Chapter Summaries

Li Yi fused the origins of the Four Symbols and time and space, rebuilding his body and soul as he comprehended World Reincarnation. After six hundred years, he reached the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal and set out to return for the second sermon.

• Li Yi's Main Body sent him the origins of the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and time and space, which fused into a world phantom inside him.
• The origins remade Li Yi's body and transformed his soul and Will Sarira into a world of interlocking gears that represented illusion, reality, and reincarnation.
• A world projection appeared over the Witch God Plane and threatened to draw in its inhabitants' souls, so Li Yi's Main Body shielded the plane with golden light.
• After six hundred years, Li Yi emerged having comprehended World Reincarnation and reached the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Li Yi demonstrated how his black and white lights and the illusory and solid gears altered and transformed the world, then decided to return for the second sermon.

Li Yi returned to Penglai Island and pursued the Dao of cause and effect while reflecting on the Second Sermon and Hongjun’s plans. Meanwhile, Nuwa gave Di Jun the Monster Summoning Banner, allowing him and Taiyi to tighten their control over the demon race as Taiyi continued to plot against Li Yi.

• Li Yi returned to Penglai Island, scolded Azure Flood Dragon for slacking, and resolved to study cause and effect to deepen his understanding of World Reincarnation.
• Li Yi spent several thousand years studying the Dao of cause and effect and guiding Stone in Sword and the island’s living creatures.
• At the Second Sermon, Hongjun accepted the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa as disciples, made Jieyin and Zhunti nominal disciples, and bestowed Hong Meng Purple Qi on them and Hong Yun.
• Li Yi dismissed the Hong Meng Purple Qi as a flawed shortcut and wondered why Hongjun had emphasized Sainthood over proving the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Di Jun and Taiyi visited Nuwa and Fu Xi to seek their support in uniting the demon race, and Nuwa gave Di Jun the Monster Summoning Banner instead of joining them directly.
• Di Jun and Taiyi ordered the demons they had subdued to place strands of their original souls in the banner, while Taiyi vowed to take revenge on Li Yi.

Li Yi followed the Sea-Calming Divine Beads to Daoist Burning Lamp and traded the Purple Cloud Halberd for the Qian Kun Ruler. After giving Burning Lamp more than a century of guidance, Li Yi departed and reached Jieyin and Zhunti’s Dao Field.

• Li Yi sensed the Sea-Calming Divine Beads drawing him toward a mountain in the West and followed one of them there.
• Li Yi found Daoist Burning Lamp and asked him to hand over the Qian Kun Ruler, which the beads had led him to.
• Burning Lamp gave Li Yi the Qian Kun Ruler, and Li Yi traded him the Purple Cloud Halberd in return.
• Li Yi discussed the Dao with Burning Lamp for more than a hundred years and offered guidance on his cultivation.
• Li Yi left Burning Lamp and arrived at Jieyin and Zhunti’s Dao Field.

Li Yi visited Jieyin and Zhunti to learn about cause and effect, hoping to advance his World Reincarnation cultivation. After four hundred years of instruction, he left with a faint new understanding of cause and effect, while Jieyin and Zhunti resolved to befriend him.

• Li Yi arrived beneath the Bodhi Tree and asked Jieyin and Zhunti to explain the Dao of cause and effect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to teach him, and Li Yi absorbed their insights to deepen his cultivation.
• After three hundred years, Li Yi's black-and-white gears began to contain a faint intent of cause and effect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti stopped expounding the Dao four hundred years later, and Li Yi thanked them and invited them to Penglai Island.
• After Li Yi departed, Zhunti asked Jieyin what he thought of him, and Jieyin said they should befriend Li Yi rather than make him an enemy.

Di Jun and Taiyi confronted Old Ancestor Kunpeng over joining the demon clan and attacked him when he resisted. After they wounded him, Kunpeng unleashed Kunpeng Devour and Absorb, leaving the two facing an expanding void that swallowed the sea, sky, and space.

• Old Ancestor Kunpeng sensed danger above the North Sea and discovered Di Jun and Taiyi had come to recruit him as the demon clan’s mentor.
• Di Jun deployed the River Diagram and Luo Book while Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to trap and pressure Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng raised seawater beasts and transformed into an enormous roc to attack Di Jun and Taiyi.
• The clash devastated the sea, and Kunpeng was wounded and forced back into human form.
• Kunpeng plunged beneath the waves and unleashed Kunpeng Devour and Absorb, creating a void that began swallowing the sea, clouds, starlight, and space.
• Di Jun and Taiyi watched the void expand across a million li and feared Kunpeng’s overwhelming power.

