Chapter Summaries

After surviving the Thunder Pool, Shi Jue received treatment and distributed the remaining Thunder Pools to Qing Xuan and Tong, while Liu Shen explained their cultivation benefits and warned that his next tribulation would be harder. The group discussed the challenges of becoming immortal and their future prospects in the Immortal Realm, and Shi Jue planned to temper his body in the Sea of Worlds.

• Liu Shen set Shi Jue’s broken bones and explained that the Thunder Pools could help them comprehend destruction, vitality, and the Thunder Emperor Method.
• Shi Jue gave Thunder Pools to Qing Xuan and Tong, and Liu Shen said the tribulation had marked him and would double the difficulty of his next tribulation.
• Shi Jue asked Liu Shen whether he could become immortal at his age, and she explained that no one had achieved it so young and that the immortal path required comprehending a higher Great Dao.
• Qing Xuan asked whether becoming immortal was easier in the Immortal Realm, and Liu Shen said talented cultivators could succeed anywhere while the Immortal Realm offered more time and opportunity.
• Shi Jue said the others could seek a secluded place in the Immortal Realm and consider befriending King Pan, while Qing Xuan and the others began studying their Thunder Pools.
• Shi Jue recovered and watched the Sea of Worlds, planning to temper his body with its mist before cultivating his Primordial Spirit and pursuing immortality through strength.

Several years after gathering his warriors, Shi Hao discussed the difficulty of becoming an immortal with Shi Jue and worried about the coming Great Reckoning. Shi Jue later spent four hundred years adapting to the Sea of Worlds mist, which brought his Immortal Dao Treasure Body to its limit.

• Shi Hao arrived with eight hundred powerful warriors, and Shi Jue noticed the lingering lightning scars from his visit to the Lightning Abyss.
• Shi Hao asked Shi Jue whether he could become an immortal, and Shi Jue explained that faith could offer a faster but weaker path.
• Shi Hao rejected becoming immortal through faith because he feared it would harm his future, while Shi Jue urged him to be patient.
• Shi Jue and Liu Shen discussed Shi Hao's burden and the need for others to face the Weird Clan alongside him.
• Shi Jue spent four hundred years enduring the Sea of Worlds mist until he adapted to it and brought his Immortal Dao Treasure Body to its limit.

After a thousand years of relentless cultivation, Shi Jue decided to rest and visit Shi Hao’s Heavenly Court with Qing Xuan, Liu Shen, and the others. Shi Hao welcomed his old friend, and the group gathered for a banquet.

• Shi Jue asked Liu Shen whether his physical strength rivaled that of a Quasi-Immortal King, and Liu Shen said it had not quite reached that level.
• Liu Shen told Shi Jue that the vessel for crossing the Sea of Worlds was finished and warned him about the dangers there.
• Shi Jue proposed visiting Shi Hao’s Heavenly Court, and Qing Xuan teased him about whether Fairy Qingyi had had a child.
• Shi Jue arrived at the Heavenly Court and called out for Shi Hao, startling the palace and its people.
• Shi Hao welcomed Shi Jue, and he invited Liu Shen and the others to join a grand banquet.

Shi Hao and Shi Jue discussed sending their acquaintances to the Immortal Realm and the danger posed by Immortal Kings who might target Liu Shen’s allies. A century later, envoys arrived to invite Shi Hao to the Immortal Realm, but their arrogance drew his rebuke.

• Shi Hao hosted Shi Jue and the others at a banquet, where Qingyi and Qing Xuan argued about having children.
• Shi Hao told Shi Jue that people from the Immortal Realm had invited him to visit in a hundred years, and Shi Jue agreed to escort others who needed to go there.
• Shi Jue warned Shi Hao that Ao Sheng and other Immortal Kings might attack him if they learned of his connection to Liu Shen, and Shi Hao took the warning seriously.
• A hundred years later, several Supreme Being envoys descended from the Immortal Realm to invite Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao stayed seated in the central heavenly palace and challenged the envoys over their disrespectful manner.

Shi Hao humiliated the Immortal Realm’s Supreme Beings who brought him an invitation, then traveled to the Immortal Realm with them. Gu Zu secretly followed with Shi Jue and the others, and Liu Shen led the group toward King Pan’s territory.

• Shi Hao suppressed the Immortal Realm’s Supreme Beings, forced them to kneel, and ordered them to repair the damaged ground before leaving the invitation.
• Shi Hao told Shi Jue that he planned to visit the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who would accompany him to the Immortal Realm.
• Several days later, Shi Hao left for the Immortal Realm with the envoys while Gu Zu secretly entered with Shi Jue and the others.
• Liu Shen observed that the Immortal Realm had changed little and suggested going to King Pan for help.
• Gu Zu transported the group toward King Pan’s territory using the Power of Space.

