Chapter Summaries

The young Bai Ze battled Madam Bai Hua and her powerful divine arts, aided by his friends, who sacrificed themselves to create an opening. After accepting the Bai Ze succession, he shattered the wall imprisoning Madam Bai Hua, and Su Yun arrived as her Spiritual Nature prepared to strike.

• Madam Bai Hua attacked the young Bai Ze and his friends with divine arts that exploited their weaknesses, suppressing or exiling most of them.
• Yinglong and Nü Chou fought their way to Madam Bai Hua while the others covered them; Yinglong trapped her Spiritual Nature’s hand, and Tai Sui struck her with the Eight Treasures Immortal Tower.
• The young Bai Ze overcame Madam Bai Hua’s techniques and cracked the wall holding her, but stopped when she offered to yield the throne and free his friends.
• Su Yun returned to find the Bai Ze Clan holding a succession ceremony, where Madam Bai Hua transferred the clan’s immortal decree and spiritual talisman to the young Bai Ze.
• The young Bai Ze declared that Madam Bai Hua had done too much harm to be spared and shattered her stone wall; Su Yun’s voice then sounded as her Spiritual Nature prepared to attack.

Su Yun returned from the Nether Capital with Yingying and left the Bai Ze Clan to settle its own affairs. The young Bai Ze exiled Madam Bai Hua to the eighteenth layer, where an immortal’s Spiritual Nature led her away, and Lou Ban and Master Cen arrived in Tianshiyuan after getting lost.

• Su Yun and Yingying returned safely from the Nether Capital, and the gathered immortals welcomed Yingying while barely acknowledging Su Yun.
• Su Yun greeted the Bai Ze Clan members and told them that Madam Bai Hua’s fate was their internal matter to decide.
• Bai Ze Clan members accused Madam Bai Hua of causing deaths and nearly destroying the clan, and they asked the young Bai Ze to judge her.
• The young Bai Ze exiled Madam Bai Hua to the eighteenth layer of the Netherworld, where an immortal’s Spiritual Nature took her to a palace.
• Lou Ban and Master Cen arrived in Tianshiyuan, realized they had gotten lost, and Master Cen threw down the copied Emperor Yu’s Book in frustration.

Su Yun and his companions toured Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven, where Lou Ban and Master Cen decided to resume the path of ascension. The young Bai Ze then warned that the Candle Dragon’s Eye might be opening, heralding a universe-shaking change.

• Bai Qu Yi led Su Yun, Yingying, Lou Ban, Master Cen, and the others through Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven and showed them the halls where Sage Emperor Yu had preached the Dao.
• Yingying asked whether Lou Ban and Master Cen would leave to explore other Grotto-Heavens, and Master Cen resolved to continue the path of ascension to help those in danger.
• Lou Ban chose to accompany Master Cen, and Su Yun offered to have Tongtian Pavilion calculate their route to the next Grotto-Heaven.
• The young Bai Ze reported that the Candle Dragon’s Eye hidden in the galaxy might soon open, possibly causing an event that would shake the universe.

Su Yun and the others prepared to investigate the Candle Dragon’s eyes while he began developing a cultivation technique of his own. The chapter ended with Sword South Divine Lord arriving in Tianshiyuan by mistake and trusting Su Yun and Yingying to guide him to Zhongshan.

• Bai Qu Yi warned that the Candle Dragon’s eyes might erupt, and Dao Sage and Sacred Buddha set out in spiritual form to investigate them using a Bai Ze summoning imprint.
• Lou Ban and Master Cen departed through the Bai Ze Clan’s exile ritual to help prepare for another grotto-heaven’s merger, while Yingying sent them off with a string of warnings.
• Su Yun discussed cultivation with Yu Qingluo and realized that he needed to create his own technique to refine Immortal Qi effectively.
• After more than ten days of observing the spirit realm and the Candle Dragon, Su Yun saw an Immortal Register beam descend in Tianshiyuan.
• Sword South Divine Lord arrived, mistakenly believing he had reached Zhongshan, and Su Yun and Yingying convinced him that Zhongshan was nearby.

Su Yun guided Sword South Divine Lord through Tianshiyuan, where the Divine Lord discovered a Treasure Land and secretly planned to claim it for himself. Su Yun used the Divine Lord’s greed to win a lesson on the Art of Creation, and they reached the Bai Ze Clan’s settlement, where Sword South Divine Lord planned to recruit Madam Bai Hua.

