Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen pursued the Tushan sisters to draw out their destiny, then swept Outside the Circle for energy and began refining a Ninth-Grade Elixir before a crowd of powerful observers. The chapter ended with the pill still being refined as the world’s strongest figures gathered to watch.

• Xiao Zhen discovered that items containing destiny could repair the system and began pursuing the Tushan sisters more actively.
• Xiao Zhen arranged an attack on Tushan, where Tushan Honghong was defeated and Tushan Yaya drove off the snake demon.
• After Tushan Rongrong encouraged her, Tushan Honghong sought Xiao Zhen’s help to grow stronger, and dual cultivation increased her power and reduced the system’s damage.
• Xiao Zhen spent another month with the three Tushan sisters, then hunted Outer Realm Creatures and Black Foxes Outside the Circle, gathering energy and destiny.
• Xiao Zhen began refining a Ninth-Grade Elixir Outside the Circle, while Third Young Master of Aolai Kingdom, Six Ears, and other powerful figures arrived to observe.

Xiao Zhen refined and consumed a Ninth-Grade Elixir, restoring his strength enough to gather the Fox Spirit World's factions into the Heavenly Alliance and collect the World Fortune needed to repair his system. With the system booted up, he prepared to return home, hoping to preserve a way back to the world and the Tushan sisters.

• Xiao Zhen refined a sentient Ninth-Grade Elixir, then consumed it and greatly improved his injuries.
• Xiao Zhen decided against killing the gathered leaders for World Fortune and invited the world's factions to join the Heavenly Alliance.
• Xiao Zhen discussed leaving with Tushan Honghong, Tushan Yaya, and Tushan Rongrong, and promised to try to preserve the world's coordinates.
• Xiao Zhen gained the support of Aolai Kingdom and other major factions, but the system's damage level remained at 61%.
• Xiao Zhen hunted down every Black Fox avatar in the Inner Realm and gathered enough World Fortune to repair the system.
• Xiao Zhen looked toward the distant sky and decided it was time to go home.

After decades away, Xiao Zhen returned to the Great Thousand World with his companions, reunited with Zi Yan and the others, and began recovering from his injuries. The Chat Group also reopened travel, sending reinforcements to Miyano Shiho as Japan remained overrun by deadly Vengeful Spirits.

• Xiao Zhen came back online, explained that the Chat Group was still damaged, and said members would need to complete missions to help repair it.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Great Thousand World with people he had carried in a spatial artifact and reunited with Zi Yan, Chiyu, and Medusa.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Mu Chen had not been born, and Zi Yan warmly welcomed Duanmu Rong and the other women he had brought back.
• Xiao Zhen took a pill refined by Xiao Yan to heal his hidden injuries and learned that Xiao Yan and Lin Dong had reached Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The travel function reopened, and Honjou Nia, Kurumi Tokisaki, Miko Kikyo, and Duanmu Yan arrived to reinforce Miyano Shiho, who was sheltering with Miyano Akemi and Koizumi Akako from the Vengeful Spirits.

Miyano Akemi and the others left the mountain’s protective barrier to investigate the crisis engulfing the island nation and rescue Akemi’s friend. They reached the friend’s apartment in ruined Tokyo, where the woman who answered the door was revealed to be a Vengeful Spirit in human skin.

• Miyano Akemi pleaded with the group to help the island nation, but Miyano Shiho explained that its people were facing retribution for past crimes and that the Vengeful Spirits pursued refugees abroad.
• Miyano Shiho explained that she had survived in the mountain with a barrier and supplies, while a call from Akemi’s friend prompted Akemi to ask Duanmu Yan for help.
• Honjou Nia gave the group concealing watches, and they left the mountain to travel toward Tokyo; Kikyo dispersed much of an infant Vengeful Spirit’s resentment so two men could escape.
• After several hours, Miyano Akemi and the group arrived at her friend’s apartment in a deserted-looking Tokyo and found the woman at the door acting strangely.
• The others recognized that the woman was a Vengeful Spirit wearing human skin, and they noticed a faint smell of blood inside the apartment.

