Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuan killed two men who attacked him aboard a pleasure boat, then traveled to Xuan Shu Island and entered a tavern. There, a veiled woman sat at his table and revealed that she was hiding from a group of armed men who had just found her.

• Two men tried to assault five women from the Controller Palace, but Zhang Xuan’s defenses blasted them away and he killed them.
• The women thanked Zhang Xuan and headed for the Controller Palace on Xuan Shu Island while he vanished without giving his name.
• Zhang Xuan informed Fu Xuzi about the incident, and Fu Xuzi contacted Jiang Chen, the Controller Lord of the Nine Sounds Region.
• After several days, Zhang Xuan went to Xuan Shu Island and listened to a storyteller praise Jiang Chen in a bustling tavern.
• A veiled woman joined Zhang Xuan at his table, then pointed out several armed Black Robe Men entering the tavern and said she was hiding from them.

Zhang Xuan rescued Shi Ying from Metal Nether Prefecture guards and took control of the prefecture, where he learned the Controller Palace had ordered it to build a defensive array at the Eastern Four Seas Island Reefs. A White Skirt Woman he had rescued arrived with the order, and Zhang Xuan took her aside to hear what else she wanted to say.

• Shi Ying used Zhang Xuan to escape Metal Nether Prefecture guards, and he carried her away before intimidating the guards into letting them go.
• At an inn, Zhang Xuan learned Shi Ying had stolen a rare multicolored bead and that she was a Jade Rank Shadow of the Nine Regions Dark Hall.
• After five days, Zhang Xuan killed the fat Zhao Chi An and a boastful playboy, then forced Metal Nether Prefecture’s Elders to accept his rule.
• Zhang Xuan and Shi Ying controlled Metal Nether Prefecture for several months until a White Skirt Woman arrived on behalf of the Controller Palace.
• The White Skirt Woman told Zhang Xuan that Metal Nether Prefecture had to build a defensive Great Array at the Eastern Four Seas Island Reefs within a month to keep Zhu Luo Zhao from obtaining the Nine Sounds Mysterious Ice Essence.
• Zhang Xuan took the White Skirt Woman to a pavilion and asked what else she wanted to tell him.

Zhang Xuan accompanied Jiu Ling to Controller Palace, where he exposed an impostor posing as the Controller Lord and rescued the real one. After awakening the Immortal Evil talent and advancing to the early Yuan Stage, he returned to Nine Palaces Hall and left with Jiu Ling for a walk.

• Jiu Ling asked Zhang Xuan to visit Controller Palace because the Controller Lord had been acting strangely, and Zhang Xuan agreed to go with her.
• Zhang Xuan arrived at Central Hall, where the system awarded him Immortal Evil abilities and advanced him to the early Yuan Stage.
• Zhang Xuan recognized the Controller Lord as Hai San Kui in disguise and demanded to know where the real Controller Lord was.
• Hai San Kui exploded before he could answer, and Zhang Xuan confronted a golden-haired Old Man in a Special Space, defeating him and forcing him to die without revealing the Controller Lord's location.
• Zhang Xuan found the barely breathing real Controller Lord, revived him with Nature Qi, and told him to prepare to resist Zhu Luo Zhao.
• Zhang Xuan returned to Nine Palaces Hall, reassured the women that the Controller Lord was safe, and asked Jiu Ling to accompany him for a walk.

Zhang Xuan and Jiu Ling encountered disciples of the Qing Cang Sect and Xuan Qing Sect fighting in a mountain range, then Zhang Xuan effortlessly crushed the Qing Cang Sect attackers. He accepted an invitation from a red-dressed Xuan Qing Sect disciple to visit Glazed Island, leaving aboard a spiritual boat with Jiu Ling.

• Zhang Xuan took Jiu Ling from the Controller Palace to a mountain range, where they came upon Qing Cang Sect and Xuan Qing Sect disciples fighting.
• When Qing Cang Sect disciples challenged them, Zhang Xuan insulted their sect and let them attack while Jiu Ling stayed by his side.
• Zhang Xuan’s pressure pinned both sects’ disciples to the ground, killed the white-robed man and the gray-robed disciple, and left the rest begging for mercy.
• A red-dressed Xuan Qing Sect disciple invited Zhang Xuan to visit Glazed Island, and he accepted after asking Jiu Ling.
• The Xuan Qing Sect’s middle-aged disciple summoned a Flying Feather Spiritual Boat, which carried Zhang Xuan and Jiu Ling toward the Xuan Qing Sect as the injured Qing Cang Sect disciples planned to report what happened.