Di Jun and Taiyi defeated Old Ancestor Kunpeng by combining their spiritual treasures, then forced him to serve as the Demon Clan’s preceptor. Di Jun headed to Buzhou Mountain to open its secret realm and establish the Heavenly Court.

• Di Jun and Taiyi unleashed their strongest attacks against Kunpeng’s devouring shadow and broke free after it swallowed them.
• The River Diagram, Luo Book, and Chaos Bell shattered Kunpeng’s shadow, leaving him battered and defeated.
• Taiyi bound Kunpeng, extracted a strand of his life soul, and sealed it inside the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Kunpeng concealed his hatred and bowed to Di Jun and Taiyi, accepting the post of Demon Clan’s preceptor.
• Di Jun flew toward Buzhou Mountain to open the secret realm and establish the Heavenly Court.

The Main Body’s will descended over the Witch Clan, imprinting spiritual runes on its members and giving the Twelve Ancestral Witches methods for refining Battle Treasures. The Witch Clan celebrated its newfound strength as Hongjun, Di Jun, and Taiyi reacted with resentment and wariness.

• A golden figure appeared above Witch Clan territory, and Dijiang, Zhurong, Houtu, and the other witches knelt to greet the Great Venerable.
• The Main Body sent golden runes into the witches’ consciousnesses, strengthening their wills, then passed information to the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Hongjun failed to perceive or interfere with the Main Body’s descent and angrily questioned its power and relationship with the Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Mei watched the Golden River depart from Chaos and remarked that Hongjun had been rattled again.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches learned they could refine Battle Treasures, while Di Jun and Taiyi wondered about the Blood Prison Supreme’s connection to the Witch Clan.

Li Yi studied cause and effect on Penglai Island and decided to prepare a plan to perfect his World Reincarnation realm. When Candle Dragon asked him to shelter the Dragon Clan from the Demon Clan, Li Yi accepted and brought the clan under Penglai Island’s protection.

• Li Yi concluded that fully mastering space-time and cause and effect would take too long, so he began planning to use the Heavenly Dao to perfect his World Reincarnation realm.
• Candle Dragon arrived on Penglai Island with Dragon Clan cultivators and asked to meet the Green Lotus Sword Master.
• Candle Dragon asked Li Yi to set aside their past enmity and protect the Dragon Clan from the Demon Clan.
• Li Yi accepted the Dragon Clan’s submission, seeing its rule over the Four Seas as a source of faith and support for his plan.
• Li Yi told Candle Dragon to inform Di Jun and Taiyi that the Dragon Clan was under his protection, while Azure Flood Dragon warned the visitors not to challenge its place as Li Yi’s mount.

Di Jun and Taiyi established the Heavenly Court, and the merit they received allowed them to slay their benevolent corpses and become Quasi-Saints. The Yao Tribe’s growing power deepened its conflict with the Witch Clan, leaving a great war increasingly inevitable.

• Di Jun and Taiyi asked Hongjun to approve their plan to establish the Heavenly Court, and he told them not to bother him with the trivial matter.
• At Buzhou Mountain, Di Jun proclaimed the Heavenly Court and appointed Taiyi, Nuwa, Fu Xi, and Old Ancestor Kunpeng to high positions.
• Golden Light of Merit descended after the proclamation, allowing Taiyi and then Di Jun to slay their benevolent corpses.
• The Heavenly Court’s establishment and the new Quasi-Saints stirred resentment among Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• As the Yao Tribe grew more powerful, conflict with the Witch Clan intensified, making war between them seem inevitable.

Li Yi and other powerful cultivators gathered at a barren mountain in the eastern Primordial World, where the Five Directions Spiritual Banners emerged. The treasure’s appearance sparked a deadly scramble, and the chapter ended with the cultivators fighting over it.

• Li Yi sensed a powerful spiritual treasure appearing in the eastern Primordial World and flew to the barren mountain where its energy originated.
• The Three Pure Ones and numerous other cultivators arrived, while Di Jun and Taiyi confronted the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who revealed their Battle Marks and blocked the demon race.
• Di Jun stopped Taiyi from attacking the Witches before five elemental lights formed a ring above the mountain, and Li Yi recognized the phenomenon as the Five Directions Spiritual Banners.
• The mountain collapsed, releasing five beams of light, and nearly a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals charged for the treasures while attacking one another.
• Li Yi killed a Grand Unity Golden Immortal with sword light as the Three Pure Ones and Taiyi also struck down cultivators, turning the treasure site into a deadly battlefield.

