Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue receives several new Personal Quests related to the Gray Valley Ark. Four quests concern obtaining Soldier-, General-, King-, and Supreme-grade inheritances, while another requires killing two Taboo Life forms in the Demonic Cultivator Dimension and judging all demons.
• Completing all five quests would grant Li Yue thirteen Divine Path Wheel draws, potentially yielding powerful taboo supreme treasures. He recognizes that the rewards could significantly strengthen him but that the quests will be extremely difficult.
• Li Yue identifies three methods of improving his power within the next century:
  1. Advancing through the Third and Fourth Steps of the Dao-Treading Divine Rank.
  2. Making better use of the Seal of Dao Origin.
  3. Accumulating enough divine power to use Thousandfold Combat Power freely, with stronger combat multipliers as emergency trump cards.
• Returning to the Divine Domain, Li Yue selects 300 exceptionally talented First Step Dao-Treading Believers from the Eternity Legion, along with twelve long-serving and highly devoted followers—including Li Youming and Jiu Shaoge, who are already at the Third Step.
• He uses 3,600 Dao-Treading Grade Blessing Talismans to rapidly elevate the 300 soldiers from the First Step to the Third Step.
• Li Yue sends all 312 followers into the Dao Origin Dimension, a special cultivation realm within the Seal of Dao Origin. The dimension has a one-to-one-hundred time ratio, contains only Great Dao Beasts, and is ideally suited for cultivation.
• He orders them to reach the Fourth Step within ten thousand years. If successful, they can merge with the Light of Dao Origin Creation and become Taboo Life forms.
• Li Yue expects this plan to increase the number of Taboo Life under his command by at least one hundred. He regrets that suitable candidates for becoming Time God Envoys are difficult to find.
• He resumes cultivating and comprehending the Dao-Treading Divine Rank. Ninety-five years pass, bringing the total time since his transmigration to 350 years.

Character Developments

• Li Yue becomes more ambitious and strategically focused. The new quests reveal the importance of the Gray Valley Ark and motivate him to pursue massive gains in strength.
• He demonstrates a long-term approach to power growth, prioritizing cultivation, resource management, and the development of loyal subordinates rather than relying solely on personal advancement.
• Li Youming, Jiu Shaoge, and ten other longtime followers are established as Li Yue’s most trusted and advanced believers, serving as leaders of the cultivation group.
• The 300 selected soldiers are transformed from ordinary First Step Dao-Treading Creatures into powerful Third Step experts, placing them close to becoming Fourth Step beings.

Significant Themes

• Power accumulation and preparation: Li Yue understands that future challenges require substantial preparation rather than impulsive action.
• Loyalty and divine authority: His followers obey him with absolute devotion, treating his commands as divine oracles.
• Cultivation through time and resources: The chapter emphasizes accelerated cultivation, precious resources, and the strategic use of special dimensions.
• Building an empire of power: Li Yue is not merely strengthening himself; he is creating an expanding force of Taboo Life forms under his command.
• Long-term ambition versus immediate opportunity: Although the Divine Path Wheel rewards tempt him, Li Yue recognizes that he must first become strong enough to complete the quests.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue interacts with his selected believers as their supreme God Lord, while they respond with reverence and unwavering loyalty.
• He personally empowers the 300 Eternity Legion soldiers and gives them a clear cultivation objective.
• Li Youming and Jiu Shaoge are designated implicitly as the leaders of the group, with the others following their direction.
• Li Yue’s relationship with his believers is both devotional and strategic: their faith fuels his authority, while their advancement will eventually expand his forces of Taboo Life.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue reaches the Third Step of the Dao-Treading Divine Rank, giving him High Creation-grade base strength. With the Seal of Dao Origin and Endless Combat Power, his actual power is far greater. He believes that entering the Fourth Step would raise him to the Half-step Dao-wielding level.
• With five years before the opening of the Gray Valley Ark, Li Yue plans to conquer the Demonic Cultivator Dimension and prepare his forces.
• He summons the twelve million soldiers of the Immortal Legion, now led by deputy commander Zhao Zi’an because Li Xiuwu has gone to the Dao Origin Dimension.
• Li Yue also summons 120 million devout Quasi-Immortal King Believers from the Great Zhen Imperial Court.
• Using the taboo artifact Primordial Ancient God Altar, he transforms:
  • The original twelve million Immortal Legion soldiers into Initial Guards, capable of eventually reaching the Peak Dominator realm.
  • The 120 million believers into Primordial Ancient Guards, capable of eventually reaching the Peak Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Li Yue spends 25.2 million World Divine Power on the transformation, using roughly one quarter of his accumulated reserves. He considers the cost worthwhile because it strengthens both his legion and the effects of the Seal of Dao Origin.
• After half a month, the transformation is complete. The Initial Guards advance to the Heavenly Venerable level, while the Primordial Ancient Guards rise to the Selfless Immortal King level.
• Li Yue sends the army to a special garrison where 360,000 years will pass internally during only three years outside, allowing the soldiers to mature to their peak before accompanying him into battle.
• Li Yue begins considering how to break through to the Fourth Step before the Gray Valley Ark opens. Since he has already explored the dimensions connected to the Pangu Dimension and most of those connected to the Dimension of Myriad Daos, he decides to seek opportunities by visiting other dimensions through his position as Leader of the Eternity Organization.

Character Development

• Li Yue is portrayed as increasingly powerful, strategic, and cautious. Though already at High Creation-grade strength, he recognizes that the Gray Valley Ark may contain opponents beyond his expectations and focuses on both personal advancement and military preparation.
• His leadership becomes more imperial and commanding as he expands and upgrades his loyal army. He is willing to invest enormous resources in strengthening his forces but remains careful to preserve divine power needed for future combat.
• Zhao Zi’an assumes greater responsibility as acting leader of the Immortal Legion in Li Xiuwu’s absence.
• The believers demonstrate absolute loyalty, willingly accepting transformation and pledging themselves as weapons in Li Yue’s service.

Significant Themes

• Power and advancement: The chapter emphasizes the immense gap between cultivation stages and Li Yue’s pursuit of the Fourth Step.
• Preparation for unknown dangers: The Gray Valley Ark represents a major future threat, motivating Li Yue to strengthen both himself and his army.
• Faith and loyalty: The believers’ devotion enables their transformation and makes them utterly obedient to Li Yue.
• Resource management: Even with more than one hundred million World Divine Power, Li Yue must balance military expansion with retaining enough power for Thousandfold Combat Power.
• Exploration and opportunity: Li Yue believes exposure to unfamiliar dimensions, laws, and Great Daos may provide the insight needed for his breakthrough.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue addresses the Immortal Legion and the newly summoned believers from above, formally granting them their new statuses.
• Zhao Zi’an leads the legion in greeting Li Yue and serves as the army’s highest-ranking authority during Li Xiuwu’s absence.
• The soldiers respond with fervent vows of loyalty, promising to become Li Yue’s sword and slaughter his enemies.
• Li Yue’s relationship with his forces is built on absolute devotion and command: he provides them with immense power and future growth, while they accept any order, including death, without hesitation.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Wang Xuan, one of the Eternity Organization’s top three members, is meditating in the Heavenly Authority Dimension. She possesses peak Dao Ancestor strength but remains at the Dominator Divine Rank, standing just short of the Dao-Treading Grade.
• She has been hunted for a century by the All Beings Heavenly Court after killing her former master, who attempted to use a secret art to possess her body. That master was the son of the Lord of the Thunder Department.
• Three Thunder Department Divine Generals arrive, one from each of the Heavenly Authority Dimension’s three great Heavenly Courts: the All Beings, Dao-Wish, and No-View Heavenly Courts.
• The three courts intend to capture Wang Xuan and refine her into a powerful “possession vessel,” while treating the inhabitants of the Chaos World around her as expendable ants.
• Wang Xuan refuses to surrender and condemns the Heavenly Courts for abandoning their duty to protect living beings. Despite knowing she is vastly outmatched by three second-step Dao-Treading Creatures, she prepares to fight to the death.
• Before the attack can land, Li Yue appears and freezes space, time, the River of Time, and the three Divine Generals themselves.
• Li Yue declares that no one is permitted to treat members of his organization as possession vessels. He kills all three Divine Generals instantly.
• Three Intermediate Creation-level Taboo Lives then descend to confront Li Yue. Rather than showing fear, Li Yue welcomes the challenge with confidence.

2. Character Developments

• Wang Xuan: Her history and extraordinary potential are emphasized. She is revealed to be proud, defiant, and fiercely independent, having killed her own master rather than submit to being possessed. Although aware of the overwhelming power gap, she remains willing to sacrifice her life and vows to return from death to destroy her enemies.
• Li Yue: He demonstrates overwhelming authority and absolute protection toward Eternity Organization members. His calm arrival and effortless destruction of three powerful Divine Generals establish him as a terrifyingly powerful figure, likely at the Taboo Life level or beyond.
• The Heavenly Court Divine Generals: They are portrayed as arrogant, oppressive, and contemptuous of weaker beings. Their belief that talented individuals exist merely to serve as vessels reveals the corruption and brutality of the Heavenly Courts.
• The three Taboo Lives: Their arrival indicates that the conflict is escalating from a hunt involving Divine Generals to a confrontation between top-level forces.

