Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi continued grinding away the Primal Creation Plate’s will imprint and secured control of thirty percent of it. With Wuji pursuing him, Ling Xiao tried to expel Chen Yi through the plate but could not dislodge him, so he invoked a powerful suppression technique.

• Chen Yi ground away ten percent of the Primal Creation Plate’s will imprint over seven days, then continued until he controlled thirty percent.
• Ling Xiao burned origin Dao marks to outrun Wuji and create enough distance to confront Chen Yi through the Primal Creation Plate.
• Chen Yi rejected Ling Xiao’s demand to leave and used his Nascent Soul power to hold his ground inside the plate.
• Ling Xiao threatened Chen Yi and tried to expel him, but Chen Yi resisted and pointed out that Ling Xiao’s true body was in danger.
• Ling Xiao suspected Chen Yi was an aberrant breed and invoked the Heaven and Earth Boundless Qiankun Seal to suppress him.

Ling Xiao escaped Wuji by merging with the bronze giant coffin, but Wuji severed history and mobilized the Immortal Realm to hunt him. Meanwhile, Chen Yi’s avatar remained trapped in the Heaven and Earth Boundless Qiankun Seal as his other divine sense moved toward the untouched part of the Primal Creation Plate.

• Ling Xiao burned origin Dao marks to borrow Wuji’s law and seal Chen Yi’s avatar, then fled as Wuji pursued him through the River of Time.
• Wuji burned an origin Dao mark to close the distance, while Ling Xiao taunted him and spent two more marks to escape.
• Chen Yi’s True Body stabilized his avatar inside the seal and sent his concealed main force toward an untouched region of the Primal Creation Plate.
• Wuji’s cracked Chaos Cauldron struck the bronze giant coffin and opened a gap, but Ling Xiao merged with the coffin and escaped into the unknown depths of time.
• Wuji severed history to cut off Ling Xiao’s return and ordered beings above the Golden Immortal realm to search for him, offering origin Dao marks as rewards.

A golden dragon entered the Primal Creation Plate and revealed that it could control the artifact and uncover Chen Yi’s erased information. It claimed to be the Plate’s artifact spirit and asked Chen Yi to help it regain its freedom in exchange for Ling Xiao’s treasure vault.

• Golden Scale sensed that Ling Xiao’s will imprint had gone silent, transformed into a golden dragon, and vanished from Dragon Refining Island.
• Chen Yi encountered the dragon inside the Primal Creation Plate, but the artifact dissolved his attack and flew into the dragon’s embrace.
• The dragon recognized Chen Yi and identified information from his past, prompting him to suspect that it was the Primal Creation Plate’s artifact spirit.
• The dragon admitted it was the artifact spirit and offered Chen Yi Ling Xiao’s treasure vault if he helped it regain its freedom.
• The dragon told Chen Yi that Ling Xiao had erased its true spirit and used its broken body to ascend.

Chen Yi tricked the Little Golden Dragon into revealing its plans, then used his four-star Chaos clone to seize and shrink it. After discovering a connection between the dragon and Zhao Huazhen, Chen Yi called it “A Sour Fish” and berated it for crying.

• Chen Yi questioned the Little Golden Dragon about Ling Xiao, Wuji, and the rules preventing lower-realm ascension.
• The Little Golden Dragon urged Chen Yi to cooperate in taking the Ling Xiao Treasury while Wuji kept Ling Xiao occupied.
• Chen Yi revealed that he had been stalling, merged his avatar into the Primordial Creation Plate, and brought in his four-star Chaos clone.
• Chen Yi's clone captured the Little Golden Dragon and compressed its true form into a tiny loach.
• The Little Golden Dragon lamented being betrayed, and Chen Yi recognized a connection to Zhao Huazhen and called it “A Sour Fish.”

