Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Lord of Gold, Ling Chen analyzed the Lord’s Source and entered the online world to confront the Sea of Envy. His attempt to protect a female star with the Dao of Life drew the Sea’s attention, and its Consciousness Tide invaded his mind.

• Ling Chen recovered in a hotel and used the Dao of Life to analyze and dissolve the Lord of Gold’s dark-gold Source.
• Ling Chen activated Origin Sight online and discovered that malicious comments fed a vast Sea of Envy across social media and forums.
• Ling Chen found a female star being attacked online and sent a wisp of the Dao of Life into the core of her Dao of Fame.
• The Sea of Envy reacted to Ling Chen’s blessing, and its black insects targeted his consciousness.
• The Consciousness Tide surged through the network into Ling Chen’s mind, leaving him convulsing and bleeding as he was overwhelmed by pain, curses, and madness.

Ling Chen turned the flood of malice in the Network World into a Consciousness Furnace and refined it to uncover the Source of Envy. After resisting its Heart Demon Lure, he used the Dao Flame of the Dao of Life to begin purifying the source.

• Ling Chen abandoned defense and drew the Sea of Envy into his soul, using his will as a furnace and the Dao Flame of the Dao of Life as fire.
• Ling Chen refined the malice until it condensed into the fist-sized Source of Envy and seized it.
• The Source of Envy showed Ling Chen visions and questioned why he sacrificed himself for people who did not know him, stirring envy and resentment.
• Ling Chen rejected the Heart Demon Lure, declaring that he protected others because he was a Dao Guardian and that his will was his Dao.
• Ling Chen engulfed the Source of Envy in emerald flames and began forcibly purifying its faces, turning their curses into prayers and their envy into release.

Ling Chen subdued the Source of Envy, gained the ability to directly sense emotions, and tracked the Fear Domain to the Eternal Night Haunted House. He entered the haunted house to confront the entity feeding on visitors’ fear.

• Ling Chen transformed the Source of Envy into a Heart Crystal, sensed the nearby Fear Domain, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• After waking, Ling Chen discovered that the Heart Crystal had fused with his Dao Flame and granted him Dao Resonance, letting him sense emotions directly.
• Ling Chen traced the Fear Domain’s fear signal to the Eternal Night Haunted House in Fantasy Kingdom and saw how it drained visitors’ fear and vitality.
• Ling Chen bought a ticket and entered the haunted house, where the entity welcomed him as prey and called the place its restaurant.
• Ling Chen declared that he had come to flip the table as the door shut behind him.

Ling Chen faced the incarnation of the [Fear Law], dismissing its staged scares and showing it the genuine fears he had witnessed through Dao Resonance. After its illusions collapsed and its identity as a Mirror of Fear was revealed, it used its ultimate move to probe the deepest fear in Ling Chen’s heart.

• Ling Chen ignored the ghostly shadow and cold hand created by the [Fear Law] and mocked its stale scare tactics.
• The incarnation transformed the darkness into a blood-soaked hospital corridor filled with ruined patients, but Ling Chen called the illusion fake.
• Ling Chen projected genuine human fears into the incarnation through Dao Resonance, causing its patients and corridor to dissolve.
• Ling Chen shattered the false world and revealed the incarnation as a shifting shadow in a warehouse full of discarded mechanical props.
• The incarnation condensed into a mirror and unleashed Mirror of the Self, Abyssal Echo to search Ling Chen’s soul for his deepest fear.

Ling Chen accepted his fear of failure and turned it into part of his Dao Art, destroying the Mirror of the Self and claiming the Fear Core. After sensing an arrogant Dao law, he traced it to the Sky Dome Battle, where the Invincible Martial God Cang Xuan drew power from the crowd’s worship.

• Ling Chen faced a vision of his failure and admitted that his fear drove him to keep moving and grow stronger.
• Ling Chen embraced his fear with the Dao Flame of Life, fused it into his Dao Art, and caused the Mirror of the Self to collapse.
• Ling Chen claimed the Fear Core and linked it with the Greed and Envy cores to expand his perception.
• Ling Chen sensed an arrogant Dao law and understood that it concealed deep loneliness and contempt for others.
• Ling Chen went to the Sky Dome Battle and saw that Cang Xuan absorbed the worship of tens of thousands of spectators.

Cang Xuan defeated Shatterer of Bones and noticed Ling Chen was untouched by the crowd’s worship and his Law of Arrogance. When Ling Chen confronted him and named the loneliness beneath his strength, Cang Xuan’s composure broke, and he unleashed a golden storm across the arena.

