Chapter Summaries

Li Yang studied the Profound Yin Corpse Record and clarified how cultivation stages compared with Gene Warriors, from Golden Core through Spirit Transformation and Dao Integration. He concluded that reaching Dao Integration required surviving a deadly thunder tribulation after completing Spirit Transformation’s three heavens.

• Li Yang compared Golden Core cultivators’ physical bodies with the levels of Gene Warriors and Genetic Potions.
• Li Yang learned that Golden Core cultivators advanced through nine revolutions, then formed a Nascent Soul by refining a divine ability into the Golden Core.
• Li Yang learned that Nascent Soul cultivators grew stronger by comprehending divine abilities, undergoing four transformations before reaching their limit.
• Li Yang learned that Spirit Transformation involved opening and developing a Small World through three heavens.
• Li Yang learned that Spirit Transformation cultivators had to survive a thunder tribulation to reach Dao Integration, or their consciousness and cultivation would be lost.

Li Yang prepared corpse-refinements to absorb the Apocalyptic World’s Yin Evil Qi, then returned to Thunder Shock Valley to cultivate and strengthen his body, soul, and Nine-Story Pagoda. After more than two years, the Cutting-Edge Research Lab completed its Level 7 Genetic Potions, and Li Yang drank one containing Space Power.

• Li Yang concluded that the corpse-refinements could reach the Spirit Transformation level only if he first cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage and gained a divine ability, then left them to absorb Yin Evil Qi in the Apocalyptic World.
• Li Yang returned to Thunder Shock Valley, exposed the Nine-Story Pagoda to Thunder Yang lightning, and cultivated by tempering his magic power, body, and soul.
• More than two years passed, and the Cutting-Edge Research Lab successfully produced seven batches of perfect Level 7 Genetic Potions.
• Li Yang arrived at the lab and learned that the potions contained every genetic ability their formula could support, including Space Power.
• Li Yang drank a Level 7 Genetic Potion, and space around him shattered before repairing itself.

Li Yang tested the Level 7 Genetic Potion, gaining powerful spatial abilities and a major physical enhancement, then distributed the potion to others. After upgrading five women to Level 7 Evolvers, he prepared to use the remaining years to develop the potion’s potential through cultivation.

• Li Yang discovered that the Level 7 Genetic Potion gave him Space Power, a stronger body, and a Magnetic Field capable of manipulating space.
• Li Yang visited Sea Capital, found that more than ten million zombies had grown to at least Foundation Establishment strength, and reinforced their spell seals.
• Li Yang returned to Base City Number One, supplied researchers with materials to continue developing the potion, and drank another bottle that increased his Genetic Power by fifty percent.
• Li Yang assessed his strength as physically invincible among Golden Core cultivators and considered how further Essence Reversion could strengthen him.
• Li Yang gave the Level 7 Genetic Potion to five women, who advanced from Level 6 to Level 7 Evolvers.
• Li Yang urged the five newly upgraded women to exercise with him so they could draw out the potion’s potential.

Li Yang repeatedly advanced his Foundation Establishment Essence Reversion while the Magic World’s races fought to hold back the growing demonic calamity. As a greater abyssal threat drew near, the defenders relied on Li Yang’s eventual return and the power he was cultivating.

• Li Yang used the Level 7 Genetic Potion and the Yin and Yang Supreme Scripture to complete repeated essence reversions, breaking through his three hundred and sixty-sixth.
• Five years into the Magic World’s demonic calamity, the Profession Pioneers and the allied races fought the Devil Race’s forces while Rofiel and the three-clawed flood dragon helped turn the immortal battles in their favor.
• Immortal Thunder Mages killed Demon Gods and demonic beasts, but the Elf Queen warned that a stronger abyssal creature was being drawn toward the world.
• Gu Chen admitted he could not defeat the approaching threat, then used thunder to purify some of the corruption around the motionless demonic beast.
• Aishia joined the fighting, while the Elf Queen hoped Li Yang could master his special power and withstand the threat expected within five years.
• In the Apocalyptic World, a trembling voice pleaded with Li Yang to stop as he continued helping raise their strength.

