Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan discovered that the Silver Liquid connected his Life Soil to the distant heavenly medicines, then began testing whether it could replace his Super Material. He endured severe pain while drawing in the destructive Red Substance, as tremors shook powerful figures across the Real World.

• Tremors shook cultivators across the Real World, and figures including Cao Qingyu, Zhou Shiqian, Old Zhang, and a red-clothed woman sensed the disturbance.
• Wang Xuan found that Silver Liquid nourished his Life Soil Mountain and Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus, revealing a connection to his distant Life Soil and two other heavenly medicines.
• Wang Xuan watered the Life Soil Mountain more generously and saw silver substance reach the distant plants, suggesting the two locations could become linked.
• Wang Xuan decided to test replacing his Super Material with silver substance and waited in the darkness for the crimson light to return.
• Wang Xuan used the God Slaying Banner to draw in a trace of Red Substance, suffering intense spiritual pain as silver light resisted it.

Wang Xuan repeatedly tempered his spirit with the crimson clouds, surviving near-fatal injuries and growing stronger as his body also drew in silver light. His cultivation sent tremors through the world, disrupting powerful beings everywhere, and the miniature Sword Immortal found him underground and eagerly inhaled the silver mist rising from him.

• Wang Xuan fled the crimson clouds into the Life Pool after they nearly burned through his spirit, then discovered new vitality growing from his charred spiritual body.
• Wang Xuan healed in the Life Pool, judged that the torment had toughened his spirit, and returned to the darkness to undergo more rounds of extreme cultivation.
• Wang Xuan used the Silver Beast Skin Book to absorb silver substance while continuing to temper himself with the crimson clouds, and his physical body also became tougher after drawing in faint red mist.
• The repeated tremors affected Chen Yongjie, Great Immortal Huang, Zhou Shiqian, Heng Jun's people, demons, and other cultivators, prompting Heng Jun's followers to seek negotiations with Chen Yongjie and the relevant departments.
• Old Zhang steadied himself with physical training, while the Red-clothed Demon Immortal practiced a powerful dance-like technique beneath her umbrella.
• The miniature Sword Immortal was shaken from her nest, sensed Wang Xuan underground, dug him out, and greedily inhaled the silver mist rising from his body.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the Land of Nothingness, where silver and red substances strengthened him and the miniature Sword Immortal absorbed the mist beside his body. After he returned to his physical form, he found her there in reality and reached out to pinch her cheek.

• The miniature Sword Immortal inhaled silver mist around Wang Xuan and flung away the scorched remnants she found beside him.
• Wang Xuan sensed the Sword Immortal near his body and noticed the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus absorbing red and silver matter.
• Chen Yongjie, Qing Mu, and Guan Lin reached Wang Xuan’s secluded location, where Chen Yongjie began tempering himself with red mist, sunlight, radiation, and other energy substances.
• The supernatural beings across the world began falling from their former levels as the upheaval reached them.
• Wang Xuan completed his cultivation, retrieved the God Slaying Banner and beast-skin scroll, and returned to his body after a shorter journey through the Land of Nothingness.
• Wang Xuan saw the miniature Sword Immortal beside him in reality and reached out to pinch her cheek.

Wang Xuan returned from the Land of Nothingness and teased the miniature Female Sword Immortal before the group traveled to An City. There, Chen Yongjie rejected two weakened Broken Plate-level men’s demands for help opening an underground palace and finding Wang Xuan, then killed them after they threatened his and Wang Xuan’s families.

• Wang Xuan pinched the miniature Female Sword Immortal’s cheeks, while Qing Mu saw them and Chen Yongjie hurried him and Guan Lin away.
• The group reached An City, where Chen Yongjie learned that two Broken Plate-level men wanted help opening a sealed palace near the Earth’s Core, which they believed contained Heavenly Medicine and possibly living mythological figures.
• Chen Yongjie refused to help with the palace or reveal Wang Xuan’s whereabouts, and the men threatened to approach Wang Xuan’s parents and Chen Yongjie’s family.
• After Guan Lin and Qing Mu left the room, Chen Yongjie struck the purple-haired man and trapped both visitors with extraordinary treasures.
• Chen Yongjie defeated and killed both weakened men, then told Qing Mu to erase the evidence and report that they had left on their own.

