Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi reconsidered whether Xie Tong, Ye Xuanxiao, and Su Yaoguang were secretly powerful figures, but the system intelligence found nothing unusual about them. He prepared for his upcoming Dao lecture by summoning his Past Self and Future Self, then created a vast, test-filled lecture space where the system hosts began climbing toward the seats.

• Liu Yi asked the system intelligence about Xie Tong, Ye Xuanxiao, and Su Yaoguang, and it reported that they showed no unusual behavior after binding to the system.
• Liu Yi decided to stop worrying about whether the three were hiding their strength and summoned his Past Self and Future Self to help comprehend the Great Daos and prepare for his breakthrough.
• Liu Yi surveyed the City of Exile and opened a vast space above the ruins of Heavenly Pillar Peak for his Dao lecture.
• Liu Yi formed tiered steps and a central lecturing platform, adding tests that listeners had to pass as they climbed.
• The system hosts entered the lecture space and hurried to climb the steps in hopes of securing seats near Liu Yi.

Wusheng arrived in the Land of Exile to hear Liu Yi preach and began the test for the preaching space, while Liu Yi briefly left to eat. At a restaurant, Liu Yi reunited with Zhao Jiuxiao and repaid an old debt before departing, leaving their past grievances settled.

• Wusheng entered the preaching space and climbed the test steps, while Liu Yi approved of his strength and resolve.
• Liu Yi concealed his identity and went to a restaurant, where he recognized Zhao Jiuxiao and sat at his table.
• Liu Yi revealed himself and explained that he had come to repay the fifty Spirit Stone fragments Zhao Jiuxiao had once lent him.
• Liu Yi gave Zhao Jiuxiao five hundred supreme-grade Spirit Stones as repayment with interest, and Zhao Jiuxiao accepted them.
• Liu Yi departed, and Zhao Jiuxiao reflected on how their fortunes had diverged before letting go of their old debt and grudges.

System hosts rushed to claim front-row seats at Liu Yi’s lecture in the City of Exile, where Jian Lingxu, Xuankong, and Yue Ji encountered one another. Their reunion grew more awkward when Zixiao arrived, leaving everyone uncertain how to face the others as they waited for the lecture to begin.

• System hosts crowded into the lecture space, and Jian Lingxu secured a front-row seat before Xuankong and Yue Ji arrived.
• Jian Lingxu and Xuankong recognized each other and privately grumbled about their bad luck at meeting again.
• Jian Lingxu and Xuankong realized that Yue Ji, the former Grand Yin King, had abandoned her Immortal King cultivation and begun anew in the Dao Seed Martial Dao System.
• Yue Ji hinted that Jian Lingxu resembled an old acquaintance, while Jian Lingxu denied it and Xuankong realized she had noticed his own reincarnation.
• Zixiao reached the front row and recognized Jian Lingxu and Yue Ji, but his past setbacks left him too embarrassed to mock them.

Zixiao reunited with Yue Ji, Jian Lingxu, and Xuankong at the sermon without revealing their past identities, then listened as Dao Ancestor Liu Yi delivered a grand sermon on the Dao Seed Martial Dao System. As Liu Yi comprehended the gathering’s manifested Great Daos, he discovered countless figures from different eras spying on the sermon through the Long River of Time.

• Zixiao greeted Yue Ji, Jian Lingxu, and Xuankong as though they were strangers, and they returned the pretense while recognizing his talent.
• Zixiao praised Yue Ji for abandoning her Immortal King cultivation to adopt the Dao Seed Martial Dao System, then sat down to wait for the sermon.
• After a month, Liu Yi arrived on a nine-colored Great Dao amid spectacular heavenly phenomena, impressing Qian Duoduo, Little Yellow, Yue Ji, Chen Jie, and Lin Feng.
• Liu Yi surveyed the approximately 113.7 billion system hosts, noticed four reincarnated experts from High Antiquity, and began teaching the Dao Seed Martial Dao System.
• The attendees and livestream viewers manifested their Great Daos as Liu Yi used the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix and his Past and Future Selves to comprehend them, advancing several principles to the Great Chiliocosm level.
• Liu Yi sensed a disturbance in the Long River of Time and saw countless figures from other eras secretly watching his sermon.

