Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan spent two years and eight months in seclusion studying Dao-imperialization scriptures, brewing medicinal wine, and cultivating the first Imperial Daoized texture on his skull. After emerging and reuniting with his acquaintances, he heard about Yan Que’s troubles and decided he needed to leave Ascension Star.

• The Transcendent from the Black Sea Star Domain vanished, and Gong Yan announced he would enter a hundred years of seclusion while keeping the Pingtian Star Domain’s status quo.
• Wang Xuan moved into the Upper Academy’s Transcendent Tower and spent his seclusion studying rare scriptures and brewing medicinal wine from precious ingredients.
• Wang Xuan began Dao-imperializing his cranial bone, but combining too many cultivation methods caused his head to explode; he restored himself and resumed practicing more carefully.
• After two years and eight months, Wang Xuan emerged from seclusion and encountered the Black-faced God, then joined An Hong, Qi Miao, Cai Wei, Hong Teng, Cheng Tian, and Yan Que.
• Yan Que revealed that his earlier softheartedness had led to trouble, and Wang Xuan realized the peaceful days were over and he needed to leave Ascension Star.

Wang Xuan learned that the Fusion with Dao Sect and other mysterious lineages had come from beyond the universe, and that their members were powerful enough to make Yan Que spare Liuguang. As the group discussed the Central World's most formidable contraband items, Yan Que began revealing the top three rankings.

• Wang Xuan, Yan Que, and their companions discussed why Yan Que had released Liuguang, a Direct Descendant of the Fusion with Dao Sect.
• Yan Que took the group to the Heavenly Mortal Realm's Ninth Heaven in Immortal City, where they ate in the snowy Guanghan Palace.
• Yan Que explained that outsiders like the Fusion with Dao Sect and the Time Cult had followed the shifting supernatural center into this universe after enduring great calamities.
• Yan Que named Godshine and Eternal as the fifth- and fourth-ranked contraband items and said the highest-ranked items came from beyond the universe.
• Wang Xuan realized that Ancient and Modern and Darkness Heart had been absent long enough for other contraband items to take their places, as Yan Que began discussing the top three.

Yan Que told Wang Xuan and their companions about the three most powerful forbidden items, then privately warned Wang Xuan that Liuguang suspected him. Wang Xuan shared a valuable scripture passage with his friends, but their gathering was interrupted when Liuguang arrived with a sharp-eyed senior brother who provoked Yan Que.

• Yan Que described the Deceased, Existence, and Nothing, recounting their terrifying powers and the rumors surrounding them.
• Yan Que privately told Wang Xuan that Liuguang suspected him, and Wang Xuan decided he could no longer remain hidden in the academy.
• Wang Xuan offered his companions a passage from a Dao-imperialization scripture and asked them to exchange contribution points for two other scriptures.
• Yan Xue announced that Liuguang was approaching, and Liuguang arrived despite Yan Que's warning that she was unwelcome.
• Liuguang's senior brother arrived unexpectedly, patted Yan Que's face, and dismissed Hong Teng and the others when they objected.

Yan Que reunited with Yuan Hong, whose arrogance provoked a confrontation, while Liuguang secretly suspected Wang Xuan was connected to the Nine Nether Black Crow. A brawl broke out in the palace hall, and Wang Xuan’s attempt to defend his companions ended with him brutally striking Yuan Hong and Liuguang.

• Yuan Hong mocked and restrained Yan Que, and the two clashed with divine rule talismans that shattered in the snowstorm.
• Yuan Hong tried to make peace in public, but Yan Que and his companions rejected him and prepared to leave.
• Liuguang secretly told Yan Que she suspected Wang Xuan was Qin Cheng and wanted to question him about Wu Tian, so Wang Xuan stayed to arrange an exchange for the Nine Transformations of Ascension and the Primordial Spirit Atlas.
• Yuan Hong learned that Liuguang’s inquiry involved the Nine Nether Black Crow and became wary of Wang Xuan, while one of his companions harassed Cai Wei.
• Cai Wei splashed wine on the harasser, and Yan Que, Qi Miao, Hong Teng, An Hong, and Cheng Tian attacked him as the palace hall erupted into a fight.
• Wang Xuan struck Yuan Hong, shattering his skull and piercing his chest, then struck Liuguang and sent her skullcap flying.

