Chapter Summaries

Kalli attempted the team’s survival assessment by using her Soul Force Field to blend into the tidal flat, revealing extraordinary talent for manipulating her surroundings. Zhang Yang recognized her potential and decided to cultivate her as a Druid-type Spirit Cultivator.

• Kalli used her Soul Force Field to hide a hundred meters from the team during her one-hour assessment.
• Zhang Yang watched as Kalli reduced the environment’s repulsion toward her to 99%, making her impossible to see or sense.
• Zhang Yang realized Kalli could perform tens of thousands of microscopic manipulations per second and was naturally gifted at communicating with the environment.
• Zhang Yang decided to cultivate Kalli into a Druid-type Spirit Cultivator and produced thirty Three-Colored Spiritual Plants.

Zhang Yang advanced his invasion of the Abyss by strengthening Kalli and tasking her with creating a shelter resistant to the world’s erosion. Her work drew the attention of the Demon of the Abyss, who proposed cooperating with Zhang Yang to create a Sequence Editor.

• Zhang Yang reviewed his subordinates’ true-soul progress and spent 100 Three-Colored Spiritual Plants to raise Kalli’s true-soul level to SS+ and her purity to 30%.
• Zhang Yang asked Kalli to build a shelter with her Soul Force Field within fifteen days.
• Kalli began shaping Abyssal soil into a new substance, but the Demon of the Abyss possessed her and spoke through her.
• The Demon of the Abyss explained that it was a world-like being born in the First Sequence and sought to extend its stay in the Fifth Sequence.
• The Demon of the Abyss proposed that Zhang Yang cooperate with it to build a Sequence Editor, which Zhang Yang said he would consider.

Zhang Yang negotiated with a struggling Abyssal Demon for control of its Sequence Editor and Demonic Dao, while learning how Abyssal Demons sustain themselves. He agreed to share authority in exchange for the option to move the human race there, and the Abyssal Demon accepted.

• The Abyssal Demon explained that its body had dwindled to seven and a half grids and that it risked falling into the Sixth Sequence without help.
• Zhang Yang learned that Abyssal Demons developed barriers and Law Concentration to produce a Demonic Dao, much as Sky Dome Spirits produced a Heavenly Dao.
• Zhang Yang negotiated over the Sequence Editor and Demonic Dao, arguing that he was a Sky Dome Human and planned to return to the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang recalled how the Primordial World’s Sky Dome Spirit used calamities to manage Law Concentration, then wondered whether Earth Civilization had fallen from the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang demanded fifty percent of the Heavenly Dao or Demonic Dao authority while retaining the means to migrate humans, and the Abyssal Demon agreed.

Zhang Yang and the Abyssal Demon Rolling Stone used the Purple Scales to balance their investments and form a Village Building Order, each securing what they needed. Zhang Yang claimed his territory and began transforming its habitable portion, but discovered most of the land was a ruined desert and that Rolling Stone’s invested body lay elsewhere.

• Zhang Yang and Rolling Stone combined Snow Demon's Fur and Ophite's Hair into Purple Scales, exchanged their true names, and established shared control.
• Zhang Yang rejected Rolling Stone’s offer to invest his entire body, then agreed to balanced investments of cultivation methods, seeds, body, and Demonic Dao.
• The Sequence Editor transformed into a Purple Giant Tower, and Zhang Yang gained ownership of one and a half units of land while Rolling Stone received the Three-Colored Spiritual Plant method and seeds.
• Kalli fainted as Rolling Stone departed, and Zhang Yang claimed his half of the tower as a tower-shaped Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang discovered his territory was mostly dead desert and that Rolling Stone’s invested body was in another region, then teleported everyone to his land.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Heavenly Dao to extract demonic energy while retaining spiritual energy, then sent the Small Mud Boat underground.

Zhang Yang discovered that the Small Mud Boat could absorb the wasteland’s soil and advance toward completing the Boat of Death, then learned that the wasteland was poisoned by the Flames of Nothingness. He escaped before the flames erupted, but Rolling Stone fled with the 300 Three-Colored Spiritual Plant seeds, leaving Zhang Yang with useless remains of the Demonic Dao and Heavenly Dao.

