Chapter Summaries

Hong Xuanji confronted Marquis Champion while wearing the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor, but Ao Luan arrived to reclaim it for the Dragon Clan. As the armor began to break free and Ao Luan attacked, Hong Xuanji abandoned his effort to suppress it and struck back at the dragon’s claw.

• Hong Xuanji hurled the Myriad Heavens Samsara Wheel at Marquis Champion, who blocked it with the Shangmang Divine Spear but suffered a slight setback.
• Ao Luan appeared in the form of a True Dragon and demanded that Hong Xuanji return the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor to the Dragon Clan.
• Hong Xuanji refused, claiming the armor was a sacred relic of the Pan Emperor and a treasure of humanity.
• Ao Luan’s bloodline call awakened the armor’s residual dragon will, and the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor began pulling away from Hong Xuanji.
• Ao Luan attacked Hong Xuanji with the True Dragon Sky-Rending Claw, forcing Hong Xuanji to stop suppressing the armor and counter with the Samsara Wheel Seal.

Ao Luan distracted Hong Xuanji long enough for Marquis Champion to seize the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor, but a divine ape intervened and turned the battle against them. The ape returned the armor to Ao Luan and left with the excited qilin, while Hong Yi escaped with the Future Without Birth Scripture.

• Ao Luan forced Hong Xuanji to release the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor, and Marquis Champion trapped it inside a Darkness Mandala barrier.
• A golden-furred divine ape struck Marquis Champion into a cliff, and the Future Without Birth Scripture flew from him into Hong Yi's hands.
• The divine ape broke Hong Xuanji's Myriad Heavens Samsara Wheel with a staff strike, wounded him, and drove him to flee.
• Hong Yi took Chan Yinsha and prepared to leave after recognizing the scripture, while Marquis Champion vowed to seek power by devouring the Vital Energy God.
• The divine ape retrieved the Primordial Dragon Armor and returned it to Ao Luan, then invited the qilin to leave with them.
• The qilin followed the divine ape after seeing that other races could open acupoints, and Li Yu laughed at his eagerness to cling to powerful backers.

Li Yu celebrated his successful scheme and welcomed the Kirin into his service after teaching him the Kirin True Method. He took the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor and planned to use it to make armor for the monkey.

• Li Yu placed the Future Without Birth Scripture in Taotie's Resource Library and secretly delivered it to Hong Yi as Marquis Champion was thrown away.
• The monkey and Ao Luan told the Kirin that Li Yu had granted them methods to open acupoints and pursue Yang Shen.
• The monkey and Ao Luan brought the Kirin to Li Yu, who accepted his service and gave him the Kirin True Method.
• Ao Luan presented the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor to Li Yu, who made it disappear.
• Li Yu decided to fashion the monkey a suit of armor from the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor.

Li Yu transformed the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor into gear for the monkey and prepared treasures for his subordinates. After gifting the monkey and Kirin their new equipment, he reforged Ao Luan’s armor and sword into powerful white artifacts, leaving Kirin stunned by his abilities.

• Li Yu transformed the Primordial Dragon Battle Armor into the Phoenix-Winged Purple-Gold Crown, Golden Chain Mail, and Lotus-Root Silk Cloud-Treading Boots for the monkey.
• Li Yu turned the Yellow Dragon Furnace into the Kirin Seal and decided to reforge Ao Luan’s old equipment.
• Li Yu summoned the monkey, Kirin, and Ao Luan and bestowed the three-piece set on the monkey and the Kirin Seal on Kirin.
• Ao Luan presented his Rose Sword and Rose Armor, and Li Yu reforged them with Primordial Origin Ice into white artifacts.
• Kirin recognized the reforged weapons as Sacred Emperor Divine Artifacts and was shaken by how effortlessly Li Yu had made them.

Li Yu declared himself a new player in the ancient wager over the world's fate, then set a piece on his chessboard. In Sand Province, Marquis Champion lured out Vital Energy God by destroying the Western Regions Allied Army's front-line camps, and Hong Yi and King Shenwei seized the chance to launch a major assault.

• Li Yu reflected on the wager between the Sage Emperors and the Hundred Sages, declared himself another player, and placed a piece on his chessboard.
• Marquis Champion raided and wiped out two hundred thousand Western Regions Allied Army soldiers to draw out Vital Energy God.
• Vital Energy God manifested before the allied army as a vast figure with a human head and a serpent's body.
• Marquis Champion ambushed Vital Energy God, and their clash threw the Western Regions Allied Army camp into chaos.
• Hong Yi and King Shenwei ordered the Great Qian forces to attack, and Hong Yi's Tathagata Dharma Seal blasted through the allied soldiers.

