Arc 17The Sunstone Realm

Hu Qi advanced his Cave Heaven World and entered a technological realm, where he empowered Zhao Ying, gathered Sunstones, and confronted outsiders and the realm’s hidden powers. After devouring Black Corrosion and returning the world’s origin to the sun, Hu Qi left the realm and reached the boundary of the Abyssal Domain.

  • Hu Qi devoured Zarathos, became master of the Cangzhou Realm, and absorbed it into his Cave Heaven World before setting out to consume other worlds.
  • Hu Qi completed his Cave Heaven World’s evolution, grasped the Infinite Dao, and entered a technological world through a crack in the Abyssal Domain.
  • Hu Qi placed the Apex Predator System inside the Bronze Cross Medal and used it to strengthen Zhao Ying, who killed gang members and later defeated attackers and powerful mechas.
  • Hu Qi extracted Xi Guang from Zhao Yao, collected Sunstones, and used their power to descend with his true body and alter events on Iron Rock Star.
  • Hu Qi confronted outsiders Xu Shu and Lumina, killed Lumina, and took Xu Shu’s green bookmark before traveling to Azure Flame Star and draining Gu Mu’s power.
  • Hu Qi helped reignite the sun with the twelve Sunstones, then devoured Black Corrosion after breaking its restraints and absorbing its authority and memories.
  • Hu Qi returned the realm’s origin to the sun, glanced toward Zhao Ying, and crossed the Abyssal Domain to its boundary.
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Ch. 402Fate Weaver II

Hu Qi devoured the Five Great Heavenly Tribulations, then slaughtered the thirty-six immortals sent to subdue him. As the Three Ancestors appeared from the Immortal Court, Hu Qi recognized them as Fate Weavers and revealed that he knew their hidden secret.

  • Hu Qi emerged from Taize Lake and expanded his Gluttony Domain, devouring all five Heavenly Tribulations and killing every living being within a thousand li.
  • Thirty-six immortals descended from a purple rift and demanded that Hu Qi surrender, but he called them puppets of fate and attacked them.
  • Hu Qi shattered the Golden Armored Immortal’s halberd, killed him with a punch, and devoured his Soul Light after severing its fate threads.
  • The immortals attacked Hu Qi, who transformed into a colossal serpent and used Profound Yin Heavy Water, his Yuan Eye, and his Gluttony Domain to slaughter and devour them.
  • After Hu Qi swallowed the last immortal, three powerful figures appeared above the Immortal Court, and Hu Qi identified them as the Three Ancestors who had overthrown the Demon Court and as Fate Weavers.

Ch. 403True God I

Hu Qi discovered that the Dao, Confucian, and Buddhist ancestors were the Fate Weaver Zarathos, who had manipulated the human race’s destiny and seized control of the Cangzhou Realm. Trapped by Zarathos’s Fate Net, Hu Qi accelerated his divinity transformation and emerged with the aura of a true god, terrifying Zarathos.

  • Hu Qi used his mutated Yuan Eye to see through the ancestors’ disguises and identify their fused true form as the Fate Weaver.
  • Hu Qi realized Zarathos had altered humanity’s fate to overthrow the Demon Court and had gained control of the world’s authority.
  • Zarathos fused the three ancestors into the Confucian scholar and used the Heaven Sealing Stele and Fate Net to trap Hu Qi.
  • Hu Qi secretly spent Modification Points to accelerate his divinity transformation, and his golden divinity broke through the Fate Net’s threads.
  • Zarathos sensed Hu Qi’s true-god aura, recoiled in terror, and tore away his human disguise to reveal his monstrous form.

Ch. 404True God II (Something Came Up, So the Update Was a Little Late. My Deepest Apologies!)

Hu Qi ascended to true godhood, defeated Zarathos despite the Fate Weaver’s escape tricks, and confirmed the vast change in his power and status. As he wondered about the Scarlet Panel, a violent tremor shook heaven and earth.

