Chapter Summaries

Emperor Sima Han sought a way to preserve Jin State’s rule as the Fairness System spread, and Chancellor Wu Xubai warned that resisting it would bring disaster. Sima Han invited Zheng Siqi, the Immortal Master Who Guards the State, to confront the system; Zheng bound it and was astonished by its features.

• Officials argued before Sima Han about banning, controlling, or suppressing the system, and Wu Xubai advised that it could not be stopped without risking the Jin State’s destruction.
• Wu Xubai warned that system hosts had already destroyed powerful forces, while the system had also brought inventions and increased grain yields.
• Wu Xubai proposed that Zheng Siqi challenge Liu Yi to deter the system hosts, and Sima Han left to invite Zheng.
• Sima Han explained the Fairness System to Zheng Siqi and gave him a System Seed.
• Zheng Siqi bound the system, explored its features, and marveled at its cultivation methods, communication tools, Storage Space, and Trial Tower.

Zheng Siqi accepted Sima Han’s request to challenge Liu Yi and used the system to improve his cultivation, while Liu Yi accepted the challenge after seeing it posted online. Their fight was set for three months later at Fallen Leaf Plain, where Liu Yi’s response left the confrontation ahead.

• Sima Han asked Zheng Siqi to defeat Liu Yi and curb the system hosts, and Zheng Siqi agreed to fight him in three months at Fallen Leaf Plain.
• Zheng Siqi sold cultivation methods to the System Store, spent his Energy Points on Storage Space and Dao Comprehension Space, and gained confidence that he could reach the Late Stage of the Golden Core within three months.
• Zheng Siqi ran out of Energy Points and decided to seek more by selling the Jin State imperial family’s ancient texts and asking Sima Han to help him buy points.
• Liu Yi let Little Yellow drive while he browsed the system forum and saw the Jin State’s challenge on behalf of Zheng Siqi.
• Liu Yi recorded and posted a video accepting the fight at Fallen Leaf Plain in three months.

Liu Yi completed his comprehension of the Principle of Fate after a disturbance drew him toward a battle, where he saved Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang from a Blood Devil Cultivator. He learned the cultivator had slaughtered a village to advance and set out with his companions to check for survivors.

• Liu Yi used the Principle of Cause and Effect to comprehend the Principle of Fate, then flew toward the fighting ahead with Little Yellow.
• Liu Yi rescued Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang by destroying the Blood Devil Cultivator, who regenerated once before Liu Yi burned him to ash.
• Liu Yi collected the Blood Devil Cultivation Method manual and wondered how a second copy had appeared after he buried the first.
• Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang thanked Liu Yi and explained that the Devil Cultivator had killed more than three hundred villagers for their blood.
• Liu Yi learned the Black and White Twin Swords had been selling System Seeds and headed with Little Yellow to search the village for survivors.

Liu Yi used the Blood Devil Cultivation Method manual to trace its source, glimpsed the Blood Sea and its terrifying eyes, and resolved to grow strong enough to defeat their owner. He and Little Yellow headed for the capital, where a million spectators awaited Liu Yi’s duel with Zheng Siqi and learned that Zheng had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core by buying Energy Points from Jin State’s people.

• Liu Yi and Little Yellow left after Liu Yi investigated the Blood Devil Cultivation Method, and Liu Yi used the manual with the Principles of Fate and Cause and Effect to summon a vision of the Blood Sea.
• A pair of blood-red eyes in the Blood Sea injured Liu Yi across the void and destroyed the manual, confirming that someone was deliberately spreading the cultivation method.
• Liu Yi told Little Yellow that the eyes’ owner was likely still trapped and vowed to surpass and kill him before setting off for the capital to face Zheng Siqi.
• More than a million spectators gathered at Fallen Leaf Plain for the duel, while many doubted Liu Yi would arrive and most bettors favored Zheng Siqi.
• Zheng Siqi spoke with Lin Jing and Li Yan about the contest’s importance to the imperial courts as the system spread through their states.
• Zheng Siqi revealed that he had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core by having Jin State’s emperor buy Energy Points from the people.