Li Yi claimed the Central Wutu Apricot Yellow Banner and annihilated hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals who attacked him for it. His display of power frightened the gathered immortals, but Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi decided to proceed with their plan while preparing an escape.

• Li Yi seized the Central Wutu Apricot Yellow Banner after killing a Grand Unity Golden Immortal with hair like steel needles who had taken it from him.
• Lao Zi, Yuanshi, Di Jun, and River Styx claimed the other four banners, while hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals targeted Li Yi for the treasure.
• Li Yi unleashed his murderous aura and declared that he would kill the cultivators who had challenged him.
• The hundreds of Grand Unity Golden Immortals attacked Li Yi together, but his black and white beams annihilated them.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi asked Di Jun whether they should proceed with their plan, and Di Jun agreed while urging them to prepare an escape.

Li Yi was ambushed by Di Jun and Taiyi, who used nearly ten billion Demon Clan members to trap him in a great formation. After Li Yi tore through its defenses with the Green Lotus Ancient Sword, Di Jun summoned the stars and activated the Star Array of the Heavens, leaving Li Yi facing a more dangerous formation.

• Li Yi collected the Magic Treasures of the Grand Unity Golden Immortals and left the gathering.
• Di Jun and Taiyi ambushed Li Yi with a formation powered by nearly ten billion Demon Clan members.
• Li Yi unleashed his sword aura and attacked the formation with the Green Lotus Ancient Sword, killing hundreds of thousands of Demon Clan members through its backlash.
• Di Jun ordered Taiyi to summon the stars, and the Demon Clan activated the Star Array of the Heavens before it was complete.
• Li Yi recognized the Star Array of the Heavens as trouble and began analyzing it with his spiritual sense.

Li Yi battled Di Jun and the Demon Race inside the Star Formation, enduring their star-powered attacks before unleashing his reincarnation powers. He broke the formation after turning the demons’ assaults against them, leaving Di Jun and Taiyi retreating in fear.

• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to trap Li Yi in the formation world, where endless stars attacked him and Spiritual Qi could not be absorbed.
• Li Yi revealed his black-and-white eyes and began destroying stars, space, and Demon Race members as a vast world ground down the formation.
• Taiyi led the Demon Race in a combined assault that bound Li Yi in a silver heavenly net and struck him, but a moon and crimson sun appeared and dissolved the net.
• Li Yi unleashed Reincarnation Has No Way, World Annihilates, killing countless demons and using their vitality to repair his injuries.
• Di Jun and Taiyi attacked with their benevolent corpses, but Li Yi converted their sound waves and rivers into gears that turned against them.
• The Star Formation collapsed, and Di Jun and Taiyi retreated from Li Yi.

Li Yi used his World Reincarnation domain to devastate the Demon Race army and force Di Jun and Taiyi to flee with the Chaos Bell. He abandoned the chase after sensing that Hongjun might be watching, then returned toward Penglai Island.

• Li Yi and Di Jun and Taiyi traded powerful attacks until Li Yi’s sword gears began to crack under the Chaos Bell’s assault.
• Taiyi ordered Old Ancestor Kunpeng to attack, and Kunpeng used his true form to try to draw Li Yi into a black hole.
• Li Yi trapped the Demon Race forces in his World Reincarnation domain, where its power erased millions and his attacks killed tens of millions more.
• Taiyi sacrificed the Demon Race’s blood and souls to empower the Chaos Bell, then used it to break open a rift and escape with the remaining cultivators.
• Li Yi pursued Di Jun and Taiyi but could not break through the Chaos Bell’s defenses.
• Li Yi sensed a watcher he suspected was Hongjun, ended the chase, and flew toward Penglai Island.

Li Yi gathered the resources and allies needed for his next plan, recruiting ten Daluo Golden Immortals, securing half of Houtu’s Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and obtaining Tongtian’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Beads. With his preparations complete, he was ready to put the plan into action.

• Li Yi met the ten generals he had trained in the Yanluo Heart Sutra and inspected the spiritual treasures they had collected.
• Li Yi visited Pangu Hall, told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that the Main Body had arranged a chance for their resurrection, and asked Houtu for half of her Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• Li Yi traveled to Kunlun Mountain and met with the Three Pure Ones, then privately asked Tongtian for his twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Beads.
• Tongtian agreed to trade the beads for Li Yi’s Void-Splitting Saber and a promised favor, and Li Yi declared that his preparations were complete.

