Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhixing emerged from seclusion and met his newborn son, Chen Moqing, whose extraordinary strength and healing quickly astonished him. Despite his family’s protests, Chen Zhixing decided to send the unruly child to the Northern Domain to study under Willow God and immediately carried him away.

• Chen Zhixing reunited with Xu Qingqing and discovered that their half-month-old son, Chen Moqing, could run, eat Spirit Stones, and display tremendous strength.
• Chen Zhixing saw Chen Moqing fall from a cliff, then learned the boy had fractured and rapidly healed his foot; his Fortune system also rewarded him with the Born Sacred talent.
• Chen Zhixing resolved to find Chen Moqing a powerful teacher and proposed sending him to Willow God, despite Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang’s objections.
• Chen Zhixing made Chen Moqing address his grandparents, told him he would be sent to his master, and ignored the family’s protests as he flew off with the crying child.

Chen Zhixing left his son Chen Moqing with the Willow God and learned that a mysterious World Descent could bring war within ten years. After his decision alarmed the cultivation world, Mo Qingyue revealed that the Heavenly Spider had a method for attaining immortality, and Chen Zhixing pressed her to explain it.

• Chen Zhixing left Chen Moqing beneath the Willow Tree, where the Willow God confirmed that an unknown World Descent and possible war were approaching within ten years.
• Chen Zhixing reflected on the Three Great Holy Lands’ growing tensions with the aristocratic families and resolved to strengthen the Chen Clan and pursue Gold Nature.
• After Chen Zhixing returned to Jiangzhou, Mo Qingyue urged him to bring his son home and assured him that Heavenly Saint Palace had no designs against the Chen Clan.
• Chen Zhixing said his friend could guarantee Chen Moqing’s immortality, prompting Mo Qingyue to suspect he had entrusted the boy to the Heavenly Spider.
• Chen Zhixing demanded to know the Heavenly Spider’s method for attaining immortality and threatened to seek out the organization himself.

Mo Qingyue revealed that Chen Zhixing and his ancestor Chen Changfeng were Gold Nature reincarnations, and that Chen Zhaosheng had been an experimental subject created by the Three Great Holy Lands. She also warned Chen Zhixing that dealing with Snow Demon Clan beings could cost him his existence, leaving him alarmed about the Snow Demon Clan members and relics he had brought back.

• Mo Qingyue explained that Gold Nature could create reincarnations whose wills were gradually taken over as they cultivated, and said Clarified Butter True Lord had identified Chen Zhixing as one.
• Mo Qingyue revealed that Chen Changfeng had also been a Gold Nature reincarnation and that Heavenly Saint Palace had sealed the Gold Nature inside him after he reached Longevity.
• Mo Qingyue disclosed that the Three Great Holy Lands had jointly arranged for Chen Zhaosheng to become an artificial Gold Nature reincarnation, and that he had been returned to the Chen Family as a relatively successful experiment.
• Chen Zhixing refused to bring back Mo Qing and said the child had a teacher unrelated to Gold Nature, prompting Mo Qingyue to explain what she knew about the Snow Demon Clan and other beings from alien worlds.
• Mo Qingyue warned Chen Zhixing never to accept anything from those beings because it would cost him an equivalent amount of existence, and Chen Zhixing realized he had already brought back Snow Demon experts, pills, and a clan leader's mark.
• Chen Zhixing wondered whether the Snow Demon Clan's confinement and his maternal grandmother's impending death meant that their existence was running out.

Chen Zhixing considered the uncertain limits of his knowledge and the advantages of his position among the world’s powerful, then examined the dangers and opportunities of World Descent. The Xuan Tian World was nearing another encounter with a foreign world, and Chen Zhixing recognized that its outcome could reshape both worlds.

