Chapter Summaries

White Pine Seed and the Twelve Demon Cranes faced the Unfixed Church’s threat, while Daoist Huan Shan was lured to Crane King Cave by Chun Yangzi’s report of an immortal crane Demon King. The chapter ended with White Pine Seed attacking Huan Shan under crushing spiritual pressure, as Huan Shan thrust his sword at him.

• White Pine Seed refused to abandon the Moon King despite pressure from an Unfixed Church ally to surrender him.
• Daoist Huan Shan met Chun Yangzi, who told him that a Demon King-level immortal crane was among the Spring Autumn Sect’s hidden forces.
• Chun Yangzi secured the Jing Ling Blood Jade after Huan Shan agreed to investigate the immortal crane as a possible mount.
• White Pine Seed told the Twelve Demon Cranes to flee with the Moon King and his two mistresses while he stayed behind.
• Daoist Huan Shan arrived at Crane King Cave and used spiritual pressure and repeated commands to force the demon cranes to their knees.
• White Pine Seed resisted and lunged at Huan Shan, who thrust his wooden sword toward White Pine Seed’s brow.

Lu Sheng returned to Crane King Cave and confronted Daoist Huan Shan, who had threatened White Pine Seed and Pure Crane Dao. After Lu Sheng survived Huan Shan’s attacks and revealed his immense power, he summoned a monstrous crane to face the mountain Huan Shan had brought down; meanwhile, Jing Hui and Mother of Pain discussed a distant Root of Emptiness fluctuation and the possible emergence of a Dominator.

• Daoist Huan Shan seized White Pine Seed and threatened to destroy Crane King Cave and Pure Crane Dao unless White Pine Seed submitted.
• Bo Ruqing sent a signal for help, and Lu Sheng arrived with a giant, crane-marked stone figure that struck Daoist Huan Shan and split the mountain ridge.
• In Yin Capital, Jing Hui sensed a Root of Emptiness fluctuation from a distant world and spoke with Mother of Pain about the Dominator’s potential appearance.
• Daoist Huan Shan survived Lu Sheng’s first attack, struck him with a Jade Ruyi, and summoned a vast black mountain above him.
• Lu Sheng blocked Huan Shan’s attack, spread black smoke across the land, and summoned a colossal crane-headed monster to charge the descending mountain.

Lu Sheng revealed his Heart-Image of Reincarnation, defeated and absorbed Daoist Huan Shan, and reunited with the survivors at Moon King Manor. The chapter ended with him meeting the aged Moon King, Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Liuliu after many years apart.

• Lu Sheng manifested the black giant crane that embodied his Heart-Image and shattered Daoist Huan Shan’s Accumulated Qi Mountain.
• The giant crane dragged Daoist Huan Shan to Lu Sheng and swallowed him, allowing Lu Sheng to absorb his reincarnation power.
• Lu Sheng dispersed the crane and reassured the Twelve Demon Cranes and White Pine Seed that he would take over.
• Lu Sheng greeted Long Hezhi and the two Pure Crane Dao members, then led everyone to Moon King Manor.
• Lu Sheng reunited with the aged Moon King, Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Liuliu, and the Moon King told him Crane King Cave had protected Moon King Manor while his younger sisters suffered.

Lu Sheng rejuvenated the Moon King and the Yuan sisters, arranged for part of the Moon King Manor to flee, and surveyed the expanded Heart-Image World. He then traveled to Kong Ying Mountain, where Zhuang Yinxue revealed that she sought immortality to avenge her family.

• Lu Sheng used the White Feather True Scripture to restore the Moon King and the Yuan sisters to youthful appearances and extend their lifespans.
• Lu Sheng told White Pine Seed to prepare part of the Moon King Manor to leave before the Unfixed Church could respond to the fallen Human Immortal.
• Lu Sheng explored the enlarged Heart-Image World and observed that its inhabitants and wild creatures had stabilized into a cycle of life and death.
• Fei Guanghe noticed a variable in the Clear King's fate disk as the Clear King asked to sever his worldly ties.
• Lu Sheng traveled by ferry toward Kong Ying Mountain, where Zhuang Yinxue told him she sought immortality to avenge her family.

