Chapter Summaries

The Primordial Rankings healed and strengthened the Myriad Laws Sect’s elders, helped dispel their heavenly tribulation, and granted benefits to cultivators across the Mortal Star Domain. The Myriad Laws Sect’s master and countless cultivators knelt before the rankings in gratitude.

• Streams of light from the Primordial Rankings healed the Ninth Elder and helped several Myriad Laws Sect elders break through.
• A dragon of providence appeared above the Myriad Laws Sect, bore part of its heavenly tribulation, and began dispelling the black Qi.
• Dragons of providence strengthened cultivators and the origin power of worlds throughout the Mortal Star Domain.
• The Myriad Laws Sect’s master and Second Elder realized that ranking first had improved their sect’s strength and divination abilities.
• Countless cultivators, including the Myriad Laws Sect’s master, knelt before the Primordial Rankings.

The Primordial Rankings spread across the Mortal Star Domain, granting ranked cultivators and worlds significant improvements and driving widespread efforts to rise in rank. Lin Yu learned that registering three rankings would unlock doubled providence, while more than ten thousand factions in the Imperial Radiance Plane began simultaneous rites to Heaven.

• Wan Fengrui praised the Primordial Hall's divination and declared that he wanted to become its disciple.
• Cultivators across the Mortal Star Domain discussed the rankings' benefits, including faster cultivation and stronger world origins, as ranked worlds and factions tried to improve their positions.
• Lin Yu learned from a system notification that registering at least three rankings on the Primordial Rankings would unlock a function to double providence.
• More than ten thousand factions in the Imperial Radiance Plane held sacrificial rites to Heaven, sending golden dragons of providence across the sky.
• Gu Yongchun and Elder Yexue watched the rites from among the gathered cultivators.

The factions of the Imperial Radiance Plane petitioned the Primordial Hall Master to create a ranking, hoping to gain the providence and cultivation benefits that came with a place on it. Their grand sacrifice left outsiders waiting to see whether the Primordial Hall would respond, while the hall’s location remained hidden despite continued searches.

• Cultivators discussed the Imperial Radiance Plane’s wagers and alliances as factions competed for positions on a potential ranking.
• Gu Yongchun explained to Elder Yexue that factions on the Primordial Rankings had experienced faster cultivation and growing strength.
• Peng Anxiang, Yuezheng Jianxiu, Wei Yulong, and Xu Heqie led a sacrifice asking the Primordial Hall Master to rank the Imperial Radiance Plane’s factions, followed by nearly ten thousand other faction lords.
• Experts continued searching for the Primordial Hall, but two who reportedly found its location were warned away and forcibly returned to their factions.

After the Imperial Radiance Plane offered its fortune to the Primordial Rankings, Lin Yu purified the tribute and fed it to the Primordial Platform. The Platform deduced a method that could create deities, and Lin Yu wondered whether its twelve vortices would produce twelve of them.

• The factions of the Imperial Radiance Plane gathered their fortune into a river and sent it to the Primordial Rankings as a tribute.
• Lin Yu sensed the river circling Hongmeng Mountain and noticed that the Primordial Platform desired its power.
• Lin Yu used the system’s authorization to purify the river of fortune and remove the emotions mixed into it.
• The Primordial Platform absorbed the purified fortune, greatly enhanced its deduction ability, and produced a pillar of light.
• The system announced that the Primordial Platform had deduced the Primordial God-Conferment Method, which could create a deity with enough pure fortune.
• Lin Yu saw the Platform’s twelve vortices and wondered whether they would create twelve deities.

Lin Yu used the Imperial Radiance Plane’s power of fortune to create a Mortal Star Domain-wide ranking of imperial dynasty factions. After seeing the results, he noticed that the hidden Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty ranked first and that seven ranked factions came from the Imperial Radiance Plane.

• Lin Yu realized the Imperial Radiance Plane’s fortune had advanced the creation of the first deity by only twenty percent and decided to publish a ranking in return.
• Lin Yu instructed the system to rank the Mortal Star Domain’s top twenty imperial dynasty factions by fortune and foundation, excluding factions less than a hundred years old.
• The system generated the ranking, placing Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty first and naming factions including Heavenly Punishment Imperial Dynasty and Starry Array Imperial Dynasty.
• Lin Yu suspected the Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty had deliberately concealed its strength and observed that Imperial Radiance Plane factions occupied seven of the twenty places.

Lin Yu added the Mortal Star Domain Imperial Dynasty Faction Ranking to the Primordial Rankings, prompting celebrations across the star domain. The Imperial Radiance Plane’s cultivators then discovered that only seven of its imperial dynasty factions made the top twenty, and none ranked in the top five, leaving them questioning the results.

