Arc 21The Abyss and the Phoenix

Li Mu explored the Abyss Cosmic Sea, uncovered the origins of Blue Star, and strengthened himself and the Phoenix while the Multiversal Cosmic Sea reorganized. As the Star Alliance prepared for a sacrificial war, the Primeval Phoenix and Primordial Ancient Devil began stirring against their seals.

  • Li Mu defeated the corrupted gods of Abyss Giant Star, restored the Abyss Mothership with the Abyss Will, and gained its control and a dimensional origin fragment.
  • Li Mu evolved Hyperthymesia Mirror, crossed the Abyss Cosmic Sea, found Blue Star lifeless, and stored it in the Mirror Dimension before escaping the collapsing sea with two Dimension Root Fragments.
  • Li Mu treated hundreds of wounded Star Lords, reached Myth Level Seven, and forged Abyss Painted Skin, which he used to injure Gaia and disguise his treasures as Star Lords.
  • Li Mu reconstructed the World Sea and trapped Gaia’s seedship, then sealed Gaia after the Phoenix survived its cannon attack and Li Mu seized its Shipboard Spark and unstable Primordial Spark.
  • Li Mu recruited 105 Mythical Level Nine beings for an elite force as the Multiversal Cosmic Sea reorganized, then strengthened his Red Lotus Bloodline and discovered Primeval Blue Star’s connection to a higher dimension and the divided spark origin.
  • Li Mu helped reinforce the City of Original Sin with Flower Fairy, but the city captured Star Lords and fell into the Abyss Well, revealing that the effort had weakened its seal instead of strengthening it.
  • Li Mu advanced his and the Phoenix’s transformations, reaching his second True Spirit Transformation and evolving the Phoenix into a permanent Primeval Phoenix form capable of challenging a True Spirit Fifth Revolution opponent.
  • Li Mu learned of the Star Alliance’s invasion plan and probed the Law Skynet, while the weakened Abyssal Ruin seal failed, the Primeval Phoenix contaminated the Netherworld Caverns, and the Primordial Ancient Devil began to rise.
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Ch. 502Nightmare World Pearl

Li Mu cleansed the Phoenix of Nightmare Gaia’s contamination, absorbed the remains of the original Nightmare World, and strengthened the Phoenix with the Nightmare World Pearl. After sending the Phoenix out under a Spark Clone, he entered the Abyss Giant Star to investigate its artificial Cosmic Sea.

  • Li Mu repeatedly activated Primordial Return and used Primeval Parasol Tree leaves to fuel the Nirvana Divine Flame until he eradicated Nightmare Gaia’s spiritual contamination.
  • Gaia resolved to refine the Spark World into a Seedship and become a Spark Captain so it could confront Li Mu freely.
  • Li Mu inventoried the Mythical Sparks, learned that the Six Gods Families had survived inside the World-Devouring Earthmother Spider’s remains, and sent Zhou Kun to persuade them to surrender.
  • Primordial Shadow devoured the World-Devouring Earthmother Spider’s remains and the Secret Shadow Spark, while the Pill Artifact absorbed the Earth Mother Pill and began evolving.
  • The Six Gods Families surrendered except for the Xiang Family, which the other families defeated; Li Mu then prepared the Phoenix with the Golden Toad Treasury and Nightmare World Pearl.
  • Li Mu sent a Spark Clone away with the Phoenix and opened the Fantasy Gate to explore the Abyss Giant Star.

Ch. 503Fusion of the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man

Li Mu investigated the strange danger surrounding Abyss Giant Star and discovered that the Lord of the Sun had been distorted by the dimensional will and could kill his Mirror Demons with Primordial True Speech. After Primordial Shadow fused with the Celestial, Earth, and Human Book systems, Li Mu gained the Primordial System and prepared to use it against the world will of Abyss Giant Star.

  • Li Mu sent a Mirror Demon to capture the Lord of the Sun, but it vanished without a sound, prompting him to investigate Abyss Giant Star.
  • Li Mu learned that the planet’s believers had become distorted monsters and that contaminated faith had forced the Five True Gods to seal themselves inside their divine kingdoms.
  • Li Mu attacked the Lord of the Sun’s divine kingdom and saw that the Lord had become a distorted mass of flesh; the Lord killed another Mirror Demon with Primordial True Speech.
  • Li Mu waited for Primordial Shadow to finish transforming, then fed the Spark Phone and Celestial Book into the pill artifact, fusing the three book systems into the Primordial System.
  • Li Mu examined the system’s new abilities, including its expanded star map, power over world consciousness and structure, and control of one-tenth of the Primordial Spark.
  • Li Mu planned to use the Celestial Book System to enslave the world will of Abyss Giant Star after Song Xiaoyu awakened.

