Chapter Summaries

Li Ze summoned and fully activated the Chaos Bell after his battle against Ming, the Legion Commander of the First Legion, and the Blood Cloud Tower Master's guardian puppet reached a stalemate. The bell destroyed the puppet and killed Ming, leaving the other God Kings terrified of Li Ze's power.

• Li Ze struggled to reach Ming while the Legion Commander of the First Legion and the guardian puppet repeatedly blocked his attacks.
• Li Ze decided to use the Chaos Bell, whose appearance shocked the fighters across the battlefield.
• Li Ze poured his Divine Power into the Chaos Bell, freezing spacetime throughout the Tianwu Relic Inner Domain.
• Li Ze hurled the Chaos Bell at the guardian puppet, crushing its whips and destroying it despite the Blood Cloud Tower Master's attempts to defend it.
• Ming fled, but Li Ze sent the Chaos Bell after him and shattered his sword as he tried to block the strike.
• Ming charged the Chaos Bell in a final burst of self-destruction, but the bell extinguished the blast and killed him.

Li Ze used the Chaos Bell to kill the First Legion's Legion Commander, God King Lugu, Blood Cloud Tower Master, and the other enemies, winning the battle inside the Tianwu Relic. With the Origin Continent's balance of power transformed and God King Shang Yun and two other God King Peak experts pledging to serve the Human Race, Li Ze stood poised to become its ruler.

• After Li Ze accepted God King Shang Yun's surrender, Shang Yun recruited Rock Ape God King and God King Tian Yi to defect to the Human Race.
• The First Legion's Legion Commander charged Li Ze, but the Chaos Bell crushed him and destroyed his Inner Universe.
• God King Lugu fled, but Luo Feng and Old Man Tian Ji slowed the pursuers' escape as Li Ze struck Lugu down with the Chaos Bell.
• Li Ze killed Blood Cloud Tower Master with the Chaos Bell, then used the Heaven Seizing Sword to slaughter the remaining God King Peak experts who had not surrendered.
• Luo Feng declared victory, while Old Man Tian Ji, Purple Wood God King, and Li Yu God King recognized that Li Ze's victory would reshape the Origin Continent.

After Li Ze defeated the First Legion’s forces, he distributed the spoils and arranged for three surrendered God Kings to join the Human Race. He then used the eighty-one Tianwu Jades to secure three entries into the core region, where he, Luo Feng, and Old Man Tian Ji entered separate palaces to seek the final opportunity.

• Li Ze killed the remaining enemy God Kings, and the surviving God Kings celebrated their victory with him.
• Li Ze gave God King Shang Yun, Rock Ape God King, and God King Tian Yi Soul Contracts and Supreme Treasures in exchange for their submission to the Human Race.
• Li Ze distributed the battle spoils among the God Kings and assigned the third core-region slot to Old Man Tian Ji instead of giving him a God Emperor Level Treasure.
• Li Ze, Luo Feng, and Old Man Tian Ji each activated twenty-seven Tianwu Jades, summoning the Spirit of the Tianwu Relic World and opening a passage for the other God Kings to leave.
• The Spirit of the Tianwu Relic World formed three Azure Palaces and assigned Li Ze to the left, Luo Feng to the middle, and Old Man Tian Ji to the right.
• Li Ze, Luo Feng, and Old Man Tian Ji entered their assigned palaces to seek opportunities in the core region.

Li Ze learned that the Tianwu Relic’s final opportunity, the Divine Diagram, was intended for Luo Feng, who had the foundation to pursue Breaking Law with Force, while Li Ze received a thousand years to study it first. As Li Ze immersed himself in its patterns and began narrowing his approach, the Origin Continent plunged into renewed chaos and hailed him as its strongest expert.

• A phantom revealed to Li Ze and Luo Feng that Wu had been an Origin Lord and explained the Divine Diagram’s power to help qualified lifeforms break through to Hunyuan by Breaking Law with Force.
• The phantom awarded the Divine Diagram to Galaxy, whom Li Ze recognized as Luo Feng, and granted Li Ze a thousand years to study it before him.
• Li Ze entered a sealed space and began studying the Divine Diagram’s interwoven Dao patterns to develop ideas for integrating the Daos in his Inner Universe into secret techniques.
• After three years without grasping the patterns’ underlying principles, Li Ze focused on diagrams tied to the more than three hundred Daos he had already begun to comprehend.
• News spread that the Beast King, the First Legion’s Legion Commander, King Shang, and the Blood Cloud Tower Master had died, while Li Ze’s victory over the Legion Commander earned him the title of the Origin Continent’s strongest expert.