Wang Xuan defeated Yuan Hong’s companions and forced them to accept his version of the brawl, patting their heads and drinking with them in public. He planned to leave for the academy to obtain two scriptures before traveling farther.

• Liuguang and Yuan Hong’s companions attacked Wang Xuan’s group, but Wang Xuan destroyed their attacks and knocked them down by opening their skulls.
• Yan Xue arrived after the fight, and Yuan Hong demanded that she address the violence while Wang Xuan called it a misunderstanding.
• Wang Xuan pinned Yuan Hong, patted his head, and pressured him into drinking wine and agreeing to let the incident end.
• Wang Xuan went down the line, patting each injured opponent’s head and clinking cups with them until they submitted.
• Wang Xuan skipped Liuguang and thought ahead to visiting the academy for two scriptures before setting off on a longer journey.

Wang Xuan and his friends confronted the Weiguang Star Domain group, then exchanged rare cultivation scriptures at Pingtian Academy. When the Fusion with Dao Sect came looking for him, Teacher Lei Ming protected him, but Wang Xuan chose to leave through the academy’s Super Teleportation Array, with its doors left open for his return.

• The young descendant of Weiguang Star Domain demanded that Cai Wei apologize, but she revealed her family ties to Pingtian Star Domain’s ruler and had him taken away.
• Wang Xuan’s friends pooled their contribution points to obtain the latter volume of "Nine Transformations of Ascension" and the "Primordial Spirit Atlas," and Wang Xuan warned them to keep the scriptures secret.
• Wang Xuan said farewell to his friends and prepared to leave Pingtian Star Domain, but Yun Hong of the Fusion with Dao Sect arrived seeking Qin Cheng because of his connection to Wu Tian.
• Teacher Lei Ming refused to hand Qin Cheng over, saying he had left on a mission, and assured Wang Xuan that Pingtian Academy would protect its students.
• Wang Xuan declined the offer to stay under the protection of Pingtian Star Domain’s powerful figures and left through the academy’s Super Teleportation Array after Lei Ming told him he could return anytime.

After escaping through Pingtian Academy’s teleportation array, Wang Xuan traveled through a bustling ungoverned region and reached a famous black market. There, he spotted an object from the Mother Universe among the wares and realized the market might hold a clue to an acquaintance.

• Wang Xuan emerged alone in deep space and set off through the Pingtian Star Domain, marveling at its lively supernatural presence.
• Wu Xingtian, a badger-like Immortal-Grade Creature who claimed Black Peacock blood, told Wang Xuan about a nearby black market and invited him to join his stronghold.
• Wu Xingtian explained that the border region drew fugitives and cultivators because strange islands and mountains had fallen from space-time anomalies, bringing treasures with them.
• Wang Xuan and Wu Xingtian reached the crowded asteroid market, where Wang Xuan saw many powerful young cultivators and valuable supernatural goods.
• Wang Xuan spotted an item from the Mother Universe among a seller’s wares and suspected the market could lead him to an acquaintance.

Wang Xuan explored a lively market among the meteorites, recognized tea fruits from the Mother Universe, and encountered a rare Five-Colored Strange Bamboo that drew several powerful buyers. He then heard that ruins in the region might hold traces of a chaotic battle between civilizations from beyond, leaving him shaken by the revelation.

• Black Heart Old Eight tried to sell Wang Xuan a damaged black umbrella and a collection of strange items, but Wang Xuan focused on five tea fruits from the Mother Universe.
• After learning Black Heart Old Eight had found the tea fruits in a nearby abandoned cave, Wang Xuan declined to buy them and continued exploring with Wu Xingtian.
• At a larger shop, Wang Xuan saw a Five-Colored Strange Bamboo that Luo Ying and a princess in white both wanted, while other powerful disciples gathered to inspect it.
• A man from the Tattoo Palace arrived, and Wang Xuan recognized the organization before pulling Wu Xingtian away.
• A black ant-man announced that his grandfather had found vast ruins in blurry scenes, where two or three civilizations from beyond may have encountered each other and fought; Wang Xuan was deeply shaken.

Wang Xuan learned that a vast space-time realm might hold traces of outsiders and old acquaintances from the Mother Universe, and he decided to join the Hell Black Ant’s next expedition. Rumors of a Kunpeng Nest, Divine Eggs, and an ownerless prohibited item drew Wu Xingtian into the expedition as well.

