Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi evolved Star Ancient Trees to survive Mercury’s vacuum and intense radiation, turning the planet into a solar power station. He also discovered that Qi Elves had adapted to the harsh environment, just as Yun Emperor and the Celestials were approaching Burning Heaven.

• Xu Zhi repeatedly altered the air in his Inner Space, guiding Star Ancient Trees through mass extinctions until some developed internal gas cycles and humanoid forms.
• Xu Zhi raised oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to keep the trees from evolving into fighters, then exposed them to Mercury’s vacuum until radiation-resistant Star Ancient Trees survived.
• Xu Zhi planted the trees on Mercury and watered them, establishing a solar power station while considering how to improve the species and expand the planting.
• Xu Zhi found that the rapidly multiplying Qi Elves were stealing water and attacking the trees, so he drove them away and decided to take them with him later.
• Xu Zhi sensed that Yun Emperor was bringing the Celestials toward Burning Heaven and chose to let them approach Mercury, where he decided to create an ancient mythological battlefield.

Xu Zhi created an ancient stele among Mercury’s ruins while the Yun Emperor’s forces investigated the transformed Burning Sky Realm. The Yun Emperor learned that its deadly radiation killed ordinary warriors and could even threaten Heavenly Emperors, then prepared to enter the realm himself.

• Xu Zhi raised an ancient stele in Mercury’s ruins to help establish the world’s mythological lore.
• The Offering Emperor told the Yun Emperor that the Burning Sky Realm had become a strange, tree-filled death zone.
• The Yun Emperor sent Hungry Ghost Path warriors through the passage, and they died rapidly from the realm’s lethal conditions.
• Cloud Sovereign shielded another warrior from the air, but an Asura Path warrior still died from radiation and carried lingering contamination back with his corpse.
• The corpse’s radiation killed a nearby Celestial woman and the Asura Path warriors who had handled it, prompting the Yun Emperor to declare the danger fatal below Heavenly Emperor level.
• The Yun Emperor invited the other Heavenly Emperors to enter the radiation-filled realm with him.

Xu Zhi watched the Heavenly Emperors enter a radiation-filled world and explore ruins they believed might be hell. After returning injured, Yun Emperor recruited Asura Path players to test whether they could evolve beings suited to the deadly realm, while Yuan Qinghua recognized details from Buddhist mythology.

• Xu Zhi observed the Star Ancient Trees and Qi Elves adapting to the sun’s intense radiation while the Heavenly Emperors entered the transformed Burning Sky Realm.
• Yun Emperor and the others discovered a barren world beneath a blazing sun, found a mural describing a ruined land and its suffering inhabitants, and retreated after being poisoned.
• Yun Emperor summoned Yuan Qinghua and Bai Xiaojun, whose four children no longer recognized them, and asked them to contact Asura Path members capable of evolving.
• Yun Emperor showed Yuan Qinghua the ruins and explained that the living could not endure the suspected hell for long.
• Yuan Qinghua identified the realm as possibly Avici Blazing Hot Hell and wondered whether Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva remained in its Ancient Temple, then agreed to go.

Bai Xiaojun rallied more than a thousand players to explore a newly discovered forbidden region in Hell, while Xu Zhi watched them travel to Mercury for the dungeon. The Cloud Sovereign transported the players under the Yun Emperor’s orders and mistook their game-induced reactions to his pressure for extraordinary courage.

• Yuan Qinghua and the Yun Emperor investigated the supposed dungeon and confirmed that the Hell region was real and dangerously forbidden.
• Bai Xiaojun called on the players to join the first Large Dungeon, warning that the Yun Emperor might use the expedition to identify them.
• More than a thousand players signed up, and Xu Zhi revealed that the dungeon was on Mercury, far from Earth.
• The Cloud Sovereign and several quasi-Heavenly Emperors carried the players through the Celestial Path toward the dungeon.
• The Cloud Sovereign released his pressure to quiet the noisy players, but they interpreted their trembling and loss of bladder control as game effects and kept socializing.
• The Cloud Sovereign admired the players’ apparent fearlessness and told a quasi-Heavenly Emperor that the Asura Path possessed unyielding courage.

Cloud Sovereign led the Asura players toward the dungeon, where they prepared to enter a contaminated realm beside Avici Blazing Hot Hell. Meanwhile, Earth scientists speculated that mythological hells were real high-radiation regions in the Solar System, as Xu Zhi watched the players ready makeshift protective gear.

