Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan buried the remains of immortals, then learned that beings from behind the Great Curtain were rapidly arriving on New Star and putting pressure on its major families. As the Zhong Family prepared to flee and Old Chen pursued a Heavenly Medicine Seed, Wang Xuan continued hunting Immortal Bone Cans, leaving the pair ready to strengthen themselves against the newcomers.

• Wang Xuan buried three immortal bones and reflected on the doomed path of cultivation.
• Qian An arranged a private spacecraft to take Wang Xuan off New Star, but the ship exploded in space, confirming that the Transcendent Immortals were watching him.
• Wang Xuan declined Zhong Cheng’s invitation, mistaking the coded offer of scriptures and a chance to retreat with the Zhong Family for a request to view Little Zhong’s photographs.
• Beings from behind the Great Curtain contacted the major families, sought their treasures and technology, and prompted organizations including the Qin Family to consider fleeing New Star.
• Zhong Cheng told Wang Xuan that Zhou Shiqian, a powerful descendant of Transcendent Immortals, had befriended Zhong Qing and asked about him.
• Chen Yongjie told Wang Xuan he was pursuing the Heavenly Medicine Seed and wanted to borrow the Qin Family’s Snow White Conch, while Wang Xuan continued searching for Immortal Bone Cans.

Wang Xuan entered the Immortal Realm behind the Great Curtain and discovered a faction’s plot to use the red marks on his body to cultivate an Immortal Fetus and seize his flesh, blood, Inner Scenery Realm, and fortunes for their young master. He returned to the present world resolved to prepare for the peerless expert behind the scheme and fight back.

• Wang Xuan followed his senses into a wetland and hills near Pingyuan City, where he detected traces of the Great Curtain and decided to investigate its world.
• Wang Xuan entered the Immortal Realm through the mist with the God Slaying Banner and found an altar being built in a changed landing place.
• Wang Xuan overheard the workers explain that their old master planned to enter the Highest Grade Mental World and help the young master complete an Immortal Fetus.
• Wang Xuan learned that the faction intended to use the red marks to take his flesh, blood, Inner Scenery Realm, and fortunes for the young master.
• Wang Xuan withdrew to the present world and resolved to seek treasures and prepare to destroy the faction if they could not kill him.

Wang Xuan secretly went to the Qin Family manor to support Chen Yongjie as he competed for the Snow White Conch. After Wang Xuan fought Huang Ming and met Kong Yun, he recognized the Blood Shadow Chi Meng and turned hostile.

• Wang Xuan learned that Earth Immortal Spring was losing its potency and watched Chen Yongjie use the Shakya True Scripture to draw the Snow White Conch toward him.
• Wang Xuan joined Chen Yongjie at the manor and used a Lion's Roar to challenge Huang Ming, then fought him with fist techniques.
• Huang Ming transformed and charged again, but Kong Yun stopped him with one finger and said the conch had acknowledged Chen Yongjie.
• Kong Yun introduced Wang Xuan to the gathered descendants of True Immortals and Demon Immortals, who favored modern technology and culture.
• Wang Xuan recognized the Blood Shadow as Chi Meng, the True Immortal who had bombarded him with a warship and marked him, and his killing intent surged.

Wang Xuan gathered powerful treasures and allies while preparing for the immortal embryo threat and the coming battle with forces from behind the Great Curtain. After completing secret deals with the Song and Zhong Families, he judged his preparations nearly complete and awaited the enemy.

• Chi Meng tried to recruit Wang Xuan to hunt the person who had framed him, but Wang Xuan refused to act until the truth emerged.
• Chen Yongjie wielded the Buddhist dharma conch, and Wang Xuan warned him about the altar and the danger of the immortal embryo.
• Wang Xuan traded Earth Immortal Spring with Song Yun for the Golden Tree, then studied the treasure but could not yet refine it.
• Wang Xuan borrowed the Zhong Family's Pool of Rebirth and gave Zhong Cheng Earth Immortal Spring as the family prepared to carry out the Primordial Plan.
• Wang Xuan disrupted Cao Qingyu's spiritual influence over Zhong Qing and recognized that Cao was an exceptionally powerful opponent.
• Wang Xuan made further secret transactions with several families and concluded that his preparations were nearly complete.

Wang Xuan learned that Zheng Wu planned to use a heavenly medicine and Wang Xuan’s body to create an Immortal Fetus, so he prepared to disrupt the Zheng family’s crossing. As the Zheng family’s Heavenly Blood and Heavenly Fate emerged outside Pingyuan City, Chi Meng arrived to seize it.

