Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaosi used the spirit tablet to destroy Daoist Song Jun and turned the Li Family into a haven that attracted cultivators seeking longer lives. After two thousand years, the clan faced scarce spiritual energy and demons, and Li Xiaosi began ascending—only for millions of clanspeople to decide they could not let him leave.

• Li Xiaosi used the spirit tablet to identify Daoist Song Jun and spend ten thousand years of lifespan to kill him with heavenly lightning.
• A female Transformation Spirit cultivator married into the Li Family, gained a greatly extended lifespan, and helped draw more female cultivators to join the clan.
• Li Xiaosi held a matchmaking convention, and the Li Family expanded until cultivators across the Earth Realm sought to marry into it.
• Two thousand years later, the Li Family faced scarce spiritual energy and demons who preyed on its long-lived members, so its cultivators urged collective ascension.
• Li Xiaosi prepared for ascension and began his Heavenly Tribulation, while tens of millions of clanspeople concluded that they had to keep him from leaving.

Li Xiaosi left the Lower Realm with five Li Family cultivators, and their departure stripped the millions of descendants below of the lifespan benefits they had enjoyed. In the Primal Spirit World, the six ascenders found a barren cultivation environment, were forced into servitude by a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, and Li Xiaosi warned those below not to ascend.

• Li Xiaosi saw through his descendants’ Illusion Gu scheme, killed the family members who had plotted against him, and prepared to ascend with five other Li Family cultivators.
• After the six ascended, the spirit tablet’s bonuses fell to their lowest level, and Li Xiaosi sensed that millions of Li Family members in the Lower Realm were nearing death.
• The descendants cursed Li Xiaosi as he left, rewrote his history as a demonic invader, and watched the mortal world face collapse as the family’s lifespan benefits vanished.
• Li Xiaosi and the others explored the Primal Spirit World and discovered that spiritual energy and other resources were monopolized by a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• The cultivator forced the six newcomers to become laborers extracting spiritual energy, and after a month of hard labor Li Xiaosi wrote “Do not ascend” as a warning to those below.

Li Xiaosi escaped the Upper Realm’s control by returning his soul to the mortal world, then began preparing to confront the Tribulation Transcendence Expert who had captured him. Back among the Li Family, he revealed that the so-called Immortal Realm was a prison where ascendants became laborers, leaving his shocked clan to reckon with his return and their restored lives.

• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert discovered Li Xiaosi and his five clansmen secretly having children, seized them, and tortured Li Xiaosi while searching his memories.
• Li Xiaosi used an incarnation he had left in the Lower Realm to return his soul to the mortal world, and his five clansmen used the same method to escape.
• Li Xiaosi resolved to study ways to defeat the Upper Realm expert and set out to make more thorough preparations before ascending again.
• Li Xiaosi returned to a territory where the Li Family’s people had suffered while he was gone, and a young child accused him of abandoning them for immortality.
• Li Xiaosi explained that the Earth Immortal Realm was a prison where ascendants became laborers, shocking the Li Family as their lives and cultivation recovered.

Li Xiaosi abandoned the pursuit of ascension and began strengthening his Small World by drawing energy from the void, guided by a junior’s proposal. He built a merit-based cultivation system that spread across the Mortal Realm, but a Tribulation Transcendence Expert finally located him and sent an Extraterritorial Avatar to investigate.

• Li Xiaosi’s family members considered binding or freezing him, while Li Xiaosi revitalized the Li Family and shared some of its resources with other families.
• A guileless junior urged Li Xiaosi to strengthen their world and send people out to explore, giving Li Xiaosi a new alternative to ascending.
• Li Xiaosi began replenishing the Small World with void energy and promoted the Coolie Cultivation Method through ranks, merits, and rewards.
• People across the Mortal Realm eagerly cultivated the method, and Li Xiaosi protected them while punishing those who harmed them.
• A Tribulation Transcendence Expert tracked Li Xiaosi’s location and sent an Extraterritorial Avatar to investigate.

