Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei brought the group from Lianxing into Yuxiu to find a safe place where he could work on the Dao Stele. At a remote chaotic Energy Mass, he unsealed the Dao Stele in stages and discovered that its back half had grown stronger even as its front half weakened.

• Qu Jianlei told True Monarch Kong Yu that Yuxiu was Lianxing after its tribulation, and Kong Yu asked about the Prophecy and the visitors from Kanshui.
• The group prepared to leave Lianxing, leaving avatars behind except for True Monarch Qiaoqi, whose main body had to remain there, then entered Yuxiu with the Old Woman concealing their auras.
• Mobius Ring and the others surveyed possible locations in Yuxiu, and they chose a remote chaotic Energy Mass after the Dao Stele reacted strongly to it.
• The group entered the Energy Mass, concealed their presence, and completed divination checks before Qu Jianlei brought out the Creation Compass and began unsealing the Dao Stele.
• After opening the first two seals, Qu Jianlei saw that the Dao Stele's front half had weakened while its back half had grown stronger, then opened the third seal in anticipation of a greater change.

Qu Jianlei undid the Dao Stele’s fourth Seal, revealing a powerful Fate Dao aura that prompted the gathered Great Monarchs to debate its nature and the danger it posed to Yuxiu World. As the Dao Stele absorbed energy, it granted Qu Jianlei’s Phantom a protective aura identified as Dao Luck, and the young lady warned him not to let the Great Dao Lunyin sound.

• Qu Jianlei opened the Dao Stele’s fourth Seal, and its violent aura broke through his defenses before the others contained it.
• Human Head, Little Sister, and the other Great Monarchs debated whether the aura came from a Fate Dao treasure, whether Qu Jianlei commanded the True Meaning of Fate, and whether the artifact might drain Yuxiu World’s Spirit Essence.
• Qu Jianlei continued, and the Dao Stele absorbed energy from the Chaotic Energy while sending a mysterious aura into his body.
• Qu Jianlei passed the aura to his Phantom, where it formed a Defensive Qi Membrane and eased the pressure.
• True Monarch Boping, True Monarch Jiuping, True Monarch Wuchen, and the young lady identified the aura as a form of Luck Blessing or Dao Luck, and the young lady warned Qu Jianlei to prevent the Great Dao Lunyin from sounding.

Qu Jianlei undid a fifth Seal on the Dao Stele and, with the True Monarchs’ help, greatly increased its absorption of the Chaotic Energy Mass. The group reduced the estimated absorption time to five or six years, and Old Woman asked whether they could push the process further despite the risk of uncontrollable reactions.

• Qu Jianlei sensed the Dao Stele urging him to release more Seals, then opened the fifth Seal after warning it to remain under control.
• The Dao Stele kept its aura orderly, but Qu Jianlei’s increased suction formed a vortex and disturbed the Energy Mass.
• Little Sister estimated that absorption would take eighty to a hundred years, so Old Woman asked to accelerate it and Mobius Ring promised compensation.
• True Monarch Wenshi offered a Small World and True Monarch Qingxia offered a Middle Thousand World as resources for Qu Jianlei.
• The True Monarchs and True Venerables strengthened their concealment and containment efforts, cutting the estimated time to absorb the Spirit Essence to five or six years.
• Old Woman asked whether Qu Jianlei could increase the absorption further, and the phantom warned that the resulting reactions might no longer be containable.

Qu Jianlei opened the Dao Stele’s seventh Seal layer, sharply increasing the energy he absorbed and forcing the team to help shield him from its dangerous impurities. The chapter ended with him enduring the torment while refusing to use Shaman Cultivator body refinement, which he said would contend against fate.

• Mobius Ring argued that the team could not hide the anomaly for years and urged them to take a bolder step; the others agreed, and Qu Jianlei prepared to undo another Seal layer.
• Qu Jianlei released the Creation Compass as he opened the seventh layer, causing a stronger aura and suction that the team struggled for over ten minutes to stabilize.
• True Monarch Wuchen calculated that Qu Jianlei might need seven or eight months to absorb the energy, while warning that accumulating negative elements posed the greatest danger.
• The young lady manifested the Taiyuan Sea to shield Qu Jianlei, but she and the Great Shaman acknowledged that even their protections could not block all high-dimensional elements.
• Qu Jianlei rejected manifesting the broken Dao Stele because it would absorb energy uncontrollably and cause a much larger disturbance; he also refused to use Shaman Cultivator body refinement because its arts contended against fate.

