Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue persuaded Hong Die to give the Heavenly Mandate Bead a drop of her blood, which awakened memories of her previous life and her father, Clear Water Immortal Lord. They entered the Rain Immortal Realm together, only to find it reduced to a silent ruin, leaving them to face the mystery of its destruction.

• Wang Yue asked Hong Die for a drop of blood, and she attacked him with the Five Elements Spirits before he froze them with Nirvana Cold Light.
• Wang Yue revealed the Moon-Gazing Saber’s overwhelming power and offered Hong Die the Heavenly Mandate Bead, convincing her to provide a drop of blood on the condition that she could enter the Rain Immortal Realm with him.
• The Heavenly Mandate Bead revealed Hong Die’s past-life memories, including her mother’s death and a message that her father had been a hero who had not intended to harm her mother.
• Wang Yue opened a passage to the Rain Immortal Realm, and Hong Die followed him inside to seek the truth about her father.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die arrived in a lifeless realm shattered into countless fragments, and Hong Die wondered what had happened to the Immortal Realm.

The Heavenly Mandate Bead explained the destruction of the Four Great Immortal Realms and the Seven-Colored Immortal Venerable’s plans, while Hong Die recovered memories of her past life. Wang Yue and Hong Die found Qingshuang Villa and began cultivating, where Wang Yue’s astonishing absorption of Immortal Qi left Hong Die stunned.

• The Heavenly Mandate Bead told Wang Yue that the Palm Sovereign’s war had killed the Realm Sealing Supreme and destroyed the Four Great Immortal Realms, and explained the Seven-Colored Immortal Venerable’s reincarnations and Clear Water Immortal Lord’s fate.
• Hong Die said she had recovered memories of her past life and led Wang Yue to search for a place with abundant Immortal Qi.
• Hong Die found the vanished site of Immortal Emperor Qinglin’s imperial palace and worried about the fate of the Thunder Immortal Realm.
• Hong Die opened Qingshuang Villa, a hidden immortal palace built from Immortal Jade, and told Wang Yue that the Immortal Qi there settled what they owed each other.
• Hong Die and Wang Yue entered the palace and began cultivating; Hong Die used a Five Elements cultivation method, while Wang Yue absorbed Immortal Qi with extraordinary force.
• Hong Die stopped cultivating and wondered who Wang Yue was after seeing him create a huge Immortal Qi vortex.

Wang Yue and Hong Die searched the shattered Rain Immortal Realm for immortal residences, and Hong Die taught him several powerful immortal arts. After Wang Yue reached the brink of a breakthrough, they found three God-Slaying Chariots and prepared to leave the realm.

• Wang Yue absorbed the Immortal Qi from an immortal palace, awakened the power of his Immortal Ancient Undying Body, and introduced himself to Hong Die.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die searched the ruins for more immortal residences, with the Heavenly Mandate Bead locating places for them to plunder.
• Hong Die gave Wang Yue the Calling Wind and Rain and Calling Wind immortal arts, including the techniques Summoning Rain and Immobilize.
• Hong Die suppressed her cultivation to avoid triggering a dangerous void storm while Wang Yue continued absorbing Immortal Qi.
• Wang Yue reached the brink of a breakthrough, and he and Hong Die found a Thunder Chariot, a Mysterious Gold Chariot, and a Butterfly War Chariot in a hidden immortal residence.
• Wang Yue stored the three God-Slaying Chariots in the Heavenly Mandate Bead, and Hong Die chose the Butterfly War Chariot as they ended their journey through the Rain Immortal Realm.

After Wang Yue and Hong Die advanced to Sixth-grade Upper Immortal, they returned to Vermilion Bird Star and parted with a promise to meet again. The Vermilion Bird Son summoned both of them, intending to use Hong Die as a cultivation furnace, and set himself on a collision course with Wang Yue.

