Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi used his mana to damage the Circle Theory and conceal the Devil’s Great Curse, then began shaping Silver Dawn into a divine system centered on the Holy Light God. After recruiting Du Gui to guide the group, Wang Qi reflected on how shared identity and communication could form the basis of a god.

• Wang Qi struck the Circle Theory’s true body with renormalized Tian Ge Xing mana, causing its believers to convulse as he concealed the Devil’s Great Curse with a new curse.
• Seven days later, Wang Qi spread holy light and Tian Ge Xing mana across the Divine Capital to draw Du Gui toward him.
• Du Gui found Wang Qi, followed him to the courtyard, and worshipped before the silver-inlaid cross that manifested the Holy Light God’s starry form.
• Wang Qi ordered Du Gui to guide Silver Dawn in cultivation and secretly used the Thousand Illusion Spell to shield him from the Holy Light God’s erosion.
• Wang Qi dismissed Du Zhong and concluded that self-identification, mutual recognition, and communication could create the ordered system that attracted spiritual energy.

Wang Qi and Chen Feng observed a trial to derive a new Human Dao Dharma Measure from the Immortal Alliance’s laws, and the verdict made the law’s power perceptible. The couple received compensation despite the defendant’s acquittal, but Wang Qi doubted the system had achieved genuine equality for mortals.

• Fu Silu heard the advocates argue that the farmer couple lacked decisive evidence against Young Master Xiao and adjourned the trial to deliberate.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng discussed why the law required proof beyond suspicion and how legal procedure protected the Immortal Alliance’s authority.
• Wang Qi explained that law could generate a shared spiritual power, which he and Chen Feng hoped to use in deriving a Dharma Measure.
• Fu Silu acquitted the defendant, assigned the Peacekeeping Division to compensate and protect the couple, and ordered the case monitored.
• Chen Feng sensed the power of law, while Wang Qi questioned whether the outcome could ever provide real equality between mortals and cultivators.

Wang Qi and Chen Feng tried to awaken the power accumulated in the Immortal Alliance Law, but discovered that its long history and widespread support made it far stronger than their Holy Light God. After they successfully drew its power into Tianyi Spirit Jade, Wang Qi showed Chen Feng an illusion of an old man working on the Legalist legacy.

• Wang Qi reflected on how the Immortal Alliance's laws favored cultivators, then spread Holy Light while Chen Feng drew vitality through the courtroom.
• Chen Feng and Wang Qi's powers stirred immense vitality, alarming Fu Silu, nearby cultivators, and ancient cultivators across Divine Capital.
• Chen Feng realized the legal system was channeling their negative-entropy force and that the Legalist Sage's legacy outweighed the Holy Light God.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng withdrew their powers, analyzed the emerging order in spiritual energy, and used Tianyi Spirit Jade to capture and amplify it.
• Wang Qi showed Chen Feng an illusion of an old man and asked how the materials on the Legalist legacy were coming along.

Primordial Spirit Grandmaster Xiao Zhongchuan studied Wang Qi’s mathematical models of the Human Dao and Divine Dao, then learned that other Grandmasters were also discussing the work. At Sky Spirit Ridge, Grandmasters debated whether the Dao Seed Award should go to Chen Feng, Wang Qi, or Xue Bufan, before the attending Free and Unfettered Cultivators drew attention.

• Xiao Zhongchuan read Wang Qi’s papers on the Divine Dao and Human Dao, including a paper with data concealed as a confidential method.
• Xiao Zhongchuan examined Wang Qi’s mathematical models and concluded that the system was unusually complete and potentially close to Nirvana-level work.
• Old Wu contacted Xiao Zhongchuan and urged him to read Wang Qi’s paper, praising the young cultivator’s achievements in probability and strategy.
• Sky Spirit Ridge Grandmasters debated whether Chen Feng’s Human Dao framework, Wang Qi’s work, or Xue Bufan’s analysis of Ancient Sea God Civilization cultivation methods deserved the Dao Seed Award.
• A Grandmaster from Subtle Abode defended Chen Feng’s achievement, and the argument paused when the Grandmasters remembered the more authoritative Free and Unfettered Cultivators present, including Darwin.

