Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhixing feared the hidden ancient powers of the Heavenly Xuan Realm, arranged for Bai Yu to gather Ascension Immortal Sect experts for a journey into the Universal Realm, then investigated the Snowy Plateau’s Black Coffin. There he encountered Snow Demon Kings who were stunned that he had reached Longevity despite being half snow demon, and they demanded to know how he had done it.

• Chen Zhixing worried that multiple ancient Heavenly Saints might still live in the Heavenly Saint Palace and told Bai Yu to return to the Ascension Immortal Sect and gather experts for the Universal Realm in three days.
• Bai Yu agreed and returned to the sect, motivated by the cultivation benefits she gained from Chen Zhixing and determined to bring out its Longevity Realm experts.
• Chen Zhixing flew to the Snowy Plateau, assessed the limits of his magical power and Dao-attainment boost, and sensed an eerie influence coming from the Black Coffin.
• Chen Zhixing sent a thought clone into the illusion realm, where concealed experts revealed themselves before recognizing the Snow Demon King Mark on his brow.
• The Second Generation and Fifth Generation Snow Demon Kings recognized Chen Zhixing as the half snow demon who had visited years earlier and demanded to know how he had reached Longevity.

Chen Zhixing advised the First Generation Snow Demon King to reject the identities others imposed on him, then broke through to the Fifth Sequence and declared she might be the last Snow Demon King. After discovering that the Black Coffin was empty but still cursed, he considered taking it with Wang Lin’s Little Green Bottle and left Wang Lin with a vast trove of resources and Chen Clan assets.

• The First Generation Snow Demon King warned Chen Zhixing that outsiders used the Demon Lord label to isolate and manipulate him, but he insisted that he was willing to accept the identity on his own terms.
• Chen Zhixing told the First Generation Snow Demon King not to worry about him, broke through to the Fifth Sequence, and said his parents would return in eighty-eight years and that she might be the final Snow Demon King.
• Chen Zhixing examined memories from his infected thought avatar and learned that the Black Coffin was empty, though its mysterious aura still caused the Snow Plateau’s curse.
• Chen Zhixing realized the empty Black Coffin might be a valuable treasure and considered storing it in the Little Green Bottle belonging to Wang Lin.
• Chen Zhixing left Wang Lin cultivation manuals, spirit stones, elixirs, magical artifacts, Chen Clan resources, and other powerful items, leaving Wang Lin astonished by the scale of his inheritance.

Chen Zhixing went to the Forbidden Ground to investigate the Black Coffin and used the Little Green Bottle to contain its dark aura before digging the coffin free and taking it into the bottle’s world. He discovered that the Heavenly Xuan Realm treated the coffin as a prisoner and would eventually create a new cage around him if he kept it, leaving him with no choice but to depart.

• Chen Zhixing examined the Black Coffin with the Second Generation Snow Demon King, who explained that its former owner’s lingering aura had transformed the Snow Demon Clan into tomb guardians.
• Chen Zhixing used the Little Green Bottle to absorb the coffin’s black aura, but the process was too slow for him.
• Chen Zhixing summoned four thought incarnations to pull at the coffin, drawing out a mass of darkness that his Ziwei Dharma Idol absorbed with a Little Green Bottle.
• Chen Zhixing’s incarnations dug beneath the immovable coffin, allowing him to drop it into the Little Green Bottle’s world.
• Chen Zhixing sensed that the Snowy Plateau was a prison for the Black Coffin and that keeping it would cause the world to build a new cage around him.

Chen Zhixing met Bai Yu and six Longevity True Lords of Feather Transformation who planned to explore the Universal Realm, while Bai Yu warned him they might use him as a pathfinder. Qi Luo joined the expedition seeking new experiences to preserve her humanity, and the chapter ended with an unknown woman in the Universal Realm anticipating the world's destruction.

• Chen Zhixing waited at the spatial rift as the Heavenly Xuan Realm's rejection of him deepened after he took the coffin from the Snowy Plateau.
• Bai Yu returned with six Longevity True Lords from the Ascension Immortal Sect, and they exchanged formal greetings with Chen Zhixing before sending disciples through the rift to investigate.
• Bai Yu warned Chen Zhixing that the Feather Transformation cultivators might use him to draw enemy fire, and Chen Zhixing said he would keep a trump card ready.
• Qi Luo and Bai Yu traded barbed remarks after Qi Luo showed interest in Chen Zhixing, while the narration revealed Qi Luo's history and her desire to preserve her humanity through the expedition.
• Qi Luo entered the star gate toward the Universal Realm, where another woman declared that she wanted to witness the world's destruction.

