Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “The Shift in Identity, the Choice of Humanity”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Dancer arrives at the World’s End to persuade Li Yaotie to abandon the Heavenly Dao and follow Li Dalong into the Underworld, where the surviving members of the Azure Cloud Li Family may escape beyond the world.
• Li Yaotie angrily rejects the proposal. He insists that Li Dalong’s decision to abandon their ancestor is unforgivable and declares that the artifacts he created have repaid his debt to Li Dalong. His loyalty remains with the Heavenly Dao, whom he believes he must honor above all else.
• Hua Ji arrives in the form of a gigantic flesh-and-blood ape, and she battles Li Yaotie in a devastating physical confrontation. Heavenly Pool Holy Mother joins the fight by unleashing the indiscriminate [Fishpond World], attacking both combatants.
• Realizing that Li Yaotie will not change his mind, the Dancer leaves and travels to the Eternal Forbidden Zone, hoping to contact Li Dalong.
• Li Zhiheng and Zishu Lingtian emerge from the Eternal Forbidden Zone. They reveal that the others—including Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, and the remaining fighters—have stayed behind to battle Undying.
• Zishu Lingtian explains that the Human Emperor anticipated the current crisis not by predicting every event, but by understanding responsibility and human nature. Li Dalong’s many roles—as a family elder, Underworld lord, protector of the living, and descendant of the Heavenly Dao—conflict with one another.
• Zishu argues that Li Dalong’s choice to prioritize the survival of his family and the Underworld is reasonable. Escaping beyond the world offers a real chance of survival, while siding with the Heavenly Dao appears nearly hopeless against Wanrong, the Heavenly Dao Prophet, and the saints.
• Inside the Eternal Forbidden Zone, Undying celebrates the departure of Li Zhiheng and Zishu Lingtian, believing the remaining fighters will be easier to defeat. Li Tianming and Li Tianyi remain behind to continue the battle.
• Li Tianming confronts Li Tianyi over his wavering loyalty. He suggests that dying while fighting for their ancestor would be preferable to surviving with guilt and shame. The chapter ends as the remaining fighters launch into battle against Undying.

Character Developments

• Li Yaotie reveals his fierce, uncompromising loyalty to the Heavenly Dao and his deep resentment toward Li Dalong’s decision. Though Li Dalong raised him, Li Yaotie believes ancestral duty outweighs personal gratitude.
• The Dancer begins confident that Li Yaotie can be persuaded, but ultimately recognizes that Li Yaotie’s convictions are unshakable. He later accepts that Li Dalong’s decision may have been correct.
• Heavenly Pool Holy Mother gains respect for Li Yaotie’s honesty and loyalty. She contrasts his integrity with Li Dalong’s choice and openly praises him for refusing to abandon their ancestor.
• Zishu Lingtian acts as a philosophical interpreter of the crisis, emphasizing that identity is shaped by multiple responsibilities rather than ancestry alone.
• Li Zhiheng struggles with the moral conflict between obeying Li Dalong and remaining loyal to Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao. Zishu’s reasoning deepens his uncertainty and guilt.
• Li Tianming rejects blind obedience to the family elders. He refuses to abandon their ancestor simply because survival would be easier and condemns those who choose life at the cost of loyalty.
• Li Tianyi is portrayed as emotionally exhausted and conflicted. His ability, [Finality], showed him a peaceful future for the family, but Li Tianming suggests that this vision may come at the cost of honor and responsibility.

Significant Themes

• Identity versus responsibility: Characters are defined by several overlapping identities—family member, leader, descendant, protector, or individual. The chapter asks which role should take priority when these obligations conflict.
• Loyalty versus survival: Li Yaotie and Li Tianming value loyalty to their ancestor even if it leads to death, while Li Dalong chooses the survival of his family and the broader Underworld.
• Humanity and moral choice: Zishu Lingtian argues that the Human Emperor understood human nature—people seek benefit and avoid harm—and used this predictable conflict to shape his long-term plan.
• The burden of leadership: Li Dalong’s decision is presented as neither purely noble nor purely selfish. As the lord of the Underworld, he must weigh the lives of his family, friends, reincarnated souls, and countless living beings.
• Honor, guilt, and shame: Li Tianming suggests that survival without loyalty may be spiritually worse than death. The chapter questions whether a peaceful future is worthwhile if it requires abandoning one’s principles.
• Predestination versus free will: The Human Emperor’s calculations and Li Tianyi’s vision of the future suggest a predetermined path, yet each character still makes personal moral choices.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Yaotie and the Dancer: Their confrontation exposes the central divide between abandoning the Heavenly Dao for survival and remaining loyal to ancestral duty.
• Li Yaotie and Heavenly Pool Holy Mother: Her approval of his furious defiance strengthens his position and highlights their shared respect for directness and loyalty.
• Zishu Lingtian and Li Zhiheng: Zishu attempts to justify Li Dalong’s actions by explaining the competing responsibilities behind his choice, though Li Zhiheng remains troubled.
• Zishu Lingtian and the Dancer: The Dancer reluctantly accepts that Li Dalong may have chosen correctly, despite the emotional cost.
• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi: Their exchange becomes a moral confrontation. Li Tianming challenges Li Tianyi to choose conviction over a beautiful but possibly shameful future.
• The remaining fighters and Undying: Their continued battle represents the refusal to abandon the Heavenly Dao’s cause, even after stronger allies withdraw.

Chapter Summary: “Freedom and Shackles”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dancer, Zishu Lingtian, and Li Zhiheng realize that Li Tianyi and Li Tianming have entered the Eternal Forbidden Zone intending to obtain Undying’s [Eternal]. Since they cannot kill Undying quickly, they retreat on the Eternal Black Dragon and declare that they will hunt Undying wherever he goes.
• Li Tianming proposes creating their own army by using [Assimilation] and Li Tianyi’s [Fusion] to absorb powerful cultivators and grow strong enough to challenge Undying. He rejects the Underworld and the wider Li Family, believing they abandoned him and his brother.
• Li Tianyi initially hesitates but ultimately reveals that his concern is not whether to act, but whom they should kill and which Emperor Fruit they should seize.
• Zishu Lingtian decides to search for Fifth Aunt, while Li Zhiheng attempts to locate his father, Li Dalong, who has disappeared after finding Blood Moon. Dancer plans to return the others to the Underworld.
• In the Immortal Domain, Green Lady and Gong Emperor continue their devastating battle. Green Lady’s forces are dwindling, with the Life Faction suffering heavy casualties and receiving no further support from the Underworld.
• Gong Emperor attempts to break Green Lady’s resolve by claiming that Li Dalong and the Azure Cloud Li Family never truly valued her. According to him, they only used her power and intend to sacrifice her and Li Yaoqing so that Li Yaoqing can eventually be restored through reincarnation.
• Green Lady enters the inner spiritual village where Li Yaoqing has taken refuge. Li Yaoqing mourns the betrayal and cruelty of her family but refuses Green Lady’s offer of “freedom,” fearing that Green Lady will die if she leaves her behind.
• Green Lady recognizes that Li Yaoqing is trapped by the Lineage’s responsibilities, the ancestors’ kindness, and her father’s expectations. These obligations have become shackles rather than sources of protection.
• Green Lady returns to the battlefield with a changed resolve. Her power erupts, transforming the Life Immortal World into countless vines and gigantic trees that pierce through the surrounding worlds. She advances calmly toward Gong Emperor, apparently preparing for a final and destructive confrontation.

Character Developments

• Li Tianming becomes increasingly radical and independent. Feeling betrayed by the Lineage, he embraces ruthless methods, planning to build an army through assimilation rather than rely on the Underworld.
• Li Tianyi shifts from hesitation to determination. His focus changes from whether violence is justified to choosing the most valuable targets and resources.
• Li Zhiheng is shaken by his father’s disappearance and begins questioning his assumptions about Li Dalong’s loyalty and intentions.
• Zishu Lingtian chooses personal action by seeking Fifth Aunt rather than passively waiting for the Underworld’s escape plan.
• Green Lady experiences a major emotional transformation. Gong Emperor’s accusations force her to confront the possibility that the Azure Cloud Li Family regarded her only as a tool. Her bond with Li Yaoqing deepens, but she also realizes that protecting Li Yaoqing may require freeing her from the family’s expectations.
• Li Yaoqing is revealed as emotionally fragile and deeply conflicted. She prefers the safety of her inner dream village to the responsibilities and cruelty of the outside world, viewing familial duty and gratitude as oppressive shackles.
• Gong Emperor acts as both antagonist and provocateur, using painful truths about the Li Family to undermine Green Lady’s will.

Significant Themes

• Freedom versus obligation: The chapter contrasts genuine freedom with the burdens imposed by family, lineage, gratitude, and destiny.
• Betrayal and abandonment: Several characters feel discarded by the institutions or families they once served, leading them toward independence or rebellion.
• The cost of loyalty: Green Lady remains loyal to the people who depend on her even after realizing they may have exploited her.
• Family as both refuge and prison: The Li Family provides protection and care but also demands obedience and sacrifice, making its bonds both meaningful and oppressive.
• Radical self-determination: Li Tianming and Li Tianyi decide to create their own path and power structure rather than rely on the Underworld or the Lineage.
• Sacrifice and identity: Green Lady and Li Yaoqing’s shared existence raises questions about whose life, will, and future should take priority.

Important Character Interactions

• Dancer, Zishu Lingtian, and Li Zhiheng discuss the Li brothers’ dangerous plan and the worsening situation surrounding Undying and the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Tianming pressures Li Tianyi to abandon dependence on the Lineage and build an army through assimilation, reminding him of all the times they were neglected.
• Gong Emperor confronts Green Lady, arguing that the Li Family has manipulated and abandoned her. His words force her to reassess her relationship with the family.
• Green Lady and Li Yaoqing share an emotional conversation in the inner village. Green Lady offers freedom, while Li Yaoqing begs her not to leave, believing that freedom would mean Green Lady’s death and her own return to unbearable reality.
• Green Lady and Gong Emperor are poised for their decisive clash as her power undergoes a dramatic transformation, ending the chapter on a major cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary: “Mother”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Gong Emperor retreats after being shaken by Green Lady’s determination.
• Green Lady unleashes the Pre-Heaven Vegetation Divine Art across the Immortal Domain and the mortal world. Vegetation grows violently, splitting the earth and spreading from the Immortal Domain through the Southern Lands and Central Plains.
• Realizing that Green Lady is draining her own vitality, the immortals of the life lineage kneel and mourn. She sends them a final message: “Live well.”
• Green Lady chooses self-destruction rather than allowing Gong Emperor, the Immortal Court, the Thirteen Ancient Sages, the Immortal Emperor, or the Heavenly Dao Prophet to eliminate her. Her explosion releases overwhelming life force across the world.
• The resulting green flames burn for a year. Rather than harming ordinary people, they destroy much of the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s flesh-and-blood covering, as well as many Underworld monsters and vicious ghosts. New plants grow from the ashes, allowing survivors to emerge from hiding.
• The world misunderstands the event as divine fire sent to purify the mortal realm.
• After a year, Li Zhiheng and the Dancer return to the battlefield. They discover that Green Lady’s power has destroyed roughly eighty percent of the Lord’s [Human Purgatory].
• Li Zhiheng believes Green Lady and Li Yaoqing are still alive because they share one body and neither has truly “died.” At the battlefield’s center, they find Green Lady alive but near death, sitting peacefully amid the flames with the weakened Li Yaoqing in her arms.
• The Dancer considers capturing or killing them, but Li Zhiheng threatens him, declaring that anyone who harms them will be denied reincarnation.
• Li Yaoqing awakens in a childlike state and shares an emotional farewell with Green Lady. Green Lady recalls their past and comforts her, encouraging her to live freely instead of constantly working or bearing responsibility.
• Li Yaoqing falls asleep in Green Lady’s arms, calling her “Mama.” Green Lady tenderly holds her and finally turns toward Li Zhiheng and the Dancer.