Li Yang reached the limit of Foundation Establishment Essence Reversion and spent years strengthening his refined corpses while studying the Apocalyptic World’s technology. After gathering a powerful corpse-refinement array for protection, he entered the Magic World to confront the danger there.

• Li Yang completed his 1,080th Essence Reversion and judged that he had reached the Foundation Establishment limit.
• He inspected the corpse pit, collected the Nascent Soul Early Stage corpses, and left the remaining corpses to absorb Yin Evil Qi.
• Worried that the Devil Ancestor might have altered the Magic World’s timeline, Li Yang stayed in the Apocalyptic World to study its technology and await stronger refined corpses.
• After a year of study and several more months of Essence Reversion, Li Yang reached his limit but hesitated to form a core because his Soul Power lagged behind his magic power and physical body.
• Li Yang collected more Nascent Soul Early Stage corpses, assembled a 200,000-corpse Great Array of Heavenly Profound Evil, and opened the World Gate to enter the Magic World.

Ten years after Li Yang vanished, the Devil Ancestor revealed that he had manipulated the Magic World to lure him out and capture The One That Got Away. Li Yang never appeared, forcing the Devil Ancestor to abandon his trap and restore the Magic World's Heavenly Dao.

• Gu Chen and the Elf Queen watched the Dark Sky Curtain's Demonic Beast loom over the Elf Race and feared that Li Yang would return to its ambush.
• The Devil Ancestor, immobilized by the Great Dao's radiance, explained that he had forced The One That Got Away to separate from the Great Dao so he could capture and refine it.
• The Devil Ancestor used false information and intensified his actions against the Magic World to bait Li Yang into appearing, but Li Yang stayed away for more than eleven years.
• As the Great Dao's radiance nearly immobilized him, the Devil Ancestor withdrew his trap, restored the Magic World's Heavenly Dao, and left a Demonic Dao Spell Seed waiting for The One That Got Away.

Li Yang returned to the Magic World with two hundred thousand demon corpses and used the Great Array of Heavenly Profound Evil to survive the Devil Ancestor’s ambush. After gaining a great increase in Soul Power, he reunited with Aishia, the Elf Queen, and Gu Chen, and prepared to ask the Queen for a favor.

• The Devil Ancestor accepted that his plans in the Magic World had failed and focused on recovering while enduring the Great Dao’s light.
• The Elf Queen and Gu Chen sensed a deadly threat as Li Yang appeared with an array formed from two hundred thousand demon corpses.
• A hidden demonic attack struck Li Yang, but his Great Array of Heavenly Profound Evil blocked it, and he repaired the breach.
• Li Yang destroyed the attacking Demonic Beast and absorbed its Spiritual Power, greatly increasing his Soul Power.
• Li Yang greeted the Elf Queen and Gu Chen, embraced his wife Aishia, and said he had a favor to ask the Queen.

Li Yang gave Elf Queen Tilfa a Level 7 Genetic Potion and persuaded her to help him strengthen himself through dual cultivation so he could oppose the master of the Dark Sky Curtain. He also empowered Gu Chen and prepared potions for the world’s defenders before leaving to eliminate the demon gods.

• Elf Queen Tilfa eagerly offered to help Li Yang save the world after he destroyed the abyssal Demonic Beast and drove off the master of the Dark Sky Curtain.
• Li Yang explained that he needed dual cultivation to advance and gave Aishia a Level 7 Genetic Potion, which she drank.
• The World Spirit urged Tilfa to accept Li Yang’s request, and she drank a Level 7 Genetic Potion and agreed to help him.
• Li Yang gave Gu Chen a Level 7 Genetic Potion, and Gu Chen vowed to protect the world with his increased strength.
• Li Yang gave Gu Chen two hundred more potions for the Thunder Mages and professional pioneers, then left to eliminate the demon gods and entrusted the remaining Demonic Beasts to them.

Li Yang arranged for the Elf Race to receive Level 7 Genetic Potions enhanced with the Life Divine Tree’s essence, then went to the battlefield to hunt Devil Gods and increase his Soul Power. He unleashed the Nine-Story Pagoda against the Devil Race, annihilating most of its forces and releasing the Thunder Jiao to attack the survivors.

