Chapter Summaries

After Primordial Heavenly Venerate wiped out Tongtian’s disciples, Tongtian unleashed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and devastated the other armies, leaving the Saints to battle while Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan struck at their rivals. Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan then reached the ruins of Buzhou Mountain, where Hong Yun’s hidden cave appeared.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate annihilated Tongtian’s allied army and disciples, driving Tongtian into a berserk state.
• Tongtian unleashed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, wiping out the Buddhist, demon, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate forces except for Dizang and Jiufeng.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Tathagata, Nuwa, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate attacked Tongtian while Hongjun and Supreme struggled to keep the world intact.
• Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan used the Eastern Emperor Bell to immobilize their targets; Su Daji killed Haotian and left, while Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan killed Minghe and Kunpeng.
• Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan traveled to Buzhou Mountain’s ruins, where Zhenyuanzi found the hidden cave containing Hong Yun’s secret.

Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan discovered Hong Yun’s warning that Primordial Violet Qi was a great omen and that Saints were not truly alive. Zhenyuanzi claimed the qi through a gourd shard that secretly delivered it to Li Yu, whose system identified it as the Source of Chaos.

• Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan entered Hong Yun’s cave and triggered his message warning them not to use Primordial Violet Qi to become Saints.
• Zhenyuanzi and Kong Xuan wondered what Hong Yun meant by saying that Saints were not human and were dead, while Li Yu watched and decided to obtain the qi.
• Kong Xuan sensed danger from the Primordial Violet Qi and left without claiming it.
• Zhenyuanzi tried to seize the qi, but Hong Yun’s gourd shard drew it in and transferred it to Li Yu’s System Resource Library.
• Li Yu heard the system identify the Primordial Violet Qi as the Source of Chaos and questioned how that fit with his status as the Child of Chaos.

After recycling Primordial Violet Qi, Li Yu realized the Saints were likely beings who had descended from the Outer Realm and understood that his cultivation bottleneck came from lacking confidence. He severed the foundation of his Qi cultivation, advanced into Chaos, and left the Hong Huang world’s Saints and Hongjun in shock as a blade of matter and order struck him.

• Li Yu recycled the Primordial Violet Qi in the Soul Scattering Gourd Shard and discovered it contained a plane location marker, leading him to suspect the Saints were descended Outer Realm beings.
• Li Yu retrieved a strand of Primordial Violet Qi and understood it was the Source of Chaos and the insight he needed to advance.
• Li Yu realized he had been held back by a lack of confidence, then used the Spirit Severing Saber to cut off the foundation of his Qi cultivation.
• The disturbance stopped Tongtian, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Tathagata from commanding Heaven and Earth, while Hongjun was forced out of his state of uniting with the Dao.
• The Saints realized Li Yu had advanced as matter, energy, order, and laws shook, and a blade formed from their manifestations struck Li Yu’s head as a great existence appeared.

Li Yu advanced to the Second Step of Chaos, gained control of the Pearl of Origin, and defeated the eight Sages who tried to drive him from Hong Huang. He realized that at least ten powerful enemies remained, including a formidable Empress, and prepared to keep advancing.

• Li Yu transformed his Qi into Chaos and advanced to the Second Step, causing the Sages to stop fighting over the Pearl of Origin.
• Hongjun and the eight Sages agreed to join forces against Li Yu, but Li Yu appeared and declared that they could not escape.
• The Pearl of Origin recognized Li Yu as its owner, giving him control over Hong Huang and letting him destroy the eight Sages with one strike.
• The Descenders' souls self-destructed, so Li Yu could not obtain their memories, but he deduced that at least eight outsiders had descended and identified Tai Xuan Heavenly Emperor as one of them.
• Li Yu concluded that he faced at least ten Second Step enemies and a possibly Third Step Empress, then returned to normal with the Pearl of Origin in his possession.

Li Yu reclaimed the Hong Huang world, declared himself its ruler, and used his words to establish his divine authority and appoint new Saints. After settling his karmic ties, he left the four Saints to guard the world.

• Li Yu declared himself the lord of Hong Huang, and his title became branded in every living being’s soul as they rose at his command.
• Li Yu granted Zhenyuanzi Heaven’s mandate, making him a Saint, then revealed that he had once been Zhenyuanzi’s disciple Li Yu.
• Li Yu appointed Kong Xuan and Su Daji as Saints because of their karmic ties to him.
• Li Yu brought Li Qingshan before him, revealed that his mortal incarnation had been Li Qingshan’s son, and made him a Saint.
• Li Yu promised Shen Gongbao the chance to become a Saint after reincarnation, then departed and commanded the four Saints to guard Hong Huang.

