Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Primeval Holy Lord Ji Changkong nears the end of his 3,000-year life. The Holy Land’s death bell tolls, and its elders mourn his passing and the apparently vanished path to immortality.
• Su Chen, a quiet library disciple and transmigrator, has spent three years waiting for the mysterious system in his mind to activate. It finally does, identifying the world’s damaged Heavenly Dao and nearly erased history as the conditions it needs.
• The Myth Editing System lets Su Chen create legends and phenomena that can become real if influential people witness and believe in them. With his initial 100 Karma Points, he stages an illusory vision of the ancient Heavenly Court’s destruction above the Holy Land.
• The vision reveals ruined celestial palaces, a bloodstained road to heaven, fallen gods, and the corpse of a supreme immortal. Ji Changkong and the gathered elders witness it.
• Ji realizes that immortality is not beyond reach because cultivators of his era are inadequate: the Immortal Path was severed when the ancient Heavenly Court fell. His despair turns to awe and understanding.
• The system rewards Su Chen as Ji and other powerful observers accept the vision as credible, raising the myth’s spread and giving Su Chen thousands of Karma Points.

Character developments

• Su Chen shifts from patient, unobtrusive observer to deliberate myth-maker, using his knowledge of the world’s lost history to influence its powerful figures.
• Ji Changkong moves from bitter resignation over his impending death to a changed understanding of the world’s history. The revelation revives his spirit and briefly restores his vitality, though the chapter does not confirm that his life is saved.

Significant themes

• History and belief shape reality: A convincing myth can alter what the world accepts as its past—and may eventually become actual history.
• Hope amid cosmic ruin: The revelation explains the blocked Immortal Path, replacing personal failure with evidence of an ancient catastrophe.
• Power through knowledge and storytelling: Su Chen’s advantage is not cultivation but his ability to exploit the world’s historical void.
• Mortality and the limits of ambition: Even a revered Holy Lord must confront time, while the collapse of a greater age looms over the present.

Character interactions

• The Holy Land’s elders and peak masters gather around Ji in mourning, sharing his helplessness before his approaching death.
• Su Chen does not meet Ji directly; instead, he addresses Ji’s despair by staging the vision for him and the assembled powerful observers.
• Ji and the elders respond to the spectacle with shock and reverence, while their belief fuels Su Chen’s system and confirms the effectiveness of his plan.

Plot and key events

• After the Fallen Bell’s ninth strike, Primeval Holy Lord Ji Changkong unexpectedly survives. He realizes his inability to reach the Emperor Realm stems not from personal inadequacy but from the broken Heavenly Dao and the severed path to immortality.
• This restored conviction drives away his inner demons, revitalizes his Immortal Platform, and grants him a hundred years of life—though his cultivation level does not increase.
• Ji orders everyone who witnessed the vision to swear an oath of secrecy. He interprets it as a warning from the past: the Heavenly Court once ruled the worlds, but its fall and the ancient war may have cut off the path to immortality.
• The elders accept this explanation and begin to hope that finding the Heavenly Court’s ruins could restore that lost path.
• Su Chen, who secretly engineered the vision, gains 1,500 Karma Points as the leaders’ belief embeds the Heavenly Court’s existence into the realm’s Laws. He decides the vision needs physical evidence and spends 3,000 points to plant an ancient white-jade fragment in Sorrowwind Valley, disguising its immortal aura and age through his system.
• The next morning, disciple Lu Li patrols the valley. His sword reacts to something within, and he hears what sounds like an ancient, mournful ritual hymn.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Changkong changes from a despairing, near-dead ruler into a renewed and resolute leader. His personal revelation also makes him a powerful believer and potential promoter of Su Chen’s fabricated history.
• Su Chen acts as a patient manipulator: he understands that belief needs tangible proof and carefully plants an artifact where it will be discovered under mysterious circumstances.
• Primeval Holy Land’s elders move from shock and confusion to fearful fascination and hope, agreeing with Ji’s explanation and contemplating a search for ancient ruins.
• Lu Li, a low-ranking but spiritually perceptive disciple, becomes the first to notice the planted evidence through his sword’s response and the mysterious sound.

Significant themes

• Conviction and despair: Ji’s renewed belief restores his vitality, suggesting that spiritual collapse can be more destructive than physical decline.
• History shaped by belief: Su Chen’s system rewards collective conviction, and shared belief begins to alter the realm’s Laws.
• Mythmaking and evidence: Su Chen aims to turn a vision into accepted history by supporting it with seemingly authentic artifacts.
• Ambition and uncertainty: The elders’ fear of the fallen Heavenly Court quickly gives way to hope that its remnants might offer a route to immortality.

Plot points and events

• Lu Li investigates an uncanny pull toward Sorrowwind Valley, a forbidden place battered by the Nine Nether Astral Wind. He finds a pristine White Jade Fragment that the wind cannot damage.
• Approaching it triggers a vision of armored figures worshipping a vast gate. The fragment’s power wounds Lu Li and nearly destroys his soul, so he flees and reports it to Heavenly Sword Guest.
• The fragment’s aura matches the Supreme Law seen during the previous night’s vision of the Heavenly Court’s collapse. Heavenly Sword Guest brings Lu Li to Holy Lord Ji Changkong, who gathers senior experts and rushes to the valley.
• Ji Changkong recognizes the fragment as part of the Southern Heavenly Gate, dating its weathering to roughly 120,000 years ago. Contact with it gives him a vision of the Heavenly Court’s fall, its defenders’ retreat, and the sealing of the passage between realms.
• The elders conclude that pieces of the Heavenly Court fell into the Canglan Realm during the ancient cataclysm. Their deductions are mistaken: the fragment is a system-created illusion planted by Su Chen.
• Su Chen gains more than 10,000 Karma Points as the experts accept and spread the myth. But the system warns that the realm’s Heavenly Dao may eventually analyze the fragment and expose the deception. Su Chen plans to protect it with an additional “lock.”
• Hearing that the fragment bears unreadable divine characters, Su Chen sees an opportunity: he intends to present himself as the one who can interpret them.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Li moves from cautious curiosity to terror after encountering the fragment, then proves resourceful by escaping and urgently reporting what he found.
• Heavenly Sword Guest shifts from focused meditation to alarm and excitement. The fragment’s lingering sword intent overwhelms even him, reinforcing his awe of immortal power.
• Ji Changkong eagerly investigates the relic, suffers from its memories, and becomes convinced it confirms the sect’s historical theories.
• Perfected One Ten Thousand Laws uses his expertise in formations and Heavenly Dao principles to interpret the fragment’s effect on space and strengthen the elders’ theory.
• Su Chen calmly exploits the experts’ reactions for Karma Points, but recognizes that the Heavenly Dao poses a real threat to his deception. He prepares to use his apparent knowledge to deepen his influence.

