Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen brought Wang Zhenzhen to Changyi, showed her around, and then sought an audience with Emperor Li Zili. Li Zili recognized Wang Chen as a Grandmaster and received him warily, leaving the palace’s hidden defenses on alert.

• Wang Chen took Wang Zhenzhen around Changyi for several days, letting her enjoy the city and buying her food, clothes, and toys.
• Wang Chen presented a seal at the imperial palace gates and asked the guards to deliver it to Li Zili.
• Li Zili recognized Wang Chen’s seal, ordered him admitted, and secretly activated the palace’s defenses.
• Wang Chen entered the Imperial Study with Wang Zhenzhen and greeted Li Zili as the former King Li.
• Li Zili rose to greet Wang Chen as a Grandmaster, startling the palace attendants and unsettling the hidden experts.

Wang Chen and Wang Zhenzhen visited Emperor Li Zili in Changyi, where they shared a banquet and discussed Wang Chen’s search for Thousand-Year Xuan Ginseng and a valuable alchemy cauldron. After Wang Chen revealed he planned to make Youth Preserving Pills for his household, Li Zili promised to search for the ingredients and asked for three Pills if the search succeeded.

• Wang Chen introduced Wang Zhenzhen to Li Zili, who recognized her Innate Grandmaster cultivation and welcomed them to a family banquet.
• Li Zili recalled that Wang Chen had honored their agreement and decided against provoking him over Yunmeng Marsh.
• Wang Chen told Li Zili he had come to find Thousand-Year Xuan Ginseng and a precious alchemy cauldron, and Li Zili ordered Fu Gui to search the treasury and Changyi’s shops.
• Wang Chen explained that he intended to refine Youth Preserving Pills for the women in his household, startling the Empress and Imperial Consorts.
• Li Zili asked Wang Chen for three Pills in exchange for finding the ingredients and cauldron, and Wang Chen agreed.

Li Zili uncovered widespread theft from Great Wei’s inner treasury and ordered Fu Gui to root out everyone involved. Meanwhile, Wang Chen investigated the Nine Provinces Cauldron and began refining Youth Preserving Pills, drawing Li Zili to the Hundred Fragrance Garden when an extraordinary medicinal fragrance appeared.

• Li Zili discovered that precious treasures, including two of the three recorded roots of Thousand-Year Xuan Ginseng, were missing from the inner treasury and ordered Fu Gui to find and kill those responsible.
• Li Zili learned that Wang Chen had been studying the Nine Provinces Cauldron and decided to leave the growing demands for Youth Preserving Pills to him.
• Wang Chen sensed strange power within the Nine Provinces Cauldron and spent three days using palace herbs to practice refining Pills.
• Wang Chen failed with his first batch of Youth Preserving Pills, then refined a second batch for a day and night until its fragrance brought birds, butterflies, and premature blossoms to the garden.
• Li Zili hurried to the Hundred Fragrance Garden after the extraordinary fragrance alarmed him.

Wang Chen secured the Nine Provinces Cauldron and two weapons for Wang Zhenzhen in exchange for refining Youth Preserving Pills for Li Zili, then traveled across the Mortal World with his daughter. Three years later, they returned to Tianyun City, where Wang Zhenzhen prepared to challenge the Grandmaster realm.

• Li Zili asked Wang Chen to refine more Youth Preserving Pills, and Wang Chen agreed in exchange for the Nine Provinces Cauldron and two items from the imperial treasury.
• Wang Chen refined twenty-two Youth Preserving Pills, gave them to Li Zili, and selected a longsword and inner armor for Wang Zhenzhen.
• Wang Chen mastered the Nine Provinces Cauldron, removed its connection to Great Wei, and left the imperial palace with Wang Zhenzhen.
• Wang Chen took Wang Zhenzhen across the far north, the Eastern Sea, and more than a dozen countries over three years.
• Wang Chen and Wang Zhenzhen returned to Tianyun City, where Wang Chen's wives and concubines welcomed him and Wang Zhenzhen announced her seclusion to challenge the Grandmaster realm.

