Chapter Summaries

Ning Qi formed a Nascent Great Dao Rune Array and helped Sage Ancestor test the Immortal Gate he could summon, which proved to be bronze. Ning Qi then began combining their cultivation methods with Immortal Realm canons to perfect a method that could help Sage Ancestor reach a Golden Immortal Gate, and Sea Ancestor and Sage Ancestor joined his work.

• Ning Qi explained that his Great Dao Talisman Array Fruit was only a Nascent Great Dao, astonishing Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.
• Ning Qi shared his Immortal Dao Rune Array method, and Sage Ancestor used it to summon a Bronze Divine Script Immortal Gate.
• Ning Qi began inscribing and combining Sage Ancestor's Divine Script cultivation method with other cultivation methods to improve it.
• Ning Qi invited Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to help perfect the cultivation method, and both contributed their insights.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor perfected two Immortal Dao cultivation methods together, inspiring the Enlightenment World Tree to grow leaves inscribed with their insights. Ning Qi then began developing the Transcendence Realm of his World Lord cultivation system and concluded that he needed a new path capable of containing both Immortal Power and World Sea Energy.

• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor used the Enlightenment World Tree’s Wisdom Light to create the Three Sages Engrave Dao Immortal Text, while the tree’s leaves began recording their Divine Scripts.
• Sea Ancestor persuaded the other two to refine her cultivation method, and they created the Water Moon Inquire Immortal Dao Canon based on supreme yin and softness.
• Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor began cultivating their new methods and agreed to test them at the Test Immortal Gate after adapting to them.
• Ning Qi discovered that the World Tree had grown distinct leaves bearing Divine Scripts and water-moon imagery, then returned to the Inner World to work on his cultivation system.
• Ning Qi defined the system’s next stage as the Transcendence Realm, or Great Dao Realm, and resolved to seek a new path that could contain both Immortal Power and World Sea Energy.

Ning Qi rejected the conventional Path to Immortality and created Immortal-Demon Power by fusing Immortal Power with Limitless Evil Qi, proving that it could devour ordinary Immortal Power. He then watched Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor test their perfected cultivation methods, while Sage Ancestor began condensing a new Immortal Gate.

• Ning Qi decided to keep the Limitless Evil Qi and World Sea Energy within himself rather than transform them into Immortal Power and follow the usual route to immortality.
• Ning Qi fused Immortal Power and Limitless Evil Qi into Immortal-Demon Power, then tested it by having it devour a strand of Mountain Ancestor's Immortal Power.
• Ning Qi returned to the Enlightenment Plaza, where Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor demonstrated the stronger Immortal Power produced by their perfected cultivation method.
• Ning Qi told Sea Ancestor to pursue the Great Dao without relying on background, and she realized that her Dao was not alone.
• Sage Ancestor formed a nine-stream Immortal Dao Rune Array, which became a ring and began condensing an Immortal Gate whose colors shifted rapidly.

At the Great Desolation Immortal Realm’s Immortal Selection Pavilion, Li Donglin and Han Song detected a Lower Realm ascender with a Golden Immortal Gate and confirmed he was Hao Shan, the Buzhou Mountain Heir. After recording him and beginning his Immortal Gate Baptism, they watched his name vanish from the Immortal Register and wondered whether demons had intercepted him in the World Sea.

• Li Donglin and Han Song detected an ascender with a Golden Immortal Gate and traced him to the Lower Realm near the Eastern Wasteland Immortal Realm.
• The ascender identified himself as Hao Shan, the Buzhou Mountain Heir, but the Immortal Selection Array detected World Sea Energy within him.
• Han Song stopped Li Donglin from reporting Hao Shan immediately, and Hao Shan proved his identity with an ancient Buzhou Mountain mark.
• Li Donglin entered Hao Shan into the Immortal Registry, sent him spatial coordinates, and began his Immortal Gate Baptism.
• The Immortal Register fell, and Hao Shan’s name disappeared despite his completing the baptism, leaving Li Donglin and Han Song to suspect he had encountered demons crossing the World Sea.

Han Song and Li Donglin investigated repeated Immortal Gate disturbances from one Lower Realm location and concealed the anomaly, hoping to claim the opportunity for themselves. In the True Martial Spirit World, the Sage Ancestor successfully formed a Golden Immortal Gate, and Ning Qi urged him to test whether an even higher level existed.

