Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi attended a Dao discussion gathering in the Boundary Tower, where he exchanged the Record Book for nine Dao Crystals and three Seeds of the Sage from the Lord of Truth. He then offered one Seed of the Sage in exchange for more Dao Crystals, continuing his search for what he needed.

• Hu Qi visited Huo Yao on the thirteenth floor, and Huo Yao introduced him to the Boundary Tower’s Dao Lords and the gathering hosted by the Lord of Truth.
• The Lord of Truth welcomed Hu Qi as a new fellow cultivator, and the Dao Lords shared their insights into the Great Dao.
• Huo Yao offered his Void Realm Spirit Gu in exchange for a supreme treasure that could accelerate cultivation in the Spiritual Land realm, but no one accepted.
• Hu Qi presented the Record Book, and the Lord of Truth recognized it as the Dao Artifact of the Lord of Heavenly Derivation and offered nine Dao Crystals and three Seeds of the Sage for it.
• Hu Qi accepted the exchange, erased his mark from the Record Book, and offered to trade one Seed of the Sage for surplus Dao Crystals.

Hu Qi traded for Dao Crystals but still could not fully awaken the Yuan Eye, then advanced to the Dao Scenery Realm by modifying his Divine Limit Heart Art. A mysterious figure in the Void Sea noticed his increased strength and interfered with the True Spirit Gate, while Hu Qi received a message and left a clone on guard before departing.

• Hu Qi traded a Seed of the Sage to the Lord of Paintings for four Dao Crystals and two Celestial Cycle Pardon Edicts, then refused further offers.
• Hu Qi refined thirteen Dao Crystals, found that the Yuan Eye still needed more, and offered another Seed of the Sage for ten Dao Crystals.
• Hu Qi worried that erosion of the World Membrane was accelerating and that the Source Calamity Gray Mist could eventually destroy the Origin Realm.
• Hu Qi used ten million Modification Points to advance the Divine Limit Heart Art to the fifteenth layer and enter the Dao Scenery Realm, manifesting a Pale Ring and a Dao Tree.
• A pale-haired figure at the True Spirit Gate sensed Hu Qi's advance, called him the Lord of Infinity, and suppressed the Gate's renewed glow at the cost of scorching his hand.
• Hu Qi received an ink-black message, left a clone to guard the World Membrane, and vanished from his room.

Hu Qi joined Yao Yue, Gong Shu, and Mo Wei to investigate widespread corrosion in the seventh level’s World Membranes in exchange for a share of the Dao Crystals. On B15 Planet, a party facing a Frost Dragon King was frozen by its domain, but the dragon suddenly cowered before an unseen presence in the sky.

• Yao Yue showed Hu Qi a spreading corruption affecting more than three thousand World Membrane crystals and offered to split the recovered Dao Crystals among the group.
• Mo Wei and Gong Shu entered the connected worlds, and Yao Yue warned Hu Qi that Mo Wei’s temperament had changed after a failed breakthrough.
• On B15 Planet’s Eternal Icefield, Gromos, Suli, and their companions tracked a sleeping Frost Dragon beneath an ice hill.
• The party discovered that their target was the level 100 Frost Dragon King, Frostbone Wing, and tried to retreat as it trapped them inside its Frost Domain.
• As Frostbone Wing prepared to unleash its breath, it abruptly cowered and knelt, and the elf girl looked toward the sky to see what had frightened it.

Hu Qi entered the game-like Imaginary Space as the World Destruction Serpent and killed the players on Planet B15, earning Modification Points before using Twisted Light to take human form. Suli and his teammates woke in the real world weakened by their deaths, and Suli opened a forum post listing the newly appearing World Bosses.

• The World Destruction Serpent appeared over the Eternal Icefield, and its gaze killed the players and shattered the Frost Dragon King.
• Hu Qi recognized that the game’s rules had made him a World Boss and learned that players were unknowingly consuming their worlds’ life force by hunting monsters.
• Hu Qi used Twisted Light to take human form, then killed players across Planet B15 and gained about forty thousand Modification Points.
• Suli woke from the nutrient pod and found that his death had reduced his real-world strength and cost him his equipment.
• Suli checked in with his teammates, then followed Gromos’s link to the Boundless forum and opened a post listing the World Bosses.

