Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie entered the Mental World to explore the Spiritual Ruins, armed with exotic treasures and following other cultivators toward ancient ruins. They crossed a region of artificially summoned spiritual lightning and discovered that the ruins rose through layers into the sky, where the Woman in Red stood before a fiery entrance leading higher.

• Chen Yongjie tested the Soul Locking Bell in the Mental World, and Wang Xuan judged it could help him withstand the silver-masked man.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie stored their physical bodies in the yellow gourd, equipped themselves with spiritual weapons, and set off into the Spirit World.
• The pair followed other cultivators toward the ruins, then approached a vast storm of spiritual lightning that blocked the way.
• Wang Xuan saw Spirit Corpses beating broken drums in floating ruins to summon the lightning, and he shielded Chen Yongjie with the God Slaying Banner as they crossed.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie reached the City of Spiritual Lightning and spotted the Woman in Red at a fire atop the lowest layer of the ruins.
• Wang Xuan realized the fire was an entry test connected to a passage leading to the higher Spiritual Ruins.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie watched numerous peerless powerhouses enter the City of Lightning’s layered Spiritual Ruins, where they fought and tried to open a sealed stone door. When the door activated, the city revealed itself as an enormous human head, and a blazing fire began illuminating the Transcendent night sky.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie hid in the mental ruins as the Red-clothed Demon Immortal and other powerful figures crossed into higher levels.
• The Silver Masked man, a golden-radiant powerhouse, and the Black Robe Man coordinated an attack on the Red-clothed Demon Immortal, who summoned the City of Lightning’s power to scatter them.
• The Nether Blood Sect Ancestor and the Black Robe Man each exposed the other’s impersonation before their clash ended without a clear victor.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie observed Fairy Fang destroy an ancient spider remnant on the sixth level as more peerless experts gathered in the ruins.
• Six figures attacked a stone door on the eighth level, were struck back, and activated a hazy land beyond it.
• The City of Lightning transformed into an enormous human head, and a brilliant bonfire flared at the eighth level as light rose toward the Transcendent night sky.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fought through a city overrun by spiritual monsters as lightning awakened the ruins, while six peerless experts battled their way toward the ninth tier. With heavenly medicine appearing behind a barrier and the experts mocking Wang Xuan, he prepared to steal it with a fishing line and hook.

• Lightning activated the ruins, and corpse ghouls and other monsters poured from the ground to attack the supernatural beings in the City of Lightning.
• Fairy Cai Ling was torn apart and devoured, while Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fought through the monsters with the God Slaying Banner and Soul Locking Bell.
• Six peerless experts defeated four Spirit Statues in the eighth-tier ruins and broke open the gate to the ninth tier.
• The commotion shook the ruins, unleashed more thunderfire and monsters, and sent Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fleeing toward the eighth-tier entrance.
• Heavenly medicine emerged from the ancient medicinal garden, and cultivators inside the barrier tried to capture it while mocking Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie.
• Wang Xuan secretly took out a fishing line and hook to try to snatch the heavenly medicine.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie stole two heavenly medicines from the ancient Medicine Garden while fighting off monsters and enraging the immortals inside the barrier. After their second successful catch, an overwhelming spiritual presence appeared and left both men struggling under its pressure.

• Chen Yongjie baited the giant demon with the golden-feather hairpin while Wang Xuan failed to hook the red heavenly medicine, then handed the fishing rod to Chen Yongjie, who caught it.
• Wang Xuan spotted a living cactus-shaped heavenly medicine and a withered tree root pinned by an Iron Stake beneath the soil, while Qi Liandao and other demons plotted to attack them.
• A rotten Great Bug charged at the pair, and Wang Xuan fought it off with the God Slaying Banner as Chen Yongjie prepared to fish again.
• Chen Yongjie hooked the cactus-shaped heavenly medicine and the dead tree root, pulling them out of the barrier despite the immortals' attacks.
• A powerful spiritual intimidation struck Chen Yongjie and Wang Xuan, nearly collapsing them as Wang Xuan turned toward the unseen creature.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie survived a battle with a thousand-winged ferocious bird and recovered two Heavenly Medicines, then watched the six experts investigate the ninth-level ruins. The experts uncovered records connecting the God Slaying Banner and Body Slaying Banner to an unfinished Supreme Treasure, and as the Mysterious Person wearing the Silver Mask reached for a fragment of pale-gold animal hide, Wang Xuan sent God Fishing to seize it.

