Recaps

Li Shun learned that Dong Chunqiu had become Left Chancellor partly because Li Shun found the Reincarnation Grand Dao. As Dong Chunqiu restored equal days and nights in Great Qian, Li Shun sensed that the change heralded a new crisis rather than a blessing.

• Li Shun reflected on Great Qian cultivators shifting lifespan tribulations onto commoners and worried that restoring the Dao of Causality could make him answer for deaths he had caused.
• Wang Zheng told Li Shun that Dong Chunqiu had been appointed Left Chancellor and that Li Shun's discovery of the Reincarnation Grand Dao had helped secure the appointment.
• Imperial Academy students visited to congratulate Li Shun, who wondered why no one knew who had returned the Dao of Causality to Great Qian.
• Dong Chunqiu took office and restored equality between day and night after gaining the approval of the officials and Gu Zhizhong.
• Li Shun sensed that restoring the balance of Yin and Yang had stirred a new crisis in Great Qian and warned himself that it was misfortune, not blessing.

Li Shun worried that the Celestial Array’s malfunction could worsen Great Qian’s disasters and settled into his upgraded Imperial Academy residence. Shang Qingqiu visited him with fragmented memories of events apparently erased by Threefold Self-Reflection, and Li Shun concealed his curiosity by dismissing her concerns.

• Li Shun realized the Celestial Array might be behind Great Qian’s turmoil and resolved to find somewhere else to live.
• After Dong Chunqiu became Left Chancellor, Li Shun moved into a secluded estate with an array that could take him back to Great Qian once a year.
• The Ancient Web spent ten days searching for a suitable world while Li Shun waited.
• Shang Qingqiu told Li Shun that vivid, unfamiliar memories showed them confronting Cold Mountain Soul in Bing Province, but Wang Zheng was missing from the scenes.
• Li Shun wondered how Shang Qingqiu could retain memories through Threefold Self-Reflection, then pretended her visions were caused by too little dual cultivation.

Li Shun questioned whether Shang Qingqiu could remember a Threefold Self-Reflection rewind, then suspected her visions showed the future instead. The Grand Sacrificer ordered Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu to investigate and suppress the Elder Remnant Soul in Bing Province with a mysterious pill furnace.

• Li Shun asked Ancient Web whether anyone below the Sage realm could retain memories through a Threefold Self-Reflection rewind, and Ancient Web insisted Shang Qingqiu’s claim was probably a misunderstanding.
• Shang Qingqiu returned with the Imperial Academy’s Right Deputy Director, who asked Li Shun to investigate a possible Elder Remnant Soul in Bing Province alongside her.
• Li Shun realized Shang Qingqiu might have foreseen a future confrontation with Cold Mountain Soul, but he still decided to refuse the assignment.
• The Grand Sacrificer confirmed an Elder Remnant Soul was sleeping in Bing Province and ordered Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu to suppress it using a violet-gold pill furnace.
• Li Shun recognized the furnace as identical to the mysterious treasure that had suppressed the Imperial Academy’s Thunder Pool, then questioned whether it could subdue the remnant soul alone.

The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master sent Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu to find the Elder Remnant Soul, entrusting Li Shun with two powerful protective treasures. As they reached Cold Mountain County, Shang Qingqiu located the destination, and Li Shun discovered unusual plants resembling evolved Cold Mountain Grass.

• The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master gave Li Shun the Myriad Treasures Furnace and God-Striking Whip, then sent him and Shang Qingqiu to the surface with three days to complete their task.
• The Right Director of Studies asked why the Mysterious Pivot Gap had revealed a prophecy, and the Grand Sacrificial Wine Master said they could not ignore its guidance again.
• Li Shun learned the treasures’ abilities and kept them out of Square Inch, wary of their intelligence and the risks of bringing them inside.
• Shang Qingqiu told Li Shun that she had experienced visions since childhood, many of which had later come true, and that the visions had returned the previous day.
• Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu reached Cold Mountain County, where Shang Qingqiu found the Elder Remnant Soul’s location and Li Shun spotted blue plants resembling Cold Mountain Grass.

Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu searched a gorge for the Cold Mountain Soul, where Li Shun realized Shang Qingqiu’s vision matched their encounter with the remnant. The God-Striking Whip appeared to terrify the Cold Mountain Soul into stillness.

