Ch. 1541Slaying Two Legions, Black Cocoons Devour Second Transcendence Realm Beings

Key plot points and events

  • Half a month of hunting has made Li Yue’s position increasingly easy for the One and Only Hell to identify. He believes the city lords’ ability to “pierce illusions,” tied to the Hell’s laws, prevents him from slipping away undetected.
  • Li Yue continues killing the pursuing teams, bringing his recent tally to 3,200 city lords and his total to 4,894 wisps of gray aura.
  • After he destroys seventeen more teams, a large force arrives: 1,900 Half-step Transcendence soldiers, nineteen First Transcendence Realm beings, and two Second Transcendence Realm legion commanders, City Lords Luming and Yandao.
  • Li Yue traps the force in his Light Immeasurable Barrier. It instantly annihilates the soldiers; the Transcenders struggle but are gradually destroyed as the barrier drains their Hell Power and nullifies their attacks and artifacts.
  • As the two commanders near defeat, Black Cocoons inside Li Yue’s Super Heaven emerge and devour them. The barrier and projected cities then disappear, leaving Li Yue eager to learn what the cocoons’ feeding will produce.

Character developments

  • Li Yue remains calm and purposeful as the danger escalates. Rather than retreating, he turns the enemy’s tracking into an opportunity to accumulate power. His confidence grows as he reveals that his abilities can overwhelm even powerful Transcenders.
  • City Lord Luming shifts from surprise to terror and desperation. Proud of his status as a former Ancient Emperor Lord disciple and commander of the Twelfth Legion, he fears being erased completely.
  • City Lord Yandao is wary from the outset, sensing danger despite Li Yue’s apparent weakness. His suspicion proves justified, but he cannot resist the barrier.
  • The Black Cocoons show a new apparent ability: they can actively seek out and devour Second Transcendence Realm beings.

Significant themes

  • Power that overturns expectations: Li Yue’s sub-Transcendent appearance conceals abilities capable of defeating much stronger enemies.
  • Survival and the fear of oblivion: Luming’s desperate wish to continue existing contrasts with the commanders’ former pride and authority.
  • Escalating pursuit and retaliation: The Hell’s efforts to track Li Yue bring increasingly formidable forces, but each confrontation risks strengthening him.
  • Mystery and ambition: The Super Heaven and Black Cocoons remain unexplained, making their new capacity a source of anticipation.

Character interactions

  • The legion commanders initially question Li Yue’s cultivation and assess him as a possible threat; Yandao is especially cautious.
  • Li Yue makes no attempt to negotiate or explain himself, immediately enclosing the entire force in his barrier.
  • Luming and Yandao struggle against Li Yue’s power and curse him as a thief of the One and Only Hell’s source essence, but their resistance fails.
  • Li Yue permits the Black Cocoons to consume the two commanders, turning the encounter into a test of the Super Heaven’s mysterious power.

Ch. 1542The Super Heaven's Sixteen Metamorphoses and the Source Emperor of the One and Only Hell

Key plot points and events

  • Li Yue collects 35,094 wisps of gray energy from the battlefield and feeds them into the Super Heaven.
  • The Super Heaven undergoes fifteen Metamorphoses, growing from 1,600 li to 7,600 li across. It now contains eighteen black cities, each with a Black Cocoon; two cities shine especially brightly after consuming city lords of the Second Transcendence Realm. A phantom black seal also appears beside the black spear.
  • Li Yue believes the expanded Super Heaven can suppress even First Transcendence Realm opponents. He plans to confront the next, stronger legion by wounding its Third Transcendence Realm commander and having the black cities consume that commander’s Second Transcendence Realm subordinates.
  • Finding that the remaining city-lord groups have not dispersed, Li Yue resumes hunting. His Light Immeasurable Barrier purifies more Evil Beings, gradually completing the patterns on the Light Life Pearl Prototype.
  • Elsewhere, six chimes of the Source Bell summon the One and Only Hell’s city lords to Great Origin City. The Source Emperor announces that the Twelfth and Thirteenth Legions have been destroyed. The assembled lords vow to kill whoever threatens their realm.

Character developments

  • Li Yue grows more confident in the Super Heaven’s power, but remains cautious about facing Third Transcendence Realm foes. He continues to pursue gray energy and refine his abilities.
  • The Source Emperor is introduced as a commanding, coldly authoritative ruler. His announcement reveals the scale of the crisis and mobilizes the Core Region’s leaders.
  • The gathered city lords shift from surprise to collective anger and readiness for retaliation.

Significant themes

  • Growth through conflict: Li Yue turns battlefield spoils into successive transformations and increasing power.
  • Escalating stakes: The destruction of two legions draws the attention of the One and Only Hell’s highest authorities.
  • Hierarchy and rule: Transcendence levels determine status, with Third Realm rulers treated as emperors and lower-ranked beings as subjects, commoners, or soldiers.
  • Power and uncertainty: Li Yue’s new strength is formidable, but the next enemies may exceed what his current tools can kill.

Character interactions

  • Li Yue directs gray energy into the Super Heaven, whose Origin Will responds eagerly.
  • He observes the two unusually radiant black cities and wonders what their cocoons will produce.
  • The Source Emperor summons his subordinate city lords and informs them of the legions’ destruction; they answer with a united vow of vengeance.

Ch. 1543The Source Emperor's command, the Light Life Pearl Prototype evolves

Key plot points and events

  • Emperor Yuan orders the first ten legions mobilized to hunt the warrior who destroyed the Twelfth and Thirteenth Legions. He appoints Wei Chen, the formidable commander of the First Legion, as Demon-Slaying Marshal.
  • Wei Chen gathers the other nine legion commanders, each a powerful second-transcendence expert, and gives them half a month to assemble. Their combined army is expected to rival a peerless third-transcendence expert.
  • Meanwhile, Li Yue searches the empty cities of the outer region, where the local city lords have been summoned away. After three days of travel, he reaches the mist-shrouded inner region.
  • Li Yue discovers that inner-region cities are larger and host High Heaven prodigies trading across worlds. He kills a half-step-transcendence city lord in an instant, startling the traders, who flee.
  • Over the next twenty-four days, Li Yue kills many more city lords. His Light Life Pearl Prototype then evolves into its second stage and unlocks a third ability: the Annihilation Sword.

