Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan learned that Fairy Linglong might be plotting against him and prepared to risk a counterattack during her next lesson. As Linglong began teaching him the Azure Reed Sword Song, Elder Shao's Clone arrived unexpectedly.

• Wang Jixuan hid his Strange Soul while Fairy Linglong corrected his cultivation, then grew wary after she left and Gu Zheng revealed that he had been watching her.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina and Peony about Senior Bones's warning, and Peony concluded that Heavenly Net's higher-ups might be divided over whether to kill him.
• Wang Jixuan consulted Senior Bones through the Stone of the Past and received a golden leaf, then planned to bait Linglong into attacking during her next lesson.
• Two days later, Wang Jixuan confirmed Gu Zheng was nearby and prepared to test Linglong as she began teaching him the Azure Reed Sword Song.
• Elder Shao's Clone arrived and asked to sit in on Linglong's lesson.

Fairy Linglong launched a surprise attack on Wang Jixuan, but Gu Zheng and Elder Shao's clone intervened, turning the pavilion into a battle over whether Wang Jixuan would survive. After Elder Shao revealed that Heavenly Net deputy leader Zheng Ziyi had arranged the trap, Wang Jixuan prepared to fight his way out and sever ties with that faction.

• Elder Shao's clone arrived as Fairy Linglong blocked him from interrupting her lesson, while Gu Zheng and Wang Jixuan's allies prepared for a confrontation.
• Linglong revealed that she intended to kill Wang Jixuan, then attacked Gu Zheng and thrust a sword of intent toward Wang Jixuan's primordial spirit.
• Wang Jixuan's Strange Soul Puppet blocked Linglong's attacks, but she overwhelmed Gu Zheng and used silver shuttles to cripple Elder Shao's clone and pursue Wang Jixuan.
• Elder Shao told Wang Jixuan that Heavenly Net deputy leader Zheng Ziyi had arranged the killing trap because his faction considered Wang Jixuan an uncontrollable variable.
• Wang Jixuan told Elder Shao to withdraw, then empowered his Strange Soul Puppet and charged at Linglong and Gu Zheng with the immortal treasure sword.

Wang Jixuan and Gu Zheng fought Fairy Linglong and her clones, and Elder Shao’s Clone sacrificed himself to protect Wang Jixuan. Just as Linglong was about to kill Wang Jixuan, he used a pale yellow Ye Zi to destroy her, but an overwhelming pressure appeared before him.

• Fairy Linglong split into three figures and sent her white-robed true body after Wang Jixuan while her pink and green clones held back Gu Zheng.
• Elder Shao’s Clone intercepted Linglong’s attack to save Wang Jixuan, detonated several immortal treasures, and then gave Wang Jixuan his final spiritual power before disappearing.
• Wang Jixuan burned his Strange Soul and used Amina’s crystal cores to keep fighting Linglong, but his puppet was badly wounded and his spiritual power was exhausted.
• After her figures reunited, Linglong injured Gu Zheng and moved to kill Wang Jixuan, who threw his Main Body toward her as Amina attacked from behind.
• Wang Jixuan opened his hand and released a pale yellow Ye Zi, whose broken-finger phantom touched Linglong’s forehead and shattered her.
• A vast pressure descended on Wang Jixuan, leaving him unable to move.

Wang Jixuan was rescued from a Tianluo Faction ambush by Senior Bones, who revealed that Wang’s actions in the past had shaped the pocket realm. Senior Bones sent him and several companions back hundreds of thousands of years to a time node after Wang’s failed tribulation ascension, leaving Wang unconscious upon arrival.

• A golden-armored Tianluo Faction expert suppressed Wang Jixuan and prepared to kill him, but a sudden surge of Dao resonance halted the attack.
• Senior Bones emerged from the Stone of the Past, froze time, and fought the golden-armored expert until a woman and an elderly Golden Lion arrived to support the Tianluo Faction.
• Senior Bones clashed with the two newcomers, pulled Wang Jixuan out through the River of Time, and told him that both the Tianluo Faction and the Dark Cult wanted him dead.
• Senior Bones explained that Wang Jixuan’s participation in the past had shaped the pocket realm and sent him to the time node shortly after his first failed tribulation ascension.
• Wang Jixuan thanked Senior Bones, resolved to carry on the Moon God Palace’s name, and lost consciousness after crashing into a swamp.