Liu Yi interpreted Bai Qianqian’s warning from across time as a sign of future disaster and resolved to grow stronger. After ending his sermon by urging cultivators to create new methods, he gained 616 Great Dao Principles and was left only twenty-three short of completing all three thousand at the Great Chiliocosm level.

• Liu Yi saw Bai Qianqian and others in the Long River of Time, could not hear her warning, and told her he understood and would be fine.
• Liu Yi assessed Ye Qingxue, Chen Jie, Jian Lingxu, and other cultivators who were forging paths beyond established systems.
• Liu Yi’s year-long sermon helped listeners advance their cultivation, and he urged them to create new methods and expand the boundaries of cultivation systems.
• Liu Yi gained 616 Great Dao Principles, leaving him twenty-three short of collecting all three thousand at the Great Chiliocosm level.
• After listeners asked Liu Yi to accept them as disciples, he told them to rise, ended the sermon, and vanished from the preaching platform.

Liu Yi broke through to the Middle Stage of the Martial Lord Realm, then advanced the Xuanyi World into a Great Chiliocosm. After consolidating his timelines and testing his new strength, he began deducing Martial Lord cultivation methods and Fairness System version 14.0.

• Liu Yi used World Origin, Innate Purple Heart Lotus seeds, and Soul Power to transform his Mind World into an immortal divine soul and break through to the Middle Stage of the Martial Lord Realm.
• Liu Yi advanced the Xuanyi World into a Great Chiliocosm with the Great Dao Jade Disc, while the Monster Game World began advancing toward a Small Chiliocosm.
• Liu Yi surveyed the Xuanyi World, stopped natural disasters caused by its advancement, and copied its Great Dao Principles into his internal world.
• Liu Yi's past and future selves concealed their cultivation and returned to the River of Time to consolidate timelines.
• Liu Yi defeated his mirror image on the 3,000th floor of the Trial Tower, then began deducing Martial Lord cultivation methods and Fairness System version 14.0.

After breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, Li Ping learned that the Monster Game World had become a Small Chiliocosm and discovered that his new Beast Taming Talent could control monsters. He secretly gathered a horde and camped a spawn point, where he watched system hosts prepare to fight while collecting Emotion Points.

• Li Ping broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, awakened a Beast Taming Talent, and learned from the Divine Beast Evolution System that the Monster Game World had advanced into a Small Chiliocosm.
• After being teleported to a new area, Li Ping subdued a stronger monster with his talent and decided to recruit monsters secretly to target system hosts.
• Li Ping built up a large monster horde, and system hosts discussed the strange monster tide and its suspected King of Monsters on the forum.
• Li Ping directed his horde to camp outside a Spirit Transformation Realm spawn point as system hosts gathered to attack the monsters.
• Li Ping hid nearby and collected Emotion Points while the two sides faced off, just before the battle began.

Li Ping secretly used monsters to attack Fairness System hosts, collected Emotion Points, and escaped before the monsters were wiped out. Meanwhile, Wang Qiang reached the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining and learned that two new members had joined the All Heavens Chat Group.

• System hosts fought the monster horde at the Spirit Transformation Realm spawning ground, while Li Ping watched from hiding and harvested Emotion Points.
• Li Ping silenced the system notifications, pressed the Divine Beast Evolution System to make faster progress, and kept directing the monsters to attack.
• As reinforcements gave the hosts the advantage, Li Ping slipped away while the monsters continued fighting; the hosts later searched for the elusive monster king without finding him.
• Wang Qiang broke through to the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining and drank the fizzy happy water Chen Yan had given him.
• Wang Qiang received a notification that two new members had joined the All Heavens Chat Group and anticipated access to more resources.

Wang Qiang welcomed new members to the All Heavens Chat Group and recognized Fengyun Wuji from the novel Ascension, giving him a chance to learn about his future and seek ways to change it. Wang Qiang and Chen Yan then identified the silent Han Paopao as Han Li, who admitted his identity to the group.

