Chapter Summaries

Li Qi received the shattered Lingxiao Grotto-Heaven from the Sovereign of Lingxiao Kingdom, then turned Witchcraft Silkworms into a profitable Upper Garden trend while preparing to expand their production. In the Sacred Flame Realm, he and Shen Shuibi confronted Gaga, whose mysterious door had led him to believe they were his benefactors, and revealed that they had observed his aims for the world.

• The Trumpet Flower God gave Li Qi the remaining essence of the Lingxiao Grotto-Heaven and warned him that nested spaces could cause it to shatter.
• The Sovereign of Lingxiao Kingdom said she would return to Baiyue, stabilize her Dao foundation, and pursue Buddhist scriptures after losing her Flower God rank.
• Li Qi learned that the Peony Flower God had helped Witchcraft Silkworms become popular for customized banquet tableware and decorations, and he completed a technology exchange with Yu Zao.
• Li Qi planned to travel to the Sacred Flame Realm and use consciousness-transfer technology to help Witchcraft Silkworms reproduce, leaving their research to Bo Yue and Liu Shenzhi.
• Gaga reached the peak of the eighth rank, opened the door in his mind, and was pulled into a strange space where Shen Shuibi appeared and told him it was time to choose a path for himself and the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Li Qi arrived and told Gaga that he and Shen Shuibi had observed his efforts to save the Sacred Flame Realm, calm the chaos of the immortals, and restore the world.

Li Qi revealed that he and Shen Shuibi were enemies of the immortals who had occupied the Sacred Flame Realm, and he used Shen Shuibi’s power to convince Gaga that they could conquer the world but did not intend to. Li Qi explained that they had chosen Gaga after observing him and offered him a sword called Revolution to address his realm’s problems.

• Li Qi told Gaga that his rule over four cities and 1.4 million people had reached the limit of what he could manage.
• After Li Qi identified himself as an immortal, Gaga attacked him, but Li Qi effortlessly nullified the attacks and restrained him.
• Shen Shuibi explained that Li Qi had exploited a weakness in Gaga’s cultivation method, and Li Qi clarified that they opposed the immortals and had wiped out those stationed in the realm.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi took Gaga beyond the domain, where Shen Shuibi’s Dharma Aspect crushed a long-dead, unranked world before they returned.
• Li Qi explained that they had observed Gaga because they needed someone from the Sacred Flame Realm to act, then offered him the sword Revolution.

Li Qi negotiated with Gaga over cooperation, offering the Sacred Flame Realm a chance to join his side rather than become enslaved, but Gaga remained suspicious. After sending Gaga back, Li Qi freed Jin Buhuan to deliver a message to the Green Mountain God, then reunited with Shen Shuibi and relaxed with her in the cave.

• Li Qi appealed to Gaga to embrace reform and explained that his enemies wanted to enslave the Sacred Flame Realm, while his side offered cooperation and companionship.
• Gaga challenged Li Qi’s claims and refused to trust him fully, so Li Qi sent his soul back to his body and left him to consider the offer.
• Li Qi explained that he had carefully guided Gaga to avoid provoking the Heavenly Path and eliminating the Child of Destiny’s hostility.
• Li Qi freed Jin Buhuan, who transformed into a tiger and fled to reunite with his father after Li Qi asked him to invite the Mountain God to a feast.
• Shen Shuibi questioned whether Li Qi had saved her for last, then accepted his explanation and held him close.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi spent the afternoon together in the cave, and she told him to leave after he put on his clothes.

Li Qi and Shen Shuibi spent several days together before discussing Jin Buhuan’s release and the possible arrival of the Green Mountain God. After taking a walk beneath the stars, they shared a quiet moment as Shen Shuibi played her Jade Flute and began teaching Li Qi to use it.

• Li Qi explained that releasing Jin Buhuan could lead the Green Mountain God to them, while he and Shen Shuibi considered the danger posed by the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and the forces behind him.
• Li Qi told Shen Shuibi that he had prepared a contingency but kept its details secret.
• Li Qi invited Shen Shuibi for a walk, and she accepted his hand as they went outside together.
• Shen Shuibi played her Jade Flute beneath the stars, and Li Qi listened as he reflected on the causes and results connecting events.
• Shen Shuibi handed Li Qi the Jade Flute and taught him how to play it using different kinds of qi.