Marquis Champion defeated and swallowed the Vital Energy God, ending the Western Regions Allied Army’s divine support, then returned to Qingzhou to absorb his power. Li Yu learned that the Vital Energy God and Marquis Champion were both pieces of the King of Immortality, and wondered how the King would respond.

• Marquis Champion used Void Shuttle to redirect the Vital Energy God’s Three Realms Vital Energy Cannon back at him, then sealed the wounded god and had Taotie swallow him.
• The Vital Energy God’s statues and holy lights across the Western Regions shattered, leaving its priests and Temple Knights unable to use holy power as the Allied Army routed.
• Marquis Champion returned to his stronghold in Qingzhou to digest and absorb the Vital Energy God’s power.
• Li Yu learned that the Vital Energy God had possessed nine Vital Energy relics, the Ancient Gate of Luo Sheng, and the Three Realms Vital Energy Pool, also called the Inkstone of Immortality.
• Li Yu discovered that the Vital Energy God and Marquis Champion had both been pieces of the King of Immortality and wondered what the King would do next.

Marquis Champion received the King of Immortality’s martial inheritance after Taotie revealed the Inkstone of Immortality, while Li Yu secretly concealed Marquis Champion’s connection to Emperor Yu’s Supreme Treasure. Li Yu then began preparing his subordinates to seize the Immortal Monuments, leaving Ao Luan and Qilin on their way to train at Flower-Fruit Mountain.

• Marquis Champion discovered the Inkstone of Immortality after Taotie spat it out, and the King of Immortality appeared to name him a Child of Destiny.
• Li Yu ordered Taotie to hide the information in Marquis Champion’s soul about Emperor Yu’s Supreme Treasure, keeping the King of Immortality unaware of Li Yu’s interference.
• The King of Immortality gave Marquis Champion the One Yuan body cultivation path and the King of Immortality Fist, and Marquis Champion accepted the inkstone as a great fortune.
• Li Yu realized the other four Primordial Demon Gods could soon escape their Immortal Monuments and planned to have his subordinates devour them.
• Li Yu sent Ao Luan and Qilin to train in the illusion realm at Flower-Fruit Mountain and identified the Immortal Monument beneath the East Sea as their future opportunity.

After Hong Yi completed the Book of Changes, Li Yu understood his own Great Dao and passed all nine lightning tribulations. He emerged ready to pursue becoming a Yang Shen.

• Hong Yi completed the Book of Changes, whose appearance stirred the Hundred Sages and shook Heaven and Earth.
• Li Yu read the Book of Changes and realized that his Dao made him Heaven and Earth rather than a ruler.
• Li Yu ordered the system to pour all his gathered Soul Power into his Sea of Consciousness and began his first lightning tribulation.
• Li Yu passed all nine lightning tribulations, transforming his soul into 129,600 thoughts.
• Li Yu's thoughts joined to create a world through chaos, Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the sixty-four trigrams, completing his Great Dao.
• Li Yu's body remained at Myriad Transformations and his soul reached the Ninth Heaven as he prepared to become a Yang Shen.

Li Yu completed his soul by fusing with the Azure Lotus Clone, then merged his soul and body to achieve Yang Shen. He discovered the system existed in an incomprehensible quantum-like state and set his sights on Shattering the Void as the first step toward true longevity.

• Li Yu used the Mall Outpost in Flower-Fruit Mountain's Water Curtain Cave to summon the Azure Lotus Clone and reclaim its portion of his soul.
• Li Yu checked the system's Soul-Body Fusion method with his own deductions, then merged his 129,600 thoughts with his body's acupoints and achieved Yang Shen.
• Li Yu tested his new power, finding that his thoughts and origin talismans could transform into one another and that his body and soul were fully under his control.
• Li Yu questioned the system's location and learned that it existed as information in a quantum-like state that he could not detect.
• Li Yu concluded that Yang Shen's lifespan was not true immortality and decided to Shatter the Void before pursuing the Great Vow to cross the Sea of Suffering.

Li Yu Shattered the Void, then reforged the Azure Lotus Clone to give it the same pinnacle realms and the ability to fuse with him. Back in West Mountain Secluded Valley, he began cultivating the Beginless Sutra again and charged toward the Celestial Altar’s Nine Heavens to seek power for proving Dao through strength.

• Li Yu broke the boundary between reality and illusion, attained Shattering the Void, and concluded that strength could replace the power of Great Vows.
• Li Yu merged with the Azure Lotus Clone’s essence and reforged it, granting the clone Shattering the Void, Yang Shen, and the ability to fuse with him.
• Li Yu sent the Azure Lotus Clone back to Cangwu Mountain and returned to West Mountain Secluded Valley.
• Li Yu resumed cultivating the Beginless Sutra and manifested its realms from Wheel Sea through Dragon Transformation Perfection and Spirit Refining.
• Li Yu gathered his divine power, stepped onto the Celestial Altar, and began ascending its Nine Heavens.

