Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu stayed inside the Cold Realm, secretly cultivating his resistance to Vast Nether Cold Qi while the imprisoned Longevity Worm urged him to help it escape. After exploiting the Cold God’s periodic cycle to gather more cold qi, Wang Wu slipped away from the worm again, though it left another immortal talisman on him.

• The Longevity Worm told Wang Wu that the Cold Realm and its Vast Nether Tribe were manifestations of the Cold God, and that it could help him escape if he rescued it.
• Wang Wu found a fading immortal talisman on his shoulder but chose to explore the Cold Realm and avoid absorbing its cold qi directly.
• Over fifty years, Wang Wu raised his bitter-cold resistance to 1000 points and refined Vast Nether Sword Qi and Vast Nether Shield.
• As the Cold God awakened, Wang Wu hid as dust in the cold-qi tide, left the Cold Realm, and was swept back inside with the returning tide.
• Wang Wu used layered transformations to devour sixty layers of cold qi in the pill furnace while the Longevity Worm offered him its stored Cold Marrow in exchange for help.
• Wang Wu escaped when the Myriad Longevity Immortal Pill was completed, but the Longevity Worm placed another miniature immortal talisman on him and promised to wait.

Wang Wu’s bitter cold resistance had grown so powerful that he could no longer benefit from his usual exploits, but before he could negotiate with the Cold God, Bai Yu of the Azure Dragon Clan arrived to arrest him. Their first exchange ended with Bai Yu revealing his personal Dao of Compassion, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Wang Wu raised his bitter cold resistance to 4,999 points by exploiting the Cold God’s fifty-year absences, then realized he needed to discuss how to increase it further.
• Bai Yu confronted Wang Wu and said the Cold God had reported his illegal mining of Cold Marrow to the Twelve Heavens Immortal Realms.
• Bai Yu defended the Heavenly Laws that placed the five realms under the Twelve Heavens’ jurisdiction, while Wang Wu questioned why they permitted the Cold God to plunder living beings.
• Wang Wu agreed to fight Bai Yu, who introduced himself and attacked with his Heaven and Earth Tower’s Yin-Yang Two Energies.
• Wang Wu used his Fifth-Tier Little Cat Formation and Heaven and Earth Shields to evade Bai Yu’s suppression and strike him with Vast Nether Sword Qi.
• Bai Yu shrugged off Wang Wu’s attack, multiplied into hundreds of thousands of forms, and revealed his minor Dao of Compassion.

Wang Wu faced Bai Yu’s attempts to capture him and discovered that his Heaven and Earth Shield, joined with one hundred and eight sword qi, could overwhelm Bai Yu’s full strength. After defeating Bai Yu and taking the Heaven and Earth Tower, Wang Wu left the Cold Realm.

• Bai Yu used the Path of Mercy and the Heaven and Earth Tower’s Yin-Yang Two Energies, but Wang Wu evaded them with decoys made from his hairs.
• Bai Yu deployed his Heaven and Earth Tower, nine immortal artifacts, and dragon scales in a Heavenly Net Immortal Formation to seal the Cold Realm.
• Wang Wu confronted Bai Yu’s formation with his Heaven and Earth Shield and one hundred and eight sword qi, cleaving apart its Yin-Yang Two Energies, immortal seals, and rosy light.
• Bai Yu suffered grave injuries and lost consciousness as his dragon scales shattered, while his complete Heaven and Earth Tower remained intact.
• Wang Wu took the Heaven and Earth Tower, and the Cold Realm opened a path for him to leave.

Wang Wu escaped the Cold Realm and realized the Beyond the Heavens was an unstable structure tied to the Cultivation World's ruins, leaving him free to travel and observe its changing factions. He entered the revived Hidden Origin Society and revealed himself to its leader, Xu Taiping.

• Wang Wu escaped the Cold Realm without pursuit from the Azure Dragon Clan or Bai Yu and, after three days, began scanning the Beyond the Heavens.
• Wang Wu concluded that the Beyond the Heavens and the Cultivation World's ruins formed an unstable vortex, which made Grand Unity cultivators unlikely to attack him.
• Wang Wu scanned the Twelve Heavens Immortal Realms and inferred that the Grand Unity cultivators' plans had been disrupted by Old Man Tianshu's self-destruction.
• Wang Wu followed the Twenty-Four Solar Terms clockwise and found Spirit Capturing Ships carrying floating cities where old and new factions had gathered.
• Wang Wu entered the Hidden Origin Society's floating city and discovered that Xu Taiping had become its ninth-tier Taiyi leader.
• Wang Wu watched Xu Taiping from the shadows for half a day, then appeared before him.

