Chapter Summaries

Li Chen explained to Mei Xuan how Puppet Conversion would help create Equal Heaven by making people’s bodies and abilities more equal, despite the society’s unavoidable flaws. He then ordered the conversion offered to every resident of Materialized Heaven, leaving its people stunned as they learned that more than a million would be raised to Foundation Establishment.

• Li Chen told Mei Xuan that natural inequalities could be reduced by converting everyone into puppet mechanical bodies, while acknowledging that Equal Heaven would retain flaws.
• Li Chen required every resident of Materialized Heaven to attain at least an innate dao body, and announced universal conversion to its former slave workers and artisans.
• Luo Jin received the announcement that Materialized Heaven’s population of over a million would be brought to Foundation Establishment and shared the news with his Companions.
• The announcement spread across Materialized Heaven through its Heavenly Dao system, and Bu Qingyun and the others recognized the plan as the next step in Li Chen’s ideals.
• Bu Qingyun and the others learned that Li Chen planned to use the Creation-Promotion Secret Art to convert everyone’s mortal Original Body rather than rely on cheaper alternatives.

Han Li tested her upgraded Mechanism Wooden Puppets and learned about Li Chen’s research into grand void spirit iron ammunition and mortal science. After reading Li Chen’s directive on innate dao body and Foundation Establishment modification, she went to the Azure Billow Immortal Abode and asked him to perform Puppet Dao Modification on her, believing it would make her useful; Li Chen began to reassure her that he had never considered her useless.

• Han Li fought her grand void spirit iron-armored Mechanism Wooden Puppets and found that Sword Qi could not damage them, while their bullets could pierce gang energy.
• Han Li learned that Li Chen’s research institutes were developing grand void spirit iron ammunition and that mortal scientists were central to advancing Puppet Dao technology.
• After reading Li Chen’s directive on innate dao body and Foundation Establishment modification, Han Li decided to visit her Master.
• Han Li arrived at the Azure Billow Immortal Abode, reflected on Li Chen’s industrial Dao, and asked him to perform Puppet Dao Modification on her.
• Li Chen questioned Han Li’s sudden request, and she said she wanted to become useful; he realized she had misunderstood him and began to reassure her.

Han Li confessed that she felt useless and feared she had disappointed Li Chen, who explained that Puppet Dao Modification was not meant to make her stronger but to free people to pursue intellectual creation. He and Mei Xuan discussed how equality and industrialized transformation could make people struggle to find unique value, leaving Li Chen aware that he could not solve everyone’s search for meaning.

• Han Li told Li Chen that she had pursued sword cultivation to earn his approval and felt useless after his transformation made her abilities seem unnecessary.
• Han Li admitted she had secretly studied Puppet Dao without understanding it, apologized for refusing modification, and asked Li Chen for another chance.
• Li Chen told Han Li she would undergo Puppet Dao Modification, but explained that his aim was to let people live freely and pursue intellectual creation rather than fight or sell their labor.
• Li Chen contacted Mei Xuan and warned that equal heaven’s standardized modifications could make people lose their sense of individuality and worth.
• Mei Xuan suggested people needed benchmarks but noted that some would still feel useless by any mainstream standard, and Li Chen admitted he could not solve that problem for everyone.

Li Chen enhanced Han Li into a puppet, improving her body, cultivation, and knowledge while explaining the limits of memory transplantation and intelligence modification. He also began a staged, mass modification program across Materialized Heaven, budgeting heavily for the population’s advancement and future needs.

• Li Chen converted Han Li into a puppet, raised her mechanical body beyond five-star strength, broke her cultivation bottleneck, and implanted general knowledge and Puppet Dao attainments.
• Han Li praised the memory transplantation method, and Li Chen explained that intelligence alone could not change a person’s patterns of thought and innate talents.
• Li Chen told Han Li that her body was only a transitional measure and that he intended to raise it to six-star or beyond seven-star strength, giving her Nascent Soul-level combat power.
• Li Chen began standardized innate Dao body modifications for Materialized Heaven’s population, allocating around ten million talisman coins per person and spending over ten trillion in total.
• Li Chen planned to modify the population in batches using mechanized and automated operations because he lacked enough qualified master artisans.

