Chapter Summaries

Li Yu transformed the palace in Water Curtain Cave into a Mall Outpost and appointed Monkey Wu as its guard. After connecting it to Mall Space, Li Yu left with Little Tingting and the three little foxes to explore the desert and grasslands.

• Li Yu used Scarlet Refined Primordial Copper and the remains of Sky City to transform Monkey Wu's palace into a powerful Mall Outpost.
• Li Yu gave Monkey Wu secondary administrator authority, granted access to the ape tribe and Fox Tribe, and set up a Resource Library and Virtual Illusionary Realm.
• Li Yu urged Monkey Wu to train and grow stronger, reminding him that his name was still awaiting the word “Empty.”
• Li Yu returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley and invited Little Tingting and the three little foxes on a trip.
• Li Yu caught Little Tingting when she jumped from a balcony, then carried her and the three foxes off to see the desert and grasslands.

Li Yu took Little Tingting and the three little foxes sightseeing on a cloud platform, where they encountered Xie Pianpian defending a wounded crane from Xuan Chen of the Supreme Daoist Sect. The chapter left Xie Pianpian stunned after Li Yu casually blew Xuan Chen away for threatening the foxes.

• Li Yu purified the Abyss Throne into a white-cloud platform and took Little Tingting and the three little foxes sightseeing.
• After seven days, Li Yu and the children saw Xuan Chen pursue and injure a white crane, and Little Tingting urged Li Yu to help it.
• Xie Pianpian arrived and confronted Xuan Chen, accusing the Supreme Daoist Sect of abusing the Jiu Gao Clan and trying to harvest its feathers and blood.
• Xuan Chen spotted the three little foxes and demanded that Li Yu hand them over as materials for talisman brushes.
• Li Yu flicked his sleeve and sent Xuan Chen flying far away, leaving Xie Pianpian dumbfounded.

Xie Pianpian joined Li Yu on the cloud platform, where he healed the injured white crane and learned about the Jiu Gao Clan’s suffering under the Supreme Daoist Sect. When the Nine Fire Flame Dragon arrived, Li Yu dismissed it and claimed Meng Shenji would not dare challenge him.

• Xie Pianpian accepted Little Tingting’s invitation to board the cloud platform and tended to the injured white crane.
• Li Yu healed the white crane instantly, and Xie Pianpian mistook his technique for the Holy Light Technique before he explained its origins.
• Xie Pianpian told Li Yu that the Supreme Daoist Sect had enslaved and slaughtered the Jiu Gao Clan, leaving tens of thousands of her kin suffering at Mount Tai.
• The Nine Fire Flame Dragon arrived, and Xie Pianpian drew her sword to protect Li Yu and the others.
• Li Yu said Meng Shenji had not come and would not dare act presumptuously before him, leaving Xie Pianpian stunned.

Li Yu destroyed one of Meng Shenji’s Nine Fire Flame Dragons and gave the Jiu Gao Clan his Nirvana True Method to help them grow stronger. Xie Pianpian was left torn between cultivating a method that could turn her people into phoenixes and preserving the Jiu Gao Clan’s identity.

• Little Tingting scolded the Nine Fire Flame Dragon for frightening the white crane, and Li Yu killed it with a single palm strike.
• Meng Shenji sensed that a powerful Creator had destroyed his dragon and postponed revenge until after his Eighth Lightning Tribulation.
• Xie Pianpian asked Li Yu for help rescuing the Jiu Gao Clan, and Li Yu told her that they suffered because they were weak.
• At Little Tingting’s urging, Li Yu gave Xie Pianpian and the white crane his Nirvana True Method, which could transform birds into phoenixes.
• Xie Pianpian recognized Li Yu as Emperor Yu but hesitated to let her clan cultivate the method, fearing they would cease to be the Jiu Gao Clan.

Li Yu learned that the Yun Meng clans had lured Marquis Champion into attacking Xuantian Holy Land, hoping he would kill its possibly surviving Grandmaster. He followed Marquis Champion across the Golden Wolf Plain and learned that the battle had already begun.

• Li Yu traveled with Little Tingting and Little Fox through the desert and toward the grasslands.
• Taotie reported that the Yun Meng clans had invited Marquis Champion to attack Xuantian Holy Land and test whether Xuantian Grandmaster was still alive.
• Li Yu deduced that the Yun Meng Kingdom Lord intended to use Marquis Champion as a pawn and followed him, hoping he would claim the Holy Land’s treasures.
• Li Yu showed Little Tingting the Golden Wolf Plain, where a golden wolf killed a wild ox.
• Taotie reported that Marquis Champion had already started fighting, and Li Yu prepared to watch.