• Cloud Sovereign and the quasi-Emperors admired the Asuras’ resolve, eased the pressure on them, and led the players onward.
• The players discovered that livestreaming was unavailable and gathered near the dungeon gate to discuss the dangers of Fentian and Avici Blazing Hot Hell.
• Earth researchers compared hell’s heat poison and karmic fire to cosmic radiation and considered whether ancient mythological realms existed across the Solar System.
• Xu Zhi watched the players make crude radiation-proof suits and oxygen tanks before they prepared to enter the dungeon.

Players entered Burning Heaven and adapted to its radiation while fighting the evolving Qi Elves, eventually reaching the Ancient Temple in Avici Hell. There, Bai Xiaojun and his companions found a plaque bearing the Huaxia characters “Ksitigarbha,” leaving them questioning how the inscription’s history could fit the ancient ruins.

• Players used iron-can armor and oxygen tanks to explore Burning Heaven, retreating to assess radiation damage and then returning as they gradually adapted.
• The players reached Avici Hell and fought the Qi Elves, whose leader evolved an air cannon that killed and injured many of them.
• Xu Zhi observed the conflict as the Qi Elves and players evolved, while Bai Xiaojun advanced to the Fourth Order and discovered he could sense the creatures’ air.
• Bai Xiaojun led a small group past the enemy by using his ability to blend in, and they reached the Ancient Temple.
• The group read “Ksitigarbha” on the temple plaque and debated how Huaxia writing could appear in ruins far older than Huaxia civilization.
• Bai Xiaojun wondered aloud whether the timelines truly failed to match.

Bai Xiaojun’s team explored an ancient temple whose inscriptions suggested that Earth’s mythological figures had entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation across vastly different eras. They reached the temple’s meditation chamber, where a monk’s skeleton still blazed with Buddha’s Light, and fled from its overwhelming radiation.

• Bai Xiaojun and the players debated whether Ksitigarbha had come from ancient Earth and realized that time flowed differently between Earth and the Six Paths world.
• The team organized their theories about ancient Earth figures ascending into this world, then entered the temple cautiously with Bai Xiaojun leading.
• The players found murals and inscriptions left by powerful visitors from different eras, including Peerless God’s words about his beloved being slaughtered by reincarnation.
• Bai Xiaojun’s team followed the corridor to a chamber where the radiation grew dangerously intense and opened its door.
• The players saw a cross-legged monk’s skeleton shining with a halo of five-colored light, then fled as Bai Xiaojun identified it as an immense radiation source.

Bai Xiaojun and the players fled a terrifying light trap in hell, then theorized that Buddhist powers came from a radiation-based cultivation system. They left convinced that mythological clues, including the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s halo, pointed to a powerful Radiation Light Source System.

• The players escaped a hazy, glazed light and gathered in a mural-lined passage.
• Bai Xiaojun claimed that radiation explained hell’s poisonous fire and the terrifying Buddha’s Light around the dead Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
• Bai Xiaojun argued that other Buddhas used beneficial radiation that caused mutation and assimilated people into believers.
• Bai Xiaojun compared Buddha Land to a radiation zone that converted those who entered it.
• A team member connected the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s sun-shaped halo to radiation, and the players accepted Bai Xiaojun’s theory.

Bai Xiaojun and the others discovered that the Ancient Temple’s remains belonged to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and that his sarira carried deadly radiation. Bai Xiaojun recited a sutra and received a sarira, leaving with the group as the temple’s inheritance began a new Buddhist lineage.

• Bai Xiaojun reasoned that Ksitigarbha’s sarira were an extraordinarily dangerous radiation source that ordinary people could not safely take.
• Bai Xiaojun knelt and recited the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra of Original Vows, prompting Xu Zhi to weaken the radiation and open a path to the remains.
• Ksitigarbha spoke to Bai Xiaojun in Cantonese, praised his recitation, and sent him the smallest sarira before the temple door slammed shut.
• Bai Xiaojun and the others hurried out of the Ancient Temple, and the account recorded that Ksitigarbha obtained the inheritance in the 413th year of the Heavenly Calendar and began the Buddhist sect.

After Bai Xiaojun’s team escaped the Ancient Temple and revealed what they had found, players and researchers concluded that the dungeon connected ancient Chinese history to supernatural cultivation systems. Mount Akina Speed then argued that the tree creatures’ qi pointed to a second hidden legacy: Daoist cultivation based on Innate Qi.

• Bai Xiaojun’s team escaped the Ancient Temple, speculated that its radiant trees and tree people belonged to a Buddhist radiation system, and rested to recover from exposure.
• Other teams discovered the Ancient Temple and evidence that someone had entered it, prompting Bai Xiaojun to explain his team’s expedition on the forum.
• Players, prominent figures, and research institutes reacted to the revelation that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and ancient supernatural civilizations had existed, while a laboratory ordered an investigation into Bai Xiaojun’s identity.
• Mount Akina Speed announced that the dungeon contained a greater hidden secret and challenged the assumption that its tree creatures were only Buddhist followers.
• Mount Akina Speed pointed to the creatures’ qi and connected it to ancient Qi Refiners, Daoist true qi, and the theory of Innate Qi, leading players to suspect that the Daoist system had also appeared.

