Chapter Summaries

Li Ze launched a revenge campaign across Xun Jin Island and nearby treasure islands, using Void Realm Teleportation to hunt down the King Level Perfected Source Beings serving Shen Shen Emperor Lord, Emperor Lord Fei Hun, and their allies. After nearly a day of slaughter, he had killed more than sixty, leaving the enemy forces and the wider Source Being community shocked and fearful.

• Li Ze suddenly attacked eight King Level Perfected Source Beings on Xun Jin Island and killed them all before they could organize a defense.
• Li Ze teleported to a second target and slaughtered more than ten King Level Perfected Source Beings as they tried to flee and call for aid.
• Li Ze pursued scattered teams across Xun Jin Island, killing them while distant Source Beings watched, then left before Emperor Lord Fei Hun arrived.
• Emperor Lord Fei Hun reached the battlefield and vowed to kill Li Ze, while reports of the massacre spread among the Source Beings.
• Li Ze followed intelligence from Kodo Bo and Nine-Eyed Hui to Yunmu Island, killed nine more King Level Perfected Source Beings, and continued hunting across nearby islands.
• Over nearly a day, Li Ze destroyed three more teams and killed more than sixty King Level Perfected Source Beings, leaving over half of his enemies’ forces dead.

After Li Ze killed more than sixty King Level Perfected Source Beings, Shen Shen Emperor Lord and his allies prepared to trap him at Rift Sky Island, while Emperor Lord Xiling and others debated how to respond. The gathering drew powerful Source Beings from across the Collapsing Universe, leaving Li Ze’s next move—and whether others would aid or oppose him—unresolved.

• Nine-Eyed Hui agreed to keep supplying Li Ze with intelligence, while planning to contact experts for a hunt involving Lord Basir's Source Treasure.
• Furious over Li Ze's killings, Shen Shen Emperor Lord learned that Emperor Lord Yan Xin could not come but had sent Heng Ling with two treasures suited to restraining Li Ze.
• Heng Ling and Shen Shen Emperor Lord planned to gather allies at Rift Sky Island and kill the Nine-Eyed Race and Kodo Bo, whom they suspected of helping Li Ze.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord's forces openly began gathering at Rift Sky Island, drawing Emperor Level and King Level Perfected Source Beings toward the coming confrontation.
• Emperor Lord Xiling concluded that Li Ze would likely go to Rift Sky Island because of its secrets, and set out with the Xunan Clan Leader and Bai Mo Clan Leader to watch before deciding whom to support.

Li Ze hunted the King Level Perfected Source Beings gathering near Rift Sky Island, while Shen Shen Emperor Lord and his allies devised a trap to capture him. Xue Feng’s Silver Luo Realm finally trapped Li Ze as Emperor Lord Fei Hun and the others raced to join the battle.

• Li Ze decided to disrupt the enemy’s plans by hunting their forces on the routes to Rift Sky Island, and killed more than ten King Level Perfected Source Beings.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord gathered the Emperor Level Source Beings and divided them into seven teams to pursue Li Ze and hold him until reinforcements arrived.
• Li Ze repeatedly killed the teams’ King Level targets and escaped before the pursuing Emperor Level Source Beings could catch him.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Xue Feng arrived during Li Ze’s next attack, and Xue Feng trapped him inside the Silver Luo Realm.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and two other Emperor Level Source Beings attacked Li Ze while Emperor Lord Fei Hun, Heng Ling, and their allies hurried toward the battlefield with the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation.

Shen Shen Emperor Lord trapped Li Ze in Blood Wind’s Silver Luo Realm and attacked him with two Early Emperor Level Source Beings, but Li Ze’s strengthened Sword Light Domain resisted the realm. Li Ze then charged the two weaker opponents, enduring Shen Shen Emperor Lord’s blows as he relentlessly wounded them.

• Six King Level Perfected Source Beings watching from afar were caught inside the Silver Luo Realm and feared that Li Ze was trapped in a deadly ambush.
• Li Ze failed to escape the Silver Luo Realm and faced Shen Shen Emperor Lord and two Early Emperor Level Source Beings.
• Blood Wind unleashed the Silver Luo Realm’s silver radiance, but Li Ze combined his Golden Abyss River Domain, Sword Light Domain, and Sun Divine Flame to overpower its assault.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and the two Early Emperor Level Source Beings attacked Li Ze, but his Open Heaven sword technique blasted the two weaker foes back.
• Li Ze ignored Shen Shen Emperor Lord’s attacks and repeatedly struck the two Early Emperor Level Source Beings, using his Heaven-Defying Armor to withstand their counterattacks.