• A thousand-winged ferocious bird swallowed Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie, severing Wang Xuan's arm and leg and Chen Yongjie's legs as they fought to escape.
• Wang Xuan cut through the bird's head with the God Slaying Banner, escaped with Chen Yongjie's legs, and rejoined him in the Misty Realm, where they healed with Heavenly Medicine.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie returned to the ninth-level ruins and watched the six experts battle ancient Spirit Statues and search a pile of embers for a Supreme Treasure.
• The experts found records that the God Slaying Banner and Body Slaying Banner were experimental versions of an intended Immortal Slaying Banner, also called the Dao Control Banner, and realized Wang Xuan possessed one of the related treasures.
• The Mysterious Person wearing the Silver Mask snatched a damaged piece of Pale Gold Animal Hide from the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor, then fought off attacks from him and the Red-clothed Demon Immortal.
• When the Silver Masked man reached for the falling animal hide, Wang Xuan sent God Fishing out to intercept it.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie stole a Pale Gold Animal Hide from the silver-masked expert, then witnessed the six great experts trace the Dao Control Banner’s creation and struggle to open the tenth level of Spiritual Ruins. The tenth-level gate finally opened, unleashing a surge of reality-like substance that injured the experts and shook the world.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie used a fishing line to snatch the Pale Gold Animal Hide from the silver-masked expert, who recognized them and silently held in his anger.
• Wang Xuan found that the Pale Gold Animal Hide did not combine with the God Slaying Banner or the Silver Beast Skin Book, while the six experts searched the ashes for clues to the Dao Control Banner.
• The six experts traced the past and saw the Dao Control Banner emerge from a furnace that exploded, followed by a bloodstained hand carving a map that Wang Xuan memorized before the scene was destroyed.
• The experts failed to open the tenth-level ruins for two days as Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie consolidated their cultivation; Wang Xuan suspected Zheng Yuantian wanted to claim his body.
• The six experts’ attempt to open the tenth level sent them crashing down with severe injuries, while the gate opened and released dense, reality-like substance alongside the final path to immortality.

The six peerless experts entered the tenth-level Spiritual Ruins and explored the dark spiritual universe believed to lead toward the True Source. They found a bloodstained Golden Chariot, while Old Zhang discovered that two Dread Kings had followed him from the Three Dreadful Piles.

• A tremor shook the experts, and the six revealed their true identities before Fang Yuzhu and the Red-clothed Demon Immortal restored order.
• The six entered the tenth-level Spiritual Ruins and studied the dark firmament that might lead to the True Source.
• Nether Blood Sect Ancestor sent incarnations into the darkness, but they died after glimpsing a chariot, corpses, broken flags, and blood.
• Wang Xuan learned that Nether Blood Sect Ancestor had planned to kill him for his special true blood and decided to clear himself before going to the Land of Nothingness.
• The six experts entered the dark spiritual universe together and found a bloodstained Golden Chariot marked with the Dao Control Banner.
• Old Zhang left the Three Dreadful Piles and discovered that the Female Dread King and an old man in a spacesuit had followed him.

The six experts explored the ruins of a mythological civilization and found evidence that real substance from the spirit universe might have sparked supernatural eras. A final imprint hinted that the civilization’s search involved a fallen whale, bloodshed, and regret, and the six began tracing the event that had opened the heavens.

• The six traveled beyond the spirit universe’s boundary and found the wreckage of a powerful civilization whose ships and chariots had been crushed as it tried to break out.
• They discovered a contaminated, honeycomb-like asteroid containing depleted real substance that had once sustained the civilization’s survivors.
• The six compared their findings with ancient records and concluded that real substance falling by chance could be the source of mythology and supernatural eras.
• A Spirit Imprint emerged from the asteroid and showed a bloodstained hand writing regretful final words about a whale’s fall and retribution.
• The six activated the imprint and saw a gigantic head, the Dao Control Banner sweeping across the sky, and blood raining down after the heavens were torn open.