3. Significant Themes

• Resistance against oppression: Wang Xuan refuses to accept that power gives the Heavenly Courts the right to dominate or possess her.
• Abuse of authority: The Heavenly Courts claim to represent and protect all beings, yet openly massacre civilians and treat talented individuals as tools.
• Dignity and free will: The central conflict revolves around Wang Xuan’s refusal to become a vessel and surrender control over her own body and destiny.
• Loyalty and protection: Li Yue’s intervention shows that the Eternity Organization protects its members, contrasting sharply with the Heavenly Courts’ exploitative structure.
• Power and reversal: The Divine Generals initially view Wang Xuan as an insignificant ant, but Li Yue reverses the hierarchy, reducing them to helpless victims in an instant.

4. Character Interactions

• The three Divine Generals collectively intimidate Wang Xuan and demand her surrender, repeatedly calling her an “ant” and insisting that becoming a vessel should be considered an honor.
• Wang Xuan directly challenges their ideology, accusing the Heavenly Courts of failing to uphold justice and promising to destroy all three.
• Li Yue appears beside Wang Xuan at the decisive moment, asserting his authority over the situation and questioning who gave the Heavenly Courts permission to target his organization’s members.
• When the All Beings Divine General attempts to invoke the support of three Taboo Lives, Li Yue silences and destroys him before he can finish speaking.
• The chapter ends with Li Yue facing the three Taboo Lives, transforming the rescue into a major confrontation.

Chapter Summary: “If I Refuse to Admit Guilt, What Will You Do?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue and Wang Xuan are confronted by three powerful Taboo Lives from the Heavenly Authority Dimension:
  • The Lord of the All Beings Heavenly Court
  • The Lord of the Dao-Wish Heavenly Court
  • The Lord of the Immeasurable Heavenly Court
• The three accuse Li Yue of killing one of their divine generals and demand that he admit guilt and surrender Wang Xuan, whom they dismiss as a mere “possession vessel.”
• The leaders underestimate Li Yue. Based on his apparent Divine Rank and limited time since his rise, they assume he is at most an Elementary or Intermediate Creation-level Taboo Life.
• Wang Xuan worries that Li Yue may not be strong enough to fight three veteran Taboo Lives. She had not asked him for help because of her pride and reluctance to endanger him.
• Li Yue calmly asks what they will do if he refuses to admit guilt, then dismisses them as excessively noisy.
• The Lord of the Immeasurable attacks first, using a silver spear, a floating silver eye, dimensional power, and the support of the Dimension Will. Her strength rises close to High Creation-grade.
• The other two Heavenly Court lords launch equally devastating attacks:
  • The Lord of All Beings uses his layered pupils and countless colored rays.
  • The Lord of Dao-Wish attacks with a black knife empowered by Dimension Origin.
• Their combined assault threatens to destroy countless realms and overwhelms Wang Xuan merely through its collateral effects.
• Li Yue effortlessly counters by flicking out a tiny strand of Sword Qi. It expands across heaven and earth and shatters all three attacks in an instant, continuing toward the attackers.
• The three Taboo Lives are stunned and refuse to believe Li Yue possesses such overwhelming strength. The Lord of All Beings convinces himself that Li Yue must have used a rare trump card.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Reveals a level of power far beyond the three veteran Taboo Lives. His calmness, contempt, and effortless destruction of their attacks establish his overwhelming superiority.
• Wang Xuan: Shows both concern for Li Yue and personal pride. She had avoided asking for his help because she believed he might be weaker than the enemy, but witnessing his power leaves her shocked and speechless.
• Lord of All Beings: Demonstrates intelligence and caution but is blinded by his assumptions. Even after seeing Li Yue destroy their combined attack, he rationalizes the event as merely a trump card.
• Three Heavenly Court Lords: Begin the chapter confident and domineering, but their confidence collapses into disbelief and fear once Li Yue counters them effortlessly.

Significant Themes

• Underestimation and hidden strength: Li Yue’s apparent Divine Rank conceals his true power, causing the enemy to make a disastrous miscalculation.
• Pride and self-reliance: Wang Xuan’s refusal to seek help reflects her dignity and determination to face danger herself.
• Overwhelming power versus empty authority: The Heavenly Court leaders claim dominance within their dimension, but their authority proves meaningless against Li Yue’s superior strength.
• Calmness amid danger: Li Yue’s composure contrasts sharply with the enemy’s arrogance and Wang Xuan’s fear, emphasizing his absolute confidence.
• Self-deception: Even after their defeat, the three Taboo Lives struggle to accept reality and explain away Li Yue’s strength as a limited trump card.

Character Interactions

• The three lords attempt to intimidate Li Yue and pressure him into surrendering Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan silently worries about Li Yue and stands behind him during the confrontation.
• Li Yue places himself between Wang Xuan and the attackers, verbally dismisses their threats, and protects her without apparent effort.
• His single flick of Sword Qi completely reverses the power dynamic, leaving the three Heavenly Court rulers frightened and confused.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue faces the three supreme Taboo Lives, who join forces and use the Heavenly Authority Dimension’s power to resist him.
• The Taboo Lives deploy the Immeasurable Star Array, producing repeated High Creation-grade Star-Array Swords. They launch the attack four times, believing Li Yue cannot have more powerful strikes remaining.
• Li Yue reveals that these attacks are far from his limit. He summons more than one hundred Sword Qi strands, each carrying High Creation-grade power.
• The three Taboo Lives desperately sacrifice the powerful beings within their Heavenly Courts to strengthen themselves, but even this fails to stop Li Yue.
• The Heavenly Authority Dimension Will personally intervenes in the form of a massive Eye of Will, yet Li Yue destroys it almost instantly.
• The three Taboo Lives are killed completely, leaving behind only three clusters of Taboo Source. Their deaths devastate the entire dimension: most of its powerful inhabitants perish, its source declines, and its Will falls dormant.
• Li Yue tells Wang Xuan that she is now the strongest being in the dimension. He helps her subdue and control the Heavenly Authority Dimension Will, allowing her to become the dimension’s master.
• Wang Xuan swears absolute loyalty to Li Yue.
• Li Yue forms a new plan: he will help members of the Eternity Organization gain control over their own dimensions, building a powerful force to support his future attempt to transcend the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• The chapter ends when Li Yue notices that the Heavenly Authority Dimension Will is clutching a mysterious bronze coffin.

2. Character Developments

• Li Yue: His overwhelming strength is fully demonstrated. He reveals that what others regard as trump cards are actually ordinary attacks for him, possessing enough power to destroy an entire dimension. After securing victory, he shifts from simple conquest to long-term strategic planning, recognizing that he needs allies and a broader power base to transcend the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• The Three Taboo Lives: Their confidence collapses into despair. They initially believe their combined ultimate technique can exhaust Li Yue, but they are forced to beg for mercy once he reveals an even greater reserve of power. Their willingness to sacrifice their own followers shows their ruthlessness and self-preservation.
• Wang Xuan: She changes from a relatively insignificant native cultivator into the strongest surviving being in the Heavenly Authority Dimension. Her awe and admiration for Li Yue deepen into complete devotion, and she accepts responsibility for ruling the dimension.
• The Heavenly Authority Dimension Will: Though instinctively hostile, it recognizes Li Yue’s overwhelming superiority and submits to Wang Xuan rather than risk destruction.

3. Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and hopeless resistance: The Taboo Lives’ strongest techniques and the entire dimension’s source power are useless against Li Yue, emphasizing the vast gap between him and High Creation-grade opponents.
• The cost of tyranny: The three Heavenly Courts are revealed to exist solely to serve their rulers. Their leaders sacrifice thousands of powerful beings as fuel, leaving the dimension nearly ruined even before their deaths.
• Loyalty and subjugation: Wang Xuan’s oath reflects the chapter’s recurring pattern of weaker beings submitting to overwhelming authority, whether willingly or under coercion.
• Strategic expansion and collective strength: Li Yue realizes that personal power alone may not be enough to transcend the Three Thousand Dimensions. He begins constructing a network of dimension rulers and potential future Taboo Lives to support his larger ambitions.
• Mystery and foreshadowing: The bronze coffin held by the dimension’s Will is introduced as a significant unresolved object, likely connected to deeper secrets or future developments.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Yue taunts the three Taboo Lives by repeatedly challenging them to show their “trump cards,” exposing their attacks as insignificant compared with his own.
• The Taboo Lives coordinate their defenses and later plead with Li Yue, claiming their conflict is a misunderstanding and offering compensation.
• Wang Xuan watches Li Yue’s victory with astonishment and worship, viewing him as an almost invincible leader.
• Li Yue elevates Wang Xuan by arranging for the Heavenly Authority Dimension Will to recognize her as its master.
• Wang Xuan responds by kneeling and pledging to obey Li Yue even at the cost of her life.
• The chapter closes with Li Yue turning his attention from Wang Xuan’s ascension to the mysterious bronze coffin in the Dimension Will’s grasp.

Chapter Summary: The Creator’s Origin? Taboo Life with Erased Memories?

