Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan and Peony used Little Hua Ting’s song to revive the Fusang Divine Wood and prepared the secret realm as a trap for their enemies. After the tree’s canopy flourished, Wang Jixuan took Little Hua Ting to its roots to search for the Spirit of the Divine Wood, where her music began to send out strange ripples.

• Little Hua Ting’s singing awakened vitality in the Fusang Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan realized the tree might be roused enough to reveal its spirit.
• Wang Jixuan told Little Hua Ting to keep singing around the tree, while Peony suggested blaming the Dark Cult if the Feather God Palace investigated.
• Over the following weeks, Little Hua Ting revived much of the tree, while Peony and her Mechs restored ancient formations to lure and trap intruders.
• Wang Jixuan reflected on his cultivation and the many Golden Immortals in the Immortal Realm, then began refining his immortal treasures in preparation for battle.
• After the divine tree’s canopy flourished, Wang Jixuan took Little Hua Ting to its roots and asked her to sing; she began playing her guitar, sending strange ripples through the underground lake.

Wang Jixuan calmed himself, discovered a wary phantom drawn out by Gao Huating’s singing, and prepared to strengthen Second Base while training and equipping her. As Wang Jixuan and his companions inspected the secret realm ahead of a possible battle, Black Obsidian watched Dark Cult experts argue and openly insulted them.

• Gao Huating’s singing soothed Wang Jixuan, who resolved to keep challenging Brahma despite his weak position in the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Jixuan spotted a thought-form phantom near the pool, but it vanished before he could approach; Peony identified it as a magnetic field reaction, and Wang Jixuan suspected it was the Spirit of the Divine Wood.
• Wang Jixuan took Gao Huating to Second Base, assessed her cultivation, and gave her supplies, an immortal treasure sword, and a dress.
• Peony explained that the Dark Cult might be negotiating with the Feather God Palace or awaiting orders from the Heavenly Dao, while Gao Huating suggested they might be waiting for a reply to her letter.
• Wang Jixuan decided not to reply and planned to destroy the Dark Cult’s living strength before withdrawing to guerrilla warfare.
• Black Obsidian watched Dark Cult experts argue in a grand hall, then called them stupid donkeys.

Black Obsidian demonstrated a nuclear bomb to the Dark Cult Immortals and warned them that Wang Jixuan had reached Heavenly Immortal-level combat power, but they rejected his advice. Wang Jixuan prepared to draw other forces into the conflict and tried to stop the Spirit of the Divine Wood from disappearing.

• Black Obsidian detonated an imitation nuclear bomb inside a barrier, destroying the great hall and showing the Dark Cult Immortals its destructive power.
• Black Obsidian warned the Dark Cult Immortals that Wang Jixuan had advanced from a Mahayana Cultivator to Heavenly Immortal-level combat power, but they insulted him and continued arguing over their plans and Contribution Points.
• Wang Jixuan learned of the explosion and suspected Black Obsidian was demonstrating nuclear weapons to deter the Dark Cult Immortals.
• Wang Jixuan returned with Little Hua Ting to the Fusang Divine Wood, where he planned to attract the Feather God Palace and other Immortal Palaces into the conflict.
• Little Hua Ting's song drew out the Spirit of the Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan shouted, "Sorry, we came too late!" as it turned to leave.

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.

Little Hua Ting’s friendship with the Spirit of the Divine Wood helped the spirit take human form as Xiao Sang, while Wang Jixuan prepared defenses against the approaching Feather God Palace. Just as the clan chief’s seal began opening the way into the Small World, Xiao Sang stopped the Divine Wood from responding, leaving the gathered experts stunned.

• Wang Jixuan had Peony deploy ship-grade Shield Generators around the Fusang Divine Wood while Little Hua Ting explained their Mechanical Civilization and their fight against the Heavenly Dao’s puppets to the tree spirit.
• Little Hua Ting held the Spirit of the Divine Wood’s hand, awakening memories of the Fusang Divine Wood’s past and helping the spirit take human form as Xiao Sang.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Azure Wood Great Dao had transferred to Xiao Sang, then received word that Feather God Palace experts were approaching and finished preparing his formations.
• The Feather God Palace elder agreed to help the Dark Cult enter the Tribal Land in exchange for treasures, then activated the clan chief’s seal in the grand hall.
• The Fusang Divine Wood began trembling as the seal opened a path, but Xiao Sang tapped its trunk and silenced it before the passage could open.

Wang Jixuan watched the Feather God Palace’s attempts to open the ancient Tribal Land fail, while Xiao Sang grew angry at the seals buried in the Divine Wood. Her sudden display of power exposed the Fusang Divine Wood to the Immortal Realm and brought a rush of powerful newcomers toward the secret realm.