Wang Xuan completed a dangerous breakthrough into the sixth Human World realm, which he named Calamity Transformation, and returned to find that Heng Jun’s faction had threatened his parents. As tensions rose between the returned immortals and demons, Wang Xuan decided to meet the Female Daoist practitioner and “Old Zhang” to set Rules for the Human World.

• Chen Yongjie killed two followers of Heng Jun who had targeted Guan Lin and Wang Xuan’s parents, then concealed the evidence.
• Wang Xuan recovered from his ordeal, advanced from the late fifth stage to the late sixth stage, and named the realm Calamity Transformation.
• Wang Xuan observed returned immortals and demons living in varied ways, while growing wary of powerful ancient figures and the unrest beneath Old Earth’s calm.
• Qing Mu told Wang Xuan about Heng Jun’s faction and its plan to target his parents, and Chen Yongjie returned after killing eight Broken Plate-level beings in Ping City.
• Wang Xuan resolved to meet the Female Daoist practitioner and summon “Old Zhang” to discuss setting Rules for the Human World, while keeping open the possibility of joining forces against Heng Jun’s faction.

Wang Xuan learned that a mysterious benefactor had protected his parents with supreme Dao talismans and prepared to retaliate against the beings who threatened them. Behind the Great Curtain, the Red-clothed Demon Immortal questioned whether immortality was an illusion and sent a portion of the White Tiger True Immortal to the present world.

• Wang Xuan learned that a Mysterious Man had given his parents Dao talismans that burned an attacker to dust, and he wondered whether the benefactor would eventually seek him out.
• Wang Xuan rejected Chen Yongjie's advice to wait and planned to strike at the fallen Carefree Journey experts who had threatened his family.
• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal returned to her Dojo after killing a peerless expert and clashing with Demon Ancestor Qi Yi and Ling Luanxian over the World-Crossing Sword.
• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal told the White Tiger True Immortal that the Great Curtain might be an illusion and urged her to prepare in the present world.
• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal split off part of the White Tiger True Immortal and sent her through the Great Curtain to the present world on assigned tasks.

Wang Xuan hunted down members of Heng Jun’s faction, killing two ninth-stage opponents at Cloud Lake and striking targets across several cities. After reassuring himself about his parents’ protection, he headed for the Greater Khingan Range to meet the Female Daoist practitioner and planned to contact Old Zhang.

• Wang Xuan killed a ninth-stage man who used the Great Tribulation Summoning Technique to attack him at Cloud Lake.
• Wang Xuan defeated and killed a ninth-stage snake woman by using the Great Tribulation Summoning Technique he had just learned.
• Wang Xuan killed more members of Heng Jun’s faction, including a seductive woman who offered protection for his parents in exchange for borrowing the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan killed three more people in Ping City, bringing his total to eleven and leaving only three of Heng Jun’s experts unaccounted for.
• Wang Xuan examined the Daoist talisman with his parents, then set out for the Greater Khingan Range to meet the Female Daoist practitioner and considered contacting Old Zhang.

Qi Liandao sent a portion of his second demon body to New Star, then traveled to Old Earth, where he encountered the formidable Old Zhang and was warned not to prey on people. Wang Xuan returned to the Female Daoist practitioner's underground cave, where she had awakened and greeted him.

• Qi Liandao sent part of his second demon body to New Star, where he devoured demons to restore his strength and announced that he would go to Old Earth to find Wang Xuan and the God Slaying Banner.
• Old Zhang agreed to travel to Old Earth, while Qi Liandao's main body discussed the Old Covenant and the interest of peerless experts in the planet with ancient demons.
• On a spacecraft, Qi Liandao attacked Old Zhang, but Old Zhang seized him and forced him to behave politely; after they arrived on Old Earth, Old Zhang warned him against eating people and told him to attend a future vote on his father's behalf.
• Wang Xuan returned to the underground complex beneath the Greater Khingan Range and entered the Female Daoist practitioner's cave abode.
• The awakened Female Daoist practitioner rose and smiled as Wang Xuan entered her vibrant, flower-filled cave.

