Arc 18The Primordial Shadow War

Li Mu claimed the Primordial Shadow, gained control over the Spark Alliance, and strengthened his powers and fleet while preparing for the conflict over the Abyss Giant Star. As he avoided Gaia’s proposed alliance, Zhou Kun attacked the New Hope Fleet and brought it close to annihilation before a surviving battleship shielded the remaining ships.

  • Li Mu escaped Xiang Yun’s trap, restored his demon god avatar, and planned to use his Xiang Family avatar as bait to capture Xiang Yun.
  • Li Mu investigated his cursed blood, found the Little Match Girl and the Mythic Soul Shadow, then drew the Shadow into his Seven-Aperture Mirror Heart and let his Secret Shadow Divine Core devour it.
  • Li Mu’s Secret Shadow Spark became a reality-based game system, and he entered the Secret Shadow Dimension to hunt cores, travel the Primordial Ancient Road, and complete missions against its inhabitants.
  • Li Mu discovered the prison’s history and the Primeval Phoenix prophecy, then trapped the Time Evil Dragon and Primeval Mist and gained control of the Primordial Shadow.
  • Li Mu took the Thousand-Handed Asura statue, allied with Gaia against the New Hope Fleet, and helped destroy or capture much of its attacking force before it retreated.
  • Li Mu merged the Primordial Spark with the Celestial Book, took control of the Spark Alliance, and pursued Primordial Spiritual Light by targeting the Abyss Giant Star and its gods.
  • Li Mu strengthened his Phoenix, cannon, and radar, but declined Gaia’s offer to join her against the New Hope Fleet and planted a Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit aboard Zhou Kun’s Light Titan.
  • Zhou Kun attacked the New Hope Fleet with Spark Creation Bombs, turning allied ships against one another and devastating its Mythical Level 9 ships before a surviving battleship raised a shield.
Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426Nightmare Ghost City and Making Enemies

Li Mu discovered that an abyssal jailer named Xiang Yun had used the Asylum to trap his demon god avatar and lure him into a curse. He rescued the avatar, learned how Xiang Yun had interfered, and left determined to protect his remaining avatars and eventually hunt Xiang Yun.

  • Li Mu prepared the Eternal Heaven Realm for his absence and traveled to Nightmare Ghost City, where he realized the plea from his demon god avatar was a trap.
  • Li Mu detected a second threat behind the trap, escaped Xiang Yun's remote soul curse with the Miracle Magic Hat, and pulled the imprisoned demon god avatar out of the hat.
  • Li Mu restored the demon god avatar with Time Miracle, transferred the methods used against it to the Asylum, and reclaimed the avatar's Golden Crow Secondary Soul.
  • Li Mu learned that Xiang Yun had used the Asylum's physical replica to interrupt the avatar's advancement and create replicas that exposed some of Li Mu's secrets.
  • Li Mu transferred his two endangered avatars to his side and planned to hide one while keeping the Xiang Family avatar as bait for a future attempt to capture Xiang Yun alive.

Ch. 427Dissociation and the Sound of Curses

Xiang Yun tortured his descendants while alternating between cruelty and remorse, and Li Mu suspected a replica had merged with him. Li Mu strengthened the Imaginary Medical Bay and Helena, whose research revealed that the curses in Li Mu’s blood originated from his true spirit; when Li Mu examined their fused fragments, he heard countless voices cursing him before the giant blood cell collapsed.

  • Xiang Yun tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of his descendants, then broke down in grief and begged their forgiveness before returning to normal.
  • Li Mu watched through a Mirror Spirit and reasoned that Xiang Yun’s violent and remorseful selves might be the original and a replica that had merged with him.
  • Li Mu evolved the Imaginary Medical Bay to Mythical Level 1, helped Helena reach Myth, and opened the Imaginary Microcosm for healer souls.
  • Helena discovered that the mysterious curses in Li Mu’s blood cells originated from his true spirit and that new blood cells carried new kinds of curses.
  • Li Mu and Helena made blood cells devour one another until a giant cell remained, and Li Mu entered its Imaginary Surgery Space to inspect the fused genetic fragments.
  • Li Mu heard an unknown language and countless curses directed at him, then the giant blood cell collapsed before he could hear more.