• Li Yang gave Gu Chen Level 7 Genetic Potions to distribute, while Gu Chen and the Elf Queen discovered that the Life Divine Tree’s Life Essence strengthened the potions and infused it into two hundred bottles.
• The Elf Queen summoned the Elf Race’s Three Force Limit experts and Profession Pioneers to distribute the potions, then began digesting her own enhanced potion.
• Li Yang arrived at the battlefield and concluded that killing Devil Gods would both weaken the Devil Ancestor’s power and increase his Soul Power.
• Li Yang killed a towering Devil God with Thunder Magic Power and absorbed the Soul Power it left behind.
• Li Yang expanded the Nine-Story Pagoda across the battlefield, and its Thunder Magic Arrays annihilated ninety-nine percent of the Devil Race.
• Li Yang released the Thunder Jiao from the pagoda, and it swept lightning through the remaining True Devils.

Li Yang killed the Nascent Soul-level demon god, bringing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to the Foundation Establishment limit, and contained the spreading demonic qi so Corpse Refiners could absorb it. With the demon race weakened for centuries, he left the battlefield secured and returned to Tilfa in the Elf Kingdom.

• Li Yang used the Nine-Story Pagoda and lightning dragon to destroy the demons and demon gods across the battlefield, then absorbed their pure Soul Power.
• A Nascent Soul-level demon god emerged from the abyss, but Li Yang sealed in the demonic qi and killed it with the Great Array of Heavenly Profound Evil.
• Li Yang absorbed the demon god’s Soul Power, bringing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to the Foundation Establishment limit, and sent Golden Core Peak Level Corpse Refiners to absorb the demonic qi.
• Li Yang left the Nine-Story Pagoda and lightning dragon to guard the area, gave the cultivators instructions and Healing Potions, and departed after learning the demon race had been weakened for five hundred years.
• Tilfa finished distributing potions in the Elf Royal Palace, called Li Yang the savior, and prepared her bedchamber before he appeared there.

Li Yang discovered that Elf Queen Tilfa possessed the rare Profound Yin Body and used their union to break through from Foundation Establishment to Core Formation, forming a Dragon-Tiger Golden Core. He left the Queen’s bedchamber with his new aura concealed and proposed teaching her his cultivation technique so they could grow stronger together.

• Li Yang removed Tilfa’s veil and began their union despite her warning that her beauty could overwhelm him.
• Li Yang recognized Tilfa’s Profound Yin Body and sensed the immense profound-yin qi within her.
• As profound-yin qi joined his cultivation, Li Yang fused Essence, Qi, Spirit, magic power, and yin-yang energies to form a golden core.
• The golden core condensed into a Dragon-Tiger Golden Core, and Li Yang absorbed a vast amount of spiritual energy as he completed his breakthrough.
• Li Yang concealed his new aura and told Tilfa they should strengthen themselves against the Dark Tide by cultivating together.

After ten years of cultivating with Tilfa, Li Yang reached a deeper level of power and returned to the Magic World, where he assigned others to purge the remaining Dark Power while he gathered corpses and Yin Evil Qi. He left the chapter collecting the Yin Evil Qi in Gathering Yin Pots for future corpse refinement.

• Li Yang taught Tilfa a Golden Core technique as they cultivated together, and the Life Divine Tree’s energy helped his cultivation advance through several transformations.
• At the abyss, Gu Chen and the Wind Mage Profession Pioneer agreed that powerful cultivators should clear lingering Dark Power across the Life Continent; Li Yang appeared and told them to proceed while he handled the corpse refinements.
• Li Yang collected the corpse refinements near the Magic World abyss, which had reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage after absorbing demonic energy.
• In the Apocalyptic World, Li Yang collected more than ten million Nascent Soul Early Stage zombies and judged that most had reached their limits.
• Li Yang placed Gathering Yin Pots in the formation and began drawing in the remaining Yin Evil Qi to preserve it for future corpse refinement.

Li Yang refined the Magic World's demonic energy into corpse refinements, spread its cultivation methods through the Apocalyptic World, and prepared to strengthen the Magic World's cultivators. After fifty years of dual cultivation with Tilfa, he reached Golden Core Thirteenth Revolution while she reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions perfection.