Xiao Zhen arrived in Detective World and found Conan and other survivors trapped in a village that sacrificed one person each month to a Ghost King. As the villagers chose their next victim, Kudo Shinichi’s attempts to save his father exposed the desperate cruelty and old betrayals among them.

• Xiao Zhen recovered, reached the peak of Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and sent a Dou Sheng-strength incarnation to Detective World while his true body continued cultivating.
• Xiao Zhen found Kudo Shinichi, Mouri Ran, and other survivors in a village protected from vengeful souls in exchange for a monthly human sacrifice to a Ghost King.
• Mouri Kogoro defeated Kudo Yusaku in their fight, and the villagers tied Yusaku up to offer him as the next sacrifice.
• Kudo Shinichi failed to stop Mouri Kogoro and pleaded for his father’s life, but Mouri Kogoro accused the Kudo family of abandoning Professor Agasa when it had been his turn.
• Kudo Yusaku tried to save himself by offering his unborn child, and Kudo Shinichi then asked Suzuki Sonoko to sacrifice one of her twins instead.
• Suzuki Sonoko threatened Kudo Shinichi, while Heiji condemned him and revealed that the Kudo family had helped send Heiji’s mother to the altar.

Xiao Zhen recalled the rampaging Vengeful Spirits, sealed the Resentful Soul Space, and learned that fewer than a hundred people remained alive in the Island Nation. Back in the Great Thousand World, his true body reached the final stage of a breakthrough that shook Xuanji Continent.

• Xiao Zhen subdued the monk Ghost King, learned how the monk had been tortured and killed during the war, and left the village.
• Xiao Zhen entered the Resentful Soul Space, found Luo Wenshan struggling to contain its Vengeful Spirits, and refined the corrupted imperial seal.
• A Ghost King tortured Kudo Yusaku during a village sacrifice, then killed him and prepared to attack the villagers as Kudo Shinichi watched.
• Xiao Zhen recalled all the resentful souls, refined the Resentful Soul Space into a bead, and told Kurumi, Nia, and Miyano Shiho that he had resolved the incident.
• Xiao Zhen's true body began breaking through in the Great Thousand World, causing tremors across Xuanji Continent as Xiao Yan hoped he would succeed.

After establishing safeguards in the Great Thousand World, Xiao Zhen traveled to the Low-Spec Primordial World, where his power was suppressed. He reached the mainland during Di Xin’s early reign and began looking for cultivators and a way to understand the new world.

• Xiao Zhen raised Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns, promised his family he would return every ten years, and refused to let Chat Group members accompany him to the dangerous world.
• Xiao Zhen passed through a world passage into the Low-Spec Primordial World, learned its upper limit was Great Luo Golden Immortal, and discovered his power was suppressed.
• Xiao Zhen reached Little Cloud Island, disguised himself as a fisherman, and used a fabricated story to learn that the mainland lay northwest across the sea.
• Xiao Zhen sailed to the mainland and saw that its people were far stronger than those of the historical Yin-Shang Dynasty.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Di Xin had recently ascended the throne and pondered whether later stories of his downfall were caused by plots against him.

Xiao Zhen left Chaoge after discovering that Western Sect leaders had tampered with Di Xin and learned that Shen Gongbao was involved in the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity. He fled to relocate his cave abode, taking his attendants and a newly acquired spear he named the Thunderclap Spear.

• Xiao Zhen sensed Chaoge City's Human Dao Destiny Energy, kept a low profile for over ten years, and decided to leave when Di Xin offended Nuwa at her birthday celebration.
• Xiao Zhen inspected Di Xin with his system and found his Human Dao Destiny Energy afflicted, while two Western Sect leaders discussed their scheme to trigger chaos and recruit destined people.
• Xiao Zhen left Chaoge and later traded pills with Shen Gongbao for a mid-grade immortal spear, then hurried away to avoid being drawn into the calamity.
• Xiao Zhen returned to his cave abode, ordered his attendants to pack so they could move, and named the spear the Thunderclap Spear.

Xiao Zhen sought refuge in the Heavenly Court to avoid being drawn into the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. He received an official post overseeing an immortal herb garden and brought his little spirits to live with him there.

