Chapter Summaries

Li Yun and the Pine Brahma Domain Lord secretly raided Enclosure Lands across Rock River Domain and Pine Brahma Domain, helping Li Yun rise to 7,200 strands of Dominator's Authority. When Pine Brahma’s tribes demanded action over the losses, the Domain Lord proposed starting a baseless war with a neighboring domain, and Li Yun agreed.

• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord assured the Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable that he was watching the Rock River Domain Lord and received orders to gather evidence against him.
• Li Yun raided hundreds of Enclosure Lands in Rock River Domain, then entered Pine Brahma Domain with the Pine Brahma Domain Lord’s guidance and seized at least a hundred more.
• Li Yun’s Crimson Gold Divine Seats reached 300, raising his strength to 7,200 strands of Dominator’s Authority and stirring Thoughts of All Beings in the Pine Brahma Domain Lord.
• Pine Brahma’s tribal chiefs blamed neighboring domains for the vanished Enclosure Lands and demanded that the Pine Brahma Domain Lord find the thieves.
• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord proposed starting a war against a neighboring domain without evidence to muddy the waters, and Li Yun agreed.

The Pine Brahma Domain Lord provoked a war with the Flying Qilin Domain to create cover for Li Yun to seize Enclosure Lands. The fighting paused after the Flying Lin Domain Lord agreed to investigate, but Flying Qilin tribal chiefs discovered their own lands had vanished and demanded justice.

• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord ordered his tribal chiefs to attack the Flying Qilin Domain, and they launched an invasion that sparked a war.
• Li Yun infiltrated the Flying Qilin Domain during the fighting and quietly seized its Enclosure Lands.
• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord falsely claimed his chiefs had acted without orders and suggested a subordinate of the Flying Lin Domain Lord had stolen his Enclosure Lands.
• The Flying Lin Domain Lord agreed to investigate and asked the Pine Brahma Domain Lord to withdraw his troops, which he did.
• Flying Qilin tribal chiefs discovered that their Enclosure Lands had vanished and accused the Pine Brahma Domain of taking them, then demanded justice from the Flying Lin Domain Lord.

Li Yun exploited the war between Flying Lin Domain and Pine Brahma Domain to seize Enclosure Lands, while both domain lords began to suspect a hidden third force. The Pine Brahma Domain Lord helped Li Yun capture the Flying Lin Domain Lord and revealed his ambition to reach the Source God Continent and become a Demon Emperor.

• Flying Lin Domain Lord declared war on Pine Brahma Domain, and Li Yun used the fighting to seize Enclosure Lands from both domains.
• After a few years, Li Yun increased his Crimson Gold Divine Seats from three hundred to four hundred and raised his Dominator's Authority to 7,600 strands.
• Flying Lin Domain Lord noticed that both domains were losing Enclosure Lands and went to the Pine Brahma Domain Lord to suggest a truce and investigation.
• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord pretended to consider the proposal as Li Yun approached and struck the Flying Lin Domain Lord into a gateway.
• The Flying Lin Domain Lord awoke in an unfamiliar world, saw Li Yun beside the Pine Brahma Domain Lord, and accused the latter of betraying the abyss.
• The Pine Brahma Domain Lord said he would follow Supreme Lord to the Abyssal Ancient Dao and reach the Source God Continent, leaving the Flying Lin Domain Lord stunned.

Pine Brahma Domain Lord brought Flying Lin Domain Lord to the Myriad Gods Realm and urged him to join an attempt to walk the Abyssal Ancient Dao to the Source God Continent. Flying Lin began to waver after discovering the realm severed the Abyssal Rules, and asked what the Myriad Gods Realm was.

• Pine Brahma Domain Lord revealed that Flying Lin Domain Lord could no longer sense the Abyssal Rules in the Myriad Gods Realm and would not be revived by them if he died there.
• Pine Brahma Domain Lord asked whether Abyssal Demons or human Sinful Criminals were nobler, then declared that both were trapped in the Abyss and that he intended to reach the Source God Continent.
• Flying Lin Domain Lord condemned Pine Brahma Domain Lord's ambition, but Li Yun called him a coward for refusing to challenge the Abyssal Rules.
• Pine Brahma Domain Lord told Flying Lin Domain Lord that the Myriad Gods Realm and its creator, the Myriad Gods Supreme, could help them succeed.
• Flying Lin Domain Lord asked what the Myriad Gods Realm was and how it could sever the Abyssal Rules.

