Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan sank into despair after learning that his Second Life had reached the limits of cultivation and still failed to overcome the heavenly tribulation. As Zheng Shiduo tried to comfort him, an unexpected visitor called for the guardian of the Ancient Civilization, and Wang Jixuan abruptly sprang into action.

• While Wang Jixuan remained despondent in secluded cultivation, the others advanced their plans: Fu Jian built autonomous mech fortresses, the Psionic Capital struggled with famine and riots, and the Scavenger Camps came under attack.
• Red Snake, Deep Sea, Amina, and Gao Huating worried over Wang Jixuan, but he asked them to leave him in peace for a few days.
• Zheng Shiduo brought food and wine to speak with Wang Jixuan, who revealed that his Second Life, San Jie Lang Lang Zi, had reached the limit of his strength and still failed to overcome the heavenly tribulation.
• Wang Jixuan admitted that he feared he had no chance of becoming immortal, and Zheng Shiduo tried to reassure him.
• The ground shook, and an unknown caller addressed the guardian of the Ancient Civilization; Wang Jixuan immediately rose with renewed alertness.

Wang Jixuan relived the despair of his Second Life’s failed ascension through the Stone of the Past, absorbed its lingering cultivation, and decided to merge his Mahayana Remnant Soul with his Nascent Soul. After reuniting with Ling Tong and bringing his allies to the City in the Clouds, he returned to the Stone to uncover more of his past.

• Wang Jixuan witnessed his Second Life’s remnant soul despair over a failed tribulation and the fall of the City in the Clouds, then absorbed the soul imprint and mana left in the Stone of the Past.
• Wang Jixuan realized he had advanced to the fifth step of the Heaven and Earth Bridge and decided to retrieve his Mahayana Remnant Soul and merge it with his Nascent Soul.
• A figure outside the Azure Planet used a black box and Ina Psionic Technology to cross the stars by a route other than the Blade Beast’s Stargate.
• Amina brought Peony, Ling Tong, Red Snake, Deep Sea, Shen Qionglin, and the Half-Human Mech squad to Wang Jixuan, who embraced Ling Tong and promised to wait until she had lived out her life before attempting the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Wang Jixuan swallowed the two Light Spots containing his Mahayana Remnant Soul, introduced He Ruli and the Ina Civilization to his allies, and urged them to learn from her technology.
• Wang Jixuan returned to the central hall, considered why he had erased his Second Life’s memories, and used the Stone of the Past to begin viewing another image.

Wang Jixuan questioned He Ruli about the Ina Civilization’s collapse and learned how his failures, the Opposition Faction, and the rebellion of conquered races led to its destruction. He discovered that Posa’s attack had sent his soul, a leader’s soul, and Posa’s soul out of the City in the Clouds together, explaining his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi; he then ordered He Ruli to take him to where he had slept.

• Wang Jixuan deduced that the Ina Civilization’s collapse involved rebellion by the races it had ruled, and He Ruli confirmed that his failed ascension had helped the Opposition Faction’s ideology take shape.
• He Ruli explained that the Ina Civilization dwindled to tens of thousands of women, and she sacrificed herself to the City in the Clouds after attempts to preserve the civilization failed.
• He Ruli revealed that Black Obsidian first contacted her about seven thousand years earlier, later returning with Posa and others to take technology and bring souls to sustain her and awaken the sleeping pioneers.
• He Ruli said Posa attacked her twenty-six years and three months earlier, shattered her Core Circuit, and sent her soul into the place where Wang Jixuan slept.
• Wang Jixuan realized that his soul had left the city at the same time as Posa’s and a leader’s soul, solving the mystery of his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi.
• Wang Jixuan ordered He Ruli to take him to his former sleeping place, and she agreed.

Wang Jixuan and his companions battled the six Bronze Puppets but were overwhelmed and captured. Imprisoned and stripped of their belongings, they discussed the Ancient Remnant Spirit’s demands until Zheng Shiduo revealed a hidden Storage Ring that might give them a chance to escape.

• Wang Jixuan, Nierda Tamon, and Amina fought the six powerful Bronze Puppets, with Wang Jixuan damaging one before surrendering as Barbell Drones surrounded them.
• The puppets captured Wang Jixuan’s group and the others waiting outside the Palace Complex, confiscating their Storage Magic Treasures and sealing the psionic energy of several captives.
• Wang Jixuan told the group that the Ancient Remnant Spirit would open the Planetary Barrier if he agreed to father children with Gao Huating, but he refused to be forced into reproduction.
• Wang Jixuan said he might break the formations if he could obtain materials, and Zheng Shiduo produced a hidden Storage Ring as their possible chance to turn things around.