Character Developments

• Green Lady / Mother of Life: Demonstrates extraordinary resolve by sacrificing herself for the survival of the life lineage and the mortal world. Her final act reveals her as both a powerful progenitor and a deeply compassionate mother figure.
• Li Yaoqing: Regresses emotionally to the vulnerable child she once was, finally allowing herself to be cared for. She recognizes Green Lady as the first person to accept her weakness and give her permission to rest.
• Li Zhiheng: Shows profound loyalty and gratitude toward Green Lady, whom he regards as the Lineage’s benefactor. His grief turns into fierce protectiveness when the Dancer considers harming Green Lady and Li Yaoqing.
• The Dancer: Remains practical and aligned with the Lord’s interests, but recognizes the scale of Green Lady’s sacrifice. He also understands Li Zhiheng’s emotional attachment and avoids provoking him.
• Forest Child and the life lineage: Move from grief and shock to action, obeying Green Lady’s final command to survive.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and survival: Green Lady’s self-destruction is not defeat but a deliberate sacrifice that preserves a future for others.
• Motherhood and unconditional love: Green Lady’s relationship with Li Yaoqing is defined by patience, protection, and acceptance rather than duty or achievement.
• The right to rest and be cared for: Green Lady challenges the belief that Li Yaoqing must always work, serve others, or carry responsibility.
• Life emerging from destruction: The green flames destroy corruption and death, while new vegetation rises from the ashes, symbolizing renewal after catastrophe.
• Hope through loss: Though Green Lady appears to die, her actions create possibilities for both the mortal world and those she protects.
• Misunderstood heroism: Ordinary people interpret the event as heavenly purification, unaware of Green Lady’s sacrifice and the true conflict behind it.

Character Interactions

• Green Lady gives the life lineage a final, loving command to “Live well,” inspiring Forest Child to lead them away and preserve their survival.
• The Dancer explains to Li Zhiheng that Green Lady never had a genuine path to survival because every major power viewed her existence as a threat.
• Li Zhiheng’s silent grief reveals his gratitude and emotional bond with Green Lady.
• Li Zhiheng protects Green Lady and Li Yaoqing from the Dancer, threatening him with eternal exclusion from reincarnation.
• Green Lady and Li Yaoqing share their most intimate conversation, with Green Lady reassuring her that she is worthy of love even when she is weak, lazy, frightened, or inactive.
• The chapter ends with Li Yaoqing asleep in Green Lady’s embrace, embodying their mother-daughter bond as Green Lady prepares to face Li Zhiheng and the Dancer.

Summary of “The Fallen Mother of Life”

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Underworld, Xu Cuihua questions whether she has been a good mother. Remembering her children’s anger, ruin, and awakening, she realizes that although others praised her as an excellent matriarch, she had neglected her children’s feelings and lives.
• Green Lady reveals that the Gong Emperor survived their battle but was gravely wounded. However, Green Lady herself is dying after exhausting her life force.
• Before dying, Green Lady explains that the Azure Cloud Li Family never truly trusted her, but Li Yaoqing did. Yaoqing accepted the possibility of death without hesitation and entrusted herself completely to Green Lady.
• Green Lady asks Li Zhiheng and the Dancer to give Li Yaoqing occasional peace rather than continuing to exploit her loyalty and sense of duty.
• Green Lady dies peacefully while holding the sleeping Li Yaoqing and singing nursery rhymes. Her body dissolves into starlight.
• Li Yaoqing awakens after Green Lady’s departure. She deliberately remains calm, allowing Green Lady’s warmth and songs to fade before accepting that their farewell is complete.
• Severely weakened and still inhabiting Green Lady’s damaged body, Li Yaoqing refuses to return to the Underworld. She tells Li Zhiheng that Li Dalong needs him more and declares that, since the family no longer needs her, she no longer needs to care for them.
• As Yaoqing leaves, her childlike form matures into that of an adult woman. The Dancer and Li Zhiheng realize she has inherited Green Lady’s true body: the Nineleaf Grass and the Origin of Life, Green Lady’s final gift.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet senses Green Lady’s death and chooses not to attack Yaoqing out of respect for Green Lady and their past connection. It also recognizes that the Azure Cloud Li Family’s betrayal of Li Xiang was genuine, unlike the temporary “betrayals” of others.
• The Prophet condemns Li Zhiheng and the Dancer as “trash.” When they reach the former Primordial Immortal Realm, they find Li Yaozu kneeling in despair amid the ruins.

Character Developments

• Xu Cuihua: Begins confronting her failures as a mother. Her confidence as a respected matriarch collapses when she realizes she has prioritized family authority and appearances over understanding her children.
• Green Lady: Dies with compassion and dignity. Despite being betrayed and mistrusted, she remains concerned for Li Yaoqing’s future and tries to protect her from further exploitation.
• Li Yaoqing: Experiences a profound transformation. She accepts Green Lady’s death without outward emotional collapse, then rejects her former role as the family’s endlessly obedient protector. Her physical maturation symbolizes her emotional independence and newfound self-knowledge.
• Li Zhiheng: Feels shame and grief over the family’s treatment of Green Lady and Yaoqing. He recognizes the immense cost of their betrayal but is unable to stop Yaoqing from leaving.
• The Dancer: Becomes frightened by Yaoqing’s changed demeanor and shares Li Zhiheng’s helplessness.
• Heavenly Dao Prophet: Abandons its jealousy and resentment toward Li Xiang after recognizing the Azure Cloud Li Family’s true betrayal. It responds with pity and contempt rather than triumph.
• Li Yaozu: Appears devastated, kneeling among the ruins of the Primordial Immortal Realm.

Significant Themes

• The failure of family responsibility: Xu Cuihua and the Azure Cloud Li Family both mistake authority, dependence, and duty for genuine care.
• Exploitation of loyalty: Green Lady recognizes that the family has relied on Yaoqing’s selflessness without considering her needs.
• Grief and acceptance: Li Yaoqing’s silent farewell shows that mourning can be private and restrained rather than dramatic.
• Independence through loss: Green Lady’s death forces Yaoqing to understand who she is apart from her family’s expectations.
• Betrayal and moral judgment: The chapter contrasts temporary strategic disappointment with true abandonment, portraying Li Dalong and the family’s indifference as a deeper betrayal.
• Sacrifice and inheritance: Green Lady’s death is not only an ending but also a transfer of power, identity, and purpose through the Nineleaf Grass and Origin of Life.

Important Character Interactions

• Xu Cuihua speaks to the silent ancestral spirit tablet while questioning her motherhood.
• Green Lady and Li Zhiheng confront the family’s mutual distrust, with Green Lady offering forgiveness but no illusion about their relationship.
• Green Lady tenderly cares for Li Yaoqing and asks Li Zhiheng and the Dancer to protect her from being used.
• After awakening, Yaoqing speaks calmly with Li Zhiheng and the Dancer, but her emotional distance makes them uneasy.
• Yaoqing firmly rejects Li Zhiheng’s attempt to take her back, asserting her independence.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet silently acknowledges Green Lady’s sacrifice, then humiliates Li Zhiheng and the Dancer before they discover the devastated Li Yaozu.

Summary: “Isolated and Helpless”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yaozu kneels amid the ruined battlefield, receiving repeated notifications that members of the Li Family have fallen while resisting the Heavenly Dao Prophet. Among the dead are Li Zhijing, Li Jianping, Li Changan, Li Xinghuo, Zishu Wandong, Fang Linglong, and others.
• Li Zhiheng and Dancer arrive searching for the family elders but are confronted by the devastation. Li Zhiheng is overwhelmed, while Li Yaozu maintains a composed, elder-like bearing and moves toward Old Tree.
• The battlefield reveals the consequences of the struggle: Li Kuangren’s Great Dao has shattered, Yun Bing’s wheelchair is empty, the Tianshu Spirit-Suppressing Spear has broken, and Li Xinghuo and Zishu Wandong transform into starlight after helping awaken Old Tree.
• Li Yunlin joins Li Yaozu, carrying Old Cat and confirming that the spear has been destroyed. Yaozu calmly accepts Linglong’s fall, saying they had long prepared themselves for either person to die and that he will wait for her to return.
• Li Changyao silently follows with Yun Bing’s empty wheelchair. The surviving clansmen gradually gather together, supporting one another as they endure the deaths of their loved ones.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet leaves the Immortal Domain rather than pursue the exhausted Li Family. It encounters Aba, who continues guarding his assigned position despite being unable to stop it. Moved but unable to understand Aba’s loyalty, the Prophet leaves him behind.
• In the chaos, the saints and Zhang Baijie stop attacking the Heavenly Dao and turn toward Aba, following the final outcome predicted through their endless calculations. The conflict has reached a stage where strategy is exhausted and only direct power remains.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet confronts Li Xiang and the Cultivation Family Simulator. It claims to possess half of the world’s ultimate laws and Great Daos, while Li Xiang is gravely wounded and seemingly isolated.
• Li Xiang explains that the rise and fall of powers is cyclical: oppression inevitably creates resistance, and each era of dominance is eventually replaced by a new one. The current conflict between the Heavenly Dao Prophet, the Ancient Sages, and the Li Family is only one stage in this continuing transfer of power.
• The Prophet angrily recalls killing the Li Family members one after another and deliberately leaving the survivors alive to suffer grief, guilt, and the uncertainty of waiting for the fallen to awaken.
• Li Xiang reveals that the Prophet has already seen the future—one in which it no longer exists or is remembered. This frightens the Prophet, who rejects the possibility and insists that the future belongs to it.

Character Developments

• Li Yaozu: Remains calm and resolute despite Linglong’s fall and the destruction of the family’s forces. His restraint reflects deep grief transformed into endurance and responsibility.
• Li Yunlin: Suppresses his sorrow to maintain the appearance of strength for younger family members. He begins to understand that other survivors are doing the same, creating a shared but unspoken burden.
• Li Changyao: Becomes nearly silent after Yun Bing’s death, pushing an empty wheelchair as a symbol of loss. His quiet grief contrasts with the family’s need to continue moving forward.
• Li Zhiheng: Represents the younger generation’s shock and inability to emotionally process the catastrophe. His panic contrasts with Yaozu’s controlled dignity.
• Aba: Demonstrates absolute loyalty by continuing to guard Li Xiang’s position even when resistance is futile. His devotion becomes a moral contrast to the Prophet’s repeated experiences of betrayal.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet: Though overwhelmingly powerful, it is emotionally unstable. Its triumph is undermined by resentment, fear of betrayal, and terror that the future may erase it completely.
• Li Xiang: Despite his wounds and apparent isolation, he remains calm and confident. His understanding of historical cycles suggests that he has prepared for defeat as part of a larger struggle rather than viewing it as the end.

Significant Themes

• Grief and endurance: The survivors must continue living while carrying the deaths of family members. Their silence and forced composure show grief being transformed into perseverance.
• Loyalty versus betrayal: Aba’s unwavering devotion contrasts with the Prophet’s obsession with betrayal and its belief that all created beings will eventually turn against their creator.
• The cyclical transfer of power: No authority remains permanently dominant. Resistance emerges whenever power reaches its peak, ensuring that history continually renews itself.
• Hope through future generations: Even if the current generation fails, Li Xiang suggests that future resistance is inevitable. Defeat does not eliminate the possibility of eventual renewal.
• Isolation and helplessness: The Li Family is physically and emotionally shattered, while the Prophet stands nearly unmatched in power. Yet the chapter suggests that apparent helplessness may be temporary and that power alone cannot control the future.
• The limits of prediction: The Prophet believes its calculations have exhausted every possible outcome, but Li Xiang points to a future beyond its ability to comprehend—one in which the Prophet disappears.

Character Interactions

• Li Yaozu and Li Zhiheng: Yaozu’s composed response to Zhiheng’s panic establishes the contrast between experienced leadership and youthful shock.
• Li Yaozu and Li Yunlin: Their brief exchange about Linglong and the broken spear reveals Yaozu’s acceptance of sacrifice and Yunlin’s anxiety over his father’s emotional state.
• Li Yunlin and Li Changyao: Without directly speaking about their losses, they recognize each other’s need to hide despair and preserve the family’s morale.
• The Prophet and Aba: The Prophet questions whether Aba’s loyalty was worthwhile, but Aba’s refusal to answer demonstrates that loyalty is not dependent on victory.
• The Prophet and Li Xiang: Their final confrontation is ideological as well as physical. The Prophet emphasizes power, betrayal, and apparent victory, while Li Xiang responds with patience, historical insight, and confidence in inevitable resistance.

