Chapter Summaries

The Bone Mountain Supreme allied with Ao Zhuyuan and Su Beixiao to hide Lu Li from the Ji Household and divert the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect with a staged conflict. After returning to the Bone Mountain Immortal Market, he instructed You Jun to keep Jian Wujiu from escaping, but Jian Wujiu warned You Jun that his life was in danger.

• Ao Zhuyuan proposed taking Lu Li to the Chaotic Star Domain or Ten Thousand Demons Star Domain, and the Bone Mountain Supreme chose the Chaotic Star Domain as a fallback.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme, Ao Zhuyuan, and Su Beixiao swore an oath and agreed to stage attacks and spread conflict to draw the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect and Ji Household away from the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme returned to the market and learned from You Jun that rumors he had ordered spread had likely reached the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme ordered You Jun to watch Jian Wujiu and capture him if he tried to escape.
• You Jun went to the heavenly prison, found Jian Wujiu inside, and heard him warn that You Jun would die unless he saved him.

Jian Wujiu discovered he could enter prophetic dreams and saw himself escape the Bone Mountain Heavenly Prison during the coming battle. The visions continued to show him returning to the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect and helping the Ji Household defeat the Bone Mountain Supreme and the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme.

• Jian Wujiu warned You Jun that the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme would attack the Bone Mountain Immortal Market in three days, but You Jun dismissed him and left.
• Jian Wujiu realized the dream had shown the prison restrictions shattering, but he could not initially discover how to continue the vision.
• Jian Wujiu fell asleep again, recognized the dream, and found that he could guide it forward with his thoughts.
• Jian Wujiu saw the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme and the Bone Mountain Supreme fight, and escaped after their pressure shattered the prison restrictions and released his Spiritual Power seal.
• Jian Wujiu saw himself return to the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect, ally with the Ji Household, and help defeat both Supremes before capturing Jichen.

The Bone Mountain Supreme lured Jian Wujiu into trusting his prophetic dreams, then arranged for the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme to attack and free him. Jian Wujiu and You Jun were swallowed by Ao Zhuyuan, leaving the immortal market in panic as the Bone Mountain Supreme demanded revenge.

• The Bone Mountain Supreme used his White Bone Dream to manipulate Jian Wujiu and waited for the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme’s planned attack.
• Jian Wujiu’s dreams predicted the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme’s arrival, but when the hour passed without an attack, Jian Wujiu grew confused until Ao Zhuyuan finally struck the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme shattered the heavenly prison’s restrictions, freeing Jian Wujiu and restoring his Spiritual Power.
• You Jun pursued Jian Wujiu while secretly planning to let him escape, but Ao Zhuyuan swallowed both men as he attacked the immortal market.
• The Bone Mountain Supreme roared that Ao Zhuyuan had killed his personal disciple and challenged him to die.

The Heavenly Firmament Supreme investigated the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme’s attack on the Bone Mountain Immortal Market and concluded that the Supremes’ successors had witnessed a powerful treasure during the Immortal Seed Battle. He suspected the treasure had fallen into Ten Thousand Demons’ hands and sent a delegation to ask the Ji Household to join forces.

• The Heavenly Firmament sect master reported that Jian Wujiu and You Jun had died in the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme’s attack, which followed the death of Ao Jin.
• The Heavenly Firmament Supreme questioned why the Bone Mountain Supreme had detained the Supremes’ disciples after the Immortal Seed Battle and wondered what they had witnessed.
• The Heavenly Firmament Supreme noted that the other Immortal Seed Battle participants had disappeared or died, while Lu Li remained unaccounted for, and suspected he had won with a supreme treasure.
• The Heavenly Firmament Supreme inferred that Ten Thousand Demons had taken the treasure and decided to seek the Ji Household’s support.
• The Heavenly Firmament sect master dispatched a Mahayana Venerable and a ceremonial honor guard to the Ji Household.

Venerable Xuanchen visited the Ji Household to convey the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect’s offer to cooperate against the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme. Ji Shanhai treated him dismissively and challenged him to a spar, and Xuanchen accepted in anger.

• The Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect party arrived at the Ji Household, where Venerable Xuanchen eagerly drank the household’s spiritual tea while waiting for its patriarch.
• Ji Shanhai entered the hall and ignored Xuanchen’s greeting before taking the seat of honor.
• Xuanchen told Ji Shanhai that the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect would support the Ji Household in investigating the conflict between the Ten Thousand Demons Supreme and the Bone Mountain Supreme.
• Ji Shanhai ordered the Sword Sect to muster its forces and await the Ji Household’s instructions, angering Xuanchen with his dismissive manner.
• As Xuanchen tried to leave, Ji Shanhai challenged him to offer instruction in combat, and Xuanchen turned back and accepted furiously.

