Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Ji Household, Lu Li explored the Jade Capital Immortal Palace and learned its secrets before reuniting with Ye Chenfeng and hearing about his past-life connection to the Ji Household. With other star domains likely to seek the palace, Lu Li decided to subdue them before entering the Central Star Domain.

• Lu Li confirmed that outsiders could not enter the Jade Pendant Space through its star gates, then read the Ji Household records and learned how it had tried to nurture grotto-heaven beings.
• Lu Li returned to the Heaven-Shrouding Palace and reunited with Ye Chenfeng, who explained how he had reached Mahayana and revealed the wisdom of his previous life.
• Lu Li learned that Ye Chenfeng had been the Ji Household ancestor's lover in his previous life and that they had turned against each other over a fortuitous opportunity.
• Bone Mountain Supreme and the others warned Lu Li that Supremes from other star domains might seek the Jade Capital Immortal Palace, with the Central Star Domain posing the greatest threat.
• Lu Li decided to subdue the other domains before entering the Central Domain.

After defeating the Ji Household, Lu Li resolved to bring the Imprisoned Dragon medium chiliocosm under his rule and secured the Supremes’ support. As his allies began organizing the conquered star domains and dividing the Ji Household’s treasures, the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao appeared outside the Heaven-Shrouding Palace.

• Lu Li declared that he would subdue the other star domains and unite Imprisoned Dragon before ascending to Blue Star.
• Ye Chenfeng urged Bone Mountain, Ten Thousand Demons, and Su Beixiao to back Lu Li, and the three agreed to follow his lead.
• Lu Li assigned Yinyang Qingfan and Bone Evil to establish the Dao Court across the three star domains, while Su Beixiao pledged the Chaotic Star Palace’s cooperation.
• Lu Li and the others recovered the Ji Household’s resources, which Lu Li distributed among the Supremes before preparing to rest in the Jade Capital Immortal Palace.
• An unfamiliar will touched the Heaven-Shrouding Palace, and Bone Mountain and Ye Chenfeng recognized it as the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao.

The Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao summoned Lu Li and bestowed a Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel after asking whether he was connected to Desolation. Ye Chenfeng explained the wheel’s authority and the possibility of upgrading it into a Great Thousand Heavenly Decree, while Lu Li wondered whether it was a second golden finger.

• The Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao called Lu Li outside the Heaven-Shrouding Palace, and he went to meet it with Bone Mountain’s others following at a distance.
• The Heavenly Dao asked Lu Li about Desolation, and he answered truthfully before it formed a golden wheel behind him.
• Ye Chenfeng recognized the Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel and explained that it granted Lu Li authority and protection throughout Imprisoned Dragon.
• Ye Chenfeng said the wheel could weaken after ascension but might be upgraded into a Great Thousand Heavenly Decree through the Great Thousand Heavenly Dao and immense merit.
• Lu Li examined the wheel and wondered whether it meant he had gained a second golden finger.

Lu Li brought the Supremes into the Jade Capital Immortal Palace, then entered seclusion to recover and prepare to unify Imprisoned Dragon. Meanwhile, Great Xia expanded its starship production, and Uranus governor Lin Zhou was stunned to recognize a Dragon Abyss student as a Void Return cultivator.

• Lu Li wondered whether ascending to Blue Star could awaken its Heavenly Dao and elevate his Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel.
• Lu Li transported Bone Mountain Supreme and the others into the Jade Capital Immortal Palace, set restrictions to hide the Jade Pendant Space’s other continent, and divined that the six Dao Court disciples’ fates remained unchanged.
• Lu Li and five other formidable beings entered seclusion while Yinyang Qingfan returned to the Eastern Wasteland to prepare the Dao Court; Lu Li also sent resources to Great Xia.
• Great Xia used the Ji Household’s resources to expand starship production, while Lin Zhou oversaw the busy Uranus assembly base and requested more workers and machinery.
• Lin Zhou greeted a new group of Dragon Abyss students arriving at Uranus and was shocked to see that one ordinary-looking student was a Void Return cultivator.