• Li Yang discovered that corpse refinements nourished by the Magic World's abyssal demonic energy gained Devil Race traits and an additional demonic divine ability while remaining under his control.
• Li Yang ordered Base City Number One and the other base cities to spread the Magic World's cultivation texts to survivors across the Apocalyptic World.
• Li Yang returned to the Magic World, absorbed more demonic energy, refined the Nine-Story Pagoda, and displayed five Golden Core-level Five-Element techniques for people to learn.
• Li Yang reunited with Tilfa and continued cultivating with her, progressing from Golden Core Three Revolutions to Golden Core Thirteenth Revolution over fifty years.
• Tilfa reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions perfection as Li Yang realized he had reached the limit of the Golden Core realm.

After fifty years, Li Yang and Tilfa reached Golden Core Perfection, and Li Yang wondered whether the World Gate explained his exceptional cultivation. He returned to a world cleansed of demonic aura to spread more techniques, then went to the Apocalyptic World, where he discovered that people could now have children.

• Li Yang compared Tilfa's nine-revolution Golden Core with his own thirteen-revolution core and suspected the World Gate had granted him an unseen advantage.
• Li Yang passed Immortal Cultivation arts to Tilfa and planned to spread Genetic Potion methods and more techniques to strengthen the world against the master of the Dark Tide.
• Over thirty years, cultivators cleared the world's demonic remnants, the Yin Gathering Bottles absorbed the demonic aura, and the World Spirit recovered as the Nine-Story Pagoda spread Immortal Cultivation Techniques.
• After twenty more years, Li Yang gathered the cultivators, collected the Yin Gathering Pots and Nine-Story Pagoda, and passed advanced techniques to those chosen by the World Spirit.
• Li Yang arrived in the Apocalyptic World, collected the pots that had absorbed its Yin Evil Qi, and learned that people there could have children while continuing their magical cultivation.

Li Yang restored the Apocalyptic World’s ability to reproduce, strengthened its cultivation path, and prepared it to resist the Devil Ancestor. He then returned to the Cultivation World after seventy years, where the Joyful Union Sect announced its Holy Son’s return as Li Yang arrived near the Jiuli Dynasty’s capital.

• Li Yang recognized that the Devil Ancestor’s suppression and Yin Evil Qi had crippled the Apocalyptic World, then saw that humanity had recovered and Advanced Transcendents had emerged.
• Li Yang taught immortal cultivation scriptures to the Apocalyptic World’s leaders, left Gathering Yin Arrays and pots behind, and departed to pursue the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Seventy years after Li Yang left, Feng Deng, Wen Tianli, and Pang Xingsheng had become Golden Core cultivators and officials in the Jiuli Dynasty’s capital.
• The Joyful Union Sect announced that its Holy Son had returned, prompting Feng Deng and representatives from sects and dynasties to head to the sect.
• Li Yang returned to the Cultivation World with Little Dragon, absorbed the lightning at Thunder Shock Valley into his Nine-Story Profound Sun Pagoda, and traveled to the capital.

Li Yang visited the Jiaofang Division in the Jiuli Dynasty’s capital to find Elder Chen and join the Joyful Union Sect. After recognizing Li Yang’s Golden Core Peak cultivation and extraordinary aptitude, Chen Ding proposed making him the sect’s Holy Son and brought him to the sect’s realm for its great cultivators to assess.

• Li Yang entered the Jiaofang Division and asked its Joyful Union Sect disciples to inform Elder Chen that he had arrived.
• Chen Ding appeared, recognized that Li Yang had formed a powerful Golden Core, and declared him a suitable candidate for the Joyful Union Sect’s Holy Son.
• Chen Ding explained the Holy Son’s authority and benefits, and Li Yang agreed to accompany him to the sect’s main realm.
• Chen Ding took Li Yang through a Teleportation Array inside the Jiaofang Division to the Joyful Union Sect’s realm.
• Chen Ding brought Li Yang to the sect’s highest peak, where a misty immortal palace stood amid the presence of Nascent Soul cultivators.

Li Yang was appointed the Joyful Union Sect's Holy Son and received access to its supreme inheritances, treasures, pills, and resources. After the sect assured him he could claim whatever he needed, he began converting his cultivation to the Yin and Yang Returning to Truth Scripture and refining three spirit treasures.

