Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi broke through to the Void Returning stage, then set out to find a Purple Tian Vine gourd that could revive Witch Covenant. He arrived in a vast fairyland and discovered the vine was enormous, while Empress Houtu crossed Immortal Lord Purple Tian off her ledger.

• Chen Shi opened a Yin Yang Dao Field and reached the Void Returning stage, impressing the eight Heavenly Dao Immortals, who left to investigate the Celestial Venerable’s role in the merchants’ deaths.
• Feng Ruotong connected the Yin Yang Qi Bottle to Chen Shi with his first offering of incense, then took the other immortals and Daoist Qingyuan back to Despair Slope.
• Chen Shi brought Can'er to Houde Palace, where Empress Houtu told him a Purple Tian Vine gourd could restore Witch Covenant and marked his palm with a Rebirth Talisman.
• Chen Shi borrowed Daoist Liu’s Three Absolute Formations of Heavenly Immortals and followed Empress Houtu’s light through the Xuanhuang Sea.
• Chen Shi reached a vast fairyland and flew toward the immense Purple Tian Vine as Empress Houtu crossed Immortal Lord Purple Tian off her ledger.

Chen Shi explored Purple Sky, an immortal's complete Dao Domain, and found the enormous purple gourd his Godmother had sent him to retrieve. He seized it as its restraints failed and fled while Senior Brother He tried to stop him.

• Chen Shi examined Purple Sky's sun, moon, reincarnation system, and inhabitants, then followed the wisteria toward its palace complex.
• Chen Shi overheard Junior Brother Luo and Junior Sister Shuang discuss forcing bee people to gather nectar, and learned that Senior Brother He had collected a hundred thousand battlefield souls.
• Chen Shi reached the purple gourd and saw that immortal flags restrained it while an immortal sword tried to cut through its wisteria vine.
• Chen Shi pressed his hand to the gourd as Empress Houtu's golden talisman appeared, and the vine snapped as the gourd blasted away the flags and Senior Brother He.
• Chen Shi lifted the purple gourd and fled along his path while Senior Brother He pursued him.

Chen Shi stole the Purple Sky Immortal Gourd, causing the dying Purple Sky Vine and Purple Sky realm to collapse as the gourd’s immortal fire erupted. He escaped through Empress Houtu’s passage, while Purple Sky Immortal Lord arrived too late to save his realm.

• Senior Brother He chased Chen Shi with the Heavenly Dipper Demon Refining Array as the Purple Sky Vine withered and the Purple Sky realm began collapsing.
• Chen Shi used Daoist Liu’s three willow leaves to block the array, but the leaves were destroyed and Senior Brother He pursued him toward Empress Houtu’s passage.
• Purple Sky Immortal Lord’s sword struck at Chen Shi, but Chen Shi used the Purple Sky Immortal Gourd to survive the attack.
• The gourd’s mouth was sliced open, releasing immortal fire that destroyed the array and engulfed the Purple Sky realm.
• Chen Shi escaped through Empress Houtu’s passage with the gourd, and its flying mouthpiece plugged it shut.
• Senior Brother He struggled through the fire until Purple Sky Immortal Lord descended and suppressed the flames with sweet dew.

Purple Sky Immortal Lord lost the Purple Sky Vine, immortal gourd, and Reincarnation Jade Plate when the Purple Sky Dao Domain burned, while Chen Shi planted a Purple Sky gourd seed with the Witch Covenant. As Chen Shi and Yang Bi prepared to finish off the Cui family, Cang'er reported that people had grown in the Imperial Garden.

• The released Calamity-Destiny Immortal Fire destroyed the Purple Sky and its Reincarnation Jade Plate, freeing millions of souls and leaving Purple Sky Immortal Lord without his livelihood or a clear way to survive the coming tribulation.
• Empress Houtu gave Chen Shi a Purple Sky gourd seed and explained how to plant it with the Witch Covenant, while admitting she had used him to strike at Purple Sky Immortal Lord for interfering with reincarnation.
• Chen Shi evaded Daoist Liu's request to recover his three willow leaves, then planted the Witch Covenant and a gourd seed beneath a crape myrtle tree and watered them with Dao Spring water.
• Chen Shi learned that Cang'er was eating more in preparation for a metamorphosis and checked the war, where Yang Bi had surrounded the last surviving noble house, the Cui family.
• Chen Shi advised Yang Bi to lure the Cui family into fleeing by having Chen Wu and others pose as Heavenly Dao Walkers, and he and Yang Bi discussed retiring from their offices once the realm was pacified.
• After Chen Shi and Hu Feifei finished reviewing memorials, Cang'er rushed in to report that people had grown.

