Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu sought Linley’s help after his younger son Qin Shuang vanished, but Linley could not locate him because he was an Undetermined Fate outside the Lin Meng Universe. Linley took Qin Yu into the Primordial Space to find Roy, who might know where Shuang’er was.

• Kravig welcomed Qin Yu to White Cloud Palace and confirmed that no Heavenly Venerate had recently left except Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate, whom Qin Yu had killed.
• Qin Yu entered White Cloud Palace, sensed its distorted flow of time, and asked Linley to help find Qin Shuang.
• Linley could not perceive Qin Shuang’s fate or find him in the Lin Meng Universe, so he offered to take Qin Yu to Roy.
• Linley opened a Space Rift and led Qin Yu into the Primordial Space, where Qin Yu used his evolving universe’s World Power to withstand the Hong Meng Qi.
• After finding Eldest Brother and Roy absent from Hong Meng’s Small World, Linley used Time Power to travel into the future, and Qin Yu followed him into the Hong Meng Realm.

Linley brought Qin Yu to meet Hong Meng and Roy, where Roy showed them the past events surrounding Qin Shuang’s disappearance. Qin Yu learned that Shuang’er had traveled to Roy’s Starry Sky Universe and would have only about three thousand years to live, a limit that could not be undone by returning him to another universe.

• Linley took Qin Yu through the Heavenly Gate to Roy’s private space, where Qin Yu met Hong Meng and Roy.
• Roy showed the brothers a Floating Shadow of Misty City and explained how he could access any point in the Primordial Space’s space-time.
• Qin Yu watched Qin Shuang, feeling neglected on his sixteenth birthday, refine the Space-Time Pearl and use it to escape Misty City.
• Qin Yu gained insight into the Dao of destiny while watching the Floating Shadow, strengthening the foundation and potential of his evolving universe.
• Roy revealed that Qin Shuang had entered the Starry Sky Universe, where his current cultivation gave him a lifespan of about three thousand years.
• Roy told Qin Yu that the Starry Sky Universe’s laws would keep restricting Qin Shuang even if he returned to another universe.

Roy urged Qin Yu to create a universe powerful enough to free Shuang'er from the Starry Sky Universe's lifespan rules, while privately revealing his interest in Qin Shuang's fate. After arriving in the Starry Sky Universe, Qin Shuang learned about its history of human-made laws and discovered a cultivation book written by Roy, the Sun God Emperor.

• Roy told Qin Yu that surpassing the Starry Sky Universe's rules could save Shuang'er, and Qin Yu returned to cultivate.
• Roy explained to Hong Meng and Linley that he had given Qin Shuang the Space-Time Pearl because Qin Shuang was The Undetermined Fate, then admitted he could influence that fate.
• Qin Shuang arrived alone in the Starry Sky Universe and realized its rules were draining his lifespan, leaving him about three thousand years to live.
• Qin Shuang explored the planet and learned how the Sun God Emperor and other Dao Creators had created laws that advanced humanity.
• Qin Shuang found a dusty copy of Introduction to Cultivation and recognized Roy as its author and as the Sun God Emperor.

Qin Shuang studied Sun God Emperor Roy’s abandoned ideas for cultivating the body without comprehending laws and began developing a method to strengthen the Qi Gathering Stance. Roy secretly encouraged the rise of body cultivation across the Starry Sky Universe, while Qin Shuang’s new posture showed it could break through Level Seven.

• Qin Shuang read Roy’s book in the Zhang Family Town library, but Grandpa Luo warned that body-only cultivation had never surpassed Level Six.
• Qin Shuang borrowed Introduction to Cultivation and tested its Qi Gathering Stance, finding that it improved his control over his body.
• Qin Shuang drew on the Sky-Piercing Three Diagrams, Ancestral Dragon Art, and other methods to consider how to raise the stance’s limits.
• Roy secretly wrote and distributed body-cultivation books throughout the Starry Sky Universe, recording the methods people developed.
• Qin Shuang combined the Tongtian Diagram, Ancestral Dragon Art, Qi Gathering Stance, and library materials into a posture that tempered his body and could break through Level Seven.