Li Ze fought Shen Shen Emperor Lord’s group inside the Silver Luo Realm while reinforcements rushed to the battlefield. He killed both Early Emperor Level Source Beings before Heng Ling deployed the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation, which overwhelmed Li Ze’s Domain and left him surrounded by corrosive water.

• Li Ze ignored Shen Shen Emperor Lord’s attacks and continued trying to kill the two wounded Early Emperor Level Source Beings as Emperor Lord Fei Hun and Heng Ling raced toward the battlefield.
• Emperor Lord Fei Hun and Heng Ling arrived, and Shen Shen Emperor Lord ordered Blood Wind to help Heng Ling replace the Silver Luo Realm with the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation.
• Li Ze used a Soul Attack to stun the two Early Emperor Level Source Beings, then killed them both with Heaven Seizing Sword.
• Heng Ling cast the dark blue Crystal sphere and filled the area with the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation, releasing six trapped King Level Perfected Source Beings through a passage.
• The formation’s dark water battered Li Ze’s Sword Light Domain until it could no longer withstand the pressure and began retreating toward him.

Li Ze was trapped in the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation and besieged by Emperor Lord Fei Hun, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Xue Feng, whose attacks were amplified by the formation. Unable to escape and steadily consuming his Divine Power, Li Ze chose to endure the assault and gamble that Heng Ling would exhaust the formation before he ran out of strength.

• Li Ze realized the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation prevented his Void Realm Teleportation and concluded he would have to break it or outlast its power.
• Emperor Lord Fei Hun, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Xue Feng confronted Li Ze as Heng Ling used the formation to create hundreds of powerful water figures and enhance their attacks.
• Xue Feng’s blood-red flying knife carried a soul attack, but Li Ze blocked it with the Illusory Dream River and his soul attainments while fending off Fei Hun and Shen Shen’s attacks.
• The three attackers began a sustained siege, with Xue Feng’s three flying knives striking from afar as Fei Hun and Shen Shen attacked at close range, forcing Li Ze to expend Divine Power.
• Li Ze recognized the danger of being worn down but chose to endure the attacks, betting that Heng Ling would exhaust himself maintaining the formation before Li Ze’s Inner Universe and Divine Power ran out.

Li Ze fought a growing siege of Emperor Level Source Beings until his Divine Power nearly ran out, then reached a breakthrough in his Sword Dao at the brink of death. He realized that his Open Heaven technique relied on Pangu’s Dao and formed the basis of a sword technique centered on his own Dao.

• Li Ze endured tens of thousands of clashes against Shen Shen Emperor Lord, Emperor Lord Fei Hun, and Xue Feng without his life aura weakening, while the attackers awaited reinforcements.
• Qing He and firmament arrived, followed by six more Emperor Level Source Beings who used the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation to strengthen the siege.
• Li Ze’s Divine Power and Inner Universe reserves dwindled as he fought the attackers for half a month, leaving him close to collapse.
• Li Ze was driven to the brink of death, where his memories and insights converged into a new sword strike he called “Everything, Ten Thousand Daos.”
• Li Ze realized that Open Heaven’s core came from Pangu’s imprint and that he needed a sword technique rooted wholly in his own Dao to reach the Origin Level.

Li Ze created the Sword of Ten Thousand Daos, a Hunyuan-level sword technique that let him escape the siege of Shen Shen Emperor Lord, Emperor Lord Fei Hun, and their allies. He began counterattacking, but Xue Feng’s flying blades and the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation still hindered him, leaving him to seek a way to break the formation.