  • Hu Qi’s divine presence forced Zarathos to sever its fate threads and abandon its hold over the Cangzhou Realm, cracking the Heaven Sealing Stele.
  • Hu Qi swallowed Zarathos, then perceived the destinies of living beings across the realm, while human cultivators saw Zarathos’s true form and denied what they had witnessed.
  • Zarathos possessed a youth in a fishing village and tried to hide, but Hu Qi located it and crushed it with a golden palm, gaining 9,540 Modification Points.
  • Hu Qi inspected the Scarlet Panel and found his Life Level listed as True God, his Cave Heaven World evolution at 53%, and 168,054 Modification Points remaining.
  • Hu Qi searched his transformed body for the Scarlet Panel but could not sense it, then a violent tremor shook heaven and earth.

Ch. 405The Road Ahead I

Hu Qi contained the collapse of the Immortal Court, restored the Demon Race’s destiny to the World Will, and was recognized as master of the Cangzhou Realm. Meanwhile, the Sea of Sumeru marked his ascension with ten spiritual echoes, astonishing the True Gods and deciding a wager between the White King and a sinister old man.

  • Hu Qi suppressed the collapsing Immortal Court’s energy and sealed the rift between the Immortal Realm and the mortal realm.
  • After the Heaven Sealing Stele shattered, the World Will appeared as a Mirage Dragon, and Hu Qi returned the Demon Race’s destiny to it.
  • The Mirage Dragon entered Hu Qi and acknowledged him as master of the Cangzhou Realm, flooding him with memories from the world and the ancient True God Mirage Dragon.
  • Hu Qi began sorting through the memories and stabilizing his power while True Gods in the Sea of Sumeru sensed his ascension.
  • The White King and a sinister old man wagered on Hu Qi’s spiritual echoes, and the count reached ten, leaving the True Gods in stunned silence.

Ch. 406Road Ahead II

After ascending to True God and producing ten Spiritual Echoes, Hu Qi learned about the stages beyond his breakthrough and focused on evolving his inner world. Ten years later, he left the divided Cangzhou Realm in the care of Hong Yuan and Jin Ling'er, ordering them to prevent either humans or demons from being exterminated.

  • Hu Qi's ten Spiritual Echoes tipped the Pale World's balance toward the White King, causing the Old Man to vanish and leaving Aldina with a crystal balance containing contract Dao Rhyme.
  • Hu Qi absorbed the Mirage Dragon's memories and learned that True Gods pursued World Transformation and Dao Seed, with Dao Lords beyond them.
  • Hu Qi recognized that his Void Glimpse Space was already an embryonic world and that its evolution had reached 53%.
  • Ten years after Hu Qi destroyed the Immortal Court, fighting between humans and demons had ended in a division of the Cangzhou Realm by fortified Boundary Cities.
  • At Tunjiang Palace, Hu Qi gave Jin Ling'er and Hong Yuan Immortal Qi, ordered them to keep both sides from extinction, and departed.
  • Hong Yuan agreed to stop attacking humans and cultivate with Jin Ling'er, while privately resolving to watch her because she still seemed unwilling to let go of her resentment.

Ch. 407Forward Path III

Hu Qi absorbed the Cangzhou Realm into his Cave Heaven World, advancing its evolution and fusing two divine abilities into Heavenly Mandate Pivot. He then seized the world Carmen by killing its rulers and twisting its World Will, raising his Cave Heaven World’s evolution progress to 67%.

  • Hu Qi sensed someone on Planet Earth recognizing his existence, but he could not sense Blue Star, and he absorbed the Cangzhou Realm into his Cave Heaven World.
  • Hu Qi’s Cave Heaven World evolution progress rose from 53% to 62%, and his Mind Evolution and Heavenly Thread divine abilities fused into Heavenly Mandate Pivot.
  • Hu Qi crossed the Deep Abyss Zone toward the world Carmen, devouring Spirit Realm creatures along the way.
  • The World Will of Carmen warned Asmodeus, Lord of Hell, and Aura, Lord of Heaven, of an approaching threat, and they went outside the world to confront it.
  • Hu Qi appeared in his colossal serpent form, killed Asmodeus and Aura, devoured their share of the world’s authority, and twisted the World Will into accepting him.
  • Hu Qi swallowed Carmen into his Cave Heaven World, raising its evolution progress to 67%.

