Chapter Summaries

After unifying the polar clans as the Wisteria Divine Kingdom, Zhang Qing and the Progenitors prepared to invade the Shuichan Tribe and advance toward the Central Plains Archipelago. Meanwhile, Hao’s attempt to infiltrate the Flame Divine Kingdom with machines was exposed, so he entered the ununified Sea World with Kid Brother and planned to establish a Mechanical Divine Kingdom.

• Zhang Qing and the Progenitors unified the polar clans as the Wisteria Divine Kingdom, and Zhang Qing chose the Shuichan Tribe as their first target.
• Ghoul Mother reported that the Shuichan Tribe had over one hundred million people and a river-clam ritual spirit that produced body-tempering true water.
• Hao infiltrated the Flame Divine Kingdom by controlling people who had uploaded their consciousnesses, but its High Priest detected and executed the hundred thousand machines.
• The eleven divine kingdoms joined forces to seal Hao outside their realms, and Hao retreated rather than risk drawing Zhang Qing’s attention.
• Hao and Kid Brother found the ununified Sea World, where Hao revealed the Mechanical Heart and proposed creating a Mechanical Divine Kingdom.

The Wisteria Divine Kingdom launched an invasion of the Shuichan Tribe despite being vastly outnumbered, trusting in the Flower Lord and the Sea Emperor’s power. As Batu’s forces landed on Lufeng Island, the Sea Emperor unleashed storms, lightning, earthquakes, and magma against General Taldo’s army.

• Batu urged the Chief to build strength gradually, but the Chief ordered the tribe to cross the sea and declare war on the Shuichan Tribe.
• The Shuichan Tribe’s Tarufeng sent General Taldo and ten thousand War Soldiers to meet the Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s fleet at Red Sand Beach.
• Taldo let Batu’s hundred thousand soldiers land and form ranks, confident that his smaller force could defeat them.
• Zhang Qing asked the Sea Emperor to use heavenly timing and favorable terrain to help the invasion and strengthen belief in the Flower Lord.
• As Batu led the attack, the Sea Emperor brought storms and lightning to the battlefield, while earthquakes and erupting magma shattered Lufeng Island’s coastal defenses and struck Taldo’s army.

The Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s forces routed Lufeng Island’s defenders at Red Sand Beach with the help of overwhelming storms and terrain, capturing most of them. As Batu’s army advanced toward Lufeng Island’s heart, Tarufeng prepared to resist, but a new threat appeared from the south.

• Batu’s forces crushed General Taldo’s ten thousand War Soldiers, and Beichuan surrendered and urged others to follow.
• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s troops captured most of the defenders at Red Sand Beach and continued advancing toward Lufeng Island’s heart.
• Tarufeng learned of the defeat, saw the storm-covered Arctic army approaching, and began organizing Lufeng Island’s troops to resist.
• Batu halted his advancing army when he noticed something ahead, while Tarufeng’s confidence faltered as his men pointed toward the south.

Batu’s forces defeated Lufeng Island’s army with a tsunami, and the Polar Tribe installed its temple there amid spectacular celestial phenomena. As the Wisteria Flower began gathering faith and wishes, Zhang Qing discovered he could use them to manipulate karma and summoned Yun Yue to make a wish that would bring Li Wannian back to work.

• A tsunami swept away Tarufeng and devastated Lufeng Island’s War Soldiers, leaving the survivors too demoralized to resist Batu’s forces.
• The Chief led the Polar Tribe and the captives to the island, where Batu absorbed the surviving War Soldiers into their ranks.
• Zhang Qing directed the Sea Emperor to move the temple through storm clouds and lightning, convincing the Lufeng Island captives of the Polar Tribe’s Spirit’s power.
• The Wisteria Flower began receiving faith and wishes from Lufeng Island’s people, and Yun Xiaoxi sensed it developing into a Spirit.
• Zhang Qing discovered that he and the Progenitors could enter the faith pool and perceive believers’ wishes, while Little Lion’s imagined wish created a thread of karma to him.
• Zhang Qing summoned Yun Yue from Great Xia and had him wish upon the flower, sending a strand of karma through the River of Time to bring Li Wannian back to work.

