Recaps

Li Xingkong reconsidered whether changing Guapilong’s fate would merely obstruct Wan Chongshan’s Dao, but decided he needed to try in order to settle his obsession. He traveled to the moment the Deep River Dragon Clan’s calamity began and arrived beside the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds, where Guapilong was in danger.

• Li Xingkong realized that changing Guapilong’s past might create another Thousand Mountains Body for Wan Chongshan, frustrating her Dao.
• Li Xingkong watched his past self begin cultivating again and, encouraged by the system, resolved to try changing the past.
• Li Xingkong used the Moonlight Record to jump to the time of the Deep River Dragon Clan’s calamity.
• Li Xingkong confirmed that the clan’s home planet had fallen and that only a few survivors remained, with attacks about to reach Guapilong.
• Li Xingkong used his Nascent Soul to bypass distance and the World Wall, arriving beside the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds.

Li Xingkong rescued Guapilong from the endangered Deep River Dragon Clan by taking him from the past to the future. They arrived on Earth Star, where Li Xingkong planned to keep Guapilong safe in his small world.

• Li Xingkong sensed aliens plotting against the Heavenly Palace Above the Clouds and destroyed them with his Divine Sense.
• Li Xingkong reunited with Guapilong and decided to bring him to the future rather than remain in the past.
• Guapilong agreed to leave but vowed to return and avenge his clansmen once he grew stronger.
• Li Xingkong used the Moonlight Record to travel through time with Guapilong, drawing the attention of Axiom Arc scholars.
• Li Xingkong brought Guapilong to Earth Star and planned to settle him in the Bodhi Small World.

Li Xingkong reunited with Guapilong, learned how the Divine Land and his old friends had prospered, and linked the Homecoming Knot to Earth Star. As he prepared to return to the Primordial World with Guapilong, Huan summoned him to extradite a newly emerged Nascent Soul cultivator he knew.

• Li Xingkong connected the Homecoming Knot to the universe and brought Guapilong to a planet where they could rest and talk.
• Guapilong told Li Xingkong about his years cultivating while waiting for him, and Li Xingkong listened to news of the Divine Land and his old friends.
• Li Xingkong linked the Homecoming Knot to Earth Star, and Huan raised the Solar System's rule-based defenses to their highest priority.
• As Li Xingkong prepared to take Guapilong back to the Primordial World, Huan summoned him for an extradition job.
• Huan told Li Xingkong that a second Nascent Soul cultivator had appeared and that the person had traces of Li Xingkong in their cultivation.

Li Xingkong met Xiao Chongshan, his old friend Guapilong’s present self, outside the universe and agreed to take her to the Primordial World. They set aside their awkward past and reunited on Earth Star, where Li Xingkong invited the system and Guapi out for a feast.

• Huan brought Xiao Chongshan to meet Li Xingkong, who recognized her as Wan Chongshan’s present self.
• Xiao Chongshan explained that she had taken human form and chosen a new name, while she and Li Xingkong awkwardly acknowledged their past.
• Huan told them that Li Xingkong could guide Xiao Chongshan to the Primordial World, and then left them to talk.
• Li Xingkong apologized for the hardships Xiao Chongshan had faced, but she said she had accepted her past and they agreed to meet for a drink.
• Li Xingkong returned to Earth Star, found the system teasing Guapi, and invited them both out for a feast.

Li Xingkong brought Guapilong to the Divine Land Restaurant to meet Xiao Chongshan, where their reunion stirred old memories and confusion. After learning Guapilong was her past self from a parallel world, Xiao Chongshan accepted the revelation and invited Li Xingkong to share tea.

• Li Xingkong took Guapilong and the system to the Divine Land Restaurant, where he and Guapilong had first met.
• Li Xingkong and Guapilong reminisced about their first meeting while they waited for Xiao Chongshan.
• Xiao Chongshan arrived, mistook Guapilong for a fake substitute, and confronted Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong transmitted information about time travel, and Xiao Chongshan examined Guapilong before realizing he was her past self from a parallel world.
• Xiao Chongshan reflected on her feelings about Li Xingkong and the past, then invited him to have tea.

Li Xingkong, Xiao Chongshan, and Guapilong discussed the Primordial World and the system before preparing to go there together. Xiao Chongshan teased and disciplined Guapilong, while Li Xingkong reassured her that reaching the Primordial World would be easy for them.