After completing the Second Step of Chaos, Li Yu pondered whether he might be Pangu and investigated the mysteries of the Pearl of Origin. He entered the ruined Cangtian world and began tracing its past, only to be stunned by what he saw.

• Li Yu reflected that transforming his spirit into Chaos risked erasing his consciousness, memories, and sense of self.
• Li Yu discovered that the mundane world where he was born lay at the center of the Pearl of Origin and wondered whether he was Pangu.
• Li Yu sensed emotions from the ruined Pearl of Origin he had visited before and traveled there to investigate.
• Li Yu took control of the Pearl of Origin named Cangtian and learned that it was one of the Nine Heavens, while his own Pearl of Origin was Jun Tian.
• Li Yu found no consciousness in Cangtian and used his Time Tracing Divine Ability to investigate its destruction and the executed Silver Armored Divine Generals, then was stunned by what he saw.

Li Yu traced time to witness the Vast Heaven World’s destruction and learn that the Empress killed the Vast Heaven Great Emperor for defying her orders. He suspected her azure club was connected to the Cyan Wall and realized the Pearl of Origin he controlled might be her trophy.

• Li Yu saw the Empress destroy the Vast Heaven World with an azure spiked club and kill the Vast Heaven Great Emperor, who had tried to become the new Ruler.
• The Empress declared Vast Heaven a traitor and ordered the Silver Armored Divine Generals to be executed in a purge.
• Li Yu recognized similarities between the azure club and the Cyan Wall and its spikes, which he knew were objects of the Third Step of Chaos.
• Li Yu learned that the Ruler was dead, the Myriad Realms had lost their origin, and the Day of Annihilation threatened to erase everything, but he could not trace further into the past.
• Li Yu concluded that the dead Vast Heaven Great Emperor had intended to descend upon Hong Yun, then worried that the Pearl of Origin he controlled had belonged to the Empress.

Li Yu fled the Vast Heaven World after hearing the mysterious voice, then strengthened his forces by raising his subordinates to the Immortal Emperor realm and distributing treasures. He left Caiyi with insights into Chaos cultivation and turned his attention to finding a way to reach the Third Step of Chaos.

• Li Yu heard the mysterious voice again, left the Vast Heaven World, and returned to the Immortal Estate.
• Li Yu summoned the Immortal Court generals and used energy from the Dark Immortal Emperor and Pan Yu, along with his Dao enlightenment, to raise them and the dragon attendants to the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Li Yu distributed Hong Huang artifacts to the Immortal Court generals and stored the Saints' artifacts in the Immortal Estate treasury.
• Li Yu gave Caiyi a jade slip of his insights into Chaos cultivation and told her to use them as a reference for her own path.
• Li Yu began considering which world to visit next in order to experiment with reaching the Third Step of Chaos.

Li Yu searched for a way to transform his Divine Soul into Chaos without losing his identity and chose to study a world of faith-based gods. His arrival in the Abyss Sovereign World nearly destroyed it and accidentally triggered the gods’ loss of divine power.

• Li Yu concluded that Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian methods could not guide him through the Third Step of Chaos, which required transforming his Divine Soul into Chaos Void.
• Li Yu asked the system for worlds with useful approaches to the Divine Soul, and it suggested faith-based worlds, the Marvel World, and the Douluo World.
• Li Yu chose a faith-based world, and the system selected the Abyss Sovereign World, a world based on War of the Gods.
• Li Yu entered the world as a restrained avatar of Chaos, but his mere presence shook its laws and nearly caused the multiverse to collapse.
• Li Yu quickly compressed his power and stabilized the world, but his arrival had already caused the gods’ divine power to flicker and threatened to make them fall from their thrones.

Li Yu restrained his power and sent a divine-soul fragment into the game world, where he copied Sauron’s interface and secretly upgraded Black Dog Heath while healing Sauron. Sauron woke to find his dog had become a Transcendent Divine Beast and realized his own attributes were worse than Heath’s.

