Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xi and his companions escaped Daoist Yujing’s Great Void Illusory Realm by countering its information toxins and helping the Eight-Clawed Divine General break the illusion’s anchor. Searching the revealed space for Penglai, Cheng Xi discovered a massive starship wreckage in an overlapping spatial layer, with an aura linked to the Three Sovereigns’ Fire Cloud Cave.

• Daoist Yujing transformed the Great Void Illusory Realm into a series of deadly illusions, while Cheng Xi used the Chaos Bell’s Resonance to repel their attacks.
• Cheng Xi identified the illusions as Information Toxins and used the Kindling Fire Origin Imprint’s heart-fire to weaken their effects.
• The Eight-Clawed Divine General briefly regained its clarity, and Cheng Xi helped it resist corruption and strike the illusion’s Real Coordinate.
• The Great Void Illusory Realm collapsed, the Eight-Clawed Divine General sank into the sea, and Daoist Yujing withdrew after warning Cheng Xi they would meet again.
• Cheng Xi found a faint energy trace at the broken barrier and opened a crack revealing a colossal starship wreckage linked to the Three Sovereigns’ Fire Cloud Cave.

Cheng Xi entered the wreck of the Hope Frontier, learned how its crew had been destroyed by the Whispers of the End, and received coordinates to the Kindling Fire Repository. When he returned, he found Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi under attack while Daoist Yujing demanded the Civilization Fire Seed and prepared a sinister ritual.

• Cheng Xi crossed the unstable rift alone and explored the ruined starship while Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi waited outside.
• Cheng Xi found the central command hall, where a phantom identified the ship as the Hope Frontier and transmitted its records and the Kindling Fire Repository coordinates.
• Phantom Aila revealed that the Whispers of the End had driven the crew into madness and warned Cheng Xi that the whispers remained widespread.
• The Civilization Fire Seed went dark after its Human Dao origin merged into Cheng Xi's Kindling Fire Imprint, and he took the crystal with him.
• Cheng Xi returned to find Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi fighting black-robed cultivators as Daoist Yujing demanded the Civilization Fire Seed.
• Cheng Xi spotted a bone-and-resentment altar gathering Chaos Energy and residual resentment behind Daoist Yujing.

Cheng Xi rescued Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi from the Abyssal Temple cultivators, then used the Civilization Fire Seed to resist Daoist Yujing’s Bone King projection. A summons from Ao Guang, issued by Ancestor Candle Dragon, called Cheng Xi to the Abyss of Return, and Daoist Yujing withdrew after promising they would meet again there.

• Cheng Xi emerged from the Starship Wreckage and defeated one Abyssal Temple cultivator with Chaos Fist Energy, turning the battle in favor of Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi.
• Daoist Yujing attacked Cheng Xi with his fly whisk and summoned the Bone King projection from the Ghostly Altar.
• Cheng Xi used the Civilization Fire Seed to create a Radiance of Human Dao domain that weakened the Bone King's deathly power.
• A dragon roar announced a message from Ao Guang, who ordered Cheng Xi to bring the Fire Seed to the Abyss of Return Sea Eye because of a change threatening the Primordial Era.
• Daoist Yujing withdrew with the Bone King projection and Ghostly Altar, while the remaining Abyssal Temple cultivators fled.

Cheng Xi returned to the Abyss of Return and found the Sea Eye in turmoil, with the Primal Nirvana Mark attracting a vast demonic horde and straining Candle Dragon’s seal. To help reinforce the seal with the Civilization Fire Seed, Cheng Xi plunged into the Sea Eye’s deadly depths, leaving Ao Guang, Xuan Chengzi, and Fairy Yaochi to defend the platform.

• Cheng Xi left with Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi after Ao Guang urgently summoned him to the Abyss of Return.
• The three arrived to find the Sea Eye boiling with Nirvana corruption and tens of thousands of demons and fallen beings gathering around it.
• Ao Guang explained that the Primal Nirvana Mark had resonated with a signal, drawing corrupted beings and overwhelming Candle Dragon as he tried to contain it.
• Ao Guang told Cheng Xi to carry the Civilization Fire Seed to the seal’s core and use it to suppress the mark’s resonance.
• Ao Guang, Xuan Chengzi, and Fairy Yaochi agreed to defend the platform while Cheng Xi entered the Sea Eye with Ao Guang’s Dragon God Talisman.
• Cheng Xi plunged into the torrent and was immediately assailed by Nirvana energy, hostile emotions, and charging demonic shadows.