• Xiao Chongshan and Li Xingkong reflected on how universes seemed destined to merge into the Primordial World, and the system called out their humblebragging.
• Xiao Chongshan noticed Li Xingkong's system, and Guapilong defended Li Xingkong when Xiao Chongshan questioned his talent.
• Xiao Chongshan grabbed Guapilong and criticized his cultivation, prompting Li Xingkong to intervene after remembering how Wan Chongshan had treated him.
• Guapilong recognized Xiao Chongshan as Ajieta, though he complained that her personality had worsened; far away, Ajieta sneezed while crossing the universe.
• Li Xingkong explained that they could reach the Primordial World without crossing the Cosmic Sea themselves, and Xiao Chongshan agreed to help him once they arrived.

Li Xingkong and Xiao Chongshan reminisced about her revenge against the civilizations that targeted the Deep River Dragon Clan and the Dao Integration Realm experts who pursued her. They agreed to leave for the Primordial World at once, while the shopkeeper discovered that Li Xingkong had left behind a familiar treasure.

• Li Xingkong asked Xiao Chongshan whether she had anything to prepare before they traveled to the Primordial World, and she said she still had a grudge against the Dao Integration Realm experts.
• Xiao Chongshan explained that her revenge had helped ignite a war between the Kingdom of Fixed Light and the Kilometer Arc, after which the Dao Integration Realm experts pursued her as a scapegoat.
• Li Xingkong told Xiao Chongshan that the Dao Integration Realm experts had become Huan's employees, and Xiao Chongshan vowed to deal with them after she grew stronger.
• Li Xingkong and Xiao Chongshan ended their reunion meal and set off for the Primordial World, with Li Xingkong leaving a gift at the shop.
• The young shopkeeper found the gift, and the older man recognized it as a treasure made by Lord Sword Immortal and told him to keep it.

Li Xingkong brought Xiao Chongshan and Guapilong into the Primordial World, where Guapilong’s physical body began transforming to match its rules. After settling them in his small world, Li Xingkong asked the system for Nascent Soul cultivation methods and learned how they nurtured the Nascent Soul toward immortality.

• Li Xingkong used the Homecoming Knot to bring Xiao Chongshan and Guapilong from Earth Star into his Bodhi Small World, then took them into the Primordial World.
• Guapilong’s physical body rapidly transformed under the Primordial World’s rules, and Li Xingkong regulated the process with his Divine Sense and magic power.
• Li Xingkong explained that Guapilong would be stronger but could not return to the Primordial Universe until he cultivated a Nascent Soul.
• Li Xingkong returned with Xiao Chongshan and Guapilong to his small world so they could settle in and consolidate their cultivation.
• Li Xingkong asked the system for Nascent Soul methods, and it described the Golden Body Method and Three Thousand Great Dreams as ways to nurture the Nascent Soul toward immortality.

The system explained that Li Xingkong’s Nascent Soul was not fully formed until it assimilated his cultivated powers into a Dharma Aspect, whose features revealed a cultivator’s abilities. Li Xingkong considered which techniques to include and learned that Daoist Duobao had the most complex Dharma Aspect, but the system challenged his assumption that complexity meant greater power.

• Li Xingkong asked why his Nascent Soul still needed nurturing, and the system explained that a mature Nascent Soul bound a cultivator’s powers to their soul through a Dharma Aspect.
• The system told Li Xingkong that a Dharma Aspect’s features represented the spells and divine abilities its owner had mastered, and that concealing it offered little protection from cultivators who could investigate the past.
• Li Xingkong decided to include his fundamental cultivation techniques, frequently used divine abilities, Ten Thousand Swords Art, and Thick Earth City Fortification Technique in his Dharma Aspect.
• Li Xingkong asked whose Dharma Aspect was most outlandish, and the system named Daoist Duobao, whose vast Dharma Aspect incorporated every treasure he possessed.
• Li Xingkong asked whether the great masters’ Dharma Aspects were more complex, and the system questioned whether a more complex Dharma Aspect was necessarily more powerful.

Li Xingkong learned that Nascent Soul cultivation centered on constructing a Dharma Aspect and chose Carving a Boat to Seek a Sword as his method. After the system gave Three Thousand Great Dreams to Xiao Chongshan and a Golden Core divine ability to Guapilong, Li Xingkong proposed that they enter seclusion before registering at the Jade Void Palace.