Zhang Xuan arrived at the Xuan Qing Sect, where Xuan Qing hosted him lavishly and he befriended the sect’s Old Madman. After spending over half a month with Jiu Ling and Jun Hong, Zhang Xuan returned to a banquet, where he killed a disciple who challenged him over Jun Hong.

• Xuan Qing welcomed Zhang Xuan to the sect and hosted him with a banquet attended by the Elders.
• Old Madman barged into the gathering, drank with Zhang Xuan, and insisted they become sworn brothers before disciples carried him away drunk.
• Jun Hong flirted with Zhang Xuan in the Back Hall, where he spent more than half a month with her and Jiu Ling.
• Old Madman found Zhang Xuan at another banquet and tried to take him away to become sworn brothers, angering Xuan Qing.
• A disciple outside challenged Zhang Xuan over Jun Hong, and Zhang Xuan killed him with a wave of his hand.

Zhang Xuan was summoned to Azure Orchid Hall, where he forcefully won over the Old Ancestor Feng Xiao Xiao and then Xin Luan. After asking whether Xin Luan would leave the Holding Immortal Realm with him, he heard her promise to follow wherever he went.

• Zhang Xuan mistook the sword-bearing woman who approached him for another disciple seeking his favor, but she explained that the Old Ancestor had summoned him to Azure Orchid Hall.
• Feng Xiao Xiao attacked Zhang Xuan with a sword shadow, but he defeated it and forcibly drew her into his arms.
• After spending many days together, Feng Xiao Xiao became devoted to Zhang Xuan and ordered the sword-bearing woman, Xin Luan, to serve him.
• Zhang Xuan later won over Xin Luan, who admitted that she loathed men before becoming attached to him.
• Zhang Xuan asked Xin Luan whether she would leave the Holding Immortal Realm with him, and she promised to follow wherever he went.

Zhang Xuan defeated Zhu Luo Zhao’s invasion of the Nine Sounds Region, severed his karmic connection with Fu Xuzi, and left the Holding Immortal Realm. In the Dim Starry Sky, an unknown attacker struck him just as he declared his return.

• Zhu Luo Zhao brought an azure-armored army into the Nine Sounds Region, where the Controller and hundreds of millions of cultivators confronted them.
• Zhang Xuan’s wives joined the battle and overwhelmed Zhu Luo Zhao’s forces while Zhang Xuan watched from above.
• Zhang Xuan tricked Zhu Luo Zhao into refining a fake Nine Sounds Mysterious Ice Essence, then captured his escaping soul after the essence caused him to explode.
• Zhang Xuan met Fu Xuzi, realized Fu Xuzi had manipulated events, and dissolved their master-disciple karma by writing his name on an admonition paper.
• After spending several carefree years in the Controller Palace, Zhang Xuan left the Holding Immortal Realm and warned the Controller to watch Fu Xuzi.
• An Azure Light attacked Zhang Xuan in the Dim Starry Sky, and an explosion rang out as he vanished.

Zhang Xuan returned to a ghost-ravaged Water Blue and began gathering ghostly qi and organizing survivors to slay ghosts. After Tian Ling absorbed the Six Paths Domain and advanced, Zhang Xuan confronted the old farmer behind the Azure Light, who revealed he was following someone else’s orders.

• Xuan Yan defended the surviving mortals on Treasure Island while waiting to reach Saint Entry and restore Water Blue.
• Zhang Xuan returned to Water Blue, activated the Ghost Devouring Spirit Bestowing System, and gained a Ghost Dao Immortal Realm and related powers by absorbing ghosts.
• Zhang Xuan sent the survivors into Water Blue to slay ghosts, then traveled with Tian Ling to the Six Paths Domain.
• Tian Ling absorbed the Six Paths Domain into her Immortal Realm and advanced to Ancient Stage Peak, while Zhang Xuan’s cultivation advanced toward Source Level.
• The Azure Light attacked Zhang Xuan, who followed it to a flower-filled land and confronted the old farmer behind the trial assessment.
• The old farmer said he was acting under orders and told Zhang Xuan to complete the assessment.

After Water Blue recovered and Zhang Xuan's twins departed to train, Zhang Xuan's Immortal Realm fused with him and unlocked memories revealing that his life had been a training trial. He returned to reality as the top assessor and became the Supreme Control of the Domain Boundary, while his true self sent another Divided Source into the dark-red starfield.

