Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After another Yuanhui Era of preparation, Bai Yu begins his Enlightenment of the Dao. He has pushed the Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit to their limits and perfected his Space Great Dao.
• Bai Yu’s Space Great Dao aura spreads from Penglai Island across the East Sea and then the entire Primordial World, forcing nearly all beings to the ground and bringing the world to a standstill.
• Even powerful figures—including the Dragon Clan’s Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long, Hongjun, and Yang Mei—cannot resist the pressure. Hongjun uses an Innate Supreme Treasure but lasts only three breaths.
• The Heavenly Dao remains silent. The Innate Gods and Demons suspect that someone has begun Enlightenment of the Dao, but find the possibility difficult to believe.
• A brilliant light rises from the East Sea, and the Space Great Dao manifests throughout the world. Beings who have comprehended it gain an extraordinary opportunity, potentially advancing to the Late-Stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Hongjun realizes that the manifestation lets him use the Jade Plate of Creation to record the Space Great Dao, which he could not previously perceive clearly enough to capture.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu moves from long preparation to the decisive attempt at Enlightenment; his perfected Dao produces a power beyond even the world’s strongest cultivators.
• Yang Mei recognizes Bai Yu’s undertaking and silently hopes he succeeds. Though he is a Late-Stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal, he is powerless to intervene.
• Hongjun is overwhelmed by Bai Yu’s pressure, then turns the manifestation into an opportunity to study and record the Great Dao.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long are shown to be formidable yet helpless before Bai Yu’s aura. The Heavenly Dao observes but does not act.

Significant themes

• The immense gap between cultivation levels, and the limits of even supreme treasures.
• The difficulty of perceiving the Source Great Dao—and the rare value of seeing it plainly manifested.
• Enlightenment as a world-shaking event that can affect all beings, whether or not they understand its cause.
• The uncertainty surrounding the Heavenly Dao as the only potential force capable of disrupting Bai Yu’s attempt.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun uses the manifested Space Great Dao to record its power in the Jade Plate of Creation, elevating the treasure into a genuine Innate Supreme Treasure. He decides the humiliation of being pinned to the ground is a small price for such a gain.
• Bai Yu begins the first stage of Enlightenment of the Dao: comparing his own Space Great Dao with the Primordial World’s complete Space Great Dao. This process refines his understanding until his Dao is flawless and, at the same time, proves it.
• Bai Yu’s Space Great Dao rises from the East Sea alongside the world’s own, producing vast celestial signs that astonish the inhabitants of the Primordial Wilderness.
• The process cannot be stopped once begun. The Primordial Heavenly Dao could interrupt Bai Yu by exerting its authority over the world’s source daos, making this a dangerous moment.
• Bai Yu could have avoided that danger by pursuing Enlightenment in the Limitless World or another suitable cosmos, but those alternatives would require time and effort. He chose the Primordial World partly because his system lets him comprehend source daos quickly, keeping the cost of failure relatively low.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun turns an apparent defeat into a personal victory by gaining a vastly strengthened treasure. The Primordial Heavenly Dao and Bai Yu notice his recording, but neither considers it important.
• Bai Yu commits to a risky breakthrough, trusting his own preparation and the system’s assistance. His immediate “conversation” is with the Primordial World’s Space Great Dao, not with the Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Mei shares Bai Yu’s concern that the Heavenly Dao might interfere. His search for another cosmos reflects how much he has invested in his own path—and how reluctant he is to risk losing that investment.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao is presented as both a potential threat and an unavoidable authority for anyone seeking Enlightenment through the Primordial World’s source daos.

Significant themes

• Enlightenment as verification and self-proof: A cultivator must refine and prove the Dao they have comprehended, rather than simply borrow or possess the world’s Dao.
• Commitment and risk: Once the process begins, there is no retreat—only success or failure.
• Control and dependence: Even a powerful cultivator must contend with the Heavenly Dao of the world whose source Dao they use.
• Risk weighed against cost: Bai Yu can gamble because his system makes preparation inexpensive, while Yang Mei’s greater investment makes him more cautious.

Plot points and events

• Bai Yu gambles that the Primordial Heavenly Dao will allow him to attain Enlightenment of the Dao within the Primordial World. It does not interfere, confirming his gamble was right.
• Yang Mei and the other Innate Gods and Demons take this as proof that they, too, can become Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals. Their earlier efforts to avoid karma and earn Heavenly Dao Merit now seem worthwhile.
• Bai Yu completes the validation of his Space Great Dao. The Primordial World’s Space Great Dao vanishes, leaving his own as the sole Space Great Dao between heaven and earth.
• He then merges his Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit with the Dao. After a thousand years, they transform into a Great Dao Flower, while his body and Primordial Spirit begin to change.
• Bai Yu completes ultimate transcendence and becomes a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal. The Great Daos resonate in celebration, and auspicious light and purple qi fill the Primordial World, bringing its inhabitants joy and sudden insight.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu moves from cautious uncertainty to confidence as the Heavenly Dao’s inaction confirms that he can advance safely. By merging with the Space Great Dao, he makes its power wholly his own rather than merely borrowing it.
• Yang Mei shifts from anxiety to elation. He interprets Bai Yu’s success as reassurance that his own path to Enlightenment remains open.
• The other Innate Gods and Demons, though unaware of who is attaining Enlightenment, share Yang Mei’s relief and optimism.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao does not directly interact with Bai Yu, but its restraint is decisive: it allows both the validation and the completion of his advancement.

