Chapter Summaries

Li Yu followed a map to Sky Scar Mountain and uncovered a hidden Sky-Splitting Sword Sect inheritance. After mastering the Sky-Splitting Sword Art, he wondered how Yin Kangming knew so much about the secret.

• Li Yu used the map and the system to find a concealed stone chamber inside Sky Scar Mountain.
• Li Yu opened the chamber with a sequence of mechanical presses and discovered the words “Sky-Splitting” carved into its wall.
• A recorded voice spoke of a promised arrival, a Senior Brother, and comrades who died in the War of Heaven thirty thousand years earlier.
• Li Yu recited the clue “Unrepentant through a hundred tribulations and a thousand hardships,” triggering sword lights that carried the Sky-Splitting Sword Art.
• Li Yu absorbed and comprehended the inheritance, then questioned what Yin Kangming knew and why he had sent him to Sky Scar Mountain.

Li Yu found Manager Yin and Yin Luo missing from Cangwu Mountain and discovered a poem that suggested Manager Yin had ties to the War of Heaven thirty thousand years earlier. Suspecting a powerful hidden enemy had abducted them, he warned the Azure Lotus Clone and left to open the next world and grow stronger.

• Li Yu returned to Manager Yin’s courtyard to speak with her but found it empty, though the study lamp was still lit.
• Li Yu read Manager Yin’s poem, connected it to the War of Heaven, and wondered whether she had lived thirty thousand years ago and was the Senior Brother of the man linked to the Sky-Splitting Sword Art.
• Li Yu noticed Yin Luo was missing too and, after searching Cangwu Mountain, concluded that someone had silently abducted both of them.
• Li Yu told the Azure Lotus Clone to protect itself with the Azure Lotus Emperor Weapon, use the Mall Space if danger arose, and manage the trusted people there.
• Li Yu ordered the Heaven-Evolving Bead’s hosts to search for Manager Yin and Yin Luo without acting rashly, then returned to the Mall Space to open the next world.

Li Yu entered a new cultivation world, identified it as Vermilion Bird Star, and sought out the young Tie Zhu, who would become Old Demon Wang. He arrived just as Tie Zhu’s fourth uncle approached the village and prepared to create a new system.

• Li Yu concluded that a powerful being had created his previous world to feed the net and decided he needed more strength to uncover its secrets.
• Li Yu opened the next world through the system and entered a realm where cultivation advanced from qi cultivation toward heart cultivation and Treading Heaven.
• Li Yu arrived on Vermilion Bird Star, copied a traveling merchant’s memories, and learned he was near Hengyin County in the Zhao Kingdom.
• Li Yu found Tie Zhu studying in Wang Family Village and recognized him as the future Old Demon Wang.
• Wang Tianhe’s carriage approached the village, and Li Yu went to a nearby mountain to begin creating a new system.

Li Yu created the Heavenly Mandate Bead system and searched for a suitable host, while Wang Lin received a Hengyue Sect opportunity meant for Wang Tianhe’s son, Huzi. After seeing Huzi accept his father’s choice with maturity, Li Yu decided to grant him an opportunity of his own.

• Li Yu built the Heavenly Mandate Bead with an artifact spirit, a Resource Library, an accelerated illusion realm, enlightenment, cultivation knowledge, and a function for extracting spiritual power from external objects.
• Wang Tianhe gave his Hengyue Sect disciple slot to his nephew Wang Lin, believing the clever youth was better suited to cultivate than his own son, Huzi.
• Wang Lin wondered what immortals looked like and spotted Li Yu flying through the moonlit sky, but Li Yu vanished before the youth could approach him.
• Li Yu followed Wang Tianhe home and secretly listened as Huzi explained that he understood his father was repaying a debt of gratitude and would pursue his own path if he could not join an immortal sect.
• Impressed by Huzi’s character, Li Yu decided that Huzi deserved the Heavenly Mandate Bead’s opportunity.