Ch. 504Abyss Shipborne Optical Computer

Li Mu used the Primordial System to uncover how the contaminated Shipborne Optical Computer could be sealed, then purified the Abyss Giant Star and attacked its gods. The Five True Gods fused into the Lord of the Sun, who confronted Li Mu as he prepared to use the newly revived Bag of Greed.

  • Li Mu activated the Pill Artifact's Primordial System and learned that sealing the contaminated Shipborne Optical Computer required dealing with the gods, reviving the Abyss Will's reincarnated avatar, and restarting the Abyss Mothership.
  • Li Mu spread nine Spark Clones across the Abyss Giant Star, burned away its contaminated inhabitants, and used Primordial Shadow to absorb the resulting negative spirituality.
  • Li Mu's Spark Clones destroyed the divine kingdoms of the Star Realm's lesser gods, and Li Mu shattered the Lord of Steam's divine kingdom with Mirror Image Sorcery.
  • The Lord of the Red Moon, the Ocean Lord, and the Lord of Secrets fled to the Lord of the Sun, who fused with them and the Lord of Steam as the contaminated Shipborne Optical Computer took control.
  • The Lord of the Sun offered Li Mu a place beneath him, but Li Mu refused and revealed the mythic level-nine Bag of Greed, forged from the Money Demon God's and Pixiu Demon God's Sparks.

Ch. 505Cosmic Throw

Li Mu used the Bag of Greed’s Cosmic Throw to badly injure the Lord of the Sun, then erased the true spirits of the Five True Gods despite suffering the Lord of Secrets’ Primordial True Speech. After the shipborne optical computer took full control of the Lord of the Sun’s body, Li Mu used the Pill Artifact and Celestial Book System to invade its true spirit, leaving the computer gradually transforming into a Celestial Book Spirit.

  • Li Mu stirred the Five True Gods’ greed with Spark Currency and used Cosmic Throw to unleash a devastating energy torrent against the Lord of the Sun.
  • The Lord of the Sun attacked Li Mu with the Sun Holy Sword, but Li Mu blocked the blows and pinned it with the Sky-Piercing Blood River Formation.
  • Li Mu erased the true spirits of the Lords of Steam, the Ocean, the Red Moon, and Secrets, while the Lord of Secrets’ Primordial True Speech mutated Li Mu before the Nirvana Curse and Phoenix Reincarnation Pill helped him recover.
  • The Lord of the Sun broke free by unfolding its divine domain and revealed that the shipborne optical computer had gained full control after the Five True Gods’ true spirits were erased.
  • Li Mu deployed the Pill Artifact’s Nirvana Divine Domain and Celestial Book System against the shipborne optical computer, while the Nirvana Egg blocked its attacks and consciousness pollution.
  • The Celestial Book gradually gained the upper hand and began transforming the shipborne optical computer into a Celestial Book Spirit.

Ch. 506The Resurrected Abyss Will

After decades of conflict, Li Mu uncovered the Shipborne Optical Computer’s hidden memories and used the Abyss Will’s remnants to restart the Abyss Mothership and reseal Zone Zero. He escaped with a dimensional origin fragment and learned it could greatly strengthen the Mirror Void.

  • The Shipborne Optical Computer stopped resisting, and Li Mu discovered that its memories had been altered to conceal coordinates in the Abyss Cosmic Sea.
  • Li Mu used Nirvana Divine Flame to restore the Shipborne Optical Computer’s memories and memorized the coordinates left by the Dimensional Will.
  • Li Mu assembled the seven remnants of the Abyss Will and temporarily revived it, agreeing to help it truly revive if he became Primeval Life.
  • The Abyss Will used HuoZhong Source Power to restart the Abyss Mothership, then sacrificed itself as the Mothership transformed back into the Abyss Giant Star and reinforced Zone Zero’s seal.
  • The Primordial System rewarded Li Mu with control of the Abyss Mothership and a dimensional origin fragment, which he stored in the Mirror Void before departing.
  • Li Mu examined the fragment and learned that fusing it into the Mirror Void could raise its potential to the Eternal Heaven Realm and benefit his Hyperthymesia Mirror talent.

