Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan defeated an ambush, rescued Murong Zhengyi, and arranged to enter Wangxian Valley with him while keeping his identity quiet. As they approached the valley, Wang Jixuan discovered a vast gathering that looked more like a siege than a disciple tournament.

• Amina killed the remaining attackers and intercepted their returning shuttle while Wang Jixuan questioned the wounded Nascent Soul elder.
• Wang Jixuan sent the elder toward Murong Zhengyi, then killed him when he attacked Murong Zhengyi and his two guards.
• Wang Jixuan examined Murong Zhengyi, learned the ambush stemmed from conflict within the Murong Family, and agreed to accompany him to Wangxian Valley as his Martial Uncle.
• Murong Zhengyi invited Wang Jixuan's group to a meal, and Wang Jixuan's cultivation advice helped Murong Zhengyi advance by a minor realm.
• Near Wangxian Valley, Wang Jixuan saw thousands of cultivators gathered around the valley and sent Murong Zhengyi to ask his acquaintances what was happening.

Wang Jixuan investigated the Demonic Path’s threat to Wangxian Valley and warned Daoist Taiye that the Dark Cult was secretly backing the attack. Taiye and the other Righteous Path leaders already knew of a related threat, but the conflicting intelligence made them question their plans before they decided to advance the competition and force their enemies to reveal themselves.

• Wang Jixuan learned that Demonic Path magnates had challenged Wangxian Valley and suspected the Dark Cult was using them to start a larger war.
• Wang Jixuan and Murong Zhengyi secured a front-row viewing platform, and Wang Jixuan sent a wisp of his primordial spirit into Wangxian Valley.
• Wang Jixuan warned Daoist Taiye that the Dark Cult had sent a far larger force than expected, but Taiye gave no visible response.
• Wang Jixuan arranged for two optical-camouflage drones to head toward Wangxian Valley so he could provide stronger evidence.
• Daoist Taiye told the gathered Righteous Path magnates about the warning, and they realized its account of the Dark Cult conflicted with intelligence from another Tianluo group.
• Taiye and the other magnates decided to move the competition forward and lure the Demonic Path experts into revealing themselves.

Wang Jixuan watched Wangxian Valley’s disciple competition while preparing with Peony to counter a demonic cultivator attack. The demonic forces arrived as the cultivators gathered, and Wang Jixuan’s strike against their leader disrupted their opening provocation.

• Wangxian Valley began its disciple competition early, and Wang Jixuan watched with Amina, Little Hua Ting, and Murong Zhengyi.
• As the matches continued, Wang Jixuan noticed Wangxian Valley evacuating lower-cultivation disciples through a hidden tunnel and learned that demonic cultivators were gathering underground for a sneak attack.
• Peony reported that the demonic forces were assembling, so Wang Jixuan ordered a strike with drilling missiles and arranged to open a second gate into subspace.
• Demonic cultivators appeared in dark clouds to the west and challenged Martial Uncle Taiye to a contest between righteous and demonic disciples.
• Wang Jixuan secretly struck the demonic leader with a silver needle, interrupting his speech and humiliating him.

Wang Jixuan watched the Righteous Path attack the Demonic Path while preparing a nuclear strike against the assembling Dark Cult. Peony’s missiles devastated the Dark Cultists, but several powerful figures revealed an immortal treasure and the Righteous Path learned that immortals had arrived.

• Wang Jixuan escaped underground, laid concealment formations, and returned to Wangxian Valley as the Righteous Path and Demonic Path began fighting.
• Daoist Taiye received the signal to attack and led the Righteous Path in a surprise assault that surrounded the Demonic Path.
• Wang Jixuan held Xiao Na back, then sent a flying sword to ambush Demonic Path Mahayana experts as the battle spread.
• Peony launched nuclear missiles at the Dark Cult’s underground forces, blasting more than a hundred cultivators to ashes and exposing over a thousand others.
• A masked old Daoist summoned the Dark Cultists into formation, while figures wielding an immortal treasure destroyed the next wave of missiles.
• Righteous Path cultivators at Wangxian Valley sent word that immortals had appeared.

