Chapter Summaries

Dharma King Yuanhao broke free of the Immortal Alliance’s restraint and opened the fourth Immortal Coffin, allowing Immortal King Xuanling to restore his physical body by taking over Yuanhao’s. Xuanling then reversed Yin and Yang, drawing manifestations from his age through the River of Time while Li Chen continued to hold the Immortal Coffins shut.

• Dharma King Yuanhao’s power surged beyond the late primordial spirit stage, loosening the third Immortal Coffin as Li Chen turned into a heavenly ghost to resist Immortal King Xuanling.
• Li Chen pinned down the first, second, and fifth Immortal Coffins, while Yuanhao feinted and then attacked the fourth again.
• Yuanhao swept aside the Great Powers who tried to stop him, and Pei Bairen struck him with Man and Sword as One.
• Yuanhao absorbed the fourth coffin’s gray mist, and the Great Powers realized his cultivation method contained a hidden mechanism that let an ancient being use him to restore itself.
• Yuanhao’s body exploded, and Immortal King Xuanling used his flesh, soul, and the coffin’s karmic power to manifest a physical body.
• Xuanling unleashed Reversing Yin and Yang, summoning true forms from his age through the River of Time while Li Chen held down all five Immortal Coffins.

Li Chen used unseen power to drive Coffin Nails into the Immortal Coffins as Immortal King Xuanling restored his celestial palace and attacked the assembled cultivators. The coffins began knocking with growing force, leaving even distant Immortal Alliance Great Powers alarmed and uncertain about what lay inside.

• Li Chen remained concealed from Immortal King Xuanling and drove dark-gold nails into the Immortal Coffins, quieting them temporarily.
• Immortal King Xuanling summoned the Immortal Kingdom Fragment and declared that he would restore the immortal kingdom.
• Pei Bairen attacked Immortal King Xuanling, but Xuanling swallowed his swordlight and destroyed part of his primordial spirit.
• Immortal King Xuanling summoned the Thunder Department True Immortals, and some cultivators considered submitting to him in exchange for longevity.
• The Immortal Coffins began knocking, and their increasingly powerful sounds affected the cultivators and the distant Immortal Alliance Great Powers.

Li Chen drew the calamities within the Immortal Coffins into his law domain and began suppressing them, while the leaked spiritual energy transformed the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. Immortal King Xuanling realized that he had been reborn in the age of dharma’s decline and questioned whether karma had led him there.

• Pei Bairen urged the group to leave as Li Chen and Immortal King Xuanling remained by the Immortal Coffins, and Fu Changsheng, Lin Xi, Xiao Linyue, and the others fled.
• Li Chen unleashed his power against five Immortal Coffins, then used his monstrous dharma body to swallow their black radiance and draw the calamities into his law domain.
• Li Chen ordered Heavenly Pivot to evacuate everyone from the Materialized Heaven and told Mei Xuan that he would suppress the calamities and might bring about a true dharma-ending age.
• The heavenly ghost’s power caused Mei Xuan and Immortal King Xuanling to forget Li Chen, though Mei Xuan retained a vague impression of mathematics and its principles.
• Immortal King Xuanling saw the universe expanding and celestial bodies becoming spiritless as Li Chen’s seven-colored domain spread, and he recognized the source of dharma’s decline.
• Immortal King Xuanling questioned whether karmic tribulation had caused his rebirth in this era and whether taking Dharma King Yuanhao’s body had bound him to resist dharma’s decline.

After learning that Immortal King Xuanling planned to restore the Heavenly Court and rebuild the Immortal Kingdom, the Puppet Dao Faction and the Immortal Alliance agreed to cooperate and prepare a contingency on the Righteous Qi Continent. Xuanling’s forces then overwhelmed the Earthly Immortal Continent’s great sects, and he declared himself Immortal Emperor Xuanling.

• Pei Bairen told Shen Longcheng and the Puppet Dao Grandmasters about Xuanling’s threat, and they agreed to unite with the Immortal Alliance.
• Pan Ning revealed that Li Chen had made Emperor Chongdao of the Great Qian Dynasty an Insect Man and planted an insect population as a potential Natural Disaster Legion.
• Immortal King Xuanling attacked the Upper Clear Sect, defeated Yin Wuli, Xiao Han, and Fu Changsheng, and destroyed the sect’s Mountain Gate.
• Xuanling’s resurrected ancient subordinates assaulted the Spirit Firmament Gate, which fell after three days, leaving Fu Changsheng, Xiao Linyue, and Han Jin as survivors.
• Xuanling attacked or recruited other Earthly Immortal Continent forces, reshaped the Immortal Alliance into an immortal kingdom, and proclaimed himself Immortal Emperor Xuanling.