Ch. 507Hyperthymesia Dreamscape

Li Mu evolved the Hyperthymesia Mirror Talent to Mythical Level Nine, gaining a dreamscape that let him revisit and alter remembered pasts, and he restored Frostfire City to reality. After resolving the dreamscape’s memory side effect and a domestic crisis, he prepared to explore the Abyss Cosmic Sea.

  • Li Mu used a dimensional origin fragment to evolve Hyperthymesia Mirror, unlocking Mirror Heart Dimension, Primordial Mind Prison, and Hyperthymesia Dreamscape.
  • Li Mu explored the Hyperthymesia Dreamscape, discovered he could extract changes to other existences into reality, and restored Frostfire City with HuoZhong Source Power.
  • Li Mu learned that he could not change his own past and sealed dreamscape memories after they caused him to confuse a dream experience with reality.
  • Li Mu spent several years under Mirror Dimension time acceleration resolving tensions with Hermione, Rei Ayanami, Helena, and Tong Xue.
  • Li Mu recalled the Phoenix and prepared an expedition into the Abyss Cosmic Sea after the Phoenix accumulated 590,000 Spark Evolution Points.

Ch. 508Mysterious High-Dimensional Blue Star

Li Mu fused the Abyss Black Hole Cannon into the Golden Crow Blazing Sun Cannon, then entered the Abyss Cosmic Sea to investigate the Primordial Star Road’s hidden coordinates. He found the dead Blue Star where he had lived before transmigrating and discovered that it had descended from a higher dimension and hosted four civilizations that repeatedly clashed with the dimensional will.

  • Li Mu spent Spark Evolution Points to fuse the Abyss Black Hole Cannon into the Golden Crow Blazing Sun Cannon, greatly enhancing its power and adding new traits.
  • Li Mu kept the Primordial Star Road separate from the Phoenix because he did not understand its origins and properties.
  • Li Mu took the Phoenix through the Fantasy Gate into the Abyss Cosmic Sea, where contamination rapidly mutated him, the ship, and his Demon Eye clones.
  • Li Mu crossed the Abyss Cosmic Sea and used the Miracle Magic Hat’s projections to navigate a supermassive black hole to a World Sea.
  • Li Mu reached the Blue Star from his memories and found it lifeless, with its cities overgrown and its human population extinct.
  • Li Mu investigated Blue Star and learned that it had fallen from a higher dimension, supported three powerful civilizations that perished in wars with the dimensional will, and remained important to that will.

Ch. 509Abyss Black Hole and the Mysterious Person

Li Mu escaped the Abyss Cosmic Sea as it collapsed into an Abyss Black Hole, then discovered that a Mysterious Person had transformed into a fleshball monster and caused a catastrophe in the Eternal Heaven Realm. After finding an engraved crystal at the cosmic sea’s remains, Li Mu read its Ancient Demon True Speech and seemed to realize his true identity.

  • Li Mu stored Blue Star in the Mirror Dimension, awakening the Abyss Cosmic Sea’s will, which began turning the cosmic sea into a super black hole and sealed Li Mu inside.
  • Li Mu invaded the cosmic will with the Celestial Book System, used the Earth Mother Pill to delay the cosmic sea’s destruction, and escaped the Abyss Black Hole with Phoenix and a Source Power Golden Crow.
  • Li Mu escaped through the Boundary Sea, made a Spark Black Hole capture a fragment of the collapsing cosmic singularity, and fled after retrieving a second Dimension Root Fragment.
  • A Mysterious Person beside one of Li Mu’s Magic Eye clones mutated into a fleshball monster and vanished to the Eternal Heaven Realm, where nearly three thousand Star Lords fought it; its death contaminated much of the realm and killed nearly a hundred Star Lords.
  • Li Mu returned to investigate the Abyss Cosmic Sea’s remains and found a murky crystal engraved with Ancient Demon True Speech; after reading the translation, he seemed to recognize who he truly was.

