Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji explained the dangers and potential rewards of the Vast Blue Illusory Realm as the Supremes discussed the Primordial Expanse Universe joining the Universe Alliance. A terrifying visitor named Jianan arrived in the Source Realm and greeted Lin Yunji, leaving the Supremes stunned.

• Lin Yunji said that breakthroughs in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm could help the Supremes reach Hunyuan Great Emperor, while Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned that entrants had to kill others to grow stronger and needed a rare Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo decided to summon Supreme Hongdu, Fellow Daoist Wuxuan, and the others to explain the situation after the universe's application to join the Universe Alliance had been settled.
• Lin Yunji revealed that he had contacted the Canglan Universe Alliance through a planar merchant and had spent four hundred million years spreading the Divine Net throughout the Source Realm to increase his power.
• A vast divine sense swept across the Primordial Expanse Universe and frightened its Supremes, then asked for Lin Yunji by name.
• Lin Yunji welcomed Your Excellency Jianan, who entered the Primordial Expanse Universe and appeared in the Hongluo Immortal Domain.

Executive Divine Officer Jianan assessed Lin Yunji’s claim that he was native to the Primordial Expanse Universe and accepted its unique cultivation path as grounds for certification. The Primordial Expanse Universe joined the Canglan Universe Alliance with a one-star rating, and Jianan gave Lin Yunji an Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl before departing.

• Executive Divine Officer Jianan arrived in the Hongluo Immortal Domain and told Lin Yunji that the Primordial Expanse Universe lacked a Universe Level being and could not join if it had been founded by colonizers.
• Lin Yunji insisted that he was a native and the pioneer of new cultivation realms in the Primordial Expanse Universe, and Jianan verified that his cultivation path was unique to it.
• Jianan certified the Primordial Expanse Universe as a member of the Canglan Universe Alliance with a one-star rating, explaining its rights, duties, and fees.
• Lin Yunji asked about entering the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, and Jianan gave him an Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl.
• Jianan finished his official business and departed the Primordial Expanse Universe.

After Jianan left the Hongluo Immortal Domain, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained the Universe Alliance, executive-priest ranks, and the power of advanced cosmic civilizations. The venerables marveled at Lin Yunji’s strength, while he reflected that destroying the Spirit God Universe had let him spread the Divine Net and advance rapidly.

• Jianan departed the Primordial Expanse Universe, and the venerables in the Hongluo Immortal Domain recovered from the pressure of his presence.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that Jianan was a four-star executive priest and described the Canglan Universe Sphere, the Universe Alliance, and its nine priest ranks.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that four-star priests were exceptionally powerful, often from advanced eternal-universe civilizations or transformed universes, leaving the venerables in awe of Lin Yunji.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo said the Spirit God Universe would eventually have been destroyed regardless, and the venerables agreed that Lin Yunji could now defeat it easily.
• Lin Yunji reflected that defeating the Spirit God Universe had allowed him to spread the Divine Net across the Spirit Realm and accelerate his cultivation over four hundred million years.

Lin Yunji decided to obtain more Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls so he and other venerables could enter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm together and build a force there. After reconnecting with his planar merchant contact, he asked to buy several pearls.

• Lin Yunji refused to use an Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl alone and said he wanted to strengthen the Primordial Expanse Universe by bringing several venerables into the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with him.
• Lin Yunji asked the venerables to explain the Primordial Expanse Universe's entry into the Canglan Universe Alliance across the major realms.
• Lin Yunji told Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable he planned to buy Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls on credit from a planar merchant, then showed her the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Tower and introduced his contact.
• Three months later, Lin Yunji spoke with the planar merchant, who described an Ancient Saint destroying the Universe Furnace in the Miaoleng Universe.
• Lin Yunji asked the planar merchant to sell him a few Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls, and the merchant asked how many he wanted.

Lin Yunji obtained ten Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls and selected nine Supremes, along with Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, to enter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm. After gathering the first group and explaining the risks, he prepared to send them in together.

• Lin Yunji bought ten Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls from the planar merchant on credit and paid a teleportation fee in Canglan Points.
• News that the Primordial Expanse Universe had joined the Canglan Universe Alliance spread through the Source Realm, and Supremes asked Lin Yunji to let them use the pearls.
• Lin Yunji selected ten candidates, including Saint Venerable Daweide, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Supreme Hongdu, Sword Venerable Datuo, Divine Venerable Xuanjian, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable.
• Lin Yunji gathered the selected Supremes at the Great Emperor Venerable Palace, explained how to use the pearls, and warned them to escape if a vicious beast attacked upon arrival.

