Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng survived the white-haired girl's powerful test punch and learned that Danyang Dongtian's Spirit Pivot was threatened by the Leaving Dust Island Master, Xuan Zhan. The girl invited him to help seize the Spirit Pivot before the Dongtian collapsed, and Zhao Sheng weighed the dangers and the Nine Questions Immortal Sect's possible response.

• The white-haired girl arrived with the Evil Fang Two Fiends and attacked Zhao Sheng with metal-law Golden Light, but he returned the demons and persuaded her that he meant no harm.
• The white-haired girl demanded Zhao Sheng receive one punch; he combined his weapons, Kui Ox Mask, and lightning power to withstand it and rapidly healed his injuries.
• The white-haired girl honored her promise to erase their past grudges, and Zhao Sheng said he would take King Vine away.
• The white-haired girl told Zhao Sheng that Danyang Dongtian's Spirit Pivot was a Dongtian Seed and that the Leaving Dust Island Master, Xuan Zhan, was secretly trying to refine it.
• The white-haired girl argued that Xuan Zhan would bear the Nine Questions Immortal Sect's blame if they intervened, while Zhao Sheng considered the opportunity and began piecing together its hidden history.

Zhao Sheng helped the Great Chun Divine Tree survive its Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation, then secretly left the Chen Family to prepare a Void-Breaking Grand Array with the foreign race cultivators. Their flying ship reached Moonlight Star and the gateway to Danyang Dongtian, where Mo YanHai awaited them.

• Zhao Sheng watched the foreign race bandits withdraw, then learned that four Three Tribulation ancient clans had been destroyed and the Divine Tree Tribulation had begun again.
• Three years later, Chen Daqian evacuated the Chen Family from Sky City as Flying Swan Ancestor prepared to face the Great Chun Divine Tree's Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng waited through most of the tribulation, then activated the thunder formation and lightning gourds during its final waves, helping the Great Chun Divine Tree survive and regrow.
• Flying Swan Ancestor entered death seclusion, while Zhao Sheng left the Chen Family and secretly traveled to a Desolate Island beyond the East Sea.
• Zhao Sheng joined the white-haired young woman, King Vine Old Demon, Su Yuan, and other Spirit Transformation cultivators to complete the Void-Breaking Grand Array aboard a silver-white flying ship.
• The ship reached Moonlight Star and stopped above the gateway to Danyang Dongtian, where Mo YanHai appeared to meet them.

Mo YanHai, Zhao Sheng, and the white-haired girl breached Danyang Dongtian and entered the Space-Time Secret Realm to seize its Spirit Pivot. Zhao Sheng, the girl, and Mo YanHai reached the realm, where Mo YanHai began trying to claim the Spirit Pivot as Zhao Sheng and the girl suspected Xuan Zhan was still present.

• Mo YanHai activated the Void-Breaking Grand Array with the help of Zhao Sheng's and the white-haired girl's subordinates, destroying the Taiji Disc and opening a path into Danyang Dongtian.
• Zhao Sheng, the white-haired girl, Mo YanHai, and their followers entered the realm and found the Space-Time Secret Realm beyond the Chaos Light Membrane.
• Si Li Feng Yun entered through the formation, overwhelmed King Vine Old Demon and the Spirit Race Youth, and turned her attention to the Chaos Light Membrane.
• Zhao Sheng, the white-haired girl, and Mo YanHai survived the Space-Time Storm and entered the secret realm, where they found the Dongtian Spirit Pivot above the Danyang Ancestor's Jade Skeleton.
• Mo YanHai rushed to imprint his divine sense on the Spirit Pivot while Zhao Sheng and the white-haired girl held back and discussed their suspicion that Xuan Zhan was already inside.

Zhao Sheng survived Mo YanHai’s self-destruction and Si Li Feng Yun’s ambush, then stayed out of the struggle over the Spirit Pivot. In the secret realm, Xuan Zhan revealed himself and fought Si Li Feng Yun and Bai Qiqi, while Si Li Feng Yun’s Primordial Spirit entered the Jade Skeleton and a Scarlet Flame Phoenix flew into the Spirit Pivot.

