Chapter Summaries

Xu Yan reached the grand completion of the Dao Establishment Realm and awakened Qingyu’s consciousness in the Jade Court by recreating the Taicang Dao Domain. Qingyu recounted Taicang’s final battle and began questioning what had happened to the Taicang World.

• Xu Yan taught Mingyu a simple cultivation method, and she learned to guide Spiritual Qi through her body and grew to enjoy cultivating.
• Xu Yan broke through to the grand completion of the Dao Establishment Realm and used Taicang’s image to awaken Qingyu in the Qingling Jade Bamboo.
• Qingyu learned that Taicang had become history, the world was now called the Great Wasteland, and Tianzi had inherited Taicang’s authority.
• Qingyu mourned Taicang and recalled that he had sent her, the Witch Fiend, Ao Hong, and Netherworld Prison out of the final battle before his body shattered.
• A Jade Person watered Qingyu and asked whether she remembered the past, but she could not place why he seemed familiar.
• Three days later, Xu Yan returned, and Qingyu explained that Taicang had seemed to step beyond the World Lord realm before something went wrong and asked Xu Yan what had happened to the Taicang World.

Xu Yan explained the Great Wilderness’s coming conflict with the Unchanging Divine Palace and gained Jade’s permission to study her Dao of Heaven and Earth. As he neared Dao Establishment perfection, he uncovered more of the Jade Court’s mysteries and planned to return to the Great Wilderness after his breakthrough.

• Xu Yan told Jade about the Great Wilderness, the coming next epoch, and his plan to use her Dao of Heaven and Earth to strengthen himself against the Unchanging Divine Palace, and Jade agreed to help him.
• Ah Yi revealed that they had remained in the Jade Court through many generations and that Mingyu repeatedly forgot herself and started over, leaving Jade puzzled by their familiarity.
• Xu Yan began studying Jade’s Dao, taught Mingyu cultivation, and made progress in the Puppet Dao while Mingyu neared the World Master level and struggled to condense her divine soul.
• Xu Yan completed his study of Jade’s Dao, pointed out its weaknesses, and told Jade he would break through to Dao Establishment perfection in three days before returning to the Great Wilderness.
• Jade considered leaving the Jade Court with Xu Yan, while Mingyu said she felt close to condensing her divine soul and Xu Yan invited her to sense his breakthrough.

After Xu Yan perfected his Dao Establishment Realm, his Dao intent awakened Mingyu’s buried memories and spiritual soul, prompting a terrifying presence in the Jade Court to stir. Xu Yan fled with Mingyu, but eight powerful Jade People intercepted them, leaving him facing their coordinated attack.

• Xu Yan perfected his Dao Establishment Realm, and his Dao intent helped Azure Jade mend a weakness in her Dao while Mingyu awakened her spiritual soul and recovered fragments of ancient memories.
• Mingyu recalled watering the young bamboo with Ah Yi and remembered the names Taihao, Exquisite Jade Mountain, and seventh, but an awakening presence in the Jade Court frightened her into fleeing.
• Xu Yan placed Azure Jade in the Primordial Turtle Shell and escaped the Jade Court with Mingyu, breaking through a World Master Jade Person guarding the exit.
• A divine phantom emerged from the Jade Court and sent a thought after Xu Yan, while Mingyu defiantly answered that she would make trouble; Xu Yan continued fleeing at full speed.
• Eight powerful Jade People surrounded Xu Yan and sealed him within a ring of light, and he slashed through it as one of them struck him with a silver-white palm.

Xu Yan escaped Yuting’s eight Jade Persons and learned more about Mingyu’s uncertain memories and Yuting’s powerful Three Masters. Back in the Great Wasteland, its experts prepared for the coming crisis, while Li Xuan reached Creation Realm Great Accomplishment after Xu Yan advanced to Dao Establishment Realm, and the Great Dao Golden Book began to change again.

• Xu Yan broke through the Jade Person’s seal, fled the pursuing eight Jade Persons, and questioned Mingyu about Taihao, Exquisite Jade Mountain, Seventh, and Yuting’s Three Masters.
• Mingyu warned Xu Yan that the Three Masters might come looking for her and said Ah Yi was probably no weaker than Xu Yan.
• In the Great Wasteland, Tian Zi worked to strengthen the Heavenly Dao as its experts prepared for a possible attack from the Unchanging Divine Palace.
• Red Cat entered the Unchanging Land with Jade Little Dragon and Xiao Ha, while Su Lingxiu worried about Xu Yan’s group and Xue Ji’s attempt against the Blood Demon.
• Mu Xiao continued sweeping the Qinghua Sect, and Li Xuan guided his disciples as Cai Ling’er and others grew stronger.
• After Xu Yan reached Dao Establishment Realm, Li Xuan advanced to Creation Realm Great Accomplishment, and the Great Dao Golden Book opened with a changed, more mysterious golden light.