Marquis Champion entered the Profound Heaven Extreme Darkness Realm, where he awakened the Dark Emperor Daoist and was overwhelmed by the ancient master's power. As Marquis Champion faced death, he suddenly spotted an opportunity to fight back.

• Marquis Champion released Taotie, which devoured all the Darkness Yuan Power in the small world and revealed the Star of Darkness.
• The Star of Darkness released the Dark Emperor Daoist, who recognized Marquis Champion as Shang's successor.
• Marquis Champion attacked the Dark Emperor Daoist with Boundless Hell, but the Daoist blasted him into the void barrier with the Darkness Annihilation Storm.
• The Dark Emperor Daoist struck Marquis Champion with the Heavenly Heart Dharma Seal, leaving him vomiting blood and close to death.
• Li Yu watched without intervening as Marquis Champion despaired, then Marquis Champion suddenly noticed a chance to turn the fight around.

Marquis Champion realized Dark Emperor Daoist’s apparent strength came from the Star of Darkness and used Taotie to swallow the treasure, leaving Dark Emperor Daoist vulnerable. Marquis Champion defeated him and Taotie consumed his thought-fragments, while Li Yu watched and claimed the Star of Darkness.

• Marquis Champion realized Dark Emperor Daoist was drawing power from the Star of Darkness rather than having recovered his former cultivation.
• Marquis Champion summoned Taotie, which swallowed the Star of Darkness and caused Dark Emperor Daoist’s powerful form to collapse.
• Dark Emperor Daoist cast the Profound Heaven Extreme Darkness Secret Curse to absorb nearby darkness, but Taotie devoured the gathered power first.
• Marquis Champion used Void Shuttle to strike Dark Emperor Daoist with his spear, shattering his soul body into thought-fragments.
• Taotie swallowed all of Dark Emperor Daoist’s scattered thought-fragments, and Marquis Champion declared himself invincible under heaven.
• Li Yu praised Marquis Champion and inspected the Star of Darkness in the Resource Library.

Li Yu rewarded Marquis Champion with Dark Emperor Daoist’s soul thoughts, then transformed the Star of Darkness into a flying boat and continued north with Little Tingting and the Little Foxes. The group encountered a horned young woman who approached the boat, and Li Yu wondered if he had reached Heaven Dragon Mountain.

• Li Yu sent Dark Emperor Daoist’s memories to the system database and gave Marquis Champion his Soul Power, including nearly one hundred thousand purified soul thoughts.
• Marquis Champion fused the thoughts and believed his Heaven Swallowing Great Dao had greatly increased his power, giving him enough strength to attempt two Lightning Tribulations.
• Li Yu used the system to transform the Star of Darkness into a dark-gold flying boat based on the Boat of Creation and the Void-Breaking Flying Boat.
• Li Yu took Little Tingting and the Little Foxes aboard the flying boat and activated its travel and combat functions.
• A young woman with crimson dragon horns approached along a path of light, and Li Yu wondered if he had arrived at Heaven Dragon Mountain.

Li Yu met Ao Luan, a Dragon Descendant stuck at Five Lightning Tribulations, and offered her a choice between remaining human and transforming into a dragon. Ao Luan chose to preserve the Dragon Clan, received Li Yu’s Dragon Transformation True Method, and learned that her transformation could lead to the Yang God; she then recognized Li Yu as Emperor Yu.

• Li Yu dispelled the barrier around his flying boat and welcomed the wary Dragon Girl aboard.
• Ao Luan introduced herself and explained that her rapid cultivation had stalled at Five Lightning Tribulations because of her mixed human and dragon nature.
• Li Yu told Ao Luan she could purify her bloodline and soul by choosing to remain human or transform into a dragon.
• After recalling that she was the last living dragon, Ao Luan chose dragon transformation, and Li Yu sent her the Dragon Transformation True Method.
• Ao Luan realized the method could let dragons open acupoints and attain the Yang God, then thanked Li Yu and asked his name.
• Li Yu called himself Yu, and Ao Luan recognized him as Emperor Yu and kowtowed in gratitude.

Li Yu sent the monkey with Ao Luan to Dragon's Graveyard so she could obtain the Ancestor Dragon bloodline and Dragon Soul Thoughts, while he planned to benefit from the expedition. At the Yanfu Great Formation, the monkey prepared to force his way through as Ao Luan warned him against it.

• Ao Luan presented Li Yu with a Dragon Soul Thought and asked whether it could help her cultivate the Dragon Transformation True Method.
• Li Yu told Ao Luan to seek her ancestors' bloodline in Dragon's Graveyard and assigned the monkey to help her pass its protective formation.
• The monkey and Ao Luan set out on the Somersault Cloud, and Li Yu returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley with Little Tingting and the Little Foxes.
• Ao Luan used a blood-marked compass to guide the monkey through the void to the Yanfu Great Formation around Dragon's Graveyard.
• The monkey drew his Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Thousand Jun Rod and announced that he would smash through the formation, frightening Ao Luan.

