Chapter Summaries

Li Hai condemned the ruling tycoons and magnetic field powerhouses for destroying civilization and hoarding humanity’s resources, but chose to punish rather than kill them. He transformed them into living instruments of torture and linked their minds so they would share one another’s pain.

• Li Hai announced that he had seen the crimes committed over the past two hundred years and had chosen a new master for Earth and humanity.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Martial God and the other magnetic field powerhouses realized Li Hai could perceive their thoughts and memories.
• Li Hai transformed the evil magnetic field powerhouses, including the Heavenly Tribulation Martial God, into living crosses that endured torture for years or centuries.
• Li Hai changed industrial tycoons into shit-eating men and finance, media, and internet tycoons into swollen human hot-air balloons, condemning them to suffer for a thousand years.
• Li Hai linked the punished tycoons and magnetic field powerhouses in a shared network that forced them to experience one another’s pain.

After leaving Skynet with vast conquest goals, Li Hai returned to the main world, where his arrival unleashed the aura of an Extreme Hegemon across Yu Province. Taiyi Mountain’s leaders and the Jing Dynasty’s ministers prepared to meet the unfamiliar, tyrannical expert, uncertain of his intentions.

• Li Hai told Skynet to conquer the Orion Arm, Galaxy, Virgo Supercluster, and observable universe on escalating deadlines, then departed for the main world.
• Li Hai’s return sent a tremendous Extreme Hegemon aura through Yu Province and the Taiyi Grotto-Heaven.
• The Bamboo Grove Cave Master and the other Taiyi leaders decided to activate the Naihe Grand Array before paying respects to the newcomer.
• Gu Xinyi recognized that the aura resembled Zong Yuanyi’s but carried a different, arrogant and tyrannical martial intent.
• Gu Xinyi led the Jing Dynasty’s Cabinet Ministers to meet the unknown Extreme Hegemon, while Long Hanshui asked whether to bring the King Yu World-Suppressing Seal; Gu Xinyi said it would activate on its own if needed.

Li Hai returned to the Jing Dynasty world and found that his Magnetic Field Rotation had changed, losing its infectiousness while gaining destructive power. He explored the world’s layered spacetime and tested what happened when a Cave Heaven Portal closed around his hand, triggering a violent energy surge.

• Li Hai awakened in Yu Province, releasing a vast aura infused with his 750,000-match Magnetic Field Rotation and other systems.
• Li Hai sensed that his magnetic power had lost much of its range, control, and ability to spread, though its explosive and destructive force had increased.
• Li Hai surveyed Yu Province and detected differences between the two universes, including World-Outside Grotto-Heavens drifting in a separate layer of spacetime.
• Li Hai explained that Cave Heaven Portals were gaps between layers of reality rather than true spacetime rifts, then put his hand through a portal and closed it.
• A violent surge of energy burst from Li Hai’s wrist when the Cave Heaven Portal vanished.

Li Hai survived the Cave Heaven Portal’s collapse and raised all his systems to their Tier 5 peaks, becoming the Great Extreme Hegemon and the strongest being across the Four Continents. As the Jing Dynasty’s Cabinet Ministers and Taiyi Mountain’s Primordial Spirits approached him, he reached out toward both groups with powerful pulling forces.

• Li Hai emerged unharmed from the Cave Heaven Portal’s catastrophic collapse and reflected on the limits of his strength against a true dimensional slash.
• Li Hai pushed all his systems to their Tier 5 peaks, becoming the Great Extreme Hegemon and vastly strengthening his body and soul.
• Li Hai used his spiritual perception to survey the Four Great Continents and found no other Extreme Hegemon or Heavenly Hegemon.
• Li Hai detected nearly a hundred Tier 5 lifeforms and resolved to investigate them before deciding whether they deserved to drop gold.
• Li Hai noticed the Jing Dynasty’s ten Cabinet Ministers and Taiyi Mountain’s five Primordial Spirits approaching him, then sent immense pulling forces toward both groups.

