Chapter Summaries

Li Chen cultivated One Breath Becomes the Mystic, allowing an incarnation to remain unified with his true self and wield the power of law independently. He began a dangerous reincarnation experiment to test whether his true spirit could endure the Mystery of the Womb, and a Spirit Lamp bearing his name went out.

• Li Chen analyzed how his Heavenly Ghost Dao differed from Heavenly Will and the Spirit Firmament Gate's Three Pure Ones from One Breath.
• After nearly half a year, Li Chen succeeded in cultivating One Breath Becomes the Mystic and made his neutron dharma body wield the Creation Law without help from his original body.
• Li Chen decided to use an incarnation to test reincarnation and the strength of his true spirit, despite the risk of death and the loss of his Dao.
• Heavenly Pivot admitted that it feared death, and Li Chen immediately extinguished every trace of his vitality without saying goodbye.
• At a Creation Secret Realm branch hall on the Eastern Victory Continent, a Spirit Lamp went out, and the stationed Puppet Dao disciple recognized it as Great Elder Li's.

After Great Elder Li’s Soul Lamp shattered, the Creation Sect’s Grandmasters secretly investigated and used True Person Miaobao’s Falsehood Divine Mirror. The mirror claimed Li Chen was alive and reincarnating, but its unreliable answers left the Grandmasters unsure what to believe.

• The lamp keeper discovered Great Elder Li’s Soul Lamp had shattered, and Ke Ruo ordered everyone at the scene to keep the incident confidential.
• The Grandmasters agreed to investigate Li Chen’s uncertain fate before informing the Elders’ Council, and Pan Ning and Shen Longcheng recalled Li’s interest in reincarnation.
• Ke Ruo revealed that True Person Miaobao had instructed him to use the Falsehood Divine Mirror if Li’s Soul Lamp ever failed.
• The Grandmasters retrieved the mirror, which claimed Li Chen was alive and had gone to reincarnate with a sliver of his true spirit.
• Ke Ruo tested the mirror with obvious questions, but it mixed answers with wild accusations about the Grandmasters.

Li Chen drifted through a strange afterlife dream, then awakened as a fetus and gradually remembered who he was. He was born into a family that named him Li Chen, leaving him wailing in pain as his parents celebrated.

• Li Chen found a skull in a barren wasteland and joked with it before falling asleep beside it.
• The skull described death as a state of freedom and joy, and Li Chen refused to remain with it because he still had goals to pursue.
• Li Chen awoke in a womb, slept through an unknown span of time, and recovered memories of being Li Chen from Materialized Heaven and wanting to reincarnate.
• His unborn movements startled Qing'er, and his parents decided to name him Li Chen.
• Li Chen was born, cried from the shock and pain of the outside world, and was presented to his delighted parents as a boy.

Li Chen continued his reincarnated life as an infant on the Wind Martial Continent, a remote and underdeveloped region he had deliberately chosen for his experiments. At his first-birthday object-grabbing ceremony, he calmly regarded the crowd as a bunch of monkeys.

• Li Chen chose to remain in his new life so he could investigate the mysteries of existence without interference from his former powers.
• Father Li and Mother Li worried because Li Chen behaved with unusual calm and seemed to regard them with contempt.
• Li Chen learned that he had reincarnated into the Li Household of Ming City on the isolated Wind Martial Continent.
• The Li Household hosted a grand celebration for Li Chen's first birthday and began the customary object-grabbing ceremony.
• Mother Li placed Li Chen on the carpet, where he stayed composed and silently thought that the onlookers were a bunch of monkeys.

Li Chen grew to four years old and struggled to recover lost knowledge without relying on spiritual power, prompting him to question what truly made him himself. During martial practice, he challenged Instructor Yang with his ideas about life and death, leaving the instructor bewildered.

• At his first-birthday gathering, Li Chen ignored the toys and fell asleep, and a guest praised him for having Lord Mao's bearing.
• Three years later, four-year-old Li Chen despaired over his inability to reconstruct a red-black tree and reflected on how little of his former knowledge remained.
• Li Chen concluded that abandoning sagehood and discarding wisdom meant confronting himself without borrowed knowledge, memories, or supernatural abilities.
• A maid called Li Chen to martial practice, where he questioned Instructor Yang about the essence of life and death.
• Li Chen argued that life and death resembled sleep and that memory made existence uncertain, leaving Instructor Yang so confused that servants thought he had gone daft.

