Chapter Summaries

After cultivators gathered to accuse Du Bai of hiding from challenges, he agreed to fight and defeated the Barbarian Hammer King with one spell. The crowd dispersed, though some still blamed his strength on his privileged background.

• Cultivators gathered outside Du Bai’s Bamboo Tower and demanded that he accept their challenges.
• Du Bai came out and invited anyone who wished to challenge him to step forward.
• Lingyun proposed registering challengers and drawing lots, but Du Bai told them all to attack him together.
• The Barbarian Hammer King challenged Du Bai and lectured him about his arrogance.
• Du Bai struck the Barbarian Hammer King with a fire spell, overwhelming his Earth Hammer and blasting him into the ground.
• The crowd lowered their heads and dispersed, while some muttered that Du Bai’s strength came from his background.

Fairy Mingqin learned of Du Bai’s talent, while rumors among the Bamboo Garden cultivators dismissed his abilities and character. At the Yingzhou Dharma Assembly, the candidates entered the White Jade Capital and began a mountain trial in which each had to choose a path; Du Bai walked forward on his own.

• Fairy Mingqin heard that Du Bai had trained the Fire Snake Technique to the ninth restriction and considered him a promising Yingzhou Sect prospect.
• Bamboo Garden cultivators spread rumors that Du Bai relied on his birth and talisman seed and lacked both skill and proper temperament.
• Mingyouzi opened the White Jade Capital and announced that candidates must reach the mountain summit to qualify for the Dharma Assembly selection.
• Young Master Lingyun gathered followers to climb together, while the Barbarian Hammer King and other powerful candidates chose to proceed independently.
• Du Bai walked straight ahead without choosing a visible trail, and the Barbarian Hammer King took the roughest path while Young Master Lingyun led his followers onto the broadest road.

Du Bai passed Yingzhou Sect’s test by following his own heart through the illusions, while Barbarian Hammer King eventually broke through a cliff and reached the summit. After the three-day selection, fewer than a hundred of more than eight thousand cultivators had passed, and the failures accused Du Bai of benefiting from a black curtain.

• Du Bai ignored tempting shortcuts and dangers, followed his own heart through the mist, and broke the illusion before reaching the grand hall.
• Mingyouzi praised Du Bai for seeing through the illusion and let him rest; Du Bai fell asleep on a meditation cushion.
• Barbarian Hammer King exhausted himself smashing a cliff, suffered a blow from his rebounding hammer, then shattered the cliff and reached the square.
• Barbarian Hammer King saw Du Bai napping and suspected that Du Bai had passed because of a black curtain.
• After three days, fewer than a hundred of more than eight thousand cultivators reached the summit, and Young Master Lingyun led the failed cultivators in demanding justice from Du Bai.

Du Bai answered accusations that he had passed the Yingzhou Dharma Assembly through family influence, while Young Master Lingyun tried to turn the crowd against him. White Jade Capital exposed Lingyun’s scheme and showed Du Bai’s trial, and Mingyouzi ended the assembly by admitting those who passed into the Yingzhou Sect.

• Mingyouzi angrily defended the Yingzhou Dharma Assembly’s fairness as Young Master Lingyun and several thousand unsuccessful cultivators demanded that Du Bai be expelled.
• Du Bai challenged Lingyun to name his supposed prestigious family and explained that Fairy Mingqin had merely rescued him and given him a ride to the assembly.
• Du Bai said his diligence and cultivation had earned his results, then warned the crowd that Lingyun was exploiting them for his own chance to join the Yingzhou Sect.
• White Jade Capital revealed recordings of Lingyun plotting to use Du Bai and the unsuccessful cultivators to pressure the Yingzhou Sect into accepting him.
• Mingyouzi showed Du Bai’s trial, in which he followed his own path through the mountain’s dangers and reached the summit, then ended the assembly and dismissed those who failed.

Du Bai entered the Yingzhou Sect as an outer sect disciple, where Li Quan explained the paths to advancement. Fairy Mingqin then chose Du Bai as her disciple, and he accepted after confirming that she respected his own path.

