Recaps

Li Xingkong created and tested the Dao Calamity Pill, a grenade-like weapon made from controlled Calamity Ash that contaminated Nascent Soul cultivators and cut off their paths of cultivation. After seeing its battlefield potential, the logistics officer asked to try one himself.

• Li Xingkong shaped controlled Calamity Ash into pills and infused them with Dao Evolution, naming them Dao Calamity Pills.
• Li Xingkong followed a logistics officer to Quaking Prison, where prisoners of war volunteered for a grade B experiment.
• Li Xingkong threw a Dao Calamity Pill into the arena, where it released disordered concepts that warped the prisoners' bodies and disrupted their spells.
• The Dao Calamity Pill contaminated the Nascent Soul cultivators, tied them to existing concepts, and prevented them from comprehending new ones.
• The logistics officer praised the pill for potentially turning enemy Nascent Soul troops against their commanders and asked Li Xingkong to let him test one.

After completing Huang Feihu’s task by developing the Dao Calamity Pill, Li Xingkong revealed that he was researching the Human Immortal path. Huang Feihu gave him a token to collect Concept Pearls, and Li Xingkong entered Flying Cloud Pass’s storage minor world to search for them.

• Li Xingkong handed the extra Dao Calamity Pills to the logistics officer and completed Huang Feihu’s task by submitting the refining method.
• Huang Feihu recognized that Li Xingkong was a Human Immortal researching the path and urged him to focus on his studies.
• Huang Feihu gave Li Xingkong a token authorizing him to collect Concept Pearls from the immortal armory and Flying Cloud Pass.
• Soldiers escorted Li Xingkong through security checks into Flying Cloud Pass’s storage minor world.
• Li Xingkong left the soldiers at the entrance and flew into the treasure piles to search for Concept Pearls.

Li Xingkong searched Flying Cloud Pass's treasury for Concept Pearls, duplicating unfamiliar materials along the way, and found three pearls before returning to the laboratory. There, Liu Shinian confronted him about leaving without notice and revealed that her assistant mission still paid her contribution points despite the experiment having ended.

• Li Xingkong explored the treasury's small world, analyzed unfamiliar materials, and used Manipulation of Creation to make copies while searching for Concept Pearls.
• In his fifth year of searching, Li Xingkong found a pearl containing the damage-reduction concept and registered it with the treasury guards.
• Li Xingkong later found pearls containing the seven-emotions and blood-lock concepts, then registered all three and left the treasury.
• Li Xingkong gave the soldiers pills to improve their cultivation before returning to the laboratory with the pearls.
• Liu Shinian scolded Li Xingkong for leaving without telling her and explained that her assistant mission still paid her contribution points because only Huang Feihu could end it.

Li Xingkong refined the concepts of Damage Reduction and HP Lock, then focused on deepening his mastery of both defensive Daos. By the end, his defenses had become exceptionally difficult to breach, and he wondered how he could defeat an opponent with the same abilities.

• Li Xingkong thanked Liu Shinian for the contribution points and entered the laboratory to refine Damage Reduction and HP Lock.
• Li Xingkong learned that Damage Reduction negated individual attacks below a damage threshold, while HP Lock capped powerful hits at a portion of his body's capacity.
• Li Xingkong decided to develop his defensive concepts instead of refining Seven Emotions, choosing survival over improving his attack or traversal abilities.
• Li Xingkong studied Damage Reduction and raised its protection to block attacks below the Immortal level, then gained slight resistance to conceptual attacks.
• Li Xingkong improved HP Lock until it formed 99 locks, each representing 1% of his HP, and wondered whether HP regeneration would make him invincible.

Li Xingkong emerged from secluded cultivation confident that his two concepts made his defense nearly unbreakable, but Liu Shinian demonstrated how easily a counter could bypass it. The old man warned him about the Era of Chaos’s many tactics and explained that it had been divided into servers, with the brutal first server known as 1.0.

• Li Xingkong left the laboratory and boasted to Liu Shinian and the old man about his improved defensive concepts.
• The old man warned Li Xingkong that battles between concepts depended on strategy and that strong defense alone could not ensure victory.
• Liu Shinian approached Li Xingkong unnoticed by his concepts and held a sword to his neck, explaining that her body had imitated his concepts.
• The old man listed methods that could counter or bypass Li Xingkong’s defense and advised him to stay cautious in the current Era of Chaos.
• The old man explained that powerful factions had separated the Era of Chaos into randomly assigned servers and that 1.0 was its first, more brutal server.

