Chapter Summaries

Ding Ling investigated the Serpent’s Maw with soldiers created by Casting Beans into Soldiers and discovered a vast inner world containing a strange Alchemy Furnace. After his soldiers knocked the furnace over and carried it away, the world inside the Maw began to shrink, while another group of soldiers remained trapped in an endless passage.

• Ding Ling used the Divine Meditation Technique to locate the Serpent’s Maw and sent mud beans into it, transforming them into soldiers he could control.
• Ding Ling split the soldiers into two groups; one entered a widening passage, while the other reached a vast Grotto-heaven World and found a floating Alchemy Furnace.
• Ding Ling ordered the soldiers to strike the Alchemy Furnace until it overturned, releasing Qi that strengthened the soldiers and made them harder to control.
• Ding Ling had soldiers carry the Three-legged Cauldron out, and the Grotto-heaven World began collapsing and shrank from a hundred miles across to fifty.
• Ding Ling recalled the soldiers to study the strange Qi, while the other group continued running through the seemingly endless passage.

Ding Ling fed two pills from Alchemy Furnaces in Serpent's Maw to his Sword Spirit, giving it Supreme Sword Bones, meridians, and much greater strength and control over the Puppet Soldiers. He sent the soldiers deeper into the collapsing Grotto-heaven Worlds to reach more furnaces, and the chapter left him expecting the Sword Spirit to keep growing toward his true body's level.

• Ding Ling examined a pill from the first Alchemy Furnace, swallowed it, and gained a complete set of Supreme Sword Bones for his Sword Spirit.
• Ding Ling discovered that his strengthened Sword Spirit could control the Puppet Soldiers with far greater ease and sent them deeper into Serpent's Maw.
• The soldiers broke through a sealed passage as a Grotto-heaven World collapsed, while three soldiers carried a Three-legged Cauldron back to Ding Ling.
• Ding Ling swallowed a stronger pill from the Three-legged Cauldron, causing meridians to grow throughout his Sword Spirit and further increasing its strength and mental control.

Ding Ling sent Puppet Soldiers through the giant serpent to retrieve Alchemy Furnaces and consumed a World Pill, strengthening his Sword Spirit to the Initial-Stage Sacred Martial Golden Core level. The soldiers found another Grotto-heaven World and furnace, then continued exploring while some carried the furnace back to him.

• Ding Ling sent his Puppet Soldiers to search the serpent’s passages for Alchemy Furnaces while the first batch waited amid dangerous chaotic currents.
• Ninety-seven soldiers found a furnace, absorbed its Alchemy Qi, grew to three meters tall, and reached roughly the Initial-Stage Great Grandmaster level.
• Three soldiers threw the furnace into the intact half of a collapsed world before chaotic currents destroyed them, allowing the first batch to evolve enough to survive its storms.
• Ding Ling received the recovered furnace, swallowed its pill, and strengthened his Sword Spirit with sword bones, sword meridians, and Sword Blood to the Initial-Stage Sacred Martial Golden Core level.
• Ninety-four soldiers found another Grotto-heaven World and furnace, evolved to four meters tall, and sent three soldiers back with it while the rest continued exploring.

Ding Ling’s Sword Spirit gained a complete body, grew powerful enough to resist the Giant Python, and discovered that the Underworld’s Heavenly Dao had a spirit. After taking the final Alchemy Furnace from the Giant Python’s heart, the Sword Spirit’s hazy Sword Domain formed a small Grotto-heaven.

• Ding Ling’s Sword Spirit developed flesh, blood, bones, and skin, drawing Heavenly Might from the Underworld despite its rejection.
• Ding Ling concluded that the Heavenly Dao had a spirit and might be trying to find powerful experts to save it from the Giant Python.
• Ding Ling entered the Serpent’s Maw and found eighty-two Puppet Soldiers that had evolved seven times, gained souls, and reached the Shattering Realm.
• Ding Ling took three more Alchemy Furnaces and swallowed their pills, gaining Spirit Eyes and a Heaven’s Ear as his Sword Domain began to form.
• Ding Ling reached the Giant Python’s heart, took the final Alchemy Furnace, and swallowed its pill, causing the Sword Domain to become a small Grotto-heaven.

Ding Ling escaped the collapsing Doomsday Serpent with the surviving Puppet Soldiers as the Underworld suffered great damage. After the eleven Alchemy Furnaces fused into one and tried to flee through a dark tunnel, Ding Ling intercepted it and seized it.

• Ding Ling used the Four Symbols Formation to protect seventy-six Puppet Soldiers from the collapsing worlds inside the Doomsday Serpent, while many distant soldiers were destroyed.
• Ding Ling sensed black clouds bringing upheaval to the Human Realm and led the surviving Puppet Soldiers out of the serpent as it collapsed.
• Ding Ling returned to the other Alchemy Furnaces, and all eleven fused into a single furnace that attempted to escape through a dark tunnel.
• Ding Ling used a Ground Shrinking Step to intercept the furnace and held it fast despite its powerful resistance.

