Chapter Summaries

Lu Li learned that his father, Lu Dahai, had secretly joined Great Xia’s fleet to Mars and then reviewed the country’s ambitious research into Dao Laws. Impressed by its plans to study and apply them, Lu Li offered to send a Dao Law back to Great Xia.

• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Lu Dahai had boarded a starship Law Vessel and was heading to Mars with the national fleet.
• Li Qingshan reassured Lu Li that Lu Dahai had taken his Law Treasures and was traveling aboard a heavily armed vessel with combat strength comparable to Void Return.
• Lu Li accepted that leaving Blue Star might benefit his father’s cultivation and turned to report that his jade pendant space could now produce Spiritual Qi and accommodate Divine Souls.
• Researchers at Bureau 749 shared their report outlining hypotheses for observing, quantifying, and applying Dao Laws.
• Lu Li was moved by Great Xia’s plans to use Dao Laws and offered to send one back.

Lu Li sent the Water Qi Dao Law from his jade pendant space to Great Xia for research, where researchers contained it safely. Just as Li Qingshan was about to respond, a mysterious will descended and then withdrew, leaving him convinced the Heavenly Dao had appeared.

• Li Qingshan and the researchers hesitated to accept a Dao Law until Lu Li explained that removing this feedback-derived law would not affect him and that Great Xia could return it later.
• Li Qingshan ordered the units to prepare to receive a Dao Law, and the researchers readied a Pseudo-State Antimatter Spirit Mechanism Container.
• Lu Li selected the gentle Water Qi Dao Law and sent it from the jade pendant's space to the container in Great Xia.
• The container sealed the Dao Law, and the researchers reported that its energy was stable with no leakage.
• An immense, incomplete will descended upon the Dao Law, silenced the command hall, and withdrew when Lu Li spoke through the jade pendant.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that it had seemed as though the Heavenly Dao had come.

After the Heavenly Dao appeared in response to Lu Li transmitting a Dao Law to Blue Star, he warned Li Qingshan that the world would change and Great Xia would need to monitor it. Li Qingshan described Great Xia’s ambitious research programs, leaving Lu Li stunned by plans that could reach beyond Mahayana and into the domain of immortals.

• Lu Li realized that transmitting the Dao Law had stirred Blue Star’s Heavenly Dao, just as sending Spirit Soil had done over a century earlier.
• Li Qingshan confirmed the will matched the one Xu Mu had encountered and promised that Bureau 749 would monitor changes and study the Dao Law.
• Li Qingshan reported that Great Xia was developing AI-assisted Spirit Machinery and a Primordial Beginning quantum computer that might approach a seventh-tier Spirit Artifact.
• Li Qingshan described research into capturing dark matter, exploring multidimensional space, and harnessing extraterrestrial energy for planet-destroying weapons.
• Lu Li compared the research goals to higher cultivation tiers and concluded that mastering multidimensional space belonged to the domain of immortals.

Lu Li coordinated Great Xia’s plans to secure resources from the Endless Sea and prepare for a future campaign against the Central Continent, while Yinyang Qingfan continued carrying him toward the Endless Deep Trench. On Kuafu One, Lu Dahai explored space with his Divine Sense until he sensed an inexplicable shadow inside his Sea of Consciousness.

• Lu Li reflected on how high-grade cultivation resources could fuel Great Xia’s research and help him prepare for his Void Return breakthrough.
• Lu Li and Great Xia confirmed plans to hunt in the Endless Sea Trench, capture the chosen of each region, administer four regions, and prepare for possible moves by the Central Continent.
• Yinyang Qingfan silently ignored Lu Li’s unusual spiritual activity and continued carrying him through the void.
• Lu Dahai marveled at the view from Kuafu One and secretly released his Divine Sense into space.
• Lu Dahai sensed an inexplicable shadow in his Sea of Consciousness while scanning a passing meteorite and wondered whether it was a natural stone sculpture.

Aboard Kuafu One, Lu Dahai and the crew discovered a meteorite bearing a statue of Yang Jian and the inscription “Erlang of Guankou slew a demon here.” They reported the find to Great Xia, while Lu Dahai became entranced by the statue and appeared to enter an epiphany.

• Lu Dahai detected a lifelike sculpture and writing on a meteorite drifting near Kuafu One.
• Zhu Chenhai ordered the crew to capture the meteorite, and the team brought it aboard for examination.
• The crew uncovered the statue of a three-eyed armored figure and read the inscription identifying Erlang of Guankou, which they connected to Yang Jian.
• Zhu Chenhai sent images and a report to Great Xia, prompting ground command to order the meteorite preserved and returned to Blue Star.
• Lu Dahai ignored his crewmates, removed his protective suit, and floated cross-legged facing the meteorite as a researcher suggested he was having an epiphany.

Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan descended into the Endless Deep Trench to hunt Dao Integration sea beasts, with Yinyang Qingfan warning him to conceal his Dragon Qi. After absorbing the nourishment and Dao Laws of nine sea beasts, Lu Li reached the threshold of a breakthrough.

• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that the Endless Deep Trench could harbor Tribulation Transcendence beings and explained how Ao Li used his dragon blood and draconic might to command Dao Integration sea beasts.
• Lu Li concealed his Dragon Qi, and he and Yinyang Qingfan began exploring the trench’s outskirts.
• Yinyang Qingfan swiftly killed a giant eel, and Lu Li absorbed its corpse through the jade pendant, gaining Blood Qi and insight into water and lightning.
• Yinyang Qingfan killed more Dao Integration sea beasts while Lu Li collected their corpses and grew stronger from their Blood Qi and Dao Laws.
• After absorbing nourishment from his ninth Dao Integration sea beast, Lu Li realized he was about to break through.

Lu Li broke through to Void Return in a secluded cave in the Endless Deep Trench, becoming a True Lord. As his fish-shaped jade pendant transformed, he realized the vision it displayed showed immortals and gods destroying their own world.

• Yinyang Qingfan suggested that Lu Li cultivate in seclusion in the Endless Deep Trench, whose Spiritual Qi approached that of a sixth-tier Spirit Vein.
• Lu Li carved out a cave abode, and Yinyang Qingfan guarded it while he began his breakthrough.
• The Blood Qi essence and Dao Laws of the nine Dao Integration Demon Beasts helped Lu Li's five-attribute Spiritual Power flow smoothly as his Primordial Spirit solidified.
• Lu Li shattered the shackles of Spirit Transformation and attained Void Return, becoming a True Lord and discovering his new command of the void.
• The fish-shaped jade pendant displayed its vision of immortals and gods, and Lu Li realized that they, not the flying blade, had destroyed the world.

After the fish-shaped jade pendant’s visions revealed the immortals and gods pouring the shattered world into a flying dagger, Lu Li discovered he could cast spells across worlds through the pendant. His test succeeded on Blue Star, but a trace of Dragon Qi awakened something in the Endless Deep Trench, which declared that it was not Sin Dragon Qi.

• Lu Li realized the visions showed the immortals and gods driving the shattered heaven and earth into the flying dagger, and suspected the Silent Ruins were involved.
• Lu Li asked Li Qingshan to move Great Xia’s fish-shaped jade pendant to a secure testing site.
• Lu Li cast a Fireball Technique through his pendant, and the spell appeared on Blue Star and blasted a crater into the testing chamber’s alloy wall.
• Lu Li explained that his breakthrough to Void Return let him use the pendant to cast spells across worlds, leaving Bureau 749’s researchers eager to test what else could cross over.
• Yinyang Qingfan warned Lu Li that Dragon Qi had awakened something in the Endless Deep Trench, then carried him upward in the cave abode.
• A voice from the trench sensed pure Dragon Qi, wondered if it came from a Western Continent flood dragon, and declared that it was not Sin Dragon Qi.

Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan fled the Endless Deep Trench after a possible Mahayana Demon Venerable emerged, and Lu Li deduced that Great Xia’s Dragon Qi had drawn it. After learning that the Demon Venerable might be sealed in the trench to conceal its aura, Lu Li turned his attention to his next campaign: capturing the prodigies of every province.

• Yinyang Qingfan warned Lu Li that a possible Demon Venerable had been drawn by Dragon Qi, and they fled as a massive tentacle churned through the trench.
• Lu Li wondered whether casting a spell across realms through the fish-shaped jade pendant had let Great Xia’s Dragon Qi leak into the trench.
• Yinyang Qingfan speculated that the Demon Venerable remained in the trench to conceal its middle-thousand-world Qi and prepare for ascension.
• Lu Li resolved to avoid the Western Sea trench for now and seek other deep trenches after capturing the provincial prodigies.
• Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to return, muster the troops, and swiftly capture the prodigies of every province.

Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen joined forces to march on Litian Prefecture City, convinced the Western Continent was weak and its Sin Dragon's death concealed an upheaval. Qing Huayu, fleeing across the Endless Sea after sensing a terrifying Venerable tied to the bearer of Dragon Fate, decided to abandon his masters and hide on another continent.

• Gu Yuan and the Southern Continent elders judged the Western Continent feeble and suspected the Sin Dragon Ao Qing's death involved an unknown upheaval.
• Gu Yuan's party met Bing Wuhen and thirteen Void Return cultivators from the Northern Continent's Ice Palace, and the two groups agreed to divide the Western Continent's resources and compete separately for the bearer of Dragon Fate.
• Gu Yuan used a Gu worm to search for Qing Huayu and learned that the Eastern Continent's prodigy was moving farther away from them.
• Gu Yuan guessed Qing Huayu had found a treasure, while he and Bing Wuhen led their forces toward Litian Prefecture City.
• Qing Huayu fled over the Endless Sea, convinced a female cultivator connected to the bearer of Dragon Fate was a Venerable, and resolved not to return to the Eastern or Central Continent.

