Chapter Summaries

Li Shiwei and Zhang You became friends while studying runes aboard a gourd, then reunited in the Sacred Flame Realm and traveled together on a great ship bound for the Sea Hunting Realm. After a year of extraordinary sights beyond the realms, they neared their destination, where Zhang You worried about the constant war and an unexpected knock sounded at their quarters.

• Li Shiwei befriended the shy Zhang You and asked her to explain the ship's runes.
• After two days traveling together, Li Shiwei and Zhang You parted at Liesu and unexpectedly met again in the Sacred Flame Realm, where they discovered they were headed to the same ship in the Sea Hunting Realm.
• Li Shiwei and Zhang You sailed beyond the realms for over a year, witnessing strange worlds, enormous creatures, and a giantess trading a burning world for supplies.
• As the ship neared the Sea Hunting Realm, Li Shiwei looked forward to visiting a world while Zhang You worried that war never stopped there.
• Li Shiwei and Zhang You returned to their shared quarters after work, and a knock sounded at their door.

Li Shiwei worked overtime to settle a dispute between mineral merchants aboard the colossal ship, but the routine left her feeling stifled. She returned to her dormitory and decided she wanted to go to the Sea Hunting Realm to make a legend of her own.

• Li Shiwei's captain ordered her to mediate a confrontation between two groups of mineral merchants at Warehouse Fifteen.
• Li Shiwei and her captain escorted the mineral lifeforms to an empty warehouse, where Stone mediated their dispute.
• After the issue was settled, Li Shiwei asked her captain whether decades of routine work tired him, and he said he had never felt that way.
• Li Shiwei returned to the dormitory, ate the meal Zhang You had saved, and watched the dark void from the porthole.
• Li Shiwei grew impatient with life aboard the ship and wanted to go to the Sea Hunting Realm to build her own legend.

Li Shiwei and Zhang You entered the Sea Hunting Realm during a beast tide, where Li Shiwei eagerly joined the battle to help a besieged city. She unleashed a powerful lightning spell that destroyed every Savage Beast on the battlefield.

• Li Shiwei and Zhang You flew into the Sea Hunting Realm for a month-long supply mission while the world was in the midst of a beast tide.
• Li Shiwei piloted their flying boat to a city under attack and saw its soldiers and Eighth Rank cultivators struggling against the Savage Beasts.
• After receiving a request for aid, Li Shiwei left Zhang You at the controls and prepared a talisman array to cast a divine incantation.
• The leading Savage Beast transformed into a towering black giant, and the beast tide overwhelmed the city's defenses.
• Li Shiwei invoked Heaven's decree and struck the battlefield with divine lightning, wiping out every Savage Beast, including the black giant.

Li Shiwei destroyed an eighth-rank Savage Beast and saved a city, though her wide-ranging thunder also caused heavy damage to its defenders. Celebrated as a hero across the Sea Hunting Realm, she grew eager for the acclaim and arrived at a fourth city where another beast tide awaited.

• Li Shiwei used talismans and heavenly thunder to wound an eighth-rank Savage Beast, then used a blood-written talisman and Yin Thunder to freeze and kill it.
• The battle devastated the city’s walls and killed many soldiers, prompting Li Shiwei to apologize to the Sea Hunting Realm natives.
• Two eighth-ranks welcomed Li Shiwei into the city while other local cultivators showed anger, sorrow, or fear toward her.
• Li Shiwei received a grand public welcome and was praised as a hero, while people began expecting her to defeat future beast tides.
• After traveling to other bases and enjoying the recognition, Li Shiwei reached a fourth city where another beast tide had appeared.

Li Shiwei and Zhang You faced a massive beast tide in the Sea Hunting Realm, where Zhang You overcame her fear to help Li Shiwei drive off a Seventh Rank Savage Beast. Their mission made Li Shiwei a celebrated hero and gave her a chance to pursue the Divine Path, but she rejected it and considered repeating her heroic approach in another world.

• Li Shiwei leaped into the beast tide to save the Sea Hunting Realm natives while Zhang You piloted their ship toward the city base, afraid to join the fighting.
• Li Qi read Li Shiwei’s annual report and, despite Shen Shuibi’s concerns about the danger she might face, chose to let her make her own way.
• Li Shiwei and Zhang You completed their mission, and Li Shiwei gained fame for helping the natives without compensation.
• Li Shiwei encountered a Seventh Rank Savage Beast and nearly fell, but Zhang You overcame her fear and joined her to drive it away.
• Zhang You was seriously injured, while Jade’s protection kept Li Shiwei unharmed, and the two friends became closer after surviving the battle together.
• Li Shiwei sensed that the Sea Hunting Realm’s worship could help her step onto the Divine Path, rejected it, and decided that being a hero might be worth trying again.

