Chapter Summaries

The Dragon-Masked Cultivator used the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original to resist the Vast Origin Realm Will and open a passage to the Buzhou Mountain Shadow, while projecting the battle into the Vast Origin Realm to spread panic. As the Sage Ancestor's Avatar struggled to hold him back, he unleashed the three thousand books and paintings he had gathered, filling the Cavern Space with Divine Script and launching a vast attack.

• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator used the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original to keep the Wandering Dragon from being suppressed and reopened his Spatial Passage to the Buzhou Mountain Shadow.
• The Vast Origin Realm Will tried to close the passage, but the Dragon-Masked Cultivator's Dragon Scales repelled and wounded the Sage Ancestor's Avatar when he attacked.
• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator projected the battle into the Vast Origin Realm, alarming its cultivators, while Sword Ancestor and Ning Qi's followers recognized Ning Qi in the image.
• The Vast Origin Realm Will told Ning Qi and the Sage Ancestor's Avatar that the battle had been shown to everyone in the realm, and the Sage Ancestor urged Ning Qi to use his remaining methods.
• The Sage Ancestor opened a Gate to his collection and summoned three thousand books and paintings, which filled the Cavern Space with Divine Script and projected scenes of the world.
• The Sage Ancestor gathered the power of the books, paintings, and Divine Script and launched it against the Dragon-Masked Cultivator.

The Dragon-Masked Cultivator defeated the Sage Ancestor's attack, sealed the Vast Origin Realm Will, and began draining the realm, leaving its people in despair. As he turned on Ning Qi, Ning Qi caught the Dragon-Masked Cultivator's wooden spike between two fingers after it reverted to a withered leaf.

• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator used the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram to absorb the Sage Ancestor's divine scripts and Scrolls.
• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator pinned the Vast Origin Realm Will with Jianmu Leaves, causing the realm's balance to fail and disasters to erupt.
• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator stomped down Sage Ancestor's Avatar, who spat a black gleam into the void and warned that the Mountain and Sea Realm had vanished.
• The Dragon-Masked Cultivator bound Sage Ancestor's Avatar with a wooden spike, then approached Ning Qi and declared he would take Ning Qi's talent.
• Ning Qi challenged the Dragon-Masked Cultivator's ideas of good and evil, and caught his incoming wooden spike after it turned back into a withered leaf.

Ning Qi neutralized the Dragon-Masked Cultivator’s attacks, rescued the Vast Origin Realm Will and Sage Ancestor's Avatar, and revealed a profound Yin-Yang Dao. He then sealed the passage to Buzhou Mountain and exposed that another cultivator had arrived, leaving the Dragon-Masked Cultivator’s identity about to be revealed.

• Ning Qi turned the Dragon-Masked Cultivator’s Wooden Spikes into leaves and absorbed later volleys without harm.
• Ning Qi transformed into Yin-Yang Two Energies, evaded the Dragon-Masked Cultivator, and freed the Vast Origin Realm Will and Sage Ancestor's Avatar.
• Ning Qi dissolved the World Devouring Wandering Dragon’s Annihilation Breath, while Sage Ancestor's Avatar recognized that Ning Qi’s Dao surpassed the Three Ancestors’ paths.
• Ning Qi identified the Dragon-Masked Cultivator as Mountain Ancestor, but Mountain Ancestor suspected that Ning Qi was someone else in disguise.
• Ning Qi sent the Vast Origin Realm Will and Sage Ancestor's Avatar away, sealed the passage to Buzhou Mountain, and revealed a second cultivator had arrived.
• Ning Qi tore the Dragon Mask from the Dragon-Masked Cultivator and challenged him for hiding his identity.

Ning Qi revealed that his earlier self was an avatar, then took control of Mountain Ancestor’s World Devouring Wandering Dragon by reclaiming the Seedling of Jianmu. After Mountain Ancestor turned the branch into a sword and threatened the realm, Ning Qi escaped with Sage Ancestor’s avatar and Zhi Li, who decided the Vast Origin Realm might need to merge into Ning Qi’s True Martial Spirit World.

• Ning Qi tore off the Dragon-Masked Cultivator’s mask, revealing a scarred face identical to Mountain Ancestor’s, and Sea Ancestor recognized it as Mountain Ancestor’s former appearance.
• Ning Qi confirmed that his earlier self had been an avatar and secretly revealed his true identity to Sage Ancestor’s avatar and the Vast Origin Realm Will.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked Ning Qi, but Ning Qi seized control of the World Devouring Wandering Dragon and reclaimed the Seedling of Jianmu’s leaves.
• Mountain Ancestor retook a Jianmu branch, turned it into a Divine Sword, and slashed through the Cavern Space, forcing Ning Qi to flee with Sage Ancestor’s avatar and the Vast Origin Realm Will.
• Sage Ancestor’s avatar and Zhi Li decided the Vast Origin Realm might not survive and considered merging it into the True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi summoned the former Mountain and Sea Realm Will’s avatar, which addressed him as World Lord and confirmed that the Mountain and Sea Realm had merged into his world.

