Chapter Summaries

Li Xingkong weighed the Human Immortal path against the option of fusing with a great Dao to become a Dao Immortal. He chose to pursue a new approach: assembling a complete Immortal by using his Human Immortal cultivation as a foundation and concepts from various great Daos as components.

• Li Xingkong read Yuanjun's analysis, which described how Human Immortals lacked the connection to a great Dao that gave Dao Immortals room to grow.
• The system suggested that Li Xingkong could become a Human Immortal first, then fuse with a great Dao and follow the Dao Immortal path.
• Li Xingkong judged that route might not be as simple as it seemed and decided to try a new idea before treating it as a fallback.
• Li Xingkong compared his cultivation to a desktop motherboard and proposed assembling a complete Immortal from concepts drawn from various great Daos.

Li Xingkong developed his idea for a Human Immortal cultivation path based on loading Great Daos as modules, and learned how other factions resisted Dao Immortals’ control. He identified three major obstacles and planned to refine the idea before seeking Yuanjun’s guidance.

• Li Xingkong decided his first step was to make himself a sturdier motherboard that could escape the Dao Immortals’ control without relying on the Jade Void Palace’s Interception Dao.
• The system searched its records and told Li Xingkong that the Demon Clan used the Dao of Delay, the Witch Clan used the Dao of Defense, and other factions relied on methods such as Deception and Concealment.
• Li Xingkong realized that resisting the Dao Immortals’ control might be possible and considered ways to intercept, resist, or deceive them.
• Li Xingkong identified three problems: escaping the Dao Immortals’ control, obtaining Great Dao modules, and enduring conflicts between multiple Daos.
• Li Xingkong wrote down his ideas and decided to refine them before asking Yuanjun for guidance and help.

Li Xingkong and the system finalized a preliminary cultivation plan, then began preparing to advance the system into an immortal artifact. As Li Xingkong studied the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art, the system searched for concepts that could resist a Dao Immortal’s control and found piracy and self as two unclaimed possibilities.

• Li Xingkong and the system spent more than three months drafting a cultivation plan and decided to put the system’s advancement on the agenda.
• The system explained that Li Xingkong would refine it into his conceptualized body, then gave him the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art.
• Li Xingkong spent nearly half a month receiving the art and had the Hexagram analyze and cultivate it so he could later advance the system.
• Li Xingkong asked the system to find concepts that could resist a Dao Immortal’s control, and it reported that disguise was already claimed.
• The system identified piracy and self as unclaimed concepts, noting that piracy was taboo while self could belong to every immortal.

Li Xingkong chose to cultivate the Dao of the self so he could resist interference from other Dao Immortals, then used his leisure to upgrade an old divine ability. He demonstrated his altered Five Elements Divine Light by capturing a towering wonder from his small world, along with its inhabitants, as a model.

• Li Xingkong recalled rejecting piracy as too similar to copying and decided the Dao of the self was the safer path to cultivate.
• With the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art still being deduced, Li Xingkong passed the time by revisiting and upgrading his old divine abilities.
• Li Xingkong modified the Five Elements Divine Light to resemble the Five-Color Divine Light and sensed it requesting approval from the Dao Immortal governing the five elements.
• After the Jade Void Palace approved the request, Li Xingkong used the Divine Light to remove a towering wonder from his small world and hold it as a model with its inhabitants still inside.

Li Xingkong mastered the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art and used it to forge the system into an Immortal artifact. The system awoke in a new body modeled after the appearance it had jokingly described and angrily confronted Li Xingkong.

• Li Xingkong upgraded the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique into the great divine ability Manipulation of Creation and used it to create a universe from a leaf.
• After finishing the divine ability, Li Xingkong completed his deduction of the Taiyi Heaven-Refining Art and called the system over to forge it into an Immortal artifact.
• The system protested, but Li Xingkong seized it and broke its body down into nothingness before reshaping it.
• The system awoke in a new body resembling the multicolored sprite it had described, and it cursed Li Xingkong after seeing its reflection.

Li Xingkong approved his upgraded system’s request to share his immense computing power, then entered seclusion to cultivate the Dao of Self. After a century, he had glimpsed how Immortals contended over portions of Daos and how the Dao of Self could redirect information and authorize itself.

