Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan and Peony used nanorobots carrying Ancient Battlefield baleful aura to devastate the Hundred Races Army, forcing its Golden Immortals to flee with most of the surviving soldiers. As the Human Race celebrated, the defeated factions argued over the loss, while Cang Ze saw the battle as a chance to turn the Three Immortal Palaces against one another.

• Peony’s nanorobots spread baleful aura through the Hundred Races Army’s rear as the Human Race and Mechanical Army launched a full assault, inflicting more than two hundred thousand casualties.
• Five or six Hundred Races Golden Immortals seized nearly eight hundred thousand soldiers and escaped, leaving the remaining troops to be encircled and defeated.
• Jian Wu absorbed much of the battlefield’s baleful aura, and the Human Race celebrated its victory while Wang Jixuan returned to the immortal island to cultivate.
• The Hundred Races factions blamed one another for the defeat, and Fire God Palace and Night God Palace withdrew from the gathering.
• Cang Ze argued that Wang Jixuan’s victory had made him a threat and proposed exploiting discord among the Human Race’s Three Immortal Palaces.

After the victory banquet began, Feng Zheng sparred with Guo Kui using one of Wang Jixuan’s Annihilation Bombs, leaving Guo Kui unconscious and badly singed. Zhai Cheng then challenged Wang Jixuan, who demonstrated his Time Sword Intent and left the other disciples waiting as Luo Tianjin rose to make an announcement.

• Wang Jixuan joined the victory banquet, where the disciples asked about his five Sword Intents and Mechanical Army.
• Guo Kui challenged Feng Zheng to a spar inside Wang Jixuan’s mech army, and Wang Jixuan supplied Feng Zheng with two Annihilation Bombs.
• Feng Zheng used an unexpectedly powerful bomb to defeat Guo Kui, who was knocked unconscious, and a Sword God Palace elder reprimanded Feng Zheng.
• Zhai Cheng challenged Wang Jixuan to demonstrate the difference between their Sword Intents, and Wang Jixuan slowed time to place food on Zhai Cheng’s plate.
• Zhai Cheng acknowledged Wang Jixuan’s Time Sword Intent, and Luo Tianjin stood to announce something and called Wang Jixuan forward.

Wang Jixuan received two spiritual treasure swords and watched the Immortal Palaces debate how to handle the Human King Seal. He later asked Layman Luoshan to oversee a new Third Base, and she agreed in exchange for help giving Amei and the others bodies.

• Luo Tianjin recognized Wang Jixuan as worthy of Golden Immortal treatment and awarded him the Purple Feather Sword and Azure Rain Sword, which responded to his sword intents.
• Luo Tianjin asked Wang Jixuan about the Human King Seal, and Wang Jixuan said it should be entrusted to a Grand Beginning Golden Immortal of the human race.
• Elder Tianlin proposed making the Human King Seal a shared token of the three houses, beginning with a hundred years in Sword God Palace, while Jian Wu hesitated over the plan.
• Layman Luoshan warned Wang Jixuan that rotating control of the seal could provoke disputes and Internal Strife among the three houses.
• Wang Jixuan asked Layman Luoshan to help move the Small World and oversee an unprecedented Third Base, offering to cultivate a compatible body for her.
• Layman Luoshan agreed to serve him if he also tried to fashion bodies for Amei and the others.

Wang Jixuan worked at Second Base to create bodies for Layman Luoshan and other strange creatures while comprehending the Great Dao. Jian Wu visited Layman Luoshan, who rebuked the Three Immortal Palaces for neglecting mortal worlds and affirmed that she would give the Human King Seal only to Wang Jixuan; a message from Senior Bai Gu then sent Jian Wu to rescue one of Wang Jixuan’s friends.

• Wang Jixuan used time-manipulating sword intent and cloning technology to accelerate the creation of new bodies at Second Base.
• Jian Wu visited Layman Luoshan and found Amei, Humanoid Mechs, strange creatures, and Sword Nine gathered in the courtyard.
• Jian Wu admitted that the Three Immortal Palaces had reconsidered their plan for the Human King Seal and asked why Layman Luoshan had chosen Wang Jixuan.
• Layman Luoshan explained that the ancient tribulation was unfolding and condemned the Three Immortal Palaces for failing to protect mortal worlds, declaring that she would entrust the seal only to Wang Jixuan.
• Senior Bai Gu’s message directed Jian Wu to send Golden Immortals to the Reception Platform at Lu Jiu Er Qi Jiu and rescue a friend of Wang Jixuan arriving with the Thousand Worlds Alliance.