• Li Shun grew wary of the Mutated Cold Mountain Grass and followed Shang Qingqiu to the gorge she believed was where the remnant soul first appeared.
• Shang Qingqiu searched the gorge with her Yin-Yang Union Miasma, which drained Yin-Yang Qi from the creatures it enveloped, but found no clues by nightfall.
• The mist surged as a transparent figure raced toward them, and Li Shun used the Myriad Treasures Furnace to reveal a crystalline beast skeleton.
• A second figure appeared behind Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu, and Li Shun recognized the scene as identical to the one Shang Qingqiu had shown him through her divine sense.
• The Cold Mountain Soul tried to seize them, but the God-Striking Whip appeared above Li Shun, prompting the remnant to tremble in terror and attempt to flee.
• The God-Striking Whip swept through the air without touching the Cold Mountain Soul, which froze in place.

Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu captured the Cold Mountain Soul in Bing Province, and the Grand Sacrificial Scholar refined it into a jade pendant that he awarded to Li Shun. After Shang Qingqiu left with the scholar, Li Shun suspected the assignment had concealed a larger purpose.

• Li Shun used the God-Striking Whip to freeze the Cold Mountain Soul, then captured it with the Myriad Treasures Furnace as the Mutated Cold Mountain Grass began growing rapidly across Bing Province.
• Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu searched the plain for two days but found no other trace of the remnant soul.
• The Grand Sacrificial Scholar assured them the God-Striking Whip had confirmed the remnant soul was dead, then took back both treasures from Li Shun.
• The Grand Sacrificial Scholar refined the Cold Mountain Soul into a pale-blue jade pendant and gave it to Li Shun as a reward.
• The Grand Sacrificial Scholar took Shang Qingqiu away, leaving Li Shun to wonder whether the academy had sent him to Bing Province for a hidden reason.

Li Shun learned that the Imperial Academy had arranged for him and Shang Qingqiu to reclaim Cold Mountain Soul, and the Ancient Web explained why her visions could not truly predict an immutable future. The Ancient Web found a distant, deeply corrupted world for Li Shun to investigate, and he began trying to reach it through Chaos with the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Qi.

• The Ancient Web concluded that the Imperial Academy had deliberately arranged for Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu to reclaim Cold Mountain Soul, and explained that Shang Qingqiu's foresight was likely tied to the academy's deductions about the future.
• The Ancient Web explained that Chaos could disrupt any world's predicted course, including Great Qian's, and that Li Shun's presence had already changed its history.
• The Ancient Web told Li Shun it had found a world near the Primordial Ancient Domain, one so corrupted that destroying it would not burden his conscience, and advised him to send only a strand of divine soul intent.
• Li Shun experienced a disorienting imitation of Chaos before the Ancient Web marked the target world and restored his awareness.
• Li Shun focused on the marked world and tried to use the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Qi to reach it, but the Qi seemed unequal to the task.

Li Shun crossed the Chaos to reach a new world, then discovered that entering it unleashed countless past-life memories that overwhelmed his remnant will. As he recovered, an attacker pierced his chest, leaving him seemingly dead.

• Li Shun followed the Ancient Web's guidance through the Chaos and formed a threshold to a crowded world that appeared peaceful.
• After returning to the Square Inch, Li Shun recovered from the Chaos's effects and entered the new world through the door with a thread of divine intent.
• Li Shun endured severe pain as the body's countless past-life memories flooded his mind, then chose to stop exploring.
• A sudden attacker pierced Li Shun's chest and destroyed his viscera, leaving him collapsed.

After being killed and eaten in the Disorderly Reincarnation World, Li Shun escaped back to Square Inch by breaking the world’s restraints. Ancient Web explained the world’s endless reincarnation cycle and revealed that a long-dead Outer God had created it as a playground, while its inhabitants remained trapped in its rules.

• A scar-faced man killed Li Shun and ate his body while Li Shun remained conscious and helpless.
• As the scar-faced man swallowed the last of his body, Li Shun broke free of the world’s restraints and fled back to Square Inch.
• Li Shun asked Ancient Web whether the world’s inhabitants were all like the cannibal, and Ancient Web explained that the dead were reborn after eighteen years without losing their memories.
• Ancient Web described a fixed population cycling through humans, beasts, insects, and objects, with beings driven by instinct and the need to eat one another.
• Li Shun likened the world to a cruel punishment, and Ancient Web confirmed that a nameless Outer God had created it as a playground before perishing in Chaos.
• Ancient Web said the Outer God’s rules remained unbreakable, and no one had ever succeeded in escaping the cycle.

The Ancient Web explained that the Disorderly Reincarnation World was a deceased Outer God’s playground, where its shifting Heavenly Dao imposed endless cycles of slaughter and hunger. Li Shun learned that the world had noticed his arrival, but its abandoned power could potentially become an Outer God puppet if he took control of it.