Wang Xuan met Fang Yuzhu to discuss rules that would restrain Transcendent Immortals, demons, and devils in the modern world, and she agreed to help coordinate with other factions. Zhang Daoling joined them, and their discussion ended with Wang Xuan learning that the demon brat who had sought him out was the son of Demon Ancestor Qi Yi.

• Fang Yuzhu introduced herself to Wang Xuan and spoke with him about the modern era and the harsh world in which she had once struggled to survive.
• Wang Xuan urged Fang Yuzhu to help establish rules preventing powerful beings from acting recklessly, and she agreed to contact others and discuss the rules together.
• Fang Yuzhu told Wang Xuan that Old Zhang called himself Zhang Daoling and invited him to come over.
• Zhang Daoling arrived and questioned Wang Xuan about his rapid rise in cultivation, and Wang Xuan attributed his breakthroughs to eating two lotus seeds left by Shakyamuni.
• Fang Yuzhu and Zhang Daoling agreed that they should work together to restrain those crossing into the present world.
• Zhang Daoling revealed that the demon brat who had wanted to eat Wang Xuan was the son of Demon Ancestor Qi Yi.

Wang Xuan, Fang Yuzhu, and Zhang Daoling began gathering peerless figures to negotiate a New Covenant that would protect Ordinary People from harm. Their first invitees included several of Wang Xuan’s enemies, and the Female Demon Immortal arrived as Fang Yuzhu summoned her own guests.

• Fang Yuzhu proposed a rule forbidding Transcendent Immortals and demonic creatures from harming Ordinary People without cause, and Zhang Daoling began contacting the powerful figures behind the Great Curtain.
• Wang Xuan refused to appear before the gathered peerless figures but lent the God Slaying Banner to Fang Yuzhu after draining its silver substance into his life soil.
• Zhang Daoling and Fang Yuzhu used their treasures to summon Qi Teng, Qi Yi, Zheng Yuantian, and Heng Jun to discuss the proposed New Covenant.
• Qi Yi recalled old vows tied to a New Covenant, and Zhang Daoling clarified that this agreement would not fulfill those past conditions.
• Zheng Yuantian asked after his supposed descendant Zheng Wu and the God Slaying Banner, but Fang Yuzhu told him Zheng Wu was dead.
• Fang Yuzhu summoned the Female Demon Immortal, whose arrival left Wang Xuan wondering why every guest seemed connected to him.

Fang Yuzhu and Zhang Daoling gathered peerless figures to establish rules for immortals and demons entering the present world, while acknowledging that restoring mythology through a new covenant was beyond their reach. The gathering ended with the rules dubbed the First Edition Wang Covenant, drawing attention to the hidden Wang Xuan behind Fang Yuzhu.

• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal, True Buddha Shakyamuni, Ling Luanxian, and other powerful figures arrived at the Ascension bamboo boat.
• Fang Yuzhu explained that the gathering was not to establish a new covenant but to set rules for extraordinary beings entering the present world.
• Fang Yuzhu and Zhang Daoling described how mythology had repeatedly faded and said no one could restore it or Remold Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Daoling warned that immortals and demons must not cause chaos in the human world, and Fang Yuzhu invited suggestions for naming the rules.
• Demon Ancestor Qi Yi proposed calling the rules the First Edition Wang Covenant, and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor demanded that the person behind Fang Yuzhu reveal himself.

Fang Yuzhu and Zhang Daoling negotiated rules for the peerless powerhouses returning to the Human World and urged them to help preserve the supernatural. The gathering approved the Initial New Covenant and agreed to reopen sealed mythological realms for future exploration.