Jin Buhuan escaped Li Qi and destroyed an unranked world to send a message calling for help. Green Mountain God Jin Chi and the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord arrived at his hiding place, where Jin Buhuan reunited with his father.

• Jin Buhuan found an unranked world, refined its Heavenly Path, and drained its vitality to send a message to his father.
• Jin Buhuan collapsed from exhaustion and waited several days for help.
• Green Mountain God Jin Chi traveled with the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, discussing their plan to take the Sacred Flame Realm and expand their influence in Baiyue.
• Jin Chi and the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord arrived and crushed the little world with the pressure of their presence.
• Jin Chi called for his son, and Jin Buhuan revealed himself and answered.

Jin Buhuan reported on Li Qi and Shen Shuibi to the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and Green Mountain God Jin Chi, who used her cultivation aura and past actions to deduce that she was likely a remnant of Mount Luofu. The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and Jin Chi headed toward the Sacred Flame Realm, while Jin Buhuan was sent somewhere safe and the Demon Lord raised the question of whether Wushen Mountain or the Tang Kingdom would want to claim her.

• Jin Buhuan told the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and Green Mountain God Jin Chi that Li Qi and Shen Shuibi had made no visible preparations in the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Jin Buhuan imitated Shen Shuibi's Taiyin cultivation aura, but the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord could only simulate a small fraction of its profound method.
• Green Mountain God Jin Chi connected the aura and Shen Shuibi's circumstances to information about the Sun and Moon Path and suggested she might be a remnant of Mount Luofu.
• Jin Buhuan recalled that Shen Shuibi had once held off several eighth-rank cultivators while she was ninth rank, leading the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord to conclude she had fallen from fifth rank after severe injuries.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and Jin Chi agreed that Shen Shuibi was likely a remnant of Mount Luofu, and the Demon Lord asked whether Wushen Mountain or the Tang Kingdom would prefer to claim her.
• Jin Chi sealed Jin Buhuan in a spell and sent him somewhere safe before he and the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord set out for the Sacred Flame Realm.

Li Qi held a grand sacrifice to restore the Sacred Flame Realm’s fortune and ease its resistance to him, hoping to preserve its independent Dao while making amends for the damage he had caused. The Heavenly Path rejected his offerings until he swore never to destroy the world, then accepted them as the Sacred Flame Realm’s barrier expanded and Gaga sensed a change.

• Li Qi decided to replenish the Sacred Flame Realm’s fortune by offering several dead worlds as sacrifices.
• Shen Shuibi asked whether Li Qi had used demonic methods, and he admitted that he could manipulate memories to make people forget things.
• Li Qi built an elaborate altar deep beneath the Sacred Flame Realm and began a grand sacrifice, presenting offerings to its native deities and Heavenly Path.
• The native deities accepted their offerings, but the Heavenly Path resisted Li Qi’s sacrifice.
• Li Qi swore that he would never commit an act that destroyed the world, and the Heavenly Path’s resistance vanished as the offerings collapsed and the World Barrier expanded.
• Gaga, far away, felt an unexplained stirring as though he had sensed the change.

Gaga received a vision showing that Li Qi had enriched his territory by feeding dying worlds to the Sacred Flame Realm, then met with Li Qi and agreed to trade. With the agreement accepted and the local Heavenly Path’s suppression lifted, Li Qi could begin preparing to deal with the Green Mountain God.

• Gaga sensed a revelation and saw dying worlds dismantled so their vitality could enrich his territory and make it a blessed land.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi traveled from the planetary core to Gaga’s chamber, where Li Qi revealed himself and explained the change.
• Gaga panicked and demanded to know what the immortals wanted, while Li Qi insisted he sought an independent Sacred Flame Realm and trade, not plunder.
• Gaga agreed to Li Qi’s terms but warned that more preachers could lead to the Sacred Flame Tribe’s extermination.
• The local Heavenly Path’s suppression vanished, allowing Li Qi to begin arranging his response to the Green Mountain God.

