Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu infiltrated a Myriad Phenomena Immortal Alliance storeroom in Beyond the Heavens and learned about its dangerous resources and growing conflict with the Hidden Origin Society. He overheard an injured cultivator urge Senior Brother Gu to help destroy one of the Hidden Origin Society’s remaining Ninefold Heavens Passages, leaving Gu under pressure to betray the Alliance’s trading partner.

• Wang Wu emerged from a supply box and inspected the storeroom, finding goods transported between Beyond the Heavens and the Cultivation World.
• Wang Wu overheard Senior Brother Gu and Junior Brother Cheng discuss the looming war between the Tianshu Immortal Alliance and the Hidden Origin Society.
• Senior Brother Yu exchanged Level 15 Wind Marrow for Immortal Alliance contribution points toward a fourth-stage Foundation Establishment Array, while Junior Brother Jiang traded a Level 10 Yin Fire sphere for Mortal Qi.
• Junior Brother Zhao arrived injured after catching a Level 9 thunderbird, then privately asked Senior Brother Gu for help with a secret matter.
• Junior Brother Zhao urged Senior Brother Gu to help destroy a Hidden Origin Society Ninefold Heavens Passage, arguing that the Tianshu Immortal Alliance was already plotting against the Society and offering a fourth-stage Foundation Establishment Array as a stake.

Wang Wu overheard Divine Lord Tianshu recruit Senior Brother Gu with a fourth-tier Foundation Establishment Array, and realized their plan could threaten the Ninefold Heavens Passage and provoke the Grand Unities. After Senior Brother Gu successfully deployed the array, Wang Wu secretly prepared safeguards while reflecting on Frost Lord’s apparent sacrifice for Qing Xue and him.

• Wang Wu overheard Divine Lord Tianshu’s agent persuade Senior Brother Gu to meet Divine Lord Tianshu and consider accepting a fourth-tier Foundation Establishment Array.
• Wang Wu chose not to interfere or report the plot, fearing that the Grand Unities would discover his own array and evolved Three Calamities.
• Senior Brother Gu returned to the Secret Treasury, sealed it, and assembled a Five Aggregates Kirin Formation using Kirin Formation Stones and a Kirin Formation Soul.
• Wang Wu infiltrated five chests and left backdoors in them so he could identify and secure the supplies Senior Brother Gu might use against the Ninefold Heavens Passage.
• Senior Brother Gu successfully deployed the fourth-tier Foundation Establishment Array in one day, while Wang Wu considered how Frost Lord had left hope to Qing Xue and him by faking her death.

Wang Wu returned to the Cultivation World aboard a shipment carrying Divine Lord Tianshu’s sabotage device, then survived the collapse of the Ninefold Heavens Passage by using the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and Bear King Jie’s Heart of the Earth to endure the turbulent flow. He escaped underground before a Da Luo suppressed the flow and rescued six cultivators, leaving his whereabouts unknown.

• Senior Brother Gu secretly placed something in the sixth box, sealed all six boxes, and sent them toward the Cultivation World.
• After five days of inspection, Wang Wu entered the Ninefold Heavens Passage with the shipment, took the level-15 Wind Marrow, and watched the sixth box for signs of danger.
• The sixth box released a different pair of Yin-Yang Two Energies, causing the Ninefold Heavens Passage to collapse and scattering its passengers and cargo into the turbulent flow.
• Wang Wu used the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and Bear King Jie’s Heart of the Earth to withstand the turbulent flow, then concealed himself as a speck of dust.
• Wang Wu broke free of the weakened flow and hid underground, while a Da Luo erased the turbulent flow and rescued six Grand Unity cultivators.

Frost Lord learned that Divine Lord Tianshu’s attempt to rebuild the Cultivation World had led to a Great Luo crackdown and the destruction of the Tianshu Immortal Alliance. With Divine Lord Yinyuan barred from advancing for one hundred thousand years and her own domain strained, Frost Lord resigned and called for a full investigation.

• Frost Lord repaired the Ninefold Heavens Passage while struggling with the Frost Domain’s crushing costs and depleted resources.
• Frost Lord’s Father returned from Beyond the Heavens and revealed that a Great Luo being from Xuantian Sect had interrogated him over his consideration of a bribe from Divine Lord Tianshu.
• Frost Lord used the Path of Sincerity to help her father recover, and he explained that five Great Luo beings had overseen inspections and executed more than fifty Grand Unity cultivators linked to fourth-stage Foundation Establishment Arrays.
• Frost Lord’s Father said the Tianshu Immortal Alliance had been sentenced to eternal imprisonment, Divine Lord Tianshu had vanished, and Divine Lord Yinyuan had been barred from attempting to advance to Great Luo for one hundred thousand years.
• Frost Lord abandoned her feigned-death plan, resigned as a seated elder, and asked the Black Domain, the Dark Domain, and the Audit Department to investigate everyone in the Frost Domain, including herself.

