Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan met the outworld visitor Wu Chong, fought him briefly, and grew closer to Su Tong and Ling Xuan. Two months later, Su Tong and Ling Xuan revealed that the visitors were investigating an ancient bloodstained piece of paper, and showed Wang Xuan a vision of it splitting apart in the starry sea.

• At the Heavenly Mortal Realm, Ling Xuan became offended when she saw Zhou Yanran, who resembled her, dancing for the guests, and decided to take her away.
• Wu Chong entered Su Tong and Ling Xuan’s room, challenged them, and exchanged a brief clash with Wang Xuan before withdrawing.
• Wang Xuan pretended to be injured and accepted Ling Xuan’s healing medicine, bringing him closer to Su Tong and Ling Xuan.
• Over the following two months, Wang Xuan visited the Eternal Life Cult and Purple Heaven Palace and met often with Su Tong and Ling Xuan.
• Su Tong and Ling Xuan told Wang Xuan that the outworld visitors were investigating an ancient piece of paper, then showed him a vision of it breaking into fragments in the starry sea.

Wang Xuan learned that the Supernatural World had formed from a bloodstained fragment of an ancient edict, and that Outworld Visitors wanted to reclaim its power. As the Four Great Sects resisted their demands, Wang Xuan secretly approached the visitors to learn more.

• Su Tong and Ling Xuan told Wang Xuan that a shattered edict fragment had created the grotto-heaven and that the Outworld Visitors were investigating its origins.
• Su Tong received orders for the Eternal Life Cult’s true disciples to leave the grotto-heaven, while Ling Xuan learned that the visitors were not sent by the Co-Lord’s clan.
• Ling Xuan showed Wang Xuan how blood qi from the edict had formed the Forbidden First Chapter, and Su Tong revealed that the visitors wanted the Four Great Sects to help restore the fragment.
• Wang Xuan decided to obtain the Forbidden First Chapter before the visitors could take it, while people began preparing to withdraw from the grotto-heaven.
• Wang Xuan concealed himself with the First Killing Array Diagram and spied on the visitors as an Eternal Life Cult True Immortal resisted their demands to reclaim the edict fragment’s power.

Mu Chuan and the tattooed ones forced the Four Great Sects to surrender the Forbidden First Chapter and reveal the Edict Fragment, while Wang Xuan secretly completed his copy of the scripture. After the visitors departed, news from deep space enraged the sects’ True Immortals, who mobilized to pursue them.

• Mu Chuan threatened to summon his senior unless the Eternal Life Cult surrendered its scripture, and Huo Meng urged negotiation to spare the grotto-heaven’s inhabitants.
• The Eternal Life Cult yielded the Forbidden First Chapter, and Wang Xuan watched Mu Chuan inspect it before realizing he already possessed the complete tome.
• Mu Chuan’s group visited the Purple Heaven Palace, obtained its matching scripture, and revealed that Wang Xuan’s missing pages completed the text.
• The Four Great Sects brought out their inheritance treasures and witnessed the Edict Fragment manifest ancient characters and traces of a Supreme Being’s Primordial Spirit.
• After the visitors left, Wang Xuan listened as Su Tong and an elder discussed the sects’ humiliating history, then pretended he had heard nothing.
• Two days later, news from deep space provoked the Four Great Sects’ True Immortals to board starships and pursue the tattooed ones.

After the Four Great Sects were exposed as victims of a scam, Wang Xuan and Su Tong traveled to Heavenly Stone Planet, where their humiliation followed them. Returning to Haichuan Star, they found a terrifying Paper Boat draining the supernatural world, while a Paper Cutout Person selected several women and ordered everyone else to leave.

• The Four Great Sects discovered that a group of swindlers had tricked them into handing over scriptures and examining the Edict Fragments, while Wang Xuan realized the scammers had impersonated the mysterious tattooed ones.
• Su Tong invited Wang Xuan to join a journey into deep space with Ling Xuan, Qi Sheng, and other disciples of the Four Great Sects.
• The group visited Heavenly Stone Planet, where Stone Humans mocked them for being swindled, and they returned to Haichuan Star two days later.
• Near Haichuan Star, the group saw a ghastly Paper Boat and two bloodstained lanterns draining life and the source of the large grotto-heavens.
• A second Paper Boat appeared, and its Paper Cutout Person ordered most of the ships to leave while selecting Ling Xuan, Su Tong's other junior sister, three Purple Heaven Palace disciples, and a female demon to stay.
• Su Tong shielded his two junior sisters as the Paper Cutout Person threatened the remaining people.

