Chapter Summaries

Wutian destroyed the Dark Forbidden Zone, discovered its origin as a mutated Lotus Seed fused with a World Heart and the resentment of a destroyed world, and earned merit from the Heavenly Dao. Lin Fan and his companions received merit as well, with Lin Fan still absorbing a massive share as the chapter ended.

• Lin Fan led the group farther from the Dark Forbidden Zone as its darkness grew stranger, and Wutian appeared and transported them back to Western Ox Continent.
• Wutian met with the Supreme Master, then let the Dark Forbidden Zone's formless entity consume him before reversing its effects and devouring it completely.
• Wutian learned that the Dark Forbidden Zone had been a mutated Lotus Seed fused with a World Heart and the resentment of a world's sacrificed inhabitants, and he demanded payment from the Heavenly Dao for removing it.
• The Heavenly Dao granted Wutian a Golden Ring of Merit, and Wutian decided to keep it while asking for Lin Fan to receive more merit.
• Golden merit descended upon Lin Fan, Shi Qi, Long Aojiao, and the others, and Shi Qi wondered whether Lin Fan would form a Golden Ring of Merit.

Lin Fan and his allies returned to the Moon Embracing Sect with merit and treasure after destroying the Dark Forbidden Zone, then celebrated as the Immortal Hall wiped out the other six Forbidden Zones of Life. Wutian and the Buddhist Sect later took half of Ascension Continent through a public agreement with the Immortal Hall, leaving Lin Fan confident that the conditions for his plans were coming together.

• Lin Fan received roughly one and a half Golden Rings of Merit and concluded that Wutian's actions in the Dark Forbidden Zone had earned the Heavenly Dao's extraordinary favor.
• Lin Fan's group returned to the Moon Embracing Sect and celebrated for three days, while Shi Hao prepared a feast and Qin Hao wished he could share the food with his parents.
• Wutian inspected the other six Forbidden Zones of Life, found their defenses unimpressive, and left their destruction to the Immortal Hall.
• The Supreme Master ordered the Three Lords and Four Emperors to lead the Immortal Hall's forces in destroying the six Forbidden Zones of Life, and the campaign won the Immortal Hall widespread praise.
• The Heavenly Secrets Tower reported that all Seven Great Forbidden Zones of Life had been destroyed, while Wutian and the Buddhist Sect took half of Ascension Continent under a public joint-rule agreement with the Immortal Hall.
• Lin Fan learned of the agreement and concluded that the favorable terrain and popular support needed for his plans had been secured.

Lin Fan prepared the Moon Embracing Sect for the uncertain Ten-Year Tribulation, improved his magical treasures, and secured the Buddhist Sect’s help for the coming Nine Stars Conjunction. He stood on an Ascension Platform as the nine stars began to align, facing the phenomenon’s imminent onset.

• Lin Fan kept Shi Hao, Yaya, and the other disciples at the sect to cultivate and prepare for the sect-wide ascension.
• Lin Fan used materials from the Dark Forbidden Zone to upgrade Fellow Daoist Wait a Moment and Barrett, while continuing to guide his disciples and plan for the Ten-Year Tribulation.
• Lin Fan traveled to Ascension City and secured a Buddhist Sect Ascension Platform by giving gifts to its officials and winning the cooperation of the monk Shouxin.
• Lin Fan waited atop the Ascension Platform as the Nine Stars Conjunction began to take shape, and he noticed intricate formations layered over its innate Dao patterns.

The Moon Embracing Sect opened a passage to the Immortal Realm and began its mass ascension. The Wuji Hall, Jietian Sect, and Nine Dragon Holy Land ambushed the sect, and Li Chungang and Deng Tai'a prepared to fight back as Lin Fan maintained the passage.

• Wu Xingyun and the other elders activated the formation, and Lin Fan stabilized the passage between the Immortal Realm and the Immortal Martial Continent with the Sky Stabilizing Pearl.
• The first group of Moon Embracing Sect disciples began ascending, while the five elders and the Seven Mascots organized the remaining disciples.
• Duanmu, Zhou Zhennan, and Jiao Thirteen led the Wuji Hall, Jietian Sect, and Nine Dragon Holy Land in an attack that shattered the Moon Embracing Sect's protective formation.
• Lu Ming told Lin Fan not to intervene, and Lin Fan continued holding the passage stable, confident the sect could repel the attackers.
• Li Chungang and Deng Tai'a drew their swords to defend the Moon Embracing Sect as the three holy lands pressed their assault.