Significant themes

• Risk and reassurance: Bai Yu must gamble on the Heavenly Dao’s intentions; his success eases the fears of others.
• Mastery through union: True command of a Great Dao comes not from carrying it, but from merging with it completely.
• Interdependence of Dao and self: Bai Yu’s life and Great Dao become inseparable—each endures only as long as the other.
• Collective significance: His personal breakthrough becomes a world-shaping event, celebrated by the Great Daos and felt by every living being.

Plot points and events

• The Great Dao’s ten-thousand-year pressure finally fades, releasing the beings it had pinned down. Many conclude that becoming the next Dao Attainer is the best way to avoid being crushed again.
• Yang Mei, Hongjun, Rahula, and many other Innate Gods and Demons each believe they could be next. Hongjun is especially baffled that someone attained the Dao before him: despite owning the Jade Plate of Creation, he has only reached Late-Stage Daluo Golden Immortal and comprehended seventy percent of his Source Great Dao.
• Hongjun keeps his two Innate Supreme Treasures secret, fearing that others would attack him for them. He cultivates friendships while concealing his strength and treasures.
• Bai Yu, now free to stop hiding after attaining the Dao, remains largely unknown. Only Yang Mei and the Primordial Heavenly Dao know he was the one who attained it.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long suspect Bai Yu may be the new Dao Attainer because the Space Great Dao’s aura spread from the East Sea. Progenitor Dragon had encountered Bai Yu during the earlier Ferocious Beast Calamity, when Bai Yu claimed Heavenly Dao Merit, but could not see his face or identify him.
• The Dragon Clan searches the East Sea for Bai Yu without success. Bai Yu travels by using the Space Great Dao to enter the Endless Void, making him effectively impossible to track.
• The chapter explains that the Primordial World’s void is exceptionally dangerous: without mastery of the Space Great Dao, even a Daluo Golden Immortal risks being torn apart by spatial turbulence.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun is revealed as cautious and ambitious, convinced his Jade Plate should give him the advantage. His disbelief at Bai Yu’s achievement prompts the chapter’s humorous question of whether his treasure might be fake.
• Yang Mei shares Hongjun’s confidence that he will be second to attain the Dao, though the story notes this is only his own belief.
• Bai Yu has moved beyond his earlier “lay low” strategy, but his mastery of space keeps him secluded and untraceable.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long discuss the mysterious powerhouse: Zhu Long previously persuaded Progenitor Dragon not to abandon the East Sea, while Progenitor Dragon remains wary and would like to befriend Bai Yu if he could find him.
• The chapter humorously labels secretive, cautious cultivators such as Hongjun and Bai Yu as “Old Sixes,” emphasizing that many powerful beings hide their abilities until the right moment.

Significant themes

• Secrecy and survival: Powerful treasures and abilities invite danger, so concealment is often wiser than display.
• Ambition and uncertainty: Many believe they are destined for the next breakthrough, but Bai Yu has already surpassed their expectations.
• Power and geography: Bai Yu’s control of the Space Great Dao grants him a decisive advantage, while the dangers of the Endless Void keep others from following.
• Timing: The narrative cautions that hiding is useful only until the right moment; eventually, one must act and seize opportunities.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu successfully completes his breakthrough, becoming a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal and gaining direct control over the Space Great Dao. Unlike the Profound Light Pearl’s borrowed power, this authority is now his own.
• His vision expands across the Myriad Heavens Chaos Sea, allowing him to see Multiverse City, the Chat Group, its members, and worlds linked to him by karma.
• Qinghong senses Bai Yu’s breakthrough through their karmic connection and congratulates him. Qinghong is astonished because he believed Bai Yu had only recently comprehended part of the Space Great Dao; he himself has reached thirty percent comprehension with Bai Yu’s Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
• Bai Yu reconsiders his suspicion that the Primordial Heavenly Dao would prevent others from attaining the Great Dao. Since it allowed his breakthrough—and accounts suggest Yang Mei may also succeed—Bai Yu concludes the Heavenly Dao may be more permissive than he assumed.
• Bai Yu remains unable to understand how to achieve Transcendence. For now, he recognizes the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal as the pinnacle of existence in the Myriad Realms.

Character developments

• Bai Yu reaches a major milestone and gains a more balanced view of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, though he still intends to grow stronger before confronting it. He controls one complete Source Great Dao and believes he would need more to challenge the Heavenly Dao safely.
• Qinghong continues progressing in the Space Great Dao and becomes one of Bai Yu’s two recognized fellow Daoists, alongside Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei remains a potential future fellow Daoist: Bai Yu believes he may attain Enlightenment, but refuses to interfere, viewing the achievement as something Yang Mei must accomplish himself.

Significant themes

• Self-cultivation versus external power: Bai Yu distinguishes his own mastery of the Great Dao from reliance on the Profound Light Pearl.
• The limits of power and knowledge: Even at the highest known tier, Bai Yu does not know how to transcend it.
• Preconceptions and reality: Bai Yu recognizes that stories and assumptions about the Heavenly Dao may have unfairly shaped his expectations.
• Fate, agency, and world authority: Attaining the Great Dao in another’s world depends partly on that world’s ruler, while Enlightenment itself ultimately demands the cultivator’s own effort.

Character interactions

• Qinghong and Bai Yu exchange congratulations and mutual acknowledgment through their karmic bond, maintaining their connection rather than severing it.
• Bai Yu regards Qinghong as a genuine Dao-discussion peer because of his Great Dao Realm standing, while the Chat Group members have not yet earned that status.
• Bai Yu considers helping Yang Mei but decides they are only ordinary friends and that he cannot meaningfully assist with such a personal, difficult breakthrough.

