Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chuan learned that cultivators from the Cangwu Realm had been summoned to Northern Capital City for a selection tied to a suspected ancient immortal’s tomb. After his classmates persuaded his parents to make him show up, he met them at the Hilton, where Feng Jiye arrived and Jiang Chuan asked about He Xu’s treasures.

• Jiang Chuan read the class reunion group chat and suspected the Northern Capital City selection concerned the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb.
• Jiang Chuan and Song Zhiyan argued in the group chat and dared each other to fight at the airport, but both decided not to go.
• Song Zhiyan complained to Jiang Chuan’s parents that he had stood her up, so his parents scolded him and he went to the Hilton Hotel to meet his classmates.
• Jiang Chuan told Meng Nanxi and Qiuyue Bai that the ruins might be an ancient immortal’s tomb, and the group discussed the danger of entering it.
• Feng Jiye arrived at the Hilton with a middle-aged woman, and Jiang Chuan pressed him about recovering He Xu’s treasures.

Jiang Chuan went to He Xu’s mourning hall after the Near Ancient Faction challenged him to reclaim He Xu’s belongings. He confronted Daoist Master Yunshan and the mourners without backing down, then continued toward He Xu’s coffin as Yunshan guarded the hall.

• Feng Jiye told Jiang Chuan that the Near Ancient Faction had taken He Xu’s salvaged treasures and dared him to claim them at the mourning hall, and Jiang Chuan demanded its location.
• Jiang Chuan ignored Feng Jiye’s warning and hurried to No. 116 Red Sleeve Street, where the mourners recognized him as He Xu’s killer.
• Daoist Master Yunshan confronted Jiang Chuan, but Jiang Chuan challenged him and the assembled mourners to avenge He Xu if they dared.
• Jiang Chuan unleashed terrifying blood energy that stunned the crowd, and none of the mourners dared attack him.
• Jiang Chuan walked toward the great hall where He Xu’s coffin lay, while Daoist Master Yunshan stood guard and Feng Jiye and the others grew apprehensive.

At He Xu’s memorial, Jiang Chuan demanded compensation from his belongings and fought Daoist Master Yunshan, injuring the Ninth Realm cultivator with the Great Beginning Dao Sword. Yunshan agreed to postpone their conflict but warned that the North Sea Realm threatened Nandu City, while Jiang Chuan continued to insist on claiming He Xu’s treasures.

• Jiang Chuan argued that He Xu owed him compensation for attacking and seriously injuring him, but Yunshan threatened to kill him in revenge for He Xu.
• Yunshan attacked Jiang Chuan with the Flowing Gold Immortal Body, and Jiang Chuan’s Great Beginning Dao Sword destroyed part of it and injured him.
• Feng Jiye and the others urged Yunshan to stop fighting to protect Northern Capital City’s residents, and Yunshan agreed to spare Jiang Chuan for now.
• Yunshan warned that the North Sea Realm and Shocking Heaven Demonic Venerable would attack Nandu City, and Jiang Chuan resolved to claim He Xu’s treasures and advance to the Eighth Realm.
• Yunshan refused to hand over He Xu’s belongings but offered to exchange treasures of equal value, and Jiang Chuan challenged him over the unpaid debt.

Jiang Chuan accepted the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture from Daoist Master Yunshan as compensation, despite warnings that no one had cultivated it to completion. After learning that its destructive final stage erased the cultivator’s mind, Jiang Chuan wondered whether there was any way to overcome the flaw.

• Jiang Chuan demanded one of the Nine Great Immortal Dews, and Daoist Master Yunshan instead offered the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture as compensation for He Xu's belongings.
• Feng Jiye and Song Zhiyan warned Jiang Chuan that generations of powerful cultivators had failed to complete the scripture, but Jiang Chuan accepted it, confident he could succeed.
• Meng Nanxi told Jiang Chuan the scripture was not meant for the living, and Jiang Chuan discovered that its final stage required surviving a transition from life into extinction and back.
• Zhao Danqin explained that cultivators' minds were destroyed by the Will of Destruction before they could transform extinction into life.
• Jiang Chuan asked Chu Wan'er how to overcome the scripture's flaw, and she explained that the mind had to resist the Will of Destruction but admitted she knew no way to do so.
• Jiang Chuan returned to his room still wondering whether he could cultivate the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture to completion.