One Wonder and Qi Luo entered the Universal Realm, where its godlike laws watched outsiders, while Bai Yu explained the danger to Chen Zhixing. The chapter left Chen Zhixing enduring Bai Yu’s teasing about their first meeting.

• Black Bodhi recalled the ancient Heavenly Saint’s longevity and One Wonder’s past attempt to inherit Heavenly Saint Palace before One Wonder warned him to guard his Divine Sense.
• One Wonder knocked Black Bodhi unconscious, sent him back through a spatial rift, and climbed transparent stairs toward the floating Upside-down Mountains.
• Qi Luo arrived, sensed One Wonder’s high-sequence void power, and left quickly to avoid the Universal Realm’s Watchers.
• Bai Yu told Chen Zhixing that the Universal Realm’s gods existed as laws throughout the world and that their strength depended on the world’s essence.
• Bai Yu teased Chen Zhixing about disguising himself as a servant to join a small sect when they first met.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu traded jokes in the Remote Wilderness while, in a sealed Small World, Chen Zhishou was born and Xu Qingqing faced pressure to pass the Profound Heaven Mirror to him. The mirror rejected the infant, and Xu Qingqing took him away with it as Chen Zhaosheng’s relatives reconsidered their treatment of her and asked about his cultivation.

• Chen Zhixing teased Bai Yu after she pretended to cry, and the two joked about his strange ancestral laughter.
• Chen Tianliang rushed into the delivery room after Ying Shuangshuang gave birth to Chen Zhishou, leaving the midwife to hand the infant to Xu Qingqing.
• Chen Tianxiong and Chen Tianchen hoped Xu Qingqing would transfer control of the Profound Heaven Mirror to Chen Zhishou, since they distrusted its being held by someone outside the Chen surname.
• Xu Qingqing placed the Profound Heaven Mirror in Chen Zhishou’s arms, but it fell to the ground, prompting the family to fear the Emperor Weapon had rejected the arrangement.
• Xu Qingqing picked up the mirror and took Chen Zhishou to his room, while Chen Tianxiong and Chen Tianchen admitted that Chen Zhaosheng had been right about treating her fairly.
• Chen Tianchen asked whether Chen Zhaosheng had reached the high level of the Apex Realm, and Chen Zhaosheng reflected that he had only recently advanced to the middle realm.

Chen Zhaosheng discussed cultivation and Chen Zhixing with Chen Chou'er, who remained devoted to guarding Chen Zhixing’s household during his absence. Xu Qingqing explained that the Chen Clan was testing Chen Chou'er’s loyalty, but she believed he would leave if Chen Zhixing died and devote himself to protecting their child.

• Chen Zhaosheng reflected on the difficulty of advancing through Apex and compared his cultivation with Chen Zhixing’s.
• Chen Zhaosheng asked Chen Chou'er about his cultivation, and Chen Chou'er said Chen Zhixing had already shown him the path to Apex.
• Chen Chou'er returned to Third Peak, reported his conversation with Chen Zhaosheng to Xu Qingqing, and spent the night guarding Chen Zhixing’s courtyard as he had for eleven years.
• Xu Qingqing told her maid that the Family Head was testing whether Chen Chou'er would remain loyal to Zhishou if Chen Zhixing died.
• Xu Qingqing concluded that Chen Chou'er would leave Ziwei's Chen Clan and spend his life protecting her and Chen Zhixing’s child.

Bai Yu and Chen Zhixing crossed the Sea of Bitterness, where Chen Zhixing killed a giant whale and drew the attention of Sea Devastator, a powerful watcher of the Universal Realm. Sea Devastator warned them against harming local life and tried to provoke them into violating the realm’s rules before withdrawing.

