Chapter Summaries

The Ancient God of Light fell to the Star Lord, but his corpse transformed into the Ancient God of Darkness and reached for the Origin Ancient Tree. The Emperor realized too late that Darkness was trying to return to the mother body and become the will of the Heavenly Dao.

• Elise and the Emperor watched the Star Lord gain the upper hand and believed the Ancient God of Light was doomed.
• The Star Lord overwhelmed the Ancient God of Light, who admitted he had no other choice and said he would reveal his true self as he died.
• The Ancient God of Light’s death dimmed the universe’s light and brought a black tide across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Light’s corpse rose as the Ancient God of Darkness, and Elise recognized the transformation as the greatest light becoming the greatest darkness.
• The Emperor realized Darkness was trying to become a celestial phenomenon and return to the Origin Ancient Tree, but a vast darkness had already descended.

Li Qing used the Ancient God of Light’s return to the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tree to bring about Judgment Day and begin the Age of Great Darkness. In the distant future, a father read the account to his child, who questioned whether its description had been reused.

• The Ancient God of Light returned to the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tree through a new soul that inherited his memories, while Atabia explained how he had done it.
• The Origin Ancient Tree turned black as the Ancient God of Light took control of the Heavenly Dao and prepared to start the Age of Great Darkness.
• The Ancient God of Light declared Judgment Day, condemned humanity, and brought down an Age of Dharma’s End that caused the Great Daos and gods to vanish.
• A distant-future child challenged his father over the familiar description of Judgment Day, and the father closed the Bible and recalled the suffering of that age.

As the universe’s Crystal Walls went dark and the Age of Dharma’s End began, the Star Lord urged the Ancient Gods to preserve their power by harvesting the remaining Cosmic Membranes. Li Qing watched the old order collapse, then created a continuous succession of Heaven’s Dao generations to preserve the Ancient God of Light’s consciousness, though he knew the solution would eventually deteriorate.

• The universe’s Crystal Walls shut down in waves, forcing the Ancient Gods to lose their realms and return to immortality.
• The Star Lord declared himself the Human Emperor and spread a method for Ancient Gods to cut away Cosmic Membranes to preserve their positions.
• Atabia led the angels, while Sylvie and Sylph gathered Crystal Walls to prepare for the Dark Epoch.
• Nokron let them harvest the remaining walls as Li Qing allowed the universe’s collapse and cleanup to proceed.
• Li Qing transferred his consciousness after the crisis stabilized and created a continuous Heaven’s Dao from successive generations of the Ancient God of Light.
• Li Qing approved the new Heaven’s Dao system but expected its personality to change after fewer than ten thousand generations.

In the Age of Dharma’s End, Li Qing built the God's Left Hand as a weapon and updated the Crystal Wall while keeping the universe shut down. He then became the Heavenly Dao through the Origin Ancient Tree and restored natural light to the universe.

• The universe entered a dark Savage Era, and the Ancient Gods and celestials were hunted as their former power faded.
• Li Qing stole matter from the universe to construct the God's Left Hand, a weapon capable of attacking from outside and dismantling the universe.
• Li Qing completed a new version of the Crystal Wall but kept the universe shut down while planning updates to living beings.
• Li Qing joined the Origin Ancient Tree as a new generation and declared himself both the Heavenly Dao and the Ancient God of Light.
• Li Qing spoke the first divine utterance, “Let there be light,” restoring natural light throughout the universe.

The Ancient God of Light reshaped the universe over three days, restoring light and creating new life, while the Star Lord and others struggled to understand his power. Li Qing planned to keep the Age of Dharma's End going until he had eliminated the Star Lord and could pursue his goal of becoming a trinity supreme god.

• On the first day, the Origin Ancient Tree radiated light across the universe, and its inhabitants praised the God of Light as Elise vowed to kill him.
• On the second day, the Ancient God of Light created the sun and moon from two enormous fruits on branches in Midgard.
• On the third day, the Ancient God of Light created new species whose Dao-law sequences made them naturally close to the Great Dao.
• Elise and Minis realized that the Ancient God of Light had used the Star Lord's fallen state to obtain the complete Life Blueprint authority, while the Star Lord admitted he had lost his Ancient God realm.
• Li Qing decided not to restart the system until he had dealt with the Life Ancient God and the Star Lord, and set his sights on gaining complete Time and Space authorities.

During the fifty-million-year Age of Dharma's End, Li Qing rebuilt the universe and watched dragons and angels regain power while civilizations struggled to restore the Divine Path. The dragons and angels eventually invented divine sparks that let them ignite Divine Fire again, alarming Li Qing as he continued updating the shut-down system.

