Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Gu Xi continues traveling through the Myriad Worlds, helping chosen protagonists build their legacies and elevate their worlds. Stronger worlds could provide him with far greater faith and power.
• He recalls a strange, non-hostile gaze he sensed on an earlier journey. When it returns, he traces it to a small Divine Beast Qilin.
• The Qilin tries to flee, but Gu Xi crosses the vast distance between them in an instant and catches up with him.
• Afraid that Gu Xi might threaten his Life Planet, the Qilin is relieved to learn that Gu Xi has already protected the surrounding region with the River Diagram and Luo Script Formation.
• Gu Xi praises the planet and gives the Qilin powerful concealment formations to help keep it safe.

Character developments

• Gu Xi is increasingly focused on expanding his influence across worlds, nurturing promising life, and gaining strength through their development. He also shows kindness and a willingness to protect the Qilin’s home.
• Little Qilin is initially frightened by Gu Xi’s overwhelming speed and power. His fear gives way to trust and gratitude when he learns Gu Xi has safeguarded the planet he cherishes.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Lesser powerhouses seem insignificant to supreme beings, while Gu Xi’s abilities appear almost unimaginable to ordinary creatures.
• Cultivation and influence: Raising worlds to greater levels benefits both their inhabitants and Gu Xi, who gains stronger faith and support.
• Protection and stewardship: The Qilin’s devotion to his planet and Gu Xi’s promise to protect it emphasize care for a world and its inhabitants.

Character interactions

• Gu Xi’s sudden appearance terrifies Little Qilin, who fears for his planet’s safety.
• Gu Xi reassures him, recognizes how much effort he has put into his world, and promises to help protect it.
• Little Qilin responds with excited gratitude, and Gu Xi reinforces his reassurance by giving him concealment formations.

Key events

• Gu Xi asks whether he may rest and recover on the Life Planet someday. Little Qilin happily agrees.
• Gu Xi realizes Little Qilin’s inability to speak and his unusually pure nature stem from a deep injury and a missing wisp of Innate Spiritual Qi. Little Qilin can feel love, justice, joy, and happiness—but not fear or other negative emotions.
• Gu Xi decides not to restore Little Qilin’s speech. He fears exposure to the world’s cruelty could corrupt the being who embodies love and justice, harming the peaceful world around him.
• Concerned that Little Qilin cannot defend the Life Planet against Quasi-Sages, Gu Xi offers him a wisp of Innate Spiritual Qi to help him advance. He considers giving him Primordial Violet Qi too, but withholds it because failing to become a Sage could make Little Qilin a target.
• Little Qilin eagerly accepts the Innate Spiritual Qi, and its power begins pushing him toward the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Gu Xi notes that even exceptional figures have failed to reach Sagehood, recalling Donghuang Taiyi’s refusal to kill Di Jun to reunite their souls—and his eventual destruction.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Xi shows compassion and caution: he wants to protect Little Qilin’s innocence while strengthening him enough to safeguard his home. He and Little Qilin share a warm, affectionate bond.
• Little Qilin remains cheerful, trusting, and childlike despite his immense age and power. His unwavering love of justice is presented as both his defining virtue and the result of his injury.
• Donghuang Taiyi, in Gu Xi’s historical example, is portrayed as immensely powerful but unwilling to sacrifice his brother for Sagehood, a choice that ultimately leaves him vulnerable.

