Recaps

Lu Li told Great Xia that Blue Star was the Immortal Realm’s remnant, and that the Silent Ruins might return to destroy it. As the command hall struggled to face the danger, Lu Dahai urged everyone to fight and raised his flying sword.

• Lu Li realized Blue Star’s nature might explain why the jade pendant could transmit only the souls of the dead or the dying.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan that Blue Star was the Immortal Realm and revealed Yinyang Qingfan’s account of the Great Desolation and the Silent Ruins to Bureau 749.
• Li Qingshan and the others realized the Silent Ruins could descend again, while Lu Li admitted he had no plan to stop them.
• Lu Dahai pushed through the crowd, declared that Great Xia would fight the threat, and summoned his flying sword.

Lu Dahai’s words and Li Qingshan’s account of a village militia helped Bureau 749 overcome its despair and begin preparing for the Silent Ruins. Lu Li pledged to stand with them, and their discussion ended with his question about whether the Great Desolation’s Heavenly Dao was alive.

• Lu Dahai used his Spiritual Power to make a dramatic speech, and Li Qingshan said it restored his conviction.
• Li Qingshan recalled how Li Family Village’s militia had sacrificed themselves to cover the villagers’ retreat, inspiring the researchers to face the Silent Ruins.
• Li Qingshan ordered Bureau 749’s teams to model the Great Desolation using astronomical data and historical records.
• Lu Li promised Great Xia he would not retreat and sent them a Jade Slip containing his conjectures and Yinyang Qingfan’s secrets.
• Lu Li and Great Xia agreed to accelerate their expansion across the four continents and seize the resource-rich Endless Sea before advancing toward the Central Continent.
• Lu Li asked Li Qingshan whether the Great Desolation’s Heavenly Dao was alive if Blue Star’s universe was the Great Desolation.

Lu Li prepared the Dao Court for the threats posed by the four continents and the Endless Sea while considering how to use Ao Qing’s dragon pearl. Meanwhile, Yinyang Qingfan and Lu Changming confronted the delicate situation of sharing Dongfang Jiangxue’s body, and Jiangxue agreed to Qingfan’s proposed arrangement.

• Li Qingshan asked whether the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao knew what had happened in the Great Desolation, but Lu Li could only speculate about its role.
• Lu Li assessed the military and political threats from the four continents and the Endless Sea, and planned to contact the ruler of the Endless Western Sea after inspecting the western frontier.
• Lu Li chose to store Ao Qing’s dragon pearl for future use and began refining it.
• Yinyang Qingfan apologized to Lu Changming and offered to seal away her senses and Divine Soul at set times so he could be with Dongfang Jiangxue.
• Lu Changming demanded that Yinyang Qingfan leave Jiangxue’s body, but she said she could not; Jiangxue then agreed to the daily arrangement.

Lu Li inspected the Ten Thousand Spirits Division and the Army Suppression Division at Jingxi’s coastal frontier, uncovering corruption and signs of a rivalry between their leaders. As he prepared to reveal himself and take charge, he noticed a stooped figure whose presence seemed to carry dragon might.

• Lu Li finished refining the flood dragon pearl as his law ship returned from the void to Jingxi Prefecture.
• Yinyang Qingfan reflected on her decision to submit to Lu Li and anticipated a future struggle for emperor fate across the Imprisoned Dragon starry expanse.
• Ye Xiaoyun showed Lu Li the two divisions’ camps and explained that the Ten Thousand Spirits Division had moved its demon tribes close to the Army Suppression Division.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Jiang Wuxie and Dong Qing had spent years competing, and Lu Li considered letting Jiang earn merit and possibly become his disciple.
• Lu Li used his divine sense to uncover cultivators embezzling supplies and colluding with coastal commandery officials, then ordered Primordial Beginning to record them for removal.
• Lu Li noticed a stooped figure in the Army Suppression Division and wondered whether the familiar presence around him was dragon might.