• Han Song concluded that Hao Shan had died after his name vanished from the Immortal Register, and he and Li Donglin decided to delay reporting the Buzhou Mountain Heir’s appearance.
• Han Song and Li Donglin planned to remain at the Immortal Selection Pavilion after their duty ended, hoping to pursue the Buzhou Mountain inheritance.
• The Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone detected Sea Ancestor testing a Silver Immortal Gate, then Ning Qi condensing a Golden Immortal Gate at the same location.
• The stone detected the Sage Ancestor testing a Bronze Immortal Gate, prompting Han Song and Li Donglin to activate a Barrier and hide the repeated disturbances.
• The Sage Ancestor followed the perfected Three Sages Engrave Dao Immortal Text and formed a Golden Immortal Gate, while Ning Qi urged him to test for further levels.

Ning Qi watched Sage Ancestor’s Golden Immortal Gate test fall just short of surpassing gold, drawing the attention of two True Immortals in the Great Desolation Immortal Realm. He then prepared a separate space to test whether he could interrupt Sage Ancestor’s ascension, and Sage Ancestor began condensing a true Immortal Gate.

• Sage Ancestor strengthened his Golden Immortal Gate, but it failed to break through, while Han Song and Li Donglin sensed the attempt through the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and resolved to keep waiting for the cultivator to ascend.
• Sea Ancestor restored Sage Ancestor with Immortal Brew, and Ning Qi decided they would stop testing and attempt to condense a true Immortal Gate.
• Ning Qi moved Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor into a separate space beyond the True Martial Spirit World, hoping to alter the Immortal Gate’s power to separate Immortal and Mortal and sever Spacetime.
• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor he was fifty percent confident he could interrupt the ascension and promised to send a clone to accompany him if he had to leave for the Immortal Realm.
• Sage Ancestor flew into the void and began condensing a true Immortal Gate.

Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor watched Sage Ancestor condense a Golden Immortal Gate and discovered that a mysterious presence beyond it monitored those becoming immortal. As Sage Ancestor began opening the gate, Ning Qi decided to approach it himself, despite the force keeping them away.

• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor watched Sage Ancestor condense an Immortal Gate while Ning Qi sensed that its power did not come from outside the space.
• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor used Immortal Power and Mountain Ancestor's immortal body to withstand the pressure as Sage Ancestor's gate advanced from Bronze to Silver to Golden.
• Sage Ancestor replenished his Immortal Power, underwent inspection by the Golden Immortal Gate, and began opening it while Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor remained a hundred zhang away.
• A voice inside the gate asked Sage Ancestor to state his name and rebuked him for communicating with Ning Qi, revealing that someone monitored his ascension.
• After Sage Ancestor warned Ning Qi that the presence could sense his actions, Ning Qi stood and said he would go to the Immortal Gate himself, leaving Sea Ancestor stunned.

Ning Qi used the Golden Key to pass through the Golden Immortal Gate’s resistance and shield himself from the beings beyond it while Sage Ancestor underwent the ascension test. The beings revealed that they served the Great Desolation Immortal Realm and pressed Sage Ancestor to open the gate fully, leaving Ning Qi wary of what would happen next.

• Ning Qi used the Golden Key’s Immortal Radiance to reach the Golden Immortal Gate and found he could touch it without being detected by the beings beyond it.
• Ning Qi shared the Golden Key’s radiance with Sage Ancestor, strengthening him as he pushed the gate open farther.
• A voice from beyond the gate questioned Sage Ancestor, identified his location as Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15, and demanded that he continue the test.
• Sage Ancestor stalled before fully opening the gate while Ning Qi glimpsed two figures and an Immortal Stone beyond it.
• The beings said they would record Sage Ancestor in the Immortal Registry and tell him how to reach the Great Desolation Immortal Realm if he passed their test.
• The beings questioned Sage Ancestor about other ascenders, learned there had been three including Hao Shan, and again ordered him to open the gate fully.

Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor opened the Golden Immortal Gate, but the Golden Key devoured its radiance and revealed two True Immortals monitoring the Lower Realm. The key opened a new rune gate, and its power destroyed the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and the Immortal Selection Pavilion, leaving the fate of Han Song and Li Donglin unclear.