• Fang Yuzhu warned Nether Blood Sect Ancestor to stop devouring human blood essence, and he backed down after she recalled nearly killing him in the past.
• Qi Teng argued that returning immortals should not be bound by human rules, but Zhang Daoling warned that a Star Annihilator could destroy the planet if they provoked ordinary people.
• Fang Yuzhu, Zhang Daoling, and the Red-clothed Demon Immortal proposed practical occupations and alternatives to blood drinking and meat eating, while the assembly agreed that supernatural beings must not harm ordinary people.
• The peerless powerhouses accepted rules limiting supernatural disputes to uninhabited areas and agreed to make every effort to reshape mythology.
• Fang Yuzhu and Zhang Daoling proposed opening the Daoist Pure Land, the Demon's Divine Land, and other sealed realms, and the gathering reached five consensuses under the name Initial New Covenant.

The great factions signed the New Covenant, with Wang Xuan’s God Slaying Banner serving as his mark on the golden scroll. As the rules spread across the worlds, Qi Chengdao and the Blood God Ape learned of Wang Xuan, and Qi Chengdao resolved to take the banner from him.

• Fang Yuzhu and Old Zhang warned the assembled factions that anyone who violated the New Covenant would die, and the gathered powers signed the golden scroll.
• Wang Xuan left his mark with the God Slaying Banner, and the Female Daoist practitioner completed the covenant with the Ascension Divine Bamboo imprint.
• The covenant spread across the worlds, prompting debate and warnings that transcendents, demons, and fiends had to obey its rules.
• The Round-faced girl and Qi Liandao learned that Wang Xuan’s God Slaying Banner had been recorded on the scroll, and Qi Liandao recognized it as the banner he wanted.
• The Blood God Ape wondered aloud about killing Wang Xuan, while Qi Chengdao studied Wang Xuan’s dossier and declared that he would seize the God Slaying Banner himself.

After the New Covenant took effect, powerful beings gathered around Wang Xuan while he prepared for the dangerous foreign domain near the moon. When its nine gates opened, he arrived last and found countless supernatural practitioners waiting for him.

• Mo Si rejected a faction’s offer to cooperate against Wang Xuan and clashed verbally with Zhou Qinghuang, who told him to target Wang Xuan directly.
• Wang Xuan warned Chen Yongjie and Qing Mu about the foreign domain’s dangers, then spotted a golden-winged woman and a blood-drinking man who threatened him.
• The Round-faced girl gained strength from another portion of the White Tiger True Immortal’s Primordial Spirit immortal life, while the Woman in Red departed with the Great Curtain.
• The foreign domain opened near the moon through nine linked gates as giants from major factions lifted its seal.
• Wang Xuan arrived by spacecraft intending to enter last, but found countless supernatural beings waiting and wondered if he would have to challenge them all alone.

Wang Xuan disguised himself as Wu Chengsheng while Qing Mu impersonated him to confront the gathered experts, many of whom wanted him dead for helping draft the New Covenant. When the crowd attacked, Qing Mu used a warship to destroy their Small Vessels, leaving the survivors fleeing toward the nine gates.

• Wang Xuan disguised his body and spiritual aura as Wu Chengsheng to mingle with the experts gathering in outer space.
• Several experts mocked Wang Xuan for signing the New Covenant and threatened to kill him, while Mo Si sensed something unusual about Wu Chengsheng.
• Qing Mu appeared on the Small Vessels' screens as Wang Xuan and provoked the hostile crowd by claiming he would challenge the world alone.
• When Small Vessels charged toward him, Qing Mu ordered them killed and unleashed a massive warship that destroyed the attacking vessels and killed many occupants.
• The surviving experts fled toward the nine ancient gates as Qing Mu declared that Wang Xuan would face the entire world alone.

Wang Xuan and Old Chen entered the New World after Qing Mu’s staged attack left many immortals and demons wounded or dead. Wang Xuan killed two enemies at a scripture bonfire, then ambushed a white cat and discovered that it recognized him.

• Qing Mu ordered Zhao Hong to stop the bombardment, and Wang Xuan and Old Chen entered the New World with the fleeing crowd.
• A black cat with a woman’s face killed several practitioners before the Blood God Ape tore it apart and led the survivors toward the merged lands.
• Mo Si killed a golden elephant and a snow-white lion beside a bonfire, while Wang Xuan and Old Chen avoided him and went their separate ways.
• Wang Xuan found a bonfire burning scriptures and killed the scar-faced man and the purple-haired woman with the God Slaying Banner and his black saber.
• Wang Xuan ambushed a white cat at another bonfire, wounded it with his saber, and heard it recognize him in a young girl’s voice.

