Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan killed Ao Yuan with the Life-Slaying Banner, revealing that he possessed a complete immortal treasure. He forced Ao Shan to agree to deliver treasures from the True Dragon Clan, then killed the Light Feather Tribe’s Mahayana cultivators and the others who had hoped Ao Shan would stop him.

• Ji Haoyuan used the Life-Slaying Banner to kill Ao Yuan in both body and spirit before Ao Shan could intervene.
• Ji Haoyuan demanded that Ao Shan provide Spirit Cleansing Immortal Liquid, a copy of the Heavenly Dragon Water Control True Scripture, and other seventh- and eighth-rank treasures.
• Ao Shan recognized that Ji Haoyuan’s complete immortal treasure could kill him and reluctantly ordered his clan members to fetch the requested items.
• Ji Haoyuan added a demand for more treasures, and the bodies and Primordial Spirits of the Light Feather Tribe’s Mahayana cultivators and the others exploded.

After forcing the True Dragon Clan and other forces to hand over treasures and scriptures, Ji Haoyuan went to the Morality Sacred Sect to demand compensation for Feng Lie Saint Monarch’s attempt to kill him. He demanded the sect’s Morality Heaven Illumination Scripture, leaving its members facing his threat and the loss of their foundational inheritance.

• Ji Haoyuan threatened the Light Feather Tribe, the Golden Horn Tribe, and the other forces into sending him treasures and their clans’ foundational scriptures.
• After receiving their offerings, Ji Haoyuan headed to the Morality Sacred Sect with the Life-Slaying Banner.
• Ji Haoyuan publicly accused Feng Lie Saint Monarch of ambushing him and demanded that they settle their personal grudge.
• The Morality Sacred Sect’s Sect Master said Feng Lie Saint Monarch was absent and his whereabouts were unknown.
• Ji Haoyuan demanded the Morality Heaven Illumination Scripture as compensation, and the sect’s members protested that outsiders could not receive their foundational inheritance.

After decades of studying scriptures and strengthening his cultivation, Ji Haoyuan learned of an Upper Realm immortal’s early descent into the Lower Realm and his arrival at the Divine Ruins. At a gathering of powerful factions, Liu Tong proposed sending someone with an immortal treasure to investigate the descent site, provoking suspicion from Kong Fang of the Seven-Colored Peacock Clan.

• Ji Haoyuan returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and integrated scriptures from several factions into his cultivation system, nearing the late Mahayana stage.
• An Upper Realm immortal descended through a passage in the starry sky before the hundred-year mark and went with Divine Ruins cultivators to the Divine Ruins.
• The sacred lands and Starry Sky Power Clans debated the immortal’s purpose and whether to investigate the dangerous descent site guarded by Divine Ruins cultivators.
• Liu Tong of the True Imperial Sect suggested that someone carrying an immortal treasure investigate the site.
• Kong Fang of the Seven-Colored Peacock Clan challenged Liu Tong’s motives, but Liu Tong insisted he had only made a suggestion.

Three Upper Realm immortals descended into the Lower Realm and summoned representatives of its eighth-rank factions to the Lower Realm Alliance. As Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s Mahayana cultivators debated who should attend, Ji Haoyuan offered to go, but the others immediately objected.

• Taixu Bai’s threatening response caused Liu Tong’s proposal to send an immortal-treasure faction to investigate to be shelved.
• Several years later, a new passage opened near the previous descent site, and two men and one woman emerged as immortals before departing in different directions.
• News revealed that the three immortals came from the Night Moon Elf Clan, the True Imperial Sect, and the Yuandao Sect.
• The three immortals invited representatives of all eighth-rank factions to the Lower Realm Alliance to discuss an important matter and share important news.
• After ending his seclusion, Ji Haoyuan joined the other four Mahayana cultivators of Myriad Laws Sacred Land as they considered the risks of attending the Alliance meeting.
• Saint Monarch Beidou volunteered to go, but Ji Haoyuan offered instead, and Luo Changsheng and the others objected to his attending.