Wang Jixuan reunited with the injured Shen Qionglin, learned that masked attackers had ambushed her party, and heard how the Dark Cult was conquering Lower Realms and True Realms. Shen Qionglin helped Peony advance the Clone Bizarre Creature Plan, and after the first batch of infants was born, Bai Ning and Feng Zheng asked Wang Jixuan when the Three Immortal Palaces could withdraw their troops.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Shen Qionglin had arrived injured, and he rushed to the Immortal Palace to check that her soul was unharmed.
• The Golden Immortal Elders explained that masked fighters had ambushed Shen Qionglin and her escorts, and they suspected the Dark Cult or Heavenly Net.
• Shen Qionglin reunited with Wang Jixuan and Red Snake, then described the Dark Cult’s campaigns across the Lower Realms and True Realms.
• Shen Qionglin warned Wang Jixuan about sensitive listeners while asking him a cryptic question, and he left the matter of Ye Zi unspoken.
• Shen Qionglin helped Peony refine the Clone Bizarre Creature Plan, and the first batch of infants was born with resentful souls merged into their bodies.
• Bai Ning and Feng Zheng arrived at Second Base and asked Wang Jixuan when the Human Race’s Three Immortal Palaces could withdraw their troops.

Wang Jixuan arranged for the Three Immortal Palaces to help refine the Ancient Battlefield into a portable Small World and divided its spoils. As the elders completed the formation and sealed the world in a universe pouch, an insect had secretly compromised a formation foundation, and Layman Luoshan watched with a faint smile.

• Wang Jixuan agreed to discuss the Three Immortal Palaces’ request with Hermit Luoshan and offered Feng Zheng broken swords in place of the bones he wanted.
• After learning that refining the Ancient Battlefield would take months, Wang Jixuan recruited more than ten Golden Immortal Elders, speeding the work so it could finish in three days.
• Shen Qionglin pondered her unexplained fear of Wang Jixuan, then discussed Immortal Realm society and Peony’s devotion to her master before the two playfully tussled.
• Wang Jixuan and Hermit Luoshan agreed to divide the battlefield’s weapons and materials among the three palaces, with the Spear God Palace receiving the largest share.
• During the final formation work, an almost invisible insect crawled into a formation foundation; Elder Lu replaced the unstable pillar without discovering the insect’s presence.
• The Golden Immortals completed the Eight-Directional Grand Array and placed the Ancient Battlefield’s Small World into a universe pouch, while Layman Luoshan watched and smiled.

Wang Jixuan secured the Golden Lotus containing his Third Base, and the human factions argued over his Mechs before agreeing on plans for the Heroic Gathering. As the Sword God Palace returned from Duan Yun Desert, a black-energy beetle emerged inside the Ancient Battlefield and began absorbing baleful aura.

• Wang Jixuan accepted the Golden Lotus, which Layman Luoshan was modifying with new exits and a formation around the Third Base.
• Wang Jixuan distributed the Ancient Battlefield’s recovered treasures among the three Immortal Palaces and gave Feng Zheng three baleful-qi swords.
• At the celebratory feast, Slaughter God Palace elders pressed Wang Jixuan to share his Mechs, but Jian Wu defended him and Sword Three urged the factions to let time prove his character.
• The three factions agreed that Sword God Palace would host the first Heroic Gathering in one year, with disciples competing for spirit treasures.
• Wang Jixuan and the Sword God Palace group departed Duan Yun Desert, while Little Hua Ting took several disciples to visit the Mechs.
• A black-energy beetle crawled out from a stone pillar inside the Golden Lotus and began absorbing the Ancient Battlefield’s baleful aura.

Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng sparred beneath the Blood Moon, testing their sword intents while Sword God Palace elders watched. Their duel halted when the Purple Feather Sword resonated with something hidden nearby and flew northwest, prompting them to pursue it.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that some bizarre clones were collapsing from an opposing force, so he approved pausing the experiments and destroying the embryos and cloned infants.
• Feng Zheng invited Wang Jixuan to spar in the Ancient Battlefield, and Jian Wu brought the elders to observe them through their Immortal Sense.
• Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng exchanged sword techniques, with Feng Zheng revealing Clear Wind and Fire sword intents as their battle reached a deadlock.
• Wang Jixuan sensed the Slaughter Sword Intent resonating with something nearby and called a halt to the spar.
• The Purple Feather Sword shot northwest, and Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng chased after it.

