Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao used the Dual Pupils’ Vertical Eye to strike the old ghost with gray light, destroying him and causing the Jade Steps to crumble. Before turning to ash, the old ghost revealed that he was guiding the Immortal Island toward the Real World to search for an immortal seed and open a path.

• The old ghost bloomed the White Flowers, making the shoes on the Jade Steps turn to ash and causing the jade to age as Jiang Qiao’s body began to wither.
• Jiang Qiao summoned a three-foot Vertical Eye through the Dual Pupils and vanished through its passage.
• The Vertical Eye’s gray light struck the old ghost, disintegrating half his body and making the Jade Steps crack and collapse.
• Jiang Qiao emerged from inside the old ghost and questioned him after realizing the Dual Pupils had connected with the supernatural world.
• The old ghost said he had seen a pupil-less eyeball in the Divine Temple and was guiding the Immortal Island to the Real World.
• The old ghost said the Immortal Island was searching for an immortal seed to open a path, then disintegrated into ash.

Jiang Qiao pondered whether he was the Immortal Seed and what the old ghost’s references to a path and the Divine Temple meant. He climbed through the clouds to a vast jade platform and approached the buildings of the Divine Temple.

• Jiang Qiao considered how his extraordinary experiences might mean an unseen force had guided him to become the Immortal Seed, and suspected Immortal Island possessed a will connected to Huang Tian’s death.
• Jiang Qiao reflected on the unknown paths to true godhood and the Other Shore, weighing questions about Moon Laurel, the Green Lotus Holy Mother, and the gods.
• Jiang Qiao used his vertical eye and Dual Pupils to see a vast palace complex hidden in the clouds above the shattered jade staircase.
• Jiang Qiao climbed the floating fragments for about half an hour and reached a jade platform above a sea of clouds, where he felt unexpectedly relaxed.
• Jiang Qiao recognized that the platform’s scenery resembled an illusion he had seen before, then headed toward the enormous buildings ahead.

Jiang Qiao explored the Divine Temple and discovered a black Wordless Stele that reflected his own image in its darkness. As he investigated, the statues of the Immortals moved and turned their gazes away from him.

• Jiang Qiao crossed the vast, silent Divine Temple complex and entered its towering main hall.
• Jiang Qiao saw hundreds of Immortal statues seated around the hall, all facing a black Wordless Stele.
• Jiang Qiao felt watched whenever he looked at the stele and noticed faint black vapor circulating around the statues.
• Jiang Qiao activated Dual Pupils at full power and saw his own outline within the stele’s darkness.
• Jiang Qiao turned around and discovered that every statue had moved and was now looking away from him.

Jiang Qiao watched the Stone Stele drain its blackness into the statues, which began releasing foul black bugs that crawled toward him. His lightning attacks destroyed the bugs temporarily, but the others absorbed the splattered liquid and grew larger.

• Jiang Qiao noticed the statues changing poses as black mist spread over them and the Stone Stele gradually faded.
• Jiang Qiao realized the statues were drawing darkness from the Stone Stele, revealing a silhouette that mirrored his own pose.
• The statues began oozing black liquid, and a shattered cup released the first soft-bodied black bug, which crawled toward Jiang Qiao.
• As more statues broke and released bugs, Jiang Qiao struck them with black lightning, but the surviving bugs absorbed the scattered liquid and grew.
• Jiang Qiao saw the statues turn pitch-black and produce more bugs while his lightning continued to feed the creatures with splattered black water.

Jiang Qiao fought the death energy erupting in the Divine Temple and realized the temple was revealing how the flawed Immortal Road had led to the Abyss. As the temple’s simulation formed a terrifying vortex, he concluded that he was a vessel for an immortal seed, then felt an immense presence connect with him.

• Jiang Qiao used lightning to repeatedly destroy the black bugs emerging from the immortal statues, while explaining how the Source World’s supernatural power led to the flawed Immortal Road and the Abyss.
• Jiang Qiao inferred that the immortal statues represented the failed Immortal Road and that the stone stele was connected to them as the stele’s darkness began to fade.
• The statues shattered, releasing powerful death energy and bugs that gathered into a black vortex, which evaporated Jiang Qiao’s sea of thunder.
• Jiang Qiao realized the vortex simulated the Abyss and revised his theory, concluding that he was a vessel for an immortal seed rather than the seed itself.
• Blue eyes across the hall converged into a gigantic vertical eye, and Jiang Qiao felt his consciousness drawn into a connection with an immense, indescribable existence.

