Chapter Summaries

Ye Lan tried to uncover Zhang Xuan’s secret through seduction, but he learned that the Backstage Manipulator had a hidden realm called the Immortal Holding Realm Domain. When a Rule Realm restriction erased Ye Lan’s consciousness, Zhang Xuan concealed what had happened and waited with the disciples as she failed to appear.

• After a mission, Ye Lan brought Zhang Xuan to her chamber and tried to inspect him, but his system prevented her from discovering anything.
• Zhang Xuan continued to enjoy Ye Lan’s company and gained power and clues through the system, including the truth that the Backstage Manipulator had two Immortal Realms and resided in the Immortal Holding Realm Domain.
• When Ye Lan began to tell Zhang Xuan something, a Rule Realm restriction erased her consciousness, and he left her motionless in the chamber.
• Zhang Xuan returned to his side chamber and acted as though nothing had happened while Ye Lan’s consciousness remained gone.
• When Ye Lan did not appear to assign the next mission, the disciples worried and decided to seek out the other Chief Elders.

Chief Elders failed to enter Ye Lan’s sealed Inner Hall, then tried to recruit Zhang Xuan after witnessing the power of his Divine Dragons. Zhang Xuan killed an Elder who had harbored killing intent toward him and gained information about the Backstage Manipulator.

• Elder Qin broke the Inner Hall’s restriction, but annihilating power destroyed his soul projection and left him severely injured.
• Elder Ling shattered more of Ye Lan’s restrictions with his Immortal Realm, but his phantom sword was also dispersed by annihilating power.
• Dragon Holding Hall’s disciples entered the Profound Dragon Holding Path, where Zhang Xuan sent Divine Dragons into Survivor World and completed the day’s mission.
• The Chief Elders praised Zhang Xuan and invited him to join their halls, while some secretly showed hostility toward him.
• Zhang Xuan tracked down a hostile Elder, summoned his Divine Dragons, and killed him despite the Elder’s attempt to resist.
• Zhang Xuan gained attributes, cultivation methods, secret techniques, and information about the Backstage Manipulator from the slain Elder.

Zhang Xuan learned how to reach the Holding Immortal Realm from Hong Yin and used her to impersonate the deceased Ye Lan while waiting for the Backstage Manipulator to reveal himself. After a year, he traced the manipulator’s appearance in the White Expanse Palm Realm and told Hong Yin to carry out the assigned task as usual.

• Zhang Xuan confronted Hong Yin about her hidden identity, then brought her into his Immortal Realm so she could explain how to reach the Holding Immortal Realm without triggering her hidden restriction.
• Hong Yin used the Soul Splitting Technique to control Ye Lan’s body, allowing Zhang Xuan to keep up appearances at Dragon Holding Hall while he waited for the Backstage Manipulator to contact her.
• A year later, Hong Yin received an order to go to the White Expanse Palm Realm, and Zhang Xuan secretly attached himself to her body and followed.
• Zhang Xuan traced the phantom head’s source to discover the Backstage Manipulator’s ordinary appearance, then returned with Hong Yin to the tavern.
• Zhang Xuan told Hong Yin to carry out the Backstage Manipulator’s task as usual.

Zhang Xuan learned the Backstage Manipulator planned to unleash Divine Beasts on the survivors, so he secretly strengthened them by awakening their Immortal Realms and teaching them the Dragon Holding Immortal Technique. The survivors endured the first invasion without deaths, while Zhang Xuan left them prepared to face the next threat.

• The survivors learned that Divine Beast invasions would continue for ten years, while Hong Yin arranged for powerful beasts to emerge from Elders' Immortal Realms.
• Zhang Xuan decided to play along with the Backstage Manipulator and planned to end the scheme in ten years, then leave for the Holding Immortal Realm.
• Tantai Ru Yue confessed her love to Zhang Xuan, joined him, and followed him out of the Secret Realm World.
• Zhang Xuan and Tantai Ru Yue ordered the survivors to gather at the Alliance, awakened their Immortal Realms, and taught them the Dragon Holding Immortal Technique.
• When Divine Beasts invaded at ten in the morning, the survivors repeatedly summoned beasts from their Immortal Realms to stall until noon.
• The Divine Beasts withdrew through the Vortex Portals at noon, and every survivor survived, though a few were injured.