Wang Xuan stopped a paper boat from harvesting lives in the Pingtian Star Domain, then defeated its arrogant immortal-grade Paper Cutout Person while the Common Master's sixth disciple fought the larger vessel. He used the alias Lu Renjia and left Haichuan Star, deciding it was time to move on.

• Wang Xuan used the First Mountain killing formation diagram to strike the larger paper boat and sever its blood-light connection to the grotto-heaven.
• The Common Master's sixth disciple arrived and battled the larger paper boat, while Wang Xuan turned back to confront the smaller boat's Paper Cutout Person.
• The Paper Cutout Person attacked Wang Xuan with Five Elements immortal light, but Wang Xuan overpowered it, tore it apart, and destroyed its consciousness after it threatened to curse him.
• Wang Xuan claimed the name Lu Renjia to shield the Eternal Life Cult and Purple Heaven Palace from retaliation, then vanished and decided to leave Haichuan Star.

After the paper figure’s attack devastated Haichuan Star, the Common Master stabilized its grotto-heaven, and Wang Xuan decided to explore the stars. Su Tong then told him he had been recommended as a sponsored student for Ascension Star, where he might encounter the Common Master.

• A silver-haired serpent-bodied disciple of the Common Master split the paper boat with her axe, while two experts pursued the fleeing paper figure and Haichuan Star’s crisis ended.
• Wang Xuan, traveling under the alias Qin Cheng, returned to the devastated cities with Su Tong and was horrified by the millions of dead.
• The Eternal Life Cult’s supreme hierarch explained that predatory beings from beyond the universe might be behind the paper figure, and Lu Renjia later reunited with his main body.
• The Common Master arrived five days later and used the Edict Fragment and other Heavenly Treasures to stabilize the grotto-heaven; Wang Xuan stayed away from the gathering.
• Wang Xuan decided to travel the stars, but Su Tong revealed that he and Ling Xuan had recommended Wang Xuan for a sponsored-student place at Ascension Star, and Wang Xuan considered going.

Wang Xuan accepted a sponsored trainee place at Pingtian Academy and began cultivating the dangerous Six Tribulations of Thunder Fire Method, despite Su Tong and Ling Xuan’s warnings. After surviving two tribulations, he traveled with them to Ascension Star, where he found a thoroughly modern world rather than the mythic landscape he expected.

• Su Tong told Wang Xuan about Pingtian Academy, its powerful Upper Academy prodigies, and the hostility sponsored trainees could face from students who earned entry through combat.
• After the trainee placements were settled, Wang Xuan bought the Six Tribulations of Thunder Fire Method and survived its first tribulation, alarming Su Tong and Ling Xuan.
• Three months later, Wang Xuan passed the second tribulation, and Su Tong and Ling Xuan urged him to stop cultivating the method as they set out for Ascension Star.
• Wang Xuan traveled with Su Tong and Ling Xuan to Heavenly Worm Star, joined sponsored trainees from many races aboard a super spacecraft, and reached Ascension Star after inspection.
• Wang Xuan saw that Ascension Star was a modernized world of skyscrapers and high-tech flying vehicles, not the Land of Myth he had imagined.

Wang Xuan and the other sponsored trainees arrived at Immortal City and registered at Pingtian Academy, where they discovered that its futuristic appearance concealed vast magical spaces and dangers. After exploring the academy and learning about the Bewildering Sea, they boarded a flying boat to begin a randomly appearing opportunity called the Wonderful Immortal Journey.

• Wang Xuan and the other trainees arrived in Immortal City and learned that its buildings and courtyards concealed magical spaces and cave heavens.
• Wang Xuan registered at Pingtian Academy under the identity Qin Cheng and activated his assigned room, which could transform into a spacious cultivation abode.
• Wang Xuan, Su Tong, Qi Sheng, and Ling Xuan explored the academy and discovered that its small-looking lake was the vast and dangerous Bewildering Sea.
• Wang Xuan and the others visited an Immortal Shop, then accepted upperclassmen's invitation to board a flying boat for the Wonderful Immortal Journey.
• The flying boat raced into the Back Mountain and crashed through a mist-covered cliff wall.