Li Xuan broke through to the Primordial Chaos Realm after Xu Yan comprehended the method of Primordial Chaos, then secretly protected Meng Chong and the others as they towed a dead world toward the Great Wasteland. The group continued their journey, unaware that the Jade Person was investigating the world they were towing.

• Xu Yan's comprehension of Primordial Chaos caused Li Xuan to break through and raise all his martial paths to the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Li Xuan saw Meng Chong, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and Canghai Turtle towing a dead world toward the Great Wasteland and decided to protect them from a pursuing World Master.
• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and Canghai Turtle prepared to defend themselves when a World Master approached, but it dissolved without a trace before reaching them.
• Meng Chong and Fang Hao concluded that Li Xuan had killed the World Master, and Canghai Turtle resumed controlling the Flying Ship while the others cultivated.
• The Jade Person watched the World Master's disappearance, then emerged from the mountain and began investigating the dead world.

Li Xuan guided Ao Lie and Tai Miao, then decided to lecture on the Dao after the Great Wilderness annexed a nearby world. After Xue Ji reported the Jade Court’s existence, Su Lingxiu and Shi Er learned that it was a powerful faction whose strength might rival the Unchanging Divine Palace.

• Ao Lie prostrated himself before Li Xuan, who granted him a strand of Heavenly Dao power after Ao Lie called him the True Dragon Clan’s Old Ancestor.
• Tai Miao asked Li Xuan whether to pursue his Dream Supreme Path or the Heavenly Dao, and Li Xuan explained how all martial paths lay within the Heavenly Dao before giving him a strand of its intent.
• Li Xuan decided to lecture on the Dao after the Great Wilderness annexed the world being drawn closer by a Flying Ship.
• Su Lingxiu learned from Xue Ji that the Jade Court was another faction beyond the Unchanging Divine Palace, but Taihe and Taikun had never heard of it.
• Li Xuan told Su Lingxiu to cultivate until she was strong enough to learn about the Jade Court, while Mu Xiao told Shi Er that its people were jade-white and that the Divine Palace’s powerhouses were wary of it.

Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping returned to the Great Wasteland towing the dead Hongze World, astonishing its inhabitants. Li Xuan revealed that the newcomers would help the Great Wasteland grow, and Tian Zi began preparing to merge the world.

• Su Lingxiu asked Tian Zi and Mu Xiao about the Jade Court, and Mu Xiao shared what little he knew while Su Lingxiu promised to dissect him later.
• The Great Wasteland’s World Lords learned about the Jade Court but could not locate it or determine whether it threatened their worlds.
• Li Xuan sensed Meng Chong and the others returning and told Tian Zi and Su Lingxiu that their arrival would help the Great Wasteland improve.
• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping slowed the Flying Ship as they towed the enormous, lifeless Hongze World toward the Great Wasteland.
• Su Lingxiu, Yu Yao, Wu Tiannan, and the World Lords joined the returning disciples and reacted with shock to the dead world; Tian Zi prepared to merge it with the Great Wasteland.

The Great Wasteland swallowed Hongze World to strengthen its Heavenly Dao and establish a Yin Realm, but a Jade Court puppet emerged to seize control. Li Xuan captured it effortlessly, and the chapter ended with the Jade Person demanding answers while Li Xuan dismissed it as a puppet.

• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping returned to the Great Wasteland, where Li Xuan praised their progress and the group discussed the Unchanging Divine Palace’s threat.
• Tian Zi organized the Great Wasteland’s powerhouses to merge Hongze World into the Great Wasteland, creating a Yin Realm and a boundary between yin and yang while strengthening the Heavenly Dao.
• As the worlds merged, a World Master-level hand reached out from Hongze World and tried to seize control of the Great Wasteland.
• Li Xuan captured the attacker, whose jade body revealed it to be an expert from the Jade Court.
• The Jade Person accused Li Xuan of fearing or trying to threaten the Jade Court, while Li Xuan told Su Lingxiu it was only a Jade Puppet, surprising Fang Hao.

Li Xuan explained the Heavenly Dao as the Hongze World merged into the Great Wasteland, and many powerhouses advanced during the world’s ascension. The Great Wasteland emerged far stronger, while Tian Zi urged its people to prepare to settle their grudge with the Unchanging Divine Palace themselves.