Flying Lin Domain Lord joined Pine Brahma Domain Lord in pursuing the Abyssal Ancient Dao, while mysterious Enclosure Lands disappearances turned their war into a ten-domain melee. Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable arrived to stop the fighting but ran into trouble as soon as he entered the battlefield.

• Flying Lin Domain Lord returned from the Myriad Gods Realm and decided to gamble on the Abyssal Ancient Dao despite doubting Pine Brahma Domain Lord’s optimism.
• Three months after Flying Lin Domain Lord left, Pine Brahma Domain and Flying Lin Domain joined forces against Ruler Crow Domain, while Enclosure Lands began vanishing and the domains blamed one another.
• Over the following years, more domains lost Enclosure Lands and joined the fighting until the conflict involved seven domains.
• Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable ended his Patrol and rushed toward the conflict, but it took him a year to arrive, by which time ten domains were fighting.
• Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable charged into the battlefield to seize the ten domain lords, but immediately ran into trouble.

After increasing his strength to 8,400 Dominator's Authorities, Li Yun entered the Ten Domains' battle zone to capture and assimilate more Domain Lords. Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable arrived unexpectedly, so Li Yun and his allies ambushed him and sent him into the Myriad Gods Realm.

• Li Yun gained six hundred Crimson Gold Divine Seats, raising his total to 8,400 Dominator's Authorities.
• Li Yun observed that Pine Brahma Domain Lord and Flying Lin Domain Lord were gradually being assimilated by the Myriad Gods Realm and decided to capture two more Domain Lords.
• Li Yun entered the battle zone and contacted Pine Brahma Domain Lord and Flying Lin Domain Lord to prepare a capture attempt.
• Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable arrived, and Li Yun ordered the two Domain Lords to cover his sneak attack.
• Li Yun struck Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable into an illusory gate that transported him to the Myriad Gods Realm, then vanished and reappeared there.
• The Myriad Gods Realm's rules and Thoughts of All Beings suppressed Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable as he demanded to know who had ambushed him.

Li Yun captured Mist Island Archaic Demon Venerable in the Myriad Gods Realm and revealed that Domain Lords Pine Brahma and Flying Lin had joined his rebellion. He asked Mist Island whether Abyssal demons had ever considered leaving the abyss for Source God Continent.

• Li Yun confronted Mist Island, whose attempt to contact the Severance Demon Emperor failed because Abyssal Rules did not exist in the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Li Yun demanded Mist Island's cooperation in delaying the Demon Emperor's forces, and revealed that Pine Brahma Domain Lord and Flying Lin Domain Lord had joined him.
• Li Yun told Mist Island that he had killed Rock River Domain Lord and had avoided Mist Island's earlier investigation of Rock River Domain.
• Mist Island accused Li Yun of controlling the two Domain Lords, but Li Yun said they cooperated for the hope of reaching Source God Continent.
• Li Yun asked Mist Island whether he had considered traveling along the Abyssal Ancient Dao to Source God Continent, leaving him stunned.

Li Yun argued that Abyssal Demons and Sinful Criminals were both trapped by the Abyssal Rules, and urged Mist Island to join him in reaching the Source God Continent. He revealed his growing strength and claimed he would soon cross the ten-thousand-Dominator’s-Authority barrier, leaving Mist Island stunned by his confidence.

• Li Yun challenged Mist Island’s belief that Abyssal Demons were noble by pointing out that they were barred from the Abyssal Ancient Dao, and Mist Island spat blood in anger.
• Li Yun told Mist Island that both Abyssal Demons and Sinful Criminals were trapped in the Abyss and had to reach the Source God Continent to escape their plight.
• Li Yun said Pine Brahma Domain Lord and Flying Lin Domain Lord had gambled on him because the Myriad Gods Realm could block the Abyssal Rules.
• Li Yun revealed that he possessed 8,400 Dominator’s Authority and explained that Demon Emperors surpassed ten thousand and wielded source power.
• Li Yun said he had risen from just over six thousand Dominator’s Authority after killing Rock River Domain Lord and challenged Mist Island to calculate how quickly he would surpass ten thousand.

