Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu confronted Yu Sheng of the Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance after a clash over an injured cultivator, but Yu Sheng used Azure Silk Immortal Gu to threaten Qing Luo and demanded compensation. When Yu Sheng raised the price after Wang Wu offered to apologize, Wang Wu accepted a five-year private-grudge duel and began planning how to respond.

• Qing Luo urged Wang Wu to make peace with the Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance, and he agreed to return the injured cultivator and forgo compensation.
• Yu Sheng’s gaze destroyed Wang Wu’s hair-made avatar, while Qing Luo fainted after being afflicted with Azure Silk Immortal Gu.
• Yu Sheng demanded one hundred Great Cold Horn Birds and declared a five-year private-grudge challenge against Wang Wu, who accepted.
• Black Stone explained that Qing Luo’s Azure Silk Immortal Gu could not be removed and advised Wang Wu to apologize rather than risk a duel.
• When Yu Sheng raised the compensation to five hundred Great Cold Horn Birds, Wang Wu refused to bargain, ordered Qing Luo isolated and reinforcements summoned, and accepted the duel.

Wang Wu studied the brutal Gu Spirit Pill cultivation system while Yu Sheng tried to respond to Zhao Feng’s grievous injuries. The Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance’s envoy confirmed Wang Wu’s identity and asked whether he would accept Yu Sheng’s duel, leaving his decision unanswered.

• Zhao Feng awoke with severe Divine Soul damage and remembered being struck by a Great Fire Spirit Guard thirty-five thousand years earlier, prompting Yu Sheng to send him to the Soul Suppressing Tower.
• Yu Sheng asked Martial Uncle Qin to intervene against the Hidden Origin Society, but Qin rebuked him and ordered him to settle the matter himself or accept the loss.
• Wang Wu analyzed Gu Spirit Pills, learned how Gu Immortals refined their bloodlines and cultivated Three Calamities Gu, and resolved to strengthen his own Three Calamities.
• A Mountain Sea Immortal Alliance envoy questioned Wang Wu about Yu Sheng’s personal grudge duel and verified Wang Wu’s identity as a Grand Unity Third Order cultivator.
• The envoy asked Wang Wu whether he agreed to duel Yu Sheng in the Outer Heaven Trial Hall.

Wang Wu accepted an officially sanctioned private grudge duel with Yu Sheng, despite warnings that Yu Sheng might enlist a seventh-tier Grand Unity True Immortal. As the duel threatened the Frost Domain’s Spirit Capturing Ship and its looming Spirit Tax payment, Qing Xue arrived and told Wang Wu to handle the crisis as an opportunity to gain experience.

• Wang Wu refused to take his dispute with Yu Sheng to the Trial Hall Beyond the Heavens and signed an agreement to fight him within five years without disrupting other ships’ spirit-capturing operations.
• The Black Emperor offered Wang Wu a chance to withdraw, then warned him that Yu Sheng might bring in a seventh-tier Grand Unity True Immortal; Wang Wu signed the Hidden Origin Society’s agreement too.
• Wang Wu realized the Frost Domain had only twenty-six Great Cold Horn Birds, far short of the five hundred needed for the next special Spirit Tax payment in less than five months.
• Qing Xue arrived after leaving seclusion and told Wang Wu that Frost Lord praised him for saving Lu Tong and trusted him with the Frost Domain’s position.
• Wang Wu offered to follow Qing Xue’s orders, but she told him to handle the duel himself as an opportunity to gain experience and possibly advance to Grand Unity.

Wang Wu planned to strengthen the Spirit Capturing Ship before Yu Sheng’s coming attack, and Qing Xue supplied refined Three Calamities and assigned Qing Yan to help. Wang Wu revealed his immense Yin Fire Resistance by calmly dividing the refined Yin Fire into precise portions for the ship’s upgrades, while Qing Xue removed the immortal gu from Qing Luo’s Divine Soul.

• Wang Wu proposed upgrading the Spirit Capturing Ship’s speed, defenses, and Three Calamities Long Sails to prepare for Yu Sheng’s attack while protecting Frost Domain’s ability to pay its special Spirit Tax.
• Qing Xue agreed to trust Wang Wu, provided three boxes of refined Three Calamities, introduced Qing Yan as the ship’s formation and sail maintainer, and went to help Qing Luo.
• Wang Wu opened the Yin Fire box despite Qing Yan and the Cricket Dragons expecting him to be harmed, but his 9,991 points of Yin Fire Resistance left him unharmed.
• Wang Wu precisely separated the refined Yin Fire into portions and began installing it in the ship’s reserved Three Calamities Long Sail ports.
• Qing Xue recognized Wang Wu’s ability and pulled the Azure Silk Immortal Gu from Qing Luo’s Divine Soul, destroying it.