Li Yu arranged for Wang Yue to encounter and slay a tiger so he could obtain the Heavenly Mandate Bead. Wang Yue claimed the bead as an immortal treasure, while Li Yu judged him a suitable bearer and watched him begin his path toward the wider world.

• Li Yu made a crystalline vessel for the Heavenly Mandate Bead and arranged for a tiger to appear on South Mountain.
• Wang Yue heard villagers report the tiger, equipped himself, and carefully prepared traps and escape routes before hunting it.
• Wang Yue lured the tiger with a deer carcass, then killed it with an arrow, spear, and saber.
• While processing the tiger, Wang Yue found a gray bead that drained the tiger's flesh and blood and revealed a silver rune.
• Wang Yue took the bead, believing it was a cultivator's treasure he could trade for a chance to join an immortal sect.
• Li Yu watched Wang Yue and declared him the Lord of Heavenly Mandate.

Wang Yue awakened the Heavenly Mandate Bead and met its artifact spirit, who claimed him as the Lord of Heavenly Mandate and demonstrated the bead’s ability to refine his saber into a magical sword. Wang Yue accepted the spirit’s promise to help him attain immortality, while Li Yu watched and noted that another young man had been thoroughly duped.

• Moonlight awakened the gray bead, which absorbed light and revealed dazzling visions of immortal palaces and beings.
• The bead entered Wang Yue’s mind, where its artifact spirit introduced itself as the Heavenly Mandate Bead and named Wang Yue its Lord.
• The spirit told Wang Yue he could do as he wished and advised him that cultivators were fair targets for robbery.
• The spirit claimed it could refine all things, master cultivation arts, and provide a Spacetime Secret Realm that multiplied practice time and improved comprehension.
• The spirit transformed Wang Yue’s iron short saber into a sharp silver sword, and Wang Yue accepted its offer to help him attain immortality.
• Li Yu watched Wang Yue accept the spirit’s claims and remarked that another young man had been thoroughly duped.

The Spirit of Heavenly Mandate gave Wang Yue an Ice spiritual root and sent him to hunt monsters so he could quickly grow stronger. After Wang Lin failed Hengyue Sect’s tests and fell into a cave containing Heavenly Reversal, Wang Yue followed the bead’s directions to find him, bringing the two youths toward their first meeting.

• The Spirit of Heavenly Mandate granted Wang Yue an Ice spiritual root and a magical short sword, then directed him to hunt in the mountains.
• Li Yu placed the Eternal Immortal Estate in a mountainside cliff and waited while planning to overturn the Cave Mansion Realm.
• Wang Lin failed Hengyue Sect’s aptitude, endurance, and Sword Spirit tests, then left home to try again.
• A fierce tiger startled Wang Lin, who fell from a cliff into a strange cave; a bird fell there too, and Wang Lin found Heavenly Reversal inside it.
• After reaching the first layer of Qi Condensation by hunting monsters, Wang Yue returned home and learned Wang Lin had disappeared.
• The Spirit of Heavenly Mandate revealed Wang Lin’s location, and Wang Yue hurried to the cliff where the two youths were about to meet.

Li Yu copied the Heavenly Reversal Bead and the memories of Situ Nan and the Realm Sealing Supreme, gaining valuable cultivation knowledge and maps. Wang Yue rescued Wang Lin and joined Hengyue Sect alongside him after the sect discovered Wang Yue had a pure Ice spiritual root.

• Wang Yue found the injured Wang Lin at the bottom of a cliff and helped him up.
• Li Yu scanned Wang Lin's Heavenly Reversal Bead, copied Situ Nan and the Realm Sealing Supreme's memories, and sent a copy to the Heavenly Mandate Bead.
• Wang Tianshui and a green-robed cultivator found Wang Lin, Wang Yue, and Wang Lin, then brought them to Hengyue Sect.
• The Hengyue Sect elders debated whether to accept Wang Lin before noticing Wang Yue's pure Ice spiritual root.
• Wang Yue agreed to join Hengyue Sect on the condition that Wang Lin could join too, and True Lord Huang Long accepted them both.

