Chapter Summaries

Wu Heng brought Gu Qing Ling and Grandma Gu to Gu Qingsong, who revealed that he was Grandma Gu’s long-lost husband and the source of the Green Source that had harmed her family. Sou Shou arrived to rescue them and blasted Gu Qingsong into the forest after mistaking him for the Great Witcher.

• Wu Heng delivered Gu Qing Ling and Grandma Gu to the Azure Sky tree and received Green Source from its old face.
• Gu Qingsong revealed himself as Grandma Gu’s husband, explaining that he had survived as a Qing Song tree and sent Wu Heng to find her.
• Sou Shou arrived at the foothills and destroyed the Calamity Beasts attacking him as his All Attributes increased.
• Gu Qing Ling ran to Sou Shou, who comforted her before confronting Gu Qingsong.
• Gu Qingsong claimed to be the Great Witcher, and Sou Shou struck him with elemental power, sending him crashing into the forest.

Sou Shou learned that Gu Qingsong was Gu Qing Ling’s grandfather and discovered that the Backstage Manipulator had caused Lin Niang’s poisoning. After Sou Shou restored Gu Qingsong’s Origin Essence and helped him advance, a crack opened between the Calamity Beast Mountain Foothills and the Northern Meng Land, bringing in hundreds of cultivators.

• Lin Niang and Grandma Gu brought the injured Gu Qingsong out of the woods, and Gu Qing Ling learned he was her biological grandfather.
• Sou Shou questioned Gu Qingsong about Lin Niang’s poisoning, and Wu Heng admitted he had lured her there without knowing she was being poisoned.
• Gu Qingsong explained that he needed a Five-Colored Feather Pearl to restore his Origin Essence and help Lin Niang enter the Dao.
• Sou Shou absorbed a strand of Green Source, awakened Life Element Power and Soul Clone Revival, and restored Gu Qingsong’s Origin Essence while helping him break through.
• Sou Shou traveled around the mountain foothills for several days and increased his attributes, then a crack opened toward the Northern Meng Land and hundreds of cultivators rushed in.

Gu Qingsong helped Lin Niang and Gu Qing Ling enter the Dao while Sou Shou killed Beast Trap Palace disciples who attacked the Calamity Beast Mountain. Two months later, the Palace Masters captured Sou Shou and brought him before Gu Han Xue, but he broke free and pulled her into his arms.

• Gu Qingsong restored his Origin Essence, helped Lin Niang and Gu Qing Ling enter the Dao, and worked on creating a cultivation technique suited to Lin Niang.
• Sou Shou ambushed and killed a Beast Trap Palace elder and hundreds of disciples after they ignored his warning and attacked the area.
• Over the next two months, Sou Shou's attributes reached 57.2 million, while Lin Niang neared mastery of her cultivation technique.
• The resurrected disciples told the Beast Trap Palace Hall Masters about Sou Shou, and they captured him with an Elemental Cage.
• At the Beast Trap Palace, Sou Shou met Palace Master Gu Han Xue, broke the restraints, and pulled her into his arms.

Gu Han Xue recalled how her Master, Mo Ke Cang Tian, had abandoned her in the Chi World, and her memories triggered a violent attack on Sou Shou. After hearing her story, Sou Shou agreed to take her away, investigated an omen Oracle at Beast Trap Palace, and returned to the Calamity Beast Mountain Foothills, where Gu Qing Ling confronted him.

• Gu Han Xue remembered confessing to Mo Ke Cang Tian ten thousand years earlier and being cast into the Northern Meng Land, where she founded Beast Trap Palace and became a cultivation fanatic.
• Gu Han Xue froze the hall and attacked Sou Shou, but her Cold Sword shattered against him and he stopped her assault.
• Gu Han Xue told Sou Shou about her past and asked him to take her away from the Chi World, and he agreed.
• Sou Shou learned that the Chi World was a trial space divided into five regions and discovered that a black-robed Mysterious Person had left a Jade Token bearing an omen Oracle at Beast Trap Palace.
• Sou Shou left Beast Trap Palace, returned to the Calamity Beast Mountain Foothills, and Gu Qing Ling asked where he had been.

