Chapter Summaries

Ding Ling cleared monsters and sealed the rift near Wind and Thunder City, strengthening his theory that rift size depended on how close a city was to the Great River. At the borderline, he rescued a woman named Xiang Er who looked almost exactly like Guo Xiang and believed Ding Ling might be her Master, but he did not confirm her claim.

• Ding Ling met Nan Gong Kuo in a book world and led him outside the city, where his million avatars overwhelmed the monsters.
• Ding Ling sealed the small rift beneath the Natural Chasm Abyss and suspected that cities farther from the Great River had smaller rifts.
• Ding Ling encountered Lei Zhenzi in Wind and Thunder City, stopped his surprise attack, and then cleared the surrounding monsters with his avatars.
• Ding Ling purified a woman at the borderline who remembered only the name Xiang Er and her search for a Master.
• Xiang Er said her Master looked like Ding Ling, but Ding Ling remained uncertain about her identity and did not acknowledge himself as her Master.

Ding Ling harvested powerful Curse Sources, repaired cracks throughout the book worlds, and gathered more followers as he traveled. At Source City, he disarmed Yuan Hong with a flick of his finger and then wiped out monsters across several thousand li, leaving the white ape stunned.

• Ding Ling repaired the cracks and harvested Curse Sources from the Lost City, Lockdown, Hell, and Rebirth Sequences, gaining powerful abilities and an amplified Undying Body.
• Ding Ling left Wind and Thunder City with Lei Zhenzi and Xiang Er, then methodically sealed cracks and cleared monsters around nearby cities while meeting figures from the Investiture of the Gods Era.
• Ding Ling arrived at Source City, where Yuan Hong attacked him with his Mixed Iron Rod and Ding Ling sent the weapon flying with a flick of his finger.
• Yuan Hong recognized Lei Zhenzi and learned that Ding Ling had come to go outside the city, so he eagerly led the group there.
• Ding Ling sent his clones into the black mist and swept away monsters across several thousand li, astonishing Yuan Hong.

Ding Ling rescued Chief Zuo, repaired the Natural Chasm cracks, and spent more than a month gathering and refining powerful Curse Sources. He left the Lingbao Illustrated Handbook with Yuan Hong and the others, determined to grow strong enough to reach Void City and uncover its secrets.

• Ding Ling freed Chief Zuo from the Black Mist, learned that he remembered dying while fighting an enemy army, and heard him say that Ding Ling felt like his Lord.
• Ding Ling led the group to the Heavenly Chasm and sent millions of projections into the abyss to repair its cracks.
• Ding Ling fished out and refined a rank 8 Buddhist School Sequence Vajra Curse Source, then amplified it to rank 9 and gained formidable defenses.
• Over the next month, Ding Ling gathered more Curse Sources, including rank 8 Vajra, Pan Chang, Buddha Lotus, and Law Umbrella sources, and strengthened them with Martial Dao True Understanding.
• Ding Ling resolved to keep advancing, repairing the cracks, and gathering Curse Sources until he could reach Void City and discover its secrets.
• Ding Ling led Yuan Hong and the others out of the book world where Yuan Cheng resided and into the outside world.

Yuan Hong and the Seven Oddities of Meishan learned of Ding Ling’s overwhelming power as he sealed the Abyss rifts across Yuan Hong’s vast territory. After sensing that his Fate Sequence had grown stronger, Ding Ling entered Wen Zhong’s domain.

• Yuan Hong chose to travel with the Six-Eared Macaque, whose accounts of Ding Ling deepened Yuan Hong’s admiration and loyalty.
• Ding Ling’s incarnations slaughtered the monsters outside Wild Boar City, astonishing Zhu Zizhen, who recognized the powerful Curse Sources in Ding Ling’s abilities.
• Zhu Zizhen, Wu Long, Chang Hao, and Yang Xian fled their worlds to find Yuan Hong, and Yuan Hong explained Ding Ling’s strength and mission to seal the Abyss rifts.
• Ding Ling used millions of clones to seal the rifts throughout Yuan Hong’s hundred-thousand-li territory over several months.
• After the clones returned, Ding Ling sensed that his Destiny Sequence had strengthened and moved into Wen Zhong’s territory.

