Chapter Summaries

Li Fan, reborn in a future Federation, discovered that his ruined Endless Sword had replaced his Iron Sword and restored a panel with powerful abilities. He resolved to rise in strength and confront Xi Men Shan, but ended the chapter weighing how to spend his single God Point.

• Li Fan recalled how the Federation had become a society of Arcane Treasure Masters and learned that he had been reborn in a youth with the same name.
• Li Fan considered his weak Iron Sword, his former Sword God abilities, and the circumstances of the original Li Fan’s death after Xi Men Shan beat him for speaking with his childhood sweetheart.
• Li Fan decided not to yield to Xi Men Shan despite the danger posed by his powerful father.
• The Endless Sword transformed into a streak of light, replaced Li Fan’s Iron Sword, and revealed a panel listing its talents, abilities, cultivation method, and one God Point.
• Li Fan learned that Godslayer could grant God Points and stolen abilities, while Endless Growth let him upgrade his powers without limit.
• Li Fan wondered whether to spend his single God Point on an ability or his cultivation method.

After fifty years in seclusion, Lu Xingshi emerged as a Calamity-level Heavenly Fate Master and discovered that the Federation had transformed into a society of Arcane Treasure Masters. Suspecting an unseen force had interfered with their rise, he decided to disguise himself, cultivate an Arcane Treasure weapon, and investigate.

• Lu Xingshi emerged from seclusion and realized fifty years had passed while he became a Calamity-level Heavenly Fate Master.
• Lu Xingshi found that Arcane Treasure Masters had replaced Fate Masters and learned that Gu Liang Tianming had been the source of Fate Masters and Destiny Ghosts, not Fate Patterns.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that Arcane Treasure power lingered within him and suspected that an unknown existence had accelerated the Arcane Treasure Masters' development.
• Lu Xingshi decided to cultivate an Arcane Treasure weapon and chose to create a modified Red Embroidered Ball.
• Lu Xingshi planned to adopt a new identity and blend into the Federation, then wondered whether Heavenly Mandate was guiding him.

Lu Xingshi enrolled at Kai Prefecture Academy with his Silver-grade Red Embroidered Ball and learned how the Federation’s Arcane Treasure Masters were driven into brutal competition. He moved into a shabby dormitory and prepared to claim an Arcane Treasure Atlas and Arcane Technique, while suspecting the system was designed to control people and fuel internal conflict.

• The examiner assessed Lu Xingshi’s Red Embroidered Ball as a Silver-grade Arcane Treasure with tracking, heavy strike, and return abilities, then enrolled him at Kai Prefecture Academy.
• Lu Xingshi asked to start immediately because he had nowhere to stay, and the teacher assigned him a shabby dormitory.
• Lu Xingshi questioned how the academy treated support and healing Arcane Treasures, and the teacher said noncombatants were relegated to logistics or left to fend for themselves.
• The teacher explained that dormitories carried resource shares, older students could seize them, and Lu Xingshi had one month of battle immunity as a new student.
• The teacher urged Lu Xingshi to fight rather than focus on studying, while Lu Xingshi suspected the Federation’s competitive system was a means of control.

Lu Xingshi chose cultivation materials at Kai Prefecture Academy and began analyzing Arcane Treasure Atlases as he planned to improve his own method. Elsewhere, Li Fan defeated Xi Men Shan in a duel and took resources from him, prompting Xi Men Shan to leave vowing revenge.

• Lu Xingshi selected the Unranked Arcane Treasure Atlas “Pure Yuan Skill” and the Arcane Technique “Flying Stone Hand” for his ranged Arcane Treasure.
• Lu Xingshi returned to his dormitory and analyzed the atlases, concluding that they all excavated Arcane Treasures with different efficiencies and specialties.
• Li Fan defeated Xi Men Shan despite his lower-ranked Arcane Treasure, rejecting the idea that treasure quality alone decided a fight.
• Li Fan blocked Xi Men Shan’s escape and demanded resources as the price of losing the duel.
• Xi Men Shan handed over the resources and left angrily after Li Fan warned him to bring more if he challenged him again.