Ling Tong prepared to pilot the Human Faction’s newest Super Large Mecha as the Blade Beasts launched an all-out offensive, while Wang Jixuan secretly attacked a Pillar-Class Blade Beast. His other soul reached the Blissful Sky Curtain and clashed with Galinno, but an ambush began freezing Wang Jixuan’s main body inside the beast.

• Ling Tong received an account of the Blade Beasts’ coordinated attacks on the defense lines and Space Fortress while she waited for her deployment order.
• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong to keep his movements from Fu Jian and said he planned to seize control of a Pillar-Class Blade Beast for use against another one.
• Ling Tong watched battlefield reports as the Blade Beasts used General-Class and Sub-King Class Blade Beasts to break through the Fire Defense Line.
• Wang Jixuan ambushed a Pillar-Class Blade Beast from below, shattered its armor, and sent his other soul into its sea of resentful souls.
• The black dragon attacked Galinno in the Blissful Sky Curtain, but a faint figure countered it with a shield.
• Wang Jixuan sensed an ambush as icy crystals spread through the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s flesh and began freezing his main body.

Wang Jixuan defeated the Third Pillar-Class Blade Beast and fought off Spiritual Practitioners Yal and Gui Ke, but learned that many more opponents might be active on Earth. After conferring with Amina, Sabrina, and Nierda Tamon, he headed toward the front line, where Pseudo Spirit Slaves were slaughtering armored forces.

• Wang Jixuan broke free of Gui Ke's ice attack and pursued her while his alien soul fought Yal inside the Blissful Sky Curtain.
• Wang Jixuan trapped Gui Ke in solid ice and prepared a killing strike, but Yal rescued her at the cost of his left forearm.
• Wang Jixuan destroyed the Third Pillar-Class Blade Beast, then escaped underground as Yal and Gui Ke summoned reinforcements.
• Wang Jixuan learned from Amina and Sabrina that the ice-wielding Spiritual Practitioner was Gui Ke, a former leader of the Temple of Extreme Cold, and the group suspected Black Obsidian had arrived on Earth.
• Wang Jixuan ended the call and moved toward the front line after finding Pseudo Spirit Slaves massacring armored forces.

After Wang Zheng brought down the Third Pillar, humanity exploited the Blade Beasts’ retreat, but a mysterious black fog swallowed a section of the western front. Its master, Black Obsidian, demanded humanity surrender one hundred million people; as Nierda Tamon went to confront him, Wang Jixuan headed for the fog to investigate.

• Dongfang Zhenghong confirmed that Wang Zheng had stopped the Third Pillar and redirected human forces to hunt King-Class Blade Beasts as the battle lines came under pressure.
• A vast black fog appeared over the western battlefield, cutting off communications and swallowing human troops, so Dongfang Zhenghong ordered a retreat and reinforced the remaining defenses.
• Black Obsidian contacted Dongfang Zhenghong, demonstrated that the fog petrified Blade Beasts and devoured souls, and demanded that humanity surrender one hundred million people in exchange for a hundred years without invasion.
• Wang Jixuan contacted Amina and learned that she and her companions knew nothing about Black Obsidian’s fog; Nierda Tamon then set off to meet Black Obsidian and collect a sample.
• Wang Jixuan used Earth Escape to travel toward the fog and investigate it before Black Obsidian released another mass.

Wang Jixuan drew more than a dozen Spiritual Practitioners into battle while Amina and Nierda Tamon joined humanity’s fight against the Blade Beasts. As Black Obsidian watched the battle and grew suspicious that the Great Pioneer was observing him, Wang Jixuan’s laughter signaled a sudden change in the fight.

• Wang Jixuan sent the gray-robed old man flying, then challenged the arriving Spiritual Practitioners to attack him together and claimed they would have to defeat him to learn the secret of immortality.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina to leave him behind and attack the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts; Amina called down moonlight on him, then joined Nierda Tamon in charging toward a target.
• Fu Jian’s Super Large Mecha and the other Human Faction Mechas attacked the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts as human Mechs struck Blade Beast Lairs, beginning an all-out battle across the sky, ground, and underground.
• Black Obsidian watched Ling Tong’s Mecha fight and discussed humanity’s progress with Ye Zi, then reasoned that the Great Pioneer and Black Storm might be separate beings and sensed that someone was watching them.
• Black Obsidian noticed something wrong in Wang Jixuan’s battle as Wang Jixuan laughed and declared that his opponents could not touch him.