• Mo YanHai’s hidden master caused him to explode, unleashing a destructive force that shattered the secret realm’s barrier and sent Zhao Sheng into the Space-Time Storm.
• Si Li Feng Yun struck Zhao Sheng with her Phoenix Head Crutch, and he crashed onto the White Jade Plaza, where he found King Vine Old Demon and the Spirit Race cultivator gone.
• Si Li Feng Yun entered the secret realm and confronted Xuan Zhan, who emerged from the Jade Skeleton and used its power to attack her and restrain Bai Qiqi.
• Si Li Feng Yun escaped the attack by shifting her Primordial Spirit into the Jade Skeleton, while Bai Qiqi used a jade talisman to teleport away from Xuan Zhan’s law chains.
• Xuan Zhan gained the upper hand in the struggle for the Jade Skeleton, as a Scarlet Flame Phoenix rose from Si Li Feng Yun’s burning flesh and flew into the Spirit Pivot.

Xuan Zhan gained the upper hand over Si Li Feng Yun in their contest for the Dongtian Spirit Pivot, while Zhao Sheng used Feng Fengzi’s token to persuade the white-haired girl to treat him as an ally. As Si Li Feng Yun’s Divine Wood Clone emerged and appealed for help, a Snow Jade Bone Axe struck Zhao Sheng and chipped the Black Abyss Sword.

• The Scarlet Flame Phoenix awakened the spirit pivot’s phoenix laws, but Xuan Zhan countered with his golden Dragon Shadow and eventually gained control of most of the secret realm.
• Zhao Sheng showed the white-haired girl Feng Fengzi’s token and claimed the Tribulation Transcending Great Venerable as his master, prompting her to offer him the Dongtian Spirit Pivot and propose joining forces against Xuan Zhan.
• Zhao Sheng and the white-haired girl watched the battle for more than two hundred days as Xuan Zhan’s golden law-light overwhelmed Si Li Feng Yun’s crimson light.
• Si Li Feng Yun’s Divine Wood Clone appeared at the plaza and urged Zhao Sheng to save her, warning that her grandson would summon her clan ancestor and the Nine Questions Immortal Sect if her soul lamp went out.
• A Snow Jade Bone Axe attacked Zhao Sheng, who blocked it with the Black Abyss Sword but was driven back and found a chip in the sword’s edge.

Zhao Sheng, Si Li Feng Yun, and the white-haired girl joined forces against Xuan Zhan, whose divided spirit controlled his body while his main Primordial Spirit fought Si Li Feng Yun over the Dongtian Spirit Pivot. Their assault destroyed his Divine Wood Clone but failed to kill him, and the white-haired girl disappeared with Xuan Zhan’s body into the Nether Dark Sky Abyss as Zhao Sheng teleported away.

• Xuan Zhan arrived with the Snow Jade Bone Axe, and Zhao Sheng and the white-haired girl secretly agreed to attack him while his main Primordial Spirit was occupied.
• Zhao Sheng unleashed his Giant Spirit Battle Body as the white-haired girl ambushed Xuan Zhan, but a golden knife disrupted their attack and Xuan Zhan regained control.
• The white-haired girl petrified the Snow Jade Bone Axe, while Xuan Zhan manifested nine golden knives and froze Zhao Sheng and Si Li Feng Yun with law-infused Golden Light.
• Si Li Feng Yun transformed into a Scarlet Flame Phoenix to restrain Xuan Zhan, and Zhao Sheng detonated his Violet Firmament Thunder Pearl, destroying the Divine Wood Clone and tearing open the plaza.
• The white-haired girl transformed into a white tiger and swept into the Nether Dark Sky Abyss with Xuan Zhan’s body, while Zhao Sheng teleported away.
• Xuan Zhan revealed that Si Li Feng Yun’s main Primordial Spirit was trapped in the Jade Skeleton and that he had gained control of eighty percent of the laws within the Dongtian Spirit Pivot.