• The system explained to Li Xingkong that Nascent Soul cultivation involved nurturing the Nascent Soul and transferring mastered skills into a Dharma Aspect.
• Li Xingkong compared Three Thousand Great Dreams with Carving a Boat to Seek a Sword and chose the latter because its theories complemented his Moonlight Record.
• The system gave Three Thousand Great Dreams to Xiao Chongshan and a random Golden Core divine ability to Guapilong.
• Li Xingkong and the others absorbed their methods over half a day, and Guapilong received Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers.
• Li Xingkong suggested they enter seclusion, while the system objected that they should register at the Jade Void Palace first.

Li Xingkong mastered the Moonlight Record after 2,000 years of study, then used Carving a Boat to Seek a Sword to reshape the Ingestion Spell into a dharma form. The transformation changed his digestive system and left him with a metallic stomach, a grinding rune, and four fangs.

• Li Xingkong spent 2,000 years studying the Moonlight Record until he mastered its time-jumping principles.
• Li Xingkong revisited Carving a Boat to Seek a Sword and understood the method's time-related steps, leaving dharma-form transformation as his remaining subject.
• Li Xingkong chose the Ingestion Spell for his first dharma-form experiment and extracted its rules into a glowing ball of light.
• Li Xingkong swallowed the ball of light to fuse the spell with his body.
• Li Xingkong's digestive system transformed, his stomach turned metallic and expanded around a grinding rune, and four fangs emerged from his mouth.

After forming his Dharma Aspect, Li Xingkong discovered that it let him carry his abilities into bodies connected to his name. He tested this by possessing an experimental embryo in the Primordial Universe, then returned to seclusion with a clearer understanding of Immortality as existence transformed into a concept.

• Li Xingkong created a clone and found that it inherited his Ingestion Spell, then realized his abilities could persist across clones, reincarnations, and seized bodies.
• Li Xingkong descended into an experimental embryo in the Primordial Universe, whose connection to his name let him take control of it.
• The embryo rapidly grew into an adult as the Ingestion Spell consumed its nutrient fluid, and Li Xingkong strengthened the body by eating laboratory materials.
• Soldiers entered to capture and sedate Li Xingkong, but he sent their anesthetic ink back at them and put them to sleep.
• Li Xingkong ate more of the laboratory, then destroyed the temporary body and the facility before returning to his seclusion.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the Dharma Aspect governed the things representing him in a world and that becoming an Immortal meant transforming into a concept independent of matter and energy.

Li Xingkong completed his dharma form by incorporating his cultivation methods, spells, and divine abilities, spending nearly twenty thousand years in a time loop. He returned to the day his Moonlight Record advanced, where the system eagerly asked to see his new form.

• Li Xingkong transformed his Qi Refining methods into manifestations of his dharma form, including a sun, lunar phases, a ribbon, and a black lotus.
• He incorporated his Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, and nascent soul methods, gaining an Eight Trigrams lotus pedestal, golden armor, rosy clouds, and draconic features.
• Li Xingkong dismissed his imposing dragonlike dharma form and estimated that integrating his foundational methods had taken nearly ten thousand years.
• After nearly another ten thousand years, Li Xingkong finished integrating his spells and divine abilities and returned to the day his Moonlight Record advanced.
• Li Xingkong summoned the system, whose surprise at his progress turned to excitement as it asked to see his dharma form.

Li Xingkong revealed his newly cultivated Dharma Aspect to the system above the Endless Sea, demonstrating its immense size and power. After the system finished examining and recording it, he dismissed the aspect and reflected on how far its strength surpassed his Nascent Soul stage power.

• Li Xingkong and the system left the small world and traveled above the Endless Sea so his Dharma Aspect would not disturb Xiao Chongshan and Guapi.
• Li Xingkong revealed his Dharma Aspect, filling the sky with radiant clouds and golden lotuses as his enormous form appeared.
• The system was forced back by the Dharma Aspect's presence, then watched Li Xingkong split the sea with a punch.
• The system inspected and scanned Li Xingkong's Dharma Aspect, noting its size and toughness.
• Li Xingkong dismissed the Dharma Aspect and felt a sense of loss as he compared its power with his Nascent Soul strength.

After forming his Dharma Aspect, Li Xingkong discovered he could control anything connected to him and asked the system how to become an Immortal. The system explained that each Immortal uniquely occupies a path, so later cultivators who enter an overlapping path are assimilated, and Li Xingkong learned that creating a new path was possible but difficult to develop.