Ch. 428Nightmare Demon God

Li Mu discovered that he needed a Secret Shadow Spark to survive in the Secret Shadow Dimension and traced the Mythic Soul Shadow to a mysterious Little Match Girl in Nightmare Ghost City. After buying her matches, he picked her up and escaped with her as a deadly cold began freezing him.

  • Li Mu learned that the Secret Shadow Divine Core could become a Secret Shadow Spark only after absorbing power in the Secret Shadow Dimension, and that entering without one would expose him to its horrors.
  • Li Mu tested Fantasy Coordinates, then harvested resources from alternate universes, destroying nearly six thousand Blue Stars and fifteen universes before the main universe and Immortal King Chief Consul focused on him.
  • Li Mu used a Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle to trace the Mythic Soul Shadow and learned that Secret Shadow Divine Cores could strengthen a Secret Shadow Spark.
  • Li Mu found the invisible Little Match Girl in Nightmare Ghost City and recognized that the Mythic Soul Shadow was hidden among her matches.
  • Li Mu bought a box of matches from The Little Match Girl, picked her up, and vanished with her as her freezing aura began to affect him.

Ch. 429Hope Matchbox

Li Mu discovered that the Little Match Girl was a Nightmare Demon God whose Hope Matchbox had sealed the Mythic Soul Shadow, and he uncovered the cause of her recurring memory loss. He used the Despair Matches to free the Mythic Soul Shadow, transferred the resulting seal onto a Blood God Spawn, and bound the Shadow so his Secret Shadow Divine Core could devour it.

  • Li Mu appraised the Despair Matches and Hope Matchbox, learning that the matches could manifest hope as despair and that the matchbox held the Mythic Soul Shadow.
  • The Little Match Girl began crying, and Li Mu paid her for a box of matches and offered to buy all her matches and feed her.
  • Li Mu tested the Little Match Girl’s repeated amnesia and discovered that she forgot her memories whenever she experienced happiness.
  • Li Mu used the seven-colored Fantasy Fire Candle to learn how the fairy-tale girl and her real-world counterpart had fused into a Nightmare Demon God, causing her memory-loss cycle and strengthening the Mythic Soul Shadow’s seal.
  • Li Mu decided to free the Mythic Soul Shadow with the Despair Matches, then transferred its sealing fate to a Blood God Spawn and bound the Shadow with Abyss Shackles.
  • Li Mu drew the Mythic Soul Shadow into the Seven-Aperture Mirror Heart, where his Secret Shadow Divine Core began devouring its origin.

Ch. 430True Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit

After consuming the Mythic Soul Shadow, Li Mu discovered that his talents had evolved and strengthened the Spacetime Source Core to speed the birth of the Secret Shadow Spark. He transformed two Demon Gods into Soul-Stinging Thorns and two others into Secret Shadow Mirror Spirits, leaving the Dragon Demon God sealed for later.

  • Li Mu examined how the Mythic Soul Shadow enhanced Primordial Heart Sense, Nirvana Talent, and Hyperthymesia Mirror, learning that Secret Shadow Mirror Spirits could boost his attributes but were costly and could not grow after conversion.
  • Li Mu integrated spacetime origins from nine single universes into the Spacetime Source Core, raising it to LV20 and allowing him to accelerate his time roughly a hundredfold.
  • Li Mu chose to turn the Ice Bear Demon God and Black Goat Demon God into tangible Soul-Stinging Thorns, convert the Virtual Demon God for Helena and the Nightmare Demon God for himself, and keep the Dragon Demon God sealed as a possible blood source.
  • Li Mu used Soul-Stinging Thorns to drain the Ice Bear Demon God and Black Goat Demon God, creating a myth level-two ice-crystal thorn and a myth level-three thorn that forced its targets to conceive offspring.
  • Li Mu converted the Virtual Demon God and Nightmare Demon God into Secret Shadow Mirror Spirits, then attached the Nightmare Demon God and raised his soul and divine body attributes.