• Xuan Yan received Zhang Xuan's approval to relocate Treasure Island's survivors, and over the next century the Survivor Squads eradicated the Ghost Qi and Ghost Spirits from Water Blue.
• A thousand years later, Zhu Xiaoxiao gave birth to twins, whom Zhang Xuan named Zhang Long and Zhang Feng; after they grew up, they left Water Blue to train in the Myriad Heavens.
• Zhang Xuan's system finished consolidating his training gains, raising him to the Endless Source Lord Rank, and ten thousand years later Water Blue's transformation triggered the fusion of his Immortal Realm with him.
• The fusion shattered Zhang Xuan's sealed memories, and he realized that his life on Water Blue had been a training assessment before awakening as its first finisher.
• The old farmer named Zhang Xuan the Supreme Control of the Domain Boundary, and the Domain Boundary Masters welcomed him as their Domain Lord.
• Zhu Xiaoxiao, Tian Ling, and the Ying Crowd reunited with Zhang Xuan, while his true self sent another Divided Source into the dark-red starfield.

A golden Origin Essence revived Chen You in the Chen Domain’s Sealing Spirit Tower, where Gui Buhe taught him to cultivate with Sealing Spirit Qi. Chen You’s technique transformed into a divine technique, letting him absorb the tower’s Qi rapidly and withstand the punishment, while Gui Buhe was left puzzled by the sudden shortage.

• A golden beam entered the dead Chen You in the Sealing Spirit Tower, and he awakened with memories of being framed by Chen Tianhe.
• Chen You met Gui Buhe, who explained Sealing Spirit Qi and taught him the Spirit Sealing Breathing Technique.
• A golden cloud transformed the technique in Chen You’s mind into the Spirit Sealing Divine Technique, and he absorbed all the Sealing Spirit Qi on the first floor, rising from the first rank to the third.
• When Sealing Spirit Punishment struck, Chen You covered himself with Sealing Spirit Qi and endured it without apparent harm.
• After the punishment, Chen You hid the divine technique’s power and resumed cultivating, while Gui Buhe found the first floor’s Sealing Spirit Qi had vanished.

Chen You secretly absorbed Sealing Spirit Qi through successive Sealing Spirit Punishments, advanced to Seventh Rank, and gained the Void ability while searching for a way to escape the Sealing Spirit Tower. After failing to break his Rule Chains, he resolved to try again at higher ranks, while Gui Buhe advanced to Fifth Rank.

• Chen You absorbed the Sealing Spirit Qi released after a punishment and secretly advanced to Fifth Rank while Gui Buhe slept.
• During the next Sealing Spirit Punishment, Chen You shielded himself from the heat and left some Sealing Spirit Qi for Gui Buhe, then concealed his Sixth Rank cultivation by pretending to be First Rank.
• Gui Buhe gave Chen You the Red Phoenix dagger and explained that escaping the tower required controlling something above Origin Essence.
• After a freezing punishment, Chen You absorbed most of the released Sealing Spirit Qi, advanced to Seventh Rank, and awakened the Void ability as the golden cloud in his sea of consciousness quickened his absorption.
• Chen You tried and failed to break his Rule Chains, then decided to try again after reaching a higher rank.
• Gui Buhe broke through from Fourth Rank to Fifth Rank, and Chen You congratulated him.

During the Sealing Spirit Punishment, Chen You secretly absorbed the Sealing Spirit Qi from the tower’s lower floors, advancing to the Tenth Rank and awakening Void Erosion. He could not enter the seventh floor or break out of the tower, so he returned to the first floor and concealed his progress from Gui Buhe.

• Gui Buhe warned Chen You to resist the Demon Devouring, while Chen You pretended to struggle and let Gui Buhe bear the pressure.
• After the punishment ended, Chen You absorbed the first floor’s Sealing Spirit Qi, reached the Eighth Rank, and shattered his Rule Chains.
• Chen You traveled to the second and third floors, absorbed their Sealing Spirit Qi, and reached the Ninth Rank, awakening Void Erosion after the old woman on the third floor died.
• Chen You absorbed the fourth floor’s Sealing Spirit Qi while two women searched for the unseen presence, then moved on to the fifth floor.
• Chen You absorbed the fifth and sixth floors’ Sealing Spirit Qi and reached the Tenth Rank, but an invisible rule blocked him from entering the seventh floor and he could not break the tower.
• Chen You returned to the first floor and told Gui Buhe that the latest Sealing Spirit Qi eruption seemed denser than the last one.