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue discovers a mysterious Bronze Coffin that had been concealed by the power of the Dimensional Origin Will.
• The coffin’s murals depict a green-robed woman undergoing severe punishment, becoming a Creator within a Thirty-Six-Petaled Green Lotus, creating a dimension, and standing alongside powerful beings before an indistinct figure wielding a golden war blade.
• The punishment appears to involve a terrifying wind that attacks the woman’s body, soul, true spirit, and even her inner organs. Despite immense suffering, she remains defiant.
• The murals lead Li Yue to speculate about the origin of Creators. He considers whether Creators may once have been Taboo Lives whose memories were erased before they were sent into the Three Thousand Dimensions with the instinctive mission to create dimensions.
• The final mural seems to show the green-robed woman and other Dao-wielding-grade beings following a mysterious supreme existence to attack an unknown location guarded by enormous, indifferent eyes. Li Yue suspects the campaign may have failed, resulting in the woman’s capture and punishment.
• Li Yue theorizes that the coffin may contain the woman’s corpse and returns it to the ancient beast formed from the Dimensional Origin Will, believing the Origin Will instinctively protects its Creator.
• The coffin suddenly opens. The green-robed woman emerges with disheveled hair and clings to Li Yue’s back, whispering, “Save me.”
• Li Yue initially senses nothing, but Wang Xuan sees the woman and reacts in terror, leaving Li Yue horrified.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Demonstrates caution and analytical reasoning as he examines the murals. He develops a shocking theory about the possible relationship between Taboo Lives and Creators, but remains uncertain because the murals may not be arranged chronologically. His confidence collapses when the supposedly sealed woman appears directly behind him.
• The Green-Robed Woman: Is portrayed as extraordinarily powerful, possessing Creator-level strength and an unyielding will. Her history suggests she may have participated in a catastrophic war, suffered capture and punishment, and possibly endured memory loss or transformation. Her sudden appearance implies that she is still alive—or exists in a strange postmortem state.
• Wang Xuan: Previously a silent observer, she becomes crucial when she alone notices the woman clinging to Li Yue’s back. Her panic emphasizes how abnormal and terrifying the apparition is.

Significant Themes

• The origin and nature of Creators: The chapter questions whether Creators are naturally born beings or former Taboo Lives altered through memory erasure and forced into creating dimensions.
• Memory and identity: The possibility of powerful beings losing their memories raises questions about whether a person’s identity and purpose can be controlled or rewritten.
• Defiance against cosmic authority: The green-robed woman’s refusal to submit to punishment reflects resistance against overwhelming heavenly or dimensional powers.
• Unknowable cosmic forces: The blurred war leader and the cold eyes beyond the rift suggest powers far beyond the known hierarchy of the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Perception and uncertainty: The murals’ unclear order causes Li Yue to question his own conclusions, while the woman’s undetectable presence demonstrates the limits of his senses.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Yue interacts with the Dimensional Origin Will’s beast-like manifestation and retrieves the Bronze Coffin from its grasp.
• He studies the murals independently, using them to construct and revise theories about the green-robed woman and the Creators.
• Li Yue and Wang Xuan have a brief but significant exchange at the end: Wang Xuan sees the woman behind him, while Li Yue remains unaware, creating a sudden cliffhanger and atmosphere of supernatural danger.

Chapter Summary: Secrets at the Source, Suspected to Involve Beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue discovers that the disheveled green-robed woman from the Bronze Coffin is attached to his back. He cannot see or sense her, even after raising his strength to the Dao-wielding Grade, while Heavenly Venerables and stronger beings can clearly perceive her.
• The woman repeatedly says only, “Save me,” leaving Li Yue uncertain whether she retains intelligence or is trapped in a limited supernatural state.
• Li Yue returns to the Bronze Coffin and finds an inscription inside: “I want to go home… Brother… I miss you so much… Why haven’t you come to save me…”
• This leads him to speculate about the woman’s origins. She may have once belonged to an existence beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions, may have been punished and transformed into a Creator, or may have had a powerful “brother” connected to the mysterious figure in the mural.
• When Li Yue asks her to return to the coffin, she eventually leaves his back, but the Bronze Coffin transforms into bronze light and imprints itself onto his hand.
• The woman finally speaks directly to Li Yue, promising, “Save me… and I will grant you… a great Creation.” The coffin then becomes dormant, apparently exhausting its accumulated power.
• The woman reveals three locations that may be connected to her salvation: the peak of Sinking Mountain, the Mirror of the Ancient Kingdom, and the Bottom of the Abyssal Sea.
• Li Yue suspects these places—and the woman herself—may lie beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• He encourages Wang Xuan to reach the Taboo realm, declaring that every member of the Eternity Organization should eventually become a Taboo Life.
• Li Yue travels to the Tianyin Dimension and kills its sole Taboo Life, a weak Creator named Chen Tianhai, after sensing immense malice within him.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Becomes increasingly wary of the green-robed woman while remaining curious about her identity and possible connection to realms beyond the known dimensions. His confidence and power remain formidable, but he recognizes that the Bronze Coffin’s abilities surpass even the Dao-wielding Grade. He also begins connecting the malice of Creators to larger mysteries involving Terror and the origin of Pangu’s replica.
• Wang Xuan: Though frightened and confused by the woman, she continues serving as Li Yue’s interpreter because she can perceive the entity when he cannot. She becomes inspired by Li Yue’s vision of turning the entire Eternity Organization into a force composed of Taboo Lives.
• The Green-Robed Woman: Her mysterious nature deepens. She appears unable to communicate normally, repeating “Save me,” but possesses overwhelming power and may originate from outside the Three Thousand Dimensions. Her references to a “brother” and “home” suggest a lost origin and a potentially vast hidden history.

Significant Themes

• Limits of perception and power: Li Yue, despite his immense strength, cannot perceive the woman, emphasizing that power and awareness do not always correspond.
• Mystery of origins: The chapter questions where Creators come from and whether some may originate beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Imprisonment and salvation: The woman’s repeated plea for rescue, the Bronze Coffin, and the three mysterious locations suggest an ancient confinement or punishment.
• Accumulated malice: Creators may gradually develop immense evil or corruption over endless time, possibly contributing to the appearance of the mysterious Terror.
• Hidden manipulation: Li Yue wonders whether a greater “chess player” is orchestrating events, including the existence of Great God Pangu’s replica.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue repeatedly questions and attempts to negotiate with the green-robed woman, asking how he can save her and urging her to return to the Bronze Coffin.
• Wang Xuan acts as the crucial intermediary, translating the woman’s words and alerting Li Yue whenever she moves or changes state.
• Li Yue encourages Wang Xuan to become a Taboo Life and expands his vision for the Eternity Organization.
• After leaving Wang Xuan, Li Yue confronts and destroys Chen Tianhai, continuing his investigation into the malice associated with Creators.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Tianhai is unexpectedly recognized by the source will of Tianyin Dimension as its master while cultivating. Although he is only a Dominator Divine Rank Deity—roughly equivalent to a peak Dao Ancestor—he suddenly gains control over an entire vast Dimension.
• Li Yue appears and confirms that he has given Tianyin Dimension to Chen Tianhai. Chen Tianhai realizes the gift’s enormous value and suspects that Li Yue’s power has reached an almost incomprehensible level. He vows to obey Li Yue’s commands and strive toward the Taboo realm.
• Over the next three years, Li Yue visits the Dimensions inhabited by members of the Eternity Organization. He discovers that most contain only one Taboo Life, usually the Dimension’s Creator; a small number contain two or three.
• Li Yue kills the Taboo Lives in ninety-eight Dimensions, acquiring 108 Taboo Sources in total. He turns the occupied Dimensions over to the Eternity Organization members living there, allowing almost all of them to become Dimension masters. Wu Qing is the exception because his Simon Dimension already belongs to Great God Pangu.
• Li Yue explains the immense value of Taboo Sources. They can be refined into Light of Dao Origin Creation, which allows a Fourth Step Dao-Treading Creature to become a Taboo Life with absolute certainty—far surpassing other known methods that merely increase the probability of success.
• After returning to the Dimension of Myriad Daos, Li Yue observes that the Hundred Schools Contending movement has spread throughout the world. Its philosophies have influenced even ordinary mortals, strengthening the spiritual will of living beings and improving cultivation.
• Since the Dimension of Myriad Daos has grown stronger and is ready to evolve into a Triune Dimension, Li Yue identifies the Demonic Cultivator Dimension as the suitable additional Dimension needed for the merger.
• His experiences traveling through ninety-eight Dimensions expose him to many different Daos and rules. Having completed this accumulation, he begins advancing toward the Fourth Step of the Dao-Treading Divine Rank.
• After three days of transformation, Li Yue advances from High Creation-grade Taboo Life to the Half-step Dao-wielding level without relying on temporary trump cards.

Character Developments

• Chen Tianhai: Moves from bewildered disbelief to solemn gratitude and loyalty after receiving Tianyin Dimension. His unexpected promotion to Dimension master greatly increases his status and gives him a stronger foundation for pursuing the Taboo realm.
• Li Yue: Demonstrates overwhelming power by controlling or destroying Taboo-level existences across dozens of Dimensions. His travels broaden his understanding of different Daos, provide precious Taboo Sources, strengthen the Eternity Organization, and lead directly to his own advancement.
• Eternity Organization members: Nearly all gain mastery over their resident Dimensions, substantially improving their independence and future prospects. Wu Qing remains the lone exception due to Great God Pangu’s prior ownership of the Simon Dimension.

Significant Themes

• Power and responsibility: Li Yue’s ability to distribute entire Dimensions shows his immense power, while also highlighting his role in strengthening his allies rather than advancing alone.
• Trials and survival: The pattern of one Creator per Dimension suggests that the Dimensions may have been designed as harsh trials. Li Yue wonders whether the Mastermind deliberately created this arrangement to temper the Eternity Organization members.
• Accumulation through experience: Li Yue’s advancement comes not only from raw cultivation but from encountering the rules and Daos of ninety-eight different Dimensions.
• Growth of civilization and thought: The spread of Hundred Schools Contending develops the spiritual will of all living beings, suggesting that intellectual and cultural progress can directly influence cultivation and the strength of a Dimension.
• Hard-earned security: Reaching Half-step Dao-wielding finally gives Li Yue a greater sense of safety after centuries of struggle, though his reflection emphasizes how difficult his journey has been.