• Li Xuan confirmed that the Jade Person was a Jade Puppet, explained how Creation Realm experts could make living puppets, and let Fang Hao study it safely.
• As the Hongze World merged into the Great Wasteland, Li Xuan expounded the Dao of heaven and earth for three days, helping the world’s powerhouses comprehend the Heavenly Dao.
• Old Man Xiao broke through to the Heavenly Dao Realm, followed by Tai Miao, Ao Lie, Heavenly Baleful, Jade Yao, Taihe, Taikun, Bewitching Witch, and Yan Mo.
• Wu Tiannan reached the World Master Realm, Xie Tianheng and Xin Mengrou reached the Supreme Realm, Xie Lingfeng reached the Heaven and Earth Realm, and Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping reached the perfected Heaven and Earth Realm.
• Tian Zi urged Taihe and the others not to depend on Li Xuan to defeat the Unchanging Divine Palace, and Old Man Xiao expressed confidence in Xu Yan.

Li Xuan sensed that Xu Yan had made powerful enemies beyond the Unchanging Divine Palace, while Xu Yan fled the Jade Court and turned aside after hearing a dragon’s roar. He found the Azure Dragon imprisoned in Dragon-Prison Abyss, where Chi Xiaoni refused to hand it over to a gray-robed man from the Unchanging Divine Palace.

• Tian Zi urged the Great Wasteland’s experts to prepare for war, and they entered secluded cultivation while Li Xuan watched over the world.
• Xu Yan and the others advanced through the Dao Establishment Realm, raising Li Xuan’s martial paths to the major mastery of the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Li Xuan sensed hostility from several powerful forces and concluded that Xu Yan was fleeing back toward the Great Wasteland.
• Xu Yan escaped the Jade Court’s pursuit with Mingyu and headed toward a dragon roar after Qingyu identified it as possibly Ao Hong’s.
• Xu Yan reached Dragon-Prison Abyss and saw the Azure Dragon chained in a chasm among mountains formed from World Master-level True Spirit corpses.
• Chi Xiaoni refused the gray-robed Unchanging Divine Palace man’s request to take the Azure Dragon, saying he wanted to keep eating its meat.

Xu Yan arrived at Dragon Abyss and confronted the gray-robed man and Chi Xiaoni, who had imprisoned Ao Hong for the Unchanging Divine Palace. After Xu Yan swiftly killed one True Spirit and overpowered the others, he launched Heavenless Sword at the gray-robed man as Chi Xiaoni attacked; the fight remained unresolved.

• The gray-robed man persuaded Chi Xiaoni to cooperate and keep Ao Hong imprisoned, then taunted Ao Hong about the coming Epoch.
• Ao Hong argued with Chi Xiaoni and cursed the gray-robed man, who praised Chi Xiaoni and kept him from meeting Chi Ni King.
• Xu Yan appeared at Dragon Abyss, identified himself as Sword God Xu Yan, and killed one of Chi Xiaoni's True Spirits with a single sword strike.
• Chi Xiaoni, the gray-robed man, and two True Spirits attacked Xu Yan, but his golden dragon technique blasted the two True Spirits away.
• Xu Yan used Sword World and Heaven Severing Sword to break through the gray-robed man's defensive law treasure and injure his spirit with Xun Feng Sword Intent.
• Xu Yan unleashed Heavenless Sword as the gray-robed man burned his origin to defend himself and Chi Xiaoni fired a crimson beam at Xu Yan.

Xu Yan killed the gray-robed man and Chi Xiaoni, rescued Ao Hong, and learned about the Chi Ni King and the danger facing the Great Wasteland. As the Jade Court pursued him, Ao Hong set out to seek allies, while a figure inside the Unchanging Divine Palace prepared for a scheme tied to the coming epoch.

• Xu Yan let the gray-robed man send a warning to the Unchanging Divine Lord before annihilating him, then killed Chi Xiaoni and two other True Spirits.
• Xu Yan freed Ao Hong, who reunited with Qingyu and explained how he had survived the war and ended up imprisoned.
• Ao Hong warned that the Chi Ni King would seek revenge for Chi Xiaoni and vowed to oppose the Unchanging Divine Palace by seeking the other True Spirit Kings.
• Xu Yan told Ao Hong that Taicang World had become the Great Wasteland World, and Ao Hong agreed to help protect it before departing to search for allies, including Wu Mo.
• Xu Yan detected eight Jade Court pursuers approaching and vanished, while an unnamed figure in the Unchanging Divine Palace declared that the Taicang World would help him escape and succeed in the coming epoch.

