Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi escaped Purple Sky Immortal Lord by using his Three Corpses Gods as decoys, then hid in the Dao Ruins while his pursuers searched the Xuanhuang Sea. He eventually returned to the sea and headed for Deng Hai Town, as True Man Zhang sensed his renewed battle and prepared to lend him Dao Power.

• True Man Zhang explained that Chen Shi had survived his battle and could no longer be helped by the same spell, while Chen Tang told Hu Feifei about him and learned that Wen Wuyu guarded Despair Slope.
• Chen Shi reflected on the cost of his battle with Wu Banshan, freed Fish San'er from the boat, and used Peng Ju and Peng Zhi to mislead Purple Sky Immortal Lord and force his disciples to sever their arms.
• Purple Sky Immortal Lord and the other immortals searched the Xuanhuang Sea for several days before Wu Banshan led them back to Deng Hai Town to wait for Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi hid in the Dao Ruins, visited Fulou Village, and then returned to the Xuanhuang Sea and traveled toward Deng Hai Town.
• True Man Zhang sensed that Chen Shi had encountered enemies again and prepared to mobilize half of the Western Ox Continent's Heaven and Earth Dao Power for him.

Chen Shi fought his way through the ambush at Deng Hai Town, killing Yuan Bixia and numerous immortals as they pursued him. Cornered by Wu Banshan and a host of attackers, he suddenly drew on five tenths of the Western Ox Continent’s Dao Power and prepared to face them.

• Chen Shi arrived at Deng Hai Town, where Wu Banshan and other immortals had been waiting for him, and ignored Purple Sky Immortal Lord and Yuan Bixia.
• Chen Shi killed Yuan Bixia with the Green Dragon Chant, then slew her two elderly servants using his crown, sword qi, and superior swordsmanship.
• Chen Shi fought off the immortals who attacked him, killing the rightful owner of the Heavenly Jade Purple Gold Orchid when the man put on Chen Shi’s crown, and defeating the saber-wielding immortal with the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.
• Purple Sky Immortal Lord struck Chen Shi with his purple whip, and the pursuing immortals drove him toward the Eight Immortals Sect, where Chen Shi killed more attackers before Wu Banshan blocked his path.
• As Wu Banshan confronted him, Chen Shi sensed the Dark Sea and Western Ox Continent drawing near and gained control of five tenths of the continent’s Heavenly and Earthly Dao Power.

Chen Shi fought his way through the Eight Immortals Sect, killing Wu Banshan and the immortals who pursued him before capturing Immortal Lord Wu in the Sword Nurturing Gourd. After condemning Wu’s enslavement of mortal souls, Chen Shi refined him inside the gourd and reaffirmed his resolve to punish those who obstructed mortals from escaping reincarnation.

• True Man Zhang used the Western Ox Continent’s Dao Power to aid Chen Shi as the battle unfolded at the Eight Immortals Sect.
• Chen Shi defeated Wu Banshan with Ten Suns Violating the Dipper and killed Daoist Ganyi and dozens of pursuing immortals.
• Immortal Lord Wu tried to seize the Purple Sky Immortal Gourd, but Chen Shi’s sword qi made it too heavy for him to hold.
• Immortal Lord Wu defended his enslavement of mortal souls by claiming he merely followed the same order imposed by reincarnation and served powerful beings with the wealth he gathered.
• Chen Shi rejected Wu’s arguments, sucked him into the Sword Nurturing Gourd, and refined him with sword qi until his cries fell silent.
• Chen Shi reflected that Wu had blocked hundreds of millions of mortals from escaping reincarnation for selfish reasons and declared that his crimes deserved death.

After escaping the Eight Immortals Sect, Chen Shi returned to the Western Ox Continent and reunited with Fairy Xiaoduan, his mother, his friends, and Chen Tang. He then went to Ganyang Mountain to meet True Man Zhang and learn more about the Great Ming expert who had accompanied his family to the Huaxia Divine Continent.

• Chen Shi apologized to the Eight Immortals Sect, paid compensation for its damaged mountain-guarding array, and departed; Fang Zhanzi later received visitors investigating the dead immortals and accepted their compensation.
• Chen Shi used a Fulou Village spiritual pill to enter the Western Ox Continent through his communion with its Dao, while Xi Muran arrived too late to catch him.
• Chen Shi returned to the Western Ox Continent and embraced Fairy Xiaoduan and Wu Qingyu before greeting Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, Qiao Zhuo, and the others.
• Chen Shi reunited with Chen Tang at the New Xiang Imperial Capital, then followed him to Ganyang Mountain to ask about Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu.
• Chen Shi entered the Enlightenment Daoist Temple on Liangtian Cliff and met True Man Zhang.

