Chapter Summaries

Lin An removed the Lifespan Shackles, opened a passage from the Myriad Spirits Realm to the Domain, and began refining the origins of nearby small worlds. Meanwhile, Lin Xiao sent Li Qing, Li Wei, and a hundred King Realm experts to the Domain, where Li Qing contacted his family.

• The King Realm experts of the Myriad Spirits Realm discovered that the Lifespan Shackles had disappeared and their lifespans had increased.
• Lin An opened a restricted passage to the Domain, placed it under the imperial family's control, and refined heavenly treasures into pills for the imperial family.
• Lin An surrounded the nearby small worlds with restrictions and used the Chaos Source Seed to extract and refine their origins, causing some worlds to collapse.
• Lin Xiao sent Li Qing, Li Wei, and a hundred King Realm experts through the passage to the Domain to contact Li Yunshan.
• Li Qing activated a talisman token, and a voice answered, "Qing'er?"

Li Qing and Li Wei arrived in the Domain to establish contact and trade with it, then reunited with Li Zhao and Li Yunshan and learned they could cultivate there. Meanwhile, Lin An refined countless small-world sources and used an Origin Pill and the Chaos Sea to advance his Chaos Source Seed toward the Return to Source Realm.

• Li Qing told Li Zhao that he and Li Wei had brought a hundred people to the Domain on the emperor’s orders, and explained that Lin An had opened a passage between the realms.
• Zheng Tang welcomed the newcomers to Fengyang City and agreed to arrange trade between the Domain and the Myriad Spirits Realm through the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Li Qing and Li Wei traveled to Western Severance City, reunited with Li Zhao, and met their grandfather Li Yunshan, who urged them to cultivate toward the Sovereign Realm.
• Lin An extracted the sources from the surrounding small worlds, raised his Chaos Source Seed to 990 Chaos Dao Marks, and swallowed his Origin Pill to form more marks.
• Lin An drew chaos essence from the Chaos Sea, received insights into chaos, and transformed his body as the power of chaos reshaped his flesh, bones, blood, and heart.

Lin An broke through to the Return to Source Realm and considered the unknown figure he had seen in the Chaos Sea. He checked on the Myriad Spirits Realm and learned that Lin Yue had become emperor while their family moved to the Domain.

• Lin An reached the Return to Source Realm, and the Spirit-Devouring Ring advanced to the level of an Eternal Spirit Treasure.
• Lin An recalled seeing an indistinct figure in the Chaos Sea and wondered whether living beings existed there, but set the question aside.
• Lin An learned that twenty years had passed outside during his seclusion and saw that trade and migration between the Myriad Spirits Realm and the Domain had expanded.
• Lin An discovered that Lin Yue had become emperor after Lin Xiao abdicated, then Lin Xiao took Li Xiyun and Lin Xi to the Domain.
• Lin An saw four boys and two girls gathered to cultivate in the imperial palace and thought Lin Yue might soon be able to free himself from the throne.

Lin An returned to the Land of Rules, found the Human Race thriving, and watched their prodigies compete at the Battle Realm gathering. He helped Ao Zhuo break through to the Primordial Source Realm, leaving the Dragon Race elder newly advanced.

• Lin An watched Lin Yue's sixth child trick his siblings into giving him cultivation resources, then left the peaceful Supreme Peace Empire for the Land of Rules.
• Lin An sensed that the Sin Abyss was spreading rapidly, while the Heavenly Sword continued to protect the Human Race's territory.
• Lin An found the Human Race's leaders at the Battle Realm exchange gathering and saw Wu Tianshan and four other human prodigies fighting experts from other races.
• Lin An noticed that the five human fighters were concealing their true strength, then saw Ao Zhuo nearing a breakthrough while refining an Origin Pill.
• Lin An sent spiritual power to Ao Zhuo and accelerated time around him, helping him successfully break through to the Primordial Source Realm.

After Ao Zhuo broke through to the Primordial Source Realm, he gave Lin An the Dragon Race’s accumulated Eternal Rank heavenly treasures in gratitude. Lin An refined them into Origin Pills, gave the Human Race’s Council of Elders forty, and announced a Dao sermon in the Battle Realm before entering a longer seclusion.