• Wang Yue and Hong Die completed their breakthroughs, and Hong Die merged the Butterfly War Chariot into her body to manifest enormous Five-Colored Butterfly Wings.
• Wang Yue resolved to kill Seven-Colored Daoist for causing Clear Water Immortal Lord's madness, then returned with Hong Die to the Snow Region Ice Plains.
• Wang Yue told Hong Die he would come find her before opening a spatial passage and returning to Hengyue Sect, where he began secluded cultivation.
• The Vermilion Bird Son discovered that the Star Cultivation Crystal had been sealed and could not be controlled, then ordered Wang Yue to appear at Vermilion Bird Sacred Mountain.
• The Vermilion Bird Son planned to plant a seed of intent in Hong Die so he could use her as a cultivation furnace for Qian Feng, and summoned her to an audience.

Wang Yue and Hong Die defied Vermilion Bird Envoys sent to summon them and destroyed the envoys and their talismans. Zhuque Zi declared them wanted across the world, and Wang Yue vowed to confront him.

• A Vermilion Bird Envoy delivered Zhuque Zi’s decree demanding that Wang Yue bring Hengyue Sect’s strange treasure to Vermilion Bird Sacred Mountain.
• Wang Yue rejected the order, destroyed the Vermilion Bird phantom with Summon Wind, and killed the envoy with Immobilize and Nirvana.
• Hong Die refused a similar summons in Snow Region Country, shattered the Vermilion Bird phantom, and killed the envoy with her divine abilities.
• Zhuque Zi issued an order declaring Wang Yue and Hong Die wanted across the world.
• Wang Yue drew the Moon-Gazing Saber and vowed to cut off Zhuque Zi’s head.

After Wang Yue and Hong Die were declared wanted by the Vermilion Bird Son, they joined forces with Wang Lin and Li Muwan to retaliate. The four set out on God-Slaying Chariots to confront the Vermilion Bird Son.

• Hong Die destroyed the Snow Region cultivators who pursued her after the wanted decree named her and Wang Yue.
• Wang Yue destroyed the Vermilion Bird phantom over Zhao Country and summoned Hong Die to the Hengyue Sect.
• Wang Lin, having advanced in strength, took Li Muwan to destroy the Vermilion Bird phantom over the Sea of Demonic Cultivators.
• Wang Lin and Li Muwan arrived at the Hengyue Sect, where Wang Yue introduced Hong Die and Wang Lin awkwardly identified her as his younger sister-in-law.
• Wang Yue gave Wang Lin and himself God-Slaying Chariots, and the four rode toward the Vermilion Bird Son.

Wang Yue and his companions advanced toward Vermilion Bird Sacred Mountain, destroying the Vermilion Bird Talismans and provoking Vermilion Bird Son to mobilize the whole country. When the army attacked, Li Muwan used the Spirit Sealing Curse to cut off the spiritual power of most of its cultivators, leaving them falling from the sky.

• Wang Yue destroyed the Vermilion Bird phantom over Chu Country, causing the cultivators there to abandon their plans to attack Zhao Country.
• Vermilion Bird Son activated the Vermilion Bird Great Formation and ordered all cultivators in Vermilion Bird Country to assemble for battle.
• Vermilion Bird Son threatened to shatter the Star Cultivation Crystal as Wang Yue and his companions approached the sacred mountain.
• As the Vermilion Bird army charged, Li Muwan stopped Wang Lin and Wang Yue from attacking and prepared to act herself.
• Li Muwan cast the Spirit Sealing Curse, stripping most of the attacking cultivators of their spiritual power and sending them crashing to the ground.

Wang Yue, Hong Die, Li Muwan, and Wang Lin defeated Vermilion Bird Son after he threatened to destroy Vermilion Bird Star with the Star Cultivation Crystal. Vermilion Bird Son died before he could shatter it, and the planet’s rule changed.

• Li Muwan’s strike wiped out Vermilion Bird Son’s cultivator army, and Hong Die drove the survivors away.
• Vermilion Bird Son unleashed the Vermilion Bird Great Formation, but Wang Yue, Hong Die, and the others overwhelmed it with their attacks.
• Vermilion Bird Son revealed the Star Cultivation Crystal and threatened to shatter it, killing every living being on Vermilion Bird Star unless the four killed themselves.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die briefly immobilized Vermilion Bird Son while Li Muwan obstructed his spiritual power with the Spirit Sealing Curse.
• Wang Lin pierced Vermilion Bird Son’s skull with the Star Annihilation Spear, killing him before he could destroy the crystal.

