Chapter Summaries

Wang Chuan returned from the Carefree Immortal Tomb and stopped One Wonder and Heavenly Saint from continuing their fight, then refused to take charge of Heavenly Saint Palace and went back to guard the tomb. His memories of the ancient war revealed how fiercely the human race had struggled to establish itself in Heavenly Xuan and that the conflict continued in the Spirit World.

• Wang Chuan knelt before Heavenly Saint and urged him to return to Heavenly Xuan, but Heavenly Saint refused and asked Wang Chuan to lead Heavenly Saint Palace instead.
• Wang Chuan rebuked One Wonder and the other powerhouses for taking Heavenly Saint's protection for granted, and Heavenly Saint stopped him from raising his spear against her.
• Chen Zhixing realized that Wang Chuan was a Golden Essence Reincarnation who had returned from the spirit world after dying in the war fifty thousand years earlier.
• Heavenly Saint called Wang Chuan a child and asked One Wonder and Chen Zhixing to look after him, while One Wonder's attempt to seize the Heavenly Saint position came to nothing.
• The human and demon powerhouses dispersed after returning to Heavenly Xuan, and Wang Chuan went back to the Carefree Immortal Tomb once Heavenly Saint reached his palace.
• Wang Chuan recalled the brutal war that let the human race establish itself in Heavenly Xuan and noted that the war between humans and demons still raged in the Spirit World.

Chen Zhixing searched the Snowy Plateau’s secret realm for traces of the Black Coffin’s former occupant but found nothing, then discovered a Drought Demon beneath the plateau and went to confront it. The Heavenly Saint also sensed the creature but dismissed it as too weak to threaten Heavenly Xuan.

• One Wonder left after arguing with Chen Zhixing, who told Wang Lin to keep away from Linjiang City and avoid Sword Casting Villa.
• Chen Zhixing suggested Wang Lin and Chen Moqing visit Shi Hao in the Universal Realm, then left for the Snowy Plateau.
• Chen Zhixing visited his grandmother and entered the secret realm where the Black Coffin had been kept, hoping to learn what happened to its occupant.
• After finding no traces, Chen Zhixing replenished the secret realm and decided to let the Snow Demon Clan merge naturally into Heavenly Xuan when the plateau was digested.
• A crimson, three-eyed Drought Demon awakened beneath the plateau, and Chen Zhixing used his Star Lord authority to locate it and headed down to confront it.

Chen Zhixing captured a dead Drought Demon whose lingering words claimed that flesh was frail and the spirit body should ascend, then brought it to the Heavenly Saint for examination. The Heavenly Saint warned that the demon’s voice could corrupt powerful beings and foresaw that Chen Zhixing had prevented a future Longevity Demon Calamity.

• Chen Zhixing seized the Drought Demon from a lava pool in the True Stream Layer and sealed it in a Black Coffin after discovering its True Spirit was extinguished.
• Chen Zhixing considered the Drought Demon’s belief that physical cultivation was a dead end and concluded that his Chaos Body let him advance both spirit and body together.
• Chen Zhixing brought the sealed demon to the Heavenly Saint, who initially mistook the coffin for a gift before listening to the demon’s voice.
• The Heavenly Saint warned Chen Zhixing to keep the demon sealed because its voice could destabilize Longevity Realm beings, then identified it as the source of a future calamity.
• The Heavenly Saint calculated that the demon would have caused a three-hundred-year Longevity Demon Calamity across the Heavenly Xuan Realm more than a thousand years later.

Chen Zhixing learned that Willow God could not leave Heavenly Xuan until settling his karmic ties, and that the Carefree Immortal Tomb held no immortal. Willow God explained that immortals were an energy-bodied race and urged Chen Zhixing, a Chaos Body, to pursue the path of the Primordial Gods and Demons instead.

• Chen Zhixing declined the Heavenly Saint’s offer to take over as Heavenly Saint and kept the Drought Demon sealed in the Little Green Bottle.
• Chen Zhixing found Shi Village empty and learned that Willow God had driven its people away after they showed disrespect toward her human-form incarnation.
• Chen Zhixing invited Willow God to leave Heavenly Xuan with him, but Willow God said he needed to settle his karma with the realm and would need a thousand years.
• Chen Zhixing offered to provide Willow God with plant essence and asked about the Carefree Immortal Tomb, but Willow God said its occupant had been a great-completion cultivator, not an immortal.
• Willow God explained that immortals were an energy-bodied race and advised Chen Zhixing to become a Primordial God and Demon, then revealed that the man who had left with Chen Zhixing was following that path.