Shen Longcheng and the Immortal Alliance’s leaders agreed that Immortal King Xuanling was pursuing the legitimate throne to gain power, while the Puppet Dao joined forces with the alliance and invaded the Earthly Immortal Continent. The Puppet Dao built a front-line fortress and met Xuanling’s three powerful envoys with a barrage of combined scientific and cultivation weapons.

• Fu Changsheng and the others explained that Xuanling sought the throne because its titles and authority could help him attain an immortal emperor’s Dao Fruit.
• Shen Longcheng revealed that the Puppet Dao had assembled elite fleets and Primordial Spirit Rank battle puppets for the conflict.
• The Puppet Dao fleet arrived near the Moon Spring Sect, and Fu Changsheng reassured its Elder that the invaders had come to help the alliance.
• Puppet Dao cultivators built a floating fortress while Xuanling focused on restoring his strength and taking over other factions.
• Xuanling sent Bo Guang and two Mysterious Immortal generals to confront the Puppet Dao, but they were immediately struck by a massive barrage of weapons.

Puppet Masters used advanced weapons and Neutron Battle Puppets to kill Bo Guang and two Remote Antiquity immortals, demonstrating that ordinary immortals could not easily threaten their forces. The allied campaign then expanded toward the Earthly Immortal Continent as Emperor Chongdao reconnected with materialized heaven.

• A Puppet Master Grand Artisan ordered the forces to press their advantage against the three Great Powers.
• A Particle Cannon annihilated Bo Guang’s body and Primordial Spirit, killing him outright.
• Neutron Battle Puppets intercepted the two Remote Antiquity immortals, repelled their attacks, and killed them.
• Shen Longcheng judged that the victory proved ordinary immortals could not harm the Neutron Battle Puppets and ordered more forces into the campaign.
• Emperor Chongdao reestablished contact with materialized heaven, and Heavenly Pivot ordered the allies to attack the Earthly Immortal Continent.

The Puppet Masters rapidly seized territory and expanded their forces, leaving the Immortal Alliance unable to resist. Immortal King Xuanling learned that the missing Immortal Coffins were in Li Chen’s minor universe and set out to confront him.

• Fu Changsheng and the Immortal Alliance’s Great Powers watched the Puppet Masters’ victory and began questioning whether opening the Immortal Coffins had been a mistake.
• Emperor Chongdao deployed the Insect Race Legions, and Heavenly Pivot ordered them to seize Spirit Peak Blessed Lands across the Earthly Immortal Continent.
• The Insect Race spread across celestial bodies and continents while the Materialized Heaven established cities, fortresses, and resource bases on the richest lands.
• Immortal King Xuanling’s forces reported that the Puppet Masters had taken their southeastern strongholds and were advancing, while the immortals admitted they could not withstand them.
• Immortal King Xuanling learned the missing Immortal Coffins were in Li Chen’s minor universe in the Equal Sea Domain, then vanished to confront Li Chen.

Immortal King Xuanling entered Li Chen’s Mindscape Wasteland and discovered that Li Chen was preparing to bury the Immortal Coffins, the Sea Emperor, and even his own Dao Corpse. Xuanling emerged shaken, realizing Li Chen had reached a deeper realm and could permanently change the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

• Immortal King Xuanling entered Li Chen’s Mindscape Wasteland and found himself unable to use his supernatural powers or locate Li Chen.
• Immortal King Xuanling found the Immortal Coffins and recognized that Li Chen had brought the Sea Emperor and Guixu into his Law Domain.
• Immortal King Xuanling discovered Li Chen’s Dao Corpse in an open coffin and tried to stop the skull fragment from returning to it.
• Immortal King Xuanling was overcome by exhaustion and awoke outside the Mindscape Wasteland, unable to affect Li Chen.
• Immortal King Xuanling concluded that Li Chen was drawing together the Immortal Coffins and past eras, potentially changing the Myriad Heavens and Worlds forever.