Li Yu sent Wang Lin and Wang Yue into the Hengyue Sect, then traveled to the Seven Colors Realm to study Lu Mo’s cultivation insights. He found a remnant Reincarnation Pill and a jade slip containing a line from the Dao Scripture, and continued toward the realm’s depths in search of more.

• Wang Lin vowed to work hard at cultivation after entering the Hengyue Sect with Wang Yue.
• Li Yu learned from the system where the Seven Colors Realm was and opened a spatial passage to it.
• A Twelfth-tier Jiao-shaped ferocious beast attacked Li Yu, but he frightened it into submission and stored it in the Resource Library.
• Li Yu discovered a remnant Reincarnation Pill inside an old skeleton and collected it for the system to analyze.
• Li Yu read a jade slip bearing a line from the Dao Scripture and gained insight into cultivating through obsession.

Li Yu crossed the Seven Colors Realm’s Heaven Sealing and Time restrictions and reached its innermost core. There he found a half-skeleton pinned to a stone stele, with black liquid dripping into a jade bottle, and reacted with a sigh.

• Li Yu crossed the Nine Steps Seal Heaven formation and passed the Mind-Lost wandering through the outer realm.
• Li Yu had the system scan the Time Restriction, then used his command of time to pass through it into the inner realm.
• Li Yu activated the altar and followed a rainbow bridge into the seven-colored orb, where he entered a space containing a towering stone stele.
• Li Yu broke the stele’s aura of worship with his Martial Dao Will and approached the half-skeleton pinned to it.
• Li Yu saw black liquid dripping from the skeleton into a jade bottle and sighed.

Li Yu collected the Dao Scripture, Dao Marrow, beast souls, and the memories and bloodline of the Seven Colors Realm’s guardian, while leaving the realm’s other opportunities intact for Wang Lin. He then entered the Land of Seeded Dao and found seven colored Dao Flowers floating at the center of a vast starry formation.

• Li Yu recorded the Dao Scripture and Dao Marrow’s insights in the Resource Library, then collected the beast souls behind the mountain’s stone gate.
• Li Yu confronted the white-haired guardian, captured him, and had the Resource Library scan his memories and extract a specimen of his Extermination Clan bloodline.
• Li Yu discovered the guardian’s incomplete Spirit Taming Seal and learned the route to the Land of Seeded Dao from the guardian’s memories.
• Li Yu erased the guardian’s memories of their encounter, put him to sleep, and returned him to his cave mansion so the realm’s opportunities would remain undisturbed.
• Li Yu traveled through the crimson lava passage into the starry sky, where he saw seven colored Dao Flowers at the center of a formation made from countless stars.

Li Yu scanned the Seven-Colored Dao Flowers and returned to Vermilion Bird Star with their vast collection of Dao Charms, intending to use them to establish his own Dao and fuse his Yang Spirit with Profound Yellow Energy. He began an extensive seclusion and ordered the Heavenly Mandate Bead to send Wang Yue out to gather resources and energy.

• Li Yu discovered that the Starry Sky Great Formation had absorbed the Dao Charm of cultivators who died in the sealed realm and gathered it within seven flowers.
• Li Yu had the System copy the Dao Charm recorded in the Seven-Colored Dao Flowers into the Resource Library.
• Li Yu returned to Vermilion Bird Star and concluded that his memories and Tu Mo's Dao Scripture gave him a foundation for analyzing the world's cultivation system.
• Li Yu sealed the Eternal Immortal Estate underground and devoted nearly all his divine soul thoughts to studying cultivation and the Dao Charms.
• Li Yu realized that comprehending his own Dao would take too long without the Virtual Illusionary Realm and decided he needed Wang Yue to gather more resources and System energy.
• Li Yu instructed the Heavenly Mandate Bead to send Wang Yue out to fight monsters and level up.