Ji Haoyuan sent Taixu Bai and Saint Monarch Beidou to the Lower Realm Alliance council, where three Upper Realm immortals announced that the realms would be fused and asked for help opening passages. Their request to borrow the lower realm’s immortal treasures left the factions suspicious of the council’s true purpose.

• Ji Haoyuan decided that Taixu Bai and Saint Monarch Beidou would attend the Alliance council, and Taixu Bai refused Ji Haoyuan’s offer to lend him the Life-Slaying Banner.
• Taixu Bai and Saint Monarch Beidou arrived at the Lower Realm Alliance and sensed three powerful auras from the descended immortals.
• Fairy Ye Hua, Immortal Shang Zhen, and Immortal Qi Hong revealed that Upper Realm immortals and the forces behind the Divine Ruins would work to fuse the Upper and Lower Realms within ten years.
• Immortal Qi Hong said the factions must cooperate with the Divine Ruins to open more passages and help establish a grand formation.
• Immortal Qi Hong asked whether the lower-realm factions possessed immortal treasures and said he wanted to borrow them temporarily, prompting Taixu Bai and the other factions to exchange wary glances.

Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong demanded that factions hand over their immortal treasures and threatened to detain their representatives until the treasures arrived. Taixu Bai and others left the Alliance Hall despite the danger, while Fairy Ye Hua led the Night Moon Elf Clan away as well.

• Immortal Qi Hong proposed borrowing the factions' immortal treasures, but no one agreed to lend them.
• Immortal Shang Zhen threatened to keep the factions' representatives in the hall until their sects and clans delivered the treasures.
• A Heavenly Phoenix Clan cultivator and a Seven-Colored Peacock Clan cultivator objected, and Shang Zhen and Qi Hong warned that leaving would make returning home dangerous.
• Taixu Bai announced his departure, and the Eastern Peak Sacred Master said he would go with him.
• Representatives of the Seven-Colored Peacock Clan, the Heavenly Phoenix Clan, and other factions joined Taixu Bai in leaving the Alliance Hall.
• Fairy Ye Hua led the Night Moon Elf Clan away, while Shang Zhen told Qi Hong not to worry about her.

On the journey back to their sects and clans, the group was attacked by an immortal, but Taixu Bai and the Eastern Peak Sacred Master repelled the assault. The Eastern Peak Sacred Master killed the immortal’s clone and led the group onward, leaving them with a new understanding of the threat posed by Lower Realm immortals.

• A Sky-Covering Hand descended on the group, and Taixu Bai severed its fingers with an ancient dagger.
• The immortal’s hand regenerated and struck again, focusing its attack on Taixu Bai.
• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master punched apart the hand and wounded the Man in Green, who was revealed to be an immortal.
• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master pursued the Man in Green and killed him with a punch across space.
• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master explained that the Man in Green had been a clone and told the group to consider how they would deal with Lower Realm immortals.

After the Eastern Peak Sacred Master killed an immortal’s avatar, Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong considered their next move while Fairy Ye Hua prepared the Night Moon Elf Clan to build ties with powerful factions. Saint Monarch Qingyue warned the Myriad Laws Sacred Land that the Lower Realm’s cultivation limit might break within six months to a year.

• News spread that the Alliance had tried to seize immortal treasures and that the Eastern Peak Sacred Master had slain an immortal’s avatar.
• Immortal Shang Zhen dismissed the failed avatar and left Bai Hai responsible for resolving the situation.
• Fairy Ye Hua sent Saint Monarch Qingyue to visit major factions and prioritize alliances with the Dongyue Sacred Land and Myriad Laws Sacred Land.
• Saint Monarch Qingyue met with Luo Changsheng and four other Mahayana cultivators at the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.
• Saint Monarch Qingyue warned them that the Lower Realm’s cultivation limit might break within half a year to a year.

