Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi survived the Spirit Explosion Formation, parted from Li Mengyun, and returned to the Heaven and Earth Sect, where he learned that Wang Chong was secretly resisting the god who controlled him. Wang Chong sent a call to arms against the Immortal Ascension Platform, and Ling Yi read his memories, discovering how the sect master had turned against the gods.

• Ling Yi escaped the explosion with Yun Feng and the gravely wounded mysterious woman, then sent a clone to follow Yun Feng and handle any branching plotlines.
• Ling Yi gave Li Mengyun a Ling Realm Mark before returning to the Heaven and Earth Sect, while she stayed in the Ancient Demon Forest to seek cultivation supplies.
• Ling Yi met Guan Kuo, who was leaving for a dangerous mission in the Mist Swamp, and encouraged him before returning to Li Mengyun's residence.
• Wang Chong returned to the sect and was bound and tortured by a white-robed man for disobeying orders to gather Sword Soul cultivators for the Immortal Ascension Platform.
• Wang Chong sent hundreds of voice transmission talismans calling others to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform, and they all agreed.
• Ling Yi read Wang Chong's memories and learned that the sect master had discovered the gods were using the platform to steal Sword Souls and had begun devouring them to fight back.

Ling Yi understood that the so-called gods had sealed the cultivation world with the Immortal Ascension Platforms and that Wang Chong and other villains planned to destroy them. Half a month earlier, Yun Feng nearly died crossing a desert before Qiao Li revealed the gods’ scheme and her own history as a Sword Soul-devouring villain.

• Ling Yi concluded that the Immortal Ascension Platforms formed a Heaven-Locking Grand Formation and that Wang Chong’s group intended to destroy the platforms with Spirit Explosion Formation Discs.
• Yun Feng carried the mysterious woman across the desert until he collapsed after hearing bells from a nearby hunting party.
• Yun Feng woke in a tent during the Eye of the Black Wind and learned from the woman that the hunting party sought Chaos Spirit Stones formed at the storm’s center.
• The woman introduced herself as Qiao Li, the sect master of the Nine Li Sect, and explained how the gods used the Immortal Ascension Platforms to block ascension and rule the cultivation world.
• Qiao Li admitted that she had devoured many gifted cultivators’ Sword Souls and recounted her ruthless past and failed attempt to condense a Five Elements Sword Soul.

Yun Feng learned that Qiao Li was helping oppose the gods and trained with her support to recover his memories and prepare to condense the Five Elements Sword Soul. As Qian Province’s Immortal Ascension Platform neared, Wang Chong and Ling Yi made their own preparations, and Yun Feng finished his training with only three days left to act.

• Qiao Li told Yun Feng that she planned to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform and believed he was the reincarnated Sword God, while Yun Feng remained wary of her.
• After the Eye of the Black Wind ended, Qiao Li heard Wang Chong’s call to oppose the gods, bought Chaos Spirit Stones, and took Yun Feng to the Ancient Demon Forest to cultivate.
• Wang Chong traveled to Lei Province to recruit allies, while three years passed and Qian Province prepared for the Immortal Ascension Platform’s arrival.
• Wang Chong made Li Mengyun the Heaven and Earth Sect’s sect master, and Ling Yi told her he would leave after the Immortal Ascension Platform plot.
• Yun Feng recovered his memories and told Qiao Li he could condense the Five Elements Sword Soul within three days, while Qiao Li worried whether there was enough time.

Thirty-two sect masters climbed the heavenly stairway and sacrificed themselves trying to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform, exposing a god’s plan to feed on Sword Souls. Yun Feng arrived with a Five Elements Sword Soul and declared he would shatter heaven, though he admitted he could not defeat the god directly.

• Thirty-two sect masters blocked the heavenly stairway with Spirit Explosion Formation Plates and began climbing toward the Immortal Ascension Platform.
• The sect masters endured escalating lightning for three days, while Ling Yi revealed that the black Annihilation Lightning was destroying their primordial spirits.
• A silver-haired god appeared and called the cultivators ants, then admitted that he had reserved their Sword Souls as nourishment.
• The thirty-two sect masters burned their Sword Souls, reached the platform, and detonated their Spirit Explosion Formation Plates, but the platform quickly repaired itself and all thirty-two died.
• The cultivators united in anger as the silver-haired god demanded their reverence, and Yun Feng arrived with a Five Elements Sword Soul.
• Yun Feng told the god he could not defeat him directly but could shatter heaven.