Cheng Xi reached the Primal Nirvana Mark and used the Kindling Fire Imprint to reinforce the Torch Dragon’s seal. The Torch Dragon revealed that the mark connected the prehistoric world to a wider crisis across the myriad worlds and pointed Cheng Xi toward the Kindling Fire Repository and the Myriad Worlds Fire Seed.

• Cheng Xi fought through the Nirvana torrent, resisting its monsters and whispers with the Chaos Bell Fragment, Dragon God Talisman, and Kindling Fire Imprint.
• Cheng Xi found the Primal Nirvana Mark at the seal core, where the Torch Dragon told him to inject the Fire Seed into the cracked Kun, Zhen, and Li pillars.
• The Primal Nirvana Mark attacked Cheng Xi, but he let its divine light enter his sea of consciousness and used the Kindling Fire Imprint to consume and transform it.
• Cheng Xi mended the three pillars, temporarily stabilizing the nine-pillar seal for a hundred years and quieting the torrent and monsters.
• The Torch Dragon showed Cheng Xi visions of other worlds falling into ruin and said he needed to seek the Myriad Worlds Fire Seed, beginning at the Kindling Fire Repository, while the mark could serve as a Dao Beacon.

After returning to Qin, Cheng Xi proposed turning Great Qin into Immortal Qin through rune technology, education, and the Human Dao. Ying Zheng approved the reforms, but a disturbance at the Abyss of Return and a warning pointing toward the Heavenly Court threatened the new plans.

• Cheng Xi told Ying Zheng about the Primal Nirvana Mark, the Candle Dragon's warning, and the danger of Zero Return of All Realms, then urged him to build an Immortal Qin.
• At court, Cheng Xi proposed reforming military equipment, founding the Human Dao Academy, and gathering Human Dao Destiny, while Lu Buwei challenged the academy's effect on Qin Law.
• Cheng Xi demonstrated psionic crossbows that let ordinary elite guards destroy iron targets, impressing Ying Zheng, Wang Jian, and the other generals.
• Ying Zheng appointed Cheng Xi Imperial Preceptor and ordered the creation of the Institute of Investigation of Things, the Human Dao Academy, and a Spirit Machinery Workshop.
• Cheng Xi sensed a disturbance near the Abyss of Return seal, and the system warned that a High-Dimensional Information Layer disturbance might point toward the Heavenly Court.

Cheng Xi established the Spirit Machinery Workshop and Human Dao Academy, then investigated the Yin Yang School’s connection to the Whispers of the End and the First Emperor’s Mausoleum. He was ambushed at Mount Li by Star Gazing Hall elites using a confinement formation and a corrosive soul attack.

• Cheng Xi improved psionic crossbow production by teaching Qin craftsmen practical principles, and a stronger, more stable prototype began to take shape.
• Cheng Xi founded the Human Dao Academy, recruited Xun Kuang as a chief instructor, and argued that different schools of thought could combine their strengths.
• Cheng Xi discussed the shortage of Psionic Cores with Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi, then connected the search for ancient energy sources to the Yin Yang School and Mount Li.
• After detecting a system warning linking the Yin Yang School’s activity to the Whispers of the End, Cheng Xi secretly left Xianyang and infiltrated the First Emperor’s Mausoleum.
• A Star Gazing Hall leader and four puppets ambushed Cheng Xi, trapping him in the Four Symbols Void Lock while the leader sent a corrosive soul attack toward his consciousness.

Cheng Xi broke the Star Gazing Hall deacon’s Four Symbols Void Lock Array, seized and analyzed the deacon’s staff, and followed its hidden star map into Mount Li’s imperial mausoleum. There he discovered a Star Rail Platform under construction and another Fragment of the Chaos Bell, suggesting Eastern Emperor Taiyi was using the site to reassemble the bell.

