Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhixing sparred with One Wonder and learned how her spatial arts countered his current abilities. As the group discussed the Galaxy Beast and a longevity medicine, Li Er summoned Soth, who denied having any pills despite Chen Zhixing knowing otherwise.

• Chen Zhixing fought One Wonder for five minutes and found that her spatial arts could overwhelm his Ziwei Dharma Body.
• Li Er praised Chen Zhixing’s progress and ranked him among Eastern Xuan’s strongest, while explaining the power of One Wonder, Wang Chuan, and the Undying Divine Phoenix.
• One Wonder explained that the Galaxy Beast was likely a world’s former Guardian Deity that had traveled with the surviving Shi Clan after their world was destroyed.
• One Wonder said she wanted to capture the Galaxy Beast as a source of Longevity Pills, and Chen Zhixing questioned whether they could face such a powerful being.
• One Wonder revealed that a pill made with the World Tree could extend a lifespan by ten thousand years, prompting Li Er to call for Soth.
• Soth appeared beside Qi Luo and claimed that the ancient gods had consumed all the pills, while Chen Zhixing recognized that he was lying.

Chen Zhixing protected Soth from One Wonder and Li Er’s attempt to pressure him into surrendering life-extending pills, refusing to join their threats and forcing them to leave. Afterward, One Wonder and Li Er confronted Chen Zhixing again, demanding that he help them obtain the pills before he left the Universal Realm.

• Chen Zhixing concealed Soth’s Longevity Extension Great Pill from One Wonder and Li Er, using a true but misleading explanation to protect his friend.
• One Wonder and Li Er threatened to search or destroy the Universal Realm for life-extending pills, but Chen Zhixing stood with Soth and warned them against risking their lives.
• Soth and Chen Zhixing prepared to fight, prompting One Wonder and Li Er to abandon their attempt to force Soth and leave Divine Wood Spring City.
• Qi Luo asked whether Soth would trade life-extending pills for materials, but Soth refused; he then thanked Chen Zhixing and promised him a reward.
• Chen Zhixing told Soth that he and Li Er would leave soon, but after Chen Zhixing departed the city, One Wonder and Li Er confronted him and demanded he secure the pills.

Chen Zhixing learned why the Heavenly Saint’s failing health threatened the Heavenly Xuan Realm and rejected the offer to inherit the title. As Li Er prepared to leave, One Wonder revealed that a Galaxy Beast had returned to eat the World Tree, prompting Li Er to stay and face it.

• Hua Yu and One Wonder explained that the Heavenly Saint’s condition was dire and his presence deterred Galaxy Beasts from attacking the Heavenly Xuan Realm.
• Li Er revealed that the Heavenly Saint had rejected One Wonder as his successor because she was a woman, and One Wonder struck Li Er with a Void Blade.
• One Wonder and Li Er urged Chen Zhixing to inherit the Heavenly Saint title, but he refused after learning it bound the inheritor and carried the wills of past Heavenly Saints.
• Li Er prepared to depart on the Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat, but One Wonder warned him that a Galaxy Beast had returned to eat the World Tree.
• Li Er stopped the boat and agreed to help resolve the Galaxy Beast crisis before leaving, then asked Chen Zhixing what he would do.

Chen Zhixing learned that One Wonder and Li Er had conspired to attack Soth, using Chen’s enormous Ziwei Dharma Idol to prevent Soth from fighting back. Trapped between the two powerful seniors and his endangered ally, Chen reached toward One Wonder’s void barrier, agreeing that power was safest in one’s own hands.

• Chen Zhixing completed the Zhou Tian Star Array while Hua Yu spent three days trying and failing to learn One Thought Manifestation from him.
• One Wonder questioned Chen about the Ziwei Emperor Lord Dharma Idol, and Chen explained how his Star Lord authority and the Universal Realm let it grow so large.
• Chen realized One Wonder and Li Er had acted against Soth and asked One Wonder to spare him.
• One Wonder revealed that Li Er had begun attacking Soth as soon as he was swapped back, and explained that she and Li Er considered Soth an outsider.
• Chen recognized that his Dharma Idol kept him trapped in the conspiracy and that Soth would likely die if he waited.
• Chen told One Wonder that power was safest in one’s own hands and reached toward the layers of twisted void before her.