Yun Feng shattered the heavens, triggering the ascension of tens of thousands of cultivators, while Ling Yi rescued the survivors into the Ling Realm. After reflecting with Yin Wanqing on the world he had witnessed, Ling Yi entered a new world as a delivery driver and discovered a flamboyant self-proclaimed superhero.

• Yun Feng broke the heavens with his Five Elements Sword Soul, and Qiao Li took the white-haired young man's attack in his place before Yun Feng and the young man vanished in their final clash.
• Tens of thousands of Mahayana cultivators began ascending, and the white-haired young man was destroyed by the force descending through his receiving passage.
• Ling Yi sent Li Mengyun into the Ling Realm, where she reunited with Yun Feng, Qiao Li, Wang Chong, and the others who had survived there.
• Ling Yi told Yin Wanqing he had chosen to observe the world rather than alter its story, while Yin Wanqing continued investigating the effects of plot karma.
• Ling Yi entered a new world as a drowned delivery driver, corrected the record of his overdue delivery, and watched a video of the superhero A Jian rescuing a falling boy.

Ling Yi watched Lu Yun be framed and ruined, then removed his murderous Dark Necromancer System and replaced it with one that rewarded punishing evil and promoting good. When Lu Yun chose to publish his evidence, Ling Yi took control of the world’s servers to help him expose the truth.

• Principal Li fired Lu Yun, denied his claim that he had evidence, and secretly accepted two million from Gao Bang.
• Gao Bang sued Lu Yun on behalf of Gao Yuanyuan and the four other girls, and Lu Yun was ordered to pay nearly two hundred thousand in compensation.
• Lu Yun’s Dark Necromancer System activated and ordered him to kill Gao Bang and the five girls, threatening to erase him if he failed.
• Ling Yi crushed the original system and gave Lu Yun a replacement that removed compulsory missions and awarded experience for punishing evil and promoting good.
• Lu Yun decided to publish his evidence against Gao Bang and the girls, so Ling Yi took control of the world’s servers to help him expose them.

Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing discussed their exhaustion and the obstacles to Boundary Breaking before Ling Yi entered a new world. There, he met Ye Feng, whose flawed Strongest Mage System required him to invent real magic in a world without it.

• Yin Wanqing explained that Ling Yi and the author were bound to keep traversing and writing, while the Ling Realm lacked enough providence for Boundary Breaking.
• Yin Wanqing suggested that readers might resist Ling Yi breaking through, and Ling Yi said he would give readers golden fingers if he succeeded.
• Yin Wanqing consulted the World Traversal Radar, kissed Ling Yi, and kept her new idea secret to avoid alerting the author.
• Ling Yi arrived in New City and discovered his roommate Ye Feng was trying to activate the Strongest Mage System by inventing a spell.
• Ling Yi explained traditional and technological magic, but Ye Feng rejected technological magic and chose to search for a way to create real magic.

Ye Feng researched brain waves to find a way to create magic, then built a brain-signal reader and proposed selling learning helmets. As Ye Feng pursued a theory of mental power, Ling Yi experimented with Magic Factors and finally forced the exhausted Ye Feng to sleep.

• Ye Feng asked Ling Yi how mental power could be understood, and Ling Yi suggested studying brain waves instead of souls.
• Ye Feng borrowed money from Ling Yi, claimed his Strongest Magician system gave him a photographic memory, and recited a book to prove it.
• Ye Feng spent heavily on research and built a helmet that could read and record brain signals, while Ling Yi advised him to control and price the knowledge the device could teach.
• Ling Yi offered to handle a company to sell the learning helmets as Ye Feng continued collecting data.
• Ling Yi experimented with Magic Factors and considered other ways to create magic, while Ye Feng divided bioelectric signals into hardware and magnetic field commands.
• Ye Feng proposed amplifying the brain's magnetic-field abilities to strengthen mental power, but Ling Yi snapped his fingers and put the exhausted Ye Feng to sleep.

Ye Feng developed magnetic field control and mind control, then prepared to create magical elements by simulating a Big Bang in a vast underground laboratory. Ling Yi left him to work and discovered a little girl who created and randomly dispatched systems, then told her to come with him after sensing her otherworldly presence.

