Recaps

Houtu Huangdiqi and her forces crushed the coalition of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Anqi Emperor Lord, and Lanke Immortal Lord, destroying their strongholds and killing Anqi and Lanke. After the battle, Grandma of Mount Tai reported that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had been ambushed and killed.

• After Feng Huixue died, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva summoned her five Buddha projections and six reincarnation avatars to fight Houtu Huangdiqi, while Houtu declared that the conflict was a war.
• Houtu and the Ten Yama Kings attacked Ksitigarbha's Underworld strongholds across many worlds, and Houtu destroyed Ksitigarbha's avatar in the Huaguang World.
• Houtu ordered the Prefect of Mount Tai to raid Anqi Emperor Lord's lineage, and he destroyed Anqi's Dao realm, while Houtu's forces also devastated Lanke Immortal Lord's lineage.
• The Three Sanxiao Empresses conquered Mount Jiuxian, prompting Guangchengzi and Dingguang Joyful Tathagata to flee as Anqi Emperor Lord and Lanke Immortal Lord were captured and executed by Houtu.
• Grandma of Mount Tai reported that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had been ambushed by Immortal Dao experts and killed, shocking Houtu Huangdiqi.

After the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity was killed, Chen Shi and Houtu Huangdiqi suspected the assassination was tied to his ability to influence the calamity’s opening and the coming war between the Immortal Court and Heavenly Court. They reached the Immortal Sea to investigate, where the Nine Heavens Responding Yuan Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate blamed Immortal of the Southern Pole.

• Houtu Huangdiqi learned that the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity had fallen and told Chen Shi that she had survived an ambush by five Daluo Golden Immortals, killing two.
• Chen Shi theorized that the Great Emperor of Longevity had been targeted because he could manipulate part of the calamity’s opening, while Xiaoduan warned that Chen Shi’s forces might rebel if ordered to fight fellow immortals.
• Chen Shi chose to support the Heavenly Court, and he departed Western Penglai with Houtu Huangdiqi to investigate the Great Emperor’s death.
• Houtu Huangdiqi revealed that the Great Emperor of Longevity could direct one percent of the calamity’s power and had used it in experiments against the Three Pure Realms and the Western Paradise.
• Houtu Huangdiqi said that only five people knew of the experiments, leaving Ziwei and Gouchen under suspicion as possible informants.
• Chen Shi and Houtu Huangdiqi arrived at the Immortal Sea, where the Nine Heavens Responding Yuan Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate greeted them and accused Immortal of the Southern Pole of the killing.

Chen Shi examined the traces left by the Great Emperor of Longevity’s death and concluded that a master of the outer Dao had killed him. He suspected the killer was the mysterious creator of the Sutra of Everlasting Freedom Through a Thousand Calamities, and Houtu Huangdiqi warned that the killing would bring another strike and make war between gods and immortals inevitable.

• Thunder Sound Puhua Heavenly Venerate and Houtu Huangdiqi debated whether the Immortal of the Southern Pole could have killed the Great Emperor of Longevity, and Chen Shi recognized that the battle traces united the outer Dao with the immortal path.
• Chen Shi removed the outer Dao from several contaminated Thunder Department soldiers, though he could not restore their transformed limbs.
• Houtu Huangdiqi concluded that one opponent had killed the Great Emperor of Longevity in a brief clash, while Chen Shi explained that the Emperor’s calamity-manipulating Dao made ordinary Daluo Golden Immortals unable to face him.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the Emperor’s suppressive aura by summoning Emperor Changchun, who sensed it and quickly retreated into the Dao Ruins.
• Chen Shi connected the killer to the mysterious creator of the Sutra of Everlasting Freedom Through a Thousand Calamities and revealed that he had helped the World-Honored One kill the Bright King of Eternal Freedom.
• Houtu Huangdiqi warned that the unidentified killer would strike again and that the Great Emperor of Longevity’s death made war between gods and immortals inevitable.