Chapter Summary: “The Grand Preceptor Falls”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yuexian and the cultivators of Jixian Manor explore the Endless Graveyard, reading the tombs of figures from the ancient war. They discover that Dancer, whom they once knew, was actually the Underworld’s First Yama King.
• Miss Five explains that the Eternal Immortal Sect once fought for humanity alongside the Human Emperor and Blue Ancestor, but was eventually separated from the Azure Cloud Li Family and had no right to participate directly in the decisive war.
• Yuexian reveals that three members of the Li Family’s Tian generation survived the ancient catastrophe. These “madmen” ignored morality, rules, and even their own futures, killing anyone who obstructed them. They are described as the embodiment of Finality and as the Heavenly Dao’s most trusted weapons.
• The group sees the terrifying swordsman Li Yaozu arrive at the graveyard. His presence alone makes everyone feel exposed and vulnerable. A rotting figure then appears behind Boss Qi and claims to be one of the three Li Family madmen, hinting that their greatest crime was “massacring the entire world.”
• In the present conflict, humanity and the myriad races do not immediately go to war with one another. Instead, both sides recognize that their true struggle is against the Immortal Court, Heavenly Dao, and the greater Calamity.
• Min Youguo, humanity’s acting leader, contacts the great powers and is widely regarded as the natural successor to the Human Emperor. However, he refuses the position, admitting that he lacks the ability to bear its burdens and that he cannot escape the shadow of the ancient sages and the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Min dreams of finding humanity a safe place in the universe, after which he hopes to abandon political responsibility and freely pursue longevity.
• Lin Meng considers the desperate situation: the Thirteen Ancient Sages are attempting to break free of Aba’s restrictions, the Li Family is divided, and the forces opposing the coming catastrophe appear hopelessly weak.
• While traveling to negotiate with the myriad races, Min Youguo is suddenly attacked. His body falls from shattered space and dies almost unnoticed, despite his status as humanity’s greatest surviving leader.
• A colossal Black Dragon and two youthful Daoist cultivators appear. They possess Min Youguo’s Emperor Fruit, and the fair-skinned youth consumes it.
• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi are revealed to be responsible or directly involved. Li Tianyi declares that anyone who attempts to stop them will be killed.

Character Developments

• Yuexian: Her sorrow and knowledge of the past deepen the others’ understanding of the ancient war. Li Yaozu’s return fills her with intense excitement, suggesting a personal connection or allegiance to him.
• Miss Five and Han Meng: Their history as participants in humanity’s ancient struggle is exposed. Miss Five’s anger toward the three Li Family “madmen” reveals both trauma and unresolved hatred.
• Boss Qi: Initially skeptical and outraged by the revelations, he becomes increasingly horrified as he realizes how powerful and unconstrained the ancient Li Family figures were.
• Min Youguo: He is shown to be humble and self-aware. Although humanity considers him worthy of becoming the next Human Emperor, he rejects the throne, preferring a future in which humanity is secure and he can finally live freely. His death makes his sacrifices and aspirations especially tragic.
• Lin Meng: She begins to respect Min Youguo after recognizing his honest awareness of his own limitations. She also grows increasingly worried about the imbalance between the Li Family, the Ancient Sages, and the forces defending the world.
• Li Yaozu and the other Li Family madmen: They are established as nearly unstoppable, morally unrestrained figures who may have survived from the ancient era and remain central threats—or tools—in the current conflict.
• Li Tianyi and Li Tianming: They emerge as ruthless agents pursuing the Emperor Fruit without concern for the political consequences or the wrath of humanity’s strongest figures.

Significant Themes

• The burden of leadership: Min Youguo’s refusal of the Human Emperor’s position emphasizes that authority is not merely a reward but a crushing responsibility.
• Self-knowledge and humility: Min’s ability to recognize his limitations earns Lin Meng’s respect and contrasts with those who seek power without understanding its cost.
• Moral ambiguity in catastrophe: The Li Family madmen disregard morality and allegiance, killing anyone who blocks their path. Their actions suggest that survival and cosmic destiny may operate beyond conventional good and evil.
• The recurrence of ancient calamity: The ancient war is not truly over. Its survivors, secrets, and unresolved conflicts continue to shape the present.
• The insignificance of individuals before overwhelming power: Min Youguo’s abrupt death, despite his greatness, demonstrates how vulnerable even legendary figures are in the face of higher existences.
• Hope versus inevitability: The characters search for a way to save humanity, but the rise of the Ancient Sages, Heavenly Dao’s struggle, and the Li Family’s actions make the coming catastrophe seem increasingly unavoidable.

Important Character Interactions

• Miss Five and Boss Qi: Boss Qi presses her about the Eternal Immortal Sect’s role in the ancient war, forcing her to admit how far beyond their reach the ancient powers were.
• Yuexian and the group: Yuexian provides crucial information about Dancer, the Azure Cloud Li Family, and the three surviving madmen.
• The old man and Li Yaozu: The old man announces that the “Young Master” has returned, presenting Li Yaozu as a long-awaited and terrifying figure.
• The rotting figure and Boss Qi: The figure deliberately frightens Boss Qi and boasts of the Li Family’s possible responsibility for a world-wide massacre.
• Min Youguo and Lin Meng: Their conversation highlights Min’s humility, his rejection of imperial power, and his desire to secure humanity’s future before seeking personal freedom.
• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi: After obtaining Min Youguo’s Emperor Fruit, Li Tianming questions their next move, while Li Tianyi responds with open defiance and a willingness to kill anyone who interferes.

Chapter Summary: “A Gift for the Li Family?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Min Youguo dies within the Human Race Forbidden Zone. His death causes widespread shock, but no one openly dares accuse the Azure Cloud Li Family, despite the Li brothers and the Iron Gate Seven being present.
• Li Tianyi takes Min Youguo’s Emperor Fruit and enters the Mahayana realm, immediately completing the Nine Tribulations. The acquisition also grants the Li Family the Human Race Imperial Seal and the Nine-Dragon Imperial Carriage.
• Human survivors gather beneath the Eternal Black Dragon, erect a memorial for Min Youguo, and angrily curse Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, and the Iron Gate Seven, believing they murdered the State Preceptor.
• The Iron Gate Seven insist they did not kill Min Youguo and suspect someone deliberately framed them. However, because they arrived as Min Youguo died and accepted his treasures, they cannot convincingly clear themselves.
• Li Tianming investigates the crowd with his Pollution ability but finds no obvious trace of the murderer. When a cultivator demands that Min Youguo’s remains be returned, Li Tianming kills him and declares that they should investigate who truly killed Min Youguo.
• Half a month later, the human leadership gathers to mourn Min Youguo. Ahei begs the powerful cultivators to uncover the truth, but the court refuses to challenge the Li Family.
• The God-Machine Old Man argues that the human race should accept Min Youguo’s death and offer the Emperor Fruit and other treasures to the Li Family. He claims this will preserve the human race and possibly earn Li Dalong’s future protection.
• Lin Meng recognizes the political calculation behind his apparently selfless proposal: with Min Youguo gone, God-Hunting Village can dominate the human race while using the Li Family’s alleged crime as future political leverage.
• As Lin Meng prepares to deal with Li Yaowen’s remaining avatars, Li Tianming and the others suddenly appear in the hall. Li Tianming throws Min Youguo’s corpse before the assembled leaders and jokingly calls it a “gift” to the Li Family, implying that they have discovered or are about to expose the real circumstances behind his death.

Character Developments

• Li Tianyi advances dramatically by using Min Youguo’s Emperor Fruit as his foundation and entering the Mahayana realm. His achievement demonstrates the Li Family’s immense power and growing dominance.
• Li Tianming remains calm, observant, and irreverent despite the surrounding hostility. He investigates the murder independently and responds brutally to those who challenge him, showing both confidence and ruthlessness.
• The Iron Gate Seven are frustrated and humiliated by the accusations against them. Their reluctance to harm innocent humans contrasts with their intimidating power, while their possession of Min Youguo’s treasures makes the accusations difficult to refute.
• Ahei emerges as one of the few figures genuinely loyal to Min Youguo and concerned with justice. His grief and helplessness reveal how completely the old Imperial Dynasty’s leadership has collapsed.
• Lin Meng becomes more politically perceptive. Her respect for God-Machine Old Man weakens when she realizes that his sorrowful speech conceals ambitions for control.
• God-Machine Old Man is portrayed as opportunistic and calculating. He uses the crisis to advance God-Hunting Village’s influence while presenting submission to the Li Family as a patriotic sacrifice.
• Min Youguo, though dead, remains central to the chapter as a symbol of the old human order, its sacrifices, and the political struggles surrounding its collapse.

Significant Themes

• Power over justice: The human race refuses to investigate Min Youguo’s death because the Li Family is too powerful to challenge.
• Political hypocrisy and opportunism: Leaders use grief, loyalty, and concern for humanity as masks for personal or factional ambitions.
• The collapse of the old order: Min Youguo’s death and Li Tianyi’s advancement mark the transfer of authority from the Human Race Imperial Dynasty to the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Reputation versus truth: The Li Family is condemned despite uncertain evidence, while the actual murderer remains hidden. Public perception matters more than facts.
• Humiliation as strategy: God-Machine Old Man suggests that enduring the Li Family’s supposed insult may secure the human race’s survival, showing how weakness forces political submission.
• Moral ambiguity: The Li Family may not have committed the murder, but they willingly accept its benefits and respond violently to opposition, making their innocence difficult to separate from their ruthlessness.

Character Interactions

• The Iron Gate Seven argue among themselves about Min Youguo’s death and their inability to defend their reputation.
• Human survivors openly curse the Iron Gate Seven, Li Tianyi, and Li Tianming, while the dragon group struggles not to retaliate.
• Li Yundou asks Li Tianming to resolve the crisis, recognizing his superior intelligence and judgment.
• Li Tianming confronts the hostile crowd and later announces his intention to find the true killer.
• Ahei appeals to the human leadership for justice, but God-Machine Old Man and the other elites dismiss his concerns.
• Lin Meng silently analyzes God-Machine Old Man’s motives and recognizes the factional struggle beneath the mourning.
• The chapter ends with Li Tianming confronting the human leaders directly by presenting Min Youguo’s corpse and hinting that the Li Family has received an unexpected and possibly politically useful “gift.”

Chapter Summary: “The Rebellion of the Clone!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Eternal Black Dragon enters the Human Race Forbidden Grounds with Li Tianming and the Azure Cloud Li Family, terrifying the gathered Human Race powerhouses.
• Li Tianming publicly presents Min Youguo’s corpse and demands an explanation for the Imperial Preceptor’s death.
• The God-Machine Old Man attempts to curry favor with Li Tianming by praising him and offering Min Youguo’s possessions, while denying involvement in the killing.
• Li Tianming deliberately provokes him, then seizes and attacks him with the Great Dao of Pollution. He throws the old man into the Eternal Black Dragon’s domain, killing him as an example to the others.
• Li Tianming reveals that he has come specifically to uncover Min Youguo’s murderer. He identifies Lin Meng, a clone of Li Yaowen, as the true culprit.
• Lin Meng openly admits to killing Min Youguo and reveals that thousands of clones throughout the forbidden zone are also incarnations of Li Yaowen.
• She explains that the clones resent their creator and refuse to remain sacrificial tools of the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Lin Meng declares that the clones intend to kill Li Tianming, the Heavenly Dao, and Li Dalong so that Li Yaowen can never revive. Their ultimate goal is to replace Li Yaowen and become the “real” version of her.

Character Developments

• Li Tianming: Displays overwhelming authority and a colder, more strategic temperament. Rather than killing indiscriminately, he uses the God-Machine Old Man’s behavior as a pretext for an execution, warning the other Human Race powers not to defy him. His true purpose is to investigate Min Youguo’s death.
• God-Machine Old Man: Quickly shifts from arrogance and political calculation to abject terror. His attempt to gain Li Tianming’s favor fails, and he is sacrificed as a warning to the gathered cultivators.
• Lin Meng: Transitions from a seemingly defensive clone into the chapter’s true antagonist. She openly embraces her rebellion, revealing deep resentment toward Li Yaowen and the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• The Li Yaowen clones: Are revealed to share a collective fear and hatred of their creator. They seek freedom from their assigned roles and intend to seize Li Yaowen’s identity and power.
• Zishu Lingtian and the other observers: React with uncertainty and unease as former alliances become increasingly complicated and the truth behind Min Youguo’s death emerges.