Li Yu mastered the first five levels of the Immortal Platform Realm and planned to continue his cultivation while advancing his schemes in the world. He sent the monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin to retrieve an underwater treasure, where they discovered an Immortal Monument.

• Li Yu used his Yang Shen power to advance through five Immortal Platform levels and reached the Saint realm.
• Li Yu decided to cultivate the Beginless Sutra and Saintly Body Secret Method, while planning to bring the East Sea Immortal Monument into the world.
• Li Yu sent the monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin with a talisman to the seabed south of Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin followed the talisman beneath an underwater volcano and crossed a vast sea of Earth Essence.
• The monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin found a hundred-zhang stone monument standing on a platform in the Earth Essence.

Monkey Brother, Ao Luan, and Kirin encountered the Fear Demon King in the stone tablet plaza and were overwhelmed by his attacks. Li Yu realized they were in grave danger, while Kirin urged Monkey Brother to remember the opportunity the Sovereign had sent them to find.

• Monkey Brother led the group onto a vast jade plaza, where Kirin recognized a Primordial Demon God carved on a stone tablet.
• The Fear Demon King emerged from the tablet and used his Fear Qi to terrify Kirin and Ao Luan, but Monkey Brother attacked without hesitation.
• Monkey Brother shattered the illusion with one blow, then struck the real statue and drew the Fear Demon King’s furious counterattack.
• The Fear Demon King blasted Monkey Brother away, then repelled Ao Luan and Kirin with a torrent of five-colored power.
• Li Yu noticed the fight after receiving a system prompt and warned that the Fear Demon King was as powerful as the Sage Emperor.
• Kirin struggled to his feet and reminded Monkey Brother that the Sovereign had sent them to seek an opportunity, not to die.

Monkey Brother, Ao Luan, and Qilin used the Immortal True Talisman to seal the Fear Demon King and gained the power left in the Immortal Monument. They advanced to Myriad Transformations and took human form, while the Fear Demon King's Demon Seed escaped.

• Monkey Brother remembered Li Yu's instructions and activated the Immortal True Talisman, causing the formation to shrink and seal the Immortal Monument.
• The Fear Demon King escaped as a Demon Seed, abandoning his cultivation and leaving Qilin concerned that he could regain his power.
• Monkey Brother, Ao Luan, and Qilin examined the Immortal Monument and poured their power into it, releasing the Fear Demon King's remaining strength.
• The three divine beasts absorbed the immense power, broke through to Myriad Transformations, and took human form.
• Monkey Brother, Ao Luan, and Qilin knelt and kowtowed toward Western Mountain in gratitude to the honored master.

Li Yu wondered whether the Fear Demon King would try to seize Hong Yi’s body as Hong Yi traveled to Yun Province to lecture. The Fear Demon King invaded Hong Yi’s consciousness but was destroyed by Hong Yi’s Yi Dao Sword Array, leaving Hong Yi to absorb the demon god’s knowledge and power.

• Li Yu praised the monkey, Ao Luan, and the qilin for advancing to Myriad Transformations and told the monkey to reclaim the name Wukong after consolidating his cultivation.
• Hong Yi visited the Great Zen Temple ruins, found the Tathagata Kasaya, and made the great vow that everyone would be like a dragon.
• As Hong Yi sailed toward Yun Province, he interpreted a thunderstorm and a five-colored sphere through the Book of Changes as signs of the Feng hexagram.
• The Fear Demon King charged at Hong Yi, whose Tathagata Dharma Seal scattered its sphere before its spirit entered his glabella.
• Hong Yi summoned the Yi Dao Sword Array in his Sea of Consciousness and annihilated the Fear Demon King.
• Hong Yi absorbed the demon god’s shattered will, learned of its cultivation and techniques, and recognized the encounter as great good fortune.

Li Yu studied the Immortal Monument and tested whether its talisman-based structure could be applied to other equipment. He gave the monument to the foxes of West Mountain Secluded Valley, where it merged with their Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox statue and left them protected by its power.

• Li Yu summoned the Immortal Monument and ordered the System to analyze its structure and test whether it could be applied to equipment.
• The System successfully converted the monkey's Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Thousand Jun Rod into talismans, but the weapon lost its Saint Weapon power; other equipment from this world retained its abilities after modification.
• Li Yu deduced that the conversion destroyed the divine inscriptions and Dao laws that gave Saint Weapons their power, then asked the System to test whether those laws could be merged with talismans.
• Li Yu decided the foxes of West Mountain Secluded Valley needed protection and erased the Longevity Great Emperor's marks from the Immortal Monument.
• Li Yu inscribed the Heavenly Fox True Law into the Immortal Monument and sent it into the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox statue, prompting Tu Yuan and the foxes to bow and praise Emperor Yu.

