Recaps

Li Qingshan showed Lu Li Great Xia’s reconstructed map of the Primordial Desolation and explained the theory that Blue Star’s universe was the shattered ruins of that world. The nation believed the Silent Ruins were unlikely to return until the universe recovered, but warned that rival civilizations and the need to develop created a dangerous race; it then announced deep-space strategic support for Lu Li.

• Li Qingshan used a holographic projector to show Lu Li a map depicting the Great Desolation as a vast land beneath thirty-three heavens, supported by four pillars and surrounded by seas.
• Li Qingshan explained that Great Xia had assembled the map from ancient texts and conjectured that the Silent Ruins had shattered the Great Desolation into the stars of Blue Star’s universe.
• Lu Li cautioned that other civilizations might exist among the universe’s fragments and warned Great Xia to prepare for powerful or hostile beings as Spiritual Qi revived.
• Li Qingshan said Great Xia’s deep-space fleet was concealing Blue Star’s coordinates while exploring resources, even as other civilizations continued developing.
• Li Qingshan announced that Great Xia would supplement its global resource support for Lu Li with cross-world support using deep-space strategic resources.

Great Xia prepared to send one million soul-form bionic puppets through the first large-scale Spirit Descent, with Lu Li set to lead humanity's expansion into the cultivation world. As the volunteers entered their hibernation pods, the countdown reached zero.

• Lu Li and Li Qingshan agreed that Blue Star would become a strategic resource and logistics center, and Lu Li vowed to confront the Silent Ruins.
• After consulting the Heart of Primordial Beginning about Lu Yao's preparations, Lu Li set the first large-scale Spirit Descent for three days later.
• Volunteers across Blue Star's twelve regions prepared for the mission, including Zhao Heping in the Beautiful Region, Professor Chen in the Kangaroo Region, and ancient cultivator puppets in the Euro Region.
• One million soul forms assembled at Bureau 749's base in Jing City, where Li Qingshan received confirmation that the personnel and Spirit Descent Research Institute were ready.
• The volunteers entered hibernation pods underground, and the countdown to Cross-Realm Spirit Descent began.

Great Xia began a mass Cross-Realm Spirit Descent, transmitting 1.5 million soul imprints from Blue Star to the Imprisoned Dragon Realm through Lu Li. Lu Li prepared to welcome them and ordered new bodies produced within a month, while a conspicuous wheel of spiritual light remained behind him.

• Li Qingshan reported that preparations were complete for the first batch of Great Xia compatriots to cross realms.
• Bureau 749 staff activated the formation circuits, and the soul imprints in the hibernation pods began charging.
• Lu Li opened the cross-realm passage and transmitted 1.5 million soul imprints to the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan that sustaining the soul imprints used about thirty percent of his Spiritual Power reserves and said he would prepare their new bodies.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to speed up resource delivery, produce new bodies within a month, and prepare position assignments for the eleven divisions.
• Lu Li rose to welcome the arrivals and noticed that the wheel of spiritual light behind him persisted as long as he supplied Spiritual Power.

Lu Li inspected the Primordial Beginning Spirit World, where the Dao Court had prepared a production base and brought a million soul bodies into an illusion realm. Wang Zhiwen welcomed them and declared it their starting point as disciples of the Dao Court.

• Lu Li emerged from the spellship's main hall with a wheel of spiritual light behind him, astonishing Changming, Changye, and the others.
• Lu Li went to the spellship's hold, where the Heart of Primordial Beginning calibrated interaction centers and puppet production lines ran at full capacity.
• Lu Yao told Lu Li that all the soul imprints had entered the Primordial Beginning Spirit World and that Elder Wang and the others were explaining precautions there.
• Lu Li used his Divine Sense to enter the illusion realm and saw a million soul bodies exploring the floating plaza.
• Wang Zhiwen welcomed the newcomers to the Primordial Beginning Spirit World and told them it was their starting point as disciples of the Dao Court.