The Unchanging Divine Lord learned of Sword God Xu Yan and the Great Wasteland World, seeing them as assets for his return. After the Red Lion King discovered that Xu Yan had killed Chi Xiaoni, it ordered the true spirits to search for him, while the Blood Demon and Xue Ji noticed the search spreading through the Unchanging Land.

• The Unchanging Divine Lord vowed to use the Great Wasteland World and its powerful prodigies to advance his plans and crush anyone who opposed him.
• The Red Lion King learned through its bloodline connection that Sword God Xu Yan had killed Chi Xiaoni and ordered Chi Shibaba Ni and the gathered true spirits to find him.
• The Blood Demon and Xue Ji argued over their shared body, the Witch Demon, and whether Nether Prison had betrayed Taicang.
• The Blood Demon noticed true spirits searching for someone and wondered whether the Red Lion King’s order targeted the divine palace.

Blood Fiend and Xue Ji learned that three True Spirit Kings had sent the Unchanging True Spirits to search for Xu Yan, while the Witch Fiend discovered the same hunt and recovered his strength. Xu Yan learned that Chi Ni King was among the ancient rulers, then fought off a Jade Puppet as Blood Fiend rushed toward the Witch Fiend's battle.

• Blood Fiend explained that the Unchanging Land held three ancient True Spirit Kings whose orders could compel True Spirits to search for a target, and he began looking for a World Master-level True Spirit to learn more.
• The Witch Fiend finished recovering, captured a World Master-level True Spirit, and discovered that the True Spirits were searching for a handsome young human from Taicang; he then confronted the Unchanging Divine Palace pursuer who had tracked him.
• Blood Fiend found Xu Yan's portrait, and Xue Ji identified him as the Dao Ancestor's first disciple; Blood Fiend hurried toward the Witch Fiend's battle, intent on carrying out the Divine Lord's mission.
• Xu Yan killed the True Spirits that found him, while Mingyu warned him that Chi Ni King was extremely powerful; Xu Yan remained confident that his master could deal with any threat.
• A Jade Puppet attacked Xu Yan on its way toward the battle, but Xu Yan trapped it, failed to control its puppet-made consciousness, and erased that consciousness instead.

Xu Yan intervened in the battle between the Witch Demon, the Blood Demon, and an Unchanging Divine Palace World Master, then separated Xue Ji from the Blood Demon and helped him occupy the Jade Puppet. The Blood Demon agreed to use his position to intercept the Jade Court, while the Witch Demon chose to return to the Great Wilderness and join the fight against the Unchanging Divine Palace.

• Xu Yan approached the battlefield and found the Blood Demon and an Unchanging Divine Palace World Master fighting the Witch Demon.
• The Witch Demon targeted the Divine Palace World Master, but Xu Yan’s sword killed him and stopped the attack.
• Xu Yan ordered Xue Ji to abandon replacing the Blood Demon, then persuaded the Blood Demon to intercept Jade Court members in exchange for his help.
• Xu Yan separated Xue Ji’s divine soul from the Blood Demon and helped Xue Ji occupy the Jade Puppet, giving him World Master-level strength.
• Xue Ji fought the Blood Demon to test his new power while Xu Yan asked the Witch Demon to return to the Great Wilderness.
• The Witch Demon agreed to join the battle against the Unchanging Divine Palace, but Xu Yan refused to travel with him because he would slow Xu Yan down.

Blood Demon tried to avoid the growing conflict as Jade Court pursued Xu Yan and Red Ni King searched for him over the death of Chi Xiaoni. Ao Hong reached Black Chi King and revealed that Xu Yan had killed Chi Xiaoni while rescuing him.

• Xu Yan left Blood Demon to hold off Jade Court, and Witch Demon fled toward the Great Wasteland as eight Jade People arrived.
• Blood Demon fought Xue Ji and a Jade Person, then staged a retreat while the Jade People pursued Xu Yan; Xue Ji also headed for the Great Wasteland.
• Blood Demon sent messages to Netherworld Prison and Unchanging Divine Lord, then escaped Red Ni King's search party and warned his brother to withdraw as Jade Court approached.
• Ao Hong searched for a True Spirit King and met Black Chi King, who recognized him as a World True Spirit.
• Ao Hong told Black Chi King that Xu Yan had rescued him and killed Chi Xiaoni, offending Red Ni King.

The Black Chi King told Ao Hong that the next era would begin early and agreed only to protect him while observing the Unchanging Divine Lord’s plan. As the Divine Palace accelerated its preparations against the Great Wasteland, Xu Yan hurried home, Li Xuan readied for the coming battle, and the chapter ended with him identifying a world-qi-infused mountain as the foundation of the Divine Palace’s arrangement.