• Mingyouzi settled the newly admitted disciples in Yangxin Pavilion, where Li Quan explained sect duties and the requirements for becoming an inner sect disciple.
• Li Quan said that being accepted by a Golden Core Grandmaster was another way to advance, and Senior Brother Wang arrived to summon Du Bai to meet Fairy Mingqin.
• Fairy Mingqin offered to take Du Bai as her disciple because of his talent and temperament.
• Du Bai hesitated because he was unsure whether Fairy Mingqin's cultivation path suited his own, but she reassured him that a disciple must walk his own path.
• Du Bai bowed and greeted Fairy Mingqin as his Master.

Li Yu traveled with Xu Zhifei to the Five Elements Great World, where he condensed Five Elements Malevolent Aura before setting his sights on the Floating Merchant Guild and the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, whom he planned to swindle. The chapter left Li Yu entering the guild while its greeter mistook his age and low cultivation for a disguise concealing immense power.

• Li Yu sent Xu Zhifei to take him to the Five Elements Great World so he could condense Five Elements Malevolent Aura.
• Xu Zhifei brought Li Yu through a void passage, and Li Yu entered the Five Elements Malevolent Aura to condense Fiend.
• Two months later, Li Yu emerged without causing a disturbance and told Xu Zhifei he had avoided trouble because the Five Elements Dao Ancestor ruled the world.
• Li Yu decided to visit the Floating Merchant Guild to collect cultivation manuals and secret techniques while plotting to swindle the Old Peacock.
• At the guild, the female cultivator assumed Xu Zhifei was Li Yu’s master, but Xu Zhifei called Li Yu Ancestor and let him enter first.

Li Yu visited the Floating Merchant Guild, gave Xu Zhifei advice on surviving the Heavenly Being Second Decline, and left the guildmaster believing he was the Profound Yellow Dao Ancestor. He met the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, Kong Ji, who recognized his Profound Yellow Energy and knelt, claiming they had met billions of years earlier.

• Li Yu scanned the Floating Merchant Guild’s treasures and manuals, then told Xu Zhifei to take what he needed and advised him to study the Five Elements Primordial Embryo’s creation of Innate Five Elements Qi.
• The guild’s silver-robed elder gave Li Yu the Five Elements Primordial Embryo and received guidance about comprehending the Essence of Creation to face the Heavenly Being Second Decline.
• Li Yu left with Xu Zhifei after reciting his title poem, leading the elder to conclude that he was the Profound Yellow Dao Ancestor.
• Li Yu brought Xu Zhifei to a cliff to wait for someone, and the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, Kong Ji, arrived in a display of overwhelming pressure.
• Li Yu casually dispelled Kong Ji’s pressure, then showed Profound Yellow Energy, prompting Kong Ji to kneel and ask whether Li Yu remembered the Little Sparrow from billions of years earlier.

Li Yu impersonated the Profound Yellow Dao Ancestor and persuaded Old Peacock to become his disciple, while secretly copying his memories and techniques. After returning to Penglai Island with Xu Zhifei, Li Yu considered his next targets for persuasion and experimentation.

• Li Yu told Old Peacock that he had returned to settle his karmic debt and offered to pass on the Matter Great Dao.
• Old Peacock accepted Li Yu as his master, and Li Yu sent Profound Yellow Energy into his consciousness to demonstrate a method of harmonizing Five Elements and Profound Yellow qi.
• Li Yu secretly copied Old Peacock's soul memories, including his Five-Colored Divine Light, Star Dou Sword Technique, and insights into the Five Elements Great Dao.
• Li Yu gave Old Peacock a talisman and left with Xu Zhifei, using his main body's power and causing the world to show faint rejection.
• Back on Penglai Island, Li Yu planned to target the Ancestral Dragon, gods, and Buddhas, then scolded Xu Zhifei for giggling and told him to keep his identity quiet.