Plot points and events

• Bai Yu learns that the Thirtieth Tier is the highest realm in the Myriad Realms: complete mastery of a Source Great Dao. The six tiers beyond it are steps toward Transcendence, but even the Multiverse Chat Group cannot explain how to begin that path.
• The Chat Group’s past and knowledge are obscured by its shattered, battle-damaged state. Bai Yu’s system is equally mysterious and unresponsive, though its Dao Comprehension Assistance still works.
• Bai Yu decides not to pursue Transcendence yet. He wants first to unite all three thousand Great Daos within himself and build a flawless foundation.
• His Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit have fused with the Space Great Dao to form a Great Dao Flower, the core and source of power for a Thirtieth-Tier Dao Attainer. It also carries traces of the Time, Karma, and Destiny Great Daos.

Character development and interactions

• Bai Yu remains ambitious but patient: he accepts that the Transcendence path is unknown, yet trusts that further strength and knowledge will eventually reveal it.
• He questions both the Multiverse Chat Group and his system, but neither can—or will—answer. His relationship with them is practical: he uses what help the system provides without expecting it to reveal its secrets.
• The Great Dao Flower’s absorbed Dao sources reinforce one another rather than conflict, giving Bai Yu a foundation that can grow stronger as he incorporates more Great Daos.

Significant themes

• Preparation before advancement: Bai Yu values a complete foundation over rushing toward Transcendence.
• Mystery and limits of knowledge: Even powerful tools and beings may not understand the highest realms or their own past.
• Immortality through the Dao: A Thirtieth-Tier being can return so long as their Great Dao Flower—and therefore its Great Dao Source—endures.
• Power and interdependence: The Great Daos share a common origin, so combining their sources strengthens the Great Dao Flower rather than undermining it. The chapter hints, however, that even seemingly absolute immortality may have exceptions.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu reflects on how Thirtieth Tier beings can be rendered “dead” without being truly destroyed. Pangu’s axe had erased the Chaos Godsfiends’ bodies and Primordial Spirits, while placing their Great Dao flowers into eternal silence—a permanent, vegetable-like state.
• Because those Great Dao flowers remain connected to the Great Dao Source, they could theoretically return unless the Great Dao Source across the Myriad Realms were destroyed. The chapter explains that this is why the Primordial World has only forty-nine complete Great Daos rather than inheriting all three thousand from the Chaos Godsfiends.
• Bai Yu considers eternal silence worse than death and recalls a film about an immortal trapped in an endless cycle of revival and drowning. He concludes that fleeing a stronger opponent is preferable to risking such a fate.
• He turns to his cultivation: after perfecting the Space Great Dao and achieving Enlightenment of the Dao, Bai Yu plans to focus on the Time Great Dao. His progress in Time, Karma, and Destiny has benefited from his system and from insights gained through studying Space.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu shows caution and strategic thinking, using Qinghong’s long survival of beatings as an example of why endurance and escape can be better than direct confrontation.
• His mastery of the Space Great Dao is complete, and he is optimistic that his linked understanding of time and space will accelerate his progress in the Time Great Dao.
• Bai Yu mentally urges Yang Mei to make an effort and at least become the Primordial World’s third Dao Attainer, revealing his playful confidence about his own prospects.
• Qinghong is discussed rather than appearing: his ability to endure a long-running defeat depended both on his resilience and on the relatively small gap between him and his opponent.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the meaning of death: An existence can be technically preserved yet effectively lost forever.
• The limits of power: Even the highest-tier beings may be vulnerable to exceptional force, though defeating them permanently is nearly impossible.
• Prudence and survival: Retreat can be wiser than fighting an overwhelming enemy.
• Interconnected knowledge: Mastering one Dao—Space—can open the way to understanding another, especially Time.

Key plot points and events

• Multiverse City’s auctions have expanded as cultivation progresses: small auctions occur every ten years, medium ones every hundred years, and grand auctions every ten thousand years. Grand auctions are restricted to Thirteenth Tier beings and feature treasures from the Thirteenth Tier upward.
• The city’s market thrives on trade with the countless Lesser and Greater Worlds that the City, Chat Group, and Bai Yu’s Dimensional Gateway discover. World Source fuels the supply of Sacred Spirit Stones, the city’s high-end currency.
• Multiverse City bans force and monopolies, but it is not truly equal: Chat Group members have prime shop locations, and Bai Yu controls the currency and its exchange rate. The arrangement nevertheless benefits the City, its merchants, the Chat Group, and Bai Yu.
• As non-Chat Group residents advance, more reach the Sixteenth Tier through laws. They then discover that no cultivation methods exist in the city to help them advance further.
• Bai Yu has removed all techniques from the Primordial World’s cultivation system from his Limitless Pavilion. Those techniques carry karmic ties that mark practitioners and bind them to the Primordial World.
• The revelation exposes a trap: Chat Group members who reached the Sixteenth Tier using that system have already been marked, and the Primordial Heavenly Dao can trace their Cause-and-Effect Lines.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu is revealed as the architect of Multiverse City’s economy and its dominant advantage. He sees Sacred Spirit Stones as nearly worthless, while others prize them; the resulting arrangement makes him appear generous even as he profits from the city’s trade.
• Chat Group members enjoy privileged access to central shops and have profited from the city’s growth, but their reliance on the Primordial cultivation system has left them karmically connected to that world.
• Immortal Domain shopkeepers share in the city’s prosperity, earning World Source and exchanging it for Sacred Spirit Stones.
• The chapter describes no direct conversations; its key interaction is structural: Bai Yu’s economic system benefits many groups while his earlier cultivation choices have unknowingly exposed the Chat Group to the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Prosperity and hidden costs: Economic success and rapid cultivation can conceal serious consequences.
• Unequal fairness: Multiverse City restrains violence and monopolies but preserves advantages for powerful figures, especially Bai Yu.
• Karma and inescapable ties: A cultivation method can permanently bind its practitioner to the world from which it comes, even if they later change paths.
• A looming threat: The marked cultivators’ traceable connection to the Primordial Heavenly Dao sets up future danger.

