Chapter Summaries

The Seven Great Holy Lands launched a coordinated assault that destroyed Phoenix Nest, killing multiple Quasi-Emperors and raising the Cultivation World's spiritual energy. Afterward, the Holy Masters debated how to attack another Life Forbidden Zone, with Mo Daolin suggesting they needed a convincing pretext.

• Long Wu led more than two hundred experts in a full-force attack on Phoenix Nest, awakening its self-sealed old monsters and triggering a devastating battle.
• The Seven Great Holy Lands overwhelmed Phoenix Nest's defenses, and several Quasi-Emperors fell as the Phoenix Tree collapsed.
• Qi Zixiao and Su Muxue discussed the battle's consequences while the Holy Lands prepared for possible retaliation from the remaining Life Forbidden Zones.
• Phoenix Nest was annihilated, and blood rain spread across the Cultivation World as spiritual energy surged.
• The Holy Masters concluded that their next attack needed a credible reason, and Long Wu proposed using Jiang Yi's grudge against Burial Emperor Valley as a pretext.

The Seven Great Holy Lands planned to recover their strength and attack the Life Forbidden Zones while Qi Zixiao and Ye Qingcheng guarded their respective fronts. Ye Qingcheng faced a powerful offworld party seeking to claim Earth as a birthday gift, and the chapter ended with her challenging them to stop bullying Divine Province.

• Lan Feiye proposed finding plausible reasons for destroying the Life Forbidden Zones so the Seven Great Holy Lands could strike several before the survivors united.
• The Holy Lands began restoring their fighters and discreetly sealing their mountains, while Qi Zixiao wished for the safe return of the Dog Thief and her true body.
• Ye Qingcheng detected new arrivals at Earth and brought Li Bai and Mu Wanqing to confront a ship carrying four early Tribulation Transcendence Stage women and the Fifth Male Concubine.
• Ye Qingcheng explained that the women were cultivators altered to serve their licentious master, and the visitors threatened to seize Earth as a birthday gift for her.
• Ye Qingcheng challenged the visitors, asking whether they thought they could bully Divine Province because no one was there.

Ye Qingcheng killed Yue Yao Palace Master's male favorite after refusing to yield, prompting Yue Yao Palace Master to confront Purple Bamboo Island through a Void Mirror. The Martial Emperor appeared and forced Yue Yao Palace Master to back down, then warned her to flee as an attack struck her palace.

• Ye Qingcheng broke through to Tribulation Transcendence perfection and attacked the flying boat after the male favorite threatened her and demanded she become his attendant.
• Ye Qingcheng defeated the four female eunuchs, pursued the fleeing male favorite, and killed him despite learning Yue Yao Palace Master's power.
• Yue Yao Palace Master appeared through a Void Mirror and challenged Ye Qingcheng, while Ye Qingcheng protected Purple Bamboo Island and refused to let her threaten the Divine Province Ancestral Land.
• A yellow-robed woman arrived and identified herself as the Martial Emperor, causing Yue Yao Palace Master to apologize and withdraw her threat.
• The Martial Emperor told Yue Yao Palace Master to flee, and Yue Yao Palace Master sensed someone had smashed through her palace's protective formation.

Shangguan Wan'er destroyed Moon Invitation Palace and killed Yue Yao Palace Master, while Martial Emperor returned to Earth and revealed herself as the Empress. She left an incarnation to guard Earth and turned her attention toward Kunlun, as Hua Nation’s leaders welcomed the protection and prepared to strengthen their defenses.

• Shangguan Wan'er ignored Yue Yao Palace Master's pleas, slaughtered everyone in Moon Invitation Palace, and took its treasures before departing.
• News of Moon Invitation Palace's destruction spread across the Tian Shu Star Region, while Empress arrived at Purple Bamboo Academy and gave Ye Qingcheng a treasure to aid her tribulation.
• Empress recognized Li Bai's Sword Spirit Body, learned that Lin Fan had written the academy's cultivation techniques, and decided Kunlun was worth visiting.
• Empress refused to meet government officials, left an incarnation to guard Earth, and sat on the lotus platform after transforming it and empowering the Enlightenment Tea Tree sapling.
• Ye Qingcheng told the others that Empress's reputation and power could deter even a sacred land from attacking Earth.
• The Ministers of the Resident Happiness Living Department welcomed Empress's return and discussed using the extra time to develop weapons and combine technology with cultivation.