Li Hai forcibly summoned the Jing Dynasty Cabinet Ministers and Taiyi Mountain Primordial Spirits, who were stunned to discover that the eighteen-year-old had become an Extreme Hegemon. As Gu Xinyi and the Bamboo Grove Cave Master argued over Li Hai’s place in the Jing Dynasty, Li Hai studied the visitors’ emotions and singled out a cabinet minister who seemed afraid, angry, and anxious.

• Li Hai sealed and dragged the ten Cabinet Ministers and five Primordial Spirits from hundreds of thousands of li away to stand before him.
• The Bamboo Grove Cave Master and Gu Xinyi recognized Li Hai and marveled that an eighteen-year-old had reached the Extreme Hegemon realm.
• The other visitors reacted with shock, and Long Hanshui lamented how Li Hai had risen from Grandmaster to Ultimate Overlord in only a few months.
• Gu Xinyi said the Jing Dynasty had come to congratulate Li Hai and invited him to enter the Martial Palace as Grand Cabinet Minister.
• The Bamboo Grove Cave Master urged Gu Xinyi to relinquish his post, and Gu Xinyi offered it to Li Hai while inviting him to discuss matters with the cabinet ministers.
• Li Hai found that he could sense the visitors’ emotions but not their thoughts, then focused on a cabinet minister whose emotions included fear, anger, and anxiety.

Li Hai exposed and killed Fa Guanqing as an Avatar of Black Son of Heaven, then accused Taiyi Mountain’s leaders of collaborating with him and using innocent people to forge magical artifacts. The chapter left the five Taiyi Mountain figures speechless as Li Hai confronted them.

• Li Hai suspected Fa Guanqing of being Black Son of Heaven’s Avatar and seized him despite having no evidence.
• Li Hai tortured Fa Guanqing until he confessed to being the Avatar, then ordered Black Son of Heaven to bring his true body within three days.
• Li Hai killed Fa Guanqing, causing outrage and humiliation among the Martial God Palace Ministers and excitement among the Taiyi Mountain group.
• Li Hai told Gu Xinyi that Fa Guanqing’s infiltration of the Martial God Palace had not been his fault.
• Li Hai accused the Bamboo Grove Cave Master and the other four Taiyi Mountain leaders of collaborating with Black Son of Heaven and forging magical artifacts with innocent victims.

Li Hai confronted Cave Master Youhuang and condemned Taiyi Mountain’s use of human lives in its arts. Youhuang unleashed the five transformations of the Naihe Grand Formation, and Li Hai faced them with a single raised palm.

• Li Hai accused the Art Sect of treating common people as materials, while Gu Xinyi explained Great Jing’s restrictions on Warlocks and artifacts.
• Youhuang challenged Li Hai’s hostility, and Li Hai offered to spare Taiyi Mountain if it could withstand one strike.
• Youhuang summoned the Naihe Grand Formation, which Li Hai identified as being built from the souls of hundreds of millions of infants.
• Four more formations appeared, spreading across the region and frightening Gu Xinyi and the eight Cabinet Ministers with their killing intent.
• Li Hai named all five transformations, praised the formation’s power, and extended one palm.

Li Hai annihilated Taiyi Mountain’s five formations, revived their victims, and killed the five Primordial Spirits after learning that Xuanlin had left items in Taiyi Grotto-Heaven. He entered the grotto-heaven’s threshold and surveyed its inverted mountain, where more than ten thousand spellcasters and billions of commoners lived.

• Li Hai snapped his fingers, destroying the five formations across Yu Province and restoring the people and creatures they had killed.
• Li Hai forced the wounded Bamboo Grove Cave Master to reveal that the Black Son of Heaven was named Xuanlin and had left items in Taiyi Grotto-Heaven.
• Bamboo Grove confirmed that Xuanlin had a World-Outside Grotto-Heaven and that Taiyi Mountain had kept items that might help trace it.
• Li Hai snapped again and erased the five Taiyi Mountain Primordial Spirits, gaining seventeen Stronger Fragments and the fused key to Taiyi Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Hai sent his consciousness into Taiyi Grotto-Heaven and discovered that its inverted mountain housed over ten thousand spellcasters and at least ten billion commoners.