• Bai Yu and Chen Zhixing flew over a herd of Apex Realm whales, and the largest Void Whale attacked them.
• Chen Zhixing killed the giant whale, and its death stirred sea creatures while its image cracked in an Ancient God Kingdom mural.
• After crossing the Sea of Bitterness, Bai Yu and Chen Zhixing encountered Sea Devastator, who introduced himself as a watcher and allowed them to explore the Ancient God Kingdoms.
• Sea Devastator blamed the whale’s attack on the pair’s failure to greet it and demanded an apology, while Bai Yu argued that the whale had attacked them first.
• Sea Devastator tried to provoke Bai Yu into attacking him, but she recognized the trap and watched him sink back into the sea.
• Bai Yu scolded Chen Zhixing for not warning her, and he agreed to speak less with Universal Realm lifeforms.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu entered the Inner Ring Forest Sea and discovered that the Watchers were building a vast Tower to the Heavens. A strange, world-favored being explained the Universal Realm’s ruined history, and Chen Zhixing identified it as a spirit formed from the ancient gods’ remnants—before it demonstrated that it could affect reality.

• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu saw thousands of Nirvana Realm and Apex Realm cultivators constructing a huge platform for the Tower to the Heavens.
• A humanoid life-form told Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu that the Watchers were trying to repair the World Tree and atone for the ancient gods’ destruction of it.
• The life-form described how the ancient gods cut apart the World Tree and consumed its heartwood to extend their lives, while later Watchers rebuilt the Universal Realm’s three rings and nine layers.
• The life-form said it would lead the Watchers in reconnecting the divine kingdoms to the World Tree, while allowing Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu to pursue them.
• Chen Zhixing revealed that the life-form was a spirit formed from the ancient gods’ remains, and it confirmed his claim.
• The spirit touched the ground, causing a giant tree to rise from it.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu met a life-form who offered rare materials and imprisoned beings in exchange for resources to help reconnect the Universal Realm. They could not afford the goods they wanted, and the life-form ended by offering them the Heavenly Fox for one billion standard Spirit Stones.

• The life-form grew a giant tree with the Universal Realm’s help and explained that giant trees could reconnect the realm.
• Chen Zhixing asked what the life-form wanted, and it requested large quantities of energy while displaying valuable materials it could trade.
• The life-form offered Bai Yu phoenix feathers for one Spirit Stone mountain, but she could not pay and the feathers were taken back.
• Chen Zhixing learned that the star core he wanted required a massive mountain, three Spirit Stone mountains, or a thousand years of service, so he declined.
• The life-form showed Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu more than a thousand imprisoned beings, including the Heavenly Fox, and offered to transfer it to them for one billion standard Spirit Stones.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu learned that the Universal Realm’s laws could not improve cultivators from Heavenly Xuan, and Chen explained to Soth why humans valued their humanity and resisted sacrifices that diminished their power. Soth realized that self-interest would outlast self-sacrifice in the Universal Realm and began considering whether to reshape its laws.

• Soth explained that the Watchers had approached Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu to trade after learning they came from Heavenly Xuan and could communicate.
• Soth warned that the Law Force in the ancient gods’ kingdoms belonged to the Universal Realm and would not benefit cultivators who returned to Heavenly Xuan, prompting Bai Yu to accuse Chen Zhixing of withholding information.
• Chen Zhixing told Soth that cultivators maintained their humanity because becoming sacred beings would mean surrendering a life they valued, while Soth viewed repairing the Universal Realm as his purpose.
• Chen Zhixing explained that most beings would refuse to sacrifice power for the Universal Realm’s restoration, and Soth’s calculations confirmed that self-sacrificing beings would eventually disappear.
• Soth fell silent and considered reshaping the Universal Realm’s laws to prevent that outcome.

Chen Zhixing explained his plan to reform the Universal Realm by replacing Soth’s forced system with a flexible slave-enfeoffment hierarchy that would reward people for helping repair the world. He argued that the system’s rebellions and breakaway forces would still serve Soth’s goals, leaving Bai Yu stunned by his proposal.

• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu discussed Soth’s willingness to follow rules, and Chen Zhixing found that using his Star Guiding Hand was difficult in the Universal Realm.
• Chen Zhixing argued that he and Soth could cooperate because their goals aligned, with Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu helping reform the Universal Realm while gaining benefits.
• Chen Zhixing proposed changing the Universal Realm’s system so that repairing it would become profitable for its inhabitants, rather than relying on Soth’s forced brainwashing.
• Chen Zhixing argued that the Universal Realm already had social classes and proposed a flexible slave-enfeoffment system suited to Soth’s goals.
• Chen Zhixing explained that even rebellions and breakaway forces would produce new lords who could become Soth’s trading partners, leaving Bai Yu dumbfounded.