Zhang Qing planned to use faith to locate and resurrect the dead from Great Xia, while arranging research into Star Arrays and preparing to attack the Shuichan Tribe. The Shuichan Tribe mobilized its forces, confident that its spirit's home-field advantage would protect it.

• Zhang Qing considered paying karma's price with Hao's Survival Authority or with faith, and decided to build the Flower Lord's faith pool by conquering Devour Sea World and eleven other worlds.
• Zhang Qing asked Yun Xiaoxi to send captured Star Array information to Great Xia, where Zhang Zhengguo organized a research institute to study it.
• Zhang Qing ordered Batu and the chief to prepare for war against the Shuichan Tribe and said he would call in reinforcements.
• High Priest Aisha discovered that Lufeng Island had fallen and its faith had been taken, then stirred the Shuichan Tribe into preparing for battle.
• Chief Aisima and commander Airuosi gathered troops, believing the Shuichan Tribe would win through its spirit's home-field advantage.

Batu led 140,000 War Soldiers toward Pingzhang Island, where the Shuichan Tribe’s Water Horse Cavalry prepared to attack them. Zhang Qing secretly readied the Dragon Scale Army to intervene, and the chapter ended as Batu’s force neared the island.

• A scout reported that the Shuichan Tribe was gathering its forces, and Batu ordered his army to advance toward Pingzhang Island.
• Airuosi dismissed the polar forces as weak and led the Water Horse Cavalry to Pingzhang Island to crush them before the Shuichan Tribe’s main force arrived.
• The Water Horse Cavalry formed up on the island and prepared to attack the approaching Wisteria Divine Kingdom ships.
• Zhang Qing ordered Luo Hang to ready 100,000 Meteor Realm Dragon Scale Army soldiers and planned to have them fight using martial arts rather than their Sequences.
• Batu sighted the Water Horse Cavalry along Pingzhang Island’s coast and roared for his War Soldiers to prepare for battle.

Zhang Qing used the Flower Lord’s faith to empower Batu’s Arctic War Soldiers, then sent a million Dragon Scale Army soldiers to defeat the Shuichan Tribe. After the River Mussel Spirit died and the Water Horse Cavalry fell, the flames spread across Shuichan territory while Hao’s Mechanical Divine Kingdom rapidly expanded in the southern polar region.

• Batu led the Arctic War Soldiers against Airuosi’s Water Horse Cavalry as the captives’ prayers filled the Flower Lord’s Faith Pool.
• Zhang Qing told Yun Xiaoxi to answer the believers, and the Flower Lord’s blessing strengthened the 140,000 War Soldiers.
• Zhang Qing ordered Luo Hang to log in the Dragon Scale Army, whose million flaming soldiers dispersed the River Mussel Spirit’s true-water rain and charged at the Shuichan forces.
• The River Mussel Spirit spied on the Sea Emperor, who destroyed it and its Faith Pool; the Water Horse Cavalry then lost strength and was defeated, though their water horses survived.
• Hao developed the Mechanical Divine Kingdom in the southern polar region by uploading consciousness, exploiting undersea resources, and building production lines.

The Dragon Scale Army conquered the Shuichan Tribe, and its High Priest Aisha was absorbed into the Wisteria Divine Kingdom. In Great Xia, researchers began decoding the Star Array system, while Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi prepared to use their findings to build Flower Lord’s foundation.

• Luo Hang and the Dragon Scale Army swept through the Shuichan Tribe, whose people surrendered after the River Mussel Spirit died.
• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s temple descended over Shuichan Island, and High Priest Aisha accepted that she might serve a new Spirit.
• Aisha’s knowledge was sent to Great Xia’s Research Institute, where Old Fan Deng used The Pale to reveal how Star Arrays and Star Marks projected power.
• Li Keming brought more than a hundred thousand researchers into the Spark Domain to collaboratively deconstruct the Star Array system.
• Zhang Qing planned to build Flower Lord around an endless sea of faith, then sent Great Xia’s research results to Yun Xiaoxi so she could engrave the patterns into Flower Lord’s faith pool.

