Chapter Summaries

Li Xian studied the Human Race’s Overlord secrets while strengthening his worlds, then rushed to Lingxu after sensing her danger. Lingxu’s memories of Li Xian returned, and he invited her to come back with him.

• Li Xian learned more about the paths to Ultimate Power and examined the Human Race’s records on Overlord secret arts.
• Li Xian expanded his inner worlds to sixteen and considered how to overcome the limits imposed by his will.
• Li Xian followed the signal from his lingering will to the Purple Radiance Sect, where Lingxu had used her hidden Sword Intent to help Tang Ziyan escape.
• Tang Ziyan sent Lingxu to face Grand Elder Zhangwu, and Lingxu’s Sword Intent destroyed the Two-Star Mysterious Immortal with power enough to threaten a Four-Star Immortal King.
• Lingxu remembered her past with Li Xian and recognized his power in the sword strike, while Tang Ziyan identified him as the former number one on the Great Dao Golden Immortal Ranking.
• Li Xian appeared before Lingxu and invited her to return with him.

Li Xian reunited with Lingxu and explained that he had found her long ago but had secretly protected her while respecting her choices. Lingxu decided to move forward, pursue the Spirit Race’s cultivation methods, and learned that Li Xian had become one of the Human Race’s greatest powers.

• Lingxu recounted her years apart from Li Xian and chose to spare Tang Ziyan, ending their bond.
• Li Xian revealed that he had found Lingxu thousands of years earlier and left sword intent within her to protect her while respecting her choices.
• Lingxu accepted her past, decided not to change her choice, and took on the appearance of a young woman.
• Lingxu asked Li Xian to find her the Spirit Race’s best cultivation methods so she could grow stronger, and he agreed.
• Li Xian brought Lingxu to the Overlord Divine Hall and gave her access to the Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm.
• Deep Blue told Lingxu about Li Xian’s achievements, including becoming the Aurora Immortal Sovereign and defeating powerful foreign-race opponents.

Li Xian agreed to use his Proving the Dao Banquet to gather Human Race experts for the coming return of Taiyi Overlord and accepted six World Hearts to strengthen his cultivation. He then joined Taisu Dao Master, Taichu Dao Master, and Divine Soul Dao Master on a mission in the Chaos Void, where Blood River Overlord ambushed them and demanded information about the Human Race.

• Lingxu was stunned to learn from Deep Blue how powerful Li Xian had become, while Li Xian obtained supplies to help her advance toward becoming a Xiantian Spirit Treasure.
• Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor asked Li Xian to use his Proving the Dao Banquet to gather Human Race Great Powers and Golden Immortals, and Li Xian agreed.
• Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor gave Li Xian six World Hearts and discussed obtaining more from the Heaven's Mandate Cult; Li Xian planned to repay the Human Race by killing foreign-race experts.
• Taisu Dao Master reported that Hanhai Dao Master had pursued her in the Chaos Void, so Taichu Dao Master, Divine Soul Dao Master, and Li Xian agreed to accompany her.
• The four Dao Masters traveled through a formation into the Chaos Void, where Blood River swept them up and demanded to know what major event was approaching among the Human Race.

The Spirit Race ambushed Li Xian, Taichu, and Divine Soul as they emerged into the Chaos Void, hoping to force the Human Race to reveal its plans. The three escaped Blood River Overlord’s endless river, but Li Xian stopped when Blood River threatened to capture Taisu instead.

• The Spirit Race used its projection formations to detect the Human Race’s arrival and sent Blood River Overlord to ambush Li Xian, Taichu, and Divine Soul.
• Divine Soul warned that Blood River’s Space-Time River path made him effectively immortal and urged the group to tear through his blood river and escape.
• Li Xian unleashed the Heaven-Opening Art, clearing the blood river, but Blood River restored it through space-time and blocked their escape again.
• Taichu gathered his Taichu World while Divine Soul held off the blood dragons, giving Li Xian time to unleash the Heaven-Opening Art a second time.
• Taichu’s completed Taichu World held the blood river long enough for Li Xian, Taichu, and Divine Soul to escape and flee toward Heaven’s Mandate Universe.
• Blood River abandoned the pursuit and vowed to capture Taisu instead, causing Li Xian to stop.

