Chapter Summaries

Xu Zhi reviewed the players’ Buddhist and Daoist cultivation systems as the survivors began preparing to recruit new players. A Daoist sect’s hydrogen-based techniques revealed that the Huaxia God System’s emerging divide was between physics-based Buddhism and chemistry-based Daoism.

• Xu Zhi checked the Inner World and saw that a little over a hundred surviving players had spread across the wilderness after their disastrous fight with the Great Mantis.
• The Azure Sky Sect advertised its true-qi arts, demonstrating flight, fire, water, and explosions while Buddhist cultivators complained that Daoist techniques were cooler and stronger.
• Forum users explained that Daoist cultivators used hydrogen alongside oxygen and carbon dioxide to create flames, water, explosions, and flight, joking that the method was “One Qi Transforms into Three Hydrogen.”
• A university professor analyzed the players’ flight as hydrogen-powered propulsion, and forum users realized the two cultivation factions relied on chemistry and physics respectively.
• Xu Zhi concluded that the players had established the foundations of the Huaxia God System, while major players privately discussed the revelation that Buddhism represented physics and Daoism represented chemistry.

As the Huaxia God System took shape, Mount Akina Speed theorized that Daoist lightning tribulations enabled Qi Refiners to produce hydrogen through electrolysis and achieve One Qi Transforms into Three Hydrogen. Xu Zhi accepted the qi system’s foundations and considered how to provide radiation sources so Buddhist cultivators could develop as well.

• The big shots discussed how ancient Huaxia gods and cultivators had mastered knowledge, and Mount Akina Speed argued that ancient conflicts between systems likely occurred in ascended worlds rather than in a neatly classified reality.
• Mount Akina Speed proposed that One Qi Transforms into Three Hydrogen meant producing hydrogen internally, and connected that process to water electrolysis.
• Mount Akina Speed reasoned that lightning tribulations supplied the electricity Qi Refiners needed to produce hydrogen, prompting the group to reinterpret Daoist ascension and pill refining through chemistry.
• System Distributor asked whether to reveal the theory, but Mount Akina Speed suggested waiting until people had time to absorb the other ancient revelations.
• Xu Zhi concluded that the Huaxia qi system’s foundations had been established, then worried that Buddhist cultivators lacked radiation sources and considered organizing an event to provide them.

Xu Zhi considered how Buddhism could develop alongside the Daoist system while the Celestials studied the Asura Path Warriors’ ancient cultivation methods. The Celestials concluded that the Asura Path’s rigorous education and constant study explained its warriors’ strength, leaving them shaken by the civilization’s discipline.

• Xu Zhi read the netizens’ theories about One Qi Transforms into Three Hydrogen and decided Buddhism needed concepts of its own as the Six Paths of Reincarnation developed.
• Yun Emperor asked the Celestials whether they understood the principles behind One Qi Transforms into Three Hydrogen, and Offering Emperor admitted they could imitate it but did not understand its foundations.
• Cloud Sovereign reported that the Asura Path Warriors credited Nine-Year Compulsory Education and studied chemistry, mathematics, and physics for eight or nine hours each day.
• God of Love Baihua imagined that every Asura Path child could fly after completing compulsory education, and the Celestials were astonished by the warriors’ training.
• Cloud Sovereign and Offering Emperor described the Asura Path Warriors’ limited rest and demanding cultivation, prompting Yun Emperor and the ministers to reconsider their own education of descendants.

Xu Zhi inspected the underworld’s completed Fengdu City and learned that the Celestial Path had considered attacking it before becoming absorbed in the newly revealed Buddhist and Daoist cultivation systems. He offered cultivation resources to his underworld subordinates, leaving them able to pursue stronger paths.

• Xu Zhi watched the celestials misinterpret the Asura Path’s education as a profound cultivation system and recognized how the players had reshaped the era.
• Xu Zhi returned to the underworld and saw that Fengdu City, the arcade hell, and the underworld’s basic offices had been established.
• Meng Po told Xu Zhi that the Celestial Path had considered invading the underworld and destroying the Book of Life and Death, but the new cultivation systems had distracted its Heavenly Emperors.
• Meng Po reported that Black and White Impermanence had reincarnated to study the Yin-Yang Two Qi method, and she expressed interest in Buddhism and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
• Xu Zhi offered to place Buddhist and Daoist cultivation resources in the underworld for Meng Po and the other subordinates to use.

