Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji and the Divine Venerables fought off frogs raining from the sky, including a massive frog whose tongue and poisonous spray threatened the group. After Saint Venerable Daweide delivered the killing blow, a surge of pure power entered his body.

• A frog pierced Emperor Venerable Wuxuan's arm with its tongue and dragged him toward it, but Lin Yunji killed the frog before it could reach him.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan sucked the poisoned blood from his wound, easing the numbness in his arm.
• As frogs continued to fall, Lin Yunji and the Venerables halted and stayed alert, killing the attackers that came near.
• A calf-sized frog charged at the group, and Lin Yunji dodged its tongue and cut it off before wounding the frog with his fork and blade.
• The enormous frog sprayed corrosive poison, so Lin Yunji warned the others and they attacked it together.
• Saint Venerable Daweide delivered the final blow, and a surge of pure power entered his body.

Lin Yunji led the venerables through the frog rain, where they gained energy and learned how far his combat power surpassed theirs. After the storm, they found a village of natives descended from outsiders, and Lin Yunji led the group toward it without fear.

• Saint Venerable Daweide gained nearly twenty energy points after the venerables killed an enormous frog, while Lin Yunji explained that he had deliberately left the killing blow to them.
• Lin Yunji revealed that his combat power exceeded five thousand points and that killing the frog himself would have earned him less than half an energy point.
• After the frog rain ended, Lin Yunji led the group onward, and Immortal Venerable Hongluo spotted thatched cottages at the foot of a mountain range.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the villagers were descendants of outsiders who had entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and become trapped there.
• Lin Yunji led the venerables toward the village, reassuring them that they had little to fear from the natives.

Lin Yunji and the Venerables met a village of native residents in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and learned how the village had become isolated. After confirming it was independent and had no other outsiders, Lin Yunji proposed using it as a long-term base, where native leaders could issue quests that rewarded cultivators with energy.

• Lin Yunji led the Venerables to the village, where the old patriarch welcomed them inside as guests.
• The old patriarch explained that his people had left Jade City after a conflict with Cold Jade City and that disasters and epidemics had reduced their clan from over three hundred members to a handful.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that Jade City and Cold Jade City had been established by powerful outside universe civilizations.
• Lin Yunji asked whether the village was independent and had no other outsiders, then offered to cooperate with the patriarch and make the village a long-term base for the Primordial Expanse Universe civilization.
• The chapter explained that native leaders could issue quests to outside cultivators, who received energy as rewards for completing them.

Lin Yunji decided to establish a base for the Primordial Expanse Universe in Big Stone Town, and its old patriarch granted him builder authority. The town’s protections and blessing were revealed, giving Lin Yunji control over a base with four rare protections.

• Lin Yunji decided to build a base in the village rather than seek shelter at an existing one, and the old patriarch agreed.
• Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide followed the old patriarch to the town’s stone stele and discovered that the settlement was Big Stone Town, a town-level base.
• The old patriarch and Lin Yunji entered a contract that made Lin Yunji a builder of Big Stone Town.
• The realm’s rules announced that Lin Yunji had gained base management authority and a fifteen-percent power increase within the base, and listed its Sun, Bloodline, River, Plague, and Construction protections.
• Lin Yunji recognized that Big Stone Town’s Sun and Plague protections were unusually valuable and considered their benefits for the town’s residents.

Lin Yunji and the venerables established a base in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, renamed Big Stone Town to Primordial Expanse Town, and organized work to develop it. The chapter ended with Lin Yunji, Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, and Saint Venerable Daweide chopping trees for the planned trading post.

• Lin Yunji kept the village's Sun Protection and Plague Protection and had the venerables bind themselves to the base by dripping blood on its stone stele.
• Lin Yunji renamed Big Stone Town to Primordial Expanse Town and explained that the group would focus on building up their own base instead of seeking refuge elsewhere.
• The old patriarch issued tasks to gather building materials, grain, and fresh water and to make looms, while Lin Yunji asked villagers to help produce equipment.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered that the villagers' stone tools and wooden shield had far better attributes in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm than their supreme treasures.
• Lin Yunji assigned the venerables their tasks and went with Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and Saint Venerable Daweide to chop trees for the trading post.

