Chapter Summaries

Qin Wei broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage while fleeing his pursuers, then climbed a mysterious gateway’s nine steps and entered the Spirit Realm. He adapted to the realm’s immense pressure and discovered that even its ordinary stones could be valuable treasures.

• Qin Wei swallowed a Phoenix Spirit Fruit to break through, survived the minor Heavenly Tribulation, and became a Nascent Soul cultivator as his pursuers waited to attack.
• A mysterious gateway and nine illusory steps appeared, and Qin Wei climbed them and opened the gateway, releasing pure spiritual energy before he entered and vanished.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator who had been flung away passed through the steps, and several others followed before the gateway closed.
• Qin Wei arrived in the Spirit Realm and struggled to stand against its immense pressure until his body adapted enough for him to walk.
• Qin Wei tested a stone, found it hard enough to be comparable to Earth-grade Ore, and realized the desolate land was full of treasures.

Han Yuan watched the First Spirit Realm grow as Xian Lin allowed Nascent Soul cultivators to enter, while Han Yuan considered how to make the realm seem naturally formed. The chapter ended when Xian Lin reported that a Mahayana cultivator had sent an incarnation into the Spirit Realm.

• Qin Wei searched the barren Spirit Realm, established cultivation grounds, planted Spirit Medicine, and released Little Wolf.
• Han Yuan used a twelvefold Random Buff Multiplier on Qin Wei’s Law comprehension bonus, but found the result negligible.
• Xian Lin reported that Nascent Soul cultivators had followed Qin Wei through the gate, and Han Yuan permitted cultivators at or above that stage to enter.
• Over the year inside the Time Cabin, the First Spirit Realm’s population grew to more than a thousand, mostly Nascent Soul cultivators who had ascended or slipped through the gate.
• Han Yuan told Xian Lin to receive Ascenders from owned Secret Realm Worlds unless their masters resisted, so the Spirit Realm would appear to follow natural rules.
• Xian Lin told Han Yuan that a Mahayana cultivator had allowed her into his Secret Realm World and sent an incarnation into the Spirit Realm.

Old Man Nantong followed a mysterious gate into the Spirit Realm, where he met Qin Wei and learned they had ascended from different realms. As the two discussed joining forces to claim land, another cultivator approached.

• Han Yuan decided to wait and see while Xian Lin helped stabilize the Spirit Realm.
• Old Man Nantong witnessed a tribulation survivor enter an ancient gate and sent his Origin Clone after him.
• Nantong's clone entered the Spirit Realm, explored its desolate landscape, and planted spiritual herb seeds.
• Nantong met Qin Wei at his mountain formation, and they discovered they had come from different realms.
• Qin Wei proposed that he and Nantong unite to claim a place in the Spirit Realm, just as a young cultivator approached.

Han Yuan met Qin Wei and Nantong after ascending to the Spirit Realm, then declined their proposal to band together so he could pursue his own opportunities. Nantong discovered Han Yuan was cultivating plants in hopes of earning Heavenly Dao merit, and after transforming a mountain range and populating it with beasts, he watched nine wisps of white-golden energy descend.

• Han Yuan discussed cultivation differences between the Tianquan, Yuheng, and Yaoguang Realms with Qin Wei and Nantong.
• Qin Wei invited Han Yuan and Nantong to join forces, but both declined to explore the Spirit Realm on their own.
• Nantong secretly followed Han Yuan and saw him spread seeds and grow spiritual plants while seeking Heavenly Dao rewards.
• Inspired by Han Yuan, Nantong reshaped a thousand-li mountain range, improved its spiritual veins and waterways, and sowed seeds across it.
• Nantong released Spirit Beasts and demon beasts into the mountain range, after which spiritual qi gathered and formed nine wisps of white-golden energy.
• Nantong recognized the descending energy as Immortal Qi.

Han Yuan observed Nan Tong claim Immortal Qi and a wounded Void Comprehension cultivator arrive in the Spirit Realm. He helped her create a Blessed Land World, discovering that its inhabitants boosted his law comprehension and that its growth also expanded the Spirit Realm.

