Chapter Summaries

Lu Li met Manjushage, who explained why the Spaces lacked powerful fighters and argued that the Spirit Seeds offered another path to Tenth Order power. She asked him to gather the remaining Spirit Seeds and fully understand their power before entering the Supreme Realm, and he agreed.

• Black Lily led Lu Li to Manjushage's manor, where he met the Botanical Garden's leader for the first time.
• Lu Li and Manjushage discussed the shadow's attack on the Divine Martial Continent and why Lu Li had survived.
• Manjushage said the Nine Great Spaces should reunite, but Lu Li questioned whether that could truly produce a Tenth Order expert.
• Manjushage explained that few Taboo-level experts remained in the Spaces and that Lu Li was their strongest available fighter and a likely Supreme Taboo.
• Manjushage proposed that gathering all nine Spirit Seeds could provide another route to Tenth Order power, and Lu Li agreed to collect them.

Lu Li restored Scarlett, traveled to Primordial God Realm to repair his Evil God Mask, and spent years lecturing at its academies before discovering a theory about Innate Beings and the limits on reaching Tenth Order. He arrived at Spirit Void Hall to pursue Spirit Seeds, where an indescribable presence appeared behind its steward, Lanke.

• Lu Li told Manjushage he would confront the looming danger, then restored Scarlett by reuniting her true spirit with his and returned to the Record of Ragnarok world.
• Lu Li traveled to Primordial God Realm to repair his Evil God Mask, but Elder Hu turned his visit into a lecture tour that lasted several years and included exchange students from Divine Martial Continent.
• Lu Li visited Joyous Union Academy, studied its Heavenly Pool, and comprehended a Joyous Union Secret Method while developing theories about reproduction, Innate Beings, and the Tenth Order.
• Lu Li had End Space declare war on other spaces over Spirit Seeds, intending to borrow seeds from Tian Huang and Dao Yan and return them after studying them.
• Lu Li reached Spirit Void Hall and met its steward, Lanke, but an indescribable thing appeared behind Lanke and filled Lu Li's vision with terror.

Lu Li met Crimson, a Supreme Taboo who offered to restore the Evil God Mask in exchange for his help separating the Inner World from the Primordial God Realm. After learning that the Inner World’s inhabitants were being mistreated and Crimson could not leave without abandoning its duty, Lu Li asked why Crimson believed he could change the situation.

• Lu Li met Crimson through Lanke, who translated Crimson’s words and explained that the being could repair his equipment but not restore his charm.
• Crimson brought Lu Li to the Inner World, where a half-bodied butler explained that Lu Li’s rebirth had severed his connection to the Evil God Mask.
• The butler offered to fully repair and strengthen the mask if Lu Li promised to help separate the Inner World from the Primordial God Realm.
• The butler explained that Crimson stayed to protect the Inner World, whose people were being treated as entertainment and a training ground by the Primordial God Realm.
• Lu Li accepted the need to help the Inner World and asked why Crimson believed he could influence the World Sea’s future.

Lu Li received the reforged Evil God Mask, learning that the Crimson Taboo had sacrificed Himself to become its Artifact Spirit, just as a devastating energy tide swept through the World Sea. After Xue Zhiyu halted the tide, Lu Li returned to End Space and learned of its heavy losses, while growing concerned that a battle above the River of Time had caused the disaster.

• The Crimson Taboo agreed to help Lu Li peacefully resolve the situation and took his Evil God Mask for seven years of reforging while Lu Li meditated in the Scarlet Blood Pool.
• The butler returned the Origin-Grade Evil God Mask and explained that the Crimson Taboo had refined Himself into it, asking Lu Li to keep His absence secret and honor his promise.
• The Inner World trembled as an enormous energy tide tore through the World Sea, destroying worlds and killing powerful beings.
• Xue Zhiyu struck the tide with a powerful punch and stopped its advance, though more than one-seventh of the World Sea was destroyed and its dead could not be restored.
• Lu Li suspected that multiple Tenth Order enemies were attacking a senior above the River of Time, then left the Primordial God Realm and returned to End Space.
• Aizen told Lu Li that End Space had declared martial law and lost more than seven thousand Eighth Order Explorers and over forty Ninth Order Explorers; Lu Li offered his unvisited worlds as resources.

