Chapter Summaries

Li Yue saw forces from the Li Fire Dao Domain attack the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty, but Ji Xuanne promised to hold them off for three years before asking Li Yue to protect the people. Li Yue planned to strengthen Four Seas County while Li Youming led a Grand Sacrifice attended by more than two million Believers.

• Li Yue observed yellow dragons of Earth Vein Power attacking the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s defenses beyond the Zhu Yan Mountain Range.
• Ji Xuanne appeared above the range and told Li Yue he could hold off a Feng Shui Master from the Earth Clan for three years, after which Li Yue would need to protect the Great Zhou’s people.
• Li Yue accepted Ji Xuanne’s request and considered advancing his Divine rank and expanding Four Seas County into a prefecture city.
• Li Youming led the Believers of Four Seas County in prayers to Lord Zhangyue during the Grand Sacrifice.
• More than two million Believers’ united devotion brought the laws of the Human Path down, filling the land with golden lotuses and showers of light.

A Human Dao phenomenon descended over Four Seas County, sending golden lotuses to strengthen the Believers and several unexpected recipients. After the phenomenon faded, Li Youming led the gathered Believers and Deities in thanking Lord Zhangyue for empowering the Divine Path and saving the Human Race.

• Ji Xuanne recognized the golden lotuses as a Human Dao phenomenon he had witnessed during the Saint Martial Emperor’s reign and wondered whether the Human Emperors had survived.
• Li Yue observed the Human Dao Law descend over Four Seas County, where golden lotuses strengthened the Believers’ bodies, souls, potential, and lifespans.
• Zhou Qingyi and Li Youming each received forty-nine golden lotuses, while other senior figures and talented Believers received fewer; the middle-aged woman’s disciple Qingluan unexpectedly received twenty-seven.
• The middle-aged woman recognized the phenomenon from an ancient account of the Saint Martial Emperor, while she and her other Martial Artists failed to touch any lotuses.
• After the Human Dao phenomenon ended, Li Youming led the Believers in thanking Lord Zhangyue, and the Deities, Yin Soldiers, Ghost Messengers, and virtuous Demon Race members joined in worship.

During the Grand Sacrifice, Believers across Leixiao Prefecture and part of Mingdao Prefecture prayed to Lord Zhangyue, while Li Yue received a Seventh-Tier Tiger Saint Bronze Basin from Li Youming. The Divine Path Rule amplified it into a Tenth-Tier treasure, and Li Yue considered putting a long-held idea into action.

• The middle-aged woman and the Human Race powerhouses bowed to Lord Zhangyue after witnessing the Divine Might and his forces, while Meng Qingluan wondered whether she could become a Deity.
• Li Youming led the third bow of the Grand Sacrifice as Believers across Leixiao Prefecture and a third of Mingdao Prefecture offered incense and prayers to Lord Zhangyue.
• Li Yue examined the offerings and identified the central item as a Seventh-Tier Tiger Saint Bronze Basin tainted with a trace of a Tiger Saint's blood.
• Li Yue accepted the basin, and the Divine Path Rule amplified it a hundredfold into a Tenth-Tier Tiger Saint Bronze Basin.
• Li Yue studied the amplified basin and considered acting on an idea he had held for a long time.

Li Yue decided to keep the Tiger Saint Bronze Basin, which could give 720 tigers Ninth-Order Demon King potential, and prepared blessings and Spirit Field Divine Talismans for the Grand Sacrifice. The sacrifice strengthened Four Seas County’s believers and produced a hundred mu of B-Grade Spirit Fields, leaving witnesses from other regions astonished.