Qu Jianlei endured the Energy Mass’s negative energy and summoned Giant Axe, whose protection eased the strain on his divine soul. As others debated the Ritual Artifact’s origin and power, he observed the two joined sections of the Dao Stele exchanging energy, with the character for Luck remaining calm.

• Human Head offered to guide the group to other Energy Masses, but Boping, Old Woman, and Jiuping demanded assurances before trusting her.
• Qingxia ordered the group to absorb the current patch first, and Giant Axe appeared as Qu Jianlei summoned the Ritual Artifact to shield his divine soul.
• Twin-Wings recognized Giant Axe and warned Qu Jianlei to put it away, but the artifact blocked much of the negative energy and eased his suffering.
• Twin-Wings considered destroying Giant Axe, while Human Head questioned whether the alien True Monarchs could overcome it and speculated that it was a Shaman Cultivator’s weapon.
• Great Shaman rejected the idea that Giant Axe was connected to Old Ancestor Kaitian, and Paifang Gate joked about allowing an alternate incarnation.
• Qu Jianlei observed that the seventh Seal layer had joined the two broken Dao Stele sections, which began exchanging energy as the character for Luck stayed calm.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin observed the broken Dao Stele recovering as it absorbed Spirit Essence, while a passing True Monarch threatened to complicate the team’s stay in the Energy Mass. Qu Jianlei decided to stop the absorption before draining the mass completely, and the Dao Stele accepted Jing Yuexin’s explanation as the team prepared to leave.

• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin watched the two halves of the Dao Stele transfer energy and guessed that the rear half resented the front half for failing to seek help.
• A True Monarch’s divine sense detected the Energy Mass, and Mobius Ring warned the intruder away while the team refused to follow Bo Ping’s plan to avoid trouble.
• The team waited three more months without Sabai confronting them, until the Spirit Essence absorption stopped and Giant Axe gathered one last wave before disappearing.
• Qu Jianlei confirmed that the Dao Stele was improving but chose not to wait for it to absorb the remaining Spirit Essence because he sensed unease from Yuxiu Great World.
• Jing Yuexin persuaded the Dao Stele to accept the decision to stop, and its aura eased as Qu Jianlei wondered how she had convinced it.

Jing Yuexin’s conversations with the Dao Stele eased its rejection, and Qu Jianlei assigned her to continue communicating with it. The group acquired a hidden, newly formed Small World to harvest its Spirit Essence, and three days later Qu Jianlei began unsealing the Dao Stele further.

• Jing Yuexin explained that speaking to the Dao Stele had reduced its rejection, and Qu Jianlei put her in charge of communication.
• Qu Jianlei added five layers of Seal to the Dao Stele, leaving two layers undone, while Jing Yuexin encouraged it to speak with him.
• True Monarch Twin-Wings offered a hidden Small World as the next location, and the group settled the payment with True Monarch Wenshi’s Stone.
• Qu Jianlei refused questions about fate and kept the Heroic Spirit’s existence secret when True Monarch Twin-Wings asked about treasures that resisted the Higher Dimension.
• True Monarch Wenshi divined the Small World’s potential, and the group chose it as their next place to harvest Spirit Essence.
• After three days of preparations, Qu Jianlei began undoing the Seal on the Dao Stele.

Qu Jianlei and the Yuxiu True Monarchs argued over who could claim the Small World formed from Yuxiu’s Spirit Essence until the Mysterious Venerable intervened and accused them of theft. The dispute escalated when True Monarch Sabai tried to inspect the visitors, and the Mysterious Venerable ordered everyone to leave except the one carrying the axe Ritual Artifact.

• Qu Jianlei absorbed Spirit Essence from the Small World with the Dao Stele, then brought out Giant Axe at the Heroic Spirits’ request.
• True Monarch Wenshi and True Monarch Twin-Wings disputed whether Wenshi’s side could take the Small World away after a year.
• The Mysterious Venerable appeared, accused the group of stealing Yuxiu’s Spirit Essence, and ordered True Monarch Sabai to inspect them.
• True Monarch Sabai demanded cooperation, but True Monarch Boping, Mobius Ring, and others refused to let him inspect the group.
• The Mysterious Venerable ordered everyone to leave except the person using the axe Ritual Artifact, while Human Head warned that the artifact was extremely ominous.