Jehovah fled toward Kunlun after learning that the Empress had returned to Hua Nation, while Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran explored Kunlun and encountered a descendant of the Nüwa Clan and the Empress. The Empress revealed that Lin Firmament and Lin Fan were destined to face the coming Great Tribulation, leaving Lin Firmament shaken by the prospect of a vast killing calamity.

• Hua Nation’s officials accelerated their research, while Jehovah learned of the Empress’s return and decided to leave Eagle Country for Kunlun.
• Jehovah ordered Bob to watch over and develop the church while he went to seek safety and opportunities in Kunlun.
• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran ventured deeper into Kunlun, following Zhou Xiaoran’s instinct toward a promising direction.
• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran met Snake Woman, who said her clan’s ancestral instruction identified the first outsider in Kunlun as the Person Destined to Face Tribulation.
• The Empress appeared, identified Snake Woman as a descendant of the Nüwa Clan, and recognized Lin Firmament as the person who had seen her Tui Bei Tu.
• The Empress explained that a Great Tribulation was approaching and that Lin Firmament and Lin Fan were destined to face it, leaving Lin Firmament alarmed.

Lin Firmament learned that she might be destined to face a Great Tribulation and heard a cryptic message about the Foundation of Heavenly Dao. After Snake Woman was killed by a bolt of tribulation lightning, Lin Firmament resolved to seek opportunities and grow stronger before parting from the Empress.

• Lin Firmament questioned the Empress about the Great Tribulation, and the Empress said Spiritual Qi Revival and Kunlun’s return suggested Lin Firmament was destined to face it.
• The Empress explained that humanity’s repeated rise after past Great Tribulations might end, and promised to share what she knew while letting Lin Firmament follow her own path.
• Snake Woman said her clan’s message was, “Nine Paths Immortal, Nine Paths Ancient, Nine Paths Demon, Nine Paths Devil, Nine Paths God, Nine Paths Ghost, Nine Paths Spirit, Nine Paths Witch, Nine Paths Unnameable—this is... the Foundation of Heavenly Dao.”
• Tribulation lightning struck and killed Snake Woman, and the Empress warned that the Heavenly Dao had likely punished her for delivering the message.
• Lin Firmament decided to continue seeking opportunities and grow stronger, accepted the Empress’s life-saving Sound Transmission Jade Talisman, and asked Zhou Xiaoran whether she should trust the Empress.

Lin Fan, disguised as Qi Zi, joined four cultivators watching the perilous Immortal Tomb and tried to decipher the rules without exposing himself. After they used a captured newcomer to test the approach, the man burned to ash before reaching the tomb, leaving Lin Fan and the others on guard.

• Lin Firmament buried Snake Woman and continued exploring Kunlun with Zhou Xiaoran.
• Lin Fan approached the Immortal Tomb and calmly joined four wary cultivators who were observing it from a distance.
• A newcomer retreated after discovering the group, and the Scholar captured him, stripped him of his treasures, and forced him to walk toward the tomb.
• The captured cultivator burst into black flames and vanished along with his footprints before reaching the tomb.
• Lin Fan realized that the area near the tomb held inexplicable dangers and remained cautious.

Lin Fan reached the Immortal Tomb, opened its door with his True Essence, and found a woman sleeping in a crystal coffin. She awakened, said she had waited for him for many years, and demanded that he reveal his true appearance.

• Lin Fan watched the other cultivators leave, then cautiously approached the Immortal Tomb after preparing defensive treasures, pills, and Talismans.
• When Lin Fan's True Essence touched the tomb door, it opened and the tomb radiated auspicious light, drawing the other cultivators and a wounded white tiger toward it.
• Lin Fan entered the vast tomb and found a crystal coffin containing a beautiful woman, with no other burial goods nearby.
• After Lin Fan stepped onto the area marked by a five-clawed golden dragon, the woman opened her eyes and spoke to him.
• The woman told Lin Fan that she was only a remnant soul, had waited many years for him, and asked him to show his true appearance.