Zhang Xuan awakened the Immortal Realms of his family and even the birds, then stored his villa inside his own Immortal Realm. As the Backstage Manipulator switched from Divine Beast Intrusion to an Immortal Beast Invasion, Zhang Xuan returned to the Dragon Holding Hall to cultivate and prepare to remain hidden.

• Zhang Xuan urged the survivors to cultivate the Dragon Holding Immortal Technique before the next beast attack, then awakened his family and friends at the villa.
• Xu Jing awakened an ancient, hazy Immortal Realm that produced no exotic beast but unleashed immense power and shook the island.
• Zhang Xuan awakened the villa's birds, which gained Immortal Realms, underwent Transformation, and entered his Immortal Realm; he then stored the villa there.
• The Backstage Manipulator ordered Hong Yin to investigate the anomaly and told the Chief Elders to launch an Immortal Beast Invasion through the Profound Realm Path.
• The Chief Elders released Immortal Beasts into the Survivor World, where the prepared survivors expected to hold out until midnight.
• After Hong Yin told Zhang Xuan of the new invasion plan, he returned to the Dragon Holding Hall to cultivate the Long Ao Primordial Divine Technique and rely on the system's concealment.

Chu Hong Ling, Tian Ling, and the Survivors fought off the Dao Body Immortal Beasts, defeating them before they vanished at noon. After learning of the Alliance's victory, Zhang Xuan left the Secret Realm World with Hong Yin to attend the celebration.

• Chu Hong Ling ordered the Survivors to bring out their Immortal Realm Exotic Beasts as the Dao Body Immortal Beasts descended.
• Chu Hong Ling used her unique Immortal Realm to kill a young-looking Immortal, while Tian Ling destroyed another with her Dao Principles Immortal Realm.
• The Survivors drew strength from their belief in survival and killed several Immortal Beasts as the battle turned in their favor.
• At noon, the remaining Immortal Beasts vanished, and the Survivors celebrated their victory before returning to the Alliance.
• Zhang Xuan told Hong Yin about the victory and invited her to celebrate, then they left the Secret Realm World and flew toward the Survivor Alliance.

Zhang Xuan watched as the survivors faced the descending Sacred Beasts, trusting them to stall until the Backstage Manipulator’s rules forced the beasts to withdraw. Chu Hong Ling and Tian Ling helped keep one Sacred Beast occupied until noon, when the Sacred Beasts vanished, leaving them to mock the rules’ creator.

• The survivors gathered for a victory carnival, where Hong Yin danced for Zhang Xuan before the group dispersed to prepare for the Sacred Beasts’ arrival.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuan emerged with Chu Hong Ling, Tian Ling, and Hong Yin, then left the battle to the survivors as the Sacred Beasts descended.
• The survivors opened their Immortal Realms and sent successive waves of dragon-shaped beasts to absorb the Sacred Beasts’ attacks and buy time.
• Chu Hong Ling and Tian Ling combined their abilities to strike a Sacred Beast repeatedly, keeping it occupied while the survivors continued stalling.
• At noon, the rules forced the Sacred Beasts to vanish, and they called the Backstage Manipulator foolish.

The gray-robed man behind the scenes entered his Secret Realm to hunt the survivor pawns and the hidden variable, then followed Zhang Xuan and Hong Yin in Floating Sky City. After confronting Zhang Xuan, he claimed he had come looking for someone and was led away by the tavern waiter.

• After the Sacred Beasts failed, the gray-robed man moved his thatched cottage into the Secret Realm and entered the game himself to hunt its survivor pawns and hidden variable.
• The gray-robed man appeared in Floating Sky City and entered a tavern, where he noticed Hong Yin with Zhang Xuan.
• Zhang Xuan recognized that someone was watching him, then strolled through the city with Hong Yin as the gray-robed man secretly followed them.
• After waiting at the tavern for hours, the gray-robed man went to Hong Yin's bedchamber, where Zhang Xuan invited him inside.
• Zhang Xuan questioned the gray-robed man about spying, but the man claimed he had come to find someone and had entered the wrong room by mistake.
• Zhang Xuan summoned the waiter, who recognized the gray-robed man as a distant relative and led him away.

The dwarf man questioned Hong Yin about Zhang Xuan, then visited Ye Lan and discovered that Zhang Xuan was her disciple as well. After learning Zhang Xuan had awakened a Universe Rank Immortal Realm, he began planning to use him in his game.

