Chapter Summaries

After killing Lu Qixing, Li Hai returned to a village near the ruined heartland and told the people that the Sword Imperial Dynasty faced a chaotic succession. Reading Lu Qixing’s Ten Thousand Incense God-Proving Path gave Li Hai an idea for helping the common people, though he disliked the manual’s path to godhood and wanted to find another way.

• After Lu Qixing’s death, Li Hai gained two Stronger Fragments, bringing his total to forty-nine, and reflected on the giant toad’s destructive abilities and his premonition about reaching fifty fragments.
• Li Hai surveyed the devastation across the Sword Imperial Dynasty’s heartland, lamented that there was no suitable new emperor, and flew back to the village for the night.
• Old Hu and the villagers suggested that Li Hai become emperor and rule more kindly, prompting him to consider letting them and other commoners settle in his Guiyou Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Hai studied Lu Qixing’s Ten Thousand Incense God-Proving Path and learned that Warlocks could become immortal Life Gods through the incense belief of a million people, but he rejected the loss of his physical body and sought another path.

Li Hai considered the Path of the Primordial Spirit and decided to gather Incense Lamp Oil without becoming dependent on incense. He offered Old Hu, the villagers, and the refugees shelter in the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven in exchange for worship and Incense Thought Power, with monthly assessments planned.

• Li Hai studied how Non-Life Warlocks could cultivate their Yang Spirits toward an undying Primordial Spirit instead of becoming Life Gods.
• Li Hai decided he wanted to study Incense Lamp Oil and store some as powerful spell fuel, though he could advance along the Primordial Spirit path without incense.
• Li Hai told Old Hu, the villagers, and the refugees that he could shelter them in the Guiyou Grotto-Heaven if they worshiped him and supplied Incense Thought Power.
• Li Hai explained the arrangement as a direct exchange of worship for safety, food, and shelter, and planned to assess each resident's Incense KPI monthly.

Li Hai populated Guiyou Grotto-Heaven, raised his cultivation to the Fifth Realm, and traveled from the chaotic Sword Imperial Dynasty toward the Southern States to investigate the Civet King God. As he flew over a forest, someone shouted his name and launched an attack.

• Li Hai set Incense KPI rules for Guiyou Grotto-Heaven and planned to exile residents who failed to meet them.
• Li Hai opened East Forest Garden to settlers, rescued hundreds of thousands of people, recruited tens of thousands, and forged three thousand Art Sect Puppets to help build and maintain order.
• Li Hai advanced to the Fifth Realm on the Path of the Primordial Spirit and forged his Life Lamp around the Firmament Whip Hammer.
• Li Hai left the Sword Imperial Dynasty for the Southern States to investigate whether the Civet King God was connected to the Nameless One Organization or the Black Son of Heaven.
• As Li Hai flew over a forest, an unknown person shouted his name and attacked with the Heaven-Swaying Hanging Slash.

Li Hai fought six resurrecting Lotus Province monk Avatars while enduring a barrage of supernatural calamities, then traced their attacks to a distant monk. He discovered the monk’s interface and identified his Shiva Martial Path and powerful abilities.

• A black barbed staff attacked Li Hai, who dodged it and destroyed it with sword auras after it vanished and reappeared.
• An ancient evil song summoned poison waters, flames, demonic winds, blazing beams, and forces that repeatedly battered the land around Li Hai.
• Six Lotus Province monk Avatars attacked Li Hai with barbed staffs, but he easily defeated them as they repeatedly resurrected.
• Li Hai tracked the Avatars to a monk dancing and singing in a distant desert, whose powers were transmitting the calamities.
• Li Hai examined the monk’s personal interface and saw his Shiva Martial Path, Primordial Human rank, and numerous Level 5 traits.

Li Hai identified the Lotus Province monk’s abilities and learned that his Celestial Dance Seal had summoned the Six Disasters and Six Monks attacking him. The monk used Ends of the Earth to watch Li Hai from afar, boasted that the Thunder of Reversing Heaven and Earth would kill him, and saw the desert begin to bulge.

• Li Hai examined the Lotus Province monk’s personal interface and learned that he was an imperial descendant, an Avatar of the Black Son of Heaven, and an Overlord-level fighter.
• Li Hai identified the Celestial Dance Seal as the technique behind the Six Disasters and Six Monks besieging him.
• Li Hai learned that the monk’s Linga Staff Art and Sutra of Sexual Flame and Desire could drain life, heal, and resurrect, but decided he did not want to learn them.
• Li Hai determined that Ends of the Earth let the monk project power and observe him from tens of thousands of li away.
• The Lotus Province monk stopped dancing, watched Li Hai through Ends of the Earth, and declared that the Thunder of Reversing Heaven and Earth would ensure Li Hai’s death.
• The desert before the monk began to bulge amid a series of rumbles.