Jiang Chuan planned to use the Dao of Evolution to protect his mind and spirit while testing the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture on an avatar. As he prepared to cultivate, he learned that Meng Luoshu had likely obtained a true Immortal Realm Scripture and questioned whether his own scripture qualified.

• Jiang Chuan concluded that the Dao of Evolution could shield his mind and spirit from the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture’s Will of Destruction, and decided to test the scripture on an avatar.
• Chu Wan'er sent Jiang Chuan an avatar technique and suggested using artificial organs and spiritual materials to make a suitable avatar.
• Feng Jiye negotiated with the Northern Capital City Military Industry Department, which ultimately sold Jiang Chuan an avatar for 2.5 million Merit Points.
• Two days later, the Military Industry Department delivered Jiang Chuan's avatar in a stone coffin, and its soldier said Director Song Lian hoped Jiang Chuan and Qu Shi would die together.
• Chu Wan'er gave Jiang Chuan the finalized list of cultivators for the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb and explained that Meng Luoshu had likely obtained a true Immortal Realm Scripture.
• Jiang Chuan asked whether his Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture was also a true Immortal Realm Scripture because Myriad Gold Ancient Immortal had obtained it from Immortal Light.

Chu Wan'er explained that Immortal Realm Scriptures were keys to Great Dao Scriptures and described the unusual opportunities behind the candidates for the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb. Jiang Chuan began cultivating the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture through his incarnation, whose evolving starry sky ultimately collapsed in a series of explosions.

• Chu Wan'er told Jiang Chuan that completing an Immortal Realm Scripture could grant a Great Dao Scripture and potentially other creations formed through the Power of the Great Dao.
• Chu Wan'er explained that Zheng Feiyang was an orphan who likely carried the returning bloodline of Beginning Bright Ancient Immortal, and Jiang Chuan learned that many candidates had gained extraordinary opportunities.
• Chu Wan'er confirmed that the group would enter the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb in three days, and Jiang Chuan returned to his room with his incarnation in a stone coffin.
• Jiang Chuan infused Core Power into his incarnation and used Divine Sense to guide it in cultivating the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture.
• The scripture formed a brilliant starry sky within Jiang Chuan's incarnation, but it dimmed into black planets before its stars exploded and the entire starry sky was destroyed.

Jiang Chuan used the Dao of Evolution to survive the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture’s destructive power, then realized the scripture was likely not meant for humans to cultivate. As his cultivation produced the Power of Reincarnation, he concluded that the scripture’s true purpose was to cultivate the Dao of Reincarnation, but he wondered what had caused the mutation.

• Jiang Chuan used the Dao of Evolution to guide the scripture’s Power of Destruction through his avatar, but the universe it began to evolve collapsed because the avatar lacked spiritual power.
• Jiang Chuan spent 2.5 million Merit Points, recovered his Core Power, and cultivated the scripture in his own body.
• Jiang Chuan’s powerful blood qi suppressed the destructive force, leading him to suspect that the scripture was not meant for human cultivators.
• Jiang Chuan completed the scripture’s evolution in his dantian and sensed colorless divine light containing the Power of Reincarnation.
• Jiang Chuan concluded that the scripture simulated the universe’s birth and destruction to nurture reincarnation, then wondered why the completed scripture had mutated.

Jiang Chuan received an immortal boon while cultivating the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture, used its bitter Crimson Liquid to open his Nine Orifices Divine Palace, and prepared to continue training the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture. Three days later, he set out with Chu Wan'er and Qu Shi for the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb, where Chu Wan'er joked that Qu Shi could serve as bait.

• Jiang Chuan saw the Five Greats Wheel Calamity Scripture form an Azure Bottle from Great Dao Principles and drank the bitter Crimson Liquid inside.
• The Crimson Liquid helped Jiang Chuan open his Nine Orifices Divine Palace, and he realized he still needed to open 360 more divine palaces to complete the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture.
• Qu Shi called Jiang Chuan to join Chu Wan'er for their departure to the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb.
• Chu Wan'er revealed that she had added Qu Shi to the expedition list and joked that Qu Shi could lure danger away as bait.
• Jiang Chuan teased Qu Shi about being naturally annoying, and she threatened to chop him apart as he called for Chu Wan'er's help.