Liu Yi arrived at Fallen Leaf Plain just before his match with Zheng Siqi, having been delayed while studying a water ghost and comprehending the Soul Principle. He overwhelmed Zheng Siqi with a single Five Elements Palm strike, leaving himself stunned by how easily he had defeated a Late Stage Golden Core cultivator.

• Li Yan, Lin Jing, and Zheng Siqi mocked Liu Yi for failing to appear, while his allies worried that he might miss the match.
• Liu Yi arrived at Fallen Leaf Plain and explained that studying a water ghost had delayed him and helped him comprehend a trace of the Soul Principle.
• Zheng Siqi challenged Liu Yi and revealed that he had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core Realm.
• Zheng Siqi attacked with a flying sword, but Liu Yi's Five Elements Palm sent it flying and slammed Zheng Siqi into the ground.
• Liu Yi used his Divine Sense to confirm Zheng Siqi was truly suppressed, then wondered whether his opponent was weak or he was stronger than expected.

Liu Yi defeated Zheng Siqi with one Five Elements palm, proving that a martial artist could overcome a powerful immortal cultivator and shifting public confidence toward the Martial Dao. After leaving the battlefield, Liu Yi visited the Jin State capital and entered its most luxurious brothel to celebrate.

• Liu Yi defeated Zheng Siqi in one move, shocking Lin Jing and Li Yan and crushing Sima Han and the Jin State officials’ hopes.
• Su Wantang, Xu Wang, Xu Cheng'an, and the spectators celebrated Liu Yi’s victory, while Little Yellow praised him through Microchat.
• Liu Yi asked Zheng Siqi if he wanted to continue fighting, and Zheng Siqi swallowed a healing pill, admitted defeat, and flew away on his sword.
• Liu Yi concealed his appearance in the Jin State capital and saw common people discussing his victory and the changing balance of power.
• Liu Yi picked up Little Yellow and entered the capital’s most luxurious brothel to celebrate.

Three years after Liu Yi’s victory, the Immortal Ascension Conference drew an unprecedented crowd, and the major sects discovered that nearly everyone there had immortal cultivation aptitude. After confirming the results, the Heavenly Revelation Sect and other sects decided to accept all the qualified candidates.

• Liu Yi reviewed the public’s praise for his duel victory and prepared to travel in search of the Great Dao Principles and a method to break through to the next realm.
• At the Immortal Ascension Conference, Li Jie and Zheng Siqi discovered that nearly all of the roughly 100,000 attendees had immortal cultivation aptitude, including 1,000 with Heavenly Spirit Roots.
• Lin Nan consulted the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s elders, decided to accept all the candidates if the results proved genuine, and sent Lan Sheng to verify them.
• Lan Sheng retested the crowd with a new Law Artifact, confirmed all 100,000 had aptitude, and ordered Li Jie to bring them to the sect.
• Major sects across the Yue State, the Fire State, and other states also recruited everyone with immortal cultivation aptitude.

After traveling and advancing his comprehension of the Great Dao, Liu Yi explained how recruiting system hosts into immortal cultivation sects would let him obtain their manuals and spread the system from within. The plan began to succeed as the sects’ new disciples advanced rapidly, sold texts to the System Store, and revealed sect life to system users.

• Liu Yi told Little Yellow that displaying physiques had helped recruit system hosts into sects so they could sell manuals, influence sect decisions, and expand the system’s reach.
• Little Yellow worried the sects would discover and ban the system, but Liu Yi argued that hosts and immortal masters would keep it secret or embrace its benefits.
• Newly recruited hosts and returning state-protecting immortal masters secretly sold sect manuals to the System Store for Energy Points.
• System-assisted disciples rapidly reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, Foundation Establishment Realm, and Tenth Layer of Qi Refining, delighting sect leaders who overlooked suspicious signs.
• System hosts shared photos, text, and videos of their sects on the social platform, making the once-mysterious immortal cultivation sects known to other users.

