Recaps

Li Xingkong learned that becoming an Immortal involved more than he understood, then returned to the Primordial Universe to find the Solar System transformed into a crowded refuge. He discovered that the three major powers were openly at war, while the Divine Land expanded amid the conflict.

• Yuanjun and Wan Chongshan told Li Xingkong that Immortals became conceptual entities and that their existence was unlike what he imagined, but they withheld further details.
• Li Xingkong left Yuanjun’s hall with the system and returned through Earth Star, which had become a protected safe zone.
• Li Xingkong saw that the Solar System was packed with aliens, cultivators, and organizations fleeing a cosmic war.
• Li Xingkong connected to the server bound to his Name-Calling Rebirth Technique and learned that the three major powers were fighting openly, drawing small civilizations into the conflict.
• Li Xingkong learned that the Divine Land had expanded several times over and become a mainstay of the Kingdom of Fixed Light, while remaining peaceful within its borders.

Li Xingkong caught up on the Divine Land’s affairs and began settling old karmic ties, first repaying minor debts on Earth Star. He then traveled to visit the Snail People and found their territory devastated by a war between the Snail People and civilizations they had enslaved.

• The Divine Land used its intelligence network and the True God Sect to deter civilizations that threatened it, while its development continued without Li Xingkong’s protection.
• Li Xingkong searched the universe for descendants of people tied to his past and repaid minor karmic debts by sending them money.
• After finishing the repayments, Li Xingkong decided to visit the Snail People, an alien civilization he had encountered before.
• Li Xingkong traveled to the Snail People’s former territory and found its star systems in ruins and apparently abandoned.
• Li Xingkong discovered a large-scale war between the orthodox Snail People and the laborer civilizations they had long enslaved.

Li Xingkong found that former children he had saved were leading a rebellion against the Snail People, and accepted the liberated territories they offered to settle their debt. He left them to seek cultivation guidance from Divine Land and continued hunting the Snail People's leaders, discovering that their consciousnesses had moved into Hexagram Servers.

• Li Xingkong noticed cultivators among the rebels and saw them defeat the Snail People's forces.
• He recognized the rebel leaders as children he had saved more than ten thousand years earlier.
• The rebels offered Li Xingkong the liberated territories outside their reclaimed homelands, and he accepted to settle the debt between them.
• Li Xingkong stayed several days, directed the rebels to seek help from Divine Land, then left the camp.
• He searched for the Snail People's consciousnesses hidden in Intelligent Brains and discovered most had transferred themselves into Hexagram Servers.

Li Xingkong found a way to speed up settling his remaining karma by creating thousands of clones to handle tasks across the universe. He then visited the Dawn Mercenary Corps, where Shutra and Xingci’s lively daughter Xingxi welcomed him.

• Li Xingkong shut down and physically destroyed the Intelligent Brains connected to the Hexagram Server.
• Li Xingkong realized he could control multiple bodies and used the Hexagram Servers to create tens of thousands of clones.
• Li Xingkong assigned the clones tasks from his records while he headed to visit Albert and the Dawn Mercenary Corps.
• Shutra and Xingxi came out to meet Li Xingkong near the mercenary corps.
• Li Xingkong recognized Xingci’s daughter, patted her head despite her protest, and agreed to tour the corps.

Li Xingkong toured Dawn’s trading planet and space dock with Shutra, learning why Xingxi had spent thousands of years in hibernation. At the dock, he gave Shutra a rune containing warship designs and construction knowledge from the Primordial Universe, leaving Dawn with a valuable gift.

• Shutra told Li Xingkong that Xingxi had been kept in hibernation for thousands of years while the mercenary group dealt with war and internal disagreements.
• Li Xingkong reassured Shutra that the war would end soon, and she decided they could stop worrying about Xingxi’s future.
• Shutra took Li Xingkong around the mercenary group’s trading planet, where he noticed many weapons merchants and several hundred cultivators from the Divine Land.
• Shutra showed Li Xingkong Dawn’s enormous core space dock, where he sensed that its engineers were combining magic power with technology.
• Li Xingkong formed a Divine Sense rune and gave it to Shutra, filling it with warship blueprints and construction knowledge from the Primordial Universe.

