Recaps

After failing to clear the Heavenly Bridge’s Eighteenth Layer, Li Che spent his new reward points on a faster spaceship and browsed creatures, clone materials, and secret techniques. As he focused on improving his chances against the Eighteenth Layer, he received a call from Lord Luhai.

• Li Che lost to the Eighteenth-Layer opponent after about a hundred exchanges, and Overseer Bafen praised his first-attempt clear of the Seventeenth Layer.
• Bai Yue reported that Li Che had earned 131,071,000 Heavenly Bridge reward points.
• Li Che ordered an F9-class spaceship and a matching Marquis Level metal lifeform for 28 million points after his discount.
• Li Che searched the store for suitable clone materials but decided to wait until after completing the Lord of Void Gold’s trial to become a personal disciple.
• Li Che began browsing secret techniques for space lockdown and space strangulation, then received a call request from Lord Luhai.

Li Che met Lord Luhai in the Virtual Universe to discuss how to meet the Lord of Void Gold’s requirement of reaching the eighteenth Heavenly Bridge floor within five hundred years. Lord Luhai advised him to focus on spatial sealing and strangulation and combine his law comprehension and spear techniques into stronger secret techniques, then offered to answer his questions every ten years.

• Li Che accepted Lord Luhai’s call and met him in his vast palace in the Virtual Universe.
• Lord Luhai reviewed Li Che’s Heavenly Bridge battle and asked about his plans for the next five hundred years.
• Li Che described his plans to study Black Hole Evolution, spatial techniques, the Chaos Stele, and his own secret techniques.
• Lord Luhai advised Li Che to focus on spatial sealing and strangulation before studying Instantaneous Movement.
• Lord Luhai explained that Li Che should combine his spatial-law methods and spear techniques into unified secret techniques, and arranged one thousand Virtual Universe opponents for him to fight.
• Lord Luhai said Li Che could seek his guidance every ten years, leaving Li Che encouraged by the advanced instruction available to him.

Under Lord Luhai's guidance, Li Che honed his self-created secret techniques against a series of customized opponents while cultivating in the Initial Universe. After nearly five hundred years, he had defeated 720 opponents and entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane.

• Lord Luhai designed a progression of Virtual Universe opponents to expose the flaws in Li Che's secret techniques and explained the trials required to advance them.
• Li Che struggled through his first two battles, then refined his techniques, studied the Great Axe Chaos Stele, and comprehended the Initial Universe's laws between challenges.
• Li Che steadily advanced through the opponents, including a Moshal Clan Immortal God and a Space-Time Nightmare Beast, while deepening his Law Comprehension.
• Around his three-hundredth year in the Initial Universe, Li Che defeated the five-hundredth opponent and transformed his self-created secret techniques.
• Li Che continued cultivating and challenging opponents until, nearly four hundred and eighty years after arriving, he entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane having defeated 720 opponents.

Jiu Feng Venerable visited the Lord of Void Gold to offer Li Che a chance at the Black Light Divine General's inheritance, but found that Li Che had already become the Lord of Void Gold's disciple. After Li Che cleared the eighteenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge, Jiu Feng Venerable left, regretting that he had missed the chance to teach him.

• Lord Luhai arrived at the Lord of Void Gold's estate and found Jiu Feng Venerable watching Li Che's eighteenth-layer challenge with their teacher.
• Jiu Feng Venerable congratulated the Lord of Void Gold on Li Che's rapid progress and revealed that he had planned to guide Li Che toward the Black Light Divine General's inheritance.
• Jiu Feng Venerable gave the inheritance token to the Lord of Void Gold, who agreed to secure the opportunity for Li Che and compensate him.
• Li Che defeated his opponent with his self-created secret technique and cleared the eighteenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Jiu Feng Venerable regretted missing out on Li Che as a disciple, bowed to the Lord of Void Gold, and departed the Initial Universe.