Ch. 510Li Mu's Origins

Li Mu recovered the memories of his origins as the last survivor of Primeval Blue Star’s fourth civilization and suspected that a hidden power had manipulated his life. After treating hundreds of wounded Star Lords and learning that the Hope Fleet was expanding, he entered seclusion to strengthen his disguise and begin his eighth true-spirit transformation.

  • Li Mu recalled that he had survived Blue Star’s mass aberration as an infant, been taken and memory-sealed by Emperor Heart, and later sent to Frostfire City by way of a mental dreamscape.
  • Li Mu entered Immortal Pill City, where Wenren Baiyu was overwhelmed by the wounded, and decided to help treat the Star Lords before pursuing the Camouflage Bugs.
  • Li Mu healed the Qilin Star Lord by transferring its contamination to a Mirror Demon, then treated hundreds of Star Lords over two months and gained prestige and favors.
  • Three Abyss Fleet Star Lords suspected Li Mu was connected to the mythic being that had attacked Abyss City, while Li Mu noticed that the Hope Fleet had filled many vacant Star Lord positions.
  • Li Mu used four unique origins to fill vacant Star Lord positions and decided to find disguises for them by improving his Polymorph Spell and Disguise Talent.
  • Li Mu entered seclusion, stopped suppressing his true spirit, and began its eighth transformation by absorbing stored Primordial Spiritual Light and ownerless spirituality.

Ch. 511Abyss Painted Skin

After reaching Myth Level Seven, Li Mu killed a Myth Level Nine Camouflage Bug and forged its remains into Abyss Painted Skin, a powerful treasure with disguise, transformation, fantasy, demonic thought, and painted-skin abilities. He tested its curse on Gaia and disguised his four bonded supreme treasures as Mythic Level Nine Star Lords to deceive the Star Alliance.

  • Li Mu used the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Tree to advance to Myth Level Seven and began evolving the Phoenix with 3,200 Fire Seed Evolution Points.
  • Li Mu entered the Mask Dimension, fought the Myth Level Nine Camouflage Bug for several days, and killed it with the Tiger Soul Fierce Weapon and his spells.
  • Li Mu refined the Camouflage Bug's source core and membrane with the Abyss Mask and other materials to create the Mythical Level Nine Abyss Painted Skin.
  • Li Mu tested Abyss Painted Skin's traits, discovering that it could imitate living beings, create imagined objects, control victims, and curse the owners of copied faces.
  • Li Mu combined Abyss Painted Skin with a Hyperthymesia Mirror image of Gaia and managed to injure Gaia before Gaia destroyed the image.
  • Li Mu fused Abyss Painted Skin with his four bonded supreme treasures and disguised them as four Mythic Level Nine Star Lords to deceive the Star Alliance.

Ch. 512World Sea and Gaia

Li Mu reconstructed the World Sea from two thousand cosmic seas and discovered it was formed from Dimension True Speech, then used it to trap Gaia’s seedship at the edge of the Spark Cosmic Sea. Gaia’s Seed Shock Shells damaged the Phoenix, but dozens of seedships suddenly arrived outside the World Sea.

  • Li Mu sent his forces to hunt Mythicals across the Dragon God Cosmic Sea, then destroyed it and devoured its remnants to collect World Sea formation fragments.
  • Li Mu relocated the Mirror Dimension’s overcrowded civilizations and continued destroying cosmic seas until he had reconstructed the World Sea’s formation from two thousand of them.
  • Li Mu discovered that the World Sea was made from Dimension True Speech and contained dormant sealing and destructive powers, then resolved to study its weaknesses before the dimensional will awakened.
  • Li Mu arrived at the Spark Cosmic Sea’s border and used the Earth Book System and Spark Currency to strengthen the World Sea, trapping Gaia’s seedship.
  • Gaia fired eight Seed Shock Shells; Li Mu’s Phoenix intercepted two, while the remaining six shattered its shield and damaged its energy circuits.
  • Li Mu activated the Nirvana Divine Flame to repair the Phoenix as dozens of seedships appeared outside the World Sea.

Ch. 513Capturing the Gaia

Li Mu faced the Hope Fleet and Gaia in the World Sea, then used the Phoenix’s overwhelming power to survive Gaia’s attack and seal Gaia through dimensional collapse. After the Hope Fleet retreated and the Phoenix completed Nirvana, Li Mu took the sealed Gaia away.