Ch. 431Secret Shadow System

Li Mu infiltrated the Demon God Alliance and discovered that its members sought the Primordial Spark’s shadow, a source of power that could strengthen and kill Demon Gods. As the Secret Shadow Spark was born and integrated his abilities into a personal system, it revealed a quest to seal the Primordial Evil Gods and claim control of the Primordial Shadow and Secret Shadow Dimension.

  • Li Mu disguised himself as the Nightmare Demon God, deceived the Lie Demon God, and entered the Demon God Rift to investigate the alliance.
  • The Money Demon God gave Li Mu a coin containing a crystal of deathly HuoZhong Source Power, and Li Mu traced it to intelligent Mist Beasts descended from the Primordial Spark’s shadow.
  • Li Mu used Primordial Heart Sense to learn the God Prison Gate prisoner’s strength and weakness, while the Spark Alliance attacked the Demon God Rift and captured a Demon God.
  • The Secret Shadow Spark was born and integrated Li Mu’s talents, professions, and treasures into a reality-based game system.
  • Li Mu’s new system revealed the Primordial Shadow origin quest, which tasked him with sealing all Primordial Evil Gods in exchange for control of the Primordial Shadow and Secret Shadow Dimension.

Ch. 432Demon God Altar

Li Mu explored the Secret Shadow System, used its quests to gain Spark Currency, and learned how its projections could benefit him through Blood God Spawns. After Gaia sent the Demon Gods into the Secret Shadow Dimension, Li Mu arrived alone and chose to approach two Primordial Evil Gods, taking a Mist Beast cub possessed by a Mythic remnant soul as his guide.

  • Li Mu studied how the Secret Shadow System's mission and reward systems consumed energy, then activated a quest to trade unfamiliar currencies with the Money Demon God for Spark Currency.
  • Li Mu sensed that the Bag of Greed was connected to a costly second quest and continued investigating relics, quests, and Secret Shadow System projections for his Blood God Spawns.
  • Gaia used the newly built Demon God Altar to send the Demon Gods into the Secret Shadow Dimension, where Li Mu arrived alone.
  • Li Mu found the dimension's map and quest generation altered, then followed its markers toward two gathered Primordial Evil Gods rather than a lone one.
  • Li Mu saved a Mist Beast cub from a mutated beast and recognized a Mythic Mist Divine Race remnant soul within it, deciding to make it his guide.

Ch. 433Secret Shadow Divine Core for Free

Li Mu learned the Secret Shadow Dimension’s history and discovered that three mythological rank-nine Primordial Evil Gods had devastated its inhabitants and sealed the way out. After raising the Secret Shadow Spark’s evolution progress to 69% by collecting Secret Shadow Divine Cores, he reached the shattered Primordial Ancient Road, preparing to enter the inner layer for more.

  • Li Mu used the Black Goat Soul-Stinging Thorn to give the Mist Divine Race a restored body, then forced it to open its true spirit and surrender its memories.
  • Li Mu learned that the Primordial Evil Gods had nearly destroyed the Mist Divine Race, the Secret Shadow Divine Race, and the Demon Gods, and decided not to confront them.
  • Li Mu generated a mission for Secret Shadow Divine Cores and collected cores and fragments across the outer layer, raising the Secret Shadow Spark’s evolution progress to 69%.
  • After learning that the dimensional wormhole was blocked and the Primordial Ancient Road was the remaining route inward, Li Mu chose to take the road despite its dangers.
  • Li Mu reached the outer layer’s edge and saw the shattered Primordial Ancient Road, with a stretch of void between him and its first fragment.

Ch. 434Ancient Spark World

Li Mu crossed the shattered Primordial Ancient Road into the inner layer of the Secret Shadow Dimension and discovered a vast, corrupted world resembling the Spark World. He completed his first Secret Shadow System mission by defeating and capturing a Primordial Evil God’s follower, Demon Vine, then left the battlefield.

