invaders.

• Marquis Champion read a report about Hong Yi's rise in strength and mocked Hong Xuanji over the possibility of father and son turning against each other.
• After scouts reported the Yun Meng Fleet's movements, Marquis Champion led a thousand vessels out to sea, suspecting the Qian Emperor had leaked news of the Qiankun Bag.
• Marquis Champion used Void Shuttle to reach Heavenly Sever Mountain, where Monk Jingren and the Divine Eagle King reported that the Yun Meng Fleet was nearing Heavenly Sever Bay.
• Marquis Champion sent his body to the Resource Library, manifested his Demon God Body, and possessed an ordinary foot soldier to conceal himself.
• Marquis Champion spotted Yun Meng figures slipping through the Illusion Array and pretended to sleep while waiting for the more important enemies to arrive.

Hong Yi told Chan Yinsha that Emperor Yu had given him the Past and Present Sutras, and the two began studying them instead of pursuing the Qiankun Bag. At Heavenly Sever Mountain, Marquis Champion revealed a flesh-and-spirit fiendgod form and tore through the Essence Origin Divine Temple’s forces, killing their red-robed priest.

• Chan Yinsha asked Hong Yi about the Qiankun Bag, and he said Emperor Yu had already bestowed the Past and Present Sutras upon him.
• Hong Yi offered to teach Chan Yinsha the scriptures, and they set aside the Qiankun Bag to study them.
• At Heavenly Sever Mountain, the Yun Meng Kingdom’s forces, the Great Qian Dark Dragon Guard, and the Essence Origin Divine Temple joined the battle against Monk Jingren and the Divine Eagle King’s forces.
• Marquis Champion saw that his allies were about to be overwhelmed and manifested a lifelike fiendgod form that united spirit and flesh.
• Marquis Champion charged through the Temple Knights, seized a war axe, and beheaded the red-robed priest.

Marquis Champion’s Demon God Body annihilated the Essence Origin Divine Temple forces, the Yun Meng troops, and Great Qian’s Dark Dragon Guard, defeating Black Wolf King Bi Shihua and Yang Fan. Nalan Shenyue and the still-living Bi Shihua summoned the deities Mahakala and Destruction Heaven, leaving Marquis Champion eager to devour them.

• Tuyuan and the remaining Essence Origin Divine Temple warriors were killed as Marquis Champion’s Demon God Body rampaged through their forces.
• Marquis Champion defeated Black Wolf King Bi Shihua, seized the Mysterious Sky Axe, and slaughtered the Yun Meng warriors and Great Qian’s Dark Dragon Guard.
• Marquis Champion killed Yang Fan with a blow from the axe while Monk Jingren and Divine Eagle King continued fighting their opponents.
• Nalan Shenyue summoned Mahakala using the Sword of Impermanence, and the deity appeared before Marquis Champion.
• Bi Shihua, still alive, offered the Mysterious Sky Axe in a divine descent technique and summoned Destruction Heaven.
• Marquis Champion recognized the two summoned deities and declared that he would devour them.

Marquis Champion revealed his human immortal body and defeated Mahakala and Destruction Heaven before swallowing their sealed forms with Taotie. The Qian Emperor then appeared in a Lord of the Future clone and confronted him, ending the chapter as a massive formation activated beneath them.

• Marquis Champion abandoned his demon god disguise and unleashed his human immortal blood energy against Mahakala and Destruction Heaven.
• Marquis Champion pierced both gods with his spear, sealed them in a Darkness Mandala, and had Taotie swallow the crystal they formed.
• The Qian Emperor appeared from a point of light on Yang Fan's forehead and revealed that he had bound Marquis Champion's spirit and flesh together at birth.
• The Qian Emperor identified himself as a Lord of the Future clone and said he had come to kill Marquis Champion.
• Marquis Champion challenged the Qian Emperor to predict his own future, and a massive formation lit up beneath them.

Marquis Champion’s Mandala Grand Formation failed against the Qian Emperor, who overwhelmed him and entered his Sea of Consciousness to seize his Human Immortal body. Marquis Champion revealed that the Qian Emperor had entered Taotie’s mouth and was swallowed by Emperor Yu’s Supreme Treasure.

• Marquis Champion activated the Mandala Grand Formation, but the Qian Emperor shattered it with a flick of his finger.
• The Qian Emperor struck Marquis Champion with the Void Great Hand Seal and sent him flying through the city.
• Marquis Champion attacked from the void, but the Qian Emperor caught him with the Void Great Capture.
• The Qian Emperor entered Marquis Champion’s Sea of Consciousness to take his Human Immortal body.
• Marquis Champion revealed that the Qian Emperor was inside Taotie’s mouth, and Taotie swallowed him.

Marquis Champion survived the Qian Emperor’s attempt to seize his body and gained the Lord of the Future incarnation, while the fall of Mahakala and Destruction Heaven reshaped the balance of power. Li Yu harvested the defeated enemies’ knowledge and Soul Power, leaving Marquis Champion rewarded and the Qian Emperor plotting against him.

