Chapter Summaries

Li Mu learned the five Primeval Lives’ histories and agreed to bring them into the lower dimension in exchange for five Primeval Root sacred artifacts. After four crossed the unstable passage, their hostility toward him intensified, leaving Li Mu to prepare for the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s arrival.

• Li Mu questioned the five Primeval Lives and discovered they were ancient Saint Ancestors who had faked their deaths, and that they had no connection to the Primeval Phoenix.
• Li Mu agreed to transport them one at a time, with each providing a Primeval Root sacred artifact before crossing.
• Li Mu opened a Dimensional Passage, but Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor initially failed to pass through it.
• Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor sealed Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor’s strength, and Li Mu stabilized the passage with the Miracle Magic Hat so Thunderclap could cross.
• Over five days, Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor and three others crossed into the lower dimension, leaving Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor behind.
• Li Mu sensed the four arrivals’ growing intent to attack him and the Dimension Will when Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor arrived.

Li Mu brought the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor from the upper dimension through a collapsing Dimensional Passage, convincing the Sacred Ancestors to abandon their plan to attack him. After the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor and the others departed to confront three approaching Primeval Life forms, Li Mu assessed how far he remained from becoming a true Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.

• Li Mu warned that repeated collapses were damaging the dimensional intersection, so the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor stripped away its equipment and Sources to weaken itself before sending them through the passage.
• The Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor and the other four took the belongings before Li Mu could seize them, and Li Mu used his Phoenix form and extreme defense to cross the collapsing passage and bring the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor down in the Mirror World.
• After realizing Li Mu was too difficult to kill and that other threats remained, the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor told the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor and the others to abandon their plan to besiege him.
• Li Mu gave the five Sacred Ancestors a star map and warned them about the Eternal Heaven Realm, the Abyssal Ruin, and three Primeval Life forms approaching the dimensional void; the five immediately left to investigate.
• Li Mu sent Zone Zero with the Dimension Will to recover and entered the Starlight World with five Primeval Source Sacred Artifacts, where he concluded that he was at most a Three-Pillar Sacred Ancestor, not a true Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.

Li Mu advanced to Four-Pillar Sacred Ancestor and prepared to gather more sources, but the Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought warned him that Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor and its allies were moving against the Eternal Heaven Realm. There, Li Mu discovered Stele Burial had reached Nine-Pillar strength by merging with its avatars, and he withdrew to watch the coming battle from a safe distance.

• Li Mu turned his magic, bloodline, and karma sources into three pillars, then fused the Spark Root to become a Four-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.
• Li Mu devoured five Primordial Source sacred artifacts and extracted the sources of stubborn stone, rainbow, water, wrath, and harvest before the Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought interrupted his seclusion.
• The Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought told Li Mu that Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor and the rescued Sacred Ancestors had joined forces and were planning to attack the Eternal Heaven Realm.
• Li Mu reached the Eternal Heaven Realm and saw Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor displaying nine pillars of source power alongside an unfamiliar Primeval Life.
• Li Mu concluded that Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor had merged with four avatars and that the three Primeval Lives from the Desolate Void could also combine into a Nine-Pillar force.
• After the Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought warned that the Primeval Phoenix would overpower them, Li Mu and it retreated into the void to watch for a chance to claim the battle's spoils.

The Universe Sacred Ancestor and the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor joined forces to attack the Primeval Phoenix during its Nirvana, but their assault triggered a devastating counterattack that left the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor crippled. The Universe Sacred Ancestor tried to kill his weakened ally, while the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor escaped with help from the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor; Li Mu and the benevolent side of the Dimension Will followed them.

• The Universe Sacred Ancestor used his three primordial sacred artifacts to grind the Eternal Heaven Realm into dust and trap the Primeval Phoenix inside the Cosmos Heaven-Burying Coffin.
• The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor merged his sacred realm with the Universe Sacred Ancestor's and used his Primordial True Names to seal and alter the Primeval Phoenix's name.
• The Cosmos grinding disk appeared to pulverize three thousand Primeval Phoenixes, but the phoenix vanished and shattered the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor's four primordial sacred artifacts.
• The backlash collapsed the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor's Primordial Divine Body into five severely injured Primeval Life forms, and the Universe Sacred Ancestor attacked him to seize his roots.
• The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor fled under cover of the Thunderclap War Drum, whose destruction left the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor near death.
• Li Mu and the benevolent side of the Dimension Will followed the escaping group into the lower dimension.

