Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong and Xiao Chongshan compared the paths to Human and Dao Immortality, then investigated why both required settling karma. They learned that karma came from connections and unfinished causes and effects, leaving Li Xingkong to face a more involved task than simply cutting ties.

• Li Xingkong asked the system why he had to settle his karma, but the system lacked access to knowledge about Immortals and suggested he consult Yuanjun or Wan Chongshan if he met them.
• Li Xingkong reviewed the Human Immortal method and waited for Xiao Chongshan to absorb the Dao Immortal method so they could compare their paths.
• Xiao Chongshan explained that Dao Immortals had to control concepts connected to their Dao as well as their own concept, making their ascension more complicated than a Human Immortal's.
• Li Xingkong, Xiao Chongshan, and the system studied karma and learned that settling it meant completing unfinished causes and effects rather than severing connections.
• Li Xingkong realized that simply cutting off excess karma, as he had expected, would leave it incomplete instead of resolving it.

Li Xingkong learned that causality had to be settled by repaying kindness or avenging wrongs, and Xiao Chongshan eagerly prepared to return to take revenge on old enemies. After sending her through a portal, Li Xingkong was left wondering how to settle his own less straightforward causal ties.

• Li Xingkong heard Xiao Chongshan celebrate the requirement to settle causality and asked what she was hiding.
• Xiao Chongshan showed Li Xingkong her grudge book, explaining that most of its listed names had been dealt with and that she planned to settle the remaining grudges.
• Xiao Chongshan said she would return to take revenge on three old enemies, while Li Xingkong accepted her decision and warned against letting killing intent cloud her mind.
• Li Xingkong sent Xiao Chongshan through a portal, and the system emerged from hiding after she left.
• Li Xingkong and the system discussed their fear of Xiao Chongshan, then Li Xingkong worried that he had no clear way to determine whether his own causality was settled.

Li Xingkong and the system reviewed his grudges and debts of gratitude to sort out his karma before he became an Immortal. They finished compiling a long list of people and civilizations to repay or visit, leaving Li Xingkong with a round of visits to make.

• Li Xingkong named the Holy Church of Truth's leader and the Snail People's Intelligent Brains as unresolved enemies, while deciding his other old grudges were settled or too distant to count.
• Li Xingkong listed Huan, the Kilometer Arc, the Jade Void Palace, and Wan Chongshan among those who had helped him, and resolved to give back to the Jade Void Palace through future service.
• The system reminded Li Xingkong to account for the people and civilizations he had helped, since their growth also involved his karma.
• Li Xingkong and the system identified Shengxin, Ajieta, Albert, and civilizations affected by his Golden Core Perfection breakthrough as people and groups he should visit or repay.

Li Xingkong visited Yuanjun before leaving on a journey to settle his karma and asked her about cultivation. The chapter ended as he asked how becoming an Immortal related to karma.

• Li Xingkong decided to visit Yuanjun before leaving to settle his karma and asked the system whether she was free.
• Li Xingkong arrived at Yuanjun’s hall and found her drinking with Wan Chongshan after a banquet.
• Wan Chongshan gave Li Xingkong a cup of Cloud-Piercing Wind, whose conceptual drunkenness made him feel like a drifting cloud and breeze.
• Li Xingkong told Yuanjun he had chosen the path of a Human Immortal and was preparing to leave on a journey to settle his karma.
• Li Xingkong asked Yuanjun what connection there was between becoming an Immortal and karma.

Wan Chongshan demonstrated to Li Xingkong how Immortals could manipulate unsettled karmic ties to alter a person’s past and loyalties. She explained why cultivators had to settle their karmic ties before ascending to Immortality, leaving Li Xingkong alarmed by the threat.

• Wan Chongshan showed Li Xingkong his karmic ties and explained that unsettled threads could be manipulated.
• Wan Chongshan altered one thread, causing Li Xingkong to believe she had been the benefactor who helped him before he began cultivating.
• Wan Chongshan released the thread, and Li Xingkong realized she had attacked him through causality.
• Wan Chongshan warned that an enemy could replace all of someone’s karmic ties and make them loyal unto death.
• Wan Chongshan recounted how a causality cultivator had manipulated the Martial Immortal’s ties and explained that karmic ties had to be settled before ascending to Immortality.

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.