Saint Monarch Qingyue warned that immortals descending to the Lower Realm would seek to seize its cultivation grounds, while the Night Moon Elf Clan hoped to build alliances instead. After an immortal destroyed the Evergreen Sect and two more immortals descended into the Divine Ruins, a Great Ascension cultivator demanded that Ji Haoyuan hand over his immortal treasure.

• Saint Monarch Qingyue told Ji Haoyuan and the others that the loosening barrier and changing world would make cultivation grounds targets for descending immortals, and said her clan sought good relations with the Lower Realm factions.
• Half a month after the Night Moon Elf Clan's visits, an immortal destroyed the Evergreen Sect, killed everyone inside, and occupied its grounds.
• News identified the attacker as an immortal from the Divine Ruins, and Ji Haoyuan and the others suspected the destruction was both a land grab and a warning.
• Two more immortals descended through a passage near the Divine Ruins and entered its territory.
• A month later, a Great Ascension cultivator from the Divine Ruins visited the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and demanded Ji Haoyuan's immortal treasure, invoking his immortal master and threatening the sect's survival.

Ji Haoyuan refused the Divine Ruins’ demand for his immortal treasure and confronted two immortals after they devastated the lands around the Myriad Laws Sacred Land. As the white-robed immortal’s halberd overwhelmed Ji Haoyuan, Ji Haoyuan brought out the Life-Slaying Banner.

• Ji Haoyuan rejected the Divine Ruins Mahayana cultivator’s offer and threw him out of the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, while reports spread of other sects attacking envoys from the Divine Ruins and True Imperial Sect.
• A calamity of heavenly fire and gales destroyed the lands around the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, killing many people, and Ji Haoyuan recognized it as an attack beyond the Mahayana realm.
• The white-robed immortal and Elder Gu Xi arrived, and the white-robed immortal demanded Ji Haoyuan’s immortal treasure while claiming the devastation as a warning.
• Ji Haoyuan resisted the white-robed immortal’s giant hand with Five-Colored Divine Radiance and counterattacked with a golden spear, but Elder Gu Xi’s halberd shattered the spear.
• After Taixu Bai signaled him, Ji Haoyuan withdrew his deeper power and revealed the immortal treasure Life-Slaying Banner.

Ji Haoyuan rejected four immortals’ offers for the Life-Slaying Banner and attacked them instead. His banner unleashed a True Immortal Domain, surprising the immortals as the battle began.

• The Life-Slaying Banner repelled the white-robed immortal’s halberd, and Elder Gu Xi and the immortal coveted Ji Haoyuan’s treasure.
• Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong arrived, and Shang Zhen and Gu Xi offered Ji Haoyuan protection and a place in their Dao lineages in exchange for the banner.
• Ji Haoyuan refused their offers and sarcastically proposed that the two sides fight, with the winner receiving the treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan struck first with the Life-Slaying Banner, covering the battlefield in black-and-white killing intent.
• Elder Gu Xi recognized that Ji Haoyuan had activated the banner’s True Immortal Domain, startling the four immortals.

Ji Haoyuan used the Life-Slaying Banner to manifest a True Immortal Domain, where Nanhua killed a white-robed Immortal despite facing three others. The domain collapsed, and Gu Xi, Shang Zhen, and Qi Hong threatened Nanhua and the Myriad Laws Sacred Land while an immortal treasure neared birth in the Divine Ruins.

• Ji Haoyuan unleashed the Life-Slaying Banner's black and white banners, weakening the four Immortals with their lethal power.
• Nanhua's attack caught the white-robed Immortal in the black banner, destroying his body and then dispersing his remaining Primordial Spirit.
• The fallen Immortal's Dao path snapped, and witnesses learned that an Immortal had died.
• A blood-red light rose in the distance, and observers judged that an immortal treasure was nearing birth in the Divine Ruins.
• The Life-Slaying Banner's True Immortal Domain collapsed, and Ji Haoyuan and the three surviving Immortals entered the starry sky.
• Gu Xi, Shang Zhen, and Qi Hong threatened Nanhua and the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, demanding the immortal treasure and warning that Elder Xue would return with the Divine Ruins' treasure.