• Cheng Xi used the Fragment of the Chaos Bell to disrupt the Four Symbols Void Lock Array and broke its vulnerable spatial node with Chaos Sword Qi.
• Cheng Xi seized the Star Gazing Hall deacon’s staff, severed the deacon’s connection to it, and destroyed the High-Dimensional contract rune inside its gemstone.
• The Star Gazing Hall deacon crushed a jade talisman and escaped with the four puppets, while Cheng Xi stayed behind with the staff.
• Cheng Xi analyzed the staff’s markings and followed its star map through the imperial mausoleum’s hidden restrictions to Mount Li’s Earth Vein Node.
• Cheng Xi entered a vast cavern and found Yin Yang School cultivators and puppets building a Star Rail Platform around another Fragment of the Chaos Bell.

Cheng Xi infiltrated the Star Rail Platform’s chief engineer’s mind and stole its construction secrets, then used them to create a stable, mass-producible Spirit Core. He left the chapter wary of Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s connection to the Whispers of the End and whatever power the platform might channel.

• Cheng Xi used his Chaos Power and Entropy Pupils to examine the Star Rail Platform and concluded that its patterns could connect Eastern Emperor Taiyi to a High-Dimensional Existence.
• Cheng Xi infiltrated the chief engineer’s consciousness during a test and copied the platform’s designs, energy formulas, materials, and Nirvana Star Patterns.
• Cheng Xi distracted the chief engineer with a false energy phantom and withdrew his Divine Sense without being discovered.
• Cheng Xi returned to his residence and spent seven days adapting the stolen designs into a stable, self-replenishing Spirit Core.
• Cheng Xi gave the Spirit Core to Xuan Chengzi, who praised its potential to power Immortal Qin creations.
• Cheng Xi questioned what Eastern Emperor Taiyi intended to obtain from the Whispers of the End and what he might offer in return.

Cheng Xi mass-produced spirit cores and led an imperial force to Mount Li to stop Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s ritual. After the army struck a weak point in the mountain’s barrier, a Great Dao projection of Haotian appeared and unleashed his will upon them.

• Cheng Xi ordered spirit core production and sent Xuan Chengzi to report Mount Li’s rising energy and request troops from Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng ordered Wang Jian to lead three thousand elite soldiers and one hundred Guest Ministers under Cheng Xi’s command to Mount Li.
• Cheng Xi guided the army past Yin Yang School sentries and a disorientation formation, but Mount Li’s defenders activated the Mountain Protection Array.
• Cheng Xi identified a vulnerable energy node and ordered the soldiers to fire three volleys of psionic crossbows, weakening the barrier.
• Haotian’s Great Dao projection appeared through Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s avatar and brought his overwhelming will down on Cheng Xi and the army.

Cheng Xi resisted Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s Great Dao Will and redirected his star-spear attack through a Chaos Bridge, but the main Fragment of the Chaos Bell awakened and disrupted Taiyi’s plans. As Taiyi moved to suppress the fragment, an ancient Daoist beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens noticed Cheng Xi’s anomaly.

• The Kindling Fire Imprint shielded Cheng Xi from the Great Dao Will, while Wang Jian, the Qin soldiers, Xuan Chengzi, Fairy Yaochi, the Guest Ministers, and Ying Zheng’s national fortune supported him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi formed a star-powered spear and attacked Cheng Xi with a divine ability capable of piercing a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Cheng Xi built a Chaos Bridge that absorbed and analyzed the spear’s star power while the Kindling Fire purified its Nirvana force.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi grew angry and prepared to draw on the power of the entire Starry Sky, but the main Fragment of the Chaos Bell rang from beneath Mount Li and destabilized the Star Rail Platform.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi turned to suppress the awakened fragment, and an old Daoist beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens observed Cheng Xi and called him an anomaly.

Cheng Xi destroyed the Star Rail Platform and reclaimed the main Fragment of the Chaos Bell, drawing a direct strike from Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Ying Zheng and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors blocked it at great cost, leaving Cheng Xi alive but exposed to Hongjun’s attention and Great Qin’s fortune diminished.

• Hongjun’s gaze wounded Cheng Xi while the unstable Star Rail Platform and Chaos Bell fragment unleashed a devastating energy storm.
• Cheng Xi infused his spirit core with Chaos Power and Kindling Fire Origin, triggering the Star Rail Platform’s destruction and shattering its Nirvana Star Patterns.
• The main Fragment of the Chaos Bell broke free of Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s restraints and merged with Cheng Xi, repairing and strengthening his Dao foundation.
• Hongjun sent a strike of Heavenly Dao Order toward Cheng Xi, but Ying Zheng detonated his Human Emperor Status and Great Qin’s national fortune to block it with aid from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• The mountain belly collapsed, Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s projection vanished, and Cheng Xi survived with the complete Chaos Bell fragment as Great Qin’s fortune dimmed and Hongjun’s hostility increased.

