Recaps

Li Xingkong brought Guapilong and Xiao Chongshan to the Primordial World, then spent millennia developing his Dharma Aspect and searching for a path to immortality. He chose to pursue the Human Immortal path and learned from Wan Chongshan that settling karma was necessary because unresolved ties could be manipulated.

• Li Xingkong used the Moonlight Record to rescue Guapilong from the Deep River Dragon Clan’s calamity and brought him to Earth Star, where he reunited with Xiao Chongshan.
• Li Xingkong took Guapilong and Xiao Chongshan to the Primordial World, helped them adapt to its rules, and began studying Nascent Soul methods.
• Li Xingkong spent thousands of years integrating his cultivation methods and abilities into his Dharma Aspect, then revealed its immense form above the Endless Sea.
• Li Xingkong explored possible routes to immortality but found that proposed Dao Immortal paths were already claimed, then chose to investigate the Human Immortal path.
• Li Xingkong helped Xiao Chongshan register with the Jade Void Palace and learned that becoming an Immortal required understanding an opportunity and settling karmic ties.
• Li Xingkong and the system identified people and groups whose causes and effects he still needed to resolve, and Li Xingkong went to consult Yuanjun.
• Wan Chongshan manipulated Li Xingkong’s karmic ties to make him believe she had once helped him, then warned that unsettled ties could be altered to control someone’s loyalties.

Li Xingkong became a Human Immortal, then studied how to resist Dao Immortals’ control and began developing the Dao of Self with help from his upgraded system. After preparing to collect concepts for his cultivation, he traveled back to the Chaotic Epoch and arrived at the dangerous Nether River.

• Li Xingkong repaid old karmic debts, found the Snail People at war with the civilizations they had enslaved, and accepted liberated territory from rebels who were children he had once saved.
• Li Xingkong visited the Dawn Mercenary Corps, gave Shutra spacecraft knowledge, and later helped Xiao Chongshan settle her karma by securing Fenye’s release.
• Li Xingkong spent millennia cultivating, conceptualized his body and Divine Sense, and ascended to become a Human Immortal.
• Yuanjun explained how Dao Immortals could restrict others through their Daos, and Li Xingkong began researching ways for Human Immortals to resist that control.
• Li Xingkong devised a plan to assemble an Immortal from concepts, chose the Dao of Self as a route to independence, and had the system forged into an Immortal artifact.
• After 2,000 years of seclusion, Li Xingkong gained the basics of the Dao of Self and chose to search the Eternal Battlefield for concepts.
• Li Xingkong prepared at the Jade Void Palace marketplaces, studied Immortal tools, and activated the Moonlight Record to travel back to the Chaotic Epoch.
• Li Xingkong arrived above a blood-red sea, followed Jade Void disciples fleeing the awakening Nether River, and asked whether anyone could stop it.

Li Xingkong joined Liu Shinian on a mission to clear the Blade Flower Sea, where they refined a concept while Fairy Qingjue fought Spirit Clan Immortals. Afterward, Li Xingkong was tasked with researching Calamity Ash and developed Dao Evolution, rebuilding his system around it.

• Li Xingkong joined Liu Shinian’s group mission to Flying Cloud Pass and chose a logistics assignment clearing the Blade Flower Sea.
• Li Xingkong and Liu Shinian searched the battlefield, found Fairy Qingjue sealed inside a flower bud, and began refining the concept within it as Qingjue and her allies fought Spirit Clan Immortals.
• Yiying reached the flower bud to reclaim the concept, but Li Xingkong held him off with a spatial cage while Liu Shinian secretly used her concept of lies to help refine it.
• Liu Shinian drew out the concept’s original owner’s will, and Li Xingkong absorbed the remaining saber-and-severing concept into a talisman before driving Yiying back.
• Fairy Qingjue and her companions accepted Li Xingkong’s claim to the concept and explained the mission’s completion to General Huang.
• Huang Feihu welcomed Li Xingkong as a fellow disciple, tasked him with researching Calamity Ash, and provided him with a laboratory and mission tokens.
• Li Xingkong studied Calamity Ash for two thousand years, mastered its fusion method, named it Dao Evolution, and rebuilt his system around three talismans on a seven-treasure tree.

Li Xingkong advanced his defensive concepts, traveled to the front lines, and entered the Mist Continent to pursue the Weaver of Refutation. With Liu Shinian’s help, he broke the Weaver’s protection against death and left him exposed.

• Li Xingkong refined Damage Reduction and HP Lock, then learned from the old man and Liu Shinian that strong defenses could still be countered.
• Nether River attacked Li Xingkong in a newly formed parallel world, but Yuanshi Tianzun intervened and gave Li Xingkong a third of the world to oversee.
• Li Xingkong strengthened Dao Evolution until his Domain could turn ordinary Immortals’ manifested concepts into Calamity Ash, then left seclusion for the front lines.
• Huang Feihu showed Li Xingkong the army’s position and identified a nearby concept that could help him advance, so Li Xingkong set out alone to find the Weaver of Paradox.
• Li Xingkong entered the Mist Continent, rescued people trapped in its surrounding mist, and confronted the Weaver of Refutation and the other gods.
• Li Xingkong pursued the Weaver for years, repeatedly destroying his bodies while the Lord of Flesh and Blood and Foolish Blindness tried to stop him.
• Li Xingkong brought the weakened Weaver back to the army and learned from Liu Shinian that the Weaver’s Corpse Observation Method kept him alive as long as someone remembered him.
• Liu Shinian made Foolish Blindness and Mist believe the Weaver was dead, allowing Li Xingkong to disable his protection and take his exposed concepts.