Lin Fan learned that he and Qi Zixiao were chosen as an outside force in a vast game threatening humanity, then received a mysterious coffin-shaped Dao treasure that forced him into rapid cultivation. Meanwhile, the White Tiger disrupted a battle over Emperor Scriptures with foul-smelling green beans and escaped with an ancient jade, clearing the Immortal Tomb.

• The female corpse recognized Qi Zi’s connection to Qi Zixiao and warned that her future would be bitter, then said they were an outside force meant to break a game threatening humanity.
• The female corpse revealed that the Nine Paths formed the Foundation of Heavenly Dao, suffered Heaven’s punishment, and vanished after telling Lin Fan not to die.
• Lin Fan absorbed the crystal coffin as a mysterious rune, recovered from his injuries, and was wrapped in Dao laws as he began involuntary comprehension and rose in realm.
• The White Tiger watched the Scholar and other cultivators fight over Emperor Scriptures, then seized its chance when the Scholar’s protective treasure collapsed.
• The White Tiger scattered explosive green beans that filled the tomb with an unbearable stench, grabbed ancient jade, and escaped while the other cultivators struggled and fled.

Lu Ming prepared to leave the Cultivation World to avenge the 237 people killed in Lu Family Village, and the Divine Calculator began a paid divination to assess the danger of his journey. The chapter ended with Gou Sheng realizing that Lu Ming’s Yao Yao was the Jade Pool Saintess he had seen exchanging glances with Lu Ming.

• Later arrivals found the Immortal Tomb empty, then destroyed it until only ruins and broken pieces of the stone stele remained, but Lin Fan still did not appear.
• Huo Yuan learned that Burial Emperor Valley had been destroyed and feared the remaining Life Forbidden Zones would threaten Three Saints City and the Cultivation World.
• Lu Ming gathered with the Saintess Squad to bid farewell, and the group discussed the turmoil, their rapid cultivation, and Divine Calculator’s fortune-telling business.
• Qi Zixiao explained that an online shop could support fortune-telling and information sales, while Divine Calculator offered to read Lu Ming’s fortune for one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ming revealed that he intended to find the people responsible for destroying Lu Family Village and avenge its 237 victims, saying he would no longer make Yao Yao wait.
• Gou Sheng recognized Yao Yao as the Jade Pool Saintess and exclaimed that she must be Lu Ming’s sister-in-law.

Divine Calculator foresaw that Lu Ming and Gou Sheng would almost certainly die if they investigated the massacre of Lu Ming’s village, but Qi Zixiao decided to join them after suspecting the case concealed a major secret. The group began forming an expedition, and Gou Sheng learned that Lu Ming’s Yao Yao was a princess.

• Divine Calculator told Lu Ming that leaving the Holy Land to investigate his family’s massacre would lead to certain death, but Lu Ming refused to abandon his revenge.
• Gou Sheng volunteered to accompany Lu Ming, yet Divine Calculator’s reading showed a 99.99 percent chance that they would die together.
• Qi Zixiao questioned Lu Ming about the village massacre and suspected it was a major hidden mystery with a valuable opportunity.
• Qi Zixiao asked Divine Calculator to include her in the divination and announced she would join the expedition with Dan the Fatty, Chen Cheng, and Zhou Yining.
• Qi Zixiao mentioned Lu Ming’s Yao Yao as a princess, surprising Gou Sheng and leaving Qi Zixiao embarrassed.

Qi Zixiao led the Saintess Squad out from the Purple Mansion Holy Land toward Lu Ming’s hometown in Central Province, while privately speculating that the destruction of the Life Forbidden Zones might conceal a plot to reach the Great Emperor realm. The group chose to travel through the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty, and Qi Zixiao discovered a rare dragon beard grass along the way.

• Qi Zixiao explained that Princess Yao Yao was her game character’s nickname, then dismissed her companions to prepare for the journey.
• Seven-colored figures in a mountain cave discussed the destruction of Burial Emperor Valley and planned their next move against the Life Forbidden Zones.
• Qi Zixiao set out with the Saintess Squad after Mo Daolin gave her protective items, and she wondered whether the Holy Lands were clearing the Life Forbidden Zones to free a path to the Great Emperor realm.
• The group learned that Lu Family Village was in Central Province and decided to use the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty’s Teleportation Array to travel there.
• Qi Zixiao found a three-thousand-year-old dragon beard grass near the Purple Mansion Holy Land, astonishing her companions with her luck.

