Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan confronted the Flame Realm Master in the Void Sea and survived repeated rule dissolutions while Yuan sought help from the Radiant Light Dao Lord. They discovered that the Dao Lord’s warning line had vanished, meaning Black Heaven could awaken at any moment, and Qi Yuan returned to alert the Human Enlightenment Society.

• Qi Yuan met the Black Heaven Black Earth warship, where the Flame Realm Master attacked him and the Void Realm Master blocked his escape.
• The Flame Realm Master repeatedly dissolved his rules to kill Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan endured the blasts and gained experience through Absolute Adaptation.
• Yi urged Yuan to seek help from the Radiant Light Dao Lord, and Yuan used a Light Space Talisman to reach the world of light with her.
• No Light World Lord showed Yuan and Yi that the line drawn by the Dao Lord had nearly vanished, warning that Black Heaven could awaken at any moment.
• Qi Yuan asked Yi to send him back to the Great Star Region, then reappeared in the battle as the Flame Realm Master accused him of toying with him.

Qi Yuan killed the Flame Realm Master, but the Divine Wood Universe’s line vanished and Black Heaven awakened ahead of schedule. He charged into Black Heaven with the seven Human Enlightenment Radiances and found himself surrounded by countless creatures, including a figure who called himself Wu Kong and invited him to join them.

• Qi Yuan used his mastery of the Flame Rule to kill the Flame Realm Master, while the Void Realm Master refused to intervene.
• The ancestral gods celebrated Qi Yuan’s victory until Yuan revealed that the line had disappeared, signaling Black Heaven’s imminent invasion.
• Black Heaven awakened and began swallowing the Void Sea, while Qi Yuan discovered that his eyes could not reveal any information about it.
• Despite warnings that advancing meant certain death, Qi Yuan took the seven Human Enlightenment Radiances and charged into Black Heaven.
• Qi Yuan’s strongest attack had no effect, and he realized he was inside Black Heaven, where countless creatures watched him.
• A figure resembling the Void Realm Master introduced himself as Wu Kong, said he was not Wu Kong, and invited Qi Yuan to join them.

Qi Yuan fought through Black Heaven’s Yang Spirits as Absolute Adaptation and Devouring Origin Body dissolved his consciousness, while the Divine Wood Universe struggled to forge its eighth Human Enlightenment Radiance. The Void Realm Master revealed that water was the missing primordial rule, and the chapter ended with Qi Yuan nearing world creation beneath the three thrones.

• Qi Yuan rejected the Void Realm Master’s offer and charged into the ranks of Black Heaven’s Yang Spirits, killing and devouring them while their attacks battered him.
• Absolute Adaptation and Devouring Origin Body began dissolving Qi Yuan’s consciousness, and he accepted the change so his injuries would no longer impede his slaughter.
• Three months after Qi Yuan entered Black Heaven, the Divine Wood Universe’s repeated attempts to forge its eighth Human Enlightenment Radiance failed despite the sacrifices of countless artifact refiners.
• The Void Realm Master explained that the eight Human Enlightenment Radiances corresponded to Divine Wood’s primordial rules and that water was missing from the seven already forged.
• The Void Realm Master warned that Qi Yuan’s true spirit had dimmed to less than one ten-thousandth and offered to evacuate the living beings of three worlds.
• In Black Heaven, Qi Yuan became a blood-red devouring mass surrounded by seven rule halos, and the three thrones observed that he was about to create a world.

Qi Yuan devoured the Yang Spirits and Realm Masters in Black Heaven, then used the Great Forgetfulness Sutra to forget his identity and enter the fourth level of the Yang Spirit in an attempt to stop it. Ten thousand years later, Wang Ku read a book about Qi Yuan and unknowingly sent him a voice from beyond the story.

• Qi Yuan learned from the three Thrones that Black Heaven existed outside the present timeline and that stopping it required reaching the fourth level of the Yang Spirit, a transformation that would erase his true spirit.
• Qi Yuan used the Great Forgetfulness Sutra to forget that he was Qi Yuan and convince himself that he was at the fourth level of the Yang Spirit, then disappeared.
• The Void Realm Master reported that Qi Yuan's true spirit had vanished and Black Heaven's devouring had slowed, while Yuan asked the Void Realm Master to evacuate the Three Realms' living beings.
• Ten thousand years later, Wang Ku read Chun Yu, a book depicting Qi Yuan's struggle against Black Heaven, and dreamed of urging its protagonist to meet the female lead.
• Wang Ku dismissed talk of the apocalypse and an offer from his neighbor, then read that Qi Yuan had heard his urging voice while resisting Black Heaven.