Chen Zhixing used the Ziwei Dharma Idol to overwhelm One Wonder, who evaded his attacks by retreating through the void. While Chen Zhixing tore through the spatial defenses around the Universal Realm, Li Er subdued Soth and obtained the Longevity Extension Great Pill; Soth warned Li Er that Chen Zhixing seemed to be approaching them.

• Chen Zhixing summoned the Azure Pheasant Sword and attacked One Wonder with the Ziwei Dharma Idol, while One Wonder blocked the sword with her Year Bell and countered with Void Blades.
• Chen Zhixing revealed the Dharma Idol’s shifting starlight form and shoulder turrets, forcing One Wonder to flee through the void rather than confront its overwhelming power.
• One Wonder realized Chen Zhixing could not maintain the Dharma Idol at full strength indefinitely, but Chen Zhixing used it to tear through the spatial defenses around the Universal Realm instead of pursuing her.
• Li Er sat atop Soth in Divine Wood Spring City, holding the Longevity Extension Great Pill after defeating Soth and forcing him to hand it over.
• Soth told Li Er that Chen Zhixing seemed to be approaching, while Li Er remained seated on him.

Chen Zhixing sent Li Er away aboard the Azure Wave Shuttle, then rescued Bai Yu from the Sea Eye with Soth’s help. Soth explained that Chen Zhixing could learn to wield divine authority through practice, and Chen Zhixing realized that Li Er and One Wonder’s strength came from their mastery of law techniques.

• Chen Zhixing released the Ziwei Dharma Idol’s energy into the Universal Realm and urged Li Er to leave before their agreed time.
• Li Er gave Chen Zhixing the Longevity Pill and departed the Universal Realm aboard the Azure Wave Shuttle Immortal Boat.
• Chen Zhixing found Bai Yu trapped in the Sea Eye and, after considering the risks, asked Soth to rescue him.
• Soth used divine authority to suppress the World Tree’s energy cycle, allowing Chen Zhixing to catch the unconscious Bai Yu.
• Soth told Chen Zhixing that practice could let him use his laws with similar skill, and explained that Li Er and One Wonder had honed their mastery over basic laws.

Chen Zhixing concluded that One Wonder and Li Er were limited by predecessors occupying their Dao paths, while his Star Lord Path gave him room to surpass the Heavenly Xuan Realm’s Twelve Sequences. After leaving Bai Yu in the Universal Realm, he returned to find Eastern Xuan Province stirred by new trade opportunities and a rising generation of young cultivators.

• Chen Zhixing reasoned that One Wonder and Li Er had begun filling gaps in their myriad-realm laws because predecessors on their paths limited their advancement in the Heavenly Xuan Realm.
• Chen Zhixing recognized that choosing the Star Lord Path left him without predecessors blocking his way, though completing his plan to master myriad Daos across myriad realms could take millions of years.
• Bai Yu woke furious at Qi Luo, learned that Qi Luo had left with Martial Uncle Hua Yu, and declined Chen Zhixing’s offer to return to the Heavenly Xuan Realm with him.
• Chen Zhixing left Bai Yu in the Universal Realm and returned to the Heavenly Xuan Realm.
• In Eastern Xuan Province, rumors of a divine sword, Chen Wanhong’s return, and the coming opening of cross-realm trade stirred competition for resources and raised hopes of a Golden Era.
• The Eastern Region’s Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion publicized a list of rising young cultivators, while older observers doubted they could match Chen Zhixing’s achievement of opening the Star Lord Path.

Chen Zhixing returned to Heavenly Xuan and ignored Ci Hong, while the young monk’s behavior and plans revealed how Buddhism’s merit-based cultivation worked. Ci Hong decided to stay in the realm and seek merit amid the turmoil he expected, unaware that Chen Zhixing could interfere with the Buddhist merit system.

• Chen Zhixing glimpsed Ci Hong near a void rift, then tore open space and left without acknowledging him.
• Ci Hong killed a cultivator who had complained about being ambushed, then recited the Sukhavati Rebirth Sutra over the body.
• Ci Hong clarified that his wish to have been born earlier was about befriending the Demon Lord and persuading him to avoid karmic sin, not fighting him.
• After Chen Zhixing’s return, Ci Hong abandoned his plan to travel to Huanyu and resolved to seek merit in the coming turmoil across Eastern Xuan.
• The narration explained that Buddhist monks relied on merit for advancement and that present-age Dao Lords such as Chen Zhixing could briefly disrupt the World Honored One’s merit system.

