Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and his companions learned that Baiqiao was seeking the Xuantian Twin Pavilions and traveled to the Xingyi Plate, whose territory belonged to the newly ascended True Monarch Kong Yu. After spending several days exploring, they were approached by a True Venerable who sought out Xiaoyou and her two companions.

• Qu Jianlei gave True Venerable Wusheng a Secondary Nest and asked about the Xingyi Plate, where two companions had gone to handle another matter.
• True Monarch Jiuping explained that Baiqiao was likely pursuing Xuantian Pavilion, described how Lingyun's pavilion had been stolen, and identified Xingyi as Kong Yu's territory.
• White Mist declined to accompany the group to Xingyi because he and Kong Yu did not get along, while Kanshui said Kong Yu was not born in Zhongling and agreed to stay in Zhongling for a while.
• Qu Jianlei's group arrived at Xingyi and crossed paths with Baiqiao and Jin Ge without acknowledging them.
• The group explored the Xingyi Plate in two parties for seven or eight days, until a True Venerable came looking for Xiaoyou and her two companions.

Baiqiao secured a Tier 5 Spirit Vein on the Yihui Plate and summoned Qu Jianlei’s group to help establish his presence there. He planned to reveal Lingyun’s origins and pay the remaining balance quickly, while the others wondered whether the purchase might attract trouble.

• True Venerables approached Xiaoyou’s group and Qu Jianlei’s group separately to recruit them into Great Monarchs’ service, prompting Qu Jianlei to suspect Jin Ge and Baiqiao had left for a similar reason.
• Jin Ge told the group that Baiqiao had negotiated a Tier 5 Spirit Vein purchase on the Yihui Plate and asked them to come support him.
• Baiqiao explained that he had paid a thirty percent deposit and wanted to station people at the site, allowing visitors from Wanwu Realm with the group’s tokens to stay temporarily.
• Baiqiao learned that Qu Jianlei’s group had fought and that Song Yue’er’s side had destroyed half a Great Monarch, then asked Senior Taiyuan to shield them briefly.
• Baiqiao said he intended to reveal his origins and pay the balance within half a month, while Han Li asked whether he feared being robbed after completing the deal.

Baiqiao's attempt to buy a Spirit Vein was challenged by two True Venerables and then Great Monarch Kong Yu, who voided the transaction. Qu Jianlei backed Baiqiao and revealed his connection to the Cyan Glow that had harmed Jiuping, leaving Kong Yu stunned.

• Two True Venerables arrived and urged Baiqiao to abandon the Spirit Vein transaction because his many visitors had attracted the Great Monarch's attention.
• Baiqiao demanded the agreed compensation, while Han Li pushed the True Venerables to begin their operation rather than merely threaten him.
• Great Monarch Kong Yu intervened, voided the transaction, and rejected Baiqiao's demand for threefold compensation.
• Kong Yu ordered the True Venerables to return and said he could invite whoever they wanted, prompting Qu Jianlei to answer that no invitation was needed.
• Qu Jianlei showed his Cyan Glow, and Kong Yu recognized it as connected to the injury inflicted on Jiuping.

True Monarch Kong Yu reconsidered canceling the spirit-vein transaction after Baiqiao revealed Lingyun Sect’s purpose and Taiyuan intervened on Qu Jianlei’s behalf. The chapter ended with Kong Yu recognizing Luo Fu’s connection to the Righteous Sect and recalling its visit to Zhongling eight hundred years earlier.

• True Monarch Kong Yu offered triple compensation to end the transaction, but Qu Jianlei pressed him about payment and Baiqiao revealed he was Lingyun Sect’s acting leader.
• Baiqiao explained that Lingyun wanted the spirit vein as a foothold for gathering information about Xuantian Pavilion, and said the sect could return it after its search.
• Taiyuan sealed the space around Kong Yu’s divine sense and confronted him for insulting Lingyun’s acting leader, then demanded to know whether Lingyun was investigating the Haoran Sect.
• Kong Yu recognized that Lingyun and Haoran had ties after noticing Luo Fu’s unusual aura, while Luo Fu admitted he was not yet a Righteous Sect disciple.
• Kong Yu recalled that someone from the Righteous Sect had visited Zhongling eight hundred years earlier while attacking and seizing two Otherworlds.

