Chapter Summaries

Li Yan and Min Rou discussed the Supreme Dao’s cautious expansion in the Endless Sea, while at the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect, the Sea Covering Great Sage revealed himself to save condemned dragons and destroy the sect. He defeated the Yulong Sect Master and left the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect buried beneath the sea.

• Li Yan described the power and factions of the Endless Sea, while Min Rou explained that the Supreme Dao would expand openly after she advanced to God Official of Fate.
• At the Dragon-Slaying Platform, Ao Cheng protested his false conviction, and Ao Xiao recounted how he had retaliated against the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect after being framed.
• Ao Cheng invoked the Sea Covering Great Sage as the Crimson Dragon revealed himself to be that legendary figure and shattered his chains.
• The Sea Covering Great Sage killed the Enforcement Elder and Yu Long Dharma Protectors, destroyed the Dragon-Slaying Platform, and swallowed many fleeing disciples.
• The Sea Covering Great Sage defeated the Yulong Sect Master, destroyed the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect, and sank its mountain gate beneath the sea.

Immortal King Zang Peng learned that Sea Covering Great Sage had destroyed the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect and trapped him in a space-time formation by the North Sea. Their confrontation ended with Zang Peng enraged after Sea Covering Great Sage mocked his past flight from Azure Dragon Immortal King.

• After massacring the Imperial Dragon Immortal Sect, Sea Covering Great Sage gathered Ao Hu and the other Dragon Scum and flew away.
• Immortal King Zang Peng watched the massacre through a Water Screen and recalled his long campaign against the Dragon Clan, fearing Sea Covering Great Sage’s rapid rise.
• Sea Covering Great Sage arrived at the North Sea and found himself trapped in a distorted space-time formation.
• Immortal King Zang Peng appeared, identified himself as Peng Xuan, and demanded that Sea Covering Great Sage submit through a Master-Servant Contract.
• Sea Covering Great Sage mocked Zang Peng for abandoning the Yin-Yang Great Dao after fleeing Azure Dragon Immortal King, provoking Zang Peng into a furious threat.

Sea Covering Great Sage fought Immortal King Zang Peng through a powerful incarnation, but the Golden-winged Great Peng destroyed it and slaughtered Dragon Clan beings in rage. Sea Covering Great Sage survived in hiding, though he was gravely wounded and expected to need centuries to recover, while a purple-robed emperor watched unseen and pondered the emergence of another foreign Immortal Emperor.

• Immortal King Zang Peng attacked Sea Covering Great Sage, who defended himself with Pure Light before summoning his True God's Domain and a divine spear.
• Immortal King Zang Peng overwhelmed Sea Covering Great Sage with repeated attacks and destroyed his body, leaving behind a black Dragon Whisker.
• Immortal King Zang Peng realized he had fought only a Dragon Whisker incarnation and, enraged, revealed his Golden-winged Great Peng form and devoured countless Dragon Clan beings.
• A purple-robed emperor observed the battle unseen and used the Taihao Mirror, but could not locate the foreign realm associated with the Supreme Dao system.
• Sea Covering Great Sage reappeared in a hidden palace in the Western Wilderness Continent, revealed that the incarnation had carried most of his authority, and acknowledged that he would need several hundred years to recover.

Sea Covering Great Sage’s devotion earned him healing from Chen Sheng, who reflected on his cultivation and the difficulty of Coinciding Dao. The Two Realms Gate then revealed a new world whose serpentfolk prayed to a deity whose domain seemed to overlap with Chen Sheng’s Mysterious Female Gate.

• Sea Covering Great Sage prayed to the Mysterious Female Dao Venerable, and a pillar of light healed his body and divine soul.
• Chen Sheng recognized Ao Guang’s exceptional contributions and considered his own strength, the realms beyond Immortal Emperor, and the challenge of reaching Coinciding Dao.
• Chen Sheng sensed prayers from a newly revealed world through the Two Realms Gate and traced them to that realm.
• On Mining Star 109, a Serpentfolk Elder and dozens of serpentfolk performed a blood-soaked sacrifice and prayed to the Mother of Ten Thousand Spines.
• Chen Sheng understood that the serpentfolk’s prayers concerned life and gates, which corresponded to his Mysterious Female Gate.