Key points

• Bai Yu reflects on whether directing the Multiverse Chat Group members toward the Primordial World’s cultivation system is unfair. He concludes that any serious advancement would bind them to some Grand Cosmos anyway; inventing a wholly new system capable of supporting a Source Great Dao is beyond nearly everyone.
• A cultivation technique is not the same as a cultivation system. Techniques strengthen Essence, Qi, and Spirit, but cannot carry practitioners beyond the point where they must comprehend Source Laws or a Source Great Dao.
• A system suited to Lesser and Greater Worlds can take cultivators to the Thirteenth Tier, where they begin engaging with Source Laws. Creating such a law-based system requires reaching the Sixteenth Tier. A Grand Cosmos system can take cultivators to the Twenty-Sixth Tier, where they begin comprehending a Source Great Dao; creating one requires attaining the Great Dao at the Thirtieth Tier.
• The Primordial World’s Source Immortal Path System is exceptionally powerful because it contains the resonance of forty-nine complete Source Great Daos, as well as resonance from incomplete Great Daos. This resonance can aid cultivators’ comprehension of those Daos.
• Bai Yu judges that these benefits greatly outweigh the costs of being branded by the Primordial World and becoming causally tied to it. Without his connection, the group members might not even be allowed to use the system—and the Primordial Heavenly Dao might punish them for trying.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu becomes more confident that he is helping, not exploiting, the group. He recognizes that access to such a powerful cultivation path is a rare privilege.
• The Chat Group members are presented as beneficiaries of Bai Yu’s intervention, though they risk becoming subject to the Primordial World’s influence.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao is portrayed as fiercely protective and exclusionary, treating outsiders who attempt to cultivate its system as unworthy intruders.

Themes

• The limits of individual creation: A genuine cultivation system capable of supporting a Source Great Dao requires extraordinary attainment; ordinary techniques cannot substitute for one.
• Power and responsibility: Access to a superior path brings both substantial benefits and lasting ties to its originating world.
• Gatekeeping and belonging: The Heavenly Dao’s hostility underscores that powerful systems are not freely available to outsiders.
• Trade-offs in advancement: Greater cultivation opportunities come with marks, causal obligations, and possible danger.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu removes all cultivation methods belonging to the Primordial World’s Origin Immortal Dao from the Limitless Pavilion. He has learned that using this system binds cultivators to the Primordial World through cause and effect, so he considers selling its methods without the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s consent improper.
• He warns Chat Group members who have adopted the system not to teach or sell its methods carelessly, especially to people without Bai Yu’s protection.
• This leaves Multiverse City’s sixteenth-tier cultivators without a route to the seventeenth tier. To become Profound Immortals, they need cultivation arts that introduce them to the Profound Realm; knowing the goal is not enough if they have no way to begin comprehending it.
• The stranded cultivators cannot safely challenge the mysterious city lord, so they wait for the Limitless Pavilion to restock. They also watch the regular grand auction and shops in the core district, hoping higher-tier methods will appear there.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu presents himself as considerate and reasonable, returning the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s apparent courtesy by respecting its authority. At the same time, he is confident he could swiftly destroy anyone who threatened him.
• The Chat Group members keep the reason for the missing methods secret, recognizing that it concerns powerful cosmic forces and the thirtieth tier.
• Multiverse City’s cultivators are frustrated but cautious. They infer that the Pavilion still possesses the methods and hope they will eventually return, while treating Chat Group shopkeepers as possible sources because they seem well connected.
• The narration undercuts the group’s innocence: its members are portrayed as hardened by violence, and newcomers quickly adapt to its culture.

Significant themes

• Knowledge versus comprehension: A cultivation art can open the door and show a cultivator what to perceive, but understanding its deeper meaning still requires individual insight.
• Power and restraint: Bai Yu’s decision is framed as courtesy toward the Primordial Heavenly Dao, though his overwhelming power makes any implied threat credible.
• Secrecy and self-preservation: The group withholds dangerous information, while the cultivators affected by the decision choose patience over protest.
• Cosmic interdependence: Cultivation systems carry ties to the worlds that created them, making their distribution a matter of consequence rather than simple commerce.

