Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu explained to Feng Muhan that powerful cultivators needed a Dao to restrain themselves from losing control, and Lu Tong revealed that the conversation had been a trial arranged to help Wang Wu understand the Dao. The trial clarified the Dao’s first layer as control, but left Wang Wu to discover for himself whether the Dao came in greater and lesser forms.

• Wang Wu told Feng Muhan that absolute strength bred loss of control and that cultivators needed a Dao to restrain themselves.
• Wang Wu reasoned that Lu Tong had chosen the Righteous Qi Path to control his emotional nature, and Feng Muhan praised Wang Wu’s insight.
• Lu Tong emerged with Zhuang Bufei and Qu Shenglian and revealed that the four attendants had staged the trial under their master’s command.
• Lu Tong explained how a cultivator’s powerful body could overwhelm a weak Divine Soul with Seven Emotions and Six Desires, and said the Dao’s first layer was control.
• Lu Tong told Wang Wu to personally seek the answer to whether the Dao came in greater and lesser forms, and Wang Wu asked what he should do next.

Wang Wu went with the Frost Domain elders to negotiate with Blood Elder, but the meeting exposed Lu Tong’s loyalty to Frost Lord and ended with Wang Wu struck by a powerful Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment. As the group fled back to Qingshuang City, Elder Hui and his allies moved to expose Lu Tong and seal the Frost Domain’s passage to Beyond the Heavens.

• Zhuang Bufei told Wang Wu the Frost Domain had failed to earn trade income for fifty-five years and asked him to address its Spirit Tax shortfall by negotiating with Blood Elder.
• Wang Wu met Blood Elder, who rejected the talks, mocked Frost Lord, and warned Wang Wu that he might be used without realizing it.
• Wang Wu discovered that Lu Tong refused Feng Muhan’s urging to flee and remained committed to the Frost Domain despite the danger.
• Elder Hui used Level 27 Divine Calculation on Wang Wu, but a red leaf blocked the divination before a strengthened Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment sealed Wang Wu’s Heart of the Earth.
• Lu Tong and the others escaped toward Qingshuang City with Wang Wu, while Elder Hui and his allies identified Lu Tong as wanted Wandering Grand Unity Lu Ming and demanded his detention and the sealing of the Frost Domain’s passage.

Wang Wu learned that Liu Shengyuan and Elder Hui were using Lu Tong’s criminal past to have him arrested, so he proposed hiding Lu Tong by sending him to the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower and rescuing him after his execution. The plan left everyone stunned, and Wang Wu revealed that he still had one last immortal pill.

• Lu Tong told Wang Wu that Liu Shengyuan was investigating Frost Domain officials and could expose Lu Tong’s past crimes with Elder Hui’s Divine Calculation.
• Lu Tong and the others begged Wang Wu to contact Frost Lord and save him from arrest, but Wang Wu realized they were hiding another secret.
• Lu Tong admitted that he was a deer demon, and Wang Wu devised a plan to send him to the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower and rescue him after he was executed.
• Zhuang Bufei and Qu Shenglian agreed the plan could work and offered to arrange Lu Tong’s imprisonment, but asked how Wang Wu could bring him back from the dead.
• Wang Wu said he could do it because he still had one last immortal pill.

Wang Wu helped Lu Tong create a hidden second body so he could survive his planned execution, then learned Lu Tong’s secret and watched the Hidden Origin Society move against him. As the city was sealed and Frost Lord’s return was awaited, Wang Wu entered the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower to prepare for Lu Tong’s arrival.

• Wang Wu gave Lu Tong the Greatest Common Divisor Pill and used the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle to help him hide a second body after advancing to Grand Unity Seventh Stage.
• Lu Tong asked Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhan, and Qu Shenglian to lie low in Qingshuang City, then privately entrusted Wang Wu with Bear King Jie’s heart and confessed that he had killed Bear King Jie.
• Lu Tong revealed his plan to enter the A-1 Great Desolation Sin Prison ahead of Liu Shengyuan, and Wang Wu waited beside the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle.
• Liu Shengyuan secured the Elder Council’s approval to confirm Lu Tong’s crimes, while Elder Hui led an investigation team to Qingshuang City and the city’s Hidden Origin Bell permissions were revoked.
• Wang Wu entered the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower using the Vermilion Bird Formation Soul as the Hidden Origin Society’s factions waited for Frost Lord to return and exercise her veto.

