Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet ambushed Immortal Zhilan’s forces in the Immortal Spirit Path while Peony coordinated a massive attack on the Dark Cultists outside. The fighting escalated across both fronts, and the chapter ended as the Immortal Spirit Path’s walls grew dangerously thin.

• Immortal Zhilan led her forces to support the retreating immortal soldiers, but Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet killed all eighty-one and charged the remaining Dark Cultists.
• Peony managed the evacuation from Wangxian Valley and launched successive attacks against the Dark Cultists gathered in the north.
• The Dark Cultists took to the air to evade the apparent attacks, exposing themselves to hundreds of warheads that unleashed nuclear explosions and devastated their formation.
• The male True Immortal requested aid, but Peony’s unmanned vessels forced him into the void, where their attacks began draining his immortal power.
• The six Heavenly Net Loose Immortals and Daoist Taiye’s group joined the battle as the Mech legion closed in.
• The Immortal Spirit Path appeared in the void with its Seven-Colored Rosy Light walls growing thin as the battle inside reached its fiercest point.

Wang Jixuan unleashed First Base’s Mechanical Legion and fought through the Dark Cult to reach the immortal gate, where the Heavenly Dao’s third punishment nearly killed him. With Taiye and other cultivators sacrificing themselves to help him break through, Wang Jixuan entered the Immortal Realm, where Senior Bones took him away.

• Wang Jixuan stalled the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net forces while Peony prepared to deploy First Base’s Mechs.
• Wang Jixuan summoned First Base and its Mechanical Legion, then fought the True Immortals as the Mechs overwhelmed the immortal soldiers.
• Wang Jixuan killed the female True Immortal, while the male True Immortal fled, and he opened the Stone Slab Wall to let cultivators escape the battle.
• Wang Jixuan charged toward the immortal gate, but the third Heavenly Punishment struck him as Peony and Senior Bones tried to protect him.
• Taiye and other cultivators poured their power into Wang Jixuan and sacrificed themselves, helping him break the Heavenly Dao’s restraint and reach the gate.
• Wang Jixuan entered the Immortal Realm, and Senior Bones grabbed him and vanished.

Wang Jixuan arranged a hidden refuge for the cultivators who escaped the Dark Cult’s massacre, then parted from Murong Zhengyi after giving him a jade talisman and urging him to rely on the group. Thousands of years later, the refuge had grown into a powerful community, while Han Xiao was summoned to the Thousand Worlds Alliance over a report mentioning Peony.

• Wang Jixuan told the gathered cultivators he could stay for only three months and promised to ask a senior to hide them in a secluded refuge.
• Peony revealed that the Dark Cult had slaughtered cultivators and mortals in their former realm, prompting Murong Zhengyi and the others to vow to survive and seek strength.
• Wang Jixuan identified himself as the long-dead Wang Jixuan of Wangxian Valley, warned that no one could leave the group, and explained that he needed to hide separately because of his karmic burden.
• Wang Jixuan gave Murong Zhengyi a jade talisman containing cultivation methods and Dao insights, then departed with Amina as Murong Zhengyi thanked him.
• Two months later, Murong Zhengyi and two hundred thousand cultivators settled in a grand formation that barred entry and exit for one hundred thousand years; over thousands of years, their community grew into a large force.
• Han Xiao was summoned to the Thousand Worlds Alliance after its Alliance Leader examined his mission report and repeatedly mentioned Peony; Han Xiao noticed the refuge’s slogan, “You are not fighting alone. You are fighting as a group.”

Wang Jixuan ambushed Immortal Zhilan’s forces on the Immortal Spirit Path and used a massive nuclear explosion to immobilize the True Immortal and the eighty-one immortal soldiers. After killing the True Immortal and devouring his primordial spirit, Wang Jixuan transformed into a more powerful demon and pursued the fleeing soldiers.

• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet ambushed Immortal Zhilan, but the male True Immortal and the eighty-one soldiers in the White Crane Formation joined the fight.
• Wang Jixuan lured the pursuing enemies into a trap and detonated hundreds of nuclear bombs around them.
• Wang Jixuan attacked the immobilized male True Immortal, severed his head, destroyed his primordial spirit, and devoured it with the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.
• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet howled as its aura surged, while the eighty-one injured soldiers fled in their formation.