Ding Ling led his companions to Qilin City, where he rescued Wen Zhong’s people by destroying the Black Mist monsters and sealing the calamity source. After meeting Xiang Yu and learning more about their shared, mysterious past, Ding Ling gathered powerful Curse Sources and sent clones deeper into the world to seal further rifts.

• Wen Zhong watched Ding Ling and his companions emerge from a crack in the sky, and Deng Jiugong explained that Ding Ling had come to destroy the monsters and seal the calamity source.
• Ding Ling split into ten million clones and effortlessly slaughtered the monsters outside Qilin City, convincing Wen Zhong that the world might still be saved.
• Ding Ling met Xiang Yu, who remembered his name and an obsession to protect the Origin World, while his other memories remained fragmented.
• Ding Ling sealed the Natural Chasm Abyss and spent more than a month collecting powerful Heavenly Path Sequence Curse Sources.
• Ding Ling left Qilin City and sent tens of millions of clones deeper into the world to repair sealed rifts while he and stronger incarnations tackled larger abysses.

After decades of sealing Abyss rifts, Ding Ling reached the wall at the end of the Lingbao Illustrated Handbook with Nezha. At the enormous Bronze Gate, Ding Ling saw an Immortal Court image whose figures seemed to notice him, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Ding Ling gathered 999 upgraded Curse Sources, and his Eight Trigrams Ball became powerful enough to overwhelm most enemies and protect his clones as they sealed rifts.
• Deng Chanyu and Long Er spotted a Bronze Gate embedded in the wall at the end of the Lingbao Illustrated Handbook, and Long Er warned that it felt dangerous.
• Nezha, Jiang Ziya, Yun Zhongzi, and others volunteered to scout, but Ding Ling chose to take Nezha with him.
• Ding Ling and Nezha crossed a perilous stretch of distorted time and space, protected by Ding Ling's Eight Trigrams Ball, and reached the immense Bronze Gate.
• Ding Ling examined the gate's shifting image of the Immortal Court, and its figures turned toward him before the confrontation faded and many appeared to vanish.

Ding Ling and Nezha entered the Bronze Gate’s Immortal Court and discovered a vast host of copies that could replicate their powers. The copies eventually matched Ding Ling’s abilities and charged at him, leaving the two facing an overwhelming threat.

• Ding Ling searched the seamless Bronze Gate, found no external mechanism, and followed its three-dimensional image into the Immortal Court with Nezha.
• Ding Ling and Nezha crossed the cloud sea and reached a crude, hollow-looking palace before finding an immense crowd of mysterious people.
• The crowd transformed into tens of millions of Ding Ling and Nezha copies, each bearing the originals’ appearances and weapons.
• Ding Ling attacked with powerful Sequences and destroyed hundreds of millions of copies, while Nezha realized the copies were reproducing their abilities.
• The remaining copies replicated Ding Ling’s divine arts and Eight Trigrams Ball, survived his attack, and charged at him.

Ding Ling and Nezha survived a battle against millions of replicated fighters, then absorbed the remaining Curse Sources and grew much stronger. They entered the Mortal World, where Ding Ling found a modern city and attracted the attention of a young woman.

• Ding Ling used amplified Sequences and the Martial Dao True Understanding to destroy the replicated fighters while retreating with Nezha.
• After the battle devastated the Immortal Court, Ding Ling and Nezha found intact Fire Tipped Spears and Wind Fire Wheels among the ruins.
• Ding Ling concluded that the Lingbao Illustrated Handbook World might be another source of disaster, then absorbed the remaining Curse Sources for several dozen days.
• Ding Ling recognized that Tier 8 Curse Sources could not naturally cross into Tier 9, while Nezha gained enough power to surpass Yun Zhongzi and the others.
• Ding Ling and Nezha descended into a modern-looking Mortal World, where Ding Ling invited a young woman to talk and she offered to take him to her place.

Ding Ling and Nezha settled into Yang Ling’s world while Ding Ling searched for a way out and found that its barriers blocked him. Yang Ling revealed that she had reincarnated 1,001 times and believed the two newcomers might help her escape the cycle, though her past attempts to stand out had repeatedly led the Research Institute to capture her.

