Chapter Summaries

Li Xian learned that the Heaven's Mandate Cult's Book of Destiny would soon reveal the Great Dao of Fate, offering him a chance to transform his Dao and rise toward the level of a top-tier Dao Master. After reaching the cult, he declared that he intended to defeat every competitor and claim the opportunity for himself.

• Six Dao Ancestors explained that the Book of Destiny was stirring and urged Li Xian to travel to the Heaven's Mandate Cult to compete for its tower master's key.
• Li Xian learned that the ambush by Chengguang had been a test, received warnings to protect himself, and set out with Great Truth Dao Master, Taizhen, and Divine Soul Dao Master.
• Great Truth Dao Master described Divine Soul Dao Master's deadly consciousness-based Secret Art and told Li Xian that the Chaos Void contained other living and dead universes.
• Li Xian and his escorts traveled thirteen years to the Heaven's Mandate Cult's outskirts, where Prism Dao Master sent Li Xian through the formation of a hundred and eight palaces.
• Dao Lords Taia and Beiming welcomed Li Xian, but he declined a banquet and stated that he had come to defeat every competitor and obtain the Book of Destiny.

Li Xian arrived at the Heavenly Book Tower to claim the Book of Destiny and found that the Heaven's Mandate Cult's leading Dao Lords had united against him. He challenged Sword Thirteen and the others to attack him together, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Li Xian asked Dao Lord Taia and Dao Lord Beiming to take him to the Heavenly Book Tower, and Taia explained the Heaven's Mandate Cult's Thirty-Six Heavens and the tower's harsh environment.
• Taia told Li Xian that thousands of Dao Lords lived near the tower and that many regarded him as the likely new foremost Dao Lord, despite resentment over his sudden arrival.
• Taia warned Li Xian that Sword Thirteen held the tower's key and that rival Dao Lords had secretly planned to challenge him in succession or together.
• Li Xian went to Sword Thirteen's balcony, where Moon Worship and other Spirit Race Dao Lords prepared for a fight.
• Li Xian told Taia and Beiming to stand back, then challenged everyone present to attack him together.

Li Xian confronted Sword Thirteen and the Spirit Race experts at the Heavenly Book Tower, then revealed the overwhelming power behind his killing of Chengguang. After defeating Sword Thirteen and killing six Spirit Race Dao Lords, he claimed the tower and challenged anyone who disagreed to face him.

• Sword Thirteen questioned whether Li Xian had truly killed Chengguang or whether the Human Race had staged the battle, and Li Xian learned that the competition had already begun because the Heavenly Book Tower was a resource site.
• Li Xian fought Sword Thirteen, shattered his sword-arm attack, then used Fission and Three Phases Beget Life to land a lethal strike that scattered Sword Thirteen into fragments and forced him to spend centuries recovering.
• Moon Worship led fourteen Spirit Race experts in a joint attack, but Li Xian evaded and broke their assaults, killing six Annihilation Dao Lords with six sword strikes.
• The surviving Spirit Race experts lost their nerve and fled the Heavenly Book Tower, while Li Xian declared himself its master and called on Shi Chan, Ying Yue, and anyone else who objected to challenge him.

Li Xian’s overwhelming victory over Sword Thirteen and the other Spirit Race Dao Lords frightened the Heaven’s Mandate Cult’s factions and established him as the leading contender for the Book of Destiny. Standing atop the Heavenly Book Tower, he invited every Dao Lord—including Shi Chan and Ying Yue—to challenge him, even in groups.

• Li Xian’s display of strength drove the God Clan and other races’ Dao Lords to retreat, while some discussed seeking help from Shi Chan and Ying Yue.
• Beiming and Taia congratulated Li Xian, and Beiming explained Sword Thirteen’s immortality and described Shi Chan and Ying Yue’s talents.
• Li Xian said he wanted to test himself against Shi Chan, Ying Yue, and the other Dao Lords, while the Human Race’s allies offered to support him.
• Li Xian told Shi Chan and Ying Yue they could challenge him together or bring others, declaring that he would wait atop the Heavenly Book Tower.

After Li Xian defeated Sword Thirteen and challenged every Dao Lord in the Heaven's Mandate Cult, Shi Chan, Ying Yue, and the God Clan considered how to counter him, while the Human Race's Jade Emperor resented his rise. Li Xian ignored the brewing alliances and studied the Cult's layered heavens, discovering a possible way to use his Wuxian Great Dao to expand his world.

