Chapter Summaries

After escaping Yingzhou, Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji recovered near Liyang and tried to contact Xianyang, only to be ambushed by the Shadow Guard. As they fought to break free, Cheng Xi’s System disrupted the Mother Beast tracking mark and began restoring some of its functions.

• Cheng Xi woke by a mountain stream, assessed his severe injuries, and found Yan Lingji recovering as the remnant Water Law merged with her bloodline.
• Cheng Xi identified the Qin heartland near Liyang, and he and Yan Lingji decided to contact Ying Zheng for help.
• At a relay station, Cheng Xi showed his black dragon jade pendant and ordered a message sent to Xianyang.
• The Shadow Guard surrounded the relay station, accused Cheng Xi of rebellion by imperial decree, and attacked him and Yan Lingji.
• Cheng Xi detected the Mother Beast’s evil power within the Shadow Guard and realized they had to fight their way out.
• The System’s core disrupted and disabled Cheng Xi’s tracking mark, then began activating the Chaos Devouring Engine and condensing Dark Fire Energy.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fought through the Shadow Guard ambush and escaped to an abandoned temple, where they learned that Ying Zheng was gravely ill and Xianyang was under the Empress Dowager and royal clan's control. As Cheng Xi resolved to return and stop the coup, he discovered a hidden Yin Yang School rune that suggested a possible link to the Moon Goddess.

• Cheng Xi unleashed the Chaos Devouring Engine and Dark Fire Energy to repel the Shadow Guards while Yan Lingji fought beside him.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji broke through the stable, stole horses, and fled into the forest before stopping at an abandoned mountain god temple.
• Cheng Xi's System Core fell silent, and he sensed that Ying Zheng was suppressed and confined.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji overheard merchants say Ying Zheng had been bedridden for over a month, the Empress Dowager and royal clan were governing, and Lu Buwei's old followers were active again.
• Cheng Xi concluded that a coup was underway and resolved to return to Xianyang, then found a concealed Yin Yang School rune linked to the Moon Goddess.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fought through a Shadow Guard ambush, and Cheng Xi killed their commander and uncovered signs of a conspiracy gripping Xianyang. They fled toward Mount Li, hoping to find answers and a way to counter the crisis.

• Cheng Xi used his Dark Fire Energy while Yan Lingji combined Water Law with fire to hold off the Shadow Guards, then he charged their thousand-man commander as Yan Lingji covered him.
• Cheng Xi’s System Core disrupted the commander’s evil power, allowing Cheng Xi to wound him and search his soul.
• Cheng Xi learned that a secret order called “Shadow Abyss” targeted anyone carrying Lord Chang'an’s jade pendant, and saw clues of a corrupted ritual involving the Nine Cauldrons and a bone fragment.
• The soul search killed the commander, and Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped the station on horses as the remaining Shadow Guards pursued them.
• Cheng Xi chose Mount Li as their destination, hoping to investigate the First Emperor’s Mausoleum, find the Fragment of the Chaos Bell, and possibly reach Ying Zheng.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji recovered in a hidden cave on Mount Li, then infiltrated the imperial mausoleum and discovered Yin Yang School sorcerers using a bone fragment to corrupt the dragon vein and refine a Netherworld Soldier Army. They were detected and surrounded by advancing soldier figurines and Corpse Puppets.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji hid in a mountain cave, where the System detected the Mount Li Dragon Vein, an underground Fragment of the Chaos Bell, and traces of evil-energy infiltration.
• Cheng Xi used the System's environmental mimicry to disguise their auras as dragon qi, and the two recovered enough to move toward the imperial mausoleum.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji evaded Corpse Puppet patrols and entered a hidden tunnel leading into an underground cavern with a Yellow Springs-like channel and transforming terracotta soldiers.
• They saw Yin Yang School sorcerers using an incomplete bone fragment to draw resentment and deathly qi into a formation that contaminated the dragon vein and refined the Netherworld Soldier Army.
• The System identified the fragment as a carrier of the Mother Beast's power and warned that destroying the formation could cause unknown consequences.
• The Yin Yang School leader spotted Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji, and soldier figurines advanced as Corpse Puppets blocked their retreat.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped the Netherworld Soldier Army by mimicking the Yellow Springs, then reached an underground lake where they found the Fragment of the Chaos Bell being polluted. The fragment rang out and purified the area, but its chime alerted a mature-form Predator that arrived as they prepared to claim it.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji concealed their auras by mimicking the Yellow Springs, then Cheng Xi redirected a wave of water into the Netherworld Soldier Army and threw its ranks into chaos.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fled downstream through the imperial mausoleum and reached an underground lake guarded by Netherworld Soldier Puppets and the Phantom of the Nine Cauldrons.
• Cheng Xi spotted the Fragment of the Chaos Bell on the lake's altar and realized dark-purple energy was polluting it.
• The Fragment of the Chaos Bell rang, purifying the lake's surface, disabling nearby puppets, and cleansing some of Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji's injuries and evil energy.
• Cheng Xi warned that the bell had alerted the approaching Predator, whose cold, destructive presence reached the lake and whose voice declared that it had found them and the fragment.

