Chapter Summaries

The Kunlun Immortal Venerable subdued Leng Xing with an unseen force, then released Mu Yunji and left to investigate trouble at Chiyang. After witnessing his abilities, Xi Ye decided to travel to D-Earth and verify what he suspected.

• The Kunlun Immortal Venerable stopped Leng Xing's punch with one finger and forced him to kneel under an immense weight until he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Xi Ye and the observers at the base debated how the Immortal Venerable had pinned Leng Xing down without damaging the ground.
• The Immortal Venerable identified himself as Xue Qingchen, heard Mu Yunji's explanation, and allowed her to take Wang Chengbo away.
• The Immortal Venerable ordered the First Elder to disable and guard the demon, then departed for Chiyang to investigate another incident.
• After watching the Immortal Venerable move with Ground Shrinking to an Inch, Xi Ye told Zanda that he shared his suspicion and ordered the system to open a teleportation channel.

Old Man Li entered the battle between Kunlun and Little Fairy after learning that Kunlun had branded the government’s partner a demon. He halted the fight long enough to negotiate, but Elder Gong challenged whether the government would side with demons and evil.

• Old Man Li learned that civilians, including Director Zhang and Wang Lin, were inside the battle zone, while the Armed Police could not safely intervene.
• Situ Ming warned Old Man Li that the fighter opposing Kunlun was a demon, but Old Man Li entered the battle zone anyway.
• Wang Lin called out to Little Fairy, and she stopped attacking long enough for the three battered Kunlun elders to retreat.
• Old Man Li greeted Elder Gong and proposed ending the fight for the day.
• Elder Gong noticed his senior brother was near exhaustion and asked whether the government had decided to side with a sect of demons and evil.

After Mu Yunji’s group dealt with the Kunlun incident, Wang Xiaojia returned in a stunning new appearance and reunited with Wang Chengbo. Her masked Sect Master vanished to confirm something, leaving Mu Yunji convinced that he was also a Great Firmament Immortal Venerable.

• Huang Huafeng called an ambulance for the injured Wang Chengbo, and Mu Yunji told him the conflict with Kunlun had been a misunderstanding.
• Li Xiaoqian asked Mu Yunji about the Cauldron, but Wang Chengbo urged Mu Yunji to answer and admitted that Li would pursue her chosen path regardless.
• Wang Xiaojia appeared in an elven feather robe, and Mu Yunji recognized her as the expert who had fought the Yunshan group alone.
• Wang Xiaojia scolded Wang Chengbo for bothering with Li Xiaoqian and explained that Leng Xing had protected him because she was on Wang Xiaojia’s side.
• After Wang Chengbo said Kunlun had captured him, Wang Xiaojia called for her Sect Master, Xi Ye, who vanished using Ground Shrinking to an Inch.
• Mu Yunji recognized Xi Ye’s technique and concluded that he was another Great Firmament Immortal Venerable.

Xi Ye investigated how Leng Xing’s punch had been redirected and discovered that Kunlun Mountain was linked to mountain ranges across Central China, revealing the secret behind the Great Luo Golden Immortal’s power. As Wang Gou Dan warned that her father was in danger, Xi Ye set out to meet the Immortal Venerable of Kunlun.

• Wang Gou Dan learned that the Immortal Venerable of Kunlun was heading toward her father and rushed to find Xi Ye.
• Xi Ye found Leng Xing’s fist mark on a cliff far from where the punch had landed, and Zanda identified the phenomenon as the power of laws associated with the Celestial God Clan.
• Xi Ye considered whether the Immortal Venerable had mastered only part of this power and examined records about Kunlun Mountain.
• Xi Ye used his celestial god perception to trace a network of links connecting Kunlun to mountain ranges throughout Central China.
• Xi Ye said he had discovered the secret of the Great Luo Golden Immortal’s power and agreed to go meet the Immortal Venerable of Kunlun.

Kunlun’s Immortal Venerable Xue Qingchen arrived and demanded that the government surrender Little Fairy and let Kunlun destroy Luofu. Before he could take her away, Xi Ye appeared, rescued her and several others with beams of white light, and introduced himself as Luofu Sect Leader Qing Yunzi.

• Old Man Li tried to defuse the confrontation by promising a government investigation, but Xue Qingchen arrived and rejected his appeal.
• Xue Qingchen declared that Kunlun would take Little Fairy and destroy Luofu, then forced Little Fairy to her knees with a light tap.
• Xue Qingchen threatened the government, and Old Man Li realized the government could only aid Luofu if it could withstand Kunlun.
• White beams struck Xue Qingchen and severed one of his fingers, then transported Little Fairy, Wang Lin, Director Zhang, and Yang Renjie away.
• Xi Ye appeared in their place, greeted Xue Qingchen as Poor Daoist Qing Yunzi, and identified himself as Luofu Sect Leader.