The Hidden Origin Society investigated Lu Tong’s alleged connection to Bear King Jie, while Elder Hui turned against Liu Shengyuan after the search found no evidence. Lu Tong was executed, but Wang Wu secretly revived him with his memories damaged and destroyed the other half of his true body to conceal the case from Frost Lord.

• Duanmu Cheng and Feng Rushan shut down the Hidden Origin Bell in Qingshuang City while Frost Lord remained absent.
• Elder Hui warned Liu Shengyuan of his unease, then accused him before the Hidden Origin Elder Council of framing Frost Lord and torturing Lu Tong into a confession.
• Two Azure Dragon Grand Unity True Immortals searched Qingshuang City and found no evidence linking Lu Tong or Frost Lord to Bear King Jie’s death.
• The Elder Council detained Liu Shengyuan, and Lu Tong’s interrogation established that he was a Wandering Grand Unity but not Bear King Jie’s killer.
• Elder Hui, the Black Emperor, and Blood Elder sentenced Lu Tong to death, and Frost Lord did not appear to veto the execution.
• Wang Wu gathered Lu Tong’s scattered soul remnants to revive him, then destroyed the immortal pill containing the other half of Lu Tong’s true body.

Wang Wu spent three years gathering Lu Tong’s scattered soul fragments, then discovered that reconnecting the imprints of Lu Tong’s Dao of Righteous Qi could awaken and restore him. The Dao formed a powerful Domain around Lu Tong, and Zhuang Bufei begged Wang Wu to strengthen his own Dao in the same way.

• Wang Wu gathered 536 fragments of Lu Tong’s remnant soul and pieced them together, then began restoring it without expensive medicines.
• Wang Wu discovered that Lu Tong’s soul bore an imprint of Righteous Qi, and he used those imprints to reconnect the fragments and awaken a trace of consciousness.
• As Wang Wu connected all of Lu Tong’s Righteous Qi imprints, they shone with a powerful golden radiance that left an imprint on Wang Wu’s own soul.
• Wang Wu carried the Vermilion Bird Heaven and Earth Needle to the council hall and left after sensing that Lu Tong’s Dao had formed a Domain.
• Qu Shenglian warned Zhuang Bufei and Feng Muhan that Lu Tong’s Dao Domain could contaminate anyone who entered, while Zhuang Bufei begged Wang Wu to help him form one too.

Lu Tong formed a Dao Domain after Wang Wu restored his remnant soul, and he explained how his Righteous Qi Path had enabled his rebirth and awakening. Lu Tong’s level 27 Divine Calculation revealed traces of Wang Wu’s future, while Wang Wu realized that his own Dao was the Path of Cowardly Prudence.

• Zhuang Bufei and Feng Muhan learned that Lu Tong had formed a Dao Domain, and Wang Wu explained how he had restored Lu Tong’s remnant soul and why he could not repeat the process for them.
• Lu Tong appeared in bodily form, asked his junior brothers to arrange for him to reconstruct his physical body, and offered Wang Wu three favors and guidance in return for his help.
• Lu Tong used level 27 Divine Calculation with Wang Wu’s consent and glimpsed that Wang Wu would cultivate for the next five hundred years and meet a woman named Qing Xue who might become his Dao companion.
• Lu Tong explained that his Righteous Qi Path would let him reincarnate and eventually reach Half-step Grand Unity, while his memories would return gradually.
• Lu Tong described how different Daos reflected their owners’ consistent principles, and Wang Wu recognized that his own Dao was the Path of Cowardly Prudence.

After Lu Tong’s reincarnation, Wang Wu visited his aging companions and reflected on how spiritual degeneration could undermine a cultivator’s Dao. He helped the gathered survivors and then withdrew to study the travel notes before beginning his own journey.

• Lu Tong reincarnated successfully, and Zhuang Bufei and the others urged Wang Wu to slow his cultivation and travel while sharing four jade slips of travel notes.
• Wang Wu visited the old mountain community, where he found Little Mountain Pig nearing death and reunited with A Qing and his former companions.
• Wang Wu reflected on how grief and age could weaken the spirit, turning cultivators away from their path and into degeneration.
• Little Mountain Pig spoke briefly with Wang Wu, then died peacefully, and Wang Wu cremated it with Fortune Spirit Fire.
• Wang Wu gave his companions advice about cultivating their convictions and used three days to help them with Foundation Establishment Arrays and repairs to their cultivation.
• Wang Wu departed quietly and studied the four jade slips in seclusion.