Li Yun used Mist Island’s cooperation to control the Ten Domains War and annex the Enclosure Lands, then crossed the ten-thousand Dominator’s Authority threshold and awakened Source God Power. Though he gained initial Demon Emperor-level might, he still feared the Severance Demon Emperor and asked the subdued Archaic Demon Venerables how he could grow stronger beyond the Ten Domains.

• Mist Island, tempted by the prospect of reaching the Abyssal Ancient Dao, agreed to cooperate with Li Yun and stall the Archaic Demon Venerables at the Demon Emperor’s Headquarters.
• Li Yun and Mist Island subdued Thousand Demons, Mist Island’s four fellow subordinates, and the other eight Domain Lords, bringing the Ten Domains War under control.
• Over five years, Li Yun annexed the Ten Domains’ Enclosure Lands and raised his Crimson Gold Divine Seats to one thousand, bringing his Dominator’s Authority to ten thousand.
• Li Yun’s combined authorities transformed into Source God Power, and Mist Island identified it as the power possessed by the Demon Emperor.
• Li Yun recognized that his strength still fell short of the Severance Demon Emperor and summoned Mist Island and the other Archaic Demon Venerables to discuss expanding beyond the Ten Domains.

Li Yun fled the Severance Abyss Prison after learning the Severance Demon Emperor was awakening and reached the Minggu Realm, where he discovered its inhabitants’ longing for the Myriad Gods Realm. Minggu Heavenly Venerable told him that the Heavenblood Domain Lord had sealed the Minggu Realm and planned to sacrifice it.

• Mist Island urged Li Yun to abandon the war in the Ten Domains and flee before the Severance Demon Emperor noticed their gains.
• After Mist Island reported that the Severance Demon Emperor might awaken, Li Yun gathered Pine Brahma Domain Lord, other Archaic Demon Venerables, and several tribes into the Myriad Gods Realm and escaped the Severance Abyss Prison.
• Li Yun sensed the Severance Demon Emperor’s awakening and heard his enraged roar after he discovered the changes in the domains.
• Li Yun entered the Minggu Realm and sensed its inhabitants’ powerful yearning for the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Minggu Heavenly Venerable told Li Yun that the Heavenblood Domain Lord had sealed the Minggu Realm, allowing entry but forbidding exit, and was preparing to sacrifice it.

Li Yun hid in Juezong Demon Emperor’s territory while the Abyss saw upheaval, then learned about the powerful Violetgold Divine Lord and decided to seize the territory of the slain Roland Demon Emperor. As Deathsword Demon Emperor and Sky Mad Demon Emperor finally clashed and moved away from their domains, Li Yun recognized a chance to act.

• Li Yun moved the Minggu Realm, teleported to a small Enclosure Land near Juezong Demon Emperor’s territory, subdued Yakun, and hid there.
• During Li Yun’s years in hiding, Severance Demon Emperor hunted for traitors, and human forces failed to break through a branch path of the Abyssal Ancient Dao.
• Yakun reported that Crimson Heaven Sword Lord, a Violetgold Divine Lord, had killed a Demon Emperor and later fought through another blockade to reach an Abyssal Ancient Dao branch path.
• Li Yun learned that Violetgold Divine Seats could surpass Crimson Gold Divine Seats and resolved to seek the territory of Roland Demon Emperor, whom Crimson Heaven Sword Lord had killed.
• Yakun reported that neighboring Demon Emperors were disputing how to divide Roland’s remaining territory, making Li Yun fear little would be left for him.
• Deathsword Demon Emperor and Sky Mad Demon Emperor launched a full-scale battle and moved farther from their territories, prompting Li Yun to see an opportunity.

Li Yun exploited the war between Deathsword Demon Emperor and Sky Frenzy Demon Emperor to seize Enclosure Lands and strengthen the Myriad Gods Realm. After moving into Sky Frenzy Abyss Prison, he drew the attention of Demon Emperor He Kong, who arrived to find Li Yun taking the territory's largest prizes.

