Chapter Summaries

Li Yu used the Ice River Sword to block the ancient Other Shore beings long enough for Little Meng, Gu Changqing, and Chonghe to inherit the Three Pure Ones’ power and replace them across all time. After the new Three Pure Ones killed Queen Mother of the West and Gu Xiaosang absorbed her, Li Yu turned to claim his final harvest from the Three Pure Ones.

• Li Yu drew on the world’s tribulation Qi and struck with the Ice River Sword, briefly blocking the attacks on Little Meng, Gu Changqing, and Chonghe.
• The Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Zhu Xian Sword Formation entered the three men, whose True Spirit Imprints rewrote history so they became the Three Pure Ones.
• Little Meng, Gu Changqing, and Chonghe repelled the other ancient beings, who withdrew after realizing the Dao Fruit was gone.
• Little Meng learned Queen Mother of the West threatened Gu Xiaosang and joined Gu Changqing and Chonghe to kill her.
• Gu Xiaosang absorbed Queen Mother of the West’s power and attained the Other Shore.
• Li Yu looked toward the Three Pure Ones, intending to reclaim his final harvest from them.

Li Yu settled his karma with the Three Pure Ones, left the world behind, and began condensing his own Dao Fruit after returning to his immortal estate. Tracing his existence revealed he had no past life, and he glimpsed the system for the first time, leaving him stunned by what it might be.

• The Three Pure Ones gave Li Yu traces of their Dao Fruit aura to settle their karma, and he stored them as references for his own Great Dao.
• Li Yu fused Ananda's Reincarnation Seal into the Lord of Reincarnation, then vanished from the world, where Bai Ze remained a legendary figure.
• Li Yu returned to his immortal estate, stored Five Finger Mountain, and had Teng Qing plant the genuine Bodhi Tree in the garden.
• Li Yu began condensing his Dao Fruit by tracing his past and present selves across the Myriad Realms, but discovered he had no past life or future life.
• Li Yu glimpsed the system for the first time and wondered whether it was a Dao Fruit or something even greater.

Li Yu questioned the system about its nature and purpose, then set aside his suspicions when he found no sign of malicious intent. He successfully fused Dao Fruit characteristics into his origins, refined his control over power, and turned his attention to investigating a mystery in the Main World.

• Li Yu sensed the system as an indistinct ball of light and wondered whether it was a Dao Fruit or a trap laid by a hidden mastermind.
• Li Yu asked the system about its purpose and learned that it served him and could self-destruct, though doing so would collapse connected space-times and kill him at his current cultivation.
• The system said it possessed characteristics beyond a Dao Fruit and claimed Li Yu himself was its owner, but Li Yu remained unable to understand its true origin.
• Li Yu put aside his suspicions and fused Dao Fruit characteristics into his Origin of Matter and Origin of Order.
• Li Yu gained finer control over time, space, matter, energy, order, and laws, then resolved to investigate the mystery of “he is about to awaken” in the Main World.

Li Yu followed the Mirage Mirror’s karmic connection from Southern Sky Province to the Mirage Immortal Emperor’s presumed cave abode in Central Province, crossing the spatial void between the provinces. On arrival, he recognized a powerful version of the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Scripture and wondered whether Central Province was connected to the world of Jade Dynasty.

• Li Yu used the Mirage Mirror’s karma to trace a line leading beyond Southern Sky Province, which he believed pointed to a cave abode of the Mirage Immortal Emperor in Central Province.
• Li Yu reached the northern edge of Southern Sky Province and discovered that a spatial barrier separated it from Central Province.
• Li Yu crossed the barrier and traveled through the void, passing another spatial barrier into Central Province.
• A daoist robed man invoked the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Scripture and unleashed a vast sea of lightning.
• Li Yu recognized the technique from Jade Dynasty but was surprised by its vastly increased power, leaving him curious about Central Province’s origins.

Li Yu helped Daoist Qingxu destroy a blood demon, then copied Qingxu’s memories and learned that Central Province was a different world from the one he had expected. He followed a karmic connection to the Mirage Immortal Emperor’s cave mansion, hoping to uncover useful information.

• Li Yu destroyed a blood wolf with his Vast Righteousness Sword and introduced himself to Qingxu as Gu Changqing.
• Qingxu invited Li Yu to travel with him, but Li Yu copied part of Qingxu’s soul memories and gave him the Vast Righteousness Sword art.
• Li Yu learned that Central Province had different sects and history from the Zhu Xian World, and that Zheng Yi Dao and the Vast Righteousness Sect had vanished patriarchs who might have become Celestial Venerables.
• Li Yu followed a karmic connection to a towering mountain, opened the Mirage Immortal Emperor’s cave mansion, and entered it.