• Li Xian publicly challenged the Dao Lords of the Heaven's Mandate Cult to face him together, prompting Beiming and Tai'e to worry about the consequences.
• Shi Chan learned that Li Xian had defeated Sword Thirteen and routed Moon Worship's Spirit Race group with a mysterious karma Secret Art, then decided to meet Li Xian with Ying Yue.
• Ying Yue rejected a premature attack and chose to study Li Xian's Secret Art for a hundred years, while Swallowing Star and Zhuiying proposed gathering powerful Dao Lords and forming a battle formation.
• Huanyu accepted the Human Race's order to cooperate with Li Xian, but Jade Emperor refused to meet him, resenting Li Xian's arrogance and new leadership.
• Li Xian studied the layered structure of the Heaven's Mandate Cult and realized that Wuxian Great Dao's Fission might let him create a double world or break his world's size limit.

Li Xian split his Wuxian Great Dao to create a second world, tempering his will and awakening the trait of wuxian fission. After sixty years, his Great Dao completed its transformation, and he finished expanding the second world.

• Li Xian realized that sustaining fission long enough to create a world would require splitting his Wuxian Great Dao in two.
• He forcibly divided his Great Dao, endured his will nearing collapse, and used a World Heart to evolve the split-off Dao into a second world.
• Li Xian discovered that his sense of perfect oneness remained intact and that the added world had raised the limits of both his world and his Great Dao.
• He comprehended wuxian fission, triggering a transformation of his Great Dao and envisioning a path to combine the Three Thousand Great Daos through the Book of Destiny.
• Tai'e, Beiming, and other Human Race elites guarded Li Xian while he cultivated, and sixty years later his Wuxian Great Dao completed its transformation.
• Li Xian used the transformed Great Dao to complete the second world's expansion in three breaths.

Li Xian faced fifty-one top Dao Lords who attacked him together to drive him from the Heavenly Book Tower, but his Liuli Limitless Body endured their assault. After ten breaths, he appeared unharmed among them and declared that they had disappointed him.

• Li Xian learned that fifty-one top Dao Lords, led by Shi Chan, Ying Yue, Swallowing Star, and Moon Worship, planned to attack him after failing to decipher his Secret Art.
• The Human Race received four World Hearts from the Overlord Divine Hall, and Li Xian used three of them to evolve additional layers of worlds.
• The fifty-one Dao Lords arrived at the Heavenly Book Tower, where Li Xian refused help and challenged them to use their strongest methods.
• Shi Chan attacked with a space-time-distorting strike, but Li Xian's Liuli Limitless Body absorbed it and quickly healed.
• The Dao Lords launched a coordinated assault, but Li Xian endured their attacks without dodging, while Ying Yue fled with Yanwu.
• After ten breaths, Li Xian appeared unharmed among the attackers and told them they had disappointed him.

Li Xian survived the combined assault of dozens of Dao Lords and began slaughtering the attackers, proving his overwhelming strength. The surviving Dao Lords fled the Heavenly Book Tower, including Shi Chan, who abandoned any claim to the Book of Destiny.

• Forty-nine Dao Lords attacked Li Xian for ten breaths without injuring him, leaving the onlookers stunned and the Human Race Dao Lords celebrating his strength.
• Moon Worship called Li Xian’s survival an illusion, but Li Xian charged through Moon Worship’s blade and killed the Spirit Race Dao Lord with one sword strike.
• Longhua retreated, while Li Xian pursued the God Clan’s Swallowing Star and Burying Sun; Swallowing Star self-detonated as Li Xian’s sword closed in, and Li Xian killed Burying Sun.
• Li Xian turned to attack another God Clan Dao Lord, prompting the surrounding Dao Lords to panic and flee.
• Zhuiying urged Shi Chan to escape, and Shi Chan abandoned the Book of Destiny and left to seek his master as the other Dao Lords scattered.

After defeating fifty-one Dao Lords, Li Xian received an invitation from the Heaven's Mandate Cult and access to its treasury, but he declined to join and focused on preparing for the Book of Destiny. After a hundred and thirty years, the Book of Destiny opened at the Heavenly Book Tower.