Videos of sect disciples’ harsh working conditions challenged the public’s romantic image of immortal cultivation. In Empyrean City, Liu Yi met Xie Tong, traded Energy Points for Spirit Stones, and discussed how the system-driven mortal world might one day surpass the immortal cultivation world before Liu Yi spotted someone familiar below.

• A Heavenly Revelation Sect outer disciple described grueling labor for a tiny Spirit Stone fragment, and viewers reacted by comparing sect life to a sweatshop.
• Little Yellow questioned the sects’ exploitation, and Liu Yi defended his own departure from the Heavenly Revelation Sect as a choice to start a business.
• At a restaurant in Empyrean City, Xie Tong introduced himself to Liu Yi as Know-It-All and explained the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market’s trading conference.
• Liu Yi agreed to travel to the conference with Xie Tong and exchanged Energy Points for Xie Tong’s 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Xie Tong said the mortal world was changing faster than the stagnant immortal cultivation world, and Liu Yi spotted a familiar figure on the street below.

Liu Yi learned about the Fortune Secret Realm from Xie Tong and agreed to explore it with him when it opened in a month. After entering the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market, Liu Yi's spiritual perception drew his attention to a broken iron fragment at a Rogue Cultivator's stall.

• Liu Yi and Xie Tong spotted Ye Qingxue in Empyrean City, and Xie Tong described her reputation and cultivation.
• Xie Tong explained the Fortune Secret Realm and said he planned to enter it to comprehend a Great Dao Principle.
• Liu Yi agreed to explore the secret realm with Xie Tong, and they exchanged Microchat contacts.
• Liu Yi followed Xie Tong into the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market, where Little Yellow stayed close after Liu Yi warned it not to cause trouble.
• Liu Yi browsed the Rogue Cultivators' stalls and noticed a palm-sized broken iron fragment marked with black and white Dao patterns.

Liu Yi bought a mysterious scrap of iron for one Low-Grade Spirit Stone while browsing the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market with Xie Tong. He reunited with his old friend Qian Duoduo and, after hearing Ye Liang belittle him, considered helping Qian Duoduo grow strong enough to surpass Ye Liang.

• Liu Yi bargained the stall owner down from 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and bought the mysterious scrap of iron for one.
• Liu Yi spotted Qian Duoduo at a shop with Ye Qingxue and Ye Liang, then happily reunited with him after more than ten years apart.
• Xie Tong realized Liu Yi had been looking at his old friend rather than Ye Qingxue and departed.
• Ye Liang objected to Qian Duoduo leaving to speak with Liu Yi, but Ye Qingxue allowed him to go.
• Liu Yi overheard Ye Liang's contempt for Qian Duoduo and thought about helping his friend surpass him.

Liu Yi reunited with Qian Duoduo, gave him a Fairness System and one billion Energy Points, and repaid his old friend's past kindness. Qian Duoduo invited Liu Yi to the Empyrean Auction, where they planned to broaden their horizons despite Liu Yi's lack of Spirit Stones.

• Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo caught up over a meal, and Liu Yi kept the secrets of his identity and the system's creation to himself.
• Liu Yi gave Qian Duoduo a System Seed, and Qian Duoduo bound it and discovered the Fairness System's features.
• Liu Yi transferred one billion Energy Points to Qian Duoduo as repayment for the help he had given Liu Yi in the past.
• Qian Duoduo and Little Yellow added each other on Microchat, while Liu Yi wondered if the two would cause trouble together.
• Qian Duoduo chose to remain on the immortal cultivation path rather than switch to the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System.
• Qian Duoduo invited Liu Yi to the Empyrean Auction that night, and Liu Yi accepted despite having only ninety-nine Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

After leaving the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market, Liu Yi killed four Golden Core Realm Bandit Cultivators and took their spoils. In an inn in Empyrean City, he comprehended the Great Dao of Reincarnation from the mysterious iron fragment and urged Little Yellow to keep cultivating.