• Xiao Zhen decided to seek refuge in the Heavenly Court after his group warned him that meeting Shen Gongbao might draw him into the calamity.
• Xiao Zhen flew to the South Heaven Gate, where the Fire Virtue Star Lord escorted him to meet Taibai Jinxing.
• Xiao Zhen demonstrated his alchemy skills and was assigned to oversee an immortal herb garden and assist the Immortal Elixir Hall when needed.
• The Heavenly Court gave Xiao Zhen an identity token, ten years' salary, and a cave abode.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the lower realm and brought the little spirits under his command to the Heavenly Court.

Xiao Zhen watched the Investiture of the Gods Calamity devastate the Jie Sect and end the Shang-Zhou war. At the investiture ceremony, Jiang Ziya learned that he had received no divine position and would have to live out his remaining years as a mortal.

• Xiao Zhen learned that the Jie Sect and Chan Sect were fighting, then watched the Three Xiao Immortals’ Nine-Bend Yellow River Array wound the Chan Sect’s Twelve Golden Immortals.
• The Jie Sect was defeated after Immortal Dingguang Xian defected, and the Western Sect seized many Jie Sect disciples as mounts.
• Di Xin immolated himself at Deer Terrace, and the Dao Ancestor intervened to end the Saints’ battle after Master of Heaven unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Array.
• Xiao Zhen joined Taibai Jinxing as an assistant and observed Jiang Ziya conduct the investiture ceremony.
• Jiang Ziya read every name on the Investiture of the Gods List but found no position for himself, while Shen Gongbao mocked him and Jiang Ziya warned Shen Gongbao about his fate in the Eye of the Sea.

Xiao Zhen took charge of the Immortal Elixir Hall, cleaned up its operations, and rose in the Heavenly Court while the Great Zhou Dynasty weakened and Buddhism was established. He devised a plan to blame the Hall’s enormous old deficit on the future Havoc in Heaven, while the stone destined to become the Monkey King continued gathering energy.

• Xiao Zhen became deputy hall master of the Immortal Elixir Hall and introduced work hours and bonuses to curb theft and increase elixir production.
• A hundred years passed as Xiao Zhen became a second-rank official and advanced to the late True Immortal stage.
• Laozi sent Duobao west to establish Buddhism, but the Western Sect joined it, and Duobao became Buddha Tathagata.
• Xiao Zhen refined elixirs from leftover cold peaches and sent most of them to the group as red packets.
• Xiao Zhen decided to blame the Immortal Elixir Hall’s accumulated deficit on the Monkey King stealing its elixirs during Havoc in Heaven.
• Xiao Zhen observed Flower-Fruit Mountain and saw that the stone destined to become the Monkey King was still absorbing the sun and moon’s essence.

Xiao Zhen repaired the Sword of Destiny, gave it to Medusa, and recruited four new members to the Chat Group, who discussed their futures and missions. Just as Xiao Zhen prepared to cultivate, he learned that four of the Twelve Golden Immortals had defected from Chan Sect to Buddhism, strengthening the West and enraging Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

• Xiao Zhen repaired the Sword of Destiny with Points and gave it to Medusa to use on missions.
• Xiao Zhen brought Ye Hei, Forever Seventeen-Year-Old Girl, Beautiful Female Writer, and Yang Erlang into the Chat Group; they learned about their futures and missions.
• Demon Lord Chonglou agreed to help Yang Jian revise the Heavenly Laws in exchange for seventy percent of the Points.
• Xiao Zhen returned home and planned to refine pills and enter secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Daoist Cihang, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, Juliusun, and Daoist Randeng had joined the West, bolstering Buddhism after the Investiture of the Gods War.

Xiao Zhen overcame a layered inner demon and reached the early Golden Immortal realm, then celebrated and traveled to the East Sea Dragon Palace. The Old Dragon King explained why he had endured Nezha’s killing of his son, revealing the powerful figures and divine fate that had forced him to back down.

• Xiao Zhen broke through the first inner demon illusion, then realized the Heavenly Court celebration was another illusion and forced himself back to reality, confirming he had reached the early Golden Immortal realm.
• Xiao Zhen celebrated his breakthrough, rewarded his gatekeepers with elixirs, and sent immortal elixirs to members of the Chat Group.
• Xiao Zhen used the Jade Emperor’s ten-year leave to visit the East Sea Dragon Palace and traded elixirs for treasures.
• Xiao Zhen learned that the Old Dragon King had planned to destroy Li Jing’s family after Nezha killed his son, but Taiyi Zhenren, Daoist Randeng, and Nezha’s connection to Nuwa had forced him to endure the loss.