Li Xian stayed behind to fight Blood River Overlord while Taichu and Divine Soul went to rescue Taisu. As his sixteen worlds collapsed under the Endless Blood River, Li Xian discovered how to combine their destruction into a devastating World-Opening strike and prepared to unleash an even greater attack.

• Li Xian volunteered to hold Blood River Overlord off, allowing Taichu and Divine Soul to go meet Taisu and retreat.
• Blood River Overlord attacked Li Xian with his Endless Blood River, and Li Xian countered with his Wuxian Great Dao and Hengguang Sword.
• Li Xian realized Blood River Overlord could resurrect through the Space-Time River as long as his Endless Blood River endured.
• As his worlds began collapsing, Li Xian used Three Phases Beget Life to combine their destructive power into a powerful World-Opening strike that briefly evaporated the Blood River.
• Blood River Overlord's Blood River returned, and Li Xian let his worlds collapse further as he recognized the Overlord's limit.
• Li Xian triggered fission across eight collapsing worlds and prepared to unleash another World-Opening strike at Blood River Overlord.

Li Xian destroyed Overlord Blood River’s combat body with the Heaven-Opening Art, but learned that Blood River had survived through the Space-Time River. Blood River revived in Spirit Race territory and warned the Ancestors that Li Xian was a major threat, prompting them to alert Hanhai.

• Overlord Blood River unleashed an amplified Heaven-Opening Art, but Li Xian’s strike swept away the Blood River and left no trace of Blood River’s combat body.
• Li Xian used Three Phases Beget Life to discover that Blood River had escaped through the Space-Time River, then gathered the treasures left behind and went after Taichu, Divine Soul, and Hanhai.
• Overlord Blood River re-formed in a sea of blood within Spirit Race territory, while Ancestor Zhouguang and Gaia arrived to question him.
• Blood River told the Ancestors that Li Xian had mastered the Heaven-Opening Art and destroyed his combat body, though he suspected Li Xian had used a Chaos Wonder to amplify the art.
• Blood River claimed Li Xian could be killed if his protective Secret Art were broken before he could unleash the slow Heaven-Opening Art, and Gaia urged Zhouguang to warn Hanhai of the danger.

Li Xian reunited with Taichu and Divine Soul Dao Masters, helped capture Hanhai Dao Master, and returned safely to the Overlord Divine Hall with Taisu and her squad. When Lu Wu asked how he escaped Blood River Overlord, Li Xian revealed that he had shattered the endless Blood River.

• Taichu and Divine Soul Dao Masters found Li Xian alive after he escaped Blood River Overlord and joined him in rescuing Taisu Dao Master.
• Li Xian pursued Hanhai Dao Master and suppressed him inside his fourfold worlds, while Taichu, Divine Soul, and Taisu dealt with the other Spirit Race Dao Masters.
• During the hundred-year journey through the Chaos Void, Divine Soul and Taichu warned Li Xian that Shouzhen and Taishi Overlords had vanished there after attempting to temper their wills.
• Taichu created a void node that let the group return to Heaven's Mandate Universe and reach the Overlord Divine Hall.
• Lu Wu revealed that the Human Race had demanded fifty World Hearts as ransom for Hanhai, and Li Xian released him into their custody.
• When Lu Wu asked how he escaped Blood River Overlord, Li Xian said he had shattered the endless Blood River.

Li Xian revealed that he had smashed apart Blood River Overlord’s primary combat body, forcing him to rely on a clone to resurrect. After hearing of Li Xian’s feats, the Human Race’s leaders recognized him as their fourth Overlord and celebrated his new rank.

• Li Xian explained that he had broken apart Blood River Overlord’s Endless Blood River and offered to sell a supreme-grade Xiantian Jade Crystal made from the Overlord’s resources.
• Li Xian clarified that Blood River Overlord had not been permanently killed, but his primary combat body had been destroyed, leaving him to resurrect through a clone.
• Miaoyan Dao Ancestor and Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor realized Blood River Overlord’s defeat explained why the Spirit Race had acted cautiously.
• Void Heaven Dao Ancestor declared that Li Xian should be called Li Overlord, and Taiyi Overlord agreed that he was invincible among Dao Masters.
• Taiyi Overlord and the other Human Race leaders recognized Li Xian as the Human Race’s fourth Overlord and congratulated him.