Chen Shi learned from Empress Houtu about the ancient origins of the great devils and the cyan-rock records of a Green Palace, then realized the underground Green Palace could bring disaster upon Golden Ao Island if its secrets spread. To protect his sect during the coming Immortal-God War, he began cutting off its communications with the Heavenly Court and asked Yan Zhibei about strange finds in the Heavenly Abyss.

• Empress Houtu told Chen Shi that the great devils dated back to the ancient world from which the Earthly Immortal Realm was formed, and that cyan rocks from a dark civilization had recorded a map of the Green Palace and the Dark Sea.
• Chen Shi told Empress Houtu that he and his allies knew of the underground Green Palace, and she warned him that the Three Pure Realms, the Western Heaven, and the Heavenly Court might destroy Golden Ao Island to seize its secrets.
• Empress Houtu advised Chen Shi to account for the time it would take Heavenly Court messengers to reach Western Penglai if the star gate post station were destroyed.
• Chen Shi ordered Jing Mei and Qiao Gu to disguise themselves as immortals of the Three Pure Realms and destroy Western Penglai's star gate post station, then publicly blamed the Three Pure Realms.
• Chen Shi approved Wen Ting's proposal to intercept Heavenly Court messengers and sent him to patrol between Western Penglai and Smoke and Haze.
• Chen Shi asked Yan Zhibei whether he had found cyan rocks or other strange objects while mining in the East Sea Heavenly Abyss.

Chen Shi learned of a mysterious cyan coffin found in the Qingyan mines, then advanced his cultivation and sent his defiled bodies to search for Demon Suppressing Wells. He brought Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu to the underground Green Palace, where Chen Yindu began deciphering the prehistoric imprints and asked Chen Shi to help manifest the Heavenly Dao deity.

• Yan Zhibei told Chen Shi about a cyan coffin and a beautiful woman discovered in a Qingyan mine and taken away by the Three Pure Realms.
• Chen Shi cultivated to the third Dao realm of the Golden Immortal stage, created Chen Jiuyou from his demonic Dao, and sent his nine defiled bodies to seek Demon Suppressing Wells.
• Created Being Xiao Wu arrived with news that Chen Yindu wanted to visit the underground Green Palace through spiritual possession, and Chen Shi arranged for him to possess Cui Zhenzhen.
• Chen Shi led Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu across the black lake to the Green Palace, where Chen Yindu studied its prehistoric imprints.
• Chen Yindu examined the spirit tablet and asked Chen Shi to help manifest the Heavenly Dao deity worshipped in prehistoric times using the Dao of the Dark Sea.

Chen Shi, Chen Yindu, and Created Being Xiao Wu assembled a flawless god from the Green Palace’s Dao textures and revived it with the black lake’s outer Dao power. After the god attacked them, they restrained it, destroyed its body, and captured its head for study, while Created Being Xiao Wu absorbed much of the unleashed Dao power.

• Chen Shi transferred his humanity into Created Being Xiao Wu’s thunder pool, and the three deciphered the Green Palace’s Dao textures until they assembled a humanoid deity.
• The black lake’s outer Dao radiance entered the deity and revived it, and the god awakened in confusion before growing furious at the skeletons around them.
• The god transported Chen Shi, Chen Yindu, and Created Being Xiao Wu to the black lake and attacked them with karmic tribulations, shattering Chen Shi’s Limitless Dao Field.
• Chen Yindu and the others activated the primordial talismans they had planted in the god, severed its head, sealed it, and dissolved its body.
• Created Being Xiao Wu absorbed much of the black lake’s Dao power but had to refine it with Chen Shi’s help, while Chen Yindu studied the god’s head and decided it was too resistant to use as a second brain.

Chen Shi studied the flawless immortal’s head with Chen Yindu, then resisted abandoning his humanity to imitate Created Being Xiao Wu. While Chen Shi and Little Awl secluded themselves, his nine tainted bodies searched for Demon Suppressing Wells, and his lustful body encountered Fan Xiao in Sinan County. Fan Xiao revealed the location of a well and warned that Immortal Court experts were preparing to release its great demons, while he himself was left to face the bill at a brothel.