Zhang Qing investigated why the Imperial City Lords were rushing to make the Ultimate Leap and discovered that later-generation Venerable Lords were not true Venerable Lords. Tiger Venerable revealed that their inherited power came at a price, but he had not yet explained how the first-generation Venerable Lords gained their strength.

• Zhang Qing reunited with Hu Feiyun and Yang Man, and they discussed the Imperial City Lords’ urgency to make the Ultimate Leap.
• Zhang Qing suspected that the Venerable Lords’ True Spirits were the source of their lifespan limits and asked Hu Feiyun and Yang Man to investigate hidden archives.
• Zhang Qing found Tiger Venerable, whose true body seemed difficult to control, and asked why he was making the Ultimate Leap so soon.
• Tiger Venerable revealed that his True Spirit had grown frail with age and said the problem was karma.
• Tiger Venerable explained that later Venerable Lords inherited their positions through a costly abdication, and Zhang Qing asked how the first-generation Venerable Lords became Venerable Lords.

Tiger Venerable told Zhang Qing how the Tiger Clan discovered Sequences, forged the Tiger Might Sequence, and pursued a Venerable Lord through sacrifice and inheritance. After learning that the power system was flawed and the Venerable Lords had little time left, Zhang Qing rejected Jie's plan to seal the Destiny Breach and vowed to reshape the future as Dragon Venerable.

• Tiger Venerable recounted how the Tiger Clan fought the Specters, discovered Fate Stones and Sequences, and created the Tiger Might Sequence after generations of struggle.
• Tiger Venerable explained that the Supreme Throne was forged from countless corpses and that Venerable Lord inheritance traded the successor's lifespan to preserve combat strength.
• Zhang Qing urged Tiger Venerable to overcome the flawed power system by cultivating the body and True Spirit, and Tiger Venerable said he believed Zhang Qing could bring a new world.
• Tiger Venerable invited Zhang Qing to witness the Venerable Lords' Ultimate Leap ceremony three days later, and Zhang Qing went to watch the River of Destiny.
• Jie proposed sacrificing himself with a Fantasy Venerable Lord's true body to seal the Destiny Breach and end the Sequences.
• Zhang Qing rejected Jie's plan, vowed to fix the Sequences and quell chaos, and declared himself Dragon Venerable.

Jie resolved to live long enough to witness the coming Great Dao Conflict between Hao and Zhang Qing. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxi completed the Flower Lord’s Star Array, beginning its growth phase and revealing how it could turn faith and the wishes of its followers into nourishment.

• Jie reflected on Hao and Zhang Qing’s competing visions for the future and vowed to witness their eventual life-or-death Great Dao Conflict.
• Zhang Qing focused on the Sovereign’s Ultimate Leap while the Shuichan Tribe’s chief’s worship system rapidly turned its people into devoted followers of the Flower Lord.
• Yun Xiaoxi completed the Flower Lord’s Star Array, which began circulating faith power but failed to find a Progenitor star sign to drain.
• Yun Xiaoxi discovered that the Flower Lord could still grant wishes and found that its followers most often wished for the tribe’s protection or for blessings such as Cultivation Techniques.

Zhang Qing visited the Venerables as they prepared to make the Ultimate Leap and learned that the Other Shore was a new world. He left his visit to Sheep Emperor City trading teasing questions with Sheep Venerable.

• Yun Xiaoxi told Zhang Qing that Flower Lord’s faith pool was nearly full and could eventually help bring back the dead, and Zhang Qing asked her to wait until after the Venerables’ Ultimate Leap.
• Zhang Qing met Serpent Venerable, who explained that the Ultimate Leap would let the Venerables touch divine laws and that the Other Shore was a new world.
• Serpent Venerable said She Qi would become outstanding because he stood on the side of the greater tide, and Zhang Qing and Serpent Venerable agreed to work toward the new world.
• Zhang Qing visited the Venerables, found their stances united, and finally arrived at Sheep Emperor City, where he greeted Sheep Venerable after Hu Sisi left.
• Zhang Qing asked whether Sheep Venerable could bear to let Hu Sisi go, and Sheep Venerable countered by asking why Zhang Qing was helping Yun Xiaoxi with her Venerable business.