Summary

• Limitless Pavilion’s cultivation systems: The Pavilion is expected to offer paths beyond the Sixteenth Tier, but not the Primordial World’s system. Chat Group members may still adopt the Primordial World’s Source Immortal Path, though cultivating a system from another Grand Cosmos can attract that cosmos’s Heavenly Dao.
• Paths survive their worlds: When a Grand Cosmos returns to chaos, its validated path of the Dao remains usable. A cultivation system is essentially a “key” to a Source Great Dao; once validated by the Dao of the Myriad Heavens, it keeps working as long as that greater Dao exists. Systems from ruined cosmoses therefore offer a route without ties of Cause and Effect. Bai Yu has gathered many such systems from Grand Cosmoses he destroyed.
• Similar systems and worlds: Different cosmoses cannot have exactly identical cultivation paths, though their realm names can overlap. Similar names—such as Golden Immortal or Sage—do not mean the underlying systems are the same.
• Why worlds resemble one another: Bai Yu now understands that Source Great Daos can influence newly born worlds through their Dao aura, producing “reflections” across the Myriad Heavens. This influence is usually passive, beneficial, and creates no Cause-and-Effect ties unless a Grand Cosmos deliberately projects its reflection.
• The Lotus Lantern World’s advantage—and danger: Its resemblance to the Primordial World comes from the Primordial World’s unintentional influence. This gave it unusually strong foundations and helped it become a top-tier Greater World, without incurring any debt to the Primordial World. However, that benefit has a limit: if the Lotus Lantern World tries to ascend by condensing a Nascent Grand Dao, serious problems will arise.

Character development and interactions

Bai Yu’s understanding has advanced with his attainment of Dao Enlightenment and command of the Space Primordial Great Dao. What once seemed eerie and inexplicable to him now has a clear explanation, showing how greater knowledge replaces fear with perspective. The passage also emphasizes his immense power and experience through his collection of cultivation systems from destroyed Grand Cosmoses. No direct character-to-character exchanges occur; the discussion focuses on Bai Yu’s insight and the implications for Chat Group members and the Lotus Lantern World.

Key plot points and events

• The Lotus Lantern World is on the verge of advancing from a top-tier Greater World to a Grand Cosmos by forming a Nascent Grand Dao.
• Bai Yu realizes that the Lotus Lantern World is almost identical to the Primordial World—sharing the same major divine beings, appearances, and origins. That extraordinary resemblance has created a faint Cause and Effect link between the worlds.
• If the Lotus Lantern World gains Great Dao-level power, the connection would become overwhelming. The Primordial World would assimilate it instantly, turning its world and inhabitants—including Yang Jian and the Chan Sect members elsewhere—into nourishment.
• The Lotus Lantern World’s Heavenly Dao does not know its advancement would mean destruction. Its ambition to grow is therefore unknowingly fatal.
• Yuanshi Tianzun’s theft of seventy percent of the world’s Source may have accidentally saved it by preventing it from advancing.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu pieces together the danger, though he admits he does not fully understand how the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao Sages function.
• Yuanshi Tianzun is unknowingly positioned as a possible savior: his theft may have thwarted the world’s doomed plan.
• Yang Jian, despite being a Chat Group member, would still be unable to escape assimilation without Bai Yu or the Multiverse Chat Group’s intervention.
• The Lotus Lantern World’s Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, along with Yuanshi Tianzun and Yang Jian, remain unaware of the true stakes.

Significant themes

• Ambition and hidden costs: Greater power can bring destruction rather than progress.
• Destiny as a trap: The Primordial World’s influence strengthens smaller worlds but also plants an unseen fate they cannot refuse.
• Cosmic hierarchy: A world that resembles a Grand Cosmos may be allowed to flourish only up to a limit; seeking equal standing provokes assimilation.
• Unintended consequences: Yuanshi Tianzun’s harmful-seeming act may have prevented a far worse outcome.

Chapter Summary

Bai Yu reflects that, despite reaching the Thirtieth Tier and attaining the Enlightenment of the Dao, he cannot—and does not need to—create a currency above Sacred Spirit Stones. Multiverse City’s residents cannot cultivate beyond the Sixteenth Tier, while Yang Jian, the strongest Chat Group member after Bai Yu, has only recently reached the Eighteenth Tier. His further progress depends on slowly imprinting Source Laws onto his body.
The chapter explains why Sacred Spirit Stones are so difficult to refine: their creation requires mastery of all three thousand Source Laws, or at least Twenty-Sixth-Tier strength to seize those laws by force. Yet those capable of making the stones have little use for them, while those who need them lack the power to produce them. A still higher currency would involve the Source Great Dao, which is fundamentally different from the Source Laws and cannot be mass-produced.
Bai Yu realizes he had underestimated the Source Great Dao. Few treasures can help one comprehend it: in the Primordial World, he knows of Hongjun’s Jade Plate of Creation and the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s leaves. The leaves offer only limited aid, while the Jade Plate contains complete theoretical knowledge of the three thousand Source Great Daos. Bai Yu wants to study it, but refuses to seize it from Hongjun until he is confident he can defeat the Primordial Heavenly Dao. He sees himself as able to make limited changes to the world’s “script,” but not to rewrite its central story.
His inability to create a higher currency lowers his estimation of Multiverse City. He now regards it chiefly as a means of obtaining World Source and Grand Cosmos coordinates, rather than something worth extensive development. Accordingly, he delegates nearly all its administration to deputy city lord Shi Yueyao and grants her access to the city’s Great Dao power. However, her authority is restricted: she may use that power only if the city is attacked or damaged, so she cannot wield it as freely as Bai Yu does.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Bai Yu recognizes the limits of his knowledge and power, becomes more cautious about interfering with the Primordial World, and withdraws from Multiverse City’s day-to-day management.
• Yang Jian is noted as the strongest Chat Group member below Bai Yu, but his advancement remains slow and dependent on long-term cultivation.
• Shi Yueyao gains greatly expanded responsibility and a limited ability to call upon Multiverse City’s Great Dao power. Bai Yu’s delegation marks a significant shift in their working relationship, though the chapter does not show a direct conversation between them.
• Hongjun and the Primordial Heavenly Dao remain figures Bai Yu respects and avoids challenging prematurely; his restraint is driven by the risk of disrupting the world’s larger order.