• Chen Yindu severed Chen Shi’s connection to Created Being Xiao Wu, warning him that relying on absolute divinity could erode his humanity; Cui Zhenzhen awoke with improved cultivation and an understanding of meta-runes.
• Chen Shi considered creating his own Created Being Xiao Wu using his nine tainted bodies, but chose not to act and entered seclusion with Little Awl to study meta-runes.
• Chen Shi sensed that one of his tainted bodies had found a Demon Suppressing Well and sent its great demon into the Well Demon Domain, increasing his cultivation.
• In Sinan County, Chen Shi’s lustful body rescued Fan Xiao from being press-ganged and took him to Myriad Flowers Pavilion, where Fan Xiao recounted how a swindler resembling Chen Shi had robbed him.
• Fan Xiao told Chen Shi that Immortal Court experts were searching for Demon Suppressing Wells to release their imprisoned demons, and directed him to the well in Hundred Saints Cave.
• After Chen Shi left for the well, Fan Xiao discovered that his junior brother had not paid the brothel bill, and the women threatened to beat the cost out of him.

Congyun, Fang Qianxue, Tong He, and Lu Chen tried to release the demons imprisoned beneath the Hundred Saints Cave to aid the Immortal Court’s attack on the Plague Department. Chen Shi’s physical body and Chen Jiuyou stopped them, but the failed plot left the Plague Province in open turmoil, while Chen Shi’s other defiled bodies gathered in Cang County to undertake a major operation.

• Congyun explained the origins of the Hundred Saints Cave as the four Immortal Court disciples entered to free the demons and attack the Plague Department.
• Fang Qianxue killed the believers and divine avatars who witnessed the seal being broken, but Chen Shi’s physical body arrived and killed her with Ten Suns Violating the Dipper.
• Congyun, Tong He, and Lu Chen broke the chains binding the demons’ cauldrons, then fought Chen Shi’s physical body as the demons began to escape.
• Chen Jiuyou used the Demon Blood Treasure Tree to capture the great demons, while Chen Shi’s physical body killed Congyun, Tong He, and Lu Chen before the cave collapsed.
• Grand Tutor Leng Dongliu learned that his disciples had died and withdrew with True Master Zuo Xuan and Madam Yuan Ling, while the Plague Province’s rebellion intensified.
• Chen Shi’s defiled bodies gathered in Cang County, where his calamity body said they would join forces for a major operation.

Chen Shi’s eight filth bodies attacked Cang County’s magistrate estate to seize the Demon Refining Cauldrons, but a young man named Huangfu Jun defeated and killed them. Chen Jiuyou summoned his master, and the bodies revived as a ninth figure appeared beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree.

• Destiny Transfer Chen Shi determined that Magistrate Huang Jue held the Demon Refining Cauldrons and planned to transport them to the Dipper Department, so the filth bodies prepared to raid the estate.
• Stealth Chen Shi concealed Cang County’s sun, and the group stormed the estate, splitting up to attack the guests from the Immortal Court, the Three Pure Realms, and the Western Paradise.
• Killing, Fire, Deception, and Greed Chen Shi fought the estate’s guests while Rat Body Chen Shi destroyed the prefectural yamen, killed Huang Jue, and uncovered the Demon Refining Cauldrons.
• Destiny Transfer Chen Shi recognized the dark-green-robed young man’s authentic Scripture of Passing a Thousand Calamities to Eternally Proving Freedom and ordered Rat Body to flee, but Huangfu Jun killed him and then overwhelmed the other filth bodies.
• As Rat Body Chen Shi died, Chen Jiuyou emerged from the Well Demon Domain and struck Huangfu Jun, who identified himself as Huangfu Jun and challenged Chen Shi, the Heavenly King.
• Chen Jiuyou called for his master, and the eight dead filth bodies revived as a ninth figure appeared beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree and approached Huangfu Jun.