Players debated whether the Buddhist radiation and Daoist qi cultivation systems revealed in Six Paths of Reincarnation reflected real ancient history, and Mount Akina Speed proposed that mythological figures had failed to teach cultivation in the past. Xu Zhi decided to let players investigate both systems, seeing them as possible foundations for a new world.

• People connected Ksitigarbha’s remains and the Ancient Temple to the possibility that Huaxia’s myths had once been real.
• Netizens speculated that ancient Buddhist and Daoist practitioners had cultivated radiation and qi, and that their traditions might have overlapped.
• Mount Akina Speed suggested that ascended mythological figures had returned to ancient times and left behind failed cultivation experiments and legends.
• Meng Mei, Alchemy Emperor, and Balloon Fish compared the ancient figures’ efforts with their own attempts to develop cultivation in reality.
• Xu Zhi wrote down the idea of letting players research the Innate Qi and Radiation Light Source systems as foundations for a new world.

Xu Zhi reflected on how the players’ discoveries had grown into a plausible Huaxia cultivation system while he expanded his Star Ancient Tree power station on Mercury. The players’ class-change research became a global sensation, and Xu Zhi left Mercury confident that his farming plan could supply enormous energy without repeating the previous Zerg Mother Empress’s reckless mistakes.

• Xu Zhi decided to let the players develop their ideas about Buddhism and Daoism, while keeping the Ancient Temple dungeon available for research.
• Over several months, Xu Zhi planted and improved Star Ancient Trees on Mercury as the players treated the radiation zone as a training ground.
• The players reached level ten and began researching how to derive the Daoist Priest and Buddhist Disciple classes from Huaxia myths and ancient ruins.
• Huaxia players challenged foreign netizens with their knowledge of cultivation, biology, science, languages, and survival, drawing international attention and envy.
• Xu Zhi calculated that a hundred mu of mature Star Ancient Trees could yield energy equivalent to ten Heavenly Emperors each day, and he planned to expand the power station cautiously.

Xu Zhi watched the players develop new cultivation bloodlines in the Celestial Path while Yun Emperor chose to learn from their research rather than seize their inheritance. After the passage to hell closed, Yun Emperor prepared to send the players to Great Mantis, and Xu Zhi returned to his living room with creatures from Water Planet.

• Xu Zhi warned Yun Emperor and the Celestial Path beings not to interfere with the players, while Yun Emperor decided to let them restore ancient cultivation methods and learn from their work.
• Bai Xiaojun created bloodline potions for Buddhism and Daoism, and a player injected one and blasted into the air as the others celebrated their new cultivation era.
• An ancient voice announced that it was time to leave, and Burning Heaven and its passage to hell closed as the players resolved to cultivate their new species secretly.
• Yun Emperor told the remaining players he would send them to Great Mantis and make them bear children, then ordered God of Love Baihua and Cloud Sovereign to escort them.
• Xu Zhi closed the external passage, left Water Planet through the teleportation array, and returned to his living room with a swarm of lively creatures.

Xu Zhi struggled to find a place for the powerful Qi Elves and decided they needed a distant world reached through a teleportation array. Unable to pay the cost himself, he planned to recruit Caroline by presenting the venture as a joint development opportunity, while considering how to handle her request to visit his universe.

• Xu Zhi considered where to settle the Qi Elves and chose Ancient Wood Elf Planet as a suitable distant world.
• Xu Zhi determined that establishing a long-range teleportation array would require a High God and leave them weakened for centuries.
• Xu Zhi ruled out asking Ermin and Phoenix, then settled on recruiting Caroline as a partner.
• Xu Zhi considered using the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique's Inner World to host Caroline's visit and disguise the truth as a remnant of a Ninth-Order civilization.

Xu Zhi restored the reincarnation wheel, purged Fengdu, and left the Six Paths of Reincarnation to develop on their own. As the Super Ancient God, he returned to the Ancient Lava Land and headed for Mikia Ranch, preparing to approach Caroline.

• Xu Zhi returned the reincarnation wheel to the underworld, and its inhabitants sensed that it had come back.
• In Reincarnation Hall, Meng Po reported recent events, and Xu Zhi ordered the souls of Fengdu to be reincarnated.
• Xu Zhi let the Six Paths of Reincarnation continue developing and turned his Reincarnation Hall avatar into a statue.
• Xu Zhi confirmed his three avatars as Hermes, the Super Ancient God, and the Majesty of Reincarnation Hall, then opened his eyes as the Super Ancient God.
• Xu Zhi surveyed the Ancient Lava Land, noted the Transcendents Association's role in managing reincarnators, and arrived at Mikia Ranch.

