Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang and Qian Duoduo discussed the spread of systems and agreed to subsidize their prices as competition grew. At the Heavenly Sword Sect, Jian Lingxu bound the Fairness System and was astonished by its power.

• Ye Liang and Qian Duoduo worried that system hosts spreading across the regions would end their System Store resale business.
• Qian Duoduo teased Ye Liang about becoming sect master, but both refused the position and argued over who should succeed Lin Nan.
• Ye Liang and Qian Duoduo agreed to match competitors’ prices through customer subsidies rather than openly lowering prices.
• At the Heavenly Sword Sect, Jian Lingxu examined the System Seed and, sensing no danger, decided to bind the Fairness System.
• After reading the system guide, Jian Lingxu marveled that the Fairness System seemed more wondrous than even the Void Market.

Jian Lingxu explored the Fairness System and believed his Immortal King experience would make him invincible on the Void Return Realm Combat Power Ranking. After twice challenging the Trial Tower, he remained fourth behind Chen Jie, Bai Qianqian, and Ye Qingxue, leaving him shaken and frustrated.

• Jian Lingxu read the system guide and marveled at its cultivation features, communication tools, Virtual World, and System Store.
• Jian Lingxu saw Chen Jie ranked first and resolved to claim the top spot, while wondering why Liu Yi was absent from the ranking.
• Jian Lingxu completed the Trial Tower challenge and found himself ranked fourth behind Chen Jie, Bai Qianqian, and Ye Qingxue.
• Jian Lingxu challenged the Trial Tower again but remained fourth, and he struggled to accept that three geniuses of the current age surpassed him.

Jian Lingxu accepted why Chen Jie, Bai Qianqian, and Ye Qingxue had surpassed him, then sold his spare Cultivation Methods to fund the Fairness System. After testing the Dao Comprehension Space and studying the Dao Seed Martial Dao System, he worried that its rise could provoke powerful old cultivators and spark bloodshed.

• Jian Lingxu decided to strengthen his cultivation foundation before pursuing further breakthroughs.
• Jian Lingxu sold his spare Cultivation Methods to the System Store, but learned that many had already been listed and could not be sold again.
• Jian Lingxu gained 1.0316 trillion Energy Points and used the Dao Comprehension Space, which helped him comprehend the Great Dao of the Sword.
• Jian Lingxu exchanged points for a Dao Seed Martial Dao System manual and was astonished by its cultivation methods and potential.
• Jian Lingxu feared that old diehards might suppress the Dao Seed Martial Dao System and trigger another calamity of bloodshed.

Jian Lingxu watched videos about Liu Yi and realized the prodigy’s strength surpassed his understanding, though he vowed to challenge him someday. Yue Ji explored the Fairness System, marveling at its benefits and wondering about its mysterious origins.

• Jian Lingxu searched TikTok for Liu Yi and watched videos showing his extraordinary victories against opponents of far higher realms.
• Jian Lingxu concluded Liu Yi deserved to be called the Azure Billows Realm’s greatest prodigy and strongest expert, then admitted he had no confidence in surpassing him.
• Jian Lingxu recovered his fighting spirit and vowed to measure himself against Liu Yi after reaching the True Immortal Realm.
• Yue Ji explored the Dao Comprehension Space, Virtual World, Monster Game World, Reincarnation Illusion Realm, and TikTok through the Fairness System.
• Yue Ji hoped the Fairness System and Dao Seed Martial Dao System would help the Azure Billows Realm resist the Devil Race, but she could not deduce the Fairness System’s origins.

Yue Ji divined that Jian Lingxu was the reincarnated Heavenly Sword King, while Liu Yi discovered that Yue Ji and Jian Lingxu had uploaded many immortal-grade cultivation methods to the Fairness System. He concluded that even extraordinary talents would need to bind the system to keep pace, helping advance his own cultivation.

• Yue Ji reflected on Liu Yi's strength and hoped the Dao Seed Martial Dao System would help the Azure Billows Realm survive the coming tribulation.
• Yue Ji divined Jian Lingxu's origins and learned that he was the reincarnated Heavenly Sword King.
• Liu Yi received a notification that many immortal-grade cultivation methods had appeared in the System Store and found that Yue Ji and Jian Lingxu had uploaded them.
• Liu Yi investigated Jian Lingxu and confirmed that he was an Immortal King reincarnated.
• Liu Yi considered how the Fairness System would let special existences compete and concluded that they would all have to bind it to stand out.

Liu Yi advanced the 129,600 worlds within his body to Middle Chiliocosms, triggering a vast Great Dao phenomenon that helped him approach the Peak Return to Oneness Realm. Meanwhile, the Puppet Sect's leaders discussed falling demand and growing competition, but had no clear plan to improve their products.