• Wang Qiang noticed the new members Human Race Supreme and Han Paopao, while the group welcomed them and Human Race Supreme introduced himself as Fengyun Wuji.
• Wang Qiang recognized Fengyun Wuji as the protagonist of Ascension and uploaded the novel to the group share.
• Fengyun Wuji read Ascension, learned what awaited him and the Human Race, and resolved to use the group's resources to change their fate.
• Chen Yan explained how Fengyun Wuji could earn points and trade in the group shop, while other members praised him as Human Race Supreme.
• Wang Qiang and Chen Yan suspected the silent Han Paopao was Han Li from A Mortal, and Han Li admitted that they were right.

Wang Qiang welcomed Han Li to the All Heavens Chat Group and uploaded a novel about his future, while Liu Yi completed Fairness System 14.0 and tested its new subsystems. The update introduced stronger energy generation, resurrection, and healing functions as Liu Yi prepared to make them available to system hosts.

• Wang Qiang welcomed Han Li to the All Heavens Chat Group and uploaded "A Mortal" for him to read.
• Liu Yi decided to keep his Martial Lord Realm cultivation methods out of the System Store to avoid revealing his strength to hostile forces.
• Liu Yi tested spiritual light-based and world-based subsystems in the City of Exile, finding that world-based subsystems generated far more Energy Points.
• Liu Yi added Second Life, which preserved a host's soul and flesh for resurrection, and Life Creation, which healed injuries and removed hidden wounds.

After updating the Fairness System and reviewing hosts’ reactions to its new life-preserving functions, Liu Yi prepared to cultivate and strengthen his inner worlds. He set all 129,600 worlds advancing into Great Chiliocosms, keeping them far from the Mysterious Firmament Realm as he anticipated a future crisis.

• Liu Yi announced the Fairness System version 14.0 update to all system hosts and added the Portable Daoist Sanctum subsystem to his sanctum as a subsidiary world.
• Liu Yi visited a brothel, where he relaxed with massages and observed how much its attendants’ cultivation had improved.
• Liu Yi checked TikTok and saw hosts praise the update’s Second Life and Life Creation functions, while noting Second Life’s monthly cost of twenty thousand Energy Points.
• Liu Yi returned to his bedroom and resolved to cultivate quickly after recalling Bai Qianqian’s warning about possible future danger.
• Liu Yi inspected his 129,600 inner worlds, found them desolate despite their Great Dao Principles and accumulated World Origin, and chose to let life arise naturally.
• Liu Yi confirmed the worlds were isolated from nearby worlds and the Mysterious Firmament Realm, then coordinated with his soul avatars to advance them all.

Liu Yi advanced his inner worlds and cultivation, then sent his Past Self upstream to gather the Land of Exile’s remaining past timelines and investigate its history. At the source of the Long River of Time, the Past Self witnessed the Mysterious Firmament Realm collide with the Myriad Devils Realm before a force of time engulfed him and made him vanish.

• Liu Yi’s inner worlds advanced into Great Chiliocosms, nurturing Innate Gods and Devils and improving his Law Treasures into Low-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures.
• The returning world power expanded Liu Yi’s Cell Worlds and advanced his cultivation to the Late Stage of the Martial Lord Realm.
• Liu Yi refined World Origin while using the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix to deduce a path to the Martial Emperor Realm and comprehend the Land of Exile’s Great Dao Principles.
• Liu Yi’s Past Self gathered the remaining past timelines of the Land of Exile and set out to investigate past Devil Lords and the ferocious beast king.
• The Past Self discovered that the ferocious beast king repeatedly escaped disaster, then continued upstream to the source of the Long River of Time.
• At the Land of Exile’s birth, the Past Self saw the Mysterious Firmament Realm collide with the Myriad Devils Realm, and a surge of time swallowed him.

