Chapter Summaries

Ling Xiao awakened in his tomb and manipulated the Primal Creation Plate, prompting Chen Yi to flee with stolen chat groups and realms. Ling Xiao hid with the remaining fragments, while Chen Yi lamented his losses before Xu Jinghong began to share important news.

• Twenty years after his burial, Ling Xiao awakened in his coffin and viewed the group chat, realizing Wuji had become involved.
• Ling Xiao disrupted the seal on the Primal Creation Plate, and Chen Yi misread the move as a warning and escaped with thirty-six chat groups and several trial grounds and secret realms.
• Ling Xiao discovered that Chen Yi had taken part of the Primal Creation Plate and digested thirty percent of the Wuji Dao Mark, then released the Wuji Dao Mark and hid with the remaining fragments.
• Chen Yi complained about losing most of the chat groups and Little Golden Dragon, who had served as a prospective ascension envoy.
• Xu Jinghong, holding the Xiuzhi statue, hesitantly told Chen Yi that he had important news.

Chen Yi realized Wuji’s Dao essence had affected his state of mind and severed his connection to the split soul, leaving him weakened. He removed Xu Jinghong from Group 1, and Xu Jinghong’s account disappeared as two powerful newcomers entered Group 108.

• Xu Jinghong told Chen Yi that Sour Fish had secretly used a sub-seal to contact him and had urged him to escape in exchange for help resurrecting Xiuzhi.
• Chen Yi traced his lingering anger to Wuji’s Dao essence, severed his connection to the split soul, and lost sixty percent of his Primordial Spirit power.
• Chen Yi decided to separate Xu Jinghong’s account from Group 1 because Wuji might target him there.
• Xu Jinghong said goodbye to the group, admitted that he had betrayed Sour Fish again, and his account information was lost.
• Two burly newcomers entered Group 108 and took the top two places on its Combat Power Ranking.

Xu Jinghong and Han Qianxue joined Group 108, where the members reacted to their strength and Xu offered advice on cultivation. Han Qianxue was left ignored by the chat and blamed Chen Yi for failing to give her a proper introduction.

• The group ranking placed Xu Jinghong first and Han Qianxue second, far above Chen Yi and the other members.
• Xu Jinghong answered Wang Jian’s question about building Combat Power through iron lifting and shared a guide to cultivating the body.
• Xu Jinghong advised Shen Lang not to suppress his nature, prompting Shen Lang to announce he would wash his feet.
• Mu Chen and several other members complained about their busy careers, while Liu Ruyan and Li Yuanyuan lamented being idle.
• Han Qianxue grew angry as the group overlooked her and blamed Chen Yi for not introducing her.

Chen Yi concealed the Primal Creation Plate fragment and shut down the chat groups indefinitely to evade Wuji, leaving transmigrators without their usual support. In the Divine Continent, Gu Yuan’s investigation team arrested powerful gods and provoked the Heavenly Dao, which backed down when confronted by fifteen Chaos Colorful Beads.

• Chen Yi wrapped the Primal Creation Plate fragment in concealment material, announced indefinite system maintenance, and shut down the server.
• Transmigrators across various worlds panicked as the chat groups and their support became unavailable.
• Lin Yuyu urged Gu Yuan to contact the Group Leader, but Gu Yuan insisted the team finish its investigation and said Senior Ye could resist the Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Zheng reported that the Black Bear Spirit had rebelled, and Senior Ye ordered the team to Hanxi Mountain to seize Grand Supreme Immortal Elder.
• Lin Yuyu and Gu Yuan held a press conference announcing the arrest of third-rank Grand Supreme Immortal Elder and the Black Bear Spirit, stunning the Divine Continent’s Incense Gods.
• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao gathered tribulation clouds to attack, but fifteen Chaos Colorful Beads appeared and forced It to stand down.

Chen Yi confronted the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao over the corrupt incense system and forced it to revise its laws and provide First Rank Heavenly Gods. Meanwhile, the Jiangbei Judgment Assembly opened by examining the Hanxi Mountain God’s role in helping the Lingyuan River God kidnap Ye Wuchen.