Lin Yunji built an altar trading point and used it to access the Vast Blue Illusory Realm marketplace. After the system offered to hack into the realm’s rules, Lin Yunji agreed, gaining access to powerful new functions.

• Lin Yunji and the Saint Venerables cut down three trees, then carried them back to the village with stones collected by Supreme Huorong and the others.
• Lin Yunji built an altar trading point from split wood and broken stones.
• Lin Yunji discovered that the marketplace accepted a stone axe for two Canglan Points and let him browse Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls.
• The system offered to hack into the Vast Blue Illusory Realm’s rules, warning that the creator of those rules might detect it.
• Lin Yunji agreed to the hack, and the system added creation, transfer, erasure, and attribute-modification functions.

Lin Yunji learned how the system’s creation, erasure, and transfer functions worked, then joined Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and the others to investigate a group of wild dogs. They discovered that the dogs were appearing at a birthplace, and Lin Yunji considered occupying it for the creatures and rewards it could produce.

• Lin Yunji learned that using the system’s cheats could lead to discovery, so he canceled his hack into the world and kept it as a last resort.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable brought Lin Yunji to a river, where Immortal Venerable Hongluo and Immortal Venerable Tianyu were watching wild dogs across the water.
• After waiting for more than an hour, Lin Yunji saw a wild dog appear from a faint light among the rocks.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the rocks marked a birthplace that regularly produced wild creatures.
• Lin Yunji suggested occupying the birthplace, noting that it could eventually produce stronger creatures and divine artifacts.

Lin Yunji and the venerables set aside their task of fetching water and crossed the river to kill the wild dogs gathered on the opposite bank. After wiping out the pack, they found that the creatures were too weak to offer much power.

• Lin Yunji decided to postpone fetching water and return to the village before dealing with the wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji brought stone weapons, and he and the venerables waded across the shallow river as the wild dogs barked at them from the bank.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables attacked the pack, with Lin Yunji using a stone spear and the others fighting with clubs, axes, and spears.
• The venerables killed all the wild dogs, and Lin Yunji noted that the creatures were below Cosmic Level One and yielded little power.

After Lin Yunji and the venerables found a lake surrounded by wild dog bones, a gigantic python rose from its depths and drove them away. Lin Yunji decided they should remain near Big Stone Town, suspecting the monster could not leave the water and that its presence had drawn the wild dogs to their deaths.

• Lin Yunji led the venerables across the river and around White Mountain to investigate why no more wild dogs had appeared.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered a barrier lake surrounded by mud and countless wild dog bones, and Lin Yunji urged them to leave.
• A huge python erupted from the lake, and Lin Yunji and the venerables fled across the ridge and river.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, and Divine Venerable Xuanjian questioned the python's strength and the number of dead wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji decided to stay, reasoning that the python might be unable to cross the mud and that the wild dogs had approached it because of its intimidation.

Lin Yunji and the venerables discovered that the lake monster lured wild dogs into the water and devoured them, then discussed ways to contain it. After returning to the village, they reported completing the old patriarch’s four tasks and received power from the Unseen.

• Lin Yunji brought a wild dog to the lake and showed the venerables how the monster compelled it to enter the water and swallowed it.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable realized the lake mud came from the monster spitting out the dog’s bones.
• Supreme Hongdu proposed starving the monster by controlling the wild dogs, while Immortal Venerable Hongluo suggested poisoning it; Lin Yunji advised avoiding the monster and watching for elite wild dogs.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables drew water from the river and reported to the old patriarch that they had completed all four tasks.
• The Unseen rewarded everyone who had participated, and Saint Venerable Daweide said he had received about ten points.

Lin Yunji and the other Venerables settled in the village, used the old patriarch’s daily quests to build up their base, and rapidly advanced to the Universe Level, Second Stage. With Canglan Points earned through trade, Lin Yunji bought more than twenty Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls so they could bring more Supremes into the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.