• Li Xian collected the defeated Dao Lords’ storage treasures, then assured the Human Race’s Dao Lords that he would protect them from bullying while warning them not to misuse his name.
• Heaven's Mandate Cult Dao Masters discussed Li Xian’s strength, debated whether Sha Li Dao Master’s disciple should apologize, and decided to invite Li Xian into the cult.
• Fate Dao Master offered Li Xian a top-tier Chaos Wonder, fifty million Chaos Crystals, and protection on his first Chaos Void expeditions if he joined the Heaven's Mandate Cult.
• Li Xian accepted a Dharma King Token and explored the Heaven's Mandate Treasury, discovering sixty-one World Hearts, but left without joining or exchanging for them.
• Li Xian continued cultivating and refining his five-layered worlds while the other Dao Lords kept their distance; after a hundred and thirty years, the Book of Destiny opened and the Three Thousand Great Daos manifested.

Li Xian opened the Book of Destiny and, through the Great Dao of Fate, realized that the Dao was both all things and their source, transforming Three Phases Beget Life into Three Phases Beget Life Myriad Things. He foresaw possible paths to becoming a Dao Master, recognized that the future changed with present choices, and began considering how to give his Wuxian Great Dao a deeper foundation.

• Li Xian entered the Heavenly Book Tower and connected his mind to the golden Book of Destiny as the Great Dao of Fate descended.
• Li Xian perceived the Immortal Realm and universe, then realized that the Dao was not something that generated all things but was one, two, three, and all things in different forms.
• Li Xian evolved Three Phases Beget Life into Three Phases Beget Life Myriad Things and used it to perceive living beings and their lives across time.
• Li Xian saw a future in which he became a powerful Dao Master, but then saw another possible future in which hesitation delayed his breakthrough for dozens of epochs.
• Li Xian concluded that the future changed with present thoughts and actions, and wondered how to give the Wuxian Great Dao a foundation for true infinity.

Li Xian used insights gained through the Great Dao of Fate to prove the Wuxian Great Dao, becoming a Dao Master whose path embodied all Three Thousand Great Daos. As he strengthened his new power in seclusion, the Divine Soul Dao Master and Taizhen hurried to bring him back to the Human Race for a task tied to its rise.

• Li Xian recalled the breakthrough path he had glimpsed through the Great Dao of Fate and began proving his Dao in the Heavenly Book Tower.
• The Origin Sea and several Ancestors tried to stop Li Xian, while Human Race Dao Ancestors intervened and helped him escape its restraints.
• Li Xian's Wuxian Great Dao became a Dao Master Great Dao encompassing the Three Thousand Great Daos, and he formed a world that began splitting into more worlds.
• News of Li Xian's breakthrough spread, and the Divine Soul Dao Master told Taizhen to return with him to the Heaven's Mandate Cult to escort Dao Master Li back.
• The Divine Soul Dao Master revealed that their trip also involved a task of paramount importance to the Human Race's rise.

Li Xian completed his Great Dao and became a Dao Master, then declined the Heaven's Mandate Cult's offer to remain and left with the Great Truth Dao Master. After learning that he had suffered no period of weakness and was already stronger than her, she revealed that they were heading to eliminate a crucial Dark Pawn, possibly the Number One.

• Li Xian concluded that he could keep fissioning his Great Dao through further cultivation and resolved to continue until he reached the limit his will could bear.
• Fate Dao Master, Dao Master Ji Xu, Prism Dao Master, and the Great Truth Dao Master congratulated Li Xian on becoming a Dao Master.
• The Great Truth Dao Master urged Li Xian to leave with her, while Fate Dao Master tried to persuade him to stay in the Heaven's Mandate Cult; Li Xian tactfully refused and kept his Dharma King permissions.
• Li Xian departed with the Great Truth Dao Master as the Human Race's Dao Lords and other factions learned of his breakthrough.
• The Great Truth Dao Master discovered that Li Xian had experienced no weakness after his breakthrough, and Li Xian told her he was now slightly stronger than she was.
• The Great Truth Dao Master said Li Xian's strength would help them eliminate a crucial Dark Pawn, possibly the Number One.

Li Xian joined the Human Race’s plan to bait and expose the God Clan’s Number One Dark Pawn, relying on his Three Phases Beget Life and Heaven-Opening Art. The ambush revealed that the God Clan and Spirit Race had anticipated the plan, but Li Xian survived Zhouling Dao Master’s attack and prepared to face the hidden enemies.