Li Yu explored Mirage Immortal Emperor's cave mansion and discovered that a terrifying being periodically slaughtered every Celestial Venerable. He learned that the next million-year cycle was less than ten years away and resolved to strengthen himself quickly.

• Li Yu entered Mirage Immortal Emperor's cave mansion, considered the threats posed by the system and the mysterious "he," and searched its three rooms for clues.
• Li Yu found more than one hundred books in the final room and opened Mirage Immortal Emperor's blood-written notes, which warned that no one could escape and that "he" was about to awaken.
• Li Yu read that Mirage Celestial Venerable, born Sheng Lou, had discovered that a fiend killed Celestial Venerables across the world every million years, leaving pools of filthy blood.
• Li Yu calculated that the next million-year deadline was less than ten years away and decided to increase his strength as quickly as possible.

Facing a being that devoured Celestial Venerables, Li Yu vowed to fight it in ten years and set out for a new world to strengthen himself. He entered the Witch God world but appeared in a modern city where the protagonist was about to seize a Shenzhou treasure.

• Li Yu refused to flee from the terrifying being and swore to fight it to the death in ten years.
• Li Yu decided to spend no more than a hundred years in each world and used the System to open the tenth world.
• Li Yu chose the Witch God world, hoping to study its world-creators, cultivation systems, and Chaos.
• Li Yu arrived in a modern city at night and recognized the glass building where the protagonist would seize a treasure.
• Li Yu entered the building, saw Shenzhou antiques and a Dragon-Phoenix Intertwined Five-Colored Tripod, and grew furious at the barbarians coveting it.

Li Yu watched Azure Dragon reclaim the Five-Colored Ancient Cauldron, then witnessed Nuwa’s lightning carry Azure Dragon’s soul through time and space. Afterward, Li Yu invoked the laws of Heaven and Earth to punish anyone who plundered or possessed cultural relics of the Divine Land.

• Azure Dragon infiltrated the glass building and found the Five-Colored Ancient Cauldron among golden skeletons with three-eyed skulls.
• The golden-haired woman confronted Azure Dragon with an enchanted jade sword and trapped him in a formation created by the skeletons.
• Azure Dragon shattered the display and took the cauldron, whose power revealed that it contained Pangu’s residual divine soul.
• Nuwa’s purple lightning destroyed the building and carried Azure Dragon’s soul and the Five-Colored Ancient Cauldron through time and space.
• Li Yu invoked the Origin of Order to decree that anyone who plundered or possessed cultural relics of the Divine Land would die in accidents.

Li Yu traveled back to the primordial era and discovered Ji Hao, the time-traveling youth destined to save humanity from invading aliens. He secretly copied Pangu’s memories and the Jade Plate of Creation’s rules, then gave Ji Hao the Nine Secret Arts before disappearing.

• Li Yu arrived silently in the primordial era and surveyed the war between the alien invaders and humanity across the central lands.
• Li Yu found Ji Hao, the youth from the Fire Crow Tribe, and decided to take advantage of Pangu’s weakened state to study his memories and the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Li Yu froze time, sent Ji Hao into his Resource Library, and copied Pangu’s divine soul memories and the rules from the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Li Yu discovered the Nine Character True Words in Ji Hao’s memories and imparted the Nine Secret Arts to him to settle a karmic debt.
• Li Yu released Ji Hao and vanished, while Ji Hao asked Pangu if anything had happened and Pangu denied it.

Ji Hao experienced an epiphany that greatly expanded the Nine Character True Words, while Li Yu searched the Southern Wasteland for a host for his system. He chose the Qing Yi Tribe and found Qingming, a blind youth whose future in the tribe seemed bleak.

• Pangu offered Ji Hao the Heaven Mending Imperfect True Method and Dragon and Phoenix bloodlines in exchange for the Nine Character True Words, but Ji Hao grew more suspicious and refused.
• Ji Hao circulated the Nine Character True Words and gained insights into their powers, believing he had achieved an epiphany on his own.
• Li Yu decided to create a system and choose a host, rejecting the Fire Crow Tribe and selecting the Qing Yi Tribe to avoid conflict with Ji Hao and Nuwa.
• Li Yu arrived at the Qing Yi Tribe and saw Qingming, a blind youth whose archery failure and lack of usefulness left him at risk of being abandoned.
• Li Yu decided that Qingming would be his host and resolved to manufacture a miracle for him.