• Li Xingkong’s upgraded system discovered its new shared-computing function, and Li Xingkong approved its repeated requests to use his computing power.
• The system urged Li Xingkong to enter seclusion so it could read Human Immortal texts, and Li Xingkong agreed and went to his seclusion chamber.
• After ten years of cultivation, Li Xingkong touched the edge of the Dao of Self and glimpsed the conceptual self.
• After a hundred years, Li Xingkong saw how information connected Immortals and learned that multiple Immortals could occupy different portions of the same Dao.
• Li Xingkong observed how Tongtian Jiaozhu used the Interception Dao to sever interaction information and imitate approval, then understood that the Dao of Self could redirect outward information inward and use one’s own will as authorization.

After mastering the basics of the Dao of Self, Li Xingkong sought Yuanjun’s advice on finding concepts for his cultivation path. Yuanjun revealed that the Eternal Battlefield held many concepts but was extremely dangerous, and Li Xingkong chose to go there.

• Li Xingkong emerged from 2,000 years of seclusion with the basics of the Dao of Self, which let him resist other Dao Immortals’ control and use Dao arts freely outside the Jade Void Palace.
• Li Xingkong and the system decided to ask Yuanjun how to obtain different concepts for his cultivation method.
• Li Xingkong explained his plan and showed Yuanjun his progress, and she guessed that he needed help finding concepts.
• Yuanjun suggested cultivating concepts alone, negotiating with fellow senior brothers, or searching the Eternal Battlefield, where conflicts across time and races were confined.
• Li Xingkong chose to go to the dangerous Eternal Battlefield to collect concepts.

Yuanjun explained that the Eternal Battlefield gathered conflicts from across the Primordial World’s history into the Era of Chaos, and Li Xingkong prepared to enter it. He surveyed the Jade Void Palace marketplaces to learn common combat practices, then decided he did not need a detection artifact because his system could scan for danger.

• Yuanjun told Li Xingkong that the entire Primordial World became the Eternal Battlefield during the Era of Chaos, where cultivators at or above the Nascent Soul stage fought across time.
• Yuanjun advised Li Xingkong to follow the river of time back with the Moonlight Record and reminded him that Jade Void members must not attack one another.
• Li Xingkong left Yuanjun and visited the Jade Void Palace marketplaces to learn about combat methods and prepare for the battlefield.
• Li Xingkong observed that Nascent Soul cultivators mainly traded encrypted blueprints for goods, cultivation pills, and defensive treasures that detected changes in surrounding rules.
• The system told Li Xingkong it could detect danger, so he decided he did not need to buy a detection artifact.

Li Xingkong explored the Immortals’ marketplace, learning how immortal qi was traded and how Immortals found work and bought combat treasures. He left the Great Unity of Heaven and Earth without buying anything, but gained a clearer understanding of the marketplace’s goods.

• Li Xingkong visited the All-Treasure Pavilion and learned that Immortals deposited and withdrew standardized immortal qi tokens there.
• An attendant gave Li Xingkong the Qi Casting Art, which explained how to condense immortal qi into trade tokens.
• Li Xingkong explored the Star-Picking Tower and found world wills recruiting Immortals for jobs, but saw little work suited to him.
• Li Xingkong entered Great Unity of Heaven and Earth and examined the concepts behind its displayed Immortal tools.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the displayed treasures were limited-use consumables, unlike his system, a true life-bound Immortal artifact.

Li Xingkong learned that battles between Immortals depended on analyzing opponents, then used the Moonlight Record to travel back to the Chaotic Epoch. He arrived at a blood-red river on the battlefield and joined Jade Void Palace disciples fleeing as the Nether River began to awaken.

• Li Xingkong examined the market’s immortal artifacts and concluded that foresight and analysis were central to battles between Immortals.
• Li Xingkong returned to his small world, checked on Guapi, and absorbed Laojun’s sword into his body before activating the Moonlight Record.
• Li Xingkong reversed time to the Chaotic Epoch and arrived above a blood-red sea.
• Jade Void Palace disciples warned Li Xingkong that the Nether River was about to awaken, and he followed them toward safety.
• A disciple explained that the Nether River was the Demon Clan front line and devoured living beings when enough cultivators fell into it; Li Xingkong asked whether anyone could stop it.