Willow God explained the Chaos Godfiend path, the history of their own origins, and how it compared with immortal cultivation. Chen Zhixing chose to pursue immortality first and learned that his current realm was Returning to Emptiness, with the path to becoming an immortal depending on the immortal race’s thunder tribulation and transformation.

• Chen Zhixing asked how his Chaos Body and cultivation of both spirit and body fit into the Primordial God and Demon path, and Willow God explained that a Chaos Body was its foundation and that controlling a rule could make him a Chaos Godfiend.
• Willow God described the three thousand Chaos Godfiend positions, compared their lifespans and strength with immortals, and clarified that Godfiends varied in age and power.
• Willow God revealed that they had risen from the Azure Firmament Great World to become a Chaos Godfiend, then suffered a grave defeat after entering the Eternal Universe Realm to seek Hengyu’s legacy.
• Chen Zhixing weighed the risks and advantages of immortal cultivation and the Chaos Godfiend path, then decided to pursue immortality first while leaving open the possibility of becoming a Godfiend later.
• Willow God classified Chen Zhixing’s realm as Returning to Emptiness and explained how Heavenly Xuan’s stages corresponded to immortal cultivation, including the transformation required to complete Tribulation Transcendence.

Wang Lin and Chen Moqing left for the Universal Realm, while Chen Zhixing faced his fiftieth birthday and learned Chen Wanhong’s Bloodline Deposition Method. Chen Zhixing rejected its use for preserving his humanity but adapted its Vajra Thought to strengthen the thoughts in his Ziwei Dharma Idol, accepting that it reduced how many thoughts he could divide.

• Chen Zhixing spoke with Wang Lin about cultivation and humanity, then sent Wang Lin and Chen Moqing through a spatial rift to the Universal Realm.
• On his fiftieth birthday, Chen Zhixing felt lonely until Chen Wanhong visited and explained how entrusting one’s humanity to family bloodlines helped longevity cultivators avoid becoming corpse ghosts.
• Chen Wanhong taught Chen Zhixing the Bloodline Deposition Method, and Chen Zhixing agreed to study its principles.
• After Chen Wanhong left, Chen Zhixing judged the method’s Vajra Thought unsuitable for preserving his humanity but saw that it could strengthen his One Thought Manifestation.
• Chen Zhixing used the gathered starlight to strengthen the thoughts in his Ziwei Dharma Idol and decided to reserve the enhanced thoughts for important moments because they reduced how many thoughts he could split off.

Chen Wanhong gave Chen Zhixing the Great Dream Three Thousand cultivation method, which let thoughts enter dreams and reincarnate in distant worlds but carried the risk of never waking. Chen Zhixing tested it with an avatar and realized it could send his thoughts across the cosmos to learn different worlds’ laws, leaving him eager to exploit that potential.

• Chen Wanhong returned to Chen Zhixing and offered him an immortal inheritance, explaining that Dream Awakening could not be taught to him.
• Chen Wanhong gave Chen Zhixing a jade tablet containing the Great Dream Three Thousand cultivation method, and Chen Zhixing accepted it.
• Chen Zhixing learned that the method’s practitioners risked dreamfall and that Chen Wanhong had failed to reach the Nascent Soul Realm needed to claim the Carefree Immortal Tomb.
• Chen Zhixing used a Diamond Thought to create an avatar and sent it into a dream, where it reincarnated in a distant small world.
• Chen Zhixing realized that the method could distribute his thought avatars across many worlds to comprehend their different laws and combine that knowledge.

Over three months, Chen Zhixing used the Great Dream Three Thousand Sutras to send more than a thousand thought incarnations into dreams, rapidly increasing his potential for comprehending the Dao. Chen Wanhong urged him not to alter the inherited technique, then invited him to the Carefree Immortal Tomb, whose legacy might contain ways to strengthen Divine Sense.

• Chen Zhixing reflected on his growing Divine Sense and planned to adapt the Great Dream Three Thousand Sutras to suit himself.
• Chen Wanhong warned Chen Zhixing against modifying the million-year-old technique, then learned that he had already sent 1,012 thought incarnations into dreams.
• Chen Zhixing explained that his One Thought Manifestation came from his Innate Chaos Dao Body and had no cultivation method he could pass on.
• Chen Wanhong invited Chen Zhixing to seek the Carefree Immortal's legacy, saying it contained methods and elixirs for strengthening Divine Sense.