Significant themes

• Innocence versus worldly corruption: Gu Xi believes preserving Little Qilin’s purity is more important than giving him speech or fuller emotional experience.
• Power and vulnerability: Little Qilin is nearly invincible in the present world, yet his inability to advance leaves him exposed to stronger outsiders.
• The cost of ambition: The account of Taiyi shows that even a path to ultimate power may demand a terrible sacrifice—and that refusing it can have tragic consequences.
• Protection and stewardship: Gu Xi’s decisions balance helping Little Qilin grow with shielding him from danger and the burden of a coveted treasure.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator reflects that Di Jun’s brother has absorbed Donghuang Taiyi’s soul, while his nephew consumed Taiyi’s flesh. Though this has greatly benefited the family, the brother’s cultivation talent remains insufficient for Sainthood; his exceptional gift lies instead in formations.
• Little Qilin’s accumulated cultivation pays off: it advances from the late Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage to the peak, then breaks through to become a Quasi-Sage with unusually stable, profound power.
• Gu Xi returns to the concealed living planet after tens of thousands of years. He confirms that the River Diagram and Luo Script Formation still hide it from detection, and enters through its spatial passage.
• Little Qilin joyfully welcomes him and reports that Huo Ling’er arrived from another world a year earlier. Trusting her righteous aura and connection to Gu Xi’s beloved, Little Qilin let her explore and asked the world’s administrator to look after her. Huo Ling’er has been so happy that she may not wish to return home.
• Gu Xi goes to see Huo Ling’er. He finds a thriving, harmonious world where humans, auspicious beasts, and sprites fly together. He then discovers a vast castle hosting a grand event, centered on a huge arena with enormous crowds. The chapter ends before the event’s purpose or Huo Ling’er’s role is revealed.

Character developments

• Little Qilin achieves a major breakthrough, demonstrating the value of long-term cultivation, and shows confidence and kindness in welcoming Huo Ling’er.
• Gu Xi returns with fondness for the planet and curiosity about its changes, especially the event at the castle.
• Huo Ling’er appears to have settled happily into her new surroundings, perhaps more happily than expected.

Significant themes

• Accumulation and perseverance: Little Qilin’s years of cultivation enable a powerful, stable breakthrough.
• Natural gifts and limits: The brother’s brilliance in formations contrasts with his inability to reach Sainthood through cultivation.
• Trust, hospitality, and harmony: Little Qilin’s judgment of Huo Ling’er is based on her character, while the planet’s peaceful society reflects a welcoming community.
• Belonging and attachment: Huo Ling’er’s happiness raises the possibility that she may choose not to return home.

Character interactions

• Little Qilin leaps into Gu Xi’s arms, then excitedly recounts the planet’s development and Huo Ling’er’s arrival.
• Gu Xi responds with delight and amusement, praises Little Qilin’s news through his reaction, and sets off to see Huo Ling’er.
• Little Qilin’s decision to trust Huo Ling’er and involve the administrator helps her feel at home.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Xi surveys a world filled with arenas, where hundreds of thousands gather to watch battles between creature trainers and their beasts.
• He discovers that the world is unusually safe and prosperous: people live without serious fear of illness or violence, and even hospitals mainly treat injured creatures.
• Little Qilin’s healing light helps prevent disease, while its guidance has encouraged castle lords to preserve nature and build using the powers of creatures rather than cutting down trees.
• Gu Xi learns how local beings create castles suited to their environments, including elaborate ice structures and a distant Fire Palace. He uses his Divine Sense to examine the Fire Palace and understands how water and earth energies contain and temper its flames.
• Though the world’s peaceful, battle-centered life appeals to him, Gu Xi decides he cannot stay. His priority remains preparing for his eventual life-or-death conflict with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Character developments

• Gu Xi is impressed by the world’s safety, beauty, and communal care, and briefly imagines how easily he could become attached to it.
• His sense of duty ultimately outweighs that temptation: he remains focused on gathering allies and training for the coming conflict.

Significant themes

• Harmony with nature: Creature powers enable construction while forests and the wider world are protected.
• Care and safety: Little Qilin’s influence, accessible treatment, and balanced use of elemental powers make life unusually secure.
• Peace versus purpose: A comfortable life can be appealing, but Gu Xi’s responsibilities and looming war prevent him from settling down.
• Cooperation: Beasts, creatures, and people combine their abilities to build and protect their world.

