Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi killed the giant ape that had stolen his Chaos Stone, then asked Su Yuxuan to determine their next direction. In Qin State, Emperor Qin Wu submitted to He Yucheng's demand for more women while secretly resenting the Demonic Flame Sect and the immortal cultivators who exploited his people.

• Liu Yi shattered the giant ape with his Five Elements Palm, destroyed its Primordial Spirit, and recovered the treasures in its Storage Law Treasure.
• Liu Yi released Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan from the Portable Daoist Sanctum and asked Su Yuxuan which direction they should go.
• Qin Wu trained his mortal martial arts while a guard beat him with an iron rod, then asked He Yucheng to reduce the yearly tribute of a hundred thousand beauties.
• He Yucheng refused Qin Wu's request, gave him two talismans, and demanded that twenty peerless beauties be sent to his residence within a day.
• Qin Wu submitted to He Yucheng's threat but inwardly condemned the Demonic Flame Sect for exploiting Qin's women and resented his inability to resist immortal cultivators.

Qin Wu bound the Fairness System and saw it as a way for Great Qin to escape the Demonic Flame Sect’s control. He ordered Shangguan Zhong to spread the system across the state, collect Energy Points, and prepare Great Qin to resist or flee the sect.

• Shangguan Zhong told Qin Wu that the Fairness System had appeared in Qin State and presented him with a System Seed.
• Qin Wu bound the system and discovered it offered communication, teleportation, grain, cultivation methods, and other resources.
• Qin Wu ordered Shangguan Zhong to send twenty women from corrupt officials’ families to He Yucheng and have the secret guards bind and spread the system, especially in disaster-stricken areas.
• Qin Wu directed the court to replace monetary taxes with an Energy Point levy, promote grain sales and high-yield seeds, and spread news of the Demonic Flame Sect’s exploitation.
• When Shangguan Zhong warned that empowered people might become difficult to control, Qin Wu said he welcomed their resistance and ordered immediate action to strengthen Great Qin against the sect.

Qin Wu gave the Fairness System to his officials and used Shi Yan’s failure to bind it as evidence that he was wicked. He ordered Shi Yan imprisoned and decreed that officials and soldiers across Qin State must be able to bind the system.

• Qin Wu distributed Fairness System Seeds to the officials, and most marveled at the system’s features after binding it.
• Qin Wu noticed that Shi Yan had failed to bind the system and questioned him about his crime.
• Shi Yan denied wrongdoing and called the system demonic, while Guan Jia rebuked him for insulting the system and questioning Qin Wu.
• Qin Wu explained that only people who were not utterly wicked could bind the system and accused Shi Yan of killing innocents during uprisings.
• Qin Wu ordered guards to take Shi Yan to the imperial prison and commanded Kong Yuan and Cao Yi to investigate officials who could not bind the system.

Qin Wu ordered the Fairness System promoted throughout Qin State and demanded a rapid shift to collecting taxes and paying salaries in Energy Points. As the government began carrying out his orders, the chapter showed famine-stricken Wu'an Commandery, where desperate survivors feared further rebellion and starvation.

• Qin Wu ordered secret guards to promote the Fairness System nationwide and directed Lü Zixuan to prepare a reform plan within three days.
• Officials protested giving the system to ordinary people and changing taxes to Energy Points, but Qin Wu insisted the reforms were urgent and promised the prospect of Qin State becoming a Fortune Dynasty.
• Lü Zixuan and the other officials agreed to cooperate, and Qin State's bureaucracy began promoting the system after officials and soldiers bound it.
• In drought-ravaged Wu'an Commandery, Wang An suggested fleeing or joining people planning to raid granaries, while Chen He warned him against rebellion and urged him to wait for the drought to end.

Li Da introduced the Fairness System to disaster victims, and Wang An bound a System Seed after seeing its food supply. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Immortal Sect prepared to revolt in Wu'an Commandery, but soldiers surrounded its leaders and followers.