• The dwarf man left the waiter's home and returned to the tavern, where he watched Zhang Xuan leave without Hong Yin.
• The dwarf man appeared in Hong Yin's chambers, revealed his identity as the Venerated God, and asked about Zhang Xuan; Hong Yin claimed Zhang Xuan was simply her husband.
• The dwarf man went to Ye Lan's chambers and learned that she had given her body to her disciple, Xuan, who had awakened a Universe Rank Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Xuan appeared in the Dragon Holding Great Hall, and the dwarf man recognized him as the same young man from the tavern.
• The dwarf man praised Zhang Xuan outwardly and decided he could use him instead of acting personally.

Zhang Xuan pretended to join Zhu Luo Zhao’s sect, then used the system’s returned power to reach Desolate Rank Peak and surpass his new master. After halting the invasion of the Survivor World, he returned through a portal summoned by Zhu Luo Zhao.

• Zhang Xuan revealed his Immortal Realm, impressing Zhu Luo Zhao with its Primordial Divine Dragon, and Ye Lan announced that Zhang Xuan had been expelled from Dragon Holding Hall.
• Several dozen Chief Elders arrived to recruit Zhang Xuan, but Zhu Luo Zhao subdued them with his pressure and secured Zhang Xuan’s agreement to become his disciple.
• Zhu Luo Zhao passed Zhang Xuan the Pig Arrogant World Scripture, and the system’s return raised Zhang Xuan’s cultivation to Desolate Rank Peak while transforming his Primordial Divine Dragons.
• Zhu Luo Zhao assigned Zhang Xuan to oversee the invasion through the Profound Realm Path, and Zhang Xuan sent Black Gold Robe Men to attack the Survivor World.
• Zhang Xuan recalled the invaders when Zhu Luo Zhao warned him that the world was nearing destruction, then returned to Dragon Holding Great Hall and entered a portal to Zhu Luo Zhao’s residence.

Zhang Xuan agreed to travel to the Holding Immortal Realm, bringing Hong Yin and the survivors with him before setting out to explore the new world. He encountered four cultivators fighting over a romantic dispute and became interested in one woman’s Heaven Rank Immortal Realm.

• Zhu Luo Zhao revealed that the Profound Nether Secret Realm and Life and Death Mortal Realm were Immortal Realms within his body, then asked Zhang Xuan to conquer territory in the Holding Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Xuan agreed to go after three days and told Hong Yin they would travel together; he then gathered the survivors and announced their departure from Survivor World.
• Zhang Xuan led the survivors out of Survivor World, returned to the Secret Realm, and later entered the Holding Immortal Realm through Zhu Luo Zhao’s formation.
• After staying in a remote thatched cottage for several days, Zhang Xuan began exploring the Holding Immortal Realm and found four Earth Rank cultivators battling manifested beasts over a dispute involving true nature.
• Zhang Xuan took an interest in a petite woman’s Heaven Rank Immortal Realm, revealed himself, and asked the four cultivators why they were fighting.

Zhang Xuan gained spiritual power, awakened the Consciousness Annihilation technique, and advanced to the Geng Stage after Yun Xiyao attacked him. As he prepared to follow the four Boundless Immortal Sect cultivators back to their sect, he effortlessly killed the approaching Calamity Beast Fu Kui.

• Zhang Xuan suppressed Ye Xingchen, learned that he and Zhu Tong had fought Lu Muxue and Yun Xiyao over a romantic dispute, and discovered Yun Xiyao cultivated spiritual power.
• Zhang Xuan ordered Yun Xiyao to attack him with her Immortal Realm, and her Consciousness Swords struck his spiritual sea.
• The system awakened Zhang Xuan's spiritual power and Consciousness Sword, granted him Consciousness Annihilation, and transformed his Immortal Realm into the Spirit Illusion Sea as he advanced to the Geng Stage.
• Zhang Xuan asked the four cultivators to lead him to the Boundless Immortal Sect, and they welcomed the prospect of bringing him to their sect.
• When the Cosmos Rank Peak Calamity Beast Fu Kui appeared, Zhang Xuan killed it instantly with an invisible Consciousness Sword.

