Chapter Summaries

Wang An finalized a binding cooperation contract with Bronze Academy to license his Void Serpent spatial-storage technology, then returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain and learned about events during his absence. He later visited the treasury and exchanged for the [Purification Water Profound Truth] secret method.

• Wang An and the two vice presidents signed a law-bound contract giving Bronze Academy the production and sales rights to his spatial-storage technology in return for ten percent of the sales profits.
• Wang An returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain, where Yu Tianqing and the other disciples welcomed him and reported that Cancong Baixiang had fled to the Quetzalcoatlus clan after a pursuit squad crippled his strength.
• Yu Tianqing told Wang An that civilizations and dangerous ruins were surfacing across the Milky Way, while the Galactic Transcendent Council offered no explanation beyond advising people to wait and see.
• Wang An guided his disciples, taught them the [Inner Landscape Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Earth Immortal Method], and went to the treasury to select resources and secret methods.
• Wang An exchanged for the [Purification Water Profound Truth] secret method and received a bronze slip containing its Law Runes.

Wang An studied methods for condensing law profound meanings and chose resources suited to his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature and Great Forest Wood imagery. After selecting the Broomrape Fortune-Seizing Profound Meaning, he returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain with two secret methods and three kinds of spiritual water resources to begin experimenting.

• Wang An understood that materials such as spiritual water and artifacts could form the foundation for condensing a law's profound meaning, while design and ritual shaped the result.
• Wang An exchanged for life, death, and evolution spiritual water resources to complete his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature.
• Wang An searched wood-path secret methods and chose the Broomrape Fortune-Seizing Profound Meaning because its parasitic growth suited Great Forest Wood's imagery.
• Wang An learned that the method gathered a population's resources to nurture its strongest member, which could then seize fortune from outside life-forms.
• Wang An returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain with two secret methods and three spiritual water resources, planning to cultivate them in the blessed-land ecosystem.

After completing their five-year posting on Pluto, Daoist Priest Simu and Master Yixiu returned to Blue Star and discussed Venerable Heavenly River’s purification works and the Netherworld’s changing Yellow Springs River. They headed toward the Heavenly River Dao Field, hoping to earn enough contributions for personal guidance and improve their cultivation systems.

• Wang An's Avatar returned to the Divine Tree of Wisdom and studied the Bronze Academy's vast cultivation knowledge.
• Daoist Priest Simu and Master Yixiu admired the purified Blue Star and argued over whether Venerable Heavenly River was a Daoist perfected one or a Buddha.
• Yixiu credited the Heavenly River purification project with creating the Human Federation's thriving Pure Land world.
• Simu invited Yixiu to help refine Yellow Springs water, and they discussed using their contributions to seek guidance from the Lord of the Netherworld.
• Simu and Yixiu left the spaceport by flying dharma artifacts across Blue Star toward the Three Rivers Source region of the Tibetan Plateau.

Simu and Yixiu entered the Return to Heaven Formation Domain Tower and learned about its expanded cultivation grounds and transcendent ecologies. Simu reached his assigned cultivation ground and prepared to transform its spiritual primordial qi into Clear Spirit Primordial Qi.

• Simu and Yixiu passed the tower’s authorization check and reported for duty before agreeing on a time to enter the Netherworld.
• Simu sensed the tower’s powerful Dao Resonance and reflected on how much cultivation had changed since his early years.
• The Spirit Radiance agent explained Simu’s assigned cultivation ground and how councilors could expand or customize their spaces using contribution points and resources.
• Simu considered how transcendent ecologies helped cultivators develop their imagery and worried about the eerie yin imagery of his Yueyin Spirit-Slaying Blade.
• Simu entered his cultivation ground and planned to release his transcendent laws to convert spiritual primordial qi into first-order Clear Spirit Primordial Qi.

Simu entered the Netherworld under the protection of the Netherworld Talismanic Edict and joined Yixiu to judge the spirits and evil ghosts brought before them. Their routine trials ended when a spirit enveloped in black mist arrived, and Simu recognized that the case was serious.

