Chapter Summaries

Li Xian learned how the Heaven-Opening Art could make him an Overlord and received extensive support from three Dao Ancestors while choosing to continue his own cultivation path. He purchased World Hearts from the Overlord Treasury, while Wangshu Sword Master lost her position and received a lengthy border sentence for obstructing him.

• Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor explained that Overlords were Dao Masters who could repeatedly unleash one of the Six Overlord Secret Arts without harming themselves.
• Li Xian chose his own cultivation path, and the three Dao Ancestors granted him secret level twenty-seven access, entry to the Overlord Treasury, and thirty million Chaos Crystals.
• Li Xian purchased two World Hearts for restoration and backup, then examined cultivation plans for tempering his Great Dao.
• Wangshu Sword Master considered postponing an apology to Li Xian until he became a Dao Master, but Fuguang Dao Master summoned her to face questioning.
• Lord Xingtian and Fuguang Dao Master stripped Wangshu Sword Master of her position and sword, and her final punishment required ten thousand eras guarding the border and a generous apology gift to Li Xian.

After restoring his world, Li Xian learned that the Human Race might summon the Space-Time River and accepted the apologies of Wangshu Sword Master and Lian Ran. He began tempering his Great Daos with a simulated Chaos Void and decided to let its power invade his internal world to accelerate his cultivation, despite the danger.

• Li Xian reflected on how rebuilding his collapsed world had expanded it, then decided to let his cultivation settle before attempting another costly breakthrough.
• The Lord of Creation told Li Xian that Pioneer Liguang's findings suggested the Human Race could summon the Space-Time River and potentially resurrect Golden Immortals from the past 90,000 Eras.
• The Lord of Creation confirmed Li Xian could claim an item from the treasury and punished Wangshu Sword Master and Lian Ran for obstructing him; they apologized and offered compensation, which Li Xian accepted.
• Li Xian used the chaos source energy and Chaos Crystals to build a controllable simulated Chaos Void and tested its power against his Nine Great Daos.
• Li Xian found that tempering his Great Daos through the formation would take ten eras, so he decided to let the simulated Chaos Void invade his internal world and exploit Three Phases Beget Life to speed up the process.

After completing his cultivation in seclusion, Li Xian agreed to hold a small banquet for his era birthday and used the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao Jade Disc to uncover that the Spirit Treasure Pavilion had disguised stolen treasures. He exposed the evidence publicly, leaving Pavilion Master Chengguang unable to suppress the scandal because his permission level was insufficient.

• Li Xian completed three cycles of world collapse and rebirth, brought his Primordial Unity Limitlessness Great Luo Dao Fruit to its peak, and realized the Heaven-Opening Art could be unleashed in a single breath.
• Nangong Feixu reminded Li Xian that he had lived for 10,800 years, and he agreed to hold a small era-birthday gathering three months later.
• Li Xian found an unidentified black crystal in the Purple Heavens Dao Palace treasury, then used the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao Jade Disc to trace the Heaven-Earth Limitlessness Sword to the former Divine Shadow Sword of Shadowedge Immortal Sovereign.
• Li Xian discovered that High-Grade Xiantian Spirit Treasures entrusted to the War Temple’s Spirit Treasure Pavilion had been illegally borrowed or disguised, and he published evidence implicating at least ten treasures.
• Pavilion Master Chengguang ordered the Void Heaven Palace to erase the revelations, but the palace rejected his request for insufficient permission.

Pavilion Master Chengguang sought Chi You, Master of Arms, to suppress Li Xian’s public accusations, but the Origin-Tracing Hall Master’s attempts to censor Li Xian triggered Protocol Two of the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm. The chapter ended with both the hall master’s permissions and Chi You’s granted permissions frozen, and Chi You expelled from the realm.

• The Origin-Tracing Hall Master told Pavilion Master Chengguang he could not delete Li Xian’s post, and they suspected Great Truth Dao Master was protecting Li Xian.
• Chengguang asked Chi You, Master of Arms, for help; Chi You demoted him from master of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and authorized him to remove the negative information.
• Chengguang and the Origin-Tracing Hall Master tried to ban Li Xian, then attempted to sever every account linked to him after the ban failed.
• The Origin-Tracing Hall Master’s operation triggered Protocol Two, revoked his departmental permissions, and froze his personal and granted permissions.
• The Origin-Tracing Hall Master realized Protocol Two concerned the Void Heaven Dao Ancestor, while Chengguang wondered why the hall master had gone offline.
• A rule-level aura froze Chi You’s virtual world and expelled him from the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm.