Tianze Shenjun defended Wang Qi and Chen Feng’s mathematical approach to the Path of Living Beings, while the Immortal Alliance prepared to receive news of their discovery. Wang Qi and Chen Feng verified that Law Power could be detected and gathered, awakening an ancient existence that recognized the True God Righteous Method.

• Tianze Shenjun observed that the branch lines’ support for Xue Bufan or Chen Feng and Wang Qi followed when they had joined Sky Spirit Ridge, then argued that new concepts and models could advance the Path of Living Beings.
• Several branch masters demanded empirical proof, and Keha'er and the Spiral Twin Venerables sensed a strategic-reserve transmission carrying news toward the Immortal Alliance’s distant outpost.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng joined their Foundation Bases through computational devices and used the connection to sense Law Power in the courtroom.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng activated refined Law Power, drawing in surrounding Law Power and spiritual energy so Liu Yi could observe it.
• An ancient existence opened its eyes and asked who had used the True God Righteous Method after the myriad saints had vanished.

Wang Qi and Chen Feng demonstrated how the Immortal Alliance’s law system could grant Law Power to enforcers and support courtroom techniques, while Liu Yi assessed its uses. Wang Qi then introduced an online collaboration system for sharing Foundation Base designs, leaving Liu Yi impressed by its potential.

• An ancient being awoke after sensing the True God Righteous Method in Divine Land, awakened a younger being it called the sun, and discovered they were trapped.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng explained that enforcers could refine Human Dao Law Power, and Wang Qi demonstrated martial techniques shaped by the intent of law.
• Chen Feng recited the Immortal Alliance Law, and Wang Qi used a courtroom block to impose silence on him until Chen Feng dispelled the effect.
• Wang Qi explained that the law system could detect a witness’s subjective inclination to lie but could not judge objective truth or issue verdicts automatically.
• Wang Qi showed Liu Yi a shared Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm site where nearly a thousand cultivators had uploaded more than ten thousand Foundation Base designs, then gave him a blueprint to share.

Wang Qi, Chen Youjia, and Chen Feng arrived at Sky Spirit Ridge for the Dao Seed Award, where Wang Qi used Flame of Life to repel a hostile disciple. Xue Bufan escorted them to Fragrant Spirit Sky to avoid Chen Feng’s fellow disciples, and Wang Qi learned that Xue Bufan was another of Chen Feng’s love rivals for Ai Qinglan.

• Wang Qi excitedly tried to explore Spirit Beast Mountain, but Chen Youjia stopped him and Chen Feng warned that the disciples there might be hostile.
• As the three followed a path toward Tiansheng Peak, Chen Feng sensed hostility, and Wang Qi’s holy light drained vitality from a hidden attacker before he stunned him with a glance.
• Xue Bufan arrived and warned Wang Qi that his display of Flame of Life had provoked the sect, then offered to take the group directly to Fragrant Spirit Sky.
• Chen Feng agreed to avoid his fellow disciples, and the group boarded Xue Bufan’s spirit boat.
• Chen Youjia told Wang Qi that Xue Bufan was Chen Feng’s love rival, and Wang Qi learned that Zhang Fengchun was another rival for Ai Qinglan.

Wang Qi, Chen Youjia, and Chen Feng arrived at Sky Spirit Ridge to receive the Dao Seed Award, where they faced criticism of their research and learned Chen Youjia could not share the award. Meanwhile, Zhao Qingfeng uncovered the Devil’s Great Curse’s spell spirit in Divine Capital after Wang Qi left, and hundreds of spell-light clusters spread through the city.

• Xue Bufan told Wang Qi that Ai Qinglan was in seclusion and that most Sky Spirit Ridge inner disciples would attend the Dao Seed Award.
• Chen Youjia lamented that her name had been on the research papers, while Wang Qi tried to comfort her as they traveled to Central Peak.
• At Fragrant Spirit Sky, Chen Feng said the award would bring useful resources, and Wang Qi and Chen Youjia downplayed its importance.
• Senior Brother Gao apologized to Chen Feng, told Chen Youjia she could not share the award because she was not first author on enough papers, and asked Wang Qi and Chen Feng how they would answer criticism of their work.
• In Divine Capital, Zhao Qingfeng accused Wang Qi of concealing the Devil’s Great Curse’s true power and demonstrated that he could wield its spell spirit.
• After Wang Qi had removed Jarvis’s main brain, the Dao-Seeking Jade, and the memory construct from Divine Capital, hundreds of Devil’s Great Curse spell-light clusters spread through the city.