Li Xingkong learned that the Era of Chaos was divided into parallel-world servers, then used the Thousand Mountains Method to create a new server and encountered Nether River there. Nether River destroyed Li Xingkong’s Thousand Mountains Body and realized Li Xingkong had created the world, demanding to know what the girl Seeking the Dao was to him.

• The old man explained that parallel spaces in the Era of Chaos had become separate servers, and Jade Void bases routed intruders into the Prison-Suppressing Small World.
• Li Xingkong used the Thousand Mountains Method and found himself alone in a newly formed parallel world, with everyone in the logistics small world and Flying Cloud Pass gone.
• Nether River appeared, recognized Li Xingkong, and summoned an ocean from the sky that carried Asuras and Yakshas into the world.
• Li Xingkong attacked Nether River with Severance, but the seawater devoured his concepts and energy, disabled Traversal, and destroyed his Thousand Mountains Body.
• Nether River realized Li Xingkong had created the new world and asked what the girl Seeking the Dao was to him.

Li Xingkong encountered Yuanshi Tianzun after the Nether River held a collapsing parallel world in place. Yuanshi and the Nether River divided the world into three, and Yuanshi restored it with a true origin, leaving Li Xingkong responsible for overseeing his share.

• The Nether River held the shrinking parallel world in place and sent a talismanic command away.
• Yuanshi Tianzun appeared behind Li Xingkong, and his presence transformed Li Xingkong's cultivation methods and Dharma Aspect.
• Yuanshi brought Li Xingkong to the parallel world and reassured him that the Nether River would not fight him again.
• The Nether River and Yuanshi argued over ownership before agreeing to divide the world into three parts.
• Yuanshi restored the collapsing world by giving it a true origin, and the Nether River left with its share.
• Yuanshi assigned Li Xingkong the remaining third to oversee, and the Nether River invited him to visit.

Li Xingkong questioned the Heavenly Venerable about the Thousand Mountains Method and his Human Immortal path, then returned to the laboratory at Flying Cloud Pass. Liu Shinian and the old man believed his account of meeting the Heavenly Venerable and begged him to take them along next time.

• The Heavenly Venerable told Li Xingkong that Wan Chongshan created the Thousand Mountains Method and had credited it to Yuanjun to avoid attention.
• The Heavenly Venerable warned Li Xingkong not to use the method recklessly during the Era of Chaos and said his encounter with the Nether River was settled.
• The Heavenly Venerable praised Li Xingkong’s resolve to pursue his self-forged path and offered him cryptic advice before sending him back to Flying Cloud Pass.
• Li Xingkong told the old man and Liu Shinian that he had fought the Nether River and received a lesson from the Heavenly Venerable.
• Liu Shinian and the old man realized Li Xingkong was telling the truth, clung to his legs, and asked him to take them along next time.

After learning that breadth alone could not make him strong enough to face top experts, Li Xingkong focused on mastering his existing concepts. Though he received twelve Concept Pearls, he set them aside and advanced his core Dao of Dao Evolution, discovering a way to neutralize concepts and attacks within his Divine Sense.

• Li Xingkong concluded that mastering concepts mattered more than simply accumulating them, and decided to strengthen his existing concepts before going to the front lines.
• Concept Pearls from the Jade Void Base and several other passes arrived, giving Li Xingkong twelve pearls, nearly half of them incomplete.
• Li Xingkong resisted the urge to refine the new pearls and chose to focus on advancing his existing concepts instead.
• Li Xingkong began studying the Dao of Dao Evolution and improved his understanding by analyzing its attributes.
• Li Xingkong discovered that he could use Dao Evolution to give detectable concepts and attacks within his Divine Sense a tangible form, stripping them of their offensive power.

Li Xingkong refined his Dao Evolution Domain until it could dissolve manifested concepts and attacks, but his progress reached boundaries already mastered by other Immortals. After receiving an invitation from Anperos, he examined the final edge between Dao Evolution and distortion.

• Li Xingkong continued secluded cultivation, developing his Domain until concepts manifested by ordinary Immortals became Calamity Ash inside it.
• After several thousand years, Li Xingkong realized his Dao Evolution deductions had reached edges where other Immortals already possessed overlapping concepts.
• Li Xingkong identified True Lord Rongyi, the Heavenly Venerable of Harmony and Manifest Sainthood, as the master of the boundary between Dao Evolution and fusion, and chose not to challenge him.
• Li Xingkong saw Anperos, master of compatibility, and received his invitation to visit the Era of Myriad Arts.
• Li Xingkong turned his attention to the edge between Dao Evolution and distortion.