• Sword South Divine Lord gave Su Yun a Zhujian Demon Mirror and explained how the Liu Clan used the Art of Creation to regenerate demon-god eyes for immortal treasures.
• Sword South Divine Lord found the Imperial Court’s Treasure Land and decided to hide it from Lord Liu Xian so he could cultivate there himself.
• Su Yun and Yingying recognized that the Divine Lord’s growing greed could expose a flaw, and Su Yun encouraged his plans by calling him an Immortal Lord.
• Su Yun questioned Sword South Divine Lord about the Art of Creation, and Yingying recorded the knowledge he revealed during their two-day detour.
• Su Yun and Sword South Divine Lord arrived at the Bai Ze Clan’s settlement, where the Divine Lord planned to use Lord Liu Xian’s letter to win Madam Bai Hua’s help.

Sword South Divine Lord arrived in Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven to investigate the Candle Dragon Galaxy and discovered that Bai Ze might be his half-brother. He secretly ordered Su Yun to kill Bai Ze, but as the group reached the Candle Dragon Eye, the nebula’s vibration helped Su Yun complete his Mystic Art, while Sword South Divine Lord resolved to kill him too.

• Sword South Divine Lord saw the Gods and Devils in Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven and planned to tame them after meeting Madam Bai Hua.
• Su Yun introduced the young Bai Ze as the current Bai Ze Clan chief and told Sword South Divine Lord that Madam Bai Hua had died.
• Sword South Divine Lord read Lord Liu Xian’s letter, concluded that Bai Ze was his half-brother, and embraced him before asking him to lead the expedition to the Candle Dragon Eye.
• Sword South Divine Lord privately ordered Su Yun to kill Bai Ze at the Candle Dragon Eye, then told him to kill Bai Ze at the second eye if necessary.
• The group traveled by altar to Dao Saint’s summoning imprint, where the Zhongshan Nebula’s vibration shook them and Su Yun completed his Mystic Art.
• Su Yun manifested Zhongshan, Candle Dragon, and the expanding features of his spirit realm, while Sword South Divine Lord became jealous and decided Su Yun must die.

Su Yun perfected a new cultivation method that merged Immortal Dao Runes with mortal cultivation, while the others witnessed the Zhongshan Nebula awaken the stars and form the phenomenon of Candle Dragon’s Eye. Divine Lord Liu Jiannan led the group toward the pupil, where a gate appeared and began creating living ghost-king door gods.

• Su Yun revised the old cultivation realms and integrated Immortal Dao Runes into a new method as he pursued Seeking Sainthood.
• The Zhongshan Nebula released immense energy, lighting the Candle Dragon Galaxy’s satellite stars and revealing their natural Immortal Dao Rune patterns.
• Yingying and the others watched light from Candle Dragon’s central pupil illuminate the surrounding celestial curtain, while Divine Lord Liu Jiannan said a powerful treasure seemed to be gestating there.
• Divine Lord Liu Jiannan insisted that Young Baize, Dao Saint, and Yingying accompany him toward the pupil, leaving Su Yun under their protection as Yingying carried him along.
• The pupil’s light revealed an enormous gate whose Immortal Dao Runes formed two ghost-king figures that grew flesh and blood, prompting Divine Lord Liu Jiannan to covet the treasure’s power.

Divine Lord Liu Jiannan fought through the first two rune-built gates but was defeated by a third gate that turned his armor and spear against him. Su Yun used the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron to open the remaining gates, revealing an immortal manor and making Liu Jiannan regard him as a threat who must be killed.

• The two ghost-faced gate guardians formed from the first gate and wounded Liu Jiannan’s Two-headed Divine Bird before he killed them with his spear.
• Liu Jiannan overcame the dragon-headed guardians at the second gate with his Heavenly King Armor, then found a third, blank gate that would not open.
• The third gate turned Liu Jiannan’s armor into eight gods and devils and his spear into a dragon, forcing him and the others to retreat behind the second gate.
• Su Yun woke and used the Second Immortal Seal and Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron to crush the gates and suppress the nine gods and devils as jade discs.
• The gates opened one after another, revealing an immortal manor where a treasure was being nurtured, and Liu Jiannan decided Su Yun could not be allowed to live.

Su Yun and the others discovered that the treasure inside the Purple Qi Immortal Mansion was challenging the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron, then became trapped in the mansion’s shifting gateways. As the treasure and the cauldron clashed, the young Bai Ze reached a gate he could not pass, and Liu Jiannan feared they would all perish.