Wang Jixuan, Feng Zheng, and Layman Luoshan discovered a huge worm hidden in the baleful aura, and heavenly punishment struck it repeatedly. The punishment then grew stronger and shifted its target to Layman Luoshan, who flew toward the Blood Moon to face Heaven while Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng prepared to follow.

• Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng followed the Purple Feather Sword to a hidden worm that Peony detected beneath the baleful aura.
• Heavenly punishment struck the worm's location and shattered the island-protecting formation, while Jian Wu rose to challenge the Heavenly Might and was injured.
• Wang Jixuan bombarded the worm with Annihilation Grenades, and Feng Zheng burned most of its body with fire swords.
• After the worm was destroyed, Peony warned that the heavenly punishment was growing stronger and pursuing the immortal island and the Golden Lotus.
• Layman Luoshan provoked the heavenly punishment and flew to the Blood Moon to face it, as Wang Jixuan and Feng Zheng stepped forward to join her.

Wang Jixuan tried to save Layman Luoshan from the Heavenly Dao’s escalating punishment by using Immortal Scarabs to collect data and prepare a mechanical defense. After the fourth strike cracked the Blood Moon’s formation, he raised six thousand airships around it and activated three hundred Particle Shields.

• Brahma drew heavenly punishment to the Ancient Battlefield, and Layman Luoshan entered the Blood Moon as baleful aura surged toward it.
• Wang Jixuan sent Feng Zheng to his Second Base and stayed near the Blood Moon, searching for a way to save Layman Luoshan while avoiding the punishment’s focus.
• Jian Wu and the Sword God Palace elders watched the Blood Moon endure the first two lightning strikes but hesitated to summon a Grand Beginning Golden Immortal.
• Wang Jixuan deployed Stone Slab Walls and Immortal Scarabs to gather data and shield the Blood Moon, while Peony and Shen Qionglin analyzed the punishment’s unknown particles.
• After the third and fourth strikes weakened the Blood Moon’s formation, Wang Jixuan raised six thousand airships around it and activated three hundred Particle Shields.

Wang Jixuan and his allies used Particle Shields, a sword formation, and Layman Luoshan’s own power to help her survive the heavenly punishments. As the ninth strike threatened to destroy her, Wang Jixuan’s Time Sword Intent and Sword Nine’s intervention stopped it, and Sword Nine prepared to demonstrate his newly comprehended sword intent.

• Peony’s Particle Shields weakened the fifth heavenly punishment enough for Layman Luoshan to withstand it, though many generators were damaged.
• Jian Wu and the Sword God Palace elders formed a sword formation to weaken the sixth strike, allowing Layman Luoshan to endure it.
• Layman Luoshan used Blood Moon to counterattack the seventh strike, then endured the eighth with help from Wang Jixuan’s airship shields.
• As the ninth strike descended, Wang Jixuan used his Time Sword Intent to strengthen the Severed Finger, and Sword Nine appeared and shattered the lightning with his sword qi.
• Sword Nine told Wang Jixuan to watch as he revealed his newly comprehended sword intent, Slay Heaven, Punish Dao.

Sword Nine broke through to Half a Step Grand Unity and joined more than ten Human Race Grand Beginning Golden Immortals in driving back Brahma’s heavenly punishment. After Wang Jixuan raised suspicions about the worm and a Slaughter God Palace elder involved in the formation, he returned to Second Base, where news arrived that the elder had fallen into Demonic State.

• Sword Nine destroyed the tenth heavenly punishment’s Tribulation Cloud, and more than ten Grand Beginning Golden Immortals forced it to disperse while warning Brahma to leave.
• Layman Luoshan restored the broken passage, then retreated into the Severed Finger to recover as Amei and the Bizarre Objects offered her yin-baleful spiritual energy.
• Sword Nine asked Wang Jixuan why the punishment had targeted Layman Luoshan, and Wang Jixuan suspected Brahma’s scheme and questioned the origin of the worm that drew down the punishment.
• Sword Nine passed Wang Jixuan two new sword intents and agreed to report his suspicions to Jian Wu; the elders suppressed the matter and sent paired formation masters to investigate the Ancient Battlefield.
• After Layman Luoshan awoke and Wang Jixuan returned to Second Base, Feng Zheng told him that a Slaughter God Palace elder had fallen into Demonic State and lost two grades in Dao Realm.
• Wang Jixuan decided to visit Jian Wu to ask what had happened to the elder.