Lu Li appeared before a million Great Xia compatriots in the Primordial Beginning Spirit World, welcomed them to the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and urged them to cultivate and fight together. Afterward, he learned that eleven Void Return great demons had been captured alive and ordered the Dao Court’s Western Continent departments to accelerate their campaign as the demons arrived to meet him.

• Lu Li emerged in the Primordial Beginning Spirit World, and the crowd recognized him as the legendary cultivator who had carried Blue Star’s burden for decades.
• Lu Li welcomed the million compatriots, promised they would fight side by side, and answered their questions about his fear and life in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li told the crowd that the realm’s soil could one day become their new home, then left the spirit world to plan how to guide them.
• The Heart of Primordial Beginning informed Lu Li that eleven Void Return great demons had been captured alive and advised him to subjugate them and their tribes.
• Lu Li spared the demons, ordered them to meet him in the great hall, and directed the Western Continent departments to hasten their advance into the sea.
• Eleven trembling humanoid figures entered the warship’s great hall as Lu Li considered striking toward the Dragon Palace.

Lu Li forced eleven Void Return greater demons and their clans into a thousand years of service to the Dao Court, ordering them to gather their people and resources within half a month. As Great Xia compatriots settled into puppet bodies and began their assigned work aboard the arcane ship, the Dao Court prepared to take control of the Endless Western Sea.

• Lu Li declared that the eleven greater demons and their clans would serve the Dao Court for a thousand years, and Primordial Beginning assigned each demon to a division and ordered the clans' resources registered.
• The demons accepted Lu Li's decree, and he gave them half a month to recall their clans and gather at the Ink Octopus Clan's territory.
• Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to monitor the demons' restrictions and had the arcane ship remain in place while the Dao Court's main force prepared to arrive.
• Great Xia compatriots received puppet bodies and joined the Dao Court's work system, with Zhao Heping helping maintain the Spirit Puppet Division's assembly lines.
• Retired Great Xia officers planned how to inventory the Ink Octopus Clan's territory and decided to wait for Primordial Beginning's demon language update before investigating suspicious caves.

The Great Xia compatriots transformed the Ink Octopus Clan’s territory into an efficient Dao Court base, astonishing its senior members with their skills and prompting Elder Jian to suspect they were Lu Li’s fellow townspeople. As the Western Continent mobilized for war in the Western Sea, a black-armored figure awoke beneath the Army Suppression Division’s former camp.

• The Great Xia compatriots organized the Ink Octopus Clan’s territory, deployed Primordial Beginning and puppets to manage resources, repair artifacts, translate languages, and register the Sea Race and Demon Race.
• Li Nanci, Lu Changye, Lu Changming, Jiang Wuxie, and the other senior members marveled at the puppets’ specialized knowledge and unfamiliar methods.
• Elder Jian suspected the intelligent puppets were Lu Li’s fellow townspeople and feared their souls in puppets meant their homeland had suffered a catastrophe.
• The Dao Court mobilized all eleven divisions across Litian Prefecture and Jingxi Prefecture, sending ships, supplies, cultivators, and demon armies toward the Western Sea.
• A black-armored figure opened her eyes in a secret chamber beneath the Army Suppression Division’s former camp on Jingxi Prefecture’s maritime frontier.

Dong Qing broke through to Nascent Soul and raced toward the Western Sea after learning that Lu Li had already departed for war. There, Gui Wance prepared the Western Sea alliance to encircle the Dao Court while Wu Shen sought aid for the threatened Ink Octopus Clan, leaving the question of whether the Dao Court had a Venerable unresolved.

• Dong Qing formed her Nascent Soul, learned she had missed Lu Li’s departure, and flew toward the Endless Western Sea.
• Gui Wance and Xuan Jing discussed the Dao Court’s advance into Ink Octopus territory and the Western Sea alliance’s plan to encircle Lu Li’s forces within a month.
• Gui Wance told Wu Shen that eleven Void Return experts had gone to reinforce the Ink Octopus Clan and promised that the Western Sea alliance would destroy the Dao Court.
• Wu Shen saw the allied army’s two Dao Integration great demons and wondered whether the Dao Court might also have a Venerable.