• Bai Ze realized the final gateway was still ahead just as Liu Jiannan touched the mansion doors, and the group fled when the gateways began closing behind them.
• Su Yun found himself trapped before the opened mansion, where an empty interior poured out overwhelming Immortal Might, and he decided to let the treasure contend with the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron.
• The young Bai Ze rejoined Liu Jiannan and used his clan’s knowledge of God and Demon Imprints to break through successive gateways.
• The young Bai Ze defeated the Bai Ze guardians at one gate but was stopped by a Human Demon, which required the cultivation of a Yuanshuo Saint to overcome.
• Purple qi surged from the Candle Dragon's Eye toward the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron, which crushed it and blasted toward the trapped group.

Su Yun and Yingying studied the Candle Dragon Purple Mansion while it endured the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron’s attacks. Su Yun used what he learned to refine his cultivation realms and discovered Innate Primordial Qi.

• The Purple Mansion blocked two attacks from the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron, while Baize and Divine Lord Liu Jiannan were stranded beside the Nine Abysses.
• Su Yun and Yingying entered the Purple Mansion and studied its gate and the starry dome depicting the Seventh Spirit World.
• Baize and Liu Jiannan waited outside as Divine Lord Liu Jiannan explained that the Purple Mansion was tempering itself with the Emperor Cauldron’s power.
• After exhausting their study of the Purple Mansion, Su Yun and Yingying discussed how to divide the Zhongshan cultivation realms for ordinary Spirit Scholars.
• Su Yun visualized a Purple Mansion in his Spirit World, cultivated a new vital qi, and named it Innate Primordial Qi.

Su Yun and Yingying endured the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron’s assault on the Purple Mansion, while events in the Immortal Realm revealed that the mansion had struck back and severed one of the cauldron’s legs. The Purple Mansion eventually opened a gateway for them, and Su Yun suspected that the Candle Dragon Galaxy was a living being with its own consciousness.

• Su Yun struggled to control his unstable Innate Primordial Qi as it repeatedly split into conflicting strands of true essence and wreaked havoc inside him.
• Su Yun told Yingying that a second Purple Mansion would help them if the Four Extremes Cauldron broke through, but the cauldron’s attacks continued to damage their Purple Mansion.
• Young Bai Ze and Divine Lord Liu Jiannan realized that the Nine Abysses had been created to restrain Zhongshan and Candle Dragon.
• Jade Sky Lord and the Immortal Realm’s other leaders watched a blade of purple qi strike the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron and sever one of its legs, prompting Immortal Lord Luo to order the army to suppress the Chaos Sea.
• The Chaos Sea and the Four Extremes Cauldron vanished, the Candle Dragon Galaxy began recovering, and a gateway appeared before Su Yun and Yingying.
• After Yingying joked about summoning another supreme treasure, Su Yun struck her with rolled-up papers and suggested that the Candle Dragon Galaxy might be conscious.

Su Yun and Yingying watched the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace overpower the two Purple Manors, then struck its flaw with the Second Immortal Seal to stop it. The furnace’s spirit pearl revealed itself as a supreme Immortal Sword, and the chapter ended with Su Yun and Yingying taking refuge inside a Purple Manor as its sword light pursued them.

• Su Yun summoned the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace with the Third Immortal Seal, and it suppressed the Purple Manor while drawing it toward the Sea of Immortal Corpses.
• The Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace began pulling both Purple Manors toward itself, intending to absorb them and repair its flaw.
• Su Yun and Yingying attacked the furnace with the Second Immortal Seal, striking the Four Extremes Cauldron imprint and stopping its power.
• The spirit pearl released sword light that threatened Su Yun and Yingying, but the two Purple Manors intervened and fought the furnace.
• Su Yun and Yingying entered one Purple Manor, where they found the spirit pearl’s sword light darting around inside.

Su Yun and Yingying survived the Purple Mansion’s battle with the Immortal Burning Furnace and returned to Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven with their companions. After Liu Jiannan departed, Su Yun revealed that he planned to use Liu Jiannan’s return to the Immortal Realm to set up a chance to kill him, prompting Yan Shuangfu to flee.