Wang Wu reunited with the Hidden Origin Society’s Xu Taiping, learned that many old acquaintances had gone to the Myriad Heavens Immortal Realm, and heard Elder Hui explain the coming expedition beyond their world. After entering the Immortal Realm, Wang Wu met its last Grand Unity Immortal, who invited him to join the Xuantian Sect and made him his final disciple.

• Xu Taiping told Wang Wu that Shuang Liuyun had appointed him temporary master of the Hidden Origin Society and that many of Wang Wu’s old friends had died or gone to the Myriad Heavens Immortal Realm.
• Elder Hui warned Wang Wu that the Sole Great Dao was unstable and invited him to join an expedition beyond the world, with Qing Xue among those preparing to go.
• Wang Wu decided to visit the Myriad Heavens Immortal Realm and entered it by following the proper vortex route.
• At an empty heavenly palace, Wang Wu encountered a Grand Unity Immortal whose teachings led him to recognize the Dao in the surrounding world.
• The last Grand Unity Immortal asked Wang Wu to join the Xuantian Sect, and Wang Wu accepted, becoming the old man’s final disciple.

Wang Wu became Uncle-Master Chu’s disciple and Supreme Elder of the Xuantian Sect, accepting three covenants and a role in a future expedition. After Jiang Dongting examined Wang Wu’s Heaven and Earth Shield and discovered its ancient Dao Protecting Sword Qi, the elders exchanged valuable cultivation resources with him.

• Uncle-Master Chu gave Wang Wu three strands of Creation Golden Light, made three covenants with him, and assigned him to join an expedition team in ten years.
• Su Rong introduced himself, Jiang Dongting, and Lin Ran as Xuantian Sect Supreme Elders, and Wang Wu received his identity jade talisman.
• Jiang Dongting tested the Heaven and Earth Shield, endured its one hundred and eight sword qis, and identified them as ancient Dao Protecting Sword Qi.
• Jiang Dongting gave Wang Wu the Primordial Spirit Reflection Sky Lantern Art before heading into seclusion.
• Su Rong offered Wang Wu nine Spirit Cultivation Immortal Pills, and Lin Ran invited him to choose one of her three self-refined immortal artifacts.

Wang Wu learned about the Fire Realm expedition and chose an artifact to protect his Divine Soul. He then confronted Lu Wuchen, who kowtowed to the memorial tablet and admitted his guilt.

• Lin Ran described three Divine Soul artifacts and warned Wang Wu that the Fire Realm’s hostile ecology and cultivation system would endanger an expedition team.
• Wang Wu chose the Primordial Spirit Crown for its strong Divine Soul defense and asked how long he could remain in the Fire Realm.
• Wang Wu met Lu Wuchen outside the main hall and demanded that he kowtow before the memorial tablet of the Four Clowns.
• Lu Wuchen kowtowed nine times before the Ancient Desolate Bear Clan memorial tablet, and Wang Wu returned to the main hall.

Wang Wu prepared his cultivation treasure hall as a sanctuary for Frost Lord, but after restoring her body he could not wake her. Su Rong and the others suspected her Divine Soul had crossed into Wang Wu’s former world while saving him, leaving him with little hope of bringing her back and warning him to strengthen his soul before the Fire Realm expedition.

• Wang Wu embedded Bai Yu’s Heaven and Earth Tower in his cultivation treasure hall to extend its protection for Frost Lord and began restoring her Creation Immortal Body.
• After three years and three Spirit Cultivation Immortal Pills, Wang Wu restored Frost Lord’s body and stabilized her Divine Soul, but she remained unconscious.
• Wang Wu awakened the Four Clowns and Mother-in-law for help, but they could not explain Frost Lord’s condition and urged him to consult the Xuantian Sect.
• Su Rong, Jiang Dongting, and Lin Ran inspected Frost Lord, then suspected she had sent Wang Wu’s Divine Soul back into his body while her own had crossed into his former world.
• Su Rong warned Wang Wu that finding Frost Lord’s Divine Soul might be impossible and urged him to strengthen his Primordial Spirit, while Jiang Dongting reminded him that seven years remained before the expedition.

Wang Wu strengthened his Divine Soul, formed a Primordial Spirit Sky Lantern, and prepared for the expedition to the Fire Realm. Six years later, he joined Jiang Dongting’s assembled expedition team, with his plunder-focused mission about to begin.

