Chapter Summaries

After the Vast Kingdom settled into the universe, Li Yi ordered the Witch Clan to expand and distributed Sage-level remains among his allies. He then used some of the remains to strengthen Stone in Sword and Azure Flood Dragon before departing to study the Vast Law.

• The Witch God Realm and the domains ruled by Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni settled around the Vast Kingdom, leaving the central region open to rogue cultivators.
• Li Yi reshaped the land beneath Azure Flood Dragon and had nearly ten million dragons flood it to create a vast ocean.
• Li Yi explained the universe's new structure to his subordinates, ordered Dijiang to expand the Witch Clan, and gave the group Sage-level remains and a devouring divine art.
• Li Yi reunited with Stone in Sword on Penglai Island, praised his peak Quasi-Saint cultivation, and apologized for neglecting him.
• Li Yi infused Stone in Sword and Azure Flood Dragon with essence from more than ten powerful beings, sealed them in jade statues to absorb it, and left to study the Vast Law.

After the Main Body swallowed the Vast King's Divine Bones, it revealed a mysterious Stone Coffin and passed fragments of the Vast King's memories to Li Yi. Li Yi learned about the Eternal World, resolved to kill Galen, and began studying the Vast King's will-formed laws.

• The Main Body fed the Vast King's Divine Bones to the nebula, which revealed an ancient world containing a Stone Coffin and left the Main Body covered in cracks with a weakened aura.
• The Main Body transferred fragments of the Vast King's memories to Li Yi, who learned that the Hong Huang Universe was a short-lived bubble and that the Eternal World was the origin of all universes.
• Li Yi concluded that Galen came from the Eternal World and decided to kill him after leaving seclusion.
• Li Yi used the Chaos Green Lotus's Creation Light to examine the crystalline law fragment and discovered that its runes embodied the Vast King's will and understanding of the Dao.
• Li Yi immersed himself in analyzing and simulating the will-formed runes, forgetting the passage of time.

During Li Yi’s hundred-thousand-year retreat, the Witch Clan and Heaven fought over planes across the Hong Huang Universe. Cold Ice Ancestor lured out Heaven’s hidden Primordial Realm expert, who called himself God, and departed to report the discovery to the Great Venerable.

• Li Yi’s hundred-thousand-year cultivation retreat coincided with wars as the Witch Clan, Galen’s Heaven, and other powers competed to conquer planes.
• Cold Ice Ancestor emerged from a black coffin on a battlefield and defeated Archangel Gabriel, turning the battle in the Witch Clan’s favor.
• Cold Ice Ancestor tried to kill Gabriel as he fled, but a Gate of Holy Light pulled Gabriel inside.
• Cold Ice Ancestor attacked the gate and drew out a majestic old man, who shattered his iceberg strike and identified himself as God.
• God withdrew with Gabriel’s mangled remains, and Cold Ice Ancestor left to inform the Great Venerable that Heaven had gained a Primordial Realm expert.

Li Yi completed his breakthrough as his will became the Dao, manifesting a mysterious Chaos Green Lotus whose soul-cry spread across the Hong Huang Universe and forced most beings to kneel. Galen and God recognized the threat and began planning against him, while Galen set out to contact Hongjun.

• Li Yi's Will Sarira crumbled, and his will formed a mysterious Chaos Green Lotus after he declared, "Will becomes the Dao!"
• Li Yi's cry swept across the Hong Huang Universe, and the Chaos Green Lotus appeared above the Witch God Realm, its pressure making nearly every living being kneel.
• River Styx, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors were injured by the lotus's pressure, while Luo Hou, Shen Ni, and Yang Mei each resisted the urge to bow.
• Hongjun witnessed the Chaos Green Lotus from the Heavenly Court and watched with concern.
• In a secret realm in Heaven, God and Galen agreed that Li Yi had to be stopped, and Galen left to contact Hongjun.

After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Li Yi emerged with his will transformed into the Dao and learned that the Witch Clan had joined the struggle for planes and faith. A sudden longing led him back to Earth, where he found a changed history and almost no cultivators, then set out to visit the place where he grew up.

• Li Yi completed his retreat, formed a Chaos Green Lotus in his sea of consciousness, and returned to Blood Prison City.
• River Styx and the others reported the events of the past hundred thousand years, and Li Yi warned them to continue their plan despite Heaven and Galen's involvement.
• Li Yi took the Azure Flood Dragon from the Witch God Realm and searched across the stars until he found Earth.
• Li Yi traveled through the Milky Way and realized that Earth lay in a desolate region with little cosmic origin energy.
• Li Yi surveyed New China from a Shenzhen skyscraper, found Earth's history had changed and its cultivators were nearly gone, then departed to visit the place where he grew up.

