Chapter Summaries

The system explained that Li Xingkong could begin the path to becoming an Immortal by choosing a goal and pursuing it with resolve, though his contract with the Primordial World still posed an obstacle. It brought him to Laojun Heaven, where Laojun’s blind-box giveaway began and a streak of light descended toward Li Xingkong.

• The system told Li Xingkong that Immortals were defined by their chosen path rather than power alone, and Li Xingkong said cultivation gave him a sense of security.
• The system warned that Li Xingkong’s work contract with the Primordial World could prevent him from becoming an Immortal and led him to Laojun Heaven.
• The system explained that Laojun was a kind senior known for refining pills and artifacts and giving them away.
• Li Xingkong arrived at Laojun’s hall, where cultivators waited for blind boxes, and the boy at the entrance opened the door to release streaks of light.
• A cultivator tried to rush forward and was bound in place, while a streak of light descended toward Li Xingkong as a newcomer.
• The system urged Li Xingkong to use the light quickly before the other cultivators could make a move.

Li Xingkong refined Laojun’s magical treasure embryo into Lightning Chaser, a sword from his past that could adapt to any universe. He left Laojun’s hall with the system and was congratulated by Jade Void Palace cultivators, who explained his high status as a direct descendant of Primordial Lady Seeking the Dao.

• Li Xingkong learned that the embryo could reflect his memories and become a magical treasure bound to him.
• Li Xingkong chose his first sword, Lightning Chaser, and the embryo transformed into it.
• Li Xingkong sensed that Lightning Chaser carried the concept of sharpness and could bring its own Dao into any universe.
• Li Xingkong reflected on his lost curiosity and considered using his strength to bring gentleness to the world.
• Li Xingkong merged Lightning Chaser with his body, bowed toward Laojun’s hall, and left with the system.
• Jade Void Palace cultivators congratulated Li Xingkong and explained that his lineage gave him exceptional prospects.

Li Xingkong planted a Bodhi tree seed among secluded floating islands, creating a little universe that he shaped into a world inspired by the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The system explained why origins mattered so much in the Primordial World, and Li Xingkong entered his newly formed world.

• Li Xingkong crossed a spatial fold and searched the sea for a secluded place to plant his seed.
• Li Xingkong chose the largest island in a chain of floating islands and planted the Bodhi tree seed.
• Li Xingkong shaped the Bodhi tree into a palace complex, and it created a little universe under his control.
• Li Xingkong asked the system about origins, and the system explained their importance, including Li Xingkong's own background and fortunes.
• The system noticed the little world had finished forming, and Li Xingkong opened its gates and entered with the system.

Li Xingkong rested in his small world for several thousand years while the system used its creative authority to build a Heaven-reaching Tower. After waking refreshed and having digested memories from countless reincarnation cycles, Li Xingkong learned how long he had slept.

• Li Xingkong gave the system some control over the small world, then entered a long dream to recover from the effects of his reincarnation memories.
• The system spread knowledge among nearby creatures and directed them to build a Heaven-reaching Tower, adding one meter-high floor each year.
• Li Xingkong woke to the creatures’ work chants and found the tower had grown several thousand meters tall across the plain.
• The system told Li Xingkong that his rest had lasted several thousand years, and he was astonished by how much time had passed.

After realizing that the matters he hoped to change might already belong to the past, Li Xingkong sought a time technique that could let him cross timelines and return to the Original Universe. He chose the beginner-friendly Moonlight Record, but its notes made him suspect it was a trap.

• Li Xingkong wondered how much time had passed in the Original Universe during his thousand-year sleep and recognized that his plans might concern the past.
• The system explained that the Jade Void Palace shared knowledge because its grand masters pursued the Dao rather than power.
• Li Xingkong asked the system for techniques that could help him travel across timelines, and it filtered out techniques meant for combat and other purposes.
• After asking for a technique that was easy to learn but had a high upper limit, Li Xingkong selected the Moonlight Record.
• Li Xingkong absorbed the Moonlight Record's knowledge and noticed that its beginner section contained countless cultivators' insights, making the technique seem suspicious.

Li Xingkong chose the Moonlight Record, a time-travel technique whose early use was unstable, and entered seclusion to learn it. After two months of preparing and performing its ritual, he emerged somewhere unfamiliar, unsure where or when he had landed.