• Li Ze fused the Daos he had comprehended into the Sword of Ten Thousand Daos and realized the mysteries of Hunyuan.
• Li Ze used his new sword technique to evade the combined attacks of Shen Shen Emperor Lord, Emperor Lord Fei Hun, Xue Feng, and the other attackers.
• Emperor Lord Xiling and a crimson-haired figure watching from hidden spaces recognized that Li Ze’s movement technique carried a trace of Hunyuan.
• Li Ze strengthened his Sword Light Domain, resisted the dark waters, and evaded the attackers again before charging at Ye Xin.
• Xue Feng’s flying blades forced Li Ze to halt his attack on Ye Xin, and Li Ze realized he needed to break the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation before he could defeat the besiegers.

After breaking through during the battle, Li Ze used his transformed perception to locate and destroy the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation. He slaughtered Heng Ling and the other besieging Source Beings, leaving only Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun alive as the failed operation ended in a crushing defeat.

• Li Ze sensed the formation's critical node and shattered the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation with two sword strikes.
• Li Ze attacked Heng Ling and the two weakened Source Beings who had maintained the formation, killing all three in three strikes.
• Li Ze turned on the remaining besiegers and rapidly killed the Early and Mid Emperor Level Source Beings, including Xue Feng.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun stopped pursuing Li Ze, recognizing they could not defeat him alone.

After breaking through and defeating Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun’s forces, Li Ze headed for Rift Sky Island, but Emperor Lord Yan Xin intercepted him to seize the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation and the opportunity he believed Li Ze possessed. Emperor Lord Yan Xin attacked with the Flame Pagoda, beginning Li Ze’s first battle against an Emperor Level Perfected being.

• Li Ze taunted Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun, then left after warning them that he would seek revenge once he grew stronger.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun admitted their defeat, discussed guarding against Li Ze, and departed the battlefield.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin revealed to Emperor Lord Xiling that he wanted Li Ze’s opportunity; Xiling refused to join him but promised not to obstruct him.
• News of Li Ze’s breakthrough and victory spread throughout the Blazing Abyss Source World, where factions began to regard him as someone they could not provoke.
• As Li Ze traveled toward Rift Sky Island, Emperor Lord Yan Xin trapped him with the Flame Pagoda and demanded the Nine Bends Dark Water Formation.
• Li Ze refused Yan Xin’s demands and challenged him to fight, so Yan Xin enveloped Li Ze in the Flame Pagoda’s domain.

Li Ze fought Emperor Lord Yan Xin, whose two Source Secret Treasures let him suppress Li Ze but not overcome his strength and defenses. As the battle continued, Li Ze used Yan Xin to refine his newly created Origin Swordplay, leaving Yan Xin helpless and wondering whether Li Ze had already reached perfection.

• Emperor Lord Yan Xin attacked Li Ze with the Flame Pagoda's flame domain, but Li Ze broke through it with his Sword Light Domain and charged into close combat.
• Li Ze and Emperor Lord Yan Xin clashed with their Source Secret Treasures, and Li Ze's sword strike proved nearly equal to Yan Xin's Emperor Level Perfected attack.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin transformed using the Red Tiger Armor and fought Li Ze with even greater power, yet Li Ze endured his attacks and kept returning to the battle.
• After fighting for a quarter of an hour, Emperor Lord Yan Xin realized Li Ze's Sword Technique was improving as the fight went on and understood that Li Ze was using him to temper it.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin became helpless as Li Ze showed no sign of weakening, and he wondered whether Li Ze had already reached perfection.

Li Ze fought Emperor Lord Yan Xin until Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun joined forces against him. Emperor Lord Xiling intervened, allowing Li Ze to escape and leaving the enemies to plan a future ambush when the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal appeared.

• Li Ze and Emperor Lord Yan Xin battled fiercely as Li Ze refined his Sword of Ten Thousand Daos and impressed the watching Source Beings.
• Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun arrived and joined Emperor Lord Yan Xin in attacking Li Ze.
• Emperor Lord Xiling struck Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun, then explained that he hoped to befriend Li Ze and receive guidance after Li Ze reached the Origin Level.
• At Emperor Lord Xiling's urging, Li Ze broke away from Emperor Lord Yan Xin and escaped, while Emperor Lord Xiling departed separately.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin stopped Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun from pursuing Emperor Lord Xiling, and they agreed to seek more allies before trying to kill Li Ze at the emergence of the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal.