Li Xian accepted the Human Race’s recognition of him as its fourth Overlord, though the Dao Ancestors decided to conceal his status until they summoned the Space-Time River. He acquired treasures and fifty-six World Hearts, then began preparing to expand his inner worlds and strengthen himself for a future battle with Blood River Overlord.

• Li Xian accepted the title of Overlord, and the Human Race’s leaders raised his Virtual Heaven Immortal Realm permissions while deciding to keep his status secret until the Space-Time River was summoned.
• The Dao Ancestors offered Li Xian a Chaos Wonder and a two-hundred-million-Chaos-Crystal allowance; he declined to sell the Xiantian Jade Crystal and kept it for another use.
• Li Xian gave the Xiantian Jade Crystal to Lingxu to improve her potential, then asked Hengguang to guide her transformation into a Xiantian Spirit Treasure.
• Li Xian chose the Boundless Diagram and Time-Disorder Wheel from the Overlord Treasury to aid his inner worlds and his command of time.
• Two hundred years later, Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor and Myriad Things Dao Ancestor delivered fifty-six World Hearts and forty million Chaos Crystals to Li Xian in settlement of the Spirit Race’s compensation.
• Li Xian began refining the World Hearts, aiming to build sixty-four layers of worlds and gain the power to suppress Blood River Overlord.

Li Xian let Lingxu leave his cave abode to seek out promising lifeforms, then learned that the Human Race’s Annihilation Dao Lords were being targeted while the Jade Emperor refused to act. The chapter ended with Li Xian asking for more details about the threat.

• Li Xian concluded that expanding the Wuxian Great Dao beyond sixty-fourfold worlds would add little combat power without improving its structure or his control.
• Li Xian agreed that Lingxu could leave his cave abode and bring back promising lifeforms, after warning her to remain within Human Race territory and granting her a strand of his will for protection.
• Li Xian took Lingxu to Lu Wu, who gave her permission to enter and leave the Overlord Divine Hall.
• Taizhen, Lu Wu, and Divine Soul suggested that Li Xian take disciples or have children, but he refused and asked why they had gathered.
• Lu Wu said Heaven’s Mandate Cult’s youngsters were making trouble, and Divine Soul revealed that the Human Race’s Annihilation Dao Lords were under attack while the Jade Emperor claimed to be in seclusion.

Li Xian’s Dao Master Banquet drew powerful guests and stirred the Human Race’s upper ranks as factions competed for his favor. As the banquet began at the Overlord Divine Hall, the Spirit Race chose to let other races clash with Li Xian first and planned to intervene afterward.

• Lu Wu and Divine Soul Dao Master told Li Xian that Sword Thirteen and Shi Chan were targeting the Human Race within the Heaven’s Mandate Cult, then arranged his Dao Master Banquet ahead of the Space-Time River’s summoning.
• Golden Immortals and other cultivators sought invitations or connections to Li Xian, while Yao Xuan and Jue Che benefited from their association with him.
• Shuyu overheard Immortal Sovereign Jikong say he would attack Gu Qingxian to curry favor with Li Xian, then hurried to warn her young lady.
• Ancestor Zhouguang ordered the Spirit Race to let the God Clan and other races fight the Human Race before the Spirit Race struck, while preserving Hanhai because he might become an Overlord.
• Lu Wu Dao Master and Great Truth Dao Master received guests at Li Xian’s banquet, where Great Powers and other guests praised Li Xian and raised their cups to congratulate him.

Li Xian and the Human Race’s leaders gathered Dao Masters and Great Powers to reveal that Li Xian had become the race’s fourth Overlord. Taiyi Overlord then announced that the Human Race would summon the Space-Time River the following day, an undertaking that could make them the strongest race of the age.

• Origin Dao Ancestor and the other leaders discussed how to prevent the major races from interfering with the Human Race’s plan to summon the Space-Time River.
• Li Xian summoned the gathered Dao Masters and Great Powers to meet the Human Race’s leaders.
• Purple Heavens Dao Ancestor revealed that Li Xian had defeated Blood River Overlord’s attack with the Heaven-Opening Art and was the Human Race’s fourth Overlord.
• Taichu Dao Master and Divine Soul Dao Master confirmed Li Xian’s battle against Blood River Overlord, and the gathering congratulated Li Xian.
• Taiyi Overlord announced that the Human Race would summon the Space-Time River in one day.