Character developments

  • Emperor Yuan responds to Li Yue’s threat with overwhelming force, placing Wei Chen in command of an army far stronger than the legions Li Yue previously defeated.
  • Wei Chen accepts his appointment without emotion and prepares to lead the campaign.
  • Li Yue remains convinced that the beings trapped in the One and Only Hell deserve release, and his repeated victories strengthen his resolve. The Pearl’s evolution gives him a major new weapon.

Character interactions

  • Emperor Yuan issues orders directly to Wei Chen; Wei Chen then commands the nine other legion leaders to gather, and they pledge obedience.
  • Li Yue does not confront the High Heaven traders directly. His sudden attack on their city lord leaves them frightened and confused, prompting them to flee.

Significant themes

  • Mercy and liberation: Li Yue views killing the Hell’s city lords as freeing beings trapped in an existence they would not have chosen.
  • Escalating power and conflict: Emperor Yuan’s massive military response contrasts with Li Yue’s rapidly growing abilities.
  • Uncertain identity: Li Yue questions whether the Hell’s inhabitants are truly the original people or revived beings with their memories, yet treats their suffering as real.
  • Power through purification: The Pearl turns the force of evil beings purified by its barrier into weapons, linking Li Yue’s strength to his campaign against the Hell’s inhabitants.

Ch. 1544Ten Great Legions Descend, Thought Slows

Key plot points and events

  • Half a month after his previous gains, Li Yue finishes collecting gray wisps and has gathered another 11,600.
  • A force of unprecedented strength descends: Wei Chen, nine Second Transcendence Realm legion commanders, and vast forces represented by meteors, moons, and stars. Their presence nearly freezes Li Yue’s body and slows his thoughts.
  • Li Yue uses Ten-thousand-fold Combat Power and his Annihilation Sword to break free mentally, but the sword begins to crack. He realizes that even his powerful Light Immeasurable Barrier may be useless if he cannot think quickly enough to activate it.
  • Wei Chen doubts Li Yue could have destroyed two legions on his own and suspects an unseen mastermind. He orders his forces to capture Li Yue so the Venerable One can interrogate him.
  • Li Yue immediately activates the Light Immeasurable Barrier. It engulfs and effortlessly erases the meteors, then nullifies the enormous combined power of Wei Chen and his commanders, pinning them in place and beginning to purify them.
  • The legion commanders panic, recognizing the power as connected to the source of the One and Only Hell and realizing Li Yue is drawing that source out of them.
  • Li Yue calls himself a “kind soul” freeing them, while privately celebrating the prospect of collecting a huge haul of gray wisps.

Character developments

  • Li Yue learns that his earlier confidence was dangerous: enemies can suppress his thoughts before he can use his defenses. He becomes more cautious, but remains opportunistic and humorous when the balance of power shifts.
  • Wei Chen, initially contemptuous of Li Yue as a weak pawn, is shaken when Li Yue’s barrier makes his overwhelming force useless.
  • The legion commanders move from skepticism and authority to fear and helplessness as they are trapped and purified.

Significant themes

  • Power and vulnerability: Li Yue’s immense weapon is only useful if he can act; overwhelming opponents can threaten him by suppressing his thoughts.
  • Deceptive appearances: Li Yue seems below Transcendence grade, yet wields power far beyond what his cultivation suggests.
  • Hubris and reversal: The invading legions arrive confident in their strength, only to become helpless before Li Yue’s barrier.
  • Self-interest beneath virtue: Li Yue presents the purification as an act of kindness, but is chiefly excited by the gray wisps he will collect.

Character interactions

  • Wei Chen and the commanders debate whether Li Yue is responsible for the destroyed legions or merely a pawn of a hidden mastermind.
  • Wei Chen orders Li Yue captured; Li Yue responds by trapping the entire force in his barrier.
  • The terrified commanders appeal to Wei Chen—and even the Lord Source Emperor—for help, while Li Yue coolly insists they need not thank him for “setting them free.”

Ch. 1545Purifying Them All, Leaving the One and Only Hell

Key plot points and events

  • Nine black cities appear in the One and Only Hell and send black cocoons to swallow the nine second Transcendence realm legion commanders. The two hundred first Transcendence realm officers have already been completely purified.
  • One exceptionally powerful commander holds out longer than the others. Wei Chen recalls that the man had once been a prodigy with 420 units of source Dao power, but was killed before he could advance further—possibly by an Ancient Emperor Lord’s disciple. The commander laughs at the futility of life and death before being swallowed too.
  • Li Yue gathers the resulting Hell Aura and gray energy, then escapes the One and Only Hell, realizing that even with the Light Immeasurable Barrier he would be helpless against a true third Transcendence realm being.
  • News of the slaughter of the Source Emperor’s ten legions spreads through High Heaven, provoking shock and the Source Emperor’s fury, though Li Yue has already vanished.
  • Back in the Three Thousand Dimensions, Li Yue discovers the rewards of the battle: 260,000 wisps of gray energy, a second refinement of the Light Life Pearl Prototype, and all ten Annihilation Swords fully formed at 90 units of first Transcendence realm source Dao power.
  • The Light Life Pearl Prototype reaches its third stage and grants Purification Slave, allowing Li Yue to summon purified evil beings for one month. He realizes he can call on 220 first Transcendence realm beings at once.
  • Li Yue returns to the Dimension of Myriad Daos and invests 240,000 wisps of gray energy—condensed into 800 thick strands—into the Super Heaven, hoping to awaken the powers of the twelve cities that swallowed second Transcendence realm beings. He keeps the remaining gray energy in reserve.