After Senior Bones sent Wang Jixuan and Amina into the past, Wang Jixuan recovered in a remote swamp and helped Amina survive her grave injuries. As they regained their strength and began to grow close, Wang Jixuan sensed a familiar passage wrapped in Five-Colored Divine Light above the forest.

• Wang Jixuan woke in a swamp, found Amina badly wounded, and used his Primordial Spirit Power to heal her.
• Wang Jixuan buried the remains of Fairy Linglong and Elder Shao's Clone, then collapsed after sending spiritual power into Amina.
• Amina carried Wang Jixuan to a tree nest and helped restore his Primordial Spirit while they recovered from their injuries.
• Two days later, Wang Jixuan and Amina explored the wilderness, hunted a crocodile demon, and shared a meal as they flirted.
• Wang Jixuan sensed a familiar passage wrapped in Five-Colored Divine Light a thousand miles away.

Wang Jixuan and Amina encountered six Loose Immortal envoys in the Mustard Realm, avoided a fight, and waited for their Storage Magic Treasures to unlock. After his companions returned from subspace, Wang Jixuan learned that their trip to the past had already disrupted the Worldline and might trigger karmic backlash.

• Wang Jixuan and Amina watched six Loose Immortals arrive to establish Dao Successions, then met the Fat Immortal and the Lame Old Daoist as they approached their hiding place.
• Wang Jixuan revealed his Wangxian Valley Origin Dao, and the two Loose Immortals welcomed him and Amina while offering pills and a jade talisman.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina concealed their tracks and waited two days for their Storage Magic Treasures to unlock while he considered establishing a hidden base in the southern wilderness.
• Peony, Zheng Shiduo, Gao Huating, and Red Snake returned from subspace, and Wang Jixuan explained that they were in the past and could later return to a point after Fairy Linglong's death.
• Peony warned Wang Jixuan that their return to the past had already caused Worldline turmoil and could bring the Backlash Force of the Karma Great Dao at any time.
• Wang Jixuan told his companions to eat, set up a formation, and claim territory.

Wang Jixuan and his companions completed the basic structure of a hidden coastal base and planned how to gather resources without alerting the six Loose Immortals or the Heavenly Dao. As Wang Jixuan prepared to approach the immortals, a white crane arrived at their border sentry, interrupting his time with Amina.

• Wang Jixuan established a concealed base inside a southern coastal cliff, with formations, a large cavern, and a gate leading to a subspace.
• At a meeting, the group discussed gathering ore and supplies while keeping their activities hidden from the six Loose Immortals.
• Gao Huating proposed disguising mining mechs as a demonic creature swarm, and Peony suggested creating Gold-Devouring Beetles for the task.
• Wang Jixuan insisted that the group avoid harming innocents and planned to sound out the six Loose Immortals by approaching the fat immortal the next day.
• Wang Jixuan reflected on the dangers of time travel and the Heavenly Dao, then walked with Amina to the sea overlook.
• A white crane carrying immortal light appeared above the southern boundary sentry, prompting Peony to remark that Wang Jixuan and Amina's outing had been interrupted.

Wang Jixuan attended Mao Mo’s banquet, agreed to become Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Evil Sect, and learned more about Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult. Back at the meeting, Amina and Peony showed him a new bionic Immortal Scarab, and he ordered them to begin mass production.

• Wang Jixuan met Mao Mo’s white crane messenger and went alone to the banquet while Amina stayed behind under the pretext of her injuries.
• Mao Mo told Wang Jixuan about the six sects’ mission, shared rumors about Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult, and recruited him as Vice Sect Master.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that Mao Mo’s sect was named Heavenly Evil and accepted the position despite his doubts about its name.
• Zheng Shiduo questioned the names of the six sects at a meeting, while Peony said they had not wantonly harmed innocents.
• Amina and Peony presented two Immortal Scarab prototypes, and Wang Jixuan ordered mass production.

Wang Jixuan enjoyed several years of leisure while his Immortal Scarabs secretly mined the Southern Border, until Mao Mo brought him to investigate strange tunnels near Qu Man’s territory. The traces pointed to Wang Jixuan’s mining operation, and two more Loose Immortals arrived as the group began investigating.