Zhang Qing secured Sheep Venerable’s second Authority Artifact to prepare for the coming Ultimate Leap. As eleven Venerable Lords began the ceremony, Zhang Qing watched, knowing they were likely to lose but determined to learn from their sacrifice.

• Zhang Qing pressured Sheep Venerable to support him, and Sheep Venerable gave him a second scepter Authority Artifact intended to help secure the Cooperative Great Trend.
• Three days later, the Dark Realm fell silent as the eleven Venerable Lords prepared to make the Ultimate Leap.
• Zhang Qing told Yang Man that the Venerable Lords were guaranteed to lose, while the assembled Highnesses watched from a distance.
• The Venerable Lords merged with their true forms and summoned their silver armor, unleashing their full combat strength.
• The ceremony began, the stars dimmed, and the River of Destiny and River of Time converged before an endless Chaos Sea appeared.

Zhang Qing and Yang Man watched as Tiger Venerable led 11 Venerables into the Chaos Sea for the Ultimate Leap, where the sea’s Great Trend and trials threatened them at every turn. As divine lightning struck, the Venerables formed a stack and Tiger Venerable sent a man from his glabella into Sheep Venerable’s true body.

• Tiger Venerable stopped Zhang Qing from approaching the Chaos Sea and explained that the Venerables were being swept forward by an irresistible Great Trend.
• Tiger Venerable promised to pass his observations to Zhang Qing as the 11 Venerables leaped into the Chaos Sea and were rejected by its crushing forces.
• The Venerables dodged strands of Chaos Qi that could drain their life and damage their True Spirits.
• Tiger Venerable explained that the first trial was divine lightning, which the Venerables had to endure to continue crossing toward the Other Shore.
• As the Venerables stacked themselves beneath Tiger Venerable, a burly man flew from Tiger Venerable’s glabella into Sheep Venerable’s true body.

Zhang Qing watched the Venerables endure the Lightning Calamity and then the Fire Calamity during the Ultimate Leap. As their True Spirits weakened under the flames, he realized the leap required them to sever their karma with the cosmos, but the flawed Sequence made transcendence impossible.

• The Venerables hid their True Spirits inside Sheep Venerable’s body and used their stacked bodies to endure the Lightning Calamity.
• Tiger Venerable explained that the lightning trial was the easiest part of the Ultimate Leap, and the 11 Venerables emerged with healed wounds but weakened auras.
• Intangible flames ignited inside the Venerables as they entered the Fire Calamity, forcing them into Ultimate Sublimation.
• Zhang Qing brought Little Lion over to examine the flames, and Little Lion identified the forced sublimation as a punishment or checkpoint that burned away the True Spirits.
• Little Lion proposed that consciousness might have weight, prompting Zhang Qing to connect the Venerables’ departure with repaying the cosmos for what they had received.
• Zhang Qing concluded that transcendence required severing all karma with the cosmos, but the Sequence’s flaw made the path impossible.

Zhang Qing watched the Venerable Lords attempt the Ultimate Leap, only to discover that the Other Shore was unreachable and they had been trapped in the Temporal Prison. He left to prepare while the Venerable Lords remained imprisoned and time continued to pass.

• Phoenix Venerable’s flames went out, and his body fell into the Chaos Sea.
• Sheep Venerable used the Cooperative Great Trend to help the remaining Venerable Lords endure the burning as they advanced toward the Other Shore.
• Tiger Venerable and the others reached the apparent Other Shore, but Kid Brother explained to Hao that the universe’s limits made it an illusion.
• Tiger Venerable realized the Venerable Lords could not reach the Other Shore, while Zhang Qing discovered that they were trapped in the Temporal Prison and the Imperial Cities were falling.
• Zhang Qing learned that the Venerable Lords’ lifespans had been erased by the rules, then left to prepare while they continued their struggle.

After the Venerable Lords’ Ultimate Leap failed, Zhang Qing sought another way forward by testing whether Flower Lord’s power of faith could pay the price of retrieving a True Spirit. He successfully seized Li Wannian’s True Spirit from the River of Time, but still had to bring it back.