Suli read that Imaginary Space had updated its World Boss rules, prompting players to besiege three bosses while Hu Qi secretly killed players as the World Destruction Serpent. When repeated deaths began killing players in reality, Hu Qi stopped harvesting them and wondered whether his Modification Points had caused the change.

• Suli read Heavenly Secrets Old Man’s post describing four World Bosses and the new rules that reduced their visual effects and let players damage their health after breaking their shields.
• Players rushed to attack the Painting Prison Master, the Blood-Eyed Crow King, and the Twin-Headed Sin Nest, while Hu Qi sensed the update shielding his true appearance and continued collecting Modification Points.
• Hu Qi killed players across the worlds, and those he killed repeatedly began dying in reality, provoking panic and outrage on the forums.
• After Lin Hai was killed in reality, Hu Qi examined the nearly twenty million Modification Points he had collected and stopped his killing spree because player deaths could destabilize the World Membrane worlds.
• Hu Qi recalled that players had never died in reality from repeated deaths in Imaginary Space and wondered whether the Modification Points were responsible.

Hu Qi reached the peak of the Dao Scenery Realm and considered how to advance to the Wondrous Jade Realm before confronting Mo Wei, the Lord of Ashes. After Hu Qi wiped out the players besieging Mo Wei, Mo Wei attacked him, and Hu Qi prepared to fight back.

• Hu Qi spent six million Modification Points to raise the Divine Limit Heart Art to level eighteen and reach the peak of the Dao Scenery Realm.
• Hu Qi reviewed methods for entering the Wondrous Jade Realm and decided to seek the Lord of Paintings for details about refining the Dao Tree's impure colors.
• Hu Qi traveled to C12 Star, where millions of players were attacking the Blood-Eyed Death Crow, and identified it as Mo Wei, the Lord of Ashes.
• Hu Qi killed the players around Mo Wei with his domain, gaining 3.4 million Modification Points and driving the survivors away.
• Mo Wei demanded to know why Hu Qi had interfered, then fired a destructive beam at him.
• Hu Qi emerged unharmed and told Mo Wei that he would help clear up his problem with his head.

Hu Qi overwhelmed the Blood-Eyed Death Crow, revealed that it was Mo Wei, and beat him until he recovered from his frenzy. Hu Qi spared Mo Wei and left with him to join Gong and Yao, while the surviving players cautiously approached the empty crater.

• Hu Qi struck the Blood-Eyed Death Crow hard enough to shatter its shield and remove ten million health, stunning the watching players.
• The Blood-Eyed Death Crow rose into the sky and unleashed a deadly tornado, but Hu Qi manifested as a giant and smashed it into the ground with repeated punches.
• Mo Wei, the Lord of Ashes, begged Hu Qi to stop and admitted he had regained his senses; Hu Qi destroyed a concealed player who was waiting to steal the kill.
• Hu Qi spared Mo Wei, who recovered, returned to human form, and thanked him before agreeing to join Gong and Yao.
• Players discovered that deaths now cost them ten levels and found the crater empty when they cautiously approached.

Forum users were stunned by footage of Hu Qi defeating the Blood-Eyed Death Crow and reports that he and Mo Wei had caused the other World Bosses to vanish. Luo Xing, the hidden controller of Imaginary Space, realized the Bosses had escaped his rules and summoned Bai Xie to stop them, leaving countless players dead as the artifact spirit unleashed its power.

• Players spread footage of Hu Qi soloing the Blood-Eyed Death Crow and speculated that he had also made the other two World Bosses disappear.
• Luo Xing reviewed recordings showing Hu Qi and Mo Wei speaking with Twin-Headed Sin Nest and the Painting Prison Master after breaking free of his rules.
• Luo Xing revealed that he had created Imaginary Space with the Void Ring and feared the powerful beings who had invaded it.
• Hu Qi and three other existences appeared in the starry sky with banners, and Luo Xing asked Bai Xie to help stop them.
• Luo Xing offered an entire world as a sacrifice, and Bai Xie agreed to help by draining the lives of one-tenth of the players.
• Bai Xie killed countless players, whose crimson energy formed chains of rules that suppressed the rippling space.

