Recaps

Li Xingkong negotiated for Albert to become a partner in the Axiom Arc’s experiments rather than a captive test subject, while planning to delay his participation and send a clone back with the group. Their plans were interrupted when an aggressive mechanical woman arrived to claim Albert, and Li Xingkong confronted her.

• Li Xingkong told Albert and the others that the Axiom Arc knew of his time powers, but he had negotiated a partner status that let Albert refuse experiments.
• Li Xingkong proposed sending a clone with the group to the Kingdom of Fixed Light while he and Guapilong continued their journey, and they agreed to meet later near the project.
• Li Xingkong detected an approaching figure whose ring-shaped ripple swept away his Divine Sense, so he left the ship to block her path.
• The newcomer, a mechanical woman, identified Li Xingkong and claimed Albert belonged to her because she had found him first.
• Li Xingkong rejected her claim, insisting Albert could decide for himself, and challenged her aggressive behavior.

Li Xingkong fought a condescending newcomer from the Axiom Arc who tried to take him away. After escaping her spatial maze and gaining the upper hand, he devised a plan to punish her without killing her or giving up his identity as an Axiom Arc member.

• Li Xingkong refused to hand himself over and attacked the newcomer with the Ten Thousand Swords Art and the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
• The newcomer swallowed his flying swords through a black gate and trapped him inside a spatial maze created by a sphere.
• Li Xingkong used the Thousand Mountains Method to calculate possible routes and escaped the maze in nine steps.
• Li Xingkong struck the newcomer with Divine Light, but her rings and spatial tools let her evade or absorb his attacks.
• Li Xingkong recognized that the newcomer relied on items and decided to give her a taste of her own medicine.

Li Xingkong defeated Bingyou by trapping her in a spatial labyrinth made from her own beads. Fenye appeared, freed her, and confined her in his ring after reprimanding her, then apologized to Li Xingkong.

• Bingyou angrily attacked Li Xingkong with several beads, but he seized her when she became distracted.
• Li Xingkong let the beads trap both of them in a spatial labyrinth, then escaped and left Bingyou confined inside.
• Bingyou demanded to be released and claimed she was the daughter of the Arc's Great Sage Fenye.
• Fenye appeared, pulled Bingyou out of the labyrinth, and scolded her for causing trouble and neglecting her coursework.
• Fenye put Bingyou inside his ring and apologized to Li Xingkong for her behavior.

Fenye made Li Xingkong a non-staff deacon of the Axiom Arc and arranged for him and Albert to work on a project. The system explained that Fenye was an embodiment of the rules, while Albert received a bracelet that made him an Axiom Arc candidate.

• Fenye gave Li Xingkong a bracelet for Albert and changed Li Xingkong's bracelet, appointing him a non-staff deacon of the Axiom Arc.
• Fenye said he would send Li Xingkong and Albert to work on a project for three to five years, then vanished.
• The system revealed that Fenye was the Axiom Arc's rule-based weapon, an embodiment of the rules who had begun the Dao Integration path.
• The system explained the differences between the Nascent Soul and Dao Integration paths, and Li Xingkong returned to the spaceship.
• Li Xingkong gave Albert the bracelet from Fenye, and Albert wondered which senior had sent it.

Li Xingkong and the members of Dawn prepared for a three-to-five-year delay while they joined the time reset point project. After Xingci died and Xingxi was left in their care, they faced a new problem before departing.

• Albert and the others planned to retrieve their ship and prepare for their return to the Kingdom of Fixed Light.
• Guapilong agreed to wait for Li Xingkong, who gave him cultivation methods and supplies before the journey was put on hold.
• Li Xingkong strengthened his ship and prepared it as a safe place for Guapilong.
• The members of Dawn returned and told Li Xingkong that Xingci had taken her own life after they confronted her.
• Tataru brought Xingxi along, and Old Yu questioned whether anyone in Dawn could care for the child.

Li Xingkong and Albert were sent by Great Sage Fenye to an Axiom Arc laboratory for an investigation into a time reset point. There, Kan Yun showed them the joint space station and introduced the factions working in it, including the Li Insects.

• Li Xingkong explained that Xingxi had been brought along because she deserved a chance to leave her home and live happily, and the group agreed to take care of her at Dawn.
• Great Sage Fenye appeared, immobilized Li Xingkong and Albert, and sent them through a portal to the laboratory before leaving the others behind.
• Guapilong decided to focus on cultivation, while the others encouraged one another to grow stronger.
• Li Xingkong and Albert arrived at a vast laboratory, where logistics deacon Kan Yun welcomed them and explained that their research would involve finding a time reset point.
• Kan Yun led them through the joint space station and identified the Kingdom of Fixed Light, the Holy Church of Truth, and a coalition of second-tier civilizations, where Li Xingkong spotted the Li Insects.