• Li Yue learned that the Tenth-Tier Tiger Saint Bronze Basin could evolve ordinary tigers into Red Glow Golden Wind Sky Tigers with Ninth-Order Demon King potential, and chose not to sell it.
• Li Yue bought Blessing Talismans and Spirit Field Divine Talismans, then sent them down to the believers gathered for the Grand Sacrifice.
• Li Youming vowed to prepare an Eighth-Tier offering for the next Grand Sacrifice after seeing the many blessings descend.
• The Blessing Talismans raised believers in Four Seas County to higher ranks, including Zhao Yongyuan and Guan Yue becoming Seventh-Order Daoists.
• Ninety Spirit Field Divine Talismans created a further ninety mu of Spirit Fields, and Li Yue used divine power to upgrade all hundred mu to B-Grade.

Li Yue’s divine talismans transformed believers’ physiques and aptitudes, making Li Xiuwu an Ascension Holy Body and elevating many others. That night, Li Yue met his Temple Keeper Li Youming in person for the first time and praised his service.

• Two divine talismans sent light-rain across Li Yue’s Jurisdiction, strengthening believers’ physiques and raising their aptitudes.
• Li Xiuwu became an Ascension Holy Body, displaying the phenomena Immortal Plucking the Zither and Green Lotus Ascension.
• Chen Ergou and Li Xiuling became Human Race King Bodies, while other believers and returned prodigies gained powerful physiques and aptitudes.
• Li Yue assessed the newly elevated believers and said that building their strength required time.
• Li Youming appeared before Li Yue on White Mountain, paid his respects, and received praise for his work as Temple Keeper.

Li Yue gave Li Youming the Tiger Saint Bronze Basin and ordered Four Seas County expanded to accommodate three million people. After killing the wounded Huanan Bai and taking his Great Zhou fortune, Li Yue received a quest to leave his jurisdiction and enter God Ruins Mountain.

• Li Yue gave Li Youming the Tiger Saint Bronze Basin, which could produce 720 tigers with the potential to become Ninth-Order Demon Kings, and ordered him to form tiger cavalry.
• Li Yue ordered Four Seas County expanded to accommodate at least three million people, and Li Youming summoned its leaders to begin carrying out the commands.
• Huanan Bai hid in a cave near White Mountain while recovering from his defeat by Ji Gongyu and planned to retrieve stored Great Zhou fortune.
• Li Yue killed Huanan Bai and collected 120,000 units of Great Zhou fortune from his remains.
• Li Yue checked his new personal quest, which required him to leave his jurisdiction and enter the outskirts of God Ruins Mountain.

Li Yue left his Jurisdiction for the first time and entered God Ruins Mountain, relying on his powerful divine body and artifacts despite losing access to Divine Path Law. Deep within the forbidden zone, a voice revealed that Zhao Qiankun’s severed palm resented being trapped and used as a whetstone for New Gods.

• Li Yue tested his strength outside his Jurisdiction and found he could still reach the Tenth Order Limit through his divine body, artifacts, and Permanence Divine Technique.
• Li Yue recalled the records about God Ruins Mountain, including the Ninth-Order Kings lost there and the Tenth-Order Heavenly Human who declared its inner reaches forbidden.
• Li Yue traveled to God Ruins Mountain, sensed an aura of Divine Path Law, and entered its dense fog.
• A voice from the black mist lamented that it was trapped in God Ruins Mountain and called itself Zhao Qiankun, wanting to follow the Heavenly Emperor’s path again.
• Another voice told the severed palm that it was only a palm and not the Deity named Zhao Qiankun.

Li Yue cleared the outskirts of God Ruins Mountain, freed more than a million human ghosts, and earned Humanity Merit before moving into the mountain’s inner region. There, he encountered an Evil God’s skeleton and a swarm of corpse insects rushing toward him.

• Zhao Qiankun’s severed hand declared that it would lure a Principal Eighth Rank Deity into the Jurisdiction and possess his divine body, while a remnant soul feared Li Yue would enter.
• Li Yue used his Third Eye to destroy the Resentful Ghosts and Ghost-Eating Civet in the ruined city on God Ruins Mountain’s outskirts.
• Li Yue opened a path to Reincarnation, gave the human ghosts divine power, and sent more than a million of them into the Underworld as his Believers.
• Li Yue received fifteen thousand units of Humanity Merit and put it away for future use.
• Li Yue entered the mountain’s inner region, where he found an Evil God’s skeleton in a black river and saw more than a million Fifth Order Corpse Insects surge toward him.

