Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi rescued Blue Star from the counterfeit humans, then carried Yan Xi to Suiwa Mountain to claim a treasure tied to Pan and avenge the Hu Family. After killing Yan Xi, he confronted Suiwa Mountain with a colossal strike as its Sect Master and Martial God masters gathered.

• Hu Qi collected Hu Guan's remaining bloodline essence and eradicated every counterfeit human across the Solar System, saving Blue Star's people.
• Hu Qi learned that Suiwa Mountain held a treasure passed down by Pan and set out to obtain it and destroy the sect.
• Hu Qi killed Yan Xi outside Suiwa Mountain, prompting Yan Sui to discover her death and summon the sect's powerful masters.
• Hu Qi appeared as a towering giant and pressed a massive palm down toward the entire Suiwa Starfield.

Hu Qi attacked the Suiwa Starfield, fought Yan Sui and more than twenty Martial Gods, and revealed overwhelming strength despite the Karma of Causality gathering around him. Yan Sui awakened Nuwa’s divine soul and unleashed their combined power, but Hu Qi remained immune to the Karma of Causality, leaving Yan Sui horrified.

• Hu Qi struck Suiwa Mountain’s barrier and devastated planets across the Suiwa Starfield, while Yan Sui and the other Martial Gods bound him with a grand formation.
• Sui Xi identified Hu Qi as the killer of Xi'er and Chang'er, and Hu Qi declared that he would kill everyone in the starfield.
• Hu Qi activated Immortal Mad Blood, broke free of the formation, and killed three Martial Gods while shrugging off the others’ attacks.
• Yan Sui fought Hu Qi, then revealed that Nuwa’s divine soul had awakened within him and regrew his shattered arm.
• Hu Qi battled the transformed Yan Sui with the Seventh Form of Cosmic Seven Absolutes, Burning Cosmos, while Karma of Causality accumulated around them.
• Yan Sui ignited the Karma of Causality covering Hu Qi, but Hu Qi remained unaffected, prompting Yan Sui to demand to know who he was.

Hu Qi ignored Yan Sui’s causal backlash, killed him with the Heaven-Splitting move, and destroyed the Suiwa Starfield. He claimed the Sky Mending Stone, while two mysterious figures beyond the Black Disc Galaxy wondered whether Pan had awakened.

• Yan Sui used the Karma of Causality against Hu Qi, but Hu Qi’s Pangu’s Blood let him suppress it.
• Hu Qi killed Yan Sui, who resurrected through Civilization Fire and offered to make peace; Hu Qi refused after learning Yan Xi and Wang Chang had exterminated his clan.
• Hu Qi formed the Heaven-Splitting axe and destroyed Yan Sui and the entire Suiwa Starfield, earning a vast number of Modification Points.
• The Reincarnation Book House recalled readers from the Suiwa Starfield, including Dai Yangming, before the destruction reached them.
• Hu Qi found and took the Sky Mending Stone from the remains of the starfield.
• Two mysterious figures beyond the Black Disc Galaxy sensed Hu Qi’s power and wondered whether Pan had awakened.

Hu Qi took the Sky Mending Stone from the destroyed Suiwa Starfield, then stabilized the surrounding space before leaving Blue Star to its uncertain fate. After a failed attempt to investigate the disaster killed an Old Woman, Hu Qi headed for more treasures and attacked Xumi Palace and other Dao Domains.

• Two mysterious figures mistook Hu Qi for a pawn in Pan's awakening plan before a Source Calamity emerged and the woman dispersed it; they worried the Boundary Tower would soon fail without Pan's return.
• Hu Qi sensed the two figures' dangerous attention, examined the Sky Mending Stone, and learned it held Pan's Dao Rhyme and had once stabilized the Suiwa Starfield.
• Hu Qi used golden chains to calm the collapsing starfield and stop its black hole from consuming nearby space, but left Blue Star and the Solar System to their fate.
• Martial God avatars arrived to investigate the vanished Suiwa Starfield, and an Old Woman's attempt to rewind events with a tortoiseshell triggered an axe-light that destroyed her avatar and true body.
• Hu Qi received Modification Points and traveled onward for more Sky Mending Stones; meanwhile, an intruder stole the Xumi Seal and killed Elder Fang, while several other Dao Domains also came under attack.