After news of Li Ze and Luo Feng’s victory in the Tianwu Relic spread, the fallen top forces struggled to preserve their people and territories. Beast Valley and Blood Cloud Tower submitted to rival kingdoms, the First Legion began retreating, and an alliance of God King forces launched a new war over the abandoned lands.

• God Kings across the Origin Continent discussed Li Ze and Luo Feng’s strength and moved to claim the territories left by the fallen forces.
• Ten Thousand Spirits God King and God King Dong Luo chose to surrender Beast Valley to Li Yu Ancient Kingdom, while God King Hun Xu remained reluctant.
• God King Muxin ordered the First Legion to abandon its peripheral territories and prepare to evacuate, fearing attacks from Cloud Nation and other forces.
• Beast Valley joined Li Yu Ancient Kingdom, Blood Cloud Tower joined Purple Wood Kingdom, and the First Legion yielded vast territories to Cloud Nation while retaining its core region.
• An alliance led by several God King Peak forces attacked the remaining territories of Beast Valley, Blood Cloud Tower, and the First Legion, plunging the Origin Continent into war.

The Human Race began its First Great Enfeoffment Era, assigning newly conquered territories to its members and Attached Clans. Inside the Tianwu Relic World, Li Ze concluded that the Divine Diagram’s transformations reflected the Essence of Dao and spent his remaining time memorizing them before returning to the mural hall, where an old man greeted him.

• Li Ze and Luo Feng’s Divine Power Clones directed the Human Race to absorb the Merchant Alliance’s holdings gradually while preparing to govern new territories and bring loyal Attached Clan experts into the Human Race’s ranks.
• Human Race experts began enfeoffing territories, assigning Attached Clan forces beneath Human Race members and granting especially accomplished Void True Gods large domains.
• Li Ze studied more than three hundred Dao Pattern Diagrams for three hundred years but could not discover the essential law behind their changes.
• Li Ze realized the diagrams involved the Essence of Dao, which he could not yet comprehend, and decided to memorize their transformations for future use in secret techniques.
• After another seven hundred years, the Divine Diagram’s time limit ended and Li Ze returned to the mural hall, where a gaudily dressed old man greeted him.

After Li Ze finished comprehending the Divine Diagram, Yuan explained the coming Origin Tribulation and guided him toward a way to advance his fused Inner Universe. He warned that Li Ze would need to obtain Source World Origin Sources through dangerous trials, then revealed the Heaven-Defying Armor he had prepared to help.

• Yuan told Li Ze that he had exchanged for the Divine Diagram to guide promising cultivators such as Luo Feng toward Origin Level.
• Yuan explained that Origin Tribulations devastated the Infinite Source Space and said Li Ze might become a key figure in the next one.
• Yuan brought Li Ze to a Dao Enlightenment Chamber in the Nine Peaks and explained how the Nine Peaks Source could help transform his Inner Universe.
• Yuan warned Li Ze that directly taking Source World Origin Sources would endanger him and that the Cultivator Faction would not let him take theirs.
• Yuan revealed a thirteen-piece Supreme Secret Treasure called the Heaven-Defying Armor, which he had refined to help Li Ze obtain Origin Sources and endure the risks.

Yuan gifted Li Ze the Heaven-Defying Armor and a mountain of Source Colorless Stone to aid his defenses and help him develop the Heaven Seizing Sword. He also offered Li Ze a Supreme Secret Treasure called the Illusory Dream River, which began flowing into Li Ze after he tried to bind it with his Soul Power.

• Li Ze learned that the Heaven-Defying Armor was a thirteen-piece Supreme Secret Treasure set that could disguise him as a naturally born Source Being and help him explore other Source Worlds.
• Yuan offered Li Ze a mountain of Source Colorless Stone to strengthen the Heaven Seizing Sword, which Li Ze hoped to develop into a Source Divine Weapon.
• Yuan told Li Ze about Wu's Lord-level Origin War Soldier and suggested that nurturing a weapon from its earliest stages might help Li Ze's sword evolve.
• Li Ze accepted Yuan's offer of an equivalent-value exchange for a Soul-type Supreme Secret Treasure that combined offense and defense.
• Yuan revealed the Illusory Dream River, and Li Ze's Soul Power touched it, causing the river to flow into his body as he entered a special state.

