Chapter Summaries

He Sheng toured the Azure Awareness Secret Realm with Qing Luan and Zi Luan, discovering it had once belonged to the Ancient Azure Immortal Sect and that an unknown force had severed its fortune. He traced the disruption to a former sect member, killed him after extracting his memories, and returned to Qing Luan with a casual explanation.

• He Sheng introduced himself to Qing Luan and Zi Luan as a spirit who had cultivated beneath the lake, then gained their trust and toured the Secret Realm with them.
• He Sheng discovered that the Secret Realm had originally belonged to the Ancient Azure Immortal Sect and contained most of its Immortal Veins, whose fortune had been severed by an unknown force.
• He Sheng found a strange abnormality in the northern region and bound its Black Qi, then used Time-Space laws to bring the source, a hunched Old Man, before him.
• He Sheng demanded to know why the Old Man had severed the sect's fortune, extracted his memories into a Memory Pearl, and killed him.
• He Sheng learned that the Old Man had been a former member of the Ancient Azure Immortal Sect who sought revenge after his senior brother destroyed his foundation and expelled him.
• He Sheng returned to Qing Luan and told her he had gone outside to contemplate nature.

He Sheng completed the Forbidden Island staircase, was accepted into the Divine Temple, and became a Subduing Heaven Divine General. Chen You then noticed a young child who had crossed over and taken over another person's body, calling him an unusual anomaly.

• He Sheng connected more than half of the Secret Realm's Luck Veins to the Ancient Azure Immortal Sect, renewing its fortune and surging its spiritual energy.
• He Sheng's cultivation advanced to the Source Rule Realm, returning him and Chu Qing to the stone cave as the oil lamp's light faded and went out.
• Chu Qing kept the exhausted oil lamp, and He Sheng awoke on the Forbidden Island staircase, realizing his experiences had been an illusion produced during his climb.
• Chen You approved He Sheng for the Divine Temple, while Heart Lotus resolved to pursue Transcendence after worrying that her own existence might be an illusion.
• He Sheng reached the staircase summit, entered the Divine Temple, and attained enlightenment; Chen You promoted him to true disciple and Subduing Heaven Divine General, raising him to the peak of the Heaven Venerable Realm.
• Chen You observed a seven- or eight-year-old child with an adult soul and recognized that he had crossed over, taken another person's body, and become an anomaly.

Ye Yi entered Forbidden Island at the Empress Remnant Soul’s urging and climbed the Mountain Stairway until its pressure knocked him unconscious. He awoke in a forest without his master or cultivation, where he discovered that his bare fists could kill a tiger and shatter a boulder.

• Ye Yi followed the Empress Remnant Soul’s guidance to the Mountain Stairway, where the Divine General guarding it withdrew after receiving Chen You’s voice transmission.
• Ye Yi climbed the stairway, relying on the Empress Remnant Soul to shield him from the growing pressure, but fainted after stepping onto the twenty-first stair.
• Ye Yi awoke in a forest with no cultivation and no response from his master, then escaped a pursuing White-browed Tiger by reaching a huge boulder.
• Ye Yi caught and cooked fish beside the boulder, then found that the tiger attacked whenever he ventured away from it.
• Ye Yi punched the White-browed Tiger dead, then tested his strength by breaking trees and shattering a huge boulder.

Ye Yi survived alone in a vast forest by using his powerful Qi-sensation, then befriended a colony of Yellow-haired Rats and learned that the world cultivated strength through Devouring. After traveling deeper into the forest, he suffered a violent reaction in a cave and lost consciousness while the Yellow-haired Rat tried to help him.

• Ye Yi hunted a Black Bear for food and clothing, then killed a Black Panther with his Qi-sensation when it attacked him.
• Ye Yi befriended several Yellow-haired Rats, and a speaking Yellow-haired Rat later explained the world’s Qi-Sensation Cultivation and its lack of spiritual energy.
• Ye Yi set off with the Yellow-haired Rats scouting ahead, but he traveled for more than half a year without leaving the forest.
• Ye Yi rested by a stream, caught fish and crabs, and moved into a stone cave he found nearby.
• Ye Yi suffered a surge of force and intense pain in the cave, then fainted.
• The Yellow-haired Rat had a hundred rats pour smoking liquid from a giant clam shell into Ye Yi’s mouth, hoping it would help him.