• Ye Feng signed Ling Yi's company contract, and Ling Yi launched the Ling Ten assistant while waiting for Ye Feng's products.
• Ye Feng gained magnetic field control and mind control, then explained his dangerous plan to create magical elements through a simulated singularity Big Bang.
• Ling Yi flew Ye Feng to a desert laboratory powered by a small nuclear plant, where Ye Feng began preparing his work.
• Ling Yi vanished from the base and found a little girl generating a God Grade Insult System to send into another world.
• The little girl admitted she made and randomly dispatched systems without knowing why, and Ling Yi sensed her otherworldly presence and told her to come with him.

Ling Yi took in Ling Mengmeng, a world-born girl whose fortune came from future worlds, and severed her bond with the world’s rules. Meanwhile, Ye Feng’s black-hole experiment produced a spreading wave of colored light and mistlike energy, leaving the birth of magic underway.

• Ling Yi named the little girl Ling Mengmeng, and Yin Wanqing recognized that fortune from many future worlds was gathering on her.
• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing concluded that Mengmeng’s strange fortune pointed toward Boundary Breaking, and Yin Wanqing agreed to collect her when Ling Yi left the world.
• Ling Yi severed Mengmeng’s karmic connection to the world, freeing her from its rules, and took her to eat pork trotter rice.
• Ye Feng created a small black hole in his laboratory, which saturated and collapsed into a singularity sooner than expected.
• Ling Yi and Mengmeng arrived as the singularity burst into seven-colored light, and Ye Feng’s experiment began producing colorful, mistlike energy.

Ling Yi left Ye Feng after magic transformed the desert into an oasis and Ye Feng’s system finally activated, then arrived in a new world as a Pig Tribe warrior caught in a losing battle. The chapter ended with Pig Tribe chieftain Bale asking priest Taimu to evacuate their children and elders to safety.

• Ling Yi and Mengmeng left Ye Feng to sense the newly created magic elements, and the desert base became an oasis that the authorities later sealed off and concealed from the public.
• Ling Yi, Mengmeng, and Yin Wanqing teased Ye Feng about his dormant system before leaving, and Ye Feng’s Strongest Magician System activated with a mission to perform stage magic for at least one hundred thousand people.
• Fifty years later, humanity had developed magic and fought magical creatures, with Ye Feng leading the struggle, before Ling Yi arrived in a new world as a Pig Tribe half-beastman warrior.
• Ling Yi learned that the Pig Tribe was losing its battle against the allied Wolf and Bear Tribes over Qiuhe Canyon and became interested in the battlefield buffs produced by priests’ songs.
• Bale apologized to Taimu for failing to protect the tribe and asked him to take the children and elders to seek refuge with Chieftain Bamo.

Ling Yi’s saint-level song turned the battle in the Pig Tribe’s favor, prompting the Wolf and Bear Tribe chiefs to submit to him. He began planning a conquest of the Pingduan Mountain Range and entered the temple to study divine songs, leaving Taimu with three days to learn as many as possible.

• Ling Yi sang a saint-level war song that strengthened the Pig Tribe warriors, allowing Bale’s forces to overwhelm the Wolf and Bear Tribes.
• Vacha and Booker raised a white flag and later pledged loyalty to Ling Yi, while Bale also knelt and accepted Ling Yi as their leader.
• Ling Yi ordered Vacha to demand the submission of thirty-seven tribal chiefs, sent Bale to relocate the Pig Tribe camp, and commanded Booker to march against the Behemoth Clan.
• Ling Yi told the chiefs they had to act quickly because the twelve Beast Gods would not let them develop in peace, then ordered the march to begin that night.
• Ling Yi visited the temple with Taimu, activated its hexagram array, and filled it with divine songs converted into runes.
• Ling Yi granted Taimu access to the temple for three days so he could learn as many divine songs as possible.

Ling Yi led the Bear Tribe warriors into Behemoth Clan territory and used a Saint Grade Divine Sound to overwhelm Strongt and his tribe. Strongt swore submission to Ling Yi after Ling Yi demanded absolute obedience.

