Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and Han Li secured Lingyun’s approval to hold the Dao Discussion in Taiyuan Sea, while the mysterious Old Ancestor agreed to accompany them to the Small World. As the gathering began, Taiyuan Sea’s gate announced their arrival with a dazzling display.

• The mysterious voice revealed that Lingyun had begun upgrading Cangwu’s Spirit Vein and agreed to hold the Dao Discussion in Taiyuan Sea, then decided to go with Qu Jianlei and Han Li to the Small World.
• Jin Ge told Han Li that Lingyun had approved his request, and the sect announced the Dao Discussion would take place in Taiyuan Sea in a month and a half.
• Qu Jianlei stayed at True Venerable Tianli’s Spirit Vein and let Jia Shuiqing screen Cangwu cultivators’ requests for chances to enter Taiyuan Sea.
• True Venerable Xiaoyou and True Venerable Han Wei arrived at Taiyuan Sea ahead of the gathering, and the mysterious voice said they would not leak secrets.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li entered Taiyuan Sea with a fist-sized spider on Qu Jianlei’s shoulder, and the gate tower shone with Five-Colored radiance as the Dao Discussion began.

Qu Jianlei began the Taiyuan Sea’s Dao Discussion and used his aura of creation to adapt to the powerful rules of the speaker’s platform. The aura merged with some of the rules, granting him and Spider a rare opportunity to benefit as the discussion began.

• Qu Jianlei and Han Li entered the Taiyuan Sea as the host and dao protector, and the Artifact Spirit announced the start of the 6,977th Dao Discussion.
• Qu Jianlei sat on the platform, where its immense spiritual energy and tangled rules overwhelmed him.
• Qu Jianlei released a faint aura of creation, which formed a membrane and began assimilating the platform’s rules.
• Youjian and Baiqiao recognized the aura of creation, while the gathered cultivators whispered about Qu Jianlei’s potential.
• Qu Jianlei realized the Dao Field was limiting the assimilation so it could still strengthen his discourse, and Spider enjoyed the creation insights.
• The Mysterious Voice teased Qu Jianlei for taking advantage of the Dao Field, while Xiaoyou called him destined for her and Han Wei urged her to restrain herself.

Qu Jianlei led a Dao Discussion in the Taiyuan Sea, explaining the path to Out-of-Body and answering questions as the gathering stretched from six months to a year and a half. After the discussion ended, Han Li and Xiaoyou acknowledged their gains and spoke of friendship, while Elder Youjian warned a Nascent Soul cultivator that the situation was dangerous.

• Qu Jianlei explained the principles of reaching Out-of-Body in the Otherworld, then discussed obscure questions with more than ten True Venerables.
• The Dao Field's Artifact Spirit invited Azure Dragon and Qingning to expound on their cultivation approach, and Qing'er answered questions from the audience.
• Xiaoyou offered to fund a three-year Dao Discussion, but Houde's True Venerables contributed funds and settled on a term of one and a half years.
• Qu Jianlei ended the Dao Discussion after more than a year, and Han Li revealed that he had benefited from tempering his body with the aura of Creation.
• Xiaoyou and Han Li discussed their mutual gains and the possibility of walking the Dao together, while Elder Youjian warned a Nascent Soul cultivator not to speak carelessly in such a dangerous situation.

After Qu Jianlei’s Dao Discussion, a crowd of True Venerables followed him to observe a junior’s Out-of-Body breakthrough, and his guidance soon led to more requests for divination and analysis. Once his work in Houde was done, Qu Jianlei prepared to leave with Han Li and a small group for another world, while Taiyuan Sea joined as an avatar.

• Elder Youjian tried to take Qu Jianlei and Qingning’s group to help his junior, but nearly half the True Venerables insisted on accompanying them to observe.
• The True Venerables’ involvement established a custom of trusting Qu Jianlei’s karma when their juniors pursued the new path to the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Qu Jianlei completed three rounds of divination and analysis for families seeking breakthrough sites in the Tree Race World, spending another half year in Houde.
• Qu Jianlei told the remaining True Venerables he might be away from Houde for several years, while Han Li declined Song Yue’er’s request to join their next journey.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li set out with Jin Ge, Qingkong, Spider, and Taiyuan Sea’s avatar, who joined despite Qu Jianlei’s joking protest.