• Li Yu sealed most of his power, entered the Prime Material Plane as Avatar Void, and found the unconscious Sauron and Vivian in Amber City.
• Li Yu copied Sauron’s game interface to use as a model for controlling his divine-soul fragment’s power.
• Li Yu transformed the dying Black Dog Heath into a Transcendent Divine Beast and healed Sauron’s injuries and malnutrition.
• Sauron woke, embraced Vivian, and checked his attributes, noticing the unexplained constant trait Yu’s Blessing.
• Sauron inspected Heath’s attributes and was shocked that the dog surpassed him in several stats.

Li Yu possessed the dissolute noble Victor Saloon Antares and used Holy Light to establish the Way of Holy Light in the world, transforming Victor into a level-one Paladin with legendary attributes. He went to the castle’s training grounds to practice swordsmanship, where his younger brother Kamul and the knights doubted him.

• Li Yu chose Victor Saloon Antares, the son of Count Antares, as his identity and took over his body.
• Li Yu examined Victor’s attributes, then decided to pursue the power of order and establish a God of Order’s path rather than follow existing professions.
• Li Yu proclaimed the virtues of Holy Light and branded them into the world’s origin as laws of order.
• The world’s Holy Light source descended and transformed Victor’s body, raising all his attributes to 25 and making him a level-one Paladin aligned with Order Good.
• Li Yu went to the castle training grounds to practice the Salong Cross Sword Techniques, and Kamul and the knights reacted with disbelief.

Li Yu practiced with a training sword and rapidly reached legendary swordsmanship, stunning the knights and his younger brother Kamul. Count Antares watched from the castle and decided to give Victor the book Yilian had left behind.

• Li Yu lifted a heavy training sword with ease, then chose a one-handed cross sword and began refining the Salong Cross Sword Techniques.
• The knights laughed at Li Yu’s awkward first swings, and Kamul rejoiced that his older brother still seemed unfit to inherit the family title.
• Li Yu’s movements quickly became elegant and powerful as his swordsmanship rose to the legendary level and his body synchronized with his divine soul.
• Li Yu told the astonished knights that he had woken with an unexpected talent for swordsmanship, leaving Kamul devastated.
• Count Antares watched Li Yu from a castle window, wondered why he could not sense qi in Victor, and resolved to give him Yilian’s book.

Li Yu received his mother’s sword and Heart Sword Style manual from Count Antares, then studied how its will-based power worked. He decided to use that power to strengthen Holy Light and considered the secretly active Church of Fear a chance to reveal his abilities and begin his plan to become a god.

• Kamul grew jealous after witnessing Victor’s swordsmanship and vowed that the Antares family would belong to him.
• Count Antares examined Li Yu’s transformed body, credited its strength to his mother, and gave him her sword and cultivation manual.
• Li Yu rejected the manual’s Swordmaster profession advancement and decided to integrate its techniques into his Paladin template instead.
• Li Yu learned that Heart Sword Style used will and conviction to shape qi, and considered applying those principles to Holy Light abilities.
• Li Yu suspected that the Church of Fear could provide an opportunity to reveal Holy Light publicly, then noticed that an opportunity had arrived.

Kamul, furious that Victor had suddenly surpassed him in swordsmanship, agreed to help Bishop Liander’s demonic ritual in exchange for extraordinary talent and a chance to kill his brother. Li Yu watched the deal take shape and declared that the time for the Holy Light to emerge had arrived.

• Kamul resolved to seek help from a wandering wizard to kill Victor after learning of Victor’s swordsmanship.
• Sir Levin arrived with his mentor, Bishop Liander, and demonstrated his newly gained immense strength.
• Liander tempted Kamul with a gift from his lord, asking him to draw away the City Guard so they could sacrifice five commoners in a ritual.
• Kamul agreed to the bargain after Liander offered him the gift in advance, but demanded that Victor be killed.
• Liander agreed to capture Victor, while Li Yu observed Kamul’s residence and announced that the Holy Light’s time had come.

Kamul received demonic powers from Audris, the Fear Demon King, and believed he had gained a great advantage despite becoming one of the deity’s knights. Meanwhile, Li Yu went with Dean to a gathering that he recognized as a demonic trap, waiting for its conspirators to act.

• Bishop Liander led Kamul into the basement altar and summoned Audris, who granted Kamul supernatural strength and Fear Qi.
• Kamul tested his new abilities, then demanded that Liander fulfill their agreement by bringing Victor to him that night.
• Liander agreed and privately recognized Kamul as one of Audris’s Fear Knights.
• Dean invited Li Yu, posing as Victor, to meet a male elf, and Li Yu sensed that Dean was a demonic pawn luring him into a trap.
• Li Yu went along with Dean, carrying the Cloud-Slaying Sword and waiting for the trap to unfold.

