Chapter Summaries

One Wonder attacked the Fire Element Divine Kingdom, draining its magma lake and defeating Stanfenis while Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu observed from outside. As Chen Zhixing continued probing the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, One Wonder prepared to strike Stanfenis again.

• One Wonder rejected Stanfenis’s demand that she become its queen and opened spatial rifts that sucked magma and fire elements from its volcanic lake.
• Stanfenis erupted with fire-element divinity, while Chen Zhixing sensed the disturbance and identified One Wonder as the attacker.
• Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu discussed whether One Wonder might turn her attention to the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom as Chen continued searching for a way inside.
• One Wonder stood unharmed above the emptied volcanic lake as Stanfenis climbed from its crater and claimed it would become the Fire God King.
• One Wonder called Stanfenis childish and raised her hand to strike it again.

Chen Zhixing explained why the Universal Realm’s Watchers let outsiders demolish divine kingdoms, while Soth decided to reform their system so the realm could face powerful enemies. As Chen entered the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, Soth removed its Boundary Lightning laws and sensed that Mistre had returned, prompting him to intervene.

• Bai Yu questioned why the Watchers tolerated One Wonder True Lord’s destruction of divine kingdoms, and Chen Zhixing explained that outsiders’ extraction benefited them while native challengers threatened the ruling order.
• Chen Zhixing reasoned that the Watchers’ continual replacement kept the Universal Realm from stagnating, with Soth’s influence persuading people to accept the dangerous role.
• Soth resolved to reform the Watchers by adapting Chen Zhixing’s proposed slave enfeoffment system, then offered Chen the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom’s starry-sky and star divinities.
• After Chen Zhixing entered the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, Soth extracted its Boundary Lightning laws and decided to leave the remaining laws as a gift to Chen.
• Soth sensed an unwelcome presence in the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, recognized that Mistre had returned, and went to confront him.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu watched Mistre answer the prayers of five dinosaur people with starlight, revealing that the ancient Sky God had awakened and was trying to prepare a vessel for his return. After searching the dinosaurs’ souls, Chen Zhixing discovered that Mistre had given them a cultivation technique connected to the Dao of the Sky.

• Chen Zhixing explained that Mistre’s will had been trapped in his Gold Nature because Boundary Lightning had thwarted his attempts to revive through would-be heirs to the Sky God position.
• Mistre began granting divine gifts to the inhabitants of the Heavenly Dome Divine Kingdom, including a group of dinosaur people who prayed to him at an altar.
• Starlight flowed from Mistre’s statue into the brows of five dinosaurs, and the worshippers celebrated the apparent miracle while Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu watched in confusion.
• Bai Yu suggested taking the statue, but Chen Zhixing stopped her and said they would investigate the five dinosaurs after the worshippers dispersed.
• Chen Zhixing used Soul Search on all five dinosaurs, killing two and leaving the others gravely injured, and learned that Mistre had bestowed a cultivation technique for the Dao of the Sky.
• Chen Zhixing realized that the technique resembled his family’s inherited Five Elements Qi Gathering Method.

Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu learned that Mistre had revived in his puppet body, but Soth arrived first and held the Sky God's funeral. A fading puppet consciousness revealed Soth was born to destroy the Universal Realm, leaving Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu to face his impending visit.

• Chen Zhixing explained that Mistre's divine spark had begun moving toward Gold Nature and suspected he had possessed his own puppet body.
• Soth confronted Mistre, who recognized him as a God of Death and consented to be destroyed, including the bloodlines he had left behind.
• Soth held Mistre's funeral, while a fading puppet consciousness told Chen Zhixing that Soth was born to bury the world but had instead saved it.
• The puppet consciousness warned Chen Zhixing that Soth would soon visit to ask about his plan, then vanished from Chen Zhixing's Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Zhixing told Bai Yu that Soth was the Universal Realm's funeral-bearer, and Bai Yu urged them to flee before he destroyed the world.

Chen Zhixing realized that his Tribulation of Losing Self had begun unusually early, after noticing his sense of time and concern for others fading. Soth offered advice for holding on to his will, and the story left Chen Zhixing considering what purpose could anchor him as Soth postponed their discussion about reforming the Universal Realm.