Lu Li gathered the Dao Court’s strongest forces in Western Sea Prefecture City and ordered them to move out to capture the continent’s prodigies. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen observed Litian Prefecture City, where a furious Gu Clan elder launched an attack.

• Ao Li reported that fifty-seven Void Return cultivators had assembled, and Lu Li accepted Zou Moshan’s failure to locate an escaped prodigy.
• Lu Li gathered the Dao Court’s high-level fighters and ordered them to depart for the four continents.
• Gu Yuan, Bing Wuhen, and their companions arrived at Litian Prefecture City and spent three days observing its unusual prosperity and cooperation between mortals and cultivators.
• A Gu Clan elder denounced Lu Li’s rule as the Litian Devil Court and attacked the city with a Void Return technique.

Gu Yuan and the other cultivators watched as the Gu Clan elder attacked Litian Prefecture City, triggering its automated defenses. After the city’s barrier failed, its Heaven-and-Earth Net activated a massive counterattack, leaving the Void Return cultivators bracing to defend themselves.

• Gu Yuan and the others revealed themselves as the Gu Clan elder sent a phantom Gu insect toward Litian Prefecture City.
• Primordial Beginning announced war mode, and the city raised a barrier while its departmental towers formed a giant sword to strike the insect.
• The Gu Clan elder used skull prayer beads to strengthen his attack, shattering the giant sword and then breaking through the city’s barrier.
• The citizens panicked as the Gu insect’s foul wind reached the city, and the elder prepared to destroy Litian Prefecture City.
• Primordial Beginning activated the Heaven-and-Earth Net’s defensive strike units, which fired spiritual beams from concealed ground-based power sources and cannons in the astral winds.
• The Gu Clan elder warned the Void Return cultivators to avoid taking the counterattack head-on and join him in holding it off.

The Heaven-and-Earth Net Defense and Strike Unit failed to harm the invading Void Return cultivators, who began searching Litian Prefecture City for Lu Li and slaughtering its people. Just as they prepared to destroy more of the city, dozens of Void Return figures emerged from the void, followed by a powerful old man and a white-robed figure, as an azure-robed figure appeared last.

• Litian Prefecture City's Heaven-and-Earth Net Defense and Strike Unit attacked the Ice Palace and Gu Clan cultivators, but they emerged unharmed.
• Gu Yuan challenged the master of the Dao Court, but received no answer, and a Gu Clan elder suspected that something had happened to the bearer of Dragon Fate.
• The Void Return cultivators searched the city with their Divine Sense, causing destruction and killing residents, while the Gu Clan elder's gu insects devoured the Essence Blood of tens of thousands.
• Bing Wuhen took a second-tier puppet after erasing its imprint, as Primordial Beginning used its puppets to rescue people and help them flee.
• Gu Yuan and the elders failed to find Lu Li and threatened to turn the city upside down before a Void Return Demon Beast and dozens of Void Return figures emerged from the void.
• A gaunt old man more powerful than Void Return and a white-robed figure appeared, followed by a figure in azure robes.

Lu Li ordered the Ice Palace and Gu Clan forces killed for destroying Litian Prefecture City, then turned to rescuing survivors as the Dao Court annihilated the invaders. After Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen died, Lu Li absorbed their Fate Patterns, and Yinyang Qingfan explained that their continental fortune had become his.

• Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen panicked when nearly sixty Dao Court Void Return cultivators surrounded their forces.
• Lu Li ordered the intruders killed and their heads displayed for a thousand years, then released puppets and a Soul Dao Law Artifact to rescue survivors.
• Gu Yuan and Bing Wuhen pleaded for an alliance, but Lu Li said they could form one if they survived.
• Zou Moshan and the Dao Court cultivators attacked, wiping out the Ice Palace and Gu Clan forces in moments.
• Lu Li absorbed Gu Yuan's and Bing Wuhen's Fate Patterns, and Yinyang Qingfan told him he had seized their fortune and gained a special connection to their continents.

After defeating the other continents’ chosen, Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to prepare to march beyond the Western Continent in three years. He then returned to his old underground palace to upgrade Primordial Beginning with a powerful seventh-tier Spirit Artifact, and the fish-shaped jade pendant subdued the artifact’s resistance.