Chen You activated the Strongest Auxiliary Cultivation System, which let him absorb Spirit Sealing Punishment and Sealing Spirit Qi as he climbed through the Sealing Spirit Tower. After obtaining Origin Essence and breaking through to the Earth Immortal Realm, he returned to the lower floors wondering whether new cultivators would be trapped there.

• Chen You activated the system and discovered that his sealed Mahayana cultivation had been converted to Sealing Spirit Master Tenth Rank.
• Chen You absorbed the lightning punishment, gained Thunder Law and Thunder Strength, and advanced to Sealing Spirit Master Twelfth Rank, but failed to break the tower’s rules.
• Chen You absorbed qi on the upper floors, ignored a wounded woman’s plea for help, and advanced to Sealing Spirit Master Thirteenth Rank.
• Chen You returned to the first floor as a stronger black-vortex punishment began, and the system converted its force into nourishment, raising him to Sealing Spirit Master Fifteenth Rank while Gui Buhe and others screamed.
• Chen You found two strands of Origin Essence on the fourth floor, awakened strength, Dao, space, and time Law Power, and broke through to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Chen You absorbed qi on the fifth and sixth floors, returned to the first floor, and wondered whether new cultivators would be bound in the tower.

Chen You absorbed Origin Essences in the Sealing Spirit Tower, advancing to the True Immortal Realm and the Fortieth Rank as a Sealing Spirit Master. He freed Reina on the sixth level and taught her to absorb Sealing Spirit Qi, while the tower’s latest punishment left its inhabitants alive.

• Chen You absorbed Sealing Spirit Qi until he reached the Seventeenth Rank, then found an injured young woman newly bound on the sixth level.
• On the second level, Chen You absorbed two Origin Essences, awakened several Law Powers, advanced to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and accidentally destroyed the bound Old Man with his aura.
• Chen You found no Origin Essences on the third through fifth levels, then absorbed two more beside the unconscious woman on the sixth level and advanced to the True Immortal Realm and Fortieth Rank.
• The woman, Reina, woke and saw Chen You in his Void state; he explained the tower, freed her from her chains, and taught her the Spirit Sealing Breathing Technique.
• After the next Sealing Spirit Punishment passed without killing anyone, Reina absorbed Sealing Spirit Qi and reached the Second Rank of Sealing Spirit Master.

Chen You entered the seventh floor of the Sealing Spirit Tower and climbed through its upper levels, absorbing Origin Essence that dramatically increased his cultivation and Sealing Spirit Master rank. After the tenth-floor Rule Realm blocked his ascent, he returned to the first floor and freed Gui Buhe, who urged them to leave the tower.

• Reina told Chen You that his Spirit Sealing Breathing Technique had helped her reach Second Rank Sealing Spirit Master and restore her cultivation to First Level God.
• Chen You entered the seventh floor, explored its empty Thatched Cottage, and proceeded to the eighth floor, where he absorbed two strands of Origin Essence and advanced from Golden Immortal to Taiyi.
• On the ninth floor, Chen You placed a piece on the Go board, absorbed two more strands of Origin Essence, and advanced to Great Luo Completion.
• On the tenth floor, Chen You absorbed two strands of Origin Essence, reached Hunyuan Golden Immortal Completion and the Hundredth Rank, then killed the middle-aged man who attacked him after Rule Realm blocked his way upward.
• Chen You returned to the first floor and shattered the law chains binding Gui Buhe, who urged him to leave the Sealing Spirit Tower.

Chen You searched the Sealing Spirit Tower for Origin Essences, grew stronger, and finally broke through to the Eleventh Layer. He found himself trapped in a barren world, where he discovered a volcano at its center.

• Gui Buhe failed to break out of the tower after Chen You removed his restraints, then began absorbing Sealing Spirit Qi to improve his cultivation.
• Chen You found two Origin Essences on the eighth floor, advanced to Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal and the One Hundred Thirtieth Rank, and promised the woman there he would take her out when the time came.
• Reina broke through to the Tenth Rank on the sixth floor, and Chen You absorbed five Origin Essences from the fiery clouds around her, awakening Law Power and advancing to Primal Chaos Taiji.
• Chen You spent years traveling between the first and tenth floors, absorbing Sealing Spirit Qi and searching for Origin Essences.
• After reaching the Two Hundredth Rank, Chen You entered the Eleventh Layer and found himself trapped in a barren world.
• Chen You searched the desolate world and discovered a volcano spewing lava at its center.

