Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xi’s Chaos Core awakened and unleashed a force that destroyed the Entropy Increase Giant Palm, saved him, and drew the attention of powers beyond the mortal realm. Ying Zheng ordered Cheng Xi confined under the guise of recuperation, while Xing Hun withdrew and the Heavenly Dao and an ancient deep-space presence took notice.

• As Lu Buwei, Xing Hun, and the Entropy Increase Giant Palm attacked Cheng Xi, his Chaos Core cried out and released a protective force that consumed Lu Buwei, shattered Xing Hun’s attack, and clashed with the giant palm.
• The Chaos Core’s primordial wave absorbed the Entropy Increase Giant Palm, expanded Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space, and left Cheng Xi unconscious in Meng Tian’s arms.
• The wave reached the Endless Deep Space and stirred interest in the ancient gaze, while the Heavenly Dao awakened in Zixiao Palace and identified Cheng Xi as an anomaly and an Outer Realm Existence.
• Ying Zheng took Cheng Xi from Meng Tian and ordered him confined in Quiet Contemplation Garden under Black Ice Platform guard.
• Xing Hun withdrew to wait for another opportunity, while the Ancestor Dragon’s Soul watched from its amber crystal and its hidden Chaos Imprint flickered.

While imprisoned in Quiet Contemplation Garden, Cheng Xi comprehended his evolving Chaos Space and began to understand his Dao. When Xing Hun summoned heavenly punishment against him, Cheng Xi manifested a Chaos Dao Domain that swallowed the lightning, though the strange aura it released drifted into deep space.

• Cheng Xi examined the Miniature Chaos Sea within him and entered Dao Comprehension, increasing his understanding of Chaos Law.
• Xing Hun crushed a damaged Ziwei Emperor Star core and used it to summon the Zi Xiao Thunder Eye over Lanchi Palace.
• Ying Zheng ordered the Royal Capital Grand Array activated but secretly reinforced the seal around Quiet Contemplation Garden instead of protecting it.
• Cheng Xi released control of his Chaos Space and manifested an independent Dao Domain around himself as the Thunder Eye struck.
• The Dao Domain absorbed and digested the heavenly lightning until the Thunder Eye dissipated, leaving Cheng Xi injured but newly able to manifest his Inner Scenery.
• Ying Zheng watched Cheng Xi through a water mirror as a faint aura escaped from the manifested Dao Domain and drifted into deep space.

While confined in the Quiet Contemplation Garden, Cheng Xi sent Ying Zheng practical, data-driven plans for governing Qin’s crises, but Ying Zheng used his ideas while tightening surveillance around him. Cheng Xi’s meditation then stirred the Heavenly Dao Laws and attracted the attention of distant beings, leaving him aware that he had touched a dangerous domain.

• Li Si visited Cheng Xi under Ying Zheng’s orders and asked for counsel on locusts, unrest in Han and Wei, and northern supply transport.
• Cheng Xi drew data models and flowcharts outlining targeted locust control, measurable governance reforms, and optimized grain transport, then sent them to Li Si for Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng ordered officials to implement Cheng Xi’s proposals but strengthened the guards and installed a Spirit Absorption Array to monitor him.
• Xing Hun used a star compass and his own Dao foundation to attach his divine consciousness to the Web of Heavenly Dao Laws and detect Cheng Xi’s Chaos Aura.
• As Cheng Xi meditated, his Dao Rhyme triggered the array and rippled through the Web of Heavenly Dao Laws; Xing Hun severed his connection and vomited blood.
• Galaxy Eyes beyond Endless Deep Space confirmed the disturbance and initiated preliminary contact, while Cheng Xi awoke and withdrew his aura, sensing that powerful entities had noticed him.

A Deep Space Existence created the Entropy Nightmare to scan Cheng Xi, and it infiltrated his sanctuary in Xianyang. Cheng Xi overloaded it with foreign knowledge, but the encounter shattered his Kindling Fire Imprint; after the Nightmare fled, Xing Hun arrived and discovered Cheng Xi and the fragments.