• Ding Ling and Nezha followed Yang Ling to her apartment, where Nezha enthusiastically explored the comforts and entertainment of the twenty-first century.
• Ding Ling discovered that his powers still worked but could not pierce the world’s dimensional barrier or find a route back to the Immortal Court.
• Yang Ling took Ding Ling and Nezha to an amusement park, where their lack of fear went viral and made them famous across the world.
• Yang Ling told Ding Ling and Nezha that she had reincarnated 1,001 times and hoped they could help her break free of the cycle.
• Yang Ling revealed that she had been captured by the Research Institute in several lives after displaying extraordinary abilities, including when she infiltrated it.

Yang Ling revealed that she remembered being a celebrity before her first reincarnation, and Ding Ling confirmed that he and Nezha came from other worlds. After Yang Ling begged them to take her out of the reincarnation world, Ding Ling promised to help her find a way to freedom, while Nezha revealed that Ding Ling could destroy the world but was holding back to spare its people.

• Yang Ling described how the Research Institute had repeatedly discovered and beaten her during her reincarnations, and Nezha angrily promised to deal with its staff.
• Yang Ling embarrassed herself in front of Ding Ling, then asked whether he and Nezha were from another world after noticing she had never seen them in any of her past lives.
• Ding Ling led Yang Ling home, where she recalled that before her first reincarnation she had been a famous celebrity whose public had mocked and slandered her.
• Ding Ling admitted that he might have known Yang Ling before and confirmed that he and Nezha came from other worlds.
• Yang Ling pleaded with Ding Ling to take her out of the reincarnation world, and he promised to help her find a way to freedom.
• Nezha told Yang Ling that Ding Ling could destroy heaven and earth, but Ding Ling was avoiding doing so because innocent people would suffer.

Yang Ling explained how worldwide popularity strengthened people and drew the Research Institute’s attention, and Ding Ling and Nezha set out to exploit that power. After their videos made them famous, they revealed their abilities before the public, leaving the world convinced that real immortals had appeared.

• Nezha demonstrated his Wind Fire Wheels and Fire Tipped Spear for Yang Ling, who became excited about having powerful allies against the Research Institute.
• Yang Ling explained that fame increased her abilities and luck, and that extraordinary behavior would eventually prompt the Research Institute to capture people.
• Ding Ling sensed the mysterious energy drawn by popularity and decided that he and Nezha would become wildly famous before the Research Institute arrived.
• Yang Ling made social-media accounts for Ding Ling and Nezha, and their supernatural videos went viral, boosting Yang Ling’s fame as well.
• Ding Ling and Nezha displayed their powers before crowds, and witnesses recognized them as genuine immortals, throwing the world into an uproar.

Ding Ling helped Yang Ling refine the energy she had absorbed from her fame, then searched the Underground City and discovered a hidden eighth level. There, he and his companions found a strange hospital where two doctors operated on an injured Daoist, and Ding Ling suspected they were connected to the doctors who had captured his allies.

• Short videos of Ding Ling, Nezha, and Yang Ling spread online, making Yang Ling famous and accelerating her spiritual growth.
• Yang Ling’s accumulated energy overflowed as a dangerous fragrance until Ding Ling taught her the Evergreen Immortal Medical Scripture, helping her refine the energy and reach Golden Core.
• Ding Ling stopped waiting for the Research Institute and searched the Underground City, following a spying Karma Thread to its hidden eighth level.
• Ding Ling, Nezha, and Yang Ling arrived in a wasteland beside a ruined hospital and found two doctors operating on an injured Daoist.
• Ding Ling recognized similarities between the doctors, their operating room, and the doctors described by Long Er and Chan Er.

Ding Ling investigated the strange Old Doctors and discovered that they treated patients who recognized him before sending them away through spatial rifts. His attempt to capture one doctor ended in a devastating explosion, while Yang Ling's account led him to suspect the Research Institute had deliberately allowed her repeated infiltrations.