Ch. 408Frenzied Harvesting

Hu Qi devoured worlds to raise his Cave Heaven’s evolution progress, then used the Spirit Devouring Talent to harvest Modification Points more efficiently. After destroying a world of the White King’s believers, he discovered that his slaughter had attracted the Spirit Realm’s Karma of Causality and stopped harvesting on a large scale.

  • Hu Qi devoured several worlds, avoided a confrontation with the True God Tian Xingzi, and raised his Cave Heaven’s evolution progress to 87%.
  • Hu Qi spent 150,000 Modification Points to increase his Cave Heaven’s evolution progress to 92%, then swallowed the Frost Moon Realm with his Spirit Devouring Talent and gained nearly 70,000 points.
  • Hu Qi found and destroyed a world inhabited by the White King’s believers, gaining more than 87,000 Modification Points.
  • Hu Qi detected the ominous Karma of Causality gathering in the Sea of Sumeru and realized that his destruction of worlds had drawn the Spirit Realm’s backlash.
  • Hu Qi stopped harvesting worlds on a massive scale and saw that his Modification Points had reached 1,104,701.

Ch. 409Hu Qi's Dao One

Hu Qi completed the Cave Heaven World's evolution, making it self-sustaining and a steady source of Modification Points, then reshaped its World Will into an obedient servant named Dong Yi. He left to seek a place to comprehend his own Great Dao, but after a day of reflection, he concluded he would need help from the Scarlet Panel.

  • Hu Qi spent 240,000 Modification Points to complete the Cave Heaven World's evolution, awakening its rules and transforming the Yin Yang Samsara Disk.
  • Hu Qi discovered that deaths within the Cave Heaven World steadily generated Modification Points without adding Karma of Causality.
  • Hu Qi seized the newly formed World Will, stripped away its emotions, named it Dong Yi, and ordered it to call him Master.
  • Aldina sensed that Hu Qi had destroyed a world containing many of her believers, but remained trapped in the Abyssal Domain and returned to absorbing Dao Rhyme.
  • Hu Qi entered a weak azure world and sat on a cliff to consider which Great Dao suited his cultivation path.
  • After failing to settle on a Dao by sunset, Hu Qi decided he needed assistance from the Scarlet Panel.

Ch. 410Hu Qi's Second Dao

Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to comprehend the Infinite Dao, spending a thousand years in seclusion on an island before emerging as the island’s mist dispersed. He killed five powerful figures who mistook the island for a legendary cave mansion and realized that doing so had added to his Karma of Causality.

  • Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to enter Dao comprehension and witnessed scenes from his past before grasping the Infinite Dao.
  • A thousand years passed while Hu Qi remained on the island, and natives watched it from a distance as its formation kept them away.
  • Wu San and the other guards spotted the mist dispersing and alerted the major powers, whose leaders rushed toward the island.
  • The arriving powerhouses and their followers forced their way through the island’s repulsive barrier and found Hu Qi instead of a cave mansion.
  • Hu Qi awakened, killed the five Tenth Realm powerhouses with a casual wave, and sensed that the killings had increased his Karma of Causality.

Ch. 411Entering

Hu Qi used the Infinite Dao to demonstrate immense power, then had the Scarlet Panel create and improve the Divine Limit Heart Art until further progress required Dao Rhyme. He entered the Abyssal Domain seeking a world entrance, escaped an Angler’s hook, and passed through the entrance into an unknown world.

  • Hu Qi formed and dismissed a black hole using the Infinite Dao, then checked his panel and found that the Dao could not be modified into a Dao Seed without Dao Rhyme.
  • Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to create the Divine Limit Heart Art and raise it to the True God Chapter Third Layer, but the Fourth Layer required Dao Rhyme.
  • Hu Qi left the island as martial world wanderers discovered and fought over the remains and possessions of the Five Great Ten Realms Experts.
  • Hu Qi entered the Abyssal Domain and, after roughly thirty days, found a glowing crack that appeared to lead into a world.
  • An Angler attacked Hu Qi with a hooked silver thread, but he dodged it by diving through the crack.
  • Hu Qi passed through the crack’s suppressive space and sensed that its force had weakened as he arrived in an unknown world.