Kan Yun brought Li Xingkong and Albert to Axiom Arc’s laboratory data-loading point, where they began absorbing the project’s research. As Li Xingkong reviewed the findings, he realized the factions were seeking to create another Dao Integration existence, and he felt fortunate to be part of the project.

• Kan Yun introduced the data-loading point, gave Li Xingkong and Albert access to their resting quarters, and urged them to study the project’s discoveries.
• Albert doubted that the laboratory’s researchers were as ruthless as he had expected, while Li Xingkong explained that they were proud scholars focused on their research.
• Li Xingkong connected multiple interfaces to speed up his data transmission, while Albert’s mana ran low and he climbed into a life-support pod.
• Li Xingkong reviewed the project’s vast records and learned that its research had produced working prototypes for time stops, brief reversals, and time machines.
• Li Xingkong inferred that the researchers intended to create another Dao Integration existence and recognized the vast gap between their ambitions and those of lower civilizations.

After rapidly absorbing the Axiom Arc’s research, Li Xingkong learned that researchers still could not change the past and that a time reset point remained undiscovered. He agreed to investigate unusual space-time activity near Earth Star, where the Holy Church of Truth had been active for a century, and hurried to protect his homeworld and the people he cared about.

• Li Xingkong finished absorbing the Axiom Arc’s research and learned that the grandfather paradox and the unknown time reset point still blocked genuine changes to the past.
• Li Xingkong contacted Kan Yun, who was astonished by how quickly he had absorbed the material and found him a task near Earth Star.
• Kan Yun told Li Xingkong that the Holy Church of Truth had sent scholars to investigate unusual space-time data near Earth Star a hundred years earlier.
• Li Xingkong worried about Earth Star and the people he cared about, including his sworn younger sister and Ji Nanzhi, and accepted the investigation.
• Kan Yun began preparing documents to transfer primary investigative authority to Li Xingkong, while he set off for Earth Star without waiting.

Li Xingkong returned to the Divine Land to gather intelligence about Earth Star and learned that the Holy Church of Truth had sealed off the Solar System and manipulated its people. He prepared to take over Earth Star’s administration under the Convention, while the threat there had grown into the Extradomain Heavenly Demons.

• Li Xingkong arrived at the Thirty-Three Heavens to learn what had happened on Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong found Zhang Yumeng and told her that he was now affiliated with one of the three major factions and could gain authority over Earth Star under the Convention.
• Zhang Yumeng activated the institute’s emergency procedures and sent Li Xingkong intelligence on Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong learned that three Holy Church of Truth members had sealed off the Solar System more than a hundred years earlier, allowing people to leave but forbidding entry.
• Li Xingkong learned that the Holy Church had used mental techniques to control people on Earth Star, eventually giving rise to inner demons known as Extradomain Heavenly Demons.

Li Xingkong returned to the Divine Land and learned that its senior cultivators had left to seek ways to protect Earth Star from the Holy Church of Truth. He met Ji Qiu in the Heavenly Court’s computational core and discovered that Ji Qiu had stripped away his emotions in pursuit of the Dao.

• Zhang Yumeng told Li Xingkong that Tang Cheng was guarding the front near Earth Star, while Old Tang and many other seniors had gone searching for a way to counter the Holy Church of Truth.
• Zhang Yumeng led Li Xingkong to the Thirty-First Heaven to meet Ji Qiu, the cultivator who had left Earth Star twenty years earlier.
• Ji Qiu recognized Li Xingkong but showed almost no emotion, explaining that he had cultivated by severing the Good Corpse and Evil Corpse and abandoning his true self.
• Li Xingkong realized that Ji Qiu’s method had left him an emotionless seeker of the Dao rather than the person he had once been.

After hearing Ji Qiu describe Earth Star’s war-torn cultivation world and the heavenly demons’ influence, Li Xingkong decided to go there ahead of the documents and investigate. He reached the Solar System, found it sealed off and saturated with Baleful Qi, and saw that its people were locked in constant conflict, though reincarnation still functioned.