Significant themes

• Myth-making and belief: The elders turn a mysterious relic and prior vision into a persuasive—but false—account of history.
• The limits of mortal understanding: Even the realm’s foremost experts cannot withstand or fully comprehend the fragment’s immortal power.
• Ambition and danger: Lu Li’s desire for strength leads him into forbidden territory, while the elders’ hunger for truth draws them deeper into Su Chen’s scheme.
• Power and manipulation: Su Chen’s control over information and appearances lets him shape powerful figures into instruments of his plans.

Key plot points and events

• Su Chen, a mortal serving in the Primeval Holy Land’s Library Pavilion, checks a system warning: the realm’s Heavenly Dao is analyzing a white jade fragment. Speaking its true name aloud will end that analysis and bind the relic to the realm’s history.
• Primeval Holy Lord Ji Changkong arrives with senior cultivators and seals the pavilion. He reveals that the fragment was found in Sorrowwind Valley after a vision of the ancient Heavenly Court’s collapse, but no one can read its two characters.
• Su Chen claims to remember similar writing on an old, now-destroyed manuscript showing a white jade gate. Under pressure, he gives the characters’ pronunciation.
• The fragment blazes with light, and its meaning becomes clear to everyone: “Southern Heaven.” The Heavenly Dao accepts the name, identifying the relic as part of the foundation of the Southern Heavenly Gate, entrance to the ancient Heavenly Court.

Character developments

• Su Chen presents himself as a nervous, unremarkable mortal, but his knowledge and the relic’s response make him seem far more significant. His calmness and carefully timed explanation leave his true nature uncertain.
• Ji Changkong shifts from focused excitement over the relic to suspicion and awe toward Su Chen, wondering whether he is an ancient being reborn or a guide chosen by the Heavenly Court’s lingering will.
• The senior cultivators move from frustration at their inability to decipher the inscription to exhilaration when its meaning is revealed.

Character interactions

• Ji Changkong and the elders initially treat Su Chen as an inconsequential disciple and try to send him away.
• When Su Chen says the characters look familiar, they urgently question him; Ji Changkong grips his shoulder and presses him for the pronunciation.
• After the fragment awakens, the cultivators’ attitude toward Su Chen changes dramatically—from dismissal to wary fascination.

Significant themes

• Hidden identity and power: An apparent mortal may possess knowledge beyond the realm’s greatest cultivators.
• Words shaping reality: Speaking the relic’s true name changes how the Heavenly Dao recognizes it.
• Lost history reclaimed: Naming the Southern Heavenly Gate restores a piece of the ancient Heavenly Court’s past to the world.
• Uncertainty and suspicion: The miraculous event prompts the powerful to seek explanations beyond coincidence.

Key plot points and events

• Ji Changkong and the other powerful cultivators interpret Su Chen’s knowledge of “Southern Heaven” and his earlier discoveries as signs that he is a reincarnated or concealed figure connected to the ancient Heavenly Court.
• Convinced that Su Chen is deliberately hiding his nature, Ji Changkong promotes him from menial disciple to Special Guest Elder, granting him peak-master status, access to all the Library Pavilion’s texts, top-tier resources, and protection for his seclusion.
• Ji Changkong orders the Primeval Holy Land and its affiliated kingdoms and sects to search across the Canglan Realm for ancient fragments, offering substantial rewards. The search is meant to uncover more traces of the Heavenly Court and its lost path to immortality.
• After the leaders leave with the stabilized Southern Heavenly Gate fragment, Su Chen checks his system. His Heavenly Court myth has spread to 12%, earning him 10,900 Karma Points.
• Su Chen plans to broaden the myth’s influence. He considers buying an 8,000-point inheritance of Erlang, the Illustrious Sage and True Lord, which would empower an agent whose feats would generate karma for him.
• He chooses Lin Qiye, a once-brilliant Holy Land disciple who has fallen from favor, as the likely recipient.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Changkong shifts from suspicion and intimidation to reverence and protection, treating Su Chen as a potentially ancient, immensely powerful being.
• The Heavenly Sword Guest and Perfected One Ten Thousand Laws share Ji Changkong’s suspicions and accept Su Chen’s promotion without objection. Ten Thousand Laws carries out the search order.
• Su Chen calmly plays into their mistaken belief while concealing his true purpose: using the Heavenly Court legend to gain status, safety, and influence. He accepts the appointment because it gives him freedom and cover.
• Su Chen’s strategy develops from exploiting a single artifact and rumor to building a larger operation: he intends to empower an agent rather than fight directly, using that person’s public achievements to expand his own influence.

Significant themes

• Mythmaking and belief: The leaders turn Su Chen’s ambiguous actions into proof of a grand Heavenly Court connection, strengthening the very legend he is cultivating.
• Power through misdirection: Su Chen gains authority not through open force, but by letting others misread him.
• Indirect control: He sees agents and public displays of power as safer, more effective tools than personal combat.
• Protection and opportunity: Others’ reverence gives Su Chen both security and the freedom to advance his plans.