• A powerful ancestor recognized Li Yang's physique and decreed that he become the Joyful Union Sect's Holy Son.
• Chen Ding led Li Yang through his appointment, and the sect granted him access to its supreme cultivation methods, divine abilities, resources, and partners for Dual Cultivation.
• Li Yang asked whether he could take three spirit treasures and nine bottles of Dust Descending Pure Law Pills, and Chen Ding assured him the sect could spare them.
• After Chen Ding left, Li Yang chose to convert his cultivation to the Yin and Yang Returning to Truth Scripture and studied its Yin Yang True Seed art.
• Li Yang consumed a Dust Descending Pure Law Pill, began converting his cultivation, and refined the three spirit treasures.

After becoming the Joyful Union Sect's Holy Son, Li Yang received a powerful blessing from the Cultivation World's Heavenly Dao, which accelerated his cultivation and comprehension. He perfected three powerful Yin-Yang divine abilities and discovered that the blessing could help him comprehend even more.

• Li Yang sensed the Heavenly Dao descend upon him and realized its blessing was accelerating his understanding of cultivation methods and divine abilities.
• Li Yang reasoned that his work in the Apocalyptic World and Magic World, where he had spread cultivation methods, might have earned the Cultivation World's favor.
• Li Yang spent three months comprehending and cultivating the Yin and Yang Returning to Truth Scripture, the Scripture of Profound Truths of Cavernous Reality, and the Great Cavern Scripture of Primordial Chaos, strengthening his Thirteenth-Revolution Golden Core.
• Li Yang restrained his imminent breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage and began comprehending Calamity of Sentimental Thoughts, Divine Light of Ten Thousand Desires, and Peach Blossom Fate.
• With the Heavenly Dao's aid, Li Yang mastered all three divine abilities in three years and perfected them over the following ten years.
• Li Yang sensed stronger feedback from the Heavenly Dao and realized he could comprehend three more divine abilities.

Li Yang used the Cultivation World's Heavenly Dao to perfect more Joyful Union Sect divine abilities and combine several other techniques into new powers. Nine Divine Ability True Seeds carried him into the Nascent Soul Early Stage, and the Heavenly Dao continued guiding him as he developed four more abilities to strengthen his Nascent Soul Space.

• Li Yang comprehended the Yin Yang Umbrella, Yin Yang True Body, and Divine Light of Wonderful Void Yin Yang, then fused other techniques into eye, thunder, and physical-body divine abilities.
• Nine Divine Ability True Seeds gathered within Li Yang's Thirteen-Turn Golden Core, drawing in vast spiritual energy as the core transformed into his Nascent Soul.
• Li Yang advanced to the Nascent Soul Early Stage, gaining immense spiritual sense, powerful magic, and Immortal Flesh and Jade Bones after thirty-six days of spiritual-energy absorption.
• The Heavenly Dao continued helping Li Yang, and he perfected the Great Mill of Yin Yang, Divine Light of Two Energies, Water Fire Millstone, and Yin Yang Thunder.
• Li Yang used powers and resources from several worlds to strengthen the four divine abilities, which opened the four directions of his Nascent Soul Space and raised his aura again.

Li Yang discovered that his nine Divine Ability True Seeds had allowed him to open a vast Nascent Soul Space despite his early-stage cultivation. After refining eighteen more divine abilities and undergoing two transformations, he left his hall to find the Joyful Union Sect gathered outside to welcome him as its Holy Son.

• Li Yang realized his Nascent Soul Space had expanded to a hundred thousand zhang, even though his four newly comprehended divine abilities were insufficient for his first normal Nascent Soul transformation.
• Li Yang determined that his nine Divine Ability True Seeds meant he would need nine additional divine abilities for each transformation, and that his Nascent Soul Space was unlike a Soul Transformation cultivator’s Small World.
• When the heavenly law prevented him from returning to the Magic World, Li Yang perfected eighteen remaining marvelous arts and refined their divine abilities, causing his Nascent Soul to undergo two transformations.
• Li Yang noticed that his cultivation realm had advanced but still required him to cultivate the energy needed for further improvement, while the heavenly law’s influence diminished.
• Li Yang left his great hall and found Elder Chen, three female elders, and sixteen female disciples waiting to welcome him as the Joyful Union Sect’s Holy Son.