• Liu Yi left the market with Little Yellow and decided to wait for the Fortune Secret Realm to open rather than rob the wealthy cultivators.
• Four Bandit Cultivators ambushed Liu Yi, but he killed them with four punches and collected their Spirit Stones, medicines, pills, and flying sword.
• Little Yellow reacted to the fight, and Liu Yi warned him to cultivate harder so he could protect himself.
• Six people arrived at the scene, identified the dead as the Black Wolf Four-Person Group, and took their bodies away.
• In an inn room protected by a Five Elements Defense Formation, Liu Yi used his Divine Sense and the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix to comprehend the iron fragment's Dao patterns as the Great Dao of Reincarnation.
• Liu Yi told Little Yellow what he had comprehended and encouraged him to reach the Dao Seed Realm.

Wang Jianshan discovered that the Fairness System and the Marrow-Cleansing Nirvana Art were transforming the mortal world, and he rushed to cultivate the art to heal his own affliction. Liu Yi then traveled with Little Yellow to Fortune Mountain, where Golden Core cultivators from across the immortal cultivation world gathered to enter the Fortune Secret Realm.

• Wang Jianshan explored the capital, found the Fairness System, and was shocked by the mortal world's prosperity and Liu Yi's standing on the combat rankings.
• Wang Jianshan watched Yang Ping's account of how the Marrow-Cleansing Nirvana Art restored his injured arm, saw other users report recoveries, and hurried back to Immortal Abode Hall to cultivate it.
• Liu Yi reflected on how he had refined the Marrow-Cleansing Nirvana Art and made it available for 100 Energy Points, then woke Little Yellow and set off for Fortune Mountain.
• Liu Yi met Xie Tong at Fortune Mountain, where Xie Tong identified the sects' Holy Sons and Holy Maidens among the gathered Golden Core cultivators.
• Liu Yi waited for the Fortune Secret Realm to open and considered how the Fairness System and Artificial Heavenly Spirit Roots could challenge the privileged place of Holy Sons and Holy Maidens.

Liu Yi entered the Fortune Secret Realm, where he hunted strange beasts and discovered that refining their Principle Crystals let his World Seeds absorb Fortune Principle insights. With Little Yellow tracking more beasts, Liu Yi continued searching the vast realm for crystals and other Principle regions.

• Liu Yi followed Xie Tong through the spatial gate and began absorbing Fortune Qi and deducing the Fortune Principle.
• A strange elephant-shaped beast attacked Liu Yi, who killed it and refined its Fortune Principle Crystal to gain insights through his World Seeds.
• After searching for an hour without finding another beast, Liu Yi released Little Yellow and asked him to track their prey.
• Little Yellow led Liu Yi to a giant ox-shaped beast, which Liu Yi subdued and killed to obtain a larger Principle Crystal.
• Liu Yi refined the crystal and promised to help Little Yellow comprehend the Devouring Principle later, then followed him toward another scent.

Liu Yi comprehended the Fortune Principle, crossed into the Metal Principle region, and killed an exotic beast for its Principle Crystal. An Immortal Rosy Cloud Sect disciple attacked him to seize the crystal, and Liu Yi captured the disciple’s flying sword before confronting him.

• Liu Yi comprehended a trace of the Fortune Principle after killing five exotic beasts with Little Yellow’s help.
• Liu Yi stored Little Yellow in the Pet Space and punched a passage through the crystal wall into the Metal Principle region.
• Liu Yi sensed that he had entered the Metal Principle region and flew toward the next crystal wall.
• Liu Yi killed a Golden Core exotic beast with the Five Elements Fist and refined the Metal Principle Crystal it dropped.
• An Immortal Rosy Cloud Sect disciple demanded the crystal and attacked Liu Yi with a flying sword.
• Liu Yi captured the flying sword with Five-Colored Divine Light and insulted the disciple.