Wang Xuan cultivated in the Land of Nothingness, strengthened himself through repeated trials, and planted the Cactus Heavenly Medicine deep inside the meteorite crater. He reached the peak of the ninth stage but found that breaking through into the Carefree Journey might require approaching the source of reality.

• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie ate small pieces of Heavenly Medicine and broke through into the ninth and eighth stages, while Zhang Daoling and the Dread Kings entered the deeper Spiritual Ruins.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fled the City of Lightning and secluded themselves; Wang Xuan struck the Nurturing Life Furnace, shaking supernatural beings outside and drawing their attention toward the World-Crossing Sword and Carefree Boat.
• Wang Xuan traveled to the Land of Nothingness, cultivated through repeated brushes with death, and discovered that the Pale Gold Animal Hide grew brighter and its holes seemed to shrink.
• Wang Xuan carried the Cactus Heavenly Medicine into the meteorite crater and planted it in a hidden cave, where it began absorbing the dense purple substance.
• Wang Xuan spent years mining and cultivating until he reached completion in the ninth stage, but he sensed that the meteorite crater suppressed his breakthrough and that entering the Carefree Journey might require nearing the source of reality.

Wang Xuan risked everything to cross the meteorite passage toward the Immortal Flower, enduring the Red Substance as his attempt shook the supernatural world. He reached the flower just as the Red-clothed Demon Immortal and Old Zhang emerged nearby, and the Demon Immortal rushed to tear away his protective animal hides.

• Wang Xuan wrapped himself in the animal hides and God Slaying Banner, then charged into the meteorite passage toward the source of reality.
• As he endured the Red Substance and cultivated while flying, his protective gear burned and his primordial spirit neared collapse.
• Wang Xuan’s passage caused violent tremors that made supernatural experts across the world vomit and lose cultivation realms.
• Seven experts and two kings rushed into the meteorite’s core to fight over crystals close to reality, triggering a massive explosion.
• Wang Xuan finally approached the Immortal Flower, where Old Zhang and the Red-clothed Demon Immortal stumbled out of an exploding stone wall.
• The Red-clothed Demon Immortal recognized Wang Xuan and rushed at him, intent on tearing off his animal-hide clothes.

Wang Xuan nearly died after the Flower of Eternal Life trapped him in an illusion and a Crimson Glow Tide swept through the Misty Land. After recovering and returning to the outside world, he found that events from the dream seemed to be unfolding in reality as Zheng Yuantian attacked and Fang Yuzhu intervened.

• The Flower of Eternal Life's illusion made Wang Xuan believe the peerless experts had entered his animal-hide clothing, but the Iron Stake woke him before he could strike himself with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan sensed the Crimson Glow Tide and fled the flood of Red Substance, then spent many days recovering beside the cactus.
• Wang Xuan's blows against the Spirit Nurturing Furnace caused another tremor in the outside world, where the peerless experts had lost a realm amid the chaos.
• Wang Xuan emerged to find Zheng Yuantian approaching, and Fang Yuzhu intercepted him before Wang Xuan struck him with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan noticed that the Red-clothed Demon Immortal had vomited during a battle and wondered whether his dream had foreshadowed real events.

Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie seized an opening in the battle for the blue crystals to attack Zheng Yuantian and steal two crystals, while Fang Yuzhu also claimed two. Wang Xuan left the fight believing the crystals might help him advance and face Zheng Yuantian in the Real World.

• Fang Yuzhu praised Wang Xuan for advancing despite the battle’s shockwaves as Zhang Daoling fought the Creeping King and the Red-clothed Demon Immortal faced the Demon Ancestor, Qi Teng, and the Devil Ancestor.
• Zheng Yuantian intercepted Fang Yuzhu, and Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie decided to attack him and take the blue crystals.
• Wang Xuan merged with the God Slaying Banner and struck Zheng Yuantian, knocking four crystals loose while Fang Yuzhu restrained him.
• Fang Yuzhu collected two crystals, and Chen Yongjie used his fishing hook to seize the other two as Wang Xuan protected him.
• Wang Xuan withdrew with Chen Yongjie and concluded that refining the crystals could raise his realm and help him face Zheng Yuantian in the Real World.