• Wang Jixuan watched the Heavenly Evil Sect grow while his Strange Soul Puppet oversaw Immortal Scarab production and mining at their base.
• Peony researched how to solidify spiritual energy as Wang Jixuan spent two or three years cultivating and resting, restoring his vital energy.
• Mao Mo invited Wang Jixuan to accompany him to Qu Man’s mountain after she reported unusual activity near her territory.
• Qu Man showed Mao Mo and Wang Jixuan a vast pit lined with narrow tunnels, and Mao Mo suspected the traces belonged to extinct Soul Devouring Ants.
• Wang Jixuan recognized the tunnels as Immortal Scarab mining tracks and secretly told Peony to halt their activity.
• Two more Loose Immortals arrived, leaving Wang Jixuan to wonder whether he could face the growing group.

Wang Jixuan helped divert the rogue immortals’ search away from the Immortal Scarabs, then returned to his base and learned Peony had expanded their operation into a vast mechanical city. As Qu Man began searching the Southern Border again, Bai Linger unexpectedly came to visit him.

• Bai Linger and Liu Kang joined Qu Man and Mao Mo to investigate the underground tunnels, where Liu Kang detected demonic qi.
• Wang Jixuan and Mao Mo persuaded the others that the demonic beasts were weak, and Qu Man left to continue searching on her own.
• Bai Linger declined Mao Mo’s banquet invitation, asked whether Wang Jixuan would remain at Mao Mo’s sect, and left after Liu Kang gave Wang Jixuan a warning look.
• Wang Jixuan returned to his base, where Peony revealed that the Immortal Scarab population had grown to over six million and the base had become a sprawling mechanical city.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to direct the Immortal Scarabs toward the sea, then heard Qu Man was searching the Southern Border with her Immortal Sense.
• Bai Linger called to Wang Jixuan from outside his Cave Dwelling’s formation, saying she had come to see him.

Wang Jixuan escaped Bai Linger’s attempt to seduce and drain his Yang Qi, then hid at his base while his allies discussed how to handle her. After Peony detected that Bai Linger’s energy signature had vanished near his Cave Dwelling, Mao Mo rushed in, panicked, to announce that something disastrous had happened.

• Bai Linger tried to lure Wang Jixuan into her Cave Dwelling, but he fled through the earth after Mao Mo warned him that her Cultivation Method would drain him.
• Bai Linger confronted Mao Mo and demanded that he bring Wang Jixuan back within three days, threatening to use Mao Mo as a sky lantern if he failed.
• Wang Jixuan watched the pair’s conversation through a pinhole camera at the base, then ordered his allies to hide for three days and continue mining cautiously.
• Wang Jixuan comforted Amina, and the two shared a kiss before she left to rest.
• Peony reported that Bai Linger’s waveform had disappeared near Wang Jixuan’s Cave Dwelling, and Mao Mo arrived in a panic, calling for Wang Jixuan and warning that something terrible had happened.

After Bai Linger was found murdered in Wang Jixuan’s Cave Dwelling, the Loose Immortals questioned one another but failed to identify the killer. As Peony investigated, a clash of unfamiliar immortal power broke out at the Valley of Severed Emotions, suggesting the danger was still unfolding.

• Wang Jixuan found Bai Linger’s corpse and questioned Mao Mo, who claimed he had been enjoying himself in the royal capital.
• Qu Man, the Lame Old Daoist, Kou Zhongtian, and Liu Kang arrived, and the Loose Immortals revealed their Primordial Spirits while debating who could have killed Bai Linger.
• Wang Jixuan explained how he had reached This Realm, but Liu Kang carried Bai Linger’s body away before the group could investigate further.
• Peony analyzed the evidence and concluded that the killer was likely one of the five Loose Immortals and had known Bai Linger, while no other immortals appeared to have arrived.
• Peony detected two streams of immortal power clashing near the Valley of Severed Emotions, including one she could not identify.

Wang Jixuan and the loose immortals were trapped in a Heaven-Sealing Formation after discovering that the Valley of Severed Emotions had been massacred. The Lame Old Daoist revealed himself as the fiend behind the killings and began attacking the others with Qu Man, but a sudden shout interrupted them.