Significant Themes

• Rebellion against creators: The clones reject the control and destiny imposed upon them by Li Yaowen and the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Identity and autonomy: Lin Meng questions whether a clone can possess an independent life and identity, ultimately deciding that the clones must destroy their original to become fully autonomous.
• Power and intimidation: Li Tianming’s entrance and execution of the God-Machine Old Man demonstrate how absolute strength can silence opposition and reshape political relationships.
• Fear and resentment: The clones’ rebellion is driven by years of living under Li Yaowen’s shadow and fearing eventual sacrifice or destruction.
• Moral ambiguity: Li Tianming seeks justice for Min Youguo but uses intimidation and execution to obtain answers, while the clones frame their murderous ambitions as self-defense and liberation.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Tianming and the God-Machine Old Man: The old man tries to flatter and ally himself with Li Tianming, but Li Tianming exposes his evasiveness and kills him.
• Li Tianming and Lin Meng: Li Tianming directly accuses Lin Meng of murdering Min Youguo. Instead of denying it, she confesses and explains the clones’ larger plan.
• Li Tianming and the Human Race powerhouses: His presence forces them into silence and submission, while his questioning makes clear that he suspects someone within their own ranks.
• Lin Meng and the clones: Lin Meng speaks as a representative of the thousands of clones, revealing their shared hatred, fear, and intention to overthrow Li Yaowen’s legacy.

Summary: The Ambition of the Clones

Key Plot Points and Events

• Nearly eight thousand Li Yaowen clones activate Azure Cloud Li Family formations across the Human Race Forbidden Zone. These formations drain the vitality, mana, and spiritual power of all living beings, threatening to exterminate the human race.
• The clones’ deaths do not weaken them permanently: their mana, bloodlines, laws, domains, and cultivation are redistributed among compatible clones. As a result, killing them will eventually produce an entity at or beyond the level of Ninety-Nine Revolutions Nine Tribulations. Many clones have also absorbed Innate Void Origin and are effectively immortal.
• The clones seize the crucial defensive hubs protecting the human race, while powerful members of the myriad races approach the forbidden zone. The human race is trapped between internal betrayal and external invasion.
• Lin Meng reveals that the clones have abandoned Li Yaowen’s original goal of protecting humanity. Instead, they intend to merge and devour the entire human race, then enter the wider universe without sharing it with what they consider inferior beings.
• Lin Meng admits that she allied with the myriad races. In exchange for helping them kill Min Youguo, she expects to obtain his Emperor Fruit. She also plans to give them the Human Emperor’s Throne Carriage and imperial jade seal, leaving humanity defenseless.
• Li Tianming discovers that the myriad races’ sudden arrival is connected to Undying and the Thirteen Ancient Sages. One of the Ancient Sages appears to have escaped through a weakness in the Heavenly Cycle Grand Array, while the defensive array itself begins to develop gaps.
• Above the heavens, the Heavenly Dao Prophet and Li Xiang discuss the motives of the Thirteen Ancient Sages. The sages claim they wish to preserve universal Order, but their true plan is to control the world jointly with the Heavenly Dao and prevent its inhabitants from ascending into the broader universe.
• Immortal Emperor Zhang Baijie is devastated by this revelation. Having believed in the freedom and eventual liberation of immortal souls, he realizes that nearly all of the supreme powers oppose allowing anyone to leave the world.

Character Developments

• Lin Meng is exposed as deeply ambitious and treacherous. She has long desired to become Human Emperor and views both humanity and Li Yaowen’s original mission with contempt. Her alliance with the myriad races shows that she values power and personal advancement over loyalty or collective survival.
• Li Tianming remains composed while uncovering the conspiracy. He pieces together Lin Meng’s motives, Min Youguo’s hidden struggle with her, and the involvement of the myriad races and Ancient Sages.
• Min Youguo is revealed to have been cautiously manipulating and restraining Lin Meng. Although he claimed to desire freedom and rejected the Human Emperor’s position, he secretly took the Emperor’s symbols and sought Li Tianming, suggesting he had his own hidden plan.
• Li Yaowen’s clones have evolved beyond their creator’s intentions. Originally scattered across the world, they have become rebellious, independent beings driven by superiority, survival, and domination.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet is presented as pragmatic and self-interested. He wants to reclaim the position of Heavenly Dao and prevent beings from leaving the world, fearing they would eventually become threats.
• The Thirteen Ancient Sages, represented by Rotten Axe Elder, are revealed to be pursuing control rather than true liberation. Their rhetoric about protecting Order conceals a desire to preserve their dominance.
• Zhang Baijie experiences a major crisis of faith. He realizes that the powerful beings he once relied upon have no intention of honoring the aspirations of ordinary immortals.

Significant Themes

• Ambition and betrayal: The clones reject their creator’s ideals, while Lin Meng betrays both humanity and her former allies for power.
• The corruption of ideals: Claims of protecting humanity, preserving Order, or freeing the universe are shown to conceal personal or institutional self-interest.
• Power perpetuating itself: The redistribution of fallen clones’ abilities means that resistance may actually strengthen the ultimate enemy.
• Freedom versus control: Zhang Baijie and other immortals desire liberation and the right to explore the universe, while the Heavenly Dao and Ancient Sages insist that strict control is necessary for stability.
• Order versus progress: The Ancient Sages argue that unrestricted advancement will lead to endless war, raising the question of whether peace maintained through oppression is truly peace.
• The danger of superiority: The clones’ contempt for humanity mirrors the very tyranny they once opposed, turning them into the kind of monsters their enemies feared.

Character Interactions

• Patriarch Tianye, Zishu Feng, Ye Xiu, Duanmu Qi, and Zishu Lingtian discuss the formations and realize that attacking the clones may accelerate the creation of an even stronger enemy.
• Celestial Light Patriarch confronts a clone, demanding to know what benefit the rebellion could bring. The clone responds that it refuses to share the universe with beings it considers worthless.
• Li Tianming and Lin Meng debate the clones’ objectives, Min Youguo’s death, and the agreement with the myriad races. Lin Meng openly mocks the human race and celebrates the deaths of clones who retained loyalty to the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Li Tianming recognizes the aura of the Ancient Sages within Lin Meng’s plot and links it to the weakening Heavenly Cycle Grand Array.
• Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet discuss the Ancient Sages’ hidden agenda, while Rotten Axe Elder openly declares their intention to govern the world alongside the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhang Baijie silently reacts to these revelations, realizing that his hope for freedom is opposed by every major faction involved.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Undying, a weakened Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, brutally suppresses Longevity Lord, patriarch of the Kirin Clan, while blaming the Azure Cloud Li Family for his injuries and failed pursuit of Li Tianming and Li Tianyi.
• Undying reveals that he has allied with Lin Meng, an avatar of Li Yaowen. Together, they intend to eliminate their enemies, dominate the myriad races, and eventually rule the Immortal Realm.
• Undying believes that obtaining Li Tianming and Li Tianyi’s Dao will make him invincible, allowing him to overcome the Ancient Sages, Zhang Baijie, and even the Heavenly Dao.
• Lady Rong, one of the Thirteen Ancient Sages and wielder of the Dao of time, suddenly arrives. She effortlessly suppresses Undying and restores Longevity Lord’s injuries.
• Lady Rong discovers that a hidden formation within the Kirin Clan is draining Undying’s essence, qi, spirit, bloodline, and laws. The stolen power is being transported elsewhere.
• By examining the River of Time, Lady Rong discovers that the formation was secretly planted by Li Yaowen’s avatar. She warns that similar formations may exist throughout the world and orders the Kirin Clan to relocate.
• Above the heavens, the Heavenly Dao Prophet realizes that Lin Meng’s formations are beginning a worldwide slaughter and may force the Ancient Sages to intervene to prevent the extinction of the myriad races.
• Li Xiang reveals that he anticipated Li Yaowen’s actions. He understood that her avatars would eventually resort to slaughtering the entire world to force the Ancient Sages and Heavenly Dao into open conflict.
• Lin Meng declares that the world should have only one sovereign: herself and her original body. However, Li Tianming reacts with excitement rather than fear, revealing that he and his allies intend to pursue the same ruthless strategy.
• Li Tianyi attacks an elder from God-Hunting Village, biting apart his Great Dao. Horrified, the Azure Cloud Prefecture cultivators flee, realizing that Li Tianyi and Li Tianming are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.
• The chapter ends with Li Tianyi laughing and declaring that he and Li Tianming also intend to slaughter every powerful figure in the world.

Character Developments

• Undying: His arrogance remains intact despite his injuries, but his confidence collapses when Lady Rong effortlessly suppresses him. His alliance with Lin Meng reveals his ambition to become the sole Immortal Emperor.
• Longevity Lord: Initially humiliated and helpless, he is rescued by Lady Rong. He learns that the Kirin Clan has been secretly targeted and acts quickly to save his people.
• Lady Rong: Demonstrates overwhelming power and a compassionate attachment to the myriad races. Her discovery of Li Yaowen’s formations makes her wary of the broader threat posed by the avatars.
• Li Yaowen/Lin Meng: Revealed as calculating, ruthless, and willing to sacrifice entire races to force the world’s strongest beings into conflict. Lin Meng openly embraces the goal of absolute domination.
• Li Xiang: Shows that he had anticipated Li Yaowen’s contingency plan and understands the strategic consequences of the worldwide slaughter.
• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi: Their ruthlessness becomes fully explicit. Rather than opposing Lin Meng’s plan morally, they intend to exploit the same chaos to destroy the world’s powerful figures. Li Tianyi’s attack emphasizes his transformation into a terrifying, unpredictable force.

Significant Themes

• Power and domination: Multiple factions seek to become the sole ruler of the Immortal Realm, rejecting the possibility of coexistence.
• Manipulation and long-term planning: The hidden formations and Li Xiang’s predictions show that major conflicts are driven by schemes prepared far in advance.
• The collapse of moral boundaries: Lin Meng, Li Tianyi, and Li Tianming all treat mass slaughter as a strategic tool rather than an unacceptable atrocity.
• The burden of power: The Ancient Sages and Heavenly Dao are forced to choose between preserving their supremacy and preventing the extinction of the myriad races.
• Fate, time, and foresight: Lady Rong’s River of Time and Li Xiang’s predictions emphasize how past actions, hidden preparations, and possible futures shape the current crisis.

Character Interactions

• Undying and Longevity Lord: Their encounter shows Undying’s contempt for the myriad races and Longevity Lord’s helplessness beneath overwhelming force.
• Lady Rong and Undying: Lady Rong completely reverses the power dynamic, suppressing him and exposing the danger of his alliance.
• Lady Rong and Longevity Lord: Her gentle rescue contrasts with her severe response to the hidden formation, reinforcing her protective attitude toward the myriad races.
• Lady Rong and Li Yaowen: The discovery of the formation creates mutual wariness and reveals Li Yaowen’s increasingly dangerous methods.
• Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Their conversation clarifies that Li Xiang anticipated the crisis and may have deliberately allowed events to escalate.
• Li Tianming, Li Tianyi, and Lin Meng: Their confrontation reveals an alarming similarity in their ambitions. Instead of fearing Lin Meng’s plan, the Li brothers welcome the resulting chaos and announce their own intention to destroy the world’s strongest beings.

Summary

1. Key plot points and events

• Nearly fifty Mahayana cultivators from the myriad races gather outside the Human Race Forbidden Zone, secretly plotting to eliminate Min Youguo and exploit the conflict between Lin Meng and the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Lin Meng activates a powerful array within the Human Race Forbidden Zone that consumes human essence and blood. The gathered cultivators immediately recognize that she intends to use humanity as fuel for her ambitions.
• Ximing explains that the clans deliberately allowed Min Youguo to survive long enough for the Azure Cloud Li Family and the Underworld Ghost Emperor to arrive. She reminds the Mahayana cultivators of their blood oath to “change the heavens.”
• The cultivators reveal their true goal: they intend to use the coming conflict among Lin Meng, the Li Family, the Ancient Sages, the Immortal Court, and the Heavenly Dao Prophet to break free from centuries of oppression.
• Lady Rong discovers Undying’s aura and Lin Meng’s array in the Kirin Clan. Since she commands the River of Time and possesses powerful Fate Arts, the Mahayana cultivators fear she may expose their plans. They consider, though do not confirm, attacking her collectively.
• Meanwhile, Old Wolf’s sculptures of the mortal world begin collapsing as realms and cities are destroyed. The eight thousand identical statues he created spread throughout the world, apparently preserving or embodying the lives and places being lost.
• Old Wolf leaves his hidden realm and confronts Aba, the Human Emperor. He declares that he has realized no major faction can be trusted to protect ordinary beings.
• Old Wolf challenges Aba, becoming a new and unpredictable force in the war. He vows to oppose the Azure Cloud Li Family, Heavenly Dao Prophet, Immortal Court, and Lin Meng, all of whom he believes are willing to sacrifice the world’s living beings.