After Li Zili died and Great Wei recovered under Hongwu Emperor Li Yuanhao, Wang Chen watched his family grow and learned that Huo Wuji had become a Supreme Grandmaster. When Great Wei prepared to invade Yunmeng Marsh with three hundred thousand soldiers and two Grandmasters, Wang Zhenzhen volunteered to confront them alone.

• Li Zili died after damaging his Dantian and meridians while attempting to break into the Grandmaster realm, and Li Yuanhao later seized the throne and established the Hongwu reign.
• Wang Chen welcomed his first grandchild, while Wang Zhenzhen remained unmarried, traveled the world, and returned as a Supreme Grandmaster.
• Wang Chen bid farewell to Ye Xiangming, and Great Wei halted its expansion to restore its strength.
• Wang Chen learned that Huo Wuji, the boy who had received his truncated Nine Yang Divine Skill manual, had become a Supreme Grandmaster.
• In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Wang Chen received word that Li Yuanhao planned to invade Yunmeng Marsh with three hundred thousand soldiers and two Grandmasters, including Huo Wuji.
• Wang Zhenzhen rejected Wang Chen's offer to accompany her and declared that she would go alone to deal with Great Wei's Grandmasters.

Wang Zhenzhen confronted Huo Wuji as he came to persuade the Wang family to leave Yunmeng Marsh, then revealed the gulf between their strength. Great Wei's planned invasion collapsed after its three Grandmasters were killed, and its armies withdrew, leaving Yunmeng Marsh at peace for centuries.

• Huo Wuji entered Qing'an County and set out to visit Wang Chen, but Wang Zhenzhen blocked his road and refused to let her family leave Yunmeng Marsh.
• Huo Wuji warned Wang Zhenzhen that Great Wei had three other Grandmasters and would attack with three hundred thousand troops, but she wounded him with a single sword strike and ordered him to leave.
• Huo Wuji departed and vanished, never to be seen again by Great Wei or his family.
• A month later, Great Wei's three legions gathered in Qing'an County to invade Yunmeng Marsh under three Grandmasters.
• The three Grandmasters' heads appeared on the camp flagpoles, destroying the army's morale and forcing the legions to withdraw ten days later.

After Ye Dai died peacefully at one hundred, Wang Chen endured the loss of his family as his descendants aged and passed away while the Wang Clan continued to grow. He and Wang Zhenzhen traveled across the mortal world, and on a mountain summit he revealed his true identity and announced that he was leaving, exactly one hundred years after arriving.

• Ye Dai died in Wang Chen's arms, and Wang Zhenzhen arrived too late to say goodbye to her mother.
• Wang Chen comforted Wang Zhenzhen as the Wang Clan mourned Ye Dai's death across Tianyun City.
• Over the following years, Wang Chen's family members died while he spent his days fishing and visiting newborn descendants, often accompanied by Wang Zhenzhen.
• Wang Chen asked Wang Zhenzhen to travel with him, and the two retraced old routes and journeyed across the mortal world.
• Atop a high mountain, Wang Chen told Wang Zhenzhen his true identity and why he had come to the Mortal World of Mountains and Seas.
• Wang Chen told Wang Zhenzhen that he was leaving on the hundredth anniversary of his arrival.

Wang Chen taught Wang Zhenzhen about ascension before crossing into the Haotian Realm, where three Purple Mansion cultivators mistook him for an unprotected newcomer. They laughed at his warning to leave, leaving Wang Chen facing their hostility.

• Wang Chen comforted Wang Zhenzhen and urged her to find her Spirit Communicator so she could ascend and reunite with him.
• Wang Chen unleashed his suppressed cultivation and demonstrated his technique amid heavenly lightning while Wang Zhenzhen watched for insight.
• Wang Chen told Wang Zhenzhen they would meet again in Vast Heaven, then ascended through the lightning and crossed into the Haotian Realm.
• Wang Chen arrived on a grassy field, where the surrounding spiritual energy flooded into him and his cultivation began to recover.
• Qin Muyang and two other Purple Mansion cultivators surrounded Wang Chen, and Qin Muyang offered to guide him while intending to exploit him as an unprotected ascender.
• Wang Chen told the cultivators to leave and promised not to hold it against them, but they laughed at him.