• Nan Tong collected and sealed nine wisps of Immortal Qi, then decided his true body should come to the Spirit Realm.
• Xian Lin explained the scarcity of Immortal Qi in the Mortal Realm, and Han Yuan realized Nan Tong could help develop his Spirit Realms.
• A wounded female Void Comprehension cultivator entered the Spirit Realm, recovered, and failed to break through its space to reach the Spatial Flow Layer.
• Xian Lin explained that the woman needed to release her Dantian and form a Blessed Land, so Han Yuan gathered spatial energy to help it grow into a world one hundred and fifty li across.
• The woman populated her Blessed Land with plants, animals, and hundreds of thousands of people, who built it into a mature Secret Realm World.
• Han Yuan discovered that the Blessed Land's inhabitants granted him bonus inspiration for comprehending laws and that its growth increased the Spirit Realm, with the increase receiving his Random Dice bonus.

Han Yuan’s Spirit Realm expanded dramatically after a Void Insight cultivator opened a Blessed Land, prompting him to recruit more Nascent Soul and Void Insight cultivators. He then broke through to the Integrated Body Realm, and his Dharma Avatar grew to an unprecedented five hundred zhang before opening its eyes with a spinning bead reflected within them.

• A 168-fold boost expanded Han Yuan’s Spirit Realm by a quarter, increasing its World Power and law-comprehension benefits, so he told Xian Lin to recruit more Nascent Soul and Void Insight cultivators.
• The Yuheng Realm was pursued by 107 nearby Mortal Realms as Nascent Soul cultivators ascended into it, while Immortal Realm powers investigated the disturbance caused by Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan shattered his bottleneck and broke through from Void Insight perfection into the Integrated Body Realm as Xian Lin stood guard.
• Han Yuan’s violet-gold Primordial Spirit, Dao Cultivation, physical body, and law comprehension fused into his Dharma Avatar, which grew from nine zhang to five hundred zhang.
• Han Yuan’s colossal Dharma Avatar opened its eyes, revealing a rapidly spinning bead reflected within them.

Han Yuan broke the limits of his Dharma Manifestation and continued cultivating until a foreboding warned him that a powerful tribulation was approaching. As he prepared to leave the Primordial Wood Secret Realm and strike first, True Monarch Yuanmu asked him to restore his body, and Han Yuan agreed.

• Han Yuan’s Dharma Manifestation exceeded its tenth limit, gained unlimited potential, and could freely change size without losing power.
• Han Yuan determined that Jianmu needed ten more World Fruits opened, with each world expanded to a million li, before it could leave the sapling stage.
• Han Yuan observed the Great Void Kun Whale nurturing a continent inside its body and continued cultivating for more than two thousand years.
• Han Yuan sensed a coming tribulation and suspected the Heavenly God Clan was about to arrive, so he decided to attack first.
• As Han Yuan prepared to leave the secret realm, True Monarch Yuanmu’s remnant soul asked him to reconstruct his body, and Han Yuan agreed to restore him without making him a servant.

Han Yuan restored Yuan Mu’s body and soul, then returned toward the Mountains of the Gods as an envoy from the upper realm arrived to face Heavenly Punishment. The chapter ended when Han Yuan entered the envoy’s tribulation range, causing the storm clouds to expand dramatically.

• Han Yuan used Soul Law and Wood Immortal Art to restore Yuan Mu’s soul and create a new body, then helped him recover his Primordial Spirit and mana with Golden Soul Liquid.
• Han Yuan left Yuan Mu after declaring their karmic debt settled, and Xian Lin remarked that Han Yuan seemed like a cultivator preparing for tribulation.
• Uneasy about Heavenly Punishment, Han Yuan detoured to Northern Yuan Continent and fortified the Earth God Sect before continuing toward the Mountains of the Gods.
• He Yu and the Heaven God Sect welcomed Shangguan Yu, an Earth Immortal Peak envoy who emerged from a spatial rift and ordered the sect to help him hunt a thief after he passed Heavenly Punishment.
• As Shangguan Yu prepared to face the gathering Heavenly Punishment, Han Yuan entered its core range, causing the tribulation clouds to expand more than tenfold.