Li Xingkong reached the limit of his progress in Dao Evolution and chose the Weaver of Paradox as a future opponent to seek a breakthrough. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that Jade Void and the Spirit Clan had gone to war, and he decided to take Huang Feihu’s transfer order to the front lines.

• Li Xingkong identified the Weaver of Paradox as a pure evil god and resolved to find him after leaving seclusion.
• Li Xingkong returned to the laboratory, gathered its decayed materials, and found that Liu Shinian and the old man had left for the war.
• Li Xingkong read the accumulated messages and learned that Huang Feihu, Liu Shinian, and the old man had joined the fighting between Jade Void and the Spirit Clan.
• Li Xingkong received Huang Feihu’s transfer order, which let him return to his post or visit the front lines.
• Li Xingkong decided to go to the front lines and reasoned that his current realm was only barely worthy of the name Golden Immortal.

Li Xingkong went to the front lines after emerging from seclusion, meeting acting deacon Kong Ren and declining an escort. He traveled through the changed lands beyond Flying Cloud Pass and arrived near a battlefield where spatial damage and an expeditionary passage marked the army’s advance.

• Li Xingkong set aside Liu Shinian’s diary-like messages and brought his written order to acting deacon Kong Ren.
• Kong Ren explained how he had used his unusual eyes, a divine fan, and a bestowed technique to defeat Dijiang and obtain the Traversal pearl.
• Kong Ren gave Li Xingkong the front-line coordinates and offered soldiers to accompany him, but Li Xingkong declined.
• Li Xingkong traveled past settlements outside Flying Cloud Pass and the vanished Blade Flower Sea, then revisited the giant flower made from several Immortals’ concepts.
• Li Xingkong jumped to a desolate region of shattered space and concluded that a spatial battle had damaged it while the expeditionary army had carved a passage through it.

Li Xingkong reached the Immortal army’s headquarters and met Liu Shinian, Shen You’er, and his senior brother Huang Feihu. Huang Feihu showed him the Spirit Clan’s movements and explained how the army’s grand formation worked as they prepared for a difficult operation.

• Li Xingkong followed his written order into the nebula formed by the Immortal army and reached its command headquarters.
• Liu Shinian’s illusory image questioned Li Xingkong to verify his identity, then guided him to the headquarters building.
• Li Xingkong met Shen You’er, who commanded the path of phantoms and was holding the rear with Liu Shinian.
• Li Xingkong met Huang Feihu, who showed him a real-time map of the Spirit Clan’s movements and said the current operation had met resistance.
• Huang Feihu explained that the army’s combined Immortal Power and concepts formed a grand formation that could counter ordinary Immortals.

As the army advanced through the buffer zone, Li Xingkong learned that the Spirit Clan’s scattered attackers were mostly outcasts and scouts. His concept then sensed a nearby rival who could help it advance, so Li Xingkong left the formation to face him alone.

• Li Xingkong asked Huang Feihu why the Spirit Clan offered so little resistance, and Huang Feihu explained that the army was still in a buffer zone where mostly outcasts and scouts remained.
• Li Xingkong felt his concept craving something nearby, and Huang Feihu said a similar concept could let him advance beyond the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Li Xingkong realized the nearby rival was the Weaver of Paradox and chose to deal with him personally instead of involving the army.
• Huang Feihu ordered the three armies to rest and regroup as Li Xingkong left the formation without obstruction.
• Li Xingkong discovered that concepts and basic laws failed outside the formation, then followed the direction his concept indicated.

Li Xingkong encountered a band of unaffiliated Immortal Realm robbers while traveling through the buffer zone and easily immobilized them with Dao Evolution. He discovered their concepts were contained in their weapons, confiscated the blood-red blade and horse-tripping rope, and continued on his way.

• Li Xingkong observed that the buffer zone had been largely deserted as its inhabitants fled from the approaching army.
• A band of three Immortal Realm robbers and their Nascent Soul underlings blocked Li Xingkong and demanded toll money.
• The robbers attacked Li Xingkong with a blood-red blade, a horse-tripping rope, and a Head Strike ability, but he dodged and then endured their attacks with Damage Reduction.
• Li Xingkong used Dao Evolution to drain the concept of time from his domain, freezing the entire band of robbers in place.
• Li Xingkong discovered that the blade and rope contained their owners’ concepts, took both treasures, and left the immobilized robbers behind.

