Chapter Summaries

Li Yu completed the Heavenly Human transformation by fusing his essence, Qi, and spirit, becoming an immortal whose power surpassed the Great Celestial Venerables. He then crossed all nine Heaven Treading bridges and placed Heaven and Earth beneath his feet.

• Li Yu left the collapsing Cave Mansion Realm and entered the Immortal Gang Continent to complete his transformation.
• Li Yu merged his fully realized Innate Sacred Body with his divine soul and Qi, achieving Three Treasures Fusion and declaring his way to be Taiji.
• Cultivators across the Immortal Gang Continent hailed Li Yu as a Great Celestial Venerable, but he rejected the title and manifested the Nine Bridges of Heaven Treading.
• Li Yu crossed the first eight bridges with ease, while his gaze shook the Immortal Gang Continent and astonished its ancient powerhouses.
• Li Yu stepped onto and crossed the ninth bridge, treading Heaven as cultivators celebrated his unprecedented feat.

After becoming a Mortal World Immortal, Li Yu collected the ferocious beast spirits and the Immortal Ancestor's Head for his next plan. He guided Ancient Dao Great Celestial Venerable past his doubts about reality, then secretly bound him with a Loyalty Mark.

• Li Yu became a Mortal World Immortal and traveled to the Imperial City of the Immortal Clan.
• Li Yu collected the seventy-two ferocious beast souls and secretly took the Immortal Ancestor's Head.
• Li Yu went to the Ancient Clan's territory and collected the beast spirits suppressed across its thirty-six states.
• At Ancient Dao Mountain, Li Yu told Ancient Dao Great Celestial Venerable to believe in his own existence and refine falsehood into truth.
• Ancient Dao Great Celestial Venerable broke through his mental obstacle, then Li Yu placed a Loyalty Mark in his sea of consciousness.
• Ancient Dao Great Celestial Venerable acknowledged Li Yu as his Venerable Master.

Li Yu revived the Ancient Ancestor using the souls of 108 vicious beasts and began assembling an Ancient Clan Legion. He then turned his attention to building a Mall Outpost from fragments of the Boundary Setting Compass, anticipating Tianyunzi's response.

• Li Yu scanned Ancient Dao's memories and followed him to the Ancient Ancestor's resting place beneath Ancient Dao Mountain.
• Li Yu recorded the Ancient Ancestor's bloodline, reshaped his soul from the 108 vicious beasts' souls and Ancient Dao's inherited memories, and revived him as Gu Zhen.
• Gu Zhen pledged loyalty to Li Yu, who gave him a drop of blood to transform Torsen into the Ancient Ancestor's direct bloodline.
• Li Yu sent Gu Zhen, Ancient Dao, and Torsen to reunite the Ancient Clan's three divisions and build an Ancient Clan Legion.
• Li Yu identified the Primordial Divine Realm and his Boundary Setting Compass fragments as suitable for a Mall Outpost, and anticipated that Tianyunzi would act.

Tianyunzi entered the Primordial Divine Realm to investigate what Lu Mo had changed, believing he could still seize Wang Lin’s body and escape the Dream Dao. Li Yu transformed the Boundary Setting Compass into a nine-story Bronze Tower, leaving Tianyunzi without his true body.

• Tianyunzi insisted that the Grand Ultimate Old Ancestor and the altered world were part of Lu Mo’s Dream Dao scheme, then traveled toward the Primordial Divine Realm.
• Tianyunzi crossed the Boundless Sea’s water curtain and entered the Primordial Divine Realm through its massive stone gate.
• Tianyunzi reached the compass’s central raised platform, where Li Yu waited and greeted him.
• Li Yu explained that Tianyunzi was incomplete and that the compass was no longer Tianyunzi’s true body.
• Li Yu used the System to turn the compass into the System Mall, transforming it into a nine-story octagonal Bronze Tower and severing Tianyunzi’s connection to it.

