Chapter Summaries

Gu Changqing interrogated the captured Origin Temple missionaries in Iron Anchor City and learned that their operation spanned sixteen star domains and had stolen 370 million Vow Power points. After discovering that their projection chip resembled material from the Great Thousand Origin Realm Star Map, he headed to Cangwu Star to investigate.

• Gu Changqing questioned Zhao Siliang, who said a masked young woman had supplied the missionaries with projection chips and incomplete cultivation techniques at Cangwu Star, where hundreds had gathered.
• Gu Changqing ordered Nezha to take the eight captured missionaries to Yin Jiao for interrogation and decided to go to Cangwu Star himself.
• The system reported that the missionaries had intercepted 4.2 million Vow Power points in Iron Anchor City and 370 million across sixteen star domains.
• Nezha broke the Vow Power-absorbing stele, found a rune-marked formation core inside, and took it with him.
• The system found that the projection chip's material closely matched the medium of the Great Thousand Origin Realm Star Map, while Yang Jian dismantled the Interception Formation terminal on Cangwu Star.
• Gu Changqing ordered Yang Jian to preserve the formation core, then vanished from Iron Anchor City as a townsman told his grandmother that the real Lord of The Firmament did not need them to bow.

Nezha pursued the Origin Temple’s fake outposts across two Star Domains but failed to stop their fast Spatial Jump Arrays, learning that they could identify his aura and were preparing a denunciation against him and Master. After returning to The Firmament Realm, he and Yang Jian confirmed the outposts used the same technology as a chip found on Cangwu Star, suggesting their enemy knew their movements and capabilities.

• Nezha reached Shattered Stone Star, but the white-robed men escaped through a Spatial Jump Array before he could destroy it, and he warned the locals that their cultivation method was fake.
• Nezha disguised himself and joined the queue at the fake Temple outpost on Copper Drum Star, but its operators recognized him and escaped again.
• Yin Jiao told Nezha that the Origin Temple’s Spiritual Sense Locking Devices identified aura fluctuations at the Immortal Emperor level or above, and that its superiors were preparing a denunciation against Nezha and Master.
• Nezha returned to The Firmament Realm and learned from Yang Jian that the outpost on Cangwu Star had withdrawn before they arrived.
• Yang Jian showed Nezha an array core fragment whose runes matched a chip from Cangwu Star, and concluded that the Origin Temple knew their details and had calculated their movements.

The Origin Temple denounced Gu Changqing across sixteen Star Domains, using stolen vow power to broadcast claims that he was a false patriarch. Nezha discovered a planted draft mocking Xiaotian Dog and reported it to Gu Changqing, who ordered him to bring it up.

• The Origin Temple broadcast a denunciation across sixteen Star Domains, and Nezha learned it used 370 million points of stolen vow power as fuel.
• Yang Jian questioned whether the prisoners had met the Origin Temple's true leader, then left after hearing that a masked woman's presence seemed to swallow sound.
• Nezha visited Xiaotian Dog, whose sharp sense of smell led them to a buried bundle on the back mountain.
• Nezha found a detailed denunciation draft and a portrait depicting Xiaotian Dog as a tin counterfeit bearing a Pangu tag.
• Nezha reported the planted materials to Gu Changqing, who told him to bring them up.

Nezha brought Gu Changqing a planted portrait mocking Xiaotian Dog and a longer draft denunciation, prompting suspicion that someone inside The Firmament Realm had bypassed its defenses. Gu Changqing ordered the back mountain formations rebuilt and began tracing faint mental residue from a Formation Core Fragment and chip, leaving Xiaotian Dog beside him as the extraction began.

• Nezha reported that someone had buried a carefully drawn portrait of Xiaotian Dog wearing a tag labeled Pangu near its den, and that the bundle had no residual aura.
• Tongtian identified the portrait’s paper as spirit fiber from Weaving Cloud Star, while Nezha argued that the burial suggested an insider had bypassed the back mountain formations.
• Gu Changqing comforted Xiaotian Dog, then ordered Tongtian to rebuild every back mountain formation with the Myriad Heavens Only Origin System’s highest-level encryption.
• Yang Jian showed Gu Changqing new runes on the Formation Core Fragment that encoded coordinates to the third passage, along with the Origin Temple’s emblem.
• Gu Changqing asked the system to extract the faint mental residue from the chip and fragment, then sent Yang Jian, Tongtian, and Nezha to rest while Xiaotian Dog stayed with him.