• Li Qing rebuilt the universe, restoring its suns, moons, and living races, then watched dragons and angels rise to power over the next eighty thousand years.
• The dragons settled on the moon and the angels on the sun, formed an alliance, and began slaughtering other races as they repopulated and adapted.
• Li Qing ordered the people to rebuild heavenly law, and they accepted the exhausting labor as atonement and a mark of honor.
• Over tens of millions of years, civilizations across the Myriad Worlds tried to reopen the Divine Path and Immortal Dao, while Li Qing tested races and prepared the universe before booting it up.
• The angels and dragons developed divine sparks from old Crystal Wall reserves, allowing them to store rules and ignite Divine Fire again.
• Li Qing saw their breakthrough and complained that the Age of Dharma's End was absurd because the races had forced a boot despite his shutdown update.

Li Qing ordered the angels and dragons to hunt those who had made godheads, hoping the ensuing wars would exhaust their Crystal Wall reserves. Instead, the Human Emperor devised a way to regenerate godheads through faith, and the chapter ended with a new anti-Heaven movement rising as Li Qing watched in disbelief.

• Li Qing sent his Ancient God of Light alias to the Rainbow Bridge, where he promised the angel clan a future return to the tree and ordered them to obtain godheads and hunt their owners.
• Angels and dragons began making godheads and fighting their owners, reigniting the Old Gods' war and driving rapid technological development.
• The Battle of the Rainbow Bridge destroyed countless godheads, while construction of the Origin Ancient Tree was completed and the remaining godheads neared depletion.
• The Human Emperor Star Lord created the Faith Godhead and developed a worship-based method that split godheads and produced new ones.
• Godheads multiplied again, giving rise to a second cultivation system and renewed calls to kill the Ancient God of Light, while Li Qing reacted with disbelief.

Li Qing realized that a rival faction had developed godheads through worship, creating a personal cultivation path that could challenge his Heaven and Earth Method. He resolved to imprint his mark on the godheads, beginning with a plan to destroy worlds, then descended into Qi Feng's Wizard World to investigate them firsthand.

• Li Qing learned that the Star Lord's faction could reproduce godheads through the faith and life power of worshippers, and judged its Crystal Wall technology superior to his own.
• Li Qing recognized that the new godhead cultivation method let individuals resist the Age of Dharma's End, though its users had far less power and endurance than Ancient Gods.
• Li Qing decided to mark every free godhead with his own imprint and concluded that he needed to reduce the number of Crystal Walls through world destruction before the faction grew stronger.
• Li Qing descended into the Lower Realm and arrived in Yun Duo City in Qi Feng's Wizard World to observe the new era and its godheads.
• Li Qing heard a wandering bard describe how False Gods in the Age of Dharma's End could barely open a divine gate and were far weaker than Ancient Gods.

Li Qing studied the new godhood system by secretly examining the aging Heavenly Wood God Su Heng and experimenting on his crystal core. As Su Heng neared death, he spoke with Li Qing about his life and mistook him for a heavenly power.

• Li Qing toured more than a hundred worlds, observed the Age of Dharma's End, and decided the era no longer needed his support for young talents.
• Li Qing concluded that godhoods were spreading authority crystals like the Zombie Crystal Core and began modifying his imprinting technique.
• Li Qing secretly studied Su Heng's nine-layered godhood for centuries while Su Heng sheltered more than seventeen hundred worlds.
• As Su Heng approached death, Li Qing placed a follower imprint on his godhood and continued experimenting on his crystal core.
• Su Heng asked Li Qing about the Great Dao and the end of the universe, then guessed he was the Heavenly Dao or the Ancient God of Light.
• Li Qing told Su Heng that the happiness of Heaven was beyond his imagination, though rebels made these days complicated.

Li Qing spoke with the dying Su Heng, completed his Godhead experiment, and flooded the Myriad Worlds with marked Godheads to restore his control. Eight thousand years later, the Star Lord fought Li Qing’s forces for centuries, but Li Qing realized the Star Lord’s limited lifespan could be his weakness.

• Li Qing and Su Heng discussed how both rulers and ordinary beings were driven by the universe’s laws and the onward movement of history.
• Three years later, Su Heng died of old age after Li Qing successfully imprinted a Godhead on him.
• Li Qing created vast numbers of Godheads marked with his vassal imprint, gave them to angels and dragonkind, and began dominating the Godhead market.
• The Star Lord condemned Li Qing’s scheme as the two sides continued fighting during the Age of Dharma's End.
• Eight thousand years later, angel gods and dragon gods attacked the Star Lord’s group, but the Star Lord fought alone for eight hundred years and killed millions of Ancient Gods.
• Li Qing concluded that the Star Lord, whose lifespan was only a thousand years, was nearing death and might be vulnerable to old age.