Lu Xingshi learned about Kai Prefecture Academy’s school beauty, Chu Yue, and her rumored sweetheart, Li Fan, then defended his dormitory from two challengers after his protection period ended. After discovering that one challenger was Chu Yue’s brother, Lu Xingshi planned to use the resulting conflict to observe Li Fan and investigate his Heavenly Mandate.

• Lu Xingshi heard that Chu Yue was Kai Prefecture Academy’s school beauty and that her childhood sweetheart, Li Fan, wielded a sword and had begun climbing the rankings.
• After his month of beginner protection ended, Lu Xingshi knocked out a challenger with the Red Embroidered Ball and hung him upside down outside his dormitory.
• Lu Xingshi knocked out a second student who tried to intervene, and both men eventually surrendered their dormitory keys.
• The first challenger revealed that Chu Yue was his sister, and Lu Xingshi realized the other student had intervened to help one of her pursuers.
• Lu Xingshi decided to find a chance to observe Li Fan and investigate how his Heavenly Mandate differed from his own.

Lu Xingshi watched Li Fan win an academy tournament and confronted Chu Yue over the dormitory key he had taken from Chu Wei. He then devised a plan to replace Li Fan’s female leads with clones, though he still needed a way to give them convincing identities and histories.

• Lu Xingshi recognized Li Fan’s Endless Sword and watched him compete in an academy tournament, where he defeated his opponent.
• Chu Yue demanded that Lu Xingshi return Chu Wei’s dormitory key, but he refused and challenged her to fight for it.
• Chu Yue left with Chu Wei after Lu Xingshi dismissed her, and he considered how difficult it would be to kill Li Fan without revealing his strength.
• After Li Fan left with a woman, Lu Xingshi planned to plant cloned female leads around him and use them to siphon away his resources and Heavenly Mandate.
• Lu Xingshi considered replacing Li Fan’s existing female leads with clones that inherited their appearances, memories, identities, and experiences, but worried that a kidnapping plot could interrupt the plan.

Li Fan rescued a clone of Chu Yue without realizing she was fake, while Lu Xingshi showed the real Chu Yue the footage and explained his plan to drain Li Fan’s Heavenly Mandate. Chu Yue agreed to help Lu Xingshi bring Li Fan down, leaving the real Chu Yue facing a fatal role in his scheme.

• Li Fan rescued Fake Chu Yue from an abandoned warehouse, believed she was the real Chu Yue, and promised to cripple Lu Xingshi for Chu Wei.
• Lu Xingshi showed the real Chu Yue surveillance footage of Li Fan embracing her clone and explained that he had replaced her to investigate Li Fan.
• Lu Xingshi told Chu Yue that the modified Derivative Heavenly Mandate on the fake would steal Li Fan’s Heavenly Mandate and transfer it to him through their contact.
• Chu Yue asked why Lu Xingshi had not killed her, and he explained that he wanted her death to help kill Li Fan.
• Chu Yue agreed to Lu Xingshi’s plan, hoping to drag Li Fan down with her.

Li Fan investigated the repeated kidnappings of his consorts, then rushed to rescue his missing younger sister, Li Fang, from the abandoned warehouse. After he treated her as a lover rather than a sister, Li Fang realized he was an impostor, while Lu Xingshi revealed that she was likely the last heroine he needed to replace and planned to use a clone of Gu Liangli to betray Li Fan.

• Li Fan questioned his consorts about their kidnappings, but they could not remember what had happened before he rescued them.
• Little Fatty told Li Fan that Li Fang had gone missing, and Li Fan hurried to the abandoned warehouse to rescue her.
• Li Fan brought Li Fang to his dormitory and slept with her, while the real Li Fang watched from captivity with Lu Xingshi.
• Li Fang concluded that the current Li Fan was an impostor who had taken the original Li Fan's body.
• Lu Xingshi told Li Fang that she was likely the last heroine he would replace and planned to clone Gu Liangli to betray Li Fan again.