Li Xingkong entered a vast, unnatural mist to find the Weaver of Paradoxes and discovered that it erased people’s awareness and distorted their senses. He emerged into a flourishing small world filled with living beings and ordinary mortals, leaving the people he had collected unreleased as he settled in a town.

• Li Xingkong took the concepts of two rogue cultivators and left the band of robbers alive, frozen in place.
• Li Xingkong located the Weaver of Paradoxes beyond a huge mist and entered after confirming that his power of Dao Evolution could resist its influence.
• Inside the mist, Li Xingkong used Dao Evolution to shield himself and found an unaware man whose cultivation was no higher than the Golden Core realm.
• Li Xingkong discovered more unconscious people in the mist and stored them away as he continued onward.
• Li Xingkong emerged into a thriving small world with ordinary mortals, found a town, and settled there without releasing the people he had gathered.

Li Xingkong entered the Mist Continent, a small world enclosed by an impenetrable mist, and questioned Luke, a powerful religious leader he had rescued. Luke explained that four gods ruled the continent and periodically slaughtered its people in holy wars, while Li Xingkong considered the dangers awaiting anyone who tried to escape.

• Li Xingkong entered a fortified town on the Mist Continent and disguised himself after arriving unnoticed.
• Li Xingkong released the men he had rescued from the mist, removed Calamity Ash from them, and awakened Luke.
• Luke identified himself as the first pope under the Lord of Flesh and Blood and explained that the Mist Continent was surrounded by a mist that trapped its inhabitants.
• Luke said the four gods staged holy wars to reduce the population and consume the dead, prompting people to seek escape beyond the mist.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the gods had made the continent a trap and wondered how they had brought its inhabitants into the Era of Chaos.

Luke asked Li Xingkong to keep the truth about the world beyond the mist secret, hoping its inhabitants would retain a reason to live. Li Xingkong gave Luke a world seed to shelter those worth saving, then challenged the Four Gods and drew the Weaver of Refutation into battle.

• Li Xingkong told Luke that the Four Gods could control the cultivation of those marked by the Lord of Flesh and Blood, leaving them trapped and vulnerable.
• Luke asked Li Xingkong not to reveal what lay beyond the mist, explaining that the unknown gave the living hope to carry on.
• Li Xingkong created a world seed and entrusted it to Luke, instructing him to gather the others and move those worth saving inside.
• Li Xingkong revealed his Dharma Aspect and called on the Four Gods to come out and discuss the Dao.
• The Weaver of Refutation emerged from the mist, driven by hunger and the pull between their related concepts, and unleashed his concept to disorient Li Xingkong.

Li Xingkong hunted the Weaver of Refutation through distorted space, using his thread of fate and saber to steadily sever its body and concept. The Foolish and Blind Goddess intervened, and her method made Li Xingkong increasingly focused on cutting down the Weaver.

• Li Xingkong used his Dao Evolution Domain and Severance to fend off the Weaver of Refutation's tentacles and followed their thread of fate to find it.
• Li Xingkong repeatedly slashed the Weaver, forcing it to flee and gradually severing part of its body.
• The Weaver called for help, and the Foolish and Blind Goddess descended onto the Mist Continent.
• The Foolish and Blind Goddess used a method that took effect on Li Xingkong, making him more adept at cutting down the Weaver.
• After several days of fighting, Li Xingkong had torn away a sizable fragment of the Weaver's concept and continued pursuing it.

Li Xingkong continued attacking Rebuttal under Foolish Blindness’s mind-altering technique, which narrowed his thoughts until he became even more intent on killing. After Foolish Blindness summoned the Lord of Flesh and Blood to help, the fight became a three-way chase, while Mist remained missing.

• Foolish Blindness realized her technique had affected Li Xingkong, but it had intensified his urge to kill Rebuttal instead of stopping him.
• Li Xingkong’s blade repeatedly shredded Rebuttal as Rebuttal fled from the assault.
• Foolish Blindness called for the Lord of Flesh and Blood to join the fight and hold Li Xingkong off.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood charged Li Xingkong, but his attacks could not break through Li Xingkong’s defenses, and Li Xingkong continued focusing on Rebuttal.
• Mist remained nowhere to be seen as Foolish Blindness watched Rebuttal flee, Li Xingkong pursue him, and the Lord of Flesh and Blood chase Li Xingkong.