Ning Qi brought the Sage Ancestor's Avatar and Zhi Li into the True Martial Spirit World, where they agreed to merge the Vast Origin Realm into it and help prepare its inhabitants for the migration. As Ning Qi fought Mountain Ancestor in the Cavern Space, the faith of the living beings gathered around him, and Mountain Ancestor's hidden connection to the figure within the Buzhou Mountain Shadow emerged.

• Ning Qi showed the Sage Ancestor's Avatar and Zhi Li the True Martial Spirit World and promised they could continue managing their forces after the Vast Origin Realm merged into it.
• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar and Zhi Li agreed to join the True Martial Spirit World, then informed the Vast Origin Realm's inhabitants about the coming migration.
• Qin Minghao reassured the Mountain and Sea Realm Cultivators that they could trust and continue following Ning Qi, while Dragon Mountain Daoist and Zhao Yujun's followers prepared to return with them.
• Ning Qi blocked Mountain Ancestor's black divine sword with a branch from the Enlightenment World Tree, and the two fought as Mountain Ancestor shattered his half of the Cavern Space.
• The living beings' belief flowed toward Ning Qi as he grew stronger during the fight, and the figure within the Buzhou Mountain Shadow rebuked Mountain Ancestor for struggling against him.

Ning Qi used the Sword Sheathing Art to take Mountain Ancestor’s Black Divine Sword and sealed them together inside the repaired Cavern Space. Mountain Ancestor then invoked Sage Ancestor’s Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original, and the two resumed their battle with the Time Rule.

• Mountain Ancestor realized the Vast Origin Realm’s Spirit Domains and energy were disappearing, and accused Ning Qi of using their fight to stall him.
• Mountain Ancestor used the Black Divine Sword to devour space and attack Ning Qi, but Ning Qi condensed a sword sheath and drew the sword and its roots inside it.
• Ning Qi struck Mountain Ancestor away and used the Enlightenment World Tree to repair the space, sealing Mountain Ancestor inside with him.
• Mountain Ancestor summoned Sage Ancestor’s Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original and absorbed its Immortal Dao Power.
• Ning Qi revealed that Sage Ancestor had passed his teachings to him and fought Mountain Ancestor with the Time Rule.
• Mountain Ancestor projected another Void Shadow from the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram Original into his body.

Mountain Ancestor used the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram to wield the Starry Sky Ancient Sage’s power against Ning Qi, but Ning Qi comprehended the inheritance during their battle and received it when the sage chose him. Mountain Ancestor retreated into Buzhou Mountain and threatened Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, leaving Ning Qi to pursue him into the mountain’s shadow.

• Mountain Ancestor summoned the Starry Sky Ancient Sage’s power from the Ancient Dao Sacred Diagram and attacked Ning Qi with stars and a Black Hole.
• Ning Qi entered an Enlightenment State while dodging, absorbed Mountain Ancestor’s star attacks, and drew the Ancient Sage’s inheritance to himself.
• The Starry Sky Ancient Sage separated from Mountain Ancestor, entered Ning Qi, and passed on his cultivation methods along with a warning about Boundary Sea Star City and a Curse.
• Mountain Ancestor put away the diagram, challenged Ning Qi to enter Buzhou Mountain to retrieve it and save Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, then vanished into the mountain.
• Mountain Ancestor appeared inside Buzhou Mountain Interior and charged toward Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor as the Buzhou Mountain Shadow expanded.
• Ning Qi vanished from the Boundary Sea and pursued Mountain Ancestor into Buzhou Mountain.

Ning Qi emerged in the Boundary Sea after Vast Origin Realm vanished and saw Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor fighting to survive inside Buzhou Mountain Shadow. He returned to True Martial Spirit World, where he oversaw its smooth merger with Mountain and Sea Realm and Vast Origin Realm, leaving their inhabitants to settle into the newly transformed world.