Li Xingkong gave Shutra advanced spacecraft technology for Dawn before Xiao Chongshan summoned him to a devastated star system. There, he confirmed his acquaintance with Fenye and learned Xiao Chongshan had spared him to settle a piece of karma between them.

• Li Xingkong gave Shutra valuable spacecraft designs and components, which she accepted as a gift for Dawn.
• Shutra explained that Albert remained at the Axiom Arc while the Kingdom of Fixed Light and the Kilometer Arc were at war.
• Li Xingkong received Xiao Chongshan's message to come quickly and used his Nascent Soul to reach her in a ruined star system.
• Li Xingkong recognized Fenye, and Xiao Chongshan released the battered Grand Sage after Li Xingkong pleaded for him.
• Xiao Chongshan said she had summoned Li Xingkong to settle their karma and had let Fenye go as a favor to him.

Xiao Chongshan used her grievance calculator to punish two Dao Integration cultivators, then handed them over to Huan, who planned to make them her employees. Xiao Chongshan prepared to leave the universe to fulfill her contract with Huan and ascend to immortality, while her unresolved karma with Li Xingkong remained between them.

• Xiao Chongshan used her grievance calculator to sentence the ruler of the Kingdom of Fixed Light to 8,000 years of imprisonment and the Old Charlatan to 12,000 years, then sealed them in small spaces.
• Huan appeared and told Xiao Chongshan she would look after the two prisoners, explaining that Dao Integration cultivators were useful beasts of burden for the universe.
• Huan accepted the prisoners as future employees and left with them in the form of two glass marbles.
• Li Xingkong secretly added dozens of online courses for Huan through the Jade Void Palace.
• Xiao Chongshan said she would go beyond the universe to fulfill her contract with Huan and then ascend to immortality, but declined Li Xingkong's offer to help because their karma was still tangled.

After settling most of his karma, Li Xingkong returned to his small world and began secluded cultivation to transform himself into a Human Immortal. With no detailed instructions for the transformation, he relied on the Immortal Ascension Register and his own understanding, preparing for a long effort.

• Li Xingkong checked the system's orbs of light, confirmed that his karma was essentially settled, and returned to his small world.
• Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to check that Guapilong was safe in seclusion, then entered his own seclusion chamber.
• Li Xingkong considered how becoming a Human Immortal required transforming from an energy-based Nascent Soul into a conceptual existence.
• Li Xingkong followed the Immortal Ascension Register, shut off his five senses, and began seeking a way to forget the self and perceive the conceptual.
• Li Xingkong's Magic Power and Divine Sense began circulating according to his emerging idea as he settled in for prolonged cultivation.

Li Xingkong deduced countless cultivation paths and discovered how to transform himself into a concept, becoming a Human Immortal. He began testing how his conceptual form worked and realized that anyone discussing or recalling him could cause him to appear.

• Li Xingkong concluded that immortality required finding a personal path and used his Nascent Soul understanding to simulate countless cultivation methods.
• After nearly 2,000 years of deductions and several hundred more years of contemplation, Li Xingkong understood conceptualization.
• Li Xingkong began turning his body into nothingness, starting with his foot, which he transformed into a concept.
• Li Xingkong explained that, as a Human Immortal, he could appear wherever someone discussed or indirectly invoked him.
• Li Xingkong recognized that truly forgetting an Immortal would require destroying everything connected to that Immortal, potentially across vast parts of the Primordial World.

Li Xingkong conceptualized his eyes to observe the world and discovered that his first transformed foot was badly misshapen. After adjusting his vision, he sought out Yuanjun to study a True Immortal’s form, and she agreed to show him.

• Li Xingkong chose to conceptualize his eyes so he could observe his transformation from an Immortal’s perspective.
• His newly transformed eyes showed the world as countless scenes, and he spent hundreds of years learning to control them.
• Li Xingkong inspected his conceptualized foot and saw that it was crooked and badly formed.
• He adjusted both eyes by comparing how they perceived different places and rules of the world.
• Li Xingkong sent his eyes to the Hall of Seeking the Dao, where Yuanjun pulled them inside and Wan Chongshan handled one like a bead.
• Yuanjun agreed to let Li Xingkong see the form of a True Immortal.

Li Xingkong completed the conceptual transformation of his body and then transformed his Divine Sense, gaining sight of the world’s underlying conceptual structure and the Karmic Threads connecting him to others. He discovered that his strongest Immortal bonds led to the Hall of Seeking the Dao and the Jade Void Palace.

