Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu reflected on the Primordial World’s calamities and resolved to grow strong enough to defy its greater trend, then used the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead to locate the other two immortal islands. He discovered that Mount Fangzhang Island and Yingzhou Island lay nearby, leaving him eager to explore their treasures.

• Bai Yu concluded that strength alone could overturn the Primordial World’s predetermined greater trend and believed he could master an Origin Great Dao before the Fierce Beast Calamity ended.
• Bai Yu opened a cave abode on a mountain near the Huangzhong Plum and planted his collected Innate Spiritual Roots around Penglai Immortal Island.
• Bai Yu used the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead to trace the karma and destiny linking Penglai Immortal Island to the other two immortal islands.
• Bai Yu sensed Mount Fangzhang Island nine hundred million li northwest and Yingzhou Island eight hundred million li northeast of Penglai Immortal Island.

Bai Yu searched Mount Fangzhang Island for Jianmu and found no major treasures aboveground, but refining its stele revealed a hidden underground space. There he discovered an immense pool of Three Lights Divine Water, the Heavenly Water Divine Bead that produced it, and a mysterious piece of wood, whose nature remained unknown.

• Bai Yu arrived on Mount Fangzhang Island and searched its forests for Jianmu, but found neither Jianmu nor any Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Roots or Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Bai Yu refined the island's central stone stele and gained control of Mount Fangzhang Island, uncovering a concealed underground dimension.
• Bai Yu entered the hidden space and found an enormous pool of golden, silver, and purple Three Lights Divine Water.
• Bai Yu refined the azure Heavenly Water Divine Bead and learned that it had produced the pool of Three Lights Divine Water over countless years.
• Bai Yu collected the Heavenly Water Divine Bead and all the Three Lights Divine Water, revealing a short piece of wood that held life and death in balance.

Bai Yu discovered Primordial Origin Qi inside a piece of wood on Mount Fangzhang Island and transformed it into a Chaos Spiritual Root, the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree. After learning that its Chaos Divine Water could resurrect beings below the Great Dao Realm, he left for Yingzhou Island.

• Bai Yu found Primordial Origin Qi in the wood and realized it was the source of Mount Fangzhang Island's dense Chaos Qi.
• Bai Yu refined the wood and used the Primordial Origin Qi within it to grow a Chaos Spiritual Root.
• Bai Yu named the tree the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree and found that it produced Chaos Qi and Chaos Divine Water.
• Bai Yu learned that the Chaos Divine Water could reverse life and death and fully resurrect beings below the Great Dao Realm, with stronger beings requiring more water.
• Bai Yu put away the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree and traveled to Yingzhou Island.

Bai Yu discovered that Yingzhou Island’s desolation came from a dead Chaos Demon God’s half-corpse locked in conflict with Pangu’s lingering axe light. He summoned Myriad Worlds City’s Great Dao power to investigate, but the island, the corpse, and the axe light were annihilated when the Primordial World’s Great Dao power suppressed it.

• Bai Yu crossed Yingzhou Island’s barren, perilous landscape while the Mysterious Bright Treasure Bead protected him from Chaos Currents, baleful Qi, resentment, and deathly Qi.
• Bai Yu found a Chaos Demon God’s half-corpse near the island’s center and recognized that Pangu’s lingering axe light was suppressing it.
• Bai Yu summoned Myriad Worlds City’s Great Dao power, relying on the Karma Great Dao to conceal the disturbance from Heaven’s secrets.
• Hongjun sensed a brief upheaval in the Great Dao while studying beneath the Jade Plate of Creation, but he could not discover its cause.
• The Primordial World’s Great Dao power suppressed and annihilated Myriad Worlds City’s power, destroying Yingzhou Island, Pangu’s axe light, and the Demon God’s half-corpse.

Bai Yu’s attempt to obtain the Demon God's Half-Corpse brought Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power into conflict with the Primordial Great Daos, destroying Yingzhou Island and the half-corpse. After returning to Penglai Immortal Island, he realized that it and Abbot Immortal Island might be able to merge now that the three islands’ origins had weakened.

• Bai Yu drew down a trace of Myriad Worlds City's Great Dao power, triggering the Primordial World's passive defense and destroying Yingzhou Island.
• The Primordial Great Daos annihilated the Demon God's Half-Corpse while Bai Yu stayed out of the clash.
• Bai Yu left the sea and returned to Penglai Immortal Island, where he sensed a problem with its island-protecting formation.
• Bai Yu realized the three immortal islands had once been one and that Abbot Immortal Island's piece of wood supplied Chaos Qi to their formations.
• Bai Yu considered that Penglai Immortal Island and Abbot Immortal Island might merge without violating the Primordial World's rules because their origins had been damaged.