Plot points and events

• Lin Qiye, once the Primeval Holy Land’s greatest young prodigy, was left blind, without cultivation, and with a shattered Sword Heart after sacrificing himself to seal demonic qi during the Demon-Sealing Calamity.
• Now isolated on the forsaken Falling Geese Peak, he sharpens a broken sword and mourns not his lost status but the end of his sword path.
• Su Chen, a seemingly ordinary Library Pavilion sweeper whose presence Lin Qiye cannot detect, confronts him with the idea that the Heavenly Dao itself may be broken. He offers Lin Qiye a chance to gain power beyond it, at the cost of bearing the karma of 120,000 lost years and opposing the terror that destroyed the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Qiye accepts without hesitation, reaffirming the same courage that once led him to face the demons alone. Su Chen promises to grant him an opportunity in a dream.
• That night, Lin Qiye’s usual pain eases and he falls into unusually deep sleep. In a dream, his sight returns, and he finds himself before the ruins of the Southern Heavenly Gate, beside a golden river.
• A divine hound and a mighty god appear. The god identifies himself as Yang Jian, Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord, and asks Lin Qiye to accept his Heavenly Eye and inherit his warrior spirit.

Character developments

• Lin Qiye remains humble and composed despite his fall, but his longing to wield a sword again reveals that his resolve has never truly died. He willingly embraces a perilous, world-spanning burden.
• Su Chen emerges as a mysterious figure with knowledge of the Heavenly Court’s collapse and the power to initiate Lin Qiye’s transformation. His calm, cryptic manner suggests greater authority than he admits.
• Yang Jian is introduced as a commanding, godlike presence, offering Lin Qiye a chance to inherit divine power and purpose.

Significant themes

• Resilience and purpose: Lin Qiye’s body and cultivation are broken, but his will remains intact.
• Sacrifice and duty: His past defense of the disciples and his new willingness to shoulder immense karma both express his commitment to protecting what he believes in.
• A flawed cosmic order: Su Chen challenges the assumption that heaven’s established path is just or sound.
• Inheritance and rebirth: The offer of Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye hints that Lin Qiye’s fallen life may become the beginning of a new legacy.

Character interactions

• Su Chen speaks to Lin Qiye with unusual directness, recognizing his enduring defiance rather than offering pity. Their exchange turns Lin Qiye’s despair into a deliberate commitment.
• Lin Qiye responds to Su Chen’s challenge with a solemn vow, accepting the danger of becoming an enemy of the force that destroyed the Heavenly Court.
• In the dream, Yang Jian addresses Lin Qiye directly and asks him to accept the Heavenly Eye and carry on his warrior spirit, setting up the next stage of Lin Qiye’s journey.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Qiye accepts Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord Yang Jian’s inheritance and the responsibility of opposing the “great horror” that destroyed the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Jian transfers the Eight-Nine Profound Art and visions of the Heavenly Court’s destruction into Lin Qiye. The inheritance triggers a painful transformation: his demonic poison is expelled, his ruined meridians and Qi Sea are rebuilt, and a golden mark—his awakened Heavenly Eye—appears on his forehead.
• By morning, Lin Qiye has regained his sight and senses, and gained extraordinary strength. When he grips his Broken Sword, the art’s divine power restores part of its blade and gives it a golden sword glow.
• Lin Qiye leaves Falling Geese Peak, determined not merely to reclaim his standing but to begin the Heavenly Court’s fight in the present world.
• In the Library Pavilion, Su Chen learns that Lin Qiye has fused with the inheritance at 15% and awakened the Heavenly Eye. The resulting mythic spread earns Su Chen 18,000 Karma Points and transfers a trace of Yang Jian’s divine power to him.
• Knowing Lin Qiye is not yet ready for the scrutiny and danger ahead, Su Chen plans the next stage of his scheme: unlocking the Myriad Worlds Projection Mirror to stage a grand display that will protect Lin Qiye and deepen the myth’s impact.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qiye turns two years of suffering into resolve. He accepts an immense inherited duty without hesitation and meets his restored power with caution rather than triumphalism.
• Yang Jian appears as a proud, commanding mentor, entrusting Lin Qiye with both his art and the burden of the Heavenly Court’s legacy.
• Su Chen remains a calculating mastermind. He treats Lin Qiye’s awakening as the first move in a larger plan, while the karmic feedback subtly strengthens him.
• Lin Qiye’s encounter with Yang Jian is the chapter’s central personal interaction: a god tests and empowers a mortal successor. Su Chen, meanwhile, watches Lin Qiye from afar and prepares to shape the response of the wider world.

Significant themes

• Resilience and renewal: Lin Qiye’s physical reconstruction reflects the hardening of his spirit through hardship.
• Inheritance and responsibility: Gaining divine power also means accepting the consequences of the Heavenly Court’s destruction.
• Myth as power: The spread of the Heavenly Court’s story produces real karmic rewards and influences events.
• Preparation amid danger: Lin Qiye begins his mission before he is fully ready, while Su Chen works behind the scenes to shield him and steer the coming turmoil.

Key events

• After two years of seclusion on Falling Geese Peak, Lin Qiye descends to the Sword-Washing Pool. His sight and body have been restored, and he carries a Broken Sword. Though he gives off no ordinary spiritual power, his presence makes nearby spirit swords tremble and submit.
• Elder Zhao tries to examine Lin Qiye with his divine sense, but a trace of Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord Yang Jian’s divine will overwhelms him and nearly shatters his soul.
• Lin Qiye asks to see the Holy Lord, claiming an ancient divine connection and promising to restore the Canglan Realm’s severed path to immortality.
• Ji Changkong connects Lin Qiye’s recovery to recent events: Su Chen’s knowledge of the Southern Heavenly Gate, the discovery of an ancient immortal relic, and the vision of the Heavenly Court’s collapse. He concludes that Su Chen is a guide and Lin Qiye the chosen heir of the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Qiye explains that a dream carried his soul through time, where a mighty god bestowed a divine art that healed him. He names the god as Yang Jian. Convinced by the account, the Holy Lord reinstates him as First Holy Son and orders the sect to protect and support him.
• Su Chen secretly observes the events, gains Karma Points, and prepares to use the Myriad Worlds Projection Mirror to make surrounding powers fear the return of myth.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qiye returns from ruin with restored sight and a new, overwhelming power. He remains composed before Elder Zhao and the three powerful leaders, speaking with dignity rather than boasting.
• Elder Zhao shifts from stern authority to fear after his probe is repelled, then urgently reports Lin Qiye’s return.
• Ji Changkong moves from astonishment to fervent belief, interpreting events as the Heavenly Court’s will and elevating Lin Qiye immediately.
• Heavenly Sword Guest senses that Lin Qiye’s power surpasses even his supreme sword path, while Perfected One Ten Thousand Laws shares the leaders’ shock.
• Su Chen remains behind the scenes, treating Lin Qiye as his proxy and the Primeval Holy Land as his foothold.