Gu Changqing used a True-Name Karma Thread to trace the chip’s maker to an outpost in the Savage Star Domain, while discovering that the fake Xiaotian Dog picture led beyond the Firmament Realm. He split up his next moves: Tongtian and Yang Jian would scout the outpost, while he and Nezha would investigate the God-Making Dharma Assembly.

• The system confirmed that the runes on the chip and Formation Core Fragment came from the same person, whose mental frequency was closely linked to the Great Thousand Origin Realm.
• Gu Changqing anchored a True-Name Karma Thread to the chip and traced its chain through Cangwu Star to a hidden headquarters in the Savage Star Domain.
• Gu Changqing ordered Tongtian to take Yang Jian to scout the headquarters and report its forces and whether the Veiled Woman was there.
• Gu Changqing learned that the picture of the fake Xiaotian Dog had a karmic chain leading beyond the Firmament Realm.
• Gu Changqing took Nezha with him to investigate the God-Making Dharma Assembly, where a fake Gu Changqing was set to proclaim himself emperor in three days.

Nezha and Gu Changqing discovered that the God-Making Dharma Assembly was using a soul-imprint array and mental resonance to control hundreds of millions of worshippers. Gu Changqing stopped time, confronted the gray-cloaked Veiled Woman, and asked if she was distributing the Chips.

• Nezha and Gu Changqing observed 470 million people gathering at the altar and identified its pillars as a Soul Imprint Collection Array.
• Gu Changqing explained that the pillars amplified religious fervor and that extracted soul imprints would become permanently separated after an hour.
• The projected Gu Changqing urged worshippers to pledge allegiance and offer their soul imprints, and the first people began having them extracted.
• Gu Changqing used Time Law to freeze the Clear Firmament Plains and the surrounding star domain, then revealed himself above the altar.
• The gray-cloaked Veiled Woman remained unfrozen, recognized Gu Changqing, and said he had arrived three days earlier than she expected.

Gu Changqing confronted Kelān, the Origin Temple’s Seventh Sequence Executor, and learned that the temple was gathering vow power to open the gate to the Great Thousand Origin Realm. As Gu Changqing turned to leave, Kelān activated a red-runed black chip.

• Gu Changqing questioned Kelān about her deception, stolen vow power, and the insulting picture of his mount while the time-stasis field held the Clear Firmament Plains frozen.
• Gu Changqing destroyed the four black pillars and disabled the Soul Imprint Collection Array beneath the ritual platform.
• Kelān identified herself as the Origin Temple’s Seventh Sequence Executor, and explained that the temple had thirteen sequences working across the Myriad Worlds.
• Kelān revealed that the Origin Temple was collecting one hundred billion points of vow power to open the gate to the Great Thousand Origin Realm and free the people sealed inside.
• Kelān said she did not know, or could not reveal, who gave her orders, then pressed her thumb against a red-runed black chip as Gu Changqing turned away.

Kelān restarted the statue’s failing projection, and Gu Changqing shattered it to reveal the gray-scaled Origin Thief Race hidden inside. As the worshippers saw the truth, the Thief Race leader prepared to activate a forbidden artifact that could tear open the barrier between realms, while Gu Changqing raised his hand to stop it.

• Kelān used the emergency control core to restart the statue’s projection, but Gu Changqing snapped his fingers and shattered the statue, exposing more than thirty gray-scaled creatures inside.
• Gu Changqing lifted his temporal field, and the worshippers saw the creatures and fled in panic.
• The system identified the creatures as the Origin Thief Race, and their leader ordered Kelān to activate a forbidden artifact; Kelān refused, warning that it would kill them both.
• The leader raised a black sphere and began crushing it, while the system warned that its activation could destroy the Heavenly Net Star Domain and tear open the barrier between realms.
• Gu Changqing sent Nezha back and raised his bare hand toward the cracking sphere as the leader’s grip began to tremble.