After seventeen years aboard the merchant ship, Li Shiwei had become its captain but remained stuck at the peak of the Eighth Rank. Hoping to discover the commonalities among civilizations and build her Seventh-Rank Dao Foundation, she resigned from the merchant association, and Chief offered her a lead on an unexplored Seventh Rank World.

• Li Shiwei rose to become captain and gained a reputation for enforcing justice, but her cultivation remained at the peak of the Eighth Rank.
• Stone reminded Li Shiwei that the ship's route was about to repeat its cycle, and she decided to resign rather than revisit the same worlds.
• Li Shiwei told Chief she had found commonalities among the civilizations she had observed and wanted to search for more worlds independently.
• Chief warned Li Shiwei that leaving the merchant association would make gathering records harder, but Li Shiwei explained that its influence could distort her observations.
• Chief offered Li Shiwei information about a Seventh Rank World the merchant association had never visited, and Li Shiwei gladly accepted.

Li Shiwei received a farewell divination from Yellow Jade before deciding to leave the ship and pursue her Dao Path. The chapter ended as she reunited with Zhang You on the maintenance level, preparing to tell her friend she would be leaving.

• Li Shiwei agreed to stop at a world untouched by the Merchant Association before the ship continued to the Sacred Flame Realm.
• Yellow Jade warned Li Shiwei that her journey would bring twists and turns, but that she would eventually discover the reason behind what happened.
• Li Shiwei dismissed Yellow Jade’s suspicions about the ship’s leader and accepted the divination as a farewell gift.
• Li Shiwei went to the maintenance level to see Zhang You and formally say goodbye before resigning from the ship.
• Li Shiwei watched Zhang You maintain the ecological dome, and Zhang You landed beside her and greeted her.

Li Shiwei resigned from the Merchant Association and set out alone for a world that had never encountered it, hoping to find common ground between worlds and civilizations for her Seventh-Rank Dao Foundation. After three months of travel aboard a living vessel, she and Stone arrived at their destination, though the journey left her badly shaken.

• Li Shiwei told Zhang You she planned to resign after the route cycle ended, and the two shared a meal in Zhang You's dorm.
• After the cycle finished, Li Shiwei quietly left the giant ship and rented a living Seventh-Rank flying vessel from the Merchant Association.
• Li Shiwei and Stone divided the vessel's controls and departed the Sacred Flame Realm for the world the captain had mentioned.
• During three months of travel near the Heavenly Way Limit, Li Shiwei suffered severe time-space distortion and repeatedly vomited.
• Stone decelerated the vessel as they reached their destination.

Li Shiwei entered a strange world made of seven nested planes by disrupting its Heavenly Path and forcing Stone’s flying boat through its World Barrier. After the local Heavenly Path repelled the impact, Li Shiwei and Stone fled, leaving the world’s strongest figures to investigate and wonder whether an eighth layer existed.

• Li Shiwei prepared to enter the nested world, venturing into the void with True Fire Talismans, a safety rope, and Qi beads.
• Li Shiwei recognized that the world’s seven nested planes supported her belief that worlds and civilizations shared commonalities, then summoned divine generals and used Heaven and Man’s Killing Intent to disrupt the world’s Heavenly Path.
• The world’s powerful figures sensed the disorder as strange phenomena spread, while Li Shiwei weakened the World Barrier and Stone drove the flying boat through it.
• The Heavenly Path struck back with immense shockwaves, but its own manifestations blocked the attack and protected the world.
• Li Shiwei vomited aboard the damaged flying boat, and Stone hurried away with her before the local experts could arrive.
• A sage, a villager, a warrior, a divine statue, and a beast investigated the impact site, and the sage wondered whether the world had an eighth layer.

Li Shiwei concealed herself in a seven-layered world and studied its people and cultivation, seeking a commonality to establish her Dao Foundation. Meanwhile, Li Qi received the world from Yan Ke and revealed that he planned to act as Heaven’s Will to protect Li Shiwei and learn how Heaven’s Will operated.

• Li Shiwei hid her flying boat underground, then entered a city in disguise to observe the natives and learn their language.
• Li Shiwei discovered the world’s seven kingdoms, two civilized races, and four cultivation methods, and began searching for a commonality among them.
• Yan Ke gave Li Qi a magically compressed Seventh Rank World that contained seven layers and two civilizations.
• Li Qi told Yan Ke he had chosen the world to temper and protect Li Shiwei, whose strength made ordinary trials too dangerous.
• Li Qi said he also wanted to impersonate Heaven’s Will to understand its actions and test whether it was truly so powerful, and Yan Ke offered to help when the time came to fight.