• Su Yun and Yingying escaped the Purple Mansion’s clash with the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace, and Su Yun took hold of the sword light after the Purple Mansion’s qi made it tangible.
• Su Yun saw that immortal corpses had vanished and that the Purple Mansion bore new marks from the Immortal Dao treasures; he and Yingying followed its rainbow bridge back to Zhongshan Grotto-Heaven.
• Dao Saint, Sacred Buddha, Bai Ze, Divine Lord Liu Jiannan, and the others arrived, and Sacred Buddha astonished them by saying he had entered another Purple Mansion without encountering its door gods.
• Liu Jiannan departed for the Immortal Realm after ordering Su Yun to handle the young Bai Ze, while leaving Yan Shuangfu behind to assist him.
• Su Yun told the young Bai Ze that he planned to let Liu Jiannan return and conceal the truth before attacking him when he came back; Yan Shuangfu fled, but Yinglong brought him down.

Su Yun returned to Tianshiyuan to investigate the suspended coffin after the Purple Mansion’s clash with the Myriad Transformations Incinerating Immortal Furnace, only to discover that the coffin had vanished and the Illusory Heaven Forbidden Ground had opened. He found the escaped immortals fused with the coffin into a monstrous being and realized the Purple Mansion’s power of creation had caused the transformation.

• Yan Shuangfu boasted of his divine appointment until Yinglong warned him that divine positions had not kept the gods and devils of the past from dying.
• Su Yun left Yan Shuangfu with Yinglong and the others, then hurried back to Tianshiyuan to investigate the suspended coffin while Bai Ze planned an ambush against Liu Jiannan.
• Su Yun found the suspended coffin missing, the Illusory Heaven Forbidden Ground open, and many seals broken as he followed the escaped immortals’ footprints through the forbidden ground.
• Su Yun discovered the immortals fused with the suspended coffin, their bodies joined to it and their faces appearing across its walls.
• Su Yun identified the Purple Mansion’s power of creation as the cause of the fusion, while Yingying saw the transformed coffin clearly and screamed in terror.

Su Yun believed he had broken Illusory Heaven and spent months hunting Liu Jiannan and teaching new cultivation realms, but discovered that those events were still illusions. He finally escaped the Immortal’s Eye’s illusion with Wutong and Yingying, learning that his Yellow Bell was set to summon the Purple Mansion only after a year.

• Su Yun entered Illusory Heaven with Yingying and arranged for the Purple Mansion to be summoned through his Yellow Bell, then waited for it to break the illusion.
• Su Yun imagined the Purple Mansion shattering the Jade Eye, then led the gods and devils to kill Liu Jiannan and spent months teaching Scholars in Tianshiyuan.
• Su Yun realized his cultivation had not improved, and Yingying vanished as the Illusory Heaven illusion swallowed him again.
• Su Yun recalled the ancient sages’ insights into the Dao Heart and saw through the illusion, then reunited with Yingying and Wutong.
• Wutong told Su Yun that Shu Ao had died saving her, and Su Yun confirmed he had escaped when refining Immortal Qi increased his cultivation.
• Su Yun noticed that the Immortal Dao Rune was on the Yellow Bell’s year scale, meaning the Purple Mansion would not be summoned for a year.

Su Yun repeatedly fell into Illusory Heaven’s fabricated futures and struggled to distinguish illusion from reality. After escaping through a sage’s empty state of mind, he saw the Jade Eye use strange runes to send a coffin through other worlds, then returned to the scene of the planned ambush on Liu Jiannan still unsure whether he was awake.

• Illusory Heaven showed Su Yun false futures in which he defeated Liu Jiannan, married Wutong, and became a father, but Yingying’s appearance exposed the first illusion.
• Su Yun thought he summoned the Purple Mansion and escaped, but discovered he was still trapped and sent his Spiritual Nature out of his body.
• Su Yun attacked Yinglong, mistaking him and the other Gods and Devils for illusions, until Dao Saint and Sacred Buddha entered Illusory Heaven and rescued Su Yun and Yingying.
• Su Yun repeatedly rejected false marriage proposals and used the state of a withered body and cold heart to see through Illusory Heaven.
• Su Yun witnessed the Jade Eye chant strange runes that sent a coffin through other worlds, escaped its summoned worlds with the Bronze Talisman, and saw the Jade Eye vanish.
• Young Bai Ze announced the plan to ambush Liu Jiannan, and Su Yun struck Yinglong before realizing that Yinglong had never guarded against him.

Su Yun remained unsure whether he had escaped Illusory Heaven, but he joined Yinglong and the Gods and Devils to fight Liu Jiannan and his twenty-eight heavenly gods. The chapter left Su Yun and Yingying working together to sacrifice Liu Jiannan’s divine spear and pursue him with the Purple Mansion Seal.