Liu Yi killed Li Lang and entered a new Principle region, where he discovered that its Wisdom Principle could greatly improve his comprehension. After refining a Wisdom Principle Crystal, he set off with Little Yellow to hunt more exotic beasts, but approaching battle sounds interrupted them.

• Liu Yi killed Li Lang, looted his treasure armor, pills, and flying sword, then entered the next Principle region.
• Liu Yi sensed that the region contained the Great Dao of Wisdom and released Little Yellow to search for exotic beasts.
• Little Yellow led Liu Yi to a fleeing goat-shaped exotic beast, which Liu Yi killed and refined into a Wisdom Principle Crystal.
• Liu Yi briefly experienced improved comprehension from the crystal and set out with Little Yellow to find another beast.
• Liu Yi and Little Yellow heard the sounds of battle drawing closer.

Liu Yi killed Bai Li after recognizing that she intended to use him as a scapegoat, then defeated the twelve exotic beasts and refined their Wisdom Principle Crystals. After comprehending the Great Dao of Wisdom, he prepared to seek another Principle region, while the Pure Void Sect sent Zheng Ming to Fortune Mountain to find Bai Li's killer.

• Bai Li fled from twelve exotic beasts and asked Liu Yi for help, but Liu Yi killed her when he saw through her scheme.
• Liu Yi used Bai Li's spirit sword to kill the twelve exotic beasts and collected their Wisdom Principle Crystals.
• Liu Yi took Little Yellow away from the battlefield and formed a Five Elements Defense Formation while he refined the crystals.
• Liu Yi comprehended the Great Dao of Wisdom, and Little Yellow's intelligence improved while he stood guard.
• Liu Yi decided to head for another Principle region, while the Pure Void Sect dispatched Zheng Ming to Fortune Mountain to track down Bai Li's killer.

Liu Yi guarded Little Yellow as he refined Devouring Principle Crystals and began breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm. When more than a hundred members of a strange faction arrived and demanded his treasures, Liu Yi attacked them to protect Little Yellow’s breakthrough.

• Liu Yi killed an exotic beast, and Little Yellow collected its Devouring Principle Crystal, bringing his total to thirteen.
• Liu Yi found a safe place for Little Yellow to refine the crystals and set up a Five Elements Defense Formation while standing guard.
• Little Yellow’s comprehension of the Devouring Principle formed a black hole that devoured Spiritual Qi as he began breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm.
• Liu Yi spotted over a hundred gold-and-red-robed cultivators approaching and asked them to leave so they would not disturb Little Yellow.
• Zhao Hu demanded Liu Yi offer his treasures to God, and Liu Yi killed Zhao Hu and fifteen other cultivators with his spirit sword.
• A charlatan unleashed a lightning Law Technique, and Liu Yi dodged the attacks and charged at the crowd.

Liu Yi defeated a Divine Kingdom apparition and killed the divine charlatans who summoned it before returning to Little Yellow, who had broken through to the Dao Seed Realm. They entered the Passion and Desire Principle region, where Liu Yi learned that no exotic beasts seemed to be nearby.

• Liu Yi killed the divine charlatans and destroyed their summoned god apparition, then searched their bodies and flew back to the Five Elements Defense Formation.
• Little Yellow announced that he had reached the Dao Seed Realm and comprehended the Devouring Principle, and Liu Yi scolded him for his jinxed boast before sending him into the pet space.
• Liu Yi crossed through the crystal wall into the Passion and Desire Principle region and recognized that its Spiritual Qi amplified emotions and desires.
• Liu Yi released Little Yellow, warned him to guard his mind, and learned that the dog could not detect any exotic beasts nearby.
• Liu Yi suggested that they search elsewhere for a clue.