Jiang Chuan and the others traveled to Datian Village under cover as a geological survey team, while Zheng Feiyang recovered from an injury caused by practicing the profound meaning Jiang Chuan had taught Ji Heng. The group reached the guarded Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb, where Jiang Chuan saw its entrance passage.

• Chu Wan'er stopped Qu Shi from confronting Jiang Chuan before their flight, and the group gathered at the airport while Zheng Feiyang was delayed after his chest exploded during cultivation.
• Feng Jiye blamed Jiang Chuan for Zheng Feiyang's injury, but Ji Heng explained that Zheng Feiyang had traded for the Flood Serpent Transformation Dragon Art and had chosen to practice only the portion that could turn him into a dragon.
• Zheng Feiyang arrived, and Chu Wan'er led everyone aboard the plane to Ice City; Song Zhiyan and Meng Nanxi suggested visiting Azure Martial King's army, while Jiang Chuan joked about the king's travel habits.
• Feng Jiye gave the group Geological Survey Bureau identification badges and explained that the cover was necessary because Jiang Chuan had killed He Xu and the Near Ancient Faction might reveal his information to the Mountain Sea Dao Sect and the Crystal Cave Heaven.
• The group traveled to Datian Village, stayed in a rented rural house, and went with Feng Jiye to the military camp guarding the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb.
• At the center of the camp, Jiang Chuan saw the passage leading into the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb.

Feng Jiye’s group entered the Nether Ancient Immortal Tomb and learned that its beautiful landscape was a dangerous Life Seizing Ground. Jiang Chuan’s team found a house containing a gourd of nine Half-Immortal Pills, and Jiang Chuan tried to retrieve it.

• Feng Jiye led the group through the excavated passage and ordered everyone to break the array protecting the tomb.
• Meng Weiyi used an array-breaking spike to split the blue barrier, and Chu Wan'er led the group inside.
• Chu Wan'er confirmed that the tomb was a Life Seizing Ground, and Qu Shi explained how its calamities could threaten intruders.
• Chu Wan'er sent everyone to search in teams for traps, opportunities, and the Life Nurturing Ground’s entrance.
• Song Zhiyan spotted a concealed house, where Jiang Chuan and the others found five bronze statues and a White Jade Gourd holding nine Half-Immortal Pills.
• Jiang Chuan sent golden Metal Element Qi toward the gourd, and it coiled around it as his companions waited nearby.

Jiang Chuan and his companions took a White Jade Gourd of Half-Immortal Pills, then found Qu Shi fighting replicas created by the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s Divine Mirror. The replicas multiplied as the group joined the battle, leaving Jiang Chuan surrounded and the fight unresolved.

• Jiang Chuan pulled the White Jade Gourd from the house without entering the Life Seizing Ground, and the group debated whether its pills were safe.
• Jiang Chuan flew toward Qu Shi after seeing sword qi rise in the southeast and was met with a sudden sword strike.
• More Qu Shis emerged from the crimson flames, and Qu Shi explained they were replicas made by the Divine Mirror using her Great Dao.
• Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyan, Song Zhiyi, and Jiang Chuan joined Qu Shi in fighting the replicas.
• Zhao Danqin, Qiuyue Bai, and Ji Heng arrived as the replicas kept multiplying, while more than ten surrounded Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan fought off waves of Qu Shi replicas summoned by the Crimson Flame, using the Dragon Snake Suppressing the World Diagram and then the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture to destroy them. Just as he cleared the latest group, more than twenty replicas appeared, leaving him facing an escalating battle.

• Jiang Chuan unleashed the Dragon Snake Suppressing the World Diagram and destroyed four Qu Shi replicas, but another replica broke through it with a newly comprehended, incomplete sword technique.
• Qu Shi warned Jiang Chuan that the remaining replicas were using the assassination-focused Demonic Shadow Executing Evil Sword, and Jiang Chuan used the Immortal Refining Pot to drag them out of the earth.
• A replica wielded the Immortal Slaying Sword and wounded Jiang Chuan as the other replicas attacked with their sword techniques.
• Jiang Chuan activated the Leaving Heaven Immortal Scripture and used a destructive punch to kill the replicas surrounding him.
• Meng Nanxi, Song Zhiyi, Zhao Danqin, and the others watched Jiang Chuan's powerful divine ability in shock, but more than twenty Qu Shi replicas emerged from the Crimson Flame.