• Cang Xuan forced Shatterer of Bones to concede through the pressure of his Law of Arrogance.
• Cang Xuan noticed Ling Chen’s emptiness amid the worshipful crowd and beckoned him to the ring.
• Ling Chen walked to the ring as Cang Xuan’s will stopped the security guards from intervening.
• Cang Xuan challenged Ling Chen to fear him and sent the golden ocean of worship crashing toward him.
• Ling Chen said he saw Cang Xuan’s loneliness, shattering the golden aura and provoking Cang Xuan’s fury.
• Cang Xuan unleashed a golden storm across the arena, targeting all things around him.

Ling Chen protected the spectators from Cang Xuan’s Divine Wrath Golden Flame with the Wall of Mortal World and challenged the god to look upon mortal life. Cang Xuan declared he would erase Ling Chen and everything he protected, then attacked with a punch aimed at Ling Chen’s origin.

• Cang Xuan unleashed the Divine Wrath Golden Flame, melting the arena and threatening the spectators as their faith in him collapsed.
• Ling Chen raised his hand and spread the Wall of Mortal World around the audience, security personnel, and the fallen Shatterer of Bones.
• The Wall of Mortal World nullified Cang Xuan’s law of erasure and protected everyone within it.
• Cang Xuan questioned Ling Chen, who called himself a lonely man passing by and said he had come to invite a lonely god to see the mortal world.
• Cang Xuan stepped before the barrier and vowed to erase Ling Chen and everything he protected, then threw a law-bound punch at Ling Chen’s origin.

Ling Chen overcame Cang Xuan by accepting and transforming the power of his Dao of Arrogance into a clover, causing Cang Xuan’s Dao Heart to collapse. Ling Chen claimed the Core of Arrogance and left Cang Xuan holding the clover, beginning his life anew as a mortal.

• Ling Chen met Cang Xuan’s annihilating fist with his palm, which embodied a world shaped by his Dao of Life and understanding of humanity.
• Ling Chen transformed Cang Xuan’s power into a clover, and Cang Xuan recoiled as his Dao and sense of godhood collapsed.
• Cang Xuan’s Divine Wrath Golden Flame faded, and the spectators saw him reduced to a hollow, pale man.
• The Core of Arrogance left Cang Xuan and floated to Ling Chen, who took it, completing his collection of the four Other Law Cores.
• Ling Chen gave Cang Xuan the clover and told him that his Dao was not wrong, but that it contained only himself.
• Ling Chen returned to the spectators while Cang Xuan held the clover, felt its vitality, and smiled with newfound hope.

Ling Chen tracked the Core of Lethargy to a young Dao Guardian whose inaction had drained the vitality and purpose from Jinganli. The guardian pulled Ling Chen into a gray world where his Dao Flame of Life began to weaken, leaving him struggling against the temptation to give up.

• Ling Chen searched the city for the Core of Lethargy and found an unnaturally stagnant neighborhood in Jinganli.
• Ling Chen followed the power of stagnation to an apartment, where he found a young man asleep in a hibernation pod with the Core of Lethargy on his chest.
• The Dao Guardian awakened and invited Ling Chen to rest rather than fight.
• The guardian dragged Ling Chen into a gray world and weakened his Dao Flame of Life with thoughts of exhaustion and meaninglessness.
• A gray figure urged Ling Chen to surrender as he felt an overwhelming desire to let everything end.

Ling Chen broke free of the young man's [Lethargy] Dao by remembering his promise to reach his Master, Lin Yuan, and claimed the fifth heterodox law core. With all five cores restored, Ling Chen sensed a path toward the remaining two laws and the end he was rushing toward, where Lin Yuan sat at a chessboard in the Origin Ruins.

• Ling Chen remembered Lin Yuan's final words, rekindled his [Dao of Life] Dao Flame, and shattered the gray world of lethargy.
• The young man in the hibernation pod admitted defeat, and the [Core of Lethargy] left his body and floated to Ling Chen.
• The gray laws lifted from the Jinganli community, ending its Eternal Afternoon, and Ling Chen took the fifth heterodox law core.
• Ling Chen sensed that his five cores had formed a balance opening a path to the remaining two heterodox laws and resolved to reach Lin Yuan.
• In the Origin Ruins, Lin Yuan sat alone at the center of a boundless chessboard.