Gu Changqing suppressed and confiscated the origin-level Forbidden Artifact, then erased the Thief Race gathered on the ritual platform. Kelān revealed her connection to the Gatekeeper and warned that something far more powerful was pushing through the door.

• Gu Changqing halted the sphere’s disintegration, forced the Thief Race leader to release it, and sealed the artifact in his sleeve.
• Gu Changqing erased the Thief Race members, while Kelān remained on the platform and explained that she had not wanted the door opened that way.
• Gu Changqing ordered Nezha to contact Tongtian and restore the worshippers whose soul imprints had been extracted.
• Kelān told Gu Changqing that her father was the Gatekeeper of the Great Thousand Origin Realm and had warned her not to let anyone touch the door.
• Kelān explained that the artifacts used by the Thief Race had leaked through the door and said the sphere was merely a stone carried for fun by a watchdog on the other side.

Gu Changqing learned that the black sphere was only the first layer of a far more dangerous artifact and heard how Kelān’s father died guarding the gate. As the group considered destroying the gate instead of opening it, Tongtian reported that the karma thread led to a city in the Savage Star Domain.

• Gu Changqing scanned the sphere and learned that it contained three energy layers, including an unknown third layer capable of erasing a worldline.
• Kelān explained that her father died stopping the sphere from escaping through a widening gap in the gate, after which fragments and Formation templates seeped out.
• Gu Changqing questioned Kelān about the First Sequence and learned that she had been sent to the Firmament Realm without knowing who led her organization.
• Kelān said her father believed the gate should be destroyed if it could no longer be guarded, though doing so would require a hundred billion in vow power.
• Tongtian told Gu Changqing that the karma thread’s terminal location in the Savage Star Domain was a city, not a base.

Gu Changqing learned that a vast city in the Savage Star Domain housed multiple races and a major component of the gate being dismantled, so he ordered Tongtian and Yang Jian to watch from a distance. Afterward, repentant believers in the Clear Firmament Plains begged forgiveness, and their gratitude sent vow power surging toward him.

• Tongtian reported that a city over three thousand li wide held many people from at least four races, and Yang Jian identified a huge black-misted object above its central tower as sharing an origin with Gu Changqing’s sphere.
• Kelān explained that the object was a major gate component being dismantled and shipped out, and relayed her father’s warning that one unknown force was dismantling the gate while another pushed from the other side.
• Gu Changqing ordered Tongtian and Yang Jian to withdraw to the edge of the Sixty-First Star Domain and leave the city untouched, then took Nezha and Kelān with him.
• An old woman and a crowd of believers knelt before Gu Changqing, apologized for giving their soul imprints to swindlers, and asked whether he blamed them.
• Gu Changqing told the believers their soul imprints would be returned and that they had no need to confess, prompting more than four hundred million people to feel remorse and gratitude as vow power poured in.
• Kelān watched the rising lights of the believers’ vow power and recognized it as true vow power.

Gu Changqing used the Great Luo Firmament Seal to erase the Dharma Platform’s statue fragments and destroy the Thief Race’s remaining array. As Tongtian reported that the Heavenly Net Star Domain had stabilized, Yang Jian warned that the Savage Star Domain city’s defenses were weakening because someone was opening its gates for Gu Changqing.

• Gu Changqing explained that remnants of the Thief Race’s auxiliary arrays still powered the statue fragments, and Kelān confirmed that origin metal sustained the circuit.
• Gu Changqing cast the Great Luo Firmament Seal, reducing the fragments and origin metal to nothing while closing the cracks and erasing the array traces.
• The worshippers witnessed Gu Changqing’s power and knelt, while the system reported that vow power had exceeded fifteen billion points.
• Tongtian reported that soul imprint restoration was eighty-seven percent complete and that the Heavenly Net Star Domain had stabilized.
• Yang Jian reported that the Savage Star Domain city’s barrier was weakening, and Kelān said someone was opening the city gates for Gu Changqing.

After Gu Changqing restored the soul imprints of more than four hundred million believers, their memories returned and they knelt in repentance, generating unprecedented SSS-rank vow power. Kelān revealed that the river of light pointed toward the city in the Savage Star Domain, and Yang Jian reported that its gate had opened a crack.