• Ao Zhuo thanked Lin An for helping him reach the Primordial Source Realm and offered him over a hundred Eternal Rank heavenly treasures.
• Lin An accepted the treasures and promised Ao Zhuo an Origin Pill in return.
• Lin An refined the treasures into eighty-one Origin Pills, sent one to Ao Zhuo, and returned to the Human Race.
• Lin An praised Xiao Wanjun and the elders for the Human Race’s progress, then entrusted them with forty Origin Pills to distribute.
• Lin An announced that he would preach the Dao in the Battle Realm three days later before entering seclusion again, and the Human Race’s experts eagerly prepared to attend.

Lin An opened his Dao ground to experts of every race, turning his planned Human Race sermon into a gathering that drew millions and raised the Human Race’s prestige. As the races entered with gifts, Lin An spoke with Ao Zhuo and the other Eternal Realm experts outside the Dao ground.

• Lin An agreed to let the myriad races attend his month-long Dao preaching so they could grow stronger against the Sin Abyss.
• The Dragon Race and other top races decided to attend, and Ao Wei ordered his people to bring gifts after Ao Zhuo said he would listen too.
• Three days later, more than ten million experts gathered in the Battle Realm, where Xiao Wanjun opened the Dao ground and admitted the Human Race first.
• The gathered races were shocked by the hundreds of thousands of Human Race experts at Immortal Seventh Grade or above.
• Ao Wei led the Dragon Race into the Dao ground after presenting gifts, and the Phoenix, Nether, Demon, and other races followed with offerings.
• Outside the Dao ground, Ao Zhuo and seven other Eternal Realm experts thanked Lin An for his Origin Pills and asked whether he would refine more.

Lin An preached the Dao to tens of millions of beings from the myriad races, with nine other Eternal Realm ancestors seated beside him. After a month outside and more than two hundred years inside the Dao Field, the sermon ended with listeners gaining cultivation breakthroughs and deeper insight, while its influence on the myriad races continued.

• Lin An agreed to discuss Origin Pills with the visiting experts after the sermon, then led them into the Dao Field.
• Lin An appeared on a golden lotus platform with nine Eternal Realm ancestors, including Ao Zhuo, surprising the gathered crowd.
• Lin An began preaching and used the lotus platform to change time and provide each listener with a separate space and a fitting meditation cushion.
• As the beings comprehended the Dao, many broke through or transformed, and even Ao Zhuo and the other Eternal Realm experts listened intently.
• After more than two hundred years inside the Dao Field, Lin An ended the sermon, and the awakened listeners thanked him for their gains.
• Lin An departed with Ao Zhuo and the other ancestors, while Xiao Wanjun and the Human Race’s upper echelons escorted the visitors out.

After the sermon, Lin An left the Human Race under Xiao Wanjun’s care and followed the Realm Guardian into the Chaos Sea to cultivate. As Lin An began absorbing chaos power near the great world, the Human Race elders debated who should receive his Origin Pills, with Xiao Wanjun proposing Wu Tianshan.

• The sermon ended, and Xiao Wanjun fielded the myriad races’ questions about when Lin An would give another one.
• Lin An gave the Human Race elders his instructions, then followed the Realm Guardian through a passage into the Chaos Sea.
• The Realm Guardian explained that worlds were born and destroyed in the Chaos Sea, that its dangers made escape impossible for Ao Zhuo and the others, and that the Heavenly Sword’s owner could destroy the Sin Abyss with one strike.
• Lin An began cultivating near the great world, using its power to filter the violent chaos power as his Chaos Source Seed started to change.
• The Human Race elders debated who should receive Lin An’s 360 Origin Pills, and Xiao Wanjun declined to take them himself and nominated Wu Tianshan.

The Human Race decided to reserve Origin Pills for promising younger cultivators, and Li Yunshan left the Domain for the Land of Rules to seek further advancement. After arriving in Fire Firmament City, he was warmly received, while He Qingtang learned that Lin An’s relative had arrived and went to meet him.