The Cultivators left Yuxiu after the Mysterious Venerable intervened, and Wenshi allowed Twin-Wings to join them in Lianxing under close watch. The group then discussed the Spirit Essence needed to warm the Dao Stele, while Xiaoyou’s rivalry with Han Li resurfaced.

• The Mysterious Venerable ended the confrontation, and Wenshi gave Twin-Wings a Small World to settle their grievances before inviting it into Lianxing on condition it not split off avatars.
• Twin-Wings joined the Cultivators inside the Boundary Realm, where they believed any hidden method for transmitting information would stop working.
• Old Woman asked about finding more Spirit Essence, but Qu Jianlei explained that the Dao Stele required a place with stable low-dimensional order, which they could not reliably identify.
• Human Head suggested contacting Senior Heng for Spirit Essence, then argued with True Monarch Jiuping when he challenged her.
• Xiaoyou declared that she could not lose to Han Li, and Wenshi interrupted Qingxia to defend his junior from her teasing.

Qu Jianlei learned that the Dao Stele might be too difficult to restore and considered using it to help avert the tilting heaven, but Jing Yuexin’s discovery that it had split again made him fear it was protecting Lianxing World. Torn between the stele, his companions, and the people who depended on him, he decided to consult the Obsessions within the Ritual Artifact.

• True Monarch Wuchen suggested a newly born Great World as a possible source of Spirit Essence, but its Mysterious Venerable guardian and the centuries needed to reach it made the plan impractical.
• Qu Jianlei told Jing Yuexin that treasures were meant to be used, revealing he had already accepted that the Dao Stele might need to be consumed or sacrificed.
• Jing Yuexin summoned Qu Jianlei after the Dao Stele split into two sections again, and he wondered whether it was suppressing an anomaly that could threaten the Empire.
• Qu Jianlei agonized over sacrificing a treasure that had protected him and Lianxing World, while Jing Yuexin left the decision to him.
• Qu Jianlei decided to seek advice from the Obsessions within the Ritual Artifact rather than the interested True Monarchs.

Qu Jianlei decided that his conscience mattered more than keeping the Dao Stele and proposed seeking a Spirit Essence to repair it, but the others stopped him from acting alone. Luofu set out to help him after recalling the humiliation they had suffered in Yuxiu World.

• Qu Jianlei told Violent Obsession that he wanted to protect others because he sought a clear conscience, and Violent Obsession urged him to follow his true heart.
• Qu Jianlei told True Monarch Wuchen and Old Woman that he would offer the Dao Stele for Saving the Heavens from Tilting after the crisis was resolved, despite his reluctance to lose it.
• Old Woman advised Qu Jianlei to summon Senior Heng, but he refused and suggested searching alone for a Spirit Essence that could repair the Dao Stele.
• Old Woman restrained Qu Jianlei while the Paifang Gate went to fetch Luofu, and Human Head vanished after praising True Monarch Twin-Wings.
• Luofu recalled how powerless and humiliated she had felt in Yuxiu World, agreed to help Qu Jianlei, and activated Ancestor Qing's token.

Luo Fu summoned Senior Heng to confront the Mysterious Venerable who had driven the cultivators from Yuxiu, and the dispute escalated into a threat by Righteous Sect to take over Yuxiu. After Senior Heng revealed Yuxiu’s connection to the Human Race’s effort to save the heavens, the peacock agreed to a trade, but Senior Heng demanded half the Spirit Essence be gifted and half sold at a discount.

• True Monarch Jiuqi watched from the Space Interlayer as Luo Fu appeared outside Lianxing Boundary Realm and called for Senior Heng.
• Senior Heng confronted the feather and accused it of bullying Luo Fu, while Luo Fu insisted the cultivators had offered an exchange for Yuxiu’s Spirit Essence.
• Human Head appeared, and Senior Heng and True Monarch Pili revealed their history in Righteous Sect as the feather learned Pili had been sent to Yuxiu by Senior Heng.
• Senior Heng threatened to take over Yuxiu unless the feather allowed the cultivators to harvest Spirit Essence, then explained that Yuxiu existed because the Human Race had saved the heavens from tilting.
• The peacock agreed to trade, but Senior Heng demanded that half the Spirit Essence be gifted and half be sold at a fifty percent discount.

