Chapter Summaries

Li Yun pretended to suspect that Abyssal Demons had appeared in Evil Wind Valley, frightening Xiong Tian into denying it. When Li Yun revealed he belonged to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, Xiong Tian reconsidered possessing his body and sought advice from the Imperial Heaven Blade Lord.

• Li Yun pretended to report suspected Abyssal Demons to the Holy Lands, and Xiong Tian stopped him and denied there were any.
• Li Yun scrutinized Xiong Tian and accused him of being an overpowered Crimson Gold Divine Lord competing unfairly for temporary Lesser Blessed Lands.
• Xiong Tian realized Li Yun had presented himself as an unaffiliated cultivator and considered possessing his body.
• Li Yun said he belonged to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and explained that its members sought opportunities in the wilderness because they lacked the Holy Lands' permanent territories.
• Xiong Tian learned that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance had the strength to challenge the Holy Lands and hesitated to possess Li Yun's body.
• Xiong Tian sent a voice transmission to the Imperial Heaven Blade Lord in the cave.

Li Yun exposed Xiong Tian and Imperial Heaven Blade Lord’s group as Abyssal Demon Race possessors and revealed that Shan Nan had joined his Myriad Gods Kingdom. Three Saints Demon Emperor erupted into his true form and trapped Li Yun in a Barrier, threatening to kill him.

• Imperial Heaven Blade Lord persuaded Xiong Tian that possessing a Rogue Cultivator Alliance member would provide useful cover, so Xiong Tian tried to deceive Li Yun.
• Li Yun mocked Xiong Tian, blocked his bear-claw attack, and slapped him into the hidden cave.
• Li Yun entered the cave and identified Imperial Heaven Blade Lord as Three Saints Demon Emperor, connecting the group to Shan Nan’s ambush in Black Pine Forest.
• Li Yun said Shan Nan had been subdued and was about to become a citizen of his Myriad Gods Kingdom, enraging Three Saints Demon Emperor.
• Three Saints Demon Emperor revealed his nine-zhang demonic form, unleashed a Barrier around Li Yun, and vowed that even Saint Gold Divine Lord could not save him.

Li Yun overwhelmed the Three Saints Demon Emperor and his followers, then showed them that Demon Emperor He Kong and Severance Demon Emperor had escaped the Abyssal Rules after joining the Myriad Gods Realm. He swept the captives into the realm so they could learn the truth firsthand.

• Li Yun shattered the Three Saints Demon Emperor's barrier with his Divine Might and pinned him and his subordinates to the ground.
• The Three Saints Demon Emperor refused to submit to Li Yun, declaring that doing so would disgrace the Abyssal Demon Race.
• Li Yun summoned Demon Emperor He Kong and Severance Demon Emperor, who bowed to him as Dao Ancestor.
• He Kong and Severance explained that they had left the Abyssal Rules behind and described the Abyss as a cage that cycled its inhabitants through life and death.
• Severance asked Li Yun to take the Three Saints Demon Emperor into the Myriad Gods Realm, and Li Yun swept the captives into it.

Li Yun cultivated in Evil Wind Valley while the Supreme Immortal Gate drew on the Source God Continent’s essence, gaining power at an extraordinary rate. After half a year, he received word that the Three Saints Demon Emperor was gradually being assimilated by the Thoughts of All Beings.

• Li Yun left the Three Saints Demon Emperor and his subordinates suppressed in the Myriad Gods Realm, then kept He Kong and Duanmie outside while sending Yuan Ba in.
• Li Yun ordered He Kong and Duanmie to take turns guarding him and watch for news from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Duanmie left Evil Wind Valley to explore, while He Kong stayed to guard Li Yun.
• Li Yun placed the Supreme Immortal Gate on the ground and cultivated as it drew on the Source God Continent’s essence, aided by the Thoughts of All Beings.
• Over six months, Li Yun gained six Black Gold Divine Seats and increased his foundational Dominator's Authority by 216, deciding not to return to the abyss.
• Li Yun received news that the suppressed Three Saints Demon Emperor was gradually being assimilated by the Thoughts of All Beings.