Shi Jue and Liu Shen met King Pan in secret and asked him to protect their companions while they traveled to the Sea of Worlds. They reached the sea aboard Liu Shen’s Immortal Boat, where they faced a vast and perilous realm filled with powerful beings.

• Liu Shen and Shi Jue’s group secretly visited King Pan, who agreed to watch over the people they had brought into the Immortal Realm.
• Shi Jue explained that Gu Zu would safeguard their companions if anyone powerful attacked them, and Gu Zu agreed to keep his identity hidden.
• Shi Jue and Liu Shen left King Pan’s cave abode and set out for the Sea of Worlds.
• Shi Jue and Liu Shen arrived at the dam aboard Liu Shen’s Immortal Boat and sensed the immense dangers and powerful experts throughout the sea.

Shi Jue and Liu Shen sailed into the Sea of Worlds, where its dangerous laws strengthened Shi Jue as they traveled. They ignored a wounded Female Immortal calling for help and continued onward.

• Shi Jue and Liu Shen entered the Sea of Worlds aboard their Immortal Boat and discussed the dangers and powerful beings that occupied its reefs.
• After a month at sea, Shi Jue cultivated through the storms and found that the Great Dao laws nourished his Dao Seed, body, and soul.
• Shi Jue and Liu Shen heard a wounded Female Immortal calling for help but suspected a trap and chose not to intervene.
• Liu Shen teased Shi Jue about the Female Immortal's beauty, and he said he would not risk saving a stranger.
• The Female Immortal sank beneath the Sea of Worlds as Shi Jue and Liu Shen sailed away.

Shi Jue and Liu Shen attacked a weakened True Immortal on a reef in the Sea of Worlds, but the creature was corrupted by darkness and exploded with power approaching the Quasi-Immortal King realm. The blast separated and gravely injured them, leaving Shi Jue unconscious and sinking into the sea while Liu Shen disappeared from sight.

• Shi Jue and Liu Shen found a reef occupied by a weakened peak True Immortal and decided to defeat it so they could settle there.
• Liu Shen attacked the creature, and Shi Jue struck it from behind with his Slab Brick before evading its counterattack.
• Liu Shen realized the creature had fallen to the darkness, and Shi Jue and Liu Shen unleashed their strongest Divine Abilities against it.
• The corrupted creature exploded, destroying the reef and severely injuring Shi Jue and Liu Shen as the blast hurled them in different directions.
• Shi Jue watched Liu Shen disappear, lost consciousness, and sank into the Sea of Worlds.

Shi Jue’s body was destroyed in the Sea of Worlds, but the Chat Group preserved a remnant of his soul and began restoring him. Liu Shen merged with Dark Willow Deity to regain her strength, while Qing Xuan became an Immortal King and continued searching for Shi Jue.

• Shi Jue sank into the Sea of Worlds as his body dissolved, and Qing Xuan sensed his peril and began an unexplained transformation inside a rune-covered lotus.
• Liu Shen found Dark Willow Deity, learned that full fusion would take several hundred thousand years, and entered the black willow tree to begin merging with her.
• A sphere containing the Chat Group protected one ten-thousandth of Shi Jue’s soul and gathered laws from countless worlds to nurture his recovery.
• Over the passing millennia, Shi Hao battled immortals, spread his teachings, and fell while besieged by three Immortal Kings.
• Qing Xuan gained an Immortal King Dao Fruit, left the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and continued searching the Sea of Worlds for Shi Jue.

After hundreds of thousands of years of searching for Shi Jue, Qing Xuan remained unable to advance her cultivation, while Liu Shen continued completing her transformation. Shi Jue emerged from the depths of the Sea of Worlds, recovered his memories, and rose to become an Immortal King Giant as Qing Xuan rushed to reunite with him.

• Liu Shen told Qing Xuan to rest and cultivate, but Qing Xuan insisted she could not settle down until she found Shi Jue.
• Qing Xuan searched the Sea of Worlds for tens of thousands more years without finding Shi Jue.
• Shi Jue emerged from a sphere of light deep beneath the Sea of Worlds and recovered memories of his past several hundred thousand years.
• Shi Jue absorbed the Chat Group sphere and broke through to the Immortal King realm, then advanced to become an Immortal King Giant.
• Qing Xuan sensed Shi Jue's aura and hurried toward him, while Liu Shen stayed behind to finish fusing her origin.

