Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan followed the Heaven-Ascending Steps after the female immortal in his bracelet told him a fortuitous opportunity awaited. As he endured the steps’ trials, his Primordial Spirit transformed into an Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit, and he continued ascending while strengthening his body and mana.

• Ji Haoyuan escaped the giant hand’s blockade with the Damaged Bronze Bell but was injured by its aura and learned that the Upper Realm was shrinking.
• The bracelet’s female immortal told Ji Haoyuan to follow the reappeared steps toward a fortuitous opportunity, and he began climbing the Heaven-Ascending Steps.
• Ji Haoyuan discovered that the steps were a hidden passage between realms and endured heavenly fire, black winds, lightning, and other attacks aimed at his Primordial Spirit.
• After consuming the Primordial Soul Fresh Flower, Ji Haoyuan withstood tribulations and killing intent until his Primordial Spirit transformed into an Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Haoyuan swallowed a Blood Ginseng and continued ascending while consuming treasures, cultivating, and fending off the steps’ attacks.

After reaching the Immortal Transformation Realm, Ji Haoyuan obtained a pendant that let him open the Heaven-Ascending Steps and entered the Upper Realm. He followed young cultivators to a trial ground, where the Heavenly Sun Dao Fruit was about to mature.

• Ji Haoyuan's bracelet turned the gateway into a pendant that could reopen the Heaven-Ascending Steps, though using it safely required an undisturbed location.
• Ji Haoyuan stepped into the vortex and appeared in a lush Upper Realm forest rich with Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Ji Haoyuan hid in the void when he sensed approaching cultivators, then heard members of Profound Sky Mountain hurry toward the Heavenly Sun Dao Fruit.
• Ji Haoyuan followed the group and learned that the area was a trial ground for the Upper Realm's younger generation, with cultivation capped at the Mahayana Realm.
• The Profound Sky Mountain cultivators reached a golden tree bearing six fruits filled with Pure Yang Dao charm as rival groups approached.

Ji Haoyuan watched Profound Sky Mountain, Divine Heaven Palace, and Wonderful Dharma Pavilion join forces against a Golden Horn Heavenly Sun Giant Python guarding six Heavenly Sun Dao Fruits. He spoke with Guanghua Academy siblings Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan, who warned him that the powerful sects would not let minor factions or independent cultivators claim the fruits.

• Ji Haoyuan spotted six Heavenly Sun Dao Fruits and detected a powerful creature hiding in the giant tree.
• Profound Sky Mountain’s cultivators rushed toward the fruits, but a Golden Horn Heavenly Sun Giant Python emerged and blocked their way.
• Senior Brother Zhong agreed with representatives of Divine Heaven Palace and Wonderful Dharma Pavilion to join forces against the python and discuss the fruits’ distribution afterward.
• Ji Haoyuan approached Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan, disguised as an ordinary Mahayana cultivator, and asked about the battle and the chance of taking the fruits.
• Wei Tian warned Ji Haoyuan that the three great sects guarded the area, while Wei Qinglan said they might have a better chance at the tree’s leaves and branches.

Ji Haoyuan, using the name Bei Xuan Dao, watched Divine Heaven Palace and its allies claim the area after killing the Golden Horn Heavenly Sun Giant Python. When a Divine Heaven Palace youth targeted him for frowning, Wei Tian tried to appease him with another Storage Magic Treasure.

• Ji Haoyuan introduced himself to Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan as Bei Xuan Dao, and they suspected he was connected to the ancient Bei Xuan Sect.
• The allied factions killed the Golden Horn Heavenly Sun Giant Python, and Wei Tian identified the Divine Heaven Palace youth’s weapon as an imitation of the Life and Death Soul Chasing Nail.
• A Divine Heaven Palace youth declared the area closed to outsiders and threatened Wei Qinglan after she criticized the powerful factions.
• Wei Tian apologized for Wei Qinglan and gave the youth a Storage Magic Treasure, which the youth accepted.
• The youth accused Ji Haoyuan of objecting to the factions, and Wei Tian offered him another Storage Magic Treasure before Ji Haoyuan could retaliate.

