Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan awakened the Mind's Eye inside Divine Wood Abyss and discovered that Shen Lingxuan was nearby, revealing that he was her husband and the Divine Arrival who had saved her. As Qi Yuan tried to reach her, the Great Venerable Feng Ti arrived and shattered the Abyss's protective barrier, leaving Shen Lingxuan warning Qi Yuan not to come out.

• Cai Die failed to break into the hot spring, while Shen Lingxuan and Cai Die worried that the Radiant Light Society might find them in Divine Wood Abyss.
• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun warned Ji Wuyun and Chen Kangbao that Feng Ti had descended upon Green Mountain Realm to hunt those favored by destiny.
• After nearly a year of refining a ladder and studying the exit, Qi Yuan awakened the Mind's Eye and sensed Shen Lingxuan above him.
• Qi Yuan spoke to Shen Lingxuan through his special ability, revealed that he was her husband and Divine Arrival Qi Yuan, and told her he had killed Fifth Wei and Fifth Bufan to protect her.
• As Qi Yuan tried to squeeze through the exit to reach Shen Lingxuan, Feng Ti arrived above Divine Wood Abyss and shattered its protective barrier with one sword strike.
• Shen Lingxuan recognized Feng Ti as the Great Venerable who had killed her in a previous life and warned Qi Yuan not to come out.

Qi Yuan fought Feng Ti to protect Shen Lingxuan and, by combining Absolute Adaptation with Death Radiance, defeated all nine of Feng Ti’s lives with a strike that glimpsed the path to the third layer of Yang Spirit. Severely injured, Qi Yuan collapsed into Shen Lingxuan’s arms after Feng Ti’s remote resurrection was saved by a defensive measure left by the Realm Lord.

• Feng Ti attacked Shen Lingxuan, and Qi Yuan caught her before standing between them and challenging Feng Ti.
• Feng Ti’s Aurora Flying Sword prompted Qi Yuan to comprehend the embryonic form of Absolute Adaptation, and the two began a fierce battle.
• Feng Ti used Heaven and Earth Longevity to trade lives with Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan survived and grew stronger as Death Radiance and Absolute Adaptation interacted.
• Feng Ti tried to wear Qi Yuan down, but Qi Yuan stabbed himself and unleashed a sword strike that killed each of Feng Ti’s nine lives.
• Feng Ti reappeared at a Radiant Light Society stronghold, where a Realm Lord’s defensive measure stopped another strike aimed at him.
• Qi Yuan realized he had glimpsed the path to the third layer of Yang Spirit, then collapsed from his injuries and was caught by Shen Lingxuan.

After defeating Feng Ti and recovering with Shen Lingxuan, Qi Yuan completed his live-in son-in-law roleplay and unlocked the role of Stone, whose memories revealed a myth about a Goddess mending the earth. He returned to the Divine Wood Abyss to refine artifacts, then woke after an unknown woman visited him in the night and suspected the Blind Woman.

• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun praised Qi Yuan’s talent and suggested Void Paradise as a place to save him, but Cai Die rejected the idea; Cai Die then told Shen Lingxuan that Profound Yin could awaken Qi Yuan at the cost of her foundation.
• Shen Lingxuan used Profound Yin with Qi Yuan, who woke during the encounter, and Qi Yuan later found that their intimacy had completed his live-in son-in-law roleplay and unlocked Roleplay Character Five, Stone.
• Qi Yuan received the stone’s memories of a Goddess using it to mend the earth, then returned to the Divine Wood Abyss to refine artifacts and discovered that his Mind’s Eye had greatly improved his work.
• Cai Die tried to enter the Divine Wood Abyss, but the pain knocked her unconscious; Qi Yuan went inside alone, found the Blind Woman, and received a basket of materials from her.
• An unknown woman entered Qi Yuan’s room at night and seduced him; the next morning, he recognized her familiar floral scent and decided to confront the Blind Woman.