Li Xingkong rescued three Jade Void disciples from Nether River and met Nether River, an Immortal who treated the bloodshed in the Era of Chaos as a source of food. Nether River explained that wars from every era converged in the Era of Chaos, and he had no intention of leaving his hunting ground.

• As Nether River began awakening and the cultivators feared Asuras would pursue them, Li Xingkong revealed his strength, carried the group to shore in one step, and introduced himself to Shao, Yisu, and Yu Fufu.
• Nether River surged and seized every living creature still in its waters with bloody hands.
• A blood-robed old man emerged from Nether River, and Li Xingkong recognized him as an Immortal tied to the river’s power.
• Nether River mocked Li Xingkong and explained that he ate those who entered his domain, while other Immortals were even more dangerous.
• Yu Fufu called the old eras remnants, and Nether River replied that wars from every era erupted in the Era of Chaos, making it a plentiful hunting ground for him.

Li Xingkong and his companions met Nether River, who returned the treasures of Jade Void Palace cultivators he had swallowed and let them go because of his agreement with the palace. They reached the Jade Void Base, where Li Xingkong saw a refuge spanning the Era of Chaos and learned that Immortals could not hear conversations inside it.

• Nether River told Li Xingkong's group that an agreement with Jade Void Palace kept him from attacking them outside his territory.
• Nether River gave Li Xingkong a pouch of magical treasures and weapons taken from dead Jade Void Palace cultivators, then vanished.
• Yisu invited Li Xingkong and the others to Jade Void Base, and Li Xingkong brought the group there through successive spatial shifts.
• Li Xingkong saw that Jade Void Base unified parallel spaces and timelines and had been built with the powers of many Immortals.
• An acquaintance greeted Yisu at the base, and Yisu explained to Fufu that Immortals could sense their names mentioned outside but could not hear them inside the base.

Li Xingkong brought the Nether River Bag to the Deacon Hall, where it triggered an escort mission that he completed immediately. In the Immortal Artifact Vault, he found a collection of stored concepts and settled on Dijiang’s Concept of Traversal to investigate.

• Li Xingkong followed Yisu and the others into the Jade Void Base and went with them to report at the Deacon Hall.
• Yisu, Shao, and Fufu reported their battle records and received more than 2,000 contribution points each, while Li Xingkong declined a mission and asked how to hand over the Nether River Bag.
• The Deacon Hall sent Li Xingkong to the pagoda’s third floor, where the Nether River Bag automatically accepted an escort mission for him.
• Li Xingkong handed the bag to the attendant, completed the mission, and was directed to the Immortal Artifact Vault to claim a reward.
• Li Xingkong found many stored concept fragments in the vault and focused on Dijiang’s Concept of Traversal.

Li Xingkong returned with the concept pearl and learned that Fufu and her companions knew little about the principles behind cultivation. After demonstrating how to create objects from nothing, he gave Fufu a magical Gourmet Tablecloth that could produce any food she remembered.

• Li Xingkong took the concept pearl and left the treasury, then followed Yisu and the others to their cave abode while absorbed in studying it.
• Fufu welcomed Li Xingkong and explained that establishing a cave abode required a mission, a permit, and expertise in spatial techniques.
• Li Xingkong learned that Fufu could not create objects from nothing, then demonstrated by conjuring a pile of snacks.
• Li Xingkong refined a tablecloth into a Gourmet Tablecloth and gave it to Fufu so she could produce food by thinking of it.

Li Xingkong expanded Fufu's cave abode into a vast small world and began studying the sealed concept of traversal. He left the concept wrapped in his Dao of Self so he could use it without merging it permanently into himself.

• Fufu activated Li Xingkong's tablecloth and was buried beneath the flood of snacks it produced before collecting the food and storing the cloth.
• After Fufu agreed, Li Xingkong used Manipulation of Creation to expand the cave abode into a small world, astonishing Yisu and Shao.
• Li Xingkong set up a secluded research site, told the others he would study there for a few days, and opened the concept bead's seal.
• Li Xingkong drew the concept of traversal into his body and wrapped it in his mastered concept of self to guard against Dijiang and keep the concept separate from himself.