Li Xingkong spent years battling the Weaver of Refutation, whose body repeatedly regenerated despite his lethal blows. After Foolish Blindness’s influence faded, Li Xingkong recovered his senses and drove the Lord of Flesh and Blood into the mist with a single slash.

• Li Xingkong wore down the Weaver of Refutation for years while the Lord of Flesh and Blood and Foolish Blindness harassed him.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood asked Foolish Blindness to fetch reinforcements from the Sky-Scraping Domain, including Mist if she could find him.
• Li Xingkong destroyed Bolun’s body, but the Weaver of Refutation created a new body and escaped death again.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood watched the Weaver revive repeatedly as Foolish Blindness’s influence on Li Xingkong faded.
• Li Xingkong regained his senses, killed the Weaver again, and saw it revive once more through its concept.
• The Lord of Flesh and Blood charged Li Xingkong, who cut through his bloody form and sent him flying into the mist.

Li Xingkong discovered that the Weaver of Refutation’s resurrection depended on the Lord of Flesh and Blood, so he killed the Lord and stopped the Weaver from reviving. The Weaver remained in a suspended state, and Li Xingkong took him back to the army formation for others to deal with.

• Li Xingkong sent the Lord of Flesh and Blood flying, then killed the Weaver of Refutation again and observed that his resurrection was unusually slow.
• Li Xingkong found that the Weaver revived faster as the Lord of Flesh and Blood approached, and slowed the resurrection by kicking the Lord away.
• Li Xingkong waited on the Mist Continent, where the Lord of Flesh and Blood returned, and killed him with the blade flashes he had saved up.
• Li Xingkong struck the Weaver again, stopping his resurrection, but found that the Weaver remained alive in a suspended state.
• Li Xingkong decided not to wait for Foolish Blindness or Mist and took the half-dead Weaver back to the army formation.

Li Xingkong returned to the army after sealing the Weaver of Refutation and bringing the Mist Continent’s survivors with him. He learned that the great battle with the Spirit Clan was near, while Huang Feihu remained too busy to meet with him.

• Li Xingkong decided to bring the people he had saved back to the army instead of leaving them in the dangerous Cosmic Sea.
• Li Xingkong returned to the army and found Liu Shinian supporting the rear operations; he gave her the horse-tripping rope, which she wore as a bracelet.
• Li Xingkong asked Liu Shinian to help him with a matter involving the weakened Weaver of Refutation, and she agreed.
• Li Xingkong went to the main command tent to see Huang Feihu but received a message saying Huang was occupied with preparations for the approaching battle with the Spirit Clan.

Li Xingkong brought the Weaver of Refutation to Liu Shinian to investigate why he could not be killed. By analyzing his memories, they discovered that his immortality depended on being observed and remembered, but finding a way to end it would require dealing with Mist and Foolish Blindness.

• Li Xingkong visited Liu Shinian and asked her to help kill the Weaver of Refutation, who revived after she crushed him.
• Liu Shinian examined the Weaver of Refutation and read his memories while Li Xingkong and his system analyzed the data.
• Li Xingkong discovered that the Weaver of Refutation had created the Corpse Observation Method, which prevented his death as long as someone observed and remembered him.
• Li Xingkong learned that Mist and Foolish Blindness had suppressed and clouded the Weaver of Refutation’s mind, and that killing him might require capturing them or convincing them he was already dead.
• Li Xingkong asked whether Liu Shinian could alter the Weaver of Refutation’s concept, but she angrily rejected the idea.

Liu Shinian used her concept to deceive Foolish Blindness and Mist into believing Rebuttal had died, breaking the observers’ protection that kept him alive. Li Xingkong seized the exposed concepts from Rebuttal, who was left to die for real.

• Liu Shinian realized she could use Rebuttal’s connection to his observers to make them believe he was dead.
• Foolish Blindness found Mist in a tavern and confronted him for abandoning their allies as their territory fell under attack.
• Mist explained that he had fled because war between Jade Void and the Spirit Clan threatened them, and Foolish Blindness chose not to return to help.
• Liu Shinian’s concept made Foolish Blindness and Mist certain that Rebuttal had died.
• Li Xingkong saw Rebuttal’s false-death protection fail, took the exposed concepts, and left Rebuttal facing certain death.