On Mining Star 109, the Serpentfolk Elder and his people despaired after ten failed attempts to awaken their Mother God, until Chen Sheng answered their prayers and accepted their faith. He blessed them with a bloodline advance, leaving the serpentfolk transformed and devoted to serving him.

• The Serpentfolk Elder tried to reassure the despairing serpentfolk that their Mother God was only sleeping, but no one believed him.
• Chen Sheng saw the serpentfolk’s devotion, used the Two Realms Gate to connect to their faith, and recognized their world from the Earth Immortal Realm’s ancient books.
• Chen Sheng sent down a blessing that awakened the serpentfolk’s bloodlines, transforming them into Moran Scale Snakes and then Zolar Black Snakes.
• The serpentfolk returned to humanoid forms with four arms, and the Serpentfolk Elder explained that everyone had survived the transformation without losing their intelligence.
• The Serpentfolk Elder and the others knelt and vowed to serve Mother God forever, thanking her for the blessing and protection.

The Serpentfolk rebel army captured Mining Star 109 and spread across Black Stone Trading’s mining stars, but their victory over a hired elite force drew the company’s attention to the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes and the Star God Origin. Beyond the Heavens, Chen Sheng considered how the Blood Immortal Dao differed from the Immortal Path.

• The Serpentfolk Elder led awakened Serpentfolk in seizing Mining Star 109, then sent them to rescue enslaved compatriots on nearby mining stars.
• The Serpentfolk captured more than ten Black Stone Trading mining stars and freed hundreds of thousands of their people, prompting the company to send Supervisor Zhao and five hundred elite guards to suppress them.
• As the Serpentfolk faced defeat, Chen Sheng bestowed faith power on them, and many transformed into six-armed Serpentfolk while the Elder became an eight-armed warrior.
• The Serpentfolk overwhelmed the guards, killed Supervisor Zhao, and wiped out the remaining Black Stone Elites.
• A Black Stone Trading executive revealed that the Serpentfolk’s power came from the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes and proposed that they had found her Star God Origin; the President ordered a secret search for it.
• Beyond the Heavens, Chen Sheng reflected on the Blood Immortal Dao’s focus on tempering the body, blood, and qi.

Black Stone Trading attacked Mining Star 109 to seize the Star God Origin, nearly exterminating the Serpentfolk, but learned that the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes had protected them. Governor Li Bai went to report the apparent revival to his master, Jiang Ming, and began telling him what had happened.

• Black Stone Trading's President ordered three warships and their Military Mechs to attack Mining Star 109 and search for the Star God Origin.
• The bombardment and ensuing mech assault devastated the planet and nearly wiped out the Serpentfolk, who transformed and fought back until the mechs overwhelmed them.
• Chen Sheng watched from above, knowing the Serpentfolk Elder had already led some of his people away, and noted the mechs' resonance with the planet's magnetic field.
• Black Stone Trading found no Star God Origin, and a tortured young Serpentfolk said the Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes had protected them; the executives feared she had revived and reported the matter to the Federation.
• Governor Li Bai suspected something had happened beyond the Star God's revival and traveled to meet his master, Jiang Ming, to report the news.

After humanity slaughtered the serpentfolk on Mining Star 109, Kurban led their survivors into hiding and built a growing movement of alien believers under Chen Sheng’s authority as the Nature Main God. Zhou Yang and Jiang Ming identified the new god as an outsider wielding faith, and Zhou Yang asked Jiang Ming to act against him.

• Kurban told the serpentfolk that their kin on Mining Star 109 had been killed, taught them the Humanoid Transformation Technique, and ordered them to infiltrate human territory and rescue enslaved clansmen.
• With Chen Sheng’s protection, Kurban founded the Myriad Spirits Chamber of Commerce and established Myriad Spirits Star as a hidden base for gathering serpentfolk.
• Chen Sheng named himself the Nature Main God and Myriad Spirits Master, then commanded Kurban to spread his teachings among other oppressed races.
• Kurban sheltered alien slaves and secretly preached the Nature Main God’s teachings, gathering believers from the Fly Clan, Rat Clan, Stone Clan, and other races.
• Chen Sheng formed the Nature Pantheon by placing fallen Star Gods under his authority, winning the allegiance of many alien believers and attracting a flood of faith power.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Ming concluded that the Nature Main God was an outsider using the Incense Godly Dao, and Zhou Yang asked Jiang Ming to oppose him.