• Chen Zhixing reflected that Mo Qingyue’s claims could be factual without representing the whole truth, and recalled Xiao Shitou’s future rise beyond the Longevity Realm.
• Chen Zhixing took a Qingjing Warm Spirit Pill and concluded that his resources, influence, and intelligence had made a prophet’s foreknowledge largely unnecessary.
• Chen Zhixing reasoned that the coming World Descent posed a danger even to Longevity True Lords because contact between worlds could lead to conflict and mass migration.
• Chen Zhixing recalled how a previous World Descent left mutated outsiders in the Northern Domain and how another produced the forbidden Kuru Continent.
• Chen Zhixing noted that World Descent could also bring valuable cultivation ideas and inheritances, and concluded that a new one was about to begin.

After forty years of secluded cultivation, Wang Lin visited Chen Zhixing to ask for the next cultivation method and received a scripture, a strange book, and orders to consider marriage. He then heard Shi Hao claim that Chen Zhixing had become a mass of qi and had swallowed and recreated the White Serpent, leaving Wang Lin worried about his master's transformation.

• Wang Lin emerged from seclusion after completing the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Scripture and went to see Chen Zhixing at Ziwei Eternity.
• Chen Zhixing gave Wang Lin the Yellow Springs Grand Luo Scripture and Lianshan, then told him he should marry and have descendants.
• After returning from the main peak, Wang Lin recalled seeing Chen Zhixing's transparent, qi-filled form and wondered what lay beyond the Summit Realm.
• Shi Hao told Wang Lin that Chen Zhixing had thrown their newborn junior brother into the North Sea and claimed their mother had become a monster.
• Shi Hao described seeing Chen Zhixing swallow the White Serpent and form another version of himself from qi, deepening Wang Lin's concern.

Wang Lin accepted that Master remained his and Xiao Shitou’s Master regardless of how his cultivation changed, while Xiao Shitou showed how thoroughly Ziwei Mountain and the Chen Family had shaped his loyalty. The chapter explained the Heavenly Xuan Realm’s entrenched hierarchy and ended by recalling the overwhelming force Shi Hao had once used to destroy its old order.

• Wang Lin decided to support Master even if Master became a devil, and Xiao Shitou insisted that anyone who judged Master badly should be made to disappear.
• Wang Lin realized Xiao Shitou’s ruthless loyalty reflected the family-centered values he had absorbed from life at Ziwei Mountain and among the Chen Family.
• The chapter described how the Three Great Holy Lands, aristocratic clans, smaller sects, rogue cultivators, and ordinary people maintained a stable but restrictive social order.
• The chapter explained that the Eastern Profound Realm would not change unless a powerful figure made reform unavoidable.
• The chapter recalled Shi Hao’s answer to the old order: he swept across the domain, destroyed forty-six aristocratic families, and left the Holy Lands in mourning.

Chen Zhixing discovered that his evolving Chaos Body could create treasures and manifest thoughts as independent incarnations. After one incarnation frightened his mother, Chen Zhixing and Xu Qingqing saw another peach-bearing incarnation cause trouble for Chen Zhaosheng.

• Chen Zhixing told Xu Qingqing that his body was evolving beyond humanity, then created an immortal peach from spiritual energy and gave it to her.
• A thought of giving peaches to his parents manifested outside Ziwei Eternity, split into two peach-shaped incarnations, and frightened Ying Shuangshuang into fainting.
• Chen Zhixing explained the incident to Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang, who recovered and urged him to control his new ability.
• Chen Zhixing discovered that his thought incarnations could travel independently and persist, and one merged with the bell pavilion to ring the morning bell each month.
• Chen Zhixing sent another incarnation carrying a peach to Chen Zhaosheng, who angrily swore revenge after the encounter.

Chen Zhixing reunited with Chen Zhaosheng and learned that World Descent would reach Southern Islet in a month, threatening the Chen Clan’s interests and forcing it to prepare. Chen Zhaosheng proposed securing a foothold in Qingzhou, but Chen Zhixing refused to release prisoners from the Ziwei Divine Restriction; they agreed to consider hiring a Summit Realm expert, as the otherworld was confirmed to be powerful.

