Chapter Summaries

Ling Tian joined the Abdominal Spirit Tribe and learned to cultivate with the Xuan Spirit Scripture, using his Golden Dragon Body to advance far faster than the local spirits. After ten years of seclusion, he grew stronger than Ling Hao, but rival chiefs entered his quarters to kill him just as he awoke.

• Ling Hao explained that Ling Tian was in the Azure Ink Region and took him to the Land of Yin-Yang Unity, where the Yin Yang Source Gathering Mirror revealed Ling Tian’s Golden Dragon Body.
• Ling Hao brought Ling Tian back to the tribe, made him a tribesman, and gave him half of the Xuan Spirit Scripture, whose other half was held at the Inheritance Tower.
• Ling Tian mastered the scripture’s entry level in one night and spent ten years cultivating, reaching Small Accomplishment in the scripture and nearing Great Accomplishment in his comprehension of the Abdominal World Power.
• Ling Hao calmed the tribe after a golden dragon appeared above Ling Tian’s quarters and recognized that Ling Tian had become stronger than him.
• Several ambitious chiefs secretly entered Ling Tian’s hall to kill him, but Ling Tian opened his eyes just before they struck.

After enemy Supremes failed to assassinate Ling Tian, he used their attack to strengthen his cultivation, prompting the Abdominal Spirit Tribe to declare war on four tribes. Ling Tian led the tribe’s army against the Dark Ling Tribe and reached its central hall, where his overwhelming pressure subdued its chieftain and Elders.

• Enemy Supremes attacked Ling Tian during his seclusion, but he held back until he bound and devoured them with his Golden Dragon, advancing the Xuan Spirit Scripture.
• Ling Hao decided to appoint Ling Tian as the Ling Child, but opposition among the Elders delayed the decision.
• Ling Hao declared war on the Dark Ling Tribe, Kui Ling Tribe, Ying Ling Tribe, and Mo Ling Tribe in response to their assassination attempt.
• Ling Hao gave Ling Tian the Spirit Marshal’s Command Token and assigned him to lead the Abdominal Spirit Tribe’s troops; Ling Tian won the generals’ support by revealing his strength.
• Ling Tian led the army into Dark Ling Tribe territory, seized a vast stretch of land, and marched to its central hall.
• The Dark Ling Tribe’s chieftain ordered his Elders to attack the invading soldiers, but Ling Tian’s pressure forced them to the ground as he entered the hall.

Ling Tian conquered the Azure Ink Region, then left to seek the Inheritance Tower and the lower half of the Xuan Spirit Scripture. After crossing the Yellow Sand Land, dying beneath the tower, and being revived by a golden-robed man, he learned it was time to leave the Kun Belly and flew toward the tower.

• Ling Tian destroyed the Dark Ling and Kui Ling Tribes, advanced the Xuan Spirit Scripture to Great Accomplishment, and eventually brought the entire Azure Ink Region under the Abdominal Spirit Tribe's control.
• After a thousand years of peace, Ling Hao established a domain and began pursuing rule over the entire Abdominal World, while Ling Tian left alone for its central region.
• Ling Tian crossed the Yellow Sand Land on foot, resisted its illusions, and eventually drank from the lake that had followed him.
• Ling Tian reached the Inheritance Tower but collapsed and died, becoming a skeleton and then ash beneath the sands.
• A golden-robed man reversed time, revived Ling Tian, and told him it was time to leave the Kun Belly.
• Ling Tian returned to human form with his cultivation restored and flew toward the Inheritance Tower.

Inside the Inheritance Tower, Ancestor Kun revealed why he had brought Ling Tian into the Abdominal World and accepted him as his disciple, passing down the Void Scripture. Ling Tian gained Source Realm cultivation and control over the tower, then returned to the Azure Ink Region to prepare to reclaim the Ling Tian Realm before seeking revenge on Yang An.

• Ancestor Kun showed Ling Tian a lifeless replica of the Abdominal World and revealed that he had drawn Ling Tian in from the universe to save his collapsing Spirit Soul and seek a perfect successor.
• Ling Tian recounted his conflict with Yang An, and Ancestor Kun offered him the title of Nine Realms Three Births God and a place in his tutelage.
• Ling Tian accepted Ancestor Kun as his master, forming a bond that transformed both their fortunes and Ling Tian's power.
• Ancestor Kun bestowed the Void Scripture on Ling Tian, fusing it with the Xuan Spirit Scripture and raising Ling Tian's cultivation to the Source Realm.
• Ancestor Kun gave Ling Tian the Inheritance Tower and authority over the Abdominal World, making him half a World Lord.
• Ling Tian chose to return to the Ling Tian Realm to make it his Origin Essence world before pursuing revenge on Yang An, and Ancestor Kun sent him back to the Hall Master Palace in the Azure Ink Region.

