Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An defeated the ninth-step opponent, securing the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect’s apparent claim to an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit quota. Tan GuangShou then gave Bai Fan an Immortal Artifact to challenge him, unaware that Bai Fan was Jiang Ping An’s Devouring Clone, and Miao Xia bet Jiang Ping An an Immortal Artifact that he would not win.

• Tan GuangShou gave Bai Fan the Void Breaking Bracelet and ordered him to defeat Jiang Ping An.
• Jiang Ping An destroyed the ninth-step projection with Destruction Law, astonishing the gathered cultivators and unsettling Ouyang LuoXue and Xiao Feng.
• Bai Fan flew down from the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode’s warship, challenged Jiang Ping An, and took his place on the stairs.
• Jiang Ping An’s Devouring Clone swallowed the projections on the first three steps, alarming the spectators and the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect elders.
• Miao Xia warned Jiang Ping An not to underestimate the remaining challengers, then bet him an Immortal Artifact that he could not win.

Jiang Ping An, disguised as Bai Fan, defeated the ninth-level projection with a devastating compressed energy sphere, then faced a wager for an immortal-artifact duel against himself. The chapter ended with Jiang Ping An and Bai Fan approaching their confrontation on the stone platform.

• Jiang Ping An agreed with Miao Xia to wager a supreme treasure against her demand that he obey her if he lost.
• Disguised as Bai Fan, Jiang Ping An advanced to the ninth level and destroyed its projection with a compressed sphere of energy.
• Bai Fan declared that he had reached his limit and descended, leaving the crowd anticipating a duel with Jiang Ping An.
• Bai Fan wagered an immortal artifact and claimed his master, Tan GuangShou, would provide one; Tan GuangShou produced a treasured saber.
• Miao Jing gave Jiang Ping An an immortal sword despite Miao Xia's concerns about the danger of an immortal-artifact fight.
• Jiang Ping An stepped toward the stone platform as Bai Fan declared that he would kill him.

Bai Fan betrayed the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode and exposed Tan GuangShou’s use of Soul-Controlling Spiders, sparking a confrontation between the sects. A mysterious powerful being arrived searching for the Crystal Coffin, threatened the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode, and crippled Miao Jing after learning the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect belonged to the Desolate Alliance.

• Bai Fan surrendered to the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect, and Jiang Ping An revealed that Tan GuangShou had controlled his disciples with Soul-Controlling Spiders.
• Tan GuangShou attacked Jiang Ping An, but Miao Jing and the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect’s elders intervened, bringing the two sects close to battle.
• A mysterious being sealed the Illusory Moon Region and demanded that the Crystal Coffin be found within one month or the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode would be destroyed.
• Miao Jing said the Crystal Coffin had once been found by a Feather Emperor Immortal Sect disciple who was killed by Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators, and the mysterious being demanded that the sect produce it.
• Miao Jing invoked the Desolate Alliance, but the mysterious being crushed him twice, badly injuring him and cracking his Immortal Dao Source.

A mysterious Immortal stole the Immortal Origin Dao Fruit Tree and shattered Miao Jing’s cultivation origin, ending the competition. Jiang Ping An received his master’s inheritance and returned to the Crystal Coffin, with the fruits he had hoped to use now gone.

• The mysterious man uprooted the Immortal Origin Dao Fruit Tree, and the Five Great Immortal Sects abandoned the competition and left.
• Miao Xia comforted her injured father, while Jiang Ping An suppressed his anger toward the Immortal who had harmed Miao Jing.
• Miao Jing thanked Jiang Ping An for helping Miao Xia, gave him a jade slip containing his insights and cultivation methods, and entrusted him with looking after her.
• Miao Jing let Jiang Ping An keep his immortal sword, and Miao Xia confronted Jiang Ping An after overhearing their conversation.
• Jiang Ping An entered his inner Small World and looked at the Crystal Coffin, realizing he could no longer obtain an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit for its occupant.

Jiang Ping An learned that the skeleton could help revive his parents if it regained strength, and he went with Miao Xia to the Pill Treasure Pavilion to seek an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit and medicine for her father. There, he encountered Pang Shu, the man who had swindled him out of Immortal Crystals.

• The skeleton told Jiang Ping An that ordinary pills could not replace an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit and offered to help revive his parents after recovering some strength.
• The skeleton revealed that it had regained some memories, said its home and loved ones were gone, and directed Jiang Ping An to the Pill Treasure Pavilion.
• Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode disciples discovered that Bai Fan had borrowed Immortal Crystals and fled, while Tan GuangShou cursed the many treasures and resources he had lost.
• After a month of terrifying Divine Sense sweeps faded, the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect's ship returned, and Jiang Ping An asked Miao Xia about the Pill Treasure Pavilion.
• Miao Xia accompanied Jiang Ping An to the pavilion to seek medicine for Miao Jing's damaged origin, where Pang Shu approached her and Jiang Ping An recognized the man who had swindled him.