• Liu Yi concluded that cultivation systems all led toward comprehending the Great Dao and prepared to create a Mortal Transcendence Realm method.
• Liu Yi drove the advancement of his 129,600 inner worlds, which expanded into Middle Chiliocosms and refined Chaos Qi into nourishment.
• Liu Yi absorbed the power released by the advancing worlds, while Little Yellow cultivated amid the Great Dao phenomenon filling the Portable Daoist Sanctum.
• Cao Xuan warned the Puppet Sect's leaders that weapons sales would decline and competitors were studying their products.
• Tang Tian said the sect's weapons and machines had little room for improvement, so Cao Xuan asked the other elders for ideas.

Zhong Lingxiu proposed making mechas lighter and more versatile, creating a sect-wide product feedback system, and developing War Weapons that could use Great Dao Principles; Cao Xuan approved the ideas and Tang Tian committed to researching Principle weapons. Meanwhile, Xu Cheng'an traveled to the Western Region to disseminate the system and found the people there behaving unusually devoutly.

• Zhong Lingxiu suggested making mechas thin and light like clothing, equipping them with miniaturized War Weapons, and calling the resulting design a battlesuit.
• Zhong Lingxiu proposed a feedback mechanism that would reward Puppet Sect members and disciples for ideas to improve the sect's products, and Cao Xuan praised the plan.
• Zhong Lingxiu suggested simplifying War Weapon production, shrinking the God-Extinguishing Repeating Crossbow and God-Slaying Cannon, and exploring attacks empowered by Great Dao Principles.
• Tang Tian offered to research Principle weapons, and Cao Xuan promised to provide the necessary funds and make the project the sect's highest research priority.
• Xu Cheng'an traveled to the Western Region to disseminate the system and saw common people taking a step and kowtowing as they worshipped Buddha.

Xu Cheng'an entered a Buddhist-ruled region and decided to use the Fairness System to change the lives and beliefs of its impoverished, devout people. After distributing System Seeds in a city, he watched the first new hosts discover the system’s food, cultivation methods, and other features.

• Xu Cheng'an examined worshippers traveling to a Buddhist temple and found no sign that their minds had been bewitched.
• Xu Cheng'an reached a city where the people lived in poverty but remained fervently devoted to Buddha.
• Xu Cheng'an flew into the city on the Thunder Beast and offered System Seeds, promising that the Fairness System could provide food and a path to becoming Buddhas.
• The people formed a queue, and Xu Cheng'an began distributing System Seeds.
• The first new hosts bound the Fairness System, marveled at its features, and stirred the rest of the crowd’s eagerness to receive seeds.

Xu Cheng'an spread the Fairness System in a city, inspiring people to pursue cultivation and Energy Points instead of prioritizing worship. As the system expanded, Prajna Temple’s Power of Faith dwindled, prompting Abbot Fachen to investigate the disappearance of its worshippers.

• Xu Cheng'an left the city after urging its people to cultivate and saying they could one day meet him as fellow Daoists.
• The people began spreading the Fairness System to earn Energy Points, and many chose that over going to Prajna Temple to worship Buddha.
• As the system spread across the regions, Abbot Fachen found the temple's incense bottle less than half full and learned that Power of Faith was essential to Buddhist sects and the seal at Great Leiyin Temple.
• Fachen found Prajna Temple's outside branch nearly deserted and questioned Fawu and Liaoyuan about the vanished worshippers.
• Fachen sent Fawu to investigate whether the mortals had been harmed and returned to the main temple to await news.

Fawu discovered that the villages and city near Prajna Temple had been transformed, with prosperous, cultivated residents who no longer worshipped Buddha. After learning that the Fairness System had caused the changes, he asked the locals about its origins, and they greeted him only as a senior.

• Fawu used his Divine Sense to inspect a village and found its people healthy, prosperous, and cultivating instead of living in poverty.
• Fawu investigated nearby villages and heard residents discussing the Fairness System and other unfamiliar innovations, while discovering that they aspired to become immortals or Buddhas rather than worship Buddha.
• Fawu reached a nearby city and saw that its buildings, roads, and people had also been transformed.
• Fawu overheard diners credit the Fairness System and Senior Xu for improving their lives and explain that they believed they could become Buddhas themselves.
• Fawu concluded that the Fairness System threatened Prajna Temple's faith and Power of Faith, then asked the diners where it came from.
• The diners greeted Fawu as a senior and stood without the reverence they had once shown him.

Fawu discovered that the Fairness System had caused commoners to stop worshipping Buddha and collecting Power of Faith, then reported its existence to the leaders of Prajna Temple. After Fawu gave them System Seeds, the temple’s higher-ups bound the system and saw its wonders for themselves.