After his Qi Sense breakthrough, Ye Yi hunted to consolidate his strength, then explored a hidden cave and found a path to a secluded cottage. He met a White-Haired Old Man, who offered him food and then told him to leave.

• Ye Yi learned from the Yellow-haired Rat that his Qi Sense breakthrough had expelled toxins from his body, and he agreed to compensate her and the Rat Soldiers with meat.
• Ye Yi hunted for three days to consolidate his new Qi Sense, then roasted meat for the Yellow-haired Rat and her soldiers for four days and nights.
• Ye Yi climbed down a vine-covered cliff, discovered a hidden cave, and found a skeleton in one passage while following ape calls through another.
• Ye Yi emerged from the cave, followed a narrow path to a small courtyard, and waited for its owner.
• The White-Haired Old Man returned, offered Ye Yi food, and told him to leave after Ye Yi declined to eat.

Ye Yi met a reclusive old man and learned from the old man’s mother that her son had missed his Innate Qi Sense awakening. She guided Ye Yi through a ritual to awaken his own qi sense, but the attempt failed when the qi inside him was absorbed by the mist in his dantian.

• The White-Haired Old Man directed Ye Yi across a river to a nearby village.
• An old woman welcomed Ye Yi and revealed that the White-Haired Old Man was her son, who blamed her for his missed Innate Qi Sense awakening.
• The old woman took Ye Yi to worship the village’s Tree Ancestor, then led him to a Stone Temple in a mountain hollow.
• The old woman activated a formation with three clear stones and told Ye Yi to enter it.
• The formation sent qi into Ye Yi, but the mist in his dantian absorbed it and the awakening failed.

Ye Yi learned how qi-sense Awakened cultivated by watching Lu Lin and her companions, then began absorbing qi sense from powerful beasts himself. After fusing with a Forest Serpent Dragon’s qi sense, he triggered a dramatic breakthrough that summoned thunder and lightning.

• Ye Yi stayed with the old woman for half a month and met Lu Lin, who returned to the village with Teacher Ruo and a Handsome Young Master.
• Ye Yi secretly followed the three into the forest and watched them kill a Three-Headed Giant Python and extract its qi sense.
• Ye Yi realized he could cultivate by extracting qi sense from beasts, then killed a black ape and fused its qi sense into himself.
• Ye Yi traveled into the forest’s depths, defeated a Forest Serpent Dragon, and fused its qi sense.
• Ye Yi’s aura surged as thunder and lightning appeared overhead, leaving him wondering whether he had triggered Tribulation Lightning.

Ye Yi survived the Six-Nine Thunder Tribulation and formed a Qi Sense Nascent Soul, then hunted powerful beasts to absorb their Qi Sense. In the northern region, Lu Lin and the Handsome Young Master survived a wild boar attack, but their teacher was killed, and they decided to return to the village.

• Ye Yi fused with a Forest Serpent Dragon’s Qi Sense, triggering the Six-Nine Thunder Tribulation, while Lu Lin, the Handsome Young Master, and their teacher noticed the disturbance and waited for the beasts to reemerge.
• Ye Yi endured the lightning, formed a Nascent Soul, and discovered that he could fly, sense with his thoughts, and wield lightning-charged punches.
• Ye Yi killed several beasts, including a green-skinned rhinoceros and a bird beast, and fused their Qi Sense to increase his strength.
• Lu Lin, the Handsome Young Master, and their teacher fought a powerful Black-haired Wild Boar, which injured all three and killed their teacher.
• Lu Lin and the Handsome Young Master woke after nightfall, found their teacher’s remains, and chose to return to the village.