Miao Xia learned that entering Azure Branch Academy could give her a way to save her injured father, and Jiang Ping An negotiated with Pang Shu for an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit. Pang Shu agreed to Jiang Ping An’s final terms, which included a poison pill.

• Pang Shu introduced himself to Miao Xia as a member of the Pang Family and admitted he could not obtain a Nirvana Pill for her.
• Pang Shu told Miao Xia that Azure Branch Academy granted entrants one wish, prompting her to decide to take its assessment and save her father.
• Miao Xia kissed Jiang Ping An in excitement, then offered to buy him something before learning he wanted an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit.
• Pang Shu quoted a price of 1.2 million Immortal Crystals for the fruit, but Jiang Ping An negotiated him down and demanded a poison pill capable of killing someone in the late Domain Law stage.
• Pang Shu accepted Jiang Ping An’s final condition.

Jiang Ping An agreed to accompany Miao Xia to Azure Branch Academy after his Immortal Origin Dao Fruit arrived, while Yang Luan misinterpreted Jiang Ping An’s message to his sister, Yang Jinyu, as a marriage proposal. The chapter left Yang Jinyu hearing her brother insist on that mistaken interpretation.

• Jiang Ping An signed a contract for an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit, which Pang Shu said would arrive in about a year, then left as Pang Shu realized he had survived the Feather Transformation Tribulation.
• Miao Xia told Jiang Ping An she planned to enter Azure Branch Academy and persuaded him to go with her after the fruit arrived, though the academy’s assessments could take thousands of years.
• Yang Luan praised Jiang Ping An for defeating experts from the Five Great Immortal Sects and claimed his sister, Yang Jinyu, wanted to recruit him for the Northern Wilderness Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Ping An told Yang Luan that he would remain with the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect and that Yang Jinyu could visit him there, then went to cultivate.
• Yang Luan told Yang Jinyu that Jiang Ping An wanted to marry her; she asked him to repeat Jiang Ping An’s actual words, but Yang Luan continued insisting on his conclusion.

Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia prepared to leave for the Azure Branch Academy, while the fugitive Qiu SiPing set out to pursue them. After saying farewell to Miao Jing and the sect, they headed to collect the Immortal Origin Dao Fruit, where Pang Shu greeted them with suspicious warmth.

• Yang Jinyu ended her attempt to recruit Jiang Ping An and prepared to leave for the Azure Branch Academy.
• Jiang Ping An continued cultivating his Immortal Roots and studying techniques while waiting for the Immortal Origin Dao Fruit.
• Qiu SiPing learned Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia were going to the Azure Branch Academy, then set off toward the Star River Road to kill Jiang Ping An.
• Miao Xia left the sect with Jiang Ping An to seek admission to the Azure Branch Academy and fulfill her wish to restore her father's health.
• Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia went to the Pill Treasure Pavilion to collect the Immortal Origin Dao Fruit, where Pang Shu welcomed them with unusual enthusiasm.

Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia traded with Pang Shu, then boarded an immortal warship bound for Star River Road. There, they encountered Cultivators from the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode, the rivals they blamed for losing the Ancient God Origin.

• Pang Shu offered to travel with Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia, but Miao Xia demanded an Immortal Origin Dao Fruit in exchange for their help.
• Jiang Ping An exchanged several hundred thousand Immortal Crystals for the fruit and a Stiffness Pill, then the skeleton in his Crystal Coffin took the fruit and went into a deep sleep.
• Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia bought tickets and one private room aboard a warship headed for Star River Road.
• Miao Xia spotted Cultivators from the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode on the ship, and both groups reacted with anger over their past dispute in the Ancient God Small World.

Miao Xia and Jiang Ping An traveled aboard an immortal vessel toward Star River Road while Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators plotted to kill them. When Miao Xia failed again to clear a maze for a jug of wine, Jiang Ping An joined her and mocked the Cultivators who confronted them.

• Miao Xia and Jiang Ping An boarded the immortal vessel, while Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators discussed killing them during the journey.
• Miao Xia spent the voyage fighting Jiang Ping An and exploring the vessel’s secret realm in search of Drunken Immortal.
• Miao Xia paid to enter the secret realm with Jiang Ping An and took him to the Stone Forest Maze, which she had repeatedly failed to clear.
• Chang Hong and three other Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators mocked Miao Xia at the maze entrance.
• Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia called the Cultivators barking beasts, provoking them to glare at Jiang Ping An with killing intent.

Jiang Ping An entered the Stone Forest Maze despite warnings and reached its end almost immediately. His success stunned Miao Xia and the Cultivators who had mocked and slandered him.