Li Che challenged the nineteenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge but was defeated by its guardian, whose deeper laws and top secret technique overwhelmed him. After leaving the Virtual Universe, Li Che prepared for the next stage of his cultivation, but King Yongbo arrived to take him to the Lord of Void Gold.

• Li Che chose a warrior opponent on the nineteenth layer and faced a guardian who had mastered Space Strangulation and Space Lockdown.
• Li Che used his Guixu First Form to block the guardian’s opening strike, then fought him for several dozen exchanges before being killed.
• Li Che left the Virtual Universe, reflected on becoming the Lord of Void Gold’s personal disciple, and planned to cultivate before seeking a powerful clone and advancing to the Immortal level.
• King Yongbo congratulated Li Che on passing the eighteenth layer and said the Lord of Void Gold wanted to see him immediately.
• King Yongbo used Instantaneous Movement to take Li Che to the Lord of Void Gold’s palace.

Li Che became the Lord of Void Gold’s nineteenth direct disciple and received guidance and resources for his cultivation. The Lord of Void Gold learned that Li Che possessed the Innate Secret Technique, Clone, and asked whether he had nurtured a clone yet.

• The Lord of Void Gold formally accepted Li Che as his nineteenth direct disciple, and Li Che greeted his fourteen surviving senior brothers and sisters.
• The Lord of Void Gold advised Li Che to cultivate in the Initial Universe and aim to create a Peak Secret Technique while still a World Lord.
• The Lord of Void Gold told Li Che that Jiu Feng Venerable had sent him a Divine General Inheritance token and explained when he could visit the Glory Secret Realm.
• Li Che asked the Lord of Void Gold for advice on suitable clones, explaining that a fortuitous opportunity had granted him improved life genes and the Innate Secret Technique, Clone.
• The Lord of Void Gold reacted with interest and asked whether Li Che had nurtured a clone.

Li Che discussed the requirements for his one clone with the Lord of Void Gold, who promised to find a suitable special lifeform and provide its material. After passing the Heavenly Bridge’s eighteenth layer, Li Che registered for permanent residency in Chaos City and settled near its outskirts, where he told King Yongbo he planned to remain until becoming Immortal.

• Li Che told the Lord of Void Gold he wanted a large clone with time-law aptitude and a high gene multiplier, and his teacher agreed to search for a suitable lifeform and supply its material.
• The Lord of Void Gold sent Li Che out of his palace after saying he would contact Lan Cang and summon him again once the clone arrangements were confirmed.
• King Yongbo congratulated Li Che on passing the eighteenth layer and took him to register for permanent residency in Chaos City.
• Li Che received 130 million points and confirmation of permanent residency, then chose a home near the outskirts of Chaos City.
• Over wine, King Yongbo revealed he had spent more than ninety thousand epochs in the Initial Universe under orders not to leave until he passed the twentieth layer, while Li Che said he planned to stay until becoming Immortal.

After more than a thousand years of cultivation, Li Che created a Peak Secret Technique and defeated his thousandth opponent. He then discovered that his eleventh Legacy Clone came from the world of Desolate Era.

• Li Che used Guixu First Form to break through the Turbid Mountain Race Immortal's Space Lockdown and eventually forced the opponent into dormancy after a month-long battle.
• Li Che reflected on how long it had taken him to create a Peak Secret Technique and noticed newly arrived Universe Level geniuses in Chaos City.
• Li Che realized five thousand years had passed in the Primal Universe while he cultivated in the Initial Universe.
• The Infinite Land gathered light into an illusory star, revealing Li Che's eleventh Legacy Clone from the world of Desolate Era.

In the Infinite Land, Li Che witnessed the life of his Desolate Era counterpart, from his rise as a Heavenly Court soldier to his banishment into the Chaos Void. After the counterpart died trying to pass through a mysterious bronze gate, Li Che decided the world was worth entering and merged his will into the counterpart’s true spirit.

