Chapter Summaries

After leaving Jia De in charge of humanity, Wang Zhifan used Mythic Points to upgrade the Time King's and Void King's bloodlines, which helped him break through to a higher cultivation realm. He found that Mythic Points could not enhance his cultivation art beyond Lv8, so he spent his remaining point on the Azure Emperor Saber and prepared for the looming trial with greatly increased strength.

• Wang Zhifan appointed Jia De leader of humanity, gave his former subordinates final instructions, and returned to Earth World.
• Wang Zhifan upgraded the Time King's and Void King's bloodline essences to Mythic Tier and drank them, awakening his potential in Time Law and Space Law.
• Wang Zhifan meditated in Gaia Star's Iris Flower Field and broke through to a higher realm, reaching a new unity with the universe.
• Wang Zhifan tried to enhance the All-Time-Space Eternal Freedom Scripture beyond Lv8, but the system reported that Mythic Points could not raise it further.
• Wang Zhifan used his final Mythic Point to upgrade the Azure Emperor Saber to Mythic Tier and reviewed his greatly improved status.

Wang Zhifan entered the modern-city instance Final Awakening, passed the Chosen Gods Group’s test with ease, and joined as a probationary member. As A-Lang escorted him to registration and explained the Divine and Demonic Paths, Sister Mei received a grave phone call.

• Wang Zhifan postponed resurrecting Rou Che and entered the Final Awakening instance to keep strengthening himself.
• After crossing an intersection, Wang Zhifan was pulled into an Ashen Domain, where a representative of the Chosen Gods Group offered him a test.
• Wang Zhifan sent a truck-sized giant dog flying with one slap, and the group ended the test early and declared he had passed.
• Sister Mei introduced Wang Zhifan to A-Lang, who reluctantly took him to register as a probationary member of Group Eight.
• A-Lang explained that outsiders faced danger from other organizations and described how awakening followed either the Divine Path or the Demonic Path.

Wang Zhifan entered the awakening room at Divine Light Tower, where he traced mysterious powers to gods and demons in another dimension and tried to pursue them. The Supernatural Game warned that leaving the instance would cause mission failure, forcing him to return to the room, where A-Lang eventually opened the door and found him smoking.

• A-Lang shoved Wang Zhifan into the dark awakening room and waited outside, expecting him to panic without calming tea.
• Wang Zhifan sensed mysterious threads approaching, stopped them with the Spacetime Law, and identified powerful gods and demons as targets for Mythic Points.
• Wang Zhifan crossed into the otherworldly dimension, but the gods and demons fled from him.
• The Supernatural Game warned Wang Zhifan that leaving the instance would trigger mission failure, so he returned to the awakening room and smoked while brooding over the restriction.
• After nearly twenty minutes of silence, A-Lang arranged to open the door and found Wang Zhifan calmly smoking instead of struggling through awakening.

Wang Zhifan failed to awaken during the ritual, but A-Lang brought him along on a mission to support the out-of-control Abnormal Point No. 12. After revealing an automatic force field that destroyed a teammate’s attack, Wang Zhifan stayed behind and asked Little Red to investigate how to lure gods and demons into the world for Mythic Points.

• Wang Zhifan told A-Lang that he had not awakened, and Divine Light Tower specialists could not explain how he had survived the ritual unharmed.
• Sister Mei assigned A-Lang’s team to support Abnormal Point No. 12 and warned them that the Mad Demon Group might be involved.
• A-Lang led Wang Zhifan and five teammates through a spatial teleportation circle to the eastern district, where a vast red glow filled the sky.
• The yellow-haired teammate attacked Wang Zhifan to test him, but an automatic force field shattered the golden hand before it could reach him.
• After hearing A-Lang’s distant call for help, the team rushed ahead while Wang Zhifan stayed behind to avoid alerting the gods and demons.
• Wang Zhifan summoned Little Red and asked her to investigate how to lure the true bodies of gods and demons into the world.