As Black Heaven eroded Qi Yuan, he realized that Ruan Yixi was the consciousness of the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree and the master he had been trying to reach. Ruan Yixi wore the eight Human Enlightenment Radiances to destroy Black Heaven, while Qi Yuan’s fate remained unresolved.

• Wang Ku read that Qi Yuan would lose everything resisting Black Heaven and tried to urge him to see the female lead, but Qi Yuan could not hear him.
• Qi Yuan’s blood allowed him to sense the world through other versions of himself, and he realized that Ruan Yixi had repeatedly tried to warn him away while seeking to see him.
• Qi Yuan remembered moments he had shared with Ruan Yixi and Little Bride, then chose to protect Little Bride by burying himself underground.
• Ruan Yixi’s memories revealed that she had become conscious through Qi Yuan’s words, had lived as his wife, and had sacrificed her eyes and ears to him.
• Shen Lingxuan and Sheng Nv revealed that Qi Yuan was the eighth Human Enlightenment Radiance, and that his blood robe would let Ruan Yixi carry all eight to defeat Black Heaven.
• Three years later, Ruan Yixi appeared in blood-red armor bearing the eight Radiances and dissolved Black Heaven, as the Divine Wood Universe celebrated its return to light.

After returning to the Azure Wave World, Qi Yuan became a Yin Spirit and discovered that his new ability let him merge with anything. He reunited with Jiang Lingsu, Ning Tao, and Canary, then set out to refine the stars into Golden Cores and create a world.

• Qi Yuan awoke in the Shinguang Sect and realized that his master, Ruan Yixi, had been searching for him through countless reincarnations while he fought Black Heaven.
• Qi Yuan became a Yin Spirit, comprehended the three thousand Great Dao laws, and gained the ability to merge into all things.
• Qi Yuan merged into the Myriad Paths Gate and discovered that it was a fourth-layer Yang Spirit existing in the present world.
• Qi Yuan reunited with Jiang Lingsu, who told him that 127 years, four months, and six days had passed during his seclusion.
• Qi Yuan visited Ning Tao and Canary, promised they could stay in his universe, and declared that he would turn every star there into a Golden Core and create a world.

Qi Yuan expanded his devouring Star Golden Cores, gave distant planets the chance to develop life, and returned to the Immortal Realm. After learning that Purple Fate Ancestor had been summoned into the Immortal Palace, Qi Yuan set off to enter it himself, while the Supreme Truth Association discussed whether to help him evade the Lin Ya Transformation.

• Qi Yuan made his Star Golden Cores devour stars and granted life-bearing potential to planets, then returned to Seven Colors Peak with Canary and Ning Tao.
• Purple Fate Great Snow broke through into the Yang Spirit Realm despite warnings about the dangerous Lin Ya Transformation.
• Qi Yuan appeared at Purple Fate Heaven, congratulated Purple Fate Great Snow, and learned that Purple Fate Ancestor had left a message before being summoned to the Immortal Palace.
• Qi Yuan listened for Grand Brilliance Palace's fugitives in Unique Hall and decided to go to the Immortal Palace rather than wait for it to reopen.
• Members of the Supreme Truth Association discussed Qi Yuan's return and whether he was worth helping against the Lin Ya Transformation.

Qi Yuan reunited with Shen Wushen at Qi Mountain Market, then forced his way into the Immortal Palace by ordering its gates to open. Inside, Purple Fate Ancestor and White Dragon Abyss Master escaped a dangerous wave of Eternal Tribulation Radiance and discussed Purple Fate Ancestor’s mysterious recovery from the Root Demon Tribulation.

• The Grand Assembly Master sent Hong Yun to invite Ten Thousand Suns Supreme Venerate to the Supreme Truth Association for a talk.
• Qi Yuan reunited with Shen Wushen and Lian Mei, promised to bring Shen Wushen streams of light, and said he intended to enter the Immortal Palace.
• Qi Yuan ordered the Immortal Palace to open, then forced his way inside as Yang Spirits across the heavens watched in astonishment.
• Purple Fate Ancestor and White Dragon Abyss Master fled a wave of Eternal Tribulation Radiance, which Purple Fate Ancestor said had grown more dangerous within the Immortal Palace.
• White Dragon Abyss Master questioned how Purple Fate Ancestor had survived the Root Demon Tribulation and become stronger, but he kept Qi Yuan’s involvement secret.

Qi Yuan entered the Immortal Palace, where a divine fruit grievously injured Purple Fate Ancestor and revealed itself as a possible Divergent Dao Fruit. After opening the gates so the others could leave, Qi Yuan questioned a phantom about Unique Hall and demanded that it come to him.