Wang Yue left the Hengyue Sect’s sealed cultivation grounds with the Spirit of Heavenly Mandate and began hunting Demonic Path cultivators in the Sea of Demonic Cultivators to rapidly advance his cultivation. After four years, he had become notorious as the Ice Devil and prepared to return to the State of Zhao.

• The Spirit of Heavenly Mandate transported Wang Yue from his secluded cave in the Hengyue Sect to the Sea of Demonic Cultivators.
• Wang Yue watched two cultivators surnamed Lin and Zhang betray one another during a trade, then killed them and collected their bodies and belongings.
• The Heavenly Mandate Bead refined the two Foundation Establishment cultivators to help Wang Yue advance, and Wang Yue spent years cultivating and hunting in the Sea of Demonic Cultivators.
• Several dozen Demonic Path cultivators gathered to oppose the Ice Devil, but Wang Yue froze them all and collected them.
• The Spirit of Heavenly Mandate told Wang Yue his four years of seclusion were ending, and Wang Yue looked toward the State of Zhao, confident in his strength.

After returning from four years of seclusion, Wang Yue revealed that he had reached peak Qi Cultivation and silenced accusations that he was a fake genius. He reunited with Wang Lin and learned that his brother had also advanced, then asked about the Ice Soul Divine Light cultivation method.

• Wang Yue returned to Hengyue Sect’s rear mountain and reunited with Wang Lin, whose spiritual power seemed far greater than his apparent cultivation level.
• Wang Zhuo mocked Wang Yue’s supposed fifth-layer cultivation and rallied disciples to accuse him of faking his status and monopolizing resources.
• Wang Yue released the pressure of his peak Qi Cultivation, explaining that a Breath Concealing Talisman had hidden his strength, and Elder Liu praised him before dismissing the disciples.
• Wang Yue asked the Heavenly Mandate Bead about Wang Lin’s cultivation, and it suggested that Wang Lin had found an opportunity.
• Wang Yue returned to his dormitory and asked about the Ice Soul Divine Light, which the Heavenly Mandate Bead described as an extreme-cold cultivation method devised by Li Yu.

Wang Yue prepared for the Hengyue Sect’s exchange with the Daoxuan Sect by giving Wang Lin valuable treasures, including two Golden Core Magic Treasures. At the exchange, Wang Yue froze Liu Feng and the arena with a single finger, stunning both sects.

• Huang Long and Elder Liu celebrated Wang Yue’s peak Qi Cultivation and anticipated the Daoxuan Sect’s arrival.
• Wang Yue gave Wang Lin a storage pouch containing spirit stones, pills, talismans, a flying sword, and a jade pendant, which Situ Nan identified as including two Golden Core Magic Treasures.
• The Daoxuan Sect arrived on a giant centipede and used its aura to pressure the Hengyue Sect disciples, but Huang Long dispelled it with the Purple Spirit Sword.
• Liu Feng defeated several Hengyue Sect challengers with his Raging Tide spell, prompting Huang Long to send Wang Yue onto the arena.
• Wang Yue froze Liu Feng, the Raging Tide, and the arena with a single finger.

Wang Lin and Wang Yue led Hengyue Sect to victory over Daoxuan Sect, but the next morning True Lord Pu Nan attacked and demanded that Hengyue Sect submit. Sect Master Huang Long prepared to leave with the few disciples who would follow him, but Pu Nan barred the Wang brothers from leaving.

• Wang Yue defeated Liu Feng, and Elder Ouyang noticed his Ice spiritual root before the exchange matches continued.
• Wang Lin defeated Liu Mei with a powerful Gravity Technique, and he and Wang Yue went on to defeat every Daoxuan Sect participant.
• True Lord Pu Nan arrived the next morning, shattered Hengyue Sect's mountain-protecting formation, and announced that the sect would be incorporated into Daoxuan Sect.
• Sect Master Huang Long accepted Pu Nan's offer to let willing disciples leave without taking sect property, but most disciples stayed behind.
• Wang Yue, Wang Lin, and more than a dozen disciples joined Huang Long, but Pu Nan stopped them and declared that the Wang brothers could not leave.