Lu Li arrived at the Pacify the West Sea Frontier aboard a sixth-tier Void Breaking arcane ship and uncovered a demon spy in the Army Suppression Division. After receiving the divisions’ greetings, he ordered all troops to redeploy and confront the Western Sea Dragon Lord.

• Lu Li sensed dragon might from a disguised soldier and suspected the figure came from the Western Sea Dragon Manor.
• Lu Li revealed his arcane ship above the camps, and Gui Shiqi recognized its overwhelming presence and tried to flee.
• Lu Li summoned Gui Shiqi, whose disguise faltered as he approached, and the turtle demon confessed that he had infiltrated the Army Suppression Division to avoid the Ten Thousand Spirits Division’s strict rules.
• Jiang Wuxie and the gathered cultivators and demon troops welcomed Lu Li as the Dao Lord, while Nether Toad, Golden Ape, and Heavenly Wolf recognized him.
• Lu Li surveyed the assembled forces, looked toward the Endless Sea, and ordered all troops to redeploy and meet the Western Sea Dragon Lord.

Lu Li led the Dao Court’s two divisions in a vast fleet toward the Endless Western Sea to meet its Dragon Lord and learn the sea’s intentions. As the fleet advanced, Primordial Beginning purged corrupt personnel, and Gui Shiqi revealed that he served the Western Sea Dragon Manor.

• Lu Li ordered the two divisions to mobilize, purge concealed offenders, and accompany him to meet the Lord of the Endless Western Sea.
• The two divisions assembled a formidable fleet and sailed beneath the sea toward the Western Sea Dragon Manor.
• Primordial Beginning exposed and punished corrupt cultivators and Demon Beasts throughout the fleet.
• Lu Li questioned the trembling Gui Shiqi about whom he served and offered to spare him if he cooperated.
• Gui Shiqi identified himself as a servant of the Western Sea Dragon Manor and said his ancestor was its Turtle Chancellor.

Lu Li learned about the Western Sea Dragon Manor’s strength and its role in controlling the Sea Races, then decided to delay capturing the Dragon Lord. He planned to subdue the Sea Races first to prevent them from causing trouble.

• Gui Shiqi told Lu Li that his ancestor Gui Wance was the Dragon Manor’s powerful left chancellor and described the manor’s forces.
• Lu Li considered the threat of the Western Sea Dragon Manor and the limits of Yinyang Qingfan’s power against the Central Continent.
• Gui Shiqi explained that the Dragon Lord’s palace lay in a secret realm and that reaching it required crossing Sea Race territories.
• Lu Li ordered Ying Fengquan to take Gui Shiqi to the Ten Thousand Spirits Division and teach it the Dao Court’s ways.
• After Yinyang Qingfan warned that capturing the Dragon Lord could unsettle the Sea Races, Lu Li decided to subdue the races first.

Lu Li brought the Dao Court fleet into the Endless Western Sea to subdue its tribes and claim the region as the court’s domain. Ao Li refused to involve the Dragon Palace, leaving Gui Wance and Xuan Jing to decide whether to oppose the fleet themselves.

• Lu Li ordered the Dao Court’s forces to bring the Sea Race tribes into their fold, treating cooperative tribes favorably and capturing those who plotted treachery.
• The Dao Court fleet passed the Black Abyss Trench and entered the Western Sea.
• Ao Li ordered the tribes loyal to him to withdraw and avoid fighting the Dao Court, then announced that the Western Sea would decide its own affairs while he entered seclusion.
• Gui Wance and Xuan Jing agreed to act independently and prepare to confront the Dao Court’s forces.
• Gui Wance proposed that Xuan Jing lead the attack while Gui Wance brought his tribesmen in support.

Xuan Jing and Gui Wance agreed to muster their forces against the Dao Court, while Lu Li led the fleet toward the Ghost Crab Clan’s territory. As the Dao Court prepared to confront the clan, Jiang Wuxie mobilized his demon soldiers, determined to earn the expedition’s foremost merit and become Lu Li’s True Disciple.