Hu Qi used the Tattered Black Banner, empowered by the Seed of the Sage, to break through Imaginary Space and lead Yao Yue, Gong Shu, and Mo Wei toward reality. As the four Dao Lords descended, Bai Xie harvested Luo Xing, and players were forcibly gathered beneath a growing rift in the sky to face the incoming world BOSSes.

• Yao Yue identified the barrier as a reinforced Mind Realm created by the Evil Spirit Clan, and the group found no way to open it without tearing the World Membrane.
• Hu Qi offered to use the Seed of the Sage to break through Imaginary Space in exchange for one-third of each companion's Dao Crystal share, and Yao Yue, Gong Shu, and Mo Wei agreed.
• Hu Qi empowered himself with the Seed of the Sage and used the Tattered Black Banner to shatter a weak point in Imaginary Space, carrying the four Dao Lords through a spatial rift.
• Bai Xie attacked Luo Xing, drained him with silver-white flames, and took control of his body after the black-red karmic force above him vanished.
• A warning announced that four world BOSSes were about to descend into reality, and players were forcibly teleported above a turbulent sea as a silver-white rift opened overhead.

Hu Qi and the other Dao Masters arrived in reality and effortlessly stripped the players of their Imaginary Marks, but Bai Xie summoned the White Emperor before they could capture him. A Time-Space Worm abducted Hu Qi, who awoke in a palace before the white-haired Lord of Infinity.

• Players gathered to fight the descending World Bosses, but Hu Qi shattered their attacks and stripped away their Imaginary Marks, sending them falling into the sea.
• Hu Qi spotted Bai Xie disguised as Luo Xing and grabbed him, but his augmented power expired and Bai Xie escaped his grasp.
• Yao Yue sealed the area with her Dao Artifact while Hu Qi and the others prepared to attack Bai Xie, who called on the White Emperor for aid.
• Wan Gu Yi blocked the White Emperor’s giant hand with a jade-green fishing rod, but a Time-Space Worm abducted Hu Qi and the White Emperor took Bai Xie away.
• Wan Gu Yi identified the captor as a member of the Eight Great Void Royal Families, and Hu Qi found himself in a palace before the Lord of Infinity.

Hu Qi was abducted to the White Emperor Palace, where the White Emperor recognized his hidden Dao Scenery Realm strength and tried to capture him. After three Dao Fruit Realm Dao Lords failed to rescue him, Hu Qi fought the White Emperor alone and finally cracked his crystalline shield with a sudden surge of power.

• The White Emperor revealed that he had seen through Hu Qi’s concealment and trapped him inside the White Emperor Palace, where the Time-Space Worm had brought him.
• Wan Gu Yi, the Lord of Truth, and the Lord of Karma opened a passage into the palace and attacked the White Emperor, but he defeated their combined assault and the passage collapsed.
• The White Emperor’s clash with the three Dao Lords destroyed the Time-Space Worm and annihilated the Void Creatures around the palace.
• Hu Qi attacked the White Emperor after the rescue attempt failed, unleashed the Seed of the Sage and Lord of Infinity, and exchanged a hundred thousand blows with him without breaking his crystalline shield.
• Hu Qi’s aura suddenly surged, and his next punch struck the shield hard enough to spread cracks across it.

Hu Qi burned his Dao Seed and fought the white-haired youth in the White Emperor Palace, ultimately landing a devastating slash but failing to kill him. Hu Qi died and repeatedly revived through his Eternal Ring, remaining trapped in the palace as a weakened Pale Serpent.

• Hu Qi burned his Dao Seed and attacked the white-haired youth, shattering his shield and forcing him into a fierce, evenly matched battle.
• As Hu Qi's strength waned, he summoned Dusk and unleashed a slash that severed the white-haired youth's left arm, but the youth survived inside his crystal wings.
• Hu Qi collapsed into ashes, and the white-haired youth destroyed his returning snake-shaped shadow and erased the remains throughout the palace.
• Hu Qi revived as a Pale Serpent, revealing that his Eternal Ring let him return from death at the cost of some strength.
• Hu Qi admitted his plan had failed: the white-haired youth remained alive, and the White Emperor Palace still trapped him in its space-time.

Hu Qi’s true body was sealed by White Emperor in the God Burying Void Crystal, leaving his avatar to seek help and strengthen himself. Wan Gu Yi gave him valuable Dao Lord insights, and Hu Qi went to Yao Yue to ask whether her promised Dao Crystals were still available.