The white skeleton explained the Immortal Realm, the forces that ruled it, and how the Moon God Palace fell nearly 3.9 million years ago. It also linked the Immortal Restriction Zone to agreements involving powerful collective Will Entities, then sent Wang Jixuan away with an Immortal Method.

• The white skeleton described the Immortal Realm as the universe’s Origin Land and explained the different cultivation environments, Ascension Platforms, and Immortal Realm forces.
• The white skeleton told Wang Jixuan that cultivators born in the Immortal Realm had major advantages, and recounted how the Moon God Palace lost its foothold after a Divine King plotted against it.
• Wang Jixuan asked about the Ina Civilization and restricted Teleportation Gates, prompting the white skeleton to explain Will Entities and the possibility that collective sublimation produced them.
• The white skeleton speculated that Immortal Realm experts and Will Entities had agreed to restrict cultivation and civilization in the region.
• The white skeleton offered Wang Jixuan a treasure, but Wang Jixuan declined; the white skeleton then sent him out of the Stone of the Past with a treasured sword and its ultimate Immortal Method.

Wang Jixuan used himself as bait to draw out the Dark Cult members and trap them in a formation, while the four mysterious cultivators revealed that their enemies belonged to the Dark Cult. The chapter ended with Wang Jixuan calling on the four cultivators to join the ambush.

• Wang Jixuan refused to bomb the Space Elevator, ordered nearby settlements quietly evacuated, and lured the attackers toward a prepared ambush.
• Black Obsidian revealed that he had deliberately exposed his group to detection, but the nine Dark Cult members ignored his advice and leaped from the elevator to attack Wang Jixuan.
• Jia Nü identified the attackers as the Dark Cult and said they had come to capture Wang Jixuan, while refusing to reveal more about their organization.
• Wang Jixuan's formation stopped the attackers' first assault, but the nine broke through and pursued him as he fled.
• Peony's robots activated as mobile formation anchors, trapping the nine Dark Cult members in a disorienting formation.
• Wang Jixuan turned to the four hidden cultivators and told them it was their turn to act.

Yin Lin brought Wang Jixuan, Zheng Shiduo, and Amina to the Heavenly Dao Tablet to register for their first Tianluo Faction missions. Zheng Shiduo and Amina received the same destination, but Wang Jixuan’s mission triggered a purple light, leaving its details unknown.

• Yin Lin invited Amina to join the Tianluo Faction and told Wang Jixuan to return the next day to receive his first mission.
• The Dark Cult interrogated and killed the Qingyun Temple nun, then discussed forcing Wang Zheng out of the Tianluo Faction’s protected base.
• Yin Lin escorted Wang Jixuan, Zheng Shiduo, and Amina to the Myriad Realms Hall, where he explained the rules and gave them mission equipment and identity tokens.
• Zheng Shiduo and Amina touched the Heavenly Dao Tablet and received missions with the same destination and target.
• Wang Jixuan touched the tablet, and a purple beam suddenly filled the hall.

Aboard Hui Zhi Sanren’s tower ship, Wang Jixuan learned about the True Realm of Youbao, the Immortal Spirit Paths, and Heavenly Net’s ties to the Heavenly Dao while she proposed they might become Dao companions someday. As they approached their destination, the ship was stopped on the Immortal Spirit Path by a Middle-aged Scholar, who faced a burly, masked man.

• Hui Zhi Sanren explained that Wang Jixuan’s mission and life history had been recorded in a Heavenly Net jade talisman, and described the Youbao Realm and its treasure-filled abyss.
• Hui Zhi Sanren explained how Immortal Spirit Paths connected the realms and how heavenly tribulations worked, including Heavenly Net’s ability to grant exemptions through great merit.
• Hui Zhi Sanren proposed that she and Wang Jixuan might become Dao companions after they had established themselves, and Wang Jixuan agreed to cooperate with the coming escort.
• Wang Jixuan cultivated during the journey while members of the Tianluo Faction took turns watching the Heavenly Net Pearl.
• As Hui Zhi Sanren bound Wang Jixuan’s wrist with an Immortal Rope, the tower ship abruptly struck an unseen obstruction and stopped.
• A Middle-aged Scholar blocked the ship on the Immortal Spirit Path while a burly masked man carrying an axe confronted him; Hui Zhi Sanren said the higher-ups had arrived.

