Chapter Summaries

Silver Fish used a Domain-type Lord-level Source Secret Treasure to seize the Dao Source Land Token while Li Ze held off Great Kunxu and Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch. After Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch challenged Li Ze, Li Ze refused to duel and tried to leave, but was pursued into another battlefield, where Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch turned toward an unclaimed Token.

• Silver Fish appeared and used his silver-light Domain to suppress the battlefield and draw the Dao Source Land Token to himself.
• Li Ze blocked Great Kunxu and Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch long enough for Silver Fish to secure the Token, and Great Kunxu left for another contest.
• Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch fought Li Ze, acknowledged he could not take the Token, and challenged him to a battle; Li Ze refused and tried to depart.
• Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch pursued Li Ze and attacked repeatedly, forcing Li Ze to spend Origin Power defending himself as they raced into another region.
• Silver Fish urged Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch to stop chasing Li Ze and seize the unclaimed Token in that region, so Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch broke off and flew toward it.

Li Ze and Silver Fish secured a Dao Source Land Token, then went to aid their allies in the other battles. Li Ze helped Lord of Dongke claim another Token and began fighting Yun You, Ku Xing Lord's former opponent, as Dongke returned to join him.

• Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch withdrew, and Silver Fish offered Li Ze the Dao Source Land Token they had taken, but Li Ze let Silver Fish keep it because he already had one.
• Li Ze and Silver Fish split up to help Lord of Dongke and Mo Yuanhuang seize Dao Source Land Tokens.
• Li Ze arrived to find Lord of Dongke battling Yun You, who had returned to seek revenge on the Cultivator Faction for his defeat by Ku Xing Lord.
• Li Ze struck Yun You and held him off while Lord of Dongke broke free and headed for the Dao Source Land Token.
• More than two hundred World-class Hunyuan experts attacked Lord of Dongke, but he endured their assault and obtained the Token.
• Lord of Dongke rejoined Li Ze and announced that they would join forces to kill Yun You.

Li Ze and Lord of Dongke joined forces to pursue and suppress Yun You, who struggled to escape but proved difficult to seriously injure. The remaining three Dao Source Land Tokens were claimed by Soul Ancestor, an unfamiliar expert, and Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch, while the battle against Yun You continued.

• Yun You tried to flee, but Li Ze caught up and shattered his attack in a direct clash.
• Lord of Dongke trapped Yun You with a sealing palace, but Yun You broke free by exploiting the moment the palace's power weakened.
• Li Ze and Lord of Dongke fought Yun You together, suppressing him as his life aura declined, though they struggled to inflict grievous injuries.
• Soul Ancestor seized a Dao Source Land Token and escaped the encirclement through his strong defense.
• An unfamiliar expert seized another token near Mo Yuanhuang's side and escaped with it, while Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch claimed the token near Ji Hu.
• The fighting in the other regions subsided, but Li Ze and Lord of Dongke continued battling Yun You.

Li Ze and Lord of Dongke continued attacking Yun You while the Cultivator Faction guarded against interference, and Li Ze’s overwhelming strength made him famous across the Infinite Source Space. The Destruction Progenitor and Source Tower then formed a secret alliance to have Soul Ancestor join the effort to kill Li Ze in exchange for one portion of Sea of Sources Liquid.

• Li Ze and Lord of Dongke refused to stop attacking Yun You, while Mo Yuanhuang and Silver Fish guarded the edge of the battlefield against other factions.
• Experts across the Infinite Source Space learned that Li Ze had helped the Cultivator Faction obtain two Dao Source Land Tokens and judged his strength worthy of the top ranks of the Lord Seed List.
• The Destruction Progenitor questioned Ji Hu about Li Ze’s strength, then decided to seek an alliance with other factions to kill him.
• Source Tower and Soul Ancestor discussed Li Ze’s power, and Soul Ancestor said that even with Source Tower’s treasure, killing Li Ze would be difficult.
• The Destruction Progenitor asked Source Tower to send Soul Ancestor against Li Ze, and Source Tower agreed after securing one portion of Sea of Sources Liquid.