Li Hai evaded the Lotus Province evil monk’s devastating attack, killed him, and reached fifty Stronger Fragments. The system unlocked a projection journey to another universe and time, leaving Li Hai to consider his first internship.

• The Lotus Province evil monk sent a black pillar toward Li Hai, but Li Hai used Ends of the Earth to teleport away before it struck.
• The pillar’s gravity compressed the surrounding land into a black sphere, which exploded into a blazing sun over the Southern States.
• A mysterious power from the Great Jing Dynasty’s Central Capital suppressed the sun and restored the destroyed land, and the Cabinet Ministers discussed the King Yu World-Suppressing Seal’s activation.
• Li Hai appeared before the Lotus Province evil monk and killed him with the Little Li Flying Dagger, raising his Stronger Fragments to fifty.
• Li Hai’s system unlocked the Extracurricular Internship project, explaining how he could project into another universe and time.

Li Hai arrived in Lotus Province and searched for the province’s Primordial Human-level monks so he could eliminate them before returning to Yu Province to confront Anping Play and the Black Son of Heaven. After learning their locations, he flew north toward Chapala Plateau, leaving one city lord dead.

• Li Hai decided to hunt Lotus Province’s Primordial Human-level monks before returning to Yu Province.
• Li Hai found a city lord, used a spell to make him understand Yu Province language, and demanded the locations of the province’s strongest monks.
• The city lord revealed that Samite was at Heavenly Desire Temple in the Kalama Desert and Suresh was on Chapala Plateau.
• Li Hai asked the city lord what achievement he was most proud of and killed him after hearing his answer.
• Li Hai flew north toward Chapala Plateau to find Suresh.

Li Hai hunted down Suresh on a vast snowfield and discovered that the Lotus Province martial artist practiced Sixfold Reincarnation, which preserved memories across lives. Suresh revealed that he had reincarnated many times, learned that Bo Ying killed one of his past lives, and confirmed that the Netherworld existed as the Dead Realm.

• Li Hai used Battle Avatar to create five copies of himself and ravaged the snowfield until Suresh emerged from beneath the frozen earth.
• Li Hai bound Suresh with Sword Qi and questioned him about the Sixfold Reincarnation technique.
• Li Hai tortured Suresh with Mastering Ten Thousand Currents until Suresh explained that repeated reincarnation had erased his oldest memories.
• Suresh told Li Hai that his sixth previous life had lived in Yu Province during the tribal age and that Bo Ying had killed him with divine weapons.
• Suresh confirmed that the Netherworld existed and that its inhabitants called it the Dead Realm.

Li Hai learned from Suresh that the Dead Realm was a distant land where ghosts lived and could reincarnate, then annihilated Suresh and took another fragment. He used Anping Play’s soul as a marker to travel to a Southern Barbarians palace, where he found her reclining on the throne.

• Suresh told Li Hai about the Dead Realm, ghostly civilization, and how humans and ghosts could reincarnate between lives.
• Li Hai forced Suresh to kill himself, then destroyed his manifested soul with Sword Qi so he could not escape to the Dead Realm.
• Li Hai obtained another fragment and wondered what lay beyond the sea before deciding to return to business.
• Li Hai used Anping Play’s soul characteristics and Ends of the Earth to travel from the Shapola Snowfield Plateau to a Southern Barbarians palace.
• Li Hai recognized the crowned woman reclining on the throne as Anping Play.

Li Hai used remote flying daggers to kill Anping Play repeatedly as she resurrected in new hosts, eventually destroying her Life Lamp and earning three Stronger Fragments. Black Son of Heaven remained at large, and Anping Play’s hundred thousand subsidiary personality avatars died with her.

• Li Hai recognized that Anping Play’s true body was an Incense Life God concealed within the Southern Barbarian queen and attacked her with a flying dagger.
• After Anping Play resurrected in new hosts, Li Hai tracked her with Ends of the Earth and killed her repeatedly before she could finish cursing him.
• Li Hai and his six Battle Avatar forms killed Anping Play across Yu Province and other regions, destroying her final host and Life Lamp after nearly 170 million Civet King followers had been killed.
• Li Hai gained three Stronger Fragments, but Black Son of Heaven remained missing, so Li Hai continued his hunt.
• Anping Play’s hundred thousand subsidiary personality avatars lost consciousness and died when she was destroyed.

