Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan visited the Zhong Family to trade for treasures and discovered a box of powerful ancient talismans, then returned to Su City to replenish them with Super Material. As he prepared for the Zhilán Dharma Assembly, he wondered whether his weapons could defeat a true immortal whose realm had fallen.

• Zhong Cheng told Wang Xuan that the Zhong Family would not trade the pre-Qin Golden Bamboo Slip yet, but Zhong the Second wanted to meet him for an equal exchange.
• The Sun Family discussed decoding its mothership’s technology to hunt supernatural beings and considered gathering rare materials while waiting for lost people to return from a place where supernatural matter was fading.
• At the Zhong Family estate, Wang Xuan found a box of damaged talisman paper and used Mysterious Factor to restore some of its strength, prompting Zhong Qing to demand an equal exchange.
• Wang Xuan stayed for two days and helped Zhong the Second extend his lifespan by several years, while the Zhong siblings gained vitality from Mysterious Factor.
• Wang Xuan returned to Su City and used Qian An’s Daoist temple to replenish the talismans with Super Material, discovering that some held sword and thunder powers.
• With three days remaining until the Zhilán Dharma Assembly, Wang Xuan prepared for possible returning Transcendent Immortals and questioned whether his armament could kill a true immortal.

Wang Xuan was drawn into a brewing clash with Western Supernatural Practitioners Hansolo and Christine, but redirected their attention toward his invitation to the Zhilán Dharma Assembly. After they magically stole it, Wang Xuan planned to let the invitation stand in for him while he went to Source Pool Mountain in secret.

• Wang Xuan sent Supernatural Being flesh and blood to old men and acquaintances as longevity ingredients, while Zhou Yun warned him that the Agon Zaibatsu had allied with the Sun Family.
• At a banquet, Grant introduced Christine and Hansolo, and Hansolo said he wanted to exchange pointers with Wang Xuan.
• Christine and Hansolo learned that the dragon meat served at Eastern zaibatsu banquets came from Wang Xuan, and they entered Su City seeking him.
• Wang Xuan showed Christine and Hansolo his invitation to the Eastern Supernatural Practitioner gathering, and they left after examining its aura.
• Christine and Hansolo used a crystal mirror and spear to steal the invitation from Wang Xuan, who let them take it and planned to travel to Source Pool Mountain in person.

Wang Xuan deliberately led the Sun family to believe he was heading to the Zhilán Dharma Assembly at Source Pool Mountain, where they planned a secret space-based attack on the Supernatural Practitioners. After reaching the mountain and sensing danger, he vanished into the forest, leaving the Sun family to prepare their strike without realizing he had escaped.

• Wang Xuan called his acquaintances and Old Chen to say goodbye, while the Sun family’s specialists decoded his Secret Language and reported that several Supernatural Practitioners might gather at Source Pool Mountain.
• Sun Rongsheng and the Sun family’s leaders approved a covert dragon-slaying operation, mobilized warships and super Energy Cannons, and ordered preparations to hide their involvement.
• Wang Xuan traveled west toward Source Pool Mountain as Christine and Hansolo, carrying stolen invitations and Agon Zaibatsu anti-tracking devices, arrived ahead of him.
• Christine and Hansolo reached the mist-shrouded Source Pool Lake and discussed their hatred of the Eastern Supernatural Practitioner who had helped serve Theo as food.
• Wang Xuan climbed Source Pool Mountain to confirm the Sun family’s suspicions, then used the gourd to conceal his tracks and fled into the primeval mountains.
• The Sun family confirmed that Wang Xuan had reached the mountain and celebrated the apparent success of their planned attack, unaware that he had escaped.

The Sun family attacked Source Pool Mountain with beams from an orbital warship while Christine and Hansolo confronted a mysterious group serving a peerless True Immortal. Wang Xuan watched from afar and raised a toast to both the Sun family and the Transcendent Immortals as the mountain came under bombardment.

• The Sun family watched the transcendents gather at Source Pool Mountain, while Christine and Hansolo entered the ruins and met an old man, an armored figure, a Daoist nun, and an Old Monk bearing flame marks.
• A woman in red armor summoned a being through the headless statue, and he dismissed the Western god behind Christine and Hansolo before ordering that they be marked as followers.
• Wang Xuan sensed malice from Source Pool Mountain and waited at a distance, deciding not to act until events had settled.
• Christine and Hansolo activated their god-given weapons against the being, who warned that the mountain passage must not be destroyed.
• Sun Rongsheng ordered an orbital warship to fire on Source Pool Mountain, and beams struck the mountain as the being roared that the peerless True Immortal would take revenge.
• Wang Xuan watched the bombardment from afar and toasted the Sun family and the Transcendent Immortals.