• Simu used the Moon Yin Divine Talisman and a Netherworld Talismanic Edict to enter the Netherworld safely.
• Simu met Yixiu at Mount Luofeng, and they went to the Bureau of Judgment and Punishment of Evil to handle their cases.
• Bi Qi welcomed the judges, and Simu praised his Qi Destiny and encouraged him to cultivate as a Ghost Immortal.
• Simu presided over trials while Yixiu verified sins and Bi Qi escorted spirits, using the Heavenly Mirror of Punishing Sins to guide their judgments.
• Bi Qi brought in a spirit surrounded by black mist and resentment, and Simu reviewed its crimes and immediately passed judgment.

After sentencing a group of organ-trafficking criminals, Yixiu and Simu traveled to Fengdu City to earn Yin Merit by refining Yellow Springs Water. They accepted the task and learned that the water could both dissolve and nourish souls.

• Simu sentenced Li Wenyi to repair the Yellow Springs River for 100 years and then endure Frost Hell for eternity.
• The Tribunal judged Li Wenyi’s accomplices and wealthy clients, giving them the maximum sentences.
• Yixiu and Simu finished five days of accumulated cases and went to the Yin Merit Office to take a task.
• Yixiu and Simu traveled through Fengdu City and reviewed the Netherworld’s highest-ranked tasks.
• Yixiu and Simu accepted the task of refining first-tier Yellow Springs Water and received its refining method.

Simu and Yixiu assessed the dangers of gathering imagery from the Yellow Springs River, bought materials to refine Yellow Springs Water, and traveled to a designated gathering site. Simu began absorbing the river’s Death and Life imagery under protective measures, while the river’s remaining imagery was limited by other cultivators’ work.

• Simu and Yixiu judged that their abilities could help them avoid the Yellow Springs River’s dangers and decided to gather its imagery.
• They bought enough Nether Sun and Nether Moon dew to refine ten drops of Yellow Springs Water, spending three hundred yin merit.
• The two traveled to the designated site and saw the Yellow Springs River’s spirits, beasts, and spiritual phenomena.
• Yixiu explained how the river gathered soul fragments and carried them toward the Lake of Reincarnation, while Simu noticed that another cultivator had depleted some of its imagery.
• Simu summoned divine guards, prepared a lifesaving [Moon Yin Divine Talisman], and began absorbing the river’s Death and Life imagery.

Over ten years, Simu and Yixiu helped refine the Yellow Springs River and earned enough yin merit to seek the Lord of the Netherworld’s guidance. After the Lord transformed the river and made it safe to cross, they went to the Zhoujue Yin Heavenly Palace, where Simu entered first to ask about his cultivation path.

• Simu and Yixiu continued refining Yellow Springs water, earning yin merit while strengthening their imagery and life-bound artifacts.
• The netherworld expanded to three times the surface area of Blue Star as tributaries were built, and the two accumulated enough merit to request guidance.
• The Lord of the Netherworld refined the Yellow Springs River, calming it, allowing flight across it, and bringing faint life into its waters.
• Simu and Yixiu exchanged yin merit for an audience and waited at the Zhoujue Yin Heavenly Palace alongside other Transcendent beings.
• Yixiu told Simu that he needed guidance choosing between cultivating his golden body and his Zen heart, while Simu wondered how to advance his netherworld-attuned bright moon imagery.
• Simu entered the main hall first and sensed the dense Resonance of the netherworld Dao as he prepared to meet the Lord of the Netherworld’s divine Dao Avatar.

Simu sought the Great Emperor of Fengdu’s guidance and chose to cultivate the Netherworld’s nether moon imagery, receiving a path toward pardoning sins and advancing to Purple Mansion. Meanwhile, Wang An prepared the Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature for its Golden Nature ritual and sent his disciples to expand its reach and spread spirit-water cultivation methods.