• Jiang Dongting promised to preserve the Cultivation Treasure Hall and arrange a memorial for Shuang Hongye if Wang Wu vanished and she did not awaken.
• Jiang Dongting warned Wang Wu that the expedition to the Fire Realm was for plunder and that its Primordial Spirit Sky Lanterns could knock his Divine Soul from his body.
• Wang Wu took two Spirit Cultivation Immortal Pills, raised his Divine Sense, and cultivated a Primordial Spirit Sky Lantern before refining Lin Ran’s Primordial Spirit Armor into it.
• Wang Wu reviewed his cultivation, concluded he needed more Primordial Spirit Immortal Artifacts, and spent six years gathering ten thousand Supreme Hairs for the expedition.
• Wang Wu bid farewell to the sleeping Frost Lord, the Four Clowns, and Mother-in-law, then joined Jiang Dongting and the twenty-three other members of the expedition team, including Lu Wuchen.

Wang Wu joined a twenty-four-member expedition to the Fire Realm, where Imperial Observatory Prophet Ling Yue guided him through the perilous journey between worlds. After Wang Wu glimpsed the Sole Great Dao and learned to stabilize their artifact, the Fire Realm’s ecological interception began attacking it.

• Wang Wu learned that the expedition paired him with Ling Yue and that the team would travel to the Fire Realm through a passage opened by five Grand Unities.
• Su Rong and Lin Ran gave the expedition members Soul-Calming Immortal Talismans and Spirit Cultivation Immortal Pills before they entered the passage.
• Wang Wu recognized the Sole Great Dao and was overwhelmed by revelations, but Ling Yue calmed him and explained the journey’s temporal variables and his role as a sailor.
• Ling Yue handed Wang Wu a gyroscope-like immortal artifact and instructed him to maintain its Yin-Yang Two Energies and follow commands during the journey.
• About ten days into the journey, Wang Wu saw a vision of blood-red eyes trying to seize his Divine Soul, then discovered blood-red tentacles tugging at the artifact in his hand.

Wang Wu and Ling Yue reached the Fire Realm, where Wang Wu fought off its strange native creatures while discovering that their attacks could produce valuable Azure Wood Spirit Energy and golden divine thunder. The chapter left Wang Wu standing still after the Patrolling Grunts stopped attacking, as Ling Yue wondered whether he was planning to plunder them.

• Wang Wu defended the compass immortal artifact from Forbidden Blood Eyes by maintaining a Three Calamities barrier until he confirmed that he and Ling Yue had reached the Fire Realm.
• Ling Yue used Shadow Mirror Sky Lanterns to illuminate the Great Pits, and Wang Wu dodged a giant creature by jumping between them.
• Wang Wu battled a Patrolling Grunt, rescued Ling Yue from its curse, and purified the curse into unusually potent Azure Wood Spirit Energy with his Fifth-Tier Little Cat Formation.
• More than a dozen Patrolling Grunts attacked Wang Wu with golden divine thunder and explosive fruits, injuring him as he absorbed their thunder.
• After the Patrolling Grunts stopped fighting, Wang Wu stayed motionless for several days, and Ling Yue asked if he had a plundering plan.

Ling Yue revealed that the expedition’s deeper goal was to reshape the Fire Realm around the Sole Great Dao, and Wang Wu agreed to join the plan. A powerful Chi Clan Immortal Lord ambushed them, leaving Wang Wu fighting through disposable incarnations while he and Ling Yue searched for a weakness.

• Ling Yue clarified that Wang Wu was expected to lead the plundering, then explained the Twelve Grand Unity’s plan to transform the Fire Realm and asked Wang Wu to join.
• Wang Wu agreed, reasoning that the plan could bring immense benefits and help him reach Grand Unity.
• Wang Wu sensed danger, grabbed Ling Yue, and fled across three hundred and fifty great pits, but a Chi Clan Immortal Lord pierced him with a claw and severed his head.
• Wang Wu used an External Incarnation to strike back, but the Chi Clan Immortal Lord transformed into nine sky lanterns that tracked and repeatedly attacked him.
• Wang Wu feigned desperation while sending disposable incarnations against the Chi Clan Immortal Lord, and he and Ling Yue coordinated their abilities as Wang Wu deduced a small flaw.

Wang Wu used the Chi Clan Immortal Lords’ attacks to improve Three Calamity Evolution, then killed three of them and escaped with Ling Yue. As they fled through a Seven-Colored Aura, a powerful presence pursued them and shattered part of the passage.

