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 used his Strange Soul Puppet and nuclear bombs to devastate the Dark Cult forces in the Immortal Spirit Path. Immortal Zhilan’s surviving troops were thrown into an unknown part of space when Mao Mo and Zheng Shiduo collapsed the passage, leaving Zhilan screaming in distress.

• Immortal Zhilan and her junior sister fought Wang Jixuan’s Three-Headed Fierce Demon while the immortal soldiers attacked from formation, but Zhilan stopped them from pursuing it into another ambush.
• Wang Jixuan returned with sealed immortal souls embedded in his puppet and taunted Zhilan, who deduced that he was using a puppet and intended to stall for time.
• Wang Jixuan detonated a large batch of nuclear bombs in the passage, wiping out the Treasure Ships and many Dark Cultists left behind.
• Wang Jixuan escaped using a treasure pearl as two more batches of bombs began their countdown, and Zhilan ordered her forces to pursue him.
• Mao Mo and Zheng Shiduo opened and collapsed a Space Tunnel with miniature Stargates, causing the Immortal Spirit Path to break apart and cast Zhilan, her junior sister, and the immortal soldiers into a distant sea of stars.
• Immortal Zhilan clutched her head and screamed as her surviving forces found themselves near an orange-yellow star.

Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul suffered backlash after devouring the immortal soldiers’ primordial spirits, while the Dark Cult forces were routed and the surviving True Immortal fled. As Wang Jixuan prepared to withdraw, a Tianluo expert wielding a Heavenly Dao Tablet trapped the realm and began pursuing him.

• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul was ravaged by the lingering resentment of the immortal soldiers, and Mao Mo, Zheng Shiduo, and Gao Huating helped contain and soothe it.
• Peony reported that the Dark Cultists were retreating, the immortal soldiers had vanished, and a male True Immortal had fled into the starry sky; she urged Wang Jixuan to evacuate before stronger enemies arrived.
• A vast formation sealed the realm, and Wang Jixuan spotted a stone tablet resembling the Heavenly Dao Tablet at its core.
• A figure in the clouds condemned the six Heavenly Net Loose Immortals and ordered them to capture Wang Jixuan, then attacked him with purple lightning.
• Wang Jixuan fled the Tianluo expert’s shrinking formation, sent Mao Mo, Zheng Shiduo, and Gao Huating away, and considered how to face his pursuer.

Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet fought a Heavenly Net Patrolling Angel who trapped it with the Heavenly Dao Tablet and Lightning Whip. With Peony’s mechanical ambush weakening the enemy and his treasures, Wang Jixuan gained the upper hand and ended the battle by taking the Angel’s head and primordial spirit.

• A Tianluo Expert trapped Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet in a shrinking formation and battered it with a Lightning Whip, while Wang Jixuan waited for Peony to devise a counterattack.
• Mao Mo brought Zheng Shiduo and Gao Huating to First Base, where Peony identified the attacker’s Heavenly Dao treasures and directed Wang Jixuan toward an ambush circle.
• Peony unleashed the base’s lasers and ion beams, forcing the Heavenly Dao Tablet to protect itself and weakening the formation around Wang Jixuan’s puppet.
• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul Puppet launched a counterattack, fought the Heavenly Net Patrolling Angel to a standstill, and used Peony’s sustained fire to damage the Heavenly Dao Tablet and disarm the Angel.
• The Angel tried to flee but was driven back by the Mechanical Legion’s barrage; Wang Jixuan caught him and severed his head, while a dragon claw tore out his primordial spirit.

Wang Jixuan defeated the Heavenly Net Celestial Immortal and shattered the Heavenly Dao Tablet, but the backlash killed the captive immortal’s primordial spirit and nearly destroyed his Strange Soul Puppet. Senior Bones then warned that the Heavenly Dao was gathering Weird Power and ordered Wang Jixuan to undergo tribulation and ascend before it could stop him.

• The six Heavenly Net Loose Immortals and the cultivators of This Realm prepared to leave, while Wang Jixuan told them he would not pursue them and bid farewell to Daoist Taiye and the other departing experts.
• Wang Jixuan confronted the Heavenly Dao through the Heavenly Dao Tablet, which claimed a fixed fate had brought the Celestial Immortal to This Realm and denied that the tablet held special significance.
• Wang Jixuan shattered the Heavenly Dao Tablet, triggering purple-black divine lightning that struck the Celestial Immortal’s primordial spirit before killing it and badly injuring Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul.
• Wang Jixuan declined to bring more cultivators with him and prepared to leave with Mao Mo, but Senior Bones told Mao Mo to stay and ordered Wang Jixuan to undergo tribulation immediately.
• Senior Bones warned that the Heavenly Dao seemed split between opposing wills, that Weird Power was gathering nearby, and that Wang Jixuan should use the Ascension Platform to reach the immortal realm.

Wang Jixuan began his third ascension tribulation, expecting to pass easily but finding the lightning too weak to temper him. As he launched himself toward the final, vastly stronger strike, Peony’s view of the event was abruptly obscured by a pale gray halo.

• Wang Jixuan stored the origin Stone Slab Walls from First Base and Second Base, then sat in midair and lifted his suppression of the Dao Realm to summon the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Daoist Taiye and the other cultivators aboard the departing Treasure Ships discussed the Immortal Realm, its powers, and the approaching Immeasurable Calamity while watching Wang Jixuan from afar.
• Peony monitored Wang Jixuan’s tribulation and considered the Heavenly Dao’s possible interference as the Tribulation Cloud gathered.
• Wang Jixuan endured the first seven lightning bolts with little harm and decided the tribulation was too weak to transform his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Jixuan exposed his Primordial Spirit to the eighth bolt, survived the strike, and prepared to meet the ninth tribulation with his Moonlight Sword and Time Dao.
• Wang Jixuan shot toward the ninth tribulation, but a pale gray halo suddenly surrounded Peony and changed the image on her screen.