Xu Zhi reunited with Caroline and toured her Ixdar People’s world before taking her to the Six Paths of Reincarnation World. There, Caroline discovered the world’s different time flows and sensed the mysterious Mechanical Armor in the underworld.

• Xu Zhi met Caroline at the graveyard, and she told him how the Ixdar People had watched the Three Pillar Gods and the main universe over the years.
• Caroline showed Xu Zhi her Mental Universe, where only three thousand Ixdar People managed a virtual planet and its inhabitants.
• Xu Zhi toured Caroline’s world, learned about its cultivation systems and technology, and invited her to visit a special world.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline traveled to the Six Paths of Reincarnation World, where she marveled at its material reality and distinct time flows.
• Caroline sensed the Mechanical Armor in the underworld and recognized it as a method resembling Death God Eternal Life.

Xu Zhi took Caroline to visit the Six Paths of Reincarnation World, where she discovered its reincarnation system and ancient cultivation traditions. After Caroline linked the world’s ruins to the dangers of the vacuum universe, Xu Zhi invited her to help explore another shattered world fragment.

• Caroline sensed reincarnation in the Six Paths of Reincarnation World and recognized it as a remarkable cycle of life and death.
• Xu Zhi and Caroline sampled local food while she studied the world, its inhabitants, and the limits of her ability to predict their future.
• Caroline deduced that the world had suffered a catastrophic ancient war and that its Buddhist and Daoist systems were connected to the vacuum universe.
• Caroline observed strange beings in the Animal Path whose speech and behavior she could not interpret, while Xu Zhi connected their cultivation research to his earlier journey through space.
• Xu Zhi invited Caroline to join him in exploring another lost, shattered world fragment in the vacuum universe, and she realized he was offering her a major opportunity.

Caroline agreed to help Xu Zhi reach Ancient Wood Planet, then used her spatial research and the Magic Core Lineage’s power to open a passage there. After the costly effort left her severely weakened, she watched Xu Zhi depart and wondered whether she deserved to share in his achievement.

• Caroline accepted Xu Zhi’s request to locate the distant coordinates and studied Di Qi’s spatial research materials.
• Caroline quickly mastered the materials and constructed a teleportation array while Xu Zhi concealed its destination on Ancient Wood Planet.
• The array connected to Ancient Wood Planet, but the effort drained Caroline and reduced her cultivation by two realms.
• Xu Zhi left to inspect the destination, while Caroline reflected on her weakness and her inability to fight beside him.

Xu Zhi reached Ancient Wood Planet and gained the freedom to travel beyond it, then searched the star system for a small world suitable for Caroline’s vacuum-universe civilization. He chose an icy moon and began transforming it, leaving the story with vacuum plants spreading across its barren surface.

• Xu Zhi arrived on Ancient Wood Planet, where Di Qi’s eleven Elf Eternal Ancient Trees had become gods, and flew into space to explore the Fairy Star System.
• Xu Zhi decided to keep his promise to Caroline by finding a manageable world for a vacuum civilization, despite lacking the strength to transform a large planet.
• Xu Zhi used the Zerg Sub-brain’s star-map data to compare suitable planets and selected a small, ice-covered moon orbiting a gas giant.
• Xu Zhi placed a teleportation array on the moon, brought oxygen and carbon dioxide, and used buried pipes to melt underground ice into flowing water.
• Xu Zhi ordered the Intelligent Sub-brain to breed vacuum plants, which spread across the moon and began forming their own cycles.

Xu Zhi established a living world on a tiny satellite in the vacuum, then brought Caroline there to help expand its population and ecology. As they discussed how the world might gain new species, Xu Zhi revealed that a creator beyond them would descend, and a colossal being appeared through a rift in space.

• Xu Zhi cultivated plants on the satellite, released the Qi Elves, and watched the two species form a symbiotic relationship limited by scarce oxygen and carbon dioxide.
• Xu Zhi raised two Qi Elf bodies, cultivated one for himself, and became a bald, radiant figure after absorbing radioactive waste.
• Xu Zhi brought Caroline to the satellite and gave her a mortal vessel so she could live and work safely in the vacuum.
• Caroline smelted metal, built pipelines, supplied water and gases, and expanded the population while noting the world had only two forms of life.
• Xu Zhi told Caroline that Heaven would enrich the world's species and described an existence that created and renewed worlds.
• A colossal being descended through a rift as time shifted around Caroline and the world.