Chapter Summaries

Li Yue gained Zhou Ming’s faith and received extraordinary rewards for surpassing a Perfect quest evaluation. After upgrading his Subordinate Gods, he considered which laws to comprehend with the Flower of the Great Dao.

• Li Yue asked Zhou Ming to believe in him or return to Mingling Yin City, and Zhou Ming became a Grade A Believer.
• Li Yue sent Zhou Ming to Four Seas Prefecture City and claimed the rewards for Personal Quest—Twenty-Three.
• Li Yue learned that the Flower of the Great Dao could grant law comprehension, the Origin of All Gods could strengthen his Subordinate Gods, and Heaven and Earth Insight could empower certain Believers.
• Li Yue merged the Origin of All Gods into the Divine Domain, raising the strength of his Subordinate Gods and the Ten Directions Immortal Slaying Formation by one level.
• Li Yue considered which laws to pursue with the Flower of the Great Dao.

Eldest Princess Yuehua learned that the Imperial Preceptor and three other powerful figures had been killed, and ordered her teacher to move against the Imperial Preceptor’s lineage. In the Divine Domain, Li Yue used the Flower of the Great Dao to comprehend the laws of wind and lightning, while Li Youming heard a report about a Twelfth Order treasure.

• Eldest Princess Yuehua and her teacher discussed the Imperial Preceptor’s absence and the deaths of his disciples, then learned that the Imperial Preceptor and three other experts had been killed by a being from the Blood Moon Forbidden Land.
• Yuehua told her teacher to act so that the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty could return to human rule, then sent an identical Twelfth Order version of herself to seek the deity.
• Li Yue used a petal of the Flower of the Great Dao to comprehend one percent of the law of wind, then began comprehending the law of thunder and lightning with another petal.
• Li Youming questioned an elderly woman and her two children about a place containing a Twelfth Order treasure, hoping to offer it to Lord Zhangyue at the next sacrifice.

Ten years after martial arts spread through Four Seas Prefecture City, Yuehua visited to seek Lord Zhangyue’s support as she prepared to rule the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty. She learned that Li Xiudao, a Twelfth Order Subordinate God, would report her offer of the dynasty’s citizens’ faith to Lord Zhangyue.

• Over ten years, Four Seas Prefecture City’s deeply devoted citizens became Martial Artists, and many advanced to the Third or Fourth Order amid abundant Spiritual Light.
• Yuehua surveyed the city and resolved to secure allies for the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty after the Imperial Preceptor’s death, intending to take the throne and defend its people from foreign enemies.
• A formation transported Yuehua to a mountain, where she met Li Xiudao, who revealed that he was a Subordinate God rather than Lord Zhangyue.
• Yuehua offered the faith of the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty’s citizens in exchange for support, and Li Xiudao agreed to report her offer to Lord Zhangyue.
• Returned to Four Seas Prefecture City, Yuehua reaffirmed her resolve to protect the dynasty’s people, even if she had to usurp the throne.

Li Youming and the Mystic Yellow Army waited at the Sword Emperor Abyss for the Kui Ox True Blood Herb, a precious Twelfth-Order offering. After the army killed the guarding beast, a fleet from the Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion arrived and claimed the herb, ordering the humans to kneel.

• Li Youming brought the Eight Desolations Army and the stronger Mystic Yellow Army to the Sword Emperor Abyss to obtain the Kui Ox True Blood Herb.
• The old woman explained the abyss’s origins and warned that a beast with Kui Ox bloodline guarded the herb.
• Ten days later, the Kui Ox True Blood Herb emerged, and Jiu Qingyan led the Mystic Yellow Army toward it.
• A thousand-zhang Kui Ox beast attacked, but the Mystic Yellow Army formed the Eight Desolations Pagoda and tore the beast apart.
• As the giant reached for the herb, warships appeared and a Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion voice claimed it and ordered the humans to kneel.

Li Youming and his armies faced the Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion after claiming the Kui Ox True Blood Herb. As the Heavenly Clan’s servants attacked, Li Youming called on General Guan Yundao to intervene.

• The Mystic Yellow Army retrieved the Kui Ox True Blood Herb and handed it to Li Youming as the Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion’s warships approached.
• A veiled Heavenly Clan woman demanded the herb and ordered her forces to wipe out Li Youming and his armies.
• Li Youming accused the Heavenly Clan of having Human Race blood, provoking the woman to command an attack.
• Three powerful servant-clan beings attacked, while the Mystic Yellow Army and Eight Desolations Army fought to defend Li Youming.
• As the Three-Beast-Headed Being’s palm descended toward him, Li Youming asked General Guan Yundao to make his move.

