Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi and True Lord Erlang exchanged their insights into the Undying Immortal Method, while Chen Shi led the Heavenly Soldiers to suppress the demons in the Huaxia Ancestral Court. After True Man Zhang agreed to destroy Hangu Pass to shield the ancestral court from the Immortal-God War, Chen Shi returned to the Earthly Immortal Realm, where the star gate collapsed and his army faced a tense standoff before withdrawing.

• Chen Shi explained the Undying Immortal Method’s witch sacrifice Dao patterns to True Lord Erlang, who then shared his own profound insights and prepared to enter seclusion.
• Chen Shi mobilized his army at Hangu Pass and led the Heavenly Soldiers to defeat and clear out the demon forces in Jianzhou.
• Chen Shi met True Man Zhang at the Shenzhou Customs wharf and persuaded him to destroy Hangu Pass and return to the Heavenly Celestial Realm to guard it.
• True Man Zhang destroyed the ancestral court’s Hangu Pass after Chen Shi and his troops passed through, severing the connection between the two realms.
• Daoist Wu accused Chen Shi’s forces of destroying the star gate, but True Man Wenshi intervened and ordered the defenders not to act rashly.
• Chen Shi led his twenty thousand troops out of Hangu Pass in formation, while Daoist Wu remarked on their disciplined battle array.

Chen Shi and Xiaoduan were ambushed on their journey to the Heavenly Court by Madam Yuan Ling, who nearly overwhelmed Xiaoduan before strange voices and powerful witch-sacrifice techniques turned the battle. Meanwhile, Xi Muran arrived at Chen Shi’s hidden Dao realm and sent a golden talisman inside.

• Chen Shi hid his soldiers in his Dao realm and explained to Xiaoduan that the Supreme One and the Great Heavenly Venerate might both seek his death.
• While traveling by star barge, Chen Shi considered combining Zhong Wuwang’s internal world with the Undying Immortal Method to perfect his undying body.
• Madam Yuan Ling blocked the barge and attacked; Xiaoduan sent Chen Shi fleeing, then fought her across the Milky Way as the barge broke apart and Chen became stranded on half of it.
• Madam Yuan Ling gained the advantage until Xiaoduan fused her primordial spirit with her body and used Great Shang curse and witch-sacrifice techniques to wound her.
• Madam Yuan Ling summoned her Dao realm to suppress Xiaoduan, but another voice took over Xiaoduan’s body and changed her fighting style.
• Xi Muran reached Chen Shi’s Dao realm, warned that exposing a Dao realm invited certain death, and sent a golden talisman inside.

Chen Shi’s Dao Realm was struck by a golden talisman while he drifted to Seven Star Moon Palace and met Qi Peipei, who revealed she had lured him into a trap. The chapter ended with Chen Shi telling her his Dao Realm remained intact and threatening to kill her.

• Zhong Lin discovered the Yu Heng Gate and Heavenly Mechanism Scroll in Chen Shi’s Dao Realm, while the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals studied its Dao phenomena.
• Xi Muran’s golden talisman suppressed much of Chen Shi’s Dao Realm, but villagers and several Daluo Golden Immortals resisted it and examined the talisman.
• Chen Shi drifted down the Heavenly River to a moon near the Xuanhuang Sea and met Qi Peipei at Seven Star Moon Palace.
• Qi Peipei identified Kundulun, revealed that the boatman served her, and said she had arranged for Chen Shi to come to her palace.
• Qi Peipei claimed Chen Shi’s Dao Realm had been suppressed and that she could easily kill him, but Chen Shi said his Dao Realm was intact and threatened her.

Chen Shi killed Qi Peipei, Tu Dang, and the palace maids who attacked him, then waited in the Seven Star Moon Palace for Xi Muran. Xi Muran arrived and admitted he had underestimated Chen Shi, but said he had come in person.

• Qi Peipei recalled killing a village girl years earlier and recognized a similar killing intent in Chen Shi, while her attendants prepared to fight.
• Qi Peipei attacked Chen Shi, but he killed her with a rapid strike and broke through the palace maids’ sword array, killing most of them and pursuing the six who fled with his Sword Nurturing Gourd.
• Tu Dang launched his Vermilion Bird Blazing Bright Profound Art at Chen Shi, but Chen Shi’s Heaven and Earth Return Heart technique shattered Tu Dang’s Dao laws and killed him.
• Chen Shi took the host’s seat, used Dao phenomena to clean and restore the palace, and waited for Xi Muran.
• Xi Muran arrived, saw the bodies, and sat opposite Chen Shi; Chen Shi accused him of arranging Qi Peipei’s attempt on his life, and Xi Muran admitted he had underestimated Chen Shi but had come in person.