Li Xingkong refined the concept of traversal into a talisman and spent centuries learning to wield it as easily as a Dao Immortal. He emerged from seclusion confident in his new power but wary of drawing Dijiang’s attention or provoking the battle immortals.

• Li Xingkong drew inspiration from Shendu’s talismans and planned to bind concepts to a true-self immortal body protected from outside interference.
• Li Xingkong entered seclusion to refine traversal, while Yisu and the others farmed medicinal fields in the cave abode.
• After nearly two hundred years, Yisu and the others noticed that movement in the cave abode randomly teleported them around, a side effect of Li Xingkong’s experiments.
• Li Xingkong formed traversal into a talisman and discovered that it let him leap across space and decades of time.
• Li Xingkong spent nearly five hundred years mastering the talisman, then emerged from seclusion and chose to use traversal cautiously.

After finishing his seclusion, Li Xingkong rewarded Yisu, Shao, and Fufu with magical puzzle balls and asked them about Immortal missions. He chose a group mission so he could observe Immortals fighting while relying on teammates for support.

• Li Xingkong ended his seclusion and decided to take missions to gain access to the Immortal Armament Vault and experience battle.
• Li Xingkong gave Yisu, Shao, and Fufu puzzle balls that could create unlimited copies of objects by consuming Magic Power.
• Yisu and Shao tested the puzzle balls and discovered they could replicate spirit plants and treasured weapons.
• Yisu explained the three kinds of Immortal missions: solo, group, and garrison missions.
• Li Xingkong ruled out solo and garrison missions and chose a group mission to witness Immortals fighting alongside teammates.

Li Xingkong filtered the Exquisite Pagoda’s missions and joined a large-scale battle at Flying Cloud Pass. There he met Liu Shinian, an Immortal whose Dao of Honesty and Trust prevented him from lying, and she pulled him into a team with her.

• Li Xingkong left Yisu and the others behind and returned to the Exquisite Pagoda to choose a group mission.
• He filtered out missions involving the Nether River and those requiring abilities he lacked, then accepted the nearly full Flying Cloud Pass mission.
• Liu Shinian approached Li Xingkong and offered to team up after learning it was his first mission.
• Li Xingkong introduced himself as a Human Immortal and discovered that Liu Shinian’s presence kept him from lying.
• Liu Shinian grabbed Li Xingkong and set off with him as his teammate.

Liu Shinian took Li Xingkong through the encampment market to receive temporary conceptual blessings before their deployment to Flying Cloud Pass. After gaining several layers of protection, support, and attack buffs, Li Xingkong felt better prepared for the mission.

• Liu Shinian brought Li Xingkong to Old Stone, who bestowed the concept of resilience on both of them.
• Li Xingkong learned that blessings were temporary concepts and that most Immortals paid for them with a share of their mission contributions.
• Liu Shinian led Li Xingkong to more shops, where they received Purification, Anchor, Lock-on, Perception, and Fire blessings.
• Li Xingkong felt fully armed and more confident about the upcoming operation.

Li Xingkong and Liu Shinian prepared to leave the encampment for Flying Cloud Pass, and Liu Shinian gave him a rare escape pearl and helped him disguise his scholarly bearing. As they waited at the gathering point, she warned him about the dangers of losing a teammate in the Era of Chaos and hinted at a painful past.

• Liu Shinian gave Li Xingkong a Time-Transcending Pearl that could return him to his own era if time and space were sealed on the battlefield.
• Liu Shinian identified Li Xingkong as a scholar rather than a battle Immortal, and he adjusted his bearing to resemble hers.
• Liu Shinian used her concept of integrity to make Li Xingkong's disguise seem natural.
• Li Xingkong and Liu Shinian reached the gathering point, where they waited alone among groups of Immortals.
• Liu Shinian told Li Xingkong about a former teammate who sacrificed his true spirit and charged back into danger after believing their captain had died.