The seven Sea Race clans assembled with their forces and resources in the Ink Octopus Clan's territory under orders enforced by Yinyang Qingfan's power. As the Dragon Manor's allied army approached, Lu Li addressed the Dao Court's gathered forces and declared that the Endless Western Sea would have a new master after the battle.

• Sword Fin ordered the Swordfin Clan to inventory and pack its resources and march with all clansmen at Foundation Establishment and above.
• Thunder Eel and the other clan chiefs forced their clans to obey similar orders, using Yinyang Qingfan's oppressive power to silence resistance.
• Eleven Void Return cultivators and nearly a million Sea Race elites from seven clans arrived at the Ink Octopus Clan's territory with their supplies.
• Primordial Beginning reported the assembled forces and resources to Lu Li, who considered how they could strengthen the Dao Court.
• Lu Li appeared above the gathered army and declared that the Endless Western Sea would have a new master after the battle.

As the Dao Court and the Dragon Manor’s allied army prepared for battle, Lu Li faced a Central Continent delegation confident in its advantage. The Yin Household elder’s divination was violently disrupted, leaving him terrified that their plans had gone wrong.

• Primordial Beginning reported that the Dragon Manor’s allied army, numbering about 2.8 million, would reach the Dao Court within twenty-four hours.
• Xuan Jing and Gui Wance learned the Dao Court’s forces numbered in the millions, but the young Yin-Yang School envoy dismissed them as no threat.
• The envoy ordered Xuan Jing to lead the vanguard and promised him half the Western Continent if he killed Lu Li.
• The gaunt Yin Household elder warned that the Dao Court might have a Dao Integration cultivator, but said the clan’s treasure could handle anyone below the rank of Venerable.
• The elder attempted to divine the Dao Court’s fate, but a surge of Yin-Yang Qi disrupted his calculations and shattered his tortoise shell, prompting him to cry that something was wrong.

Yinyang Qingfan sensed a Perfected Dao Integration cultivator from the Yin-Yang School who had crossed the Central Continent’s Heavenly Wall, but Lu Li decided to focus on the coming Western Sea war. As both sides prepared for a battle involving nearly six million fighters, Lu Li wondered how much Blood Qi the fish-shaped jade pendant would collect.

• A gaunt old man from the Yin-Yang School used divination on Yinyang Qingfan, was shocked by her powerful Yin-Yang Qi, and fled with Zou Yu after realizing she had detected him.
• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that the intruder was a Perfected Dao Integration cultivator who had escaped the allied forces’ territory using a Yin-Yang secret treasure.
• Yinyang Qingfan explained that Central Continent households could cross the Heavenly Wall through hidden gaps, but doing so tainted their bloodlines and made future cultivation difficult.
• Lu Li concluded that sending a Venerable out would cost a household dearly, then chose to leave the escaped cultivator alone and prioritize the Western Sea war.
• Lu Li instructed Yinyang Qingfan to deal with a hidden Dao Integration demon during the coming battle and preserve its body, while he reflected on the Blood Qi the fish-shaped jade pendant might gain.

The Dao Court opened its war against the Western Sea coalition with a massive assault led by Dong Qing and the Army Suppression Division. As Gui Wance prepared to send Void Return demon lords into battle, two figures appeared above the front lines and announced the execution of the chief culprits.

• The Dao Court ordered its Sea Race troops, Ten Thousand Spirits Division, and cultivators to engage the Western Sea coalition.
• Dong Qing led the Army Suppression Division’s advance, while its warships and the wider Dao Court fleet bombarded the coalition with spiritual cannons.
• Right Marshal Xuan Jing reported the Dao Court’s unexpected strength, and Gui Wance told him to lead the Void Return demon lords into battle.
• A blue-robed figure and a white-robed woman appeared above the front lines and declared that they would execute the chief culprits.

Yinyang Qingfan killed Gui Wance and Xuan Jing in a pair of overwhelming strikes, turning the tide of the battle for the Dao Court. She then went after two concealed Dao Integration sea beasts as the armies clashed, while a blood-colored cloud beside Lu Li began to absorb power through a fish-shaped jade pendant.