Li Qi secured the Sacred Flame Realm’s Heavenly Path and planned to enlist Mount Luofu in a campaign against the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, revealing a purified drop of high-rank devil blood as part of his scheme. The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and the Green Mountain God marched toward the realm with a million armed Demon Soldiers, where an unseen defender blocked their path with Taiyin Qi.

• Gaga agreed to Li Qi’s arrangement but insisted that the Sacred Flame Tribe resolve its own conflicts, so Li Qi rewarded him with an eighth-rank cultivation method.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi planned to build a summoning formation, involve Yang Ning and Mount Luofu, and use Granny Mei’s aura to deter enemies while pursuing the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord’s formation diagram.
• Li Qi revealed a Trumpet Flower containing a purified drop of high-rank devil blood, leaving Shen Shuibi stunned.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and the Green Mountain God gathered a million Demon Soldiers, armed them with metallic-qi weapons, and led them toward the Sacred Flame Realm.
• An unknown defender blocked the demons with Taiyin Qi, and the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord answered by unleashing Sky Dog Eating the Moon.

Shen Shuibi fought the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, whose Sky Dog nature countered her moon-based powers, while Li Qi used a million-person ritual to summon Fang Xiang’s power and disrupt him. The ritual gave Shen Shuibi an opening to cross the locust swarm and strike the Demon Lord with blazing alchemical fire.

• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord revealed his Sky Dog Dharma Form and began eclipsing Shen Shuibi’s moon, while the Green Mountain God led a million Demon Soldiers toward the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Shen Shuibi withdrew to avoid the Sky Dog’s counter and waited for Li Qi to support her from afar.
• Li Qi and Gaga’s soldiers began a gong-and-drum ritual, summoning a thread of Fang Xiang’s power and offering it to Shen Shuibi through the moon.
• Shen Shuibi used the borrowed power and prepared mirrors to accelerate toward the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, who sent a swarm of iron locusts to block her path.
• The ritual’s gongs injured the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and disrupted his Dharma Form, allowing Shen Shuibi to reach him and set his body ablaze with Natural True Fire.

Li Qi and Shen Shuibi fought off the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord with a ritual that exploited his Sky Dog origins, while Green Mountain God Jin Chi advanced toward the Sacred Flame Realm with a million Demon Soldiers. As the invasion threatened to overwhelm the world, Li Qi urged Gagga to suppress Green Mountain God's followers and then challenged Jin Chi directly.

• Li Qi's Sky Dog ritual and Shen Shuibi's Fang Xiang Spirit Qi wounded the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, but he recovered by devouring her divine incantation and forced the battle back to a cautious stalemate.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and Green Mountain God Jin Chi separately assessed the enemy's strength as they advanced toward the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Gagga contacted Li Qi after demons and ghosts filled the sky above the World Barrier, and Li Qi explained that the army intended to invade and devour the world.
• Li Qi showed Gagga Green Mountain God's followers worshipping the invading demons and urged him to suppress his own people; Gagga agreed to prepare.
• Li Qi flew into the sky and called out to Jin Chi, who recognized him from their meeting at Clear Mist City.

Li Qi confronted the Green Mountain God while preparing a Heaven-sacrificing ritual to strengthen the Sacred Flame Realm’s Heavenly Path and World Barrier. The Green Mountain God’s formation continued to wear away the barrier, leaving the realm’s fate uncertain as the struggle became a battle of endurance.

• Li Qi summoned his Inner Gods to defend himself as the Green Mountain God threatened him, then tried to make him doubt whether Green Mountain Kingdom Lord had arrived.
• The Green Mountain God dismissed Li Qi’s bluff and ordered Jin Chi and the demons to continue their formation against the World Barrier.
• Li Qi directed Gaga’s officials to build a ritual altar and arrange its offerings, using the Sacred Flame Tribe’s sacrifices to reinforce the Heavenly Path and World Barrier.
• Jin Chi’s formation scraped at the World Barrier while the demons maintained their positions across a vast area.
• A demon reported that the World Barrier was repairing faster than the formation could damage it, but Jin Chi ordered the demons to press on.