• A Pure White Beam reached the Abyss of Return and formed the Entropy Nightmare, which set out to locate and analyze Cheng Xi.
• The Qin King’s Seal reacted with fear, and an Aura Gazing attendant detected Gray-white Death Qi spreading through Xianyang’s Sea of Fortune.
• The Entropy Nightmare infiltrated Cheng Xi’s sanctuary and scanned him, prompting Cheng Xi to flood the Chaos Space with knowledge from his previous life.
• Cheng Xi’s information overwhelmed the Nightmare’s logic, while the scan and ensuing energy impact shattered his Kindling Fire Imprint.
• The imprint’s Human Dao Will struck the Nightmare, which fled after recording Cheng Xi and the Chaos Space.
• Xing Hun appeared above Lanchi Palace, saw the weakened Cheng Xi and the shattered imprint, and recognized the aura of Fire Cloud Cave.

After the Entropy Wraith incident, Ying Zheng tightened Cheng Xi’s isolation, prompting Cheng Xi to develop the Chaos Algorithm for deduction through Chaos Space. Using it, Cheng Xi intercepted a fragment of a plot to attack the Lishan Underground Seal in three days, but he had no way to warn Ying Zheng.

• The Galaxy Eyes classified Cheng Xi and Primordial Earth as an abnormal sample and sent more Entropy Wraiths to monitor them.
• Ying Zheng confronted Cheng Xi about the disturbance in the Quiet Contemplation Garden, and Cheng Xi blamed it on an eerie force connected to the Abyss of Return.
• Ying Zheng ordered the garden’s barrier reinforced and cut off Cheng Xi’s access to writing materials and outside contact.
• Cheng Xi treated Chaos Space as a computer and successfully used the Chaos Algorithm to predict the guards’ rotation, then expanded his deductions and virtual perception.
• Cheng Xi intercepted a fragment of Xing Hun’s plan with a mysterious ally to break the Lishan Underground Seal at midnight in three days and seize the Ancestral Dragon’s Dragon Core and Chaos Source.
• Cheng Xi’s attempt to learn more nearly split his soul, leaving him to seek a way to warn Ying Zheng or save himself despite his isolation.

Cheng Xi warned Ying Zheng that Xing Hun planned to breach the Underground Seal and sent him the time and location of the attack. The Qin King's Seal broke the courtyard barrier, but its eruption exposed Cheng Xi's Chaos Aura to a deep-space gaze, leaving Ying Zheng shaken and Cheng Xi unconscious as the threat briefly receded.

• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Algorithm to predict that Ying Zheng would visit the courtyard the next day at the third quarter of noon.
• When Ying Zheng arrived, Cheng Xi wrote diagrams of Xing Hun's Star Rune and the Underground Seal breach on his chest in blood.
• Ying Zheng recognized the warning, and his rage triggered the Qin King's Seal to crack open and blast a temporary gap through the barrier.
• Cheng Xi hurled an imprint fragment through the gap, giving Ying Zheng the message that Xing Hun's plan would unfold at Mount Li at midnight three days later.
• A deep-space gaze descended after Cheng Xi's Chaos Aura leaked out, overwhelming people across Xianyang until Chaos's First Cry made the gaze pause and the darkness begin to fade.
• The barrier closed, leaving Ying Zheng with the message and cracked seal while Cheng Xi lay unconscious inside the courtyard.

Ying Zheng mobilized troops to trap those targeting Mount Li, while Cheng Xi monitored Xing Hun’s secret channel and learned the attack had been moved to midnight the next day. Cheng Xi sent Ying Zheng a warning about the new timing and a traitor, prompting the king to visit him as a high minister prepared to exploit the unfolding events.