Zhao Sheng disrupted Xuan Zhan’s takeover of the Dongtian Spirit Pivot and used demonic substance to corrupt Xuan Zhan and Si Li Feng Yun, then spent years refining the resulting demonic shadows. With the Space-Time Secret Realm crumbling and the Spirit Pivot near collapse, Zhao Sheng continued refining the last two demons while wondering why Si Li Feng Yun’s promised Upper Realm Ancestor had not arrived.

• Zhao Sheng entered the secret realm, empowered his thunder domain with the Kui Ox Willpower Avatar, and struck Xuan Zhan’s Jade Skeleton.
• The Kui Ox Avatar paralyzed Xuan Zhan, and Zhao Sheng contaminated his Primordial Spirit with demonic substance, which also corrupted Si Li Feng Yun and spread through the secret realm.
• Zhao Sheng used the Demon Refining Great Incantation to contain and refine the demonic shadows, while the Kui Ox Treasure became bound to his Primordial Spirit.
• A winged White Tiger carrying a battered human body entered the secret realm, but Zhao Sheng drove demonic shadows toward her and she fled.
• After several years, Zhao Sheng had refined nearly all the demonic shadows, but the Jade Skeleton and Dongtian Spirit Pivot were close to collapse, leaving two powerful demons still to be refined.

After emerging from the collapsing secret realm, Zhao Sheng met Yan WuXiu, who suppressed Si Li XinSun and accepted Zhao Sheng into the Nine Questions Immortal Sect. Months later, Zhao Sheng reached the Ascension Grand Array beneath the Great Chun Divine Tree and met its guardian, Si Li FengDeng.

• Zhao Sheng placed the collapsing Dongtian Spirit Pivot in his Xumi Space before the Space-Time Secret Realm was destroyed.
• A green storm trapped Zhao Sheng in the Void Realm, where Yan WuXiu appeared and explained that he had waited for him.
• Yan WuXiu dragged Si Li XinSun and his mountain back into a grotto-heaven, then agreed to Zhao Sheng's request to join the Nine Questions Immortal Sect and infused him with life essence qi.
• Months later, Zhao Sheng showed Si Li Mei'er his Ascension Token at the Great Chun Divine Tree and entered the passage to the Ascension Grand Array.
• Zhao Sheng descended to the array beneath the tree and met Si Li FengDeng, whose recent breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Realm he questioned.

Zhao Sheng ascended from the Big Tree Realm to the Tai Su Spirit Realm with Yan WuXiu’s token and joined the Nine Questions Immortal Sect. After years of cultivation, he refined a Five Revolutions Dragon Tiger Great Pill, and Yan WuXiu appointed him master of a Dao academy for a hundred-year term and gave him the first level of the Wielding Heart Sutra.

• Zhao Sheng entered the ascension path, reached Tai Su, and used Yan WuXiu’s token to avoid registration as an unaffiliated cultivator.
• Guan Yun Zi gave Zhao Sheng a jade slip about the Tai Su Spirit Realm and sent him by teleportation to the Nine Questions Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Sheng presented Yan WuXiu’s token at the sect’s mountain gate and was escorted through the Heaven Peak Spirit Sea to Cang Lang Dongtian.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated on the Thunder Platform and later refined a Five Revolutions Dragon Tiger Great Pill.
• Yan WuXiu appeared through a divided-spirit projection, appointed Zhao Sheng master of a Dao academy for one hundred years, and gave him a Golden Plate bearing the first level of the Wielding Heart Sutra.

Zhao Sheng arrived in Tranquil Sea City to take up his appointment as director of the North Sea Dao Institute, while the institute’s leaders waited for him at the Teleportation Hall. After testing the guards and officials, he revealed his identity and was formally welcomed as director.

• The North Sea Dao Institute’s vice directors and peak masters gathered at the Teleportation Hall to await the new director, while Chen DanWang warned them to set aside their disputes.
• Zhao Sheng explored Tranquil Sea City and punished Huang Shi after the local man tried to rob him.
• Zhao Sheng assessed the city’s order and prosperity, then decided the North Sea Dao Institute’s administration might also be well run.
• Zhao Sheng appeared outside the sealed Teleportation Hall the next morning and provoked its guards to test the people inside.
• Zhao Sheng presented his director’s Dragon Talisman and released his aura, prompting Chen DanWang and the other cultivators to bow and welcome him.

