Chapter Summaries

True Man Zhang discovered that Chen Shi’s Heavenly Mechanism Scroll predicted disasters and the destruction of numerous Heavenly Dao treasures, while Chen Shi reached the True Immortal realm and was surrounded by the Three Pure Ones’ forces. As enemies moved against Golden Ao Island, Uncle-Master Jiao revealed overwhelming Primordial Unity Golden Immortal power.

• True Man Zhang explained the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll, then saw its prediction of an earthquake in Gongzhou come true and read predictions that at least twenty-seven Heavenly Dao treasures would be destroyed that night.
• Chen Shi pondered the nature of the thirty-three heavens Dao realm after reaching the True Immortal realm, then fought off an immortal formation and killed a Golden Immortal guarding Western Penglai.
• Chen Shi was trapped by immortal soldiers who blocked his connection to his Dao realm, while Gu Daoling accused him of killing Kong Daoquan and Senior Sister Jing Mei arrived to stand with him.
• Daoist Kuang and Yunxiao Cave Heaven threatened Golden Ao Island over Chen Shi, then noticed that the Jade Purity Dao Spring had been restored and ordered everyone on the island taken into custody.
• Uncle-Master Jiao released his immense aura, subdued the approaching Daoists, and revealed that he had reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Crippled Jiao revealed overwhelming strength against Yunxiao Cave Heaven, but Western Penglai’s outer-Dao pollution caused him to collapse before he could finish Daoist Kuang. Chen Shi, Jing Mei, and Qiao Gu fought through the siege and escaped, though Chen Shi realized his two senior siblings were also succumbing to pollution.

• Crippled Jiao pretended to surrender Western Penglai and Golden Ao Island, then attacked Daoist Kuang and injured Yan Jinzhi and the other Yunxiao Cave Heaven daoists while Jiang Guo bound them.
• Crippled Jiao pursued Daoist Kuang through the Black Fur Wind and broke his limbs, but outer-Dao pollution made Crippled Jiao convulse and fall, allowing Daoist Kuang to flee.
• Jing Mei defended Chen Shi against Gu Daoling and the Yunxiao Cave Heaven formations, using her golden dou and Yin and Yang Qi to break through the attackers.
• Qiao Gu arrived and killed Gu Daoling, then led Chen Shi and Jing Mei through the formations and away from Yunxiao Cave Heaven’s pursuing disciples.
• Chen Shi realized that Qiao Gu and Jing Mei were convulsing because Western Penglai’s outer-Dao pollution had affected them, and he thought he could resolve it.

Chen Shi brought Qiao Gu, Jing Mei, and Crippled Jiao to Golden Ao Island, suppressing their external Dao backlash, then became an inner-chamber disciple and learned the Master’s principle of teaching without class distinction. As Golden Ao Island faced a growing siege, Chen Shi entered his Dao realm and summoned the people of Fulou Village to help him fight.

• Chen Shi carried Qiao Gu and Jing Mei toward Golden Ao Island, suppressing their external Dao backlash, and rescued Crippled Jiao from a mountain col along the way.
• At Golden Ao Island, Crippled Jiao activated the mountain-guarding grand array, and Chen Shi explained how he harmonized the external Dao within others to restrain its backlash.
• Jing Mei recovered with water from the Jade Purity Dao Spring, led Chen Shi to pay respects to the Master, and explained the Master’s principle of education without distinction of class.
• As the Three Pure lineages gathered outside Golden Ao Island, Jing Mei sent Chen Shi and Jiang Guo to hide in Dao Comprehension Cliff.
• Chen Shi entered his Dao realm, went to Fulou Village, and asked its villagers and a duck to come help him fight.

Chen Shi gathered powerful allies from Emperor Changchun and Yuanjun Niangpo before returning to Fulou Village, while Yunxiao Cave Heaven and its allies surrounded Golden Ao Island. The invading Primordial Unity Golden Immortals discovered that Chen Shi’s seemingly ordinary household staff were formidable cultivators.

