Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang explained the paths from refining spirit and returning to emptiness to becoming a Dao Assimilator, outlining three routes through the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass and encouraging future cultivators to surpass his theory. When the Netherworld Lord said the doctrine could not break his own bottlenecks, Li Boyang revealed that a higher Transcendence Realm lay beyond it.

• Li Boyang explained that refining spirit and returning to emptiness meant abstracting existence into the Dao and crossing the Heavenly Pass to become a Dao Assimilator.
• Li Boyang described three paths through the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass: the physical body, the soul, or creating a unique kind of primordial Qi.
• Li Boyang said the paths of essence, Qi, and spirit could be pursued together and form a self-sustaining cycle, and urged future cultivators to discover new paths beyond his doctrine.
• The Netherworld Lord praised Li Boyang’s discourse but said it could not help him overcome his bottlenecks as a Great Heavenly Deity.
• Li Boyang announced that beyond refining spirit and returning to emptiness lay a higher realm he called refining emptiness and uniting with the Dao, the true Transcendence Realm.

Li Boyang explained his theory of proving the Dao and advancing beyond Dao Transformation by tracing the changing worlds back toward the Great Dao. He agreed to the Netherworld Lord’s terms for rebuilding balance between the Yin and Yang Worlds, leaving the Lord free to observe his process and interfere with the Yang World.

• Li Boyang explained that becoming the embodiment of a concept was only a beginning, and that seekers of the Dao could pursue the complete Dao of heaven and earth.
• The Netherworld Lord said that transforming oneself into the Dao was misguided because no single person could keep pace with the world's endless changes, and revealed that ghost gods had arisen because of his actions.
• Li Boyang described proving the Dao as using the differences between the Yin and Yang Worlds to trace their shared origins, a process he called shattering the void and reaching the other shore.
• Li Boyang said he wanted to stop the calamity, create a flourishing age, reshape the world's rules, and test his theory of the Transcendence Realm.
• The Netherworld Lord permitted Li Boyang to interfere with the Yin World's order in exchange for the right to interfere with the Yang World and observe Li Boyang proving the Dao, and Li Boyang agreed.

Li Boyang’s agreement with the Netherworld Lord led to the creation of a Ghost Emperor incarnation, who destroyed the escaped ghosts and gods and dragged Shao into the Yin World. The Netherworld Lord also manifested as the Lord of Mount Tai, subdued Kang Hui, and introduced himself to Divine Lord Meng Zhang as a mountain god.

• The Sea-Calming Divine Treasure emerged from the Yin World Nether Spring and wiped out nearly all the escaped ghosts and gods in the East Sea.
• Li Boyang’s Ghost Emperor incarnation formed from the destroyed ghosts and Netherworld Qi, declared Shao guilty, and pulled him into the Yin World.
• A vast mountain range rose near the Black Teeth Kingdom, and the Netherworld Lord manifested there as a golden-robed deity.
• The Lord of Mount Tai struck Kang Hui with a heavenly edict and buried him beneath the mountains.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang recognized the newborn deity as the Netherworld Lord, who said he was now the mountain god of Mount Tai.

Li Boyang established Fengdu in the Yin World and proclaimed that all souls and ghost gods would fall under its authority, with hell and reincarnation planned to sort the dead by their karma. The Netherworld Lord and the Lord of Mount Tai recognized the scale of his reforms and anticipated the resistance and complications ahead.

• Li Boyang formed a ghost city at the entrance to the Netherworld Spring, with palaces for the Ghost Gods of the Six Heavens and Shaohao's clansmen serving under him.
• Shaohao learned that the ghost gods under Li Boyang would be tasked with arresting ghosts, and questioned how anyone could govern the dead of the entire Yang World.
• Li Boyang named the new city Fengdu and declared that all souls would come under its jurisdiction, with those bearing heavy karma sent to hell and those with light karma entering reincarnation.
• The Netherworld Lord was astonished by Li Boyang's plans and considered how he would implement hell and reincarnation over the coming millennia.
• The Lord of Mount Tai and the Netherworld Lord warned that reforms across both worlds would face resistance and unpredictable complications.