Lu Dahai revealed himself to Lin Zhou at the Uranus base and explained that Divine Inheritances were about to detach from a group of student interns. After months of monitoring them, he saw one student collapse and discovered that many others were collapsing too, suggesting they all carried Divine Inheritances.

• Lu Dahai revealed his identity as Great Xia's first Void Return cultivator, surprising the students and nearly prompting Lin Zhou to activate the base's combat alert.
• Lu Dahai told Lin Zhou he had tracked new Divine Inheritances to the student interns and asked to monitor them at the base.
• Lin Zhou settled the interns and brought Lu Dahai to the surveillance room, where Lu Dahai used his vertical eye to examine their karmic threads.
• Lu Dahai monitored the students for months, waiting for their Divine Inheritances to detach.
• One student collapsed, and Lu Dahai saw students across the surveillance images fall unconscious, realizing that many of them were possessed by Divine Inheritances.

Lu Dahai discovered that Divine Inheritances were emerging from many unconscious students, while a larger resurgence spread across the Milky Way. After ten thousand students at Dragon Abyss Academy collapsed and produced inheritances, Zhang Xuanqing began consulting the patriarch as Li Qingshan investigated.

• Lu Dahai found nearly a hundred unconscious students giving off unusual presences and sealed away the Divine Inheritances that emerged from them.
• A massive resurgence of Divine Inheritances swept across the Milky Way, including Blue Star, whose civilization had developed into a Spirit Machinery and cultivation society.
• At the Great Void Internet Sect, Director Liu collapsed, and an ancient pellet-drum-like Divine Inheritance emerged from his body and vanished.
• Li Qingshan learned that countless talented people across Great Xia had fainted, and authorities began investigating the anomalies.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Dragon Abyss Academy, where ten thousand students had collapsed and ten thousand Divine Inheritances had emerged.
• Zhang Xuanqing told Li Qingshan not to panic and began consulting the patriarch.

Zhang Xuanqing divined that good fortune and disaster were approaching, while Lu Li resolved to hasten his conquest of Imprisoned Dragon. Across the realms, strange signs gathered around the Jade Capital Immortal Palace, and a six-armed figure in the Jade Balance Immortal Court was shocked to find no roots in his divination.

• Zhang Xuanqing divined that the students were safe but that a major event involving both good and ill fortune was coming.
• A million Divine Inheritance objects converged in the depths of the universe and formed a blazing sun as an ancient voice told them to wait.
• Lu Li sensed an indistinct warning, resolved to unify Imprisoned Dragon, and resumed cultivating with Bone Mountain Supreme and the others.
• Supremes across Imprisoned Dragon tried and failed to divine the Jade Capital Immortal Palace's whereabouts.
• A six-armed figure in the Jade Balance Immortal Court divined and exclaimed that there were no roots at all.

Ji Wan investigated the unknown force that had disrupted her plans in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm and sent the immortal official Zhou Du down to patrol the realm. After Zhou Du descended and began traveling, Lu Li emerged from three years of seclusion in the Jichen Star Domain.

• Ji Wan discussed the loss of her blood clan and created three worlds, sending the beings at her preaching ground into them to cultivate.
• Ji Wan ordered Zhou Du to descend to the Imprisoned Dragon Middle Chiliocosm and investigate changes in fortune and strange origins.
• Zhou Du accepted Ji Wan's Law Seal, sacrificed his immortal body, rank, and karma, and descended into the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Zhou Du formed a mortal body under the realm's suppression, retained a fraction of his Human Immortal power, and set off to investigate.
• Lu Li emerged from seclusion in the Jichen Star Domain after recuperating for three years.

Lu Li and his allies conquered seven star domains and headed to Clear Creek, where they discovered that its Venerables had been slaughtered. A frightened cultivator blamed an immortal, leaving Lu Li and his party facing an unknown threat.