Li Shiwei began building a secret organization to gather this world’s Civilization History and targeted a research institute studying gods. She arranged for Lu De, a gifted apprentice, to encounter a mysterious voice in a jade pendant, and Lu De agreed to help it.

• Li Shiwei infiltrated a royal-capital research institute that investigated how gods were born, intending to become a godlike figure and recruit suitable underlings.
• Lu De told Teacher Jin about a new Divine Miracle in the Holy City and asked whether a human soul could remain alive outside the body.
• Teacher Jin praised Lu De’s ideas and revealed that he had recommended Lu De for a reward, strengthening the mysterious voice’s claims that it could help him.
• The voice in Lu De’s jade pendant asked him to provide Energy Crystals and help it reshape a body, and Lu De considered the cost and possible benefits.
• After passing a noble classmate on the street, Lu De clutched the jade pendant and agreed to the deal.

A secret stone in Lu De’s jade pendant tutored him after he lost a brutal contest for a place in an institute project, and Lu De asked it to teach him rather than merely trade knowledge. The stone began teaching him genuine cultivation methods to speed his recovery, seeing the potential to raise a powerful local figure.

• The stone secretly communicated with Li Shiwei, who warned it to stay hidden and confirmed that their goal was to collect Civilization History rather than rob or kill people.
• Lu De recalled how he had acquired the stone and agreed to help it regain a physical body in exchange for knowledge, while refusing its offer to help him cheat on his upcoming test.
• After studying with the stone for ten days, Lu De earned full marks on three written tests but lost a combat trial to his aristocratic classmate and was badly injured.
• While recovering, Lu De offered his crystals for the stone’s energy and asked whether it would teach him; the stone warned him not to let anger control his pursuit of study.
• The stone began teaching Lu De cultivation methods that controlled the blood and qi in his body, explaining that they could hasten his healing and greatly improve his cultivation.

Over six months, Stone trained Lu De to overcome the Dao conflict in his world and cultivate his first qi, while Li Shiwei prepared the Triangle Eye legend for a future launch. After Lu De visited the research institute, Walon confronted him outside and recognized the scent of Crystal Beasts on him.

• Li Shiwei created ruins, texts, and forged clues for the Triangle Eye, an organization she invented, and waited for Stone to recruit its first members.
• Stone helped Lu De establish his own Dao, and Lu De finally condensed his first wisp of qi after more than half a year of training.
• Lu De told Stone he planned to take an examination for a Royal Capital Guard position, then went to Teacher Jin's office with records of soul traces.
• Walon tried to take Lu De's records, but Teacher Jin took them first and passed them to Walon according to the proper procedure.
• Teacher Jin told Lu De that Walon was investigating Crystal Beasts disappearing near the Royal Capital and gave him a sealed letter of introduction.
• Walon waited outside the research institute, sniffed Lu De, and asked whether he often hunted Crystal Beasts.

Lu De investigated the crystal trade, rose to become a probationary mentor, and prepared to help the stone regain its body. When the stone revealed the secret organization Triangle Eye, Lu De challenged its purpose, prompting the stone to question Li Shiwei’s assumptions about the civilizations she studied.

• Walon questioned Lu De about his contact with crystals, then paid him to investigate crystal circulation; Lu De reported unusual shifts in crystal prices through Teacher Jin.
• Walon investigated the crystal mystery, was praised in the royal capital, and declared he would capture a mysterious hunter, but his corpse was found in the sewers ten days later with no trace of the trap that had killed him.
• Lu De passed the royal capital guard examination and became a spell consultant, then graduated from the institute a year later as a probationary mentor.
• After Lu De became qualified to reshape the stone’s body, the stone told him about Triangle Eye and said it would take him to meet the organization; Lu De questioned why a powerful organization would remain hidden.
• The stone contacted Li Shiwei and repeated Lu De’s objections to Triangle Eye’s secrecy; it urged her to treat other worlds as real civilizations rather than a game, then ended the spell.

Li Shiwei realized she had treated the civilizations she studied as a game and questioned whether her Dao foundation was real. After Triangle Eye was exposed and her doubts deepened, Stone helped her recognize that her choices and experiences were her own, and she resolved to witness a living civilization directly.

• Li Shiwei reflected on her dismissive view of native civilizations and decided to destroy Triangle Eye and its fabricated records.
• Li Shiwei found soldiers guarding Triangle Eye’s ruins, sneaked inside, and was driven away by a Seventh-Rank martial artist who discovered the site.
• The ruins’ spell formulas and documents spread, prompting the world’s Seventh-Rank figures to debate Triangle Eye and the possibility of another kingdom beyond their world.
• Li Shiwei, overwhelmed by her perceived failures, injured Lu De when he approached her, then accepted Stone’s help in healing him.
• Stone reminded Li Shiwei that her choices were her own, and after a day of contemplation she resolved to study a real civilization firsthand.

