Recaps

Lu Li emerged from a hundred years of seclusion after attaining Spirit Transformation, and his enormous Five-Colored Dragon Might Vajra Dharma Manifestation astonished Litian Prefecture City. He tested his new Primordial Spirit and prepared to examine the jade pendant’s changes.

• Muffled booms announced Lu Li’s emergence, and Xu Xiong, Ye Xiaoyun, Jiang Yan, and the people of Litian Prefecture City recognized the Dao Lord’s presence.
• Lu Li’s ten-thousand-meter Five-Colored Dragon Might Vajra Dharma Manifestation appeared above the city, shocking Yinyang Qingfan with its power.
• Hundreds of thousands of cultivators and citizens bowed and congratulated Lu Li on attaining the Dao as a Divine Lord.
• Lu Li withdrew his manifestation and summoned his Primordial Spirit, marveling at its abilities and the power of Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Li recalled how he had advanced from Nascent Soul Middle Stage over the hundred years of seclusion, then turned his attention to the jade pendant.

After a hundred years of seclusion, Lu Li broke through to Spirit Transformation and discovered that his jade pendant’s space had gained a growing region of vitality. He realized that Blood Qi and spiritual materials could nourish it, leaving him hopeful that it might one day become a world of its own.

• Lu Li examined the jade pendant after advancing to Spirit Transformation and witnessed its familiar vision of immortals and a flying blade.
• The vision changed as the blade absorbed the shattered heaven and earth, and Lu Li discovered that the pendant’s space now contained a living, palm-sized area.
• Lu Li fed a Nascent Soul Demon Beast’s Blood Qi into the pendant and confirmed that its vital region grew, while spiritual materials could nourish it too.
• Lu Li moved a Spirit Plant into the vital region and sensed that it became more lively, though it did not visibly grow.
• Lu Li imagined that the pendant’s space could eventually sustain life and become a small world, then reflected that Great Xia must have changed during his century of seclusion.

In Year 163 of the Spirit Transformation, children visiting Bureau 749’s Luosongji branch learned about Lu Li’s sacrifices and vowed to cultivate in the Saint Region, generating a surge of karmic luck across Blue Star. At Great Xia’s headquarters, Li Qingshan saw that global karmic luck had reached a historic peak, and Lu Li’s long-dormant jade pendant suddenly lit up.

• A teacher led children through the Luosongji branch of Bureau 749, where they learned about its role in protecting Great Xia and saw records of past battles.
• The teacher explained that Lu Li had spent sixty years in another world sending cultivation methods, pills, and Law Artifacts back to Great Xia, and the children vowed to follow in his footsteps.
• The children’s reverence and resolve produced karmic luck that flowed across Blue Star toward Great Xia.
• Bureau 749’s monitoring Law Artifact recorded rising karmic luck across regions and announced that the global total had exceeded its historical peak.
• Li Qingshan reflected that Great Xia had honored Lu Li’s trust and wondered about his seclusion before Lu Li’s jade pendant suddenly lit up.

After a century of seclusion, Lu Li contacted Bureau 749 and reported that he had become a Spirit Transformation Divine Lord, while still failing to comprehend a Divine Ability. The chapter ended with Li Qingshan wondering how powerful Lu Li would be once he succeeded.

• Bureau 749 activated its highest combat readiness alert when the jade pendant communications device came online, and Li Qingshan connected the call.
• Lu Li greeted Li Qingshan and explained that he had reached Spirit Transformation after a century of cultivation and sent back a Jade Slip of his insights.
• Lu Li described creating the fifth-tier Five Primal Dragon True Instruction, which used the five elements and Dragon Qi to improve cultivation and condense five elements dragon essence.
• Lu Li reported strengthening his body and Divine Soul with Spirit Transformation tiger bones, Essence Blood, and the Through-Arm Vajra Formula.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan that his exceptional aptitude and foundation had made comprehending a Divine Ability extremely difficult, and that he still had no leads.
• Li Qingshan expressed awe at imagining how powerful Lu Li would become after comprehending his Divine Ability.