• Chen Zhaosheng panicked when Chen Zhixing appeared to turn into a peach, then learned Chen Zhixing had used a new ability to create it from nothing.
• Chen Zhaosheng told Chen Zhixing that Heavenly Saint Palace expected World Descent to reach Southern Islet in a month and would take over the Qingzhou and Huai Province territories the Chen Clan had conquered.
• Chen Zhaosheng explained that Old Ancestor Tian Yuan’s actions had left Qingzhou short of Summit Realm experts, creating a chance for the Chen Clan to intervene there during World Descent.
• Chen Zhaosheng proposed taking one or two Summit Realm prisoners from the Ziwei Divine Restriction to Qingzhou, but Chen Zhixing firmly refused to release any of them.
• Chen Zhaosheng agreed to set aside Qingzhou for now and suggested hiring a Summit Realm expert from Heavenly Saint Palace if needed; he revealed that Three Injuries Old Ancestor had confirmed the otherworld was no weaker than their own.

A Desolate Beast crossed into the Heavenly Xuan Realm, and the ensuing attacks left Guangtian True Man badly injured and An Nan dead. Chen Zhixing learned of the World Descent and visited Mo Qingyue after she reached the Summit, but he sensed something was wrong with her as she struggled to bear a great burden of twilight qi.

• A black-furred giant attacked through a void fissure in Si Province, and Guangtian True Man used Ink Kill to battle it before sealing the breach.
• Guangtian True Man and An Nan pursued a sound-Dao Desolate Beast, which killed An Nan and heavily injured Guangtian True Man.
• Chen Zhixing learned that Desolate Beasts had crossed into the realm and that Heavenly Saint Palace had advised the provinces to defend themselves.
• Chen Zhixing visited Mo Qingyue at Heavenly Saint Palace after hearing she had reached the Summit, and she explained that her perception of time was disrupted.
• After leaving Mo Qingyue, Chen Zhixing sensed an aura of decay around her and suspected her cultivation was troubled.
• Ghee Dao Lord told Mo Qingyue that she had taken on thirty percent of his master's twilight qi, leaving her to digest the burden in seclusion.

Chen Zhixing met Heavenly Saint Palace’s new saintess, Qin Zhengzheng, and learned that she was unlikely to handle the coming World Descent, since her master Qin Yi would manage the alliance against the Demons from Beyond. Back at Ziwei Mountain, Chen Zhixing began using hundreds of split-off thoughts to cultivate, but the chapter ended with a giant fish accusing him of endangering them.

• Chen Zhixing met Qin Zhengzheng at Heavenly Saint Palace, and they discussed the relationship between the palace’s saintesses and Ziwei’s Chen Clan.
• Chen Zhixing wondered why the saintesses seemed unconcerned about World Descent, and Chen Zhaosheng explained that Qin Zhengzheng was lazy and that her master Qin Yi would handle the sect and family alliance.
• Chen Zhixing sent split-off thoughts to cultivate, explaining that he planned to create as many as three thousand and later retrieve their gains.
• Chen Zhixing used the Ziwei Divine Restriction to replenish the spiritual energy of hundreds of his thoughts as they pursued different activities.
• A massive fish surfaced beneath the Willow Tree and accused Chen Zhixing of trying to get them killed.

Chen Zhixing watched over Ziwei Eternity, refined the Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror, and strengthened his clan while the Southern Domain’s sects gathered under Qin Yi. The chapter ended with Snake Consort announcing she was nearing the Summit Realm and deciding to stay on Ziwei Mountain—at least until enemies attacked.