After defeating Venerable Xuanchen, Ji Shanhai helped set off a conflict between the Jichen and Ten Thousand Demons Star Domains while Lu Li quietly grew stronger in the Endless Sea. As he neared Tribulation Transcendence, Lu Li told Li Qingshan he had decided not to seal himself away.

• Ji Shanhai emerged from the Ji Household's side hall unchanged, while Venerable Xuanchen left disheveled and returned to the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect convinced the Ji Household's Dao Scion could not be defeated.
• The Ji Household ordered the Heavenly Firmament Sword Sect to investigate the Ten Thousand Demons Star Domain, and the Bone Mountain Supreme announced that he was injured and closing the Bone Mountain Immortal Market.
• Lu Li captured a sixth Demon Venerable and refined its Dao Laws Crystal, bringing his 108 Dao Laws close to the threshold of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lu Li contacted Blue Star, where Li Qingshan told him that a cultivator entering Tribulation Transcendence needed to prepare a place to seal himself away.
• Lu Li told Li Qingshan that he had decided not to seal himself away.

Lu Li reaffirmed that he would not self-seal and would return to Blue Star after becoming a Mahayana Venerable. Li Qingshan reported Great Xia’s advances in mass-produced Venerable-Equaling Spirit Machinery and began revealing a second development involving a deity’s inheritance.

• Lu Li told Li Qingshan and the others he would not self-seal, would cultivate to become a Mahayana Venerable, and would find a way to return to Blue Star with Bone Mountain Supreme.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Great Xia had developed standardized eighth-tier Venerable-Equaling Spirit Machinery that could be mass-produced and could grievously wound Tribulation Transcendence True Venerables.
• Li Qingshan explained that large formations of the machinery could theoretically injure a Mahayana Venerable, while future ninth-tier Venerable-Slaying weapons could potentially threaten even a Supreme.
• Lu Li considered how Great Xia’s resources and Spirit Machinery could grow over the coming centuries and strengthen its position in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Li Qingshan revealed that the other piece of good news concerned the inheritance of a deity.

Li Qingshan told Lu Li that Great Xia had discovered a suspected divine ruin in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, and Lu Li used the fish-shaped jade pendant to travel there. He found a vast, ruined celestial palace in the M54 star cluster and noticed a beam of light approaching, possibly from a life-form.

• Li Qingshan reported that a divine ruin containing many possible Divine Inheritances had been discovered in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy.
• Lu Li activated the fish-shaped jade pendant’s distance-defying ability and traveled to the galaxy.
• Lu Li learned that Great Xia had first spotted the celestial palace in an old technological satellite photograph of the M54 Star Cluster.
• Lu Li saw the enormous, damaged celestial palace and wondered whether it was an immortal palace from the Heavenly Court of the Great Desolation.
• A dazzling beam of light shot toward Lu Li, and he suspected that a life-form was approaching.

Lu Li drove the alien inhabitants from the vast heavenly palace and searched its empty halls, suspecting it had once housed heavenly horses. When he expanded his Divine Sense across the palace, he discovered numerous glowing divine inheritances.

• Lu Li detected intelligent, one-eyed aliens in the heavenly palace and learned that their civilization had developed after Spiritual Qi revived.
• Lu Li crushed a meteor with his Dharma manifestation and ordered the aliens to leave, frightening them into fleeing into space.
• Lu Li entered the deserted palace and found its halls empty, with an enormous central open space and a relief of winged horses guided by immortals.
• Lu Li enlarged his Dharma manifestation and spread his Divine Sense across the entire palace, revealing many points of light that were divine inheritances.

Lu Li discovered that the heavenly palace contained the inheritances of the Heavenly Court’s entire Directorate Ministry, then brought them back to Blue Star. Bureau 749 recorded the scale of his gain and compiled a conjectural chart of the Heavenly Court’s structure.

• Lu Li sensed countless inheritances in the heavenly palace, which manifested as floor tiles and whispered, “You've come. This time... will it work?”
• The inheritances entered Lu Li’s fish-shaped jade pendant, where the heavenly palace appeared bearing the name “Directorate Ministry.”
• Lu Li concluded he had acquired one of the Heavenly Court’s six ministries, searched Sagittarius for anything else, and returned to Blue Star.
• Lu Li told the nation he had obtained the Directorate Ministry; he counted 6,217 immortals and deities and 188 halls, stunning the Bureau 749 command hall.
• Li Qingshan asked Lu Li for more information, and researchers completed a document titled “Complete Conjectural Chart of the Heavenly Court's Structure.”

Lu Li read Great Xia’s report on the Heavenly Court’s hierarchy and considered what its survival might mean after the Great Desolation fell into the Silent Ruins. He then joined Bureau 749’s researchers to discuss Dao Laws and high-grade cultivation techniques, ending with a genetic-pill expert wondering whether Dao Laws could affect genes.