• The Black Chi King explained the early arrival of the next era, warned Ao Hong that the Unchanging Divine Lord targeted him, and took him along while reserving the right to strip his world qi.
• The Giant Tao King headed toward the Great Wasteland while devouring True Spirits, and the Unchanging Divine Lord ordered his forces to advance and warned the Chi Ni King and Jade Court not to interfere.
• Xu Yan sensed the approaching era change, heard Mingyu recall that she had been killed and exiled, and rushed toward the Great Wasteland.
• Li Xuan recognized the coming change of ages as the moment the Unchanging Divine Lord would act, while Tian Zi organized the Great Wasteland’s forces and his disciples advanced their cultivation.
• Li Xuan spotted a gray figure placing a mountain infused with world qi and realized it would anchor an arrangement that used the Great Wasteland World to drive the Divine Palace’s plan.

The Unchanging Divine Palace prepared a crude mountain formation to carry out the Divine Lord’s plan as the next era approached, while the Great Wasteland gathered its forces for an expected battle. Xu Yan defeated two palace guards but diverted toward a lost possession Mingyu sensed, and Wu Mo hurried toward the Great Wasteland seeking opportunity and guidance.

• Li Xuan observed the Unchanging Divine Palace arrange rings of aura-filled mountains around the Great Wasteland and judged the Divine Lord’s plan insufficient.
• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and Red Cat’s group returned to the Great Wasteland as experts sensed the coming change of eras and prepared for battle.
• Xu Yan rejected two gray-robed men’s demand to come to the palace and killed them with his Heavenless Sword.
• A gray figure negotiated with Chi Ni King and the Lord of the Jade Court, securing their conditional cooperation with the Divine Lord’s plan.
• Fang Hao estimated that his formation could resist several World Masters, while Tian Zi said he wanted to avenge Tai Cang himself.
• Mingyu sensed a long-lost possession, so Xu Yan headed away to search for it, while Wu Mo rushed toward the Great Wasteland to witness the coming era and meet Xu Yan’s master.

Xu Yan found Mingyu’s Exquisite Jade Seal, a Taihao Divine Artifact, and fled toward the Great Wasteland with her as its radiance drew the attention of powerful figures across the Unchanging Land. As the Unchanging Divine Lord mobilized to claim it, Li Xuan entered the Unchanging Land and compelled a gray-robed figure to sit and answer his questions.

• Following Mingyu’s sense of direction, Xu Yan found an ancient mountain whose interior had turned to jade and uncovered the Exquisite Jade Seal inside it.
• Mingyu recovered the seal and her memories began to stir as its light softened the chaos across the surrounding region; Xu Yan concealed her in the Primordial Turtle Shell and sped toward the Great Wasteland.
• A gray figure, Ah Yi, the Jade Court, the Chi Ni King, the Black Chi King, the Giant Tao King, and the Unchanging Divine Lord sensed the Taihao Divine Artifact, while the Divine Lord sent a sinister figure to search for it.
• Blood Extreme returned to the Great Wasteland, and the Witch Demon arrived outside it and recognized the worlds that had become part of it.
• Li Xuan sensed the artifact’s connection to Xu Yan, entered the Unchanging Land, and made one of the nine gray-robed figures sit before him.

Li Xuan learned from Shen Qi about the Unchanging Divine Lord’s exiled followers while the Witch Demon reunited with Tian Zi and his old companions in the Great Wasteland. Xu Yan neared home, but discovered the Unchanging Divine Palace had built guarded mountains filled with true-spirit sources and Worldly Qi, including one watched by an expert beyond the World Master level.

• Li Xuan interrogated Shen Qi, learned that the Unchanging Divine Lord’s thirteen core followers were exiles from Taihao, and erased Shen Qi’s memory of their encounter.
• Tian Zi freed Xue Ji after learning Xu Yan had given him a Jade Puppet body, then welcomed the returning Witch Demon and discussed Taicang, Qingyu, and Nether Prison.
• Tian Zi brought the Witch Demon to the Yin Realm, where he reunited with Bewitching Witch, Duo Witch, Yan Mo, and four other old companions.
• Xu Yan hurried toward the Great Wasteland as World Master-level true spirits converged there, while Mingyu remained inside the Primordial Turtle Shell with strange characters flashing in her eyes.
• Xu Yan discovered mountains built from gathered true-spirit sources and infused with Worldly Qi, and spotted Nether Prison and the Blood Demon guarding one of them.
• Xu Yan finally saw the Great Wasteland but noticed a larger mountain guarded by an expert beyond the World Master level.