Li Yu studied the Five-Colored Divine Light and planned to establish Yin Virtue by creating reincarnation in Yu Yu Heaven. He entered the Nine Netherworlds to investigate its Nether River, then secretly examined Lord Zuoqiu and his ferry boat before erasing all traces of his visit.

• Li Yu absorbed Old Peacock's Five Elements insights and considered how to establish the Matter and Order Great Daos in Yu Yu Heaven.
• Li Yu decided that opening reincarnation could earn Yin Virtue and identified the Netherworld Cult as a source for experiments.
• Li Yu's true body traveled to the Nine Netherworlds and studied the Nether River and its power over souls.
• Li Yu seized Nether River water and examined the Yin Virtue ferry boat belonging to Lord Zuoqiu and the pale child.
• Li Yu erased his visit from time and karma, leaving Lord Zuoqiu and the child unaware that anything had happened.

Li Yu prepared a trap in an ancient Western Wilderness cave dwelling, hoping to lure the Netherworld Cult into investigating the Six Paths Reincarnation. He arranged for a treasure hunter to fall into the cave and left the story with Qi Shanhai vanishing into a spatial rift.

• Li Yu entered the Western Wilderness as Avatar Void and chose an unexplored cave dwelling as the site of his trap.
• Li Yu reforged the White Bone Nether Seal into a Reincarnation Seal that could establish an underworld and grant titles to underworld Yin gods.
• Li Yu opened a spatial rift to the cave, planted a White Bone Blood-Devouring Sword infused with Six Paths Reincarnation aura, and selected Qi Shanhai as bait.
• During a fight with Old Ghost Golden Toad, Qi Shanhai fell into the spatial rift, and Li Yu waited for the Netherworld Cult to take the bait.

Qi Shanhai survived a spatial rift and found an ancient estate, where a White Bone Sword acknowledged him as its master. The Netherworld Cult seized him to learn the estate’s location, and Yanluo Heavenly Son and the Nether Emperor discovered the Six Paths Reincarnation manifesting there.

• Qi Shanhai found Jinyuan Mountain, Tianjia Mansion, and received the White Bone Sword after it acknowledged him as its master.
• Li Yu arranged for a Netherworld Cult disciple to witness Qi Shanhai using the sword, prompting the disciple to report its Six Paths Reincarnation aura.
• Yanluo Heavenly Son and the Nether Emperor captured Qi Shanhai in Heavenly Mystery City and used soul-searching to learn how to reach the estate.
• Yanluo Heavenly Son erased Qi Shanhai’s memories and left him an idiot before traveling with the Nether Emperor through the stable spatial rift.
• At the estate entrance, Yanluo Heavenly Son and the Nether Emperor saw six wheels of light appear and recognized the aura of Six Paths Reincarnation.

Yanluo Heavenly Son and the Netherworld God obtained the Reincarnation Seal, a Celestial Immortal spirit treasure that promised the Netherworld Cult power through establishing the underworld and evolving reincarnation. After Yanluo used it to kill three Rogue Cultivator Alliance cultivators, the world’s major powers reacted to the Netherworld Cult’s sudden rise, while Xu Zhifei remained frozen in Chaos Ice for spreading rumors about Li Yu.

• Yanluo Heavenly Son and the Netherworld God fought through Golden Armored Heavenly Monarch’s cave abode and reached the Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Book.
• The Reincarnation Seal accepted Yanluo Heavenly Son and revealed that it could appoint underworld officials with Celestial Immortal strength and a million-year lifespan.
• Yanluo Heavenly Son used the Reincarnation Seal to kill Qi Changshan and two other Rogue Cultivator Alliance Nascent Soul True Persons in one strike.
• The righteous sects, Blood River Ancestor, and Meng Nishang reacted to the Netherworld Cult’s acquisition of a Celestial Immortal spirit treasure.
• Xu Zhifei remained frozen in Chaos Ice after spreading a rumor about Ancestor’s relationship with the Five Elements Dao Ancestor, and Little Li Yu angrily scolded him.

The Netherworld Cult used the Reincarnation Seal to establish the underworld and create the Six Paths of Reincarnation, earning merit and making Emperor Yanluo a Celestial Immortal. The chapter ended with the cult discovering that their divine offices came with strict vows and a million years of compulsory work.