Xu Zhi prepared amber containing ancient remains and illusions to encourage Buddhism, while the Mortal Realm expanded and split into dangerous forbidden zones. Xu Yingluo ventured into one and found an amber containing a severed hand and prayer beads after witnessing a terrifying procession that vanished.

• Xu Zhi decided to strengthen the underworld’s forces, told Meng Po she could enter reincarnation to gain experience, and went to the Mortal Realm with radiation-based cultivation resources.
• Xu Zhi shaped amber from tree sap, placed ancient biological remains inside, and planned to create illusions as the Inner World expanded.
• The Mortal Realm expanded threefold, leaving regions isolated by forbidden zones where strange creatures and deadly phenomena appeared.
• Xu Yingluo left her trapped town with hunters to explore the mountains, then sent them away when they began bleeding from their noses and ears.
• Xu Yingluo saw four Emperors carrying a sedan chair into a cave, heard a voice speak of forging another immortal path, and found an amber containing a snow-white severed hand clutching prayer beads.

Xu Yingluo uncovered the history behind the Ancient Restricted Areas and learned that ancient beings had slaughtered living populations across eras to prolong their lives and seek immortality. As restricted areas reappeared throughout the Human Path, rulers and powerful beings began investigating them, while a Heavenly Emperor discovered that creatures in one region carried traces of the ancient cultivation system.

• Xu Yingluo heard the severed hand’s memories reveal that ancient beings in the restricted areas periodically emerged to consume living beings and gather strength for the path to immortality.
• The memories described how Peerless God and other Great Saints fought the ancient beings, drove them back with Emperor Weapons, and warned humanity not to enter restricted areas without reaching the Saint Realm.
• Xu Yingluo concluded that the current age lacked true cultivation methods and decided to seek the power of the ancients, but she could not approach the hand because its deathly aura rapidly rotted her flesh.
• Xu Zhi watched Xu Yingluo and explained that the restricted areas and the Great Saint realm were part of his plan to develop new cultivation systems and usher in a mythological era.
• As restricted areas appeared across the Human Path, dynasties and powerful figures investigated them, but their lethal radiation prevented ordinary people from studying the ancient remains.
• A Heavenly Emperor found that no restricted areas had appeared in the Animal or Celestial Paths, then spotted living beings on a green mountain who carried traces of the ancient system.

Asura Path players used their supposed Buddhist inheritance and scientific knowledge to convince a Human Path Heavenly Emperor that they could help with the Dark Restricted Area. The Heavenly Emperor offered to take them to the Human Path to inspect the restricted areas, and the players eagerly accepted.

• Asura Path players discussed their rapid cultivation, their scarce uranium, and their hopes that physics experts would join their Buddhist lineage.
• A Human Path Heavenly Emperor arrived and asked the players about their research, then told them about the Dark Restricted Area and its sealed divine sources.
• The players demonstrated their Mahavairocana Palm and Buddha Kingdom in Palm, claiming the restricted areas were polluted Dark Buddha Lands.
• The Heavenly Emperor questioned why their power seemed destructive, and a player tearfully explained that they could only produce harmful radiation because they lacked resources.
• The Heavenly Emperor offered to take the players to the Human Path to inspect the restricted areas, and they eagerly agreed.

Xin Heavenly Emperor brought the Asura Path players into the Human Path, where they began teaching a new cultivation system to gifted talents from across the world. At their lecture, Bald Rabbit introduced physics as the study of the principles of all things and claimed that tiny particles emitted the energy called Buddha Source, the essence of forbidden zones.

• Xin Heavenly Emperor praised the Asura Path players for agreeing to help the Human Path, and they gathered fellow players while keeping their mission secret from other Asura Path members.
• Xin Heavenly Emperor carried the players into the Human Path, where they handed him a Star Ancient Tree seed and asked to recruit gifted cultivators to teach their methods.
• News of an ancient cultivation system spread, drawing prodigies, experts, and more than seventy Heavenly Beings to hear the players' lecture.
• Bald Rabbit introduced Investigating Things to the Fullest Extent, explaining that physics examined the principles of all things.
• Bald Rabbit said all things were composed of tiny particles that emitted Buddha Source, which formed the forbidden zones, and the land shook as he spoke.

