Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan used the Dao Control Banner’s flagpole to uncover the banner’s history and learn that its missing flag lay in a distant Spirit World. After gathering with old friends and collecting treasures on New Star, he sensed his wandering self vanish into a new world.

• The Dao Control Banner’s patterns revealed that its civilization had tried to reach a Supernatural Great World and that its damaged flag had been left in a Planar Crevice, where it might have been destroyed or remade stronger.
• Wang Xuan returned to New Star, learned Zhao Qinghan was exploring deep space and Wu Yin was in the secret land, and decided to wait before heading back to Old Earth.
• Wang Xuan met old friends and Supernatural Practitioners, while Zhou Yun repeatedly tried to contact him.
• Song Yun asked Wang Xuan about extending his life and opened his secret vault, where Wang Xuan selected rare items for forging the First Killing Array.
• Wang Xuan collected more treasures from old acquaintances and had Mechanical Xiao bear take them to his spacecraft.
• After Zhao Qinghan’s team returned to New Star, Wang Xuan sensed his wandering self enter a new world and lose all contact with him.

Wang Xuan woke after his Primordial Spirit vanished, finding that his supernatural powers and cultivation had disappeared, then traveled to meet Zhao Qinghan after three years apart. Their reunion began amid Jing Yue’s warnings that their lives were diverging as the supernatural world ended.

• Wang Xuan failed to reconnect with his absent Primordial Spirit and realized his supernatural powers and Dao Fruit had vanished.
• Zhao Qinghan arranged to meet Wang Xuan in Pingyuan City, while Jing Yue warned that their paths might no longer have anything in common.
• Jing Yue told Zhao Qinghan that the end of the supernatural world would separate her from Wang Xuan and other former friends.
• Wang Xuan overheard Jing Yue’s remarks before meeting Zhao Qinghan and Jing Yue at a restaurant.
• Wang Xuan and Zhao Qinghan reunited after more than three years, and he told her that something had gone wrong with his body.

Wang Xuan reunited with Zhao Qinghan, Jing Yue, and Zhou Yun, then considered their advice to pursue practical opportunities while remaining focused on the extraordinary. On a sea voyage with old friends, he sensed a new direction for divine roaming and left Zhao Qinghan wondering whether he would soon depart.

• Zhao Qinghan asked Wang Xuan about his health, and he reassured her that he would not disappear or fall into another long sleep.
• Jing Yue delayed Zhou Yun from joining Wang Xuan and Zhao Qinghan, then explained that she respected Zhao Qinghan's freedom to choose her own path.
• Zhou Yun apologized to Wang Xuan for causing trouble for their friends, and Wang Xuan invited him to sit and eat with them.
• Jing Yue and Zhou Yun urged Wang Xuan to pursue practical opportunities, but he said he wanted to keep exploring the extraordinary.
• Zhou Yun gathered Wang Xuan's acquaintances for a sea voyage, where Wang Xuan contemplated divine roaming and Zhao Qinghan asked whether he would go far away.

Wang Xuan realized his Primordial Spirit was roaming the Real World and prepared to leave New Star to seek a new supernatural path. After rescuing his friends from a giant flood dragon, he returned to Old Earth and asked his parents whether they would accept his departure, but his father urged him to marry first.

• Wang Xuan concluded that his Primordial Spirit had reached the Carefree Journey Great Realm while roaming the Real World, though it had not yet returned.
• Wang Xuan joined Zhou Yun and their friends on a sea voyage, where they shared old wine and recalled mythic delicacies from years earlier.
• Wang Xuan told Zhou Yun he wanted to leave New Star, but a huge supernatural flood dragon attacked the mothership before he could depart.
• Wang Xuan used the Imperial Dao Spear to destroy the flood dragon and then left for Old Earth aboard a spacecraft.
• Wang Xuan told his parents he might leave to pursue the path taken by Fang Yuzhu, Zhang Daoling, Yan Mingcheng, and Jiang Qingyao, but his father insisted he find a wife first.