Li Mu trapped the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor in the Starlight World and defeated him after killing the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor and resisting his curse. The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s seven-pillar form collapsed, and Li Mu sealed him and the other three Primeval Life forms inside Greedy Stomach.

• The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor entered what he thought was the Desolate Void, but Li Mu revealed that he had trapped him inside the Starlight World.
• The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor sacrificed the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor’s vitality to restore him and use the Thunderclap Horn to try to break out, but Li Mu’s preparations kept the Starlight World sealed.
• Li Mu killed the Thunderclap Sacred Ancestor with the Immortal King Finger and Great Dimensional Samsara Divine Light, then sent him deep into the Starlight World for sealing.
• The Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor fused with his remaining three reincarnated bodies, became a pseudo seven-pillar Sacred Ancestor, and sacrificed his primordial sacred relics to curse Li Mu.
• Li Mu’s defenses and counterattack weakened the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s curse, collapsing his seven-pillar form into four heavily wounded Primeval Life forms.
• Li Mu swallowed the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor and the three others into Greedy Stomach and sealed them there.

Li Mu studied Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s memories and learned the path to becoming a Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor, including the immense difficulty of achieving True Name Liberation. He concluded that Primeval Phoenix was nearing the Nine-Pillar level and rejected Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s slow cultivation route, deciding he needed a shortcut to become a Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.

• Li Mu finished exploring Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s dreams and learned the Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor cultivation system.
• Li Mu discovered that True Name Liberation required spreading a Primordial True Name through all source power of a type across an entire dimension.
• Li Mu understood that Primeval Phoenix had pursued Seven-Pillar cultivation in the lower dimension and was refining it into a Sacred World with the help of Phoenix Saint Ancestor’s Nirvana rebirth secret art.
• Li Mu learned that Primeval Phoenix was not yet a Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor but was only half a step away, and had already severely injured Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor.
• Li Mu considered Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor’s reincarnation-based cultivation route, but judged it too slow and began seeking a shortcut to Seven-Pillar cultivation.

Li Mu secured a small dimension to preserve his Primordial True Name, gathered Roots and treasures from the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor, and used Soul-Burial Sacred Fruits to advance to a Six-Pillar Sacred Ancestor. He then refined the Primordial Soul-Burying Tree into an avatar, whose strength could eventually augment his own but would take an immense time to grow.

• Li Mu opened a small dimension in the Desolate Void and imprinted his Primordial True Name within it as a safeguard.
• Li Mu assessed the Roots and treasures he had seized, collected twenty-one Roots, and decided to use the Stele Burial Sacred Ancestor's cultivation resources.
• Li Mu found the Primordial Soul-Burying Tree and its nine Soul-Burial Sacred Fruits in the Stele Burial Sacred Realm, then transplanted the tree into the Starlight World.
• Li Mu consumed two Soul-Burial Sacred Fruits and spent twenty years fusing the Mind Root and Mirror Root, becoming a Six-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.
• Li Mu spent ten thousand more years refining the Primordial Soul-Burying Tree into an avatar, which could boost him toward pseudo Seven-Pillar strength but would grow extremely slowly.

Li Mu secured the Primordial Soul-Burying Tree clone in his minor dimension and left the Star Emblem Sacred World to seek a path toward becoming a Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor. His search for the missing Universe Sacred Ancestor led him to a Mythical Level Nine beast carrying a hidden Primordial Ancient Thought.

• Li Mu sent the Primordial Soul-Burying Tree clone and ten extra roots into his minor dimension to protect it and give himself a fallback if his true body died.
• Li Mu concluded that gaining enough Dimensional Root to strengthen his minor dimension was risky and difficult, so he decided to seek another way to become a Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.
• After ending his seclusion, Li Mu learned that the Primeval Phoenix was missing, Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought was losing ground to its Malicious Thought, and the Universe Sacred Ancestor had vanished.
• Li Mu searched the lower dimension repeatedly but found no trace of the Universe Sacred Ancestor, so he investigated mythological beings outside the Spark Alliance.
• Li Mu found a Mythical Level Nine strange beast whose true spirit contained a concealed Primordial Ancient Thought, which seized control of the beast and faced him.