2. Character developments

• Ximing shows sorrow and helplessness over humanity’s decline but remains committed to preserving a path for humanity’s survival. She acts as a moral reminder to the other Mahayana cultivators.
• Jin Zhu reveals himself as both politically shrewd and openly ambitious. He understands Lin Meng’s scheme and hopes to profit from the chaos created by the battle between the major powers.
• The Mahayana cultivators shed their former dignity and become conspirators seeking liberation from the Ancient Sages and Immortal Court. Their blood oath is presented as a genuine revolutionary commitment, not empty rhetoric.
• Lady Rong is established as an exceptionally dangerous figure whose control of the River of Time allows her to observe secrets, learn techniques, empower herself, and weaken enemies.
• Old Wolf undergoes the chapter’s most significant transformation. Once timid and withdrawn, he now accepts responsibility for the fate of ordinary people and is willing to risk death by challenging Aba.
• Aba is portrayed as a powerful but politically suspect figure. Old Wolf believes Aba and the other major powers are pursuing grand designs while allowing mortal lives to be sacrificed.

3. Significant themes

• Rebellion against oppression: The Mahayana clans seek to overturn the authority of the Ancient Sages and Immortal Court, not merely survive the current crisis.
• Humanity as a sacrifice: The great powers repeatedly treat ordinary humans as bait, fuel, or expendable resources, emphasizing the cruelty of the era.
• Distrust of political factions: Old Wolf concludes that none of the major powers can be relied upon, making independent action necessary.
• Responsibility and moral courage: Old Wolf’s belief that “the greater one’s ability, the greater one’s responsibility” drives him to abandon his hiding place and act.
• The value of ordinary lives: Through his identity as a common-born soldier, general, and emperor, Old Wolf presents himself as a representative of countless ordinary beings rather than a transcendent ruler.
• Chaos as an opportunity: The myriad races intend to exploit the conflict among the strongest figures, while Old Wolf seeks to introduce an unpredictable variable capable of disrupting all their schemes.

4. Character interactions

• Ximing and the Mahayana cultivators: Ximing reminds them of their blood oath and urges them not to forget humanity’s plight, while the others focus on tactical survival and rebellion.
• Jin Zhu and the gathered clans: Jin Zhu encourages them to let Lin Meng and the Li Family weaken each other before the Mahayana cultivators intervene.
• The Mahayana cultivators and Lady Rong: They fear her ability to see through their plans and debate whether they could kill her, revealing their awareness of the vast power gap between ordinary Mahayana beings and the era’s supreme experts.
• Old Wolf and Aba: Their confrontation is ideological as much as physical. Aba represents the hidden schemes of powerful rulers, while Old Wolf claims the perspective of ordinary living beings and openly declares that he will no longer tolerate their sacrifice.

Chapter Summary: “Fourth Grandaunt Was the Final Boss?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi rush toward the Human Race Forbidden Zone after detecting Undying’s aura. They discover that Lin Meng—Li Yaowen’s “Fourth Grandaunt”—has deployed thousands of clones and activated enormous soul-devouring arrays across the world.
• Each clone uses the Spirit Bestowal Technique, combining their power into a rapidly growing sphere while the arrays consume countless humans. Li Tianming’s [Pollution] and [Assimilation] are ineffective because the arrays devour their victims too quickly.
• Lin Meng’s strategy is revealed to be premeditated: her clones have already positioned arrays throughout densely populated regions, intending to absorb the entire world and strengthen her main body. The brothers realize that Fourth Grandaunt is far more dangerous than expected—possibly the true “final boss.”
• Li Tianyi reveals that Lady Rong, one of the Thirteen Ancient Sages, has also found Undying in the Kirin Clan. Because Undying possesses the powerful law of [Eternal] and a valuable Innate Void Origin, both Lin Meng and Lady Rong intend to consume him and gain immortality.
• Li Tianqi rejoins his brothers after obtaining the Great Dao of [Array]. He reports that the Immortal Domain suffered devastating losses after the battle with the Heavenly Dao Prophet, though the surviving clansmen remain near Old Tree.
• The brothers discuss how Lady Rong and Lin Meng may be forced into conflict, since both want control over Undying and neither is willing to submit to the other.
• Li Tianqi explains that many powerful cultivators—including Body Integration and Mahayana experts—have disappeared. They may be hiding, secretly hunting other immortals for their origins and possibly acquiring techniques from Li Tianming’s family.
• In the Kirin Clan forbidden grounds, Lady Rong uses the River of Time and her Great Dao of [Years] to analyze Undying’s entire life. She believes she can master his [Eternal] law, absorb his origin, and finally become truly immortal.
• Lady Rong recognizes Lin Meng’s clones as an unpredictable variable. Although her Fate Arts can reveal nearly everything, even she cannot determine what kind of monster will emerge if the thousands of clones merge into one.

Character Developments

• Li Tianming: His confidence is shaken by Lin Meng’s overwhelming power and ruthless preparations. He becomes more cautious and recognizes that the hidden forces in the world may be more dangerous than the known enemies.
• Li Tianyi: He acts as the more strategic and informed brother, revealing the threat posed by Lady Rong and emphasizing the importance of securing Undying before either enemy claims him.
• Li Tianqi: He returns exhausted from the Immortal Domain and demonstrates new mastery of the Great Dao of [Array]. His experience gives the group important information about the sages, hidden cultivators, and the weaknesses of Fate Arts.
• Lin Meng/Li Yaowen’s clones: They are revealed as calculating, vicious, and exceptionally difficult to kill. Their mass deployment and prearranged formations show that Lin Meng has been planning a world-scale absorption scheme for a long time.
• Lady Rong: She is portrayed as ambitious and confident, believing that consuming Undying will free her from reincarnation and make her the strongest immortal. However, she is also unsettled by the unpredictable changes caused by Lin Meng and Li Tianming’s faction.
• Undying: Though largely absent from the scene, he becomes the central prize. His [Eternal] law and Innate Void Origin make him valuable enough to provoke conflict among the strongest beings in the mortal world.

Significant Themes

• Power concealed beneath appearances: Lin Meng initially seemed manageable, but her clones and prepared arrays reveal an enemy far more dangerous than expected.
• Immortality and greed: Lady Rong’s desire to escape reincarnation reflects the extreme lengths powerful cultivators will take to obtain eternal life.
• The limits of prophecy and prediction: Even the Thirteen Ancient Sages cannot accurately foresee Li Tianming, Lin Meng’s clones, or the hidden actions of the mortal world’s strongest cultivators.
• Chaos as an advantage: The “unknown” becomes a weapon against those who rely on calculation and Fate Arts. Unpredictable individuals can evade the sages’ deductions.
• Hidden warfare: Powerful cultivators are disappearing, apparently hunting one another and gathering origins in secret, suggesting that a larger conflict is developing behind the visible battles.
• World-scale consequences: Lin Meng’s arrays threaten not merely individual enemies but the entire human population, raising the stakes from personal revenge to the survival of the world.

Character Interactions

• Li Tianming and Li Tianyi exchange information while racing toward the crisis, united by their fear of Lin Meng’s strength and their determination to reach Undying.
• Li Tianqi’s reunion with his brothers is emotionally restrained because of the tragedy in the Immortal Domain, but he quickly joins their strategic discussion.
• The three brothers debate whether Lady Rong or Lin Meng will be easier to defeat, concluding that the sages’ reliance on prediction may leave them vulnerable to unexpected opponents.
• Lady Rong confronts the approaching threat of Lin Meng’s clones while simultaneously attempting to absorb Undying, placing the two major enemies on a collision course.
• The chapter ends with Lady Rong recognizing that Li Tianming and Lin Meng have disrupted the sages’ calculations, leaving her uncertain about what will emerge from the countless clones.

Chapter Summary: “Li Yaowen’s Invincible Clone”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Tianqi discovers that Li Yaowen now possesses over 8,000 clones, each using grand formations to drain the essence, qi, and spirit of living beings. The clones rapidly increase their strength and sometimes gain abilities or bloodlines when another clone dies.
• The clones are all moving toward the Kirin Clan, intending to seize Lady Rong’s [Eternal Law]. The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves realize that the clones are not acting as a unified force but are independently scheming for survival.
• Within a dark space, Lin Meng—one of the strongest clones—hears the other clones plotting. Their arrogance has grown so great that they no longer regard Saints, Immortal Emperors, the Heavenly Dao Prophet, or even Li Yaowen herself as superior.
• Rather than directly attack Lady Rong, all 8,000 clones simultaneously use Fate Arts to cast a “Blood Seal” on her. The mark allows them to track her and ensures a connection between them unless one side dies.
• The Blood Seal also exposes the locations of the hidden formations belonging to various races throughout the human world. These formations illuminate the entire region, revealing numerous concealed cultivators.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves and their allies are unexpectedly exposed as well. Li Tianming immediately launches an attack, using [Heaven-and-Earth Pollution] and the assimilated corpse of Min Youguo. Li Tianyi targets Jin Zhu of the Dragon Clan, recognizing the strength of his body and his [Finality].
• In the Immortal Domain, Li Yaozu asks the Old Tree for guidance about what to do amid the chaos. The Old Tree admits that even its highest Fate Arts cannot see the future clearly, but it suddenly receives apparent guidance from their ancestor, giving the Li clansmen renewed hope.
• Li Yaowen’s formations spread across the entire human world, creating a calamity even worse than the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s previous devouring of living beings. The formations locate hidden populations and secret realms, leaving almost nowhere safe.
• In the Human Race Forbidden Zone, Zishu Lingtian and Zishu Feng desperately evacuate civilians aboard Spirit Boats. They have captured some clones but cannot kill them, since the death of one clone can empower another with new abilities.
• With the forbidden zone’s restrictions strengthening and the clones breaking free of their seals, Zishu Lingtian is forced to abandon the remaining people and flee, despite his anger and helplessness.

Character Developments

• Li Yaowen’s clones evolve from mere extensions of their creator into independent, arrogant competitors. Each seeks to survive and become the final, true body, making them both powerful and internally distrustful.
• Lin Meng recognizes the clones’ growing arrogance and the collapse of the human world, placing her in the position of an observer who understands the danger of their collective actions.
• Li Tianming remains opportunistic and decisive. He immediately turns the exposure of hidden enemies into an opportunity for attack.
• Li Tianyi continues to act alongside his brothers but displays greater caution, particularly when assessing Lady Rong and Jin Zhu.
• Li Yaozu is emotionally directionless after Fang Linglong’s fall and seeks a new purpose. His desperation reveals the depth of his grief and dependence on guidance.
• Zishu Lingtian is forced to confront his powerlessness. Despite his reputation and desire to protect the Human Race, he can save only a fraction of the people and must retreat.
• Lady Rong becomes the central target of multiple factions because of her control over the [Eternal] Law and the River of Time.

Significant Themes

• Survival and competition: The clones, races, and hidden powers all treat the collapsing world as a final hunting ground where only the strongest or most adaptable will survive.
• The danger of uncontrolled power: Li Yaowen’s formations transform the entire human world into a vast extraction system, showing how overwhelming power can destroy any possibility of refuge.
• Fragmentation of identity: The clones possess independent thoughts and ambitions, raising the question of whether the original Li Yaowen still controls them—or whether each clone is becoming a separate individual.
• Helplessness amid catastrophe: Even powerful figures such as Zishu Lingtian and the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves can do little more than react to events and save whoever they can.
• Fate and uncertainty: Fate Arts can reveal hidden enemies and bind opponents together, but even the Old Tree cannot reliably foresee the future in the current chaotic world.
• Moral compromise: Characters must choose between fighting, fleeing, abandoning others, or exploiting the chaos. Zishu Lingtian’s evacuation shows the painful limits of heroism.