Li Yu analyzed the Yanfu Great Formation and gave Monkey a safe route through it, allowing Monkey to collect its nine treasures and remove the formation. Monkey and Ao Luan entered the Dragon's Graveyard, where Li Yu recognized it as a spherical Middle Thousand World and anticipated more gains.

• Li Yu scanned the Yanfu Great Formation, discovered its nine divine artifact formation eyes, and had the System identify a safe way in and out.
• Monkey followed Li Yu's route into the formation, collected the Azure Dragon Wood, and then took all nine treasures sustaining it.
• Monkey collected the Yanfu Tortoise Shell, causing the ancient Yanfu Great Formation to vanish.
• Monkey and Ao Luan passed through the void barrier and arrived at the vast, spherical Dragon's Graveyard.
• Li Yu concluded that the Dragon's Graveyard was a Middle Thousand World and looked forward to Monkey's discoveries.

Monkey Brother entered the Dragon's Graveyard region and endured the Primordial Origin Ice to complete his Nine Revolutions Heavenly Technique. After breaking free from the ice, he was ready to loot the graveyard with Li Yu.

• Li Yu located the Dragon's Graveyard in the planet's frozen north and sent its location to Monkey Brother and Ao Luan.
• Ao Luan recognized the Primordial Origin Ice and warned Monkey Brother that the cold was too dangerous, so Monkey Brother sent him back outside and continued alone.
• Li Yu urged Monkey Brother to use the extreme cold to cultivate, and Monkey Brother circulated the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Technique as he flew deeper into the wasteland.
• Monkey Brother froze solid before an ice palace and remained frozen for nine days before the technique revived him and he broke free as a thirty-zhang Golden Giant Ape Monkey.
• Li Yu saw more than a thousand Primordial Ancient Dragons and Primordial Origin Ice within the Dragon's Graveyard and declared that it was time to loot.

Li Yu collected the Dragon's Graveyard and arranged for Ao Luan to receive a white dragon’s bloodline and Dragon Soul Thoughts so she could transform. Ao Luan began the Dragon Transformation True Method, but her body exploded into blood mist, leaving the monkey fearing she had died.

• Li Yu and the monkey discovered more than a thousand ancient dragons frozen in ice pillars and a giant golden dragon inside an ice palace.
• The monkey used the Resource Library to collect the Dragon Pillars and the palace, while Li Yu selected a white dragon’s bloodline and Dragon Soul Thoughts for Ao Luan.
• The monkey returned to the Dragon's Graveyard with the materials, and Ao Luan thanked Emperor Yu for ensuring the resting place would not be disturbed again.
• Ao Luan asked the monkey to guard her as she attempted to transform into a dragon, and Li Yu ordered him to agree.
• Ao Luan swallowed the True Dragon Blood and absorbed the Dragon Soul power, but her body exploded into blood mist, shocking the monkey.

After Ao Luan transformed into a True Dragon, Li Yu took her in to cultivate and planned for her to settle in the East Sea once she grew strong enough. Li Yu reflected on the vast treasures he had acquired from the Dragon's Graveyard.

• Ao Luan emerged from the golden mist as a True Dragon, and Monkey Brother realized she had survived her transformation.
• Ao Luan said she could not return home as a True Dragon, so Li Yu summoned her to meet him.
• Li Yu accepted Ao Luan as a disciple, assessed her strength, and told her she could take human form after reaching Myriad Transformations.
• Ao Luan chose a hall to cultivate in, while Monkey Brother returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Li Yu reviewed his gains, including the Yanfu treasures and formation, the Dragon's Graveyard and its dragons, Primordial Origin Ice, and a warehouse of Dragon Tooth Spirit Rice.

Li Yu sorted the treasures he had collected and turned several into a jade belt, a golden crown, and boots, completing his Saint-level equipment set. He added a sword to his attire and went into the outer void to test it, where his strike cut through the meteorite field and caused an unforeseen change.

• Li Yu reviewed his spoils, setting aside the treasures he could not use and planning to plant the Azure Dragon Sacred Wood and Dragon Tooth Spirit Rice in the Immortal Estate Garden.
• Li Yu used the White Dragon Shell to make a jade belt and Emperor Pan's Sacred Sword to make a golden crown that raised his reputation to Revered.
• Li Yu used the Wind Dragon Banner to make wind-commanding boots, then wore the Crocodile Ancestor's sword to complete his outfit.
• Li Yu left the Heavenly Tomb space and entered the outer void to test his sword against a field of meteorites.
• Li Yu used the Battle Saint Method to unleash Grand Void Sword Qi, cutting through everything before him, but the strike caused an unforeseen change.