After Panwu Dao Ancestor held Chi You accountable for Chengguang’s crimes, Lord Xingtian moved to arrest the Spirit Treasure Pavilion master, but Chengguang escaped and was declared an enemy of the Human Race. The resulting purge spread through several major factions, while Li Xian turned his attention to the Era Birthday Banquet and urged Zhi Weichen to challenge Ling Qiankun.

• Chi You learned that a Dao Ancestor had revoked his Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm access, and Fuguang Dao Master warned him that Li Xian had the favor of Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor.
• Panwu Dao Ancestor ordered Chi You to forge twenty-three Immortal Swords in the Sword Furnace for ten thousand epochs, leaving him unable to protect Chengguang.
• Lord Xingtian accused Chengguang of arranging Golden Immortals’ deaths to obtain their spirit treasures, and Chengguang pretended to cooperate before escaping through a prepared formation.
• Lord Xingtian stripped Chengguang of his standing as a Human and ordered the detention and investigation of his associates, triggering a sweeping purge across the War Temple and other factions.
• Li Xian read the reports of the purge, considered the escaped Chengguang a possible future threat, and asked Zhi Weichen when she would challenge Ling Qiankun.
• Zhi Weichen agreed to challenge Ling Qiankun at once and said she would recruit Tianyun and others to compete as well.

Li Xian’s Era Birthday Banquet drew far more guests than he expected, as powerful figures sought to honor the newly renowned Dao Lord. The banquet reached a new height when a representative of the Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor arrived with a World Heart for Li Xian.

• Visitors crowded Nine Emperors City for Li Xian’s Era Birthday Banquet, hoping to befriend the future Dao Master.
• Members of the Great Luo Immortal Sect and Xuanjun Immortal King were stunned as representatives of Immortal Sovereigns presented gifts but did not enter the banquet.
• Jueche Immortal Sovereign and Pioneer Li arrived, while Nangong Feixu helped welcome the guests.
• Representatives of the Great Truth Dao Master, the Lord of Creation, the Ten Directions Dao Master, and the Lord of Gold brought gifts that astonished the guests.
• Ziyuan reflected on how the gap between her and Li Xian had continued to widen.
• A representative of Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor presented Li Xian with a World Heart and wished him an auspicious era birthday.

At Li Xian’s Era Birthday Banquet, Gu Qingxian challenged him after announcing her breakthrough to Limitlessness Golden Immortal, but he effortlessly blocked her attacks and sent her away. As Li Xian learned about the powerful Dao Lords of the Heaven’s Mandate Cult, Lu Linyuan arrived with news that another Void Tide had appeared outside their world.

• The Buried Sword Immortal Sovereign attended Li Xian’s banquet on behalf of the Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor and warned him to avoid traveling while the Human Race prepared for major repercussions.
• Gu Qingxian arrived to announce that she had become a Limitlessness Golden Immortal and claimed she had surpassed Li Xian.
• Li Xian challenged Gu Qingxian to attack him without letting power leak, then blocked her repeated strikes with a finger and drove her back.
• Gu Qingxian withdrew after Li Xian dismissed her strength, while the Buried Sword Immortal Sovereign and Dao Lord Taia recognized Li Xian’s power as that of a top-tier Golden Immortal.
• Dao Lord Taia described the powerful special lifeforms among the Heaven’s Mandate Cult’s top Dao Lords, and Lu Linyuan reported that another Void Tide had appeared outside their world.

Li Xian agreed to descend to the True Immortal Great World to deal with the Void Tide, then discovered that the God Clan’s Fallen Holy Hall had engineered the crisis as a trap to assassinate him. After identifying Gu Yuan God Lord as the one behind the plot, Li Xian destroyed the conspirators’ token and continued into the Black Heaven Chaos Grotto.

• Li Xian agreed to help Lu Linyuan save the True Immortal Great World from the Void Tide, while Zhi Weichen invited him to watch her challenge Ling Qiankun and received his promise to entrust her with the Immortal Emperor position if she won.
• The Era Birthday Banquet ended, and the Human Race recognized Li Xian as a top Golden Immortal with the potential to become a Dao Master.
• Li Xian traveled to the Black Heaven Chaos Grotto, where he detected a hidden will inside Pixiu Immortal King and froze it along with the Immortal King’s consciousness.
• Li Xian discovered that Pixiu Immortal King had been controlled by the God Clan’s Fallen Holy Hall, which had planned to lure him to the True Immortal Great World and ambush him.
• Li Xian learned that Gu Yuan God Lord had stirred up the Void Tide, crushed Pixiu Immortal King’s communication token, erased his consciousness, and proceeded deeper into the Black Heaven Chaos Grotto.