• The Small Mud Boat began fusing with Abyssal Demonic Soil, and Zhang Yang let it absorb the wasteland after its progress rose without the soil disappearing.
• Zhang Yang used the Demonic Dao to see how a Celestial God had attacked Rolling Stone with the Flames of Nothingness, leaving the wasteland cursed and due for another eruption in a few hundred years.
• Zhang Yang realized Rolling Stone had tricked him by leaving poisoned Demonic Dao behind and quickly teleported out of the wasteland with the Small Mud Boat.
• Rolling Stone cut off his tail and fled, taking the 300 Three-Colored Spiritual Plant seeds while the remaining Demonic Dao and Heavenly Dao became Zhang Yang’s backlash.

Zhang Yang claimed a vast territory and transformed its weakened Demonic Dao into a fragile Heavenly Dao suited to the Sky Dome Human Race and Demon Race. After the Small Mud Boat absorbed enough Flames of Nothingness to complete its first stage, it became the Boat of Death and revealed its powers and next advancement requirement.

• Zhang Yang took control of two hundred million square kilometers of land and learned that its Flames of Nothingness were Time Scraps dumped as Heavenly Punishment.
• Zhang Yang chose to cultivate the local Demonic Dao into a Heavenly Dao, binding it with a Village Building Order and transforming it at great cost.
• Zhang Yang incorporated his forces into the new Heavenly Dao, claimed the world under his surname, and activated its Heavenly Secrets Evolution Mission.
• Zhang Yang waited as the Small Mud Boat absorbed the Flames of Nothingness, though the danger of an eruption remained.
• The Small Mud Boat completed its first stage and became the Boat of Death, which could cross sequences, traverse forbidden lands, and evade pursuit; its second-stage advancement required high-grade law materials.

Zhang Yang led his forces aboard the Death Boat to invade a Devil Race city on another Abyssal Demon, where the local Demonic Dao summoned a colossal Earth Giant against them. He used the Death Boat’s anchors to drag the giant down, then joined his soldiers in attacking it.

• Zhang Yang discovered that the Death Boat consumed little energy without Instant Teleportation and sailed with his subordinates toward another Abyssal Demon.
• Zhang Yang used concealment to bring the Death Boat undetected into the Abyssal Demon and sent sixty-nine soldiers to attack a Devil Race city.
• The Devil Race armies and sorcerers rallied against the invaders, while prayers and sacrifices stirred the local Demonic Dao.
• The Demonic Dao raised a gigantic Earth Giant, which Zhang Yang recognized as a threat prepared by the dead Devil Race Heavenly God connected to Yun Chuzi.
• Zhang Yang hooked the Earth Giant with three Death Anchors and spun it through the city until it was incapacitated.
• Zhang Yang and his soldiers attacked the Earth Giant, hoping to complete the War Banner’s Unstoppable Among Ten Thousand Men mission.

Zhang Yang and his allies attacked the Earth Giant, but the world’s Demonic Dao intervened before the creature revealed itself as an avatar of the Cangdong Heavenly God. Zhang Yang escaped with his forces, while Cangdong ordered the Abyssal Demons to destroy the Rolling Stone.

• The Demonic Dao shielded the Earth Giant from Zhang Yang’s attacks, but the Death Black Sail devoured its power and left it severely damaged.
• Zhang Yang’s forces bound the earth and battered the Earth Giant until it transformed into a gold-armored Devil Race member who revealed himself as the possessed Yun Chuzi.
• The Cangdong Heavenly God’s avatar shattered Zhang Yang’s Spirit Domain and nearly killed him, so Zhang Yang teleported his subordinates away and fled aboard the Boat of Death.
• Cangdong questioned an Abyssal Demon about the Sky Dome People and learned they had gone to the Rolling Stone.
• Cangdong ordered the Abyssal Demons to exterminate the Rolling Stone and threatened them with Heavenly Punishment if they disobeyed.

After escaping Cangdong Heavenly God, Zhang Yang learned from the Demonic Dao about Cangdong’s history and four hidden trump cards. He decided to avoid a direct confrontation, strengthen the Boat of Death, and prepare to flee before Cangdong could threaten Earth Civilization.