• Han Song and Li Donglin contacted Sage Ancestor through the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and learned that Ning Qi and the others had killed the earlier immortal.
• Ning Qi told Sage Ancestor to push the Golden Immortal Gate fully open so they could discover the Upper Realm's location and see who was watching them.
• Sage Ancestor opened the gate, and its Golden Immortal Radiance began transforming him while the Golden Key in Ning Qi's hand devoured much of the power.
• The Golden Key revealed Han Song and Li Donglin in the Immortal Selection Pavilion, and Ning Qi recognized them as True Immortals inspecting Lower Realm Cultivators.
• The Golden Key formed and opened a rune immortal gate, releasing immense radiance before the Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone shattered and the pavilion collapsed around Han Song and Li Donglin.

Ning Qi used the Golden Key to seize Immortal Power from the Great Desolation Immortal Realm, destroying the Immortal Selection Pavilion and helping Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor undergo immortal-body transformations. In the Immortal Realm, Jiang Shou investigated the destruction, learned of the strange rune, and exiled Li Donglin while summoning Han Song.

• The Golden Key absorbed Immortal Power from the Immortal Realm, collapsed the Immortal Selection Pavilion, and gave Ning Qi and Sage Ancestor Golden Immortal Radiance.
• Ning Qi absorbed his share, pressured the Golden Key into revealing the words “Golden Immortal Clan,” and gave Sea Ancestor a mass of Immortal Radiance to strengthen her.
• Jiang Shou restored the Immortal Selection Pavilion and questioned Han Song and Li Donglin about the explosion and the strange rune.
• Li Donglin concealed that he recognized the rune, but Jiang Shou saw through his answer and exiled him to the Boundary Sea while ordering Han Song to come with him.

Jiang Shou punished Li Donglin for concealing the rune and bound Han Song to secrecy before revealing that it resembled the lost Golden Immortal Clan’s mark. After learning that Ning Qi and the Sage Ancestor had appeared before the Immortal Gate near Buzhou Mountain, Jiang Shou set out to investigate while ordering Han Song to track them.

• Jiang Shou ordered a Top Secret Annihilation Talisman planted in Li Donglin’s Divine Soul and exiled him from the Great Desolation Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Shou planted the same talisman in Han Song, then told him the rune resembled the Clan Mark of the vanished Golden Immortal Clan and might point to one of its relics.
• Han Song showed Jiang Shou an image of Ning Qi and the Sage Ancestor before the Immortal Gate and gave him their recorded spatial coordinates in Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15.
• Han Song explained that the newly ascended figure had summoned a Buzhou Mountain Fragment, leading Jiang Shou to fear that Buzhou Mountain’s inheritance might still have living heirs.
• Jiang Shou left to investigate and ordered Han Song to obtain another Immortal Crystal Spirit Stone and track the figures’ movements.

Elder Jiang Shou recruited Dao Bujin to investigate the Golden Immortal Clan relic and sent him toward the Lower Realm. Meanwhile, Sage Ancestor completed his transformation through the Golden Immortal Radiance, emerging from the cocoon with a powerful Morning Sun Body.

• Elder Jiang Shou sought Boundary Protecting Immortal Army coordinates to find someone who could reach Extreme East Boundary Sea Sector 15 quickly.
• Dao Bujin learned that the Immortal Selection Pavilion incident involved the Golden Immortal Clan mark, accepted the mission, and swore an Absolute Secrecy Annihilation Curse.
• Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor discussed the upper realm's path to immortality and Sea Ancestor agreed to try Ning Qi's new Great Dao.
• After three days in the Immortal Cocoon, Sage Ancestor emerged with a Golden Immortal Robe and a powerful Morning Sun Body.
• Sage Ancestor changed his robe back to a simple style, and Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor teased him for acting old despite his youthful appearance.

After Sage Ancestor became a Golden Immortal, Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor examined his power and discovered that immortals instinctively recoiled from World Sea Energy and Limitless Evil Qi. Back at Myriad Venerable Mountain, Ning Qi used the Golden Key to reveal a route to the distant Great Desolation Immortal Realm, leaving the group with a new destination and more questions about the key’s origins.