At the Seed-Planting Banquet, Sky Spirit Ridge disciples criticized Chen Feng and Wang Qi’s work until Tianze Shenjun announced that they had won the Dao Seed Award. Wang Qi began his acceptance speech by burning his prepared notes and hinting at the critics.

• Zhang Fengchun concealed that Wang Qi had defeated him and joined other disciples in disparaging Chen Feng’s nomination.
• A Jiyin Valley cultivator defended Chen Feng’s work, but Zhang Fengchun and his companions argued that mathematics could not explain living beings.
• Tianze Shenjun praised Chen Feng and Wang Qi, then spoke about how rapidly the Path of Living Beings had advanced.
• Tianze Shenjun named Chen Feng and Wang Qi the Dao Seed Award recipients and gave them jade boxes containing seeds.
• Wang Qi stepped forward to speak, burned his prepared notes, and said that nice words would be wasted on certain people.

Wang Qi answered the objections to his Dao Seed nomination by demonstrating how shared Foundation Base designs and technology could create powerful new tools and empower mortals. He left the cultivators with a vision of collective strength that he argued would endure beyond any individual theory.

• Wang Qi dismissed the protesting cultivators and said their opposition was meaningless.
• Wang Qi revealed White Snake, a Ghost Soldier, and used hundreds of memory bodies to build it an unprecedented Foundation Base.
• Wang Qi ignited White Snake with the Flame of Life, transforming it into a powerful combat-type Ghost Soldier that controlled gravity.
• Wang Qi explained that his free realm could combine shared Foundation Base designs into customized systems for cultivation, artifact refining, and demon soldiers.
• Wang Qi argued that giving mortals basic magical power could let them support the Immortal Alliance and free cultivators to pursue research.
• Wang Qi told the Sky Spirit Ridge disciples that living beings’ collective power would outlast any individual theory.

Wang Qi defended the Human Dao as a force that could bring cultivators collective benefit, while Chen Feng explained how altruism could coexist with natural selection. Their speeches won over the Sky Spirit Ridge audience, and the chapter ended as Ai Qinglan emerged from seclusion after achieving Golden Core.

• Wang Qi argued that individual theories could be overturned, but the Human Dao would endure because it offered benefit and could be advanced through new theories.
• The audience applauded Wang Qi, while Xue Bufan praised his ideas and Chen Youjia watched him with admiration.
• Wang Qi explained to Chen Feng that he had reforged the Ghost Soldier in preparation for his coming journey to the Western Sea.
• Chen Feng described his research into the levels of natural selection and argued that people could teach generosity because selfishness did not prevent altruism.
• A pillar of light and flame appeared as Ai Qinglan achieved Golden Core, and Chen Feng pulled Wang Qi and Chen Youjia away from the Fragrant Spirit Sky.

After Chen Feng and Wang Qi witnessed a distant Golden Core breakthrough, they returned to Divine Capital without visiting Jiyin Valley, and Wang Qi began refining his Dao Seed Award pea. Back in his room, Wang Qi discovered that the Dao Heart Pure Yang Mantra network had spread across all of Divine Capital, leaving him convinced the city was doomed.

• Wang Qi and Chen Feng saw a Golden Core phenomenon rising from the direction of Jiyin Valley, which Chen Feng suspected came from Ai Changyuan’s sister.
• Chen Feng declined to visit Jiyin Valley and led Wang Qi and Chen Youjia back to Divine Capital, saying his work and plans there remained unfinished.
• On the ship, Chen Feng explained that Wang Qi’s pea contained insights from two Free and Unfettered Cultivators and guided him in imprinting his mana on it.
• During the seven-day journey, Wang Qi communed with the pea, gained new understanding of genetics, and watched it sprout mana-absorbing aerial roots.
• After returning to his room, Wang Qi inserted the Devil’s Great Curse memory core into a calculation artifact and learned from Jarvis that the Dao Heart Pure Yang Mantra network had a major problem.
• Wang Qi checked a map of Divine Capital and found the entire city dyed pink.