Guan Yundao arrived beside Li Youming and annihilated the forces aboard thirteen Giant Warships, including a Heavenly Clan woman and her allies. Li Youming collected the spoils and ordered everyone back to the city, while an unseen figure carrying a Blood Moon Scimitar slipped away.

• Guan Yundao’s distant saber strike killed the Three-Beast-Headed Being and brought him to Li Youming’s side.
• Li Youming ordered Guan Yundao to kill the invaders, and Guan Yundao swiftly slew the Four-Armed War Clan and Ox Demon Clan beings.
• The Heavenly Clan Woman assembled the remaining fighters into the Yin-Yang Demon-Subduing Battle Array, which formed a three-thousand-zhang figure with thirteenth-order power.
• Guan Yundao revealed his thirteenth-order limit strength and destroyed the battle array and everyone aboard the thirteen Giant Warships.
• Li Youming collected the array diagram, rhombus gem, and other spoils, then ordered a return to the city.
• A figure carrying a Blood Moon Scimitar escaped through gaps in space without Guan Yundao noticing.

Li Yue accepted Yuehua’s offer to bring the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty under his faith and ordered Huang Tianmen and Li Youming to establish worship there. After another month of cultivation, he used refined Incense Wish Power to open more Deity Pools and hoped to reach the three hundred needed for advancement.

• Li Yue learned that Li Youming and the others had returned from the Li Fire Dao Domain with valuable Offerings and sensed a strange aura to the west.
• Li Xiudao told Li Yue that Yuehua had taken control of the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty and wanted his support in exchange for its people worshipping him.
• Li Xiudao reported that a Monster from the Blood Moon Forbidden Land had killed the Great Yi Imperial Preceptor and three other powerful figures on their way to attack Li Yue.
• Li Yue accepted Yuehua’s offer and ordered Huang Tianmen to oversee the Great Yi Heavenly Dynasty while Li Youming sent one hundred thousand Priests and ten thousand Divine Statues there.
• After a month, Li Yue used the City God Dharma Seal’s refined Incense Wish Power to open Deity Pools and hoped to reach three hundred.

Li Yue sold the treasures Li Youming had obtained and raised his Deity Pools to 337, qualifying him to advance to Subordinate Fifth Rank Divine Rank. He learned that the advancement required him to establish a Heavenly Dynasty, and chose Li Deyang to rule it while Li Youming remained his mortal representative.

• Li Yue reflected on his Incense Wish Power, his hunt for enemies in the Li Fire Dao Domain, and the vast scale of the Yuanmeng Dao Continent.
• Li Yue sold a Twelfth-Tier Rhombus Gem and other items, gaining fifty-nine Deity Pools and reaching a total of 337.
• Li Yue learned from the Divine Path Law that advancing to Capital City God required establishing a Heavenly Dynasty with a kingdom, capital, and three prefectures.
• Li Yue decided that Four Seas Prefecture City would become the Heavenly Dynasty's capital and that Li Deyang would rule it.
• Li Yue kept Li Youming as his highest-ranking representative among mortals rather than making him the dynasty's ruler.

Li Youming and the senior officials agreed to establish the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty, with Li Deyang as its first ruler, and set its founding for one month later. Li Yue looked forward to gaining national destiny and continued seeking resources to advance his cultivation, while Zhang Wenyan arrived at Tianzhou Immortal City.

• Li Youming received Lord Zhangyue's oracle to establish a Heavenly Dynasty and appoint Li Deyang as its first ruler.
• The senior officials debated names and agreed to call it the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty, which they planned to establish in one month.
• Li Yue approved the name and anticipated that the dynasty's national destiny would help his believers cultivate faster.
• Li Yue considered how to integrate the Law of Wind and the Law of Thunder Dao into the Five Elements Dao Wheel and thought of studying fused-attribute Dao Beast corpses.
• Zhang Wenyan reached the gates of Tianzhou Immortal City to purchase Dao Beast corpses.

Zhang Wenyan entered an Immortal City to seek Dao Beast corpses without funds, while Li Yue received a quest to help a struggling deity advance. He arrived to support Zhang Xiaoyu, who greeted him enthusiastically and offered to cook, do laundry, and warm his bed.

• Zhang Wenyan entered the Immortal City disguised as a member of the Yan Clan and resolved to hide his identity as a Divine Soldier while looking for Dao Beast corpses.
• Li Yue read Personal Quest Twenty-Four, which required him to help a Subordinate Eighth Rank deity advance, and decided to support a deity of his era.
• Zhang Xiaoyu celebrated reaching the Subordinate Eighth Rank and prepared to slay a toad that had demanded she become its bandit queen.
• Li Yue appeared before Zhang Xiaoyu, and a message identified him as a Blue Star Deity offering one-on-one support.
• Zhang Xiaoyu excitedly praised Li Yue and offered to cook, do laundry, and warm his bed, leaving him bewildered.