• Li Che learned that Desolate Era Li Che had grown up as an orphan, joined the Alligator Immortal Sect as a servant, and impressed a Primal Daoist with his cultivation talent.
• Desolate Era Li Che advanced rapidly, became a Heavenly Court soldier, and was later taken as a disciple by Immortal Yuding after reaching the Void Return Divine Demon level.
• While leading troops against an ancient divine demon, Desolate Era Li Che was banished with thousands of heavenly soldiers into the Chaos Void by a True Demon Dao Talisman.
• A spatial rift carried Desolate Era Li Che to a remote void where he found a mysterious bronze gate, exhausted his supplies, and forced his way through it.
• The bronze gate destroyed the souls of Desolate Era Li Che and his second primal soul, and Li Che then merged his will into the counterpart’s true spirit.

Li Che returned to Dao Lord Yi Guang’s legacy abode after his true soul revived, and the White Ape Puppet accepted him as a candidate for the inheritance. He left bound by life oaths and facing a trial to master the power of light.

• Li Che’s true soul reassembled, and he returned to the Bronze Gate after confirming his second primordial spirit had revived.
• Li Che endured the heartforce suppression and entered the legacy abode, where the White Ape Puppet reacted with astonishment.
• The White Ape Puppet revealed that the abode held Dao Lord Yi Guang’s legacy and that Yi Guang had been a peak Second Step Dao Lord.
• The White Ape Puppet made Li Che swear life oaths naming him Yi Guang’s nominal disciple and requiring him to order Snow Ape’s destruction after receiving the legacy.
• The White Ape Puppet told Li Che to reach the fourth level of origin power in light within two thousand years while still a mortal to formally become Yi Guang’s disciple.

Li Che studied Dao Lord Yiguang’s inheritance and began comprehending the Power of Light while considering how to use it across his worlds. In the Swallowed Star universe, he cleared the nineteenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge, failed at the twentieth, and received an invitation from the Lord of Void Gold to choose materials for creating an avatar.

• Li Che accepted the Sixty-Six Light-Splitting Escape Art from the white ape puppet and began cultivating the Power of Light in the grotto-heaven world.
• Li Che considered using his knowledge of light to pursue the time-light fusion path and searched for suitable special lifeforms, but found little useful information.
• Li Che entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane and waited while four Universe Level geniuses ahead of him attempted the Giant Axe Heavenly Bridge.
• Li Che cleared the nineteenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge but was defeated after a dozen exchanges on the twentieth.
• The Lord of Void Gold summoned Li Che to Chaos City and said he had prepared lifeform materials for Li Che to create an avatar.

Li Che met with the Lord of Void Gold, who offered three special lifeforms as options for his innate clone slot and told him he could begin pursuing the Black Light Divine General inheritance. Li Che chose Starry Spirit as his clone.

• Li Che visited the Lord of Void Gold, who praised his progress and announced that the Black Light Divine General inheritance would open in about fifty years.
• The Lord of Void Gold explained that Li Che could nurture a special lifeform clone and recommended Qiu Yan, whose Time Domain and immense body suited Li Che’s needs.
• The Lord of Void Gold presented Molten Thunder, whose Regeneration technique and lightning and Time affinities offered strong survivability.
• The Lord of Void Gold described Starry Spirit, an energy lifeform with no soul that could create a separate clone through Energy Diversion.
• The Lord of Void Gold offered the clone materials as a gift, and Li Che chose Starry Spirit.

Li Che created a Starry Spirit clone and learned it would take two or three hundred years to gestate. After returning to the Primal Universe, he prepared to travel to the Glory Secret Realm and pursue the Black Light Divine General's inheritance.