Character developments and interactions

  • Li Yue shifts from confidence in his protective barrier to a more cautious understanding of the danger posed by third Transcendence realm opponents. Despite that fear, he is excited by his new powers and plans to keep strengthening the Super Heaven.
  • Wei Chen reflects on the fate of extraordinary geniuses in High Heaven: those outside an Ancient Emperor Lord’s lineage may be killed before reaching the third Transcendence realm. His account casts the swallowed commander as both a tragic prodigy and a defiant survivor.
  • The Source Emperor reacts with rage to the destruction of his legions, while the larger factions of High Heaven are left wondering who could have carried out such an attack.

Significant themes

  • Power and vulnerability: Li Yue’s victory over vast armies does not make him safe; a third Transcendence realm being could still kill him effortlessly.
  • The cost of exceptional talent: Wei Chen’s story suggests that great potential can invite political danger, especially when powerful lineages seek to control who advances.
  • Death, revival, and defiance: The commander dismisses his “revival” in the One and Only Hell as a dream, choosing laughter over fear as he faces capture.
  • Escalating ambition: Li Yue turns the spoils of a terrifying battle into new abilities and further investment in the Super Heaven, preparing for greater challenges.

Ch. 1546The Black Cocoon Births the First Transcendent God-Devil

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

  • Extirpation Wan’er senses that Super Heaven has grown stronger after absorbing the essence of the One and Only Hell. She fears her chances of escape have dwindled, though she ultimately decides that staying alive is better than risking death.
  • Li Yue feeds Super Heaven hundreds of streams of gray qi, driving it through repeated Metamorphoses—from its nineteenth to its fifty-first. Its radius expands to 20,800 li, and its aura grows more than ten times stronger. The changes also reveal additional manifestations: a black bell joins the black spear and seal.
  • Li Yue notices that a Black Cocoon inside one of the cities is nearing completion. After three months, it dissolves into a 108-tiered black lotus, from which emerges a striking, destructive swordsman.
  • Wan’er identifies the newcomer as a Transcendent God-Devil: a being born in the early stages of a powerful Heaven, with exceptional potential and an unusual ability to surpass its limits.
  • The figure introduces himself as Yao Qian and kneels before Li Yue, confirming that he is under Li Yue’s control. Li Yue senses that he could erase Yao Qian with a thought and asks how strong he is; the chapter ends before Yao Qian answers.

Character developments

  • Li Yue becomes more intrigued by Super Heaven’s possibilities as it grows, especially by the prospect of a being born from it. He recognizes Yao Qian’s immense power but remains confident in his authority over him.
  • Extirpation Wan’er shifts between fear, anger, and reluctant acceptance of her imprisonment. Yao Qian’s emergence astonishes her and deepens her uncertainty about what Super Heaven really is.
  • Yao Qian is introduced as a cold, emotionless, immensely powerful swordsman. Despite his destructive presence, he is obedient to Li Yue.

Significant themes

  • Growth and transformation: Super Heaven repeatedly evolves, with each Metamorphosis increasing its scale and power.
  • Power and potential: Yao Qian’s birth raises the question of how powerful a being from Super Heaven could become compared with those born from other Heavens.
  • Control and confinement: Li Yue commands Yao Qian, while Wan’er remains trapped within Super Heaven and struggles to accept her lack of freedom.
  • The unknown: Wan’er’s explanations give Li Yue—and the reader—some context, but Super Heaven’s true nature and limits remain mysterious.

Character interactions

  • Wan’er voices her frustration at being imprisoned, then reacts in shock as Super Heaven grows and Yao Qian appears.
  • She explains Transcendent God-Devils to Li Yue, comparing their potential across different kinds of Heavens and wondering what Super Heaven might produce.
  • Yao Qian kneels and addresses Li Yue as his lord. Li Yue releases him from the formality and asks about his strength, setting up their next exchange.

Ch. 1547The Terror of a Transcendent God-Devil, and Wan'er Who Would Rather Die Than Submit

Key plot points and events

  • Yaoqian reports that he has 110 units of Source Dao Power and can grow exceptionally quickly: by devouring other Transcenders or, even without doing so, gaining one unit every thousand years. Li Yue is astonished by the difference between Yaoqian’s growth and that of ordinary Transcenders.
  • Li Yue realizes the twelve transcendent gods and devils born from his Super Heaven could become extraordinarily powerful. He wonders whether the remaining thirty-nine black cocoons might also produce such beings, and what kinds of powerful creatures they can consume.
  • Although Li Yue now commands Yaoqian, ten Swords of Obliteration, and 220 First-Realm evil creatures, he recognizes that he remains weak by High Heaven’s standards. Remembering ominous warnings and the Ancient God’s enemies, he resolves to keep growing stronger.
  • Li Yue tells Yaoqian to stay and cultivate. Extirpation Wan’er, who has been imprisoned for years, pleads to be released.
  • The Super Heaven informs Li Yue that he can bind Wan’er to it by merging a small portion of its origin into her. Li Yue offers this as both a path to freedom and a great boost to her status and potential. Wan’er realizes the offer would place her under his control and refuses, preferring imprisonment—or death—to submission.

Character developments

  • Li Yue shifts from excitement over his growing forces to sober caution. He recognizes the scale of the threats ahead and prioritizes strength over complacency. He also considers turning Wan’er into a useful, controllable ally.
  • Yaoqian is revealed as an exceptionally powerful and rapidly developing transcendent god and devil, though he remains emotionless and obedient.
  • Extirpation Wan’er shows fierce independence. Despite the promised benefits and freedom, she refuses anything that would put her under Li Yue’s control.

Significant themes

  • Power and growth: The chapter contrasts ordinary Transcenders’ slow advancement with Yaoqian’s extraordinary potential.
  • Ambition tempered by caution: Li Yue’s growing resources do not erase his awareness of how vulnerable he remains in High Heaven.
  • Freedom versus security and control: Wan’er’s choice highlights the cost of becoming more powerful when that power comes with submission.
  • Potential and ownership: The Super Heaven can elevate beings while also binding them to its master.