Wang Wu stayed hidden after the Grand Luo’s intervention, then evolved Evil Wind and reached 100% Creation Immortal Body completeness. As he began rebuilding the First Sequence’s Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation, Bear King Jie revealed himself and attacked, but Wang Wu destroyed the formation anyway.

• Wang Wu waited underground for years, confirmed no Grand Luo had tracked him down, and used the level-15 Wind Marrow to evolve Evil Wind.
• Wang Wu completed two cycles of Evil Wind evolution, increasing his lifespan and reaching 100% Creation Immortal Body completeness.
• Wang Wu concluded that Trial Divine Halls were built by Grand Luos and decided to avoid them while conserving his remaining spiritual energy.
• Wang Wu advanced his Heart of the Earth to level 24, raised Bloodline Evolution to 90.5%, and decided to conceal his Ancient Bear identity.
• Bear King Jie emerged from the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation and tried to persuade Wang Wu to make him a False Nascent Soul.
• Wang Wu ignored Bear King Jie’s threat and destroyed the formation, leaving his five Creation Demon Pills shattered.

After destroying his Ancient Giant Bear First Sequence, Wang Wu used the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation to rebuild it as a set of support-focused Five Aggregates Creation Demon Cores and refined his bloodline abilities. He emerged to find himself at the eastern edge of the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance, near places tied to his prison break.

• Wang Wu shattered his Demon Cores and used the Five Aggregates Kitten Formation to evolve his former First Sequence's vital blood into pure spiritual blood.
• Wang Wu condensed five Five Aggregates Creation Demon Cores, raised his Bloodline Evolution to 95.5%, and concentrated his abilities into Passive Concealment, Danger Sense, and Spiritual Essence Insight.
• Wang Wu relied on his Wind Fire Creation Spirit Pills and Three Calamities for offense, movement, concealment, and recovery, leaving his new First Sequence focused on support.
• Wang Wu emerged tens of thousands of li away and used Spiritual Essence Insight to locate a stream of Yin-Yang Two Energies and orient himself.
• Wang Wu identified his location at the eastern edge of the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance, three hundred thousand li from the former Dragon Head City and two hundred thousand li from the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance.

Wang Wu surveyed the Cultivation World and discovered that old allies and familiar places had changed while violence and looting had intensified. He abandoned his journey to Qingshuang City when a vast battlefield and sealing immortal array blocked the way.

• Wang Wu found Grandpa Tree alive in the marsh and Er Gou still hidden near Mount Muyang, where the West River Great King and Mount Master Muyang remained rivals.
• Wang Wu followed a disguised Azure Dragon as it watched a city being built, then saw two Grand Unity immortals assassinate it just after it took charge of the completed city.
• Yu Chenghu arrived to investigate the Azure Dragon's death but failed to catch the killers, and the new city was shut down.
• Wang Wu surveyed the many Sin Prison Towers and witnessed five brutal battles between Grand Unity True Immortals, where victors looted their victims and fled.
• Wang Wu turned back six months short of Qingshuang City after discovering a vast battlefield sealed by an immortal array.

Wang Wu discovered that the Cultivation World had been divided by a sealing formation and watched a powerful Spirit Capturing Ship force cities to surrender their Perpetual Immortal Artifacts. He learned that the twelve Grand Unity Golden Immortals had left and that two new alliances were fighting over the sealed Ninefold Heavens Passage, leaving ordinary cultivators caught in the conflict.

• Wang Wu found that the sealing formation blocked Three Calamities evolution and followed a modified Spirit Capturing Ship through a checkpoint.
• The Spirit Capturing Ship attacked Yu Sheng's city, destroyed it with Coiled Dragon Pillars, captured Yu Sheng, and confiscated the city's Perpetual Immortal Artifact.
• Wang Wu saw the ship demand conscription and assets from cities regardless of their faction, and noticed that the Ninefold Heavens Passage and Twenty-Four Solar Terms were absent.
• Wang Wu disguised himself as an ordinary Earth Immortal and hid in a city as the Spirit Capturing Ship turned back.
• A group of cultivators discussed fleeing, and one explained that the twelve Grand Unity Golden Immortals had left the Cultivation World after sealing the Ninefold Heavens Passage.
• The cultivator explained that six Half-step Grand Unity cultivators now led the Heaven-Defying Immortal Alliance and the Sky-Breaking Immortal Alliance, whose struggle was harming ordinary people.