A-Lang and the Chosen Gods Group fought to suppress an Anomaly Point while Wang Zhifan watched from another dimension. The Mad Demon Group arrived, claimed the site for its own purposes, and revealed a powerful leader who intended to use the gathered Chosen Gods Group members as materials.

• A-Lang joined the battle, recognized the beetles' poisonous gas as Demonic Path contamination, and directed Uncle Ghost to swallow the clustered monsters.
• The team suppressed the tentacled monster and stabilized the Anomaly Point, while Wang Zhifan stayed hidden nearby to study it and noticed spatial fluctuations forming an encirclement.
• A giant black hand emerged from the Anomaly Point, and Uncle Ghost mutated and attacked his teammates as A-Lang moved to stop him.
• The Mad Demon Group teleported in, helped force the black hand back, and announced that it would take control of the Anomaly Point.
• A white-clothed researcher revealed that the group planned to modify the Anomaly Point using the Chosen Gods Group members as materials, then unleashed a massive demon god phantom that overwhelmed them.

The Mad Demon Group defeated the Chosen Gods Group, and Qi absorbed the anomaly point to undergo Final Awakening. Wang Zhifan appeared in disguise and urged Qi to get closer to the source if he wanted to achieve true Final Awakening.

• Bai Shan arrived with four Chosen Gods Group experts and clashed with Qi, while the Mad Demon Group’s ring crushed many of the surrounded fighters.
• Sister Mei and the other core members disrupted the ring as Bai Shan fought Qi, but the Chosen Gods Group eventually retreated with heavy losses.
• Qi defeated the Chosen Gods Group, claimed the anomaly point, and absorbed its power after asking his lord for Final Awakening.
• Qi’s body and aura transformed, giving him greater power and the ability to influence space.
• Wang Zhifan appeared disguised as a hunched old man, withstood Qi’s attacks, and told him to approach the source to achieve true Final Awakening.

Wang Zhifan manipulated Qi and the Chosen Gods Group’s survivors by inventing True Final Awakening, steering them toward fighting the demon gods for him. He resurrected Bai Shan and left him determined to pursue this new power and defeat Qi.

• Qi asked Wang Zhifan, disguised as a hunchbacked old man, how to achieve True Final Awakening, and Wang Zhifan claimed the sources could be lured into the mortal world and replaced.
• Wang Zhifan crushed Qi with his aura, then watched from another dimension as Qi vowed revenge and began investigating the path to greater power.
• Wang Zhifan found the Chosen Gods Group’s survivors hiding in Sister Mei’s Gray Space, where Yu proposed disbanding after Bai Shan’s apparent death and Qi’s Final Awakening.
• Wang Zhifan appeared before Sister Mei and the others, shattered the Gray Space, reversed the battle scene, and pulled the dead Bai Shan back to life.
• Bai Shan confirmed his resurrection and vowed to pursue True Final Awakening, surpass Qi, and save their fallen companions.

Wang Zhifan used Qi and other organizations to lure Divine-Demons close enough to reality for him to capture and kill three, but the Supernatural Game awarded him no Mythic Points. As his month in the instance ended, he gave several of his helpers half-Demon power and left them with a path to pursue the true Final Awakening.

• Wang Zhifan secretly aided more than thirty organizations, including Qi's Mad Demon Group and Bai Shan's Chosen Gods Group, to prepare rituals for drawing Divine-Demons toward reality.
• Qi performed a bloody ritual to attract a Demon, and Wang Zhifan used the Ring of Fate to lure one close, capture it in a separate space, and kill it.
• Wang Zhifan helped other groups repeat the process and killed two more Divine-Demons, but the Supernatural Game granted him no Mythic Points.
• After the Divine-Demons became wary and his time in the instance ran short, Wang Zhifan decided to ask the back end in Myriad Realms City about the missing rewards.
• Wang Zhifan gave Qi enough power to reach half a Demon's strength, then infused Bai Shan and others with similar power so they could pursue the true Final Awakening.