Wang Wu endured Refined Yang Thunder to raise his resistance, leaving him badly injured for three months while Qing Xue impersonated him and confronted the Vast Nether Tide. After recovering, he gained 1,000 Yang Thunder Resistance and ordered Qing Yan and the Cricket Dragons to divide the remaining Yang Thunder among three hundred ports.

• Wang Wu precisely divided Refined Yin Fire and Evil Wind among the Three Calamities Long Sail ports, then opened the Yang Thunder box and endured its aftershock as his Health Points and sequences failed.
• The Five Aggregates Kitten Formation suppressed the Yang Thunder and shut the seals, and Qing Xue fed Wang Wu plain water before taking his appearance.
• When Yu Sheng's private grudge duel began three days later, Qing Xue transformed into a giant bear, attracted the Cold Horn Insects, captured thousands of birds, and returned to the Spirit Capturing Ship.
• Wang Wu suffered for three months before fully recovering, gaining 1,000 Yang Thunder Resistance at the cost of three hundred years of lifespan.
• Wang Wu asked Qing Yan to divide the Yang Thunder, and more than twenty Cricket Dragons began splitting it among the ports.

Frost Lord returned to Qingshuang City injured and withdrew from the contest for the Grand Unity Ninth Stage, allowing the Ninefold Heavens Passage to reopen as the forces opposing Frost Domain abruptly made peace. She told her father she had a backup plan involving reincarnated Lu Tong, but kept its true nature hidden.

• Feng Muhan, Zhuang Bufei, and Qu Shenglian failed to stop repeated raids that forced the Ninefold Heavens Passage to close, while the Hidden Origin Elder Council threatened to revoke Frost Domain’s operating rights.
• Frost Lord returned to Qingshuang City and ordered the Ninefold Heavens Passage reopened; Hidden Origin Society departments and the Frost Family then offered apologies, returned seized strongholds, and punished their own members.
• Word spread that Frost Lord’s injuries had damaged her foundation and ended her chance of advancing to the Grand Unity Ninth Stage, and Frost Lord’s Father arrived in Qingshuang City.
• Frost Lord’s Father asked whether she had withdrawn on purpose, and Frost Lord confirmed she had left a backup plan involving reincarnated Lu Tong.
• Frost Lord’s Father departed to enter seclusion for up to ten thousand years, while Frost Lord kept the details of her backup plan to herself.

Wang Wu learned that his Vermilion Bird Formation Soul could help determine who would control the restored Town Origin Tower, but he chose to keep it for Frost Lord. Qing Xue gave him her mother's Spirit Corpse and Primordial Spirit, binding their futures as Dao companions, and her mother's remnant soul advised Wang Wu on refining Bear King Jie's Heart of the Earth and visiting the Trial Divine Hall.

• The Cricket Dragons finished sorting the Yang Thunder, and Qing Xue told Wang Wu that her master had emerged from seclusion with her injuries still barely healed.
• Qing Xue explained that Wang Wu's Vermilion Bird Formation Soul was crucial to the Town Origin Tower and that Frost Lord would eventually ask him for it, but Wang Wu insisted on keeping it for her.
• Qing Xue gave Wang Wu her mother's Spirit Corpse and Primordial Spirit, declaring that they would marry and bind their futures as Dao companions.
• The remnant soul in the jar overwhelmed Wang Wu's Four False Nascent Souls with cultivation guidance before speaking to him directly.
• Qing Xue's mother advised Wang Wu to refine Bear King Jie's Heart of the Earth, use the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation, and visit the Trial Divine Hall once he reached the Grand Unity Third Tier.

After fifty years in seclusion, Wang Wu learned that his Minor Path had reached completion and that he had become a Grand Unity First Order True Immortal. Qing Xue identified his path as the Path of Cunning, exchanged the foundations of their personal paths with him, and told him they had to observe the Xuantian Sect Sect Master's breakthrough in ten years because the Hidden Origin Society planned to use its members to support its leader's future attempt at Grand Unity.