After exposing three Purple Mansion cultivators who planned to sell him to Ji Taiping, Wang Chen killed them and confronted the True Immortal at Taiping Immortal City. Ji Taiping refused to come out and activated the city's defensive array against him.

• The three Purple Mansion cultivators attacked Wang Chen, but he revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation and killed two of them.
• Wang Chen questioned the surviving cultivator, who revealed that Ji Taiping was seeking objects connected to the power of planes for refining a spirit treasure.
• Wang Chen killed the survivor and flew to Taiping Immortal City, where his Divine Sense triggered the city's defenses.
• Wang Chen accused Ji Taiping of crimes and demanded that he come out and die, alarming the city's inhabitants.
• Ji Taiping denied knowing what Wang Chen meant, refused to leave the city, and activated the City Protection Array.

Wang Chen attacked Taiping Immortal City, forcing Ji Taiping to reveal himself as a demonic cultivator and activate the Blood Sea Great Formation. Wang Chen shattered the city’s protective array and its Array Spirit, allowing most of the trapped cultivators to escape, while Ji Taiping secretly prepared beneath the city.

• Wang Chen struck Taiping Immortal City’s protective array twice with the Dragon Abyss Sword, but Ji Taiping pleaded for him to stop and invoked the innocent cultivators in the city.
• Ji Taiping activated the Blood Sea Great Formation, sacrificing thousands of cultivators to empower it and revealing his identity as a demonic cultivator.
• Wang Chen summoned seven Flying Swords and used the Seven Severing Sword Formation to shatter the city’s protective array and destroy its Array Spirit.
• Wang Chen paused instead of attacking again so the surviving cultivators could flee the city.
• After most cultivators escaped, Ji Taiping fell silent, but Wang Chen sensed him hiding beneath the city and preparing something.

Wang Chen attacked Taiping Immortal City to destroy its Blood Sea Great Formation and expose Ji Taiping, using the Taiyi Sword Technique to devastate the city and severely injure the demonic cultivator. Ji Taiping fled as the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil pursued him.

• Wang Chen struck the formation eye with the Seven Severing Sword Formation, causing the black-red slurry beneath the city to emerge as a venomous flood dragon.
• Wang Chen trapped the flood dragon in the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil after losing his precise lock on Ji Taiping.
• Wang Chen used the Dragon Abyss Sword to unleash the Taiyi Sword Technique, razing Taiping Immortal City and severely damaging Ji Taiping and the Blood Sea Great Formation.
• Ji Taiping cursed Wang Chen and fled as a streak of blood light, and the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil pursued him.

Wang Chen used the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil to capture and kill Ji Taiping, then destroyed the demonic cultivator’s remains to conceal the net’s power. He headed for the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, eager to return to his family and seize the opportunity to break through to Spirit Transformation.

• Ji Taiping spent his origin true blood to flee, but the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil caught up and trapped him.
• Ji Taiping attacked the net with his Crimson Blood Flying Saber and other treasures, but the net rebuffed his efforts and drained his Mana.
• Wang Chen pulled Ji Taiping from the net and killed him with Geng Metal sword energy, gaining six million Heavenly Merit.
• Wang Chen burned Ji Taiping’s corpse and equipment to prevent anyone from discovering the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• Wang Chen flew toward the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, where he planned to pursue his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.

After returning to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, Wang Chen reunited with Xu Xinlan, Su Ziling, and Bai Susu before beginning his Spirit Transformation breakthrough in the White Colt Tower. Years passed as he meditated, and a point of Spiritual Light finally appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Wang Chen reunited with Xu Xinlan and Su Ziling, who told him they had advanced to high-level Golden Core and that Bai Susu and Yuan Yuan were cultivating in seclusion.
• Wang Chen told Xu Xinlan and Su Ziling he could undergo Spirit Transformation once Bai Susu emerged, and promised to refine a natal Magic Treasure for each of them afterward.
• Bai Susu emerged from seclusion, reunited with Wang Chen, and agreed to guard him through his breakthrough.
• Wang Chen activated the Xuan You Immortal Mansion's protective formation and entered the White Colt Tower to begin his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Wang Chen meditated in the tower for years, and a point of Spiritual Light appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

Wang Chen endured the wind tribulation and used the source power of three worlds to break through into Spirit Transformation. In his Sea of Consciousness, he encountered a mysterious old Daoist who called himself Mystic Origin, also known as Treasure Daoist.