• Li Xingkong used his Dharma Aspect to alter the system’s words and found he could control topics connected to himself.
• Li Xingkong asked the system about becoming an Immortal, and the system explained that Immortals were unique and that overlapping paths led to later cultivators being assimilated.
• The system told Li Xingkong that time travel could not change who became an Immortal first and that every new Immortal reduced the number of available paths.
• Li Xingkong proposed creating a new concept as the basis for his own path to immortality.
• The system said new concepts could work but often lacked the power to grow, and cited the Jade Void Palace’s grand masters as examples of cultivators who had established new paths.

Li Xingkong learned how Dao Immortals, Spirit Immortals, and Human Immortals differ as he considered which path could lead him to immortality. The system showed him that powerful Immortals had already claimed nearly every aspect of space, leaving him without an obvious route forward.

• The system explained the three types of Immortals and their foundations, limits, and relative power.
• Li Xingkong considered entering the Dao through space, but doubted he could find an unclaimed concept or spiritual essence.
• The system listed Immortals who governed space, including Pangu, the Four Symbols, Doumu Yuanjun, Ancestor Minghe, Yuqiang, and the Lord of Trayastrimsa Heaven.
• Li Xingkong asked about spatial jumping, portals, and Sumeru-in-a-mustard-seed, and the system named Immortals who already governed each technique.

Li Xingkong used the Jade Void Palace’s Immortal Ascension Register to search for a unique path to immortality, but after ten years of finding only duplicates, he gave up on the search and began considering creating a new species instead.

• Li Xingkong learned that the system could check his proposed Immortal paths against registered paths in the Immortal Ascension Register, which Primordial Lady Seeking the Dao had made and allowed him to use without limits.
• Li Xingkong began testing possible Dao Immortal paths, but every proposal the system checked was a duplicate.
• After nearly ten years of fruitless searching, Li Xingkong decided to pursue his second choice, becoming a Spirit Immortal.
• The system warned that checking Spirit Immortal paths could take another ten or twenty years, so Li Xingkong agreed to try creating a new species.
• Li Xingkong generated a dopey rabbit and realized how difficult it was to create a species that could exist in the world.

Li Xingkong learned that becoming an Immortal depended on discovering concepts, while powerful factions concealed the path from outsiders. After Yuanjun offered him three routes to ascension, he chose to pursue the Human Immortal path and help advance its research.

• The system explained that Spirit Immortals faced restrictions from the Immortals governing broader categories, while most cultivators never progressed beyond Nascent Soul.
• Li Xingkong learned that the Jade Void Palace and other factions misled outsiders about Dharma Aspects and kept the path to immortality within their own ranks.
• The system told Li Xingkong that Human Immortals were difficult to attain but remained poorly explored, with an unknown potential ceiling.
• Yuanjun offered Li Xingkong the Immortal Ascension Register, the system, or the Human Immortal path as spiritual impetus, promising research access for the last option.
• Li Xingkong chose the Human Immortal path, surprising the system.

Li Xingkong rejected Yuanjun’s two routes to becoming an Immortal because he wanted to keep pursuing cultivation, and chose to research the Human Immortal path instead. Before he could learn its method, Xiao Chongshan emerged from seclusion and joined him on a trip to the Jade Void Palace to register and obtain a system.

• Li Xingkong decided that becoming Yuanjun’s steward would limit his cultivation, so he chose to explore the Human Immortal path.
• The system accepted Li Xingkong’s decision and began to explain the method of ascending as a Human Immortal.
• Xiao Chongshan emerged from seclusion, learned about the different kinds of Immortals, and agreed that the Human Immortal path was the one to explore.
• Li Xingkong realized Xiao Chongshan had not registered with the Jade Void Palace, so they traveled there to register her and obtain a system.
• The group entered Xiao Chongshan’s information at the Dipankara Pavilion and returned to the Bodhi Small World, where she received no small world of her own.

Xiao Chongshan used her early education machine and discovered that her opportunity led to becoming a Dao Immortal, while Li Xingkong chose the Human Immortal path and received the method for ascending. The method told him to settle his karmic ties, a requirement he had not expected and did not understand.

• Xiao Chongshan activated her early education machine on her first try and learned that she could become a Dao Immortal.
• Li Xingkong decided to pursue becoming a Human Immortal rather than seek someone else's opportunity.
• The system gave Li Xingkong a booklet called Essentials of Becoming an Immortal.
• Li Xingkong read that becoming an Immortal required finding and understanding an opportunity, as well as settling one's karmic ties.
• Li Xingkong questioned why settling karmic ties was necessary for becoming an Immortal.