• Jiang Ping An ignored Miao Xia's warning and entered the Stone Forest Maze.
• Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators mocked Miao Xia, and she retaliated by bringing up their sect's puppet scandal.
• Chang Hong and the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators falsely claimed Jiang Ping An had vowed to finish the maze in a day and trample Yang Jinyu.
• Golden radiance announced that someone had reached the maze's end, and Chang Hong sarcastically praised Jiang Ping An to humiliate him.
• The projection revealed Jiang Ping An as the one who had completed the maze, leaving Miao Xia and the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators stunned.

Jiang Ping An reached the end of the Stone Forest Maze with ease, then spent months improving his combat ability while traveling toward Star River Road. At Ghost City, Chang Hong attacked Miao Xia, but Yang Jinyu abandoned him and flew into the city.

• Jiang Ping An emerged from the maze with the Drunken Immortal and gave it to Miao Xia, who teased him for making an improper request.
• Chang Hong lied to Yang Jinyu to provoke her against Miao Xia, but Yang Jinyu saw through his scheme and pretended to agree.
• Over the following months, Jiang Ping An trained and improved his fighting skills while Miao Xia continued sparring with him as before.
• The immortal ship reached Ghost City, the first station of Star River Road, where Cultivators had to complete a task before proceeding.
• Chang Hong and Yang Jinyu approached Miao Xia as she disembarked, but Yang Jinyu flew toward Ghost City instead of helping him attack.
• Miao Xia drew her saber and fought Chang Hong after Jiang Ping An had warned her that Chang Hong was likely to strike.

Jiang Ping An escaped a Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode cultivator’s attack by entering Ghost City, where the two sects clashed until nightfall forced them inside. As Ghost City darkened, a terrifying presence outside overwhelmed Jiang Ping An with fear, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chang Hong sent a Domain Realm Late Stage cultivator to kill Jiang Ping An, but the cultivator struck only Jiang Ping An’s concealed Energy Avatar as the real Jiang Ping An entered Ghost City.
• Jiang Ping An mocked the failed attacker from inside the city, drawing curses against the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode from nearby cultivators.
• Miao Xia and Chang Hong summoned their sects, and the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect and Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode fought outside Ghost City until darkness approached.
• Miao Xia led Jiang Ping An and the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect disciples to an inn, where Yu Bei greeted Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia described Yu Bei’s standing in the sect.
• When Ghost City fell into darkness and a sinister aura appeared outside, Jiang Ping An trembled uncontrollably as his true body grasped the Devouring Heaven Bottle and Void Breaking Bracelet.

Jiang Ping An learned how lethal Ghost City was at night and investigated the unseen creatures from the safety of his room. His Malevolent Spirit avatar survived outside, but he still could not see the creatures, so he returned to cultivation while Miao Xia and Yu Bei faced grim odds of finding the missing Command Tokens.

• Yu Bei warned Jiang Ping An not to leave his room or release Divine Sense at night, then gave him a room token.
• Miao Xia asked Yu Bei about the five missing Command Tokens, and Yu Bei suspected the terrifying creatures outside had them.
• Jiang Ping An used his Pupil Technique to look outside, but saw nothing, and his Energy Avatars were killed by an unseen force.
• Jiang Ping An sent a Malevolent Spirit avatar outside, where it remained unharmed even as strange things passed nearby.
• Jiang Ping An recalled the avatar and began cultivating instead of investigating further.

After Miao Xia was injured by a creature that entered through a damaged seal, Jiang Ping An identified Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode as responsible and infiltrated their inn to unleash the same deadly beings on them. The chapter ended with Chang Hong recognizing Jiang Ping An as the remaining Cultivators’ treasures were pulled away.

• Miao Xia was injured when a creature entered her room through a damaged seal, and Jiang Ping An suspected Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode had sabotaged it.
• Jiang Ping An sent his Malevolent Spirit Clone to Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode’s inn after overhearing its Cultivators celebrate the attack on Miao Xia.
• Jiang Ping An used the Void Breaking Bracelet to enter the inn and opened windows so eerie beings could surge inside.
• The beings killed several Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode Cultivators, while Jiang Ping An used the Devouring Heaven Bottle to take the remaining Cultivators’ magic treasures.
• Chang Hong recognized Jiang Ping An as the transparent figure holding the bottle.

Jiang Ping An lured strange beings into an inn and wiped out over a dozen Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode cultivators, then collected several strange red stone balls that strengthened his spiritual sea. Months later, Ghost City was stirred by news that Yang Jinyu had obtained a Command Token for traveling to the Star Sea.