Lin Yuan reinforced the chessboard prison after Ling Chen extinguished five anomalous arts, but [End Dark] awakened [Rage] and [Lust] as its final two pillars. Ling Chen sensed [Rage] erupting across Earth, and global violence and hostility began to spiral out of control.

• Lin Yuan sensed that Ling Chen had extinguished the forces of greed, Envy, fear, arrogance, and Sloth, slowing [End Dark]'s erosion of the chessboard.
• Lin Yuan placed a powerful white piece on the chessboard, repairing its cracks and reinforcing the prison.
• [End Dark] activated [Rage] and [Lust], shaking the chessboard and dimming Lin Yuan's law body.
• Ling Chen felt the world's emotional currents shift as [Rage] erupted across Earth.
• People began fighting over trivial disputes, online discussions turned vicious, and nuclear missile silo alarms rang across the world.

Ling Chen confronted the incarnations of [Rage] and [Lust], which had appeared as a crimson fiend star and a pink demon moon and were driving the world toward Finality. He split his Humanity Dao Ring’s power into two Dharma Bodies to restrain them, but the planetary law battle strained him as he held the balance.

• [Rage] and [Lust] spread across the world, driving people into violence and uncontrolled indulgence.
• Ling Chen used Dao Resonance to locate the laws’ sources in the sky: a crimson fiend star in the west and a pink demon moon in the east.
• Ling Chen decided to confront both laws simultaneously and fused his five cores with the [Dao Flame] of the [Dao of Life].
• Ling Chen formed the [Jimie Dharma Body] from [fear] and [Sloth] to use stillness against [Rage].
• Ling Chen formed the [Domination Dharma Body] from [greed] and [arrogance] to impose order on [Lust], while his true body maintained the balance.
• The two Dharma Bodies restrained the laws’ influence across the planet, but Ling Chen bled under the strain of the ongoing contest.

Ling Chen turned the [Rage] and [Lust] laws from threats into possessions, beginning to refine the final two heterodox laws through his own Dao. His [Jimie Dharma Body] produced the [Core of Rage], while the fate of the [Lust] law remained unresolved.

• [Rage] battered the [Jimie Dharma Body] as [Lust] tempted the [Domination Dharma Body], pushing Ling Chen to the brink of defeat.
• Ling Chen recognized that both laws arose from wanting what they could not obtain and ordered the [Jimie Dharma Body] to open its gates and the [Domination Dharma Body] to ascend the throne.
• The [Jimie Dharma Body] trapped the [Rage] spear within its Dao, while the [Domination Dharma Body] crowned [Lust] as its possession and declared itself the law of desire.
• Ling Chen began refining the final two heterodox laws, with the crimson fiend star's rage burning inward under the [Jimie Dharma Body]'s control.
• The fiend star's light faded into a dark-red [Core of Rage], leaving the refinement of [Lust] still underway.

Ling Chen fused the seven anomalous-art cores into the Mortal Dao Heart and crossed into the Divine Realm to join Lin Yuan against the End Dark. Lin Yuan revealed that Ling Chen was the only one who could defeat it by placing a living piece on the chessboard.

• Ling Chen gathered the seven cores and fused them into the Mortal Dao Heart, transforming his body and completing his mission in the mortal world.
• Ling Chen crossed the boundary into the Divine Realm and reached Lin Yuan at the graveyard of laws.
• Ling Chen stood beside his exhausted Master and offered to become the dam against the End Dark.
• Lin Yuan explained that Ling Chen was not a dam but a sword, and that his Mortal Dao Heart could place the living piece needed to checkmate the End Dark.

Lin Yuan sacrificed himself to give Ling Chen the final white chess piece, and Ling Chen defeated [End Dark] by choosing a future in which people could still choose to live. Ling Chen became the universe’s new Dao, then returned to the rebuilt azure planet and left its future in the hands of its people.

• Lin Yuan turned his life and cultivation into a white chess piece and merged it into Ling Chen’s [Mortal Dao Heart].
• Ling Chen combined Lin Yuan’s will and authority over the [Order Chessboard] with his own Dao Heart and placed the final piece against [End Dark].
• Ling Chen’s choice to keep living despite suffering stripped [End Dark] of its negating will, and it receded into [Origin Darkness].
• The [Dao Chessboard] dispersed, and Ling Chen became the universe’s new Dao while Lin Yuan remained within its foundation as its order and laws.
• Ling Chen rejected creating a perfect paradise that would take away people’s choices and returned to the azure planet.
• Years later, Ling Chen watched a little girl stand after falling, then disappeared into the crowd.