Chen Shi learned the rootless method of Yin and Yang from True Man Zhang and stayed in the Western Ox Continent with his family and Fairy Xiaoduan instead of hurrying back to the Earthly Immortal Realm. When Xi Muran finally met him, they disputed which of them had the orthodox Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection.

• Chen Shi showed True Man Zhang his four understandings of Yin and Yang, then learned to let yin and yang evolve without judgments or attachments.
• True Man Zhang explained why he rejected ascension, and Chen Shi resolved to return to the Western Ox Continent with his loved ones rather than involve himself in the struggles of immortals and gods.
• Chen Shi reunited with his family, helped Huo Dou reunite with Black Pot, and taught Li Tianqing, Yang Bi, and his relatives the Primordial Chaos scriptures.
• Xi Muran waited for Chen Shi while the maidservants prepared new songs and dances, then ordered his party to leave when Chen Shi did not appear.
• Chen Shi arrived as Xi Muran was preparing to depart, and Xi Muran questioned whether Chen Shi had truly inherited the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection.
• Chen Shi challenged Xi Muran's claim to the orthodox transmission, asking whether Xi Muran might be the one who had failed to receive it.

Chen Shi and Xi Muran compared their versions of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection, and Chen Shi won by using the Rootless Method to grasp the technique’s deeper source. Xi Muran conceded but then killed the carriage attendants and warned Chen Shi to keep the secret if he wanted to survive in the immortal court.

• Xi Muran agreed to spar with Chen Shi using only their Heavenly Immortal cultivation, while Little Hongxiu feared the consequences if Xi Muran lost.
• Chen Shi used the Rootless Method to attune to the Primordial Star Domain as he prepared to face Xi Muran’s superior understanding of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection.
• Chen Shi and Xi Muran exchanged increasingly powerful stellar divine arts, and Chen Shi’s understanding of their underlying source let his attacks surpass Xi Muran’s.
• Xi Muran conceded defeat and acknowledged that Chen Shi’s version of the Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection was orthodox, though he warned that it might not be the true transmission.
• Xi Muran killed the maidservants and azure qilin on the carriage, then told Chen Shi that anyone who knew the technique had flaws had to die and urged him to forget the matter.

Chen Shi returned to the heavenly court and taught the Undying Immortal Method to wounded soldiers, drawing an enormous crowd of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals seeking the same instruction. Xi Muran learned that Chen Shi was winning the soldiers’ support and wondered whether Heavenly King Li would tolerate it.

• Chen Shi left the aftermath immortals to clean up Xi Muran’s battle site and returned to the heavenly court, where a divine general confronted him about his place on the Immortal Slaying List.
• Chen Shi saw wounded soldiers returning from the Niraya Great World and decided to teach them the Undying Immortal Method so their limbs could regenerate.
• Zhong Lin gathered wounded soldiers, while Black Pot, Bai Fangfang, Xiao Dulu, and others cleared nearby residences to make space for the growing crowd.
• Chen Shi spent six or seven days teaching the wounded soldiers the Undying Immortal Method, and they thanked him for offering them a chance to recover.
• Thousands of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals asked Chen Shi to teach them the method, and he began instructing them as Wu Guanyun reported the gathering to Xi Muran.
• Xi Muran praised Chen Shi’s ability to win the soldiers’ support but questioned whether Heavenly King Li would tolerate his influence.

Xi Muran learned that Chen Shi had won the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals’ loyalty by teaching them the Undying Immortal Method, while the celestial court protected him from his accusers. After the East King Duke reprimanded Chen Shi for his scandals and suspected rebellion, he secretly consulted Houtu Huangdiqi and reaffirmed that Chen Shi’s accusers had been sent to the Heavenly Prison.

• Xi Muran realized Chen Shi had told Heavenly King Li about the Niraya Great World and used the resulting wounded soldiers to win the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals’ loyalty with the Undying Immortal Method.
• Xi Muran learned that immortals who tried to seize Chen Shi at the Heavenly Soldier Camp were beaten by the soldiers, arrested, and sentenced to execution in the Heavenly Prison.
• Chen Shi worried that Chen Yindu and the others had not come to find him, then Jingshu summoned him to meet the angry East King Duke.
• The East King Duke accused Chen Shi of killing immortals, stealing treasures, and buying the Heavenly Soldiers’ loyalty, but he said he had defended Chen Shi before the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• The East King Duke met with Houtu Huangdiqi, who feigned surprise at Chen Shi’s alleged crimes, and he told her the accusations were false and the accusers had been imprisoned.