Li Boyang began reshaping the order of Heaven and Earth with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while Xiluo guarded him against danger. As the furnace’s power calmed the turbulent Yuan Qi, the Heaven-Eroding Lord revealed that it might even be capable of refining the Netherworld Lord.

• Xiluo returned to Li Boyang after settling matters with Yinglong and Xuansu Shi, and she stayed despite fearing his plan would get him killed.
• Li Boyang dismissed the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and ascended into the sky on a black-and-yellow cloud as Xiluo took her Ominous Deity form and summoned her Yang God to protect him.
• Lu Huaijin, Li Jingshu, and other people with the Heavenly Eye Divine Ability spotted Li Boyang rising through the eclipse-covered sky.
• Li Boyang expanded the Heaven and Earth Ring and revealed the enormous Eight Trigrams Furnace, whose eight trigrams began calming the chaotic Yuan Qi and establishing a new order.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord identified the furnace and its Taiji Diagram, explaining that their power could balance yin and yang and might even forcibly refine the Netherworld Lord.

Li Boyang used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to purify Huoji and gather scattered Soul Jade pieces, while a thought-sensing clone sought another piece from Wu Xian. Wu Xian gave him the Soul Jade Wu Yao had left behind, explaining it was a key to perfecting the Heavenly Dao and attaining the Great Dao, not a means to resurrect her.

• Li Boyang opened the Eight Trigrams Furnace, burned away Huoji's final obsession, and preserved his abilities in a piece of Soul Jade.
• Li Boyang used that Soul Jade as a core to draw scattered Soul Jade pieces from across the Nine Provinces and beyond into the furnace, confronting their holders through incarnations.
• Li Boyang's Heart Lamp Illuminates Myriad Forms clone appeared before Wu Xian and Wu Ji, and he explained that its strength and appearance depended on how others perceived him.
• Wu Xian gave Li Boyang a pure Soul Jade that Wu Yao had left with him, revealing it was a key to perfecting the Heavenly Dao and attaining the Great Dao.

Li Boyang used Wu Yao’s Soul Jade, skeleton, and Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron to attempt her resurrection and establish a new soul-based order linking the Yin and Yang Worlds. As Wu Yao’s body revived, he explained how the Life Soul and Seven Corporeal Souls could enable reincarnation and strengthen future living beings and ghosts.

• Li Boyang transformed an unusual piece of Soul Jade into the Goddess of War’s form, awakening spiritual awareness and drawing Wu Yao’s skeleton from the Mountain God Temple.
• Xiluo realized her sister might be returning, while Li Boyang told the emerging presence that it was not truly Wu Yao, even as he acknowledged his unconventional resurrection experiments.
• Li Boyang placed the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron into Wu Yao’s skeleton and used his blood and a ritual to restore her flesh and call her soul back.
• Wu Yao’s soul formed an imprint in both the Yang World and the Yin World, where the Netherworld Lord intervened and observed the new soul-based order taking shape.
• Li Boyang identified Wu Yao’s returning essence as the Life Soul and explained that its union with a body formed the Seven Corporeal Souls and could enable reincarnation.

Li Boyang explained how he designed the Heaven Soul, Earth Soul, and seven Po systems to create a fair reincarnation cycle between the Yin and Yang Worlds. The reborn Wu Yao claimed her identity and confronted the Heaven-Eroding Lord while Li Boyang prepared to establish the system across both worlds.