Warships in outer space destroyed Source Pool Mountain and the passage the Transcendent Immortals had built, overwhelming the supernatural power protecting it. Wang Xuan watched from afar as the Sun family celebrated, while a powerful being behind the Great Curtain ordered the failed guardian to produce results within three days.

• Sun Chengqian and other Sun family members toasted the destruction of the Supernatural Practitioners, believing their enemies had been wiped out.
• Energy Beams battered Source Pool Mountain until the headless Divine Statue and its protection collapsed, and the Mysterious Man sent the survivors away before the remaining passage exploded.
• Wang Xuan watched the destruction from a distant mountain, predicted the Transcendent Immortals would retaliate, and prepared to exploit the Sun family's troubles.
• Sun family members replayed the explosion and celebrated, while investigators near Source Pool Mountain found freshly melted alloy among the ruins.
• In the world behind the Great Curtain, the powerful being ordered the failed guardian to produce preliminary results within three days, and strange blood-red lightning struck New Star.

Wang Xuan traveled toward Kangning City after Source Pool Mountain was destroyed, learning that the Transcendent Immortals planned to attack the Sun Family. He reached the city and watched their first attempts to infiltrate the Sun Family fail against its terrifying ancient treasures.

• Grant suspected the Sun Family had killed Christine and Hansolo after finding fragments of their artifacts at Source Pool Mountain, and he demanded an explanation from Sun Rongsheng.
• The woman in red armor ordered Wang Xuan to investigate the Sun Family and help with an attack within two days, but he secretly burned the rune imprint she had left on him.
• Wang Xuan used talisman papers to travel through the mountains and wetlands, reached a hotel near the Sun Family, and prepared to observe the coming battle.
• A strange bell at the Sun Family headquarters struck the purple-haired elder's spiritual body and then repelled his attempt to possess a young man.
• The woman in red armor sent the Old Monk into the Sun Family while she tried to restrain the bell, but the bell cracked her divine seal and a tiny golden flag destroyed the Old Monk's spiritual body.

Yuan Hong failed to breach the Sun Family estate, where the Soul Locking Bell and God Slaying Banner thwarted her attempts to steal its treasures. After she reported the artifacts to a mysterious man who had arrived from behind the Great Curtain, he decided to unseal his true bones and act against the Sun Family.

• The Sun Family learned that Yuanxia Star had been attacked and suspected Grant was retaliating for his granddaughter.
• Yuan Hong tested the Sun Family estate but was driven back by the Soul Locking Bell and could not approach the God Slaying Banner.
• Yuan Hong tried to steal the vault’s treasures with a stone basin, but the basin shattered; Wang Xuan watched from a hotel and grew frustrated with her.
• Yuan Hong killed several members of the Sun Family’s direct line, prompting the family to restrict important members from leaving its estate.
• Yuan Hong reported the Soul Locking Bell and God Slaying Banner to the blurry man at Source Pool Mountain, and he decided to unseal his true bones and move against the Sun Family.

Zhou Chong and Yuan Hong went to Kangning City to seize the Soul Locking Bell, but the bell injured Zhou Chong as Wang Xuan discovered Mr. Ghost was secretly trying to refine it. Zhou Chong carried off the bell while slaughtering Sun family members, and the Sun family elder ordered the Mothership Restart Plan activated.

• Zhou Chong found his true bone in his abandoned former Dojo and discovered that someone had gnawed away much of it before he restored his Blood Shadow with the remaining bone.
• Zhou Chong and Yuan Hong reached the Sun family and identified the God Slaying Banner, then Zhou Chong tried to subdue the Soul Locking Bell.
• The Soul Locking Bell blasted apart Zhou Chong's Blood Shadow and damaged his Soul Body, while Wang Xuan recognized the attacker as one of the Transcendent Immortals from Source Pool Mountain.
• Mr. Ghost admitted that he was trapped inside the bell and had tried to refine it for protection, but Zhou Chong used a talisman to weaken the bell and pulled it from the Sun family's vault.
• Zhou Chong killed six Sun family descendants and several high-ranking members as energy cannons struck him, then retreated with the bell.
• A centenarian Sun family elder ordered the Mothership Restart Plan activated despite another member's warning about its dangers.