Wang Yue’s group took control of Vermilion Bird Star, while Li Yu planned to use the Nether Beast to obtain the Heavenly Dao and undermine Tianyunzi. Tuo Sen found the beast in Luotian’s forbidden mist and implanted Li Yu’s talisman in it, setting the trap in motion.

• Wang Yue returned Wang Lin, Li Muwan, and Hong Die’s life souls, seized Vermilion Bird Country’s treasury, and sent the group into secluded cultivation.
• Li Yu ended his observation of Vermilion Bird Star and decided to target Tianyunzi and the Cave Mansion Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Li Yu sent Tuo Sen to Luotian Star Domain with a talisman and instructions to implant it in the Nether Beast.
• Tuo Sen entered Luotian’s forbidden mist, drove the Nether Beast out of hiding with the Gold Dragon Halberd, and implanted Li Yu’s talisman in it.

Li Yu used the Nether Beast to study the Heavenly Dao and set a trap for Tianyunzi, while waiting for Lian Daofei to be swallowed. Fifty years later, Wang Yue and three others reached the Ascension realm, drawing Tianyunzi’s attention and prompting him to recruit Wang Yue as a disciple.

• Li Yu scanned the Nether Beast’s abilities and the part of the Heavenly Dao it had swallowed, then ordered it to search for Lian Daofei.
• Li Yu fused the Heavenly Dao into the Heavenly Mandate Bead, intending to lure Tianyunzi into seeking it through Wang Yue.
• After fifty years, Wang Yue, Hong Die, Wang Lin, and Li Muwan reached the Ascension realm, and their auras drew Tianyunzi’s attention from Tianyun Star.
• Tianyunzi sensed Wang Yue’s Nirvana Intent, returned his consciousness to his body, and invited him to become a registered disciple.
• Wang Yue considered the invitation and agreed that a sect could provide useful protection after he left Vermilion Bird Star.

After leaving Vermilion Bird Sacred Mountain, Wang Yue and Hong Die sought Zhou Yi and the immortal corpse he guarded, hoping to learn more about the destruction of the Immortal Realm. They discovered the corpse was Hong Die’s Aunt Qing Shuang, and Wang Yue’s blood and Li Yu’s Divine Spring Water began to revive her.

• Situ Nan escaped the bead and flew off to find beauties, while Wang Lin returned to cultivating with Li Muwan.
• Hong Die asked Wang Yue to return to the Thunder Immortal Realm, but the Heavenly Mandate Bead told him about Zhou Yi and the immortal corpse.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die found Zhou Yi beside a jade coffin, and Zhou Yi began burning his primordial spirit when he thought they had come to take the corpse.
• Wang Yue convinced Zhou Yi they could revive the woman, and Hong Die recognized her as her Aunt Qing Shuang.
• Wang Yue dripped his blood onto Qing Shuang’s glabella, and Li Yu sent Divine Spring Water into her body, stirring vitality, a heartbeat, and breathing.

Qing Shuang awakened with Ting'er’s personality dominant and reunited with Zhou Yi, while Hong Die and Wang Yue traveled to the shattered Thunder Immortal Realm to search for her father. There, a crimson-robed old man trapped them in a fiery restriction and declared them his Fated Ones.

• Qing Shuang awakened as a Ninth Rank Immortal Lord and accepted Zhou Yi’s name for her as Ting’er.
• Qing Shuang recognized Hong Die, explained that the Immortal Realm had been destroyed in a war with Outer Realm Demons, and agreed that Hong Die should search the Thunder Immortal Realm for her father.
• Wang Yue took Hong Die away with a Teleportation Spell, and Qing Shuang invited Zhou Yi to go with her to the Rain Immortal Realm.
• Li Yu decided to grant Hong Die the chance to reunite with her father, Clear Water, and Wang Yue and Hong Die entered the shattered Thunder Immortal Realm.
• A crimson-robed old man spotted Wang Yue and Hong Die, called them his Fated Ones, and engulfed their Thunder Chariot in flames with a restriction that they had seven days to escape.

Wang Yue and Hong Die were trapped by Yan Lei Zi’s Immortal-Slaying Fire, but Wang Yue’s Heavenly Mandate Bead devoured the flames and helped him strike back. Moon-Gazing killed Yan Lei Zi, whom Wang Yue stored in the bead, and the bead declared that the capture had brought them a great harvest.

