Chapter Summaries

During the ten-day victory feast, Song Changming learned that the Immortal Court tightly guarded immortal arts and divine abilities, then received notice of his promotion to captain. After the feast, he took command of the depleted Eighth Company with twenty new recruits.

• Li Gengsheng told Song Changming that the Military Prefecture offered combat methods and treasures, but divine abilities and superior arts were controlled by High Immortals and joining their factions carried risks.
• Song Changming considered relying on his own progress and focused on mastering Three Heads Six Arms rather than joining a faction for instruction.
• Qingquan told Song Changming he would promote him to captain of the Eighth Company, praising his campaign merits and potential.
• The ten-day victory feast ended, and Song Changming woke Li Gengsheng, who regretted spending seven days drunk and missing the feast.
• Qingquan promoted Song Changming and assigned twenty recruits to the Eighth Company, which had been wiped out in the war.

After ten years in the Immortal Court, Song Changming returned to the Penglai Sea to investigate the mutation fog and found a red pearl at its source. As enormous mist spirits attacked him, he used the Wind Spirit Fan’s Heavenly Gale to disperse them, with the confrontation still unfolding.

• Song Changming enlisted the black monkey Demon Soul to guide his divine ability cultivation and improved his training efficiency.
• Ten years later, Song Changming arrived at the Penglai Sea with Tang Keca and two others, then asked the Old Turtle whether the fog had changed.
• Song Changming examined the spatial wall, entered the fog alone, and used his Great Evolution Five Elements Saber Array to fend off the mist spirits.
• Song Changming found a red pearl that drew in and released the fog, then faced several enormous mist spirits guarding it.
• Song Changming swung his Wind Spirit Fan and unleashed three layers of Heavenly Gale, then swung it again to release six layers.

Song Changming fought a Heavenly Immortal-level Mutated Fog Spirit formed around a red pearl and struggled to overcome its strength and regeneration. Just as the spirit changed into a more dangerous second form and Song Changming neared exhaustion, Xiao Jiu arrived to help.

• Song Changming used the Heavenly Gale fan to scatter the Fog Spirits, but the red pearl gathered the surrounding mist and formed a powerful Mutated Fog Spirit.
• The spirit unleashed negative emotions and struck Song Changming, who recognized its Heavenly Immortal-level strength and activated the monkey hair he had received from Xiao Jiu.
• Xiao Jiu sensed Song Changming's distress, received permission from Venerable Abyss to leave, and took a Profound Artifact to help him reopen the old path.
• Song Changming held off the spirit with the Heavenly Gale fan, his Immortal Saber, Death Sleep Wind, and his Three Heads Six Arms divine power, which he had recently mastered.
• Song Changming wounded the spirit but could not reach the red pearl, and it transformed the spirit into a grotesque second form as his strength ran low.
• Xiao Jiu arrived just as Song Changming was nearing exhaustion.

Song Changming and Xiao Jiu defeated the second-form Mist Spirit with Xiao Jiu’s Mountain Moving Divine Ability, then used the Kongxu Seal to break the invisible spatial wall. The resulting spatial rupture revealed traces of a passage, leaving Song Changming suspecting that the sealed old path was the Heaven-Connecting Road to the Nine Provinces.

• Xiao Jiu joined Song Changming against the Heavenly Immortal-level Mist Spirit, but ordinary attacks could not destroy it, so Song Changming told him to target its red pearl.
• Song Changming held the Mist Spirit back while Xiao Jiu gathered power and used the Mountain Moving Divine Ability to suppress it, shattering its pearl.
• Xiao Jiu collected the Mist Spirit’s remains and explained that Venerable Abyss had sent him to reopen the old path with the Kongxu Seal.
• Song Changming examined the invisible wall and found that it was made of exquisitely compressed and solidified space.
• Xiao Jiu struck the wall with the Kongxu Seal, creating a growing spatial black hole that began swallowing the surrounding land and sea.
• Song Changming recognized incomplete traces of a spatial tunnel and suspected the wall had sealed the ancient Heaven-Connecting Road to the Nine Provinces.