Taiyi Overlord and the Human Race summoned the Space-Time River, prompting the other races to prepare to intervene. As the river began to manifest, their mutual suspicion stalled a coordinated attack, allowing humanity’s summoning to pass its crucial initial stage.

• Taiyi Overlord and Origin Dao Ancestor announced the plan to summon the Space-Time River, and the Human Race’s Great Powers and Dao Masters pledged to defend it.
• The Human Race established three defensive lines, assigned Li Xian to guard against Overlords, and sent him to the Western Extremity Fortress to face Blood River Overlord.
• Taiyi Overlord activated the formation, and the golden phantom of the Space-Time River began to manifest above the Overlord Divine Hall.
• The other races learned of humanity’s plan and prepared to stop the summoning, but Ancestor Zhouguang urged the Spirit Race to wait for concessions, while Eternal Life Overlord halted the Undying Clan’s advance until the other races acted.
• The Spirit Race and God Clan committed few forces, and the Undying Clan paused at the border, allowing the Human Race’s summoning to complete its crucial initial stage.

The Human Race resurrected Dao Ancestor Shixi from the Space-Time River, while rival factions hesitated to attack. Shixi stabilized the river and returned toward the Origin Sea, clashing with Blood River Overlord’s forces, which prompted the God Clan, Undying Clan, and Spirit Race to launch a coordinated invasion.

• Taiyi Overlord and the Human Race summoned the Space-Time River, and Shixi emerged from the temporal node where he had died.
• Shixi learned the humans planned to resurrect more Dao Ancestors and helped Taiyi bear the river’s backlash as they searched for Xuanna.
• The rival races debated intervening, while Dao Ancestor Yuanshi reminded them of their agreement to preserve universal order in the Origin Sea.
• After being ordered to return to the Origin Sea, Shixi stabilized the Space-Time River and traveled through Spirit Race territory.
• Shixi’s passage collided with Blood River Overlord’s forces and killed several Great Powers, prompting Ancestor Zhouguang to urge the God Clan and Undying Clan to attack.
• The God Clan, Undying Clan, and Spirit Race agreed to invade human territory from three directions and disrupt the Space-Time River.

Li Xian confronted Blood River Overlord and the Spirit Race’s assembled forces alone, using his Wuxian Great Dao to withstand the Fate-Time Blade and suppress Blood River Overlord. With the Spirit Race experts moving to attack, Li Xian turned toward them and unleashed the power of collapsing worlds.

• Li Xian decided to invade Spirit Race territory alone and draw Blood River Overlord’s forces into battle while the other Dao Masters guarded the fortress.
• Li Xian found Blood River Overlord with sixteen Dao Masters and one hundred and fifty-five Great Powers, then challenged him to fight.
• Blood River Overlord used the Fate-Time Blade to cut through Li Xian’s layered worlds, but Li Xian’s Wuxian Great Dao restored them and trapped him.
• Li Xian suppressed Blood River Overlord within thirty-six layers of worlds and attacked him with Heavenly Extreme Swords.
• The Spirit Race experts decided to attack Li Xian together, but Li Xian charged at them and declared that they were the ones surrounded.

Li Xian used the Heaven-Opening Art to kill two of the Spirit Race’s strongest fighters while enduring their coordinated attacks and suppressing the Blood River Overlord within his body. The Spirit Race rallied after Blood River struck back, and Li Xian prepared to keep fighting with renewed clarity.

• Li Xian evaded the Spirit Race’s attacks and killed a top Great Power with the Heaven-Opening Art.
• Li Xian pursued Dao Master Yunge, endured the twenty-four-expert formation, and redirected Yunge’s Annihilation Light.
• Li Xian’s Heaven-Opening Art broke through the formation and killed Dao Master Yunge, terrifying the Spirit Race forces.
• Blood River Overlord struck Li Xian from within, damaging twenty-six of his worlds, and the Spirit Race took heart and resumed its assault.
• Li Xian declared himself invincible as his consciousness seemed to transcend the present.