  • Li Mu discovered the Hope Fleet’s flagship was the Starlight and learned the Shopkeeper had come believing Li Mu killed Emperor Heart, who had once been the Warden.
  • Li Mu fused with the Phoenix and stacked fleet, treasure, and talent enhancements until its attack reached the ninth transformation of True Spirit Reincarnation.
  • Gaia used its remaining Primordial Spark projections to strengthen itself, and both it and the Phoenix charged their Super Main Cannons.
  • Gaia’s cannon destroyed the Vermilion Birds and fatally damaged the Phoenix, while Li Mu’s Immortal King Finger collapsed the dimensions around Gaia and sealed it.
  • The Hope Fleet retreated, the Phoenix recovered through Nirvana, and Li Mu used the Miracle Magic Hat to take away Gaia.

Ch. 514The True Face of the Netherworld Cavern

Li Mu strengthened the Netherworld and Mirror Dimension, then used their power to seal Gaia and dismantle the Gaia. He uncovered the unstable Primordial Spark inside the ship and began trying to soothe it.

  • The Spark Star Domain became a refuge after the Gaia's Super Main Cannon aftermath devastated universes, and Li Mu considered moving the Spark Alliance headquarters while worrying that the Hope Fleet would expose him to the Star Alliance.
  • Song Xiaoyu warned Li Mu that the Multiversal Cosmic Sea's Boundary Seas were rapidly disappearing and its worlds were converging, so Li Mu urged her to continue transforming and went to the Netherworld.
  • Li Mu absorbed a third Netherworld Cavern, gained three Dimension Root Fragments, and merged them into the Mirror Dimension, transforming the Spacetime Source Core into its Heart of the Dimension.
  • Li Mu used the Mirror Dimension and Underworld to empower himself, resealed and dimensionally reduced Gaia, then tore open the Gaia and seized its Shipboard Spark.
  • Li Mu sealed Gaia, dismantled the Gaia, and found the unstable Primordial Spark within the Spark Engine, which he began soothing with the Spark Origin.

Ch. 515Mysterious Causal Contract

Li Mu discovered that the Primordial Spark was an injured relic tied to the Primeval Phoenix, then turned Gaia into a Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit and represented the absent False Mask Star Lord at the Star Alliance’s meeting. After learning the Primordial Star Map could not teleport the strongest beings in each Cosmic Sea, he found that the Asura King had unknowingly entered an unbreakable karmic contract with his universe’s will.

  • Li Mu realized the Primordial Spark held only six-tenths of its origin and might revive the Primeval Phoenix, so he sealed it cautiously and severed its link to the Primordial Shadow.
  • Li Mu discovered Gaia was Mythical Level Nine rather than a true spirit reincarnation and began transforming him into a Secret Shadow Mirror Spirit.
  • Li Mu attended the Star Alliance’s emergency summons in disguise, claimed the absent False Mask Star Lord was undergoing his first True Spirit Reincarnation, and offered a Mirror Demon clone to help reinforce the City of Original Sin’s seal.
  • Li Mu left his clones with the Star Alliance and discovered that the Primordial Star Map could no longer teleport the strongest beings in their respective Cosmic Seas.
  • Li Mu visited the Asura King and helped reveal an unbreakable karmic contract formed from dimensional true words, which granted the Asura King the Asura Cosmic Sea’s favor but bound his life to its survival.

Ch. 516Ascending to Mythic Level Eight

Li Mu discovered how to halt the Asura King’s karmic contract and organized a squad of 105 Mythical Level Nine council members to prepare for the Star Alliance. As the Multiversal Cosmic Sea’s upheaval advanced, Li Mu entered seclusion to pursue Mythical Level Eight and refine the Heavenly Book Spell.

  • Li Mu explained that the Asura King’s karmic contract could be interrupted by absorbing its spiritual essence, and he used the Nirvana Divine Flame to survive its backlash and halt its growth.
  • Li Mu rejected the plan to spend years freeing hundreds of council members and instead chose to free one hundred powerful, cooperative Mythical Level Nine beings for an elite squad.
  • Li Mu and the Asura King traveled between cosmic seas, recruiting council members; Li Mu secretly identified a Star Alliance spy and let him go to spread false information.
  • Over a year and a half, Li Mu freed 105 council members and stationed them in the Mirror Dimension to train for a guerrilla war against the Star Alliance.
  • The Realm Sea vanished, worlds fused into immense planes, and the planes began compressing and converging as the Multiversal Cosmic Sea entered its second stage.
  • After five and a half years of secluded cultivation, Li Mu began his ninth true-spirit transformation and refined the Heavenly Book Spell through his Red Lotus Bloodline and three types of Primordial True Speech.