Li Yue entered the heart of God Ruins Mountain, destroyed a million Corpse Insects with the Heavenly Emperor Seal, and confronted the Old God Zhao Qiankun. After learning that Zhao Qiankun wanted to merge with him, Li Yue declared that he had been number one in this age of deities for years.

• Zhao Qiankun sensed Li Yue entering the inner region and anticipated taking over his divine body to pursue the path of the Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Yue used the Heavenly Emperor Seal to crush a million Corpse Insects into a Tenth-Tier Corpse Insect Heavenly Bead.
• Li Yue entered the mountain’s dark core, destroyed the Evil God's corpse, and approached the severed palm wreathed in black fumes.
• Zhao Qiankun revealed his identity as a top deity from the previous age and demanded that Li Yue merge with him.
• Emperor Zhou Ming's remnant soul warned Li Yue to flee, and Li Yue recognized him as the missing Great Zhou Emperor.
• Li Yue rejected Zhao Qiankun's offer and said he had been number one in this age of deities for years.

Li Yue defeated the corrupted remnant of a God inside God Ruins Mountain and discovered a black jade artifact that had resisted some of the corruption. He destroyed the mountain, claimed its Spiritual Energy, and returned to the Divine Domain to check his quest reward.

• The Black Severed Hand recognized Li Yue as the First God of the Divine Era, while Emperor Zhou Ming's remnant soul realized Li Yue's potential and became excited.
• The Black Severed Hand attacked Li Yue with nine black spears, but Li Yue's Third Eye cleaved them apart and shattered the hand.
• The Black Severed Hand begged to serve Li Yue and offered its knowledge of past secrets and enemies.
• Li Yue claimed the corrupted Black Bright Treasure Jade and took in the flesh-colored palm and Emperor Zhou Ming's remnant soul.
• Li Yue split God Ruins Mountain apart, erased its corruption, and gathered Spiritual Energy of the Principal Sixth Rank.
• Li Yue returned to the Divine Domain and checked the rewards for his Personal Quest.

Li Yue claimed the generous rewards for completing the God Ruins Mountain quests and examined the Heart-Follow Teleportation Mark, deciding to use it to reach the Eight Desolations Land. He then offered the remnant soul of Emperor Zhou Ming a Divine Seat as his Subordinate God, leaving Ji Qingche to consider the offer.

• Li Yue claimed his quest rewards, including a second Deity Mark, a Time Divine Talisman, a Heart-Follow Teleportation Mark, and three million units of divine power.
• Li Yue learned that the Heart-Follow Teleportation Mark could take him to places linked to his longing and Causality, but would not carry any items.
• Li Yue decided the mark might let him reach the Eight Desolations Land and meet the Human Race entrusted to him by the Eight Desolations Heavenly Tower.
• Li Yue summoned Emperor Zhou Ming's remnant soul and offered Ji Qingche a Divine Seat as his Subordinate God.
• Ji Qingche reflected on his past as Great Zhou's emperor and on the prospect of serving as a Deity's Subordinate God.

Li Yue completed the Twelve Departments of the City God Mansion and prepared to hold another Deification Ceremony to appoint Mountain Gods and River Gods. Meanwhile, Li Youming visited Li Xiudao, who was raising Red Glow Golden Wind Sky Tigers, and told him to attend the ceremony because he was about to become a god.