Chen Shi planted the Purple Sky Gourd seed in Empress Houtu’s yellow earth, and the seed quickly sprouted into a Purple Sky Vine by drawing in Ganyang Mountain’s abundant spiritual qi. The sudden surge astonished both Chen Shi and Empress Houtu, who had thought the Western Ox Continent was a spiritual wasteland.

• Chen Shi discovered the resurrected Witch Covenant hanging naked from the crape myrtle tree, and the newly awakened man called Chen Shi “Grandpa.”
• Chen Shi asked Little Chenzi to find clothes for the Witch Covenant and ordered people to watch for when he ripened.
• Chen Shi asked Empress Houtu where to plant the Purple Sky Gourd seed, and she told him to use her yellow earth and promised him three strands of Grand Pure Purple Qi for Daoist Liu.
• Empress Houtu told Daoist Liu that Chen Shi had destroyed his Three Absolute Formations of Heavenly Immortals while protecting her business and would repay him with three strands of Grand Pure Purple Qi.
• Chen Shi planted the seed in Yellow Earth Slope, where it rapidly sprouted as spiritual qi streamed from Ganyang Mountain.
• Chen Shi and Empress Houtu realized that Ganyang Mountain held an astonishing abundance of spiritual qi.

Chen Shi discovered that Ganyang Mountain was a holy land rich in ancestral qi and used its power to grow and refine the Purple Sky Vine into a magical treasure. After returning to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, he found another Witch Covenant growing from the other Purple Sky Vine and went to speak with Godmother.

• Empress Houtu recognized Ganyang Mountain as a large holy land whose ancestral qi could nurture a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and produce Grand Pure Purple Qi.
• Chen Shi planted a Purple Sky Vine in the soil before his small temple, where it grew rapidly and attracted the Ginseng Grass Dolls and other spiritual herbs.
• Chen Shi traced Ganyang Mountain's strongest spiritual qi to a cliff, branded Dao scripts onto the Purple Sky Vine, and drew vital qi and blood from Skeleton Chen Shi to complete the refining.
• The Purple Sky Vine grew to a hundred zhang and produced a strand of Grand Pure Purple Qi, which Chen Shi left untouched because he had promised strands to the Empress and Daoist Liu.
• Chen Shi returned to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, where Can'er showed him another Witch Covenant growing from the other Purple Sky Vine, and he left to talk to Godmother.

Chen Shi learned that a Purple Sky Vine could grow many copies of the Witch Covenant, then accompanied the first awakened Witch Covenant to retrieve the Fusang Tree. Immortal Lord Qin killed the Witch Covenant, but Chen Shi returned to find another copy had awakened.

• Empress Houtu planted a Purple Sky Vine and used it to begin merging the Underworld’s realms under the Dao of Samsara.
• The Witch Covenant awakened, learned Great Shang had fallen, and argued with Chen Shi over his claim to rule before agreeing to help retrieve the Fusang Tree.
• Empress Houtu sent Chen Shi and the Witch Covenant across the Sea of Darkness with Daoist Liu to reach the Fusang Tree.
• The Witch Covenant tried to uproot the Fusang Tree, but Immortal Lord Qin killed him and destroyed his body.
• Chen Shi returned to the Imperial Garden and found another Witch Covenant growing on the Purple Sky Vine had awakened.

Chen Shi recruited the revived Witch Covenant to steal the Fusang Tree, and Witch Covenant used a decoy incense signal to delay Immortal Lord Qin while uprooting it. They returned to Houde Palace with the blazing tree, leaving Empress Houtu shocked that they had stolen the whole tree instead of mulberry leaves.

• Chen Shi told Witch Covenant about the fall of Great Shang and asked him to steal a precious tree in exchange for repaying his debt.
• Chen Shi introduced Witch Covenant to Empress Houtu, then took him with Daoist Liu toward the Fusang Tree.
• Witch Covenant used a willow branch and the Monstrosity Avatar Method to mislead the two female immortals and delay their call to Immortal Lord Qin.
• Witch Covenant uprooted the Fusang Tree and escaped with Chen Shi and Daoist Liu into the Dark Sea.
• Immortal Lord Qin stopped pursuing the thieves, and Ling Shu Zi placed his master's horsetail whisk into the sea to suppress the Golden Crow's corpse.
• Chen Shi and Witch Covenant brought the blazing Fusang Tree into Houde Palace, startling Empress Houtu.

Chen Shi planted the Fusang Tree at Ganyang Mountain, while Witch Covenant sought out his Great Shang clansmen and awakened the Grand Libationer's witch-sacrifice powers. The Heavenly Sovereign confronted Witch Covenant and shattered his body, but Witch Covenant later appeared beneath the Purple Sky Vine in the New Xiang Imperial Capital, where Chen Shi did not recognize him.