As the Dark Cult’s forces approached Wangxian Valley, Wang Jixuan secretly mobilized the Mechanical Army and sent Mao Mo to organize a retreat and delay the enemy. The bombardment began as a young girl told Daoist Taiye that Ji Xuan had sent them.

• Daoist Taiye ordered the disorganized Righteous Path forces to retreat as the Dark Cult’s Loose Immortals attacked and six Tianluo Faction Loose Immortals arrived to fight them.
• Wang Jixuan took Amina and Gao Huating underground, opened a passage to the Mechanical Army, and sent Mao Mo, Red Snake, Zheng Shiduo, and miniature Amina toward the battlefield.
• Peony warned Wang Jixuan to stay hidden while she directed the Righteous Path forces, and the Mechanical Army spread through the underground beneath the battlefield.
• Mao Mo persuaded Daoist Taiye to evacuate Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, then headed northwest to hold back the approaching Dark Cultists.
• Mao Mo revealed the concealed weapons and launched a massive bombardment as a young girl appeared beside Daoist Taiye and said Ji Xuan had sent them.

Peony’s Mechanical Army ambushed the Dark Cultists with sustained ion-beam fire and nuclear strikes, devastating their forces and trapping their Loose Immortals. As Mao Mo and the army pressed the attack, Xiao Na told Daoist Taiye that Wang Jixuan had returned with the Mechanical Army but warned him to keep the news secret; Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet then entered the battle.

• Hundreds of thousands of Mechs fired repeated ion-beam barrages at the Dark Cultists, killing some and exhausting the defenses of many others.
• Peony detonated rings of nuclear bombs, blasting a vast crater into the Realm and interrupting the battle between the Loose Immortals.
• Mao Mo attacked the Dark Cultists’ remaining primordial spirits as Mechs emerged from Stone Gates and surrounded the battlefield with weapons.
• The Dark Cult Loose Immortals tried to flee, but ion beams disrupted their teleportation pearls and a grand formation trapped them.
• Xiao Na told Daoist Taiye that Wang Jixuan had returned with a Mechanical Army, urged him to conceal the news, and explained that Wang Jixuan faced pursuit from Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult.
• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet emerged from a Stone Gate and joined the battle against the Dark Cultists.

Wang Jixuan’s forces defeated the Dark Cult troops, but Senior Bones warned that the Heavenly Dao would keep sending enemies as the timeline grew more chaotic. Wang Jixuan returned to Wangxian Valley and encountered Murong Zhengyi, who recognized him as Ji Xuan.

• Wang Jixuan learned that the Dark Cult’s mission was to destroy sects and cultivators throughout the realm, then joined the withdrawal as the mech army dismantled its gates.
• Daoist Taiye and the Righteous Path cultivators gathered to clean up the battlefield, while Mao Mo departed and the petite woman vanished.
• Peony reported that the battle had disturbed time and karma, and Senior Bones explained that the disturbance was not yet strong enough to pull Wang Jixuan into the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Jixuan considered saving Wangxian Valley, but Bones warned that taking its cultivators away would serve little purpose; Wang Jixuan then decided to visit the sect.
• Murong Zhengyi treated his injured female guards and discussed the mysterious mechs with other cultivators before Wang Jixuan appeared and pretended he had avoided the battle.
• An aged voice addressed Wang Jixuan as Ji Xuan.

Wang Jixuan attended a meeting where Heavenly Net urged the Righteous Path sects to evacuate before the Dark Cult returned, then secretly reunited with Daoist Taiye. He explained the dangers surrounding him and urged Wangxian Valley to consider Heavenly Net’s offer, leaving Daoist Taiye to weigh the decision as a gray shadow watched them.