Time turbulence swept Liu Yi’s past self into the Azure Billows Realm during High Antiquity, where he chose to hide and cultivate rather than interfere with the Devil Race invasion. The experience sent cultivation insights to his other selves, while the Nether Devil Lord located a place in the Mysterious Firmament Realm.

• Time turbulence carried Liu Yi’s past self into the High Antiquity Azure Billows Realm, where the Devil Race had begun its invasion and two Devil Lords secretly confronted Cang Hong.
• Liu Yi’s past self decided to remain hidden, avoid new karmic ties, and cultivate in seclusion in a cave protected by a Five Elements Defense Formation.
• Liu Yi’s true self reconnected with his past self and received his cultivation insights, then used World Origin and the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix to advance his cultivation.
• Liu Yi’s future self withdrew from the river of time to avoid detection and entered the Xuanyi World to digest the incoming insights at its faster time flow.
• Liu Yi’s future self set aside his attempt to control the future timeline, while the Nether Devil Lord found a place in the endless void of the Mysterious Firmament Realm.

The Nether Devil Lord warned the Black Abyss Devil Lord that the Devil Race had lost the Land of Exile and learned that Lord Blood God was sealed in the Azure Billows Realm. There, Liu Yi saw the Devil Race overwhelming the realm and resolved to fight, seeking the Heavenly Dao’s power before confronting the Blood God.

• The Nether Devil Lord entered the Devil Race’s hidden base and told the Black Abyss Devil Lord that an astonishing prodigy had defeated him and the Land of Exile had fallen.
• The Black Abyss Devil Lord revealed that Lord Blood God had survived and was sealed in the unknown Azure Billows Realm, then arranged an investigation while the Nether Devil Lord went to heal.
• After several thousand years of secluded cultivation, Liu Yi reached the Half-Step Martial Emperor Realm, but an invasion shook his cave abode.
• Liu Yi saw the Devil Race ravaging the Azure Billows Realm, Yue Ji besieged by Devil Kings, and Cang Hong fighting three Devil Lords while the Blood God confronted the Eye of the Heavenly Dao.
• Liu Yi decided he could not stand by while the realm’s people were slaughtered, and resolved to fight the Blood God despite the danger.
• Before joining the battle, Liu Yi tried to communicate with the Azure Billows Realm’s Heavenly Dao to borrow its power and strengthen himself.

Liu Yi borrowed the Azure Billows Realm Heavenly Dao’s power, became its spokesman, and arrived on the battlefield to rescue Yue Ji and confront the Devil Race. He battled the Blood God in an Immortal Emperor-level clash that devastated the surrounding world.

• Liu Yi accepted the Heavenly Dao’s power and refined the sword and immortal tower it sent him.
• Liu Yi killed the three Devil Kings attacking Yue Ji, healed her with the Heaven and Earth Creation Technique, and sent her away.
• Liu Yi destroyed many devils and then slew three Devil Lords who were besieging Cang Hong, though they managed to recover from their injuries.
• The Blood God attacked Liu Yi, and Liu Yi met his strike with his sword before declaring he would slay the Demon Emperor.
• Liu Yi and the Blood God exchanged Immortal Emperor-level attacks, shattering the void and disrupting the Long River of Time as the Canglan Continent shook and sank.

Liu Yi battled the Blood God across the Azure Billows Realm while Cang Hong fought the three Devil Lords and rejected their offer to join the Myriad Devils Realm. The Blood God grew alarmed by Liu Yi’s unexplained power, but Liu Yi refused to flee and continued attacking.

• Liu Yi and the Blood God clashed across the heavens, the Canglan Continent, and the Netherworld, while their attacks devastated the realm and killed countless beings.
• Cang Hong drove back the three wounded Devil Lords and tried to seal them, but they attempted to sway him with promises of power and urged him to flee.
• Cang Hong rejected the Devil Lords’ offer, affirmed his resolve to defend the Azure Billows Realm, and recognized that its survival depended on Liu Yi defeating the Blood God.
• The Blood God wondered why Liu Yi showed no sign of backlash and suspected he might come from another spacetime, then tried to persuade him to leave.
• Liu Yi rejected the Blood God’s offer and charged again with his divine sword.