Xi Ye, posing as Luofu Sect Leader Qing Yunzi, faced Xue Qingchen, who tested his strange movement technique and then unleashed a forbidden earth-based attack. Xue Qingchen caught Xi Ye under crushing gravity and the weight of ten thousand mountains, leaving Xi Ye's fate uncertain.

• Xue Qingchen tried to remove Xi Ye's mask, but Xi Ye evaded him with an unfamiliar teleportation-like movement.
• Xue Qingchen raised earthen spikes across the residential complex, while Xi Ye floated high above the ground.
• Xue Qingchen ordered the others to retreat, then used the forbidden technique Earth Dragon's Roar to manipulate the earth and gravity.
• The ground sank and birds fell from the sky as Xi Ye was dragged down and slammed onto the ground.
• Xue Qingchen placed a hand on Xi Ye's shoulder and brought the power of ten thousand mountains crashing down on him.

Xi Ye used power drawn from Mars to overcome Xue Qingchen, then invited Kunlun to discuss cooperation over the Luofu Sect’s secret realm. Xue Qingchen accepted the invitation, and the two groups prepared to visit the Luofu Sect.

• Xi Ye touched Xue Qingchen and used the power of Mars to shake mountains across China, forcing Xue Qingchen to stop when cracks appeared on his body.
• Xi Ye warned Xue Qingchen that continuing their battle could endanger the world, and Xue Qingchen withdrew from the residential compound.
• Old Man Li realized Xue Qingchen had suffered a loss and wondered whether the authorities could control Xi Ye.
• Xi Ye invited Xue Qingchen, the Kunlun elders, and Old Man Li’s group to the Luofu Sect to discuss Kunlun’s interest in its secret realm.
• Xue Qingchen dismissed the elders’ concerns and accepted Xi Ye’s invitation.

Wang Xiaojia rescued Leng Xing and reunited with Situ Xue as Wei Lin arrived to invite the Kunlun elders to the Luofu Sect. After Wei Lin demonstrated her overwhelming control of the First Elder’s Turning Heaven Seal, the Kunlun group accepted the invitation and entered the sect, where its grand surroundings astonished them.

• Wang Xiaojia dodged the female elder’s sword stance and snatched Leng Xing away, then recognized Situ Xue and demanded payment for her broken door.
• Wei Lin introduced herself as Qin Xuanji, Sect Master of the Mystic Division under the Luofu Sect, and invited the Kunlun elders to visit.
• When the First Elder threatened Wei Lin with the Turning Heaven Seal, Wei Lin took control of it and returned it to him to show she meant no harm.
• Wei Lin said Xue Qingchen had already gone to the Luofu Sect as a guest, then opened a radiant gate for the Kunlun group.
• Gou Dan asked Wei Lin how she had taken control of the seal, while the Kunlun visitors marveled at the Luofu Sect’s immense trees, marble paths, and buildings.

Xi Ye proposed that Luofu share its secret realm through Kunlun’s Martial Arts Competition, and Xue Qingchen agreed to the arrangement. The pact left Kunlun as the competition venue, though Xue Qingchen remained wary of Luofu’s motives.

• Old Li, Old Man Tian, and the Kunlun elders marveled at Luofu’s floating palace and lavish furnishings as Xi Ye welcomed them into Azure Cloud Hall.
• Xue Qingchen and the others tasted Xi Ye’s tea and admired the Elf Wood chairs, prompting Xi Ye to offer them tea and wood to take home.
• Xi Ye proposed opening Luofu’s secret realm to the Ten Great Sects through the Kunlun Martial Arts Competition, using Kunlun’s roster and rules.
• Xi Ye said Luofu would enter young disciples with verifiable ages and backgrounds, easing the Kunlun elders’ concerns about unfair competitors.
• Xue Qingchen agreed to the pact on the condition that the competition be held in Kunlun, and Xi Ye accepted.

Dog Daddy toured Xi Ye’s base with Little Fairy and reunited with his daughter, Wang Gou Dan, before confronting Xi Ye about the agreement and the base’s intentions. Xi Ye admitted he was still weak but warned that a powerful lord discovering D-Earth could impose far harsher rule.

• Little Fairy showed Dog Daddy the base, where he learned that players’ original bodies were preserved and their consciousness could be transferred into modified bodies.
• Wang Gou Dan ran to Dog Daddy and reunited with him, while Yang Renjie and Director Zhang discussed whether they would undergo surgery.
• Dog Daddy read the agreement and learned from Gou Dan that players had signed it while believing Star Sea was only a game.
• Xi Ye led Dog Daddy, Gou Dan, Yang Renjie, and Director Zhang to his room, where Director Zhang challenged the agreement’s legality.
• Dog Daddy questioned why Xi Ye would deceive D-Earthlings if he had superior strength, and Xi Ye admitted that he personally was still developing.
• Xi Ye warned that powerful lords might enslave D-Earthlings and said early citizens received better treatment than those recruited later.