Li Xiaosi destroyed the Tribulation Transcendence Expert’s incarnation with 20,000 years of lifespan, terrifying the expert into fleeing by reincarnating as a stone and leaving his world to his First Disciple. After Li Xiaosi sent a junior to investigate, the junior learned the expert had supposedly ascended and then encountered the First Disciple, who offered to help kill his former master.

• A Tribulation Transcendence Expert’s incarnation studied Li Xiaosi’s peaceful, prosperous Small World and devised a poisonous insect to control its civilians and uncover Li Xiaosi’s secret.
• As Li Xiaosi attempted Dao Integration, his Spirit Tablet warned him of a dangerous outsider; he spent 20,000 years of lifespan to destroy the incarnation.
• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert realized his incarnation had been killed, feared Li Xiaosi could destroy his true body, and pretended to ascend while reincarnating as a stone.
• The expert handed his world and the method of immortality to his First Disciple, who took over and continued his former master’s methods.
• After Li Xiaosi sent a junior to investigate, the junior reported that the expert had supposedly ascended, leaving Li Xiaosi convinced he had fled.
• The junior met the First Disciple, who proposed joining forces to kill the expert, explaining that the expert drained his disciples’ souls to sustain himself.

Li Xiaosi and the First Disciple organized a search for the Tribulation Transcendence Expert, who had disguised himself as a stone in a vast world. When their initial efforts failed, Li Xiaosi urged the First Disciple to give the enslaved cultivators real freedom and power so they would search more zealously, leaving the world stirred by rumors that the demon could return.

• Li Xiaosi and the First Disciple agreed that the First Disciple would find his master and Li Xiaosi would kill him, while the disciple insisted his master had not ascended.
• The First Disciple and Li Xiaosi searched for ten years but could not locate the Tribulation Transcendence Expert, who had transformed into a stone.
• Li Xiaosi advised the First Disciple to enlist the tens of thousands of Soul Transformation laborers by promising them freedom and a share of the world if they found the demon.
• The First Disciple gave the laborers three days off each month and later removed most of their restrictions, prompting them to search and uncover the master's puppets, incarnations, and resurrection contingencies.
• After Li Xiaosi urged him to offer genuine freedom, the First Disciple granted the laborers long-term leave and lifted their mana restrictions to the final layer.
• The freed cultivators spread rumors that the demon still lived and could return, stirring other cultivators to join the search.

The First Disciple followed Li Xiaosi’s advice and lifted more restrictions on the slave cultivators, allowing them to search for their master more effectively. Their perfected causal array located the Tribulation Transcendence Expert and revealed that he was nurturing a Demon Fetus to destroy the world, leaving the First Disciple terrified.

• The First Disciple agreed to Li Xiaosi’s advice and further lifted the cultivators’ restrictions so they would search harder for his master.
• The freed cultivators divided the world into search grids and developed spells to trace the karmic connection between the First Disciple and his master.
• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert, disguised as a stone, sensed the search closing in and decided to ensure that only he could think freely.
• The First Disciple sensed his master preparing a terrible attack, and cultivators from every realm gathered to operate the Deduction Array.
• After 9,999 days, the array located a floating stone on a mountain and showed that it was nurturing a Demon Fetus capable of plunging the world into chaos.
• The First Disciple realized his master truly intended to destroy the world and panicked.

Li Xiaosi destroyed the Demon Fetus, killed the Tribulation Transcendence Expert and his First Disciple, and completed the world's ascension. Wenren Sheng handed two developed worlds back to their World Lord, then followed the Tribulation Transcendence Expert's True Spirit into a fiercely competitive world and began training in martial arts.

• The First Disciple helped Li Xiaosi enter the world, and Li Xiaosi summoned ten thousand cultivator clansmen to destroy the Demon Fetus at the cost of a million years of lifespan.
• Li Xiaosi found and killed the Tribulation Transcendence Expert, whose True Spirit Wenren Sheng sent to Another World; Li Xiaosi then erased the First Disciple, who secretly left a fragment of his True Spirit to reincarnate in Li Xiaosi's mortal realm.
• Wenren Sheng returned the two developed worlds to their original World Lord, who thanked him for showing how to guide living beings to build and expand their world.
• Wenren Sheng followed the Tribulation Transcendence Expert into a world built around ruthless competition and chose to test his own abilities there.
• Wenren Sheng joined a martial arts school that taught the Flying Horse Movement Technique, quickly mastered its lessons, and concealed his awareness of flaws in the school's teachings.