Wang Wu prepared an abandoned city’s Perpetual Immortal Artifact to ambush a Spirit Capturing Ship, then exploited two Wandering Grand Unity cultivators’ attack to destroy the ship and seize its resources. He headed for Great Desolation City as cultivators across the region gathered there to resist the Half-step Grand Unity.

• Wang Wu revealed that he was a Grand Unity Fifth Stage cultivator and urged the city’s inhabitants to flee toward Great Desolation City, then secretly returned to upgrade the Perpetual Immortal Artifact.
• Wang Wu synchronized with two Wandering Grand Unity cultivators who returned to seize the artifact, allowing them to believe they controlled it and encouraging them to ambush the Spirit Capturing Ship.
• The two Wandering Grand Unity cultivators attacked as the Spirit Capturing Ship approached the empty city, killing many aboard and badly injuring its Grand Unity Eighth Stage cultivator.
• Wang Wu killed the injured Grand Unity Eighth Stage cultivator, silenced the survivors, drained the ship’s spiritual energy, and took its Three Calamities Long Sails and other valuable materials.
• Wang Wu followed the fleeing brothers’ movements briefly, then continued toward Great Desolation City as the region’s cultivators gathered there.

Wang Wu claimed a deserted city near Great Desolation City and assessed its failing Hidden Origin Bell while the displaced cultivators hesitated to unite. A mysterious Sixth Stage Grand Unity cultivator arrived and recognized him as Wang Wu.

• Great Desolation City refused refuge to the gathered cultivators and used its Perpetual Immortal Artifact to drive them away.
• Wang Wu persuaded Song Guangming to hand over the control jade talisman for his Hidden Origin Small City, then raced there with the Wind Fire Spirit Pill.
• The gathered cultivators declined to follow Wang Wu, and he found the small city nearly empty.
• Wang Wu activated the Grade Two Hidden Origin Bell, discovered its signal was weak, and severed its connection to the Town Origin Tower.
• A gray-clad Sixth Stage Grand Unity cultivator confronted Wang Wu, traded false identities with him, and correctly guessed his name.

Wang Wu reunited with Elder Hui, learned Frost Lord was imprisoned, and chose to gather cultivators outside Great Desolation City rather than seize it. He deployed the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Immortal Formation, which quickly filled with Grand Unity cultivators as the Spirit Capturing Ship’s arrival loomed.

• Wang Wu recognized his former master Elder Hui, who told him Frost Lord was serving a three-thousand-year sentence in Prison Sector A-2.
• Elder Hui offered strategies for rallying cultivators, and Wang Wu chose to claim Bear King Jie’s authority while building forces outside Great Desolation City.
• Elder Hui provided the formation method and materials, and Wang Wu spent seventy billion points of spiritual energy to deploy a weakened Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Immortal Formation.
• Grand Unity cultivators rushed in to claim formation nodes and set up their own defenses, filling all one hundred and eighty positions.
• Elder Hui helped expand the formation to accommodate fifty more Grand Unity cultivators, while additional cultivators and Earth Immortals gathered outside it.

Wang Wu helped Elder Hui establish the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Immortal Array, then hid his true body near Great Desolation City as the Spirit Capturing Ship’s owner investigated the stolen sails. A Ninth Stage Grand Unity cultivator repaired the ship and launched a broad search, threatening Great Desolation City while pursuing the two Wandering Grand Unity cultivators whose traces were clearest.

• Wang Wu yielded the Hidden Origin Bell to Elder Hui, who took control of the array’s central hub and strengthened the alliance’s defenses.
• Wang Wu left a hair decoy behind and concealed his true body near Great Desolation City, masking his aura with the city’s.
• The old bears in Great Desolation City rejected Grey Sparrow’s claim about Wang Wu and prepared an immortal artifact in case the new alliance brought conflict.
• The Spirit Capturing Ship’s owner reviewed the events of the past three days and ordered a Ninth Stage Grand Unity cultivator to seek answers from Great Desolation City without breaching it by force.
• The Ninth Stage Grand Unity cultivator repaired the ship’s Three Calamities Long Sails and summoned three hundred Grand Unity cultivators and twenty thousand Earth Immortals.
• The young man sent the ship toward the two Wandering Grand Unity cultivators and ordered his forces to search the wilderness for Earth Immortals.