Chen Shi confronted Huangfu Jun, exposed the danger in his master’s Sutra of Everlasting Freedom through a Thousand Calamities, and then fought him after Huangfu challenged him. Huangfu survived Chen Shi’s Five Prisons Execution Hand, but Chen Shi began a ritual against him from Cang County.

• Chen Shi’s true body emerged from the Well Demon Domain, and Huangfu Jun realized the Chen Jiuyou he had faced was only a Dao body.
• Chen Shi condemned the Western Heaven’s Method of Self-Transformation and Freedom and questioned whether Huangfu Jun’s master had passed him a flawed scripture that transferred karmic tribulations onto its practitioners.
• Huangfu Jun’s Dao heart wavered, but he returned to Chen Shi and insisted his scripture was flawless; Chen Shi’s words shook him again, and he surrendered the Three Pure Demon Refining Cauldrons before preparing to leave.
• Huangfu Jun turned back and attacked Chen Shi with his Thousand Calamities Dao Field, but Chen Shi transferred his tribulations to his Destiny Transfer Body and countered with the Five Prisons Execution Hand.
• Chen Shi’s Five Prisons Execution Hand shattered Huangfu Jun’s Dao realm and pursued him across the South Continent of Jambudvipa and into the starry sky; Huangfu survived the blow after exhausting its power.
• In Cang County, Chen Shi performed a ritual at an altar, bowed toward Huangfu Jun’s name on a white banner, and said, “Fellow Daoist Huangfu, receive my bow!”

Chen Shi’s three curses failed to kill Huangfu Jun, who survived grave injuries and eventually chose to visit Golden Ao Island rather than report Chen Shi. Huangfu Jun asked whether their agreement to examine the Scripture of A Thousand Calamities for Eternal Freedom still stood, and Chen Shi prepared to study the technique with him.

• Huangfu Jun redirected Chen Shi’s three curse-bows onto three species on a distant planet, wiping them out while surviving the attacks.
• Chen Shi returned to Biyou Palace and told Xiaoduan that Huangfu Jun had endured his curses and might be a dangerous rival.
• Huangfu Jun recovered from his severe injuries with the help of spirit-root fruits, debated whether to report Chen Shi, and ultimately decided to visit Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan waited more than half a year for Huangfu Jun, while Qiao Gu brought him to Biyou Palace after meeting him outside Western Penglai.
• Huangfu Jun asked Chen Shi whether their agreement still stood and warned him not to cultivate the Scripture of A Thousand Calamities for Eternal Freedom, since its hidden loopholes could alert Huangfu Jun’s master.

Chen Shi completed the Scripture of Eternal Freedom for Huangfu Jun, revealing that Mr. Huaiyi’s version had been designed to harvest its practitioners. After Huangfu Jun learned the truth and survived a deadly ambush, Chen Shi left the Wangyou Realm and encountered Yang Bi.

• Chen Shi studied Huangfu Jun’s Scripture of Eternal Freedom and promised to complete it, while Huangfu Jun departed to search for the Three Pure Demon Suppressing Wells.
• Over the following months, Huangfu Jun let Chen Shi’s filth body steal Demon Refining Cauldrons, while another faction secretly searched the wells and sometimes reached them first.
• Huangfu Jun was ambushed by Heavenly Court forces, who killed or wounded his companions and nearly killed him while targeting the Demon Refining Cauldron.
• Chen Shi showed Huangfu Jun the completed Dao patterns and explained that practitioners across the worlds were being harvested through Mr. Huaiyi’s incomplete method.
• Huangfu Jun activated the completed method, sensed its many practitioners, and realized that Mr. Huaiyi had continued harvesting them; Chen Shi concluded the Three Pure Realms sheltered his master.
• As Chen Shi left the Wangyou Realm, Yang Bi mocked his apparent neutrality, and Chen Shi greeted him with delight.

Chen Shi met Yang Bi, who had lured him into a trap and accused him of endangering the Heavenly Court. Chen Shi explained that the Western Ox Continent had become the Heavenly Immortal Realm, prompting Yang Bi to ask for a place there, though the armed forces he had concealed remained present.