Character interactions

  • Li Yue questions Yaoqian about his strength and growth, then orders him to cultivate.
  • Wan’er clings to Li Yue and begs for release; he considers her potential value and offers her a share of the Super Heaven’s origin.
  • Wan’er interprets the offer as a trap and defiantly rejects it, setting up a direct conflict between Li Yue’s desire for control and her will to remain independent.

Ch. 1548So worth it! Entering the Divine Path Heavenly Realm

Chapter Summary

  • Extirpation Wan’er accepts Li Yue’s offer to merge with a portion of a heavenly origin. She initially believes it is the origin of a Pinnacle Heaven, which would greatly improve her prospects of reaching the Third Transcendence Realm. When Li Yue’s power transforms her, she discovers it is actually the origin of a Super Heaven—a legendary realm said to make the Fourth Transcendence Realm possible. Her shock quickly turns to excitement, and she is delighted she agreed.
  • Li Yue leaves the Super Heaven and returns to the Dimension of Myriad Daos. During his absence, Great Zhen has changed substantially. Thanks to the God Tree of Ages and its twenty-thousandfold time flow, Origin Demon lifeforms have reached its borders. Li Yue considers the resulting danger and warfare useful, since hardship can strengthen Great Zhen’s Three Kingdoms.
  • The Eternal Divine Court has also grown, gaining more than ten thousand Creation-grade deities, though none has reached supreme Creation rank. Li Yue cannot benefit from the accelerated time himself because he is too powerful.
  • Li Yue decides to open his Divine Path Heavenly Realm, which will let him advance to Mid Dao-Wielding Divine Rank. Asked what defines a god, he chooses: “one who suppresses all enemies.” This sets the realm to Hell-Level Difficulty. Confident in his own strength, he enters.
  • Inside, Li Yue finds himself in an elaborately furnished room with a newly assigned identity, though his cultivation and power remain unchanged. When he releases his perception, the room’s objects distort into grotesque monsters. He realizes the world cannot interpret his immense power, and his presence twists everything around him.

Character Developments and Interactions

  • Extirpation Wan’er moves from reluctant calculation to enthusiastic acceptance. Her bargain with Li Yue is presented as an escape from captivity, but the Super Heaven origin exceeds her expectations and makes her future seem vastly brighter.
  • Li Yue remains confident and pragmatic: he sees danger as a means of strengthening Great Zhen, and chooses the hardest Divine Path challenge without hesitation. His immense power is both an advantage and an unforeseen complication in the new realm.
  • Their interaction is marked by Li Yue’s control and Wan’er’s self-interested reasoning: he offers the origin and expects her loyalty, while she insists to herself that she is accepting only to escape—even as the unexpected reward thrills her.

Significant Themes

  • Power and opportunity: Wan’er’s improved prospects show how access to a greater source of power can transform a reluctant choice into a life-changing one.
  • Growth through conflict: Li Yue regards threats and warfare as necessary catalysts for Great Zhen’s development.
  • Confidence and challenge: Li Yue deliberately selects the most difficult path, believing his strength makes him uniquely capable of overcoming it.
  • Power’s unintended effects: In the Divine Path realm, Li Yue’s overwhelming presence distorts the world itself, suggesting that his strength may make the challenge unpredictable.

Ch. 1549A Completely Different World—Had I Become a Great Evil God?

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Li Yue’s presence in the Divine Path Heavenly Realm causes a catastrophic disturbance because this world’s laws cannot interpret his power system.
  • A hundred-plus Golden-Armored Humans descend to fight the monsters spontaneously created around him, but the creatures are far stronger and force the soldiers into retreat.
  • When Li Yue speaks only two words, the soldiers’ bodies mutate: Third Eyes emerge on their foreheads, driving them into terror and convincing them that he is an extraterrestrial Evil God.
  • Li Yue realizes that every word, movement, and trace of perception he releases causes this world’s fundamentally different laws to collapse and distort nearby life-forms.
  • His attempt to analyze the world’s six Special Substances unintentionally creates an endless army of powerful monsters. More Golden-Armored Guardian Squads arrive, but they are unable to contain the threat.
  • Li Yue uses the substance “Di,” a pale-white flame-like material associated with cold and heat resistance, to instantly destroy every monster.
  • The soldiers interpret his contradictory behavior—creating and then annihilating the monsters—as incomprehensible Evil God conduct and surround him in fear.
  • Li Yue uses Di to transmit the local language into the soldiers’ minds.
  • A powerful young woman and Divine Envoy arrives, isolates the area with her enormous disassembled saber, and challenges Li Yue. She demands that he leave the Al Saint Kingdom and threatens to summon her god.
  • The chapter ends as a system interface appears, announcing “Divine Path Heavenly Realm Mission One.”

Character Developments

  • Li Yue: Remains calm and largely innocent despite causing widespread destruction. He learns that he has been mistaken for an Evil God because this world’s underlying laws differ completely from those of the realms he knows. His immediate goals become analyzing the world’s rules and integrating his Divine Path into them without causing further distortions.
  • Golden-Armored Humans: Initially act as defenders of the city, but their fear quickly turns to panic after being transformed by Li Yue’s speech. Even after witnessing his overwhelming power, they continue resisting and protecting the city.
  • The Young Divine Envoy: Introduced as a fearless representative of the Al Saint Kingdom. Unlike the ordinary soldiers, she can look directly at Li Yue without being corrupted, suggesting divine protection and considerable status or strength.

Significant Themes

  • Misunderstood power: Li Yue is an Orthodox God, yet the locals perceive him as an incomprehensible cosmic Evil God because his abilities cannot be processed by their reality.
  • Clashing systems of reality: The chapter emphasizes that different worlds may be built on entirely incompatible foundational laws. Li Yue’s powers are not inherently malicious, but their interaction with this world produces monstrous results.
  • The danger of knowledge and perception: Even Li Yue’s words, gaze, and attempts to understand the world have devastating consequences, echoing the idea that higher beings can be unknowable or dangerous to lesser beings.
  • Order versus chaos: The Golden-Armored Humans attempt to preserve civilization while Li Yue unintentionally generates overwhelming chaos. His desire to understand and adapt may eventually restore balance.
  • Divine paths and faith-based power: The arrival of the Divine Envoy reveals that this realm contains gods supported by faith, possibly resembling the path followed by the Angel King A-Tai rather than Li Yue’s Eastern divine system.