Hu Qi completed his deduction of the Dao Lord Chapter of the Divine Limit Heart Art, spending nearly all his Modification Points. After steering a revived, frozen planet toward a star, he discovered a spreading Source Calamity whose gray mist could provide Modification Points.

• Hu Qi used Pan's five treasures and Pangu's True Blood to comprehend Dao Lord mysteries, inadvertently reviving a barren planet before it froze again.
• Hu Qi had the Scarlet Panel deduce and perfect the Dao Lord Chapter of the Divine Limit Heart Art, reducing his Modification Points to 5,720.
• Hu Qi sensed life beneath the frozen planet's surface and sent it toward the nearest star system so it could eventually support life.
• Hu Qi found gray mist corroding a star system and discovered that burning a wisp of it yielded Modification Points.
• Hu Qi recognized the mist as a Source Calamity and saw its spreading gray mists as a new source of Modification Points.

Hu Qi used the golden flames empowered by Pangu's Blood to harvest Modification Points from a Source Calamity, then defeated its Martial God-level Star Beast and sought out another calamity. At the sealed site, he reunited with Jiang Jiu and killed the infamous Gu Feng in one strike, leaving the gathered disciples stunned by his strength.

• Hu Qi confined the Gray Mist with golden flames, burned its hatchlings for Modification Points, and killed the powerful Star Beast that emerged after devouring the others.
• The Source Calamity receded after Hu Qi harvested nearly two hundred thousand Modification Points, and he used Tongshan Jade to search for other calamities.
• A Great Dao Martial God on a blood-red star sensed Hu Qi's signal and set out, while Jiang Jiu helped disciples seal another Source Calamity and noticed Lu Yang's Tongshan Jade approaching.
• Hu Qi traveled to the sealed calamity site and reunited with Jiang Jiu, who explained that she had been searching for him after losing track of him.
• Hu Qi sensed Gu Feng hiding nearby, struck him down, and burned him to ash before he could reveal that Qin Zhenwu had sent him.
• Jiang Jiu and the disciples were astonished that Hu Qi had killed the infamous Martial God so easily, and the disciples respectfully greeted him as Senior Brother Lu Yang.

Hu Qi erased three Source Calamities, gave Zhang Huo five supreme treasures, and killed Qin Zhenwu after confirming his betrayal. With the Azure Lotus Realm opening soon, Hu Qi chose to cultivate in his Cave Heaven World instead, leaving his true body poised to focus on the Crimson panel.

• Hu Qi used his golden flames to eliminate three Source Calamities and gained more than four hundred thousand Modification Points.
• Hu Qi admitted to destroying the Suiwa Starfield and gave Zhang Huo the Sky Mending Stone, Xumi Seal, God Slaying Spear, Profound Yellow Tower, and Yin Yang Cloth.
• Hu Qi confronted Qin Zhenwu over hiring Gu Feng to attack him and killed him with a second flaming arrow after the first pierced his Xuanwu phantom.
• Hu Qi declined to enter the Azure Lotus Realm and went into seclusion, leaving a wisp of consciousness in Lu Yang's body while he focused on his true body.
• Hu Qi visited Ecological Island Zero, greeted Xiao Bai and Camphor Tea Duck, and shared grilled fish with them before leaving to sit in the void and call out, "Crimson!"

Hu Qi modified the Divine Limit Heart Art and began advancing to Dao Lord as the Azure Lotus Realm opened and Jiang Jiu fought Xumi Son for the Dao Scripture. The chapter ended with Hu Qi facing the dark-golden door at the source of the Sea of Sumeru and declaring his true name, Lord of Infinity.