Lu Li told Li Qingshan that his jade pendant had developed a growing patch of vital land, and Great Xia revealed its conclusion about why Lu Li could not return home. The chapter ended with Lu Li declaring that the karma binding him to the worlds would be settled before he became an immortal.

• Lu Li admitted that he still had no leads on how to comprehend a Divine Ability, and Li Qingshan reassured him before asking about his jade pendant.
• Lu Li described a hundred-meter patch of life-filled land inside the pendant that might eventually develop Spiritual Power, stunning the command hall.
• Lu Li speculated that the pendant could one day become a world and allow him to return to Blue Star.
• Li Qingshan shared Great Xia's research, explaining that the nation believed Lu Li's arrival in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm had been inevitable and that the Heavenly Dao was obstructing his return.
• Lu Li accepted the conclusion and declared that he would settle this karma before becoming an immortal.

Lu Li learned that Great Xia had united Blue Star and was preparing its first deep-space fleet to explore the Solar System’s unusually rich Spiritual Qi. He warned Li Qingshan about the dangers of spiritual transformation beyond Blue Star, then asked to speak privately with his father.

• Lu Li and Li Qingshan discussed the Dao Court’s growth over the past century, including its expanded territory, recovered population, and larger cultivation forces.
• Lu Li sent Great Xia a report on the Dao Court’s development and described major events, including suppressing the sea race, universal spiritual awakening, and forming mixed human-demon units.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Great Xia had taken control of Blue Star, restructured its nations, expanded overseas, and greatly increased its population and Dragon Qi.
• Li Qingshan explained that Great Xia had monitored spiritual transformation across the Solar System and was preparing a deep-space fleet to establish cultivation outposts on Europa and Mars.
• Lu Li warned Li Qingshan that deep-space regions with denser Spiritual Qi could hold greater dangers, then ended the briefing and asked to speak privately with his father.

After emerging from a century of seclusion, Lu Li reunited with his father through a jade pendant and sent his mother back to Blue Star. He realized mortal souls could not be preserved indefinitely and resolved to develop the pendant’s world, ending by asking Primordial Beginning to total the Dao Court’s wealth.

• Lu Dahai excitedly told Lu Li about his Golden Core, his travels, and strange threats near Blue Star, then asked him to send Liu Xiulan home.
• Lu Li reassured his father, discussed his cultivation, and ended their transmission before sending Liu Xiulan back to Blue Star.
• Lu Li sensed that mortal souls had a limited time outside their bodies and concluded that ordinary people would eventually need to undergo reincarnation.
• Lu Li wondered whether the growing jade pendant could create its own rules and shelter souls from the laws of the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li decided to accelerate the pendant’s development by spending wealth and asked Primordial Beginning to compile the Dao Court’s surplus from the past century.

Lu Li reviewed the Dao Court’s century of revenue and expenditures, learning that it had accumulated a surplus of one billion mid-grade spirit stones. He then saw Primordial Beginning’s plan to expand across the Endless Sea and make the Dao Court’s official debut in the Eastern Wasteland.

• Lu Li ordered the Heart of Primordial Beginning to retrieve the Dao Court’s century of financial records and development plans.
• The Heart projected records showing that the Dao Court had earned 17.5 billion mid-grade spirit stones and spent 16.5 billion, leaving a surplus of one billion.
• Lu Li reflected on the Dao Court’s rapid growth during his century in seclusion and decided to use the surplus to accelerate the jade pendant space’s growth.
• Lu Li read Primordial Beginning’s plan to establish a presence across the Endless Sea, connect the four continents, and debut in the Eastern Wasteland.

After emerging from a century of seclusion, Lu Li set the Dao Court’s next objective: develop the four continents and prepare to challenge the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools. He reunited with the Dao Court’s leaders and invited them to join him on an inspection tour.