  • Li Mu sent Blood God Spawns to lure away primordial ancient demons, crossed the void, and learned through Primordial Heart Sense that the Primordial Ancient Road connected the districts of the Abyss God Prison and could lead outside it.
  • Li Mu followed the Primordial Ancient Road to a star resembling the Spark World and discovered that its inner world was thousands of light-years across, ancient, and filled with living terrain corrupted by negative death aura.
  • The Secret Shadow System assigned Li Mu a mission to retrieve a Secret Shadow Divine Core from Demon Vine, a Mythical Level Four monster whose threat rating was Mythical Level Six.
  • Li Mu attacked Demon Vine with the Golden Crow Blazing Sun Cannon, the Mechanical Source Force Cannon, and the Divine Fire Spell, then restrained it with the Phoenix’s War Shackles.
  • Li Mu defeated and imprisoned Demon Vine, received confirmation that the mission was complete, and left the battlefield aboard the Earth God Shuttle.

Ch. 435Human Book Prototype

Li Mu completed missions in the Secret Shadow Dimension, devouring members of the Secret Shadow Divine Race and evolving the Secret Shadow System into the Human Book System, which let him ignore Abyss Will’s compulsory missions. He sacrificed the dying Raven Demon God and gave its life origin to the Nightmare Demon God, leaving it poised to gain greater strength and the Jinx Talent.

  • Li Mu imprisoned and sacrificed Demon Vine, gaining Abyss Origin Points and raising the Secret Shadow Spark’s evolution progress to 75%.
  • Li Mu trapped and devoured a Level Six member of the Secret Shadow Divine Race, then hunted more targets through successive missions.
  • After completing more than a hundred missions, Li Mu evolved the Secret Shadow System, which fused with the Abyssal Demon Page and gained the Human Book System trait.
  • Li Mu used the Human Book System to complete further missions, devouring Secret Shadow Divine Race members and gaining Abyss Origin Points.
  • Li Mu found the dying Raven Demon God, sacrificed it through the Human Book System, and gained Primordial Spiritual Light and its life origin.
  • Li Mu fed the Raven Demon God’s life origin to the Nightmare Demon God so it could increase its potential and gain the Jinx Talent.

Ch. 436The Warden's Pet

Li Mu used the Nightmare Demon God to break the Abyss Prison Wolf’s mind, captured him, and entered his memories to learn about the Abyss God Prison’s collapse. He discovered that the missing warden was still alive and that the prison’s end was prophesied to follow the awakening of the Primeval Phoenix.

  • Li Mu infiltrated the core region and watched the three Primordial Evil Gods besiege a Mythical Level Nine Spark City defended by the Demon Gods.
  • The Nightmare Demon God entered the God Prison Gate and used Nightmare Spirit Realm and Jinx Tongue to shatter the Abyss Prison Wolf’s mind.
  • Li Mu chained the weakened Abyss Prison Wolf and brought him into the Underworld, where he invaded the wolf’s memories.
  • The Abyss Prison Wolf’s memories revealed that the warden’s disappearance sparked prison-wide rebellions and freed the Primordial Evil Gods from the City of Original Sin.
  • Li Mu learned that a prophecy tied the Primeval Phoenix’s awakening to the Abyss God Prison’s end, and that the Abyss Prison Wolf believed the warden remained alive.

Ch. 437Thousand-Hand Asura and Time Evil Dragon

Li Mu studied the Primordial Evil Gods’ powers as Thousand-Hand Asura and the Time Evil Dragon unleashed devastating attacks on the Demon God Alliance. The Alliance survived with Gaia’s Spark World projections, but as its members built a vast demon god altar, Li Mu realized Gaia might intervene across dimensions.

  • Li Mu recalled that the Primordial Evil Gods could regenerate, escape ordinary seals, and awaken the Primordial Divine Body, which weakened damage below Origin.
  • Thousand-Hand Asura withdrew from the battle, grew to more than five light-years tall, and devastated Spark City with repeated attacks, but the Demon God Alliance survived behind a projection of the Spark World.
  • The Money Demon God used another Spark World projection to capture Thousand-Hand Asura, while the Time Evil Dragon’s accelerated assault escaped its own attempted seal.
  • Primeval Mist restored the weakened Time Evil Dragon with Primordial Spiritual Light, enabling it to attack repeatedly and kill more than a hundred demon gods.
  • The Demon God Alliance assembled a massive demon god altar from the bodies and souls of its fallen members, and Li Mu suspected Gaia was preparing to intervene across dimensions.

