Recaps

Gaia trapped the New Hope Fleet in the Hope Secret Realm, but the Brain Demon God recovered himself, seized the fleet’s low-tier Seedships, and helped it break free. Gaia then transferred the realm to the Primordial Ancient Road, where Primeval Ancient Demons surrounded it, while Li Mu chose to stay hidden and wait for a chance to act.

• The New Hope Fleet’s nine-colored energy shield blocked the Celestial Soldier Destruction Missiles, and the fleet retreated as the blast destroyed most Abyss Wormholes.
• Gaia diverted a tributary of the Abyss Mother River into the Hope Secret Realm, while the Brain Demon God accelerated the flood and blocked the fleet’s remaining escape routes.
• The Brain Demon God took control of the low-tier Seedships’ Shipborne Optical Computers and formed a fleet with the New Hope Fleet to break through the waterfall.
• Gaia tried to erase the Brain Demon God’s recovered self, but the Brain Demon God destroyed most of his true spirit and the true spirit mark, opening a breach in the blockade.
• Gaia fused five Primordial Spark projections into the Hope Secret Realm, shrank it, and transferred it to the Primordial Ancient Road; Primeval Ancient Demons surrounded the realm, then carried it into the void after a whisper called them away.
• Li Mu lost contact with his scattered Secret Shadow Mirror Spirits, saw the fleet flee back into the Hope Secret Realm, and decided to remain hidden rather than escape through the Primordial Star Map.

Li Mu rescued Zhou Kun by bringing him under his control and hiding him in the Mirror Void, then investigated the Primordial Ancient Demons surrounding the Hope Secret Realm. He realized the realm was being carried toward a true Primordial Ancient Demon and decided not to risk staying without a dependable escape route.

• Li Mu offered Zhou Kun a chance to live in exchange for loyalty, and Zhou Kun accepted as Li Mu bound him through the ship computer, Red Lotus Bloodline, divine mark, and a Mirror Spirit.
• Zhou Kun hid his Light Titan in a Mirror Realm, which Li Mu drew into the Mirror Void, and learned that Primordial Ancient Demons threatened the Hope Secret Realm.
• Li Mu sent disguised Demon Eye clones out through a crack to infiltrate the Primordial Ancient Demons while the New Hope Fleet repaired the realm's planar crystal wall.
• The Hope Secret Realm's matter began coming alive under an unknown force, and Li Mu used his Primordial Heart Sense and Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle to identify the force as Primordial Ancient Thought.
• Li Mu concluded that the creatures surrounding the realm were Primordial Demon Spirits and that Gaia was sending the Hope Secret Realm toward a genuine Primordial Ancient Demon.
• Li Mu judged that the Primordial Star Map might not provide an escape if the true Primordial Ancient Demon could block it, so he decided not to take the risk.

Li Mu traded safe passage for the Anchor of Fantasy’s chain and the damaged Primordial Divine Light Cannon, then restored and integrated the Anchor of Fantasy into the Phoenix. Using its enhanced link to the Hope Mystic Realm, he discovered that the realm had been transformed into a juvenile Primordial Ancient Demon and saw a gigantic sleeping Giant in the void.

• Li Mu warned the Spark Captains about Primordial Ancient Demons and offered to help them escape in exchange for three treasures.
• The Spark Captains agreed to give Li Mu the anchor chain and Primordial Divine Light Cannon, and he teleported most of them to safety before collecting the remaining cannon from the Griffin.
• Li Mu dismantled the failing Primordial Divine Light Cannon for the Phoenix and waited two days for the Anchor of Fantasy to evolve.
• The Anchor of Fantasy reached Mythical Level One, and Li Mu found that its Fantasy Link secretly drew power from the Primordial Spark into the Phoenix and its Grand Void Immortal King Tower.
• Li Mu used the Anchor of Fantasy to reconnect with the Hope Mystic Realm and discovered that it had become a gigantic juvenile Primordial Ancient Demon, nourished by Primordial Demon Spirits.
• Li Mu sensed countless Primordial Demon Spirits merging into the Hope Mystic Realm and saw a colossal sleeping humanoid Giant in the void.

