Chapter Summaries

After leaving home for Myriad Dao Academy, Chu Nan joined the incoming freshmen aboard a tower ship, where senior Ye Chen taught them the academy’s history, cultivation systems, and rules. The lesson ended with Ye Chen warning that Myriad Dao Academy’s laws applied to everyone, regardless of talent or status.

• Chu Nan left home for Myriad Dao Academy after his parents wished him well and urged him to bring home a Dao Companion.
• Three days later, Chu Nan traveled with the freshmen aboard a Myriad Dao Academy tower ship and met their first teacher, Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen taught the students how the academy’s founders defeated Pudu Cihang and established Myriad Dao Academy.
• Ye Chen explained the Dao Scripture, the Divine Domain Game, and the three cultivation methods: Cultivating Truth Through Borrowed Falsehood, Martial Path cultivation, and Spiritual Root cultivation.
• Ye Chen described the academy’s honorary titles and warned that students needed good conduct and morality to earn benefits and advance.
• Ye Chen said that anyone who violated the law had been punished, regardless of talent, family, or status, and urged the students never to test the law.

Ye Chen taught Chu Nan and the other students about Myriad Dao Academy’s major campuses and explained how the Heavenly Craftsman Institute developed Spirit Treasure Mecha and Ghost-God Mecha. The lesson ended with footage of Marshal Zengshou operating a Ghost-God Mecha and casting powerful thunder magic, leaving Chu Nan transfixed by the display.

• Ye Chen introduced the Academy’s major campuses and described the Heavenly Craftsman Institute’s Spirit Treasure Mecha as its signature creation.
• Ye Chen explained that mecha development required solutions for structure, energy, and divine sense, and described how Heavenly Craftsmanship, magic currency, spirit treasures, and ghost gods addressed those challenges.
• Ye Chen showed the students footage of the Ninth Generation Zengsun Ghost-God Mecha and explained how powerful ghost gods could serve as its core.
• Marshal Zengshou merged with the Ghost-God Mecha, which transformed into a three-headed, six-armed form and cast the Lightning Purgatory Iron Siege spell.
• Ye Chen explained that mecha could wield cultivator arts and supernatural abilities with overwhelming power, while Chu Nan watched the demonstration in excitement.

Ye Chen introduced Myriad Dao Academy’s mecha and answered Chu Nan’s questions about the legendary Xuan Yuan, though he could not confirm whether a Hundred Million Artifact Grade Immortal Spirit Mecha existed. As the flying boat reached the academy, he showed the newcomers its vast grounds and explained the benefits and costs of living there, while privately wondering why it remained the world’s only Spiritual Land.

• Ye Chen explained that Spirit Treasure Mecha were scarce and costly, and described the academy’s research into combining multiple mecha.
• Chu Nan asked whether Xuan Yuan and the legendary Hundred Million Artifact Grade Immortal Spirit Mecha were real, but Ye Chen said he could not know and predicted that such mecha might eventually be built.
• Ye Chen explained that Ghost God's Longevity could extend life but discouraged pursuing it, urging students to cultivate orthodox methods and ascend to the Upper Realm.
• The flying boat slowed, and Ye Chen revealed Myriad Dao Academy’s vast island grounds, describing its spiritual formations, varied landscapes, and the benefits they offered residents.
• Ye Chen warned that housing at the academy was difficult to secure, explaining the work, professional examinations, and Great Ritual Battles that could earn students a cave abode.
• As the newcomers watched the academy approach, Ye Chen privately wondered why the Heaven and Earth Origin Spirit’s revival had not created any other Spiritual Land.

After Xin Shisiniang reached the end of her lifespan, she chose reincarnation rather than ascending to the unknown Upper Realm, and Xu Yang used his power to help her be reborn. Left alone beneath the Bodhi Tree, Xu Yang decided to remain in the Daoist Magic World until its society could endure without him and to focus meanwhile on developing the real world.

• Xu Yang explained Xin Shisiniang’s choices of ascension or reincarnation, and she chose to be reborn so she could find him again.
• Xu Yang invested his divine soul power in Xin Shisiniang’s reincarnation, and she vanished after asking him to wait for her.
• Xu Yang reflected on the dangers of reincarnation and resolved not to use it routinely because it could expose his abilities and origins.
• Xu Yang reviewed how he had built Myriad Dao Academy and cultivated Golden Turtle Island into a Mid-grade Spiritual Land.
• Xu Yang decided not to enter another dream world until the Daoist Magic World could sustain itself without his skill traits, and shifted his development focus to the real world.

Xu Yang awoke in the real world after a thousand years in his dream and reviewed the cultivation and skill traits he had developed, concluding that he could now cautiously investigate the world’s mysteries. When he learned the Green Jade Envoy was coming again, he sent the horned girl in yellow to hide beneath the lake and told her to stay quiet.

• Xu Yang woke beneath the ritual altar on Fish Dragon Island and assessed his peak Fifth Realm cultivation in the real world.
• Xu Yang explained that his progress had been slower than in the Daoist Magic World because he lacked its resources, institutions, and method of Cultivating Truth Through Borrowed Falsehood.
• Xu Yang reviewed the traits he had gained across his skills and considered how his teaching and cultivation abilities had helped build Myriad Dao Academy in the Daoist Magic World.
• A young man in black and a girl in yellow entered, and the girl told Xu Yang that the Green Jade Envoy was coming again.
• Xu Yang told the horned girl in yellow to hide beneath the lake and avoid causing a commotion.

Xu Yang learned that Azure Jade Sect was sending Lin Juefeng, a Golden Core Seed, to take over as envoy and pursue the Li Family’s Golden Core Sword Art. After spying on Lin Juefeng’s plans, Xu Yang ordered Fish Dragon Island to prepare a ritual altar and sacrificial rites.

• Bai Yunzi warned Xu Yang that Fish Dragon Island would soon face Azure Jade Sect labor service and a market order, then revealed Lin Juefeng would replace him.
• Bai Yunzi advised Xu Yang to yield to Lin Juefeng, who was a sword cultivator obsessed with swords, before departing.
• Xu Yang lifted the illusion concealing Fish Dragon Island, revealing his Spirit Monsters and their hidden cultivation and resources.
• Xu Yang used the Mystic Light Eye Technique to spy on Lin Juefeng and a junior sister discussing how to obtain the Li Family’s Golden Core Sword Art, by persuasion or force.
• Xu Yang dismissed the vision and ordered his followers to set up a ritual altar and prepare sacrificial rites.

Xu Yang held a Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian to break through to Golden Core and prepare to probe the Liang Kingdom cultivation world, while Fish Dragon Island’s resources and mass-produced artifacts supported his plans. After creating safeguards against death, he piloted a Spirit Treasure Mecha built from one hundred thousand magic artifacts and departed.

• Xu Yang explained that he planned to use the Azure Jade Sect as bait to stir up the Liang Kingdom cultivation world, investigate its hidden strength, and raise funds for Fish Dragon Island.
• Fish Dragon Island’s inhabitants erected the Nine Ritual High Altar, and Xu Yang used the Origin Spirit Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian to advance all four of his cultivation methods to Golden Core.
• Xu Yang summoned one hundred thousand standardized magic artifacts and assembled them into a Spirit Treasure Mecha using the Heavenly Craftsmanship Method.
• Xu Yang performed a Daoist Concealment Method that scattered his three souls and seven spirits, then prepared an incense golden body as additional protection against death.
• Xu Yang’s Yang God entered the mecha, which transformed into the form of a Daoist cultivator, and he departed to stir up trouble in the cultivation world.

At Purple Cloud Mountain, Bai Yunzi and Junior Brother Zhang discussed Lin Fengjue’s search for the Li Family’s incomplete Golden Core Sword Art before ominous clouds and lightning heralded an attack on the Azure Jade Sect’s stronghold. The Third Elder activated the Golden Core Array and discovered an unknown attacker had formed an array around it, leaving him to fear the visitor might be a Fourth-grade Array Master.

• At a welcoming banquet, Bai Yunzi told Junior Brother Zhang that the Li Family would show Lin Fengjue the origins of its incomplete sword art, and they discussed how the sect could punish Lin if he broke its rules.
• Lin Fengjue arrived to speak with Bai Yunzi, but thunder and ominous clouds interrupted their exchange.
• The Seventh Elder activated Purple Cloud Mountain’s Golden Core Array as command flags appeared around the mountain, forming an array outside the existing array.
• The Third Elder revealed himself as a hidden Golden Core cultivator and took control of the defense while the Seventh Elder went to notify the sect.
• The Third Elder recognized the attacker’s formation as a possible sign of Fourth-grade Array Mastery and cautiously asked who had come and why.

Xu Yang used lightning and an outer array to destroy the Purple Cloud Grand Array, defeat the Azure Jade Sect’s Third Elder, and take control of Purple Cloud Mountain. His followers captured the sect’s disciples and marketplace cultivators, while Bai Yunzi was chosen to carry a message back to the Azure Jade Sect.

• The Third Elder activated the Purple Cloud Grand Array as Xu Yang’s outer array sealed Purple Cloud Mountain, and Lin Fengjue rallied Azure Jade Sect forces against unrest in the marketplace.
• Xu Yang’s lightning shattered the Purple Cloud Grand Array and struck down the Third Elder, sending the Azure Jade Sect into chaos.
• Lin Fengjue and a woman tried to escape with a Golden Light Talisman Treasure, but Xu Yang’s outer array and lightning destroyed them.
• Xu Yang entered the marketplace, killed would-be raiders with lightning, and used the Thousand Jin Mountain Crushing Technique to immobilize the crowd.
• A tall, honest-faced man and his subordinates captured the Azure Jade Sect disciples and marketplace cultivators, then chose Bai Yunzi to carry a message to the sect and ordered the prisoners stripped and searched.

Xu Yang learned that Azure Jade Sect would seek help from Tian Shu Sect and Medicine King Valley to attack him, while his Heavenly Eye revealed a higher power concealed behind Liang Kingdom’s cultivation world. He prepared to face the three sects and used the Nail-Head Plow-Head Seven Arrows Talisman to curse Azure Jade Sect Supreme Elder Zhang Zhiqi.

• Bai Yunzi recounted Xu Yang’s destruction of the Purple Cloud Mountain array and defeat of Azure Jade Sect’s forces to the sect’s elders.
• The white-browed Supreme Elder ordered the elders to seek aid from Tian Shu Sect and Medicine King Valley against Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang used his Heavenly Eye to investigate Liang Kingdom’s hidden history but found that a higher-ranking power obscured the truth.
• Xu Yang reunited with his physical body at Fish Dragon Island and prepared to defend Purple Cloud Mountain with arrays and his Spirit Treasure Mecha.
• Xu Yang completed the Nail Head Book for Zhang Zhiqi and began chanting the Seven Arrows of the Nail-Head Plow-Head curse.

Xu Yang unleashed the Seven Arrows of the Nail-Head Plow-Head curse against Zhang Zhiqi, who survived the attack but suffered severe soul injuries. After Zhang Zhiqi warned his allies about the curse, they prepared to surround Purple Cloud Mountain and confront Shi Jian.

• Xu Yang empowered the Seven Arrows of the Nail-Head Plow-Head with forty-nine bolts of mana and sent the curse toward Zhang Zhiqi before returning his Yang Spirit to Purple Cloud Mountain.
• Zhang Zhiqi felt an ominous warning, activated the Azure Jade Azure Dragon Array, and faced the calamity cloud descending over Azure Jade Mountain.
• The curse trapped Zhang Zhiqi in a vision of crushing mountains and an azure ox’s plow; his defenses failed to prevent serious soul injuries, and he collapsed unconscious.
• Zhang Zhiqi awakened and told Li Longpeng and Zhang Fenghua that Shi Jian had attacked him with curse arts.
• Li Longpeng and Zhang Fenghua urged Zhang Zhiqi to recover while they gathered strength to surround Purple Cloud Mountain and challenge Shi Jian’s defenses.

The three sects’ forces, led by Ancestor Jing Yue, attacked Xu Yang’s Heaven’s End Earth’s Fury Array after four scouts vanished inside it. The formation unleashed thunder and fire, killing nearly all the Golden Core cultivators who entered, while Jing Yue protected himself with a high-grade magical treasure.

• Li Longpeng examined Purple Cloud Mountain’s array and judged it an exceptionally powerful formation, while Zhang Zhiqi urged the others to break it before his death curse killed him.
• Ancestor Jing Yue arrived with a fourth-grade Array Breaking Talisman and ordered four false-core cultivators to test the array; they entered and disappeared without a trace.
• Xu Yang emerged to confront Li Longpeng, named the formation the Heaven’s End Earth’s Fury Array, and challenged the sects to enter it.
• Jing Yue ordered an assault from four directions, and he, Li Longpeng, Chen Fenghua, Zhang Zhiqi, and their Golden Core disciples entered the formation.
• The array struck with heavenly thunder and earthly fire; Jing Yue shielded himself and those behind him with a high-grade magical treasure, while the other accompanying Golden Core cultivators were blasted to dust.

Xu Yang commanded the Heaven's End Earth's Fury Array against the three sects, killing Zhang Zhiqi and forcing Jing Yue to use a fourth-tier Array Breaking Talisman to destroy Purple Cloud Mountain's earth vein. Xu Yang then struck Jing Yue with the Heavenly One Sword, destroying his body, but Jing Yue's Nascent Soul escaped inside his dharma treasure.

• Li Longpeng and Chen Fenghua used Array Breaking Talismans to weaken Xu Yang's formation, but the array shifted and Zhang Zhiqi died from the Nail Head Book and Plow-Head Curse.
• A surviving Azure Jade Sect cultivator activated Zhang Zhiqi's Array Breaking Talisman, bringing the formation's power down further as Li Longpeng and Chen Fenghua attacked Xu Yang.
• Xu Yang adjusted the array and overwhelmed the remaining cultivators, leaving Li Longpeng to cry out to Jing Yue for help.
• Jing Yue used Tian Shu Sect's fourth-tier Array Breaking Talisman to shatter Purple Cloud Mountain's earth vein and collapse the formation.
• Xu Yang pursued Jing Yue into the sky and struck him with the Heavenly One Sword, destroying his body while Jing Yue's Nascent Soul escaped in his dharma treasure.

Elder Zhen explained that the mysterious Golden Core cultivator had fused sword, lightning, and array arts into a Heavenly Sword, and concluded that his apparent body was likely a disguise or incarnation. He and the youth planned to loot the Azure Jade Sect while the cultivator fought the three sects, but the cultivator arrived before they could escape, forcing them to hide in disguise.

• Elder Zhen told the youth that the cultivator's Heavenly Sword showed mastery of sword, lightning, and array arts, and suspected his true body was far stronger than Golden Core.
• Elder Zhen and the youth decided to exploit the coming conflict between the cultivator and the three sects, then planned to raid the unguarded Azure Jade Sect for supplies.
• Elder Zhen sent the youth to the Azure Jade Sect to improve his cultivation and take its resources, but disaster clouds and command flags appeared over the sect as he tried to leave.
• Elder Zhen realized the cultivator had arrived and warned the youth that the grand array would soon seal the sect.
• Elder Zhen told the youth to bury the storage bags and disguise himself as an Azure Jade Sect servant disciple until they could find a way out.

Xu Yang destroyed the Azure Jade Sect’s formation, subdued the sect, and plundered its resources to replenish his costly Spirit Treasure Mecha. By searching Li Longpeng’s soul, he uncovered the origins of the Void Spirit Realm and learned why the Three Friends of the Bright Moon sent their disciples there.

• Xu Yang used the Heavenly Sword’s lightning strikes to break the Azure Dragon Array, while the Azure Jade Sect’s disciples panicked and its earth spirit was overwhelmed.
• Xu Yang repaired his Spirit Treasure Mecha with spirit stones and replacement artifacts, then collected the damaged components for Fish Dragon Island’s recycling system.
• Xu Yang suppressed the Azure Jade Sect and sent his transformed spirit beasts to capture disciples and seize the sect’s supplies and valuables.
• Xu Yang searched Li Longpeng’s soul with his Spiritual Eye Mysterious Light and discovered information about the Void Spirit Realm.
• Xu Yang learned that the Three Friends of the Bright Moon had opened a passage into the realm and established branch sects there to search for Void Spirit True Lord’s immortal treasure.

After learning the truth behind the Void Spirit Realm and the Three Golden Core Sects, Xu Yang weighed the threat of reinforcements from the outside world against the danger of Void Spirit Lord's possible return. He decided against attacking the Tian Shu Sect and considered how to gather resources without provoking a massacre across Liang Kingdom.

• Xu Yang learned from Li Longpeng's memories that Void Spirit Lord's fallen Purple Mansion Immortal Treasure had formed the Void Spirit Realm and that his scattered relics had created the realm's supposed immortal-destiny treasures.
• Xu Yang discovered that the Three Friends of the Bright Moon had founded the Three Golden Core Sects to search for Void Spirit Lord's legacy, and that the sects were backed by powerful figures and the Big Dipper Immortal Sect.
• Xu Yang realized that the three sects could open a passage and summon Nascent Soul reinforcements, even though their Spirit Transformation and Void Returning backers could not enter the realm.
• Xu Yang considered destroying the Tian Shu Sect's Teleportation Array or plundering Liang Kingdom before reinforcements arrived, but feared that an attack might provoke the Big Dipper Immortal Sect and that plundering could lead to a purge.
• Xu Yang decided not to attack the Tian Shu Sect and resolved to seek a way to gather resources while preventing the three sects from slaughtering Liang Kingdom's cultivators and common people.

After conquering the Azure Jade Sect, Xu Yang inventoried the captured treasures and considered how to use the sect’s resources and people to strengthen himself. He planned to spread cultivation teachings through a merchant association while waiting to learn whether the other sects’ reinforcements had arrived.

• Old Six reported that it had captured the Azure Jade Sect’s disciples and brought back their storage bags, while a young woman listed the sect’s wealth and production sites.
• Xu Yang ordered the people settled and the production sites left untouched because he intended to stay at the Azure Jade Mountain Range for a time.
• Xu Yang assessed the battle’s spoils, including hundreds of millions of Spirit Stones, damaged magic treasures, and the Azure Jade Sect’s accumulated resources.
• Xu Yang planned to melt down damaged magic treasures and use the materials to refine a spirit treasure that could power a stronger Spirit Treasure Mecha.
• Xu Yang decided to spread his teachings by founding a merchant association and distributing inexpensive Martial Scriptures and Daoist scriptures throughout the Liang Kingdom rather than establishing a sect.
• Xu Yang considered retreating to Fish Dragon Island once his plans were complete, but wondered whether the three sects’ reinforcements had already arrived.

Yun Ji arrived at the Tian Shu Sect and learned from Jing Yue that a Golden Core cultivator wielding the Heavenly Sword had destroyed his body and grievously wounded his Nascent Soul. Yun Ji used the Heavenly Mystery Eye to investigate the unknown enemy, but the vision ended with True Martial appearing in wrath.

• Yun Ji descended into the Tian Shu Sect’s grand array and discovered that Jing Yue had been reduced to a weakened Golden Core state.
• Jing Yue described the enemy’s Heavenly Sword, lightning arts, and Fourth-tier Transformation Realm array, while Yun Ji doubted a Golden Core cultivator could wield the sword.
• Yun Ji gave Jing Yue Bright Moon Pills, but Jing Yue said his sword wound left him little hope of reaching Nascent Soul again.
• Yun Ji and Jing Yue suspected the enemy might be the Void Spirit Lord reincarnated and discussed holding the Tian Shu Grand Array until reinforcements could arrive.
• Yun Ji took control of the array and used the Heavenly Mystery Eye to investigate the enemy, revealing gods in the void.
• True Martial appeared in the vision, shouted at the intruder, and came forward with his sword in hand.

Xu Yang explained how his Deity Invocation Method let him summon Great Emperor True Martial and repel Tian Shu Sect’s probe, then decided to deal with the prisoners before confronting the sect’s reinforcements. As Xiao Miao endured forced labor and watched Azure Jade Sect captives being processed, Xu Yang flew away from Azure Jade Mountain on a thundercloud.

• Yun Ji suffered severe backlash from spying on Xu Yang, lost more than a hundred and fifty years of lifespan, and damaged his Heavenly Mechanism Treasure Eye; he and Jing Yue chose to hold the Tian Shu Grand Array and report to Martial Uncle Beichen.
• Xu Yang explained that he had used the Concealment Method and invoked Great Emperor True Martial, drawing on the Water Element Great Dao and his Earth Deity Divine Seal to protect himself from Tian Shu Sect’s Heavenly Mechanism Art.
• Unable to inspect the guarded Tian Shu Sect mountain gate with the Exalted Eye of Heaven, Xu Yang decided to deal with the captives first.
• Xiao Miao complained to Elder Zhen about being crammed into a Spirit Beast Bag, while Elder Zhen struggled to break the Thousand Mountains Squeeze spell.
• Old Six ordered Xiao Miao to register as a farmhand while a Colorful Clad Maiden threatened Azure Jade Sect’s captives and sent dissenters to their deaths.
• Xiao Miao and Elder Zhen saw Xu Yang leave Azure Jade Mountain on a thundercloud.

Xu Yang tested Tian Shu Sect’s Big Dipper array and found it too strong to break with his current power, then went to Purple Cloud Mountain to begin gathering materials for a Spirit Treasure and mecha capable of overcoming it. He concluded that Tian Shu Sect’s isolation might give him time to complete the project.

• Jing Yue and Yun Ji prepared Tian Shu Sect’s Small Big Dipper array as Xu Yang arrived outside the mountain gate.
• Xu Yang used the Mountain Hooking Nine Ox Creation Method to damage the array, but Yun Ji repaired it and kept the mountain gate secure.
• Xu Yang withdrew north and reached Purple Cloud Mountain, where he began refining materials with Heavenly Thunder Earth Fire.
• Xu Yang planned to gather spiritual lands and mountain materials, and have Fish Dragon Island workshops forge a million magic artifacts for the Three Mountains Five Peaks Lightning Fire Sky-Flipping Seal and its mecha.
• Xu Yang judged that Tian Shu Sect’s reinforcements might be delayed and resolved to use the time to build a weapon capable of breaking its array.