Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion as a True Immortal, Xu Fan repaired Xu Yuexian’s unusual Spirit Beast and sent Li Xuandao to the Netherworld Immortal Realm with powerful reinforcements to rescue his mother. He then announced a thousand years of Dao teaching for the Hidden Spirit Sect’s True Immortal disciples.

• Xu Fan congratulated his disciples and decided to teach the Dao, while Xu Yuexian explained that her Little Beast could turn ores into alloy immortal ore.
• Xu Fan repaired the Little Beast’s incomplete gestation, making it a unique variant that could no longer be produced by the Spirit-Connecting Tree.
• Li Xuandao told Xu Fan that the Netherworld Immortal Realm had become turbulent and asked to advance to Golden Immortal sooner so he could find his mother.
• Xu Fan sent Li Xuandao to the Netherworld Immortal Realm with Metal One and ten thousand True Immortal Puppets to bring his mother back.
• Xu Fan praised Guang Xu’s Dao Artifact Spirit Sword and gave him a Quasi-Immortal Artifact furnace, then reassured Zhou Kailing about his research.
• Xu Fan ordered all True Immortal disciples into seclusion and announced that he would teach the Dao for a thousand years.

Xu Fan taught the Hidden Spirit Sect’s disciples the Great Dao through hundreds of clones while Wang Xuanxin received a reply and cultivation gifts from the Upper Realm Sect. Venerable Honglian again tried to recruit Wang Xuanxin, but he refused to leave his Sect.

• Xu Fan split the Dao Field into 532 smaller fields and had his clones teach the disciples their respective Great Daos.
• Wang Xuanxin learned that the Upper Realm Sect had replied and received its message, an Immortal Artifact, and the Three Hundred Dao Methods.
• Xu Fan’s letter told Wang Xuanxin that he hoped they would reunite after Wang Xuanxin ascended to the Immortal World.
• Venerable Honglian urged Wang Xuanxin to leave the Hidden Spirit Sect and promised to guide his cultivation, but Wang Xuanxin firmly refused.

Xu Fan's older brother told him that the Wood Origin Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao had empowered a Myriad Saints Immortal Sect disciple, who had become a Golden Immortal capable of defeating two Demon Race Grand Unity Saints. The older brother then warned Xu Fan against his Dao name, Myriad Dao, and offered to safeguard one of his time avatars in the Time Hall.

• Xu Fan's older brother explained that the Wood Origin Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao had strengthened a former Myriad Saints Immortal Sect disciple, who used the Ancient Sword Dao to kill two Demon Race Grand Unity Saints.
• Xu Fan learned that the Golden Immortal's Dao name was Heaven-Piercing and joked about famous Dao names before revealing his own was Myriad Dao.
• Xu Fan's older brother warned him that past Cultivators with the Dao name Myriad Dao had met bad ends and urged him to change it.
• Xu Fan's older brother offered to store one of Xu Fan's time avatars in the Time Hall so he could revive him if a Grand Unity Saint targeted him.
• Xu Fan reassured his older brother that he could handle his Dao name and promised to protect him in any future crisis.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xu Fan declines the White-haired Old Man's offer of a time clone, preferring his optimized clone abilities.
• After a thousand years of preaching, nearly thirty percent of the first three generations of disciples reach the peak of the True Immortal Stage, but none advance to the Golden Immortal Stage.
• Gold Artifact Academy becomes renowned for its Heterodox Paths education, bringing significant wealth to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan decides to halt time acceleration due to the high cost of Time Treasures.
• A 4th Generation Disciple, Wu Gang, advances to Quasi-Immortal, and Xu Fan appoints him as the Chief Disciple of the 4th Generation.
• The fourth Golden Immortal Puppet is successfully refined.

Character Developments

• Xu Fan becomes mentally exhausted after a thousand years of preaching.
• Zhang Xueling demonstrates impressive analytical skills, conjecturing that one must be at least one hundred thousand years old to advance to the Golden Immortal Stage.
• Wu Gang advances to Quasi-Immortal, showing significant progress in his cultivation.

Significant Themes

• The limitations of time acceleration and the high cost of Time Treasures.
• The difficulty in advancing to the Golden Immortal Stage, with the Heavenly Dao's Will imposing restrictions.
• The importance of patience and perseverance in cultivation, as seen in Wu Gang's advancement to Quasi-Immortal.