• White Dragon Abyss Master and Purple Fate Ancestor chased a divine fruit that emerged from Eternal Tribulation Radiance, but the fruit shattered Purple Fate Ancestor's Supreme Truth when he touched it.
• Immortal Vault confronted Purple Fate Ancestor, who refused to explain the fruit and later suffered worsening injuries.
• Qi Yuan appeared in the Immortal Palace, stopped the fruit's flames from further harming Purple Fate Ancestor, and opened the gates so Yang Spirits could leave.
• Qi Yuan examined Eternal Tribulation Radiance and spoke with a phantom disciple of Five Mountains Hermit, who explained that Divergent Dao Fruits could help cultivators reach the Rule Realm.
• Qi Yuan slapped and suppressed the phantom, learned that only aberrant spirits or those under contract could enter Unique Hall, and demanded that Unique Hall come see him.

Qi Yuan learned from Sword Keeper Wuming that a Dao Lord’s ascension traps its Dao lineage in an endless cycle, and that Supreme Radiance severed the Immortal Realm’s future to prevent that fate. Still despairing over cultivation, Qi Yuan returned to Qi Mountain Market, where he killed Young Master Qi Tan and challenged the Qi Family patriarch to rename the market in his honor.

• Qi Yuan used a bizarre creation technique to awaken Sword Keeper Wuming of the Unique Hall, who gave him a Ming Venerate Decree.
• Wuming explained that Dao Lords cause time in their Dao lineage to cycle endlessly after their ascension, and that Supreme Radiance cut off the Immortal Realm’s future to prevent its cycle from continuing.
• Wuming said the Lin Ya Transformation would rebuild the Immortal Realm’s Nine Heavens and might release the Dao Fruit of its vanished Dao Lord.
• Qi Yuan returned to Qi Mountain Market lamenting the despair of cultivation, then confronted Young Master Qi Tan when he tried to grope him.
• Qi Yuan summoned and slapped the Qi Family’s Yang Spirit patriarch, killed Qi Tan, and suggested renaming Qi Mountain Market after the killing.

Qi Yuan met with the Supreme Truth Association after securing Flowing Light for Shen Wushen and learned about the One Epoch Assembly, which could strengthen cultivators and connect their true spirits with other universes. The Grand Assembly Master considered offering Qi Yuan entry to represent the Immortal Realm at the Ten Thousand Worlds Grand Meet, but the Second Association Master proposed Azure Sky Supreme Venerate instead.

• Qi Yuan revived Qi Tan only to kill him again, warned the Qi Family’s Yang Spirit to discipline its juniors, and gave Shen Wushen the source of Flowing Light.
• Hong Yun invited Qi Yuan to the Supreme Truth Association, where she revealed that the Nanke Universe also had no future.
• The Dragon Turtle Grand Assembly Master explained that the One Epoch Assembly could temper true spirits and offered Qi Yuan entry in exchange for representing the Immortal Realm at the Ten Thousand Worlds Grand Meet.
• The Second Association Master argued that Azure Sky Supreme Venerate deserved entry because he had obtained a Divergent Dao Fruit and might reach the third layer of the Yang Spirit.

Qi Yuan accepted the One Epoch Assembly and entered its Universe Spirit Sea to temper his true spirit, hoping to find a way to increase his strength. As he pushed deeper than the other visitors expected, a female Realm Lord became interested in him.

• The Grand Assembly Master agreed to let Ten Thousand Suns Supreme Venerate leave and reconsider joining the One Epoch Assembly, while the treasure slipped onto Qi Yuan's wrist and chose him.
• Back at Shinguang Sect's Seven Colors Peak, Qi Yuan decided to enter the One Epoch Assembly and searched for a way to improve his cultivation and learn about the Divine Wood Universe.
• Qi Yuan entered the Universe Spirit Sea and met the Divine Beauty Realm Lord, who warned him about its dangers and entered the sea unclothed.
• Qi Yuan entered the hundredth layer in his clothes, barely felt its tempering power, and continued deeper while the Divine Beauty Realm Lord lost sight of him.
• Realm Lords in the deeper layers noticed Qi Yuan, and he answered a female Realm Lord who expected him to undress by insisting that he was chaste.

Qi Yuan advanced through the Universe Spirit Sea to the 1,000th layer, astonishing the gathered World Lords and receiving an invitation to the Myriad Transformations Society, which he declined because it was time to eat. Back on Seven Colors Peak, Jiang Lingsu’s worries about her relationship with him gave way to intimacy when Qi Yuan returned for dinner.

