Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi explored using God Plague Curse and Devil's Great Curse to develop a way to spread mana control and cultivation methods, but his experiments showed that the curse code destabilized in human souls. He left the research for later and turned to planning his other projects and training for a future trial in the Western Sea.

• Wang Qi reasoned that Devil's Great Curse could stabilize souls enough to let God Plague Curse implant mana-control methods and make cultivation widely accessible.
• Wang Qi tested three versions of God Plague Curse on Du Bin's vegetative patients, monitoring their brains and souls as the curses caused symptoms and accumulated unstable code.
• Wang Qi disrupted one patient's curse with Tian Shang Jue, restored the damaged soul with Flame of Life, and copied the curses from all three patients onto memory chips.
• Wang Qi left Du Bin's home and inspected the copied curses on an isolated calculating device, concluding that their code grew too unstable for human souls.
• Wang Qi assigned God Plague Curse research to one thread and planned other experiments, then resolved to practice powerful combat and escape techniques before visiting the Western Sea for the Mundane World Refining Heart trial.

Wang Qi studied the Unforgiving Taoist’s manuscript and identified the Unforgiving Electric Sword and Unfathomable Body Technique as his most useful unfinished combat methods. Meanwhile, Du Gui’s training made him powerful and self-assured, and he treated a martial artist he had badly injured as Du Chong watched with growing displeasure.

• Wang Qi set aside the manuscript’s incomplete internal cultivation method and most of its artifact-forging material while focusing on its two sword arts and movement technique.
• Wang Qi recognized the Unforgiving Electric Sword as a sword-formation art based on the incompleteness theorem and the Unfathomable Body Technique as a method based on the uncertainty principle.
• Wang Qi concluded that Misty Palace techniques manifested physical laws across different scales and speculated that the Mysterious Star Observatory reproduced astronomical-scale laws at conventional scales.
• Du Gui defeated a Du Family martial artist with overwhelming force after half a year of training aided by holy light.
• Du Gui treated the gravely injured martial artist while Du Chong praised his abilities and privately showed disgust at his subordinate’s growing disobedience.

The Du Family held its annual tournament, where Du Bin and Du Chong tested their strength against each other. Du Bin won the tournament, while Zhen Chanzi promised Du Chun a path to challenge him next year.

• Du Gui treated an injured martial artist and led him away, angering Du Chong, who rejected Du Bin's request to take the servant.
• The Du Family disciples fought in the tournament, and Du Bin judged their skills limited by their lack of experience outside Shenjing.
• Du Chong challenged Du Bin, and the two exchanged attacks as Du Bin used powers drawn from his memory bodies and divine abilities.
• Du Chun asked Zhen Chanzi whether he could catch up to Du Bin, and Zhen Chanzi promised to help him become strong enough by next year.
• Du Bin took first place in the family tournament.

Wang Qi received historical records from Du Bin and went to meet the Banished Immortals, where he offered Zhao Qingfeng a god he had refined and revealed his Bolo Divine Flame. He left the gathering’s response unresolved as he presented the flames to the group.

• Wang Qi found that Chen Youjia had brought him a trunk of historical and economic records from Du Bin, who hoped to strengthen their ties after winning the clan competition.
• Chen Youjia gave Wang Qi an invitation from the Banished Immortals, and he decided to attend their gathering and prepare another empirical verification.
• Wang Qi arrived at Zhao Qingfeng’s residence and presented a girl-shaped god as payment for the formulas Zhao had provided.
• Wang Qi explained that he had established two Divine Dao sects and refined two gods, then offered Zhao Qingfeng the girl god to keep, dismantle, or study.
• Wang Qi revealed clusters of Bolo Divine Flame, describing them as a power that could be refined, placed in an artifact, or converted back into spiritual power.

