Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong learned that three servers had searched for information about him and publicized a real route to Fang Ritu to draw out Xuan Qingzi’s remnants. While traveling under the Hexagram’s control, he explored the two-dimensional world and encountered one of its native creatures.

• Baili Qiu told Li Xingkong that the servers were earning money in the Sihali Kingdom and had transferred his share to an account with the Convention.
• Baili Qiu identified three servers that had searched for Li Xingkong: one belonging to Star Lord Fang, one linked to a Sihali Kingdom server company, and one belonging to Xuan Qingzi’s remnants.
• Li Xingkong told Baili Qiu to announce that he would visit Star Lord Fang at the Pleasure Tower and share his real route, intending to draw his enemies into a direct fight.
• Li Xingkong declined Baili Qiu’s offer to hire mercenaries, then set out for Fang Ritu with the Hexagram managing his body.
• Li Xingkong directed his consciousness into his body in the two-dimensional world and observed how three-dimensional projections affected its inhabitants.
• Li Xingkong encountered a native two-dimensional creature that used touch-sensitive feelers to perceive its surroundings.

Li Xingkong explored the two-dimensional world, found a city, and questioned its ruler about the Liworm Civilization. The ruler knew of the former overlord, the Li Dragon Clan, but said it had fallen into ruin, leaving Li Xingkong to wonder whether it was the civilization he sought.

• Li Xingkong explored the two-dimensional world for months and discovered that harvested resources quickly respawned.
• Li Xingkong entered a fortified settlement and found its ruler in the city's largest building.
• Li Xingkong revealed himself, pressured the ruler, and asked whether he knew of the Liworm Civilization.
• The city lord said he had never heard of the Liworm Civilization but described the once-dominant Li Dragon Clan, whose members pursued the Heavenly Dao and might now be extinct.
• Li Xingkong suspected that the Li Dragons and the Li Insects he sought could be the same civilization.

Li Xingkong learned how the succubi defeated the Li Dragon race and became the current hegemon, then returned his attention to the real world as an ambush against him began to take shape. He detected a space tear and the Sihali Kingdom’s shadow-plane projection core, but wondered whether his enemies had prepared a hidden attack as well.

• The city lord told Li Xingkong that the succubi had bewitched the Li Dragons, survived their attempts to resist, and become the hegemon after the remaining Li Dragons vanished.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the Li Dragons were the Li Insects, and considered finding their ascension site and testing his Gen Trigram’s defense against emotional attacks.
• Li Xingkong lifted his Divine Sense blockade and vanished, deciding to search for the Li Insects’ ascension site without rushing.
• Baili Qiu reported that Xuan Qingzi’s subordinates and several server competitors were preparing a potentially large ambush against Li Xingkong.
• Li Xingkong deployed Golden Core modified bodies to scout his route and detected a tear in space and the Sihali Kingdom’s shadow-plane projection core nearby.

Li Xingkong uncovered a minefield of spatial-collapse weapons laid by Xuan Qingzi's forces and survived their detonation. He traced the signal that triggered the traps and entered the turbulent space to pursue the ambushers, whose escape routes had been cut off.

• Li Xingkong sent Golden Core constructs to investigate a hidden space, where spatial-collapse weapons destroyed the constructs and tore apart a star system.
• Li Xingkong continued through nearby star systems, finding traps and a broad minefield, then severed the weapons' connections and collected them.
• The observers triggered the minefield's bombs, and Li Xingkong used their signal to locate the source.
• Li Xingkong crossed turbulent space through a rift and pursued the signal's source while the spatial chaos blocked the ambushers' escape.

Li Xingkong reached the star system where the enemy fleet was waiting and fused the Star Metal Winged Tiger Divine Light with his Earth-Traversing Golden Light. He destroyed the investigating squads and split the warship apart, but an unknown voice announced that a scheduled contact operation had begun.

• Li Xingkong crossed the shattered space and arrived at the star system, where a lone warship and its patrol constructs were waiting.
• Li Xingkong avoided using the Roof Bird Wall Fire Divine Light and tested whether he could merge the Star Metal Winged Tiger Divine Light with his Earth-Traversing Golden Light.
• Li Xingkong transformed completely into a beam of divine light and sliced through the investigating squads and the warship.
• Li Xingkong returned to physical form as the warship split apart, while its crew remained silent and continued operating it briefly.
• An emotionless voice stated that Li Xingkong had appeared as predicted and that the scheduled contact operation would commence.

