Chapter Summaries

After Dongfang Jiangxue's hostile will threatened Lu Changming and his wife, Lu Li brought his disciple back to the fleet and examined the transformation caused by his Dragon Position Fate Pattern. He strengthened his foundation, absorbed more Blood Qi essence, and contacted Great Xia as the strategic objective neared completion.

• Dongfang Jiangxue's hostile will threatened to take over her body and kill Lu Changming and Lu Li before leaving.
• Lu Li comforted Lu Changming and returned with him to the Dao Academy's fleet, then sent the Seven Sons to help the Heart of Primordial Beginning recover.
• Lu Li examined how his Dragon Position Fate Pattern had transformed his body, Nascent Soul, and cultivation, and concluded that an ordinary Void Return cultivator could not match him in the Western Continent.
• Lu Li used his fish-shaped jade pendant to refine four Spirit Transformation demons and absorbed the increased Blood Qi essence it produced.
• Lu Li contacted Great Xia, and Li Qingshan congratulated him on nearing completion of the strategic objective.

Li Qingshan briefed Lu Li on Great Xia’s revised plan to secure dominion over the Western Continent and restructure the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy into the Litian Dao Court. The chapter ended with Great Xia preparing to publicly reveal Lu Li’s existence.

• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that the Western Continent would likely be divided among Lu Li, Suanni, and Dongfang Jiangxue, and that Great Xia expected Lu Li to secure dominion within two hundred years.
• Li Qingshan explained that the mysterious presence within Dongfang Jiangxue was dangerous but likely constrained, so Lu Li should focus on developing his forces rather than panic.
• Lu Li received Great Xia’s assessment report, which proposed bringing order to the Demon Manor, gathering and sheltering humans, advancing Spirit Machinery, and transforming the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy into the Litian Dao Court.
• Lu Li warned that Central Continent cultivators, likely members of the Yin-Yang School, would retaliate after he disrupted their plans for Ao Qing’s dragon transformation.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Great Xia’s Supreme Conference had decided to begin publicly revealing his existence.

Lu Li learned that Great Xia would make his existence and the Imprisoned Dragon Realm public, then ordered Lu Yao to document her successful spirit descent and advance research for ordinary people. He reorganized the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy into the Litian Dao Court, broke through to the Nascent Soul middle stage, and declared himself its Dao Lord.

• Lu Li heard that Great Xia was preparing to reveal his past and the truth of the Imprisoned Dragon Realm to the public.
• Lu Li reassured Lu Yao and gave her access to Dao Academy resources and part of Primordial Beginning's main unit so she could document her spirit descent and advance experiments for ordinary people.
• Lu Li announced that the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy would become the Litian Dao Court and established its nine divisions to rebuild order in the Western Continent.
• Heavenly phenomena and rosy light appeared as Lu Li made his declaration, healing disciples and helping some break through; Lu Li himself advanced to the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• The disciples and cultivators hailed Lu Li, and he declared himself the master of the Dao Court, to be called the Dao Lord.

The Hundred Schools saw the Western Continent’s newly manifested dragon fortune and resolved to destroy its bearer, while Zou Heng considered how to restore the balance. After the battle, demons and human cultivators retreated to recover, unaware that the Litian Dao Court was rapidly expanding within the Demon Manor.

• More than a dozen starlit projections suspected the Yin-Yang School had secretly created the Western Continent’s dragon fortune, and Zou Heng realized the Hundred Schools would now treat it as a threat.
• Zou Heng observed fortune manifestations across the five continents and concluded that the dragon Qi had to be destroyed to prevent a repeat of Great Jin’s rise.
• After Ao Qing died and became Flood Dragon Suppression Mountain, Suanni fled into the sea, leaving the demon forces without a Void Return leader.
• Baleful Intent Tiger persuaded his brothers to gather demons, seize human captives and wealth, and return to the Demon Manor to establish their power.
• The demon hordes withdrew, surviving human cultivators returned inland, and sea folk settled on islands near the coast as the Western Continent began recovering.
• The Litian Dao Court expanded rapidly in the depths of the Demon Manor while the other survivors remained unaware of its growth.

