Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei investigated a newly forming Dead Silence Point with the other True Venerables, while Han Li and Qingkong debated whether its decaying aura could benefit cultivators. As the group prepared to leave Lianxing World, eight Heartless Dao True Venerables blocked their path and offered treasures to ask Qu Jianlei for help.

• Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge endured the decaying aura for three days, then Qu Jianlei asked True Venerable Qigou to take him to a new Dead Silence Point.
• Qu Jianlei divined a sixth location, and the group spent three days traveling to a tiny patch of faint, newly forming dead-silent space.
• Qu Jianlei observed the patch for nineteen days before deciding to stop, and Xiaoyou announced that the group would return.
• Eight Heartless Dao True Venerables blocked the route to the Void Passage and offered gifts while asking for help with Lianxing World's safety.
• An elder offered Qu Jianlei a strand of True Meaning of Creation, and another True Venerable offered Xiaoyou a Tian Yin Fish, which surprised her.

Qu Jianlei and his companions faced the True Venerables of Lianxing World, who asked them to help avert their world’s collapse. They learned that an old prophecy named Qu Jianlei as a possible savior, though he rejected the role as the chapter ended with the prophecy’s origins being explained.

• Xiaoyou agreed to buy the Tian Yin Fish, easing tensions with the visitors from Lianxing World.
• True Venerable Kugao said Lianxing World could not wait and asked the group to help; Qu Jianlei warned them not to force their will on his companions.
• Qu Jianlei called on Spider to hold the formation, and Spider revealed its enormous Great Monarch presence, prompting the eight True Venerables to show respect.
• True Venerable Kugao identified Qu Jianlei as the person prophesied to save the heavens from tilting, but Qu Jianlei denied he could save a world.
• Han Li questioned whether the prophecy proved anything, and True Venerable Kugao explained that a diviner had predicted Lianxing’s decline tens of thousands of years earlier.

True Venerable Kugao explained that Lianxing World's collapse could only be resisted by a fated person working with others, and Qu Jianlei was suspected to be that person. Qu Jianlei doubted the claim until Kugao connected Yi He's Remnant Soul to a Great Monarch's karma, leaving the group to question how the secret had reached them.

• True Venerable Kugao recounted how a Mysterious Venerable had predicted Lianxing World's collapse and said a chosen person might help the realm survive if everyone cooperated.
• Han Li challenged the claim that Qu Jianlei was a candidate, while Qu Jianlei objected to being expected to save the world.
• True Venerable Kugao inferred that Qu Jianlei's Nascent Soul companion, Yi He, had been involved in a Great Monarch's karma.
• Kugao explained that the Mysterious Venerable had described a visitor seeking to return a friend's Remnant Soul, confirming Qu Jianlei matched the prediction.
• True Venerable Qigou swore he had not revealed identifying details, but Han Li suggested that heaven-stealing methods might have uncovered the information.

True Venerable Kugao tried to persuade Qu Jianlei to help save the heavens from tilting, explaining that his lineage had inherited the Mysterious Venerable’s karma and offering substantial gifts. Qu Jianlei remained wary but began considering a limited contribution after Han Li asked whether merely offering ideas would count as making a move.

• Qu Jianlei refused to take on the tribulation, and Han Li and the other True Venerables supported his caution.
• True Venerable Kugao explained that he was responsible for verifying the person who would save the heavens and said success could bring immense benefits to everyone.
• Han Li demanded sincerity, and the Lianxing Realm presented valuable treasures, including a promised strand of the True Meaning of Creation.
• Qu Jianlei called the treasures greeting gifts and said they would accept them and leave, but True Venerable Kugao insisted the gifts carried no obligation and could be kept even if they failed.
• Xiaoyou urged Qu Jianlei not to consider the others, while Han Li asked whether offering a few ideas would count as making a move.
• Qu Jianlei warned that taking even this first step would make retreat difficult.

Qu Jianlei agreed to gamble on saving the declining Lianxing Realm after the other True Venerables said they would accept the risks. He proposed that the True Meaning of Fate might be key to the effort, then fell into deep thought while the others guarded him.