After years of blindness, Qing Ming encountered the Ambrosial Arbor, which restored his sight with the Sage’s Double Pupils and gave him divine arts. In exchange for offering it ninety percent of his prey, Qing Ming began a new path as the Arbor’s prospective assassin.

• Qing Ming trained with his longbow and lamented that his blindness kept him from the Ancestral Spirit Grand Sacrifice and any chance to restore his sight.
• Qing Ming saw a small emerald tree when he entered his home and learned that it was the Ambrosial Arbor.
• The Ambrosial Arbor offered to restore Qing Ming’s sight and grant him power in exchange for ninety percent of his prey, and Qing Ming accepted.
• The Ambrosial Arbor gave Qing Ming the Sage’s Double Pupils, allowing him to see clearly at great distances and perceive movement as slowed.
• The Ambrosial Arbor bestowed the Stealth Technique and Poison Quenching Technique on Qing Ming so he could grow stronger and bring it prey.

Qing Ming used the divine abilities granted by Lord Wood Emperor to hunt a Unicorn Savage Bear and offered most of it in exchange for Bloodline Power. After learning that his tribe’s cultivation path limited his potential, Qing Ming resolved to reach the pinnacle of the world, while Wood Emperor began steering him toward a different path.

• Qing Ming slipped out of the tribe using the Stealth Technique and hunted a Unicorn Savage Bear with a poisoned arrow.
• Qing Ming offered ninety percent of the bear to Lord Wood Emperor and received a surge of Bloodline Power.
• Lord Wood Emperor stabilized Qing Ming and told him to cultivate the Qing Yi Tribe’s technique.
• Lord Wood Emperor explained that the human tribes’ practice of fusing with other races’ bloodlines granted strength but hindered the Human True Form’s potential.
• Qing Ming declared that he wanted to stand at the pinnacle of the world, and Wood Emperor privately celebrated having persuaded another young man to change paths.

Qing Ming revealed that his sight and cultivation had improved, impressing the Qing Yi Tribe’s archery instructor and youths. Meanwhile, Li Yu studied the Jade Plate of Creation and gained its world’s laws, but struggled to understand Pangu’s vague conception of chaos.

• Qing Ming arrived at archery training and told Qing Ying that his eyes had improved, despite the youths mocking him as blind and useless.
• Qing Ming pierced an ironwood target with one arrow, astonishing the youths and Qing Ying with his accuracy and strength.
• Qing Ming claimed the ancestral spirit had blessed him, and Qing Ying allowed him to join the training.
• Li Yu settled on a floating island and studied the Jade Plate of Creation, confirming that it contained the world’s Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Li Yu easily integrated Pangu’s Heaven and Earth rules into his origin but grew frustrated because Pangu had barely understood chaos.

Li Yu traveled to the Eastern Sea to investigate the Chaos Primordial Dragon known as the Dragon Mother and the influence her bloodline had on the Dragon Clan. He removed the Dragon Ancestor’s nine sealed Sinful Dragon sons, then captured the Dragon Mother and stored her in the Resource Library for study.

• Li Yu arrived above the Eastern Sea and observed the True Dragon Clan, whose decline he attributed in part to the Dragon Mother’s destructive bloodline.
• Li Yu discovered nine genuine Sinful Dragons sealed beneath the Eastern Sea’s abyssal eye and identified them as the Dragon Ancestor’s other nine sons.
• Li Yu bypassed the seal and stored the nine Sinful Dragons in the Resource Library.
• Li Yu located the Dragon Mother sealed at the Eastern Sea’s far edge and learned she had kept her Chaos Primordial Dragon brother’s body.
• Li Yu seized the resisting Dragon Mother and stored her in the Resource Library.

Li Yu studied the Chaos Primordial Dragon and, unable to make use of its slaughter and destruction laws, purified nine Sinful Dragons by restoring their Ancestor Dragon bloodlines. He sent the nine True Dragons to the East Sea with a Dragon Transformation Talisman to purify the dragon clan, where their arrival made the dragons recognize their pure Ancestor Dragon aura.

• Li Yu examined the Chaos Primordial Dragon's body and concluded its innate slaughter and destruction laws were not what he sought.
• Li Yu purified the nine Sinful Dragons, removing their Chaos Primordial Dragon bloodline and restoring their Ancestor Dragon bloodlines.
• Li Yu made the nine True Dragons his carriage dragons and ordered them to use a Dragon Transformation Pool to purify the dragon clan.
• Li Yu gave the nine True Dragons a Dragon Transformation Talisman and sent them to the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The nine True Dragons arrived over the East Sea, and the dragons below recognized their pure Ancestor Dragon aura and bowed.