Li Hai destroyed the Taiyi Warlocks and transformed Taiyi Grotto-Heaven to protect its enslaved commoners. After meeting with Gu Xinyi and the Cabinet Ministers, he became Great Jing’s Pillar of State, gaining sweeping authority without specific duties.

• Li Hai surveyed Taiyi Grotto-Heaven and discovered how the Warlocks used its ten billion commoners in a chain of brutal, corpse-based production.
• Li Hai tortured the Warlocks, killing ninety-nine percent and transforming the survivors into strange treasures.
• Li Hai kept the commoners inside Taiyi Grotto-Heaven, erased the Warlocks’ works, and made their land fertile rather than releasing them all at once.
• Li Hai returned to Great Jing’s Martial God Palace at Gu Xinyi’s invitation and met with the Cabinet Ministers.
• Gu Xinyi and the Cabinet Ministers made Li Hai Great Jing’s Pillar of State, also called the Great Jing Duke Protector, granting him vast authority without specific duties.

Li Hai used the Causality-Viewing Mask to track Xuanlin into a World-Outside Grotto-Heaven, where Xuanlin had just become a Heavenly Hegemon. Xuanlin destroyed several Grotto-Heavens to trap Li Hai, but Li Hai appeared in multiple forms and immobilized him.

• Li Hai used the Causality-Viewing Mask to trace Black Son of Heaven’s belongings to a World-Outside Grotto-Heaven and followed the trail through second-page spacetime.
• Xuanlin reached the Heavenly Hegemon realm and sensed danger before discovering Li Hai’s image inside the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven crystal.
• Xuanlin collapsed the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven, then shattered the Cloud-Inlaid Grotto-Heaven when Li Hai’s image appeared there and looked at him.
• Li Hai’s image appeared in four more Grotto-Heaven crystals, so Xuanlin destroyed them as well.
• Four Li Hais emerged from the crystal dust and stopped all movement in the hall, leaving Xuanlin paralyzed with terror.

Xuanlin tried to convince Li Hai that he was destined to serve him as the Human Emperor’s minister, but Li Hai saw through the fabricated story and tortured him for information. After Xuanlin confessed his schemes, Li Hai continued torturing him until his body and soul perished.

• The four Li Hais merged before Xuanlin and released enough of his restraints for him to speak.
• Xuanlin claimed that a glimpse of the future had revealed Li Hai as the destined Human Emperor and pleaded to serve him.
• Li Hai rejected Xuanlin’s story, recognizing that he was lying despite the apparent sincerity of his emotions.
• Li Hai transformed the grotto-heaven into a torture chamber and intensified Xuanlin’s sense of pain before beginning the torture.
• After a quarter of an hour, Xuanlin broke down and confessed his lies and schemes, but Li Hai tortured him for a day and night until his consciousness scattered and his body and soul perished.

After killing Xuanlin and destroying his resurrection mechanism, Li Hai spent Stronger Fragments to create a new offensive art and upgrade his resurrection technique. He failed to enter the third-page spacetime and returned to the main world, where construction continued on his vast residence.

• Li Hai erased Xuanlin from the Mysterious Principle Memory Nest Book, killing Xuanlin and all his Avatars and gaining twenty-six Stronger Fragments.
• Li Hai fused his offensive Esoteric Arts into the Level 5 Golden Barrier Scripture, which could manifest elemental barriers, creatures, celestial forces, and weapons.
• Li Hai upgraded the Northern Profound Fate-Defying Art into the Level 5 Four Waterways Rotation Great Art, which let its practitioner regenerate and resurrect if any nearby heaven-and-earth essence remained.
• Li Hai decided to save his remaining fragments until he had eliminated the Level 5 villains across the Four Great Continents and could advance to Level 6.
• Li Hai failed to open the third-page spacetime from the second-page spacetime and returned to the main world.
• Li Hai appeared at the construction site for Section C, Phase Five of his Pillar of State Residence.