Li Ze ventured into Rift Sky Island’s First Tomb Mountain, where a mysterious fluctuation altered his Inner Universe and the mountain’s fused spatial paths deepened his understanding. He reached a gorge of visions from vanished civilizations and saw a Broken Tower whose symbols overwhelmed him with the despair of a failed universe transformation.

• Li Ze entered First Tomb Mountain despite Destiny warning him of danger, and a mysterious fluctuation struck him before vanishing and leaving a trace of power in his Inner Universe.
• Li Ze explored the mountain without further disturbance and paused to study its fused paths, gaining insight into the Dao of space before continuing toward the Source Space.
• Li Ze crossed a gorge whose countless patterns immersed him in the rise and destruction of civilizations, then realized they had affected his emotions and wondered whether the Collapsing Universe Master had carved them.
• Li Ze entered a vast blue basin and saw a Broken Tower bearing symbols that conveyed the despair of an existence who had failed to transform a universe.
• Li Ze resisted the tower’s despair and sorrow with his Soul Will and eventually regained his clarity.

Li Ze touched the Broken Tower and experienced the Collapsing Universe’s history, gaining insight into its master’s Cosmic Cultivation Path. The tower’s counterpart on Time Condensing Island triggered the early emergence of the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal, drawing powerful Source Beings toward the island while Li Ze remained unaware.

• Li Ze reflected on the Collapsing Universe Master’s failed attempt to transform his universe into a Source World and vowed to forge his own successful path.
• Li Ze touched the Broken Tower, merged his Soul Will with it, and experienced the Collapsing Universe’s evolution across countless eras.
• Li Ze’s Inner Universe stirred as he tried to imitate the Cosmic Evolution Paths revealed by the tower, then he sat down to cultivate and comprehend them.
• The stone tower beneath Time Condensing Island released a brilliant purple light, and the other nine Treasure Land Islands began to shake.
• Source Beings concluded that the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal was about to emerge, and factions rushed toward Time Condensing Island; Emperor Lord Yan Xin, Emperor Lord Fei Hun, and Shen Shen Emperor Lord also set out to hunt Li Ze.
• After more than ten days of cultivation, Li Ze finished a preliminary study of the tower’s insights and recognized that its master’s method and his own Inner Universe path led toward the same destination.

Li Ze sealed the Collapsing Universe Master's memory fragments in his Inner Universe, refused to Devour Rift Sky Island's Origin Source, and set out to claim the newly emerged Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal. At Time Condensing Island, Emperor Lord Yan Xin declared the crystal his, but an unknown challenger voiced an objection.

• Li Ze understood that the Collapsing Universe Master's inheritance preserved memories of his lost universe, and he sealed the fragments away until his Inner Universe could become a Source World.
• Li Ze bowed to the Broken Tower, left Rift Sky Island's Origin Source untouched, and hurried toward the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal after receiving messages from Nine-Eyed Hui and Kodo Bo.
• At Time Condensing Island, Source Being teams gathered around the emerging crystal, while Emperor Lord Fei Hun and Shen Shen Emperor Lord wondered whether Nine-Eyed Ze would appear.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin arrived with his team and claimed the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal, warning the others to leave or risk death.
• A cold voice from the distant void objected to Emperor Lord Yan Xin's claim.

Li Ze faced a massive siege led by Emperor Lord Yan Xin, but his improved power let him withstand the attackers and destroy one Combined Attack Formation with a Soul Attack. The chapter left him buried under the remaining formations’ attacks after killing the formation’s Early Emperor Level leader and its King Level Perfected members.

• Emperor Lord Yan Xin gathered more than ten Emperor Level Source Beings and a hundred King Level Perfected Source Beings to attack Li Ze, but Li Ze’s warning made them hesitate.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Emperor Lord Fei Hun led the Source Beings in thirteen Combined Attack Formations against Li Ze.
• Li Ze used the Heaven Seizing Sword and his Sword Light Domain to block the formations’ attacks, then clashed with Emperor Lord Yan Xin and was forced back only slightly.
• Li Ze targeted a Combined Attack Formation led by an Early Emperor Level Source Being and used a Soul Attack to kill its King Level Perfected members and incapacitate its leader.
• Li Ze killed the formation’s leader with a sword strike, but Emperor Lord Fei Hun and four other Combined Attack Formations drowned him in their attacks.