Chen Yindu failed once again to revive Created Being Xiao Wu, but the furnace’s former master, Hidden Dragon, appeared and took Chen Yindu and his companions to the Immortal Court to study the Dao of Creation. After receiving his grandfather’s letter, Chen Shi suspected Hidden Dragon had lured Chen Yindu there for a hidden reason.

• Du Yiran and Hu Xiaoliang saw Chen Shi’s face appear at the top of the Immortal Slaying List and learned he had been accused of stealing Dao realms and killing immortals.
• Chen Yindu tried to restore Created Being Xiao Wu with the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, but the revival failed when he could repair only nine-tenths of the damaged Dao patterns.
• Hidden Dragon revealed that he had once owned the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace, offered to teach Chen Yindu the Dao of Creation, and took Chen Yindu, Du Yiran, Hu Xiaoliang, and Sha Qiutong toward the Immortal Court.
• Chen Yindu sent Chen Shi a letter through Hidden Dragon, explaining that he had become Hidden Dragon’s disciple and would go to the Immortal Court.
• After reading the letter, Chen Shi suspected Hidden Dragon wanted something from Chen Yindu and worried that his grandfather and companions might be in danger at the Immortal Court.

Yin Jiao went to the Heavenly Court to lodge a complaint over Chen Shi’s crimes on the Immortal Slaying List, while East King Duke discovered that Chen Shi had left with Jiang Guo for Golden Ao Island. As Chen Shi and Jiang Guo traveled through the star domain, Chen Shi planned to improve his swordsmanship, but a towering deity appeared and blocked their path.

• Yin Jiao answered his master’s summons, traveled to the Heavenly Court, and joined other deities in appealing against the people on the Immortal Slaying List.
• Great White Star Lord released the deities and told them the Great Heavenly Venerate would investigate their complaints.
• East King Duke learned Chen Shi had left the Heavenly Soldier Camp with Jiang Guo and found out Jiang Guo was a disciple of Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Jiang Guo traveled toward Golden Ao Island, and Jiang Guo warned Chen Shi that divided cultivation was holding back his progress in the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture.
• Chen Shi considered mastering the ninth form of the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture, but a three-headed, six-armed deity rose among the stars and severed their star path.

Chen Shi and Jiang Guo were confronted by Lord Yin Sui, who came to capture Chen Shi, but Yu Hua intervened and helped them escape aboard the stellar boat. Afterward, Yu Hua revealed that Chen Shi was his fellow disciple and returned the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, leaving Chen Shi with a new senior brother and a strange explanation of the Human Emperor Banner.

• Lord Yin Sui confronted Chen Shi and accused him of harming Taoyuan Cave Heaven, but Jiang Guo declared Chen Shi a fellow disciple of Golden Ao Island and stood by him.
• Yu Hua arrived, stopped Lord Yin Sui's attack, and revealed that Chen Shi and Jiang Guo were his junior brothers before warning them to flee.
• Yu Hua fought Lord Yin Sui while the black dog piloted the stellar boat through their battle, and Chen Shi, Jiang Guo, and the dog fought off the pursuing malevolent gods.
• Yu Hua wielded the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade against Lord Yin Sui, while Jiang Guo cleaved through the blood-baleful formation and helped the boat escape.
• After returning to the boat injured, Yu Hua explained that Chen Shi's master had sent the blade to choose a disciple and gave it back to Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi asked about Yu Hua's black-smoke banner, and Yu Hua insisted it was the Human Emperor Banner and that black smoke marked the true path.

Chen Shi’s journey to Golden Ao Island passed through repeated attacks on his pursuers and the desolate, demon-haunted Western Penglai. After surviving a black storm of severed limbs with Jiang Guo and Pot, he finally reached the marshland mountains where Golden Ao Island lay.

• Lone Star Lord explained that Yin Sui had been sent to fight him, then left after saying he had called in helpers to protect Chen Shi.
• Moving stars pursued Chen Shi’s star-skiff, but a field of stars blocked them while the Plague Department detained Yang Sui and Yin Hong; the Thunder and Fire Departments also helped guard Chen Shi’s route.
• Jiang Guo brought Chen Shi and Pot to Western Penglai, where armed immortal cities watched over the desolate region and guarded against Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi and Jiang Guo took shelter in their dao domains during a black fur wind, as severed limbs battered the iron city and its immense seal-like patterns suppressed some of them.
• After crossing the storm-struck wasteland and a vast marsh, Chen Shi and Jiang Guo reached the mountains of Golden Ao Island.

