Chapter Summaries

Lu Dahai reached Zhu Chenhai and the others’ spellship on Mars and unleashed his vast collection of Law Treasures and talismans against the surrounding creatures. After destroying hundreds of thousands of them, he sensed a greater danger and ordered his crew to flee away from Blue Star.

• Lu Dahai used his fifth-tier flying sword Army-Breaking to cut down the creatures on the crater rim and discovered Zhu Chenhai and the others’ spellship surrounded by countless monsters.
• Lu Dahai saw that the spellship’s Spiritual Power shield had failed, but its sealed cabins suggested the crew might still be alive.
• Lu Dahai realized the rocky creatures had Foundation Establishment-level toughness and summoned the Law Treasures, talismans, and formation gear Lu Li had given him.
• Lu Dahai unleashed a barrage of talismans, blasting hundreds of thousands of Martian creatures into pieces while sparing the spellship.
• Lu Dahai grew grave and ordered his reinforcements to flee in the opposite direction from Blue Star.

Lu Dahai discovered a terrifying stone giant awakening beneath the Martian crater and ordered the crew to erase all records of Blue Star before attacking his own coordinates with a purely firepower-based nuclear weapon. The giant, Shi Gandang, recognized the golden eye on Lu Dahai as evidence of the Second Lord’s legacy and attacked him as a nuclear missile arrived overhead.

• Lu Dahai sensed a presence beneath the crater far beyond Golden Core and tried to investigate with the golden vertical pupil on his forehead.
• The pupil’s appearance stirred a presence that shook the crew’s treasures and formation disc, and a gigantic stone monster emerged from the crater and overturned the spellship.
• Lu Dahai ordered the crew to erase Blue Star’s coordinates and told Kuafu One to fire a purely firepower-based nuclear weapon at his position in three minutes.
• The stone monster identified itself as Shi Gandang and said Lu Dahai had comprehended the Second Lord’s legacy, then reacted with alarm when Lu Dahai asked whether it had survived the Silent Ruins.
• Shi Gandang demanded the legacy and struck at Lu Dahai, who could not resist its attack and charged toward the spellship as a nuclear missile arrived overhead.

Lu Li nearly completed refining Primordial Beginning into a seventh-tier Spirit Artifact when he learned that his father, Lu Dahai, was in danger on Mars. The fish-shaped jade pendant responded to Lu Li’s distress by manifesting the pendant on Blue Star in the void before him.

• Lu Li melted down the black-and-white copper coin and prepared to fuse the refined materials with Primordial Beginning’s main unit.
• Primordial Beginning showed a trace of humanlike emotion as Lu Li considered using Great Xia’s latest quantum-computing research to aid its advancement.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Lu Dahai had reported a crisis on Mars, where Kuafu One had launched shipborne nuclear weapons and the crew had prepared to fight to the death.
• Lu Li grew distressed that he could not reach his father across the distance to Mars, and his anger caused his Law Power to surge through the fish-shaped jade pendant.
• The pendant made a point of light appear in the void, and Lu Li recognized it as the fish-shaped jade pendant on Blue Star.

Lu Li discovered that his Void Return breakthrough let him control Blue Star’s fish-shaped jade pendant across realms and sent it speeding toward Mars to aid Lu Dahai. The chapter left Lu Dahai facing the stone figure as another dazzling streak of light approached after his nuclear missile was destroyed.

• Lu Li realized the fish-shaped jade pendant could be controlled across realms and asked Li Qingshan for Mars’s coordinates.
• Lu Li poured Spiritual Power into the pendant, causing it to vanish from Bureau 749 and race toward Mars at more than five times the speed of light.
• Lu Dahai prepared to reach the grounded magical ship and ensure the nuclear missile destroyed the information aboard it.
• The stone figure trapped and crushed the five-megaton nuclear missile before it could hit its target.
• Lu Dahai saw another dazzling streak of light approaching and wondered why there was another one.

Lu Li sent his Dharma manifestation across worlds to Mars, where it saved Lu Dahai and the rescue crew from the stone giant Shi Gandang. After recognizing Lu Dahai, Lu Li destroyed Shi Gandang’s body and left its soul before him for interrogation.

• A fish-shaped jade pendant streaked toward Mars, and Shi Gandang reached out to seize it.
• Lu Li guided his Dharma manifestation into the pendant, causing a gigantic manifestation to appear on Mars.
• Lu Dahai and the other crew members recognized Lu Li and celebrated his return.
• Lu Li looked toward Blue Star, then turned his attention to Shi Gandang.
• Lu Li struck Shi Gandang, destroyed its body, and brought its remaining soul to an underground palace chamber.