• Qing Xue told Wang Wu that fifty years had passed and that Yu Sheng and the other threats had stayed quiet since her master emerged from seclusion.
• Qing Xue explained that Wang Wu's Minor Path had reached completion, making him a Grand Unity First Order True Immortal with a high-grade Creation Immortal Body.
• Qing Xue named Wang Wu's personal path the Path of Cunning and explained that a chosen path helped guard against desire and self-deception.
• Qing Xue gave Wang Wu the foundation of her Path of Sincerity to safeguard, asking him to give her the foundation of his Path of Cunning in return when it was ready.
• Qing Xue ordered Wang Wu to accompany her to observe the Xuantian Sect Sect Master's breakthrough in ten years, explaining that the Hidden Origin Society's members would later support their leader's attempt to reach Grand Unity.
• Qing Xue told Wang Wu to enter seclusion while she stood guard until they left together.

Wang Wu prepared to upgrade the Spirit Capturing Ship’s Yin-Yang irradiation, secretly using its resources to create Azure White Tiger Formation Stones that could relay power from the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower. He finished the illegal project after charging a thousand years of wages in advance, leaving himself committed to nearly a millennium of service.

• Wang Wu rejected Qing Xue’s suggestion to enter seclusion and asked whether the Spirit Capturing Ship could be made into a permanent immortal artifact, but Qing Xue explained that Grand Unity advancement faced immense costs and obstruction from other Grand Unities.
• Wang Wu and Qing Xue agreed to adjust the Spirit Capturing Ship’s Yin-Yang Two Energies and distribute Yang Thunder through the three hundred Three Calamities Long Sails.
• Wang Wu realized the Spirit Capturing Ship could relay support from the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower, then secretly used its spiritual energy to generate 3,600 Great Cold Horn Birds and charged three trillion points against a thousand years of wages.
• Wang Wu used the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle and the Vermilion Bird Formation Soul’s power to inscribe White Tiger patterns onto the birds, turning them into Azure White Tiger Formation Stones.
• Wang Wu completed the illegal work, knowing the Hidden Origin Society could punish him by executing nine generations of his family.

Wang Wu secretly used the Spirit Capturing Ship to build an imitation of the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower while Qing Xue was away. His mother-in-law revealed the Hidden Origin Society’s looming crisis and warned him that the Dark Domain was watching him, leaving Wang Wu to wonder whether Qing Luo had discovered his salary advances.

• Wang Wu learned that Qing Xue had gone to Qingshuang City and would return in seven years with Frost Lord.
• Wang Wu used his status and the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation to make 3,600 imitation Vermilion Bird Formation Stones, then spent nearly five years installing miniature Heaven and Earth Needles throughout the Spirit Capturing Ship.
• Wang Wu’s mother-in-law revealed that she had stayed behind as a False Nascent Soul and explained that she could not leave without endangering him.
• Wang Wu learned that Divine Lord Yinyuan had lived for over 1.5 million years and was preparing for a fifth attempt to enter Grand Unity, while the Dark Domain watched the Hidden Origin Society and had planted at least five agents in the Frost Domain.
• Wang Wu learned that Qing Luo was a Dark Pawn and asked whether Qing Luo had discovered his salary advances.

Wang Wu learned that the Dark Domain’s schemes around him had been neutralized and gained a way to draw on the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower through the Spirit Capturing Ship. After Frost Lord promoted him and brought hundreds of Grand Unity cultivators to the ceremony, Wang Wu accepted that the Hidden Origin Society was preparing to break the boundary and decided to gamble on its success.

• The old woman told Wang Wu that Qing Luo was a fake, Qing Xue had killed the original, and Bear Sixteen had become a Dark Pawn; Wang Wu refused to become one himself.
• Wang Wu activated the White Tiger and Vermilion Bird Heaven and Earth Needles and confirmed that the ship could relay signals and let him borrow the tower’s power within a million li.
• Frost Lord arrived half a year later, promoted Wang Wu to a Seventh-grade Elder, and ordered him to compete for the Dragon Head City branch overseer post.
• Qing Xue told Wang Wu she had become Frost Lord’s personal disciple, gained approval to marry him, and explained the branch post’s duties and the Society’s upcoming assessment.
• Grand Unity cultivators arrived aboard the ship, and Wang Wu learned that nearly all of the Frost Domain’s cultivators were attending the ceremony as a show of loyalty to Divine Lord Yinyuan’s boundary-breaking attempt.
• Wang Wu concluded that fleeing was not an option and resolved to support the attempt and gamble on its success.

As the Spirit Capturing Ship traveled to Xuantian Sect for its master's impending breakthrough, Wang Wu learned more about the Cultivation World's powers and its truce around breakthroughs. Shuang Liuyun challenged him to contests for the Dragon Head City overseer position, and Qing Xue warned that the match carried political significance; Wang Wu agreed, leaving his opponent unknown.