Chen Shi arrived at Golden Ao Island, where Jing Mei guided him in the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture as he prepared to qualify for the island’s greatest legacy. He demonstrated the previously unmastered ninth sword form, astonishing senior disciples and Jiao Jinhua.

• Jiang Guo brought Chen Shi to Golden Ao Island, where Chen Shi inspected the polluted immortal wells and spirit spring.
• Black Pot fought the hu dog at the mountain gate, beat it with an iron rod, and returned with the once-ferocious hound submissively following behind.
• Jing Mei explained that Chen Shi needed more sword qi to pass the trial for the Master’s legacy, then guided him in cultivating the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture.
• Chen Shi demonstrated the first eight sword forms and the ninth form, Primordial Chaos Divided, leaving Jing Mei unable to offer guidance on his sword technique.
• Chen Shi practiced both scriptures and gradually increased the sword qi he could control.
• Qiao Gu and Jiao Jinhua arrived, saw Chen Shi perform the ninth form, and reacted in disbelief that he had mastered it.

Chen Shi entered Dao Comprehension Cliff to face the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture carved into its walls. Though he matched each technique perfectly and advanced deeper, mysterious flaws in his defenses kept leaving him injured.

• Uncle-Master Jiao explained Golden Ao Island’s history and warned Chen Shi that the Three Pure Ones’ disciples might target him, but Chen Shi chose to stay and follow Master’s path.
• Uncle-Master Jiao brought Chen Shi to Dao Comprehension Cliff and explained that visitors had to counter the carved sword techniques with the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture.
• Chen Shi entered the cliff with all one hundred and eight strands of Profound Yellow Sword Qi and countered the first move, but a piece of his sleeve was cut away.
• Chen Shi countered Wind Marquis Unevenness and Scattering Green Flames, yet unexplained cuts appeared on his clothing and the red bead fell from his crown.
• Chen Shi countered Azure Heaven is Dead, but a trace of blood appeared on the back of his neck as he continued searching for the flaw in his swordsmanship.

After Uncle-Master Jiao identified the lack of human feeling in Chen Shi’s swordsmanship, Chen Shi learned benevolence by witnessing the renewal of life in a village and then traveled through the mortal world to deepen his understanding. He eventually returned to Golden Ao Island and asked to challenge Dao Comprehension Cliff again.

• Uncle-Master Jiao took Chen Shi from Dao Comprehension Cliff to a village in western Penglai and explained that his swordsmanship lacked human Dao and benevolence.
• Uncle-Master Jiao set twelve bamboo pitch pipes in the earth and told Chen Shi to watch them while he experienced the village’s changing seasons and daily life.
• On the vernal equinox, Chen Shi heard the bamboo pipes sound as the earth awakened, understood Earthly Qi's Greeting and the human Dao within it, and cleansed the village of Outer Dao.
• Chen Shi told the food-delivering child he would walk through the mundane world until he achieved perfection, then left the village; Uncle-Master Jiao and Jiang Guo later found that Chen Shi had transformed its Great Dao.
• Chen Shi traveled for years through the mortal world, observing nature, customs, and the rise and fall of nations, while Uncle-Master Jiao, Jiang Guo, Black Pot, and the others waited for him.
• Chen Shi returned to Golden Ao Island and told Uncle-Master Jiao that he wished to challenge Dao Comprehension Cliff again.

After years of traveling through the mortal world, Chen Shi returned to Golden Ao Island and advanced farther than any disciple had in the Dao Comprehension Cliff. He survived the ninth move, Primordial Chaos Divided, and declared that he had comprehended it, opening the possibility of reaching Master’s place of enlightenment and obtaining his true inheritance.

• Chen Shi described how observing the seasons and suffering in the Xiang Kingdom helped him understand the first eight moves of the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture, though Primordial Chaos Divided still eluded him.
• Chen Shi entered the Dao Comprehension Cliff and passed the first eight sword moves, reaching Heaven's Net Shattered without being injured.
• Chen Shi stepped forward to face Primordial Chaos Divided, but its sword intent shattered his Profound Yellow Separated and began splitting his body apart.
• Uncle-Master Jiao, Qiao Gu, Jing Mei, Jiang Guo, and Black Pot joined forces to protect Chen Shi, and the move severely injured them all before Hu Dog carried them to Caiwei Palace and fed them immortal pills.
• As the group recovered, Chen Shi said he had comprehended Primordial Chaos Divided, and Uncle-Master Jiao explained that this could let him reach the Brush Washing Pool and obtain Master’s true inheritance.