Important Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves discuss the clones’ interest in Lady Rong and decide to move toward the Kirin Clan.
• Lin Meng and the other clones argue telepathically over strategy, survival, and whether it is safe to challenge Lady Rong.
• The clones collectively mark Lady Rong with the Blood Seal instead of confronting her directly.
• The exposure of hidden formations brings the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves face-to-face with numerous concealed cultivators, prompting Li Tianming and his brothers to attack.
• Li Yaozu and the Old Tree interact in a moment of despair, while Li Yunlin reflects on his father’s grief and loss of direction.
• Zishu Lingtian and Zishu Feng struggle to protect the Human Race as civilians compete desperately for limited places on the Spirit Boats, while the Li Yaowen clones steadily break free and grow stronger.

Chapter Summary: A Vision Greater Than Becoming the Heavenly Dao

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yaowen’s clones continue spreading terrifying arrays throughout the universe, causing misery among countless races and threatening even Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals.
• One clone deliberately allows herself to be captured by the immortals of the Immortal Domain. She proposes an alliance, claiming that she wants to survive until the end, escape both Heavenly Dao and Li Yaowen’s control, and that her goals align with the immortals’ desire to revive the Immortal Court.
• Cong Yuandu kills the captured clone before negotiations can proceed. He reasons that because all clones share information, cooperating with one would expose the immortals as allies and make them targets of every other clone. He predicts this will not be the last clone to seek such a strategy.
• The sages remain helpless. Their Fate Arts cannot predict or affect the clones because Lin Meng is using the spirit tablets of other clones to conceal the Heavenly Pivot. Meanwhile, the arrays grow stronger and the surviving clones continue accumulating power.
• In the mortal world, Old Wolf struggles against Aba, the First Human Emperor, while Lady Rong has absorbed Undying’s Eternal Law and entered seclusion. The sages are angered by their inability to influence these developments.
• Above the chaos, Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet wage an incomprehensible battle around an enormous Floating Mountain. Their clash devastates countless worlds, produces black holes, and spreads destructive law fluctuations across light-years.
• Li Xiang watches the Cultivation Family Simulator and sees that his descendants continue fighting:
  • The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves and their allies rebuild Ancient Sage City and kill the Dragon Clan patriarch, Jin Zhu.
  • Li Tianyi devours the Torch Dragon Body.
  • Li Tianqi obtains an Emperor Fruit.
  • Li Tianming uses Assimilation to give the Pollution Great Dao four Body Integration Realm Pollution Sources.
• Li Yaowen’s surviving clones number 5,404. Lin Meng remains the strongest, having reached the Second Transformation, First Tribulation and acquired a law. With the world’s Great Dao unable to support further advancement, the clones turn their attention toward immortals and their laws.
• In the graveyard, Boss Qi learns from Miss Five and Han Meng that the three brothers he saw once helped massacre powerful figures across the world, but were only participants in a much larger catastrophe. The true terror was a woman who hunted Mahayana cultivators, Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, and even Ancient Sages.
• Lin Meng enters the Immortal Domain. She reveals that she intends not merely to become the Heavenly Dao, but to replace it entirely and spread herself through clones across every world in the universe.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Cong Yuandu becomes more pragmatic and ruthless, immediately killing the negotiating clone to prevent the immortals from becoming politically exposed and hunted.
• Wanrong initially questions Cong Yuandu’s decision but quickly understands the danger: supporting one clone could make the immortals the target of all the others.
• Li Xiang remains calm despite the immense battle and the apparent abandonment by some allies. He accepts Li Dalong’s decision to protect the family in the Underworld, recognizing it as a reasonable contingency rather than betrayal.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves remain active and successful against individual enemies, but are increasingly helpless before the larger threat posed by Li Yaowen’s clones.
• Lin Meng undergoes the most significant transformation. She develops contempt for Li Yaowen’s obedience and self-restraint, believing herself more ambitious and worthy of controlling the power of the clones. She decides to usurp Li Yaowen’s identity and fulfill what she considers Li Yaowen’s unrealized potential.
• Miss Five and Han Meng provide historical context to Boss Qi, emphasizing the scale of the former catastrophe and the woman’s ability to kill even the highest immortals.

Significant Themes

• Power and ambition: Lin Meng’s ambition surpasses the desire to become the Heavenly Dao; she seeks to become a universe-spanning will that controls every world.
• Individual freedom versus control: Multiple factions seek freedom from Li Yaowen, the Heavenly Dao, or the Heavenly Dao Prophet, but their methods differ between alliance, escape, destruction, and domination.
• Betrayal and survival: Li Dalong’s withdrawal is framed as survival rather than betrayal, while the clones’ shared awareness makes cooperation dangerous and unstable.
• The dangers of divided identity: Although the clones share a common origin, they develop independent goals. Lin Meng’s superiority complex and desire for autonomy make her a potential threat even to Li Yaowen.
• Scale of cosmic conflict: Battles among Li Xiang, the Heavenly Dao Prophet, the sages, and the clones affect entire worlds and universes, while individual struggles become pieces of a much larger struggle over reality itself.
• Historical repetition and hidden catastrophe: The graveyard conversation suggests that the current crisis echoes an earlier age in which powerful beings were hunted and entire civilizations were reshaped by one overwhelmingly dangerous figure.

Chapter Summary: “Don’t Worry, I’ll Help You Think of a Way”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Xiang observes the collapse of the world through the Cultivation Family Simulator while his true body battles the Heavenly Dao Prophet beyond the Immortal Realm. The Heavenly Dao Prophet is gradually eroding his authority and soul, making Li Xiang’s eventual defeat increasingly likely.
• Lin Meng leads thousands of Li Yaowen’s avatars in attacking the Immortal Realm. The avatars use Fate Arts to analyze the Immortal Realm’s defensive barrier and force individual avatars to self-destruct against it.
• The self-destructions serve two purposes: identifying weaknesses in the barrier and transferring the sacrificed avatars’ energy into the remaining avatars. Their strength grows rapidly through this process, further empowered by energy drawn from living beings across the collapsing world.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves—Li Tianming, Li Tianqi, and Li Tianyi—plan to follow the avatars and take advantage of battles involving powerful immortals, hoping to obtain resources for their family.
• Chen Mo and the Mortal World Immortal end their long battle after recognizing that Li Yaowen’s avatars are the greater threat. The Mortal World Immortal then asks Chen Mo to take her with him when he escapes the world.
• Li Kuanghua gains major insights from observing the prolonged battle between the Mortal World Immortal and Chen Mo. She comprehends the “One Flower, One World” trait, the concept of “Sumeru,” and the Mahayana spell Palm Immortal Kingdom.
• After Chen Mo departs, the Mortal World Immortal, Li Qiu, and Li Kuanghua are confronted by Li Yaowen’s avatars. The Mortal World Immortal immediately flees toward the Immortal Realm, warning that the avatars intend to consume them.
• The Immortal Realm’s residents realize that Lin Meng has deliberately chosen them as targets because they are easier to analyze and defeat than other powerful cultivators. Their defensive position has become a trap, and they are effectively waiting to be slaughtered.
• The Mortal World Immortal proposes seeking help from the Azure Cloud Li Family. The immortals, including the injured Gong Emperor, set aside their pride and ask Li Kuanghua for assistance.
• Li Tianyi angrily rejects the immortals’ request, recalling their previous hostility toward the Li Family and the deaths they caused. Instead, Li Tianming suggests misleading them by repeatedly claiming that the family is “thinking of a way” and will arrive soon.
• Although the Three Thieves joke about delaying the immortals, Li Kuanghua reminds them that the avatars pose a genuine threat to the entire world—including the Li Family itself.

Character Developments

• Li Xiang: Remains calm despite his deteriorating battle against the Heavenly Dao Prophet. His detached observation reflects both confidence and recognition of Lin Meng’s frightening potential.
• Lin Meng: Emerges as an extremely calculating and dangerous leader. She inherits Li Yaowen’s strategic style, using Fate Arts, expendable avatars, and psychological analysis to dismantle the Immortal Realm.
• Li Kuanghua: Grows significantly through combat observation, developing new laws and a powerful Mahayana spell. Despite her improvement, she remains intimidated by the avatars and is caught between helping the threatened immortals and remembering their past crimes.
• The Mortal World Immortal: Reveals her pragmatic and self-preserving nature. She abandons her previous restraint, seeks protection from Chen Mo, and correctly analyzes Lin Meng’s strategy.
• Li Qiu: Demonstrates heightened awareness by sensing that the avatars are targeting them, showing his return from his former wayward path.
• Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, and Li Tianqi: Return to their opportunistic and mischievous behavior, planning to exploit the chaos. However, their silence when discussing the avatars reveals that they understand the seriousness of the danger.
• The Immortals: Their arrogance collapses under pressure. They are forced to acknowledge the Li Family’s importance and ask for help despite their former hostility.

Significant Themes

• The danger of being understood: Lin Meng’s greatest advantage is not merely her power but her ability to calculate opponents’ techniques, personalities, and likely escape routes.
• Consequences of past hostility: The Immortals once opposed the Li Family, but now must seek aid from the very people they harmed. Their predicament highlights the cost of betrayal and opportunism.
• Survival versus morality: Characters repeatedly choose self-preservation over loyalty or honor, especially the Mortal World Immortal and the Three Thieves.
• The limits of individual power: Even powerful immortals become helpless when faced with a coordinated force capable of endlessly replenishing itself.
• The collapse of the old order: As the world and its authority disintegrate, former rulers become trapped prey, while Li Yaowen’s avatars represent a new and terrifying power structure.
• Family loyalty and resentment: The Li Family is threatened alongside everyone else, but its members still remember the wrongs committed against them and hesitate to save former enemies.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xiang and Lin Meng: Li Xiang watches Lin Meng’s actions with admiration and concern, recognizing her as a potential threat even to the highest powers.
• Chen Mo and the Mortal World Immortal: After years of conflict, they develop a reluctant battlefield familiarity. The Mortal World Immortal asks Chen Mo to take her with him, and Chen Mo acknowledges that the avatars are their common enemy.
• The Mortal World Immortal and the Immortal Realm: She warns the immortals that Lin Meng is calculating their behavior and has targeted them deliberately, forcing them to confront their vulnerability.
• Li Tianyi and Li Kuanghua: Li Tianyi scolds her for suggesting that the Li Family rescue the immortals, reminding her of the Immortals’ past attacks on their clan.
• The Three Thieves and Li Kuanghua: They devise a deliberately vague promise of assistance, turning the immortals’ desperate appeal into an opportunity for revenge and mischief. Nevertheless, Li Kuanghua’s concern forces them to acknowledge that the crisis is too serious to ignore.

Chapter Summary: “Fate”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The world continues collapsing as Li Yaowen’s clones devour nearly all life and spiritual energy. Green Lady’s surviving vegetation withers, leaving the world blood-red and nearly lifeless.
• Li Xiang observes the destruction from the perspective of the Heavenly Dao. Though his physical condition worsens, he calmly waits for the world to decline, apparently allowing the destruction to continue for a larger purpose.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet realizes that Li Yaowen has become a threat to everyone. Because her clones consume the world’s energy, the Prophet is weakening and can no longer replenish itself effectively.
• The Prophet proposes that it and Li Xiang temporarily cooperate to kill Li Yaowen. Li Xiang agrees only vaguely, making the Prophet suspect that Li Yaowen is his hidden final weapon and that he intends to drag the entire world into destruction.
• Li Xiang denies having created the clones and appears genuinely confused by the Prophet’s accusations. The Prophet nevertheless believes Li Xiang anticipated betrayals by both Li Yaowen and Li Dalong and prepared a final doomsday plan.
• The Prophet points to Old Wolf, who continues fighting Aba despite the near-hopeless situation, as proof that some beings still fight for the survival of others.
• Rotten Axe Elder, acting from the chaos, uses the Fate law and casts down an iron decree marked “Calamity.” The spell spreads across the Immortal Domain, imposing calamity on its inhabitants and disrupting its protections.
• The spell exposes hidden figures, including Li Yundou, causes him to be destroyed by the Immortal Domain’s barrier, and then revives him with a lingering gray mist. Li Tianming identifies the phenomenon as Fate, explaining that it governs life, death, fortune, and ruin.
• The Fate attack collapses the Immortal Court’s barrier, revealing that Rotten Axe Elder intends to eliminate everyone in the Immortal Domain—including both the Immortal Court’s immortals and Green Lady’s clones.
• Rotten Axe Elder confronts Immortal Emperor Zhang Baijie and reveals the Ancient Sages’ deception: the “ascender” immortals are not independent beings but tools and cleaners created by the Heavenly Dao to purge the Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Baijie’s supposed Third-Layer Fate Arts are exposed as an illusion or limitation. His ability to perceive and deduce the world vanishes, leaving him psychologically shattered.

