Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji and the others entered the Spirit God Universe to assassinate a target, then spent ten thousand years adapting to its different Principles and Great Dao. With Immortal Venerable Hongluo’s insights, they prepared to travel to the target’s realm aboard her tower ship.

• Lin Yunji and the others traveled with Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable for nearly a hundred years before entering the Spirit God Universe undetected.
• Lin Yunji and the other venerables found that the universe’s Principles, Great Dao, and Chaos Essence Qi differed from those of the Primordial Expanse Universe, so they stopped to adapt.
• After ten thousand years, Immortal Venerable Hongluo comprehended the Spirit God Universe’s Great Dao and shared her insights with the others.
• Sword Venerable Datuo let his killing intent surface, but Emperor Venerable Wuxuan warned him to keep their karma hidden, and Saint Venerable Daweide said he had already isolated their traces.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo brought out a tower ship, and the group prepared to travel to their target’s realm without using the star shuttle.

Lin Yunji and the venerables traveled covertly to the Spirit God Universe to kill Erebus, the Lord of Darkness, before he could become a Great Creation God. They reached his unguarded divine palace and found him cultivating at the brink of a breakthrough.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo used the Primordial Expanse Concealed Shadow Boat and Hunyuan Gap-Seeking Treasure Needle to carry Lin Yunji and the others toward their target.
• The group captured a Supreme God and learned that the Spirit God Universe had suffered further losses, faced accelerating collapse, and was divided between invading the Primordial Expanse Universe and seeking peace.
• Lin Yunji and the others concluded that the Source Realm Great Tribulation had made peace impossible, and that the Spirit God Universe might stake everything on a final attack led by five Great Creation Gods.
• The group infiltrated the Dark Abyss and entered the divine palace of Erebus, the Lord of Darkness, without encountering meaningful defenses.
• They found Erebus seated on his throne and cultivating, with his power seemingly perfected and a breakthrough close at hand.

The Lord of Darkness confronted seven of the Primordial Expanse Universe’s greatest fighters, revealing that he had hoped their attack would help him break through to Great Creation God. The battle began with the Lord of Darkness unleashing his abyss, while Sword Venerable Datuo and Lin Yunji countered.

• The Lord of Darkness discovered Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Lin Yunji, and five other venerables approaching his imperial stairway.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian, Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Sword Venerable Datuo, Saint Venerable Daweide, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, and Lin Yunji prepared to attack the Lord of Darkness.
• The Lord of Darkness welcomed the seven fighters and declared that he intended to use their life-or-death battle to break through to Great Creation God.
• The seven venerables launched a full-strength attack, and the Lord of Darkness answered by summoning the Abyss of Darkness, which swallowed their strikes.
• Sword Venerable Datuo cut through the dark abyss with his sword, while Lin Yunji invoked the Universe Furnace to increase his combat strength a hundredfold.

Lin Yunji and the other six joined forces to kill the Lord of Darkness and escape the collapsing Dark Abyss aboard the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle. They left the Spirit God Universe’s Great Creation God furious, while the victors traveled through the Superdimension, wounded but relieved.

• Lin Yunji fought the Lord of Darkness with the Great Slaughter Divine Halberd and Heaven-Reaching Jianmu, while the other six attacked alongside him.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo seized the Lord of Darkness’s fork, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable shattered his body, exposing his Divine Spark.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian suppressed the escaping Divine Spark, and all seven joined their power to destroy it before grabbing fragments.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable piloted the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle into the Superdimension as the Dark Divine Palace and Dark Abyss collapsed.
• A Great Creation God arrived, found Erebus dead, and furiously tore apart the Dark Abyss.
• Lin Yunji and the others recovered aboard the shuttle, discussed their injuries, and said the Spirit God Universe had lost its hope.

After the battle, the venerables discussed the Spirit God Universe’s threat and gave Lin Yunji the Lord of Darkness’s powerful fork as compensation for his damaged treasures. Lin Yunji asked to trade it for the Supreme Hall, leaving the venerables laughing at his choice because the artifact was too heavy to wield normally.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo said the Primordial Expanse Great Formation could withstand up to five Great Creation Gods but not six or seven.
• The venerables identified the Lord of Darkness’s fork as a supreme artifact comparable to a Primordial Expanse Great Artifact.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo and the others agreed to give the fork to Lin Yunji to compensate for his shattered Great Slaughter Divine Halberd and damaged treasure.
• Lin Yunji asked to exchange the fork for the Supreme Hall, and the venerables burst out laughing.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and Divine Venerable Xuanjian explained that the Supreme Hall was immensely heavy and could not be wielded like an ordinary treasure.