Bai Yu merged Abbot Immortal Island into Penglai Immortal Island, strengthened its defenses, and began turning it into his home. With the East Sea search finished and the Chat Group quiet, the chapter also noted Lin Daiyu’s progress in cultivation and Myriad Worlds City.

• Bai Yu merged Abbot Immortal Island into Penglai Immortal Island and planted the Chaos Life and Death Divine Tree beside the Huangzhong Plum.
• Bai Yu created the Heavenly Water Pool to store Three Lights Divine Water, though it remained a Postnatal Supreme Treasure.
• Bai Yu reorganized Penglai Immortal Island’s formation, using the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler as its core, and placed the Green Lotus Treasure Banner on the Huangzhong Plum.
• Bai Yu stopped searching the East Sea and began renovating Penglai Immortal Island as his long-term home.
• The Chat Group remained quiet, while Lin Daiyu reached the Eleventh Order Golden Immortal realm and continued developing her shop in Myriad Worlds City.

After becoming an Eleventh Order Golden Immortal, Lin Daiyu concluded that Honglou World’s Heavenly Court could not possibly belong to its supposed Twentieth Order Great Celestial Venerable. She returned to the Heavenly Court to confront the Great Celestial Venerable and investigate her doubts, while remaining uncertain whether the Jade Emperor was truly him.

• Lin Daiyu became an Eleventh Order Golden Immortal after years of cultivating as a wandering immortal in Honglou World’s Heavenly Court.
• Lin Daiyu learned that the Heavenly Court’s soldiers, officials, Four Heavenly Kings, and Four Imperial Lords were far weaker than she expected, deepening her suspicions.
• Through Shi Yaoyao and Myriad Worlds City, Lin Daiyu confirmed that Honglou World was a Small Thousand World that could not contain a Twentieth Order being.
• Lin Daiyu concluded that the Great Celestial Venerable was not truly part of Honglou World and wondered whether the Jade Emperor was really him.
• Lin Daiyu returned to the Heavenly Court carrying the Luotian Misty Cloud Umbrella, which made its immortals and gods unable to see her.

Lin Daiyu visited the Jade Emperor and learned that the Great Celestial Venerable had left Honglou World, though his Law Dao Body remained behind. After discovering that he was also the city lord of Myriad Worlds City, she left with renewed hope and questions about his connection to Shi Yaoyao.

• Lin Daiyu bonded with the Luotian Misty Cloud Umbrella, a Sixteenth Order supreme treasure, and entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
• Lin Daiyu asked the Jade Emperor whether the Great Celestial Venerable had left, and Bai Yu's Law Dao Body confirmed that he had.
• Lin Daiyu asked whether she would see the Great Celestial Venerable again, and the Law Dao Body said yes.
• Lin Daiyu asked whether the Great Celestial Venerable was the city lord of Myriad Worlds City, and the Law Dao Body confirmed it.
• Lin Daiyu left the hall and wondered whether Shi Yaoyao and the core-area shopkeepers were connected to the Great Celestial Venerable.

Lin Daiyu pieced together that the Great Celestial Venerable’s faction had taken over Myriad Worlds City, and realized she had unknowingly helped him investigate Myriad Worlds Trading City. Shi Yaoyao invited Lin Daiyu to explore a Small Thousand World, and Lin Daiyu asked how Shi Yaoyao had met the City Lord.

• Lin Daiyu reasoned that the Great Celestial Venerable and the core-area shop owners belonged to the faction that had seized Myriad Worlds City.
• Lin Daiyu concluded that giving the Great Celestial Venerable a Trading Token had made her a guide for the enemy, though she was satisfied to have learned more about him.
• Shi Yaoyao found Lin Daiyu and invited her to explore a Small Thousand World with a World Token before taking its World Origin.
• Lin Daiyu asked Shi Yaoyao how she had met the City Lord, and Shi Yaoyao explained that the City Lord in the Limitless Pavilion was only a clone.

Shi Yaoyao spread gossip about Bai Yu to Lin Daiyu, unaware that Bai Yu heard her through the Great Dao and sent a cold snort across worlds. Convinced she had ruined her image, Shi Yaoyao waited for him to appear, while Lin Daiyu pressed her to explain what had happened.

• Shi Yaoyao told Lin Daiyu embellished stories about Bai Yu, leading Lin Daiyu to believe they had an ambiguous relationship.
• Bai Yu sensed Shi Yaoyao openly spreading rumors about him in a Small Thousand World and sent her a cold snort through the Great Dao.
• Shi Yaoyao froze when she recognized Bai Yu's voice and realized he had heard her gossip.
• Shi Yaoyao waited for Bai Yu to appear and punish her, but he did not show up.
• Lin Daiyu tugged at Shi Yaoyao's sleeve and demanded to know why she had suddenly become so distressed.