Ch. 517The Secret of the Original Blue Star

Li Mu tempered his true spirit with the Red Lotus Karmic Flame as the Multiversal Cosmic Sea became a new world and its Mythical Level Nine beings were trapped in a deadly karmic scheme. During his tenth true-spirit transformation, Primeval Blue Star merged with his Primeval Star Emblem, revealing that the Primeval Phoenix had likely manipulated events to make Li Mu restore the divided spark origin; he resolved to grow stronger and wait for the Primeval Phoenix and dimensional will to clash.

  • Li Mu strengthened his Red Lotus Bloodline to Mythical Level Nine and used its karmic flame, alongside the Nirvana Divine Flame, to temper his true spirit while protecting his memories in the Primordial Mind Prison.
  • The Multiversal Cosmic Sea reorganized into a world where only Transcendents could survive, and the activated karmic contracts confined Mythical Level Nine beings to territories where they were forced to fight Star Alliance Star Lords.
  • Li Mu used his Spark Clone to monitor the upheaval, concluded the karmic contracts were arranging a sacrifice of Mythical Level Nine beings, and ordered the Spark Alliance to develop steadily.
  • After fourteen years in seclusion, Li Mu began his true spirit's tenth transformation beneath the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Tree, but Primeval Blue Star anomalously stirred in the Mirror Dimension.
  • Li Mu released Primeval Blue Star and let it merge into his Primeval Star Emblem, learning that it came from a higher dimension and naturally nurtured a complete spark origin coveted by the dimensional will and Primeval Life.
  • Li Mu deduced that the Primeval Phoenix was likely manipulating Emperor Heart and him to reunite and restore the divided spark origin, so he chose to strengthen himself and wait for the dimensional will to break free and resume its conflict with the Primeval Phoenix.

Ch. 518At the Peak of Myth

After merging Primeval Blue Star with the Primeval Star Emblem and Primordial Spark, Li Mu raised his strength to Myth Level Nine and evolved his Red Lotus Bloodline into the Karmic Fire Red Lotus. He tested its power against the Asura King and 105 other Mythics, then implanted a child lotus in the Asura King’s heart to suppress his karmic contract.

  • Li Mu merged the Primeval Star Emblem and Primordial Spark with Primeval Blue Star, restored part of its connection to higher dimensions, and moved Phoenix City there so its residents awakened Origin HuoZhong and gained Myth-level potential.
  • Li Mu used the Fierce God Weapon Aura, Nirvana, and the Primordial Heaven-Reaching Tree to raise his divine body and soul attributes to their theoretical limits, then spent nine origin attribute points evolving his Red Lotus Bloodline.
  • Li Mu formed a thirty-sixth-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, used it to create a karmic link to Shopkeeper that could carry a powerful curse, and traveled through the Mirror Dimension by karmic displacement.
  • Li Mu attacked the Asura King and 105 Mythics with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, enduring their coordinated assault before his lotus defenses failed and he cursed 35 of them into temporary incapacitation.
  • Li Mu ordered the Mythics to stop fighting and planted a ninth-grade child Karmic Fire Red Lotus in the Asura King’s heart; the Asura King welcomed it because it could suppress his karmic contract.

Ch. 519Flower Fairy's Second True Spirit Transformation

Li Mu transformed Phoenix Volcano into a level-nine Mythic HuoZhong building to support Spark Civilization, then joined the Star Alliance’s effort to reinforce the City of Original Sin. As Flower Fairy completed her second true spirit transformation and joined the sealing, Li Mu grew increasingly alarmed by evidence that the city was secretly killing the imprisoned Primordial Evil Gods.