Important Character Interactions

  • Li Yue’s brief speech causes the Golden-Armored Humans to mutate, cementing their belief that he is an Evil God.
  • The soldiers repeatedly call for reinforcements while attempting to prevent the monsters from destroying the city.
  • Li Yue’s use of Di both teaches him the local language and demonstrates his immense power to the frightened defenders.
  • The Divine Envoy directly confronts Li Yue, protected by her divine blessing and confident enough to threaten him on behalf of the Al Saint Kingdom.
  • Li Yue responds not with hostility but with curiosity, focusing on the existence and nature of the local gods as the chapter transitions into his first Divine Path mission.

Ch. 1550Slay All Gods, and I Alone Shall Be the Orthodox God

Key plot points and events

  • Li Yue receives a quest to kill every god and Evil God in the world, establish the Divine Path Rule, and take the woman before him as his Temple Keeper. Though alarmed by the villainous-sounding mission, he decides to proceed cautiously.
  • He meets Luo Fuya, ruler of the Al Saint Kingdom and an archbishop of the Church of Dawn. Hoping to learn about the world’s powerful beings, Li Yue asks her to summon her god, the Lord of Dawn.
  • Luo Fuya refuses to abandon her faith and repeatedly begs the Lord of Dawn to descend and protect her kingdom. Despite her sincere prayers, the god never answers.
  • Another being arrives: Gu Qiu, whom the natives call an Evil God. He mocks Li Yue’s frightening appearance, though Li Yue sees himself as an ordinary, handsome man. Gu Qiu claims that he and his kind are Orthodox Gods, while the Council of Gods are the true Evil Gods.
  • Li Yue seizes Gu Qiu and probes his nature. The knowledge he imparts overwhelms and transforms Gu Qiu into a monstrous creature, which Li Yue then destroys. The encounter also helps Li Yue decipher more of the world’s fundamental substances.
  • Li Yue again asks Luo Fuya to worship him. She is left stunned and terrified, realizing that this powerful being looks human despite being an “Evil God.”

Character developments

  • Li Yue remains composed and curious, treating the quest as an opportunity to investigate the world’s divine beings. He shows little concern for the horror his presence inspires and regards Gu Qiu as a source of knowledge.
  • Luo Fuya is shown as both devout and responsible: she tries to protect her people from divine conflict, yet her unanswered prayers shatter her confidence in the Lord of Dawn. She remains defiant toward Li Yue, even as fear and despair grow.
  • Gu Qiu presents himself as an Orthodox God opposed to the Council of Gods, but Li Yue’s power proves overwhelming; he is quickly transformed and killed.

Significant themes

  • Competing claims to divinity: “Evil God” and “Orthodox God” may be labels imposed by opposing sides rather than objective truths.
  • Faith and divine silence: Luo Fuya’s repeated prayers go unanswered, raising doubts about the protection and reliability promised by religious institutions.
  • Knowledge as corruption: Li Yue’s perception carries truths so overwhelming that merely encountering them can distort and destroy a being.
  • Appearance and perspective: Li Yue believes he looks human, while others perceive him as a grotesque monster, underscoring the gap between his self-image and the world’s experience of him.

Character interactions

  • Li Yue tries to recruit Luo Fuya, while she resists his temptation and invokes her god to defend her kingdom.
  • Gu Qiu mocks Li Yue and challenges the religious order of the world; Li Yue responds by overpowering him and exposing him to dangerous knowledge.
  • Luo Fuya witnesses Gu Qiu’s destruction and becomes even more frightened of Li Yue, while he continues to address her calmly as a potential worshipper.

Ch. 1551His Gaze Swept Past, and All the Gods Perished

Key plot points and events

  • Li Yue carries Luo Fuya toward the God Realm on a cloud of Qi, assuring her they are going to meet the Lord of Dawn. He can now move through the world without accidentally destabilizing it.
  • At the Wall of the Gods, Li Yue’s gaze transforms the boundary into a colossal monster. The gods guarding it sound the alarm, summoning a host of deities.
  • Li Yue accuses the gods—especially the three chief gods, the Lord of Dawn, Lord of Thunder, and Qi Flame Lord—of stealing faith and ruling as false gods. When a Sun God attacks, Li Yue turns him into a monster with a glance.
  • The gods launch a coordinated assault, but Li Yue’s gaze transforms the attackers, including the Qi Flame Lord, into giant monsters. He explains that his perception carries Divine Path knowledge the gods cannot understand or analyze.
  • The Lord of Dawn, Lord of Thunder, and every other god in the God Realm are likewise destroyed and transformed. Li Yue then opens portals to the Evil God Lairs and turns all the Evil Gods and their lairs into monsters as well.
  • With both gods and Evil Gods gone, Li Yue asks Luo Fuya to worship him. Terrified, she agrees. He appoints her Temple Keeper and sends her into the Mortal Realm to spread his worship. His remaining goal is to get the world to analyze the Divine Path Rule.

Character developments and interactions

  • Li Yue remains calm and detached throughout, exercising overwhelming power without effort. He shifts from eliminating the world’s divine powers to establishing a new faith, recruiting Luo Fuya as his representative.
  • Luo Fuya begins frightened of being taken by an Evil God, then is stunned by Li Yue’s destruction of the divine order. Her fear culminates in reluctant obedience: she accepts the Temple Keeper role and agrees to promote his worship.
  • The gods move from confidence and outrage to panic when their attacks fail and their leaders are transformed. Their belief that they rule the world is overturned in an instant.