Ch. 412System One

Hu Qi remained trapped inside a Bronze Cross Medal while he learned about Zhao Ying and her technologically advanced but deeply unequal world. After Zhao Ying’s family dismissed her prospects in favor of her gifted brother, the Apex Predator System activated and punished her for failing its first mission.

  • Hu Qi observed Zhao Ying studying transistor circuits and learned her name and the basics of her world.
  • Zhao Ying found the Bronze Cross Medal, pocketed it, and joined her exhausted parents for dinner with her brother, Zhao Yao.
  • Zhao Yao revealed his lower A-Class psychic rating, while Zhao Ying had only middle D-Class; Zhao Tian told her to stop studying after high school and work to support Zhao Yao.
  • Back in her room, Zhao Ying heard the Apex Predator System demand thirty sit-ups, mistook the voice for one of Zhao Yao’s pranks, and failed to begin before the countdown ended.
  • The system sent a violent bioelectric current through Zhao Ying, leaving her convulsing on the bed.

Ch. 413System II

Zhao Ying endured the Apex Predator System’s punishment and completed its first tasks, gaining a stronger physique and recovering her right leg. After Hu Qi used her as an agent to learn about the world, she finished a twenty-kilometer run and received another enhancement, leaving her taller and visibly muscular.

  • Zhao Ying completed thirty sit-ups after the system shocked her for delaying, then received a Physique enhancement that sharpened her senses and healed her right leg.
  • The system identified itself as the Apex Predator System and warned Zhao Ying not to reveal its existence.
  • Hu Qi observed Zhao Ying from inside the Bronze Cross Medal and explained that he had created the system to strengthen and direct her as his agent.
  • The next morning, Zhao Ying accepted a task to run twenty kilometers without repeating her route and left home before telling her brother Zhao Yao she would buy groceries.
  • Hu Qi used his expanding perception to study the Lower City and concluded that the world contained unusual energy beyond ordinary technology.
  • After Zhao Ying completed the run, the system awarded another Physique enhancement, making her taller, stronger, and more muscular.

Ch. 414Information

Zhao Ying discovered her strength had grown and completed the system’s task of eating more than 10,000 calories, earning Mastery-Level Comprehensive Combat Technique. After four gang members cornered her in D District, she killed them with her newly acquired fighting skills and continued on through the rain.

  • Zhao Ying gouged five deep finger marks into a concrete utility pole and realized how powerful her body had become.
  • The system sent Zhao Ying to Neon Flavor to eat more than 10,000 calories, and Hu Qi used the opportunity to investigate the restaurant’s network and learn about Ironstone Star.
  • Zhao Ying completed the eating task and received Mastery-Level Comprehensive Combat Technique, then paid for her meal with nearly all her savings.
  • Four gang members cornered Zhao Ying in D District, and she killed them in less than ten seconds using her new combat skills.
  • Zhao Ying checked the men’s bodies before leaving, while a police drone photographed the scene and an officer assumed a Cyborg had killed them.

Ch. 415Slaughter I

After killing the men who attacked her, Zhao Ying returned home and revealed frightening strength and bloodlust, while Hu Qi planned to push her into more combat. A battle in space ended with a wounded stranger vanishing, and a falling metal object bonded to Zhao Yao as a neural module connected.

  • Zhao Ying returned home without groceries, choked Zhao Yao when he accused her of stealing the money, and knocked him down before retreating to her room.
  • Zhao Ying realized she had killed people and felt an unsettling thrill, while Hu Qi acknowledged he had influenced her memories and considered sending her to underground fights.
  • Three S-class Abyss Mechas attacked a Golden Mecha in space, contaminated it with Sun-Eating Touch, and destroyed it in a final explosion.
  • A badly damaged figure escaped the battle, and a mechanical voice announced that its host was dead before detecting a Light Descendant bloodline bearer on Iron Rock Star.
  • Zhao Yao found a triangular black metal object on his windowsill, and it melted into his palm as a neural module connection began.