Qu Jianlei’s group continued through the void with Xiaoyou and Han Wei, then fought three Star Swallowing Beasts before locating Yi He’s hidden Small World. Xiaoyou sent a phantom clone through its Boundary Membrane, leaving the group poised to enter Yi He’s homeland.

• Xiaoyou and Han Wei caught up with Qu Jianlei’s group, and Xiaoyou said her master had sent her to investigate a suspected old acquaintance.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the group was carrying the Remnant Soul of his old friend Yi He back to his Small World, and Xiaoyou joined their journey.
• After more than three months of travel, the group resumed Dao discussion, then later killed three Star Swallowing Beasts and divided the spoils, though Spider gave its share to Qu Jianlei.
• The group used Yi He’s aura, divination, and their quasi-Great Monarch’s strength to locate his hidden Small World, which had no void entrance.
• Qu Jianlei found a weak point in the Boundary Membrane and worried about repairing it, so Xiaoyou sent a phantom clone through it into the Small World.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li entered the Small World of Jieyi, where Qu Jianlei discovered that Yi He's descendants belonged to a struggling clan facing a fight against the powerful Wang Family. As the Yi family prepared to defend its spirit vein, a handsome youth suddenly appeared before its elders.

• Qu Jianlei and Han Li followed Xiaoyou's passage into Jieyi, and Qu Jianlei divined that Yi He had descendants there.
• Qu Jianlei found that the Yi family's main branch held only a small share of a Tier 3 Spirit Vein and was threatened by the Wang Family's plan to buy out the other shares.
• Yi Wentian prepared to defend the clan's spirit vein against the Wang Family, which had seven Golden Core True Persons, while the elders debated how long they could hold out.
• A handsome youth appeared inside the Yi family's room without disturbing the Mind-Stabilizing Incense and asked whether it was the main branch.

Qu Jianlei and Yi He reunited with the Yi Family, learned how Yi He's descendants had survived, and prepared to address their threat from the Wang Family. Yi He called on the Kong Family's True Immortal to repay old debts, while Jiao Daoren went to inspect the enemy; the Kong Family's True Immortal arrived four days later.

• Qu Jianlei awakened Yi He, whose descendants in the Yi Family were surprised to learn their Origin Ancestor had returned as a Remnant Soul.
• Yi He heard how Yi Kong-shi and the Yi Family had fared after he left, and decided to protect his descendants without reclaiming her grave from the Kong Family.
• Yi Wentian explained that the Wang Family threatened the Yi Family and had ties to the Murong and Cui families, so Yi He summoned the Kong Family's True Immortal to come meet him.
• Yi He revealed that Qu Jianlei and another companion were True Venerables, and Jiao Daoren volunteered to inspect the Wang Family.
• The Kong Family's True Immortal arrived at the Yi Family on the evening of the fourth day.

Yi He summoned the Kong Family and ordered them to tell the Murong Family to appear before him within five days, backed by the presence of Qu Jianlei and Han Li, whom the Kong cultivators recognized as Great Venerables. The Kong Family delivered the demand, but the Murong Family’s Second Elder rejected it outright.

• A Kong Family Nascent Soul cultivator visited Yi He, who ordered the Murong Family’s four blood-related Nascent Soul cultivators to come within five days or face destruction.
• After realizing Qu Jianlei and Han Li were Great Venerables, the Kong cultivator withdrew and asked the Kong Family’s Thirteenth Grand-Uncle to visit Yi He.
• The Kong Family’s old True Immortal arrived, confirmed Yi He’s identity, and agreed to carry Yi He’s five-day summons to the Murong Family.
• Two days later, the Kong Family’s two True Immortals delivered Yi He’s demand to the Murong Family.
• The Murong Family’s Second Elder refused the demand as unreasonable.