Li Chen used the Puppet World Heavenly Net to commission vast quantities of supplies and knowledge for modifying Materialized Heaven’s inhabitants, then began replacing their blood with spirit blood. The first treatments brought dramatic improvements, and the year-long blood replacement continued as Li Chen also began unlocking everyone’s intracranial Chips.

• Li Chen posted enormous crafting commissions through the Puppet World Heavenly Net, overwhelming Puppet Masters with orders for modification supplies.
• Li Chen arranged a livestreamed lottery and sent more than ten thousand selected subjects to the Modification Workshop for spirit-blood injections.
• The first treated subjects reported renewed strength and endurance as the spirit blood improved circulation and helped remove toxins.
• Bu Qingyun watched the modifications and considered their benefits, though he disliked the industrial appearance of the process.
• Li Chen continued gradual blood replacement across Materialized Heaven’s million inhabitants, planning more than ten treatment courses over a year.
• Li Chen began unlocking the hardware of everyone’s intracranial Chips while the blood replacement continued.

Li Chen welcomed Hua Wucuo and the Creation Sect artisans who had come to help train Spirit Awakeners and advance a million people toward Foundation Establishment. As Hua Wucuo reflected on Li Chen’s legacy as a Dao founder, the battered Puppet Dao front faced a Spell Dao assault, and Lin Yuanji revealed Cloud-Raising Immortal City in its armored fortress form.

• Li Chen welcomed Hua Wucuo and reminisced with the craftsmen and scientists who had studied his teachings in Chess Mountain Domain.
• Hua Wucuo and Yu Bao praised Li Chen’s Creation Law and his plan to enhance more than a million people, while Hua argued that his resolve to advance an era mattered most.
• Hua Wucuo’s thirty-five Puppet Master Artisans and Grand Artisans began unlocking chips and guiding spirit-particle conversion for Materialized Heaven’s inhabitants.
• Hua Wucuo described how Li Chen’s teachings had spread through generations and called him a true Grandmaster for founding and transmitting a Dao.
• On the front lines, Spell Dao cultivators attacked a battered Puppet Dao fortress, and Lin Yuanji revealed Cloud-Raising Immortal City in its new armored fortress form.

Cloud-Raising Immortal City returned to battle and used its newly retrofitted weapons to counter the Immortal Alliance forces. Lin Yuanji chose a Lightning Cannon strike over risking the city’s damaged Seven-Star Battle Puppets, and two Core Formation Cultivators were killed.

• Cloud-Raising Immortal City deployed its Desolate Beast Legion against the Immortal Alliance troops besieging the area.
• The Immortal Alliance’s four Core Formation Cultivators turned the fight in their favor while Nascent Soul reinforcements were expected to arrive.
• Lin Yuanji refused to deploy the city’s two damaged Seven-Star Battle Puppets and ordered the Lightning Cannons to target the Core Formation Cultivators.
• The intelligent fire-control system locked onto four targets, and the Lightning Cannons killed two Core Formation Cultivators with a surprise strike.

Lin Yuanji used tactical nuclear bombs to kill two fleeing Core Formation cultivators, then faced three arriving Nascent Soul experts. He ordered Cloud-Raising Immortal City to raise its Grand Void Spirit Iron Armor and counterattack with a barrage of nuclear bombs.

• Lin Yuanji rejected sending Seven-Star Battle Puppets after the fleeing Immortal Alliance cultivators and ordered tactical nuclear bombs deployed instead.
• The bombs struck the two Core Formation cultivators repeatedly, destroying their bodies and true cores, though a remnant soul escaped under a great power's protection.
• Three Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul experts arrived and attacked Cloud-Raising Immortal City with flames, thunderbolts, and Slashing Gang.
• Lin Yuanji ordered the Grand Void Spirit Iron Armor raised, encasing Cloud-Raising Immortal City in massive iron plates.
• Cloud-Raising Immortal City fired a barrage of small nuclear bombs at the three Nascent Soul experts.