• Gui Wance and Xuan Jing waited for the great tent to act, then discovered it was empty as Yinyang Qingfan approached.
• Yinyang Qingfan killed Gui Wance with a single strike, leaving no remnant soul.
• Yinyang Qingfan killed Xuan Jing as well, and the Western Sea Allied Forces' morale collapsed.
• The Dao Court's cultivators surged forward with weapons, spatial domains, fleets, and giant puppets.
• Yinyang Qingfan sensed two Dao Integration sea beasts behind the coalition army and charged toward them.
• A blood-colored cloud beside Lu Li grew uncanny as a fish-shaped jade pendant frantically absorbed something.

During the battle in the Western Sea, Lu Li gathered vast Blood Qi from the defeated Sea Race and discovered that the jade pendant could absorb Dao Laws from Dao Integration beasts. As the pendant reshaped those laws, Lu Li’s cultivation stirred and he realized he was on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Lu Li concealed the jade pendant with Ao Qing's dragon pearl cloud and ordered the Sea Race forces to surrender, causing most of the army to lay down their resistance.
• Lu Li collected and devoured the corpses of the Left Minister and Right Marshal, absorbing thousands of drops of Blood Qi essence and strengthening himself.
• Lu Li began devouring the two Dao Integration sea beasts subdued by Yinyang Qingfan and sensed the Heavy Water Dao Laws and Wave-Rending Dao Laws within them.
• The jade pendant extracted and reshaped both Dao Laws in its space, leaving Lu Li able to sense and seemingly control them.
• The beasts’ Blood Qi stirred Lu Li’s cultivation, and he realized he was about to break through.

After absorbing two sea-region Dao Laws from the sea beasts, Lu Li broke through to Middle Spirit Transformation and wondered whether his fish-shaped jade pendant might be a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation. With the Western Prefecture Allied Army subdued, he declared the Endless Western Sea the Dao Court’s third prefecture.

• The jade pendant absorbed two sea-region Dao Laws, helping Lu Li break through to Middle Spirit Transformation and making him more attuned to the sea.
• Lu Li considered the jade pendant’s unknown origins and speculated that it might be a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Yinyang Qingfan’s capture of Dao Integration sea beasts terrified the Western Prefecture Allied Army, and nearly the entire force surrendered.
• Yinyang Qingfan was astonished by Lu Li’s traces of Dao Laws power and grew more respectful toward him.
• Lu Li declared that the Endless Western Sea would become the Dao Court’s third prefecture, the Western Sea Prefecture.

Zou Moshan tried to flee the Western Sea after sensing a dangerous Yin-Yang presence, but a mysterious white-robed figure appeared and confronted him. Meanwhile, Lu Li learned about the Endless Deep Trench and considered it a place to grow stronger before asking about the Dragon Palace Secret Realm.

• Zou Moshan told Zou Yu that someone connected to Lu Li threatened the foundations of their Yin-Yang School and insisted they return to the Central Continent.
• Zou Yu objected, but Zou Moshan prepared to leave rather than risk staying in the Western Sea.
• As Zou Moshan's Law Power reacted, a white-robed figure emerged from a tear in space and challenged him for leaving without greeting his ancestor.
• The Swordfin Clan's chief told Lu Li that the Endless Deep Trench lay beyond the Dragon Palace's jurisdiction and contained dangerous Dao Integration sea beasts.
• Lu Li saw the trench as a chance to gain strength and asked when the Dragon Palace Secret Realm would open and whether it could be breached from outside.

Lu Li ordered the demons to bring the Western Sea under the Dao Court’s rule while reflecting on Great Jin’s collapse and the dangers beyond the world. As his forces moved toward the Dragon Palace Secret Realm, Dao Court officials devised a system to register and govern the Sea Race.