• Wang Wu and Qing Xue discussed the Beginning of Autumn solar term, the major powers, and the customs surrounding the Xuantian Sect Master's breakthrough.
• Shuang Liuyun found Wang Wu and challenged him to contests of refinement and martial skill for the chance to oversee Dragon Head City.
• Wang Wu accepted Shuang Liuyun's challenge, which was set for the bow of the Spirit Capturing Ship in three days.
• Qing Xue explained that Frost Lord's family had arrived and that Wang Wu's contest could affect Frost Lord's standing.
• Wang Wu understood Qing Xue's warning but did not ask about her family, and he wondered who Shuang Liuyun had chosen to compete.

Wang Wu withdrew from the Frost Domain’s contest for Dragon Head City steward, but the Black Domain’s challenge forced Yang Juechen into a duel with Zhuang Dayou. Yang Juechen lost badly, while Wang Wu watched and joked beside Qing Xue.

• Frost Lord left the arena after her injuries flared, and Wang Wu withdrew from the contest rather than play along with the Frost Family’s proceedings.
• The Black Emperor arrived and announced that the Hidden Origin Elder Council had approved a direct contest between the Frost Domain and the Black Domain for the Dragon Head City steward position.
• Frost Lord’s Father sent Yang Juechen to fight Zhuang Dayou, and the two ships withdrew as the duel began.
• Wang Wu held Qing Xue’s hand and loudly praised both fighters while they battled.
• Zhuang Dayou defeated Yang Juechen, severing his legs and an arm and destroying much of his immortal body, while Qing Xue dismissed his injuries as minor.

Wang Wu and Qing Xue arrived at Xuantian Sect and explored its Sect Gate Market, where Qing Xue described its facilities and the Trial Divine Halls. They reached Drunken Immortal Residence to buy wine, but its rules appeared to bar Wang Wu from purchasing any.

• Wang Wu and Qing Xue left the Spirit Capturing Ship and used Xuantian Sect's Creation Jade Talismans to teleport to the Sect Gate Market.
• Qing Xue explained Xuantian Sect's teleportation network, Dao-Seeking Palace, Five Aggregates Palace, Void Illusion Realm, and the Trial Divine Halls to Wang Wu.
• Qing Xue took Wang Wu to Drunken Immortal Residence, where the wine restored Divine Sense and attracted the Four Clowns and Mother-in-law.
• A voice from the flowers announced that only Xuantian Sect's friends, humans, or those able to defeat the speaker could buy the wine, seemingly excluding Wang Wu.

Wang Wu and Qing Xue entered Drunken Immortal Residence seeking Drunken Immortal Wine, and the shopkeeper challenged them to a Heavenly Cripple Chess Game. After Wang Wu endured the game’s calamities and Qing Xue outpaced the shopkeeper in the final stage, the shopkeeper conceded and gave them all three hundred remaining jars.

• Qing Xue said she and Wang Wu were willingly married, so the shopkeeper offered them wine if they won her Heavenly Cripple Chess Game.
• The game transported Wang Wu and Qing Xue to a board of Heaven and Earth Needles, where Wang Wu endured the Evil Wind Bone Plague to raise his resistance and deduce the Yin-Yang Two Energies.
• Wang Wu and the shopkeeper alternated moves through the first two stages, with Qing Xue announcing that Wang Wu lost each stage by one piece.
• Qing Xue took over for the Yang Thunder stage and quickly placed moves while Wang Wu hid in her collar.
• After two years, the shopkeeper conceded as Qing Xue’s speed left her far behind, and Qing Xue took all three hundred jars of Drunken Immortal Wine.

As Xuantian Sect's Sect Master began his breakthrough to Grand Unity, Wang Wu grasped the Grand Unity Cycle and used the ceremony's scattered insights to reverse and refine his Five Aggregates Kitten Formation. The breakthrough entered a decades-long cycle of forward and reverse evolution, which Wang Wu began mirroring from afar.

• Xuantian Sect announced martial law, activated its Boundary-Breaking Grand Formation, and gathered its cultivators and guests for the breakthrough ceremony.
• When Xuantian Sect's Sect Master entered the formation, nine streams of Yin-Yang Two Energies converged on him, and Mother-in-law explained the Grand Unity Cycle to Wang Wu.
• Mother-in-law warned Wang Wu not to enter meditation and told him to reverse the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation; Wang Wu drank Drunken Immortal Wine and sent Qing Xue away so she could focus on the ceremony.
• As the formation gathered vitality and Nine Absolutes calamity clouds converged on Xuantian Sect's Sect Master, Wang Wu shifted the Greatest Common Divisor Pill and slowly reversed his formation.
• Wang Wu noticed the Yin-Yang Two Energies had begun reversing, then turned his own formation forward to mirror the Sect Master's changing cycle.