Qin Shuang developed the Body Tempering Stance, reached the Saint Domain, and continued refining his body-cultivation methods as the practice spread across the Starry Sky Universe. He later defeated Tuoba Hu, an Alternative Dao Proving expert, whose praise highlighted Qin Shuang’s unusually balanced physique.

• Qin Shuang spent five years adapting the Qi Gathering Stance into the Body Tempering Stance, which let him cultivate his body to the Saint Domain.
• Qin Shuang broke through his physical limits, extended his lifespan, and gained a burst of Jin powerful enough to turn a distant mountain to dust.
• Qin Shuang left Zhang Family Town and continued developing body-cultivation stances while fighting beasts and powerful experts.
• Body cultivation spread through the Starry Sky Universe, and practitioners who reached Emperor level through their physical potential became known as Alternative Dao Proving experts.
• Qin Shuang fought Tuoba Hu, a specialist in the Sea of Energy Secret Realm, for ten days and ten nights before winning through his more balanced physique.
• Tuoba Hu accepted his defeat and praised Qin Shuang as the most balanced and correct Body Cultivator he had encountered.

Qin Yu built the first two layers of his universe, naming them the Original Universe and the Origin Continent, and devised laws and cycles to support their inhabitants. As Roy watched the work unfold, Qin Yu’s universe showed great potential, while Roy reflected on the fate of outsiders in his own Starry Sky Universe.

• Qin Yu reassured Jiang Li that Qin Shuang was safe in Roy’s universe and promised Qin Si that their family would visit in at most three thousand years.
• Qin Yu entered seclusion and completed the evolution of his first-layer universe, naming it the Original Universe and giving it a cycle of destruction and rebirth.
• Qin Yu built Samsara Channels linking the Three Thousand Universe Seas to his second layer, the Origin Continent, and established how inhabitants could create universes there.
• Qin Yu reorganized his universe’s laws so cultivators could progress toward the Hong Meng Law and become Hong Meng Beings.
• Roy watched Qin Yu’s universe and considered its potential, then reflected on the outsiders from the Magic Universe who had transcended or died in the Starry Sky Universe.

Roy named the Starry Sky Universe’s current Heavenly Dao Old Heaven, while Qin Shuang rescued a village boy after bandits slaughtered the villagers. The boy, left with no family, asked why Old Heaven Lord had allowed the massacre.

• Roy considered how powerful figures might one day challenge the Heavenly Dao and named its successive reincarnations Old Heaven, Azure Heaven, Vast Heaven, Yellow Heaven, Blue Sky, Mysterious Heaven, and Nether Heaven.
• Roy’s thoughts planted the idea of Old Heaven in the hearts of the Starry Sky Universe’s inhabitants, who began calling it Old Heaven Lord and believing their fates were arranged by it.
• Qin Shuang spotted a village burning and flew toward it, where he found bandits had slaughtered the villagers.
• Qin Shuang extinguished the fire and healed a surviving boy with a drop of Water of Life from his mother, Jiang Li.
• The boy spent three days burying the villagers, then told Qin Shuang he had no relatives or friends left.
• The boy asked Qin Shuang where Old Heaven Lord was and demanded to know why it had wanted the villagers to die.

Qin Shuang learned that Old Heaven had allowed bandits to destroy a village, while Roy discovered that a Heavenly Dao seed was gathering living beings’ possibilities and evolving into Old Heaven. The seed had begun claiming authority in the Underworld, and Roy decided to let it develop while planning to restore the lives of those sacrificed in its evolution.

• Qin Shuang learned that the village’s faith in Old Heaven had not protected its people from the bandits, and the surviving boy rejected his old identity.
• The boy named himself Dugu Zangtian and vowed to bury Old Heaven along with the villagers.
• Lilia sensed a force with the Heavenly Dao’s aura contaminating the Underworld and considered whether to stop it from taking authority.
• Roy learned that the Heavenly Dao had left a seed that fed on living beings’ thoughts, gathered their possibilities, and began shaping their fate.
• Roy realized that the seed had named itself Old Heaven and decided to let it evolve, intending to turn back time for those sacrificed once the Nine Heavens were complete.