Qi Yuan completed the New God's Advent with the Blind Woman’s help, and his roleplay as God's Advent and the Blind Artifact Refiner reached completion. As his sight returned, he looked at the Blind Woman for the first time.

• Qi Yuan continued refining artifacts after the mysterious woman who visited him at night never returned, leaving the incident unsolved.
• Months later, Qi Yuan mastered the Eight Gates Artifact Refining Technique and decided that refining another New God would end both of his performances.
• Sanmu World Lord told Venerable Feng Ti that his disciple had gone to the Divine Wood Universe to challenge a native, while a mysterious voice tried to persuade Feng Ti to leave Radiant Light.
• Qi Yuan completed the New God's Advent using the intent Sheng Nv had bestowed, but felt it still lacked something.
• The Blind Woman gave the New God's Advent A Branch of Spring, allowing it to pursue perfection, and Qi Yuan thanked her and promised to refine her swing and eyes.
• Qi Yuan's roleplay progress reached completion, his eyesight returned, and he looked toward the Blind Woman.

Qi Yuan discovered that Divine Wood Abyss had become an empty void and set out to find Sheng Nv to learn whether Blind Woman had truly existed. After destroying Thorns of Blood and spending three days in Rakshasa Country’s royal harem, he received the collected records about Sheng Nv and prepared to investigate further.

• Qi Yuan found Divine Wood Abyss stripped of everything except familiar paths and resolved to search for Sheng Nv to confirm Blind Woman’s existence.
• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun showed Qi Yuan an empty tomb with a nameless stone; Qi Yuan recognized it as the tombstone made from the strange stone he had once been.
• Qi Yuan returned to Rakshasa Country, slew the leader and members of Thorns of Blood, and left with Shen Lingxuan.
• Qi Yuan placed the new divine descent in the royal palace, asked Liu Sheng to gather information about Sheng Nv, and spent the next three days in the imperial harem with Shen Lingxuan.
• Liu Sheng delivered the collected Sheng Nv records and unrelated divine artifacts; Qi Yuan told him to return the artifacts to their owners.

Qi Yuan learned that Sheng Nv had gone to the Great Star Region and asked Insect Woman Cai Die to take him first to the fallen Kui Jin Realm, where he planned to complete Mortal Transformation. There, Wang Tong and Xu Jiaoyun tried to rob their late master’s grave, only for the white-haired man to rise from his coffin.

• Qi Yuan read records about Sheng Nv and learned from Insect Woman Cai Die that the Great Star Region stood on the front line against Black Heaven.
• Qi Yuan asked Insect Woman Cai Die to take him to the Kui Jin Realm before traveling onward, and Shen Lingxuan insisted on coming too.
• In Cloud Blood City, Wang Tong and Xu Jiaoyun plotted to find their late master’s inheritance and threatened to send Zhao Yan to the Rebirth Institute.
• Zhao Yan went to Purple Chen Forest to move his master’s coffin, but Wang Tong, Xu Jiaoyun, and Blood Tiger Gang members caught up with him.
• Wang Tong began opening the coffin, and a voice from inside told them to be quiet before the lid flew off and the white-haired master sat up.

Qi Yuan tried to continue his Mortal Transformation after rising from the dead, but killed the Blood Tiger Gang members who disturbed him. When the gang came to capture rebels in his neighborhood, Qi Yuan mistook them for another attempt to target him and prepared to fight.

• Wang Tong attacked Qi Yuan, who beat Wang Tong, Xu Jiaoyun, and the remaining Blood Tiger Gang members to death with a coffin lid.
• Qi Yuan told Zhao Yan that they would return home, then became furious when Zhao Yan warned that the Blood Tiger Gang would seek revenge.
• Wu Xiang arrived to help Wu Lian escape Cloud Blood City, but more than a dozen Blood Tiger Gang inner hall disciples came to capture the rebels hiding in her courtyard.
• Zhao Yan warned Qi Yuan that the Blood Tiger Gang had arrived, and Qi Yuan confronted them with a hoe that broke into a wooden stick.
• Qi Yuan rejected the minor leader's explanation that they had come for rebels and prepared to kill anyone who obstructed his Mortal Transformation.