• The Feather God Palace elder failed to activate the secret realm’s seal, and Black Obsidian suspected the elder would lose control of the situation.
• Wang Jixuan learned Peony could not spy through the Golden Immortals’ barrier and considered persuading Xiao Sang to reveal strange phenomena or leave with the Divine Wood.
• The Feather God Palace elder tried the seal a third time, but it cracked, so he fled to have it repaired.
• Xiao Sang’s image appeared above the sea and warned everyone not to bother her, revealing the Fusang Divine Wood to immortals across the region.
• Immortals rushed toward the Divine Wood, and Wang Jixuan, Little Hua Ting, and Peony watched the commotion on a screen until someone asked to enter their karaoke room.

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 learned that more than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals had entered the Small World to hunt for the Mechanical Fiend, so he sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul back to help Peony defend it. As the Thousand Worlds Alliance prepared to ambush the Dark Cult’s reinforcements, the intruders searched the realm and rushed toward a bionic decoy of Wang Jixuan.

• Peony reported that Dark Cult Immortals had entered the seafloor route toward the Small World, and Wang Jixuan decided to send his Dragon Python Strange Soul after them.
• Wang Jixuan disguised the strange soul’s departure as a message to his family while Han Xiao and two Thousand Worlds Alliance elders planned to spread word of the Dark Cult’s actions and ambush its reinforcements.
• The Dragon Python Strange Soul entered the Small World as Peony opened a passage for the Dark Cult and directed it toward a trap in the southwest.
• More than two hundred Dark Cult Immortals entered the Small World, approached the Fusang Divine Wood, and began searching for the Mechanical Fiend.
• Black Obsidian recognized a bionic decoy resembling Wang Jixuan in a pavilion, and the Dark Cult Immortals rushed toward it.

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 used his Strange Soul and time-based tricks to lure the Dark Cult immortals into an antimatter-bomb ambush inside the Small World. The Small World then shattered and merged with the Immortal Realm, exposing the battle and its casualties to the outside.

• Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul confronted the Dark Cult immortals, taunted Black Obsidian, and suggested that the entity directing them might be Brahma rather than the true Heavenly Dao.
• Elder Hou attacked Wang Jixuan’s Strange Soul, which retreated through the Small World’s formations and entered a Bionic Mech in a pavilion.
• Black Obsidian directed the Dark Cult immortals to attack from a distance, and Elder Hou destroyed the pavilion with a shot from his Long Bow.
• Wang Jixuan used the Great Dao of Time to slow the immortals and detonated antimatter bombs, killing several Dark Cult Heavenly Immortals and draining many others.
• Black Obsidian recognized the time-based ambush too late, and more than a dozen immortals rushed into the pavilion’s former location as Wang Jixuan’s Main Body triggered five Black Holes.
• The Small World shattered and merged with the Immortal Realm, revealing the battlefield and the vaporized immortals as radiation and shockwaves spread into the surrounding sea.

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 used his Strange Soul to provoke a battle between the Dark Cult and Feather God Palace while searching for a chance to deploy his Annihilation Bombs. The fighting stopped when reinforcements arrived, and Wang Jixuan recognized the Dark Cult’s Venerable Zhihui as a True Immortal he had killed six hundred thousand years earlier.

• Wang Jixuan’s demonic voice stirred a Dark Cult Heavenly Immortal’s resentment, prompting him to attack Feather God Palace and ignite a battle between the factions.
• Wang Jixuan secretly worsened the fighting while Peony used sound-field devices to agitate the combatants, and other factions rushed toward the divine wood.
• Feather God Palace sent tens of thousands of immortal soldiers and overwhelmed the Dark Cult, while Han Xiao searched for Wang Jixuan and led the Thousand Worlds Alliance toward the divine wood.
• Wang Jixuan hid his true body aboard a Thousand Worlds Alliance Treasure Ship as the Dark Cult’s forces began to falter and Feather God Palace summoned another wave of reinforcements.
• Wang Jixuan recognized Venerable Zhihui, a Dark Cult Golden Immortal, as a True Immortal he had killed six hundred thousand years earlier.
• Venerable Zhihui ordered the Dark Cult to stop fighting, and both sides withdrew as she and Feather God Palace’s leader reprimanded their commanders.

Wang Jixuan watched the Dark Cult and Feather God Palace end their battle and make a temporary deal over the Fusang Divine Wood. After he decided against provoking the divine wood and planned to infiltrate the Dark Cult Headquarters, a formidable sword-wielding immortal appeared, threatening to reignite the conflict.