A melancholy Ninth-stage Grand Unity swept through the wilderness, capturing immortals and driving survivors toward Great Desolation City. After exposing two Wandering Grand Unity as scapegoats for the Spirit Capturing Ship’s destruction, he used the evidence to pressure Great Desolation City to hand over the real culprit or pay an enormous compensation.

• Spirit Capturing Ship crews uncovered Earth Immortals hidden in iron coffins, while Luo Jiusi surrendered after Nameless Immortal Gu influenced his judgment.
• The Ninth-stage Grand Unity trapped two Wandering Grand Unity in a golden circle as his forces seized members of a fleeing clan.
• He tortured the Wandering Grand Unity and showed them evidence that a mysterious figure in black mist had destroyed the Spirit Capturing Ship and killed witnesses after they left.
• Soul-searching confirmed the two Wandering Grand Unity knew nothing about the mysterious bear, and the melancholy man sent a report implicating Bear Emperor Jia.
• The melancholy man continued driving immortals toward Great Desolation City and demanded the culprit or one hundred trillion units of spiritual energy and three thousand Three Calamities Long Sails.

Wang Wu deliberately drew the Spirit Capturing Ship’s forces toward Great Desolation City to unite it with Hidden Origin Small City against the Half-step Grand Unity cultivators. Great Desolation City joined the alliance, and its Bear Emperor fought Fire Lord as the battle’s aftermath threatened Hidden Origin Small City.

• A Grand Unity envoy showed Great Desolation City evidence of the Spirit Capturing Ship attack and demanded the culprit or compensation, giving the city three days to answer.
• Wang Wu revealed that he had let himself be discovered to draw Great Desolation City into the conflict and keep the Cultivation World’s powers balanced.
• Bear Emperor Jia sent twelve Grand Unity cultivators to Hidden Origin Small City, where they joined forces with Elder Hui, expanded the formation, and recruited cultivators for Great Desolation City.
• Great Desolation City gathered one hundred and thirty of Hidden Origin Small City’s two hundred and eighty formation slots as Grand Unity cultivators flocked to join its ranks.
• When Fire Lord arrived, Great Desolation City refused to hand over a culprit and prepared for war; the two sides sealed each other’s Perpetual Immortal Artifacts, and Bear Emperor Jia began fighting Fire Lord.
• Wang Wu watched as the battle between Bear Emperor Jia and Fire Lord unleashed evolved Three Calamities power, forcing Hidden Origin Small City to withstand the aftermath.

Great Desolation City and Hidden Origin Small City fought off a Spirit Capturing Ship’s assault, but the enemy’s Coiled Dragon Pillars threatened Hidden Origin Small City after a feint. Wang Wu halted part of the attack, then took a direct hit from Fire Lord as the battle’s hidden strength came to light.

• Fire Lord attacked Hidden Origin Small City, forcing Bear Emperor Jia to pursue him while their duel continued above the battlefield.
• The Spirit Capturing Ship combined three hundred Coiled Dragon Pillars into a battering ram, but Elder Hui and the Hundred Birds Worship the Phoenix Immortal Formation devastated its crew and broke the assault.
• An Old Woman freed the Spirit Capturing Ship, which split the battering ram into three hundred Coiled Dragon Pillars and sent them toward Hidden Origin Small City.
• The Old Woman stalled the ancient bear Grand Unity cultivators as the Coiled Dragon Pillars battered Hidden Origin Small City and destroyed more than fifty formation positions.
• Wang Wu made more than fifty Coiled Dragon Pillars disappear, then fled beneath Great Desolation City and was struck in the back by Fire Lord’s azure attack.

Wang Wu survived Fire Lord’s devastating strike and secretly memorized the structure of a Fortune Immortal Talisman that could break the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation. After the battle ended in a temporary retreat, Bear Emperor Jia asked whether Wang Wu had obtained all the structural variations of the Nine Absolute Divine Talisman.

• Wang Wu used Level 24 Spiritual Essence Insight to memorize the mysterious talisman structure as Fire Lord’s attack shattered his First Sequence and severely injured him.
• Wang Wu fell near Great Desolation City, was rescued, and rapidly recovered while pretending to remain gravely wounded.
• Great Desolation City’s ancient bears and Hidden Origin Small City’s forces coordinated their attacks, destroying Coiled Dragon Pillars and turning the battle in their favor.
• Fire Lord ordered a retreat after the ancient bears gained the advantage, ending the battle with 208 of the original 300 Coiled Dragon Pillars recovered.
• Bear Emperor Jia asked Wang Wu whether he had obtained all the structural variations of the Nine Absolute Divine Talisman and said that doing so would make him a true descendant of the Mang Mountain Ancient Bear Clan.