After the Three Saints Demon Emperor was assimilated by the Thoughts of All Beings, Li Yun freed him and questioned him about his mission on the Source God Continent. The Three Saints revealed that the Lord of the Abyss had sent him with a Divine Intent Gem that could locate Blessed Lands, leaving Li Yun stunned by the treasure’s value.

• Li Yun returned to the Myriad Gods Realm with Duanmie and He Kong and found the Three Saints Demon Emperor almost completely assimilated by the Thoughts of All Beings.
• Li Yun freed the Three Saints and his subordinates, who bowed to him, and asked why they had infiltrated the Source God Continent.
• The Three Saints said that ten years earlier, a living Devil claiming to be the Lord of the Abyss had ordered him to enter the Source God Continent, lie in wait, and seize its sacred lands.
• The Three Saints presented the Divine Intent Gem bestowed by the Lord of the Abyss and explained that it guided its user to Blessed Lands.
• Li Yun realized that the gem could locate Blessed Lands, a power he considered more valuable than the combined worth of a hundred sacred lands.

Li Yun traded Three Saints Demon Emperor access to the Supreme Heaven and the Source God Continent for the Divine Intent Gem, then learned that an abyssal figure had sent others to search for hidden Blessed Lands. Suspicious of Gu Zhanshan and Pei Qingyun, Li Yun suppressed them to assimilate them and followed one of the gem’s coordinates back to Black Pine Forest, where the gem glowed red.

• Li Yun accepted the Divine Intent Gem from Three Saints Demon Emperor and granted him a hundred thousand years in the Supreme Heaven and permission to cultivate in the Source God Continent’s Blessed Lands.
• Three Saints Demon Emperor suggested that the mysterious abyssal figure had sent others to find Divine Intent Gems and Blessed Lands, prompting Li Yun to suspect the Source God Continent’s Blessed Lands held secrets.
• Li Yun suppressed Gu Zhanshan and Pei Qingyun again, intending to assimilate them so they would tell him the truth.
• Three Saints Demon Emperor gave Li Yun the coordinates of seven hidden Blessed Lands, and Li Yun identified one in Black Pine Forest.
• Li Yun returned to Black Pine Forest and found that the Divine Intent Gem glowed red and grew scorching hot at the location.

Li Yun discovered a Lesser Blessed Land beneath Black Pine Forest and used the Supreme Immortal Gate to absorb its aura, gaining one Black Gold Divine Seat per day. After months of rapid cultivation, he began to worry about the consequences of draining the land, then sensed an intense fury rising from underground.

• Li Yun used the Divine Intent Gem to find surging aura sealed beneath a thirty-meter area in Black Pine Forest.
• Li Yun pressed the Supreme Immortal Gate over the area, shattered the seal, and sent the aura into the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Li Yun gained one Black Gold Divine Seat per day and concealed himself and the forest with Seals.
• Over two months, Li Yun gained sixty Black Gold Divine Seats and nearly two thousand basic Dominator's Authorities.
• Li Yun wondered whether continued absorption might deplete the Lesser Blessed Land or trigger an unforeseen change.
• After several more months, Li Yun sensed a strange, intense fury rising with the underground aura.

Li Yun escaped after the Black Pine Forest Lesser Blessed Land erupted with a force that nearly killed him and exposed its location. Twenty-two Saint Gold Divine Lords arrived, swore their Sacred Lands were uninvolved, and decided to guard the site and investigate who had triggered the eruption.

• A sudden rage erupted from the Black Pine Forest Lesser Blessed Land, blasting Li Yun and the Supreme Immortal Gate hundreds of miles away.
• Li Yun survived the blast, fled the area, and avoided the Sacred Land powerhouses drawn by the pillar of light.
• Twenty-two Saint Gold Divine Lords from the Eastern Sacred Lands gathered at Black Pine Forest and argued over who had caused the premature eruption.
• The Holy Lords swore by their Sacred Lands' Wills that they had not tampered with the Lesser Blessed Land, leaving them to suspect an outsider or a leak.
• Flowing Light Holy Lord urged the others to guard Black Pine Forest and investigate the eruption, promising punishment if someone had leaked the information.