The Star Lord, the First Generation Human Emperor, fought the Heavenly Dao for eight hundred years while trapped between surrendering and dying. He died defiant, leaving his crystal core and inheritance to Mother Elise and inspiring humanity to resist the Heavenly Dao.

• Li Qing watched the battle and lamented that he could use neither Min Shan’s nor the Star Lord’s method of immortality.
• The Ancient Tree Heavenly Dao cornered the Star Lord, whose only choices were to unplug his godhead and be killed or fight until his lifespan ran out.
• The Star Lord rejected the Ancient God of Light’s offer to surrender and become the next God King Under the Heavenly Dao.
• The Star Lord declared that his crystal core would pass to Mother Elise and that the godheads from the battlefield would arm future generations against Heaven.
• The Star Lord collapsed and died atop a mountain of corpses and godheads, leaving the young heroes inspired by his resistance.
• Ancient Tree Calendar Year 4999 marked the end of the First Generation Human Emperor’s eight-hundred-year battle against the Heavenly Dao.

As he lay dying, the Star Lord learned that Li Qing was the true Life Ancient God and had arranged his defeat as part of a plan to control both sides of the coming struggle. The Star Lord understood why Li Qing had sought to discuss life with him, but the chapter left their conversation unfinished as Li Qing revealed the scale of his deception.

• The dying Star Lord reflected on the weakness of the Ancient Gods and accepted that his era had been incomplete.
• Li Qing appeared in the Star Lord’s consciousness and revealed that he was the true Life Ancient God, while Mother Elise had served as a false public image.
• The Star Lord recognized that Li Qing had come to compare their opposing natures and investigate what it meant to be a Life Ancient God.
• The Star Lord asked Li Qing to explain the thousand-year blood battle, and Li Qing revealed that the Star Lord’s death had been deliberate.
• Li Qing explained that he had arranged for both the Heavenly Dao faction and the divine-core faction to serve him, leaving either outcome under his control.

Li Qing revealed how the Ancient God of Light had infiltrated the universe’s factions and manipulated the Star Lord, who came to accept Li Qing as a worthy Life Ancient God. The Star Lord shared his knowledge of the Life Authority before dying, leaving Li Qing to carry the work of advancing life and the era forward.

• The Ancient God of Light explained that he had corrupted the lower-level godheads and made Elise a controlled replacement Life Ancient God, while secretly keeping dependents throughout the universe’s resistance factions.
• Li Qing admitted that he had watched and manipulated the Star Lord from the beginning, and the Star Lord concluded that Li Qing was suited to the Life Authority and had driven the universe’s progress.
• The Star Lord and Li Qing discussed the Life Authority and exchanged insights for several years, with the Star Lord sharing the knowledge he had gained as a Super Genius suited to completing the Life Blueprint.
• As he neared death, the Star Lord accused Li Qing of exploiting him, but acknowledged that he had willingly helped for the sake of the universe and his hope for its future.
• The Star Lord died and scattered into windblown sand, becoming the First Generation Human Emperor to fall beneath Li Qing’s gaze.

The Myriad Worlds mourned the Human Emperor, while Li Qing assessed the new era of godheads and planned how to advance his research. With only four thousand years of life remaining, he resolved to develop a Longevity Method and pursue transcendence beyond the universe.

• The Myriad Worlds commemorated the Human Emperor’s battles and spread his defiant spirit as the will to Attack Heaven.
• Explorers flocked to God Tomb to seek godheads, and Li Qing considered the strengths and limits of inherited godhead power.
• Li Qing reflected on the Crystal Walls’ near-total market dominance and his mastery of the Life Ancient God path.
• Li Qing planned to research a Longevity Method, Level One God blueprints, and Matter Blueprints before pursuing transcendence.
• Li Qing concluded that he must design a theoretical realm beyond the universe and then break through into it.

Li Qing prepared for the new era by creating the Hand of the Heavens as a weapon in case he needed to destroy the universe. He then returned to the Myriad Worlds and saw the rise of powerful Celestial Sages in the flourishing age of Level Two Gods.

• Li Qing decided to secretly design a new unconventional realm that could let cultivators break free of the universe's framework.
• Li Qing left the universe and tested the Hand of the Heavens, a colossal divine artifact built from ten percent of the universe's matter.
• Li Qing recalled that the Star Lord had helped perfect the Hand of the Heavens before his death.
• Li Qing returned to the universe and explored the new era rather than ascending the Origin Ancient Tree.
• Li Qing observed light Celestial Sages multiplying across the Tree Crown and abyssal roots as the universe entered the age of Level Two Gods.