Chen Zhixing discussed a slave-trading system for the Universal Realm so Thors could overhear his proposal, while One Wonder True Lord raided the Frost Dragon Kingdom in search of the Dragon God’s treasure. She killed the Ice Dragon King, reached the Dragon God Sanctum, and began dragging the Frost Dragon God from its shattered refuge.

• Chen Zhixing explained to Bai Yu that Thors could profit by raising and selling slaves to the Universal Realm’s lords.
• Thors listened to their conversation, considered the proposal, and sensed an outsider crossing the line in a divine kingdom.
• One Wonder True Lord forced the Ice Dragon King to carry her toward the Frost Dragon Sanctum and killed it when it refused to approach the forbidden ground.
• One Wonder ignored Soth’s warning and walked toward the Dragon God Sanctum above the glacier.
• One Wonder crushed the sanctum with a hand of spatial rifts and dragged out the struggling Frost Dragon God as the kingdom’s ice dragons watched.

After One Wonder dragged the Dragon God's phantom away, Soth used Evolve the Past to deduce that an attempt to capture her five thousand years earlier would have brought down Heavenly Saint Palace. The Frost Dragon Kingdom then collapsed into the Universal Realm, drawing powerful beings toward its remains, while Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu chose not to pursue the dragon corpse and its Great Divine Power.

• One Wonder dragged the Dragon God's phantom into a spatial rift, leaving Soth helpless and guilty.
• Soth used Evolve the Past to deduce that Heavenly Saint Palace would have intervened if he had attacked One Wonder five thousand years earlier.
• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu witnessed the Frost Dragon Kingdom shatter and fall into the Universal Nine Rings, as a colossal dragon corpse briefly held back its descent.
• Bai Yu recognized the corpse's Law, Heaven, Image, Earth Great Divine Power and warned against approaching it, while Chen Zhixing agreed to stay away.
• Hundreds of powerful beings converged on the fallen kingdom, but most Longevity Realm cultivators avoided the competition, and several Holy Land cultivators withdrew after finding the area sealed off or crowded.

Shi Hao and Zhang Wen reached the area around Frost Dragon Island, where the Watchers were occupied moving the fallen divine kingdom and ordered them to leave. After Zhang Wen learned that the islands might contain Gold Nature, the tree spirit parasitizing him tried to turn him against Shi Hao, but Zhang Wen resolved to die with it rather than help it escape.

• Shi Hao and the ailing Zhang Wen traveled together toward the fallen dragon island, and Zhang Wen warned Shi Hao to refuse the Watchers and kill him if he began acting mad.
• Shi Hao and Zhang Wen found over a thousand Watchers moving Frost Dragon Island, but two Watchers only ordered them to leave the restricted area.
• After they retreated, Shi Hao told Zhang Wen that the divine kingdoms might contain Gold Nature, and Zhang Wen grew eager to obtain it.
• Shi Hao privately recognized that another face was merging with Zhang Wen, while Zhang Wen concealed his condition and planned to bring the tree spirit down with him.
• The tree spirit urged Zhang Wen to kill Shi Hao and take his body, but Zhang Wen refused and chose to die with the tree inside his body.

Chen Zhixing learned that the Universal Realm’s Star Lord was unusually weak and planned to find and devour him, while debating the nature of the two realms’ cultivation systems with Bai Yu. Their discussion led Chen Zhixing to discover that he could ascend into the Spirit Realm from the Universal Realm, leaving Bai Yu pleading with him not to do so.

