Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi led the cultivators out of the Life Origin Tree’s barrier and charged toward the core of the Heavenly Devil Secret Realm through a vast undead army. As the group suffered heavy losses, ten Nascent Soul Realm undead surrounded Liu Yi with a deadly net of blade Qi.

• Li Yun asked Liu Yi to lead the cultivators through the undead encirclement and suggested he share his Life Origin Fruit, but Xie Tong challenged Li Yun’s demands.
• Liu Yi warned Li Yun to stay silent and told the cultivators to join his breakthrough or make their own way; they all gathered around him.
• Liu Yi flew out of the barrier toward the core of the Heavenly Devil Secret Realm, with Xie Tong, Ye Qingxue, and the others following.
• The undead attacked with bone arrows and flying forces, and Liu Yi smashed a path through them with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm while leaving the others behind.
• Millions of undead overwhelmed the more than three hundred cultivators, killing them one by one as the group fought to escape.
• Liu Yi killed a Nascent Soul Realm undead attacker, then faced ten more Nascent Soul Realm undead who trapped him in a net of blade Qi.

Liu Yi broke through the undead legion’s encirclement and confronted Ming Sha, king of the Undead Bone Sea, who wanted the Life Origin Fruit to break the seal of the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm. As Ming Sha’s forces overwhelmed Liu Yi and the thirty-five cultivators with him, Liu Yi decided to attack the undead king directly.

• Liu Yi destroyed ten Nascent Soul Realm undead attacking in formation, then fought through the legion with Blazing Sun Palm.
• Liu Yi and thirty-five companions broke out of the encirclement and faced Ming Sha, who commanded more than eight hundred Nascent Soul Realm undead.
• Ming Sha revealed that he planned to use the Life Origin Fruit to transform life and death, advance his cultivation, and break the secret realm’s seal.
• Ming Sha rejected Liu Yi’s demand to let them pass and ordered his undead to attack, plunging both sides into a fierce battle.
• Liu Yi identified Ming Sha as the source of the undead legion’s coordination and charged toward him, blasting aside undead in his path.

Liu Yi fought Ming Sha and discovered that its bone spear contained a fragment of an Innate Spirit Treasure that could break through the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm’s seal. As their battle intensified, Ye Qingxue, Xie Tong, and the others formed a five elements formation to defend themselves from the remaining undead.

• Liu Yi broke through the undead encirclement and struck Ming Sha with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm, then unleashed his full strength when Ming Sha blocked him.
• Ming Sha used the bone spear’s innate spiritual light to break through the realm’s seal and unleash power beyond the Void Return Realm.
• Liu Yi and Ming Sha fought, while the shockwaves shattered nearby undead and the remaining Nascent Soul Realm undead attacked Ye Qingxue, Xie Tong, and the others.
• Xie Tong gathered the group into a five elements formation, and they fought to hold out until Liu Yi could defeat Ming Sha.
• Liu Yi recognized that the bone spear held a fragment of an Innate Spirit Treasure, and Ming Sha condensed death Qi into a ten-thousand-meter spear and thrust it at him.

Liu Yi fought Ming Sha in the Undead Bone Sea, using his Law Treasures and Heaven-Opening Divine Ability to wound him. Ming Sha then devoured more than six hundred undead to rapidly approach the Dao Integration Realm, and Liu Yi moved to stop his breakthrough.

• Liu Yi used the Heaven-Opening Sword to block Ming Sha’s death spear, then charged him while Xie Tong, Ye Qingxue, and the others were thrown back by the clash.
• Liu Yi and Ming Sha traded attacks in a fierce, evenly matched fight as Liu Yi struggled to overcome Ming Sha’s strength and the Death Qi of the Undead Bone Sea.
• Liu Yi unleashed the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability, cut off part of Ming Sha’s bone spear, and shattered his qilin head.
• Ming Sha devoured more than six hundred Nascent Soul Realm undead, raising his presence from the Early Stage of the Void Return Realm toward the Dao Integration Realm.
• Liu Yi realized the danger of Ming Sha’s impending breakthrough and vowed to kill him before he could complete it.