• The female Realm Lord teased Qi Yuan about removing his clothes as he advanced through the Universe Spirit Sea, while she and the Boar Realm Lord discussed his chances of joining the Myriad Transformations Society.
• Willow Catkin Realm Lord entered the 500th layer and accepted the Myriad Transformations Society’s invitation, while Qi Yuan continued past the 500th layer without receiving one.
• Qi Yuan reached the 700th and then the 1,000th layer while wearing clothes, prompting a full member of the Myriad Transformations Society to invite him to join.
• Qi Yuan said he wore clothes to uphold masculine virtue and declined to hear about the Society because his junior sister was calling him home for dinner.
• Jiang Lingsu fretted over her relationship with Qi Yuan and prepared dinner, then welcomed him back and became intimate with him.

Qi Yuan joined the Myriad Transformations Society after learning it offered access to knowledge and training opportunities, while the Supreme Truth Association discovered that its One Epoch Assembly had vanished. Qing Feng revealed that the Society sought a way beyond the cycle, and Qi Yuan learned that the Universe Void Realm lay outside the Great Dao.

• Azure Sky Supreme Venerate reached the third Yang Spirit layer, but the Supreme Truth Association found that the One Epoch Assembly had disappeared and planned an expensive alternative to get him into its space.
• Qi Yuan returned to the Universe Spirit Sea, met Qing Feng of the Myriad Transformations Society, and agreed to join in exchange for answers and opportunities.
• Qing Feng gave Qi Yuan a golden jade pendant and persuaded him to visit the Society before continuing to temper his true spirit.
• Qing Feng explained that the Myriad Transformations Society researched a way to escape the cycle beyond the fourth and fifth Yang Spirit layers.
• Qing Feng told Qi Yuan that the Universe Void Realm lay beyond the outer boundaries, outside the Great Dao.

Qi Yuan joined the Myriad Transformations Society, received the Devouring Scripture, and selected two research projects connected to finding his master, Ruan Yixi. He left the Universe Void Realm to cultivate the scripture before registering for the projects.

• Qingfeng Realm Lord explained the Universe Void Realm and told Qi Yuan that research breakthroughs could earn him merit and a chance to meet the Witch Dao Lord.
• Qi Yuan asked Nine Cauldrons Flower about beings beyond Dao Lords and how to find Ruan Yixi, but it could not answer either question and suggested he join the Spirit Summoning project.
• Qi Yuan asked how to devour stars faster, and Nine Cauldrons Flower gave him the Devouring Scripture, which had been created by Black Heaven Dao Lord.
• Qi Yuan chose to join the Spirit Summoning and Time Machine research projects.
• Qi Yuan left the Universe Void Realm to cultivate the Devouring Scripture, while Nine Cauldrons Flower posted a sensational account of his supposed romance with his master.

Qi Yuan advanced his Golden Core Great Dao by using the Devouring Scripture to consume stars, and considered whether this could lead him toward the fourth layer of the Yang Spirit. Meanwhile, Azure Sky World Lord prepared to enter the Universe Void Realm, while Qi Yuan experimented with creating life in his universe.

• Ning Tao declined Azure Sky Supreme Venerate's invitation for Qi Yuan, who was in seclusion, and Qi Yuan later agreed with Jiang Lingsu that they would not send a congratulatory gift.
• Qi Yuan told Ning Tao to tell Jin Li that Qi Jianjun had returned, then traveled to the universe and used the Devouring Scripture to increase his star-devouring speed.
• Qi Yuan wondered whether consuming every Star Golden Core could advance him toward the fourth layer of the Yang Spirit, but concluded that he would continue along the Golden Core Great Dao instead.
• At the World Lord gathering, Azure Sky World Lord dismissed the absence of Ten Thousand Suns Supreme Venerate and others, and Dragon Turtle Supreme Venerate arranged to take him into the Universe Void Realm in three days.
• Qi Yuan discovered crude lifeforms created through World Creation and accelerated time on their planet so they could reproduce and evolve.

Qi Yuan joined the Myriad Transformations Society’s Spirit Summoning project and demonstrated that he could bring Wind Bellow Realm Lord’s robes to life by talking to them. The Realm Lords assigned him to refine the Myriad Things Growth Scripture, and he arrived at Myriad Transformations Mountain to begin his stay.