• Tongtian restored the soul imprints and memories of the believers, who recalled how they had surrendered them to the false gods.
• More than four hundred million believers knelt in repentance, and the system recorded their vow power reaching SSS rank.
• Gu Changqing returned an old man’s preserved incense and warned him not to trust anyone who promised to shield him from every calamity.
• The system announced that Gu Changqing’s vow power reserves had risen to the top three in the known records of the Myriad Worlds.
• Kelān said the river of light pointed toward the city in the Savage Star Domain and revealed that its barrier was being dismantled.
• Yang Jian contacted Gu Changqing and reported that the city gate had opened a crack.

Gu Changqing questioned Kelān about the Thief Race and searched her soul, uncovering a mysterious eye behind a gate and the First Sequence’s warning about the Ruined Temple. He ordered Nezha to return with him to the Ruined Temple to hold a meeting, leaving his own origins unexplained.

• Yang Jian and Tongtian reported that the city gate was opening and leaking energy, and Gu Changqing ordered them to watch without entering.
• Gu Changqing questioned Kelān about her contacts with the First Sequence, learning that the Thief Race had gathered extensive intelligence on the Ruined Temple and that its occupant was a greater concern than what lay beyond the gate.
• Gu Changqing searched Kelān’s soul and saw a multicolored eye peering through a gate, along with the First Sequence ordering Kelān to collect vow power and avoid the Ruined Temple because its occupant was not native to the myriad worlds.
• Gu Changqing told Nezha to finish matters in the Heavenly Net Star Domain and return with him to the Ruined Temple for a meeting.
• Gu Changqing told Nezha that he had seen an eye beyond the gate and revealed that the First Sequence had said he was not native to the myriad worlds.

After learning that a powerful being behind the Great Thousand Origin Realm's door was the true force behind the Origin Temple, Gu Changqing ordered the Firmament Realm to prepare for war. He planned to seize a door component in the Savage Star Domain and confront whatever waited beyond it.

• Gu Changqing told Tongtian, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Kelān that the Thief Race served a mastermind behind the Great Thousand Origin Realm's door, whose power exceeded the system's assessment limit.
• Gu Changqing revealed that the Origin Temple's First Sequence believed he was not native to the Myriad Worlds and that the Temple had gathered more than thirty thousand reports on the Ruined Temple.
• Gu Changqing declared war after seeing that the Thief Race had turned Xiaotian Dog into an insulting sheet-metal toy.
• Gu Changqing ordered elite units to combat readiness, assembled three expeditionary armies from thirty million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and summoned everyone above the quasi-Immortal Emperor level to the Ruined Temple.
• Gu Changqing named the Savage Star Domain city and its door component as the first target, with the Great Thousand Origin Realm next, and said he would negotiate with the being behind the door or refuse to negotiate.
• Nezha and Yang Jian went to gather forces while Kelān warned that the being would not negotiate with Gu Changqing.

Gu Changqing issued a highest-level edict mobilizing the Firmament Realm for an expedition to the Indestructibility Origin Temple, while keeping the battle plan secret because of deep infiltration by the enemy. Zhao Gongming emerged from seclusion immediately and arrived at the Ruined Temple holding his Twenty-Four Universe Sea of Bitterness.

• Gu Changqing ordered all cultivator formations to cancel their assignments, placed eight million elite troops on level-one readiness, and transferred fifty million heavenly soldiers into the expeditionary ranks.
• Gu Changqing summoned all seventeen Quasi-Immortal Emperors and above to the Ruined Temple within three days and ordered Zhao Gongming to bring his Twenty-Four Universe Sea of Bitterness.
• Gu Changqing announced that the army would cross the Boundary Sea to attack the Indestructibility Origin Temple in the Great Thousand Origin Realm and would not return.
• Gu Changqing refused to share his full battle plan, explaining that more than thirty thousand pieces of intelligence had been gathered by the enemy's undercover network.
• Gu Changqing assigned Tongtian responsibility for troop deployment and formations, and told him Nezha would face Zhao Gongming if Zhao wanted to fight.
• Zhao Gongming emerged from seclusion upon receiving the edict and arrived outside the courtyard holding a sea of bitterness.