Lu Xingshi studied how Heavenly Mandate shaped the world and planned to seize more of it from Li Fan, who had left Kai Prefecture Academy for further study after losing part of his Heavenly Mandate. Li Fan recovered and focused on winning the Kai Prefecture youth championship to improve his Endless Sword, while promising to deal with Lu Xingshi when he returned.

• Li Fan changed maps after Lu Xingshi’s female leads drained much of his future screen time, leaving his consorts behind at Kai Prefecture Academy.
• Lu Xingshi gained enough Heavenly Mandate from Li Fan to shift their share from a ninety-one split to an eighty-two split, and he investigated the world’s fate-based protections and hidden mastermind.
• Lu Xingshi reasoned that the Endless Sword did not truly belong to Li Fan and could be stripped away, while his own Red Embroidered Ball was nearing the Seventh Stage Hidden Sanctum.
• Li Fan recovered by avoiding women and cultivating through battles, then set his sights on winning the Kai Prefecture youth championship and qualifying for the Jing Prefecture finals.
• Li Fan regretted leaving without helping Yue Er deal with Lu Xingshi and resolved to give her an explanation when he returned.

Lu Xingshi refused Li Fan’s challenge because Li Fan was far stronger, then learned Li Fan was purging Kai Prefecture Academy of anyone who would not submit. Lu Xingshi agreed to flee with a fellow student as Li Fan ordered the Little Fatty to deal with him and then decided to go himself.

• Lu Xingshi rejected Li Fan’s challenge and mocked him for asking an Arcane Treasure Master Apprentice to fight a fourth-stage Arcane Treasure Master.
• A dormitory neighbor told Lu Xingshi that Li Fan was forcing students to submit and expelling them through challenge duels.
• The neighbor invited Lu Xingshi to escape with him, and Lu Xingshi agreed after sensing their Heavenly Mandates had shifted to a seventy-thirty split.
• The Little Fatty told Li Fan that Lu Xingshi had refused the challenge and repeated his mocking words.
• Li Fan ordered the Little Fatty to deal with Lu Xingshi, then set out himself when the Little Fatty hesitated.

Lu Xingshi and Duanmu Hai fled Kai Prefecture Academy and encountered a pickpocket on their train, where Lu Xingshi secretly acquired a supreme quality World Core. Li Fan found Lu Xingshi gone and continued plotting to conquer the Federation, unaware that his shrinking Heavenly Mandate was already weakening his hold over the academy.

• Lu Xingshi learned from Duanmu Hai that Li Fan had punished the academy club that offended one of his harem members, and the two decided to flee.
• On the train, Duanmu Hai warned Lu Xingshi about Three Hands, a pickpocket who withdrew after Duanmu Hai exposed him.
• A Burly Man struck Three Hands, who died after being thrown into their carriage, and Lu Xingshi secretly collected the World Core that burst out.
• Li Fan found Lu Xingshi's dormitory empty and suspected Little Fatty had warned him, but dismissed the thought because he trusted Little Fatty.
• Li Fan resolved to unify the Federation and overthrow its Council, while his loss of Heavenly Mandate continued to drive students away from Kai Prefecture Academy.

After the Federation failed to find the World Core on the train, Lu Xingshi studied it in hiding and planned to reclaim the Endless Sword from Li Fan. His watchers seized his decoy, while senator Tang Yang pursued the World Core to restore his health and extend his life.

• A special Federation unit searched the train for three days but found nothing, then released the passengers under political pressure.
• Lu Xingshi parted ways with Duanmu Hai, rented a room, and built an underground laboratory to study the rice-grain-sized World Core.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that absorbing the World Core would let the world exploit him, and planned to devour it in reverse before challenging Li Fan for the Endless Sword.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that his watchers had searched his room seven times and had taken his decoy body.
• Tang Yang consulted a damaged ancient book about the World Core and resolved to obtain it to restore his strength and prolong his life.