Sou Shou confronted the Black Shadow after the strange phenomena transformed Chi World, but a mysterious ray of light carried the Black Shadow away before Sou Shou could learn his purpose. Sou Shou absorbed Chi World and returned to the Azure Sea with Beast Trap Palace, where the Five-Colored Feather Fish’s Spirit Jade shattered, warning that Yu Yao was in danger.

• The Oracle of Strange Phenomena triggered years of disasters in Chi World, culminating in a vast ocean and six whirlpools that merged into a gateway.
• The Black Shadow emerged from the gateway, revealed that he had gathered Origin Essence, and tried to use Fusion on Sou Shou, but it had no effect.
• A ray of light seized the Black Shadow and vanished with him, while a mysterious voice told Sou Shou not to pursue and to merge with Chi World before returning to the Azure Sea.
• Sou Shou returned to Beast Trap Palace, reassured everyone that the Black Shadow had escaped, and decided they should leave Chi World.
• Sou Shou carried Beast Trap Palace to the Azure Sea and devoured Chi World, gaining more power.
• The Five-Colored Feather Fish prepared to visit Yu Yao, but his Spirit Jade shattered, and Sou Shou realized she was in danger.

Sou Shou arrived at the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion in time to save Yu Yao and defeat the green-eyed monsters, then discovered memories of a slaughter-filled Primordial Universe in the cauldrons. The Eight Cosmos Source Cauldron entered his body to control him, but instead became his possession and increased his power.

• Yu Yao and the disciples tried to evacuate the vulnerable residents, but an illusory formation trapped them as green-eyed monsters killed the defenders.
• Sou Shou arrived with Yu Yao's grandfather and the others, healed the unconscious Yu Yao, and saved the Prefect Lord and Elders by destroying the monsters and dispersing the black qi.
• Sou Shou examined the cauldrons, touched their black qi, and recovered memories depicting a Primordial Universe consumed by slaughter.
• The cauldrons fused into the Eight Cosmos Source Cauldron and entered Sou Shou's body, but Chi Yu's protection reversed its attempt to control him and made him its master.
• Sou Shou's attributes and powers awakened, his strength surged, and he returned to the cave dwelling where Yu Yao and the others were.

Sou Shou resolved his regret by climbing the Azure Palace's Illusory Ladder, then learned that black-robed figures had devastated the Liaoyuan Immortal Sea and traveled there with Chu Yunxu to investigate. As Sou Shou found only Darkness Qi at the ruined estate, another invasion was underway in the neighboring Ten Thousand Streams Immortal Sea.

• A black-robed figure lost control of the Eight Cosmos Source Cauldron after Sou Shou took in its Darkness Qi and decided to target the Liaoyuan Immortal Sea instead.
• Over ten years, the Catfish Clan and the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion lived together peacefully, and their descendants formed the Seven-Colored Catfish Clan.
• Sou Shou climbed the Illusory Ladder with ease, was recognized by the Azure Palace Hall Masters, and stayed at the palace for several days.
• Chu Yunxu arrived wounded and told Sou Shou that black-robed figures had nearly destroyed the Liaoyuan Immortal Sea and attacked him when he returned.
• Sou Shou healed Chu Yunxu and instantly transported them to the ruined family estate, where he sensed Darkness Qi but found no black-robed figures.
• In the Ten Thousand Streams Immortal Sea, a black-robed figure's forces slaughtered the inhabitants until an eight-legged creature attacked, but the figure wounded it with a treasure.

A Li recovered her memories and revealed that she was a Li Dragon with the gifts of Time and Mind Reading. After she sensed her Eighth Uncle was in danger, Sou Shou rescued him and captured the black-robed figure in a spatial cage, leaving him imprisoned inside Sou Shou.

• A Li restored Liaoyuan Immortal Sea with her Time gift, but the revived creatures had no memories of the black-robed figure’s attack.
• After recovering, A Li explained her gift and revealed that Li Dragons could read minds, then sensed that her Eighth Uncle was in danger.
• A Li brought Sou Shou to Ten Thousand Streams Immortal Sea, where Sou Shou saved the eight-legged monster and imprisoned the black-robed figure with Space Law.
• Sou Shou and the others killed the black-robed figure’s subordinates and returned to Liaoyuan Immortal Sea with Ba Mie, A Li’s Eighth Uncle.
• Sou Shou entered the space inside his body and told the imprisoned black-robed figure that his attacks could not break the restraints.