Chen Zhixing and Chen Wanhong entered the Carefree Immortal Tomb to claim the Great Dream Inheritance, only to find that Heavenly Saint Palace had removed the island’s spiritual treasures. Wang Chuan agreed to give the inheritance to the Chen Family if they took over guarding the immortal corpse, and Chen Zhixing began investigating the tomb’s underground city.

• Chen Zhixing brought Chen Wanhong to Carefree Immortal Island and sensed that the island differed from what Chen Wanhong remembered from his dreams.
• Wang Chuan rejected Chen Wanhong’s request to inherit the Dao Lineage, while Chen Zhixing spent an hour studying the small world’s rules.
• Chen Zhixing led Chen Wanhong into the true Carefree Immortal Tomb, where the island’s landscape had decayed and Wang Chuan was brewing tea.
• Wang Chuan agreed to give the Great Dream Inheritance to the Chen Family on the condition that they take over guarding the immortal corpse.
• Wang Chuan showed Chen Zhixing the underground mausoleum and explained that Ascension Immortal Venerable had broken its formation and taken its spiritual treasures.

Chen Zhixing, Wang Chuan, and Chen Wanhong crossed the Carefree Immortal’s trials, which stripped away the body and demanded that Chen Wanhong enter the final gate as a soul. After Chen Wanhong failed to obtain the inheritance and returned through Dream Awakening, he was left gasping and unable to describe what he had experienced.

• Wang Chuan explained that the thirty gate towers tested the heart and that the heavenly road consumed cultivation before they reached the Body Cleansing Pool.
• Chen Zhixing and Wang Chuan bypassed the pool and Weak Water Heavenly River, while Chen Wanhong fell into the pool, swam across the river, and climbed a three-hundred-zhang cliff.
• At the Third Diagram gate, Chen Wanhong read that he must meet the immortal with his soul, cut off his head, and sent his soul through the gate.
• After thirty days, Chen Wanhong activated Dream Awakening, returning himself, Chen Zhixing, and Wang Chuan to Wang Chuan’s courtyard.
• Chen Wanhong collapsed and gasped in the courtyard, unable to explain what he had encountered beyond the gate.

Wang Chuan revealed that Chen Wanhong’s supposed Great Dream inheritance had been a trap that locked his cultivation and led the Three Great Holy Lands to confine him on Star Island. After explaining his long guardianship of the Carefree Immortal Tomb, Wang Chuan left the island to return to Heavenly Saint Palace, leaving Chen Zhixing to take the inheritance.

• Wang Chuan challenged Chen Wanhong’s belief that he had successfully cultivated the Great Dream Three Thousand Scripture, pointing out that his talent should have let him reach Longevity.
• Chen Zhixing said he had reached the Summit Realm at eighteen, and Wang Chuan explained that Chen Wanhong’s rapid progress had been an unprecedented warning sign rather than proof of a successful inheritance.
• Wang Chuan revealed that Heavenly Saint Palace had determined Chen Wanhong’s cultivation was locked by an outer path, and that his family sent him to Star Island to keep him from spreading the Great Dream Art.
• Wang Chuan explained that the Great Dream inheritance was real but could not be safely cultivated, and that he had guarded the tomb for two thousand years to keep others from triggering its dangers.
• Wang Chuan told Chen Zhixing to take the inheritance if he wished to fulfill his ancestor’s dream, then left the Carefree Immortal Tomb for Heavenly Saint Palace.

Chen Zhixing began turning Carefree Immortal Island into a blessed grotto-heaven and discovered that its core Spirit Vein contained a dangerous, seemingly intact immortal corpse. After his starlight avatar was corroded by the corpse’s death qi, he planned to replace the core Spirit Vein and remove the corpse, then visited Chen Wanhong, who had found the Great Dream inheritance.

• Chen Zhixing surveyed Carefree Immortal Island and estimated that transforming it into a blessed grotto-heaven would require many Spirit Veins and centuries of work without help.
• Chen Zhixing examined the island’s core Spirit Vein and found the Carefree Immortal’s corpse, which seemed powerful enough to threaten the entire Heavenly Xuan Realm.
• Chen Zhixing sent a starlight avatar to transfer the corpse into the Black Coffin, but death qi corroded and destroyed the avatar before it could reach the corpse.
• Chen Zhixing decided to replace the core Spirit Vein with one from the Little Green Bottle and remove the corpse along with its surrounding Spirit Vein.
• Chen Zhixing visited Chen Wanhong in the Land of Inheritance, where Chen Wanhong told him that the Great Dream inheritance records were on the first bookshelf to the left.