• Xuan Jing accepted Gui Wance’s plan to gather troops against the Dao Court, and Gui Wance privately resolved to use the conflict to secure his clan’s interests.
• Lu Li advanced his cultivation and techniques with Yinyang Qingfan’s guidance while the Dao Court fleet traveled through the deep sea.
• Scouts reported that the fleet was approaching the Ghost Star Sea Abyss, home to the Ghost Crab Clan and its Nascent Soul chief.
• Lu Li ordered the Dao Court fleet to make contact, and its divisions formed up and prepared their spellships for battle.
• Jiang Wuxie mobilized a hundred thousand demon soldiers toward the Ghost Crab Clan’s encampment, determined to claim the expedition’s foremost merit.

The Dao Court’s fleet incorporated the Ghost Crab Clan into Western Sea Prefecture and conscripted Gui Laoliu as a commander in the Ten Thousand Spirits Division. As its forces spread through the sea, Lu Li ordered the flagship to sail for the Dragon Palace.

• Gui Laoliu reviewed the Ghost Crab Clan’s business returns and planned to take a Golden Core concubine before a tremendous crash shook the clan’s territory.
• The Dao Court announced that the Ghost Crab Clan had been incorporated into its jurisdiction and ordered Gui Laoliu to report for duty.
• A camp commander assigned the Ghost Crab Clan to provide guides, while Ten Thousand Spirits Division demons set out to explore the icy sea.
• A Golden Core cultivator registered Gui Laoliu as both patriarch of the Ghost Crab Clan and a commander of the Ten Thousand Spirits Division.
• Gui Laoliu saw the Dao Court’s immense fleets and great demons scattering across the sea, realizing the Ghost Crab Clan could not resist them.
• Yinyang Qingfan warned Lu Li that the dispersed forces might struggle to respond to danger, but Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to set sail for the Dragon Palace.

Lu Li agreed to begin preparing large-scale cross-world spirit descent, hoping to unite Great Xia and the Dao Court and protect Blue Star from the looming threat of the Silent Ruins. As Lu Yao laid out her remote-control system for souls and puppets, Lu Li questioned whether his spiritual power could sustain it continuously.

• Lu Li explained that he planned to subdue the Western Sea's tribes and demons before reaching the Dragon Palace, making the entire sea region submit to the Dao Court.
• Lu Yao asked to deploy the Spirit Puppet Division in the war and proposed using spirit descent as a fallback for Blue Star.
• Lu Li authorized preparations aboard the sixth-tier spellship and agreed to seek Great Xia's support.
• Lu Yao presented a plan to link Great Xia's and the Dao Court's Primordial Beginning systems so people could control puppets remotely through soul imprints.
• Lu Li considered how spirit descent could strengthen the Dao Court and help Great Xia survive the Silent Ruins, then wondered whether his spiritual power could sustain continuous large-scale transmission.

Lu Li judged that his immense Spiritual Power could support large-scale cross-world spirit descent and agreed with Great Xia to begin preparations. The chapter ended with Great Xia mobilizing for war readiness to send 180,000 Qi Refinement cultivators and 1.65 million preserved mortal souls to the Western Continent.

• Lu Li estimated that his Spiritual Power could sustain the spirit descent of 100,000 to 500,000 souls over a long period.
• Lu Li informed Li Qingshan that he wanted to attempt large-scale cross-world spirit descent, and Li Qingshan asked whether it would weaken him or even be possible.
• Li Qingshan reported that Great Xia had preserved 180,000 Qi Refinement souls and 1.65 million exceptional mortal souls from among roughly seven billion deaths.
• Lu Li agreed to begin preparations and welcomed Great Xia's people to cross worlds.
• Li Qingshan ordered regional leaders to report to Jing City, recalled Soul Information Research Institute staff, and raised Great Xia's resource mobilization level to war readiness.

Li Qingshan mobilized Great Xia for a massive cross-world Spirit Descent, summoning the governors of all twelve regions to Jing City. He asked them to produce Spirit Machinery structures for a million souls across their regions and assemble them in the Saint Region.