Jiang Chuan charged into the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's Divine Mirror to stop the endless Qu Shi Replicas, while his allies fought outside and hurried to organize a rescue. Inside the temple, he discovered a pill furnace producing Replicas and confronted one that wielded fused immortal swords and an Immortal Palace.

• Jiang Chuan and his allies fought the Qu Shi Replicas pouring from the crimson flames, and Jiang Chuan decided to charge in toward the Divine Mirror.
• Zhao Danqin covered Jiang Chuan with her sword formation as he entered the flames, while Qiuyue Bai organized a group to follow and rescue him.
• Jiang Chuan found a golden temple and struck its exterior with Six Imperial Seals, but the temple remained unharmed.
• Jiang Chuan entered the temple and saw a pill furnace producing Qu Shi Replicas, along with a golden sword hanging above the great hall doors.
• A Qu Shi Replica attacked Jiang Chuan with the Immortal Sword Vermilion Bird fused with the Immortal Slaying Sword, then summoned an Immortal Palace whose gates burst open.

Jiang Chuan fought a powerful Qu Shi Replica that wielded several fused sword forms and displayed techniques he recognized from Qu Shi and Fufeng True Immortal. The replica continued attacking with a radiant Heaven-Shattering strike, leaving Jiang Chuan to face its next move.

• A Five-Colored Phoenix flew from the Immortal Palace, transformed into a sword, and struck Jiang Chuan before merging with Immortal Sword Vermilion Bird in the Qu Shi Replica’s hands.
• Jiang Chuan exchanged thousands of sword moves with the Qu Shi Replica and realized she was gathering Transcendent Factors.
• The Qu Shi Replica used Summon Rain, and Jiang Chuan countered the Blood Rain with his Dao-Burning World-Scorching True-Self Supreme Divine Lamp.
• The Qu Shi Replica transformed her sword into a Great Sun Sword, and Jiang Chuan answered with his Flying Immortal Sword Art and six swords formed from his Five Organs Divine Palace.
• Jiang Chuan questioned whether the Divine Mirror Tool Spirit had created the replica, but the Qu Shi Replica answered with a Heaven-Shattering strike formed from brilliant Immortal Light.

Jiang Chuan defeated a Qu Shi Replica by recognizing the deception behind her Night Burial technique and using the Taiji Dao Diagram to trap her. The pill furnace then revealed the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's artifact spirit, which began explaining how its master's Great Dao could reconcile many cultivators' wills.

• Jiang Chuan used his purple Immortal Light to clash with the Qu Shi Replica's sword strike, then was caught in her Night Burial technique.
• Jiang Chuan realized Night Burial separated space to block light and reasoned that the real Qu Shi would not use it against him because she knew the Taiji Dao Diagram's weakness.
• Jiang Chuan trapped the Qu Shi Replica with his Taiji Dao Diagram and destroyed her with Dragon Serpent Combined Attack.
• A new Qu Shi Replica emerged from the pill furnace, but the furnace pulled her back as a peculiar voice praised the era's geniuses.
• The Silver Figure identified itself through Jiang Chuan's question as the artifact spirit of the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's Divine Mirror and spoke of its master's Great Dao.
• Jiang Chuan asked what Great Dao the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal had cultivated.

Jiang Chuan decided to cultivate the Dao of Heaven after the Silver Figure explained its all-encompassing nature, but the artifact spirit attacked him to force him into the great hall. Jiang Chuan struck the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's Divine Mirror with his sword-arrow, unleashing a torrent of crimson flames that swallowed the Silver Figure and surged toward him.

• The Silver Figure explained that he cultivated the Dao of Heaven, and Jiang Chuan resolved to follow the same path to reshape the world.
• Jiang Chuan learned that the Silver Figure had emerged from the pill furnace to copy him and offered to trade access for Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's scripture.
• The Silver Figure refused the deal, transformed into Fu Haoyuan, and attacked Jiang Chuan with the Dragon Wrestling Divine Fist.
• Jiang Chuan used the Azure Gold Great Bow to fire the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Sword into the pill furnace, striking the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's Divine Mirror.
• The Silver Figure's punch sent Jiang Chuan crashing into the great hall's outer wall, while crimson flames erupted from the hall and swallowed the Silver Figure before rushing toward Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan shattered the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s Divine Mirror, but the Silver Figure survived and used the Immortal Seed to become more like a living being. As the Silver Figure attacked, Jiang Chuan prepared to fight back, and the spirit was suddenly seized by terror.