Senior Heng negotiated with Hunyuan Peacock over the group’s passage to Yuxiu World, then advised Qu Jianlei about the Dao Stele and its dangers. After Senior Heng departed, Hunyuan Peacock left True Monarch Pili to guide them, and Qu Jianlei offered her the Dao Stele if Saving the Heavens from Tilting succeeded.

• Senior Heng refused to let Hunyuan Peacock borrow Righteous Sect’s name freely, and Hunyuan Peacock agreed to his terms after expressing doubts about Yuxiu World.
• Luo Fu brought Senior Heng to speak with Qu Jianlei, and Senior Heng accepted the Higher Dimension theory, placed the Dao Stele under his name, and warned that it was both a blessing and a calamity.
• Han Li arrived, and Senior Heng declined to intervene in her affairs before telling Qu Jianlei to seek guidance from the Shaman Clan about its techniques.
• Senior Heng rejected Han Li’s suggestion of a newborn Great World as a safer destination, saying its karma was heavier, then departed.
• Hunyuan Peacock left and told True Monarch Pili to take the others to Yuxiu World, and Qu Jianlei offered her the Dao Stele after Saving the Heavens from Tilting succeeded.

Qu Jianlei’s team harvested Spirit Essence from several Small Worlds in Yuxiu, while the Dao Stele drew closer to repairing itself. When the Stele’s appetite weakened, Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin divined that its absorption risked destabilizing Yuxiu’s Low-Dimensional Order, leaving the team to consider the scale of what they had already taken.

• Human Head stopped True Venerable Qu from promising treasures on her behalf, and Jing Yuexin discovered that the broken sections of the Dao Stele were slowly drawing together.
• Qu Jianlei led the team back to their familiar Small World, where he unsealed seven layers of the Dao Stele and harvested Spirit Essence for two months.
• True Monarch Thunder warned True Monarch Sabai that its schemes had brought a disaster upon it, while True Monarch Twin-Wings received no further compensation beyond the Small World.
• The Hunyuan Peacock supplied the team with two new Energy Mass locations, and Qu Jianlei’s team gathered a rich harvest from both under the Mysterious Venerable’s protection.
• After Qu Jianlei unsealed eight layers of the Dao Stele to harvest from the second Energy Mass, he discovered that the Low-Dimensional Order had been affected and paused to recover.
• Jing Yuexin and Qu Jianlei divined that the Dao Stele had reduced its absorption because it sensed a risk to Yuxiu’s development, and they shared the finding with the team.

Qu Jianlei fully unsealed the Dao Stele and let it warm itself in a Small World, though the process exhausted him and left Yuxiu World needing centuries to recover from its earlier overdraft. After the group chose not to pursue another site, the Old Woman tried to divine the Dao Stele in Qu Jianlei’s Abode but sensed danger and stopped.

• True Monarch Jiuping estimated that the Spirit Essence absorbed by the Dao Stele was nearly enough to ripen a Great World, and Qu Jianlei said Yuxiu World would need centuries to recover from its temporary overdraft.
• Qu Jianlei fully opened the Dao Stele’s Seal, and the reunited stele wandered through the Abode before beginning to absorb Spirit Essence for Warm Nurturing.
• True Monarch Wuchen calculated that the process would take five months, during which Qu Jianlei endured severe mental exhaustion as the Dao Stele absorbed energy from the Small World.
• After the Hunyuan Peacock sent another set of coordinates, Qu Jianlei decided the group should rest and leave rather than risk absorbing more Spirit Essence.
• Qu Jianlei invited the Old Woman into his Abode to divine the Dao Stele, but she sensed an immense crisis as she began and abandoned the attempt.

Qu Jianlei and his companions searched the void for Spirit Essence to strengthen the Dao Stele, whose capacity and condition remained uncertain. After five years of gathering resources, they learned from the Righteous Sect that Void Herders also possessed Spirit Essence.

• Qu Jianlei had Jing Yuexin divine the Dao Stele’s direction toward Spirit Essence, and True Monarch Wuchen failed to divine the stele after entering the Abode.
• Qu Jianlei and the others searched the void for five years and found seven Spirit Essence sites, though the dangerous locations yielded only modest gains.
• The group debated whether to set a time limit for strengthening the Dao Stele, while the Old Woman argued that more accumulated foundation could prevent failure later.
• True Monarch Boping told Qu Jianlei that the Righteous Sect had reported Spirit Essence among the Void Herders.
• Luo Fu asked whether the message had come personally from her Martial Uncle.