After studying ancient scriptures and settling into a quiet life on Old Earth, Wang Xuan learned that his Primordial Spirit was roaming the True Source and considered how spiritual and physical roaming defined the Carefree Journey. He left for New Star to find a man resembling an ancient figure whose Primordial Spirit had vanished, while Zhao Qinghan silently opened his contact on her phone.

• Wang Xuan studied scriptures and uncovered the Hell Black Phoenix Technique and Shang Yi's Golden Cicada Shell Shedding Art.
• Wang Xuan's friends and parents noticed his detached demeanor, and he explained that his Primordial Spirit had traveled to the True Source.
• Wang Zesheng told Wang Xuan of an ancient man whose Primordial Spirit had dissolved, whose Earth Immortal body later died in a spaceship attack.
• Wang Xuan confirmed that his own Primordial Spirit remained intact and decided to travel through the human world in his physical body.
• Wang Xuan left Old Earth for New Star to look for someone he had encountered in a similar condition.
• Zhao Qinghan sat alone after swimming and opened her contacts to a familiar name.

Wang Xuan revisited the Planar Crevice and the secret land, where he learned that Wu Ming had left aboard an ancient spaceship after recovering some memories. He then began a solitary journey across the stars, seeking answers in a universe that had lost the supernatural.

• Zhao Qinghan called a number, heard that the phone was powered off, and sat beside the pool in silence.
• Wu Yin took Little Fox Immortal and Horse Chao Fan from the secret land, while the old fox and the Flying Horses remained behind.
• Wang Xuan explored the Planar Crevice, killed an Ancient Dreadful Spirit, and found more than a dozen Good Fortune True Crystals.
• Wang Xuan visited the old fox and learned that Wu Ming had regained part of his memories and departed in an ancient spaceship.
• The old fox projected Wu Ming's spaceship, and Mechanical Xiao identified it as possibly originating from another universe.
• Wang Xuan left the secret land and spent two years traveling among star systems in search of the Dao.

Wang Xuan traveled the universe for two and a half years, exploring strange worlds and gathering spiritual techniques while searching for a way to recover his Primordial Spirit. As his body weakened for lack of supernatural energy, he found signs of a Zhong family spaceship in a distant starfield.

• Wang Xuan visited a volcanic planet, subdued a spear-wounded Red Dragon, and collected its spear and Flame Gold.
• Wang Xuan traded with the Moon Elves and obtained Moonstone after demonstrating his strength.
• Wang Xuan spent half a month among the Large-headed People and learned three secret arts for tempering Mental Power.
• Wang Xuan continued practicing spiritual methods to summon his Primordial Spirit, but his body weakened as supernatural energy faded.
• Wang Xuan explored a desolate starfield where many planets shared legends of a sleeping supreme god.
• Wang Xuan discovered what appeared to be traces of the Zhong family's spaceship and wondered how it had reached the distant region.

Wang Xuan encountered the Zhong family in a distant starfield and followed them through a strange spatial rift that offered a shortcut back toward the Land of Immortal Dao. After investigating the mysterious fog around the rift, he reunited with Old Zhong and his family, leaving them together on a beautiful planet.

• Wang Xuan caught up with a Zhong family spacecraft and learned that the family had reached the starfield through a strange spatial rift.
• Wang Xuan crossed the rift with the Zhong family and discovered it connected the desolate region to the Land of Immortal Dao.
• When immense fog appeared around the rift, Wang Xuan explored it and sensed another version of himself passing over the Misty Sea in the Land of Nothingness.
• Wang Xuan traveled with the Zhong family to a life-bearing planet, met Zhong Changming, and learned that Old Zhong was hiding elsewhere.
• Zhong Changming secretly led Wang Xuan to Old Zhong, where Zhong Cheng and Zhong Qing also reunited with him.

Wang Xuan reunited with the Zhong family, received rare Divine Metal Plates bearing the Supreme God’s teachings, and investigated one on a mythological planet before returning to Old Earth. His arrival during the Lantern Festival reunited him with his parents, while news of his return spread across the stars.