• Xiao Wanjun and the elders agreed to give Origin Pills to Wu Tianshan and keep four other Sacred Realm cultivators as candidates for the remaining pills.
• Li Yunshan told his family he planned to leave the Domain for the Land of Rules, and Li Xiyun and the others prepared messages and belongings for Lin An.
• Li Yunshan departed for the Central Heaven Region, where Qin Shao activated the Teleportation Formation that carried him to Fire Firmament City.
• Sun Qi and Zheng Mingyang received Li Yunshan at the Reception Hall and offered to explain the Land of Rules to him.
• He Qingtang’s jade pendant lit up, alerting him that Lin An’s relative had arrived, so he prepared to meet Li Yunshan and deliver Lin An’s storage ring.

Li Yunshan arrived in the Land of Rules, learned how Lin An had transformed the Human Race, and began cultivating with the resources Lin An left him. Meanwhile, Wu Tianshan broke through to the Eternal Realm, and the chapter ended with the myriad races seeing his figure appear above the river of time and fate.

• Sun Qi and Zheng Mingyang showed Li Yunshan around the Sin Suppression Hall, and he learned that Lin An had once topped the Battle Ranking.
• He Qingtang arrived on Lin An's orders, registered Li Yunshan, gave him a residence and storage ring, and explained Lin An's achievements and the Human Race's growing strength.
• After three days of conversation, Li Yunshan examined Lin An's resources and began cultivating on a time-accelerating lotus platform.
• Twenty outside years later, Li Yunshan had reached Immortal Ninth Grade and the Extreme Realm Third Heaven, then began preparing to break through to the Eternal Realm.
• Wu Tianshan attempted his Eternal Realm breakthrough in the sealed Heavenly Sword Sacred Land, and an immense pressure and celestial phenomena announced his success.
• Ao Zhuo and the other Eternal Realm experts watched a figure appear above the river of time and fate, and the myriad races were startled by who it was.

Wu Tianshan broke through to the Eternal Realm with Lin An’s Origin Pills, making him the Human Race’s newest Eternal expert. He chose Tang Rong and three others to use the remaining pills, while he stood guard as they began cultivating.

• The myriad races were shocked when Wu Tianshan of the Human Race appeared as the new Eternal Realm expert, and Ao Zhuo and the others credited Lin An’s Origin Pills.
• Wu Tianshan thanked the humans who had guarded him and acknowledged that Lin An’s help had made his breakthrough possible.
• Wu Tianshan told Xiao Wanjun that he had used sixty Origin Pills and that three hundred remained, enough to help cultivate more Eternal Realm experts.
• Wu Tianshan proposed that Tang Rong and three others use the remaining Origin Pills first, since their foundations were strong from their time in the Sacred Realm.
• Wu Tianshan met Ao Zhuo and the other visiting Eternal experts, accepted their congratulations and gifts, then returned to the Sacred Land.
• Wu Tianshan divided the three hundred Origin Pills among Tang Rong and the other three and promised to guard them as they began cultivating.

After ten years of seclusion for Tang Rong and the other three, Wu Tianshan agreed to help Ao Zhuo and the other Eternal Realm experts slow the Sin Domain’s accelerated erosion. Ao Zhuo showed him the World Origin Sea, where the Sin Abyss’s power was spreading, and explained that the world’s defenders could only delay its eventual destruction.

• Tang Rong and the other three Human Race cultivators continued refining Origin Pills in seclusion but remained short of the Eternal Realm.
• Ao Zhuo called a meeting and asked Wu Tianshan to help the others slow the Sin Domain’s erosion, which had accelerated after problems arose in the War Calamity Sin Domain.
• Wu Tianshan agreed to join them, and Xiao Wanjun sent Immortal experts to guard the holy land while Wu Tianshan left for the Dragon Domain.
• Ao Zhuo took Wu Tianshan to the World Origin Sea and showed him the black threads of Sin Abyss power eroding it.
• Ao Zhuo explained that the Eternal Realm experts had only managed to slow the erosion and that the Chaos Sea beyond their world was beyond their reach.

Wu Tianshan helped Ao Zhuo drive the Sin Abyss's power out of the Sea of Origin while more people attempted to reach the Eternal Realm. A decade later, several humans broke through in quick succession, and an unfamiliar human appeared as yet another candidate.

• Ao Zhuo explained how Eternal Realm experts could use Origin Power to repel the Sin Abyss, and Wu Tianshan joined him in protecting the Sea of Origin.
• Over ten years, Tang Rong and others refined Origin Pills and attempted to break through, while an unknown person in Fire Firmament City also pursued the Eternal Realm.
• A human broke through to the Eternal Realm, and Wu Tianshan told Ao Zhuo that Patriarch Lin An had left behind methods that enabled the breakthroughs.
• Wu Tianshan agreed to contact the new experts about helping in the Sea of Origin as Ao Zhuo and the others urged him to bring more people to assist.
• Tang Rong and two other humans broke through that day, followed by another unfamiliar human whose appearance surprised Wu Tianshan.

Four Human Race patriarchs reached the Eternal Realm and learned that Li Yunshan had also broken through in Fire Firmament City. Tang Rong and the others visited Li Yunshan to congratulate him and make his acquaintance, leaving them to talk inside his residence.

• Tang Rong and three other patriarchs emerged after reaching the Eternal Realm and credited Lin An for helping them.
• Xiao Wanjun and the patriarchs noticed another human projection in the long-river phenomenon, and the Grand Elder identified him as Li Yunshan from the Domain.
• Tang Rong and the other patriarchs decided to visit Li Yunshan in Fire Firmament City and headed there together.
• He Qingtang greeted Li Yunshan after he emerged from the residence where he had broken through to the Eternal Realm.
• Tang Rong and the three patriarchs arrived, introduced themselves to Li Yunshan, and entered his residence to talk.

Li Yunshan met the Human Race’s Eternal Realm patriarchs and revealed that he was Patriarch Lin An’s maternal grandfather. The patriarchs welcomed him at the Human Race Holy Land, where he agreed to stay and wait for Lin An’s return.

• He Qingtang served tea as Li Yunshan and four other Eternal Realm experts discussed their backgrounds.
• Li Yunshan told Tang Rong and the others that he was Lin An’s maternal grandfather, and He Qingtang confirmed their close blood relationship.
• Li Yunshan explained that an Origin Pill Lin An had prepared for him helped him reach the Eternal Realm.
• Tang Rong invited Li Yunshan to the Human Race Holy Land, and Li Yunshan agreed to go and wait there for Lin An.
• At the Holy Land, Tang Rong introduced Li Yunshan to Wu Tianshan and the others, who welcomed him and agreed to treat him as a fellow cultivator.

Li Yunshan and the other newly ascended Human Race experts went to the Sea of Origin to resist the Sin Abyss, where they joined forces with Ao Zhuo and learned that Li Yunshan was Lin An’s grandfather. Li Zhao then arrived in the Land of Rules and learned that his father had become an Eternal Realm Ancestor.

• Wu Tianshan explained the Sin Abyss’s encroachment and invited Li Yunshan, Tang Rong, and the other Human Race experts to fight at the Sea of Origin.
• Li Yunshan and five other Human Race experts left for the Sea of Origin after Xiao Wanjun promised to care for the Human Race.
• Ao Zhuo and the others welcomed the six newcomers, taught them to drive out the Sin Abyss’s power, and learned Li Yunshan was Lin An’s grandfather.
• Qin Shao sent Li Zhao to the Land of Rules after Li Zhao decided to travel there with his family’s younger generation now reaching high cultivation ranks.
• Sun Qi and Zheng Mingyang received Li Zhao in Fire Firmament City and learned he was Li Yunshan’s son.
• He Qingtang told Li Zhao that Li Yunshan had reached the Eternal Realm and took him to settle in while arranging to inform Li Yunshan.