• Li Che absorbed the Starry Spirit energy core and used his innate secret technique to begin gestating a clone in his internal world.
• Li Che fed the growing clone with dozens of Life Fruits and world power, while the Lord of Void Gold estimated gestation would take two or three hundred years.
• The Lord of Void Gold advised Li Che to endure as much of the Divine General Inheritance as possible and then return to the Initial Universe to consolidate his understanding.
• Li Che returned to the Primal Universe and arranged delivery of his new F9-Class Spaceship to the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters continent.
• Li Che instructed Bai Yue to apply for individual exploration of the dead star in the Glory Secret Realm and held a black crystal as he prepared for the inheritance site.

Li Che received his F9-class spaceship, named it Starry Sky, and traveled to Death Star in the Glory Secret Realm to seek an inheritance site. He arrived decades before the site opened, waited while studying space laws, and emerged when the tower’s law light appeared.

• Li Che accepted his F9-class spaceship and a juvenile Kongshen Race metal lifeform from the Ape-man Race Immortal.
• Li Che named the ship Starry Sky, ordered Bai Yue to chart a course to the Glory Secret Realm, and departed.
• Li Che landed on Death Star and destroyed thousands of attacking World Lord-level Death Beasts with Space Strangulation.
• Li Che found the Black Light Divine General’s stone tower and learned from his black crystal that its inheritance site would not open for another forty-odd years.
• Li Che waited inside a World Ring and studied space laws until a ray of law light appeared from the tower.

Li Che entered the Black Light Divine General’s inheritance and passed its first two stages, gaining two fruits and two divine weapons. He continued into the third stage but reached the limit of his compatibility and could no longer advance beyond the 6,701st step.

• Li Che entered the Black Light Divine Temple and climbed its first 3,333 steps, reaching 33 times body amplitude and becoming a Preliminary Candidate.
• Li Che received a You Shen Fruit and a Zhuoyu Staff, then began the second stage of the inheritance.
• Li Che climbed to the 6,666th step and became a Senior Inheritor.
• Li Che ate the Scarlet Blaze Fruit, which strengthened his body and soul, and stored the stage’s high-grade dagger divine weapon.
• Li Che continued into the third stage but found his inheritance technique could no longer progress after reaching the 6,701st step.

Li Che left the Black Light Divine General's inheritance after reaching the 6,700th layer, then absorbed the Scarlet Blaze Fruit and assessed his greatly increased strength. He set course for the Initial Universe, planning to become an Immortal God after his Starry Clone finished gestating.

• Li Che awoke outside the Inheritance Temple and learned that only a little over fifteen years had passed.
• Li Che met King Nidu, another Black Light inheritor, exchanged their stopping layers, and added her Virtual Universe account.
• Li Che left the Death Star region for the Glory Secret Realm and absorbed the Scarlet Blaze Fruit, growing to around five meters tall as much of its energy flowed into his soul.
• Li Che calculated that his 6,700th-layer inheritance progress gave him a sixty-sevenfold body amplitude and enough strength to overpower most Marquis Immortals.
• Li Che told Bai Yue to plot a new flight route to the Initial Universe while he planned for his Starry Clone to cultivate the laws of light and time before breaking through to Immortal God.

Li Che returned to Chaos City to continue cultivating after completing the Black Light Divine General’s inheritance. Lord Luhai warned him that hostile races were targeting him, and Li Che resolved to stay in the Initial Universe until he became an Immortal.

• Li Che returned to Chaos City and planned to study the Chaos Stele and improve his mastery of space laws.
• Lord Luhai asked Li Che about the inheritance, and Li Che revealed his sixty-sevenfold body amplitude and the curved dagger he had received as a reward.
• Lord Luhai identified the dagger as a high-grade weapon and explained that completing the inheritance’s third stage could have rewarded Li Che with a supreme treasure.
• Lord Luhai warned Li Che that hostile races had noticed his achievements and might try to assassinate him outside the Initial Universe.
• Li Che told Lord Luhai that he would remain in the Initial Universe until he became an Immortal.

Li Che completed the gestation of his Starry Clone in his internal world, gaining an enormous starlight body and the ability to create smaller clones. The chapter ended with Li Che celebrating the clone’s strength and survivability.