• Wang Xuan scouted the Great Curtain and discovered Zheng Wu intended to take his body, Inner Scenery Realm, and foundations to nurture an Immortal Fetus.
• Wang Xuan told Chi Meng about Zheng Hong, and Chi Meng attacked and killed Zheng Hong after the True Immortal reacted guiltily.
• Wang Xuan revealed that the Zheng family would bring Heavenly Blood and Heavenly Fate across realms, tempting Chi Meng with a chance to Change Fate.
• Chi Meng warned Wang Xuan that a peerless expert could cross the realm ceiling, while Wang Xuan considered heavenly medicine and the half Lotus Seed as ways to strengthen himself.
• Wang Xuan prepared in the hills outside Pingyuan City, where the crossing began and a streak of Heavenly Blood shot out as Chi Meng arrived.

Chi Meng defied the Zheng Family to seize part of Zheng Wu’s Heavenly Blood and Heavenly Fate, then escaped a peerless expert’s attack. Meanwhile, Wang Xuan lured Zheng Wu to his location, where Zheng Wu declared he would take Wang Xuan’s place on the path of transcendence.

• Chi Meng attacked and killed several Zheng Family spiritual bodies while searching for the true Heavenly Blood.
• Chi Meng fought Zheng Wu, shattered his defenses, and seized part of his Heavenly Blood and Heavenly Fate before escaping underground from Zheng Yuantian’s pursuit.
• Zheng Wu fled across the wetlands and mountains, surviving bombardment from Chen Yongjie’s warship as Wang Xuan told Chen Yongjie not to destroy him.
• Wang Xuan waited in the mountain forest for Zheng Wu, who followed the fetal garment’s guidance to reach him.
• Zheng Wu told Wang Xuan that his path was cut off and that he would continue onward in Wang Xuan’s place.

Zheng Wu invaded Wang Xuan’s soil of fate to cultivate a demon fetus and seize his foundation, using the Golden Tree and other treasures to overcome Wang Xuan’s defenses. Zheng Wu prepared to plant the Heavenly Medicine’s main root, while Wang Xuan welcomed the prospect with concealed excitement.

• Wang Xuan used the ancient lamp and Golden Tree’s Divine Birds to destroy Zheng Wu’s apparent Blood Shadow, but discovered it had been a talisman-born decoy.
• Zheng Wu split into nine beams and forced his way into Wang Xuan’s soil of fate, declaring that he would take over the place and build the strongest foundation.
• Wang Xuan attacked Zheng Wu with his Jade Dragon Saber, but Zheng Wu blocked it with three fractured silver divine chains and drove Wang Xuan’s spiritual body back.
• Zheng Wu revealed his hidden true self, fused with his earlier manifestation, and spread Five-Colored Soil and Zheng Yuantian’s medicinal soil across Wang Xuan’s soil of fate.
• Zheng Wu took out the Heavenly Medicine’s main root to plant it in the enriched soil of fate, and Wang Xuan eagerly looked forward to it.

Wang Xuan reclaimed his life soil from Zheng Wu by activating the Pool of Rebirth and striking with the God Slaying Banner. After studying Zheng Wu’s cultivation memories, Wang Xuan destroyed his Primordial Spirit and the fading protection left by Zheng Yuantian.

• Zheng Wu planted the silver Heavenly Herb’s main root in Wang Xuan’s life soil and used Immortal Nectar to nourish it.
• Zheng Wu sealed the life soil and began rooting his Primordial Spirit there, leaving Wang Xuan weak and threatening to take over his body.
• Wang Xuan activated the Pool of Rebirth hidden beneath the life soil, trapping Zheng Wu and tearing away a fragment of his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Xuan entered the life soil with the God Slaying Banner and shattered Zheng Wu’s Primordial Spirit into fragments.
• Wang Xuan examined Zheng Wu’s fragments and learned his cultivation experiences, including knowledge of the Yuantian Scripture and Immortal Embryo.
• Zheng Wu briefly awakened, but Wang Xuan struck again and destroyed his remaining fragments and Zheng Yuantian’s fading protective characters.

After absorbing the Life Soil’s treasures, Wang Xuan reached Late Stage Life Soil as the supernatural world deteriorated and the Zheng family’s immortals weakened. He killed one immortal in direct combat, then correctly answered a second immortal’s password by declaring himself Wang Xuan.