Chen Zhixing returned to Linjiang City, where monk Ci Hong approached him and asked to serve at his side. Meanwhile, Chen Wanhong struggled to unite the scattered Chen Clan forces, and his quarrels with Clarified Butter True Lord ended in another fight.

• Chen Zhixing told Ci Hong to keep quiet, invited him to share a meal, and asked what business he had with him.
• Ci Hong said he sought nothing but the chance to serve Chen Zhixing as a junior ascetic, and Chen Zhixing neither accepted nor refused.
• Chen Wanhong struggled to manage the scattered Chen Clan factions gathered under the Southern Region Alliance, having drawn only a small portion under his command after two years.
• Clarified Butter True Lord mocked Chen Wanhong's leadership, and the two traded insults before fighting again.
• Clarified Butter declared that Chen Wanhong's good days were over after their fight ended.

Chen Wanhong and Ghee discussed Chen Zhixing’s return and argued over whether he had been right to reject the Heavenly Saint Palace. After Chen Wanhong glimpsed Chen Zhixing’s extraordinary sword talent, he berated Ghee for not taking him as a disciple, while Ghee learned that Chen Zhixing might be able to cut through the seventh-Sequence limit.

• Chen Wanhong hurried to find Chen Zhixing after learning that the junior had returned, while Ghee questioned whether joining the Heavenly Saint Palace would have served him better.
• Ghee recalled that Chen Zhixing had refused his offer to teach him the Ghee Sword Art, and he still believed the refusal had cost Chen Zhixing valuable cultivation resources.
• Ghee spotted Chen Zhixing leaving Linjiang City and recognized that he had reached the sixth Sequence of Longevity.
• Chen Wanhong used his Probing the Profound ability to examine Chen Zhixing, then recoiled from the overwhelming vision of the Azure Pheasant Immortal Sword.
• Chen Wanhong accused Ghee of failing to recognize Chen Zhixing’s exceptional Sword Dao talent and said he could cut through the seventh-Sequence limit with one strike.

Chen Zhixing reunited with Chen Wanhong, who tried to bring him back into the Star Island Chen Family, while Ghee retrieved a Longevity Extension Great Pill for the Heavenly Saint. Chen Zhixing gave the pill to Ghee, angering Chen Wanhong, and then dismissed him as an outsider at the Ziwei Chen Clan encampment.

• Chen Wanhong introduced himself to Chen Zhixing as his family’s old ancestor, but Chen Zhixing left after Ci Hong politely ended their awkward conversation.
• Chen Wanhong told Ghee he planned to investigate Carefree Immortal Tomb to resolve the bottleneck that had trapped him for eighteen hundred years.
• Ghee asked Chen Zhixing for the Longevity Extension Great Pill entrusted by Ascension Immortal Venerable, and Chen Zhixing handed him the Jade Box containing it.
• Ghee hurried back toward Heavenly Saint Palace with the pill, while Chen Wanhong berated Chen Zhixing for extending the Heavenly Saint’s life and prolonging the holy lands’ dominance.
• Chen Zhixing told Chen Wanhong to leave the Ziwei Chen Clan’s private encampment, and Qin Yi sided with Chen Zhixing.

Chen Zhixing discovered that Chen Wanhong’s Dream Awakening could make all of Heavenly Xuan Realm believe it had dreamed, causing the world to roll back and erase most people’s memories. Chen Wanhong explained how the power worked and why he had been imprisoned on Zhou Tian Island, leaving Chen Zhixing to face the danger of his ancestor’s newfound freedom.

• Chen Wanhong left Linjiang City, then used Dream Awakening to make Heavenly Xuan Realm return to the moment before he left, while Chen Zhixing retained fragments of the erased events.
• Chen Zhixing synchronized memories with his Dharma Manifestation outside the realm and confronted Chen Wanhong about the apparent timeline reversal.
• Chen Wanhong explained that Dream Awakening hypnotized the entire world and used Heavenly Xuan Realm’s Law Force to roll it back, erasing the memories of lives tied to it.
• Chen Wanhong revealed that only a handful of powerful beings could perceive Dream Awakening, and that Li Er and One Wonder had left while Wang Chuan guarded Carefree Immortal Tomb.
• Chen Wanhong explained that Heavenly Saint had sealed him on Zhou Tian Island for two thousand years and that protective formations on Eastern Xuan Continent and Northern Reed Continent preserved some cultivators’ memories.
• Chen Zhixing learned that Chen Wanhong could now repeatedly hold most of Heavenly Xuan Realm in the same day, potentially letting the demon clan regain its advantage.

Chen Zhixing refused to give Chen Wanhong the Longevity Extension Great Pill, explaining that he wanted to preserve Heavenly Xuan’s peace by extending the Heavenly Saint’s life. Chen Wanhong failed to change his mind, while Chen Zhixing offered other life-extending pills and kept the Universal Realm’s true situation secret.

• Chen Zhixing considered killing Chen Wanhong, but held back because they were relatives and he had a way to escape Dream Awakening.
• Ghee fled toward the Heavenly Saint Palace after Chen Wanhong smiled at him, while Chen Wanhong questioned Chen Zhixing about the Longevity Extension Great Pill.
• Chen Zhixing said a friend from the Universal Realm had given him the pill and refused to hand it over to Chen Wanhong.
• Chen Zhixing explained that he wanted the Heavenly Saint to guard Heavenly Xuan for ten thousand years, but Chen Wanhong argued that the Chen Clan would benefit from the Heavenly Saint’s death.
• Chen Wanhong warned Chen Zhixing that stability served the Holy Lands rather than aristocratic clans, but Chen Zhixing said he preferred a peaceful world.
• Chen Zhixing offered to trade other life-extending pills for anyone Chen Wanhong wanted to help, while keeping the Universal Realm’s true condition from him.

Chen Zhixing offered Heavenly Saint Palace a ten-thousand-year lifespan-extending elixir in exchange for finding Wang Lin and Chen Moqing, while secretly using the gift to honor Li Er’s favor and secure Heavenly Saint Palace’s goodwill. The search ended within hours, and Chen Zhixing reunited with his son and disciple as the palace elder accepted the elixir.

• Chen Zhixing learned that Bai Wangchuan was the last product of the Bai family’s optimization faction and greeted Chen Wanhong as his ancestor outside the city.
• Chen Zhixing asked Qin Yi to find Wang Lin and Chen Moqing, offering a great pill that extended innate lifespan by ten thousand years as the reward.
• Tihu restrained himself from seizing the elixir and agreed that Heavenly Saint Palace would obtain it by completing Chen Zhixing’s request.
• Chen Zhixing explained to Chen Wanhong that he was giving the elixir to Heavenly Saint Palace to fulfill his agreement with Li Er and gain the palace’s favor.
• A Heavenly Saint Palace elder brought Wang Lin and Chen Moqing to Chen Zhixing within four hours, and Chen Zhixing handed over the elixir.

Mo Zhen met Chen Zhixing and tried to use Mo Qingyue’s connection to bring them together, while Chen Zhixing reconsidered what had happened to the Immortal Divine Court’s powerful figures. He concluded that the Star Observation Bureau leader and perhaps even the Emperor Lord had survived the Court’s supposed destruction and left the Heavenly Xuan Realm.

• Mo Zhen emerged from seclusion after Mo Qingyue asked him to help Chen Zhixing find two people, motivated by the chance to gain a longevity pill and advance his descendants’ fortunes.
• Chen Zhixing asked Mo Zhen how Mo Qingyue was doing, and Mo Zhen praised her cultivation while hinting at her eagerness to see Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Zhixing recalled that Chen Zhaosheng’s celestial-phenomena path might have attracted the Star Observation Bureau leader, whose attempt to possess him had failed.
• Chen Zhixing reasoned that the Star Observation Bureau leader might still be alive and that the Three Great Holy Lands could have exiled surviving loyalists after taking power.
• Chen Zhixing suspected the Emperor Lord had also faked his death and fled, meaning the Immortal Divine Court’s destruction had killed far fewer major figures than history claimed.

Chen Zhixing’s conversation with Mo Zhen led him to send a childhood-shaped thought to visit Mo Qingyue, where they discussed Mo Zhen’s marriage proposal and the longevity pills. Mo Qingyue revealed that Mo Zhen had been dead for fifteen hundred years, and Chen Zhixing learned how the Three Great Holy Lands continued to use such powerful Living Dead.

• Mo Zhen hinted that Mo Qingyue missed Chen Zhixing and encouraged him to visit her, prompting Chen Zhixing to let a childlike thought travel to the Heavenly Saint Palace.
• Mo Qingyue welcomed the childlike Chen Zhixing, teased him about Mo Zhen’s proposal, and asked whether he had agreed to marry her.
• Chen Zhixing gave Mo Qingyue a box of lifespan-extending elixirs and explained that they would not help Mo Zhen in his current state.
• Mo Qingyue told Chen Zhixing that Mo Zhen had died fifteen hundred years earlier and that the figure still acting as her master was a shell without its True Spirit.
• Mo Qingyue explained that many elders in the Three Great Holy Lands had become Living Dead, whom the sects preserved and summoned for dangerous tasks.

Chen Zhixing discovered that Heavenly Saint was a remnant of the Five Elements Dao Lord who had been dead for fifty thousand years but remained bound to guard the Heavenly Xuan Realm. Heavenly Saint asked Chen Zhixing to leave thought incarnations as his successors, and Chen Zhixing’s true body arrived with One Wonder before he could answer.

• Chen Zhixing inferred that Heavenly Saint was a Living Dead, and Mo Qingyue warned him not to reveal that truth to such beings.
• Heavenly Saint appeared and greeted Chen Zhixing, who recognized him as the remains of the Five Elements Dao Lord and offered him life-extending medicine.
• Heavenly Saint refused the medicine and said he had lived long enough, then asked Chen Zhixing to leave thought incarnations behind to take over his position.
• Heavenly Saint explained that the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao kept him alive despite his wish to die, and that Chen Zhixing’s incarnations could inherit his power and status.
• Chen Zhixing sighed as a void rift opened, and Chen Zhixing and One Wonder emerged to greet Heavenly Saint.

Chen Zhixing watched as One Wonder confronted Heavenly Saint and provoked him into a battle beyond the heavens. After they left, Chen Zhixing departed too, while Mo Qingyue kept hold of his thought incarnation and looked lonely.

• Chen Zhixing sent Mo Qingyue out of the hall while One Wonder told Heavenly Saint she intended to kill him and inherit his title.
• Chen Zhixing warned them not to fight inside Heavenly Saint Palace, but One Wonder threatened to slaughter its people and tried to recruit him to her plans.
• One Wonder unleashed Space Blades at Ascension Peak, and Heavenly Saint intercepted them before agreeing to fight her beyond the heavens.
• Chen Zhixing reassured Mo Qingyue that the battle would not affect Ascension Peak, then decided to leave a thought incarnation with her and departed.
• Mo Qingyue continued holding the thought incarnation and gazed after Chen Zhixing with loneliness.

Chen Zhixing watched as the Heavenly Saint and One Wonder fought in the void, while cultivators and demons contained the battle’s dangerous aftershocks. The fight left the gathered demons reflecting on the human race’s dominance, which most accepted as a tolerable arrangement despite Huang Shan’s grief.

• More than a thousand cultivators watched the Heavenly Saint and One Wonder clash, and they worked together to keep the battle’s debris and spatial rifts from threatening Heavenly Xuan.
• One Wonder struck at a Longevity True Lord who insulted her, then attacked him again after he made another mocking remark.
• The Heavenly Saint’s Mountain Flipping Seal smashed Huang Shan’s bear paw when he confronted One Wonder, and the Fire Spirit Leopard helped protect him.
• Huang Shan lamented that the human race had grown to dominate Heavenly Xuan, while he recalled how humans had risen from a small minority among Longevity experts.
• Most Great Demons accepted their current place under human rule, valuing the stability and cultivation opportunities it offered over returning to past wars.

One Wonder attacked Heavenly Saint to demand the succession she had been denied, while Chen Zhixing kept others from interfering. Wang Chuan arrived to challenge One Wonder in Heavenly Saint’s place, and Heavenly Saint appeared to confront him.

• The chapter explained how Heavenly Saint had bound One Wonder to Heavenly Xuan by denying her the chance to inherit his position, and why she returned to demand an answer.
• Chen Zhixing agreed to help One Wonder by blocking anyone who tried to approach the battlefield as she and Heavenly Saint fought.
• After three days, Wang Chuan left his seclusion and asked Chen Zhixing to let him pass so he could fight One Wonder in Heavenly Saint’s place.
• Chen Zhixing judged that Wang Chuan’s spear-based fighting style would force a dangerous one-strike contest, so he called for One Wonder or Heavenly Saint to deal with him.
• One Wonder left the battlefield, mocked Chen Zhixing, and tossed him her torn gloves; Heavenly Saint then appeared, and Wang Chuan knelt before him.