Ye Yi absorbed the qi sense of the northern beasts and bees, broke through to Qi Sense God Transformation, and left the village for Heng City. After checking into an inn, he was approached by a woman who claimed his qi sense was leaking and offered him a Qi Concealing Elixir.

• Ye Yi ate the petals of a giant purple flower, then killed the bees that attacked him and absorbed their qi sense, completing his breakthrough and enduring two days of Tribulation Lightning.
• Ye Yi returned to Old Woman’s home, shared a meal with her, and decided to leave the village the next day.
• Old Woman gave Ye Yi dry provisions, and he left the village, passing Lu Lin and Handsome Young Master at the entrance.
• Ye Yi crossed the Void to Heng City, checked into an inn, and met a woman who offered him a Qi Concealing Elixir because she said his qi sense was leaking.
• Ye Yi put away the elixir and went to a restaurant, where the woman asked if she could sit with him.

Ye Yi was taken to a hidden laboratory by the young woman who had given him a Qi Concealing Elixir, after she suspected his Qi Sense was in danger. He woke after receiving treatment with his Qi Sense stabilized and his strength greatly increased, but the young woman left him asking what had happened between them.

• Ye Yi met the young woman at a restaurant, where she questioned him about the Qi Concealing Elixir and warned that his Qi Sense could run rampant.
• The young woman brought Ye Yi to a hidden laboratory and tested his Qi Sense, causing the Test Bead to explode.
• She hurried Ye Yi to a treatment room and tried to make him drink a yellow potion, but he lost consciousness before leaving.
• Ye Yi woke beside the young woman and found his Qi Sense calm, his Qi Sense God Transformation near a new level, and his strength more than ten times greater.
• The young woman said Ye Yi had suffered a Qi Sense riot and that the potent medicine had led to an awkward situation, but she stopped before explaining what happened.

Ye Yi accompanied Ling Xuan to the Ling Family after learning that treating his Qi Sense Riot had cost her clan much of its fortune. He agreed to become the family’s Live-in Son-in-Law under conditions that gave him freedom to act and use its resources, and the family accepted after learning his true strength.

• Ye Yi returned to his hotel after an accidental encounter with Ling Xuan, but she came after him and asked him to explain what had happened to her family.
• Ling Xuan told Ye Yi that her rare Fortune Qi Sense had transferred more than half the Ling Family’s fortune to him while treating his Qi Sense Riot, and he agreed to accompany her home.
• At the Ling manor, the elders berated Ling Xuan and blamed Ye Yi for the clan’s losses, so Ye Yi used his qi sense to subdue them and killed the loudest elder.
• The Ling Family head proposed that Ye Yi become the clan’s Live-in Son-in-Law, and Ling Xuan agreed before Ye Yi could answer.
• Ye Yi demanded freedom to make his own decisions and use the Ling Family’s resources; the clan accepted after he revealed he had reached Qi Sense God Transformation, then called for the wedding date to be set.

After marrying Ling Xuan, Ye Yi learned that the village’s three statues had caused deadly accidents during Qi awakenings. When he and the old woman reactivated the Awakening Array, three phantoms entered Ye Yi, and the statues transformed into beasts that shrank and floated before him.

• Ye Yi reached the Primordial Spirit Qi-Body Union Realm, married Ling Xuan, and intimidated the gathered families when young masters tried to provoke him.
• The old woman arrived at the Ling Family Grand Hotel with farm goods, and Ye Yi took her through the Void back to her cottage.
• The old woman revealed that children had died or gone mad while awakening at the village temple after Ye Yi’s earlier visit, so she had come to find him.
• Ye Yi asked the old woman to reactivate the Awakening Array, and its three phantoms turned into black, white, and red lights that shot into him.
• The three statues shed their outer layers and became giant beasts, then shrank and floated before Ye Yi.

Ye Yi bonded with the three beasts, learned that the Nine Daos Vortexes had brought giant beasts into the world and created Qi-Sensation Cultivation, and began pursuing the path to the Departure Realm. After a long period of cultivation, he returned to the vortexes with Ling Xuan and told her they were the only way out of their world.