Li Yu defeated Tianyunzi, revealed a glimpse of a realm beyond Heaven to the Life Extinguishing Elder, and freed the bald-feathered crane so the elder could take it home. He established a fortified Mall Outpost for the Ancient Clan and then went to the Cave Mansion Realm, intending to open the prison.

• Li Yu immobilized Tianyunzi and stored him in the Resource Library, then declined the Life Extinguishing Elder's request for mercy and showed him a vision of the fifth step through a chessboard.
• Li Yu removed the bald-feathered crane's divine soul from Tianyunzi and returned the awakened crane to the Life Extinguishing Elder, who departed with it.
• Li Yu installed the Mall Outpost on Ancient Dao Mountain, assigned its functions, and used his law of Eternal Stability to protect it.
• Gu Zhen told Li Yu that the Three Divisions of the Ancient Clan had been unified, and Li Yu ordered him to familiarize the clan with its new sacred tower.
• Li Yu traveled to the Seven-Colored Immortal Venerable's cave mansion and resolved to open the Cave Mansion Realm.

Li Yu created a reinforced gateway between the Cave Mansion Realm and the Immortal Gang Continent, while his earlier actions left the realm in chaos. The Master of the Realm trapped Wang Lin in an illusory Vermilion Bird Star and attacked him to seize the Heavenly Reversal Bead.

• Li Yu used Profound Yellow Energy and Order laws to build and reinforce a gateway from the Cave Mansion Realm to the Immortal Gang Continent.
• With the Boundary Sealing Great Formation gone, factions poured into the Cave Mansion Realm, and warfare spread as they searched for the Third Soul and a way out.
• Wang Yue killed an Outer Realm Cultivator on Vermilion Bird Star and asked the Heavenly Mandate Bead why the realm had fallen into disorder.
• The Master of the Realm arrived searching for the shattered Cave Mansion Gate, sensed the Heavenly Reversal Bead on Wang Lin, and trapped him in a mirror-like space.
• Wang Lin struck the Master of the Realm’s first palm with Star Annihilation, but was badly injured; the Master then raised another palm to finish him.

Li Yu opened the Gate of Ascension and established new rules for the Cave Mansion Realm, allowing cultivators to leave for the upper realms. He restored the Four Great Immortal Realms and left one final matter unresolved: Mo Zhi still had to be refined by Wang Lin.

• Wang Yue used the Heavenly Mandate Bead's power to pull Wang Lin out of the Palm Venerate's illusory space, causing the Palm Venerate's attack to miss.
• Li Yu opened the Gate of the Cave Mansion Realm and declared that Third Step cultivators had to ascend, while Second Step cultivators could pass through for three days.
• The Palm Venerate and other Second Step and Third Step cultivators bowed to Li Yu and passed through the gate into the Immortal Gang Continent or upper realm.
• Li Yu restored the Four Great Immortal Realms and ordered all Second Step cultivators in the Cave Mansion Realm to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Mandate Bead became the Cave Mansion Realm's Heavenly Dao, and Wang Yue became its Lord of Heavenly Mandate.
• Li Yu concluded that Wang Lin still had to refine Mo Zhi.

Li Yu traveled back in time to meet Lu Mo and showed him a future in which Wan'er and the people he knew were alive. Convinced by the changed outcome, Lu Mo gave Li Yu his memories and a portion of his origin, leaving Li Yu ready to straighten out the timeline.

• Li Yu traced the river of time to find Lu Mo before Wang Lin's birth, and Lu Mo attacked him immediately.
• Li Yu immobilized Lu Mo and showed him recorded scenes of a future where Huzi became an immortal cultivator, the Wang family survived, and Wan'er lived.
• Lu Mo reacted with joy at seeing Wan'er alive and asked Li Yu what he wanted from him.
• Li Yu asked Lu Mo for his memories and a portion of his origin to help refine the Slaughter Clone and correct the timeline.
• Lu Mo gave Li Yu his memories and origin, and Li Yu returned to the present with them stored in the Resource Library.