• Ying Zheng ordered Meng Tian and Wang Jian to secretly secure Mount Li and directed Li Si to watch for collaborators and suspicious practitioners.
• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Algorithm to study the conflict between Chaos Power and the Deep Space Power, then planted a sensory net in the residual communication channel.
• Xing Hun contacted his mysterious collaborator and learned that the seal had been loosened from within before moving the plan to midnight the next day.
• Cheng Xi recorded the exchange and sent Ying Zheng warnings about the changed timing and a possible traitor by disrupting the Spirit Absorption Array.
• Ying Zheng ordered Wang Jian and Meng Tian to delay their operations and set out for the Quiet Contemplation Garden, while an unnamed high minister watched his jade pendant and smiled coldly.

Cheng Xi warned Ying Zheng that Zheng Guo was the traitor, but Xing Hun and an entropy fiend attacked Mount Li before Qin’s forces could stop them. Cheng Xi’s Chaos Calamity Light shattered the Amber Crystal and freed part of the Ancestor Dragon’s Soul, drawing the wrath of the Return to Ruin entity toward him and the entropy fiend.

• Cheng Xi wrote “Zi” and “Ghost” in blood and gestured toward the waterworks beneath Mount Li, leading Ying Zheng to identify Zheng Guo as the traitor.
• Ying Zheng ordered Zheng Guo arrested and sent Wang Jian and Meng Tian’s forces to Mount Li, but Xing Hun and an entropy fiend blasted through the mountain’s seal.
• Wang Jian’s troops attacked with crossbow bolts and Dragon Restraining Stakes, while the imprisoned Ancestor Dragon’s Soul roared and drove the invaders back.
• Xing Hun and the entropy fiend began draining the Amber Crystal, and Cheng Xi fused Chaos power with the invading Entropy Force Field to launch a Chaos Calamity Light at it.
• The Amber Crystal shattered, releasing part of the Ancestor Dragon’s Soul; Xing Hun absorbed some power, while the Dragon Soul Origin escaped into the earth.
• The Return to Ruin entity opened its Galaxy Eyes and sent a formatting beam toward Cheng Xi and the entropy fiend.

Cheng Xi survived a universe-level formatting beam by turning his Chaos Space into an unpredictable information barrier, while the beam destroyed the Entropy Nightmare variant and Xing Hun fled the battlefield. The battle ended with the Ancestor Dragon Origin escaping, and Ying Zheng received Cheng Xi’s message to seek Fire Cloud.

• Cheng Xi released control of his Chaos Space and used his memories and understanding to create a self-contradictory information barrier that disrupted the formatting beam.
• The Entropy Nightmare variant tried to assimilate the beam but was nearly annihilated, and its remaining core vanished into a fissure.
• Xing Hun fled after recognizing the danger, and the depleted formatting beam abandoned its attempt to erase Cheng Xi and disappeared.
• Cheng Xi collapsed from exhaustion in the Quiet Contemplation Courtyard as the battlefield’s seal broke and the Ancestor Dragon Origin escaped.
• Ying Zheng reached the battlefield and received Cheng Xi’s message through the Kindling Fire Imprint fragment: the Dragon Soul had fled, and he should seek Fire Cloud.

After Cheng Xi nearly died from using his Chaos power, Ying Zheng ordered him guarded and launched a purge and search for the Dragon Soul. Earth-vein disturbances prompted the Yin Yang School to stir unrest against Cheng Xi, while a resonance with the Kindling Fire Imprint led Ying Zheng to investigate ancient sites in the south.

• Ying Zheng ordered the Imperial Medical Office to save Cheng Xi, increased the guards around him, and commanded Li Si, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian to arrest suspects and search Mount Li and the land for the Dragon Soul.
• A Mohist Artisan found a dangerous fragment of wreckage from the entropy nightmare variant, while Mohist Warriors activated the Black Bird contingency plan and continued observing Cheng Xi.
• Changes to the earth veins disrupted farmland across Guangzhong, and the Moon Goddess ordered Dark Camellia to blame Cheng Xi and Qin rule for the calamity.
• Cheng Xi sensed a distant presence that resonated with his Kindling Fire Imprint fragment and murmured about Fire Cloud.
• Ying Zheng's own Kindling Fire Imprint fragment warmed and pointed south, so he ordered the southern commanderies to investigate unusual events near ancient sacrificial and Shamanistic sites.