Lu Xingshi killed the special-unit interrogators who had abducted his decoy and learned that Councilor Tang Yang was hunting for the World Core. He decided to confront Tang Yang, while Tang mobilized special units in Kai Prefecture to investigate the killings.

• Lu Xingshi revealed his strength, killed the interrogators, and forced their leader to name Councilor Tang Yang as the one searching for the World Core.
• The leader said Tang Yang was nearing the end of his life, had killed other Councilors, and was traveling from Jing Prefecture to Kai Prefecture.
• Lu Xingshi killed the leader after extracting his information and resolved to deal with Tang Yang, though he suspected others might pursue the World Core afterward.
• Tang Yang learned that Hou Shiliu had died and ordered every special unit in Kai Prefecture to go to the scene.
• Tang Yang threatened officials with a purge until they agreed to carry out his order, and one official recorded the call for a later complaint.

Lu Xingshi defeated Tang Yang, learned that he had found the World Core through Gu Liangli’s damaged diary, and killed him after extending his lifespan. He considered giving the diary to Li Fan, who might understand it—or at least be startled by it.

• Tang Yang demanded the World Core, but Lu Xingshi denied having it and attacked him with the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Tang Yang crushed the Red Embroidered Ball, but Lu Xingshi effortlessly seized him by the throat and questioned him about the World Core.
• Lu Xingshi gave Tang Yang two lifespan potions, and Tang Yang revealed the ancient book that had led him to the World Core.
• Lu Xingshi recognized the damaged book as Da Ci Empress Gu Liangli's diary and told Tang Yang that he had known her and killed her and her son.
• Tang Yang tried to bargain for his life, but Lu Xingshi killed him with Curse Power after pointing out that he had fulfilled his promise to extend Tang Yang's lifespan.
• Lu Xingshi considered giving Gu Liangli's diary to Li Fan, wondering whether it would become a treasure in Li Fan's hands.

Li Fan discovered a coded diary from Gu Liangli that revealed the locations of several World Cores, and he decided to retrieve one so he could grow stronger and reunite with her. Lu Xingshi had arranged for Li Fan to find the diary and planned to use him to claim the World Cores and Endless Sword while tracking a hidden mastermind.

• Li Fan lamented that most of the people at Kai Prefecture Academy would not sincerely support his uprising and focused on becoming a Grand Arcane Treasure Master.
• Li Fan found a damaged diary bearing Gu Liangli's handwriting and recognized that it contained coded information about the World Core.
• Li Fan deciphered the diary's locations of several World Cores and convinced himself that Gu Liangli had sent it to guide him to her.
• Li Fan decided to retrieve a World Core, dismissing the Mirror of Origin as unnecessary for his plans.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that he had watched Li Fan find the diary and intended to use him to locate the World Cores and take the Endless Sword.
• Lu Xingshi noted that his Heavenly Mandate plundering was nearing its limit and continued tracking the hidden mastermind using Li Fan as bait.

Lu Xingshi confronted Li Fan after taking the World Cores and discovered Heavenly Mandate Silk was controlling Li Fan as the world’s puppet protagonist. Li Fan briefly regained his original self and asked Lu Xingshi to kill him, but the world seized control of him again.

• Li Fan examined the many World Core fragments Li'er had left him, but Lu Xingshi appeared and took them all.
• Li Fan attacked Lu Xingshi, whose power grew as he sensed an abnormal force continually strengthening Li Fan.
• Lu Xingshi revealed his true form, but Heavenly Mandate Silk descending from the sky restrained him from killing Li Fan.
• Li Fan used Sword God's Smile to restore his former strength and struck at the Heavenly Mandate Silk, then revealed that the lustful version of himself was the one the world wanted.
• Li Fan's original personality asked Lu Xingshi to kill him and explained that the world had twisted his thoughts, but he was soon taken over again.
• Lu Xingshi realized that the world had used beauty, power, and strength to corrupt Li Fan and keep him under its control.