The Murong Family and Wang Family grew wary as Yi He’s return transformed the Yi Family’s response to outside pressure, while clansmen flocked to pay their respects. On the fifth day, five True Immortals entered the Yi Family’s hall to meet the Origin Ancestor, then froze at what they saw.

• The Kong Family’s two True Immortals gave the Murong Family a five-day deadline, and the Murong Family’s second elder considered how to respond.
• A Wang Family guest elder who infiltrated the Yi Family’s territory was killed, and his body was displayed at the gate; the Wang Family mobilized for war but the Yi Family made no demands.
• Yi He’s return was announced as clansmen gathered at the third branch, leaving the Yi Family too busy to receive petitioners seeking information.
• The Murong Family sent two Nascent Souls, and a True Immortal from the Cui Family arrived as the five-day deadline approached.
• Yi Wentian and a one-eyed man led five True Immortals into the hall to meet the Yi Family’s Origin Ancestor, and they all froze upon entering.

The Yi Family’s Origin Ancestor and two Out-of-Body Great Venerables confronted the Murong Family over its failure to answer the Yi Family’s summons and its involvement in a plot against the Yi Family’s Spirit Vein. Han Li seized Murong cultivators and broke through the clan’s protective formation, leaving Jieyi Realm’s onlookers shocked by the True Venerables’ power.

• The Kong Family’s True Immortals greeted the Yi Family’s Origin Ancestor and the two Great Venerables, terrifying the Murong and Cui Family representatives.
• Yi He questioned the Murong True Immortal about why his family had not responded, while the Origin Ancestor and Qu Jianlei exposed the Second Elder’s approach and had him brought into the hall.
• The Second Elder blamed the Wang Family for plotting to seize the Yi Family’s Spirit Vein, but Qu Jianlei dismissed his excuses and Han Li went to seize the remaining Murong cultivators.
• Han Li froze the Murong Family residence and shattered its protective formation without damaging the Spirit Vein, then seized its Grand Elder.
• Two distant True Immortals recognized the attack as the work of a True Venerable and wondered who had provoked one.

Yi He and Han Li confronted the Murong Family after its attack on the Yi Family, while Qu Jianlei killed the Second Elder with his Years Divine Ability. The Murong Family’s fate remained uncertain as one of its True Immortals prepared to defend himself by claiming the attack was his idea alone.

• Yi He asked Yi Wentian and the Kong Family’s True Immortals to identify which Murong Family members deserved death, then declared that the clan should be exterminated when no one named anyone to spare.
• The Murong Family’s Second Elder died after Qu Jianlei used his Years Divine Ability, and Han Li explained the method to those present.
• Yi Wentian accused a Murong Family True Immortal of exterminating the Yi Family’s Seventh Branch, and Han Li gave him one sentence to defend himself.
• After hesitating for five minutes, the accused True Immortal said that attacking the Yi Family had been his idea and that the other clansmen had not participated.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei crushed the Murong Family’s resistance and made the surviving True Immortals negotiate for their lives. Yi He and Yi Wentian began securing allies for the Yi Family, and the chapter ended with True Immortal Liuyin heading off to attack the Wang Family.

• Han Li killed a Murong Family cultivator by turning him into bloody ice shards, while Qu Jianlei questioned Yi Wentian about the Seventh Branch’s destruction.
• Yi Wentian admitted the Yi Family had been wrong, and Qu Jianlei told him to consider how to deal with the other Murong Family survivors.
• The Murong Family Great Elder offered vassalage and a Tier 4 Spirit Vein, but Qu Jianlei insisted that the vein already belonged to the Yi Family.
• Yi He confronted True Immortal Liuyin for secretly watching the conflict, and Liuyin offered one Five Elements Source and lifelong service as a Yi Family protector to save his life.
• The other two True Immortals accepted the same terms, and Liuyin volunteered to attack the Wang Family in exchange for release from his protector duty.

After the Yi Family’s victory, Yi He negotiated with the Cui Family over its married-out daughters and learned that the Murong Family might be tied to the Heartless Dao in another world. He left the question of that outside threat unresolved, while the Cui Family sought to maintain relations with the Yi Family.