Significant themes

• Mythic power returning to a broken world: Yang Jian’s legacy may offer a way to restore the path to immortality.
• Faith and interpretation: The leaders assemble scattered clues into a grand theory, quickly becoming convinced that Lin Qiye is the Heavenly Court’s chosen successor.
• Power and status reversal: The crippled former prodigy returns to command reverence and receives the highest rank in the sect.
• Hidden influence and proxies: Su Chen advances his plans indirectly by guiding events through Lin Qiye and the Holy Land.

Plot points and events

• Su Chen spends 20,000 Karma Points to project a mythic vision across three star domains and dozens of worlds, causing the laws of nature and light to tremble everywhere.
• A colossal Chaos mirror appears, announcing the Myriad Heavens Mythic Rankings, beginning with the Thirty-Six Generals of the Ancient Heavenly Court and the Cataclysm of Gods and Demons.
• The projection reveals the Heavenly Court at its height, then shows it battling a corrupting darkness that destroys stars and collapses the Great Dao. Its thirty-six generals fight desperately against the demonic tide.
• Lin Qiye recognizes Yang Jian—Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord—fighting several overwhelming enemies. His inherited power responds, confirming his connection to the god.
• Ji Changkong publicly declares Lin Qiye the heir to Erlang’s legacy. Primeval Holy Land’s disciples celebrate, while observers across the heavens realize Canglan Realm holds a divine heir.
• Powerful factions dispatch forces to investigate Canglan Realm, turning it into the likely center of a coming conflict.
• Su Chen’s projection succeeds spectacularly: awareness of the Heavenly Court rises, and his Karma Points reach 211,900. He prepares his next revelation: the Netherworld and Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Character developments

• Lin Qiye moves from being a newly appointed First Holy Son whose divine inheritance might be doubted to a publicly validated heir. Seeing Yang Jian’s defiance also intensifies his grief, resolve, and fighting spirit.
• Ji Changkong gains confirmation that Lin Qiye’s claims—and Su Chen’s account of the Heavenly Court—are true, and becomes an emphatic advocate for the Holy Son.
• Su Chen remains composed and strategic, treating the upheaval as a successful expansion of his influence and planning an even greater revelation.

Significant themes

• Myth becoming history: The projection turns the Heavenly Court from a disputed legend into a truth witnessed across the worlds.
• Scale and upheaval: Even the mightiest known cultivators are rendered insignificant by the ancient war and its enemies.
• Sacrifice and resistance: The divine generals, especially Yang Jian, stand against annihilation despite overwhelming odds.
• Power through belief and revelation: Public recognition of Lin Qiye’s legacy both legitimizes him and draws dangerous attention to Canglan Realm.

Character interactions

• Ji Changkong and the elders react with awe as Lin Qiye’s connection to Yang Jian becomes visible; Ji then presents that connection to the disciples as proof of the Holy Son’s status.
• Lin Qiye silently confronts the image of Yang Jian, whose declaration of resistance stirs his inherited power and resolve.
• Across the wider worlds, ancient cultivators and demon rulers respond with fear and curiosity, then direct their attention—and forces—toward Canglan Realm.

Plot points and events

• The vision of the Myriad Heavens Mythic Rankings sends the universe into upheaval. Fearing death and hoping to seize the secrets of immortality, powerful factions mobilize against the Canglan Realm and Lin Qiye, believed to hold the legacy of Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord.
• True Lord Kurong of the Heavenly Frost Immortal Sect leads a massive invasion, despite having only three months left to live. Demon forces and other ancient factions also converge on the realm.
• At the Primeval Holy Land, Ji Changkong orders the Primeval Myriad Immortals Array activated and vows to defend Lin Qiye. Lin, equally resolved, declares he will fight anyone who threatens the Heavenly Court’s legacy.
• Su Chen remains calm in the Library Pavilion. He recognizes that the universe lacks an afterlife and that this absence fuels the old cultivators’ desperate fear of death. Spending 150,000 Karma Points, he creates the beginnings of a Netherworld: the Yellow Springs Road, the Ghost Gate, and laws to receive the dead and separate yin from yang.
• As Kurong reaches the Canglan Realm and demands Lin Qiye surrender, a deathly bell tolls. Kurong’s remaining lifespan vanishes; his body crumbles to ash, and his soul is claimed by the newly manifested Netherworld. Black-and-white officials announce that his time is up and order him through the Ghost Gate toward reincarnation.

Character developments

• True Lord Kurong shifts from a formidable, desperate invader to the first victim of the new law of death. His obsession with extending his life ends in terror and helplessness.
• Ji Changkong, strengthened by his renewed lifespan, demonstrates renewed courage and leadership, placing the Holy Land’s resources and his own life behind Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye responds to the threat with calm confidence and fierce determination to protect Erlang’s legacy.
• Su Chen reveals a larger purpose: rather than merely countering the invasion, he uses the crisis to establish cosmic order over death.

Significant themes

• Fear of death and the limits of power: Even an ancient powerhouse cannot defy the end of his allotted life.
• Order versus greed: The invaders seek personal survival and power, while Su Chen acts to fill a fundamental gap in the universe’s laws.
• The return of myth and cosmic change: The creation of the Netherworld marks a transformative new era, extending divine order beyond the world of the living.
• Courage and loyalty: Ji Changkong and Lin Qiye choose resistance and protection over surrender.

Character interactions

• Kurong and the invading factions threaten Lin Qiye, prompting Ji Changkong and Lin to unite in defense of the Holy Land.
• Su Chen acts independently of the confrontation, but his creation of the Netherworld abruptly changes its outcome: Kurong is claimed before battle can begin.
• The Netherworld’s officials deliver the first direct judgment under its new law, declaring Kurong’s lifespan exhausted and directing his soul toward reincarnation.