Significant Themes

• The limits of power and knowledge: Even Bai Yu’s extraordinary cultivation does not let him master the Source Great Dao or create everything he imagines.
• Unequal access to advancement: Those able to produce Sacred Spirit Stones do not need them, while those who need them cannot make them.
• Caution and ambition: Bai Yu desires the Jade Plate of Creation but recognizes that acting before he can overcome the Primordial Heavenly Dao would be reckless.
• Delegation and changing priorities: As Multiverse City loses importance to him, Bai Yu shifts its management to Shi Yueyao and focuses on its practical value as a strategic tool.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

• Bai Yu delegates all of Multiverse City’s administrative authority to Shi Yueyao, but the Multiverse Chat Group independently restricts her ability to wield the city’s Great Dao power. It fears she might recklessly take the city into a Grand Cosmos and cause a catastrophe.
• Although Bai Yu can reclaim his delegated authority at any time, his willingness to hand it over shows how little he now cares about Multiverse City.
• The city’s ruined state explains his indifference: after Multiverse City invaded, the Chat Group defeated it and extracted most of its Time-Space Great Dao source. It spared the city, but left it permanently damaged.
• Because Great Dao source cannot be restored once lost, Multiverse City can retain its existing powers but can never develop further. The Chat Group has effectively cut off its future and ensured it cannot challenge the group again.
• The chapter contrasts this with the Chat Group, whose source Great Daos were shattered but whose unified Great Dao source remained intact. It therefore retained the potential to recover.
• The chapter explains why Great Dao source matters differently to Great Dao Treasures, Grand Cosmoses, and Dao Attainers. A Grand Cosmos loses the ability to form nascent Great Daos if its source is deficient; a Dao Attainer’s source underpins their Great Dao flower.
• It also distinguishes Dao Attainers from other thirtieth-tier entities: a Grand Cosmos’s Heavenly Dao can be killed if its Great Daos are suppressed, while Dao Attainers merged with the Dao cannot be killed as long as those Great Daos exist—they can only be sealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu appears detached from Multiverse City, despite its immense value, and trusts Shi Yueyao with its administration. His past involvement in the Chat Group’s victory—and his share of the city’s stolen source—helps explain his lack of attachment.
• Shi Yueyao is given broad administrative responsibility, but not the ability to use the city’s most dangerous power. The restriction reflects the Chat Group’s distrust of her judgment as a transmigrator, rather than opposition from Bai Yu.
• The Multiverse Chat Group acts as both protector and conqueror: it prevents Shi Yueyao from endangering a Grand Cosmos, while keeping Multiverse City permanently weakened and subordinate.

Significant themes

• Power requires safeguards: even delegated authority has limits when misuse could cause catastrophic harm.
• Loss can be permanent: Great Dao source is foundational and cannot be replaced once lost.
• Conquest and control: sparing an enemy can be a strategy for keeping it useful and incapable of resistance.
• Different forms of existence carry different vulnerabilities: Treasures, cosmoses, and Dao Attainers may share a tier of power but differ greatly in how they gain, lose, and survive it.

Plot points and events

• The chapter explains why a Thirtieth Tier being cannot be killed: its Great Dao Source and Great Dao Flower are fused. The Source cannot be extracted while the Flower remains intact, and the Flower cannot wither while the Myriad Heavens’ Source Great Dao survives.
• The All-Heavens Auction House has expanded beyond Chat Group members to Multiverse City residents. Residents can sell treasures but pay commissions of 5%, 10%, or 30%, depending on the auction’s size. Chat Group members pay no commission, though the house still pays Multiverse City’s commercial tax.
• Bai Yu’s foundational rules make him the ultimate authority over Multiverse City’s systems and revenue. Shi Yueyao, despite being deputy city lord, cannot alter those rules or access the tax revenue.
• The Chat Group blocks even the possibility of Shi Yueyao transcending the rules by wielding Multiverse City’s Great Dao power. It fears she might misuse that power and endanger the city—and the group.
• The chapter recalls the Chat Group’s past disaster: the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao traced a connection through Bai Yu, suppressed the group, and severed one of its complete Source Great Daos.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu is portrayed as the architect and ultimate power behind Multiverse City. He treats its taxes and currency less as personal gain than as necessary parts of an orderly marketplace, and he is unconcerned about Shi Yueyao’s potential access to Great Dao power.
• Shi Yueyao has the title of deputy city lord and leads the Chat Group, but she lacks its deepest authority and remains bound by Multiverse City’s rules. She is unaware of Bai Yu’s direct partnership with the Chat Group and his ability to bypass her.
• The Chat Group distrusts Shi Yueyao with unrestricted power, largely because it fears another costly catastrophe. Its memory of losing a Source Great Dao reinforces its caution.
• Bai Yu’s control of the Profound Light Pearl contrasts with Shi Yueyao’s limited control of the Chat Group: Bai Yu can fully wield the Pearl’s power, while Shi Yueyao cannot fully command either the group or Multiverse City.