Li Xingkong encountered the Mechanical Scourge, which warned him that he had been listed for apprehension in thirty thousand natural years. After the system explained the civilization’s ambitions and the importance of rules and cultivation, Li Xingkong reconsidered how effective his copied soldiers would be against advanced opponents.

• Li Xingkong watched the destroyed warship reassemble into a giant mechanical creature, which warned him to stop infringing on the Mechanical Scourge’s boundaries.
• The Mechanical Scourge designated the unknown server Sihali-1 a threat and ranked Li Xingkong No. 9527 on its wanted list, scheduling his apprehension for thirty thousand natural years later.
• After the machine disintegrated, the system praised its ambition and explained that it was a second-tier civilization seeking to master element iron.
• Li Xingkong questioned why advanced civilizations’ technologies seemed similar, and the system explained that military power depended on rules while other fields followed diverse paths.
• The system warned that the Mechanical Scourge could seize control of Li Xingkong’s Golden Core constructs, and Li Xingkong realized his copied soldiers could become weapons for his enemies.
• The system advised Li Xingkong to focus on cultivation, and he concluded that sufficient strength would make the Mechanical Scourge’s threats meaningless.

After deciphering the Sihali Kingdom’s tachyon communication technology, Li Xingkong realized it resembled the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique and conceived a spell that could teleport him through information signals. He abandoned his journey to research the new ability on an uninhabited planet.

• Li Xingkong waited several days and confirmed that Xuan Qingzi’s remaining forces had made no further moves.
• Li Xingkong studied the warship’s technology and, with help from Baili Qiu and information aboard the ship, deciphered tachyon communication.
• Li Xingkong’s Divine Sense adapted to perceive tachyons, and he recognized similarities between them, the Name-Calling Rebirth Technique, and soul transfer.
• Li Xingkong conceived an information-state teleportation spell that could send his true body or a projection to anyone within the server’s coverage who called his name.
• Li Xingkong considered using followers as teleportation beacons, then left his journey and secluded himself near an uninhabited planet’s core to research the spell.

While Baili Qiu searched for the missing Li Xingkong, Li Xingkong spent months developing a way to transform matter into tachyons and create a physical projection. He appeared at Baili Qiu’s base and revealed that he could now respond to calls for help from within server range.

• Baili Qiu searched for Li Xingkong after finding the wreckage of the massive ship and evidence that its crew had died.
• Li Xingkong spent a month learning to transform matter into tachyons and another five months developing a way to reverse the process.
• Li Xingkong transformed a small piece of his flesh into tachyons and sent it to the server at Baili Qiu’s location.
• Li Xingkong appeared in Baili Qiu’s server room as a translucent clone, then solidified and explained that he had been researching a new ability.
• Li Xingkong told Baili Qiu that he could now come to his aid if someone within server range called his name and said “help.”

Li Xingkong visited Baili Qiu to discuss renaming the servers so he could use their name as an anchor for teleportation, then went to see Fang Ritu at the Pleasure Tower. After reassuring Fang Ritu that he had survived his fight with Xuan Qingzi, Li Xingkong asked him to help locate a more advanced civilization.

• Li Xingkong explained his server-renaming plan, and Baili Qiu agreed to help.
• Baili Qiu told Li Xingkong that Star Lord Fang was worried about him, so Li Xingkong left to visit Fang Ritu.
• Li Xingkong appeared inside the Pleasure Tower, startling Fang Ritu with how easily he bypassed its security.
• Li Xingkong told Fang Ritu what had happened in his fight with Xuan Qingzi and demonstrated his abilities, reassuring him that he was safe.
• Li Xingkong asked Fang Ritu to use Knows Everything to help him find a more advanced civilization.

Fang Ritu recommended destinations in the Convention to Li Xingkong, including a vast battlefield, a moon-sized ball arena, and the holy lands of the three great powers. After Li Xingkong’s clone disappeared, Fang Ritu ordered the Pleasure Tower’s defenses upgraded.