After two years of traveling to understand the Dao across civilizations, Li Shiwei was confronted by a farmer who blamed her imported Triangle Eye technology for pushing the world toward war. Their disagreement turned into a battle, and three Seventh Rank cultivators appeared to ambush her as she prepared to fight back.

• Li Shiwei shared fruit wine with a farmer and explained that she had brought the technology into the world by accident, though she had not intended to start a war.
• The farmer said the recluses needed Li Shiwei dead so they could discredit and destroy her technologies without triggering civil war among their supporters.
• The farmer attacked Li Shiwei with his Martial Way Divine Intent, and she let his first strike land before using pills to heal her Moon Essence body.
• Li Shiwei countered with talismans and began a landscape formation while recognizing that the farmer’s Divine Intent expressed his resolve to protect the world.
• Three Seventh Rank cultivators suddenly emerged around Li Shiwei and the farmer, revealing that the confrontation had been an encirclement and assassination from the start.

Li Shiwei fought four seventh-rank martial artists who tried to stop her technology from spreading, but their sacrifice let one reach her and kill her. Just as the villagers believed they had protected their world, everyone collapsed as the Heavenly Path wailed, signaling that someone was refining it.

• Four seventh-rank martial artists attacked Li Shiwei to prevent her technology from overturning their world’s civilization.
• Li Shiwei used talismans and landscape formations to hold off the identical attackers, but the Heavenly Path and Earthly Deities caused her landscape formation to collapse.
• The martial artists advanced through Li Shiwei’s defenses by sacrificing themselves in relays, and Li Shiwei burned through her talismans and life-saving treasures trying to stop them.
• The last surviving martial artist reached Li Shiwei and killed her after she reflected on her inexperience and chose to fight rather than flee.
• The surviving villager believed the invader and her technology had been eliminated, but everyone in the world fell as the Heavenly Path wailed, a phenomenon known as Refining the Heavenly Way.

Li Qi revealed himself after rescuing Li Shiwei and restoring the world’s Heavenly Path, then offered its leaders a choice between joining a new world and developing independently. As the leaders fought over the decision, Li Qi watched and wondered which path was right.

• Li Qi refined the Heavenly Path, retrieved Li Shiwei’s soul from reincarnation, and restored her body and life.
• Li Qi resurrected the three warriors Li Shiwei had killed and reunited with her; she called him Father, then left to find Stone before returning with him.
• More than thirty Seventh Rank beings arrived to attack Li Qi, but he suppressed their powers and forced them to sit.
• Li Qi offered the world a choice between returning to independent development or joining a new world, and showed them visions of both futures.
• The Divine Emperor chose to join the new world, while the Beast King favored independence, and their followers began fighting to decide the world’s fate.

Li Qi watched the Seventh Ranks choose the future of their world and explained to a chamber of commerce captain how every choice was entangled in karma. After the conflict ended, he returned to Shen Shuibi, learned that Lady Luofu would awaken in five years, and began preparing for what came next.

• A chamber of commerce captain questioned Li Qi about whether he caused the Seventh Ranks’ deaths, and Li Qi explained that crossroads and karma arose through everyone’s choices.
• The Divine Emperor survived the battle and chose the new world, while Li Qi left the world to Mount Luofu and the chamber of commerce.
• Li Qi told Shen Shuibi that Li Shiwei was safe and likely to reach Seventh Rank, allowing Shen Shuibi to enter seclusion and refine her Golden Core method.
• Shen Shuibi told Li Qi that Lady Luofu would awaken in five years and that Wushen Mountain would awaken her before the headmaster.
• Li Qi planned to meet Lady Luofu and then travel beyond the domain to prepare for the future.

Li Qi received a Wushen Mountain envoy tally and, after Lady Luofu awoke and received important visitors, went to meet her. Lady Luofu recognized their encounter in the Desire Realm and explained that although the Heavenly Demon’s version was not her, it was also her.

• Li Qi secured permission to travel beyond the realm as a Shaman envoy and received a tally granting him status and passage.
• Lady Luofu awoke after Wushen Mountain healed her, and Human Path officials, the Western Sea Dragon King, Du Ziren, and Zhu Fengdan came to visit.
• After the major guests departed, Li Qi went to Mount Luofu’s grotto-heaven and was told by Yang Ning that Lady Luofu would see him at her mountaintop cave.
• Li Qi entered the cave and explained that he could perceive Dao resonance because he had once been contaminated by Five Aggregates Demonic Blood.
• Lady Luofu recalled their encounter in the Desire Realm and said that the Heavenly Demon’s version of her was not her, yet was also her.