Chapter Summaries

Su Yun and Yingying encountered the Immortal Emperor Corpse as a Yin-Yang lightning tribulation struck its heart, but the corpse shattered the tribulation with a single punch. After overpowering an attack from beyond the Northern Crown Great Wall, the corpse faced the arrival of the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron, and Su Yun urgently called for Yinglong and Bai Ze to activate the altar.

• Su Yun and Yingying became stiff and grew corpse hair and fangs under the Corpse Qi, while a red-haired corpse crept up behind them.
• A Yin-Yang lightning tribulation struck the Immortal Emperor Corpse's Divine Heart, and Su Yun realized the corpse was acting on instinct.
• The Immortal Emperor Corpse shattered the entire tribulation with one punch, then turned toward Su Yun and tried to dig out his eyes.
• A figure beyond the Northern Crown Great Wall attacked with an Immortal Sword, but the Immortal Emperor Corpse broke the sword light and damaged the Great Wall.
• The Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron appeared above a Chaos Sea, and Su Yun recognized it as the terrifying Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure that descended when the corpse revived.

Su Yun discovered that the Martial Immortal had turned the Immortal Palace Altar into a sacrifice altar and replaced its talisman to stop the sacrifice. The Immortal Emperor Corpse transformed into a Calamity Ash Monster and entered the Immortal Realm, but as the gateway began to close, it reached back through and grabbed for Su Yun.

• Su Yun realized the Martial Immortal had deceived them and was using the Immortal Palace Altar to sacrifice the Immortal Emperor Corpse, so he turned back instead of escaping.
• Su Yun used the Immortal Rope and Dust Curtain Sky to pull the altar’s talisman free, then inserted a different talisman and disrupted the sacrifice.
• The Martial Immortal celebrated his plan to rebuild the New Immortal Realm, but the sacrifice’s light dimmed and pursuing immortals forced him to flee.
• The Immortal Realm appeared within the gateway, and the Immortal Emperor Corpse transformed into a Calamity Ash Monster and invited Su Yun to follow it inside.
• Su Yun tethered the Immortal Emperor Corpse Demon to the altar and pulled out the replacement talisman as it entered the Immortal Realm, causing the gateway to begin closing.
• The Immortal Emperor Corpse Demon thrust a claw through the closing gateway and grabbed toward Su Yun.

Su Yun and the others escaped the Immortal Emperor Corpse Demon, but they discovered that Tianshiyuan was racing through space toward the fragments of the Seventh Spirit World. The first collision was expected in half a year, leaving Su Yun to realize that the failed sacrifice had not stopped the world’s reassembly.

• Yinglong, Taotie, Nüchou, and the others pulled Su Yun free as the Immortal Emperor Corpse Demon was dragged back through the shrinking gate, leaving him a Bamboo Joint Bronze Token and urging him to gather strength for a revolt.
• Bai Ze identified the token as a possible means of traveling between worlds, while Doctor Dong and Nüchou treated the group’s Corpse Qi, Corpse Poison, and calamity ash poison.
• Yi Chaohua calculated that Tianshiyuan was moving beneath the Martial Immortal Northern Crown Great Wall and that its three suns had been left behind.
• Yi Chaohua predicted that stars would collide with Tianshiyuan, beginning in half a year, at the dark location of the Seventh Spirit World.
• Su Yun concluded that the approaching stars were fragments of the Seventh Spirit World being summoned to reassemble, and identified the first approaching Grotto-Heaven as the initial collision threat.

As the Grotto-Heavens raced through the starry sky, Su Yun prepared Yuanshuo for an approaching collision and learned that Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven would arrive in half a year. Master Cen and Lou Ban also set out for Zhongshan, hoping to meet Torch Dragon and deepen their understanding of two cultivation realms.

• Divine Lord Chai Yundu observed Emperor Seat Grotto-Heaven and other Grotto-Heavens being swept through space, and feared that the strange celestial changes were connected to Su Yun.
• Wutong and Jiao Shuao uncovered an ancient altar beneath Lightning Pool Grotto-Heaven's calamity ash and used it to travel to another Grotto-Heaven.
• Chai Chuxi watched giants push the sun after Tianfu Grotto-Heaven as Holy Spirits traveled along the path of ascension.
• Master Cen and Lou Ban left a relay station and headed toward Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven to pay their respects to Torch Dragon.
• Su Yun had the Golden Crow youth carry a sun made from the Immortal Dao cushion around Yuanshuo, then ordered Yi Chaohua to calculate which Grotto-Heaven would approach next.
• Yi Chaohua told Su Yun that Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven would collide with them in half a year, while Bai Ze dodged questions about whether it was inhabited by pulling off his horn.