Ji Haoyuan sent a Nascent Soul Incarnation to seize the Heavenly Sun Dao Fruits, killing a Divine Heaven Palace disciple and overpowering the three sects’ cultivators. As Heavenly Pole Garden prepared to expel its visitors, Ji Haoyuan discovered that his Dao of Void and Reality could resist its Guiding Light.

• Wei Tian calmed the Divine Heaven Palace youth and led Ji Haoyuan and Wei Qinglan away from the three sects’ gathering.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Nascent Soul Incarnation struck the Divine Heaven Palace youth, killed a red-haired cultivator, and defeated the disciples who attacked him.
• Ji Haoyuan’s incarnation restrained the Profound Sky Mountain and Wonderful Dharma Pavilion leaders, took six Heavenly Sun Dao Fruits and parts of the tree, then vanished.
• Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan learned that the three sects might blame other visitors, while immortals from the sects agreed to investigate the intruder after Heavenly Pole Garden closed.
• Half a month later, the Guiding Light began pulling visitors out of Heavenly Pole Garden, but Ji Haoyuan found that his power over Void and Reality could let him resist it.

Ji Haoyuan kept his main body hidden in Heavenly Pole Garden while his Nascent Soul Clone left with the others and provoked the three great Dao lineages into pursuing him. He revealed overwhelming strength against Pei and prepared to smash him with a second giant hammer strike.

• Ji Haoyuan’s main body remained in Heavenly Pole Garden while his Nascent Soul Clone emerged with the crowd, and Wei Qinglan and Wei Tian worried when they could not find him.
• Pei demanded that unaffiliated cultivators surrender their Storage Magic Treasures for inspection, but a cultivator escaped his attack with a Silver Talisman.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Nascent Soul Clone fled and urged the others to seize the chance to escape, prompting Wei Tian, Wei Qinglan, and many other cultivators to leave.
• Pei, Fairy Haiyue, and Zhou Ping pursued Ji Haoyuan, who shattered Pei’s blade attack with a giant hammer and badly injured him despite his Seven-Story Pagoda.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned an even larger giant hammer as Pei pleaded for him to stop, then declared that he would smash Pei to death.

Ji Haoyuan’s Nascent Soul Clone escaped Divine Heaven Palace’s pursuit in Hongyu Immortal City, then fought the pursuers in the uninhabited heavens beyond. He killed the cultivator who had betrayed him, the black-and-white dog, and the Divine Heaven Palace immortals, leaving the pursuit force annihilated.

• Ji Haoyuan killed the black-haired man after leaving Heavenly Pole Garden and wounded Fairy Haiyue and Zhou Ping when they fled.
• Divine Heaven Palace issued a bounty for Ji Haoyuan’s Nascent Soul Clone, offering discipleship to anyone who helped find him.
• In Hongyu Immortal City, a cultivator with a black-and-white dog identified Ji Haoyuan, and Divine Heaven Palace immortals sealed the void and attacked him.
• Ji Haoyuan broke through the seal and fled beyond the heavens so the battle would not harm the tavern’s guests.
• Ji Haoyuan killed the cultivator with the dog, then unleashed lightning that destroyed the dog, the leading immortal, and the other Divine Heaven Palace immortals.

Ji Haoyuan defeated a Divine Heaven Palace immortal, seized his immortal treasure, and advanced to the Third Heaven of Immortal Transformation after awakening the Dao Principles Heavenly Eye. The eye revealed a hidden saber art that let him sever calamity aura, while the peerless female immortal’s appearance left him wondering about her origins and why she had finally taken notice of him.

• Senior Brother Xu used his black-flamed immortal sword to kill his fellow disciples and wound Ji Haoyuan, but Ji Haoyuan summoned the Dao Severing Heaven Breaking Hammer and suppressed the sword.
• Ji Haoyuan seized the immortal treasure and used it to kill Senior Brother Xu, whose Primordial Spirit was consumed by the sword’s black flames.
• Ji Haoyuan’s true body looted Heavenly Pole Garden, broke through to the Third Heaven of Immortal Transformation, and awakened the Dao Principles Heavenly Eye.
• Ji Haoyuan followed the eye’s vision to find a Space Golden Lotus and other hidden treasures, then discovered dense Dao Principles runes on an inconspicuous mountain.
• The peerless female immortal appeared and urged Ji Haoyuan to study the saber art, then vanished as he began his comprehension.
• After more than half a month, Ji Haoyuan comprehended the Calamity Heaven Blade and used it to sever hidden calamity aura, then wondered whether awakening the Dao Principles Heavenly Eye had earned the female immortal’s regard.