Jiang Yuyan made Myriad Worlds City her home and advanced her cultivation with the Chat Group’s support. As Chonglou struggled to afford the Saint Spirit Stones needed to keep pace with Yang Jian, the group’s limited supply of World Tokens remained a valuable source of cultivation resources.

• Jiang Yuyan stayed in Myriad Worlds City, where she considered the Chat Group members her family and devoted herself to cultivation.
• Jiang Yuyan’s resources helped her advance rapidly, while Chat Group members could use World Tokens to plunder worlds and obtain resources for higher cultivation.
• Yang Jian neared the Sixteenth Order after comprehending ninety percent of Origin Law, while Chonglou had comprehended eighty percent and was running low on Saint Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yaoyao coordinated the scarce World Token distribution as group leader, with the Immortal Venerable’s support lending her authority.
• Chonglou worked to earn money because his cultivation required increasingly expensive Saint Spirit Stones, and he wanted to catch up with Yang Jian.

Jiang Yuyan and Li Yunrui reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage and prepared to conquer worlds they despised, while Yue Qiluo became a ninth-order innate immortal. Li Yunrui built a faction and used it to torment Emperor Qing, intending to make him feel like a pawn rather than overturning the board herself.

• Jiang Yuyan reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage, bought several Ninth Order Immortal Artifacts, and declared she was ready to conquer a Small Thousand World rather than return to her martial arts world.
• Yue Qiluo became a ninth-order innate immortal of the Lotus Lantern World, while the chapter explained that Primordial Lord of Heaven had changed cultivation methods but still needed to comprehend the Mysterious Realm on his own.
• Li Yunrui also reached the eighth-order Mahayana Stage, grew to loathe her Polluted Energy-filled world, and established a faction whose members she trained and organized through trusted confidantes such as Bai Lan and Yan Xiaoyi.
• Li Yunrui's faction disrupted Emperor Qing's control as her subordinates troubled the illegitimate son from Danzhou, the Prince, and the Second Prince, while concealing their strength beyond Ninth-Rank Upper.
• Li Yunrui chose to remain above the political game and make Emperor Qing experience what it was like to be a pawn.

Li Yunrui learned that the Prince and the Second Prince had joined forces to rebel, while Emperor Qing’s desire for immortality and his harsh treatment of the Prince had helped drive the crisis. She ordered the Border Army to join the upheaval, leaving the capital’s rebellion poised to grow far beyond the princes’ control.

• Emperor Qing’s ambition for immortality and his pressure on the Prince were revealed as causes of the mounting conflict.
• Bai Lan told Li Yunrui that the Prince and the Second Prince had joined forces to rebel.
• Bai Lan revealed that the Inspection Bureau had taken control of the Second Prince’s army, and that Li Yunrui’s forces controlled both princes’ troops.
• Li Yunrui ordered the Border Army to make a move, unconcerned about which of the three armies acted.

Li Yunrui had secretly gained control of a hundred-thousand-strong Border Army and planned to use it to support the Prince and Second Prince’s rebellion, forcing Emperor Qing to intervene. After learning the news, the Prince chose to keep it secret and reconsidered whether he still needed the Second Prince.

• Li Yunrui planned to have one of the Border Armies join the Prince and Second Prince’s rebellion while Ye Liuyun was away from the capital.
• The Prince received a secret letter revealing that Li Yunrui could mobilize a hundred thousand Border Army soldiers and was horrified by the news.
• The Prince hesitated to report Li Yunrui’s control of the army to Emperor Qing, deciding instead to keep it secret until he took the throne.
• The Prince gained confidence in his rebellion and considered excluding the Second Prince, whom he had long wanted to eliminate.
• Emperor Qing remained confident in his own strength but was angered that the Prince’s rebellion had escaped his control.

The Prince took the Second Prince to a secluded valley and revealed that their rebellion had begun, though he had concealed his access to the Border Army. The Second Prince realized the Prince had brought Border Army cavalry to the outskirts of Kyoto and wondered if he was dreaming.

• The Prince and the Second Prince went hunting outside Kyoto while Emperor Qing, Director Chen, and Director Fan puzzled over their plans to rebel.
• Director Fan reflected on his past brushes with death and remembered his friend, who had died in the Niu Lan Street Assassination.
• The Prince told the Second Prince that the rebellion had begun and instructed him to contact his private army.
• The Second Prince angrily protested that he had not prepared and believed the Prince meant to attack Kyoto with only their private soldiers.
• More than a hundred heavily armored Border Army cavalrymen appeared in the valley, and the Second Prince recognized them in alarm.