Cheng Xi linked with the Fragment of the Chaos Bell and contained it in his sea of consciousness, gaining new power as the underground lake’s formation spiraled out of control. With the mature predator charging after him, he tried to escape with Yan Lingji by anchoring to the ancient altar leading to Gonggong’s Water Mansion in Yingzhou.

• Cheng Xi decided to connect with the Fragment of the Chaos Bell while Yan Lingji guarded him from the predator and the soldier army.
• Cheng Xi used his Chaos intent, Dark Fire, and the System’s principles to persuade the damaged fragment to accept him as a restorer and symbiotic entity.
• The mature predator arrived and attacked the fragment as the Netherworld Soldier Army turned on it, creating a three-way battle around the lake.
• Cheng Xi broke through the fragment’s protective barrier and drew it into his sea of consciousness, strengthening his System and unlocking Basic Spatial Anchoring.
• The fragment’s removal destabilized the underground lake’s evil formation, and the predator charged Cheng Xi as he grabbed Yan Lingji and attempted to escape toward the ancient altar in Yingzhou.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped Mount Li to Gonggong's Water Mansion, where they began recovering from their injuries. Cheng Xi learned that the Mother Beast Network had issued a regional wanted order for him and the Fragment of the Chaos Bell, and the chapter ended with an unknown presence probing the Water Mansion's teleportation coordinates.

• Cheng Xi used basic Spatial Anchoring to bring himself and Yan Lingji from Mount Li to Gonggong's Water Mansion in Yingzhou.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji began healing, while Cheng Xi studied the Fragment of the Chaos Bell and its laws of spatial stabilization and energy ordering.
• The System Core received a Mother Beast Network wanted order identifying Cheng Xi as an anomalous entity carrying the Fragment of the Chaos Bell.
• Cheng Xi learned that a hidden connection between the System Core and the Mother Beast Network remained, and that the fragment might make him easier to detect.
• An unnatural spatial fluctuation appeared at the Water Mansion's teleportation altar, suggesting that something was trying to locate them.

Cheng Xi used the Fragment of the Chaos Bell to mislead the trackers and teleport himself and Yan Lingji toward Golden Ao Island, while the System Core underwent a transformation in the Spatial Turbulence. They emerged in an immortal realm near Golden Ao Island, where Jie Sect cultivators were already approaching.

• Cheng Xi detected a spatial probe and ordered the system to simulate a Golden Immortal-level eruption while opening an overloaded teleportation toward Golden Ao Island.
• Cheng Xi detonated the compressed energy sphere and teleported away with Yan Lingji as the eruption struck back along the probing coordinates.
• The System Core began its nirvana process, absorbing Chaos Energy and helping Cheng Xi endure and navigate the Spatial Turbulence.
• Cheng Xi guided them through a stable point of light and landed with Yan Lingji in an immortal realm near Golden Ao Island.
• Several sword lights rose from nearby immortal mountains and sped toward Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji, carrying wary and scrutinizing auras.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji arrived at Golden Ao Island injured and were nearly seized by Jie Sect disciples who doubted Cheng Xi’s identity. Daoist Duobao intervened, brought them to Duobao Cliff to recover, and warned Cheng Xi to conceal the thing inside him as the Cult Leader remained in seclusion.