• Qu Jianlei asked the group whether they would accept the risks of pursuing the Soul-Splitting Realm, and they agreed to proceed despite possible negative consequences.
• A mysterious Great Monarch said the world's recompense would respond quickly and its lingering opportunity would last, while True Venerable Kugao warned Lianxing's True Venerables not to join the outsiders' effort blindly.
• Qu Jianlei began explaining his thoughts on the world's decline, and True Venerable Qigou said their attempts to repair it with World Cores had only delayed the damage.
• Qu Jianlei proposed that the True Meaning of Fate might matter if the World Core disappeared, prompting Han Li to recognize the connection and True Venerable Kugao to ask whether it could repair the world.
• Qu Jianlei sank into deep contemplation, and the others guarded him for several days without raising an array that might block his perception of the realm.
• True Venerable Kugao asked Han Li whether the True Meaning of Fate truly existed, but Han Li had refused to explain its inheritance.

Han Li and the Lianxing Realm True Venerables discussed Qu Jianlei’s extraordinary abilities and preparations for a looming tribulation. Qu Jianlei decided to leave for decades to guard two friends attempting breakthroughs, and the chapter ended with him asking Han Li to negotiate whether Lianxing would send True Venerables as bodyguards.

• Han Li revealed that Qu Jianlei might need the Essence of Creation and Destruction, while True Venerable Qigou added that Qu Jianlei controlled the Years Divine Ability and the Time Rule.
• After five days of reflection, Qu Jianlei thanked the Lianxing True Venerables and said he had gained some inspiration but needed to return home to handle other matters.
• Qu Jianlei refused to reveal his realm’s origins or accept general assistance, explaining that he would be away for eighty or a hundred years to protect two friends attempting breakthroughs.
• True Venerable Kugao warned that Qu Jianlei’s departure could leave Lianxing vulnerable to outsiders seeking profit amid its impending collapse.
• Qu Jianlei considered allowing Lianxing to send two True Venerables as bodyguards, then asked Han Li to negotiate the arrangement.

Han Li arranged for six True Venerables from Lianxing to accompany Qu Jianlei, who later decided to leave the Jieyi Realm where it was and returned toward Houde with the group. At Houde’s border, they discovered that the territory rejected the Lianxing True Venerables, forcing them to consider rotating their visits.

• Han Li selected six Lianxing True Venerables to accompany Qu Jianlei, while True Venerable Kugao stayed behind and True Venerable Qigou was later chosen to go.
• Qu Jianlei brought the group to Jieyi, where the Lianxing True Venerables said moving the realm might trigger trouble and advised waiting; Qu Jianlei decided to leave it in place.
• Jiao Daoren told Qu Jianlei that seeing Yi He in Jieyi had made him reluctant to return to his changed home, and Qu Jianlei understood his concern.
• After about a year, Qu Jianlei and the others reached a remote Channel Entrance near Houde, where a Shanshui True Venerable detected their arrival.
• The Lianxing True Venerables sensed that Houde rejected their auras and realized they could not stay there long enough to support True Venerable Buduo effectively.
• Social Butterfly True Venerable proposed that the Lianxing True Venerables take turns entering Houde in pairs every two years.

Qu Jianlei brought his companions back to Houde, leaving the Lianxing True Venerables at the Channel Entrance, where they learned of his extraordinary reputation and decided he was the one who could save their realm. Meanwhile, Qu Jianlei helped Jing Yuexin improve her chances of reaching the Out-of-Body Realm by sending her to temper herself in the void, then checked on Cangwu’s developing spirit vein.

• Qu Jianlei refused to let the six Lianxing True Venerables enter Houde and left them to camp at the Channel Entrance.
• The Lianxing cultivators learned about Qu Jianlei’s Dao discussion at Taiyuan Sea and his proposed path to the Out-of-Body Realm, convincing them he could save Lianxing.
• Qu Jianlei checked on Duo Gan, then visited Jing Yuexin and repeatedly divined her chances of breaking through.
• The Great Monarch advised Qu Jianlei that Jing Yuexin needed deeper experience of the void, and Han Li’s divination confirmed that void tempering could help her.
• Qu Jianlei sent Jing Yuexin to temper herself outside Cangwu, protecting her with an Illusion Array and an avatar.
• Qu Jianlei visited Cangwu and found its Tier 5 Spirit Vein still under development, with completion expected in about fifty years.

Qu Jianlei learned that Red Leaf Ridge was struggling to manage a surge of factions competing for spirit veins, then focused on protecting Jing Yuexin as she prepared to break through to the Out-of-Body Realm. His attempt to keep the breakthrough secret failed, and Cangwu cultivators and visiting True Venerables gathered around to guard her and seek his guidance.