Li Mu escaped a primordial ancient demon and learned that the Deep Nightmare Dimension could nurture his weakened Primordial Shadow. As the Spark Alliance expanded and Phoenix gained Mythical modules, Li Mu spent two and a half years combining Mythical traits into its hull armor, completing the new armor at the chapter’s end.

• Li Mu fled the Hope Secret Realm after sensing a primordial ancient demon, while the giant sheltered the realm inside his damaged heart and absorbed nearby primordial demon spirits.
• Li Mu stole universe origins from ownerless cosmic seas, while the Spark Alliance grew and the Phoenix strengthened its modules to Mythical rank.
• Li Mu learned that the Deep Nightmare Dimension consisted of accumulated dark sides of past Spark Worlds and could nourish the Primordial Shadow.
• Li Mu tested the War Shackles’ War Network and found that it could disrupt a Spark Starship’s Shipborne Optical Computer.
• Li Mu spent two and a half years extracting four Mythical traits from hull armor and integrating them into a fifth armor module for Phoenix.

Li Mu reforged the Phoenix’s hull armor and energy shield into Mythical modules, then learned that the ship needed synchronized evolution to progress beyond Mythical Level 9. He discovered that only a final, powerful Super Main Cannon remained before the Phoenix could begin that path, and decided to forge it himself.

• Li Mu examined the Source Matter Armor and praised its regeneration, damage absorption, and defensive traits.
• After a year and a half of Fantasy Forging, Li Mu completed the Void Star God energy shield and was satisfied with its life-saving and defensive abilities.
• Li Mu finished dismantling the Primordial Divine Light Cannon, retrieved nine cracked Primeval Phoenix Tail Feathers, and confirmed their origin with a Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle.
• Using Primordial Heart Sense, Li Mu discovered that the Phoenix’s previous evolution had followed a flawed path and that its modules needed to evolve together as a unified whole.
• Li Mu realized the Phoenix’s Mechanical Source Force Cannon was too weak to complete its synchronized evolution, so he chose to forge a new Super Main Cannon himself.

After perfecting Phoenix’s modules and learning how to awaken its fifth professional skill, Li Mu prepared to target the Abyss Fleet when the New Hope Fleet disappeared into the Abyss. With Rei Ayanami newly advanced to Mythical, he ambushed the Abyss starship Aurora near Abyss City and tried to break through its shield before reinforcements arrived.

• Li Mu completed the Mythical Nether Missile Launcher, bringing Phoenix’s core modules to perfection and raising its damage and defense to Mythical Tier 5 and Tier 6.
• Li Mu concluded that Phoenix needed to consume Shipboard Sparks from sunken Seedships to awaken its hidden fifth professional skill and enable synchronized evolution across its modules.
• Li Mu learned that the New Hope Fleet had returned to the Abyss, then chose the Abyss Fleet in the Eternal Heaven Realm as his target.
• Li Mu visited Rei Ayanami, who had become a radar operator, and she later advanced to Mythical after weeks of preparation.
• Li Mu used the Primordial Star Map to reach Abyss City and waited until the Aurora, a Mythical Level 5 Abyss starship, departed.
• Li Mu ambushed the Aurora with Phoenix, bound its shield with Great Void Immortal Lightning, and began attacking it while Rei Ayanami tried to disrupt spatial jumps before reinforcements arrived.

Li Mu defeated a Myth Level Nine Despair Fleet starship, captured its captain, and sought materials to specialize his Mirror Image Spell. Flower Fairy then fought a Mirror Demon and returned gravely wounded with the Source Star Magic Mirror's shell, leaving Li Mu rushing to save her.

• Li Mu and Rei Ayanami overwhelmed the Aurora's defenses, and Li Mu captured Wagner before sending the sinking ship's Spark to the Twin Spark.
• Li Mu failed to obtain Wagner's memories and sacrificed Mythical captains to gather enough Abyss Origin Points to obtain a Mythical Level Nine Truth-Listening divine beast's natal essence blood.
• Li Mu asked Flower Fairy to become a Star Lord, but she refused and warned him to hide his Seedship in the Eternal Heaven Realm.
• Li Mu and Flower Fairy prepared to fight a Mirror Demon summoned by a Mythical Level Nine Source Star Magic Mirror, and Flower Fairy entered the Mirror Dimension alone.
• Flower Fairy returned unconscious and critically injured, clutching the Source Star Magic Mirror's shell, and Li Mu took her to the Imaginary Medical Bay for treatment.