• The Swordfin Clan chief told Lu Li that the Dragon Palace Secret Realm had resisted the Dragon Lords’ attacks for ten years, so Lu Li decided to watch it and wait for Yinyang Qingfan to return.
• Lu Li considered the Great Dark Heaven that had destroyed Great Jin and resolved that he had no choice but to keep advancing against future threats.
• Lu Li ordered the demons to submit the Dragon Palace and Endless Deep Trench, and demanded that they pacify the rest of the Western Sea before his forces arrived.
• Demons boarded the spellship with clan treasures and resources or departed to organize their tribes as the Dao Court’s forces worked to administer the Western Sea.
• Zhao Heping and other officials proposed grid-based household leadership, shared resource distribution, and a credit system to govern the Sea Race, prompting Zhao Heping to call them ruthless.

Lu Li cultivated with the Western Sea’s abundant treasures while the jade pendant’s space rapidly expanded, then Yinyang Qingfan returned with two captured Central Continent cultivators. After learning she had questioned them, Lu Li ordered their execution.

• The Western Sea Dragon Manor became the Litian Dao Court’s Western Sea Prefecture, and Lu Li continued toward the Dragon Palace Secret Realm as the region was pacified.
• Lu Li absorbed sixth-tier treasures, strengthening his cultivation while the jade pendant’s life-filled space expanded toward forming Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Li considered using the jade pendant’s space to protect the soul-body imprints of a million Great Xia compatriots.
• Yinyang Qingfan returned and presented the subdued Central Continent cultivators Zou Yu and Zou Moshan to Lu Li.
• Lu Li confirmed that Yinyang Qingfan had questioned the captives and ordered Zou Yu and Zou Moshan killed.

Lu Li decided to recruit the captured Zou Moshan and Zou Yu into the Dao Court rather than kill them, and Yinyang Qingfan revealed that the Central Continent might send a powerful Venerable if its other plans failed. The chapter ended with Lu Li recognizing that a Venerable from the Central Continent was only a matter of time.

• Lu Li threatened to kill Zou Moshan and Zou Yu, then offered to spare them if they served the Dao Court under restrictions.
• Yinyang Qingfan intimidated the captives and revealed that she was an ancestor of the Yin-Yang School from the upper realm.
• Zou Moshan realized that even the upper realm's Yin-Yang School served Lu Li and asked about Lu Li's origins.
• Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to place restrictions on the two captives, then asked what she had learned from them.
• Yinyang Qingfan reported that the Central Continent's elders still underestimated the Dao Court and might draw lots to send a mid- or late-stage Venerable if their plans failed.
• Lu Li concluded that it was only a matter of time before the Central Continent produced a Venerable.

Lu Li learned that the Central Continent’s Houses feared his Fate Pattern might bring another catastrophe, so he asked Great Xia to research deep-space signal transmission. He then reached the ruined Western Sea Dragon Palace, where a sudden light appeared as he prepared to leave.

• Lu Li asked Yinyang Qingfan why the Central Continent’s Houses reacted so strongly to his Fate Pattern, and she suggested they feared a disaster like the destruction of Great Jin.
• Lu Li connected to the jade pendant and asked Great Xia to begin researching deep-space signal transmission, prompting Bureau 749 and eight research institutes to mobilize.
• Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan arrived at the ruined Dragon Palace site in the Western Sea but could not find the secret realm’s entrance.
• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that the Dragon Palace Secret Realm had once sheltered the Western Sea Dragon Lord from attacks by the other three seas.
• Lu Li prepared to leave after finding no way inside, but a bright light accompanied by draconic might suddenly appeared.

Ao Li left its hidden small world and appeared before Lu Li and the Dao Court, where it immediately surrendered to avoid being killed. Its offer of a secret realm small world left Lu Li asking what one was.

• Ao Li ended its seclusion and stepped through a halo from its hidden world, hoping to check on the conflict outside.
• Ao Li emerged before Lu Li, Yinyang Qingfan, and the Dao Court forces, then realized it had appeared in front of the Dao Court’s master.
• Lu Li’s pressure pinned Ao Li in place as Yinyang Qingfan suggested executing it or searching its soul.
• Ao Li begged Lu Li to spare it and offered the Western Sea’s surrender, its resources, and a secret realm small world.
• Lu Li accepted Ao Li’s plea as unexpected and asked what a secret realm small world was.