• Chen Shi recognized Yang Bi as the strategist behind Huangfu Jun's ambush and recalled their past alliance at Despair Slope.
• Yang Bi hosted Chen Shi with celestial maidens to distract his desire-flesh, then accused him of colluding with Huangfu Jun and threatening the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Shi revealed that he pursued the Scripture of Achieving Eternal Freedom Through a Thousand Kalpas and was loyal to the Western Ox Continent, which he called the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shi told Yang Bi that Li Tianqing and Zhong Wuwang had ascended to the Heavenly Immortal Realm and described its restored Heavenly Dao, guiding treasures, and shared control of sacred lands.
• Yang Bi reconsidered his plans after learning his wife and son lived in the Heavenly Immortal Realm, then asked Chen Shi to reserve him a place there.
• Chen Shi asked why Yang Bi had brought armed forces to ambush him, and Yang Bi dispersed the clouds to reveal the waiting immortals and gods.

Chen Shi warned Yang Bi that Huangfu Jun’s completed Perpetual Freedom Scripture made him too dangerous to attack, then revealed how the Demon Blood Treasure Tree could refine Great Demon remains. After the Ministry of War’s Demon Refining Cauldrons were stolen and Heavenly King Li was sent to suppress the Western Penglai bandits, Yang Bi reached Golden Ao Island to warn Chen Shi, who sent Fairy Xiaoduan to meet Li without harming him.

• Chen Shi examined Yang Bi’s troops, learned they meant to eradicate Huangfu Jun, and warned that Huangfu Jun’s strengthened Perpetual Freedom Scripture could make an attack disastrous.
• Chen Shi showed Yang Bi the Demon Blood Treasure Tree refining Great Demon remains and explained that his primal talismans could protect him from Huangfu Jun’s technique.
• Chen Shi asked Yang Bi to help study the Perpetual Freedom Scripture, and Yang Bi agreed to visit Golden Ao Island through Chen Shi’s Well Demon Domain.
• Two months later, the Ministry of War reported that thieves had stolen all its Demon Refining Cauldrons, while Yang Bi found Huangfu Jun’s technique too powerful to analyze safely.
• Doumu Yuanjun told Yang Bi that Heavenly King Li had been ordered to suppress bandits near Western Penglai, and Yang Bi hurried to warn Chen Shi.
• Yang Bi arrived at Golden Ao Island through the Well Demon Domain and warned Chen Shi about Heavenly King Li, so Chen Shi sent Fairy Xiaoduan to meet him without hurting him.

Heavenly King Li led Great General Juling to Zhangren Province to confront Chen Shi, but Fairy Xiaoduan ambushed him with dark bird sacred fire and drove him to Golden Ao Island for refuge. When she arrived and offered to finish him off, the badly injured Heavenly King Li tried to crawl away from her.

• Heavenly King Li explained that the Great Heavenly Venerate had sent him to make Chen Shi march against the Three Pure Realms, while Great General Juling expected Golden Ao Island's bandits to attack.
• Jing Mei, Qiao Gu, and the other Golden Ao Island fighters ambushed the heavenly ship, but Great General Juling resisted their attacks and Heavenly King Li overwhelmed them with his Unoccupied Tathagata Treasury.
• Yan Zhibei tried to hold off Heavenly King Li so the others could escape, but Fairy Xiaoduan intervened with dark bird sacred fire and struck Heavenly King Li until he fled.
• Heavenly King Li crashed near Chen Shi and Yang Bi on Golden Ao Island and asked Chen Shi for help, claiming a Great Shang remnant had injured him.
• Fairy Xiaoduan arrived, admitted that she had struck Heavenly King Li too hard after he called her a Great Shang remnant, and proposed killing him as he crawled away.