Significant themes

  • Power and incomprehension: The Divine Path knowledge carried by Li Yue is fatal to beings unable to understand or analyze it.
  • The collapse of religious authority: Both the gods and the Evil Gods are revealed as vulnerable and are wiped out, leaving a vacuum Li Yue intends to fill.
  • Fear-driven worship: Luo Fuya’s pledge is not born of faith but terror, highlighting the coercive nature of the new religion.
  • Cosmic scale and perspective: Li Yue’s casual actions have world-altering consequences, while mortals experience them as an existential catastrophe.

Ch. 1552The Gods Were Dead, Eternity Reigned Supreme

Plot points and events

  • Li Yue cannot safely impose the divine path on the world all at once, since doing so would shatter its foundations. He plans to let the new rule seep in gradually as his number of worshippers grows.
  • Having mastered the world’s six fundamental substances, Li Yue compresses the enormous monsters into coins. Some contain the former gods’ authorities; others hold chaotic, anti-authority power.
  • He gives thousands of these “God Coins” to Luo Fuya, sovereign of the Al Saint Kingdom, and orders her to spread his faith within ten years.
  • Luo Fuya summons the kingdom’s priests and transcendent beings and announces that every god and evil god has been killed by the Eternal God Lord. She identifies herself as his Temple Keeper and calls on them to worship him.
  • An archbishop of the Church of Dawn rejects her claim. When Luo Fuya reveals the God Coins, the coin bearing the Dawn god’s authority overwhelms him, proving that his god is dead. He and many other clergy collapse in grief and submit.
  • Luo Fuya promises temples throughout the kingdom, positions for the most devoted, access to the old gods’ authorities, and even the possibility of becoming gods. The gathering embraces the new faith with fervor.

Character developments

  • Li Yue shifts from direct conquest to patient institution-building, using worship and subordinate gods to change the world’s rules.
  • Luo Fuya moves from defeated ruler to committed religious leader. Having witnessed the gods’ destruction, she chooses wholehearted obedience and forcefully organizes the new faith.
  • The archbishop and other clergy move from disbelief and opposition to grief and submission when confronted with undeniable proof.
  • The kingdom’s transcendent beings and ministers turn fear into eager allegiance, drawn both by the Eternal God Lord’s power and by the promise of authority and godhood.

Significant themes

  • Power and religious legitimacy: The old gods’ authority is converted into tangible proof of their defeat, making resistance difficult.
  • Faith as a tool of rule: Li Yue uses worship to gradually reshape the world rather than risk destroying it through force.
  • The collapse of an old order: The gods’ deaths leave a spiritual vacuum that the Eternal God Lord immediately fills.
  • Ambition and devotion: Belief spreads through reverence and fear, but also through the enticing promise of eternal life, divine power, and ascension.

Character interactions

  • Li Yue gives Luo Fuya the God Coins and sets her a deadline, establishing her as his agent in the mortal world.
  • Luo Fuya confronts the kingdom’s assembled clergy and leaders with the news of the gods’ deaths, then uses the coins to answer the archbishop’s challenge.
  • The archbishop’s collapse changes the crowd’s response: former opponents join the worshippers, and Luo Fuya seals their allegiance with promises of advancement.

Ch. 1553The Second Divine Path Heavenly Realm Mission: Destroy the Merck Race

Plot points and events

  • Li Yue creates Sky Divine City from the remnants of the gods’ Divine Kingdoms and declares that devout worshippers who ascend there can become demigods. Luo Fuya and the gathered people accept his decree.
  • Over the next ten years, the Al Saint Kingdom conquers the other nations and reunites the Willing Blue Great World. It becomes the Eternal Divine Kingdom, while thousands of demigods patrol from Sky Divine City.
  • Li Yue begins appointing former believers as gods. Anji, once an ordinary commoner, becomes the first god of the new age, Zhu Gui, the Observing Star Lord. Eight more believers are also made Star Lords, each gaining Sub-Saint-level power.
  • Li Yue completes his first Heavenly Realm mission: destroying the world’s gods and Evil Gods. He receives an Origin Great Dao Fusion Divine Talisman, but learns that the Merck Race has been observing the world and studying gods.
  • The next mission is to destroy the Merck Race and uncover its origin. Li Yue exposes the Merck spacecraft, breaking its concealment barrier.
  • Captain Meng Duo orders the craft into War Form. It transforms into an enormous Octopus Evil God and descends toward the world, intending to kill its inhabitants and capture Li Yue.
  • Li Yue remains untroubled, viewing the invasion as an opportunity to strengthen his believers’ faith.

Character developments

  • Li Yue demonstrates his ability to shape the world’s religious and political order: he creates Sky Divine City, appoints new gods, and treats the Merck threat as a chance to consolidate belief.
  • Luo Fuya continues as a reverent religious leader, publicly affirming Li Yue’s oracle.
  • Anji/Zhu Gui rises from commoner to the first newly appointed god. His shock and tears show the emotional force of his sudden elevation and devotion.
  • Meng Duo emerges as a ruthless, confident antagonist. He dismisses Li Yue’s power as manageable and plans to turn him into an Evil God Host.

Significant themes

  • Faith as power and reward: Devotion offers believers a path from ordinary life to demigodhood and even godhood.
  • Divine rule and political unity: Li Yue’s religious authority underpins the reunification of the world under the Eternal Divine Kingdom.
  • Power and perspective: The Merck Race measures beings by energy levels and technology, while Li Yue regards even a formidable invasion as useful.
  • Crisis as an instrument of faith: Li Yue expects an external enemy to make his followers more devout.

Character interactions

  • Li Yue’s oracle establishes the terms of advancement; Luo Fuya and the people respond with obedience and renewed ambition.
  • Li Yue rewards Anji and eight other believers with divine appointments, while Zhu Gui expresses intense gratitude and worship.
  • Meng Duo and his first officer assess Li Yue’s strength, then agree to attack the world and capture him.
  • Li Yue does not communicate with the Merck crew directly; instead, he exposes their ship and calmly anticipates the effect of their invasion on his followers.