• Lu Li reviewed the Dao Court’s plans and ordered preparations to link the four continents and elevate the Missionary Hall into a division led by Yuanhao.
• Lu Li approved the strategic objective of developing the four continents and pointing the Dao Court’s sword at the Central Continent.
• Lu Li summoned the division heads who were waiting outside the spell hall.
• Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Li Nanci, Xu Xiong, and Lu Yao greeted Lu Li and reunited with him after his long seclusion.
• Lu Li told his disciples and subordinates to accompany him on an incognito inspection tour of the Dao Court’s lands.

Lu Li planned an incognito inspection of the Dao Court and revealed its first independently crafted sixth-tier Law Warship. He and his companions departed for Litian Prefecture, while a white-robed figure appeared behind them and hesitated over whether to approach.

• Lu Li asked Primordial Beginning to plan an inspection route through the Dao Court's important offices and dangerous regions, and approved a route covering Litian Prefecture, Jingxi Prefecture, and the frontier Army Suppression Division.
• Primordial Beginning summoned a sixth-tier Void Breaking-class Law Warship, which Xu Xiong recognized and Li Nanci explained had been crafted by the Artifact Manufacturing Division using a tome from Lu Yao and Primordial Beginning.
• Lu Li reflected that Great Xia's Spirit Machinery research had enabled the Dao Court to craft strategic Spirit Machinery beyond its cultivators' level.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to transfer eighty percent of the Dao Court's accumulated resources into the warship, then departed with his companions for Litian Prefecture.
• A white-robed figure appeared in the sky behind the warship and wondered whether to go over and greet Lu Li.

Yinyang Qingfan followed Lu Li through the void, planning how to reveal herself and make him acknowledge her. After seeing him withstand and study void turbulence without Spiritual Power, she worried that the enemies ahead might not pose a real threat to him.

• Yinyang Qingfan watched Lu Li's magical vessel depart, then decided to wait until he faced danger before revealing herself.
• Yinyang Qingfan followed Lu Li through space, while Elder Jian reflected on her plans and explained Dongfang Jiangxue's past and connection to the Yin-Yang School.
• Yinyang Qingfan told Elder Jian to help her earn Lu Li's acknowledgment, and he promised to support her as long as she did not act recklessly.
• Yinyang Qingfan observed Lu Li stand unprotected in the void turbulence and handle it with curiosity.
• Yinyang Qingfan questioned whether the enemies gathered from the four continents could threaten Lu Li and hoped her clan descendants would not be too useless.

During an incognito inspection of the Dao Court, Lu Li listened to reports on its growth and demonstrated that his body could withstand the void turbulence without Spiritual Power. He barred his entourage from using communication Jade Slips, while several deputies grew nervous, and then asked Primordial Beginning to transfer all spiritual materials to his cabin's spell hall.

• Lu Changming and the other division leaders reported how the Dao Court and Hidden Dragon Academy had developed during Lu Li's century in seclusion.
• Lu Yao speculated that Lu Li had mastered the power of subspace, while Lu Li crushed void turbulence in his bare hand and considered his immense physical strength.
• Lu Li returned to the magic vessel, approved the Dao Court's progress, and ordered everyone to refrain from using communication Jade Slips during the inspection.
• Ying Fengquan saw the inspection as a chance to distinguish himself, while several high-ranking deputies grew nervous and tried unsuccessfully to send messages.
• Lu Li went to his cabin's spell hall and told Primordial Beginning to transfer all spiritual materials there.

Lu Li fed the jade pendant the Dao Court’s vast treasury, causing its inner space to expand as he considered why Great Xia’s pendant remained unchanged. He then turned to contemplating his Divine Ability and realized that his Dao Path was the road home.