Ji Haoyuan reunited with his Nascent Soul Clone, learned that Divine Heaven Palace was hunting them, and traveled to Nirvana Immortal City to meet the Wei Tian siblings. After telling them about the damaged flying boat that had contaminated him with calamity aura, he learned it was likely a Forbidden Existence, though Wei Tian said a Phoenix Mountain senior might be able to remove the lingering danger.

• Ji Haoyuan escaped the barrier, received the Wei Tian siblings’ messages, and learned his Nascent Soul Clone had killed several Divine Heaven Palace immortals and was being hunted by three Dao lineages.
• Ji Haoyuan reunited with his Nascent Soul Clone, took possession of the clone’s spoils, and altered traces of his Primordial Spirit aura to conceal the Black Fire Sword.
• Ji Haoyuan warned the Wei Tian siblings he was safe, learned that Divine Heaven Palace had detained independent cultivators, and heard about an upcoming Dao exposition by a Phoenix Mountain elder in Nirvana Immortal City.
• Ji Haoyuan encountered a damaged flying boat during his journey and later used the Calamity Heaven Blade to cut a vast mass of black calamity aura from himself.
• Ji Haoyuan met the Wei Tian siblings in Nirvana Immortal City and discovered through his Dao Principles Heavenly Eye that they possessed immense Immortal-grade Dao resonance.
• Ji Haoyuan told the siblings about the flying boat, and Wei Tian identified it as a possible Forbidden Existence whose hidden danger a Phoenix Mountain senior might help expel.

Ji Haoyuan learned that the damaged flying boat he encountered was likely the Lost Dao Boat, a taboo artifact tied to the previous immortal Dao era. After Luo Ling examined him with a rare spirit feather from her master, she found no lingering forbidden power, though Ji Haoyuan knew his own abilities had helped him survive its effects.

• Ji Haoyuan toured Nirvana Immortal City with Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan, then gained insight from Elder Kong Yu's silent sermon.
• Wei Qinglan introduced Ji Haoyuan to Luo Ling, who asked him to describe his encounter with the damaged flying boat.
• Luo Ling identified the boat as the Lost Dao Boat, formerly the Dao Spreading Boat, and explained its history and the Immortal Realm's gradual decline.
• Luo Ling used a spirit feather from her master to examine Ji Haoyuan and found no remaining forbidden power within him.
• Ji Haoyuan accepted Luo Ling's reassurance but kept to himself that his Dao Principles Heavenly Eye and Calamity Heaven Blade had helped him withstand the boat's effects.

Ji Haoyuan joined the Wei siblings after Bai Xuan insulted them and warned them away from the Guixu Secret Land. When Bai Xuan’s Black-Robed Youth challenged him to a life-and-death battle, Ji Haoyuan accepted and opened the fight on the Life and Death Stage.

• Wei Qinglan invited Ji Haoyuan to explore the Guixu Secret Land, and Wei Tian explained that its ruins might contain a great sect’s scriptures and secret manuals.
• Bai Xuan confronted the Wei siblings, insulted them, and relayed a warning that Wei Tian should not try to return to the Wei Family.
• Ji Haoyuan defended Wei Qinglan, challenged Bai Xuan’s lackey to a fight on the Life and Death Stage, and accepted the Black-Robed Youth’s demand for a life-and-death battle.
• A crowd gathered to watch as Ji Haoyuan and the Black-Robed Youth entered the arena, while the Wei siblings told Ji Haoyuan about his opponent’s Black Crow bloodline, Sound Dao attacks, and Rule of Decay.
• The Black-Robed Youth attacked with a crescent-shaped dagger-axe after Ji Haoyuan formed a Sky-Covering Hand from radiant flames and Rule Dao Patterns.