Cloud-Raising Immortal City drove off three Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul cultivators, then attacked and captured the Fang Household’s Chu Yun Peak with new weapons, grand void spirit iron armor, and puppet tactics. By the seventh day, the Fang clan had been destroyed, and news of the victory had shocked every faction.

• Lin Yuanji and Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s forces bombarded the three Nascent Soul cultivators until they retreated.
• Lin Yuanji ordered the city east to seize Chu Yun Peak, the Fang Household’s spirit peak and nearby market districts.
• Cloud-Raising Immortal City used weapons, armored puppets, and its Ironfort Warship tactics to devastate the Immortal Alliance defenders while suffering few human casualties.
• The Immortal Alliance’s cultivators launched desperate assaults, but the Puppet Legion overwhelmed those who reached the city’s platform.
• On the seventh day, Cloud-Raising Immortal City captured Chu Yun Peak and destroyed the Fang Household, shocking every faction.

Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s victory at Chu Yun Peak astonished both the Puppet Dao and the Immortal Alliance, as the city’s new armor and expanded Sun Divine Thunder arsenal let it overwhelm the defenders. The Immortal Alliance traced the transformation to Li Chen, the Puppet Dao’s newly ascended Great Power.

• Puppet Masters learned that Cloud-Raising Immortal City had captured Chu Yun Peak in a decisive victory.
• Shen Longcheng and Wu Fangdao reviewed footage of the assault and discussed how grand void spirit iron could revolutionize Sky City warfare.
• Immortal Alliance representatives gathered to study the defeat, while Fang Weiqi explained that Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s armor and Sun Divine Thunder had overwhelmed the defenders.
• Fang Weiqi admitted that the Immortal Alliance had misjudged the threat and failed to request a Primordial Spirit Great Power’s intervention in time.
• Fang Weiqi said Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s new iron armor was connected to Li Chen, prompting the assembly to question his identity as a newly ascended Great Power.

Fang Weiqi warned the Immortal Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators about Li Chen’s history, creation law, and growing threat. After Fang Weiqi met with Hong An, Hong An revealed that trying to divine Li Chen’s whereabouts cost him a hundred years of life, and ordered the Alliance to kill Li Chen at any cost.

• Fang Weiqi recounted Li Chen’s rise from Golden Sun Gate subordinate to a Primordial Spirit Realm Great Power and warned the Immortal Alliance to watch him.
• Fang Weiqi described Li Chen’s creation law and his ability to refine grand void spirit iron, which had helped the Cloud-Raising Immortal City recover its strength.
• After the assembly, Fang Weiqi visited Hong An at the Sky-Gazing Terrace and noticed that the Great Elder had aged further.
• Hong An explained that his attempt to locate Li Chen had drawn him into a vortex of karma and cost him a hundred years of lifespan.
• Hong An told Fang Weiqi that the Immortal Alliance had to eliminate Li Chen in the war at any cost.

Lin Yuanji oversaw Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s occupation of Chu Yun Peak and planned to attract Rogue Cultivators to help secure and develop the territory. He warned his disciples that the Immortal Alliance would shift to raids and assassinations, leaving the Puppet Dao to rely on local allies.

• Puppet Dao forces rebuilt the Market District beneath Chu Yun Peak, restoring order as Rogue Cultivators arrived to work, patrol, and settle there.
• Lin Yuanji discussed Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s century-long plan to hold the Spirit Peak Blessed Land and attract Rogue Cultivators with the promise of wartime rewards.
• Lin Yuanji’s disciples believed the Immortal Alliance had accepted defeat, but Lin Yuanji warned that Outer Dao cultivators would turn to infiltrations, raids, and assassinations.
• Lin Yuanji told his disciples that Cloud-Raising Immortal City would need to rely on Rogue Cultivators and other local people, whose safety and prosperity depended on Puppet Dao protection.