Character Interactions

• Xu Fan interacts with the White-haired Old Man, declining his offer of a time clone.
• Xu Fan interacts with Zhang Xueling, approving of her analysis and instructing her to return to her cultivation.
• Xu Fan interacts with Wu Gang, rewarding him for his advancement to Quasi-Immortal and appointing him as the Chief Disciple of the 4th Generation.
• Xu Fan expresses concern for Li Xuandao, hoping for his safe return from the Netherworld Immortal Realm.

Xu Fan let his two clones take a year off in Star Moon City, then joined them to relax after his thousand-year sermon. Meanwhile, Feng Changning learned that the Nine Phoenix Dynasty lagged behind a small Immortal World sect and considered where to expand next.

• Xu Fan explained that the Sect needed Time Treasures and proposed refining an Acquired Spirit Treasure flying ship, while Clone No. 2 negotiated a year off and ten million Immortal Jade for himself and Clone No. 1.
• Xu Fan agreed to the clones' vacation, then joined them on their trip to Star Moon City a month later.
• General Xueyang reported that the Tianwu Middle Thousand World had submitted, and Feng Changning rewarded him with the title Marquis Tianwu and a share of its proceeds.
• Feng Changning read intelligence from the Immortal World and learned that the Nine Phoenix Dynasty was outmatched by a small local sect.
• The Imperial Preceptor advised Feng Changning to develop in a Small Immortal Realm before expanding, and she predicted the dynasty would reach that stage within seven thousand years.
• Feng Changning went to the Stargazing Platform and gazed toward the Wood Origin Immortal Realm.

Ye Xiaoyao learned that traveling between Immortal Realms required a steep tax, while Li Xuandao returned to the Sect with his mother after destroying a Golden Immortal Puppet to save her. Xu Fan accepted the loss and began preparing to refine an Acquired Spirit Treasure-grade flying vessel so he could gather Time Treasures above the Ninth Heaven.

• Old Sword told Ye Xiaoyao that crossing into another Immortal Realm would cost him at least ten million Immortal Jade in taxes, and Ye Xiaoyao encountered Li Xuandao and his mother in Myriad Worlds City.
• Li Xuandao brought his mother back to the Sect three months later and explained that he had destroyed Xu Fan's Golden Immortal Puppet to save her.
• Xu Fan reassured Li Xuandao's mother that their safety mattered more than the puppet and sent them to rest.
• Pang Fu reported that the tax for crossing Immortal Worlds could not be waived, so Xu Fan decided to mine Time Treasures himself using an Acquired Spirit Treasure-grade flying vessel.
• Xu Fan gave Pang Fu a list of immortal minerals to purchase and summoned three Golden Immortal Puppets as he prepared to vent his frustration.

Xu Fan prepared to confront the Azure Thunder Saint and reclaim Five Colors Peak, while Li Xuandao revealed the location of an Immortal Emperor's secret trove. Xu Fan and Xu Gang reached a city near the front line, where Xu Gang sensed that Five Colors Peak was still marked by him and likely held by one of the Saint's descendants.

• Xu Fan learned the Azure Thunder Saint was in Azure Thunder Tree City and discovered that a bounty offered rewards for killing him, capturing him, or destroying his Companion Spirit Tree.
• Xu Fan asked Grape to deduce Golden Immortal Puppets capable of reaching the Acquired Spirit Treasure level, then heard Li Xuandao describe an Immortal Emperor's secret trove in the Wu Wang Immortal Realm.
• Xu Fan agreed to visit the secret trove with Li Xuandao later and wondered whether an old acquaintance's companion had once been an Immortal Emperor.
• Xu Fan disguised three Golden Immortal Puppets as Wood Origin Race members and sent No. 3 Avatar carrying his consciousness toward the front line.
• Clones No. 1 and No. 2 ended their vacation early and returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect to work on the Acquired Spirit Treasure Level Spaceship project.
• Xu Gang sensed Five Colors Peak in a city near the front line, and Xu Fan concluded that the Azure Thunder Saint had probably given it to one of his descendants.

Xu Fan learned that Tongtian had been suppressed by the Xuan Gang Race’s newly advanced quasi-Saint, triggering war across the Human Race’s borders. As Xu Fan and Xu Gang traveled through Wood Origin Race territory toward the teleportation array, the Xuan Gang Race quasi-Saint revealed his grudge against the Human Race and his plan to relocate under the Ancient God Race’s protection.