Ch. 416Massacre [Part Two]

Zhao Yao learned that he had been bound to Xi Guang, the spirit of the Forbidden Mecha Xi Zhi Chi Huang, and began training to awaken his Light Descendant bloodline. Meanwhile, Xi Zhi Chi Huang’s missing core drew the attention of powerful figures, and a masked woman revealed overwhelming strength in an underground arena.

  • Xi Guang told Zhao Yao that he was her tenth host, explained that the previous nine had died, and said their bond could not be undone unless he died.
  • Xi Guang revealed that Zhao Yao had a dormant Light Descendant constitution and taught him the Rainbow Siphon Willpower Tempering Method so he could awaken it and conceal his thoughts.
  • On Azure Flame Star, six figures learned that Flowing Light had died, Xi Zhi Chi Huang had self-destructed, and its core had disappeared; they resolved to find it before the Eternal Night Council and investigate the Sun-Eating Touch.
  • Zhao Yao concealed from his family what had happened at noon, while Zhao Ying calmly attributed her apparent growth spurt to growing.
  • A masked woman fought Black Ape in an underground arena, blocked his punch, tore out and crushed his mechanical heart, and left the spectators stunned.

Ch. 417Massacre [Part Three]

Zhao Yao awakened his Light Descendant bloodline and returned home, where his transformed sister Zhao Ying attacked him after her system ordered her to uncover his secret. Xi Guang took control to save him, but a mysterious young man in white appeared and reached into Zhao Yao’s skull.

  • Zhao Yao cultivated Siphon and awakened his Light Descendant bloodline, impressing Xi Guang, who warned him to hide his power from the Eternal Night Council.
  • Zhao Yao visited his parents at their new apartment and learned that Zhao Ying’s recent success had changed the family’s circumstances.
  • Zhao Yao saw that Zhao Ying had transformed into a powerful, imposing figure, while Hu Qi sensed unusual energy in Zhao Yao and an entity within his mind.
  • Zhao Ying’s system gave her a mission to uncover Zhao Yao’s secret, and she confronted him after sending their parents away.
  • When Zhao Yao fired a beam at Zhao Ying, she resisted it and knocked him down, then demanded he reveal his secret.
  • Xi Guang took control of Zhao Yao and struck Zhao Ying away, but a young man in white appeared, disrupted Xi Guang, and thrust his hand into Zhao Yao’s skull.

Ch. 418Massacre [Four]

Hu Qi seized Xi Guang’s core and learned that Sunstones could help him overcome the world’s restrictions. When Tian Ci’s forces attacked Zhao Ying’s building, she used the system-granted Magnetic Field Rotation to destroy their mechas, but a sudden beam struck her and sent her crashing through several buildings.

  • Hu Qi extracted Xi Guang from Zhao Yao, erased the witnesses’ memories, and later analyzed her core in the Bronze Cross Medal.
  • Hu Qi crushed Xi Guang’s Forbidden Mecha core, recovered its Sunstone, and learned that collecting more Sunstones could loosen the rules restraining him.
  • Zhao Ying accepted the system’s growth quest and received the tenth level of Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong, granting her 100,000 matches of Magnetic Field Rotation.
  • Tian Ci sent eight mechas to retrieve Xi Zhi Chi Huang’s core, and Zhao Ying killed the invading Mecha Masters while destroying their machines.
  • After Zhao Ying destroyed the last fleeing mecha, an unseen beam struck her and blasted her through several buildings.

Ch. 419Occupation

Zhao Ying survived Tian Ci’s attack after her power surged, then overwhelmed him and destroyed the Forbidden Mecha Tyrant of Magnetism. Hu Qi took the mecha’s core, while Bai Kong’s Eclipse Shadow fled and an unknown presence appeared to have taken control of him.

