Chapter Summaries

Li Mu pursued an unknown rat-like Demon God into the Earthfiend God-Sealing Formation, where he uncovered the formation’s origins and fought its endlessly resurrecting beasts. After the Demon God signaled for him to follow, Li Mu disguised himself as one of the beasts and followed it deeper into the vast formation space.

• Li Mu sealed the unknown Demon God with the Abyss Scroll, but it escaped by using a mysterious ability and stealing his Abyss Brush.
• Li Mu tracked the Demon God through the Void Star Pearl and chased it into an underground world, accidentally activating the Earthfiend God-Sealing Formation.
• Li Mu used Time Heart Sense to learn that Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable had created the formation from three thousand totem pillars to seal the Primordial Spark.
• Li Mu fought the formation’s endlessly resurrecting Earthfiend beasts and released the Phoenix to help attack them from afar.
• The unknown Demon God approached Li Mu and signaled for him to follow; Li Mu left the Phoenix behind, disguised himself as an Earthfiend beast, and followed it deeper into the formation.

Li Mu subdued Demon Mouse and learned that the creature’s Miracle Magic Hat held powerful abilities, then reached Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable’s tomb. He discovered the immortal palace was a resurrection trap now guarded by two level-nine Mythic abyssal creatures, but resolved to seek a way through.

• Li Mu overtook Demon Mouse at a spatial rift, forced it to become his Mirror Spirit, and learned its origins and treasure-sensing talents.
• Li Mu discovered that Demon Mouse’s Miracle Magic Hat was a Mythical Level 7 Spark Artifact with Void, Time, and Fate Miracles.
• Li Mu crossed the rift to the immortal palaces, explored their safe outer region, and used scouts and heightened perception to assess the inner palaces.
• Li Mu sent the Divine Wood Demon God and a Spark Clone into a palace, where he observed abyssal beings and investigated one of them with Time Heart Sense.
• Li Mu learned that Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable had used the array to lure victims for resurrection, but an Abyssal Captain had killed him and corrupted the palace’s guardians.
• Li Mu realized two level-nine Mythic abyssal creatures remained in the central palace, yet decided to pursue the only path to survival.

Li Mu destroyed the Earth Fiend God-Sealing Array’s Immortal Palaces, spared and stored the locked-in-combat Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable and Abyss Captain, and turned the spoils into plans for strengthening his forces. After searching Spark World and upgrading his Spark fleet, he began hunting its demon gods and badly wounded an ice bear demon god in his first test.

• Li Mu used the Primordial Spark’s power to unleash Galaxy Sunset, wiping out more than five hundred Grotto-Heaven Immortal Soldiers, then burned the remaining core Immortal Palace with Great Sun Divine Art.
• Li Mu discovered the Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable and Abyss Captain were deadlocked after fatally wounding each other, so he sent them into the Imaginary Abyss rather than risk freeing them.
• Li Mu collected the Immortal Palace spoils and bronze pillars, then searched Spark World for demon gods and Seedship-producing Spark instances, delegating the search to Song Xiaoyu.
• Li Mu used the Phoenix’s Abyss Mother trait to reset his Queen Bees’ Shipboard Sparks, assigned them Blood God Spawn Spark Captains, and strengthened his fleet with restored immortal artifact materials.
• After locating 269 demon gods, Li Mu sent the Phoenix to attack a Mythic Tier 2 ice bear demon god and severely wounded it with a combined cannon strike and close combat.

Li Mu abandoned his plan to make Demon Gods submit and instead captured four for experiments before beginning his Blood Origin Wizard advancement. After transforming his Seven-Aperture Mirror Heart and body, he emerged far stronger and opened a door to the Mirror Dimension to test his new abilities on the Abyssal Magic Mirror.

• Li Mu learned that Demon Gods would never submit to a human and decided to capture only a few for experiments rather than try to rule them.
• Li Mu captured the Nightmare Demon God, the Virtual Demon God, the Black Goat Demon God, and the Demon Dragon Demon God, then went to the Eternal Heaven Realm to evolve Phoenix's modules.
• Li Mu sacrificed his Candle Dragon avatar and plundered its body to open every acupoint except the heart acupoints, strengthening his divine body.
• Li Mu fused with Helena to gain her surgical talent, then built a super magic pattern array throughout his cells and reopened the seven heart acupoints of his Seven-Aperture Mirror Heart.
• Li Mu fused seven divine spells into his heart acupoints, regenerated his body from the sea of blood, and reached a divine body strength of five hundred.
• Li Mu adapted to his new power, inherited the Candle Dragon Eyes, and opened the door to the Mirror Dimension to test himself against the Abyssal Magic Mirror.

Li Mu tested his strength against increasingly powerful Abyssal Magic Mirror demons, then rushed to evolve the Chaos Engine after his Demon God avatar warned him that the Nightmare Dimension was in danger. The Phoenix gained powerful new features and the ability to create Chaos Primordial Spirits, while the nature of the Nightmare Dimension threat remained unknown.

• Li Mu defeated a Mythic Level 4 Mirror Demon after a prolonged battle, then narrowly beat a Mythic Level 5 Mirror Demon and needed the Phoenix to defeat a Mythic Level 6 one.
• Li Mu concluded that he could fight opponents three or four levels above himself, and considered settling Golden Crow City before his Demon God avatar called for help from the Nightmare Dimension.
• Li Mu abandoned his plans and accelerated the Chaos Engine's evolution until it reached Mythical Level One.
• Li Mu examined the evolved Chaos Engine and found that its Chaos Wake could let allied fleets keep pace with the Phoenix.
• Li Mu used Primordial Heart Sense to learn that the Chaos Furnace could create up to ten Mythical Level One Chaos Primordial Spirits to serve as crew members and combat forces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.