After becoming an Immortal King, Shi Jue repaid the ancient realms that had helped him attain the Dao and fused many of them into a new great realm. With his memories sorted and his Dao heart clear, he set out to find Liu Shen but sensed Qing Xuan entering the Sea of Worlds.

• Shi Jue used his Immortal King power to nourish the ancient realms of the Sea of Worlds, and their wishes strengthened his cultivation.
• Shi Jue combined his nurtured world bubble with the ancient realms to begin forging the Great Universe Realm.
• Shi Jue severed distracting thoughts from his immense reincarnation memories and resolved to find Liu Shen, Qing Xuan, and the others.
• Shi Jue entered the Sea of Worlds with the confidence of an Immortal King Giant and sensed Qing Xuan's familiar aura there.

Shi Jue reunited with Qing Xuan in the Sea of Worlds and used Primordial Light to heal the damage to her unstable Immortal King foundation. After Qing Xuan slept for a year, she woke to find Shi Jue roasting a Taotie, unaware that his cooking would soon make immortal ferocious beasts scarce.

• Shi Jue recognized Qing Xuan as an Immortal King and reprimanded her for entering the Sea of Worlds before stabilizing her cultivation.
• Shi Jue used Primordial Light to remove strange black qi from Qing Xuan and urged her to stop fighting and consolidate her realm.
• Qing Xuan and Shi Jue reunited after hundreds of thousands of years, and Qing Xuan fell asleep beside him, finally feeling safe.
• Qing Xuan slept for a year while Shi Jue watched over her and thought about reuniting with Shi Hao and the others.
• Qing Xuan woke to Shi Jue roasting a Taotie, and he said he had caught it for a meal.

Shi Jue and Qing Xuan feasted on Taotie and discussed King Chi, Shi Hao’s eventual return, and the turmoil ahead. They found Liu Shen nearing the end of her fusion with the Dark Willow Deity and settled on her island to wait for her return.

• Shi Jue and Qing Xuan ate True Immortal-level Taotie and speculated about how delicious an Immortal King-level Time Beast would be.
• Shi Jue said he could kill King Chi if he caught him off guard, but it would be better to wait for Shi Hao before confronting the Other Domain.
• Qing Xuan said Shi Hao had been dead for about four hundred and fifty thousand years, and Shi Jue estimated several tens of thousands of years remained before his awakening.
• Shi Jue and Qing Xuan traveled to Liu Shen’s island, where they found her fused with the Dark Willow Deity and close to reaching the Emperor Light Immortal King realm.
• Liu Shen told Shi Jue she would appear in more than ten thousand years, and Shi Jue and Qing Xuan built a house on the island to wait and grow accustomed to their power.

Liu Shen completed her rise to the pinnacle of the Immortal King realm and returned to the Immortal Realm with Shi Jue and Qing Xuan. Shi Jue then secretly ambushed Ao Sheng, leaving the furious Immortal King and his clan to wonder who had attacked him.

• Liu Shen emerged from her breakthrough with Quasi-Immortal Emperor light and told Shi Jue she expected to need at least a million years to reach that realm.
• Shi Jue, Liu Shen, and Qing Xuan returned to the Immortal Realm in secret and decided to visit King Pan.
• Shi Jue slipped into Ao Sheng's cave abode and struck him in the back of the head with an Immortal King weapon.
• Shi Jue vanished before Ao Sheng could react, while members of the Ao Clan arrived to find their ancestor badly injured.
• Ao Sheng demanded to know who had ambushed him as his rage shook the surrounding stars.

Shi Jue revealed that he had struck Ao Sheng from the shadows, enraging the Immortal King and leaving the watching powers unable to identify the attacker. After discussing the attack with Liu Shen and King Pan, Shi Jue vowed that Ao Sheng and the other hostile Immortal Kings would eventually be dealt with.

• Ao Sheng raged after being attacked from behind, vowed to kill the unknown assailant, and could not uncover their identity.
• Shi Yi, Huo Ling'er, and the others suspected that Shi Jue had returned and carried out the attack.
• Shi Jue returned to Qing Xuan, who lamented that he had not taken her along, and told her he might bring her next time.
• Shi Jue asked Liu Shen whether the attack had helped vent her anger, and she said she could now deal with her enemies herself.
• King Pan praised Shi Jue for striking Ao Sheng but warned that killing an Immortal King could provoke the others.
• Shi Jue declared that he would kill Ao Sheng and his allies if necessary and replace them by hunting Immortal Kings in the Sea of Worlds and the Other Domain.

After Ao Sheng failed to identify the Immortal King who had attacked him, Shi Jue reunited with his old friends in King Pan City and reassured them that Shi Hao would return. He left them with hope for Shi Hao’s return in a few tens of thousands of years and offered to train them with Liu Shen.