• Simu asked the Great Emperor of Fengdu whether to pursue supreme-yin imagery or deepen his ties to the Netherworld.
• The Great Emperor of Fengdu warned Simu that returning to yang-world imagery would require costly efforts to sever his karmic ties, while adopting nether moon imagery would bind his Dao path to the Netherworld.
• Simu chose the nether moon path, and the Great Emperor of Fengdu advised him to pursue the Netherworld’s path of pardoning sins and build his cultivation around the nether moon.
• Yixiu entered after Simu left, and the Great Emperor of Fengdu began deducing a path suited to him.
• Wang An used Illusory Heaven Purifying Water to complete the missing laws in Heavenly River Water’s Dharma Nature as he prepared for the Golden Nature ritual.
• Wang An ordered his three disciples to extend the purifying Heavenly River to Venus and Mars, spread his spirit-water refining methods across the Human Federation, and return to Blue Star aboard the Bronze Academy exchange team’s second-tier warship.

Wang An added life and death laws to his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature, then worked to harmonize their conflicts with its other laws. Meanwhile, his disciples promoted Heavenly River Water spirit-object methods across human society, where Li Mingxiao learned about refining Body-Purifying Rain.

• Wang An used the Flower and Tree Spirit-Sealing Liquid and Ten Thousand Souls and Thousand Shadows Dew to draw life and death laws into his Heavenly River Water Divine Ability.
• Wang An found that the laws of stars, transformation, death, and life conflicted, so he used his magic power, Dao attainment, and Yin Spirit thoughts to harmonize them.
• Tianxin, Tianping, and Tianli promoted Heavenly River Water spirit-object refining methods through the Blue Star Human Civilization Supreme Council.
• At Clear Sky High School, a teacher explained how first-level Qi Refining cultivators could collect and refine Body-Purifying Rain.
• Li Mingxiao listened to the lesson and considered the Human Federation's restrictions on access to higher-realm knowledge.

Li Mingxiao joined his classmates on Clear Sky High School’s rooftop to learn how to gather qi and refine Body-Purifying Rain. As the students prepared to practice under the rising moon, he considered how Heavenly River cultivation might shape his future Dao Foundation.

• The teacher explained that Body-Purifying Rain could cleanse cultivators below the third layer of Qi Refining and improve their cultivation results.
• Li Mingxiao and his classmates took an elevator to the school’s rooftop Qi Gathering area, where Mu Yinyin remarked on his knowledge of the Old Era.
• Li Mingxiao reflected on his transmigration from Earth Star, his choice of the Heavenly Talisman Dao Foundation Cultivator System, and his preparations for cultivation.
• Li Mingxiao considered pursuing rare Heavenly River qi as a possible path toward a compatible Dao Foundation.
• After night fell and the moon rose, the teacher guided the students in gathering star dew and activated the Formation Domain to draw down Heavenly River Purifying Qi.

Li Mingxiao advanced from a student refining Body-Purifying Rain to a respected spirit-plant researcher, developing a plan to cultivate a purification-aligned white lotus as his Dao companion. After realizing that past Dao Foundation cultivators had built Qi Destiny through widely useful achievements, he decided to pursue that path with his lotus research.

• Li Mingxiao refined Body-Purifying Rain, then passed the assessment for intermediate Qi Refining permissions and began studying advanced cultivation knowledge.
• Three years later, Li Mingxiao entered Transcendent University’s spirit-plant breeding program and planned to cultivate a World-Purifying White Lotus to aid his future Dao Foundation.
• Li Mingxiao published lotus-breeding research, reached the late stage of Qi Refining, and stayed at the university before rising to associate professor over the following seven years.
• Li Mingxiao cultivated the first junior World-Purifying White Lotus and reached consummate Qi Refining, but made no progress on constructing extraordinary Law Runes.
• Li Mingxiao studied the achievements of past Dao Foundation cultivators and concluded that he needed to accumulate Qi Destiny through work that benefited many cultivators.
• Li Mingxiao looked at the Heart-Cleansing White Lotus in his laboratory and resolved to pursue that goal through his research.

Li Mingxiao’s Spirit-Cleansing White Lotus gained the favor of the Human Federation’s Qi Destiny and led him to develop a new Dao Foundation method. With help from the Heavenly River Water, he successfully formed a middle-grade Pure Lotus Platform Dao Foundation and learned that his path supported Perfected Heavenly River’s plans.