Zhao Gongming joined Gu Changqing's expedition and learned that Tongtian had reforged the Immortal Slaying Formation into a warship for transporting fifty million Heavenly Soldiers across the Boundary Sea. The army prepared to depart in three days, but Kelān warned them that Abyssal Beasts lurked along the route.

• Zhao Gongming emerged from nine thousand years of seclusion and agreed to clear the expedition's path with his Twenty-Four Universe Sea of Bitterness.
• Tongtian revealed his Immortal Slaying formation warship, and Gu Changqing assigned Tongtian, Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, and Zhao Gongming their roles.
• Tongtian set the army's assembly for three days later at a void anchor in the Firmament Realm's first star domain.
• Kelān provided three smuggling routes through the Boundary Sea, and Gu Changqing chose the detour that avoided two permanent spatial faults.
• Kelān warned the group that Abyssal Beasts could grow as large as small planets and resist Five Elements immortal arts and ordinary divine weapons.
• Kelān reported that the Thief Race's route logs recorded an encounter with more than three hundred Abyssal Beasts.

Gu Changqing led the Expeditionary Army into the Boundary Sea aboard the Immortal Slaying Formation Battleship, protected by Zhao Gongming’s Sea of Bitterness passage. After Zhao Gongming drove off a pack of Abyssal Beasts, Yang Jian detected three far more powerful beings, which Kelān identified as Road Watchers.

• Fifty million Heavenly Soldiers entered the Boundary Sea through a passage Zhao Gongming opened with the Twenty-Four Universe Sea of Bitterness.
• Yang Jian detected Abyssal Beasts closing in, and their attacks battered the passage while their crystalline shells resisted the Sea of Bitterness.
• Kelān told Zhao Gongming that the Abyssal Beasts’ unprotected mouths were vulnerable, and Zhao Gongming flooded the largest beast’s mouth with the Sea of Bitterness until it died.
• The remaining Abyssal Beasts retreated, and Gu Changqing ordered the expedition to continue at greater speed.
• Yang Jian detected three powerful beings ahead, and Kelān identified them as Road Watchers.

Gu Changqing confronted three Road Watchers blocking the route through the Boundary Sea, and they let his fleet pass after learning he was headed to the Great Thousand Origin Realm. As the Formation Ship continued toward the Savage Star Domain, Yang Jian detected more than a hundred thousand identical biological signals ahead.

• Kelān explained that Road Watchers judged travelers, and some fleets vanished after encountering them.
• Yang Jian saw the three Road Watchers take human forms and face Gu Changqing, while Gu Changqing recognized their resonance with the black sphere.
• Gu Changqing stepped into the Boundary Sea and told the Road Watchers he was going to the Great Thousand Origin Realm, whereupon they opened a path and told him to go well.
• The Formation Ship passed between the Road Watchers, and Kelān watched them turn to face Gu Changqing as the fleet departed.
• Tongtian calculated that the fleet was two days from the outskirts of the Savage Star Domain, and Gu Changqing revealed that something beyond the gate was waiting for him.
• Yang Jian detected an enormous group of identical biological signals ahead and reported that their number exceeded his Heavenly Eye's hundred-thousand counting limit.

Gu Changqing sent Xiaotian Dog out to confront a swarm of more than a hundred thousand Tide-Devouring Insects, and the dog devoured nearly all of them with his Black Emperor Scripture. As the array ship resumed its journey, Yang Jian detected a single entity ahead, which Kelān identified as the Insect King.

• Kelān explained that Tide-Devouring Insects fed on the Boundary Sea's Origin tides and that an insect tide left no survivors.
• Gu Changqing told Tongtian to open the array ship's outer wall and sent Xiaotian Dog out to face the swarm.
• Xiaotian Dog formed a devouring black hole and swallowed more than a hundred thousand Tide-Devouring Insects in three quarters of an hour.
• Xiaotian Dog returned to the ship, burped, and lay down to digest while the array ship continued onward.
• Yang Jian detected a single entity four thousand li in diameter thirty thousand li ahead, and Kelān identified it as the Insect King.