• Xia Quan gave Fawu a System Seed, and Fawu bound the Fairness System and was shocked by its features and cultivation resources.
• Fawu realized that commoners with the system had less reason to worship Buddha or contribute Power of Faith, then hurried back to Prajna Temple.
• Fawu told Fachen that the Fairness System explained why commoners had stopped visiting the temple, and Fachen summoned Prajna Temple’s higher-ups to Prajna Hall.
• Fawu described the system to the gathered leaders, who doubted his account until he gave each of them a System Seed.
• Fachen, Fakong, and the other higher-ups bound the Fairness System and exclaimed at its wonders while Fawu continued exploring it.

Fawu persuaded the Prajna Temple elders to earn Energy Points by buying Power of Faith and trading cultivation manuals from other sects, while Liu Yi completed his seclusion and reached the peak of the Return to Oneness Realm. Liu Yi remained in seclusion to inspect the virtual world.

• Fakong proposed forcing people to unbind the Fairness System and provide Power of Faith, but Fawu and Fachen rejected the idea as dangerous and against Buddhist principles.
• Fawu suggested buying Power of Faith and hiring worshippers with Energy Points, then proposed selling the Prajna Temple’s manuals to the System Store and trading for manuals from sects that had not bound the system.
• Fachen approved Fawu’s trading plan and ordered the temple to begin livestreaming pill refining and artifact crafting, with thirty percent of the income going to the temple.
• Liu Yi finished his seclusion at the peak of the Return to Oneness Realm and planned to perfect the Mortal Transcendence Realm Cultivation Method before undergoing tribulation.
• Liu Yi slew his mirror image on the 3,000th floor of the Trial Tower and planned to enter the virtual world to see what the system hosts had done.

Liu Yi explored the Virtual World, discovering how sects used it for business and practice, before leaving seclusion to eat. Elsewhere, Ye Chen returned to life in a corpse after his world’s destruction and called for the Slaughter System.

• Liu Yi visited Supreme Bliss City and learned from Yang Yunxi that the Hehuan Sect offered music, song, and dance performances in its Virtual World pavilion.
• Liu Yi discovered that major powers used Virtual World materials to practice refining pills and weapons and other professions without wasting real materials.
• Liu Yi left the Virtual World, ended his seclusion, and enjoyed a feast Little Yellow had prepared.
• Cultivators and system hosts defeated the berserk Demon Beasts that had surged out of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and began collecting their corpses.
• A streak of light entered a Demon Beast corpse, and Ye Chen revived in it with his cultivation lost.
• Ye Chen recalled how the Slaughter System had brought him to this world after he destroyed his own, then called out to the system.

Ye Chen learned that the Slaughter System had spent all his Slaughter Points to save him and left him with a debt exceeding ten billion, though it concealed his World Curse and healed his injuries with a Creation Pill on credit. After resurrecting in a body also named Ye Chen, he pretended to have lost his memory when Wang Zhao approached, then was stunned to hear about the Fairness System and Dao Seed Martial Dao System.

• The Slaughter System told Ye Chen it had concealed his heavenly secrets because his World Curse and karmic burden could draw the Heavenly Dao’s punishment.
• Ye Chen discovered that escaping the destroyed world, possessing a new body, and hiding his heavenly secrets had exhausted his Slaughter Points and left him ten billion in debt.
• The Slaughter System granted Ye Chen one Creation Pill on credit, and he healed his injuries and began cultivating the Wusheng Slaughter Scripture.
• Wang Zhao found Ye Chen and asked what had happened to his Divine Sea Realm cultivation, so Ye Chen pretended he had lost his memories.
• Wang Zhao explained that they had been beggars in Lin City and gained power through the Fairness System and Dao Seed Martial Dao System, leaving Ye Chen dumbstruck.

Ye Chen learned that the Fairness System was widespread and offered more functions than his Slaughter System, but he refused to bind it, suspecting it was sinister. After Wang Zhao described their world and its cultivation systems, Ye Chen concluded he could dominate it once his cultivation returned.

• Wang Zhao explained that the Fairness System could be rebound with a System Seed and described its many features, including the System Store and Monster Game World.
• Ye Chen realized the Fairness System resembled his Slaughter System, while his own system insisted it was unique and superior.
• Wang Zhao gave Ye Chen a System Seed, but Ye Chen refused to bind it and warned that relying on the Fairness System could weaken cultivators’ resolve.
• Wang Zhao rebuked Ye Chen for criticizing the Fairness System, then accepted his explanation that he would not bind it for now.
• Wang Zhao told Ye Chen about the Azure Billows Realm, its three cultivation systems, and Liu Yi, the continent’s top expert and prodigy.
• Ye Chen dismissed the realm’s low cultivation ceiling and believed he would rule it once he recovered his cultivation.

