Chapter Summaries

After the Divine Luo Domain ended its costly blockade, Ming Luo ordered heightened defenses and vowed to target the Flowing Light Domain after the Domain War. Liu Yuan received Fan Kong's battered survivors and learned that several groups had escaped, but Domain Lords You Xuan and Yuan Chen were missing.

• Ming Luo dismantled the Nine Heavens Domain-Locking Divine Forbidden Formation and ordered the Divine Luo Domain to tighten patrols and inspections.
• Ming Luo blamed the Flowing Light Domain for the attack and vowed to destroy its star region after the Domain War.
• Fan Kong returned to Liu Yuan with dozens of survivors and described how the Divine Luo Domain's blockade and Xuan He's pursuit had forced them through the Black Wind Sea.
• Liu Yuan told Fan Kong that other groups had also been pursued, but Domain Lords You Xuan and Yuan Chen remained out of contact.
• Liu Yuan concluded that the invaders had underestimated the Divine Luo Domain and reconsidered their plan, trusting that the True Lord of the Flowing Light Domain remained their greatest advantage.

After the failed expedition against the Divine Luo Domain, Liu Yuan welcomed the battered survivors and waited for Gan Tian to return. Gan Tian reached the Qianyuan Dao Realm with rare Void Divine Iron but little Fortune, and Zhou Ming accepted the results before promising that everything would change after his seclusion.

• Ancestor Xue Ku returned to the secret base with only a dozen wounded followers, and Liu Yuan reassured him and the other returning lords that their losses were not their fault.
• Several battered teams returned after being hunted across the Divine Luo Domain, while You Xuan and Yuan Chen remained missing and were presumed dead.
• Gan Tian and his companions traveled for centuries before reaching the Qianyuan Dao Realm and reporting to Zhou Ming.
• Gan Tian presented Zhou Ming with a storage ring of divine materials and a vessel containing little Fortune, then asked to be punished for the shortfall.
• Zhou Ming confirmed that You Xuan and Yuan Chen had died, praised the Void Divine Iron Gan Tian had recovered, and sent the group to rest.

Zhou Ming refined powerful teleportation array plates and talismans from the rare materials he had received, then gave them to Gan Tian to take back to Liu Yuan. After the new equipment proved able to carry them swiftly across the Chaos Void, Zhou Ming absorbed the Fortune Golden Dragons Gan Tian had brought, but the Rule Shackles remained intact.

• Zhou Ming spent several decades refining Portable Cross-Domain Teleportation Array Plates and Dark Gold Jade Talismans with the rare materials.
• Zhou Ming gave Gan Tian the array plates and talismans for Liu Yuan to distribute, and also tasked him with setting up a Cross-Domain Teleportation Array linked to the Qianyuan Dao Realm.
• Gan Tian tested an array plate and teleported himself and his companions nearly half a major domain away, then used two more teleportations to reach the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Zhou Ming Devoured the Fortune Golden Dragons Gan Tian had brought, but their Origin Essence only caused his Rule Shackles to tremble briefly.
• Zhou Ming concluded that the upgraded equipment would help Liu Yuan and the others gather more Fortune, then resumed deep cultivation.

Gan Tian returned to Liu Yuan with powerful new teleportation arrays, talismans, and a cross-domain teleportation altar. Liu Yuan sent out forty teams to raid domains across the Star Domain and prepared the Blackstone Star Belt as a hidden transit hub, while Qingxuan Daoist sensed danger in the Azure Profound World.

• Gan Tian delivered Zhou Ming’s new array disks, talismans, and Cross-Domain Teleportation Array to Liu Yuan.
• Liu Yuan explained the new equipment to the Dao World Lords and warned them about the Divine Luo Domain’s response and its Domain-Sealing Formation.
• Liu Yuan assigned forty teams to raid domains across the Star Domain, strike once, and leave before enemies could surround them.
• Fan Kong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the other leaders gathered their followers, collected their equipment, and sent the teams out into the Chaos Void.
• Liu Yuan began setting up the White Jade Altar as a hidden transit hub at the base.
• Qingxuan Daoist sensed danger while meditating in the Azure Profound World, but found its World-Protecting Formation intact.

Ancestor Xue Ku and Fan Kong led rapid raids that plundered worlds across the Star Domain, leaving ruins and triggering panic. The Seven Great Domains finally recognized the scale of the threat, while Xuanji and the Nether Emperor accused each other of orchestrating the attacks.

