Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing descended from Martial God Mountain to carry out a mission, and Lu Li tried to persuade her that the invitation hinted at a coming conflict requiring them to grow stronger quickly. Their conversation was interrupted when they found cultivators looting a village, and Lu Li rescued the villagers and captured one attacker.

• Lu Li reasoned that Valkyrie, whom he called Lu Xueqing, had powerful family backing, so their mission was unlikely to be a trap.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing set out from Martial God Mountain, and their teasing conversation about cultivating through exchanging origin left Lu Xueqing embarrassed and irritated.
• Lu Li warned Lu Xueqing that the invitation might involve a competition between worlds and that they needed shortcuts to become strong enough for what was coming.
• Lu Li spotted cultivators looting a village, killed the attackers except for one captive, and extinguished the fires with his power.
• The villagers thanked Lu Li but panicked at Lu Xueqing’s fearsome appearance, so Lu Li introduced her as his beautiful, kind Senior Apprentice-Sister and explained that they had come to eliminate bandits.

Lu Li traced the bandit raids to a powerful figure and discovered Li Zhong had arranged them to lure him out and steal his Spirit Seeds. As Li Zhong moved to confront him, three powerful figures from Wings of Freedom arrived at the Divine Martial Continent, declaring that the outcome would be decided that day.

• Lu Li used a root-tracing technique to kill bandits raiding the border, but a powerful figure cut off the trail before he could identify them.
• Li Zhong revealed that he had orchestrated the raids to draw Lu Li beyond Martial God Mountain and planned to kill him for his Spirit Seeds.
• Li Zhong learned that Lu Li had left Martial God Mountain and set out toward the place where he had arranged for clues to lead him.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing continued following the new clues as unseen observers watched over the Divine Martial Continent.
• A wing-marked banner arrived from the World Sea, and its leader told two companions that the outcome would be decided that day.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing entered Martial Soul Canyon to investigate who was targeting Martial God Mountain, expecting that a hidden ally might be watching over them. Li Zhong ambushed them with overwhelming Soul Intent, and Lu Li shielded Lu Xueqing with his body as the attack struck.

• Lu Li explained that the Grand Elder had sent him and Lu Xueqing to test whether the attacks targeted Martial God Mountain or them personally.
• Lu Li sensed Li Zhong approaching, and he and Lu Xueqing exchanged Origins to strengthen their powers before attacking together.
• Li Zhong shattered their combined strike with Soul Intent, leaving both their true spirits badly damaged.
• Lu Li recognized Li Zhong as a violator whose attributes had reached 320 points, and Li Zhong pressed his assault before they could recover.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing tried to block Li Zhong with their blade intent, but it broke, so Lu Li pulled Lu Xueqing into his arms and used his body to shield her from the strike.

Lu Yi arrived just in time to save Lu Li and Lu Xueqing from the violator Li Zhong, then overwhelmed him in a one-sided fight. She left the beaten Li Zhong for the two True Disciples, making clear they were under her protection.

• Li Zhong ambushed Lu Li and Lu Xueqing, but Lu Yi appeared and blocked his attack.
• Lu Yi identified herself as Martial God Mountain's Eldest Senior Apprentice-Sister and challenged Li Zhong.
• Li Zhong attacked Lu Yi, who caught his punch, threw him into a cliff, and repeatedly stomped and slapped him.
• Lu Yi told Li Zhong that Lu Li and Lu Xueqing were under her protection, then subdued him and tossed him before them.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing recognized how formidable Li Zhong was and were shocked by how completely Lu Yi had defeated him.

Lu Yi defeated Li Zhong, but Shi Meng of the Soul Devouring Sect arrived and revealed that Li Zhong had been a pawn in a larger scheme. Grand Elder Lu Gaoge intervened, only for Shi Meng to summon three other sect leaders to attack him as Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, and Lu Yi watched from behind his protection.