Song Changming and Monkey Bro sacrificed the Kongxu Seal to repair and stabilize a spatial passage that might be the Heaven-Connecting Road to the Nine Provinces. The passage’s reopening triggered a calamity across the Nine Provinces, where Su Qingqing and the other rulers were left facing a vast spatial disturbance.

• Song Changming told Monkey Bro that the old path lay inside the spatial black hole, and Monkey Bro used the Kongxu Seal to close the hole and restore the passage, leaving the seal behind.
• The Nine Provinces experienced dimmed skies, raging spiritual energy, and widespread disasters as powerful figures gathered in Yuanzhou to investigate the strange phenomenon.
• Su Qingqing explained that an aurora had struck a mountain near the Tianwu Imperial Palace and left behind a mysterious gray energy mass.
• The gray energy mass exploded, destroying the mountain and blasting the gathered Grandmasters more than a hundred li away despite their defenses.
• Su Qingqing found that the Tianwu Imperial Palace had collapsed, and Xi Yanxue comforted her before the group returned to investigate the source.
• The Grandmasters discovered that the gray energy mass had vanished, leaving spatial chaos connected to a spiraling torrent in the sky.

After the Nine Provinces recovered from the upheaval, the nine Kings discovered that the Heavenly Staircase led toward a spatial passage to the Primal Continent, and Grandmasters began leaving to seek the immortal path. Su Qingqing resolved to follow Song Changming only after arranging Yuanzhou’s succession, while the Kings moved to secure the Staircase.

• King Yun identified the golden staircase as the legendary Heavenly Staircase, and the Old Grandmaster climbed it before returning with the message, “Ascend the Heavenly Staircase, follow the ancient road, seek immortal traces, gain eternal life.”
• Several Grandmasters climbed farther and discovered a spatial passage within the vortex; some entered it and did not return, prompting many other experts to depart for the other shore.
• King Yun and the other Kings agreed to seal off the Heavenly Staircase and require approval for anyone wishing to ascend it.
• Su Qingqing told Little Phoenix she would seek Song Changming after resigning as Yuan King and transferring authority responsibly.
• Su Qingqing asked Xi Yanxue to support Yuanzhou’s next ruler after she left.

Su Qingqing abdicated as Queen of Yuanzhou and climbed the Heaven-Ascending Steps with Little Phoenix, Hya, and Yuan San to reach the New World. She arrived alone on the Primal Continent, survived an attack by a fish demon, and confirmed the land was the one Song Changming had described.

• Xi Yanxue agreed to remain in the Nine Provinces for up to fifty years while Su Qingqing left to search for Song Changming.
• Su Qingqing abdicated as Queen of Yuanzhou and set out with Little Phoenix, Hya, and Yuan San to climb the Heaven-Ascending Steps.
• The four reached the spatial passageway and entered it together, but the journey scattered their consciousness and left them separated on arrival.
• Su Qingqing fell into the sea, escaped its currents, and fought a fish demon that pursued her onto shore.
• Su Qingqing defeated the fish demon, then counted nine suns in the sky and recognized that she had reached the Primal Continent.

Su Qingqing arrived on the Primal Continent alone and was captured by Bird Daoist before Song Changming rescued her. After reuniting, they caught up on their lives and discussed finding her a path to immortality, while Guai Li arrived at the end.

• Su Qingqing found herself alone on the Primal Continent and struggled to adjust to its immense spiritual energy, gravity, and hard terrain.
• Bird Daoist attacked Su Qingqing, bound her with a black rope, and planned to use her as a pill catalyst.
• Song Changming appeared, forced Bird Daoist to kneel, and freed Su Qingqing, who tearfully embraced him.
• Su Qingqing told Song Changming about her years as queen and the friends separated from her, and he explained that finding them across the vast continent would be difficult.
• Song Changming confirmed he had become an immortal and promised to find Su Qingqing an Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Guai Li, the Glazed Fire essence and Venerable Abyss's youngest disciple, arrived before Song Changming.

Song Changming arranged for Guai Li to take Su Qingqing to Myriad Fire Forest and asked Tiger Might Mountain Venerable to retrieve Hya and Yuan San, while Little Phoenix arrived on the Primal Continent and drew the attention of the Black Tortoise. Years later, as Song Changming finished guarding the Immortal City, an Immortal Venerable and a Buddha clashed nearby, revealing the growing hostility between the Immortal Court and Buddhist Sect.