• Ding Ling avoided interrupting an Old Doctor's surgery on a virtuous Taoist and moved with Nezha and Yang Ling to another operating room.
• The Old Doctors cured a woman whose eyes emitted blue beams; she recognized Ding Ling as Great Sir and was abruptly pulled away through a spatial rift.
• Ding Ling observed the hospital for two days, finding that cured patients knew him and that new patients appeared as the old ones vanished.
• Ding Ling sent more than a hundred avatars to attack an Old Doctor, whose surgical knife removed their body parts and organs as the other doctor continued operating.
• Ding Ling's avatars seized the knife and restrained the Old Doctor, but he self-destructed outside the hospital, obliterating the nearby avatars.
• Ding Ling questioned Yang Ling about the Research Institute and concluded that it may have permitted her repeated attempts to infiltrate and observed her rather than trying to kill her.

Ding Ling refined the hospital’s Surgical Knife and used it to open a rift, sending a clone through to investigate. The clone reached the source of the Great River and glimpsed a vast Mountains and Seas World before the river’s Curse Source destroyed it, leaving Ding Ling wary of exploring further.

• Ding Ling sent clones into the hospital, seized an old doctor’s Surgical Knife, and restrained the doctor with the Confinement Sequence.
• Ding Ling refined the Surgical Knife into a Divine Weapon that could change shape and cut open space, astonishing Nezha and Yang Ling.
• Ding Ling sent a clone through the rift, where it endured prolonged darkness inside a small sphere surrounded by violent storms and experienced time far faster than the outside world.
• The clone finally saw the Great River, recognized it as the source of the Curse Source, and briefly glimpsed a hidden Mountains and Seas World before falling into the river and being destroyed.
• Ding Ling learned what the clone had witnessed and decided to remain cautious rather than risk entering the Great River himself.

After his clone’s disastrous encounter with the Source of the Great River, Ding Ling decided to avoid it until he grew stronger and used the Surgical Knives to uncover hidden Inner Worlds. He pursued a mysterious gaze through them with Nezha and Yang Ling, leaving the Research Institute still undiscovered as they entered a bizarre mirror world.

• Ding Ling concluded that the Source of the Great River was too dangerous to explore and resolved to return only after becoming stronger.
• Ding Ling’s clones took nine Surgical Knives from the hospital before its defenses expelled them, and he fused the knives into one powerful blade.
• Ding Ling used the blade to enter hidden spaces and recognized the Nine Palaces Immortal Demon Soul Transference Formation, which could have trapped and drained them if he had destroyed the world.
• Ding Ling and his companions searched successive Inner Worlds for the Research Institute and encountered tiny inhabitants and other strange wonders.
• Ding Ling sensed a gaze while opening the 807th Inner World, followed its Karma Thread, and entered a mirror-filled realm where reflections of the three appeared in countless mirrors.

Ding Ling followed the Karma Thread through two thousand layers of the Inner World and found the Research Institute, where he captured its thirty-six workers. As Yang Ling confronted their leader Ouyang Siwen, Ding Ling began questioning him about the source of Yang Ling’s reincarnation.

• Ding Ling blocked the mirror replicas with a slash and continued guiding Yang Ling and Nezha deeper into the Inner World.
• At the two-thousandth layer, Ding Ling found the Karma Thread’s source, cut through space, and brought Yang Ling and Nezha into the Research Institute.
• Ding Ling restrained all thirty-six people in the Research Institute, and Ouyang Siwen recognized Yang Ling and accused her of bringing fighters to attack them.
• Ding Ling restored Yang Ling’s clarity after Ouyang Siwen’s words unsettled her, and Yang Ling accused the Institute of making her its puppet.
• Ding Ling questioned Ouyang Siwen about the workers’ apparent lack of fear of death, then asked where the secret of Yang Ling’s reincarnation came from.

Ouyang Siwen revealed that Yang Ling was a traverser from Earth whose reincarnations were tied to the hidden Kunlun Mirror, which the Research Institute had tried to extract through repeated torture and manufactured disasters. Ding Ling examined the Institute’s advanced research and learned a stronger secret art, while uncovering how much its researchers knew about other worlds.