The Sun family awakened its mothership and sent Mech Number Five to defend its headquarters from Zhou Chong, whose assault left the estate in ruins. As Zhou Chong and Yuan Hong sought treasures in the estate, a dangerous secret vault and an unknown power behind it emerged, while Wang Xuan watched and waited for a chance to claim something valuable.

• Sun Rongkun restarted the mothership, which reported that its exotic matter reserves were too low to hunt god-demon-class creatures and recommended activating Mech Number Five.
• Mech Number Five awakened and left the mothership as Zhou Chong’s sword light killed Sun family members and damaged buildings across the estate.
• Sun family warships struck Zhou Chong with concentrated beams, but he destroyed one warship with his flying sword before returning to battle over the Soul Locking Bell.
• Yuan Hong discovered a Golden Bamboo Slip in a secret vault and warned that its defenses targeted extraordinary beings whose soul lights had left their bodies.
• Zhou Chong used a talisman and his damaged flying sword against the vault’s defenses, while Mr. Ghost suspected an unknown powerful being had claimed the place.
• Mech Number Five scanned Zhou Chong as Wang Xuan watched from a hotel, resolved to obtain something from the Sun family estate.

Wang Xuan tried to reach the God Slaying Banner while Zhou Chong fought Mech Number Five and Yuan Hong pursued the Golden Bamboo Slip. After repeated attempts to break the banner’s underground defenses, Wang Xuan discovered Yuan Hong had secretly set a Soul Body against him and struck first with a Thunderbolt Talisman Paper.

• Zhou Chong destroyed the Thunderbolt Ruler to break the secret vault’s formation, then fought Mech Number Five and sent Yuan Hong a mirror to help her retrieve the Golden Bamboo Slip.
• Wang Xuan watched Zhou Chong and Mech Number Five depart, then used the ancient lamp and Small Gourd to expose the runes protecting the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan attacked the underground runes, triggering the banner and forcing himself and Yuan Hong to flee as its golden patterns spread.
• Wang Xuan attacked the runes again from outside the Sun family estate, while Yuan Hong’s attempts to draw out the Golden Bamboo Slip failed and the banner destroyed three Soul Bodies she released.
• Yuan Hong found Wang Xuan with the treasure mirror and proposed they cooperate, but Wang Xuan noticed she had secretly sent another Soul Body to lie in wait.
• Wang Xuan struck first with a Thunderbolt Talisman Paper, blasting away half the female Daoist’s body.

Wang Xuan killed Yuan Hong, seized the God Slaying Banner, and retrieved the Golden Bamboo Slips from the Sun Family’s secret vault. As he escaped, he discovered a mysterious shrine where a divine statue appeared to be growing a body, confirming that the vault had a hidden owner.

• Wang Xuan destroyed Yuan Hong’s treasures and killed her and her assistant with his exotic treasures and ancient lamp.
• Wang Xuan escaped the God Slaying Banner’s dangerous formation, collected the banner with the yellow Small Gourd, and stored it in the Blessed Land Fragment.
• Wang Xuan defeated a three-inch Bronze Man guarding the secret vault and took the twenty-seven Golden Bamboo Slips.
• Wang Xuan left other treasures untouched and found that the Sun Family’s senior members had fled aboard spacecraft.
• Wang Xuan used his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to discover a living phantom within a shrine’s divine statue, then fled the Sun Family’s estate.

Wang Xuan escaped Kangning City and spent two months cultivating in hiding while the Sun Family’s attack and the supernatural upheaval shook New Star. Zhou Chong was badly wounded by Mech Number Five, lost the God Slaying Banner and Golden Bamboo Slip, and fled as the chapter left Wang Xuan still concealed and the supernatural drawing closer to reality.

• Wang Xuan left Kangning City by flying boat, and reports of the assault on the Sun Family spread as people debated whether he had carried it out.
• Zhou Chong and Mech Number Five fought underground, each repeatedly damaging the other, until Mech Number Five escaped toward the Sun Family’s mothership base.
• Zhou Chong returned to the Sun Family and discovered that the God Slaying Banner and Golden Bamboo Slip had vanished; he also sensed an ascended being sleeping within a Divine Statue and withdrew without confronting them.
• Mech Number Five used the Sun Family’s warship to bombard Zhou Chong, breaking his true bone and forcing him to flee underground with the Soul Locking Bell.
• People speculated that Wang Xuan had died, while Old Chen insisted he would survive and joked that he would name his son Chen Xuan if Wang Xuan were gone.
• Wang Xuan spent two months in the mountain forests studying the Golden Bamboo Slip and slowly refining the God Slaying Banner as strange supernatural signs and returning lineages unsettled New Star.