Ji Haoyuan and Taixu Bai joined forces against Divine Ruins after discovering its immortal treasure had been forged from the lives of countless beings. They pursued the wounded Elder Gu Xi, and Ji Haoyuan trapped his remaining copies as Gu Xi cried out for Nanhua not to kill him.

• The onlookers realized Divine Ruins had used the lives of countless beings to forge a demonic treasure with the power of an immortal treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked Elder Gu Xi with the Life-Slaying Banner while Taixu Bai struck at Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong with his short dagger.
• The Life-Slaying Banner shattered Elder Gu Xi's Immortal Body and Primordial Spirit, forcing him to flee toward Divine Ruins.
• Ji Haoyuan sent the Life-Slaying Banner after Gu Xi as he split into eight identical figures, and Taixu Bai wounded two of them with a blade attack.
• Ji Haoyuan's banner enveloped Gu Xi's remaining three figures, and Gu Xi cried out, addressing Nanhua and begging not to be killed.

After slaying Elder Gu Xi, Taixu Bai went alone to the Divine Ruins as Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong warned that more immortals would soon descend. A terrifying disturbance then erupted across the starry sky, leaving Ji Haoyuan and the others facing the consequences of Taixu Bai’s unexplained actions.

• Elder Gu Xi perished beneath Taixu Bai’s attack, and the heavens and earth reacted to his death.
• Immortal Shang Zhen and Immortal Qi Hong departed, predicting that more immortals, possibly even True Immortals, would descend into the Lower Realm.
• As an immortal treasure began taking shape in the Divine Ruins, Taixu Bai told Ji Haoyuan to return and set off openly for the Divine Ruins himself.
• Taixu Bai’s words made Ji Haoyuan sense that his master concealed a vast and mysterious past.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, where Luo Changsheng and the others questioned him about Taixu Bai’s decision.
• A terrifying fluctuation burst from the distant starry sky, spreading brilliant light and making cultivators above the Dao Integration Realm shudder.

Taixu Bai destroyed the Divine Ruins’ blood-soaked Immortal Treasure and revealed that his real target was the hidden Immortal within the ruins. His bronze mirror killed the Immortal and then struck at the core region of the Divine Ruins, where a great halberd met its attack.

• The Divine Ruins’ Immortal Treasure unleashed a blood-colored waterfall, and observers recognized the Qiongqi trapped within it.
• Ji Haoyuan predicted the danger would end as Taixu Bai’s power shattered the Qiongqi and erased the spreading blood-colored light.
• A fully intact Immortal appeared from the Divine Ruins and condemned Taixu Bai for destroying the treasure, but Taixu Bai said the Immortal had been his true target.
• A bronze mirror above Taixu Bai destroyed a True Immortal-level palm and annihilated the Divine Ruins’ Immortal.
• The bronze mirror fired at the core region of the Divine Ruins, where a great halberd collided with its Seven-Colored Rosy Clouds in a blinding clash.

Five years after Taixu Bai vanished, immortal mountains appeared in the Lower Realm and brought a surge of cultivation breakthroughs and strange opportunities. Ji Haoyuan warned Jiang Miaoran against accepting her new space-origin rune and erased it, but a vast eye appeared in the sky and froze him in place.

• Ji Haoyuan assured Luo Changsheng and the others that Taixu Bai had left temporarily and would return.
• The Lower Realm enjoyed years of peace as the Divine Ruins, True Imperial Sect, and Yuan Dao Sect kept a low profile.
• Five years later, immortal mountains appeared in the Lower Realm, awakening talents and raising the world's cultivation limits.
• Jiang Miaoran developed a space-origin Dao principle rune, and Ji Haoyuan cautioned her against accepting an unknown benefit.
• Ji Haoyuan erased the rune with his own power, but a star-sized eye appeared in the heavens and immobilized him.