Han Yuan used the Punish Evil Lightning Tower to transform his Purple Firmament Immortal Lightning into nine dragons and repeatedly attacked Shangguan Yu, who survived and escaped with a jade talisman. Han Yuan followed him through a lock-on, and Shangguan Yu found that the Heavenly Punishment had followed him too, just as Han Yuan appeared behind him.

• Han Yuan enhanced his Purple Firmament Immortal Lightning and struck Shangguan Yu with nine lightning dragons, leaving him badly scorched but alive.
• Shangguan Yu recovered, attacked Han Yuan from behind, and was struck by a second wave of lightning dragons after Han Yuan transformed the lightning again.
• Shangguan Yu escaped with a jade talisman as the Heavenly Punishment reached its final stage, and Han Yuan used Xian Lin and the Immortal Ascension Stairway to pursue him.
• He Yu ordered the Heaven God Sect to search for the Heavenly Punishment and determine the battle's outcome.
• Shangguan Yu emerged in an unknown Spatial Flow Layer and saw that the Heavenly Punishment had followed him as Han Yuan appeared behind him.

Han Yuan used Shangguan Yu's heavenly punishment to obtain World-Destroying Black Flames, then refined them through Jianmu inside his primary Dantian. As the punishment intensified, Han Yuan deliberately blocked the flames meant for Shangguan Yu, who realized he was being used as a trigger and searched for a way to survive.

• Shangguan Yu recognized Han Yuan as the target he had descended to hunt, just as two World-Destroying Black Flames fell upon them.
• Han Yuan summoned his Dharma manifestation and collected a World-Destroying Black Flame into his primary Dantian, where Jianmu began burning and refining it.
• Han Yuan used the Time Cabin's acceleration to help Jianmu refine the flame, while further waves of heavenly punishment delivered more flames for him to divert onto Jianmu clones.
• Han Yuan refined the first flame, used Random Doubling to strengthen it, and fed six more flames into the resulting World Fruit for Jianmu to refine.
• Han Yuan flew above Shangguan Yu and blocked sixteen World-Destroying Black Flames, prompting Shangguan Yu to realize Han Yuan was using him to trigger heavenly punishment and to seek a way to survive.

Han Yuan absorbed the escalating World-Destroying Black Flames while Shangguan Yu struggled to survive the heavenly punishment. After Xian Lin persuaded Shangguan Yu to become Han Yuan’s subordinate, Shangguan Yu signed a contract and the Heaven God Concordance Scroll.

• Han Yuan intercepted the World-Destroying Black Flames that shifted toward Shangguan Yu, then let the next wave divide between them.
• Shangguan Yu tried to bargain with Han Yuan, but backed down when Han Yuan made clear he would not spare him.
• Xian Lin urged Shangguan Yu to acknowledge Han Yuan as his master and warned him that rebuilding his cultivation after death would cost him dearly.
• Han Yuan agreed to take Shangguan Yu in after learning he belonged to the Ginseng Fruit Clan.
• Shangguan Yu signed a subordinate contract with his Immortal Soul, then signed the Heaven God Concordance Scroll, sending invisible feedback into Han Yuan.

Han Yuan gained the transformed Control Earth Veins ability, which let him create veins as well as regulate them. He used it to establish lightning and immortal qi veins in his worlds, then opened a third primordial Secret Realm World as a Flame World.

• Jianmu acquired Control Earth Veins, and Han Yuan rolled a 360-fold enhancement that raised the ability's potential to the Heavenly Immortal level and let it create earth veins.
• Han Yuan formed a Purple Firmament Immortal Lightning Vein in Thunderclap World #1, allowing the world to generate lightning on its own.
• Han Yuan created an Immortal Vein in Spirit Realm #1, enabling it to produce Immortal Qi and greatly increasing its World Power.
• Han Yuan reinvested half of the increased World Power into Spirit Realm #1, causing its borders to expand.
• Han Yuan used the World-Destroying Black Flame to open a third primordial Secret Realm World, where a Fire Vein formed and began producing flames.

Han Yuan endured the Soul Extinguishing Yin Wind with his Immortal Purple Gold Soul and strengthened his soul techniques to create openings for Jianmu to refine it. The refinement succeeded, giving him a way to absorb the heavenly punishment’s new attack.