Li Qi maintained the sacrifice as the World Barrier weakened, then built a Burnt Offering altar and sacrificed a closed Trumpet Flower. The Sacred King, who had left after drinking with Li Qi, appeared outside the barrier and faced the Green Mountain God and the demons without his sword.

• Li Qi took over the sacrifice from the exhausted Sacred Flame Tribe officials and continued holding back the outside world, then spoke with the crippled Sacred King.
• Li Qi shared wine with the Sacred King and learned that he had abandoned his sword and fled from the Green Mountain God, leaving his warrior's heart shattered.
• Li Qi built a Burnt Offering altar and divined that the Sacred Flame Realm faced widespread war and devastation.
• Li Qi recited the invocation and burned a closed Trumpet Flower as the sacrifice, transmitting its power completely.
• The Sacred King appeared outside the World Barrier, ignored Jin Chi's taunts and the demons' laughter, and stepped forward with a clenched fist.

The Sacred King fought Jin Chi beyond the World Barrier, wielding his reforged Heaven-Born Sword in a desperate attempt to protect his homeland. Jin Chi destroyed him, but the Sacred King’s blood triggered the Five Aggregates Demonic Blood, leaving Jin Chi blinded and frozen.

• Jin Chi left the demons’ ranks to confront the ancient Sacred King and urged him to fight with all his strength or submit.
• The Sacred King recovered his Heaven-Born Sword and, after considering his homeland and the people beneath the World Barrier, chose to attack Jin Chi.
• Li Qi observed the battle and recognized how the Sacred King’s close-range martial arts struggled against Jin Chi’s immense store of dharma treasures.
• Jin Chi withdrew his treasures to give the exhausted Sacred King a clear chance to strike, but his Green Mountain Dao foundation blocked the attack and shattered the Sacred King and his sword.
• Jin Chi noticed a red mark on his palm from the Sacred King’s blood, and the Five Aggregates Demonic Blood deprived him of his senses, leaving him frozen in darkness.

Li Qi monitored the three-month war in the Sacred Flame Realm while supporting Shen Shuibi against the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and directing Gegu’s campaign to secure Blood Sacrifice energy. Gegu questioned the cost of victory, while the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord grew anxious over Jin Chi’s silence and the Sacred Flame Realm’s continued defenses.

• Li Qi decided to preserve the stalemate on both battlefronts, allowing the Sacred Flame Realm’s civil war to continue supplying Blood Sacrifice offerings.
• After three months of fighting, the Divine Kingdom’s forces captured several cities, and Shen Shuibi continued battling the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord with Li Qi’s support.
• Gegu killed an enemy general from afar and told Li Qi that the Immortal’s choices seemed to cause the fewest casualties, though they still troubled him.
• Li Qi warned Gegu of an approaching Seventh Rank cultivator and said he would send excess Blood Sacrifice power to strengthen Gegu.
• Gegu told Li Qi that the Trolley Problem had no right answer, and Li Qi agreed that even powerful beings had to make difficult choices.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord wondered why Jin Chi had sent no news despite remaining alive while the Sacred Flame Realm’s defenses held.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord revealed that his true body was a Demonized Neutron Star and forced Shen Shuibi into a direct battle. Shen Shuibi trapped him in an Alchemy Furnace, while Li Qi anticipated that the Demon Lord had summoned a fifth-rank ally.

• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord unveiled his purple-red Demon Star and used its gravity to draw in and transform surrounding matter.
• Shen Shuibi used her Celestial Pivot Golden Pill to resist the Demon Star, then clashed with the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord and both were badly injured.
• Li Qi recognized that the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was a Demonized Neutron Star disguised as a Heavenly Hound.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord drained the surrounding spiritual power, but Shen Shuibi protected herself with the Golden Light Incantation and activated an Alchemy Furnace to refine him.
• A fifth-rank sovereign appeared billions of miles away, and Li Qi told Yang Ning to stop hiding.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's hidden Baiyue Sovereign fled when Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi revealed the Golden Crow and joined their powers to overwhelm him. After a fourth-rank aura forced him to stop fleeing, he agreed to go to Sacred Flame Realm, where he discovered that the person behind the encounter was a young man of barely seventh-rank.