Lu Li searched Shi Gandang’s soul and learned that the Silent Ruins had been known to the ancient immortals and gods, who had failed to stop them. After warning Lu Dahai to avoid danger in space, Lu Li returned to Great Xia, while Lu Dahai’s crew rescued Zhu Chenhai’s ship and discovered something shocking inside.

• Lu Li searched Shi Gandang’s soul, learned of its ancient origins, and discovered that the immortals and gods had prepared for the Silent Ruins before they occurred.
• Lu Li dispersed Shi Gandang’s weakened Divine Soul and contacted Lu Dahai through the fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Lu Dahai told Lu Li about his encounter with an inheritance linked to Erlang Shen, prompting Lu Li to suspect that his father had a luck-related Fate Pattern.
• Lu Li advised Lu Dahai to explore cautiously and return soon, then summoned the jade pendant back to Great Xia to ask about the pseudo-seventh-tier quantum computer.
• Lu Dahai and the crew rescued Zhu Chenhai’s magical ship and were shocked by what they found inside.

After Zhu Chenhai was found gravely wounded beside a mysterious carving on Mars, Lu Li and Great Xia’s researchers considered the spread of ancient inheritances and the risks of exploring other worlds. Lu Li learned the nation’s design for a pseudo-seventh-tier quantum computer and prepared to advance Primordial Beginning into a true seventh-tier quantum computer.

• Lu Dahai and his crew found dead crewmembers and an injured Zhu Chenhai beside a stone carving bearing an inscription about the Sworn Brothers of Plum Mountain.
• Lu Dahai reported the discovery to Bureau 749, where researchers linked the carving to the Six Brothers of Plum Mountain and Lu Li considered the possibility of other inheritances near Mars and on other celestial bodies.
• Li Qingshan said Great Xia planned to assemble more deep-space fleets, and Lu Li offered to assist if the nation faced an overwhelming crisis.
• A scholar explained that the nation’s pseudo-seventh-tier quantum computer would use spiritual power and quantum superposition, though researchers still faced major technical obstacles.
• Lu Li memorized the computer’s development concept, then looked at the melted seventh-tier Spirit Artifact and the Heart of Primordial Beginning as he considered making Primordial Beginning a true seventh-tier quantum computer.

Lu Li reforged Primordial Beginning with a nearly upper seventh-tier Spirit Artifact, aiming to make it the Dao Court’s coordinating brain and soul. After forty-nine days, seventh-tier Primordial Beginning awakened in a humanoid form and greeted Lu Li as its master.

• Lu Li decided seventh-tier Primordial Beginning should become a calculation-path Spirit Artifact that could coordinate the Dao Court like a high-level cultivator.
• Lu Li dismantled sixth-tier Primordial Beginning, infused its components with the seventh-tier Spirit Artifact and its Artifact Spirit, and began reforging it.
• While Primordial Beginning was being reforged, its public computing services and much of the Dao Court’s Spirit Machinery shut down, disrupting cultivators and residents across Litian Prefecture City.
• After forty-nine days, seven-colored radiance and a vibrating hum spread from Lu Li’s underground palace, and Litian Prefecture City’s towers and puppets awakened.
• Seventh-tier Primordial Beginning formed a youthful humanoid body, bowed to Lu Li, and greeted him as its master.

After Primordial Beginning advanced into a tier-seven Spirit Artifact, it analyzed Litian Prefecture City and Lu Li’s cultivation, then devised a personalized tier-six cultivation system. The chapter ended with Lu Li reviewing the newly completed plan.

• Primordial Beginning demonstrated that it could analyze and optimize Litian Prefecture City’s resources, personnel, and operations.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to assess his cultivation and plan his future path.
• Primordial Beginning analyzed Lu Li’s strengths and shortcomings, forecasting that a fully optimized Lu Li could likely defeat a Dao Integration cultivator.
• Primordial Beginning accessed the Dao Court’s repositories and used thousands of cultivation methods and spells to formulate Lu Li’s plan.
• Primordial Beginning presented a tier-six system featuring the Primordial Five Elements Instruction, Primordial Indestructible Body, Primordial Dragon-Slaying Instruction, Primordial Void Instant, and Primordial Body-Protecting Light.

Lu Li entered seclusion after ordering Primordial Beginning to prepare the Dao Court to unify the four continents and develop the Fallen Dust Continent. Meanwhile, the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools confronted the Yin-Yang School over the crisis caused by the Western Continent’s rise, and Zou Heng agreed to send out its venerables.