Lin Yunji and the venerables entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where their powers were suppressed and they became mortals. Lin Yunji explained how killing living creatures granted power and guarded the others as they searched the barren wilderness for bugs.

• Lin Yunji entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with his Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl, and the venerables followed.
• Lin Yunji found that his body and robe had been reduced to mortal strength, and he could not access his small world or retrieve his weapon.
• Lin Yunji helped the venerables adjust after they woke up unable to stand, while Saint Venerable Daweide killed a bug and gained a little power.
• Lin Yunji explained that killing living creatures granted power, while plants could not be plundered for energy.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to search for bugs as they adapted to their bodies, and he stayed nearby to guard them.

Lin Yunji and the venerables struggled with their frail mortal bodies in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where killing bugs could help the weaker cultivators grow stronger. When the group’s stomachs began to rumble, Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that mortals had to eat to replenish their strength.

• Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables crawled around killing bugs to gain power, then rested because their weakened bodies could barely support them.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that lower-level cultivators could grow by killing wild creatures, while Lin Yunji gained almost no power from the bugs.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian and the others noticed their stomachs rumbling and worried that someone had harmed them.
• Lin Yunji asked Emperor Venerable Wuxuan when he had last eaten, and Wuxuan recalled sharing fruit more than thirty million years earlier.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that the Vast Blue Illusory Realm had made them ordinary mortals who needed food to restore their strength.

Lin Yunji and the venerables entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where they discovered that hunger weakened them and checked how close their cultivation was to Universe Level, First Stage. After they left to recover, Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian had been injured fighting Supreme Huangque over a Chaos Spirit Vein.

• Lin Yunji explained that the venerables could leave the Vast Blue Illusory Realm to rest or eat the bugs inside, then told them to check their cultivation levels with divine sense.
• The venerables found their cultivation scores in the eighties and nineties, near the hundred points Lin Yunji said a normal Universe Level, First Stage cultivator had.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables left the illusory realm and discovered that hunger inside had cost them nearly half or more of their Law Power, so Lin Yunji sent them to recover.
• Lin Yunji told Nüwo that they had been catching bugs in the realm, and Nüwo laughed at the Supremes being reduced to mortals.
• Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian and Supreme Huangque had fought over a Chaos Spirit Vein, and that Supreme Huangque had injured Cult Master Tongtian.

Nüwo told Lin Yunji that Cult Master Tongtian’s dispute with Supreme Huangque had escalated into a public factional conflict, and warned that intervening could damage Lin Yunji’s reputation. Lin Yunji dismissed the risk and sent a Dharma body to settle the matter in favor of his family, while Nüwo feared the conflict might worsen.

• Nüwo explained that Supreme Huangque had taken Cult Master Tongtian’s supreme treasure and humiliated him, prompting You Han, Dan Chenzi, and others to suppress Huangque.
• Huangque’s disciples and allies retaliated, and the conflict grew into an arena battle in the Tenth Heavenly Tier, drawing many powerful cultivators.
• Nüwo said the Divine Net framed the dispute as a struggle between the Primordial Wilderness Faction and the Rogue Cultivator Faction, with public opinion favoring Huangque’s side.
• Lin Yunji considered the reputational cost of intervening but decided there was no reason to let others bully his master and friends.
• Lin Yunji created a Dharma body and sent it to settle the dispute, while Nüwo urged him not to let matters reach a complete breakdown.

Lin Yunji intervened in the standoff in the Tenth Heavenly Tier Domain after Heavenly Venerable Huangque and nearly a hundred Supremes challenged Cult Master Tongtian’s side. He suppressed Huangque and his followers, then reassured his master and martial uncles that he would protect them.

• Cult Master Tongtian’s side discussed how Heavenly Venerable Huangque’s numbers were growing and worried that public opinion favored him.
• Lin Yunji’s Law Body arrived and overwhelmed the battlefield with his power.
• Lin Yunji destroyed Heavenly Venerable Huangque’s physical body, suppressed his primordial spirit for a hundred million years, and turned the other Supremes into stone statues for five million years.
• Lin Yunji warned anyone dissatisfied to confront him at the Heavenly Sovereign Imperial Palace rather than bother Cult Master Tongtian.
• Lin Yunji stopped Cult Master Tongtian and the others from bowing, honored them as his elders, and explained that Huangque’s group had been testing whether he would intervene.