Han Xiao learned that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had been founded by Wang Zheng and was instructed to protect him when he returned from time travel. Sixteen thousand years before the present, Wang Jixuan agreed to be buried in a temporal gap while Peony developed the Mechanical Civilization at the edge of the universe.

• Han Xiao discovered that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had several Grand Beginning Golden Immortals and that its elders had been waiting six hundred thousand years for Wang Jixuan to return.
• The Old Alliance Leader told Han Xiao that Wang Zheng had saved the Alliance from the Dark Cult and ordered him to secretly protect Wang Zheng and report any news of him.
• Wang Jixuan met Bai Gu aboard the Cloud Boat and considered being buried to avoid the backlash caused by cultivating in the past.
• Bai Gu explained that Peony would stay with Wang Jixuan while her clones developed a Second Base and fleets at the edge of the universe.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to the plan and went to speak with Peony before Bai Gu began arranging his burial.

Wang Jixuan, Gao Huating, and Red Snake were buried in different places along the River of Time so they could cultivate for millennia, while their companions traveled to the present to await them. Gao Huating emerged in the future as an Eighth-Rank True Immortal, then chose to keep cultivating while she waited for the others.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony were placed inside an ancient Giant Tree, where Senior Bai Gu helped Wang Jixuan enter a long cultivation sleep and Peony secretly stayed awake to monitor her bases.
• Senior Bai Gu buried Red Snake in an abandoned spirit mine near an Ancient Battlefield, then placed Gao Huating in a Crystal Coffin near the Sea Eye of the East Endless Sea.
• Gao Huating repeatedly broke through while close to the Water Spirit Great Dao, and after several centuries she passed the Heavenly Tribulation of Becoming Immortal.
• Senior Bai Gu took Amina, Mao Mo, and Zheng Shiduo to the present, where Peony's Clone Number Four introduced herself as King Peony's Clone Number Four.
• Gao Huating awoke after the present era had passed with the cultivation and Dao Realm of an Eighth-Rank True Immortal, then decided to keep cultivating until Chichi arrived.

After years of cultivating in the Sea Eye, Gao Huating emerged into the East Sea and learned about the Immortal Realm from a Great Sea Turtle. When two Dark Cult attackers ambushed her, she prepared to fight them with the treasures her teacher had given her.

• Gao Huating cultivated for years in the Crystal Coffin, advanced twice, and became a True Immortal before two Origin Immortal beasts fought near the Sea Eye and sent her coffin to the surface.
• Gao Huating killed the dragonfish with a divine ability, then fled with the unconscious Great Sea Turtle and returned the Crystal Coffin to its hiding place with an alarm set.
• Gao Huating questioned the awakened Turtle Immortal and learned about the East Sea, the Eight Great Immortal Palaces, and nearby powers.
• Two masked Dark Cult members entered Gao Huating's barrier and attacked her, but her lotus treasures knocked them back and her song slowed their movements.

Gao Huating defeated two Dark Cult Immortals and interrogated the survivor, learning that the Dark Cult was searching for the Fusang Tree and believed it could lead them to Wang Zheng. Realizing her teacher might be in danger, she considered how to warn her allies and found a stash of small speakers.

• Gao Huating defeated the two Dark Cult Immortals, destroyed one primordial spirit, and captured the other before fleeing with Gui He to an underwater cave.
• Gao Huating bound Gui He with a primordial-spirit imprint, and Gui He explained what she knew about the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net.
• Gao Huating tortured the captured True Immortal until he revealed that the Dark Cult had sent hundreds of Heavenly Immortals to search for the Fusang Tree and that its mystic realm might appear within a few years.
• Gui He explained the Fusang Tree's history and drew it for Gao Huating, who recognized it as the tree at her teacher's burial site.
• The True Immortal revealed that the Dark Cult was searching for Wang Zheng and believed finding the Fusang Tree would lead to him; Gao Huating killed him and burned his body.
• Worried that her teacher was in danger, Gao Huating searched for a way to alert her allies and found several boxes of small speakers.

Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s notebook and learned how his long confinement shaped his cultivation and reflections on his past. Black Obsidian explained that Wang Jixuan had trapped him and returned the notebook as leverage against the Heavenly Dao, while Gao Huating considered whether to carry the Heavenly Dao’s terms to Wang Jixuan.

• Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s account of developing the Sky Pillar Art and studying the Great Daos while confined in the coffin.
• Gao Huating reviewed Wang Jixuan’s cultivation progress and his admission that his Second Life had caused harm, including contributing to the Blade Beast disaster.
• Wang Jixuan wrote that he expected conflict with the Heavenly Dao but hoped to avoid drawing the immortal realm into a large-scale war.
• Black Obsidian said the Heavenly Dao had sent him to search for Wang Jixuan, who trapped him, took his belongings, and left the notebook on him.
• Black Obsidian told Gao Huating that Wang Jixuan had spared him to deliver a warning and give Gao Huating and the others a chance to survive, then asked whether she believed him.

Gao Huating met Black Obsidian, who claimed to be working against the Heavenly Dao and gave her a notebook of Wang Jixuan’s writings to prove his intentions. As she read, the entries revealed Wang Jixuan had awakened thousands of years too early and was enduring a long period of isolation while cultivating.

• Black Obsidian explained that his attempts to create self-aware mechs led to cognitive collapse, and he told Gao Huating that her teacher was hiding in a secret realm while the Moon God Palace Master fought three Grand Beginning Golden Immortals.
• Gao Huating rejected Black Obsidian’s offer to involve her in his plans and threatened to kill herself rather than endanger her team.
• Black Obsidian gave Gao Huating a notebook bearing Wang Jixuan’s handwriting and urged her to read it before deciding whether to trust him.
• Gao Huating read Wang Jixuan’s entries describing his premature awakening after 8,920 years of slumber, his separation from Peony and Senior Bai Gu, and his effort to endure thousands of years in seclusion.

Gao Huating spread recordings of her singing through the Market Towns in hopes of alerting her teammates, then traveled to the Land of Sunrise after hearing nothing from them. A Blade Beast poster led her into a trap, where she came face-to-face with Black Obsidian.

• Gao Huating sent Gui He to distribute speakers playing her recorded song, hoping her teammates would recognize the signal and find her.
• After waiting three months without hearing from her teammates, Gao Huating disguised herself and secretly traveled east with Gui He.
• In the Land of Sunrise, Gao Huating heard rumors about Golden Immortals, the Dark Cult, and the coming Immeasurable Calamity while gathering information in a Market Town.
• Gao Huating spotted a wanted poster depicting a Basic Blade Beast and followed its Pinyin message to a courtyard, using Gui He as a decoy.
• Two Heavenly Immortals trapped Gao Huating in the courtyard, where she recognized Black Obsidian as the person connected to the Blade Beast disaster.

Wang Jixuan persuaded the newly formed spirit of the Fusang Divine Wood to leave its grove and learn about his battle plans, while Gao Huating comforted it and Peony showed a simulation of the coming destruction. The spirit revealed that a restriction inside its trunk could break the Small World's formation, as the Dark Cult's Golden Immortals prepared to hire two elders from the Feather God Palace.

• Wang Jixuan apologized to the Fusang Divine Wood and explained that he might have to burn the Small World to fight his enemies, prompting the spirit to recount how others had repeatedly harmed and exploited it.
• Wang Jixuan coaxed the spirit to his hall, where Peony projected a simulation showing the Small World bombarded and the Divine Wood badly burned; Gao Huating comforted it by promising protective films and giving it the name Xiao Sang.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony discussed luring rival factions against the Dark Cult, using ten Spirit Veins to raise the Small World's spiritual energy, and supplementing their Antimatter Bombs with nuclear weapons.
• The Fusang Divine Wood told Gao Huating that a restriction buried in its trunk could break the Small World's formation, but it could now control its spiritual power and resist the restriction.
• The Dark Cult's Golden Immortals agreed to invite two elders from the Feather God Palace and hire them at a high price.

Wang Jixuan withdrew from the Small World after Xiao Sang refused to leave with him, as powerful factions gathered to seize the Fusang Divine Wood’s spirit. He escaped unnoticed and traveled toward the Land of Sunrise disguised as a Sixth-Rank Heavenly Immortal, where he detected an old acquaintance from the Eight Immortals of the Firmament.