After giving the Nine Absolute Divine Talisman to Bear Emperor Jia, Wang Wu secured a safe place in Great Desolation City to recover and prepare for the next attacks. He then began using the Three Calamities Long Sails to raise his Yang Thunder Resistance, pushing his body to its limit.

• Wang Wu introduced himself to Bear Emperor Jia and freely handed over the structural variations of the Nine Absolute Divine Talisman, while refusing to abandon Frost Lord.
• Bear Emperor Jia welcomed Wang Wu as a distinguished guest, then ordered Bear King City to support the old sparrow and recognize him as City Lord of Hidden Origin City.
• Wang Wu repaired his First Sequence in a quiet chamber, established the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation, and raised his Bloodline Evolution to 99%.
• After recovering to his peak in less than three days, Wang Wu opened Three Calamities Long Sails to absorb Yin Fire and Evil Wind while enduring Yang Thunder.
• Wang Wu opened seventy-two Three Calamities Long Sails, finally reaching his limit as Yang Thunder pierced all three sequences, though Yin Fire and Evil Wind still failed to break through his resistance.

Wang Wu spent eighteen months recovering from the devastating Yang Thunder resistance trial while Great Desolation City endured another fierce attack from Fire Lord. After the Twelve Grand Unity Golden Immortals ended the conflict and opened new paths toward ascension, Bear Emperor Jia offered Wang Wu a place among the World-Protecting Immortal Soldiers.

• Wang Wu endured months of Yang Thunder damage, losing 18,500 years of lifespan before recovering enough to emerge from seclusion.
• Bear King City told Wang Wu that Fire Lord's attack had devastated Great Desolation City, destroyed much of the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Formation, and killed six Ancient Bear Taiyi.
• Wang Wu slowly regained his strength while Fire Lord refrained from launching another attack.
• The Twelve Grand Unity Golden Immortals issued a decree reopening opportunities to undergo tribulation and restoring a weakened version of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, ending the fighting among the six Half-step Grand Unity.
• The Mang Mountain Ancient Bear Clan announced plans to form World-Protecting Immortal Soldiers, and Wang Wu learned that Earth Immortals could ascend through a special passage as Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Bear Emperor Jia invited Wang Wu to join the World-Protecting Immortal Soldiers, offering him one of the five hundred positions.

Wang Wu weighed Bear Emperor Jia’s offer of a place among the World-Protecting Immortal Soldiers as the Ancient Bear Clan prepared to leave the Cultivation World. After Qing Xue escaped with the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower, Wang Wu rejected the chance to ascend, sensing it would bind him to the Ancient Bear Grand Unity cultivator.

• Bear Emperor Jia offered Wang Wu a reserved slot among the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, but Wang Wu declined for the time being and hoped to visit Qingshuang City.
• The Ancient Bear Clan dismantled Great Desolation City while Taiyi cultivators gathered to ascend, and Elder Hui urged Wang Wu to join them.
• Wang Wu sensed the Twelve Grand Unity cultivators relocating the Sin Prison Towers and saw Qing Xue escape with the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower as a Half-step Grand Unity cultivator.
• Wang Wu nearly returned to Great Desolation City, but sensed that ascension would shackle him and vanished into the wilderness instead.
• Three years later, Bear Emperor Jia led the Ancient Bear Clan away from the Cultivation World, while an Ancient Bear Grand Unity cultivator regretted that Wang Wu had not taken the bait.

After healing and gathering the ruins of Great Desolation City, Wang Wu settled there to build an immortal palace and investigate the world’s underlying energies. Thousands of years of research led him to question the accepted understanding of the Nine Absolutes and begin constructing a model, culminating in a miniature Sin Prison Tower.

• Wang Wu spent three years healing, completed more of the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation, and assessed his lifespan, resources, and future cultivation prospects.
• Wang Wu spent ten years collecting and sorting materials from Great Desolation City, deciding to build an Aboveground Immortal Palace among the ruins.
• Wang Wu spent a thousand years recording the Twenty-Four Solar Terms and analyzing how they connected to the Nine Absolutes Calamity and Yin-Yang Two Energies.
• Wang Wu realized that accepted assumptions about the relative status of the Nine Absolutes, Five Aggregates, and Yin-Yang energies might be misleading, and concluded he needed an independent world-sized model to investigate the Sole Great Dao.
• Wang Wu continued gathering data and building his model for five thousand years, eventually completing a miniature Sin Prison Tower.