Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng met with fellow Bright Light Realm heterodox True Immortals at the Five Poisons Immortal Palace and learned how the Heavenly Court treated ascended cultivators. The gathering welcomed Profound Immortal Hesha, who lamented his stalled path to the Heavenly Immortal realm and encouraged the younger cultivators to surpass him.

• Chen Sheng arrived at the Five Poisons Immortal Palace and met Five Poisons, Maitian, and Flame Mountain.
• Maitian and Flame Mountain explained that the four great sects held privileged Heavenly Court posts, while Rogue Cultivators who chose the Earth Immortal Realm struggled to find resources.
• Five Poisons, Maitian, and Flame Mountain discussed staying connected and supporting one another as heterodox cultivators from the Bright Light Realm.
• Profound Immortal Hesha joined the gathering, introduced himself to Chen Sheng, and revealed that he had been stuck at the peak of the Profound Immortal realm for a thousand years.
• Hesha said he had fewer than four hundred years to break through and urged the younger cultivators to establish a sixth great immortal sect of Bright Light.

He Sha warned Chen Sheng and the others that lower realms could harbor powerful cultivators capable of defeating Heavenly Court forces, and cautioned them against subjugation missions. Chen Sheng, seeking to study the Heavenly Court’s authority and earn merit, applied to join a mission against the Seven Firmaments Demon Kingdom.

• He Sha explained that a Sword Cultivator from a lower realm had fought his way to the Heavenly Court before the Heavenly Emperor suppressed him, and warned that other lower realms also held dangerous figures.
• He Sha cautioned the newly ascended immortals to avoid subjugation assignments and warned that the four great sects were secretly targeting the Bright Light fringe sects.
• Chen Sheng examined his Heavenly Soldier Seal and discovered that its Imperial Dynasty authority offered power while binding cultivators to the Heavenly Court’s Rules.
• Chen Sheng decided to use lower-realm missions to earn merit and investigate the Imperial Dynasty’s operations, then applied to join the subjugation of the Seven Firmaments Demon Kingdom as Shi Jian.

Chen Sheng received orders to join the expedition against the Seven Firmaments Realm and was assigned to the hostile Bai Mei, while his incarnation as the realm’s Demon Sovereign prepared to confront the Heavenly Court army. The chapter revealed that Chen Sheng had engineered much of the turmoil in minor worlds to obstruct the Heavenly Court and build merit through coordinated incarnations.

• Daoist Han You and a female cultivator arranged to place Shi Jian under hostile forces after learning he had volunteered for a Lower Realm conquest.
• Chen Sheng received his deployment order, armed himself, and joined the Heavenly Soldiers assembling under Ju Ling Celestial Immortal.
• Bai Mei assigned Shi Jian to her command, and Chen Sheng recognized the malice behind the assignment.
• At Cangwu Mountain, Chen Sheng’s Demon Sovereign incarnation learned that Ju Ling’s army had arrived and vowed to defeat the Heavenly Soldiers.
• Chen Sheng’s history as the azure lion Demon Sovereign was revealed, along with his plan to disrupt the Heavenly Court through incarnations across many minor worlds.

The Seven Cang Great Saint fought off the Heavenly Court’s invasion while secretly earning merits for his incarnation, Shi Jian. The Giant Spirit Celestial withdrew his surviving troops and highlighted Shi Jian’s kills as the campaign’s greatest bright spot.

• The Seven Cang Great Saint attacked the Heavenly Court’s formation and killed the White-Brow Profound Immortal and another Profound Immortal node.
• The Giant Spirit Celestial ordered his troops to split up and destroy the demons’ nests, despite the danger of losing the formation’s protection.
• Shi Jian slipped away from the formation and killed seven demon phantoms and twenty-three Demon Kings.
• The Seven Cang Great Saint drew on the realm’s Origin Power and swallowed Heavenly Soldiers, forcing the Giant Spirit Celestial to order a retreat.
• The Seven Cang Great Saint revealed that he had staged the fight to earn merits for his incarnation.
• The Giant Spirit Celestial wrote a report describing the campaign as a victory and singled out Shi Jian for his battle merits.

After Chen Sheng’s first-class merit earned him a Subordinate Seventh Rank, Daoist Han You resolved to kill him when the opportunity arose, while others debated the dangers of his rapid advancement. Thirty years later, Chen Sheng reached True Immortal perfection and planned to advance to Profound Immortal so he could leave his idle Heavenly Horse Enclosure post and approach the Heavenly Court’s core.