Li Yue gave Zhang Xiaoyu and eight other Subordinate Eighth Rank Deities 2,400,000 divine power each to help them advance and claim the reward for [Personal Quest—Twenty-Four]. Meanwhile, Li Youming began the ceremony establishing the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty, with Li Deyang poised to become its ruler.

• Li Yue gave Zhang Xiaoyu 2,400,000 divine power and ordered her to reach the Subordinate Seventh Rank Divine Tier within two months.
• Li Yue decided the quest could let him help more Deities, then gave the same amount of divine power to eight more Subordinate Eighth Rank Deities.
• Li Yue spent 21,600,000 divine power in total and anticipated the rewards from all nine Deities completing the quest.
• Four Seas Prefecture City was expanded and arranged for the ceremony establishing the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty.
• Li Youming announced the dynasty's establishment by Lord Zhangyue's Divine Oracle and called Li Deyang forward to become its ruler.

Li Deyang completed the ceremony establishing the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty under Lord Zhangyue, and the new dynasty’s fortune strengthened its ruler and officials. With Great Zhen established, Li Yue began advancing to the Subordinate Fifth Rank Divine Rank.

• Yuehua rejected Chu Yin’s offer to protect Great Yi in exchange for Dao Rhyme Pills, declaring that she would ascend the throne as empress in three months.
• Li Youming conferred the jade seal and imperial authority on Li Deyang on behalf of Lord Zhangyue, and the ceremony gathered golden fortune into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Li Deyang and the people bowed to Lord Zhangyue three times; Li Yue subdued the upheaval of heaven, earth, and the Human Path, which then bestowed fortune and recognized Great Zhen’s establishment.
• Li Deyang’s cultivation rose to the limit of the Ninth Order, and he declared Four Seas City the capital and appointed officials to lead Great Zhen’s armies and departments.
• Li Yue began advancing to the Subordinate Fifth Rank Divine Rank by drawing on the power of his three hundred Deity Pools.

A mysterious middle-aged man destroyed the Blood Moon Forbidden Land and left as Li Yue faced an attempt to trace him through causality. Li Yue concluded he needed a Heavenly Secret Concealment Talisman and planned to buy one in the Eternal God City.

• A middle-aged man gathered the mountain's gourds into a crimson gourd and used it to absorb the Blood Moon Forbidden Land and its monster.
• Twelve indistinct figures in a bronze hall learned that a Deity was nearing the Subordinate Fifth Rank and decided to kill him, with a woman volunteering to eliminate his human protectors as well.
• Li Yue's Thirty-Three Layered Xuanhuang Treasure Tower activated the Mysterious Womb Sun-Hiding Technique and warned him that an exceptionally powerful being was tracing him through causality.
• Li Yue reasoned that the heavenly clan might be targeting his ascension and that his divine rank could be deduced from the size of his jurisdiction.
• Li Yue decided to go to the Eternal God City to buy the Heavenly Secret Concealment Talisman.

Li Yue bought a Subordinate Fifth Rank Heaven-Shielding Talisman from Fate and used it to veil his heavenly secrets. The radiance swept across the Yuanmeng Dao Continent, causing the Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion’s senior members to forget the deity they had planned to report and kill.

• Li Yue entered the Eternal God City and visited the Chess Pavilion to buy a Heaven-Shielding Talisman.
• Fate explained that the talisman would veil Li Yue’s heavenly secrets for a year and cost thirty-one point eight pools of divine power.
• Li Yue spent most of his remaining divine power and received a hazy gray Jade Talisman.
• Li Yue used the talisman in his Divine Domain, sending invisible radiance across the Li Fire Dao Domain and Yuanmeng Dao Continent.
• The eleven Heavenly Clan members in the Li Fire Heavenly Pavilion forgot their plan to report Li Yue and instead believed they had gathered to discuss preventing cultivation deviation.

Li Yue used the Heaven-Shielding Talisman to conceal himself from the Heavenly Clan, then advanced to the Subordinate Fifth Rank and expanded his jurisdiction across the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty. He discovered that Qi Mo had rapidly grown powerful and brought much of Great Chen under his rule.

• Li Yue concealed his existence with the Heaven-Shielding Talisman and decided that safety mattered more than spreading his faith early.
• The Heavenly Clan ordered its forces to find and kill the first deity of the era to reach the Subordinate Fifth Rank.
• After another month of cultivation, Li Yue advanced to the Subordinate Fifth Rank and expanded his divine domain and jurisdiction.
• Li Yue reached the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty and saw that Qi Mo had advanced to the middle stage of the Ninth Order and brought half its territory under his rule.
• Li Yue judged that Qi Mo's player, a Fourteenth Order Great Ability, posed no threat, and watched Qi Mo cultivate in the capital.