Liu Yi repeatedly attacked Ming Sha, disrupting its attempt to break through to the Dao Integration Realm before annihilating it with a final Heaven-Opening strike. He recovered a fragment of an Innate Spirit Treasure as Ye Qingxue and the surviving cultivators watched in shock, believing they had finally been saved.

• Liu Yi restored his True Power with World Origin and clashed with Ming Sha, tearing open a vast spatial rift that the secret realm quickly repaired.
• Liu Yi struck again and again, forcing Ming Sha to expend the power it needed for its breakthrough, while Ye Qingxue and the others watched in astonishment.
• Ming Sha pleaded to negotiate, but Liu Yi unleashed another series of attacks that broke its bone spear and erased its breakthrough power.
• Liu Yi delivered a powerful final strike that reduced Ming Sha to dust and scattered its soul.
• Liu Yi used the Space Principle to retrieve a rod-shaped fragment of an Innate Spirit Treasure from the spatial rift.
• Ye Qingxue and the sixteen surviving cultivators reacted in disbelief to Liu Yi's strength and realized the battle had ended.

After Liu Yi defeated Ming Sha, he refused Shi Long’s offer to become his follower and began recovering with the survivors. Outside the secret realm, Li Jie investigated the origins of unfamiliar prodigies and martial arts, then discovered a city whose cultivated residents and strange technology suggested a remarkable secret.

• After Ming Sha died and the undead legion scattered, Liu Yi thanked the sixteen survivors and wondered whether Bai Qianqian’s presence had caused the secret realm’s upheavals.
• Shi Long offered to follow Liu Yi, but Liu Yi firmly refused to take followers.
• Liu Yi set up the Five Elements Defense Formation and used a Life Origin Fruit to recover while the others healed nearby.
• Elder Lan Sheng sent Li Jie to investigate the origins of unfamiliar young prodigies and martial arts Cultivation Methods.
• Li Jie entered a mortal city and was astonished to find cultivated residents, concrete roads, formation-powered cars, and people making payments through squares of light.

Li Jie explored a mortal-world town and was astonished to find spirit beast meat, Sun Rice, and bright lights in ordinary shops. After a shop attendant explained the town’s goods and systems, Li Jie bound the Fairness System and discovered its vast store, including artificial Heavenly Spirit Roots.

• Li Jie overheard passersby discussing the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm arena matches, system hosts, and the Dao Image Realm Combat Power Rankings.
• Li Jie found spirit beast meat for sale and then discovered a light bulb and Sun Rice in a shop, prompting him to suspect he was in an illusion.
• A rice shop attendant explained that the light ran on Energy Points, spiritual power, or True Power, and that ordinary people grew Sun Rice using sunlight.
• Li Jie asked about system hosts, accepted a System Seed from the attendant, and bound the Fairness System.
• Li Jie inspected the System Store and was amazed by its goods, especially the Artificial Heavenly Spirit Root, which the attendant said had been used by Qian Duoduo, Zheng Siqi, and Chen Lin.

Li Jie discovered that the Fairness System had already spread through the mortal world and regretted missing the chance to benefit from it. He reported the system to Lan Sheng, who bound it and began exploring its powers, furious that the Heavenly Revelation Sect had fallen behind.

• Li Jie learned that Qian Duoduo, Zheng Siqi, and Ye Liang were famous for their arena victories, then realized the system had helped identify cultivators at the Immortal Ascension Conference.
• Li Jie tried to sell Cultivation Methods for Energy Points, but the system said they had already been recorded; he bought Sun Rice with Spirit Stones and left the city.
• Li Jie decided to report the Fairness System to Lan Sheng and returned to the Heavenly Revelation Sect encampment with Sun Rice and a System Seed.
• Li Jie told Lan Sheng what he had learned about the system and the mortal world, and Lan Sheng believed him after inspecting the Sun Rice and System Seed.
• Lan Sheng bound the system, recognized familiar names on the Combat Power Rankings, and cursed Chen Dehao, Ye Liang, Qian Duoduo, and Zheng Siqi for concealing it.
• Lan Sheng found that many Heavenly Revelation Sect Cultivation Methods were already recorded, then used 2.86 million Energy Points to explore the system's functions.