• Lin Yu added the Imperial Dynasty Faction Ranking, and the Primordial Rankings updated across the Mortal Star Domain.
• Cultivators celebrated the Imperial Radiance Plane’s success and hoped that stronger factions and world origin power would eventually benefit them all.
• As the rankings appeared, the Imperial Radiance Plane’s cultivators saw that none of the top five factions came from their plane.
• The Waning Moon Shrine Imperial Dynasty ranked sixth, the Azure Feather Tower Imperial Dynasty seventh, the Silver Ring Palace Imperial Dynasty eighth, and the Thousand Mountains Hall Imperial Dynasty eleventh.
• After the top twenty were revealed, cultivators learned that only seven factions from the Imperial Radiance Plane had made the list and questioned whether the ranking was genuine.

Cultivators learned that the mysterious Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty had once ruled half the Mortal Star Domain before vanishing without a trace a thousand years earlier. Elder Yexue explained its history to Gu Yongchun and pointed to the Mausoleum Imperial Dynasty as further evidence of its existence.

• Several cultivators suspected that the Primordial Hall had invented the Thousand Mountain Dynasty when they had never heard of it.
• An elderly Saint Venerable and dozens of other older cultivators knelt before the Primordial Rankings, celebrating that the Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty still existed.
• Elder Yexue told Gu Yongchun that the dynasty had once ruled half the Mortal Star Domain, and that neighboring star domains had paid it tribute.
• Elder Yexue revealed that the dynasty had suddenly disappeared a thousand years earlier, leaving no trace, and that the Valley of Devouring had once been its subordinate.
• Elder Yexue asked Gu Yongchun about the Mausoleum Imperial Dynasty, which Gu Yongchun said he had visited and barely escaped.

Elder Yexue explained the Thousand Mountain Dynasty's bloody legacy and enduring loyalists, warning that its return could bring war to the Mortal Star Domain. After the Primordial Rankings rewarded the ranked dynasties with cultivation breakthroughs, the Primordial Hall threatened to blacklist anyone who copied the Imperial Radiance Plane's petitioning tactic.

• Elder Yexue told Gu Yongchun that the ghosts of the Mausoleum Imperial Dynasty, including its three Ghost Emperors, had been slain by the Thousand Mountains Imperial Dynasty.
• Elder Yexue explained that the Thousand Mountain Dynasty still had countless hidden loyalists and that its return could plunge the Mortal Star Domain into war.
• Gu Yongchun decided that he would not submit the Valley of Devouring to another power and preferred that the Thousand Mountain Dynasty remain hidden.
• The Primordial Rankings released twenty streaks of light, and rewards triggered widespread breakthroughs in the seven ranked imperial dynasties of the Imperial Radiance Plane.
• Visiting cultivators planned to petition the Primordial Hall for rankings suited to their own factions.
• The Primordial Hall announced that anyone who copied the Imperial Radiance Plane's tactic, along with everyone associated with them, would be blacklisted from all rankings.

The Mausoleum Imperial Dynasty gained a powerful cultivation boost from the Primordial Ranking, and its leaders wondered how the unknown Primordial Hall could deduce the Heavenly Dao so freely. Youming concluded that the Primordial Hall might locate the Thousand Mountain Dynasty, which the Mausoleum Dynasty had hunted for over a thousand years.

• Factions abandoned plans to appeal the Primordial Hall's rankings and resolved to improve their strength and challenge higher-ranked cultivators or factions.
• The Mausoleum Imperial Dynasty absorbed stars as it traveled through the western Mortal Star Domain, and the Primordial Ranking updated its position to fourth.
• Three black dragons absorbed the ranking's fortune power, transformed into men, and celebrated breaking through.
• Youming and the other two men discussed the Primordial Hall's origins and the powerful cultivation benefits the Primordial Ranking gave them.
• Youming said the Primordial Hall might know the Thousand Mountain Dynasty's location, and he vowed that the Mausoleum Dynasty would avenge the millions of beings it had lost.

The three Great Emperors of the Mausoleum Dynasty discussed how to find the Primordial Hall before discovering Lin Yu inside Hongmeng Immortal Mountain. Lin Yu used the Primordial Compass to overwhelm them and threaten the entire dynasty, drawing the attention of Great Emperor-level powerhouses across the Mortal Star Domain.

• The three ghost generals realized that finding the Primordial Hall seemed as difficult as finding the Thousand Mountain Dynasty.
• Great Emperor Youming detected a strange presence and attacked a black mist, but it revealed an immortal mountain hidden behind an illusion.
• The three Great Emperors attacked Hongmeng Immortal Mountain, but Lin Yu used the Primordial Compass to erase their attacks and devour their illusory hells with a green lotus.
• Lin Yu turned the Primordial Compass against the whole Mausoleum Dynasty, imposing a hundred-thousand-fold spiritual power pressure.
• The three Great Emperors prepared to fight back with all their strength, while Lin Yu worried that other powerhouses might discover him.