Li Mu explained his rapid rise to the Universe Sacred Ancestor and agreed to join forces against the Primeval Phoenix and the Dimension Will. After rejecting plans that would sacrifice his interests, he spent several years devising a way to weaken their enemies by destroying lower dimensions while benefiting himself.

• Li Mu told the Universe Sacred Ancestor that he had fused three kinds of roots and used the Soul-Burial Sacred Fruit to reach the Six-Pillar Sacred Ancestor level, then showed it the Sky Burial Stele.
• Li Mu and the Universe Sacred Ancestor agreed to cooperate, trusting that neither would gain by betraying the other before their common enemies were defeated.
• The Universe Sacred Ancestor proposed sending Li Mu's Dimensional Root to the upper dimension, but Li Mu refused because it would cost him too much.
• The Universe Sacred Ancestor suggested returning the Spark Root to the upper dimension, but Li Mu rejected the plan and warned it against self-serving schemes.
• Li Mu spent several years thinking with the Primordial System and Primordial Heart Sense, then devised a plan to weaken the Primeval Phoenix and the Dimension Will by destroying lower dimensions in a way that benefited him.

Li Mu and the Universe Sacred Ancestor agreed to attack the lower dimension’s Dimensional Origin Sea, but Li Mu secretly planned to exploit their cooperation. The Universe Sacred Ancestor reached the Origin Sea’s inner defenses and prepared for the danger ahead.

• Li Mu offered the Universe Sacred Ancestor a Dimension Law Root so they could attack the Dimensional Origin Sea while Li Mu struck the dimensional barrier.
• The Universe Sacred Ancestor accepted the root, unaware that Li Mu had disguised four Netherworld Caverns as additional Dimension Law Roots and intended to follow him.
• The Universe Sacred Ancestor used the root to locate the Dimensional Origin Sea and navigated its folded and lost spacetime defenses with the Yin-Yang Cosmos Bell.
• The Universe Sacred Ancestor passed through the Origin Sea’s powerful inner dimensional barrier and merged his true body with two reincarnated bodies to become a pseudo Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor.

Universe Sacred Ancestor entered the lower dimension’s Dimensional Soul Sea, where he and Li Mu discovered that it could manifest a terrifying giant with the power of a legendary nine-pillar Sacred Ancestor. Li Mu rescued Universe Sacred Ancestor, and they escaped beyond the dimensional barrier, leaving Li Mu to reconsider the Dimension Will’s true strength and the lower dimension’s origin.

• Universe Sacred Ancestor crossed the dimensional barrier and charged into the Dimensional Soul Sea, while Li Mu watched from hiding.
• The Dimensional Soul Sea manifested the Primordial Ancient Devil and the Space Sacred Ancestor, and Universe Sacred Ancestor shattered them with the Heaven-Burying Melody.
• The Soul Sea gathered its remaining mist into a giant whose presence revealed it had once been a legendary nine-pillar Sacred Ancestor.
• The giant froze space and time and reached for Universe Sacred Ancestor, but Li Mu tore open the seal and rescued him with the Wings of Freedom.
• Li Mu and Universe Sacred Ancestor escaped through the dimensional barrier, and Li Mu suspected the lower dimension was a fallen nine-pillar Sacred Ancestor’s remains and that the Dimension Will was more powerful than the Primeval Phoenix.

Li Mu abandoned his fruitless wait for Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought and traveled through the Abyss Mother River into the upper dimension, where its vast power challenged his understanding of the conflict. He began investigating the upper dimension, suspecting its restart had a cause beyond an excess of Primeval Life forms.

• Li Mu and Universe Sacred Ancestor found the Abyssal Ruin calm, with no trace of Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought, and the Malicious Thought demanded a hundred Seven-Colored Fantasy Sparks in exchange for information.
• Li Mu left a Mirror Ghost Shadow to watch the Abyssal Ruin, but years of waiting brought no progress, and he decided to seek resources in the upper dimension.
• Li Mu determined that the Abyss Mother River could carry him to the upper dimension if he sealed his power to the level of a Three-Pillar Sacred Ancestor using the Dimensional Root.
• Li Mu activated the Fireseed Engine, traveled upstream, and crossed the dimensional rift into the upper dimension.
• Li Mu sensed the upper dimension's immense power and questioned whether the Dimension Will could overthrow it or whether too many Primeval Life forms had truly caused its restart.
• Li Mu began carefully investigating the upper dimension for the unknown cause of its impending restart.