Sou Shou learned that A Li was billions of years old and had helped create life in the universe, then gained Chaos powers at the universe’s entrance. He discovered A Li’s parents were trapped in an illusion and went to investigate, leaving him searching for a way to save them.

• Sou Shou left the black-robed figure after learning that he sought Origin Essence and had no other purpose.
• A Li told Sou Shou that the Li Dragon Clan had fled their destroyed homeland, created life in the ocean universe, and then fallen into slumber.
• A Li led Sou Shou to the universe’s entrance, where touching the white expanse awakened Chaos powers and let him sense the universe and its inhabitants.
• Sou Shou sensed A Li’s parents, Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother, suffering in the Central Space, but kept his discovery from A Li and returned her to Chu Yun Estate.
• Sou Shou went to the Central Space and learned that a mysterious force had seized the couple’s consciousnesses and trapped them in a Nine Netherworld Illusion.

Sou Shou became the Central Space’s new universe controller after spending over a thousand years growing stronger, while the Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother were freed. His family and friends began recovering their memories of him and followed Ba Mie into the universe, where the Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother found a golden catfish newly hatched from an egg.

• Chi Yu returned Sou Shou to Cloud Void Manor and warned him to grow stronger before attempting to rescue the Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother.
• Sou Shou spent over a thousand years eliminating evil in the Upper Realm and raised his All Attributes to 999.9 billion.
• Sou Shou erased the karmic memories of Yu Yao and his other loved ones, then merged with the Central Space and became its new universe controller.
• The Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother regained their freedom, while A Li and the others began remembering Sou Shou and sought the universe entrance.
• Ba Mie opened a passage through the white mist, and the women followed him into the universe.
• A golden catfish hatched from a giant egg in the Central Space, and the Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother appeared and approved of him.

A Li found Sou Shou in Central Space, where he was still a golden catfish and did not recognize her; ten thousand years later, he transformed into human form and reunited with her. After learning that Yu Yao and the others had vanished into an Undersea Black Hole, Sou Shou searched the universe for them but found no trace.

• A Li visited the Dragon King Li and Li Dragon Mother, then found Sou Shou as a golden catfish and chased him until he grew comfortable playing with her.
• Yu Yao and the others were pulled into an Undersea Black Hole, where a Black Shadow told them there was no exit and guided them toward dark cultivation.
• Ten thousand years later, Sou Shou reached the peak of his cultivation, took human form, and reunited with A Li in Central Space.
• Sou Shou and A Li returned to Liaoyuan Immortal Sea, where Chu Yunxu told them Yu Yao and the others had gone to search for Sou Shou and entered the Undersea Black Hole.
• Sou Shou spread his senses across the universe but could find no trace of Yu Yao and the others.

Sou Shou and A Li found Yu Yao and the others in the Dark Abyss, where Ba Mie had just broken through. Sou Shou discovered his old talents were gone, but fused with his Li Dragon Bloodline and absorbed the Origin Essences, gaining powers of darkness, abyss, and emotion.

• Sou Shou and A Li were pulled into the Dark Abyss by a vortex of Darkness Qi while searching for Yu Yao and the others.
• Sou Shou found A Li, and they followed a burst of golden light to Ba Mie's breakthrough, where they reunited with Yu Yao and the others.
• Ba Mie finished breaking through, and the mysterious old man warned that he still could not escape the darkness.
• Sou Shou recalled how he had been revived and discovered that none of his former talents remained, though he carried part of the Li Dragon Bloodline.
• Sou Shou fused with the Li Dragon Bloodline and absorbed the peculiar Origin Essences, gaining powers of darkness, abyss, and emotion.

Sou Shou rescued Chang Sheng from the Dark Abyss, raised a family, and protected the Cosmic Nexus with help from his children. Meanwhile, the Future Self’s attempted devouring failed because Chi Yu had secretly taken control of the Land of Myriad Sources, while another Source Lord faced a crisis as Origin Essence vanished from the Time-Space Constant Source.