Little Fairy showed Dog Daddy, Director Zhang, and the others the underground base, where captured New Realm people worked as slaves and players had grown accustomed to treating them as property. Dog Daddy reunited with Wang Chengbo and learned that Mu Yunji and Leng Xing had helped him, but his warm welcome for Mu Yunji turned cold when Wang Chengbo introduced Leng Xing.

• Little Fairy explained that most captured New Realm workers had been assigned to players, while engineering soldiers and unassigned Empire Generals remained in the underground base.
• Gou Dan offered to trade Earth Peasants for some engineering soldiers, prompting Dog Daddy and Director Zhang to worry that players no longer regarded the captured people as human beings.
• Little Fairy showed off the engineering soldiers, and Dog Daddy teased Gou Dan about her farms before she promised to build him a manor.
• Wang Chengbo arrived and embraced Dog Daddy, who felt relieved to see his son and daughter reunited.
• Mu Yunji greeted Dog Daddy, and he warmly thanked her for looking after Wang Chengbo.
• Wang Chengbo introduced Leng Xing as Xiao Jia's friend who had helped them, and Dog Daddy answered him with stiff, cold courtesy.

Old Wang persuaded Director Zhang that joining the lord’s world was more practical than resisting, while Zhang asked for help getting a divorce so he could live longer. Before dawn, Mu Yunji decided to join Xi Ye’s domain, convinced that doing so would not betray her sect.

• Old Wang, Wang Chengbo, Yang Renjie, and Director Zhang discussed Leng Xing and whether to sign the lord’s contract and undergo surgery.
• Old Wang argued that Earth could not resist the Cosmic Federation and that most people would choose the chance to gain power, longer lives, and access to the stars.
• Director Zhang rejected the idea of defecting, but after Old Wang mentioned living for centuries, he asked Old Wang to help him get a divorce.
• Before dawn, Mu Yunji told Xi Ye she wanted to join his domain after learning how quickly Wang Xiaojia and the others had grown stronger.
• Mu Yunji told Xi Ye that joining his domain would not count as betraying her sect because she had studied his rules.

Mu Yunji argued that joining Xi Ye would offer D-Earthlings new opportunities, then asked whether his forces could support cultivators like her. After Xi Ye explained the risks of the Dao cultivation path, Mu Yunji refused to abandon it and examined two recommended racial genes, finding them sharply opposed.

• Mu Yunji argued that Xi Ye's plan would benefit ordinary D-Earthlings and sects, while threatening the political forces that held power.
• Mu Yunji asked Xi Ye whether the Cosmic Federation had a training method suited to cultivators who stored energy through their meridians.
• Xi Ye explained that several races shared this path, but warned that its high-level advancement depended on aptitude, comprehension, and the cultivator's state of mind.
• Mu Yunji refused to abandon the Dao she had cultivated for more than thirty years, and Xi Ye offered her four racial genes to consider.
• Xi Ye recommended the Darkborn Race and the Star Spirit Race, and Mu Yunji found the two options sharply polarized and opposite.

Xi Ye explained the origins and abilities of the Star Spirits and Darkborn as Mu Yunji weighed which race to choose. After learning that Darkborn could forge newborn Gaia into Divine Artifacts without necessarily harming living worlds, Mu Yunji remained captivated by the race and faced her choice with a clearer understanding.

• Xi Ye described how Star Spirits ascended to planets they worshiped and shaped them into Functional Stars, while Darkborn forged Gaia-bearing planets into powerful artifacts.
• Mu Yunji compared the two races to immortals and demons and struggled with her attraction to the Darkborn and their reputation for destroying inhabited worlds.
• Xi Ye explained that Star Spirits and Darkborn sensed planets nearing the birth of Gaia Consciousness, and that their faith or talents guided those planets’ development.
• Xi Ye said Darkborn could patiently watch over newborn Gaia and forge it into an artifact, though some chose to plunder mature planets instead.
• Xi Ye told Mu Yunji that becoming an immortal or demon depended on her choices, leaving her to consider the Darkborn without assuming their nature made her a butcher.

Xi Ye let Mu Yunji choose the Darkspawn Gene while privately acknowledging the risks, then negotiated a revised work contract with Dog Daddy and the others. After they chose their gene surgeries and left, the system reminded Xi Ye that he had promised Kunlun access to a shared Secret Realm.