• Li Boyang explained that the Heaven Soul preserved the Life Soul and the seven Po helped frail souls grow enough to reincarnate.
• He explained that the Earth Soul guided souls to the Netherworld and could help Yin Deities track powerful souls.
• The reborn Wu Yao asked whether she was truly Wu Yao, and Li Boyang said she could be Wu Yao to Xiluo and the Heaven-Eroding Lord, though she was herself before him.
• Wu Yao declared herself the one and only Wu Yao and the third shaman-priest of the Houtu Clan, then went to face the approaching Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Li Boyang focused on the Eight Trigrams Furnace and used Black and Yellow Qi to manifest the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, supporting and balancing the Yin and Yang Worlds.

Li Boyang refined the Jade Disc of Creation and used it to reveal the branching futures and the fixed river of history, attaining the Dao of Time. When Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun tried to cross from the past into the present, the Netherworld Lord stopped him, and Li Boyang recognized that time would let the powerful reshape both past and future.

• Li Boyang took the refined Jade Disc of Creation from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and its power nearly destabilized his Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• The Pagoda displayed countless possible futures, including outcomes shaped by the Netherworld Lord and Li Boyang, while Ye Ming glimpsed a rare future in which she became a Great Heavenly Deity.
• Li Boyang's vision traced history backward to the era of Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun, who tried to cross the river of time and escape his destined death.
• The Netherworld Lord intervened in the past and stopped Hao Jun from descending into the present.
• Li Boyang concluded that the Jade Disc had made time a real Dao and that the powerful would seek to rewrite their origins and ends; he alone had leaped beyond lifespan and death.

Li Boyang used the Jade Disc of Creation to impose the Three Hun and Seven Po System across the future and reshape the river of time. He warned the Netherworld Lord that powerful beings might trace their origins farther and farther back, and the chapter ended with the Netherworld Lord asking what Li Boyang planned to do next.

• The Netherworld Lord gained two sets of memories after history split into alternate tributaries and studied the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Li Boyang used the Jade Disc of Creation to suppress future beings who resisted his intervention in time.
• Li Boyang established the Three Hun and Seven Po System across countless possible futures, giving the timelines a unified direction.
• Li Boyang explained that transcendent beings might rewrite their origins to become older and stronger, eventually reaching the world's creation.
• The Netherworld Lord realized Li Boyang had another plan and asked what he intended to do next.

Li Boyang relinquished the Jade Disc of Creation and bound interference with the river of time to consequences, while opening the Heavenly Dao to all beings. After the temporal upheaval ended, Red Serpent and Divine Lord Meng Zhang reflected on the futures they had witnessed, and Meng Zhang reassured him that those futures were only possibilities.

• Li Boyang sent the Jade Discs of Creation across timelines to merge with the river of time, establishing backlash for those who interfered with it and favor for those who sustained it.
• Li Boyang declared that the Heavenly Dao belonged to all beings and that anyone could attain the Dao, then used Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun's failed resurrection as an example of temporal backlash.
• Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun abandoned his attempt to resurrect in the future but remained confident he could become the first Ancient One and master the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Li Boyang relinquished his authority over time, making it accessible to all beings, and invited Red Serpent to become the first Ancient One and meet him at the end of the river of time.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Red Serpent discussed the futures they had seen, including Red Serpent's possible life as Torch Dragon, and Meng Zhang told him their present world had an infinitely bright future.

The chapter explained how Fengdu’s screening, Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, and reincarnation system processed the dead. It ended with souls entering the Six Paths of Reincarnation and established reunifying the Seven Corporeal Souls as an orthodox route to manifesting a Primordial Spirit.

• The Great Emperor of Fengdu granted innocent ghosts and ghost gods an annual return to the Yang World through the Ghost Gate Pass on Mount Tai.
• Ghosts were screened according to their obsessions, karma, and sins, with those who had lingering attachments remaining in Fengdu and others proceeding onward.
• The Great Emperor of Fengdu established the Nine Prisons at the nine nodes of the River of Forgetfulness to punish and cleanse different kinds of souls.
• Ghosts whose obsessions had faded passed through the red spider lily grove, crossed the Bridge of Helplessness, and drank the woman’s soup before reaching reincarnation.
• Pure souls entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, where the Heaven Soul guided them into suitable bodies and joined them with flesh to form the Seven Corporeal Souls.
• The chapter established that reunifying the Seven Corporeal Souls to manifest the Life Soul would become an orthodox path to cultivating a Primordial Spirit.