Ao Guang revealed the Dragon Transformation Pool to the Dragon Clan, allowing its members to purify their bloodlines and regain True Dragon Bodies. After reforming the clan, Li Yu received and collected heavenly Merit, then turned his attention to finding a fallen world-opening creator to study in his pursuit of Chaos.

• Ao Guang and the other eight Sinful Dragons appeared before the Nine Sons of the Dragon and revealed that the Lord of the Dragon Clan had purified their bloodlines and restored their Ancestor Dragon bodies.
• Ao Guang manifested the Dragon Transformation Pool and announced that it could cleanse dragon bodies and transform their bloodlines into pure Ancestor Dragon bloodlines.
• Bixi ordered the Dragon Clan to build the pool, entered it first, and emerged with a sacred golden True Dragon body as the other dragons celebrated.
• Li Yu collected the Merit bestowed by heaven into the Resource Library and reflected on how restoring the Dragon Clan had earned the reward.
• Li Yu decided to seek out the remains of a being who had opened heaven and earth in a shattered world, hoping to study it and advance toward Chaos.

Li Yu followed the route from the Dragon Mother's memories to a separate world, where he discovered the fallen world-creator Pan Xi. He read the records she had left in her Flowers of the Great Dao and decided to repay her by reviving her.

• Li Yu traveled through the Primordial void and entered a world encircled by purple mist and golden runes.
• Li Yu recognized the continent as the body of Pan Xi, a being who had opened heaven and earth but died before completing her world.
• Li Yu descended into Pan Xi's Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness and found her intact Flowers of the Great Dao.
• Li Yu took the runes from the flower and learned Pan Xi's life story and the Great Dao laws of her world.
• Li Yu realized Pan Xi had left the records to enable her revival and decided to bring her back.

Li Yu used Pan Xi’s memories and the Flowers of the Great Dao to accelerate the creation of her world, then revived her. After an awkward exchange over her gift, he left, while Pan Xi remained alive as the world’s returned master.

• Li Yu learned the mysteries of world creation from Pan Xi’s memories and decided to help her complete her world.
• Li Yu established the world’s laws and accelerated its evolution by consuming Pan Xi’s body and the world’s Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.
• Li Yu left Pan Xi’s heart intact and used the Flowers of the Great Dao and her Rune Diary to revive her.
• Pan Xi awoke, thanked Li Yu, and offered him her natal artifact, the Pan Xi Mirror.
• Li Yu awkwardly refused Pan Xi’s gift and left after his remark about gaining a great harvest from her embarrassed them both.

While comprehending chaos, Li Yu guided the dragon race toward earning fortune and merit by protecting humanity and governing the waters. He then turned his attention to Qing Ming of the Qing Yi Tribe, preparing to use him as his next piece.

• Li Yu studied chaos using Pan Xi's experiences and the Limitless Seal while the dragon race purified its bloodline and returned to the Pangu Orthodox.
• Ao Guang told the Ancestor Dragon's sons that the dragon race should seek fortune and merit by helping humanity rather than attacking it.
• Ao Guang presented the Ancestor Dragon's decree forbidding the dragons from harming humanity and assigned them to govern the waters as dragon gods.
• Li Yu approved the dragons' plan to protect humanity and observed that merit could strengthen treasures and cultivation while accelerating his comprehension of chaos.
• Li Yu looked toward Qing Ming of the Qing Yi Tribe and decided it was time for him to serve as a chess piece.

Qing Ming recruited Mountain Giants and War Ancient Trees under the Wood Emperor’s guidance, greatly strengthening the Qing Yi Tribe. After the Wood Emperor warned him that this force was still far from enough, Qing Ming returned to the tribe determined to pursue greater strength.

• Qing Ming learned that the Wood Emperor wanted him to recruit Mountain Spirits and water monsters rather than hunt them.
• Following the Wood Emperor’s guidance, Qing Ming used a command token to form an alliance with the cliff-sized Mountain Giant Black Obsidian.
• Black Obsidian demonstrated that he could travel underground, allowing him to accompany Qing Ming without causing a disturbance.
• Qing Ming recruited Iron Sandalwood as a War Ancient Tree, then gathered ten Mountain Giants and twenty War Ancient Trees.
• The Wood Emperor warned Qing Ming that thirty Great Shaman-level allies were not enough to face stronger powers, and Qing Ming accepted the rebuke before heading back to the Qing Yi Tribe.