Li Xian returned to the True Immortal Great World and was ambushed by Gu Yuan God Lord, Jieyuan God Lord, and Newborn God Lord, who used the Creation World to try to kill him. He unleashed the Heaven-Opening Art and annihilated and reshaped all three God Clan Overlords, leaving the starry expanse still.

• Newborn God Lord learned that Li Xian had entered the Black Heaven Chaos Grotto, and he, Jieyuan God Lord, and Prophecy God Lord decided to intercept him with Gu Yuan God Lord and the Creation World.
• Li Xian crossed the Void Tide and reached the True Immortal Great World, where he discovered Gu Yuan God Lord, Jieyuan God Lord, and Newborn God Lord waiting to ambush him.
• The three God Lords attacked Li Xian, while Gu Yuan God Lord threatened the True Immortal Great World and Newborn God Lord deployed the Creation World.
• Li Xian warned the three God Lords that they had one breath to kill him, then unleashed the Heaven-Opening Art as his world collapsed.
• The Heaven-Opening Art engulfed the three God Lords, annihilating and reshaping their consciousnesses, bodies, and Great Dao rules.

Li Xian survived World Collapse, used the Heaven-Opening Art to defeat the God Lords, and created a wondrous gray crystal. After evacuating the True Immortal Great World's inhabitants, he destroyed the world and confronted the lingering flaw in his will, leaving his past life behind as the two versions of himself fused into one.

• Li Xian halted the consequences of World Collapse, reshaped the battlefield with the Heaven-Opening Art, and collected the gray crystal left behind.
• Li Xian gave Mo Xingzhou three world rings and ordered the factions of the True Immortal Great World to evacuate the inhabitants of its eastern, central, and western continents.
• After a year, Li Xian collected the world rings and destroyed the True Immortal Great World with Heavenly Extreme Sword qi.
• Li Xian realized his attachment to the True Immortal Great World and his hope of returning to Blue Star had kept his will from reaching seamless oneness.
• Li Xian declared that he was both the Li Xian of his previous life and the Li Xian of this world, and the two fused into one.

After unifying his will, Li Xian returned to Nine Emperors City, arranged for the True Immortal Great World’s survivors, and ordered Yao Xuan to gather intelligence on the God Clan’s Supreme Stairway. As he resumed cultivation, the God Clan’s Qingzhuo Lord vowed to avenge his junior brother, while news of a tournament to select a God Emperor gave Li Xian a chance to target the Supreme Stairway’s leading God Kings.

• Li Xian attained Perfect Oneness of will, returned to the Immortal Realm, and gave Lu Linyuan three world rings containing the True Immortal Great World’s survivors to settle.
• Li Xian instructed Yao Xuan to investigate the Supreme Stairway’s peerless God Kings, gave him a Gray Crystal to auction, and authorized him with level-twenty-seven permissions.
• Qingzhuo Lord and Prophecy God Lord examined the ruined starfield, and Qingzhuo Lord blamed the failed ambush for the deaths of Xinsheng, Gu Yuan, and Jieyuan before vowing to kill Li Xian himself.
• Li Xian’s world recovered within a hundred years, and Deep Blue reported that Ling Qiankun had accepted Zhi Weichen’s challenge and that the God Clan had lost ground to Lingyi.
• Deep Blue told Li Xian that the Supreme Stairway’s council would hold a tournament to choose a God King to cultivate as God Emperor, and Li Xian realized its leading contestants would gather there.

Li Xian learned that a major God Clan battle would take place at the Endless Divine Mountain in 103 years, then met the Great Truth Dao Master and confirmed that he had killed three God Clan Overlords. She explained the Dao Ancestors’ balance of power and warned that a universe-wide war could eventually leave only one voice ruling the Immortal Realm and Endless Starry Sky.

• Deep Blue told Li Xian that the God Clan’s Supreme Stairway battle would begin in 103 years at the Nine-Person Council’s hall in the Endless Divine Mountain, and Li Xian ordered him to gather detailed information about the location.
• Li Xian went to meet the Great Truth Dao Master, who questioned whether he had broken through and asked how he had gained such high permissions.
• The Great Truth Dao Master told Li Xian that the Human Race had fifty-four Dao Masters and doubted that he could become an Overlord, but reconsidered after hearing that Void Heaven Dao Ancestor had raised his permissions.
• Li Xian confirmed that he had killed Jieyuan, Gu Yuan, and Xinsheng, and the Great Truth Dao Master attributed his power to Kindling’s legacy.
• The Great Truth Dao Master explained how Dao Ancestors controlled the Three Thousand Great Daos and guarded against one another merging with the Forty-Nine Origin Great Daos.
• The Great Truth Dao Master warned Li Xian that a future war could let one Dao Ancestor become a universe origin and leave the Immortal Realm and Endless Starry Sky under a single voice.