• Hu Qi spent a million Modification Points to elevate the Divine Limit Heart Art, beginning the condensation of Spiritual Land within his Cave Heaven World.
• The Azure Lotus Realm opened, and its suppression limited entrants to the strength of a Martial Emperor.
• Jiang Jiu defeated the Yellow Sand Child and fought Xumi Son over the Dao Scripture, using the God Slaying Spear and Profound Yellow Tower to drive him off.
• Jiang Jiu obtained the Dao Scripture, which entered her body as she thought of helping Junior Brother Lu Yang advance.
• Hu Qi's Cave Heaven World expanded as Spiritual Land formed, and his consciousness traveled to a colossal door identified as the source of the Sea of Sumeru.
• Hu Qi recognized the name Lord of Strength as connected to Pan, then answered the door's question about his true name: Lord of Infinity.

Hu Qi advanced to Dao Lord, discovered that the colossal gate’s black corruption was affecting him, and found that his Scarlet Panel could only reduce it temporarily. At Zongshi Mountain, he annihilated the forces demanding Jiang Jiu and the stolen treasures, then addressed Pan about having a proper talk.

• Hu Qi inscribed Lord of Infinity on the colossal gate, triggering tremors across the Origin Realm and awakening powerful beings who sensed his breakthrough.
• Hu Qi examined his new Dao Lord status and used Modification Points to reduce—but not eliminate—the high-dimensional corruption linked to the gate.
• Hu Qi spent two million Modification Points to raise the Divine Limit Heart Art to its third level, strengthening his Spiritual Land and Dao Seed.
• At Zongshi Mountain, Xumi Palace and allied dao domains demanded that Zhang Huo explain the stolen treasures and hand over Jiang Jiu for a soul search.
• Hu Qi claimed responsibility for taking the supreme treasures and warned the assembled forces to leave within three breaths.
• When the forces attacked, Hu Qi annihilated more than a hundred Martial Gods and Martial Emperors, then turned to Jiang Jiu and asked Pan to talk.

Hu Qi questioned Pan, who was using Jiang Jiu’s body, about the True Spirit Gate and the erosion of Dao Lords by the source calamity, then returned Lu Yang’s body and Pangu’s Blood to him. Hu Qi left the Black Disc Galaxy, consumed Gray Mist for Modification Points, and discovered he could not modify his cultivation beyond the ninth level of Spiritual Land.

• Hu Qi froze the world and spoke with Pan, who explained that Dao Lords were eroded by the source calamity through the True Spirit Gate and that even reaching Dao Fruit could not stop it.
• Pan revealed that Lu Yang was his unfinished Self-Corpse and described how Lu Yang’s life had been arranged to culminate in merging with Pan.
• Hu Qi withdrew from Lu Yang’s body, returned Lu Yang to his ordinary state, and extracted the refined Pangu’s Blood before Lu Yang awoke at home with no memory of the events.
• Lu Yang returned to Abyss Prison and found its inmate count unchanged at four.
• Hu Qi emerged beyond the Black Disc Galaxy, devoured Gray Mist for Modification Points, and found that his Divine Limit Heart Art could not be modified past level nine of Spiritual Land.

Hu Qi explored the changes to his Cave Heaven World, traveled beyond the Black Disc Galaxy, and met Huo Yao, who invited him to join the Boundary Tower. After learning about the surviving Dao Lords and the tower’s purpose, Hu Qi accompanied Huo Yao to see it.

• Hu Qi learned that advancing his Dao Scenery Projection required spreading his influence and examined how his Cave Heaven World had developed into a universe.
• Hu Qi traveled through the Chaos Ruins beyond the Black Disc Galaxy, devoured weak source-disaster Gray Mist, and reset his erosion progress with Modification Points.
• Huo Yao appeared before Hu Qi, revealed himself as the Lord of Gu, and invited him to join the Boundary Tower.
• Hu Qi accepted and learned that fifteen Dao Lords remained alive, thirteen belonged to the Boundary Tower, and he became its fourteenth member.
• Huo Yao pointed out the Boundary Tower as they traveled together.

Hu Qi visited the Boundary Tower, where Wan Gu Yi explained its defenses against the Source Calamity and the deadly failed attempt to reach the True Spirit Gate. After receiving a World Tower Mark and returning to the fourteenth level, Hu Qi began preparing to cultivate, while Wan Gu Yi privately wondered why Hu Qi had no future in the river of time.