Wang Qi gave the Exiled Immortals counterfeit Bolo Divine Flame made from the Devil’s Great Curse, secretly using it to establish connections with them while learning from their ancient Dao arts. After the gathering, more of them began refining the flame, and Wang Qi turned his attention to the approaching New Year.

• Wang Qi gave each Exiled Immortal a cluster of Bolo Divine Flame and claimed it was an authentic divine method that needed no refinement formula.
• Xiao Baishuang absorbed his flame, found that it enhanced his control of spiritual power, and secretly reported his experience to Zhao Qingfeng.
• The Exiled Immortals accepted their flames but held off on refining them while Xiao Baishuang remained under observation.
• Wang Qi exchanged Dao arts with the Exiled Immortals, learning about their understanding of the Forty-Nine Innate Great Daos and studying their spells.
• After returning home, Wang Qi sensed that another Exiled Immortal had refined the flame and connected to his Devil’s Great Curse memory module.
• Wang Qi decided against using the unstable God Plague Curse to spy on the Exiled Immortals and thought about the approaching New Year.

Wang Qi advanced his cultivation and discussed sharing his artificial Foundation Base designs, unaware that Chen Youjia might leave Shenjing. Meanwhile, Chen Youjia refused her brother Chen Youjun’s request to return home, and he challenged her to think beyond surpassing their father.

• Wang Qi controlled his Flame of Life and suppressed his rising spiritual power before considering how soon he might need to design his Golden Core.
• Wang Qi learned Chen Youjia had gone out and told Chen Feng he wanted to share belt-clasp blueprints and memory-unit designs through the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm.
• Chen Feng realized too late that Chen Youjia had asked him to tell Wang Qi she might leave Shenjing.
• Chen Youjia ate with Chen Youjun, who tried to persuade her to return home for the New Year.
• Chen Youjia said she planned to surpass her father’s mathematical achievements, and Chen Youjun warned her that spite alone was not a meaningful goal.

Chen Youjia argued with Chen Youjun about refusing to return home, then realized she had never understood what she wanted beyond opposing her father. Seeing Wang Qi happily talking with Bo Xiaoya made her furious, and she confronted him after he left the restaurant.

• Chen Youjun urged Chen Youjia to forgive their father and return home for their mother's sake, but Chen Youjia insisted she would stay away until their father apologized.
• After leaving the restaurant, Chen Youjia reflected on how her research had been driven by opposition to her father and wondered what she truly wanted from her Dao.
• Wang Qi discussed mathematics and a shared research project with Bo Xiaoya, unaware that Chen Youjia had seen them together.
• Chen Youjia seized Wang Qi's wrist outside the restaurant and called him a bastard.

Wang Qi confessed his feelings to Chen Youjia and tried to convince her that being together was worth the risk. Chen Youjia disappeared after slamming him into a wall, leaving Wang Qi unsure whether she had accepted him.

• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia argued on the way to Chen Feng's courtyard, and she twisted his wrist after accusing him of being like Chen Feng and Junior Sister Bo.
• Wang Qi embraced Chen Youjia and teased her about being jealous of his meal with Junior Sister Bo, prompting her to admit she minded.
• Wang Qi asked Chen Youjia to officially get together and explained what he meant, including a future together as Dao companions.
• Wang Qi used a long Game Theory argument to explain why he wanted to be with Chen Youjia and was willing to risk being hurt.
• Chen Youjia slammed Wang Qi into a wall and vanished, and Chen Feng appeared to offer him reckless advice about pursuing her.

Wang Qi regretted letting Chen Youjia leave and spent the night agonizing over their relationship. After Jarvis reported a major rise in spiritual resonance, Wang Qi decided to take revenge on society by monitoring the banished immortals refining the Bolo Divine Flame.

