Chapter Summaries

After Qian Duoduo defeated Ye Liang, system hosts sought to emulate him, and the Heavenly Revelation Sect named him candidate Holy Son. Liu Yi then sensed Little Yellow breaking through to the Dao Image Realm.

• Qian Duoduo told Liu Yi that he was proud of defeating Ye Liang but planned to keep cultivating and avoid the risks of being Holy Son.
• Inspired by Qian Duoduo, Chen Lin and Chen Fan decided to promote the system in the mortal world to earn Energy Points.
• Lin Nan and the elders debated Qian Duoduo's appointment, then made him candidate Holy Son while Ye Liang remained Holy Son.
• Zheng Siqi vowed to defeat Ye Liang and claim the candidate Holy Son position, while Qian Duoduo celebrated his appointment with Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi sensed Little Yellow devouring Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and realized it had broken through to the Dao Image Realm.

Liu Yi lifted Little Yellow’s restrictions on competing in the Combat Power Ranking and entering the Monster Game World, then discovered that the newly uploaded Artifact Cultivation System came from Chen Jie, a reborn powerhouse from the Heavenly Artifact Realm. Realizing how many unusual talents were emerging across the Azure Billows Realm, Liu Yi wondered how many more might exist.

• Little Yellow celebrated reaching the Dao Image Realm, and Liu Yi revealed that he had advanced to the Divine Acupoint Realm and that Qian Duoduo had defeated Ye Liang to become a candidate holy son of the Heavenly Revelation Sect.
• Liu Yi agreed to let Little Yellow compete for the Combat Power Ranking and enter the Monster Game World, but required him to rank in every realm and concealed his identity as a dog.
• Liu Yi found the Artifact Cultivation System in the System Store and considered using its methods to develop cultivation techniques for special physiques.
• Chen Jie sold his Artifact Cultivation System methods to the System Store for 8.5 billion Energy Points and vowed to regain his former strength and avenge himself on Wang Li.
• Liu Yi traced the system upload to Chen Jie and realized that the Eastern Desolation contained two transmigrators and a Child of Fortune, while the system was making competition among geniuses increasingly fierce.

Liu Yi retaliated against the Temple of the God of Light by destroying temples across the Divine Kingdom and killing its cultivators. After the God of Light descended into the world, Liu Yi fought Cao Yong and eight Void Return Realm cultivators, killing all eight before continuing his battle with Cao Yong.

• Liu Yi and Little Yellow destroyed the Temple of the God of Light in Mystic Spirit City, purified its Power of Faith, smashed its statue, and distributed its treasury to the people.
• Liu Yi destroyed 107 temples and sent the purified negative energy through the faith channel to the God of Light, while confirming indirectly that the God of Light could not descend.
• Jiang Hao contacted the God of Light, who descended in a small statue and was received at the God of Light's Mountain.
• Liu Yi destroyed 55 more temples, then fled from Radiant City after sensing danger and drew Cao Yong and eight Void Return Realm cultivators toward an uninhabited wilderness.
• Liu Yi wounded Cao Yong with the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability and killed all eight Void Return Realm cultivators with successive attacks.
• Liu Yi and Cao Yong clashed with swords and sabers, shaking the wilderness as their fight continued.

Liu Yi fought Cao Yong in a fierce battle that shattered the surrounding space, and both men suffered grave injuries. Cao Yong summoned the God of Light’s clone into his body, leaving Liu Yi to assess the descended power and prepare to test it.

• Liu Yi used the Chaos Azure Lotus, the Cauldron of Creation, and the Heaven-Opening Sword to fend off Cao Yong’s Thousand-Saber Shadow Splitting attack.
• Cao Yong achieved Unity of Man and Saber and struck Liu Yi with a ten-thousand-meter giant saber, while Liu Yi countered with the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability.
• The collision opened a vast spatial fissure that shattered Liu Yi’s protective barriers and wounded him, while Cao Yong lost a hand and a leg and suffered severe injuries.
• Liu Yi healed himself and replenished his True Power with a drop of World Origin from Xuanyi World.
• Cao Yong awakened the God of Light’s clone through a statue, and the clone possessed his body, healing his injuries and regrowing his limbs.
• Liu Yi sensed that the clone’s strength was within his ability to handle and chose to test it rather than flee.