Wang Xuan reunited with White Tiger True Immortal after injuring her, then learned the Red-clothed Demon Immortal wanted him to search for traces of two missing people and had challenged him to meet her at Bear Mountain. Elsewhere, Mo Si subdued a Three-legged Golden Crow, while Qi Chengdao, Ming Xi, Blood God Ape, and Qi Liandao pursued their own goals.

• Wang Xuan escaped White Tiger True Immortal's attacks, and she stopped fighting after realizing the Demon Lord had ordered her to cooperate with him.
• White Tiger True Immortal told Wang Xuan to use his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to search for traces of two people who had entered the Highest Mental World, and revealed the Demon Lord was at Bear Mountain.
• Mo Si attacked the mysterious campfire and defeated a Three-legged Golden Crow, while Zhou Qinghuang fled after Mo Si recognized her.
• Qi Chengdao and Ming Xi separately comprehended Dao traces near a stretch of sheer cliffs.
• Blood God Ape plunged into an Undying Blood Pool to cultivate the Undying Heavenly Demon Body.
• Qi Liandao searched the New World for the Body Slaying Banner and God Slaying Banner.

Wang Xuan encountered a bonfire containing Great Dao Embers and entered its terrifying visions while trying to comprehend the remnants of a mythological civilization. The Round-faced girl was trapped in the same visions, and Wang Xuan rescued her as the fire revealed scriptures being burned by an unknown figure.

• The Round-faced girl told Wang Xuan the bonfire might contain Great Dao Embers, but Wang Xuan’s attempt to study it caused strange scenes to appear.
• The Round-faced girl entered a deserted city, encountered the corpses of renowned experts, and was nearly killed by unseen forces.
• Wang Xuan saw an unknown plaza where an aged figure burned stacks of scriptures and heard the Round-faced girl calling for help.
• Wang Xuan cut the black rope strangling the Round-faced girl with the God Slaying Banner, then rescued her from a black pit using his fishing line and banner.
• The Round-faced girl transformed into a small tiger and hid in embarrassment while Wang Xuan demanded her Imprint Crystal and turned back to the burning scriptures.

Wang Xuan touched burning scriptures and entered visions of a vanished mythological civilization, where he witnessed peerless experts fall to the universe’s correction. He repeatedly explored the memories with the Little White Tiger and began absorbing insights about Small Worlds and energy close to reality.

• Wang Xuan watched ancient powerhouses and their scriptures burn as the supernatural collapsed, then a white-haired man mistook him for a wraith and destroyed his spiritual body.
• Wang Xuan returned to his body shaken, learned that the Little White Tiger had seen him fall into a deathlike stillness, and gained insight into the ancient practice of opening Small Worlds.
• Wang Xuan chose another scripture and brought the Little White Tiger’s Primordial Spirit with him to witness a silver-haired woman approach faint traces of Real Substance before her mythological world collapsed.
• Wang Xuan and the Little White Tiger were destroyed in the vision and revived, after which Wang Xuan continued entering the scriptures and studying their insights.
• Wang Xuan absorbed strange substances from the scriptures and fire, seeming to glimpse the place of reality.

Wang Xuan witnessed the end of a mythological civilization and learned that its people had forged the Carefree Boat from their scriptures and heritage. After surviving a deadly attack across space-time, he found a mysterious page whose writing resonated with him, ending with a question about reality and illusion.

• Wang Xuan saw the ancient civilization burn its scriptures and send the Carefree Boat into the universe as its final hope.
• The last old man attacked Wang Xuan and the Round-faced girl across space-time, damaging the God Slaying Banner and causing them to disperse into light before they re-formed.
• Wang Xuan realized the dying bonfire strengthened his body and spirit, bringing him close to the seventh stage as the fire went out.
• Wang Xuan found a page of mysterious writing in the ashes, but neither he nor the Little White Tiger could read it.
• Wang Xuan placed the page in the embers again and used the God Slaying Banner to establish contact, prompting the page to ask what was real and what was illusion.