Li Ze fought Soul Ancestor to a standstill while Lord of Dongke and the others battled the allied factions in the Dark Ruin Realm. When Yun You joined the attack at Meng She’s urging, Li Ze struck him down and kept pressing his assault.

• Ji Hu and several faction leaders launched their planned attack to help Yun You and challenge the Cultivator Faction.
• Li Ze assigned the allied forces to hold off their opponents, then continued pursuing Yun You after Lord of Dongke went to stop Ji Hu.
• Soul Ancestor arrived and explained that the Innate Source Being Faction had paid him to attack, but he also wanted to test Li Ze’s strength.
• Li Ze and Soul Ancestor began a fierce battle, matching each other as the watching experts marveled at Li Ze’s power.
• Meng She urged Yun You to attack Li Ze while Soul Ancestor kept him occupied, and Yun You charged into their battle.
• Li Ze turned aside Yun You’s spear, badly injured him with a sword strike, and continued attacking as Soul Ancestor declared that Li Ze was his opponent.

Li Ze fought Yun You, Soul Ancestor, and Meng She for days, using the pressure to improve his secret techniques. Meng She then unleashed a trump card empowered by Infinite Progenitor, and Li Ze summoned the Chaos Bell as the Infinite Great Serpent’s phantom attacked.

• Soul Ancestor joined Yun You against Li Ze, but Li Ze held them off with his sword, burning Origin Power, and defensive treasures.
• Meng She ambushed Li Ze with teleporting spikes, which the Karma Fire Red Source Tower blocked, damaging its Mystic Patterns.
• Meng She joined Yun You and Soul Ancestor, and the three forced Li Ze back and weakened his life aura as they fought for more than ten days.
• Li Ze refined his Dao insights under pressure and improved his secret techniques, while the wider battle turned against the Cultivator Faction.
• Meng She revealed Deadly Still Liquid made from Infinite Progenitor’s body and sacrificed two snake heads to summon the Infinite Great Serpent’s phantom.
• The phantom swept aside Li Ze’s Sword Light and lunged to devour him, so Li Ze brought out the Chaos Bell and enclosed himself within it.

Li Ze endured Meng She's Nirvana Poison while fighting Yun You and Soul Ancestor, then used the Chaos Bell to overpower Yun You. He rejected Yun You's offer to let him escape in exchange for help claiming a Dao Source Land Token and instead struck Yun You with a devastating attack.

• Meng She revealed that he had used the Infinite Progenitor's trump card to plant Nirvana Poison in Li Ze, while Yun You and Soul Ancestor attacked him and the other factions held back the Cultivator Faction.
• Li Ze awoke, realized the poison was suppressing most of his strength, and used the Chaos Bell to blast Yun You backward while Soul Ancestor continued injuring him.
• Li Ze used the Karma Fire Red Source Tower against Soul Ancestor but struggled to withstand both enemies as the poison eroded his soul.
• Yun You offered to let Li Ze escape if he helped Yun You seize a Dao Source Land Token, but Li Ze demanded that Yun You attack Meng She instead.
• After Yun You refused, Li Ze vowed to kill him and enlarged the Chaos Bell, knocking Yun You's War Spear away and sending Yun You flying with his life aura badly weakened.

Li Ze killed Yun You, then fled Soul Ancestor while Nirvana Poison and his injuries weakened him. Yuan’s backup plan activated through the Eternal Armor, guiding Li Ze into a mysterious Black Mountain Peak, which vanished with him inside.

• Li Ze repeatedly struck Yun You with the Chaos Bell until Yun You self-destructed, then collected his spoils.
• Li Ze fled Soul Ancestor, who pursued him as other experts joined the chase and attacked him.
• Yuan told the other Origin Lords that he had placed a backup plan in Li Ze’s Eternal Armor and that Li Ze’s avatar would survive.
• The Eternal Armor revealed Mystic Patterns and guided Li Ze toward a Black Mountain Peak in the Dark Ruin Realm.
• Soul Ancestor sensed a terrifying Origin Lord method within the mountain and abandoned his pursuit to warn Artifact Ancestor.
• Li Ze entered a crack in the mountain, then vanished as the entire Black Mountain Peak disappeared.