• Chen Yi questioned the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao about its failure to control corrupt Incense Gods, and it admitted that the incense system had grown beyond its ability to manage.
• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao began copying the incense system’s Law Origin, but Chen Yi ordered it to revise the copy according to investigators’ opinions and provide him several First Rank Heavenly Gods.
• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao accepted Chen Yi’s demands, confident that its deep reserves could cover the cost of avoiding conflict.
• At the Jiangbei Prefecture Disciplinary Office, Gu Yuan opened a Judgment Assembly attended by Divine Envoys from across the domains, while Ye Wuchen’s presence kept them in check.
• Gu Yuan accused the Lingyuan River God of kidnapping Ye Wuchen and alleged that the Hanxi Mountain God, Grand Supreme Immortal Elder, had aided it by appointing the Black Bear Spirit as river god and allowing it to oppress the people.

The Jiangbei Disciplinary Office put Grand Supreme Immortal Elder, Black Bear Spirit Mo Xiong, and Day Roaming God on trial for corruption and abuse of power. As Mo Xiong confessed to crimes that had devastated ordinary beings, Chen Yi challenged the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao to confront the failures of its incense system, but it defended gradual reform and asked him to carry its lessons into a new world.

• Grand Supreme Immortal Elder sat in the defendant's seat and admitted that he had helped Black Bear Spirit Mo Xiong gain the Lingyuan River God post through favoritism.
• Gu Yuan ordered Grand Supreme Immortal Elder to bring in Mo Xiong and Day Roaming God, startling the officials gathered in the Judgment Hall.
• Mo Xiong confessed that he had sold divine positions, traded authority, raised monsters, and accepted massive bribes while the inspection team watched.
• Living beings outside the hall recounted how Mo Xiong's rule had led to sacrifices, starvation, and deaths among their families and clans.
• Chen Yi confronted the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao for wanting to cover up abuses, and it defended the difficulties of reform before asking him to carry its lessons into a new world.

Chen Yi forced the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao to keep revising the Incense God Path’s laws, while the trial exposed corruption reaching the highest ranks of the Heavenly Palace. Ye Wuchen ordered the Judicial Heavenly God brought before the assembly, revealing that he had helped bring down the Heavenly Palace and intended to seize all thirteen first-rank gods as laborers for the Ziwei Immortal Realm.

• Chen Yi gave the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao five researchers’ proposals and made It repeatedly optimize the Incense God Path’s laws.
• The fifth-rank River God of the Yuan Lingyuan River confessed to bribing the Grand Supreme Immortal Elder to obtain its position, then urged other gods to learn from its case.
• The Day Roaming God accepted responsibility for his role in the corruption and claimed that his old leader knew nothing about it.
• Ye Wuchen challenged that claim and ordered Xiao Chunnan to bring the Judicial Heavenly God before the assembly.
• Xiao Chunnan presented the disheveled Judicial Heavenly God in star-chain shackles, and Ye Wuchen revealed that he planned to take all thirteen first-rank gods to develop the Ziwei Immortal Realm.

Chen Yi forced the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao to accept his terms after revealing the power of his three-star Chaos clone and dark halberd. The Heavenly Dao manifested as a big fat orange cat in Chen Yi’s perception and warned that changing the Incense God Path rules alone would not overcome the world’s entrenched corruption.

• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao presented its ninth revised Incense God Path proposal, but Chen Yi pressed it to acknowledge that he wanted to use the system to develop talent.
• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao revealed its half-step Profound Immortal strength, prompting the Judicial Heavenly God to believe it would defeat Ye Wuchen.
• Chen Yi fused eight Rainbow Beads into his Chaos clone and revealed a dark halberd, causing the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao to abandon its threat and yield.
• Ye Wuchen dismissed the Judicial Heavenly God’s confidence in the Heavenly Dao and explained that he stood up for the weak, then slapped him when he kept arguing.
• Chen Yi perceived the manifested Divine Continent Heavenly Dao as a big fat orange cat, fixing its appearance so it could not transform into anything else.
• The Heavenly Dao agreed that Chen Yi could optimize the Incense God Path but warned him to appoint his own managers because the people’s corruption would eventually restore the old system.