Significant themes

• Power underpins rules: Laws matter because sufficient force enforces them; authority or titles alone do not guarantee independence.
• Authority versus appearance: Shi Yueyao’s leadership looks prominent but does not give her ultimate control.
• Irreversible vulnerability and loss: The fused Great Dao Flower and Source make Thirtieth Tier beings effectively unkillable, while the Chat Group’s lost Source Great Dao remains a painful reminder that even powerful entities can suffer permanent losses.
• Order and commerce: Bai Yu’s taxes and commissions are presented as structural rules that keep Multiverse City functioning as a marketplace.

Key plot points and events

• The All-Heavens Auction House’s final session features only Sixteenth Tier treasures, but its closing lot disappoints the Sixteenth Tier attendees: it is not a cultivation method for progressing beyond Tier Sixteen.
• Cultivators across Multiverse City have hit a dead end. Chat Group members who adopted the Primordial World’s Source Immortal Path bought only the Golden Immortal methods before the Limitless Pavilion removed all Primordial World methods from sale. The Immortal Exalted has said they need not fear punishment from the Primordial Heavenly Dao or abandon their cultivation, but has not explained how they can obtain the missing later methods.
• The Chat Group assumes Bai Yu, the Immortal Exalted, negotiated with the Primordial Heavenly Dao at great personal cost. They imagine he has been humiliated or bound by unfair terms, and feel indebted to him.
• Believing the Immortal Exalted will eventually solve the problem, Yang Jian and the others decide not to destroy their cultivation foundations. Instead, they focus on helping run Multiverse City so Bai Yu can devote himself to advancing his cultivation.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Jian, Chonglou, Lin Jiu, and other early adopters are troubled by their incomplete training, but their concern for Bai Yu outweighs their impatience for further methods. They avoid asking him directly about the problem.
• The Chat Group members misread Bai Yu’s explanation as evidence of a painful bargain with the Primordial Heavenly Dao. Their shared gratitude leads them to endure the uncertainty and work harder for his sake.
• Bai Yu does not realize how far the group’s assumptions have gone. He thinks their gloomy reaction is simply disappointment at losing access to a powerful cultivation system; he would be baffled to learn they believe he was wronged.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Even Bai Yu’s immense strength seems insignificant beside the Primordial Heavenly Dao, leading the group to imagine an enormous sacrifice.
• Gratitude and loyalty: The members respond to what they perceive as Bai Yu’s sacrifice by refusing to add to his burden and by supporting his work.
• Miscommunication and dramatic irony: The group’s elaborate fears contrast with Bai Yu’s unawareness, giving the chapter its comic tension.
• Patience and responsibility: Rather than rush their own advancement, the members prioritize Multiverse City and trust that Bai Yu will eventually address the missing methods.

Key plot points and events

• After the auction, the Chat Group gathers to decide which Greater Worlds to target for Innate Spiritual Roots. These will serve as the “Roots of the Five Energies,” essential for advancing from Profound Immortal to Golden Immortal.
• The eight members who adopted the Primordial World’s Source Immortal Path have reached the Seventeenth Tier, the Profound Immortal realm. Their existing cultivation methods extend only as far as Golden Immortal, leaving them unsure what comes next.
• Other members—including Mei Changsu, Yue Buqun, and several later joiners—are stuck at the Sixteenth Tier. Though they achieved the Law-Proven Dao, they lack the cultivation methods needed to understand and enter the Profound Realm.
• The group believes higher-tier methods will not soon be available: they concern Grand Cosmoses, whose systems could attract the attention of their Heavenly Daos. For now, they expect to rely on the Immortal Exalted and focus on developing Multiverse City and earning money.

Character developments

• Li Hanyi has risen into the group’s strongest tier after switching to the Primordial World’s path and pursuing cultivation relentlessly. Her progress stands out to Mei Changsu, who joined at the same time but did not obtain a cultivation method.
• Mei Changsu feels the difference between their fortunes particularly strongly, as Li Hanyi advances while he remains unable to progress.
• The eight Profound Immortals are successful but face a new ceiling: their methods offer a path to Golden Immortal, but not beyond.
• The group’s long-term members are described as having advanced unusually quickly thanks to the many early benefits they received from the Immortal Exalted.

Character interactions

• The Chat Group meets to discuss resources and strategy, especially which worlds can provide suitable spiritual roots.
• Mei Changsu reflects on Li Hanyi’s achievement and the effort behind it, while recognizing that she benefited from access to a cultivation system he missed.
• The group looks to the Immortal Exalted for future solutions, acknowledging his immense power and the risks tied to higher-world cultivation systems.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and unequal fortune: A single missed chance to acquire a cultivation method can determine whether a character advances or becomes stuck.
• Persistence and merit: Li Hanyi’s obsessive dedication helps her overcome the disadvantage of joining later.
• The cost of advancement: Higher cultivation brings risks, including attracting a powerful Heavenly Dao’s attention.
• Resources and dependency: Spiritual roots, cultivation methods, and money shape progress; even powerful cultivators remain dependent on access to the right tools.
• Gratitude toward the Immortal Exalted: The group reinterprets his earlier, seemingly costly methods as extraordinary bargains and praises his generosity.