Character Interactions

• Chen Tianhai initially mistakes Li Yue’s appearance for a normal visit, but quickly realizes that Li Yue is responsible for his sudden recognition as Tianyin Dimension’s master.
• Li Yue formally gives Tianyin Dimension to Chen Tianhai and encourages him to reach the Taboo realm. Chen Tianhai responds by kneeling and pledging absolute obedience.
• Li Yue’s broader interactions with the Eternity Organization are mostly indirect: by eliminating the Taboo Life in each member’s Dimension, he grants them control over their homes and strengthens the entire organization.
• His relationship with the members is therefore characterized by overwhelming protection, generosity, and the expectation that they will eventually grow powerful enough to stand on their own.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Seal of Dao Origin releases 312 Dao-Treading Creatures who had entered its inner dimension. Of them, 240 successfully reach the Fourth Step, while 72 die.
• Of the dead, 58 perish while desperately attempting to break through during the final three years, unwilling to return without fulfilling their promise to Li Yue. The remaining 14 had failed earlier.
• Li Yue extracts the 72 fallen believers’ true spirits and orders Li Youming to send them into reincarnation and personally guide their future cultivation.
• Reflecting on their transformation, Li Yue realizes that his arrival and their faith have radically altered their destinies: people who might otherwise have lived ordinary lives and died as mortals are now on the verge of becoming Taboo Lives.
• Li Yue rewards his believers:
  • 228 believers receive the Light of Dao Origin Creation, immediately advancing them into Taboo Lives.
  • Li Youming receives a Taboo Grade Blessing Talisman, preserving his potential to eventually reach the Dao-wielding Grade.
  • Eleven other especially important believers—Li Xiuwu, Li Deyang, Li Xiudao, Jiu Shaoge, Chen Zhuxian, Deng Jiu’e, Liu Mei, Qin Wange, Zhou Qingyi, Zhao Jiuyuan, and Liao Xiu’er—are told to wait for their own opportunities.
• As a result, 229 Taboo Grade auras erupt across the Dimension of Myriad Daos, attracting the dimension’s attention and causing its origin to undergo a dramatic transformation.
• The dimension’s origin absorbs immense quantities of source essences from beyond itself. Although it remains a Dual-Union Dimension in classification, its essence rises to the level of a Quadruple-Union Dimension.
• Li Yue is astonished by the unprecedented development and begins wondering whether a dimension itself can transcend—possibly even carrying all its inhabitants with it.

Character Developments

• Li Yue displays both compassion and growing awareness of his influence. He mourns the fallen believers, arranges their reincarnation, and recognizes that his existence has rewritten hundreds of lives and their destinies.
• He also becomes more strategic as a leader, distinguishing between ordinary believers who can be advanced immediately and twelve core followers who must be cultivated through safer methods.
• Li Youming is elevated as Li Yue’s trusted disciple and caretaker of the fallen believers’ reincarnations. His receipt of the Blessing Talisman marks him as Li Yue’s foremost cultivation priority.
• The 228 ordinary believers demonstrate unwavering faith and are transformed into Taboo Lives, becoming powerful weapons and servants for Li Yue.
• The eleven specially selected believers accept the delay without resentment, showing complete confidence in Li Yue and deepening their commitment to him.

Significant Themes

• Destiny and causality: Li Yue reflects that his encounter with the believers, and their devotion to him, have redirected their lives from ordinary mortality toward supreme cultivation.
• Faith and reward: Absolute devotion is portrayed as a force capable of earning extraordinary power, while Li Yue’s rewards reinforce the bond between god and followers.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: The 58 believers who die attempting breakthrough embody the extreme cost of faith and the willingness to sacrifice everything for Li Yue.
• The consequences of power: Li Yue’s ability to elevate hundreds of beings simultaneously affects not only individuals but the entire dimension.
• Transcendence beyond personal cultivation: The chapter expands the idea of transcendence from an individual achievement to a possible transformation of an entire dimension.

Character Interactions

• Li Youming and Li Yue: Li Youming respectfully reports the deaths and pledges to guide the deceased through reincarnation. Li Yue rewards him with a Blessing Talisman, establishing a particularly close teacher-disciple relationship.
• Li Yue and the 240 survivors: Li Yue acknowledges their faith and grants them immense power. They respond by declaring themselves his unquestioning swords, willing to sacrifice their lives for his commands.
• Li Yue and the eleven chosen believers: He tells them to wait for their opportunities rather than granting them immediate advancement. They accept his decision enthusiastically, interpreting it as evidence that they are among his most important followers.
• Li Yue and the Dimension of Myriad Daos: Though the dimension has no direct dialogue, its origin visibly responds to the birth of the Taboo Lives, suggesting a reciprocal relationship between Li Yue’s actions, his followers’ advancement, and the dimension’s evolution.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Hongyuan Dimension is introduced as a vast, prosperous Ninefold Fusion Dimension with a history spanning more than ten trillion eras. Its Ancestral Court is the seat of the Hongyuan Heavenly Court and is guarded by two enormous taboo-level giants.
• Wangkong, Deputy Director of the Heavenwatch Bureau, arrives at the Ancestral Court to report to the Bureau’s Director. After waiting, he meets the white-haired Director, who is quietly playing chess and drinking wine.
• Wangkong reports that 108 Creators have died within three years. Nine Patrol Inspectors were sent to investigate, but none have returned with information.
• Both Wangkong and the Director infer that a new Leader of the Divine Path Organization has emerged. Since the Gray Valley Ark is about to open and such leaders will likely attend, Wangkong suggests eliminating them there.
• The Director orders Wangkong to pass the matter to the Heaven-Punishing Bureau, emphasizing that the Heavenwatch Bureau is not responsible for directly handling the threat. He also privately reflects on the mysterious origins of Hongyuan and the growing conflict involving outsiders and the Divine Path.
• Elsewhere, Li Yue observes that the Dimension of Myriad Daos has greatly strengthened after the birth of more than two hundred Taboo Lives. Although still technically a Dual-Union Dimension, its origin now possesses power comparable to that of a Quadruple-Union Dimension.
• Li Yue believes that, while fighting within his own dimension and using its origin power, he may be able to reach the Dao-wielding Grade.
• A mysterious black-robed man enters the Dimension of Myriad Daos through a crack in space. He is nearly undetectable, but the dimension’s enhanced origin senses him.
• The man is shocked upon discovering the enormous number of Taboo Lives within the dimension and immediately retreats. Li Yue pursues him into the crack and enters a dark, unknown space.
• The black-robed figure ambushes Li Yue, declaring that he should not have followed. He reveals himself as Chen Ye, a Patrol Inspector of the Heavenwatch Bureau.
• Chen Ye uses five golden rings to seal Li Yue’s neck, hands, and feet. The rings not only restrict him but also possess a special power that dissolves divine power, apparently designed to suppress Deities. The chapter ends with Chen Ye confidently claiming that Li Yue is merely a Deity and cannot comprehend the resources at his command.

Character Developments

• Wangkong is portrayed as a highly respected and cautious deputy official. He recognizes the seriousness of the Creator deaths and properly defers to the Director’s authority.
• The Heavenwatch Bureau Director appears calm, immensely powerful, and politically strategic. Rather than acting personally, he delegates the matter to the Heaven-Punishing Bureau and suggests that he understands deeper secrets concerning Hongyuan, the Divine Path, and outside forces.
• Li Yue has grown substantially stronger. The development of the Dimension of Myriad Daos gives him a powerful home-field advantage, and he is confident that he may approach the Dao-wielding Grade. However, his pursuit of the black-robed intruder exposes him to an unexpected trap.
• Chen Ye is introduced as an arrogant but formidable Patrol Inspector. He possesses specialized anti-Deity equipment and appears confident that his organizational backing and resources place him far above Li Yue.

Significant Themes

• Power hierarchies and hidden strength: Despite Li Yue’s enormous recent growth, Chen Ye emphasizes that there are always greater powers and higher realms beyond one’s perception.
• Institutional authority and division of responsibility: The Heavenwatch Bureau monitors threats, while the Heaven-Punishing Bureau is expected to carry out direct suppression.
• Mystery and conspiracy: The Director’s thoughts hint at unresolved questions about Hongyuan’s true origins, the identity of outsiders, and the relationship between them and the Divine Path Organization.
• Home-ground advantage versus specialized preparation: Li Yue’s dimension grants him immense power, but Chen Ye’s sealing rings and anti-Deity abilities demonstrate how preparation and specialized tools can counter raw strength.
• The emergence of a new era: The deaths of 108 Creators and the appearance of a new Divine Path leader suggest that the current era is entering a turbulent and potentially historic period.