• Daoist Han You learned that Chen Sheng had earned first-class merit and been promoted to Subordinate Seventh Rank, then vowed to destroy him when the time was right.
• Five Poisons, Heaven-Spanning, and Mountain-Burning discussed Chen Sheng’s achievement, but Five Poisons cautioned against risking their lives on dangerous campaigns.
• He Sha worried that Chen Sheng’s sudden prominence could attract danger and hoped he would survive it.
• Chen Sheng received a Subordinate Seventh Rank seal, the Fortune Dynasty Earth-Quelling Art, cultivation pills, an Immortal sword, and land in Chonglou Heaven.
• After thirty years of cultivation, Chen Sheng reached True Immortal perfection and planned to advance to Profound Immortal and seek a post closer to the Heavenly Court’s core.

Over a century, Chen Sheng rose to become a powerful Heavenly River Colonel, built up his forces, and accepted several lower-realm acquaintances into the navy. Cold Nether Daoist learned of Chen Sheng’s rise and went to seek guidance from his master, leaving the conflict between them in White Cloud Celestial Immortal’s hands.

• Chen Sheng’s Eight Immortals of Sky Severing stopped Five Poisons True Immortal at Sky Severing Hall, and Qingxuan reported his arrival to Chen Sheng.
• Chen Sheng recalled advancing to Profound Immortal through military service, bringing Li Xuan and the Eight Immortals to the Immortal Realm, and earning promotion to Heavenly River Colonel.
• Five Poisons asked Chen Sheng to take him into the Heavenly River Navy, and Chen Sheng assigned Li Xuan to arrange his post.
• Heaven-Spanning and Mountain-Burning arrived days later to seek refuge, and Chen Sheng accepted them into his command.
• Cold Nether Daoist received a message summoning him to White Cloud Palace and accepted that his master, White Cloud Celestial Immortal, would decide whether to fight Chen Sheng or make peace.

The four Celestial Immortals discussed Jie Tian Daoist’s rapid rise and agreed to wait before acting against him. Centuries later, Son of the Sea visited the Jie Sect and offered its disciples an opportunity to ascend; after he killed the Black Wind Demon Immortal, Daoist Shanyuan and the others gathered fortune to seek breakthroughs and ascend.

• White Cloud Celestial Immortal presented records of failed attempts to kill Jie Tian Daoist, while Yuchen Daoist persuaded the others to wait and advised White Cloud to reconcile if Jie Tian became a Celestial Immortal.
• More than four hundred years later, Son of the Sea returned to Giant Whale Island with fifty Heavenly Soldiers and praised Daoist Shanyuan for managing the Jie Sect.
• Daoist Shanyuan asked for more disciple-guidance slots, but Son of the Sea refused and instead offered the sect an opportunity to ascend through its own efforts.
• Hanging Daoist discovered that the Son of Destiny had died, and Son of the Sea found the Black Wind Demon Immortal devouring the Son of Destiny’s fortune.
• Son of the Sea killed the Black Wind Demon Immortal and sent its remaining fortune into the Jie Sect’s Fortune Cauldron.
• Daoist Shanyuan and the other Jie Sect leaders gathered fortune and prepared to break through to True Immortals and ascend.

Chen Sheng advanced to Celestial Immortal at age eight hundred and twenty-three, drawing the attention of the Heavenly Court and prompting the Bright Light Realm’s four Celestial Immortals to negotiate with him. At the Peach Banquet, Chen Sheng noticed that the Heavenly Emperor seemed different from the one he remembered.

• Chen Sheng broke through to Celestial Immortal, and his disciples celebrated as he sent invitations for a banquet at Sky Severing Hall.
• White Cloud Celestial Immortal conceded defeat to the other Bright Light Realm immortals, then joined them in bringing Cold Nether Daoist to Sky Severing Hall as part of their negotiations with Chen Sheng.
• Chen Sheng agreed to meet the four Celestial Immortals but secretly destroyed Cold Nether Daoist’s Primordial Spirit; he then ordered Li Xuan to enter ten years of seclusion after Li Xuan celebrated Jie Sect’s place in the destiny network.
• Chen Sheng attended the thousand-year Peach Banquet with Li Xuan and the others from Sky Severing Hall, where the Heavenly Emperor arrived to greet the assembled immortals.
• Chen Sheng watched the Heavenly Emperor and wondered why he seemed different from the figure in his memories.