After Ying Zheng’s sacrifice left him gravely wounded, he entrusted Cheng Xi with directing Immortal Qin’s reforms. Cheng Xi overcame a public challenge from Chunyu Yue, but a disturbance around the Kongtong Seal suggested the Human Sect was preparing to act.

• Ying Zheng told Cheng Xi to accelerate the Immortal Qin project and gave him authority to make decisions while he recovered.
• Cheng Xi improved spirit-core production and Psionic Crossbows, then introduced plans for spirit-core tools to benefit agriculture and the people.
• Chunyu Yue and allied nobles opposed the reforms and demanded that Ying Zheng abolish the new techniques.
• Cheng Xi publicly debated Chunyu Yue, demonstrating the practical benefits of Immortal Qin technology and winning support from the citizens.
• Cheng Xi received a warning that the Human Sect might have activated its Mountain Protection Array and that the Kongtong Seal’s aura had become unstable.

Cheng Xi learned from Lord Tongtian that Taishang Laojun was using the Kongtong Seal to suppress Human Dao and discredit Immortal Qin. Cheng Xi traveled alone to Shouyang Mountain to reach the seal, but a watchful gaze swept the area just after he hid.

• Cheng Xi analyzed the Shouyang Mountain disturbance and suspected Taishang Laojun was forcibly activating or suppressing the Kongtong Seal.
• Lord Tongtian sent a message explaining Taishang's plan to use Heavenly Dao to redefine Heaven's Mandate and erase Immortal Qin, and warned Cheng Xi to awaken the seal through the Human Race's will.
• Cheng Xi assigned Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi to support the court and prepare loyal students and craftsmen at Mount Li.
• Cheng Xi concealed his presence and traveled alone toward Shouyang Mountain, where he sensed the Kongtong Seal calling and warning him.
• Cheng Xi hid near the Two Forms Dust Array, and Taishang Laojun's gaze swept across the area outside the mountain gate.

Cheng Xi infiltrated the Two Forms Dust Array by exploiting its ordered cycles and used chaos to disrupt the worlds within as he followed the Kongtong Seal Spirit's guidance. He reached the array's core, where Grand Master Xuandu confronted him, and their battle began as Cheng Xi vowed to free the Seal Spirit.

• Cheng Xi analyzed the Two Forms Dust Array and slipped into a dust world during a brief gap in its order.
• He spread entropy through the dust worlds, weakening their order while the Seal Spirit guided him toward the array's core.
• Cheng Xi crossed the array's shifting worlds and reached a chaotic void containing the bound Kongtong Seal.
• Grand Master Xuandu confronted Cheng Xi and demanded that he retreat, but Cheng Xi called on the Seal Spirit to resist its chains.
• The Kongtong Seal Spirit surged against its restraints, and Cheng Xi declared that he would free it and take the treasure.
• Xuandu raised his Fly Whisk and used the array's yin-yang laws to crush Cheng Xi.

Cheng Xi disrupted Xuandu’s Taiji suppression with the unstable Chaos Four Extremes and used the Kindling Fire Imprint to awaken the Kongtong Seal Spirit, which declared that the Human Dao must stand on its own. Just as Cheng Xi and the Seal Spirit began breaking the Heavenly Dao seal, an overwhelming figure appeared and fixed its gaze on their Kindling Fire Bridge.

• Xuandu used Taiji millstones to suppress Cheng Xi, who carved four space-time singularities and embedded the powers of immortal, martial, culture, and history to disrupt them.
• Cheng Xi rushed toward the Kongtong Seal and used the Kindling Fire Imprint to awaken its Seal Spirit with humanity’s collective memories.
• The Seal Spirit declared that the Human Dao must stand on its own and began attacking the Heavenly Dao seal with Cheng Xi’s help.
• A sigh froze the void, stopping Cheng Xi, Xuandu, the Taiji millstones, and the Kongtong Seal’s resistance.
• An indistinct figure condensed in the direction of Eight Views Palace and focused on the Kindling Fire Bridge between Cheng Xi and the Kongtong Seal.