Li Yi and Main Body crushed nearly ten thousand spiritual treasures and fused their essence into the thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Beads, then Main Body collected more than a hundred fragments of Chaos. With everything prepared, Li Yi headed toward the Primordial World and the Blood Sea.

• Li Yi returned to the Witch God Plane, where Main Body took him into the Chaos.
• Main Body formed a cube of chaotic energy and trapped nearly ten thousand spiritual treasures inside it.
• Main Body crushed the treasures, and Li Yi fused their spiritual essence into the thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Beads.
• Main Body searched the Chaos for more than a hundred years and collected over a hundred fragments of Chaos.
• Li Yi took the fragments from Main Body and headed toward the Primordial World to reach the Blood Sea.

Li Yi arrived at the Blood Sea and persuaded River Styx to let him establish the Underworld there. He began forming the realms of oblivion and reincarnation, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Primordial World, and called on his Main Body for strength.

• Li Yi arrived at the Blood Sea with King of Reincarnation and nine generals, and River Styx emerged to ask why he had come.
• Li Yi explained that he intended to claim part of the Blood Sea and establish a place of reincarnation for the souls of the dead.
• River Styx objected at first, but backed down when Li Yi displayed his overwhelming power and promised him a share of the merit.
• After three days of preparation, Li Yi summoned visions of life and death, sun and moon, yin and yang, time and space, and cause and effect, then shaped them into a world of oblivion and reincarnation.
• Powerful figures throughout the Primordial World observed Li Yi's undertaking, while the Three Pure Ones watched in silence and two figures in the Heavenly Court roared in anger.
• Li Yi entered the phantom world and called on his Main Body in the Witch God Plane, whose will descended upon him and turned his eyes pale gold.

Li Yi completed his World Reincarnation and used his new power to create the Underworld within the Blood Sea. He left the realm established with six paths of reincarnation, eighteen Hells, and a vast city named Underworld.

• Li Yi invoked Heavenly Dao and fixed the River of Destiny in place to deduce the secrets of Samsara.
• Two talismans formed from Li Yi's deduction merged into his Will Sarira, completing his World Reincarnation and bringing him to the Supreme Realm.
• Li Yi appeared above the Blood Sea and opened a vast rift with the Green Lotus Ancient Sword.
• Li Yi cast the Sea-Calming Divine Beads, the Qian Kun Ruler, and Chaos fragments into the rift, forming the Underworld.
• Li Yi created the six paths of reincarnation and established the Eighteen Hells.
• Li Yi raised a great city in the Underworld and named it on its gate plaque.

Li Yi refused to use the merit from establishing the Underworld to attain Sainthood, instead strengthening his reincarnation physique and claiming the title of Reincarnation Emperor Lord. He appointed the Ten Yama Kings and began shaping the Underworld’s sky by capturing and refining two stars into a sun and moon.

• After the Underworld’s establishment brought vast merit, Li Yi rejected the chance to become a Sage and used the merit to transform his body and increase his Magic Power.
• Li Yi declared himself the lord of the Underworld and ruler of reincarnation, and heaven and earth acknowledged him by granting him the Book of Life and Death.
• Li Yi named the ten generals the Ten Yama Kings and invited River Styx to visit the Underworld as a neighbor.
• Noticing cultivators spying on him, Li Yi broke open the sky and seized two stars from the starry sky.
• Li Yi refined the stars and placed them above the Underworld as a blood-red sun and moon.

Li Yi established the Underworld and left its administration to King of Samsara and the other generals, while the Black Dragon Tribe moved in under his protection. Three hundred years later, Nuwa visited Xi He on Di Jun’s behalf to propose a marriage, leaving Xi He silent as she considered the request.

• Li Yi entered seclusion after assigning the Underworld’s remaining affairs to King of Samsara and the other generals.
• King of Samsara and the generals agreed to invite the Black Dragon Tribe into the Underworld, and Ao Ming led nearly a hundred million black dragons from the East Sea toward the Blood Sea.
• Di Jun accepted that Li Yi ruled the Underworld and resolved to rule the world of the living, while many cultivators expressed gratitude for the establishment of reincarnation.
• Three hundred years later, Di Jun asked Nuwa to help him marry Xi He, and Nuwa agreed after her Red Embroidered Ball stirred.
• Nuwa visited Xi He on the Sun Star and proposed that she consider marrying Di Jun, leaving Xi He silent.