The Ape Venerable attacked the Heavenly Court, defeated its forces, and was ultimately killed by the Heavenly Emperor’s Five-Colored Divine Mountain. Watching through his incarnation, Chen Sheng realized the Heavenly Emperor had fought through an incarnation made from the Court’s fortune and wondered why the Emperor’s true form was hidden.

• The Ape Venerable stormed the Southern Heavenly Gate, killed Immortal Lord Chonglou, and shattered the Heavenly Court’s formations as he pressed toward the Ninth Heaven.
• The Heavenly Emperor used the Treasure Mirror to watch the battle and judged the Ape Venerable an exceptionally powerful Child of Destiny from the lower realm.
• The Heavenly Emperor summoned a Five-Colored Divine Mountain from the Heavenly Court’s fortune and demanded that the Ape Venerable submit.
• The Ape Venerable burned the origin of his Primordial Spirit and struck the mountain with his Golden Cudgel, but died in the clash.
• Chen Sheng recognized that the Heavenly Emperor’s attacker was an incarnation formed from the Court’s fortune, then questioned why the Emperor’s true form could not appear.

Chen Sheng used his avatars to destabilize the Heavenly Court’s control across the minor worlds while keeping his attention on the Heavenly Emperor. As the Heavenly Emperor’s imperial dynasty avatar weakened, he appeared above the Nine Heavens and began searching for whoever was coordinating the upheaval.

• Chen Sheng learned that the patriarchs of the four sects in the Bright Light Realm had fallen, and Daoist Chang Pu took control of the realm’s destiny for the Jie Sect.
• Daoist Chang Pu’s rivals lost their Spiritual Veins and Secret Realms as the Jie Sect absorbed the four sects’ dependents and resources.
• The Golden-winged Great Peng decided to make his major avatars more aggressive so they could probe the Heavenly Emperor’s hidden strength.
• Great Saint Qi Cang and other avatars severed destiny networks and broke imperial control across several minor worlds.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s imperial dynasty avatar weakened as realms slipped from his control, and the Heavenly Emperor appeared above the Nine Heavens to investigate the coordinated disruptions.

Chen Sheng’s incarnations attacked the fate networks across the Lesser Thousand Worlds, but Taihao Heavenly Emperor used the Heart Gate to destroy them and uncover their shared origin. Chen Sheng concealed his survivors, while Taihao identified the threat and reflected on the hidden path to transcendence that had eluded him.

• Seven Cang Great Saint tried to sever the Mayfly Realm’s fate network, but Taihao Heavenly Emperor emerged through the Heart Gate and killed him.
• Taihao Heavenly Emperor captured and examined the white-browed Daoist’s Primordial Spirit, but found its memories of the mastermind had been erased.
• Chen Sheng recognized that Taihao’s power came from the Illusory Heaven of Mind Aspect and withdrew his remaining incarnations after further probes cost him dozens more.
• Taihao Heavenly Emperor used the Heart Gate to identify Chen Sheng’s incarnation method and estimate the strength of his true form.
• Taihao Heavenly Emperor reviewed past failures to achieve transcendence and wondered whether the hidden opponent might offer a way forward.

Three thousand years after taking power, Chen Sheng became the Jie Tian Immortal King and prepared to receive the Jie Sect from the Bright Light Realm into his Earth Immortal Realm. After discovering that the Heavenly Emperor restricted his share of fortune and cultivation inheritance, Chen Sheng decided to launch another uprising and sever the Bright Light Realm’s fortune network.

• Chen Sheng was enthroned as Jie Tian Immortal King, and he reflected on how his repeated uprisings had cleared the way for his succession.
• Daoist Hanxing announced Chen Sheng’s decree that the Jie Sect would open the realm passage in three days and ascend together to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Cultivators from across the Bright Light Realm gathered to watch, but Elder Yun Miao refused the Venerables who sought to join the Jie Sect.
• Chen Sheng studied the Immortal King Seal and found that the Heavenly Emperor had limited his access to the Earth Immortal Realm’s fortune and cultivation inheritance.
• Chen Sheng concluded that the Imperial Dynasty could not be dismantled from within and decided to stage another uprising, this time severing the Bright Light Realm’s fortune network.