• Lu Li led five allies through the star gates to begin uniting Imprisoned Dragon under the Dao Court.
• Lu Li subdued the Mingguang Supreme, and the star domain pledged allegiance; he continued conquering the other domains, gaining Dragon Fate and four more Supreme followers.
• After bringing seven star domains under his rule, Lu Li led nine Supremes into the Clear Creek Star Domain, where he could not sense any local Supreme.
• Lu Li and his party found Clear Creek Continent desolate and lacking Mahayana cultivators, then revealed themselves to its inhabitants.
• A terrified Tribulation Transcendence True Venerable warned Lu Li that all the continent's Venerables had been slaughtered by an immortal.

Bone Mountain and Lu Li learned from a Jade Slip that Zhou Du had slaughtered Mahayana cultivators in Clear Creek and might be an immortal sent by Ji Wan. Lu Li headed for the Central Star Domain to gather Emperor Fate, then wondered whether he could use the fish-shaped jade pendant to summon Zhou Du.

• Bone Mountain questioned a fleeing Tribulation Transcendence True Venerable, who gave him a Jade Slip recording the calamity in Clear Creek.
• The Jade Slip showed Zhou Du using an ancient golden seal to kill a Supreme and more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators, then demanding that others reach Mahayana and call his true name.
• Bone Mountain stopped a Supreme from saying Zhou Du’s name aloud after realizing Zhou Du might detect it through an Immortal Method.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Zhou Du’s imperial decree likely came from Sovereign Ji Wan, who might have sent him after Lu Li destroyed the Ji Household.
• Lu Li decided to seize the Central Star Domain and gather Emperor Fate, then wondered whether the fish-shaped jade pendant could draw Zhou Du to him.

Lu Li led nine Supremes into the Central Star Domain to seize its powers, while Zhou Du slaughtered the Immortal-Slaying Sect’s defenders. The Sect’s Supremes and Mahayana cultivators failed to injure Zhou Du, who prepared to retaliate.

• Lu Li called Zhou Du’s name inside the Jade Pendant Space, saw no response, and decided to capture an immortal in the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li and the nine Supremes entered the Central Star Domain and set out for the Immortal-Slaying Continent to take the Immortal-Slaying Sect.
• Zhou Du attacked the Immortal-Slaying Sect’s three Supremes and nearly a thousand Mahayana cultivators, killing hundreds with his golden seal.
• An Immortal-Slaying Sect Supreme elder detonated himself and drove Zhou Du back, but Zhou Du emerged uninjured.
• Zhou Du condemned the defenders as ants who deserved to die.

Zhou Du attacked the remaining Mahayana cultivators on the Immortal-Slaying Continent, but Lu Li arrived and struck him with the Overturning a Nation Divine Ability and the Jade Capital Immortal Palace. Their combined assault sent Zhou Du flying and made him spit blood, while the Venerables cheered.

• Zhou Du poured his Law Power into the golden seal and unleashed three streaks of golden light at the Mahayana cultivators.
• The Mahayana cultivators repeatedly detonated themselves against the golden light, destroying one streak and leaving fewer than a hundred Venerables and seven or eight Supremes alive.
• Zhou Du mocked the cultivators, but Lu Li arrived near the Immortal-Slaying Continent and attacked with Overturning a Nation.
• Zhou Du recognized the Jade Capital Immortal Palace as a genuine grotto-heaven secret realm and tried to block it with his golden seal.
• Lu Li's Divine Ability and the Jade Capital Immortal Palace smashed into the seal, sent Zhou Du flying, and made him spit blood as the Venerables cheered.

Lu Li and the Supremes fought Zhou Du, an immortal official sent by Lord Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan, and Lu Li revealed the Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel to withstand Zhou Du’s attack. The wounded Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao turned its fury on Zhou Du, who invoked the Imperial Lord’s name to protect himself.