Key plot points and events

• True Lord Kurong, an ancient Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator whose lifespan has ended, resists being claimed by the Netherworld. Black and White Impermanence overpower him: Black Impermanence’s Soul-Reaping Chain pierces and drags his soul to the Ghost Gate, where he is sent into the Six Paths of Reincarnation for judgment.
• The Heavenly Frost Immortal Sect and other powerful observers witness the execution. Realizing the Netherworld governs death even for the mightiest, they abandon their plans to seize the Canglan Realm’s inheritance and flee.
• At the Primeval Holy Land, Ji Changkong concludes that the Ancient Heavenly Court ruled the living while the Netherworld ruled the dead. Lin Qiye, sensing a resonance between his Golden Mark and the Netherworld’s laws, vows to support the return of myth.
• In the Library Pavilion, Su Chen learns that the spectacle has dramatically strengthened belief in the Heavenly Court and Netherworld across several realms, earning him 530,000 Karma Points. He declares the Netherworld’s authority established and prepares to manifest Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun preaches the Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• True Lord Kurong shifts from defiant confidence to helpless terror, pleading for mercy before being taken; his fate demonstrates that great power cannot overcome the laws of death.
• Black and White Impermanence act as calm, uncompromising agents of Netherworld law. White Impermanence announces the judgment, while Black Impermanence destroys Kurong’s resistance and delivers him through the Ghost Gate.
• Ji Changkong moves from awe to understanding, interpreting the event as proof of the Ancient Heavenly Court’s cosmic order. He addresses Lin Qiye with heightened reverence.
• Lin Qiye recognizes the shared origin of his Golden Mark and the Netherworld’s laws, strengthening his resolve to defend the mythic inheritance.
• Su Chen remains composed and strategic, treating the event as both a successful demonstration and a major increase in his resources and influence.

Significant themes

• The limits of worldly power: Even a near-immortal powerhouse cannot resist death once his allotted lifespan ends.
• Cosmic order and dual authority: The Heavenly Court governs life, while the Netherworld governs death and reincarnation.
• Fear as proof and persuasion: Kurong’s public fate convinces witnesses that myth is real more forcefully than any claim could.
• The spread of belief: Awe and terror strengthen myth’s presence across multiple realms, advancing Su Chen’s larger plan.

Key plot points and events

• The Netherworld’s intervention shocks the universe: the Heavenly Frost Immortal Sect’s ancestor, Old Monster Kurong, is seized by Black and White Impermanence and cast into Avici Hell. Cultivators learn that when their allotted lifespan ends, even their primordial spirits cannot escape death or reincarnation.
• Terrified sects and powerful figures withdraw from the Canglan Realm. The Heavenly Frost Immortal Sect seals itself for ten thousand years, while news of the Heavenly Court and Netherworld’s return spreads across the surrounding worlds.
• The Canglan Realm’s status changes dramatically. Once dismissed as a lesser realm, it is now regarded as a sacred place where mythic forces have reawakened. Many sects begin treating the Primeval Holy Land and Lin Qiye with reverence.
• At the Primeval Holy Land, visitors arrive hoping to ally themselves with the sect. Lin Qiye, strengthened by his inheritance of True Lord Erlang’s legacy, chooses to seek guidance from Su Chen.
• Lin Qiye asks what destroyed the Heavenly Court and shattered the Netherworld, how he could oppose that threat, and whether the severed path to immortality can be restored. Su Chen refuses to reveal the “great terror,” warning that the truth could break Lin Qiye’s resolve.
• Instead, Su Chen introduces two greater mysteries: Zixiao Palace and the Primordial World. He predicts that a coming mythic vision will draw powerful figures from across the myriad worlds to compete for the chance to “hear the Dao.”

Character development and interactions

• Lin Qiye has shifted from a revived Holy Son into a determined inheritor who wants to understand the larger cosmic threat and prepare to face it. He remains humble about his status, crediting divine intervention for his survival.
• Su Chen continues to appear mild and unassuming, but his control over events and knowledge of hidden mythic forces are increasingly clear. He sees Lin Qiye as a willing representative who can carry the mythic legacy forward.
• Ji Changkong is proud of Lin Qiye and assumes Su Chen can guide him further in Erlang’s inheritance. He protects Su Chen’s privacy by declaring the Library Pavilion area off-limits.
• Lin Qiye approaches Su Chen with deep respect; Su Chen responds warmly but steers him toward a broader mystery rather than answering directly.

Significant themes

• The limits of cultivation: The Netherworld’s law makes death unavoidable, overturning cultivators’ belief that power can defeat mortality.
• Myth returning to the world: The Heavenly Court and Netherworld reshape how people understand history, cosmic order, and the broken path to immortality.
• Power, knowledge, and preparation: Lin Qiye seeks answers, but Su Chen suggests that some truths must be approached gradually.
• Escalating scale: The story expands beyond the Canglan Realm toward Zixiao Palace, the Primordial World, and a coming contest among the myriad worlds.

Chapter Summary

• Lin Qiye learns of a deeper cosmic history. After leaving the Library Pavilion, he is shaken by Su Chen’s references to Zixiao Palace and the Primordial World. He realizes that the Ancient Heavenly Court and Netherworld—previously the greatest mysteries he knew—may be only parts of a far older era that shaped the source of all cultivation. Taking Su Chen’s revelation as both encouragement and a test, Lin Qiye begins training the Eight-Nine Profound Art, determined to perfect his Heavenly God battle soul and eventually confront the hidden power behind the crisis.
• Su Chen plans a much larger strategy. In the pavilion, Su Chen reviews his 530,000 karma points and concludes that fear and force alone cannot win the lasting loyalty of the universe’s great powers. What cultivators truly seek is longevity, a renewed path forward, and restoration of the Immortal Dao, lost for 120,000 years. He therefore aims to present Zixiao Palace as the primordial source behind the cultivation systems of the Canglan Realm and the myriad heavens.
• Su Chen commits nearly all his resources to the Zixiao plan. He selects three costly system entries: the unfolding of primordial chaos, the manifestation of Zixiao Palace and its Dao resonance, and a mechanism for inviting chosen powerhouses to hear the Dao. Spending 480,000 karma points, he begins the first-stage projection across the Canglan Realm and dozens of surrounding great worlds. The chapter ends as the primordial phenomenon begins and the laws of the realms and star domains tremble.