Li Hai confronted Aya, Ganesha, and Putra after they accused him of imprisoning Anping Play, and learned that Taiyi Mountain had misled them. When they could not tell him how to reach Taiyi Mountain, Li Hai sent three Overlord Rank behemoths to attack them, with hidden flying knives following behind.

• Li Hai considered using Essence-Locking Secret Sword during projected transmigration, then spotted three Southern Barbarians Life Gods approaching the royal city ruins.
• Aya, Ganesha, and Putra accused Li Hai of imprisoning Anping Play and threatened to tear him apart.
• Li Hai told the gods that he had killed Anping Play, causing them to realize Taiyi Mountain had given them false information.
• Li Hai demanded that the gods explain how to enter and leave Taiyi Mountain, but they said they did not know.
• Li Hai sent the Eight-Armed Dragon King, Ancient Cold Dragon, and Bright Star Qilin Phoenix to attack the three gods, while three flying knives followed behind them.

Li Hai annihilated the three gods of the Southern Barbarians, advanced to Earth Overlord, and demonstrated his new power with a devastating punch. After Taiyi Grotto-Heaven’s leaders discussed capturing Xuanlin and contacting Li Hai, he began his first projection traversal and awoke in the back seat of a moving car.

• Li Hai used flying daggers and long-range attacks to kill the three gods of the Southern Barbarians and earn five Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai advanced from Human-rank Overlord to Earth Overlord, greatly increasing his power and perception.
• Li Hai punched a distant mountain range, causing immense destruction across the Southern Barbarians, while a spherical machine observed him and disappeared through a vortex.
• Five figures in Taiyi Grotto-Heaven watched Li Hai’s attack and agreed to capture Xuanlin before contacting Li Hai.
• Li Hai activated the [Extracurricular Internship] program and awoke in a moving car with a man driving and a couple in the front seats.

Li Hai awakened in the body of Anthony, a drug- and alcohol-worn high school student heading to Crystal Lake, and quickly mastered the Essence-Locking Secret Sword. After searching the lake for Jason without success, he tried to provoke the killer into coming out.

• Li Hai knocked the big-haired woman unconscious, absorbed Anthony’s memories, and realized he was at Crystal Lake Camp in Jason’s world.
• He sensed the world’s sinister, scarce spiritual essence and found his projection had no skills or traits but possessed fifty-nine Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai cultivated the Essence-Locking Secret Sword for three minutes and perfected it, despite Anthony’s frail body.
• At the camp, Li Hai ignored the partygoers, dove into Crystal Lake several times to search for Jason, then abandoned the search.
• Li Hai recorded an insult aimed at Jason, turned the speaker toward the lake, and played it at maximum volume to lure him out.

Li Hai provoked Jason into emerging from Crystal Lake, learned and upgraded Jason’s abilities, and transformed himself to face the killer. Jason reached the lakeshore as Li Hai prepared to confront him.

• Li Hai insulted Jason from the campsite and knocked out a burly student who tried to stop him.
• Li Hai warned the girls swimming in Crystal Lake to get ashore, but they dismissed his warning.
• Jason emerged from the lake wearing a hockey mask and carrying a machete and hand axe.
• Li Hai examined Jason’s interface, learned his abilities, and upgraded them to first-tier entries.
• Li Hai grew to two meters tall and transformed into a muscular, corpse-gray figure as Jason approached.

Li Hai decapitated Jason with the Essence-Locking Secret Sword, then chopped his body apart, but Jason did not leave a Stronger Fragment. Using Jason’s Eerie Traces ability, Li Hai traveled to Los Angeles, stole about one hundred million dollars from Morgan Bank, and discovered he could teleport while carrying the truck.

• Li Hai severed Jason’s head with Sword Qi to stop him from attacking the women at Crystal Lake.
• Li Hai chopped Jason’s body into pieces, but no Stronger Fragment appeared, so he decided the spirit needed a more thorough method of killing.
• Li Hai used Eerie Traces to reach Los Angeles in minutes and pass through the walls into Morgan Bank’s vault.
• Li Hai took about one hundred million dollars in gold and cash, moved it into an unattended truck, and knocked out the driver to take the vehicle.
• Li Hai discovered he could teleport with the truck and reached a large water utility company.