• Chen Zhixing learned from Bai Yu that a weak Star Lord controlled golden essence in the Universal Realm and decided he wanted to find and devour him.
• Bai Yu took Chen Zhixing to meet Miken, a divine stag and Watcher, as they discussed the Universal Realm’s divine lifeforms and cultivation system.
• Chen Zhixing challenged Bai Yu’s belief that the Spirit Realm was a higher dimension within the Heavenly Xuan Realm and began transforming into the Dao to test whether he could reach it.
• Bai Yu warned Chen Zhixing that ascending would prevent him from returning to the mortal world, and he stopped before entering the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Zhixing pointed out that the ancient gods’ kingdoms existed above the Universal Realm, prompting Bai Yu to realize that the Universal Realm might allow higher-dimensional beings to remain in the mortal world.
• Bai Yu clutched Chen Zhixing’s sleeve and begged him not to ascend, fearing that he could never return to the Heavenly Xuan Realm as he knew it.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu learned that Camilla’s godhead lay in the dangerous divine kingdom of the fallen Sky King Mistre, then discussed testing whether divine essence could be extracted from divine beings. They planned to have Su Feng and the others conduct the first experiment, while Bai Yu continued teasing Chen Zhixing about Miken.

• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu visited Miken, who identified Camilla as Mistre’s subordinate deity associated with stars, fairy tales, dawn, and morning light, and said her godhead remained in Mistre’s divine kingdom.
• Miken described Mistre as a fallen god-king whose divine kingdom still held descendants, powerful creations, and imprisoned fiends.
• Bai Yu offered Miken gifts in thanks, but he refused them, and Chen Zhixing later joked that Miken had taken a liking to her.
• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu noticed that Miken possessed incomplete Gold Nature and considered whether killing a divine lifeform could yield extractable divinity.
• Bai Yu said Su Feng and the others had arrived nearby and would make the first test; she joked that Miken might become a later target if the experiment worked.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu broke into the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom aboard the Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat and discovered that its inhabitants were primitive birdmen. After Bai Yu killed the first group they encountered, the pair found the birdmen’s tiny royal nest, and Chen Zhixing went inside to ask about Camilla’s divine domain.

• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu found the raging-wind barrier around the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom and discussed its use of Gold Nature.
• Bai Yu summoned the Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat, and it smashed through the barrier into the divine kingdom.
• The birdmen mistook the immortal boat for an object from beyond the heavens, and Bai Yu killed them when they attacked with foul-smelling short spears.
• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu searched the area and found the birdmen’s royal city, a nest inhabited by fewer than two hundred people.
• Chen Zhixing appeared inside the nest to ask the birdmen where Camilla’s divine domain was located.

Chen Zhixing transformed the birdmen of the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom and discovered they had little cultivation or useful knowledge, then uncovered a curse protecting the Sky God's descendants. A giant puppet-like Sky God wielding Boundary Lightning attacked Bai Yu, forcing Chen Zhixing to rescue her and flee.

• Chen Zhixing used Spirit Opening and Language Comprehension on Luhua, then transformed the other birdmen in the nest and learned they worshipped him as a god.
• Chen Zhixing searched the birdman queen's soul and found that the birdmen were the strongest local force, despite having no substantial cultivation system.
• Chen Zhixing realized the Sky God had left the birdmen isolated and protected them with a blood-contract Curse that forbade outsiders from staying or killing his descendants.
• A gigantic black-and-white raptor attacked Bai Yu with Boundary Lightning, piercing her defensive array and driving her to flee.
• Chen Zhixing recognized the attacker as the Sky God in a half-puppet form, shielded Bai Yu with the Azure Pheasant Immortal Sword, and escaped with her as they called for a flying boat.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu escaped the Ancient God Puppet’s Boundary Lightning after their first exploration of the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, and Chen Zhixing began planning another route inside. Meanwhile, Shi Hao and Zhang Wen discovered a hidden grotto-heaven in the Longevity and Wood God Kingdom, where Shi Hao found a trove of ancient spiritual medicines.

• The Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat endured fifteen minutes of Boundary Lightning before Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu escaped the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, losing seven percent of its energy reserves.
• Bai Yu blamed Chen Zhixing for the losses, but after he planned to explore again, she followed him and learned he was calculating a safer route around the Ancient God Puppet.
• Chen Zhixing explained that the puppet would remain awake until the bloodlines of its dead descendants were burned clean, and concealed his interest in the Sky King’s treasure from Bai Yu.
• Shi Hao recognized the writing on a seaside stele as similar to Shi Clan script and opened a light door that led him and Zhang Wen into the Longevity and Wood God Kingdom.
• Shi Hao and Zhang Wen entered a secluded grotto-heaven filled with ancient spiritual plants, and Zhang Wen watched a transformed Longevity Ginseng King escape underground.