• Sea Ancestor rejoiced that Ning Qi had defeated Mountain Ancestor in Vast Origin Realm, while Mountain Ancestor used Buzhou Gate of Heaven to unleash an army against Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain.
• Ning Qi appeared in the Boundary Sea as the last remnant of Vast Origin Realm disappeared, then returned to True Martial Spirit World and merged his three bodies.
• Ning Qi showed Sage Ancestor's avatar and both Realm Wills how the three realms had combined into a single, vastly expanded True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi reorganized the merged world's mountains, seas, sects, cultivation grounds, and tribulation trials to support cultivators at different stages.
• Ning Qi kept Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor in charge of their realms' cultivators as they integrated, and the newcomers embraced True Martial Spirit World as their home.

After the Three Realms fused, Ning Qi’s strength rose with the True Martial Spirit World, and he merged with the world to experience the thoughts of all its living beings and glimpse distant places in the Boundary Sea. He returned to his body, appointed Zhi Li as the Spirit of Education, and wondered whether the visions he had seen were real.

• Ning Qi’s fusion of the Three Realms triggered a surge in his cultivation and expanded the True Martial Spirit World, while its inhabitants welcomed the improved world and met cultivators from the other realms.
• Ning Qi dissolved into particles of light and merged with the True Martial Spirit World, bearing the emotions of its living beings without being overwhelmed.
• The Sage Ancestor's Avatar and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will explained how Ning Qi had earned the willing reverence needed to become a World Will and how difficult it was to bear an entire world's thoughts.
• Ning Qi sensed Buzhou Mountain Shadow and glimpsed distant regions of the Boundary Sea, but a voice from an Immortal City struck him out of his heightened state.
• Ning Qi returned to the Inner World and told the Sage Ancestor's Avatar that he had seen the Sage Ancestor’s true body being beaten by the Mountain Ancestor.
• Ning Qi appointed Zhi Li the Spirit of Education of the True Martial World, and Zhi Li accepted the position.

Ning Qi freed Shan Hai and Zhi Li from their former spirit-realm duties, gave them a way to form physical avatars, and assigned them and Sage Ancestor’s Avatar roles in the True Martial Spirit World. At the True Martial Immortal Sect, the reunited followers from three realms waited to see Ning Qi, who finally descended before them.

• Ning Qi enfeoffed the Vast Origin Realm Will as the Spirit of Education and the Mountain and Sea Realm Will as the Mountain and Sea Spirit, then gave them insight that would let them form physical avatars.
• Ning Qi asked Sage Ancestor’s Avatar, Shan Hai, and Zhi Li to help settle the migrated beings, while Sage Ancestor’s Avatar warned that the True Martial Spirit World might need to flee Mountain Ancestor.
• The True Martial Immortal Sect filled with returning cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Vast Origin Realm, and the Profound Truth Domain, including infants reincarnated only months earlier.
• The returning followers learned more about Ning Qi’s hidden identity and connections, while Lu Ziyue, Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and others reflected on their ties to him.
• Ning Qi descended from the sky, and the gathered cultivators stood to greet him.

Ning Qi reunited the Three Realms under the True Martial Immortal Sect, but their people insisted on joining his fight against Mountain Ancestor. Their shared devotion generated Belief Power that enveloped Ning Qi and the Enlightenment World Tree, which appeared to awaken and urge him to gather more of that power.

• Ning Qi welcomed the Mountain and Sea Realm cultivators into the True Martial Immortal Sect and urged everyone to put aside divisions between realms.
• Sword Ancestor, the Sage Ancestor's Avatar, the Shan Hai and Zhi Li Two Spirits, Zhao Yujun, and Jiang Yingchu offered to join Ning Qi's final battle, though he worried they would die facing Mountain Ancestor.
• The united people of the True Martial Spirit World directed their Belief Power toward Ning Qi, surrounding him with gentle golden light.
• The Enlightenment World Tree emerged across the True Martial Spirit World, and its shadow was gilded by Ning Qi's golden light as all beings felt their minds grow clearer.
• Ning Qi touched a branch of the tree and received a message urging him to gather more of the power, realizing that the Enlightenment World Tree seemed to have developed intelligence.

Ning Qi discovered that the Enlightenment World Tree had gathered the living beings’ Belief Power into a Golden Water Drop while promising them a chance to join the final battle. In the Boundary Sea, he found Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor trapped inside Buzhou Mountain and began approaching its shadow to reach them.

• Ning Qi examined the Enlightenment World Tree and found a Golden Water Drop forming from Belief Power at its heart.
• Ning Qi told the gathered living beings to cultivate and said he would let them join the battle when the time was right.
• Mountain Ancestor searched the Boundary Sea for Ning Qi while his summoned creatures besieged Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain.
• Sage Ancestor told Sea Ancestor that Ning Qi’s True Martial Spirit World was replenishing his strength through his avatar, and they planned to use a joint Supernatural Power.
• Ning Qi appeared in the World Sea and turned into gray World Sea Power to approach Buzhou Mountain’s shadow, where he sensed the mountain wall blocking the energy.

