Vol. 5The Dao Court Ascendant

Lu Li expanded the Dao Court across the Western Sea, brought Great Xia souls into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and reached Void Return before defeating forces that attacked Litian Prefecture City. The story leaves Lu Dahai leading a rescue mission on Mars as rock-skinned creatures gather around a vast black abyss.

  • Lu Li emerged from seclusion, developed his pendant into a nascent world, and learned that Blue Star belonged to the ruined Great Desolation.
  • Yinyang Qingfan pledged to guard his path as Lu Li prepared the Dao Court for war and chose returning home as his Dao Path.
  • Lu Li led the Dao Court into the Western Sea, defeated the Ink Octopus Clan and its allies, and awakened Overturning a Nation.
  • Great Xia advanced its Spirit Descent preparations as its researchers glimpsed mysteries of Blue Star’s universe.
  • Lu Li brought 1.5 million Great Xia soul imprints into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, defeated the Western Sea coalition, and established the Western Sea Prefecture.
  • He appointed Ao Li to govern Litian Dynasty as visitors from other continents sought the Dragon Fate bearer.
  • Lu Li reached Void Return and killed Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen’s invading forces at Litian Prefecture City.
  • On Mars, Lu Dahai discovered a golden vertical eye and led a rescue party toward Mount Olympus, where creatures surrounded a black abyss.
Chapters 401–500 Read from Ch. 401

Arc 17Spirit Transformation and Emperor Fate

Lu Li emerged from a century of seclusion at Spirit Transformation, reconnected with Great Xia, and began inspecting the Dao Court while nurturing a nascent world inside his jade pendant. After absorbing Imprisoned Dragon Mountain and gaining Yinyang Qingfan’s allegiance, he prepared for war and learned that Blue Star belonged to the ruined Great Desolation.

  • Lu Li emerged at Spirit Transformation and discovered that his jade pendant could absorb resources to expand a region capable of sustaining life.
  • Lu Li reconnected with Great Xia, learned of its control over Blue Star and deep-space plans, and accepted that the Heavenly Dao obstructed his return.
  • Lu Li committed the Dao Court’s accumulated resources to developing the pendant and began an inspection tour while choosing returning home as his Dao Path.
  • Yinyang Qingfan secretly planted a jade slip in Ao Qing’s dragon pearl, and Lu Li read its accounts of factions and geniuses across the Eastern Wasteland and Central Continent.
  • Lu Li reunited with Ye Chenfeng and absorbed Imprisoned Dragon Mountain into his pendant, expanding its living land and forming a black dragon beside his golden dragon.
  • Yinyang Qingfan recognized signs of Emperor Fate in Lu Li, offered her natal Divine Soul essence, and pledged to guard his path.
  • Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to prepare for war against approaching prodigies, and Yinyang Qingfan explained that attaining Emperor Fate required sole dominion over a realm.
  • Lu Li learned that Blue Star belonged to the ruined Great Desolation, resolved to warn Great Xia, and discovered that his pendant had developed into a nascent world.
Chapters 401–42525 summaries Read

Arc 18The Western Sea Campaign

Lu Li led the Dao Court into the Western Sea, subdued its tribes, and defeated the Ink Octopus Clan and its allies. He awakened the Divine Ability Overturning a Nation, then learned that Great Xia was readying a large-scale Spirit Descent and had begun to uncover mysteries of Blue Star’s universe.

  • Lu Li told Bureau 749 that Blue Star was the Immortal Realm and warned that the Silent Ruins could descend again, while Lu Dahai rallied Great Xia to face the threat.
  • Lu Li and Great Xia agreed to expand across the four continents and the Endless Sea, while Lu Changming arranged for Yinyang Qingfan to seal her senses so he could spend time with Dongfang Jiangxue.
  • Lu Li inspected the Dao Court’s forces, uncovered corruption, and ordered the fleet to meet the Western Sea Dragon Lord, while Ao Li withdrew and Gui Wance and Xuan Jing prepared to resist.
  • Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to bring the Western Sea’s tribes into its fold, and the fleet incorporated the Ghost Crab Clan while Gui Laoliu joined the Ten Thousand Spirits Division.
  • Lu Yao proposed using spirit descent to link Great Xia and the Dao Court, and Lu Li and Li Qingshan began preparing a million-soul cross-world operation with Great Xia’s preserved souls and volunteers.
  • Lu Li killed Wu Heng after the Black Baleful Intent Ink Octopus Clan resisted the Dao Court, then defeated Wu Huan and faced eleven allied Void Return demons.
  • Lu Li’s longing for Great Xia awakened Overturning a Nation, whose phantom landscape shattered the eleven demons’ attacks, and Dragon Qi empowered its images to wound them severely.
  • Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to capture the demons, then told Li Qingshan about his Divine Ability as Great Xia reported that Spirit Descent preparations were ahead of schedule and its researchers had glimpsed mysteries of Blue Star’s universe.
Chapters 426–45025 summaries Read