Character Interactions

• Wangkong respectfully reports to the Director, who questions him about the Creator deaths and gives him instructions regarding the Gray Valley Ark.
• The Director and Wangkong share the assumption that a new Divine Path leader is responsible, showing their experience and awareness of recurring historical patterns.
• Li Yue and Chen Ye have a brief but tense confrontation. Their initial exchange of gazes reveals mutual awareness, but Chen Ye retreats after recognizing the strength concentrated within Li Yue’s dimension.
• Li Yue’s decision to pursue Chen Ye reverses the apparent power dynamic, but Chen Ye uses the darkness beyond the dimensional crack to ambush and restrain him, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue encounters Chen Ye, a Patrol Inspector from the mysterious Heavenwatch Bureau, who possesses Half-step Dao-wielding strength and multiple powerful Taboo treasures.
• Chen Ye reveals that the Heavenwatch Bureau considers Li Yue a major threat and has ordered its Patrol Inspectors to flee if they encounter him. Confident in his past achievements, Chen Ye intends to capture Li Yue and become the Bureau’s sixth Deputy Director.
• Chen Ye deploys two Dao-wielding Grade Taboo treasures, attempting to suppress and severely injure Li Yue. Li Yue remains calm, suggesting that Chen Ye has underestimated him.
• Bai Chan, now restored to his youthful form and revealed to be a true Dao-wielding Grade Taboo Life, suddenly appears and attacks Chen Ye with an enormous golden brick.
• Bai Chan overwhelms Chen Ye despite his four Dao-wielding Grade treasures, repeatedly smashing his body apart until Chen Ye is finally destroyed by a Dao-wielding millstone technique.
• Chen Ye threatens retaliation from the Heavenwatch Bureau, but Bai Chan counters that the Myth Organization has equally powerful beings, including its Leader, Xing Mo, who once entered the Hongyuan Dimension and slaughtered forty-four Taboo Lives.
• Li Yue collects Chen Ye’s four Dao-wielding treasures for use by the Taboo Lives under his command.

Character Developments

• Li Yue remains composed under overwhelming suppression, demonstrating that his strength and confidence have grown considerably. He becomes increasingly suspicious of the Heavenwatch Bureau and its connection to the Creators and the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Bai Chan fully embraces his identity and position within the Myth Organization. He displays immense power, decisively defeating Chen Ye, and speaks with loyalty and authority toward Li Yue, whom he addresses as “God Lord.”
• Chen Ye is established as an arrogant but exceptionally powerful former peerless genius. His confidence collapses once he realizes Bai Chan is a genuine Dao-wielding Grade Taboo Life, and his final threats reveal both his pride and desperation.
• The Myth Organization’s Leader, Xing Mo, is revealed to have previously invaded the Hongyuan Dimension and killed forty-four Taboo Lives, suggesting an extremely violent and ancient conflict.

Significant Themes

• Hidden powers and forgotten histories: The Heavenwatch Bureau and Hongyuan Dimension exist outside ordinary knowledge, implying that the known history of the Three Thousand Dimensions is deliberately incomplete.
• Conflict between ancient factions: The Heavenwatch Bureau, the Myth Organization, and the Divine Path are portrayed as rival powers with long-standing enmity and unknown origins.
• Pride versus true strength: Chen Ye’s former status as an unrivaled genius means little against Bai Chan’s higher realm of power, emphasizing the difference between reputation and absolute strength.
• Danger of forbidden knowledge: The Hongyuan Dimension is protected by a mysterious “Taboo” that causes all beings except Dimension-level Taboo Lives to forget it after learning of it.
• Growing danger surrounding the Gray Valley Ark: Bai Chan warns that the Ark’s journey may bring them into contact with the terrifying Hongyuan Dimension and possibly true Dimension-level Taboo Lives.

Character Interactions

• Chen Ye arrogantly confronts Li Yue, dismissing the warnings of the Heavenwatch Bureau’s Deputy Director and boasting about his past achievements.
• Li Yue questions Chen Ye about the Bureau and the origins of its information, unsettling him by remaining unaffected by the suppression of two Dao-wielding treasures.
• Bai Chan intervenes without warning, humiliating Chen Ye through repeated attacks and directly challenging the Bureau’s superiority.
• Bai Chan and Chen Ye exchange accusations over who represents “barbaric creatures” and whose organization possesses greater power.
• After Chen Ye’s death, Li Yue questions Bai Chan about the Hongyuan Dimension. Bai Chan explains its forbidden nature and urges extreme caution—only for both of them to immediately begin forgetting what they have learned, demonstrating the Taboo’s effects.

Chapter Summary: Li Yue’s Pressure and Two-Year Plan

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue realizes he has forgotten a crucial enemy he and Bai Chan previously defeated. Because both of them lost the memory, he concludes that a Dimension-level power must have interfered with their minds.
• He suspects the enemy may be connected to either a former or current Dimension-level existence and believes the threat could reappear inside the Gray Valley Ark.
• Li Yue evaluates his current strength. By activating Thousandfold Combat Power and borrowing the power of his subordinate Taboo Lives and Dao-Treading Creatures, he can temporarily reach the Intermediate or even Advanced Dao-wielding Grade. However, his divine power is limited to roughly eighty-three million worlds, allowing only eight activations lasting eighty breaths in total.
• With only two years remaining, Li Yue identifies two possible ways to increase his strength:
  1. Complete Personal Quest Fifty-Seven and use the resulting three Divine Path Wheel draws.
  2. Ripen the second-stage fruit of the Dao Fruit Divine Tree, which requires the Mythic Dimension to rule another vast dimension and give birth to a Taboo Life.
• Li Yue plans to conquer the Demonic Cultivator Dimension, which is connected to the Dimension of Myriad Daos. Through this connection, the Mythic Dimension can extend its rule over the new dimension and satisfy the Dao Fruit Divine Tree’s requirements.
• He summons his most powerful forces: thirty-six Taboo Lives, led by Li Youming, and the 132-million-member Immortal Legion. The legion has reached its peak and can amplify numerous powerful Dao-Treading Creatures and Taboo Lives.
• Li Yue boards Xing Mo’s supreme Taboo Divine Ship and leads his forces through a newly created Dimension Gate into the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• The chapter then introduces the Law-Enacting Chaos World, a former prosperous world transformed by Devil Ancestor Devil Dao Child into a realm filled with mindless Demon Corpses. The Peaceful Demon Sect uses the corpses as materials to refine demonic treasures.

Character Developments

• Li Yue becomes significantly more cautious and burdened by the possibility of a hidden Dimension-level enemy. His recent advancement no longer gives him confidence; instead, it highlights how vulnerable he remains.
• He demonstrates strategic maturity by analyzing the limits of his current abilities and forming a concrete two-year plan rather than relying solely on combat strength.
• Li Yue also acts decisively as a leader, mobilizing his entire army and preparing to conquer a new dimension to obtain the Dao Fruit Divine Tree’s second-stage fruit.
• Bai Chan’s vulnerability is emphasized because even her restored Low Dao-wielding Grade strength could not protect her memory from the mysterious interference.
• Xing Mo’s legacy remains important through the Taboo Divine Ship and Dao Fruit Divine Tree, both of which provide Li Yue with crucial resources.
• Young girl Myth is credited with creating an exceptionally powerful Taboo Divine Ship, surpassing earlier vessels in the Mythic Dimension’s history.

Significant Themes

• Powerlessness before higher realms: Li Yue’s forgotten enemy shows that even powerful beings can be manipulated or erased by forces operating on a superior level.
• Uncertainty and hidden threats: The chapter emphasizes the terror of an enemy whose existence cannot even be remembered, making caution essential.
• Strategic preparation: Strength is treated not merely as raw combat ability but as the result of planning, resources, alliances, and time management.
• The pressure of limited time: With only two years remaining, Li Yue must pursue multiple avenues of advancement while accepting that some options, such as increasing his Divine Rank, are impractical.
• Conquest and resource acquisition: The Demonic Cultivator Dimension is both a dangerous target and a necessary resource for Li Yue’s advancement.
• Corruption and exploitation: The Law-Enacting Chaos World illustrates the brutality of demonic cultivation, where living beings are transformed into raw materials for supreme treasures.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue reflects on his past cooperation with Bai Chan, using their shared memory loss to infer the presence of a Dimension-level enemy.
• He commands the thirty-six Taboo Lives, with Li Youming positioned at the forefront, showing their loyalty and subordination to him.
• The Immortal Legion worships Li Yue as its God Lord, kneeling before him with intense devotion and reinforcing his role as an absolute leader.
• Li Yue relies on the creations of Xing Mo and Myth, demonstrating how the achievements of powerful figures from the past support his current campaign.
• The Peaceful Demon Sect’s treatment of the Demon Corpses introduces the wider demonic-cultivator society and establishes the kind of enemy and environment Li Yue is about to confront.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Law-Enacting Chaos World, the Peaceful Demon Sect celebrates the success of the Demon Corpse Yin-Yang Mist, a medicine that allows Demon Corpses to reproduce.
• The red-robed Sect Master explains that this invention will greatly strengthen the Demonic Cultivator Dimension by making Demon Corpses an inexhaustible resource. He expects to advance from the Third Step to the Fourth Step once his Soul-Refining Banner reaches the Million-Trillion Dao level.
• He orders the elders to surrender most Emperor-level souls and threatens anyone who secretly withholds them, revealing the oppressive and exploitative structure of the sect.
• Li Yue arrives through a Dimension Gate aboard the Taboo Divine Ship. His overwhelming taboo aura instantly suppresses everyone in the Law-Enacting Chaos World.
• He forcibly retrieves the Sect Master and examines his Soul-Refining Banner, casually suggesting that it could contain the souls of hundreds or thousands of Taboo Lives.
• Several other devil-path treasures emerge from the Sect Master: a White Bone God-Demon, a blood-red blade, a desire-affecting sword, and a soul-scattering lamp.
• Li Yue observes that the Demonic Cultivator Dimension uses every aspect of living beings—souls, flesh, bones, skin, emotions, and organs—as cultivation materials. He concludes that its entire civilization is built around treating life as a graded form of “human resources.”
• Devil Dao Child and Demon God Child, the two ruling Taboo Lives of the dimension, appear and confront Li Yue.
• Demon God Child immediately attacks, summoning one taboo Demon Corpse, while Devil Dao Child summons three more. Alongside themselves, they form a force of five taboo-level combatants.
• Believing Li Yue has come alone or with insufficient strength, the demonic cultivators celebrate their apparent advantage.
• Li Yue responds by summoning Li Youming and thirty-six additional Taboo Lives from the Taboo Divine Ship, setting up a dramatic comparison of forces.