• Yan Lei Zi trapped Wang Yue and Hong Die in Immortal-Slaying Fire, but the Heavenly Mandate Bead absorbed every flame and revealed that it had located the attacker.
• Wang Yue sent Moon-Gazing to attack Yan Lei Zi, who dismissed the approaching gray light and prepared to counter with his flame power.
• Moon-Gazing transformed into a giant dragon-shaped beast and swallowed Yan Lei Zi’s attack along with Yan Lei Zi himself.
• Wang Yue drew Yan Lei Zi into the Heavenly Mandate Bead, and Moon-Gazing returned to its small form beside him.
• Hong Die recognized Moon-Gazing as a creature of the Ancient God clan, and Wang Yue gave her a limited explanation of how he had found it.
• The Heavenly Mandate Bead told Wang Yue that capturing Yan Lei Zi had brought them a huge harvest.

Wang Yue and Hong Die uncovered the Thunder Immortal Realm’s hidden wealth and gained access to its Scripture Repository. Wang Yue collected the repository and its immortal art manuals, adding them to his growing fortune.

• The Heavenly Mandate Bead told Wang Yue about Yan Lei Zi’s plan to unite the Immortal Realm Shards and invade the Alliance Star Domain, and Wang Yue took Yan Lei Zi’s treasures.
• Hong Die led Wang Yue to the ruins of her family home and opened her family’s secret treasury, where Wang Yue stored its vast supplies in the Heavenly Mandate Bead.
• Hong Die brought Wang Yue to the Scripture Repository and explained that its collection formula was on the Ninth Stage.
• The repository’s restrictions recognized Wang Yue as a True Immortal and allowed him and Hong Die to reach the Ninth Stage.
• Wang Yue memorized the collection formula from Immortal Emperor Bai Fan’s painting, transformed the Scripture Repository into a Little Pagoda, and took its immortal art manuals.

Wang Yue and Hong Die searched the Thunder Immortal Realm for the Clear Water Immortal Lord’s seal, eventually finding his blood-red eyeball imprisoned in a secret chamber. The eye attacked them with power from the extreme realm, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Wang Yue and Hong Die found a powerful Annihilation Restriction on a mountain, and the Heavenly Mandate Bead disabled it using Li Yu’s analysis.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die continued searching until the Heavenly Mandate Bead led them to ruins at Thousand Mechanisms Manor, where they uncovered a hidden passage.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die followed the passage to a rune-covered chamber and found a blood-red eyeball floating in a Five-Colored Vortex.
• Hong Die recognized the eyeball as her father’s, while the Heavenly Mandate Bead warned Wang Yue that it held deadly extreme-realm power.
• The eyeball tried to lure Wang Yue and Hong Die closer, but the Heavenly Mandate Bead broke its enchantment.
• The Clear Water Immortal Lord angrily attacked them with a crimson beam that shattered the void.

Wang Yue and Hong Die recovered Clear Water Immortal Lord’s nine sealed body and soul fragments, and Li Yu purged the corruption and severed his connection to the Seven-Colored Daoist. Clear Water Immortal Lord returned to his senses and reunited with Hong Die.

• Wangyue blocked Clear Water Immortal Lord’s attack while Hong Die called out to her father, stirring his memories and prompting him to tell her to flee.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die used the Immobilization Technique to freeze Clear Water Immortal Lord’s sealed eyeball, and Wang Yue collected it in the Heavenly Mandate Bead.
• Wang Yue and Hong Die found the remaining seals, suppressed the fragments that had broken free, and gathered all nine body and soul pieces.
• Li Yu purged the Seven-Colored Nail’s power from Clear Water Immortal Lord, severed his karmic connection to the Seven-Colored Daoist, and reunited his body and soul.
• Clear Water Immortal Lord emerged restored and embraced Hong Die, who welcomed her father home.

After more than a century of cultivation, Li Yu finished absorbing the Dao resonance and began closing his trap for Tianyunzi. Tianyunzi sensed the Heavenly Dao aura and tried to lure Li Yu to him, unaware that Li Yu had anticipated his move.