Qi Zixiao and the Saintess Squad traveled through the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty, where the emperor hosted them before they left for the ruins of Lu Family Village. There, the Divine Calculator began investigating the lingering aura tied to the village’s destruction, and Qi Zixiao prepared to help break his enormous deduction.

• Qi Zixiao’s group reached the Qian Yuan Imperial Capital, where her Purple Qi Comes From The East forced the guards to open the city and the Qian Yuan Emperor to welcome them.
• The Qian Yuan Emperor entertained the Saintess Squad with spirit treasures, and Dan the Fatty and Divine Calculator persuaded him to let them choose additional gifts before they departed by teleportation array.
• The group traveled from Three Saints City to the ruins of Lu Family Village, where they met six Great Evolution Holy Land disciples and Qi Zixiao ordered them to leave.
• Lu Ming explained that he had burned his family’s bones and scattered the ashes, while Qi Zixiao and the Divine Calculator searched the ruins for clues to the lingering resentment.
• The Divine Calculator tried to deduce the origin of a faint aura but found the task too difficult, so Qi Zixiao entered his Sea of Consciousness to help break the enormous sphere of light.

Qi Zixiao and Divine Calculator divined the origins and path of the shape-shifting fiend that had destroyed Lu Family Village, then traced it to a wilderness in Central Province. The group arrived to find Great Evolution Holy Land disciples scouting ahead, and Qi Zixiao decided to follow them toward the fiend.

• Qi Zixiao and Divine Calculator shattered a huge ball of light in the Sea of Consciousness and saw that a shape-shifting fiend had arrived from Beyond the Heavens, devoured Lu Family Village and other settlements, and hidden itself inside an eggshell to evolve.
• Qi Zixiao told Lu Ming and the others what the divination revealed, and she contacted Lu Yao to help locate the fiend in Central Province.
• Lu Yao reunited with Lu Ming and asked her acquaintances for information, learning that the fiend was hiding in a remote wilderness tens of thousands of li away.
• Qi Zixiao and her companions traveled to the wilderness on the Azure Scaled Eagle and recognized the place from the divination.
• Qi Zixiao detected six Great Evolution Holy Land disciples tracking the same location and chose to let them scout ahead while her group followed.

Great Evolution disciples found a glowing egg that devoured people and energy, then died trying to destroy it. Qi Zixiao fed it Biochemical Pills and struck it with a giant hammer, and the egg began trembling as the creature inside reacted.

• Jiang Tao and the Great Evolution disciples found a glowing egg in a hollow hill, and Senior Brother Chen vanished after touching it.
• Jiang Tao’s group attacked the egg with spells, then tried to break it with a sword; the egg absorbed their attacks, shattered the sword, and killed them all.
• Qi Zixiao concluded that physical force might work and asked Dan the Fatty for Biochemical Pills.
• Qi Zixiao covered the pills with purple qi, hurled them into the mountain, and struck the egg with a giant illusory hammer.
• The egg absorbed the hammer and the surrounding energy, then began trembling as the person gestating inside reacted.

Qi Zixiao and the Saintess Squad fought a mysterious being from Beyond the Heavens, exploiting its incomplete evolution to defeat and seal it. With the creature contained but still absorbing energy, Gou Sheng suggested soul searching, while Dan the Fatty proposed making it burn with desire.

• The creature emerged from its egg and vomited out the Ink Blood Toad's poison as Divine Calculator and Gou Sheng tried to trap it in an illusion and array.
• The creature broke free, revealed that it could teleport and devour energy, and grew stronger as the squad's attacks fed it.
• Divine Calculator identified the creature's weakness inside its body, and Qi Zixiao used the Biochemical Pill and Immortal's Intoxication to muddle it before the squad severed its limbs and beheaded it.
• Dan the Fatty sealed the creature's head in an Alchemy Furnace, and Lu Yao bound it with a branch of the Peach Tree Mother while Qi Zixiao destroyed its body.
• The squad worried that the head could absorb energy and rebuild its body, so Gou Sheng suggested soul searching and Dan the Fatty proposed making the creature burn with desire.