Ji Haoyuan’s bracelet destroyed a terrifying giant eye, deepening his suspicions about the strange transformations and their hidden costs. As the Immortal Mountain Land drew cultivators with reports of rare treasures and a secret region, the bracelet guided Ji Haoyuan there, and he entered disguised as a burly man.

• Ji Haoyuan’s bracelet summoned a blurred figure that destroyed the giant eye with flames of laws, then returned him to the present world.
• Ji Haoyuan concluded that the transformations and apparent fortuitous opportunities might conceal a price and decided to avoid interfering unless someone close to him was involved.
• Cultivators flocked to the Immortal Mountain Land after visitors returned with rare treasures, and Mahayana cultivators learned that joining forces might open a core secret region containing extraordinary treasures.
• Saint Monarch Lingyuan and other cultivators from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land prepared to explore the region, while Ji Haoyuan’s bracelet trembled and appeared to guide him there.
• Ji Haoyuan disguised himself as a burly man, concealed his appearance and aura, and entered the Immortal Mountain Land alone.

Ji Haoyuan followed his bracelet to the Heaven-Ascending Steps, where the crushing pressure strengthened his body until it transformed into an Immortal Body. After surviving the Immortal Ascension Lightning Tribulation and comprehending the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, he continued climbing, though the steps ahead revealed no further abnormalities.

• Ji Haoyuan followed his bracelet's guidance to the Heaven-Ascending Steps and hesitated over what might await him above.
• Ji Haoyuan stepped onto the stairs and used the increasing pressure and Power Rule fragments to strengthen his body with the Pure Yang Golden Body Art.
• After climbing twenty-three steps, Ji Haoyuan's body underwent Immortal Transformation and the Immortal Ascension Lightning Tribulation struck him.
• Ji Haoyuan endured the tribulation, comprehended the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and completed his physical body's ascent to immortality.
• Ji Haoyuan resumed climbing the Heaven-Ascending Steps, but the steps he reached showed no further abnormalities.

Ji Haoyuan entered a hidden realm beyond the Heaven-Ascending Steps, where a pair of intruders revealed that the Upper Realm’s Rules were shrinking and its great lineages were seeking a way to survive. He realized that the changes in the Lower Realm were tied to those lineages’ plans.

• Ji Haoyuan reached the one hundred and eighth step, where pressure transformed his Primordial Spirit, then found a doorway surrounded by Immortal Dao Rules.
• His bracelet opened the doorway, and Ji Haoyuan entered a realm rich in Immortal Spiritual Qi, where his strength and mana began to transform.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed a young man and woman who had entered through a secret passage reserved for people of special status.
• The white-skirted woman asked whether the Upper Realm’s Rules were shrinking and whether its lineages sought to merge it with the Lower Realm to create a new Immortal Realm.
• The young man confirmed the crisis and said he and the woman needed to find something that might help them survive a future calamity.
• After the pair left, Ji Haoyuan connected the Upper Realm’s plans to the changes unfolding in the Lower Realm.

Ji Haoyuan followed the bracelet’s guidance through the hidden realm, collecting rare treasures and retrieving a Creation Purple Crystal from a guarded pool. After a powerful immortal attacked him, he escaped with the battered bronze bell’s help, while a silver-robed figure failed to trace his actions and decided to report the incident to the Palace Master.

• Ji Haoyuan gathered mature ninth-rank spiritual items and Blood Ginseng from the hidden garden.
• Guided by the bracelet, Ji Haoyuan entered a pool and took the Creation Purple Crystal and other Dao-charm crystals.
• The theft triggered a violent upheaval, prompting Ji Haoyuan and the blue-clothed youth and white-skirted woman to flee.
• An attack from an existence beyond the True Immortal level pursued Ji Haoyuan, but his battered bronze bell shattered the giant palm and let him escape through the entrance.
• A silver-robed figure tried to trace the past, but the bell’s power destroyed the visions, so he left to report to the Palace Master.