Chen Yi planned to redirect the Divine Continent’s corrupt Incense Gods to fill Ziwei’s shortage of talent while reforming the Divine Continent’s stagnant system. He convinced Heavenly Dao Fat Orange to accept being drained in exchange for protection from the Demonic Eryi, then vanished to pursue their leader.

• Chen Yi resolved to recruit corrupt Divine Continent Incense Gods to fill Ziwei’s depleted ranks and create opportunities for younger gods to rise.
• Chen Yi reassured Heavenly Dao Fat Orange that he would not send supervisors, and Fat Orange realized he intended to drain its power directly.
• Fat Orange refused to let Chen Yi install a transfer channel and argued that the Immortal Realm, despite its faults, was strong enough to protect the Divine Continent.
• Chen Yi pointed out that the Immortal Realm had abandoned the Divine Continent, leaving it vulnerable to the Demonic Eryi, and promised to protect Fat Orange from them.
• Fat Orange agreed to let Chen Yi drain it if he protected it from the Demonic Eryi, and Chen Yi promised to bring it the head of their mother body before disappearing.

Chen Yi destroyed the Demonic Eryi nest’s army outside the Divine Continent and captured its Half-Cosmic-level Eryi Mother Body. He questioned it about its origins, but it said it could not remember where it had been born.

• Chen Yi condemned the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao for sparing and nourishing the Eryi Mother Body, which later grew powerful and exploited the world.
• Chen Yi shattered the blood-colored barrier, and tens of thousands of Demonic Eryi charged out of the cosmic hollow toward him.
• Chen Yi killed a million Demonic Eryi with one Supreme Demon Breaker strike.
• The Half-Cosmic-level Eryi Mother Body rushed toward the exit after losing contact with its offspring, and Chen Yi struck and pinned it with his halberd.
• Chen Yi demanded to know where the Eryi Mother Bodies originated, and the captive said it remembered only leaving its homeland and wandering the void.

Chen Yi killed the Half-Cosmic Eryi Mother Body after it tried to bargain with false information, then pushed the Divine Continent Heavenly Dao to reform its Incense God system. His cross-realm teleportation formation drew Ziwei Heavenly Dao to ask him for help paying salaries, and it asked whether more cultivators were coming.

• Chen Yi ignored the Eryi Mother Body's claim that it knew its birthplace and killed it.
• The Divine Continent Heavenly Dao applied Chen Yi's reforms, stripping corrupt Incense Gods of their positions and reorganizing the rest in stages.
• Chen Yi used nine Chaos Colorful Beads to form a cross-realm teleportation formation and bring dismissed Incense Gods into the Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao transformed into a cat, went to Chen Yi, and pleaded that it could not afford the salaries of the cultivators from the Flying Star world.
• Chen Yi promised to give Ziwei Immortal Essence Stones after refining them, and Ziwei asked whether the newcomers would be cultivators from Qingyun.

Chen Yi prepared to bring 300,000 Incense Gods from Divine Continent World to Ziwei Continent, explaining that their cultivation system could help govern and develop the world. He urged Ziwei Heavenly Dao to think for itself rather than blindly trust his decisions, then presented the optimized Incense God Path Law Origin.

• Ziwei Heavenly Dao worried that it could not absorb the incoming Incense Gods while completing its upgrade for the non-native Flying Star cultivators.
• Chen Yi explained that the first batch included 300,000 Incense Gods and that their weaker strength and evil deeds made them suitable for the process.
• Chen Yi argued that the Incense God Path could improve grassroots management and counterbalance powerful cultivators and major factions.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao said it trusted Chen Yi completely, but he warned that it would need to question his choices to protect living beings if he went astray.
• Chen Yi's avatar returned through the cross-realm teleportation array with the optimized Law Origin for the Incense God Path, and he invited Ziwei Heavenly Dao to taste it.