Lu Sheng tested Zhuang Yinxue’s willingness to become his disciple, then flew to Kong Ying Mountain to challenge the Unfixed Church. He escaped the church’s array with a summoned Black Tiger, but his own body remained trapped.

• Lu Sheng told Zhuang Yinxue that revenge barred her from cultivating the Dao, and she refused to abandon it but begged him to accept her as a disciple.
• When Lu Sheng asked whether she would die for the chance, Zhuang Yinxue cut her throat; he healed her and told her to wait by the shore in one hour.
• Lu Sheng flew to Kong Ying Mountain, subdued its White Dragon guardian, and introduced himself to the Unfixed Church as Xuan Kongzi.
• The Black Beard Daoist summoned a Flame Qilin that struck Lu Sheng, while the church’s Qianling Restoration Array bound him in golden runic chains.
• Lu Sheng summoned a Black Tiger that broke through the array, but he realized that his body was still trapped in the chains.

Lu Sheng failed to escape the Unfixed Church’s mountain-protecting array and was imprisoned, where the Unfixed Church Master revealed that Lu Sheng’s unusual soul could help erode Emperor Wa’s body. After the Church Master gave him a wisp of Emperor Wa’s essence, Lu Sheng’s true body reacted with shock to what it gained.

• Lu Sheng tried several times to break the Qianling Restoration Array, but the two-headed monster captured him and took him to a dungeon.
• Lu Sheng examined the dungeon’s seals and realized the array could disrupt even his powerful manifestations.
• The Unfixed Church Master sent an avatar from the Upper Realm to meet Lu Sheng in his cell and identified him as a Heavenly Devil with an unusual soul.
• The Unfixed Church Master asked Lu Sheng to help erode Emperor Wa’s body, explaining that her true body spanned a vast region of the world.
• The Unfixed Church Master gave Lu Sheng a wisp of Emperor Wa’s essence, which Lu Sheng consumed.
• Lu Sheng’s true body opened his eyes in a distant mountain hut and reacted in shock to the essence’s effect on the Deep Blue interface.

Lu Sheng accepted the Unfixed Church Master's offer to enter Emperor Wa's dream and help obtain her vital essence, drawn by the immense God-Entrusting Power it contained. Five years later, he joined the Unfixed Church Master and Spring Autumn Sect Master at the entrance to Emperor Wa Dream Realm and began testing it.

• Lu Sheng absorbed Emperor Wa's essence and gained nearly three million units of God-Entrusting Power, then agreed to enter her dream and delay her transformation in exchange for her vital essence.
• The Unfixed Church Master secretly sent a golden light into Lu Sheng and discussed with a voice in a silver sphere how they would use him in their attempt to obtain Emperor Wa's essence.
• Lu Sheng retrieved his incarnations, prepared for the dream journey, and sought cultivation scriptures through his partnership with the Unfixed Church.
• Five years later, the Unfixed Church and Spring Autumn Sect withdrew their forces and reached a peaceful deadlock.
• Lu Sheng met the Unfixed Church Master and Spring Autumn Sect Master at a black sphere in the primeval forest, then tested the entrance to Emperor Wa Dream Realm with black qi.

Lu Sheng entered Emperor Wa’s dream to obtain her Soul Essence and found himself in a bizarre desert with Green Ruler and her family. After their vehicle survived an attack by giant Little Tadpoles, he collected an Emperor Wa Soul Essence but still did not know which girl was Emperor Wa’s soul.

• Lu Sheng entered Emperor Wa’s dream and found himself powerless in a gray wilderness.
• A Celestial Elephant appeared, and Green Ruler rescued Lu Sheng in her family’s vehicle.
• Green Ruler introduced Lu Sheng to Shoot Wall, Support Wall, and Lifelong Infertile as they traveled through the Filth Language Desert.
• Giant Little Tadpoles attacked the vehicle, tossing its passengers around before the danger passed.
• Lu Sheng collected an Emperor Wa Soul Essence and wondered whether Green Ruler or Shoot Wall was Emperor Wa’s soul.
• Green Ruler began recounting a worse natural disaster that had once cost the group five companions.