• Wang Qi blamed Chen Feng for failing to warn him that Chen Youjia might leave, while Chen Feng reset Wang Qi's injured wrist and advised him to pursue her directly.
• Chen Feng explained that Chen Youjia's strict upbringing had left her unsure how to face her feelings, and Wang Qi worried that she might have returned home.
• Wang Qi paced through the night, then learned from Jarvis that spiritual resonance had increased to about 3.565 times its original amount.
• Wang Qi used a special artifact to observe the Devil's Great Curse avatars and found Shu Rongrong, Xiao Baishuang, and Zhao Qingfeng in a Demon Race ruin outside Shenjing.
• Shu Rongrong opened her eyes as a glimmer of the Devil's Great Curse flashed in her pupils.

Wang Qi used the Devil's Great Curse to observe Zhao Qingfeng and the others as they examined the Bolo Divine Flame, hoping to learn about banished immortals. Their discussion revealed that Zhao Qingfeng possessed a fragment of the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline, and Wang Qi arranged to monitor it while Zhao struggled to read its vast, mentally contaminating contents.

• Shu Rongrong and Zhao Qingfeng examined the Bolo Divine Flame and decided to observe it for another month before ordering everyone to refine it.
• Zhao Qingfeng explained that he would turn the god Wang Qi had given him into a magical artifact, while Wang Qi recognized it as a False God built from the Devil's Great Curse.
• Zhao Qingfeng revealed a fragment of the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline, which contained more than a hundred thousand Ancient Method inheritances accumulated over eighty thousand years.
• Zhao Qingfeng began reading the Outline to find methods for preparing the god, but its sealed transmissions overwhelmed him and caused blood to rush to his head.
• Wang Qi instructed Jarvis to alert him if Zhao Qingfeng encountered the Outline again, then returned to reality.

Wang Qi spent New Year's Eve fearing Chen Youjia had left him, but she arrived and accepted his proposal to make their relationship official. They shared his customary bowl of noodles and began imagining their life together, while Chen Youjun watched over them from outside.

• Wang Qi worried that Chen Youjia had returned home without him and spent the days anxiously distracting himself.
• On New Year's Eve, Wang Qi cooked noodles alone and waited for the firecrackers to begin.
• Chen Youjia appeared at Wang Qi's window and asked him to add another pair of chopsticks so they could share his noodles.
• Chen Youjia acknowledged their special relationship, and Wang Qi embraced her and asked whether they were officially together.
• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia planned to go shopping and eat together the next day, while Jarvis canceled Wang Qi's arrangements.
• Chen Youjun watched the pair through Wang Qi's window and told his mother that Chen Youjia was doing well.

Wang Qi and Chen Youjia spent the night together and began the New Year as a couple, while Chen Feng’s history with Ai Qinglan became the target of their teasing. Wang Qi continued monitoring the banished immortals and watched Zhao Qingfeng plan to turn a False God ring figurine into a Natal Treasure, deciding to surprise him when he tried.

• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia spent the night talking and planned a dairy-product breakfast, while Chen Youjun kept watch outside until Chen Feng returned at dawn.
• Chen Youjia revealed that Chen Feng’s fiancée was Ai Qinglan and that she had reported their noisy encounter to the Conduct Division, prompting Wang Qi to laugh at Chen Feng.
• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia spent the New Year season holding hands and exploring Shenjing while Wang Qi continued his studies and monitored the banished immortals.
• Wang Qi observed more banished immortals refining the Bolo Divine Flame and noticed that their activity was forming a network resembling the Human Dao system simulated by the Devil's Great Curse.
• Wang Qi watched Zhao Qingfeng use the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline and begin deducing how to refine a False God ring figurine into a Natal Treasure, then resolved to surprise him.

Zhao Qingfeng and his companions refined Wang Qi’s False God, while Wang Qi used the process to spread the Devil’s Great Curse into Zhao Qingfeng. Zhao Qingfeng believed he had gained control of the god and felt his power surge, leaving him increasingly corrupted and ready to pursue dangerous schemes.