• Peony played conversations revealing that Feather God Palace and rival factions wanted to seize Xiao Sang and the Fusang Divine Wood, while Sword God Palace and other powers gathered nearby.
• Wang Jixuan offered to take Xiao Sang and the Divine Wood away, but Xiao Sang said she trusted only her friends and refused to go with him.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to prepare the Second Base for departure, then left the Small World through Senior Bai Gu’s hidden route while Little Hua Ting and Xiao Sang stayed behind.
• Wang Jixuan disguised himself as a Sixth-Rank Heavenly Immortal and monitored the Small World as he sailed toward the Land of Sunrise.
• Peony revealed that she had secretly collected animal cells to create Mutated Life Forms, then detected a Celestial Immortal from the Eight Immortals of the Firmament nearby.
• Wang Jixuan steered his Cloud Boat toward the detected immortal, intending to approach his old acquaintance.

Han Xiao searched for Wang Jixuan amid the growing battle over the Divine Wood ruins, then welcomed Wang Jixuan, disguised as Daoist Xuanji, into the Thousand Worlds Alliance. As the Dark Cult prepared to enter the secret realm under a Heavenly Dao Edict, Wang Jixuan slipped away and Peony noticed the Dark Cult’s movements.

• Han Xiao worried that the crowds gathering around the ruins would make it difficult for the Thousand Worlds Alliance to rescue Wang Jixuan, while his master and martial uncle urged him to stay calm.
• Wang Jixuan arrived aboard the Alliance fleet under the name Daoist Xuanji and convinced Han Xiao he wanted to join because the Dark Cult had massacred his sect.
• Han Xiao accepted Wang Jixuan into the Thousand Worlds Alliance after he swore an oath to the Great Dao, and the fleet welcomed him with a drinking celebration.
• Black Obsidian received a Heavenly Dao Edict ordering him to prevent the Thousand Worlds Alliance from meeting the Mechanical Fiend and led Dark Cult immortals toward a secret route into the small world.
• Wang Jixuan slipped away as the Dark Cult organized its entry, while Peony noticed the Dark Cult immortals’ movements.

Wang Jixuan and Peony used a fake Wang Jixuan and layered formations to lure the Dark Cult Immortals into an ambush with five Annihilation Bombs. The blast devastated the Small World, but Black Obsidian survived and warned the others about Peony and the Mechanical Fiend as Wang Jixuan’s voice sounded below.

• More than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals attacked Peony’s layered formations, breaking through several walls of light as a fake Wang Jixuan taunted them from the pavilion.
• The fake Wang Jixuan pretended to panic and cut his throat, drawing the immortals into the pavilion while Black Obsidian tried to reach him.
• Peony triggered five Annihilation Bombs, vaporizing the immortals inside the surrounding light membranes and collapsing a fifth of the Small World.
• A little black dragon seized two damaged primordial spirits and escaped into the depths of the Small World.
• Black Obsidian survived with his protectors, identified the bombs as antimatter weapons, and urged the Dark Cult Immortals to flee and prepare for Peony’s threat.
• Wang Jixuan mocked the survivors’ hopes of capturing the weapon as his voice echoed through the Small World.

Wang Jixuan survived the Small World’s destruction by possessing a wounded Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal, while Peony stirred up hostility between the Dark Cult and the Feather God Palace. As the factions gathered near the divine tree, Wang Jixuan prepared to use his disguised puppet to attack the Dark Cult from within.

• Wang Jixuan turned the Dragon Python Strange Soul around, possessed a wounded Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal, and refined the body into a new puppet.
• Peony refused Wang Jixuan’s order to attack the approaching immortals and instead spread warnings that the Dark Cult had set a trap near the divine tree.
• Peony used directional sound fields to make the Dark Cult and the Feather God Palace insult each other, bringing the two groups to the brink of battle.
• Two Dark Cult immortals found Wang Jixuan’s supposedly unconscious puppet and carried him into the air toward the confrontation.
• Wang Jixuan concealed his demonic energy and prepared to use the Heart-Devouring Soul-Snatching Art on the Dark Cult immortals.

Wang Jixuan watched Nine Spirits Sword Venerable defeat Huang Langyu and claim Xiao Sang, then kept his Strange Soul Puppet hidden among the Dark Cult as the factions arranged an arena. When Venerable Zhihui used the Heavenly Dao to select challengers, Wang Jixuan’s puppet was chosen and ordered to go last despite his injuries.