• The Heart-Cleansing White Lotus and Soul-Cleansing White Lotus spread throughout the Human Federation, and Li Mingxiao created the level-ten perfected Spirit-Cleansing White Lotus, earning a great mass of Qi Destiny.
• Li Mingxiao gained new insight into the transcendent Law Runes and decided to form a Dao Foundation based on the white lotus, setting his ritual for two years later.
• Perfected Tianxin, Perfected Tianping, and Perfected Tianli gathered to witness Li Mingxiao’s Dao Foundation ritual and explained that his purification path aligned with Perfected Heavenly River’s plans.
• A drop of purifying Heavenly River Water strengthened Li Mingxiao’s connection to the Spirit-Cleansing White Lotus, allowing him to form the middle-grade Pure Lotus Platform Dao Foundation with two minor Divine Abilities.
• Li Mingxiao welcomed the three Perfected Persons and learned that his purification imagery had opened a new Dao Foundation method that could aid Perfected Heavenly River.

Wang An completed the Six Laws Heavenly River by connecting its planetary network to the laws of vitality and death, while overseeing its expansion and guiding his disciples. Preparations for an undisclosed ritual accelerated as he described the undertaking to other powerful cultivators as refining a mid-stage level-three Dharma treasure.

• Wang An completed his study of life and death laws, and Qi Destiny suggested that cultivators would pursue purification-based Dao Foundations after Li Mingxiao's breakthrough.
• Federation News announced that the planetary-system-spanning Purification Heavenly River had entered its second phase and was renamed the Six Laws Heavenly River, with 30 Dao Foundation cultivators having emerged from its cultivation paths.
• Wang An coordinated construction across the connected planets, directing Tianli, Tianping, and Tianxin to complete and improve their systems.
• Wang An admonished Yu Tianqing to treat her Federation duties seriously and use good governance to accumulate Qi Destiny for her cultivation.
• Wang An connected the Yellow Springs Heavenly River to the mortal network, completing the Six Laws Heavenly River with laws of water, stars, transformation, purification, vitality, and death.
• Wang An continued preparations for an undisclosed ritual while telling the remaining second-tier powerhouses that he was refining a mid-stage level-three Dharma treasure.

Wang An established the [Primordial Qi Six-Dharma Heavenly River Supreme Unity Nature], advancing his cultivation and transforming water-element laws across the worlds. He announced a [Heavenly River Dharma Scripture] lecture, drawing cultivators and the attention of powerful observers as they gathered to hear him.

• Li Mingxiao advanced to First-Tier level-three mana and cultivated a First-Tier Low Grade white lotus spirit plant as the [Six Laws Heavenly River] grew stronger.
• Wang An performed a ritual that transformed the [Heavenly River Water] Dharma Nature into the [Primordial Qi Six-Dharma Heavenly River Supreme Unity Nature] and declared the Heavenly River’s authority over water-element powers.
• The new Golden Nature brought spirit-object rain, formed celestial bodies, influenced the Netherworld, and raised Wang An’s mana to level seven while transforming his Dharma Body.
• Wang An announced that he would expound the [Heavenly River Dharma Scripture] in three days, and cultivators across the worlds congratulated him.
• Cassandra, Di Qiling, Shaweiqi, and Inspector Ailin Ziluolan reported the upheaval to their respective authorities and decided to attend the lecture before questioning Wang An.
• Cultivators gathered on the ninety-ninth floor of the [Return to Heaven Formation Domain Tower], where Li Mingxiao joined Wang An’s disciples and the waiting listeners.

Wang An delivered a month-long sermon on the Heavenly River Water system, teaching cultivators across the Three Planets and beyond about water arts and their laws. Afterward, he examined his newly formed Golden Nature and deduced how it produced Profound Gas and could support higher-tier cultivation.