Ch. 438Invincible Gaia and the Fisherman

Gaia descended into the Secret Shadow Dimension, defeated the Time Evil Dragon and Primeval Mist, and sealed them together with Li Mu inside Thousand-Hand Asura's statue. Trapped in the darkness, Li Mu captured both weakened primordial evil gods and absorbed the collapsing Secret Shadow Dimension into his Netherworld, leaving him with new power over the Primordial Shadow.

  • Gaia descended through the Demon God Altar and used the earth to trap the Time Evil Dragon and Li Mu.
  • The Time Evil Dragon and Primeval Mist used three Primordial Prayer Beads, but Gaia transformed Thousand-Hand Asura's power and sealed both primordial evil gods and Li Mu inside its statue.
  • Li Mu lit the Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle, located the trapped Time Evil Dragon, and sent it into the Netherworld.
  • Li Mu captured the Primeval Mist, causing the Netherworld to transform as the Secret Shadow Dimension collapsed into it.
  • Li Mu gained control of the Primordial Shadow, which empowered his Netherworld and began evolving his Secret Shadow Spark and talents.

Ch. 439The Fisherman's Surprise Haul

Li Mu captured the Primordial Prayer Bead, trapped the fleeing Secret Shadow Divine Race and Mist Divine Race in the underworld, and claimed the Thousand-Handed Asura Statue as his Spark Artifact. After discovering the Spark Alliance and Despair Fleet attacking the Spark World while Gaia resisted, Li Mu saw a chance to profit again but felt uneasy.

  • Li Mu found the Primordial Prayer Bead on Primeval Mist and learned it had been formed from the Primeval Phoenix's spiritual consciousness.
  • Li Mu used the Primordial Star Map and Mirror Void to take the Thousand-Handed Asura Statue, drawing the Secret Shadow Divine Race and Mist Divine Race onto its palm and trapping them in the God Prison Gate.
  • Li Mu brought the statue to the Netherworld, used the Time Evil Dragon's shadow to erase Gaia's spiritual imprint, and bound the statue to himself as a Spark Artifact.
  • Li Mu descended his divine soul into the statue, tested its destructive power, and learned that destroying it could let Thousand-Handed Asura revive through its true source name.
  • Li Mu sent special Blood God Spawns to scout the Spark World and discovered the Spark Alliance and Despair Fleet attacking it with more than a thousand Spark Starships while Gaia fought back.

Ch. 440New Hope Fleet

Li Mu learned that the Despair Fleet had persuaded the Hope Fleet to rejoin it by promising to destroy the Spark World, but he suspected its real goal was to find the Abyss Giant Star. After moving Flower Fairy and the Phoenix to safety, he demanded Secret Shadow Divine Cores from the Mist Divine Race and Secret Shadow Divine Race, then traveled to another cosmic sea to seek more.

  • Li Mu summoned the grievously injured Flower Fairy, healed her, and learned from her memories that the Despair Fleet had offered the Hope Fleet a way to destroy the Spark World in exchange for eliminating the Phoenix's captain.
  • Li Mu suspected the Despair Fleet planned to use the destruction of the Spark World to expose the passage to the Abyss Giant Star, and he moved Flower Fairy to the Imaginary Medical Bay and the Phoenix to the underworld.
  • Li Mu confronted the seven myths of the Mist Divine Race and Secret Shadow Divine Race in his underworld and made them hand over their Secret Shadow Divine Cores.
  • Li Mu found that most of the cores were fragments and that the intact cores were insufficient for his needs, so he tried using Nirvana Divine Flame to restore a fragment.
  • Li Mu descended with the Primordial Star Map into another cosmic sea.

Ch. 441Four Great Origin Traits

Li Mu harvested nearly a hundred individual universes, strengthened the Spacetime Source Core, and transformed several talents while confronting the spiritual cost of destroying civilizations. After uncovering a possible clue to his origins, he contacted Gaia to discuss joining forces against the New Hope Fleet.