A Mohist artisan’s attempt to examine the Entropy Nightmare fragment caused a violent eruption, while Ying Zheng concealed the Mount Li incident and searched for the escaped Dragon Soul. The chapter ended with an ominous divination and Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space detecting surveillance signals tied to the Dragon Soul and a suspected southern coordinate.

• A Mohist artisan touched the Entropy Nightmare fragment with inner energy, triggering an eruption that destroyed his arm and badly injured the Mohist Followers who tried to contain it.
• At court, Ying Zheng blamed the Mount Li disturbance on an earth tremor and military drills, and accused Zheng Guo of corruption; Wang Wan remained suspicious and planned to investigate.
• Rumors spread among rural households that Cheng Xi had angered a deity, while Ying Zheng ordered scouts to search the southern commanderies for the Dragon Soul.
• Ying Zheng connected the Dragon Soul’s flight south to Fire Cloud Cave and Human Race Kindling Fire, then received the Grand Diviner’s warning of great calamity and an Outer Realm Demon.
• Cheng Xi convulsed in the Quiet Contemplation Courtyard as his Chaos Space detected surveillance signals identifying the escaped Dragon Soul and a suspected Fire Attribute High-Dimensional Coordinate.

Lu Buwei forced Ying Zheng to hold a martial tournament and arranged for Dian Hai to kill Cheng Xi, but Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space instinctively protected him and won the fight. A secret report then pointed Ying Zheng toward Shennongjia, where the Dragon Soul and an ancient Shennong site might be found, while Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space sensed a stronger signal to the south.

• Lu Buwei proposed a Six States martial tournament, and Ying Zheng ordered Cheng Xi to fight three days later despite his unconscious, critical condition.
• Ying Zheng placed a Soul Suppressing Flute beside Cheng Xi, and Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space absorbed its soul power and detected a faint signal to the south.
• At the Wei River tournament, Dian Hai charged Cheng Xi while a hidden expert restrained the Black Ice Platform guards.
• Cheng Xi’s dormant Chaos Space repelled Dian Hai’s attack and struck his soul with an instinctive mental assault, winning the match before Cheng Xi collapsed again.
• A courier delivered a Nan Commandery report that a dark gold light had fallen into Shennongjia and that the Shennong Cave might be opening.
• Ying Zheng resolved to investigate Shennongjia, while Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space sensed the southern signal growing stronger.

Ying Zheng led a southern tour toward Shennongjia with the unconscious Cheng Xi, whose Chaos Aura guided the convoy through a strange maze and drew the attention of a local shaman. Meanwhile, the Entropy Nightmare fragment contaminated Mohist Followers and exploded in the sealed workshop, leaving the expedition facing an imminent confrontation and the Mohists in disaster.

• Ying Zheng announced his southern tour, while Lu Buwei secretly ordered agents to obstruct the journey and target Cheng Xi.
• The Entropy Nightmare fragment began breaking out of its lead box, and a contaminated Mohist Follower mutated and attacked his companions.
• Ying Zheng ordered Cheng Xi's carriage to lead the convoy through a geomagnetic maze, where Cheng Xi's Chaos Aura revealed a path.
• Barbarians ambushed the convoy in Jing Mountain, and an elderly shaman demanded that Ying Zheng hand over Cheng Xi as an evil spirit disturbing Shennong's ancestral land.
• The mutated Mohist Follower became a monster as the Entropy Nightmare fragment tore free, absorbed nearby matter and energy, and exploded through the workshop.