• Han Yuan used the Random Dice to create seventy-one more Flame Worlds, then waited for the World-Destroying Black Flame to stop.
• Shangguan Yu warned Han Yuan that the next heavenly punishment was the Soul Extinguishing Yin Wind, which bypassed defenses and attacked the soul.
• Han Yuan resisted the wind with his Immortal Purple Gold Soul and Great Roar Technique, but Jianmu could refine it only while the wind was paused.
• Han Yuan refined an eighth-tier high-grade soul-amplifying bead and used the Random Dice to multiply its effect seventy-two times.
• Han Yuan strengthened his Great Roar Technique, lengthened the wind’s pauses, and successfully used Jianmu to refine strands of Soul Extinguishing Yin Wind.

Han Yuan refined the Soul Extinguishing Yin Wind, formed a fourth primordial Storm World, and sensed a growing threat beyond the gathered cultivators. As the Nine Star Sect and Heaven God Sect fought, he discovered that distances between Mortal Realms had mysteriously shrunk.

• Han Yuan refined the Soul Extinguishing Yin Wind while Shangguan Yu endured it and discovered it could strengthen his Immortal Soul.
• Han Yuan refined the incoming winds, but the heavenly punishment ended after an hour; Jianmu grew, and the fourth primordial Storm World opened a wind vein.
• Han Yuan noticed cultivators including He Yu and Star Plucking Immortal nearby, then put Shangguan Yu into Thunderclap World No. 1 and sensed a threat he could not identify.
• He Yu charged toward Han Yuan, but Star Plucking Immortal intercepted him, sparking a fierce battle between the Heaven God Sect and the Nine Star Sect.
• Han Yuan asked Xian Lin to check the distances between the Yuheng Realm and the other Mortal Realms, and Xian Lin confirmed they had drawn closer, with some distances halved.

Han Yuan sought a way to escape the Mortal Realms’ Heavenly Punishment and realized Jinbao’s new Great Void Crossing technique might let him use an Ascension passage. He then watched Myriad Spirit City’s auction turn violent when Mahayana cultivators discovered that his supposedly ordinary ores contained Immortal Qi, leaving the five Mahayana Peak cultivators fleeing with them.

• Han Yuan learned that the Mortal Realms’ Heavenly Dao could unleash punishment beyond Xuan Immortal strength, and he considered fleeing to the Immortal Realm through someone else’s Ascension passage.
• Jinbao completed its breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage, and Han Yuan used the Random Dice to multiply its adult effect by 224, granting it 108 profound mysteries of Spatial Law and Great Void Crossing.
• Han Yuan visited Myriad Spirit City and consigned five white ores to its once-in-a-century auction, where they were appraised as rare variant White Tin Jade.
• Nan Tong and other Mahayana cultivators recognized Immortal Qi inside the ores, triggering fierce bidding and drawing Mahayana experts into the auction house.
• Five Mahayana Peak cultivators seized the ores and fled as the auction house erupted into battle, while Han Yuan concluded that strength mattered more than rules.

Han Yuan returned to the Mountains of the Gods to have Shangguan Yu imprint its Law Stone Sculptures, then visited the Earth God Sect and discovered its sleeping ancestor was a member of the Fusang Wood Clan. He reunited with Chang Chun and True Person Tianle, promised to help the sect’s leaders reach the Primordial Spirit realm, and prepared to settle his ties before leaving again.

• Han Yuan asked Shangguan Yu to make an imprint of the Law Stone Sculptures while the Heaven God Sect’s powerful cultivators were away, and Shangguan Yu entered the Mountains of the Gods.
• Nan Tong hid in Spirit Realm 330 and began absorbing Immortal Qi from an Immortal Stone as Han Yuan watched him and the other four peak Mahayana cultivators prepare to face tribulations.
• Han Yuan sent an incarnation to the Earth God Sect and discovered a sleeping Fusang Wood Clan cultivator beneath it, whose stone chamber was sustained by the sect’s spirit veins.
• Chang Chun and True Person Tianle welcomed Han Yuan back to the Earth God Sect.
• Han Yuan told True Person Tianle that he would help her, Worry-Free, and Ancestor Ziyun break through to the Primordial Spirit realm, then agreed to return to the estate to settle his ties.