Qu Jianlei spoke with True Monarch Kong Yu about Xinglu World, Heavenly Tilting, and a friend’s Nirvana breakthrough, while Kong Yu offered him guidance and sought his insights on Creation. After the group declined to settle in Zhongling because they were tied to Heavenly Tilting, Kong Yu demanded to know who Luo Fu’s master was.

• Qu Jianlei asked about the bearings of two worlds, and True Monarch Kong Yu directed him to ask Great Monarch Mi'er about the new Xinglu World.
• Little Sister learned that Mi'er was recuperating in Zhongling and decided to visit him, while True Monarch Kong Yu sent Black-White True Venerable to handle the formalities.
• True Monarch Kong Yu invited Qu Jianlei to settle in Zhongling, but Qu Jianlei declined because he had a foundation in Houde and was involved in Heavenly Tilting’s causality.
• Qu Jianlei asked True Monarch Kong Yu for advice on his friend’s attempt to reach the Out-of-Body Realm through Nirvana, and Kong Yu gave him a Jade Talisman in exchange for Qu Jianlei’s insights on Creation.
• True Monarch Kong Yu gave the seven True Venerables strands of the Source of Water and invited them to stay in Zhongling, but they refused because they were tied to Heavenly Tilting.
• True Monarch Kong Yu glared at Luo Fu and demanded to know who her master was after learning that the group was involved in Heavenly Tilting.

True Monarch Kong Yu weighed whether to join the effort to Save the Heavens from Tilting while the group settled a Tier 5 Spirit Vein in Zhongling and avoided revealing details to Black and White True Venerable. After more than half a month, Little Sister returned, and Kong Yu appeared beside the group carrying a sharpened stick with a Great Monarch’s aura.

• Luo Fu, Han Li, Xiaoyou, Han Wei, and Qu Jianlei discussed the heavens tilting with True Monarch Kong Yu, who left while considering whether to take part.
• Baiqiao and Jin Ge completed the Tier 5 Spirit Vein procedures in two days, and the group spent more than half a month exploring the Yihui Sector.
• Black and White True Venerable questioned the two Lianxing True Venerables, but Social Butterfly True Venerable carefully concealed the reason they were waiting.
• Little Sister returned and said Kong Yu had tried to recruit the group without giving them a Tier 5 Spirit Vein, while Qu Jianlei discussed their plans to leave after Baiqiao finished organizing it.
• True Monarch Kong Yu appeared beside the group with a sharpened gray stick that carried the aura of a Great Monarch.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with Crystal Ancestor over guiding a search for more than a million Crystal Race members in a dangerous world, securing promises of aid in exchange. True Monarch Kong Yu then privately asked Qu Jianlei to help protect a senior attempting the Out-of-Body Realm, and Qu Jianlei learned the senior would not pursue his Female Cultivators.

• Crystal Ancestor asked Qu Jianlei about the Crystal Race group, and Qu Jianlei warned that their territory was dangerously difficult to reach and lay under his protection.
• Crystal Ancestor offered favors and promised not to burden the Human Race with the Crystal Race migration, so Qu Jianlei demanded nine favors for the nine True Venerables and refused to guarantee their safety.
• True Monarch Kong Yu agreed to witness the bargain, and Crystal Ancestor left to prepare for the trip.
• True Monarch Kong Yu privately asked Qu Jianlei to protect a senior attempting the Out-of-Body Realm and promised to keep the senior alive even if the attempt failed.
• Qu Jianlei cautioned Kong Yu about the lack of progress, then asked whether the senior was a Ganxiu or a female cultivator; Kong Yu assured him the senior would not steal his Female Cultivators.

Qu Jianlei recruited Great Monarch Bangchui to join the journey and learned that the Maiden Star Region and its Silent Zone might involve a higher dimension. The group continued toward the Crystal Race’s loose end, while Taiyuan Sea revealed why she wanted to investigate the Silent Zone.