• Bai Yu urged Chen Zhixing to flee the Universal Realm because Soth was destined to destroy it, but Soth assured her he would not destroy it before she left.
• Chen Zhixing realized he had begun to lose track of his age and feel indifferent toward death, and he told Bai Yu and Soth that his Tribulation of Losing Self had started.
• Bai Yu was shocked that Chen Zhixing had encountered the tribulation at only thirty-one, while Chen Zhixing said he could accept the possibility of losing himself and expected to reach Above Longevity before it became serious.
• Soth advised Chen Zhixing to find a goal or faith that could anchor his will, and Chen Zhixing considered living longer a means to see more of the world rather than an ultimate desire.
• Soth postponed asking Chen Zhixing about changing the Universal Realm's slave enfeoffment system until Chen Zhixing had recovered, promising him a satisfying gift in return.

Chen Zhixing arranged to receive Soth’s starry-sky divinity while One Wonder struggled to control two unruly Gold Natures. In the Azurewood Longevity Realm, Shi Hao met Wood Welcomes Spring, who offered him the entire vast divine kingdom, leaving Zhang Wen worried about how Chen Zhixing would react to such a prize.

• Chen Zhixing told Soth that starry-sky divinity could stabilize his condition, and Soth agreed to begin their conversation.
• One Wonder complained as she restrained the noisy water and fire Gold Natures she had captured.
• Shi Hao met Wood Welcomes Spring, who recognized his Shi Clan bloodline and agreed to leave her home with him.
• Wood Welcomes Spring revealed the full Azurewood Longevity Realm and offered the entire world to Shi Hao.
• Zhang Wen realized the realm’s immense value and feared Chen Zhixing might kill them to claim it, but Shi Hao trusted his master and said Ziwei’s Chen Clan had similar secret realms.

Shi Hao learned that the Azurewood Longevity Realm was a section of the World Tree, while Chen Zhixing and Soth planned a centuries-long restructuring of the Universal Realm. One Wonder, overwhelmed by two unruly divinities, sought help from True Lord Ciyun, but one of the children immediately insulted him.

• Wood Welcomes Spring told Shi Hao that the Azurewood Longevity Realm was cut from the World Tree, the former Universal Realm.
• Chen Zhixing explained to Bai Yu that he and Soth had begun planning a gradual transformation of the Universal Realm into a military-industrial society.
• Chen Zhixing warned Bai Yu that the Three Great Holy Lands and the Dao Lords would resist any similar changes in the Heavenly Xuan Realm.
• One Wonder struggled to control the two divinities and flew off to find Longevity Realm cultivators who could watch them.
• One Wonder found True Lord Ciyun and asked him to summon nearby cultivators, but a divinity called Ciyun ugly and stupid.

One Wonder tried to enlist Ciyun and other Ascension Immortal Sect elders to take back two unruly Gold Natures, but after the others failed to arrive, she forcibly merged a fire-aspected Gold Nature into Ciyun. Meanwhile, Bai Yu avoided One Wonder and learned that Soth had purified the Spiritual Imprint from starry-sky divinity delivered to Chen Zhixing.

• One Wonder asked Ciyun to help take the two Gold Natures back, and Ciyun summoned Qi Luo and other elders for support.
• Qi Luo refused to help One Wonder and warned others to avoid her, while Bai Yu ignored Ciyun's summons and stayed with Chen Zhixing.
• After no other elders arrived, Ciyun worried that they had met with danger, but One Wonder accused him of playing games and forcibly hurled a fire-aspected Gold Nature at him.
• Chen Zhixing showed Bai Yu the starry-sky divinity Soth had delivered, and explained that Soth had erased its previous owners' Spiritual Imprint.

Chen Zhixing began comprehending the star divinity while Bai Yu left to gather goods, and the Universal Realm's divine authority of fire was reclaimed, heralding the birth of a new god. The chapter ended with the realm's inhabitants reacting to the sudden appearance of a staircase to godhood.