Lu Li collected the Ancient Wilderness, Primordial, and Arcane Spirit Seeds by defeating or outclassing their holders, then spent nearly ten thousand years cultivating the seeds and integrating his gains. With eight Spirit Seeds in hand, he prepared to confront a native-world taboo existence for the final God Spirit Seed, but first set out to retrieve his repaired equipment from Chuchu.

• Lu Li defeated Tian Huang in a damage-output contest by scoring 320 dao to Tian Huang’s 319, then accepted the Ancient Wilderness Spirit Seed and promised to return it after studying it.
• Lu Li fought Dao Yan for three hundred exchanges in Primordial Space; Dao Yan conceded and gave him his Spirit Seed.
• Lu Li subdued True Lord Dao Miao in their wager and claimed the Arcane Spirit Seed, learning that the final God Spirit Seed belonged to a taboo existence in a native world.
• Lu Li returned to End Space to synchronize the seeds, visited his disciples in Dragon Ball World, and guided Goku and Vegeta, who had become Ninth Order powerhouses.
• After nearly ten thousand years of cultivation, Lu Li matured his newly acquired Spirit Seeds and restored five withered ones, then prepared to seek the final seed and visit Chuchu for his repaired equipment.

Lu Li restored his equipment, strengthened the Gourmet Collector's Medal, and prepared to seek a Spirit Seed from the Supreme Taboo ruling Native World No. 189. He learned that the True Martial Emperor Lord barred End Space from his world and had killed its envoy, setting the stage for Lu Li's dangerous mission.

• Chuchu restored Lu Li's damaged equipment to Great Dao-Grade, and she warned him about fighting a Supreme Taboo; Lu Li said he would seek the Spirit Seed.
• Lu Li spent a month eating Shrimp Meat's cooking, advancing his Gourmet Collector's Medal to Great Dao-Grade and gaining substantial bonuses.
• Lu Li learned that peak Great Dao-Grade equipment was rare, and Chuchu planned to seek guidance in her hometown to forge more Growth Equipment for him.
• After finishing his preparations and informing Sōsuke, Lu Li traveled alone toward Native World No. 189.
• End Space's report revealed that the True Martial Emperor Lord absorbed other worlds' Sources and had killed the envoy sent to negotiate access for Explorers.

Lu Li went to World 189 to negotiate with True Martial Emperor Lord over the God Spirit Seed, but the arrogant Taboo attacked him instead. Lu Li calmly countered the Emperor Lord’s conceptual attacks and physical blows, leaving his opponent stunned and questioning who he was.

• Lu Li learned why End Space had delayed seeking revenge on True Martial Emperor Lord and why the Emperor Lord had grown contemptuous of the spaces.
• Lu Li arrived at World 189, cut open its barrier, and announced that he had come on Doomsday’s behalf to negotiate peacefully.
• True Martial Emperor Lord demanded that Lu Li kneel and serve him as a slave for a thousand epochs, so Lu Li demanded the God Spirit Seed and the same service in return.
• True Martial Emperor Lord attacked Lu Li and tried to retreat from his world, but Lu Li severed the first strike with his blade aura.
• Lu Li traced and cut off the path of the Emperor Lord’s conceptual attack, then blocked his punches without giving ground.
• Lu Li reflected on why he had delayed becoming a Taboo while trading blows with the Emperor Lord, who eventually asked who Lu Li really was.

Lu Li defeated True Martial Emperor Lord after a three-day battle and refined him to restore and cultivate the God Spirit Seed. With all nine Spirit Seeds gathered and circulating within him, Lu Li sensed a new resonance and began comprehending it in the World Sea.

• Lu Li used the Evil God Mask and Scarlett's Blade Moment to overwhelm True Martial Emperor Lord, who fled across the World Sea before turning to fight desperately.
• Lu Li and True Martial Emperor Lord fought for three days and nights, and Lu Li finally decapitated him and trapped his True Soul Origin in the Martial Furnace.
• Lu Li refined True Martial Emperor Lord for three hundred years, nourishing the Primordial Spirit Seed into its ultimate form and obtaining the God Spirit Seed.
• The God Spirit Seed joined Lu Li's other eight seeds, completing their circle and restoring the vitality of several depleted Spirit Seeds.
• Lu Li understood the God Spirit Seed's connection to titles and sensed a resonance among all nine seeds, so he began comprehending it in the World Sea.