• Wang Xuan visited Old Zhong and the Zhong siblings, then agreed to take Old Zhong with him if he ever found a path beyond the universe.
• Old Zhong gave Wang Xuan two Divine Metal Plates recovered from primitive planets, and Wang Xuan suspected they recorded a method of becoming a god.
• Wang Xuan traveled through the cosmic rift, found a third Divine Metal Plate at an ancient sect, and memorized its contents with the sect leader’s help.
• Wang Xuan met the Zhong family fleet near New Star, declined Zhong Cheng and Zhong Qing’s invitation, and returned to Old Earth.
• Jiang Yun welcomed Wang Xuan home on the Lantern Festival, and news of his return spread after the Zhong family’s fleet reached New Star.

Wang Xuan returned to Earth and confronted how much his friends’ lives had changed as his own body and supernatural strength continued to decline. Troubled by warnings that the departed immortals had died, he set out to seek the Dao Control Banner’s missing surface, while Zhao Qinghan finally reached his familiar number.

• Wang Xuan reunited with his childhood friends and visited Chen Yongjie and Qing Mu, learning that Qing Mu had married and had a child.
• Chen Yongjie, Qing Mu, and Liu Huaian urged Wang Xuan to consider an ordinary life, and told him their nightmares suggested the figures who left the Great Universe had died.
• Wang Xuan used Good Fortune True Crystal to cleanse the bodies of Chen Yongjie’s twins and Qing Mu’s child, then left after briefly meeting Qin Cheng, Huang Ming, Mo Si, and Zhou Qinghuang.
• Wang Xuan reflected on his deteriorating body and absent Primordial Spirit, then flew into space to search for the vanished secret realm and retrieve the Dao Control Banner’s surface.
• Zhao Qinghan visited the Zhong family, learned of their encounter with Wang Xuan, and successfully called his familiar number.

Wang Xuan used the Imperial Dao Spear to reopen the secret realm and traveled through it into the Spirit World, seeking the cosmic rift where the Dao Control Banner’s banner surface had formed. He reached the rift after exhausting his first reserve of Good Fortune True Crystals and struggling forward in his physical body, then sensed that supernatural power might still survive there.

• Wang Xuan revived the Imperial Dao Spear, spoke briefly with Zhao Qinghan, and tore open the secret realm’s entrance.
• Mechanical Xiao Bear piloted its spacecraft through the closing gate to accompany Wang Xuan into the depleted secret realm.
• Wang Xuan crossed the ruined secret realm and entered the Spirit World, using the Imperial Dao Spear to carry him toward the cosmic rift.
• After his first supply of Good Fortune True Crystals ran out, Wang Xuan struggled onward through the Spirit World in his physical body.
• Wang Xuan neared the half-material, half-spiritual cosmic rift and was startled to sense that supernatural power might still remain there.

Wang Xuan crossed into a strange Small World within the Spirit World, where scarce supernatural nourishment left his Earth Immortal body famished. After studying and surviving an ancient First Killing Array, he discovered the Chaos Stone cradle where the Imperial Dao Spear had been born, and its revival opened a new world.

• Wang Xuan recovered from crossing the spiritual swamp and replenished himself by eating herbs and supernatural birds, but the Small World could not sustain an Earth Immortal.
• Wang Xuan realized the Dao Control Banner civilization may have tried to make its banner cloth absorb many kinds of energy, and he searched for the reborn cloth.
• Wang Xuan discovered nested First Killing Arrays and spent days studying their intricate transformations before carefully passing through them.
• Wang Xuan reached a stone platform with a massive Chaos Stone bearing a groove that matched the Imperial Dao Spear, then placed the spear inside.
• The Imperial Dao Spear revived and opened a dazzling rift into a new heaven and earth.

Wang Xuan entered the Dao Control Banner civilization’s sacred ground with the Imperial Dao Spear and uncovered its surviving records and treasures. He learned that the reborn banner cloth lay inside the Chaos Cave, where it might escape or attack if he tried to retrieve it.