After the assassination succeeded, Lin Yunji and the others returned to the Primordial Expanse Universe, where the Supremes prepared for an expected counterattack that never came. Lin Yunji brought several companions and relieved Supremes home, piloted the Supreme Hall through the River of Space-Time, and left it in Void Heaven.

• Lin Yunji told Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable that he wanted the Supreme Hall because he felt they were fated, despite being unable to wield it yet.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo reported that the target had been killed, and Supreme Daweide warned that the Spirit God Universe might retaliate.
• The Spirit God Universe made no major move, though the Primordial Expanse Supremes suspected the enemy was preparing an assault.
• Lin Yunji and the other injured assassins left the formation to recover, while several Supremes were relieved from duty and sent home.
• Lin Yunji brought Nüwo, Jiu Lu, You Han, and Dan Chenzi along, then piloted the Supreme Hall through the River of Space-Time and left it in Void Heaven.

Lin Yunji returned to the Source Realm with Saint Venerable Daweide and the others, then revealed the corpse monster Chang Yanzi to his former senior brother. Chang Yanzi briefly recognized Daweide before turning violent again, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lin Yunji set down the Supreme Hall in the Void Heaven Realm Domain and sent more than four hundred Supremes back to their homes in the Source Realm.
• Lin Yunji invited Saint Venerable Daweide to stay in the Great Sage Realm, but Daweide said he would uncover his buried cultivation grounds.
• Lin Yunji released the corpse monster Chang Yanzi, and Saint Venerable Daweide recognized him as his junior brother.
• Chang Yanzi stopped struggling, shed tears of blood, and called Daweide his senior brother, while Daweide explained that the old Chang Yanzi could not be restored.
• Chang Yanzi suddenly turned savage again, roared “Kill,” and unleashed corpse Qi and Sha Qi across hundreds of millions of miles.

Saint Venerable Daweide refined the corpse Sha Qi from the corpse monster Chang Yanzi and separated the bodies fused into it. He preserved the faint consciousness in Chang Yanzi’s corpse and began restoring it, leaving the body to recover in a stone coffin.

• Saint Venerable Daweide suppressed Chang Yanzi and used his Law Power to refine away the corpse Sha Qi.
• Saint Venerable Daweide dismembered the corpse monster, separating it into six bodies and weakening its shared consciousness.
• Saint Venerable Daweide used an ancient bronze lamp to protect the remaining consciousness in Chang Yanzi’s corpse.
• Saint Venerable Daweide used pills and rare spiritual materials to suppress the death Qi and restore vitality to Chang Yanzi’s body.
• Saint Venerable Daweide placed Chang Yanzi’s corpse in a stone coffin and told Lin Yunji and the others that its consciousness could eventually become whole again.

Lin Yunji told Saint Venerable Daweide that Heavenly Venerable Fanti seemed to have reversed death, a feat thought impossible for anyone below a realm beyond Supreme Primordial Unity. They suspected Fanti might instead be an impostor and one of the Thirteen Great Bandits, so they chose not to confront him rashly.

• Lin Yunji questioned Saint Venerable Daweide about whether someone could return to life after their primordial spirit was destroyed, and Daweide said it was impossible for anyone at their level.
• After Daweide suggested a higher realm might make it possible, Lin Yunji told him about his encounter with Heavenly Venerable Fanti and his apparent return from death.
• Daweide said Fanti might be nearing a breakthrough beyond Supreme Primordial Unity and recalled that Fanti had once been a relatively weak Lord of the Astral Realm, close friends with Chang Yanzi.
• Lin Yunji suspected the person he met was an impostor: one of the Thirteen Great Bandits who had survived the Source Realm conflict and was close to becoming a Great Creation God.
• Daweide prepared to go to the Source Realm Ruins, but Lin Yunji stopped him, warning that they might not be strong enough and could alert Fanti.
• Lin Yunji cautioned that Fanti might truly be himself and could have discovered how to reverse death at the brink of life and death.

Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide warned the Primordial Expanse Supremes that Heavenly Venerable Fanti might be a resurrected member of the Thirteen Great Bandits, prompting a mission to investigate the Source Realm Ruins. Thirteen of the universe’s strongest Supremes gathered in the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain, ready to act.

• Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide returned to the Primordial Expanse Great Formation and told the Supremes about their suspicions concerning Heavenly Venerable Fanti.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable confirmed that someone who had fully mastered the Dao of Life and Death might return from death and become an extraordinarily dangerous enemy.
• The Supremes decided to send a group to investigate the Source Realm Ruins while maintaining the defense of the Primordial Expanse Great Formation.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, and Sword Venerable Datuo traveled with Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide to the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain.
• Lin Yunji briefly visited his Dao field and found that the Primordial World had flourished, with Cult Master Tongtian and others reaching the Great Dao Sage Fifth Stage.
• Within two thousand years, eight more Supremes arrived, bringing the group in Void Heaven to thirteen powerful fighters.