The Moon Embracing Sect repelled the three holy lands’ assault when Qiu Yongqin revealed his overwhelming strength and routed their forces. After the battle, Gu Xinglian and Li Canghai joined the sect’s preparations for ascension, where Lu Ming offered Gu Xinglian and the Demoness a chance to ascend and allowed Li Canghai to bring a few trusted confidants.

• Gu Xinglian and the Myriad Flowers Holy Land intervened against Wuji Hall, but Duanmu struck the Sky Gazing Mirror with Worldfall Light and weakened it.
• As the Moon Embracing Sect’s defenses faltered, the five elders authorized Qiu Yongqin to act, and he used the Human Emperor Banner and his sword and lightning techniques to overwhelm the Jietian Sect and Nine Dragon Holy Land.
• Qiu Yongqin routed the three holy lands, forcing their leaders and forces to flee as Gu Xinglian watched Wuji Hall’s defeat.
• Li Canghai and representatives of the Great Desolate Sword Palace and Black and White Academy arrived after the battle, and Gu Xinglian accompanied Li Canghai into the Moon Embracing Sect’s formation.
• Lu Ming invited Gu Xinglian to ascend with the Moon Embracing Sect, but she declined for the Myriad Flowers Holy Land while agreeing to go up herself.
• Li Canghai presented the Demoness and asked about ascending; Lu Ming agreed to arrange it for her and offered Li Canghai a place for a few trusted confidants.

Moon Embracing Sect completed its mass ascension to the upper realm while Qiu Yongqin avenged the sect by destroying three hostile powers in the lower realm. Lin Fan guided the newly arrived disciples through the Three Thousand Continents and explained the sect’s history, leaving Li Canghai startled to learn the Jietian Sect was already gone.

• Li Canghai gathered nine trusted female aides to ascend with her, while Lin Fan welcomed the arriving Moon Embracing Sect disciples at the Ascension Platform.
• Qiu Yongqin infiltrated Wuji Hall, killed Duanmu, and used the Human Emperor Banner to destroy Wuji Hall, Jietian Sect, and Nine Dragon Holy Land.
• Gu Xinglian discussed the future of Myriad Flowers Holy Land with Lu Ming, and Li Canghai joined the mass ascension with her confidantes.
• Lin Fan closed the guiding passage, led the sect through Ascension City, and explained the upper realm’s major factions and Buddha Wutian’s origins.
• Lin Fan recounted the Moon Embracing Sect’s history in the upper realm, shocking the Demoness by revealing that the sect had destroyed Jietian Sect.
• Li Canghai asked whether Lin Fan had also destroyed Heavenly Demon Hall, and Lin Fan said it remained active in the north.

Li Canghai weighed whether to join the struggling Heavenly Demon Hall and decided to seek a place within the powerful Moon Embracing Sect instead. After Lin Fan welcomed millions of newcomers to the sect, Emperor Ye and Wutian arrived at the feast, and Wutian hinted that Ye Fan might be the Supreme Master.

• Li Canghai asked Lin Fan to investigate the Heavenly Demon Hall, then resolved to cling to the Moon Embracing Sect after seeing its strength and prosperity.
• Lin Fan brought the lower-realm newcomers to the Moon Embracing Sect, where his disciples had prepared residences across its immortal mountains and the Wood Elves rejoiced at the abundant spirit herbs.
• The Moon Embracing Sect held a grand welcome feast, attended by Fifth Zhuge, Lord of Guixu, Ding Changsheng, and other guests.
• A mysterious middle-aged man introduced himself as Ye Fan, offered a gift, and expressed interest in the Moon Embracing Sect and its Immortal Machine.
• Wutian arrived as a guest, gave Lin Fan a Lotus Seed that could withstand an ordinary Immortal Emperor, and ordered the sect to raise rare delicacies for him.
• Wutian told Lin Fan that no one, not even the Supreme Master, could take his life; Lin Fan suspected Ye Fan was the Supreme Master.

Moon Embracing Sect’s banquet brought its disciples and elders a surge of breakthroughs, while the Supreme Master and Wutian each demonstrated their power in different ways. After the guests departed, Li Canghai sought a place in the sect and became Lin Fan’s maid, and Gu Xinglian revealed that the cracked Sky Gazing Mirror needed repair.

• Moon Embracing Sect’s disciples and elders broke through after eating Eight Treasures Chicken and Eight Treasures Duck, and the Supreme Master lectured them on the Dao.
• Wutian infused the sect members with energy that advanced nearly everyone by another minor realm before he left.
• After reviewing news of the Heavenly Demon Hall’s decline, Li Canghai asked to stay at Moon Embracing Sect and swore an oath to Lin Fan, becoming his third maid.
• Three days later, Gu Xinglian told Lin Fan that the Sky Gazing Mirror could still be used, and he examined the cracked mirror and asked Sister Wu to undo the master recognition.