Li Chen struggled to rebuild his abilities in a mortal body, relying on the Li Household’s support while studying its cultivation methods and developing his brain. By age six, he had reached the level of a Puppeteer Apprentice and concluded that he needed to escape his predicament by making use of every advantage available.

• Li Chen tested at the third level of the True Essence Realm at the Li Household school, then went to sleep in class.
• Li Chen’s mother welcomed him home with soup, and he complained that the school desk was too hard to sleep on.
• Li Chen trained with the Li Household’s methods and researched Brain-Domain Development to improve his intelligence.
• After turning six, Li Chen reached the standard of a Puppeteer Apprentice and began studying native methods to open his brain’s apertures.
• Li Chen reflected that a person’s circumstances shaped their rise and that even extraordinary abilities could be exhausted, while a Dao Fruit was worth preserving.

Li Chen studied the power of the mind and devised a secret art to cultivate his brain by channeling true qi. Months later, screams and a fight erupted in the front courtyard, and guards rushed into his room to escort him away.

• Li Chen reasoned that developing his brain was necessary to use the knowledge sealed within his true spirit and explored how consciousness could influence matter.
• He compared the Wind Martial Continent’s cultivation methods with those of the Ancient Cultivators and considered how each stage strengthened the body, mind, and connection to the Dao.
• Li Chen devised a new profound art, wrote down its meridian routes and cultivation methods, and hid the pages beneath his bedboards.
• Several months later, Li Chen heard screams from the front courtyard and put away his papers as two guards entered and urged him to leave quickly.

Li Chen repelled a hidden intruder in his courtyard and learned that young masters from several Ming City households had been abducted and released after ransom payments. Suspecting the kidnappers might be targeting him and his reincarnation experiment, he strengthened his defenses and resolved to cultivate his Brain Domain quickly.

• Li Chen dismissed fears of the attack on the Li Household and stayed in his separate courtyard while his mother checked on him.
• Li Chen used his Divine Sense to detect a disguised retainer entering his room, then killed him with Sword Qi and concealed the body.
• Li Chen learned at the Clan School that young masters from the Liu, Huang, and Feng Households had been abducted and returned after their families paid ransom.
• Li Chen suspected that the kidnappers might be targeting him, skipped the Clan School, and asked Housekeeper Su to secure his courtyard.
• Li Chen worried that using powers from Materialized Heaven or a Puppet Dao Titan could sabotage his reincarnation experiment, and resolved to cultivate his Brain Domain.

After Li Chen’s enemies attacked his courtyard, he hid with his family while the Li Household investigated who was targeting children across the city. He began a radical cultivation method that bypassed spiritual roots and produced pure primordial spirit magic power.

• A band of criminals attacked Li Chen’s courtyard, but his defenses drove them off and killed several of them.
• Li Chen moved to the Rear Courtyard, where his family concealed his identity while his elders discussed the attacks on children in the city.
• Li Chen suspected powerful immortals were trying to interfere with his reincarnation certification and judged the attackers to be preliminary scouts.
• Li Chen rejected ordinary cultivation methods and directly drew true essence into his brain aperture to cultivate the spirit.
• Li Chen opened his consciousness sea and manifested pure primordial spirit magic power, realizing that thought and consciousness were magic power itself.

Li Chen developed mind-only magic power and modified his Brain Domain, recovering Wisdom Dao abilities and adapting a transformation technique for the Wind Martial Continent. He changed his appearance and slipped past the Li Household’s guards toward its treasury.

• Li Chen divided his thoughts into countless Mind Cores and used his mind-only magic power to accelerate his Brain Domain modifications.
• Li Chen recovered abilities including the Brain-Reading Technique, Brainwashing Technique, and Memory Meme as inheritances in his True Spirit flowed into his Consciousness Sea.
• Li Chen adapted Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting into the Myriad Transformations Profound Art, powered by True Essence or blood vitality.
• Li Chen transformed into an unremarkable youth and used the Mysterious Nonbeing Art to evade the Li Household’s guards and approach its treasury.