• Ling Yue warned Wang Wu that their expedition was doomed, but Wang Wu kept attacking to study the Chi Clan Immortal Lord’s Shadow Mirror Sky Lantern.
• Wang Wu used a fake Ling Yue as bait while repeatedly sending his true body into battle to refine Three Calamity Evolution under pressure from the Chi Clan Immortal Lords.
• After two more Chi Clan Immortal Lords arrived, Wang Wu exploited one newcomer’s inexperience and killed it with Yin-Yang Two Energies, Spiritual Essence Insight, and sword energy.
• Wang Wu used three thousand Supreme Hairs to distract the remaining Chi Clan Immortal Lords, killed two more, and left the fleeing survivor behind.
• Wang Wu revealed that the captured Ling Yue had been fake, then forced the real Ling Yue to flee with him through the Seven-Colored Aura.
• A powerful pursuer smashed apart part of the Seven-Colored Aura, but Wang Wu and Ling Yue remained ahead of the break.

Wang Wu faced five Grand Unity cultivators, who offered him a chance to become the thirteenth Grand Unity by continuing the Fire Realm expedition. After he rejected their apparent reward as an illusion and used Creation Golden Light to expose the Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor’s deception, he returned alone to the Great Cultivation World.

• Five Grand Unity cultivators read Wang Wu and Ling Yue’s memories, then offered Wang Wu advancement to Grand Unity if he continued the Fire Realm expedition.
• Wang Wu awoke to find the expedition team alive again, and Ling Yue revealed himself as an incarnation of a Grand Unity cultivator who explained Wang Wu’s exile and a ranking of ten unaffiliated Half-step Grand Unity cultivators.
• Wang Wu suspected the scene was an illusion and unleashed one strand of Creation Golden Light, revealing that the Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor had trapped them in a deception.
• Ling Yue transformed into a Chi Clan being and begged Wang Wu for help, but the Golden Light protected Wang Wu and killed Ling Yue.
• Wang Wu found himself alone beside the Seven-Colored Aura Passage and confirmed that he had returned to the Great Cultivation World.

Wang Wu returned from the Fire Realm carrying three Chi Clan Immortal Lord corpses and was quarantined while the Great Luos assessed the danger. He used Three Calamities to recreate a Wood Monster and discovered that Grandpa Tree's information repository could transform it into a living juvenile Wood Monster, which he handed over to the Great Luos before returning to the cultivation hall.

• Wang Wu returned alone through the Ascension Platform, left behind three Chi Clan Immortal Lord corpses, and entered isolation at Xuantian Sect.
• Wang Wu concluded that the expedition had become a war between the Sole Great Dao and the Fire Realm, then summoned the Four Clowns for help.
• Wang Wu used the Fifth-Tier Little Cat Formation and Three Calamities to evolve a wooden monster from his memories.
• Grandpa Tree's information repository separated from the Four Clowns, entered the wooden monster, and transformed it with one hundred special Golden Divine Thunders into a living juvenile Wood Monster.
• Wang Wu gave the juvenile Wood Monster to three Great Luos, received three streams of Creation Golden Light from his nominal master, and returned to the cultivation hall.

Wang Wu recruited the Four Clowns to analyze the Fire Realm and prepared them to study its creatures as vessels. After three years of training and reaching the limit of his formations, he was summoned by his master following the end of his isolation.

• Wang Wu warned the Three Clowns that war with the Fire Realm was coming and recruited Mother-in-law to make them the Four Clowns and measure the enemy's strength.
• Wang Wu explained the Fire Realm's ecology and his encounter with the Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor, arguing that the coming war would pit the Great Cultivation World's Grand Unity cultivators against the Fire Realm's ecology.
• Wang Wu created ninety-nine Big-eyed creatures as vessels for the Four Clowns, who accepted them and began studying the Chi Clan Immortal Lord.
• Over three years, Wang Wu recreated Fire Realm creatures and scenes to train the Four Clowns, while raising the Five Aggregates Dog Formation and Bird Formation to the fifth tier.
• Wang Wu reached the ceiling of his strength, returned to normal after the Grand Unity cultivators lifted his isolation, and received a summons from his master.

Wang Wu joined the Twelve Grand Unities’ Heaven and Earth Tower formation to prepare for the Fire Realm’s invasion, but the Chi Clan’s first strike killed hundreds of thousands of Grand Unities and left the defenders struggling to hold the line. The chapter ended with the surviving Half-step Grand Unities fearing that the Twelve Grand Unities might claim the Fire Realm’s Dao Fruit opportunities for themselves and leave them behind.