• White Emperor invaded Hu Qi’s soul, but Hu Qi used Crimson to erase the invading will before White Emperor repeatedly killed him.
• After more than a dozen deaths, White Emperor sealed Hu Qi’s true body inside the God Burying Void Crystal, where Hu Qi secretly sent out an energy fluctuation.
• Hu Qi’s will transferred to his Boundary Tower avatar and met Wan Gu Yi, who confirmed the seal was nearly impossible to escape.
• Hu Qi learned that Wan Gu Yi, the Lord of Time, the Lord of Karma, and the Lord of Truth were different versions of Wan Gu Yi from other timelines, and received a bead containing Dao Lord insights and breakthrough techniques.
• Hu Qi told Wan Gu Yi that White Emperor had been injured, then traveled to Yao Yue’s seventh layer and asked whether her promised Dao Crystals still counted.

Hu Qi collected the Dao Crystals owed to him, then discovered his avatar could refine them to advance its own Yuan Eye but could not share the gains with his trapped true body. Back in the White Emperor Palace, he studied Wan Gu Yi’s five inherited secret arts and asked Crimson to combine their strengths into a method that would purify his Dao Tree.

• Yao Yue gave Hu Qi fifty-one Dao Crystals, including extra crystals as compensation for the failed World Membrane World harvest.
• Gong Shu gave Hu Qi only one Dao Crystal and promised to pay the rest later, while Mo Wei handed over ten as promised.
• Hu Qi left the seventh floor and tested whether his avatar could absorb Dao Crystals, learning that the benefits could not synchronize with his true body.
• Hu Qi returned his will to his true body in the White Emperor Palace and examined Wan Gu Yi’s five beginner-level secret arts on the Scarlet Panel.
• Hu Qi ordered Crimson to use the five secret arts as foundations for a method suited to him that would purify his Dao Tree as much as possible.

Hu Qi fused five secret arts into the Primordial True Explanation and perfected it, purifying his Dao Tree into flawless white as he remained sealed in the God Burying Void Crystal. After eight thousand years, his cultivation finally reached a new stage, while Long Si’s taunts and the crystal’s corrosion continued to threaten him.

• Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to fuse five secret arts into the Primordial True Explanation and raised it to its perfected ninth layer, gaining three powerful traits.
• The Primordial True Explanation rapidly purified Hu Qi’s Dao Tree into a flawless white form, though it still needed time to become completely colorless.
• Hu Qi learned that the white-haired youth was named Long Si and that the God Burying Void Crystal was steadily eroding his perception of the outside world.
• Long Si told Hu Qi that Wan Gu Yi had tried to infiltrate the True Spirit Gate by possessing a member of the Void Royal Family, but Long Si had discovered and injured him.
• Long Si tried to provoke Hu Qi by blaming him for hastening the invasion of the Origin Realm, but Hu Qi ignored him to avoid accelerating the crystal’s corrosion.
• After another eight thousand years, Hu Qi opened his eyes and declared that his cultivation was finally complete.

Hu Qi purified his Dao Tree and used the Scarlet Panel to reach the peak of the Wondrous Jade Realm, but the God Burying Void Crystal continued to grow denser and tighten its seal. He made what was likely his final visit to the Boundary Tower Dao Forum, then left with ten Dao Crystals from the Lord of Truth.

• After more than a thousand years inside the crystal, Hu Qi finished purifying his Dao Tree and modified the Divine Limit Heart Art to reach the peak of the Wondrous Jade Realm.
• Hu Qi’s breakthrough sent a surge of spirituality through his Cave Heaven World, while the crystal intensified its erosion and further weakened his connection to the True Spirit Gate.
• Long Si sensed Hu Qi’s increased strength but concluded that the breakthrough would not free him from the God Burying Void Crystal.
• Hu Qi shifted his will to his Boundary Tower avatar and attended the Dao Forum, where he saw Pan had returned after reaching the Wondrous Jade Realm.
• The Lord of Truth gave Hu Qi ten Dao Crystals, and Hu Qi said farewell to the assembled Dao Lords before leaving, expecting it to be his last meeting with them.

