Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Shun accelerated reincarnation to plunge the Disorderly Reincarnation World into chaos as he raced to grow strong enough to confront its Heavenly Dao. The world’s inhabitants began slaughtering one another and stealing divine radiance, causing the reincarnation cycle to collapse, though Li Shun did not know what had triggered the thefts.

• Li Shun continued probing his soul’s ancient reincarnations while his avatars hunted, and he increased the volunteers helping him withstand the memory tsunami.
• Li Shun realized the Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao was secretly hunting living beings faster than his avatars and decided he could no longer wait.
• Li Shun forcibly reincarnated sleeping dead ahead of schedule, disrupting the world and causing the newly reborn to be overwhelmed by memories and madness.
• Li Shun’s avatar witnessed someone steal divine radiance through slaughter, permanently extinguishing the victim and leaving Li Shun baffled about who had caused the change.
• The Reincarnation World’s Heavenly Dao blamed Li Shun as the slaughter and theft of divine radiance began to collapse the cycle of reincarnation.

Li Shun traced a soul back to the primordial origin of life in Chaos and discovered the Radiant Origin Embryo, an ancient Outer God that had become the ancestor of all living beings. He realized that the embryo was an opportunity greater than the blank divine embryo, while questioning where his own original consciousness came from.

• Li Shun abandoned his pretense and had his avatars devour every available source of divine radiance as the Reincarnation World approached collapse.
• The underground volunteers witnessed disloyal people get devoured and chose to help Li Shun endure the memory tsunami, hoping he would become a New God.
• After three months of tracing the soul backward, Li Shun reached a primordial darkness and found a sleeping infant called the Radiant Origin Embryo.
• Li Shun learned that the Radiant Origin Embryo had released its power to become the ancestors of all life in Chaos, but realized his own original consciousness did not belong to its descendants.
• Li Shun deliberately curled into the embryo's posture, grasped the thought that the Dao resembled him, and recognized the Radiant Origin Embryo as an opportunity greater than the blank divine embryo.

Li Shun learned that the Radiant Origin Embryo sought to be reborn through all living beings, then suffered an attack by chaos corruption called Veiled Gloom. The Ancient Web warned him that imitating the embryo could grant him the ability to become any creature, but might ultimately let the embryo take control of him and Square Inch Space.

• Li Shun realized that the Radiant Origin Embryo intended to escape death by being reborn from among the living beings it created.
• Shadows crept into Li Shun's vision and tried to burrow into his consciousness, but he used Square Inch's power to expel them.
• The Ancient Web identified the shadows as Veiled Gloom, the lowest rank among the Nine Orders of Moth-Borers, and explained that stronger forms of chaos corruption existed.
• The Ancient Web explained that imitating the Radiant Origin Embryo could let Li Shun transform completely into any living creature and inherit its innate abilities.
• The Ancient Web warned that if Li Shun failed to preserve his awareness, the Radiant Origin Embryo could take over him and Square Inch Space.

Li Shun rejected the Ancient Web’s warning that he could not control an awakened Outer God and proposed using the remnants of two gods in one body to create a conflict he could exploit. He declared that Square Inch’s power depended on his conviction that he was its invincible master, and his words triggered a tremendous upheaval across Square Inch Mountains.

• The Ancient Web warned Li Shun that even a Sage could not safely control [Radiant Origin Embryo] and said only someone who could withstand the [Nine Orders of Moth-Borers] could subdue an Outer God.
• Li Shun proposed making [Zhaoming Tuixiu]’s Blank Body into a puppet and fashioning [Radiant Origin Embryo]’s true body from it, hoping the two gods would clash.
• The Ancient Web agreed that the gods’ rivalry might benefit Li Shun, but warned that they could join forces and seize Square Inch.
• Li Shun pressed the Ancient Web to aid him, arguing that it too would lose its place if another Outer God took Square Inch.
• Li Shun declared that the Ancient Web did not understand Square Inch, called it his heart, and proclaimed that all gods would submit to him there.
• A tremendous upheaval erupted throughout Square Inch Mountains as Li Shun’s declaration resounded.

Li Shun’s enlightenment transformed Square Inch, separating Square Inch Mountain and beginning a change that Ancient Web recognized as the gestation of a divine descent voice. Li Shun and Ancient Web prepared to counter the gods and returned to the Disorderly Reincarnation World, where Ancient Web discovered that the Blank Divine Body had awakened and caused the chaos.

• Square Inch Mountain rose into the clouds and vanished from ordinary sight as Square Inch underwent a sudden transformation.
• Ancient Web’s peak rose toward Square Inch Mountain, and he realized the changes were gestating a divine descent voice that might let him regain godhood.
• Ancient Web agreed to counterbalance [Radiant Origin Embryo] and [Zhaoming Tuixiu] by joining them in a shared body and sealing away his memories of Li Shun.
• Li Shun tested whether he could bring an imagined flower into the Great Qian World, but it shattered as soon as it arrived.
• Li Shun accompanied Ancient Web to the Disorderly Reincarnation World, where Ancient Web identified the awakened Blank Divine Body as the cause of the world’s chaos.