Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Xia, Su Yunshang, and Luo Shangdu travel through a dangerous spatial passage. Xia uses the laws to bind them together and shield them from the turbulent currents, and they arrive safely in the Abyssal Eye Continent.
• They identify their location as the Gray Forest Belt, a region known for medicinal plants and Longevity Fruits. The continent’s laws are badly distorted, apparently because of an ancient battle.
• Xia’s copied sensing disk detects the women’s command talismans and two distant signals, likely belonging to Fu Changling and Qin Shuwan. He decides they will pursue Su Yunshang and Luo Shangdu’s goals first rather than seek out the others.
• At the edge of a dead forest, Luo Shangdu detects living creatures. Three horned, scaled Native Beasts charge the group.
• Xia traps the beasts behind an invisible barrier, letting the women fight. Su Yunshang cuts off one beast’s horn with a sword strike, while Luo Shangdu burns another with her pill flame. The third beast flees.

Character developments and interactions

• Xia remains confident and teasing, protecting the women while giving them room to demonstrate their abilities. He jokes that their laws blend because they are “a match made in heaven,” embarrassing Luo Shangdu.
• Su Yunshang is cautious and observant, studying their surroundings and readying her sword when danger appears.
• Luo Shangdu shows her expertise as a pill master by assessing the soil, noticing the beasts’ scent, and wielding a powerful blue pill flame. Though briefly flustered by Xia’s teasing, she quickly regains her composure.
• The women act decisively in the fight, revealing their strength and mutual readiness to support the group.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and trust: Xia’s protection enables the others to act safely, while the group coordinates without needing lengthy discussion.
• Power and competence: Su Yunshang and Luo Shangdu prove themselves capable fighters, not merely dependents of Xia.
• Danger and opportunity: The continent’s distorted landscape and hostile beasts signal real peril, but its dense spiritual energy promises rare treasures and advancement.

Key events

• During the hunt, the Celestial Being Realm beasts reveal powerful abilities: they heal injuries, regenerate a horn, and summon mountain-like defenses resembling Immortal Towers.
• Su Yunshang responds by unveiling her Ice Mountain Divine Palace, an enormous Immortal Tower built from layered ice and laws. It overwhelms the horned beast, freezing and shattering it.
• Luo Shangdu manifests her Pill Pavilion Immortal Tower, centered on a rare innate pill flame. She begins to unleash its immense heat, but then notices something unexpected in the forest.
• The women discover a protected, cultivated spirit field, with several more fields nearby. The beasts escape while everyone’s attention shifts to this discovery. The narrator uses divine sense to confirm there are three or four fields and suggests investigating them.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yunshang demonstrates the strength and maturity of her Immortal Tower, the product of centuries of cultivation. She reflects that using it is more flexible than relying only on sword intent.
• Luo Shangdu reveals that her Immortal Tower is distinctive because its power depends on an innate pill flame; Su Yunshang envies the rare flame.
• The narrator explains how developing Immortal Towers relates to lighting the New World’s anchors, a process that may eventually lead to ascension. For now, curiosity about the spirit fields takes precedence.
• The two women shift from hunting to investigating together, while the narrator shares their interest.

Significant themes

• Cultivation as construction and growth: Immortal Towers develop by accumulating laws, paralleling the narrator’s work of lighting anchors across the world.
• Different paths to power: Su Yunshang’s Tower reflects patient, layered accumulation, while Luo Shangdu’s is organized around a singular innate treasure.
• Curiosity over conflict: The hunt proves secondary once the unusual spirit fields appear, turning the group’s attention toward exploration.

Plot points and events

• The narrator, Su Yunshang, and Luo Shangdu reach a heavily protected spirit-field complex. Its active grand array keeps beasts out, while the fields flourish inside.
• They meet a lone farmer, a Celestial Being Realm cultivator. Luo Shangdu pretends they are harvest inspectors and tries to persuade him to open the array.
• The farmer explains that the fields belong not to the Immortal Talisman Dao Domain, but to the True Spirit Dao Domain. His answers expose the visitors’ lack of local knowledge.
• When he suspects they may be from Taiheng, the farmer retreats to a stone stele and strengthens the array, broadcasting a warning to nearby fields that Taiheng Celestial Beings have arrived.
• Su Yunshang attacks the barrier with her sword, then summons the Ice Mountain Divine Palace. Its immense pressure freezes the surroundings, but the barrier remains intact.

Character developments

• Luo Shangdu takes the lead in the deception, staying outwardly calm while probing the farmer and the array. Her questions reveal her unfamiliarity with the region.
• Su Yunshang is initially cautious, but once discovered she acts decisively, attacking the barrier and unveiling a powerful divine palace technique.
• The farmer shifts from polite hospitality to suspicion and then alarm. He proves observant and resourceful, recognizing the visitors’ cover story as false and raising the defense.
• The narrator remains composed and watchful, letting Luo Shangdu handle the conversation and observing the array and others’ reactions.