Wang Jixuan and Earth Civilization’s forces defeated the Dark Cultists in a sweeping space battle, killing three Mahayana Elders and capturing several enemies. The Tianluo Faction agreed to protect the realm, while Wang Jixuan sought help against the continuing conflict with the Dark Cultists.

• Wang Jixuan joined the First Expeditionary Fleet’s battle and ambushed a Mahayana Elder with the God-Slaying Claw, then killed him with Moonlight Sword and devoured his remaining primordial spirit.
• Wang Jixuan and the allied forces overwhelmed the Dark Cultists, while Hui Zhi Sanren watched the battle and reconsidered whether the Tianluo Faction needed to intervene.
• Three fleeing Dark Cultists arrived from the surface, but Earth’s ships and mechs trapped them in the renewed assault as Wang Jixuan killed another Mahayana Elder.
• Wang Jixuan fought through the remaining Dark Cultists, killing a third Mahayana Elder; several enemies escaped, while the allied forces captured seven prisoners and collected more than thirty corpses.
• Wang Jixuan asked the Tianluo Faction for protection, and Qing Xu agreed to bring the realm under its protection and promised rewards for further victories.

After defeating the Dark Cult’s attackers, Wang Jixuan prepared to leave Earth with Heavenly Net, hoping to protect Earth Civilization from retaliation and pursue a path to immortality. He said farewell to his friends and was about to depart when Nierda Tamon challenged him to a sparring match.

• The Tianluo Faction sent reinforcements, established an Interference Formation, and Hui Zhi Sanren discussed the risk of Dark Cult retaliation with Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan decided to find the Spiritual Practitioner who had guided the Dark Cult and arranged to return to Heavenly Net’s territory after settling matters on Earth.
• Wang Jixuan prepared the City in the Clouds, moved a Spirit Vein mine into Old Sophie’s subspace, and took three newly made Core Circuits to offer Heavenly Net.
• Wang Jixuan visited Ling Tong and the First Fleet, where Fu Jian warned him about the unfamiliar world he was entering and wished him well.
• Nierda Tamon appeared on a screen, announced that he had recovered his peak strength, and challenged Wang Jixuan to a sparring match; Wang Jixuan accepted.

Yin Lin introduced Wang Jixuan to Old Shao, an Immortal Realm expert who examined his core circuit and urged him to bring its mechanical technology to the Immortal Realm. Yin Lin then took Wang Jixuan and his companions out to explore the True Realm, giving him Spirit Stones and warning him not to disrupt local order.

• Amina left Wang Jixuan's loft while Yin Lin introduced Old Shao, who had come to investigate the core circuit.
• Wang Jixuan explained that the core circuit depended on the Immortal Restriction Zone's mechanical technology and showed Old Shao the components inside a communicator.
• Old Shao discussed Wang Jixuan's past failed ascension, learned that he had a sixty to seventy percent chance of becoming an immortal, and said he would await the technology's arrival in the Immortal Realm.
• Old Shao vanished after telling Yin Lin to protect Wang Jixuan, and Yin Lin agreed to let Wang Jixuan visit the True Realm once he reached the Mahayana Stage.
• Yin Lin took Wang Jixuan and his companions by Cloud Boat to explore near Youbao Abyss, gave Wang Jixuan three thousand Spirit Stones, and cautioned him to avoid interfering with the True Realm's order.

Wang Jixuan faced the Shen Family after Qingyun Temple tried to claim one of his companions as a disciple, and Amina challenged a Shen Family cultivator to prove their strength. The Shen Family conceded the duel, but Wang Jixuan demanded a sapling from their treasure tree and left the old woman shaken by an aura she mistook for a cultivator nearing tribulation.

• The Shen Family's old woman arrived with three cultivators and offered to mediate, while Zheng Shiduo criticized Qingyun Temple's attempt to take a disciple.
• Amina challenged the Shen Family cultivators to a duel, and Wang Jixuan allowed her to fight one of them.
• Amina used her Psionic Energy Circuits to suppress the purple-robed cultivator and forced him to concede after narrowly threatening his throat.
• Wang Jixuan rejected the old woman's apology and offer of spirit stones, demanding a sapling from the Shen Family's treasure tree instead.
• Wang Jixuan challenged the old woman to withstand one of his attacks, and she sensed his aura and feared he was nearing tribulation.