Li Yu arrived on Vermilion Bird Star to settle his final karmic debt with Wang Lin, revealing that Wang Lin would one day twist the river of time into a knot. After showing Wang Lin the other life and suffering that lay ahead, Li Yu left him facing Li Muwan with a new understanding of their bond.

• Li Yu appeared on Vermilion Bird Star, where Tianmingzi recognized him as the Heavenly Emperor and Wang Yue paid his respects.
• Li Yu told Wang Lin that their karmic debt came from Wang Lin’s future act of bending the river of time into a knot.
• Li Yu sent memories into Wang Lin’s soul, showing him a life marked by the destruction of his family and Li Muwan’s death.
• Wang Lin understood that he had left those memories for himself and realized Li Muwan had returned.
• Wang Lin told Li Muwan that he was glad to have her, and she responded with a bright smile.

Li Yu helped Wang Lin refine the Slaughter Origin into Lu Mo and resolved the karmic loop that had bound Lu Mo to a painful past. Wang Lin reunited with Li Muwan and accepted Lu Mo as his clone, while Li Yu prepared to leave the world.

• Wang Lin gave Li Yu a fragment of divine sense, and Li Yu used it to gather five Origins and create Lu Mo.
• Li Yu took Lu Mo into the past, where the past Lu Mo agreed to disappear after the circle of events was completed.
• Li Yu merged the past Lu Mo into the Slaughter Clone and used the power of order to place the clone on Wang Lin's timeline.
• Lu Mo erased the inherited memories of sorrow and pain, then entered Wang Lin's body as his clone.
• Wang Lin explained Lu Mo's identity to Li Muwan and departed with her, while Li Yu stored the Nether Beast and returned through the system.

After returning as a True Immortal, Li Yu began his plan to break the world-spanning net by mobilizing his forces and having the Azure Lotus Clone sever humanity's connection to Heaven's Dao. The net appeared in the void, revealing countless humans and demons caught in its threads.

• Li Yu returned to the Mall Space, ordered his estate forces to assemble, and prepared new Heaven-Evolving Bead functions and an emergency mission.
• Li Yu gave the Azure Lotus Clone a special talisman and sent him to act against the force behind the world’s deadlock.
• At the Heavenly Demon Sacred City, Li Yu appeared as the Ancestral Dragon and rallied the Four Great Demon Emperors and demonkind to swear an oath to conquer Heaven.
• The Azure Lotus Clone invoked Seal Heaven Destroy Dao, severing the connection to Heaven's Dao for cultivators who did not surpass his cultivation.
• The disturbed net appeared across the void, showing countless humans and demons strung along its threads.

Li Yu summoned his allied legions to fight the Net Puppets and sent forces into the Central Plains to support the Azure Lotus Clone. As the battles began, he entered Turbulent Void to confront the force behind the crisis.

• Li Yu opened a spatial gate and summoned his personal guards, then ordered Caiyi, Xie Ling, Ao Rui, and the Four Great Demon Emperors to assemble the demon forces as the Net Puppets attacked.
• Li Yu issued a decree that summoned legions from across the realms, including the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Dragon Clan, Qilin, foxes, cranes, Sacred Clan, and Ancient Clan.
• Li Yu ordered the assembled armies to attack the Net Puppets and left Caiyi in charge before turning toward the Azure Lotus Clone, which was also under attack.
• Li Yu activated the Heaven-Evolving Bead summoning system and the Great Heaven Collapse mission, sending parts of his legions through twenty-six formations to the Central Plains.
• Lin Tianhua, Chen Hailing, and Long Que mobilized guards at their sects, while Li Yu entered Turbulent Void for the final battle.

