Chapter Summaries

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.

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.