True Monarch Boping led the group to investigate a Void Shepherd after Senior Heng provided coordinates, and they found an unusually dangerous swarm capable of trapping a True Monarch. Eight True Monarchs launched a coordinated assault, but as the swarm endured and reassembled, a trans-dimensional Space Ripple began to descend.

• True Monarch Kong Yu suggested Void Shepherds might guard the boundary between dimensions, and True Monarch Jiuping urged the group to find one and test the theory.
• True Monarch Boping shared two locations provided by Senior Heng, and the group traveled to the first set of coordinates two days later.
• Little Sister and True Monarch Wenshi detected spatial folds around the small Void Insect Swarm, while the Crystal Ancestor warned that folds within it made the swarm dangerous enough to trap a True Monarch.
• The True Monarchs divined the danger and planned an overwhelming attack, then eight of them struck the swarm from every direction two days later.
• The Void Shepherd commanded its durable swarm to resist, releasing intense ripples as the attackers repeatedly scattered and watched it reassemble.
• The Mobius Ring warned of a trans-dimensional Space Ripple, Little Sister urged the attackers to retreat in time, and True Monarch Kanshui later sensed that the ripple was about to descend.

Qu Jianlei released the Dao Stele’s aura during a high-dimensional eruption, and its enormous projection emerged to absorb Spirit Essence and erase the spatial damage. The projection’s power eased the crisis but strained Qu Jianlei’s Portable Abode, and Little Sister warned him to beware of Daoization.

• Wenshi ordered the True Monarchs to withdraw as Space Ripples began tearing the void apart.
• Qu Jianlei released the Dao Stele’s aura and brought out Giant Axe when the spatial rifts threatened him and True Monarch Kong Yu.
• The Dao Stele appeared as a colossal projection, halted the spreading rifts, and drew scattered Spirit Essence back into itself.
• The Dao Stele’s immense energy strained Qu Jianlei’s connection to his Portable Abode as he worked to keep it intact.
• Little Sister warned Qu Jianlei to be careful of Daoization.

Qu Jianlei chose to give up the Dao Stele if necessary to protect Lianxing World from the tilting of the heavens, and the group headed for another Void Shepherd. They reached its coordinates and began a cautious, drawn-out battle to study the enemy.

• As the eruption ended and the Dao Stele's projection vanished, True Monarch Jiuping estimated that it would take another twenty to fifty insect swarms to repair it fully.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the group to defeat one more Void Shepherd and then return to Lianxing World, arguing that waiting to prepare more thoroughly would give their opponent time to grow stronger.
• Human Head privately asked whether Qu Jianlei could bear to give up the Dao Stele, and he said that the people of Lianxing World mattered more; the Old Woman warned Human Head not to interfere.
• At the second set of coordinates, the group changed tactics and advanced carefully against the Void Shepherd, but the creature resisted stubbornly.

After the swarm’s defeat and a second Higher Dimension eruption, the cultivators returned to Lianxing World to prepare for the coming crisis. Qu Jianlei then let Shaman Cultivators examine the Giant Axe, and they revealed that it might be an imitation of a treasure dispersed into the Higher Dimension, leaving its origins and possible sale to be verified.

• The eight True Monarchs and their allies broke through the swarm’s defenses, and the Shepherd-level Insects triggered a delayed Higher Dimension eruption that the Dao Stele and Giant Axe contained.
• The cultivators completed cleanup and returned to Lianxing World, where Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu continued assessing the world while Jing Yuexin reported that the Dao Stele remained divided but inactive.
• Great Shaman Gou brought two Great Shamans and several True Shamans to meet Qu Jianlei, and the visitors offered World Cores to examine the Giant Axe.
• Qu Jianlei allowed Great Shaman Xiang to handle the axe, and Xiang and the other Great Shaman sensed a possible connection to a supreme Shaman Cultivator treasure.
• The Great Shaman said the original treasure had dispersed into the Higher Dimension and that even an imitation was immensely valuable, while acknowledging Qu Jianlei’s ownership and promising to seek a high-priced purchase if they verified its origins.