• Chen Shi and Witch Covenant brought the Fusang Tree to Ganyang Mountain, where Witch Covenant planted it and its Nine Yang Qi began benefiting the mountain's creatures and cultivators.
• Silkworm arrived and fed on the Fusang leaves, then Witch Covenant left to search for his clansmen after telling Chen Shi he would join him against the Heavenly Sovereign.
• In the Underworld, Witch Covenant found Yun Chang sealed inside a shattered small world and met Yin Wushuang and Chu Feng; he awakened Yin Wushuang's witch-sacrifice Dao patterns and bestowed them on Chu Feng.
• The Heavenly Sovereign appeared and attacked Witch Covenant, who sent Yin Wushuang and Chu Feng away; their battle destroyed Yun Chang's seal and ended with the Heavenly Sovereign shattering Witch Covenant's body.
• After returning to the New Xiang Imperial Capital, Chen Shi saw Witch Covenant beneath the Purple Sky Vine, but Witch Covenant asked who he was.

Chen Shi celebrated the fall of the noble families and rewarded those who helped establish his new order, while Yang Bi stayed away from court and Fairy Xiaoduan secretly discussed restoring Great Shang with the witch covenant. The chapter ended with Feng Ruotong and the Heavenly Dao Immortals leaving Despair Slope, only for the Heavenly Venerate to confront them.

• Chen Shi learned that the witch covenant had died, then explained the fall of Great Shang and asked the resurrected witch covenant to help him.
• Chen Shi celebrated the destruction of the noble families before his assembled army, while Li Tianqing reported their victory and Chen Shi declared a new era without noble families.
• Yang Bi returned home instead of attending court, explaining to Fang'er that he felt ashamed to accept rewards after betraying the Yang family.
• Chen Shi rewarded his officials and soldiers, appointed Chen Tang Minister of Rites, and named Fairy Xiaoduan the True King's Consort, but could not find her afterward.
• The witch covenant urged Fairy Xiaoduan to help restore Great Shang, but she proposed that her future son could inherit the realm and revive its prosperity under a new name.
• Feng Ruotong and the Heavenly Dao Immortals examined the buried remains of Shang ministers at Despair Slope, then hurried away before the Heavenly Venerate noticed them; he called out to them in Heavenly Dao City.

The Heavenly Lord revealed that he had killed the Demon Emperor, then confronted Daoist Qingyuan and the immortals over his role in the world’s calamities. Feng Ruotong appeared to side with the Heavenly Lord but attacked him with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle; after the Heavenly Lord killed the other immortals and crushed Feng Ruotong, the bottle flew away, leaving the Heavenly Lord badly injured.

• The Heavenly Lord told Feng Ruotong and the other immortals that he had killed the Demon Emperor, then agreed that Chen Shi and Houtu should be dealt with.
• The Heavenly Lord recognized Daoist Qingyuan, who explained that he had brought the immortals to uncover the bones of the King of Shang’s ministers and expose the Heavenly Lord’s crimes.
• The Heavenly Lord admitted the accusations and offered Feng Ruotong a chance to preserve his position by killing the other immortals; Feng Ruotong attacked them with Peach and Plum Blossoms in Full Bloom instead.
• Feng Ruotong trapped the Heavenly Lord in the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s water-and-fire refining power, but the Heavenly Lord fought his way out while killing Immortal Ping, Immortal Xi, Daoist Wen, and the others.
• The Heavenly Lord shattered Feng Ruotong’s Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit and broke his neck, but Feng Ruotong’s Primordial Spirit sent the Yin Yang Qi Bottle flying away.
• The badly burned Heavenly Lord tried to pursue the bottle, collapsed as his legs gave way, and called out Feng Ruotong’s name.

The Celestial Venerable survived Feng Ruotong’s attack and headed for Tianyuan Palace, planning to use the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace against his remaining enemies. In New Xiang Imperial Capital, Chen Shi received cultivation manuals from Chen Yindu and devised a way to locate the Celestial Venerable’s Dao integration realm by having an indebted expert force him to fight at full strength.