Ning Qi infiltrated the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and discovered Mountain Ancestor had turned the sacrificed followers into an endless army to attack Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor. As the two ancestors fought Mountain Ancestor’s blood-based powers, Ning Qi secretly aided their Sun-Moon Radiance Kill, leaving them charging at Mountain Ancestor as he retreated into a Blood Cloud.

• Ning Qi used the Seedling of Jianmu to pierce Buzhou Mountain’s wall and slip into its shadow, where he saw Mountain Ancestor summoning an endless army against Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi recognized Gong Tiandao and his followers among the army as zombies who retained their old Mystical Abilities, and he realized Mountain Ancestor had enslaved them even after death.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor unleashed Sun-Moon Radiance Kill, sweeping away the army, but Mountain Ancestor answered with Blood Soul Nether Rain and the Curse Power of All Beings.
• Sea Ancestor faltered under the attack, but Ning Qi sent power to the two ancestors and urged them to continue fusing their Sun-Moon Shadows.
• The Sun-Moon Shadows merged into a pure Light Wheel, and Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor charged at Mountain Ancestor, who fled into the Blood Cloud.

Ning Qi entered the Buzhou Mountain Shadow and rescued Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor from Mountain Ancestor’s Blood Cloud and curse. Mountain Ancestor then merged with the other figure atop Buzhou Mountain, revealing a terrifying four-armed, two-faced form as the confrontation escalated.

• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor fought through Mountain Ancestor’s Blood Cloud, while Mountain Ancestor realized Ning Qi had entered the Buzhou Mountain Interior and deliberately drew him out.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked Ning Qi with blood rain and the Curse Power of All Beings, but Ning Qi scattered the rain and destroyed the curse with Belief Power of All Beings.
• Ning Qi tore through the Blood Cloud, joined Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor, and cleared the firmament with his golden radiance.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor warned Ning Qi that Mountain Ancestor had lured him into the Buzhou Mountain Shadow, but Ning Qi challenged Mountain Ancestor to use his remaining methods.
• Mountain Ancestor flew to Buzhou Mountain Summit and merged with the other Mountain Ancestor into a four-legged, four-armed, two-faced Dharma Appearance.

Mountain Ancestor transformed and trapped Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor inside Buzhou Mountain Shadow, then used Jianmu’s roots to locate the True Martial Spirit World. Ning Qi fought back with the Enlightenment World Tree and broke free just as Mountain Ancestor joined Buzhou Mountain Shadow with its real fragment, leaving the three facing his descending hands in the World Sea.

• Mountain Ancestor merged into a two-faced, four-armed form and intensified Buzhou Mountain Shadow’s crushing pressure on Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi summoned the Enlightenment World Tree to brace the shrinking space, but Mountain Ancestor used Root-Seeking Art to locate the True Martial Spirit World and drove Buzhou Mountain Shadow toward it.
• Ning Qi’s tree roots absorbed power from Buzhou Mountain’s roots, bringing the three closer to Mountain Ancestor despite his attempts to suppress Jianmu.
• Mountain Ancestor left Buzhou Mountain Shadow and compressed it in his hands, then summoned the real Buzhou Mountain Fragment to merge with the shadow.
• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor broke out into the World Sea before the merger; Mountain Ancestor completed it and sent his other three hands crashing down toward them.

Mountain Ancestor summoned a solid Buzhou Mountain Fragment and trapped Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor beneath his Dharma Body’s palms. Ning Qi revealed that he was only an avatar and set the True Martial Spirit World moving toward the fragment’s point of origin while secretly activating Array Inscriptions in the Buzhou Mountain Shadow.

• The Buzhou Mountain Fragment fused with Mountain Ancestor’s shadow, and Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor escaped just before it became solid.
• Mountain Ancestor attacked them with three Giant Palms, but the Enlightenment World Tree’s trunk absorbed the blows and repaired its cracks.
• Mountain Ancestor drew the fragment into his hand, trapped the three with his palms, and headed toward a vast hollow in the Boundary Sea.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor learned that Ning Qi was an avatar and heard him say he could move the True Martial Spirit World away from Mountain Ancestor.
• Ning Qi sent the True Martial Spirit World toward the fragment’s origin, then sat inside Mountain Ancestor’s palm and used the Enlightenment World Tree’s roots to break down its power.
• Ning Qi’s hidden Array Inscriptions remained active within the Buzhou Mountain Shadow, and Mountain Ancestor did not know he had also contacted the incoming fragment.