Wang Xuan traveled through Ascension Cliff, witnessed ancient immortal tribulations, and met the True Immortal Zou Ping, who offered him treasures and a mission. After Zou Ping tried to control him and kill him, Wang Xuan subdued and interrogated him, discovering that part of Zou Ping’s Primordial Spirit was missing and suspecting the scheme involved a powerful tattooed one.

• Wang Xuan and the other students passed through Ascension Cliff, where scenes of past ascensions revealed tribulations and a borderland between the mortal world and the True Immortal Realm.
• Hu Mingli explained that students could meet ascenders in Stone Houses, and Wang Xuan entered one and spoke with Zou Ping, a True Immortal and former Pingtian Academy student.
• Zou Ping shared the locations of several Heavenly Treasures before asking Wang Xuan to retrieve an Iron Casket from Jin Dou Star.
• Zou Ping brought Wang Xuan into a secluded grotto-heaven and revealed that the Iron Casket contained human skin inscribed with strange patterns and text.
• Zou Ping tried to erode Wang Xuan’s Primordial Spirit and then kill him, but Wang Xuan resisted, overpowered him, and searched his belongings and Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Xuan discovered that the core of Zou Ping’s Primordial Spirit was hollow and wondered whether the Iron Casket was connected to the tattooed one.

Wang Xuan searched Zou Ping’s memories, uncovered a damaged scripture on Dao-imperialization, and left him with altered memories before exploring the True Immortal Realm. He joined Lu Guanghai at Heavenly Demon Zhu Chuan’s daughter’s wedding, where Zhu Chuan revealed a mysterious bone fragment that Wang Xuan recognized as belonging to the Imperial Dao Level.

• Wang Xuan found clues in Zou Ping’s memories that his Primordial Spirit was damaged and uncovered part of an ancient scripture about Dao-imperialization.
• Wang Xuan took Zou Ping’s Falling Immortal Bow, arrows, and scriptures, altered Zou Ping’s memories, and erased traces of what he had done.
• Wang Xuan entered the True Immortal Realm, learned that Pingtian Academy headmaster Yuan Shidao traveled freely between realms, and met Lu Guanghai.
• Wang Xuan accompanied Lu Guanghai to Fire Cloud City to attend Heavenly Demon Zhu Chuan’s daughter’s wedding and mingled among the guests.
• Heavenly Demon Zhu Chuan displayed a strange bone fragment from a site of a terrible explosion, and Wang Xuan recognized it as an Imperial Dao Level relic.

Wang Xuan inspected a Dao-imperialized bone at Zhu Chuan’s gathering, then fought the Paper Cutout People who pursued him and seized the bone amid a battle in the sky. He escaped back to the stone house and rejoined Su Tong without revealing what he had done.

• Wang Xuan examined the Dao-imperialized bone with Vermilion Bird Fairy and the other young Demon Immortals, memorizing its patterns before Zhu Chuan offered it up to rival factions.
• A Paper Cutout Person and furry monsters fought over the bone above Fire Cloud City, while Wang Xuan returned it to Zhu Chuan and changed his appearance to avoid being recognized.
• When Paper Cutout People confronted him in the hotel, Wang Xuan killed several of them and chased the rest toward the battle beyond the city.
• Wang Xuan reached the fighting, killed more Paper Cutout People, recovered the bone, and hurled it at an approaching Paper Boat before escaping underground.
• Wang Xuan returned to Ascension Cliff and the stone house, then met Su Tong, who asked what he had gained.

Wang Xuan tested the academy’s limits by undergoing the third thunder-fire tribulation and attracted the attention of Upper Academy immortals. After betting that he would survive the Six Tribulations of Thunder Fire Method, he endured the fourth tribulation and prepared for the fifth, leaving the academy watching to see whether he would succeed.

• Wang Xuan returned from Ascension Cliff boasting that he had gained much from the Immortal Master, while the students noticed the scent of wine on him.
• Hong Teng struck Qi Sheng after the flying boat clipped his Sky Piercer Shuttle, and Mo Lin warned the students about Hong Teng’s strength and the academy’s rules.
• Wang Xuan underwent his third thunder-fire tribulation, drawing Qi Miao and other Upper Academy figures, then declined her invitation to join the Ninth Legion.
• The Black-faced God mocked Wang Xuan’s cultivation method and reached toward him, but withdrew when Wang Xuan drew the Falling Immortal Bow.
• Qi Miao bet that Wang Xuan would endure the tribulations, and An Hong offered him the first volume of the Nine Transformations of Ascension if he succeeded.
• Wang Xuan endured the fourth thunder-fire tribulation three months later and announced that he would soon attempt the fifth, prompting students and immortals to watch and place bets.