• Lord Luhai advised Li Che about the Divine General Inheritance and assassins, bought his inheritance dagger and You Shen Fruit, then gave the fruit to his youngest personal disciple.
• Li Che returned to his studies in Chaos City and met Immortal-level cultivators from the Void Gold Lineage through King Yongbo.
• More than a hundred and sixty years later, Li Che sensed his third clone nearing completion and left a drinking gathering to enter seclusion.
• Li Che waited as the cocoon in his internal world shattered and the Starry Spirit’s energy crystal core absorbed cosmic energy, forming a starlight body about 180,000 kilometers across.
• Li Che used his innate secret technique, Energy Diversion, to create a smaller clone more than 550 kilometers across, then praised the Starry Clone’s size, soul-attack immunity, and survivability.

Li Che explored his Starry Clone’s immense strength and exceptional affinity for the light and time origin laws, quickly earning the light origin law’s acknowledgment and demonstrating several combat techniques. As he considered developing the clone further, he received a call request from the Lord of Void Gold.

• Li Che tested the Starry Clone’s 67-fold body amplification and found that its 180-times baseline genes gave it strength equivalent to 12,060 times world lord power.
• Li Che discovered that the Starry Clone had no soul, making it immune to soul attacks, and possessed exceptional affinity for the light and time origin laws.
• Li Che’s Starry Clone gained acknowledgment from the light origin law within just over an hour and quickly grasped the fundamentals of the time origin law.
• Li Che used the Starry Clone to perform seven combat secret techniques based on the light and time origin laws.
• Li Che considered finding instructional manuals and creating secret techniques for the Starry Clone, then received a call request from the Lord of Void Gold.

Li Che discussed his Starry Clone’s future with the Lord of Void Gold and chose to pursue the fusion of time and light laws. The Lord of Void Gold offered to seek a Beast God Inheritance Token for him and warned him to conceal the connection between his clones to avoid attracting powerful enemies.

• The Lord of Void Gold praised Li Che’s Starry Clone and said its strength could eventually rival an Invincible King’s.
• Li Che told his teacher he wanted to follow the Beast God path of fusing time and light laws.
• The Lord of Void Gold recommended the Time Beast technique and said he would ask the Chaos City Lord to reserve a light-time Beast God Inheritance Token for Li Che.
• The Lord of Void Gold warned Li Che to keep his Starry Clone and human clone separate because enemies might target a genius cultivating both time and space.
• Li Che resolved to grow stronger quickly after hearing about the powerful beings who could locate or kill him.

Li Che bought the first three volumes of the light-and-time fusion manual "Time Beast" and used his Starry Clone’s perceptions to cultivate the power of light in the Desolate Era world. Fifteen years later, he advanced another great step within the third level, though the fourth level remained beyond his grasp.

• Li Che spent 7.5 billion points to buy the first three volumes of "Time Beast" and sent the manual to his Starry Clone to study.
• Li Che’s Desolate Era self connected to the Starry Clone’s perceptions and used its affinity for light to comprehend the power of light.
• After fifteen years, Li Che manifested the power of light and used the Sixty-Six Light-Splitting Escape Art to cross dozens of kilometers.
• The White-Haired Ape Puppet recognized Li Che’s progress within the third level and urged him to keep cultivating.
• Li Che acknowledged that reaching the fourth level would be difficult, then resumed his cultivation.

Li Che reached the fourth level of the power of light in the Desolate Era world and passed Dao Lord Yiguang’s trial, inheriting the Dao Lord’s legacy. He learned Yiguang’s history and wishes, then asked the White-Haired Ape puppet to help him lay the foundation for becoming a first-rank celestial immortal.