Li Chen refused pressure to change his grand void spirit iron supply policy and reflected on the legacy left by descendants and disciples. He began organizing a Rune Script Masters’ Dao Debate Platform, then met Huang Zhonglü, who had repeatedly sought to discuss profit-making ventures.

• Mei Xuan told Li Chen that Cloud-Raising Immortal City wanted more grand void spirit iron and that resellers were speculating with it.
• Li Chen ordered the supplies of caught resellers cut off and said they would be blacklisted, rejecting pressure from merchants to change his supply model.
• Mei Xuan described her grandfather’s failed hope of buying a Six-Star Battle Puppet for the Mei Family, and Li Chen offered her a chance to help her family.
• Li Chen proposed a Dao Debate Platform for Rune Script Masters in the Puppet World Heavenly Net and asked Bei Feng and the others to prepare it.
• Huang Zhonglü introduced himself to Li Chen as the Creation Sect elder stationed there and recalled sending him letters about the current situation.

Li Chen rejected Huang Zhonglü’s appeal to protect Spirit Iron mine owners and merchants from the effects of Grand Void Spirit Iron, insisting that failing businesses were obstacles to progress. After discussing Li Chen’s influence with Shi Xun, Huang Zhonglü decided to stop mediating for those opposing him.

• Huang Zhonglü asked Li Chen to consider the interests of fellow Puppet Dao practitioners and preserve the livelihoods tied to the Talisman Coin economy.
• Li Chen argued that abundant resources and production mattered more than merchants’ control of distribution, and called those unable to adapt obstacles.
• Li Chen cut off Huang Zhonglü and left after realizing which faction he was lobbying for.
• Shi Xun warned Huang Zhonglü that Li Chen controlled a self-contained domain and could not easily be persuaded or opposed.
• Huang Zhonglü reconsidered the market’s benefits from Li Chen’s activities and abandoned his effort to defend the Spirit Iron mine owners and merchants.

A group of Grandmaster Artisans debated buying and hoarding grand void spirit iron despite Li Chen’s refusal to cooperate, while weighing the risks of his Root Dao Art’s limited production. At the Sky-Gazing Terrace, the Immortal Alliance’s investigation found that Li Chen rarely left his own kingdom, leaving them unsure how to pursue him.

• Grandmaster Xia Yutang told the gathered artisans to keep buying grand void spirit iron from the Black Market, while they concealed how much they had stockpiled.
• The artisans discussed how Li Chen’s Root Dao Art limited the material’s supply and concluded that their long-term profits depended on its eventual scarcity.
• The artisans noted that grand void spirit iron could lose its spell-resistant properties if reforged outside combat, making careful hoarding essential.
• Immortal Alliance elders reviewed Fang Weiqi’s investigation and learned that Li Chen had rarely left his kingdom since setting out to sea.
• The investigators explained that Li Chen relied on trade and the Heavenly Net to meet his needs and follow events across the Myriad Heavens, leaving the elders unsure how to track him.

Fang Weiqi and the Immortal Alliance elders reviewed Li Chen’s habits and devised numerous ways to locate his hidden materialized heaven. They left with orders to pursue the plans while Fang Weiqi sought help from Great Elder Hong.

• The Immortal Alliance elders described Li Chen’s reclusive lifestyle, unusual interests, and Sky City to Fang Weiqi.
• An elder explained that female Sword Dao cultivators had infiltrated the Puppet World Heavenly Net to attract Li Chen.
• The elders outlined other efforts to trace Li Chen through concealed location markers, recruited Puppet Masters, compromised craftsmen, spirit iron shipments, and infiltrators in his cities.
• An Immortal Alliance member proposed destroying Heavenly Dragon City to force Li Chen to respond, but Fang Weiqi reserved the idea as a last resort.
• Fang Weiqi ordered the elders to continue their assignments and said he would contact Great Elder Hong for assistance.