Character Developments

• The Peaceful Demon Sect’s Sect Master is shown to be ambitious, ruthless, and completely devoted to soul-based cultivation. His desire to reach the Fourth Step is matched by his willingness to exploit and terrorize his own subordinates.
• Li Yue demonstrates overwhelming confidence and curiosity. Rather than being intimidated by the demonic treasures, he evaluates them as potential tools and views the dimension’s entire cultivation system with detached disbelief.
• Devil Dao Child maintains a calm, smiling demeanor and appears confident in his dimension’s defenses. His inability to see through the Taboo Divine Ship, however, causes him to underestimate Li Yue’s true strength.
• Demon God Child is more aggressive and openly bloodthirsty than his brother. He immediately calls for Li Yue’s capture and plans to turn him into a taboo Demon Corpse.
• Li Youming and the thirty-six Taboo Lives remain silent until Li Yue reveals them, transforming the balance of power at the confrontation’s climax.

Significant Themes

• Extreme exploitation of life: The demonic cultivators reduce all living beings to usable resources, with different ranks of beings serving as materials for stronger ones.
• Industrialized cruelty: The reproduction of Demon Corpses turns mass slaughter into a sustainable resource system rather than a temporary means of cultivation.
• Power and hierarchy: The chapter emphasizes the rigid chain in which weaker beings are consumed, processed, or controlled by stronger ones.
• Arrogance and miscalculation: The Demon Dao brothers assume that Li Yue’s forces are limited, but the hidden strength aboard his ship makes their confidence dangerously premature.
• Moral contrast between cultivation systems: Li Yue distinguishes these demonic cultivators from other demon sects, arguing that their methods are not merely an alternative Dao but a civilization fundamentally organized around slaughter and processing living beings.

Character Interactions

• The Sect Master intimidates his elders, demanding their souls while promising rewards for his eventual advancement.
• Li Yue humiliates the Sect Master by lifting him into the air effortlessly and inspecting his treasured artifacts as though they were curiosities.
• Li Yue’s comments about imprisoning Taboo Lives terrify the Sect Master and reveal the vast difference between their levels of imagination and power.
• Devil Dao Child addresses Li Yue politely at first, but his probing fails because the Taboo Divine Ship conceals the strength of Li Yue’s companions.
• Demon God Child interrupts his brother and demands immediate violence, exposing his contempt for the True Buddha Dimension.
• The brothers summon their Demon Corpses to overwhelm Li Yue, only for Li Yue to reveal a vastly larger force of Taboo Lives, ending the chapter on a major cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Thirty-six genuine Taboo Lives emerge from the Taboo Divine Ship, their auras shaking heaven and earth. The Demon God Child, Devil Dao Child, and the red-robed sect master are stunned by the unprecedented display of power.
• Realizing that Li Yue possesses an overwhelming background, the Devil Dao Child attempts to negotiate rather than fight.
• Li Yue demands the entire Demonic Cultivator Dimension. The Devil Dao Child recognizes this as an attack on the foundation of his Dao Path and refuses to surrender.
• The Devil Dao Child unleashes several powerful demonic techniques and treasures:
  • A Soul-Refining Banner containing countless powerful souls.
  • Three taboo-grade battle souls formed from those souls.
  • A White Bone Demon God.
  • The All-Beings Underworld City, filled with countless stolen skins.
  • The power of the seven emotions and six desires, used to seize control of the dimension’s authority.
• Despite this arsenal, Li Yue dismisses the Devil Dao Child’s strength as insignificant before absolute power. With a single step, his Sword Qi forms an entire Sword Qi Dimension, annihilating the battle souls, White Bone Demon God, and Underworld City.
• Li Yue repeatedly attacks the Devil Dao Child, crushing and killing him again and again. At the same time, Li Youming and the other thirty-five Taboo Lives battle the Demon God Child and demonic corpses, destroying vast areas and even damaging the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• Li Yue limits the battle’s destructive aftermath so the entire dimension is not accidentally destroyed.
• After being shattered fifteen times, the Devil Dao Child abandons his pride and begs for mercy, offering the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• Li Yue remains unmoved, declaring that he dislikes the Devil Dao Child’s Dao. As another Sword Qi Dimension descends, the Devil Dao Child reveals that he is a disciple of the Initial Church of the Myriad Forms Dimension, one of its nine ancient churches, and threatens that killing him will provoke the church.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Demonstrates overwhelming confidence and absolute dominance. He treats the Devil Dao Child’s techniques and threats with contempt, revealing power at the Half-step Dao-wielding Deity level or beyond. His goal is not merely victory but control of the entire Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• Devil Dao Child: Changes from an arrogant, defiant master of the Devil Path into a terrified survivor. His belief in fighting recklessly for his Dao collapses once Li Yue repeatedly destroys him. He finally sacrifices his ambitions and begs for his life, then relies on his hidden backing to intimidate Li Yue.
• Demon God Child and red-robed sect master: Both are overwhelmed by the appearance of the thirty-six Taboo Lives, emphasizing how extraordinary Li Yue’s forces and origins are.
• Li Youming and the thirty-five Taboo Lives: Act as Li Yue’s terrifying attendants, engaging the opposing forces with enough power to annihilate entire regions and damage dimensions.

Significant Themes

• Absolute strength overcomes schemes: Countless treasures, souls, formations, and dimensional authority are useless against a truly superior realm of power.
• The fragility of pride: The Devil Dao Child initially vows to defend his Dao at any cost, but repeated defeat reduces him to pleading for survival.
• Dao conflict and moral judgment: Li Yue condemns the demonic cultivation path for harming and exploiting others, suggesting that his opposition is ideological as well as strategic.
• The importance of backing and origins: The revelation that the Devil Dao Child belongs to the Initial Church expands the conflict beyond the Demonic Cultivator Dimension and hints at a larger power structure involving the Myriad Forms Dimension.
• Destructive power and restraint: The battle demonstrates the terrifying ability of Taboo Lives to destroy dimensions, while Li Yue’s intervention shows deliberate control over collateral damage.

Character Interactions

• The Devil Dao Child first approaches Li Yue diplomatically, but Li Yue’s demand for the Demonic Cultivator Dimension turns negotiation into confrontation.
• The Devil Dao Child attempts to intimidate Li Yue with his demonic arsenal and later with his connection to the Initial Church.
• Li Yue responds to every threat with calm dismissal, overpowering the Devil Dao Child through successive Sword Qi Dimensions.
• The conflict between Li Youming’s group and the Demon God Child’s forces occurs parallel to Li Yue’s duel, reinforcing the overwhelming superiority of Li Yue’s side.

Chapter Summary: Myriad Forms Dimension, the Gray Valley Ark Talisman Transforms

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue realizes that the Demonic Cultivator Dimension is connected to the Myriad Forms Dimension, one of the supreme Ninefold Fusion Dimensions and an ancient enemy of the Divine Path.
• He decisively kills the Devil Dao Child, erasing his body, Dao, and every trace of his existence across causality, destiny, time, and space. Even the Demonic Cultivator Dimension’s will cannot save him.
• The Demon God Child, already gravely wounded by Li Youming and thirty-six Taboo Lives, is also completely slain.
• Li Yue collects the taboo origins left by both enemies and takes the Devil Dao Child’s Soul-Refining Banner, intending to study it.
• He orders the 132 million soldiers of the Immortal Legion to divide into thousands of groups and purge the Demonic Cultivator Dimension of demonic cultivators who are unworthy of being human.
• Li Yue investigates the dimension and discovers a mysterious golden Precious Pagoda hidden in the Devil Dao Child’s lair. It bears the same symbol as his Gray Valley Ark Talisman.
• The pagoda merges into the talisman, transforming it into a radiant gold General-grade Talisman known as the Gray Valley Tower.
• The upgraded talisman grants Li Yue three major benefits upon entering the Gray Valley Ark:
  1. One Soldier-grade Inheritance
  2. One General-grade Inheritance
  3. The ability to grasp a trace of the Gray Valley Ark’s rules
• The chapter ends when an unknown speaker, using exaggerated flattery, asks Li Yue to bring them into the Gray Valley Ark.

Character Developments

• Li Yue demonstrates overwhelming strength, effortlessly defeating Creation-grade Taboo Lives without needing to use his trump cards. He now believes he may be able to contend with nearly any opponent below the Half-step Dimension level.
• His ambitions rise further as he considers entering the Taboo Divine Rank, which he believes could allow him to glimpse the Half-step Dimension realm.
• Li Yue also takes on a more authoritative and judicial role, ordering the Immortal Legion to purge corrupt demonic cultivators throughout the dimension.
• The deaths of the Devil Dao Child and Demon God Child eliminate the Initial Church’s hidden influence in the Demonic Cultivator Dimension and reveal that they may have been concealing the Gray Valley Tower for their own benefit.
• The Immortal Legion is shown to possess immense organization and loyalty, including two leaders who have reached the Taboo level.