After Immortal King Xuanling returned from Li Chen’s law domain, he sought peace and warned others that Li Chen intended to bring about Dharma’s decline. Li Chen explained his goal, but the cultivation world’s factions could not agree on how to respond, leaving him free to continue his plans while Immortal King Xuanling grew frustrated.

• Immortal King Xuanling halted his conquests and urged the cultivation world to negotiate peace after encountering Li Chen’s law domain.
• Li Chen confirmed to Shen Longcheng and the others that he intended to bring about Dharma’s decline, arguing that it would end individual transcendence and force living beings to rely on one another.
• Han Tong rejected cooperation with Immortal King Xuanling and insisted that they could stop Li Chen without joining forces, while Youxuan suspected that Li Chen had anticipated their divisions.
• The Puppet Dao, Immortal Alliance, and Righteous Qi Continent remained divided, and Li Chen’s influence over resources, industry, and new forms of power made opposition difficult.
• Immortal King Xuanling struggled to rally the great powers against Li Chen, whose plans continued largely unchallenged, and gradually lost patience.

Materialized Heaven expanded across newly formed lands and gained vast resources, prompting other powers to compete for territory. As the Immortal Alliance fractured and local powers rallied behind Immortal King Xuanling, Heaven developed into a star-spanning kingdom governed by artificial intelligence and programs.

• Materialized Heaven used Insect Race labor and advanced machinery to claim resources, while other powers copied its colonial model and divided up newly formed lands.
• Local powers abandoned the Immortal Alliance and joined Immortal King Xuanling's Immortal Kingdom to protect their control over their territories from the puppet masters.
• New magnates from the Azure Sea Region, the Vast Sea Domain, and the Equal Sea Domain decided to pursue new lands independently of the Immortal Alliance.
• Materialized Heaven's citizens left the Giant Kun Body with their own established genes and order, gaining freedom as Heaven expanded rapidly.
• Heaven formed a kingdom across star regions and celestial bodies, basing its government on artificial intelligence and programs rather than human-led systems.

Li Chen explained to Mei Xuan that he intended to bring about Dharma’s Decline so civilization could share the power of the Dao, and said he was nearing his own transformation. As the Giant Kun vanished and spiritual essence began disappearing across the worlds, materialized heaven adapted with its mechanical systems.

• Mei Xuan contacted Li Chen with Heavenly Pivot’s help and told him what had happened, then asked about his plans.
• Li Chen told Mei Xuan that Dharma’s Decline would let more people gain longevity and freedom by entrusting divine power to heaven and earth for everyone to use.
• Li Chen said he was close to refining the Immortal Coffin and completing his transformation, and his voice faded away.
• Heavenly Pivot lost track of the Giant Kun’s internal structure as the Kun and its Seven-Colored Radiance disappeared.
• Spiritual essence vanished across an expanding region, disrupting communications and machinery, but materialized heaven adapted using its mechanical systems and Thunder Essence False Cores.
• The abnormal change spread outward faster than light until the myriad heavens and worlds felt its arrival.

Immortal Emperor Xuanling established the Immortal Kingdom’s hierarchy by conferring titles on eight Immortal Kings, granting his followers and former Immortal Alliance cultivators benefits tied to their ranks. As he celebrated the system’s power and his own prospects for advancement, Immortal Ring Mountain suddenly began to collapse.

• Immortal King Xuanling transformed Immortal Ring Mountain into the Immortal Kingdom’s capital, gathering treasures, palaces, and spiritual essence there.
• Immortal Emperor Xuanling invested Guan Xiong as Immortal King Xuanyuan, Si Long as Immortal King Shengji, Du Yuan as Immortal King Qinghui, and five others as Immortal Kings.
• Si Long recognized that the Immortal Kingdom’s titles drew upon subjects’ spirituality and granted those with higher ranks greater control over spiritual essence.
• Immortal Emperor Xuanling felt his own bottleneck break and anticipated advancing toward the authority of a true Immortal Emperor.
• A vast power shook Immortal Ring Mountain, and alarms rang out that the immortal mountain had collapsed.

Li Chen unleashed the power of dharma’s decline across the myriad heavens, collapsing Immortal Ring Mountain and erasing spiritual essence as the world began shifting toward material forms. Immortal Emperor Xuanling sent his followers to safety and found that the Puppet Masters were also in chaos, with no faction spared.