• Qi Yuan summoned more than four thousand Divine Infants and ordered them to watch over the seeds of life in his new world.
• The Past, Present, and Future Buddhas shared their insights with Qi Yuan, who concluded that time did not exist before stopping himself from thinking further.
• Wind Bellow Realm Lord and the other Realm Lords discussed their failed attempts to awaken the true spirit of a fourth-layer Yang Spirit, then welcomed Qi Yuan to the project.
• Qi Yuan spoke to Wind Bellow Realm Lord’s robes until they gained a true spirit and flew off, stunning the assembled Realm Lords.
• Wind Bellow Realm Lord asked Qi Yuan to refine the Myriad Things Growth Scripture for ten major merits, and Qi Yuan agreed.
• An external member escorted Qi Yuan to Myriad Transformations Mountain and offered him ten thousand attendants.

Qi Yuan joined the Myriad Transformations Society, selected Yin Spirits to gather cultivation techniques, and improved the Dao Lord scripture “Myriad Things Growth Scripture” in less than a day. His achievement astonished Wind Bellow Realm Lord, Spring Dye, and a Purple Jade Pendant elder, while Azure Sky World Lord prepared to return from the Universe Void Realm and confront Ten Thousand Suns Supreme Venerate.

• Qi Yuan selected ten thousand Yin Spirits, including fifteen Yang Spirit overseers led by Zhao SanTui, and ordered them to gather cultivation techniques.
• Qi Yuan studied the “Myriad Things Growth Scripture” and used its hidden information to improve the Dao Lord scripture.
• Spring Dye gave Qi Yuan a technique that would increase the gifts he received in the Universe Spirit Sea, and Qi Yuan revealed that he had already improved the scripture and claimed ten major merits.
• Wind Bellow Realm Lord and Spring Dye were stunned by Qi Yuan’s one-day achievement, and a Purple Jade Pendant elder examined the revision and ordered them to keep Qi Yuan’s ability secret.
• Dragon Turtle Grand Assembly Master urged Azure Sky World Lord into the void realm, while Azure Sky World Lord promised the Second Association Master he would tell Ten Thousand Suns Supreme Venerate that the Supreme Truth Association would not enter the Lin Ya Transformation.

The Azure Sky World Lord and Dragon Turtle Supreme Venerate entered the Universe Void Realm, while Qi Yuan grew stronger by tempering his true spirit in the Universe Spirit Sea and discovered a message promising a Dao Lord’s inheritance. After returning to the Myriad Transformations Society, Qi Yuan learned that gaining access to all thirty-six lands of opportunity would require overcoming the hostile White Profound Palace and Black Profound Palace.

• The Azure Sky World Lord and Dragon Turtle Supreme Venerate entered the Universe Void Realm, yielded to the powerful No Buddha Realm Lord, and heard that the Nanke Universe’s Dao Lord and World Lords had vanished.
• The Azure Sky World Lord reached the twentieth layer of the Universe Spirit Sea on his first visit, then learned from a passing World Lord that many powers sought answers about the missing Nanke Universe residents.
• Qi Yuan advanced through the Universe Spirit Sea, grew his true spirit stronger, and reached its deepest, 9999th layer.
• Qi Yuan found a message from a Dao Lord promising an inheritance to whoever traveled through all thirty-six lands of opportunity and made their true spirit one.
• Su Feng returned to the Myriad Transformations Society and offered Qi Yuan access to three opportunity sites in exchange for revising three Dao Lord True Scriptures.
• Qi Yuan learned that the White Profound Palace and Black Profound Palace controlled the remaining seven opportunity sites and would have to be beaten into submission to grant him access.

Qi Yuan adapted three Dao Lord True Scriptures in half a day, then used the Myriad Transformations Society’s opportunity grounds to grow dramatically stronger. The Black and White Profound Palace Masters decided to set a killing trap for him at Wind Spirit Cloud, where Qi Yuan agreed to go despite being warned about a dangerous Buddha Corpse.

• Qi Yuan adapted the Rape True Scripture, Little Thunder True Scripture, and Mountain Shaking Scripture, astonishing the fat old man, who offered to help him reach more opportunity grounds.
• Over three months, Qi Yuan visited his twenty-first opportunity ground, the True Spirit Tower, and gained enough strength to contend with Black Heaven without True Spirit Annihilation.
• The Black Profound Palace Master and White Profound Palace Master learned of Qi Yuan’s talent and agreed to set a killing trap at Wind Spirit Cloud.
• The fat old man persuaded the Ten Thousand Saints Palace to let Qi Yuan visit Wind Spirit Cloud and warned him not to enter its forbidden grounds, where a Buddha Corpse could defeat World Creation Realm Realm Lords.
• Qi Yuan agreed to visit Wind Spirit Cloud and suspected that his earlier brow twitch had been caused by the Buddha Corpse.