Significant Themes

• Power and supremacy: Li Yue’s basic strength already places him among the strongest beings in the Three Thousand Dimensions, while his trump cards could briefly elevate him to the Advanced Dao-wielding Grade.
• Conflict between cosmic factions: The Myriad Forms Dimension and the Divine Path are irreconcilable enemies, making Li Yue’s destruction of its agents inevitable.
• Hidden treasures and concealed motives: The Devil Dao Child and Demon God Child likely hid the Gray Valley Tower from the Initial Church, demonstrating the greed and political intrigue surrounding treasures from beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Justice and extermination: Li Yue’s order to judge demonic cultivators reflects his uncompromising view of morality—those who have abandoned humanity are to be destroyed.
• Fortune and destiny: The transformation of the Gray Valley Ark Talisman gives Li Yue extraordinary advantages before he has even entered the Ark, suggesting that his rise is being accelerated by powerful opportunities.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue confronts and destroys the Devil Dao Child, ignoring his connection to the Myriad Forms Dimension.
• The Demon God Child curses Li Yue and threatens revenge from his sect’s master, but Li Yue remains indifferent and allows the surrounding Taboo Lives to finish him.
• Li Yue commands the Immortal Legion, which responds with immediate obedience and begins its purge.
• The wounded will of the Demonic Cultivator Dimension attempts to resist Li Yue’s investigation, but retreats instantly when he threatens to destroy it.
• At the end, an unidentified character approaches Li Yue with extreme flattery and requests passage into the Gray Valley Ark, creating a new mystery.

Chapter Summary: Mysterious Supreme Soul Shadow, Part of the Divine Path Will

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Gray Valley Tower disappears, Li Yue discovers a thumb-sized soul shadow hidden beneath it. The shadow possesses an innate ability to make living beings overlook him, allowing him to evade even Li Yue’s perception.
• The soul shadow identifies himself as Lide, the former Creator of the dimension. He claims that the Devil Dao Child and Demon God Child killed him, leaving only a remnant soul hidden under the tower.
• Lide begs Li Yue to bring him into Gray Valley Ark, claiming that his elder brother is inside and can help him restore his former strength.
• Lide initially claims to have been an Intermediate Creation-grade expert. However, Li Yue notices that his aura gradually strengthens as he speaks, raising serious doubts about his identity and true nature.
• Lide offers Li Yue a King-grade Inheritance in exchange for his help. Although Li Yue is tempted by the value of such an inheritance, he refuses, sensing that Lide is concealing the truth.
• Li Yue leaves and establishes a powerful defensive zone around the Dimension Gate, choosing not to become involved with the mysterious soul shadow.
• After Li Yue departs, Lide reveals more of his thoughts. He recognizes that Li Yue is connected to the Divine Path Will of the Three Thousand Dimensions and believes Li Yue is especially important to that mysterious lineage.
• Lide becomes frustrated that Li Yue will not help him, noting that Gray Valley Tower has already recognized Li Yue and that another suitable Gray Valley Ark token holder may not appear for billions of epochs.
• He blames a “mangy dog” for making a mistake and suggests that he is preparing another method to achieve his goal.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Demonstrates extreme caution and distrust. Although interested in the King-grade Inheritance, he prioritizes avoiding hidden dangers over immediate benefits. His awareness of the unusual backgrounds of the various dimensions reinforces his growing understanding that the worlds he encounters contain terrifying hidden powers.
• Lide: Presents himself as weak, pitiful, and ingratiating, but his ability to conceal himself, manipulate his aura, and influence the Seal of Dao Origin suggests that he is far more dangerous and mysterious than he claims. His private reaction shows desperation, cunning, and a willingness to resort to another plan.

Significant Themes

• Hidden power and deception: Appearances are unreliable; Lide’s harmless remnant-soul persona likely conceals a much greater secret.
• Caution versus opportunity: Li Yue rejects a potentially extraordinary reward because the cost and risks are unknown.
• The Divine Path: Li Yue is revealed to carry or embody part of the Divine Path Will, suggesting that his rapid growth and importance extend beyond his own cultivation.
• The terrifying complexity of the Three Thousand Dimensions: Nearly every dimension Li Yue encounters contains ancient experts, sealed beings, mysterious inheritances, or hidden factions, implying that the larger cosmic setting is far more dangerous than ordinary dimensions.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue and Lide: Their exchange is polite on the surface but marked by mutual calculation. Lide flatters Li Yue and offers him a King-grade Inheritance, while Li Yue questions his claims and refuses to assist him.
• Lide and the unseen forces behind him: Lide references his elder brother, the Devil Dao Child, the Demon God Child, and a “mangy dog,” hinting at a larger network of powerful beings and an unseen plan connected to Gray Valley Ark and Gray Valley Tower.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A year after the campaign began, the 132 million soldiers of the Immortal Legion return from judging the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• The campaign has devastated the demonic cultivation civilization: roughly 90% of its cultivators were executed, while the remaining 10% survived because they retained some moral limits or had not yet committed atrocities.
• The Great Zhen Imperial Court acquires a vast collection of demonic cultivation scriptures for its future library.
• Li Yue continues dealing with the mysterious soul shadow he encountered earlier. The old man abandons his former disguises and openly claims to have once been a Half-step Dimension-level Taboo Life.
• The soul shadow boasts that he fought Yun Qiannian—a legendary Divine Path Dimension-level existence—thirty million times, beginning before the Immortal King realm and continuing to the Half-step Dao-wielding Grade.
• He insists that he perished only because of a great calamity and would otherwise have fought Yun Qiannian to the Dimension-level.
• The soul shadow demands that Li Yue take him to the Gray Valley Ark, claiming that their causality became inseparably linked when Li Yue obtained the Gray Valley Tower.
• When Li Yue refuses and prepares his defensive treasures, the soul shadow offers him a bell as payment.
• The bell is revealed to be a Half-step Dimension-level supreme treasure, supposedly obtained after the soul shadow killed another Half-step Dimension-level enemy.
• The soul shadow claims he is traveling to the Gray Valley Ark to find his elder brother, whom he describes as even more powerful and renowned than himself.
• He promises Li Yue immense rewards if his brother takes a liking to him, including endless opportunities and ascension to the pinnacle of godhood.
• The soul shadow then hints that he knows Li Yue possesses the Seal of Dao Origin, a genuine Dimension-level supreme treasure.
• This causes Li Yue to question whether the old man was truly only Half-step Dimension-level before his death—or whether he had actually reached the true Dimension-level.

Character Developments

• Li Yue becomes increasingly wary and skeptical of the soul shadow. Although he recognizes the old man’s terrifying origins and accepts that his claims may contain truth, he refuses to trust him blindly.
• Li Yue demonstrates his growing power and resources by summoning both Bai Chan’s Dao-wielding treasure and an extraordinarily powerful defensive Precious Pagoda.
• His caution deepens when the soul shadow reveals knowledge of the hidden Seal of Dao Origin, suggesting that the old man may understand far more about Li Yue than expected.
• The soul shadow becomes more openly arrogant, shameless, and manipulative. He mixes grand claims of invincibility with teasing threats, bribes, and exaggerated promises.
• Despite his ridiculous behavior—such as casually eating roast chicken—his possession of a Half-step Dimension-level treasure and knowledge of ancient figures confirms that he is an extraordinarily dangerous and powerful existence.

Significant Themes

• Power and hidden identity: The chapter questions the true level and origins of the soul shadow, implying that his public claims may still conceal an even greater reality.
• Trust versus coercion: Li Yue must decide whether to cooperate with someone who offers immense benefits but uses threats, blackmail, and mysterious causal ties to force his compliance.
• Legacy and ancient history: References to Yun Qiannian, ancient battles, and the soul shadow’s elder brother emphasize the immense timescale and forgotten powers shaping the current era.
• Moral judgment and destruction: The eradication of most of the Demonic Cultivator Dimension highlights the Great Zhen Imperial Court’s uncompromising campaign against evil and the consequences of demonic cultivation.
• Fortune and danger: The Gray Valley Ark is presented as both a perilous destination and a possible source of extraordinary opportunities.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue repeatedly challenges the soul shadow’s claims and questions why he must personally escort him to the Gray Valley Ark.
• The soul shadow responds with mockery, veiled threats, and promises of protection and fortune.
• Their exchange is marked by a contrast between Li Yue’s suspicion and restraint and the old man’s arrogance, humor, and unpredictable manipulation.
• The soul shadow’s final reference to the Seal of Dao Origin shifts the interaction from an argument over payment into a serious confrontation over what he truly knows about Li Yue.