• Lu Li wounded Zhou Du with a Divine Ability, but Zhou Du recovered and attacked him with the Imperial Lord’s golden seal.
• Ye Chenfeng shielded Lu Li from a golden ray, and Zhou Du followed with twelve more rays and a mountain-and-pillar attack formed from his Dao Laws.
• Ye Chenfeng, Suanni, Bone Mountain, the other Supremes, and Lu Li joined forces to resist Zhou Du’s assault.
• Lu Li summoned the Heavenly Decree Golden Wheel and absorbed six golden rays, while Suanni and Ye Chenfeng were gravely wounded by the others.
• The Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao sensed the dimmed Golden Wheel and turned its wrath on Zhou Du, who raised the golden seal and invoked Lord Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan’s authority.

Lu Li and the Supremes pursued Zhou Du after the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao turned against him. Zhou Du fought them off and, cornered near an inhabited cultivation planet, began using a devastating technique against it.

• Lu Li exposed Zhou Du's threat as a bluff, and the Supremes renewed their attack while the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao watched.
• Zhou Du exhausted the golden seal's power, fought the Supremes to a stalemate, then fled after blasting a Mahayana Supreme apart.
• Lu Li urged the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao to act, and it revealed Zhou Du's direction before joining the pursuit.
• The Heavenly Dao repeatedly struck Zhou Du with tribulation lightning as Lu Li and the Supremes caught up with him.
• Zhou Du used True Deliverance Fallen Star Instruction to kill several Supremes and injure Bone Mountain Supreme.
• Near an inhabited cultivation planet, Zhou Du unleashed Immeasurable Calamity-Delivering Heavenly Hand and began refining it.

Zhou Du sacrificed Qingning Star’s billions of inhabitants to power his escape, but the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao struck him down. After the Heavenly Dao urged Lu Li to attain Emperor Fate and ascend to Desolation, Lu Li explained his plans to the surviving Supremes, and Xuanzhenzi agreed to bring the Central Star Domain under his command.

• Zhou Du used the Immeasurable Calamity-Delivering Heavenly Hand to crush Qingning Star and turn its dead into a golden lotus prayer bead.
• The Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao destroyed the prayer bead and blasted Zhou Du’s immortal-soul body to ashes, leaving behind a golden seal.
• The Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao gave the seal to Lu Li and urged him to attain Emperor Fate and ascend to Desolation.
• Lu Li told Xuanzhenzi and the other Supremes about the Ji Household and said he would seek the Great Desolation Immortal Realm rather than smuggle himself there.
• Xuanzhenzi declared that he would bring the Central Star Domain under Lu Li’s command.

After the Central Star Domain Supremes pledged allegiance, Lu Li saw signs that Emperor Fate was beginning to coalesce and planned to unify the nine domains while raising his cultivation. In the Jade Pendant Space, he tried to refine Zhou Du’s golden seal, but its restriction opened by itself and revealed a mysterious figure who recognized him.

• Xuanzhenzi and the other Central Star Domain Supremes pledged to serve Lu Li, and purple-gold Imperial Dao Qi appeared around him.
• Ye Chenfeng told Lu Li that Emperor Fate had begun to coalesce because the nine star domains had nominally submitted.
• Lu Li ordered the Dao Court to unify the nine domains, then returned to the Jichen Star Domain and entered the Jade Pendant Space with the golden seal.
• Lu Li examined the seal and wondered whether the fish-shaped jade pendant’s true grade exceeded that of a Dao Treasure and whether it would reveal new powers after his ascension.
• When Lu Li sent Law Power into the golden seal, its restriction unraveled, and a three-headed, six-armed figure emerged and told him he was faster than expected.

Lu Li discovered that Ji Wan had hidden her Dharma body in the golden seal to ambush him, but he trapped her inside the fish-shaped jade pendant. After overpowering her, he contacted Ye Chenfeng and asked whether he wanted to see someone he knew.