• Chen Zhixing’s reading thought taunted the demons imprisoned in Ziwei Eternity, while a sparrow considered warning him about the cost of splitting off so many thoughts but chose to hide instead.
• Chen Zhixing examined the evolving Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror, judged that he might reach the seventh heaven of the Summit Realm after fully refining it, and merged the mirror into his left eye.
• Qin Yi organized Southern Domain sects under World Descent and held an Immortal Dao Gathering, for which Qin Zhengzheng exchanged Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade for a Qingjing Warm Spirit Pill.
• Chen Tianliang broke through to Nirvana, and Chen Chou’er also reached Nirvana, prompting Chen Zhixing to invest heavily in cultivating him as a potential Summit Realm fighter.
• Snake Consort told Chen Zhixing she was close to breaking through to the Summit Realm and asked for a pill; after he gave her one, she agreed to stay on Ziwei Mountain but said she would flee if enemies attacked.

Chen Zhixing investigated how Nirvana cultivators’ Blood Drop Rebirth worked, then learned that their cultivated Great Dao stored the power that restored them. Later, he and Chen Zhaosheng examined Qin Yi’s weak alliance and the questionable promise she made to recruit Divine Nun Pu Fa, leaving Chen Zhixing alarmed at the scheme.

• Chen Zhixing forced Snake Consort to shed her skin while considering whether demonic beasts could be repeatedly harvested, then concluded their size and limited energy prevented Blood Drop Rebirth.
• Li Shuang confirmed that Nirvana cultivators changed themselves to suit their Dao and that their Dao enabled Blood Drop Rebirth, while Chen Zhixing reflected on higher dimensions and his hope of returning to his former world.
• Xue Po entered seclusion and announced he would face his Summit heavenly tribulation within five years, while Li Shuang planned to delay his own attempt and other Snow Demons advanced.
• Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng assessed Qin Yi’s alliance of ninety-six Southern Domain sects and found it had only one genuine Summit Realm expert, Divine Nun Pu Fa, after excluding hidden allies and Heavenly Saint Palace members.
• Chen Zhixing learned that Pu Fa had joined because Qin Yi promised major contributors a Heavenly Saint Palace True Disciple position or help entering the sect in a future life, and he questioned Qin Yi’s authority to make that promise.

Qin Yi tried to recruit the Southern Domain’s clans into the Southern Profound Alliance, but the Chen Clan and others refused to send support. She recruited Gu Xun from the Ancient Clan instead, not knowing Gu Xun intended to use her beauty and a posting in Jiang Province to get close to Chen Zhixing and take revenge.

• Chen Zhixing rejected Qin Yi’s approach, and Chen Tianchen refused to send Chen Clan members to the Southern Profound Alliance.
• Qin Yi visited other Southern Domain clans but found little support, then recruited Gu Xun from the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Xun’s arrival boosted the alliance’s morale, and she asked Qin Yi to move her garrison from the Qing-You Borderlands to Jiang Province.
• Gu Xun traveled to Linjiang City with Granny Rong and planned to send Chen Zhixing a visiting card, presenting herself as an old friend while plotting revenge.

Gu Xun'er visited Chen Zhixing under the guise of joining the Southern Profound Alliance, intending to infiltrate his household and avenge Meng Hedong, but Chen Zhixing did not recognize her or take her bait. Her family arranged for her to marry into the Chen Clan as a concubine without telling her the likely consequences, while Gu Xun'er mistakenly celebrated the match as a step toward revenge.

• Gu Xun'er visited Chen Zhixing on behalf of the Southern Profound Alliance and secretly planned to use marriage and household intrigue to take revenge for Meng Hedong.
• Chen Zhixing treated Gu Xun'er courteously but did not pursue her, and she left angry that he had not fallen for her advances.
• Gu Hen told Chen Zhixing about Gu Xun'er's revenge plan and proposed a marriage alliance, and Chen Zhixing agreed to take her as a concubine.
• Gu Hen and Chen Zhixing agreed to keep Gu Xun'er uninformed, and her family prepared to send her to Ziwei Mountain.
• Granny told Gu Xun'er that her family had proposed the match and the Chen Clan had agreed, while Gu Xun'er eagerly vowed to kill Chen Zhixing for Meng Hedong.