• Ji Qingche accepted Li Yue’s offer to become a subordinate god, and Li Yue raised him to the peak of the Seventh Order and appointed him deputy head of the Sensing Department.
• The Divine Path Law established the City God Mansion’s Twelve Departments and proclaimed their heads, completing the ranks under Li Yue.
• Li Yue noted that Mountain Gods and River Gods were still needed and decided to hold another Deification Ceremony.
• Li Youming observed that his cultivation had reached the middle stage of the Eighth Order after the Grand Sacrifice.
• Li Xiudao reported that he had reached the forty-fifth tiger in his evolution work and that the Red Glow Golden Wind Sky Tigers were growing quickly.
• Li Youming asked Zheng Xinlan to oversee the tiger compound and told Li Xiudao to attend the Deification Ceremony, realizing Li Xiudao was about to become a god.

Li Yue completed his Seven-Colored Divine Thunder technique and chose Li Xiudao for a quest requiring a new Subordinate God to face a trial in Primitive City. At the end of the chapter, Li Xiudao entered the passage to the city while Li Yue awaited the trial and its reward.

• Li Yue transformed the Five Elements Divine Thunder into Seven-Colored Divine Thunder and expected to grow stronger by appointing Mountain Gods and River Gods.
• Li Yue selected Li Xiudao for the Primitive City trial, deciding he could find another successor for Li Youming.
• At the grand ceremony, Li Youming appointed Li Xiudao and numerous others as Subordinate Gods, including Mountain Gods and River Gods.
• Li Xiudao reached the Subordinate Seventh Rank and led the newly appointed Deities before Li Yue’s divine manifestation.
• Li Xiudao entered the passage to Primitive City as Li Yue wondered what trial awaited him and anticipated the quest reward.

Li Xiudao arrived at the Primitive City to take part in a trial alongside other deities, while Li Yue began rearranging the mountains around Four Seas County to prepare for the Divine Path Law’s Metamorphosis. The chapter ended with Li Yue’s Mountain Whipping divine technique lifting hundreds of peaks into the sky.

• Li Xiudao traveled along a gray path to the Primitive City and realized that other deities had gathered for the trial.
• Li Yue watched through Li Xiudao’s eyes and noted that many Principal Eighth Rank deities were competing in the quest.
• Li Yue decided to rearrange the mountains around Four Seas County before allowing the Divine Path Law to undergo Metamorphosis.
• Li Yue unleashed Mountain Whipping from the City God Temple, sending a golden divine whip north of Four Seas County.
• The golden whip lashed the mountain ranges and lifted hundreds of peaks into the air, leaving Li Youming and the onlookers stunned.

Li Yue formed the Ten Directions Immortal Slaying Formation by moving the Spirit Mountains and Spirit Rivers throughout his Jurisdiction, creating a defense that already wielded Middle Tenth-Order power. He then began a metamorphosis of the Divine Path Law, while the formation remained poised to grow stronger.

• Zhou Qing and Meng Qiyue witnessed Li Yue’s power and resolved to trust him as a hope for the Human Race.
• Li Yue summoned his subordinate Gods and ordered them to move the Spirit Mountains and Spirit Rivers to their appointed positions.
• The Gods relocated the mountains and rivers, and Li Yue’s power set them in place as pillars of light and Divine Patterns filled the Jurisdiction.
• Four ancient swords formed at the Jurisdiction’s corners, completing the embryonic Ten Directions Immortal Slaying Formation.
• Li Yue assessed the formation’s strength and potential, then ignited his Divine Domain to begin transforming the Divine Path Law.

Li Yue’s Divine Path Law transformed after absorbing strands of the Fate Law, granting him the Fate Sublimation Art and the ability to unleash Twelfth-Order power briefly. In Primitive City, Li Xiudao swiftly comprehended a Divine Technique from the Eighteenth Stone Tablet, shocking the other Deities with his powerful aura.

• Li Yue discovered that the Divine Path Law had absorbed strands of the Fate Law and granted him the Fate Sublimation Art.
• Li Yue’s divine body reached the upper Ninth Order, and he realized the new art could raise his power to the Twelfth Order for nine breaths.
• Li Yue watched the situation at Pingyan Prefecture, then turned his attention to Li Xiudao’s task in Primitive City.
• Li Xiudao chose the Eighteenth Stone Tablet and quickly comprehended its Divine Technique.
• Li Xiudao opened a Golden Treasury and released hundreds or thousands of Golden Weapons, stunning the nineteen Deities and the gods observing through them.