• Qu Jianlei learned that Red Leaf Ridge was mediating disputes as more than fifty factions sought spirit veins in Cangwu, while concern grew over development near the Forgotten Peninsula.
• The mysterious voice told Qu Jianlei that the Forgotten Peninsula could not manage Jieyi Realm as Taiyuan Sea could.
• True Venerable Kunxiu and Social Butterfly True Venerable arrived after sensing Qu Jianlei, and Qu Jianlei told them Jing Yuexin was preparing to attempt the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Qu Jianlei barred the Lianxing World cultivators from approaching Jing Yuexin and arranged for Cangwu to make the area a restricted zone.
• Cangwu cultivators and visiting True Venerables arrived to help guard Jing Yuexin, while many True Venerables left Nascent Soul cultivators behind and sought Qu Jianlei's guidance.

Qu Jianlei discussed the Dao with visiting True Venerables for months before agreeing to assess a junior’s breakthrough prospects. Baiqiao then privately questioned him about Lianxing World’s looming collapse and the plans for its True Venerables, leaving Qu Jianlei frustrated by suspicion over his motives.

• Qu Jianlei spent more than two months discussing the Dao with visiting True Venerables, while Baiqiao’s Ascetic Cultivator avatar listened nearby.
• A third True Venerable asked Qu Jianlei to assess a junior’s chances of breaking through at the family’s Tier 5 Spirit Vein, and Qu Jianlei warned that he could only improve the odds somewhat.
• Baiqiao enclosed Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge in a protective shield and asked about Qu Jianlei’s ideas for resolving Lianxing World’s crisis.
• Qu Jianlei said Lianxing’s heavens tilting might spread, though it was unlikely, and agreed that precautions were needed.
• Baiqiao asked how Qu Jianlei would arrange for Lianxing’s True Venerables, and Qu Jianlei insisted that he was focused on saving the heavens rather than pursuing other plans.
• Qu Jianlei complained that others were worrying about his motives instead of considering the consequences he would face if he failed.

Baiqiao tried to persuade Qu Jianlei to involve Lingyun Sect in Saving the Heavens from Tilting, arguing that success could bring the sect the karma and benefits of the entire Lianxing Realm. Qu Jianlei remained wary of Baiqiao’s schemes, and the discussion ended with Baiqiao insisting that the sect could take the risk because it had Qu Jianlei.

• Qu Jianlei told Baiqiao he would take Cangwu and leave if necessary, frustrating Baiqiao’s plan to use Cangwu as leverage.
• Baiqiao asked Qu Jianlei to explain his theories about the mechanism behind Lianxing’s heavens tilting and admitted Lingyun Sect hoped to participate in Saving the Heavens from Tilting.
• Han Li and Jin Ge challenged Baiqiao’s attempts to exploit Qu Jianlei, while Baiqiao defended his conduct and promised Lingyun Sect would gift Qu Jianlei a Tier 6 Spirit Vein if the effort succeeded.
• Qu Jianlei questioned the risk to Lingyun Sect, and Baiqiao argued that success could let it become a sect spanning realms and that the opportunity was worth seizing.
• Jin Ge warned Lingyun Sect lacked the strength to bear the resulting karma, but Baiqiao dismissed his concerns and said the sect had Qu Jianlei.

Qu Jianlei agreed to accept Lingyun’s manpower, resources, and records for Saving the Heavens from Tilting while refusing to share his private ideas, then assessed Nascent Soul Supremes and found the advancement odds of Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin troublingly low. Lingyun’s assessment and liaison representatives arrived, and the assessment Grand Elder approved the project as the liaison offered to handle future needs.

• Baiqiao said Lingyun could provide resources and records, but Qu Jianlei refused to disclose his ideas and said he wanted to retain the option to withdraw.
• Baiqiao promised Qu Jianlei a Tier 6 Spirit Vein if Saving the Heavens from Tilting succeeded, and Qu Jianlei suggested the undertaking might lead to the Soul-Splitting Realm.
• Qu Jianlei examined five Nascent Soul Supremes and gave them adjustment advice, demonstrating expertise in both new and mainstream paths to Out-of-Body.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Duo Gan’s and Jing Yuexin’s chances of advancing were only above average and worried he might see Jing Yuexin die again.
• Baiqiao brought two Lingyun representatives to assess the project, and Qu Jianlei told them he had not planned to apply for support.
• The assessment Grand Elder approved the project, while the liaison representative offered to handle Lingyun’s future provision of manpower and materials.