• Ouyang Siwen explained that the Kunlun Mirror protected Yang Ling by returning her to the past whenever she died, and said the Research Institute had tortured her in attempts to separate the Divine Weapon from her.
• Ouyang Siwen identified Yang Ling as a traverser from Earth and described the worlds beyond the Institute’s Inner World, prompting Ding Ling to question how the researchers knew about them.
• Ouyang Siwen said the Institute studied technologies, secret martial arts, divine abilities, Wish Power, and Curse Sources, and Ding Ling took the laptop to inspect its research.
• Ding Ling learned the Nine Palaces Plate Cable secret art from the Institute’s research and raised it to max level, greatly increasing his strength.
• Ding Ling discovered research on Li Bai’s Azure Lotus Sword Art and realized the Institute’s files contained many secrets and powerful techniques.

Ding Ling mastered numerous secret arts from the Research Institute’s files, astonishing Ouyang Siwen, Yang Ling, and Nezha. Ouyang Siwen explained that he and his colleagues were among the last Heavenly Beings, born from Heavenly Dao Spirits, while Ding Ling continued studying the secrets he had uncovered.

• Ding Ling reached max level in the Seven Stars Void Evasion Art and dozens of Sequence Curse Source secret arts, while Yang Ling and Nezha watched in awe.
• Ding Ling mastered the Moruo Gate Secret Art, whose power unsettled Ouyang Siwen and the others, then continued reading the Research Institute’s files.
• Ouyang Siwen asked Ding Ling to explain how to decipher the Moruo Gate script, and Ding Ling agreed in exchange for an answer about why the researchers did not fear death.
• Ouyang Siwen said he and his colleagues were Heavenly Beings, born when Heavenly Dao Spirits entered mortal wombs, and that a Primordial disaster had left them among the last of their kind.
• Ouyang Siwen explained that their Heavenly Dao heritage let them learn quickly and search the Heavenly Dao for the Kunlun Mirror, but the Moruo Gate script came from another world.

Ding Ling traded the Moruo Gate Secret Art cipher for Ouyang Siwen’s explanation of the Curse Source Origin and learned that it had poisoned the world’s Greater Heavenly Daos. Ouyang Siwen revealed that the Journey to the West World was near collapse, and the chapter ended with the Heavenly Beings still searching for a way to survive.

• Ding Ling exchanged most of the Moruo Gate Secret Art cipher for information from Ouyang Siwen, then completed the trade after an oath threatened his avatar.
• Ding Ling rapidly mastered secret arts from the computer’s materials, astonishing Ouyang Siwen and the other Heavenly Beings.
• Ouyang Siwen explained that the Curse Source Origin came from a Great River flowing into the Sea of Spacetime Emptiness, a source of poison that had killed the world’s three thousand Greater Heavenly Daos.
• Ouyang Siwen said the Heavenly Beings had guided figures such as Laozi, Shen Yuan, Chi You, Yellow Emperor, and Fuxi, but their efforts to save the worlds had failed.
• Ouyang Siwen revealed that the Journey to the West World and Projection World were close to collapse, and that even a ninth-grade Curse Source could not be removed by their current means.
• Ouyang Siwen said the Heavenly Beings had spent thousands of years studying Yang’s Kunlun Mirror in search of a way to survive.

Ding Ling questioned Ouyang Siwen about Shen Yuan, the ruined worlds, and the Curse Source, then subdued Ouyang Siwen and his companions while learning secrets and secret arts. He resolved to protect Yang Ling and seek a way to control the Kunlun Mirror, while discovering that he could transform his fingers into tiny people.

• Ding Ling learned that Shen Yuan was likely Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao's master, could revive after death, and was missing; Ouyang Siwen said the source of the Curse Source could kill him.
• Ouyang Siwen explained that countless dead Lesser Chiliocosms had become Inner Worlds and warned that the Endless Minor Worlds might also fall as the Curse Source corrupted them.
• Ouyang Siwen realized Ding Ling had learned powerful secret arts and sealed cracks in the Endless Minor Worlds, though he warned that sealing them only delayed further corruption.
• After several days of exchanging knowledge, Ding Ling knocked Ouyang Siwen and the others unconscious and trapped them; Yang Ling thanked him for standing by her.
• Ding Ling considered helping Yang Ling and obtaining the Kunlun Mirror, then finished studying the computer's secret arts and used Finger Demonization to turn his fingers into tiny people.