Character Development and Interactions

Lin Qiye responds to Su Chen’s revelation with awe but also renewed discipline, turning unsettling knowledge into a reason to grow stronger. Su Chen, meanwhile, reveals himself as a strategic and ambitious force: he intends not merely to intimidate powerful figures, but to draw them into a system built around the promise of a greater Dao. Their interaction is mostly indirect—Su Chen’s earlier disclosure shapes Lin Qiye’s resolve, while Su Chen proceeds with a plan whose consequences will reach far beyond their immediate surroundings.

Significant Themes

• Hidden layers of history: The Heavenly Court and Netherworld may be only fragments of a much older cosmic order.
• Knowledge as a test and a catalyst: Su Chen’s revelation challenges Lin Qiye to prepare for dangers beyond his current understanding.
• Influence through hope as well as fear: Su Chen recognizes that lasting allegiance depends on offering a future, not merely demonstrating power.
• High-stakes investment: He risks nearly all his accumulated resources on a sweeping attempt to reshape how the universe understands the Dao.

Key events

• Across the myriad worlds, powerful cultivators are still reeling from the Netherworld’s appearance when a deeper supernatural force makes their souls tremble and compels them to submit.
• The starry sky dissolves into primordial Chaos, where a broken Ancient Jade Tablet appears, surrounded by the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• A dark-robed old Daoist manifests beneath the tablet. His presence stills the raging chaos and halts cultivators’ techniques, demonstrating a level of authority beyond their understanding.
• The Daoist reveals Zixiao Palace and identifies himself as Hongjun, the source and supreme teacher of the Great Dao. He announces that he has brought forth the Primordial World and will teach the Immortal Dao, beginning with a lecture on the Three Thousand Great Daos and the path to ascension.
• Access requires a Zixiao Dao-Hearing Edict. The promise of ascension sends the old, powerful cultivators into an intense scramble to obtain one.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Changkong kneels in awe, recognizing Hongjun as the source of the laws rather than an emperor or immortal.
• Lin Qiye feels the Golden Mark and the Eight-Nine Profound Art respond to Hongjun’s manifestation. He wonders whether this is the Primordial World his True Lord described.
• The ancient sect leaders and Tribulation Transcendence experts—once proud and powerful—are reduced to prostration by Hongjun’s authority. After hearing his promise, their reverence turns to desperate ambition.
• Cultivators across the worlds collectively react to Hongjun: first with fear and worship, then with excitement and competition for a place at his lecture.

Significant themes

• The hierarchy of power: Even the strongest cultivators’ laws and techniques are insignificant beside Hongjun’s mastery of the Great Dao.
• Revelation and cosmic renewal: The universe’s apparent return to Chaos precedes the manifestation of a new Primordial World and a higher spiritual order.
• Fear of death versus hope of ascension: The recent terror of the Netherworld makes Hongjun’s promise of a path beyond mortal limits especially compelling.
• Ambition and access: The Dao-Hearing Edict turns the promise of enlightenment into a new contest among the powerful.

Key plot points and events

• After Hongjun’s vision fades, excitement over Zixiao Palace intensifies across the three star domains and thirty-seven Great Thousand Worlds. Powerful sects and ancient cultivators urgently search for the seven rumored Dao-Hearing Edicts.
• The Canglan Realm, once considered insignificant, becomes a sacred destination. Great factions send lavish gifts to the Primeval Holy Land, hoping to gain access to the edicts.
• Lin Qiye advises Holy Lord Ji Changkong to accept the gifts but refuse audiences, telling visitors to wait for the heavenly decree rather than try to buy an opportunity.
• In the Library Pavilion, Su Chen sees that his manufactured mythology has been accepted widely: acceptance is complete in Canglan and above 80% in several major realms. His Karma Points rise to 1.65 million.
• Su Chen creates seven edicts for the first sermon. He guarantees seats to Lin Qiye and Ji Changkong, assigns three to major rulers from other realms, and leaves the final two for wandering elders and fortunate newcomers to contest.
• He releases the seven purple-gold seals across the worlds, intensifying the race for Zixiao’s seats.

Character developments

• Su Chen grows more confident in his ability to shape the universe’s beliefs and events. Seeing his myth accepted as history, he now deliberately manipulates scarcity and competition to increase its influence.
• Lin Qiye acts as a composed strategist, counseling patience and reinforcing the Primeval Holy Land’s authority.
• Ji Changkong gains confidence and status through Lin Qiye’s backing, and accepts his advice without hesitation.

Significant themes

• Belief as power: Collective acceptance transforms Su Chen’s invented mythology into the worlds’ accepted truth and earns him immense Karma.
• Scarcity and ambition: Limiting the number of seats makes the opportunity more desirable and drives powerful factions to compete.
• Power and legitimacy: The Primeval Holy Land’s influence rises as others seek its favor, while its leaders use the edicts to reward allies and placate rivals.
• Manipulation behind appearances: What looks like a divinely ordained contest is being carefully engineered by Su Chen.

Character interactions

• Ancestors and sect leaders pressure Ji Changkong to pursue the edicts; he consults Lin Qiye, who urges them to accept offerings but deny private access.
• Ji Changkong follows Lin Qiye’s guidance, strengthening their alliance and the Holy Land’s position.
• Su Chen’s choices shape the fortunes of Lin Qiye, Ji Changkong, and powerful rulers across the realms, while the two unassigned seats invite conflict among unknown contenders.