• Wang Xuan used the Imperial Dao Spear to enter the hidden small world and discovered vast stores of rare materials, including Great Luo Copper Mother.
• Wang Xuan touched the civilization’s Sun Gold manuscripts with the spear, absorbing their language, research, scriptures, and artifact-refining methods.
• Wang Xuan found records about the Dao Control Banner’s rebirth but searched the small world for two days without finding its banner cloth.
• Wang Xuan spent a Good Fortune True Crystal to activate the Imperial Dao Spear, which pierced the ground and led him into an Underground Palace.
• Wang Xuan read a Sun Gold stele stating that the banner cloth was inside the Chaos Cave and warning that it might escape, fail to recognize the spear, or prove impossible to subdue.

Wang Xuan used the Imperial Dao Spear to prepare the First Killing Array for a clash with the Dao Control Banner’s reborn surface, then watched the sealed world become a cosmic furnace that refined the supreme treasure. A year and a half later, the furnace fell quiet, and Wang Xuan remained in the Great Canyon.

• Wang Xuan hesitated before the Chaos Gold gates, but the Imperial Dao Spear warned him that opening them would be fatal if the banner surface had been reborn.
• Wang Xuan spent more than half a year moving the First Killing Array into the Underground Palace, and the Imperial Dao Spear agreed to lead the confrontation while he stayed away.
• Wang Xuan learned that the Dao Control Banner civilization had planned to refine the First Killing Array into the banner surface, then left the sealed Small World as the Imperial Dao Spear prepared to fight.
• Half a month later, Wang Xuan witnessed the Small World turn into a furnace that consumed its materials and strange objects to restore the complete Dao Control Banner.
• Wang Xuan waited as the furnace burned, then settled in the Great Canyon and survived on its creatures and spiritual herbs.
• After another year and a half, the Dao Fire and chaos mist receded, and the cosmic furnace grew quiet.

After more than two years in the Small World, Wang Xuan found that the Imperial Dao Spear and the flag surface had transformed the First Killing Array into a still-evolving Array Diagram, while his health continued to decline. He left to seek Good Fortune True Crystal near the vanished Supernatural Light Sea, as Zhao Qinghan approached her thirtieth birthday on New Star.

• The Imperial Dao Spear explained that the First Killing Array had consumed the Small World’s treasures and was evolving into a powerful Array Diagram after its clash with the flag surface.
• Wang Xuan approached the Array Diagram with the Imperial Dao Spear’s protection and marked the Chaos Stone at its center for a chance to claim it in the future.
• Wang Xuan learned that his weakening body could not recover without Good Fortune True Crystal, and the spear urged him to search where the Supernatural Light Sea had disappeared.
• Wang Xuan left the Small World to seek true crystal, reflecting that he had spent more than two years away from the Real World and that eight years remained until the end of mythology.
• On New Star, Su Xuan spoke with Zhao Qinghan, who stood by a window and reflected on turning thirty in a few days.

Qin Cheng and Yang Lin discussed the changing supernatural world before news broke that Zhong Yong had been killed in a spaceship attack. After Wang Xuan escaped the secret realm, he entered a nearly sealed planar crevice to search for Good Fortune True Crystals, where he dug up an unexpected person.

• Qin Cheng told Yang Lin about former Ascension True Immortals adapting to ordinary life and recalled Mo Si losing his martial arts gym after a violent confrontation.
• An unidentified warship destroyed Zhong Yong’s spaceship near New Star, prompting speculation about a family power struggle or a conspiracy against the zaibatsus.
• Wang Xuan returned from the secret realm with Mechanical Xiao Bear and flew toward the vanished Supernatural Light Sea to find Good Fortune True Crystals.
• The Zhao Family detected Wang Xuan’s appearance near Old Earth and Zhao Zejun asked whether anyone had contacted him.
• Wang Xuan entered the planar crevice, used the Imperial Dao Spear to break open the sealed passage, and began digging along the Supernatural Light Sea’s traces.
• Wang Xuan dug up a person before finding another True Crystal.

Wang Xuan and the Imperial Dao Spear searched the retreating Supernatural Light Sea for True Crystals, but the dwindling finds left Wang Xuan still unable to fully restore his body. After returning toward Old Earth, Wang Xuan resolved to settle back into the Real World and seek the Primordial Spirit within himself.