Wang Xuan crossed the fifth thunder-fire tribulation and announced that he would attempt the final one in five months. After refusing to let powerful figures turn his cultivation into a betting scheme, he broke Meng Zelin’s fingers and beat him, then faced escalating attempts to provoke him and declared he would accept challenges from Masters of Nurturing Life.

• Wang Xuan spent months studying scriptures and preparing for the fifth tribulation while Su Tong and Ling Xuan worried about his chances.
• Wang Xuan endured the fifth thunder-fire tribulation at Ascension Cliff and announced he would cross the final tribulation in five months.
• Meng Zelin urged Wang Xuan to take a pill and join a betting scheme, then insulted and threatened him; Wang Xuan broke his fingers and beat him.
• A young man invited Wang Xuan to follow him, and Wang Xuan later ignored a challenge letter sent to him.
• Su Tong was beaten by unknown attackers, and Wang Xuan received another challenge letter five days later.
• Wang Xuan declared that he would accept life-or-death battles with Masters of Nurturing Life and drew the Falling Immortal Bow.

Wang Xuan humiliated the Black-faced God in a scripture duel, then accepted a Bloody Arena challenge arranged by Kou Ping’s faction. As five dangerous opponents gathered against him, the first attacker exploded and a second had his legs blasted apart, leaving the arena battle underway and its outcome uncertain.

• Wang Xuan accepted the challenge to fight on the Bloody Arena and approved the Black-faced God’s request to spar through scriptures.
• Wang Xuan defeated the Black-faced God inside a scripture, suppressing and converting him until he crawled and kowtowed while calling Wang Xuan the World-Honored One.
• After the duel went viral, Kou Ping’s faction used the incident to arrange a Bloody Arena challenge against Wang Xuan two days later.
• Wang Xuan arrived at the Bloody Arena despite warnings from Su Tong, Ling Xuan, and other students, where five notorious fighters prepared to face him.
• The first attacker exploded as he charged Wang Xuan, and a second fighter’s legs were blasted apart after he crossed the arena boundary.

Wang Xuan defeated the challengers at Pingtian Academy, killed an Upper Academy disciple, and was promoted to the Upper Academy. After months of cultivation, he broke through to the second level of Ascension amid a devastating tribulation, then learned that the mysterious young man planned to lead him into a new field.

• Wang Xuan used the Falling Immortal Bow to rout his challengers, killing the Upper Academy disciple Qin after he attacked from behind, while the final challenger conceded.
• Two days later, the academy promoted Wang Xuan to the Upper Academy, granting him access to Ascension Cliff and other cultivation benefits.
• Five months later, Wang Xuan entered secluded cultivation at Ascension Cliff and secretly underwent a massive tribulation, breaking through to the second level of Ascension.
• After Wang Xuan returned from seclusion, the young man from the bar asked whether he had broken his limits twice and said he would introduce him to a new field after his final tribulation.

Wang Xuan secretly crossed the Six Tribulations of Thunder and Fire in the Bewildering Sea, becoming immortal while concealing the fate of his Primal Body from the academy. After his strength drew attention, Yan Que invited him to join an expedition toward the changing frontier of the Supernatural World.

• Wang Xuan learned from Yan Que that preserving his physical body through ascension required a Good Fortune Divine Object or extraordinary strength, and Yan Que mentioned an expedition to a place close to the truth of the world.
• Wang Xuan researched the Bewildering Sea, borrowed academy contribution points from Black-faced God, Meng Zelin, and other students, and found that past attempts to preserve the Primal Body there had ended in failure.
• Wang Xuan secretly entered the Bewildering Sea and completed the final tribulation of the Six Tribulations of Thunder and Fire without drawing out the Good Fortune Heavenly Vine.
• Students who arrived saw Wang Xuan emerge as an immortal and assumed he had remolded his body, while he later shattered the body of an older Upper Academy disciple with his Immortal Dao substance.
• Wang Xuan demanded the first volume of the Nine Transformations of Ascension from An Hong, and Yan Que showed him a vision of a universe undergoing birth and destruction before inviting him to join the expedition.