Hu Qi perfected the Origin Eye of Delusion inside the God Burying Void Crystal, gaining the power to voidify and analyze reality and a way to move through his prison. Rather than escaping immediately, he reached the peak of the Wondrous Jade Realm and triggered a Dao Fruit tribulation that battered the White Emperor Palace, leaving Long Si to face a storm of external calamities.

• Hu Qi absorbed the Dao Crystals, left the Boundary Tower, and the other Dao Lords recognized that his departure meant he had been permanently sealed away.
• After reclaiming his clone, Hu Qi’s Yuan Eye transformed into the Origin Eye of Delusion, and he spent twenty million Modification Points perfecting it.
• Hu Qi used the completed eye to voidify the God Burying Void Crystal around him, then chose to grow stronger before confronting Long Si.
• Hu Qi reached the peak of the Wondrous Jade Realm and triggered a Dao Fruit External Tribulation from within the crystal.
• Long Si sensed the tribulation outside the White Emperor Palace as successive lightning, fire, wind, and other calamities struck and damaged it.

Hu Qi used the God Burying Void Crystal to endure the External Tribulations of his advance to the Dao Fruit Realm, forcing Long Si to abandon the White Emperor Palace. As Hu Qi prepared to face his internal tribulation, he used the Origin Eye of Delusion to find a black thread of Inner Demon Tribulation rooted in his Cave Heaven World.

• Hu Qi’s External Tribulations battered the God Burying Void Crystal but could not reach him, and Long Si failed to suppress them as they grew stronger.
• Dozens of Dao Lord imprints appeared as External Tribulations and attacked the crystal, while Long Si fought them off and then left the White Emperor Palace.
• Long Si declared the area forbidden and resolved to accelerate his corrosion of the Origin Realm after the tribulations drove him from his residence.
• Hu Qi ignored the chaos outside and focused on identifying the internal tribulation forming within him.
• Hu Qi used the Origin Eye of Delusion to examine himself and discovered a writhing black thread of Inner Demon Tribulation rooted in his Cave Heaven World.

Hu Qi used the Origin Eye of Delusion to glimpse the Scarlet Panel’s terrifying true form, then located his brewing Internal Tribulation inside the material world of his Cave Heaven. There, he encountered Lin Dao and the powerful remnant soul called Sister Ling as they tried to flee a mysterious threat.

• Hu Qi saw a black ring containing a dormant red light while examining his origins, and realized it was likely the Scarlet Panel’s true form; the vision injured his Origin Eye of Delusion.
• Hu Qi traced his Internal Tribulation to the material world within his Cave Heaven and focused his will there, hoping to deal with it at its source.
• In World 302, a demon-like figure drained the essence from a corpse while Luocheng lay under a blood-red canopy.
• Lin Dao executed servants who tried to flee Lin Manor, then spoke with Sister Ling about surviving the demons that had killed his father.
• A strange presence froze the scene at Lin Manor, and Sister Ling summoned a peacock phantom to carry Lin Dao away.
• Hu Qi appeared and watched Lin Dao escape through the roof, then challenged him and Sister Ling’s remnant soul to flee from him.

Hu Qi discovered that Lin Dao was a Calamity Child destined to attack Heaven, but killing him and other Calamity Children only made the Inner Tribulation grow stronger. As Hu Qi pursued more Calamity Children, the Boundary Tower outside began to fail, and an immense clockwork gear turned time backward across the Origin Realm.

• Hu Qi destroyed the fiery peacock, killed the Red-dressed Woman after extracting her memories, and learned that Lin Dao was the Calamity Child who would attack Heaven.
• Hu Qi killed Lin Dao, but the Inner Tribulation remained and intensified, so he used the Origin Eye of Delusion to find and eliminate other Calamity Children.
• Hu Qi killed Calamity Children with varied powers and origins, including a young girl whose emotional system he extracted and crushed.
• The Inner Tribulation expanded across nearly half the Cave Heaven World, and Hu Qi continued toward the next Calamity Child, intending to let the tribulation grow until it erupted.
• Outside the Cave Heaven World, nearly a thousand years passed as the Boundary Tower cracked under an assault by Void Creatures and Source Calamity Gray Mist.
• An immense clockwork gear appeared above the Origin Realm and turned time backward, restoring the Boundary Tower, stars, and destroyed lives while drawing the gray mist back into its rifts.