• Song Changming asked Guai Li to take Su Qingqing to Myriad Fire Forest, and Su Qingqing agreed to pursue immortality there.
• Song Changming located Hya and Yuan San through the God Binding Seal, and Tiger Might Mountain Venerable promised to send tiger spirits to retrieve them.
• Little Phoenix crashed into the north of the Primal Continent and fought snake spirits, prompting the Black Tortoise to order Old Turtles to escort her south to the Vermilion Bird.
• After several years, Song Changming's assignment guarding the Immortal City ended as an Immortal Venerable and a Buddha fought in the sky nearby.
• Li Gengsheng told Song Changming that the Buddhist Sect had grown powerful and secretly defied the Immortal King's orders.

Song Changming learned more about the Witch Clan’s ancient fate, entrusted Yuan San with recovering its scattered inheritances, and helped Hya begin her path toward becoming an Immortal. After returning to the Immortal Court, Song Changming advanced to the middle stage of True Immortal.

• Song Changming witnessed an Immortal Venerable and a Buddha fight over Immortal City before both vanished, delaying his return to the Immortal Court.
• Hya and Yuan San reunited with Song Changming, and Hya gave him a message from Little Phoenix explaining that she had gone south to find the Ancestor Bird.
• Song Changming arranged for Tiger Might Mountain Venerable to take Hya to Thunder Marsh Tiger Mountain, while Yuan San stayed with Song Changming.
• Yuan San told Song Changming that the Witch Clan had originated on the Primal Continent and perished despite fleeing the great calamity, then promised to search for scattered Witch God Stone fragments.
• Song Changming returned to the Immortal Court and, aided by his Immortal Cultivator Physique Trait, advanced from early-stage to middle-stage True Immortal and strengthened his Spirit Rain immortal art.

Song Changming joined Guai Li to seek Sun God Fire at a location calculated by a disciple of Eight Trigrams Dao Venerate, but a Buddha's Son ambushed Guai Li and tried to force her into the Buddhist Sect. Song Changming rescued her, and the two fled suspecting their destination had been leaked as part of a trap.

• Song Changming tested his increased immortal power with the Spirit Rain Technique and concluded that his Immortal Martial strength let him fight like a late-stage True Immortal.
• Guai Li invited Song Changming to search for Sun God Fire using a location calculated by a disciple of Eight Trigrams Dao Venerate, and they traveled to a mountain in the southeast of the Primal Continent.
• An Old Ginseng Spirit greeted Song Changming and Guai Li at the mountain, while Guai Li sensed strange music and went to investigate below.
• A Buddha's Son confronted Guai Li and tried to capture her with Palm-in-Buddha-Land so she would take refuge in the Buddhist Sect.
• Song Changming broke through the divine ability and escaped with Guai Li, then suspected their journey had been leaked and asked whether the disciple had told her about the Sun God Fire's location.

Song Changming witnessed the Buddha's Son capture Guai Li and hurried to warn Venerable Abyss, who revealed that the trap had targeted him. Venerable Abyss retaliated against the Buddhist Sect, but the conflict cost him his chance to attain a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.

• Song Changming and Guai Li fought the Buddha's Son, but he bound Guai Li with Buddha bead relics and carried her away.
• Song Changming reported Guai Li's capture to Venerable Abyss, who said the Buddha's Son had targeted him and went to resolve the matter himself.
• Cangzhe worried that the Buddhist Sect's scheme aimed to disrupt Venerable Abyss's imminent breakthrough, while Song Changming returned to await news.
• News spread that Venerable Abyss had killed several Buddha's Sons and Arhats and injured Buddhas before the Immortal King and Buddha Ancestor intervened.
• Song Changming learned that the reported thousand-year thunder punishment was false, but Venerable Abyss had lost his chance to obtain the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.