An Entropy Nightmare explosion in Xianyang sent a pulse across the land, worsening Cheng Xi’s chaotic condition and prompting the Jingshan witch priest to identify him as a source of calamity. After receiving the priest’s final vision through the Tai'a Sword, Ying Zheng redirected the convoy toward Wushan Imperial Palace instead of entering Shennongjia.

• An Entropy Nightmare singularity erased the Mohist workshop in Xianyang and sent a supernatural pulse across the land.
• The pulse disrupted the convoy’s horses, mechanisms, and weapons, while Cheng Xi’s Chaos Space worsened and recorded part of the energy signature.
• The Jingshan witch priest attacked the convoy, then sacrificed himself to divine Cheng Xi’s connection to a looming world-ending threat.
• The priest’s warning reached Ying Zheng through the Tai'a Sword, leaving him fearful that Cheng Xi might be an outer demon and a danger to the world.
• Ying Zheng ordered the convoy to avoid Shennongjia’s core and travel to Wushan Imperial Palace while Cheng Xi’s southern signal grew unstable.

At Wushan Imperial Palace, Cheng Xi's Chaos Space continued to be contaminated by Entropy Nightmare energy while Ying Zheng kept him under guard. A poison-miasma assault and Cheng Xi's awakening stirred an ancient presence beneath the palace, leaving everyone frozen in fear.

• Ying Zheng brought Cheng Xi to Wushan Imperial Palace and ordered him held under heavy guard in an ancient ritual hall.
• Cheng Xi's Chaos Space analyzed the same-origin signals from Xianyang, developing gray-white structures that weakened the signal of the Flame of Life and began contaminating him.
• Lu Buwei's forces attacked the palace with the Yin Yang School's poisonous Cloud Rain Wushan miasma, while assassins infiltrated the hall where Cheng Xi was held.
• Ying Zheng, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian led Qin forces against the attackers as fighting spread through the palace.
• Cheng Xi's autonomous defense released a distorting wave that resonated with the palace, awakened something beneath it, and caused the poison fog to thin.
• Cheng Xi opened his gray-white eyes and rose into the air as the ancient presence fixed its gaze on him.

A newly awakened Xingtian Beast corpse rampaged through the Wushan Imperial Palace until Cheng Xi’s Chaos Instinct began devouring its baleful energy. Ying Zheng activated the palace’s remaining seal to restrain the creature and Cheng Xi, while Cheng Xi’s emergency protocol identified Shennong Cave as its highest-priority destination.

• The Xingtian Beast corpse burst from beneath the palace and attacked Qin soldiers, Yin Yang School fighters, and everyone else in its path.
• Wang Jian and Meng Tian tried to defend against the creature, while Ying Zheng’s sword strikes failed to injure it significantly.
• Cheng Xi’s Chaos Instinct bound the corpse with gray-white energy threads and began devouring its baleful energy, but Cheng Xi’s body started to crack under the strain.
• Ying Zheng used his Imperial Dragon Qi and the palace’s remaining sealing power to bind the corpse and interrupt Cheng Xi’s devouring.
• Ying Zheng ordered Wang Jian, Meng Tian, and the surviving soldiers to withdraw as Cheng Xi fell and grew more unstable.
• Cheng Xi’s emergency evasion protocol activated and set Shennong Cave in the south as its highest-priority target.

Ying Zheng captured the unconscious Cheng Xi after the Wushan disaster and ordered the convoy south toward Shennongjia. As Cheng Xi struggled to neutralize the corrupting energy inside him, clues tied Lu Buwei to the Mohist explosion and Outer Realm Demons, while Lu Buwei revealed that Shennongjia was his own destination too.