Character interactions

• Gu Xi mainly observes and reflects rather than directly interacting with others. His thoughts emphasize the world’s cooperation between castle lords and creatures, and Little Qilin’s guiding role.
• He contrasts the people’s peaceful, locally focused lives with his own mission, which is tied to those under his command and his struggle against Hongjun.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Xi searches the icy world for Huo Ling’er and finds her flying on a Divine Beast. Though she is only at the Venerable Realm, she has become one of the world’s strongest inhabitants.
• Huo Ling’er recognizes Gu Xi as “the Bad Seed’s master” and immediately asks about Little Stone’s condition. Gu Xi explains what Little Stone has endured since she arrived in this world.
• She asks to see Little Stone. Gu Xi agrees, but explains that she cannot remain beside him after the visit: her presence would interfere with the trials he has been prepared to face.
• Huo Ling’er must choose whether to return to her home and her life as a princess of the Fire Kingdom, or stay in the beautiful icy world. She decides she wants to remain near Little Stone and care for him.
• Gu Xi takes her to the Six-Tailed Demon Fox’s palace, where Little Stone lies unconscious. Gu Xi reveals that a deadly killing aura threatens to overwhelm him, and that he has a year to master it. Huo Ling’er may stay with him for several months.

Character developments

• Huo Ling’er has grown powerful and carefree in her new world, but her concern for Little Stone outweighs its comforts. Her choice reflects both her loyalty to him and her attachment to her former home.
• Gu Xi shows affection and patience toward Huo Ling’er, while remaining firm about preserving Little Stone’s trials. He also uses the visit to explain the danger Little Stone faces.
• Little Stone does not appear conscious, but his struggle with the killing aura is established as a crucial test of his self-control and character.

Character interactions

• Huo Ling’er’s excitement at seeing Gu Xi quickly gives way to anxiety about Little Stone. Their conversation centers on his condition and her wish to help him.
• Gu Xi reassures her, but sets limits: she may visit and spend several months with Little Stone, yet cannot stay beside him throughout his trials.
• At Little Stone’s bedside, Gu Xi demonstrates the killing aura’s danger, making Huo Ling’er a witness to the stakes of his final test.

Significant themes

• Home versus belonging: Huo Ling’er weighs the beauty of her new world against her ties to the Fire Kingdom and her feelings for Little Stone.
• Love and restraint: She wants to care for Little Stone, while Gu Xi insists that helping him too much could undermine his growth.
• Trials and inner control: Little Stone’s challenge is not merely to survive a dangerous power, but to master it before it turns him into a ruthless killer.

Huo Ling'er stayed beside Little Stone as the Six-Tailed Demon Fox spent years drawing the vast killing intent from his body and soul. Little Stone was close to waking, but dangerous remnants remained that only Gu Xi could remove, while Chang'e continued cultivating unconsciously.

• Huo Ling'er told Gu Xi she would remain beside Little Stone and decide where to return before he awoke.
• Years later, Little Stone's killing intent swept across the world, and the Six-Tailed Demon Fox protected Huo Ling'er with a shield.
• The Six-Tailed Demon Fox explained that she had spent years drawing out Little Stone's killing intent, but critical remnants still remained in his body and soul.
• The Six-Tailed Demon Fox said Little Stone was close to waking and that Gu Xi would need to remove the final remnants of killing intent.
• The Six-Tailed Demon Fox explained that Chang'e remained unconscious while expanding her domain and stabilizing her cultivation.

Little Chang'e cleansed the last traces of dark law and awakened, while the Six-Tailed Demon Fox asked Huo Ling'er to summon Gu Xi to help remove the killing aura from Little Stone. Gu Xi remained away, supporting Willow God as she faced the Immortal King Giants who had once tried to kill her.

• Gu Xi awakened Little Chang'e before her years of cleansing the dark-law traces could leave her consciousness beyond recovery.
• After several years, Little Chang'e stabilized her life-law power, cleansed the lingering dark-law trace, and began awakening her true body's consciousness.
• The Six-Tailed Demon Fox told Huo Ling'er to summon Gu Xi, since Little Stone's final strand of killing aura was too difficult for her to extract safely.
• Huo Ling'er used the law power Gu Xi had left her to call him, while Gu Xi remained away retrieving the Supreme Treasure Vault trials and seeking Willow God.
• Gu Xi found Willow God surrounded by Immortal King Giants, but Willow God insisted on fighting them alone to avenge her past defeat.
• Gu Xi agreed to watch the battle and vowed to intervene only if Willow God faced danger she could not overcome.