Ling Tian returned to the Azure Ink Region, saved Ling Hao and the remaining Elders, then traveled back to the Ling Tian Realm after meeting Ancestor Kun. He reunited with Ling Pool and announced that he would teach the Dao Origin Realm methods, gathering the realm’s Primordial Unity Supremes at Ling Tian Palace.

• Ling Tian saved Ling Hao and the four remaining Elders by destroying the invading Supremes with Source Power, then left the Abdominal World after severing his karma with the Azure Ink Region.
• Ling Tian met Ancestor Kun and returned to the Ling Tian Realm, where he found Ling Tian Palace deserted and encountered Hai Ge and Pheobe, who recognized him as the Realm Lord.
• Ling Tian reunited with Ling Pool, explained the Myriad Heavens, and promised to teach the Dao for ten thousand years.
• Ling Tian proclaimed that he would expound the methods of the Dao Origin Realm at Ling Tian Palace, and Primordial Unity Supremes gathered there to welcome his return.

Ling Tian’s Dao lecture empowered his cultivators and transformed Ling Tian Realm into the Ling Tian Universe, advancing Ling Tian’s cultivation. He then set out with Supreme powerhouses to seek revenge on Yang An, whose own attempt to advance Yan Yang Realm stalled at a new bottleneck.

• After Ling Tian preached the Dao for ten thousand years, many cultivators broke through, and their advances caused Ling Tian Realm to ascend into Three Thousand Worlds.
• Ling Tian Realm became the Ling Tian Universe, Ling Tian advanced to the middle Source Realm, and Ancestor Kun visited him and gave him a Source Grade Treasure.
• After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Ling Tian summoned Supreme powerhouses, took them into the Inheritance Tower, and left for Yan Yang Realm to confront Yang An.
• Yang An made Yan Yang Realm’s Supreme powerhouses attend his ten-thousand-year Dao lecture, and their breakthroughs caused the realm to ascend into a Great World.
• Yang An reached the peak of a new realm but could not break through by lecturing again, while Chi Yu observed that his fate had reached its end.

Yang An discovered that Ling Tian had returned and destroyed the Heavenly Dao Servant in a rage, then struggled to manage the Yan Yang Realm while trying to break through his shackles. Ling Tian secretly took control of much of the realm, and Yang An unknowingly placed a Ling Tian Palace puppet in charge before entering seclusion.

• Ling Tian established Ling Tian Palace in the Yan Yang Realm, and Yang An recognized him while spying on the new palace.
• Yang An blamed the Heavenly Dao Servant for Ling Tian’s return and erased it, then regretted the loss when realm affairs kept him from entering seclusion.
• Ling Tian’s Supreme experts secretly controlled the factions of the Yan Yang Realm, bringing more than half of it under Ling Tian Palace’s command.
• Yang An isolated and expelled Ling Tian Palace from the realm, then reinforced the boundary while Ling Tian chose to wait outside.
• Yang An appointed a loyal-seeming Elder from the former Fu Qing Sect to manage the realm and entered seclusion, unaware the Elder was Ling Tian’s puppet.

After thousands of years of fruitless seclusion, Yang An secretly left his palace and wandered into Shu You City, where he met a mysterious old man and spent several weeks with the innkeeper, Qing Su. He then set out to find the old man by the stream north of the city.

• Yang An emerged from seclusion, disguised himself, and entered Shu You City to experience ordinary life.
• Yang An listened to a storyteller whose cultivation was at the late stage of the Ancestor Saint Supreme Realm, then shared wine and conversation with a White-Haired Youthful Old Man.
• The old man invited Yang An to find him by the stream ten li north of Shu You City before leaving the tavern.
• Yang An rented a room at an inn, where the innkeeper Qing Su entered his room that night and became intimate with him.
• Yang An spent over half a month with Qing Su, then left the inn and headed to the stream to meet the old man.