Li Yu reached the center of the destructive light and found the Sky-Splitting Sword, which had been clashing with the net. When he took hold of it, True Monarch Sky-Splitting tried to seize his body, but Li Yu thwarted him and trapped him by storing the sword in the Resource Library.

• Li Yu crossed the intensified Turbulent Storm and entered the destructive light, where Sky-Splitting Sword Qi and the net fought fiercely.
• Li Yu reached the battle’s center and discovered the Sky-Splitting Sword, which responded to the Sky-Splitting Sword Qi he summoned.
• True Monarch Sky-Splitting emerged from the sword and tried to take over Li Yu’s body, believing his sword qi would leave him helpless.
• Li Yu dispelled the sword qi he had borrowed from the Mall Space, preventing True Monarch Sky-Splitting from controlling him.
• Li Yu stored the Sky-Splitting Sword in the Resource Library, cutting off True Monarch Sky-Splitting’s escape.

Li Yu defeated True Monarch Sky-Splitting and learned from his memories that the Heavenly Net had been created by True Monarch Sky-Net to trap and harvest beings on South Li Island. He escaped the net into a vast ocean beyond it, where he wondered whether True Monarch Sky-Net had been a Spider Spirit.

• Li Yu immobilized True Monarch Sky-Splitting and collected his divine soul into the System Resource Library.
• Li Yu learned from True Monarch Sky-Splitting's memories that True Monarch Sky-Net had used the Heavenly Net to gather and raise beings on South Li Island, while True Monarch Sky-Splitting sought a suitable body for possession.
• Li Yu fought through the net's attacks and followed the crack in the Turbulent Void toward the world beyond it.
• Li Yu used Grand Ultimate Yin Yang, One Qi Stabilizes Heaven and Earth, to repel a strand of the net and escape the Turbulent Void.
• Li Yu saw the enormous spiderweb-like Heavenly Net and wondered whether True Monarch Sky-Net had been a Spider Spirit.

Li Yu reached the center of the web and fought the enslaved Five Directional Sacred Spirits, then entered the Luo Tian Treasure Hall and clashed with the Sky-Splitting Sword Qi within. The palace’s destruction revealed Li Yu’s old master, leaving him to face the person he least wanted to confront.

• Li Yu reached the web’s center and found the Five Directional Sacred Spirits enslaved and serving as puppets.
• The five beasts combined their strength in a Five Elements Great Formation, but Li Yu overpowered them with his fist and Innate Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Li Yu froze the five divine beasts and stored them in the Resource Library.
• Li Yu entered the Luo Tian Treasure Hall and countered its Sky-Splitting Sword Qi with Grand Void Sword Qi, destroying the front hall.
• An old man in a green robe emerged from the ruins, and Li Yu recognized him as his master.

Yin Kangming revealed that he was Yin Xuan, created and manipulated by True Monarch Sky-Splitting, and explained how he had secretly worked with Tianluo to resist him. After Li Yu defeated him, Yin Kangming disclosed that the Bronze Seal was meant for Azure Lotus, whose body both Sky-Splitting and Tianluo planned to seize; Li Yu could no longer contact his Azure Lotus Clone but believed the conflict was about to end.

• Yin Kangming revealed his identity as Yin Xuan and said True Monarch Sky-Splitting had manipulated him into founding the Sky-Splitting Sword Sect and gathering the races for war against Heaven.
• Yin Kangming explained that he had turned to Tianluo during the War of Heaven, helped spread the cultivation methods Tianluo created, and was also known as Cangwu Grandmaster.
• Li Yu asked whether Yin Kangming had arranged for him to obtain the Sky-Splitting Sword Art and deliver him to True Monarch Sky-Splitting, so Yin Kangming challenged him to fight.
• Li Yu unleashed Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow and Great Beginning Power, dispelling Yin Kangming’s sword qi and cultivation.
• Yin Kangming revealed that the Bronze Seal was intended for Azure Lotus and that Sky-Splitting and Tianluo planned to seize Azure Lotus’s body and destroy each other.
• Li Yu failed to contact his Azure Lotus Clone, grew enraged over its apparent danger, then declared that everything was about to end.