• Sou Shou recognized Chang Sheng as the Mysterious Person, agreed to free him, and led him and the others out of the Dark Abyss; Chang Sheng gave Sou Shou a dark talisman before leaving.
• Sou Shou returned to the Liaoyuan Immortal Sea, later settled in the Precious Appearance Great Hall with his pregnant beauties, and welcomed children who were born with extraordinary powers and received a gift from a mysterious senior.
• After Sou Shou resumed protecting the Cosmic Nexus, Black Qi attacked and devoured its Origin Essence, but his children struck it down and saved the nexus.
• The Future Self realized that his Black Qi had been repelled, checked the Land of Myriad Sources, and resolved to devour it before fusing with Sou Shou, unaware that Chi Yu had replaced it with an illusion and was taking the Origin Essence.
• Chi Yu left the Void Realm after Extreme Dao interrupted his discussion of Yin-Yang with his wives, then appeared in the Land of Myriad Sources and departed.
• A White-Haired Youthful Old Man discovered that Origin Essence had vanished from the Time-Space Constant Source, isolated it with Source Lord Isolation Authority, and then saw disasters begin across the tens of millions of universes under his rule.

The Source Lord dissolved his authority into thought power to restore the Ten Thousand Universes, and the Future Self sent Mandates of Heaven into the restored realms. In Lincang Universe, Yuan Qi awakened to his past as the Source Lord, cultivated in secret, and finally broke out of the Special Space into Revival Spirit Village.

• The Source Lord restored the shattered Ten Thousand Universes by dispersing his authority as thought-power avatars, and the Future Self cast Mandates of Heaven into the realms.
• The Sixth Clan Elder hid newborn Yuan Qi in a Special Space because his birth revealed signs of extraordinary power.
• At age six, Yuan Qi dreamed that he had been the Source Lord and told the Sixth Clan Elder, who gave him a calming pill and kept him hidden.
• A thought-power spirit in a tree explained Yuan Qi’s dreams and helped him begin cultivating with the Jade Tower in his body.
• After six years of secret cultivation, Yuan Qi shattered the Special Space’s concealment array and stepped into the village.

Yuan Qi reunited with his parents after learning the Sixth Clan Elder had taken him away as an infant, and his family left the village to live in a forest cave. There, Yuan Qi fought a mysterious woman and found a Jade Ring among the remains of men she had killed.

• Yuan Qi recognized the middle-aged woman as his mother after she identified his infant swaddling cloth, and he reunited with his father as well.
• The Sixth Clan Elder demanded that Yuan Qi return to the Special Place, but his parents challenged his claim that Yuan Qi was inauspicious and decided to leave the village with him.
• Yuan Qi's family moved south and settled in a cave in a dense forest, where he cultivated alone.
• Yuan Qi came across a woman in white fighting men in Green Robes, and he battled her after she attacked him for witnessing the fight.
• The woman fled when she had something urgent to do, and Yuan Qi searched the dead men, found their belongings and manuals, and discovered a Jade Ring before returning to the cave.

After eating a spirit beast, Yuan Qi's family gained strength but were driven from their forest home by a much larger beast. They went to Gan City, where Yuan Qi's Father decided to join the Purple Sun Sect, and he approached one of its Elders as the sect arrived.

• Yuan Qi's family ate a spirit beast and woke after two days covered in filth, with rejuvenated appearances and greatly increased strength.
• A giant beast attacked Yuan Qi's family, who escaped the forest when it refused to pursue them beyond its boundary.
• Yuan Qi's family traveled to Gan City, while the Green Robed Old Man followed them from the forest.
• Yuan Qi's Father heard that the Purple Sun Sect would recruit disciples in Gan City and decided to join with Yuan Qi and his Mother.
• When the Purple Sun Sect arrived, Yuan Qi recognized the woman who had threatened to kill him, and his Father approached the disciples to speak with an Elder.
• A gray-robed Elder appeared before Yuan Qi's Father and asked what he wanted to discuss.

Yuan Sheng and his family met Ling Yuan and Ling Lin in Gan City, where Yuan Sheng joined the Purple Sun Sect and the group arranged to hunt the Black Scale Four Symbols. After they killed the beast in Purple Garden Forest, a Green Robed Old Man confronted Yuan Qi for leaving the village without telling him.