Qu Jianlei rejected Lingyun’s proposed liaison and review arrangements, arguing that the team’s karma should remain with its seven members. After Qingkong arrived, Xiaoyou joined the effort and offered to bring two True Venerables Han Wei to protect Qu Jianlei’s companions on their planned trip to Apollo World.

• Qu Jianlei turned down Lingyun’s liaison and reviewer, and Baiqiao accepted that they would discuss the cooperation framework only when his help became necessary.
• Baiqiao later sent Qingkong to Qu Jianlei, who explained that he had rejected the proposed officials to prevent them from taking a share of the team’s karma.
• Qingkong teased Qu Jianlei about looking after him, while Han Li, Xiaoyou, and the Dao Field Old Ancestor traded remarks about their ages and relationships.
• Xiaoyou arrived after getting her master’s approval to participate and said she could not provide information about Heavenly Tilting across Great Thousand Worlds.
• Xiaoyou told Qu Jianlei she had invited the two True Venerables Han Wei to protect his companions during their planned trip to Apollo World.

Qu Jianlei delayed his journey to Asura World so Jing Yuexin could be protected while she prepared to advance, then led a group of thirteen True Venerables there to study the world fusion. He met the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor, who had no clear memories of how the previous world collapsed, leaving Qu Jianlei without the insight he had sought.

• Xiaoyou urged Qu Jianlei to leave for Asura World, but Qu Jianlei agreed to wait half a year and let Xiwu and Song Yue'er protect Jing Yuexin until her advancement.
• Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables departed for Asura World with the six True Venerables of Lianxing, after agreeing that the Lianxing group would focus on gaining insight rather than seeking opportunities.
• Thirteen True Venerables entered Asura World and headed to the world convergence, where many cultivators were meditating; the Grand Lord's avatar disappeared after sensing the Lianxing World aura.
• Qu Jianlei went to find the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor, and Han Li joined him while leaving an avatar at the world convergence.
• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor told Qu Jianlei that he had been born after the worlds began fusing and had learned no special details about the previous world's collapse.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li searched the void for places that might hold clues to Lianxing’s crisis, while Xiaoyou left the junction of the worlds to follow them. They found a concealed, displaced Otherworld tied to Qu Jianlei, and prepared to break through its barrier, though Han Li worried about the powerful being behind it.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to visit the Maiden Star Region after Jing Yuexin advanced, but the Spider Grand Monarch refused to guide them to the Tree Race World, so Qu Jianlei chose to search the Land of Fallen Gods instead.
• At the junction of the worlds, Xiaoyou split off her true body to pursue Qu Jianlei and Han Li, leaving her clone with Han Wei.
• Xiaoyou caught up with Qu Jianlei and Han Li, who had found the place where an Otherworld once stood but could no longer locate it through divination.
• Xiaoyou used her Cloud Kerchief to pierce the concealment and identify the folded space hiding the Otherworld.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei began calculating how to break the barrier, and Qu Jianlei decided a standard Mountain Felling array would suffice.
• Han Li warned that the Great Expert behind the barrier might not know of Qu Jianlei’s connection to the Otherworld.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou discovered that a Great Expert had extracted much of the Spirit Essence from the Otherworld where Qu Jianlei once broke through, leaving its cultivation energy system failing. After learning that the culprit was not the Master of Spirit Mountain and that the Territory Consciousness feared the unknown Human Race Great Expert, Qu Jianlei guessed who it was and wondered whether Miss Old Ancestor could tolerate the situation.

• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou entered the Otherworld and found it had become a Spirit-Severed Land whose cultivation energy system no longer functioned properly.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li realized that a Great Expert had severed some of their karma while extracting the world's Spirit Essence, but had left its magic system and some Spirit Essence intact.
• Xiaoyou and the others suspected the Master of Spirit Mountain, but Spider said the Great Expert's aura did not match the one who had helped them against the Human-Faced Bee.
• The Territory Consciousness timidly approached, then fled when Spider's aura frightened it, and Big Head Butterfly explained that it feared the unknown Human Race Great Expert who had plundered its foundation.
• Taiyuan Sea relayed the Territory Consciousness's account, and Qu Jianlei guessed the culprit's identity before asking whether Miss Old Ancestor could put up with it.