• Ying Zheng ordered Meng Tian to bind Cheng Xi with Black Iron Chains and lead the retreat while Wang Jian guarded against the Xingtian Beast.
• Cheng Xi suffered a deadly energy backlash, then began deducing a way to neutralize it with pure Life Yuan Power guided by the signal from Shennongjia.
• Ying Zheng received Wang Wan's secret memorial linking the Mohist workshop explosion, the Yin Yang School, and a guest minister from Lu Buwei's residence.
• Ying Zheng ordered the army to speed toward Shennongjia, while a surviving Mohist Follower secretly followed the convoy.
• Lu Buwei learned of Ying Zheng's journey and revealed that his own incomplete map also pointed to Shennongjia.

As Cheng Xi’s unconscious Chaos Energy guided Ying Zheng’s convoy through Shennongjia, the group reached the entrance to Shennong Cave, where a Yin Yang School force ambushed them and demanded Cheng Xi. The chapter leaves Ying Zheng’s convoy surrounded as the pursuers prepare to seize the Chaos Source.

• Cheng Xi’s Chaos Energy scanned the forest and formed a route toward the Life Yuan Power source, while Jing Ke secretly gave Meng Tian a jade slip marking a safer path.
• Ying Zheng ordered the convoy to follow the Mohist route, and Cheng Xi’s scans refined it as they advanced through the miasma.
• Blood Demon Vines attacked the convoy, but Jing Ke relayed Cheng Xi’s detection of their root network, allowing Meng Tian to destroy it with the Tai'a Sword.
• Guided by the jade slip and Cheng Xi’s scans, the convoy reached Shennong Cave, where Cheng Xi detected a powerful Lifeforce-P source behind an ancient seal.
• Dozens of Yin Yang School pursuers surrounded the convoy and demanded that Ying Zheng surrender Cheng Xi, the Chaos Source.

The Yin Yang School attacked Ying Zheng’s convoy with a stellar formation, but Cheng Xi’s chaotic energy disrupted it and helped him identify how to open the Shennong Cave. Ying Zheng used his blood and the Tai’a Sword to break the seal, and the mysterious shadow, Yin Yang School, Ying Zheng, and an unbound Cheng Xi all rushed inside.

• The Yin Yang School assassins trapped the Qin army in a Star Net Spirit Locking Array and targeted Cheng Xi’s prison cart while their masked leader fought Ying Zheng.
• Cheng Xi’s Chaos Energy erupted against the stellar net, weakening it and giving Wang Jian’s troops an opening to counterattack.
• Jing Ke tried to open the cave entrance with Mohist internal energy, but the barrier repelled him; Cheng Xi’s calculations then identified Ying Zheng’s blood and Qin’s fortune as the likely key.
• Ying Zheng threw his blood and the Tai’a Sword into the barrier, breaking the seal and opening the Shennong Cave.
• A mysterious shadow rushed into the cave first, followed by the masked leader and Ying Zheng, while Cheng Xi broke his chains and lunged toward the entrance.

Cheng Xi, Ying Zheng, and the Yin Yang School leader reached the Ancestor Dragon Origin in Shennong Cave, where Cheng Xi’s blood awakened a connection with the Star Devouring Vine. Lu Buwei revealed himself and began using a Dragon Soul fragment on the vine-bound Cheng Xi to pursue transcendence.

• Cheng Xi charged through Shennong Cave after the source of Lifeforce-P while the Yin Yang School leader and Ying Zheng pursued the mysterious shadow.
• The three arrived at a nest of Dark Gold vines protecting the Ancestor Dragon Origin, and Cheng Xi lunged toward its core.
• The Yin Yang School leader restrained Cheng Xi with Starlight Chains, but Cheng Xi’s chaotic energy contaminated the chains and let him break free.
• Cheng Xi’s blood touched a Dark Gold vine, awakening its devouring will and causing it to pour a violent mixture of energy into him.
• The shadow revealed himself as Lu Buwei and declared that the cave, the Star Devouring Vine, the Ancestor Dragon primordial soul, and Cheng Xi would serve his pursuit of transcendence.
• Lu Buwei pressed a shattered Dragon Soul fragment against Cheng Xi’s forehead.