Li Mu investigated an immense independent world in the upper dimension and found evidence that it was a drained sacred realm enclosed in a primeval artifact. He discovered surviving descendants living in worlds opened through cracks in its metal boundary and hoped they still remembered their ancestors’ history.

• Li Mu sent millions of Blood God Spawn across the world and concluded that the upper dimension’s Will could not interfere there.
• Li Mu found a decayed tower remnant and inferred that a Nine-Pillar Sacred Ancestor’s sacred realm had been drained of its source power.
• Li Mu studied ruins and learned that the civilization called Eternal Heaven had centered around the Abyss Mother River’s source.
• Li Mu reached the world’s edge, found a bronze-like metal barrier, and failed to refine it with his Primordial Ancient Thought.
• Li Mu discovered descendants of the world’s inhabitants surviving in small worlds within cracks in the barrier.

Li Mu entered the Sunset Glow Realm as its ancient legend of the Nine Realms reopening came to pass. After discovering that the Nine Realms Heavenly Dao mistook his Dimensional Root for an enemy threat, he concealed it with the Spark Root and took control of the Heavenly Dao, whose memories revealed something shocking.

• The sky split open above the Sunset Glow Realm, and its great powers rushed toward the bronze light before the rift closed.
• Li Mu sensed the approaching Mythical Level Nine beings and used the Star Emblem Mirror Eye to learn the Nine Realms’ history from their True Spirit memories.
• Li Mu revealed himself, endured the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, and attempted to transform the Nine Realms Heavenly Dao into a Celestial Book Spirit.
• The Nine Realms Heavenly Dao began draining the realms’ origins to destroy itself along with Li Mu, so he sealed the Dimensional Root and released the Spark Root.
• Li Mu disguised the Dimensional Root, let the Heavenly Dao inspect the Starlight World, and then took control of the Heavenly Dao through the Celestial Book System.
• Li Mu searched the Heavenly Dao’s earliest memories and discovered something that shocked him.

Li Mu discovered that the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse had enabled the Nine Realms Heavenly Dao to control and nourish the Nine Realms, and that it might offer him a path to the Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor realm. Suspecting the Primeval Phoenix had deliberately left the curse for him, he resolved to seek Eternal Heaven’s Dimensional Origin Sea, recover erased history, and recruit Myth Level Nine powerhouses to aid his search.

• Li Mu concluded that the Primeval Phoenix and the Dimension Will had likely been evenly matched, and suspected Eternal Heaven itself had a hidden problem.
• Li Mu learned that the Nine Realms Heavenly Dao used the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse to sacrifice the dead’s spirituality to strengthen itself and then sacrifice itself to nourish living beings.
• Li Mu realized the curse could let him sacrifice his Primordial True Name and potentially break through to the Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor realm, but suspected the Primeval Phoenix had intentionally preserved it.
• Li Mu decided to search for Eternal Heaven’s Dimensional Origin Sea and try to restore the Nine Realms Heavenly Dao’s erased records.
• Li Mu planned to recruit Myth Level Nine powerhouses by promising to take them beyond the Nine Realms, and began preparing to study the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse.

Eternal Life Immortal Venerable arrived in Phoenix City, learned about its ranks and benefits, and chose to become a Blood God Spawn to earn the trust needed to become a Phoenix Apostle. Li Mu reviewed the newcomers’ remarkable potential and suspected that Eternal Heaven’s Nine Realms had been created to raise sacrificial offerings, though he wondered who they were meant for.

• Great powers from Eternal Heaven’s Nine Realms registered at Phoenix City’s gates, where Tong Xue used a Truth-Listener Lotus Mirror to screen them for any connection to the Primeval Phoenix.
• Eternal Life Immortal Venerable read about Phoenix City’s Spark Alliance, Blood God Spawn, Mirror Spirits, and Phoenix Apostles, then applied to become a Phoenix Apostle.
• Phoenix City approved His application but required Him to become a Blood God Spawn first, explaining that He could either earn trust through service or wait one hundred thousand years.
• Eternal Life Immortal Venerable chose to become a Blood God Spawn, as did 122 of the 126 Mythical Level Nine beings who had arrived from the Nine Realms.
• Song Xiaoyu reported the newcomers’ aptitude figures to Li Mu, who concluded that the Nine Realms might have been sealed off to raise sacrificial offerings and wondered who they were meant for.