Li Ze refined the Illusory Dream River and began the Heaven-Defying Armor’s mysterious test, discovering that its scrolls immersed him in lives and histories that tempered his soul and state of mind. He entered another scroll as a blade of grass, with the test still underway.

• Li Ze learned that the Illusory Dream River greatly strengthened his soul defense and amplified his Soul Attacks, and Yuan urged him to hold fast to his true heart while refining the Heaven-Defying Armor.
• The Heaven-Defying Armor’s light transported Li Ze’s consciousness into a void filled with millions of enormous scrolls, but he initially found no mysteries in them.
• After studying the scrolls for ten days, Li Ze entered one and experienced the life of a Brocade Gown Young Master who returned to the past, avenged his family, and overthrew the Great Ming Nation.
• Li Ze entered another scroll and experienced thousands of years of a tribe’s history, then realized the scrolls’ passing years were cleansing his soul and elevating his state of mind.
• Li Ze entered the next scroll and found his consciousness merged into a blade of grass atop a towering mountain.

Yuan explained that Li Ze needed the Source of Dreams to strengthen his state of mind, while Wu was tasked with tempering Luo Feng using Illusion Heart Water. As Li Ze explored the Heaven-Defying Armor’s Scroll Worlds, he learned that experiencing every world was the path to refining it, but after more than two hundred years and over a million paintings, he sensed something was wrong.

• Yuan told Wu and Jin that Li Ze needed the Source of Dreams to strengthen his state of mind before pursuing the Origin Level.
• Yuan ordered Wu to place Illusion Heart Water in the Divine Diagram to temper Luo Feng’s state of mind, and Wu agreed.
• Li Ze experienced the life of a blade of grass and realized the Scroll Worlds could greatly improve his state of mind by letting him experience vast stretches of time.
• A message appeared instructing Li Ze to comprehend every Scroll World as the path to refining the Heaven-Defying Armor.
• Li Ze experienced the extinction of the Snake Feather Race at the hands of the Human Race, then continued through more than a million paintings as his state of mind and will grew stronger.
• After over two hundred years, Li Ze noticed the paintings had not diminished and felt fatigue instead of satisfaction, so he paused to consider what was wrong.

Luo Feng entered the Divine Diagram’s Martial Academy and discovered that a Stone Gate led to the remnant of a Blade Dao Source Expert. After battling the Black Armored Corpse Skeleton for three thousand years, Luo Feng gained the upper hand, but the skeleton burned its origin and began reviving.

• Li Ze continued comprehending the Scroll Worlds despite feeling mentally fatigued, determined to refine the Heaven-Defying Armor.
• Luo Feng entered the Martial Academy, used his Blade Dao to open the Stone Gate, and encountered the Black Armored Corpse Skeleton beyond it.
• The skeleton revealed that it hoped to revive by borrowing the vitality of the Source World’s lifeforms, while Luo Feng recognized it as guidance for his future Hunyuan breakthrough.
• Luo Feng and the skeleton fought for three thousand years, and Luo Feng’s Blade Dao improved until he overwhelmed the skeleton’s attacks.
• Luo Feng’s Blade Light struck at the skeleton’s obsession, provoking it to burn its origin, heal its wounds, and begin reviving as a Source Expert.

Luo Feng destroyed the Black Armored Corpse Skeleton’s lingering obsession, and Yuan captured the Source Expert’s remains to give Luo Feng a chance to inherit its Blade Dao. After absorbing part of its memories and Dao Rhythm, Luo Feng began studying the path of Break Law with Force as a guide to reaching Hunyuan.