Chen Shi fought Xi Muran on the moon after rejecting his offer to join the Immortal Court, and both were gravely wounded in the clash. Chen Shi died after ringing a bell against Xi Muran, but Heavenly King Li arrived as Xi Muran approached the corpse.

• Chen Shi and Xi Muran argued over the Immortal Court's cause, and Chen Shi declared that he had to kill Xi Muran for the suffering caused by his faction.
• Chen Shi summoned his three Dao Realms and attacked Xi Muran with Primordial Chaos Divided, then followed with a concealed strike from the Heavenly Net Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.
• Xi Muran used the Great Desolation Pearl to withstand Chen Shi's attacks and struck back, sending Chen Shi crashing onto the moon.
• Chen Shi and Xi Muran's treasures collided, leaving both fighters severely injured and the moon palace destroyed.
• Chen Shi rang a bell that nearly shattered Xi Muran's Primordial Spirit, then died after exhausting his magical power.
• Heavenly King Li arrived just as Xi Muran began approaching Chen Shi's corpse.

After Heavenly King Li drove off Xi Muran, Chen Shi unexpectedly recovered from his fatal wounds and returned to searching for his wife. He left Heavenly King Li under guard to study an Immortal Emperor talisman, then buried Kundulun beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree and discovered days later that Kundulun had died.

• Heavenly King Li attacked the wounded Xi Muran, but Fan Xiao intervened and matched his strike, allowing Xi Muran to escape.
• Heavenly King Li found Chen Shi alive and healed beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree, despite having seen him die.
• Chen Shi entered his Dao realm and left Heavenly King Li to study the Immortal Emperor's talisman while Emperor Changchun kept him from following.
• Chen Shi searched the Lunar Palace, found the sealed Kundulun, and buried him beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree in the Well Demon Domain.
• After waiting several days for Fairy Xiaoduan, Chen Shi returned to the Well Demon Domain and found Kundulun reduced to a skeleton entwined with tree roots.

Chen Shi returned from the Ancestral Court, reported his victory to the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate, and accepted Heavenly King Li as his deputy marshal after honoring his promise. Back at Western Penglai, Chen Shi received the Sect Master position on Golden Ao Island as Crippled Jiao departed to resolve the karma blocking his breakthrough.

• Chen Shi considered using the Demon Blood Treasure Tree to absorb the great demons’ remains, then welcomed Fairy Xiaoduan, who explained that nine former Great Shang emperors had hidden in her Sea of Consciousness and helped her escape Madam Yuan Ling.
• Chen Shi and Xiaoduan traveled to the Heavenly Court with Heavenly King Li and reported to the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate, who rewarded Chen Shi and confirmed that Li would become his deputy marshal.
• Chen Shi collected the Heavenly Venerate’s rewards and distributed them among the two hundred thousand immortals at Western Penglai, while Heavenly King Li chose not to follow him there.
• Crippled Jiao told Chen Shi that unresolved karma tied to the golden needle in his blinded eye was preventing him from reaching the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, then formally made Chen Shi Sect Master of Golden Ao Island before departing.

Chen Shi reformed Golden Ao Island, then visited Houtu Huangdiqi and brought her news of the Immortal Emperor’s schemes. He entered the Demon Suppressing Well to capture its great demon skeletons and draw on their power, beginning his push toward the Golden Immortal Realm.

• Chen Shi took over as sect master and reorganized Golden Ao Island, including placing its Dao realms under the sect’s ownership; he later promised Jing Mei the policy was temporary.
• Chen Shi visited Houtu Huangdiqi, who agreed to help conceal the Heavenly Immortal Realm matter, and discussed possible identities of the Immortal Emperor.
• At the Houde Guangda Heavenly Palace, Chen Shi reunited with Fish San'er, who had become a palace guard after losing his boat business.
• Chen Shi entered the Demon Suppressing Well and used the Demon Blood Treasure Tree to capture the great demon skeletons in its Well Demon Domain.
• As the tree absorbed the skeletons, Chen Shi’s cultivation surged toward the Golden Immortal Realm.

Chen Shi refined nearly all the great demon skeletons in the Demon Suppressing Well and broke through to the Golden Immortal realm, creating nine external bodies from the impurities shed during his tribulation. After resigning from Houtu Huangdiqi’s service, he encountered Xi Muran at sea and declared that their balance of power had shifted.