• The hidden Baiyue Sovereign appeared in an imperial carriage, but the Golden Crow emerged from the sun, prompting him to flee as Yang Ning turned back toward the battle.
• Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi united the Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit's sun-and-moon powers, increasing their speed and strengthening Shen Shuibi's Alchemy Furnace against the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord detonated his Demon Star and fled, abandoning Green Mountain God, but Yang Ning revealed a wisp of aura that manifested as a fourth-rank presence and stopped him.
• Shen Shuibi invited the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord to Sacred Flame Realm, and he accepted after asking who he had accidentally harmed.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord recovered his Demon Soldiers into his star and entered Sacred Flame Realm, where he froze upon seeing a young man who was barely seventh-rank.

Li Qi negotiated with the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord over Jin Chi’s fate and accepted the Sacred Flame Realm as compensation. Before the Demon Lord left, Li Qi asked to inspect the formation diagram used to move the worlds and discovered it was carved onto the Demon Lord’s back.

• Li Qi welcomed the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord with Penglai immortal tea while Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi withdrew nearby.
• Li Qi explained that he had acted against Jin Chi to settle an old grudge, and the Demon Lord asked him to spare his fellow disciple.
• Li Qi agreed to let Jin Chi awaken after a few hundred years, and the Demon Lord gave Li Qi the Sacred Flame Realm as compensation.
• As the Demon Lord prepared to leave, Li Qi asked to inspect the gravity-based formation diagram that moved the world cluster.
• The Demon Lord agreed to lend the diagram briefly, then exposed his fur-covered back, revealing that the formation was carved directly onto his body.

Li Qi studied the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord’s array diagram and learned its principles, but the effort injured his Primordial Spirit. The Demon Lord discovered Li Qi’s Great Shaman token and withdrew rather than risk provoking Wushen Mountain, while Gaga’s rise brought the Sacred Flame Realm’s war to an end.

• Li Qi grasped the principles behind the array diagram, then collapsed from the strain after the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord departed.
• Shen Shuibi protected Li Qi’s Primordial Spirit, and Li Qi said she could reproduce the array with his knowledge and her array expertise.
• Jin Buhuan remembered that Li Qi possessed a Great Shaman token, prompting the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord to realize he had been manipulated and to abandon thoughts of revenge.
• The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord recognized the token’s connection to Zhu San’s lineage and took Jin Buhuan away, wary of provoking Wushen Mountain.
• Nearly half a year later, Green Mountain God’s disappearance caused his believers to collapse, and Gaga defeated a vastly larger army to become a leading power in the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Li Qi and Shen Shuibi watched Gaga mature into the new Sacred King, waiting for the realm to provide sacred flame for Li Qi’s industrial chain.

Yang Ning challenged Shen Shuibi’s views on Heaven, transcendence, and her marriage to Li Qi, while Shen Shuibi explained that she loved him and acted by choice. Yang Ning then confronted Li Qi about his plan to repay Mount Luofu’s debts and offered to help him.

• Yang Ning argued that Li Qi’s cautious approach to the Sacred Flame Realm wasted time, while Shen Shuibi defended following the Dao without opposing Heaven at every turn.
• Yang Ning questioned Shen Shuibi’s marriage to Li Qi, but Shen Shuibi said she loved him and chose to protect him as he had once spared her.
• Li Qi planned to help Gaga fulfill his destiny, knowing that the contract with the Heavenly Path would determine the Sacred Flame Realm’s fate.
• Yang Ning arrived and knocked Li Qi around before asking about his plan to involve Mount Luofu in expanding his business and repaying its debts.
• Yang Ning told Li Qi to use her however he needed, then vanished.