• Wang Xuan absorbed the heavenly medicine and Life Soil’s vitality, strengthening his body and spirit while rejecting Zheng Wu’s Heavenly Blood as a source of cultivation.
• Wang Xuan discovered he had reached Late Stage Life Soil and learned from Zheng Wu’s Spirit Fragments, while the world’s supernatural power continued to fade.
• Chen Yongjie warned Wang Xuan that Zheng family experts were approaching, and Wang Xuan noticed that one Blood Shadow had arrived near the thatched hut.
• A Zheng family immortal mistook Wang Xuan for Zheng Wu and revealed the family’s plans before attacking him.
• Wang Xuan stripped away the immortal’s true bone with the God Slaying Banner and killed him with the Feather Ascension Fist.
• A second Zheng family Blood Shadow arrived, and Wang Xuan correctly answered the password by telling him to call him Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan impersonated Zheng Wu, killed the Blood Shadows who discovered his deception, and used the Zheng Family’s remaining immortals to gather resources and guard his interests. He then returned to the Zhong Family estate, where rival descendants of Transcendent Immortals gathered to pursue the family’s treasures and Cao Qingyu’s plans to take the estate came into view.

• Wang Xuan passed the Blood Shadow’s initial tests, but the Blood Shadow detected that he lacked Zheng Wu’s Heavenly Blood aura and fetal-membrane traces, then attacked him.
• Wang Xuan defeated the Blood Shadow with his physical body and the God Slaying Banner, learned what had exposed him, and shattered the Zheng Family immortal.
• Wang Xuan successfully deceived the Zheng Family’s third, fourth, and fifth immortals, directing them to find resources and watch over Wang Xuan and his associates.
• Wang Xuan told Chen Yongjie that they would visit the Zhong Family the next day to open the cans, and Chen Yongjie said he would bring his family.
• Wang Xuan returned the Pool of Rebirth to the Zhong Family in Kun City, where Zhong Cheng told him that supernatural beings had been probing the estate and its treasures.
• Cao Qingyu and other descendants of Transcendent Immortals arrived at the Zhong Family, and Cao Qingyu said the family must be taken down while they discussed Wang Xuan’s importance and the approaching changes behind the Great Curtain.

As the World-Crossing Sword and Carefree Boat appeared behind the Great Curtain, descendants of Transcendent Immortals sought Wang Xuan’s help to guide their patriarchs across realms. Wang Xuan defeated Jiang Yuan, and Chen Yongjie then subdued another challenger, leaving the factions stunned by the strength of the Real World’s practitioners.

• Cao Qingyu’s faction discussed the World-Crossing Sword and planned to test and abduct Wang Xuan, while Zhou Shiqian’s faction considered winning his help through goodwill.
• Jiang Yuan challenged Wang Xuan and tried to seize him, but Wang Xuan used the stone tablet scriptures’ Seal and Break true words to shatter his attacks and knock him flying.
• Zhong Qing, Zhou Shiqian, and the assembled onlookers were surprised when Wang Xuan defeated Jiang Yuan with ease.
• A young man from Cao Qingyu’s faction stepped forward to challenge Wang Xuan, but Chen Yongjie intercepted him and fought him with his Black Sword.
• Chen Yongjie cut the challenger’s neck and declared himself a patriarch of the Real World, leaving the crowd silent.

At a gathering with descendants of the Transcendent Immortals, Wang Xuan was suddenly bound by invisible chains and attacked by seven crimson swords. As he tried to burn away the attack, he rejected everyone’s help and fought several powerful figures, leaving the gathering in chaos.

• Old Chen defeated another opponent, while the gathered immortals marveled at his and Wang Xuan’s strength.
• Zhong Qing urged the modern guests and the descendants of the Transcendent Immortals to coexist peacefully, though she feared the return of more dangerous patriarchs and overlords.
• Wang Xuan sensed a deadly force, discovered black chains binding his body, and was attacked by seven crimson swords that others could neither see nor touch.
• Chen Yongjie tried to help Wang Xuan, while Qin Cheng and Zhong Cheng prepared for a possible fight; Wang Xuan used the stone-slab scripture and Old Chen’s Buddhist power to resist the attack.
• Wang Xuan warned everyone to stay away, burned through one chain, and fought Chen Yan, Cao Qingyu, Kong Yun, and Zhou Shiqian as Chen Yongjie also entered combat.