• Li Da announced that Qin Wu had shared the Fairness System and presented the disaster victims with a mountain of rice.
• The disaster victims formed a line to receive System Seeds, and those who bound them celebrated the food available through the System Store.
• Wang An bound his System Seed and, after exploring the system, approached Li Da with a decision to make.
• Bai Sikong told the Heavenly Immortal Sect leaders that their trained followers and hidden agents could help them seize Wu'an City and overthrow Qin.
• A bloodied sect member burst in and warned Bai Sikong that soldiers had surrounded them.

The government troops crushed the Heavenly Immortal Sect’s uprising, while Li Da fought Bai Sikong and Wang An denounced the rebels. Three days later, Bai Sikong learned the Fairness System had thwarted the revolt and planned to seek recruits elsewhere, unaware that Li Jing had secretly bound a system.

• Bai Sikong led the Heavenly Immortal Sect’s leaders into battle, but the government troops routed their poorly trained followers.
• Wang An defended his allegiance to the court, and Bai Sikong attacked him and Li Da after hearing their exchange.
• Li Da fought Bai Sikong to a standstill while secret guards killed several sect leaders and the rebels lost the battle.
• Bai Sikong retreated with the surviving leaders, and the government troops killed the sect members trapped in the village.
• Three days later, Sun Fei told Bai Sikong that disaster victims had used the Fairness System to overcome famine and that he could not bind a System Seed.
• Li Jing secretly supplied Bai Sikong with a System Seed, which he failed to bind, and Bai Sikong vowed to recruit in other disaster-stricken regions.

Liu Yi and Su Yuxuan reached the River of Forgetfulness and decided to leave the Yin-Yang Ruins rather than enter its deadly core region. When an immortal sword emerged and drew cultivators into a bloody battle, Liu Yi planned to search the newly revealed Yin-Yang Plain while everyone else was distracted.

• Liu Yi and Su Yuxuan reached the River of Forgetfulness, where Su Yuxuan warned that crossing required a special ferry and the core region beyond was extremely dangerous.
• Liu Yi sensed deadly threats beyond the river and decided to leave the ruins, while planning to add a Yin-Yang Ruins dungeon to the Fairness System.
• An immortal light dispelled the Yin-Yang Mist, and an immortal sword burst from beneath the Yin-Yang Plain.
• Cultivators rushed to seize the sword, triggering a brutal melee in which many were killed.
• Little Yellow warned Liu Yi not to join the fight, and Liu Yi reassured her before proposing that they search the newly exposed plain for treasures.

Liu Yi, Su Yuxuan, and Little Yellow searched the Yin-Yang Plain for treasures and met Mei Kong, the Calamity Star. After two dangerous attacks seemed to confirm Mei Kong’s bad luck had followed them, the immortal sword suddenly flew into Liu Yi’s hand.

• Liu Yi led Su Yuxuan and Little Yellow away from the battle over the immortal artifact and found a Chaos Stone while they collected treasures.
• Su Yuxuan recognized Mei Kong and warned Liu Yi and Little Yellow that everyone who encountered him suffered calamities.
• Liu Yi spoke briefly with Mei Kong, then left with Su Yuxuan and Little Yellow as she explained his dreadful history and reputation.
• A saber strike and a broken Demon Beast horn nearly hit Liu Yi’s group, convincing them that Mei Kong’s bad luck had followed them.
• Little Yellow urged Liu Yi to leave the Yin-Yang Ruins, but the immortal sword broke free from the battle and flew into Liu Yi’s hand.

The immortal sword repeatedly returned to Liu Yi despite his attempts to throw it away, drawing the cultivators who coveted it back into pursuit. After discovering that Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan had been touched by Mei Kong’s bad luck, Liu Yi sent them into his portable Dao arena and prepared to face the approaching cultivators.