Ji Haoyuan defeated and killed the Black-Robed Youth, then warned Bai Xuan, who left with his people. After Ji Haoyuan prepared to travel to a secret land with Wei Tian and his sister, he lost contact with them on the day they were due to meet.

• Ji Haoyuan shattered the Black-Robed Youth’s attacks and destroyed his body and soul with golden flames.
• Ji Haoyuan challenged Bai Xuan to fight him, but Bai Xuan left with his people without responding.
• Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan praised Ji Haoyuan, and Wei Tian gave him information about the secret land and a Soul-Changing Talisman.
• Ji Haoyuan stayed in Nirvana Immortal City while Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan prepared for their journey.
• When their meeting day arrived, Ji Haoyuan found that Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan had not appeared and that his Message Talismans had received no response.

Ji Haoyuan left Nirvana Immortal City to confront the people hunting him and was attacked by four Immortal-level opponents. He destroyed their combined assault, killed three of them, and struck the woman in red even as an unseen powerful figure tried to intervene.

• After receiving the Wei Tian siblings’ warning that someone was after him, Ji Haoyuan left Nirvana Immortal City to find them and face his pursuers.
• A white-haired man attacked Ji Haoyuan with an Immortal Treasure bow, but Ji Haoyuan countered with the Life-Slaying Banner and seriously wounded him.
• Lin Qi, the white-haired man, a red-browed man, and a woman in red unleashed four Immortal Treasure-level attacks, but Ji Haoyuan used the Life-Slaying Banner to extinguish them.
• Ji Haoyuan killed Lin Qi and the remaining man, then destroyed the white-haired man’s body and refined his Primordial Spirit with the Banner.
• The woman in red tried to escape, but Ji Haoyuan disrupted her with a Primordial Spirit attack and sent an arrow into her as an unseen figure threatened him.

Ji Haoyuan escaped a powerful pursuer after learning that Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan had found a new entrance to the secret land. He reunited with the siblings and entered through the hidden gateway, arriving with them in a mist-covered forest.

• Ji Haoyuan killed the red-dressed woman with an arrow, then changed his appearance and began refining the immortal treasure bow.
• Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan contacted Ji Haoyuan, explained that they had found a safe new entrance to the secret land, and arranged to meet him in six days.
• A powerful figure tracked Ji Haoyuan, but he cut off his connection to his surroundings with the Calamity Heaven Blade and escaped.
• Ji Haoyuan met Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan at the coordinates, and they led him through the mist toward the secret entrance.
• Wei Tian placed Formation Plates to open a gateway, and the three entered it and emerged in a mist-covered forest.

Ji Haoyuan, Wei Tian, and Wei Qinglan fought monsters in the mist-shrouded secret realm and collected blood-crystal tokens that might grant access to its inheritance. After they reached a vast plain, a blue-clad young man ambushed them and demanded all their tokens, leaving them enraged.

• Ji Haoyuan burned through the barbed plants, then used his immortal treasure bow to kill a human-headed, snake-bodied monster and claim a blood-crystal object.
• Wei Tian and Wei Qinglan suggested the blood crystals were tokens for the secret realm’s inheritance and that they would need to collect several.
• Over the following days, Ji Haoyuan and the Wei siblings killed more monsters and gathered their blood-crystal tokens before reaching a mist-covered plain.
• A sudden sword attack struck from behind, and Wei Tian countered with saber light before facing four newly appeared figures.
• The blue-clad young man demanded that Ji Haoyuan, Wei Tian, and Wei Qinglan hand over all their blood-red tokens.

Ji Haoyuan, Wei Tian, and Wei Qinglan fought four True Immortals who tried to seize their tokens and treasures. Ji Haoyuan badly wounded the burly axe wielder, who began burning his true blood, and Ji Haoyuan attacked him with a great bow before a black-and-white banner swept toward him.

• The four opponents revealed their intent to kill Ji Haoyuan and his companions, and the three chose their opponents and attacked first.
• Ji Haoyuan discovered that the four were True Immortals, then used his strength to overpower the burly man and pierce his throat with a golden-flaming finger.
• The burly man burned his true blood to increase his strength as the blue-robed youth and the other two noticed his predicament.
• Ji Haoyuan fired several arrows from a great bow, and the burly man blocked them with his battle axe.
• A huge black-and-white banner swept through the void toward the burly man.