Lu Li immersed himself in the mysteries of the nine Spirit Seeds, which transformed into divine plants and created countless worlds within the World Tree’s leaves. The worlds cycled through creation, life, conflict, and decline, and the chapter ended with the World Tree unable to prevent intelligent life from destroying them.

• Lu Li merged with the World Sea while studying the Spirit Seeds, and they revived and grew into nine divine plants within his inner world.
• The World Tree, Innate Star Tree, and other divine plants formed countless worlds, supplying them with vitality, stars, matter, wisdom, and laws.
• Intelligent beings arose in the worlds, developed civilizations, and pursued immortality and truth, while the World Tree cast down leaves whose inhabitants threatened its stability.
• The Heavenly Dao, God, and Ancient Wilderness plants strengthened the worlds with tribulations, faith, and desolate power, temporarily stabilizing them.
• Many inhabitants later abandoned cultivation and oppressed others, causing their worlds to decline; despite the plants’ efforts to encourage peace and wisdom, the wiser people made the worlds decay faster.

Lu Li relived a vision of the World Tree’s origins and awakened after recognizing himself in the being who tried to topple it. At the World Sea’s desolate edge, the Demon God challenged Lu Li’s understanding of his origins and the Space Progenitor’s defeat, leaving Lu Li unsettled by a question about when life first appeared.

• The Doomsday Vine spread through the World Tree’s dead leaf-worlds, giving their inhabitants the courage to resist the Deva Path and pursue justice, immortality, and truth.
• Powerful beings escaped their leaf-worlds, and one peerless powerhouse shook the World Tree before Lu Li saw that the man’s face was his own and stopped his attack.
• Lu Li awakened from his deduction, realized the Saint Infant Dao Fruit had helped him return, and considered whether his vision had revealed a true cycle of reincarnation.
• Lu Li found himself at the desolate edge of the World Sea and accused the Demon God of interfering with his mind; the Demon God said it had wanted him to see the world’s true face.
• The Demon God suggested Lu Li’s Past Dao Fruit was connected to the Space Progenitor, and challenged him to investigate his homeland and origins.
• The Demon God disputed Lu Li’s account of how the Space Progenitor fell, and Lu Li recalled that life emerged only after the Space Progenitor’s defeat and the birth of the Life Taboo.

Lu Li questioned the Demon God about the past and refused to release him to aid the Martial Emperor, then returned from three epochs of meditation to find the spaces had united under Origin Space. He reunited with his old friends and saw Lu Xueqing, Chuchu, and Shrimp Meat approaching.

• The Demon God described his past conflict with the Space Progenitor and offered to help the Martial Emperor, but Lu Li refused to risk releasing him.
• Lu Li realized three epochs had passed while he comprehended the Dao, confirmed his friends were alive, and crossed half the World Sea in a single step.
• Lu Li discovered that End Space had been breached and merged with Origin Space, while several other spaces had also become its attachments.
• Origin Space told Lu Li that Valkyrie had led the unification after shadow-like beings began invading the World Sea.
• Lu Li contacted his old friends, who gathered to welcome him back, and saw Lu Xueqing approaching with Chuchu and Shrimp Meat.

At a reunion feast, Lu Li learned that Tian Huang and Dao Yan had died in the calamity thirty million years earlier, while Senior Xue and Chuchu’s great-grandfather had gone on distant journeys. After describing his new path and challenging Lu Xueqing to a contest against approaching enemies, Lu Li revealed that thirty-three foes had arrived.

• My Big Stick is a Bit Thick told Lu Li that Dao Yan had sacrificed himself to save him during the calamity, and Blood Rain said Tian Huang had died fighting three enemies.
• Lu Xueqing told Lu Li that Senior Xue had disappeared two epochs earlier, and Chuchu revealed that she and Shrimp Meat were cousins with different surnames.
• Lu Li explained that he had taken a path of merging into all laws and drawing upon all Daos, while Lu Xueqing described her own path of pure Martial Arts.
• Lu Xueqing proposed that she and Lu Li sparred, but Lu Li suggested they compete to kill enemies approaching from beyond the heavens.
• Lu Li counted thirty-three enemies as the others reacted to his warning.