Li Hai hired Lydney Water Company to drain Crystal Lake, hoping to sever Jason’s bond with it and stop his resurrections. As the pumping began, Jason killed a worker, and Li Hai faced pressure to halt the project.

• Li Hai ordered Robert Lydney to arrange a thousand powerful pumps and began the project to drain Crystal Lake.
• Li Hai hypnotized two police officers into treating the campers’ account of Jason as a marijuana-induced hallucination.
• Over the next week, Li Hai repeatedly cut down Jason when he resurrected, while Lydney Water Company prepared the pumps and began draining the lake.
• Jason emerged again and killed a worker by throwing his machete before Li Hai cut him apart with Sword Qi.
• The workers panicked and Robert wanted to stop construction, but Li Hai refused to agree.

Li Hai kept Jason from killing the workers at Crystal Lake while the lake was being drained, then told his parents that God had chosen him and demonstrated his sword power. The Williams couple spread the story, and the chapter ended with nearly two hundred townspeople declaring Anthony a Holy Son and angel.

• Li Hai bribed Robert to conceal a construction worker’s death and keep the lake-draining project running.
• Li Hai spent a week repeatedly cutting Jason down with Sword Qi whenever he emerged from Crystal Lake.
• Li Hai failed to hypnotize Mr. and Mrs. Williams, so he claimed God had given him angelic powers and cut down a tree with the Essence-Locking Secret Sword.
• Mr. and Mrs. Williams accepted Li Hai’s story, left, and decided Anthony was God’s Chosen Son and that they should spread his gospel.
• The Williams couple returned with nearly two hundred people and the town priest, and Li Hai demonstrated the sword by cutting down several trees.
• The crowd called Anthony an angel, the Holy Son, and the wielder of an Angel’s Sword.

Li Hai repeatedly killed Jason as he resurrected, until Jason finally failed to return and Li Hai found and swallowed his Fear Core. The act granted Li Hai two Stronger Fragments and the Evil Spirit Slayer skill, which could weaken or ignore evil spirits’ immortality.

• The crowd hailed Li Hai as Saint Anthony after he destroyed Jason with Sword Qi, while Mr. Williams and Charlie planned to record and spread the supposed miracle.
• Jason repeatedly resurrected as Crystal Lake dried, but Li Hai killed him a hundred times until he stopped returning.
• Li Hai found Jason’s intangible Fear Core in the remains and discovered his Sword Qi could not damage it.
• Li Hai touched and swallowed the Fear Core, gaining two Stronger Fragments and killing Jason permanently.
• Li Hai’s interface revealed the Evil Spirit Slayer skill, which let him block, weaken, or ignore evil spirits’ immortality.

After killing Jason, Li Hai returned to town and discovered that Brian the Griffin family’s dog possessed an ability that made people accept his bizarre appearance. Li Hai used the ability to strengthen his own aura, then declared Brian a demon and killed him, prompting Peter to rush out in fury.

• Li Hai left Crystal Lake with more than two hundred people after settling the construction payment, while Father Lovell listened to his boasts about being close to God.
• The group headed toward the town church, where Li Hai noticed Brian standing upright and smoking, though the others saw nothing strange about him.
• Li Hai learned that Brian’s Calm Aura made people accept his abnormal appearance and upgraded the skill, gaining the Discipline trait.
• Charlie invited Brian to church, but Brian declined and said he was a Buddhist.
• Li Hai accused Brian of being a demon and, after the crowd dismissed his concerns, claimed God had ordered the dog eliminated and beheaded him with Sword Qi.
• Peter ran out of his house and angrily confronted Li Hai for killing Brian.

Li Hai discovered that Peter Griffin and Meg Griffin had supernatural skills and killed them after Meg exposed her Ancient God's Body, which killed several onlookers. Calm Aura convinced the townspeople that Li Hai was Saint Anthony, and when state police questioned him, he accused them of failing to support God's work.

• Li Hai learned that Peter Griffin possessed Pseudo-Human Heart and that Meg Griffin possessed Ancient God's Body.
• Meg pleaded with Li Hai to spare Peter, then exposed her body, killing several townspeople who saw it.
• Li Hai warned the crowd to close their eyes and killed Peter and Meg with one slash, gaining two Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai's Calm Aura made Peter's family and the townspeople accept the killings as the eradication of demons.
• State police questioned Li Hai about the deaths, and he defended himself by calling Peter and Meg demons and accusing the officers of wrongdoing.