Li Xian prepared to attack the God Clan’s Supreme Stairway gathering at Endless Divine Mountain, buying a treasure that could trap even Top-Tier Overlords. As the God Emperor competition began with the Remains God King and Fateweaving God King facing off, the Oath God King spotted a human above the arena.

• The Great Truth Dao Master explained the political pressures surrounding Dao Ancestor positions and Great Powers, then scolded her disciples for progressing too slowly compared with Li Xian.
• Li Xian honed his Wuxian Great Dao with his Primordial Unity Limitlessness Great Luo Dao Fruit, then received intelligence from Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan about the dangers awaiting him at Endless Divine Mountain.
• Li Xian redeemed the Great Thousand World, a Top-Tier Xiantian Spirit Treasure that could prevent even Top-Tier Overlords from escaping, while the Dao Ancestors discussed his plans and the Human Race’s efforts involving the River of Time.
• Li Xian traveled undetected into God Clan territory and reached bustling Endless Divine Mountain shortly before the God Emperor competition.
• The Remains God King and Fateweaving God King confronted each other at the Emperor Venerable Cauldron, while the Tide God King and Oath God King watched.
• The Oath God King saw a human above the Emperor Venerable Cauldron.

Li Xian arrived at Endless Divine Mountain during the God Clan gathering and activated the Great Thousand World, trapping the gathered Overlords as they launched a combined attack. As his world collapsed under their assault, a golden light emerged with a devastating roar, leaving the outcome of his counterattack unresolved.

• Li Xian appeared above the gathering and activated the Great Thousand World, spreading its orange glow across Endless Divine Mountain.
• Tide God King attacked Li Xian, and Wasteland God Lord and Prophecy God Lord rallied the God Clan Overlords to join the assault.
• The Top-Tier Overlords recognized the Great Thousand World, while Old Dream God Lord sensed danger and failed to strike Li Xian.
• Lone Star God Lord attacked with a dark star, but Li Xian's Glazed Treasure Light weakened it, and Prophecy God Lord's soul attack had no effect.
• The God Clan Overlords joined the siege as Li Xian's world collapsed, then a golden light emerged and a roar declared, “World-Opening!”

Li Xian unleashed the Heaven-Opening Art at Endless Divine Mountain, annihilating the gathered God Clan Overlords and God Kings before escaping back to Human Race territory. As the God Clan prepared to retaliate and Human Race Dao Ancestors debated Li Xian’s future, he returned to Nine Emperors City and began developing a new secret art while awaiting Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s decisive battle.

• Li Xian used the Heaven-Opening Art to overwhelm and destroy the God Clan forces at Endless Divine Mountain, then escaped through a prepared teleportation array as the God Clan’s Great Powers arrived too late to catch him.
• The God Clan Great Powers blamed the Human Race and mobilized to attack through the Tianfeng Valley Battlefield, while Panwu Dao Ancestor and the other Human Race leaders prepared a counterforce with hidden Dao Masters.
• Panwu Dao Ancestor urged Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor and Miaoyan Dao Ancestor to let Li Xian pursue an opportunity to advance, but they postponed the decision until the God Clan invasion was dealt with.
• Li Xian returned to Nine Emperors City, reflected on the distance between his rapid cultivation and ordinary immortals, and researched the limits of will beyond Perfect Oneness.
• Li Xian used his remaining World Heart to restore his collapsed world and began studying the Heaven-Opening Art and other secret arts to create a new Wuxian technique before Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s decisive battle.

Li Xian studied the Heaven-Opening Art and developed a new Wuxian secret-art form called Fission, while gaining a fresh insight into the art’s possible ultimate direction. He agreed to help Lord Xingtian lure out Chengguang by attending Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s match.

• Li Xian reviewed the Lord of Kindling’s secret arts and concluded that the ancient Great Power had pursued a path beyond the Overlord realm before likely perishing.
• After reaching a dead end in his study of the Heaven-Opening Art, Li Xian developed the Fission form by combining its principles with the Wuxian Great Dao.
• Li Xian wondered whether the Heaven-Opening Art’s ultimate realm meant that My Dao was the Three Thousand Great Daos, giving him a new direction to consider.
• Deep Blue informed Li Xian that Lord Xingtian had sent an urgent message, and Li Xian agreed to speak with him.
• Lord Xingtian asked Li Xian to help lure Chengguang, who had been seeking revenge on him, into an ambush.
• Li Xian agreed to use Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s upcoming match as the opportunity to draw Chengguang out.