Li Hai visited the dying Feng Heyue, reassured her that he would remain Military Governor of the Demon-Slaying Division, and heard more about Great Jing's founding ancestor. Feng Heyue began revealing why the Zong Imperial Clan left power, but the secret remained untold.

• After receiving a warning that Feng Heyue was near death, Li Hai went to the Demon-Slaying Division headquarters, where Gai Fu had the captains welcome him as Lord Pillar of State.
• Li Hai sat beside Feng Heyue until she woke, and she explained that her lifespan had run its course and refused his offer to extend it.
• Feng Heyue praised Li Hai's martial achievements and worried that the Demon-Slaying Division would lack a suitable Grand Military Governor after her death.
• Li Hai told Feng Heyue he could remain Military Governor while serving as Great Jing's Pillar of State, delighting her.
• Feng Heyue told Li Hai that Zong Yuanyi had reached the Ultimate Overlord realm by age twenty-five, then began explaining the hidden reason the Zong Imperial Clan withdrew from power.

Feng Heyue told Li Hai how the Zong Imperial Clan’s cruelty led Zong Yuanyi to destroy his own family and remake the King Yu Seal. As Feng Heyue took Li Hai for a garden stroll, four strange men emerged from a boiling mud pit on the Chapala Plateau, announcing their return to the world of the living.

• Feng Heyue explained that the Zong Imperial Clan’s descendants could not cultivate, lived only to age forty-nine, and ruled for centuries through the King Yu Seal.
• Feng Heyue described how the Zong Imperial Clan persecuted cultivators, destroyed martial arts manuals, and drove ten rebel leaders to become the Martial Palace’s ten Cabinet Ministers.
• Li Hai deduced that Zong Yuanyi had returned from the Endless Ocean, exterminated his own clan, reforged the King Yu Seal, and elevated the rebel leaders; Feng Heyue confirmed his conclusion.
• Feng Heyue suddenly collapsed, then recovered and asked Li Hai to accompany her on a walk through the garden.
• On the Chapala Plateau, four corpse-like strange men crawled out of a boiling mud pit, and their leader declared that they had returned to the floating earth of the living.

The Yama Heir descended into the human world with four ghost servants, wreaking havoc as they traveled toward Yu Province. At the Demon-Slaying Division headquarters, Feng Heyue chose to die, and Li Hai and the others mourned and began arranging her funeral.

• The Yama Heir ordered Filthy Guts, Maggot Pus, Filth Slave, and Split Wart to carry his sedan toward the mountains and investigate who destroyed his beacon.
• The ghost servants attacked people in a prosperous town, stealing organs and limbs; a Lotus Province man eventually died after his belly burst from eating in desperation.
• The five ghosts continued their journey toward Yu Province while causing destruction along the way.
• Feng Heyue told Li Hai to let her die, then passed away standing in the garden.
• Li Hai placed Feng Heyue in a golden-thread nanmu coffin, and the Demon-Slaying Division's leaders gathered to bid her farewell.
• Li Hai ordered Gai Fu to put other matters aside and arrange Feng Heyue's funeral.

Li Hai traced a powerful ghostly aura to an ancient forbidden ground in eastern Lotus Province, where Yama Heir and his servants were hiding among an evil sect's Warlocks. As the sect's Grandmaster divined that everyone present would die that moment, Li Hai unleashed a hurricane to strip away the forbidden ground's defenses.

• Li Hai sensed an Extreme Hegemon-level ghost and four weaker ghosts in eastern Lotus Province, then warped there to investigate.
• Yama Heir and his four ghost servants secretly listened as an aged Warlock taught disciples inside an ancient forbidden ground.
• The Grandmaster announced that his divination had foretold the deaths of himself and everyone gathered there that day, provoking panic among the disciples.
• Li Hai appeared outside the forbidden ground, judged its immense aura of sin, and raised his hand to cast Wind Barrier.
• A hurricane with the energy of ten exploding Earths swept across a hundred thousand li of land.