• Su Yun questioned Yinglong about how the Old Divine King had escaped Illusory Heaven, then grew more convinced that reality was still an illusion because the account matched what he had heard before.
• Yingying searched Su Yun, Bai Ze, and Taotie for signs of reality, but she could not determine whether they were still inside Illusory Heaven.
• Liu Jiannan descended with twenty-eight heavenly gods, while Yan Shuangfu fled and left a flaw in Bai Ze’s First Immortal Seal formation.
• Su Yun filled Yan Shuangfu’s missing place in the formation, helping the Gods and Devils withstand repeated clashes with Liu Jiannan and his guards.
• Su Yun attacked Liu Jiannan with the Purple Mansion Seal, and Yingying helped him block the divine spear before they trapped Liu Jiannan and sacrificed the spear with the Immortal Palace Grand Sacrifice.
• Su Yun pursued Liu Jiannan and launched another Purple Mansion Seal while Yingying joined the attack from his shoulder.

Su Yun and Yingying fought Divine Lord Liu Jiannan across the Imperial Court, replenishing their power with Immortal Qi while Yinglong and the others intervened. Yingying killed Liu Jiannan, but Su Yun and Yingying still believed they were inside an illusion, leaving Yinglong to restrain them and call for help.

• Su Yun used the Martial Immortal's Immortal Sword and relentless attacks to wound Liu Jiannan and shatter his armor, but ran out of magical power.
• Su Yun and Yingying refined Immortal Qi with the Purple Mansion Candle Dragon Scripture while Yinglong, Nü Chou, Nine Phoenixes, Qilin, and Baize fought Liu Jiannan.
• Baize copied Liu Jiannan's method of controlling the Twenty-Eight Heavenly Gods, but Liu Jiannan found a weakness in his rigid technique and injured the gods and devils.
• Su Yun and Yingying resumed their attack, and Su Yun struck Liu Jiannan's Spiritual Nature with the Demon Slaying Finger while Yingying summoned the Immortal Sword and cut him down.
• Yinglong found Su Yun and Yingying badly injured, but they insisted their wounds were unreal because they thought they were still in the Illusory Heaven Illusion; Yinglong immobilized them and sent Baize to fetch Doctor Dong.

After recovering from their injuries and the trauma of Illusory Heaven Residence, Su Yun and Yingying reunited with the world outside and hosted Yuanshuo’s Scholar delegation. New experiences and ideas finally convinced Su Yun that he was not trapped in an illusion, and he remembered the Jade Eye’s strange pronunciations.

• The Divine King Dong and Chi Xiaoyao judged Su Yun and Yingying recovered enough to leave treatment, though Ying Long remained cautious about their mental state.
• Su Yun learned that Daoist Xianyun and monk Tu Ming were leading Yuanshuo’s Scholar delegation, then spent months rescuing Scholars from dangers across Tianshiyuan.
• Su Yun’s discussions with the Scholars during his Dao teachings gave him new insights and loosened his belief that he was still inside Illusory Heaven Residence.
• When Zuo Songyan and Qiu Shuijing visited, Su Yun’s hints about his empty home prompted no one to suggest finding him another wife, convincing him that the world was real.
• Su Yun recalled the sounds from the Jade Eye in Illusory Heaven Residence and realized he had memorized the pronunciations of its strange script.

Su Yun activated seven runes on the Bronze Talisman and was transported to a vision of the Chaos Sea, where he witnessed the mutilated corpse of Emperor Chaos being suppressed by the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron. He returned to Yingying and proved that the runes worked by piercing through the innermost abyss of the Nine Abysses.

• Su Yun and Yingying deciphered seven runes on the Bronze Talisman, and Su Yun activated them with Innate Primordial Qi.
• Su Yun found himself in the Chaos Sea beneath the Chaos Four Extremes Cauldron, where the Bronze Talisman carried him to a giant hand and joined its index finger.
• Su Yun saw a mutilated giant corpse filled with Five-Colored Gold and suspected it was Emperor Chaos; the corpse spoke seven characters before the cauldron's power crushed it.
• The severed finger returned to Su Yun as the Bronze Talisman, and Su Yun reappeared beside Yingying, who still believed they were trapped in an illusion.
• Su Yun recited the seven-character incantation and pierced through the innermost great abyss of the Nine Abysses, leaving Yingying staring in shock.