• After fifteen hundred years of cultivation in the Inheritance Space, Li Che broke through to the fourth level of the power of light.
• Dao Lord Yiguang’s projection appeared and congratulated Li Che on passing the trial, then recounted his rise and his failed attempt to become a Third Step Dao Lord after an Eternal Clan ambush.
• Dao Lord Yiguang offered Li Che his accumulated treasures and asked him to kill Eternal Clan members when possible and visit the White Mountain Eternal World if he became a Dao Lord.
• A Dao Talisman entered Li Che’s brow and revealed that Yiguang’s treasures, scriptures, and possessions were stored in another pocket world.
• The White-Haired Ape puppet begged Li Che to release it, but Li Che asked it to help him lay the foundation for becoming a first-rank celestial immortal.

With the White-Haired Ape Puppet’s help, Li Che transformed his dantian and became a First-Rank Celestial Immortal and a Heavenly God. He destroyed the puppet’s Will Core after fulfilling his oath, then set out to find his distant Second Primordial Spirit.

• The White-Haired Ape Puppet used chaos energy to transform Li Che’s dantian so he could cultivate a First-Rank Celestial Immortal foundation.
• The puppet discovered that a spatial rift had carried Li Che’s Second Primordial Spirit far away, beyond their reach within a year.
• Li Che called down and effortlessly passed the highest-level Celestial Immortal Tribulation, followed by the highest-level Heavenly God Tribulation.
• The White-Haired Ape Puppet congratulated Li Che and gave him chaos spirit liquid to replenish his depleted power.
• Li Che destroyed the puppet’s Will Core, then decided to find a way back and retrieve his Second Primordial Spirit.

Li Che’s second primordial spirit became a Celestial Immortal in the Three Realms while his true body remained stranded in the Chaos Void. After using Dao Lord Yiguang’s star chart to locate himself in the Damo Domain, Li Che prepared to travel toward the Damo Eternal World.

• Li Che’s second primordial spirit shattered the nine-by-nine Celestial Immortal tribulation and overcame the inner demon tribulation as Daoist Yuding and Yang Jian watched.
• Daoist Yuding praised Li Che’s power, while Yang Jian lamented that Li Che’s true body remained trapped in the Chaos Void and asked about the opportunity that had helped him grow.
• Li Che told them vaguely that his opportunity came from the legacy of a Dao Ancestor who had left the Three Realms, concealing the truth because of threats within the Three Realms.
• Li Che’s true body used Dao Lord Yiguang’s star chart and his connection to his second primordial spirit to calculate his location, discovering he was farther from the Three Realms and far from the Damo Eternal World.
• Li Che summoned a dark golden flying boat and decided to explore the Damo Eternal World first.

Li Che sorted through Dao Lord Yiguang’s legacy and began cultivating in the Chaos Void while his second primordial spirit traveled the Three Realms. Over more than twenty thousand years, his Devouring World human clone mastered the three branches of space origin law, created the ultimate secret technique Guixu, and reached the twentieth-floor standard in both space and time.

• Li Che bound the Hundred Luminaries Divine Traversal Boat, selected scriptures and treasures from Dao Lord Yiguang’s legacy, and began cultivating while searching the Chaos Void for a chaos world.
• Li Che’s second primordial spirit took leave from the Heavenly Court, obtained the Ten-Light Annihilation Needles from Daoist Yuding, and traveled to the Great Xia World in the Crimsonbright Domain.
• Li Che’s human clone mastered Space Strangulation and Space Lockdown, defeated the fifteen-hundredth Path of Secret Techniques opponent, and then studied Instantaneous Movement.
• Li Che mastered Instantaneous Movement, completing all three major branches of the space origin law, and continued challenging the Path of Secret Techniques.
• Li Che defeated the two-thousandth Path of Secret Techniques opponent, advanced Guixu’s first two forms to the ultimate secret technique level, and cleared the twentieth floor of the Giant Axe Heavenly Bridge and the World Lord-level Giant Axe Purgatory.
• Li Che’s understanding of the light time origin law reached the standard of the Heavenly Bridge’s twentieth floor as hostile races waited for him to leave the Initial Universe.