• Primordial Lady Seeking the Dao showed Li Xingkong an Immortal’s formless true appearance and advised him to trust himself as he continued toward immortality.
• Li Xingkong finished conceptualizing his body, becoming a Half-Immortal in material terms, and decided to transform his Divine Sense next.
• Li Xingkong gradually transformed his vast Divine Sense into a conceptual state, revealing an abstract framework beneath the ordinary world.
• Li Xingkong saw his Karmic Threads and learned that gray threads marked unsettled karma, white threads marked settled karma, and silver threads connected Immortals.
• Li Xingkong saw that his three thickest Karmic Threads were silver and led to the Hall of Seeking the Dao and the Jade Void Palace.

Li Xingkong completed his transformation into a Human Immortal by taking his Immortal Seat, and his newly awakened power reached across the world and beyond. After returning to material form, he found the restraint he had felt as an Immortal had vanished, then went with the system to meet Yuanjun.

• Li Xingkong’s processing power, memories, and Magic Power transformed, allowing him to perceive his Immortal Seat and understand the path to becoming a Human Immortal.
• Li Xingkong sat on the Immortal Seat, completing his ascension as his silver aura spread along the lines of cause and effect.
• Primordial Lady Seeking the Dao and Wan Chongshan recognized Li Xingkong’s success, while Tang Cheng and other cultivators across the Divine Land saw his image and were inspired to cultivate.
• Li Xingkong sensed a strange restraint while remaining in his Immortal state, but it vanished when he returned to material form; the system congratulated him on his achievement.
• Yuanjun summoned Li Xingkong to the Hall of Seeking the Dao, where she praised him for becoming a Human Immortal.

After becoming a Human Immortal, Li Xingkong learned from Yuanjun that Dao Immortals could restrict others’ actions and demand a share of their cultivation. Yuanjun explained that disciples of the Jade Void Palace escaped these limits through the Third Master’s Dao of interception, though Li Xingkong realized Human Immortals still ranked below the other paths to immortality.

• Li Xingkong described becoming a Human Immortal as gaining great strength and resilience while feeling trapped by unseen constraints.
• Yuanjun explained that Dao Immortals controlled their respective Daos and could restrict other Immortals’ actions in exchange for a share of their cultivation.
• Li Xingkong worried that unaffiliated Immortals would be harvested, but Yuanjun assured him that Jade Void Palace disciples did not need outside permission.
• Yuanjun revealed that Tongtian Jiaozhu’s Dao of interception let Jade Void disciples use the myriad Great Daos without restriction.
• Yuanjun said Li Xingkong could skip the step of sharing a Dao because he was a Human Immortal, and Li Xingkong concluded that Human Immortals were inferior to the other two paths.

Li Xingkong rejected Yuanjun’s offer to manage the Immortal Ascension Register and accepted access to the accumulated research on Human Immortals, taking on the work of advancing that path himself. As he and the system began exploring the materials, he learned that Yuanjun was a Dao Immortal who controlled the pursuit of knowledge.

• Li Xingkong told Yuanjun he still wanted to discover how far the Human Immortal path could go and whether another heaven lay beyond the Primordial World.
• Yuanjun linked the system to the Human Immortal research materials, giving Li Xingkong permission to consult them and join earlier researchers in developing the path.
• Li Xingkong declined an immortal ascension banquet and returned to his little world with the system to study the materials.
• The system admitted it had been nervous in Yuanjun’s presence, then eagerly began browsing the newly accessible knowledge.
• Li Xingkong asked what path Yuanjun had taken, and the system explained that she controlled the pursuit of knowledge, a great Dao.

Li Xingkong studied Human Immortal research and learned how their attempts to advance their cultivation differed from the paths of Dao and Spirit Immortals. He discovered that his master, Primordial Lady Seeking the Dao, had led a large-scale study comparing all three paths.

• The system explained that Dao Immortals could be powerful but that their Daos were kept in check by other Immortals.
• Li Xingkong absorbed a vast collection of writings on Human Immortals and learned that a Jade Void fanatic had once left the palace because it did not match his imagined ideal.
• Li Xingkong had the system filter the writings for cultivation research and learned that many Human Immortals had explored ways to control aspects of their own existence.
• Li Xingkong found his master's treatise comparing Human Immortals with Dao and Spirit Immortals and saw that more than a hundred Immortals had contributed to its detailed research.