Wang Jixuan learned that Brahma had used a Gu Worm to control a Slaughter God Palace elder, then discussed with Jian Wu how to draw out Brahma’s pawns and break the stalemate with the Dark Cult. Back at the Second Base, Shen Qionglin proposed contaminating the Heavenly Dao’s information flow with rumors, and Peony began simulating the plan.

• Jian Wu told Wang Jixuan that investigators had found a Gu Worm hidden in a Slaughter God Palace elder’s primordial spirit, likely planted when he was a Heavenly Immortal.
• Wang Jixuan inferred that the Human Race planned to use the Human King Seal’s emergence at next year’s Heroic Gathering to gather forces and draw out Brahma’s pawns.
• Jian Wu explained that ancient agreements and the balance between the Human Race and the hundred races prevented the Immortal Palaces from openly attacking the Dark Cult.
• Wang Jixuan suggested winning over one of the hundred races’ five Immortal Palaces to break the stalemate, and Jian Wu asked him and Feng Zheng to place in the Heroic Gathering’s top five.
• Wang Jixuan held a team meeting at the Second Base and proposed winning over the Fire God Palace, while Little Hua Ting suggested using rumors to weaken their rivals.
• Shen Qionglin proposed spreading information through the Heavenly Dao to make rumors more convincing, and Peony began simulating the idea.

Wang Jixuan and the Earth Team advanced a plan to clog Brahma’s Heavenly Dao while he trained under Sword Nine and visited Layman Luoshan. The chapter left him facing an unexpected visit from several women of the Fire God Palace.

• The Earth Team developed the plan “The Sewer Is Clogged,” aiming to overload the Heavenly Dao with junk information through connections to Golden Immortals’ Great Daos.
• Peony and Shen Qionglin began simulating the plan as Wang Jixuan trained his swordsmanship in the Ancient Battlefield under Sword Nine.
• Wang Jixuan visited Layman Luoshan, rejected her offer of submission, and was entrusted with the Human King Seal and other treasures in her secret chamber.
• Wang Jixuan inspected the growing Third Base and checked in with Bai Ning and Feng Zheng about preparations for the Heroic Gathering.
• Feng Zheng rushed to tell Wang Jixuan that several women from the Fire God Palace had come looking for him.

Wang Jixuan approved Peony’s plan to create an Incense God Cult as a conduit for flooding the Heavenly Dao with garbage information, then met Fire God Palace’s Huang Qian’er at Sword God Palace. The chapter ended when Huang Qian’er privately revealed that her consciousness had been contaminated by the Heavenly Dao Worm.

• Wang Jixuan changed into formal Daoist robes, reviewed Peony’s revised plan, and authorized resources for preliminary experiments using faith-based gods as conduits to the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Jixuan met Bai Ning and Feng Zheng, who warned him that Huang Qian’er and a Grand Beginning Golden Immortal had come with Fire God Palace’s delegation.
• Wang Jixuan arrived at the reception on an outer island and adopted an imposing stance before Huang Qian’er came forward to question him.
• Huang Qian’er asked Wang Jixuan whether he had a Dao companion and hinted that she had seen him during her ambush, prompting Bai Ning to claim he already had a partner.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to speak with Huang Qian’er in private with elders and companions nearby, and she told him that the Heavenly Dao Worm had contaminated her consciousness.

Huang Qian'er sought Wang Jixuan’s help to free her from Brahma’s control, while Wang and the Sword God Palace weighed whether Fire God Palace’s request was a trap. Wang revealed Brahma’s long-running designs and proposed a plan to affect it, leaving Jian Wu to hear Peony explain the scheme.

• Huang Qian'er told Wang Jixuan that her consciousness had been muddled after an attack and asked him to treat her Heavenly Dao contamination, offering all her possessions in return.
• Wang Jixuan explained that the Consciousness Entity was called Brahma and warned Huang Qian'er that it might be listening to them.
• Bai Ning, Feng Zheng, Jian Wu, Jian San, Sword Nine, and Wang Jixuan discussed whether Fire God Palace had sent Huang Qian'er with hidden motives.
• Wang Jixuan showed the group a recording of Brahma’s eye and explained how his time travel and karma had entangled him with Brahma’s plans.
• Wang Jixuan said he had a method that could affect Brahma, and Peony introduced the plan called Clogged Sewer 084 to Jian Wu.