• Lu Li realized that killing the other continents’ chosen had gathered their providence and Fate Patterns into him.
• Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to rebuild Litian Prefecture City, reorganize its forces, and prepare to march out of the Western Continent in three years.
• The cultivators pledged obedience, while Zou Moshan considered the Dao Court’s looming conflict with the Hundred Schools of the Central Continent.
• Lu Li returned to the Dao Court’s old underground palace and decided to use Zou Moshan’s seventh-tier Spirit Artifact to upgrade Primordial Beginning.
• The black-and-white copper coins resisted Lu Li’s suppression until the fish-shaped jade pendant appeared and made them lose their radiance.

Lu Li began refining the seventh-tier black-and-white copper coin to upgrade Primordial Beginning, while the fish-shaped jade pendant effortlessly suppressed the Spirit Artifact. As Kuafu One approached Mars, Zhu Chenhai sensed that its spiritual vitality far exceeded Blue Star’s, but Lu Dahai remained unresponsive.

• Lu Li examined the fish-shaped jade pendant’s power over the black-and-white copper coin and concluded that the pendant’s potential was extraordinary.
• Lu Li began smelting rare materials and the seventh-tier Spirit Artifact to upgrade Primordial Beginning, while the jade pendant subdued the coin when it struggled.
• The crew aboard Kuafu One admired Mars and Zhu Chenhai sensed its spiritual vitality surpassed Blue Star’s.
• Zhu Chenhai learned that Lu Dahai had shown no response for over two months, and a crew member wondered whether he had died in meditation.

Zhu Chenhai and the crew landed Kuafu One on Mars and began building Great Xia’s first cultivation base there. With construction underway, Zhu Chenhai led the Velociraptor Special Operations Team away on a more important task.

• Zhu Chenhai checked on Lu Dahai, who remained motionless in meditation before the meteorite statue, and worried about leaving him unattended during the Mars landing and construction.
• Kuafu One descended through Mars’s atmosphere and landed near Mount Olympus after the crew felt the planet’s rich Spiritual Qi.
• Zhu Chenhai ordered the crew to disembark, and they collected soil samples and surveyed the surrounding area for construction zones.
• After Primordial Beginning confirmed the site met requirements, Zhu Chenhai activated nearly a thousand construction puppets to build Great Xia’s first cultivation base on Mars.
• Zhu Chenhai confirmed construction was proceeding normally, then summoned the Velociraptor Special Operations Team to accompany him.

Zhu Chenhai led the Velociraptor Second Team from the Mars base toward Mount Olympus to investigate areas rich in spiritual potential. Meanwhile, Lu Dahai dreamed that he delivered an imperial decree to Erlang Who Manifests Sainthood, then awoke to find a golden vertical eye between his brows.

• Zhu Chenhai warned the four Velociraptor Second Team members that exploring Mars’s spiritually potent regions would be dangerous.
• Zhu Chenhai organized the base and took the team aboard a miniature fifth-tier magical vessel toward Mount Olympus.
• Lu Dahai dreamed that he entered a celestial mountain temple to deliver an imperial decree and paid his respects to Erlang Who Manifests Sainthood.
• Erlang Who Manifests Sainthood looked into Lu Dahai and said he would try once more, after which Lu Dahai’s vision went black.
• Lu Dahai awoke beside the meteorite sculpture and used the Water Mirror Technique to discover a golden vertical eye between his brows.

Lu Dahai discovered a mysterious golden vertical pupil on his forehead just as a dying crew member reported that Zhu Chenhai’s team had been ambushed on Mars. Lu Dahai led a rescue team toward Mount Olympus, where the recording of the attack ended with Zhu Chenhai demanding to know who was there.

• Lu Dahai saw a golden vertical pupil on his forehead but could not touch it or determine what it was.
• Dawei arrived mortally wounded and urged the crew to rescue the captain, then died as his already weakened soul dispersed.
• Lu Dahai concluded that Mars’s spiritual environment was dangerous and ordered the crew to prepare defenses while he led a rescue team.
• Lu Dahai and three Foundation Establishment cultivators flew toward Mount Olympus aboard an enhanced fifth-tier spellship.
• A recording showed Zhu Chenhai’s team approaching Mount Olympus as interference worsened, ending when someone challenged an unseen presence.

Lu Dahai led the crew toward Mount Olympus to find Zhu Chenhai, but violent spiritual interference disabled their Spirit Machinery near the summit. He attacked rock-skinned creatures emerging from a black abyss with Lu Li’s flying sword.

• Lu Dahai took command of the search after Zhu Chenhai’s recording feed vanished and hurried the crew to Mount Olympus.
• The magic warship’s Spirit Machinery failed as it neared the summit, leaving the crew without propulsion or spiritual shields.
• Lu Dahai sensed shadows, raised his flying sword, and led the crew in attacking them.
• Lu Dahai spotted powerful, rock-skinned creatures around a vast black abyss and sent his fifth-tier flying sword against them.