Li Chen stole materials from the Li Household Secret Treasury and used his Primordial Spirit Virus to erase himself from the memories of the household and the city. After seeing Mother Li grieve over the son she believed had died young, he preserved her memories of him and left behind a formula to help his parents conceive another child.

• Li Chen used the False Art and Primordial Spirit Virus to evade detection while plundering materials from the Li Household Secret Treasury and altering its records.
• Li Chen infected the Li Residence and erased Little Chen'er's existence from the memories of his family and others they had encountered.
• Li Chen reflected on how consciousness could affect matter and realized that his power could bring him closer to the Heavenly Ghost Dao.
• Mother Li awoke from a dream of Chen'er and grieved because she could not remember what illness had killed him.
• Li Chen preserved his parents' memories of their deceased child and left a valuable medicinal formula to help them conceive.

Li Chen used a mind network and illusions to turn an attacking force against itself, then infiltrated its organization and took a confidential dispatch. He left for Mist City as everyone in Ming City forgot he existed.

• Li Chen linked infected townspeople into a network that let him observe everything they saw and heard.
• A group led by three Innate martial artists gathered at a ruined temple and planned another assault on the Li Household.
• Li Chen’s illusions drove the attackers into confusion, and they fled north believing they had killed their target.
• The group carried Li Chen unnoticed to their organization’s inn, where the hall master ordered a confidential dispatch sent to Mist City.
• Li Chen accepted the dispatch and departed, while memory alterations erased him from everyone’s recollections.

Li Chen wandered the Wind Martial Continent while investigating the organization searching for children, and he continued developing his mind-only magic power. In a distant city, an infant noticed him despite his concealment, and Grandmaster Huang Ming then blocked his path.

• Li Chen discovered that a powerful figure had hastily assembled the organization under the influence of an even higher existence, and he concluded that his altered identity and erased karmic traces kept the searchers from finding him.
• Li Chen reflected on the heavenly ghost dharma body and the limits of his mind-only magic power as he entered a large city far east of Ming City.
• A middle-aged Grandmaster sensed Li Chen from atop a tall building, though he concealed his interest from his son.
• Li Chen found an infant in a quiet alley who could see him despite his magic power, and he pondered whether spirituality originated in intelligent beings.
• Li Chen quietly left the household, but the city's Garrison Guardian, Grandmaster Huang Ming, blocked his path.

Li Chen tried to erase Huang Ming’s memory but realized his concealment had not fooled the Martial Ancestor, so he refined his ideas about the Heavenly Ghost Dharma Body and entered a dreamscape to seek answers. In the Eastern Victory Continent, Li Chen’s shattered Soul Lamp began to glow again.

• Huang Ming sensed Li Chen in the city and confronted him, asking who he was and why he had entered his territory.
• Li Chen used an illusion to reach into Huang Ming’s mind and erase his awareness, then Huang Ming returned to his platform unsure what had happened.
• Li Chen concluded that his Heavenly Ghost Dharma Body was unfinished and considered using it with One Breath Becomes the Mystic to achieve partial Union with the Dao.
• Li Chen chose to practice the Great Dream Profound Art and entered a strange dreamscape to speak with the wilderness and skull he had encountered between incarnations.
• The steward in the Eastern Victory Continent’s Soul Lamp Hall saw Grandmaster Li Chen’s shattered Soul Lamp begin to glow.

The Puppet Dao Grandmasters confirmed that Li Chen was still alive, though they remained wary of the Falsehood Divine Mirror’s prophecy. Meanwhile, Li Chen searched a desolate dreamscape for the skull and watched his body decay until only his skullcap remained.

• The Puppet Dao Grandmasters examined Li Chen’s cracked Soul Lamp, and Han Tong and Ke Ruo concluded that its renewed flame proved he was alive.
• Youxuan hinted at the Falsehood Divine Mirror’s prophecy, but Great Elder Shen rebuked him, and Shen Longcheng ended the discussion.
• After the grandmasters left, the lamp keeper forgot the Soul Lamp as its image vanished from his awareness.
• Li Chen searched the wilderness dreamscape for the skull but found nothing as he drifted across the vast landscape.
• Li Chen realized his body had died and rotted away, then watched his skeleton crumble until only a skullcap remained.

Li Chen awoke from a dream of existing as a skull and discovered that his Primordial Spirit had become a skeleton. Meanwhile, the Immortal Alliance’s search for him was disrupted by a strange loss of memory, leaving Great Elder Hong unable to remember whom he had sent them to find.