• True Monarch Kong Yu asked Qu Jianlei about Saving the Heavens from Tilting, and an androgynous Great Monarch traded a strand of True Meaning of Creation for information from Senior Heng.
• Qu Jianlei set conditions for Bangchui to join the group, and Taiyuan Sea agreed to bring him along while ordering him to obey and not act independently.
• Qu Jianlei invited True Monarch Kanshui to come with them, but Kanshui refused because traveling with Qu Jianlei was too dangerous.
• The group left Zhongling World and passed through Houde, where Baiqiao and True Monarch Kong Yu's avatar departed before the others continued toward the Crystal Race’s loose end.
• Taiyuan Sea told Qu Jianlei that True Monarch Mi'er suspected a high-dimensional impact had injured him, and Qu Jianlei connected the clue to the Silent Zone.
• Taiyuan Sea explained that she wanted to investigate the Silent Zone as a possible higher-dimensional phenomenon and said she had not stopped the two Great Monarchs from joining the trip.

Qu Jianlei led Crystal Ancestor and Stick to the Maiden Star Region to investigate the Crystal Race’s trapped kin and the chaotic energy surrounding them. After finding the energy cloud, he proposed using its Silent Extinction aura to investigate a way to break Heavenly Tilting’s deadlock, and Crystal Ancestor agreed to take the dangerous first step.

• Qu Jianlei brought Crystal Ancestor and Stick to the Maiden Star Region and required them to acknowledge that they were entering of their own will.
• Xiaoyou told the Great Monarchs that the Human Race had left resources behind for the Crystal Race and had prevented them from following when the group departed.
• The group searched for over a year and found the chaotic energy cloud, where Stick sensed a dense Crystal Race karma but thought the barrier seemed easy to break.
• Qu Jianlei proposed divining the high-dimensional factors and Heavenly Tilting karma in the Silent Zone, but the deep divine sense volunteered to perform the divination.
• Qu Jianlei displayed his creation and destruction ability, and the deep divine sense recognized its high-dimensional connection while Stick remarked on its refinement.

Qu Jianlei and the others returned to the Dead Silent Zone with the Crystal Race’s Great Monarch, Spring, and discovered that a strange, high-dimensional space might serve as a primer for their efforts. Qu Jianlei began calculating how to devour the space, but the difficulty of grasping its high-dimensional factors remained unresolved.

• The deep divine sense confirmed that Qu Jianlei’s offering could serve as a primer and suggested operating after entering the Silent Zone.
• Han Li and Jin Ge led the group into the Dead Silent Zone, where Stick ordered the Crystal Race members not to act without authorization.
• The Crystal Race welcomed Stick as its True Monarch, while Stick learned that the race had lost most of its population during its long confinement.
• After five days of searching, Qu Jianlei identified a point beside Spring, then spent two days running exhaustive calculations.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he wanted to devour the Dead Silent Zone, but absorbing it was too slow and locking down its high-dimensional factors was difficult.

Spring and Taiyuan Sea began compressing the Dead Silent Zone and its surrounding Energy Mass while Qu Jianlei remained inside to gather higher-dimensional elements. The process had advanced only slightly after half a year, and the others learned it might take more than a hundred years; Qu Jianlei nevertheless managed intermittent communication with the Spider Phantom.

• Spring, Taiyuan Sea, and Little Sister devised a plan for compressing the space, with Qu Jianlei gathering the higher-dimensional elements from within.
• Crystal Ancestor moved the Crystal Race and the Human Race True Venerables to a temporary foothold, while Qu Jianlei stayed behind in the space.
• Crystal Ancestor stood guard as Spring and Taiyuan Sea began compressing the Energy Mass.
• After half a year, Deep Consciousness had compressed only one outer ring and warned that the process could take over a hundred years.
• The Spider Phantom revealed that Qu Jianlei had been communicating with it intermittently from inside the space.

While True Venerable Qu continued probing from inside, the others received a Lianxing formation inheritance and trained a nine-person Battle Formation to compress space. The formation worked and cut the estimated wait from seventy or eighty years to thirty or forty, though Qu remained trapped inside.

• The Deep Consciousness estimated that the compression would take seventy or eighty years, and Xiaoyou asked whether Suiyue could help before being warned that it might harm the Deep Consciousness.
• Jin Ge left with several avatars and returned three years later, while Lianxing True Venerables later brought more help and an inherited formation to the Maiden Star Region.
• A Great Monarch from Lianxing declined to come in person but sent the original formation inheritance, which could be adapted into a nine- or eighteen-person Battle Formation.
• Taiyuan Sea's mysterious voice understood the formation and helped explain it, and the True Venerables spent months drilling and coordinating before trying it.
• Han Li objected to borrowing Crystal Race members, and nine True Venerables successfully activated the Battle Formation and stabilized its power.
• The Deep Consciousness judged that the formation could shorten the remaining time by half, reducing the estimate to thirty or forty years.