Liu Yi confronted the God of Light over his contempt for mortals and the suffering of the Divine Kingdom, then attacked him with the Heaven-Opening Sword. Liu Yi wounded the god by combining the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability with the Space Principle, and the God of Light summoned his kingdom to counter Liu Yi’s next strike.

• The God of Light took control of Cao Yong’s recovered body and threatened to punish Liu Yi for offending him.
• Liu Yi condemned the God of Light and the Temple of the God of Light for exploiting the people, then vowed to slay the god.
• Liu Yi’s Heaven-Opening Sword light clashed with the God of Light’s colossal divine hand, shattering space and the surrounding mountains.
• Liu Yi combined the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability with the Space Principle to send his sword through spatial rifts, break the God of Light’s shield, and wound him.
• Liu Yi launched another spatially enhanced sword attack, and the God of Light summoned his kingdom and sent golden lightning toward it.

Liu Yi perfected a new Heaven-Opening Divine Ability and destroyed the God of Light’s clone, then struck the God of Light’s Kingdom and suspected the god was unable or afraid to descend to the mortal world. He decided to attack the Temple of the God of Light, but a spatial teleportation appeared before him as he left the battlefield.

• Liu Yi merged the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability with the Space Principle while battling the God of Light’s clone through a spatial rift.
• The God of Light formed a thirty-thousand-meter dharma body and entered the rift, but Liu Yi’s perfected sword technique destroyed the dharma body, the clone, and Cao Yong.
• Liu Yi taunted the God of Light and struck his Kingdom with a Heaven-Opening Sword beam guided by the Principle of Fate and the Principle of Cause and Effect.
• Liu Yi suspected the God of Light could not leave his Kingdom and resolved to destroy the Temple of the God of Light to cut off his Power of Faith.
• Liu Yi fashioned Creation Battle Armor from the Great Dao of the World and the World Origin, then set out for the God of Light’s Mountain.
• A spatial teleportation formed in front of Liu Yi as he left the battlefield, and he realized he had been set up.

Liu Yi was forcibly brought to Yue Ji’s grotto-heaven, where they spoke over food and music and discovered an unexplained sense of familiarity between them. Yue Ji revealed that the Azure Billows Realm was sealed as a prison after the war of High Antiquity, leaving Liu Yi asking whether the seal also caused the outside world’s dwindling Spiritual Qi.

• Liu Yi emerged in Yue Ji’s grotto-heaven and prepared to fight, but she explained that she had brought him there to talk.
• Liu Yi verified that he could still reach the Xuanyi World, then put away his weapons while remaining wary of Yue Ji.
• Yue Ji said she felt she and Liu Yi had shared a deep connection in the past, though Liu Yi insisted they had never met.
• Liu Yi and Yue Ji shared wine and Spirit Cuisine, discussed the Great Dao, and Yue Ji wondered whether Liu Yi was an Immortal King’s reincarnation.
• Yue Ji explained that a sealing restriction trapped her and suppressed True Immortal power because the Azure Billows Realm had become a prison for terrifying existences.
• Yue Ji linked the prison possibly to the war of High Antiquity, and Liu Yi asked whether the seal was also thinning Spiritual Qi outside.

Yue Ji revealed secrets about the Azure Billows Realm and warned Liu Yi about heavenly tribulations and his Innate Law Treasures before he returned to the battlefield and set out to destroy the Temple of the God of Light. Meanwhile, Su Wantang prepared to kill Zhao An and wipe out the Wang Household to prove her Dao, and her attack drew an angry challenge from within the residence.