• Ling Yi marched two hundred Bear Tribe warriors from Qiuhe Canyon to the Boulder Highlands and crossed into Behemoth territory.
• Ling Yi had the Bear Tribe make noise to draw out the Behemoths, and thirty-three warriors charged from the highlands.
• Ling Yi sang a Saint Grade Divine Sound that confused the Behemoths and made them attack one another.
• Strongt threatened Ling Yi after the song ended, so Ling Yi sang again until the Behemoths were badly wounded.
• Ling Yi gave Strongt the choice to submit or die, rejected his requests for privileges, and demanded absolute obedience.
• Strongt swore in the name of the Beast God that he would submit to Ling Yi.

Ling Yi brought the Pig Tribe to the Fox Tribe’s territory with the Behemoth and Bear Tribes, then revealed his power in the Fox temple and won Hu Mei’s submission. He ordered the Fox Tribe to learn Divine Sound and prepare for a possible war in two days.

• Hu Mei confronted Bale over the Pig Tribe’s arrival, and Bale said he was waiting for Ling Yi’s orders.
• Ling Yi arrived with Strongt, the Behemoth warriors, and two hundred Bear Tribe warriors, then demanded the Fox Tribe’s territory and said he would build a priest legion.
• Hu Mei agreed to submit if Ling Yi could produce priests, and Ling Yi ordered Booker, Bale, and Strongt to build a camp nearby.
• Ling Yi recorded many complete Divine Sounds into the Fox temple’s formation, and Hu Mei recognized him as a Divine Priest and submitted to him.
• Ling Yi warned Hu Mei that war might come in two days and told her to bring as many Fox Tribe members as possible to learn Divine Sound.

Ling Yi used a Saint-Level War Buff to defeat the Snake Tribe tax collectors, take control of two Mammoth Colossi, and claim five tribes in the Pingduan Mountain Range. As war between the Titanians and the Dragon Tribe approached, the remaining thirty-five tribal chiefs debated whether to follow him, and Feilai argued that they should join the holy priest.

• Vacha told Ling Yi that two Mammoth Colossi and Titanian tax collectors had crossed into the Dragon Tribe's territory, so Ling Yi ordered Little White to prepare for battle.
• Ling Yi boosted the Behemoth Clan warriors with his singing, and Little White leapt into a Mammoth Colossus's hide house and killed the three Snake Tribe warriors controlling the beasts.
• Ling Yi took the two Mammoth Colossi and celebrated as the Wolf, Bear, Pig, Behemoth, and Fox Tribes came under his command.
• The chiefs of the other thirty-five tribes gathered after hearing that Beast God Field had issued a war decree and that Ling Yi had killed Gold's tax collectors.
• Feilai rejected neutrality and argued that the tribes should join Ling Yi's camp because a holy priest appeared only once in a thousand years and could lead them against the returning Sea Tribe.

Ling Yi’s forces defeated a fifty-thousand-strong Dog Tribe army at Qiuhe Canyon with the help of three priest corps and their stacked buffs. After the victory, Ling Yi ordered Feiya to spread word of the battle so the tribes across the Beast God Continent would hear of their strength.

• Feilai and thirty-five other tribal chiefs submitted to Ling Yi, and over six months Ling Yi organized his forces and formed three priest corps.
• Feiya warned Ling Yi that fifty thousand Dog Tribe warriors were approaching Qiuhe Canyon, and Ling Yi ordered the tribes to muster for battle.
• Lars sent the Dog Tribe warriors charging into the canyon while their priest used Berserk Divine Sound, and Ling Yi’s priests empowered five hundred Bear and Pig Tribe warriors with layered buffs.
• The Dog Tribe suffered devastating losses from the warriors’ damage-reflection and defense buffs, and Lars ordered a retreat after learning that the opposing force had at least a hundred General Grade priests.
• Ling Yi’s forces burned the Dog Tribe corpses and celebrated their victory, while Hu Mei warned him that Varik, Mangrui, and others seemed suspicious.
• Ling Yi instructed Feiya to spread news of the battle throughout the territories of the twelve Beast Gods and accelerate their plans.

Ling Yi set out to attack Field’s territory and seize the Dragon Tribe, while Hu Mei stayed behind to defend the Pingduan Mountain Range. After learning that Gold and Field had sent a five-hundred-thousand-strong army, Hu Mei imposed martial law and prepared to hold Qiuhe Canyon as the enemy arrived.