Han Yuan disbanded the Cangming Cave Mansion, offered his followers a choice between staying for a cultivation opportunity or leaving with him, and departed the Earth God Sect with twelve companions. He left the people who stayed greatly empowered, then returned to the stone chamber and left the sect for good.

• Han Yuan announced that he would disband the Cangming Cave Mansion and offered his followers the choice to travel with him into danger or stay and receive a chance to advance their cultivation.
• Chang Chun, True Person Tianle, and Jia Qixin chose to leave with Han Yuan, while Ziyun, Wu You, Dan Ding, Nine Peaks, and most others decided to stay.
• Han Yuan selected twelve companions, including Qin Feng, Di Qing, Wu Chao, and the three Guan Yuqi brothers, and sent the people who stayed to a spiritual place filled with cultivation resources and artistic conception carvings.
• The people who stayed returned with major cultivation breakthroughs, including Ziyun reaching the early Nascent Soul Stage, while Han Yuan departed with his companions.
• Ziyun added an account of Han Yuan's latest feat to his book, and Han Yuan returned to the stone chamber before leaving the Earth God Sect.

Han Yuan tried to use an Ascension passage to enter the Immortal Realm, but the Immortal Realm’s five-colored feedback repeatedly distracted him and strengthened the First Spirit Realm. When Nan Tong ascended, Han Yuan used the momentary pause caused by the feedback to escape the Yuheng Realm through the passage with his inner world.

• Five cultivators in Han Yuan’s inner world drew down Heavenly Tribulations, and Nan Tong survived his tribulation while two others became Loose Immortals.
• Shangguan Yu returned and gave Han Yuan one hundred and eight rubbings as Han Yuan prepared to cross into the Immortal Realm.
• Fairy Lingbo ascended from Myriad Spirit City, and Han Yuan missed his chance to follow when five-colored radiance entered the Spirit Realm and sent him into enlightenment.
• Han Yuan multiplied the Immortal Realm’s feedback by sixty-eight, greatly expanding the First Spirit Realm and improving his comprehension of the Five Elements Law.
• After a second Ascender’s radiance distracted him again, Han Yuan sent Nan Tong into the void of the Yuheng Realm as he prepared to use Nan Tong’s Ascension passage.
• When the five-colored radiance entered the Yuheng Realm, Han Yuan charged into the passage with his inner world, escaping the Yuheng Realm as a Giant Whale carried him upward.

Han Yuan and Xian Lin arrived in the Immortal Realm, where he learned about its dangerous territories and cultivation stages. After discovering they had landed in an unknown region, Han Yuan rode Wangcai through the wilderness toward the scent of humans.

• Han Yuan ascended through the passage for half a year before arriving in the Immortal Realm and finding that its spatial pressure greatly slowed his flight.
• Xian Lin showed Han Yuan a map and explained the Immortal Realm's powerful races and cultivation stages, from Human Immortal to Golden Immortal.
• Han Yuan discovered that he had landed in the middle of an unknown or dangerous region and learned that Xian Lin could not teleport him to its split body.
• Han Yuan released Wangcai, who used his keen sense of smell to guide them across the wilderness while avoiding powerful creatures.
• Wangcai detected the scent of humans, and Han Yuan reacted with surprise.

Han Yuan reached Black Jade City after discovering it in the wilderness and was welcomed as an unusual Ascender. City Lord Liang Peng urged him to stay for safety and offered him an official post, which Han Yuan examined with interest.

• Han Yuan sent Wangcai back to his internal world and continued toward the city on foot.
• Black Jade City's soldiers verified Han Yuan's turbid Mortal Realm aura and reported his arrival to the City Lord.
• The soldiers escorted Han Yuan into the city, where he noticed that many residents had low cultivation levels.
• Liang Peng welcomed Han Yuan, explained the status Ascenders held in the remote city, and advised him to stay temporarily.
• Liang Peng offered Han Yuan one of several vacant official posts, and Han Yuan spotted the military logistics officer position on the scroll.