• Xu Fan told Xu Gang that the Golden Immortal tribulation required a hundred thousand years of accumulation and suggested they explore the city while waiting for the teleportation array.
• After learning that Tongtian had been suppressed and the Human Race’s borders were under attack, Xu Fan suspected the other top races were using the Xuan Gang Race to take the blame.
• The Xuan Gang Race quasi-Saint refused the Human Race elder’s demand to release Tongtian, citing his people’s expulsion from their ancestral land and his desire for revenge.
• The Xuan Gang Race quasi-Saint revealed that the Ancient God Race had offered his people a flying ship and a new home, then used the ship to shatter the elder’s projection.
• Xu Fan and Xu Gang, disguised as members of the Wood Origin Race, left a tree city after sampling its cuisine and entered its teleportation hall, where Xu Fan paid the guard with a Wood Origin Race Storage Bag.

Xu Fan and Xu Gang attacked Azure Thunder Tree City to take Five Colors Peak from Golden Immortal Fei Yue, killing Fei Yue and two other Golden Immortals before escaping. Xu Fan then gave Five Colors Peak to Xu Gang and prepared to target Azure Thunder Saint's Companion Spirit Tree.

• Xu Fan and Xu Gang traveled toward Azure Thunder Tree City, where Golden Immortal Fei Yue held Five Colors Peak and awaited help from Azure Thunder Saint.
• Xu Fan and Xu Gang infiltrated the city using three disguised Golden Immortal Puppets, and Xu Fan split Azure Thunder Tree City with one sword to expose Fei Yue.
• Xu Fan, Xu Gang, and Grape trapped Fei Yue and two other Golden Immortals, then Xu Fan killed all three with a single sword strike despite Azure Thunder Saint's arrival.
• Xu Fan's group recovered Five Colors Peak and escaped to a prepared Mystic Realm before Azure Thunder Saint could reach them.
• Xu Fan gave Five Colors Peak to Xu Gang and said their next move was to chop down Azure Thunder Saint's Companion Spirit Tree.

Xu Fan and Xu Gang hid from Azure Thunder Saint, spent their spoils in Millennium Tree City, and traveled to the Land of Sin and Chaos to bait powerful enemies with a Golden Immortal Puppet bearing an Acquired Spirit Treasure. Great Demon Xiong Ya trapped their disguised Puppets in an Earth Element Cage, and Xu Fan sensed that the encounter was about to become interesting.

• Azure Thunder Saint pursued the spatial fluctuation while Xu Fan heeded a warning and took Xu Gang into hiding.
• Xu Fan and Xu Gang shopped in Millennium Tree City using Immortal Jade taken from the Wood Origin Golden Immortals, and Xu Fan kept their Acquired Spirit Treasures for the Puppets.
• After Azure Thunder Saint’s Divine Sense searched Millennium Tree City, Xu Fan and Xu Gang traveled to the Land of Sin and Chaos.
• Xu Fan disguised a Golden Immortal Puppet as a newly advanced Wood Origin Golden Immortal carrying an Acquired Spirit Treasure, then sent Xu Gang into an Immortal Artifact for safety.
• Great Demon Xiong Ya trapped the two disguised Puppets in an Earth Element Cage and demanded their Acquired Spirit Treasure.

Bear Asia Golden Immortal fought three Foreign Race Golden Immortals to claim Xu Fan and Xu Gang’s Acquired Spirit Treasure, then used a dangerous divine ability that left him badly weakened. When he demanded the treasure, Xu Fan trapped him inside the Village Peach Garden Painting.

• Three Foreign Race Golden Immortals appeared and demanded that Bear Asia Golden Immortal hand over Xu Fan and Xu Gang, but he charged them and initially held them off.
• Xu Gang explained that Bear Asia Golden Immortal had Ancient God bloodline, while Xu Fan watched the battle from the Earth Element Cage.
• The three Foreign Race Golden Immortals began overpowering Bear Asia Golden Immortal, who stood between them and the cage before unleashing a black mass that caused space to collapse.
• The three Foreign Race Golden Immortals fled, and Bear Asia Golden Immortal swallowed the black mass, surviving but becoming gravely weakened.
• Bear Asia Golden Immortal demanded the Acquired Spirit Treasure, so Xu Fan used the Village Peach Garden Painting to capture him.

Xu Fan and his clones fully controlled Bear Asia Golden Immortal with the Peach Blossom Spring Map, then Xu Gang fought him in a test battle. Afterward, Xu Fan’s Good Big Brother arrived with rare Profound Yellow Enlightenment Tea, leaving Xu Fan wondering whether to share it with his disciples.

• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with the Peach Blossom Spring Map and asked No. 1 and No. 2 to help control Bear Asia Golden Immortal.
• Xu Fan, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 stabilized the map and gained complete control over Bear Asia Golden Immortal while preserving his strength and intelligence.
• Xu Fan arranged for Xu Gang to face Bear Asia Golden Immortal, but a Golden Immortal Puppet defeated the bear in a Minor World battle.
• Xu Fan’s Good Big Brother brought him Profound Yellow Enlightenment Tea, which could help a peak True Immortal advance to Golden Immortal, and Xu Fan considered sharing it with his disciples.

Xu Fan heard his white-haired older brother explain the Human Race’s attempt to rescue the Heaven-Piercing Golden Immortal and recount how a special girl once rose amid a powerful race’s oppression. The chapter ended with the older brother’s Grand Unity Saint disciple delivering a jade carving that contained a sealed fire phoenix for Xu Fan’s protection.

• Xu Fan declined his white-haired older brother’s offer to escort him to the Myriad Worlds Immortal Realm when he relocated the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• The white-haired old man told Xu Fan that Human Race forces had hired two quasi-Saints to rescue the Heaven-Piercing Golden Immortal while the Xuan Gang Race traveled toward the Ancient God Realm.
• Xu Fan asked about famous Immortal Emperors, and the white-haired old man described a powerful race’s oppression of a Human Race branch and the emergence of a special little girl.
• The white-haired old man compared the Wood Origin Race’s failure to eliminate the Human Race early with Xu Fan’s willingness to personally remove future threats to his Sect.
• The white-haired old man’s Grand Unity Saint disciple arrived with a Profound Yellow Jade carving containing a sealed Grand Unity Saint-level fire phoenix, which the older brother gave Xu Fan for protection.

After receiving a priceless Profound Yellow Fire Phoenix Jade Sculpture, Xu Fan considered targeting nearby foreign races for time treasures as the Human Race’s border situation worsened. He decided to build three more Golden Immortal Puppets and begin slowly constructing an Acquired Spirit Treasure spaceship, which would cost 180 billion Immortal Jade.

• Xu Fan accepted the Profound Yellow Fire Phoenix Jade Sculpture from the white-haired elder and learned it had once sold for thirteen Crystals of Profound Yellow Qi.
• Grape reported that foreign races had joined the attacks on the Human Race border, and Xu Fan investigated nearby races that might possess time treasures.
• Xu Fan concluded that he needed six Golden Immortal Puppets to raid foreign Treasure Vaults, but postponed the plan and ordered three more Puppets and an Acquired Spirit Treasure spaceship.
• Clone No. 1 and Clone No. 2 presented Xu Fan with a spaceship blueprint that required 180 billion Immortal Jade, and Xu Fan approved beginning the construction gradually.

Li Rang advanced to Quasi-Immortal, met Xu Fan, and received two Immortal Artifacts as a reward. Xu Fan learned that Zhang Weiyun had left him a letter through the Cloud Flower Deer, then sent a reply back to her.

• Li Rang announced his advancement to Quasi-Immortal and livestreamed his visit to Xu Fan.
• Xu Fan gave Li Rang two Immortal Artifacts and announced that the first hundred 4th Generation Disciples to reach Quasi-Immortal would receive special rewards.
• Grape reported that millions of 4th Generation Disciples pursued the Heterodox Path and that at least two might become Great Grandmasters.
• A pair of Cloud Flower Deer returned through a Space Rift, and the female deer showed Xu Fan a Spatial Ring carrying Zhang Weiyun’s aura.
• Xu Fan read Zhang Weiyun’s letter, wrote a reply, and asked the Cloud Flower Deer to return the ring to her.

Xu Fan learned what Luosheng knew about the Land Beyond the Realm and gave him tea to help him advance to Golden Immortal. When Mu Dai’s father was besieged at the border, Xu Fan sent Wang Xiangchi and three Golden Immortal Puppets to aid him, while Wang Yulun shared news that his wife’s younger sister had found clues in the Land Beyond the Realm.

• Xu Fan asked Luosheng about the Land Beyond the Realm, and Luosheng described its treasures and a rumored way to escape the Three Thousand Realms.
• Xu Fan gave Luosheng Great Dao Tea that could help him break through to Golden Immortal.
• Wang Xiangchi told Xu Fan that Mu Dai had gone to help her father, who was besieged by Foreign Race Great Luo at the border.
• Xu Fan sent Wang Xiangchi and three Golden Immortal Puppets to the border to protect Mu Dai and assist her father.
• Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that his wife’s younger sister had found clues about what she sought in the Land Beyond the Realm and might soon return.