Bald Rabbit preached a physics-based form of Buddhism at Cloud Phoenix Mountain Violet Palace Daoist Temple, explaining particles, radiation, and the forbidden zone as subjects that could be understood and cultivated. The crowd accepted its teachings and potions, and Buddhism began to flourish in the four hundred sixty-eighth year of the Celestials.

• Bald Rabbit explained that all things consisted of particles whose energy fields emitted Buddha Source, presenting physics as the investigation of the world's principles.
• Bald Rabbit taught that cultivators could absorb radiation from the forbidden zone and dismissed its curses, demons, and mutations as effects of physical forces and heredity.
• The gathered cultivators and Celestials embraced physics as a path to understanding and overcoming the world's mysteries.
• Bald Rabbit and its players handed out potions and warned recruits that cultivation could cause mutations and hair loss.
• The sermon was recorded as the beginning of Buddhism's rise at Cloud Phoenix Mountain Violet Palace Daoist Temple.

Xu Yingluo comprehended orthodox Buddhism and established Non-Action Sumeru Temple, whose Buddha Land converted and protected all things. As Buddhist influence spread, Dao cultivators brought their Primordial Qi lineage to the Human Path and began teaching chemistry.

• A kasaya-clad rabbit preached hair removal and Buddhism, while players spread Gene Potions and revived ancient cultivation practices.
• Buddhism flourished, and many prodigies chose the combat-focused Life-Taking Buddha rather than orthodox Buddhism.
• After five years of studying bamboo, Xu Yingluo achieved enlightenment, created a Buddha Land, and founded Non-Action Sumeru Temple.
• Powerful figures who entered the Buddha Land became Xu Yingluo’s Buddhist Disciples, alarming other factions and sparking online disputes between Buddhist and Dao cultivators.
• In Year 478, a Heavenly Emperor brought the Asura Path to the Human Path, where a tree person introduced Dao cultivation as the study of chemistry and natural transformations.

The tree-person Daoist Priest revealed chemistry as a second path of cultivation, and the players’ deductions helped Dao Cultivators spread alongside Buddhism. Xu Zhi watched the players reshape the world’s history and considered making the ancient beings in the restricted areas feel more real.

• The tree-person Daoist Priest explained that chemistry governed the transformations of all things and demonstrated fire turning into water and an explosion.
• The tree-person Daoist Priest offered to teach the Dao, and Dao Cultivators began to flourish alongside Buddhists.
• The players deduced three historical eras, linking the ancient age of gods and Buddhas to conflicts between chemistry and physics and the Chaotic Ancient Era to the Reincarnation Hall.
• Xu Zhi observed that the players were influencing the world by entering the Human Path and decided to let them witness the history they had changed.
• Xu Zhi considered making the ancient existences in the restricted areas feel more real as the players’ new age began to flourish.

Xu Zhi created a brain-like Bodhi Dao Fruit Tree in a restricted area, giving it the memories of an ancient reincarnation ruler, then began planting other ancient inheritances among mutated creatures. His experiments produced several monkey figures tied to old legends, while he continued building up the restricted areas’ forces.

• Xu Zhi spent years modifying a Bodhi tree with Magic Core Genes until its fruits worked together as a brain, then named it X1000 and implanted memories of the Nether Mountain Reincarnation Lord.
• The brain tree awakened believing it had once lost control of reincarnation to the Reincarnation Governor, and a mutated leopard that ate one of its fruits became an incarnation carrying part of its consciousness.
• Xu Zhi decided to create more restricted-area beings by distributing fragments of ancient remains and inheritances among mutated creatures.
• A mutated ape inherited part of the Heavenly Mandate Emperor’s ancient ape legacy and became the Long-Armed Ape, while an aged monkey identified itself as the Red-Butt Horse Monkey.
• A little six-eared monkey in Xu Yingluo’s Buddha Land gained an ancient inheritance, prompting players online to connect it to the four great monkeys of Chinese mythology.
• Xu Zhi continued moving through restricted areas, assigning X serial numbers and planting inheritances in deformed races.