Li Xian routed the Spirit Race army, capturing Blood River Overlord and Hanhai Dao Master and forcing the surviving Great Powers and Dao Masters to flee. As the Undying Clan abandoned its assault on the Human Race fortress, a battle report revealed that Li Xian had single-handedly defeated the Spirit Race.

• Li Xian withstood the attacks of over a hundred Spirit Race experts and killed nineteen of them, including six top experts, until their forces broke and retreated.
• Li Xian captured Hanhai Dao Master in six layers of his world, while Ancestor Zhouguang urged the other races to join the fight against the Human Race.
• Eternal Life Overlord led eighty-eight Undying Clan experts toward the Human Race fortress, then abruptly turned away after receiving news.
• Lord of Creation learned that Li Xian had captured Blood River Overlord and Hanhai Dao Master, killed twenty Spirit Race experts, and routed the Spirit Race army.

The Human Race learned that Li Xian had routed the Spirit Race army, but the God Clan’s Sichen Overlord had destroyed the Falling Dragon Mountain Range defenses and was advancing on the Immortal Crown Great Wall. As the final battle began and Taiyi Overlord withdrew from stabilizing the Space-Time River, a powerful newcomer offered to face the enemy.

• The Lord of Creation told Star Prison, Taisu, and the others that Li Xian had captured Blood River Overlord and Hanhai Dao Master and routed the Spirit Race forces, prompting them to head toward the God Clan front.
• The Lord of Creation learned that Sichen Overlord had led forty-one God Clan Dao Masters through a surprise attack, killed three Human Dao Masters and sixteen Great Powers, and breached the Falling Dragon Mountain Range defensive line.
• The Lord of Creation and the others reached the Immortal Crown Great Wall, where Human and foreign-race Dao Ancestors gathered to contest the Space-Time River summoning.
• The God Clan army approached the Great Wall, and Taiyi Overlord left the Space-Time River to fight, warning that its manifestation would soon weaken.
• A powerful figure arrived in a blaze of glazed treasure light and told Taiyi Overlord to keep the Space-Time River stable while they faced the enemy.

Li Xian led the Human Race’s forces against the God Clan and battled Sichen Overlord while suppressing Blood River Overlord. He released Blood River Overlord only to destroy him with the Heaven-Opening Art, then caught and swallowed Sichen Overlord before he could escape.

• Li Xian arrived at the Immortal Crown Great Wall, handed the captured Hanhai Dao Master over to Lu Wu Dao Master, and agreed to confront the approaching God Clan.
• After learning that the Undying Clan’s Eternal Life Overlord and Yiyuan Dao Master could pose an even greater threat, Li Xian gathered more than a hundred Great Powers and nearly forty Dao Masters and led a full assault.
• Sichen Overlord attacked Li Xian with repeated Space-Time Blades, while Li Xian defended himself and continued suppressing Blood River Overlord.
• Blood River Overlord exploited the shifting battle to break free, but Li Xian collapsed eight worlds and used the Heaven-Opening Art to devour and destroy him.
• Sichen Overlord retreated in fear, but Li Xian used the Time-Disorder Wheel to catch him and swallowed him into the Fifty-Sixfold Worlds.

Li Xian fought off the God Clan experts who tried to rescue Sichen Overlord, capturing the Ultimate Dao Master and preparing a lethal Heaven-Opening Art against Sichen. As the Ancestors of both races intervened through the Origin Sea, Heavenly Fate Ancestor stepped between them and argued that Overlords should not die in internal warfare.

• The Human Race and God Clan forces clashed while Li Xian swept Sichen Overlord into the Wuxian Great Dao.
• Twenty-two God Clan experts attacked Li Xian, but he blocked most of their strikes and used the Time-Disorder Wheel to capture the Ultimate Dao Master.
• Sichen Overlord burned his will and cut through forty-five layers of Li Xian’s worlds, so Li Xian began forming an eight-layer Heaven-Opening Art that could kill him.
• The Ancestor of Myriad Gods and Creation Ancestor prepared to intervene, while Human Race Dao Ancestors confronted them in the Origin Sea.
• Creation Ancestor projected power to protect Sichen Overlord, and Heavenly Fate Ancestor stepped between the two sides, insisting that Overlords should not die in internal warfare.