Ch. 1554With One Hand, He Slaughtered Every Invader, and Faith Surged

Key plot points and events

  • A vast octopus-shaped ship arrives over the Willing Blue Great World. Its captain, Meng Duo of the Merck Race, uses overwhelming power to demand that humanity abandon its faith and worship his people instead.
  • More than a thousand Merck warriors descend on the world’s cities, threatening humans and declaring them livestock. Their terror causes both Li Yue’s existing followers and many nonbelievers to pray to him.
  • Li Yue reveals that Meng Duo’s urge to cultivate fear was planted by his own influence. He appears in a colossal divine form, kills the Merck warriors with a single hand, then destroys their ship—and Meng Duo—with one finger.
  • After Luo Fuya leads the people in giving thanks, Li Yue declares he will pursue and exterminate the Merck Race. A vast screen appears in the sky so humanity can witness their destruction.

Character developments

  • Li Yue remains calm and in control, using the invasion to strengthen his faith before swiftly defeating the invaders. He presents himself as humanity’s protector and promises further vengeance.
  • Meng Duo arrives arrogant and intent on forcing humanity to submit, but his plans are shaped by Li Yue and end in his death.
  • Luo Fuya, the Temple Keeper, openly kneels and leads the world in proclaiming devotion to Li Yue.
  • Humanity shifts rapidly from fear to worship. Belief in Li Yue rises from about twenty percent to more than ninety percent of the population, with devotion growing alongside it.

Character interactions

  • Meng Duo and the Merck warriors intimidate humanity and demand its faith.
  • Terrified humans turn to Li Yue in prayer; Li Yue answers by destroying the invaders.
  • Luo Fuya’s public declaration of gratitude gives voice to the world’s renewed devotion, while Li Yue promises to act against the Merck Race on humanity’s behalf.

Significant themes

  • Fear as a source of faith: The invasion turns terror into mass worship.
  • Divine power and protection: Li Yue’s overwhelming intervention confirms his status as humanity’s supreme guardian.
  • Faith as power and influence: The surge in believers strengthens the Divine Path Rule’s standing in the world.
  • Retribution and spectacle: Li Yue makes his promised campaign visible to all, turning the invaders’ defeat into a public demonstration of his authority.

Ch. 1555Exterminating the Merck Race, Mission Three Begins

Plot points and events

  • The Merck Race’s Second Research Institute learns that an observer spacecraft sent to the frontier has been destroyed. Assuming a “true god” is responsible, it dispatches the Eighth Squad—twelve powerful members—to capture the threat.
  • Li Yue appears before the squad. A single glance overwhelms them with Divine Path knowledge, transforming all twelve members and their spacecraft into monsters that turn back toward Merck territory.
  • Li Yue then advances through the Merck Race’s worlds. His divine radiance transforms their inhabitants into monsters, spreading destruction from world to world.
  • The Merck Race’s strongest forces—including the Ultimate True God, a fused Evil God, elite ancestors, and peak experts—cannot stop Li Yue. He kills them with one downward strike.
  • A member of the Xiyu Race arrives with Dimension-level power and demands that Li Yue surrender. Li Yue reveals Half-step Transcendence power and destroys the challenger.
  • The Merck Race is completely annihilated. Mission two is declared complete, and mission three begins: Li Yue must face the Xiyu Race’s counterattacks, earn its recognition through fear, or ultimately destroy it.

Character developments

  • Li Yue remains calm and seemingly unmoved by the scale of the slaughter. He recognizes that his power overwhelms beings unable to comprehend the Divine Path, and that even formidable opponents cannot survive his attacks.
  • The Merck Race’s leaders shift from confidence and aggression to desperation as their forces and defenses prove useless.
  • The Xiyu Race’s envoy begins by issuing an ultimatum but panics when confronted with Li Yue’s vastly superior power.

Significant themes

  • Overwhelming power and incomprehension: Those who cannot understand Li Yue’s Divine Path are broken by its radiance and transformed.
  • Escalation: The defeat of one powerful race immediately draws Li Yue into conflict with an even stronger one.
  • Devotion and worship: Humans in the Willing Blue Great World see Li Yue’s victory as proof of his supreme divinity and deepen their faith in him.
  • Conquest as a chain reaction: The transformed Merck members spread the attack, while Li Yue’s victory triggers the next mission and a wider confrontation.

Character interactions

  • The Merck researchers order the Eighth Squad to capture Li Yue, but his presence turns the squad against their own people.
  • Human witnesses, including Temple Keeper Luo Fuya, respond to Li Yue’s victory with awe and renewed devotion.
  • Merck leaders and elite fighters attempt to rally and defend their race, only to be crushed by Li Yue.
  • The Xiyu envoy confronts Li Yue with a demand to surrender, then pleads for mercy before he is destroyed.

Ch. 1556Choosing to Annihilate the Western Cosmos Race—Simple and Easy

Key plot points

  • Li Yue rejects the Divine Path Heavenly Realm’s tasks of enduring the Western Cosmos Race’s counterattacks and earning its recognition. He decides to destroy the race outright and advances toward it in his enormous divine manifestation.
  • He reflects on his rewards: three Origin Great Dao Fusion Divine Talismans. Once his Divine Rank rises, they could let him fuse three more Origin Great Daos, bringing his total from eight to eleven and potentially elevating his power to Transcendence level.
  • The Western Cosmos Race’s Administrator, Lin Duo, orders the awakening of its elite forces and ancestors, the activation of a world-exterminating plan, all 360 World-Destroying Cannons, and the deployment of three supreme treasures.
  • Lin Duo shows the elders footage of Li Yue slaughtering the Merck Race’s main world and killing Lin Tu, a top Dimension-level expert, with one casual blow. The elders realize a Half-step Transcendence being is approaching.
  • The Western Cosmos Race prepares to meet Li Yue with overwhelming force, determined to defend its supremacy and make an example of him.

