Chapter Summaries

Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Qu Jianlei reached an agreement with two True Venerables of the Yelang Realm to protect the small world's cultivators, but Han Li then revealed their plan to fuse the realms. The Yelang True Venerables withdrew to protect their realm, and three days later a fluctuation rippled through its starry sky.

• The two Yelang True Venerables asked the outsiders to judge their internal conflict, but Han Li refused to interfere and required them to guarantee the small world's cultivators' rights.
• Han Li produced the small world, and the Yelang True Venerables recognized its Boundary Membrane and thought it might become their Lower Realm.
• Han Li told the Yelang True Venerables to step aside because he intended to fuse the realms, prompting them to object to the danger and disruption.
• Xiaoyou explained that Han Li and Qu Jianlei were the principals behind the dispute and revealed that they had struck down a Great Monarch.
• The two Yelang True Venerables withdrew to protect their realm, and three days later a fluctuation spread through the Yelang Realm's starry sky.

The world fusion caused prolonged fluctuations and panic in the Yelang Realm, while its True Venerables could only watch from a distance. As the fusion continued, Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed the Forgotten Peninsula, and Han Li threatened the Yelang True Venerables when they tried to divine when the process would end.

• A giant Spider Phantom barred the two Yelang True Venerables from approaching the fusion, and they recognized it as a Grand Lord and retreated.
• After the fluctuations intensified, paused, and surged again, Xiaoyou reassured the Yelang True Venerables that the fusion would not grow more violent; Han Li later estimated that the initial fusion would take about two years and full stabilization around two hundred.
• Qu Jianlei reflected on the difficulty of the fusion and the Forgotten Peninsula, while Han Li considered investigating its world convergence; Xiaoyou offered to protect them if she reached the Soul-Splitting Realm, and Han Li challenged her confidence.
• The Spider Grand Monarch remained silent as the Yelang True Venerables cautiously tried to divine when the fusion would end, but Han Li appeared and warned them against divining cultivators of their rank.
• When a Yelang True Venerable explained that the prolonged disturbance was causing panic, Han Li told them to attack the small realm if they wished and said he wanted to try destroying a Middle Thousand World.

Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Xiaoyou discovered a powerful being undergoing Assimilation into the Dao on the Lost Plate and realized its aura was influencing their judgment. Han Li launched the first attack, freezing the entire plate as the two local True Venerables watched in alarm.

• The Yelang Realm’s True Venerables warned their people that the disasters would likely continue for about two years, and more than a year passed as the disturbances spread across nearly half the realm.
• A powerful aura erupted on the Lost Plate, prompting Qu Jianlei and Xiaoyou to hurry there while the local True Venerables alerted the central region.
• Qu Jianlei identified the presence as Assimilation into the Dao, and he, Xiaoyou, and Han Li hesitated as they sensed the rare insight it might offer.
• A mysterious voice warned them that the being’s influence was affecting their judgment, and Qu Jianlei realized they had been bewitched.
• Han Li released his Cold Qi Domain and froze living beings across the Lost Plate, leaving two distant True Venerable avatars stunned that the group had attacked.

Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Qu Jianlei attacked a Human Race cultivator undergoing Assimilation into the Dao, using Han Li’s control field and Xiaoyou’s Years Divine Ability to disrupt his aim. Their opponent adjusted to the temporal distortion and began targeting them more accurately, leaving Xiaoyou to prepare a Jade Talisman.

• Two True Venerable Realm cultivators from Yelang Realm debated whether to help, then recognized the time distortion caused by Xiaoyou’s Years Divine Ability.
• Han Li used his field to restrain the quasi-Soul-Splitting Realm being and create an opening for Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei.
• Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei combined their abilities with Han Li’s, disrupting the being’s perception of time and causing its attacks to miss by millions of kilometers.
• The being’s misdirected attacks struck distant points, while Qu Jianlei refused Xiaoyou’s request to call the Spider Grand Monarch against a likely Human Race cultivator.
• The being adjusted its aim and sent its next attacks closer to the three True Venerables, so Xiaoyou took out a square Jade Talisman.

Xiaoyou, Han Li, and True Venerable Qu coordinated their abilities against the quasi Spirit Severing Grand Lord, disrupting his Assimilation into the Dao. Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei combined their Years Divine Abilities with Qu Jianlei’s Creation and Destruction, leaving the enemy caught in shifting flows of time.