After confronting Silent Lady to contact his mysterious backer, Wang Zhifan learned that time was running short and received an hourglass marking the deadline for a final challenge. He resolved to prepare for the coming conflict, then used his Mythic Point to upgrade Perfect One into the Mythic Tier Eternal One.

• Wang Zhifan rejected the instance settlement’s single Mythic Point as inadequate, chose a Legendary Tier Path Tattoo, and rushed to Myriad Realms City.
• Wang Zhifan overpowered Silent Lady and used the Azure Emperor Saber to subdue her after she resisted his demand to contact her mysterious associate.
• Through Silent Lady, Wang Zhifan learned that an unknown being was growing stronger and received the Final Deadline hourglass, which warned him to reach the final challenge before its sand ran out.
• Wang Zhifan concluded that the Source’s changing influence was behind the restrictions on him, resolved to prepare for the final challenge, and returned to Earth World.
• Wang Zhifan planned to strengthen himself and make arrangements for his loved ones, then spent his Mythic Point to upgrade Perfect One into the Mythic Tier Eternal One.

Wang Zhifan entered the Immortal Path instance, confirmed he could reach the Immortal Realm, and began exploring the cultivation world for a way to earn Mythic Points. After a roadside gang tried to drive him away from his meal, his anger flared and the chapter ended with the confrontation about to escalate.

• Wang Zhifan entered the Immortal Path instance and used his space-time power to locate the Immortal Realm, deciding to explore for Mythic Points before clearing it.
• Wang Zhifan rode through the mountains, learned from an old man that the road ahead was dangerous, and defeated two bandits by invading their minds.
• Wang Zhifan learned from the bandits that sects controlled supernatural power and that immortals and the Immortal Realm were real.
• Wang Zhifan reached a busy roadside food stall and heard diners discuss Spiritual Roots and the difficulty of joining immortal sects.
• More than thirty members of the Blood Garment Sect arrived, forced the other diners to leave, and one of them tried to kick over Wang Zhifan's table.
• Wang Zhifan glared at the Blood Garment Sect member as his anger rose.

Wang Zhifan reached Skycloud Market, learned about the world's different paths to immortality, and began investigating Spiritual Roots. The chapter left him looking for a tool to test whether he possessed one.

• Wang Zhifan stopped time at a food stall, erased the Blood Garment Sect members who threatened him, and rode north toward the Skycloud Immortal Sect.
• Wang Zhifan met the Foundation Establishment cultivators Li and Zhao, who parted ways after he told them he was a martial cultivator and Blademaster.
• Wang Zhifan arrived at Skycloud Market and learned from an old stallholder that the Daoist Sect's cultivation path was only one of many routes to immortality.
• Wang Zhifan saw a Spiritual Root test reject most of the youths and wondered whether he had a Spiritual Root himself.
• Wang Zhifan decided to buy a testing tool rather than join the line of youths.

Wang Zhifan failed to test positive for a Spiritual Root, then created Ascension Pavilion to offer new routes toward immortality and attract followers. He gave Wang Xiang a Foundation Establishment Pill and urged a Spiritual-Root-less young man to pursue immortality through martial arts.

• Wang Zhifan bought a Spirit-Testing Talisman, found that it did not warm on his forehead, and left without dwelling on the result.
• After seeing a poor Qi Refining cultivator thrown out for lacking spirit stones, Wang Zhifan decided to recruit people from the lower ranks and secretly brought Wang Xiang to Ascension Pavilion.
• Wang Zhifan gave Wang Xiang a pill that he claimed would guarantee Foundation Establishment, then returned him to Skycloud Market.
• Wang Zhifan told a wealthy young man rejected by the Skycloud Immortal Sect that he could become an Immortal through martial arts, and the young man embraced the idea.

Wang Xiang credited his Foundation Establishment breakthrough to the Ascension Pavilion and spread its name among Skycloud Market’s independent cultivators. Wang Zhifan continued expanding the Pavilion’s influence by recruiting two Foundation Establishment cultivators to promote it, while Sun Dajin trained in martial arts under the Pavilion’s influence.

• Wang Xiang reached Foundation Establishment and accepted congratulatory gifts from nearby cultivators.
• Wang Xiang told the gathered cultivators that the Ascension Pavilion’s One-Day Foundation Pill had enabled his breakthrough, prompting them to ask about the Pavilion and its pill.
• Sun Dajin practiced martial arts, believing the Ascension Pavilion Master would teach him to become an Immortal through martial arts, while Iris Blessing accelerated his progress.
• Wang Zhifan, disguised as an old master, overwhelmed Li Zhuoran and Zhao Chun with the aura of a Creation Pill, then offered them a Golden Origin Pill and a cultivation technique in exchange for promoting the Ascension Pavilion.
• Li Zhuoran and Zhao Chun agreed to promote the Pavilion in ten locations among at least one hundred thousand cultivators within seven days, then split up to begin the task.

Wang Zhifan trespassed into the Skycloud Immortal Sect to study its cultivation techniques and pills, then entered the Demon-Sealing Tower to recruit demons for the Ascension Pavilion. He recruited the Peach Blossom Demon and faced the sect elder after seizing the Skycloud Immortal Sword, leaving the elder stunned as he continued toward the tower’s seventeenth floor.

• Wang Zhifan entered the Cultivation Manual Hall and tasked Little Red with analyzing the sect’s cultivation techniques and creating new ones.
• Wang Zhifan visited the pill room, examined its pills, and concluded he could make superior pills himself.
• Wang Zhifan entered the Demon-Sealing Tower and found three Skycloud Immortal Sect disciples fighting demons on separate floors.
• Wang Zhifan reached the sixteenth floor, subdued the Peach Blossom Demon, and recruited her as a promoter in the Demon Realm.
• The Skycloud Immortal Sword attacked Wang Zhifan, but he caught it barehanded and severed the elder’s spiritual connection to it.
• The elder entered the tower to confront Wang Zhifan, who returned the sword and warned him before heading for the seventeenth floor.

Wu Di, a transmigrator training at the Wei Chu Martial Arts Hall, broke through the Iron Body Technique and entered the Body Tempering Realm, First Heaven. The hall master rewarded him with an Iron Bone Pill as Wu Di began his martial arts journey.

• Big Brother learned that Wu Di had not yet started the Iron Body Technique and planned to seize his house and fields when he returned.
• Wu Di’s Iron Body Technique reached 99% progress, then advanced to entry level as he practiced, granting him the Body Tempering Realm, First Heaven.
• The senior brother tested Wu Di’s punch, confirmed his breakthrough, and took him to meet the hall master.
• The hall master gave Wu Di an Iron Bone Pill, explained its benefits and price, and urged him to keep training diligently.

Wu Di broke through the Iron Body Technique, received an Iron Bone Pill, and learned he would need money to continue training. The story then shifted to his enhanced body in the wasteland, where he escaped a Mutant and pursued the caravan men who had abused him, killing one and knocking the other from his horse.

• Wu Di demonstrated his breakthrough by striking the senior brother, who took him to the Hall Master to receive an Iron Bone Pill.
• The Hall Master explained the pill’s effects and price, reminded Wu Di that his martial arts hall fees were due, and encouraged him to keep training.
• Wu Di recalled that his deceased parents had left him a courtyard and several mu of land, then the scene shifted to him breaking free from the hemp rope binding him in the wasteland.
• Wu Di punched the Mutant and fled, discovering that his enhanced body let him outrun the creature.
• Wu Di pursued two caravan members who had abused the slaves, killed the slower rider with a punch, and knocked the other man off his horse.

Wu Di used his newly enhanced strength to escape a Mutant and kill one of the men who had abused him, then forced the other to answer questions about Pingyang City. The story shifted to another Wu Di in Copper Slope Town, a transmigrator whose Iron Body Technique reached 99% before he began to experience a sudden bodily transformation.