Zhao Sheng took charge of the North Sea Dao Institute, delegated its affairs, and secluded himself to cultivate while investigating the Spirit World's deadly tribulations. As a new class of Dao disciples arrived, Hu Sheng recruited Niu Gan Shan and promised they would rise together.

• Zhao Sheng accepted Dai YiPing's welcome and goodwill, then identified the Dao Institute's factions and gained the support of Dai YiPing's group.
• Zhao Sheng handed most Institute affairs to Dai YiPing and entered secluded cultivation, leaving Chen DanWang and the other Peak Masters uncertain but prompting them to manage their duties diligently.
• Zhao Sheng studied the Scripture Repository's records and learned that Golden Core tribulations were exceptionally lethal, possibly due to the will of the Longevity True Immortals.
• Zhao Sheng watched the new disciples swear Dao Oaths and observed that the incoming class included more than nine hundred cultivators, including five with Heavenly Spiritual Roots.
• Hu Sheng told Niu Gan Shan that the Striving Forward Association and Cloud Emergence Sect recruited ordinary newcomers, urged him to follow his lead, and promised they would become powerful figures in Galloping Wind City.

Zhao Sheng taught the Dao novices that preserving life and mastering rules were central to cultivation, while reflecting on the Heavenly Questions Dao Song and his path back to the Sky Pillar World. The story left him cultivating at the Void Abyss Well, while Niu Gan Shan worked to support himself at the North Sea Dao Institute.

• Chen Jinghui insulted Hu Sheng and Niu Gan Shan, and Hu Sheng hurried them away after warning that she was one of the Five Great Heavenly Spiritual Roots.
• Zhao Sheng took over the novices’ first lesson, praised Wu Yong for arguing against his claim that staying alive came first, and awarded him one Minor Merit.
• Chen Jinghui recited the Heavenly Questions Dao Song, prompting Zhao Sheng to consider whether the Nine Questions Immortal Sect had secret routes between the Spirit Worlds of Supreme Simplicity and Supreme Unity.
• Zhao Sheng used a Dark Iron lump to demonstrate how creation, transformation, and destruction reflected a rule he had mastered.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated at the Void Abyss Well and advanced to the fifth level of Spirit Transformation in less than three years.
• Niu Gan Shan swept the steps of Scripture Repository Peak for ten Spirit Stones a month, relying on the work and his Spirit Fields to support himself.

Niu Gan Shan struggled with his slow cultivation while Hu Sheng pursued an Immortal Opportunity and fell into debt, as Zhao Sheng left the institute after planting spells in Scripture Repository Peak. Zhao Sheng then intervened in the birth of Zhang Fengxian, named her his future disciple, and left her protected by the Violet Firmament Bracelets until he could return when she was eight.

• Niu Gan Shan worried that his poor cultivation would get him expelled, while Hu Sheng asked to use their spirit-rice earnings to fund an Immortal Opportunity.
• Senior Brother Wang confronted Hu Sheng over his overdue debt, raised the amount owed to one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones, and gave him one month to repay it.
• Over the following years, Chen Jinghui, Wu Yong, and Fang Xin achieved Foundation Establishment, while Niu Gan Shan reached Qi Refining Level Six and Hu Sheng advanced to Qi Refining Great Perfection.
• Zhao Sheng left the spirit-vein secret realm after secretly leaving several special first-rank spells in Scripture Repository Peak.
• Zhao Sheng chose Zhang Dayou's unborn daughter for his intervention, used a ball of red light to save her during a difficult birth, and bestowed the name Zhang Fengxian.
• Zhao Sheng gave the infant Violet Firmament Bracelets for protection and promised to return when she was eight to accept her as his disciple.

After eight years of training in the Ten Thousand Iron Thunder Domain, Zhao Sheng fused his will with his mana and returned to claim Zhang Fengxian as his disciple. Two months later, the Cloud Emergence Sect’s president watched Zhang Fengxian among the new academy disciples.