Yang An met Ancestor Qing and learned that Ling Tian had taken control of the Yan Yang Realm, then spent ten thousand years training in Shuyou and broke through to the Emperor Realm. While Ancestor Qing continued teaching him, Ling Tian attacked the Evergreen Sacred Supreme Palace and captured Yang An’s old man and a beautiful woman to lure and torment him.

• Yang An visited the Bamboo House, where Ancestor Qing revealed that Ling Tian controlled the Yan Yang Realm and posed a grave threat.
• Ancestor Qing introduced his daughter Qing Su and explained his plan to help Yang An oppose Ling Tian and Ancestor Kun.
• Yang An spent ten thousand years learning the Principle of Nonaction and broke through from the Great Dao Realm of Primordial Unity to the Emperor Realm.
• Ling Tian attacked the Evergreen Sacred Supreme Palace with his forces, found Yang An missing, and searched for him.
• Ling Tian captured an old man and a beautiful woman fleeing through the forest, then took the woman to his bedchamber to provoke Yang An.

Ling Tian tortured Zhang Yue Wan and destroyed the Yan Yang Realm to provoke Yang An, who remained in seclusion for millions of years. After Yang An emerged as a Void Source Lord and learned what Ling Tian had done to his wife, he rushed toward the Ling Tian Small Universe while Ancestor Qing confronted Kun.

• Ling Tian assaulted Zhang Yue Wan in front of He Bu Dang, then broadcast the scene across the Yan Yang Realm to bait Yang An.
• When Yang An did not appear, Ling Tian tortured Zhang Yue Wan publicly, killed the realm’s inhabitants over ten thousand years, and shattered the Yan Yang Realm.
• Yang An stayed in seclusion for millions of years as breakthrough signs appeared in Shu You City, while Zhang Yue Wan and He Bu Dang endured torment in the Ling Tian Small Universe.
• Yang An emerged as a Void Source Lord, and Ancestor Qing advanced to the Supreme Endless Rank; Ancestor Qing told Yang An what had happened to Zhang Yue Wan.
• Enraged by Ling Tian’s abuse of his wife, Yang An headed for the Ling Tian Small Universe, while Ancestor Qing tracked down Kun and restrained him.

Yang An defeated Ling Tian, rescued Zhang Yue Wan and He Bu Dang, and helped Zhang Yue Wan regain consciousness by erasing her memories. After Ling Tian was permanently annihilated, Ancestor Kun was also killed, and Ancestor Qing accepted a mysterious young man's offer to seek hidden chess pieces in the Myriad Heavens.

• Yang An bound Ling Tian and rescued Zhang Yue Wan and He Bu Dang, while He Bu Dang recovered and reached Source Realm Peak.
• He Bu Dang tortured Ling Tian through repeated deaths and revivals, then annihilated him after his Fortune Power ran out.
• Yang An's wife erased Zhang Yue Wan's memories, allowing her to awaken and gradually accept Yang An as her husband.
• Ancestor Kun lost his rank after Ling Tian's destruction, then was suddenly annihilated by an unseen force.
• A mysterious young man offered Ancestor Qing a path to the Final Rank in exchange for finding hidden chess pieces, and Ancestor Qing agreed.

Yang An absorbed the Ling Tian Small Universe into his Inner Universe, then returned to Shu You City and entered seclusion. When Zhang Yue Wan became pregnant with a fetus carrying Ling Tian’s aura, a black light abducted her, and the High Lord revealed that he had plans for her before guiding Ancestor Qing to a location in the Myriad Heavens.

• Yang An absorbed the Ling Tian Small Universe into his Inner Universe and abandoned his plan to restore the Yan Yang Realm.
• Yang An and He Bu Dang entered seclusion while Qing Su traveled with Zhang Yue Wan, who grew close to her.
• A hundred years later, Qing Su confirmed that Zhang Yue Wan was pregnant with a fetus containing hundreds of kinds of Origin Essence, including Ling Tian’s aura.
• As Yang An prepared to remove the fetus, black light abducted Zhang Yue Wan, and Ancestor Qing suspected the Self-Palm Realm was involved.
• The High Lord told Ancestor Qing to stop searching, and Chi Yu replaced the fetus’s Origin Essence with his own, causing a new fetus to form.
• After receiving coordinates from the High Lord, Ancestor Qing moved Shu You City to a location in the Myriad Heavens.