Liu Yi unleashed the karmic backlash and his full power to defeat the Blood God, then sealed it inside the World in the Palm. The survivors celebrated while the remaining devils fled, leaving the Azure Billows Realm devastated but no longer under the Blood God’s immediate threat.

• Liu Yi realized the Heavenly Dao’s support was fading and karmic backlash was destroying him, so he resolved to fight without restraint.
• Liu Yi unleashed a Heaven-Opening sword strike that blasted the Blood God apart and split Canglan Continent into eight continents.
• Liu Yi captured the remaining sea of blood in the World in the Palm and sealed the Blood God with the Great Dao Seal.
• The survivors cheered Liu Yi’s victory, while the devils panicked and argued over whether to attack or escape.
• The devil army fled, hoping to find another Demon Emperor to rescue the Blood God.

Liu Yi sealed the Blood God and the surviving Devil Race forces, then restored the Azure Billows Realm’s space and reincarnation. As the karmic backlash threatened to destroy him, he joined forces with the Heavenly Dao to move the realm away from danger.

• Liu Yi strengthened the Blood God’s seal, captured the three Devil Lords and surviving Devil Kings, and used their Great Dao origins to reinforce the imprisonments.
• Liu Yi deduced and laid down the Heaven-Sealing Forbidden Land Grand Formation, then added protective formations to guard the seals against outside interference.
• Liu Yi spared Immortal King Fenjin and surveyed the devastating damage to the Azure Billows Realm, noting that the battle and the Heavenly Dao’s burden would bring an Age of Dharma Decline.
• Liu Yi erased the remaining Emperor Dao Principles, repaired the spatial rifts, reforged the Wheel of Samsara, and restored the Netherworld’s Reincarnation Principles.
• Liu Yi sensed that karmic backlash was close to shattering his Dao Body and proposed moving the Azure Billows Realm away with the Heavenly Dao, which agreed.

Liu Yi moved the weakened Azure Billows Realm to a hidden location, arranged safeguards and a way to restore its fallen cultivators, and created the future Immortal-Devil Secret Realm and Fortune Secret Realm. After reflecting on what he had gained and the karmic backlash he had incurred, his body shattered, and the survivors mourned and thanked him.

• Liu Yi moved the Azure Billows Realm to a remote location, concealed it with a barrier, and told Cang Hong to guard the Heaven-Sealing Forbidden Land Grand Formation and prepare for its activation in a hundred years.
• Liu Yi opened a Grotto-Heaven World in the Eastern Desolation and used a Soul-Summoning Spirit-Nurturing Grand Formation to try to revive fallen cultivators with the remains and survivors of the Devil Race and Devil Beasts.
• Liu Yi created the Fortune Secret Realm and recognized the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm as a consequence of his arrangements.
• Liu Yi reflected on his gains from returning to High Antiquity and said he had no regrets about defeating the Devil Race and suppressing the Blood God.
• Liu Yi's body shattered under the karmic backlash, and Cang Hong, the Immortal Kings, and the other survivors bowed and thanked him.

Liu Yi absorbed the Great Dao insights of his Past Self, reached the Quasi-Martial Emperor Realm, and began advancing his Cell Worlds into Small Chiliocosms. As Cang Hong discovered that Liu Yi might have survived the karmic backlash, a vast phenomenon erupted in the Immortal-Devil Cemetery.

• Liu Yi reflected on his Past Self’s death in High Antiquity and resolved to advance his Cell Worlds before becoming a Martial Emperor.
• Liu Yi consumed World Origin from the Xuanyi World and converted Energy Points to help his Cell Worlds advance into Small Chiliocosms.
• The cultivators who survived from High Antiquity received memories identifying the mysterious figure who fought the Blood God as Liu Yi.
• Cang Hong entered the Long River of Time to resurrect Liu Yi but found his figure obscured by karma and concluded that Liu Yi might still be alive.
• In the Immortal-Devil Cemetery, the fall of Liu Yi’s Past Self triggered the emergence of countless immortal and devil remnants.