• Venerable Zhihui and Feather God Palace's Vice Palace Master halted the fighting, then agreed that Feather God Palace would help locate the Mechanical Fiend while the Dark Cult guarded the divine wood's western side.
• As the two forces advanced toward the Fusang Divine Wood, hidden cultivators mocked them, and Feather God Palace's Vice Palace Master threatened anyone who tried to harm the tree.
• Peony proposed making the Fusang Divine Wood reject Feather God Palace's claim, but Wang Jixuan declined to provoke her and chose to pursue an infiltration of the Dark Cult Headquarters instead.
• Wang Jixuan planned to announce secluded cultivation before separating his Main Body from his foreign soul, while Feather God Palace prepared to secure the divine wood.
• A powerful middle-aged immortal appeared wielding a blackened, spiritually potent sword, drawing the attention of the factions and Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan watched as the Sword, Fire, and Spear God Palaces arrived to contest the Feather God Palace and Dark Cult over the Fusang Divine Wood’s spirit. Just as the factions seemed to settle on an arena to decide who would claim it, the Spirit of the Divine Wood rejected their authority.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony discussed the powerful newcomers, the Strange Soul Puppet, and why Black Obsidian should remain intact.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable challenged Huang Langyu and offered to take the Fusang Divine Wood’s core to forge a spirit sword.
• The Fire God Palace arrived, followed by the Spear God Palace, and Luo Tianjin backed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable against the Feather God Palace.
• Venerable Zhihui proposed an arena where young talents could compete for the Spirit of the Divine Wood, and Huang Langyu agreed.
• The Spirit of the Divine Wood shouted at the gathered factions to leave and declared that they had no right to decide where it belonged.

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 was exposed as the Mechanical Fiend and climbed the Cloud Ladder to the twenty-sixth level while the Dark Cult tried to capture him. With Nine Spirits Sword Venerable protecting the arena and Elder Hou coming after him, Wang Jixuan prepared to confront the Golden Immortal rather than flee.

• Venerable Zhihui identified Wang Jixuan as suspicious, but he leaped from the fifth level to the twenty-fourth and then climbed to the twenty-sixth while two Dark Cult Heavenly Immortals were trapped below.
• A young girl from Fire God Palace ignored a Dark Cult elder's plea to stop Wang Jixuan, and Wang Jixuan abandoned his attempt to climb higher when the sword intent above threatened his puppet.
• Wang Jixuan contacted Luo Tianjin for help, and Luo Tianjin ordered his people to prepare to save him; Han Xiao also mobilized the Thousand Worlds Alliance to intervene.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable wounded Dark Cult Immortals who approached the Cloud Ladder and barred them from disturbing his arena, but allowed Elder Hou to climb and challenge Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan used Peony's simulation comprehension system to study the sword intent, then descended toward Elder Hou and drew a treasured sword to face him.

Wang Jixuan fought Elder Hou on the Cloud Ladder, using his sword intents and burning his puppet body to wound the Golden Immortal. After unleashing Starry Sky Sword Intent, he left Elder Hou injured and pinned by Nine Spirits Sword Venerable, but the divine tree intervened as the Dark Cult sought to take him.

• Wang Jixuan challenged Elder Hou, but the Golden Immortal broke through his sword attacks and overwhelmed him with superior immortal power.
• Wang Jixuan burned his puppet body's Immortal Body and used Azure Reed Sword Intent to wound Elder Hou, drawing cheers from the Spear God Palace and Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Elder Hou struck Wang Jixuan with golden light, but Wang Jixuan escaped to the twenty-sixth level of the Cloud Ladder.
• Wang Jixuan used Starry Sky Sword Intent in a final attack, leaving Elder Hou wounded and his puppet body near collapse.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable pinned Elder Hou's primordial spirit, and the divine tree enveloped Wang Jixuan's puppet as a timid voice challenged the Sword Person.

The Fusang Divine Wood gave Wang Jixuan a Divine Wood Blessing, restoring and strengthening his puppet incarnation and Dragon Python Strange Soul. After consulting Peony, Wang Jixuan defeated Elder Hou with his sword intent, prompting the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable to intervene and leave Wang Jixuan free to ascend the Cloud Ladder.

• The Fusang Divine Wood poured its Power of Origin into Wang Jixuan's puppet incarnation, and the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable protected him from Elder Hou's attack.
• Wang Jixuan received the Divine Wood Blessing as his Dragon Python Strange Soul and Immortal Body grew stronger, while Peony advised him to challenge the Nine Spirits Sword Venerable and helped him prepare to face Elder Hou.
• Elder Hou rose with a bloodstained greatsword and a bronze cauldron, intending to kill Wang Jixuan with a powerful attack.
• Wang Jixuan used Peony's predictions and his Close to the Dao sword intent to evade Elder Hou's strikes and place the Moonlight Sword at Elder Hou's chest.
• The Nine Spirits Sword Venerable blasted Elder Hou off the Cloud Ladder and destroyed his cauldron, then Wang Jixuan saluted him and headed for the thirty-second level.