• Xiaoyou prepared her Jade Talisman while Han Li released a Soul-Splitting Level Palace, disrupting the Grand Lord’s accelerated Assimilation into the Dao.
• Qu Jianlei opened his right eye and revealed his Creation and Destruction Divine Ability, while Xiaoyou continued her Years Divine Ability.
• Han Li recognized the danger of combining similar abilities and warned Xiaoyou that an attack could be transferred onto Qu Jianlei.
• Xiaoyou said her Years attack had already landed and alternated between speeding up and slowing down the flow of time.
• Qu Jianlei divided the affected area with Xiaoyou, and she extended and withdrew her influence to intensify the tearing effect on the Grand Lord’s Assimilation into the Dao.

Qu Jianlei, Xiaoyou, and Han Li kept a quasi–Great Monarch trapped in a prolonged battle while Qu Jianlei used Creation and Destruction to resist Assimilation into the Dao. After the enemy engulfed Qu Jianlei in Gray Radiance and the Creation Compass absorbed it, Han Li vanished with the Palace and challenged Xiaoyou to take over his world-merging work.

• Qu Jianlei and Xiaoyou coordinated their attacks through shifting time while Han Li complained that they were neglecting his world-merging task.
• Qu Jianlei warned that his Creation and Destruction reserves were limited, and Han Li cautioned him about the risk of being drawn into Assimilation into the Dao.
• After twelve days of grinding down the enemy, the quasi–Great Monarch asked whether the group had offended him, and Qu Jianlei answered that he wanted to know the same about his opponent.
• The enemy suddenly attacked Qu Jianlei with a vast streak of Gray Radiance, which enveloped him in a huge cocoon despite Xiaoyou preparing to intervene.
• Qu Jianlei's Creation Compass emerged and absorbed the Gray Radiance until it vanished, after which Han Li made the Palace and the group disappear.
• Han Li left Xiaoyou a message challenging her to take over his world-merging task or let him continue.

Qu Jianlei recovered from his battle with the Gray Radiance True Venerable, confirmed that he had not been affected by Assimilation into the Dao, and reflected on what he had gained. Xiaoyou proposed that she and Qu Jianlei become the Twin Venerables of Time, prompting the Handsome Youth to appear and challenge her.

• Qu Jianlei asked Missy whether he was still himself, then checked for lingering Assimilation into the Dao with the Dao Stele, Mohong, Black Blade, and the Heroic Spirits.
• An obsession summoned by Violent Obsession confirmed that Qu Jianlei had not been affected and hinted that he had already met someone from the Righteous Sect.
• Qu Jianlei told Xiaoyou that the fallen True Venerable's Abode had become heaven and earth and confirmed that the opponent had died.
• Xiaoyou pressed Qu Jianlei to admit that their cooperation had been pleasant, and he said they should work together again.
• Xiaoyou urged Qu Jianlei to cooperate with her more than Han Li and declared that they would be the Twin Venerables of Time.
• The Handsome Youth appeared and asked Xiaoyou what she had said.

Han Li and Xiaoyou finished fusing two worlds and argued over their rivalry and feelings for Qu Jianlei. They learned Qu Jianlei had left for another world, then waited near Jing Yuexin while discussing their ambitions and the Dao paths ahead.

• Xiaoyou called herself and Han Li the Twin Venerables of Time and vowed to help Jing Yuexin become a True Venerable, prompting Qu Jianlei to leave them to fuse the worlds.
• Han Li and Xiaoyou spent more than half a year completing the fusion, then learned Qu Jianlei had gone to the Wanwu Realm with True Venerable Qingkong.
• Han Li found Jing Yuexin still comprehending the void outside the Cangwu Realm and suggested that he and Xiaoyou pretend to be Dao Companions until Qu Jianlei returned.
• Han Li and Xiaoyou discussed Jing Yuexin's cultivation and their own ambitions, each declaring confidence in surpassing the other while refusing to undermine her Dao path.
• Xiaoyou asked where Qu Jianlei had gone, and Han Li admitted he did not know.

Han Li and Xiaoyou waited for Qu Jianlei, then reunited with him and the other True Venerables to discuss searching for more Otherworlds. The group learned that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou had killed a Great Monarch and gained a small Middle Thousand World, leaving the Lianxing visitors stunned.