Character interactions

• Luo Shangdu and the narrator silently coordinate, with her stepping forward to test the farmer and the barrier.
• The farmer’s courteous conversation becomes an interrogation as he asks questions the supposed inspectors cannot answer.
• After the farmer identifies the possibility of Taiheng involvement, Su Yunshang readies her sword; his warning turns the encounter into an open confrontation.

Significant themes

• Deception and suspicion: The visitors’ disguise quickly unravels under scrutiny.
• Territorial power and allegiance: The revelation that the fields belong to the True Spirit Dao Domain changes the stakes and prompts the farmer’s warning.
• Defense and escalation: The farmer activates the array, while Su Yunshang answers with force; neither side yields, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Su Yunshang and Luo Shangdu fail to break a powerful barrier around a spirit-rice field. From inside, they overhear its guard speaking to headquarters: the two neighboring domains have maintained a hidden presence in the Abyssal Eye, and their forces are being placed on alert.
• The guard mentions patrol teams that have secretly captured or killed earlier Taiheng expeditions, disguising the deaths as attacks by local monsters.
• At Su’s request, Xia effortlessly splits the barrier with space law. The terrified spirit farmer surrenders and answers their questions.
• He reveals that each neighboring domain has hundreds of spirit-rice and spirit-herb fields, plus crystal mines, staffed by roughly seven or eight hundred Celestial Being cultivators. Together, their Abyssal Eye garrisons number around 1,500–1,600—more than Taiheng’s entire Celestial Being population.
• Luo Shangdu confirms the farmer’s figures against her jade slip. The group realizes the two domains have concealed this operation for ten thousand years, posing a potentially existential threat to Taiheng.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yunshang shifts from frustration at the barrier to alarm as she connects the hidden cultivation network to Taiheng’s vanished expeditions. She takes charge of interrogating the farmer and quickly grasps the military danger.
• Luo Shangdu listens in on the guard’s communication, verifies the farmer’s claims, and helps quantify their implications. Her teasing attitude toward Xia gives way to serious concern.
• Xia remains calm while the others struggle, then demonstrates overwhelming power by splitting the barrier with a casual touch. His composure contrasts with the growing urgency around him.
• The spirit farmer goes from relying on the barrier and calling for help to terrified cooperation once it is breached. He insists he never personally killed Taiheng’s people, but confirms the broader system of capture, forced labor, and concealment.

Significant themes

• Deception and historical revision: Taiheng’s missing expeditions were not simply lost to the Abyssal Eye; rival forces actively concealed their fate.
• Hidden power and strategic imbalance: The neighboring domains have quietly built a force in the Abyssal Eye that could overwhelm Taiheng.
• Secrecy and betrayal: A place regarded as a deadly graveyard may actually be a long-established resource base—and the concealment has lasted for millennia.
• Knowledge as a turning point: The characters’ discovery transforms a local confrontation into a crisis threatening the entire Taiheng Dao Domain.

Plot and events

• Su Yunshang, Luo Shangdu, and the narrator learn that the True Spirit and Immortal Talisman Dao Domains may have secretly exploited the Abyssal Eye for ten thousand years.
• Luo identifies the unharvested high-grade rice as immortal rice, infused with immortal spirit energy and unfamiliar law patterns. The two domains’ long-term access to such resources could have made them vastly stronger than they appear—possibly even producing Immortals or many Void-Treading cultivators.
• Though many obvious treasures may already be gone, the narrator points out that unharvested herbs, mineral stores, and locally made weapons and treasures may still be available.
• Su initially argues they should escape and report the threat to Taiheng. The narrator explains that leaving openly would reveal the domains’ secret has been discovered and could trigger an immediate war. They must stay hidden and make the enemy believe the intruders died.
• The group checks the Compass: one ally’s talisman is moving rapidly toward the central area, while another is approaching them, likely with Uncle Yan.
• With danger closing in, Luo proposes looting the immortal herb fields and treasuries and sabotaging the domains’ facilities to delay their preparations for war. Su asks the narrator to decide.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yunshang shifts from alarm and a desire to retreat toward accepting the need for secrecy and resistance. She remains cautious, worrying about coordinating with the other Taiheng cultivators.
• Luo Shangdu demonstrates her expertise as an alchemist by recognizing the rice’s true nature, then eagerly turns that knowledge toward a bold plan to seize valuable herbs and supplies.
• The narrator weighs the strategic danger against responsibility to Taiheng, deciding that karma and personal conviction require action. They guide Su toward understanding why the group cannot simply flee.
• Su and Luo initially disagree over whether to escape or act, but the narrator reframes the situation. Luo’s proposal eventually wins Su’s attention, and both look to the narrator for the final call.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and strategic deception: The two domains’ apparent strength may conceal a far greater force, making secrecy essential.
• Resources as power: Immortal rice, herbs, ore, and crafted treasures represent the foundation of the domains’ long-term advantage.
• Responsibility and karma: The narrator sees their discovery and involvement as a reason to help prevent Taiheng’s destruction.
• Pragmatic resistance: Rather than confronting a powerful enemy directly, the group considers theft and sabotage to delay its plans.