• Ao Sheng and Yuan Chu tried to deduce who had struck Ao Sheng, but their efforts revealed nothing, and Ao Sheng vowed to kill his attacker.
• Little Rabbit greeted Shi Jue joyfully, and he teased her before comforting her about their friends’ long separation.
• Shi Jue told Little Rabbit, Huo Ling'er, and the others that Shi Hao would return, lifting their spirits and renewing their hopes of rebuilding the Heavenly Court.
• Shi Jue said Shi Hao would return in a few tens of thousands of years, and the group agreed to keep waiting.
• Shi Jue offered to stay in King Pan City and train the group alongside Liu Shen.

Over five hundred thousand years, Shi Jue became an Immortal King Giant while the dark invasion devastated many realms, and Shi Hao prepared to return from the Sea of Worlds. The chapter left Shi Hao entering the Sea of Worlds and Shi Jue expecting him and Ao Sheng’s group to return soon.

• Shi Yi and the others stayed with Shi Jue and the other Immortal Kings to learn from them after realizing how far behind they had fallen.
• Over five hundred thousand years, dark creatures continued invading and many great realms were destroyed, while Shi Jue drove Ao Sheng and two other Immortal Kings into the Sea of Worlds with repeated sneak attacks.
• Shi Jue discussed preparations for the coming dark turmoil with Qing Xuan and Liu Shen, warning that the Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Immortal King battlefields would demand careful arrangements.
• Shi Hao reached the Sea of Worlds, exchanged a teasing message with Shi Jue, and entered the battlefield alone after sensing that Shi Jue had become an extraordinary Immortal King.
• Shi Jue predicted that Ao Sheng and the others would soon return and said Shi Hao would make his own return to the Immortal Realm openly.

After opening his sixth secret realm and reaching the strength of an Immortal King Giant, Shi Hao returned to the Immortal Realm, destroyed the Ao Clan, and waited for Ao Sheng and the others. When Ao Sheng arrived, Shi Hao challenged him, but Shi Jue struck first with his bloodstained slab brick.

• Shi Hao returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and wiped out the restricted zones that had attacked him.
• After learning Ao Sheng and the others were returning, Shi Hao entered the Immortal Realm, destroyed the Ao Clan, and waited for them with Shi Jue, Liu Shen, and Qing Xuan.
• Shi Jue, Liu Shen, and Shi Hao assigned Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and the remaining returning Immortal King as their opponents, while Qing Xuan prepared to hold off other arrivals.
• Ao Sheng reached the Ao Clan ruins, recognized Shi Hao, and threatened to kill him, while Shi Hao declared that Ao Sheng would face his tribulation.
• Shi Hao displayed the aura of A Deity Three Feet Above One's Head and explained that Ao Sheng had attacked him during his breakthrough.
• As Ao Sheng gathered power, Shi Jue emerged and smashed the back of his head with a bloodstained slab brick, shocking the watching Immortal Kings.

Shi Hao and Shi Jue reunited as Immortal Kings, and Liu Shen appeared to confront Ao Sheng and the other Immortal Kings who had attacked her in the past. The three allies divided their opponents and began fighting as other Immortal Kings moved to intervene.

• Ao Sheng, Yuan Chu, and another Immortal King recognized Shi Jue as the one who had secretly struck them for tens of thousands of years and turned their fury toward him.
• Shi Hao reunited with Shi Jue, and the two stood together as equals after Shi Hao declared his return as a king.
• Liu Shen appeared on the battlefield, revealing that she had survived and recovered beyond her former peak, which terrified Ao Sheng and the other Immortal Kings.
• Shi Hao claimed Ao Sheng as his opponent, while Shi Jue and Liu Shen took the other two Immortal Kings.
• The six Immortal Kings clashed, shattering the surrounding universe, as Immortal Kings allied with Ao Sheng rushed toward the battlefield.

Qing Xuan trapped six Immortal Kings while Shi Jue and Liu Shen overwhelmed Yuan Chu and Tai Shi. Shi Jue fed Yuan Chu to his Great Millstone of Heaven and Earth, leaving Yuan Chu being crushed as the battle continued.

• Qing Xuan used Black Flame to block six Immortal Kings and warned them to stay away from the battlefield.
• Shi Jue used the Slab Brick to suppress Yuan Chu, while Liu Shen beat Tai Shi with her physical strength.
• Shi Jue seized Yuan Chu and stopped his supreme Divine Ability, capturing the immortal radiance it released.
• Shi Jue summoned the Great Millstone of Heaven and Earth and threw Yuan Chu into it to be crushed.