Lin Yu concealed the battlefield while distant cultivators speculated about the clash and the Thousand Mountain Dynasty. Inside the Mausoleum Dynasty, he forced its three Great Emperors to their knees, and Great Emperor Youming recognized him as the master of the Primordial Hall.

• Lin Yu hid the Mausoleum Dynasty and the battle from the starry sky, leaving only destroyed stars and spiritual-power traces for investigators to find.
• Cultivators debated who had fought the Mausoleum Dynasty’s Great Emperors, then the Lecherous Daoist provoked the Bell Sound Race’s ancestor and fled from her pursuit.
• Lin Yu’s spiritual pressure forced Great Emperor Youming and the other two Great Emperors to their knees as they endured the force to protect their subjects.
• Great Emperor Youming recognized the immortal mountain as the one he had glimpsed on the Platform of Myriad Laws and asked whether Lin Yu was the master of the Primordial Hall.

Lin Yu revealed himself as the Primordial Hall Master and effortlessly lifted the pressure that had subdued Great Emperor Youming and his companions. After they bowed and asked him to locate the Thousand Mountain Dynasty, Lin Yu warned that knowing its location would be useless.

• Lin Yu identified himself as the Primordial Hall Master and turned the Primordial Compass to remove the pressure on Great Emperor Youming and his two companions.
• Great Emperor Youming and the other Great Emperors concluded that Lin Yu was at least an Imperial Lord-level expert and bowed to ask his forgiveness.
• The living beings of the Mausoleum Dynasty saw their rulers bow and knelt before Lin Yu as well.
• Great Emperor Youming confirmed that he wanted Lin Yu to deduce the Thousand Mountain Dynasty's location.
• Lin Yu said he could locate the Thousand Mountain Dynasty but warned that doing so would be useless.

Lin Yu offered Great Emperor Youming and the other two a way to gain Imperial Lord-level strength within the Mausoleum Dynasty in exchange for half the continent’s fortune. After they agreed, he gave them the Power-Borrowing Method, and they discovered their strength had truly risen to the Imperial Lord level.

• Lin Yu told Great Emperor Youming and the others that their hatred of the Thousand Mountain Dynasty could not overcome the gap in their strength.
• Lin Yu offered to teach them a method that would grant them Imperial Lord-level strength within the Mausoleum Dynasty, in exchange for the dynasty’s fortune.
• Great Emperor Youming and the other two agreed to Lin Yu’s deal.
• Lin Yu sent the Power-Borrowing Method into their minds and raised their strength to the Imperial Lord level.

Great Emperor Youming and two others reached the Imperial Lord level by borrowing the Mausoleum Dynasty’s power of fortune, and Lin Yu collected more than half of that fortune as payment. The Primordial Platform used it to bring nearly a third of its area into operation, and Lin Yu considered drawing more fortune from factions tied to the Primordial Rankings.

• Great Emperor Youming and the other two thanked Lin Yu after his method helped them break through to the Imperial Lord level.
• Lin Yu drew more than half of the Mausoleum Dynasty’s power of fortune from its black dragon and purified it.
• Lin Yu sent the fortune into Hongmeng Mountain, where the Primordial Platform absorbed it and began operating across nearly a third of its area.
• Lin Yu observed that the Primordial Rankings linked major factions’ power of fortune to the Primordial Hall and considered releasing more rankings to gather additional fortune.

Lin Yu regretted that Great Emperor Youming and the other Great Emperors had not attacked him, since he could have seized all of the Mausoleum Dynasty’s providence. After Lin Yu returned to Hongmeng Mountain, Great Emperor Youming and the others feared the Primordial Hall’s power and decided to focus on their conflict with the Thousand Mountain Dynasty.

• Lin Yu told Great Emperor Youming and the other Great Emperors that he had hoped they would attack him so he could suppress them and take all their providence.
• Lin Yu returned to Hongmeng Mountain, which then disappeared from above the Mausoleum Dynasty.
• Great Emperor Youming and the other Great Emperors wondered whether the Primordial Hall’s appearance had been deliberate and realized they had narrowly avoided provoking Lin Yu.
• Great Emperor Youming and the other Great Emperors agreed they must not make an enemy of the Primordial Hall and turned their attention back to the Thousand Mountain Dynasty.