Jiang Qiao used Dual Pupils and connected with an unknown existence, discovering a vast space containing an enormous embryo and an eye. Through Dual Pupils, he realized that the Immortal Road was both a path that expelled supernatural influence and a real place where negative concepts accumulated, eventually giving birth to the Abyss.

• Jiang Qiao recalled the [Simulator]'s warning that Dual Pupils would connect him to an Unknown Land as they grew stronger.
• Jiang Qiao drifted through a vast space filled with warm liquid and heard a powerful heartbeat that he sensed was connected to Dual Pupils.
• Jiang Qiao saw an enormous translucent embryo with a pupil-less eye pressed against its surface.
• Jiang Qiao activated Dual Pupils and saw an unfathomable path beyond the eye.
• Jiang Qiao realized that the Immortal Road gathered the negative influences and concepts expelled from the Source World, and that their accumulation had mutated into the Abyss.

Jiang Qiao learned that Dual Pupils had advanced to the Seventh Tier, though he would gain its full power only after returning to his own world. Back in the ruined Divine Temple, he erased the expanding vortex with gray light and concluded that its strange reflected world might be part of the Immortal Road, which opposed supernatural negativity but could not contain it forever.

• The Simulator announced that Jiang Qiao’s Dual Pupils had advanced to the Sixth Tier and gained the potential for the Seventh Tier, which he could fully attain after returning to his own world.
• Jiang Qiao realized the advancement could make him a half-god when he returned to the supernatural world.
• Jiang Qiao came back to the ruined Divine Temple as the Strange World faded, leaving a vast Black vortex in the hall.
• Jiang Qiao used gray light from his Dual Pupils to erase the vortex and saw that it had been drawn into a strange, empty world.
• Jiang Qiao theorized that the reflected world was part of the Immortal Road, neutralizing supernatural negativity until entropy caused it to fail.

Jiang Qiao realized Immortal Island was a decaying fragment of the Source World concealed beneath a fading layer of energy, then entered the cave Huang Tian had feared and lit incense before an unmarked spirit tablet. As the smoke rose, he sensed that something had been added to his Dual Pupils.

• Jiang Qiao concluded the Three Lives Stone had sent him into the past to uncover secrets lost in the later era, though he still did not know who was behind it or where the Simulator came from.
• Jiang Qiao left the Divine Temple and used his upgraded Dual Pupils to see that Immortal Island's palaces were rotten and its vitality and Immortal Aura were only a fading layer of energy.
• Jiang Qiao went to the cave where Huang Tian had died after recalling his experience, suspecting Immortal Island itself might be equivalent to a Deity.
• Jiang Qiao found an unmarked spirit tablet on a small altar, lit incense, bowed, and placed it in the burner.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that something had been added to his Dual Pupils as the incense smoke rose.

Jiang Qiao used his sixth-tier Dual Pupils and the incense-triggered anomaly to view Immortal Island from above, discovering its hidden exit and realizing the island had trapped Huang Tian. By focusing on the spirit tablet, he gained a measure of authority over Immortal Island and became more confident about exploring the Mysterious World beneath Rakshasa Lake.

• Jiang Qiao saw Immortal Island as a closed, distorted sphere and found a hidden corner by the sea that served as its exit.
• Jiang Qiao realized that the island’s strange geometry had kept Huang Tian from leaving, and that only someone with his abilities could reveal the gateway.
• Jiang Qiao surveyed the Cloudtop Divine Temple and the cave, seeing the ruins he had left and observing himself from above.
• Jiang Qiao focused on the spirit tablet and saw a writhing white space that made him feel he could control Immortal Island.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that the Barren World reflected in his Dual Pupils could connect to the white space and let him draw on Immortal Island’s power.
• Jiang Qiao thought of the Mysterious World beneath Rakshasa Lake and gained confidence that he could explore it and escape if necessary.