Lin Fan repaired and upgraded Gu Xinglian’s Sky Gazing Mirror into a Postnatal Merit Spiritual Treasure, then returned it to her. Gu Xinglian tested its expanded reach and spotted a terrifying city far beyond the Three Thousand Continents.

• Sword Son reunited with the Moon Embracing Sect and challenged Xiao Ling'er, hoping to rack up one hundred consecutive losses and unlock the Ancient Chaos Inheritance.
• Sword Son repeatedly sparred with the sect’s disciples, losing but improving rapidly, while Three Leaves explained that he needed stronger talent and a top-grade Spiritual Treasure to excel in sword dao.
• Lin Fan used merit to reforge the damaged Sky Gazing Mirror, and Xu Youmeng recognized it as a Postnatal Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• Gu Xinglian chose to keep the upgraded mirror and remain with the Moon Embracing Sect for now, while Lin Fan warned her not to view several dangerous regions.
• With Sister Wu’s help, Gu Xinglian refined the mirror and saw the Four Great Walls, Luo Feng’s territory, and a terrifying city far out in the void.

Lin Fan discovered that Qin Yu was likely trapped in the God Realm amid trouble with his marriage, so he prepared to take disciples to support him. Before they set out, Long Aojiao revealed that the God Realm had once abandoned the Overlord Divine Emperor when he fought for the Three Thousand Continents, leaving the group wary of what awaited them.

• Gu Xinglian glimpsed an ancient frontier pass through the Sky Gazing Mirror, and Lin Fan warned her not to peer into that dangerous region again.
• Sister Wu could not locate Qin Yu or Xu Fenglai, and Lin Fan concluded that Qin Yu might be in the God Realm and facing trouble over his marriage.
• Lin Fan borrowed the Sky Gazing Mirror and summoned a group of disciples and companions to accompany him to the God Realm to back Qin Yu up.
• Long Aojiao revealed that the God Realm had failed to aid the Overlord Divine Emperor when he fought for the Three Thousand Continents, possibly treating him as a traitor.
• The disciples agreed to go support Qin Yu, and Lin Fan chose a strong group that included Long Aojiao for the trip.

Lin Fan gathered his companions and traveled to a God Realm entrance, planning to use Long Aojiao’s status as the Overlord Divine Emperor’s successor to enter and help Qin Yu overcome the God Realm’s hostility. At the entrance, a guard demanded that Long Aojiao surrender the Overlord Divine Halberd and her treasures, and she challenged him to take them by force.

• After learning that the God Realm despised people from the Three Thousand Continents, Lin Fan decided Qin Yu would need to defeat its young prodigies to earn acceptance.
• Lin Fan planned to enter the God Realm under Long Aojiao’s status as the Overlord Divine Emperor’s successor and chose the Lord of Guixu to accompany them.
• Lin Fan’s group set out with divine beasts, attendants, and disciples, while Long Aojiao grew annoyed that Lin Fan’s elaborate display outshone her.
• At a God Realm entrance, the Lord of Guixu opened the passage, and Lin Fan explained that God Realm guards watched its connection points.
• A God Realm guard recognized the Overlord Divine Halberd, insulted Long Aojiao, and demanded she surrender it and her treasures.
• Long Aojiao pointed the halberd at the guard and challenged him to take it if he dared.

Long Aojiao entered the God Realm and killed the gatekeeper who had insulted her, even after an Immortal King projection tried to intervene. Wang Teng argued that her status as the Overlord Divine Emperor’s successor excused her entry and that the gatekeeper had deserved death, leaving the God Realm experts to back down.

• Long Aojiao defeated the God Realm gatekeeper, crushed his body, and pursued his fleeing head into the God Realm.
• Lin Fan ordered the others to follow Long Aojiao through the entrance, which closed behind them.
• Long Aojiao attacked the gatekeeper again, and an Immortal King projection intervened, but she shattered it and killed the gatekeeper.
• Other Immortal King projections arrived and challenged Long Aojiao, while the first projection accused her group of trespassing and violating God Realm rules.
• Wang Teng argued that Long Aojiao was the Overlord Divine Emperor’s sole successor, counted as half a person of the God Realm, and had killed the gatekeeper in self-defense.
• The Immortal King accepted Wang Teng’s explanation, called the gatekeeper’s death deserved, and prepared to leave before Long Aojiao stopped him.