Lu Li learned that Ao Li’s mystic realm was a small world with a vast population and cultivators, and accepted Ao Li as the Dao Court’s Western Sea Prefecture Lord in exchange for the realm. He prepared to enter with Changming and Changye, then learned that time passed far faster inside the small world.

• Yinyang Qingfan explained that the mystic realm was a small world with limited resources and cultivation.
• Ao Li claimed his small world held hundreds of millions of people and cultivators capable of reaching Spirit Transformation, and Lu Li saw it as a valuable source of manpower.
• Lu Li appointed Ao Li Western Sea Prefecture Lord for a thousand years, and Yinyang Qingfan placed a restriction in Ao Li’s Dantian.
• Ao Li explained that his natal dragon pearl held the realm’s entrance and that Void Return cultivators could enter only by sealing their cultivation.
• Lu Li sent the other demons back to handle their duties and chose Changming, Changye, and Ao Li to accompany him into the small world.
• Ao Li told Lu Li that one day in the upper realm equaled one year in the small world.

Gu Yuan, Bing Wuhen, and Qing Huayu led powerful groups from the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Continents toward the Western Continent to find the bearer of Dragon Fate. Qing Huayu chose to investigate the Western Sea Dragon Manor first, and his group questioned a sea beast about the Dragon Lord’s location.

• Gu Yuan and his Southern Continent clan elders arrived above the Western Continent, planning to seek an alliance or seize the bearer’s Dragon Fate depending on his strength.
• Bing Wuhen and the Ice Palace of the Northern Continent reached the Western Continent and set out to find the Dragon Fate bearer.
• Qing Huayu and the Azure Lotus Supreme Sect arrived from the Eastern Continent, while Qing Huayu privately planned to avoid risking himself for the Central Continent’s orders.
• Qing Huayu led his group into the Western Sea to investigate the Dragon Lord of the Western Sea for information about the bearer of Dragon Fate.
• Qing Huayu’s cultivators grabbed a Qi Refinement sea beast and demanded to know where the Dragon Lord of the Western Sea was.

Lu Li entered a small world with Ao Li and the others, where time passed far more slowly than in the upper realm and cultivation was suppressed. After reaching Ao Li’s Western Dragon Dynasty, Lu Li tested his jade pendant’s connection to Great Xia and watched the locals react to the Dao Court’s powerful cultivators.

• Lu Li learned that one day in the upper realm equaled one year in the small world and speculated that Blue Star might be a broken Greater Thousand World.
• Ao Li opened a portal to the Fallen Dust Continent, which he had renamed the Western Dragon Continent, and Lu Li led the group through it.
• Lu Li arrived in the Western Dragon Dynasty’s palace and learned that Ao Li ruled the realm as its emperor.
• Lu Li attempted to contact Great Xia through his fish-shaped jade pendant, but received no reply.
• Changming, Changye, Dong Qing, Ye Chenfeng, and the other Dao Court cultivators revealed their power, startling the palace guards and officials.
• Prime Minister Yuan Ying arrived to pay respects to Ao Li, and a voice remarked that he was interesting.

Lu Li appointed Primordial Beginning to organize the Small World into a talent-selection center for the Imprisoned Dragon Dao Court and ordered Ao Li to support it. Primordial Beginning became regent of the renamed Litian Dynasty and announced sweeping reforms, provoking an uproar among the court officials.

• Lu Li recognized Yuan Ying's special Fate Pattern and decided the Small World could provide talents for the Dao Court.
• Ao Li explained that people from a Small World could enter a Middle Thousand World, and Lu Li tasked Primordial Beginning with building a Dao Court and selecting loyal talents.
• Lu Li ordered Ao Li to hand the Western Dragon Dynasty's loyal subjects to Primordial Beginning and settle the dynasty's affairs before leaving.
• Ao Li renamed the Western Dragon Dynasty the Litian Dynasty, changed its era name to Primordial Beginning, and appointed Primordial Beginning as regent.
• Primordial Beginning announced policies for registering subjects, requiring sect cultivators to report, and testing children for Spirit Roots, prompting officials to protest.
• Ao Li silenced the protesting officials and declared that his decision was final.