• Sage Ancestor shared his Golden Immortal Power with Ning Qi and Sea Ancestor, who found that it contained his emerging Divine Script Dao and surpassed Mountain Ancestor’s Silver Immortal Power.
• Sage Ancestor discovered that World Sea Energy made him feel sick and that Limitless Evil Qi triggered an instinctive urge to attack Ning Qi, prompting the others to reassure him they would stand by Ning Qi.
• Ning Qi questioned what the World Sea’s continued expansion would mean for the shrinking Immortal Realm, then returned with Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor to Myriad Venerable Mountain.
• Sage Ancestor asked whether the Great Desolation Immortal Realm would retaliate, and Ning Qi showed him and Sea Ancestor the Golden Key, which inspired reverence in Sage Ancestor after his ascension.
• The Golden Key projected a map revealing the location of the Great Desolation Immortal Realm, apparently urging Ning Qi and the others to obtain more Immortal Power for it.

Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor chose to remain in Myriad Venerable Mountain and cultivate rather than travel to the distant Great Desolation Immortal Realm. Elsewhere in the World Sea, several groups headed toward the newly awakened Buzhou Mountain Fragment, while Black Slaughter True Immortal’s fleet continued its brutal voyage.

• Ning Qi, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor celebrated Sage Ancestor’s ascension and agreed to remain in Myriad Venerable Mountain while they strengthened themselves and taught cultivators from the True Martial Spirit World.
• Dao Bujin escorted the exiled Li Donglin out of the Great Desolation Immortal Realm and revealed that he intended to investigate the Lower Realm’s Golden Immortal Clan relics with him.
• Wei Xian and Lin Chen sailed toward the newly appeared Buzhou Mountain Fragment, discussing the other fragments and preparing to confront whoever held them.
• Black Slaughter True Immortal’s five ships crossed the World Sea as their mortal crews chanted his praises and served as prey and labor for the cultivators above.

Ning Qi announced the Venerable Sage’s ascension and revealed his ambition to turn the True Martial Spirit World into an immortal realm. When Wei Xian and Lin Chen arrived seeking another Buzhou Mountain Fragment, Ning Qi moved the world out of reach and confronted them with the Sage Ancestor and Sea Ancestor.

• Ning Qi revealed the Venerable Sage’s immortality and said he intended to make the True Martial Spirit World an immortal realm.
• The central Lone Peak resonated with another Buzhou Mountain Fragment, and Ning Qi sensed its bearer approaching from the west.
• Ning Qi, the Sage Ancestor, and the Sea Ancestor hid near the True Martial Spirit World and prepared for the arrival of an unknown enemy.
• Wei Xian and Lin Chen reached the world aboard their Five-Colored Treasure Boat and used their fragment to locate the True Martial Spirit World.
• Ning Qi moved the True Martial Spirit World away and screened it from outside perception, leaving Wei Xian and Lin Chen unable to sense it.
• Ning Qi and the two ancestors appeared before Wei Xian and Lin Chen, who chose to speak with them before fighting.

Ning Qi and Wei Xian discovered that their Buzhou Mountain fragments were drawn toward a larger fragment approaching in the Boundary Sea, and agreed to settle ownership of their own fragments through a wager. The chapter left Wei Xian bound by an Immortal Dao Oath to hand over Exquisite Mountain and join Ning Qi’s group if he lost.

• Wei Xian and Lin Chen admitted they had come for Ning Qi’s Buzhou Mountain Fragment, and Ning Qi confirmed it was in his hands.
• Wei Xian revealed that another person with a larger fragment was approaching, and Ning Qi and Wei Xian realized that person held Buzhou Mountain’s main body.
• Ning Qi and Wei Xian sensed their fragments pulling toward each other and learned that their internal zones made Ning Qi’s Medicine Field Immortal Forest especially valuable.
• Wei Xian proposed a duel to decide ownership, and Lin Chen added that the loser should also join the winner’s group.
• Ning Qi raised the stakes by requiring Wei Xian and Lin Chen to join his group if he won, and Wei Xian accepted the wager.
• Wei Xian swore by Immortal Dao Oath to hand over Exquisite Mountain and join Ning Qi’s group if he lost.

Ning Qi and Wei Xian swore an Immortal Dao Oath and fought over their Divine Mountain Remnants and freedom. After their close combat ended in a draw, Wei Xian’s powerful techniques pushed the battle onward, and Ning Qi revealed the Six Paths Immortal Wheel.

• Wei Xian and Ning Qi swore oaths wagering their Divine Mountain Remnants and the True Martial Spirit World’s freedom.
• Ning Qi and Wei Xian traded blows in the Boundary Sea and proved evenly matched in close combat.
• Wei Xian summoned the Tower of Heavy Lou, but Ning Qi’s Hundred-Character Heavenly Tablet endured its explosive attack.
• Wei Xian formed the Divine Mountain Immortal Arrival, manifesting a shadow resembling Buzhou Mountain.
• Ning Qi summoned the Six Paths Immortal Wheel, astonishing Wei Xian and Lin Chen, who recognized it as a supreme Buzhou Mountain technique.

Ning Qi and Wei Xian’s clash between the Six Paths Immortal Wheel and Divine Mountain Immortal Arrival summoned the former Lord of Buzhou Mountain, who identified both as Supernatural Powers he had created. The battle resumed, and Wei Xian unleashed his Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, Path of Sorrow, trapping Ning Qi in memories of Wei Xian’s life; it left off with Wei Xian setting out to search for Lu Linglong after learning she had been taken by rebel soldiers.

• Ning Qi and Wei Xian’s Supernatural Powers absorbed one another’s shadows, and a towering figure appeared, calling them creations of his own.
• Wei Xian guessed the figure had been the former Lord of Buzhou Mountain, then agreed to continue fighting Ning Qi.
• Wei Xian activated the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, Path of Sorrow, overwhelming Lin Chen, Sage Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor with grief.
• Wei Xian’s power drew Ning Qi into an illusion of Wei Xian’s memories, where he relived Wei Xian’s love for Lu Linglong and his departure to earn money for his sick mother.
• Wei Xian returned home to find that Lu Linglong had been taken by rebel soldiers after protecting his mother, so he took up his saber and went to search for her.

Ning Qi relived Wei Xian’s tragic past as Wei Xian used his Seven Emotions Dao Fruit to overwhelm the others with sorrow. Ning Qi’s Nascent Great Dao protected him, so Wei Xian gathered World Sea Energy to try to break through it.

• Wei Xian found Linglong, rescued her from rebel soldiers, and later helped her cultivate and roam the world as a pair of wandering heroes.
• Wei Xian and Linglong lost their families and Master to powerful enemies, then avenged them and obtained a Buzhou Mountain Fragment.
• When enemies captured Linglong and demanded the fragment, she impaled herself on a spirit sword to stop Wei Xian from surrendering it; he seized her body and escaped.
• Wei Xian’s grief drove him to the demonic path, and after Lin Chen’s family saved him, he and Lin Chen began taking revenge together.
• Wei Xian used his Sorrow Dao Fruit to make the others collapse in grief, but Ning Qi remained standing behind the protection of his Nascent Great Dao.
• Wei Xian gathered World Sea Energy into a mass of pitch-black power and prepared to use it to break Ning Qi’s protection.

Ning Qi overcame Wei Xian’s Dao Fruit by absorbing World Sea Energy as Limitless Evil Qi, then defeated him and won their wager. As Wei Xian handed over his Buzhou Mountain Fragment, Lin Chen attacked Ning Qi with the Immortal Slaying Technique rather than accept the loss and join Ning Qi’s faction.

• Wei Xian overwhelmed Ning Qi with World Sea Energy, but Ning Qi absorbed it and broke free of the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit’s influence.
• Ning Qi escaped Wei Xian’s Immortal Moon Cage with Limitless Evil Qi and trapped Wei Xian inside a Black Sun, sealing his powers.
• Sage Ancestor, Sea Ancestor, and Lin Chen recovered from Wei Xian’s emotional attack and saw that Ning Qi had won.
• Wei Xian conceded, the Immortal Dao Oath was enforced, and he gave Ning Qi his Buzhou Mountain Fragment.
• Lin Chen, unwilling to surrender the fragment or join Ning Qi’s faction, attacked Ning Qi and the others with the Immortal Slaying Technique.