• Wu Di fled from the Mutant, discovered he was faster than it, and chased down two mounted men who had abused the slaves.
• Wu Di killed one rider with a punch, disarmed and subdued the other, and demanded directions to Pingyang City.
• In a separate scene, villagers planned to seize the orphan Wu Di's home and fields, believing he was still training unsuccessfully in Copper Slope Town.
• The transmigrated Wu Di trained at Wei Chu Martial Arts Hall, where his panel showed Iron Body Technique progress at 99%.
• As Wu Di practiced combat techniques with the other disciples, his muscles swelled and his body began absorbing immense power.

Wang Zhifan held the Ascension Pavilion's founding ceremony, admitted disciples through a great examination, and promoted its many paths to immortality. The Skycloud Immortal Sect's ancestors investigated the pavilion and, after learning its opportunities were unlike anything in the Immortal Realm, began to suspect it had a hidden agenda.

• Peach Blossom Demon, Ice Phoenix, and Azure Dragon helped keep order as Wang Zhifan began the Ascension Pavilion's founding ceremony and Immortal Old Man preached about its varied paths to immortality.
• The ceremony ended with nearly a thousand cultivators admitted, including many Skycloud Immortal Sect disciples such as Ouyang Chen, while Wang Zhifan dismissed them as spies who would eventually leave.
• Red Cloud and two other ancestors of the Skycloud Immortal Sect discussed the Ascension Pavilion and hoped it might offer a way to transcend tribulation.
• After hearing reports of strange opportunities such as Silicon-Based Swordsmanship and Iron Man Armor, the ancestors doubted the pavilion came from the Immortal Realm.
• The black-haired old man recognized Wang Zhifan as the chief senior disciple he had met at Skycloud Market, and Red Cloud concluded the pavilion had an unknown origin and should be watched closely.

News of Ascension Pavilion’s new paths to ascension spread widely, drawing hopeful visitors and skeptics alike. Wang Zhifan established a trial system for recruits and focused on training Sun Jinshan, while the Skycloud Immortal Sect’s disciples found themselves increasingly drawn to Ascension Pavilion’s advantages.

• News of Ascension Pavilion’s founding and its Martial Dao and Ghost Dao paths stirred debate across the provinces, inspiring some people to travel to Bai Prefecture and prompting others to distrust the sect.
• Wang Zhifan used laws to screen visitors at the mountain gate, assigning qualified recruits to outer, inner, or true disciple ranks according to their aptitude.
• Wang Zhifan trained Sun Jinshan in the Peerless Heaven-Earth Yin-Yang Fist Canon while refusing Ouyang Chen’s request to pursue Martial Dao without abandoning his Daoist cultivation.
• When Ouyang Chen pressed for cultivation residences, Wang Zhifan directed the Skycloud Immortal Sect disciples to a cultivation space powered by his Iris Blessing, which gave them a hundredfold boost.
• The Skycloud Immortal Sect’s disciples grew attached to Ascension Pavilion after using the cultivation space, and Ouyang Chen’s loyalty began to shift despite the sect’s elders reducing the number of disciples sent there.

After three years of building the Ascension Pavilion, Wang Zhifan gathered its core disciples and announced that the Heaven Gate would soon open, creating an opportunity to witness or attempt ascension. The disciples prepared for the announcement’s consequences, while Ouyang Chen worried that the Skycloud Immortal Sect’s Supreme Elders might interfere.

• Wang Zhifan checked the dwindling sand in the Mythic Hourglass and decided he could no longer delay ending the instance.
• Wang Zhifan ordered Xiao Tao and Xiao Feng to gather the core disciples, and Zhao Chun and other staff hurried to hear his announcement.
• Wang Zhifan addressed nearly ten thousand core disciples from the pavilion’s martial, immortal, demon, and other cultivation groups.
• Wang Zhifan announced that his master had told him the Immortal Realm’s gate would open soon, and that he would open the Heaven Gate for the disciples.
• Wang Zhifan explained that the opening would offer experience to most disciples and a rare chance to ascend to a select few, including Ouyang Chen.
• Ouyang Chen welcomed the opportunity but feared the Skycloud Immortal Sect’s Supreme Elders would intervene.