Plot points and events

• Bai Yu explains that top-grade innate spiritual roots contain a world’s essential source: Great Dao Source in a Grand Cosmos and Law Source in a Greater World. Using a Grand Cosmos’s roots for a Golden Immortal foundation would bind the cultivator to that cosmos unless they could overcome its Heavenly Dao or undo their foundation.
• Rebuilding a foundation is relatively manageable before a cultivator bears a Source Great Dao, but extremely dangerous afterward: it can damage the Three Flowers and destabilize the Great Luo Dao Fruit. Improving a foundation, by contrast, remains possible.
• The Lotus Lantern World is already badly damaged. Bai Yu took five of its top-grade roots and severed its Destiny Law; Hongjun later used a complete Destiny Law from Bai Yu to escape the world’s Heavenly Dao and take control; Yuanshi Tianzun stole seventy percent of the world’s origin, causing disorder and disasters.
• Yang Jian and seven other Chat Group members need eight Greater Worlds for their Golden Immortal physical foundations. They select eight top-tier Greater Worlds from the group’s many conquered worlds, each of which has a limited supply of unique top-grade roots.
• Because these worlds have already lost most of their World Source, they cannot restore the Law Source taken with the roots. The group agrees not to spend resources helping them recover: they are treated as resource sites, not worlds to cultivate.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu’s explanation shows that, despite already attaining the Great Dao, he can still improve his physical foundation, which was built using roots from the less powerful Lotus Lantern World.
• Yang Jian and the other seven members are confident and pleased with their plan; they control the chosen worlds and expect little difficulty in taking their roots.
• The group meets at the All-Heavens Auction House after a grand auction, using the gathering both to settle practical details and to catch up in person.

Significant themes

• Power at a cost: Strengthening a cultivator’s foundation can permanently harm the world supplying its roots.
• Pragmatism and exploitation: The group knowingly sacrifices conquered worlds’ long-term prospects to maximize its own gains.
• Escalating misfortune: The Lotus Lantern World’s succession of injuries illustrates how multiple powerful actors can compound a world’s suffering.
• Community and convenience: The Chat Group is both a strategic alliance and a social circle whose members value meeting face-to-face.

Key plot points and events

• The Chat Group has several close-knit circles, but its members cooperate in Multiverse City rather than compete over scarce resources. Their investment corporation dominates lending thanks to its reputation and privileged central-district location.
• As the group’s meeting is ending, Shi Yueyao is stunned by unexpected news: the Immortal Exalted has granted her full authority over Multiverse City.
• The transfer goes beyond administration: she can also wield the city’s power of the Great Dao if the city is attacked or damaged.
• The other members initially assume the change is simply a practical handover, since Shi Yueyao has long managed the city. When she clarifies the extent of her authority, they react with shock.

Character developments

• Shi Yueyao moves from deputy city lord to the city’s full authority, including a formidable defensive power. Her confusion suggests she does not yet understand why the Immortal Exalted has entrusted so much to her.
• Yang Jian’s understanding of the Great Dao has grown enough for him to grasp how extraordinary her new power is. He jokingly concludes that she has become a “Sage” before the Immortal Exalted.

Significant themes

• Trust and unequal opportunity: The group’s businesses thrive because people trust them, while Multiverse City accepts that perfect fairness is impossible and aims for a workable relative fairness.
• Power and responsibility: Shi Yueyao’s new authority is not merely administrative; it gives her access to overwhelming power for the city’s protection.
• Community and cooperation: Despite the group’s internal circles and commercial success, its members remain supportive rather than rivals.

Character interactions

• Yang Jian and Huang Rong notice Shi Yueyao’s shock and ask what is wrong; Huang Rong’s concern reflects their closeness.
• The group first treats the handover as a natural consequence of Shi Yueyao’s existing role, but her clarification changes the mood to astonishment.
• Yang Jian’s comparison to the Lotus Lantern World’s Sages turns the revelation into a humorous, if awestruck, conclusion: Shi Yueyao may effectively count as a Sage of Multiverse City.

Plot and events

• After receiving control over Multiverse City’s Great Dao, Shi Yueyao remembers its limits: she can use it to repel invaders, but not to attack other worlds.
• Rather than explain this immediately, she checks Bai Yu’s Chat Group profile. As group owner, she alone can view members’ cultivation information.
• Bai Yu has previously risen rapidly from the Twenty-Sixth to the Twenty-Ninth Tier. His profile-checking habit has become a source of excitement and reassurance for Shi Yueyao.
• The chapter shifts to Bai Yu’s view of the Dao: love and detachment are not mutually exclusive with enlightenment. The Dao has countless paths, and any method that leads to mastery can be valid.
• Bai Yu reflects that Hongjun’s Three Corpses method succeeded but imposed severe restrictions that Hongjun may have deliberately obscured.

Character developments and interactions

• Shi Yueyao is revealed as a transmigrator who once felt frightened and unsafe in a dangerous High Martial World. Bai Yu’s presence gradually became a source of calm, and she now checks his profile compulsively, despite feeling guilty about it. Her feelings remain private.
• Bai Yu knows Shi Yueyao’s thoughts because, after reaching Daluo Golden Immortal, he has not yet blocked his passive ability to perceive them. He is indifferent to her romantically—not because he has renounced love, but because he simply feels no attraction to her.
• Their interaction is largely unspoken: Shi Yueyao finds security in Bai Yu, while Bai Yu understands her feelings but does not reciprocate. He regards beauty as unremarkable among immortals and powerful beings.

Significant themes

• Many paths to enlightenment: The Dao does not demand one universal lifestyle; detachment, worldly life, and other methods may all lead to it.
• Security and attachment: Shi Yueyao’s reliance on Bai Yu reflects the comfort she found after living with constant danger.
• Beauty and desire: Great power and abundant beauty change what a person considers attractive; appearance alone does not inspire Bai Yu’s affection.