After reaching the Quasi-Emperor Realm, Li Yu realized he could not become a Great Emperor in this world and sought Hong Yi’s Diamond Prajnaparamita to understand how to transcend the other shore. He discovered that transcending meant breaking free of the world’s restraints and wondered whether he had already done so.

• Li Yu completed his cultivation of the Beginless Sutra and reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm, realizing that becoming a Great Emperor in this world was impossible.
• Li Yu went to Zhou Yi Academy, where Hong Yi sensed his aura, welcomed him, and thanked him for his earlier gifts.
• Li Yu secretly recorded the Diamond Prajnaparamita from Hong Yi’s Tathagata Kasaya and praised Hong Yi’s Book of Changes before departing.
• Li Yu read the Diamond Prajnaparamita and rejected the Great Vow as too demanding.
• Li Yu learned that transcending the other shore meant escaping the restraints of Heaven and Earth, then wondered whether he had already transcended it.

Li Yu sent the monkey, Ao Luan, and the qilin to claim the Immortal Monument’s demon gods so they could reach Shattering the Void and protect the Mall Outpost. Meanwhile, Taotie helped Marquis Champion turn the King of Immortality’s attempt to possess him into a fatal trap, leaving Marquis Champion with the King’s power.

• Li Yu concluded he could not advance further in this world and decided to use the Immortal Monument’s sealed demon gods to strengthen the monkey, Ao Luan, and the qilin.
• Li Yu gave the three jade talismans and the Immortal Monument’s location, ordering them to suppress the demon gods and refine their cultivation.
• Li Yu told Taotie to conceal information and deceive the King of Immortality so Marquis Champion could disrupt his plans.
• After Marquis Champion opened all 129,600 acupoints and reached high-level Human Immortal, the King of Immortality dragged him into the outer void and tried to possess his body.
• Marquis Champion revealed that Taotie had swallowed the King of Immortality, and Taotie devoured him, leaving his cultivation as Marquis Champion’s nourishment.

Marquis Champion returned to the Great Thousand World with Shattering the Void power and attacked the Qian Emperor aboard the Boat of Creation. He killed Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji before Hong Yi arrived and called for him to stop.

• Marquis Champion declared himself invincible under heaven and went to Jade Capital City to challenge Yang Pan.
• Marquis Champion struck the Boat of Creation with the King of Immortality Fist, then tore through its defenses and boarded it.
• Marquis Champion defeated Hong Xuanji and seized Yang Pan, whom Taotie swallowed whole.
• Marquis Champion turned on Hong Xuanji, and Taotie swallowed him before Hong Yi arrived and shouted for Marquis Champion to stop.

Marquis Champion swallowed the Boat of Creation, then used a surge of Soul Power to become a Nine Tribulation Ghost Immortal and went after the Eternal Kingdom. He defeated Meng Shenji and had Taotie swallow both him and the artifact as he sought to achieve the Yang God.

• Marquis Champion commanded Taotie to swallow Hong Xuanji, while Hong Yi turned and left.
• Marquis Champion had Taotie devour the Boat of Creation, and Li Yu sent him Soul Power converted from the King of Immortality’s will energy.
• Marquis Champion passed through two Lightning Tribulations, became a Nine Tribulation Ghost Immortal, and flew to Mount Tai to take the Eternal Kingdom.
• Meng Shenji confronted Marquis Champion, who shattered the eight fire dragons and sent the Eternal Kingdom flying with his King of Immortality Fist.
• Marquis Champion struck the Eternal Kingdom again, exhausted Meng Shenji, and seized the artifact.
• Taotie swallowed the Eternal Kingdom along with Meng Shenji as Marquis Champion roared that he would achieve the Yang God.

Li Yu sent Marquis Champion power containing a strand of Yang Shen aura, but it was not enough to help him advance. After Marquis Champion decided he would target Emperor Yu, Li Yu welcomed the returning monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin, who had all reached the Shattering the Void realm and received upgraded equipment fused into their bodies.

• Li Yu broke down Meng Shenji, the Qian Emperor, and Hong Xuanji, then sent their energy and a strand of Yang Shen aura to Marquis Champion.
• Marquis Champion briefly experienced unity with Heaven and Earth but failed to advance, so he decided to seek a Yang Shen True Person to devour.
• Marquis Champion suspected Taotie could help him devour Emperor Yu and returned to Jade Capital City to claim the throne.
• Li Yu learned from Taotie's warning that Marquis Champion intended to target him, then turned his attention to the returning monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin.
• The monkey, Ao Luan, and Qilin presented their equipment, which Li Yu refined and fused with their bodies, giving them stronger, transformative magic treasures.