Wang Jixuan learned that Elder Shao would arrive to guide his cultivation and prepared to receive him, while Peony studied the circumstances surrounding his moments of enlightenment. As Wang Jixuan meditated for three days and broke through, Elder Shao sensed Heavenly Dao Power gathering around him and a vast presence opening its eyes.

• Yin Lin gave Wang Jixuan twelve thousand Contribution Points for killing Dark Cultists and told him Elder Shao would arrive to teach him cultivation and artifact refining.
• Yin Lin explained the origins of loose immortals and warned Wang Jixuan not to force benefits from Elder Shao.
• Wang Jixuan prepared a secluded courtyard to receive Elder Shao, while Peony began recording and analyzing his enlightenment.
• Elder Shao told Yin Lin that the Heavenly Dao had placed its competing wills around Wang Jixuan and that their side's larger momentum might be in danger.
• Wang Jixuan entered a state of enlightenment, and Elder Shao and Yin Lin waited outside his courtyard for three days and nights.
• Wang Jixuan broke through amid strange phenomena as Heavenly Dao Power gathered around him, and Elder Shao sensed a tremendous presence opening its eyes.

Wang Jixuan insisted on drawing the Dark Cult’s attention away from Earth, but Elder Shao’s clone took him and Zheng Shiduo through the Myriad Worlds Teleportation Array. The Dark Cult’s siege collapsed into a chaotic retreat, while Amina remained behind in the Heavenly Net stronghold.

• Wang Jixuan rejected Elder Shao’s advice to abandon Earth and arranged for Amina and Peony to stay with Yin Lin while he and Zheng Shiduo drew the Dark Cultists away.
• Peony left with Amina carrying the Stone Slab Wall, and Wang Jixuan gave Amina the Moonlight Sword before taking to the sky.
• Yin Lin announced Heavenly Dao rewards for protecting Wang Jixuan, prompting the Tianluo Faction to defend him as the Dark Cultists attacked the stronghold.
• Elder Shao’s clone pulled Wang Jixuan and Zheng Shiduo into the Myriad Worlds Teleportation Array and transported them away.
• The Dark Cultists’ siege fell apart as many fled to their own teleportation array, and Yin Lin’s forces drove back those who remained.
• Amina stayed in the Heavenly Net stronghold while Wang Jixuan, Zheng Shiduo, and Elder Shao’s clone emerged from a purple vortex above a brown planet.

Wang Jixuan learned that Heaven's Dao wanted him to help Peony develop her computing power, then became Elder Shao's nominal disciple and advanced his artifact-refining studies. After more than ten months of relative calm and unsettling reports from the Immortal Realm, Elder Shao began a three-month refinement, and a bell rang from the northwest corner of Heavenly Net's encampment.

• Wang Jixuan promoted Peony to vice-captain and told his squad to heed her calculations and suggestions.
• Wang Jixuan accepted Elder Shao as his teacher, learned about Heavenly Net and the Immortal Realm, and began studying advanced artifact refinement.
• Wang Jixuan's squad cleared easy missions and earned supplies, but he could not return to Earth or expand Peony's work in Youbao Realm.
• Wang Jixuan heard reports of ominous upheavals in the Immortal Realm as Elder Shao warned that a great tribulation was approaching.
• Elder Shao began a lengthy treasure-refining task and fell asleep in his courtyard incarnation, while Wang Jixuan heard a bell ring from Heavenly Net's northwest encampment.

Wang Jixuan lured a Dark Cult force into an ambush and helped the Tianluo Faction defeat it with Peony’s formations and technology. Before the group could prepare for the next attack, a captured elder revealed that a Heavenly Dao Tablet had ordered squads to kill Wang Jixuan.

• The Dark Cult elder killed Ziyan after she tried to mislead the pursuers, and Wang Jixuan vowed to avenge her.
• Wang Jixuan pretended to flee through an immortal spirit passage, then drew the Dark Cultists into a valley and activated Peony’s layered formations.
• Wang Jixuan gave the twelve Tianluo Faction experts Augmented Reality glasses so they could navigate the formation and slaughter the trapped Dark Cultists.
• The Tianluo Faction defeated the Dark Cult force, and Wang Jixuan questioned a captured elder about why the Dark Cult wanted him dead.
• The elder said a Dark Cult Vice Cult Master and the Heavenly Dao Tablet had ordered his death, prompting Wang Jixuan to question whether the Dark Cult had its own Heavenly Dao Tablet.