Lu Sheng recovered two pieces of Emperor Wa Soul Essence and joined the Unfixed Church Master and Spring Autumn Sect Master in forging them into treasure pearls. After securing a share packed with God-Entrusting Power, he prepared to return to the Heavenly Devil World, leaving his fate uncertain as he entered the Space-Time Vortex.

• Lu Sheng learned that Lifelong Infertile had once been Emperor Wa and pretended to remember him fondly, receiving another piece of Emperor Wa Soul Essence when Emperor Wa's dream awakened.
• Lu Sheng met the Unfixed Church Master and Spring Autumn Sect Master, and the three combined their essences to create two Seven-Colored treasure pearls.
• The three agreed to meet again within a hundred years, then divided the resulting Emperor Wa Essence among themselves.
• Lu Sheng absorbed half of the large essence, gaining thirteen million God-Entrusting Power, and suspected the two masters had placed hidden measures on him.
• Lu Sheng buried himself in the Tree Sea, built a return formation, and entered a gray rift toward the Heavenly Devil World as Emperor Wa Essence helped shield him in the Space-Time Vortex.

Lu Sheng returned from the Profound World, assessed his next goals, and began a secluded cultivation breakthrough using his accumulated God-Entrusting Power. Meanwhile, Mi Guang Ying prepared to evacuate a group from Third Yellow Springs Star with Ansha’s help.

• Lu Sheng returned to his residence after crossing the Space-Time Vortex and learned he had been in seclusion for over two months.
• Lu Sheng reviewed events in Libra City and decided to bring his family out and search for the Spirit of Reincarnation.
• Mi Guang Ying and Ansha prepared to evacuate more than a hundred people from Third Yellow Springs Star aboard a flying vessel.
• Lu Sheng built a fortified Quiet Room and decided to use his God-Entrusting Power to refine his cultivation.
• Lu Sheng raised the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art to its ninth level and began deriving it as the foundation for his powers.

Lu Sheng purified his powers, used nine million units of God-Entrusting Power to advance the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art into the Thousand Gods Art, and reflected on whether he could accept a quiet life of cultivation. Meanwhile, Mi Guang Ying and her companions escaped the Third Yellow Springs Star and headed toward their rendezvous point.

• Lu Sheng converted the accumulated essences from his journeys into physical strength and cleared most of the chaotic powers from his body.
• Lu Sheng spent a little over nine million units of God-Entrusting Power to advance the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art to its tenth layer, gaining the Thousand Gods Undying Body trait.
• Lu Sheng renamed the cultivation art the Thousand Gods Art and considered trading Emperor Wa Essence for resources rather than using it to boost his cultivation.
• Lu Sheng asked Tuo Lanba He what people lived for, then questioned whether he could truly settle down and cultivate peacefully for thousands of years.
• Mi Guang Ying, Ansha, and an old gentleman escaped the Third Yellow Springs Star through the Grid Black Net and prepared to break through the Swimming Fish Black Net on their way to a rendezvous.

Mi Guang Ying, Ansha, and the old gentleman tried to escape the Yellow Springs Star System with Lu Sheng’s family and allies, but Mother of Pain’s defenses destroyed their flying ship and left many passengers dead or missing. After hearing the survivors’ report, Lu Sheng set out toward the stars.

• Mi Guang Ying guided the flying ship through the Swimming Fish Black Net, but a hidden net trapped it and War Fish swarmed the vessel.
• Ansha summoned Jella to hold off the pursuers, but the black dragon was overwhelmed and destroyed.
• A Space-Time Undercurrent struck the damaged ship, and a colossal one-eyed phantom attacked it, killing many passengers and leaving Ning Er missing.
• Mi Guang Ying used her Black Blade to repel the phantom’s palm, then lost consciousness after telling the others to give Lu Sheng her Primal Stone.
• Lu Sheng learned the survivors’ coordinates, spoke with Tuo Lanba He about pain and life, and left the city as an enormous Black Crane phantom.