After Gu Xun'er was sent into the Chen Clan as Chen Zhixing’s concubine, Qin Yi and Mo Qingyue failed to secure her release. Mo Qingyue warned Qin Yi that top aristocratic families like the Chen Clan could rival the Holy Lands, then recalled a suspicious arrangement involving Chen Zhaosheng.

• Gu Xun'er’s magic power was sealed, and she was sent into the Chen Clan as a concubine without a wedding.
• Li Ze went to Ziwei Mountain to retrieve Gu Xun'er, but Gu Xing claimed she had willingly married Chen Zhixing and escorted Li Ze away.
• Chen Zhixing received Mo Qingyue and Qin Yi, but made no offer to release Gu Xun'er, while the Ziwei Divine Restriction tormented Qin Yi.
• After leaving Ziwei Mountain, Qin Yi complained that Chen Zhixing had shown them too little respect, and Mo Qingyue slapped her and warned her not to underestimate top aristocratic families.
• Mo Qingyue explained that the Chen Clan had overseas power through Hanging Mountain and might stand on equal footing with the Holy Lands.
• Mo Qingyue recalled that Chen Daoyan had said the Ancestor assigned Chen Zhaosheng the Chen Clan’s share of the Heavenly Spider organization’s sacrificial offerings, before Chen Zhaosheng was possessed during an arranged clan trial.

Mo Qingyue reflected on how Chen Zhixing’s changes had altered Heavenly Spider’s course, while a masked squad was ordered to retrieve Fang Cun, the Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror, and Chen Zhixing. Chen Zhixing detected the threat, prepared Ziwei Mountain for an attack, and left his family on alert as Heavenly Spider approached.

• Mo Qingyue recalled Chen Zhaosheng’s growth and considered how Chen Zhixing’s changes had brought Heavenly Spider into the open.
• A voice at Burial Emperor Mountain ordered a squad of Black Robed Figures to retrieve Fang Cun, the Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror, and Chen Zhixing for the Emperor Lord’s revival.
• Chen Zhixing sensed danger, used the Ziwei Divine Restriction to reveal the approaching Heavenly Spider squad through the Profound Heaven Mirror, and warned that he could resist a Longevity True Lord on Ziwei Mountain.
• The demon-suppressing thought told Chen Zhixing that Great Demons near Fang Cun were rebelling after he repeatedly drained their demonic power, so Chen Zhixing sent another thought to ask Willow God for more demons.
• Chen Zhixing told the demon-suppressing thought to keep Chen Tianchen out of Ziwei Eternity and warned him to withdraw the Chen Family disciples from the mountain.
• Chen Tianchen asked about the mirror’s appearance, and Chen Zhixing assured him that he had only used it to shake someone targeting the Chen Family.

Chen Tianchen recalled the Chen Clan’s members in Jiang Province after a warning from Chen Zhixing’s Demon-Suppressing Thought, while Chen Zhaosheng prepared to confront Heavenly Spider. Qin Yi accepted Chen Zhaosheng’s request and led the Southern Profound Alliance in a devastating ambush on Heavenly Spider’s forces in Si Province.

• Chen Zhixing’s Demon-Suppressing Thought warned Chen Tianchen that enemies would soon strike and urged him to recall the Chen Clan’s people to Ziwei Mountain.
• Chen Tianchen arranged for clan members to return and for houseborn servants to temporarily replace them in vital positions, while Chen Zhaosheng said he would stop Heavenly Spider’s forces from reaching Jiang Province.
• Qin Yi accepted Chen Zhaosheng’s request to kill some of Heavenly Spider’s people, despite knowing they belonged to the organization tied to the Three Great Holy Lands and aristocratic clans.
• In central Si Province, Divine Nun Pu Fa and the Southern Profound Alliance ambushed Heavenly Spider’s forces, killing many as the battle devastated the area around Huangshui County.
• Qin Yi thanked Divine Nun Pu Fa and offered her a Qingjing Warm Spirit Pill, while the nun warned her not to become too involved in the conflict.