• Lu Yi crushed Li Zhong in battle, and Lu Li took Prison Demon from him before striking him down.
• Shi Meng appeared, healed Li Zhong, and confronted Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, and Lu Yi while Lu Yi shielded the others.
• Lu Gaoge emerged from hiding and protected the three disciples with a Golden Bell as Shi Meng attacked the canyon.
• Lu Gaoge and Shi Meng prepared to fight, but Shi Meng summoned the Dragon Lord, the Cave Master of Kirin Cave, and the Ten Thousand Demon King to surround Lu Gaoge.

Lu Gaoge fought Ao Jun, Qi Ben, and Bai Zhi while Shi Meng watched the siege, and their battle devastated Martial God Mountain’s territory. As Martial God Mountain vanished, the Mountain Lord confronted the white kirin Supreme Taboo who had exiled it into the World Sea.

• Lu Li and his companions found Lu Gaoge surrounded by Shi Meng, Ao Jun, Qi Ben, and Bai Zhi, who had blocked every route out of the canyon.
• Bai Zhi attacked Lu Gaoge with her charm arts, but he resisted her influence and struck through Ao Jun’s dragon palm before evading Qi Ben’s kick.
• The five experts’ battle destroyed Martial Soul Canyon and spread devastation across the Divine Martial Continent, killing many mortals and weak cultivators.
• Lu Li, Lu Yi, and Lu Xueqing saw Martial God Mountain disappear, and Lu Yi realized that a Supreme Taboo figure had acted.
• The Martial God Mountain Lord fought the white kirin Supreme Taboo that had exiled Martial God Mountain into the World Sea.

Lu Shuiliu fought three Supreme Taboos who had joined forces against Martial God Mountain, until the Abyssal Blood Emperor intervened. When the Devourer arrived, he destroyed the Soul Devouring Sect and revealed that he had never considered it his sect.

• Bai Luo and Ao Xing joined the White Kirin Taboo in attacking Lu Shuiliu, while Ao Xing's arrows devastated the Divine Martial Continent.
• The Abyssal Blood Emperor emerged from Sky Abyss, stabilized the continent, and joined Lu Shuiliu against the three attackers.
• The Taboos clashed as the Abyssal Blood Emperor called for an ally, and a purple-lit figure crossed the World Sea and entered the Divine Martial Continent.
• After surveying the Soul Devouring Sect's actions, the newcomer struck the sect with a palm, killing its disciples and elders and leaving Shi Meng horrified.
• The Devourer revealed that he had never established the Soul Devouring Sect, having only once left behind an inheritance of devouring techniques.

The Devourer joined Lu Shuiliu and the Abyssal Blood Emperor against Ao Xing and the allied taboos, but three powerful members of Wings of Freedom arrived and the Divine Martial Continent continued to collapse. Lu Li and his companions took shelter in Sky Abyss as the Spaces' attempted evacuations failed, while their enemies hinted that the person Lu Shuiliu awaited still had not appeared.

• The Devourer destroyed Soul Devouring Sect and joined the Abyssal Blood Emperor after learning that Soul Devouring Sect had falsely claimed his name.
• The Devourer suppressed the White Jade Kirin, turning the battle against Ao Xing and the other taboos in Lu Shuiliu's favor.
• Three powerful Wings of Freedom figures broke through the world barrier and joined the battle against Lu Shuiliu's side.
• Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, and their companions watched the devastation from inside the Grand Elder's Golden Bell as Lu Gaoge returned and carried them to Sky Abyss.
• The Spaces tried to teleport Lu Li and Lu Xueqing away, but the taboos shattered the teleportation pillars.
• A Wings of Freedom leader taunted Lu Shuiliu that the person she awaited still had not appeared.

Xue Zhiyu was trapped in an abandoned land by a shadow while the spaces sent their strongest reinforcements toward the Divine Martial Continent. In World Zero, Lanke and the Primordial God Realm's Taboos realized the crisis might signal the return of a peerless enemy connected to the Martial Emperor's disappearance.