Chen Zhixing learned that Chen Wanhong had been made into a Phantom Dream Spirit Body and could not advance because the Carefree Immortal’s Array Spirit had mistakenly recreated its master without transferring his memories. As Chen Zhixing studied the Great Dream Inheritance, he realized that Great Firmament beings could influence the past and impose restrictions across time, leading him to identify a danger in pursuing that realm.

• Chen Zhixing argued that the heavens and myriad worlds must have a way to free Chen Wanhong from his cultivation limit.
• Chen Wanhong revealed that he was an avatar of the Carefree Immortal and that his cultivation had been fixed when he was refined into a Phantom Dream Spirit Body.
• Chen Wanhong explained that only a Golden Immortal could undo the refinement, but becoming one required hundreds of millions of years, far beyond his lifespan.
• After studying the inheritance, Chen Zhixing discovered that the Carefree Immortal Tomb’s weak Array Spirit had created Chen Wanhong incorrectly while trying to make a new Carefree Immortal.
• Chen Zhixing examined the records on Great Firmament Golden Immortals and concluded that a cultivator seeking Great Firmament must avoid touching the influence of another Great Firmament being.

Chen Zhixing learned that Great Firmament Golden Immortals could perceive and kill future rivals, then asked Willow God whether the Heavenly Xuan Realm was itself a Heavenly Immortal pursuing the Golden Immortal Law. Willow God confirmed that it was, but said it had already failed and was hoping a Golden Immortal might arise on its surface to save it.

• Chen Zhixing realized that Great Firmament Golden Immortals could see along time and eliminate anyone they considered a future threat.
• Chen Zhixing suspected that the Heavenly Xuan Realm's urge to make powerful beings fight came from its effort to leave only one potential Great Firmament seed alive.
• Chen Zhixing rushed to Shi Village and asked Willow God whether the Heavenly Xuan Realm was a Heavenly Immortal cultivating the Golden Immortal Law.
• Willow God explained that most visible stars were Heavenly Immortals accumulating matter and burning it as they tried to become Golden Immortals.
• Willow God confirmed that the Heavenly Xuan Realm was a Heavenly Immortal whose attempt had failed, and said it hoped a Golden Immortal born on its surface could help it survive.

Willow God explained that the Chaos Sea’s three thousand Godfiend positions might be a limit imposed by its strongest beings, rather than proof that thousands of Saints already existed. He urged Chen Zhixing to claim a position before cultivating the immortal Dao, though neither of them knew how to do so, and asked Chen Zhixing to ally with him.

• Willow God compared Chaos Godfiends with immortal cultivators and explained that the immortal race’s Saints were beings capable of enduring eternally in the Chaos Sea.
• Willow God told Chen Zhixing that more than a thousand of the three thousand Godfiend positions might already be reserved, and suggested that the limit arose after Eternal Universe died transforming himself into a realm.
• Willow God advised Chen Zhixing to prove himself as a Chaos Godfiend first, but Chen Zhixing pointed out that Willow God did not know how to claim a position and had not claimed one himself.
• Chen Zhixing suggested that beings like Willow God might be chaos lifeforms rather than true Chaos Godfiends, and Willow God conceded that the distinction could be valid.
• Willow God asked Chen Zhixing to pursue a Godfiend position and join forces with him, and Chen Zhixing found the proposal premature.

Chen Zhixing learned how Great Firmament beings could protect their future attainment and wondered whether he might be destined to reach that state. After he sealed the half-immortal corpse inside the Little Green Bottle and opened Carefree Immortal Island for development, he was left grappling with the growing appetites of his seventeen Heaven Swallowing Divine Hounds.

• Chen Zhixing concluded that a future Great Firmament’s present self could unleash power sufficient to survive an attack, then suspected his own unusual fortune and talent marked him as a likely candidate.
• Chen Zhixing suppressed the half-immortal corpse with the Ziwei Dharma Body, sealed it inside a coffin made from a Spirit Vein, and buried it in the Little Green Bottle world beneath a Cosmic Star Array.
• Chen Zhixing left the Little Green Bottle’s uncanny Ziwei Dharma Idol to guard the sealed corpse and continued studying its Divine Patterns for Stellar spells.
• Chen Zhixing opened Carefree Immortal Island to Star Palace cultivators and ordered them to build its ecosystem with plants, spirit stone mines, and mineral veins.
• Chen Zhixing watched the seventeen Heaven Swallowing Divine Hounds grow beyond a hundred meters and worried that the Heavenly Xuan Realm could not provide enough meat to feed them.