• Li Mingxiao sensed a purification aura on a meditation cushion near Perfected Heavenly River and took that seat.
• After three days, the bell rang, and Wang An began his sermon on the Heavenly River and its water-element laws.
• Wang An demonstrated water arts as listeners across the Three Planets and distant civilizations comprehended the teachings.
• The month-long sermon ended, and Wang An found that his Golden Nature had produced a higher-essence water-element qi he called Profound Gas.
• Wang An deduced how Profound Gas could be refined and used to form Divine Abilities, Golden Core attainments, and Dharma forms.

Wang An discovered and sealed a suspicious Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven Golden Seed, then studied how to refine xuan qi and build a blessed land. After leaving the Bronze Academy, he learned that a newly surfaced civilization had destroyed a mid-tier civilization and might possess high-tier power.

• Wang An entered his blessed land, where the Blessed Land Grotto-Heaven Golden Seed appeared and tried to approach his other law Golden Natures.
• Wang An sealed the golden seed with the authority of the Lord of the Netherworld and decided to study it while keeping its possible hidden danger concealed.
• Wang An spent three years in seclusion and at the Bronze Academy, learning cultivation knowledge and researching xuan qi refinement and blessed land construction.
• Wang An left the Bronze Academy and met Vice Dean Gaoyang Zhenkong, Jiuli Bingjian, Shennong Yinmu, and Huayin Jiaoyue at the spaceport.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong told Wang An that a newly surfaced civilization had destroyed a mid-tier civilization and was resisting a high-tier lord.

Wang An prepared the Heavenly River for a secret journey to the Silver Human Race while enemies plotted to capture his avatar and target his original body. As he entered the Dark Universe, a hidden heart detected his departure and sent Strange Machine Pterosaur an urgent message.

• Wang An learned a safe route to the Silver Human Race and was warned that Cancong Baixiang was hunting him.
• Wang An reviewed the Heavenly River's upgraded systems and ordered it to depart for the Silver Human Race on a 9,000-light-year journey.
• Wang An concealed the Heavenly River and entered the Dark Universe as a hidden heart monitored his movements and beat in response.
• Cancong Baixiang discussed capturing Wang An's body with Strange Machine Pterosaur, who planned to use a totem weapon containing the Law of Conversion.
• A heart inside Strange Machine Pterosaur began beating with a message, and his aura surged as nearby First Tier pterosaurs were crushed by his pressure.

Wang An’s Heavenly River was intercepted near the Silver Star Domain while Strange Machine Pterosaur and Cancong Baixiang pursued him. Strange Machine Pterosaur activated the Space-Refining Conversion Soul-Locking Banner, and Wang An saw a chance to close in.

• As the Heavenly River approached the Silver Star Domain, Spirit Radiance detected worsening unrest linked to the Tyranids and other disturbances.
• A spatial fluctuation forced the Heavenly River out of the Dark Universe, where a triangular warship attacked it inside a prepared blockade.
• Wang An told Spirit Radiance to maneuver unpredictably and used Qi Destiny to intensify Strange Machine Pterosaur’s emotions as the chase continued.
• Strange Machine Pterosaur opened the black box containing the Space-Refining Conversion Soul-Locking Banner, whose refinement, conversion, and soul-locking powers filled Cancong Baixiang with unease.
• Strange Machine Pterosaur fused the banner’s bone wings and spine to his mechanical body and activated the formation domain.
• Wang An recognized the activation as an opportunity and told Spirit Radiance to move closer.

Wang An used his flying sword to attack the enemy triangular warship and annihilated its powerful occupants in less than a second. With the ship’s central control core destroyed, he entered to claim its valuable law-metal components.

• Wang An positioned the Heavenly River above the triangular warship and prepared to strike.
• Wang An sent the Emperor's Edge Thunder-Wielding Demon-Slaying Heavenly Sword through the sealed space and into the ship.
• The flying sword killed Strange Machine Pterosaur, Cancong Baixiang, and Gui Yin, then returned with a long banner and storage bag.
• Wang An ordered Spirit Radiance to recover the enemy warship after its central control core was destroyed.
• Spirit Radiance opened a hatch, and Wang An entered the ship to inspect its valuable law metals.