Long Aojiao and Lin Fan’s group traveled through the God Realm, where rumors about her spread and Three Leaves killed a prodigy who challenged her. Lin Fan then learned that Divine King Jiang had arranged a contest for Jiang Li’s hand in marriage, giving the group an opportunity to help her and Qin Yu.

• Long Aojiao took a map from an Immortal King and learned that the Jiang Family was ruled by a Divine King, while Lin Fan explained that Divine Kings were rulers rather than cultivation realms.
• God Realm residents spread exaggerated rumors about Long Aojiao, and a Fifteenth Realm prodigy challenged her to surrender the Overlord Divine Emperor’s inheritance.
• Long Aojiao sent Three Leaves to fight the challenger, and Three Leaves killed him with a single sword strike.
• Long Aojiao taunted the gathered spectators and declared that only Immortal Kings were qualified to challenge her, while Lin Fan and the others continued their journey.
• Lin Fan learned through the Sky Gazing Mirror that Divine King Jiang had arranged a contest for Jiang Li’s hand in marriage, open to outstanding young talents under ten thousand years old.

Long Aojiao challenged the God Realm’s prodigies to face her followers at the Jiang Family’s martial match for marriage, drawing nearly every elite toward the event. Qin Yu learned the contest would be far more difficult but resolved to fight for Jiang Li, while Lin Fan’s group continued toward the Jiang Family and prepared to reunite with him.

• Long Aojiao declared that her followers would compete in the Jiang Family’s martial match for marriage and provoked the God Realm’s prodigies by insulting their strength.
• God Realm elites heard of Long Aojiao’s challenge and began heading to the Jiang Family, while Jiang Lan welcomed the influx of potential suitors and started preparing the contest.
• Qin Yu struggled to recover from his injuries as Xu Fenglai told him that the match would draw the God Realm’s strongest young elites and that Long Aojiao’s challenge might bring their fellow sect members and Lin Fan to help.
• Xu Fenglai encouraged Qin Yu to keep healing and said he would enter the contest to fight the young elites; Qin Yu regained hope and strengthened his resolve to win Jiang Li.
• Lin Fan told Xiao Ling'er that searching recklessly with the Sky Gazing Mirror would expose them, and he expected Qin Yu to learn of the contest and come to them.
• Lin Fan warned Long Aojiao that the God Realm’s definition of the current generation spanned a hundred thousand years and that Immortal Kings might enter the contest, but Long Aojiao insisted she would fight them all.

Lin Fan's group arrived in Ice Snow Divine King City for the martial contest for marriage and were welcomed into Jiang Lan's mansion, but Jiang Lan refused their request to see Jiang Li after learning Lin Fan led the Moon Embracing Sect. Lin Fan sent Li Canghai, Funingna, and Dianna to gather information, and they went to the viewing garden, where Li Canghai began arranging a way to meet Jiang Li.

• Lin Fan's group entered Ice Snow Divine King City amid hostility, and Jiang Lan ordered that they be invited to the Divine King's Mansion as honored guests.
• Jiang Lan received the group, but left after Lin Fan asked to see his daughter; he refused once Dianna revealed that Lin Fan was the Sect Master of the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan settled the group into a guest courtyard and sent Li Canghai, Funingna, and Dianna out to learn about Jiang Li and seek a private meeting.
• Li Canghai led the three women to the viewing garden after interpreting a mansion maid's hint about where Jiang Li might be.
• In the viewing garden, Li Canghai noticed the attention the women drew and quietly told Dianna her plan; Dianna sighed as they passed a group of people.

Li Canghai, Dianna, and Funingna suppressed God Realm nobles who insulted them, then reunited with Jiang Li and arranged to help Qin Yu. Jiang Li later told Lin Fan that she was the reincarnation of the Life Divine King and the daughter of the Ice Snow Divine King, Jiang Lan.

• Dianna's remarks about the viewing garden angered God Realm youths, who demanded that she and the other women kneel and apologize.
• Li Canghai and Dianna attacked the nobles while Funingna boosted their strength, and the three overwhelmed the crowd until a Fifteenth Realm Peak prodigy challenged them.
• Li Canghai blocked the prodigy's strike with the other two women, invoked their master Zhu Yu, and refused to keep escalating the fight.
• Jiang Li arrived and stopped the private battle, then embraced Funingna, Dianna, and Li Canghai and discussed Qin Yu's situation with them.
• Funingna gave Jiang Li an Immortal Machine for secret communication, and Lin Fan sent Xiao Ling'er and Long Aojiao to find and help Qin Yu.
• Jiang Li told Lin Fan that she had learned she was the reincarnation of the Life Divine King and the daughter of the Ice Snow Divine King, Jiang Lan.