After two months of studying scriptures and cultivating, Wang Xuan reached the end of the Lantern Burning Realm and worried about losing supernatural resources in the future. He discovered a secret path of path seeking, gained spiritual power from three drops of wine at an ancient post station, and approached a dark village as withered yellow paper began to fall.

• Wang Xuan studied the Golden Bamboo Slip and stone scripture, reached the end of the Lantern Burning Realm, and considered how he might preserve his strength after supernatural substances vanished.
• Wang Xuan began studying the Five-Colored Golden Elixir Scripture and the Shakya True Scripture alongside other cultivation methods.
• Fifteen days later, Wang Xuan discovered a blurred region within the mist rising from his Life Soil and followed it to an ancient, dilapidated post station.
• Wang Xuan drank three drops of golden wine from a Wine Gourd and increased his spiritual power by about one-tenth.
• Wang Xuan saw a dark Village Town and a distant Bright Zone, then walked toward them as the post station's lanterns lit behind him.
• Wang Xuan looked up and reached out to catch sheets of Withered Yellow Paper falling from the starless sky.

Wang Xuan explored a deathly, ancient world and found a midnight market in a graveyard, where immortal soldiers attacked the traders. He fled back to the Real World with the pursuing soldiers and a treacherous old man, then destroyed all six soul bodies with the God Slaying Banner.

• Wang Xuan crossed a desolate village where spirit money fell from the sky and destroyed a human-faced cat with a secret art from the Shakya True Scripture.
• Wang Xuan reached an ancient city and discovered a graveyard market selling supernatural goods from places such as Mount Buzhou, Spiritual Mountain, and Yaochi.
• Silver Armor soldiers raided the market, and Wang Xuan fled alongside an old man who had been selling bark as Immortal Peach.
• The old man used Wang Xuan as a shield while the soldiers pursued them, and Wang Xuan escaped toward the Misty Path back to the Real World.
• The old man and five Silver Armor soldiers followed Wang Xuan through the Misty Path into the present world, where Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner to kill all six soul bodies.

Wang Xuan examined the spoils from his journey into the Mysterious World, then stayed hidden while the supernatural began stirring across the Real World. Three months later, people and artifacts were returning from deep space, and reports of supernatural beings signaled that the world was changing.

• Wang Xuan confirmed that the six pursuers were dead, stored the Peach Tree bark, and tested the Secret Copper Soul Armor, which improved his speed and range.
• Wang Xuan spent more than two months studying in hiding, but his Super Material ran low and he resolved to make use of the time before the supernatural decayed.
• Supernatural phenomena appeared among financial conglomerates, ancient temples, and Old Arts families, while Old Chen investigated strange incidents and the Huang family grew confident in its revived lineage.
• Zhong Cheng and Zhong Qing discussed Wang Xuan's disappearance, while Qin Cheng prepared to duel a Huang family disciple and Professor Lin hoped Wang Xuan was still alive.
• Two Sun family spacecraft returned from deep space with people aboard, prompting other magnates to launch ships, as reports spread of a fox immortal and a person emerging from a great lake.

As transcendence began returning to the world, Wang Xuan explored a dangerous Mysterious World path before abandoning it and resurfacing. His survival was exposed online, drawing widespread attention as he prepared to replenish his strength and advance into the Life Soil Realm.

• Chen Yongjie and Guan Lin planned to return to Old Earth as spacecraft began retrieving people trapped in Blessed Land, and Chen Yongjie went into seclusion to advance his cultivation.
• Strange supernatural incidents spread, while Mech Number Five received mysterious signals and relayed them through a battered mothership near a wormhole.
• Wang Xuan entered the Mysterious World but turned back after spotting silver-armored soldiers hiding in a graveyard, then left his mountain retreat after discovering surveillance probes nearby.
• Qin Cheng defeated a young man connected to the Huang Family in an interschool sparring match, while the Huang Family grew suspicious of Wang Xuan.
• A young man from one Lineage leaked a picture proving Wang Xuan was alive, causing a sensation and alarming the Sun family and other powers.
• Wang Xuan contacted old acquaintances and planned to find a Daoist temple or ancient monastery to replenish his resources and enter the Life Soil Realm.