• The three Cute Beasts recognized Ye Yi as their Master, bonded with him, and helped advance him to the peak of the Qi Sense Tribulation Realm after three days and nights of Tribulation Lightning.
• Ye Yi learned that unstable wills and possessed souls had caused the Awakened to go mad or die, then returned to the Ling Family and reunited with Ling Xuan.
• After a year of searching, Ye Yi found the forbidden region and discovered the Nine Daos Vortexes, which the three beasts explained had brought giant beasts into the world and given rise to Qi-Sensation Cultivation.
• The vortexes expelled Ye Yi and barred him from returning until his cultivation grew stronger, so he went back to the Ling Family to cultivate with its resources.
• Ye Yi reached Qi Sense Transformation to Immortal, returned to the vortexes, and cultivated there until Ling Xuan arrived; he then told her the vortexes were the origin of Qi Sense and the only path out of their world.

Ye Yi and Ling Xuan returned from the Nine Daos Vortex to find the Forbidden Region vastly changed, with dense white fog and dangerous giant beasts. As Ye Yi searched for the fog’s source, he uncovered a massive Mirage Beast beneath the ground, while more beasts approached.

• Ye Yi stepped onto the twenty-second stair on Forbidden Island and woke beside Ling Xuan at the Nine Daos Vortex, realizing they had returned to the Qi Sense World.
• Ye Yi found he could not tear open the Void, then discovered the Forbidden Region had grown more than a hundred times larger and filled with white fog.
• Ye Yi sent his three beasts to scout, but they returned badly injured after encountering powerful beasts in the fog.
• Ye Yi and Ling Xuan traveled east, where Ye Yi killed a red-eyed giant beast whose corrosive remains briefly cleared the fog.
• Ye Yi punched deep into the ground to find the source of the fog, drawing the attention of more than a dozen giant beasts before revealing a massive Mirage Beast beneath the earth.

Ye Yi and Ling Xuan fought their way through a parallel world, then returned to the original world after he climbed to the fortieth stair. He brought the old woman to the White-Haired Old Man’s courtyard and challenged him over his resentment toward his mother.

• Ye Yi destroyed the Mirage, then defeated the giant beasts with help from the three beasts, whose devouring raised his cultivation to Qi Sense Immortal Venerable.
• Ye Yi cleared the Forbidden Region, learned that the world was a parallel version of the ordinary world, and reached Qi Sense Merge Body Supreme Saint before returning through the Nine Daos Vortex.
• Ye Yi climbed from the twenty-third to the fortieth stair, returned to the original world, and brought Ling Xuan back to the Ling Family manor.
• Ye Yi found the old woman longing to see her son and took her and Ling Xuan to the White-Haired Old Man’s courtyard.
• The White-Haired Old Man berated his mother, and Ye Yi reprimanded him for blaming her for his Qi Sense Awakening.

Ye Yi awakened the White-Haired Old Man and the old woman’s Qi Sense, reuniting them as mother and son before continuing his cultivation. The staircase trial took Ling Xuan from him, and Ye Yi later reached the two-thousandth stair, where he began climbing again from the first step.

• Ye Yi wagered that he could awaken the White-Haired Old Man’s Qi Sense, and used the three Cute Beasts and his Thought Authority to help him reach the Qi Sense Transformation Pill realm.
• Ye Yi awakened the old woman’s Qi Sense as well, and the White-Haired Old Man knelt before her and called her mother.
• Ten years later, Ye Yi entered the Nine Daos Vortex and returned to find Ling Xuan gone and a skeleton nearby; he built her a grave and continued his journey.
• After a hundred years of cultivation, Ye Yi returned to the vortex, advanced through the staircase, and eventually reached the two-thousandth stair.
• When pressure drove Ye Yi back from the two-thousand-and-first stair, he climbed back to the two-thousandth, then returned to the bottom and began again from the first stair.