• Fulou Village’s residents discussed whether to help Chen Shi or kill him, but Chen Shi left before they could act.
• Chen Shi visited Emperor Changchun, who sent You Yu and Tao Tang to assist him against Yunxiao Cave Heaven.
• Chen Shi sought Yuanjun Niangpo, and Ding Sisi agreed to fight on her behalf, with Yuanjun ready to intervene if needed.
• Chen Shi returned to Fulou Village with Ding Sisi, You Yu, and Tao Tang, and the residents put away their weapons and welcomed them.
• Yunxiao Cave Heaven gathered sixteen Primordial Unity Golden Immortals to besiege Golden Ao Island, including Yong Guike, who had once inflicted Qiao Gu’s lingering Dao wound.
• Fu Gucheng and the gathered immortals watched in shock as the duck, the mangy dog, and Fulou Village’s residents revealed powerful Three Flowers cultivation.

Fu Gucheng and eighteen Primordial Unity Golden Immortals attacked Golden Ao Island, convinced its supposed experts were a deception. Chen Shi’s villagers and animals revealed the true power of the green stele and defeated the attackers, leaving Fu Gucheng’s forces at their mercy.

• Yong Guike argued that Golden Ao Island’s many apparent Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had to be fakes, so Fu Gucheng and the other daoists broke the island’s mountain-protecting array.
• Crippled Jiao tried to meet the attackers but collapsed when the outer dao counterattacked, while Chen Shi told the villagers to fight using what they had learned from the green stele.
• Chen Shi sacrificed the mallard duck, which swept Yong Guike aside with its sword-feather divine ability, and Tang Feng attacked Fu Gucheng with Lingbao techniques.
• Qu Lihua, the villagers, the mangy dog, and the immortal youths defeated the other attackers, while Tang Feng beat Fu Gucheng and the youths seized the Yin Yang Mirror.
• With the besieging Primordial Unity Golden Immortals down, Chen Shi sacrificed the duck again as it prepared to swallow the immortal cities and the soldiers within them.

Great Immortal Chi Jing arrived at Golden Ao Island and confronted its defenders over control of Western Penglai, while Emperor Changchun argued that the restored holy land represented a victory for his Master’s lineage. Chi Jing discovered that Changchun’s Dao realm was corrupted by the Outer Dao and withdrew in alarm.

• Chen Shi watched a duck swell to immense size and nearly swallow the immortal cities, until Chi Jing’s blazing Dao realm anchored them with chains.
• Chi Jing subdued the Yin Yang Mirror’s attack on You Yu and Tao, then revealed himself as a Daluo Golden Immortal whose cultivation had surpassed his former Primordial Unity realm.
• Chi Jing recognized the Fulou Village group’s Lingbao lineage, noticed Chen Shi’s remarkable transmission and the revived Jade Purity Dao Spring, and praised Golden Ao Island’s restoration.
• Emperor Changchun appeared in Mingfei Pavilion, and he and Chi Jing disputed whether Yunxiao Cave Heaven was reclaiming its ancestral territory or intruding on a contest between Dao lineages.
• Chi Jing touched Changchun’s hand and saw dark Outer Dao energy erupt from the cracks in Changchun’s Zenith Heaven Dao realm, then retreated and declared that the Outer Dao had suppressed the immortal Dao.

Emperor Changchun helped Chen Shi force Great Immortal Chi Jing to withdraw from Golden Ao Island, and Chi Jing later learned of the destruction of the Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Dao magic treasures. Chen Shi thanked the villagers who had rescued him, then met Emperor Changchun, who revealed that Chi Jing had been injured by a powerful deity.

• Emperor Changchun and a hidden outer Dao-contaminated woman warned Great Immortal Chi Jing against seizing the Jade Purity Dao Spring, and Chi Jing agreed to release his captured disciples and withdraw.
• Chen Shi directed Shang Dugong and the others to free Fu Gucheng and his companions, after which Chi Jing took them away and the experts returned to the Dao Ruins.
• At Yunxiao Cave Heaven, Chi Jing speculated that Chen Shi could refine the outer Dao and questioned who had given him authority over the Dao Ruins.
• A Heavenly Court messenger reported that thirty-two Heavenly Dao magic treasures had been destroyed in a simultaneous raid, and Chi Jing claimed thirty-two Daluo Golden Immortals had carried it out.
• Chen Shi thanked the villagers, duck, and dog at Fulou Village, then visited Emperor Changchun, who said Chi Jing’s injuries bore the incense-fire aura of a powerful deity.