• Lu Li released the jade pendant and had it devour the cultivation supplies stored aboard the spellship.
• The pendant absorbed the resources and rapidly expanded its land of vitality, though Lu Li expected the full treasury to take months to consume.
• Lu Li recalled that Great Xia’s half of the pendant had shown no change, and he accepted that he might need to return to Blue Star to awaken it.
• Lu Li began contemplating his Divine Ability, weighing Dragon Qi, his five attributes, and adamantine intent as possible foundations.
• Lu Li concluded that his Dao Path was the road home.

Lu Li realized that his desire to return home could guide him toward comprehending a Divine Ability, then arrived at the Hidden Dragon Academy to inspect its headquarters and educational system. As he surveyed the exceptional students gathered there, he wondered why heaven’s chosen seemed to be everywhere.

• Lu Li recognized returning home as the direction of his Dao Path and decided to use it as the foundation for comprehending a Divine Ability.
• Primordial Beginning announced that the arcane vessel was nearing the Hidden Dragon Academy, and Lu Li ended his contemplation.
• Lu Li arrived at the academy’s headquarters and asked Lu Changming why it had been built between the two prefectures.
• Lu Changming explained the academy’s location, strict discipline, and its elementary, intermediate, and advanced branches; Lu Li praised the system and urged the Dao Propagation Division to strengthen its branches.
• Lu Li swept the headquarters with his Divine Sense, found many unusual students, and wondered why heaven’s chosen were everywhere.

Lu Li discovered that mortal student Chen Xuan had a golden thread of Qi, but chose not to investigate or interfere with his path. After the Dao Court’s ship departed, Yinyang Qingfan gave Chen Xuan several treasures and considered using secrets about Eastern Wasteland prodigies to make herself more useful to Lu Li.

• Lu Li sensed promising students in the academy city and noticed a golden thread of Qi above the mortal Chen Xuan.
• Primordial Beginning displayed Chen Xuan’s records, showing he had no spirit root, cultivation aptitude, or special background despite his academic achievements.
• Lu Li reconsidered his impulse to investigate Chen Xuan and decided to leave him alone to follow his own fate.
• After the Dao Court’s ship departed, Yinyang Qingfan dropped spiritual materials and treasures onto Chen Xuan’s instep.
• Yinyang Qingfan planned to share secrets about Eastern Wasteland prodigies with Lu Li in hopes of becoming his Dao protector.

Yinyang Qingfan arranged for a dragon pearl and an ancient jade slip to appear in Lu Li’s path, hoping to make him aware of a coming crisis and later earn his favor by saving him. Lu Li found the treasure and discovered the jade slip hidden inside it.

• Yinyang Qingfan decided to use the coming threat against the Western Continent to improve her standing with Lu Li, and followed his spellship through the void.
• Yinyang Qingfan asked Elder Jian how to plant the jade slip without arousing suspicion, and he suggested hiding it in Ao Qing’s flood dragon pearl with a false remnant-soul trace.
• Yinyang Qingfan fused the ancient jade slip with the dragon pearl and cast them into the turbulent void currents ahead of Lu Li’s spellship.
• Lu Li sensed a dragon presence, found the blood-red pearl, and dismissed the faint remnant of Ao Qing’s presence.
• Lu Li recognized the pearl as an exceptionally valuable flood dragon pearl and wondered if finding it was a fortuitous opportunity.
• Lu Li sensed that a jade slip was inside the dragon pearl and froze in surprise.

Lu Li discovered an ancient Jade Slip inside Ao Qing's dragon pearl and learned that it described powerful factions across the Eastern Wasteland. The records seemed far weaker than Elder Jian's account, leaving Lu Li unsure whether the Jade Slip was outdated as he considered expanding his influence beyond the Western Continent.

• Lu Li found an ancient Jade Slip inside Ao Qing's dragon pearl and subdued the pearl's karmic sin while his companions watched.
• Lu Li examined the Jade Slip's detailed records of factions and geniuses across the Eastern Wasteland and Central Continent.
• Yinyang Qingfan mistook Lu Li's reaction to the Jade Slip for anxiety, then froze when he murmured, "That's it?"
• Lu Li compared the Jade Slip's accounts of the Central Continent and the other continents with Elder Jian's claims and found major discrepancies.
• Lu Li considered bringing the other continents under his sway if the records were true, and wished their geniuses would come challenge him.