After the Imperial Dynasty collapsed and the Heavenly Emperor’s imprint vanished, Chen Sheng found the Heavenly Court in turmoil over the Taihao Sky-Suspending Mirror. He revealed overwhelming power and wiped out the Immortal Kings, Immortal Lords, and veteran Heavenly Immortals in Taihao Palace.

• At the Shattered Moon Abyss, Chen Sheng’s avatar sensed the fortune network slacken as it shattered and the Bright Moon Realm filled with auspicious signs.
• Chen Sheng suffered a backlash from the Imperial Dynasty’s collapse and hurried to Taihao Palace, where the Taihao Sky-Suspending Mirror had gone dim and the Heavenly Emperor’s imprint had disappeared.
• Immortal Kings and Immortal Lords argued over the Heavenly Emperor’s fate, then fought to seize the mirror as Shanghua Heavenly Immortal revealed his hidden strength.
• Chen Sheng entered the melee and announced that he would take the mirror, then immobilized everyone in Taihao Palace with yin-yang mystic light.
• Chen Sheng ground the Immortal Kings, Immortal Lords, and veteran Heavenly Immortals into remnant souls and absorbed them into his taiji diagram.

After taking the Taihao Sky-Suspending Mirror and its inheritances, Chen Sheng rejected his disciples’ call to become Heavenly Emperor and sent them to restore order while he entered seclusion. He suspected the missing Heavenly Emperor had hidden himself and deliberately left gaps in the heart-path inheritance, and he planned to test both inheritances through separate incarnations.

• Chen Sheng claimed the Taihao Sky-Suspending Mirror, learned that the Epoch Great Calamity was thirty thousand years away, and examined the Imperial Dynasty Scripture and Illusory Heart Nine Scrolls.
• Chen Sheng summoned Li Xuan and the Eight Immortals, explained the imperial dynasty’s collapse and his victory over the powers seeking the mirror, then received their plea to become Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Sheng gave Li Xuan and the Eight Immortals nine immortal swords containing thirty percent of his divine abilities and ordered them to guard the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, cleanse former Heavenly Court forces, and calm the realms.
• Li Xuan rallied the others to carry out Chen Sheng’s orders, while Chen Sheng watched from the hidden void and relied on his incarnations to control the situation.
• In seclusion, Chen Sheng found that Illusory Heart Nine Scrolls skipped crucial steps for reaching Body Integration and concluded that the Heavenly Emperor had withheld methods and might still be hiding.
• Chen Sheng studied the Imperial Dynasty Scripture, planned to cultivate it through one incarnation and test the heart path through another, and decided his two true bodies would pause cultivation until he understood both inheritances.

Chen Sheng opened the Sword Realm’s path to ascension, then ruled the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as Heavenly Emperor while consolidating his control and studying the River of Origin. He discovered that its source contained the incomplete Dao seed of a Calamity Crossing Dao Lord, a realm far beyond his understanding.

• Thirty years after entering the Sword Alliance, Chen Sheng shattered the Becoming Immortal tribulation and opened an immortal gate for True Immortals to ascend.
• Yan Wenqiu recognized Chen Sheng as the green-robed swordsman who had rescued him thirty years earlier.
• At the Peach Banquet, Chen Sheng presided as Heavenly Emperor over the flourishing Jie Sect and its immortal officials.
• Chen Sheng reviewed his control of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and resolved to bring the autonomous minor worlds under his authority gradually.
• Chen Sheng reached the River of Origin’s source, where his incarnations cultivated, and sensed the Dao seed of a deceased Calamity Crossing Dao Lord.

Chen Qingyun instructed four White Deer Academy prodigies in the Void Sword Art before receiving news that his master had emerged from seclusion and reached the top floor of the Star Tower. White Deer Daoist explained the news to the stunned disciples, who learned that Chen Qingyun’s master was nearly invincible in Void Refining.

• Chen Qingyun watched four Nascent Soul prodigies spar and identified flaws in their Void Sword techniques.
• Chen Qingyun demonstrated corrections, and the disciples thanked him for his guidance.
• Chen Qingyun received a sect message, laughed with excitement, and left after telling the disciples that White Deer Daoist would arrive.
• White Deer Daoist appeared and told the disciples that Chen Qingyun’s master had emerged from seclusion and reached the Star Tower’s top floor.
• The disciples realized Chen Qingyun’s master was a figure of extraordinary power, nearly at the level of a Dharma Lord.