Li Hai annihilated the evil sect’s forbidden ground and was transported to a netherworld, where he confronted Demon Outskirts, a Wuchang-class ghost and son of Yama King. He examined Demon Outskirts’s abilities and learned the royal heir could resurrect through unborn children.

• Li Hai’s planetary hurricane destroyed nearly half of eastern Lotus Province and reduced the evil sect’s forbidden ground to a vast crater, earning him seven fragments and bringing his total to six hundred.
• The wasteland transformed into a netherworld, where Li Hai found himself on one side of a giant bone balance and Demon Outskirts on the other.
• Demon Outskirts appeared as a three-headed, six-armed giant, accused Li Hai of killing him and his ghost servants, and vowed to make him suffer.
• Li Hai inspected Demon Outskirts’s interface and learned that the ghost was a Wuchang-class royal heir whose blood connected him to Yama King.
• Li Hai studied Demon Outskirts’s skills, including his ability to create a ghost domain, summon Yin Soldiers, and resurrect by possessing an unborn child.

Li Hai learned how Yanjiao’s skills worked, including how Suresh had served as an anchor for travel between the underworld and the living world. The terms “floating soil of the living world” and “solid lands of the underworld” triggered Li Hai’s foresight, revealing a vast sea of worlds and leaving him questioning who had created it.

• Li Hai examined Yanjiao’s skills, learning that Echoes of the Six Paths tortured enemies, Third Watch Yama Talisman cursed blood relatives, and Heart-Scale Punishment judged them by their sins.
• Li Hai learned that Soul Pursuit Across Worlds required an anchor, and that Suresh’s soul had been forged with Reincarnation Art to help Yanjiao cross between the underworld and living world.
• Li Hai learned that Suresh’s accumulated reincarnation fire had let Yanjiao bring only four ghost servants, while Yanjiao needed the Devil Race’s royal blood to return to the underworld.
• Li Hai’s foresight reacted to the descriptions of the living world and underworld, showing him a boundless ocean surrounded by dark underworld land, with countless drifting worlds like dust motes.
• Li Hai realized that the Four Great Continents were only tiny worlds floating on an endless sea and questioned how such a bizarre universe could exist without collapsing under its own gravity.

Li Hai repeatedly killed Demon Outskirts as the Yama Heir resurrected across Lotus Province, but Demon Outskirts spread black lotuses and gray miasma throughout the province and invoked the Power of Yama. Li Hai prepared to escalate to Level 6 as the shadow of Yama appeared above the Four Great Continents and empowered the spreading corruption.

• Li Hai killed Demon Outskirts inside the Heart-Scale Punishment, breaking the spell and returning to Lotus Province.
• Demon Outskirts repeatedly resurrected through pregnant women, and Li Hai killed him twice more with Little Li Flying Dagger.
• Black lotuses and gray miasma erupted across Lotus Province, consuming its land and killing its inhabitants.
• Li Hai realized Demon Outskirts had become equivalent to Lotus Province and could spread into neighboring provinces, so he prepared to enter the realm of Level 6 entries.
• Demon Outskirts recognized Li Hai as the destroyer of his marker and summoned the Power of Yama, causing a vast dark shadow to appear and strengthening the corruption.

Li Hai annihilated Lotus Province and the Yama Heir with a single punch, earning enough Stronger Fragments to reach 608. After learning that Level 6 removed the fragments’ novice upgrade benefits, he spent six fragments to advance his techniques and reached the Ancient Sage Lord realm.

• Li Hai destroyed Lotus Province and obliterated the Yama Heir, gaining four fragments, while four surviving evil-path sorcerers also died and added four more.
• Living beings across Yu Province, Sea Province, and Ancient Continent sensed the destruction and learned that Li Hai had caused it.
• Li Hai read a system notice explaining that Stronger Fragments no longer had expanded upgrade benefits after he entered Level 6.
• Li Hai spent six Stronger Fragments to raise six techniques to Level 6, transforming them into incomplete advanced forms.
• Li Hai comprehended the six techniques and broke through beyond the Ultimate Overlord realm to become an Ancient Sage Lord.