• Fang Ritu showed Li Xingkong a battlefield on the border between the Mechanical Scourge and the Zerg, where their civilizations had fought for over a hundred thousand years.
• Fang Ritu warned Li Xingkong not to join the fighting, explaining that both civilizations used war to control population growth and drive evolution.
• Fang Ritu described the Convention’s Moon-Grasping Ball arena, and Baili Qiu explained that a construct from Sihali Kingdom had lost in the preliminaries.
• Fang Ritu showed Li Xingkong the locations of the three great powers’ holy lands and explained that Sihali Kingdom and Divine Land belonged to the Kingdom of Fixed Light’s camp.
• Li Xingkong stored Fang Ritu’s recommendations and withdrew his Divine Sense from his clone, which vanished.
• Fang Ritu ordered someone to improve the Pleasure Tower’s defenses in case an assassin could enter as Li Xingkong had.

Li Xingkong set out to observe the battlefield between the Mechanical Scourge and the Zerg while continuing his tachyon-state research. At an isolated teleportation point, an unseen attacker repeatedly tampered with his memories, but his defenses held and his particle-state transformation kept the attacker from taking anything.

• Li Xingkong chose the Mechanical Scourge and Zerg battlefield as his first destination and traveled toward it while studying tachyons.
• At a remote teleportation point, Li Xingkong noticed that he had forgotten his research and realized an unknown force had altered his memory.
• Li Xingkong checked the Hexagram's cognitive defense records, confirmed that he had been attacked, and searched the empty surroundings with his Divine Sense.
• When the attacker interfered with his memory again, Li Xingkong transformed into Earth-Traversing Golden Light and then into a particle state.
• The unseen attacker passed through Li Xingkong's particles but failed to take anything from him.

Li Xingkong used the Hexagram’s calculations to identify his invisible attacker as a lifeform made entirely of tachyons, then trapped it in a tachyon-state net. As he prepared to study the creature, it stopped moving and seemed to die, prompting him to spread out his Divine Sense.

• Li Xingkong endured the creature’s attacks while the Hexagram calculated how it existed.
• After three days, the Hexagram identified the creature as a lifeform native to the tachyon state, and Li Xingkong learned to perceive it.
• Li Xingkong observed the fishlike creature’s instinctive attempts to attack and devour him, then decided to capture it.
• Li Xingkong formed a tachyon-state fishing net and trapped the creature when it charged at him.
• The captive creature swelled, went still, and appeared dead, so Li Xingkong sensed that something was wrong and spread out his Divine Sense.

Li Xingkong followed the escaped tachyon fish to a barren planet and confronted Wan Chongshan, the person who had sent it after him. Wan Chongshan vanished after warning him they would meet again, and the system revealed she was an immensely powerful figure whose presence at this point in time made no sense.

• Li Xingkong tracked the fish through several star systems to a barren planet, where a tachyon being caught it and questioned it about its failed operation against him.
• Li Xingkong appeared before the being, confronted her over targeting him, and learned that she was called Wan Chongshan.
• Wan Chongshan evaded Li Xingkong's attack, claimed she had not been responsible, and said they had met before and would meet again.
• Wan Chongshan spoke a strange phrase and vanished along with the fish, leaving Li Xingkong with no explanation.
• The system recognized Wan Chongshan, warned Li Xingkong to stay away from her, and said she was as powerful as the system's main body but seemed weaker than she should be.

The system explained that Wan Chongshan was a time-traveling powerhouse whose perspective on their meetings differed from Li Xingkong’s, and urged him to focus on growing stronger. Li Xingkong reached a busy transit station and was welcomed into a Lanzhou beef noodle shop by Divine Land settlers, only for Wan Chongshan to appear again.

• The system told Li Xingkong that Wan Chongshan had met him before from her own perspective because she could travel through time.
• The system said Wan Chongshan was at least Daluo-level and possibly close to Sage, while Li Xingkong resolved to focus on getting stronger.
• Li Xingkong arrived at a large transit station and found a Lanzhou beef noodle shop run by a couple from the Divine Land Seed Project.
• The shop owner recognized Li Xingkong as the Sword Immortal and invited him in with his family.
• Wan Chongshan appeared at the shop and asked to join Li Xingkong for a meal.

Li Xingkong tried to enjoy a meal with Wan Chongshan, who teased him before revealing that she had come to meet him for a purpose. After she let him destroy her seemingly ordinary body, she gave him the Thousand Mountains Method.

• Wan Chongshan joined Li Xingkong for a meal and repeatedly snatched away the food he tried to eat.
• Li Xingkong finally grabbed the plate and ate while Wan Chongshan recorded his struggle and teased him about sending him on his way.
• Li Xingkong finished his meal, left a spatial ring as a gift for the owner, and prepared to face Wan Chongshan.
• Wan Chongshan copied Li Xingkong's ring, then let his punch tear apart her body as he fought back.
• Wan Chongshan crumbled into dust after telling Li Xingkong to aim for the head next time, and the Thousand Mountains Method was forced into his mind.