Wang Xuan obtained and studied the first volume of the Nine Transformations of Ascension, then joined Yan Que and other exceptional figures in a sealed Mental Space. They learned that Space-time Intertwine was bringing an Altar of Heaven into reach, and Yan Que’s group prepared to enter after the rulers.

• Yan Que sent Wang Xuan an incense stick and invited him to a midnight meeting in a sealed Mental Space.
• Wang Xuan exchanged with An Hong for the first volume of the Nine Transformations of Ascension, swore not to share it, and removed the oath’s dark particles with the Dao Control Banner.
• Wang Xuan entered the Mental Space and met Yan Que, An Hong, Hong Teng, Qi Miao, and other allies sheltered in miraculous treasures.
• Yan Que revealed that Space-time Intertwine would bring an Altar of Heaven beyond the Highest Mental World and proposed that the group seek opportunities at its fringes.
• Four days later, the star domain trembled as the scene drew near, and Yan Que told the group to prepare to enter after the rulers.

Wang Xuan and the Limit Breakers entered the Highest Grade Mental World to seek a great opportunity at a region where space-time intertwined. They found an Altar of Heaven where a mysterious creature appeared to seize heavenly laws, leaving them unsure whether they were witnessing reality or a nightmare from the past.

• The Highest Grade Mental World manifested over the Pingtian Star Domain, and the Co-Lords entered before Wang Xuan and the others followed in a spacecraft.
• Yan Que, Hong Teng, Qi Miao, An Hong, Cai Wei, Cheng Tian, and Wang Xuan prepared for clashes with Limit Breakers from other star domains and equipped themselves with protective treasures and armor.
• An unknown warship attacked the group shortly after they entered the Highest Grade Mental World, then fled after the spacecraft counterattacked; a hostile woman addressed Yan Que as Sparrow.
• The group reached a region where space-time intertwined and witnessed a terrifying fluctuation erupt from the Altar of Heaven.
• A mysterious one-armed creature appeared to draw Supreme Rules into a vessel and temper a bloody arm, while Yan Que warned that the scene might be a mixture of nightmares and reality.

Wang Xuan and his companions entered a strange region near the Altar of Heaven, found a golden bone hidden in an ancient well, and fought off Golden Horn Star Domain break-limiters who tried to seize it. They then approached an immortal mountain gate, where Yan Que encountered old acquaintances and the silver-haired woman who had attacked their spacecraft.

• Wang Xuan and his companions passed through shifting cities and towns before Hong Teng discovered golden divine marrow in an ancient well that transformed into a golden bone.
• A group of Golden Horn Star Domain break-limiters ambushed Hong Teng and An Hong to steal the bone, and both groups clashed fiercely.
• Wang Xuan killed the injured Heavenly Centipede with a Falling Immortal Arrow and shattered another opponent's hand when he attacked at close range.
• Yan Que's group drove the Golden Horn fighters away, refined the ancient well into a palm-sized golden bone, and watched the town vanish.
• At an immortal mountain gate, a black-haired man greeted Yan Que as Sparrow, while the silver-haired woman who had attacked their spacecraft appeared and dismissed Wang Xuan's group as irrelevant.

Wang Xuan and Yan Que’s group confronted Nian Mo and his allies outside the immortal mountain, where a dispute over stolen origins escalated into a series of fights. After Qi Miao killed Ming Dao and destroyed his treasure, Wang Xuan accepted the challenge of a newly ascended immortal, claiming that he and Qin Cheng had attained immortality less than fifteen days earlier.

• Nian Mo confronted Yan Que, and Yan Que blocked Nian Mo’s attack with sand imbued with spatial power.
• Hong Teng fought the Blond Man, devoured his Sun Fire Essence, and badly wounded him.
• Nian Mo proposed three matches, and Qi Miao defeated Ming Dao, destroying the black bottle tied to his life and Primordial Spirit.
• Liu Guang called for newly ascended immortals to fight, and a dark green-haired woman stepped forward from her group.
• Wang Xuan accepted the challenge and announced that he and Qin Cheng had attained immortality less than fifteen days earlier.