Lan Sheng failed to divine the Fairness System’s origins and hurried to report it to his sect, while Liu Yi led his companions toward the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm’s core. Liu Yi exposed a disguised devil tree before it could ensnare the group.

• Lan Sheng’s divination of the Fairness System shattered, injuring him with a backlash, and he spent ten days recovering.
• Lan Sheng told Li Jie to guard the hall and keep the system secret, then flew to the Heavenly Revelation Sect to report it.
• Liu Yi departed for the secret realm’s core, and Xie Tong, Ye Qingxue, and the others followed, hoping to reach the Immortal-Devil Law Domain with him.
• Liu Yi stopped before a divine tree that Xie Tong mistook for a Ginseng Fruit Tree and recognized as a devil tree.
• Liu Yi struck the tree with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm, destroying its ginseng-doll fruits and revealing its terrifying true form.

Liu Yi destroyed the Longevity Tree after it attacked his group, then checked that its roots could not revive it. At the core of the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, Devil King Luoduo devoured ten cultivators and prepared to grow stronger.

• The Longevity Tree’s corpses charged Liu Yi and his companions, so Liu Yi and the others fought back and destroyed the horde.
• The Longevity Tree attacked with its branches, but Liu Yi blasted them apart and struck the tree with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm.
• The Longevity Tree pulled up its roots and fled, but Liu Yi crushed it and burned its remaining roots to ash.
• Liu Yi searched the soil with Divine Sense and the Principle of Cause and Effect, then destroyed a hidden root to prevent the tree’s return.
• Devil King Luoduo defeated ten cultivators at the core of the secret realm, sealed their cultivation, and devoured them with the Great Dao of Devouring.

Liu Yi reached the core of the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm and joined the battle against Devil King Luoduo, who guarded the entrance to the Immortal-Devil Law Domain. After Liu Yi overwhelmed the devil with palm strikes, Luoduo began using an Innate Spirit Treasure fragment to undo its cultivation seal, forcing Liu Yi to unleash the Heaven-Opening Sword.

• Liu Yi arrived to find more than a hundred cultivators, including Chen Jie, Bai Qianqian, Xu Wang, and Xu Cheng'an, besieging Devil King Luoduo.
• Liu Yi decided to fight Luoduo so he could enter the Immortal-Devil Law Domain, then struck the devil with his Blazing Sun Palm and sent it crashing to the ground.
• Xie Tong, Ye Qingxue, Chen Jie, and the other cultivators were driven back by the attack's shockwave, while Liu Yi struck Luoduo again and forced it to retreat.
• Devil King Luoduo revealed an Innate Spirit Treasure fragment and began undoing the secret realm's seal on its cultivation, alarming Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi drew the Heaven-Opening Sword and unleashed the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability before Luoduo could finish breaking the seal, prompting the devil to counter with a massive saber strike.

Liu Yi battled Devil King Luoduo, repeatedly striking him with Heaven-Opening Sword light despite his restored cultivation. Luoduo sacrificed himself and his devil saber in a final clash that tore open a vast spatial rift, and Liu Yi recovered the broken Innate Spirit Treasure fragment afterward.

• Liu Yi's first Heaven-Opening Sword slash shattered Devil King Luoduo's saber Qi, broke his arm, and grievously wounded him.
• Devil King Luoduo's devil saber restored his cultivation to the Dao Integration Realm, but Liu Yi wounded him again with a second slash.
• Liu Yi replenished his True Power with World Origin and continued attacking as Devil King Luoduo fought back with saber strikes.
• Liu Yi unleashed a powerful Heaven-Opening Sword slash, and Devil King Luoduo sacrificed himself to his devil saber to meet it.
• The collision shattered the realm's space and opened a vast spatial rift, forcing the watching cultivators to flee.
• Liu Yi avoided the rift, retrieved the broken Innate Spirit Treasure fragment, and placed it in his Storage Space.