• Li Xingkong accepted the Moonlight Record’s risk of unpredictable time jumps and added it to his cultivation plans.
• Li Xingkong decided to cultivate the technique before returning to the Original Universe, while the system resumed overseeing construction of the Heaven-reaching Tower.
• Li Xingkong studied the Moonlight Record and found its introductory ritual easy to follow but lacking explanations of how it controlled time.
• Li Xingkong spent two months assembling the ritual, then completed it and briefly leaped out of the river of time.
• Li Xingkong opened his eyes in unfamiliar surroundings and wondered where he had arrived.

Li Xingkong arrived in the past on the body of a gigantic Heluo Fish and was rescued by a multicolored bird named Jingwei. After learning that the fish threatened the surrounding tribes, he revealed he had come from the future, and Jingwei recognized him as another visitor from the future.

• Li Xingkong found himself on a vast white surface that blocked his Divine Sense and nearly reached down to investigate it.
• Jingwei warned Li Xingkong that he was standing on the Heluo Sea and hurried him to safety on ordinary land.
• Jingwei explained that the white sea was the body of a giant Heluo Fish that dragged creatures into its tentacles and had grown too large for the tribes to kill.
• Jingwei told Li Xingkong that the tribal elders had gone to seek help from immortal masters after one tribe vanished and left its waters unprotected.
• Li Xingkong said he had come from the future, and Jingwei introduced herself as Jingwei and welcomed him as another visitor from the future.

Li Xingkong met Jingwei, who asked him to help her tribe deal with a giant Heluo Fish. After reaching the tribe, he examined its records and learned that they knew how to handle only young fish, leaving him to ask how the last adult Heluo Fish had been subdued.

• Jingwei recognized Li Xingkong as a Jade Void Palace disciple and asked him to help subdue the Heluo Fish threatening her tribe.
• Li Xingkong agreed to visit Jingwei's tribe and learn more before deciding whether he could help.
• Jingwei led Li Xingkong to her large settlement, where the tribe's leader welcomed him and offered a feast.
• The tribe's leader showed Li Xingkong records preserved in knotted ropes, which described how Heluo Fish grew in water and how young ones could be dried in the sun.
• Li Xingkong learned the records gave no way to handle a large adult fish and asked the leader how one had been subdued thousands of years earlier.

Li Xingkong learned a tribal legend about an Immortal who defeated the Heluo Fish by turning it into seawater, and devised a way to imitate the feat using his Nine Revolutions Golden Core. He approached the giant fish alone, where it awakened and attacked him with tentacles that his Divine Light cut apart.

• A tribesman told Li Xingkong a legend in which an Immortal transformed the Heluo Fish into seawater after a three-year battle.
• Li Xingkong realized his Divine Sense could cover only about a quarter of the fish and decided to convert its body into energy, then into seawater.
• Li Xingkong left for the shore, and Jingwei joined him despite his plan to approach the fish alone.
• Li Xingkong told Jingwei to wait back while he flew toward the giant Heluo Fish and sensed that it had awakened.
• The Heluo Fish attacked Li Xingkong with countless tentacles, and he severed them with a ring of Divine Light.

Li Xingkong fought the Heluo Fish, discovering that Divine Light could wound it but that it could regenerate by reabsorbing severed flesh and summoning endless rain. Jiang Ziya arrived and caught the enormous fish, leaving Li Xingkong to realize it was the same kind Jiang Ziya had carried in his basket.

• Li Xingkong used Divine Light to cut off the Heluo Fish's tentacles, but the creature reabsorbed them and recovered.
• Li Xingkong carved a piece from the Heluo Fish and stored it, while the creature unleashed a poorly aimed pillar of light.
• The Heluo Fish spoke the word "Rain" and summoned a downpour that restored its wounds and resisted Li Xingkong's attempts to stop it.
• Li Xingkong studied the rain and concluded it worked as a concept rather than through ordinary natural laws.
• A fishing line hooked the Heluo Fish and hauled it into the sky, where Jiang Ziya caught it and tossed it into his basket.
• Li Xingkong recognized the Heluo Fish as the same kind he had seen in Jiang Ziya's basket when Jiang Ziya first picked him up.