Su Yun explained to Qiu Shuijing that Yuan Shuo's merger with Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven would improve its origin energy but expose Tianshiyuan to invasion from powerful rival worlds. Qiu Shuijing asked Su Yun to spread Tongtian Pavilion's arts across Yuan Shuo and prepare its people for the coming struggle.

• Bai Ze wondered whether he was finally returning to his homeland and admitted that he feared it because he had been exiled.
• Su Yun told Qiu Shuijing that he was building Eight-Sided Facing Heaven Palaces to send Yinglong and the other gods and devils back to their homeland.
• Su Yun explained that Tianshiyuan and Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven would merge in the Great Void, strengthening their origin energy.
• Su Yun warned Qiu Shuijing that Tianshiyuan's wealth would attract invasions from other grotto-heavens, while Yuan Shuo was only an attachment to it.
• Qiu Shuijing urged Su Yun to spread Tongtian Pavilion's Daoist Magic and Divine Abilities through Yuan Shuo to enlighten its people and prepare for the future.

Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing arranged for Tiandao Academy Scholars to study Tongtian Pavilion’s knowledge, then Su Yun opened the Heaven Gate to the world beyond the Northern Crown Great Wall. Su Yun crossed first and found Uncle Qu’s frozen corpse, while his companions followed after discovering the jade-carved head he had sent back.

• Bai Ze explained Knowledge Iteration and Knowledge Replacement, and Qiu Shuijing arranged for Tiandao Academy Scholars to learn from Tongtian Pavilion experts.
• Bai Ze taught Qiu Shuijing the method for opening a gateway into the Book Collection Realm, and Qiu Shuijing passed it on to the Academy Scholars.
• Su Yun showed Qiu Shuijing the completed Heaven Gate and Chao Tian Que, then the two were activated at the North Sea.
• Su Yun rode a log up the water pillar and through the Heaven Gate, while a jade-carved likeness of his head fell back to Tianshiyuan.
• After the others realized the head was carved from jade, they sailed after Su Yun, who found Uncle Qu’s frozen corpse beyond the Northern Crown Great Wall.

Su Yun crossed the Heaven Gate in his physical body, retrieved the Immortal Diagram, and used Heavenly Mandate runes to protect the group from the Immortal Sword. After the Gods and Devils departed for the Immortal Realm, Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing headed toward the Martial Immortal Hall to recover the corpses of their forebears, while the departing Gods and Devils settled into lives in the Immortal Realm.

• Su Yun tested his Heavenly Mandate runes against the Immortal Sword, then tossed a jade replica of his head down to surprise Yinglong and the others.
• Yinglong and the other Gods and Devils reached the Northern Crown Great Wall, where Su Yun protected them with Heavenly Mandate runes and explained how long the protection would last.
• The Gods and Devils left for the Immortal Realm to restore their imprints, leaving Baize as the last to depart; Su Yun then prepared to go to the Martial Immortal Hall with Qiu Shuijing.
• Su Yun gave the Immortal Diagram to Qiu Shuijing, and the two set off toward the Martial Immortal Hall to retrieve Aunt Luo and the other corpses.
• Yinglong, Qilin, Nine Phoenixes, and Qiongqi returned to the Immortal Realm and resumed roles tied to their former masters, while Baize found Nü Chou and offered to take her back to the lower realm.
• Nü Chou followed Baize to Qilin's gate, and Qilin agreed to leave with them after Baize revealed he could return to the lower realm.

Baize and his companions persuaded gods and demons in the Immortal Realm to abandon their degrading lives and return to the Lower Realm. At the Northern Crown Great Wall, Yinglong joined them, declaring that the life he wanted lay beyond it.

• Baize found Xiangliu scavenging failed pills in Yuyong City's sewage channel, and Xiangliu followed after the toxic pill made him miserable.
• Xiangliu persuaded Taotie to leave his life chained outside an immortal estate, and Taotie freed himself by eating the willow tree anchoring him.
• Baize convinced Pixiu to leave his cage and Purple Gold Bamboo by promising him a role managing Tongtian Pavilion's money.
• Baize found Nine Phoenixes, the Great Roc, Ya Zi, Fei Fei, Qiongqi, and Tai Sui, and Tai Sui agreed to leave after learning he might be killed as a wartime reward.
• Baize and the others gave up on seeking Yinglong and traveled to the Northern Crown Great Wall, where Yinglong appeared and said he wanted to return to the Lower Realm.

Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing explored the ruined Martial Immortal Palace, where Qiu Shuijing realized that Dao fields were fundamental Immortal Dao runes and neared the Original Dao Realm. After witnessing the Immortal Realm bury an entire world beneath calamity ash, Su Yun questioned whether the immortals alone were to blame for Human Demon Yujin’s tragedy.

• Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing entered the ruined Martial Immortal Palace and carefully crossed its Heavenly Streets with help from the Immortal Diagram and Yingying.
• Qiu Shuijing reasoned that Dao fields were the fundamental Immortal Dao runes and recognized why the Conquering Sage Realm and Original Dao Realm mattered.
• An ancient ox-horned, dragon-scaled god and devil emerged, but Su Yun’s summoned Immortal Sword frightened it into letting them pass.
• The Northern Crown Great Wall shook and dumped calamity ash onto a world below, burying it and its inhabitants.
• Su Yun recalled how calamity ash had transformed Luo Yujin into a Human Demon and questioned whether the immortals who caused the catastrophe also deserved death.
• Yingying warned Su Yun that his thoughts were dangerous.

Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing uncovered how the Immortal Realm’s rulers used the Immortal Sword to restrict ascension, but they left the Martial Immortal Hall without taking it. Back in Tianshiyuan, Su Yun warned that its wealth and impending merger with other Grotto-Heavens could attract dangerous newcomers, while Bai Ze prepared a way to summon his people from the Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven.

• Su Yun and Qiu Shuijing reasoned that the Immortal Realm’s limited, decaying Immortal Qi had led its rulers to kill potential ascenders with the Immortal Sword.
• Su Yun found Aunt Luo and the others’ bodies and respectfully brought them into his spirit realm.
• Qiu Shuijing nearly reached for the Immortal Sword, but Su Yun stopped him by recalling that Grand Tutor Qu had died trying to resist it with the Immortal Diagram.
• Su Yun, Qiu Shuijing, and Yingying left the Martial Immortal Hall, and Su Yun warned that Tianshiyuan needed to strengthen its people before more Grotto-Heavens merged with it.
• Months later, Bai Ze and thirty-five other Gods and Devils reached the Northern Crown Great Wall and found that Su Yun and the others had already returned to Tianshiyuan.
• Bai Ze began a sacrificial summoning formation to bring himself and the others to Tianshiyuan, prompting Ying Long to worry about the arrival of a flock of learned little white sheep from Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven.

With stellar debris threatening Yuanshuo, Qiu Shuijing protected the world with the Immortal Diagram while rival powers turned toward the approaching Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven. Su Yun used Yi Chaohua’s calculations to bring Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven into place and left the story walking through the arriving grotto-heaven fragments with Chi Xiaoyao.

• Qiu Shuijing raised the Immortal Diagram over Yuanshuo, blocking the stellar fragments and deterring Yu Daoyuan and Jiang Zushi from attacking.
• Yu Daoyuan and Jiang Zushi decided that the Western Lands needed to explore Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven, while Chai Yundu led the Chai Clan toward the heavens.
• Zuo Songyan, Yu Qingluo, Dao Saint, and Sacred Buddha asked Su Yun how to handle the approaching grotto-heaven collision, but Su Yun led Chi Xiaoyao to Tianshiyuan’s northern cliff.
• Su Yun stepped from the cliff with Chi Xiaoyao, and Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven arrived beneath them, joining Tianshiyuan without a gap.
• Yingying explained that Yi Chaohua and the Tongtian Pavilion experts had calculated the grotto-heavens’ trajectories, while Su Yun had used their work to impress Chi Xiaoyao.
• Su Yun held Chi Xiaoyao’s hand and walked among the arriving grotto-heaven fragments, telling her that they were all his.

Su Yun and his companions traveled with Tianshiyuan through the Heavenly Abyss toward Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven, discovering that its inhabitants had sealed and refined powerful Human Demons. As Tianshiyuan reached Zhongshan, Su Yun saw the strange one-horned people waiting there.

• Divine Lord Chai Yundu and the Chai family's Golden Bodies of Spiritual Nature caught up with Su Yun, who introduced Chi Xiaoyao as his Senior Sister and the Chancellor of Tianshiyuan Academy.
• A sealed stone mountain broke open, unleashing Demonic Nature from an adult Human Demon's skeleton; Su Yun realized the Human Demon had been refined to death and ordered the Mirror-Grinder to reseal it.
• As Tianshiyuan crossed the remaining layers of the Heavenly Abyss, Su Yun found more sealed stone mountains and concluded that Zhongshan's rulers had made the Abyss a graveyard for Divine Lord-level beings.
• Yu Daoyuan and Jiang Zushi spotted Tianshiyuan ahead of them, while Master Cen and Lou Ban saw it from the Path of Ascension and wondered how it had arrived first.
• Tianshiyuan reached the edge of Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven, where Su Yun saw young one-horned people and small winged Little White Sheep waiting.