Cheng Xi used a brief flaw in Taishang Laojun’s control to awaken the Kongtong Seal with the faith of people gathered at Mount Li. The seal broke its Heavenly Dao Shackles, but Taishang Laojun retaliated with a Taiji Diagram Phantom that threatened Cheng Xi and the newly freed treasure.

• Taishang Laojun began erasing the Kindling Fire Bridge and the connection between Cheng Xi and the Kongtong Seal.
• The Fragment of the Chaos Bell and the Civilization Fire Seed’s undying imprint resisted erasure, giving Cheng Xi a brief opening.
• Cheng Xi sent a command to Mount Li, where Xuan Chengzi and Fairy Yaochi activated the Myriad Hearts Resonance Array with thousands of students and artisans.
• The gathered people’s faith surged into the Kongtong Seal, whose Spirit shattered its Heavenly Dao Shackles and awakened as a Human Dao Treasure.
• Taishang Laojun, angered by the challenge to his Dao, summoned a Taiji Diagram Phantom to attack Cheng Xi and the Kongtong Seal.

Taishang Laojun tried to destroy Cheng Xi and suppress the Kongtong Seal, but the Chaos Bell Fragment delayed his attack and Lord Tongtian intervened. The Kongtong Seal chose Cheng Xi as its master just as Taishang and Tongtian prepared to fight, before a gaze from Zixiao Palace halted their clash.

• Taishang Laojun used the Taiji Diagram Phantom to suppress Cheng Xi and the Kongtong Seal.
• The Chaos Bell Fragment awakened and struck the Taiji Diagram Phantom, briefly interrupting its suppression.
• Lord Tongtian arrived and severed the Taiji Diagram's connection to the Kongtong Seal, then confronted Taishang Laojun.
• The Kongtong Seal chose Cheng Xi as its master and poured Human Dao Destiny into him, healing his damaged Dao Foundation.
• Taishang renewed his attack, and Tongtian prepared to fight him before a vast will from Zixiao Palace smoothed away their clashing auras.

After the Dao Ancestor recognized Cheng Xi’s claim to the Kongtong Seal, Cheng Xi returned to Qin and began building a Human Dao Net around it. The Heavenly Court then declared Immortal Qin rebellious and called on the world to destroy it, leaving Cheng Xi’s state facing enemies on every side.

• The Dao Ancestor confirmed that the Kongtong Seal had chosen Cheng Xi, restrained Taishang Laojun from intervening, and warned Lord Tongtian and Cheng Xi about the calamity ahead.
• Lord Tongtian helped stabilize Cheng Xi’s injuries, warned him that the Heavenly Court and other powers would oppose him, and departed for Golden Ao Island.
• Cheng Xi returned to Xianyang, where the Kongtong Seal resonated with Qin’s fortune, strengthening the Golden Dragon of Fortune and stabilizing Ying Zheng’s Human Emperor Status.
• Cheng Xi entered seclusion to master the Kongtong Seal and design a Human Dao Net, while Immortal Qin expanded its spirit-core technology, academy, and military strength.
• The Jade Emperor issued an edict declaring Qin rebellious and offering merit and divine office to those who killed Cheng Xi and destroyed Immortal Qin.
• The Human Sect began attacking and blockading Immortal Qin, while Buddha light appeared in the western lands.

With Immortal Qin under attack from the Heavenly Court-backed Four-Nation Allied Army, Xuan Chengzi and the court sought allies while Ao Guang secretly offered limited aid. As Qin’s defenses faltered, a report from Meng Tian revealed powerful Witch Clan forces gathering beyond the northern Great Wall.

• Li Si and Wang Jian urged Xuan Chengzi to find allies, and Xuan Chengzi proposed approaching the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Ao Guang rejected calls to join the war or obey the Heavenly Court and secretly sent resources to Mount Li Workshop while ordering the Dragon Palace to remain neutral.
• Taibai Jinxing supplied the kings of Chu, Qi, Yan, and Wei with magical weapons and a formation diagram, and they agreed to march on Xianyang despite their conflicting interests.
• The Four-Nation Allied Army attacked Qin from the south and east, using Heavenly Court artifacts and the Grand Celestial Array Diagram to weaken Qin’s defenses.
• Meng Tian reported that powerful Witch Clan forces had appeared beyond the northern Great Wall and might serve the resurrected Ancestor Witches.