• Liu Yi threw the immortal sword away, and the pursuing cultivators chased it while Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan recovered from the danger.
• Liu Yi used the Dharma Eye of Delusion Breaking and saw that Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan were entangled in Mei Kong’s bad luck, though he was unaffected.
• The immortal sword flew back to Liu Yi, so he threw it away again, but it returned a third time as the cultivators pursued it.
• Liu Yi sent Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan into his portable Dao arena as the cultivators threatened to kill him for the sword.
• Liu Yi poured True Power into the immortal sword, which accepted him and completed its preliminary refinement.

Liu Yi fought through a crowd of cultivators who coveted his immortal sword and Law Treasures, then focused on the Heavenly Ghost King. After unleashing the power of four in one, he struck at the Heavenly Ghost King with both swords.

• Liu Yi charged into the cultivators and used his Law Treasures to withstand their attacks while cutting down more than a hundred of them.
• Mei Kong watched Liu Yi's rampage and reflected that his bad luck had no effect on him.
• The Heavenly Ghost King taunted Liu Yi, who replenished his True Power with World Origin and blasted the king backward with Sword Qi.
• Liu Yi cleaved Yang Jingxing's five-element divine dragon in two, then killed more than a hundred Dao Integration Realm cultivators and drove the survivors away.
• Liu Yi attacked the Heavenly Ghost King, activated the power of four in one, and brought down two waves of space-rending Sword Qi.

Liu Yi killed the Heavenly Ghost King and Yan Ding while defending himself with his Law Treasures, terrifying the cultivators seeking his immortal sword. Yang Jingxing withdrew, but Hu Mowei rallied the remaining experts to attack Liu Yi, and their battle continued as onlookers debated whether Liu Yi's power would last.

• Liu Yi overcame the Heavenly Ghost King's defenses and annihilated him body and soul with Space-Rending Sword Qi.
• The remaining cultivators' attacks struck Liu Yi's defensive barrier, but he steadied himself and challenged them; Yang Jingxing then apologized and withdrew from the fight for the immortal sword.
• Hu Mowei urged the cultivators to attack Liu Yi, claiming his spiritual power was nearly exhausted, and they renewed their resolve to seize his Law Treasures.
• Liu Yi charged at the injured Yan Ding and killed him with two blasts of Space-Rending Sword Qi, destroying his Ten Thousand Souls Banner and Evil Soul Dharma Body.
• Hu Mowei ordered the remaining cultivators to gather together, and they fought Liu Yi as onlookers watched and discussed his strength.

Liu Yi outmaneuvered the Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators fighting over the immortal sword, killing most of them with his sword techniques and Heaven-Opening Divine Ability. Three survivors escaped, while the watching cultivators were left stunned by his strength.

• Liu Yi pretended to flee, then turned on Hu Mowei after the pursuing cultivators spread apart and killed him with Space-Rending Sword Qi.
• Liu Yi attacked the separated cultivators and killed five more, frightening the survivors into regrouping.
• Yang Jingxing wondered how Liu Yi had reached the Void Return Realm and questioned whether his strange power came from martial arts.
• Mei Kong slipped toward the battlefield to collect the scattered treasures while Liu Yi tried unsuccessfully to lure the grouped cultivators away.
• Liu Yi unleashed the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability, and the sword light crushed the cultivators' attacks and opened a spatial rift that killed or swallowed most of them.
• Three wounded cultivators escaped, and the watching cultivators marveled at Liu Yi's power and speculated that he could unify the Yin-Yang Ruins.

After defeating his enemies in the Yin-Yang Ruins, Liu Yi intimidated the surviving cultivators, took Mei Kong’s collected treasures, and tested the system’s spatial teleportation. He returned to his portable Daoist sanctuary, where Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan explained that Mei Kong’s bad luck had left them battered.