Li Xian arrived at Mount Wanjin and was ambushed by Chengguang, a wanted peak Great Luo Golden Immortal. After revealing his extraordinary strength and Dao Master-level will, Li Xian killed Chengguang with the Heavenly Extreme Sword before the gathered Golden Immortals could reach them.

• Ling Qiankun and Zhi Weichen prepared for their duel at Mount Wanjin while spectators waited for Li Xian to arrive.
• Yukun Sword Master discussed Ling Qiankun's prospects and the Cloud Firmament Sword with Longyuan Sword Master, while Xingfei and Divine Strategy Immortal Sovereign discussed buying Li Xian's jade crystals.
• Chengguang ambushed Li Xian near the Void Space Teleportation Array, and the Golden Immortals at Mount Wanjin sensed their battle and rushed to reinforce Li Xian.
• Li Xian matched Chengguang's attacks with his world and Heavenly Extreme Sword, revealing a will realm that had reached perfect oneness.
• Chengguang tried to retreat, but Li Xian provoked him into staying and unleashed a limit-breaking attack that struck Chengguang after he flickered through six escape movements.
• Li Xian's Heavenly Extreme Sword shattered Chengguang's Five-Colored Flowing Light Flame and killed him.

Li Xian’s arrival drew the awe of the Golden Immortals after they witnessed him slay Chengguang, a peak Great Luo Golden Immortal. As Li Xian headed to Mount Wanjin for Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s duel, Longyuan Sword Master withdrew his support from Ling Qiankun and reclaimed the Cloud Firmament Sword.

• Xingfei, Yukun, Longyuan, and the other Golden Immortals arrived and realized Li Xian had killed Chengguang alone.
• Li Xian collected Chengguang’s five Xiantian Spirit Treasures and learned that the War Temple had placed a bounty on the traitor.
• The Golden Immortals escorted Li Xian to Mount Wanjin to watch Zhi Weichen and Ling Qiankun’s duel.
• Zhi Weichen told Li Xian she was confident she could defeat Ling Qiankun, while Ling Qiankun dismissed Li Xian’s survival as luck.
• Longyuan told Ling Qiankun to defend his ranking through his own strength, reclaimed the Cloud Firmament Sword, and left Mount Wanjin.

Zhi Weichen defeated Ling Qiankun and claimed second place on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking before Li Xian withdrew from it. News that Li Xian had slain Chengguang spread across the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm, and after he returned to Nine Emperors City, he revealed that he had not yet become a Dao Master and expected to break through within a thousand years.

• Yukun Sword Master told Ling Qiankun that Li Xian had killed Chengguang, then urged him to defeat Zhi Weichen despite losing the Cloud Firmament Sword.
• Zhi Weichen defeated Ling Qiankun with her Illusion-Breaking Divine Light, and Yukun Sword Master immediately took her son away.
• Li Xian withdrew from the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking, leaving Zhi Weichen in first place and encouraging her to keep improving.
• Reports of Li Xian killing Chengguang spread, and people across the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm speculated that he had become a Dao Master.
• Li Xian told Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan that he had not yet become a Dao Master and expected to break through within a thousand years.
• Li Xian received invitations from Lord Xingtian and Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor to meet at the War Temple.

The God Clan’s Great Powers suspected that the Human Race was preparing for a major event after learning of Li Xian’s strength and the return of numerous Dao Masters, so they agreed to alert the Ancestor of Myriad Gods and activate Number One Dark Pawn. At the War Temple, Li Xian accepted the Soul-Calming Bell as an apology and learned that six Dao Ancestors were waiting to meet him.

• The Qingzhuo Lord, Iron Curtain Lord, and Lord of Silence reviewed Li Xian’s defeat of Chengguang and considered his potential to become a top-tier Dao Master.
• The Qingzhuo Lord revealed that several ancient Human Race Dao Masters, including the top-tier Star Prison and Divine Soul, had returned from the Chaos Void.
• The three God Clan Great Powers agreed to prepare for a possible war, report the crisis to the Ancestor of Myriad Gods, and activate Number One Dark Pawn.
• Li Xian arrived at the War Temple, where Lord Xingtian presented him with the Soul-Calming Bell as an apology and congratulatory gift.
• Lord Xingtian told Li Xian that Purple Heavens, Miao Yan, Virtual Heaven, Pan Wu, Crisscross, and Myriad Things were waiting to see him.