• Yue Ji told Liu Yi that the Azure Billows Realm was recovering from the ancient war, warned him that outside tribulations were far stronger, and cautioned him to conceal his Innate Law Treasures.
• Yue Ji gave Liu Yi a single-use Law Treasure, and Liu Yi left the grotto-heaven resolved to destroy the Temple of the God of Light.
• Liu Yi released Little Yellow, recounted what had happened, and declared that they would attack the temple's remaining cities before striking its headquarters.
• Su Wantang dressed in a red wedding robe and resolved to kill Zhao An and advance from the Dao Seed Realm to the Dao Image Realm.
• Su Wantang sealed the Wang Household's residence with a formation, summoned a thirteen-stringed zither, and began playing a tune to kill its inhabitants.
• Someone inside the Wang Household shouted angrily and demanded to know who was attacking.

Su Wantang destroyed the Wang Household and avenged her father by forcing Wang Wan to kill Zhao An before the spell killed them both. After completing her revenge, she broke through to the Dao Image Realm and realized she needed a new anchor for cultivating the Great Dao of Lust.

• Su Wantang used her zither to drive the Wang Household into madness and kill most of its members, including the patriarch.
• Su Wantang revealed how Zhao An had betrayed her, killed her father, and stolen her Spirit Root, then shattered Zhao An’s Golden Core.
• Su Wantang bound Zhao An and ordered Wang Wan to kill him; after Wang Wan struck him down, the sound threads destroyed Zhao An and Wang Wan.
• Su Wantang mourned her father’s death, cast off her wedding dress, and declared that she would live only as Su Wantang.
• Su Wantang broke through to the Dao Image Realm, manifesting a thirteen-stringed zither, and recognized that she needed a new anchor for her cultivation.

Liu Yi attacked the God of Light's Mountain with the Chaos Yin-Yang Five Elements Mote Formation and destroyed the temple after breaking its protective barrier. As Jiang Hao and the surviving cultivators prayed for help, the God of Light's Kingdom began to appear above the mountain, leaving Little Yellow worried that the God of Light would intervene.

• Liu Yi reassured Little Yellow that he had a plan, then flew to the summit and formed a barrier around the temple with 372 formation flags.
• Jiang Hao ordered Li Yu to replenish the temple's protective formation with Faith Crystals, but Liu Yi intensified his formation's attacks and shattered the barrier.
• Liu Yi's attacks killed temple cultivators and destroyed the Temple of the God of Light, while the statue of the God of Light barely held back the destruction.
• Jiang Hao ordered the surviving cultivators to pray, and their Power of Faith reached the God of Light through the statue.
• The God of Light's Kingdom began appearing over the mountain as people in Light City prayed, and Little Yellow feared the God of Light would intervene personally.

Liu Yi attacked the God of Light’s Kingdom with repeated Heaven-Opening Sword Lights, preventing the God of Light from striking back until he launched a desperate counterattack. After Liu Yi met it head-on, the injured God of Light fled, leaving Liu Yi to recover while the formation continued slaughtering the temple’s cultivators.

• Liu Yi used his Heaven-Opening Sword and Law Treasures to break into the God of Light’s Kingdom and repeatedly attack the God of Light.
• Liu Yi cut apart a spatial gate as it appeared, then continued assaulting the kingdom while the people of Light City watched their faith begin to waver.
• The God of Light unleashed a massive pillar of divine light, and Liu Yi countered it with a powerful Heaven-Opening Sword Light.
• Liu Yi struck the dimming kingdom again, forcing the God of Light to flee as he threatened to imprison Liu Yi’s soul.
• Liu Yi mocked the fleeing God of Light, then regulated his breathing and continued controlling the formation to kill the temple’s cultivators.

Liu Yi drove off the God of Light and continued attacking the survivors trapped in his formation, while Jiang Hao revealed that the god had corrupted the Temple’s cultivation method and was secretly draining his followers. Jiang Hao sacrificed three cultivators to seize their power and approach the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, leaving Liu Yi to confront him behind the Light Divine Shield.

• The God of Light fled from Liu Yi, causing the people of Light City to lose faith and some to die by suicide or despair.
• Liu Yi told the formation’s survivors that their god had fled, then intensified the attacks that had already killed most of them.
• Jiang Hao enclosed himself and the remaining cultivators in the Light Divine Shield and drained the spiritual power of Li Yu and two other cultivators.
• Jiang Hao revealed that the God of Light had tampered with the Temple’s cultivation method to use its followers as food, and admitted he had secretly altered the method while plotting to take the god’s place.
• As Jiang Hao’s power surged toward the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Liu Yi unleashed the formation’s full power, but the Light Divine Shield held against the assault.