• Liu Yi put away his weapons, assessed his strength, and watched the surviving cultivators avert their eyes while Yang Jingxing slipped away.
• Liu Yi confronted Mei Kong over the Law Treasures he had collected and used the immortal sword to pressure him into handing over two artifacts.
• Liu Yi’s Five-Colored Divine Light looted Mei Kong’s remaining treasures, and Liu Yi escaped the Yin-Yang Ruins through a system spatial gate.
• Mei Kong left through his Yin-Yang Token, discovered that Liu Yi was gone, and furiously lamented the loss of his possessions.
• Liu Yi confirmed that system teleportation worked beyond the ruins and returned to his portable Daoist sanctuary, where Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan described their misfortune under Mei Kong’s bad luck.

Liu Yi drew the bad luck out of Little Yellow and Su Yuxuan, then sorted the spoils from the Yin-Yang Ruins before preparing to enter seclusion. Elsewhere, Su Wantang distributed Fairness System Seeds and decided to livestream her zither performances to earn Energy Points faster.

• Liu Yi used the Principles of fate, fortune, and bad luck to remove Little Yellow's bad luck, then cleared Su Yuxuan's as well.
• Liu Yi saw Su Yuxuan off and told Little Yellow that he had kept the immortal sword and killed most of those who tried to steal it.
• Liu Yi sorted his spoils, sold what he did not need through the System Store, and kept Chaos Stones and other useful resources.
• Su Wantang played her zither for a city, distributed Fairness System Seeds to the crowd, and earned Energy Points.
• Su Wantang decided to livestream her zither performances to attract viewers and earn Energy Points more quickly.

Liu Yi watched Su Wantang’s zither livestream and discovered that her new piece, “Great Dao Overture,” helped listeners experience mortal life and improve their states of mind. After her first stream drew enormous viewership and gifts, Su Wantang chose to focus on livestreaming and refine the piece, while Liu Yi planned to study the Chaos Stone in seclusion.

• Liu Yi checked Little Yellow’s social account and found that it was filled with Liu Yi’s past sayings, then browsed TikTok videos and comments.
• Liu Yi watched Su Wantang perform the zither, and her music captivated listeners and drew a flood of comments and gifts.
• Su Wantang played “Great Dao Overture,” whose music helped viewers experience mortal life and improve their states of mind, and Liu Yi gifted her 200,000 Energy Points.
• Su Wantang’s first livestream reached 102.4 billion viewers and earned 15.6 billion Energy Points, so she decided to focus on streaming and improve “Great Dao Overture” in the Dao Comprehension Space.
• Liu Yi gave Little Yellow a hundred Yin-Yang Fruits before entering seclusion to study the Chaos Stone, and he told Little Yellow to watch Su Wantang’s livestreams.

Liu Yi discovered how Chaos Stones drew energy from the void and devised a plan to use spiritual light to power the Fairness System’s subsystems. Meanwhile, Zheng Siqi attended the Yuntian Heaven's Chosen Tea Party and unexpectedly reunited with Lin Jing.

• Liu Yi used the Principle of Cause and Effect to trace the energy drawn by Chaos Stones to the turbulent currents in the void beyond the Azure Billows Realm.
• Liu Yi concluded he could use Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light to support the Origin System and generate lower-grade spiritual light for the other subsystems.
• Liu Yi began deducing version 9.0 of the Fairness System while cultivating with the Yin-Yang Fruit and strengthening his mind world.
• Zheng Siqi arrived in Yuntian City and chose to attend the Yuntian Heaven's Chosen Tea Party rather than spread the systems there.
• Zheng Siqi spotted Lin Jing among the young Nascent Soul cultivators, and the two greeted each other as fellow Daoists.

At the Yuntian Heaven's Chosen Tea Party, Zheng Siqi and Lin Jing reflected on the Fairness System and their strength compared with the Central Continent's young cultivators. After the guests tasted cloudy mist tea and began sparring, Chen Xingci challenged the unfamiliar visitors from other regions, prompting Central Continent cultivators to mock them as country bumpkins.