Chen Shi learned that Emperor Changchun and Yuanjun Niangpo had both been injured by living Outer Dao after approaching a mysterious cyan palace in the Dark Sea. He restored the balance between Emperor Changchun’s immortal Dao and the Outer Dao, then discovered Yuanjun Niangpo had suffered a similar fate and also had a map said to have been left by the Three Pure Ones.

• Chen Shi asked Emperor Changchun about his Dao injury, and Emperor Changchun explained that Outer Dao had infected him at a cyan palace in the Dark Sea and kept him safe from calamities.
• Emperor Changchun allowed Chen Shi to refine the Outer Dao in his body, and after more than ten days their Dao reached a balance and his hairpins fell from his head.
• Chen Shi visited Yuanjun Niangpo, who asked him to treat her injuries after he had helped Emperor Changchun.
• Yuanjun Niangpo told Chen Shi that she had encountered the same cyan palace, injured herself with her divine treasure to escape the Outer Dao, and obtained her Dark Sea map from a source said to be the Three Pure Ones.

After conditioning Yuanjun Niangpo and Emperor Changchun, Chen Shi found his Dao realms transformed and returned to Golden Ao Island, where he cleared the external Dao from his fellow disciples’ Dao realms. The chapter ended with Chen Shi learning that Senior Brother Yan Zhibei mined ore in the Heavenly Abyss and Senior Brother Bai Jingming was being studied in Redwood Valley.

• Chen Shi discovered new Dao manifestations in his Dao realm, including a Jade Palace, dragon-horses, and the Eastern Well, and found similar changes in his Well Demon Domain.
• Chen Tang and True Man Zhang visited the Path of Life and Death, where Chen Tang learned that his son had reached the second-layer Dao realm and discussed why newly forged immortals could not ascend.
• Back on Golden Ao Island, Chen Shi explained that powerful immortals were tenants in his Dao realm and offered to clear the external Dao from his fellow disciples’ Dao realms.
• Chen Shi cleared the external Dao from Jiang Guo’s Dao realm but sensed that it might gradually return, then noticed similarities between external Dao contamination and the corruption affecting Emperor Changchun’s Dao Laws.
• Over a month, Chen Shi cleared the external Dao from Golden Ao Island’s disciples, helping their injuries heal and allowing Qiao Gu, Senior Sister Jing Mei, and Hu Dog to improve their cultivation.
• Chen Shi began treating Yan Zhibei and Bai Jingming’s Dao realms, and Senior Sister Jing Mei explained that Yan Zhibei mined in the Heavenly Abyss while Bai Jingming was being studied in Redwood Valley.

Chen Shi learned that the thirty-three Heavenly Dao magic treasures had been destroyed and sought Houtu Huangdiqi and Emperor Changchun to understand the attacks. Back at the Heavenly Dao Residence, he encountered Feng Huixue, whom Houtu had identified as an accomplice, and demanded she pay him respect.

• Chen Shi left Golden Ao Island with Jade Purity spring water, while Bai Jingming returned after his Dao injuries and outer Dao pollution were cured.
• Black Pot told Chen Shi that attackers had destroyed all thirty-three Heavenly Dao magic treasures, including the Yu Heng Gate and Yao Guang Pool.
• Houtu Huangdiqi told Chen Shi that her Myriad Ages Treasure Mirror had been destroyed, thousands of immortal maidens had been killed or injured, and Feng Huixue had acted as an inside accomplice.
• Chen Shi reported the attacks to Emperor Changchun, who warned that a great calamity of gods and immortals was approaching and suggested Houtu might have prepared a replacement treasure.
• Wu Guanyun and soldiers from the Fire Character Camp celebrated the destruction of the treasures, and Feng Huixue arrived at the Heavenly Dao Residence.
• Chen Shi challenged Feng Huixue to pay her respects to him as the Immortal Emperor's disciple, and she bowed while restraining her anger.