• Zhang Qing told Little Lion that every rule carried a price and urged it to prepare for a possible way through the deadlock.
• Zhang Qing and Little Lion returned to the Sea World, where Yun Xiaoxi said Flower Lord’s overflowing faith could lock onto True Spirits and bear their price.
• Zhang Qing gathered the Progenitors and announced that he would try to retrieve Li Wannian’s True Spirit, both to recover Great Xia and to explore another path after the Ultimate Leap failed.
• Yun Xiaoxi merged with Zhang Qing and supplied Flower Lord’s faith as Zhang Qing anchored a dragon claw in the River of Time and endured divine punishment.
• Zhang Qing used the faith to seize Li Wannian’s True Spirit and began bringing it back, testing whether faith could also repay the karmic price.

Zhang Qing used the Flower Lord’s faith power to pay the divine law’s price and restore Li Wannian from his True Spirit. After Li Wannian returned to Great Xia, Zhang Qing turned to the Progenitors and Sea Emperor to expand the Wisteria Divine Kingdom and gather more faith power.

• Zhang Qing ordered a grand war-sacrifice ceremony, drawing on the people of the Wisteria Divine Kingdom to help pay the cost of retrieving Li Wannian’s True Spirit.
• The Dragon Venerable brought Li Wannian’s True Spirit out of the River of Time, and the ceremony’s faith power barely covered the price imposed by divine law.
• Little Loli used the Flesh Authority to recreate Li Wannian’s body, and Zhang Qing restored his True Spirit and memories.
• Li Wannian recognized Zhang Qing, learned how much time had passed, and returned to Great Xia through the Spark Giant Gate.
• Zhang Qing told the Progenitors that the Flower Lord needed a true Divine Kingdom to amass enough faith power, and the Sea Emperor volunteered to clear the way through the Sea World.

The Wisteria Divine Kingdom launched a war against the Thunder Eel Tribe under a terrifying celestial display, while Zhang Qing resolved to revive martial arts as a path to cultivate the True Spirit. Meanwhile, Hao’s Mechanical Divine Kingdom swept across Antarctica, drawing the attention of the dojo on Central Plains Island.

• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom darkened the skies over the Thunder Eel Tribe and Fierce Tooth Tribe, frightening their ritual spirits and leaders.
• The Wisteria Divine Kingdom’s army attacked the Thunder Eel Tribe, whose War Soldiers struggled against their fearless opponents.
• Zhang Qing discussed faith and the weakness of the True Spirit with Yun Xiaoxi, then decided to blaze a martial arts path.
• Hao’s Mechanical Divine Kingdom used uploaded True Spirits and replenishable machine bodies to conquer Antarctica and expand its wars across the poles.
• The dojo on Central Plains Island noticed the large-scale wars in Antarctica and the far north.

Zhang Qing and the Sea Emperor conquered the Thunder Eel and Fierce Tooth Tribes, then kept the Thunder Eel sacrificial spirit alive rather than risk empowering others. As Yun Xiaoxi prepared to advance the Flower Lord and Zhang Qing planned a martial arts experiment, an envoy from the Whale Shark Dojo arrived demanding respect, and Yun Xiaoxi ordered him killed.

• Zhang Qing and the Sea Emperor found the Thunder Eel sacrificial spirit cowering in its temple, and the Sea Emperor identified it as a power connected to his True Spirit and the Astrology World.
• Zhang Qing agreed to keep the Thunder Eel alive, and the Wisteria Divine Kingdom annexed the Thunder Eel and Fierce Tooth Tribes as their sacrificial spirits surrendered.
• Yun Xiaoxi reported that the tribes' faith was pure, two High Priests had joined them, and the Flower Lord could advance another rank.
• Zhang Qing told Yun Xiaoxi to use Great Xia's research institute to study Star Mark circuits and planned to bring people into a True Spirit domain to test martial arts advancement.
• Batu reported that an envoy from the Whale Shark Dojo demanded Zhang Qing's welcome, and Yun Xiaoxi ordered Batu to kill him.
• The Whale Shark Dojo envoy grew impatient on Shuichan Island and headed toward the temple, threatening to wipe out the Wisteria Divine Kingdom.