• Ling Yi ordered an expedition to Giant Dragon Canyon with eight hundred warriors, ten Winged People, and one hundred Emperor Grade priests, leaving Hu Mei in charge of the Pingduan Mountain Range.
• Hu Mei learned that Gold and Field had jointly sent five hundred thousand troops, and discovered that the Ground Squirrel Tribe had betrayed Ling Yi’s forces.
• Hu Mei assigned Vacha to defend Qiuhe Canyon with five hundred Wolf warriors and one hundred King Grade priests, then ordered Lan Ya and Strongt to guard against betrayal.
• When Mangrui challenged her authority, Hu Mei ordered Strongt to kill him and warned the tribal chiefs that their concealment of the betrayal had cost them her trust.
• The five-hundred-thousand-strong enemy army assembled outside Qiuhe Canyon with two thousand priests, while Hu Mei resolved not to retreat.

Hu Mei’s forces held Qiuhe Canyon against a massive enemy army with Taimu’s Saint Grade Divine Sound buffs while Ling Yi led a small force through Wuwang Desert. The chapter ended with Ling Yi’s archers striking Field’s army first, followed by his warriors charging into battle.

• Taimu’s hundred priests strengthened the five hundred Wolf Tribe warriors, who repelled the Dog and Rabbit Tribes’ attacks and inflicted nearly sixty thousand casualties by sunset.
• Hu Mei rejected the Keer Tribe’s offer to join the battle, suspecting Varik was testing her forces, while civilian priests and warriors took turns relieving the defenders overnight.
• Ling Yi led his group through Mist Forest to Wuwang Desert, assigned Bale to protect the priests and Feiya to locate the enemy commander, and ordered them to take no prisoners.
• Ling Yi’s eight hundred fighters entered the desert with their priests continuously singing Divine Sounds and encountered Field’s army halfway across.
• Ling Yi ordered the archers to shoot Field’s younger brother, the fat Dragon Tribe lizard, and the opening volley wounded him and killed enemy soldiers.
• The enemy army charged as its priests began chanting, and Feilai and the other warriors put away their bows and rushed into the advancing troops.

Ling Yi’s forces defeated Field’s army and captured his brother Bite, prompting Field to recognize Ling Yi as a divine priest and agree to meet him. Meanwhile, Hu Mei’s forces faced a massive Bat Tribe attack and a betrayal at Qiuhe Canyon, but hundreds of Dragon Tribe warriors arrived as the battle reached its turning point.

• Little Apple’s Sow Discord buff turned at least a hundred thousand of Field’s soldiers against their own army, and Ling Yi’s side routed the four-hundred-thousand-strong force.
• Feilai and the others captured Bite, and Ling Yi sent Feiya to tell Field to come before nightfall or forfeit the chance to meet.
• Field learned that Ling Yi had used a saint-grade mental-type Divine Sound halo, concluded that he was a divine priest, and ordered the Dragon Tribe to assemble.
• Gold sent two hundred thousand Bat Tribe members to attack the Pingduan Mountain Range, and Hu Mei’s forces used priest buffs and thrown rocks to repel them until the numbers overwhelmed their defenses.
• Varik led the Keer Tribe against the civilian priest corps to disrupt their chanting, but hundreds of Dragon Tribe warriors arrived and charged into the Bat Tribe army.

Ling Yi organized his forces to conquer the Beast God Continent, while Field captured Gold’s territory and Gold submitted. Ling Yi then turned toward the Tiger and Lion tribes, who refused to submit, and received word of Field’s next campaign.

• After defeating the Bat Tribe, Hu Mei confronted Varik, and Ling Yi ordered wavering chiefs sent to farm the Falling Sand Plain under threat of death.
• Ling Yi assigned Field to conquer Gold’s territory, made the Pingduan Mountain Range a priest-training base, and gave Bale responsibility for logistics and bow production.
• Field’s million-strong army surrounded Titan’s Nest, and Gold killed Agri before deciding to submit and ordering the tribes in his territory to abandon resistance.
• Field conquered Gold’s territory and announced plans to march against Homiko’s and Nanfa’s territories, while Speed flew to report the news to Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi learned that Ofi and Long Hai had joined forces against him and ordered them to choose between war and submission at Quicksand Valley.
• A messenger arrived to tell Ling Yi that Gold had surrendered and Field wanted to know whether to proceed west.