• Chen Shi harvested the demon skeletons until only one remained, then returned to the Eastern Palace and persuaded Fish San'er to follow him to Golden Ao Island.
• Chen Shi cultivated beneath the Demon Blood Treasure Tree, broke through to the first Golden Immortal Dao realm, and refined nine impurity selves into external bodies.
• Chen Shi considered using the external bodies to transfer karmic misfortune, then abandoned the idea and resigned to Houtu Huangdiqi.
• Fish San'er told Chen Shi that Xi Muran was waiting at sea, and Chen Shi set out to meet him.
• Xi Muran revealed that Fan Xiao had taught him the Fuxi Qin and Dragon Battle Wild Song to counter Chen Shi’s sword techniques.
• Chen Shi told Xi Muran that he had become a Golden Immortal and offered him a half-day head start to flee.

Xi Muran fled Chen Shi and sought Fan Xiao’s help, but Chen Shi traced his movements and honored a promise to kill him. Fan Xiao found Xi Muran at Swan Bay only to witness him die from unseen attacks, leaving the attacker’s identity unknown.

• Xi Muran fled ahead of Chen Shi, killed witnesses, and asked Fan Xiao to help him escape by hiding his location.
• Xi Muran revealed that he had concealed the Lanfeng Realm and severed its route to the Earthly Immortal Realm; Fan Xiao arranged to meet him near Swan Bay and mask his whereabouts.
• After Chen Shi waited half a day, he used the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll to identify Xi Muran’s origins and learned that the nearest star gate was at Swan Bay, but chose not to pursue him there.
• Chen Shi returned to Western Penglai, arranged for Fish San’er to study at the Heavenly Soldier Camp, and sent Fairy Xiaoduan to arrange the Nine Emperors’ reincarnation.
• After Xiaoduan returned, Chen Shi performed a three-bow ritual and said he had kept his promise to see an old friend on his final journey.
• Fan Xiao reached Xi Muran near Swan Bay, where successive invisible strikes killed Xi Muran despite Fan Xiao’s attempts to protect him.

Fan Xiao examined Xi Muran’s death and vowed to kill Chen Shi, while Chen Shi left a sword formation at Golden Ao Island for Fan Xiao to face. Fan Xiao survived the formation and departed for the North Sea mining area, where Chen Shi had gone.

• Fan Xiao found Xi Muran’s body and shattered Primordial Spirit, then swore he would not achieve Zenith Heaven until he killed Chen Shi.
• Chen Shi questioned Fairy Xiaoduan about the Heavenly Immortal Realm and learned that Zhong Wuwang was settled there but missed Yun Cheng.
• Fairy Xiaoduan cultivated beneath Chen Shi’s Well Demon Domain as Fan Xiao arrived at Golden Ao Island seeking revenge for Xi Muran.
• Fairy Xiaoduan told Fan Xiao that Chen Shi had left a Primordial Chaos Divided sword formation in the bamboo forest for him to test his skill against.
• Fan Xiao confronted the formation with the Fuxi Qin, but Chen Shi’s sword strike snapped three strings and defeated his attempt to break it.
• Fan Xiao left without harming anyone on Golden Ao Island, and Fairy Xiaoduan recovered the Fuxi Qin as he headed for Chen Shi’s North Sea mining area.

Chen Shi entered the North Sea in disguise to experience miners’ lives, but turned the Black Eunuch Guan Qinshuang’s scheme against her and joined her at Black Water Mountain. After witnessing a deadly mining disaster and hearing an immortal recruit for the Immortal Court, Chen Shi realized how deeply the Immortal Emperor Supreme’s influence had reached the realm’s lowest ranks.

• Guan Qinshuang tried to lure Chen Shi into being sold as a miner, but Chen Shi claimed to be Zhong Wuwang, a Ministry of Thunder enforcer on an undercover visit.
• Chen Shi traveled with Guan Qinshuang through Jingzhou, then sold her to the Black Water Mountain mine boss before selling himself as a miner as well.
• Guan Qinshuang discovered Chen Shi in the Number Four Mining Area and demanded that he reveal his identity and rescue her, but he told her to wait for danger.
• Chen Shi and Guan Qinshuang entered Black Water Mountain, where miners warned them about deadly river insects, Outer Dao light, unstable ore, and treacherous companions.
• A mountain collapse and other hazards killed more than twenty immortals, and Chen Shi reflected on how close he might have been to sharing their fate.
• An immortal urged the miners to join the Immortal Court against the Heavenly Court, and Chen Shi sensed the Immortal Emperor Supreme’s influence among the grassroots.

Chen Shi spent half a year mining in the North Sea, witnessing the brutal lives and deaths of lower-class immortals before leaving the mining area. He traveled to North Continent of Kuru and offered himself to a beast-catching team that supplied the Heavenly Court.