• The Boat of Death returned Zhang Yang and the others to their lair while Zhang Yang coughed blood from his injuries.
• Zhang Yang learned that Cangdong had risen from an insignificant Devil Race member to a Heavenly God and had destroyed his homeland to dispose of the Flames of Nothingness.
• Zhang Yang discovered Cangdong’s four unrevealed trump cards: the Heavenly God Coffin, the Law World, the Ancient God Horn, and the huge urn that held the Flames of Nothingness.
• Zhang Yang concluded that Cangdong’s backing and weapons made him too dangerous to provoke, especially with the urn expected to return in seven thousand years.
• Zhang Yang resolved to develop quietly, upgrade the Boat of Death, and prepare to flee, while fearing that Cangdong would also target Earth Civilization.

Zhang Yang used the demigod bone to awaken the Central Earth Meridian and fuel a massive harvest of Spiritual Plants. The Heavenly Dao took control as the final plant neared five-colored maturity, creating five Heavenly Dao Barriers while draining the Meridian’s Laws.

• Zhang Yang buried the Underworld Bone Dragon’s demigod bone in the Spirit Fields and prepared the Central Earth Meridian to absorb its Laws.
• Zhang Yang and his subordinates activated the Meridian, which awakened the land and fed Laws to thirty thousand Spiritual Plants and the cultivators.
• The Spiritual Plants matured in waves, and Zhang Yang’s subordinates absorbed and fused with the harvested Single-Colored Spiritual Plants as they advanced.
• Zhang Yang forced most of the remaining plants to mature, leaving one as the Heavenly Dao warned him against excess.
• The Heavenly Dao took control, suppressed the final plant’s maturation, and formed five Heavenly Dao Barriers that lowered the Central Earth Meridian’s Law Concentration.

After gaining insight from Heaven's Path's Dao aura, Zhang Yang used his spiritual plants to transform his True Soul into a Three-Leaf True Spirit. He recognized that the breakthrough gave him a foothold, but he still needed to establish his sword-cultivator foundation and secure the Boat of Death before entering the Fourth Sequence.

• Zhang Yang reflected on the power of the beings ruling the Fourth Sequence and feared he might never be able to return there.
• Zhang Yang cultivated beside the Five-Colored Spiritual Plant and gained profound enlightenment in talismans, sword arts, scriptures, and ancient demonic language.
• Zhang Yang devoured thousands of Three-Colored Spiritual Plants and the remaining Four-Colored Spiritual Plants to fuel his breakthrough.
• Zhang Yang's True Soul shattered and reformed around a three-leaf sprout, creating a Three-Leaf True Spirit and a vastly higher-priority Spirit Domain.
• Zhang Yang concluded that he still needed to develop the path of the sword cultivator and obtain the Boat of Death to survive in the Fourth Sequence.

After nine days of Dao Rhyme enlightenment, Zhang Yang advanced his troops and gave the most powerful units extensive rewards. The five new Destroyer Commanders gained Fourth Sequence registration, while the ten Forbidden Magic Knights reached Nascent Soul Stage and awakened Demigod's Interdiction.

• Zhang Yang rewarded the five Destroyer Captains who had mastered Roar and Trample, bringing their true-soul completeness to 100% and securing their Fourth Sequence registration.
• Zhang Yang renamed those five Destroyer Captains Destroyer Commanders and raised the other nine Destroyer Captains’ true-soul completeness to 80%.
• The ten Forbidden Magic Knights comprehended the Soul Nourishing Talisman to its thirty-sixth level, and Zhang Yang used his Spiritual Plants to raise their true-soul completeness to 100%.
• Zhang Yang trained the Forbidden Magic Knights through Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul stages, transforming their Soul Force Fields into Soul Domains.
• The ten Forbidden Magic Knights awakened Demigod's Interdiction, which suppressed magic and law circulation across a hundred kilometers for up to one hundred seconds.

Zhang Yang watched the Heavenly Dao develop the barren land beyond its barrier, realizing it had carefully bred plants suited to reclaiming the desert. He left the Heavenly Dao to carry out its ambitious plan as it sent out its first batch of seeds.