Li Xingkong met Jiang Ziya after Jiang caught the Heluo Fish, and they gathered with Jingwei to grill it while the rain continued to flood the chasm. Jiang Ziya explained that concepts such as fire could operate independently of ordinary rules, leaving Li Xingkong pondering how such concepts were learned.

• Li Xingkong was surprised to meet Jiang Ziya, who called him junior brother and explained that the Moonlight Record had sent him more than ten thousand years into the past.
• Jingwei rushed to Li Xingkong and Jiang Ziya after the Heluo Fish disappeared, and Jiang Ziya invited her to eat the fish he had caught.
• Jiang Ziya took Li Xingkong and Jingwei to shore and prepared to grill the tiny Heluo Fish while the summoned rain continued to fall.
• Jiang Ziya summoned fire by writing the character for fire, then explained to Li Xingkong that concepts could operate like switches in heaven and earth, independent of ordinary rules.
• Li Xingkong asked how to learn concepts, and Jiang Ziya replied that cultivation arose from observing the desolation of heaven and earth.

Jiang Ziya gave Li Xingkong and Jingwei the Transformation Character Art and fed them Heluo Fish, letting Li Xingkong learn its understanding of rain. Li Xingkong used his newly gained ability to summon a fine rain that made plants grow rapidly.

• Jiang Ziya placed the Transformation Character Art on Li Xingkong and Jingwei, then served them roasted Heluo Fish.
• Jingwei used the phrase “time to eat” and watched a tiny strip of fish expand into a massive portion.
• Li Xingkong ate the fish and, through the art, observed how the Heluo Fish had comprehended Rain of Raging Waves.
• Li Xingkong discovered his own understanding of rain differed from the fish’s and softly called down rain around them.
• The raging storm gave way to fine rain, and plants burst rapidly from the sandy ground.

Li Xingkong helped Jingwei gain the Heluo Fish’s Multiplication Technique and taught Jingwei a Qi Refining Method before leaving the ancient era with Jiang Ziya’s help. Back in his small world, he told the system about meeting Jiang Ziya and showed off the Heluo Fish he had brought back.

• Li Xingkong explained that concepts reflected a person’s character, and Jingwei revealed the Multiplication Technique Jingwei had gained.
• Li Xingkong warned Jingwei that using the technique without cultivation would consume vital essence, then transmitted a Qi Refining Method.
• Li Xingkong, Jingwei, and Jiang Ziya finished their meal as rain filled the chasm and a new ecosystem began to form.
• Li Xingkong prepared to leave, and Jiang Ziya sent him through time while advising him to study the Moonlight Record.
• Li Xingkong returned to his small world after about five minutes and told the system he had visited the past.
• Li Xingkong showed the system the Heluo Fish he had brought back, astonishing it with his meeting and meal with Jiang Ziya.

Li Xingkong practiced the Moonlight Record for several months until he could control his trips into the past within a few thousand years, then decided to return to the Primordial Universe and settle his internship contract. The system gave him a Homecoming Knot to connect his universe to his small world, and Li Xingkong began linking it to the small world.

• Li Xingkong repeatedly used the Moonlight Record, sometimes landing in the Jade Void Palace's first battle with the demon race, while his senior brothers sent him back.
• Over several months, Li Xingkong improved his control over the Moonlight Record and limited his jumps to within a few thousand years of his target.
• Li Xingkong ended his practice and told the system he would return to the Primordial Universe to fulfill his internship contract and settle his affairs.
• The system explained that the Homecoming Knot could connect the Primordial Universe with Li Xingkong's small world and obtained one for him.
• Li Xingkong put on the red bracelet and began communicating with the small world to link it to the Homecoming Knot.

Li Xingkong returned to the Cosmic Sea to find his Primordial Universe, using the knot refined with the Bodhi Seed as a Spatial Beacon. Protected by his rules and Power of Creation, he began following the system’s directions through the sea of universes.

• Li Xingkong finished refining the knot, which now faintly pointed toward his small world, and set out with the system.
• The system explained that the Jade Void Palace’s sun was a concept created by the ancient Immortal Chijingzi, who had not mastered the complete concept of the sun.
• Li Xingkong returned to the lake that connected the Primordial World to the Cosmic Sea and entered its waters.
• The Cosmic Sea began suffocating Li Xingkong and eroding his sense of existence, so he spread out his spatial rules and covered himself with the Power of Creation.
• Li Xingkong saw countless bubbles containing universes and told the system to guide him toward his Primordial Universe.