A yellow-robed apparition appeared over the Xuanxuan Plane, revealing an Imperial Lord inheritance that drew Great Emperors from across the Mortal Star Domain. Lin Yu recognized the danger to someone he owed a favor and sent Hongmeng Mountain toward the plane to intervene.

• A vast world emerged in the Mortal Star Domain, and its 108 pillars of light formed the apparition of a yellow-robed man whose pressure forced beings below Saint level to kneel.
• Great Emperor experts across the Mortal Star Domain recognized that the apparition marked an Imperial Lord inheritance and tore open the void to reach it.
• Lin Yu watched the commotion from Hongmeng Mountain and estimated that the new world's origin power placed it among the Mortal Star Domain's top hundred worlds.
• Lin Yu decided to repay a favor by stepping in and redirected Hongmeng Mountain toward the Xuanxuan Plane.
• Living beings in the Xuanxuan Plane remained terrified beneath the apparition's pressure, with many fainting or kneeling helplessly.

The Primordial Hall’s formation activated and protected the entire Vast God Domain, relieving the pressure on its inhabitants. The nine elders of Short Sky Island then revealed their immense power, leaving the factions across the Xuanxuan Plane stunned.

• The shattered arena released golden runes that formed a barrier across the Vast God Domain, and its inhabitants recognized it as a formation left by the Primordial Hall’s hall master.
• The elders on Short Sky Island realized the upgraded formation could protect the whole domain and agreed to set out to safeguard the young master.
• Xu Changhao and the other eight elders unleashed their power, then rose into the sky from Short Sky Island.
• Cultivators identified the nine figures as members of the first-ranked Short Sky Island and realized they were all Half-Step Great Emperors.
• Former overlords and Demon Race cultivators watched the elders in silence, reconsidering how they had ever dared attack the Vast God Domain.

The nine elders of Short Sky Island reached the Imperial Lord’s inheritance and declared that it belonged to their young master. Thirty-six Great Emperors of the Mortal Star Domain gathered before them, and Xu Changhao told them to leave as the confrontation began.

• Cultivators across several domains regretted having once challenged the Vast God Domain after learning of Short Sky Island’s power.
• The nine elders of Short Sky Island crossed the Mortal Star Domain and bowed to the yellow-robed apparition, vowing to protect their young master and secure the inheritance.
• Thirty-six Emperor-level experts gathered at the inheritance, and the pressure of their spiritual power caused small worlds across the Mortal Star Domain to explode.
• The Great Emperor of the Bell Sound Race asked the nine elders what they intended, while the assembled Great Emperors remembered how the elders had once killed a Great Emperor and disappeared into seclusion in the Xuanxuan Plane.
• Xu Changhao said the inheritance belonged to their young master and ordered everyone else to leave.

Xu Changhao fought the Great Emperor of the Heavenly Punishment Race to two draws, revealing that Short Sky Island’s Half-Step Great Emperor elders could contend with Great Emperors. The Heavenly Punishment Great Emperor then unleashed his Thunder of Heavenly Punishment, and its sea of lightning poured toward Xu Changhao.

• Xu Changhao challenged the thirty-six Great Emperors, and the Great Emperor of the Heavenly Punishment Race attacked him.
• Xu Changhao and the Great Emperor of the Heavenly Punishment Race fought to a draw despite Xu Changhao being only a Half-Step Great Emperor.
• The onlookers recognized that Short Sky Island’s other eight elders might be even more formidable and turned their attention to the white-haired elder.
• The Great Emperor of the Heavenly Punishment Race attacked Xu Changhao again, but they reached another draw.
• The Great Emperor of the Heavenly Punishment Race unleashed Thunder of Heavenly Punishment, sending a vast sea of purple lightning down toward Xu Changhao.

Xu Changhao activated his Ruyi Divine Body and fought the Heavenly Punishment Great Emperor to a standstill, prompting Lin Yu to investigate his strength and discover his unusual, complementary cultivation technique and physique. The two combatants moved their battle into the starry sky, keeping it away from the land of inheritance.

• Xu Changhao summoned his Ruyi Divine Body and used the Sorrowful Script Emotion-Severing Palm to clash with the Heavenly Punishment Great Emperor's lightning.
• After both attacks dissipated, Xu Changhao and the Heavenly Punishment Great Emperor powered up and prepared to continue their battle.
• Lin Yu used the Hongmeng System to learn that Xu Changhao was a Peak Quasi-Emperor whose activated physique let him fight at the Peak of Early-stage Great Emperor level.
• Lin Yu recognized that Xu Changhao's Ruyi Heart Sutra and special physique complemented each other, and considered creating a special physique ranking after the battle.
• The Heavenly Punishment Great Emperor and Xu Changhao fought in the starry sky, avoiding the land of inheritance.