Chen Shi maneuvered Heavenly King Li into crediting Golden Ao Island for saving him, delayed his return, and later led a campaign against bandits in Zhang Ren Province. The Great Heavenly Venerate chose to reward Chen Shi rather than punish him, while Yang Bi finished learning the Primordial Talisman; the chapter ended with Chen Shi preparing cautiously to meet Great White Star Lord.

• Chen Shi convinced Heavenly King Li that Immortal Court agents had ambushed him and that Golden Ao Island had rescued him, prompting Li to promise a memorial praising the island's merits.
• Heavenly King Li coached Great Spirit God to repeat the account and say the Heavenly Soldiers had died in battle, while Chen Shi promised to lead an expedition against the bandits.
• Chen Shi led troops into Zhang Ren Province, defeated numerous Demonic Beasts, and later petitioned the Great Heavenly Venerate for reinforcements.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate considered sending Great White Star Lord to kill Chen Shi, but instead ordered him to reward Chen Shi and his troops.
• Yang Bi studied the Primordial Talisman for a year, reached the fifth heaven of the Dao realm, and warned Chen Shi that the Immortal Court would counterattack once its experts finished learning it.
• When Great White Star Lord arrived with the Great Heavenly Venerate's decree, Yang Bi warned Chen Shi of his formidable combat abilities, so Chen Shi brought Fairy Xiaoduan, raised the Dao Ruins Dao realm, and prepared an ambush.

Yang Bi told Chen Shi of the Great White Star Lord’s long conflict with the Master’s lineage, while the Star Lord delivered the Great Heavenly Venerate’s rewards and healed Heavenly King Li. After the Star Lord hinted that Chen Shi might wield the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, Chen Shi decided to catch up with him and confront him with Fairy Xiaoduan.

• Yang Bi explained how the Great White Star Lord and the Red Emperor’s lineage had fought over the ancestral realm’s Dao lineage across several dynasties, leaving the Star Lord hostile toward Golden Ao Island.
• The Great White Star Lord arrived at Golden Ao Island with an imperial decree and rewards, including a powerful axe and halberd that Chen Shi recognized as a warning from the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• The Great White Star Lord gave Heavenly King Li immortal medicine that quickly healed him, then prepared to take him back to the Heavenly Court.
• On the journey, the Star Lord suggested Chen Shi might command the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and seek to monopolize the ancestral realm; he revealed his formidable strength and welcomed a possible confrontation.
• Chen Shi confirmed that he possessed the Ten Thousand Immortals Array diagram and had made twenty copies, then decided to pursue the Star Lord with Fairy Xiaoduan and challenge him using the Demonic Blood Treasure Tree.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan ambushed White Star Lord and Heavenly King Li with the Demon Blood Treasure Tree after White Star Lord realized Chen Shi’s wife belonged to the Great Shang imperial family. White Star Lord escaped the tree’s first assault, but Chen Shi caught up with him using the divine face axe and beheaded him.

• Yang Bi wondered whether the Demon Blood Treasure Tree and Fairy Xiaoduan could match White Star Lord, then offered incense to the divine face axe and halberd.
• White Star Lord and Heavenly King Li traveled toward Jian Province, where White Star Lord learned that Chen Shi’s wife was a Great Shang royal and suspected Chen Shi intended rebellion.
• White Star Lord gave Heavenly King Li Jade Purity Dao Spring, which rusted Li’s body and Dao; Chen Shi then attacked them with the Demon Blood Treasure Tree.
• White Star Lord fought the tree with his divine power and Great Luo Heavenly Dao Realm, then tore through the void and fled as Fairy Xiaoduan pursued him.
• The divine face axe and halberd flew to Chen Shi, who caught up with White Star Lord and cut off his head.

Chen Shi realized the Great Heavenly Venerate had used him to execute the Great White Star Lord and was monitoring Golden Ao Island, so he ordered his allies to protect the court’s next envoys. He gave Heavenly King Li a gourd of dao spring secretly tainted with dormant outer dao, and Li ultimately drank it, driven by his desire to break through.