• Clear Water Immortal Lord spent a month with Wang Yue and Hong Die, then departed to pursue revenge while promising not to face his enemies before advancing to Immortal Emperor.
• Wang Yue, Hong Die, Wang Lin, and Li Muwan returned to Vermilion Bird Star and cultivated with the resources they had gathered, reaching the Nirvana Peeking Realm.
• Li Yu completed more than a thousand years of Dao-resonance cultivation in the Virtual Illusionary Realm and decided he needed the Heavenly Dao to merge his divine soul and cultivation path.
• Li Yu sent Tosen to the Alliance Star Domain to find and guard Tianyunzi's broken compass fragment, ordering him to seize it when it took flight.
• Li Yu instructed the Heavenly Mandate Bead to release and then restrain its Heavenly Dao aura, prompting Tianyunzi to suspect Li Yu was refining the Heavenly Dao.
• Tianyunzi ordered Yichenzi to have Water Spirit Star challenge Vermilion Bird Star, hoping to lure Li Yu into his reach, while Li Yu's trap was already in place.

Wang Yue traveled to Tianyun Star to confirm his connection to Tianyunzi, but discovered that Tianyunzi had lured him there to steal his body, soul, and bloodline. Tianyunzi merged with his three thousand avatars and entered Wang Yue’s sea of consciousness, where disaster struck him.

• A challenge envoy from Water Spirit Star’s Tianyun Sub-Star withdrew the challenge against Vermilion Bird Star after learning Wang Yue had been invited to join Tianyunzi’s sect.
• Wang Yue went with Shui Yuanzi to Tianyun Star, where the mountain gate identified him as a seventh-ranked Purple Faction true disciple.
• Tianyunzi welcomed Wang Yue, recognized his Immortal’s Bloodline, and revealed that he planned to devour him.
• Tianyunzi imprisoned Wang Yue and reunited with his three thousand avatars, declaring himself the complete Heavenly Dao.
• Tianyunzi rushed into Wang Yue’s sea of consciousness, but tragedy struck him.

Tianyunzi entered Wang Yue’s world expecting to devour Tianmingzi and complete himself, but Tianmingzi revealed that the Heavenly Mandate Bead had a master and followed Wang Yue’s command to destroy him. Wang Yue learned he was the Lord of Heavenly Mandate, though he lacked the power to change the world, and gained freedom from heavenly tribulations.

• Tianyunzi bound Tianmingzi, absorbed his Heavenly Dao rules, and declared himself the complete Heavenly Dao and fate.
• Tianmingzi called on Wang Yue, who ordered him to kill Tianyunzi, and lightning struck Tianyunzi under the Lord of Heavenly Mandate’s authority.
• Torsen collected Tianyunzi’s half-compass true body and stored it in the Resource Library, severing Tianyunzi’s connection to it.
• Tianmingzi stripped Tianyunzi of his authority and erased his soul and intelligence, leaving the Heavenly Dao intact.
• Tianmingzi explained his origins to Wang Yue and said Wang Yue could not yet change the world, but would be favored by Heavenly Mandate and freed from heavenly tribulations.

After more than a thousand years of cultivation, Li Yu sought to unite his soul and Qi by combining material origin with the order of Yin Yang. His breakthrough spread across the Cave Mansion Realm, where he made his own will the final element of his Dao, but the realm began to crack under the power.

• Li Yu left the Eternal Immortal Estate after absorbing the Dao Charm in the Virtual Illusionary Realm for over a thousand years.
• He entered the outer void and combined Dao Charm with Profound Yellow Energy to form material origin, then realized he also needed Yin Yang as the Dao of Order.
• Li Yu’s power flooded the Cave Mansion Realm, shattered the Boundary Sealing Great Formation, and merged Soul Power, Heavenly Dao rules, Dao Charm, and Profound Yellow Energy.
• Li Yu realized his order had to contain his own will and used the Heavenly Prison spell’s Taiji principles to make the Heavenly Dao his own.
• He formed a Taiji Diagram across the Cave Mansion Realm, declared his will Heaven’s Will, and caused the realm’s void to crack under his power.
• A cultivator called Li Yu a Celestial Venerable and asked whether he was going to destroy the world.