• Li Yun entered Deathsword Demon Emperor's territory while its forces were away fighting and secretly absorbed its Enclosure Lands into the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Over three years, Li Yun seized dozens of Primordial Realm-level Enclosure Lands and hundreds comparable to the Dao Source Great God Realm, raising his Crimson Gold Divine Seats to fifteen hundred and his foundational Dominator's Authority to twelve thousand strands.
• As Deathsword Demon Emperor's Archaic Demon Venerables began investigating, Li Yun moved into Sky Frenzy Demon Emperor's territory to seize its remaining large Enclosure Lands.
• Demon Emperor He Kong discovered that large Enclosure Lands had vanished from Deathsword Abyss Prison and guessed that the thief had moved to Sky Frenzy Abyss Prison.
• After nearly seven days of travel, Demon Emperor He Kong arrived and found Li Yun, a human Sinful Criminal, seizing the large Enclosure Lands; he ordered Li Yun to stop.

Li Yun clashed with Demon Emperor He Kong in Mad Heaven Abyss Prison after He Kong discovered him, while their battle drew the attention of other Demon Emperors. The chapter left Li Yun still fighting as He Kong expected reinforcements to arrive and kill him.

• Li Yun lamented how slowly his Crimson Gold Divine Seats were advancing after reaching fifteen hundred, then sensed an ambush and dodged He Kong’s attack.
• Li Yun and Demon Emperor He Kong exchanged equally powerful attacks, and He Kong realized Li Yun was a human Violetgold Divine Lord.
• He Kong declared that the Abyssal Demon Race would not allow a human Violetgold Divine Lord to live, and the two fought on, forcing nearby Abyssal Demons to flee.
• Sky Mad Demon Emperor sensed a Demon Emperor-level battle in his territory and ended his fight with Deathsword Demon Emperor so they could return to their respective prisons.
• Li Yun and He Kong fought for three days, while other Demon Emperors hurried toward Mad Heaven Abyss Prison after sensing Li Yun’s human aura.
• He Kong taunted Li Yun that reinforcements would arrive within three days and kill him.

Li Yun ambushed Demon Emperor He Kong and trapped him in the Myriad Gods Realm, then escaped Sky-Mad Abyss Prison before the other Demon Emperors could catch him. He returned to taunt his prisoner, who panicked when he realized the Abyssal Rules could not reach the realm to resurrect him.

• Li Yun pretended to retreat for three days while Demon Emperor He Kong tried to hold him until other Demon Emperors arrived.
• Li Yun dropped the Supreme Immortal Gate onto Demon Emperor He Kong, swallowed him into the Myriad Gods Realm, and fled Sky-Mad Abyss Prison.
• Li Yun spent half a year teleporting away and hiding until he reached a region without any Demon Emperor nearby.
• Li Yun entered the Myriad Gods Realm and found Demon Emperor He Kong bound and tormented by fire and lightning.
• Li Yun told Demon Emperor He Kong that the Abyssal Rules could not reach the Myriad Gods Realm, and He Kong panicked when he confirmed it.

Li Yun spent five years hiding from the Demon Emperors while slowly tempering Demon Emperor He Kong and studying the Abyss. He finally broke his silence after spotting Abyssal Demons transporting a captured human expert, and set out to rescue him.

• Li Yun left the Myriad Gods Realm and decided to hide for several years rather than risk being found by the Demon Emperors searching for him.
• The Demon Emperors sent their subordinates to hunt for Li Yun, but five years passed without anyone finding him.
• Li Yun used his time in hiding to study the Supreme Immortal Gate's ability to absorb Abyssal aura and gradually weaken He Kong's resistance to submission.
• Li Yun sensed an Archaic Demon Venerable's group transporting a bound human expert through the Abyss.
• Li Yun put away the Supreme Immortal Gate and silently followed the group to rescue the captured human.

Wulong captured Ji Sihai and led him toward a sacrificial ceremony, hoping to find a human Crimson Gold Divine Lord. When Wulong encountered a White Robe figure, he mistook him for one and attacked, while Ji Sihai tried to warn him to flee.

• Wulong and three Great Demon Venerables escorted the bound Ji Sihai through the abyss as a sacrificial offering.
• Wulong said he hoped to capture a human Crimson Gold Divine Lord to raise the stature of the Demon Dragon Tribe's ceremony.
• Wulong noticed a White Robe figure ahead and sensed that he might be a Crimson Gold Divine Lord.
• Ji Sihai shouted for the figure to run because an Archaic Demon Venerable was present, but the figure did not respond.
• Wulong charged toward the White Robe figure and commanded him to kneel.