• Chen Zhixing explained that Soth had given him a star divinity and began comprehending its laws, while Bai Yu went to collect Universal Realm specialties.
• Chen Zhixing noted that Soth's influence had stirred negative emotions in many Heavenly Xuan Realm cultivators, though Shi Hao and Zhang Wen were protected by the Azure Wood Longevity World.
• Herman felt his connection to the God of Flame weakening, and the bonfire that had protected his Tree Spirit tribe went out.
• Gemm Goth discovered that it had lost the divine nature of flame and roared in anger, while the other six demigods competing for fire authority lost their claim to it.
• Flames across the Universal Realm stirred as someone took control of the fire authority, and its inhabitants realized a new god might have appeared.

Universal Realm demigods rushed to seize divine seats, believing the path to godhood had opened, while the Watchers knew Soth had granted no such permission. At their meeting, the Watchers set aside several threats and approved measures to protect resource mining, including culling some Frost Dragon bloodlines.

• Over a hundred Universal Realm Legends entered the divine kingdoms to claim Godhoods, while the five supreme seats remained largely out of reach or under Soth's control.
• The Watchers gathered at their headquarters and confirmed that Soth had not opened the path to godhood, so anyone who seized a seat risked being assimilated by it.
• The Watchers voted to ignore the outsiders near the Azure Wood Longevity World, and Black Beast protested before despairing and sitting down.
• The Watchers approved sending an elite squad to protect mining in the Blazing Sun Divine Kingdom from demigods seeking the Sun God's seat.
• After debating unrest in the Frost Dragon Kingdom, the Watchers approved weakening its ancient god bloodlines by one third to one half, and Amanigler seconded the decision.

Chen Zhixing learned that Taoist Ciyun had fused with the Fire Great Esteemed One’s godhood and discussed with Soth how to expand the Universal Realm. The conversation ended with Chen Zhixing calling out someone who had been secretly listening nearby.

• An Earth Crust Worm Watcher and Amanigler discussed Soth’s plans to trim powerful races and the possibility that the path to godhood had loosened.
• Soth told Chen Zhixing that the fire divinity had been fused into Taoist Ciyun, who had integrated smoothly into the Universal Realm; Chen Zhixing realized Ciyun had likely lost himself to the godhood.
• Chen Zhixing asked whether Soth could extract the godhood, but Soth said Ciyun would have to cooperate and explained that One Wonder’s actions served their plan.
• Soth raised concerns that their chosen generals might fail in the sea of stars, and Chen Zhixing proposed using Divine-level figures as deterrents while local nobles led slave forces and resistance groups into the Universal Realm’s system.
• Chen Zhixing noticed someone hiding nearby and ordered them to come out.

Bai Yu learned that Ciyun had changed and warned Qi Luo that One Wonder was responsible, while Qi Luo prepared her Sea Giant tribe to flee an approaching calamity. Chen Zhixing then persuaded Soth to give him three Phoenixes and removed them along with their Wutong forest, leaving Soth to watch them enter Chen Zhixing’s possession.

• Bai Yu received Qi Luo’s warning that Ciyun had changed and told her that One Wonder was the culprit, claiming to have irrefutable proof.
• Qi Luo ordered Erlos to gather the Sea Giants and migrate after their ancestor warned of a world-changing calamity.
• Erlos urged the Sea Giants to trust their king and resist injustice, even if it came from the gods.
• Chen Zhixing questioned Soth’s plan to classify the Sea Giants as war beasts, then asked for three pure Legendary Phoenixes.
• Soth agreed to give Chen Zhixing the Phoenixes, and Chen Zhixing used his spatial power to take them and the surrounding Wutong forest.

Chen Zhixing learned that the Ascension Immortal Sect had come to the Universal Realm partly to find the departed Ascension Immortal Venerable, Huayu, and partly to recruit him as a replacement figurehead. After revealing his rapid rise in power and refusing to stay in Heavenly Xuan, Chen Zhixing found Li Er fishing at the edge of the Outer Ring Endless Sea and asked about the old agreement between Li Er and his Ancestor.