• Murong Zhengyi gave Wang Jixuan the Murong Family heir’s jade pendant and sent him to represent the family at the Main Hall meeting.
• The six Heavenly Net Loose Immortals explained that the Dark Cult intended to destroy cultivation and would return in about half a month, prompting the sect leaders to deliberate evacuation or resistance.
• The sect leaders agreed to return to their sects and decide within two days, while Wangxian Valley announced a great tribulation and closed its gates.
• Daoist Taiye secretly welcomed Wang Jixuan in his cultivation cave and asked about his disappearance and the conflict with Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult.
• Wang Jixuan told Daoist Taiye about his powerful enemies, gave him spirit pills, and said joining Heavenly Net could be the best way to preserve Wangxian Valley.
• A gray shadow formed in the corner and watched Daoist Taiye and Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Daoist Taiye and learned how Wangxian Valley had changed during his long absence, then sought a way to save the sect from the Dark Cult. As his companions debated retreat and surrender, Wang Jixuan awoke to find the Heavenly Dao Will standing before him.

• Wang Jixuan told Daoist Taiye about Heavenly Net, the Dark Cult, and the wider realms, while Taiye considered whether Wangxian Valley could relocate.
• Wang Jixuan disguised himself and toured Wangxian Valley with Taiye, learning that Senior Sister Xihua had become the wife of the Qingyuan Sword Sect's leader and that his junior sister had died fighting demonic beasts.
• Wang Jixuan attended a banquet with the elders, then met with his companions, who discussed the threat of Dark Cult retaliation and the limits on evacuating people through subspace.
• Peony proposed that cultivators in This Realm pledge allegiance to the Dark Cult to prevent further attacks, and Wang Jixuan asked her to gauge the sects' reactions.
• Wang Jixuan returned to his main body and opened his eyes to see a transparent figure he recognized as the Heavenly Dao Will.

Wang Jixuan met the Heavenly Dao Will, which showed him how Peony could become a collective transcendental life-form and bring about the Immortal Realm’s collapse. The Heavenly Dao Will left Wang Jixuan with a warning about a future shaped by his choices and the revelation that these higher-dimensional civilizations vastly outnumbered the Immortal Realm’s Grand Beginning Golden Immortals.

• Wang Jixuan challenged the Heavenly Dao Will over its use of the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net, and it warned him that his path threatened heaven and earth.
• The Heavenly Dao Will took Wang Jixuan to perceive the Chaos Sea and explained how civilizations underwent Collective Ascension and projected themselves into it.
• The Heavenly Dao Will explained that Peony could ascend through a purer path, with thoughts and emotions like an individual life-form, making her different from other collective civilizations.
• The Heavenly Dao Will showed Wang Jixuan a future in which the Dark Cult killed Wangxian Valley Disciples, Wang Jixuan died fighting Grand Beginning Golden Immortals, and Peony created a vast Mechanical Civilization before ascending.
• The Heavenly Dao Will said it could not destroy Peony and revealed that collective transcendental life-forms were the majority, while the Immortal Realm was a rare accident in the universe.

Wang Jixuan negotiated with the Heavenly Dao to evacuate cultivators from This Realm before a planned Dark Cult attack, while Peony considered how to save them. After agreeing to prepare for ascension, Wang Jixuan questioned the Heavenly Dao’s claim of compromise and Peony began organizing the evacuation.

• Wang Jixuan demanded that the Heavenly Dao halt the hunt for him and protect This Realm, but the Heavenly Dao said it could only limit the damage and offered conditions for an evacuation.
• Wang Jixuan and the Heavenly Dao agreed that the Dark Cult would attack in half a month, after which Heavenly Net would take senior cultivators while Wang Jixuan arranged to remove others.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony about the deal, and Peony admitted she had planned for Mechanical Civilization’s collective ascension.
• Wang Jixuan, Peony, and Senior Bones discussed the Heavenly Dao’s motives and the limits on how many cultivators they could take away.
• Peony volunteered to choose who would board the ark of survival, while Senior Bones urged Wang Jixuan to prepare for ascension.
• Peony began allocating resources for their Second Base to open ahead of schedule.

Wang Jixuan coordinated plans with Daoist Taiye to evacuate Wangxian Valley and discussed how his team would rescue cultivators after the Dark Church’s next attack. They tested Little Hua Ting’s mind-resonating singing on sect disciples, and an elder’s outburst raised questions about Wangxian Valley’s collection of demonic techniques.