Lin Yunji and the venerables searched the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and discovered a venomous snake hidden in a hole. Lin Yunji captured it and prepared to collect its venom, leaving the snake’s fangs exposed.

• Lin Yunji watched over Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables as they searched for bugs in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan found a hidden hole, and Lin Yunji dug it open despite the venerables’ weakness in the realm.
• A snake burst from the hole, and Lin Yunji caught it before it could escape.
• Lin Yunji identified the snake as venomous and asked the venerables to bring him a jar to collect its venom.
• Saint Venerable Daweide returned with a Primordial Expanse Mystic Jade Treasure Bottle, and Lin Yunji poured out its Chaos Spirit Liquid before forcing the snake’s mouth open.

Lin Yunji helped the venerables hunt creatures in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm so they could regain strength, and several of them broke through to Universe Level, First Stage. As dusk fell, they cooked and ate the meat they had gathered, preparing to continue without leaving the realm.

• Lin Yunji drained the venom from four green snakes and had Emperor Venerable Wuxuan kill them, restoring Wuxuan's strength until he was close to a breakthrough.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to search carefully for larger animals, then caught a green frog and had Sword Venerable Datuo kill it.
• Lin Yunji smoked rabbits out of their burrow, and the group hunted more small animals for meat and strength.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Saint Venerable Daweide, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, and Supreme Hongdu broke through to Universe Level, First Stage.
• As both suns set, Lin Yunji cooked the frog, rabbit, snake, and mouse meat with wild fruits and vegetables, and the venerables ate the unseasoned stew rather than leave the realm and lose time.

Lin Yunji prepared the venerables to hunt Specters in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, explaining how fire could protect them and how Specters attacked. The chapter ended with dozens of Specters surrounding their campfire, unable to approach its light.

• Lin Yunji told the venerables they would stay out at night to hunt Specters, and they agreed to trust him despite the danger.
• Lin Yunji explained that Specters feared fire and had the venerables gather branches while he built a campfire and made torches from rabbit fat, cloth, and sticks.
• Lin Yunji described Specters' curses and explained that powerful ones could use Moves, which might drop as energy balls when they were killed.
• As the venerables waited beside the campfire, they gradually fell asleep until Lin Yunji woke them and warned that Specters had arrived.
• The venerables awoke to dozens of hazy Specters surrounding the campfire, held back by its light.

Lin Yunji showed the venerables how to use torches to kill the specters around their bonfire, helping them grow stronger as they cleared the area. As they waited beside the fire, a larger, human-shaped figure appeared in the darkness, bringing an intense chill with it.

• Lin Yunji lured the specters toward the bonfire and burned them away with his torch.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and the other venerables followed Lin Yunji’s example, killing specters and breaking through in cultivation.
• The venerables slaughtered all the specters near the bonfire, and Emperor Venerable Wuxuan’s strength rose to 182 points.
• Lin Yunji told the group to wait by the bonfire rather than risk leaving it.
• The bonfire flickered and weakened as a hazy human-shaped figure appeared about ten zhang away, staring at the group.

Lin Yunji and the venerables fought a Higher Specter in the darkness after it extinguished their bonfire and attacked Sword Venerable Datuo. Lin Yunji grabbed the Specter’s solid ghostly hands, convinced that its strongest weapon was also its weakness.

• Lin Yunji discovered that burning branches could pierce the Higher Specter and hurled several at it.
• The Specter unleashed a shriek and a sinister wind that stunned everyone, scattered the bonfire, and plunged the plain into darkness.
• Lin Yunji relit the fire with dry branches and rabbit fat, but saw the Specter choking Sword Venerable Datuo.
• Lin Yunji struck the Specter with burning charcoal, freeing Sword Venerable Datuo, who was then clawed and thrown to the ground.
• Lin Yunji smashed the Specter’s head with a burning stick, then seized both of its solid ghostly hands as they emerged.