• Marquis Champion blocked Monk Jingren’s attack, convinced him and the Divine Eagle King that he was himself, and saw Nalan Shenyue and the Black Wolf King in their custody.
• Nalan Yihong decided to seize Xuantian Holy Land after learning that Mahakala and Destruction Heaven had fallen, while the Qian Emperor ordered the Hanlin Academy to decipher Emperor Yu’s Heavenly Book and planned to expose Marquis Champion’s treasure to the world.
• Li Yu extracted Saint Tuyuan’s memories and recorded the Sacred Essence Scripture in the Resource Library.
• Li Yu broke Mahakala and Destruction Heaven down into Soul Power, then extracted and stored the Lord of the Future’s memories and cultivation knowledge.
• Li Yu kept the Lord of the Future incarnation for a future breakthrough and paid Marquis Champion his agreed reward.

After Yang Pan spread word that Marquis Champion possessed Emperor Yu’s Supreme Treasure, Marquis Champion began his lightning tribulation, confident that success would let him withstand the world’s hostility. With Li Yu observing through the System, Marquis Champion used Taotie to devour the trials and passed four levels of tribulation.

• The Qian Emperor publicly praised Marquis Champion’s victory over the Yun Meng pirates and awarded him lavish rewards while secretly fuming.
• Yang Pan spread news that Marquis Champion possessed Emperor Yu’s Supreme Treasure, stirring cultivators across the realm and alarming Monk Jingren and the Divine Eagle King.
• Marquis Champion dismissed their fears and entered the thunderclouds to undergo his lightning tribulation as Li Yu watched through the System.
• Marquis Champion manifested Taotie to devour the residual thoughts in the second Sea of Lightning, passed the trial, and divided his soul into 7,200 thoughts.
• Marquis Champion used Taotie to swallow the illusory Qian Emperor in the third tribulation and the collapsing pocket worlds in the fourth, passing both trials with ease.

Marquis Champion completed four soul tribulations and left with his guards after the Qian Emperor summoned him to the capital. On the road, he crushed one ambush and faced a powerful attacker using the Great Annihilation Divine Fist.

• Marquis Champion stopped short of the fifth lightning tribulation, returned to his body, and realized he could perceive the layers and gaps of space.
• Marquis Champion told Monk Jingren and Divine Eagle King that he had crossed four lightning tribulations and boasted that he would soon cross five.
• Marquis Champion left the cleanup at Heavenly Sever Mountain to Monk Jingren and Divine Eagle King, then departed for the capital under the Qian Emperor's decree.
• Chan Yinsha suggested that she and Hong Yi seize Marquis Champion's treasure, but Hong Yi persuaded her that they could not defeat him and urged her to focus on cultivation.
• A group pretending to avenge Yun Meng Kingdom attacked Marquis Champion's convoy, but Marquis Champion turned their crossbow bolts against them and his guards slaughtered the attackers.
• An unseen assailant descended from the sky and struck at Marquis Champion with the Great Annihilation Divine Fist, which Marquis Champion recognized as a remnant of the former dynasty.

Marquis Champion killed Crown Prince Zhou and defeated the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor in a battle that displayed his newly evolved Immeasurable Hell Martial Dao. He swallowed Zhou Taizu, the Abyss Throne, and the surrounding black clouds, then dared anyone else to challenge him for Emperor Yu's Supreme Treasure.

• Marquis Champion pierced Crown Prince Zhou with the Shangmang Divine Spear and swallowed him with a Taotie.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor arrived on the Abyss Throne and attacked Marquis Champion with the Great Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Marquis Champion fused his body and divine soul, unleashed Immeasurable Hell, and shattered the Grand Ancestor's attack, destroying his carriage and troops in the shockwaves.
• Marquis Champion struck the Grand Ancestor, destroyed a third of his divine soul, and swallowed him.
• Marquis Champion swallowed the Abyss Throne and the hundred-li black clouds, then challenged anyone else who wanted to seize his supreme treasure.

Li Yu sent the monkey to retrieve Scarlet Refined Primordial Copper and Sky City from Zhou Taizu’s lair, then chose Flower-Fruit Mountain as the site for a Mall Outpost. He improved the entrance to Water Curtain Cave, leaving the mountain’s monkeys awestruck by his power.

• Li Yu extracted Zhou Taizu’s memories, learned of the Scarlet Refined Primordial Copper and Sky City in his lair, and sent the monkey to collect them.
• The monkey retrieved the treasures, and Li Yu decided Flower-Fruit Mountain would be a safer place for the Mall Outpost than West Mountain Secluded Valley.
• Li Yu traveled with the monkey to Flower-Fruit Mountain and praised its newly cleared, beautiful landscape.
• Li Yu used Profound Yellow Energy to create a waterfall, pool, river channel, and bridges at Water Curtain Cave.
• The monkeys on Flower-Fruit Mountain knelt in fear at Li Yu’s display, and Li Yu realized he had shown off in front of monkeys.