Liu Yi trapped Jiang Hao and three Void Return Realm cultivators inside the Chaos Yin-Yang Five Elements Mote Formation, taking the Light Divine Shield and wearing down Jiang Hao through repeated attacks. After bringing out his Light Dharma Body and failing to escape, Jiang Hao unleashed a secret technique and launched a massive sword strike at the next mote world.

• Liu Yi rejected Jiang Hao’s offer to join forces and used the formation to break the Light Divine Shield, which he took into his Storage Space.
• Jiang Hao abandoned his attempted breakthrough and threw three Void Return Realm cultivators into the formation’s attacks, then used the Light Divine Sword to break free of a cracked mote world.
• Jiang Hao was battered by the collapsing mote world and the formation’s attacks, so he brought out his Light Dharma Body to defend himself and strike back.
• After Jiang Hao shattered eight mote worlds, his divine light dimmed and despair briefly overtook him.
• Jiang Hao used a secret technique to multiply his presence and unleashed a thirty-thousand-meter sword ray at the next mote world.

Liu Yi defeated Jiang Hao inside the Chaos Yin-Yang Five Elements Mote Formation and destroyed the Temple of the God of Light. After declaring the temple’s destruction to Light City, he saw that its people were divided between mourning the temple and welcoming its fall, and considered how this could help him spread the system.

• Jiang Hao shattered 101 mote worlds to attack Liu Yi, but the resulting world-ending power battered Jiang Hao and his Dharma Body instead.
• Liu Yi restored the mote worlds and continued attacking; Jiang Hao offered submission and secrets about the God of Light, but Liu Yi refused to spare him.
• After two hours of fighting, Jiang Hao destroyed his treasures, the Light Divine Sword and Armor, and his own Primordial Spirit to prevent Liu Yi from capturing or searching him.
• Liu Yi dismissed the formation, stored its flags, and carved “Those who disrupt harmony, I shall strike down” into the mountain before announcing that the Temple of the God of Light was destroyed.
• Little Yellow celebrated Liu Yi’s victory as people in Light City mourned the temple or rejoiced at its fall.
• Liu Yi observed the divided reactions and concluded that the number of people who welcomed the temple’s disappearance could help him spread the system.

After defeating the God of Light, Liu Yi settled on the mountain and told Bai Qianqian about his victory. Meanwhile, Bai Qianqian fought her way through Azure Nether Sect pursuers and entered a dangerous formation, where she found a safe path forward.

• Liu Yi built stone houses and set up a Five Elements Defense Formation on the God of Light's Mountain, planning to suppress the Divine Kingdom while the system spread.
• Liu Yi messaged Bai Qianqian to tell her he had destroyed the Temples of the God of Light and driven off the God of Light.
• Bai Qianqian killed three Golden Core Realm cultivators and an Early Nascent Soul Realm cultivator from the Azure Nether Sect, then fled from Feng Feng, who was at the Late Stage Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Qianqian entered a powerful formation while escaping, and Feng Feng waited outside for her.
• Bai Qianqian studied the formation, spotted a flaw, and carefully made her way through without triggering an attack.

Bai Qianqian discovered Wang Jin’s cave abode, gained its legacy, and learned that Liu Yi had destroyed the Temple of the God of Light. Liu Yi began deducing a World Dao Body cultivation method as a prototype for adding Great Dao Bodies to the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System.

• Bai Qianqian entered Wang Jin’s cave abode and found cultivation manuals, artifacts, pills, and records of the Void Return Realm rogue cultivator’s life.
• Bai Qianqian sold several manuals and pills to the System Store for 25.6 million Energy Points.
• Bai Qianqian thanked Liu Yi for destroying the Temple of the God of Light and vowed to kill the God of Light herself one day.
• Bai Qianqian stored the remaining treasures and planned to cultivate in seclusion before confronting Feng Feng.
• Liu Yi decided to create a World Dao Body method to strengthen his physical essence and prepare a Great Dao Body cultivation realm for his system.
• Liu Yi connected his Divine Sense to the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix and began analyzing physical cultivation methods to devise the World Dao Body.