Character Developments

• Li Xiang: Becomes increasingly detached and enigmatic. His calmness amid global destruction makes the Heavenly Dao Prophet believe he has embraced despair and prepared a plan to destroy everyone. However, his confusion regarding Li Yaowen’s clones suggests that he may not understand events as fully as the Prophet assumes.
• Li Yaowen: Emerges as an uncontrollable, world-threatening force through her clones. Her hunger for power devastates the world but also weakens the Heavenly Dao Prophet by consuming the energy it needs.
• Green Lady: Although absent from the immediate action, her sacrifice is emphasized. She knowingly gave herself up so Li Yaoqing and the world might retain a chance at life, reinforcing her selfless nature.
• Heavenly Dao Prophet: Shifts from confidence to fear and desperation. It recognizes that Li Yaowen threatens its survival and suspects Li Xiang of manipulating events through a long-prepared endgame.
• Old Wolf: Is portrayed as stubbornly heroic, continuing to fight for all living beings despite having little chance of success.
• Rotten Axe Elder: Reveals himself as a ruthless master of Fate Arts. He abandons any pretense of protecting the immortals and openly seeks to eliminate all beings in the Immortal Domain.
• Li Tianming: Demonstrates knowledge of Fate, explaining its relationship to fortune, calamity, and the structure of the world’s laws.
• Immortal Emperor Zhang Baijie: Suffers a devastating collapse after learning the truth about the ascenders and discovering that his treasured Fate abilities were never what he believed them to be.

Significant Themes

• Fate versus free will: Fate is presented as a supreme law capable of determining life, death, prosperity, ruin, and even the actions of entire populations.
• Betrayal and mistrust: The Prophet believes Li Xiang planned for the betrayals of Li Yaowen and Li Dalong, while the immortals themselves discover that the Heavenly Dao and Ancient Sages have manipulated them.
• Despair and sacrifice: Li Xiang’s apparent despair contrasts with Green Lady’s selfless sacrifice and Old Wolf’s hopeless but determined resistance.
• The cost of power: The struggle among powerful beings drains the world’s spiritual energy, leaving ordinary life to perish as cultivators consume resources without restraint.
• Identity and manipulation: The ascender immortals learn that their identities and accomplishments were constructed within a system that treated them as tools rather than independent beings.
• Moral ambiguity: No faction appears entirely righteous. Li Xiang may be protecting the world or preparing its destruction, while the Ancient Sages claim authority yet employ deception and mass slaughter.

Character Interactions

• Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Their battle is interrupted by the Prophet’s attempt to negotiate against Li Yaowen. Their exchange centers on fear, hidden plans, and whether Li Xiang’s apparent calm is actually despair.
• The Prophet and Old Wolf: The Prophet cites Old Wolf’s desperate battle against Aba as evidence that some beings still fight selflessly for the world.
• Rotten Axe Elder and the Immortal Domain’s cultivators: His Fate spell spreads calamity throughout the domain, exposing hidden beings and destroying its protective barrier.
• Li Tianming and the hidden groups: Li Tianming explains the nature of Fate to Li Yundou, the Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves, and the Iron Gate Seven, warning them that the spell seeks to control or ruin everyone’s destiny.
• Rotten Axe Elder and Zhang Baijie: Rotten Axe Elder humiliates Zhang Baijie by revealing the truth about ascenders and dismantling his belief in Third-Layer Fate Arts, leaving the Immortal Emperor mentally devastated.

Chapter Summary:

The Fate of Ascenders

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Rotten Axe Elder activates his Fate Arts and reclaims Zhang Baijie’s supposed “Third-Layer Fate Arts.” This reveals that Zhang Baijie never truly comprehended them and is actually an ascender whose fate has been manipulated since his arrival in the Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Baijie remembers his past: he was once the strongest cultivator in another world, but upon ascending, the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao transformed him into a puppet and “Runner.” His actions, including rebuilding the Immortal Court and seeking revenge against his teacher and the Deer Immortal Emperor, were all guided by the Rotten Axe Elder’s Fate.
• Zhang realizes that he personally helped seal the Deer Immortal Emperor and turned the Immortal Court into a weapon against his own teacher, despite believing that finding and avenging himself against them was his life’s purpose.
• The Rotten Axe Elder’s “Calamity” destroys the barrier surrounding the Immortal Domain. Its appearance reveals the truth of the immortals’ existence: they are ascenders from other worlds who were deceived, exploited, and transformed into nourishment or puppets for the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• The immortals collapse in despair as their memories return. Li Qiu recalls abandoning his family and friends after believing ascension would bring eternal safety, only to learn that his ascension caused his world and loved ones to be consumed.
• Lin Meng’s clones launch a large-scale assault on the weakened immortals, harvesting their Innate Void Origins. Wanrong, Li Kuanghua, Mortal World Immortal, and Li Qiu attempt to respond, but the battlefield becomes a slaughter.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves and Iron Gate Seven join the fighting, further intensifying the conflict. Every fallen clone strengthens the remaining clones, allowing them to grow rapidly.
• While the massacre continues, Li Xiang observes developments through the Cultivation Family Simulator. Li Tianyi gains the Torch Dragon Body, while Li Tianming’s Assimilation of three Heavenly Immortals grants him the dangerous trait Lord of Filth. The cosmic alien species gifted by Li Xiang merges into Li Tianming’s body.
• Ten years later, Li Yaotie’s battle with Hua Ji has ended. Both Hua Ji and the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother regain their memories from before ascension and lose their desire to fight. Li Yaotie develops Extreme Regeneration, and his Unorthodox Treasure Body reaches the Supreme Spirit Treasure Realm.
• The Heavenly Pool Holy Mother decides to return to her former home, possibly to confront or investigate Li Xiang’s ancestor. Li Yaotie stops Bai Rourou from calling her back, suggesting that the ancestor must have prepared for such developments.

Character Developments

• Zhang Baijie: Experiences a devastating awakening. He learns that his identity, ambitions, revenge, and leadership of the Immortal Court were all shaped by Fate. His loyalty to his teacher and the Deer Immortal Emperor is revealed as a manipulated obsession.
• Rotten Axe Elder: Demonstrates terrifying mastery over Fate, treating entire groups—including the immortals and Lin Meng’s forces—as pieces in a carefully designed game. His goal appears to be mutual destruction among the competing factions.
• Li Qiu: Recovers memories of his original life and realizes that his ascension condemned his world and family. His guilt and sorrow emphasize the true cost of the Immortal Realm’s system.
• Li Kuanghua: Gains a deeper understanding of the immortals’ despair by imagining the destruction of her own family and homeland. Her perspective becomes more sympathetic toward them.
• Wanrong: Becomes more serious and pragmatic after witnessing the truth and the battlefield. He recognizes that the Ancient Sages have manipulated every faction into weakening one another.
• Li Tianming: Acquires a frightening new power through Assimilation. His transformation into the “greatest filth in the mortal world” alarms even his companions.
• Li Yaotie: Grows significantly through prolonged combat and reaches a new level of physical resilience. His confidence in Li Xiang’s ancestor also shows his increasing trust in hidden preparations and long-term strategy.
• Chi Ling / Heavenly Pool Holy Mother: After recovering her memories, she abandons the conflict and chooses to return home, driven by unresolved attachment to her original life.

Significant Themes

• The cruelty of ascension: Ascension is exposed as a deception rather than salvation. Those who ascend are stripped of their identities and used as tools or resources.
• Manipulated fate and free will: Zhang Baijie’s tragedy shows how completely Fate can reshape a person’s goals while leaving them convinced they are acting independently.
• Truth as a burden: Recovering one’s memories brings despair, guilt, and grief rather than liberation. Several characters recognize that ignorance may have been less painful.
• Cycles of exploitation: The Ancient Sages and the Heavenly Dao force their enemies to fight one another, benefiting from the deaths and weakening of all sides.
• Identity and responsibility: The ascenders must confront whether they are victims, perpetrators, or both, especially after learning that their actions harmed their original worlds.
• Survival through transformation: Characters and clones grow stronger by consuming, assimilating, or adapting to others, blurring the line between evolution and corruption.

Important Character Interactions

• Zhang Baijie and the Rotten Axe Elder: The Elder exposes Zhang’s manipulated past, forcing him to confront his role as a pawn.
• Mortal World Immortal, Li Qiu, and Li Kuanghua: They discuss the horror of recovered memories, with Li Qiu recounting the destruction of his original world and family.
• Wanrong and Li Kuanghua: Wanrong explains that the factions are being used as chess pieces and that their mutual conflict only fulfills the Ancient Sages’ plans.
• Bai Rourou and Li Yaotie: Bai Rourou worries that Chi Ling intends to attack their ancestor, while Li Yaotie argues that their ancestor must already have anticipated such a move.
• Li Tianyi and Li Tianqi toward Li Tianming: They instinctively distance themselves from Li Tianming after witnessing his dangerous transformation and the alien species merging with him.
• Chi Ling and Bai Rourou: Bai Rourou sympathizes with Chi Ling’s loss, but Chi Ling’s decision to return home signals that her priorities have shifted away from the current battle.

Chapter Summary

Plot and Major Events

• Ten years into the apocalypse, the Immortal Domain has been devastated by Endless Night and the aftermath of the war against Blood Moon. Most living beings hide their Heavenly Pivot to avoid detection, while powerful factions struggle for survival.
• Aba appears before Li Xiang as a fading phantom and announces that his mission is complete. He thanks Li Xiang for guiding the world and expresses his unwavering belief in him before disappearing. His death deeply affects Li Xiang, who recalls his former life and Aba’s identity as the old guard from his memories.
• Li Xiang surveys the ruined world and observes the major surviving forces:
  • Li Yaowen’s remaining twenty-seven avatars, all now at Mahayana or Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level.
  • Ancient Sages fighting and being killed by the avatars.
  • Powerful cultivators led by Zishu Lingtian, Zishu Feng, and Ximing.
  • Immortals led by Zhang Baijie, Wanrong, and the Gong Emperor.
• Li Yaowen’s avatars have become extraordinarily powerful. Lin Meng and several other avatars possess Ninety-Nine Revolutions Nine Tribulations, multiple laws, and powerful Fate Arts. They have already killed and devoured two Ancient Sages, obtaining the Great Daos of Infinity and Great Fortune.
• The Heavenly Secrets Three Thieves and the Iron Gate Seven hide from the avatars. Although they have grown much stronger by acquiring laws and other treasures, they still fear Lin Meng and cannot oppose her directly.
• The saints initially overwhelm Li Yaowen’s avatars, but every avatar they kill makes the survivors stronger. Once only roughly a hundred remain, the avatars become capable of matching the Ancient Sages. The saints then withdraw rather than finish the fight.
• Li Tianming suspects the saints are deliberately luring the avatars toward a particular goal, possibly intending to use their deaths or growth to reach some limit.
• In the cosmic realm, the Heavenly Dao Prophet has occupied roughly seventy percent of the world but is increasingly alarmed by the threat posed by Li Yaowen’s avatars. It argues with Li Xiang and insists that Li Xiang has no hope of survival.
• Li Xiang deduces the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s plan: cooperate with the saints and Ancient Sages temporarily, use Deer Treasure to acquire more Dao Gate Mountains, and exploit stored contingencies and its flesh-and-blood incarnations in the mortal world.
• Li Xiang also recognizes that the saints do not truly trust the Heavenly Dao Prophet. They likely intend to betray it after using it, while also sacrificing some of their own members to make Li Yaowen’s avatars stronger.
• As another avatar finds an Ancient Sage, Li Xiang reveals that he still possesses a path to survival. He points to the future preserved within the Cultivation Family Simulator, claiming that his continued existence is not merely a possibility but an unchangeable future.
• Red-and-black threads associated with the Human Emperor’s Causality Law appear around Li Xiang. The Heavenly Dao Prophet senses an ability beyond even third-layer Fate Arts, ending the chapter on a major revelation.