• Lin Jing told Zheng Siqi that he had escaped the Pure Void Sect's destruction by reporting its plans to the Fairness System, quitting the sect, and leaving before its leaders were punished.
• Zheng Siqi and Lin Jing agreed that the Fairness System had changed the Eastern Desolation's fortunes and that they had no interest in sparring with Central Continent prodigies they considered weaker.
• Wei Jiaming welcomed more than two hundred Heaven's Chosen to the Yuntian tea party and served them cloudy mist tea, which the guests praised for its effects on the mind and Primordial Spirit.
• After Wei Jiaming opened the event to discussion and sparring, Chen Xingci defeated a young Heaven's Chosen and challenged the unfamiliar visitors from the Southern Barbarians or Northern Plains.
• Central Continent cultivators turned their attention to the three tables where Zheng Siqi and the others sat and derided them as country bumpkins from backwater regions.

Zheng Siqi livestreamed the Yuntian Heaven's Chosen Tea Party after Central Continent cultivators scorned the Southern Barbarians and Northern Plains, drawing a huge audience as Xiao Ye challenged Chen Xingci. Chen Xingci defeated Xiao Ye and then challenged the Northern Plains Heaven's Chosen, leaving the next fight unresolved.

• Zheng Siqi began a TikTok livestream about the Central Continent Heaven's Chosen discriminating against the Southern Barbarians and Northern Plains, while Lin Jing reminded him of his own past arrogance toward Liu Yi.
• Chen Xingci insulted the Southern Barbarians and Northern Plains for refusing to challenge him, prompting Xiao Ye of the Barbarian God Sect to step onto the stage.
• Chen Xingci used his speed and flying sword to keep Xiao Ye on the defensive and wound him during their fight.
• Chen Xingci defeated Xiao Ye with his Wind Slaying Sword, and Xiao Ye admitted defeat before returning to his seat to heal.
• Chen Xingci turned toward the Northern Plains tables and challenged one of their Heaven's Chosen to fight.

Wang Chun lost to Chen Xingci after Chen Xingci used his Wind Slaying Sword, and Zheng Siqi revealed that he and Lin Jing came from the Eastern Desolation. When Zheng Siqi said the Central Continent’s standards might let him count as a Heaven’s Chosen, Chen Xingci and host Wei Jiaming took offense and challenged his claim.

• Wang Chun battled Chen Xingci with his profound ice spikes, but Chen Xingci’s Wind Slaying Sword broke through Wang Chun’s defenses and defeated him.
• Wang Chun admitted he was no match for Chen Xingci, then argued that stronger cultivators existed across the other regions.
• Chen Xingci challenged Zheng Siqi and Lin Jing after mistaking them for Northern Plains Heaven’s Chosen, and Zheng Siqi clarified that they came from the Eastern Desolation.
• Zheng Siqi told Chen Xingci that he did not rank as a Heaven’s Chosen in the Eastern Desolation but might qualify by Central Continent standards.
• Wei Jiaming and Chen Xingci objected that Zheng Siqi was belittling the Central Continent’s standards and questioned whether the Eastern Desolation’s standards could be higher.

Lin Jing accepted Chen Xingci’s challenge and defeated him in the arena by matching his speed with a powerful saber counterattack. Chen Xingci was left badly injured after his defenses failed.

• Zheng Siqi and Lin Jing insisted they were ordinary cultivators, but the crowd dismissed their claims and urged them to fight.
• Lin Jing volunteered to face Chen Xingci, confident in his speed and cultivation.
• Chen Xingci attacked with his flying sword, but Lin Jing countered with his spirit saber and Wind Blade Technique.
• Chen Xingci unleashed the Wind Slaying Sword, and Lin Jing dodged it before sending his saber back at him.
• Lin Jing’s saber broke through Chen Xingci’s Wind Wall and protective armor, sending him crashing onto the arena after he spat blood.