• Xue Zhiyu confronted a flickering shadow that claimed the World Sea could no longer stop its descent, then became trapped beneath a black curtain that she could not break.
• Aizen reached the Ninth Order and felt uneasy as a powerful figure burst from a forbidden zone in the Supreme God Soil, prompting alarm across the continent.
• Lanke learned that the Void Pioneer and Void Chaser from Primordial Space and Origin Space had headed to the Divine Martial Continent, and warned that a Taboo war might have shattered it.
• Lanke explained that a Taboo from the Primordial God Realm had also set out, leaving the administrators to fear a crisis spanning the World Sea.
• The Primordial God Realm's Taboos gathered and linked the spaces' reopening nine epochs earlier and the current chaos to the Martial Emperor's disappearance four hundred epochs earlier.

The Primordial God Realm was sealed beneath a curtain of unfamiliar Tenth Order power while Divine Martial Continent was devastated by a battle between Taboos. Lu Li secured the Doomsday Spirit Seed, but Space’s reinforcements had not arrived, and two powerful figures were stopped on their way to Divine Martial Continent.

• The Primordial God Realm’s Taboos attacked a black curtain surrounding their world, realized it carried unfamiliar Tenth Order power, and feared that the Martial Emperor might be missing or dead.
• Aizen found that the curtain had cut off communications, while Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, Lu Yi, and the Sky Abyss nobles helped stabilize Sky Abyss’s formation amid Divine Martial Continent’s destruction.
• Lu Li killed the sealed violator Li Zhong, completed the Pioneer Hunt mission, and stored the Doomsday Spirit Seed, bringing his total to four mature Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Li and the Valkyrie discovered that Space’s reinforcements and communications were unavailable as the outnumbered Taboos and the Martial God Mountain Lord fought on.
• Two powerful figures from different Spaces were stopped in the World Sea just before reaching Divine Martial Continent.

Trapped Immortal, Dragon Snake Rising Land, and Manjushage were blocked from reaching the Divine Martial Continent by a mysterious curtain, until the Botanical Garden Leader arrived and opened a narrow passage. As the spaces recalled their Explorers, Dragon Snake Rising Land rushed through toward the collapsing battlefield, where a new figure appeared to attack the six taboos.

• Trapped Immortal and Dragon Snake Rising Land failed to break the curtain, and Manjushage joined them after her attacks also failed.
• Dragon Snake Rising Land revealed that his Old Ancestor had gone beyond the World Sea and lost contact, while Manjushage tried to summon the Botanical Garden Leader.
• The Botanical Garden Leader arrived, used shadow beasts to distort the curtain, and joined Manjushage and Trapped Immortal in tearing open a gap for one person.
• Dragon Snake Rising Land passed through the gap as every major space recalled its Explorers, alarming Shrimp Meat and Chuchu when Lu Li's avatar remained gray.
• Ao Xing shattered Sky Abyss's formation with an arrow, Lu Gaoge shielded Lu Li and the others with the Golden Bell, and a figure wrapped in red and black baleful energy punched toward the six taboos.

Dragon Snake Rising Land arrived to reinforce Lu Shuiliu and fought three violator leaders while revealing that he had refined his Secret Blood again. A second powerful ally, the Light-Dark Taboo, then arrived and suppressed Qingqiu, leaving the battle at five against five but heavily favoring Lu Shuiliu's side.

• Dragon Snake Rising Land struck the six Taboos and forced them back, allowing Lu Shuiliu and the others to regroup.
• The feather fan Taboo burned his power and urged the other violators to risk everything before their ally returned from across the Sea of Realms.
• Dragon Snake Rising Land fought the three violator leaders alone, then unleashed his Crimson-Eyed Demon Back after revealing he had refined his Bloodline within the Taboo Realm.
• Lu Li mistook Dragon Snake Rising Land for Lu Xueqing's father, and Lu Xueqing explained that he was actually her grandnephew.
• The Light-Dark Taboo arrived, restrained Qingqiu with conceptual chains, and was kicked away by Lu Shuiliu before the battle shifted in her side's favor.