Lu Xingshi manipulated Li Fan’s struggle against Heavenly Mandate to obtain the Endless Sword and extract the true Li Fan’s personality as the Slaughter curse. He left Li Fan’s puppet body alive, intending to use it to gather the scattered Derivative Heavenly Mandate and kill him later.

• Lu Xingshi struck Li Fan with the Red Embroidered Ball, bringing out Li Fan’s primary personality and discussing how Heavenly Mandate had controlled their lives.
• Li Fan agreed to help Lu Xingshi obtain the Endless Sword, then fought toward him while resisting the secondary personality’s return.
• Lu Xingshi disrupted Heavenly Mandate’s control, and Li Fan drove the Endless Sword toward him before the world restrained them both.
• Lu Xingshi used the Red Embroidered Ball to knock the Endless Sword into the eighteenth level of Hell, then extracted Li Fan’s primary personality as the Slaughter curse.
• Lu Xingshi left the remaining Li Fan alive and planned to gather the female lead’s scattered Derivative Heavenly Mandate through him.

Li Fan woke powerless after losing the Endless Sword and met Liu Qing, a young woman who resembled Gu Liangli. A month had passed, and he learned that his confidantes had vanished and the Federation had taken control of Kai Prefecture Academy, leaving him wanted and alone with Liu Qing.

• Li Fan woke after his defeat by Lu Xingshi and realized he had lost the Endless Sword and his power.
• Liu Qing told Li Fan she had found him unconscious while gathering herbs and brought him home; Li Fan mistakenly imagined Gu Liangli had arranged his rescue.
• Li Fan learned that a month had passed and called his sister, Li Fang, Chu Yue, and his other confidantes, but none answered.
• Little Fatty told Li Fan that the sisters-in-law had melted away and vanished half a month earlier, and the Federation had retaken the academy and issued a warrant for Li Fan's arrest.
• Little Fatty hung up after revealing that he had also been expelled, and Li Fan resolved to recover while relying on Liu Qing.

Lu Xingshi strengthened the Red Embroidered Ball with the Endless Sword and World Core, transforming it into a black lotus, but his lingering Heavenly Mandate identity kept him from completing his Graduation Number. Li Fan lost his Arcane Treasure and power, while Liu Qing left to find a way to help him.

• Lu Xingshi beat the Endless Sword, destroyed its spirituality, and refined it into the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Lu Xingshi reshaped the Red Embroidered Ball with the World Core and Curse Power into a Red Embroidered Black Lotus, then placed it on the Giant Kun of the Great Vow Bodhisattva Dharma Image.
• Lu Xingshi realized the karma from his former Heavenly Mandate identity still blocked his completion and decided to follow the path of the World Extinguishing Black Lotus.
• Li Fan spat blood and lost contact with the Endless Sword as his power vanished, leaving him an ordinary person.
• Liu Qing tried to take Li Fan to the hospital, but he warned her that his enemies might find them; she left to think of another way to help him.

Lu Xingshi extracted Li Fan’s remaining Heavenly Mandate and revealed how he had manipulated Li Fan’s relationships and memories. After Li Fan died to the monstrous Liu Qing, Lu Xingshi found that she had become Mara, a Destiny Ghost with the potential to surpass Calamity Rank.

• Lu Xingshi visited the dying Li Fan and explained that Gu Liangli, Liu Qing, and Li Fan’s Consorts had all been part of his deception.
• Li Fan insisted he had loved his Consorts, but Lu Xingshi argued that Heavenly Mandate had shaped his attachments and that he had never noticed when they were replaced.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that Liu Qing combined the identities of Li Fan’s Consorts, then extracted Li Fan’s last thread of Heavenly Mandate.
• Li Fan begged Lu Xingshi to spare Liu Qing, but Lu Xingshi let the monstrous Liu Qing, with Gu Liangli at its core, enter and kill him.
• Lu Xingshi returned to find a translucent egg and identified it as Mara, a Destiny Ghost created from Heavenly Mandate and Li Fan, with potential beyond Calamity Rank.