• Luo Feng used a will-type Supreme Secret Technique to erase the Black Armored Corpse Skeleton’s lingering obsession, causing its body to collapse and scatter its flesh and Dao Rhythm.
• Yuan appeared, reversed the dispersal of Yan Ming’s remains, and destroyed the lingering obsession when it begged him for help.
• Yuan gathered the Source Expert’s flesh and told Luo Feng to enter it and absorb the Hunyuan Blade Dao Rhythm to aid his breakthrough to Hunyuan.
• Yuan subdued the Divine Diagram’s Origin Source and turned it into crystalline liquid that helped Luo Feng endure the pain of receiving the inheritance.
• Luo Feng absorbed forty percent of the Source Expert’s memories and Dao Rhythm, then stopped to avoid being changed by the vast inheritance.
• Luo Feng studied the Origin Level Blade Dao and Yan Ming’s path of Break Law with Force, resolving to follow a similar route to Hunyuan.

After Li Ze experienced his 7,334,900th Scroll World, he calmly accepted his death and broke through to Brilliance of State of Mind. Realizing the scrolls might trap him indefinitely, he chose to abandon refining the Heaven-Defying Armor.

• Li Ze killed three Mo You Clan experts who attacked his warship, then was seized and killed by their God King master.
• After awakening outside the Scroll World, Li Ze reflected on the death he had experienced and accepted that refining the Heaven-Defying Armor was not essential.
• Li Ze's state of mind broke through to Brilliance of State of Mind, transforming his body, Divine Power, soul, and Inner Universe.
• Li Ze realized that the countless Scroll Worlds might never run out and decided to abandon refining the Heaven-Defying Armor.

Li Ze endured the flood of memories from countless Scroll Worlds until the Chaos Bell absorbed them and devoured their source, repairing several of its restrictions. The bell then revealed Pangu creating heaven and earth, leaving Li Ze in deep enlightenment in the Nine Peaks Dao Enlightenment Chamber.

• Wu and Jin watched as Yuan refused to intervene in Li Ze’s trial, trusting that Li Ze could survive it himself.
• Countless Scroll Worlds surged into Li Ze, flooding his soul with memories that threatened to erase his own.
• The Chaos Bell absorbed the memories, protecting Li Ze and devouring the bubble-filled source of the Scroll Worlds.
• The Chaos Bell’s thirty-third through thirty-sixth Secret Method Restrictions were repaired, and it showed Li Ze Pangu cleaving open heaven and earth.
• Li Ze returned to the Nine Peaks Dao Enlightenment Chamber and entered a deep state of enlightenment.

After the Chaos Bell showed Li Ze Pangu’s strike opening heaven, Li Ze spent thousands of years using it to guide his Dao comprehension and envision transforming his Inner Universe into a Source World. He emerged with greatly increased power, and Yuan asked him about the opportunity he had received.

• Li Ze recognized that Pangu’s axe strike and his own Open Heaven sword technique shared an essence, and the vision gave him confidence about his future path toward creating a Source World.
• Li Ze repeatedly studied the vision, beginning to grasp new Daos and incorporating them into his Inner Universe as the image gradually faded from memory.
• Yuan, Wu, and Jin discussed the Chaos Bell, Li Ze’s unusual growth, and his continued meditation; Wu and Jin then departed while Yuan stayed to watch.
• After more than four thousand years of contemplation, Li Ze had expanded his comprehension from over three hundred Daos to over seven hundred and greatly strengthened his Open Heaven technique.
• Li Ze concluded that his strength could reach the peak of the Invincible God King level without Supreme Secret Treasures and might let him fight a God Emperor with them; Yuan praised his progress and asked what opportunity he had gained.

Li Ze told Yuan about the Primordial World and received the Heaven-Defying Armor, while Yuan set a trial for him and Luo Feng to reach God Emperor Level without using the Chaos Bell. After several thousand years of cultivation, Li Ze learned that King Qin and his clan would leave the Origin Continent, and Qin Tian offered the Human Race Qin Kingdom’s territory and affiliated cultivators.

• Li Ze explained how the Chaos Bell devoured the Source of Dreams, repaired itself, and showed him Pangu’s creation, then recounted the history of the Primordial World to Yuan.
• Yuan gave Li Ze the Heaven-Defying Armor and a key to the Nine Peaks Secret Chamber, and revealed that he had allowed God Emperor Level Source Beings into the Source World to temper Li Ze and Luo Feng.
• Yuan barred Li Ze from using the Chaos Bell in the Source World and said he would send Li Ze to other Source Worlds once his combat power reached God Emperor Level.
• Li Ze equipped and stored the Heaven-Defying Armor, then cultivated in the Nine Peaks Secret Chamber for several thousand years.
• God King Qin Tian told Li Ze that King Qin and his clan would leave the Origin Continent within a hundred years, and asked the Human Race to take over Qin Kingdom’s territory and affiliated cultivators.