Li Mu forged the Mythical Level Nine Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror, uncovered the Abyss Fleet’s secrets from Wagner, and used the Secret Shadow System to begin an Origin Mission targeting Abyss City. After two months of buying Hope Fire Seeds through disguised Spark Clones, he left Abyss City’s supply efforts nearly fruitless.

• Li Mu sacrificed the remaining Captains, gave Helena a Nine-Rebirth Lotus seed and Primordial Spiritual Light, and waited until Flower Fairy’s injuries stabilized before leaving a Spark Clone to watch over her.
• Li Mu forged the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror from the Source Star Magic Mirror, the Void Star Pearl, and a Truth-Listener’s lifeblood essence, then transformed it into a Spark Artifact and Spark Skill.
• Li Mu used the mirror to reveal Wagner’s true-spirit memories, learning that the Abyss Fleet was exploring a deadly forbidden zone through an Eternal Heaven Beacon and had gathered Hope Fire Seeds for the expedition.
• Li Mu decided a surprise attack on Abyss City might be necessary, then used the Secret Shadow System to generate an Origin Mission involving cutting off supplies, infiltrating the city, entering the forbidden zone, and escaping the Abyss Fleet.
• Li Mu sent nine disguised Spark Clones to buy Hope Fire Seeds at exorbitant prices across the Eternal Heaven Realm, leaving Abyss City with only a pitiful supply after two months.

Li Mu infiltrated Abyss City by using a Mirror Demon copy of Captain Duke to force Duke’s Castle to return for reassignment. He waited in a villa as Abyss City was suddenly teleported to the mysterious forbidden land, where the overloaded Eternal Heaven Beacon shattered.

• Li Mu entered the Abyss Well, collected Eternal Heaven Pearls, and hid among them to be brought aboard Duke’s Castle.
• Li Mu used the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror to create Mirror Demon Duke, who fought Duke and forced him to request reassignment from the Abyss Well.
• Li Mu secretly traveled aboard the Castle into Abyss City and left it through a mirror in a villa.
• Li Mu waited in the villa after completing Mission Two and prepared to follow Abyss City to the mysterious forbidden land.
• Taboo existences reached the Eternal Heaven Beacon, which teleported Abyss City to the forbidden land and shattered from the strain, jolting Li Mu awake.

Li Mu infiltrated Abyss City's energy core, obtained a dead branch of the Primeval Phoenix Nest, and discovered how the city burned it to produce mist that blocked detection. While two Primordial Evil God projections battered the city, he used repeatedly revived Mirror Demon Duke to capture and destroy Abyss Starships, then prepared to retreat when the attackers withdrew and the Abyss Fleet returned.

• Li Mu entered the metal boiler beneath Abyss City and absorbed its liquid abyss source power with the Tiger Soul Fierce Weapon.
• Li Mu seized a burning dead branch of the Primeval Phoenix Nest, raising his Nirvana talent to Mythical Level Two and learning the branch produced the city's detection-blocking mist.
• Li Mu sent Mirror Demon Duke to attack Abyss Captains at the city walls, using repeated suicidal assaults to strip their defenses and capture their Abyss Starships with the Miracle Magic Hat.
• Li Mu shifted Mirror Demon Duke between defensive points and destroyed fifteen Abyss Starships in less than half an hour, weakening the city's defenses.
• Li Mu's Shipboard Spark reached sixty percent evolution value before the siege monsters withdrew and the main Abyss Fleet returned, prompting him to prepare to retreat.

Li Mu infiltrated Abyss City and used Mirror Demons to impersonate Abyss Fleet Captains, making the fleet unable to tell real from fake and turning its members against one another. After the main fleet departed, he continued copying targets, leaving Abyss City in deeper disorder and preparing to evade the fleet’s pursuit.