Li Xingkong weighed the Human Immortal path against the option of fusing with a great Dao to become a Dao Immortal. He chose to pursue a new approach: assembling a complete Immortal by using his Human Immortal cultivation as a foundation and concepts from various great Daos as components.

• Li Xingkong read Yuanjun's analysis, which described how Human Immortals lacked the connection to a great Dao that gave Dao Immortals room to grow.
• The system suggested that Li Xingkong could become a Human Immortal first, then fuse with a great Dao and follow the Dao Immortal path.
• Li Xingkong judged that route might not be as simple as it seemed and decided to try a new idea before treating it as a fallback.
• Li Xingkong compared his cultivation to a desktop motherboard and proposed assembling a complete Immortal from concepts drawn from various great Daos.

Li Xingkong developed his idea for a Human Immortal cultivation path based on loading Great Daos as modules, and learned how other factions resisted Dao Immortals’ control. He identified three major obstacles and planned to refine the idea before seeking Yuanjun’s guidance.

• Li Xingkong decided his first step was to make himself a sturdier motherboard that could escape the Dao Immortals’ control without relying on the Jade Void Palace’s Interception Dao.
• The system searched its records and told Li Xingkong that the Demon Clan used the Dao of Delay, the Witch Clan used the Dao of Defense, and other factions relied on methods such as Deception and Concealment.
• Li Xingkong realized that resisting the Dao Immortals’ control might be possible and considered ways to intercept, resist, or deceive them.
• Li Xingkong identified three problems: escaping the Dao Immortals’ control, obtaining Great Dao modules, and enduring conflicts between multiple Daos.
• Li Xingkong wrote down his ideas and decided to refine them before asking Yuanjun for guidance and help.

Li Xingkong and the system finalized a preliminary cultivation plan, then began preparing to advance the system into an immortal artifact. As Li Xingkong studied the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art, the system searched for concepts that could resist a Dao Immortal’s control and found piracy and self as two unclaimed possibilities.

• Li Xingkong and the system spent more than three months drafting a cultivation plan and decided to put the system’s advancement on the agenda.
• The system explained that Li Xingkong would refine it into his conceptualized body, then gave him the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art.
• Li Xingkong spent nearly half a month receiving the art and had the Hexagram analyze and cultivate it so he could later advance the system.
• Li Xingkong asked the system to find concepts that could resist a Dao Immortal’s control, and it reported that disguise was already claimed.
• The system identified piracy and self as unclaimed concepts, noting that piracy was taboo while self could belong to every immortal.

Li Xingkong chose to cultivate the Dao of the self so he could resist interference from other Dao Immortals, then used his leisure to upgrade an old divine ability. He demonstrated his altered Five Elements Divine Light by capturing a towering wonder from his small world, along with its inhabitants, as a model.

• Li Xingkong recalled rejecting piracy as too similar to copying and decided the Dao of the self was the safer path to cultivate.
• With the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art still being deduced, Li Xingkong passed the time by revisiting and upgrading his old divine abilities.
• Li Xingkong modified the Five Elements Divine Light to resemble the Five-Color Divine Light and sensed it requesting approval from the Dao Immortal governing the five elements.
• After the Jade Void Palace approved the request, Li Xingkong used the Divine Light to remove a towering wonder from his small world and hold it as a model with its inhabitants still inside.

Li Xingkong mastered the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art and used it to forge the system into an Immortal artifact. The system awoke in a new body modeled after the appearance it had jokingly described and angrily confronted Li Xingkong.

• Li Xingkong upgraded the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique into the great divine ability Manipulation of Creation and used it to create a universe from a leaf.
• After finishing the divine ability, Li Xingkong completed his deduction of the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art and called the system over to forge it into an Immortal artifact.
• The system protested, but Li Xingkong seized it and broke its body down into nothingness before reshaping it.
• The system awoke in a new body resembling the multicolored sprite it had described, and it cursed Li Xingkong after seeing its reflection.

Li Xingkong approved his upgraded system’s request to share his immense computing power, then entered seclusion to cultivate the Dao of Self. After a century, he had glimpsed how Immortals contended over portions of Daos and how the Dao of Self could redirect information and authorize itself.