Wang Yue revealed overwhelming power to protect Wang Lin and Sect Master Huang Long from True Lord Pu Nan, then pursued the fleeing Nascent Soul cultivator. With Pu Nan’s threat gone, Hengyue Sect prepared to take over Daoxuan Sect.

• True Lord Pu Nan demanded Sect Master Huang Long surrender the Purple Spirit Sword, but Wang Yue stopped him and ordered him to keep it.
• True Lord Pu Nan attacked Wang Yue, who froze the giant palm imprint with the Ice Soul Divine Light and stunned Hengyue Sect.
• Wang Yue froze Pu Nan’s Mountain Peak Magic Treasure, shattered its divine soul imprint, and forced Pu Nan to flee.
• Wang Yue refined Pu Nan’s treasure into a great seal and gave it to Wang Lin before pursuing Pu Nan through a curtain of light.
• Sect Master Huang Long told the hesitant disciples that they would stay and might take over Daoxuan Sect.

Wang Lin returned home after True Lord Pu Nan’s death, then left to pursue Foundation Establishment through Situ Nan’s Foundation Seizing Method. After killing Teng Li and refining him, Wang Lin was marked by Teng Huayuan’s Vengeance Oath but continued cultivating in the cave.

• Wang Lin returned to Wang Family Village and guarded his family for half a month while the Daoxuan Sect fell and its holdings were divided.
• Wang Lin left home, entered Teng City, and deliberately lured Teng Li into the wilderness to kill him and seize his foundation.
• Wang Lin crushed Teng Li with the Nascent Soul Magic Treasure and began the Foundation Seizing Method in a cave.
• Teng Huayuan discovered Teng Li’s death and cast a Vengeance Oath that marked Wang Lin with a blood-red tracking curse.
• Wang Lin swallowed the six spheres produced by the Foundation Seizing Method and continued refining them as Situ Nan offered to conceal the curse.

Teng Huayuan and Qimingzi found Wang Family Village, but Wang Yue returned in time and killed them before they could harm the Wang family. Li Yu reflected on how the family’s destruction shaped Wang Lin’s future and wondered what would happen if he straightened the world’s tangled timeline.

• Teng Huayuan used Qimingzi’s divination to locate Wang Family Village and threatened to slaughter the Wang family because Wang Lin had killed his grandson.
• Wang Yue appeared as Teng Huayuan prepared to attack and froze him with Ice Soul Divine Light.
• Wang Yue killed Qimingzi for helping locate the Wang family and collected both cultivators into the Heavenly Mandate Bead.
• The Wang family recognized Wang Yue and realized he had prevented their destruction, while Li Yu observed that the Heavenly Mandate Bead had brought him back in time.
• Li Yu considered how the Wang family tragedy had led Wang Lin toward the extreme realm and Slaughter Ink, then wondered what would happen if he straightened the timeline’s loop.

Li Yu studied Qimingzi’s qi-sensing method of calculation and sent Wang Yue to Jue Ming Valley, where he reunited with Wang Lin after the Corpse Yin Sect won the battle. The brothers entered the Outer Domain Battlefield to search its dangerous ruins for treasures.

• Li Yu examined Qimingzi’s memories, shared his calculation method with his soul fragments, and had the Heavenly Mandate Bead guide Wang Yue toward Jue Ming Valley.
• Wang Yue found the Teng Family frozen and destroyed, then hurried to Jue Ming Valley while Wang Lin prepared to teleport to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• The Cultivation Alliance declared the Corpse Yin Sect the winner, leaving Wang Lin as the only disciple responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.
• Wang Yue met Wang Lin, learned that Teng Li’s death had brought trouble to the Wang Family, and confirmed that he had exterminated the Teng Family.
• Wang Yue and Wang Lin teleported to the Outer Domain Battlefield, received warnings about its void rifts, and split up to search for treasures.