Chen Yi subdued A Sour Fish, the Little Golden Dragon, and explained why he would not cooperate with him. A Sour Fish realized that Ling Xiao could use Wuji to attack him if the Epoch Treasure Vault was opened, leaving him to face the danger of two Immortal Emperors.

• Chen Yi held the Little Golden Dragon and said he might return its original body if it obeyed him.
• The Little Golden Dragon refused to trust Chen Yi, so Chen Yi flicked it and spun it until it stopped resisting.
• Chen Yi asked what would happen when Ling Xiao's will imprint on the Primal Creation Plate was erased.
• Chen Yi compared the threat to a hunted person learning that a thief was breaking into their safe.
• The Little Golden Dragon realized Ling Xiao could enlist Wuji against him if the Epoch Treasure Vault was opened, and understood why Chen Yi would not cooperate.

Chen Yi persuaded Little Golden Dragon to join him in challenging Ling Xiao’s control of the Primordial Creation Plate. Little Golden Dragon revealed it could cleanse the Ling Xiao Treasury’s resources and control those tainted by Ling Xiao’s will, but Chen Yi’s calm response left it unsure whether that gave it any leverage.

• Little Golden Dragon reconsidered Ling Xiao’s betrayal and realized the Creation Plate might have made itself too easy for him to take for granted.
• Chen Yi rejected cooperation on Little Golden Dragon’s terms and explained that making it a third power could preserve a balance against Ling Xiao and Wuji.
• Chen Yi urged Little Golden Dragon to focus on outcomes and seek freedom, and Little Golden Dragon agreed to trust his help despite his intention to take everything.
• Little Golden Dragon proposed pretending to oppose Chen Yi while secretly draining Ling Xiao’s assets, but Chen Yi said they should pretend to cooperate with Ling Xiao and use him to withstand Wuji’s pressure.
• Little Golden Dragon warned Chen Yi that Ling Xiao’s Treasury could imprint his will on its users and claimed it could cleanse the resources and control those affected.
• Chen Yi remained unconcerned, leaving Little Golden Dragon doubting that its powers gave it any real leverage over him.

While working undercover in an ancient stretch of spacetime, Ling Xiao found a chance to act as Chen Yi and Little Golden Dragon fought over control of the Primal Creation Plate. He pretended to repent and began transferring his territory to Little Golden Dragon, but Chen Yi interrupted by trying to seize their shares.

• Ling Xiao disguised himself as a woodcutter in an ancient stretch of spacetime and received information through his future will imprints.
• Chen Yi and Little Golden Dragon began devouring Ling Xiao's will imprints in the Primal Creation Plate according to their planned division.
• Ling Xiao's dormant imprint revived, confronted them, and apologized to Little Golden Dragon for taking its body.
• Ling Xiao began transferring the regions under his control to Little Golden Dragon, which suspected the gesture was a trap and prepared to refuse.
• Chen Yi cut off Little Golden Dragon and charged in to seize the shares for himself.

Chen Yi's avatar and Ling Xiao struggled for control of the Primal Creation Plate while the Little Golden Dragon pretended to mediate. Their fight paused when the chat group sought approval to distribute its rewards, and Group 98 secretly came back online as Ling Xiao remained trapped by Wuji.

• Ling Xiao attacked Chen Yi's avatar with his Dharma Form, but the Little Golden Dragon intervened and declared that it did not trust Ling Xiao.
• Chen Yi and Ling Xiao staged a fierce dispute over control of the Primal Creation Plate while the Little Golden Dragon played mediator.
• The chat group requested approval to distribute 1.5 million Immortal Essence Stones, and Chen Yi and Ling Xiao issued conflicting commands.
• The Little Golden Dragon approved distributing the stones for the group members, prompting Chen Yi and the dragon to retreat while Ling Xiao reduced his Dharma Form to a will imprint.
• Group 98 was secretly reactivated, and 'A Sour Fish' chatted with 'The Immortal Ascension Tribulation is Still Chasing Me' while Ling Xiao remained cut off by Wuji.