• Lu Li recognized Ji Wan as the force behind Zhou Du’s death and the golden-seal trap, then mocked her and mentioned Ye Chenfeng.
• Ji Wan tried to seize Lu Li with her Dao Laws, but Lu Li summoned the fish-shaped jade pendant’s Artifact Spirit and revealed the space’s two worlds.
• The Artifact Spirit restrained Ji Wan and summoned thousands of immortal and divine phantoms, including the Four Heavenly Kings and the Thunder Ancestor, shocking her with their power.
• Ji Wan tried to destroy her Dharma body before Lu Li could learn anything, but the Artifact Spirit immobilized her.
• Lu Li decided to keep Ji Wan captive and sent a message to Ye Chenfeng, asking if he wanted to see someone he knew.

Lu Li revealed that Ji Wan’s Dharma body had been hidden in Zhou Du’s golden seal, giving Ye Chenfeng the chance to confront the woman who had betrayed him. After Ji Wan tried to provoke Ye Chenfeng by mentioning Lu Li’s Creation Supreme Treasure, Lu Li decided to refine her Dharma body into the seal, while Ji Wan’s true body failed to reach the lower realm and realized she had become entangled in dangerous karma.

• Lu Li brought Ye Chenfeng to see Ji Wan’s trapped Dharma body, and Ye Chenfeng confronted her over her betrayal.
• Ji Wan mentioned the Creation Supreme Treasure in an attempt to sow distrust, but Ye Chenfeng reaffirmed his loyalty to Lu Li.
• Lu Li repeatedly crushed Ji Wan’s Dharma body with the jade pendant’s power, then proposed refining her into an artifact spirit for Zhou Du’s golden seal.
• Ye Chenfeng agreed that refining Ji Wan’s Dharma body was worth trying, prompting Ji Wan to threaten them and unleash her Great Dao power.
• Ji Wan’s true body tried to locate the Imprisoned Dragon Middle Thousand World and punish Lu Li, but could not reach it and realized the realm had been cut off from Jade Capital.
• Ji Wan’s true body recognized the dangerous karma she had formed with Lu Li and feared the consequences.

Ji Wan failed to uncover Lu Li’s origins, but glimpsed a terrifying world and concluded that he could lead her to Emperor Venerable attainment. She planted nine Great Dao attainments in cultivators across several Immortal Realms to prepare for Lu Li’s ascension, then sensed that her Dharma body had been severed.

• Ji Wan used her Cause and Effect attainment to probe Lu Li’s origins, but an overwhelming presence disrupted her deduction.
• Ji Wan decided that Lu Li might be her opportunity to become an Emperor Venerable and resolved to wait for his ascension.
• Ji Wan sent nine Great Dao attainments, regressed into Dao seeds, into cultivators across multiple Immortal Realms.
• Liu Xuanji ascended to the Immortal Realm and unknowingly received a hidden speck of Ji Wan’s Cause and Effect attainment in his Dao seed.
• Ji Wan sensed that the connection to her lower-realm Dharma body had been severed, realizing that Lu Li had begun refining it into an artifact.

Lu Li reforged the Heart of Primordial Beginning into the Spirit of Primordial Beginning, took control of Ji Wan’s Dharma body and golden seal, and renamed the artifact Immortal Beginning. He prepared to enter seclusion while sending his Second Primordial Spirit avatar to lead the Dao Court in bringing all of Imprisoned Dragon under its rule.

• Lu Li had the jade pendant erase Ji Wan’s Dharma body’s true spirit and reforged the Heart of Primordial Beginning with ninth-tier materials, advancing to the level of a Dao-Tier Immortal Artificer.
• Lu Li infused the newly made Spirit of Primordial Beginning into Ji Wan’s Dharma body, which bowed to him as its master.
• Lu Li renamed the Artifact Spirit Immortal Beginning, changed the Dharma body’s appearance, and placed it inside the golden seal.
• Lu Li tested the golden seal’s power and noticed that its force made the Jade Pendant Space’s boundary wall creak.
• Lu Li decided to cultivate in seclusion while his Second Primordial Spirit avatar commanded the Dao Court’s venerables and conquered Imprisoned Dragon.