• Huo Yao brought Hu Qi to the Boundary Tower and introduced him to its master, Wan Gu Yi, the Lord of Time.
• Wan Gu Yi told Hu Qi that Boundary Tower members repaired the World Membrane, earning Dao Crystals, and gave him a World Tower Mark that granted some authority.
• Hu Qi asked whether sealing the True Spirit Gate could end the Dao Lords' corrosion, and Wan Gu Yi explained that twenty Dao Lords had died trying to reach it, though one briefly sealed it for less than ten thousand years.
• After Huo Yao left Hu Qi a communication talisman and departed, Wan Gu Yi caught and killed a Void Creature, then remarked that Hu Qi had no future and had arrived too late to change the ending.
• Hu Qi used the World Tower Mark to reach the fourteenth level, shaped its surroundings into a luxurious bedroom, and sat down to cultivate.

Hu Qi used the Boundary Tower’s worlds to advance his Dao Scenery Reflection progress, intervening in several worlds through spiritual fragments. Ten years later, his progress had reached 29.19%, but black grime had appeared on one World Membrane crystal.

• Hu Qi surveyed the Boundary Tower’s nearly ten thousand worlds and sent hundreds of Spiritual Sense fragments into them to test ways of increasing his reflection progress.
• William Hawk used a Pirate King System’s Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape a Favored One who had frozen his ship and crew.
• In Great Liang, Song Huan revived with Crimson serpent pupils and turned Lu Luo and the soldiers into ashes.
• Hu Qi’s Dao Scenery Reflection progress rose to 29.19% over ten years.
• Hu Qi noticed black specks of grime spreading across a white hexagonal crystal in the World Membrane.

Hu Qi investigated the spreading corruption in the Silent Realm and traced an urban legend to Luokamu Municipal Library. After destroying Qingyuan Hotel, he arrived at the library and pretended to apply for a job, while Ji Shang learned that Hu Qi had been behind the hotel’s destruction.

• Hu Qi sensed that the Origin Realm’s World Membrane was eroding and decided to investigate the imbalance in another world.
• Ji Shang and Shuo Qiu watched Qingyuan Hotel, and Ji Shang rushed to its ruins after the hotel exploded and vanished.
• Ji Shang retrieved footage of Qingyuan Hotel’s destruction, and Shuo Qiu recognized the person responsible.
• Hu Qi identified the Silent Realm’s black mist as a sign of its corruption and connected the Qingyuan Hotel anomaly to a black bookmark for Luokamu Municipal Library.
• Hu Qi reached the library, saw its recruitment notice, and told the fat man outside that he had come to apply.

Hu Qi, Ma Shuo, and Ji Huan joined the Luokamu Municipal Library as probationary employees and were warned to follow its dangerous rules. After Hu Qi read the Employee Handbook in his dorm room, a bloodied face appeared on a pillow that had not been there before, and he slapped it.

• Hu Qi met Ma Shuo outside the library, and Manager Liu hired them both despite Hu Qi having no resume.
• Ji Huan arrived and persuaded Manager Liu to hire her as well, then the three newcomers followed Wang Min into the library.
• Wang Min warned the newcomers to memorize the Employee Handbook and showed them their dormitory rooms.
• Hu Qi read the handbook's rules, including the warning not to touch any extra items found in a dormitory.
• A pillow appeared on Hu Qi's bed, turned red as a human face emerged, and Hu Qi slapped the face.

Ji Shang and the other new hires survived their first night in the library, where strict rules protected them from its horrors. Hu Qi explored the second-floor borrowing area and discovered that the books contained real strange tales before an unseen watcher’s eye burst.

• Ji Shang nearly touched a disguised human head, but Shuo Qiu warned her and its barrier knocked it away; she survived by facing the wall until night fell.
• Wang Min gathered Ji Shang, Ma Shuo, and Hu Qi, warned them not to leave, and assigned the first floor to Ji Shang and Ma Shuo while Hu Qi worked alone upstairs.
• Ma Shuo tried to quit after bloody handprints appeared in his room, but Wang Min warned him that stepping outside could kill him.
• Ji Shang asked to work on the second floor with Hu Qi, but Wang Min refused and sent her downstairs with Ma Shuo.
• Hu Qi found a marked book describing a monster that watched people from cracks and realized the library’s books recorded real strange tales.
• A pale face watched Hu Qi through a bookshelf gap, and its exposed eyeball suddenly exploded.