Ziwei Gluttonous Cat absorbed the operational law source of the Incense God Path system, prompting the Ziwei Heavenly Court to meet and arrange its use. The council settled on receiving three hundred thousand Incense Gods, while Mu Chen and Zhou Zheng grew suspicious of Liu Xing’s unusual flattery and Qingqiu Wanying teased Mu Chen.

• Ziwei Gluttonous Cat refined and absorbed the Incense God Path system’s operational law source, drawing the attention of the heavenly officials.
• Xuanyu Zi announced that the court would receive three hundred thousand Incense Gods from the Divine Continent World to support the new system, and Zhang Kuang, Ao Burang, and Yuan Fangyuan angrily confronted Bai Yujing over his past scapegoating.
• Xuanyu Zi stopped Ao Burang from fighting Bai Yujing and redirected the officials to discuss how the Incense God Path system could fill gaps in grassroots governance.
• Liu Xing praised the Tribulation Master Venerable, prompting Mu Chen and Zhou Zheng to wonder where he had learned his suspiciously familiar lines and to plan to question him after the meeting.
• Qingqiu Wanying patted Mu Chen’s head, while Zhou Zheng silently suspected that the Department of Marriage had tied Mu Chen to a Marriage Red Thread.

Xuanyu Zi organized the Ziwei Immortal Court’s rollout of the Incense God Path, establishing a management department and safeguards for the new system. In Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven, Chen Yi assigned roles to the Shenzhou inspection team, and Ye Wuchen agreed to become the God of Wealth.

• Xuanyu Zi explained how the Incense God Path would challenge traditional cultivation and local authority, then assigned Heavenly Officials to manage and supervise the new system.
• Chen Yi welcomed the Shenzhou inspection team and explained that their expertise was needed to support the overburdened Ziwei Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Wuchen tried to avoid becoming the God of Wealth, while Gu Yuan offered to take the post and Xu Jinghong claimed the Marshal of the Central Altar position.
• Chen Yi told Ye Wuchen that his fortune made him suited to search the Void Domain for resources, and Ye Wuchen agreed to accept the God of Wealth post.
• Fang Zheng considered finding a place for Fang Fan in the Finance Department, while Chen Yi instructed Ye Wuchen to engrave his Nascent Soul imprint on the Heavenly Dao Divine Ranking.

Chen Yi assigned Gu Yuan and the Qingyun cultivators to positions under Ziwei Heavenly Dao, then summoned a statue of Chen Lingxiu for Lin Yuyu. Ziwei Heavenly Dao recognized its child in the statue and demanded to know what had happened to her.

• Gu Yuan claimed the Heavenly Law Institute position, while Fang Zheng and Xiao Chunnan accepted that they would remain interns for now.
• Chen Yi awakened the nineteen Qingyun cultivators, signed them as Heavenly Soldiers, and sent Su Xixi to fill the North Sea sea eye after she refused to serve.
• Lu Ziqiao agreed to serve Chen Yi, while the other Qingyun cultivators went to report to the Four Extremes Heavenly Military Department.
• Chen Yi told Lin Yuyu he had other arrangements for her and summoned a Chen Lingxiu statue.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao recognized Chen Lingxiu and demanded to know why its child had suffered and lost her true spirit.

After Chen Lingxiu’s death, Ziwei Heavenly Dao resolved to grow strong enough to hold the Immortal Realm accountable and bring stranded children home. Chen Yi agreed to help it command the Myriad Worlds and began arranging an effort to revive Chen Lingxiu through the Incense God Path.

• The Immortal Court’s Celestial Phenomena Department struggled to manage rainfall while the Rain God Yuan Qiyue remained away in her tribulation, and its officials considered sending intern Fang Zheng to request data from Four Seas Hall and the Heavenly River Transport Department.
• Chen Yi comforted Ziwei Heavenly Dao as it grieved over Chen Lingxiu and feared for other children in the Immortal Realm.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao vowed to grow stronger, hold the Immortal Realm accountable, and bring the children home, then asked Chen Yi to help it command the Myriad Worlds.
• Chen Yi agreed and assigned Lin Yuyu to assist in establishing Lingxiu Temple, hoping the Incense God Path could help restore Chen Lingxiu.