• Zhao Sheng’s Kui Ox Dharma manifestation drove the Yuan Magnetic Thunder Serpents away, and he spared Dongfang Hongyan after learning he was a true disciple of the Nine Questions Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Sheng left the thunder domain to find Zhang Fengxian and wondered whether she had broken the mystery within the womb.
• Zhang Fengxian recognized Zhao Sheng as her master, and Zhao Sheng accepted her while rejecting Zhang Chenglong’s request to become his disciple.
• Zhao Sheng stayed at Zhang Family Fortress for several days, then left with Zhang Fengxian after she settled her mortal ties.
• Two months later, the Cloud Emergence Sect’s president watched Zhang Fengxian among the new academy disciples as cultivators discussed the class’s gifted youths.

Zhang Fengxian rose from a prodigy at North Sea Dao Institute to a Golden Core True Person, while Zhao Sheng spread his cultivation legacy among promising disciples. As the Jia Lan Festival approached, Zhao Sheng and Dai YiPing discussed the Centennial Hundred Academies Competition and the hope that Zhang Fengxian could finally earn North Sea Dao Institute a place among the top hundred.

• Zhang Fengxian drew the attention of the institute's societies and elders with her Innate Fire Spirit Body and rapid rise, but Zhao Sheng became her master and let her pursue her own studies.
• Zhang Fengxian reached Foundation Establishment at eleven, awakened her innate divine ability Nirvana, and later chose to cultivate Zhao Sheng's Star God Thousand Hearts Art.
• Zhang Fengxian asked Zhao Sheng for Danxia Mountain as her cultivation grounds, and he granted it to her.
• Zhao Sheng invited disciples who had studied his special spells to choose further legacies, and Niu Gan Shan chose the Water-Fire Annihilation Divine Light.
• More than a decade later, Zhao Sheng met Dai YiPing and Zhang Fengxian in Tranquil Sea City ahead of the Jia Lan Festival, where Dai YiPing urged him to oversee preparations for the Centennial Hundred Academies Competition.
• Dai YiPing looked to Zhang Fengxian, who had become a Golden Core True Person at twenty-seven, as North Sea Dao Institute's best hope of reaching the competition's top hundred.

Zhao Sheng agreed to let Qi Huan Palace open a branch store in Tranquil Sea City in exchange for rare treasures and access to its trade channels. As an imposing crimson procession approached the city, Zhao Sheng sensed a powerful presence at the far end of its path of light.

• Jin Zheng visited Zhao Sheng and Dai YiPing, offered an auction catalog, and agreed to withdraw several items Zhao Sheng wanted.
• Zhao Sheng accepted the requested auction items and agreed to Qi Huan Palace opening a branch store in Tranquil Sea City.
• Jin Zheng presented Zhao Sheng with rare treasures, including a Demon Sealing Crystal from the Equatorial Ring Region, and Zhao Sheng offered Thunder Law Crystals in exchange for the gifts and future space-time treasures.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhang Fengxian a Void Realm Teleportation Talisman and received visits from leaders of foreign merchant groups.
• A crimson radiance spread along the street as mysterious immortal music sounded, and Zhao Sheng sensed a presence at the far end of the light path.

Chen Bei reunited with Zhao Sheng, disciplined Chen Juemo’s entourage, and borrowed Zhao Sheng’s damaged Dongtian Spirit Pivot in exchange for rare treasures and cultivation records. As they discussed the Nine Questions Immortal Sect, Chen Bei revealed that the Woxuan lineage sought the Great Dao of Creation.

• Chen Bei appeared beside Zhao Sheng and gave Zhang Fengxian a YuYu Shangqing Pill as a meeting gift.
• Chen Bei summoned Chen Juemo and condemned the red-dressed woman, but Zhao Sheng let Zhang Fengxian keep her Blood Essence Stone Bracelet as punishment.
• Chen Bei ordered Chen Juemo and his entourage to leave Tranquil Sea City and stay away from North Monarch Island for a hundred years.
• Chen Bei borrowed Zhao Sheng’s damaged Dongtian Spirit Pivot for a hundred years, offering Dongtian materials, Jade Slips, and Return to Void secret arts in return.
• Chen Bei described the Nine Questions Immortal Sect’s lineages and revealed that the Woxuan lineage pursued the Great Dao of Creation.