  • Zhao Ying was buried beneath ironworks debris but healed her wounds after the system granted her twenty levels of Ultimate Immeasurable Qi Gong and two hundred thousand horses of Magnetic Field Rotation.
  • Zhao Ying attacked Tian Ci in a frenzy and forced him to summon Tyrant of Magnetism, one of the Eight Forbidden Mechas.
  • The Tyrant of Magnetism’s Mecha Spirit seized control and tried to flee Iron Rock Star, but Zhao Ying appeared in its path and destroyed it with a single punch.
  • Hu Qi took the mecha’s core and noticed a hidden presence escaping nearby.
  • Bai Kong fled Iron Rock Star in Eclipse Shadow, but a voice addressed the mecha’s spirit from inside the cockpit, and Bai Kong’s right eye had become a Crimson serpent eye.

Ch. 420Reincarnation

Hu Qi seized Bai Kong’s body, took Sunstones from the Holy Cross Church’s Forbidden Mechas, and discovered that reigniting the sun would trigger another world-ending cycle. He began taking Zhao Yao’s destined role for himself, then the chapter ended with seven figures appearing inside a strange bubble in Iron Rock City.

  • Hu Qi erased the Eclipse Hermit's Mecha Spirit and possessed Bai Kong, then met Wu Dong and Hong Yu while claiming that Tian Ci had retreated.
  • Hu Qi led Wu Dong and Hong Yu to Zhao Ying, immobilized them, extracted their Sunstones, and used the power of four Sunstones to let his true body descend.
  • Hu Qi used Heavenly Mandate Pivot to learn that the world repeated through cycles, that reigniting the sun caused destruction, and that Zhao Yao was destined to gather the Sunstones.
  • Hu Qi modified Bai Kong’s Light Descendant Bloodline into Sun Chaser and recreated Tian Ci, Hong Yu, and Wu Dong using transformed bodies and Sunstone energy.
  • Hu Qi altered memories before departing; Zhao Ying remembered defeating Tian Ci, received a system penalty of ten extra missions, and left the ruins.
  • Several days later, seven figures appeared inside a translucent bubble in Iron Rock City’s Lower City F District.

Ch. 421The Deal [1]

Xu Shu’s team entered the altered Seven-star world of Eternal Silence Sun, where changed missions and a displaced protagonist’s family left their plans uncertain. Elsewhere, Hu Qi obtained the Heart of the Ocean and extracted a Sunstone, but a growing black point swallowed his mecha as he searched for the last two Sunstones.

  • Xu Shu’s team received revised missions after the world announced an unknown change, shortening the survival requirement and changing the favorability target to Zhao Ying.
  • Xu Shu’s team learned that Zhao Yao and Zhao Ying had moved and that a mecha attack had destroyed Lower City District C, then Wang Xiang located them in Cloud One, District A.
  • Hu Qi asked Lan Ze for the Heart of the Ocean and claimed it after draining the wine from Lan Ze’s goblet.
  • Hu Qi extracted a Sunstone from the Heart of the Ocean, bringing his total to ten, before a black point of light swallowed his mecha.

Ch. 422Transaction II (6k)

Hu Qi struck a wary bargain with Black Corrosion for a Sunstone and the Heart of the Sun Stone, then secretly removed the oath binding him and set out to deal with other outsiders. On Iron Rock Star, Zhao Ying hunted down Xu Shu’s group, killing two of its members and cornering the survivors.

  • Hu Qi met Black Corrosion in an alternate dimension, tested its strength with an attack, and agreed to help it suppress and devour the world’s main consciousness in exchange for the Sunstone and the Heart of the Sun Stone.
  • Black Corrosion bound Hu Qi with a powerful oath and revealed that seven other outsiders were in the realm; after leaving, Hu Qi used Crimson and his Modification Points to remove the oath’s restraint.
  • Hu Qi decided to seek out the other outsiders before they could interfere with his plans.
  • On Iron Rock Star, Xu Shu and the remaining members of his group hid after Zhao Ying’s favorability abruptly reset and she attacked them, killing three of their companions earlier.
  • Zhao Ying found the survivors, killed Xilis and her transformed werewolf partner, and confronted Xu Shu and Lumina.

Ch. 423Outsider

Zhao Ying battled Xu Shu and Lumina, forcing Xu Shu to use his Super Saiyan bloodline and devastating Z District before he escaped with Lumina. Hu Qi found them on Iron Rock Star, killed Lumina, and demanded to know how they had entered the world; Xu Shu offered him an item that could reveal the answer if crushed.