• Ancestor Xue Ku erased Qingxuan Daoist, extracted the Azure Profound World's fortune, and fled with a formation disc.
• Fan Kong's squad seized the Ten Thousand Frost Great World, defeated Fairy Wan Shuang's group, and looted its fortune and treasury.
• Over several hundred years, forty Flowing Light Domain squads raided small and medium-sized worlds across the Star Domain and escaped before defenders could catch them.
• The Seven Great Domains received growing pleas for aid, but their patrols repeatedly failed to find the raiders.
• Grand Elder Ming Luo reported the raids to Xuanji at the Divine Luo Domain's front line, and Xuanji blamed the Flowing Light Domain's survivors.
• The Nether Emperor accused Xuanji of sending raiders into the Nether Demon Domain, and the two rulers angrily denied responsibility.

After learning that an unknown force based in the Flowing Light Domain had been raiding all seven domains for Fortune, Xuanji and the Nether Emperor stopped fighting and called the seven domain lords together. They agreed to a temporary ceasefire and joint purge, while Fan Kong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and their companions remained unaware that the seven domains were preparing to hunt them.

• A Divine Luo elder reported that the Northern Cold Immortal Court, the Heavenly Demon Domain, and other powers had suffered raids identical to those in the Divine Luo and Nether Demon domains.
• Xuanji and the Nether Emperor realized neither had caused the widespread attacks and agreed to stop fighting while an unknown force plundered their territories.
• Half a month later, the seven domain lords shared reports of the raids and learned that the mysterious force had been harvesting Fortune across their domains for centuries.
• Xuanji proposed a temporary ceasefire and joint purge, and the seven domain lords agreed to unite against the force before resuming their old conflicts.
• The seven domains halted their battles and began forming a vast net to catch the Flowing Light Domain teams, while Fan Kong and Ancestor Xue Ku continued raiding worlds unaware.

The Seven Great Domains deployed powerful tracking and space-sealing treasures to hunt Liu Yuan’s squads, inflicting losses and disrupting their operations. Liu Yuan ordered the squads to retreat to their base and wait for the alliance to weaken.

• Ancestor Xue Ku escaped an ambush by Northern Cold Immortal Court guards after using a talisman to break through their defenses, but the Nine Nether Soul-Chasing Mirror tracked his aura.
• The Seven Great Domains used specialized treasures to trap and pursue Liu Yuan’s squads across the Star Domains.
• Fan Kong and other squad leaders reported heavy losses and failed missions to Liu Yuan at the Blackstone Star Belt base.
• Liu Yuan ordered every squad to cease operations and return to the base to recover.
• Liu Yuan said the Seven Great Domains’ alliance would eventually falter under the cost of maintaining their patrols, giving his forces a chance to act later.

The seven domain lords used the Past Lamp to trace the Flowing Light Domain group’s past movements and locate their destination. The trail led them to the Blackstone Star Belt, where their earlier searches had found nothing.

• The domain lords reported that the Flowing Light Domain group had vanished and Xuanji warned they were waiting for the patrols to end.
• The lord of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Realm revealed the Past Lamp, a Great Luo True Artifact that could look back through time.
• The seven domain lords agreed to power the lamp together despite the cost of being weakened for hundreds of thousands of years.
• The Past Lamp showed a blood-red streak raiding a world, opening a gate with a dark-silver formation disc, and fleeing.
• The lamp followed the streak to the Blackstone Star Belt, puzzling Xuanji because the Heaven-Patrolling Guards had searched there repeatedly.

The seven domain lords used the Past Lamp to discover Liu Yuan’s hidden stronghold in the Blackstone Star Belt and surrounded it with their forces. Trapped inside, Liu Yuan prepared to use the teleportation array that Senior had modified, but needed someone to hold off the enemy while it activated.

• The Buddha Lord used the Past Lamp to reveal the hidden base inside a meteorite in the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Xuanji and the other six domain lords ordered their forces to seal off the Blackstone Star Belt from every direction.
• Xuanji boarded the Heaven-Patrolling Divine Vessel with thirty thousand Divine Luo Guards and set out for the Blackstone Star Belt.
• Seven domain fleets arrived around Liu Yuan’s stronghold, preventing both the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array Disk and ordinary spatial shifts from working.
• Liu Yuan told Fan Kong, Ancestor Xue Ku, and the others that they could escape through Senior’s modified teleportation array, but someone had to buy time for its activation.

Liu Yuan organized the evacuation from the asteroid while more than thirty cultivators used Zhou Ming’s Dark Gold Jade Talismans to hold off the seven great domains. After the survivors escaped through the White Jade Altar, the domain lords discovered seals in their captives’ souls and decided to report the matter to the True Lords behind them.