After three years studying the four jade slips, Wang Wu explained his understanding of the multidimensional Cultivation World and its fundamental concepts to the Four Clowns. He decided to travel with a Twenty-Four Solar Terms Hunting Team for five hundred years, confident that three layers of protection would prevent anyone from predicting his actions.

• Wang Wu finished studying the four travelogues and began recording their knowledge in special jade slips for the Four Clowns.
• Wang Wu explained the Yin-Yang Two Energies, Three Calamities, Five Aggregates, Nine Absolutes, and Twenty-Four Solar Terms, including the factions and forces that shaped the multidimensional Cultivation World.
• Wang Wu said he planned to follow a Twenty-Four Solar Terms Hunting Team for five hundred years, following the path chosen by Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhan, and Qu Shenglian.
• The Four Clowns questioned whether Lu Tong's level-27 Divine Calculation had predicted Wang Wu's change of plans, but Wang Wu said it had not.
• Wang Wu revealed his three protections against deduction: level-3 Forgetting and Warning, the highest-grade Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment, and a fourth-tier-or-higher Five Aggregates Kitten Formation in his Second Sequence.

Wang Wu boarded the Frost Domain’s Spirit Capturing Ship under a new identity, despite Shuang Liuyun refusing most of the recruits. As the ship began its pursuit of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, Wang Wu discovered that one of Shuang Liuyun’s disciples, Summer Solstice, was his old acquaintance Xu Taiping.

• Wang Wu joined Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhan, Qu Shenglian, and other recruits to board the Spirit Capturing Ship outside Qingshuang City.
• Shuang Liuyun questioned the group about Lu Tong, introduced her disciples Bai Lu and Summer Solstice, and refused to take most of the Earth Immortal recruits.
• Zhuang Bufei pleaded for Shuang Liuyun to accept the recruits, but she departed with only six of them aboard the Spirit Capturing Ship.
• The Spirit Capturing Ship rapidly ascended and then flew alongside the land in the multidimensional Cultivation World.
• Summer Solstice came to summon the new arrivals to Shuang Liuyun, and Wang Wu recognized him as Xu Taiping, now a Grand Unity True Immortal.

Wang Wu joined Shuang Liuyun’s mission to capture Screeching Birds in the deadly Vast Nether Cold Qi, but another team froze and captured him first. He escaped by converting the bird’s cold energy, took most of their captured birds, and left a message identifying himself as the good man Wang Dachui.

• Shuang Liuyun ordered Wang Wu and the others to capture a Screeching Bird or leave the Spirit Capturing Ship, then sent them into battle under Golden Light Immortal Talismans.
• Wang Wu endured the extreme cold with his Level 24 Hegemon Body Divine Ability, but a gigantic Screeching Bird froze him and a rival team sealed him in a Universe Bag.
• Wang Wu’s formations restored his frozen demon cores and converted the Screeching Bird’s Vast Nether Cold Qi, allowing him to break free and remove the restraining talisman.
• Wang Wu found five sealed Screeching Birds, took four, and left the rival a small one along with a note calling himself the good man Wang Dachui.
• Wang Wu survived the Universe Bag’s Nine Heavens Tribulation Fire Formation and secretly reinforced the bag with his own fire formations.

Wang Wu returned to the Spirit Capturing Ship pretending to be injured while Xu Taiping and several young Grand Unity cultivators went out to hunt Screeching Birds. Shuang Liuyun later returned with prisoners and a large haul, exchanged back her captured allies, and whipped them for their failures before turning her attention to Wang Wu.

• Wang Wu hid aboard the ship, and Xu Taiping warned the others that cultivators from the Myriad Immortal Alliance had ambushed them with a True Sun Immortal Talisman.
• Wang Wu urged four young Grand Unity cultivators to help him instead of rushing out, but all four leaped into the hunt despite his warning.
• The ship's dragons speculated that Shuang Liuyun would punish Wang Wu for pretending to be injured, while Wang Wu continued to conceal his strength.
• Shuang Liuyun returned with seven captured Grand Unity cultivators, exchanged them for five captured allies, and whipped those allies for failing to hunt successfully.
• Shuang Liuyun and the other cultivators reported their Screeching Bird catches, and Xu Taiping impressed everyone with two small birds and one medium-sized bird.
• Shuang Liuyun demanded to know where Wang Wu's Screeching Birds were and raised her lightning whip toward him.