After losing his cultivation, Ye Chen refused to bind the Fairness System and remained convinced that his Slaughter System would let him surpass everyone. Seven days of cultivation and a near-starvation forced him to confront how difficult restoring his strength would be without the system’s resources.

• Ye Chen bragged to Wang Zhao that he would surpass the realm’s strongest cultivators, while Wang Zhao worried that Ye Chen had lost his mind.
• Wang Zhao brought Ye Chen to Lin City, where Ye Chen was astonished by the cultivation-based society and tried to leave a food stall without properly paying its Energy Points.
• Wang Zhao paid for Ye Chen’s roujiamo and took him home, but Ye Chen refused to bind the Fairness System, insisting he could hunt for food instead.
• Ye Chen ate, washed, and cultivated with the Wusheng Slaughter Scripture, vowing to make everyone else give up their systems once he regained his strength.
• After seven days of slow progress, Ye Chen ran out of food, cooked spirit rice, and realized that restoring his cultivation without Slaughter System resources could take an extraordinarily long time.

Ye Chen ordered the Slaughter System to find and destroy the Fairness System, agreeing to take on more debt. Liu Yi learned that a hostile system was tracking the Fairness System and launched attacks along its trail, while the Slaughter System prepared to counter them.

• Ye Chen went hunting outside Lin City and caught only one pheasant after a day of effort.
• Ye Chen persuaded the Slaughter System to locate and destroy the Fairness System, promising to pay the cost despite his existing debt.
• The Fairness System warned Liu Yi that an unknown system was tracing its true body, and Liu Yi merged his mind with the Origin System to investigate.
• Liu Yi sent a sword of karma and a sword of negative energy along the Slaughter System's tracking path.
• The Slaughter System detected the incoming attacks, reassured Ye Chen, and sent a blade of slaughter into the void to block them.

The Slaughter System protected Ye Chen from the Fairness System’s attacks but left him with a massive Slaughter Points debt. Ye Chen bargained for compensation, healed his injuries, and retreated as nearby experts were alerted by the clashes.

• The Slaughter System blocked the Sword of Negative Energy and concealed its traces, while Ye Chen was injured by the aftermath.
• Ye Chen demanded compensation, and the Slaughter System deferred his debt repayment and allowed new Slaughter Points to be spent on resources first.
• Ye Chen discovered that his debt had risen to 152.3 billion Slaughter Points and argued that the Slaughter System was responsible for the failed hunt and his near-death.
• The Slaughter System offered a Creation Pill on credit, then agreed to extend Ye Chen a credit limit of twenty million Slaughter Points after he bargained.
• Ye Chen bought and swallowed a Spring-Returning Pill, then retreated before nearby experts arrived.

Liu Yi failed to track down the Slaughter System, confirmed it had been near Lin City, and resolved to strengthen himself while monitoring for signs of it. He and Little Yellow then discovered a major battle at the Heavenly Sword Sect, where the righteous and devil factions had begun fighting in the Central Region.

• Liu Yi used the Fairness System, the Principle of Cause and Effect, and the Principle of Fate to search for the unfamiliar system, but it concealed itself; he ordered the system intelligence to monitor Lin City.
• Liu Yi concluded that the unfamiliar system was probably a Slaughter System and decided to hasten his cultivation method's refinement while continuing to comprehend the Great Dao.
• Little Yellow asked about the clash, and Liu Yi kept the dangerous being's identity secret from him.
• Liu Yi sensed a distant battle and flew with Little Yellow to observe more than fifty thousand Devil Cultivators attacking the Heavenly Sword Sect's mountain gate as righteous reinforcements arrived.
• Liu Yi concealed himself and Little Yellow while they watched the battle, and he welcomed the conflict as a way to prevent the righteous and devil factions from uniting against the Dao Seed Martial Dao System.

Gu Weixuan led the Heavenly Sword Sect’s righteous cultivators into battle against Zhao Lian’s Devil Cultivators, with both sides claiming to uphold the Fairness System’s justice. As Liu Yi watched the slaughter, Jian Lingxu killed one of the three geniuses opposing him, forcing Ding Xin and the survivor to unleash burst Secret Methods to fight back.

• Gu Weixuan rejected Zhao Lian’s accusations and led the righteous cultivators through the sect’s failing barrier to attack the Devil Cultivators.
• Zhao Lian urged his followers to uphold heaven’s justice, and the two sides clashed in a brutal battle outside the sect gates.
• Liu Yi watched the fighting with Little Yellow and observed Jian Lingxu overpowering Ding Xin and two other geniuses.
• Jian Lingxu killed one of his three opponents and turned his attack on Ding Xin and the remaining man.
• Ding Xin called on his companion to use burst Secret Methods, and both men intensified their attacks to block Jian Lingxu’s sword strikes.