• Wang Xuan worried that the hazy space-time scenes held evidence of conflicts between civilizations and wondered whether old acquaintances such as Jiang Qingyao had survived.
• He Yi announced that the Hell Black Ant was recruiting powerful cultivators to explore a newly discovered world within the space-time scenes.
• The Hell Black Ant displayed strange items for sale, including medicinal liquid that could help a Heavenly Grade practitioner become Super Peerless and a piece of Chaos Stone that Wang Xuan examined closely.
• Wang Xuan signed up to explore, despite Wu Xingtian warning him that newcomers often died in the dangerous realm.
• Rumors of a Kunpeng Nest with glowing Divine Eggs and an ownerless prohibited item spread, and Wu Xingtian decided to join the expedition while eyeing Luo Ying.

Wang Xuan settled into his false identity as the Second King of Five Elements Mountain while Wu Xingtian secured Black Peacock bloodline medicine and learned more about the dangers inside the Space-Time Secret Realm. When the entrances opened, Wang Xuan entered, hoping to find his old friends and prepared to fight his enemies.

• Wang Xuan patrolled Five Elements Mountain with Wu Xingtian, who invited Luo Ying and the Black Peacock Clan to stay at their cultivation ground.
• Wu Xingtian obtained a bottle of Black Peacock divine fluid, and Luo Ying shared reports of forbidden items, a Super Peerless vicious ghost, and other dangers in the Space-Time Secret Realm.
• Wang Xuan learned that Hong Dao had acquired the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo and that factions including Tattoo Palace, Paper Saint Hall, and the Fusion with Dao Sect were preparing to enter the secret realm.
• The Hell Black Ant, the Green Ram Sword Immortal, the Black Bull Saber Immortal, and other experts opened entrances into the Space-Time Secret Realm, and Wu Xingtian chose not to risk entering.
• Wang Xuan entered the secret realm after seeing Yuan Hong, Hong Dao, Luo Ying, and other groups go inside, carrying the Dao Control Banner and First Killing Array Diagram as he searched for old friends and prepared to face enemies.

Wang Xuan entered a frozen region of the Space-Time Secret Realm, where strange murals could draw people inside and kill them, and heard speculation that the place might be a Saint's Hometown. Disguised as a Golden Horn Demon Immortal, he followed powerful groups toward the secret realm’s core while searching for old acquaintances.

• Wang Xuan and the other practitioners crossed a warped stretch of space and discovered that staring at murals could pull people into them and kill them.
• Luo Ying and others speculated that the murals were made by Saints and that the mysterious region might be a Saint's Hometown.
• Wang Xuan declined an invitation to travel with the Black Peacock Clan, changed his appearance to a Golden Horn Demon, and continued onward.
• Wang Xuan spotted Hong Dao and Mo Han leading a powerful group through the forest, suspected they were searching for Eight-Colored Strange Bamboo, and left without confronting them.
• Wang Xuan saw the Green Ram Sword Immortal escape a Divine Temple after nearly being trapped in its murals, then followed the Super Peerless beings toward the secret realm’s core.

Wang Xuan entered the deadly fog of the Space-Time Secret Realm and followed the Super Peerless experts to a Broken Mountain, where a Golden Sacred Temple revealed murals of an ancient war and began drawing people inside. As Living Corpses and powerful ownerless contraband items drove the experts to flee, Wang Xuan climbed the mountain to investigate whether his old friends were trapped in the murals.

• Wang Xuan entered the great fog, survived its Mist Silk and lingering rules, and witnessed Heavenly Grade Beings die to spatial fissures and a Sword Array.
• Wang Xuan escaped a chain reaction of collapsing space and reached the Broken Mountain, where five Super Peerless experts gathered beneath floating Ancient Buildings.
• The five experts approached the buildings, and a Golden Sacred Temple appeared, using its murals to pull them toward it as they recognized scenes of a three-sided war involving a Saint's Hometown.
• The Hell Black Ant and the other experts tried to approach an ownerless contraband item, but it attacked them, Living Corpses poured from the surrounding buildings, and the group fled.
• Wang Xuan avoided the fleeing experts and monsters, climbed the mountain with the killing formation diagram and Dao Control Banner, and asked the banner whether it sensed a familiar supreme treasure.