• Han Li learned from Bentley that Qu Jianlei had gone to another world to prepare for a major matter, and Xiaoyou refused to abandon her search for him.
• Xiaoyou and Han Wei left, then returned with Han Li after making plans together.
• Three days later, Qu Jianlei appeared after Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Han Wei revealed that they had been waiting for him.
• Han Li suggested that the group search for more Otherworlds, while Qingkong and Jin Ge shared that they had gathered clues in the Forgotten Peninsula.
• Han Li gave Qu Jianlei a Light Orb containing a small Middle Thousand World, and explained that they had killed a Great Monarch during its acquisition.
• The True Venerables from Lianxing Realm were shocked to hear that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou had defeated a Great Monarch.

Qu Jianlei discussed the delayed benefits of the Yelang Realm’s merger and resisted pressure to investigate more anomalous worlds. He finally revealed that Jing Yuexin was the only Obsession on his Dao Path, making clear why he could not leave her breakthrough unattended.

• Qu Jianlei learned that his role in killing the quasi-Great Monarch and merging the small realm had earned him greater Territory Joy, though he had left before receiving the full benefit.
• Qu Jianlei refused to deal with the lingering Assimilation into the Dao, citing the danger it could pose to the World Convergence Point.
• The Grand Protector warned that Jing Yuexin’s situation was becoming riskier now that Qu Jianlei’s group was known to be guarding the place, and Qingkong insisted the others needed Qu Jianlei’s help.
• True Venerable Qigou argued that many worlds held anomalies worth investigating, while Xiaoyou and True Venerable Han Wei cited dangerous places in their own realms.
• Han Li proposed continuing their Dao Discussion elsewhere, and True Venerable Qigou offered information about other worlds that the Lianxing Realm had collected.
• Qu Jianlei declared that the person attempting a breakthrough was the only Obsession on his Dao Path, explaining why he could not leave her.

Qu Jianlei changed how he led the True Venerables, organizing them into teams to investigate Otherworlds while arranging protection for Jing Yuexin. As the teams began operating, he reviewed possible worlds to explore and promised to keep an avatar present, though he hinted he might have another plan.

• Qu Jianlei accepted Baiqiao's help but said Jing Yuexin would not break through in Lingyun.
• Qingning and Qing'er arrived and volunteered to protect Jing Yuexin, while Song Yue'er and Xiwu sought a share in the arrangements through Han Li.
• Qu Jianlei assigned nine True Venerables to teams, with three teams investigating worlds and Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou holding down Cangwu Realm's void.
• Bai Qiao learned that Qu Jianlei had organized the True Venerables into a coordinated system for exploring Otherworlds and reflected on the authority and trust that required.
• Qu Jianlei reviewed information on potential worlds and proposed that the teams investigate them, then promised an avatar would remain present while leaving his other plans unstated.

Qu Jianlei moved a Tier 5 Spirit Vein into a newly gathered minor realm, then prepared to use the creation-and-destruction aura he had comprehended in the Yelang Realm to baptize Jing Yuexin. Han Li and Xiaoyou observed as Qu Jianlei began the process, whose unusual potential for strengthening Nirvana surprised them.

• Song Yue'er and Xiwu joined Jin Ge and Qingkong's expeditions to other Otherworlds, while Han Wei invited True Venerable Yueran to accompany him and Xiaoyou.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent over a year moving Houde Realm's Tier 5 Spirit Vein into the Space Interlayer, exchanging cultivation ideas as other True Venerables joined their practical Dao discussion.
• Qu Jianlei declined Han Li's suggested uninhabited plates and instead found a desolate minor realm in the void to serve as the spirit vein's foundation.
• After Jing Yuexin emerged from seclusion, Qu Jianlei escorted her to Qingning's Spirit Vein and prepared to baptize her with the creation-and-destruction aura he had gained in the Yelang Realm.
• Qu Jianlei began the baptism to strengthen Jing Yuexin's Nirvana, while Han Li and Xiaoyou watched and reacted with surprise at the method's potential.