• The Murong Family’s surviving True Immortals returned to find their formation broken and a clan branch dead, then ordered the family to prepare to move.
• Yi He rejected the Cui Family True Immortal’s demand to reclaim its married-out daughters and challenged the Cui Family to explain its real purpose.
• True Immortal Cui revealed that the Murong Family might have migrated from the world of the Heartless Dao and warned that outside forces could retaliate if the conflict escalated.
• Yi He summoned the Kong Family’s two True Immortals, who agreed that the outside-world danger was possible but said the Murong Family’s destruction would not remove it.
• Yi He said the two Great Venerables would not remain, and True Immortal Cui accepted the outcome while proposing closer relations between their families.

Yi He agreed to stay and guide the Yi Family as it prepared to move to a Tier 4 Spirit Vein, while Qu Jianlei and Han Li waited for the relocation and ceremony to finish before leaving Jieyi. After a rushed half-month of preparations, Yi Wentian began the transfer ceremony with three True Immortals protecting him, though the two Great Venerables stayed out of sight.

• Yi He agreed to remain with the Yi Family, and Yi Wentian took charge of arranging a marriage alliance with the Kong Family.
• Qu Jianlei explained that Jieyi was an independent Small World with a Teleportation Array, then set a deadline of half a month for the Yi Family's move and ceremony.
• The Yi Family gathered its branches and moved its important people and possessions to the Tier 4 Spirit Vein with help from the Kong Family, Cui Family, and other allies.
• The Murong Family relocated in a rush, leaving behind some spirit plants that the Yi Family offered to compensate them for after harvest.
• More than a dozen True Immortals attended the transfer ceremony, where Yi Wentian presided with three True Immortals as protectors while Yi He, Qu Jianlei, and Han Li remained unseen.

Yi Wentian’s ceremony to transfer the Spirit Vein stalled when the territory failed to acknowledge it, prompting Qu Jianlei to challenge the Territory Consciousness while Han Li protected him. After a confrontation with a towering figure from the Outer Regions, the transfer was approved, and Yi Wentian received the Spirit Vein Holding Token.

• Yi Wentian completed the ceremony, but the territory did not respond with the expected pillar of light.
• Qu Jianlei seized at the sky to force a response from the territory, while Han Li appeared to guard him.
• The territory sent a pillar of light that met Qu Jianlei’s palm in a prolonged stalemate.
• A towering figure from the Outer Regions confronted Han Li, who demanded approval of the Spirit Vein transfer and revealed that the offerings had gone to outsiders.
• The figure agreed to approve the transfer, and Han Li took the offerings before the pillar of light descended onto the Dharma Altar.
• The ceremony produced the Spirit Vein Holding Token, confirming the transfer of ownership.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and their allies confronted three True Venerable Realm experts who demanded to know their origins and purpose in Jieyi Realm. Spider revealed her Grand Lord power by devouring one expert’s mount, and the standoff ended with Han Li urging that the remaining enemy be killed.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed the approaching battle as Cultivators gathered to watch the expected clash in Jieyi Realm.
• Three True Venerable Realm experts arrived and questioned Han Li and Qu Jianlei about their origins, while the pair challenged their authority to interrogate them.
• Five more True Venerable Realm experts appeared, surrounding the newcomers and turning the confrontation into a seven-against-three standoff.
• Spider transformed into a colossal spider, bound and swallowed the dog beneath one True Venerable’s mount, revealing her Grand Lord cultivation and prompting the rider to flee.
• The fleeing expert demanded that Spider spare the guardian beast, while Qu Jianlei threatened him and Xiaoyou proposed sparing him to trace and destroy his lineage.
• Han Li rejected Xiaoyou’s proposal and called for the remaining enemy to be killed before his lineage was exterminated.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei confronted True Venerable Qigou after Spider killed the Kui Ox, and Qigou invoked the Jingyu Pact to prevent the conflict from escalating. The chapter ended with Xiaoyou’s group learning that the Heartless Dao of Lianxing managed the strange Jieyi Realm, while Yi He prepared to leave his homeland.