• Ji Qiu told Li Xingkong that Earth Star had become a violent cultivation world ruled by demonic forces and said Ge Baoqi and Ji Nanzhi had defected to the heavenly demons while Ji Bei followed their lead.
• Ji Qiu explained that the three heavenly demons governed infatuation, envy, and hatred, and that he had escaped the Solar System only because his Dao self lacked the emotions they sought.
• Li Xingkong left the thirty-first heaven with Zhang Yumeng and decided to reach Earth Star before the documents arrived so he could offer protection.
• Li Xingkong hurried to the Solar System and detected a membrane enclosing it, dense Baleful Qi, and three powerful presences near Earth Star.
• Li Xingkong surveyed the planets and found that technological progress had stagnated, cultivator groups were fighting across the wasteland, and most dead souls still entered reincarnation.

Li Xingkong searched the Solar System for Tang Huhu but could not find her, then tracked down Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox on Venus. After overhearing their plans and learning they had risen among the heavenly devils, he resolved to deal with them.

• Li Xingkong surveyed the Solar System and saw how the heavenly devils had turned its planets into killing grounds, while Venus had become a refuge for their followers.
• Li Xingkong searched for Tang Huhu but failed to find her, then spotted Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox on Venus.
• Li Xingkong concealed himself and overheard Ge Baoqi and Old Ox discuss human puppets, Seven Emotions Pills, and their food supply.
• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox toasted their growing influence under the three saints and discussed Ji Nanzhi's place in the Holy Church of Truth.
• Li Xingkong recognized that the three former allies had become powerful under the heavenly devils and decided he would have to act against them.

Li Xingkong discovered that Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and their companions were using a revised Scarlet Heart Art to conceal their communication and coordinate a dangerous plan. After cracking part of their connection, he learned their scheme had only a three percent chance of success, but they intended to gamble anyway.

• The system teased Li Xingkong about the Scarlet Heart Art, prompting him to realize the technique could hide connections from his Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong studied the ancient Scarlet Heart Art and used the Hexagram to glimpse the red threads linking Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and others.
• Li Xingkong overheard Ge Baoqi complain about his condition and learn that he planned to use Ji Qiu's evil body to handle his distracting thoughts.
• Ge Baoqi and Ji Nanzhi received word that souls in reincarnation had reached seventy-two percent, and they praised Huhu for her work at the reincarnation node.
• Ji Nanzhi estimated their chance of success at three percent, but she and Ge Baoqi agreed that one of them only needed to succeed against the three old rulers.

Li Xingkong found Tang Huhu merged with the Gate of Samsara and learned how the Resistance Alliance used the Crimson Blood One Heart Art to manage the heavenly demons’ influence. Tang Huhu began explaining that the alliance still needed a way to understand and resist the demons.

• Old Ox secretly received Ge Baoqi, Ji Nanzhi, and Tang Huhu’s desires through the Scarlet Heart Art’s red threads before leaving Venus.
• Li Xingkong entered the abandoned samsara space and followed a red thread to the Gate of Samsara.
• Li Xingkong touched the gate with his Divine Sense, and Tang Huhu appeared as an artifact spirit.
• Tang Huhu told Li Xingkong that Ji Nanzhi had advised her to merge with the gate using his jade token to escape the demons.
• Tang Huhu explained that Ji Nanzhi created the Crimson Blood One Heart Art so practitioners could transfer dangerous emotions among themselves, with Ji Qiu’s good and evil corpses serving as vessels.
• Tang Huhu said the art could preserve their true selves but could not defeat the demons, and began explaining that they first needed to learn what the demons were.

Li Xingkong learned that Huhu and the others planned to possess the heavenly demons by pooling the fortune of hundreds of millions of souls through the Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood. He rejected the option of using the Convention’s document to drive the demons away and offered to improve the cultivation art.

• Tang Huhu explained that the heavenly demons were vessels for power bestowed by a civilization behind them, and that some defectors had joined them.
• Huhu showed Li Xingkong a hidden space where hundreds of millions of souls were linked by red threads through the Crimson Blood One Heart Art.
• Huhu explained that the souls were willingly pooling their fortune to support a possession attempt, which still had only a three percent chance of success as the three demons grew stronger.
• The system asked Li Xingkong whether he would use the Convention’s document to make the three demons leave, but he chose to help Huhu and the others instead.
• Li Xingkong used the Thousand Mountains Method to set an anchor point and asked Huhu for the Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood, which she projected into his brow.

Li Xingkong used the Hexagram to modify the Record of All Living Souls Weeping Blood, devising a Fortune Golden Core to shelter souls and improve the transfer of fortune. After testing the art on himself, he learned to sense and influence his own fortune, though it could be depleted and needed time to recover.