• Yanluo Heavenly Son led the Netherworld Cult in swearing three vows and using the Reincarnation Seal to establish the underworld and its reincarnation passages.
• The Reincarnation Seal became the underworld's imperial seal, and Yanluo Heavenly Son was invested as Emperor Yanluo and became a Celestial Immortal.
• Emperor Yanluo appointed Netherworld Cult members to underworld offices and ordered the gates opened to receive Yin souls.
• Heaven and earth bestowed merit and Yin virtue on the underworld, alarming the other cultivation sects.
• The underworld deities learned they were bound by strict duties and vows for a million years, and Emperor Yanluo kicked over the table in frustration.

Li Yu realized that Blessed Virtue made people feel happy and set out to research fortune by sending countless fragments of his consciousness into the worlds as fortune-tellers. In a troubled Great Ming, he warned the Son of Heaven of a coming calamity and urged him to offer sacrifices to Heaven, leaving the emperor convinced an immortal had appeared to help his kingdom.

• Li Yu observed a mortal with Blessed Virtue and concluded that it brought happiness rather than wealth or status.
• Li Yu decided to investigate fortune and destiny by comparing people’s fates, then sent billions of soul fragments across the worlds to work as fortune-tellers.
• Disguised as an old Daoist, Li Yu entered a tavern in Great Ming and recognized that the exhausted Man in Green Robes was the Son of Heaven.
• Li Yu interpreted the character “gold” as a warning of danger from those close to the emperor and a great calamity.
• Li Yu told the Son of Heaven to offer sacrifices to Heaven at the Altar of Heaven the next day, then vanished, leaving the emperor hopeful about Great Ming’s national fortune.

Li Yu studied how national fortune responded to the people's will by making the Great Ming Emperor's fortunes collapse, then granting him a Heavenly Mandate that brought prosperity and popular support. He continued researching fortune across other worlds, where one experiment ended with a treasure-seeking swordsman killed.

• After the Emperor's Heaven-worship ceremony produced no response, rumors spread and Great Ming's national fortune declined.
• Li Yu concluded that national fortune depended on the people's will and sent a Heavenly Court envoy to proclaim the Emperor's virtue and bestow rain and abundant harvests.
• The decree healed illnesses, ended the drought, and won the people's support, causing Great Ming's fortune to flourish.
• Li Yu sent countless avatars across different worlds to study the fortune of nations, sects, and individuals.
• In another world, a swordsman challenged Li Yu's White-Robed Divine Seer avatar after learning he had calculated the swordsman's identity as the thief of the Heavenly Profound Supreme Treasure.
• Li Yu's hidden sword killed the swordsman, whose fortune he had raised and whose treasure he had arranged to expose as part of his research.

Li Yu sent Jade Divine Firmament into the myriad worlds to preach the Dao, then arranged for Xu Zhifei and allied sects to repair Yu Yu Heaven’s damaged world membrane. The Sky Mending Plan began as Li Yu pursued merit for his research and continued cultivating the Great Daos of order and matter.

• Li Yu reflected on the connection between destiny and order while assigning an incarnation to study the Dao of Destiny.
• Li Yu persuaded Jade Divine Firmament to leave Yu Yu Heaven and preach the Dao in worlds without orthodox Great Dao inheritances.
• After Jade Divine Firmament departed, Li Yu told Xu Zhifei that the exposed Yu Yu Heaven could attract invasions and that repairing its world membrane would earn merit.
• Li Yu gave Xu Zhifei the Thirty-Three Heavens of Grand Unity method and told him to gather friendly sects to share the cost of refining it.
• Xu Zhifei agreed to convene the major sects, while Li Yu left the research to his main body and focused on cultivation.

Li Yu sent the Underworld gods to guard the world membrane against invading Heavenly Demons while the sects built the Thirty-Three Heavens of Grand Unity. As Emperor Yanluo led the Netherworld Cult into battle, Li Yu collected the demons for research into their innate energies and Dao insights.