Wang Wu joined the Spirit Capturing Ship without signing a five-thousand-year contract, then fought Bai Lu after she challenged him on Xu Taiping’s behalf. He defeated Bai Lu by exploiting the Causeless Immortal Sword’s attack, and Xu Taiping questioned how Wang Wu had become the Lord of the Frost Domain.

• Wang Wu chose to join the Spirit Capturing Ship under its monthly mission terms, and Shuang Liuyun accepted his choice despite her frustration.
• Xu Taiping challenged Wang Wu, accusing him of disrespecting Shuang Liuyun and failing his duty to the Frost Domain; Wang Wu provoked Bai Lu into taking the fight instead.
• Bai Lu attacked Wang Wu with a freezing technique and the Causeless Immortal Sword, forcing him to evade its deadly strikes.
• Wang Wu used Hao Mao Jun as a decoy, concealed his true body, and struck Bai Lu from behind, severely injuring her.
• Shuang Liuyun carried Bai Lu away, while Xu Taiping told Wang Wu he had made sixteen mistakes and asked how he had become the Lord of the Frost Domain.

Wang Wu met Shuang Liuyun, who suspected he had come to take control of the Spirit Capturing Ship and challenged his fitness to be lord of the Frost Domain. After learning that Frost Lord had been injured and hearing Wang Wu’s account of Lu Tong, Shuang Liuyun began revealing the surprising strength of the people around Frost Lord and ended with a question about how Frost Lord had broken Lu Tong’s will.

• Wang Wu apologized to Xu Taiping for speaking out of turn, then followed Shuang Liuyun’s messenger to a confined arena.
• Shuang Liuyun confronted Wang Wu, accused him of hiding his identity to seize the Spirit Capturing Ship, and demanded to know what he had done.
• Wang Wu explained that Frost Lord had been injured after surrendering the Vermilion Bird Formation Soul, and Shuang Liuyun admitted she had not seen her sister in five thousand years.
• Shuang Liuyun used Frost Lord’s sincerity-infused immortal wine to make Wang Wu confess that he had saved Lu Tong, who later reincarnated after advancing his Path of Righteousness.
• Shuang Liuyun told Wang Wu that her five subordinates could not match Feng Muhan, Zhuang Bufei could defeat Feng Muhan, and Lu Tong could defeat ten Zhuang Bufei.
• Shuang Liuyun asked Wang Wu how Frost Lord had driven Lu Tong to swear to the Great Dao that he would reform and cultivate the Path of Righteousness.

Wang Wu learned why Shuang Liuyun had resigned from the Spirit Capturing Ship and discovered that the supposedly ordinary Qu Shenglian was the wanted Sin Dragon Qing Xiao. Qing Xiao explained the Frost Domain’s factional conflict and left Wang Wu responsible for the ship as she returned to defend Qingshuang City.

• Shuang Liuyun resigned and left the Spirit Capturing Ship with Bai Lu, Xu Taiping, and her subordinates after deciding Wang Wu was far more formidable than he claimed.
• Qu Shenglian appeared aboard the ship and revealed that she was Qing Xiao, a wanted Sin Dragon who could fight Lu Tong and sometimes defeat Shuang Liuyun.
• Qing Xiao told Wang Wu that a traitor in the Frost Family had exposed Lu Tong and that the Frost Family was struggling to eliminate the forces loyal to Frost Lord.
• Qing Xiao said she had to return to defend Qingshuang City and asked Wang Wu to hold the Spirit Capturing Ship against possible interference from the Frost Family.
• Qing Xiao introduced her younger sister Qing Luo as Wang Wu’s assistant and warned him that his training journey would be dangerous.

Wang Wu learned the Spirit Capturing Ship’s capabilities and the heavy specialized Spirit Tax he had to pay, then left the ship to catch Cold Horn Insects and cultivate them himself. He ventured into the Vast Nether Cold Qi during the fishing ban, intending to train and find a path forward while relying on his concealment and powerful support systems.

• Qing Luo explained that the ship could remain self-sufficient and support Wang Wu, but he had to hunt specialized spiritual energy to meet the annual tax of five hundred large Screeching Birds or Fire Spirit Guards.
• Wang Wu activated the Guardian Immortal Talisman and found that its projection of the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower was unstable and vulnerable to interference from the Vast Nether Cold Qi.
• Despite Qing Luo warning that the trough was a fishing-ban season, Wang Wu left the Spirit Capturing Ship to catch and farm Cold Horn Insects.
• Wang Wu used concealment, forgetting, and his sequence formations to protect himself as he entered the cold qi, seeking challenges to strengthen himself and stabilize his Dao.