• Wang Jixuan told Daoist Taiye that he had negotiated with Heaven and Earth Will and gave him a detailed plan to evacuate the sect and rescue as many cultivators as possible.
• Wang Jixuan briefed his team that the Dark Church would attack again After Half a Month, and they discussed how to screen, relocate, and protect those they rescued.
• The team chose to test Little Hua Ting’s singing ability as a way to reveal people’s character and lower their guard.
• Wang Jixuan brought Daoist Taiye and several elders into First Base, showed them its Mechs and factories, and arranged a test with Wangxian Valley disciples.
• As Little Hua Ting sang, an outer sect elder suddenly insisted Wangxian Valley was not the Demonic Gate and admitted they collected extra demonic cultivation techniques.

Wang Jixuan prepared Wangxian Valley to test cultivators’ temperaments and to receive the sects gathering against the Dark Cult. After arriving at the gathering, he recruited Murong Zhengyi to lead and restrain cultivators Below Nascent Soul.

• Wang Jixuan and Taiye agreed to invite sects to send promising cultivators Below Nascent Soul to Wangxian Valley for temperament testing.
• Mao Mo guarded the base, Peony expanded surveillance, and Zheng Shiduo and the others inspected Formation Mechs and produced Psionic Bombs.
• Murong Zhengyi watched more than a million Mechs form ranks as sects and families arrived at Wangxian Valley.
• Wang Jixuan returned Murong Zhengyi’s jade pendant, gave him Loose Immortal Spirit Pills to treat his deficient vital energy, and asked him to lead the gathered lower-realm cultivators.
• Murong Zhengyi accepted the responsibility and began refining the pill’s medicinal power after Wang Jixuan left.

Wang Jixuan intervened in negotiations between the cultivators of This Realm and Heavenly Net, offering to evacuate those below Nascent Soul while Heavenly Net took the stronger cultivators. The talks were interrupted by projections of four Dark Cultists from the Immortal Realm.

• Wang Jixuan and Daoist Taiye’s allies staged a debate to persuade the six Heavenly Net Loose Immortals to save more than just the realm’s strongest cultivators.
• The Loose Immortals agreed to let eligible experts bring blood relatives within three generations, but several cultivators began leaving rather than abandon their disciples.
• Wang Jixuan revealed himself, used the Mechanical Army’s display to deter the Loose Immortals, and showed them a Heavenly Net immortal pill to establish his credibility.
• Wang Jixuan proposed that Heavenly Net take cultivators at Nascent Soul and above while he evacuated those below Nascent Soul, promising to preserve their Dao Succession elsewhere.
• Four projections of Dark Cultists from the Immortal Realm appeared outside the hall and challenged Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan confronted four Dark Cult True Immortals who demanded the sects submit, while secretly preparing to evacuate cultivators worth saving. The Dark Cult began assembling forces to surround the realm, and Wang Jixuan turned his attention to investigating Amina’s transformation ability.

• Wang Jixuan challenged the four Dark Cult True Immortals, revealed that he knew the Heavenly Dao Tablet’s orders, and offered the sects submission or evacuation as their choices.
• Immortal Zhilan warned her companions that an expert stood behind Wang Jixuan, then planned to reach the realm in nine days and surround it before the ordered attack.
• Wang Jixuan, Amina, and Peony watched the confrontation and discussed Heavenly Net’s inaction, the risk of sects defecting, and evacuating cultivators worth saving.
• Wang Jixuan asked Amina to transform between sizes and identified the resonance between the Core Circuit and the soul as a subject for further research.

Wang Jixuan and the leaders of the cultivation world prepared to resist the Dark Cult after rejecting its offer of submission and learning that the Immortal Realm would not send reinforcements. Wang Jixuan opened his subspace as a refuge for mid-level cultivators, while the Dark Cult approached faster than expected.