Lu Li found Ao Qing’s flood dragon pearl in the void and traveled to Imprisoned Dragon Mountain to visit Ye Chenfeng. Yinyang Qingfan watched him leave and resolved to warn him about the Sea Race, convinced its strength would shake his confidence.

• Lu Li put away the jade slip, learned from Primordial Beginning that Imprisoned Dragon Mountain was nearby, and decided to visit it and Ye Xiaoyun’s father, Ye Chenfeng.
• Lu Li’s vessel returned to reality and approached Imprisoned Dragon Mountain, where rogue cultivators gathered Sha Qi from the mountain’s dangerous outskirts.
• Lu Li summoned Ye Xiaoyun, who said his father was deep within the mountain, and the vessel flew onward.
• Yinyang Qingfan emerged after Lu Li departed and wondered whether he already possessed combat strength on par with Tribulation Transcendence.
• Yinyang Qingfan decided to prepare another jade slip describing the Endless Western Sea’s Sea Race forces to make Lu Li take them seriously.

Lu Li reunited with Ye Chenfeng on Imprisoned Dragon Mountain and promised to avenge Elder Jian and Dongfang Jiangxue. As he prepared to leave with Ye Chenfeng, the jade pendant in his spiritual platform urged him to devour the mountain’s karmic evil.

• Ye Xiaoyun told Lu Li how Ye Chenfeng had cultivated on Imprisoned Dragon Mountain while carrying guilt over Elder Jian’s abduction.
• Lu Li drew out Ye Chenfeng, who greeted his senior brother after a century apart and struggled to speak about Elder Jian.
• Lu Li promised Ye Chenfeng that he would avenge Elder Jian and Dongfang Jiangxue if Yinyang Qingfan appeared again.
• Yinyang Qingfan heard Lu Li’s vow, then offered Elder Jian a fortuitous opportunity in exchange for his cooperation, and Elder Jian silently agreed.
• As Lu Li prepared to take Ye Chenfeng away, the fish-shaped jade pendant shook and urged him to devour Imprisoned Dragon Mountain.

Lu Li lifted Imprisoned Dragon Mountain and stored it in his jade pendant, where its sin, resentment, and remnants of Ao Qing greatly accelerated the pendant’s growth. The mountain’s power also manifested as a black dragon beside Lu Li’s golden dragon, leading Yinyang Qingfan to realize he possessed Emperor Fate.

• Lu Li told his companions to stand back and declared that Imprisoned Dragon Mountain would be his.
• Lu Li summoned his immense five-colored Vajra Dharma Manifestation and tore Imprisoned Dragon Mountain from the earth.
• Lu Li stored the mountain in his jade pendant, whose land of vitality devoured its sin, resentment, Blood Qi, and remains while rapidly expanding.
• Sin-and-resentment Qi from the mountain flowed back into Lu Li’s manifestation and formed a black dragon beside his golden dragon.
• Yinyang Qingfan witnessed the two dragons and realized that Lu Li had Emperor Fate, not Dragon Fate.

Yinyang Qingfan recognized Lu Li’s combined Kingly Dao and Karmic Affinity Dragon Qi as the legendary Emperor Aspect and revealed herself to submit to him. When Lu Li questioned whether he could trust her, she offered him the essence of her natal Divine Soul so he could control her life and death.

• Yinyang Qingfan saw the gold and black Dragon Qi around Lu Li and identified it as the Emperor Aspect, which represented power over life and death.
• Yinyang Qingfan emerged before Lu Li and the Dao Court, then isolated herself with Lu Li and bowed, pledging to guard his path.
• Lu Li questioned why Yinyang Qingfan had appeared, and she said she had watched him for over a hundred years and had witnessed the only possibility in her life.
• Lu Li doubted that he could trust her, so Yinyang Qingfan drew out the essence of her natal Divine Soul and offered it to him for control.
• Yinyang Qingfan removed her concealment and declared before the Dao Court that all her remaining life belonged to Lu Li.