• Lin Yunji explained that the old patriarch could issue four quests each day, and the group decided to establish a base in the village.
• The old patriarch offered the group spare rooms and told Lin Yunji that the villagers had begun making cloth, wooden armor, bows, and arrows.
• Lin Yunji and the other Venerables completed quests for lumber, stone, houses, and food, building up the village base.
• After a month in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, the Venerables reached the Universe Level, Second Stage.
• Lin Yunji and the others sold equipment and dry rations at the trading post, then bought more than twenty Illusory Realm Spirit Pearls to bring in additional Supremes.

Lin Yunji left the Vast Blue Illusory Realm with Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, who decided to seek her home universe’s inheritance and enter seclusion. After learning that Gu Yi had an urgent message, Lin Yunji contacted him and heard that a wanderer had found something inside the Dark Vortex where the Qingling Universe had been swallowed.

• Lin Yunji let the venerables choose whether to leave the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, but only Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable chose to go.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable told Lin Yunji she wanted the Qingling Universe inheritance and then departed to enter seclusion.
• Nüwa told Lin Yunji that Gu Yi had asked him to make contact after returning, a message she had received five hundred million years earlier.
• Lin Yunji contacted Gu Yi, who explained that the Qingling Universe had been stripped of its resources and swallowed by the Dark Vortex.
• Gu Yi said a wanderer had been swallowed by the Dark Vortex and asked Lin Yunji to guess what the wanderer encountered; Lin Yunji guessed the Qingling Universe’s remains.

Gu Yi told Lin Yunji that the Azure Spirit Universe might have survived the fifth Universe Final Tribulation and be slowly recovering into an unmastered eternal universe, drawing powerful civilizations toward its remnant shell. After their call, Lin Yunji privately reflected on Ice Blockage, a survivor whose connection to the Azure Spirit Universe he had kept secret.

• Gu Yi explained that the Azure Spirit Universe's remnant shell might be an embryonic eternal universe and that powerful beings were seeking it.
• Gu Yi invited Lin Yunji to join the search near the Dark Vortex, but Lin Yunji said he would think about it.
• Gu Yi asked how the people Lin Yunji had brought into the Vast Blue Illusory Realm were progressing, and Lin Yunji said they had reached Universe Level, Second Stage.
• Lin Yunji described how the group established a base with Jade City villagers and could complete four quests each day.
• Gu Yi warned Lin Yunji not to neglect his own cultivation while helping the Primordial Expanse Universe grow.
• After ending the call, Lin Yunji grew grave and kept Ice Blockage's identity as a survivor of the Azure Spirit Universe secret.

Lin Yunji told Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable that the Azure Spirit Universe had survived as an Eternal Universe, and she resolved to reclaim it. Though Lin Yunji agreed to help, they recognized that she first needed to absorb the power sealed within her true body.

• Lin Yunji visited Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and told her the Azure Spirit Universe had become an Eternal Universe.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable was stunned and prepared to return to the Azure Spirit Universe, but Lin Yunji warned that it was hidden in the Dark Vortex and surrounded by searching experts.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable calmed down but insisted that she would find the Qingling Universe and take it back.
• Lin Yunji sensed that memories sealed in Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable's true body had influenced her resolve.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable asked Lin Yunji for help, and he revealed that he was at Universe Level Five but could not defeat the Ancient Saints.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable proposed absorbing the power sealed in her true body as their first priority, and Lin Yunji agreed.

Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable asked Lin Yunji to help her inherit a powerful figure’s sealed memories without losing herself, and he agreed to combine their wills despite the danger. As the memories flooded them, Lin Yunji shielded her from their overwhelming force, but the chapter ended before they had finished absorbing them.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that inheriting the memories and insights of a Universe Level Six figure could cause her to be assimilated by that figure’s will.
• Lin Yunji agreed to combine his will with hers, despite learning that the figure had reached Universe Level Six.
• Lin Yunji and Ice Blockage Supreme Venerable sealed the Ice Immortal Palace, opened their minds to each other, and merged their wills.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable released all the seals at once, sending the figure’s memories and insights flooding into their joined wills.
• Lin Yunji enveloped Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable’s will and absorbed much of the impact as the memories overwhelmed them.

Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable used the system to analyze and inherit Ice-Cold Absolute Emperor’s memories, leaving her at Universe Level Six but with weaker combat strength. They set out in the Universe Star Shuttle for the Qingling Universe, where she hoped to reclaim control and secure the Universe Alliance’s protection.

• The system analyzed the foreign civilization information and helped Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable withstand the memories and experiences they shared.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable inherited Ice-Cold Absolute Emperor’s memories and bearing, and Lin Yunji checked that she had not been assimilated.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable said she had reached Universe Level Six but only possessed Universe Level Four strength.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that she could sense the Qingling Universe and intended to take control of it and seek the Universe Alliance’s protection.
• Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable left the Primordial Expanse Universe aboard the Universe Star Shuttle, which traveled through higher-dimensional space.

Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable searched the void for the hidden Qingling Universe for over a hundred million years. When they sensed Ancient Saint-level combat nearby, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable detected that the Qingling Universe had been invaded, and they contacted the Universe Alliance for protection.

• Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable spent over a hundred million years searching for the Qingling Universe aboard the Universe Star Shuttle without finding it.
• A distant battle between two powerful Ancient Saints drew the searchers toward the disturbance.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable sensed the Qingling Universe's pan-consciousness and realized someone had invaded it.
• Lin Yunji told Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable to seek the Universe Alliance's protection, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable contacted an ancient divine official through the Universe Heavenly Foundation Tower.

Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable secured the Canglan Universe Alliance’s promise to protect the Qingling Universe, but powerful experts pulled the universe’s remnant from the dark vortex and began auctioning it. As the bids rose, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable worried that the Qingling Universe would soon be taken away.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable contacted a powerful alliance executive, who agreed to protect the Qingling Universe, while Lin Yunji learned of the executive’s status and ties to the empress.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the Qingling Universe’s destruction had involved conflicts among the alliance’s upper ranks.
• The battling experts joined forces to split open the dark vortex and drag the Qingling Universe’s remnant shell out, further damaging it.
• The experts argued over who would claim the Qingling Universe, then agreed to auction it among those above level six and share the proceeds with the others.
• The auction began with bids of five million and 5.1 million Canglan Points, while Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable anxiously asked what they should do.

Lin Yunji and the others waited as powerful experts bid for the Qingling Universe, until Holy Lord Tianyi arrived and revealed that Empress Binghan was alive. He restored the universe to its former location and left it under his protection.

• Lin Yunji urged the others to wait, explaining that the alliance's rules still recognized the Qingling Universe as existing.
• After the bidding for the Qingling Universe reached 800 Canglan Points, Holy Lord Tianyi appeared and broke the experts' suppression of it.
• Ice Blockage Supreme Venerable emerged from the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle and greeted Holy Lord Tianyi as Empress Binghan.
• The bidders acknowledged their mistake and left after Holy Lord Tianyi ordered them to go.
• Holy Lord Tianyi lifted the Qingling Universe and returned it to its original location, then offered Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable his continued help.
• Lin Yunji stayed aboard the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle to keep his identity and connections hidden, while Holy Lord Tianyi departed.

Lin Yunji declined Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable’s offer to settle in the restored Qingling Universe, choosing to return to his home in the Primordial Expanse Universe. He returned safely and asked Nüwa about Saint Venerable Daweide and the others, then she asked why Ice Blockage had not come back with him.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable welcomed Lin Yunji into the Qingling Universe after the other spectators departed.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable asked Lin Yunji to stay and help her teach the newly born cosmic beings, but Lin Yunji refused to abandon the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji reassured Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable that they could meet in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm, and she gave him the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle for his return journey.
• Lin Yunji traveled back to the Primordial Expanse Universe and found that it had barely changed.
• Lin Yunji asked Nüwa about Saint Venerable Daweide and the others, and Nüwa asked why Ice Blockage had not returned with him.