The Light-Dark Taboo and its allies nearly defeated the remaining Taboos before distant shockwaves turned the battle against them, leaving Lu Li and his companions exposed to the Qingqiu Taboo. A mysterious attacker killed the Qingqiu Taboo and tried to seize the Golden Bell, but Xue Zhiyu intervened; as the attacker unleashed a devastating strike, Lu Li awakened a terrifying power within himself.

• The Light-Dark Taboo joined Dragon Snake Rising Land, the Devourer, and Lu Shuiliu in crushing the five remaining Taboos, while the Abyssal Blood Emperor shielded the Divine Martial Continent.
• A distant shockwave shattered the Light-Dark Taboo's defenses, sent Dragon Snake Rising Land flying, and caused the Devourer and Abyssal Blood Emperor to explode; the surviving Taboos then attacked the Divine Martial Continent.
• The Qingqiu Taboo broke free, destroyed Sky Abyss's formation, killed Lu Gaoge, and carried Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, and Lu Yi away in the Golden Bell.
• A palm from the far shore killed five Taboos, and a following strike erased the Qingqiu Taboo's true spirit before Xue Zhiyu stopped the shadow from taking the Golden Bell.
• The shadow unleashed killing intent at the Golden Bell, and Lu Li lost consciousness as a savage power awakened within him.

Lu Li, Lu Xueqing, and Lu Yi were blasted apart and scattered through the World Sea, but Xue Zhiyu confirmed that all three remained alive. Lu Li awakened as a mass of black True Soul Origin, stranded beside a red mass and wondering whether the Jet-Black Demon God had helped him survive.

• The shadow shattered the Golden Bell and scattered Lu Li and the others into the World Sea, while Xue Zhiyu arrived and destroyed the shadow.
• Xue Zhiyu deduced that Lu Yi, Lu Xueqing, and Lu Li were alive, though their survival depended on their own fortune.
• The surviving Taboos returned to their realms or went with Xue Zhiyu as the factions faced the aftermath of the battle.
• Lu Li wandered through a ruined vision, recognized the Jet-Black Demon God, and saw a cloaked figure with his own face before the world collapsed.
• Lu Li awoke as a tangled mass of black True Soul Origin and discovered that he was absorbing Red Origin Source from a nearby red mass.

After the battle that shattered Prime World 1, Lu Li was presumed dead while A'Huo set out searching for him. Still alive as a damaged mass of True Soul Origin, Lu Li slowly explored an ancient ruin and tried to revive himself and the Red Origin Source beside him.

• Aizen discovered the cross over Lu Li's portrait and vowed to grow stronger and avenge him.
• The World Sea mourned the many Explorers lost when Divine Martial Continent was devastated, while Lu Shuiliu told A'Huo that Lu Li's fate was unknown.
• A'Huo ran away from Martial God Mountain and stumbled through an unrepaired spacetime rift into a place surrounded by True Dragon corpses.
• Lu Li struggled to repair his true soul and dragged the Red Origin Source through a vast, ancient building in an unknown world.
• Lu Li found that his Explorer Mark and Storage Space were gone, but the Red Origin Source began absorbing small amounts of his Black Origin Source.
• Lu Li continued exploring and nourishing the Red Origin Source, hoping they could recover together as another ten years passed.

After surviving a catastrophe as masses of origin source, Lu Li explored an ancient ruin and found books written in a script he had learned from Master, raising the possibility that the ruin was in his hometown. He awakened Lu Xueqing by sharing their complementary origin sources, and they began trying to recover together, though their injuries made progress painfully slow.