• Lu Li read Great Xia’s conjecture that the Heavenly Court was ruled by the Three Pure Ones and Six Imperial Sovereigns, with six ministries and many other divine offices below them.
• Lu Li and Li Qingshan concluded that Lu Li’s Directorate Ministry inheritance supported the Heavenly Court’s historical existence, while Lu Li suspected its immortals and gods might have left inheritances behind rather than perishing.
• Li Qingshan told Lu Li that inheritance holders were more likely to discover further divine inheritances, cited a scholar’s suspected Thousand-Mile Eyes inheritance, and explained that Lu Dahai would lead the new Bureau 099.
• Lu Li joined Bureau 749’s researchers to discuss Dao Laws Crystals, Mahayana combat power, high-grade law artifacts, and spirit machinery.
• Lu Li explained that seventh-grade and higher pills required Dao Laws, prompting a genetic spiritual pill expert to ask whether Dao Laws could intervene at the genetic level.

After speaking with Lu Li, Shen Du proposed embedding Dao Laws crystals into genetic spirit pills and led a simulation at the Pill Research Institute. The team successfully produced a virtual pseudo-seventh-tier pill, leaving Shen Du hopeful that Great Xia could eventually create its own Mahayana Venerable.

• Shen Du returned to the Pill Research Institute after his transmission with Lu Li, eager to test the new ideas he had gained.
• Shen Du told the researchers that high-tier pills needed Dao Laws and proposed incorporating Dao Laws crystals into a pill's genetic sequence.
• Shen Du began simulating the process, and the first six attempts failed due to spiritual and genetic instability.
• On the seventh attempt, Shen Du used the Spirit Meridian Bridging Method to connect the Dao Laws crystal to the pill's core, and the simulation succeeded.
• Shen Du celebrated the virtual pseudo-seventh-tier pill and imagined that the research could one day help Great Xia produce its own Mahayana Venerable.

After Shen Du’s first real attempt to refine a pseudo-seventh-tier genetic spirit pill failed, Gu Zhun proposed using Dao Laws gene editing on Demon Beasts’ reproduction instead. The chapter ended with Li Qingshan realizing the idea could create a new kind of life born with Dao Laws.

• After more than a thousand simulations, Shen Du began the actual refinement of a pseudo-seventh-tier genetic spirit pill at the Pill Research Institute, with Li Qingshan and Bureau 749 directors observing.
• Shen Du inserted a Dao Laws crystal into the pill’s genetic sequence, but an unpredictable repulsive field destroyed the pill and wasted the crystal.
• Li Qingshan comforted Shen Du after the failed experiment, reminding him that setbacks were part of the work.
• Gu Zhun suggested using Dao Laws gene editing on a living Demon Beast and asked whether its offspring could inherit Dao Laws.
• Li Qingshan realized that the approach could create a new kind of living being born bearing Dao Laws.

Lu Li searched the last and largest Endless Deep Trench for three Demon Venerables, hoping to obtain enough Dao Laws Crystals to reach Tribulation Transcendence. After his Dragon Qi drew out three Mahayana Perfection Demon Venerables, one attacked him and the people behind him, and Lu Li answered with Overturning a Nation.

• Lu Li sent Zou Heng into the trench to scout, but Zou Heng could not lure out the hidden Demon Venerables.
• Lu Li released Dragon Qi, awakening three Demon Venerables, all at Mahayana Perfection.
• Yinyang Qingfan, Bone Jia, and Zou Heng blocked two Demon Venerables while Bone Evil moved to confront another.
• One Demon Venerable charged Lu Li, declaring that it would take his Dragon Qi, and struck with a massive tentacle.
• Lu Li saw that the attack threatened Changming, Changye, and the others as well as himself, then invoked Overturning a Nation.

Lu Li used the Directorate Ministry Heavenly Palace’s power within Overturning a Nation to annihilate a Mahayana Perfection demon venerable, then collapsed from exhaustion. As his allies tried to flee with him, the two remaining demon venerables attacked, trapping Lu Changming and the others beneath their enormous bodies.

• Lu Li summoned the Directorate Ministry Heavenly Palace and its immortals and gods into Overturning a Nation, unleashing Heavenly Defense to destroy a demon venerable.
• Lu Li lost consciousness after exhausting himself, and Lu Changming caught him while Lu Changye and the others tried to revive him.
• Yinyang Qingfan told Lu Changming and the others to take Lu Li somewhere safe, while the remaining demon venerables watched from a distance.
• The two demon venerables overcame their fear and attacked, with one holding off Bone Evil, Yinyang Qingfan, Bone Jia, and Zou Heng while the other blocked Lu Changming and the others’ escape.
• Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, Li Nanci, and Qian Dabao stepped forward together, believing they had failed their unconscious master.