Han Li tested her upgraded six-star mechanical body and defeated a group of puppets, while Dong Nü and Yu Ling advised her on her swordsmanship. Li Chen summoned Han Li to begin upgrading her to a seven-star-plus body so she could help protect the Materialized Kingdom.

• Han Li used her Core Formation abilities and sword techniques to defeat the specially made puppets and two Sword Guard Puppets.
• Dong Nü warned Han Li against concentrating all her strength into her Sword Pill, and Yu Ling promised to protect her from openings.
• Dong Nü told Han Li that Li Chen planned to upgrade her to a seven-star-plus mechanical body.
• Li Chen summoned Han Li to the rear mountain and said he had prepared suitable materials and a matured fusion body vessel for her upgrade.
• Li Chen asked Han Li to help protect the Materialized Kingdom, then led her toward the modification chamber.

Li Chen used Primordial Spirit methods and gene editing to restore Han Li’s body to its innate, perfected form, which he called Return to the Primordial State. He sent her back to adapt while he continued researching the Celestial Person Genealogy, intending to advance her to eight-star later.

• Li Chen completed Han Li’s body modification in a few hours, using her blood essence, treasured materials, and Dao essence to create a new body.
• Han Li emerged from the Nutrient Pod and was surprised by her taller, more mature appearance.
• Li Chen explained that the modification corrected damage from Han Li’s harsh upbringing and restored the body her innate potential could have developed into.
• Li Chen named the technique Return to the Primordial State and said he planned to refine Han Li further into a Celestial Person.
• Li Chen told Han Li to adapt to her new body while he researched deeper modifications, after which he intended to advance her to eight-star.

Li Chen modified Black Spirit with a reinforced, semimechanical body to raise her strength to the Demon King Realm. After nearly half a month of surgery, she emerged with a Seven-Star Mechanical Body and combat ability comparable to the middle to late stages of Nascent Soul.

• Li Chen explained that he had developed the Celestial Person Blueprint for transforming Essence of Life, primordial spirits, and inherited traits, and had used it on Han Li as preparation for modifying the people of the Materialized Heaven.
• Black Spirit questioned whether Li Chen would help her become a Demon King, and he reminded her that they had agreed she would serve the Materialized Heaven in exchange for enhancements and generous compensation.
• Li Chen planned to reinforce Black Spirit's body with Melt Gold, Temper Bone, and Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting, replacing her skeleton and giving her a semimechanical rebirth through a false-core soul core.
• Black Spirit accepted the loss of her concealment talent in exchange for greater strength and climbed onto the operating table.
• After nearly half a month, Li Chen completed Black Spirit's modifications, giving her a Seven-Star Mechanical Body and combat ability comparable to the middle to late stages of Nascent Soul.

After upgrading Black Spirit with an eight-star false core, Li Chen prepared to enhance the demons from the Flat Hill Demon Kingdom. He assigned White Bone Madam and King Iron Armor to the first modifications, which would test a way to restore White Bone Madam’s body and turn King Iron Armor’s shell into a mecha and warship.

• Black Spirit awoke stronger after Li Chen implanted a supreme-grade eight-star false core, and she went to challenge Han Li.
• Li Chen summoned the Flat Hill demons and offered to help most of them upgrade to Seven-Star Mechanical Bodies; King Demon Dragon and others agreed to follow his arrangements.
• Li Chen chose White Bone Madam and Iron Armor for the first round of modifications.
• Li Chen told White Bone Madam he would experiment with restoring her body and promised to use a Heavenly Demon Hide and Painted Skin to give her a new form.
• Li Chen planned to forge King Iron Armor a Refined Gold suit fitted with heavy cannons and an imaginary number space, leaving her conflicted about modifying her innate shell.