Fang Yuzhu defeated Zheng Yuantian’s incarnation, while Zhang Daoling drove off the old eerie king. When Zheng Yuantian reappeared, Wang Xuan feared he would be hunted in the human world and charged at him with the God Slaying Banner.

• Zheng Yuantian revealed that he had raised Wang Xuan as a future vessel for the Devil Fetus Art, and Wang Xuan said they had to kill him or grow stronger before leaving the Mental World.
• Fang Yuzhu donned her silver armor and broke through Zheng Yuantian’s defenses, defeating his Ten Thousand Birds Immortal Slaughter Art and piercing him with the Dao Slaying Sword.
• Fang Yuzhu collected the blue-green Good Fortune True Crystals and joined the Red-clothed Demon Immortal, but declined to kill the three opponents because they were not their true bodies.
• Zhang Daoling battered the old eerie king with the rusty bronze mirror and drove it into unknown spacetime, taking Good Fortune True Crystals as payment for sparing its life.
• Zheng Yuantian reappeared, and Wang Xuan, outfitted with the Soul Locking Bell, Silver Beast Skin Book, and God Slaying Banner, charged at him.

Wang Xuan pursued Zheng Yuantian through the Spirit World and fought him with the God Slaying Banner, Soul Locking Bell, and other techniques. After weakening Zheng with a relentless assault, Wang Xuan killed him with the Iron Stake and collected his Good Fortune True Crystals.

• Wang Xuan ambushed Zheng Yuantian as he reconstructed his Primordial Spirit, shattering him with the God Slaying Banner and enduring his lightning strikes with the Soul Locking Bell.
• Wang Xuan broke Zheng Yuantian’s divine chains and battered him with the banner, bell, and headbutts, scattering part of Zheng’s Primordial Spirit.
• Zheng Yuantian rebuilt his body and attacked with Immortal Birds and a spiritual cage, but Wang Xuan expanded with Dharma Appearance Heaven and Earth and fought back with the banner and Soul Locking Bell.
• Wang Xuan used the Second True Form Diagram and secret arts to overpower the weakened Zheng Yuantian, who then attempted a desperate counterattack by invading Wang Xuan’s body.
• Wang Xuan bound Zheng Yuantian with mysterious patterns, stabbed him with the Iron Stake, and swept his Primordial Spirit into the God Slaying Banner, killing him and collecting his Good Fortune True Crystals.

After killing Zheng Yuantian’s incarnation, Wang Xuan celebrated his victory but worried about Zheng Yuantian’s retaliation. He returned to An City with the pursuing experts and invited Fang Yuzhu to stay, where she tried cooking to reconnect with life in the mortal world.

• Wang Xuan killed Zheng Yuantian’s incarnation, shocking the assembled experts, and enjoyed the blue Good Fortune True Crystals he had obtained.
• Zhang Daoling warned Wang Xuan that Zheng Yuantian could send another incarnation, then refused Wang Xuan’s offer to hire him to kill Zheng Yuantian’s true body.
• Wang Xuan and Chen Yongjie fled the strange space, but the other experts followed because they feared Wang Xuan would trap them and attack with his warship.
• On the return journey, the Red-clothed Demon Immortal teased Wang Xuan about visiting him on the full moon, while the Demon Ancestor and Devil Ancestor crowded Chen Yongjie.
• After the group reached An City, Wang Xuan invited Fang Yuzhu to stay, and she entered the kitchen to try cooking and recall the Mortal Period.

Fang Yuzhu cooked with Wang Xuan, then explored An City's nightlife as she prepared to blend into the modern world by studying at a university. Their evening at the cinema left Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor with couples' seats they had not intended to share.

• Fang Yuzhu cooked a homestyle dinner for Wang Xuan and reflected on how the extraordinary world would eventually fade.
• Fang Yuzhu told Wang Xuan she planned to enroll at a university in An City and experience ordinary life firsthand.
• Wang Xuan and Fang Yuzhu strolled through the city, where she tried candied hawthorn and carried a stuffed doll while Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor followed them.
• Wang Xuan bought flowers from a wary little girl and took Fang Yuzhu to see the movie "A Celestial Immortal at Home."
• Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor bought tickets to experience the cinema, then discovered they had couples' seats.

Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor watched a tragic film and discussed the hidden history of Fang Yuzhu and a mortal who had activated an Inner Scenery Realm. As the film replayed events resembling her past, Fang Yuzhu watched silently, still carrying sorrow for the man who had repeatedly risked his life for her.

• Zhang Daoling reluctantly let the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor sit beside him, while Wang Xuan and Fang Yuzhu watched the film in another hall.
• Zhang Daoling complained about the film’s tragic story, and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor recognized that it drew on events from behind the Great Curtain.
• The Nether Blood Sect Ancestor told Zhang Daoling that a gifted man who activated an Inner Scenery Realm during the Mortal Period had guarded Fang Yuzhu, then been attacked by peerless experts.
• Fang Yuzhu tried to rescue the wounded man and later fought the experts who hunted her, but he was killed protecting her before she escaped gravely injured.
• After Fang Yuzhu and the Red-Robed Demon Lord rose to power, they defeated ancient enemies, and Fang Yuzhu killed four peerless experts in one day and one night.
• The Nether Blood Sect Ancestor wondered whether Wang Xuan resembled the extraordinary man from Fang Yuzhu’s past, while Fang Yuzhu watched the film’s scenes of his death in silence.

Fang Yuzhu watched a drama that reminded her of a friend who had died saving her, while Wang Xuan and the ancient cultivators spent the evening adapting to ordinary life in An City. After returning to the Secret Road Organization’s headquarters, Wang Xuan began cultivating and studying the crystallized fortune on his body.

• Fang Yuzhu told Wang Xuan that the drama had reminded her of a friend who saved her twice but whose life she could not preserve.
• Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor ate skewers and drank beer, then encountered Huang Ming and Kong Yun, who planned to open a coffee shop and tea room.
• Huang Ming offered Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor ten percent dry shares in the businesses, and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor considered launching his own livestock conglomerate.
• Zhang Daoling and the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor went to find a hotel, while Wang Xuan drove Fang Yuzhu back to the Secret Road Organization’s headquarters.
• Wang Xuan returned to his residence, began cultivating, and examined the crystallized fortune on his body.

Wang Xuan helped Fang Yuzhu settle into university life, while Zhou Shiqian and Zhou Qinghuang sought to get close to her. As Wang Xuan cultivated the Good Fortune Crystal, a strange fishing line descended into his room beneath a blood-tinged moon, and Fang Yuzhu sensed the danger.

• Wang Xuan took Fang Yuzhu to register at An City University, where Zhou Shiqian recognized her and asked to be her roommate.
• Fang Yuzhu began attending university, and Zhou Qinghuang asked Wang Xuan to help her enroll so she could spend time near Fairy Fang.
• Wang Xuan picked Fang Yuzhu up from campus, where Qin Cheng mistook her for Wang Xuan's girlfriend before learning she was the Female Daoist practitioner.
• Wang Xuan taught Fang Yuzhu to drive, and his mother encouraged him to spend more time with her after hearing that she was his neighbor.
• Wang Xuan cultivated the Good Fortune Crystal beneath the moon, and a fishing line descended into his room as Fang Yuzhu abruptly opened her eyes.

Wang Xuan was lured toward a blood-red moon by a powerful angler from the Land of Passing, but Fang Yuzhu joined him and helped him resist the attempt to spirit him away. As they gathered the angler’s offerings and approached the moon, the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor and Zhang Daoling also set out to confront it.

• A Sun Gold hook and a powerful fishing line tried to draw Wang Xuan’s Primordial Spirit from his body, but he resisted with the God Slaying Banner.
• Wang Xuan discovered scriptures, medicines, weapons, and other offerings overhead, then called Fang Yuzhu to accompany him.
• Fang Yuzhu confirmed the angler was connected to the Land of Passing and joined Wang Xuan in collecting the offerings, including a Phoenix Bird egg.
• Fang Yuzhu warned that a Spiritual Heavenly Vine could have carried Wang Xuan away, while she sensed that the moon’s appearance involved unexpected circumstances.
• Wang Xuan demanded more offerings as he and Fang Yuzhu approached the moon, while the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor and Zhang Daoling decided to join the confrontation.