After a spacetime undercurrent stranded Mi Guang Ying and Ansha aboard a wrecked spacecraft, they discovered that Chen Yunxi and Lu Ning had been lost, while Ansha began descending into another world. Meanwhile, a patrol near West Meridian Star stopped a lone traveler who asked whether the planet belonged to Mother of Yellow Springs.

• Mi Guang Ying woke injured aboard the damaged spacecraft, found Ansha unconscious, and used a stored medicine to recover enough to inspect the ship’s records.
• Mi Guang Ying learned that the spacecraft had been swept into spacetime undercurrents and found that Chen Yunxi, Lu Ning, and Kelu had vanished from the damaged section.
• Ansha confirmed that Chen Yunxi and Lu Ning had disappeared into space, then fell unconscious as Heavenly Devil Descent began separating her from Mi Guang Ying.
• Mi Guang Ying tried to use the Primal Stone to contact the Iron Flag Society, but it failed, leaving her to rely on herself and the surviving passengers.
• A patrolman searching near West Meridian Star intercepted a miniature spacecraft and questioned its muscular pilot, who asked whether the planet was Mother of Yellow Springs’s territory.

Lu Sheng reached West Meridian Star and unleashed his Heart-Image World, killing billions and erasing a Bewilderment Realm expert. As the Mother of Pain arrived to confront him, Lu Sheng summoned Thousand Gods to meet her attack.

• Lu Sheng forced a patrolman to guide him toward West Meridian Star after his hair killed the patrolman's two companions.
• Lu Sheng crashed onto West Meridian Star and spread his black Heart-Image World across the planet, killing billions of people and defeating a Minotaur Bewilderment Realm expert.
• Lu Sheng swept across West Meridian Star, devouring its remaining living creatures and leaving the planet lifeless.
• True Enlightenment and Purple Moon watched from afar and discussed Lu Sheng's power as the Mother of Pain's forces approached.
• The Mother of Pain arrived, enlarged herself, and sent a gigantic golden palm toward West Meridian Star.
• Lu Sheng summoned Thousand Gods as a crane phantom to attack the golden palm.

Mi Guang Ying recovered aboard a wrecked ship, searched its corpse-filled compartments, and was attacked by a clawed girl. At West Meridian Star, Lu Sheng fought the Four-Winged Woman and entered her Heart-Image World, where Xiao Ruan’s reaction to his eating stones and metal began to break his peaceful illusion.

• Mi Guang Ying woke after recovering from her injuries and found that Ansha had disappeared.
• Mi Guang Ying searched the wrecked ship’s corpse-filled chambers and encountered a pale-eyed girl with claws and a barbed tail.
• The girl charged Mi Guang Ying before she could establish whether they could communicate.
• Lu Sheng and Thousand Gods fought the Four-Winged Woman, using the Radiance Disk’s strength rune to overpower her and pierce her chest.
• The Four-Winged Woman unleashed her Heart-Image World, drawing Lu Sheng into a beachside vision where he ate grilled fish, stones, and the barbecue gear.
• Xiao Ruan panicked at Lu Sheng’s impossible appetite, and Lu Sheng began to remember that he was Lu Sheng and wonder what he had been doing there.

Lu Sheng began breaking the Four-Winged Woman’s Heart-Image World by turning its native life against its rules, while she fled a bizarre suitor. He flew toward the volcano to study its soul-smoke cycle and planned to use Deep Blue to deduce an adaptive cultivation art.

• Lu Sheng ate Xiao Ruan, then left the delusion and considered how to escape the Four-Winged Woman’s Heart-Image World.
• A man proposed to the Four-Winged Woman with brute force, while the island’s people treated violent battles as proof of love; she ran from him.
• Lu Sheng reviewed the two ways to break a Heart-Image World and decided to disrupt its rules to reveal the powerhouse’s true body.
• Lu Sheng used Civilization Leap to awaken an ancient tree, which spread its roots and began draining the surrounding Tree Sea.
• Lu Sheng flew to the volcano, discovered that its smoke consisted of dissolving souls, and called on Deep Blue to deduce the cycle’s rules.