Li Yi revisited the orphanage and the East Sea, then protected Earth and empowered its cultivators before leaving with the Azure Flood Dragon. The chapter ended with Earth concealed and defended as Li Yi rode into the vast sky.

• Li Yi watched the children at the orphanage, then vanished after a golden light transformed everyone inside and blessed them with long lives and good fortune.
• At the East Sea, Li Yi watched Pope Joseph summon a Two-winged Angel to attack Monk Fa Ren, Old Ancestor Dong Xu, and True Person Bu Zhuo.
• Li Yi shattered the angel’s attack, searched its soul, crushed it, and had the Azure Flood Dragon kill Joseph as he fled.
• Li Yi gave Old Ancestor Dong Xu, True Person Bu Zhuo, and Monk Fa Ren spiritual power and cultivation insights that raised them to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• True Person Bu Zhuo recognized Li Yi as the Reincarnation Emperor Lord who controlled the Underworld.
• Li Yi restricted cultivation on Earth to Chinese people, sent advanced technology to China, concealed Earth with formations, and departed with the Azure Flood Dragon.

After returning to the Upper Realm, Li Yi visited Zhen Yuanzi’s new Dao Field and reunited with his old friend. He asked Zhen Yuanzi to support him in the coming battle against Hongjun and Galen, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to join if Li Yi’s side seemed likely to win.

• Li Yi returned to the Upper Realm on Azure Flood Dragon and considered how the universe’s factions had expanded and how the Sages had established Dao Fields beyond the Heavenly Court.
• Li Yi recognized Zhen Yuanzi’s plane and urged Azure Flood Dragon toward it for the Life Fruits.
• Zhen Yuanzi secured the Life Fruits and went to welcome Li Yi with Ming Yue and Qing Feng, while the spirit beasts scattered at Azure Flood Dragon’s return.
• Li Yi and Zhen Yuanzi reunited at Wuzhuang Temple, discussed the Dao, and Li Yi told him about the Eternal World.
• Li Yi asked Zhen Yuanzi to stand with him against Hongjun and Galen, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to join if Li Yi’s side had a chance of victory.

After returning to the Witch God Realm, Li Yi ordered the Witch Clan to recruit powerful allies as the factions prepared for a final battle. Seventy thousand years after his disappearance, Tongtian returned and defeated Haotian in the Heavenly Court, leaving Haotian broken and fallen into the sea.

• Li Yi returned to the Witch God Realm and ordered the Witch Clan Quasi-Saints to recruit powerful figures across the Hong Huang Universe.
• Over the next fifty thousand years, the factions recruited experts while the universe's planes were divided and a period of peace followed.
• Tongtian returned after seventy thousand years and appeared in the Hall of Ling Xiao with Kong Xuan, confronting Haotian over his attacks on the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian sent Kong Xuan to free the imprisoned disciples and fought Haotian, overpowering his attacks with his sword techniques.
• Li Yi sensed Tongtian's return and watched as Tongtian used the Dao of Intercepting Heaven to defeat Haotian, who fell mangled into the sea.

Tongtian fought Hongjun’s interference after discovering that the black-light figure was his former body, and he wielded the Future Sword and the power of swordsmanship civilization. After Tongtian was wounded, Li Yi confronted Hongjun and drove him away.

• Tongtian extracted the Interception Sect disciples’ soul imprints from the Investiture of the Gods and prepared to kill Haotian, but a black-light figure appeared and blocked his sword.
• Tongtian recognized the figure as his former body and used the Future Sword to evade its Pangu Phantom attack and Hongjun’s black tentacles.
• Tongtian asked Li Yi to protect his disciples, then summoned the wills of sword cultivators from the Heavenly Sword Plane to unleash the power of swordsmanship civilization against Hongjun.
• Hongjun destroyed Tongtian’s civilization scrolls with a huge beast claw, wounding him, and Tongtian withdrew beside Li Yi.
• Li Yi confronted Hongjun, revealed the Chaos Green Lotus and his Main Body’s golden eyes, and made Hongjun leave.

After Li Yi threatened him, Hongjun vented his fury and attacked Galen, who had come to propose an alliance against the Main Body. Galen and God survived by combining their power, then agreed to cooperate with Hongjun while each secretly planned to betray the other.