Ji Haoyuan, Wei Tian, and Wei Tian's sister fled as a Strange Phenomenon unleashed monsters too powerful for their Immortal treasures. Separated from the others, Ji Haoyuan used a Damaged Bronze Bell to blast apart a pursuing monster's tail and reveal its strange form, then vowed to kill it.

• Ji Haoyuan killed the tall man with the Life-Slaying Banner while Wei Tian and his sister held off the three blue-robed youths, who escaped Ji Haoyuan's volley of arrows.
• As the Strange Phenomenon emerged, Ji Haoyuan and the siblings fled, but a gigantic black-furred claw and a fish-scaled tail struck them and sent them flying.
• Wei Tian warned that staying together would draw more powerful monsters, so the three split up and fled in different directions.
• A giant-tailed monster pursued Ji Haoyuan, shattered his attacks, and badly injured him, though his cultivation quickly healed his wounds.
• Ji Haoyuan rang the Damaged Bronze Bell, which burst the monster's tail and revealed its half-bodied form; he resolved to finish it off.

Ji Haoyuan gathered five purple-grade tokens, entered the secret realm’s core inheritance grounds, and discovered the True One Scripture of Mine, a profound Primordial Spirit method whose flaws could turn cultivators into the monsters he had fought. The chapter left him considering the scripture’s extraordinary potential and dangerous corruption.

• Ji Haoyuan killed Strange Phenomenon monsters with the Damaged Bronze Bell and collected purple-grade tokens.
• A Divine Heaven Palace cultivator ambushed Ji Haoyuan for a token, but Ji Haoyuan defeated him with his immortal treasures and escaped after a fellow disciple arrived.
• Ji Haoyuan gathered five purple-grade tokens, which opened a purple gate that he entered.
• Ji Haoyuan reached an ancient stone stele and understood its inscription as the True One Scripture of Mine, a method for cultivating the Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Haoyuan realized the scripture’s flaw could mutate its practitioners into the Strange Phenomenon monsters, though he recognized its exceptional potential if its flaws could be removed.

Ji Haoyuan mastered and improved the True One Scripture of Mine, then comprehended the True Self Void Sword and obtained the Divine Path Stele. After escaping the collapsing space, he found Wei Qinglan badly wounded and pursued by three people, including Bai Xuan.

• Ji Haoyuan spent four days comprehending the True One Scripture of Mine, improving it and advancing his Primordial Spirit cultivation, physical body, and magical power to the Fourth Heaven of Immortal Transformation.
• The stone stele summoned Ji Haoyuan to comprehend the Dao again, and he mastered the Primordial Spirit sword technique called the True Self Void Sword.
• The stone stele shrank into the Divine Path Stele, recognized Ji Haoyuan as its master, and revealed itself as a rare Primordial Spirit-type immortal treasure with forbidden rules.
• As the space around him began to vanish, Ji Haoyuan used the Divine Path Stele to open a gate and escape.
• Ji Haoyuan emerged to find Wei Qinglan badly wounded and pursued by three people, including Bai Xuan.

Ji Haoyuan rescued Wei Qinglan and used the Damaged Bronze Bell to destroy Bai Xuan and his forbidden-item vessel. He then emerged from the isolated space and attacked Bai Xuan’s winged companion with the Life-Slaying Banner.

• Ji Haoyuan killed the horned man who was pursuing Wei Qinglan, and she warned him that Bai Xuan wielded a treasure carrying forbidden-item power.
• Wei Qinglan told Ji Haoyuan she had not seen her brother since they separated, and Ji Haoyuan turned to face Bai Xuan and the winged young man.
• Bai Xuan used the little ruler to sever Ji Haoyuan from Wei Qinglan and trap him in an isolated domain.
• Ji Haoyuan revealed the Damaged Bronze Bell and crushed Bai Xuan and the little ruler to ash.
• Ji Haoyuan returned outside the isolated space and used the Life-Slaying Banner to crush the winged young man into a blood mist.