Lin Yunji burned a high-level specter and helped Sword Venerable Datuo escape the Vast Blue Illusory Realm before the injured group withdrew. Just as Lin Yunji prepared to leave, he discovered and equipped the Green Jade Ghost Hand divine artifact.

• Lin Yunji tore off the specter's ghost hand and burned the specter in the campfire, gaining a wisp of power but badly burning and corroding his arms.
• Lin Yunji examined Sword Venerable Datuo's rotting chest wound and used burning coals to wake him so he could return to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji told the venerables to withdraw from the Vast Blue Illusory Realm because he could no longer protect them, and they began leaving with the Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl.
• Lin Yunji spotted a green orb in the campfire and retrieved it, discovering that it was the White Porcelain Grade Green Jade Ghost Hand with the Ghost Claw move.
• Lin Yunji equipped the Green Jade Ghost Hand and summoned a pair of green, ghostly arms beneath his own.

Lin Yunji returned from the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with a new Green Jade Ghost Hand and injuries he could heal in seclusion, while the Venerables discussed their gains and Daoist Datuo’s condition. At the edge of the Primordial Expanse Universe, a powerful figure emerged from a collapsed void chasm, declared himself supreme, and discovered that the Source Realm still existed.

• Lin Yunji tested the Green Jade Ghost Hand, found it moved like his own arm and could attack ghosts, then returned to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• The Venerables told Lin Yunji that Daoist Datuo had left to recuperate from severe injuries, while they discussed their breakthroughs and the dangers of the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.
• Lin Yunji explained that raging flames and Yin Sha Qi were destroying his arms, but said he could suppress and refine those forces while recuperating in seclusion.
• At the edge of the universe, a towering figure emerged from a shattered void chasm and announced that he had cultivated the supreme Great Dao and would reign supreme.
• The figure spread his divine sense throughout the universe and was shocked to find the Source Realm still existed.

Demon Venerable Zhiyan returned from seclusion and declared that he would rule the Source Realm, only to discover that its powerhouses had grown far beyond his expectations. Lin Yunji effortlessly subdued him, leaving Zhiyan terrified and unaware of how such a formidable figure had appeared.

• Demon Venerable Zhiyan arrived in the prosperous Source Realm and proclaimed that all venerables must submit to him.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan confronted Zhiyan and revealed that he had reached the Hunyuan Great Emperor realm.
• Zhiyan learned that more than ten people in the Source Realm had reached that realm, including Hongluo, Daweide, and Xuan Jian, and that Lin Yunji led the realm.
• Lin Yunji emerged, suppressed Zhiyan with a huge hand, and held him in his palm.
• Emperor Venerable Xuanwu explained that Zhiyan belonged to the Source Realm and had been presumed dead after its earlier calamity.

Lin Yunji spared Demon Venerable Zhiyan but sentenced him to guard the Source Realm Divine Graveyard for ten billion years. After his arm healed, Lin Yunji gathered the others to reenter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where they agreed to leave the insect-filled area and move onward.

• Supreme Hongdu asked Lin Yunji to spare Demon Venerable Zhiyan, and Lin Yunji agreed to spare his life but punish him.
• Lin Yunji sentenced Demon Venerable Zhiyan to guard the Source Realm Divine Graveyard for ten billion years and sent him there.
• Demon Venerable Zhiyan surveyed the gravestones and recognized many of the names as people he had known.
• After Lin Yunji's arm healed, he gathered the others to enter the Vast Blue Illusory Realm again, while Divine Venerable Xuanjian brought Daoist Datuo's Illusory Realm Spirit Pearl because Daoist Datuo remained badly injured.
• Lin Yunji and the others returned to the extinguished campfire and agreed to choose a direction and move forward instead of fighting insects.

Lin Yunji and the venerables traveled through the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, where a sudden downpour turned out to be Beast Rain that created wild creatures from condensed energy. As frogs began falling from the sky, a huge one landed in front of them, leaving them facing an uncertain threat.

• Lin Yunji led the venerables in a random direction, and they agreed to hunt wild creatures until they reached the Universe Second Stage.
• Rain soaked their clothes, turned the ground to mud, and made it difficult to see or walk.
• A frog fell onto Supreme Hongdu, who killed it and absorbed a stream of power.
• Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable recognized the downpour as Beast Rain and warned that its creatures could be dangerous.
• Frogs began falling all around the group, and a washbasin-sized frog slammed into the mud in front of them.