  • Li Mu absorbed nine individual universes into the Spark Universe, then harvested more cosmic origins to raise the Spacetime Source Core from LV20 to LV100 and revive Secret Shadow Divine Cores.
  • Li Mu paused his universe harvesting because negative spirituality from dead civilizations was changing his temperament, and he planned to cleanse and transform his true spirit.
  • Li Mu's Primordial Heart Sense evolved and gained Primordial Mind Thought, which could repair and transform his true spirit and affect beings in lower dimensions.
  • Li Mu's Nirvana and Disguise talents evolved; Primordial Disguise revealed that he had hatched from a nine-colored egg marked with Primeval Phoenix patterns, but he stopped before reaching a potentially dangerous state.
  • Li Mu's Hyperthymesia Mirror evolved and formed a mind-prison labyrinth around his true spirit, after which he contacted Gaia to negotiate an alliance against the New Hope Fleet on the condition that Gaia suffer heavy losses.

Ch. 442Overthrowing the Spark Alliance

Li Mu bargained with Gaia for knowledge and control of the Primordial Spark, then used the Heavenly Book to seize the main universe and turn the Spark Alliance against the Immortal King Grand Consul. He overwhelmed the Immortal King and began forcibly binding the Spark Captains to his Red Lotus Bloodline.

  • Li Mu negotiated with Gaia, trading the promise of aid for knowledge and a Primordial Spark projection, then received Gaia's memories through the Void Dreamland.
  • Li Mu learned that Gaia had possessed successive Spark Worlds, that the Phoenix repeatedly reincarnated, and that the Primordial Evil Gods were avatars searching for the Primordial Shadow and the three sacred books.
  • Gaia granted Li Mu partial control of the Primordial Spark, allowing Li Mu to reach Mythic Level Nine and use the Heavenly Book to suppress the main universe's cosmic will.
  • The Immortal King Grand Archon withdrew the Spark Alliance fleet from its assault on Gaia, allowing Gaia to counterattack, while Li Mu seized control of the main universe and stripped the Immortal King of its favor.
  • Li Mu teleported the Spark Alliance Seedships to the Sea of Cosmic Origin, survived their cannon fire, and attacked the Immortal King, transforming him into a pig and sealing the Seedships in the Mirror Void.
  • Li Mu used the Blood God Curse and Fusion Spell to fuse his Red Lotus Bloodline into every Spark Captain.

Ch. 443New Hope Fleet's Rout

Li Mu captured the myths of the New Hope Fleet, then joined Gaia in a counterattack that broke the fleet’s defenses and drove it into an artificial Abyssal Rift. After Gaia claimed the rift and withdrew to repair the Spark World, Li Mu chose to use a projection of the Primordial Spark to transform the Heavenly Book Spell into a pseudo Origin Sacred Relic.

  • Li Mu ordered the captured myths sent to Azkaban in Golden Crow City and released the Immortal King from its pig form.
  • Li Mu used the Thousand-Handed Asura statue and the Immortal King to attack the New Hope Fleet while Gaia struck from within the Spark World.
  • Li Mu and Gaia broke the New Hope Fleet’s super energy shield, captured dozens of Spark starships, and destroyed over a hundred more.
  • The Void Thunder Beast ordered the fleet to retreat through an artificial Abyssal Rift, which Gaia turned into a pseudo nine-colored Spark.
  • Gaia withdrew to repair the Spark World, while Li Mu received a Primordial Spark projection and decided to use it to enhance the Heavenly Book Spell.

Ch. 444A First Glimpse of the Primeval Phoenix

Li Mu transformed the Celestial Book into a pseudo Spark Origin Sacred Relic, used it to seize control of the main universe and Spark Alliance, and began planning an expansion across the Cosmic Sea. After using Primordial Heart Sense to investigate Fantasy Coordinates, he discovered their connection to Primordial Spiritual Light and resolved to seek faith deities on the Abyss Giant Star.