Li Qing watched the Godhead faction gain eternal life while the Ancient Gods of Light prepared to revive the Great Dao. When they restarted the universe, the Origin Ancient Tree transformed into a monstrous brain, revealing that the true darkness of the epoch had only just begun.

• The Ancient Gods of Light decided to perfect their Crystal Wall and Heavenly Dao Ancient Tree rather than oppose the rise of the Godhead faction.
• Atabia, the Son of Heaven, and others secretly became Godhead Ancient Gods, gaining eternal life with Elise's help.
• Holy Dragon, Minis, Professor Wales, Sylvie, Sylph, and others celebrated their new eternal lives, while Nokron worried that Li Qing would die of old age.
• Li Qing decided to use the Ancient Gods of Light to pressure the immortal Godhead faction into working harder.
• Three years later, the Ancient Gods of Light revived the Great Dao and reopened the Divine Path across the universe.
• The Origin Ancient Tree transformed into a gigantic, throbbing brain, and Sylvie and the others realized the universe's true darkness was beginning.

The group discovered that the Ancient God of Light had become a living Heavenly Dao brain, making him the universe’s greatest calamity. Li Qing and Nokron proposed that Elise, as the Life Ancient God and Human Sovereign, create an Underworld where people could exchange their divine personas for a second life, building a new celestial phenomenon called reincarnation.

• Everyone saw that the Origin Ancient Tree had become a vast brain whose neurons shared the Ancient God of Light’s collective will.
• Nokron and Elise warned that the Light Heaven could overwhelm them as more people ascended to the Origin Realm and Abyss Realm.
• Li Qing proposed that Elise establish a Supreme Realm for humanity by using collected divine personas to construct a celestial phenomenon.
• Nokron suggested that people pay with their divine personas to receive a second life, allowing Elise to gather the materials needed for the new realm.
• Elise named the realm the Underworld and its divine-persona artifact reincarnation, then vowed to create it and resist the God of Light.

After Nokron explained his reincarnation plans, Elise found a purpose in using her Life Authority to build support and pursue the God of Light Father. A divine lattice faction began constructing its own Heavenly Dao of Reincarnation to oppose the Crystal Wall lineage's Heavenly Dao Ancient Tree.

• Elise recognized the promise of Nokron's reincarnation plan and thanked him for his guidance.
• Li Qing recalled how the Star Lord had helped conceive divine lattice reincarnation as part of a broader vision for life.
• Elise rallied followers by promising resurrection and used her Life Authority to heal the Dao wounds of those whose Great Daos had been extracted.
• In Ancient Tree Calendar Year 5059, Aurora, Minis, Atabia, and others began forging a small reincarnation in a secret Cave Mansion.
• Li Qing watched the divine lattice group build its Heavenly Dao and worried that they would be doomed if they failed to keep pace with the Heavenly Dao Ancient Tree.

Elise and her companions built reincarnation across the Myriad Worlds while Li Qing discussed how to accelerate its completion. The chapter ended with Elise embracing his proposal to make reincarnation a tiered, profit-driven service.

• Elise and her companions operated reincarnation, collecting godhoods from those seeking a second life as they fled the Ancient God of Light’s hunters.
• Li Qing visited the reincarnation station with Sylvie and Sylph, where Aurora served as the underworld’s cashier.
• Elise told Li Qing that seventy million years had passed in the Lower Realm and that she had built one-third of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation in less than a hundred years of heavenly time.
• Li Qing suggested exploiting people’s desires by dividing reincarnation into ranks to motivate them to contribute more godhoods.
• Elise proposed a VIP membership system, half-price second lives, and promotions for those waiting in line.

Li Qing advised Elise on expanding the reincarnation cycle by speeding up reincarnation and using it to enforce universal laws. Elise embraced the plan to reward good deeds, punish evil, and leave the universe governed by law as Li Qing turned to developing his own path to immortality.

• Elise proposed offering discounted reincarnation and recruiting a weakened Ancient Dragon to cause disasters that would hasten deaths.
• Li Qing suggested charging fees at reincarnation checkpoints and judging souls through a Merit List, with good deeds earning direct reincarnation and evil deeds leading to Purgatory.
• Elise recognized that reincarnation could serve as a universal legal system, encouraging good deeds and advancing the era.
• Li Qing explained that Elise could build an Underworld Prison and use her Life Authority to judge souls at reincarnation toll stations.
• Elise resolved to establish reincarnation as the core of the human race's fortune, while Li Qing focused on finding a way to become immortal within four thousand years.