Chen Shi recovered on Golden Ao Island, comprehended Primordial Chaos Divided, and transformed his Dao realm with Innate Qi. The chapter ended with him entering his master's Dao-comprehension ground and finding warm tea waiting beside the Brush Washing Pool.

• Chen Shi summoned Dragon Roaming Rogue Cultivator, Mu Daozi, Empress Shao, and Pei Rogue Cultivator to refine healing pills, which helped the injured Golden Ao Island disciples recover.
• Chen Shi connected Primordial Chaos Divided to the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture and comprehended Innate Qi, transforming his Dao field and causing a cultivation holy land to form in the Western Ox Continent.
• Yang Bi and Li Tianqing decided to seek their own path beyond Chen Shi's Dao realm, but after achieving Dao Integration they could not sense or ascend to the Earthly Immortal Realm, so they resolved to build a ship and leave the Dark Sea.
• Chen Shi demonstrated Primordial Chaos Divided to the Golden Ao Island disciples and began teaching them its underlying principles through the Yin and Yang Qi.
• Chen Shi passed through the Dao Comprehension Cliff, defeated the ninth move with Primordial Chaos Divided, and entered his master's Dao-comprehension ground, where he drank warm tea.

Chen Shi comprehended his Master's Primordial Chaos Limitless Dao at Dao Comprehension Cliff, expanding his cultivation method while discovering it could not absorb the First Dao Rule. His stay restored Golden Ao Island's corrupted sacred grounds, and Jing Mei and the others set out to find him after realizing he had gone into dangerous Western Penglai.

• Chen Shi drank the tea at Dao Comprehension Cliff, studied his Master's painting of an island in the Dark Sea, and memorized its landscape.
• Chen Shi comprehended the Primordial Chaos Limitless Great Dao and integrated many cultivation methods into the Primordial Chaos Limitless Innate Skill, but failed to absorb the First Dao Rule.
• Chen Shi continued enriching the Innate Skill, then cleaned the tea set and departed without the others noticing he had visited the cliff.
• Jing Mei, Qiao Gu, Jiang Guo, and Uncle-Master Jiao discovered that Golden Ao Island's immortal herbs, wells, dao spring, Heavenly Origin Dao Tree, vicious dragon, blessed lands, and dao mine had recovered.
• Uncle-Master Jiao realized Chen Shi had likely restored Golden Ao Island and noticed he had also purged external dao pollution from a place in Western Penglai.
• Jing Mei learned Chen Shi had gone into Western Penglai and flew off to search for him.

Chen Shi traced Penglai West’s Great Dao pollution to a Five-Colored Stone embedded in a giant skull and took the stone for the Dao Ruins. When Kong Daoquan, a disciple of Yunxiao Cave, demanded it back and threatened Golden Ao Island, Chen Shi fought him and drove him into a bloody retreat.

• Chen Shi examined a vast beast skeleton and tossed its bones into the Dao Ruins for Black Pot to use.
• Chen Shi entered a polluted mine, found the Five-Colored Stone embedded in a giant skull, and took it back to the Dao Ruins.
• Kong Daoquan revealed that the mine and stone belonged to his family and demanded the stone, but Chen Shi refused, asserting Golden Ao Island’s claim to Penglai West.
• Kong Daoquan taunted Chen Shi about injuries suffered by Golden Ao Island disciples at the hands of the Jade Pure lineage, then attacked him with five-colored divine light.
• Chen Shi used the Five-Colored Stone and his sword techniques to wound Kong Daoquan, sever one of his legs, and force him to flee.

Chen Shi completed his transformation to Limitless Daoist magic, broke through to the True Immortal realm, and killed Kong Daoquan as the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade advanced into a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal treasure. After Kong Daoquan's sect learned of his death, its forces mobilized to hunt Chen Shi, while new Great Dao anomalies began appearing across the world.

• Chen Shi continued absorbing Kong Daoquan's vital qi while completing his transformation to Limitless Daoist magic, and Kong Daoquan's sect failed to purge the blade poison with pills or a copied Taiji Diagram.
• Kong Daoquan died when the blade poison overwhelmed him, and Daoist Kuang led Yunxiao Cave Heaven's disciples and martial elders to hunt down the Golden Ao Island assailant.
• Chen Shi broke through to the True Immortal realm as Kong Daoquan died, and the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade absorbed the remaining vital qi and became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal treasure.
• Chen Shi subdued the blade's growing demonic nature and expanded his Dao realm until it swallowed Fulou Village, whose villagers became subjects within it.
• New Great Dao anomalies formed across the Western Ox Continent and the Underworld, while True Man Zhang identified the heavenly writing above New Xiang Imperial Capital as the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll.