Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang spent three months forging Li Cangwu’s Star King Iron into the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords, using True Fire and Five Elements Divine Lightning to bring them to the brink of becoming Mid-Grade Immortal Swords. As an artifact tribulation began, Li Cangwu kept rival factions at bay while the twin swords flew out to meet the descending lightning.

• Li Cangwu agreed to let Xu Yang use the Fire Essence Earth Vein and Star King Iron to forge a Mid-Grade Immortal Sword within three months.
• Xu Yang transformed the Fire Essence Hall into a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Furnace and used its True Fire to melt Star King Iron and other materials into the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords’ embryos.
• Xu Yang engraved restrictions into the sword embryos and refined them with True Fire and Five Elements Divine Lightning, astonishing Li Cangwu with his mastery of artifacts, formations, and lightning arts.
• Xu Yang summoned an artifact tribulation to raise the twin swords to the sixth order, drawing cultivators from across the South Sea to Spirit Treasure Island.
• Li Cangwu warned the gathered factions to withdraw and drove them back, while the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords burst from the furnace to meet the descending lightning.

Xu Yang forged the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords into sixth-rank artifacts and gave both to Li Cangwu, hoping to strengthen the South Sea Sect and preserve the region’s balance. With the South Sea’s immediate affairs temporarily settled, Xu Yang decided to travel west to the Western Barbarians, where a new conflict was beginning.

• Xu Yang used heavenly tribulation to refine the twin swords into sixth-rank artifacts, driving away the cultivators who had gathered to watch.
• Li Cangwu offered to take Lightning Flame as payment, but Xu Yang gave him both swords, and Li Cangwu promised to wield them well.
• After Li Cangwu left, Xu Yang found the treasures and cultivation arts he had left behind, including the Southern Sea Sword Art and spoils from a slain enemy.
• Xu Yang considered how the twin swords might help the South Sea Sect withstand Xuan Yin Island and Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion after the South Sea Sect’s ancestor died.
• With the South Sea’s affairs temporarily concluded, Xu Yang set out for the Western Barbarians to join the unfolding events there.

Zhou Tianshu and the Void Spirit Lord discovered that the Void Spirit Cave Heaven had been emptied, while the Big Dipper and Five Elements Immortal Sects clashed over its opening. In Mausoleum Mountain City, Xu Yang gathered information from Lu Linglong and asked whether Bright Moon Pavilion planned an auction.

• Zhou Tianshu entered the Void Spirit Cave Heaven with Void Return elders and found its cities deserted and its spiritual resources stripped away.
• The Void Spirit Lord ordered Zhou Tianshu and the elders to keep searching for clues about the vanished inhabitants.
• Xuan Ling Jun attacked the Tian Shu array to reclaim the Five Elements Immortal Sect's treasure, and True Lord Yuxiu confronted him, with their battle shattering the cave-heaven Small World.
• Xu Yang met Lu Linglong at Bright Moon Pavilion and learned that the Five Elements Immortal Mansion had not appeared and that the Great Sacred Lands had gathered near the cave heaven.
• Xu Yang considered the danger of Great Vehicle cultivators joining the conflict, then asked Lu Linglong whether Bright Moon Pavilion planned to hold an auction.

Xu Yang abandoned the auction plan and arranged for high-grade cultivation techniques to appear in Western Barbarians secret realms, drawing cultivators into bloody competition. As Brahma Gate observers investigated the upheaval, the Five Elements Immortal Mansion suddenly emerged from a collapsing secret realm.

• Lu Linglong told Xu Yang that Bright Moon Pavilion and other fringe forces planned to close their gates, so Xu Yang bought ordinary supplies instead of holding an auction.
• Three months later, four distressed cultivators traveled to Black Mountain Secret Realm, where Fairy Fang discovered a jade box containing several high-grade cultivation techniques.
• A cultivator announced that the box held six powerful inheritances, provoking battles among treasure seekers in the secret realm.
• Two Brahma Gate women, including Fan Yin, discussed the repeated appearance of cultivation techniques and the threat the conflict posed to their plans in Western Barbarians.
• Five-Colored Divine Light erupted, killed the cultivators, and collapsed the secret realm, revealing the Five Elements Immortal Mansion.

The Five Elements Immortal Mansion appeared in the Dragon Abyss Secret Realm, drawing the Dao lineage’s Immortal Sects into a deadly struggle while Xu Yang suspected it was a diversion from the Void Spirit Cave Heaven. Three months later, Xu Yang met Meng Fanyin, who struggled with her connection to him but declared that she was now only herself.

• The Five Elements Immortal Mansion emerged, and Void Returning cultivators rushed toward it with captives used as cannon fodder.
• Xuan Ling Jun and True Lord Yuxiu arrived with forces from the Six Sects and Two Factions, while Xu Yang suspected the mansion was bait meant to draw attention from the Void Spirit Cave Heaven.
• Xu Yang waited as the Immortal Sects fought over the mansion for three months, during which several Integration Stage cultivators died and Great Vehicle cultivators clashed.
• Meng Fanyin questioned her Senior Sister about her troubling past karma and studied the War God's Catalogue and Cihang Sword Canon.
• Xu Yang appeared before Meng Fanyin, removed her veil, and transported them from the market to a quiet wilderness.
• Meng Fanyin asked whether they shared a past-life connection, then steadied herself and declared that only Fanyin existed in the present.

Xu Yang discovered that Meng Fanyin’s Manjushri Wisdom Seal had suppressed her past-life memories, then left her behind as he headed for the Void Spirit Cave Heaven to seize the Five Elements Immortal Root. The battle at the Five Elements Immortal Mansion intensified after the Immortal Root appeared, drawing the sects’ strongest fighters into a full-scale struggle.

• Xu Yang touched Meng Fanyin’s cinnabar mark, but the Manjushri Wisdom Seal shattered his fingertip and revealed itself as the force suppressing her memories.
• Meng Fanyin confirmed that her master at Jing Nian Nunnery had placed the seal to protect her, and Xu Yang warned her to care for herself and avoid exposing their connection.
• Xu Yang told Meng Fanyin he would return after pursuing the Five Elements Immortal Root, then departed through the void toward the Void Spirit Cave Heaven.
• Xu Yang decided to risk his Shattering War God mecha because the Five Elements Immortal Mansion appeared to be a decoy that had drawn the Great Sacred Lands away from the Void Spirit Cave Heaven.
• The Five Elements Treasure Tree and Immortal Fruit appeared above the Five Elements Immortal Mansion, prompting the warring sects and their Mahayana cultivators to escalate the battle.

Xu Yang entered the Void Spirit Cave Heaven, found and captured an ancient tree he believed was the Five Elements Immortal Root, then fought his way out of Zhou Tianshu’s Big Dipper Myriad Star Chart. After escaping the array, Xu Yang was confronted by another force that sealed the Five Elements around him.

• Xu Yang used his immortal-spirit-level Shattering War God mecha to enter the Tian Shu Grand Array and search the Void Spirit Cave Heaven.
• Xu Yang discovered a hidden cave dwelling containing an imitation Five Directions Merit Pool and an ancient tree that drew in Five Elements Essence, void power, and time power.
• Xu Yang captured the pool and tree with Universe in Sleeve, but Zhou Tianshu appeared and trapped him in the Big Dipper Myriad Star Chart.
• Xu Yang shattered the formation’s defenses with the Seven Limits of Heavenly Demon Divine Martial Arts and escaped the cave heaven.
• As Xu Yang emerged beyond the Tian Shu Grand Array, five-colored light descended and sealed the Five Elements around him.

Xu Yang was trapped by Juechenzi, the Mahayana former Holy Lord of the Five Elements Immortal Sect, whose Ice Soul Divine Light restrained the void and nearly killed him. Xu Yang broke through the formation by detonating a powerful Void treasure and escaped, while Meng Fanyin recognized him as Qingyang.

• Xu Yang escaped the Big Dipper Immortal Sect’s encirclement but entered the Five Elements Array, where Juechenzi froze his attempt to use Great Void Shift.
• Juechenzi attacked Xu Yang with the Great Five Elements Ice Soul Divine Light, while Zhou Tianshu identified him and explained his history with Void Spirit Lord.
• The surrounding factions tried to reinforce the Void Spirit Cave Heaven, but the fighting at the Five Elements Immortal Mansion kept them occupied; Meng Fanyin recognized Xu Yang as Qingyang.
• Xu Yang used the Seven Limits of Heavenly Demon Divine Martial Arts to unleash Shattering the Void, but Juechenzi froze the breach and struck him through the heart.
• Meng Fanyin cried out and tried to reach Xu Yang, but the woman in white stopped her as the Manjushri Wisdom Seal awakened.
• Xu Yang detonated a powerful Void treasure, shattered Juechenzi’s ice world and the Five Elements Array, and disappeared through the void; Juechenzi then turned back toward the Five Elements Immortal Mansion.

Three months after escaping Juechenzi, Xu Yang learned that the Five Elements Immortal Sect had claimed the Five Elements Immortal Mansion and returned to the Northern Frontier to confront Feng Chaoyang. Feng Chaoyang attempted to possess him, but found himself facing a terrifying azure ox in Xu Yang’s sea of consciousness.

• Xu Yang learned from Lu Mingyu that a mysterious person had taken the Five Elements Immortal Root, while the Five Elements Immortal Sect claimed the Five Elements Immortal Mansion.
• Xu Yang recalled how he had escaped to the Northern Frontier three months earlier, sacrificing the Shattering War God and nearly destroying the Shattering the Void Stele.
• Xu Yang opened the stele’s seal and confronted Feng Chaoyang, who offered the Five Elements Immortal Root and asked to leave as a remnant soul.
• Xu Yang rejected Feng Chaoyang’s claims and tried to suppress him, prompting Feng Chaoyang to attack with his Five Elements Divine Light.
• Feng Chaoyang attempted to possess Xu Yang, but found himself in a vast mountain wilderness and saw an ancient azure ox charging down from the Nine Heavens.

Xu Yang used White Jade Immortal City and its incense offerings to endure Feng Chaoyang’s soul-possession attack and curse his Primordial Spirit to death. He then absorbed Feng Chaoyang’s remnant legacy, gaining the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s cultivation inheritance.

• Feng Chaoyang entered Xu Yang’s consciousness sea with his demonic Soul Possession Method, but Xu Yang countered with repeated curse-killing arts.
• Feng Chaoyang used the Reincarnation Tribulation Transformation Method to consume the curses, while Xu Yang brought White Jade Immortal City to Mirage Dragon Abyss and gathered strength from its offerings.
• After sixteen months, Xu Yang’s azure ox and heavenly plow shattered Feng Chaoyang’s exhausted Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Yang refined Feng Chaoyang’s remnant soul and learned that he had awakened thirty years earlier, exposed his cave mansion to lure Xu Yang, and planned to seize a body.
• Xu Yang obtained Feng Chaoyang’s memories and the Five Elements Immortal Sect’s Yin Yang Five Elements Heavenly Immortal True Art and other inheritance.

Xu Yang gained Feng Chaoyang’s Five Elements Immortal Sect inheritances and a Heaven and Earth Root, giving the Myriad Dao Academy new methods while he planned to recover and strengthen its foundations. As he entered a dream, upper-realm envoys arrived in Xuantian Dao City seeking Li Liuxian, only to be confronted and captured by the Myriad Dao Academy.

• Xu Yang assessed Feng Chaoyang’s inheritances and concluded they could help the Myriad Dao Academy advance its arts and Heavenly Craftsmanship, though further deductions were still needed.
• Xu Yang learned that Feng Chaoyang had also obtained a Heavenly Immortal’s legacy, including an eighth-rank spiritual planting method and a Heaven and Earth Root that might eventually cultivate a Five Elements Immortal Spirit Body.
• Xu Yang planned to recover, develop the academy’s two foundations, and improve its mechas before confronting the Brahma Gate to bring Meng Fanyin back.
• Xu Yang entered a dream, sensed an intrusion, and looked toward the heavens from the Myriad Dao Palace on Golden Turtle Island.
• Several upper-realm envoys led by the Taisui Du'e Star Lord arrived in Xuantian Dao City and demanded that Li Liuxian receive the Heavenly Court’s decree.
• The Xuantian Branch master rejected the envoys’ demand, then used a mecha and an array to suppress and capture them.

Xu Yang received a Heavenly Court decree appointing him to a high office and demanding that he ascend, but he rejected the envoy’s authority and searched his soul for information about his friends and disciples. After learning what the Heavenly Court had done to the Academy’s ascended cultivators, Xu Yang’s allies called for action as he stared toward the heavens.

• Xiao Qingyun brought the Heavenly Court’s envoys to the Myriad Dao Palace, where they marveled at the Myriad Dao Academy’s strength and flourishing order.
• Xiao Qingyun proclaimed the Western Extreme Emperor Lord’s decree appointing Li Liuxian Great Law Master of All Heavens and ordering him to ascend, but Xu Yang refused to accept it.
• Xu Yang demanded to know what had happened to his friends and disciples, then subdued Xiao Qingyun and used the Five Elements Soul Searching Method to search his soul.
• Xu Yang summoned the Academy’s leaders, and Xiao Qingyun’s group saw that the hall was guarded by Body Integration and Void Returning cultivators.
• After searching Xiao Qingyun, the Academy’s cultivators learned of the Heavenly Court’s treatment of their ascended members and angrily asked Xu Yang how they should respond.

Xu Yang learned that the Heavenly Court had exploited the Myriad Dao Academy’s ascended cultivators and targeted him and the Academy for their methods, population, and resources. He understood that Xiao Qingyun and the others’ summons was a trap to bring him to the Upper Realm, leaving him to decide how to respond.

• Xu Yang learned why the Myriad Dao Academy had suspended ascension and why he had feared the unknown Upper Realm.
• Xiao Qingyun’s memories revealed that the Earth Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Court, demons, and other powers had fought amid ancient upheavals and ongoing wars.
• The Heavenly Court had treated ascended cultivators as expendable labor and pressed the Myriad Dao Academy’s cultivators to surrender the Heavenly Craftsman Creation Method and Spirit Treasure Mechas.
• Heavenly Court officials had used soul-searching to learn about Xu Yang and the Myriad Dao Academy, then coveted their strength, resources, and potential.
• Xiao Qingyun and the others had delivered the Heavenly Court Imperial Decree, ordering Xu Yang to ascend so the Heavenly Court could seize his opportunities and the Academy’s foundations.

Xiao Qingyun tried to persuade the Myriad Dao Academy cultivators to spare him and join the Heavenly Court, but Xu Yang declared that the Academy would retaliate and planned to send an incarnation to investigate the Upper Realm. Three days later, the Academy unanimously approved the Ascension Academy Plan, and Fengming Fairy announced the order to establish it.

• Xiao Qingyun invoked the Heavenly Court’s power and promised the cultivators advancement if they abandoned Xu Yang, but Fengming Fairy and the others rejected his appeals.
• Xu Yang stopped True Lord Chi Mei from killing Xiao Qingyun and said the Academy would attack the Heavenly Court, though it would not act rashly.
• The Academy’s cultivators debated whether to ascend quickly or build strength first, and Xu Yang proposed sending an incarnation to investigate the Upper Realm.
• Three days later, Ye Hao watched Academy news and wondered why there had been no reports about the Upper Realm envoys.
• Fengming Fairy announced that the Ascension Academy Plan had passed unanimously and ordered every Academy institution to cooperate in establishing it.

Ye Hao realized that the Myriad Dao Academy was preparing for war with the upper realm and saw the Ascension Academy as his chance to advance his Dao path and raise his family. Three days later, Xu Yang’s leaders reviewed the plan to build and arm the Ascension Academy, which was intended to ascend and wage war against the upper realm.

• Ye Hao inferred that the Academy’s mobilization meant the upper realm’s visitors had hostile intentions and resolved to seize the opportunity despite the danger.
• Ye Hao reflected on how the merger of the two worlds had enabled the Myriad Dao Academy and his Ye Family to flourish, and believed the Academy’s accumulated strength could make the upper realm tremble.
• Ye Hao concluded that the Ascension Academy was his best chance to advance beyond Spirit Transformation and committed himself to the coming conflict.
• Three days later, True Lord Fengming reported that the Ascension Academy would use the Void Hall as its core and spend ten thousand years developing its method, Shattering the Void Stele, and a vast force of immortal spirit mechas.
• The Pure Yang Palace Master urged Xu Yang to proceed cautiously, while Xu Yang said ten thousand years would suffice and True Lord Fengming vowed to make the upper realm repay its losses.

Xu Yang prepared to send Kong Xuan to the Earth Immortal Realm to investigate the Heavenly Court and seek a path to Mahayana, while the Myriad Dao Academy built strength for a future ascension. After appointing Fengming to guard White Jade Capital, Xu Yang crossed the Dao Seal and arrived in the Upper Realm.

• True Lord Fengming revealed her fury over the Heavenly Court enslaving her ancestor Fairy Qingluan, and Xu Yang warned her to temper her temperament before assigning her to guard White Jade Capital.
• Xu Yang resolved to send Kong Xuan to the Earth Immortal Realm while the Myriad Dao Academy continued preparing for a future ascension and reckoning with the Heavenly Court.
• Three days later, Xu Yang handed White Jade Capital over to Fengming, who promised to keep its enemies from breaching it.
• Xu Yang pierced the world boundary, connected to the ancient Dao Seal in the Chaos Void, and crossed into the Earth Immortal Realm.