Chapter Summary: The Mysterious Being’s Guidance, the Foundation of the Divine Path

Key Plot Points and Events

• Beneath the Dimension Gate, Li Yue debates whether to help the mysterious soul phantom enter the Gray Valley Ark. He fears becoming entangled in causality with an ancient and potentially Dimension-level existence.
• The soul phantom promises Li Yue a King-grade Inheritance and gives him a Half-step Dimension-level Soul Abyss Bell in exchange for being taken into the Gray Valley Ark.
• Although the Ark’s rules normally destroy living beings brought inside by outsiders, the phantom claims to possess methods that will protect him. Li Yue reluctantly agrees.
• The phantom evaluates Li Yue’s strength, recognizing that although Li Yue has not yet reached the Taboo Divine Rank, his combat power has already reached the Half-step Dao-wielding level.
• He warns that Li Yue’s extraordinary ability to cross realms will make advancing into the Taboo Divine Rank especially difficult.
• When Li Yue asks for guidance, the phantom explains that the key is discovering the “foundation of the Divine Path.”
• After reflecting on previous teachings and his own experiences, Li Yue realizes that the foundation of his Divine Path lies in the Human Race and its believers.
• The soul phantom departs, leaving behind the Soul Abyss Bell and encouraging Li Yue to survive and eventually transcend the Three Thousand Dimensions.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Displays caution and strategic restraint but ultimately accepts the phantom’s deal. He gains an important breakthrough in his understanding of cultivation. His realization that the Divine Path originates from the Human Race gives him a concrete direction toward the Taboo Divine Rank, likely involving another stage of Mortal Transformation.
• The Soul Phantom: Reveals himself as an ancient, immensely powerful, and knowledgeable existence. Though mysterious and somewhat threatening, he sincerely guides Li Yue and recognizes his exceptional potential. He appears confident that Li Yue may surpass even Yun Qiannian and reach beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Yun Qiannian: Though absent, he is used as a benchmark for Li Yue’s strength. The phantom claims Li Yue is already stronger than Yun Qiannian at the same level.

Significant Themes

• The difficulty of transcending realms: The Taboo Divine Rank is portrayed as a complete transformation, fundamentally different from all lower stages.
• The relationship between method and Dao: Different experts describe advancement through enlightenment, empathy with all living beings, or following one’s original heart. Their methods differ, but they ultimately point toward the same profound transformation.
• The foundation of belief and humanity: The Divine Path is rooted in the Human Race, whose worship supports and gives meaning to Deities. Believers are not merely external sources of power but may form the basis of a Deity’s future inner dimension.
• Mortal Transformation: Li Yue reinterprets his past breakthroughs. Retaining mortal emotions and connections may not simply preserve humanity; it may be essential to understanding and proving the Taboo Divine Rank.
• Risk and opportunity: Li Yue must balance his instinct for self-preservation against the enormous opportunities offered by associating with the soul phantom.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Yue questions the soul phantom about the danger of entering the Gray Valley Ark and the Ark’s rules.
• The soul phantom reassures him, praises his strength, and offers both material compensation and cultivation guidance.
• Li Yue humbly asks for instruction regarding the Taboo Divine Rank.
• The phantom explains the concept of the Divine Path Foundation, prompting Li Yue to connect it with the Human Race, believers, and Mortal Transformation.
• Their exchange ends with mutual recognition: Li Yue gains crucial insight, while the phantom departs with confidence in Li Yue’s future.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• In the Nether Abyss, the powerful father of Chu Yuan learns that Devil Dao Child and Demon God Child have been killed and that the Gray Valley Tower he left for his son has been taken.
• The Gray Valley Tower is revealed to be the seventh of only seven such treasures in the Three Thousand Dimensions. Each tower contains a complete Dimension-level inheritance, making it extraordinarily valuable; three of the six previous holders eventually reached the Dimension-level Dao.
• Chu Yuan’s father orders him to retrieve the tower from the being who seized it. He believes the culprit is a Half-step Dao-wielding Grade Taboo Life, but remains confident that Chu Yuan can easily defeat it.
• Chu Yuan accepts the mission with absolute confidence. He believes himself invincible among all beings below the Dao-wielding Grade and destined to become a Dimension-level Taboo Life.
• Meanwhile, three severely injured Taboo Lives have spent sixty-five epochs lost in endless darkness. They follow the radiance of the Luo Tian God Disk and finally locate a vast dimension, escaping their predicament.
• The three discover Chu Yuan waiting outside the Demonic Cultivator Dimension. He has already located Li Yue, the person who took the Gray Valley Tower, and challenges him to battle, declaring that Li Yue will face death.

Character Developments

• Chu Yuan is established as an exceptionally gifted and arrogant young powerhouse. Despite being only a Half-step Dao-wielding Grade cultivator, he has defeated countless opponents at the same level and even suppressed a newly advanced Low Dao-wielding Grade Taboo Life.
• His confidence borders on absolute invincibility: he believes no one in the Three Thousand Dimensions, including the strongest younger generations of other dimensions, can defeat him.
• Chu Yuan’s father, a terrifying existence within the Initial Church, demonstrates immense faith in his son. He views Chu Yuan as possessing the potential to become the Church’s second Dimension-level being.
• The three wandering Taboo Lives are shown as desperate and battle-worn after decades of being trapped in darkness. Their discovery of the dimension brings them immense relief, but their arrival coincides with Chu Yuan’s confrontation.
• Li Yue does not directly speak or act in the chapter, but is established as the Half-step Dao-wielding Grade Taboo Life who killed the two Devil Dao figures and took the Gray Valley Tower.

Significant Themes

• Absolute power and arrogance: Chu Yuan’s confidence emphasizes the danger of believing oneself unbeatable, setting up a likely clash between his self-image and reality.
• Inheritance and destiny: The Gray Valley Tower represents a rare chance to obtain a complete Dimension-level path, linking power with the possibility of transcending one’s current realm.
• Competition among dimensions: Powerful factions seek to prevent the rise of additional Dimension-level beings, fearing that a new transcendent entity would disrupt the balance of the Three Thousand Dimensions.
• Fate and opportunity: The wandering Taboo Lives survive through luck, while the Gray Valley Tower appears only rarely and can change the destiny of whoever obtains it.
• Generational rivalry: Chu Yuan’s reputation as the strongest of the younger generation is contrasted with the unknown strength of Li Yue, preparing a confrontation between two beings at the same cultivation level.

Character Interactions

• Chu Yuan speaks with his father in the Nether Abyss, confidently accepting the command to reclaim the Gray Valley Tower.
• His father encourages and trusts him, believing the mission will provide Chu Yuan with the greatest opportunity of his life.
• The three injured Taboo Lives react with fear when they recognize Chu Yuan, showing that even powerful beings at his level view him as a dangerous opponent.
• Chu Yuan confronts Li Yue from outside the Demonic Cultivator Dimension, asserting ownership of the Gray Valley Tower and demanding that Li Yue emerge to face him.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Yue confronts the Man in Green, Chu Yuan, outside the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• He deduces that Chu Yuan is connected to the Initial Church of the Myriad Forms Dimension and that the object Chu Yuan seeks is likely the Gray Valley Tower or Gray Valley Ark, possibly a treasure originally belonging to the Demonic Cultivator Dimension.
• Chu Yuan identifies Li Yue as a Deity. Because the Initial Church considers all Deities mortal enemies, he immediately regards Li Yue as someone who must be killed.
• Three Half-step Dao-wielding Taboo Lives observing from a purple Compass recognize Chu Yuan’s overwhelming status and strength. They believe Li Yue has no chance of surviving.
• Chu Yuan is revealed to be the Young Master of the Initial Church, the son of its leader, and a peerless prodigy who has mastered more than ten Dao-wielding Grade Taboo arts. He reportedly killed six Half-step Dao-wielding Taboo Lives and possesses numerous powerful Taboo treasures.
• Li Yue attempts to avoid conflict, calmly arguing that treasures found within a dimension are ownerless and warning Chu Yuan not to provoke him.
• Chu Yuan insults Li Yue and demands that he kneel in submission.
• Concluding that Chu Yuan is deliberately courting death, Li Yue launches the first attack, summoning one hundred Heavenly Dao Myriad Derivation Wheels, each possessing Half-step Dao-wielding Grade power.

Character Developments

• Li Yue: Demonstrates increasing awareness of the larger political and power structure surrounding the Ninefold Fusion Dimensions. Although cautious about provoking the Initial Church, he remains confident in his own strength and refuses to submit to Chu Yuan. His patience finally ends when Chu Yuan openly humiliates and threatens him.
• Chu Yuan: Is established as an arrogant but extraordinarily powerful heir of the Initial Church. His hatred of Deities is rooted in the historical conflict between the Initial Church and Xing Mo, making his hostility toward Li Yue ideological as well as personal.
• The Three Observing Taboo Lives: Their reactions emphasize the immense disparity between ordinary Half-step Dao-wielding beings and elite heirs backed by ancient supreme powers. Their fear of Chu Yuan also highlights his reputation as a ruthless and exceptionally well-equipped combatant.

Significant Themes

• Conflict between personal cultivation and unavoidable hostility: Li Yue wishes to cultivate peacefully, but powerful factions repeatedly pursue him.
• Pride and provocation: Chu Yuan’s demand that Li Yue kneel transforms a potentially negotiable dispute into a deadly confrontation.
• Inherited power versus individual struggle: Chu Yuan possesses immense advantages through his bloodline, sect, treasures, and teachings, while other Taboo Lives had to advance through poverty and isolation.
• Historical hatred: The Initial Church’s persecution of Deities stems from the ancient war involving Xing Mo, showing how past conflicts continue to shape present alliances and violence.
• Power hierarchy: The chapter contrasts ordinary Taboo Lives, elite prodigies, and Half-step Dimension-level existences, reinforcing the vast disparities within the cultivation world.

Character Interactions

• Li Yue and Chu Yuan engage in a tense verbal confrontation over the ownership of the Gray Valley treasure.
• Li Yue speaks cautiously and attempts to discourage conflict, while Chu Yuan responds with contempt and demands submission.
• The observing Taboo Lives discuss Chu Yuan’s reputation and conclude that Li Yue is doomed because he is facing the heir of a Ninefold Fusion Dimension’s supreme sect.
• The chapter ends with Li Yue rejecting Chu Yuan’s arrogance and initiating a decisive battle.