Chen Yi gathered the chat group masters in a new Human Resources group and asserted that its orders outranked the system's tasks. After Andy Zack challenged his authority, Chen Yi had Andy's account suspended, leaving the other masters intimidated and compliant.

• Chen Yi told A Sour Fish to expand the group's capacity and invite the group masters to a meeting.
• The invited masters questioned why Chen Yi was the group master and what the Human Resources group was for.
• Chen Yi ordered the masters to accept the group's tasks, and Hidden World Cultivator immediately pledged his support.
• Andy Zack challenged Chen Yi's authority, so Chen Yi suspended Andy Zack's account for seven days.
• The other group masters saw the suspension and began acknowledging Chen Yi's orders.

After rescuing the ascended cultivators from the chaotic void currents, Chen Yi offered Mu Chen an internship, and Mu Chen eagerly accepted when he learned it could help him secure a future Heavenly Official post. Ziwei Heavenly Dao confirmed that its forty-five ascenders were safe and questioned Chen Yi about the sleeping cultivators from Qingyun Continent.

• Chen Yi brought Mu Chen and the rescued cultivators out of the chaotic void currents, and Mu Chen wept with relief at returning to warm, living earth.
• Chen Yi offered Mu Chen an internship, and Mu Chen agreed after hearing that future Heavenly Official positions would become harder to obtain.
• Chen Yi showed Mu Chen the available departments and told him to visit them before choosing where to intern.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao entered the Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven, confirmed its forty-five ascenders were unharmed, and asked Chen Yi why he had captured the unconscious Qingyun cultivators.
• Chen Yi pointed out that Ziwei Heavenly Dao already knew the captives carried the scent of True Immortal-stage Heavenly Dao Law Origin.

Chen Yi gave Ziwei Heavenly Dao a matured True Immortal-level Law Origin and planned to use outsiders to help it advance. After hearing that Flying Star Heavenly Dao had been behaving strangely while practicing Confusing the False with the True, he considered investigating.

• Ziwei Heavenly Dao said it had finished digesting the earlier driving core origin but needed more people and resources to advance.
• Chen Yi gave Ziwei Heavenly Dao a matured True Immortal-level Law Origin and told it to raise its grade before suppressing the outsiders, including a True Immortal.
• Chen Yi checked his group chat and saw its members discussing trials, training, and a Divine Dragon pet.
• Chen Yi asked Zhou Zheng how Flying Star Heavenly Dao was progressing.
• Zhou Zheng reported that Flying Star Heavenly Dao had been trembling, claiming it could no longer distinguish real from false, and that the cultivation environment had improved despite the continent's panic.

Chen Yi arrived at the Flying Star Continent after learning that the Flying Star Heavenly Dao’s experiments had gone awry. He confronted the Heavenly Dao about its strange, Demonic Eryi-like mutations and demanded an explanation.

• Chen Yi sent Mu Chen to the Department of Marriage with a jade token, then dispatched eighteen Chaos Clones through a spatial gateway.
• Chen Yi and the clones arrived at the Flying Star Continent, where Zhou Zheng greeted him at the Sacred Void Sect.
• Chen Yi saw that the Flying Star Heavenly Dao’s experiments had filled the sky with chaotic laws and bizarre, ominous mutations.
• The Flying Star Heavenly Dao admitted it was trying to devise an alternative route to immortality without tribulation, inspired by Chen Yi’s Method of Making Falsehoods True.
• Chen Yi accused the Heavenly Dao of producing Demonic Eryi-like creatures and warned that he would clean house if it had become a breeding ground for them.
• The Flying Star Heavenly Dao cowered and insisted that the failed derivations only resembled Demonic Eryi before offering to demonstrate their different essence.

Flying Star Heavenly Dao explained its new evolutionary path to Chen Yi, who approved further research and arranged for Flying Star cultivators to relocate to Ziwei Continent. Chen Yi then assembled a team to investigate the Incense God Path in Divine Continent World, and Xiao Chunnan celebrated being selected while Ye Wuchen was named deputy leader.