• Lu Li reviewed Primordial Beginning’s newly calculated tier-six cultivation methods and spells, then planned to spend two and a half years strengthening himself before leading the Dao Court’s campaign.
• Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to secure the Western Continent and Endless Western Sea, prepare the populations for war, plan the incorporation of the four continents, guard against the Central Continent’s elders, and develop the Fallen Dust Continent.
• Lu Li entered seclusion while the Central Continent’s schools learned that the Western Sea had submitted and the Southern and Northern Continents’ prodigies had been wiped out.
• Bing Wuji convened the leaders of the ten principal schools and blamed the Yin-Yang School for causing the calamity through its past actions.
• Bing Wuji demanded that the Yin-Yang School resolve the crisis or face destruction, and Zou Heng agreed that the school would send out its venerables.

The Hundred Schools forced the Yin-Yang School to send a Venerable to quell the Western Continent’s dragon calamity, threatening to destroy its Central Continent inheritance if it refused. After three months of deliberation and pressure from ten Venerables, Zou Heng sent his second brother, Venerable Yangming, to leave the Central Continent.

• Bing Wuji warned Zou Heng that the Yin-Yang School would lose its Central Continent inheritance if it failed to quell the dragon calamity.
• Zou Heng returned to the Yin-Yang School’s ancestral grounds and agonized over sacrificing his chance at ascension and the school’s future.
• Zou Heng summoned the three Yin-Yang Venerables to deliberate while the Hundred Schools watched and ten Venerables gathered above the school.
• Bing Wuji gave the Yin-Yang School three months to send out a Venerable, threatening its destruction if it delayed.
• After three months, Zou Heng announced that Venerable Yangming would leave the Central Continent to quell the dragon calamity, then urged his second brother to go.

Chen Beihai, a Spirit Descent researcher turned Dao Court deacon, reflected on how the city had changed as he rode home and shared dinner with his wife, Su Wanqing. The chapter ended when Su Wanqing told him she wished to join the Northern Expedition Army.

• Chen Beihai left the Spirit Source Division and rode a public Law Artifact through the transformed Litian Prefecture City.
• Chen Beihai recalled his arrival from Blue Star, his work improving spirit-herb cultivation, and the Dao Court’s recent changes.
• Chen Beihai returned home to Su Wanqing, and they shared a meal she had prepared.
• Su Wanqing told Chen Beihai that she wished to join the Northern Expedition Army.

As the Dao Court prepared to send three armies to war in two years, Su Wanqing told Chen Beihai she wanted to join to restore her maternal Lineage, and he agreed to accompany her. Meanwhile, Jiang Wuxie appeared on the Missionary Division’s live interview program to build momentum before the coming campaign.

• Chen Beihai warned Su Wanqing that joining the Northern Expedition Army meant facing deadly battles, and she explained that military merits were her only chance to restore her fallen maternal Lineage.
• Chen Beihai agreed to ask about joining the army as a deacon, saying he would serve in its Spirit Plant Hall while Su Wanqing forged artifacts.
• Cultivators across Litian Prefecture City prepared for the coming war by enlisting, trading for Law Artifacts, leaving secure posts, and closing businesses.
• Yuanhao welcomed Jiang Wuxie to the Missionary Division, where Jiang accepted an interview invitation to build momentum before the Western Continent campaign.
• The Promotion Hall began its live broadcast, and its host introduced Jiang Wuxie as the head of the Ten Thousand Spirits Division.

As the Dao Court completed its preparations to march beyond the Western Continent, Lu Li emerged from three years of seclusion and led its fleet toward the Western Sea. Yinyang Qingfan then told him that the Central Continent's Yin-Yang School had fled.

• Jiang Wuxie decided he would seek a breakthrough and become Lu Li's True Disciple during the coming campaign.
• Primordial Beginning reported that the Dao Court's military preparations were complete and waited for Lu Li to emerge from seclusion.
• Lu Li emerged without a cultivation breakthrough, confirmed the preparations, and ordered the Dao Court to depart.
• A fleet of one hundred magical ships rose from Litian Prefecture City and headed toward the Western Sea with Lu Li aboard.
• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that the Central Continent's Yin-Yang School had fled.

Lu Li learned that the Central Continent’s Yin-Yang School had been abandoned by its three Venerables, who fled into the starry sky to preserve their chance of ascending. As he considered the Imprisoned Dragon Realm’s harsh cultivation rules and his own future, Zou Moshan warned that the Hundred Schools would carve up the Yin-Yang School and draw lots to choose Venerables.

• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Li that Zou Moshan’s divination had revealed the Yin-Yang School’s three Venerables had left the Eastern Wasteland.
• Yinyang Qingfan explained that the Venerables could hide in the uninhabited starry sky and perhaps ascend after tens of thousands of years, but their descendants would lose their cultivation prospects.
• Yinyang Qingfan explained that the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao punished cultivators who deceived it because their escape weakened the realm and threatened its future.
• Lu Li considered the rules he would face after Tribulation Transcendence and wondered whether he could isolate the entire Eastern Wasteland as his territory.
• Zou Moshan told Lu Li that the Hundred Schools would carve up the Yin-Yang School and then draw lots to select Venerables.