• Liu Yuan promised protection and compensation to those who stayed behind, and more than thirty cultivators volunteered to cover the retreat with Dark Gold Jade Talismans.
• The volunteers crushed their talismans, erasing thousands of Divine Luo Guards and nearly a hundred Nether Demon Domain cultivators, but the seven domain lords later overwhelmed them with their Great Luo True Artifacts.
• The White Jade Altar activated as the Lanke Dao Realm lord and four other exhausted cultivators were trapped, allowing Liu Yuan and the others to escape through its gate of light.
• Xuanji tried to search the captives’ souls, but dark-gold runes erased them before they could reveal anything; the lord of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Realm recognized the seals as containing complete Great Luo Dao Rhyme.
• Xuanji and the other domain lords agreed to report what had happened to the True Lords behind them and leave the decision to fight or make peace to those rulers.

Liu Yuan and the surviving lords returned to the Qianyuan Dao Realm after their mission was crushed by the Seven Great Domains, but Zhou Ming absolved them and revealed that a third of his shackles had broken. As Zhou Ming prepared to face the domains’ strongest experts, Xuanji reported the upheaval to the Divine Luo Domain’s True Lord.

• Liu Yuan and the surviving lords returned to the Qianyuan Dao Realm and knelt before Zhou Ming to confess their failure and losses.
• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan and the others that their defeat was not their fault and ordered them to rest while he handled what came next.
• Zhou Ming revealed that a third of his shackles had broken, greatly increasing his power, and spread his Divine Sense across the Flowing Light Domain and Chaos Void.
• Xuanji entered the Divine Luo Main Realm’s hidden space and reported the events in the Flowing Light Domain to the Divine Luo Domain’s True Lord.
• The True Lord opened his eyes after hearing Xuanji’s account and called the situation interesting.

After learning that an unknown Great Luo expert was gathering Fortune in the Flowing Light Domain, seven Great Luo True Realm experts traveled there to confront him. Zhou Ming identified himself as the master of the place and said he only wanted to borrow enough Fortune before leaving.

• Xuanji told True Lord Shenluo that an unknown figure had placed Great Luo restrictions on subordinates and was gathering Fortune, with the Flowing Light Domain as the suspected base.
• The rulers of the seven great domains shared the intelligence and agreed to investigate the mysterious cultivator together.
• Seven Great Luo True Realm experts emerged from seclusion and traveled openly toward the Flowing Light Domain.
• The seven gathered outside the domain, exchanged barbs, and waited for its master rather than entering uninvited.
• Zhou Ming appeared before them, and the seven realized they could not identify him despite his Great Luo-level presence.
• Zhou Ming said he wanted to borrow Fortune from the seven domains and would leave once he had enough.

Zhou Ming refused to explain why he was taking Fortune from the World Lords under the seven True Lords’ rule, so they challenged him to fight. He defeated all seven together, and they withdrew, leaving Zhou Ming uninjured and free to continue his plans.

• Nether Demon Ancestor questioned why Zhou Ming wanted Fortune, but Zhou Ming refused to reveal his reasons.
• True Lord Xuanluo and the others threatened to join forces unless Zhou Ming explained his actions, and Zhou Ming accepted their challenge.
• True Lord Luangu attacked first, but Zhou Ming’s punch cracked his fist and showed that Zhou Ming was stronger.
• True Lord Shenluo led the seven True Lords in a full assault, but after a battle lasting several dozen Eons, Zhou Ming remained standing while they were left pale and disordered.
• True Lord Shenluo and the other six True Lords departed one by one, and Zhou Ming neither pursued nor stopped them.

After Zhou Ming defeated the seven True Lords, he left to pursue Fortune and break the Rule Shackles within him. The seven speculated that his power was being suppressed and began contacting experts across other domains to learn about him and Fortune.

• Zhou Ming vanished from the ravaged Chaos, confident that the seven True Lords would not soon interfere with Liu Yuan and the others.
• True Lord Luangu and the other six recovered in a distant stretch of void and wondered why Zhou Ming was gathering Fortune.
• Ten Thousand Buddhas True Lord and Nether Demon True Lord sensed that Zhou Ming's strength was restrained and his Great Dao incomplete.
• True Lord Shenluo urged the seven to investigate Fortune's possible new use and discover Zhou Ming's origins.
• True Lord Shenluo contacted Celestial Pivot True Lord, who asked what had happened.

The seven Great Luo True Lords failed to identify the mysterious blue-robed cultivator or find anyone who believed Fortune could aid Great Luo cultivation. As they agreed to wait and avoid provoking the Flowing Light Domain, Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to collect Fortune again, despite Liu Yuan’s fears of another attack.

• True Lord Shenluo and the other Great Luo True Lords consulted their connections, but no one recognized the blue-robed cultivator or considered Fortune useful to Great Luo cultivators.
• The seven True Lords gathered, abandoned plans to attack the Flowing Light Domain, and decided to wait for the cultivator to reveal himself while keeping their forces in check.
• Zhou Ming told Liu Yuan to resume collecting Fortune for him.
• Liu Yuan hesitated and warned Zhou Ming that the Seven Great Domains might attack again and endanger his followers.