• Flying Star Heavenly Dao showed Chen Yi its stable fourth-order lifeform experiments and explained its plan to bypass the Immortal Realm's evolutionary standards.
• Chen Yi approved the research in principle and promised that cultivators following the traditional path could settle in Ziwei Continent.
• Flying Star Heavenly Dao imposed the Age of Dharma's End and tasked Zhou Zheng with organizing the evacuation of cultivators across Flying Star Continent.
• Chen Yi left three Chaos clones to oversee Flying Star Heavenly Dao and began planning an inspection of the Incense God Path in Divine Continent World.
• Chen Yi selected Xiao Chunnan, Fang Zheng, Gu Yuan, and others for the research team, prompting Xiao Chunnan to celebrate his hard-earned opportunity.
• Ye Wuchen was also summoned and appointed deputy leader of the research team.

Mu Chen arrived to intern in the heavenly departments but was tricked by Qingqiu Wanying into handling the Department of Marriage’s dangerous records. When angry gods came to confront Bai Yujing over Yuan Qiyue’s fate, Mu Chen prepared to use the jade token and make Wanying answer for setting him up.

• Mu Chen heard Liu Xiaofeng overwhelmed by the Life Reincarnation Department’s workload and decided to offer help.
• Qingqiu Wanying spotted Mu Chen’s jade token, mistook his visit as an opportunity to recruit him, and dragged him into the Department of Marriage.
• Wanying left Mu Chen with the Golden Marriage Ledger, whose records revealed that Bai Yujing had arranged Yuan Qiyue’s mortal tribulation after she developed feelings for Xi Feng.
• Mu Chen realized the affair could provoke Yuan Qiyue’s powerful relatives and tried to leave the Department of Marriage.
• An angry group arrived demanding Bai Yujing, and Mu Chen resolved to reveal his authority and retaliate against Wanying.

Lin Yuyu welcomed Chen Yi and the inspection team to Fish Water Town and showed them her daily work as a local land god. She learned that Wu Gou Gong was exploiting villagers with a ghostly threat and had tried to force her to share her incense offerings, so she looked to Chen Yi for help.

• Lin Yuyu excitedly welcomed Chen Yi and the inspection team, hoping their visit would give her a powerful backer.
• Chen Yi told Lin Yuyu to carry on with her usual work so the team could examine the Divine Continent's grassroots administration.
• Lin Yuyu reported that she governed nine villages and nearly ten thousand people, then led the team to observe village life.
• Villagers praised Fish Su Niang Niang and discussed making incense offerings after hearing that Wu Gou Gong could not protect Dashi Town without enough incense.
• Lin Yuyu revealed that Wu Gou Gong had raised the old mulberry tree spirit to frighten villagers and had offered to lend it to her in exchange for thirty percent of her incense offerings.
• Lin Yuyu refused to exploit her villagers and silently appealed to Chen Yi for help against those bullying her.

Lin Yuyu protected Aunt Wang Er's daughter-in-law during childbirth while the investigation team watched her work. When a fish demon attacked Fish Su Temple and nine ghosts tried to reach the newborn, Xiao Chunnan secretly subdued the demon, leaving Lin Yuyu to face the ghosts.

• Lin Yuyu went to Aunt Wang Er's home to protect the mother and child, while the investigation team discussed Wu Gou Gong and observed her.
• Lin Yuyu used a Calming Spirit Technique and divine power to ease the labor and keep wandering ghosts away.
• A giant catfish demon rose from the Qingshui River, sent nine ghosts toward the village, and approached Fish Su Temple.
• Xiao Chunnan secretly used his divine thought to crush the demon into a tiny creature before it could damage the temple.
• As the baby's head emerged, the ghosts begged Lin Yuyu to let them into the house, but she threatened to destroy them if they did not leave.
• The nine ghosts charged toward Lin Yuyu after she refused their pleas.