• The Celestial Venerable escaped the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, found Daoist Qingyuan gone, and continued toward Tianyuan Palace while planning to replace the Heavenly Dao Immortals after his heavenly soldiers matured.
• Chen Shi assigned officials and Witch Covenant to decipher Tianchi Kingdom cultivation classics before visiting Chen Yindu on Ganyang Mountain.
• Chen Yindu gave Chen Shi the completed Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Art, explaining that its name referred to the people’s righteous will.
• The bloodstained Yin Yang Qi Bottle arrived, and Chen Shi offered incense to it and Feng Ruotong, mourning the fallen immortals.
• Chen Shi and Chen Yindu discussed how to kill the Celestial Venerable and concluded that an expert would need to make him use his full strength to reveal his hidden Dao integration realm.
• Chen Shi said he knew an expert who owed him an unrepayable favor and would prepare magical treasures for him to challenge the Celestial Venerable.

Chen Shi refined the Yin Yang Qi Bottle by adding the principles of his Void Realm, while Xiaoduan accidentally entered the bottle’s newly expanded world and found him at Liangtian Cliff. The bottle’s distant master, a demon king beneath Lingshan Mountain, then declared that his Dao was accomplished.

• Chen Yindu remembered how raising Chen Shi had given him a sense of home, then watched Chen Shi leave to seek a master strong enough to challenge the Heavenly Lord.
• Chen Shi cultivated at Liangtian Cliff and added Dao imprints from his Void Realm to the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, expanding its internal world.
• Xiaoduan searched for Chen Shi, followed a tree spirit’s directions to Liangtian Cliff, and became trapped inside the bottle’s vast world.
• Chen Shi drew the bottle’s world back inside, met Xiaoduan, and explained that he had completed the treasure’s missing principle through his own comprehension.
• Beneath Lingshan Mountain, a demon king revealed that the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s trials had helped him complete his Dao and declared that the unfolding tribulation no longer worried him.

Chen Shi perfected the Yin Yang Qi Bottle’s ability to trap enemies, then hid with Fairy Xiaoduan after nearly lifting Ganyang Mountain and being searched for by their subjects. The chapter ended with the couple relaxing together on the Purple Sky Vine and talking about visiting the Huaxia Divine Continent after defeating the Heavenly Honored One.

• Chen Shi showed Fairy Xiaoduan how he had used the Yin Yang Qi Bottle to evolve a world and explained that he still needed to focus on defeating the Heavenly Honored One.
• Fairy Xiaoduan suspected the bottle’s owner had deliberately left flaws to benefit from others’ insights, but Chen Shi chose to improve it anyway so they could use it against the Heavenly Honored One.
• Chen Shi repaired the bottle’s ability to capture enemies, then nearly lifted Ganyang Mountain while testing it, alarming Ganyang Mountain Lord, Great Serpent Xuan Shan, Chen Yindu, Granny Zhuang, Wuwang City Lord, and Empress Shi Ji.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan hid beneath the Purple Sky Vine’s leaves as their subjects searched for the source of the disturbance; Can’er reported seeing them, but Empress Shi Ji did not discover them.
• On the vine, Fairy Xiaoduan spoke of longing for the Huaxia Divine Continent, and Chen Shi promised to take her there after the Heavenly Honored One was defeated.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan kissed and tumbled between the vine leaves, startling the sunbathing spiritual medicine dolls.

Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan refined Grand Pure Purple Qi on Liangtian Cliff, greatly advancing their cultivation before Chen Shi returned to court and delivered three strands to Daoist Liu. Zhong Wuwang then arrived with news of an opening to Despair Slope, and Chen Shi prepared to depart with a group of no more than eight.

• After Empress Shi Ji and the others left Liangtian Cliff, Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan emerged from the Purple Sky Vine and began refining Grand Pure Purple Qi together.
• Fairy Xiaoduan used the mysterious bird Emperor Patterns to refine a wisp of purple qi, improving her cultivation and reducing the threat of the world’s evil qi.
• Chen Shi refined Grand Pure Purple Qi with the Yin Yang Qi Bottle, and its power eventually drew his Void Realm into his body, bringing him into the Great Ascension stage.
• After more than ten days of cultivation, Chen Shi visited Empress Houtu and delivered three strands of Grand Pure Purple Qi to Daoist Liu.
• Zhong Wuwang met Chen Shi at Yonghe Palace, told him an opportunity to enter Despair Slope had opened, and said Chen Shi could bring no more than eight people.

Chen Shi assembled allies and prepared a plan to infiltrate Despair Slope, exploit the Witch Covenant’s coming battle with the Celestial Venerable, and investigate the enemy’s weaknesses. He then visited the demons’ hidden capital to find Chu Feng and help him advance.