• Li Yu ordered the Underworld gods to defend the world membrane, and Emperor Yanluo organized rotating forces to repel the Heavenly Demons.
• Emperor Yanluo led the Underworld Soldiers out of the Underworld, prompting sect experts to rely on the Netherworld Cult to guard the world.
• Emperor Yanluo used the Reincarnation Seal to wipe out waves of Heavenly Demons and celebrated leading his troops in battle.
• Li Yu secretly obtained the defeated demons through the Reincarnation Seal and broke down several kinds to study their Yin Yang Energy and Profound Yellow Energy.
• Li Yu analyzed the He Transforms Freely Heavenly Demon’s accumulated Dao insights while the Netherworld Cult continued supplying him with demons to research.

After ten years of research and cultivation, Li Yu reached the Nascent Soul and traveled to the Seven Immortals Great World to observe Fang Qi, a young man with extraordinary fortune. Fang Qi’s broken engagement sent him toward a hidden inheritance, while Li Yu concealed himself nearby to watch what happened next.

• Li Yu reached the Nascent Soul after ten years, then left Xu Zhifei and the Netherworld Cult to travel to the Seven Immortals Great World.
• Li Yu arrived in Heavenly Origin Prefecture and heard that Fang Qi’s engagement to a talented young woman had been broken off.
• The young woman used a decree from her master, Pu Yuhua, to end the engagement, and Fang Qi accepted before deciding to return to the Fang family ancestral home.
• Li Yu followed Fang Qi to the ancestral home and discovered a Bone-Shedding and Marrow-Changing Pill, the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword, and the Mysterious Sun Dominion True Spirit Jade Tome hidden in a statue.
• Li Yu concealed himself near the ancestral home to observe Fang Qi, whose fortune he believed might lead him to the hidden inheritance.

Fang Qi found the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword and the Mysterious Sun Dominion True Spirit Jade Tome, then survived a black-robed cultivator’s attempt to kill him when lightning struck her through the sword. As Fang Qi claimed the woman as his concubine, Li Yu secretly altered her Karma Oath to see how she would react when she learned it did not bind her.

• Fang Qi’s blood awakened the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword hidden inside an ancestral statue, and the sword’s power drew a dark cloud toward the Fang family ancestral home.
• A black-robed woman arrived, blasted Fang Qi aside, and took the Mysterious Sun Dominion True Spirit Jade Tome and the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword for herself.
• When the woman swung the sword at Fang Qi, lightning struck through it and left her unconscious while Fang Qi remained unharmed.
• Fang Qi recovered the sword and demanded that the woman swear a Karma Oath to become his concubine or die, and she agreed.
• Li Yu observed Fang Qi’s growing fortune and secretly tampered with the woman’s Karma Oath, anticipating her reaction when she discovered it did not bind her.

Li Yu manipulated the karma between Fang Qi and Junior Sister Tan, bringing Senior Brother Wang to confront them and causing Fang Qi to lose his new concubine and the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword. Watching Fang Qi's fortune rise and fall helped Li Yu understand the Dao of Fortune and its connection to his Dao of Order.

• Li Yu saw Fang Qi reach the Out of Body realm after spending the night with Junior Sister Tan and used their karma to draw Senior Brother Wang to Luanyun Mountain.
• Senior Brother Wang found Junior Sister Tan with Fang Qi, and Fang Qi provoked him by calling her his concubine.
• Senior Brother Wang attacked Fang Qi, whose Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword broke his opponent's flying sword, but Fang Qi was badly injured and beaten.
• A battle between a fire dragon and a lightning giant sent shockwaves through the Fang family ancestral home, scattering Fang Qi and Senior Brother Wang.
• Fang Qi escaped down a mountain stream but lost Junior Sister Tan and the Heavenly Xin Seven Fiends Sword, while Li Yu observed that his fortune had declined.
• Li Yu recalled his divine sense avatars and combined their insights with Fang Qi's changing fortune to understand the Dao of Fortune as a complement to his Dao of Order.