Key plot points and events

• Su Chen sends seven Zixiao Dao-Hearing Edicts into the heavens, granting their bearers a place at Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s lecture. Their appearance triggers a fierce scramble among powerful cultivators hoping for a path to ascension.
• Two edicts reach the Primeval Holy Land: Lin Qiye receives the first, and Holy Lord Ji Changkong the second. Both become permanent purple-gold lotus marks.
• The other seats go to the Supreme Mystery True Lord, demon ancestor Tu Shanye, and the Netherworld Blood Emperor. The last two are won after three days of deadly fighting: one by the wandering cultivator Canghai Old Daoist, and the other by Ye Chen, a seventeen-year-old former servant born with the Primordial Desolate Physique.
• With all seven seats filled, Su Chen reflects that each recipient represents a major faction or social group. He prepares to activate his final manifestation and summon them to Zixiao Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Character developments

• Lin Qiye receives the edict with reverence, recognizing the Library Pavilion’s connection to the opportunity before returning to meditation.
• Ji Changkong is overwhelmed with gratitude. Near the end of his lifespan, he sees the edict as a culmination of the hope Su Chen and the revived Heavenly Court and Netherworld restored in him.
• Canghai Old Daoist secures a seat at great personal cost, burning half his soul’s essence.
• Ye Chen rises suddenly from discarded sect servant to one of the universe’s most fortunate figures.
• Su Chen reveals that the recipients were chosen as representatives of different paths and factions, suggesting the edicts are part of a deliberate design.

Significant themes

• Power, opportunity, and competition: The promise of ascension drives even ancient elites into violent conflict.
• Fate and merit: The edicts reach both formidable leaders and an obscure young cultivator, implying that destiny can overturn status.
• Order amid chaos: Though the scramble is bloody, the seven chosen recipients form a purposeful balance among the heavens’ factions.
• Gratitude and hope: Ji Changkong’s response highlights how renewed belief can transform despair.

Character interactions

• Su Chen’s actions shape the fortunes of all seven recipients, while his earlier guidance and the support of the Heavenly Court and Netherworld inform Ji Changkong’s gratitude.
• Lin Qiye silently connects his edict to the Library Pavilion and turns back to contemplation.
• The other factions respond defensively or triumphantly: the Supreme Mystery True Lord seals his sect, Tu Shanye and the Netherworld Blood Emperor claim their marks, and the wider heavens descend into battle over the remaining seats.
• The chapter ends with Su Chen inviting the seven bearers to follow him beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens for the lecture.

Key events

• The seven bearers of Zixiao Dao-Hearing Edicts—Lin Qiye, Ji Changkong, Supreme Mystery True Lord, Tu Shanye, Netherworld Blood Emperor, Canghai Old Daoist, and Ye Chen—have their souls transported beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens to Zixiao Palace.
• Inside, they find six Chaos Prayer Mats beneath the Dao Ancestor’s seat, despite there being seven listeners. Each mat represents a distinct cosmic order or fortune.
• Lin Qiye, Ji Changkong, Supreme Mystery True Lord, Tu Shanye, and Netherworld Blood Emperor each recognize the seat aligned with their role and claim the first five mats.
• The final mat, symbolizing new life and possibility, is left between Canghai Old Daoist and the low-ranked Ye Chen. Canghai realizes that Ye Chen’s unlikely selection makes him the rightful occupant, so he steps aside and gives him the seat.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appears, praises Canghai for understanding his place and resisting greed, and grants him a special near-seat made of Creation Purple Qi. With all seven placed, the listeners bow to the Dao Ancestor, marking the start of the first lesson.

Character developments and interactions

• Canghai Old Daoist shows humility and discernment by yielding the last mat rather than claiming it through age or cultivation. His generosity earns him the Dao Ancestor’s recognition and a unique seat.
• Ye Chen, initially overwhelmed by the gathering of powerful figures, accepts Canghai’s guidance and takes the seat. He thanks the elder with respect.
• The five powerful claimants each identify the mat matching their influence and cosmic role, demonstrating their understanding of the stakes. They respond with admiration to Canghai’s choice.
• The Dao Ancestor rewards insight and restraint, reinforcing that each listener has a place beyond mere strength or status.

Significant themes

• Cause, effect, and rightful place: The gathering’s arrangement reflects deeper cosmic order rather than a simple contest for status.
• Humility over greed: Canghai’s willingness to yield brings him greater recognition than forceful ambition might have.
• Potential and destiny: Ye Chen’s low cultivation contrasts with the significance of the seat he is chosen to occupy, suggesting that fortune and future promise may outweigh present power.
• Diverse roles in a greater order: The seats correspond to different forces in the universe, and the listeners’ distinct places together complete that order.

Plot points and events

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun begins his first lecture in Zixiao Palace, using simple principles of the Great Dao rather than specific cultivation techniques.
• He reveals that the familiar cultivation stages of the Canglan Realm were only steps designed for weaker beings. Tribulation Transcendence and the Great Emperor title merely approach the entrance to the Immortal Dao.
• Hongjun outlines the broader hierarchy: Ghost, Human, Earth, Divine, and Heavenly Immortals, followed by True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi, and Daluo.
• The seven listeners absorb the lecture as their understanding is transformed. Golden lotuses and immortal light fill the palace.
• At the lecture’s end, Hongjun grants each listener a Purple-Gold Dao Seal containing its core insights. He sends them back to their bodies, and Zixiao Palace closes into silence.

Character developments and interactions

• Supreme Mystery True Lord is devastated to realize that the realm he spent millennia pursuing is still far below true immortality. His tears mark the collapse of his former worldview.
• Netherworld Blood Emperor gains a new understanding of why even powerful Tribulation Transcendence cultivators remain vulnerable, and becomes intensely eager to pursue immortality.
• Tu Shanye responds with reverence, bowing to Hongjun and acknowledging the limits of mortal understanding.
• Ye Chen experiences a dramatic awakening: his Primordial Desolate Physique absorbs Creation Immortal Light, restoring his strength and sharpening his comprehension.
• Lin Qiye feels the lecture resonate with his Eight-Nine Profound Art and warrior’s Dao-heart, glimpsing the art’s potential to reach Daluo or beyond.
• Canghai Old Daoist, having released his attachments and yielded to heaven’s course, understands the lecture deeply and shows signs of becoming a Loose Immortal.
• The listeners collectively bow in gratitude to Hongjun, whose teaching overturns their assumptions and gives them a new path to follow.

Significant themes

• The limits of mortal knowledge: Even the most powerful cultivators have mistaken a small part of the cosmos for its whole.
• The Great Dao beneath technique: Cultivation methods and realms are frameworks; true understanding comes from grasping the principles governing existence.
• Transformation through humility: Releasing pride and obsession allows characters to receive deeper insight.
• A vast hierarchy of existence: The familiar summit of cultivation is only the threshold of a much greater Immortal Dao.