  • Li Mu merged the Primordial Spark with the Celestial Book, gaining control over the Eternal Heaven Realm’s Source Stars and the suppressed universe will.
  • Li Mu created three thousand divine imprints, appointed their holders as Celestial Book deities, and used them to take control of the Spark Alliance.
  • Li Mu placed Seedships under military management and ordered the Spark Alliance to expand into individual universes.
  • Li Mu used a Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle and a Primordial Prayer Bead to perceive the Anchor of Fantasy and saw a damaged Seedship shaped like a Primeval Phoenix.
  • Li Mu learned that Fantasy Coordinates depended on Primordial Spiritual Light from his former Blue Star and that multiverse-scale stories required vastly more of it.
  • Li Mu decided to obtain Primordial Spiritual Light by sacrificing faith deities and set his sights on the Abyss Giant Star.

Ch. 445Storming the Abyss Giant Star

Li Mu infiltrated the Abyss Giant Star, seized the God of Forging’s divine kingdom, and used it to capture subordinate gods. After the Lord of Twilight fell into his trap, Li Mu realized the Five True Gods had likely been alerted and prepared to face them.

  • Li Mu reopened the Abyss Gate, contacted his two Golden Crow avatars, and learned that the Five True Gods had tightened their control over the Western Continent.
  • Li Mu sensed a threat from the Abyss Eye and Abyss Heart, then used disguised Blood God Spawns to learn that the Dwarf King was nearing death.
  • Li Mu merged with the Dwarf King’s soul, entered the God of Forging’s divine kingdom, seized control of it, and imprisoned the God of Forging.
  • Li Mu used forged divine artifacts to lure subordinate gods into the God of Forging’s kingdom, where he captured or coerced them into serving as bait.
  • The Lord of Twilight visited to buy a divine artifact, but Li Mu ambushed and imprisoned him before realizing the Five True Gods had likely received a warning.

Ch. 446Abyss Mothership

Li Mu uncovered the Lord of Twilight’s memories about the Abyss Giant Star’s origins and resolved to capture the Lord of the Sun to learn more about the Lord of the Abyss. After escaping the World Will’s detection, he received a Secret Shadow System mission revealing the Abyss Mothership’s history and the entity that stole part of its authority.

  • The God of Forging’s divine kingdom was corrupted by the red moon, and he destroyed it in a final counterattack that injured the Five True Gods and erased the evidence of his attack on the Lord of Twilight.
  • Li Mu entered the Lord of Twilight’s dreams and learned that the Abyss Giant Star had formed from the damaged Abyss Mothership, whose crew rebelled against the sleeping Lord of the Abyss.
  • Li Mu concluded that the Lord of the Sun, who possessed the Lord of the Abyss’s brain, was his best lead, and planned to trap him in the Eternal Heaven Realm.
  • The World Will overwhelmed Li Mu’s attempt to use the Heavenly Book across the Abyss Giant Star, so he destroyed his avatars and fled through the Fantasy Gate.
  • The Secret Shadow System generated an Origin Mission revealing that the Lord of the Abyss had been the Abyss Will’s reincarnated avatar and that a mysterious entity had stolen part of the Abyss Mothership’s authority.

Ch. 447Mythic Super Main Cannon

Li Mu upgraded the Phoenix’s Golden Crow Blazing Sun Cannon to Mythic Level 1, tested its destructive, healing, and evasive abilities, and installed the Great Void Immortal King Tower as a third Super Main Cannon. While the new cannon was enhanced, Li Mu advanced to Mythical Level 2 and began developing his talents.

  • Li Mu sacrificed sixteen gods with the Secret Shadow Spark and gained 51,600 Abyss Origin Points and enough Primordial Spiritual Light to create 1,391 Fantasy Coordinates.
  • Li Mu used the resulting Life Seeds to prepare for upgrading the Phoenix, then accelerated time and enhanced the Golden Crow Blazing Sun Cannon to Mythic Level 1.
  • Li Mu tested the cannon’s Three-Legged Golden Crows, which attacked distant celestial bodies, transformed into stars that spread Sun God Light, and enveloped the Phoenix for Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation.
  • Li Mu dismantled the Great Void Immortal King Tower with Primordial Return and integrated it into the Phoenix’s crest feathers as a third Super Main Cannon.
  • Li Mu used Primordial Spiritual Light to temper his true spirit, reached Mythical Level 2, and began improving his control and development of his talents while the Great Void Immortal King Tower was enhanced.

