Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Li and his companions toured the Fallen Dust Continent while Primordial Beginning reformed the Litian Dynasty. After a century, Lu Li reached perfected Spirit Transformation, and the group prepared to leave with the dynasty under Primordial Beginning's control.

• Lu Li and his companions disguised themselves as prospective disciples at the Primordial Beginning Immortal Sect and concealed their true cultivation during spirit-root testing.
• The group explored a mortal city, where Ye Chenfeng remembered candied hawthorns and Lu Changye bought skewers for everyone.
• Lu Li compared the peaceful lives of Fallen Dust Continent's mortals with those of the Western Continent as the group toured the continent's forbidden lands and ruins.
• Over the next century, Lu Li reached perfected Spirit Transformation, while the Dao Court's disciples entered Nascent Soul and Ye Chenfeng reached Spirit Transformation.
• Ao Li reported that the Litian Dynasty was entirely in Primordial Beginning's hands, and Lu Li instructed Primordial Beginning to prepare a preliminary selection of talent before leaving the world.

Qing Huayu led the Azure Lotus Supreme Sect cultivators into the Western Sea to investigate before approaching the Western Continent. While searching for the Western Sea Dragon Palace, they found a white-robed woman whose overwhelming pressure terrified an elder, leaving Qing Huayu’s group facing a potentially far more powerful presence.

• Qing Huayu chose to enter the Western Sea and seek information rather than rush toward the Western Continent’s mainland.
• When the Grand Elder urged him to hurry, Qing Huayu warned him to investigate alone if he could not follow orders, and the Grand Elder stayed with the group.
• After more than ten days, Qing Huayu and the cultivators used Void Breaking to emerge beneath the sea, but found only a barren ocean trench instead of the Dragon Palace.
• The group searched the area, and a Void Return elder detected a white-robed woman more than a hundred li away with no apparent cultivation presence.
• Despite Qing Huayu’s warning, a middle Void Return elder approached the woman and released his pressure, but she turned toward him and unleashed a terrifying force that made him beg for his life.

Yinyang Qingfan captured fifteen Eastern Continent Void Return cultivators after Qing Huayu escaped, then told Lu Li they had come to campaign against the bearer of Dragon Fate. Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to mobilize its Void Return cultivators and encircle and suppress the arriving cultivators.

• Qing Huayu fled when Yinyang Qingfan appeared, but she used the Dragon-Binding Rope to trap the other cultivators.
• Yinyang Qingfan interrogated the captives, who identified themselves as Eastern Continent cultivators sent by Qing Huayu to attack the Litian Dao Court's master.
• Yinyang Qingfan forced the fifteen captives to kneel and spared their lives until Lu Li could decide their fate.
• Lu Li emerged from the Mystic Realm Small World and heard Yinyang Qingfan's account of the expedition and Qing Huayu's escape.
• Lu Li saw the arriving heaven's chosen as an opportunity to expand the Dao Court's control and ordered its Void Return cultivators to encircle and suppress them.

Lu Li ordered the Western Sea’s Void Return cultivators assembled for a return to the Western Continent and arranged to hunt demons in the Endless Deep Trench with Yinyang Qingfan. As they traveled, he discovered that his jade pendant space had begun producing Spiritual Qi and asked Great Xia about its Dao Law model and deep-space fleet.

• Lu Li ordered Ao Li to gather the Western Sea’s Void Return cultivators within half a month and told Zou Moshan to use divination to find the escaped Qing Huayu.
• Lu Li sent Changming, Changye, and the other bureau members away to organize the Western Sea, then asked Yinyang Qingfan to accompany him to hunt great demons in the Endless Deep Trench.
• Yinyang Qingfan used Void Breaking to carry Lu Li toward the trench while he inspected the jade pendant space and found that it had begun producing Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Li examined the space’s three Dao Laws and considered how more laws might help it develop into a complete world.
• Lu Li messaged Great Xia to ask about progress on its virtual Dao Law model and whether the first deep-space fleet had departed.

Great Xia launched Kuafu One, its first star-faring arcane warship, on a voyage to Mars to establish an extraterrestrial cultivation base. After the ship reached orbit, Li Qingshan told Lu Li that his father had left Blue Star.

• Zhu Chenhai began Kuafu One’s launch countdown as cultivators at their stations confirmed the ship was ready for its Mars-orbit voyage.
• People across Blue Star watched as Kuafu One ignited its twelve Spiritual Energy Fusion Furnaces and rose into space.
• Li Qingshan congratulated Zhu Chenhai after Kuafu One entered orbit, while Zhu Chenhai noticed an unexpected figure aboard the ship.
• Li Qingshan received a contact from Lu Li and told him that his father had left Blue Star.