• Li Qingshan ordered preparations for a million-soul cross-world Spirit Descent, prompting Great Xia to approve the effort and activate its reserve resources and logistics network.
• Joseph Lin received an urgent summons concerning Senior Lu Li and left the Beautiful Region for the Saint Region.
• Chen Yongchang received the same summons during his clan's ancestral ceremony and hurried from the Kangaroo Region to Jing City.
• Abdul Salih read the urgent message while training at Victoria Falls and flew toward the African Continent Region's departure point.
• The eleven regional governors traveled to Jing City, where Li Qingshan told them to forge Spirit Machinery structures in their regions and assemble them in the Saint Region.

Li Qingshan organized the twelve regions to prepare equipment for a massive Cross-Realm Spirit Descent, while people across Great Xia volunteered to enter the cultivation world. Li Qingshan told Lu Li that the first group of 1.5 million participants was ready, and the nation planned to launch the descent in two months.

• Li Qingshan assigned the twelve regions quotas for producing and delivering Spirit Descent components within three months.
• The regional governors celebrated when Li Qingshan said Lu Li would contact them, then heard his call to battle in the command hall.
• Qi Hao learned about Cross-Realm Spirit Descent and told his wife, Li Wei, that she was qualified to participate and might gain a chance to obtain a real body.
• Great Xia finalized a participant list as Lu Li sent marine supplies, including farmable treasure fish, to Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that 1.5 million volunteers, including 150,000 Qi Refinement cultivators, were preparing for the first large-scale Spirit Descent in two months.

As Lu Li's warship advanced into the deep sea, Yinyang Qingfan killed a hidden Spirit-Piercing Jellyfish that had destroyed resource puppets. Primordial Beginning identified the nearby Eight-Armed Marsh as the territory of the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan, and Lu Li ordered the ship forward so he could test his strength against Void Return enemies.

• Lu Li's group gathered resources while the Dao Court prepared its first large-scale cross-world Spirit Descent and Lu Yao built a cross-world interaction branch center aboard the warship.
• The warship's pressure stunned a shoal of second-tier treasure fish, and resource puppets went to collect them.
• A concealed Spirit-Piercing Jellyfish shattered the puppets' runes, but Yinyang Qingfan sensed and killed the Perfected Spirit Transformation demon.
• Primordial Beginning detected the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan's territory in Eight-Armed Marsh and warned that its combat strength was unknown.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to enter Eight-Armed Marsh and told Yinyang Qingfan to hold back if they encountered Void Return Demon Beasts.

Lu Li arrived at Eight-Armed Marsh and announced that the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan would be incorporated into the Dao Court. When Wu Heng resisted and secretly sought reinforcements, Lu Li summoned his immense Dharma Manifestation, leaving Wu Heng stunned.

• Lu Li brought his spellship to Eight-Armed Marsh and declared that the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan would come under the Dao Court's jurisdiction.
• Wu Heng warned Lu Li to withdraw while secretly planning to stall him and alert the Left Chancellor's forces.
• Lu Li approached Wu Heng and recited the Dao Court's formal notice of incorporation.
• Lu Li summoned a ten-thousand-meter Vajra Dharma Manifestation, suppressing Wu Heng's clansmen with its residual might.
• Wu Heng stared at the manifestation and questioned whether it was a human Spirit Transformation Dharma Manifestation.

Lu Li trapped Wu Heng, an Early Void Return sea demon, and fought him with his Five-Attribute Vajra Twin Dragon Dharma Manifestation. Wu Heng’s attacks failed, and Lu Li crushed his tentacles and life-bound treasure, leaving the others stunned and Lu Li wondering why they broke so easily.

• Wu Heng recognized Lu Li as the Dao Court’s lord and tried to escape through a rift in the void, but Lu Li shut it before he could flee.
• Wu Heng revealed his enormous octopus true form and decided to stall for his clan’s reinforcements, while Yinyang Qingfan assured the others that Lu Li would not be hurt.
• Wu Heng attacked with Void principles, his life-bound Law Treasure, a Divine Ability, and his tentacles, but Lu Li’s Dharma Manifestation withstood the assault.
• Lu Li’s twin dragons scattered Wu Heng’s Divine Ability, and Lu Li crushed his tentacles and shattered his life-bound treasure.
• The warship’s passengers stared in shock as Wu Heng screamed, while Lu Li wondered why the demon had broken so quickly.