• Immortal Ring Mountain shook apart, its palaces and defensive formation collapsing as cultivators fled.
• Cultivators discovered that the spirit veins had run dry and spiritual essence was vanishing or attaching itself to material objects.
• Immortal Emperor Xuanling found that the Great Dao had become difficult to perceive and recognized suppression by higher-order laws.
• Si Long and the others realized that Li Chen had brought about dharma’s decline, overturning their belief that he would not risk dismantling the world’s supernatural order.
• As cultivators lost the ability to fly and project their divine sense, Immortal Emperor Xuanling used spatial laws to move his followers to safety and told them to guard against the Puppet Masters.
• Immortal Emperor Xuanling investigated the Puppet Masters and found that they were in disarray too, as the upheaval struck every faction and Dao Path.

Dharma's Decline disrupted spiritual essence across Materialized Heaven and the Puppet Dao, but preparations and technology let them recover quickly. Shen Longcheng concluded the upheaval was tied to Li Chen’s power and reflected his effort to build a civilization where mighty power belonged to the collective, while Li Chen remained unreachable as he focused on suppressing the Immortal Coffin.

• Dharma's Decline disabled spiritual essence engines, arrays, and other spiritual essence-dependent systems across Materialized Heaven, but its departments restored high-rank forces with Thunder Essence False Cores and technological weapons.
• Shen Longcheng and other Puppet Dao masters found that creations such as Sun Divine Thunder, light energy magic arrays, and the Void Furnace remained usable despite the upheaval.
• Shen Longcheng and the others tried to contact Li Chen, but he did not respond while suppressing the Immortal Coffin.
• Shen Longcheng reasoned that Li Chen's mastery of the Heavenly Ghost had made Dharma's Decline possible and reassured the others that resilient Dao Paths could flourish under it.
• Shen Longcheng came to see Dharma's Decline as an environment Li Chen intended to use to promote materialized great unity and make mighty power serve civilization and the collective.

As Li Chen remained trapped in the Immortal Coffin, his discoveries about the Great Dao reached Materialized Heaven and gave mortal researchers a way to study its origins under Dharma's Decline. Yu Bao and his colleagues used the new runes to activate a Spirit Essence Furnace without spirit stones, leaving Mei Xuan stunned.

• Han Tong questioned whether Li Chen's control of the only remaining individual mighty power left him as the sole authority, while Shen Longcheng and others defended their trust in him.
• Heavenly Pivot detected abnormal energy around the Seven-Colored Bubble and reported a new restriction sent from Li Chen, who had unraveled mysteries of spiritual essence in the Immortal Coffin.
• Mei Xuan sent Li Chen's restriction to the Research Institute, where mortal grand artisans recognized that Dharma's Decline had revealed traces of the Great Dao origin for mathematical analysis.
• Yu Bao and other researchers developed a rune technology that could communicate with the laws and prompt a response from the Great Dao.
• In Freedom Heaven, Yu Bao and the researchers inscribed their runes onto a Spirit Essence Furnace, which activated without spirit stones and astonished Mei Xuan.

Yu Bao explained that Li Chen’s rune-script technology could turn the laws of nature into a power ordinary beings could learn and use, while Mei Xuan considered how it fit into Li Chen’s plans for Materialized Heaven. The chapter revealed that Heavenly Pivot had survived Dharma’s Decline Descends and was Li Chen’s true contingency.

• Yu Bao told Mei Xuan that the rune script harnessed the natural flow of Heaven and Earth and could be mastered by mortals without spiritual aptitude or tribulation.
• Yu Bao said Materialized Heaven would share knowledge through its system but would restrict access from enemies, and he described his team’s efforts to formalize rune-script restrictions through mathematics.
• Mei Xuan suspected Li Chen had long planned for Dharma’s Decline Descends and resolved to help oversee Materialized Heaven while he cultivated in seclusion.
• Mei Xuan recognized that Heavenly Pivot still controlled Heaven’s authority and that the catastrophe had strengthened rather than harmed her.
• Mei Xuan understood that Heavenly Pivot’s intelligence and true-spirit essence made her Li Chen’s hidden contingency.