As the Dao Court expanded its rule, Mei Yu and Mei Yong surveyed villages and recorded their people while the new Hidden Dragon Academy promised education and cultivation opportunities to all. Lu Li gave Lu Changming resources to support the Dao Propagation Division, then returned to sorting Zongzheng Lie’s treasures, where a seal marked “Litian” suddenly appeared.

• Mei Yu and Mei Yong surveyed villages from a flying boat and discussed the Dao Court’s census and plans to educate children with Spirit Roots or aptitude for Spirit Machinery and puppetry.
• Lu Changming reported that the Dao Propagation Division had registered thirty-nine commandery cities and over two hundred villages, adding a hundred thousand mortals to its records.
• Lu Li gave Lu Changming a fifth-tier Myriad People Register, cultivation methods, pills, and Law Artifacts taken from Zongzheng Lie’s collection.
• Lu Li returned to the Dao Court’s great hall and resumed sorting Zongzheng Lie’s treasures.
• A square seal flew from Lu Li’s robes, revealing the characters “Litian” on its underside.

Lu Li examined the treasures seized from Zongzheng Lie and allocated them for the Dao Court and Great Xia as the campaign against the Demon Race continued. When he contacted Great Xia to send the resources, Lu Dahai returned and announced that he was preparing for Core Formation.

• Lu Li named the Pacify the West Prince's Seal the Litian Dao Seal and discovered that Kingly Dao Dragon Qi restored its power as a sixth-tier Law Treasure.
• Lu Li inspected Zongzheng Lie's storage treasure, finding vast Spirit Stone reserves, cultivation legacies, pills, and rare materials, including a sixth-tier Void Divine Crystal.
• Lu Li decided to keep resources that strengthened him, reserve Spirit Stones for the Dao Academy, and send most cultivation methods and materials to Great Xia to support the Dao Court's expansion.
• Lu Li worried that the escaped demon Yintong might ambush the Dao Court and planned to have Ye Chenfeng investigate, while Dong Qing and Jiang Wuxie led their respective divisions.
• Lu Li sent the sorted resources to Great Xia through the fish-shaped jade pendant and was surprised when his father, Lu Dahai, answered instead of Li Qingshan.
• Lu Dahai told Lu Li that Great Xia was preparing to publicize his existence with films and other works, then announced that he was preparing for Core Formation.

Lu Li learned that Lu Dahai planned to form his core and sent him supplies before discussing the Dao Court’s preparations and the Spirit Descent Plan with Li Qingshan. Seeking clues about the mysterious power within Dongfang Jiangxue, Lu Li decided to question the Seven Children and summoned them to the hall.

• Lu Dahai told Lu Li he was confident about forming his core, and Lu Li sent him Law Artifacts and pills to help.
• Lu Li and Li Qingshan discussed preparing Spirit Machinery and absorbing the million-strong demon army into the Dao Court.
• Li Qingshan reported that a mysterious being within Dongfang Jiangxue might still rival a Venerable despite ten thousand years passing.
• Lu Li considered accepting Dong Qing as his disciple and wondered whether the Seven Children could offer clues about Dongfang Jiangxue’s power.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to summon the Seven Children to the hall for a council.

Lu Li examined three ancient objects belonging to Li Nanci, Qian Dabao, and Lu Changye, then deduced that their power was connected to time and ancient ages. He suspected the mysterious force behind Dongfang Jiangxue came from Primordial Antiquity, but wondered how Yin-Yang could constrain such an ancient cultivator.

• Lu Li summoned the heads of several divisions, but only Li Nanci, Qian Dabao, Lu Changming, and Lu Changye arrived.
• Lu Li asked Li Nanci about the exquisite die that had gained offensive abilities, and Li Nanci explained that ancient texts seemed to strengthen it.
• Qian Dabao and Lu Changye described the divine statue and blue-green bottle they had acquired at Litian Grand Market and explained how each worked.
• Lu Li examined the three objects and concluded that their shared connection was time and their antiquity.
• Lu Li suspected that the mysterious existence behind Dongfang Jiangxue was a cultivator of Primordial Antiquity and questioned how Yin-Yang could hold her in check.