Zhang Xuan joined the Boundless Immortal Sect’s Records Hall after killing Fu Kui and helping Ye Xingchen and the others break through. He discovered Azure Seclusion’s severe poison injury and began treating her, leaving her unconscious as his system prepared to awaken a new attribute.

• Zhang Xuan killed Fu Kui, gained the Eight-Eyed Divine Eye, and let Ye Xingchen and the others divide the beast’s remains.
• Ye Xingchen and the others refined Fu Kui’s treasures, broke through to Heaven Rank Peak, and brought Zhang Xuan to the Boundless Immortal Sect’s Records Hall.
• Azure Seclusion welcomed Zhang Xuan and arranged for him to stay in the Records Hall.
• Azure Seclusion showed Zhang Xuan around the Records Hall and played the zither for him at a pavilion.
• Azure Seclusion’s old injury flared, and Zhang Xuan identified the Dark Corrosion Poison damaging her Immortal Realm.
• Zhang Xuan sent Golden Light into Azure Seclusion to cure the poison, causing her to faint as he anticipated awakening a new attribute.

After Zhang Xuan cured Azure Seclusion, his wine helped her reach Half-Step Hong Stage, and the two became lovers. When the Immortal Sect assessment began without the Record Hall, Azure Seclusion killed the Elder sent to summon her and unleashed Divine Punishment across the Boundless Immortal Sect, confronting Xuan Ao.

• Zhang Xuan absorbed the Dark Erosion backlash, rose to the ninety-ninth layer of the Geng Stage, and awakened the Dark Erosion Domain and Dark Erosion Like Rain.
• Azure Seclusion woke from her poison and drank Zhang Xuan's wine, advancing from the Cosmos Rank Initial Stage to the Late Stage and then to the Peak, Half-Step Hong Stage.
• Azure Seclusion and Zhang Xuan became lovers, and she called him Husband as the Immortal Sect assessment bell rang.
• When an Elder arrived to order the Record Hall to attend the assessment, Azure Seclusion killed him and unleashed Divine Punishment across the Boundless Immortal Sect.
• Azure Seclusion confronted Xuan Ao and declared she would repay the humiliations she had endured before attacking him with Ice Seal Divine Punishment.

Azure Seclusion destroyed the Boundless Immortal Sect and its Old Ancestor, then established the Dark Seclusion Immortal Sect with Zhang Xuan. After the sect repelled an alliance and grew in renown, Zhang Xuan received a new task from Zhu Luo Zhao to find the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl.

• Azure Seclusion froze Xuan Ao and defeated the Boundless Old Ancestor, while a giant palm from Record Hall shattered his Immortal Realm and left him vulnerable to her Divine Punishment.
• Azure Seclusion returned to Zhang Xuan, who decided to establish the Dark Seclusion Immortal Sect with her as its Sect Master.
• The Exterminate Seclusion Alliance attacked the new sect, but Azure Seclusion froze and killed its members, making Dark Seclusion famous and attracting new disciples.
• Zhang Xuan spent ten years in Record Hall, where he received a voice transmission from Zhu Luo Zhao asking him to find the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl in the Ephemera Sea.

Zhang Xuan traveled toward the Ephemera Sea and used the Rule Boat’s Collection Pearl to gain control over every Rule Boat in the realm. After reaching the Nine Sounds Region, he exposed and subdued a robber, then examined the man’s unusual Immortal Realm before a woman in azure robes stopped him.

• Zhang Xuan left the Dark Seclusion Immortal Sect for the Nine Sounds Region after telling Azure Seclusion to prepare for the survivors’ arrival at the Ephemera Sea.
• Zhang Xuan touched the Rule Boat’s Collection Pearl and gained authority over the rules of Heaven and Earth and control of all Rule Boats in the realm.
• Zhang Xuan rode the Rule Boat across the Rule Region and spent the half-month journey talking with Old Man You Xu and the other cultivators.
• After arriving in the Nine Sounds Region, Old Man You Xu tried to rob the passengers, but Zhang Xuan overwhelmed him with pressure.
• Zhang Xuan inspected Old Man You Xu’s Immortal Realm and let him leave, then a woman in azure robes called out to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan brought Yu Qiong to Traversing Tour Island, where he obtained the Ephemera Divine Scroll and gave it to her for her cultivation. He also took the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl from beneath the island, triggering a disturbance across the Ephemera Sea as an elder declared that the prophesied calamity had begun.