Lin Yunji led the venerables into the forbidden zone to find Heavenly Venerable Fanti, but they discovered he had been killed long ago and that the ape they had encountered was someone else. Immortal Venerable Hongluo brought out the Ten Realms Mystic Heaven Treasure Mirror to track the ape across the Primordial Expanse Universe.

• Lin Yunji and the venerables traveled through the Supreme Hall into the Source Realm Ruins and quickly reached the forbidden zone.
• The venerables entered the Dao ground and found Heavenly Venerable Fanti missing, then searched the area with their divine senses.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo recovered Fanti's broken sword and revealed images showing him killed by a spear strike across time and space.
• The venerables concluded that the ape Lin Yunji had met was not Fanti and had likely fled after their encounter.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo revealed the Ten Realms Mystic Heaven Treasure Mirror, which could trace karma throughout the universe and help locate the ape.

Lin Yunji and twelve other Supremes pursued the impostor posing as Heavenly Venerable Fanti into the ruins of the Ancient Source Realm, where the Ten Realms Mystic Heaven Treasure Mirror exposed him. Cornered, the impostor recognized Lin Yunji and revealed his true form as a battered, golden-haired figure resembling the Creation Gods of the Spirit God Universe.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo used the Ten Realms Mystic Heaven Treasure Mirror to track the fugitive deep into the Source Realm Ruins.
• After nearly fifteen hundred years of pursuit, Lin Yunji and the other twelve Supremes surrounded their target in the shattered Heavenly Emperor Great Star Realm Domain.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and Immortal Venerable Hongluo accused the figure of impersonating Heavenly Venerable Fanti and confirmed he was not from the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• The impostor admitted the mirror had tracked him and greeted Lin Yunji, recalling that he had spared him when they met before.
• The impostor blamed his past mercy for his current predicament and changed from Heavenly Venerable Fanti's appearance into a golden-haired, purple-eyed figure in damaged golden armor.

The venerables killed Ditan, the Lord of Justice, but Lin Yunji remained uneasy that he might not be truly dead. Lin Yunji took the void where Ditan fell into his palm as a great world, then returned to the Great Sage Realm to heal the Lord of Darkness’s lingering erosion.

• Ditan revealed himself as the one who had shattered the Heart of the Source Realm and massacred countless lives in the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, and the other venerables attacked Ditan and destroyed his body and godhead, causing his remaining phantom to dissipate.
• Lin Yunji questioned whether Ditan had truly died, but Immortal Venerable Hongluo found no trace of his presence or karma.
• Lin Yunji asked the venerables to cut out the surrounding void, then refined it into a great world in his palm so he could watch for anything unexpected.
• The venerables returned to the Spirit Platform Star Domain and departed; Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, and Sword Venerable Datuo went to guard the Primordial Expanse Great Formation.
• Lin Yunji returned to the Great Sage Realm to recuperate, suppressing the Lord of Darkness’s parasitic erosion with the Universe Furnace technique.

After recovering from the Lord of Darkness’s corrosion, Lin Yunji spent ten million years refining the Creation Darkness Scepter and learned its power and origins. He then checked the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and claimed all the rewards accumulated from his Source Realm Turmoil mission.

• Lin Yunji refined the corrosion from his body in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda and recovered from his injuries after more than thirteen thousand years.
• Lin Yunji refined the Lord of Darkness’s scepter for ten million years and made the Creation Darkness Scepter his own.
• Lin Yunji learned that the Creation Darkness Scepter was one of the twelve Creation Divine Artifacts of the Spirit God Universe and contained the fundamental Great Dao of darkness.
• Lin Yunji found that the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu had recovered and produced over a thousand Jianmu Spirit Fruits and more than ten Jianmu King Fruits.
• Lin Yunji checked his Attribute Panel, saw that his Source Realm Turmoil prestige exceeded eighteen million, and claimed all available rewards.

Lin Yunji combined the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Disc with the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, creating the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Tower and unlocking 10% more system progress. He learned the tower could send messages between universes and teleport across them if he first established a base station, but he did not know how to do so and separated the tower from the disc.

• Lin Yunji sorted through his system rewards, including thirty Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures and eight Seals of Samsara, which he hoped to use to raise his loved ones to Venerables.
• Lin Yunji asked the system about the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Disc, and it recommended using the disc together with the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• Lin Yunji noticed a recess at the disc's center, shrank the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, and placed it inside.
• The disc and pagoda merged into the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Tower, raising the new version unlocking progress by 10% to 20%.
• Lin Yunji discovered that the tower could send and receive messages across universes and teleport between them after he established a base station in another universe.
• Lin Yunji, unable to use the tower's functions yet, pulled the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda back off the disc.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Yunji learned that Cult Master Tongtian and the others had gone to the Hongluo Immortal Domain to hear Saint Venerable Daweide lecture. He reunited with Nüwo, discussed their relationship and the future, and gave her treasures and eight Seals of Samsara, leaving them prepared to empower and protect their companions.