Gu Xi watched the Willow God battle four Immortal King Giants, ready to intervene if the Willow God was in danger. When distant Immortal Kings mocked the Willow God, Gu Xi erased one of them from existence with a single palm, leaving the other Immortal Kings to wonder if an Immortal Emperor had struck.

• Gu Xi stayed nearby as the Willow God fought four Immortal King Giants, judging that the Willow God was struggling against them.
• The Willow God sent countless willow branches at his opponents, and the Immortal King Giants joined forces to attack him.
• The Willow God's immense true body appeared across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators throughout the Immortal Realm and Foreign Domain.
• Distant Immortal Kings mocked the Willow God for challenging four Immortal King Giants while only at the Heavenly King level.
• Gu Xi heard their words and killed one Immortal King Giant with a palm strike, erasing every trace of him and shocking the remaining Immortal Kings.

Gu Xi watched Willow God struggle against four Great Immortal Kings while An Lan recalled his past humiliation at Gu Xi’s hands. Just as Willow God began to falter, Gu Xi received a distress signal and prepared to intervene.

• An Lan realized an Immortal Emperor had killed an Immortal King for speaking about Willow God, and he grew alarmed by the existence of beings beyond his power.
• An Lan remembered Gu Xi’s glare from years earlier, which had nearly killed him, and secretly vowed revenge while considering joining forces against the world.
• Gu Xi sensed An Lan’s malicious gaze, recognized him, and dismissed him as an insignificant opponent destined to become Little Stone’s stepping stone.
• Gu Xi moved closer to watch Willow God battle four Great Immortal Kings, and Willow God’s laws began to buckle under their combined assault.
• Gu Xi received a law-power signal from the two people he had given it to and realized he might have to interrupt the battle to help.

Gu Xi created a powerful clone to protect Willow God while he investigated the crisis at the Six-Tailed Demon Fox's residence. There, he learned that Little Stone was in danger from a dark source in his mind and promised Huo Ling'er he could save him.

• Gu Xi formed an independent clone and left it to protect Willow God as she fought four Great Immortal King titans.
• Willow God urged Gu Xi to leave and said she could handle the four enemies herself.
• Gu Xi reached the Six-Tailed Demon Fox's residence and sensed a deadly, chilling aura.
• Huo Ling'er told Gu Xi that a dark source in Little Stone's mind threatened to keep him from waking, and that even the Six-Tailed Demon Fox was unsure she could remove it.
• Gu Xi reassured Huo Ling'er that Little Stone would be fine, and she waited for him to cleanse the dark aura.

Gu Xi removed the dangerous dark energy from Little Stone and said he would likely wake in a few days, while Little Chang'e was expected to awaken around the same time. Huo Ling'er went to wait in the world of elves, and Gu Xi turned his attention to the ongoing battle between Willow God and the Four Heavenly Kings.

• Gu Xi examined Little Stone and discovered powerful wisps of killing intent in his brow and Sea of Consciousness.
• Gu Xi destroyed the dark energy’s resistance, drew both wisps out of Little Stone, and stored them in the Six-Tailed Demon Fox’s Storage Bag.
• Gu Xi said Little Stone should wake in a few days and noticed a castle and a statue of himself in Little Chang'e’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Ling'er entered the world of elves to wait for Little Stone, while the Six-Tailed Demon Fox stayed until the two disciples woke.
• Gu Xi went above the sky and watched Willow God and the Four Heavenly Kings continue their battle over the Life Planet.

Gu Xi watched Willow God use the Faith Power of countless nations to withstand four weakened Immortal King Giants and begin turning the battle around. Willow God launched a devastating strike at one giant, who realized he might be killed beyond resurrection.