As Tianshiyuan and Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven merged, their richer Origin Energy created new Treasure Lands, while Chai Yundu and Yu Daoyuan vied for control of Zhongshan. Su Yun realized the seemingly gentle Bai Ze might have designed the terrifying seals they had encountered, and the Bai Ze declared they would rob Tianshiyuan.

• Chai Yundu offered to divide Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven with Su Yun, but Su Yun clarified that Elder Bai Ze belonged to Tongtian Pavilion, not Tianshiyuan.
• Tianshiyuan's and Zhongshan's Origin Energy began to mingle, enriching cultivation and producing more Immortal Light and Immortal Qi in Tianshiyuan.
• Yu Daoyuan arrived and challenged Chai Yundu over Zhongshan, and Chai Yundu agreed that his clan would take half.
• Su Yun connected the seals along their route to the runes Elder Bai Ze had designed to suppress Gods and Devils, and suspected the Bai Ze Clan had created them.
• Tianshiyuan and Zhongshan merged, and the Bai Ze Clan drew weapons and announced they would rob Tianshiyuan.

Lou Ban and Master Cen realized that Tianshiyuan had entered the sealed Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven, where the Bai Ze Clan confronted its rulers. After the elderly Bai Ze defeated and sealed Chai Yundu and the others, he ordered his clan to conquer Tianshiyuan, the Imperial Court, and Emperor Seat, then approached Su Yun for a fight.

• Lou Ban and Master Cen watched Tianshiyuan merge with Zhongshan and worried that it had entered a prison holding terrifying Gods and Devils.
• A Little White Sheep declared that the Bai Ze Clan would take Tianshiyuan, and Jiang Zushi attacked him.
• The Little White Sheep revealed his strength as an elderly Bai Ze, defeated Jiang Zushi, and shattered Chai Yundu's dao fields while avoiding the Immortal Sword's pursuit.
• Su Yun identified how the elderly Bai Ze timed his power, but Chai Yundu and the Chai family gods were sealed before they could use Su Yun's opening.
• The elderly Bai Ze praised Su Yun, ordered the Bai Ze Clan to conquer Tianshiyuan, the Imperial Court, and Emperor Seat, and approached Su Yun for a battle between equals.

Su Yun and Yingying fought Bai Qu Yi, using a trap to defeat him and banish his Celestial Phenomenon Spirit. After Su Yun threatened the Bai Ze Clan with Bai Qu Yi as a hostage, the clansmen bowed to a newly arrived God King.

• Su Yun sent Zuo Songyan, Yan Qingzhou, and the others to confront the young Bai Ze Clan members while he faced the elder.
• Su Yun used the Sword Sacrifice Technique and the Immortal Sword phantom to battle Bai Qu Yi, who quickly learned the technique and copied Su Yun’s Third Immortal Seal.
• Su Yun and Yingying countered Bai Qu Yi’s copied seal with the Second Immortal Seal, then Su Yun struck him and Yingying banished his Celestial Phenomenon Spirit into the Starry Sky.
• Su Yun discovered that Bai Qu Yi’s clan had defeated and captured Zuo Songyan, Dao Saint, Sacred Buddha, Yu Daoyuan, Jiang Zushi, and the other fighters.
• Su Yun seized Bai Qu Yi and threatened the Bai Ze Clan, but the clansmen bowed toward an arriving figure and welcomed the God King.

Su Yun and Yingying confronted Madam Bai Hua, the Bai Ze Divine King, who exiled them to Nether Capital’s 18th Layer despite their attempt to resist. They landed in darkness among the ashes, where a gigantic eye appeared and Yingying sensed something nearby.

• Su Yun met Madam Bai Hua, who admitted the Bai Ze Clan had misjudged Tianshiyuan and refused his offer to trade Bai Qu Yi for the captured people.
• Madam Bai Hua used her Spiritual Nature to attack Su Yun and sentenced him to eternal exile in Nether Capital’s 18th Layer, lifting Bai Qu Yi away from him.
• Su Yun and Yingying joined their power through the Second Immortal Seal and briefly halted their fall, but Madam Bai Hua’s attack overcame them.
• A young Bai Ze tried to reach Su Yun through Nether Capital, but Madam Bai Hua warned that a terrifying creature was following the passage, then explained that no one returned from the 18th Layer.
• Su Yun and Yingying landed amid the ashes; Yingying’s Bifang light revealed a gigantic eye before a freezing breath extinguished it, and she sensed something in the darkness.