Zhou Ming revealed that he had driven back the seven Great Luo True Lords and ordered his subordinates to gather Fortune with limits that would avoid provoking the Seven Great Domains. He gave key leaders divine-sense protections, and Liu Yuan immediately reorganized the teams to resume their campaign.

• Zhou Ming told the assembled survivors that he had driven back the people behind the Seven Great Domains, stunning them and restoring their confidence.
• Zhou Ming ordered Liu Yuan to spare lives, take only half the Fortune from each world, and avoid the Seven Great Domains’ main domains and core worlds.
• Zhou Ming placed dormant divine-sense protections on Liu Yuan, Gan Tian, Fan Kong, and Ancestor Xue Ku to save them in a life-or-death crisis.
• Liu Yuan and the others thanked Zhou Ming, pledged their loyalty, and left the hall with renewed morale.
• Ancestor Xue Ku celebrated, and Liu Yuan ordered the Qianyuan Dao Realm’s teams reorganized to set out immediately.

The Seven Great Domains’ rulers ordered their forces not to resist as Liu Yuan and the group from the Flowing Light Domain continued taking half the Fortune from subordinate worlds. True Lord Shenluo revealed that his concession followed an understanding with Zhou Ming, while Celestial Pivot True Lord contacted him with news left unexplained.

• Grand Elder Ming Luo reported that the Flowing Light Domain group had taken half the Fortune from subordinate worlds without killing anyone, and Xuanji ordered the Divine Luo Domain to ignore them.
• The Seven Great Domains issued orders to retreat and let the group take half the Fortune, allowing Liu Yuan and the others to travel through their territories unopposed.
• True Lord Shenluo told Xuanji that the arrangement was an understanding with Zhou Ming and decreed that Divine Luo cultivators must neither resist nor pursue the group.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord sent a message to True Lord Shenluo and said he had news, but did not yet reveal what it was.

True Lord Shenluo and the other Great Luo True Lords gathered in Shenluo Divine Hall to discuss the mysterious green-robed cultivator and a greater matter connected to him. Celestial Pivot True Lord began explaining that a group of Great Luo True Realms had appeared in the Primordial Universe ten million years earlier.

• Celestial Pivot True Lord told True Lord Shenluo that no one could identify the green-robed cultivator, but he had learned of a major matter possibly linked to him.
• The seven Great Luo True Lords received similar reports and agreed to meet in Shenluo Hall a hundred years later.
• A hundred years later, Xuanji welcomed more than thirty Great Luo True Lords to Shenluo Divine Hall, while he and Grand Elder Ming Luo withdrew from the meeting.
• True Lord Shenluo asked Celestial Pivot True Lord to explain the matter, and Celestial Pivot True Lord said that a group of Great Luo True Realms had appeared in the Primordial Universe ten million years earlier.

Celestial Pivot True Lord revealed that the mysterious Green-Robed Man likely came from True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World along with a group of Great Luo True Realm cultivators. He explained that powerful figures were secretly searching for these returnees because their experience might reveal a path beyond True Saint.

• Celestial Pivot True Lord told seven True Lords that a group of Great Luo True Realm cultivators had emerged ten million years earlier and that their origins traced back to True Saint Yuan Chu.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord explained that his friend had entered True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World on a mission chosen by several True Saints.
• More than thirty Great Luo True Realm cultivators gathered at the Main Realm Temple to hear Celestial Pivot True Lord’s account.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord explained that True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World survived his death and that more than a hundred cultivators had been sent inside several epochs ago.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord said the Green-Robed Man almost certainly came from that Inner World and that powers were hunting its returnees for the chance to study their insights and pursue a realm beyond True Saint.

Celestial Pivot True Lord persuaded more than thirty true lords to attack the Green-Robed Man, claiming his power was suppressed by the Primordial Universe’s rules and that he might hold clues to True Saint Yuan Chu’s legacy. They organized an ambush in the Flowing Light Domain, though True Lord Shenluo remained uneasy.

• Celestial Pivot True Lord told the assembled true lords that the Green-Robed Man and his companions had spent epochs in True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World, making them potential sources of valuable clues or legacy.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord explained that the Green-Robed Man’s strength was suppressed because his Great Dao and Origin Essence still bore the imprint of the Inner World, and that he needed Fortune to integrate into the Primordial Universe.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord urged the true lords to attack while the Green-Robed Man was weakened, and more than thirty of them agreed to join the operation.
• True Lord Shenluo remained uneasy about the Green-Robed Man’s composure but kept his doubts to himself.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord appointed Tianhe to command the operation and Jiuyou to seal the void, then named the Flowing Light Domain as their target.