After becoming the Dao of his universe, Lin Yuan discovered countless other worlds beyond its World Wall and chose to become its Pioneer. He crossed into the Sea of Chaos, where his Order domain protected him from the deadly turbulence.

• Lin Yuan sensed the World Wall and discovered that his universe was only one of countless World Leaves in the Myriad Worlds.
• He watched Ling Chen protect their world and decided to explore the worlds beyond it.
• Lin Yuan gathered the universe’s laws and origins to form a Dao Body, becoming an individual again.
• He tore open the World Wall and stepped into the rift toward the unknown void.
• In the Sea of Chaos, Lin Yuan’s Absolute Order domain smoothed the turbulence and fragments of Rules around him.

Lin Yuan entered the Chaos Sea, refined a Void Devourer into a Heavenly Crystal, and chose a world devoted entirely to the Sword Dao as his first destination. After arriving at the Burial Sword Plateau, he faced the world’s Heaven’s Condemnation Sword, which had formed to destroy the foreign intruder.

• Lin Yuan examined the Chaos Sea and called it a garbage dump, provoking a Void Devourer to attack him.
• Lin Yuan defined the Void Devourer’s Dao as born from disorder and ending in Order, transforming it into a pure Heavenly Crystal that he cast into the chaotic currents.
• Lin Yuan chose a blood-red World Leaf whose inhabitants pursued the Sword Dao and entered that world.
• Lin Yuan arrived at the Burial Sword Plateau, where the world’s Sword Intent washed over him without harming his Absolute Order Dao Body.
• Hundreds of millions of broken swords awakened and formed a Heaven’s Condemnation Sword that locked onto Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan dissolved Heaven’s Condemnation with a touch, prompting every broken sword on the Burial Sword Plateau to bow in homage. The Sword Ancestor, Yuan, came to meet him and asked what the Dao was, and Lin Yuan answered that the sword was a tool, not the Dao.

• The Sword Ancestor sensed Lin Yuan’s absolute Order and realized Heaven’s Condemnation had appeared against him.
• Lin Yuan tapped the Sword of Heaven’s Condemnation, straightening its Sword Intent until the enormous sword dissolved into points of light.
• The broken swords on the Burial Sword Plateau fell silent, buried their tips in the earth, and turned their hilts toward Lin Yuan in homage.
• The Sword Ancestor decided to meet Lin Yuan personally, fearing the Sword Realm’s inheritance would collapse without a battle.
• The Sword Ancestor bowed to Lin Yuan and asked what the Dao was.
• Lin Yuan told the Sword Ancestor that the sword was a tool, not the Dao, leaving him stunned and confused.

Lin Yuan reforged the Sword Realm’s Slaughter Sword Dao according to his Dao of Order, giving its cultivators a new path rooted in perfection and protection. After Sword Ancestor Yuan accepted him as a teacher, Lin Yuan departed, leaving the transformed realm to build its future.

• Lin Yuan demonstrated a perfectly structured sword, causing Sword Ancestor Yuan to recognize that the Sword Realm had pursued the wrong path and ask Lin Yuan to pass down the true Dao.
• Lin Yuan extracted the Sword Realm’s Slaughter Sword Dao and used visions of ordered matter, life, and the cosmos to reshape its laws.
• The new Dao weakened sword cultivators devoted to slaughter while granting breakthroughs to those who pursued protection and upheld the Dao.
• The red Slaughter Sword Dao fused with Lin Yuan’s Order Light, transformed the Sword Realm, and returned to its core as a new Law River.
• Sword Ancestor Yuan bowed to Lin Yuan as his teacher, and Lin Yuan gave him the perfect sword Origin Point as the foundation of the New Dao.
• Lin Yuan revealed his name, called himself a traveler, and vanished from the transformed Sword Realm.

Lin Yuan entered the information-driven City of Mech, where its system identified him as a logic singularity and the Reality Correction Units moved to delete him. As Lin Yuan prepared to rewrite the world's underlying code, the city began a Universe Reboot to erase him.

• Lin Yuan left the Sword Realm and searched the Chaos sea for another world, finding one built on information and logic.
• Lin Yuan entered the Chip World and was scanned by its system, which flagged his existence as an unprocessable threat.
• Lin Yuan appeared in the City of Mech, where three Reality Correction Units demanded his origin data.
• Lin Yuan asked whether the system recognized the Dao, then offered to rewrite its underlying code when it dismissed the concept as meaningless information.
• The system declared Lin Yuan a Logic Singularity and initiated a Universe Reboot to format the world's reality.