Li Xingkong and Xiao Chongshan compared the paths to Human and Dao Immortality, then investigated why both required settling karma. They learned that karma came from connections and unfinished causes and effects, leaving Li Xingkong to face a more involved task than simply cutting ties.

• Li Xingkong asked the system why he had to settle his karma, but the system lacked access to knowledge about Immortals and suggested he consult Yuanjun or Wan Chongshan if he met them.
• Li Xingkong reviewed the Human Immortal method and waited for Xiao Chongshan to absorb the Dao Immortal method so they could compare their paths.
• Xiao Chongshan explained that Dao Immortals had to control concepts connected to their Dao as well as their own concept, making their ascension more complicated than a Human Immortal's.
• Li Xingkong, Xiao Chongshan, and the system studied karma and learned that settling it meant completing unfinished causes and effects rather than severing connections.
• Li Xingkong realized that simply cutting off excess karma, as he had expected, would leave it incomplete instead of resolving it.

Li Xingkong learned that causality had to be settled by repaying kindness or avenging wrongs, and Xiao Chongshan eagerly prepared to return to take revenge on old enemies. After sending her through a portal, Li Xingkong was left wondering how to settle his own less straightforward causal ties.

• Li Xingkong heard Xiao Chongshan celebrate the requirement to settle causality and asked what she was hiding.
• Xiao Chongshan showed Li Xingkong her grudge book, explaining that most of its listed names had been dealt with and that she planned to settle the remaining grudges.
• Xiao Chongshan said she would return to take revenge on three old enemies, while Li Xingkong accepted her decision and warned against letting killing intent cloud her mind.
• Li Xingkong sent Xiao Chongshan through a portal, and the system emerged from hiding after she left.
• Li Xingkong and the system discussed their fear of Xiao Chongshan, then Li Xingkong worried that he had no clear way to determine whether his own causality was settled.

Li Xingkong and the system reviewed his grudges and debts of gratitude to sort out his karma before he became an Immortal. They finished compiling a long list of people and civilizations to repay or visit, leaving Li Xingkong with a round of visits to make.

• Li Xingkong named the Holy Church of Truth's leader and the Snail People's Intelligent Brains as unresolved enemies, while deciding his other old grudges were settled or too distant to count.
• Li Xingkong listed Huan, the Kilometer Arc, the Jade Void Palace, and Wan Chongshan among those who had helped him, and resolved to give back to the Jade Void Palace through future service.
• The system reminded Li Xingkong to account for the people and civilizations he had helped, since their growth also involved his karma.
• Li Xingkong and the system identified Shengxin, Ajieta, Albert, and civilizations affected by his Golden Core Perfection breakthrough as people and groups he should visit or repay.

Li Xingkong visited Yuanjun before leaving on a journey to settle his karma and asked her about cultivation. The chapter ended as he asked how becoming an Immortal related to karma.

• Li Xingkong decided to visit Yuanjun before leaving to settle his karma and asked the system whether she was free.
• Li Xingkong arrived at Yuanjun’s hall and found her drinking with Wan Chongshan after a banquet.
• Wan Chongshan gave Li Xingkong a cup of Cloud-Piercing Wind, whose conceptual drunkenness made him feel like a drifting cloud and breeze.
• Li Xingkong told Yuanjun he had chosen the path of a Human Immortal and was preparing to leave on a journey to settle his karma.
• Li Xingkong asked Yuanjun what connection there was between becoming an Immortal and karma.

Wan Chongshan demonstrated to Li Xingkong how Immortals could manipulate unsettled karmic ties to alter a person’s past and loyalties. She explained why cultivators had to settle their karmic ties before ascending to Immortality, leaving Li Xingkong alarmed by the threat.

• Wan Chongshan showed Li Xingkong his karmic ties and explained that unsettled threads could be manipulated.
• Wan Chongshan altered one thread, causing Li Xingkong to believe she had been the benefactor who helped him before he began cultivating.
• Wan Chongshan released the thread, and Li Xingkong realized she had attacked him through causality.
• Wan Chongshan warned that an enemy could replace all of someone’s karmic ties and make them loyal unto death.
• Wan Chongshan recounted how a causality cultivator had manipulated the Martial Immortal’s ties and explained that karmic ties had to be settled before ascending to Immortality.