Chen Shi discovered that Jin Weiran carried Yu Heng Gate’s imprint and suspected that the other Heavenly Dao Magic Treasures had left imprints in hidden controllers before their destruction. He was then ordered to the Niraya Great World without Black Pot, where he saw Jin Weiran and recognized a female immortal as the carrier of Yao Guang Pool’s imprint.

• Chen Shi learned that Feng Huixue had defected from the Xuanhuang Sea to earn the resources needed to advance, then dismissed the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Chen Shi stopped Jin Weiran and discovered that Yu Heng Gate had imprinted itself in Jin Weiran’s Sea of Consciousness before its destruction.
• Chen Shi and Black Pot reasoned that the Heavenly Dao Magic Treasures had planted imprints in hidden immortals and that the Immortal Court was waiting to trap its opponents.
• Chen Shi warned Jin Weiran to keep his identity as a Heavenly Dao Controller secret, and Jin Weiran left.
• Chen Shi received orders to go alone to the Niraya Great World and boarded a star-raft with Jin Weiran and a female immortal.
• Chen Shi recognized the female immortal as the carrier of Yao Guang Pool’s imprint.

Chen Shi and the other Heavenly Dao Controllers were gathered and sent to the Niraya Great World, where Chen Shi warned them that the Heavenly Court might be forcing them to kill one another. At Siyuan Mountain Pass, Jin Weiran and several others were killed almost immediately, then revived as divine gods by Heavenly King Li, who revealed the Heavenly Court’s plan to take the Heavenly Dao magic treasures into its grasp.

• Chen Shi, Jin Weiran, and Niu Jingjing discovered that each bore a Heavenly Dao imprint and discussed how the Heavenly Court might be using them.
• Chen Shi met Xia Houfeng, Long Yuanling, and the other controllers as the star-skiffs gathered all thirty-three immortals for the journey to the Niraya Great World.
• Aboard the ship, Chen Shi suggested the Heavenly Court had gathered the controllers to make them kill and devour one another, causing them to distrust each other.
• The group reached Siyuan Mountain Pass during a battle, and an arrow killed Jin Weiran as soon as the ship landed.
• Heavenly King Li used a Soul Summoning Banner and incense to restore Jin Weiran and successive fallen controllers as divine gods, declaring that the Heavenly Dao magic treasures were now in the Heavenly Court’s grasp.

Chen Shi led the surviving Heavenly Dao Controllers into the doomed Siyuan Mountain Pass, using his Limitless Dao Field to turn the devil race’s outer dao into immortal dao. After destroying a sky vine that strengthened the enemy and confronting a powerful devil skeleton, he helped force the attackers to retreat and arrived at the pass as its relief force.

• Heavenly King Li said Chen Shi had no choice but to side with the Heavenly Court and that the plan to master the Heavenly Dao had been devised by fifty greater powers, including Houtu Huangdiqi.
• Chen Shi’s Limitless Dao Field converted the outer dao of devil race soldiers into immortal dao, allowing Niu Jingjing and the others to defeat them, though only fourteen of the thirty-three Controllers survived.
• Chen Shi and the remaining Controllers saw that Siyuan Mountain Pass was nearly overrun, then came under attack as they charged toward it; six survivors gathered inside Chen Shi’s dao field while the others died.
• Chen Shi diverted toward the sky vine after it swallowed a Heavenly Court squad, and he and his companions fought their way toward it.
• Chen Shi used the eighth form of the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade to sever the vine, weakening the nearby devil race soldiers, but a giant eight-armed devil skeleton struck him back toward the pass.
• The devil race forces withdrew from Siyuan Mountain Pass, and Chen Shi told commander Hua Wanliang that he and six companions had arrived to relieve the garrison.

Chen Shi and the five others completed the Star Unification Platform at Siyuan Mountain Pass as the Devil Race closed in. Chen Shi used it to summon avatars of the Heavenly Court’s principal deities, including the Jade Emperor, leaving Heavenly King Li furious when he learned the Great Heavenly Venerate was fighting outside the pass.