Wang Xuan and the Dao Control Banner escaped the Golden Sacred Temple after discovering traces of a catastrophic battle beyond the world, then encountered Hong Dao searching for Eight-Colored Strange Bamboo amid a monster siege. Seeing a chance to seize Hong Dao’s Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, Wang Xuan struck him, drawing Mo Qing’s angry warning.

• Wang Xuan and the Dao Control Banner found no traces of their old friends near the murals, and the Golden Sacred Temple nearly turned Wang Xuan into a scene within its walls.
• The Dao Control Banner attacked the temple to free Wang Xuan, then fled with him as the temple expanded and unleashed terrifying power.
• After escaping the great fog, Wang Xuan inferred that several civilizations had fought a bloody war there and wondered whether True Saints were still battling beyond the world.
• Wang Xuan found the frozen region overrun by living corpses and saw Hong Dao using Five-Colored Strange Bamboo to search for the Eight-Colored Strange Bamboo.
• Wang Xuan silently attacked Hong Dao from behind to take the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, while Mo Qing shouted at him from a distance.

Wang Xuan ambushed Hong Dao, seized the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, and fought his way out as the Tattoo Palace, Paper Saint Hall, and Golden Palace pursued him. After killing Mo Qing with his newly manifested Dao-imperialized runes, he escaped through the frozen forest and headed for the exit disguised as Kong Xuan.

• Wang Xuan attacked Hong Dao from behind with his Immortal Iron Rod, shattered his skull, and took the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, but Hong Dao survived and pursued him.
• Wang Xuan fought off Mo Han and escaped the encirclement as living corpses swarmed the gathered experts.
• Mo Qing intercepted Wang Xuan, and Wang Xuan killed two Golden Palace experts with the Four-Page Sword Scripture before overturning Mo Qing's palace.
• Wang Xuan entangled Mo Qing with Order Runes and killed him with his Dao-imperialized horn, then fled the pursuing forces.
• Wang Xuan reflected on his strength and the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, traveled by Earth Escape, and changed into Kong Xuan to head toward the exit.

After escaping the Space-Time Secret Realm, Wang Xuan returned to Five Elements Mountain and broke through to the True Immortal Third Heaven with the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo. He learned that swindlers had impersonated Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall, stolen treasures, and vanished, while the real inheritors remained trapped in Pingtian Star Domain.

• Wang Xuan emerged from the Space-Time Secret Realm as Wu Xingtian welcomed him and described the heavy casualties among those who entered.
• Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall searched the survivors after their people were ambushed, and news spread that Golden Horn King had killed Hong Dao and Mo Qing.
• Wang Xuan secluded himself at Five Elements Mountain, refined medicinal wine, and consumed the Five-Colored Strange Bamboo, advancing to the True Immortal Third Heaven.
• Wu Xingtian told Wang Xuan that impostors posing as Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall had gathered treasures without paying and disappeared.
• Wu Xingtian reported that the real Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall disciples had been lured into danger in Pingtian Star Domain and remained trapped there.
• Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall sent another group to investigate the scandal.

After a fraud scheme left Golden Palace, Tattoo Palace, Paper Saint Hall, and Meteorite Sea merchants demanding answers, rumors of rare treasures and Contraband Items drew powerful factions to the region. Wang Xuan learned that the mysterious Five Tribulations Mountain was watching events and heard that Wu Xingtian wanted them to enter the reopened Space-Time Secret Realm together.

• Golden Palace and several merchants suffered losses from the swindlers, while Tattoo Palace and Paper Saint Hall investigated the stolen seals and tokens.
• The fraudsters vanished without a trace, and Meteorite Sea’s black market filled with powerful figures and factions drawn by the sacred temple and rumored treasures.
• Wu Xingtian expanded Five Elements Mountain’s cave residences and assured Wang Xuan that Super Peerless figures would keep the region from descending into chaos.
• Wu Xingtian told Wang Xuan that the Black Peacock Clan had received a warning from Five Tribulations Mountain, whose influence reached beyond the known great sects.
• Wu Xingtian offered Wang Xuan a Void-Breaking Talisman and urged him to enter the Space-Time Secret Realm, promising that Elder Qingkong would support them.