• Li Xingkong’s upgraded system discovered its new shared-computing function, and Li Xingkong approved its repeated requests to use his computing power.
• The system urged Li Xingkong to enter seclusion so it could read Human Immortal texts, and Li Xingkong agreed and went to his seclusion chamber.
• After ten years of cultivation, Li Xingkong touched the edge of the Dao of Self and glimpsed the conceptual self.
• After a hundred years, Li Xingkong saw how information connected Immortals and learned that multiple Immortals could occupy different portions of the same Dao.
• Li Xingkong observed how Tongtian Jiaozhu used the Interception Dao to sever interaction information and imitate approval, then understood that the Dao of Self could redirect outward information inward and use one’s own will as authorization.

After mastering the basics of the Dao of Self, Li Xingkong sought Yuanjun’s advice on finding concepts for his cultivation path. Yuanjun revealed that the Eternal Battlefield held many concepts but was extremely dangerous, and Li Xingkong chose to go there.

• Li Xingkong emerged from 2,000 years of seclusion with the basics of the Dao of Self, which let him resist other Dao Immortals’ control and use Dao arts freely outside the Jade Void Palace.
• Li Xingkong and the system decided to ask Yuanjun how to obtain different concepts for his cultivation method.
• Li Xingkong explained his plan and showed Yuanjun his progress, and she guessed that he needed help finding concepts.
• Yuanjun suggested cultivating concepts alone, negotiating with fellow senior brothers, or searching the Eternal Battlefield, where conflicts across time and races were confined.
• Li Xingkong chose to go to the dangerous Eternal Battlefield to collect concepts.

Yuanjun explained that the Eternal Battlefield gathered conflicts from across the Primordial World’s history into the Era of Chaos, and Li Xingkong prepared to enter it. He surveyed the Jade Void Palace marketplaces to learn common combat practices, then decided he did not need a detection artifact because his system could scan for danger.

• Yuanjun told Li Xingkong that the entire Primordial World became the Eternal Battlefield during the Era of Chaos, where cultivators at or above the Nascent Soul stage fought across time.
• Yuanjun advised Li Xingkong to follow the river of time back with the Moonlight Record and reminded him that Jade Void members must not attack one another.
• Li Xingkong left Yuanjun and visited the Jade Void Palace marketplaces to learn about combat methods and prepare for the battlefield.
• Li Xingkong observed that Nascent Soul cultivators mainly traded encrypted blueprints for goods, cultivation pills, and defensive treasures that detected changes in surrounding rules.
• The system told Li Xingkong it could detect danger, so he decided he did not need to buy a detection artifact.

Li Xingkong explored the Immortals’ marketplace, learning how immortal qi was traded and how Immortals found work and bought combat treasures. He left the Great Unity of Heaven and Earth without buying anything, but gained a clearer understanding of the marketplace’s goods.

• Li Xingkong visited the All-Treasure Pavilion and learned that Immortals deposited and withdrew standardized immortal qi tokens there.
• An attendant gave Li Xingkong the Qi Casting Art, which explained how to condense immortal qi into trade tokens.
• Li Xingkong explored the Star-Picking Tower and found world wills recruiting Immortals for jobs, but saw little work suited to him.
• Li Xingkong entered Great Unity of Heaven and Earth and examined the concepts behind its displayed Immortal tools.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the displayed treasures were limited-use consumables, unlike his system, a true life-bound Immortal artifact.

Li Xingkong learned that battles between Immortals depended on analyzing opponents, then used the Moonlight Record to travel back to the Chaotic Epoch. He arrived at a blood-red river on the battlefield and joined Jade Void Palace disciples fleeing as the Nether River began to awaken.

• Li Xingkong examined the market’s immortal artifacts and concluded that foresight and analysis were central to battles between Immortals.
• Li Xingkong returned to his small world, checked on Guapi, and absorbed Laojun’s sword into his body before activating the Moonlight Record.
• Li Xingkong reversed time to the Chaotic Epoch and arrived above a blood-red sea.
• Jade Void Palace disciples warned Li Xingkong that the Nether River was about to awaken, and he followed them toward safety.
• A disciple explained that the Nether River was the Demon Clan front line and devoured living beings when enough cultivators fell into it; Li Xingkong asked whether anyone could stop it.