• Zhao Qingfeng, Lu Wan, and Shu Rongrong used a formation to refine Wang Qi’s False God, and Zhao Qingfeng infused it with his soul origin, primordial essence, and blood essence.
• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia watched the operation remotely and joked about the False God’s appearance while the refinement continued.
• Zhao Qingfeng subdued the False God, whose appearance changed into a black dress and feathered wings, and he established control over its movements.
• Wang Qi revealed that the False God still spread the Devil’s Great Curse, which entered Zhao Qingfeng through his divine sense and strengthened the Dao Heart Pure Yang Mantra in his soul.
• Zhao Qingfeng absorbed the False God’s power of incense and faith, mistook the resulting surge of power for a cultivation breakthrough, and took out the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline as extreme schemes returned to his mind.

Zhao Qingfeng used the False God, Round Devil to read the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline, unleashing a torrent of information that nearly overwhelmed Wang Qi and those connected to him. As Jarvis helped contain and process the transmission, Wang Qi realized the outline preserved the technological history of humanity and continued absorbing its accumulated knowledge.

• Zhao Qingfeng used the False God, Round Devil to manipulate the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline, while Wang Qi secretly left an imprint in the artifact.
• The outline sent an immense flow of information through Wang Qi and Chen Youjia, and Wang Qi severed Chen Youjia's connection to protect her.
• Jarvis rewrote its own code to contain the information torrent, and Wang Qi began creating a program to filter and organize the transmission.
• Wang Qi asked Chen Youjia to bring Telepathy Bottles, and she flew to the Immortal Alliance storehouse to find them.
• Wang Qi absorbed the outline's records of human civilization, from early tribal arts through the development of the Divine Path and Immortal Path, and recognized it as humanity's technological history.

Wang Qi overcame the spiritual influence of the True Meaning Transmission and used his insight to observe Zhao Qingfeng’s ongoing refinement of a False God. Zhao Qingfeng unexpectedly completed a divine-path artifact that revealed a network of believers, while Wang Qi prepared to study the results and turn his gains into theory.

• Wang Qi organized the accumulated divine-path phenomena with Jarvis’s computing power, resisted a voice tempting him with control over divinity, and broke through the heart barrier.
• Wang Qi awoke after meditating for three days to find Chen Youjia and Chen Feng watching over him, then stored the nearly full Telepathy Bottles.
• Wang Qi used the Devil's Great Curse to observe Zhao Qingfeng’s final-stage refinement and discovered that the False God contained naturally formed restrictions and vast amounts of divine-path information.
• Wang Qi encouraged the refinement, causing unfamiliar talismans to emerge and the violet radiance to collapse into a pinkish-violet gemstone ornament.
• Zhao Qingfeng picked up the gemstone, sensed believers’ prayers and a mysterious network, and realized the divine-path laws could greatly increase his combat power.
• Wang Qi decided to focus on digesting the accumulated knowledge and transforming it into theory.

The chapter traced Divine Land’s advances in mathematics and physics, especially the discovery of the positron and the rise of quantum electrodynamics, while Wang Qi quietly developed into a stronger cultivator through his work modeling Human Dao history. It left Wang Qi planning to establish an advanced laboratory after resolving the Divine Dao and controlling the Flame of Life.

• The Myriad Dharma Sect’s new probability theory spurred advances in statistics, physics, and research across several sects, while cultivators discovered positrons and clarified quantum field theory.
• Ai Changyuan rose to prominence in the Returning to One Alliance, prompting cultivators to recall Wang Qi’s earlier mathematical achievements and wonder why he had been silent.
• Feng Luoyi rejected calls to intervene in Wang Qi’s development and explained that Wang Qi was transforming himself through his study of immortal Dao technology and Human Dao.
• Wang Qi’s deeper understanding of cultivation accelerated his progress, bringing him to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and improving his combat strength beyond Chen Feng and Chen Youjia.
• Wang Qi decided to resolve the Divine Dao and control the Flame of Life before seeking an empirical research department and setting up an advanced laboratory, while Chen Youjia warned that his plan was overambitious.