Wang Xuan resisted an attack powered by traces of supernatural rules, found and defeated the two Blood Shadows behind it, and returned to the Zhong estate. Zhong Qing then led him and Chen Yongjie to Old Zhong’s study, which Wang Xuan had long wanted to enter.

• Wang Xuan used several scriptures to break the chains and Blood Shadow swords binding him, while observers suspected the attack involved the Immortal Binding Rope.
• The two Blood Shadows outside Kun City used altars and immortal true bones to try to seize Wang Xuan, but he let the last chain pull him toward them.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie attacked the Blood Shadows, and Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner to strip away their true bones and shatter their Primordial Spirits.
• The Blood Shadows disintegrated before Chen Yongjie could question them, and Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie discussed opening the Inner Scenery Realm and leaving the increasingly dangerous New Star.
• Wang Xuan returned to the Zhong family estate, where Zhong Qing told him Old Zhong wanted to see him and led him to Old Zhong’s study.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie studied Zhong Yong’s vast collection of ancient scriptures while Wang Xuan replenished the Mysterious Factor in Zhong Yong’s qilin-hide Inner Scenery Treasure. As Wang Xuan prepared to open his own Inner Scenery Realm, a World-Crossing Sword split a moon behind the Great Curtain, and the Nurturing Life Furnace began trying to emerge.

• Zhong Yong revealed his youthful true form and offered Wang Xuan rare scriptures, then asked him to replenish the Mysterious Factor in his qilin-hide Inner Scenery Treasure.
• Wang Xuan opened two Immortal Bones and poured their Mysterious Factor into the hide, while Chen Yongjie and Wang Xuan examined Zhong Yong’s Pre-Qin Golden Bamboo Slips and Five-Colored Jade Book.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie spent two days studying Zhong Yong’s scriptures, and Wang Xuan later reviewed passages about Life Soil before preparing to open his Inner Scenery Realm.
• Qin Cheng, Zhong Cheng, Zhong Qing, and Chen Yongjie gathered as Wang Xuan prepared to open the Inner Scenery Realm, while Zhong Yong grew eager to leave for deep space.
• A World-Crossing Sword split open a Great Curtain and cleaved one of the five moons in two, leaving Wang Xuan stunned as the Nurturing Life Furnace tried to force its way out of his Inner Scenery Realm.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the Inner Scenery Realm, understood the Life Soil, and broke through into the Herb Gathering Realm. As the World-Crossing Sword escaped another fierce battle, the Nurturing Life Furnace left his Inner Scenery Realm and fell into his Life Soil.

• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal, the Female Daoist practitioner, and Old Zhang crossed Great Curtains to pursue the World-Crossing Sword while Wang Xuan waited for the Nurturing Life Furnace to emerge.
• Wang Xuan, Old Chen, Guan Lin, Professor Lin, and the others entered a decaying Inner Scenery Realm and cultivated, while Wang Xuan studied the connection between the Inner Scenery Realm and the Life Soil.
• Wang Xuan created a Five-Colored Immortal Robe and transformed it into varied attacks as the others made progress, including Professor Lin becoming a Great Grandmaster.
• Wang Xuan resonated with his physical body, entered his own vibrant Inner Scenery Realm, and broke through into the Herb Gathering Realm.
• The World-Crossing Sword escaped its pursuers again, and the Nurturing Life Furnace left Wang Xuan’s Inner Scenery Realm and fell into his Life Soil.

Wang Xuan moved the Nurturing Life Furnace into his Life Soil, rescued people from a collapsing Inner Scenery Realm, and spent years mastering a new method for constructing spells from supernatural substances. As he explored the depths of his Inner Scenery Realm, he glimpsed a figure burning paper beyond a realm wall and heard it weeping.

• The Nurturing Life Furnace left Wang Xuan’s Inner Scenery Realm and settled in his Life Soil, nourishing the heavenly herb’s main root.
• Wang Xuan helped Chen Yongjie and Zhong Yong evacuate Zhong Qing, Professor Lin, and others from a collapsing Inner Scenery Realm into his own.
• Old Zhong recognized Wang Xuan’s unusually vital Inner Scenery Realm, warned him that powerful enemies would target him, and then joined the others in cultivating there.
• Wang Xuan spent seven perceived years studying the Golden Bamboo Slip from Old Zhong’s family and learned to construct spell models that used supernatural substances more efficiently.
• Wang Xuan explored the deepest part of his Inner Scenery Realm, saw a blurry figure burning paper beyond a realm wall, and heard faint crying.