• Hongjun returned to Purple Cloud Palace and destroyed a vast stretch of the starry sky in anger over Li Yi's threat.
• Galen appeared and proposed that he and Hongjun join forces, but Hongjun attacked him in an attempt to devour him.
• Galen summoned Sacred Heaven, then joined with God to form the Twin Divine Statue and clash with Hongjun's Taiji Diagram.
• Hongjun stopped fighting and returned to Purple Cloud Palace, while Galen and God privately agreed to use him against the Main Body before dealing with him.
• Galen told Hongjun he had a way to defeat the Main Body, and they agreed to cooperate while both secretly plotted to betray the other.

Li Yi secured the Three Sovereigns’ support for the Witch Clan before Hongjun and God ambushed him on his return. Li Yi gravely wounded God and discovered that his opponent’s body was one of Galen’s crystal skeletons, then lunged to destroy God’s soul.

• Tongtian accepted Saint-level skeletons from Li Yi and later departed to rebuild the Interception Sect.
• Li Yi prepared the Witch Clan for the coming war and won the support of Fu Xi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan by promising to keep the Witch Clan and Human Race separate.
• Hongjun and God ambushed Li Yi, and Li Yi summoned his Main Body after learning that God was fighting alongside Hongjun.
• Li Yi tried to reach Galen at the Vast Kingdom, but God stopped him and fought him with a forbidden technique that raised his power to Li Yi’s level.
• Li Yi unleashed his Eternal True Self attack and reduced God to a crystal skeleton, which he recognized as one of the skeletons Galen had collected.
• Li Yi lunged after the falling skeleton, intending to destroy God’s soul.

Li Yi nearly destroyed Galen’s clone, but Galen activated formations that awakened the Vast King’s hidden contingency beneath the Vast Kingdom. As the War Puppet emerged from the kingdom’s destruction, Galen planned to use it to eliminate the Primordial World’s great powers and reclaim his former strength.

• Li Yi captured the crystal skeleton and attacked the Lord with Creation Light, but Galen arrived in time to absorb the surviving remnant into himself.
• Galen activated formations across the Vast Kingdom, unleashing disasters that killed countless inhabitants and stirred an immense presence beneath the kingdom.
• The Main Body showed Li Yi an image of the awakening being, while a terrifying will fixed its attention on him.
• Li Yi detached the Witch God Realm from the Vast Kingdom, and Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni moved the Heavenly Court, Demon Domain, and Blood Domain into the starry sky.
• The Vast Kingdom collapsed, revealing the War Puppet, while Galen resolved to use it to kill the great powers and restore his cultivation.

Galen’s trap revealed a colossal War Puppet that targeted the Primordial experts who had taken the Vast King’s bones. The puppet overwhelmed Main Body and then defeated the combined attack of Main Body, Li Yi, Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni, leaving the universe’s strongest fighters wounded.

• The War Puppet appeared where the Vast Kingdom had stood, and Hongjun realized Galen had set a trap to eliminate the Primordial powerhouses and claim the universe.
• The War Puppet targeted Main Body and Li Yi, then shattered Main Body’s golden palm and law chains before striking him with a punch that cracked his body.
• Li Yi attacked the War Puppet with every technique he had and urged Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni to join the fight.
• Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni combined their attacks with Li Yi’s against the War Puppet.
• The War Puppet broke their combined assault with a single punch, sending Li Yi, Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni flying and coughing up blood.

Li Yi, Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni struggled against the War Puppet, which overwhelmed their attacks and gravely wounded Hongjun. As the puppet continued its assault, Galen watched from hiding and celebrated their imminent defeat.

• Hongjun transformed into a terrifying monster and unleashed a powerful attack that forced the War Puppet back, but left it unharmed.
• The War Puppet fired a devastating black beam that shattered Hongjun’s defenses and pierced half his body.
• Li Yi, Luo Hou, Shen Ni, and the wounded Hongjun realized they had no way to defeat the War Puppet.
• Galen watched from hiding and rejoiced as the War Puppet knocked the four fighters through the air and worsened their injuries.

Main Body returned to the battle against the War Puppet and, after unleashing the Power of Samsara and the nebula’s power, cracked its armor with a devastating strike. The wounded puppet gathered its strength by shrinking, leaving Main Body to face an even more dangerous opponent.

• Main Body escaped the boulder, reached Li Yi, healed his injuries, and sent him away from the fight.
• Main Body fought the War Puppet and was driven back by its relentless attacks.
• Main Body unleashed a powerful attack combining the Power of Samsara, the nebula, and his half-step immortal body, sending the War Puppet flying and cracking its armor.
• Galen watched Main Body wound the War Puppet and grew fearful as he suspected Main Body had grasped a hidden mystery.
• The War Puppet shrank to about a hundred and fifty thousand zhang tall as its aura nearly doubled, while Li Yi realized it was worsening its old injuries.