Qin Shuang trained Dugu Zangtian in the Body Tempering Stance while recognizing Old Heaven’s influence over the young man’s fate. When Old Heaven arranged for the two to part, they chose to resist, but a giant Fierce Beast King emerged and attacked them.

• Dugu Zangtian rejected cultivation of laws and chose Qin Shuang’s Qi Gathering Stance and Body Tempering Stance as his path.
• Old Heaven’s influence caused Dugu Zangtian to suffer losses and disasters, while his strength rose to the peak of Level Nine.
• Qin Shuang realized that Old Heaven had arranged for him and Dugu Zangtian to part, and told Dugu Zangtian he would resist that arrangement.
• Dugu Zangtian resolved to oppose Old Heaven, and Qin Shuang agreed to face its plans alongside him.
• The ground collapsed beneath Qin Shuang and Dugu Zangtian, and a gigantic Centipede Fierce Beast King emerged to confront them.

Qin Shuang battled an Ancient Emperor Level Peak Centipede Fierce Beast controlled by Old Heaven, using the fight to temper his body and seek a breakthrough. Far away, Dugu Zangtian trusted his teacher and practiced the Body Tempering Stance, while Roy watched and praised Qin Shuang’s achievement.

• Qin Shuang sent Dugu Zangtian far from the battlefield and urged him to grow strong enough to defy Old Heaven’s arrangements.
• Qin Shuang struck the Centipede Fierce Beast with his Jin Qi, and they fought to a standstill despite its superior strength and regeneration.
• Qin Shuang chose to face the beast head-on and used the force of their collisions to temper his body and pursue the Ancient Emperor level.
• Dugu Zangtian trusted Qin Shuang, set aside his hostility, and practiced the Body Tempering Stance as the distant battle shook the land.
• Roy observed the battle from the Hong Meng Realm and praised Qin Shuang for creating the Body Tempering Stance.

Roy recognized that Qin Shuang’s Jin could unleash tremendous power by coordinating the body’s vibrations, and he used the technique to strengthen his own Space-Time Body. After demonstrating Jin to Hong Meng and Linley, Roy showed them a Floating Shadow of Qin Shuang, revealing that the young cultivator was Fourth Brother’s son.

• Roy realized Qin Shuang’s Jin could surpass conventional Law Power and used it to amplify his Space-Time Body’s strength.
• Roy summoned Hong Meng and Linley and challenged them to fight together without using the Space-Time Law’s mysteries.
• Roy used Jin to block Linley’s sword qi and strike Hong Meng hard enough to nearly crack his Xuanhuang Indestructible Body.
• Roy explained how Jin worked, and Hong Meng and Linley praised the technique’s potential.
• Roy showed the brothers a Floating Shadow of Qin Shuang battling a Centipede Fierce Beast, and Hong Meng and Linley recognized him as Fourth Brother’s youngest son.

Qin Shuang broke through to the Ancient Emperor level during his battle with the Centipede Fierce Beast and killed it, disrupting Old Heaven’s plans and weakening its hold on Dugu Zangtian. Roy learned that Old Heaven intended to try again with a stronger beast, while Qin Shuang’s influence gave Dugu Zangtian greater possibilities.

• Roy told Hong Meng and Linley to study Qin Shuang’s Jin Qi as he fought the Centipede Fierce Beast.
• After seven days and nights of fighting, Qin Shuang’s body broke through to the Ancient Emperor level, allowing him to injure the Centipede Fierce Beast and turn the battle around.
• Qin Shuang fought for another five days before killing the Centipede Fierce Beast, then comforted Dugu Zangtian and explained that they had broken part of Old Heaven’s restraints.
• Qin Shuang sensed that Old Heaven’s aura and karma over Dugu Zangtian had weakened, and he speculated that further defiance could restore Dugu Zangtian’s freedom.
• Roy learned through the Heavenly Dao seed that Old Heaven’s plan had failed and that it intended to use a stronger Starry Sky Beast next time.