Li Ze overwhelmed Emperor Lord Yan Xin’s forces with his Soul Attacks and nearly annihilated their formations, forcing the surviving Emperor Level Source Beings to retreat. As the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal emerged, Li Ze challenged Yan Xin and his allies to choose between fighting him and pursuing the prize, then declared it his when they hesitated.

• Li Ze used his Soul Attack and Heaven Seizing Sword to destroy two Combined Attack Formations while the attacks of Emperor Lord Yan Xin, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Emperor Lord Fei Hun barely affected him.
• Li Ze’s wide-ranging Soul Attack killed nearly one hundred and fifty King Level Perfected Source Beings as the eleven remaining formations scattered and fled.
• Li Ze confronted the surviving eleven Emperor Level Source Beings, who withdrew rather than risk fighting him.
• Li Ze challenged Emperor Lord Yan Xin, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Emperor Lord Fei Hun to decide whether to keep fighting or pursue the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal.
• The Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal emerged, and Li Ze declared that he would claim it while the strongest beings hesitated.

Li Ze outmaneuvered the powerful Source Beings competing for the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal and claimed it. As the crystal revealed its perfected aura, Li Ze sensed something within it and realized how it worked.

• Emperor Lord Xiling rushed for the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal, prompting the other Source Beings to charge after it while Li Ze waited for an opening.
• Emperor Lord Fei Hun attacked Emperor Lord Xiling and Emperor Lord Bao Yan while Shen Shen Emperor Lord raced for the crystal, but Emperor Lord Yan Xin soon joined the fight.
• Emperor Lord Yan Xin agreed to hold back Emperor Lord Xiling and Emperor Lord Bao Yan so Fei Hun and Shen Shen could pursue the treasure, but Li Ze used his speed to pass them.
• Li Ze blocked Shen Shen Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Fei Hun with his sword, Soul Attack, and Heaven-Defying Armor, then reached the crystal.
• Li Ze touched the Violet Light Cluster, which shrank into a Purple Crystal and released a perfected aura that made weaker Source Beings kneel.
• Li Ze held the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal and realized something about how it worked.

Li Ze claimed the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal and stopped it from fusing with his Inner Universe, then escaped the other Source Beings. In hiding, he learned it was the origin of a universe prototype and considered how it might strengthen his own universe and power.

• The Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal entered Li Ze's Inner Universe, where its power stirred the Origin Ocean and awakened scenes within his memory crystals.
• Li Ze severed the crystal's connection to his Inner Universe and sealed it with Dao Pattern Chains before the fusion could continue.
• Li Ze told the watching Source Beings that the crystal was his, then used Void Realm Teleportation to vanish; the defeated Emperor Lord Yan Xin, Shen Shen Emperor Lord, and Emperor Lord Fei Hun discussed waiting to hunt him later.
• Li Ze reappeared far from Time Condensing Island and sensed that the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal was the origin of a universe prototype with a faint chance of becoming a Source World.
• Li Ze decided not to refine the crystal to create a separate universe and instead considered how its mysteries could help evolve his Inner Universe and increase his strength.

Li Ze rejected refining the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal, choosing instead to study it while pursuing his own Inner Universe cultivation path. After devouring the Origin Sources of Jiangyan Island and Bishui Island, he searched unsuccessfully for the Blazing Abyss Source World's Origin Land until a fluctuation from the Basir Treasure caught his attention.

• Li Ze decided to study the Ultimate Emperor Source Heavenly Crystal for its insights rather than let it shape his cultivation, and considered eventually giving it to another Human Race expert.
• Li Ze found no new inheritance at Time Condensing Island, then spent twenty-six epochs devouring Jiangyan Island's Origin Source and gained five complete Daos.
• Li Ze devoured Bishui Island's Origin Source after speaking with Emperor Lord Xiling, completing his goal of consuming the Origin Sources of eight Treasure Land Islands.
• Li Ze wandered the Collapsing Universe for nearly a hundred epochs, searching in vain for clues to the Blazing Abyss Source World's Origin Land.
• Nine-Eyed Hui and two other Hunyuan beings gathered with two rival teams at the hidden location of the Basir Treasure, and the treasure's opening produced a massive spacetime wave.
• Li Ze sensed the Basir Treasure's emergence from tens of quadrillions of light-years away and halted.