Li Ze entered the vast space inside the Black Mountain Peak and spent tens of thousands of years purging the Nirvana Poison from his soul. As he explored, he encountered powerful illusions that threatened his Golden Crow Main Body, but the Chaos Bell helped him break free and resist a second attack.

• Li Ze entered the Black Mountain Peak’s mysterious inner space and began removing the Nirvana Poison from his soul.
• Meng She and Ji Hu showed the Progenitors footage of Li Ze disappearing with the peak, and the Infinite Great Serpent ordered them to watch for news of him.
• World-class Source Experts searched the peak’s former location, but they found nothing and eventually moved on as new Dao Source Land Tokens appeared.
• After tens of thousands of years, Li Ze completely eradicated the Nirvana Poison and set off to explore the seemingly endless space.
• A mysterious fluctuation trapped Li Ze’s Golden Crow Main Body and Divine Power Clones in an illusion, but he recognized the false stars and broke free.
• Li Ze activated the Karma Fire Domain to detect another fluctuation and used the Chaos Bell to awaken from a second, even more powerful illusion.

Li Ze endured increasingly powerful illusion realms in the Dark Ruin Realm, strengthening his Soul Will and developing new illusion arts as he searched for a way out. After more than eighty thousand years, the Cultivator Faction investigated the black mist where Mo Yuanhuang had vanished and decided to send other factions in first.

• Li Ze realized the illusion attacks were gradually tempering his Soul Will and began studying their methods to create similar techniques.
• Li Ze combined the mysteries of the illusion realms with his Inner Universe and Source World memories, rapidly improving his illusion arts while continuing through the dark spacetime.
• After nearly a thousand years, Li Ze accepted that he might miss the Land of Source and continued cultivating as he traveled.
• Over eighty thousand years later, Tian Langke, Silver Fish, and Shi Jia Wu gathered outside the black mist where Mo Yuanhuang had fallen, after their Divine Power Clones also vanished inside.
• Shi Jia Wu warned the others not to enter the dangerous mist and ordered them to spread a rumor that the Land of Source might be there so other factions would investigate first.

As countless World-class Source Experts headed toward the rumored location of the Land of Source, Li Ze continued cultivating inside a mysterious space and created the soul illusion technique Illusion Realm. After resisting another illusion attack, he was brought before Void Spirit, who revealed that Li Ze’s Life Crystal qualified him to attempt the Dark Ruin Realm’s master’s test.

• Meng She, Shadow Walker, his star-robed companion, Illusion Cloud Emperor Monarch, and other experts set out to investigate the rumored location of the Land of Source, though Shadow Walker suspected the news might be a trap.
• Li Ze spent more than eighty thousand years enduring illusion realms and combining his insights into soul arts and the Inner Universe.
• Li Ze created Illusion Realm, a technique that fused illusion with reality and brought his Soul Will to the limit of the World-level Source Realm.
• After Li Ze used Illusion Realm to block another attack, a Spacetime Wave transported him to a stable world of endless energy-filled seas.
• Void Spirit appeared and identified herself as the Spirit of the Dark Ruin Realm, explaining that its Lord had been the first Origin Lord and had left behind its opportunities.
• Void Spirit told Li Ze that his Life Crystal qualified him for the Lord’s test, which had killed nearly all previous visitors.

Void Spirit revealed that Li Ze had inherited Yuan’s Life Crystal and offered him the deadly Ultimate Trial, which required reaching a distant palace past three formidable guardians. Li Ze began fighting Qing Eye and, after being overwhelmed by his raw strength, used a newly created illusion secret art to halt his pursuit.

• Void Spirit explained that Yuan’s Life Crystal had protected Li Ze in You Meng Space and offered him a choice between leaving and entering the Ultimate Trial.
• Li Ze accepted the trial and was cut off from his Human Main Body and Divine Power Clones outside the Dark Ruin Realm.
• Void Spirit revealed that Li Ze had to reach the Black Palace past Qing Eye, Man Zhe, and a replica of Yuan, then departed.
• Yuan’s replica and Man Zhe withdrew, leaving Qing Eye to face Li Ze alone.
• Qing Eye shattered Li Ze’s Karma Fire Domain and struck him back with overwhelming physical strength, forcing Li Ze to evade and flee.
• Li Ze burned Origin Power and spread Soul Power to form an illusory universe, causing Qing Eye to stall.