Jiang Ming used his mastery of magnetic fields to seize several thousand planets and dismantle Chen Sheng’s network of believers. Chen Sheng appeared before Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang, who agreed to meet him.

• The alien believers gathered at a church on Primordial Star and prayed to the Great Nature Main God.
• Jiang Ming used his Virtual Universe to summon Magnetic Field Demon Gods that sealed several thousand planets and captured the hidden believers.
• Chen Sheng realized that Jiang Ming had monopolized the universe’s magnetic fields and decided to meet him instead of continuing to spread his teachings.
• Chen Sheng used the Two Realms Gate to appear on Primordial Star and greeted Jiang Ming as a fellow Daoist.
• Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang recognized Chen Sheng, reacted with shock, and agreed to meet him.

Chen Sheng returned to the True Martial Realm, met with Lu Yuan, and invited his followers to leave with him for the Panwu Realm. After bringing them to the world he had opened and giving them Sky Opening marks, he unleashed his full aura across the True Martial Realm as he departed.

• Chen Sheng surveyed the True Martial Realm, found Lu Jun refining a fruit position, and greeted Empress Golden Saint and his other familiar followers.
• Lu Yuan appeared before Chen Sheng, and they discussed the Dao, with Lu Yuan realizing Chen Sheng had reached the second step of world-opening.
• Chen Sheng went to Qiongtian Imperial Palace and asked Golden Saint, Yuanji, Yuanba, Li Changkong, and the others if they would leave the realm with him.
• Golden Saint and the others agreed, and Chen Sheng brought them into the Panwu Realm and branded them with Sky Opening marks.
• Chen Sheng released his full aura across the True Martial Realm as he prepared to leave, while Lu Jun wondered whether he still had a chance to become a Saint.

Chen Sheng explored the immortal domain, entered Heaven and Earth Sword Mountain with his token, and met eight powerful Dao Lords who learned he had become a nominal disciple through his potential. He began studying the Sword Forest’s Innate Great Daos, seeing how its swords and Loose Immortal Inheritances could guide his path toward Mahayana Rogue Immortal.

• Chen Sheng sensed Sword Patterns throughout the immortal domain and suspected it had formed from Tianmang True Immortal’s sword, but could not uncover their mysteries.
• A White Deer in the immortal domain’s core transformed into a white-clad youth and noticed Chen Sheng probing the domain.
• Chen Sheng used his Heaven and Earth Sword Token to reach Heaven and Earth Sword Mountain and pass through its protective clouds.
• Eight Dao Lords at the Sword Forest discovered that the newcomer was Panwu, a young Body Integration cultivator whose potential had earned him nominal disciple status.
• Chen Sheng greeted the eight Dao Lords, explained how he became a nominal disciple, and entered the Sword Forest to study its swords.
• Chen Sheng found swords containing complete Innate Great Daos and reflected that their insights, alongside Loose Immortal Inheritances, could provide a path toward Mahayana Rogue Immortal.

Chen Sheng met Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang, made peace over his teachings in their world, and exchanged cultivation insights with them. Zhou Yang revealed that his Blood Immortal Dao grew through planting Blood Lotuses into cosmic-scale realms, leaving Chen Sheng impressed by the method’s potential but Zhou Yang disappointed that he offered no guidance.

• Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang met Chen Sheng in the distant universe and agreed to let him take his believers after settling their dispute.
• Chen Sheng explained the Mysterious Female Gate and his Mysterious Womb Secret Teachings, which Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang studied closely.
• Zhou Yang described the Blood Immortal Dao’s cultivation stages and revealed that planting a Blood Lotus began the transformation into an immortal.
• Zhou Yang demonstrated how increasing numbers of planted lotuses led through Star-Level Immortal, White Dwarf-Level Immortal Lord, Neutron Star-Level Immortal King, and Black Hole-Level Immortal Emperor realms.
• Chen Sheng recognized the lotus-planting method’s potential to combine with his own system, but praised Zhou Yang’s Dao without offering direct advice, disappointing him.