Key plot points and events

• The seven listeners return from Zixiao Palace, and their lecture’s influence spreads across Canglan Realm and neighboring worlds. Heavenly signs—auspicious clouds, falling blossoms, Golden Lotuses, and Dao music—accompany the event, while ordinary cultivators also benefit from sudden breakthroughs.
• Lin Qiye advances to the second level of the Eight-Nine Profound Art, gaining an adamantine body and opening his Heavenly Eye. He recognizes that cultivation’s ultimate destination lies in the greater Immortal Dao, beyond Canglan Realm.
• Ji Changkong breaks through a thousand-year bottleneck, reaching Half-Step Human Immortal. He credits the Dao Ancestor, the Heavenly Court, and Su Chen rather than himself.
• Powerful figures across multiple realms undergo dramatic transformations: Supreme Mystery True Lord adopts Xuanmen teachings; Tu Shanye converts his demonic energy into auspicious Immortal Dao energy; Netherworld Blood Emperor turns from the demonic path and establishes the Asura Teaching; young Ye Chen reaches Golden Core; and Canghai Old Daoist becomes a Loose Immortal.
• These events convince skeptical powers throughout the surrounding worlds to embrace Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Xuanmen, making the Immortal Dao dominant.
• In the Library Pavilion, Su Chen learns that the “Primordial World,” Zixiao Palace, Immortal Dao ranks, and Orthodox Xuanmen have become accepted reality. His system reports that he has effectively overwritten the local Heavenly Dao and grants him 6.3 million Karma Points.
• Now a supreme power within the surrounding star domains, Su Chen decides to use his new resources to bring the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation and Witch-Demon Calamity into the real world.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qiye becomes physically and spiritually far more powerful, and his understanding of cultivation expands beyond his home realm.
• Ji Changkong regains youth and vitality after his breakthrough. He publicly shows reverence by bowing toward the Library Pavilion, while the Heavenly Sword Guest, Perfected One Ten Thousand Laws, and other elders celebrate him.
• Supreme Mystery True Lord, Tu Shanye, and Netherworld Blood Emperor all abandon or transform their former paths in response to the teachings. Their changes help persuade other factions to follow Xuanmen.
• Su Chen shifts from concealed “scriptwriter” to the effective ruler of the Heavenly Dao in his region. Calmly dusting books, he quietly prepares a far more ambitious next act.

Significant themes

• Faith reshapes reality: widespread acceptance of Xuanmen teachings literally reconstructs the Heavenly Dao.
• Power and transformation: the lecture triggers breakthroughs and profound changes across different cultivation paths.
• The reach of doctrine: personal revelations become a universe-wide religious and political movement.
• Escalating spectacle and danger: Su Chen’s growing power turns fabricated myth into real-world catastrophe, setting up the next conflict.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After Hongjun’s sermon at Zixiao Palace, the cultivation world changes rapidly. Xuanmen teachings spread across the realms, and several powerful leaders curb wanton violence in favor of order and restraint.
• The Canglan Realm becomes a center of Xuanmen influence. Ji Changkong teaches scripture, while Lin Qiye cultivates in seclusion, combining the Eight-Nine Profound Art with the Zixiao Listening Dao Revelation.
• Su Chen, observing that peace has made the world too comfortable and slowed the flow of Karma Points, decides that the mythic age needs a great calamity. He uses his highest-tier system privileges to create real historical ruins and implant the concept of recurring Heaven and Earth Tribulations into the Heavenly Dao.
• Su Chen spends 4.5 million Karma Points to manifest the Dragon-Phoenix Primordial Calamity in the Ancient Star Abyss, between the Canglan Realm and Ziwei Star Domain.
• The Abyss transforms into a terrifying ancient battlefield: colossal dragon remains, vast phoenix-blood nebulae, eternal divine fire, and a resentful Blood Sea appear. Their released baleful energy threatens nearby worlds.
• Powerful figures across the heavens sense the disturbance. Supreme Mystery True Lord calls the Dao Listeners to investigate, and seven figures—including Lin Qiye, Ji Changkong, Tu Shanye, the Netherworld Blood Emperor, Canghai Old Daoist, and young Ye Chen—set out for the Abyss.

Character developments

• Su Chen acts as a deliberate architect of history, choosing to disrupt a peaceful golden age so the world will face danger, struggle, and renewed cultivation.
• Lin Qiye has advanced in his cultivation and shows heightened sensitivity to danger through his Broken Sword and Heavenly Eye Talisman Seal. He responds decisively to the threat.
• Ji Changkong has become a respected teacher and Half-Step Human Immortal, but the calamity’s aura immediately exposes how far it exceeds the current age’s understanding.
• Supreme Mystery True Lord, Tu Shanye, and the Netherworld Blood Emperor each react with alarm, demonstrating that even the strongest leaders are shaken by the ancient baleful energy.
• Ye Chen, still an inexperienced young cultivator, is drawn into the crisis alongside the foremost Dao Listeners.

Significant themes

• Peace versus growth: Su Chen believes comfort weakens reverence for power and stalls spiritual progress; hardship and conflict are presented as forces that can drive cultivation and change.
• The cost of cosmic order: The chapter shifts from the promise of Xuanmen’s stability to the threat of periodic calamities, suggesting that order cannot eliminate catastrophe.
• History made real: Su Chen does not merely reveal the past; he creates physical evidence of it and reshapes the Heavenly Dao’s rules.
• The scale of the unknown: The calamity originates from an age so ancient and powerful that the current era’s strongest beings can barely comprehend it.

Character interactions

• The chapter contrasts Su Chen’s calculated decision with the fear and urgency of those who sense its consequences.
• Supreme Mystery True Lord summons the Dao Listeners through their Divine Sense Jade Slips, uniting rivals and leaders under a shared threat.
• Lin Qiye, Ji Changkong, Tu Shanye, the Netherworld Blood Emperor, Canghai Old Daoist, and Ye Chen join forces and race toward the Ancient Star Abyss, setting up their first confrontation with the awakened ancient calamity.