Qi Yuan killed the Blood Tiger Gang members who tried to stop his Mortal Transformation, then learned from Immortal Spirit Ying Jun that powerful Realm Masters also undergo Mortal Transformation by living countless lives. Convinced they had copied his method, Qi Yuan set out to collect patent fees by targeting Thorns of Blood, while the Blood Tiger Gang Leader prepared to deal with him and learned he had entered the Inner City.

• Qi Yuan killed more than a dozen Blood Tiger Gang members with a wooden stick, but his role-playing progress remained at zero.
• Wu Xiang invited Qi Yuan to join the rebel army, but Qi Yuan refused and said he wanted to live peacefully in the city.
• Qi Yuan contacted Immortal Spirit Ying Jun, who explained how Myriad Things Realm Realm Masters underwent Mortal Transformation through countless incarnations and reincarnations.
• Qi Yuan decided the Realm Masters had plagiarized his role-playing method and planned to demand patent fees once he became a Yin Spirit.
• The Blood Tiger Gang Leader rejected Old Wang's offer to ransom Qi Yuan for ten thousand taels and demanded thirty thousand taels instead.
• The Blood Tiger Gang Leader learned that Qi Yuan had gone to the Inner City and ordered his men to show him the Sky Gazing Eye's footage.

Blood Tiger went to confront Qi Yuan, who had killed a princess and drawn the attention of Thorns of Blood’s Heaven-tier powerhouses. Qi Yuan unleashed his strength with a stomp that devastated the Inner City, then prepared to pursue the fleeing enemies with mechanical wings.

• Blood Tiger left the Captive Arena to find Qi Yuan, while Golden Core Crane and other Heaven-tier powerhouses rushed to investigate the princess’s death.
• Li Da confronted Qi Yuan, who explained that he had killed the princess after she demanded a toll at the city gate, then Li Da fled.
• Blood Tiger challenged Qi Yuan, who feared his apparent confidence and gathered all his strength before stomping the ground.
• Qi Yuan’s stomp wrecked the Inner City and knocked more than a dozen hidden Heaven-tier powerhouses from the sky, leaving Blood Tiger terrified.
• Golden Core Crane and the others fled upward, but Qi Yuan killed two with kicked-up stones and extended mechanical wings from his back.

Qi Yuan used technological Flying Wings to slaughter Thorns of Blood elders in Cloud Blood City’s Inner City and began a wider campaign against the Malevolent Spirits. As a rescue party arrived too late, the man in black headed toward the Inner City to witness the chaos.

• Qi Yuan flew into battle with his Flying Wings, broke through an elder’s barrier, and killed three Thorns of Blood elders before wiping out the Heaven Rank fighters.
• Blood Tiger died from the battle’s aftermath after sending the Blood Tiger Gang Leader a message cursing him, and Qi Yuan mistook his death for a deliberate suicide before setting out to kill more Malevolent Spirits.
• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun asked the Grand Elder whether a Realm Master could be undergoing Mortal Transformation in the Divine Wood Universe, but the Grand Elder rejected the idea and explained the limits of the universe and the danger posed by Black Heaven.
• The Blood Tiger Gang Leader misread Blood Tiger’s curse as a demand involving his mother’s remains and ordered his strategist to dig up her grave in Purple Chen Forest.
• The man in black arrived at the Blood Tiger Gang to rescue Qi Yuan, learned that Qi Yuan was in the Inner City, and went there after hearing reports of a ghost-slaying massacre.

Li Zhishi and his companions discovered that Qi Yuan had killed the Specter God Dark Pupil, while Qi Yuan returned home and casually admitted what he had done. Hong Mei reunited with Zhao Yan and told him she had joined the Academy, as the Academy Master learned of the slain god and celebrated the chance to record the deed in history.