Ch. 448Great Void Immortal King Tower

Li Mu tested the Great Void Immortal King Tower with ten Vortex Tide Elemental Spirits, then upgraded the Phoenix’s Deep Space Radar into the Deep Space Demon Eye and began replicating Seed Star Destroyers. He put further upgrades on hold after Gaia offered him the Spark Instances and Nightmare Dimension in exchange for helping destroy the New Hope Fleet, leaving him to weigh the dangerous bargain.

  • Li Mu imprisoned ten Mythical Level 1 Vortex Tide Elemental Spirits in the Great Void Immortal King Tower and tested its attacks, discovering that Immortal King Finger could inflict Mythical Level 3 damage across billions of light-years.
  • Li Mu concluded that the tower might be an incomplete Origin Sacred Artifact and considered the Chaos Primordial Spirit the best future gunner for it.
  • Li Mu decided to keep the Mechanical Source Force Cannon for now, enhanced the Deep Space Radar, and destroyed two hundred single universes to gather energy for replicating LV100 Seed Star Destroyers.
  • The Deep Space Radar evolved into the Deep Space Demon Eye, whose traits let it split detection avatars, collect items, mark targets, and conceal its probing from weaker souls.
  • Li Mu paused the Spark Limiter enhancement after Gaia offered him the Spark Instances and Nightmare Dimension in exchange for joining forces against the New Hope Fleet.
  • Li Mu hesitated because the New Hope Fleet could field over a hundred Mythic Rank 9 Spark Starships, making an attack on its home turf extremely dangerous.

Ch. 449Gaia's Celestial Soldier Missiles

Li Mu rejected Gaia’s offer to use the Phoenix and a Celestial Soldier Missile Launcher against the New Hope Fleet, wary of being caught between both sides’ hidden weapons. After the Six Gods Families’ Light Titan appeared near Spark World, Li Mu attacked it and secretly planted a Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit before Gaia rescued it.

  • Li Mu inspected Gaia’s twenty Spark Creation Bombs and learned that they could turn lower-level Spark warships into Gaia-controlled lifeforms.
  • Gaia offered Li Mu an external Celestial Soldier Missile Launcher and direct power from the Primordial Spark, but Li Mu refused the deal and left.
  • Li Mu decided to avoid the conflict between Gaia and the New Hope Fleet while he continued to grow.
  • Li Mu detected the Zhou Family’s Light Titan circling near Spark World and deployed the Phoenix to attack it.
  • Gaia pulled the damaged Light Titan back into Spark World, but Li Mu had planted a Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit aboard it to investigate the Six Gods Families and possibly locate the New Hope Fleet.

Ch. 450Light Titan: 1 vs. 5,000

Gaia sent Zhou Kun in the Light Titan to destroy the New Hope Fleet, while revealing his suspicions that the Brain Demon God had secretly regained its self-awareness. Zhou Kun devastated the fleet with missiles and Spark Creation Bombs, but as the New Hope Fleet neared annihilation, one battleship shielded the survivors.

  • Gaia gave Zhou Kun twenty-one Sparks, upgraded the Light Titan, and trained him in a mental dreamscape to operate its Celestial Soldier Missile Launchers.
  • Gaia sent the Light Titan through an Abyss Wormhole and assigned the Brain Demon God to follow, while suspecting it might be secretly manipulating humanity’s rise.
  • Zhou Kun arrived in the Hope Secret Realm and destroyed its mythical Spark City with a barrage of missiles, prompting the New Hope Fleet to return.
  • Zhou Kun used Spark Creation Bombs to disrupt the returning fleet, causing allied Spark battleships to turn on one another and cutting its numbers from more than 5,600 to 2,600.
  • As the New Hope Fleet tried to retreat through an Abyss Wormhole, Zhou Kun fired fourteen Origin-level Spark Creation Bombs that devastated its Mythical Level 9 ships.
  • A New Hope Fleet battleship deployed an energy shield that covered the surviving ships just as the fleet was about to be annihilated.
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