Wang Xuan returned to the city, helped Qian An, and broke through into the Life Soil Realm, discovering new powers and forming a protective Dao Robe from wondrous scenes. He defeated a woman’s incarnation in the forest and left her true identity alerted to his strength.

• Wang Xuan returned to Su City, ate with Professor Lin and Qin Cheng, and then visited Qian An.
• The Sun family debated attacking Wang Xuan but hesitated because they feared the Blood Shadow and the risks of exposing their strength.
• Wang Xuan helped Qian An in a Daoist temple and broke through from the Lantern Burning Domain into the Life Soil Realm.
• Wang Xuan traveled twenty li with his spirit, gathered wondrous scenes into a protective Dao Robe, and noticed a creature watching him.
• Wang Xuan confronted a white-clothed woman in the forest and destroyed her talisman-paper incarnation with one punch.
• The woman’s true body, staying in a hotel on New Star, realized her incarnation had been destroyed and took an interest in Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan pondered the collapse of mythology and sought a way forward as supernatural power faded. After treating Song Yun and replenishing his treasures at the Song Family temple, he investigated Cold Mist Mountain and reached its summit, where an astonishing sight beyond the cliff left him uncertain whether to proceed.

• Wang Xuan learned that returning Supernatural Practitioners had persuaded many wealthy families they could extend lives, causing several old clients to hesitate over their deals with him.
• Wang Xuan visited Song Yun, treated him twice, replenished the Flying Boat and yellow Small Gourd at the Song Family Taoist temple, and spared Song Qian for Song Yun's sake.
• Wang Xuan declined an invitation to an Old Arts exchange meet and traveled to Cold Mist Mountain to investigate the mysterious creatures he had once seen there.
• Wang Xuan found the mountain summit silent and empty, but his Spiritual Heavenly Eye revealed stockades and enormous feathers carrying Supernatural Power.
• Wang Xuan approached a cliff and saw an astonishing scene below, then hesitated over whether to go farther.

Wang Xuan witnessed a mysterious golden sea vanishing into the void, then visited the Zhao and Qin families to study rare scriptures and investigate their hidden supernatural occupants. The chapter ended with a creature in the Huang Family’s ancestral shrine ordering someone to invite Wang Xuan over.

• Wang Xuan watched phantom bubbles burst above the golden sea and wondered whether it was a departing Land of the Departed.
• Wang Xuan learned that his life-extending treatment had genuinely rejuvenated Qian An and Song Yun, while other supernatural treatments had provided little more than massage.
• At the Zhao Family, Wang Xuan studied ancient scriptures, found a growing true bone in the family’s Daoist temple, and used its Super Material to strengthen Zhao Mingzheng and Zhao Zejun.
• Wang Xuan sensed that the Zhao Family’s secret vault had been arranged by someone and warned Zhao Zejun to act as if he knew nothing.
• At the Qin Family, Wang Xuan read the final pages of the golden-foil scripture and completed the Shakya True Scripture.
• In the Huang Family’s ancestral shrine, a mysterious creature told an old man in a dream to invite Wang Xuan over.

Wang Xuan traveled to Tai City to visit the Zhou Family, where he reunited with Old Chen and learned that both their cultivation and the danger from returning Transcendent Immortals were growing. Old Chen revealed a clue to a Heavenly Medicine Seed hidden beneath an ancient temple, giving them a possible way to build the strength needed to face what was coming.

• Huang Xinghai instructed Huang Jinglin to keep inviting Wang Xuan and warned him not to provoke Lin Mengliang.
• Wang Xuan tested whether he was being watched, worried that mysterious beings and zaibatsu were tracking him, and traveled to Tai City to visit the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Yun welcomed Wang Xuan and brought him to the family estate, where Old Chen soon joined them.
• Old Chen revealed that he had advanced to the Herb Gathering Realm using medicinal soil, while Wang Xuan had reached the Life Soil Realm without using his own.
• Old Chen warned Wang Xuan that Transcendent Immortals had likely returned and showed him a cassock containing Secret Language about a Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus seed beneath an ancient temple.
• Old Chen identified the Zhou Family's ancient temple as a likely place to search for the Heavenly Medicine Seed, which could strengthen their foundation against Transcendent Immortals.