• Li Zhishi, Wu Xiang, and the rebel informant learned that a mysterious fighter had killed Thorns of Blood's elders and hurried toward the Inner City to warn him.
• At the Inner City entrance, Li Zhishi and the others found the dead Specter God Dark Pupil propped up with a warning carved into its body.
• Qi Yuan returned to Zhao Yan, said he had forgotten about the Blood Tiger Gang, and casually revealed that he had killed a Specter God.
• Hong Mei reunited with Zhao Yan, explained that she had joined the Academy, and invited him to come with her, but he refused to leave his master.
• The Academy Master learned of the Specter God's death and rejoiced that the deed could be recorded in his Outline of World History.

Qi Huang learned that Qi Yuan, who had killed Dark Tong, was a withered Myth and gathered the Malevolent Gods to attack him, relying on Malevolent Source and a trapping treasure. Meanwhile, the Academy Master visited Qi Yuan, who asked about the Divine Wood Abyss and Black Heaven before discovering that Black Earth warriors revived after death.

• Qi Huang identified Qi Yuan as a Chosen One and a withered Myth, then decided to attack him personally with the Malevolent Gods and use Malevolent Source to revive them if needed.
• Qi Yuan spent a quiet few days with Zhao Yan and Hong Mei before the Academy Master arrived at his courtyard.
• The Academy Master asked why Qi Yuan had killed Dark Tong, and Qi Yuan explained that he wanted to be left in peace while undergoing Mortal Transformation.
• Qi Yuan asked the Academy Master about the Divine Wood Abyss and Black Heaven, learning that Black Heaven's origins could not be remembered and that Black Earth warriors could revive after being killed.
• Qi Yuan welcomed the news of Black Earth warriors' revivals, viewing them as a source of experience and White Moonlight.

Qi Yuan let the Malevolent Gods trap him in a treasure and repeatedly attack him, using their revivals to gain experience while concealing his strength. Three years later, with the Malevolent Gods gone and the Kui Jin Realm in turmoil, a blue-clad challenger arrived to confront him.

• Qi Yuan eagerly welcomed the ninety-nine Malevolent Gods, then let Qi Huang draw him and the others into a treasure that could be escaped only if he or they died.
• Qi Yuan refused Mortal Transformation and killed Kai Chi with one slash, then pretended to suffer as the Malevolent Gods repeatedly self-destructed and revived, causing his experience to surge.
• The Academy Master contacted Yuan and asked him to help protect Qi Yuan, whom he described as a highly talented Chosen One in danger; afterward, the Academy Master and Hong Mei prepared to leave the Kui Jin Realm.
• Three years passed, the Malevolent Gods disappeared, and the rebel army captured cities across the Kui Jin Realm while Cloud Blood City remained quiet.
• A blue-clad man appeared outside the Kui Jin Realm, saying he had found Qi Yuan and challenging him to prove who was the strongest fifth-step Treader of Heaven.

Qi Yuan continued killing the ninety-nine malevolent gods, reached the Realm Lord realm within the Divine Wood Universe, and effortlessly killed Wu Dong when he came to challenge him. Years World Lord later revealed that Wu Dong’s true spirit was missing from the Universe Mother River, possibly because the Black Sky had devoured it.

• Qi Yuan repeatedly killed the ninety-nine malevolent gods and realized his supreme principles had become laws without him merging with the Divine Wood Universe’s laws.
• After failing to comprehend a time law, Qi Yuan told Immortal Spirit Ying Jun that he had become a Realm Lord, but Ying Jun explained that Realm Lords automatically comprehended time laws.
• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun remembered that Wu Dong was seeking Qi Yuan, while Wu Dong publicly challenged Qi Yuan in the Kui Jin Realm.
• Qi Yuan casually spat and instantly killed Wu Dong, extinguishing his true spirit and shattering his Creation Treasure.
• Sanmu World Lord asked Years World Lord to investigate Wu Dong’s death, and Years World Lord said Wu Dong’s true spirit was not in the Universe Mother River and might have been devoured by the Black Sky.