• Zhong Wuwang told Chen Shi that the Celestial Venerable had killed Feng Ruotong and the other immortals, leaving Despair Slope in disarray, and offered to smuggle Chen Shi’s group inside.
• Chen Shi recruited the Witch Covenant, Li Tianqing, Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, and Yang Bi for the mission, while Zhong Wuwang warned that Empress Houtu could not join them.
• Chen Shi gave the Witch Covenant the Yin Yang Qi Bottle and asked him to master it before fighting the Celestial Venerable in three days.
• Chen Shi traveled to the demons’ hidden capital, where its inhabitants celebrated his return as the Demon Emperor.
• Chen Shi asked the Grand Libationer to summon Chu Feng so he could give his disciple Grand Pure Purple Qi and help him break through to contaminate the true god.

Chen Shi forced Grand Libationer to help Chu Feng refine Grand Pure Purple Qi, while demonstrating that he could overpower him and disrupt the Divine Capital. He gathered followers among the calamities and disasters, then set out with his companions for Despair Slope.

• Chen Shi gave Grand Libationer three days to help Chu Feng refine Grand Pure Purple Qi and used his Void Realm and Purple Sky Vine to defeat Grand Libationer's attempt to threaten him.
• After Chen Shi left, Grand Libationer discovered that many calamities and disasters had left the Divine Capital after his Void Realm restored them to human beings.
• Grand Libationer summoned Chu Feng to begin refining the purple Qi, while Celestial Master Tianyou, Dao Chengzi, Monk Huikong, and Song Yi secretly aligned themselves with Chen Shi.
• Dan Chenzi and other calamities and disasters followed Chen Shi, who sent them to Houde Palace to await further news.
• Chen Shi returned to the Yang World, met Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, Wu Qingyu, Yang Bi, Li Tianqing, and Fairy Xiaoduan, and announced they would depart for Despair Slope.

Zhong Wuwang smuggled Chen Shi and the others into Despair Slope by shielding them from the Heavenly Dao Divine Eye, and Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan searched the Dao Inquiry Institute for clues to the Heavenly Venerate’s cultivation method. While Chen Shi began deducing that method, Fairy Xiaoduan encountered Wen Wuyu, who mistook her for Ding Niu Niu and asked if she had come to visit.

• Zhong Wuwang used his Lesser World and seven peak tokens to bring the disguised group past the Heavenly Dao Divine Eye and into Despair Slope.
• After Zhong Wuwang left, the group split up to explore, and Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan discovered that Despair Slope repeated its scenery beyond the clouds and found the Dao Inquiry Institute.
• Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan compared the institute’s cultivation texts and selected six methods they believed contained parts of the Heavenly Venerate’s cultivation method.
• Chen Shi began combining and deducing the six methods, while Fairy Xiaoduan pulled him into her Lesser World and went out alone.
• Fairy Xiaoduan encountered Wen Wuyu, who called her Ding Niu Niu, took her hand, and asked whether she had come to visit her.

Fairy Xiaoduan disguised herself as Little Tenth Brother and persuaded Wen Wuyu to take her into Despair Slope’s inner region. After seeing its treasures and the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, she followed Wen Wuyu into Falling Flowers Palace and heard Fairy Gong speak of Chen Lang.

• Wen Wuyu mistook Fairy Xiaoduan for Little Tenth Brother and confessed that she had missed him, then grew suspicious when Xiaoduan spoke too gently.
• Fairy Xiaoduan revealed Chen Shi’s little temple, convinced Wen Wuyu of her identity, and persuaded her to guide her through the Azure Cloud Barrier.
• Wen Wuyu showed Fairy Xiaoduan the Li Dao Spring, the Eternal Immortal Pavilion, and the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, where Fairy Gong Wanqing had been refining heavenly soldiers.
• Wen Wuyu led Fairy Xiaoduan to Falling Flowers Palace, where they found no attendants and heard Fairy Gong accuse Chen Lang of once abandoning her.

Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu discovered Chen Yindu bound in Falling Flowers Palace, where Gong Wanqing confronted him over his past betrayal and revealed that she had helped Immortal Xue hunt him and A Tang. The chapter ended with Fairy Xiaoduan attacking Gong Wanqing and Chen Yindu breaking free to rip out her heart.

• Fairy Xiaoduan and Wen Wuyu overheard Chen Yindu and Gong Wanqing discussing their past while he lay bound to a jade couch.
• Gong Wanqing accused Chen Yindu of choosing her maidservant A Tang over her, and Chen Yindu explained that A Tang had died after giving birth to Chen Tang.
• Gong Wanqing revealed that she had betrayed Chen Yindu and A Tang to Immortal Xue, helped kill A Tang, and killed Immortal Xue to become Fairy Gong.
• Fairy Xiaoduan attacked Gong Wanqing with the Phoenix Strange Fire, and Chen Yindu tore himself free of the Dragon Locking Whips.
• Chen Yindu struck Gong Wanqing and ripped out her heart.