Arc 19The Western Sea Campaign

Lu Li brought a million Great Xia compatriots into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, defeated the Western Sea alliance, and established a new Dao Court prefecture. He then entered Ao Li’s small world and began turning its dynasty into a source of loyal talent for the Dao Court, while visitors from other continents sought the bearer of Dragon Fate.

  • Li Qingshan and Lu Li arranged a large-scale Spirit Descent, and Lu Li transmitted 1.5 million Great Xia soul imprints into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
  • Lu Li welcomed the newcomers in the Primordial Beginning Spirit World, then ordered eleven captured Void Return demons and their clans to serve the Dao Court.
  • The Great Xia compatriots received puppet bodies and organized the Ink Octopus Clan’s territory as the Dao Court mobilized toward the Western Sea.
  • Dong Qing and the Dao Court forces fought the Western Sea coalition, while Yinyang Qingfan killed Gui Wance and Xuan Jing and defeated two Dao Integration sea beasts.
  • Lu Li absorbed the sea beasts’ Blood Qi and Dao Laws, broke through to Middle Spirit Transformation, and declared the Endless Western Sea the Dao Court’s Western Sea Prefecture.
  • Yinyang Qingfan captured Zou Yu and Zou Moshan, and Lu Li bound them to the Dao Court after learning Central Continent powers might send a Venerable against him.
  • Ao Li emerged from the Dragon Palace Secret Realm and surrendered the Western Sea and his small world, so Lu Li appointed him Western Sea Prefecture Lord and entered the realm with his companions.
  • Gu Yuan, Bing Wuhen, and Qing Huayu arrived from other continents seeking the Dragon Fate bearer, while Lu Li appointed Primordial Beginning regent of Ao Li’s renamed Litian Dynasty and ordered it to recruit loyal talents.
Chapters 451–47525 summaries Read

Arc 20The Dao Court’s Expansion

Lu Li reached Void Return, brought Great Xia into contact with a Dao Law, and crushed the Eastern and Northern Continent forces that attacked Litian Prefecture City. Meanwhile, Lu Dahai traveled to Mars, awakened a mysterious third eye, and led a rescue mission toward Mount Olympus, where dangerous creatures surrounded a black abyss.

  • Lu Li sent Great Xia a Water Qi Dao Law, and its researchers witnessed a vast will descend before Li Qingshan reported that Great Xia was advancing its Spirit Machinery and Dao Law research.
  • Lu Dahai joined the Kuafu One mission to Mars, where the crew recovered a meteorite bearing a statue identified as Erlang of Guankou.
  • Lu Li absorbed the Blood Qi and Dao Laws of nine Dao Integration Demon Beasts in the Endless Deep Trench and broke through to Void Return, then used his jade pendant to cast a Fireball Technique on Blue Star.
  • A powerful presence in the trench sensed Dragon Qi, so Yinyang Qingfan carried Lu Li away and Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to capture the provincial prodigies.
  • Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen led Gu Clan and Ice Palace forces against Litian Prefecture City, but Lu Li’s nearly sixty Void Return cultivators surrounded and killed them, allowing Lu Li to seize their Fate Patterns.
  • Lu Li ordered Litian Prefecture City rebuilt and began upgrading Primordial Beginning with a seventh-tier Spirit Artifact, while the jade pendant subdued the artifact’s black-and-white copper coin.
  • Kuafu One landed on Mars near Mount Olympus, and Zhu Chenhai began building Great Xia’s first cultivation base before taking a team to explore the mountain.
  • After Dawei died from his wounds, Lu Dahai discovered a golden vertical eye on his forehead and led a rescue party toward Mount Olympus, where the vessel’s Spirit Machinery failed and rock-skinned creatures appeared around a vast black abyss.
Chapters 476–50025 summaries Read
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Volume 5 of 9