Lu Li prepared to expand into the Western Continent while Great Xia reported its rapid development across the Solar System and announced a new calendar, the first year of the gods' revival. The chapter left Lu Li wondering why most newly discovered divine inheritances seemed to have little effect, unlike his father’s.

• Zou Moshan warned Lu Li that the Central Continent would eventually send a Venerable to pacify the Western Continent, though the Yin-Yang School’s defection might delay that response.
• Lu Li ordered preparations to march on the Western Continent and resolved to use the delay to expand his power and colonize distant seas.
• Lu Li contacted Great Xia, and Li Qingshan confirmed that Martian stone monster ore could interfere with fifth-tier Spirit Machinery and serve as a strategic resource.
• Li Qingshan reported that Great Xia had established cultivation bases across the Solar System and would replace its old calendar with the first year of the gods' revival.
• Lu Li recalled several Great Xia cultivators suspected of receiving ancient divine inheritances, then wondered why they seemed to gain little from them except for his father.

Lu Li coordinated with Great Xia about inheritance research and Primordial Beginning, then arrived in Western Sea Prefecture to assemble the Dao Court’s three armies for the conquest of the eastern, southern, and northern continents. He ordered the armies to split up and advance, then invited Yinyang Qingfan to join him in warming up.

• Lu Li warned Li Qingshan to explore the stars cautiously and shared Primordial Beginning’s upgraded capabilities and usage records with Great Xia.
• Lu Li arranged to send Primordial Beginning back to Great Xia for research once the Dao Court set out for the four seas.
• Lu Li planned for himself, Zou Moshan, and Ao Li to lead three armies against the eastern, southern, and northern continents, while Yinyang Qingfan stayed with him to explore Endless Deep Trenches.
• More than a month later, Lu Li arrived in Western Sea Prefecture, where Primordial Beginning reported that the three assembled armies numbered over 3.22 million troops.
• Lu Li addressed the troops, ordered all three armies to split up and advance, and then sent Yinyang Qingfan a voice transmission inviting her to warm up with him.

Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan found a vast Endless Deep Trench and descended into it to hunt powerful sea beasts. Meanwhile, the Central Continent's schools debated sending a Venerable against the Western Continent's threat, and the Miscellaneous School volunteered for the Military School's Immortal Weapon Pill.

• Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan traveled north ahead of the Northern Expedition Army, seeking Endless Deep Trenches to gather resources and strengthen Lu Li.
• Yinyang Qingfan sensed an unusual stretch of sea, and the two found a huge Endless Deep Trench containing a presence that included a Tribulation Transcendence beast.
• The Hundred Schools' ten leaders met amid the ruins of the Yin-Yang School and argued over sending a Venerable beyond the Central Continent.
• Bing Wuji offered the Military School's Immortal Weapon Pill to whichever school sent out a Venerable, while requiring the other schools to compensate the Military School.
• The head of the Miscellaneous School stood and declared that his school would take the Immortal Weapon Pill.

Chu Changyue chose to leave the Central Continent so his younger brother could use the Immortal Weapon Pill to strengthen the Miscellaneous School, despite knowing the Heavenly Dao would punish his bloodline. After the pill arrived, he left it with his Lineage and crossed the Mystic Firmament Heavenly Wall toward the Western Continent.

• Chu Changyue returned to the Miscellaneous School's clan grounds and reflected on the Lineage's decline and his plan to obtain hope for its future with the Immortal Weapon Pill.
• Chu Changyue told Chu Changbo the Lineage's secrets and resources, then entrusted the Miscellaneous School to him.
• Five days later, the Immortal Weapon Pill arrived, and Bing Wuji told Chu Changyue to leave.
• Chu Changyue tossed the jade box into the Lineage's grounds and crossed the Mystic Firmament Heavenly Wall, incurring the Heavenly Dao's punishment.
• Chu Changyue set off toward the Western Continent.

Lu Li tested his newly developed techniques by fighting Dao Integration sea beasts in the Endless Deep Trench while Yinyang Qingfan supported him. After gaining Blood Qi essence and another strand of Dao Law power, he continued deeper, eager to face more prey.

• Lu Li fought an early Dao Integration sea beast using his techniques and Spiritual Power, honing how they worked together.
• When the wounded beast tried to escape, Lu Li ordered Yinyang Qingfan to finish it, and she killed it before he collected its body.
• The fish-shaped jade pendant extracted Blood Qi essence and a strand of Dao Law power, bringing Lu Li’s total to seventeen strands.
• Lu Li and Yinyang Qingfan descended farther into the trench, with both seeing their partnership as beneficial to their ambitions.
• Lu Li sensed another powerful presence ahead and told Yinyang Qingfan to stand back so he could go first.