• A Heavenly Court bounty hunter killed a young immortal preaching for the Immortal Court, and the miners chased the hunter away.
• Chen Shi learned how dangerous and exploitative mining was, then spent six months working alongside the other immortals rather than using his abilities to find valuable ores.
• Guan Qinshuang lost an arm in a mining accident, and the young immortal she loved died; afterward, she disappeared from the mining area.
• Chen Shi buried a mining immortal known for his good fortune, redeemed his freedom, and left the North Sea in tears.
• Chen Shi reached North Continent of Kuru and asked the captain of a beast-catching team to take him on so he could earn money and raise his cultivation.

Fan Xiaoyue tracked Chen Shi to the North Continent of Kuru, where Chen Shi had joined a beast-catching team under the name Zhong Wuwang. After explaining why he had grieved for the North Sea’s exploited immortals, Chen Shi persuaded Fan Xiaoyue to stay with him so he could try to break Chen Shi’s Primordial Chaos Divided.

• A North Pole Exorcism Institute official told Fan Xiaoyue that a miner named Zhong Wuwang resembled Chen Shi, and Fan confirmed the records showed Chen Shi had worked in the Black Water River mining area before leaving in search of Guan Qinshuang.
• Fan Xiaoyue followed Zhong Wuwang’s trail across the North Continent of Kuru and found Chen Shi hunting a Tian Qi with Pang Yunji’s beast-catching team.
• Fan Xiaoyue confronted Chen Shi over his junior martial siblings’ deaths, but agreed to accompany him until he could break Chen Shi’s Primordial Chaos Divided.
• Chen Shi told Fan Xiaoyue that his tears came from witnessing the North Sea’s desperate conditions and argued that replacing the Heavenly Court with the Immortal Court would not change the plight of ordinary immortals.
• Chen Shi sold Fan Xiaoyue to Pang Yunji’s beast-catching team, and Fan Xiaoyue accepted the arrangement with a smile.

Fan Xiao joined Chen Shi’s beast-catching team and witnessed the brutal struggle that low-level immortals faced in the North Continent of Kuru. After Chen Shi freed them both, he explained that he was investigating how exploitation shaped the dangers and deaths faced by miners and beast catchers, and the two headed to sea as fish bait.

• Fan Xiao followed Chen Shi and Pang Yunji’s team as they planned to catch a tianqi and lure Old Qian’s rival team into a trap.
• Pang Yunji’s team used the tianqi to attack Old Qian’s team, captured the survivors, and killed Old Qian despite Fan Xiao’s pleas to spare lives.
• Fan Xiao saw the casualties and captives sold at the market, then helped Chen Shi capture the tianqi three days later; two companions died during the hunt.
• Chen Shi used their earnings to buy freedom for himself and Fan Xiao, and they left the North Continent of Kuru for the sea.
• Chen Shi told Fan Xiao that miners and beast catchers might die around 240 times while saving enough to advance, and said the deeper problem lay in who exploited low-level immortals; he then invited Fan Xiao to become fish bait.

Chen Shi and Fan Xiao traveled to the Abyssal Sea and Gongtong Valley, enduring dangerous labor to earn their freedom. In Yuhuang Prefecture, they reunited with Cui Zhenzhen and revealed their true identities, leaving her uncertain whether to believe them or fear they planned to sell her into slavery.

• Fan Xiao wrestled with the urge to kill Chen Shi, then followed him to Diaoji City, where they sold themselves to the Qinghan as sea-beast bait handlers.
• Chen Shi and Fan Xiao worked for months at sea, bought back their freedom, and headed toward Gongtong Valley while Fan Xiao continued trying to break Chen Shi's Primordial Chaos Divided.
• Chen Shi and Fan Xiao became medicine slaves in Gongtong Valley, where pharmacists judged them suitable to become medicine humans, before they paid for their freedom and left half a year later.
• In Yuhuang Prefecture, Chen Shi and Fan Xiao reunited with Cui Zhenzhen, who had become a Pure Yang True Immortal after finding the Pure Yang Five Thunders Heart Sutra on a dead immortal.
• Cui Zhenzhen bought them a meal with money from selling her blood, and Chen Shi and Fan Xiao offered to take her as a disciple, claiming their true identities and presenting their marshal seals.
• Cui Zhenzhen laughed at their claims, but grew wary when they showed her their seals and asked her to choose between following them.

Chen Shi and Fan Xiao’s meeting with Cui Zhenzhen was interrupted when Heavenly Court forces besieged Yuhuang Immortal City to capture Immortal Court rebels. After Chen Shi learned that his grandfather Chen Yindu may have helped injure the North Yin Great Emperor, he escaped with Cui Zhenzhen; days later, a puppet in Yanzhou told him his grandfather wanted to see him.