On the Ghost Festival, Ye Ming escorted the Heaven-Eroding Lord to the Bridge of Helplessness, where he planned to visit Meng Po. He presented a Bagua Compass and its manual, but Ye Ming demanded both compasses as compensation for her lost vacation.

• Ye Ming met the Heaven-Eroding Lord on the banks of the River of Forgetfulness while serving as White Impermanence.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord and Ye Ming discussed the Great Emperor of Fengdu’s divine appointments and Ye Ming’s choice to serve as an Impermanence official.
• Ye Ming asked what gift the Heaven-Eroding Lord had brought Meng Po as they approached the Bridge of Helplessness.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord showed Ye Ming a Bagua Compass and explained its uses for divination and setting formations.
• Ye Ming demanded that the Heaven-Eroding Lord give her both compasses as compensation for her lost vacation.

Li Boyang told Chen Yun that Flying Sky Stockade planned to mass-produce gliding wings using cloud silk brocade, making individual flight increasingly accessible across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. He predicted the region would need flight regulations and safety standards, while expressing greater confidence in the aerial base stations Wu Zhen was developing with Big Girl.

• Chen Yun asked Li Boyang whether the textile mill should expand production of cloud silk brocade because Flying Sky Stockade planned to buy it in bulk.
• Li Boyang explained that Wu Zhen had achieved preliminary mass production of gliding wings and had improved their design so their membrane wings could extend and retract.
• Chen Yun asked whether the improved gliding wings could now be widely distributed, and Li Boyang explained how wind spells could make them usable for flight.
• Li Boyang said the Hundred Lands Mountain Range would eventually need flight regulations and safety standards because gliding wings could become widely available and suited the region's difficult terrain.
• Li Boyang said he had greater confidence in the aerial base stations Wu Zhen was developing with Big Girl.

Li Jingshu and Wu Zhen inspected a biologically constructed sky base station designed to extend Voice Transmission Talisman signals across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. When Li Jingshu questioned how Wu Zhen had developed its biotechnology, Wu Zhen revealed that Snake Bone, also known as Lingguzi, had helped her.

• Li Jingshu had proposed using sky base stations to relay Voice Transmission Talisman signals across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Jingshu examined Wu Zhen’s enormous, flesh-like station and learned it was built to withstand near-Earth orbit’s cold and low oxygen.
• Wu Zhen said the stations could provide region-wide signal coverage and could be fitted with weapons for defense.
• Li Jingshu questioned whether Wu Zhen had developed the biotechnology herself, and Wu Zhen denied involving Witch Mountain.
• Wu Zhen revealed that Snake Bone, also known as Lingguzi, had helped solve the station’s orbital environmental problems.

Li Jingshu asked Lingguzi to make protective gear from Flat Peach Tree cells for an upcoming trip to an extreme environment, and he created a close-fitting suit and mask from his living tissue. Later, Li Boyang returned home, where Li Xi showed him how she could use Xirang to mold lifelike, living creatures, and the family prepared for relatives to visit.

• Lingguzi healed an injured fox with Flat Peach Tree cells that mimicked and grew into its missing tissue.
• Li Jingshu asked Lingguzi to make protective gear for her upcoming journey, and he formed a white suit and mask from his body.
• Li Boyang returned home with Chen Yun and found Li Xi playing with Xirang in the courtyard.
• Li Xi molded a living bird and then a little wildcat that jumped onto Li Boyang's shoulder and breathed fire.
• Chen Yun went to cook, and Li Boyang told her to prepare extra food for Big Girl, her mother, and Grandmother Mountain God.