Song Changming learned that Guai Li had been gravely harmed by the Buddhist Sect and met a mysterious Goddess who granted Venerable Abyss access to the Heavenly Pond. Determined to gain strength, Song Changming demonstrated his combat skill at the Nine-Turn Military Camp and faced a challenge from Auxiliary Army General Li Liang.

• Venerable Abyss told Song Changming that Miaoshan Buddha's Son had tried to turn Guai Li into a lamp flame, leaving her stripped of her spiritual radiance and divine consciousness, and said the Heavenly Pond might restore her over five hundred years.
• Song Changming vowed to stand by Venerable Abyss's disciples, then learned that the Immortal King had accepted the Buddha Ancestor's punishment of confining Miaoshan Buddha's Son for five hundred years.
• After drinking with Venerable Abyss's disciples, Song Changming encountered a mysterious Goddess, who discovered a karmic connection to him and secretly manifested a red thread before leaving to meet Venerable Abyss.
• The Goddess agreed to grant Venerable Abyss use of the Heavenly Pond on the condition that he accept a matter she had not yet revealed.
• At the Nine-Turn Military Camp, Song Changming defeated a fellow squad leader with his fists, impressing the assembled generals.
• Jiuxiao ordered Li Liang to test Song Changming, offering one hundred high-grade Immortal Nurturing Pills to the winner, and Li Liang entered the field with his halberd.

Song Changming defeated Auxiliary Army General Li Liang with a single saber strike, earning Jiuxiao’s recognition and a hundred high-grade Immortal Nurturing Pills. A month later, Song Changming was still short on cultivation resources, while Yuan San’s search for Witch Clan ruins had failed and Song Changming set the inheritance hunt aside for now.

• Song Changming overwhelmed Li Liang with punches, then drew his saber and severed Li Liang’s Nether River Heavenly Water technique with one strike.
• Li Liang admitted defeat, and Jiuxiao rewarded Song Changming with one hundred high-grade Immortal Nurturing Pills and said he could qualify as an Auxiliary Army General by earning immortal merit.
• Song Changming’s victory made his name known among the army, but he remained focused on obtaining a Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit and advancing his strength.
• A month after the contest, Song Changming had used ten high-grade pills and worried that his cultivation needs outstripped his resources.
• Yuan San reported that he could not find Witch Clan ruins, though Witch Clan relics might have been taken by powerful immortals and demons; Song Changming put the search aside and focused on his Immortal Martial path.

Song Changming led the purge of demons invading Myriad Flowers Treasure Land and earned enough immortal merit to become an Auxiliary Army General. After receiving his new armor and saber and forming a larger unit, he met the Myriad Flowers Immortal, who had come to thank the army.

• Song Changming and the heavenly army rescued Flower Spirits from Tree Demons and slew the strongest demon.
• Song Changming and Qingquan noted that Evil Demons had been appearing unusually often as the army continued its mission.
• After the month-long campaign ended, Song Changming was promoted to Auxiliary Army General and received high-grade armor and an Immortal Saber.
• Song Changming formed a new force with his former soldiers, promoted squad leaders, and two hundred recruits.
• Great General Lei Xiao brought the Myriad Flowers Immortal to the Ninth Battalion, where she personally thanked the heavenly soldiers and generals.

After Myriad Flowers Fairy rewarded the Northern Immortal Army with divine power, she met the Nine Heavens Goddess and discussed Song Changming, whose fate was mysteriously bound to the Goddess by a red thread. The Goddess refused to seek help from Elder Hong, but Myriad Flowers Fairy persuaded her to use a Witch God Stone fragment to approach Song Changming peacefully.

• Myriad Flowers Fairy calmed the heavenly soldiers and generals and boosted their cultivation with her natural divine power.
• Song Changming returned to his new immortal residence and began refining the power he had received.
• Myriad Flowers Fairy met the Nine Heavens Goddess beside the Nine Heavens Divine Pool, where Sacred Glazed Fire floated in the water.
• Myriad Flowers Fairy told the Goddess that Song Changming's fate was hidden and that he possessed the Ancient Witch Clan inheritance despite being human.
• The Goddess refused to consult Elder Hong, so Myriad Flowers Fairy gave her a Witch God Stone fragment and suggested she approach Song Changming peacefully.
• The Goddess rejected Myriad Flowers Fairy's suggestion that she take Song Changming as a disciple.