• Yuan Qi was recognized by Ling Lin, who explained their earlier fight to her grandfather, Ling Yuan.
• Ling Yuan told Yuan Sheng that the Black Scale Four Symbols lived in Purple Garden Forest, and Yuan Sheng revealed that he had fought the beast before.
• Yuan Sheng agreed to join the Purple Sun Sect, and Ling Yuan promised to recommend him to the sect master.
• City Lord Zhang arranged for local youths to be assessed; Ling Yuan accepted several for further testing, including two ordinary youths with talent.
• Ling Yuan and the group traveled to Purple Garden Forest and attacked the Black Scale Four Symbols after it charged Yuan Sheng.
• A Green Robed Old Man killed the beast with Natural Power, then scolded Yuan Qi for leaving the village without telling him.

Yuan Qi returned to the Purple Sun Sect, where his father was appointed Tower Hall Elder and the newly built hall awakened a system in Yuan Qi. After the system revealed a mission to kill Sect Master Lin Yang, Yuan Qi discovered Wood Sea Mountain had vanished and learned they had fused, leaving him to seek other thought powers and investigate Lin Yang.

• Wood Sea Mountain posed as Yuan Qi's sworn brother, and Ling Yuan led the group back to the Purple Sun Sect after their stay in the City Lord's Mansion.
• Sect Master Lin Yang established Tower Hall and appointed Yuan Qi's Father as its elder; half a month later, Yuan Qi's family and Wood Sea Mountain moved into the completed hall.
• The Tower Hall's fortune activated a system in Yuan Qi, which issued missions to recruit disciples and find thought powers while increasing his cultivation by one major realm.
• The system identified Lin Yang, Chen Xing, and Zhang San as False Heaven's Mandates and ordered Yuan Qi to kill them; Yuan Qi chose to investigate rather than act immediately.
• Yuan Qi found Wood Sea Mountain missing and heard that they had been one body, then headed to observe Lin Yang in secret.

Yuan Qi killed the False Heaven's Mandate possessing Lin Yang, revived the real sect master, and gained powerful rewards. He then investigated two more False Heaven's Mandates, Chen Xing and Zhang San, and decided to follow them to find additional mental powers.

• Lin Yang boasted about collecting mental powers for the Source Lord until Yuan Qi secretly appeared and seized all three strands from him.
• Yuan Qi killed the False Heaven's Mandate possessing Lin Yang, destroyed its soul, and revived the real Lin Yang, earning the Three Aspects Divine Body and Constant Source Law Power.
• Lin Yang offered to take Yuan Qi as his disciple, but Yuan Qi asked for a day to consider, then left Purple Sun Hall with Ling Lin.
• Yuan Qi investigated Chen Xing and Zhang San and saw them open a hidden portal in the rear mountain and kneel before it.
• Yuan Qi chose to follow Chen Xing and Zhang San to locate more mental powers before killing them.

Yuan Qi secretly followed Chen Xing to the lake, killed the Turtle Spirit Prefect Lord, and impersonated him to infiltrate the Dragon Palace. After becoming involved with Qing Ling, he revealed the plot against her fourth brother, and she hurried to warn their father.

• Yuan Qi followed Chen Xing to a lake, where Chen Xing met the Turtle Spirit Prefect Lord and discussed binding Qing Zhuan and searching for other consciousnesses.
• Yuan Qi killed the Prefect Lord, copied his appearance and memories, and learned that the Prefect Lord planned to use a rescued prisoner to rebel against the Dragon King and capture Qing Zhuan.
• Yuan Qi entered Turtle Spirit Prefecture, where Qing Ling confronted him; he eventually revealed his true form to her, and they spent the night together.
• Qing Ling explained that the Dragon King had sent her to investigate the Prefect Lord, believing his Turtle Spirit Saint Law made her safe from him.
• Yuan Qi told Qing Ling that Qing Zhuan was an incarnation of his consciousness and warned her that the rescued prisoner was nearing the end of his cultivation and would soon return for revenge.
• Qing Ling realized the Dragon Palace was in danger and rushed to tell her father.