Lu Li suspected that the force behind Dongfang Jiangxue was an ancient Yin-Yang cultivator pursuing a major scheme, and the jade pendant vibrated as he thought of her. Dongfang Jiangxue resisted Yinyang Qingfan’s plans, while Yinyang Qingfan searched for a way to regain control and resented the Yin-Yang clansmen in the Central Continent.

• After Li Nanci and the others left, the exquisite die resumed issuing tasks and urged Li Nanci to become Lu Li’s True Disciple.
• Lu Li concluded that the present-day Yin-Yang School had been deceived by the ancient cultivator behind Dongfang Jiangxue, then felt the fish-shaped jade pendant vibrate.
• On a mountain in the Western Continent, Dongfang Jiangxue defied Yinyang Qingfan and vowed to stop her from harming Brother Changming and his master.
• Yinyang Qingfan questioned the meaning of the Saint’s oracle, recalled that she had become Yinyang Qingfan after a hundred thousand years as Zou Qingfan, and considered using a puppet to separate her Divine Soul.
• Yinyang Qingfan blamed the descendants of the Zou Household in the Central Continent for her troubles and vowed to confront them when she returned.

Yinyang Qingfan studied a puppet taken from Lu Li’s master and grew suspicious of Lu Li’s identity. She retrieved Ao Qing’s dragon pearl, renamed Karmic Retribution Dragon Mountain Imprisoned Dragon Mountain, and set a million Demon Beasts against Lu Li with a fabricated imperial command.

• Yinyang Qingfan took a third-tier spiritual-powered unit after agreeing not to harm Brother Changming’s comrades, then examined the puppet’s Heart of Primordial Beginning and its detailed knowledge database.
• Yinyang Qingfan wondered whether Lu Li belonged to a powerful bloodline connected to an ancient tribulation, then hurried to the place where Ao Qing had fallen as a dragon.
• Yinyang Qingfan found Ao Qing’s black dragon pearl inside Karmic Retribution Dragon Mountain and put it away despite the heavy karmic resentment surrounding it.
• Yinyang Qingfan named the mountain Imprisoned Dragon Mountain and left Ao Qing’s remnant soul there to endure its karmic retribution.
• Yinyang Qingfan saw a million Demon Beasts returning toward the Demon Manor and fabricated an imperial command offering its lordship to whoever killed Lu Li.

Baleful Intent Tiger’s horde returned toward the Demon Manor and found Ao Qing’s challenge naming Lu Li as their target, while Lu Li entered seclusion to stabilize his Nascent Soul cultivation. In Great Xia, the preparations to publicize Lu Li’s story fueled speculation that he was about to become a True Lord.

• Baleful Intent Tiger led his growing faction toward the Demon Manor despite his unease, and the horde found the words “Imprisoned Dragon Mountain” where their former lord had fallen.
• The demons saw Ao Qing’s message declaring that whoever slew Lu Li could become the Demon Manor’s new lord, but they did not know who Lu Li was.
• Lu Li received a report that the beast horde was still growing as it returned, then ordered Primordial Beginning to manage supplies while he entered seclusion to consolidate his cultivation.
• Lu Li told Primordial Beginning to prepare a disciple acceptance ceremony for Qing'er after his seclusion and sent the newly delivered Storage Bags back to Great Xia.
• Bureau 749 staff in Great Xia processed Lu Li’s resources and discussed plans to reveal his existence through a film and television series.
• A young researcher realized Lu Li’s seclusion might mean he was advancing beyond Foundation Establishment Perfection and wondered whether he was about to become a True Lord.

Li Qingshan prepared to reveal cultivation footage during the Spring Festival film releases, hoping publicizing Lu Li would strengthen his power of fortune and let Great Xia reshape Blue Star. As the holiday approached, Luo Zheng worked at a Spirit Treasure Shop and watched a huge cultivation warship announce the films and the slogan “The whole nation cultivates!”