Ye Yi endured the staircase trial, passed Chen You’s test, and became Controller Marshal before reviving Graceful. Meanwhile, Chen You revealed his identity as the Lord of All Heavens’ Source Doppelganger, took control of the Realm Domain, and began attacking neighboring domains.

• After tens of thousands of years of attempts, Ye Yi reached the 4,001st stair but was crushed into bone dust at the 8,000th step.
• Chen You revealed that Ye Yi had passed his test, restored his body, and named him Controller Marshal of the Forbidden Divine Hall.
• Ye Yi reached the Source Realm Peak, revived Graceful, and embraced her in the Controller Marshal Divine Temple.
• A golden-robed man arrived and ordered Chen You to take control of the realm, then Chen You revealed his true identity to Heart Lotus.
• The Old Man tried to imprison Chen You on Forbidden Island, but Chen You’s group ignored the restriction and Ye Yi killed the Old Man after Chen You took control of the Realm Domain.
• Chen You took control of the realm and launched attacks on surrounding Realm Domains, while Chi Yu considered keeping his doppelganger.

Gu Xingzhi recovered from his torture in prison, escaped, and sent his family out of the city before beginning his plan to overthrow the Chen Dynasty. He infiltrated the palace disguised as a eunuch and began approaching the Royal Consort.

• After Gu Xingzhi was framed and sentenced to death, the Prime Minister and Minister of Personnel tortured him in prison.
• A Golden Light awakened within Gu Xingzhi, healed his injuries, and gave him enough strength to break free and escape.
• Gu Xingzhi returned to the Gu Family and urged his father to leave the city with the family while he prepared to rebel alone.
• After the Gu Family escaped through a secret passage, Gu Xingzhi destroyed its entrance and slipped into the palace.
• Gu Xingzhi killed a sleeping eunuch, took his clothes, and posed as Little Renzi near the Royal Consort's chambers.
• When the Royal Consort called for Little Renzi, Gu Xingzhi entered her chambers, pleased that the eunuch's position could help his plan.

Gu Xingzhi seized the Chen Dynasty, founded the Gu Dynasty, and strengthened its National Fortune by reforming the court and bringing sects under his control. After the Ling Dynasty invaded, he sent an army to conquer it, and its early victories brought him to the brink of advancing into an Imperial Dynasty.

• Gu Xingzhi used his influence in the inner palace to build a loyal force, overthrow the Chen ruler, and take the Dragon Throne.
• Gu Xingzhi crushed the royal relatives’ rescue army, forced the former ruler to abdicate, and renamed the Chen Dynasty the Gu Dynasty.
• Gu Xingzhi introduced new policies and imperial examinations, compelled sect leaders to serve in the Capital City, and increased the Gu Dynasty’s National Fortune.
• When the Ling Dynasty invaded, Gu Xingzhi sent four confidants and an army of four hundred thousand to the border, where they defeated the enemy and pushed into Ling territory.
• After receiving two reports of victory, Gu Xingzhi felt his National Fortune surge and reached Ling Kong Flight, then declared it was time to advance into an Imperial Dynasty.

Gu Xingzhi completed the Gu Dynasty’s promotion from a royal dynasty to an imperial dynasty after rival dynasties’ interference backfired and strengthened its National Fortune. After the ritual, he learned that his armies had captured the Ling Dynasty’s capital and ordered its royal relatives executed.

• Gu Xingzhi began the Heaven-praying ritual, and the Gu Dynasty’s National Fortune repelled disasters sent by four interfering dynasties while absorbing their National Fortune.
• Gu Xingzhi completed the prayer, and Heaven and Earth recognized the Gu Dynasty as its National Fortune Divine Dragon became solid and merged with him.
• Gu Xingzhi gained control over the Gu Dynasty’s territory, while its officials and citizens hailed him as Your Majesty.
• After returning to Diligence Palace, Gu Xingzhi received word that his armies had captured the Ling Dynasty’s Royal City and its ruler.
• Gu Xingzhi ordered the execution of the Ling Dynasty’s royal blood relatives, and the capture strengthened his power through the National Fortune Divine Dragon.