Ding Ling merged with the Sword Spirit, gained the Underworld’s Heavenly Might, and discovered that the Three Kingdoms World was one of three Earth-like worlds in the Game World. As a colossal creature attacked the world and devastated the Northern Region, Ding Ling charged toward it.

• Ding Ling used the eighty-two Puppet Soldiers and the Ghost Sword to suppress the Alchemy Furnace, then merged with the Sword Spirit and received the Underworld’s Heavenly Might.
• Ding Ling told Pan Feng to bring Diao Chan and the others to the Sky Ladder, which he said would survive even if the world was destroyed.
• Ding Ling left the world’s atmosphere and saw three Earth-like worlds, each with a Sky Ladder, surrounded by dimensional barriers and a dark expanse.
• Ding Ling used the Sword Spirit’s Spirit Eyes and Heavenly Ears to identify a huge fish-like creature attacking the Three Kingdoms World and eating away at the sun.
• The creature’s strikes caused catastrophic storms that destroyed the Northern Region and killed countless people, so Ding Ling charged at it.

Ding Ling battled Kun and learned that Old Immortal Nanhua had unleashed it and caused the Underworld’s destruction. When Nanhua attacked him, Ding Ling overwhelmed him with the Six Paths of Silent Extinction, forcing him to retreat through a golden portal.

• Ding Ling struck Kun with amplified saber techniques, shrinking it from a gigantic beast into a fish and then a butterfly before it vanished as a bubble.
• Old Immortal Nanhua emerged from a golden portal, and Ding Ling recognized him from Zhang Jiao’s memories.
• Nanhua admitted releasing Kun and revealed that Ding Ling’s consumption of the Heaven and Earth Cosmos Pill had enraged it; he also blamed Ding Ling for the calamity and threatened to send him to King Yama.
• Ding Ling questioned Nanhua about the Underworld’s destruction and the deaths of Liu Xiu, Bai Qi, and others, but Nanhua realized he was probing for information and attacked with thunder.
• Ding Ling unleashed the Six Paths of Silent Extinction, pierced Nanhua’s palm attack, and drove him back through the golden portal.

After the catastrophe in the Three Kingdoms World, players and people in the Real World celebrated Ding Ling’s power and debated how to approach him. Ding Ling, unaware of the upheaval, followed Old Immortal Nanhua through the portal into a peaceful new world.

• The portal vanished after Ding Ling passed through, and the disaster in the Three Kingdoms World subsided.
• Players learned that Ding Ling had likely stopped the catastrophe and flooded the internet with praise, speculation, and calls to get close to him.
• News outlets and advertisers publicized Ding Ling, while foreign broadcasters disputed claims that he belonged to one country.
• Leaders and organizations grew alarmed at the possibility that Ding Ling could survive nuclear weapons and ordered efforts to befriend him or obtain powerful techniques.
• Ding Ling followed Old Immortal Nanhua through the portal into a tranquil world, where Old Immortal Nanhua disappeared.

Ding Ling fought the hostile landscape and realized he was trapped inside Old Immortal Nanhua’s Inner World. He began using the Heavenly Cry Saber Technique to break through the world and escape.

• Ding Ling used Sword River to destroy the grass and flowers that attacked him as the world’s natural order turned against him.
• Ding Ling crossed the land, smashing mountains and rivers while enduring the world’s attempts to suffocate, poison, crush, and bury him.
• Ding Ling mapped the realm by sweeping across it and discovered that its apparent edge looped back to his starting point.
• Ding Ling concluded that the realm was Old Immortal Nanhua’s Inner World and that an ordinary Golden Core expert would likely die there.
• Ding Ling held his breath and repeatedly unleashed Universe Shattering with the Heavenly Cry Saber Technique, cutting a ravine into the earth to break the world open.

Ding Ling fought his way out of Old Immortal Nanhua’s inner world and killed him with a powerful palm strike. He learned Nanhua was an Upper Realm god who had acted through puppet clones, then watched the Immortal Realm begin to recover and merge with Nanhua’s inner world.

• Ding Ling repeatedly cleaved through the shifting earth of Old Immortal Nanhua’s inner world, enduring its crushing force and chaotic laws.
• Ding Ling reached a light-filled exit and blasted apart Old Immortal Nanhua with his Thirteenfold Amplified Heaven Flipping Palm.
• Ding Ling’s Character Panel revealed that Nanhua was an Upper Realm god whose puppet clones had worked to refine the six great realms and influence historical events.
• Ding Ling realized the dead Nanhua was only a puppet clone and wondered about the true Nanhua’s power and the Dream Butterfly behind the clones.
• Ding Ling saw Nanhua’s inner world merge into the recovering Immortal Realm, then received the blessing of the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Might.

Ding Ling discovered that the Heavenly Dao had granted him the Heavenly Heart Imprints of the Immortal Realm, Underworld, and Human Realm, allowing him to travel between them instantly and influence their rules. In Chang'an, he met Cai Wenji and learned that Cai Yong had died, while the Cai Mansion's steward set out to deliver a letter Cai Yong had left for him.

• Ding Ling realized that the three realms' heavenly might let him travel instantly between them and that he had become the Historical World's sole deity with some ability to alter rules.
• Ding Ling arrived at the Cai family's residence in Chang'an and met Cai Wenji, who told him that her father, Cai Yong, had died five years earlier.
• Cai Wenji remembered her feelings for Ding Ling but could not confess them, and Ding Ling departed instantly after offering his condolences and help.
• The Cai Mansion's steward learned that Ding Ling had visited and hurried to the Wang Residence with Cai Yong's letter for him.

The Cai Mansion steward told Diao Chan that Cai Wenji was wasting away, and Diao Chan agreed to make her Ding Ling’s consort and bring her to the Wang Residence. Meanwhile, Ding Ling traveled to the Underworld and learned from the Furnace Spirit that the World Furnace had been made from the Mountains and Seas World, leaving him with new questions about the Upper Realm and its gods.

• The Cai Mansion steward delivered Cai Yong’s letter to the Wang Residence and begged Diao Chan to save Cai Wenji, so Diao Chan agreed to make her Ding Ling’s consort and fetch her.
• Ding Ling used Instant Flash to reach the Underworld and found the eighty-two Puppet Soldiers and the World Furnace.
• Ding Ling sent the Sword Spirit into the furnace to speak with its timid Furnace Spirit.
• The Furnace Spirit revealed that she had been forged from the Mountains and Seas World’s bones and blood and given the Kun’s abilities and Old Immortal Nanhua’s Alchemy Skills.
• The Furnace Spirit realized Ding Ling was from the Lower Realm and marveled that he had killed innate gods.

Ding Ling learned how Old Immortal Nanhua had weakened and destroyed the realms, then claimed the World Furnace as his magic treasure. He used it to reshape the region around the Puppet Soldier, leaving the area transformed by its growing Soul Qi and newly formed mountains and palaces.

• The Furnace Spirit said that a mortal like Ding Ling might be able to kill God and explained that eight Mountains and Seas Worlds should remain in the Upper Realm.
• The Furnace Spirit revealed that the dead of the Underworld had merged into Soul Qi, and that Old Immortal Nanhua had protected Zhang Jiao and the Northern Region through the World Furnace.
• The Furnace Spirit explained that Old Immortal Nanhua had siphoned vital energy from the realms, incited wars, and eliminated weakened heroes and rulers, including the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
• Ding Ling learned that Old Immortal Nanhua had likely underestimated him, and reminded himself not to become arrogant.
• Ding Ling imprinted his thoughts on the World Furnace's core and made it his magic treasure.
• Ding Ling used the World Furnace to alter the region around the Puppet Soldier, raising mountains and forming palaces as Soul Qi grew denser.

Ding Ling rebuilt the Underworld’s landmarks and Six Paths of Reincarnation, then appointed its rulers and officials. As he prepared to leave, he sensed someone arriving on the Yellow Springs Road.

• Ding Ling used the power of rules and the World Furnace to stabilize the Six Paths of Reincarnation and create the Eighteen Levels of Hell Tower.
• Ding Ling transformed Puppet Soldiers into the ten Kings Yama and assigned them to govern the Underworld’s ten palaces.
• The Underworld’s Heavenly Dao bestowed the Light of Merit on Ding Ling and the newly appointed kings, empowering them and granting King Qinguang the Mirror of Retribution.
• Ding Ling stored his share of the merit in the Sword Spirit and appointed twenty more Puppet Soldiers as Meng Po, Judges, Black and White Impermanence, Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and other officials.
• Ding Ling left the remaining Puppet Soldiers to the Kings Yama, then sensed someone arriving on the Yellow Springs Road.

Ding Ling discovered that the Underworld received undead from the Great Tang and Late Sui Historical Worlds as well as the Three Kingdoms, though he could not travel to those worlds. After establishing the Underworld’s rules, he returned to the Human Realm, while Li Yuan learned that the young man he had met was King Qinguang’s master.

• Ding Ling met Li Yuan, who identified himself as the founding emperor of the Great Tang and asked whether he was in the Underworld of the Yin Dynasty.
• Ding Ling concluded that the Underworld and Immortal Realm connected to multiple Historical Worlds, but he could not travel to the other worlds.
• Ding Ling left Li Yuan to be judged and observed undead, including the Yellow Turban Army, being driven toward the Yellow Springs Road by the rules he had established.
• Ding Ling returned to the Human Realm to deal with its affairs before establishing rules in the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yuan met King Qinguang, learned that the young man was his master, and apologized in fear before proceeding onward with Ox-Head and Horse-Face.

Li Yuan learned that Ding Ling had become King Yama’s master, while the Underworld’s new order began restoring itself and linking the three Historical Worlds. Ding Ling found Zuo Ci refining the Human Realm’s Dragon Source and forced him out of Dragon Head Mountain.

• Li Yuan recognized Ding Ling as the man who had killed Li Yuanba but decided to focus on reincarnation rather than seek confirmation.
• Meng Po, the judges, and other officials took their posts as the Underworld’s rules changed and its restoration accelerated.
• Ding Ling used the Heavenly Heart Imprint to locate Zuo Ci hiding in a Grotto-heaven in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Ding Ling opened the hidden portal to Dragon Head Mountain and realized Zuo Ci was refining the Dragon Source to control the Earthly Path and Human Realm Path.
• Ding Ling pointed at Dragon Head Mountain and forcibly squeezed Zuo Ci out of its interior.

Ding Ling captured Zuo Ci at Dragon Head Mountain and learned that Old Immortal Nanhua had secretly guided Zuo Ci’s rise. After killing him and absorbing his knowledge, Ding Ling mastered hundreds of techniques, including the Heavenly Book of Dunjia.

• Ding Ling immobilized Zuo Ci’s Primordial Spirit Body and questioned him about Old Immortal Nanhua.
• Zuo Ci revealed that an unseen force had guided his growth and led him to Dragon Head Mountain, but he knew nothing about Old Immortal Nanhua’s origins.
• Ding Ling concluded that Zuo Ci had been made into a pawn and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Ding Ling used his Rules Domain to extract most of Zuo Ci’s memories and information, instantly maxing out hundreds of techniques and arts.
• Ding Ling transformed into a flying bird to test the Heavenly Book of Dunjia.

After defeating Zuo Ci, Ding Ling assessed the powers he had gained and the future growth of the realms before traveling to the Immortal Realm. He used the Heavenly Heart Imprint to build a Heavenly Court beside the Celestial River and secured it with powerful formations.

• Ding Ling tested his Transformation Art and concluded that its talisman allowed him to fix only eight forms.
• Ding Ling learned from Zuo Ci’s memories that Old Immortal Nanhua had arranged for him to take over a pure Primordial Spirit body, and he realized that killing Nanhua had likely made him an enemy of a powerful Upper Realm figure.
• Ding Ling concealed Dragon Head Mountain deep in the void and anticipated that its revival would strengthen the Human Realm and its players.
• Ding Ling traveled instantly to the Immortal Realm using the Heavenly Heart Imprint and began raising mountains and forming palaces beside the Celestial River.
• Ding Ling completed the Hall of Universal Brightness and South Heaven Gate, then activated the Heaven Trapping Formation and Nine Palaces Entrapment Formation.

Ding Ling completed the arrays around the Heavenly Court and created an Immortal Path from the Three Kingdoms World to the Immortal Realm. The path opened a new route for cultivators, and eligible players began traveling up it.

• Ding Ling used the Heavenly Heart Imprint and his array skills to seal the Heavenly Court and strengthen its spiritual energy.
• Ding Ling transformed his breath into a Dragon Ladder leading from Chang'an to the Immortal Realm and created a stone tablet bearing the words “Immortal Path.”
• Pan Feng, Zhao Zilong, Wang Yue, Tong Yuan, Xiao Qiao, and the players gathered around the new path and speculated that Ding Ling had created it.
• Rules appeared beside the Immortal Path, allowing cultivators at the Third-Rate Military General level to enter the Immortal Realm and those at First-Rate level to report to the Heavenly Court.
• Players who met the Immortal Path’s requirements began climbing it, while those with families urged their loved ones to cultivate so they could travel together.

Ding Ling established a route from the Heavenly Court to the South Heaven Gate and considered how to accelerate the Immortal Realm’s revival. His worldwide fame soared after news spread that he had created the Immortal Path and become the Heavenly Emperor, while he traveled to the Wang Residence in the Underworld.

• Players and new arrivals argued online about the Three Kingdoms World’s Immortal Path and whether newcomers could reach the highest ranks.
• News spread that Ding Ling had created the Immortal Realm and become its Heavenly Emperor, making him the world’s biggest star.
• Ding Ling created a Dragon Boat beneath the Heavenly River Waterfall so First-Class Generals could travel to the South Heaven Gate.
• Ding Ling noted that the Heavenly Court’s arrays were raising its spiritual energy and vital energy, and wondered how to hasten the Immortal Realm’s revival.
• Ding Ling teleported to the Wang Residence, where Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao greeted him excitedly.