• True Venerable Qigou invoked the Jingyu Pact and apologized after Spider killed the Kui Ox, while Han Li and Qu Jianlei challenged his appeal to the pact.
• True Venerable Xiaoyou asked Qigou to explain his family’s Grand Lord and discuss compensation, and Han Li agreed to let Qigou and the other True Venerable talk privately.
• The Yi Family ceremony ended, and cultivators crowded around Yi He as he said he would soon leave Jieyi because he could no longer return to his homeland.
• Yi He faced pleas from his descendants and others to stay or take them along, but worried that bringing disciples would add to the True Venerables’ karma.
• Xiaoyou and the others learned that the Heartless Dao came from Lianxing, had three Human Race True Venerables, and alone managed Jieyi because the realm caused trouble for outside powers.

After the Heartless Dao explained Lianxing World’s decline and Jieyi Realm’s strange influence, Qu Jianlei and his companions considered taking Jieyi to the Forgotten Peninsula. They planned to inspect Lianxing, while Qu Jianlei remained unsure whether Jieyi could safely be moved or how it would affect Cangwu.

• The Heartless Dao’s True Venerables explained that Lianxing World had entered terminal decline, its Spirit Veins had gone into seclusion, and it could no longer support True Monarchs.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei appeared, and Spider eagerly agreed to visit Lianxing for its delicious food.
• Xiaoyou warned that Jieyi Realm’s karma and name made absorbing it into Lianxing dangerous, while a mysterious female voice offered to take it to the Forgotten Peninsula.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the female voice was not the Island Master and asked what the Forgotten Peninsula was for, but she proposed keeping the answer a secret between them.
• Qu Jianlei decided to visit Lianxing and asked whether the whole world could be moved; the female voice said destroying it would be easier than taking it away.
• Qu Jianlei told Yi He that they would assess whether Jieyi could be moved, then worried about how adding it to Cangwu might affect the Forgotten Peninsula and Red Leaf Ridge.

Qu Jianlei and the others traveled to Lianxing Realm, where they sensed the realm was quietly declining and learned its cultivators had concealed that truth. Their arrival left the Heartless Dao True Venerables trying to placate the group while keeping its last Guardian Divine Beast safe from the hungry spider.

• Qu Jianlei told Yi He that the group would travel to Lianxing, and the Heartless Dao explained that realm teleportation was restricted by the Lianxing Convention.
• The mysterious voice offered to locate a Teleportation Array, and Qu Jianlei accepted after discussing the risks.
• Five days later, the nine True Venerables entered Lianxing Realm secretly and sensed its hidden decline.
• The mysterious voice described Lianxing’s condition as an old-person smell, while True Venerable Qigou said the realm’s decline had been concealed from cultivators below Nascent Soul.
• The spider wanted to eat the Heartless Dao’s last Guardian Divine Beast, but Qu Jianlei and the Heartless Dao True Venerables discouraged it.
• Han Li asked to visit interesting places, and Han Wei warned that the group might help the Heartless Dao’s enemies if it failed to honor its promises.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei investigated whether a powerful clan might be behind Lianxing World's decline, but Taiyuan Sea saw no reason to suspect it. The group then visited the Sea of Sighs, where they confronted a vast, despairing manifestation of decay and debated what it meant.

• Xiaoyou guessed that Han Li and Qu Jianlei suspected the reclusive clan of causing Lianxing World's decline, and they said they would investigate further.
• Han Li questioned Taiyuan Sea about the clan, but Taiyuan Sea said there was nothing worth investigating in that place.
• Qu Jianlei led the group to the Sea of Sighs after the Heartless Dao True Venerables recommended the perilous site.
• The group entered the guarded formation and saw a huge, depthless yellow-gray surface that radiated an overwhelming aura of decay.
• Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Jin Ge compared the sensation to foul odors, while Qu Jianlei considered whether the Sea of Sighs could offer insight into life and death.
• The two Heartless Dao True Venerables silently exchanged a glance as the others discussed the site.