Carefree Sect Sect Master Huo Hai resisted the order to surrender Wind Cloud Port and the Azure Route, then began denouncing Tribulation Master Venerable. Tribulation Master Venerable suddenly appeared in the sect’s hall as Huo Hai choked on his unfinished threat.

• Huo Hai prayed to Carefree Sect’s ancestors for talented recruits as the sect struggled to survive.
• An elder told Huo Hai that the new City God had barred Carefree Sect from recruiting disciples unless it surrendered Wind Cloud Port and the Azure Route.
• Huo Hai rejected the order, arguing that the sect’s inherited resources belonged to its predecessors and vowing to resist.
• Huo Hai called Tribulation Master Venerable mad and tyrannical, but an invisible force choked him before he could finish his threat.
• Tribulation Master Venerable appeared in the hall with a female ghost and a divine statue, leaving the elder terrified.

Chen Yi challenged Carefree Sect Leader Huo Hai to justify the sect’s control of fertile land and pressed him to accept reform through the City God system. Huo Hai mistook Chen Yi’s consideration for Ancestor Lingxiu as fear of her return, while elder Luo Wutian endorsed handing over the sect’s territory and then froze after seeing a divine statue Chen Yi summoned.

• Chen Yi released Huo Hai from his pressure and said he would answer him for Chen Lingxiu’s sake.
• Huo Hai guessed that Ancestor Lingxiu had manifested and boldly challenged Chen Yi’s plan to take the Carefree Sect’s ancestral territory.
• Chen Yi questioned the sect’s contributions to local welfare and fortune, leaving Huo Hai unable to answer.
• Luo Wutian argued that the Carefree Sect should embrace reform and offered to negotiate with the City God at Chenxing Pass.
• Chen Yi suggested Luo Wutian could become the sect’s next leader, but Luo declined and stopped speaking when he saw Chen Yi summon a divine statue.

Chen Yi confirmed that Chen Lingxiu had fallen, shattering the Carefree Sect’s faith in its ancestor, then transformed Huo Hai and gave him a mark that revealed hidden information. Huo Hai discovered Luo Wutian’s enormous resource reserves and realized the Carefree Sect might be exploiting the people.

• Luo Wutian and Huo Hai recognized Chen Lingxiu’s divine statue, and Chen Yi confirmed that she had fallen.
• Huo Hai brought out the Mark of Time, which crumbled to dust near the statue, confirming that Chen Lingxiu’s will was gone.
• Huo Hai and Luo Wutian begged Chen Yi for a chance to revive their ancestor and offered to sacrifice their cultivation.
• Chen Yi dissolved Huo Hai’s body and Nascent Soul, then restored him with a special mark that let him perceive hidden qi and information.
• Huo Hai saw a report revealing Luo Wutian’s vast stored resources and realized the Carefree Sect’s wealth might come at the expense of ordinary people.

After witnessing the Incense God Path’s view of cultivator oppression, Huo Hai understood why the City God of Chenxing Pass had suppressed the Carefree Sect and proposed Carefree Island as a model for cooperation between the new system and traditional cultivators. He appointed Luo Wutian as the Carefree Sect’s next leader, and Chen Yi turned the discussion to reviving Chen Lingxiu.

• Huo Hai saw the resources monopolized by Carefree Sect elders through the Incense God Path and wrestled with his conflicting loyalty to the sect and duty as Land God of Carefree Island.
• Huo Hai realized that Tribulation Master Venerable and the sword immortal beside him exceeded the levels he could perceive, then acknowledged Chen Yi’s reasons for suppressing the Carefree Sect.
• Huo Hai warned that the new system should not crush traditional cultivators and offered to make Carefree Island a pilot site for harmonious coexistence.
• Huo Hai declared that he was no longer Sect Master and ordered Luo Wutian to become the Carefree Sect’s 1002nd Sect Leader, prompting the Sect Leader’s Ring to fly to him.
• Chen Yi redirected Huo Hai and Luo Wutian to the task of reviving Chen Lingxiu, and they asked him for guidance.