• Xiao Sang rejected being captured, but Huang Langyu insisted the Feather God Palace could reincarnate her and the factions argued over her fate.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable struck Huang Langyu down, then announced that Xiao Sang belonged to him and challenged others to climb a thirty-three-step Cloud Ladder to receive his sword strike.
• A crimson sun and a bloodstained broken sword confronted one another before vanishing, while the other powers backed away from challenging Sword Nine.
• Wang Jixuan stayed disguised as an injured Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal and listened as Venerable Zhihui warned that the Heavenly Dao Tablet had detected the Mechanical Fiend nearby.
• Venerable Zhihui selected ten Dark Cult challengers with jade slips guided by Heavenly Dao Power, and Wang Jixuan’s puppet was chosen and told to go last.

Wang Jixuan used his disguised Dark Cult identity to climb the Cloud Ladder and secretly study the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable’s sword intent. When Zhihui sent two Celestial Immortals to retrieve him, he resisted and climbed higher, but a fellow Dark Cult Immortal recognized his changed cultivation and drew hostile attention to him.

• Wang Jixuan realized Zhihui had assigned him to bring up the rear because she mistook his disguise for a badly injured low-ranking Celestial Immortal, and he began comprehending the Cloud Ladder’s sword intent instead of obeying her order to climb higher.
• The Fire God Palace and Feather God Palace talents, followed by the Dark Cult Immortals and independent cultivators, climbed the Cloud Ladder and began meditating on its sword intent.
• Wang Jixuan’s Main Body made rapid progress in transforming his Azure Reed Sword Intent while Zhihui grew angry that his puppet ignored her repeated commands.
• Zhihui sent Elder Hou’s subordinates to bring Wang Jixuan back, but he evaded them by climbing to the eleventh and then fourteenth levels, claiming his injuries had healed and his cultivation had improved.
• A female Dark Cult Immortal recognized Zheng Yunxi and questioned when he had switched from Water Cloud Dao to demonic cultivation, drawing dozens of oppressive auras onto Wang Jixuan’s puppet.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Murong Zhengyi and the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance, then learned that the Dark Cult had begun massacring entire cities across the Lower Realm. The gathering ended with Sword Nine promising to help the Alliance, while the threat below remained unresolved.

• Murong Zhengyi recognized Wang Jixuan, wept over the six hundred thousand years he had spent protecting their people, and reunited with the elders of the Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Sword Nine explained to Jian Wu that Wang Jixuan had rescued the Alliance’s ancestors from the Xu Realm and brought them into the Immortal Realm.
• Jian Wu hosted the Alliance at Sword God Palace, where Little Hua Ting sang and the factions reaffirmed their friendly ties.
• Murong Zhengyi reported that the Dark Cult had slaughtered more than seven hundred Xu Realms and one hundred and five True Realms, including civilians, while Heavenly Net obstructed resistance.
• Jian Wu and Sword Nine agreed that Sword God Palace would discuss responding to the massacres, and Sword Nine promised to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance if it faced trouble.
• After the banquet lasted through the day and night, Wang Jixuan woke with a hangover to find three hundred beautiful women kneeling before him.

Wang Jixuan introduced Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to the Mechanical Civilization and warned him about Brahma, then began learning the Way of the Sword under his new master. When the Feather God Palace arrived to demand Wang Jixuan over the deaths of its Ancient King bloodline, Sword God Palace refused and called on him to face them.

• Wang Jixuan showed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable the Second Base and explained Peony’s role in the Mechanical Civilization and the threat posed by Brahma.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable agreed to report Brahma to the elders but warned Wang Jixuan to stay close and cultivate the Way of the Sword.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable taught Wang Jixuan foundational sword techniques and promised to create a Wood Attribute sword intent for them to study.
• The Feather God Palace arrived at Sword God Palace, and Huang Langyu accused Wang Jixuan of killing members of the Feather Clan’s Ancient King bloodline with dharma artifacts.
• Jian Wu and Jian San defended Wang Jixuan, rejected Huang Langyu’s demand to hand him over, and Jian Wu invited him to appear and reason with the Feather God Palace.