Ning Qi used the True Martial Spirit World and the World Sea’s energy to keep Mountain Ancestor at bay, prompting Mountain Ancestor to abandon his pursuit and begin drawing on his other self to force an immortal breakthrough. The scar-covered Mountain Ancestor weakened as his future self drained him, then shriveled away, leaving Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor horrified.

• Mountain Ancestor chased the moving True Martial Spirit World, but Ning Qi accelerated it and sent a giant World Sea wave against him.
• Mountain Ancestor stopped pursuing perfection and began forcing a breakthrough, while Ning Qi reinforced the Boundary Tree against his attack.
• Mountain Ancestor withdrew one Giant Palm and used Buzhou Mountain to channel power from the scar-covered Hao Shan into his other self.
• Ning Qi noticed the scar-covered Mountain Ancestor shrinking as his other self grew stronger, and Sea Ancestor called attention to the change.
• The future self admitted that he was burying the past, and the scar-covered Mountain Ancestor shriveled away after asking whether they were truly the same person.

Mountain Ancestor absorbed his Past Self and the body of Buzhou Mountain, then forced the Immortal Gate to transform as he sought to ascend. Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor could not cross the gate and watched as Mountain Ancestor rejected its successive forms, leaving him facing a Silver Immortal Gate.

• Mountain Ancestor devoured his Past Self, freeing Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor from suppression, but his Immortal Gate prevented them from escaping.
• Sage Ancestor explained that the Immortal Gate protected Mountain Ancestor, while Ning Qi searched his inherited knowledge and studied the gate and Mountain Ancestor’s power.
• Mountain Ancestor swallowed Buzhou Mountain’s solid body, strengthening his Immortal Dao aura as Ning Qi secretly analyzed him and considered how to escape later.
• The White Jade Immortal Gate transformed into a Bronze Immortal Gate, which Mountain Ancestor rejected while invoking Buzhou Mountain’s former authority and the Immortal-Mortal Crossing Agreement.
• Mountain Ancestor battered the Bronze Gate until it transformed into a Silver Immortal Gate, then used Buzhou Mountain’s power and a mountain-shaped mark to strike at its doorway.

Mountain Ancestor transformed the Silver Immortal Gate into a Golden Immortal Gate and tried to enter, but the gate rejected him as World Sea energy poured from his body. He invoked the Immortal-Mortal Crossing agreement, and the gate began reverting to silver as it responded to his Mountain Mark.

• Mountain Ancestor used his Buzhou Mountain inheritance to transform the Silver Immortal Gate into a Golden Immortal Gate, which he said signified the aptitude to attain the Indestructible Golden Immortal.
• Sage Ancestor explained that the Boundary Sea might be a sea of suffering that cultivators had to leave behind to become immortal, unsettling Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor because they had absorbed World Sea energy.
• Mountain Ancestor climbed the golden steps and pushed open the Golden Immortal Gate, but black mist began pouring from his body and the gate repeatedly pushed him back.
• Ning Qi realized that Mountain Ancestor had likely absorbed World Sea energy from the Buzhou Mountain Fragment he summoned from the Boundary Sea.
• Mountain Ancestor struggled against the closing gate, invoked the Immortal-Mortal Crossing agreement, and branded it with his Mountain Mark; the gate’s golden light then began turning silver.

Mountain Ancestor struggled to enter the Silver Immortal Gate after the Golden Immortal Gate rejected the World Sea Black Mist within him. As Mountain Ancestor neared immortality, Ning Qi sent Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor away and stayed behind, preparing to test Mountain Ancestor’s power and seek a different path to immortality.

• Mountain Ancestor’s Golden Immortal Gate retreated because of the World Sea Energy in his Buzhou Mountain Fragment, and Ning Qi discovered that his Golden Key reacted to the gate.
• Mountain Ancestor suppressed the Black Mist within himself with Buzhou Law Extinction, abandoned the Golden Immortal Gate, and began entering the Silver Immortal Gate.
• Sage Ancestor warned Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor that Mountain Ancestor was nearing immortality, but Ning Qi could not cross the Silver Light Mass’s barrier back to the True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi gave Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor gate tokens, then sent them into the depths of the World Sea while he remained to witness Mountain Ancestor’s transformation.
• Ning Qi tried attacking Mountain Ancestor’s Silver Light Mass with a World Sea energy net and ferocious beasts, but silver flames burned them away.
• Ning Qi hid a clone near Mountain Ancestor and traveled toward the World Sea Turbulence region to investigate whether its dangers could threaten an immortal.