Li Yu accidentally killed the leader of an Outer Heavens invasion force and cleaved their planet in two while testing his sword. Xu Yi and Xu Wuyi mistook the strike for an attack by an immortal, resolved to continue preparing to invade the Great Thousand World, and Li Yu returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley unaware that he had become famous throughout Outer Heavens.

• Li Yu casually tested his sword with Chisong Zi's Grand Void Sword Qi, accidentally killing a figure who emerged from a spatial passage and shattering the passage.
• A sword light burst from the passage onto an Outer Heavens war platform, destroying the platform and cleaving its planet in two.
• Xu Yi and Xu Wuyi saw the ruined planet and discussed the danger posed by the Immortal Realm as they continued their plans to conquer it.
• Xu Yi explained that Outer Heavens needed the Immortal Realm's cultivation methods to achieve immortality, and Xu Wuyi vowed not to retreat from their campaign.
• Li Yu returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley, unaware that Outer Heavens was calling him Sword Strike Star.

After three years in the world, Li Yu condensed his Martial Dao Will and used Crocodile Ancestor’s life essence energy to reach the realms of rebirth from a drop of blood and Myriad Transformations. He became undying despite not yet achieving immortality.

• Li Yu spent years battling in the Virtual Illusionary Realm while Ao Luan and the others cultivated.
• Li Yu integrated his combat skills, formed his Martial Dao Will, and broke through to Essence of Fist.
• Li Yu used Crocodile Ancestor’s life essence energy to brand 480 million Life Origin marks throughout his body and reach rebirth from a drop of blood.
• Li Yu continued absorbing life essence energy and transformed the marks into origin talismans, reaching Myriad Transformations.
• Li Yu dispersed into 480 million points of light, gathered himself back together, and realized he had become undying.

Li Yu sought a way to unify his soul-cultivation principles and decided Hong Yi needed the Future Without Birth Scripture to write the Book of Changes. He arranged to make Marquis Champion pursue a lead toward Hong Yi, while Chan Yinsha left the Sha Province camp to undergo tribulation.

• Li Yu concluded that the Book of Changes could provide the concept linking all things that his soul-cultivation path lacked.
• Li Yu realized Hong Yi had not obtained the Future Without Birth Scripture and decided to create a fortuitous encounter to get it to him.
• Li Yu planned to set Marquis Champion in motion, knowing the powerful warlord might be drawn toward Hong Yi by Taotie's instincts.
• Marquis Champion sensed Taotie pointing northwest, suspected the Vital Energy God was nearby, and headed toward the region to devour it and the Ancient Gate of Luo Sheng.
• Chan Yinsha told Hong Yi she was ready to undergo tribulation, then flew from the military camp toward the barbaric wilderness forests.

Li Yu prepared a forged Future Without Birth Scripture and sent Ao Luan and Wu to reclaim the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor while arranging to lure Marquis Champion into the wilderness. Marquis Champion followed Taotie to Sacred Mountain, where he encountered Fang Yuan and shattered his attack with a single punch.

• Li Yu used Hong Yi's mark to learn that Chan Yinsha was about to undergo her tribulation and replaced the Past Amitabha Sutra with the Future Without Birth Scripture.
• Li Yu ordered Ao Luan and Wu to go to Primordial Limitless Mountain to reclaim the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor and told Wu to invite the qilin on Wuji Mountain.
• Li Yu had Taotie lure Marquis Champion into the wilderness, and Marquis Champion followed its urging to Heavenly Sever Mountain.
• Monk Jingren and Divine Eagle King told Marquis Champion that wilderness natives had mentioned a Sacred Mountain, and he flew there.
• Marquis Champion saw Fang Yuan fighting with soldiers formed from Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi and lightning, then destroyed them all with one punch.

Marquis Champion defeated Fang Yuan and used his knowledge to summon the Kirin from its slumber in Wuji Mountain. As he attacked the Sacred Beast, Hong Xuanji suddenly appeared and struck at him with the Myriad Heavens Samsara Wheel.

• Marquis Champion praised Fang Yuan’s appeal for justice, then struck him down and swallowed him with Taotie.
• Hong Yi’s Soul Power incarnation appeared to protect Chan Yinsha and identified her as his Dao Companion, prompting Marquis Champion to spare them.
• Li Yu extracted the Kirin-summoning method from Fang Yuan’s memories and sent it to Marquis Champion.
• Marquis Champion summoned the Kirin, hoping to devour its vitality and Soul Power to strengthen himself.
• As Marquis Champion charged the Kirin, Hong Xuanji appeared and attacked him with the Myriad Heavens Samsara Wheel.