• The Ancient Web explained that the Disorderly Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao changed every sixty years and that hunger defined its current era.
• Li Shun watched a shadow that embodied the hungry Heavenly Dao devour the scar-faced man, then turn its gaze toward him.
• The Ancient Web told Li Shun that the world had detected his arrival and that the native soul he displaced had been sent into Reincarnation in a blank state.
• Li Shun considered abandoning the world, but the Ancient Web reassured him that Square Inch could protect him and described the potential rewards of taking control.
• The Ancient Web explained that controlling the power left behind by the fallen Outer God could give Li Shun an Outer God puppet that he might bring into Square Inch.

Li Shun learned that the Outer God behind the Disorderly Reincarnation World had fallen, leaving only its power behind, and considered using the world for his experiment. The Ancient Web warned that the world’s rules would make it difficult for him to survive and cultivate, leaving his plan uncertain.

• The Ancient Web explained the stages of an Outer God's death and confirmed that the god who created the Disorderly Reincarnation World had fallen.
• Li Shun's thoughts about Chaos brought on dark shadows and erosion, which he resisted with Square Inch's protection.
• The Ancient Web said the Disorderly Reincarnation World could help Li Shun create Mind-Communicating Beads and obtain an Outer God's shell, but warned that taking control would be difficult.
• The Ancient Web explained that Li Shun might have little chance to grow stronger in the world's constant danger, and that cultivation would reveal his location to every living being.

Li Shun planned to use the Agricultural School’s life-harvesting cultivation method and the Sage Statues’ divine abilities to gain power in the Disorderly Reincarnation World. The Ancient Web warned him that three thousand-year-old beings could threaten his plans, and Li Shun began preparing to study the taboo art.

• The Ancient Web advised Li Shun to cultivate by harvesting the vitality, fortune, and opportunities of other beings in the Disorderly Reincarnation World.
• The Ancient Web explained that the Sage Statues could help him use Threefold Self-Reflection and Heavenly Man Book in other worlds after studying their principles.
• Li Shun attempted to summon the Confucian Sage Statue and found that his strength could move it despite the strain.
• The Ancient Web estimated Li Shun had an eighty-percent chance of ruling the world within a hundred years, but warned that three beings who had lived for over a thousand years could rival Great Qian’s Creation Realm experts.
• Li Shun decided to prepare further and obtained Imperial Academy records on the Agricultural School’s taboo art.

Li Shun studied the risks of the Agricultural School's Reaping Life branch, then sent his consciousness back into the Disorderly Reincarnation World to seek a human body. After six failed reincarnations, he became human, killed and devoured an attacker, and discovered that his growing hunger for slaughter threatened to overwhelm him.

• Li Shun learned that Reaping Life demanded endless slaughter, offered no proven path to the Creation Stage, and could not be abandoned without deadly consequences.
• Li Shun calculated that a hundred years in the Disorderly Reincarnation World would equal roughly three to ten years in Great Qian, then sent a protected thread of consciousness through the door to Mystic Yellow.
• Li Shun spent six reincarnations as other beings, including a tree and a stone, before finally being reborn as a human in his seventh life.
• Li Shun hid among the rocks, used his sharp instincts and a stone blade to kill an ambusher, and absorbed the man's flesh and blood.
• Li Shun sensed that the man's soul still entered Reincarnation and concluded that Reaping Life devoured Heaven and Earth's restored substance, then restrained his own urge to kill and eat.

Li Shun used the Agricultural School's Life-Reaping Art to grow stronger, but learned to hunt cautiously after witnessing a seemingly weak man named Goatee kill a giant with ease. When the Disorderly Reincarnation World's Heavenly Dao marked every living being with a number, Li Shun withdrew to Square Inch and told the Ancient Web what had happened.

• Li Shun devoured a man, gained strength, and copied his appearance and concealment ability through the Life-Reaping Art.
• Li Shun followed an injured-looking Goatee for days, but a towering brute interrupted the hunt and attacked him.
• Goatee froze the brute and killed him with thousands of threads, then searched the area for Li Shun.
• Li Shun hid for three days, fled in the opposite direction, and adopted a more cautious approach to hunting.
• A strange light appeared across the world, and Li Shun saw numbered symbols above himself and every other living being.
• Li Shun withdrew his mind to Square Inch and told the Ancient Web, which explained that the world's Heavenly Dao could sense his thoughts because he had possessed a living body.

Li Shun altered a divine thought to conceal the truth about [Square Inch], then returned to the Disorderly Reincarnation World and struggled with the Heavenly Dao’s exposure of everyone’s strength. After reaching level 30, he confronted Goatee, who exploded rather than fight, and Li Shun suspected the body he devoured was an avatar.