Xu Zhi completed his preparations for a new age as Daoist and Buddhist cultivation spread and ancient beings awakened. At the Celestial Path, rulers prepared to seal themselves into slumber, while Xu Zhi discovered that Shangguan Man had reincarnated as a veiled food seller.

• Xu Zhi updated the radiation restricted areas, planted inheritances and memories in special creatures, and left the world to develop under his cultivation systems.
• Daoist cultivation flourished as sects taught their own theories, ancient beings awakened, and Xu Zhi noted that Li Sansheng had died before reaching the new age.
• Xu Zhi went to the Celestial Path, where the Yun Emperor, Cloud Sovereign, and other rulers prepared to enter self-induced slumber using Divine Source Amber and Buddhist radiation.
• Yuan Qinghua convinced Bai Xiaojun that Journey to the West described ancient apes evolving into humans through radiation and cultivation, while Xu Zhi listened nearby.
• Xu Zhi learned that the rulers' slumber would leave the Celestial Path vulnerable to turmoil and heard that Fentian and Fengtian might rebel against Yuntian.
• Shangguan Man appeared as a veiled young woman famed for her cooking, still insecure about her appearance after reincarnating.

Xu Zhi watched Shangguan Man, Meng Po reincarnated in the Celestial Path, gather influence while the Celestial Path’s rising powers prepared for upheaval. The chapter ended when a mysterious woman revealed that she had tracked Xu Zhi through Li Sansheng and identified him as the Reincarnation Governor.

• Xu Zhi observed that Shangguan Man’s Bewitching Soup talent had made her restaurant popular and that she was quietly building support among the Celestials.
• Bai Xiaojun and Yuan Qinghua discussed Li Sansheng’s death and return to the Underworld, the rival young geniuses, and the possibility that Shangguan Man was Meng Po’s reincarnation.
• The Divine Source Seal appeared in the sky and trapped Cloud Sovereign and Yun Emperor in separate amber-like masses.
• A beautiful young woman approached Xu Zhi, offered him a Bodhi Fruit, and revealed that she could change between male and female.
• Xu Zhi guessed that the woman had followed the Asura Path to find Li Sansheng, and she confirmed it before asking whether she was the first person in the era to capture the Reincarnation Governor.

The You Mountain Governor revealed how she tracked Xu Zhi through the mortal world and confirmed his identity as the sovereign who governed the Six Paths of Reincarnation. She declared that she intended to kill him and make the day he fell the day the world renewed the immortal path.

• The You Mountain Governor explained that she had used the Bodhi Fruit to control Li Sansheng and learn about the underworld.
• After discovering Meng Po in the Celestial Path, the You Mountain Governor watched her for years, hoping Xu Zhi would come to visit.
• The You Mountain Governor described how she used Meng Po’s talent to identify Xu Zhi, and Xu Zhi confirmed she had found him.
• The teahouse crowd learned that Xu Zhi governed the Six Paths of Reincarnation and commanded the life and death of all things.
• The You Mountain Governor announced that she intended to kill Xu Zhi and make his fall the start of a renewed immortal path.

The You Mountain Governor confronted Xu Zhi, the Reincarnation Emperor, and explained how the dead revealed secrets to Diting while the living could conceal them. She exposed the limits of the underworld’s knowledge, leaving the teahouse’s Celestials to reconsider how the restricted areas and their rulers might evade surveillance.

• The You Mountain Governor declared that she intended to kill the Reincarnation Emperor, while the surrounding Celestials condemned her and feared his retaliation.
• Xu Zhi calmly asked how she planned to kill him, and the You Mountain Governor recalled their ancient conflict over the imperial throne.
• The You Mountain Governor explained that Diting learned secrets from the dead on the Road to the Underworld, so the living could keep secrets by avoiding death and reincarnation.
• The Celestials realized that ancient rulers might seal trusted subordinates in divine source to preserve secrets, and Yuan Qinghua recognized that the You Mountain Governor was encouraging rebellion.
• Xu Zhi admitted that he could not monitor the entire world, and Bai Xiaojun noted that the vast restricted areas and hidden ancient beings could not easily be found.

You Mountain Governor and Zhang Taiyuan tried to rally the Celestial Path’s Heavenly Emperors to attack Xu Zhi and challenge Eternal Dominance, but the emperors refused until Zhang’s hidden plan shattered Cloud Sovereign and Yun Emperor’s divine sources. Yun Emperor arrived in fury and called for allies to battle along the path to immortality.