• Li Qingshan learned that Lu Dahai’s seclusion was proceeding normally and that he was expected to enter the Golden Core stage after the New Year.
• Li Qingshan approved the planned release of Bureau 749 footage at the ends of “A Person on the Immortal Path” and “Toward Immortal Civilization.”
• Great Xia’s streets filled with cultivation-themed holiday shopping as Luo Zheng worked at a Spirit Treasure Shop and received a message from his younger sister asking him to take her to a movie.
• A giant cultivation warship appeared over the street, drawing a crowd that recognized it as a third-tier Lord-Surpassing Grade vessel.
• The warship unfurled a banner promoting “A Person on the Immortal Path,” “Toward Immortal Civilization,” and the slogan “Set the New Year ablaze! The whole nation cultivates!”

Great Xia’s nationwide promotion of A Person on the Immortal Path and Toward Immortal Civilization sparked a worldwide rush to see the films. During the first screening, Luo Zheng and Luo Yan watched Lu Li’s story and recognized events that resembled Great Xia’s spiritual transformation revival, leaving them wondering whether Bureau 749 truly existed.

• Great Xia launched a massive campaign for the two productions, selling out premiere screenings and prompting foreign governments to investigate their significance.
• Luo Zheng accompanied his younger sister Luo Yan to a packed cinema, drawn by a preview of Lu Li’s story.
• The audience watched Lu Li use his connection to Great Xia to survive the demonic sect, advance in cultivation, and help Great Xia develop its capabilities.
• As the film depicted the spiritual transformation revival and the Cultivation Administration, viewers recognized similarities to events they had experienced.
• Lu Li defeated the chaos great demon with a sword strike, and the film’s end-credit extras left Luo Yan asking whether Bureau 749 really existed.

The film and television series about Lu Li became hugely popular, and their claims of being based on true events convinced many viewers that the cultivation world and Bureau 749 were real. As the public learned more, Li Qingshan accelerated the releases and launched nationwide cultivation lectures to prepare Great Xia for the full disclosure of Lu Li’s existence.

• Viewers watched Toward Immortal Civilization depict Lu Li’s cultivation and Great Xia’s spiritual resurgence, while real document references led many to believe the story was true.
• A Person on the Immortal Path broke the global first-day box-office record, and Toward Immortal Civilization drew billions of views and widespread discussion at home and abroad.
• The secretary reported the premieres’ success and public reactions to Li Qingshan, who worried about the consequences of revealing a real cultivation world to Blue Star.
• Li Qingshan ordered the remaining episodes released within a week, accelerated the disclosure process, and launched nationwide lectures on cultivation thought.
• Li Qingshan prepared Great Xia to learn that Lu Li had borne the burden for his compatriots in another world for sixty years.

Great Xia officially revealed that Lu Li had spent sixty years fighting alone in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm and had sent back the cultivation resources that benefited the nation. As citizens rallied to support him and foreign powers sought ways to transmigrate, an ancient presence in the starry heavens stirred and reached toward the fish-shaped jade pendant near the capital.

• Great Xia citizens recognized that the footage of Lu Li’s battles was real, and Li Qingshan announced that Lu Li had been trapped in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm for sixty years and had supplied Great Xia with cultivation methods, pills, and resources.
• Citizens across Great Xia flooded the internet with tributes and offers to help Lu Li, while students petitioned to prepare for battle and three hundred military officers applied for cross-realm combat duty.
• Representatives in Beautiful Country and other foreign factions learned of the Imprisoned Dragon Realm and began searching for ways to transmigrate and obtain its resources.
• An ancient, incomplete existence in the starry heavens stirred and sent its will toward the fish-shaped jade pendant near the capital.

Lu Li consolidated his cultivation in seclusion while the Dao Court built Litian Prefecture City and completed its powerful defensive formation. As Yinyang Qingfan secretly studied the city’s puppets, an unusual fluctuation and heavenly might appeared deep within it.

• Li Qingshan sensed a mysterious will activate Lu Li’s jade pendant as Qi from across Great Xia gathered toward it.
• Lu Li remained in seclusion after reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage while the Dao Court rapidly developed its prefecture city.
• The Heart of Primordial Beginning ordered the Heavenly Pivot Division to verify formation nodes and prepare the Heavenly Net.
• Over the following year, the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net city-protecting formation was completed, with eight hundred modules linked to Primordial Beginning.
• Yinyang Qingfan remotely controlled a first-tier puppet, examined the formation and city’s puppets, and considered building one capable of killing Lu Li.
• An unusual fluctuation and majestic heavenly might appeared deep in the prefecture city, startling Yinyang Qingfan.