Chen You gathered Source Pearls across the Sealing Spirit Tower, breaking through several cultivation realms as he searched for a route beyond the tower’s initial levels. After reaching the thousandth Sealing Spirit Master rank, he drew the attention of enormous eyes that appeared in the world of living creatures.

• Chen You fused with ten thousand crimson pearls in the volcanic world and ten thousand blue pearls in the water world, advancing to the Primordial Realm and the four-hundredth rank.
• Chen You learned from Gui Buhe that the Sealing Spirit Tower had 999 levels, then returned to the water world and found a portal leading into a Thunder world.
• Chen You fused with ten thousand lightning pearls, advanced to the Primordial Action Venerable Realm, and found a cyan portal leading onward.
• Chen You entered a world of living creatures, killed a golden cat-like creature, and fused with the ten thousand golden pearls it released.
• Chen You rose to the Primordial Source Venerable Realm and the thousandth rank, causing the tower to shake as enormous eyes appeared and addressed him.

Chen You accepted the Five Colors Source Pearl’s offer, became the Divine Son of the Five Colors God Palace, and learned that the Sealing Spirit Tower was a prison. After rising to the peak of the Primordial God Emperor Realm, he investigated the Sealing Spirit Punishment and realized the Source Pearls powered the tower’s system.

• Chen You bowed to the unseen controller of the Sealing Spirit Tower, and the Five Colors Source Pearl placed its Sealing Spirit Imprint on him, lifting his restrictions.
• The Source Pearl brought Chen You to the Five Colors God Palace, named him its Divine Son, and silenced cultivators who challenged its decision.
• Chen You learned that the Sealing Spirit Tower was a prison and suspected the Source Pearl intended to take over his body after absorbing the sealed Origin Essence.
• Chen You cultivated for less than a hundred years and reached the peak of the Primordial God Emperor Realm, while remaining wary of the Source Pearl’s gaze.
• Chen You accepted an order to administer the Sealing Spirit Punishment and traveled with Xiu Xiu and Yao Yao to a dark red special space.
• Chen You recognized that Rule Realm Source Pearls powered the Sealing Spirit Punishment and concluded the Five Colors Source Pearl was the key to the tower’s operation.

Chen You investigated why the Sealing Spirit Tower still released Sealing Spirit Qi and met Heart Lotus, who warned that the Five Colors God Pearl planned to seize his body. He returned to the God Son Hall, where the Five Colors God Pearl summoned him to the Five Colors God Palace.

• Chen You activated the Four Pillar Formation, entered the Dark Red Source Pearl, absorbed the Shadow Slaughter Origin, and advanced to the Source Practitioner Realm.
• The Dark Red Source Pearl shattered, and Chen You used his authority to investigate the Sealing Spirit Tower after its Sealing Spirit Qi continued to erupt.
• Chen You followed a mysterious golden thread to Heart Lotus, who revealed that she was the Five Colors Pearl's former lotus-platform base and warned that the pearl intended to take over his body.
• Heart Lotus told Chen You that he could stay safely in her Heart Lotus Realm, but he chose to leave and returned to the Four Pillar Formation.
• Chen You returned to the God Son Hall with Xiu Xiu and Yao Yao, and the Five Colors God Pearl ordered him to come to the Five Colors God Palace at once.

Chen You deceived Five Colors Pearl about his meeting with Heart Lotus, then learned from Gui Buhe that the Sealing Spirit Tower was a prison. After years of cultivation, Chen You reached the Nine Star Law Enforcement Realm, and Five Colors Pearl tried to seize his body, only to be trapped by a sudden golden light.

• Chen You told Five Colors Pearl that Heart Lotus had warned him about the planned body seizure, and Five Colors Pearl believed his loyalty.
• Chen You returned to the Sealing Spirit Tower and learned from Gui Buhe how he had been imprisoned and taught the Spirit Sealing Breathing Technique by a mysterious voice.
• Chen You concluded that Five Colors Pearl had gathered talented cultivators to seize their bodies and promised to save Gui Buhe.
• Chen You devoted himself to cultivation for years and advanced to the Nine Star Law Enforcement Realm.
• Five Colors Pearl summoned Chen You and entered his Divine Soul Sea to devour his soul, but a golden light enveloped him.