• Li Chen awakened from the Dreamscape as a seven-year-old child and found that his Divine Soul had taken the skeletal form from his dream.
• Elder Yan and the Immortal Alliance stewards traveled to the Blazing Nest Continent to investigate Li Chen’s bloodline and narrow down his location.
• Elder Yan and his companions suddenly forgot their assignment, then contacted their superiors to ask what they had been sent to do.
• Great Elder Hong realized he had forgotten the identity of the person he wanted the stewards to find.

Great Elder Hong, Lin Xi, and Pei Bairen tried to explain the Puppet Dao’s transformation and the mysterious Heavenly Ghost, while Materialized Heaven’s residents discovered that the outside world’s information had been altered to erase Li Chen. Mei Xuan feared that she, too, might forget him.

• Great Elder Hong reviewed an Immortal Alliance dossier that obscured Li Chen and Materialized Heaven under the designation Heavenly Ghost, and considered new ways to understand the Puppet Dao.
• Lin Xi and Pei Bairen discussed the altered course of history and recalled fighting an unidentified Mysterious Figure, whom they suspected was a future Great Power.
• Mei Xuan learned that memories and records outside Materialized Heaven had erased Li Chen, while Heavenly Pivot said the laws interpreting information had changed.
• Heavenly Pivot said Li Chen was nearing the ineffable state of a perfected Dao Fruit, and Mei Xuan panicked at the thought that she might forget him.

Li Chen realized that the wasteland in his dreams was the true manifestation of his Law Domain and the Minor Universe he had become, then used his returning memories and creation powers to transform the Bone Kun Warship. As Mei Xuan rushed to meet him, Heavenly Pivot announced that Li Chen’s original body was awakening.

• Li Chen repeatedly dreamed until his Divine Soul and body dwindled to a skullcap in the Mindscape Wasteland, where he recognized the skull as himself.
• Li Chen understood that the wasteland was his Mindscape Wasteland and Minor Universe, and feared that achieving Union with the Dao could trap his consciousness in an endless dream.
• Li Chen reshaped the wasteland into a cosmic void, summoned a Giant Kun, and recovered his memories.
• Li Chen used Void Creation to cover the Bone Kun Warship in neutron star matter and reshape its tower and armor, astonishing Mei Xuan.
• Heavenly Pivot announced that Li Chen’s original body was awakening, and Mei Xuan hurried to the secluded chamber.

Li Chen awoke after his reincarnated incarnation united with the Dao, and learned that his dreams had altered memories across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. He discovered his power had become a thought-driven force beyond ordinary magic power, while his incarnation had reached the heavenly Dao realm.

• Li Chen realized his incarnation was alive and had united with the Dao after refining his divine soul in a dream.
• Mei Xuan told Li Chen that people across Materialized Heaven had forgotten him, and he concluded that his dreams had changed the timeline and their memories.
• Li Chen explained that his mind-based power had spread a memory-altering law through the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and said he could restore what had changed.
• Mei Xuan noticed Li Chen had lost his magic power, but Li Chen recognized his current body as a Heavenly Ghost Dharma Body and said he could recover power through thought.
• Li Chen used his thoughts to lift his body and rapidly restored his cultivation, while recognizing that his sleeping incarnation had reached the heavenly Dao realm.

Li Chen learned that his Dao-unified incarnation could not directly restore destroyed memories, but he figured out how to use its mind-centered power to recover them from clues. As he tested the power, he discovered that his mindscape wasteland and magic power expanded rapidly whenever he used it.

• Li Chen tried to restore the memories of those inside the materialized heaven but found he could only recreate them from related clues.
• Li Chen analyzed his incarnation’s mind-centered power and concluded that his preserved skull had kept his true spirit connected to his original body.
• Li Chen discovered that his incarnation’s law domain enveloped the materialized heaven and surrounding void, allowing him to wield the laws of Words Become Law and wish fulfillment.
• Li Chen applied the power to everyone inside the materialized heaven, restoring part of their memories.
• Li Chen noticed that each use made his mindscape wasteland expand at nearly the speed of light and increased his magic power to dozens of times that of an ordinary late primordial spirit cultivator.