Character Developments

• Li Xiang: Remains calm despite his physical injuries and loss of control over much of the Immortal Realm. He demonstrates exceptional insight into the schemes of the saints and Heavenly Dao Prophet, suggesting that he has developed or recovered a power capable of transcending Fate Arts.
• Aba: Receives a poignant farewell. He dies satisfied that he fulfilled his mission and trusted Li Xiang until the end, reinforcing his loyalty and importance as Li Xiang’s disciple and guardian.
• Li Yaowen/Lin Meng: Their avatars have become one of the most dangerous forces in the world. Lin Meng in particular has reached a level where even Ancient Sages cannot reliably defeat her, and her power grows by consuming their Great Daos.
• Li Tianming, Li Tianyi, Li Tianqi, and Li Yundou: Though strengthened by the apocalypse and their acquired laws, they remain cautious and fearful of Lin Meng. Li Tianming shows strategic intelligence by questioning the saints’ motives.
• Heavenly Dao Prophet: Becomes increasingly desperate and defensive. It fears both the saints and Li Yaowen’s avatars, yet clings to its identity as the Heavenly Dao as a possible means of survival.
• The saints: Their withdrawal from battle reveals that they are pursuing a deeper strategy rather than simply trying to destroy the avatars. Their apparent willingness to sacrifice members suggests a dangerous long-term plan.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty, sacrifice, and farewell: Aba’s final message emphasizes devotion to Li Xiang and the willingness to sacrifice oneself for a larger mission.
• Survival in a collapsing world: Nearly every faction hides, schemes, or consumes others to endure the apocalypse, reflecting the moral brutality of the setting.
• Power through destruction: Li Yaowen’s avatars become stronger by killing Ancient Sages, turning the deaths of enemies into fuel for further escalation.
• Fate versus causality: The chapter repeatedly questions whether the future is fixed or consists of multiple possibilities. Li Xiang’s confidence in his survival challenges the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s belief that the future can be changed.
• Betrayal and temporary alliances: The saints, Ancient Sages, and Heavenly Dao Prophet cooperate while simultaneously preparing to betray one another.
• Hope amid inevitable ruin: Even as the Immortal Realm collapses and Li Xiang appears nearly defeated, his composure and hidden power suggest that the apocalypse may not have determined the final outcome.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xiang and Aba: Aba gives Li Xiang an emotional farewell, reaffirming his faith and gratitude before vanishing.
• The hidden descendants and allies: Li Tianyi, Li Tianming, Li Tianqi, and Li Yundou discuss their narrow escape from Lin Meng and speculate about the saints’ motives.
• Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Their confrontation centers on strategy, betrayal, and the possibility of survival. Li Xiang exposes the Prophet’s plans and predicts that the saints will eventually turn against it.
• The saints and Li Yaowen’s avatars: Their battles reveal a deliberate escalation, with the saints’ attacks strengthening the remaining avatars rather than eliminating the threat.
• Li Xiang and the future: His final exchange with the Heavenly Dao Prophet establishes that the Cultivation Family Simulator may contain more than memories or possibilities—it may preserve a future Li Xiang intends to make real.

Chapter Summary: “I Do Not Believe in Fate”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The battle between Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet resumes. Although the Prophet senses Li Xiang’s immense power, it cannot identify the source of the unease surrounding him or understand the technique he possesses.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet realizes that its anxiety extends beyond Li Xiang. It also senses danger from Li Yaowen’s clones and the surviving sages, suggesting that the entire Immortal Realm is approaching an unknown crisis.
• Sixteen of Lin Meng’s clones remain after years of hunting Ancient Sages. One has inherited the Great Dao of [Wisdom], and their strength has grown beyond the former limits of mortal cultivation. Lin Meng herself has reached twelve tribulations.
• The clones stop hunting and begin investigating the source of their growing fear. They question why the sages made the Heavenly Dao Prophet their puppet, why the sages separated instead of uniting against them, and why the Azure Cloud Li Family’s ancestor has remained silent.
• A powerful ripple released by Li Yaowen’s clones spreads throughout the damaged world, exposing every living being to their sensing technique. Lady Rong recognizes it as evidence that the clones have begun thinking and searching for the truth.
• Within the Kirin Clan’s protected territory, Longevity Lord asks Lady Rong why the Ancient Sages did not eliminate Li Yaowen’s clones earlier. Lady Rong explains that the sages can only observe the past and calculate possible futures, not know one fixed destiny.
• Lady Rong admits that the current disaster may be the best possible outcome predicted by Fate—but only for the sages, not necessarily for the rest of the world.
• Rotten Axe Elder observes countless “fate spheres,” each showing alternate possibilities for living beings such as Zishu Lingtian, Zishu Feng, Ximing, the Gong Emperor, and Chen Mo. Every possible future he sees for himself ends in death.
• Confronted by the sages’ doubts, Rotten Axe Elder reveals his origins: he once lived as a powerless member of an ancient race whose people were enslaved by an immortal. Though told to accept his inferior fate, he refused and waited for a chance to resist.
• Even after failing to kill that immortal, Rotten Axe Elder continued to reject the idea that his life was predetermined. He declares that he does not believe in fate and insists that the sages must believe in him rather than in his Fate Arts.
• He then unleashes his power, causing red light and a vast vein-like network to spread beneath the mortal realm. This reveals that the world itself may contain an enormous hidden structure through which dissipated magical power flows.

Character Developments

• Li Xiang: Remains an unpredictable threat whose mysterious technique and presence unsettle even the Heavenly Dao Prophet.
• Lin Meng and her clones: Grow dramatically stronger but become increasingly troubled by the unexplained circumstances of the war. Their unity deepens as their suspicion shifts away from one another and toward the hidden design behind events.
• Lady Rong: Demonstrates a philosophical and pragmatic understanding of Fate. She acknowledges that the sages’ “best outcome” may involve sacrificing most of the world, revealing her detachment from ordinary beings.
• Longevity Lord: Moves from fear and confusion to moral criticism, questioning whether the sages’ version of the best fate is merely self-serving.
• Rotten Axe Elder: Receives the chapter’s central character revelation. His past explains his fierce opposition to predetermined destiny, and his despair over repeatedly witnessing his own deaths transforms into open defiance.

Significant Themes

• Free will versus destiny: The chapter directly challenges whether Fate determines people’s lives or merely describes possible outcomes.
• The limitations of omniscience: Even beings considered omniscient and omnipotent can only infer possible futures, and small changes can alter the entire course of events.
• Sacrifice and self-interest: The “best” fate may benefit powerful beings while condemning ordinary people, raising questions about whose survival matters.
• Resistance against imposed identity: Rotten Axe Elder rejects the idea that his origins, weakness, or predictions define him.
• Hidden systems beneath reality: The underground network suggests that the mortal world may be connected by a deeper structure capable of gathering or circulating magical power.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet: Their renewed battle emphasizes the Prophet’s inability to comprehend Li Xiang’s true power.
• Lin Meng and her clones: Their shared reflections reveal growing cooperation and a collective fear of forces beyond their understanding.
• Lady Rong and Longevity Lord: Their conversation explores Fate, responsibility, and whether the sages’ decisions have condemned the world for their own benefit.
• Rotten Axe Elder and the sages: The sages question their chances of survival, prompting him to reveal his past and reject their dependence on Fate Arts. His declaration that they must trust him marks a decisive shift from passive prediction to active resistance.

Chapter Summary: “You Found Me”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The story jumps forward through ten thousand years after the powerful beings and ancient factions disappear from the mortal realm. The world remains trapped in the Endless Night, and new civilizations and species evolve without knowing the truth about the Heavenly Dao Prophet, the Ancient Sages, or the Azure Cloud Li Family.
• Spiritual energy becomes scarce, while the Prophet’s flesh and blood beneath the world sustains the mortal realm and gives rise to new monsters and civilizations.
• Above the Sea of Wisdom, Lin Meng and fifteen other avatars awaken after ten thousand years of cultivation. They have reached the third level of Fate Arts and finally understand that the Heavenly Dao Prophet prepared a hidden countermeasure before devouring the mortal realm.
• A massive rupture appears in the heavens, signaling that the final confrontation is beginning. Lin Meng and the avatars follow a path formed from the red spiritual veins beneath the world.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet, having reclaimed the authority of the Heavenly Dao by casting Li Xiang into the mortal realm, confronts the Thirteen Ancient Sages. The Sages demand the Laws and Great Dao as promised, but the Prophet refuses and accuses them of being driven by the same greed they sought to eliminate.
• The Prophet reveals its trump card: ten thousand years ago, it absorbed the spiritual energy of the entire mortal realm and buried its flesh and blood beneath the world. This accumulated power has now become a vast network of veins and formations.
• Lin Meng and the avatars activate a passage into the depths of the world. The spiritual veins converge, forming the Thousandfold Dao Gate mountain range, rainbow bridges, and eventually a massive golden immortal gate.
• Powerful beings across the mortal realm—including the Ancient Sages, immortals, other races, and members of the Azure Cloud Li Family—sense the gate opening. The world momentarily freezes as a Yin-Yang Fish Diagram appears.
• Li Xiang finally emerges from the gate, carrying a white spear and radiating overwhelming power. Though he appears emotionless and puppet-like, his return confirms the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s plan.
• The chapter ends with Li Xiang and the Heavenly Dao Prophet jointly declaring to Lin Meng and the avatars: “Very good. You found me.”

Character Developments

• Lin Meng and the avatars: After ten thousand years of patient cultivation, they reach the third level of Fate Arts and gain insight into the Prophet’s hidden plan. Their confidence and power have grown, but they realize they may have been deliberately cultivated as weapons against the Prophet’s trump card.
• The Heavenly Dao Prophet: It fully regains control of the Heavenly Dao and reveals its desire to cleanse the world of greed and betrayal. However, it rejects the Ancient Sages’ demands and demonstrates that it has been planning its resistance for ten thousand years.
• The Ancient Sages: Their alliance with the Heavenly Dao Prophet fractures completely. They reveal that they expected the Prophet to resist and appear prepared for a direct confrontation.
• Li Xiang: After being absent for ten thousand years, Li Xiang returns as the apparent embodiment or weapon of the Heavenly Dao Prophet’s final strategy. His blank expression and puppet-like demeanor suggest that his identity or will may have been suppressed.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family: The family members across the world experience the return of their ancestor’s bloodline aura, reestablishing an emotional and mystical connection to Li Xiang.

Significant Themes

• The passage of time and historical erasure: Ten thousand years reshape civilization so thoroughly that the original powers and events become myths or disappear entirely from collective memory.
• Control versus free will: Li Xiang’s puppet-like return raises questions about whether he has retained his own consciousness or has become an instrument of the Heavenly Dao Prophet.
• Greed and hypocrisy: The Prophet condemns the Ancient Sages for attempting to seize the Laws and Great Dao while claiming to create a lawful and orderly world.
• Preparation and hidden plans: Both sides have spent millennia building advantages, turning the chapter into the opening of a long-prepared final conflict.
• Cycles of destruction and renewal: The mortal realm is repeatedly consumed, reconstructed, and adapted to new conditions, suggesting that civilization and power continually arise from catastrophe.
• Family and legacy: The Azure Cloud Li Family’s reaction to Li Xiang’s return emphasizes the lasting power of bloodline, memory, and ancestral bonds despite the passage of ages.

Character Interactions

• The Heavenly Dao Prophet directly challenges the Ancient Sages, refusing to surrender its authority and accusing them of greed.
• Rotten Axe Elder and the other Sages recognize that the Prophet’s buried flesh-and-blood network is its ultimate weapon, ending negotiations and preparing for conflict.
• Lin Meng and the avatars work together to activate the world’s spiritual veins and open the ancient immortal gate.
• The Azure Cloud Li Family members independently sense Li Xiang’s return, creating a shared moment of shock and recognition.
• Li Xiang’s emergence links him directly with the Heavenly Dao Prophet, as both address Lin Meng and the avatars together, signaling that they now stand as opposing forces against them.