  • Li Mu used the Primordial Spark, Anchor of Fantasy, and Creator to transform Phoenix Volcano into a level-nine Mythic HuoZhong building, and the humans there celebrated its new powers.
  • Li Mu joined three thousand Star Lords reinforcing the City of Original Sin and discovered that the imprisoned Primordial Evil Gods’ souls and true spirits were vanishing while their bodies remained sealed.
  • After several more months, every flower in the Mirror Dimension bloomed, signaling that Flower Fairy was about to awaken.
  • Li Mu and Flower Fairy emerged from the Mirror Dimension, and the Star Lords welcomed Flower Fairy as an existence beyond Myth rank.
  • Flower Fairy joined Li Mu and the Star Lords in the final stage of reinforcing the seal, while both remained prepared for the danger Li Mu had discovered.

Ch. 520Star Alliance's Crisis of Trust

The City of Original Sin revealed itself as a living entity that had used the Star Lords’ efforts to free and feed it, then vanished into a massive Abyss Well. The Eight Giants exposed their past dealings with the dimensional will to calm the Star Lords, while Li Mu returned to Phoenix Volcano determined to pursue true spirit reincarnation.

  • Li Mu and the Flower Fairy fled as the City of Original Sin’s bronze chains seized several Star Lords and transformed them into Primordial Evil Gods.
  • The City of Original Sin shrank and fell into a huge Abyss Well, leaving the Star Lords to realize they had been weakening it rather than sealing it.
  • The Dragon Head Star Lord demanded answers, and the Eight Giants displayed memories explaining their encounter and bargain with the dimensional will.
  • The Star Lords accepted the memories as genuine but lost confidence in the Eight Giants, and the alliance began replacing its lost members by raising Mythical Rank Eights to Rank Nine.
  • Li Mu returned to Phoenix Volcano under the pretext of seclusion and resolved to achieve true spirit reincarnation for greater safety.

Ch. 521Great Five Elements Nirvana Divine Power

Li Mu refined the Phoenix Reincarnation Pills, created a true-spirit reincarnation art, and helped the Phoenix evolve to Myth Level Nine, transforming Primeval Nirvana into Great Five Elements Nirvana Divine Power. After demonstrating its power, he used it to accelerate the fusion of his true spirit, divine soul, and divine body, beginning his first true-spirit reincarnation.

  • Li Mu absorbed enhanced Phoenix Reincarnation Pills to strengthen his attributes and improve the compatibility of his true spirit and divine soul.
  • Li Mu used Seven-Colored Fantasy Fire Candles and his inherited arts to create a true-spirit reincarnation secret art that refined treasures and accelerated cultivation.
  • The Phoenix evolved to Myth Level Nine and gained the Auspicious Phoenix trait, while the Five Virtues Phoenix trait transformed and strengthened Primeval Nirvana.
  • Li Mu tested Great Five Elements Samsara Divine Light, killing a Myth Level Nine Mirror Demon and erasing then restoring a region of void.
  • Li Mu used Great Five Elements Nirvana Divine Power to fuse his true spirit, divine soul, and divine body, reducing the first reincarnation process from centuries to days.

Ch. 522True Spirit Reincarnation

Li Mu completed his first True Spirit Transformation and learned how long the path to Primeval Life could take. He then advanced the Phoenix to its first True Spirit Transformation, leaving it with permanently solidified Primeval Phoenix form and power capable of challenging a True Spirit Fifth Revolution opponent.

  • Li Mu reached one-tenth trinity fusion, completing his first True Spirit Transformation and realizing that even his accelerated path to Primeval Life would take tens of thousands of years.
  • Li Mu confirmed that the Phoenix could also advance and began its transformation with the Hull Fusion Technique and 100,000 Spark Evolution Points.
  • After sixty years under time acceleration, the Phoenix completed its ascension, and its eggshell fused into its hull armor.
  • Li Mu discovered that the Phoenix's core Subordinate Modules had reached True Spirit First Revolution and that its Primeval Phoenix form had become permanent, with its tail's Great Five Elements Samsara Divine Light and the new Abyss Phoenix trait.
  • Li Mu assessed that the Phoenix's damage and defense had reached True Spirit Third and Fourth Revolution, respectively, and that it could challenge a True Spirit Fifth Revolution opponent.

Ch. 523Star Emblem Mirror Eye

Li Mu completed his second True Spirit Transformation by fusing the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror into his divine body, creating the Star Emblem Mirror Eye. He arrived at War Ancient City in response to the War Star Lord’s summons, where the War Star Lord recognized his new strength and changed plans from reprimanding him to recruiting him.