Wang Qi explained how he had built a new mathematical economics framework by studying the Devil's Great Curse through Zhao Qingfeng and the banished immortals. He brought Chen Feng to a village outside Divine Capital to discuss the next stage of his research and learned that Chen Feng’s desire to prove himself was not aimed at Ai Qinglan.

• Wang Qi described his new Human Dao theory and how he used Zhao Qingfeng and the banished immortals as unwitting researchers into Divine Dao.
• Wang Qi concluded that Chen Feng’s knowledge of the Human Dao’s biological side could provide the final piece of his research.
• Wang Qi took Chen Feng to a village outside Divine Capital and said his coming project could bring fame and profit but also public criticism.
• Chen Feng said he wanted to prove himself, but not by competing with his fiancée, Ai Qinglan.
• Chen Feng began to explain his relationship with Ai Qinglan.

Chen Feng told Wang Qi how his childhood bond with Ai Qinglan led him to cultivate and how their first argument left him misunderstood by those around them. Wang Qi explained his plan to improve ordinary people’s lives, and Chen Feng agreed to help after learning Wang Qi had already made progress.

• Chen Feng recounted growing up with Ai Qinglan, following her letters into cultivation, and later becoming engaged to her.
• Chen Feng explained that he argued with Ai Qinglan after she assumed he was trying to prove himself out of resentment, and that most people thought he had gone mad.
• Wang Qi described the hardships ordinary people faced and said his plan could prevent future tragedies by allowing everyone to become stronger.
• Wang Qi said he had planted the seeds of the plan and was waiting for Chen Feng; Chen Feng offered his hand and agreed to join him.

Wang Qi explained his Human Dao theory to Chen Feng and proposed that proving it required a non-divine spiritual power and large-scale experiments. He then secretly manipulated Zhao Qingfeng’s mana, triggering an apparent enlightenment that led Zhao to transmit power through an invisible network, and Wang Qi suspected quantum tunneling explained the effect.

• Wang Qi told Chen Feng that Human Dao needed empirical evidence and a real source of power distinct from divine path magic.
• Wang Qi proposed that spiritual power might involve gravity or faint radiation, and suggested simulating a calculator with tens of thousands of people.
• Wang Qi used Jarvis and restrictions in Zhao Qingfeng’s artifact to manipulate Zhao’s mana while Zhao cultivated in seclusion.
• Zhao Qingfeng experienced enlightenment, formed talismans and incantations, and sensed an invisible network connecting him to believers.
• Zhao Qingfeng sent electromagnetic mana through numerous obstructions, and Wang Qi suspected quantum tunneling was responsible.

Wang Qi tested the divine-path system he had built by using Zhao Qingfeng as an unwitting experiment, then entered the Circle Theory’s divine kingdom to rewrite its rules. He began cleansing the god with the algorithm that eliminated inner demons, but the Devil’s Great Curse fed the god through its believers and joined the struggle.

• Zhao Qingfeng sensed believers in the Shenjing Criminal Law Division prison and mistakenly concluded that Wang Qi had secretly turned captured cultists into followers of his Circle Theory.
• Wang Qi monitored Zhao Qingfeng’s use of divine power, while he, Chen Feng, and Chen Youjia refined the divine-path technique and recorded the cultists’ souls.
• Over the next several days, Zhao Qingfeng became adept at storing and disguising divine power, while Wang Qi gathered data from the experiment.
• Seven days later, Wang Qi recorded the Circle Theory followers’ physiological data and entered the divine kingdom through the golden jade rings.
• Wang Qi analyzed the Circle Theory’s rules and injected the inner-demon-eliminating algorithm, causing the god’s rings to shatter and its system to change.
• The Devil’s Great Curse in the believers fed power back to the Circle Theory, and Wang Qi prepared to cleanse the god in one stroke.