Character developments and interactions

  • Li Yue is calm, confident, and increasingly ambitious. He treats the coming conflict as an obstacle to eliminate, while considering how his rewards may help him reach Transcendence.
  • Administrator Lin Duo is cautious and strategic: he explains the threat to the elders and mobilizes the race’s full reserves rather than underestimating Li Yue.
  • The Western Cosmos Race’s elders shift from confusion to alarm, then to fierce resolve. They agree that Li Yue must be killed to preserve their authority.

Significant themes

  • Power and escalation: Li Yue’s growing strength prompts the Western Cosmos Race to unleash its most destructive resources.
  • Hubris and supremacy: The race sees its dominance as unquestionable, and its leaders frame the confrontation as a defense of its status.
  • Ambition and reward: Li Yue’s focus on fusing more Origin Great Daos shows how advancement fuels his pursuit of still greater power.

Ch. 1557Invincible Li Yue—Summon the First Ancestor!

Plot points and events

  • Li Yue arrives at the Xiyu race’s territory in a colossal golden manifestation. Its defenders—twelve commanders empowered by advanced technology—fail to stop him: he shatters their combined sword and withstands the Star Fortress’s 360 World-Destroying Cannons without harm.
  • The Xiyu’s next forces, including eighteen Hall Masters, nine elders, two powerful treasures, and two top-tier Half-step Transcendence Ancestors, attack together. Li Yue kills them with a punch and a stomp, then destroys the treasures and the Star Fortress.
  • He advances through Xiyu territory, destroying its powerful defenders and spreading incomprehensible Divine Path knowledge into the inhabitants of each great world. Many are driven mad and transformed into monsters that attack the survivors. Li Yue leaves no living Xiyu beings in his wake.
  • At the Xiyu main world, Administrator Lin Duo and the clan elders learn of the devastation. Their remaining Ancestors conclude that Li Yue is an “Invincible One” and decide their only hope is to summon the Xiyu founding First Ancestor from the Ancestral Realm.

Character developments and interactions

  • Li Yue remains cold and utterly confident throughout. He dismisses every Xiyu defense as insignificant and follows through on his decision to eradicate the race.
  • Lin Duo shifts from grim alarm to desperate action, appealing to the remaining Ancestors to save their people.
  • The Third Ancestor responds realistically to the crisis: admitting that he and the other remaining Ancestors cannot match Li Yue, he proposes summoning the First Ancestor. The clan elders support the plea, and Lin Duo orders the summoning.

Significant themes

  • Overwhelming power: The Xiyu’s technology, elite fighters, treasures, and Ancestors are all powerless before Li Yue.
  • Destruction and desperation: Li Yue’s campaign turns entire worlds into sites of madness and slaughter, leaving the Xiyu with a last-resort appeal to their founder.
  • Limits of collective strength: The Xiyu believe their combined power might elevate the First Ancestor beyond even an Invincible One, setting up a final confrontation.

Ch. 1558The Western Cosmos Race's First Ancestor: How Could I Let You Run Rampant Before Me?

The Western Cosmos Race's First Ancestor emerged from seclusion after Li Yue destroyed hundreds of their great worlds, and protected Administrator Lin Duo from Li Yue's incomprehensible Divine Path. Li Yue then attacked the First Ancestor, leaving their battle about to begin.

  • Administrator Lin Duo and the Western Cosmos Race's ancestors begged Ya Tian to leave the Ancestral Realm and save their race.
  • Ya Tian emerged from seclusion and followed the Western Cosmos Race's forces toward Li Yue.
  • Ya Tian recognized that Li Yue's Dao differed from the universe's Great Dao and used his power to shield the clansmen behind him.
  • Li Yue overwhelmed Administrator Lin Duo with Divine Path knowledge, but Ya Tian stopped Lin Duo's body from collapsing.
  • Li Yue extended his ten-million-light-year divine manifestation's hand and pressed it down toward Ya Tian.

Ch. 1559Crushing All with One Palm, Completing the Divine Path Heavenly Realm

Li Yue defeated and killed the Western Cosmos Race's First Ancestor, then destroyed the race and its territory. The system declared the Divine Path Heavenly Realm complete and allowed him to remain for one month.

  • The Western Cosmos Race's First Ancestor attacked Li Yue, but Li Yue shattered his strike with a single palm.
  • The First Ancestor gathered the power of the entire Western Cosmos Race and struck again, but Li Yue overwhelmed him with his 250-times Quasi-Transcendence-grade strength.
  • Li Yue killed the Western Cosmos Race's First Ancestor with one palm and crushed the race's Administrator, other ancestors, and elders.
  • Li Yue advanced through the Western Cosmos Race's territory, killing its members and leaving its worlds ruined.
  • The system announced that Li Yue had completed Task Three and the Divine Path Heavenly Realm, granting rewards and one month to remain.

Ch. 1560Returning to the Three Thousand Dimensions, the Uses of "Heaven and Earth Essence"

After leaving the Divine Path Heavenly Realm, Li Yue empowered Luo Fuya to govern the Willing Blue Great World and its God Realm, then returned to the Three Thousand Dimensions. He traded half of an Ordinary Heaven’s essence for twenty percent authority over the Three Thousand Dimensions and learned how to use heaven and earth essence.

  • Li Yue named Luo Fuya Heavenly Monarch of Dao Propagation, gave her the Divine Path and vast numbers of talisman edicts, and entrusted her with the Willing Blue Great World and the God Realm.
  • Li Yue left the Divine Path Heavenly Realm, and Luo Fuya vowed to lead the Human Race toward becoming a true God Clan.
  • Back in the Eternity Heavenly Palace, Li Yue found that the Three Thousand Dimensions wanted to devour the essence of an Ordinary Heaven, while the Super Heaven showed no interest.
  • The Origin Will of the Three Thousand Dimensions offered Li Yue twenty percent authority, half the Ordinary Heaven essence, and a method for using heaven and earth essence.
  • Li Yue accepted the offer and received authority that let his will reach throughout the Three Thousand Dimensions and greatly increased his strength there.
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