Wang Jixuan and his allies began a secret experiment to create gods from aberrations and incense offerings, while advancing their anti-Heavenly Dao plans. As Wang Jixuan inspected the first temples, three mysterious presences arrived, and he arranged for his teacher to watch over the group.

• Jian Wu approved a limited test of Peony's incense-offering plan, and Wang Jixuan proposed avoiding the use of mortals as the source of incense and merit.
• Shen Qionglin revealed that Peony had simulated cloning the little phoenix from biological samples, while Wang Jixuan continued supporting the aberration-cloning project with his Time Sword Intent.
• After half a month of preparation, Wang Jixuan's group agreed to advance the plan, and Jian Wu assigned Feng Zheng and Bai Ning to assist him and placed three thousand immortal soldiers under his command.
• Wang Jixuan oversaw the construction of twelve empty temples near a town of more than two hundred thousand mortals, while Layman Luoshan struggled to choose the first aberrations to serve as gods.
• During an inspection with Bai Ning and Feng Zheng, Wang Jixuan sensed three approaching presences and said he had secretly asked his teacher to watch over them.

Wang Jixuan confronted Brahma, who revealed its true form and tried to persuade him to abandon his plan by offering peace and power. Wang Jixuan refused, declared that he wanted Brahma dead, and watched Brahma vanish after the incarnations of Zhihui and Cang Ze were destroyed.

• Bai Ning, Feng Zheng, and Wang Jixuan found Zhihui and Cang Ze disguised inside a temple, while Wang Jixuan suspected the central figure was Brahma.
• Brahma revealed its phantom form before the gathered immortal soldiers and experts, then warned Wang Jixuan that his plan could provoke the Heavenly Dao and plunge the universe into war.
• Wang Jixuan rejected Brahma’s warning and offers, insisting that he would not give up his companion or his plan.
• Wang Jixuan insulted Brahma to provoke it, but Brahma saw through his attempt and explained that it feared his willingness to destroy it if given the chance.
• Brahma offered to let Wang Jixuan rule part of the universe if he left the Immortal Realm, but Wang Jixuan said he wanted Brahma dead for blocking his path to immortality, destroying his inheritance, and killing his fellow disciples.
• A sword light shattered Zhihui and Cang Ze’s incarnations, while Brahma vanished without a trace.

After Brahma appeared and withdrew, Wang Jixuan and his allies tried to determine why the Heavenly Dao Worm had confronted them. Jian Wu revealed that the Heavenly Dao had rejected every Grand Beginning Golden Immortal and a Space-time Barrier had cut off travel between the Immortal Realm and Lower Realm, so Wang Jixuan joined Sword Nine in seeking answers from the Great Dao.

• After Brahma vanished, strange fiery clouds and immortal radiance briefly appeared across the horizon before disappearing.
• Wang Jixuan gathered Peony, Sword Nine, and his other allies to discuss Brahma's unexplained appearance and possible motives.
• Jian Wu reported that Grand Beginning Golden Immortals could no longer sense the Heavenly Dao, and a Space-time Barrier had severed the connection between the Immortal Realm and Lower Realm.
• Peony agreed to help Sword God Palace distribute detectors, while Jian Wu arranged for its experts to gather information.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to accompany Sword Nine in questioning the Great Dao.

Wang Jixuan and Sword Nine investigated the Sea of Dao Principles and learned that the Heavenly Dao had sealed the immortal realm to defend against a terrifying enemy. Peony decoded signals showing that the enemy was the Mechanical Civilization, whose fleet was close to breaking through the Heavenly Dao’s barrier.

• Wang Jixuan explored the Sea of Dao Principles and learned that the Heavenly Dao had hidden itself and sealed the immortal realm against an unknown enemy.
• Wang Jixuan reported that the remnant spirits had driven Brahma from the Sea of Dao Principles after he tried to absorb them.
• Sword Nine told the elders that the Dark Cult was attacking the Mortal World, which had lost contact with the immortal realm, and that Wang Jixuan’s Thousand Worlds Alliance was resisting it.
• Wang Jixuan suspected Brahma’s appearance might have distracted the immortals while the Heavenly Dao sealed the realm, then left the meeting to hear Peony’s findings.
• Peony showed Wang Jixuan signals depicting a Mechanical Civilization fleet fighting the Heavenly Dao’s barrier and reported that the fleet was close to breaking through.