• Meng Luoshu’s golden visions appeared, and the Qu Shi Replicas vanished, prompting Qiuyue Bai and the others to rush toward the golden temple.
• Jiang Chuan endured the Crimson Flame and struck the Silver Figure’s true body, badly damaging the divine mirror.
• The damaged mirror released the Silver Figure and an Immortal Seed, which the spirit said could help it become a true living being.
• Jiang Chuan accused the Silver Figure of betraying its master by claiming the seed, and the Silver Figure admitted the seed had been intended for the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal.
• The Silver Figure lunged at Jiang Chuan, who raised his Azure Gold Great Bow, but the spirit was suddenly seized by terror.

Jiang Chuan fought the Divine Mirror Tool Spirit, using his Reincarnation scripture and many Dao Tools to overpower it. The spirit survived his final arrow and began to self-destruct its Peak Grade Dao Tool, leaving Jiang Chuan facing the blast.

• Jiang Chuan pierced the Silver Figure's head with the Eye of the Heavens, but the tool spirit transformed and attacked him with the Life and Death Nirvana Seal.
• Jiang Chuan used the Wheel of Reincarnation to break the tool spirit's arm, then shattered its Blood God Burning World furnace.
• The tool spirit wielded the Heavenly Dragon Spear against Jiang Chuan, while Jiang Chuan sent the Purple Heaven Immortal Jade Sword and Ghost Snake Sword at it.
• The tool spirit froze Jiang Chuan's two swords, but Jiang Chuan summoned four Mid-Grade Dao Tools and forced it to flee toward the divine mirror.
• Jiang Chuan shot the tool spirit with a Five-Colored Arrow, destroying the temple, but the spirit survived and charged at him as its Peak Grade Dao Tool began to self-destruct.

Jiang Chuan defeated the Divine Mirror’s artifact spirit and reached the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s platform, where he found a mysterious stone coffin. He opened it and reacted in shock.

• Jiang Chuan used the Four Spirits Demon Slaying Sword Array to contain the Divine Mirror, but the artifact spirit destroyed the mirror and badly wounded him.
• Jiang Chuan healed himself and used the Immortal Refining Pot to capture and completely refine the weakened artifact spirit.
• Jiang Chuan collected the Immortal Seed and the damaged Flying Swords, then flew toward a vitality-shrouded platform that he suspected held the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal’s remains.
• Jiang Chuan read the Bright Moon Ancient Immortal’s warning at the platform and climbed its nine hundred steps out of respect for the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal.
• Jiang Chuan found a stone coffin that had suddenly appeared in the mist, opened it, and blurted out, “Holy shit!”

Jiang Chuan opened a coffin in the Life Nurturing Ground and discovered Bright Jade Ancient Immortal inside, not the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal. He tried to talk his way out of the danger by boasting about his cultivation, but his comment about Bright Jade's absurdly long name left him scrambling.

• Chu Wan'er concluded that the Divine Mirror Tool Spirit had likely fled into the Life Nurturing Ground and taught Qiuyue Bai, Feng Jiye, Qu Shi, Meng Luoshu, and the others how to find its traces.
• Jiang Chuan opened the stone coffin and found Bright Jade Ancient Immortal, who had set a trap to protect the Azure Sky Ancient Immortal's remains.
• Jiang Chuan claimed that Azure Sky Ancient Immortal had accepted him as a Junior Brother, but Bright Jade questioned his story and challenged his claim about his talent.
• Jiang Chuan revealed that he had cultivated Five Strands of Immortal Qi, received the Immortal Refining Pot, and possessed a mysterious purple Immortal Light.
• Bright Jade named the purple phenomenon the Innate Great Inception Infinite God-Exterminating Immortal-Slaying Light, and Jiang Chuan blurted out, “Are everyone in Xuan Yuan Dao dead?”