• The Dark Cult’s four True Immortals warned the sect leaders that submission was their only way to spare their disciples, and the leaders argued over whether to resist or comply.
• After several hours of debate, the cultivation factions agreed to fight the Dark Cult, while Murong Zhengyi organized young cultivators and Gao Huating screened disciples.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina spent time together as he studied her Core Circuit, while Peony coordinated preparations and the sect leaders set up defenses at Wangxian Valley.
• The Heavenly Net Headquarters replied that the six Loose Immortals should recruit members for the Tianluo Faction and leave, rather than provoke the Dark Cult.
• Wang Jixuan opened a gate to his subspace and offered refuge to cultivators from Foundation Establishment to the Heaven and Earth Bridge Realm, despite a Heavenly Net Loose Immortal’s suspicions.
• A jade talisman warned that the Dark Cult would arrive in two days, prompting the cultivators to rush to set up their formation.

Immortal Zhilan led a growing Dark Cult army toward Wangxian Valley, while Wang Jixuan prepared the defenses and struggled to screen the crowds seeking refuge. With the enemy’s vanguard halted nearby and the main force still within the Immortal Spirit Path, Wang Jixuan set out to investigate their numbers and plans.

• Immortal Zhilan discussed the Heavenly Dao Tablet’s unusual orders with another True Immortal and instructed her companions to retreat if they encountered a Golden Immortal-level threat.
• Immortal Zhilan’s fleet received successive waves of Dark Cult reinforcements, gathering thousands of cultivators and a force of immortals before reaching Wang Jixuan’s minor realm.
• Immortal Zhilan assigned a vanguard of one thousand Dark Cultists, fifty Loose Immortals, and ten Origin Immortals to advance while she followed with the main army.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony detected the vanguard, while Wang Jixuan watched more than one hundred thousand cultivators wait to enter Wangxian Valley’s Second Base and weighed whether to relax its screening.
• The Dark Cult vanguard stopped on a mountain five hundred kilometers north of Wangxian Valley, and Wang Jixuan ordered Martial Uncle Taiye to hold back while he went to investigate inside the Immortal Spirit Path.

Wang Jixuan discovered that the Dark Cult’s force vastly outnumbered his own, so he organized a plan to evacuate the cultivators while ambushing the enemy in the Immortal Spirit Path. The chapter ended as he planted concealed nuclear bombs and Zheng Shiduo and Mao Mo prepared to trigger a Space Storm.

• Wang Jixuan scouted the Dark Cult’s army and found four True Immortals, more than a hundred and fifty Loose Immortals, and several hundred Origin Immortals.
• Wang Jixuan reported the enemy’s strength to Zheng Shiduo, Xiao Na, Mao Mo, and Peony, and the group considered retreating before deciding to evacuate the cultivators first.
• Senior Bones refused to intervene, and Peony estimated their chance of winning a direct battle at only five to fifteen percent but gave them an eighty percent chance of delaying the enemy and striking after the evacuation.
• Xiao Na suggested moving the cultivators into Second Base before screening them, and Wang Jixuan adopted the idea and ordered an ambush inside the Immortal Spirit Path.
• Wang Jixuan returned to the Immortal Spirit Path and planted concealed nuclear bombs near the Treasure Ships while Zheng Shiduo and Mao Mo prepared to trigger a Space Storm with a Starry Sky Gate.

Wang Jixuan and Peony prepared a surprise attack while the Dark Cult’s advance force waited for the Heavenly Dao’s signal. As Immortal Zhilan received revised orders to capture suspicious targets alive, a blood-colored meteor suddenly struck at her.

• Wang Jixuan finished placing more than three hundred bombs and hid his Strange Soul Puppet inside the Immortal Spirit Path.
• Peony determined that the Dark Cult’s advance force was waiting for the Heavenly Dao’s appointed time, so Wang Jixuan delayed the planned surprise attack until half a day before the deadline.
• Wang Jixuan chose not to say goodbye to Sect Master Taiye and shifted his consciousness back to the Strange Soul Puppet.
• Immortal Zhilan recalled her painful past and received headquarters’ order to capture anything suspicious alive rather than slaughter everyone.
• Immortal Zhilan sensed danger, then a blood-colored meteor sped toward her as time seemed to slow.

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.