Key events

• The narrator declines to take a direct role in robbing the herb fields, but helps Luo Shangdu and Su Yunshang plan the operation.
• A captured spirit farmer has no map and little useful information, but his identity token is connected to the grand array. The narrator modifies it into a Master Array Token that can open every immortal field.
• Luo Shangdu devises a cover: pose as patrol cultivators, seize farmers’ identity tokens, then strip their fields. Without their tokens, farmers cannot raise an alarm or leave the arrays.
• The narrator searches the farmer’s memories for patrol ranks, clothing, and procedures, equips the women with convincing uniforms, and erases most of the farmer’s memories before they depart.
• At a second, richly stocked herb field, Luo Shangdu impersonates a patrol officer conducting an identity check. Once she takes the farmer’s token, she and Su Yunshang harvest the entire field in seconds. The farmer realizes too late that they are impostors.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator stays ostensibly hands-off to avoid entangling himself in the consequences, yet provides the crucial technical skill and information that make the scheme possible. He also teases Luo Shangdu about dressing up for someone she likes.
• Luo Shangdu proves bold, cunning, and quick to turn the token’s capabilities into a practical plan. She enjoys the disguise and confidently leads the deception.
• Su Yunshang is initially slower to grasp the plan but quickly understands its implications and joins in. She is flustered by the narrator’s teasing and briefly looks at him before looking away.
• The three cooperate smoothly: Su Yunshang supports Luo’s ideas, while the narrator supplies the tools and expertise. The women coordinate the harvesting efficiently.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity and exploitation: A humble farmer’s token becomes the key to bypassing the entire security system.
• Deception and role reversal: The protagonists use the patrol’s authority and appearance to rob the very fields they are meant to protect.
• Power and moral distance: The narrator claims to avoid direct responsibility, but his assistance is indispensable.
• Flirtation amid danger: Teasing and romantic embarrassment add a playful note to the otherwise ruthless operation.

Xia, Su Yunshang, and Luo Shangdu raided Medicine Fields before heading toward Yan Shaman’s signal. They found Yan Shaman and Qin Shuwan besieged by True Spirit Dao Domain patrols, and joined the battle to rescue them.

• Xia, Su Yunshang, and Luo Shangdu cleared four Medicine Fields, including a Grade-A Field, using their specialized skills.
• Xia checked the Compass and saw that Yan Shaman was moving toward them while another Sub-Token signal headed for the Core Zone.
• The group raided more fields and flew toward Yan Shaman, then heard fighting in the Withered Forest.
• Xia discovered Yan Shaman protecting Qin Shuwan from nine patrol members led by three Void-Treading cultivators.
• Su Yunshang and Luo Shangdu ambushed the patrols, freezing one enemy and driving others back with ice and pill flame.
• Yan Shaman recognized Xia’s group, renewed her defense, and asked Xia for help as Su Yunshang separated the remaining enemies.

Xia killed a Void-Treading Realm Patrol Team commander with a single finger and drove the remaining patrol members to flee. After learning how Xia had breached the arrays and plundered immortal herb fields, the group argued over rescuing Senior Brother Fu, who was being taken to the core area.

• Xia stopped a Patrol Team commander's sword with one finger, shattered it, and killed him with space law.
• The two remaining Void-Treading Realm commanders and the late-stage Celestial Being patrol members fled, while Xia chose not to pursue them.
• Yan Shaman asked why Xia wore Patrol Team clothing, and Luo Shangdu explained that Xia had searched a spirit farmer's soul and taken his clothes.
• Luo Shangdu and Su Yunshang described how Xia had broken through the arrays and plundered immortal herb fields, leaving Yan Shaman stunned by his abilities.
• Qin Shuwan protested that Senior Brother Fu was being taken to the core area, and Yan Shaman rebuked her.

Xia split from Yan Shaman and the others to investigate the Immortal Domain Fragment’s core, destroy its exit passages, and search for Fu Changling. He began raiding a True Spirit Dao Domain Medicine Field and questioned its keeper about Void-Treading cultivators and the domain’s transport routes.