Su Yun and Yingying fled through Nether Capital as Bai Ze opened a passage, only to witness a buried monster awaken and learn that it was the Great Emperor Di Shu. An Immortal Spirit revealed Di Shu’s connection to the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron and the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace, then threatened to eat them.

• Su Yun escaped the enormous eyes with Yingying as Bai Ze’s passage exposed the horrifying layers of Nether Capital.
• Immortal Spirits and the gods and devils of Nether Capital fought to force the eyes and their fleshly growths back underground, while Madam Bai Hua closed the passage.
• An Immortal Spirit told Su Yun and Yingying that the monster beneath Nether Capital was Di Shu, an ancient Great Emperor.
• The Immortal Spirit explained that Di Shu and Di Hu had made the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron from Emperor Chaos’s body and that the Immortal Emperor had fashioned the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace from Di Shu’s skullcap.
• Su Yun tried to leave with Yingying, but the Immortal Spirit admitted that he intended to eat them for their fresh vital energy.

Su Yun was overwhelmed by Nether Capital’s starving Immortal Spirits, but escaped into a valley where he found the original Immortal Emperor. The Immortal Emperor recognized his Bronze Talisman and revealed that the Corpse Demon born from his body had unknowingly helped rescue him.

• Su Yun’s attacks failed against an Immortal Spirit, who seized him and explained that Nether Capital’s Immortal Spirits survived by devouring others’ Spiritual Natures.
• The calamity ash hall collapsed, and the Immortal Spirits fought over Su Yun’s true essence, allowing him to escape while they pursued him.
• Su Yun tumbled into a lit valley where the pursuing Immortal Spirits refused to enter, then followed a bone road to a palace and met the Immortal Emperor’s Spiritual Nature.
• Su Yun presented the Bronze Talisman and claimed to be the Immortal Emperor’s Crown Prince; the Immortal Emperor confirmed the talisman was his token but did not recognize the claim.
• The Immortal Emperor took the Bronze Talisman and realized that the Corpse Demon born from his corpse had used Su Yun to return the treasure to him.

Su Yun and Yingying escaped Nether Capital aboard the Bronze Talisman with the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature, who revealed that Di Shu’s enormous brain was still resisting them. They reached Tianshiyuan, where Su Yun took possession of the talisman, while the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature remained behind with a hidden, growing infestation of the Spiritual Natures he had consumed.

• The Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature activated the Bronze Talisman and carried Su Yun and Yingying above Di Shu’s vast brain, whose thoughts and visualizations tried to prevent their escape.
• The Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature cut through the space blocking their path, and Di Shu’s brain began turning into calamity ash after using its power to stop them.
• The Bronze Talisman passed Nether Capital’s demon armies, and the Nether Capital Great Emperor ordered his forces to let them leave.
• Su Yun and the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature arrived in Tianshiyuan, and the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature gave Su Yun the Bronze Talisman.
• Su Yun asked whether the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature had consumed other immortals’ Spiritual Natures, and the Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature denied it until Su Yun and Yingying departed.
• The Immortal Emperor's Spiritual Nature admitted to himself that he had consumed them to survive as faces emerged from his body.

Su Yun and Yingying left the restored Imperial Court as Su Yun considered the Imperial Spirit’s motives and his coming conflict with the Corpse Demon. At the Tianshiyuan–Zhongshan border, Bai Ze’s old grievances with Madam Bai Hua came to light, and she prepared to attack him and his friends.

• Su Yun reassured Yingying that the Imperial Spirit would not devour other Spiritual Natures for cultivation, but warned that he would likely fight the Corpse Demon to reclaim his body.
• Su Yun and Yingying reached the border, where the Bai Ze Clan and a group of Gods and Devils had gathered to rescue him.
• Madam Bai Hua challenged the young Bai Ze for choosing human friends over his clan, and he explained that he had been expelled after killing her son and winning a divine position.
• Bai Ze accused Madam Bai Hua of sacrificing clansmen and imprisoned Gods and Devils to secure a divine position for her son.
• Bai Qianzhao questioned Madam Bai Hua about the deaths in the competition, and she announced that she would personally execute Bai Ze.