Zhang Yue Wan and her newborn son were rescued and brought to the Nine Joy Xuan Spirit Palace, where she joined the sect and raised Zhang Cheng. Twenty years later, Zhang Cheng gained a level-up ability from a mysterious old man, and Qing Chen revealed that he had altered Zhang Yue Wan’s memories and claimed her and Zhang Cheng as his own.

• After giving birth in the Desolate Forest, Zhang Yue Wan was rescued with her baby by a mysterious man and taken to the Nine Joy Xuan Spirit Palace.
• Nine Joy welcomed Zhang Yue Wan as her fourth disciple, and Zhang Yue Wan joined the palace out of gratitude.
• Twenty years later, a White-Haired Youthful Old Man gave Zhang Cheng a power that made him gain levels whenever he breathed or laughed.
• Zhang Cheng asked Zhang Yue Wan about his father, and she recounted her memories of Yang An before fainting after hearing about the old man.
• Qing Chen awakened Zhang Yue Wan, told her Zhang Cheng had been formed from his Origin Essence, and declared that he had removed her negative memories and that she belonged only to him.

Chi Yu restored Zhang Yue Wan’s sealed memories and let her take revenge on Ling Tian and the others, while Zhang Cheng gained Netherworld powers and surged into the Hunyuan Golden Immortal tier. After kissing Ming Jiao and testing his new abilities, Zhang Cheng returned to his courtyard, where she came to see him.

• Chi Yu restored Zhang Yue Wan’s memories, then summoned Ling Tian and the others so she could vent her hatred on them.
• Chi Yu restored the bloodied chamber and Zhang Yue Wan, then held her as she let go of her resentment.
• Zhang Cheng attended the Nine Joy Xuan Spirit Palace gathering and heard that disciples from the Three Xuan Holy Spirit Palace would come to exchange teachings.
• Ming Jiao challenged Zhang Cheng with Netherwind attacks, which he absorbed to raise his level and gain Netherworld Power and Netherworld Law.
• After Zhang Cheng’s level passed six billion and he mastered his new powers, he kissed Ming Jiao and returned to his courtyard to test them.
• Ming Jiao arrived at Zhang Cheng’s courtyard with her face flushed scarlet.

Ming Jiao and Zhang Cheng became Dao Companions, while Elder Shui Shang and Elder Gongyang also confessed their feelings and joined together. After Zhang Yue Wan and Chi Yu emerged from seclusion, Chi Yu acknowledged Zhang Cheng as his son, arranged for him to settle his marriage with Ming Jiao’s family, and gave him a treasure-filled ring; Chi Yu then went to the Void Xuan Domain, where a mysterious town was engulfed by Black Mist.

• Ming Jiao kissed Zhang Cheng and later asked him to become her Dao Companion; they spent the night together on the Back Mountain Grassland.
• Over the following half year, Ming Jiao repeatedly visited Zhang Cheng at night, and her Master discovered their relationship before deciding to let them follow their own path.
• Elder Gongyang embraced Elder Shui Shang, confessed that he had secretly loved her for a thousand years, and the two became lovers.
• Zhang Yue Wan and Chi Yu emerged from seclusion and found Zhang Cheng and Ming Jiao together; Chi Yu revealed his identity as Zhang Cheng’s father and told him to settle his marriage with the Ming Family of Withered Bone City.
• Chi Yu gave Zhang Cheng a ring of treasures, then took Zhang Yue Wan to the Void Xuan Domain, where Yang An, Ancestor Qing, Qing Su, and He Bu Dang found a town that released Black Mist and plunged into darkness.

Yang An and Ancestor Qing entered Small Void Town, where Black Mist and an unseen force left them unable to help a coughing woman. Chi Yu arrived, cured her, and revealed himself to Yang An as the Ant Emperor.

• Yang An, Ancestor Qing, and Qing Su entered Small Void Town and found its residents strangely unafraid of the Black Mist.
• Xiao Mo asked Yang An to save her mother, who was coughing up Black Mist in a secluded wooden house.
• Yang An and Ancestor Qing could neither sense nor touch the woman, so Ancestor Qing concluded that a powerful figure was behind the affliction.
• Chi Yu and Zhang Yue Wan appeared, and Ancestor Qing recognized Chi Yu as the High Lord.
• Chi Yu dispelled the Black Mist, and the woman recovered and thanked him as Xiao Mo reunited with her.
• Yang An restrained his anger at seeing Zhang Yue Wan with Chi Yu, then recognized Chi Yu as the Ant Emperor.