Li Yu attended a gathering at Sir Levin's manor when Liander's ritual unleashed a citywide evil formation that flooded Amber City with Fear Qi. As Sauron went to investigate and Count Antares led his knights against the threat, Kamul confronted Li Yu and raised his executioner's sword to kill him.

• Li Yu watched skinned corpses rise as ritual nodes, and a scarlet formation spread across Amber City, drawing strength from the terror of its inhabitants.
• Sauron realized the destruction had begun months ahead of the plot he knew, told Vivian to stay home with Heath, and went to investigate.
• The city’s temples raised sacred refuges but could not overcome the Fear Demon King’s power.
• Count Antares rallied the Thorn Ring’s knights and led them out to fight the demons’ servants.
• Kamul taunted Li Yu with his power, then attacked him with his executioner's sword when Li Yu showed no fear.

Count Antares and the defenders fought the undead as Liander’s demonic forces overwhelmed the city, leaving the count near death and Victor desperate for power. Victor swore an oath to the Holy Light, received its power, and destroyed the demons and evil magic before resurrecting the unjustly slain civilians.

• Count Antares led the Thorn Ring Knights against the undead but was struck down by a Flesh Golem.
• Near death, Count Antares heard Victor cry out for the power to defeat evil and protect their homeland.
• Liander prepared to destroy the city with the Legendary Spell Meteor Burst while the temple defenders despaired.
• Victor swore to uphold the Way of Holy Light, and sacred power descended upon him.
• Victor’s Holy Light killed Liander, destroyed the evil magic formation, and cleansed the city.
• The Holy Light resurrected the civilians who had died unjustly in the catastrophe.

After Li Yu’s Holy Light Oath resonated with the Origin, he saved Amber City and inspired its people to worship him as the Holy Light Envoy. Sauron witnessed the miracle and questioned whether another transmigrator had changed the game’s storyline, then heard a system notification that seemed to answer his hopes for a membership.

• Li Yu’s Holy Light resonance startled the gods, who began considering descending into the mortal world to seek their own resonance with the Origin.
• Holy Light healed Amber City’s people, resurrected the dead, and led hundreds of thousands to praise Li Yu as the Holy Light Envoy.
• Li Yu sensed the people’s faith, stored it in the Cloud-Slaying Sword, and decided to study it later.
• Count Antares marvelled at Li Yu’s miraculous power, while temple priests and warriors struggled to reconcile it with Victor’s former reputation.
• Sauron compared the miracle with the game’s original storyline, suspected another transmigrator was involved, and heard a system notification that made him think he might be able to buy a membership.

Sauron discovered that Yu's Blessing granted powerful boosts but made stealth impossible, while Li Yu revealed Kamul had become a Fear Knight. Count Antares became a paladin to pursue his son's soul, and he named his new order the Thorn Ring Knights.

• Sauron activated Yu's Blessing and found that its powerful glow prevented him from using stealth.
• Li Yu showed Count Antares that Kamul had become a Fear Knight corrupted by the Fear Demon King, and said he could preserve Kamul's body but not recover his soul.
• Count Antares vowed to enter the abyss and reclaim Kamul's soul, then asked Li Yu how to become a paladin.
• Li Yu explained the virtues of Holy Light, and Holy Light recognized Count Antares's convictions of protection, redemption, and punishment.
• Count Antares became a paladin and used Exorcism on Kamul before declaring that he would make the Thorn Ring Knights a paladin order.

Li Yu analyzed how faith shaped divine power and tested its ability to amplify Holy Light. His experiment established a permanent Sacred Domain over Amber City, which left Sauron and Vivian suffering inside it.

• Li Yu observed Amber City's residents rebuilding the city and constructing a Great Holy Light Cathedral, then studied the faith gathered in the Cloud-Slaying Sword.
• Li Yu concluded that faith was a collective wish that could shape gods and their divine offices, and he considered capturing gods to investigate how they preserved their identities.
• Li Yu combined faith with Holy Light and sent the amplified power to the Thorn Ring Knights' garrison.
• Count Antares taught the knights the Eight Virtues of Holy Light as eight words appeared above Amber City and created a permanent Sacred Domain.
• Sauron and Vivian felt tormented by the Sacred Domain because their natures did not align with its goodness.