As supernatural disasters emptied cities and erased Ninggu City’s population, Southern Supernatural Circle leaders gathered in Yangzhou to discuss the worsening crisis. Zhao Tianci sought an introduction to Mr. Jiang, but Dragon Tiger Daoist refused and Zhao challenged him to a contest.

• News spread that Ninggu City had no survivors or corpses, while more cities faced supernatural blockades and people fled urban areas.
• Shen Boxia and Dragon Tiger Daoist attended a meeting of Southern Supernatural Circle leaders at a Heaven-Bearing Society manor in Yangzhou.
• Zhao Tianci praised Shen Boxia and asked Dragon Tiger Daoist about Mr. Jiang’s strength and background.
• Dragon Tiger Daoist refused to introduce Zhao Tianci to Mr. Jiang and said even the Zhao family’s Sage-level ancestor might not secure a meeting.
• Zhao Tianci angrily challenged Dragon Tiger Daoist to test their skills, silencing the gathered leaders.

At the gathering, Zhao Tianci demanded that the Dragon Tiger Daoist apologize for insulting the Zhao family and its ancestor, but Qiu refused and challenged him. When Zhao Tianci attacked, Qiu struck him down with lightning, leaving Elder Wang to wonder whether Qiu had advanced.

• Shen Boxia explained to Elder Wang that neither he nor the Dragon Tiger Daoist knew where Mr. Jiang was or could introduce anyone without his permission.
• Zhao Tianci insisted that the Dragon Tiger Daoist had insulted the Zhao family by saying its ancestor might not be qualified to meet Jiang Qiao.
• Elder Wang tried to settle the dispute, but the Dragon Tiger Daoist refused to apologize and repeated that the Zhao family was not necessarily entitled to meet Mr. Jiang.
• The Dragon Tiger Daoist told Zhao Tianci that he was no match for him and challenged him to send Zhao Tianming instead.
• Zhao Tianci attacked, and the Dragon Tiger Daoist blasted him into the garden wall with lightning.
• Elder Wang asked the Dragon Tiger Daoist whether he had advanced.

Qiu Heyan revealed that he had become a Great Sir at twenty-three, drawing praise from the southern Supernatural Circle. Zhao Tianci refused to accept the earlier humiliation and unleashed his puppet ability, leaving everyone to watch whether Qiu Heyan could withstand him.

• Qiu Heyan said he had recently crossed into the Great Sir realm, astonishing the gathered leaders with his age.
• Elder Wang and the others congratulated Qiu Heyan, while Qiu Heyan privately compared himself with Jiang Qiao and considered Jiang the true monster.
• Shen Boxia dismissed comparisons between himself and Qiu Heyan as the gathered figures praised both young talents.
• Zhao Tianci rose from the courtyard, threatened Qiu Heyan, and rejected the group's attempts to mediate.
• Qiu Heyan told Zhao Tianci that he had brought the humiliation on himself and challenged him to try killing him.
• Zhao Tianci tore open his chest to reveal his ghostly wooden puppet, and the onlookers debated whether Qiu Heyan could withstand its ability.

The Dragon Tiger Daoist fought Zhao Tianci, breaking free of his Puppet Curse and discovering that Zhao Tianci’s consciousness was partly inside the vicious ghost. He struck Zhao Tianci with lightning as others rushed to intervene, and Zhao Tianci’s plea for help was cut off.

• Zhao Tianci used the Puppet Curse to immobilize the Dragon Tiger Daoist and ordered his Puppet Person to attack.
• The Dragon Tiger Daoist drove electricity into the Puppet Person, broke the curse, and battered the puppet with lightning.
• Zhao Tianci used the puppet’s gaze to daze the Dragon Tiger Daoist, but the Daoist rushed past it and attacked him directly.
• The Dragon Tiger Daoist realized part of Zhao Tianci’s consciousness was inside the vicious ghost and prepared to kill him.
• Someone called for Zhao Tianci to be spared as others shouted for the Dragon Tiger Daoist to stop, but lightning swallowed Zhao Tianci before he could finish calling for help.