Wang Wu witnessed the Xuantian Sect Master break through to Grand Unity, gained a way to simulate the Grand Unity Cycle, and received a Dao Fruit from Qing Xue. After returning to Qingshuang City, he began a long seclusion to strengthen his cultivation while Frost Lord warned him that the Hidden Origin Society faced a struggle for survival.

• Wang Wu stopped his Five Aggregates Kitten Formation after fifty years as the Xuantian Sect Master completed the Grand Unity Cycle and Integrated with the Dao.
• Qing Xue collected a Dao Fruit and gave it to Wang Wu, then asked him to choose between following Frost Lord and staying with her; Wang Wu chose to stay with Qing Xue and handed over the Vermilion Bird Formation Soul.
• Frost Lord told Wang Wu that Qing Xue was safeguarding the Vermilion Bird Formation Soul for her, and Wang Wu suspected Qing Xue might be Frost Lord's incarnation.
• Three months later, Wang Wu and the Frost Domain's Grand Unity cultivators returned to Qingshuang City, where Wang Wu began seclusion to advance his Demon Cores and form a Creation Immortal Body.
• Frost Lord advised Wang Wu to use a thousand years as his baseline and aim for Grand Unity Fifth Stage, warning him that everyone in the Hidden Origin Society was fighting for their lives.

Wang Wu secluded himself inside the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle to evolve and reverse-evolve his Creation Fire Spirit Pill, forging and strengthening his Creation Immortal Body over a thousand years. Before leaving, he rapidly advanced his other cores and spirit pills so his cultivation would appear to have progressed substantially.

• Wang Wu prepared precautions against the Hidden Origin Bell, then entered the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle and told Mother-in-law and the Four Clowns to record his cultivation.
• Wang Wu used the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation to evolve his Pale Fire into Creation Fire Spirit Energy, raising his Creation Fire Spirit Pill before reversing the process back into Pale Fire.
• After a thousand years of forward and reverse evolution, Wang Wu gained six thousand years of lifespan and raised his Creation Immortal Body's completeness to ninety-four percent.
• Before ending his seclusion, Wang Wu rapidly advanced the Demon Cores and spirit pills across his three sequences to Creation-grade, making his thousand-year progress appear substantial.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Wang Wu returned to Qingshuang City and witnessed Frost Domain cultivators emerge stronger, while Frost Lord maintained control and restored the domain's operations. Frost Lord then revealed her plan to fake her death before an impending war and ordered Wang Wu to help, beginning with a fabricated embezzlement charge.

• Wang Wu left the Hidden Origin Bell, confirmed Frost Lord was alive, and found her managing Qingshuang City's affairs.
• Frost Lord introduced Lu Wuchang, Lu Tong's reincarnated body, who had advanced to Grand Unity Second Stage.
• Zhuang Bufei emerged at Grand Unity Seventh Stage, and Frost Lord assigned him to oversee the Ninefold Heavens Passage with Lu Wuchang.
• Feng Muhan, Qu Shenglian, Shuang Liuyun, and the other cultivators emerged from seclusion, and Frost Lord assigned posts across the Frost Domain.
• Frost Lord told Wang Wu that Qing Xue needed five thousand more years to emerge and that a war with the Tianshu Immortal Alliance was likely within a thousand years.
• Frost Lord ordered Wang Wu to cooperate with her fake death plan, which would begin with the Audit Department framing him for embezzlement and sentencing him to fifteen hundred years in prison.

Frost Lord sent Wang Wu away under heavy restraints, but later realized he had used a fake incarnation while his true body slipped toward the front lines Beyond the Heavens. Wang Wu hid inside a Universe Chest and entered the Ninefold Heavens Passage, intent on helping Frost Lord and preparing for the coming war.

• Frost Lord bound Wang Wu with immortal talismans and sent him away after placing a Two-Heart Immortal Gu in his mouth.
• Frost Lord questioned her mother and realized Wang Wu had used a fake incarnation to deceive her before heading to Qingshuang City.
• Frost Lord sent her mother to Qing Xue at the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower and reaffirmed that she would continue her plan.
• Wang Wu transformed into dust and infiltrated a Universe Chest carrying supplies through the Ninefold Heavens Passage.
• After the chest arrived Beyond the Heavens, Wang Wu remained hidden inside and waited for it to be opened.