After leaving White Deer Academy, Chen Qingyun returned to Yunlu Dao Palace and reunited with Zhang Hongdao before meeting their master, Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng offered to guide Chen Qingyun’s cultivation and passed Zhang Hongdao a heart-path method, leaving both disciples with new paths to advance.

• Daoist White Deer told the four contenders that Chen Qingyun had resigned and left behind scrolls annotating the Void Sword Art.
• Chen Qingyun reunited with Zhang Hongdao at Miesheng Hall, where Zhang explained that he had brought a gifted clan descendant to the Dao Palace.
• Chen Qingyun and Zhang Hongdao were drawn into the hall by Chen Sheng’s Near and Far ability and congratulated him on reaching the top floor of the Star Tower.
• Chen Sheng assessed the two disciples’ cultivation and promised to guide Chen Qingyun toward the third tribulation of Void Refining.
• Chen Sheng gave Zhang Hongdao a Jade Book containing annotations on a method for cultivating the heart path and evolving a heart realm.

Daoist Yun Xing returned to Miesheng Hall and found Chen Sheng had completed the Four Scrolls of Finality, then shared news of their fellow disciples’ progress and travels. He revealed that Senior Brother was returning, though he left Chen Sheng uncertain about whether Senior Brother had found a breakthrough opportunity.

• Daoist Yun Xing returned to Miesheng Hall and praised Chen Sheng for completing the Four Scrolls of Finality.
• Chen Sheng and Daoist Yun Xing compared their cultivation progress, and Daoist Yun Xing described his travels and discoveries in the Taiyi Realm.
• Daoist Yun Xing said Third Senior Brother had only recently entered the fourth scroll and was still at minor accomplishment.
• Daoist Yun Xing explained that Third Senior Brother had stayed behind because Senior Brother had summoned him.
• Chen Sheng asked whether Senior Brother had found a chance to break through, and Daoist Yun Xing said Senior Brother would return soon.

Several years after instructing his disciples, Chen Sheng welcomed his senior brothers and learned that Daoist Tai Yuan had survived a failed attempt to reach Body Integration but was gravely wounded. At Master Hong Jue’s request, Chen Sheng accepted Tai Yuan’s son, Ming Gan, as his disciple and promised to care for him.

• Chen Sheng gave Qi Yuan and Gu Ye cultivation insights and helped Zhang Hongdao stabilize his emerging Mind Aspect.
• Daoist Tai Yuan arrived with Daoist Yun Xing, Han Jun, and the child Ming Gan, revealing that he had suffered severe Dao wounds after failing to break through to Body Integration.
• Chen Sheng gave Ming Gan the Soul-Consolidating Pearl and Cloudsilk Armor, and Master Hong Jue welcomed the child and bestowed protective treasures.
• Daoist Tai Yuan explained that Ming Gan had been born through a secret creation method and embodied both his bloodline and Dao.
• Master Hong Jue asked Chen Sheng to accept Ming Gan into his branch, and Chen Sheng agreed to care for him as his own.

Chen Sheng guided his disciples as they advanced in cultivation while Daoist Tai Yuan left to complete his Way of Creation. Years later, Chen Sheng saw the Great Epochal Destruction approaching and concluded that the Way of the Imperial Dynasty could not succeed, leaving Coinciding Dao as a possible fallback.

• Daoist Tai Yuan entrusted Ming Gan to Chen Sheng and departed to travel the Great Thousand World while his injuries remained unhealed.
• Qi Yuan and Gu Ye cleared the fifth Star Tower, received protective Dao talismans from Chen Sheng, and left for the Nanhua Immortal Mansion.
• Chen Sheng taught Ming Gan, Chen Qingyun, and Zhang Hongdao the Way of Annihilation and helped refine their cultivation.
• Chen Qingyun reached the third Void Refining Calamity and left to temper his sword Dao; Zhang Hongdao also reached the third calamity, while Ming Gan cultivated his Nascent Soul and comprehended laws of annihilation.
• Twelve thousand years before the Great Epochal Destruction, Chen Sheng saw signs of decline across the lower realms and determined that the Way of the Imperial Dynasty could not condense a Dharma seed.
• Chen Sheng considered Coinciding Dao a powerful but dangerous fallback that could grant Integration Master strength while risking bondage to the world and Dao assimilation.