Li Ze struggled to overcome Qing Eye, whose strength and defenses defeated every attack he tried. After realizing his Illusion Realm could briefly disrupt Qing Eye, Li Ze intensified it with repeated layers of illusions, leaving Qing Eye unable to attack effectively.

• Li Ze caught Qing Eye in Illusion Realm and attacked, but Qing Eye broke free and countered, injuring Li Ze with the backlash.
• Qing Eye overpowered Li Ze in a direct clash and battered him with punches until Li Ze used the Chaos Bell to interrupt the assault.
• Li Ze tested illusions, soul attacks, restraints, combat, and movement techniques, but none could defeat Qing Eye or get him past the puppet.
• Li Ze reconsidered the battle and concluded that strengthening Illusion Realm was his best chance to exploit Qing Eye’s brief loss of control.
• Li Ze attacked again with successive layers of Illusion Realm, repeatedly making Qing Eye sink into the illusion and awaken before he could launch an effective attack.

Li Ze repeatedly used and refined Illusion Realm to probe Qing Eye’s memories, discovering how a lifetime of loss and suffering forged Qing Eye’s powerful will. As Li Ze’s illusion made Qing Eye sink for days at a time, Li Ze continued pursuing a complete defeat and a breakthrough in his own Soul Will.

• Li Ze repeatedly cast Illusion Realm on Qing Eye, studying his memories and tailoring the illusions to keep him trapped longer.
• Li Ze learned that Qing Eye had fused the bodies and departed souls of all life in a Source World, and that his dispersed soul left his Soul Will vulnerable to illusion.
• Li Ze experienced Qing Eye’s life, from losing his family to Demon Beasts and seeking revenge to becoming a slave in another world and enduring further hardship.
• Li Ze spent immense spans of time refining Illusion Realm, while his Soul Will transformed and each cast kept Qing Eye submerged for longer.
• Li Ze made Qing Eye sink for several days with one cast and resolved to continue until his Soul Will reached a higher level.
• Void Spirit and Yuan watched Li Ze’s progress, and Void Spirit questioned whether his path using an Inner Universe could reach the Lord level.

Yuan watched over Li Ze as he faced the danger of losing himself while using Qing Eye’s memories to refine his Illusion Realm technique. With eighty epochs left in the Ultimate Trial, Li Ze advanced the technique to the Lord Level and transformed his Soul Will, which spread beyond the trial and reached Void Spirit.

• Void Spirit told Yuan that the Ultimate Trial had only eighty epochs remaining, and Yuan reflected on Li Ze’s potential to surpass him through the Inner Universe path.
• Li Ze realized that repeatedly studying Qing Eye’s memories was blurring his consciousness, so he stopped directly comprehending them and instead used illusions to keep Qing Eye submerged.
• Over many epochs, Li Ze refined Illusion Realm by combining reality, memory, emotions, and desire, while choosing to remain with Qing Eye rather than face the next obstacle.
• Li Ze’s Illusion Realm reached the Lord Level, and his Soul Will underwent a qualitative transformation, allowing him to sink Qing Eye completely with a single thought.
• Li Ze’s newly expanded Soul Will spread beyond the Ultimate Trial Space and across the Dark Ruin Realm, where Void Spirit looked up and spoke to him.

Li Ze passed the Ultimate Trial after breaking through to Lord-level Soul Will and perfecting his Illusion Realm by exploring Man Zhe’s memories. Void Spirit then revealed the four remaining Origin Lord-level Secret Treasures left by the Lord of the Dark Ruin Realm.

• Void Spirit warned Li Ze to keep his Soul Will within the Dark Ruin Realm, and Li Ze used his breakthrough to clear Qing Eye’s memories from his mind and pass him.
• Li Ze immersed Man Zhe in Illusion Realm, studied her memories of countless lives, perfected his technique, and made her sink completely into the illusion.
• Yuan’s replica congratulated Li Ze on his progress, vanished, and left him free to enter the Black Palace.
• Void Spirit congratulated Li Ze for passing the trial and said he could claim what the Lord of the Dark Ruin Realm had left behind.
• Void Spirit revealed four remaining Origin Lord-level Secret Treasures: a blade, a ship, a peak, and a drop of water.