Qu Jianlei and his companions moved Jing Yuexin to True Venerable Tianli's spirit vein, then encountered a surge of Heavenly Demons and a strange aura of the world's end outside the Cangwu Realm. Han Li and Xiaoyou fought the swarm while Qu Jianlei used the Creation Compass to draw out the corrosive presence, and the group suspected a hidden mastermind was watching them.

• Qu Jianlei completed his aid to Jing Yuexin, and the four secretly transferred to True Venerable Tianli's spirit vein so she could make her final preparations for secluded cultivation.
• When Qu Jianlei considered revisiting the magic world, Han Li warned him that the Great Expert who had plundered Spirit Essence might belong to the Righteous Sect.
• Qu Jianlei sensed Heavenly Demons and a decaying aura of the world's end outside the Cangwu Realm, and Xiaoyou attacked the approaching swarm with a wall of azure lotuses.
• Han Li expanded his Extreme Cold Field over the Heavenly Demons while Xiaoyou continued fighting, but they noticed the swarm was unusually weak and its corrosive aura could damage Han Li's field.
• Qu Jianlei summoned the Creation Compass, which absorbed strange, contradictory auras from the devil qi as Han Li and Xiaoyou realized some existence might be watching them.

Qu Jianlei used the Creation Compass to absorb the decaying aura of the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe, drawing on what he had learned from fighting the Quasi-Great Monarch. As the compass acted, Han Li and Xiaoyou discussed how other divine abilities related to creation and destruction, and a mysterious voice brought up Ice and fire, Nine Heavens.

• Qu Jianlei reflected on how his battle with the Quasi-Great Monarch had taught him to distinguish creation and destruction from Assimilation into the Dao, and how the Creation Compass could absorb dangerous auras he could not safely take in.
• Qu Jianlei tested whether the Creation Compass would absorb the decaying aura in the Heavenly Devil Qi, then persuaded it to act by threatening to use the Right Eye.
• The Creation Compass began absorbing the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe's aura, easing Han Li's concern as he praised Qu Jianlei's growing control of the treasure.
• Qu Jianlei explained to Han Li and Xiaoyou that the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe, Assimilation into the Dao, and Nirvana were related to the Great Dao of Creation and Destruction, though they were not identical.
• Xiaoyou offered to demonstrate Wither and Flourish, but Qu Jianlei said he was seeking more substantial manifestations of the Great Dao; Han Li then asked whether Cold and Heat could help.
• A mysterious voice suggested that Ice and fire, Nine Heavens could separate Yin-Yang and decide life and death.

Qu Jianlei and his companions fought off a Heavenly Devil invasion while a mysterious dying Grand Lord watched them and then withdrew. After learning the enemy’s karma was obscured and securing Taiyuan Sea’s promise to protect Jing Yuexin, Qu Jianlei decided to investigate the Heavenly Devil Nest, with Han Li and Xiaoyou joining him.

• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou blocked the Heavenly Devil Qi mass for several days, killing three Out-of-Body Heavenly Demons as a hidden watcher observed them.
• After the watcher fled, Qu Jianlei and his companions spent ten more days clearing the remaining heavenly devils.
• Qu Jianlei collected roughly a hundred wisps of Heavenly Devil Qi and proposed searching for the Heavenly Devil Nest.
• Qu Jianlei divined with a wisp of Heavenly Devil Qi and discovered that all related karma had been obscured, suffering a significant backlash.
• Miss confirmed that Lingyun knew something about the watcher’s background and promised that Lingyun could protect Jing Yuexin.
• Qu Jianlei decided to pursue the investigation, and Han Li and Xiaoyou volunteered to go with him.

Qu Jianlei and his companions followed clues about the heavenly devils to Qiuzhen Realm, where they discovered a likely route through the Vortex Clouds. They set out to investigate and approached the realm’s wary cultivators, leaving True Venerable Fuhua to sense their arrival.

• Han Li reported that the World Envoy knew nothing about the heavenly devils, so Qu Jianlei decided to wait for the Creation Compass to guide them.
• After three months, Qingkong returned with a group carrying an aura that matched the sealed devil qi, and the six decided to investigate Qiuzhen Realm.
• The group traveled for half a year to Qiuzhen Realm and found Human Race cultivators guarding its passage alongside nearby Heavenly Devil Qi.
• Qu Jianlei and Qingkong divined that the Heavenly Devils had come through the Vortex Clouds, and Xiaoyou sensed they shared the same origin.
• Qu Jianlei chose to approach the Qiuzhen Realm cultivators before entering the Vortex Clouds, while True Venerable Fuhua sensed someone nearby and demanded to know who was there.