Wenren Sheng watched his footwork instructor fall for a treasure scam and later saw the martial arts hall disappear, while a reincarnated Tribulation Transcendence Expert secretly profited from the aftermath. On New Year's Eve, a portal opened to a modern city, where the instructors led their apprentices into a robbery and fought the responding soldiers.

• Wenren Sheng stayed silent as his footwork instructor followed three instructors to a supposed treasure and was crushed beneath Big Stones in an ambush.
• A reincarnated Tribulation Transcendence Expert searched the instructor's corpse after the attackers left and found four hundred taels in banknotes hidden in his shoes.
• The martial arts hall was taken over, and its new instructors promised the students a fortune in exchange for ninety percent of their earnings.
• On New Year's Eve, a bright portal appeared in the darkened sky, and the instructors told the students to enter it.
• Wenren Sheng emerged in a modern city and watched the instructors rob shops before leading apprentices toward a bank's Gold Vault.
• Soldiers arrived with machine guns and tanks, but martial artists evaded their attacks and one killed the tank crew with a palm strike.

Wenren Sheng watched martial artists exploit a time-limited portal to rob a modern city, using hostages to restrain the security forces while greed and gunfire took their toll. As the portal’s window closed, the Tribulation Transcendence Expert’s reincarnated apprentice argued for lasting exchanges, while Wenren Sheng secured solar equipment for the cultivation world.

• Wenren Sheng realized the martial artists used hostages and the portal’s two-hour limit to prevent the modern forces from deploying destructive weapons.
• The martial artists ignored offers of trade and continued stealing gold, jewelry, jade, and pearls, while some who strayed from robbery were killed by snipers.
• Security forces responded with gunfire, killing many weak apprentices and exposing how the masters had used them to draw attention away from themselves.
• Some masters brutally mutilated wealthy people to take their jewelry, while the reincarnated Tribulation Transcendence Expert criticized the robbers and urged regular exchanges with the modern world.
• Wenren Sheng entered an industrial supply store and took a solar-panel set and related equipment that could provide steady electricity for more than ten years.

Wenren Sheng installed disguised solar equipment and used the captured apprentices’ betrayal to preserve his gains, while the martial arts masters plundered modern goods and drove up medicinal herb prices. Three months later, the masters began targeting one another over hoarded gold, and a martial arts hall’s hall master tricked its elders into handing over gold to fund his planned breakthrough.

• Wenren Sheng returned from the raid with solar equipment as apprentices suffered heavy casualties and many were captured, then half of the captives defected to the modern people and revealed what little they knew.
• Wenren Sheng installed solar panels, lights, and an electric stove, and the Grand Elder rebuked a master who wanted to seize the equipment, allowing Wenren Sheng to keep it.
• Wenren Sheng tested electrical stimulation for cultivation and found it ineffective, while martial arts masters spent their stolen gold on medicinal herbs whose prices merchants had sharply raised.
• Three months later, martial arts masters began attacking those who had hoarded gold, and the hall master persuaded the elders to deposit their remaining gold in the hall vault.
• The hall master used the deposit plan to gather gold for Realm-Breaking Pills, which he intended to buy for his own breakthrough without returning the gold.

Wenren Sheng watched the Tribulation Transcendence Expert gain protection and resources after curing a wealthy young master, then cultivated until he was among the strongest martial artists. When modern forces invaded through a new Light Gate and devastated the martial arts schools, the two worlds moved toward a balance that could allow trade, and Wenren Sheng learned that the modern world was often invaded.

• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert cured a wealthy young master with stolen antibiotics and received gold, training expenses, and the wealthy family's protection from a martial arts elder.
• Wenren Sheng cultivated to Flesh Training, mastered poisons, and grew into a powerful martial artist over many years.
• A Light Gate opened in the city, and modern tanks and aircraft attacked the martial arts schools with poisoned and conventional weapons.
• The modern forces killed many Martial Artists, then announced that the two worlds' power was balanced and that the martial arts schools had provoked the conflict.
• After the Light Gate began alternating between worlds, Wenren Sheng asked a modern person whether their world was often invaded and learned that it was.

After the modern people forced the Martial Artists to accept a trade agreement, the defeated factions sought help from Cultivators who saw opportunities in the modern world. Ten years later, a Light Gate opened again, bringing a new Cultivator invasion that the modern world was prepared to face.

• The modern people negotiated a trade agreement with the Martial Artists after defeating them, while Wenren Sheng observed without intervening.
• After the Light Gate vanished, the Martial Artists denounced the agreement as humiliating and decided to seek revenge and enlist Cultivators.
• Cultivators, including Demon Cultivators, became interested in the world’s many people and industrial machinery, and agreed to help the Martial Artists.
• A new Light Gate appeared after only ten years, and the modern world prepared for another invasion by Cultivators.

Righteous and demonic cultivators entered the modern world to seize its resources, and the righteous cultivators planned to force it to pay tribute. The demonic cultivators then harvested the souls of entire cities, leaving the modern world’s population and infrastructure in chaos.

• Qi Refining cultivators stole books, computers, and industrial equipment, then concluded that the modern world should provide tribute in minerals rather than trade as an equal.
• A Golden Core cultivator sealed his spiritual energy, studied the modern world online, and learned that its people believed industrial weapons could counter cultivators.
• Demonic Path Cultivators entered the modern world and found its people’s souls pure, though their flesh and blood held no spiritual energy.
• Demonic cultivators swept through major cities and seized hundreds of thousands of souls at a time, causing mass unconsciousness and paralyzing cities.
• Power plants and water plants began failing within days, and news of the destruction shattered the modern people’s confidence in their ability to resist.

Modern humanity became prey under the Demonic Cultivators’ control, while the Five Demonic Path Cultivators divided the planet and imposed rules to preserve their human population. As modern people tried to find a way into the Martial Artists’ world, a Tribulation Transcendence Expert secretly recruited several of their chosen fools in the name of love and justice.

• High-level Demonic Cultivators stopped reckless human hunting, killed several Great Devils, and subdued lower-ranking Demonic Cultivators.
• The Five Demonic Path Cultivators divided the planet, created the Modern People Protection Agreement, and used a More Children, More Fortune System to encourage human reproduction.
• Demonic Cultivators removed weapons and poisons from human reach and left two watchers to prevent people from entering the Teleportation Portal.
• Modern people selected a group to cross into the Martial Artists’ world and learn cultivation techniques, including clever recruits, fools, illiterates, and people with striking appearances.
• A Tribulation Transcendence Expert secretly approached several of the selected fools and won them over with promises of equality, justice, love, and being loved.

The Tribulation Transcendence Expert helped modern people enter the Martial Immortal World, taught them basic cultivation, and used a rare spiritual-energy pool to select three promising cultivators. He then built a platform to manage them, while other cultivators joined his effort to control the newcomers, and Wenren Sheng recognized that exploitation could eventually drive them to breakthrough.

• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert taught the modern people about cultivation monopolies and gave them basic cultivation methods before concealing them in the mountains to practice.
• After three months passed without anyone reaching the Qi Induction Stage, the Tribulation Transcendence Expert selected three who had persevered and brought them to a pool with higher spiritual-energy density, where they began making progress.
• The Tribulation Transcendence Expert established a Cultivators platform for the modern cultivators to share knowledge and later resources.
• Other cultivators challenged the Tribulation Transcendence Expert's lenient treatment of the modern people, but he persuaded them that managing the newcomers through a platform was safer than leaving them to learn independently.
• The cultivators approved tighter control of the modern people and planned to use gifted newcomers as laborers, while Wenren Sheng realized that the pressure and exploitation would eventually produce a breakthrough.