Li Xingkong learned from the system that Wan Chongshan had given him the powerful Thousand Mountains Method, then discovered its true ability to create real parallel worlds from uncertain choices. He realized the Wan Chongshan who had visited him was a weaker version from another world, and began studying the technique.

• Li Xingkong spoke with the system, which revealed that Wan Chongshan had beaten it before disappearing.
• Li Xingkong told the system that Wan Chongshan had given him the Thousand Mountains Method, making the system jealous and astonished.
• The system explained that the technique could connect parallel selves, overcome probability, and provide ways to escape.
• Li Xingkong found a secluded place and began studying the technique.
• Li Xingkong discovered that the method created real parallel worlds for uncertain choices, and realized the Wan Chongshan who had given it to him came from another world.

Li Xingkong learned that the Thousand Mountains Method required a Dao Enemy to kill his parallel-world selves before he could advance to Daluo. After Wan Chongshan’s explanation, he began cultivating the method and used one of her slain Thousand Mountains Bodies to help find his parallel-world selves.

• Wan Chongshan had explained that creating parallel worlds split off portions of the true spirit, and that a Dao Enemy had to kill those selves so they could later merge into the true self.
• Li Xingkong accepted that Wan Chongshan had chosen him as her Dao Enemy and decided to cultivate the method despite its cost.
• Li Xingkong withheld details from the system, which praised his discretion and fell silent as he began cultivating.
• Li Xingkong studied the method and learned that its calculations let him plan parallel selves’ actions and select the most suitable path as the main world.
• Li Xingkong began with the method’s hardest step, sensing his parallel-world selves, and analyzed a Thousand Mountains Body he had killed to locate its corresponding world.

Li Xingkong used the Thousand Mountains Method to accelerate his Golden Core cultivation, then emerged from a brief cultivation session having unexpectedly reached Golden Core Six Revolutions. The system warned that he might have advanced even farther if it had not interrupted him.

• Li Xingkong spent nearly a month sensing a parallel world and nearly five years learning to use the Thousand Mountains Method.
• He used the method to create two cultivation paths and decided to attempt advancement once his deductions reached 70%.
• Li Xingkong became absorbed in cultivation until the system repeatedly called him back.
• When he awoke, Li Xingkong accidentally unleashed enough magic power to clear a vast stretch of the asteroid belt.
• Li Xingkong discovered that his Golden Core had reached Six Revolutions, and the system said he had nearly advanced to Nine Revolutions.

Li Xingkong discovered that the Thousand Mountains Method had made his cultivation advance with startling certainty, but his uncontrolled Divine Sense had transformed a civilization in a neighboring galaxy. He relocated the affected people to a habitable planet and revived the dead, leaving the native civilization worshipping him.

• Li Xingkong told the system that the Thousand Mountains Method had turned cultivation probabilities into certainty, while keeping its cost secret to honor Wan Chongshan’s permission.
• The system pointed out that Li Xingkong’s cultivation was affecting a nearby native civilization, and Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to investigate.
• Li Xingkong found that his aura had driven researchers mad, altered their bodies, and caused an evil cult worshipping him to arise amid an extermination campaign.
• Li Xingkong adapted another planet to support life, moved all the people he had affected there, and tried to revive those who had died.
• After witnessing Li Xingkong’s power, the native civilization changed its view of him and bowed in worship.

Li Xingkong struggled to control his rapidly advancing cultivation while his parallel-world selves vanished, then discovered Wan Chongshan had hunted them down. Her fierce counterpart asked him to kill her so he could help the other Wan Chongshan gather her true spirit.

• Li Xingkong withdrew his Divine Sense, left a Spiritual Root Server as an apology, and spent over a year practicing control of his cultivation.
• Li Xingkong noticed his parallel-world selves disappearing rapidly and feared a powerful enemy was coming for him.
• After Li Xingkong gained control of his cultivation, his last parallel-world self lost contact, and a battle-clad Wan Chongshan appeared before him.
• Wan Chongshan explained that the Thousand Mountains Method revealed Li Xingkong was the main body, then gave him a saber and said she had killed his other selves to find him.
• Wan Chongshan told Li Xingkong to kill her so he could help the other Wan Chongshan gather her true spirit, and revealed that he would meet every version of her.