Jiang Ming explained how his Electromagnetic Universe Path drew him closer to becoming the universe, and Chen Sheng recognized it as Coinciding Dao. After Chen Sheng departed, Zhou Yang and Jiang Ming discovered that a power above the universe prevented them from asking about the professor; Chen Sheng then reflected that he had drawn his incarnation into the discussion to make use of the Mysterious Womb Sequence.

• Jiang Ming demonstrated how he controlled the universe's magnetic fields and described his path of ultimately becoming the universe.
• Chen Sheng understood Jiang Ming's path as Coinciding Dao, and he, Jiang Ming, and Zhou Yang discussed their respective cultivation paths across the starry vault.
• Chen Sheng thanked Jiang Ming and Zhou Yang for the discussion and left.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Ming found that an invisible power blocked their words and thoughts about the professor until Chen Sheng had departed.
• Jiang Ming concluded that the professor was watching them and that Chen Sheng was connected to Master Chen's cultivation layout.
• Chen Sheng sat on the Mother River and reflected that he had drawn his incarnation into the discussion in hopes that it could complete the Mysterious Womb Sequence.

Chen Sheng intensified the hardships within many worlds to provoke greater cultivation breakthroughs. In the Earth Immortal Realm, the Immortal Emperors learned that the Era Tribulation would arrive in thirty thousand years and resolved to build the Other Shore Immortal Boat as a way to survive it.

• Chen Sheng altered the conditions of many worlds, believing extreme oppression would spur cultivators to greater breakthroughs.
• Immortals in the Heavenly Dao Alliance discussed lightning tribulations that had already killed several immortals and Immortal Lords.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor told the gathered Immortal Emperors that the Immeasurable Tribulation would begin in thirty thousand years and threaten every world in the Mother River.
• The Immortal Emperors considered Coinciding Dao their only path beyond the tribulation, but recognized that none of them could reach it in time.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor proposed building the Other Shore Immortal Boat, an idea attributed to the Cold Heaven Emperor, to carry living beings through chaos and the Mother River.
• The Immortal Emperors agreed to gather resources and Dao marks across the weakened world barriers, hoping to build the boat and survive the Era Tribulation.

Twenty thousand years after advancing to Level 8, Raylin Mason attacked the Abyssal Pantheon to gain the source power he needed to approach Level 9. He destroyed its ninety-nine layers and devoured the Abyssal Will, leaving his Bio-Chip’s deductions accelerated.

• Raylin Mason assessed his slow Level 9 deductions and decided to make the Abyss his stepping stone to eternity.
• Raylin Mason unleashed the Seven-Fold Doomsday Art, annihilating the Abyss’s first seventy layers with successive calamities.
• Raylin Mason transformed into his Immortal Fate Dragon Body and used the Great End-Times Devouring Art to consume the remaining layers and their Demon Gods.
• Raylin Mason held the Abyssal Will under the lingering Calamity Domain for a hundred years as its origin weakened.
• Raylin Mason devoured the Abyssal Will and the rest of the Abyss, gaining source power and accelerating his Bio-Chip’s deductions.

With the epochal tribulation only three thousand years away, Wang Xuan, Ao Guang, and the Supreme Dao arrived to inspect the completed Other Shore Immortal Boat. The Primordial Immortal Emperor explained how it could help the gathered powers survive the calamity, while Chen Sheng remained in secluded cultivation.

• Immortal Emperor Xuanling welcomed Wang Xuan, Ao Guang, and the Supreme Dao to the Earth Immortal Realm to see the Other Shore Immortal Boat.
• Ao Guang criticized the Immortal Path, while Wang Xuan acknowledged the many powers that had contributed to building the boat.
• Zhang Jie sensed immense Mysterious Female Qi at the boat’s core resonating with his Wither and Flourish Pearl.
• Zhou Yang greeted the Supreme Dao and learned that Chen Sheng could not attend because he was in secluded cultivation.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor described the boat’s powers to the gathered experts and credited Raylin Mason with helping design it.