• Divine Soul Dao Master revealed that Li Xian could detect his concealment and declared him the Human Race’s second strongest because of Three Phases Beget Life and the Heaven-Opening Art.
• Great Truth Dao Master learned Li Xian was expected to become the Human Race’s third Overlord, while Divine Soul Dao Master explained that they would use him as bait to draw out the God Clan’s Number One Dark Pawn.
• After several years of travel, Shadow Dao Master ambushed Li Xian, but Li Xian anticipated a second attack and struck Zhouling Dao Master as he appeared.
• Brahma Dao Master trapped Divine Soul Dao Master inside Great Brahma Heaven, while Profound Void Dao Master revealed himself as the hidden sleeper and blocked Great Truth Dao Master.
• Zhouling Dao Master’s attack damaged Li Xian’s Wuxian world without destroying it, and Li Xian rapidly repaired it and challenged his opponents.

Li Xian trapped Zhouling Dao Master in the layered worlds of his Wuxian Great Dao and endured the power of Hengguang Sword while learning its trajectory. After using Three Phases Beget Life to perceive how Zhouling cultivated the technique, Li Xian adapted his attack and pierced Zhouling with a Heavenly Extreme Sword.

• Zhouling Dao Master struck Li Xian with Hengguang Sword, but Li Xian’s worlds swallowed him before he could escape.
• Li Xian’s overlapping worlds repeatedly trapped Zhouling, and their rapid repair let them withstand his sword strikes.
• Li Xian sent Heavenly Extreme Swords at Zhouling, but Zhouling’s threefold presence across past, present, and future made the attacks begin to miss.
• Li Xian used Three Phases Beget Myriad Things to perceive Zhouling’s past and learn the cultivation process behind Hengguang Sword.
• Li Xian changed his Heavenly Extreme Sword’s space-time form so it passed Zhouling’s blade and pierced his body.

Li Xian defeated Zhouling Dao Master, captured the traitorous Profound Void Dao Master, and revealed that he could unleash the Heaven-Opening Art. He used it twice to kill Brahma Dao Master and Shadow Dao Master, leaving the battlefield silent before the newborn world.

• Li Xian killed Zhouling Dao Master after their swords clashed and Zhouling's burning Great Dao gave out.
• Divine Soul Dao Master warned Li Xian about Void Heaven Dao Ancestor's jade talisman, but Li Xian repaired his worlds and turned to the other battles.
• Li Xian struck Profound Void Dao Master, trapped him inside a world, and captured him alive for questioning.
• Brahma Dao Master and Shadow Dao Master tried to flee, but Li Xian unleashed the Heaven-Opening Art against them.
• Brahma Dao Master sacrificed Great Brahma Heaven and its Chaos Wonder to withstand Li Xian's first strike, but Li Xian immediately unleashed the art again.
• Li Xian's second Heaven-Opening Art swept over Brahma Dao Master and Shadow Dao Master, leaving only a newly born world behind.

After Li Xian killed Shadow and Brahma with the Heaven-Opening Art, he learned about the Xiantian Jade Crystals it produced and examined a mysterious black crystal that resisted space-time interference. Divine Soul Dao Master interrogated the captured Profound Void Dao Master, and Li Xian agreed to accept ten World Hearts as a reward for capturing him.

• Divine Soul Dao Master, Great Truth Dao Master, and Taizhen reacted to Li Xian's breakthrough and the deaths of Shadow and Brahma.
• Li Xian collected a middle-grade Xiantian Jade Crystal from the collapsed world and learned about its value and rarity from Divine Soul Dao Master.
• Li Xian handed over Profound Void Dao Master for interrogation, and Great Truth Dao Master took them back toward Human Race territory aboard the Immortal Boat.
• Li Xian discovered that the black crystal from Profound Void Dao Master matched one he had obtained from the Purple Heavens Dao Palace and resisted space-time abilities.
• Divine Soul Dao Master gave Li Xian Profound Void Dao Master's spoils and explained that the Dao Ancestors were gathering World Hearts for him.
• Divine Soul Dao Master offered to request ten World Hearts as a reward for capturing Profound Void Dao Master, and Li Xian accepted.