• Young Zhao and six Heavenly Immortal disciples confronted Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji, doubting Cheng Xi’s claim to be the Cult Leader’s Nominal Disciple.
• Young Zhao ordered the disciples to capture them, but Daoist Duobao arrived and stopped the attack.
• Daoist Duobao confirmed that the Cult Leader had acknowledged Cheng Xi and rebuked Young Zhao for acting without establishing the truth.
• Daoist Duobao took Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji to Duobao Cliff, stabilized their injuries, and gave them healing pills.
• Daoist Duobao told Cheng Xi that the Cult Leader was in seclusion and warned him to nurture the thing inside him without revealing it; Young Zhao resolved to report the incident to his Master.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji recovered on Duobao Cliff as Holy Mother Jin Ling warned Cheng Xi that he had become a target amid the Jie Sect’s internal tensions. That night, an assassin attacked Cheng Xi in his chamber, but he and Yan Lingji repelled the strike, leaving the attacker wounded and unidentified.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji used Daoist Duobao’s pills and Duobao Cliff’s spiritual qi to heal, while Cheng Xi sensed hostile divine senses watching from outside.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling visited Cheng Xi and explained that his Exotic Treasure, ties to the Wu Clan, and karma involving the Mother Beast and Heavenly Dao Pattern had made him a target.
• Cheng Xi told Holy Mother Jin Ling he would leave after recovering and investigating in Xianyang, and she warned him not to trust fellow disciples too readily.
• An assassin sent shadow blades at Cheng Xi while he healed, but Cheng Xi slowed them with the Fragment of the Chaos Bell and Yan Lingji destroyed them with her Water-Fire Spiral Qi.
• Cheng Xi struck the fleeing attacker, who escaped into the darkness, leaving behind blood and the aura of Jie Sect techniques twisted by killing intent.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji traced the attacker’s energy to a hidden chamber near Biyou Palace and overheard a plot involving the Yin Yang School and corrupt members of the Jie Sect. They returned to Duobao Cliff as the island’s sword intent stirred, where Daoist Duobao questioned Cheng Xi about what he had discovered.

• Cheng Xi followed the Chaos Bell fragment’s resonance and the system’s energy trace toward the southeast of Biyou Palace, with Yan Lingji accompanying him.
• Cheng Xi used the fragment to slip past Golden Ao Island’s restrictions and found spatial distortions around the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
• Cheng Xi opened a tiny viewing window into a secret chamber and saw a Jie Sect disciple speaking with a figure from the Yin Yang School.
• The Yin Yang School figure revealed a plan to use the Myriad Immortals Assembly three days later to force Cheng Xi off the island and said the sect leader’s seclusion must not be disrupted.
• The figure sensed Cheng Xi’s observation, so Cheng Xi closed the window and fled with Yan Lingji as Lord Tongtian’s sword intent stirred across the island.
• Daoist Duobao asked Cheng Xi whether he had discovered anything unusual after the pair returned to Duobao Cliff.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji weighed the dangers of staying on Golden Ao Island for the Myriad Immortals Assembly against fleeing into an unknown trap, then chose to escape. With System Nirvana's new Karma Line Obscuration ability and the Chaos Bell Fragment, they slipped off the island and headed southwest after Daoist Duobao sent a cryptic warning.

• Daoist Duobao told Cheng Xi about the upcoming Myriad Immortals Assembly and invited him to attend as an observer.
• Cheng Xi told Yan Lingji about his investigation, and they judged the assembly to be a trap while weighing the risks of leaving.
• System Nirvana restored part of its capabilities, unlocked Karma Line Obscuration, and recommended that Cheng Xi leave Golden Ao Island.
• Cheng Xi secured permission to set up a warning restriction, then used Karma Line Obscuration and short spatial flickers to evade the island's wards and patrols with Yan Lingji.
• Daoist Duobao sent Cheng Xi a message saying, "Southwest. Proceed with caution," and Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fled into the sea toward the southwest.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fled the Mother Beast Network’s corrupted sea beasts and plunged into the Abyss of Return to escape pursuit. The abyss disrupted their tracking and strengthened Cheng Xi’s Karma Line Obscuration, but they discovered ancient divine remains—and a familiar violet light inside one skeleton.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fought through waves of corrupted sea beasts closing in on them as the Mother Beast Network pursued them.
• The system identified the Abyss of Return ahead as a dangerous place that could disrupt tracking, so Cheng Xi pulled Yan Lingji toward it.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji entered the Dark Vortex and fell through the abyss into a lightless, airless void.
• Cheng Xi discovered that the abyss strengthened Karma Line Obscuration and reduced its energy consumption, though the system warned of spatial and temporal hazards.
• Yan Lingji pointed out enormous ancient skeletons, and Cheng Xi noticed Mother Beast-like violet light flickering in a Peng Bird skeleton’s eye socket.