Lu Li destroyed an assault by thirty Taboo-level shadows with a single strike, then agreed to meet Chuchu and Shrimp Meat’s elders about his relationships with them. After receiving their approval and a set of Great Dao-Grade growth-type equipment, he left with his relationships acknowledged and the danger ahead still looming.

• Lu Xueqing charged out to fight thirty-three Taboo-level shadows, but two especially powerful ones slowed her assault.
• Lu Li swept the shadows away with a single enormous hand, then reunited with his friends after the attack ended.
• Lu Xueqing urged Lu Li to meet Grandfather Chu, and Lu Li agreed before privately reconciling with her over his feelings for Chuchu and Shrimp Meat.
• Lu Li met Grandfather Chu and Grandpa Wang, endured Grandfather Chu’s questions, and received his approval to manage his relationships as he saw fit.
• Grandfather Chu gave Lu Li a Cosmos Sack containing Great Dao-Grade growth-type equipment that Chuchu had helped make.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing unexpectedly had a daughter, Lu Wangyou, whose birth shook the World Sea and drew a heavenly tribulation that Lu Li destroyed. As Lu Li chose to remain with his family and raise her, a Taboo revealed that it had engineered a union between two Rank Ten powerhouses in hopes of producing someone destined to face the tribulation.

• Lu Li reunited with Lu Feng, Lu Xueqing, Shrimp Meat, Chuchu, and his Senior Apprentice-Sister, then spent centuries traveling and relaxing with them.
• Lu Xueqing discovered she was pregnant from an encounter three hundred years earlier, and Lu Li realized he wanted to have a family.
• Lu Xueqing gave birth to a baby girl after a thirty-day delivery, and Lu Li shattered the heavenly tribulation that threatened her.
• Aizen proposed the name Lu Wangyou, and Lu Li and Lu Xueqing accepted it while Lu Li decided to delay cultivation and raise his daughter.
• At the other end of the World Sea, a Taboo near dissolution said it had combined the bloodline karmic destinies of two Rank Ten powerhouses to create someone destined to face the tribulation.

Lu Li settled with his family on Earth in the Dragon Ball World, where he learned that the planet had been destroyed by civil war and rebuilt during his absence. As he doted on Little Wangyou and prepared to raise her there, old friends gathered to welcome him, but he refused Goku’s request to spar.

• Lu Li brought his wife and daughter to the Dragon Ball World, raised its power with Source of the World, and returned three eras later to find Earth rebuilt after a cycle of destruction and reincarnation.
• Vegeta arranged an estate for Lu Li, then explained that Earth had been destroyed in a civil war while Goku and Vegeta were away and that their families now lived in the Demon Realm.
• Lu Li doted on Little Wangyou and dismissed plans to train her, while Lu Xueqing worried that he and the others would spoil their daughter.
• Experts from across the Dragon Ball World gathered at Lu Li’s estate, where Shrimp Meat’s cooking delighted Beerus and Whis and Lu Li learned that Krillin and other mortal friends had died peacefully.
• Goku asked Lu Li for a spar, but Lu Li refused while holding and soothing Little Wangyou.

When Little Wangyou’s origin erupted with the Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, Lu Li and Lu Xueqing investigated the cause and learned that the Demon God was tied to the ancient origins of Divine Secret Blood. Dragon Snake Rising Land traced the bloodline back to the True Ancestor of Secret Blood and revealed that a Tenth Order had killed him, prompting the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations to laugh.

• After Little Wangyou turned one, black and red qi surged from her body, and Lu Li suppressed her origin as she cried out in pain.
• Lu Li identified the black qi as the Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, while the Demon God denied harming the child and claimed a connection to Lu Xueqing’s lineage.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations said the Martial Emperor had recreated Divine Secret Blood, but the bloodline had begun with an earlier True Ancestor.
• Lu Xueqing summoned Dragon Snake Rising Land, who explained that Secret Blood originated from the fused concepts of ancient forbidden beings and was first treated as Sin Blood.
• Dragon Snake Rising Land revealed that a palm from beyond the domain had killed the True Ancestor of Secret Blood, and the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations burst into laughter.