• Zhang Yang decided not to interfere with the Heavenly Dao while the Boat of Death continued assimilating Time Scraps and the Cangdong Heavenly God remained a threat.
• The Heavenly Dao spread seeds from its spiritual fields beyond the barrier after the Small Mud Boat cleared the Flames of Nothingness from half a grid of land.
• Zhang Yang observed that the Heavenly Dao had selectively bred plants to survive outside the barrier, where spiritual energy and water were scarce.
• The Heavenly Dao sent out five thousand seeds in seven varieties: Thorn Claws, Thorn Tail, Thorn Teeth, Climbing Pumpkin, Climbing Watermelon, Rolling Winter Melon, and Rolling Wine Jar.
• Zhang Yang recognized that the plants could reclaim the barren land by anchoring soil, storing spiritual energy and water, and collecting moisture from the air.

Zhang Yang watched the Heavenly Dao Little Girl guide plants through a slow, carefully coordinated invasion of the wasteland beyond the barrier. As the Climbing Pumpkins adapted to Law Residue, they became the first plants to absorb it indirectly, leaving Zhang Yang eager to see the next stage.

• Zhang Yang watched the seven vanguard plants spread across the wasteland while more plants evolved in the spirit fields inside the barrier.
• The Thorn Claws established deep roots, and the Climbing Pumpkins used them as a path while sharing water and spiritual energy.
• The Rolling Winter Melons and Thorn Tails sprouted, helping conserve moisture and energy in the soil.
• After six months, the Thorn Claws compressed the soil and produced Law Residue Liquid and Scraps, which the Climbing Pumpkins absorbed and survived.
• Zhang Yang named the survival-invasion strategy Weed Invasion Plan A and looked forward to Plan B.

Zhang Yang watched the Heavenly Dao transform desert into a thriving wilderness while the Boat of Death completed its second stage, then learned the Heavenly Dao had cultivated a Wood Demon prototype for him. He decided to support the Wood Demon’s development, though the immobile, barely aware prototype still needed time to evolve.

• The Heavenly Dao’s weed armies expanded their desert ecosystem, and a specialized second wave grew the occupied wilderness to six thousand square kilometers.
• Zhang Yang waited for the Boat of Death to finish its second stage while keeping watch for Cangdong Heavenly God, but no one disturbed him.
• The Boat of Death gained powerful new abilities, including world travel and small-world storage, but storing a small world required yearly sacrifices of 10 percent of its living beings.
• The Heavenly Dao Little Girl contacted Zhang Yang with a familiar fluctuation, and he realized she had cultivated a Wood Demon prototype over eight and a half years.
• Zhang Yang chose to support the Wood Demon civilization, though he found the prototype immobile, without self-awareness, and only barely capable of remembering.

Zhang Yang stayed to protect the Boat of Death and tested its second-stage form, discovering that its black mist measured each passenger’s authority and imposed Death Marks on those who did not meet its requirements. He kept his underqualified forces aboard to pursue the War Banner’s quest and prepared to face Cangdong Heavenly God.

• Zhang Yang abandoned his plan to leave and asked the Way of Heaven to speed up the wood demon’s evolution, but its cryptic response left him waiting while he prepared to attack.
• Zhang Yang activated the Death Black Sail, summoned the second-stage Boat of Death, and ordered everyone aboard despite the sinister black mist.
• Zhang Yang used his abilities to push the mist back ninety-nine meters, after which it revealed a massive black ship and displayed the rules for Death Marks and passenger eligibility.
• The five Destroyer Commanders and ten Forbidden Magic Knights qualified to travel without accumulating Death Marks within the Sequences, while the sixteen Destroyers and twenty-five Silent Ones did not.
• Zhang Yang kept the underqualified Destroyers and Silent Ones aboard because he wanted them to complete the War Banner’s Unmatched Among Ten Thousand Men quest.

Zhang Yang discovered Cangdong Heavenly God’s overwhelming ambush and fled with the Boat of Death to the Sky Dome, where he found demons gathering around golden pillars and fragments of the Nine Demons world. He launched an attack, killed huge numbers of demons, and helped his forces defeat the demigods guarding the pillar.