Li Yun began extracting essence from a second hidden Lesser Blessed Land at Flame Mountain while racing to grow stronger before the sacred lands could stop him. Meanwhile, the eastern sacred lands jointly sealed Black Pine Forest's newly revealed Lesser Blessed Land, leaving would-be claimants bewildered.

• Li Yun decided to seek another Lesser Blessed Land and set himself the goal of obtaining a Saint Gold Divine Throne.
• Half a month after escaping Black Pine Forest, Li Yun found the hidden Lesser Blessed Land at Flame Mountain, suppressed dozens of people investigating there, and began extracting its essence with the Supreme Immortal Gate.
• News of Black Pine Forest's new permanent Lesser Blessed Land spread across the eastern region, prompting factions and Rogue Cultivator Alliance members to seek sacred-land backing so they could claim it.
• East Mountain, East River, East Origin, and other sacred lands jointly sealed Black Pine Forest's Lesser Blessed Land and barred anyone from entering, leaving people shocked and confused.

Cao Hua and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance resented the Holy Lands for guarding Black Pine Forest and denying them its Lesser Blessed Land. Liao Kun showed Cao Hua Jade Mountain Sacred Lord’s command token and offered the Alliance another Lesser Blessed Land if Cao Hua helped investigate who had caused Black Pine Forest’s land to emerge early.

• Cao Hua and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance members gathered near Black Pine Forest, angry that the Holy Lands had rejected their claim and stationed guards there.
• Cao Hua prepared to contact Rogue Cultivator Alliance headquarters for reinforcements, but Liao Kun approached and warned him that no one would come to fight for the land.
• Liao Kun offered Cao Hua the use of an existing Lesser Blessed Land in the Eastern Mountain Holy Land in exchange for his help.
• Liao Kun showed Cao Hua Jade Mountain Sacred Lord’s command token to prove he had authority to make the offer.
• Cao Hua agreed to hear Liao Kun’s request, and Liao Kun asked him to mobilize rogue cultivators to investigate who had caused the Lesser Blessed Land in Black Pine Forest to appear early.

Cao Hua followed the Rogue Cultivator Alliance headquarters’ order to cooperate with Eastern Mountain Holy Land and investigate why the Black Pine Forest Lesser Blessed Land had emerged early. As the Alliance mobilized to find the cause, another hidden Lesser Blessed Land emerged in Flame Mountain, leaving the Holy Lands furious.

• Cao Hua received Zhu Tiangang’s message telling him to abandon claims on the Black Pine Forest Lesser Blessed Land and follow Eastern Mountain Holy Land’s instructions.
• Cao Hua agreed to cooperate with Liao Kun, then led his people away to investigate the Lesser Blessed Land’s early emergence.
• Zhu Tiangang and the other Saint Gold Divine Lords discussed the drained Lesser Blessed Land and feared that someone might be able to locate every hidden Lesser Blessed Land.
• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance mobilized its eastern-region members to investigate, and rumors spread across Source God Continent.
• Four months later, another hidden Lesser Blessed Land emerged in Flame Mountain, prompting the Holy Lands to roar in fury.

After uncovering two Lesser Blessed Lands in the east, Li Yun fled south to escape the sacred lands’ manhunt while still seeking another source of power. In a southern tavern, he heard that the Blessed Lands consumed the Source God Continent’s origin, but the explanation stopped when two imposing strangers arrived.

• The eastern sacred lands sealed Flame Mountain’s Lesser Blessed Land, then all fifty-seven issued a bounty for whoever had tampered with the sites at Flame Mountain and Black Pine Forest.
• Li Yun paused his search after gaining nearly three hundred Dao in his Black Gold Divine Seat and more than ten thousand Dao in foundational Dominator’s Authority.
• Li Yun secretly traveled south and, after half a year, reached the southern Source God Continent.
• Li Yun entered a busy tavern and listened as patrons discussed the eastern sacred lands’ anger and their bounty.
• Brother Zhang explained that Blessed Lands produced refined auras by consuming the Source God Continent’s origin, but two imposing strangers entered and silenced him.