Li Yun rescued Ji Sihai from the Abyssal Demons and brought him into the Myriad Gods Realm, where he revealed that even Demon Emperor He Kong was imprisoned. Ji Sihai learned that Li Yun had held He Kong there for five years.

• Wulong attacked Li Yun, but Li Yun caught him and threw him into the Myriad Gods Realm beside Demon Emperor He Kong.
• Li Yun swept up the other Demon Venerables and the demons who had chained Ji Sihai, then removed Ji Sihai's chains.
• Ji Sihai warned Li Yun about a powerful group of Abyssal Demons, but Li Yun captured them all with a sweep of his hand.
• Li Yun assessed Ji Sihai's cultivation and brought him into the Myriad Gods Realm, explaining that its rules kept Abyssal Demons from threatening him.
• Demon Emperor He Kong berated the newly captured demons, and Li Yun told Ji Sihai that he had kept He Kong suppressed for five years.

Li Yun learned from Ji Sihai how the Ancient Ji Clan was driven into the abyss and heard a warning that the East River Holy Land might have pursued them there. Demon Emperor He Kong then revealed that Ji Tianya had died at the hands of an expert from the East River Holy Land.

• Ji Sihai told Li Yun that the East River Holy Land exterminated the Ancient Ji Clan after its ancestor offended a powerful figure, forcing the survivors to flee into the abyss.
• Ji Sihai explained that Ji Tianya preserved the clan’s bloodline by submitting to the Abyssal Demons, while the clan secretly trained disciples such as Ji Sihai to escape the Enclosure Lands.
• Li Yun asked about the Source God Continent and the abyss, and Ji Sihai described the holy lands’ rule and the abyss’s position along the continent’s eastern edge.
• Ji Sihai revealed that Ji Tianya’s final message had said, “Beware East River,” though the clan did not know who had killed him.
• Demon Emperor He Kong declared that an expert from the East River Holy Land had killed Ji Tianya, startling Li Yun and Ji Sihai.

Li Yun learned from Demon Emperor He Kong that the East River Holy Land had secretly cooperated with abyssal Demon Emperors and had killed Ji Tianya. He Kong described the holy land’s immense hierarchy and power, leaving Li Yun alarmed by the strength of its Saint Gold Divine Lord Overlord.

• Demon Emperor He Kong told Li Yun that Source God Continent holy lands cooperated with abyssal Demon Emperors to trade resources and treasures.
• He Kong said Ji Tianya had been discovered and killed by someone from the East River Holy Land in Demon Emperor Jingxiao’s territory, prompting Ji Sihai to curse the holy land.
• Li Yun burned He Kong until he agreed to explain the East River Holy Land’s ranks and identify its Overlord as a Saint Gold Divine Lord.
• He Kong explained that Saint Gold Divine Seats could produce eighty-one Dominator’s Authorities per Dao, and Li Yun was shaken by the Overlord’s potential power.

Li Yun learned from Demon Emperor He Kong that Saint Gold Divine Lords could unleash hundreds of thousands to millions of Dominator's Authorities, then calculated how terrifying his own future strength might become. He left He Kong alone for a year and turned to Archaic Demon Venerable Wulong, who begged for his life and blamed the Demon Dragon Tribe's chief.

• Demon Emperor He Kong corrected Li Yun's calculation, explaining how Source God Power gained additional multipliers as foundational Dominator's Authorities increased.
• Li Yun realized the weakest Saint Gold Divine Lord could unleash nearly 730,000 Dominator's Authorities, while the strongest could exceed six million.
• Li Yun calculated that his Innate Limitless Divine Spark could eventually let him unleash nearly 24 million Dominator's Authorities if he reached perfection as a Saint Gold Divine Lord.
• Li Yun decided to keep the Innate Limitless Divine Spark secret, thanked He Kong, and promised not to torture him again for a year.
• Li Yun turned to Archaic Demon Venerable Wulong, who begged for mercy and claimed the Demon Dragon Tribe's chief had ordered the demons to capture humans.