• Wang Chen sent his Nascent Soul into the void and endured three hours of the wind tribulation as two Spirit Transformation True Monarchs approached the Xuan You Immortal Mansion.
• A silver-white dragon guarding the area frightened Fei Zhongshuo and the other True Monarch, who apologized and withdrew.
• Wang Chen's transformed Nascent Soul returned, and the source power from his Azuregreen, Star Sea, and Blood Moon rings helped him complete his breakthrough into Spirit Transformation.
• Wang Chen entered his Sea of Consciousness, saw the Primordial Dao Stele, and met an unfamiliar old Daoist beside it.
• The old Daoist introduced himself as Mystic Origin, also known as Treasure Daoist.

After achieving Spirit Transformation, Wang Chen discovered Treasure Daoist hidden in the Primordial Dao Stele and learned that he planned to take over Wang Chen’s body. Wang Chen summoned the Cultivation Panel and unleashed the Holy Fire of Merit, which burned Treasure Daoist while refining the Dao Stele.

• Treasure Daoist revealed that he had spent three thousand years seeking an extraordinary person immune to the ancient curse and intended to replace Wang Chen’s soul.
• Treasure Daoist used the Primordial Dao Stele to pull Wang Chen toward it, leaving Wang Chen unable to use his Mana or resist.
• As Treasure Daoist began devouring him, Wang Chen summoned the Cultivation Panel and commanded it to destroy.
• The Cultivation Panel released the Holy Fire of Merit, which engulfed Wang Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and trapped Treasure Daoist.
• The Holy Fire burned away Treasure Daoist’s true soul and tempered the Primordial Dao Stele, making it shine more brilliantly.

Wang Chen emerged from seven years of secluded cultivation as a Spirit Transformation powerhouse, but found the Cultivation Panel had vanished after sacrificing itself to defeat Treasure Daoist. He learned the truth behind Treasure Daoist’s scheme, reunited with Bai Susu and the others, and prepared to address the Nine Provinces Immortal Alliance’s interest in the exposed Xuan You Immortal Mansion.

• Wang Chen discovered the Cultivation Panel had fallen silent after its final eruption helped him defeat Treasure Daoist.
• Wang Chen absorbed the Primordial Dao Stele’s information and learned that Treasure Daoist was Mystic Origin, a Dao Integration True Venerable who had plotted to seize his body.
• Wang Chen became the Primordial Dao Stele’s true master and gained Mystic Origin’s memories, secret arts, and artifact-refining knowledge.
• Wang Chen stabilized his Spirit Transformation realm after three more years of seclusion and returned to the immortal mansion.
• Bai Susu reunited with Wang Chen and told him the Nine Provinces Immortal Alliance had investigated the exposed Xuan You Immortal Mansion and left tokens seeking a meeting.

Wang Chen accepted an Immortal Alliance Elder position and the governorship of Dongshuo Immortal City, then traveled there with Bai Susu and his companions. As he entered the city, he encountered his former sect leader Ji Guantao and looked toward the distant Huanggu Realm, beginning a new chapter of his life.

• Wang Chen negotiated with the Nine Provinces Immortal Alliance and received the Immortal Alliance Elder position and Dongshuo Immortal City to govern.
• Wang Chen hosted the envoy delegation, then stored the Xuan You Immortal Mansion in his Myriad Worlds Ring before departing with Bai Susu, Su Ziling, Xu Xinlan, and Yuan Yuan.
• Wang Chen arrived at Dongshuo Immortal City and was welcomed by hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators and several hundred thousand residents.
• Wang Chen recognized Ji Guantao among the welcoming cultivators and learned that his former sect leader had suffered devastating losses after ascending.
• Wang Chen entered Dongshuo Immortal City with Bai Susu and sent his Divine Sense toward the distant Huanggu Realm.