Qi Yuan finished eliminating the Malevolent Source Gods and helped Immortal Spirit Ying Jun’s group locate Guan Ku, only for their mission to lead them into a trap set by a second-level Yang Spirit of Black Earth. Qi Yuan arrived in time, transformed the Yang Spirit into a turtle, and left his companions stunned by his power.

• Qi Yuan completed his slaughter of Qi Huang and the other ninety-eight Malevolent Source Gods, then reassured Immortal Spirit Ying Jun that the Kui Jin Realm was safe.
• Immortal Spirit Ying Jun, Wu Chun, and Tong Chang met Qi Yuan and asked for help finding Guan Ku, a rebel army leader carrying Malevolent Source.
• Qi Yuan located Guan Ku immediately, and the three traveled to him with Swift Travel Talismans to record his Malevolent Source aura.
• Guan Ku revealed that Qi Yuan’s voice had warned him they were coming, and a Black Earth Yang Spirit appeared, sealed the area, and exposed its plan to smuggle Malevolent Source into Void Paradise.
• Wu Chun’s hidden Yang Spirit soul failed to break the confinement, and the Black Earth Yang Spirit prepared to capture the group.
• Qi Yuan appeared, stopped the Yang Spirit from escaping, and used Thousand Transformations to turn it into an overturned turtle.

Qi Yuan subdued a second-layer Yang Spirit and learned that Black Heaven and Black Earth were using Malevolent Source to infiltrate the Zhou Universe. As Shangguan Qing Teng and Shangguan Qing Miao rushed to rescue him from the approaching Yang Spirits, they found Qi Yuan in the Kui Jin Realm, where he refused to leave because he was a Realm Lord and was focused on Mortal Transformation.

• Qi Yuan turned a powerful Yang Spirit into a helpless turtle, and Immortal Spirit Ying Jun asked him for guidance in exchange for the favors Qi Yuan owed him.
• Qi Yuan extracted Malevolent Source from the Yang Spirit and learned that Black Heaven and Black Earth were planting it in Void Walkers to spread contamination into the Zhou Universe.
• Shangguan Qing Teng and Shangguan Qing Miao mourned the loss of seventeen Great Star Region armies and prepared to take Qi Yuan to safety after hearing that more than a dozen Yang Spirits were heading for the Kui Jin Realm.
• Shangguan Qing Teng and Shangguan Qing Miao fought through Malevolent Gods and rushed toward the teleportation array to reach Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan said his Mortal Transformation had reached ten percent and considered killing all the Malevolent Gods in the Chaotic Star Region so he could complete it undisturbed.
• Shangguan Qing Teng and Shangguan Qing Miao reached Qi Yuan and urged him to flee, but he refused, claiming he was a Realm Lord and had no time to leave.

Qi Yuan became a World Lord and claimed control of the Chaotic Star Region, destroying its invading Malevolent Spirits and Gods across more than ten thousand worlds. After he searched the Divine Wood Abyss and remained unable to understand its mysteries, news of his breakthrough spread, prompting outside powers to flee and leaving Feng Ti warned that the Divine Wood Universe’s destruction had already been fixed.

• Qi Yuan told Shangguan Qing Teng and Shangguan Qing Miao that he could be both a World Lord and a Purple Mansion, then killed the fifteen invading Yang Spirits with his Kitchen Knife.
• Qi Yuan declared that he called the shots in the Chaotic Star Region and used giant hands to suppress and kill Malevolent Spirits and Malevolent Gods across more than ten thousand worlds, including the Green Mountain Realm.
• Qi Yuan contacted Shen Lingfeng, confirmed that Ling Xuan was safe, and told him to inform Madam Shen that he was no longer her live-in son-in-law or bathwater carrier.
• Qi Yuan entered the Divine Wood Abyss, failed to see through its chaotic mysteries, and heard the sounds of clouds, rain, and thunderless sound before studying the Heavenly Origin leaf.
• The Radiant Light Society learned from its local palace lord that Qi Yuan was a World Lord and began withdrawing from the Chaotic Star Region; Feng Ti also learned of Qi Yuan’s breakthrough.
• An ethereal voice told Feng Ti that he was fixed at the second layer of the Yang Spirit and that the Divine Wood Universe’s destruction had already been fixed, urging him to leave Radiant Light.