• Lu Li accidentally knocked over a bookshelf, discovered several books, and recognized their ancient script from lessons with Master.
• Lu Li read novels and an Epic Grade cultivation manual, then wondered whether the ruin might be in his hometown and reflected on the five shriveled Spirit Seeds within him.
• After three more years of exploration, Lu Li's continued nurturing awakened Lu Xueqing, and he told her about the ruin and his uncertainty about their Eldest Senior Apprentice-Sister's fate.
• Lu Li proposed that their black and Red Origin Sources could heal each other, and Lu Xueqing agreed despite her pain and initial reluctance.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing exchanged their origin sources and found that it helped, but their severe injuries limited the recovery they could sustain.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing slowly improved by exchanging origins while exploring the shifting ruins, though Lu Xueqing remained unable to move on her own. After another ten years, they encountered a patrol of Ruins Guards that detected them and began pursuing them.

• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing discovered that exchanging origins weakened the threads inside them, but repeated cultivation exhausted their consciousnesses and limited them to a few attempts each day.
• Lu Xueqing could not move, so Lu Li dragged her through the ruins despite the pain, and they continued exploring together for years.
• Over the next ten years, Lu Li melted through one thread and became more mobile, while Lu Xueqing remained immobile; they developed a routine of exploring and exchanging origins.
• Lu Li heard footsteps in a tunnel and spotted an army of rusty metal Ruins Guards marching toward them.
• A Ruins Guard noticed Lu Li and Lu Xueqing, and the guards raised their spears and charged, forcing Lu Li to flee with Lu Xueqing.

Lu Li carried Lu Xueqing through the Black Iron Guards and escaped into the shifting ruins, but the effort nearly scattered his origin source and erased his memories. After waking beside Lu Xueqing, he remembered who he was and realized that losing even part of his origin source might have cost him his identity.

• Lu Xueqing tried to separate from Lu Li so he could escape, but Lu Li pulled her back and dodged the Black Iron Guards' spears.
• Lu Li discovered the guards' spears were made from Chaos-Grade materials and used his combat instincts and elastic body to maneuver through their formation with Lu Xueqing.
• Lu Xueqing heard a shifting doorway, and Lu Li threw her through its narrowing gap before being dragged through by her red tentacle as the ruins crushed a pursuing spear.
• Lu Li lost consciousness after escaping, then woke beside Lu Xueqing with his vision diminished and his origin source still in pain.
• Lu Li confirmed his identity and remembered that the battle had nearly scattered his origin source enough to make him forget who he was.

After years trapped in the shifting ruins, Lu Li and Lu Xueqing resumed exploring and discovered oversized black mice carrying a substance connected to Lu Li’s origin power. Their discovery suggested the ruins might hold a way out, and Lu Li recognized the place as the Sky Pit.

• Lu Li recovered enough to move after exchanging origin sources with Lu Xueqing, but their cultivation stopped affecting the remaining sturdy threads in their bodies.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing decided to explore the ruins together, using their adapted slime-like bodies to move quickly and evade attacks.
• The pair encountered giant black mice, and Lu Li dissolved one while Lu Xueqing captured another alive.
• Lu Li found black matter in the dissolved mouse’s blood and recognized it as the black mist he had once produced, leading him to suspect the ruins were the Sky Pit.
• Lu Xueqing opened the captured mouse’s pouch and found a condensed black bead of liquid-like matter inside.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing tracked rats to a chamber where a powerful black creature’s corpse supplied pure origin source, helping them dissolve many of the threads in their bodies. After years of recovery, they encountered a group of armored outsiders who identified them as Sacred Souls.

• Lu Li absorbed a black origin source bead taken from a rat and found it exceptionally pure, though too small to noticeably help him.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing followed a wounded rat to a vast room where rats fed on black liquid dripping from an upside-down corpse resembling the Jet-Black Demon God.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing brought down the corpse and absorbed its origin source for many years, reducing the threads in their bodies to a few thousand.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing played at being eggs on pedestal-like seats until footsteps and bright lights alerted them to newcomers.
• A group of armored outsiders entered the chamber, and their Captain exclaimed that there were two Sacred Souls.