• You Mountain Governor pointed out that Xu Zhi had descended without Reincarnation, but the Heavenly Emperors hesitated to attack him despite her attempt to persuade them.
• Zhang Taiyuan revealed himself as an incarnation of an ancient being and explained that he had sacrificed his Celestial Saint Child identity to create an opportunity to intercept the Reincarnation Governor.
• A message arrived that someone had shattered Cloud Sovereign and Yun Emperor’s divine sources, and the Heavenly Emperors realized Zhang Taiyuan’s allies had acted while he stalled them.
• Zhang Taiyuan admitted that he had arranged the attack through his Saint Child connections, leaving Cloud Sovereign and Yun Emperor near death and likely to retaliate against the Celestial Path.
• Yun Emperor descended carrying Binsi Quasi-Emperor’s bloody head and invited the willing to join him in battling along the path to immortality.

Yun Emperor and Cloud Sovereign discovered that Xu Zhi was the Reincarnation Governor and gathered the Celestial Path’s remaining Heavenly Emperors to fight him. As aged powers from the Human Path and Animal Path joined the confrontation, Xu Zhi faced a coalition that had managed to create a slim chance against him, though he no longer knew his own strength.

• Yun Emperor learned that an Ancient Dark Restricted Area was scheming against him, while Cloud Sovereign ordered the young Celestials evacuated and the aged and willing to remain.
• Yun Emperor killed Zhang Taiyuan and a Celestial girl, and Yuan Qinghua and Bai Xiaojun retreated while discussing how Zhang Taiyuan had persuaded the Binsi Quasi-Emperor to act.
• Xu Zhi let the crowds evacuate, then Yun Emperor confronted him and declared that Zhang Xiao would succeed him as Yun Emperor.
• Aged figures from the Human Path and Animal Path left their homes and realms to join the fight, accepting that they might not return.
• Fifty-seven Celestial Heavenly Emperors and other arrivals gathered around Xu Zhi beneath the darkened sky, and he acknowledged that they had created a small possibility of fighting him.

Xu Zhi effortlessly defeated the Heavenly Emperors who challenged him, but Yun Emperor survived by faking his death and used the others’ talents to transform himself into a powerful fused being. As Xu Zhi approached, Yun Emperor gathered the courage of his fallen companions and charged him, declaring that he would create a miracle.

• Yun Emperor and Cloud Sovereign led the Heavenly Emperors in two attacks against Xu Zhi, but neither could harm him.
• Xu Zhi reflected their assault with Mirror Reflection, devastating the battlefield, but Yun Emperor and the others escaped with Offering Emperor’s spatial talent.
• Offering Emperor died after teleporting the group, and Yun Emperor arranged for Soul-Seizing Emperor to take control of his body and Form Emperor to compress the survivors.
• Yun Emperor combined the Heavenly Emperors’ talents through Fusion Emperor and Soul Link, then transformed into a silver Second Light Form.
• Zhang Xiao and Shangguan Man watched the transformation, while Xu Yingluo and the worshippers prayed and the ancient Bodhi Tree spoke of how mortals could create miracles.
• Yun Emperor gathered the remaining courage of his allies, formed an ice-silver spear, and charged Xu Zhi, vowing to create a miracle.

Xu Zhi fought the Yun Emperor and the Heavenly Emperors fused within him, overwhelming their combined strength with his ultimate body-cultivation form. The Yun Emperor then used the Life Future talent to slow Xu Zhi’s time and began attacking his eardrum, hoping to pierce into his brain.

• Xu Zhi blocked the Yun Emperor’s Mana Spear with his fist and sent him crashing into the ground.
• The Yun Emperor used spatial tricks and repeated attacks, but Xu Zhi transformed into his Battle Form and battered him with overwhelming physical strength.
• The Heavenly Emperors discovered that Xu Zhi’s mass could injure the Yun Emperor despite his physical immunity and damage absorption.
• The Heavenly Emperors activated Shadow Body and Life Future, slowing Xu Zhi’s perception and bodily recovery by a hundredfold.
• The Yun Emperor repeatedly stabbed Xu Zhi’s eyelid, then attacked his eardrum and began widening a tiny hole in it.