Li Xiudao passed Primitive City's Divine Technique trial in under an hour, comprehending the powerful Golden Treasure technique and taking first place. He then encountered nineteen death-shrouded Deities from a previous era, while those Deities revived elsewhere and set out to hunt the New Gods of the current era.

• Su Limeng, Shen Jinxiao, and Kong Fuhua reacted with shock and frustration after learning Li Yue's Subordinate God had reached the Subordinate Seventh Rank.
• Li Yue learned that Li Xiudao had comprehended Golden Treasure, a Divine Technique with potential far beyond the Subordinate Seventh Rank.
• Li Xiudao used Golden Treasure to unleash a storm of weapons powerful enough to kill an Eighth-Order peak Demon Monarch.
• Primitive City announced that Li Xiudao had passed the trial in under an hour, ranked first, and received a perfect evaluation.
• Li Xiudao appeared before a pagoda and found nineteen death-shrouded Deities whose auras seemed to belong to another era.
• Nineteen Principal Eighth Rank Deities revived in a mysterious place and departed to hunt the New Gods of the current era.

Li Yue faced Qian Xi, an Old God who had emerged from the Black Sun to kill a New God and revive himself. After Qian Xi discovered Li Yue’s overwhelming strength, he abandoned the fight and begged to become Li Yue’s Subordinate God.

• Li Yue sensed an Old God approaching through a strange road that formed a special battlefield beyond his Jurisdiction.
• Qian Xi walked into the battlefield, determined to kill the New God selected by the Mastermind and take the New God’s place.
• Qian Xi found Li Yue and confidently announced that he would kill him and use his identity to pursue the Heavenly Emperor’s path.
• Li Yue struck with a hundred-zhang hand, releasing Ninth Order Divine Might without using a Divine Technique.
• Qian Xi realized Li Yue was far stronger than he had expected, knelt, and begged Li Yue not to kill him, offering to become his Subordinate God.

Li Yue made the Old God Qian Xi his Subordinate God and appointed him to a newly established Artifact Refining Department. Li Xiudao passed both trials with perfect ratings, while many Old Era gods and their Subordinate Gods vanished after their Divine Lords fell; Li Yue then checked the quest rewards.

• Li Yue accepted Qian Xi as his Subordinate God, purified his corruption with divine power, and established the Artifact Refining Department with Qian Xi as its official.
• Li Xiudao cleared the tower’s first five floors in under an hour, earning a perfect rating and first place.
• Several Old Era Subordinate Gods vanished when the Divine Lords they worshipped fell, while two survived and concluded their Divine Lords were still alive.
• Li Xiudao returned to Li Yue’s Divine Domain, and Li Yue opened Personal Quest 19 to inspect the rewards for his two perfect ratings.

After Li Xiudao perfectly passed both tests, Li Yue claimed the quest rewards and received a powerful one-use relic along with treasures that could strengthen his domain and subordinate gods. He gave Azure Mist Rain to Li Xiudao, whose transformation made him a Natural Holy Spirit and raised his strength to the lower Ninth Order.

• Li Yue claimed the quest rewards, including Spirit Origin Divine Talismans, Azure Mist Rain, the Nine Mountains City God Heavenly Mansion, Deity Will, and four million strands of divine power.
• Li Yue examined the three main treasures and recognized Deity Will as a one-use power that could stack his subordinate gods’ strength a hundredfold for half an hour.
• Li Yue chose Li Xiudao to receive Azure Mist Rain because of his exceptional comprehension and sent it to White Mountain.
• Azure Mist Rain merged with Li Xiudao as he sorted White Mountain’s Earth Vein Power, transforming his divine body into mist and rain.
• Li Xiudao thanked Li Yue and reached the lower Ninth Order in strength while remaining a Subordinate Seventh Rank Deity.