• Li Mu left Abyss City, then secretly returned and planned to use Mirror Demons to impersonate real Abyss Fleet Captains.
• Mirror Demon Duke attacked Duke, and Li Mu killed Duke’s avatar with a curse, leaving the fleet unable to distinguish the two Dukes.
• Aaron and the Abyss Captains imprisoned both Dukes, but Mirror Demon Duke burned to death; examining the surviving Duke’s true-spirit memories eventually proved him genuine.
• Two indistinguishable Erics appeared, and the fleet imprisoned both; later, two Pittmans fought until the City Spark expelled them and one disappeared with the wounded loser.
• Li Mu continued sending out Mirror Demons after the main fleet departed, deepening the Abyss Fleet’s distrust to help him complete his missions and escape pursuit.

Li Mu disguised himself as Tiger and infiltrated Abyss City, then secretly prepared the Phoenix to attack the city before the Abyss Fleet’s main force returned. The assault shattered Abyss City’s defenses and destroyed its surface structures, but the Phoenix was badly damaged and several Abyss Captains were injured.

• Li Mu lured Tiger through the God Prison Gate, suppressed and imprisoned him, then took his appearance to infiltrate Abyss City.
• Li Mu used Tiger’s authority to access the Mind Network while Mirror Demons stirred suspicion among the Abyss Captains.
• Ten days later, Li Mu left Abyss City through the Mirror Realm and transformed the Phoenix into a Primeval Phoenix, enhancing its damage to Mythical Level Nine.
• Li Mu attacked Abyss City with the Phoenix, using the Thousand-Handed Asura Seal and Great Void Immortal King Towers to overwhelm the city defense shield.
• The Phoenix’s missiles breached the shield and damaged the city, leaving its surface structures destroyed and several Mythical Level Six Abyss Captains seriously injured.
• The Phoenix’s Nether Missile Launcher was nearly crippled, and its hull was close to failing after the assault.

Li Mu destroyed eighteen Abyss Starships, then fled as the Abyss Fleet’s main force arrived and pursued him with Demon Sword, Tracy, and the God Prison Cat. He escaped repeated attacks and removed Tracy’s Abyss Mark, but remained unsure how the fleet was tracking him and concluded that he had to keep evading them while causing enough chaos to draw out the forbidden land’s hidden beings.

• Phoenix used Primordial Divine Light and Primordial Disguise to destroy eighteen Abyss Starships, while Deep Space Demon Eye collected the wreckage.
• Li Mu fled as the Abyss Fleet’s main force returned, and Mirror Demons seized wounded Abyss Captains’ Shipborne Optical Computers to sow chaos in Abyss City.
• Li Xing sent Demon Sword to intercept Li Mu, whose Spark Clone was destroyed, while Tracy marked the real Li Mu with an Abyss Mark and pursued him through the Mirror Realms.
• Tracy summoned the God Prison Cat to track Li Mu, and Li Xing used Demon Sword’s Super Main Cannon to destroy Mirror Realms and damage Li Mu’s soul through a causal lock.
• Li Mu burned a dead branch of the Primeval Phoenix Nest to conceal himself, entered the underworld, and used the Fusion Spell to strip away the Abyss Mark.
• Li Mu deduced that he had to evade the fleet while creating enough commotion to draw out the mysterious beings tied to the forbidden land and the Primordial Ancient Demon.

Li Mu completed Mission Six of the Source of All Evil when a Primordial Ancient Demon remnant soul gave him its bloodline inheritance before perishing. As the sealed world began to collapse, Li Mu searched it for treasures and prepared to use the Miracle Magic Hat to take the giant cross, risking Duke and the artifact.

• Li Mu disguised himself as a God Prison Wolf to delay the Demon Sword's targeting, evaded its pursuit for two days, and completed Mission Five before the Demon Sword returned to Abyss City.
• Disguised as a Primordial Demon Spirit, Li Mu attracted a Primordial Ancient Demon remnant soul, which brought him to a ruined world and sacrificed itself, leaving him its blood and inheritance.
• Li Mu learned he could accept the inheritance by fusing with the blood or pass it to another intelligent life-form, and decided to create a clone that might later be possessed.
• Li Mu released hundreds of millions of Blood God Spawns to strip the ruined world of resources, then realized its collapse might release something the world had been sealing.
• Li Mu decided to try using the Miracle Magic Hat to take the giant cross as the world collapsed, leaving Duke behind to attempt the dangerous extraction.

Li Mu escaped the forbidden land with the cross and inherited the Primordial Ancient Demon’s power, transforming into a new life form. He learned that becoming Primeval Life required ten Reincarnations and that the Primordial Ancient Road had brought about the Primordial Ancient Demon race’s extinction.