Chi Yu revealed himself as Qing Chen and accepted Zhang Yue Wan’s declaration that she was his wife, then reunited with Green Phoenix and discovered that Xiao Mo was formed from Green Phoenix’s lost soul fragment. After rage had taken control of Yang An and left him with no memory of hurting Qing Su, a scream and roar restored his awareness, and he rescued a woman from a Black Scale Monster.

• Chi Yu revealed his identity as Qing Chen, and Zhang Yue Wan told Yang An that she was Qing Chen’s wife and their former relationship had ended.
• Yang An left in distress, while Chi Yu stopped Ancestor Qing from following him and later summoned Green Phoenix to the wooden house.
• Green Phoenix confirmed that Xiao Mo came from her lost soul fragment, left a protective aura on her, and returned to the Void Realm at Chi Yu’s request.
• Yang An’s rage drove him to berate and strike Qing Su as he wandered into a dense forest, but a woman’s scream and a monster’s roar restored his consciousness and left him without memories of his actions.
• Yang An and Qing Su found a woman being pursued by a Black Scale Monster; Yang An drove the monster away and the woman thanked him.

Yang An and Qing Su followed Fu Ling to the Medicine Emperor Palace on Spirit Communication Island and chose to settle in Root City, where Yang An’s cultivation advanced as he recovered from his heartache. Meanwhile, Fu Ling fled the Black Scale Monster into a terrifying Dim Land and found herself surrounded by ghosts and Nether Souls.

• Fu Ling told Yang An and Qing Su how the Black Scale Monster had nearly killed her, and they accepted her invitation to visit the Medicine Emperor Palace.
• Fu Ling brought Yang An and Qing Su to Bright Moon Hall, where Zheng Guang Ming Yue accepted Fu Ling’s herbs but ordered her to keep searching for the Nine Zhi Floating Cloud Dew.
• Fu Ling arranged lodgings for Yang An and Qing Su, then left Spirit Communication Island to resume her search.
• Yang An and Qing Su settled in a secluded courtyard in Root City, where they lived quietly, and Yang An’s Source Lord Rank advanced.
• The Black Scale Monster chased Fu Ling into a Dim Land, then turned away at its border; Fu Ling continued to a desolate mountain filled with ghosts and Nether Souls.
• Fu Ling wondered where she was as a chilling voice called her delicious flesh.

Fu Ling’s red-dressed form defeated the Kui Demon before Chi Yu captured her and took her into his Creation Space. Ten thousand years later, Qing Su sought a Pregnancy Assistance Treasure Pill but was captured and brought before a young man who claimed only he could refine it.

• Fu Ling’s red-dressed form fought the Kui Demon, summoned a Ghost Emperor Realm, and destroyed him after he killed the women imprisoned in his cave.
• A mysterious Golden Light captured the red-dressed form and restored Fu Ling’s body, which Chi Yu took into his Creation Space.
• After ten thousand years without finding Nine Zhi Floating Cloud Dew, Zheng Guang Ming Yue sent two Elders to search the Outer Domain for Fu Ling.
• Yang An reached the middle stage of the Void Source Lord realm, while Qing Su visited Zheng Guang Ming Yue seeking help with her desire to bear a child and received Mind Focusing Medicine.
• Qing Su encountered an Old Man selling a Pregnancy Assistance Treasure Pill, but he bound her with Azure Light and brought her to a white-robed young man.
• The young man claimed that only he could refine the pill, and he vanished with Qing Su.

Ling You refined a Pregnancy Assistance Treasure Pill using Qing Su’s Origin Blood and returned it to her after explaining who he was. Months later, Qing Su gave the pill to Yang An when he emerged from seclusion, and they prepared to refine it together.

• Ling You restrained Qing Su, took a drop of her Origin Blood, and refined it inside the Purple Gold You Wen Cauldron.
• Qing Su woke and received the completed Pregnancy Assistance Treasure Pill after Ling You released her and introduced himself as the Dan Xing Medicine Venerable.
• Ling You explained that the pill required joint refinement by a man and woman, then sent Qing Su back to Root City.
• Qing Su returned home and waited for Yang An to emerge from seclusion.
• After Yang An emerged months later, Qing Su brought him the pill and explained that they needed to refine it together.