Zhu Pengcheng used the Fairness System to build power in Qingding City and led an army to seize Qingguang City from Zhao Qing. He ordered the Temple of the God of Light demolished, leaving its fanatics grieving among the ruins.

• Zhu Pengcheng told Zhang Ge to expand system adoption, grow food supplies, and prepare to seize more territory while the Divine Kingdom was in chaos.
• Zhu Pengcheng recalled how a System Seed and cultivation methods had raised him from a beggar to the ruler of Qingding City, and vowed to oppose the God of Light's influence.
• Zhu Pengcheng led ten thousand system-bound troops into undefended Qingguang City and killed Zhao Qing when he tried to stop them with three thousand soldiers.
• Zhu Pengcheng ordered Zhang Ge and Shi Kai to secure Qingguang City, which the army brought under control within an hour.
• Zhu Pengcheng ordered the Temple of the God of Light and its statue destroyed despite the fanatics' protests, leaving them devastated.

Zhu Pengcheng expanded his territory by imposing the Fairness System, redistributing land, and improving life in Qingding City as the Divine Kingdom descended into chaos. After a year in seclusion, Liu Yi emerged with a method for cultivating the World Dao Body and checked the system’s rankings, where Su Wantang had reached the Dao Image Realm.

• Zhu Pengcheng ordered the captured God of Light fanatics in Qingguang City detained and assigned Zhang Ge and Shi Kai to distribute grain, spread the system, redistribute land, and purge the city of the God of Light’s influence.
• Zhu Pengcheng continued conquering cities as the system spread, new crops and store-bought grain eased famine, and the Divine Kingdom fell into disorder.
• Farmers in Qingding City celebrated their harvest, land ownership, and improved lives, while former fanatics mocked the God of Light and praised the Fairness System.
• Liu Yi ended his year of seclusion on the God of Light’s Mountain after deducing a method for cultivating the World Dao Body.
• Liu Yi checked the Trial Tower rankings and found Su Wantang ranked 195th among Dao Image Realm cultivators, ahead of Wen Ziqian and Little Yellow.

Liu Yi watched Zheng Siqi defeat Ye Liang and saw online discussion portraying system hosts with artificial Heavenly Spirit Roots as a rising threat to cultivators with natural roots. He then reviewed the Divine Kingdom’s transformation and expected Zhu Pengcheng’s power to grow until he unified it.

• Liu Yi watched a forum video in which Zheng Siqi defeated Ye Liang, leaving the holy son questioning his repeated losses.
• Liu Yi read comments explaining that Qian Duoduo and Zheng Siqi were system hosts and predicting that system users would challenge holy sons and holy maidens across the sects.
• Liu Yi concluded that conflict between cultivators with artificial and natural Heavenly Spirit Roots was intensifying, and that system hosts were likely to gain the upper hand.
• Liu Yi searched for news about the Divine Kingdom and found that system hosts had routed the Temple of the God of Light and its fanatical believers.
• Liu Yi noted that Zhu Pengcheng spread the system, reformed his territory, and collected taxes in Energy Points, making his eventual conquest of the other two powers seem likely.

Liu Yi watched system hosts take over Light City and saw the God of Light’s believers abandon their faith for the Fairness System. He surveyed the flourishing Xuanyi World and its Netherworld, then looked into the Monster Game World and nearly lost his temper at what he saw.

• Liu Yi observed that system hosts had renamed Light City Heavenly Star City and used their new resources to improve their lives.
• Many believers rejected the God of Light after his promised divine punishment never came, then became devoted hosts and worshippers of the Fairness System.
• Liu Yi reflected on the system’s spread and believed it could eventually transform the world’s order, even drawing immortals in as hosts.
• Liu Yi surveyed Xuanyi World, where diverse races flourished, fought, and developed cultivation, while souls queued for reincarnation under rules he had established in the Netherworld.
• Liu Yi glanced into the Monster Game World and nearly dragged Qian Duoduo and Little Yellow out for a beating.