• The Primordial Ancient Devils cowered as a vast giant awakened, and Li Xing withdrew the Abyss Fleet to Abyss City while the forbidden land began to shatter.
• Li Mu used the Miracle Magic Hat to take the cross, escaped through the Primordial Star Map, and watched the giant struggle against the Primeval Phoenix’s crown feather through his Mirror Spirits.
• Li Mu used Primordial Heart Sense to confirm the inheritance held no hidden resurrection threat, then merged his Disguise Talent with the Primordial Ancient Blood.
• Li Mu endured a painful transformation and awoke with enhanced senses, a stronger Primordial Ancient Demon form, and an evolved Disguise Talent.
• Li Mu learned the inheritance’s Primordial True Speech and discovered that ten Reincarnations led to Primeval Life.
• Li Mu pieced together that five Primordial Ancient Demons had reached Primeval Life and that their plan to build the Primordial Ancient Road had caused their race’s extinction.

Li Mu examined the relics and memories he had gained, merged the Hell Torture Rack into the Netherworld, and forged the Heart-Slaying Nails into Soul-Stinging Thorns. After years of gathering life seeds and advancing the Phoenix into a Seedship Mothership, he began generating its fifth hidden class skill.

• Li Mu learned that the Primordial Ancient Demon race had nearly ascended before the Primeval Phoenix devastated it, and he considered the unknown origins of his talents and curse.
• Li Mu used Primordial Heart Sense to discover how to transform the two Heart-Slaying Nails into Soul-Stinging Thorns and found that the Hell Torture Rack could strengthen the Netherworld.
• Li Mu spent several days merging the Hell Torture Rack into the Netherworld, then began forging the Heart-Slaying Nails while remotely directing the Phoenix to gather orange life seeds.
• After the Phoenix collected nearly 103,000 orange life seeds, Li Mu used a Seven-Colored Life Seed to upgrade Golden Crow City's city spark and another to trace a dead branch of the Primeval Phoenix Nest toward the source of the Abyss Mother River.
• Li Mu completed the Soul-Stinging Thorns and discovered that the Phoenix had evolved into a Seedship Mothership able to generate shipboard sparks and integrate other Seedships as ship equipment.
• Li Mu fused his Origin HuoZhong into the Phoenix's shipboard spark, and the spark of its fifth hidden class skill appeared two days later.

Li Mu discovered that the Spark Evolution Technique could convert slain Mythical beings’ true spirits into points and upgraded the Spark Phone to Mythical Level Nine. After learning that the Boundary Sea was weakening and chaos was approaching, he began turning the Spark Phone into a network for recruiting, rewarding, and exploiting Mythical beings across cosmic seas.

• Li Mu integrated the Origin-level Spark Evolution Technique into the Origin HuoZhong and learned that it could provide Spark Evolution Points without leaving negative spirituality behind.
• Using Song Xiaoyu’s monitoring data, Li Mu learned that the Boundary Sea was weakening and that its decline was drawing the Multiversal Cosmic Sea toward conflict while strengthening the outer super Boundary Sea.
• Li Mu fused eight Seven-Colored Life Seeds into the Spark Phone, raising it to Mythical Level Nine and unlocking Mythical searches and control over ordinary Boundary Seas.
• Li Mu tested the Earth Book System and found that he could open passages through Boundary Seas and protect himself with a Boundary Sea projection.
• Li Mu decided to focus on plunder rather than the Spark Alliance’s slow development and created a weakened Spark Phone mirror with cross-sea travel, trading, and mission systems for Mythical beings.

Li Shiyun escaped a mythic Malice Demon by using a key-kindling from the Spark Alliance, then began gathering resources through its map, missions, and trading system. As the Alliance grew to nearly ten thousand myths, Li Mu halted the distribution of mirrored Spark Phones and recruited thousands of myths for a task to destroy universes in a carefully chosen Wild Cosmic Sea.