Cheng Xi absorbed a trace of Chaos Evil Energy from the Peng Bird god-demon remains, accelerating his system’s Nirvana and uncovering a lead to the Chaos Spring Eye. As he and Yan Lingji prepared to explore further, dangerous entities in the Abyss of Return closed in.

• Cheng Xi discovered that the violet light in the Peng Bird remains was Chaos Evil Energy linked to the Mother Beast, and he used his Dark Fire Energy to make contact with it.
• The System Core forcibly absorbed the energy, erased the Mother Beast’s will, accelerated System Nirvana to 85% integrity, and unlocked Chaos Assimilation (Beginner).
• Cheng Xi touched the remains and received Kun Peng’s fragmented memories of its death, the Abyss of Return, and a possible Chaos Spring Eye that could help repair the Fragment of the Chaos Bell.
• Cheng Xi told Yan Lingji they needed information and strength, then considered drawing energy from other god-demon remains.
• The system warned that Chaos Creatures, wraith collectives, and ancient weapons were approaching after the energy ripples attracted native entities.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped the Abyss Natives by taking refuge in a forest of ancient remains, where Cheng Xi discovered he could absorb their power to strengthen himself and repair the System. When he awakened a Giant Spirit God's battle obsession, he learned the location of the Chaos Spring Eye but triggered a disturbance that drew the natives and a far greater presence toward them.

• Cheng Xi used the Fragment of the Chaos Bell and Yan Lingji's support to evade the pursuing Abyss Natives and flee toward the Chaos Spring Eye.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji entered a forest of powerful remains, where the lingering laws kept the natives from following them.
• Cheng Xi hid with Yan Lingji inside a giant turtle's rib cage and explained that the remains' order restrained the natives.
• Cheng Xi absorbed small traces of power from several remains, strengthening his Chaos Inner Force and advancing the System Nirvana process, while Yan Lingji gained ancient fire essence.
• Cheng Xi's contact with a Giant Spirit God's remains stirred its battle obsession and revealed the Chaos Spring Eye amid a vortex of stellar remains guarded by Elemental Giants.
• The disturbance awakened the surrounding remains, sent the Abyss Natives charging into the forest, and drew the attention of a much more terrifying will.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji fled the Abyss Overlord into a vortex of shattered stars, where three Chaos Elemental Giants guarded the Chaos Spring Eye. Cheng Xi used a Five Elements array to get past them, but the Abyss Overlord reached the spring eye and attacked as they arrived.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji escaped the giant turtle remains just before the Abyss Overlord destroyed them.
• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji entered the stellar vortex, where the Overlord’s pressure weakened and they struggled through Spatial Rifts and Chaos Qi.
• Cheng Xi used his Entropy Pupils and system deduction to locate the Chaos Spring Eye, but three Chaos Elemental Giants blocked their way.
• Cheng Xi activated a miniature Five Elements Chaos Array, and Yan Lingji stabilized its water and fire forces.
• Cheng Xi diverted the Chaos Fire giant spirit’s attack into the Chaos Water giant spirit, then led Yan Lingji through the opening to the spring eye.
• The Abyss Overlord tore into the vortex’s core and clawed toward Cheng Xi, Yan Lingji, and the Chaos Spring Eye.

Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji resisted the Abyss Overlord’s attack at the Chaos Spring Eye, where Yan Lingji sacrificed herself to unleash the spring’s origin power. After undergoing a Chaos baptism and completing the system’s nirvana, Cheng Xi wounded the Abyss Overlord and escaped with the unconscious Yan Lingji toward a route to the Primordial World.

• Cheng Xi and Yan Lingji used the Five Elements Chaos Array to withstand the Abyss Overlord’s giant claw, but the formation began to fail.
• Yan Lingji burned her bloodline and Water Law origin crystal, plunging into the Chaos Spring Eye and unleashing a pillar of Chaos Origin that checked the claw.
• Cheng Xi was baptized by the Chaos Origin as the Fragment of the Chaos Bell healed and the System Core completed its nirvana, granting him the Chaos Heart and upgraded abilities.
• Cheng Xi gathered his understanding of Chaos into a sword intent and cut a deep wound into the Abyss Overlord’s giant claw, forcing it to withdraw.
• Cheng Xi rescued the unconscious Yan Lingji from the spring eye and fled through a weak point in the Abyss toward the Primordial World.

Cheng Xi returned to the Primordial Continent with the gravely injured Yan Lingji and discovered that a calamity had polluted the land and devastated its inhabitants. He sheltered Yan Lingji in a Gonggong Tribe Water Mansion, learned of an invasion by fiends, and left the story preparing to investigate the danger and find a way to heal her.

• Cheng Xi emerged from Guixu near the Flowing Sand River and found the Primordial Continent contaminated by Calamity Fiend Qi and marked by widespread destruction.
• Cheng Xi carried the unconscious Yan Lingji to the Flowing Sand River, found a concealed Gonggong Tribe Water Mansion, and placed her in its spiritual spring to recover.
• Cheng Xi absorbed the contaminated energy through the Chaos Heart, restoring his strength as Yan Lingji's injuries began to stabilize.
• Cheng Xi received a dying Gonggong Tribe Shaman General's account of black rain, invading fiends, and devastating losses among the Heavenly Court and demon race.
• Cheng Xi used the Chaos Heart to devour a dozen fiendish demons that attacked the Water Mansion.
• Cheng Xi resolved to learn what had happened across the Primordial Continent and find a way to fully heal Yan Lingji.

Cheng Xi used the Chaos Heart to purify a siege of fiend demons outside the Water Mansion and awakened a Gonggong Shaman General’s final imprint. He learned of a secret treasure at the Eye of the Northern Nether Sea that might heal Yan Lingji and resist the Breath of Nirvana, then set out north with her, only to be targeted by a powerful entity awakening beneath the Black Wind Gobi.

• Cheng Xi purified the fiend demon army and its three Fiend Spirit commanders with the Chaos Wave.
• Cheng Xi purified a remnant soul and awakened the Shaman General’s imprint from the tortoise shell.
• The Shaman General revealed that Gonggong had hidden Ancestor Witch Origin and a means to resist nirvana at the Eye of the Northern Nether Sea.
• Cheng Xi took the guidance, stabilized Yan Lingji, and left the Water Mansion with her to travel north.
• An enormous entity awakened beneath the Black Wind Gobi, locked onto Cheng Xi, and tried to pull him underground.

Cheng Xi escaped the Gobi creature and found an ancient Xuan Gui Tribe settlement whose Great Yin Cold Pool stabilized Yan Lingji. After learning the ruins’ history and awakening a path tied to Ancestor Witch Xuan Ming, he faced a choice as the creature’s attack threatened to breach the ruins.

• Cheng Xi mimicked the Gobi creature’s aura and used Space Folding to escape its grasp with Yan Lingji.
• Cheng Xi found an underground Xuan Gui Tribe ruin and placed Yan Lingji beside the Great Yin Cold Pool, where its yin energy steadied her injuries.
• Cheng Xi touched the broken altar tablet and learned that the Xuan Gui Tribe had sacrificed itself to shield the settlement from an ancient nirvana force.
• The surface creature and its sha demons attacked the ruins’ barrier, which was expected to fail within three hours.
• Cheng Xi combined Chaos Power, Ink Jade Coral vitality, and Great Yin Sha Qi to awaken a gate to the Path of Cold Silence, then weighed entering it against fleeing with Yan Lingji.