• Zhang Yang realized that more than thirty Abyssal Demons were driving a massive demonic cloud toward his little world, so he used the Boat of Death to escape to Spring Return City in the Sky Dome.
• Zhang Yang sensed Cangdong Heavenly God’s damaged Heavenly Palace and moved toward one of its golden pillars while using his Spirit Domain to conceal his group.
• Zhang Yang saw the pillar erupt with fragments of the Sky Dome Civilization World and recognized them as fragments of the Nine Demons world.
• Zhang Yang hurled the War Banner and used his Three-Leaf True Spirit to kill more than 100,000 demons, while the five Destroyer Commanders killed nearly a million more.
• Three demonic demigods attacked and overwhelmed the Destroyer Commanders, but Zhang Yang immobilized one with his Spirit Domain as the Forbidden Magic Knights struck the others.
• Zhang Yang and his allies finished off the wounded demigods after the Forbidden Magic ended and billions of sword streams fell upon them.

Zhang Yang rescued the Azure Dragon Royal City from the collapsing Nine Demons world by absorbing it into the Death Boat, despite the unavoidable sacrifice of ten percent of its people. After completing the War Banner’s fourth mission, he learned that Cangdong Heavenly God had activated the God-Refining Array and that almost nowhere was safe.

• Zhang Yang and the five Destroyer Commanders failed to destroy the golden pillar, which connected Cangdong Heavenly God’s Heavenly Palace to Human Civilization and was protected by powerful laws.
• Zhang Yang used the Death Black Sail to enter the pillar and collected fragments of the Nine Demons world until he found the Azure Dragon Royal City with millions of humans, demons, and Azure Dragons inside.
• Zhang Yang merged the Azure Dragon Royal City into the Death Boat, where the fusion automatically sacrificed ten percent of its inhabitants, then escaped the pillar.
• At the second golden pillar, Zhang Yang’s group killed the Demon Race forces and a Demigod, completing the War Banner’s fourth mission, while Cangdong Heavenly God remained unseen.
• The Artificial Flesh Dragon warned Zhang Yang that Cangdong Heavenly God had activated the God-Refining Array, whose eight golden pillars made everywhere except Zhang Yang’s master’s place unsafe.

The Azure Dragon warned Zhang Yang that Cangdong Heavenly God’s God-Refining Array was coming and offered him a chance to join Qingfengzi and Chaos Base, but Zhang Yang chose to stay and fight his way back to the Fourth Sequence. He prepared to use the array as an opportunity for his forces and awakened five former disciples to cultivate anew.

• The Azure Dragon told Zhang Yang that he and Qingfengzi planned to join Chaos Base in the Fifth Sequence and offered him an SSS-grade Plot World Editor.
• Zhang Yang declined the offer, thanked the Azure Dragon for warning him, and resolved to stay despite the coming God-Refining Array.
• Zhang Yang summoned the War Banner and considered using the array to repair the Small Mud Boat and help his subordinates undergo their tribulations.
• Zhang Yang selected He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Li Guokui, Tao Yao, and Qu Shang for reincarnation through the Brick Village Building Order.
• He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Li Guokui, Tao Yao, and Qu Shang appeared before Zhang Yang and paid their respects to their Master.

Zhang Yang watched Cangdong Heavenly God's God-Refining Array reveal the Heavenly God Coffin and realized its struggle created a rare Law storm. He risked drawing purple flames into the Boat of Death and distributed them to his subordinates for tempering.

• Zhang Yang saw the God-Refining Array collapse the broken world and expose the enormous Heavenly God Coffin.
• Zhang Yang suspected Cangdong Heavenly God was trying to claim the coffin after the mysterious Ancient God who had backed him disappeared.
• Zhang Yang sent his Spirit Domain and Three-Leaf True Spirit into the Law storm, using Soul Nourishing Talismans, Ancient Demonic Language, and Demon-Slaying Steles to withstand it.
• Zhang Yang drew two purple fire dragons into the Boat of Death and divided the flames among the five Destroyer Commanders and ten Forbidden Magic Knights.