• Li Shiyun refined the Spark Alliance's key-kindling, used its map to escape a Malice Demon encirclement, and discovered its resource search, trading, and mission systems.
• Li Shiyun bought unfamiliar resources through the trading system, completed her resource exchanges, and returned to the main plane to mine valuable sites while avoiding Malice Demons.
• Song Xiaoyu watched myths respond differently to the key Sparks and added those who destroyed their Sparks to the hunt list.
• The Spark Alliance's mythic membership approached ten thousand, but Li Mu stopped producing mirrored Spark Phones because distributing them to more than six hundred thousand myths would take decades.
• Li Mu posted a task asking myths to destroy individual universes, and more than six thousand accepted within hours.
• Li Mu selected a young Wild Cosmic Sea with few intelligent beings, nearly ten thousand universes, and no native myths as the target for the destruction task.

Li Mu led the Spark Alliance in conquering the Wild Cosmic Sea, stripping its main universe of its Cosmic Source Sea and transforming the Spacetime Source Core. He uncovered that the former Captain of the Phoenix, not the shop owner, had left the Core for him, and that the shop owner had watched over him as he grew up.

• Li Mu took control of the Wild Cosmic Sea’s universe will, transferred its savage beasts and resources, and returned to the Spark Star Domain.
• Vivienne gathered thousands of Mythicals, assigned them targets across the Wild Cosmic Sea, and sent them to destroy its individual universes.
• After the Mythicals destroyed the individual universes, Vivienne destroyed the main universe’s Heart of the Universe and collected its Cosmic Source Sea, but collapsed from the resulting negative spirituality.
• Li Mu protected Vivienne, compressed the Cosmic Source Sea, and fused it into the Spacetime Source Core, which gained the Mythical trait Source Lord.
• Using Primordial Heart Sense, Li Mu learned that the former Captain of the Phoenix had left the Spacetime Source Core for him and that the shop owner had merely watched over both him and the Core.

Li Mu launched the Spark Alliance’s councilor module, drawing nearly every Mythical Level Nine into an alliance after showing them the threat posed by the Eternal Heaven Realm’s Star Lords. With the councilors beginning preparations for a future invasion, Li Mu turned his attention to strengthening himself and the Phoenix.

• Li Mu spent two years manufacturing more than six hundred thousand Key Sparks, which unlocked new functions including universal-law modification and the councilor module.
• Li Mu and Song Xiaoyu activated networking for Mythical Level Nine beings, excluding the Overlord Alliance, and presented the councilors with information about the Eternal Heaven Realm and its Star Lords.
• Several thousand councilor incarnations visited the Eternal Heaven Realm and sensed the three thousand Origin Stars, convincing them that they needed to join the Spark Alliance.
• The Mythical Level Nines joined the Spark Alliance and negotiated terms requiring only one summons, with any summons against a Mythical Level Nine needing a five-against-one advantage.
• The councilors began coordinating plans to hunt the Star Lords, while Li Mu estimated they would need over a century to prepare for an invasion.
• Li Mu decided to focus on his combat strength and hunt Mythicals who had refused Key Sparks to evolve the Phoenix.

Li Mu destroyed the Mythic Mother Queens in the Insectoid Universe Sea, then spent 100 Spark Evolution Points evolving Phoenix into a Mythic Level-Two Seedship. At the Heart of the Universe, he uncovered the sea’s rebirth and learned that merging its Mother Nest into his Abyss Swarm seed skill required an insect crystal from a Mythic Level 9 Abyss insectoid.

• Li Mu used Phoenix to wipe out the insectoid swarms and kill all the Mythic Mother Queens, gaining 129 Spark Evolution Points without tainting his true spirit.
• Li Mu fused 100 Spark Evolution Points into Phoenix and selectively strengthened its core modules, raising its destructive power to Mythic Level 6 and its defensive power to Mythic Level 7.
• Li Mu reached the Heart of the Universe and discovered that the Insectoid Universe Sea had been reborn around a Mother Nest fused with its universal will.
• Li Mu used a Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candle to uncover a hidden option: merging the Mother Nest into his Abyss Swarm seed skill could transform it.
• Li Mu learned that the fusion required an insect crystal from a Mythic Level 9 Abyss insectoid at the source of the Abyss Mother River, and planned to travel there.

Li Mu reached the source of the Abyss Mother River and used Primordial Return to restore the Phoenix to its former Mythical Rank 9 state, allowing it to enter a hidden world inside the dimensional rift. He advanced his cultivation there and upgraded the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror with the Demon Eye Star God's eye, gaining a powerful ability to observe and replicate distant sights.