Wang Xuan explored the Inner Scenery Realm’s eerie fire and crying, refined powerful supernatural formulas, and helped his companions complete their cultivation. After the Zhong family fled into deep space, Wang Xuan returned to New Star, planning to seek Shakyamuni’s lotus seed pod, while the Nurturing Life Furnace reacted to an unknown disturbance.

• Wang Xuan discovered a dim fire heap, drifting paper money, and faint crying beyond the Inner Scenery Realm’s rough wall, then studied the Golden Bamboo Slip and constructed increasingly powerful supernatural formulas.
• Wang Xuan explained his formula method to Old Zhong and Chen Yongjie, while Chen Yongjie, Old Zhong, and the others made major gains in cultivation.
• Wang Xuan led everyone out of the Inner Scenery Realm, where Zhong Qing and Guan Lin hurried off to wash and Wang Xuan realized he had reached the Herb Gathering Realm.
• Old Zhong relocated the Zhong family into deep space, and Wang Xuan inspected their fleet for mental bodies before seeing Zhong Qing and Zhong Cheng off.
• Old Zhong gave Wang Xuan a warship, and Wang Xuan returned to New Star as the Nurturing Life Furnace trembled in response to an unknown disturbance.

After the Zhong family fled New Star, fear spread as supernatural beings entered the Real World and Wang Xuan gathered treasures and planned his next visits. He reached Qian An’s home and discovered that a Primordial Spirit had devoured more than half of the old man’s spiritual body and was still trying to replace him.

• The Zhong family abandoned New Star and fled into deep space, alarming the public and other major organizations.
• Descendants of Transcendent Immortals tried to calm the public, while Qi Yi and Ling Luanxian ordered their followers to secure territory and search for scriptures and supreme treasures.
• Wang Xuan examined Zhong Cheng’s photo album, then recalled the treasures he, Chen Yongjie, and Zhong Yong had taken from the Zhong family’s secret treasury.
• Wang Xuan left Kun City intending to visit Zhao Zejun and Qian An, and he spotted two enormous demon birds circling above New Star.
• Wang Xuan arrived at Qian An’s manor and discovered that a Primordial Spirit had devoured over half of Qian An’s spiritual body and remained inside him.

Wang Xuan rescued Qian An from a demon that had been consuming his spirit, but Qian An died from his grievous injuries. After discovering that demons were gathering near Su City and conspiring with Zhou Chong's faction, Wang Xuan began hunting them and prepared to attack their stronghold.

• Wang Xuan exposed the demon hidden inside Qian An and captured it with the repaired Primordial Spirit Chain, but Qian An's spirit was too damaged to save.
• The demon revealed that its companions were at Cold Mist Mountain and that it served the faction of the peerless demon Qi Yi; Wang Xuan destroyed it and another demon hiding in a Qian Family senior member.
• Qian An bid farewell to Wang Xuan and died, prompting the Qian Family elders to leave for deep space and carry out the Primordial Plan.
• Wang Xuan contacted the Zheng Family's true immortal and learned that Zhou Chong, who might possess the Soul Locking Bell, was working with demons and possibly the faction of Qi Teng and Qi Yi.
• Wang Xuan pursued and killed a giant demonic bird near Su City, then declared that he would settle accounts with the demons gathered in the distant mountains.

Wang Xuan uncovered demons secretly replacing people and treating humans as Blood Food, then worked with the Qian Family to expose them and draw other factions into a confrontation. After reports of the victims ignited public outrage, he told Chen Yongjie that a group would lead the fight while he followed and attacked.

• Wang Xuan discovered demons inhabiting the bodies of staff at a forest inn and learned they planned to infiltrate modern society and feed on people.
• Wang Xuan found that demons had also replaced forest rangers, killed the demons he had identified, and saw that the upper ranks had abandoned Cold Mist Mountain.
• Wang Xuan urged Qian An’s brothers to seek revenge and press Daoist experts and the Transcendent Immortals to answer for the demons’ actions.
• Descendants of Transcendent Immortals held public appearances to present themselves as integrated into modern society, while Huang Ming’s attempt to find work drew ridicule.
• Reports that Qian An and ten others had been killed and consumed by demons sparked public fury across New Star.
• Wang Xuan told Chen Yongjie to focus on finding the Lotus Seed and said others would lead the coming fight while he attacked from behind.