After visiting the East Sea Dragon Palace, Xiao Zhen spent years cultivating and discussing the Dao with Great Immortal Zhenyuan at Five Zhuang Temple before returning to the Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Ye Fan prepared for the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, and Duanmu Yan entered a parallel Armor Hero world and decided to teach Bei Miao a lesson.

• Xiao Zhen left the East Sea Dragon Palace after trading pills for supplies and learned where powerful flames could be found.
• At Five Zhuang Temple, Qingfeng and Mingyue welcomed Xiao Zhen, and Great Immortal Zhenyuan gave him two Ginseng Fruits in return for his Seven-Revolutions Soul Nurturing Pill.
• Xiao Zhen discussed the Dao with Zhen Yuanzi for more than five years, deepened his understanding, and found clues for combining the Flame Mantra with the Nine Revolutions Arcane Art.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Heavenly Court as Ye Fan prepared to travel to Mount Tai, and Chonglou offered to protect him.
• Duanmu Yan livestreamed from a parallel Armor Hero world, and Xiao Zhen tipped him 100,000 Points to encourage him to teach Bei Miao a lesson.

Duanmu Yan defeated Bei Miao and then joined Ye Fan’s livestream as nine Dragon corpses and a Bronze Coffin arrived at Mount Tai. Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Chonglou entered the coffin, which carried them to a barren wasteland.

• Duanmu Yan beat Bei Miao out of his Black Rhinoceros Armor, then discouraged Kun Zhong and the Wind Eagle Hero from attacking.
• Ye Fan’s livestream showed nine enormous Dragon corpses, the Five-Colored Altar, and the Bronze Coffin on Mount Tai, while Ye Fan offered the corpses for sale.
• Chonglou arrived and warned Ye Fan and Pang Bo that the Bronze Coffin was about to activate; its suction pulled the crowd inside, and Chonglou carried the two friends in with him.
• Xiao Zhen assigned Ye Fan and Chonglou a mission to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree on Mars, and promised Ye Fan pills and a cultivation art.
• After the Bronze Coffin opened, Ye Fan and the others emerged into a barren wasteland instead of Mount Tai.

Ye Fan and Chonglou retrieved the Bodhi Ancient Tree and defeated the Crocodile Ancestor, while Xiao Zhen tended the tree in Heaven. The Jade Emperor announced that the next great calamity would concern the West, leaving Xiao Zhen considering whether to send mounts down to challenge the future scripture-seeking team.

• Chonglou carried Ye Fan and Pang Bo to the Great Thunderclap Temple, where he dug up the Bodhi Ancient Tree and sent it to Xiao Zhen through the Chat Group.
• Chonglou and Ye Fan received rewards from Xiao Zhen, and Ye Fan began cultivating the Nine Revolutions Arcane Art while promising to teach Pang Bo later.
• Xiao Zhen planted the withered Bodhi Ancient Tree in Heaven and used a Spirit Gathering Array until it began growing green leaves.
• Chonglou defeated the Crocodile Ancestor, dismembered it, and auctioned its body parts through the Chat Group, while Xiao Zhen bought some bones and meat.
• The Jade Emperor told Xiao Zhen and the senior ministers that the next great calamity would involve the West and that Heaven must assist the Buddhist Sect.
• Xiao Zhen observed figures who might join the future scripture-seeking team and wondered whether to send mounts down to create tribulations for them.

Xiao Zhen and several Chat Group members entered the Main God Space to investigate its core and joined Zhan Lan’s Resident Evil mission. After the mission changed to helping Xiao Zhen reach the core, the group entered The Hive, where Xiao Zhen secretly made the Lickers more dangerous and the released creatures began hunting them.