After defeating Devil King Luoduo, Liu Yi entered the Immortal-Devil Law Domain and found its trials far stronger than expected, though he passed the first and comprehended the Great Dao of Destruction. He began a second trial against a sword immortal, convinced the domain was singling him out.

• Liu Yi accepted thanks from Xu Wang and the other cultivators, then entered the Immortal-Devil Law Domain after explaining that its Great Dao trials required surviving or defeating a same-realm manifestation.
• A four-armed, six-eyed devil god attacked Liu Yi with a divine spear, and Liu Yi fought at full strength until he survived the quarter-hour trial.
• Liu Yi complained that the trial was a rip-off and wondered whether he was being singled out, then used the subsystem computing-power matrix to comprehend the incomplete Great Dao of Destruction for an hour.
• Liu Yi moved to another Great Dao space and began an even sword fight with a white-clad sword immortal, becoming more certain that he was being singled out.

Lan Sheng introduced Lin Nan and the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s elders to the Fairness System, and they bound System Seeds and began exploring its powers. After seeing news of Liu Xuan’s battle in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, they discussed the system’s effects on the sect, and Lan Sheng revealed that Dao Seed Martial Dao and Artifact Cultivation systems had also emerged.

• Lan Sheng gave Lin Nan and the ten elders System Seeds, and they bound them and marveled at their functions.
• Lan Sheng watched a forum video of Liu Xuan fighting Devil King Luoduo and worried about the sect disciples in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm.
• Lin Nan angrily condemned disciples for selling sect manuals, then apologized for losing his composure.
• Lan Sheng told the elders that divining the Fairness System’s origins had nearly killed him and argued that every sect disciple should bind a system.
• Lan Sheng explained that Dao Seed Martial Dao and Artifact Cultivation systems had appeared, prompting Lin Nan and the elders to inspect the System Store.

The Heavenly Revelation Sect debated the Dao Seed Martial Dao System and the Fairness System, deciding to adopt them cautiously and have disciples spread the system for Energy Points. News of Liu Yi’s rise spread through the sect, leaving those who knew him stunned.

• Wang Bo, Song Wei, Lan Sheng, and Lin Nan discussed the Dao Seed Martial Dao System and agreed not to suppress it, choosing instead to incorporate its methods into the sect’s inheritance.
• Lin Nan ordered the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s disciples to bind the Fairness System and spread it for Energy Points, while the leaders rejected forcing Jin State to pay tribute.
• Lan Sheng reported the events at the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, and Lin Nan rewarded Li Jie and had the sect leaders connect on Microchat.
• Zhao Jiuxiao learned how Qian Duoduo and Zheng Siqi had advanced through the system and decided to join the sect’s promotion work for Energy Points.
• Zhao Jiuxiao and Lin Xiuyuan were shocked to learn that Liu Yi had become the Dao Seed Realm Combat Power Ranking’s top fighter, while news of Liu Yi’s origins spread across the social platform.

After leaving the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, Liu Yi faced Sun Xuan, who used a false accusation to try to seize his Life Origin Fruit. Sun Xuan attacked him, and Liu Yi struck back, smashing Sun Xuan into the ground and killing Li Yun.

• Liu Yi emerged from the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm after comprehending many Great Dao Principles and found Qian Duoduo safe among the survivors.
• Sun Xuan accused Liu Xuan of causing a Pure Void Sect disciple's death and demanded that he surrender, while Li Yun stood beside him.
• Ye Qingxue defended Liu Xuan, and Lan Sheng blocked Sun Xuan's pressure and challenged his attempt to capture him.
• Liu Yi rejected Sun Xuan's accusation and openly defied him, alarming the onlookers who thought Liu Xuan was only at the Spirit Transformation Realm (Divine Acupoint Realm).
• Sun Xuan attacked Liu Yi with a giant palm, and Liu Yi's Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm shattered the attack and slammed Sun Xuan into the ground.
• Liu Yi's palm force blasted Li Yun to pieces.