• Chang Hong escaped Ghost City with an Immortal-grade Teleportation Talisman after Jiang Ping An’s scheme and the strange beings killed the other Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode cultivators.
• Jiang Ping An collected four red stone balls that strengthened his spiritual sea and Mental Power.
• Yu Bei told Miao Xia that the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode group had vanished, and Miao Xia went to investigate while Jiang Ping An kept his role secret.
• Ghost City residents blamed the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect for the cultivators’ disappearance, though the sect itself did not know who had acted.
• Several months later, people in Ghost City learned that Yang Jinyu of the Northern Wilderness Immortal Sect had obtained a Command Token for traveling to the Star Sea.

Yang Jinyu hosted a banquet to reveal how she obtained the Passage Token, and Jiang Ping An realized the token was the red ball he had found and still possessed. The gathering turned hostile when Chang Hong arrived and accused Jiang Ping An of ambushing the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode and killing everyone but him.

• Yang Jinyu invited major-faction Cultivators and famous Top Talents to a banquet to explain how she had obtained the Passage Token.
• Miao Xia attended with Jiang Ping An, and Yang Jinyu greeted them and thanked Jiang Ping An for not taking advantage of her younger brother, Yang Luan.
• Yang Jinyu showed the guests a red stone bead as the Passage Token, and Jiang Ping An recognized it as one of the balls he had caught and realized he still had three.
• Chang Hong entered the banquet alive and fixed his gaze on Jiang Ping An, prompting Miao Xia to draw her blade and shield him.
• Chang Hong accused Jiang Ping An of ambushing the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode and killing everyone except him, shocking the guests.

Chang Hong exposed Jiang Ping An’s role in wiping out the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode and revealed that Jiang Ping An could travel at night and possessed an immortal artifact, drawing suspicion and greed. After the banquet, Jiang Ping An returned to the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect with Miao Xia and asked her and Yu Bei to discuss something important.

• Chang Hong told the gathered Cultivators that Jiang Ping An had let anomalies into the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode’s lodgings and claimed he possessed an immortal artifact.
• Miao Xia offered to take the danger of Jiang Ping An’s artifact, and Jiang Ping An countered by accusing Chang Hong of having an Earth Immortal Realm immortal artifact.
• Yang Jinyu stopped them from fighting in the palace and explained that she had obtained her Passage Token from an anomaly using a treasure that concealed her at night.
• Chang Hong left the banquet, and Yang Jinyu privately suggested to Miao Xia that she and Jiang Ping An had obtained other Passage Tokens.
• Miao Xia asked Jiang Ping An why he had not told her he avenged her, and he replied that she had not asked.
• Miao Xia proudly confirmed to the Feather Emperor Immortal Sect Cultivators that Jiang Ping An had wiped out the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode, then Jiang Ping An asked her and Yu Bei to discuss something important.

Jiang Ping An revealed that he had found three Passage Tokens and gave one each to Miao Xia and Yu Bei so they could travel to Star Moon Sea. The next morning, two Immortals ambushed the group outside Ghost City, capturing Yu Bei while Jiang Ping An and Miao Xia escaped back to the gate.

• Jiang Ping An showed Miao Xia and Yu Bei two Passage Tokens, then revealed he had another and gave them one each.
• Yu Bei offered Jiang Ping An his resources and blade in exchange, but Jiang Ping An refused and asked him to repay the favor with magic treasures after becoming an Immortal.
• Jiang Ping An agreed to pursue Chang Hong, but Yu Bei said Chang Hong had left Ghost City; the three decided to confront him outside the city the next morning.
• Jiang Ping An sensed an ambush and warned Miao Xia and Yu Bei that Immortals were waiting, allowing Miao Xia to retreat while Yu Bei hesitated.
• Tan GuangShou and Qiu SiPing appeared, and Qiu SiPing captured Yu Bei as Miao Xia accused Tan GuangShou of attacking Feather Emperor Immortal Sect disciples.

Jiang Ping An tried to trade himself for Yu Bei, but Qiu SiPing killed Yu Bei and discovered that the Jiang Ping An he had captured was only a clone. Jiang Ping An revealed his dual Immortal Roots, recovered Yu Bei’s remains, and escaped with Miao Xia, vowing revenge on Qiu SiPing and the Heavenly Orchid Immortal Abode.

• Qiu SiPing demanded Jiang Ping An in exchange for Yu Bei, and Miao Xia offered herself before Jiang Ping An chose to surrender.
• Jiang Ping An left Ghost City, but Qiu SiPing demanded proof that he was the real body and seized him after sensing his origin aura.
• Qiu SiPing threw the sealed Yu Bei toward Chang Hong, who crushed him, and Jiang Ping An swore revenge.
• Qiu SiPing found no bead or Ancient God Origin in the captured Jiang Ping An and realized that another Jiang Ping An remained at Ghost City's gate.
• Qiu SiPing learned that Jiang Ping An had concealed dual Immortal Roots, while Jiang Ping An retrieved Yu Bei’s remains and escaped with Miao Xia.