Jiang Li explained why she resisted her father’s plan to restore her Life Divine King identity, and Lin Fan resolved to defend the Moon Embracing Sect’s cultivation path at her martial contest for marriage. The contest began before a vast crowd and five Immortal Emperors, while Qin Yu and the sect prepared to answer the God Realm’s contempt.

• Jiang Li told Lin Fan that her past-life Origin Power had split into two Meteor Tears, and she refused to abandon her Moon Embracing Sect cultivation despite Jiang Lan’s marriage alliance plans.
• Lin Fan promised to fight for Jiang Li and show the God Realm the strength of the Moon Embracing Sect’s Dao and laws.
• Xiao Ling’er healed Qin Yu and learned that God Realm Pest Extermination Teams had hunted him and Xu Fenglai; she vowed they would answer for it.
• The martial contest began in a reinforced small world filled with spectators, and Jiang Lan introduced several powerful witnesses, including five Immortal Emperors.
• Several prodigies declared their intentions to win or challenge Long Aojiao, who accepted their challenge, while Lin Fan offered to help Chen Bei investigate his recent dazed feelings.
• Jiang Li appeared before the crowd, and Xiao Ling’er told Qin Yu that the insult now concerned the entire Moon Embracing Sect and their master.

Jiang Lan set the martial matchmaking convention's entry test as striking the Heaven-Connecting Wood harder than Jiang Li, and contestants took turns demonstrating their power. Xiao Ling'er then revealed she knew the Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying and stunned the crowd by reaching over two thousand zhang despite being in the early Fourteenth Realm.

• Jiang Lan introduced the Heaven-Connecting Wood test, and Jiang Li struck it with Sword Nine for a result of nine hundred and seventy-six zhang.
• Contestants took the stage to qualify, while Shi Jian threatened those who could not surpass Jiang Li and then recorded one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six zhang.
• Zhou Xian, Qi Meng, and other Immortal Kings displayed their attack power before the master of ceremonies prepared to close the test.
• Xiao Ling'er stepped forward despite the crowd's jeers, summoned the Infinite Fire Domain, and said the Moon Embracing Sect possessed an incomplete Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying inheritance.
• Xiao Ling'er unleashed Sword Nine with nine exotic flames surrounding her Sword Qi, and the Heaven-Connecting Wood reached two thousand and seven zhang.

Moon Embracing Sect disciples stunned the audience and Immortal Emperors by using the Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying to produce extraordinary results. Three Leaves then revealed that he had completed the sword art and struck the Heaven-Connecting Wood for 4,300 zhang, leaving the contest and the God Realm’s assumptions about the sect shaken.

• Xiao Ling'er struck the Heaven-Connecting Wood for 2,000 zhang, and Wang Teng followed with 1,100 zhang using the Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying.
• Yaya, Lin Dong, Chen Bei, Qin Yu, Xu Fenglai, He Anxia, and Sun Wuxia took turns demonstrating the Moon Embracing Sect’s techniques and earning participation qualifications.
• Shi Hao, using the Dao Name Huang, combined the Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying with the Willow Deity Method and struck for 2,900 zhang, impressing the Immortal Emperors.
• Three Leaves announced that he had completed the sect’s incomplete Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying and performed his version of Sword Nine.
• Three Leaves struck the Heaven-Connecting Wood for 4,300 zhang, surpassing everyone and stunning the audience.

Three Leaves revealed his bond with Jiang Li and demonstrated the completed Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying, while Long Aojiao and Lin Fan took turns provoking the God Realm’s prodigies. Lin Fan’s maidservants proposed taking his place in the test, leaving the God Realm’s contestants furious and the next match unresolved.

• Three Leaves struck the Heaven-Connecting Wood at four thousand three hundred zhang, then greeted Jiang Li as his junior sister and offered to teach her the complete Nine Swords of Immortal Slaying.
• Jiang Lan explained that Jiang Li had joined the Moon Embracing Sect before learning her origins, calming the God Realm’s onlookers.
• Long Aojiao entered the test, struck the Heaven-Connecting Wood at three thousand zhang, and insulted everyone present as trash before leaving the arena.
• Dianna and Funingna carried Lin Fan onto the arena in a resplendent sedan chair, where Li Canghai declared that surviving a few moves against him would be a lifelong honor.
• Jiang Li praised Lin Fan and asked for the Heaven-Connecting Wood to be removed, but Lin Fan upheld the rules and Li Canghai suggested that the maidservants test the contestants in his stead.