• Li Mu discovered that the Abyss Mother River fell from a higher dimension, then tried several methods to travel upstream through its waterfall.
• Li Mu used Primordial Return to restore the Phoenix to its former Mythical Rank 9 state and entered the inverted bird's nest lodged in the dimensional rift.
• Li Mu scouted the hidden world, tempered his divine body and divine soul, and completed his fourth true-spirit transformation.
• Li Mu restored the Demon Eye Star God's withered eye and fused it with the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror.
• Li Mu activated the upgraded mirror's Demon Eye and found that it could covertly observe distant places, see through disguises, and create Mirror Realms from what it saw.

Li Mu fused the Mirror Void and Space-Time Spell into the Miracle Magic Hat, then used a fleet of Vermilion Bird Seed Star Destroyers to reconstruct an Ice Luan’s chaotic memories. The memories revealed the Primeval Phoenix Nest’s destruction and left Li Mu suspecting that a Primordial Ancient Demon had caused the surviving phoenixes’ torment.

• Li Mu forged the Miracle Magic Hat into a Mythical Level 9 natal treasure that contained the Mirror Void and could draw targets beneath its brim into it.
• Li Mu traveled invisibly to the Phoenix Heaven Realm and found an Ice Luan whose memories had been shattered and scrambled.
• Li Mu used the War Network, the Vermilion Birds’ shipborne optical computers, and the Phoenix’s talents to reconstruct the Ice Luan’s memories.
• The Ice Luan’s memories revealed that the Primeval Parasol Tree and the Phoenix Heaven Realm’s core had been destroyed by a metal pillar, after which a ripple scrambled the surviving phoenixes’ memories.
• Li Mu learned that surviving phoenixes were driven to fight to the death and that the Ice Luan had lost its mate, then suspected the Primordial Ancient Demon had been responsible for the disaster.

Li Mu captured and enslaved phoenixes in the outer Phoenix Heaven Realm, then discovered a hidden core world where Mythical Level 9 phoenixes and Primordial Ancient Demons were locked in battle. He entered the core world to explore it, suspecting that Li Xing and the others had arrived there first.

• Li Mu captured an Ice Luan and used the Demon Spirit Curse Technique to erase its memories and turn it into a combat weapon.
• Li Mu collected more than a hundred phoenixes, including a mutant phoenix egg, and suspected the Phoenix Heaven Realm had a hidden inner layer after finding traces of vanished higher-level phoenixes.
• Li Mu tracked a Fire Phoenix as it evolved to Mythical Level 6 and vanished with its Mythical Parasol Tree, then used a Fantasy Link to reach its Mirror Realm.
• Li Mu saw fifteen Mythical Level 9 phoenixes fighting five Primordial Ancient Demons and realized both groups were controlled by opposing Demon Spirit Curse Techniques.
• Li Mu concealed himself with the Miracle Magic Hat and entered the core world, where he suspected Li Xing and the others had first appeared.

Li Mu explored the Primeval Phoenix Nest’s core world and discovered a damaged Dimensional Star Marker and the dormant Myriad Phoenix Nest, along with seven rare divine medicines. After searching the rest of the world for months, he prepared to risk sending Spark Clones toward the battle zones where the remaining treasures might lie.

• Li Mu discovered that the phoenixes and Primordial Ancient Demons mistook him for one of their own, allowing him to search safely as long as he did not act against them.
• Li Mu used the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror to locate the Ancient Phoenix Nest ruins and recovered a damaged Dimensional Star Marker that could guide cross-dimensional descents.
• Li Mu found the Myriad Phoenix Nest, a primeval Miracle Building that could preserve phoenixes’ true spirits and aid their rebirth, but it contained no stored phoenix spirits or primeval true names.
• Li Mu discovered two Divine Phoenix Immortality Herbs and five Divine Female Phoenix Immortality Herbs, then stored the dormant Myriad Phoenix Nest for future use.
• Li Mu searched nearly the entire core world for several months, finding only fragments of the Primeval Phoenix Nest and withered Primeval Parasol Tree branches.
• Li Mu decided to send Spark Clones toward the remaining battle zones to search for overlooked treasures and flee immediately if he found any.