Qin Yu struggled to create a third layer for his universe, whose Origin Continent had reached its limit, and sought advice from Roy. Roy proposed first forming a spiritual world that could eventually gather enough Mental Power to become a true third layer, while Qin Yu accepted that its evolution might take Yanjì.

• Unable to create a world stronger than the Origin Continent, Qin Yu visited Roy in the Hong Meng Realm and was astonished to see how far it had expanded.
• Roy showed Qin Yu a Floating Shadow of Qin Shuang and explained that Shuang'er had forged a path toward becoming a Hong Meng Being.
• After learning that Shuang'er was safe and advancing, Qin Yu explained his difficulty creating the third layer of his universe.
• Roy advised Qin Yu to create a spiritual world encompassing the Origin Continent, where beings could cultivate their minds and contribute Mental Power.
• Qin Yu realized the accumulated Mental Power could eventually make the spiritual world tangible and accepted that the process might take Yanjì.

Qin Yu completed the Void God Realm, absorbed the Qin Meng Universe's Xuanhuang Qi, and became a Level One Hong Meng Controller. He reunited with Hong Meng, Linley, and Roy, who planned to postpone breaking through Primordial Space until their strength had grown further.

• Qin Yu opened the Void God Realm across the Three Thousand Universe Seas and the Origin Continent, and it fully evolved within thirty years.
• Qin Yu absorbed the universe's accumulated Xuanhuang Qi, gaining a Level One Xuanhuang Indestructible Body and Xuanhuang Indestructible Soul.
• Qin Yu tested his new strength, reshaped the Qin Meng Universe, and met Hong Meng, Roy, and Linley in Primordial Space.
• The four brothers visited Roy's expanding Hong Meng Realm and discussed the dangers of breaking through Primordial Space.
• Roy said they should wait until Hong Meng and Qin Yu grew stronger, while Linley sent part of his consciousness to cultivate the Sword Dao.

Qin Yu, Hong Meng, and Linley pursued different approaches to cultivating their universes, while Qin Shuang and Dugu Zangtian fought in the Dragon Domain. Dugu Zangtian had abandoned the slow Body Tempering Stance for the Secret Realm system and developed a powerful golden Sacred Body.

• Qin Yu agreed to learn the physical force called "Jin" from Qin Shuang, while Hong Meng returned to urge the Heavenly Venerates of the Main Universe to advance.
• Hong Meng, Linley, and Qin Yu each considered the cultivation progress and future potential of their respective universes.
• In the Dragon Domain, Sky Slaughter's mother sent him to call his father and Grandmaster back for dinner.
• Qin Shuang and Dugu Zangtian fought above a lake, and Dugu Zangtian suppressed Qin Shuang's white destructive radiance with his golden power.
• Dugu Zangtian explained through his progress that he had switched from the Body Tempering Stance to the Secret Realm system, cultivated a golden Sacred Body, and reached the pinnacle of the Ancient Emperor realm.

Dugu Zangtian and Qin Shuang developed a method linking the body’s Secret Realms, and Dugu Zangtian’s strength surpassed his teacher’s as he prepared to challenge Old Heaven. The chapter ended with Dugu Zangtian and Qin Shuang returning home with young Dugu Shitian for dinner.

• Dugu Zangtian and Qin Shuang’s research connected the Sea of Energy Secret Realm to the Dao Palace, letting Dugu Zangtian begin nurturing his five viscera divine and exceed Qin Shuang’s strength.
• Dugu Zangtian considered abandoning Qin Shuang’s Body Tempering Stance to pursue his own path, then set aside his arrogance when he recognized how much he still depended on his teacher.
• Qin Shuang laughed after Dugu Zangtian defeated him in their training bout, while Dugu Zangtian acknowledged Qin Shuang’s limitless Body Tempering Stance.
• Dugu Shitian arrived to call his father and grandmaster home for dinner and boasted that he could send a Great Grey Wolf flying.
• Qin Shuang teased Dugu Shitian about the wolf, then he and Dugu Zangtian laughed with the boy and went home to eat.