Li Yun bribed Zhang Xiong with divine medicine and fine food to learn about the Blessed Lands. Zhang Xiong revealed that the Source God Continent’s origin had weakened by thirty percent over the past ten thousand years.

• Lord Duan threatened the tavern’s patrons with punishment for secretly exploring Blessed Lands and urged them to report violators.
• Li Yun followed Zhang Xiong out of the city and offered him two stalks of Dominator level Divine Medicine.
• Zhang Xiong accepted Li Yun’s invitation to talk and joined him for a feast in the wilderness.
• Zhang Xiong explained that the Blessed Lands drew their essence from the Source God Continent’s origin, which could be exhausted.
• Zhang Xiong said he had heard that the Source God Continent’s origin was thirty percent weaker than it had been ten thousand years earlier.

Li Yun learned that the Source God Continent’s origin was weakening, which Zhang Xiong blamed on sacred lands monopolizing its Blessed Lands. After Lord Duan and Shoushan tried to arrest them for breaking Nanli Sacred Land’s ban, Li Yun trapped both powerful Divine Lords in two drops of leftover wine.

• Zhang Xiong told Li Yun that the Source God Continent’s origin had weakened and suspected the sacred lands were restricting new Blessed Lands to protect their own access to it.
• Zhang Xiong mistook Li Yun for a member of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and denounced the sacred lands for monopolizing the Blessed Lands.
• Lord Duan and Shoushan arrived and accused Li Yun and Zhang Xiong of violating Nanli Sacred Land’s ban on leaving the city.
• Lord Duan ordered Shoushan to seize them, and Shoushan sent a heavenly net to capture them both.
• Li Yun threw two drops of leftover wine that pierced the net and sealed Lord Duan and Shoushan, then invited Zhang Xiong to continue drinking.

Li Yun learned that the Source God Continent’s Blessed Lands formed a world-protecting formation against abyssal aura, leaving him conflicted about excavating them for their essence. Gu Zhanshan suggested another way to gain abundant resources and strengthen the Myriad Gods Realm.

• Li Yun freed Lord Duan and the mountain guardian from the wine and sent them into the Myriad Gods Realm, where Gu Zhanshan and Pei Qingyun greeted him as Dao Ancestor.
• Gu Zhanshan and Pei Qingyun explained that the Blessed Lands were array eyes in a grand formation that protected the Source God Continent from abyssal aura.
• They said the Sacred Lands maintained the formation, used only approved amounts of essence, and sought to incorporate newly found Blessed Lands into it.
• Li Yun realized that his excavation of two hidden Lesser Blessed Lands had angered the Sacred Lands because he had disrupted their plans for the formation.
• Li Yun worried that continuing to draw essence would make him the Source God Continent’s enemy, but Gu Zhanshan said there was another way to obtain resources and strengthen the Myriad Gods Realm.

Gu Zhanshan told Li Yun that the Source God Continent was only one world in the Abyssal Plane, where the Abyssal Will eventually buried all worlds and living beings. He suggested that Li Yun seek weaker or crumbling worlds to help the Myriad Gods Realm grow, and Li Yun was left eager to explore the Abyssal Ancient Dao’s branching paths.

• Gu Zhanshan revealed that the Source God Continent lay within the vast Abyssal Plane, whose Abyssal Will governed devouring and burial.
• Gu Zhanshan explained that the Myriad Gods Realm could shield people from the Abyssal Will and proposed eventually merging the Source God Continent into it.
• Li Yun dismissed that distant goal and asked Gu Zhanshan how he could obtain resources and strengthen the Myriad Gods Realm sooner.
• Gu Zhanshan suggested that Li Yun find weaker or ruined worlds in the Abyssal Plane and absorb them into the Myriad Gods Realm.
• Gu Zhanshan said rumors linked the Abyssal Ancient Dao to other worlds, and Li Yun rose excitedly as he considered its branching paths.

Li Yun hid in seclusion for fifty years, slowly absorbing the Source God Continent’s essence, while the sacred lands searched unsuccessfully for the cause of two early-emerging Lesser Blessed Lands. Then Blessed Lands appeared ahead of schedule across the continent, sparking protests and attacks by independent cultivators before the enraged sacred lands launched a slaughter.