Lu Li defeated the Void Return sea demon Wu Heng with his Dharma Manifestation alone, then had Primordial Beginning assess his combat strength. After learning he might be able to fight a Dao Integration cultivator once he reached Void Return, Lu Li sensed that the jade pendant's space had changed again.

• Lu Li crushed Wu Heng and his Life-Bound Law Treasure with his Vajra Dharma Manifestation, then absorbed his remains and storage Law Treasure into the jade pendant's space.
• Primordial Beginning's puppets captured Wu Heng's Sea Race companions, and Lu Li ordered the spellship onward into the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan's territory.
• Lu Li asked Primordial Beginning to assess his battle, and its record rated his limit-breaking burst at Void Return Great Perfection while estimating that he could fight multiple opponents at that level.
• Primordial Beginning told Lu Li that he might be able to fight a Dao Integration cultivator after reaching Void Return.
• Lu Li sent his Divine Sense into the jade pendant and discovered that its space had changed again.

Lu Li discovered that absorbing a Void Return Sea Race demon beast had added oceanic Qi to the fish-shaped jade pendant’s space, then began comprehending the creature’s Divine Ability. After Wu Heng’s death alarmed the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan, Wu Huan suspected the Western Continent’s Dao Court was responsible and called on nearby Sea Race clans to prepare for Lu Li’s arrival.

• Lu Li examined the jade pendant’s growing land of vitality and new oceanic Qi, and speculated that the Endless Western Sea would further develop its laws.
• Lu Li confirmed that the jade pendant had enough resources, withdrew from its space, and began comprehending the Divine Ability used by the Void Return Sea Race member.
• The Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan discovered that Wu Heng’s life stone had cracked, and Wu Huan realized that one of the clan’s three Void Return cultivators had been killed.
• Wu Huan suspected that the master of the Western Continent’s Dao Court had killed Wu Heng and sent his second brother to summon the Left Chancellor and Right Marshal.
• Wu Huan ordered his clan to prepare for the intruder and decided to notify every nearby Void Return great clan that the Ink Octopus Clan would serve as a stronghold against the Dao Court.

The Swordfin Clan and other Western Sea clans mobilized to reinforce the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan, while Lu Li’s warship arrived at its heartland and demanded the clan submit to the Dao Court. Wu Huan attacked Lu Li before the reinforcements arrived, and Lu Li prepared to test his combat strength against him.

• The Swordfin Clan chief agreed to march against the Dao Court, and twelve Void Return cultivators from several clans headed for the Ink Octopus territory.
• Lu Li’s party reached the clan’s heartland aboard a sixth-tier magical warship, which announced that the Ink Octopus Clan had been incorporated into the Dao Court.
• Wu Huan broke through the warship’s spatial suppression and concluded that Lu Li was the real threat behind his third brother’s likely death.
• Wu Huan attacked first, while Yinyang Qingfan offered to capture him and Lu Li chose to face the stronger demon himself.

Lu Li tested his physical strength against Wu Huan, a powerful Sea Race demon, before defeating him with a barrage of six-armed punches. The Swordfin and Thunder Eel Clan Chiefs arrived to find Lu Li holding Wu Huan’s corpse, realizing he was the target they had planned to surround and kill.

• Lu Li fought Wu Huan using only his physique, and their first clash showed that Lu Li’s strength matched the great demon’s.
• Lu Li asked Primordial Beginning to record the exchange, while the injured Wu Huan decided to flee rather than keep clashing head-on.
• Wu Huan unleashed Great Ink Dyes the Sea, filling the area with ink that corroded spiritual light and blocked Divine Sense, then tried to escape.
• Yinyang Qingfan guided Lu Li toward Wu Huan through the darkness, and Lu Li grew five additional arms before pummeling the demon to death.
• The Swordfin Clan Chief and the Thunder Eel Clan Chief arrived and recognized that the human holding Wu Huan’s corpse was the person they had planned to surround and kill.