• Wang Xuan unearthed a corpse and realized its owner had died from a lack of Super Material before he began absorbing True Crystals to ease his own hunger.
• Wang Xuan and the Imperial Dao Spear repeatedly opened new paths through the void, finding scattered veins and discovering the remains of a disciple of the Nether Blood Sect Ancestor.
• Wang Xuan and the Imperial Dao Spear found a rich pile of Origin True Crystals, but later abandoned the mining route as its veins dwindled.
• Wang Xuan left the Earth Abyss, concluding that Good Fortune True Crystals could no longer be found there and that he needed his Primordial Spirit to restore his body.
• Su Xuan urged Zhao Qinghan to consider marriage and asked whether her Life Science Research Institute was connected to Wang Xuan's condition.
• Wang Xuan returned from a fruitless journey through deep space toward Old Earth and decided to seek the Primordial Spirit and truth within himself.

Wang Xuan returned to Old Earth and confronted how years of cultivation and absence had distanced him from his family and old friends. After reconnecting with his parents and learning Zhao Qinghan had helped him during his illness, he sensed his Primordial Spirit again in Great Black Mountain and received new insight into the True Source.

• Su Xuan told Zhao Qinghan that Zhao Zejun had asked Wang Xuan's parents to keep him from leaving again, and Zhao Qinghan admitted she missed Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan returned to Cloud City, where Jiang Yun rebuked him for neglecting his family and warned that cultivation was making him cold and heartless.
• Over dinner with his parents, Wang Xuan felt his Primordial Spirit stir across the Misty Sea and realized it had reached a crucial point in its exploration of the True Source.
• Wang Xuan learned from his parents that Zhao Qinghan had reorganized a Life Science Research Institute to help treat him during his three years of seclusion.
• Wang Xuan walked through his old neighborhood and went to Great Black Mountain, where his Primordial Spirit reappeared and revealed new knowledge about the True Source.

Wang Xuan used his Primordial Spirit’s visions to investigate the True Source and realized that the Misty Sea was a world of power corresponding to blood, not blood itself. He saw signs of other source worlds and wondered whether his Primordial Spirit could leave the red world, enter his heart, and return to his body.

• Wang Xuan sensed his Primordial Spirit’s experiences and realized the Misty Sea’s island figures were projections of memories and evolutionary choices preserved in his ancestral blood.
• Wang Xuan concluded that the red Misty Sea corresponded to blood but was a separate world of power rather than tangible blood.
• Wang Xuan saw that his Primordial Spirit had ventured deep into the Mysterious World and was sending visions back through the life soil.
• Wang Xuan glimpsed other mysterious power-source worlds, including a brilliant silver-white one, and considered drawing on their powers to survive Mythological Winter.
• Wang Xuan wondered whether his Primordial Spirit could escape the red world, enter his heart, and return to his body in the Real World.

Wang Xuan explored the Power Sources through his primordial spirit, then returned home and settled into ordinary life with Zhao Qinghan while developing a new path of cultivation. Half a year later, his parents continued urging him to find a partner, and Zhao Zejun’s laboratory was researching supernatural blood.

• Wang Xuan’s primordial spirit approached the edge of the Red Substance plane, but he stayed within it after sensing the lethal forces beyond and studied the many Power Sources.
• Jiang Yun called Wang Xuan home and urged him to find a partner soon, and he reunited with Zhao Zejun and Zhao Qinghan.
• Wang Xuan took Zhao Qinghan around Cloud City and learned that Zhao Zejun planned to invest in a life sciences laboratory studying supernatural blood.
• Zhao Zejun invested in the Old Earth laboratory, and Qin Cheng, Chen Yongjie, Qing Mu, Mo Si, Huang Ming, and others visited Wang Xuan after learning he had returned.
• Over the next half year, Zhao Qinghan joined the laboratory project, while Jiang Yun and Wang Zesheng urged Wang Xuan to value life in the present world and consider his personal affairs.