Li Ze and the Human Race agreed to protect the Qin Kingdom’s remaining territory and experts after God King Qin Tian and his clan departed. Decades later, King Qin released the Serpent of Absolute Cold from the Niuyang Ruins, and it emerged intent on devouring cultivators and attacked the experts watching outside.

• Li Ze and the Human Race’s leaders agreed to take in the Qin Kingdom’s remaining territory and experts, with Li Ze providing protection while the Human Race gathered resources.
• God King Qin Tian introduced Li Ze to the Qin Kingdom’s remaining God Kings and Chaos Masters, who swore loyalty to the Human Race before Qin Tian and his clansmen left the Origin Continent.
• After decades, King Qin removed the Spacetime Dao Tree and released the Serpent of Absolute Cold, which had lost over sixty percent of its Source Bloodline during their long fight.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold returned to its original form and flew toward the Niuyang Ruins’ exit, hoping to devour cultivators and grow stronger.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold attacked the puppets and experts waiting outside the ruins, while God King Yougu and the others abandoned their puppets and fled.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold recognized that the fleeing figure on a giant throne was not a puppet and ordered it to come back.

The Serpent of Absolute Cold killed Bloodstone God King, devoured him to restore its Source Bloodline Power, and set out for the Origin Continent. It attacked Yunxiao City, killed Yunxiao God King, and began devouring the city’s inhabitants.

• Bloodstone God King fought the Serpent of Absolute Cold with the Death Throne, but its God Slaying Spear overwhelmed his defenses.
• Bloodstone God King abandoned the Death Throne and fled, but the Serpent of Absolute Cold struck him down and destroyed his body, Inner Universe, and soul.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold collected the Death Throne and devoured Bloodstone God King, restoring one percent of its spent Source Bloodline Power.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold traveled to Yunxiao City, where it killed Yunxiao God King with an ice crystal torrent.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold enveloped Yunxiao City with its devouring power, beginning a catastrophe for the city’s countless cultivators.

Li Ze and Luo Feng tracked the Serpent of Absolute Cold to Yuanyi City after it destroyed Yunxiao City, and arrived in time to stop its attack from wiping out the city. As the Serpent charged at them, Li Ze launched his strongest sword technique while Luo Feng supported him.

• Original Ancestor reported that the Serpent of Absolute Cold had destroyed Yunxiao City, and Li Ze and Luo Feng decided to hunt it before it recovered its strength.
• The Serpent of Absolute Cold approached Yuanyi City, where Lühe God King raised the city's defenses and summoned help.
• The Serpent shattered Yuanyi City's Golden Light defenses with an ice crystal torrent, but Luo Feng blocked the attack while Li Ze contained its destructive aftermath.
• The Serpent recognized Li Ze and Luo Feng as Yongheng and Galaxy, then charged them with its horns.
• Li Ze attacked with his strongest technique, Open Heaven, while Luo Feng struck from another direction.

Li Ze and Luo Feng fought the God Emperor Level Serpent of Absolute Cold outside Yuanyi City, holding it off despite being outmatched. News of the battle spread across the Origin Continent, and Old Man Tian Ji, King Yun, Purple Wood God King, and other God Kings set out for Yuanyi City.

• Li Ze attacked the Serpent of Absolute Cold with the Heaven Seizing Sword, but their clash sent him flying and revealed that the serpent had the advantage.
• Luo Feng struck the serpent with the Wu Mo Blade, wounded it, and was then knocked back by its tail; his armor protected him from harm.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng joined forces against the enraged serpent, exchanging tens of thousands of blows while neither side could defeat or kill the other.
• Yuhe God King spread news that the serpent had destroyed Yunxiao City and was fighting Li Ze and Luo Feng outside Yuanyi City.
• Old Man Tian Ji and King Yun decided to travel to Yuanyi City and summon allied God Kings to support Li Ze and Luo Feng.
• Purple Wood God King ordered the enslaved World Beast King to accompany him to Yuanyi City as God Kings across the Origin Continent began gathering there.