True Venerable Xiwu and her companions arrived in Qiuzhen Realm to settle karma and enter the Vortex Clouds to fight the Heavenly Devils. After the Spider’s Great Monarch status prompted the local True Venerables to cooperate, Qu Jianlei challenged their motives and demanded assurances that they would not oppose the outsiders.

• True Venerable Xiwu told True Venerable Fuhua that her group had come to settle karma, and Fuhua changed from hostile to eager to cooperate after sensing the Spider’s Great Monarch aura.
• Fuhua summoned the other four incense True Venerables, who gathered at the Channel Entrance and learned that the visitors planned to enter the Vortex Clouds.
• True Venerable Yanqi explained that Qiuzhen Realm’s five Human Race True Venerables and roughly twenty Out-of-Body Heavenly Devils had maintained a fragile stalemate.
• Qu Jianlei said he feared the local True Venerables relied on the Heavenly Devils to sustain their incense, and he warned that his group would not tolerate hostility while fighting them.
• Yanqi denied that the situation was so simple and said people of the same race would still fight over incense even without external enemies.

Qu Jianlei and his companions secured the Qiuzhen Realm True Venerables’ agreement not to interfere in their revenge against the Heavenly Demons, then prepared to attack a concealed Heavenly Demon Middle Thousand World through the Vortex Clouds. The Mountain-Felling Great Array’s first strikes made the Vortex Clouds shake and begin expanding, leaving the group to see what the next attacks would cause.

• Han Li pressured the Qiuzhen Realm True Venerables to promise they would not interfere, and Qu Jianlei revealed that their mission was to seek revenge on Heavenly Demons of the same source.
• After learning that the target was a concealed Heavenly Demon Middle Thousand World, Qu Jianlei and Han Li prepared to attack through the Vortex Clouds.
• Qu Jianlei set up a Mountain-Felling Great Array while the Five True Venerables watched and questioned the risks of disturbing the Vortex Clouds.
• Qu Jianlei activated the array, and its first two attacks made the Vortex Clouds tremble before the second strike caused them to shake violently and start expanding.
• The array launched a third, narrower beam into the Vortex Clouds.

Qu Jianlei and the True Venerables contained the surging Heavenly Devil Qi until Qingkong's Five-Colored Butterfly absorbed it and opened a path through the Vortex Clouds. The six True Venerables entered the gap, while the Incense Fire Five remained behind to guard the formation.

• Qu Jianlei activated the Lockdown Array to restrain the churning Vortex Clouds, but the Spider Grand Monarch and Creation Compass refused to absorb the damaged Heavenly Devil Qi.
• True Venerable Xiwu entered the array and used her Array Plates to guide the Heavenly Devil Qi into an Illusion Array, keeping it contained for several days.
• Xiaoyou said the Devil Qi had become more regular, and Han Li urged the group to charge through rather than keep divining.
• Qingkong sent the Five-Colored Butterfly through the gap, and it rapidly absorbed the Devil Qi and chaotic energy, revealing a hole seventy to eighty kilometers wide.
• The six True Venerables entered the opening, while Kunxiu and the other Incense Fire True Venerables stayed behind to guard the Lockdown Array.

Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables entered a strange Heavenly Devil Middle Thousand World, killed its Out-of-Body Heavenly Demons, and considered how to investigate or claim the world. With its strongest demons gone, the realm descended into infighting.

• True Venerable Xiwu dispelled an illusion that concealed countless Devil Qi Clusters, and Han Li froze them while True Venerable Qigou used his Setting Sun Divine Ability to kill the demons over five days.
• Qu Jianlei and the others left the area around the hole and discussed the world’s strange Boundary Membrane, its many holes, and the possibility of collecting it.
• The six True Venerables formed three teams and silently killed the Out-of-Body Heavenly Devils throughout the realm.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li stopped the group from immediately wiping out the remaining demons so they could investigate what lay beyond the countless holes.
• After the Out-of-Body Heavenly Devils disappeared, Nascent Soul Realm demons began stirring up trouble, and the Heavenly Devil Realm fell into chaos and infighting.