• Xiao Zhen traveled with Yakumo Yukari, Yue Buqun, Hiratsuka Shizuka, and Busujima Saeko to the Main God Space after Zhan Lan accepted its invitation.
• Xiao Zhen found and revived Zhan Lan, while Yue Buqun considered killing the unconscious Zhang Jie and Zhan Lan argued that they should spare him for now.
• The Adventure System detected a Main God template, and Zhan Lan reported that her mission had changed to helping Xiao Zhen approach the Main God Space’s core for a million Points.
• Xiao Zhen and the others pretended to be unconscious and acquired Main God Watches before Zhang Jie woke and recognized the Resident Evil mission.
• Xiao Zhen secretly bent the Licker cages and found no hidden humans beneath The Hive; after the Red Queen was shut down, zombies and mutated creatures were released to hunt the group.
• Yakumo Yukari clung to Xiao Zhen and called for help, while he teased her about taking advantage of him.

After helping the Reincarnators escape the collapsing Main God Space, Xiao Zhen returned to the Great Thousand World and watched the Primordial Continent approach another great calamity. He then met the young Ying Zheng in Zhao State and recognized the Human Dao destiny hidden within him.

• The Adventure System devoured the Main God Space, and Xiao Zhen sent Zheng Zha and the other Reincarnators back to Earth before escaping with the Chat Group.
• The Adventure System rose from Level 31 to Level 33, and several hundred years later the Zhou Dynasty neared collapse as the Heavenly Court sensed a new calamity approaching.
• Xiao Zhen secretly placed a concealed puppet on Flower-Fruit Mountain to monitor Stone Monkey, who had just emerged from the stone.
• Xiao Zhen sent an old Daoist incarnation to meet Ying Zheng in Zhao State and gave him a pill that instantly healed his injuries.
• Using the system's Eye of Detection, Xiao Zhen discovered that Human Dao Destiny Energy had chosen Ying Zheng, and he decided to cultivate a relationship with the future ruler.

Xiao Zhen guided Ying Zheng as the Qin Empire rose, then cleansed an influence in Ying Zheng’s soul that had pushed him toward conflict with the Heavenly Court. Ying Zheng planned to seek help from Fire Cloud Cave and pay his respects at Nuwa Temple, while Xiao Zhen returned to the Heavenly Court to investigate who had plotted against the Qin Empire.

• Xiao Zhen sent Ying Zheng and Zhao Ji back to the Qin State and warned Ying Zheng to act carefully as he faced future hardships.
• Over the following decades, Ying Zheng unified Southern Jambudvipa, restored the Human King’s aura, and built a flourishing Qin Empire with Xiao Zhen’s help.
• Ying Zheng summoned Xiao Zhen and showed him an Imperial Edict demanding that the Qin Empire submit to the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Zhen discovered and cleansed an abnormality in Ying Zheng’s soul that had been encouraging him to oppose the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Zhen urged Ying Zheng to report the plot to the seniors in Fire Cloud Cave and pay his respects at Nuwa Temple.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Heavenly Court and began searching for the person who wanted to harm the Qin Empire.

Xiao Zhen and Ying Zheng uncovered Buddhism’s role in plots against the Qin Empire, and Ying Zheng’s refusal to grant Buddhism access brought their conflict into the open. As a million-strong demon army invaded from the southwest and sea demons landed in the northeast, the Qin Empire faced a war on two fronts while the Heavenly Court gathered to respond.

• Xiao Zhen discovered Qin soldiers driving Buddhist monks away and suspected Buddhism was stirring conflict against Ying Zheng’s empire.
• Xiao Zhen warned Ying Zheng that Western Buddhism had plotted against earlier Human Kings, and Ying Zheng sought help from Fire Cloud Cave.
• The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors confronted Ancient Buddha Randeng, who demanded that Ying Zheng allow Buddhism into Southern Jambudvipa; Ying Zheng refused and publicly outlawed becoming a monk.
• A year later, a demon army led by a Golden Crow invaded from the southwest, and Ying Zheng called on humanity to defend the Qin Empire.
• Ying Zheng mobilized three hundred thousand soldiers, but the southwestern line fell and sea demons attacked the northeastern coast; Xiao Zhen identified the leaders as Lu Ya and forces from Kunpeng.
• The Jade Emperor summoned a meeting after news of the two-pronged invasion reached the Heavenly Court.