• Gu Xi's avatar dissipated, and he saw Willow God sustain himself with circling spheres of white light while the four Immortal King Giants weakened.
• Immortal Kings from the three great worlds watched Willow God fight and reflected on how numerous Immortal Kings had become across the Sea of Worlds.
• The four Immortal King Giants realized their depleted strength could not match Willow God's endless Faith Power from the dynasties behind him.
• Willow God braided several willow branches into a swordlike weapon and thrust it at one Immortal King Giant, shattering space and dissolving the Void Law.
• The targeted Immortal King Giant recognized that he could not survive Willow God's strike and might perish with no chance of resurrection.

Willow God overwhelmed four Immortal Kings, but they burned their blood essence and advanced to Emperor Light Immortal King realm. As Willow God tried to flee, one of them froze him by locking the space around him.

• The four Immortal Kings joined forces against Willow God, but he shattered their attacks and wounded them while remaining unharmed.
• Willow God launched a powerful strike using stars compressed around his branches, forcing the four Immortal Kings to defend together.
• The Immortal Kings burned their blood essence and raised their cultivation to Emperor Light Immortal King realm.
• Willow God tried to escape, but one Emperor Light Immortal King appeared behind him and froze him by locking the spatial nodes.

The Emperor Light Immortal King and the other three Immortal Kings burned their essence blood to trap and kill Willow God, who was on the verge of asking for help. Gu Xi appeared by stopping time, while his melancholy over Little Stone’s imminent rise and his own departure left his arrival beside Willow God unfinished.

• The Emperor Light Immortal King explained that the four Immortal Kings believed Willow God would eventually kill them, then burned fifty drops of essence blood to strengthen himself.
• The four Immortal Kings attacked Willow God together, and he realized he could not escape their spatial confinement without burning his own essence blood.
• Just as Willow God was about to call for help, time stopped, immobilizing the four Immortal Kings and the spiritual power inside their bodies.
• A figure emerged from a realm resembling the River of Time, and Willow God recognized Gu Xi and remarked on his dramatic arrival.
• Gu Xi approached Willow God after choosing a more elaborate entrance, reflecting on Little Stone’s growth and feeling melancholy because he would soon leave the world.

Gu Xi freed the Myriad Worlds from Emperor Light Immortal King's laws, leaving the Immortal Kings—including An Lan—stunned by his ability to freeze time across all worlds. Willow God left Gu Xi to decide the four Immortal King Giants’ fate, and Gu Xi began capturing them with ease.

• Gu Xi arrived beside Liu Chen and shattered Emperor Light Immortal King's laws with a light stamp, restoring movement across heaven and earth.
• The Immortal Kings realized that Gu Xi had frozen time throughout the Myriad Worlds, and An Lan feared that even becoming an Immortal Emperor would not let him match Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi asked Willow God how to deal with the four Immortal King Giants, and Willow God said he no longer cared before leaving for the Six-Tailed Demon Fox's residence.
• Gu Xi used his laws to shrink Wang Bian into a soybean-sized prison and hold him in his palm.
• Gu Xi snapped his fingers, sending the stars fleeing as soybean-sized specks and terrifying the other three Immortal Kings.

Gu Xi trapped the Immortal Kings, subdued three of them, and took all four as medicinal ingredients for Little Stone’s coming-of-age baptism. He returned to the Six-Tailed Demon Fox’s residence, where Little Stone had awakened and was regulating the energy in his body.

• The three Emperor Light Immortal Kings exhausted their essence blood trying to flee, but Gu Xi’s power kept them circling within his reach.
• One Immortal King knelt and swore loyalty to Gu Xi, but Gu Xi rejected his plea; the other two also failed to win mercy.
• Gu Xi shrank the three Emperor Light Immortal Kings into motes of light, joining the fourth in his palm as ingredients for Little Stone’s baptism.
• Gu Xi returned to the Six-Tailed Demon Fox’s residence and spoke with the Willow God about Little Stone’s talent and the gifts he had promised her.
• Little Stone sat up on the bed, awake and regulating the energy in his body.