Wang Qi discovered that Zhao Qingfeng had learned to control Devil's Great Curse and warned Feng Luoyi, who helped devise containment measures. The chapter ended with Feng Luoyi threatening to destroy the Divine Capital with a Heavenly Sword if the curse showed signs of escaping control.

• Wang Qi learned from Jarvis that Zhao Qingfeng had been directing Devil's Great Curse to possess people.
• Wang Qi told Feng Luoyi about the outbreak and proposed developing Anti-Devil's Curse before confronting Zhao Qingfeng.
• Feng Luoyi and Wang Qi discussed ways to contain or exploit the infected souls, and Wang Qi argued that they should not arrest Zhao Qingfeng yet.
• Feng Luoyi revealed that his Heavenly Sword had locked onto the Divine Capital and would destroy it and everything within a thousand li if the curse threatened to escape control.
• Feng Luoyi ordered Wang Qi to keep the threat secret from everyone except Chen Feng and Chen Youjia while he established a firewall and restricted the Divine Capital to a local area network.

After learning that the Devil's Great Curse could mutate unpredictably and trigger the Heavenly Sword's destruction of Divine Capital, Wang Qi warned Chen Youjia and Chen Feng and began urgently investigating the curse. Meanwhile, Wang Qi observed Zhao Qingfeng using the curse network, and Zhao Qingfeng found an idea in an article about Wang Qi's Dao Seed Award.

• Wang Qi emerged from the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, feared that a mutation of the Devil's Great Curse could bring the Heavenly Sword down on Divine Capital, and urged Chen Youjia to leave.
• Wang Qi told Chen Feng about the danger, and Chen Feng agreed to help study infected people while remaining in Divine Capital.
• Wang Qi monitored Zhao Qingfeng, who used the divine path system and the Devil's Great Curse network to spread his consciousness through believers.
• Wang Qi observed Zhao Qingfeng withdraw from the network, then infiltrated it with Jarvis to test ideas and keep watch on him.
• An Exiled Immortal brought Zhao Qingfeng a gazette article about Wang Qi winning the Dao Seed Award, and Zhao Qingfeng said it gave him another idea.

Chen Youjia and Chen Feng tracked how the Devil's Great Curse spread through the Human Dao system, while Zhao Qingfeng dismissed Wang Qi's research and embraced the Pre-celestial Destiny Great Dao. The chapter left Wang Qi alarmed as Zhao Qingfeng prepared to use modern mathematics to pursue a dangerous breakthrough.

• Chen Youjia estimated that roughly three in every thousand people were infected as the curse spread through conversations and spiritual connections.
• Chen Feng recruited passersby to take monitoring devices disguised as fatigue medicine while investigating the curse as an infectious disease.
• Zhao Qingfeng concluded that Wang Qi sought to unite modern and ancient methods, and dismissed the value of reading his paper.
• Zhao Qingfeng described his Divine Dao deity as a source of potential computing power and considered using modern mathematics to harness it.
• Zhao Qingfeng declared that he would pursue the Pre-celestial Destiny Great Dao to reclaim some of his past life's power, despite Shu Rongrong's concern.

Feng Luoyi explained why the Immortal Alliance planned to destroy Divine Capital, citing an approaching war and the danger of unpredictable variables. Meanwhile, Wang Qi prepared to use Du Bin and the Five Pestilence Total Curse to advance his research and strengthen his position.

• Feng Luoyi defended destroying Divine Capital, saying its unlawful agreements and ties to Li Ziye’s death made it a threat before an uncertain war.
• Feng Luoyi revealed that he had left part of the Ancient Dragon Emperor’s Wish Fulfillment intact so Wang Qi would naturally travel to the Western Sea.
• Du Bin arrived at Chen Feng’s courtyard to carry out the banished immortal Celestial Masters’ orders, and Jarvis alerted Wang Qi.
• Wang Qi considered Zhao Qingfeng’s plan to use the Devil’s Great Curse network for computation and realized it could enable real-time combat calculations.
• Wang Qi planned to plant the still-secret Five Pestilence Total Curse on Divine Capital cultivators, beginning with Du Bin, while promising him the Anti-Devil’s Curse.