  • Zhao Ying attacked Xu Shu and Lumina, and Lumina shielded them while Xu Shu charged his transformation.
  • Xu Shu transformed into a Super Saiyan, fought Zhao Ying, and struck her with a Kamehameha and Spirit Bomb, but she survived the destruction of Z District.
  • Xu Shu fled with Lumina to a distant plain on Iron Rock Star as Upper City mechs descended, and they decided to leave the planet.
  • Hu Qi confronted Xu Shu and Lumina, used his Yuan Eye to trace the source of their outsider status, and suffered a backlash from the power behind them.
  • Hu Qi killed Lumina with the Eclipse Hermit's scythe and demanded an explanation from Xu Shu, who refused to give details but offered him an item to crush.

Ch. 424Dao Rhyme I

Hu Qi spared Xu Shu after taking his Reincarnation Book House bookmark, then went to Azure Flame Star to harvest its Dao Rhyme and defeated Gu Mu, the Pope of the Holy Cross Church. After killing Gu Mu and awakening the world's primary will, Hu Qi drew Black Corrosion into attacking it, then fled as Black Corrosion realized he had tricked it.

  • Xu Shu offered Hu Qi a green bookmark that could summon the Reincarnation Book House, and Hu Qi took it after warning Xu Shu not to deceive him.
  • Hu Qi traveled to Azure Flame Star, where Gu Mu faced four Forbidden Mecha Masters and unleashed Time Dweller, killing them and aging the surrounding city into ruins.
  • Hu Qi attacked Gu Mu with the Eclipse Hermit, repeatedly killed him despite his revivals, drained his power, and claimed the enormous Sunstone he left behind.
  • Hu Qi went toward the extinguished sun, where the awakened world's primary will appeared in a golden humanoid form and attacked him.
  • Hu Qi fought the primary will until he appeared to falter, called on Black Corrosion to strike, and then fled while Black Corrosion was still attacking.

Ch. 425Dao Rhyme II (6k)

Hu Qi restored the dead sun with the twelve Sunstones, triggering a catastrophe across the twelve planets. Xu Shu was returned home when the novel world collapsed, but learned that a True God Imprint had followed him; meanwhile, a giant serpent began devouring the sun’s energy.

  • Hu Qi entered the sun’s core, where the twelve Sunstones fused with it and reignited the star, destroying Bai Kong’s body and Forbidden Mecha.
  • Xu Shu sensed the sun’s return on Green Vine Star, but the Book Spirit detected the world’s collapse and returned him home before the catastrophe could consume him.
  • The Book Spirit revealed that an Eternal Lifeform had left a True God Imprint on Xu Shu, and removing it would cost one hundred thousand manuscript fees.
  • The expanding sun threatened the twelve planets, whose shields began to crack as solar storms and distorted gravity intensified.
  • The sun abruptly stopped expanding, and scientists discovered a vast serpent moving inside it and devouring its energy.

Ch. 426Why Force Me? (62k)

Hu Qi obtained the Reincarnation Dao Rhyme from the Heart of the Sun Stone, then defeated and devoured Black Corrosion when it tried to make him its nourishment. After restoring the sun with the world’s origin, Hu Qi left the realm and returned from the Abyssal Domain.

  • Hu Qi swallowed the Heart of the Sun Stone and used the Divine Limit Heart Art to absorb its Reincarnation Dao Rhyme, strengthening his Infinite Dao.
  • Black Corrosion revealed its altered form, sealed the sun’s space, and attacked Hu Qi to claim his stolen origin.
  • Hu Qi amplified himself to the limit of the Dao Seed Realm, broke Black Corrosion’s restraints, and devoured it.
  • Hu Qi absorbed Black Corrosion’s authority and memories, learning that it had been a True God who took over the world’s secondary will.
  • Hu Qi returned the realm’s origin to the sun, reducing his Karma of Causality, then departed the world after glancing toward Zhao Ying on Iron Rock Star.
  • Hu Qi crossed the Abyssal Domain, avoided a strange wave of living white particles, and reached its boundary.
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