The True Venerables considered whether True Venerable Qu's ordeal might reveal a path from Out-of-Body to Spirit Severing, prompting several of them to contemplate seeking similar opportunities. After seventeen years of steady preparation, they learned that the convergence point of the worlds was fusing faster, and cultivators from Lingyun had come looking for True Venerable Qu.

• True Venerable Xiaoyou suggested that True Venerable Qu's dangerous ordeal might establish a path to Spirit Severing, and Han Li judged that path difficult to reproduce.
• True Venerable Kunxiu privately asked Xiaoyou to help her join a future effort in a world facing Heavenly Tilting, and Xiaoyou agreed to remember her request.
• Han Wei proposed that the group communicate with the outside world and improve their surroundings, and Han Li secured everyone's agreement not to bring in additional people.
• The True Venerables spent seventeen years building a camp and receiving occasional news from outside.
• True Venerable Yueran and his team reported that Lingyun cultivators had come to find True Venerable Qu because the convergence point of the worlds was fusing at an accelerated pace.

The accelerated fusion of the two worlds drew True Venerables from across the realms, raising fears that their arrival could disrupt the Empire. Han Li and his allies arranged to mediate, and Song Yue'er returned with the visitors largely persuaded to stay in line and interested in inviting True Venerable Qu to lecture on his new cultivation path.

• True Venerables from the four realms hurried to observe the suddenly accelerating fusion of the two worlds, prompting the Lingyun Sect to worry about disorder in the Empire.
• Baiqiao sought help from Qu Jianlei's group, and Han Li, Xiaoyou, Yueran, and the others discussed how to manage the incoming cultivators.
• Stick sent a wisp of intent with Song Yue'er, who led a group of True Venerable avatars to mediate with the visitors.
• Song Yue'er returned six months later and reported that the mediation had gone smoothly because the visitors respected the strength of her delegation.
• The visiting True Venerables asked when Qu Jianlei would share his new path to the Out-of-Body Realm, and some offered to host a lecture in their realms.

Song Yue'er and the others agreed to observe the world confluence while investigating whether high-dimensional forces linked it to their compression effort. As compression intensified, Qu Jianlei endured mounting pressure and finally rediscovered a mysterious sensation of safety that brought him sudden enlightenment.

• Song Yue'er completed negotiations with the True Venerables, who agreed to watch the world confluence without interfering.
• Crystal Ancestor reported that an unknowable, possibly high-dimensional factor had accelerated the confluence and might be connected to their compression effort.
• Three years later, True Venerable Qu contacted the group and asked them to increase the force of compression, though Deep Consciousness and the Battle Formation were already near their limits.
• Qu Jianlei struggled through increasing pressure, using his Abode, Dao Stele, and Creation Compass to stay alive and focused while absorbing the auras of Creation and Destruction.
• Qu Jianlei finally caught the fleeting sense of safety he had once experienced inside Senior Heng's phantom body and realized he had reached sudden enlightenment.

Qu Jianlei cultivated in the Ethereal State, discovered and absorbed a High-Dimensional Element related to vitality, and developed a crude way to store converted vitality. After crushing ninety-nine stored strands under a sudden surge of pressure, he felt an unseen shackle break and his body grow lighter, but he kept the possible breakthrough to himself while he examined what had changed.

• Qu Jianlei sensed a distant High-Dimensional Element related to vitality and began absorbing it to counterbalance Silent Extinction.
• Qu Jianlei gradually brought vitality closer to equilibrium with Silent Extinction, then continued absorbing until he had roughly twice as much vitality.
• Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu contact the Spider Grand Monarch, who reported that the pressure outside could increase only a limited amount and that everyone was concerned for him.
• Qu Jianlei developed a preliminary method for storing converted vitality and continued gathering it while refining his technique.
• A sudden surge of pressure struck Qu Jianlei, so he crushed ninety-nine stored strands of vitality and felt an invisible shackle break as his body became lighter.
• Qu Jianlei chose not to notify his teammates yet, and continued collecting vitality while inspecting his body for signs of a breakthrough.