Mu Dai was caught in a Foreign Race ambush while her father, Saint Wood Thunder, fought three Grand Unity Saints. Saint Wood Thunder rescued her once, but the enemy captured her again and threatened to kill her to disrupt his Dao Heart.

• Mu Dai urged her Golden Immortal guards to help Saint Wood Thunder, but Foreign Race forces attacked the frontline and sealed the area around her.
• Saint Wood Thunder arrived and fought off the Foreign Race Golden Immortals while Mu Dai and her guards were surrounded.
• Mu Dai chose to destroy her immortal soul and body rather than be captured, but Saint Wood Thunder pulled her into space with a lightning hand.
• The Ancient Devil Race Grand Unity Saint captured Mu Dai again and taunted Saint Wood Thunder as the other two Grand Unity Saints blocked his attempt to save her.
• The Ancient Devil Race Grand Unity Saint prepared to torture Mu Dai to death while the other two held Saint Wood Thunder back.

Wang Xiangchi used Golden Immortal Puppets and Xu Fan’s support to rescue Mu Dai from a Foreign Race Great Luo, then joined Saint Wood Thunder in battling three Great Luos. Armed with an Acquired Spirit Treasure Immortal Sword, Wang Xiangchi entered the Thunder Sea to help save his father-in-law.

• Xu Fan authorized No. 3 Avatar to possess a Sword Immortal Golden Immortal Puppet and spend without limit to rescue Mu Dai.
• The puppet severed the arm holding Mu Dai and brought her back to Wang Xiangchi, while Saint Wood Thunder trapped three Foreign Race Great Luos in his Thunder Sea.
• A puppet killed an Ancient Devil Golden Immortal that tried to seize Mu Dai, and Wang Xiangchi merged into the Sword Immortal Puppet to join the fight.
• Wang Xiangchi and Saint Wood Thunder agreed to battle the three Great Luos together, and Wang Xiangchi’s puppet entered the Thunder Sea.
• Saint Wood Thunder gave Wang Xiangchi an Acquired Spirit Treasure Immortal Sword, and Xu Fan decided the expense was worth it.

Wang Xiangchi and Mu Dai helped Saint Wood Thunder defeat the Foreign Race Great Luos, but Saint Wood Thunder reclaimed the Black Dragon Sword instead of rewarding Wang Xiangchi. Back at the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan decided to use the Sect’s remaining funds and the injured Saint Moon Clan Grand Unity Saint as an opportunity to stir up trouble.

• A Saint Moon Clan Great Luo escaped Saint Wood Thunder’s Thunder Sea, and Saint Wood Thunder withdrew it after the remaining Foreign Races retreated.
• Mu Dai offered Saint Wood Thunder the lightning Origin Power he had left to protect her, and he praised Wang Xiangchi’s help with the Golden Immortal Puppet.
• Saint Wood Thunder reclaimed the Black Dragon Sword despite Wang Xiangchi and Mu Dai trying to make him give it to Wang Xiangchi as a reward.
• Wang Xiangchi and Mu Dai lamented that they had received no sword or spoils, and Mu Dai promised to retrieve the sword as dowry at their cultivation-partner ceremony.
• Xu Fan learned that the battle had consumed two billion Immortal Jade, then ordered Grape to move the Sect’s remaining eleven billion Immortal Jade into the Golden Immortal Puppet and prepared to act while the Saint Moon Clan Grand Unity Saint was injured.

Xu Fan traveled into Saint Moon Clan territory with three Golden Immortal Puppets, hoping to recoup the Immortal Jade spent saving Mu Dai’s father. Disguised as a Saint Moon Clan member, he entered the Holy City and attracted the attention of its faithful with his teachings, drawing a Golden Immortal guard toward him.

• Xu Fan told Grape to arrange for Wang Xiangchi’s father-in-law to help and went to the front lines to meet Wang Xiangchi and Mu Dai.
• Xu Fan left with three Golden Immortal Puppets, while Wang Xiangchi and Mu Dai agreed to cooperate with his plan.
• Xu Fan sent a plague-and-calamity Light Orb into a Saint Moon Clan scouting force, then continued toward the clan’s territory.
• Xu Fan disguised himself as a Saint Moon Clan member and traveled to its Holy City, praising the clan’s ancient inheritance.
• Xu Fan posed as a devout Saint Disciple at the Saint Moon Grand Hall and drew a crowd with his views on faith, attracting the attention of the Golden Immortal guard.