• Li Shun disguised [Square Inch] as a world within Chaos in the divine thought and sent it back through Mystic Yellow's doorway.
• Li Shun found that prey fled after seeing his displayed level, making hunting harder, and learned the Heavenly Dao changed the world to restrain exceptionally powerful beings.
• Li Shun used the Agricultural School's Reaping Life method to reach level 30 over three years.
• Li Shun recognized Goatee, blocked his escape, and saw him explode despite being only two levels weaker.
• Li Shun devoured Goatee's tasteless remains and suspected they belonged to an avatar.

Li Shun pursued Goatee using his blood-scent tracking ability, but his instincts warned him that the trail was a trap. He sent a controlled level-27 prey ahead to investigate, and the creature was seized by a monstrous arm made from flesh and bone.

• Li Shun recalled the six abilities he had kept, including tracking prey by scent and changing his form to mimic anything he had devoured.
• After his danger sense warned him that Goatee's scent was a lure, Li Shun waited for a level-27 prey and used his severed finger to control its body and share its senses.
• The controlled prey reached a barren field where more than a hundred thousand stones bore level symbols, and Li Shun sensed that the stones were watching him.
• Li Shun made the controlled prey flee, revealing faces of agony on every stone as they spoke in unison.
• A huge arm assembled from countless scraps of flesh burst from underground, caught the fleeing prey, and tightened its grip as wails filled the air.

Li Shun learned that Goatee had created the Chaotic Stone Life-Trapping Formation to weaken the Reincarnation Heavenly Dao and discovered the Spirit-Linking Avatar Art in Goatee’s memories. He decided to master the technique and reach level ninety-nine, then began cleaving his own soul to create a doppelganger.

• Li Shun saw the suffering of the beings trapped in the formation and realized Goatee had drained their potential while keeping them from reincarnating.
• Goatee’s memories revealed that he had grown powerful by enduring the pain of his past lives and wanted to break the world’s cycle of reincarnation.
• Li Shun learned that Goatee had used doppelgangers to hunt prey and told him to return once he reached level ninety-nine.
• Li Shun discovered the Spirit-Linking Avatar Art and concluded that he could use Square Inch as shelter while gradually reclaiming control of his soul.
• Li Shun resolved to reach level ninety-nine and cut into his own soul to begin cultivating the technique.

Li Shun divided his soul and created a clone, then spent years producing more incarnations until he had 1,080 scattered across the Reincarnation World. When their advancement stalled at level 80, he sent them all to hunt a powerful creature lurking in a valley.

• Li Shun repeatedly cut his soul until he separated a one-tenth portion, then used it to create a clone with all six of his supernatural abilities.
• The clone hunted and advanced while Li Shun remained hidden, and over the next decade he created 1,080 clones.
• Li Shun realized his clones had reached a bottleneck because prey above level 80 was rare and difficult to defeat.
• Li Shun ordered more than a thousand clones to converge on a valley and attack a reclusive powerhouse nearing level 90.

Li Shun’s clones hunted down and consumed a powerful middle-aged man, allowing Li Shun to reach level ninety. His advancement drew him to a gathering of the world’s strongest beings, where he learned that a colossal statue depicted the creator of the Disorderly Reincarnation World.

• The middle-aged man fled Li Shun’s clones, but they found him again half a month later and launched another attack.
• As clones died, their strength passed to the survivors, and Li Shun’s clones gradually overwhelmed the middle-aged man.
• The middle-aged man tried to escape as dark clouds, but Li Shun’s clones pursued him and consumed his flesh and blood essence.
• Li Shun’s strongest clone absorbed the middle-aged man’s essence and reached level ninety, sensing twenty-eight other powerful presences.
• The twenty-eight beings invited Li Shun to a ruined city, where it appeared restored and an aged voice identified its towering statue as Father God, the world’s creator.

The white-haired old man showed Li Shun the Outer God's past, revealing that the god had divided his power among every living being to give them a chance to grow stronger through reincarnation. The vision ended with the Outer God feeling alarm and dread, leaving Li Shun uncertain about what had disrupted his long-awaited plan.

• The white-haired old man appeared beside Li Shun and questioned whether the Outer God had created the world merely for amusement.
• The old man revealed that the Outer God had also entered the cycle of reincarnation, then drew Li Shun into a vision of the god's past.
• Li Shun witnessed the Outer God divide his power among all living beings, allowing them to awaken unique abilities and gain chances to change their fate across reincarnations.
• Li Shun realized that the twenty-eight presences who had contacted him were likely beings who had risen above the endless slaughter.
• The vision showed the Outer God growing alarmed and afraid before freezing on an image of the Disorderly Reincarnation World.
• The old man explained that the visions came from memories all living beings retained because their lives originated with Father God.