Yinyang Qingfan witnessed another surge of Kingly Dao Dragon Qi around Lu Li and hurried away to prepare a Dao Integration combat puppet to kill him. Lu Li learned that publicizing his existence in his home world had strengthened his karmic luck, while Li Qingshan promised that the Party and the people would support him.

• Yinyang Qingfan saw the Heavenly Dao descend again and the golden dragon phantom grow more solid around Lu Li.
• Yinyang Qingfan decided to refine a Dao Integration combat puppet and fled with puppets and materials to pursue her plan.
• Lu Li sensed two resplendent wills and felt his Kingly Dao Dragon Qi surge as power flowed from the jade pendant.
• Lu Li contacted Li Qingshan, who explained that the government had publicized Lu Li's existence and shared footage of the jade pendant's reaction.
• Lu Li learned that most people back home supported him, and Li Qingshan promised that the Party and the people would not let him down.

After Great Xia confirmed that public support strengthened Lu Li's fortune, Lu Li realized the Heavenly Dao governing Blue Star belonged to a larger world and urged the nation to investigate Spiritual Qi revival beyond the planet. Empowered by the surge in fortune, he prepared to test his greatly increased strength in the Dao Court's combat arena.

• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that public and national support had bolstered his fortune, and outlined plans to promote his existence and cultivate support across the world.
• Li Qingshan revealed that Spiritual Qi revival extended into the universe, with the moon's surface denser in Spiritual Qi than some places on Blue Star.
• Lu Li concluded that Blue Star's Heavenly Dao belonged to a larger world, just as Eastern Desolation Star's Heavenly Dao belonged to the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and urged Great Xia to investigate other celestial bodies.
• Lu Li learned that Lu Dahai remained in seclusion forming his core after more than a year, though the monitoring Law Artifacts showed no signs of trouble.
• Lu Li fed Kingly Dao Dragon Qi to the Litian Dao Seal and discovered that his physical strength could make the void ripple and show scratches.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to ready the Spirit Transformation combat arena, mobilize the Spirit Machinery, and activate the sixth-tier Void Breaking domain field for a combat test.

After more than a year in seclusion, Lu Li inspected Litian Prefecture City and its Battle Platform, then ordered a betting system to boost the arena’s use. As he tested the facility, Zou Heng sensed the golden dragon’s rapidly growing momentum and suspected Bing Wuji was backing it.

• Lu Li emerged from seclusion and surveyed the greatly expanded Litian Prefecture City.
• Lu Li visited the Battle Platform and learned from the Heart of Primordial Beginning that its utilization rate was only 30 percent.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to plan betting on magical duels, with spectators and house payouts but no death matches.
• Lu Li began testing the Battle Platform’s simulated combat against three Spirit Transformation Demon Beasts under extreme gravity.
• Zou Heng sensed the golden dragon’s strengthened momentum and concluded that Bing Wuji might be supporting its rise.

Zou Heng mobilized the Central Continent’s schools to confront the rising Dragon Qi, while Bing Wuji denied the Military School’s involvement and offered its support. Unaware of the political crisis, Lu Li tested his strength under extreme gravity as three Spirit Transformation Demon Beasts attacked, and the pressure finally began to break through his defenses.

• Zou Heng suspected the Military School might be behind the Dragon Qi and sent Spiritual Power paper cranes to alert the other schools.
• Bing Wuji denounced the Yin-Yang School’s accusation, declared war, and informed the Central Continent that the Military School would help destroy the Dragon Qi.
• Zou Heng accepted Bing Wuji’s denial and worked to ease relations with the Military School.
• Lu Li used the upgraded sixth-tier Pagoda Domain to test himself against increasing gravity while facing three illusory Spirit Transformation Demon Beasts.
• Primordial Beginning raised the pressure to fifty thousand times standard gravity, shattering the void as the beasts attacked together and began to pierce Lu Li’s defenses.