Qu Jianlei and the others investigated the changes in the world and learned that a Great Expert’s theft of its Spirit Essence had accelerated its fusion with the Main World, causing disasters known as the Era of Heavenly Changes. Qu Jianlei entered Sudden Enlightenment while studying the changes, and the chapter ended with Han Li and Xiaoyou realizing that he was simulating World Fusion.

• Taiyuan Sea said the unknown Great Expert connected to Qu Jianlei through karma was not the one Han Li suspected, and Qu Jianlei decided to deal with the matter if it arose.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent more than three days learning that the Great Expert’s plunder had nearly completed the fusion of the Land of Fallen Gods and the Main World, triggering widespread disasters.
• Qu Jianlei entered Sudden Enlightenment while examining the heavenly changes, and Han Li and Xiaoyou guarded him as he continued to comprehend.
• After more than ten days, Qu Jianlei’s ripples spread into violent turbulence that made the world seem to suffer another heavenly change before the disturbance stopped.
• Spider identified the phenomenon as a World domain, and Xiaoyou realized Qu Jianlei was simulating the fusion of a broken world.

Qu Jianlei used the broken world as a testing ground to practice fusing worlds, while Han Li and Xiaoyou learned to assist him. After more than half a year of experiments, they stopped as the fusion advanced substantially, and Xiaoyou raised the earlier information about that realm before they left.

• Qu Jianlei explained that his Sudden Enlightenment had involved Creation and Destruction, fate, and the passage of time, and he decided to use the world as a testing ground rather than consume it for resources.
• Qu Jianlei practiced world fusion for half a year, then let Han Li and Xiaoyou try their own attempts with his guidance.
• Han Li’s attempt nearly caused a disaster comparable to the first Heavenly Change, while Xiaoyou’s later attempt went somewhat better but still brought hardship to the world’s inhabitants.
• Qu Jianlei’s peaceful control of the fusion fluctuations came from borrowing the Dao Stele’s Luck Aura, though Han Li and Xiaoyou instead developed methods of their own by imitating him.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou stopped their experiments after the world’s fusion had advanced substantially, and Xiaoyou brought up the earlier information about that realm.

Xiaoyou persuaded Qu Jianlei and Han Li to visit the Yelang Realm, whose True Venerables had already been subdued, and Qu Jianlei proposed using a sealed Golden Core-level secret realm as a small-scale test. After the group spent two years concealing the secret realm and traveled to the Maiden Star Region, they found the sealed starry sky and Mysterious Voice reacted to the method that remained there.

• Xiaoyou revealed that she and True Venerable Yueran had beaten the two remaining True Venerables of the Yelang Realm after one of its True Venerables ambushed Qu Jianlei and Han Li.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou agreed to visit the Yelang Realm with a small world, and Qu Jianlei offered a sealed Secret Realm with a Golden Core Realm upper limit.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Secret Realm in the Maiden Star Region had been sealed by a Great Expert, and Han Li suggested using it to rehearse the plan for Jieyi Realm.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent three months unsuccessfully trying to conceal the Secret Realm before Taiyuan Sea instructed them in spatial folding; the work took two years.
• The three traveled to the Maiden Star Region, found the sealed starry sky with Xiao Hu's help, and Mysterious Voice marveled that the method had survived.

Qu Jianlei, Xiaoyou, and Han Li reached the war-torn Yelang Realm and discovered its factions were fighting over the realm’s sole Tier 5 Spirit Vein after outside news shattered their balance. Qu Jianlei chose to seek permission before settling the small world there, and the two wounded True Venerables agreed to discuss its inhabitants’ arrival.

• Qu Jianlei and his companions cleared Heavenly Devil Qi from a small world and carried it toward Yelang Realm.
• The three arrived in Yelang Realm and found widespread battles driven by conflict over the Tier 5 Spirit Vein.
• Qu Jianlei realized that Xiaoyou and Yueran’s appearance had prompted the two remaining True Venerables to push for unifying the realm, while their factions fought amid the resulting chaos.
• Qu Jianlei insisted that Xiaoyou inform Yelang Realm’s True Venerables before they settled the small world there.
• Xiaoyou contacted the two True Venerables, who appeared as hurriedly formed clones and agreed to let the small world’s orthodox Golden Core cultivators settle if they did not cause trouble.