• Li Yun sent the newly awakened Zhang Xiong into the Myriad Gods Realm, then settled in a western valley and began seclusion, raising one Black Gold Divine Seat each month.
• Over fifty years, the sacred lands of the east failed to find the culprit behind the premature emergence of the Black Pine Forest and Flame Mountain Lesser Blessed Lands.
• In Li Yun’s seventieth year away, hidden Blessed Lands began emerging early across every region, and within a month thirteen Lesser Blessed Lands and one Greater Blessed Land had appeared.
• Independent cultivators benefited from the resulting essence storm, then protested against the sacred lands and attacked their disciples, believing the world-protecting grand formation was a fabrication.
• The sacred lands dispatched large forces to slaughter independent cultivator factions, plunging the Source God Continent into chaos.

After seventy years in seclusion, Li Yun emerged when a fight exposed his cave and learned that the Southern Calamity Sacred Land was slaughtering rogue cultivators. He captured one of its Violetgold Divine Lords, who warned that Li Yun was courting disaster, leaving the reason for the crackdown unknown.

• Zhou Yuan fled two Violetgold Divine Lords of the Southern Calamity Sacred Land, who pursued him with Thunderbolts and drove him into a valley.
• The pursuing Divine Lords exposed Li Yun’s cave and attacked him, and Li Yun killed one with a sweeping hurricane.
• Zhou Yuan introduced himself to Li Yun and said the Southern Calamity Sacred Land had killed thirty percent of nearby rogue cultivators in one month.
• Li Yun seized the remaining Divine Lord and demanded to know why the Sacred Land was targeting rogue cultivators.
• The captive warned Li Yun to release him and hide, claiming that even a Black Gold Divine Lord would be courting disaster.

Li Yun learned that the five Sacred Lands were attacking rogue cultivators after they began uncovering hidden Lesser Blessed Lands and using their essence, allegedly at the Abyssal Demons’ instigation. He recognized that the demons were exploiting an existing conflict over unequal access to resources, while the Sacred Lands’ crackdown risked deepening that divide.

• Li Yun slapped Li Huang after Li Huang invoked the Southern Calamity Sacred Land to threaten him.
• Li Huang pleaded for mercy and explained that the five Sacred Lands had agreed to suppress rogue cultivators.
• Li Huang accused rogue cultivators of attacking Sacred Lands and colluding with Abyssal Demons to uncover Lesser Blessed Lands and weaken the world-protecting grand formation.
• Zhou Yuan argued that rogue cultivators had been driven to seek Blessed Lands because the Sacred Lands monopolized them.
• Li Huang warned that the Abyssal Demons were exploiting rogue cultivators to weaken the Source God Continent and sabotage the formation.
• Li Yun inferred that the Abyssal Demons had used Divine Intent Gems to find hidden Lesser Blessed Lands and recognized that unequal resource distribution had made conflict inevitable.

Li Yun decided to leave the chaotic Source God Continent and reach the Abyssal Ancient Dao without entering the Abyss. After breaking through its sealed entrance and defeating its guards, he entered the path while nearly two hundred Saint Gold Divine Lords gathered behind him.

• Li Yun tossed two Violetgold Divine Lords into the Myriad Gods Realm and ended his secluded cultivation.
• After finding the Source God Continent overwhelmed by conflict, Li Yun chose to leave and traveled to the Abyssal Ancient Dao's entrance two months later.
• Li Yun observed the sealed entrance and its guards, then decided to break through rather than enter the Abyss.
• Li Yun dragged eight Black Gold Divine Lords into the Myriad Gods Realm, drawing out Yuan Kun and Wu Ta.
• Li Yun defeated Yuan Kun and Wu Ta, tore open the Sealing Restriction, and prompted nearly two hundred Saint Gold Divine Lords to rush to the entrance.
• Li Yun tossed Yuan Kun and Wu Ta into the Myriad Gods Realm and sped away along the Abyssal Ancient Dao.