Liu Yi killed Sun Xuan despite warnings that the Pure Void Sect would seek revenge, then escaped and returned to his true appearance in a hidden cave. Little Yellow reported that cultivation sects had discovered the Fairness System and begun using and promoting it, leaving Liu Yi to consider how to control their actions.

• Liu Yi ignored Lan Sheng's warning and killed Sun Xuan, then took his storage Law Treasure and departed.
• Cultivators, including Chen Jie and Qian Duoduo, reacted with shock to Liu Yi's strength, and Qian Duoduo suspected Liu Xuan was Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi disrupted his heavenly secrets and cause-and-effect threads, then found a secluded mountain cave and set up a Five Elements Defense Formation.
• Liu Yi released Little Yellow, who reported that the cultivation sects had learned about the Fairness System and that Liu Yi's background had been exposed.
• Little Yellow said the sects had bound the system, promoted it in the mortal world, and sold resources through its mall; Liu Yi considered how he could restrain them if they overstepped.

Liu Yi confirmed that the cultivation sects were using the Fairness System rather than plotting against him, then saw a trending post exposing his past in the Heavenly Revelation Sect. As he prepared to cultivate and develop the system, Ye Qingxue and Ye Liang reacted to the system’s spread and Liu Yi’s history.

• Liu Yi checked the system backend and found cultivators from major sects earning Energy Points, using system functions, and spreading the system without making trouble.
• Liu Yi read a trending post about his expulsion from the Heavenly Revelation Sect and accepted that others now knew about his poor cultivation aptitude and turn to martial arts.
• Liu Yi noticed reports of a powerful expert killing a Dao Integration Realm Devil and of sects binding the system, then replied to Qian Duoduo before entering his cave abode to cultivate and develop new system features.
• Ye Qingxue bound the system, realized that several powerful cultivators were hosts, and decided to earn Energy Points in hopes of catching up to Liu Yi.
• Ye Liang learned that his sect had made its disciples bind the system, decided he would need to grind harder, and chose to spread the system rather than return to the Heavenly Revelation Sect.

As cultivators across the Eastern Desolation competed to earn Energy Points, the Pure Void Sect decided to force the people of Yue State to surrender seventy percent of theirs. Fearing the decision would bring disaster and cost him the Fairness System, Lin Jing formally severed his affiliation with the sect and left, prompting other system users to follow.

• Li Zhe suffered a backlash while trying to deduce the Fairness System's origins and warned Chen Yu that the sect should proceed cautiously.
• Wang Hao and Liu Hui proposed demanding Energy Points from Yue State's people, and Chen Yu approved taking seventy percent despite Li Zhe's objections.
• Lin Jing learned of the decision and feared he would lose the system if the Pure Void Sect faced punishment.
• Lin Jing reported his departure to the Fairness System, saw his affiliation change to none, and left the Pure Void Sect.
• Other system users who had learned of the sect's decision also left to avoid being implicated.

Yue Qingping learned that the Pure Void Sect had ordered the Yue State to seize seventy percent of its people's Energy Points, a demand that would endanger his household whether he obeyed or resisted. He and the Yue Clan chose to abandon the state and scatter into hiding, and Yue Qingping fled the palace through a spatial gate.

• Zhang Yichen confirmed that the Pure Void Sect's order to collect seventy percent of the people's Energy Points was genuine, and Yue Qingping feared the order would get his household killed.
• Yue Qingping told the Yue Clan about the order, and the clan members agreed that carrying it out would provoke the people while refusing could bring the sect's wrath.
• Yue Qingping proposed abandoning the Yue State and splitting into hundreds of groups to hide, and the clan agreed to escape and use the system's Microchat to stay in contact.
• Yue Qingping ordered the clan to leave quietly by Spatial Teleportation, flight, or carriage, then secretly sent his family away and stored the palace's valuables.
• Yue Qingping dismissed his attendants, said he was relieved to leave the throne behind, and stepped through a spatial gate out of the palace.