Wang Wu secretly captured a Cold Horn Insect and experimented with cultivating it and Screeching Birds inside the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle. His experiments revealed that the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation could synthesize and refine them, leaving him with a special Great Cold Horn Bird that could transform his Lesser Ice Spirit Pill into a ninth-grade Creation Spirit Pill.

• Wang Wu searched the Vast Nether Cold Qi for most of a day, captured a Cold Horn Insect, and returned to the Spirit Capturing Ship.
• Wang Wu used the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle to feed the Cold Horn Insect and a small Screeching Bird Ice Spirit Energy, but both experiments ended in explosions.
• Wang Wu analyzed a small Screeching Bird and discovered thirty-nine distinct trace varieties of cold qi inside it.
• Wang Wu realized the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation could combine trace energies to synthesize a small Screeching Bird, then used the structure of a wild Great Cold Horn Bird to create a purer version.
• Wang Wu fused the special Great Cold Horn Bird with his Lesser Ice Spirit Pill, setting the Third Sequence on course for a fundamental transformation.

Wang Wu emerged after six months of cultivation to discover that he had missed most of the Screeching Bird hunt, then unexpectedly captured twenty-eight birds as his luck turned. He credited Qing Luo with blessing him, leaving her and the Cricket Dragons bewildered by his elaborate claim.

• Wang Wu cultivated a Ninth Rank Creation Ice Spirit Pill, stabilizing his Third Sequence, before the spiritual little Dragon Girl told him he had spent six months inside the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle.
• Wang Wu followed the Guardian Immortal Talisman's directions to hunt Screeching Birds but was tossed around by the Vast Nether Cold Qi and missed a Screeching Beast that a Wuji Sect ship captured.
• Wang Wu fortuitously captured twenty-eight Screeching Birds, returning to the Spirit Capturing Ship as the Cricket Dragons stared in amazement.
• When Qing Luo clung to Wang Wu and asked him to teach her his luck, he delivered a speech claiming she had blessed him and should take the blessing back.
• Qing Luo denied blessing Wang Wu, but his evidence of the twenty-eight birds left her wondering whether she really was an enlightened and blessed Azure Dragon.

Wang Wu used the Vast Nether Tide to capture Screeching Birds and baited a hunter who tried to ambush him with a True Sun Immortal Talisman. He froze and captured the Grand Unity Fifth Stage sneak, then teleported back to the Spirit Capturing Ship.

• Wang Wu crafted Great Cold Horn Birds in hiding and gathered sixteen toward Frost Domain's annual special Spirit Tax.
• Wang Wu refused Qing Luo's claimed blessing and entered the Vast Nether Tide as the Cold Horn Insects hatched and the Screeching Birds migrated.
• Wang Wu hunted along the tide's outer edge, caught several Minor Cold Horn Birds, and stayed within range of his Spirit Capturing Ship.
• A behind-the-scenes sneak tagged Wang Wu with a True Sun Immortal Talisman, but Wang Wu switched places with a strand of hair and countered with talismans and Spiritual Essence Insight.
• Wang Wu's attack left the sneak frozen among the Screeching Birds, and he sealed him in a Spirit Sealing Immortal Talisman, stored him in his Universe Bag, and returned to the ship.

Wang Wu captured and treated a Grand Unity Fifth Stage cultivator, then discovered the man belonged to the Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance and repaired his Creation Gu Spirit Pills. He left the prisoner exchange to Qing Luo, with the captive stabilized but still visibly injured.

• Wang Wu told Qing Luo to negotiate a prisoner exchange kindly and asked her to take back the blessing she had given him.
• Wang Wu examined the frozen Grand Unity cultivator, discovered his hidden Spirit Pill injuries were worsening, and repaired the damage enough to stabilize him.
• Wang Wu recognized the cultivator’s Creation Gu Spirit Pills and learned that he belonged to the Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance, which specialized in refining Immortal Gu.
• Wang Wu studied the cultivator’s five Creation Gu Spirit Pills while continuing his repairs, then sealed him in ice again.
• Qing Luo reported that the other side would exchange the captive for ten Great Cold Horn Birds, and Wang Wu authorized the deal without appearing himself.
• Wang Wu told Qing Luo that the captive’s hidden injuries had flared up but insisted he would not die and could be repaired after the exchange.