• Yan Shaman, Luo Shangdu, and Su Yunshang agreed to plunder the Medicine Fields while Xia investigated the core and searched for weak spatial nodes.
• Xia saw on the Compass that Fu Changling was being escorted deeper into the Core Zone, then decided the captive was likely safe for now.
• Xia used a Master Array Token to enter a Medicine Field and swept its Immortal Herbs into his sleeve.
• Xia immobilized the silver-haired Medicine Field keeper with Space Law and offered to restore the herbs if she answered his questions.
• Xia recognized a bottle of Void-Breaking Pills and asked the keeper about Void-Treading cultivators, the Storage Warehouse, and the Teleportation Array.
• The keeper claimed she knew nothing, and Xia threatened to search her soul.

The narrator caught up with Yun Shiyu after she escaped the grand array and learned she was a Dao Alchemist serving the True Spirit Dao Domain. Yun Shiyu returned to ask for the Void-Breaking Pill, and the chapter left the narrator questioning how little she knew of life beyond cultivation and her master.

• The narrator collected the herbs and used karmic calculations to catch up with Yun Shiyu after she fled with an immortal-grade flight talisman.
• Yun Shiyu refused to betray the True Spirit Dao Domain and threatened to detonate her sea of consciousness, so the narrator let her go.
• Yun Shiyu later asked the narrator to return the Void-Breaking Pill, explaining that she had refined it for a senior brother who had saved merit for over two thousand years to buy the ingredients.
• Yun Shiyu described her fortunate upbringing, rare creation Dao essence, and years cultivating in the Abyssal Eye Immortal Domain without ever leaving.
• The narrator asked Yun Shiyu how many times she had seen her master.

The narrator exposed how badly Yun Shiyu was underpaid for her pill-making and urged her to seek a better place in the Taiheng Dao Domain. After Yun Shiyu left to investigate, the narrator headed toward the Core Zone and disguised himself as a mine laborer.

• The narrator compared Yun Shiyu’s promised payment for a Void-Breaking Pill with the pill’s value and showed her how little she would receive for centuries of work.
• The narrator told Yun Shiyu that her Creation Dao Physique and pill-making skill could earn her a Main Peak of her own in Taiheng, then gave her the Void-Breaking Pill.
• The narrator offered to have Luo Shangdu confirm the difference in their standing as Dao Alchemists, and Yun Shiyu agreed to ask about his claims.
• Yun Shiyu revealed that the Teleportation Array she used was deep inside a mine, but said a Heavenly Dao Oath prevented her from giving its location, then hurried away.
• The narrator saw that Fu Changling had stopped deep in the Core Zone, flew toward it, and changed into mine laborer's clothes after reaching the ore-vein canyon.

The narrator infiltrated the mining canyon and found Fu Changling held in the External Affairs Hall, then seized a senior elder to learn about the area. After sealing her powers and searching her soul, the narrator altered her memories, and she recognized the narrator as her husband.

• The narrator followed Fu Changling's signal to the External Affairs Hall and saw that he had stopped moving inside.
• A void-treading realm female elder left the hall and entered her secluded cave residence.
• The narrator slipped into the residence, subdued the elder, and sealed her ability to use laws.
• The elder claimed that the Heavenly Dao would reverify any altered memories, but the narrator searched her soul and changed them.
• The elder regained clarity, bowed to the narrator, and called herself Fuyao, his wife.

The narrator enlisted Lu Fuyao to help him infiltrate the hidden warehouses, where the True Spirit Dao Domain had stored weapons and a Domain-Breaking Grand Array for a planned assault on Taiheng. After forging the required tokens and transfer order, they prepared to go, while Lu Fuyao revealed that a captured Taiheng junior had already exposed their identities.

• The narrator met Lu Fuyao and explained that he had come to target the Teleportation Array and gather supplies for the Taiheng Dao Domain.
• Lu Fuyao told the narrator that security around the Teleportation Array had tightened and described the warehouses and their shipment schedule.
• Lu Fuyao revealed that three hidden warehouses held Divine Weapons and a Domain-Breaking Grand Array for a planned two-pronged attack on Taiheng.
• Lu Fuyao showed the narrator the patterns for the hall tokens and transfer order, and he forged convincing replicas with his Laws.
• Lu Fuyao told the narrator that a captured Taiheng junior had revealed their identities to the patrol guards before he was brought in.

The narrator and Lu Fuyao disguised themselves as Sang Zhe and Lu Yueying to reach the hidden vault, using a forged dispatch order and a concealed teleportation route. They opened the vault’s barrier without triggering an alarm and prepared to rob it.

• Lu Fuyao explained that she wanted to leave because Sang Zhe had been pestering her, and the narrator promised to take her back to the Taiheng Dao Domain.
• The narrator transformed them into Sang Zhe and Lu Yueying and presented a dispatch order to the guards at the hidden Teleportation Array.
• The pair used the array to travel through several locations and reached the deep-sea vault site.
• The narrator activated the hidden runes and opened the vault’s Grand Array without using identity tokens.
• Lu Fuyao urged the narrator to rob the Immortal Talisman Dao Domain, and he agreed.