Song Changming used Myriad Flowers Immortal’s natural might to reach the late True Immortal stage, while Su Qingqing won an Immortal Dao Fruit in the Myriad Fire Forest and was pursued by powerful creatures. Yuan San arrived just as Su Qingqing was cornered, killing one fire essence and confronting the remaining pursuers.

• Song Changming refined Myriad Flowers Immortal’s natural might and broke through to the late True Immortal stage.
• Su Qingqing obtained an Immortal Dao Fruit after nearly twenty years in the Myriad Fire Forest, then escaped its fire essences using her Fox-tail Clone.
• A Silver Fox Woman, a tiger essence, and three fire people caught up with Su Qingqing and fought over the Dao Fruit as she ran out of strength.
• Yuan San arrived and froze the surrounding land with his Yin baleful aura.
• Yuan San destroyed one fire person with a gust of Yinfeng, leaving the Silver Fox Woman and the remaining fire essences wary of him.

Yuan San protected Su Qingqing from the Silver Fox Immortal and a tiger spirit until a Buddha's Son intervened and tried to take them into the Buddhist Sect. Song Changming arrived to defend his attendants, sent Yuan San and Su Qingqing away, and battled the Buddha's Son, who revealed her Spider Spirit form and summoned powerful willow-leaf treasures.

• Yuan San killed the fire spirits, restrained the Silver Fox Immortal with death energy, and trapped her as the tiger spirit watched.
• The Buddha's Son arrived, freed the Silver Fox Immortal, rejected the tiger spirit, and tried to capture Su Qingqing and Yuan San in golden cages.
• Song Changming struck the Buddha's Son and let Yuan San take Su Qingqing toward the Immortal City to consume the Immortal Dao Fruit.
• The Buddha's Son pursued Yuan San with a willow leaf, but Song Changming intercepted it and stayed behind to fight her.
• Song Changming dodged the willow leaf, countered the Buddha's Son's spiderweb with Death Sleep Wind, and forced her to reveal her Spider Spirit form.
• The Spider Spirit Buddha's Son attacked with more willow leaves, so Song Changming used Three Heads Six Arms and wielded six Immortal Sabers to defend himself.

Song Changming defeated the Spider Spirit, took her Buddhist Dharma techniques, and helped Su Qingqing complete the Immortal Martial path as the second Martial Saint. In the lower realm, Jintan tracked down the silver fox and demanded to know what had happened to Zi Zhuzi.

• Song Changming fought the Spider Spirit for two days and two nights, defeated her with Three Heads Six Arms, extracted her Buddhist Dharma techniques, and then destroyed her soul.
• Song Changming discovered that his panel let him cultivate Buddhist Dharma, then collected the Spider Spirit's treasures and flew to the Immortal City.
• After recovering, Su Qingqing underwent the immortal tribulation and used Song Changming's revised method to form a Martial Core, becoming the second Martial Saint.
• Song Changming congratulated Su Qingqing and explained how immortal power would gradually reshape her body into an Immortal Physique.
• At the Buddhist Sect, the Saint Buddha sent Jintan to find Zi Zhuzi, and Jintan confronted the silver fox in the lower realm, demanding to know what had happened.

Jintan captured Song Changming for the Buddhist Sect, but Cangzhe intervened and defeated him after a three-day battle. The Unwitting Creation Saint Buddha then descended, overpowering the battlefield and revealing that Venerable Abyss could not foresee matters involving him.

• Jintan imprisoned Silver Fox, then found Song Changming and accused him of killing his junior sister.
• Jintan heavily wounded Song Changming and bound him with the Immortal Binding Rope, but Cangzhe arrived to rescue him.
• Cangzhe fought Jintan for three days while Song Changming used Death Sleep Wind to erode the rope.
• Cangzhe defeated Jintan and was about to kill him when the Unwitting Creation Saint Buddha intervened and forced Cangzhe from the sky.
• The Unwitting Creation Saint Buddha suppressed Song Changming and Cangzhe, then said Venerable Abyss could not foresee his karmic bond.