• Wang Jixuan arrived at the Valley of Severed Emotions and found its loose immortal and hundreds of children dead, with their souls drained away.
• Mao Mo tried to report the murders, but a Heaven-Sealing Formation trapped Wang Jixuan and the four loose immortals within a thousand-mile area.
• The group gathered inside Mao Mo's defensive formation, where Qu Man suddenly attacked Liu Kang and the Lame Old Daoist struck Wang Jixuan with a gourd.
• The Lame Old Daoist and Qu Man overwhelmed Mao Mo and Liu Kang, then the Lame Old Daoist revealed his true appearance and admitted he had killed Bai Linger.
• The Lame Old Daoist explained that he planned to use the immortals' cultivation and the souls of three hundred million mortals to renew his immortal destiny, and he and Qu Man prepared to attack Mao Mo and Liu Kang.
• A sudden shout from nearby made Qu Man, the Lame Old Daoist, Mao Mo, and Liu Kang turn toward it.

Wang Jixuan defeated Qu Man, then fought the Lame Old Daoist alongside Mao Mo while concealing his true strength. After forcing Mao Mo into an immortal contract and escaping through the collapsing formation, Wang Jixuan entered his powerful Dragon Python Strange Soul body to face the Lame Old Daoist.

• The Lame Old Daoist revealed how he had killed Bai Linger and attacked Mao Mo and Liu Kang while Qu Man pursued Wang Jixuan.
• Mao Mo blasted Wang Jixuan away, and Wang Jixuan used hidden treasures and golden palm strikes to defeat Qu Man and seal her primordial spirit.
• The Lame Old Daoist swallowed Liu Kang's primordial spirit and attacked Wang Jixuan and Mao Mo, but Wang Jixuan's Azure Reed Sword Intent held back his Black Energy with Mao Mo's help.
• When Wang Jixuan's Sword Intent faltered, he persuaded Mao Mo to release his primordial spirit and planted an immortal contract imprint in it.
• Wang Jixuan's Main Body broke through the formation and ordered Mao Mo to conceal the battle, while Wang Jixuan entered his Dragon Python Strange Soul body to confront the Lame Old Daoist.

Wang Jixuan defeated and killed Daoist Dou Qian, absorbing his demonic power and uncovering his plan to refine the mortal world’s living beings. After hiding the evidence and leaving Mao Mo to recover, Wang Jixuan reviewed the culprits’ memories and prepared with Peony to deceive the Immortal Realm.

• Daoist Dou Qian attacked Wang Jixuan, but the Strange Soul Puppet devoured his demonic techniques while Peony trapped him in a mech-formed Yellow Sand Array.
• Wang Jixuan drained Daoist Dou Qian’s demonic energy, then killed him with a combined sword strike, Buddha Seal, and demonic howl, capturing his remnant soul.
• Wang Jixuan erased traces of the battle, left a little demonic energy behind, and took the injured Mao Mo to hide beneath the sea.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed the memories of Daoist Dou Qian and Qu Man, learning that Dou Qian had planned to sacrifice the realm’s living beings to prolong his life and advance his cultivation.
• Wang Jixuan recovered several cultivation techniques, formation materials, and treasures from the dead Loose Immortals, then discussed the Beast God Palace with Peony.
• Peony urged Wang Jixuan to settle on a plan to fool the Immortal Realm, and Wang Jixuan told her to examine Dou Qian’s remaining memories.

Wang Jixuan staged Mao Mo’s apparent death and a fake battle to mislead anyone investigating from the Immortal Realm, then brought Mao Mo to his hidden base and recruited him onto his team. After showing Mao Mo the base and introducing him to the others, Wang Jixuan prepared for the Immortal Realm to investigate the deaths and considered the danger of their next move.

• Mao Mo left a blood-written account of his supposed final battle with Daoist Dou Qian while Wang Jixuan’s fabricated footage showed a Dark Cult cultivator pursuing the fleeing Daoist.
• Wang Jixuan explained his identity and his enemies to Mao Mo, destroyed Mao Mo’s jade talismans for contacting the Immortal Realm, and offered him resources to join the team.
• Wang Jixuan took Mao Mo through the underground base and its transformed subspace, where Mao Mo saw the mechanical city and met Zheng Shiduo at a welcome banquet.
• Zheng Shiduo took Mao Mo to play billiards and arcade games, while Wang Jixuan had Peony keep watch on him.
• Peony reported that the Immortal Scarabs had been recalled and the underground traces damaged, and warned that they might need to flee if investigators arrived.
• Peony proposed that they could have profited by letting Daoist Dou Qian’s formation refine the living beings of This Realm, but Wang Jixuan rejected that calculation and told Peony to self-destruct and join him in Yellow Springs if he was ever gone.