Li Xingkong traveled through universe bubbles in the Cosmic Sea, leaving a creation-powered amulet in a Dungeons & Dragons-like universe. Near the Primordial Universe, he gathered matter from the Cosmic Sea so he could fulfill his contract by feeding it.

• Li Xingkong followed the system's route and passed through a universe where gods, mages, and other professions flourished.
• Li Xingkong left an amulet that gave one person the protection of the Power of Creation and the ability to enter and leave that universe.
• Li Xingkong continued through the Cosmic Sea as the bubbles grew smaller, and the system said they were nearing the Primordial Universe.
• Li Xingkong stopped to gather matter, using the Power of Creation to turn cosmic rules into tangible material.
• Li Xingkong filled a vast sphere with matter and prepared to feed the Primordial Universe.

Li Xingkong returned to the Primordial Universe and gave Huan a net full of supplies, far exceeding their contract. Their fulfilled contract awarded them the ferrying rating, which let Li Xingkong serve as a bridge between the Primordial Universe and the Primordial World.

• Li Xingkong recognized the Primordial Universe and reunited with Huan, who complained that the scroll had sent him away without warning.
• Li Xingkong pushed his net full of supplies into the Primordial Universe, and Huan accepted the amount despite calculating that it was nearly ten times their contracted share.
• The scroll reappeared, dissolved, and left matching golden marks in Li Xingkong's and Huan's hands.
• Huan explained the contract ratings and said the ferrying mark would let Li Xingkong guide cultivators between the Primordial Universe and the Primordial World.
• Li Xingkong agreed to bring Huan souvenirs from new places, and Huan insisted on calling them gifts rather than filial respect.

Li Xingkong returned to Earth Star after thousands of years away and discovered that cultivation had flourished while his companions had moved on. Rather than face the possibility that his old friends were gone, he activated the Moonlight Record to travel through time.

• Li Xingkong reconnected with his physical body on Earth Star and found the star system crowded with cultivators, including aliens from other civilizations.
• Li Xingkong visited his laboratory and read Ge Baoqi’s note explaining that Albert had arranged for the group to maintain the experiment records, that they had reached second-turn Golden Core, and that they had later left to ascend to godhood separately.
• Li Xingkong learned that nearly 7,000 years had passed on Earth Star and realized that Divine Land had entered a new stage of development.
• Li Xingkong decided not to seek out his old friends in the present and opened a spatial gate instead.
• Li Xingkong activated the Moonlight Record, filling the star system with moonlike light as time began flowing backward.

Li Xingkong and the system traveled back to Earth Star, first landing in the dinosaur age, where Li Xingkong destroyed a spaceship that had recently wiped out Venus’s Snake-People civilization. After returning to the era just before he first acquired the system, they caught the system’s past self arriving in the universe and began taking it to Earth Star.

• Li Xingkong mistakenly traveled with the system to prehistoric Earth Star and prepared to return to the present.
• A spaceship attacked Li Xingkong, who stopped its cannon fire and destroyed the ship after realizing it had destroyed the Snake-People civilization on Venus.
• Li Xingkong carefully adjusted the Moonlight Record and returned with the system to the era just before he had first acquired it.
• The system concealed itself and Li Xingkong as its past self arrived, complaining that it had found a universe without Spiritual Qi.
• At the system’s urging, Li Xingkong immobilized the past system so they could take it to Earth Star.

Li Xingkong and the system traveled to the past and secretly bound the system to his younger self on Earth Star. They waited for the first particle of spiritual qi to appear, suspecting that Li Xingkong’s future self had already ensured its creation, and he explained why he would not reveal the future to his past self.

• Li Xingkong and the system returned to Earth Star and used the system’s knowledge to bind its past self to the school-age Li Xingkong.
• The past system eventually accepted the binding and began guiding young Li Xingkong, while Li Xingkong and the future system watched from hiding.
• The future system suggested that fate might have guided them to create spiritual qi, and Li Xingkong agreed that his Thousand Mountains Method could have helped ensure it.
• Li Xingkong and the system settled near Earth Star to wait until the first particle of spiritual qi was created before jumping again.
• The system asked why Li Xingkong would not meet his past self, and Li Xingkong explained that knowing the future could disrupt his growth and create another version of himself in parallel spacetime.