Hu Qi destroyed two Rule Horrors hidden in books while Ji Shang and Ma Shuo began their library duties as eerie readers arrived after dark. Ji Shang escaped the first underground book repository with a basket of books, while Ma Shuo discovered too late that a pale reader was a cleaner in disguise.

• Hu Qi opened another book, causing a two-headed Rule Horror to appear and burst apart under his power.
• Wang Min opened the library for the night, and Ji Shang volunteered to retrieve books from Basement Level 1 while Ma Shuo recorded missing titles.
• Ji Shang followed the repository instructions, collected a basket of books, and hurried upstairs as something crawled out behind the conveyor belt.
• Eerie readers entered the library, and a drenched, pale woman asked Ma Shuo to lend her a pen and paper.
• Ma Shuo realized the woman was a cleaner wearing the word “Cleaner” carved into her skin, after he had already handed her the supplies.

Hu Qi investigated the library’s horrors, slaughtered the readers who challenged him, and forced Ji Shang to accompany him into the basement archive. After uncovering Wang Min as a Strange Tale and rejecting his directions to the source, Hu Qi recognized the library’s influence over him and prepared to confront the creature emerging from the hole.

• Ma Shuo triggered a hidden rule and was cocooned in hair while Wang Min chose not to save him.
• Hu Qi questioned and destroyed the Beauty Snake, learning that it came from a second basement level.
• Hu Qi killed the arguing readers on the second floor and used his power to compel Ji Shang to follow him downstairs.
• Hu Qi exposed Wang Min as a Strange Tale, learned that the source might be connected to the basement hole, and crushed him when he suspected deception.
• Hu Qi realized the library had been influencing his thoughts, froze a barbed tongue emerging from the hole, and raised his foot to attack.

Ji Shang recovered and watched Hu Qi kill Ming Sha, a Void Royal Descendant, with one sword strike. Back at Boundary Tower, Hu Qi discovered that a Dao Crystal could accelerate the gestation of his Yuan Eye and fed it the crystal.

• Ji Shang escaped the collapsing library, summoned the Purple Thorn Scythe, and reported the danger to headquarters from a distant rooftop.
• Ming Sha, the Night Prophecy Moth and one of the Thirty-Six Royal Descendants, emerged from the ruins and attacked Hu Qi with a rule-like flame.
• Hu Qi summoned the Blade of the End and destroyed Ming Sha's projection with one strike, killing her true body in the Void Sea as well.
• Ji Shang told two Weapon Wielders from headquarters that Lin Sheng had killed the source of the strange tale.
• At Boundary Tower, Hu Qi received a Dao Crystal and sensed that it could nourish his Yuan Eye, so he absorbed it and felt the Yuan Eye begin to grow.

Hu Qi sought Dao Crystals to speed the gestation of his Yuan Eye, learned about a coming Dao Lord exchange and the Void Creatures, and spent eighty years advancing his Dao Scenery manifestation. He had gathered only two more Dao Crystals and arrived at the Dao Discussion Assembly hoping to obtain more.

• Hu Qi contacted Huo Yao, who had no spare Dao Crystals but invited him to a Dao Lord discussion gathering eighty years later and sent him information about Void Creatures.
• Huo Yao said little about the White Emperor, while the Night Prophecy Moth clan mourned Ming Sha and warned its members to flee if they encountered powerful Dao Lords.
• Hu Qi spent the following decades raising his Dao Scenery manifestation progress and secretly provoking World Membrane erosion, but obtained only two Dao Crystals.
• Hu Qi reached 89% manifestation progress and estimated that his Yuan Eye still needed at least ten Dao Crystals to finish gestating.
• Hu Qi set out for the Dao Discussion Assembly, hoping to acquire more Dao Crystals.