Qu Jianlei recovered from the strain of his breakthrough while Big Head Butterfly reported that the Taotie Grand Monarch had appeared outside and was confronting the protectors. The Taotie demanded half of the compressed Energy Mass, leaving a clash close as Little Sister and Spring continued their work.

• Qu Jianlei asked Big Head Butterfly to monitor the outside while he investigated his own condition.
• Big Head Butterfly told Qu Jianlei that Stick and Spider were facing a white baozi, and Qu Jianlei supplied a Division Level Ship to help it recover.
• Taiyuan Sea detected a Great Monarch spying, and the Crystal Ancestor and Stick discovered the Taotie near the Energy Mass.
• The Taotie ignored Stick's warning and demanded half of the Energy Mass, while Spider and the Crystal Ancestor refused.
• The Taotie threatened to ruin their work and revealed that it had already been harmed by Heavenly Tilting Aura, but it sensed something in the Energy Mass that could resist some of its effects.

Taotie discovered that the enormous Energy Mass involved Heavenly Tilting karma and tried to seize it, but the cultivators and their Grand Monarch allies drove it away. Grand Monarch Bo Ping revealed why he had secretly supported the effort to save the heavens from tilting, and the group prepared to continue with his protection.

• Taotie sensed Heavenly Tilting karma in the Energy Mass and demanded forty percent, threatening to destroy it if the others refused.
• Little Sister challenged Taotie, and Deep Consciousness blocked its attack with a Mobius Ring manifestation.
• Taotie fled, but the Spider Grand Monarch tried to stop it while the rotten Grand Monarch promised to pursue and taint it.
• Three months later, the rotten Grand Monarch returned and said he had erased half of the Heavenly Tilting, then offered to protect the group.
• Grand Monarch Bo Ping introduced himself to Old Ancestor Taiyuan and explained that he had secretly watched and supported the effort because he could not bear others’ treatment of him.

Han Li and the others continued compressing the Energy Mass for Qu Jianlei while True Monarch Boping joined their effort and they planned to deal with Taotie. Later, Han Li asked True Monarch Kong Yu to help someone whose breakthrough had stalled, and Kong Yu hesitated as Han Li prepared to seek help in Lingyun.

• True Monarch Boping appeared, agreed to take over from Taiyuan Sea, and confirmed that few other True Monarchs in Lianxing World were likely to join Saving the Heavens from Tilting.
• Five years passed as the group compressed the Energy Mass to a million kilometers, and the young lady located Taotie's main body near the Tianfeng Realm.
• Qu Jianlei learned what had happened from Xiao Hu and focused on handling the work before him.
• Three years later, Han Li's avatar asked True Monarch Kong Yu to help someone on his spirit vein who had encountered an obstacle while attempting a breakthrough.
• Han Li told Kong Yu that True Monarch Boping had joined the effort, but Kong Yu warned him not to manipulate him and urged him to find his own elders.
• Han Li said involving his family elders might backfire, then decided to make a trip to Lingyun.

True Monarch Kong Yu helped Wenshi stabilize Duo Gan’s breakthrough, and Duo Gan entered the Out-of-Body Realm in a rare Frost Period that required her to correct flaws in her foundation. Meanwhile, Qu Jianlei’s group continued compressing the enormous Energy Mass, and an observer offered to reveal another location containing one if they explained their purpose.

• True Monarch Wenshi asked True Monarch Kong Yu to improve the vitality around Duo Gan on Jiuyou Island, and Kong Yu agreed while warning Wenshi to watch for problems.
• Duo Gan barely passed her breakthrough and entered the Frost Period, leaving her to spend an estimated one or two hundred years correcting her cultivation before fully stabilizing in the Out-of-Body Realm.
• True Monarch Wenshi and True Monarch Kong Yu discussed Duo Gan’s unusual breakthrough, and Wenshi warned Kong Yu that the person he was protecting had much greater cause and effect.
• Qu Jianlei received Big Head Butterfly’s message that Duo Gan had reached Out-of-Body with minor flaws, then turned his attention back to the work in the space.
• After the Energy Mass had been compressed to about one hundred thousand kilometers across, Deep Consciousness asked Taiyuan to help overcome its resistance, and the group warned nearby observers to leave.
• An observer asked why the group was compressing the Energy Mass, and Deep Consciousness said they intended to refine it because it contained a Silent Zone; the observer offered to identify another location if they explained their purpose.