Chen Zhixing sought spiritual veins for Carefree Immortal Island and learned how Great Luo Dao Land had supposedly drawn power from a star, only to discover the story concerned the core of a dead Small World. One Wonder explained the dangers and lineage of star systems, then revealed she was about to break through, leaving Chen Zhixing wondering whether the Space Dao Lord knew.

• Star Palace disciples proposed various ways to supply Carefree Immortal Island with spiritual veins, and one disciple suggested drawing power from the Great Sun.
• Chen Zhixing questioned One Wonder about Great Luo Dao Land's alleged use of the Great Sun, and she said it had instead reused the core of a Small World whose Heavenly Immortal was dead.
• One Wonder explained that living Heavenly Immortals within stars could still affect their stellar systems, and described planets as descendants and kin sheltered around their star-bound ancestors.
• One Wonder told Chen Zhixing that the Three Great Holy Lands would not object if he carefully took resources from the nearby sun.
• One Wonder revealed that she was about to break through, and Chen Zhixing asked whether the Space Dao Lord knew.

One Wonder brought Chen Zhixing to dying Small Worlds so he could extract their Spirit Veins, while explaining how the Imperial Court’s corpse-ghost rule ended and its living Emperor Lord left Heavenly Xuan. After they destroyed the Floating Tour Realm and found no immortal’s corpse, they reached another world called Flying Star, which Chen Zhixing sensed was still alive.

• One Wonder gave Chen Zhixing coordinates to the dying Floating Tour Realm and explained that a Heaven Swallowing Divine Hound had damaged it twenty thousand years earlier.
• One Wonder told Chen Zhixing that the Emperor Lord had left Heavenly Xuan in spirit while his body remained, and described how the Three Great Holy Lands purged the Imperial Court’s corpse-ghosts.
• Chen Zhixing used his Ziwei Emperor Lord Dharma Idol to dismantle the Floating Tour Realm and extract its remaining Spirit Veins, but he and One Wonder found no immortal’s corpse.
• One Wonder led Chen Zhixing to another Small World, Flying Star, whose original size had been reduced by repeated encounters with a nearby sun-star.
• Chen Zhixing sensed that Flying Star was still alive.

Chen Zhixing and One Wonder discussed the awakened Heavenly Immortal remnant inside the Flying Star Small World, and One Wonder asked Chen Zhixing to help extract it alive so she could obtain the missing parts of her cultivation method. Chen Zhixing agreed after learning that Heavenly Saint had approved the plan and that Heavenly Saint Palace had no path forward beyond adapting immortal cultivation methods.

• Chen Zhixing and One Wonder retreated from the Flying Star Small World after sensing that its nearly dead Heavenly Immortal had awakened.
• The remnant told them it could no longer threaten them, and both cultivators vanished before it could explain its ancient plan.
• Chen Zhixing returned near the planet and prepared to destroy the remnant with his Ziwei Emperor Lord Dharma Idol, but One Wonder stopped him.
• One Wonder revealed that the remnant had given her the All Heavens Law and that she needed its hidden cultivation-method essence to advance beyond Sequence Eight.
• One Wonder explained that the remnant was a Sacred Spirit formed from a Spirit Vein and asked Chen Zhixing to help remove it from the star core and spare its life.
• Chen Zhixing learned that Heavenly Saint had sent One Wonder to warn him that Heavenly Saint Palace's future cultivation path depended on immortal methods, and he agreed to help.

Chen Zhixing heard the remnant soul explain that the Cosmic Great World’s expansion was rapidly thinning spiritual energy across the remote star sea. The soul offered to guide him to Penglai if he helped it escape, while warning that distant realms might soon be unable to support even Heavenly Immortals.

• One Wonder offered Chen Zhixing two supreme-grade Spirit Veins in exchange for helping save the remnant soul, and Chen Zhixing reconsidered.
• The remnant soul revealed that the star sea was a prison for exiles and that the expanding Cosmic Great World was spreading a fixed supply of spiritual energy ever thinner.
• Chen Zhixing realized that declining spiritual energy could leave the Heavenly Xuan Realm unable to sustain cultivation and life.
• The remnant soul offered to show Chen Zhixing the way to Penglai if he freed it and swore to bring it there.
• The remnant soul explained that its branch had been expelled from Penglai and warned that the remote regions could no longer support breakthroughs to the Heavenly Immortal realm.