Li Shun’s clone followed the white-haired elder into a statue and learned that the Level 99 figures were nurturing an embryo they believed to be Father God, a supposed successor-selection process that was actually a trap. After the clone was consumed, Li Shun’s original body mourned the loss of his Level 90 clone and wondered why so many powerful figures had gathered and why the embryo still called to his soul.

• The white-haired elder revealed his Level 99 symbol and claimed Father God had created the Reincarnation World to choose a New God.
• The elder led Li Shun into the statue, where twenty-eight figures were connected by threads to a shifting mass of mist.
• Li Shun saw an embryo within the mist and was persuaded by the figures to join them in reviving Father God.
• A thread pierced Li Shun, drained his power, and consumed his clone as his Level 90 symbol rapidly disappeared.
• Li Shun’s original body cursed the trap and questioned why the twenty-eight powerful figures had targeted him and why the embryo still tugged at his soul.

Li Shun learned that the cloud from the Reincarnation World was a phantom revived from the dead Outer God, and that the world’s Heavenly Dao was secretly preparing its Blank Divine Body. He decided to compete for that body, but the Ancient Web told him he first had to become reincarnation itself and seize control of the world’s workings.

• Li Shun escaped the cloud’s corrosive influence by returning his consciousness to Square Inch, where Mystic Yellow Qi stopped the phantom from invading.
• The Ancient Web explained that the cloud was an empty shell revived from the Outer God’s power, gathered from the living beings of the Reincarnation World.
• Li Shun and the Ancient Web concluded that the Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao was manipulating the world’s strongest individuals to create a Blank Divine Body for itself.
• Li Shun realized he could try to claim the Blank Divine Body by growing stronger and challenging the Heavenly Dao.
• The Ancient Web told Li Shun to become reincarnation itself and seize authority over the world’s workings.

Li Shun learned that he needed to awaken the Outer God’s power within his soul to seize reincarnation authority, then struggled to endure the flood of memories needed to do so. After half a year of painful attempts, he found a possible way forward when one of his clones was tortured.

• The Ancient Web explained that Li Shun could awaken the Outer God’s power within his soul and use other beings’ remnant divine power to contend for reincarnation authority.
• Li Shun returned to the Disorderly Reincarnation World, abandoned his drained body, and transferred his consciousness to a level 29 clone.
• Li Shun repeatedly tried to face the memories accumulated in his soul, but after half a year he had reconstructed only sixteen years of his past life.
• One of Li Shun’s clones was repeatedly tortured and healed by a level 50 hunter.
• Hearing the hunter’s words gave Li Shun the idea to transfer the pain of the soul’s memories to someone else.

Li Shun experimented with sharing the memory tsunami among the reincarnating beings and recruited nearly a hundred participants, allowing him to trace his buried memories much further. He found the unusual event he had sought: the day stars fell and the Outer God’s gift entered every living being’s soul.

• Li Shun hid in underwater caverns and captured beings to test whether they could share the burden of his memories.
• After failing to control their souls by force, Li Shun persuaded prisoners to help by promising them a choice of release if he succeeded and threatening to imprison those who refused.
• Five volunteers endured the memory tsunami with Li Shun, proving that sharing the burden worked and letting him last nearly ten times longer.
• Li Shun recruited nearly a hundred participants, whose combined help let him examine memories from countless reincarnations.
• Li Shun found a memory of stars falling like rain, when starlight entered every living being’s soul as the Outer God’s gift.

Li Shun awakened the power of the dead Outer God Zhaoming Tuixiu and gained the ability to see and manipulate reincarnation. He stole a fragment of the god’s light from a newly reborn stone without drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention, and concluded that he now stood on equal footing with it.

• Li Shun witnessed the dead stars of Zhaoming Tuixiu and survived their overwhelming gaze, protected by his body’s earlier blessing.
• Li Shun awakened in the cavern with the kneeling volunteers around him and regained his memories, then discovered he could inspect their reincarnation memories without suffering the Memory Tsunami.
• Li Shun saw the pathways of reincarnation throughout the Reincarnation World and traced a newly reborn consciousness into a stone.
• Li Shun took the radiance within the stone, leaving it without spiritual essence and unable to reincarnate after its current life ended.
• Li Shun found that the theft had not changed his power-level symbol or the world’s reincarnation threads, and reasoned that the Heavenly Dao could no longer perceive his innermost thoughts.