Li Mu entered the higher dimensions through the Western Reaches Forbidden Land and discovered an ancient battlefield inside the Black Mist Abyss. Unable to cross the black mist, he sent Spark Life forms to explore while turning his attention to the colossal cauldron beneath the battlefield.

• Li Mu avoided cultivating the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse until he understood its dangers and left the Eternal Heaven dimension through the Western Reaches Forbidden Land.
• Li Mu found a colossal cauldron covered in the corpses of powerful beings, including Primeval Life, and realized it was an ancient battlefield.
• Li Mu discovered that the corpses had been drained of source power by the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse around the time the Primeval Phoenix descended into the lower dimensions.
• Li Mu found that the higher dimensions erased his Blood God Spawn but accepted a Spark Life created by the Spark Root.
• Li Mu identified the battlefield as part of the Black Mist Abyss and failed to pass through its mist after testing several methods.
• Li Mu dispatched Spark Life forms to investigate the battlefield and prepared to study the colossal cauldron.

Li Mu deciphered part of the Eternal Life King Cauldron’s surviving Primordial True Name and used it to form a theory about the ancient battlefield and the fall of the upper dimensions. He began refining the cauldron, hoping to claim its power and uncover the Eternal Life Sacred Ancestor’s inheritance.

• Li Mu learned that the Eternal Life King Cauldron held two incomplete sets of Primordial True Names, one from before and one from after the Eternal Life Sacred Ancestor attained the Primordial Dao.
• Li Mu deciphered much of the first set and discovered that the upper dimensions had once enjoyed a far more prosperous age, with many True Spirit Reincarnations and Primeval Lifeforms.
• Li Mu inferred that the Eternal Realm Lord might have been the upper dimensions’ Dimension Will, and that it, the Eternal Life Sacred Ancestor, and the lower dimensions may have perished in a three-sided war.
• Li Mu chose to prioritize refining the damaged Eternal Life King Cauldron rather than deciphering the second set of Primordial True Names.
• Li Mu disguised his Primordial True Name and began merging his Primordial Ancient Thought into the cauldron, gradually making his refinement smoother.

While Li Mu spent millennia refining the Eternal Life King Cauldron, Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought ambushed the Universe Sacred Ancestor in the Desolate Void and seemingly killed It with two supreme treasures. The Universe Sacred Ancestor escaped with the cauldron lid, and Li Mu sensed the lid returning to the Eternal Life King Cauldron.

• Li Mu accelerated time in the Star Emblem Sacred World to refine the Eternal Life King Cauldron, while the Universe Sacred Ancestor searched the lower dimensions for him in vain.
• Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought confronted the Universe Sacred Ancestor in the Desolate Void and attacked after failing to draw Li Mu out.
• Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought used a blade-tip fragment to split the Cosmos Sacred World and critically wound the Universe Sacred Ancestor.
• Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought sent a cauldron lid after the fleeing Universe Sacred Ancestor, apparently killing It, but the lid flew away and the Cosmos Root was missing.
• Dimension Will's Benevolent Thought fled to the depths of the Desolate Void with the Universe Sacred Ancestor's remains, while Li Mu sensed the cauldron lid returning to the Eternal Life King Cauldron.

Li Mu fully refined the restored Eternal Life King Cauldron and learned how it could create Eternal Life Sacred Pills, while remaining wary of its hidden risks. He turned the dying Universe Sacred Ancestor into a pill and uncovered evidence that the Dimension Will’s benevolent side had concealed immense power.

• The returning cauldron lid fused with the Eternal Life King Cauldron, and Li Mu finished refining the restored treasure.
• Li Mu learned that the cauldron was a Primordial True Name World Treasure and suspected that he was the reincarnation of the Eternal Life Sacred Ancestor.
• Li Mu chose not to use the cauldron to become a Seven-Pillar Sacred Ancestor, instead planning to dismantle the lower dimension and fuse it into his own small dimension.
• Li Mu dropped the dying Universe Sacred Ancestor into the cauldron, which refined it into an Eternal Life Sacred Pill in less than ten thousand years.
• Li Mu examined the Universe Sacred Ancestor’s memories, found evidence of a terrifying sacred artifact and the Dimension Will’s hidden strength, then studied the Primeval Heaven Sacrifice Curse.