The research team helped Lin Yuyu survive a ghost attack and exposed the Catfish Spirit’s attempt to force her into colluding with Wu Gou Gong on behalf of the River God. After Chen Yi taught her that strength determined whose reasoning mattered, Lin Yuyu awakened to the reality of her new world and formed her resolve to cultivate.

• Lin Yuyu tried to hold back nine high-grade vicious ghosts but ran out of strength, so Xiao Chunnan immobilized them as a woman safely gave birth.
• The research team returned to Fish Su Temple, where Lin Yuyu recognized the captured Catfish Spirit as Lord Inspiration and confronted its threats about the River God.
• Lin Yuyu defended herself by saying she had paid the fishing incense tax and could report the River God, while the Catfish Spirit mocked her and threatened the group.
• Chen Yi let Xiao Chunnan take the Catfish Spirit away to be roasted, then explained to Lin Yuyu that the strong made the rules and the weak had to listen.
• Lin Yuyu realized her world was not a game or a dream and formed her Dao Heart, resolving to grow stronger so others would listen to her reasoning.

Chen Yi encouraged Lin Yuyu to pursue strength and told her to face the eighth-grade River God from the Qingshui River. When the River God arrived at Fish Water Town, Xiao Chunnan stopped It and revealed that he was guarding the way for his Boss.

• Lin Yuyu resolved to become a powerful god and asked Chen Yi how she could get stronger.
• Chen Yi told Lin Yuyu to trade moves with the approaching eighth-grade River God, leaving her anxious about the mismatch in their strength.
• After sensing that Xiao Chunnan had killed its catfish spirit, the River God rushed from the Qingshui River toward Fish Water Town.
• The River God saw Xiao Chunnan grilling the catfish and turned to flee, but Xiao Chunnan's aura kept It from leaving.
• Xiao Chunnan admitted that he had grilled the River God's fish and told It to take any objections to his Boss.
• The River God realized Xiao Chunnan was only a gatekeeper and grew wary of the power waiting inside Fish Su Temple.

The eighth-grade River God entered Fish Su Temple and was forced to surrender his divine position to Lin Yuyu after Chen Yi overruled his resistance. Chen Yi then abruptly withdrew, leaving Ye Wuchen in temporary command of the investigation.

• Lin Yuyu struck the River God with her divine whip, but it could not break his scales, and he knelt to beg for mercy.
• Gu Yuan demanded the River God's Staff as compensation and threatened him when he refused to give up his position.
• The River God invoked heavenly retribution, but Chen Yi stopped him and used his words to declare that the River God had willingly passed his position to Lin Yuyu.
• Lin Yuyu struggled to understand how she could take an eighth-grade position with her thirteenth-grade strength, while Fang Zheng told her the group would handle the rest.
• Chen Yi withdrew his main consciousness and turned his clone into a Rainbow Bead necklace around Ye Wuchen's neck, instructing him to take temporary command of the investigation.

Chen Yi watched Little Golden Dragon launch a plan to mislead an informant in Group One, impressed that it had identified Han Qianxue as compromised. The dragon privately contacted the other members, but Chen Yi noted that three hidden informants remained.

• Chen Yi left Ye Wuchen to oversee the Divine Continent Incense God Path research and entered Group One's chat.
• Group members discussed the suspended Immortal Realm Trial, Han Qianxue's absence, and the possibility of visiting her.
• A Sour Fish called on Group One to take a risky but profitable path, prompting members to enthusiastically agree to follow.
• Little Golden Dragon concluded that Han Qianxue was likely an informant and decided to exclude her from the plan.
• Little Golden Dragon privately told the other Group One members to cooperate in feeding false information to the suspected insider.
• Chen Yi recognized that the dragon had grown more cautious, but observed that three hidden informants remained.