Wenren Sheng investigated a new Light Gate and discovered it led to a text-and-image world where Goblins emerged to haul away modern humanity’s garbage. He found a young man who could change his own character description and told him to become a detective, leaving him poised to join Wenren Sheng.

• Modern human powers recruited talented cultivators and negotiated with righteous-path cultivators to protect humanity from the Demonic Cultivators.
• Wenren Sheng entered the modern world and waited until a Light Gate opened, bringing Goblins who began carrying garbage back to their world.
• Wenren Sheng passed through the Light Gate wearing a Ma Jia and discovered that the other world consisted of pictures and text, with Goblins appearing as resources accumulated.
• A young man in one picture asked Wenren Sheng to take him along, and Wenren Sheng learned that he could alter his own description.
• Wenren Sheng told the young man to become a detective, and the young man changed his description to call himself a promising detective across all worlds.

Wenren Sheng had Picture Detective investigate the Martial Immortal World, and Picture Detective uncovered Feng Wushi, a former Tribulation Transcendence Expert intent on building a controllable family. Feng Wushi developed bloodline-bound cultivation and afterlife systems to secure his descendants’ loyalty, while Picture Detective secretly observed him.

• Wenren Sheng sent Picture Detective into the Martial Immortal World, where he found Feng Wushi and reported his memoir diary to his master.
• Picture Detective entered Feng Wushi’s diary as the characters for “weather” and continued monitoring him from within it.
• Feng Wushi decided to establish a family and devised a cultivation method that controlled descendants through their genes and bloodlines.
• Feng Wushi created a clan doctrine and an ancestral-hall illusion that captured some dead members’ Soul Fragments and made them believe they could live again within the clan.
• Feng Wushi’s clan members accepted the promised afterlife and committed themselves to the clan’s prosperity.

Feng Wushi used the Clan Reincarnation World to tighten control over his clan, absorb outsiders into his growing organization, and seize resources by defeating a coalition of rival factions. As he expanded across the Martial Immortal World and invested in formations, Picture Detective planned to disguise himself as a choice-based system to trick Feng Wushi into exposing his secrets.

• Feng Wushi imposed stricter rewards and punishments on his clan, strengthening its cohesion through the promise of reincarnation.
• Feng Wushi infiltrated a Great Sect through marriage alliances and deception, then used his clan to exploit workers and gather resources.
• Rival clans and sects formed a coalition against Feng Wushi, but he broke it apart and seized their resource-producing lands and technical talents.
• Feng Wushi prioritized Arrays Masters, established defensive formations, and recruited talented cultivators into his expanding family.
• Feng Wushi sent agents to investigate resources across the Martial Immortal World, while Picture Detective asked Wenren Sheng to let him pose as a choice-based system and trap Feng Wushi into revealing his secrets.

Wenren Sheng turned Picture Detective into a God-level Choice System and offered it to Feng Wushi, who cautiously accepted a one-month trial. Feng Wushi began using its choices as a source of information, and the chapter ended after he secretly followed a Golden Core cultivator who stole a Millennium Pearl from the Hai Sha Sect.

• Wenren Sheng gave Picture Detective the ability to become a text-based choice system and warned it to be careful with Feng Wushi.
• Feng Wushi refused to bind with the system until Picture Detective offered a one-month trial, which he accepted with the right to withdraw at any time.
• Feng Wushi chose to cultivate at home rather than pursue a woman or steal a Millennium Pearl, and he suffered and resolved a demonic deviation.
• Feng Wushi learned that the woman and the Millennium Pearl were both tied to a passing Nascent Soul Big Shot, then decided to use the system's choices as intelligence.
• Feng Wushi went to the Hai Sha Sect to trade for a Millennium Pearl and secretly followed an elderly Golden Core cultivator who stole one.
• Feng Wushi discovered that the Hai Sha Sect used human flesh and blood to cultivate Millennium Pearls, while alarms sounded after the elderly cultivator took one.