Yinyang Qingfan submitted to Lu Li and spent nine days discussing secrets and the coming conflict with him. Lu Li emerged with a new trump card and ordered the Dao Court to prepare for war, beginning its campaign to bring the four continents under control and confront the Central Continent.

• Yinyang Qingfan offered Lu Li her natal Divine Soul essence and followed him into the artifact ship’s hall to discuss matters in private.
• After nine days, Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan emerged, and Lu Li ordered everyone to continue their journey.
• Lu Li directed Primordial Beginning to head for the Ten Thousand Spirits Division’s main camp and the Army Suppression Division in the frontier waters of Pacify the West.
• Lu Li told everyone that prodigies from across the Eastern Wasteland were advancing on the Western Continent and that the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools posed a serious threat.
• Lu Li decreed that all eleven divisions and the cultivators of the two prefectures and their commanderies prepare for war and gather in the maritime frontier of Pacify the West.

Lu Li learned from Yinyang Qingfan that his Fate Pattern bore the signs of Emperor Fate, which he could attain only by gathering Imperial Dao purple Qi through ruling an entire realm. He asked which great realm she came from, and she named it Desolation.

• Yinyang Qingfan explained that Lu Li’s two kinds of Dragon Qi made his Fate Pattern show signs of Emperor Fate, but that he still needed Imperial Dao purple Qi to attain it.
• Yinyang Qingfan revealed that gathering Imperial Dao purple Qi required sole dominion over a realm, a feat Lu Li could not yet accomplish in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li wondered whether unifying the world containing Great Xia might also let him obtain Imperial Dao purple Qi, then set the idea aside as unrealistic.
• Lu Li asked Yinyang Qingfan which great realm she came from, and she answered that it was called Desolation.

Lu Li learned that Yinyang Qingfan’s former world was Primordial Desolation, the legendary realm connected to Blue Star and Great Xia. She revealed that Great Desolation had been emptied when time itself broke, leaving Lu Li with the name “Silent Ruins” as a possible clue.

• Yinyang Qingfan explained that her former world was called Desolation and that its oldest name was Primordial Desolation.
• Lu Li recognized Primordial Desolation from Blue Star’s myths and realized Blue Star and Great Xia were the legendary upper realm.
• Yinyang Qingfan recounted how the Human Dao rose after the eight emperors and how the Heavenly Court ruled for a hundred million years.
• Yinyang Qingfan said Great Desolation collapsed in a cataclysm, destroying the Three Realms and severing reincarnation.
• Yinyang Qingfan described seeing time break and a mighty being freeze and vanish, leaving Great Desolation empty of all living beings and traditions.
• Yinyang Qingfan recalled finding the term “Silent Ruins” in an ancient text fragment.

Yinyang Qingfan explained that the Great Desolation had perished, leaving cultivators of the Imprisoned Dragon Realm to smuggle themselves into other greater realms to ascend. Lu Li connected the Great Desolation’s fate to Blue Star and the jade pendant, then discovered why Great Xia could transmit only the souls of people at the ends of their lives.

• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that the Great Desolation had become the Silent Ruins and that ascension now required smuggling into another greater immortal domain.
• Yinyang Qingfan explained that territories across the Imprisoned Dragon Realm concealed their fortune and Spiritual Qi so cultivators could ascend without being detected.
• Lu Li reasoned that Blue Star belonged to the Great Desolation, which had perished and might face the Silent Ruins again, and resolved to prepare and tell Great Xia about its past.
• Lu Li inspected the fish-shaped jade pendant and found that its inner space had grown into a nascent world after absorbing resources and Imprisoned Dragon Mountain.
• Lu Li prepared to contact Great Xia, then realized why it could transmit only the souls of people nearing the ends of their lives.