Peony heard Senior Bones warn that the divided Heavenly Dao was preparing a counterattack and that Wang Jixuan’s journey to the Immortal Realm could affect the stability of the present world. Wang Jixuan survived his ninth heavenly tribulation, but as the Immortal Gate appeared, Immortal Zhilan arrived with more than a hundred figures.

• Senior Bones told Peony that the Heavenly Dao had three strands of consciousness and that its Main Body might retaliate against Wang Jixuan’s attempt to reach the Immortal Realm.
• Peony insisted that Senior Bones must not stop her master from becoming an immortal, and Senior Bones agreed to help Wang Jixuan while warning her to remain hidden.
• Wang Jixuan plunged into the Lightning Dragon and endured the ninth heavenly tribulation as Peony, Xiao Na, Gao Huating, Zheng Shiduo, Mao Mo, and Red Snake watched.
• Wang Jixuan passed the tribulation, recovered from his injuries, and saw a Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud and the Immortal Gate appear.
• Three dark clouds formed above Wang Jixuan, and a fourth cloud released more than a hundred figures led by Immortal Zhilan.

Wang Jixuan fought Immortal Zhilan while trying to reach the Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud and its immortal gate. He used Immortal Zhilan as a shield against a second strike of Heavenly Punishment, and the chapter ended with Daoist Taiye catching him as the rogue immortals attacked her.

• Wang Jixuan fled Immortal Zhilan toward the immortal gate as Peony sealed the bases and sent mechs to delay the Dark Cultists.
• Immortal Zhilan broke through Wang Jixuan’s formations and attacked him, forcing him to merge with the Dragon Python Strange Soul and taint his Immortal Spirit Body with demonic energy.
• The Dark Cult’s reinforcements approached while the mechs fought them, and the Righteous Path cultivators split between hiding in the void and joining the fight to help Wang Jixuan reach the immortal gate.
• Wang Jixuan used the Great Dao of Time to evade Immortal Zhilan, wounded her, and seized her as he rushed beneath the Seven-Colored Auspicious Cloud.
• Heavenly Punishment struck Wang Jixuan and Immortal Zhilan together, and Daoist Taiye caught Wang Jixuan while the four rogue immortals attacked the paralyzed Immortal Zhilan.

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 awakened in the Immortal Realm after surviving the ascension ritual and learned that Bai Gu had brought him and more than two hundred thousand cultivators to an abandoned sect. With only three months before Bai Gu had to send him back to the present era, Wang Jixuan reunited with Amina and prepared to help settle the cultivators.

• Wang Jixuan woke in the bamboo house, sensed his Immortal Bone, and reviewed how Bai Gu had brought him through the Immortal Gate and settled him in the Immortal Realm.
• Bai Gu explained that Wang Jixuan could remain at this time node for only three months, gave him cultivation techniques and Immortal Realm methods, and asked him to help avenge the Moon God Palace.
• Wang Jixuan contacted Peony and learned that the two hundred thousand cultivators were being settled in the Immortal Realm, while Bai Gu warned that their past actions had helped create the history they already knew.
• Amina rushed to embrace Wang Jixuan after he awakened, and Zheng Shiduo secretly photographed them while Peony called Wang Jixuan to a meeting.
• Wang Jixuan paid respects to his Martial Uncle's Wooden Token, then headed with the group toward the teleportation stone slab.

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.”

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 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.

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 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 followed Black Obsidian’s directions into the Small World of the Fusang Tree and reunited with Peony and Wang Jixuan. She delivered Black Obsidian’s letter and learned that Wang Jixuan was using him to negotiate with the Dark Cult’s Heavenly Dao.

• Gao Huating escaped the Cloud Boat, then reconsidered and returned to find the entrance to the Small World.
• Gao Huating entered the hidden realm and passed through the sealed gateway beneath the dried-up pool.
• Peony’s golden needles stopped Gao Huating, and Peony welcomed her after recognizing her.
• Gao Huating reunited with Wang Jixuan and heard from Peony how he had endured thousands of years trapped by Senior Bai Gu’s barrier.
• Gao Huating gave Wang Jixuan Black Obsidian’s letter, and Wang Jixuan explained that he was using Black Obsidian to negotiate with the Dark Cult’s Heavenly Dao.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Little Hua Ting at the Second Base and explained that Brahma, a consciousness born from the Heavenly Dao, was manipulating the Dark Cult and Heavenly Net. They planned to exploit a gathering of enemies in the Land of Sunrise, while Little Hua Ting’s singing revealed a power that could help their preparations.

• Little Hua Ting reunited with Wang Jixuan and Peony at the Second Base, where Wang Jixuan rejected Black Obsidian’s offer to cooperate with the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Jixuan explained that Brahma had parasitized the Heavenly Dao, created Heavenly Net and the Dark Cult, and was opposed by a secondary consciousness that controlled Black Obsidian.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony decided to lure enemies gathered in the Land of Sunrise into fighting each other, using the promise of an Exotic Treasure and their prepared weapons.
• Peony planned to show Little Hua Ting the Second Base and its facilities, while Wang Jixuan promised to guide her cultivation after she rested.
• Little Hua Ting practiced singing, and her voice caused a withered branch of the Withered Fusang Tree to sprout and grow lush again.