Li Yu rescued Yin Kangming from Sky-Net’s restriction and entered the Luo Tian Treasure Hall to confront the power governing the Net Realm. He shattered Sky-Net’s Heavenly Dao net and found Yin Luo and his Azure Lotus Clone lying before Sky-Net, who revealed himself at last.

• Yin Kangming warned Li Yu that Sky-Net had returned before Sky-Net’s restriction made him cough up blood.
• Li Yu put Yin Kangming into the Resource Library and removed the restriction from his body.
• Li Yu entered the Luo Tian Treasure Hall and discovered that Sky-Net’s net functioned as the Net Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yu clashed his Taiji Eight Trigrams Dao against the net, then used his vision of Heaven and Earth’s order to destroy it.
• Li Yu found Yin Luo and his Azure Lotus Clone lying on tables before a man in imperial robes, who declared that he was Sky-Net.

Li Yu confronted Yin Luo, who revealed herself as the last conscious awareness of True Monarch Sky-Net and claimed control over the Net’s core. After turning the Net’s Artifact Spirit against her and sealing her, Li Yu crushed Sky-Net’s consciousness and restored Yin Luo, who woke believing she was in Li Yu’s world.

• Li Yu froze True Monarch Sky-Net’s Artifact Spirit, slapped him, and collected him into the Resource Library.
• Li Yu realized Yin Luo had captured his Azure Lotus Clone and learned the truth after reconnecting with the clone’s soul.
• Yin Luo revealed she was True Monarch Sky-Net and tried to control the hall’s laws through the Net.
• Li Yu released the remade Artifact Spirit, which contested Yin Luo’s control of the Net and disrupted the hall’s rules.
• Li Yu sealed Yin Luo and crushed the last conscious awareness of True Monarch Sky-Net.
• Yin Luo awoke and recognized Li Yu, asking where they were.

Li Yu defeated the Net Puppets, took control of the Net, and reshaped it to protect South Li Island from the Destruction Storms. After restoring the realm and sealing the Turbulent Void, he renamed the place Coiled Silk Cave.

• Li Yu used the Taiji Heavenly Prison spell to seal the surviving Net Puppets and announced victory to his armies.
• Li Yu rewarded the allied forces with cultivation methods and sent the armies back to their worlds.
• Li Yu showed human and demon representatives the Destruction Storms beyond the Net, and they agreed that the Net had to remain to protect South Li Island.
• Li Yu transformed the Net's artifact spirit into a Crystal Spider using Tianyunzi's origin and the Nether Beast's abilities.
• Li Yu reforged the Net with his Great Dao, erased True Monarch Sky-Net's influence, and used Profound Yellow Energy to close the Turbulent Void.
• Li Yu restored the damaged buildings and named the realm Coiled Silk Cave.

Li Yu eliminated the remaining split souls of True Monarch Sky-Net, upgraded Yin Luo’s bloodline and Divine Soul, and uncovered Yin Kangming’s hidden plan from his memories. Yin Kangming awoke to learn that Sky-Splitting and Sky-Net were dead, then reunited with Yin Luo.

• Li Yu sent the Azure Lotus Clone and Little Tingting to another world to grow stronger and temper themselves.
• Li Yu summoned and destroyed True Monarch Sky-Net’s hundreds of millions of reincarnated split souls, then infused Yin Luo with an Immortal Ancestor bloodline and a split soul’s Soul Power.
• Li Yu recovered Yin Kangming’s memories and learned how he had manipulated events in an attempt to defeat Sky-Splitting and Sky-Net.
• Li Yu revived Yin Kangming and told him that Sky-Splitting and Sky-Net were dead and Yin Luo was waiting for him.
• Yin Kangming went to the study, and Yin Luo woke and ran out to greet him.