Chen Zhixing arranged for Ziwei's Chen Clan to support Qin Yi's Southern Profound Alliance, allowing its search for void rifts across the Southern Domain to advance astonishingly fast. Qin Yi then struggled with how little authority she had in practice and learned that Chen Tianyuan had made way for Chen Zhixing, wary of opposing him.

• Chen Zhaosheng told Chen Zhixing that Qin Yi had led an attack that nearly wiped out the Heavenly Spider organization’s local force, and Chen Zhixing praised her decisiveness.
• Chen Zhixing agreed to let families beyond the Chen Clan’s direct line and Dark Guards help the Alliance explore void rifts, while claiming discoveries within Jiangzhou for his clan and telling Qin Yi to watch the escaped Heavenly Spider members.
• With local aristocratic families and their demon allies cooperating, the Southern Profound Alliance searched the Southern Domain at remarkable speed, accomplishing in half a month what Qin Yi had expected to take ten years.
• Qin Yi complained that she felt like a mascot, and Flying Snow Daoist explained that her role would matter mainly if resource disputes or serious threats required mediation or intervention from the Saint Palace.
• Flying Snow Daoist told Qin Yi that Chen Tianyuan had once warned his friends that remaining in the Southern Domain could lead to trouble because of Chen Zhixing.

Flying Snow Daoist told Qin Yi that Chen Zhixing had been treated as a future Longevity True Lord, while warning that others would turn against him if he failed to prove Dao within a hundred years. Qin Yi visited Gu Xun’er on Ziwei Mountain, where Gu Xun’er urgently warned her to flee the Chen Family before abruptly acting as though all was well.

• Flying Snow Daoist explained that Chen Zhixing had refused an easy path to Longevity through the Azure Pheasant Immortal Sword and that Summit Realm cultivators were wary of opposing him.
• Flying Snow Daoist said a Longevity True Lord would test Chen Zhixing if he failed to prove Dao within a hundred years, and suggested his end would be deserved if he disappointed those who trusted him.
• Qin Yi visited Gu Xun’er in her courtyard on Ziwei Mountain and agreed to pass along her warning that her father should stay away from the great clans.
• Gu Xun’er insisted that the Ancient Clan and Heavenly Saint Palace differed from the great clans, then terrified Qin Yi by urging her to leave Ziwei Mountain before she became one of them.
• After a voice outside the courtyard interrupted, Gu Xun’er calmed down and claimed the Chen Clan treated her well, leaving Qin Yi unsettled about what had happened to her.

One Wonder Dao Lord and Black Bodhi pursued the nearly indestructible Great Wilderness Ju Luo while arguing over her plan to visit Chen Zhixing in the Southern Domain. One Wonder then appeared in Jinghang City, where she condemned the Longevity Chart’s rankings of her sword, the Heavenly Saint Palace, and the Profound Heaven Mirror.

• Inchworm True Lord and One Wonder Dao Lord drove Great Wilderness Ju Luo away from Anxi County, but it escaped by burrowing into the desert and sealing itself for a month.
• One Wonder told Black Bodhi she wanted to visit the Southern Domain and check on Chen Zhixing, whose Chaos Body she hoped to turn into a pet after he died.
• Black Bodhi reminded One Wonder that Chen Zhixing was a future ally and that the Dao sect opposed her plan to raise a Chaos Beast.
• One Wonder left Black Bodhi to handle Ju Luo and told him to inform Fan Hua that she would return before World Descent began.
• In Jinghang City, One Wonder closed the Longevity Chart and complained that it ranked the Heavenly Saint Palace above her sword and listed the Profound Heaven Mirror.