Qi Zixiao's group tortured Hatred into revealing that it came from a destroyed world and that other outsiders were secretly plotting to seize the Cultivation World. Suspecting the outsiders had manipulated the Holy Lands into fighting the Life Forbidden Zones, Qi Zixiao sent Mo Daolin her findings, then had Lu Yao destroy Hatred; a strand of its true spirit escaped and the group began tracking it.

• Qi Zixiao's group used Biochemical Pills and fire to torment Hatred, then threatened to have a Holy Master search its soul.
• Hatred revealed that it came from a destroyed world, was the weakest of several outsiders, and wanted the Cultivation World for them to devour.
• Qi Zixiao suspected the outsiders had incited the Holy Lands to destroy the Life Forbidden Zones, and she agreed that the group should inform the Holy Lords.
• Qi Zixiao ordered Lu Yao to kill Hatred, but the Divine Calculator detected that a strand of its true spirit had escaped.
• Qi Zixiao sent Mo Daolin her discoveries and some of her suspicions, then the group resumed tracking Hatred's escaped spirit.
• Lin Firmament stopped in a mountain valley at Kunlun.

Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran cautiously explored a strange giant ruin in Kunlun while Earth’s authorities forced visitors from Beyond the Heavens to register and obey local laws. Hu Zhipeng accepted Earth’s rules and became a security guard, as a spacecraft in Area 51 suddenly moved after detecting a mysterious signal.

• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran found a vast ruin in Kunlun that appeared to have belonged to an enormous creature and decided to search the valley carefully.
• The Dragon Nine Bureau’s Immigration Administration Hall required incoming cultivators to register, and a visitor who defied the rules was instantly turned to ashes by an unseen power.
• Hu Zhipeng completed his registration, read Earth’s strict laws, and concluded that the rules made Earth safer for ordinary people and cultivators.
• Hu Zhipeng exchanged his Spirit Stones, passed an assessment, and took a job as a Tribulation Transcendence Stage security guard.
• Researchers at Area 51 detected a strange frequency and electromagnetic wave, and the alien spacecraft shook violently.

A Zerg Mother Ship arrived above Earth and began destroying satellites and communications, leaving Eagle Country and other nations scrambling to respond. The Empress recognized the invasion as an opportunity, while the Zerg learned that powerful cultivators in Hua Nation could threaten their ship.

• Eagle Country researchers deciphered a message from Zerg aboard Mother Ship 10746, confirming that the Zerg were heading toward Earth to reproduce.
• Bob told Moose and the Income Protection Guild that the Zerg were coming, but the guild members trusted God Projection to protect them.
• The Zerg Mother Ship appeared above Earth, deployed an Air Fortress, and destroyed the space station and numerous satellites, disrupting Eagle Country's systems.
• Nations around the world reacted to the invasion, and Ye Qingcheng said the Empress would need to confront the threat; the Empress called it an opportunity.
• Holy Light appeared across Eagle Country as believers prayed, while fighter jets attempted to communicate with the Zerg through electromagnetic signals.
• The Zerg learned that Hua Nation had threatened them with its cultivators and decided to avoid attacking it for now while targeting other regions.

The Empress used the Zerg attack on Eagle Country to push Earth’s Heavenly Dao into awakening, after which the Heavenly Dao destroyed the invading Zerg and gave their technology to the Resident Happiness Living Department. The awakening triggered Ye Qingcheng’s Thunder Tribulation, while Lin Firmament discovered a Merit Golden Cloud in a Kunlun cavern.

• Eagle Country’s envoys threatened the Zerg with their God, but the Zerg killed them and launched an attack on Eagle Country’s capital.
• The Zerg’s attacks devastated the capital and killed many Church believers, while Jehovah refused to come to their aid and their faith in him dwindled.
• The Empress sensed that Earth’s Heavenly Dao was close to awakening and gave it further stimulation through the Zerg invasion.
• Earth’s Heavenly Dao awakened, transported the Zerg fleet to the Resident Happiness Living Department, and killed every Zerg without leaving wounds on their bodies.
• The Empress gave the Zerg technology to the Resident Happiness Living Department to study, and Ye Qingcheng flew off to undergo her Thunder Tribulation.
• Lin Firmament and Zhou Xiaoran found a dazzling Merit Golden Cloud in a Kunlun cavern.