The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations revealed that the True Ancestor of Secret Blood had been born from ancient taboo concepts and the Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, then challenged the accepted history of the Sea of Realms. Lu Li and the others realized the Space Progenitor had already died before the later events, leaving the truth of the ancient battle exposed.

• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations told Lu Li that Xue Zhiyu had not lied, but that the ancient taboos had interpreted history to suit what they wanted to believe.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations claimed the True Ancestor of Secret Blood had been born from past taboo concepts and Its own Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, shocking Dragon Snake Rising Land and Lu Xueqing.
• Lu Xueqing connected Secret Blood to the Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, while the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations boasted that its power remained in Secret Blood; Lu Li dismissed the claim as empty boasting.
• Lu Li asked how the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations explained the True Ancestor's death, and It claimed that It had killed the True Ancestor rather than the Space Progenitor.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations pointed out that the Space Progenitor's supposed concern for the living did not explain why He had waited until the World Sea was nearly destroyed to act.
• Dragon Snake Rising Land recognized that the Space Progenitor had already perished before the True Ancestor's rampage, and Lu Li understood that space had developed only afterward.

Lu Li learned why the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations had attacked the True Ancestor of Secret Blood and discovered that a third Tenth-Order power was worsening Little Wuyou’s condition. Unable to find a safe cure, Lu Li asked the imprisoned Demon God for help and offered him limited freedom in return.

• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations explained that a vision of his future death beneath Secret Blood had driven him to attack the True Ancestor of Secret Blood, and Lu Li and Lu Xueqing reconsidered the ancient war.
• Lu Li traced Little Wuyou’s illness to the clash between Divine Secret Blood and the Source of Ten Thousand Calamities, which her mother’s consumption had reintroduced into the lineage.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations revealed that an inherited force of division from another Tenth Order was separating Little Wuyou’s powers and causing them to conflict.
• Lu Li realized the force had passed to Little Wuyou through inheritance and could no longer be controlled by its source, but it would continue harming her until she mastered it.
• Lu Li considered suppressing the illness or severing Little Wuyou’s Dao foundation, but feared that either approach could endanger her life.
• Lu Li asked the Demon God for a way to save Little Wuyou and offered him limited freedom if he helped without causing trouble.

Lu Li searched the heavens for a way to save Little Wuyou, then agreed to hear the Demon God's proposal after Lu Xueqing relented. The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations offered to teach Wuyou how to harmonize her conflicting powers, but demanded that she acknowledge him as her master, and Lu Li refused.

• The Demon God asked Lu Li for a movable body in exchange for helping save Wuyou, but Lu Xueqing initially rejected the deal.
• Over the next two years, Lu Li sought a cure, helped arrange for Primordial God Realm students to train in the Space, and found no healer who could resolve Wuyou's condition.
• Lu Shuiliu told Lu Li that she had no solution and suggested that her Senior Brother, the Senior Martial Emperor, might have one.
• After Lu Li explained his failures, Lu Xueqing agreed to hear the Demon God's proposal, and Lu Li summoned the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations said Wuyou could resolve her predicament by learning to harmonize the four Tenth Order origins, but demanded that she acknowledge him as her master.
• Lu Li and Lu Xueqing refused the demand, and the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations said they could keep searching for another solution.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing allowed the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations to become Little Wuyou’s master, and his method helped her reconcile her origins as she grew up. After graduating, Lu Wuyou returned home eager to travel, but found her family serious and learned that Lu Li had to leave.

• Lu Li created a restricted Dao body for the Ancestor of Myriad Tribulations, and Lu Xueqing agreed to let him teach Little Wuyou.
• The Demon God asked Little Wuyou to become his disciple, and she accepted so he could teach her to control her conflicting origins.
• By age three, Little Wuyou had reconciled her origins and reached Ninth Order Late Stage, while her mischief led Lu Xueqing to send her to kindergarten.
• Nearly twenty years later, Lu Wuyou graduated and returned home planning to persuade her parents to let her travel.
• Lu Li told Lu Wuyou that he had to leave and could not keep his promise to take her on a trip.