• Lin Yunji emerged from seclusion and sensed that Cult Master Tongtian, You Han, Jiu Lu, and the others were absent from the cultivation ground.
• Nüwo told Lin Yunji that they had gone with You Han, Jiu Lu, and Dan Chenzi to the Hongluo Immortal Domain to hear Saint Venerable Daweide lecture.
• Lin Yunji proposed marrying Nüwo, but she declined a public ceremony and said she wanted to remain together with Houtu and Changxi.
• Lin Yunji told Nüwo that the Spirit God Universe would collapse in two billion years, ending its threat to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji gave Nüwo three Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures and showed her the many treasures he still possessed.
• Lin Yunji gave Nüwo eight Seals of Samsara, which could allow eight people to become Supremes, and she accepted them without asking where they came from.

Lin Yunji discussed who should receive the eight Seals of Samsara with Nüwo, then was summoned to defend the Primordial Expanse Great Formation. He learned that the collapsing Spirit God Universe planned to sacrifice its four great Creation Gods to break through the formation.

• Lin Yunji and Nüwo chose recipients for the eight Seals of Samsara, including Houtu, Changxi, Yunxiao, Old Daoist Baiquan, Old Daoist Baixi, and Fuxi.
• A decree from Immortal Venerable Hongluo summoned Lin Yunji to aid the endangered Primordial Expanse Great Formation, and Lin Yunji left the seals and treasures with Nüwo for Cult Master Tongtian and the others.
• Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide hurried to the formation, where they joined hundreds of the Primordial Expanse Universe's strongest Supremes.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that the Spirit God Universe was collapsing and could be destroyed within three hundred million years.
• Lin Yunji learned that the Spirit God Universe's four great Creation Gods intended to self-destruct against the formation in a last attempt to save their universe's inhabitants.

The venerables debated how to defend the Primordial Expanse Universe from the Spirit God Universe’s planned assault, while Lin Yunji proposed striking first by accelerating its collapse. Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable then said the Spirit God Universe might be destroyed all at once, leaving the gathering waiting to hear her method.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo and the other venerables rejected peace talks and discussed how to survive an attack by the four Great Creation Gods.
• Supreme Hongdu silenced the arguing venerables and invited Lin Yunji to explain his proposal.
• Lin Yunji urged them to hasten the Spirit God Universe’s collapse and strike before its Great Creation Gods finished preparing.
• The venerables doubted that an earlier collapse would stop the Great Creation Gods from detonating themselves at the last moment.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable said there was a way to destroy the Spirit God Universe all at once, drawing the attention of the gathering.

The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that destroying the Spirit God Universe could be possible by shattering the region around its singularity, but warned that a new infiltration might expose the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle. Lin Yunji proposed feigning peace talks to distract the Spirit God Universe’s four Great Creation Gods, and the Supremes agreed to find negotiators.

• The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the Spirit God Universe was close to natural collapse and could be destroyed by damaging the region around its singularity.
• Supreme Hongdu recognized that the plan required another infiltration, while the Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned that the Great Creation Gods might detect the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle and capture it.
• Lin Yunji proposed staging peace talks to draw the four Great Creation Gods’ attention away from the infiltration.
• Supreme Hongdu praised Lin Yunji’s plan and said they needed to find someone to conduct the peace talks.

Lin Yunji and the other Supremes arranged a deceptive peace mission so a twelve-person team could infiltrate the Spirit God Universe. After Shangyu, Demon Venerable Lieque, and Mystic Venerable Liu Yin went ahead as negotiators, Lin Yunji’s team slipped in undetected and headed for the universe’s singularity, the Primordial Sea.

• Heavenly Venerable Shangyu, Demon Venerable Lieque, and Mystic Venerable Liu Yin volunteered to risk their true bodies as peace negotiators, and Lin Yunji and the other Supremes bowed to them.
• Lin Yunji volunteered for the infiltration, and Supreme Hongdu organized a twelve-person team while the Supremes set conditions for the proposed peace talks.
• The Primordial Expanse Universe sent word requesting negotiations, and the Spirit God Universe’s forces stopped attacking the Primordial Expanse Great Formation.
• Shangyu and the other two Supremes entered the cosmic passage, then Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable carried Lin Yunji and eleven others toward the Spirit God Universe aboard the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle.
• Lin Yunji’s team entered the Spirit God Universe without being discovered and headed for its singularity, a vast chaotic expanse called the Primordial Sea.