• Yu Qiong asked Zhang Xuan to take her to Traversing Tour Island, claiming she wanted to find her missing grandfather, while secretly seeking the Ephemera Divine Scroll.
• Zhang Xuan brought Yu Qiong to the island, freed her from the Ephemera Living Beings restraining her, and destroyed the giant beast they formed.
• Zhang Xuan bypassed the stone stele's restrictions and retrieved the Ephemera Divine Scroll, then gave it to Yu Qiong after she admitted her true purpose.
• Zhang Xuan found and took the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl from beneath Traversing Tour Island, recognizing that Zhu Luo Zhao wanted it to repair his Immortal Realm.
• The pearl's removal disturbed the Ephemera Sea and exposed its Ephemera Living Beings to cultivators, while a gray-robed elder said the great calamity had arrived.

After Zhang Xuan took the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl, the Ephemera Sea erupted, but he returned it after Fu Xuzi explained the danger. Zhang Xuan revealed Zhu Luo Zhao’s ambition to become Controller, and the Controller began searching for him while Zhang Xuan left the island.

• The Ephemera Sea’s waves surged after Zhang Xuan took the Ephemera Mysterious Pearl, threatening its islands and inhabitants.
• Fu Xuzi told Zhang Xuan about the pearl and its connection to a prophecy, so Zhang Xuan returned it and the sea calmed.
• Zhang Xuan told Fu Xuzi that Zhu Luo Zhao possessed a Dual Immortal Realm and was likely seeking control of the Holding Immortal Realm.
• Fu Xuzi informed the Controller, who tried and failed to locate Zhu Luo Zhao until Zhang Xuan revealed that he was hiding in Zhang Xuan’s Immortal Realm.
• The Controller instructed Fu Xuzi to find a way to make Zhu Luo Zhao reveal himself, and Zhang Xuan left after spending a month on the island.

Azure Seclusion investigated the armored strangers attacking the Dark Seclusion Immortal Sect, and Zhang Xuan discovered they were a Blue Star exploration team stranded in the Holding Immortal Realm. After offering to help them leave in exchange for their obedience, Zhang Xuan returned to the sect, while Kars heard a mysterious offer from another voice.

• Azure Seclusion investigated the Mysterious Persons in the mountain hollow after Ye Xingchen reported their powerful weapons and the death of an Elder.
• Zhang Xuan appeared in the hollow, withstood the Mysterious Persons' gunfire, and learned from Kars that they were from Blue Star and had been swept into the Holding Immortal Realm by a cosmic storm.
• Kars explained that the Blue Star Cosmic Exploration Team was searching for materials to repair its damaged mothership, which lay in a Deep Pit ten miles away.
• Zhang Xuan inspected the mothership and offered to help the team leave if they obeyed his orders, giving Kars three days to decide.
• Zhang Xuan returned to Azure Seclusion and showed her a suit of armor and a gun, then the two became affectionate.
• As Kars considered accepting Zhang Xuan's offer, an unknown voice told him it could help him leave the Holding Immortal Realm.

Kars rejected a mysterious voice’s offer to return him and his forces to Blue Star in exchange for taking control of it, and went to Zhang Xuan instead. After sheltering Kars and his troops, Zhang Xuan learned Zhu Luo Zhao wanted the Nine Sounds Mysterious Ice Essence and set out toward the Nine Sounds Region to warn Fu Xuzi and watch the conflict unfold.

• A mysterious voice offered to return Kars and his forces to Blue Star if they took control of it, but Kars decided to seek Zhang Xuan instead.
• Kars and his guards arrived at the Dark Seclusion Immortal Sect, where the Elders and disciples attacked them until Zhang Xuan appeared and stopped the fighting.
• Zhang Xuan brought Kars and his forces to the Record Hall restricted grounds, and Kars told him about the voice and its threat of the Punishers of Criminal Responsibility.
• Zhang Xuan stored the Deep Pit Mothership in his Immortal Realm and told Kars to wait for his return to Blue Star.
• Zhu Luo Zhao asked Zhang Xuan to find the Nine Sounds Mysterious Ice Essence at Xuan Shu Island, and Zhang Xuan decided to tell Fu Xuzi before traveling to the Nine Sounds Region.