Li Ze claimed the Lord of the Dark Ruin Realm’s treasures and inherited the soul-illusion manual Dark Ruin Record, becoming master of the Dark Ruin Realm. After discovering that only two days had passed outside, he realized he could control access to the Dao Source Pool and considered sending Luo Feng there.

• Void Spirit explained that the Void Realm Pearl could supply endless energy and control the Dark Ruin Realm’s formations, and Li Ze broke its restriction and refined it.
• Li Ze refined the other three secret treasures, then followed Void Spirit to the Lord of the Dark Ruin Realm’s statue and received the Dark Ruin Record inheritance.
• After decades of studying the manual, Li Ze gained a clearer path for developing his soul illusions and learned that Void Spirit planned to leave the Dark Ruin Realm.
• Li Ze used the Void Realm Pearl to return to the Black Airflow and learned that only two days had passed outside during the Ultimate Trial.
• Li Ze realized the Land of Source had not yet opened and considered letting Luo Feng enter the Dao Source Pool to seek insight into the Blade Dao.

Li Ze used the Demon Abyss God Annihilation Array to wipe out most of a scouting party, then showed Du Xing a vision of the Land of Source so he would lead the Innate Source Being Faction there. Meng She and Ji Hu set out with Du Xing, while experts from the other factions rushed after them.

• Li Ze watched Mist Beasts annihilate most of a group of scouts and decided to use Du Xing to lure Meng She and Ji Hu into the black mist.
• Li Ze revealed an oval world that appeared to be the Land of Source to Du Xing, who turned back to report his discovery.
• Du Xing told Meng She and Ji Hu what he had found, and Meng She ordered him to lead the faction back inside despite Du Xing's reluctance.
• Shi Jia Wu prepared the Cultivator Faction to follow the Innate Source Being Faction into the black mist once they moved.
• Meng She led the token-holders, Du Xing, and more than twenty other experts toward the black mist, prompting over a hundred experts from other factions to pursue them.

Li Ze ambushed the Innate Source Being Faction experts in the black mist and used his soul illusions to overwhelm them. He left Meng She, Ji Hu, and their companions dead within the Demon Abyss God Annihilation Array.

• Shi Jia Wu led the Cultivator Faction into a Lord-level palace treasure and advanced through the black mist while the other factions followed.
• Du Xing guided Meng She, Ji Hu, and the Innate Source Being Faction experts toward the Land of Source, where they spotted Li Ze and decided to kill him.
• Li Ze's Illusion Realm killed nine of the twenty-seven experts and trapped ten others, while the remaining eight resisted and tried to flee.
• Li Ze trapped the eight survivors in a stronger illusion and activated the Demon Abyss God Annihilation Array, summoning Mist Beasts to attack them.
• Meng She and Ji Hu briefly broke free, but Li Ze pulled them back into an illusion, and the Mist Beasts killed all the Innate Source Being Faction experts.

Li Ze defeated the Innate Source Being Faction’s experts and then confronted Soul Ancestor, Saint Huo Yun, and Fan Ta Zhu. He killed Saint Huo Yun and Soul Ancestor with his soul illusions and sword attacks, leaving Fan Ta Zhu trapped as the Cultivator Faction arrived.

• Li Ze collected the Innate Source Being Faction’s treasures after killing twenty-seven experts, including two Lord Seed List members, and set out to find Soul Ancestor.
• Soul Ancestor learned that Meng She’s life imprint had vanished, then met Li Ze with Saint Huo Yun and Fan Ta Zhu and fought him alongside them.
• Li Ze’s soul illusion incapacitated Saint Huo Yun, and Li Ze killed him with repeated sword strikes.
• Li Ze trapped Soul Ancestor and Fan Ta Zhu in another soul illusion, killed Soul Ancestor, and continued attacking Fan Ta Zhu’s heavily defended body.
• Shi Jia Wu, Tian Langke, and the Cultivator Faction arrived, and Li Ze told them that Soul Ancestor and Saint Huo Yun had fallen while Fan Ta Zhu remained trapped.