• Xi Ye watched Mu Yunji accept the Darkspawn Gene and reflected that many Darkspawn took shortcuts because guarding a planet for millions of years was difficult.
• Dog Daddy demanded wages beyond mission points, and Xi Ye replaced the one-sided contract with terms requiring twenty years of unpaid work before salaries were set by Federation standards.
• Dog Daddy and the others signed the revised contracts, then discussed whether the twenty-year repayment period and surgery costs still amounted to a bad deal.
• Dog Daddy chose the Green Titan surgery, prompting him to advise Wang Chengbo that practical benefits mattered more than appearance.
• The system reminded Xi Ye that he had promised to share the Secret Realm with Kunlun and asked what to do if Kunlun came looking for him to enter his faction's realm.

Xi Ye decided to use the Netherworld as a secret realm for the upcoming martial arts tournament while the system left the base to investigate the New World. At the Knight Academy entrance test, the system detected an undead woman watching Pu Yunchuan.

• Xi Ye proposed using the Netherworld as a dungeon and joked with other players while queueing for a ranked match as Talon.
• The system transferred its consciousness to the New World, leaving the base temporarily without its control.
• The system found Molendo orderly under Yu Nv Wu Gua's remote administration and admired her talent.
• The system traveled to the imperial capital on the day of the Knight Academy entrance test, where nobles watched candidates and sought investment prospects.
• The system detected undead energy and spotted a black-cloaked woman watching Pu Yunchuan in the testing arena.

Ling observed retired generals Isabelle Visi and Paul as they discussed promising candidates at an academy assessment, where nobles evaluated potential recruits. After reviewing Shi Senming’s record, Isabelle concluded that his long service to one master followed by a late defection made him a shameless villain.

• Ling identified Isabelle Visi and Paul as retired generals and learned that Isabelle was a Golden Knight and Red Dragon City’s City Lord.
• Paul discussed the arena-born prospects he hoped to recruit, and the nobles turned their attention to the candidates’ assessment.
• Shi Senming introduced himself and began the physical fitness test, drawing Paul’s praise for his carefully trained physique.
• Paul’s attendant found Shi Senming’s file, which identified him as Jenny Odoran’s prospective guardian knight and noted that he had abandoned his former master, Sunny.
• Isabelle explained that Shi Senming had served Sunny for seven years before defecting and called him a shameless villain.

Shi Senming scored well in the first physical test, but no noble offered to buy him, leaving him humiliated. Xim stepped onto the platform for his test while Dog Bro worried that his absent companion still had not come online.

• Isabelle explained to Sam that Shi Senming's former mistress had invested heavily in training him, making his departure before the assessment troubling.
• Shi Senming scored 71 in strength, 85 in endurance, and 93 in explosiveness, for an overall score of 83.
• Jenny taunted Sunny over Shi Senming's results, while Goffin told Jenny to stop going too far.
• No noble bid for Shi Senming, so the instructor sent him off the platform; Odoran's other illegitimate children jeered at him.
• Sunny defended Xim when Jenny mocked him, and Xim stepped onto the platform as Dog Bro worried about his missing companion.
• Dog Bro began his test by removing his leather armor and revealing a body of ribs, drawing jeers from the arena.

Dog Bro, claiming to be Xim Odoran and Sunny’s future guardian knight, stunned the recruitment field by excelling in the strength tests despite his skeletal appearance. After an instructor ordered him taken for another urine test, Marquis Arthur offered five hundred Crimson Gold for him, and someone immediately raised the bid to one thousand.

• Dog Bro introduced himself as Xim Odoran and declared that he would become Sunny’s guardian knight, making the crowd laugh.
• Dog Bro lifted six hundred pounds with ease and completed twenty-seven repetitions, earning strength and endurance scores above ninety.
• Dog Bro struck the strength tester with flawless form and registered a force of one thousand five hundred pounds.
• The instructor ordered Dog Bro taken away for another urine test, while Dog Bro protested.
• Marquis Arthur offered five hundred Crimson Gold for Dog Bro, and a woman behind Sam raised the offer to one thousand.

Isabelle bid one thousand Crimson Gold for Xim, but Sunny refused to sell her only guardian knight, leaving Xim pleased and his prospects unchanged. After Xim left the testing venue to teleport away and contact Pu Yunchuan, Shi Senming followed him and encountered a mysterious figure with icy blue eyes.

• Isabelle bid one thousand Crimson Gold for Xim, but Sunny refused to sell him because he was her only guardian knight.
• Sunny promised Isabelle that she would not sell Xim, and Xim proudly returned to the venue while the other illegitimate sons mocked him.
• Shi Senming grew jealous of Xim and believed that Xim needed to escape his guardian-knight status to stand alongside Sunny.
• When staff called for John Collins, Xim asked them to wait for his friend Pu Yunchuan, then left to teleport away and urge him to arrive.
• Shi Senming followed Xim to investigate suspected cheating, but after Xim vanished in a flash of white light, a cold-voiced figure with ice-blue eyes appeared behind him.