Qi Yuan pursued Mortal Transformation by recovering memories of the many things his blood had become, while the Great Star Region prepared to confront Black Heaven and Black Earth. The chapter ended with Qi Yuan appearing as Xiao Qi, a palace cleaner who wondered about the nature of ordinary things.

• Qi Yuan asked Shangguan Qing Teng about the Divine Wood Abyss and said he would visit the Great Star Region after completing his Mortal Transformation.
• Qi Yuan caught a grain of sand and absorbed its memories, then recovered the memories of a fragment of the Hong Xing Region battle flag.
• Yuan decided to lead an expedition to the Void Sea and asked six people to accompany him; a Heavenly Race man and Sheng Nv volunteered.
• Shangguan Qing Miao said Qi Yuan would be especially suited to wield Human Enlightenment Radiance, but the Great Star Region could not locate him.
• Xiao Qi, one of three palace cleaners, asked what mountains, shoes, insects, and wine were as he tried to understand the world.

Xiao Qi revealed himself as Realm Lord Qi Yuan by claiming all four Human Enlightenment Radiances, then volunteered to face Black Heaven and Black Earth. Yuan gave him the remaining three treasures, and Qi Yuan questioned Sheng Nv about the Blind Woman and a possible missing water attribute.

• Xiao Qi flew through the formation, surpassed Huang Li Mei, and drew the four Human Enlightenment Radiances to himself, revealing that he was Qi Yuan.
• The people of Emperor Star celebrated Qi Yuan’s return as Realm Lord, and Yuan and the Ancestor Gods paid him their respects.
• Qi Yuan asked about Black Heaven and Black Earth’s invasion and offered to take all seven Light Wonder Treasures to the Void Sea.
• Yuan agreed and handed Qi Yuan the remaining three treasures despite the hot-tempered bearded man’s protest.
• Qi Yuan recognized seven attributes in the treasures and asked Sheng Nv whether she had met the Blind Woman in the Divine Wood Abyss; Sheng Nv said she had never met her but had learned an artifact-refining method there.

Qi Yuan examined the ancient Origin Secret Key, found a faded inscription that might relate to the Blind Woman’s artifact-refining methods, and prepared to enter the Void Sea with seven Human Enlightenment Radiances. As Black Heaven and Black Earth’s fleet awaited him, the Flame Realm Master pledged to risk his life to kill Qi Yuan, and Qi Yuan asked whether he could strike first.

• Qi Yuan asked Yuan to show him the original Origin Secret Key and requested Immortal Brew for Old Man Liu and Long Qi.
• Qi Yuan read the Origin Secret Key, found that its early myths resembled stories he had told the Soundless Voice, and recognized a faded inscription as matching the writing from the stone stele before Sunset Cliff.
• Sheng Nv and the ancestor gods discussed trusting Qi Yuan with the seven Human Enlightenment Radiances as Black Heaven and Black Earth prepared a stronger invasion.
• Old Man Liu, Long Qi, and Ancestor God Qin drank together before Qi Yuan’s departure for the front lines.
• The Flame Realm Master agreed to risk his life to kill Qi Yuan, offering the Void Realm Master a chance to comprehend the Flame Rule in exchange for help.
• Qi Yuan entered the Void Sea alone with the seven Human Enlightenment Radiances, then asked Yuan whether he could make the first move against the approaching fleet.