• Hua Wanliang refused to leave his troops behind and departed, while his soldiers killed Ning Daoshan when he tried to flee with them.
• Chen Shi and the five remaining immortals began building the Star Unification Platform, knowing they could not return to their Dao realms without spreading the Outer Dao to their homelands.
• Long Yuanling and Xia Houfeng were infected by the Outer Dao as vines surrounded Siyuan Mountain Pass, and Chen Shi admitted he did not know how Chu Xiangxiu had learned to resist it.
• As the Devil Race charged, Chen Shi activated the completed platform and summoned avatars of twenty-seven Heavenly Court deities, followed by a wisp of the Jade Emperor’s avatar.
• Heavenly King Li sent scouts to investigate the divine power at Siyuan Mountain Pass and raged when he learned that the Great Heavenly Venerate’s avatar had been summoned.

Heavenly King Li watched Chen Shi defend Siyuan Mountain Pass with a formation that repeatedly summoned the avatars of heavenly deities, while devil skeletons destroyed them. After Chen Shi summoned a new Jade Emperor avatar, the awakened deities began investigating the repeated deaths, and the Jade Emperor blamed Heavenly King Li for the mess.

• Heavenly King Li ordered the relieved soldiers to return to the heavenly court and sent five armies to attack the devil forces’ rear.
• Chen Shi combined the Minor Heavenly Tribulation Array with the Pu Tian Grand Ceremony, using the Star Unification Platform to summon deity avatars and hold Siyuan Pass.
• Vine-controlled devil skeletons attacked the pass and killed numerous deity avatars, but Chen Shi repeatedly summoned replacements.
• A devil skeleton slew the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s avatar, and Chen Shi summoned a fresh one while Heavenly King Li feared the consequences.
• The Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity, the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor, and the Ziwei Emperor noticed their avatars repeatedly dying and decided to investigate.
• The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate opened his eyes in the Hall of Lingxiao and blamed Heavenly King Li for the mess.

Chen Shi and his companions defended Siyuan Pass until the Heavenly Court deities broke free of his control and led a counterattack against the devil race. Heavenly King Li and Chu Xiangxiu revealed that the devil race were puppets of a single hidden entity, and Li attacked after the Heavenly Great Venerates forced it to emerge.

• Chen Shi replenished his power with Jade Purity Dao Spring water while the devil race soldiers attacked the Star Unification Platform, and his three desire-bound selves helped defend it.
• A vine-wrapped great devil skeleton killed Peng Ju and threatened Chen Shi, but Empress Houtu used samsara light to weaken it and the Xuan and Huang Swords destroyed it.
• Doumu Yuanjun, the Great Emperor of the Southern Pole of Longevity, and other Heavenly Court deities ignored Chen Shi's control spells and led their forces out of Siyuan Pass to destroy the vines and devils.
• Heavenly King Li and Chu Xiangxiu joined Chen Shi and said the devil race had no true souls and were puppets controlled by one powerful entity in the Niraya Great World.
• Heavenly King Li said the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate and the others had forced the hidden entity to reveal itself, then enlarged the Exquisite Golden Pagoda and attacked it.

Heavenly King Li and the Heavenly Court’s forces confronted an outer-Dao devil god in the Niraya Great World, only to discover that the world’s inhabitants and battles were illusions shaped by the dead devil god’s lingering consciousness. The group found a powerful Earthly Treasure Spiritual Root and ordered Heavenly King Li to take it back to the Heavenly Court, while Empress Houtu and Ziwei Great Emperor turned Chen Shi’s suspicions about Heavenly King Li into a call to investigate him.