Li Boyang and Li Jingshu discussed Li Household Village’s progress in wireless electricity, including how the village had developed ways to limit power theft by thunder gods. Li Jingshu described plans for new power sources and encrypted electrical signals, and revealed that she had invented the Talisman Seal Script behind the encryption idea.

• Li Boyang and Li Jingshu walked through Li Household Village and discussed its streetlights and wireless power system.
• Li Jingshu explained that Xuansu Shi and Yinglong had helped develop directional transmission and load identification to curb gods’ theft of electricity.
• Li Jingshu told Li Boyang that Yinglong’s plan to transmit power through the ionosphere had been rejected because stronger thunder gods could steal the electricity.
• Li Jingshu described research into higher-output, wind, and solar power generation, along with encrypted electrical signals.
• Li Jingshu proudly told Li Boyang that she had invented the Talisman Seal Script used for encryption.

Li Boyang divined Li Jingshu’s planned visit to a mysterious canyon and confirmed she would be safe, though he refused to calculate the outcome fully. He then discovered that her living coat, made from Flat Peach Cells, had far greater regenerative abilities than she realized.

• Li Jingshu told Li Boyang that a canyon in the southern Sea of Trees recorded ancient battles during storms and might aid her cultivation, but her Premonition Divine Ability had warned her away.
• Li Boyang divined the journey and sensed resistance, then confirmed Li Jingshu would be safe without probing the outcome further.
• Li Boyang noticed Li Jingshu’s white coat and cut off part of its sleeve, which began regenerating before she could react.
• Li Jingshu explained that the coat could endure harsh environments and repair itself by absorbing her Life Primordial Qi.
• Li Boyang examined the Flat Peach Cells and explained that they could regenerate and repair living tissue across species, potentially replacing organs and restoring severed limbs.

Li Boyang showed Li Jingshu how Flat Peach Cells could use the Myriad Phenomena Divine Ability to grow plants and adapt powerful organs for their wearer. He then offered to take her to Flying Peak for a Law Treasure, while growing changes in the moon’s phases left him wondering who was causing them.

• Li Boyang demonstrated that Flat Peach Cells could use Myriad Phenomena to rapidly grow plants with regenerative and anti-evil properties.
• Li Jingshu fed Life Primordial Qi into the white coat and experienced controlling its plants as if it were an independent body.
• Li Boyang grafted a Heavenly Eye created with Thousand Transformations onto a glove, and Li Jingshu tested its extraordinary vision and destructive rays.
• Li Boyang warned that such external organs were dangerous and could drive others to plunder organs if Flat Peach Cells became widely available.
• Li Boyang invited Li Jingshu to Flying Peak the next day to receive a Law Treasure that might help her cultivate Yin and Yang Qi.
• Li Boyang noticed the moon looked unusually bewitching and wondered who was changing its increasingly frequent phases.

Xiluo told Li Boyang that the moon’s changing phases were causing life-friendly Yuan Qi to transform creatures across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, including unintelligent beasts and insects. Li Boyang concluded that another Dao attainer was relinquishing ownership of their Dao so all things could attain it, and he wondered why they had chosen to give it up.

• Xiluo emerged from her shrine and scolded Li Boyang for letting Li Jingshu enter a dangerous gorge, while he said Li Jingshu had only sought his reassurance.
• Xiluo explained that Yuan Qi gathered at each full moon and let living creatures transform into Innate Divine Beings, making them unusually restless.
• Xiluo described dealing with a beetle that had grown as large as a tiger or leopard without understanding its transformation, and said she had been helping the gods because she owed them favors.
• Li Boyang connected the moon’s changes to another Dao attainer influencing the world and said the Netherworld Lord had allowed the process to continue.
• Li Boyang explained that the Dao attainer had relinquished ownership of their Dao so all things could attain it, then questioned why they had chosen to give up their Dao Path.