Lu Sheng used the Smoke Soul Way to break out of the Heart-Image World and defeat Mother of Pain’s vice cult leader, the Four-Winged Woman. Purple Moon and Red Shadow recognized him as an astonishingly young Void Nether, and Red Shadow tried to capture him to learn his secret, threatening to seal him for a hundred thousand years.

• Lu Sheng deduced the Smoke Soul Way, identified the Heart-Image World as an artificial reincarnation cycle, and used the Skyward Lock to escape it.
• Purple Moon and Red Shadow watched Lu Sheng fight the Four-Winged Woman and learned from Purple Moon that he was likely Lu Sheng, a daoist not yet three hundred years old.
• Lu Sheng trapped the Four-Winged Woman in his Heart-Image World, wounded her with Yin Fire, and swallowed her.
• Red Shadow attacked Lu Sheng with black vines and demanded to know how he had reached Void Nether so quickly.
• Lu Sheng denied having a secret and insisted that his talent and victories made him impossible to subdue.
• Red Shadow warned Lu Sheng that he could seal him for a hundred thousand years.

Lu Sheng escaped Red Shadow and Purple Moon by transferring his soul into a body grown from flesh he had hidden in Libra City, then prepared to flee with Tuo Lanba He. After escaping to the teleportation-array satellite, he set his sights on a larger spacecraft for his next mission against Mother of Pain.

• Lu Sheng used the Thousand Gods Undying Body to regenerate in a hidden chamber, leaving Red Shadow and Purple Moon unable to catch him.
• Lu Sheng realized Libra City was no longer safe, gathered supplies, and told Tuo Lanba He to prepare to leave.
• Lu Sheng destroyed his descent formations, fed on livestock to replenish nutrients, and flew with Tuo Lanba He toward the teleportation array.
• Lu Sheng escaped Libra City despite several pursuers and reached the satellite spaceport.
• Lu Sheng decided a single-person spacecraft would not be enough and turned his attention to several medium-sized spacecraft taking off nearby.

Lu Sheng chose a modified spacecraft and seized it from its owner, Ban Sai, who had fled his family’s training. He forced Ban Sai to pilot the ship toward the outskirts of the Green Ravine Sect near the Pain Star System.

• Lu Sheng selected a white, scale-shaped spacecraft with a dark-purple crystal at its center.
• Ban Sai hid aboard the ship, distressed after escaping his family’s attempts to train him as an heir and fighter.
• Lu Sheng boarded the spacecraft, grabbed Ban Sai, and knocked him unconscious when he emerged from his cabin.
• Lu Sheng declared Ban Sai his first mate, and Tuo Lanba He revived the frightened young man with cold water.
• Lu Sheng ordered Ban Sai to jump toward the Green Ravine Sect’s outskirts near the Pain Star System, and Ban Sai changed the ship’s course.

Lu Sheng searched the Yellow Springs Star System for his missing family but found signs that their flying ship had entered a spacetime undercurrent. He returned to prepare a new descent, and the chapter ended with a multicolored flying dragon discovering a crack in her egg.

• Lu Sheng hid in an asteroid belt, learned of the Green Ravine Sect's victory over the Mother of Pain, and infiltrated the Yellow Springs Star System.
• Lu Sheng followed Mi Guang Ying's traces to a vanished spacetime undercurrent, then killed nearby Evil Sorcerer patrols and left the Third Yellow Springs Star.
• Lu Sheng decided to seek God-Entrusting Power by descending into a new world rather than going to the Profound World.
• Lu Sheng discovered Ban Sai's exceptional talent for optimizing rune formations, and Ban Sai helped him complete a more controllable descent formation.
• Lu Sheng activated the formation and vanished through a rift; west of the Baisente Continent, a multicolored flying dragon noticed a crack in her egg.