Li Yunshan gave Li Zhao resources left by Lin An and urged him to cultivate for the coming crisis. Twenty years later, Li Zhao and Zhou Tao reached the Eternal Realm just as the War Calamity Sin Domain began to collapse, sending Sin Abyss power surging toward the Human Race.

• Li Yunshan welcomed Li Zhao to the Holy Land, gave him cultivation resources and Origin Pills from Lin An, and warned him to prepare for a crisis.
• Li Zhao entered seclusion while the Human Race quietly grew stronger and maintained friendly relations with other races.
• Twenty years later, Li Zhao and Zhou Tao broke through to the Eternal Realm, bringing the Human Race's total to nine Eternal Realm experts.
• The War Calamity Sin Domain collapsed, releasing Sin Abyss Essence and sending blood-red torrents toward the Human Race.
• Ao Zhuo and the others discussed the collapse's consequences, and Wu Tianshan called for them to return to the Human Race.

After the War Calamity Sin Domain collapsed, the Heavenly Sword protected the Human Race from the unleashed Sin Abyss, while Wu Tianshan and the others returned to the Sea of Origin to fight its spread. In the Chaos Sea, Lin An completed his breakthrough to the Chaos Realm and learned that the Realm Guardian had chosen him as its last hope against the Sin Abyss.

• Ao Zhuo showed Wu Tianshan and the others that the Heavenly Sword annihilated the Sin Abyss power approaching the Human Race.
• The Human Race’s leaders watched the collapsed domain’s power spill out and realized the Heavenly Sword had shielded their territory, though the Sin Abyss began invading elsewhere.
• Wu Tianshan and the others inspected the collapse site, then returned to the Sea of Origin to help drive back the Sin Abyss.
• Lin An’s cultivation formed a miniature Chaos Sea within his body, and he broke through to the Chaos Realm.
• Lin An learned that the Heavenly Sword’s master was in the Chaos Sea and that the Realm Guardian had chosen him to stop the Sin Abyss after Lin Chang backed down.

After emerging from seclusion in the Chaos Realm, Lin An tested the Sin Abyss and learned its power was still far beyond what he could confidently defeat. As Lin An and the others cleared the Sea of Origin, the Sin Abyss began a plan involving the Sin Domains and marked Huogenide, the Ancient Curse Dragon.

• Lin An returned to the Land of Rules and discovered that four of his relatives—Lin Xiao, Li Xiyun, Li Qing, and Li Wei—had reached the Eternal Realm, bringing the Human Race's total to thirteen.
• Li Yunshan told Lin An that the War Calamity Sin Domain had shattered and that the Sin Abyss was eroding the Sea of Origin faster, though the Human Race's new Eternal experts had helped slow it.
• Lin An confronted the Sin Abyss's power, fought its manifestation with his chaos power, Condemnation, and the Divine Wheel of Myriad Laws, and destroyed the attack before returning to the Sea of Origin.
• Lin An explained that the Sin Abyss had used roughly sixty percent of its power to test him, then joined Ao Zhuo and the others in driving out what remained.
• The Sin Abyss's will declared that its plan could free it from its enormous body, then turned its attention toward the Sin Domains.
• The Sin Abyss's will confronted Huogenide, the Curse and Grudge Sin Lord, and left an unfamiliar rune on his body.

The Sin Abyss awakened and used runes to suppress and then strengthen the thirty-four Sin Lords, ordering them to attack the Land of Rules in three months. The Sin Lords submitted, and their mobilization alarmed the myriad races, who feared the coming assault.

• Huogenide and the other Sin Lords discovered dark red runes eroding their sources and gathered for a video conference.
• The Sin Abyss appeared through the runes, suppressed the Sin Lords below the King Realm, then restored their cultivation and raised each of them by one realm.
• The Sin Abyss ordered the Sin Lords to mobilize every Sin Beast and attack the Land of Rules in three months.
• After debating for two or three days, the Sin Lords chose to obey, and orders spread throughout the Sin Domains.
• The Sin Beasts began mobilizing, prompting the myriad races to alert their leaders and Eternal Realm ancestors.