Qi Mo’s rise to power ended when Li Yue exposed the Fourteenth-Order Heavenly Demon who had secretly treated him as a Chess Piece. Li Yue destroyed the Heavenly Demon, leaving Qi Mo alive but stunned by the being’s strength.

• Qi Mo reflected on his tragic past, his rapid cultivation, and his rise as leader of the Heavenly Qi Army.
• Li Yue appeared before Qi Mo and pulled a red thread from his soul, opening a passage to a blood-red coffin.
• The Heavenly Demon inside the coffin offered Qi Mo as a Chess Piece and asked Li Yue to let them part peacefully.
• Li Yue recognized the Heavenly Demon’s plan to use Qi Mo as medicine for its injuries and rejected its threats.
• Li Yue used the Five-Colored Dao Wheel to shatter the coffin and grind the Fourteenth-Order Heavenly Demon to nothing.

Li Yue defeated a Fourteenth-Order being, collected valuable materials, and ordered Zhou Zijian to help clear demons in the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty. In Juntian City, Lord of Juntian City’s secret demand for human sacrifices was exposed when Li Yue appeared above him.

• Li Yue gathered the Demon Heart Pearl and formation materials, earning enough to gain roughly four hundred Deity Pools by selling them.
• Li Yue summoned Zhou Zijian and ordered him to assist Qi Mo in eradicating Demonic Creatures and Evil Specters within the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty.
• Zhou Zijian vowed to avenge his slain Believers by wiping out the Evil Specter Clan in the area.
• Lord of Juntian City ordered the Hundred Swords Hall, Heavenly Blade Sect, and Nine Qi Sect destroyed to meet his growing demand for Martial Artists to consume.
• Lord of Juntian City admitted that he relied on people seeking his protection as food, then saw Li Yue watching him from the clouds and began to tremble.

Li Yue exposed Lord of Juntian City as a human traitor, and Li Xiudao took control of Juntian City on behalf of Lord Zhangyue. Li Yue then arrived at the Ten Thousand Demon Cave to claim its treasures, drawing the attention of its Celestial Masters.

• Li Yue forced Lord of Juntian City to confess that he had fed millions of human Martial Artists to the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and used millions more as his own blood food.
• Thunder killed Lord of Juntian City and more than ten thousand other human traitors in Juntian City.
• Li Xiudao announced that he would govern Juntian City until the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty's armies arrived and offered its people shelter through belief in Lord Zhangyue.
• Li Yue surveyed the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, noting its powerful defenders, Thirteenth-Order formation, and True Demon Extreme Yang Grass.
• Li Yue erased the formation protecting the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, causing its Twelfth-Order Celestial Masters to rush out and confront him.

Li Yue annihilated the Ten Thousand Demon Cave and gathered enough resources to bring his divine power to 671 Deity Pools, while looking ahead to the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty’s Grand Sacrifice. The chapter ended as Li Deyang, Li Youming, Jiu Shaoge, the officials, troops, and Believers assembled for the ceremony.

• Li Yue destroyed the Ten Thousand Demon Cave Patriarch and its disciples, then collected their resources, including the True Demon Extreme Yang Grass and two quasi-Thirteenth-Order beads.
• Li Yue sold his spoils through the Deity Shop and raised his divine power to 671 Deity Pools.
• Li Yue checked his Subordinate Fifth Rank status and noted that advancing to Principal Fifth Rank required 3,000 Pools of divine power.
• Li Yue looked forward to the Grand Sacrifice, expecting Li Youming’s Offering to gain a hundredfold amplification.
• Li Deyang led the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty’s officials to the City God Temple as Li Youming, Jiu Shaoge, elite troops, and millions of Believers gathered for the Grand Sacrifice.

During the Grand Sacrifice, Li Youming proclaimed Lord Zhangyue’s protection across the Jurisdiction, prompting people in newly covered lands to worship him. The chapter ends with the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty and new devotees praying for Zhangyue to keep sheltering the Human Race.

• Chen Zhuxian reflected on how Lord Zhangyue had raised him from an ordinary martial artist to a Ninth-Order King and on his near-place among Heaven-Grade Believers.
• Li Youming began the Grand Sacrifice and declared that Zhangyue had protected the Human Race from Demonic Creatures across the Great Zhen Heavenly Dynasty.
• People in newly enveloped regions, including captives in the Great Chen Imperial Dynasty, heard that worshiping Zhangyue could bring protection.
• A woman prayed to Zhangyue as a Rat Demon tried to seize her, and golden lightning struck the demon dead.
• Li Youming, Jiu Shaoge, Li Deyang, officials, Priests, and Believers bowed to Zhangyue and asked him to continue protecting his devotees.