The Prince revealed that he had taken control of a hundred thousand Border Army troops and prepared to leave the capital’s outskirts with the Second Prince. Emperor Qing learned that the army was marching on the capital and raged at the Inspection Bureau, which had been forbidden to interfere with the Border Army.

• The Prince asked the Second Prince when his ten thousand troops would arrive, then learned from the cavalry commander that the hundred thousand Border Army troops could reach the capital’s outskirts in two days and needed a day to rest.
• The Second Prince realized the Prince had secretly taken control of a hundred thousand Border Army troops, while the Prince noted that Emperor Qing must already know they were approaching.
• Director Chen told Emperor Qing that a hundred thousand Border Army troops from the Qi Kingdom border were marching toward the capital without his order.
• Emperor Qing angrily kicked the table and demanded to know why the Inspection Bureau had failed to detect the rebellion.
• Director Chen reminded Emperor Qing that he had forbidden the Inspection Bureau from interfering with the Border Army.

Emperor Qing and Director Chen struggled to identify who had turned the hundred thousand Border Army troops against the capital, while Emperor Qing ordered the city’s defenses strengthened. The capital was sealed as news of the approaching army spread, and Emperor Qing hoped Ye Liuyun would return before the troops arrived.

• Emperor Qing and Director Chen suspected Li Yunrui or Si Gujian might be behind the Border Army’s rebellion, but they found no proof.
• Director Chen told Emperor Qing that the hundred thousand Border Army troops would reach the capital’s outskirts in three days.
• Emperor Qing ordered nearby forces and the Black Riders, Red Riders, and Tiger Guards to defend the capital, sealed the city, and sent for Ye Liuyun.
• Emperor Qing acknowledged that the capital’s troops were no match for the battle-hardened Border Army and hoped to hold out until Ye Liuyun returned.
• Li Yunrui sent people to Jiangnan to prevent Ye Liuyun from reaching the capital.
• The troop mobilization and news of the advancing Border Army spread through the capital, alarming officials and residents who believed the Qing Kingdom’s Grandmaster could still save it.

The Prince led the Border Army and the Second Prince’s troops in a siege of Kyoto while Emperor Qing learned that the city’s defenders were being overwhelmed and decided to intervene personally. As the Prince anticipated taking the throne, Emperor Qing, dressed in black, headed toward the battlefield.

• Emperor Qing learned that the Prince was believed to be behind the Border Army and discovered that the Inspection Bureau could no longer contact Ye Liuyun.
• Emperor Qing berated Director Chen and the ministers as the hundred thousand Border Army troops reached Kyoto.
• The Prince ordered the army to attack Kyoto, while the Second Prince submitted to him to preserve his life.
• Emperor Qing decided to reveal his strength and act personally after the siege began and the city’s defenses faltered.
• The Border Army inflicted heavy losses on Kyoto’s defenders, and Emperor Qing left the palace dressed in black to make his way to the battlefield.

Emperor Qing revealed that he was a Grandmaster as he went to confront the siege of the capital, intending to display his power before the court and army. The Prince and Second Prince realized their rebellion had been doomed from the start when Emperor Qing stopped a volley of arrows with a raised hand.

• Emperor Qing decided to act personally, set out for the city gates with Director Chen, Minister Lin, and other ministers, and let his Grandmaster aura emerge.
• General Qin and Director Fan sensed Emperor Qing’s terrifying power and realized that he was the Grandmaster hidden in the palace.
• The Prince’s Border Army and the Second Prince’s private army continued their assault on the capital, while both princes watched the siege progress.
• Emperor Qing appeared atop the city wall just as ten thousand arrows flew toward him.
• Emperor Qing raised one hand and froze the arrows in midair, revealing his Grandmaster strength to the stunned army and court.
• The Prince and Second Prince recognized that Emperor Qing was a Grandmaster and feared the consequences of their rebellion.

Emperor Qing revealed his Grandmaster power to crush the Border Army attacking the city, leaving the Prince and the Second Prince as the only ones standing before him. He silently faced the two princes amid the wreckage of the army.

• Director Chen and Director Fan watched Emperor Qing demonstrate power that made Grandmasters seem like immortality cultivators.
• Emperor Qing turned the arrows aimed at the city back against the Border Army, inflicting heavy casualties and terrifying its soldiers.
• Emperor Qing formed a massive True Qi palm and slammed it into the ground, killing more than ten thousand soldiers in a single strike.
• Emperor Qing swept through the remaining army with his True Qi, crushing the hundred thousand Border Army soldiers and tens of thousands of warhorses as he vented his fury.
• Emperor Qing stood before the Prince and the Second Prince, who were the only ones left alive outside the city; the Second Prince lowered his head while the Prince glared at him.