• Cui Zhenzhen tried to flee Chen Shi and Fan Xiao in an endless stairwell, then found the city under siege by deities serving Heavenly Emperor Tian Peng.
• The divine generals Qin Qiong and Tao recognized Chen Shi as the Grand Marshal of All Under Heaven and bowed to him.
• Qin Qiong explained that Immortal Court rebels had used skeleton immortals to enter Fengdu Mountain and attack the North Yin Great Emperor, and Chen Shi suspected the rebel Chen Yindu was his grandfather.
• Fan Xiao revealed that he was the Immortal Court’s Marshal of Bei Luo Shi Men, prompting the deities to tighten their blockade as a battle broke out.
• Qin Qiong escorted Chen Shi and Cui Zhenzhen out of the city, while Fan Xiao fled with the rebels and Heavenly Court forces pursued them.
• Days later in Yanzhou, a puppet approached Chen Shi and told him that his grandpa wanted to see him.

Chen Shi reunited with a newly reborn Created Being Xiao Wu, who had lost his memories, and entered Chen Yindu’s hidden courtyard in Yanzhou. There, Chen Shi recognized Chen Yindu’s work on meta-talismans as a reconstruction of the immortal path and helped refine the new teachings.

• Chen Shi embraced Created Being Xiao Wu, who did not remember his past life or their relationship.
• Created Being Xiao Wu explained that Chen Yindu had revived him through the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace by studying talismans, scripts, and Dao patterns.
• Created Being Xiao Wu led Chen Shi and Cui Zhenzhen through a portal in West City to Chen Yindu’s hidden courtyard, where Chen Shi learned that Chen Yindu had gone to the Underworld to assassinate the North Yin Great Emperor.
• Chen Yindu showed Chen Shi meta-talismans that described the Great Dao directly, and Chen Shi understood that they could rebuild the immortal path from its foundation.
• Chen Shi corrected flaws in Chen Yindu’s meta-talismans using his understanding of the Dao of the Dark Sea, earning Chen Yindu’s praise.
• Created Being Xiao Wu transformed into a young man and explained that Chen Yindu had placed his humanity in Xiao Wu while maintaining a rational, emotionless divine state.

Chen Shi and Chen Yindu refined the meta-talismans together, then clashed over whether they should be shared with the heavenly deities and how to end oppression in the immortal world. After Chen Yindu nearly killed Chen Shi under his divine state, they reconciled over a meal, but Ancestor Hidden Dragon arrived and invited Chen Shi to join forces against the Jade Emperor.

• Cui Zhenzhen tried to prove Created Being Xiao Wu could not understand everything, but he answered her questions and even produced a miniature version of himself as a child.
• Chen Shi used the Dao of the Dark Sea and outer daos to refine Chen Yindu's meta-talismans, and together they raised their completion rate to about fifty percent.
• When Chen Shi said he would teach meta-talismans to heavenly deities, Chen Yindu attacked him, but Created Being Xiao Wu restored Chen Yindu's human emotions and stopped the killing blow.
• While cooking together, Chen Shi and Chen Yindu discussed the Immortal Emperor Supreme, the suffering of ordinary immortals, and Chen Shi's proposals to avoid calamities and free cultivators from the courts' control.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon arrived, confirmed Chen Yindu had spared Chen Shi despite his divine state, and invited Chen Shi to help overthrow the Jade Emperor.

Ancestor Hidden Dragon explained the primal talisman and his plan to strike a decisive blow against the Heavenly Court by killing the North Yin Great Emperor. He entered Fengdu through Du Yiran’s spatial gateway and returned carrying the emperor’s severed head, while Chen Shi shielded his companions from the battle’s shockwaves.

• Ancestor Hidden Dragon told Chen Shi that his forces and the primal talisman made him a potential threat, but he would leave Chen Shi’s fate to Fan Xiao.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon recounted how he created the primal talisman and said the earlier assassination attempt had tested it before he came to kill the North Yin Great Emperor.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon led Chen Shi, Chen Yindu, Created Being Xiao Wu, and Cui Zhenzhen through a gateway Du Yiran had made to Fengdu Mountain.
• Ancestor Hidden Dragon entered the North Yin Emperor Palace as the Six Heavens Ancient Ghosts surged toward him, and his clash with the North Yin Great Emperor sent destructive shockwaves across Fengdu Mountain.
• Chen Shi shielded his companions from the shockwaves and regenerated after his body was shattered, while Ancestor Hidden Dragon returned carrying the North Yin Great Emperor’s head and closed the gateway.