Qin Shuang agreed to begin teaching three-year-old Dugu Shitian, who had already killed a Level 1 Fierce Beast. As Qin Shuang took the child to train, Dugu Zangtian sensed Old Heaven’s overwhelming aura and resolved to protect his family and teacher; the chapter ended at Guixu, the Starry Sky Beasts’ final habitat.

• Qin Shuang reflected on the universes and the Universe Ranking Battle, deciding to remain in the Starry Sky Universe until he understood its cultivation laws.
• Dugu Zangtian learned that Dugu Shitian had killed a Great Grey Wolf, and Ye Qing asked Qin Shuang to teach their son.
• Qin Shuang agreed to teach Dugu Shitian, who eagerly said he wanted to become stronger than his father.
• Dugu Zangtian sensed Old Heaven’s powerful aura and resolved to defend his family and Qin Shuang.
• The narration described Guixu, where Starry Sky Beasts lived and Supreme Heavenly Emperors and Quasi Heavenly Emperors guarded the exit.

A Starry Sky Beast King’s roar triggered a massive breakout from Guixu, while Dugu Shitian’s rapid breakthrough worried Qin Shuang because Shitian had altered the Body Tempering Stance. An escaped beast grew rapidly in the cosmic starry sky, revealing a gaze familiar to Qin Shuang and Dugu Zangtian.

• A Starry Sky Beast King awakened and sent the beasts of Guixu charging into the universe.
• The Quasi Heavenly Emperor guarding Guixu and the Emperor Level fighters battled the invading beasts, while an inconspicuous beast escaped through the battlefield.
• Dugu Shitian reached Level 8 by secretly changing the Body Tempering Stance, and Qin Shuang rebuked him for sacrificing his body’s future potential.
• Qin Shuang left disappointed, while Shitian wrongly believed his grandmaster was upset by how quickly he had advanced.
• The escaped Starry Sky Beast grew from ten thousand meters to over fifty thousand meters in five years and looked upon the world with an icy gaze familiar to Qin Shuang and Dugu Zangtian.

Dugu Zangtian sensed Old Heaven’s powerful Starry Sky Beast approaching and sealed Ye Qing and Dugu Shitian to protect them. He sent Qin Shuang to carry them toward the Palace of Reincarnation while he went to intercept the beast, fearing his son was also part of a larger scheme against Old Heaven.

• Dugu Shitian told Dugu Zangtian he had modified the Body Tempering Stance, and his parents began teaching him their cultivation methods.
• Dugu Zangtian sensed Old Heaven’s aura and sealed Ye Qing and Dugu Shitian inside a five-colored stone coffin.
• Dugu Zangtian asked Qin Shuang to take the sealed pair to the Sun God Dynasty or the Palace of Reincarnation while he intercepted the approaching Starry Sky Beast.
• Qin Shuang carried the coffins into a Teleportation Array and headed for the Palace of Reincarnation.
• Dugu Zangtian reflected that Dugu Shitian might inherit his role in the struggle against Old Heaven and went to face the Starry Sky Beast.

Dugu Zangtian fought the Emperor-level Starry Sky Giant Python rather than flee, but its overwhelming strength left him trapped and near death. With no escape, he merged his Five Aggregates Divine into his limbs and head, beginning a dangerous breakthrough that transformed its five-colored power into gray energy.

• Dugu Zangtian left the planet and faced the Starry Sky Giant Python in the cosmic starry sky.
• The giant python battered Dugu Zangtian, crushed a nearby planet, and proved immune to his attacks.
• Dugu Zangtian summoned his Five Aggregates Divine and fought beside it, but the python coiled around them and closed off their escape.
• Cornered, Dugu Zangtian decided to advance his cultivation by merging the Five Aggregates Divine into his limbs and head.
• Dugu Zangtian endured the painful fusion as his Life Spring healed the damage and the five colors combined into powerful gray energy.