Li Chen tried to seal the ten Immortal Coffins by pulling them into his Mindscape Wasteland and using the Heavenly Ghost’s power to erase knowledge of them. As the coffins’ power overwhelmed him, his Heavenly Ghost Incarnation transformed into a vast creature across space and time, and Heavenly Pivot declared that Li Chen had undergone an aberration.

• Li Chen’s consciousness became entangled with the Immortal Coffins, leaving him unable to contact Mei Xuan or Heavenly Pivot.
• Li Chen decided to bind the coffins to his Mindscape Wasteland and permanently erase knowledge of them from all beings and the Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Ghost Incarnation began operating on its own as spiritual energy and the consciousness of living beings flooded Li Chen’s Law Domain.
• Li Chen experienced the histories held within the coffins, witnessing civilizations rise and fall before darkness consumed his Mindscape Wasteland.
• The ten coffins faded into the darkness as Li Chen’s incarnation expanded through space and time into a colossal, monstrous form.
• Mei Xuan watched the change through relayed images, and Heavenly Pivot told her that Li Chen’s Heavenly Dao Incarnation had gone out of control and undergone an aberration.

Li Chen returned after sealing the Immortal Coffins and his Heavenly Ghost incarnation, explaining that the coffins embodied destruction and that the tenth contained the power of Dharma's decline. He planned to end extraordinary power in the Myriad Heavens Universe, but Mei Xuan discovered that Li Chen himself had become completely powerless.

• Heavenly Pivot told Mei Xuan that Li Chen could be restored by severing his body and freeing his consciousness, and that Heavenly Pivot and the Giant Kun could restrain his Heavenly Ghost incarnation.
• The Giant Kun swallowed the aberrant black shadow, and Li Chen emerged and returned to the Main Nest Hall.
• Li Chen told Mei Xuan he had sealed the Immortal Coffins along with his Heavenly Ghost incarnation.
• Li Chen explained that the Immortal Coffins represented destruction, that the tenth coffin contained the power of Dharma's decline, and that sealing them would end extraordinary might in the Myriad Heavens Universe.
• Mei Xuan saw that Li Chen had lost all his magic power and had become like a mortal.

Li Chen explained that Dharma's Decline changed how magic power appeared rather than erasing it, then concealed the Immortal Coffins' fate and urged the Puppet Dao Faction to wage total war. He left Mei Xuan suspecting he wanted to redirect internal tensions and establish a new order for the Dharma-Ending Age.

• Li Chen told Mei Xuan that divine might remained within the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, though its outward manifestations had changed.
• Shen Longcheng and the Elders' Council contacted Li Chen to ask about the Immortal Coffins, and Li Chen claimed he had resolved the matter.
• Li Chen urged the Puppet Dao Faction to attack the Immortal Alliance and, if necessary, the Immortal Kingdom and Heavenly Court as well.
• Shen Longcheng and the other elders moved toward deciding on total war, while Mei Xuan worried that it would also turn the Puppet Dao Faction against temporary allies.
• Mei Xuan suspected Li Chen wanted to redirect the Puppet Dao Faction's internal conflict, and Li Chen agreed before declaring that the Dharma-Ending Age needed a new order.

The Immortal Alliance met with Li Chen and the Puppet Masters to seek help amid the catastrophe of Dharma's decline, while trying to blame Li Chen and reclaim the Immortal Coffin. As their negotiations continued, Li Chen's forces arrived with forty-nine upgraded Sky Cities.

• Fu Changsheng, Daoist Shangyuan, and other Immortal Alliance Great Powers agreed to meet the Puppet Masters because Ancient Immortals had seized the Sky-Gazing Terrace and their situation was worsening.
• The Immortal Alliance used its treasures and a Communication Base Station to contact the Puppet World Heavenly Net, where they met Li Chen and other Puppet Dao figures.
• Yin Xuanyuan and Ancestor Yuntian demanded that Li Chen explain the catastrophe of Dharma's decline, and Li Chen said it had been caused by aura leaking from the Immortal Coffin.
• Fu Changsheng implied that the Immortal Coffin belonged to the Immortal Alliance, while Shen Longcheng judged the alliance's political maneuvering ill-suited to the crisis.
• A positioning Mechanism Device established a spatial link, and forty-nine upgraded Sky Cities arrived above the valley.