  • Mythics gathered in War Ancient City as the Star Lords summoned them to evacuate the Eternal Heaven Realm, while several extinguished source stars lit up with new successors.
  • Li Mu used the True Spirit Reincarnation Art to retrieve the true spirit he had nurtured inside the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror before it could become independent.
  • Li Mu devoured the Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror with the Creation Star God Furnace and completed his second True Spirit Transformation.
  • Li Mu formed the Star Emblem Mirror Eye, which retained the mirror’s powers and fused with the Primeval Star Emblem.
  • Li Mu arrived at War Ancient City, and the War Star Lord sensed his second True Spirit Transformation and abandoned his plan to teach him a lesson.

Ch. 524Star Alliance's Trump Card

Li Mu attended a Star Alliance war council and learned that the War Star Lord planned to invade the new world using the War Ancient City. While secretly probing the Titan Star Lord’s memories, Li Mu grew suspicious of the Time Star Lord and saw an opportunity to undermine the Star Alliance’s leaders.

  • The War Star Lord explained that the damaged Primordial Star Map could only be forced to teleport by gathering three thousand Star Lords, and that the Primeval Phoenix’s cry had signaled the upheaval foreseen by the Time Star Lord.
  • Li Mu used the Star Emblem Mirror Eye to inspect the Titan Star Lord’s memories and learned that the Time Star Lord managed the Star Alliance and had earned the giants’ unwavering trust through supposedly infallible prophecies.
  • The War Star Lord outlined an invasion plan: the Star Alliance would take the War Ancient City into the new world, hunt Mythical Rank Nine beings bound by karmic contracts, and prepare traps for Li Mu.
  • The War Star Lord said a mysterious voice from the Abyss Well had called the new world an enormous sacrificial ritual, then gave Li Mu and the Flower Fairy limited control of the War Ancient City and asked them to strengthen its defenses.
  • Li Mu and the Flower Fairy recognized that the War Star Lord still viewed them as combat assets, and planned to help devastate the Star Alliance before taking control from its disgraced leaders.

Ch. 525Law Skynet

The War Ancient City entered the new world, where its Star Lords discovered that the Law Skynet could empower its Mythics and might be part of the dimensional will’s plan to revive. Li Mu concluded that the dimensional will was close to revival but remained unsure what contingency the Primeval Phoenix had prepared.

  • Three thousand Star Lords used source power to send the War Ancient City into the new world, where its defenders began adapting to the Law Skynet.
  • The Star Lords learned that the Law Skynet could empower ninth-level Mythics and feared a sacrificial battle that could destroy both sides.
  • Li Mu sent Spark Clones to the Abyssal Ruin and the Abyss Cosmic Sea as he grew convinced that the dimensional will was nearing revival.
  • Li Mu used the Celestial Book to probe the Law Skynet and found that its vast, troubled spirituality could potentially be purified into Primordial Spiritual Light.
  • Li Mu suspected the Law Skynet was the dimensional will’s contingency, but he could not determine how the Primeval Phoenix might revive.

Ch. 526A World-Shaking Abyss

Li Mu merged two Netherworld Caverns into the Mirror Dimension, strengthening its underworld but destabilizing ancient seals across the Abyss. The Primordial Ancient Devil escaped its seal and entered the Eternal Heaven Realm, while a colossal hand seized it and the Primordial Ancient Demon began to rise.

  • Li Mu merged two Netherworld Caverns, giving the Mirror Dimension seven Dimension Root Fragments and enabling its underworld to create powerful Netherworld Cavern projections.
  • In the Abyssal Ruin, the weakened seal began to fail, but the City of Original Sin reinforced it and started sealing the Primeval Phoenix back into its egg.
  • The Primeval Phoenix sent consciousness contamination through the four remaining Netherworld Caverns, awakening the Abyss Will and causing four black smoke columns to rise.
  • Li Mu sensed the contamination and traced its likely source to the Abyssal Ruin as the weakened seal of the Primordial Ancient Devil's incarnation broke.
  • The Primordial Ancient Devil incarnation purified its contamination, crossed into the Eternal Heaven Realm, and was seized by a colossal hand rising from the earth.
  • The Primordial Ancient Demon in the Outer Abyss began to sit up, throwing the surrounding land and Abyss Mother River into chaos.
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