• Heavenly King Li’s Exquisite Pagoda struck the outer-Dao glow, and the emperors revealed that the true opponent was an eight-armed devil god beneath a divine tree rooted through the sky.
• Heavenly King Li fought the devil god with the pagoda’s thirty-three simulated Dao realms and defeated him, then discovered that the devil god was already dead.
• Chen Shi learned from Heavenly King Li and Empress Houtu that the Niraya Great World’s creatures and events were manifestations of the dead devil god’s consciousness, unsettling Chu Xiangxiu about his decades spent there.
• Empress Houtu and the emperors recognized the divine tree as a powerful Earthly Treasure Spiritual Root, and the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Heavenly King Li to secure it for the Heavenly Court.
• Heavenly King Li suggested eliminating the six outsiders before they became Heavenly Dao divine persons, but Empress Houtu and Ziwei Great Emperor instead accused him of possible Western ties and urged the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate to investigate him.

After the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Celestial King Li to watch over the Niraya Divine Tree and Chen Shi, Li sought Chen Shi’s help transporting the tree out of the Dark Sea. Chen Shi discovered that Niu Jingjing and the others had been captured and killed, and he resolved to create a third path beyond the heavenly court and the Immortal Court.

• The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Celestial King Li to examine his ties to the Western Heaven, rewarded his service, and placed Chen Shi and his companions under his supervision.
• After the heavenly giants departed, Celestial King Li asked Chen Shi to send the Niraya Divine Tree into the Dao Ruins, but Chen Shi could not summon that dao realm from deep within the Dark Sea.
• Celestial King Li mobilized one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to bind the tree’s roots, while Chen Shi urged Niu Jingjing, Long Yuanling, Xia Houfeng, and the others to escape.
• Chen Shi and Celestial King Li boarded a ship, where Chen Shi saw that Niu Jingjing and the others had been killed and were receiving incense as Heavenly Dao divine persons.
• Chen Shi asked Chu Xiangxiu whether he would help him when the time came, and Chu Xiangxiu pledged his life to him.

Chen Shi and Heavenly King Li carried the Niraya Divine Tree out of the Dark Sea while Heavenly Dao Divine Persons obscured the heavenly secrets, and Chen Shi stored the tree in his Dao Ruins. Though Chen Shi expected Heavenly King Li to attack him there, the Heavenly King instead let him go and urged him to leave the Heavenly Court.

• Heavenly King Li explained that Daluo Golden Immortals faced near-certain death in the open-calamity and described how some shifted its burden onto countless disciples and entire worlds.
• Heavenly King Li urged Chen Shi to become a Heavenly Dao Divine Person, but Chen Shi ignored his appeals.
• After several months, Niu Jingjing, Xia Houfeng, and the other Heavenly Dao Divine Persons obscured the heavenly secrets as the ship reached the Xuanhuang Sea.
• Chen Shi opened the Dao Ruins Daoist arena, and Heavenly King Li carried the Niraya Divine Tree inside while Daluo Golden Immortals searched the area in vain.
• Chen Shi prepared to kill Heavenly King Li, but Heavenly King Li let him leave the Heavenly Court and warned him to investigate the ruined worlds of Sanyuan and Tailai.

Chen Shi warned the Dao Ruins’ inhabitants that the Niraya Divine Tree was bait, then left for the Dark Sea ferry point. Heavenly King Li fought off a succession of Daluo Golden Immortals and their treasures while carrying the tree, until Gongsun Xuanyuan arrived and drove them back.

• Chen Shi confirmed that the Niraya Divine Tree was the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate’s bait and asked Emperor Changchun to warn the Dao Ruins’ inhabitants not to attack Heavenly King Li.
• Emperor Changchun transmitted Chen Shi’s warning across the Dao Ruins, and Chen Shi left for a Dark Sea ferry point toward the Western White Tiger Constellations.
• Heavenly King Li crossed the Dao Pollution Marsh Zone with the Niraya Divine Tree, but an immortal gourd and other Zenith Heaven treasures attacked and tried to seize it.
• Heavenly King Li fused himself with the Niraya Divine Tree and fought off the jade bottle, immortal gourd, Exquisite Golden Pagoda, a nine-headed lion, and a horsetail whisk as he ran toward the Heavenly Court.
• Daluo Golden Immortals reached for Heavenly King Li and the tree, but Gongsun Xuanyuan arrived, severed their attacks, damaged their treasures, and forced them to retreat.