• Li Xingkong analyzed the Record of All Living Souls Weeping Blood with the Hexagram and identified its problems with protecting souls and transferring fortune.
• Li Xingkong devised a Fortune Golden Core that would combine the souls of willing contributors and provide luck instead of Magic Power.
• Li Xingkong worried that the art could later be used to harvest believers, but decided to make it as powerful as possible against the Three Heavenly Demons.
• Li Xingkong circulated the modified art within himself and used his Divine Sense to perceive his own fortune.
• Li Xingkong found that concealing his fortune worsened his luck, releasing it improved his luck, and fortune needed time to recover after being used.

Li Xingkong developed a fortune-amplifying cultivation technique and tested it by controlling Tang Huhu’s body. Tang Huhu’s cultivation reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, and the others connected by the red thread learned that Li Xingkong had returned.

• Li Xingkong refined the Fortune Golden Core technique and planned to combine it with the Crimson Blood One Heart Art so Ji Nanzhi and the others could learn it.
• Li Xingkong created a Fortune Golden Core and fused it into Tang Huhu’s Gate of Samsara, then controlled her body to circulate the revised Record of All Living Beings Weeping Blood.
• The technique drew the souls from Tang Huhu’s hidden space into the core, and Li Xingkong confirmed that the process had not harmed her before returning control to her.
• Tang Huhu found that her Mana Circuits had changed and her cultivation had risen to Foundation Establishment Perfection, despite being an artifact spirit.
• The others felt Tang Huhu’s cultivation pass through the red thread and asked what had happened; after Tang Huhu told them Li Xingkong was there, one pleaded with him for help.
• Li Xingkong told Tang Huhu to tell them to stick to the plan, revealing that he could hear their messages over the red thread.

Li Xingkong waited as Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, Old Ox, and Tang Huhu prepared to confront the three Heavenly Demons, while keeping his own intervention as a backup. The preparations were completed, and the demons arrived for a feast, unaware of the trap awaiting them.

• Li Xingkong agreed to support Ji Nanzhi and the others but kept the Convention's document and his own strength in reserve in case their possession plan failed.
• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox decided to proceed despite fearing Li Xingkong would reject their method, and Ge Baoqi checked the formation.
• A week later, Tang Huhu confirmed the grand formation and providence were ready, and Ji Nanzhi contacted the last Heavenly Demon while Ge Baoqi and Old Ox went to summon the others.
• The three Heavenly Demons arrived at the feast in their true forms: the Succubus, the Envy Demon, and the Hatred Demon.
• The Succubus joked with Old Ox about the Axiom Arc taking over their assignment as the demons gathered at the feast.

Ji Nanzhi and her allies lured the three heavenly demons into a trap and unleashed a vast blood sacrifice to possess them. The possession began as a torrent of souls attacked the demons, while Li Xingkong supported the attempt from outside.

• Ji Nanzhi hosted the three demons and had Ge Baoqi present them with a simplified Crimson Blood One Heart Art.
• The demons cultivated the art and connected their souls to Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox through red threads.
• Ji Nanzhi gave the signal, and Tang Huhu drew on the fortune of hundreds of millions as blood sacrifice arrays activated across several planets, killing the cultivators within them.
• The souls of the dead surged toward Venus and followed the art’s red threads toward the demons, who realized the souls were attacking them.
• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox joined the torrent and entered the demons’ bodies to possess them, while Li Xingkong pressured the demons from outside.

Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox fought to possess the three heavenly demons while Tang Huhu's fortune-fueled support neared its limit. They destroyed the demons and returned to their bodies, but the exhausted group began suffering dangerous backlash from depleted fortune.

• Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox seized key energy nodes in the demons' bodies while their souls and the invading tide overwhelmed the demons.
• The demons began devouring souls in return, turning the struggle into a contest of strength as the tide of souls dwindled and Tang Huhu warned that the fortune was nearly exhausted.
• Ji Nanzhi abandoned his defenses and attacked the Hatred Demon's soul, and Old Ox joined him after completing his possession first.
• Ji Nanzhi and Old Ox defeated the Hatred Demon, while Ge Baoqi stopped chasing the Envy Demon and destroyed it with their help.
• The three heavenly demons' souls returned to their bodies, but the drained fortune caused their bodies to disintegrate until Li Xingkong cast healing spells.

After the Solar System’s devastating battle, Li Xingkong secured authority over the surrounding star domains and began restoring the planets. Ge Baoqi, Ji Nanzhi, and Old Ox woke in the Three Demons’ bodies, where the demons’ emotions appeared to be corrupting their thoughts.

• After resting for nearly half a month, Li Xingkong obtained Convention documents appointing him manager of the surrounding star domains and placing the three Holy Church of Truth members under his authority.
• Li Xingkong cleaned up the Solar System while surviving independent cultivators cautiously returned to investigate the planets.
• Ge Baoqi woke in the Envy Demon’s body and struggled to control its unfamiliar movements and sudden remarks.
• Ji Nanzhi woke in the Hatred Demon’s body, and he and Ge Baoqi realized the Three Demons’ emotions might be influencing their minds.
• Ge Baoqi kicked Old Ox awake, and Old Ox began frantically searching for his little brother, prompting Ge Baoqi to suggest killing him.

After the Heavenly Demon’s defeat, Ge Baoqi, Old Ox, and Tang Huhu realized that possessing the Three Demons’ powers had begun to corrupt their souls and threaten their identities. Li Xingkong rebirthed the souls stored in the Fortune Golden Core, then examined the surviving fighters and found that their souls had merged with those of the demons and the blood-sacrificed victims.

• Ge Baoqi warned that the three of them might have to flee again because their past actions made them high-threat individuals in the Divine Land.
• Ge Baoqi raised the problem of sending the souls into Samsara, and Tang Huhu asked whether Li Xingkong’s Fortune Golden Core had prevented that.
• Li Xingkong explained that the Golden Core had only borrowed the souls’ fortune, then released the souls and gave each a new body formed from its memories.
• Li Xingkong returned the emptied Fortune Golden Core to Tang Huhu after rebirthing every cultivator whose soul had provided fortune.
• Li Xingkong examined Ge Baoqi and found that his soul contained the Envy Demon and souls from the blood sacrifices, which could briefly take control of his body.

Li Xingkong assessed the three survivors’ dangerously weakened, jumbled souls, and Ji Nanzhi proposed using a faith-god system to manage their souls and emotional burdens. The group considered what kinds of gods they might become as Li Xingkong judged the plan worth exploring.

• Li Xingkong explained that Ge Baoqi, Ji Nanzhi, and Old Ox would need to cultivate in their new bodies before their souls weakened further or the Three Demons reawakened.
• Li Xingkong questioned why taking over the bodies had gone so smoothly, but put the mystery aside until he could investigate it later.
• Ji Nanzhi proposed building divine sparks from their main souls, treating the other souls as believers, and using the Scarlet Heart Art to distribute their emotional burdens.
• Ji Nanzhi argued that his hatred could guide him toward becoming a God of Law, while Ge Baoqi joked that Old Ox could become Yue Lao and he could become the God of Progress.
• Li Xingkong considered Ji Nanzhi’s proposal promising.

Li Xingkong built a first-generation divinity for Ge Baoqi, enabling the Scarlet Heart Art to connect it to souls and influence them as believers. After examining the Envy Demon's memories, he learned that the Holy Church of Truth was not really a civilization but a single being whose members were all parts of Him.

• Li Xingkong agreed to help create a Faith God System and chose Ge Baoqi as a test subject.
• Li Xingkong forced a diamond-like divinity into Ge Baoqi and used the Scarlet Heart Art to activate it.
• Li Xingkong connected the divinity to the Envy Demon's soul and adjusted it to transmit information that could brainwash other souls.
• Li Xingkong sent the Envy Demon's memories to the Hexagram for analysis and learned that the Holy Church of Truth was a single being whose members were parts of Him.

Li Xingkong explained that Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox had become part of a being that spread itself through emotional pathways, then assigned them the identities of the Three Heavenly Demons and told them to restore the star system. He inspected the Three Demons’ research base near Venus, found their work behind the Axiom Arc’s, and kept their equipment so he could begin his own research.

• Li Xingkong explained that people who inherited the Three Demons’ emotional pathways became part of the being behind the Holy Church of Truth.
• Li Xingkong gave Divine Sense fragments to Old Ox and Ji Nanzhi, warned the group that their faith-god paths might cause problems in the Kingdom of Fixed Light, and ordered them to restore the star system and lift the blockade.
• Li Xingkong made Ji Nanzhi, Ge Baoqi, and Old Ox members of his research team and assigned them the identities of the Three Heavenly Demons.
• Li Xingkong went to the Three Demons’ research base in a space capsule near Venus and broke through its security system.
• Li Xingkong examined the laboratory and its records, concluded that the Three Demons’ research lagged behind the Axiom Arc’s, and decided to use their equipment for his own research.