Chen Bei explained the Nine Questions Immortal Sect’s hidden Immortal Heaven realms and urged Zhao Sheng to focus on cultivation and his Dao Institute. Zhao Sheng took Zhang Fengxian into the Burial Immortal Ruins, where she felt called to Grey Mountain and entered it alone; she had not returned before he was expelled. Meanwhile, Niu Gan Shan placed tenth in the Dao Institute competition, and Zhao Sheng decided the top ten would cultivate in the secret realm for ten years.

• Chen Bei told Zhao Sheng that the moons were True Immortals’ Dao Fields and described Cang Lang Ancestor’s power to create an Immortal Heaven from nothing.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to take Zhang Fengxian into the Burial Immortal Ruins after noticing her growing strength and crimson flame mark.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in Grey Street and drove off a white-haired elder who had attacked Zhang Fengxian.
• Zhang Fengxian felt called toward Grey Mountain, chose to enter it alone, and did not return before Zhao Sheng was expelled from the ruins.
• Niu Gan Shan won tenth place in the Dao Institute competition, surprising Hu Sheng and the other disciples with his strength and cultivation.
• Zhao Sheng rejected Qing Nian Dao Ren’s request to delay selecting the candidates and ordered the top ten to cultivate in the secret realm for ten years.

After ten years of cultivation and guidance in the secret realm, Zhang Fengxian returned from Grey Mountain with memories of her past life and Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation, then joined North Sea Dao Institute’s preparations for the Centennial Hundred Academies Competition. With less than a year until the competition, Zhao Sheng met a visiting Spirit Transformation True Lord named Wan Liuer, whom Vice Institute Master Chen DanWang said had also come from the institute.

• Zhao Sheng gave the competitors ten years to cultivate in the secret realm, offered each three chances to seek his guidance, and restricted access to the Heaven and Earth Pavilions.
• Zhao Sheng improved Xie Chengfeng’s Water-Fire Mountain Splitting Staff, then gave him sword guidance and a Jade Slip containing sword insights and a Nascent Soul-level heart-sword art.
• Zhang Fengxian returned to Zhao Sheng after recalling parts of her past life, but explained that restrictions prevented her from revealing the methods to Become Immortal she remembered.
• Zhang Fengxian revealed she had reached Golden Core Great Perfection, and Zhao Sheng encouraged her to compete for entry to the Inner Mountain Gate.
• Zhu Hong and Master Kan both lost to Zhang Fengxian in a single move, establishing her as the strongest among the institute’s returning cultivators.
• Chen DanWang arrived with Wan Liuer, a beautiful Spirit Transformation True Lord, and introduced her to Zhao Sheng as someone who had also come from North Sea Dao Institute.

Zhao Sheng exposed Wan Liuer as a Red Eyebrow Dao demon and fought her Return to Void incarnation inside North Sea Peak’s sealed defenses. After resisting her mind-control and counterattacking, he sensed an intruder in the secret realm and teleported away, leaving the demon unable to locate his true body.

• Zhao Sheng recognized Wan Liuer as a Red Eyebrow Dao demon, and North Sea Peak’s formation trapped her before he extracted her demon spirit.
• The demon spirit revealed a Return to Void Divided Spirit, merged with Wan Liuer, broke free of Zhao Sheng’s restraints, and incapacitated Chen DanWang with its attacks.
• Wan Liuer used Bewitching Heart Light on Zhao Sheng, but he awakened, expanded his Primordial Spirit Domain, and broke through her Willpower Field with his purple-black spirit claws.
• Zhao Sheng unleashed Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, resisted another bizarre sound attack, and began activating his Giant Spirit Battle Body.
• Zhao Sheng sensed an intruder in the secret realm, recognized Chen DanWang’s involvement, and teleported away; Wan Liuer followed but could not discover where his true body had gone.