• Wang Wu followed the rosy light to a grand formation of a million Grand Unity True Immortals, where he took the ninth formation eye and received a Purple-Cyan Dao Robe that greatly strengthened his Divine Soul.
• After five years without the Fire Realm’s invasion, Wang Wu followed an insight from the Sole Great Dao and helped launch a cross-realm strike that drained the defenders’ power and lifespans.
• The Fire Realm retaliated with a super lamp made from at least a hundred thousand Primordial Spirit Sky Lanterns, killing at least two hundred thousand Grand Unities and incapacitating another five hundred thousand.
• The Twelve Grand Unities traded bases and went to the Fire Realm, leaving Wang Wu and the other Half-step Grand Unities to stabilize the Heaven and Earth Tower and fight the Chi Clan army.
• The Tower’s Five Disasters slaughtered nearly all of the Chi Clan’s five billion troops, but three hundred exceptionally powerful Chi Clan members remained trapped, beyond the defenders’ ability to destroy.
• Divine Lord Yinyuan and the other Half-step Grand Unities debated whether to let the Chi Clan break through, then feared the Twelve Grand Unities might seize the Fire Realm’s Dao Fruit opportunities and not return.

After the Twelve Grand Unity abandoned the Great Cultivation World for the Fire Realm, Wang Wu and the other Half-step Grand Unity realized they had to defend the Sole Great Dao without them. They launched a coordinated strike against the Chi Clan breakout, and Wang Wu’s Creation Golden Light helped them kill thirty-six Chi Clan Immortal Lords before the battle continued.

• Su Rong and other cultivators revealed that the Twelve Grand Unity had taken sixty million mortals and ninety million demons to the Fire Realm, and Divine Lord Yinyuan deduced they meant to establish new dominant species there.
• Divine Lord Yinyuan urged the cultivators to stop the Chi Clan from breaking out of the Heaven and Earth Great Array, and Wang Wu, Qing Xue, and other Half-step Grand Unity joined the fight.
• The Chi Clan divided into four groups and began its breakout under the command of three Supreme Heavenly Emperors, while the Sole Great Dao strengthened the array and the Half-step Grand Unity waited for an opening.
• Wang Wu charged at a Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor and used three strands of Creation Golden Light to briefly suppress its power.
• Divine Lord Yinyuan, Mountain Sea Divine Lord, Qing Xue, Su Rong, Lin Ran, and the other Half-step Grand Unity attacked together, killing thirty-six Chi Clan Immortal Lords before withdrawing.

Wang Wu revealed that his death had been a deception and used three Fifth-Order Foundation Establishment Arrays to turn the Heaven and Earth Great Array against the Chi Clan. He annihilated one Supreme Heavenly Emperor and 152 Immortal Lords, while the two remaining Supreme Heavenly Emperors escaped; Wang Wu then merged with the formation, leaving others to wonder whether he had reached a path toward Grand Unity.

• Su Rong offered five strands of Creation Golden Light, and Myriad Phenomena Divine Lord used two to suppress the Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor while 34 Half-step Grand Unity cultivators attacked.
• Qing Xue abruptly changed course and struck at the suppressed Supreme Heavenly Emperor as Myriad Phenomena Divine Lord withdrew.
• Wang Wu appeared alive beneath his Ancient Giant Bear phantom, and his First Sequence Fifth-Order Puppy Array resonated with the Heaven and Earth Great Array.
• Wang Wu raised his Qilin, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird arrays, combining their power into a slash that destroyed one Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperor and 152 Chi Clan Immortal Lords.
• The two other Chi Clan Supreme Heavenly Emperors escaped with fewer than 20 Immortal Lords, while Wang Wu vanished from perception as his three arrays merged into the Heaven and Earth Great Array.

Wang Wu used his new Dao Flame ability to arrange transmigration for Divine Lord Yinyuan and the other established Half-step Grand Unity cultivators who wished to leave. Qing Xue chose reincarnation instead, asking Wang Wu to accept her as his disciple if he attained Grand Unity, while his attention turned toward Frost Lord.

• Wang Wu used Spiritual Essence Insight to overpower Divine Lord Yinyuan briefly, then agreed to help him transmigrate while leaving his Creation Immortal Body behind.
• Divine Lord Yinyuan returned his cultivation to the Sole Great Dao and entered Wang Wu's passage, transmigrating into the body of a dying man in another world.
• Mountain Sea Divine Lord, Wuyin Divine Lord, and the other established Half-step cultivators except Qing Xue transmigrated to separate worlds.
• Su Rong, Lin Ran, and the other newly advanced Half-step Grand Unity cultivators chose to follow Wang Wu rather than abandon their Creation Immortal Bodies.
• Qing Xue rejected Wang Wu's offer to stay and asked him to promise to accept her as a disciple if he attained Grand Unity; Wang Wu agreed and looked toward Frost Lord's Divine Soul.