• Chen Shi recognized that the Great Heavenly Venerate had guided his hand in killing the Great White Star Lord and understood the execution as a warning to him.
• Chen Shi found Heavenly King Li suffering from rust dao, refined the outer dao from his body, and returned with him and Fairy Xiaoduan to Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi discussed the Great Heavenly Venerate’s schemes, and Chen Shi ordered Qiao Gu and the others to escort the approaching heavenly court envoys safely.
• Chen Shi offered Heavenly King Li a golden gourd of Jade Purity Dao Spring containing dormant outer dao that would erupt if Li became his enemy.
• Heavenly King Li repeatedly tried to throw away the gourd, realized his own desire to seize the chance to advance had kept it in his hand, and drank the spring water.

Chen Shi set out from Golden Ao Island to suppress the rebellion in Wu Yue Province, but war across the Heavenly Market Enclosure forced him to travel through devastated provinces. He left a vast battlefield in Zong Zheng Province alive after freezing both sides, and continued toward Wu Yue.

• Chen Shi and Yang Bi deduced that someone who surpassed Mr. Huaiyi's understanding of the Scripture of Eternal Freedom Through a Thousand Calamities could harvest him, and discussed how its many altered versions might be used to transfer tribulation luck.
• The heavenly court ordered Chen Shi to lead troops to Wu Yue Province and suppress the immortal rebels, while its emissary explained that much of the Heavenly Market Enclosure had already fallen and the court's forces were committed elsewhere.
• Chen Shi left nine grime-bodies and Fairy Xiaoduan to guard Golden Ao Island, ordered ten thousand immortals to train in the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, and departed for Wu Yue.
• After finding that the routes and ferries to Wu Yue were destroyed, Chen Shi flew through war-torn provinces and killed a true immortal and a true god who were fighting near him.
• Chen Shi crossed a vast battlefield in Zong Zheng Province, freezing its armies, beasts, immortals, and gods with his Limitless Dao Field and halting the Zong Zheng star official's attack.
• Chen Shi dissipated his Dao field without destroying the battlefield forces and continued toward Wu Yue, lamenting that the Great Heavenly Venerate had ordered him to suppress the rebellion elsewhere.

Chen Shi quelled rebellions across the Heavenly Market Enclosure by stripping immortals and gods of their cultivation, while the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor learned of his actions and went to meet him in Wu Yue Province. The emperor revealed that he was Lei Zhenzi, a spy for the Three Pure Realms, and Chen Shi claimed they could join forces against the heavenly court.

• Chen Shi’s dojo melted the cultivation of the immortals and gods in Zong Zheng Province, ending the battle and prompting the Zong Zheng Star Official to report to the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor.
• The Gouchen Heavenly Emperor suspected the Great Heavenly Venerate had used him to target Chen Shi, then received reports that Chen Shi had quelled rebellions in several more provinces.
• Chief Chancellor Lu Daoming discovered that the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor had left his palace to meet Chen Shi and reported his suspicions to the heavenly court.
• Chen Shi arrived in Wu Yue Province, where the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor welcomed him to a tavern.
• The Gouchen Heavenly Emperor revealed that he was Lei Zhenzi, an inner spy for the Three Pure Realms, and threatened Chen Shi for disrupting his plans.
• Chen Shi said he was an Immortal Court Supreme Disciple and proposed that they join forces to overthrow the heavenly court.

Chen Shi met Great Emperor Gouchen, who confessed his divided loyalties and threatened to kill him for disrupting the Three Pure Realms’ plans. Chen Shi continued to Wu Yue Star Mansion and discovered that the Wu Yue Star Lord and a group of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had lured him into a trap.

• Chen Shi feigned agreement with Great Emperor Gouchen, who explained his role as a Three Pure Realms spy and accused Chen Shi of thwarting the immortal faction’s plans.
• Great Emperor Gouchen wavered over whether to kill Chen Shi, then followed him as Chen Shi searched Wu Yue Province for rebels.
• Chen Shi asked Great Emperor Gouchen for directions to Wu Yue Star Mansion and entered with him after introducing himself to the Wu Yue Star Lord.
• The Wu Yue Star Lord showed Chen Shi his wife, descendants, and Immortal Lord Xin, while powerful immortals gathered around them.
• Immortal Lord Xin declared that Chen Shi would die, and an immortal condemned him as the Jade Emperor’s running dog.