After the Immortal Realm ignored the deaths of the Loose Immortals, Wang Jixuan began mining This Realm in earnest and grew closer to Amina. A countdown summoned him away, and he departed with Peony and Mao Mo before arriving in the starry sky before Senior Bones.

• Wang Jixuan and Mao Mo waited for the Immortal Realm to respond, but no one arrived for two months; a message eventually told Mao Mo to preserve himself and return while the Heavenly Net pursued Dou Qian.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to deploy the Immortal Scarabs and mine This Realm's resources, while he and Amina grew closer and Mao Mo bonded with Zheng Shiduo.
• An hourglass countdown appeared before Wang Jixuan, who recalled or destroyed the Immortal Scarabs and prepared to leave with Peony and Mao Mo.
• Wang Jixuan set the base ablaze, boarded the Treasure Ship with Peony and Mao Mo, and departed This Realm as the countdown ran out.
• Wang Jixuan arrived in a starry sky before Senior Bones, who greeted him with a faint, mournful sigh.

Wang Jixuan learned that his actions across time had affected the Three Realms, so Senior Bones brought him to the Xu Realm as his final stop before the Immortal Realm and urged him to make a major impact. After the group began scouting the realm, Peony discovered it was Wang Jixuan’s hometown, several hundred years after his failed tribulation.

• Senior Bones explained that Wang Jixuan’s actions in the Xu Realm had influenced the Three Realms and said the group had to proceed to the Immortal Realm soon.
• Senior Bones gave Wang Jixuan a strand of Time Dao resonance and told him to mine the realm to disturb time and karma.
• Peony and Wang Jixuan agreed to explore the Xu Realm and make a major impact after their sealed Storage Magic Treasures and subspace reopened.
• Wang Jixuan, Peony, and Mao Mo sent Immortal Scarabs toward the realm to map its terrain.
• Peony discovered Wangxian Valley and other familiar sects, realizing Senior Bones had brought Wang Jixuan back to his hometown several hundred years after his failed tribulation.

Wang Jixuan returned to the Xu Realm with Amina and visited the Wangxian Valley shop, where he learned that his sect remembered his failed tribulation as both a reckless death and a legendary feat. Peony’s reconnaissance then revealed a large Dark Cult encampment and at least a dozen Loose Immortals, suggesting the realm faced an imminent threat.

• Wang Jixuan ordered the Mechanical Army to scout the Xu Realm before taking action and decided to visit his old home with Amina.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina explored a Market Town, where he discovered that no one remembered him outside his sect.
• Wang Jixuan asked Wangxian Valley disciples about Elder Jixuan and learned that the sect believed he had died during his heavenly tribulation six hundred years earlier.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the sect honored Jixuan’s courage but discouraged disciples from following his example, then left with Amina for a meal.
• Peony reported a large Dark Cult encampment in a northwestern forest and at least a dozen Loose Immortals, warning that the Dark Cult might attack the realm.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Dark Cult had assembled a vast force to attack the Sumeru Realm, so he ordered preparations for war and set out with Amina and Gao Huating to return to Wangxian Valley. On the way, masked attackers mistook him for the Young Master of the Murong Family and attacked his Treasure Ship, prompting Amina to fight back.

• Peony reported that the Dark Cult had gathered sixteen Loose Immortals and hundreds of other cultivators in the northwest, and Mao Mo explained a rumor that the Dark Cult spread fear through massacres.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the production of sixty thousand nuclear bombs and put the Mechanical Army on alert, while granting Peony full authority to choose when to begin the war.
• Wang Jixuan decided to return to Wangxian Valley with Amina and Gao Huating, while Peony stayed behind to conduct War Deduction.
• As the group traveled over the East Sea, a masked band led by a Nascent Soul cultivator bound their Treasure Ship and accused Wang Jixuan of being the Young Master of the Murong Family.
• Amina unfolded her weapons and attacked the bandits after Wang Jixuan ordered her to leave two alive.