Lu Changming and the others stood between the Demon Venerable and the sleeping Lu Li, and Lu Changming summoned his Future Self to hold back the attack. As his power faltered, Lu Changye brought out the Heaven-Extinguishing Bottle and unleashed it against the Demon Venerable.

• Lu Changming and the others resolved to protect Lu Li, and Lu Changming named Jiang Wuxie his fourth junior brother before leading the defense.
• Lu Changming summoned his Future Self, whose gaze restrained the Demon Venerable's tentacle and briefly prevented it from reaching Lu Li.
• Yinyang Qingfan recognized Lu Changming's technique as a Future Self and wondered whether he might become a Daluo powerhouse, while Dongfang Jiangxue proudly defended her husband in her mind.
• Lu Changye joined his weakening brother and urged him to hold on while he prepared his own method.
• Lu Changye shattered a small green jade bottle, releasing firefly-like fragments that drained Spiritual Qi and Demon Power, then declared it the Heaven-Extinguishing Bottle and ordered it to extinguish the Demon Venerable.

Lu Changye’s Heaven-Extinguishing Bottle weakened the Demon Venerable, which kept attacking to seize the treasure and Dragon Qi. Dong Qing and Jiang Wuxie joined Changming and Changye, and Dong Qing summoned a Nine Netherworlds fiend as the Demon Venerable struck at her.

• Yinyang Qingfan recognized Lu Changye’s bottle as an extraordinary Law Artifact and wondered whether it resembled a legendary Saint treasure.
• The wounded Demon Venerable pressed its attack, hoping to take the Dragon Qi and Lu Changye’s treasure.
• Jiang Wuxie joined Changming and Changye and called Dong Qing his Third Senior Sister.
• Dong Qing and Jiang Wuxie charged toward the Demon Venerable’s tentacles and called upon their techniques.
• Dong Qing’s pact let a Nine Netherworlds fiend descend into her body, alarming Yinyang Qingfan and making the Demon Venerable wary.
• The Demon Venerable attacked Dong Qing, and the fiend inside her dismissed it as a ghost.

Qian Dabao summoned a Great God of Wealth, whose golden hand grievously wounded the Demon Venerable before vanishing. With the other disciples spent and the Demon Venerable still raging, all eyes turned to Li Nanci, who closed his eyes as a crisp sound rang in his mind.

• Dong Qing and Jiang Wuxie used their powers to hold back the Demon Venerable, while Yinyang Qingfan recognized Jiang Wuxie's blood saber as a saber spirit devouring its master.
• The Demon Venerable noticed that Qian Dabao and Li Nanci had not yet used their techniques and watched them rise toward the battle.
• Qian Dabao bowed to a divine statue and summoned a gigantic golden hand that seized the Demon Venerable and tore off two of its tentacles before disappearing.
• The Demon Venerable was left severely wounded, while five disciples exhausted their powers and Qian Dabao began recording his final testament.
• Everyone turned their attention to Li Nanci, who closed his eyes as a crisp sound rang inside his mind.

Li Nanci’s Heart of Second Primordial took over a mission to kill a Mahayana Demon Venerable and altered the demon’s parameters until it exploded. The Six Sons of the Dao Court survived, but Yinyang Qingfan suspected the sleeping Dao Lord in green robes was suffering a backlash.

• The Demon Venerable challenged Li Nanci and unleashed its full power, triggering a mission from his Heart of Second Primordial.
• The Heart of Second Primordial analyzed the mission, took control, and announced that it would carry it out itself.
• Li Nanci realized the Heart had developed its own intelligence and urged it to complete the mission.
• Strange sequences of 0s and 1s filled the world and covered the Demon Venerable, visible to those with Mahayana cultivation.
• The Heart changed every character on the Demon Venerable to 0, causing it to freeze and then explode, body and soul.
• Yinyang Qingfan and the others watched the Six Sons gather beside the sleeping Dao Lord, and she wondered if he was suffering a backlash.

The Six Sons of the Dao Court suffered the backlash of their extraordinary powers and vanished, leaving Yinyang Qingfan unable to face Lu Li with the news. After the demon was slain, the story shifted to a lesson in the Great Thousand Immortal Realm, where an elder explained to curious children why mortals lived there.

• Yinyang Qingfan recognized that Lu Changming, Lu Changye, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and Qian Dabao were suffering deadly backlash from their powers.
• Li Nanci saw the characters “1” and “0” cover his body and then disappeared without a trace.
• Qian Dabao, Dong Qing, Jiang Wuxie, and Lu Changye vanished through their sacred objects and powers, while Lu Changming was already gone.
• Yinyang Qingfan feared telling Lu Li that the Six Sons of the Dao Court had disappeared, then joined Bone Evil and the others in killing the final Demon Venerable.
• An elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator taught Qi Refinement children in the Giant Sea Immortal Domain and explained that the Great Thousand Immortal Realm's name referred to immortals and ascended cultivators, not its mortal inhabitants.