The War Puppet battered the Main Body until it summoned the Vast King's phantom to finish him. A Stone Coffin emerged from the nebula behind the Main Body and swallowed both the puppet and the phantom, leaving everyone stunned.

• The War Puppet unleashed the kings' shadows and a devastating blast, leaving the Main Body's Divine Demon Body covered in fissures and golden blood.
• The War Puppet repeatedly struck the Main Body as he rose again and again, while Li Yi, Hongjun, Luo Hou, and Shen Ni watched helplessly.
• The War Puppet summoned the Vast King's phantom, whose arrival immobilized everyone and sent an enormous finger toward the Main Body.
• A Stone Coffin emerged from the nebula behind the Main Body and opened halfway as the finger approached.
• A pale arm seized the War Puppet and the Vast King's phantom and dragged them into the Stone Coffin, which then vanished.

After the Main Body defeated the War Puppet, Li Yi held back from attacking the wounded Hongjun, wary of other threats. Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa then rebelled against their master, and their combined assault forced Hongjun to retreat.

• Galen watched the Main Body swallow the Vast King's phantom and resolved to possess his body.
• The Main Body returned to human form and left, while Li Yi chose not to attack Hongjun because he and the Main Body were badly injured and other enemies might intervene.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa appeared and accused Hongjun of tampering with their Hong Meng Purple Qi to enslave them.
• Lao Zi led the Sages in a combined attack using their treasures and powers, but Hongjun shattered it with a green palm.
• The Sages saw Hongjun stagger from their attack and prepared to press their advantage and destroy him.

Lao Zi and the other Sages battled Hongjun, who used his control over the Heavenly Dao and the hidden Hong Meng Purple Qi to cripple them. Lao Zi transformed into an independent rule, Jieyin sacrificed himself to aid Zhunti’s reincarnation, Nuwa was placed in an ice coffin, and Hongjun fled after Yuanshi’s final attack.

• The Sages attacked Hongjun together, but he turned their rules against them and battered them with his black tentacles.
• Hongjun detonated the Hong Meng Purple Qi hidden in the Sages’ souls, leaving them gravely wounded.
• Lao Zi severed his Fourth Corpse and transformed into a rule independent of the Heavenly Dao; it repelled Hongjun and vanished.
• Jieyin sealed Zhunti’s power and sacrificed himself to transfer his karma, allowing Zhunti’s infant phantom to emerge.
• Li Yi took Zhunti’s infant phantom and sealed the unconscious Nuwa in an ice coffin.
• Yuanshi burned his ruined soul to attack Hongjun, who was battered by the ensuing explosion and fled.

After Hongjun merged his soul with the Heavenly Dao and gained immense power, the Hong Huang Universe braced for an apocalyptic war. A thousand years later, Li Yi followed the Main Body’s order to begin the war and summoned his forces to mobilize.

• Hongjun surrendered his soul’s resistance to the Heavenly Dao, transformed, and broke through to an unfathomable realm.
• Li Yi, Galen, and Luo Hou sensed Hongjun’s transformation, while Luo Hou briefly revealed his hidden strength.
• Negative energies spread across the Hong Huang Universe as its powerful beings prepared for an impending war.
• After a thousand years, the Main Body ordered Li Yi to begin the war despite its weakened state and Hongjun’s increased power.
• Li Yi summoned River Styx, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and the Blood Prison Five Ancestors, then ordered them to gather the Witch Clan warriors and go to war.

Li Yi led the Witch Clan and its allied armies toward Heaven, prompting Galen to mobilize the angels and seek an alliance with Hongjun. River Styx secured Shen Ni’s agreement to cooperate with Li Yi, while Galen departed Purple Sky Palace.

• The Witch Clan gathered under Li Yi’s command, and its dragons, phoenixes, Asura, underworld forces, Blood Prison City cultivators, priests, and subordinate armies assembled for war.
• Li Yi ordered the united armies to attack Heaven, destroying planes and stars in their path as cultivators across the universe watched in fear.
• Galen ordered the angels to meet the Witch Clan army, and God advised him to ally with Hongjun and involve the Heavenly Court; Galen then went to Purple Sky Palace.
• River Styx visited Shen Ni on Li Yi’s orders and offered him a jade slip containing proposed terms.
• Shen Ni accepted Li Yi’s offer without hesitation, and River Styx departed as Galen also left Purple Sky Palace.