The Human Race’s Dao Ancestors planned to summon the Space-Time River in secret, then learned that Li Xian had killed four enemy Dao Masters and exposed a sleeper agent. As the God Clan and Spirit Race reeled from their losses, the God Clan secretly plotted to let the humans draw the other races’ attacks before seizing the River for itself.

• Miaoyan Dao Ancestor and the other Human Race leaders planned defenses for summoning the Space-Time River and rejected an alliance that could leak their intentions.
• Void Heaven Dao Ancestor revealed that Li Xian had killed Brahma, Shadow, Zhouling, and Xuanxu, and that the Human Race had uncovered its sleeper agents.
• The Dao Ancestors agreed to reward Li Xian with eleven World Hearts and ordered their forces to purge the listed sleeper agents.
• Ancestor Zhouguang confronted the God Clan’s Ancestors over Zhouling’s death, and the Ancestor of Myriad Gods argued that Taiyi might have returned to the Human Race.
• After Ancestor Zhouguang left, the Ancestor of Myriad Gods and Creation Ancestor planned to let the Human Race begin the Space-Time River ritual, then seize it for the God Clan.

Li Xian arrived at Eastern Pole Fortress after attaining the Dao Master realm, where the Human Race’s Great Powers and Dao Masters publicly congratulated him. News of his breakthrough spread through the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm, delighting his allies and the Human Race, while Shuyu turned deathly pale upon hearing it.

• Four Great Powers and six Dao Masters greeted Li Xian at Eastern Pole Fortress and congratulated him on becoming a Dao Master.
• Lu Wu invited Li Xian to the Overlord Divine Hall for a celebratory banquet and a public announcement of his breakthrough.
• Immortal Sovereign Yao Xuan learned the news and celebrated by contacting friends to arrange a drinking gathering.
• Immortal Sovereign Jueche confirmed Li Xian’s breakthrough, celebrated during his lecture, and made the True Soul Institute’s Secret Arts and scriptures free to study for a year.
• The news spread through Purple Heavens Dao Palace, and Shuyu turned deathly pale when she learned that Li Xian had become a Dao Master.

Li Xian was welcomed into the Overlord Divine Hall as the Human Race’s newest Dao Master and revealed to be a Top Dao Master who had slain two enemy experts. As Lu Wu showed him his new residence and explained the dangers and rewards of a Dao Master’s life, Li Xian prepared to rest before his Dao-Proving banquet in a hundred years.

• Gu Qingxian learned that Li Xian had become a Dao Master after only one era and realized he had far outpaced her.
• Lu Wu brought Li Xian and his companions to the Overlord Divine Hall, the Human Race’s hidden stronghold, where Dao Masters from across the race welcomed him.
• Lu Wu revealed that Li Xian had already reached Top Dao Master strength and helped slay Brahma and Zhouling, prompting the gathered Dao Masters to acclaim him.
• Lu Wu kept Li Xian’s Top Dao Master status secret as a surprise force for the Human Race’s coming major move.
• Lu Wu showed Li Xian his Cave Abode, described the dangers Dao Masters faced in the Chaos Void, and gave him a permission crystal and eleven World Hearts.
• Lu Wu invited Li Xian to rest for a hundred years before the Human Race held his grand Dao-Proving banquet.

Li Xian met the Taiyi Overlord, who gave him guidance on preparing for the Chaos Void and explained the paths and ranks of Overlords. The Taiyi Overlord then revealed that he had witnessed a realm beyond Overlords, leaving Li Xian with confirmation that cultivation had a higher peak.

• Li Xian used the purple crystal to survey his primordial universe and considered refining eleven World Hearts before venturing into the Chaos Void.
• The Taiyi Overlord met Li Xian and gave him a branch of the Taishi Treasure Tree so they could stay connected across Heaven's Mandate Universe and the Chaos Void.
• The Taiyi Overlord showed Li Xian a stone forest containing ways to counter Overlord Secret Arts and urged him to study them while seeking to perfect the Heaven-Opening Art.
• Li Xian asked whether cultivation could advance beyond Dao Masters and Overlords, and the Taiyi Overlord described three paths to becoming an Overlord and three levels of Overlord strength.
• The Taiyi Overlord confirmed that a realm beyond Overlords existed, recalling how an ancient universe's ultimate power had destroyed more than ten Overlords and hundreds of Dao Masters.