Wang Qi tested the Five Pestilence Total Curse and Thousand Illusion Spell on Du Bin, then used the curse to subdue Du Bin’s followers. He planned to take the cursed cultivators to the Du Family and offer what he called charity.

• Wang Qi infected Du Bin with the Five Pestilence Total Curse and tested how his resistance responded to both Devil’s Great Curses.
• Wang Qi questioned Du Bin about Zhao Qingfeng’s ties to the imperial family and learned that Zhao Qingfeng had been in Divine Capital for twenty-three years.
• Wang Qi ordered Du Bin to gather his subordinates at a residence and warned him that the venomous parasite could threaten his life.
• Wang Qi infected Du Bin’s gathered followers with the curse, overcoming Du Zhong’s Golden Core defenses with a swarm of venomous insects.
• Wang Qi told the group to obey him if they wanted to live and announced that he would bring charity to the Du Family’s door.

Wang Qi used the Five Pestilence Total Curse to invade the Du Family estate, turning its residents’ mana into a hidden restriction and more curse power. Du Chongwei emerged to defend the family, but the chapter ended as the Devil’s Great Curse struck his heart.

• Wang Qi used Du Bin’s subordinates to hide the Devil’s Great Curse and spread gu insects throughout the Du Family’s outer residence.
• Wang Qi made the infected residents grieve and cultivate a new art, converting their mana into more curse power and strengthening the restriction around the estate.
• Du Bin warned Wang Qi that Golden Core Cultivators were resisting and that people from the inner residence were coming out.
• Du Chongwei emerged and attacked the gu insects with Yan Yue Sect techniques, but found that only dense, condensed mana could hinder them.
• Du Chongwei layered moon wheels around himself, then felt a searing pain strike his heart.

Wang Qi used Zhen Chanzi to guide Du Gui and Du Chun out of the Du Family estate, then unleashed Crescent Moon’s gravity attacks on the family. The chapter left Du Chongwei overwhelmed by the Five Pestilence Total Curse and the remaining cultivators trapped and disoriented.

• Du Gui used Holy Light to protect several believers, then received Azure Wrath and used it to sweep away the curse spirits as he led his companions out of Shenjing.
• Zhen Chanzi convinced Du Chun that the Du Family was doomed and guided him to flee, while Du Chun swore revenge on the Yan Yue Sect.
• After Zhen Chanzi signaled that both men had escaped, Wang Qi sent Crescent Moon to attack the Du Family estate.
• Crescent Moon increased gravity on Du Chongwei, disrupting his mana and defenses until the curse spirits swarmed and contaminated him.
• The Du Family’s Golden Core cultivators tried to respond, but Crescent Moon warped gravity and direction, causing three of them to crash into each other as Wang Qi declared that he would love them to death.

Wang Qi built a control program for the Five Pestilence Total Curse and used it to infect and trap the Du Family. After Du Tianxing appeared and recognized the threat, Wang Qi completed the Shaggai Insect and armored himself before confronting the Du Family’s Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• Wang Qi used the Du Family members’ despair to strengthen the Five Pestilence Total Curse and infect several Golden Core Cultivators.
• Wang Qi combined his network design with Jarvis and the Myriad Immortal Mirror to create a program capable of controlling the curse.
• The Ghost Soldier Crescent Moon warped gravity across the Du Family residence, trapping the Golden Core Cultivators as the curse gradually eroded them.
• Du Tianxing emerged, destroyed many parasitic insects, and discovered that the blue mist could corrode even his Nascent Soul mana.
• Du Tianxing planned to awaken the other Nascent Soul Cultivators and seek protection from the royal family, while Wang Qi completed an artificial divine program and summoned the Shaggai Insect.
• Wang Qi formed dragon-scale-like armor around himself and advanced to confront the Nascent Soul Cultivators.