Chen Shi attended a banquet in Ping Tian Tower, where Star Lord Wu Yue and representatives of the Three Pure Realms and Western Paradise revealed their plans to seize the Heavenly Market Enclosure. When they sprang their trap, Chen Shi summoned Golden Ao Island’s Ten Thousand Immortals Array to confront their forces.

• Star Lord Wu Yue welcomed Chen Shi into Ping Tian Tower and showed him its six immense heavens, each defended by immortals using the Qiongtai Luotian Tribulation Array.
• At the banquet, Chen Shi challenged the representatives’ plans to divide the Heavenly Market Enclosure and criticized their rebellion against the Jade Emperor.
• Chen Shi insulted True Man Mei, Monk Pan, and Old Immortal Pi, while Zhu Tiannan addressed him respectfully as the contemporary Master.
• Star Lord Wu Yue activated Ping Tian Tower’s six arrays, assembling over a hundred thousand immortals to attack Chen Shi and force Great Emperor Gouchen’s hand.
• Chen Shi summoned the Dao Ruins and the ten thousand immortals of Golden Ao Island, deploying the Ten Thousand Immortals Array against the encircling forces.

Chen Shi seized the Ping Tian Tower’s unfinished seventh layer by merging his Dao Ruins with it, then led the Ten Thousand Immortals Array against the six Qiongtai Luotian Tribulation Arrays. As the battle turned in his favor, Immortal Lord Xin, Monk Pan, True Man Mei, and Fairy Zhong attacked him.

• Wu Yue Star Lord and the Ji clan tried to activate the Ping Tian Tower, but discovered that Chen Shi had made his Dao Ruins and Ten Thousand Immortals Array its seventh layer.
• The Ten Thousand Immortals Array clashed with Zhu Tiannan’s Qiongtai Luotian Tribulation Array and overwhelmed the other formations with its outer Dao and Heavenly Dao Magic Treasures.
• Zhu Tiannan’s formation was the last to stand, and he led its immortals in a charge before the Ten Thousand Immortals Array’s attack engulfed them.
• Chen Shi and his companions watched the battle from the tower’s newly formed eighth layer, where Chen Shi said he had reached the sixth heavy layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Chen Shi warned Immortal Lord Xin, Monk Pan, True Man Mei, and Fairy Zhong that they lacked primordial talismans and would die if they attacked him.
• Monk Pan struck Great Emperor Gouchen and was repelled with a mouthful of blood, while Immortal Lord Xin, True Man Mei, and Fairy Zhong attacked Chen Shi.

Chen Shi overwhelmed Immortal Lord Xin, True Man Mei, Fairy Zhong, and Monk Pan with his rapidly cast spells, but Immortal Lord Xin summoned the Five Fire Sevenfold Avian Fan. Emperor Gouchen intervened to block the fan, and a voice from Ziyang Cave Heaven threatened to report his actions to his master.

• After Monk Pan struck Emperor Gouchen, Chen Shi attacked Immortal Lord Xin and injured him with Where Do Heaven and Earth Return Their Hearts.
• Chen Shi beat back True Man Mei and Fairy Zhong, then repeatedly struck Monk Pan while fighting all three opponents at once.
• Immortal Lord Xin called on Fairy Zhong and True Man Mei to help him wield the Five Fire Sevenfold Avian Fan, but Chen Shi’s Demon Blood Treasure Tree withstood its flames.
• A white hand from Ziyang Cave Heaven grasped the fan and sent it toward Chen Shi, but Emperor Gouchen stepped in and stopped it with a golden pillar.
• A voice from Ziyang Cave Heaven rebuked Emperor Gouchen and said it would report him to his master.