Xu Yang entered the Earth Immortal Realm by disguising himself as Xiao Qingyun and passing the Heavenly Court’s Ascension Platform inspection. After learning about the realm’s powers and regions, he headed for chaotic Southern Jambudvipa to establish a foothold.

• Xu Yang reached the Earth Immortal Realm and confirmed that the Dao Seal could guide ascenders there but could not mark a route back to the Dao Law World.
• Xu Yang transformed into Xiao Qingyun and entered through the Ascension Platform, where the Golden Armored Heavenly General accepted his identity after the Demon-Slaying Mirror failed to expose him.
• Xu Yang discovered that the Earth Immortal Realm’s spiritual energy and Immortal Spirit energy increased his lifespan and benefited cultivation.
• Xu Yang considered the Heavenly Court’s power structure and the realm’s Four Continents and Two Regions as he looked for a place to establish himself.
• Xu Yang ruled out Eastern Victory, Western Ox, and Northern Kuluzhou and rode south toward Southern Jambudvipa.

Xu Yang confronted Sai Taisui at Kirin Mountain, seized the demon’s Purple Gold Bell, and overwhelmed its defenses with lightning and fire. Sai Taisui begged for mercy and invoked Great Compassion Bodhisattva, but Xu Yang’s attack swallowed the demon’s cries as the battle ended in flames.

• A woodcutter warned two Nascent Soul cultivators that Sai Taisui was a powerful Golden-Maned Hou who used the Purple Gold Bell to lure victims to Kirin Mountain.
• Xu Yang arrived at Xiezhi Cave and challenged Sai Taisui, who attacked him with the Purple Gold Bell.
• Xu Yang swallowed the bell into his Universe Sleeve and struck Sai Taisui with the Great Five Elements Lightning Fire Divine Light.
• Sai Taisui retreated into Xiezhi Cave and activated the Kirin Mountain Grand Formation, but Xu Yang’s repeated attacks destroyed the formation and set the cave ablaze.
• Sai Taisui emerged, pleaded for mercy, and threatened Xu Yang with its master, Great Compassion Bodhisattva, but Xu Yang sent another divine light into the flames.

Xu Yang killed the Golden-Maned Hou and transformed Kirin Mountain into a spiritual cultivation ground, naming it Longevity Mountain. Three months later, two neighboring cultivators arrived to meet him, and Xu Yang greeted them at the temple gates.

• Xu Yang captured the Golden-Maned Hou's corpse after refining away its Primordial Spirit and collected it in his Universe Sleeve.
• Xu Yang cleared Kirin Mountain's demon poison miasma, planted array flags, and prepared the mountain as a cultivation ground to help him advance toward Mahayana.
• Over the next three months, Xu Yang transformed the demon qi into immortal spirit qi and established Longevity Mountain.
• Two neighboring cultivators arrived, marveled at the mountain's transformation, and decided to visit Xu Yang.
• The visitors read the temple's bold inscriptions, and Xu Yang opened the gates and greeted them.

Xu Yang welcomed Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu to Wuzhuang Temple after killing the Golden-Maned Hou, and impressed them with his spiritual roots, pills, and hospitality. The two warned that the Buddhist sect might retaliate because the Golden-Maned Hou had been Great Compassion Bodhisattva’s mount and may have been allowed to grow into a powerful demon for later conversion into a Buddhist beast.

• Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu introduced themselves, thanked Xu Yang for killing the demon that had seized Kirin Mountain, and accepted his invitation to Wuzhuang Temple.
• Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu were astonished by Xu Yang’s Fifth-rank spiritual roots, tea, fruits, and pills, then gave him Chushan Pure Bamboo and Lutu Heart Soil as temple-opening gifts.
• Xu Yang confirmed that he had refined and slain the Golden-Maned Hou, and Lord Chushan explained that the demon had killed his friend and abducted two of his disciples.
• Duke Lutu warned that the Golden-Maned Hou had been Great Compassion Bodhisattva’s mount and that the Buddhist sect might seek revenge for its death and the loss of the Purple Gold Bell.
• Lord Chushan and Duke Lutu described suspicions that the Buddhist sect had tolerated the Golden-Maned Hou’s crimes so it could grow powerful through demonic methods and later be converted into a Buddhist beast.