• Chen Zhixing discussed the divine beasts he had collected with Bai Yu, then learned that One Wonder had hidden Ciyun and was stalling Bai Yu’s fellow disciples.
• Chen Zhixing deduced that Huayu had left Heavenly Xuan and that the Ascension Immortal Sect had come to search for him, while some Elders also hoped to recruit Chen Zhixing.
• Bai Yu admitted the sect wanted Chen Zhixing to remain in Heavenly Xuan, but Chen Zhixing revealed he had reached deep into the Sixth Sequence and intended to leave the realm.
• Chen Zhixing left Bai Yu and, after asking Soth where Huayu was, used spatial means to reach the edge of the Outer Ring Endless Sea.
• Chen Zhixing found Li Er fishing and playing chess, then asked whether his Ancestor had arranged for Chen Zhixing to join the Ascension Immortal Sect in exchange for Li Er protecting him.
• Li Er confirmed the agreement and said he had once used his influence to keep the Great Luo Dao Land from pursuing Chen Zhixing.

Chen Zhixing visited Ascension Immortal Venerable Li Er, who warned him about Soth and revealed that the Universal Realm’s World Tree had already been dead for twenty thousand years. Li Er explained that the World Descent was a plan by the Three Great Holy Lands to seize the realm’s last precious resources, and left Chen Zhixing facing the inevitable collapse of the Universal Realm.

• Chen Zhixing thanked Li Er for protecting him and played a game of chess, which he conceded.
• Li Er told Chen Zhixing not to interfere with Ci Yun’s conflict with One Wonder and warned him to keep his distance from Soth.
• Li Er explained that the World Tree’s lifespan was finite and that Soth’s efforts to sustain the Universal Realm were accelerating its decline.
• Li Er revealed that the World Tree had been dead for twenty thousand years and that the World Descent was planned by the Three Great Holy Lands to plunder the Universal Realm’s remaining resources.
• Chen Zhixing asked whether the Universal Realm could still be saved, and Li Er told him it could not and that he should prepare for what came after.

Chen Zhixing learned that Ascension Immortal Venerable would not help save Universal, while a scramble for divine sparks plunged most of the realm into war. Shi Hao fled the slaughter with Zhang Wen and, hiding overnight, began to grasp the devastation his master had once caused.

• Ascension Immortal Venerable told Chen Zhixing that saving his friend meant taking him out of Universal, but the friend would not leave; Li Er then returned to fishing.
• Soth appeared after Chen Zhixing left, and Li Er threatened to tear down Universal if Soth kept talking.
• Bai Yu hurried off to persuade Ascension Immortal Venerable to return to Heavenly Xuan, while Chen Zhixing questioned why a ten-thousand-year-old holy land depended on one person.
• Shi Hao and Zhang Wen emerged from Azure Wood Longevity World into widespread fighting, and Shi Hao fled blindly with Zhang Wen as they crossed the Middle Ring Forest Sea toward the bloodied coast.
• After they sheltered beneath a cliff, Shi Hao called the devastation war, and Zhang Wen described how Chen Zhixing had once thrown the Central Continent into chaos; Shi Hao fell silent.

Chen Zhixing realized Soth planned to use mass slaughter and Karma Fire to burn the Universal Realm, then make it undergo phoenix-like rebirth. He traced the plan to a Shi Clan ancestor and identified the Azure Wood Longevity World as the tinder, leaving Soth and that world as the plan’s critical vulnerabilities.

• Soth told Chen Zhixing that his plan relied on cooperation with future warlords, while admitting he intended to remain and die with the Universal Realm.
• After returning home, Chen Zhixing condemned Soth’s lack of mercy and realized Soth planned to cleanse the realm through destruction and rebirth.
• Chen Zhixing connected the three Phoenixes in his possession to Soth’s plan to ignite the World Tree and renew the Universal Realm.
• Chen Zhixing deduced that a Shi Clan ancestor had devised the Phoenix Nirvana theory and that the Azure Wood Longevity World had been preserved as tinder.
• Chen Zhixing concluded that Soth would use slaughter to summon Karma Fire, ignite the Azure Wood Longevity World, and burn the World Tree, but the plan depended on both Soth and the tinder surviving intact.