Chen Sheng’s avatar attained the Mysterious Female Dao Venerable Sequence and returned to his true form above the Mother River, restoring his sealed memories. He planned to refine the Sequence Secret Sect system and watched the cultivators aboard the Other Shore Immortal Boat, especially Gu Youming, as he considered how to test them in the next epoch.

• Chen Sheng merged with the Mysterious Female Gate and attained Sequence 0: Mysterious Female Dao Venerable.
• Chen Sheng’s memories returned, revealing that he was the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King’s avatar, and he returned to his true form above the Mother River.
• Chen Sheng reflected on improving the Sequence Secret Sect system so it could help him develop his own path and survive the Second Decline Tribulation.
• Chen Sheng saw cultivators aboard the Other Shore Immortal Boat trying to escape the epoch-ending tribulation and judged that they had relied too much on shortcuts.
• Chen Sheng decided the next epoch needed more cultivation Rules and hardships, then singled out Gu Youming as a promising anomaly whose progress he wanted to observe.

As the epoch ended, the great powers aboard the Other Shore Immortal Boat mourned their dying Mother Realms while Jiang Ming attempted to achieve Coinciding Dao by drawing on the Starry Sky World. His attempt failed, and he leapt into an ancient shadow as Zhou Yang’s Magnetic Crystal went dark.

• The great powers aboard the Other Shore Immortal Boat learned that Chen Sheng had achieved Coinciding Dao and that his followers had vanished, leaving them without a chance to seek his protection.
• Gu Youming remembered his rivalry with Chen Sheng, while the great powers discovered that their Mother Realms had withered away.
• Zhou Yang watched the Magnetic Crystal linked to Jiang Ming flicker as Jiang Ming remained behind in the Starry Sky World.
• Jiang Ming used the universe’s electromagnetic fields to hold back Calamity Qi and consumed the energy of galaxies in an attempt to reach Coinciding Dao.
• A vast shadow appeared over the Starry Sky World after Jiang Ming’s breakthrough failed, and Jiang Ming leapt toward it, declaring that his Dao was not alone.
• The Magnetic Crystal in Zhou Yang’s palm went dark, and Zhou Yang said farewell to Senior Brother Jiang Ming.

Raylin Mason revealed himself as the Era-Ending Infinite Devouring Dragon and swallowed the Other Shore Immortal Boat after crippling its core. The Immortal Emperors’ attempts to escape failed, and the boat began to dissolve inside his body as he absorbed its energy.

• Raylin Mason attacked the Other Shore Immortal Boat’s core, revealing the Abyssal Will sealed within him and crippling the boat’s protective array.
• Raylin Mason transformed into the Era-Ending Infinite Devouring Dragon and swallowed the Other Shore Immortal Boat.
• The Primordial Immortal Emperor and the other mighty figures attacked from inside the dragon, but his micro-universes blocked and devoured their strikes.
• The dragon’s micro-universes unleashed world-destroying force, shattered the boat’s barrier, and overwhelmed the Immortal Emperors.
• The Other Shore Immortal Boat began melting and being refined inside Raylin Mason’s body, while its source energy was absorbed.

As the Mother River reached the end of its epoch, its origin flattened reality and began erasing Mason. He sacrificed his body to invoke the Eternal Soul Seal True Spirit Immortality Curse, leaving his fate hanging on whether his true spirit could endure.

• Chen Sheng watched Mason devour countless worlds and judged that he could not reach the Mother River’s origin, then noted that 122 years remained before the epoch’s end.
• A hundred years later, the Innate Dao Seed released gray-white power that flattened the Mother River and erased its laws, worlds, and inhabitants.
• Mason’s body and soul were pressed into a paper-thin shadow, and he realized the Other Shore Immortal Boat would not have saved him.
• Mason chanted the Eternal Soul Seal True Spirit Immortality Curse, burning his flesh and blood to strengthen and protect his true spirit.
• As his body repeatedly collapsed and reformed, Mason branded his true spirit upon the Mother River’s origin, invoking the curse’s promise that he could return if his true spirit survived.