Wang Xuan stayed behind at Five Elements Mountain while Wu Xingtian joined the expedition into the Space-Time Secret Realm. As he cultivated and prepared medicinal wine, a region of the realm appeared above his dojo, bringing a valuable Divine Nest crashing into his territory as rival teams closed in.

• Wang Xuan refused to enter the Space-Time Secret Realm, and Wu Xingtian accepted the Five Elements Mountain formation disc before joining Luo Ying's team.
• The next day, numerous powerful sects and local forces entered the secret realm, while Wang Xuan cultivated at home and brewed medicinal wine.
• The void above Five Elements Mountain split open, revealing scenes from the secret realm and a huge nest falling from a cliff.
• Wang Xuan recognized Yuan Hong among the people trying to claim the nest and opened the Five Elements Great Formation to bring it into his dojo.
• Wang Xuan climbed onto the nest and entered it as Yuan Hong and other approaching teams demanded access.

Wang Xuan entered the Kunpeng Nest, found rare treasures, and absorbed a mysterious source of divine light that strengthened his body and loosened his realm barrier. Outside, Yuan Hong and the other factions joined forces to break through the Five Elements Great Formation while Wang Xuan continued cultivating inside.

• Wang Xuan used the Five Elements Great Formation to break through the Kunpeng Nest’s defensive barrier after refusing Yuan Hong and his companions entry.
• Yuan Hong, Luo Kun, and the others threatened to kill Wang Xuan and seize the nest’s treasures, while Gu Cheng, Yu Jin, and other factions arrived nearby.
• Wang Xuan found a millstone-sized Chaos Stone and secretly sent it into his damaged killing formation diagram to repair it.
• Wang Xuan caught a spiritual mass of origin light and absorbed it, strengthening his vitality, tempering his bones, and bringing his skull’s Dao-imperialized textures closer to reality.
• Yuan Hong and the gathered factions failed to break the Five Elements Great Formation, then called on the arriving groups to join forces.
• Wang Xuan continued cultivating within the nest as his realm barrier loosened and he noticed more rare items nearby.

Wang Xuan refined a mysterious Light Source, reached the True Immortal Fifth Heaven, and began forming unique Imperial Dao Texture on his crown bone before claiming the Kunpeng Nest’s treasures for Five Elements Mountain. As the Dog Badger returned and a divine wolf egg hatched, outsiders attacked the mountain, and Wang Xuan killed the first intruder with a Wolf Fang Club.

• Wang Xuan used the Light Source to break through from the True Immortal Third Heaven to the Fifth Heaven and form Imperial Dao Texture on his crown bone.
• Wang Xuan collected rare broken artifacts and claimed a damaged Wolf Fang Club as a replacement weapon while leaving less valuable materials behind.
• The Dog Badger returned with Chen Yu and discovered that Wang Xuan had found the Kunpeng Nest and its Divine Eggs; he refined the remaining Light Source and reached the brink of the Heaven rank.
• A divine egg hatched into a wolf pup, which attached itself to the Dog Badger, who accepted it as his son and named Wang Xuan its Second Father.
• Chen Yu reported that Elder Qingkong authorized them to defend the nest, and Wang Xuan killed an intruder who broke through the formation by smashing his head with the Wolf Fang Club.

Wang Xuan and Wu Xingtian faced the sect geniuses who branded them fugitives and attacked the Five Elements Great Formation to seize the Kunpeng Nest’s treasures. Wang Xuan lured the divine ape inside and killed him, while Yuan Hong and several others began to fall into the formation.

• Wang Xuan declared himself Kong Xuan, Second King of Five Elements Mountain, and rejected the sects’ attempts to recruit him or label him a fugitive.
• Chen Yu and Wu Xingtian defended Five Elements Mountain, but Gu Cheng called them fugitives, and Wang Xuan taunted Gu Cheng and Hongdao over their past humiliations.
• After learning Elder Qingkong might return, Gu Cheng, Hongdao, Mo Han, and the other geniuses attacked the formation to seize the strange treasures before then.
• Wang Xuan told Wu Xingtian to let the attackers enter one at a time and revealed he had broken his limits three times.
• Wu Xingtian let the divine ape inside, and Wang Xuan fought him before smashing him apart with the Wolf Tooth Club.
• Yuan Hong began falling into the formation as Gu Cheng, Yu Jin, and Hongdao rushed to follow him.