Chen Zhixing learned that the Shi Clan had shaped events in the Universal Realm and might have descendants in the Heavenly Xuan Realm, while Soth pointed him toward the clan’s records and ancestral land. Meanwhile, Bai Yu and Qi Luo were sent to hunt a sea demigod, and One Wonder turned Ci Yun and another being into chickens while forcing Ascension Immortal Sect elders to gather divinity for her.

• Soth told Chen Zhixing that the Shi Clan had influenced the ancient gods and that he had protected the clan until its people were slaughtered after Shi Lin’s death.
• Soth offered Chen Zhixing books about the Shi Clan and recommended seeking its ancestral land for cultivation methods, including the Nine Revolutions Heaven Burial Scripture.
• Soth told Chen Zhixing that Bai Yu and Qi Luo had clashed over Qi Luo’s demand that Bai Yu hunt a water-aspected demigod and take its divine spark.
• One Wonder promised to return Ci Yun if Qi Luo, Bai Yu, and the other sect members fulfilled her conditions, then sent six Longevity True Lords to collect divinity from the Endless Sea.
• One Wonder kept Ci Yun and another being transformed into chickens, explaining that she had separated their wills to prevent them from perishing together.

Bai Yu refused to spend the Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat’s energy helping the Ascension Immortal Sect cultivators pursue the sea serpent Ulman, and the group spent another day finding excuses not to risk the mission. Ulman retreated deeper into the Endless Sea, while a desperate Flame Dragon hunted for flame godheads and the one who had inherited the Fire Great Esteemed One’s power.

• Bai Yu argued that the group should ask Martial Grandfather Huayu for help instead of using her immortal boat to hunt Ulman.
• Qi Luo and the other cultivators pressed Bai Yu to help rescue Ciyun, but she demanded compensation for the boat’s upkeep and refused to let them use it.
• Qi Luo recognized that the cultivators were taking turns making excuses because they did not want to risk their lives for Ciyun.
• After the group argued through another day without entering the sea, Ulman decided to hide in the deeper trench rather than flee amid the chaos.
• The Flame Dragon searched the Middle Ring Sand Sea for flame godheads and sensed both nearby flame powers and the presence of the Fire Great Esteemed One’s heir.

One Wonder transformed Ci Yun and two divine spark incarnations into chickens, and Soth revealed that their offspring might resemble the Heavenly Fox. Chen Zhixing dismissed the danger but learned the Three Great Holy Lands may turn captured Gold Natures into breeding stock for cultivation resources, then balked when Soth asked him to obtain some of the new life-forms for study.

• One Wonder turned the Water Attribute Divine Spark Doll into a hen and put her in the chicken coop with Ci Yun and the other rooster.
• Soth told Chen Zhixing that the three transformed beings were reproducing and that their offspring could become a life-form crossing realms.
• Chen Zhixing realized the Three Great Holy Lands might use the Animal Creation Technique on captured Gold Natures to produce rare cultivation resources.
• Chen Zhixing worried that the Heavenly Saint Palace might have transformed his family's Longevity Wind Old Ancestor and decided to ask Bai Yu about him.
• Soth warned that the offspring seemed similar in essence to the Heavenly Fox, but Chen Zhixing argued they were unlikely to become monsters.
• Soth asked Chen Zhixing to obtain some of the new life-forms for study, and Chen Zhixing protested that doing so would be like fighting One Wonder.

Chen Zhixing visited One Wonder to ask for spirit seeds for Soth and left with two mysterious eggs after she warned him not to rely too heavily on borrowed divinity. He planned to take the eggs back to Soth to test, while considering the cost of his rapid cultivation.

• Chen Zhixing joined One Wonder for hotpot, and they discussed friendship, shared values, and the people they considered companions.
• Chen Zhixing told One Wonder that Soth wanted spirit seeds from Ci Yun, and One Wonder suggested Soth might use them to turn the Universal Realm's laws into spiritual beings before the world-ending catastrophe.
• One Wonder agreed to let Chen Zhixing collect spirit seeds and advised him to rely on his own comprehension of laws rather than consume divinity whenever possible.
• Chen Zhixing reflected that borrowed divinity could help him advance quickly but might leave a debt to repay at the peak of the Longevity Realm.
• Chen Zhixing took two eggs laid in One Wonder's courtyard and planned to bring them to Soth to test their effects.