After killing Wu Huan, Lu Li faced eleven Void Return greater demons and charged them to test his combat strength. As their Divine Abilities converged on him, he calmly realized what Divine Abilities were.

• Lu Li stored Wu Huan’s body in his jade pendant after killing him, while Yinyang Qingfan warned him that eleven Void Return greater demons were approaching.
• Lu Li refused Yinyang Qingfan’s offer to intervene and challenged the approaching demons to fight him.
• The Swordfin patriarch urged the eleven demons to attack Lu Li together, promising rewards from the Dragon Palace and reminding them that the Left Chancellor and Right Marshal would arrive soon.
• The demons unleashed their true forms, Divine Abilities, and Void Principles, surrounding Lu Li with a vast, deadly assault.
• Lu Li’s charge slowed under the eleven Void Principles, and he stopped as the Divine Abilities struck toward him, remarking that he now understood Divine Abilities.

Cornered by eleven Void Return great demons, Lu Li comprehended a Divine Ability that manifested a hundred-li landscape of Great Xia and erased their attacks. After the Dao Court witnesses and Yinyang Qingfan recognized the power of the vision, Lu Li sensed his Divine Ability could grow stronger and challenged the demons to continue fighting.

• Facing eleven Void Return Divine Abilities, Lu Li recalled his longing for Great Xia and comprehended his own Divine Ability.
• Lu Li summoned a phantom landscape of Great Xia that shattered the demons’ Void Principles and dissolved all eleven Divine Abilities.
• The great demons were horrified, while the Dao Court witnesses stared in astonishment and Elder Jian declared that Lu Li had summoned the upper realm.
• Yinyang Qingfan recognized the landscape as the world Lu Li came from and felt relieved she had chosen to return to his side.
• Lu Li sensed that Dragon Qi could strengthen his still-incomplete Divine Ability, then invited the eleven demons to continue fighting.

Lu Li unleashed the full power of his Nation-Toppling Technique, using Dragon Qi to manifest phantom immortals and a golden staff that grievously wounded all eleven Void Return demons. He returned to the spellship exhausted but assured Lu Changming and the others that he was fine.

• The Swordfin Clan chief persuaded the demons to continue their joint assault, hoping to exhaust Lu Li or hold out for reinforcements.
• Lu Li strengthened his Divine Ability with the Dragon Qi accumulated during his century of seclusion, causing phantom immortals and gods to appear above the mountains and rivers.
• The forming images struck back the Swordfin Clan chief, Thunder Eel Clan chief, and other demons, injuring all eleven Void Return cultivators and driving them ten li away.
• A golden staff appeared in the phantom hand, and its slight tilt sent the eleven demons flying a hundred li, leaving them grievously wounded.
• Yinyang Qingfan cried out in recognition of the apparition, while the Dao Court watched Lu Li descend to the spellship with an unsteady presence.
• Lu Changming and the others gathered around Lu Li, who said he was fine but had used too much force.

Lu Li tested his newly comprehended Divine Ability, Overturning a Nation, and used it to grievously injure eleven Void Return greater demons. After ordering Yinyang Qingfan to capture them, he discussed his plans for the Endless Western Sea with Great Xia and learned that large-scale Spirit Descent was ready ahead of schedule and that the country had glimpsed mysteries of Blue Star’s universe.

• Lu Li used Dragon Qi to empower Overturning a Nation, severely wounding eleven Void Return greater demons and gauging his combat strength.
• Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to capture the demons, and she flew out to deal with them while concealing her questions about his origins.
• Lu Li reflected on Overturning a Nation’s connection to Great Xia and planned to claim the Endless Western Sea before expanding across the four continents and confronting the Central Continent.
• Lu Li contacted Great Xia and told Li Qingshan about his Divine Ability and its power.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that preparations for large-scale Spirit Descent were ahead of schedule and that Great Xia had glimpsed mysteries of Blue Star’s universe.