Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai returned to Lingxiao Palace, expanded plans for Heavenly Master forces and advanced Chengying mecha, then followed a strange call into the spirit realm. There, True Person Wu Shi’s last message warned him not to spiritize, leaving the meaning and danger of the warning unresolved.

• Xuan Tianzun learned that Lu Yuan and Gu Jinlai had returned with the White Goat Star Palace and Heavenly Dragon Wood, but showed little concern as the True Immortal Hall’s forces grew anxious.
• True Person Wu Zhong and True Person Wu Nian discussed using Lu Yuan’s arrival to secure the Abyss Master’s support, while Jiang Chongshan planned to negotiate with Gu Jinlai.
• Gu Jinlai inspected the military workshop and ordered its expansion, opening the White Goat Star Palace’s resources to help develop larger Chengying mecha with repulsion shields.
• Gu Jinlai entered the true spirit realm and followed a call to the faint spiritual remnant of True Person Wu Shi.
• True Person Wu Shi’s final message warned Gu Jinlai three times not to spiritize, then his remaining spirituality disappeared.

Gu Jinlai investigated Wu Shi Zhenren’s warning against spiritization, then projected himself to Blue Star through Xie Yusheng to learn what was happening there. He left Xie Yusheng believing that Emperor Taiyi had chosen him as an heir, while continuing to seek information and support for his plans in Qiantian.

• Gu Jinlai concluded that Wu Shi Zhenren had encountered a terrifying danger while attempting to become a Creator and resolved to heed the warning not to spiritize.
• Gu Jinlai met with Gu Junxiu, learned that Blue Star had sent materials and sought deeper cooperation, and ordered the useful weapon data sent to Lingxiao Palace.
• Gu Jinlai projected through Xie Yusheng to Blue Star and found him working with speculative designs for a repulsion shield at the Nantianmen project team.
• Gu Jinlai overheard that Xie Yusheng’s family wanted him to marry Qiao Siyu and that he resisted being transferred to the True Immortal Research Institute.
• Gu Jinlai spoke into Xie Yusheng’s mind, claiming to be Emperor Taiyi and telling him that he might inherit his legacy.

Gu Jinlai contacted Xie Yusheng on Blue Star, recognized his talent for technology, and set him on the path of developing machinery for the Demon God cultivation route. After advancing plans for the Chengying mech and assigning research to his allies, Gu Jinlai traveled to Yue Province to meet the returning Abyss Master.

• Gu Jinlai spoke to Xie Yusheng through spiritual resonance, directed him to find a factory in Nankai City, and explained the Demon God path of using external technology.
• Xie Yusheng eagerly embraced mechanical ascension, bought a ticket to Nankai City, and set aside his plans involving Qiao Siyu and the True Immortal Research Institute.
• Gu Jinlai considered using Xie Yusheng's family's old courtyard for a machinery plant and gained ideas for improving the Chengying mech from the Repulsion Shield and nuclear engine materials.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Xin Tianqi to investigate criminals, gave Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi materials and the Chengying prototype to study, and granted them access to the Aries Star Palace's simulation functions.
• Gu Jinlai summoned Gu Chifeng, Gu Luocheng, Gu Qingmei, Lu Zhanxian, Xuanyue, and others, then headed to Yue Province to meet the returning Abyss Master.

Lin Yuan, Liu Yuxi, and True Immortal Jin Haoran arrived in Qiantian to establish a grotto-heaven and cultivate experts while supporting the Immortal Kingdom’s plan to nurture a Heavenly Dao that would isolate spiritual energy. At the Three Pure Palace, Wuzhong True Person and Wunian True Person awaited Lin Yuan and expected the Three Pure Palace to gain dominance over Qiantian.

• Lin Yuan and Liu Yuxi discussed Flame Province’s desolation, the war against Demonic Beasts, and their doubts about the Myriad Stars Sword Sect’s role in nurturing a Heavenly Dao.
• Jin Haoran joined Lin Yuan and Liu Yuxi aboard the flying ship, and Lin Yuan confirmed they had entered Qiantian.
• Jin Haoran agreed to establish a grotto-heaven in a densely populated region, reserve ten thousand spots for Qiantian, and take the remaining spiritual energy as spirit crystals.
• Lin Yuan, Liu Yuxi, and Jin Haoran decided to visit the Three Pure Palace and choose a site for the grotto-heaven.
• Representatives from Qiantian’s major forces gathered at the Three Pure Preaching Platform, while Wuzhong True Person and Wunian True Person discussed Gu Jinlai’s threat and anticipated Lin Yuan’s arrival.
• Wunian True Person declared that the Three Pure Palace would stand beneath only one person and above everyone else in Qiantian after Lin Yuan arrived.

Gu Jinlai returned to Moon Province with Xuanyue and met Jiang Chongshan as the forces of Great Qian awaited the Abyss Master, Lin Yuan. When the Abyss Master’s party arrived, its leader revealed the aura of a True Immortal, alarming those who had hoped Gu Jinlai could protect Great Qian.

• Gu Jinlai brought Xuanyue and his companions to the Three Pure Ones Preaching Platform and urged Xuanyue to consider reclaiming the Three Pure Ones Hall.
• Gu Jinlai arrived and reassured Jiang Chongshan and the Great Qian officials that he could deal with the Abyss Master if necessary.
• Gu Jinlai discussed Great Qian’s provincial administration with Jiang Chongshan while they waited for Lin Yuan.
• A flying vessel arrived carrying Lin Yuan’s party, but a middle-aged man led the group instead of the Abyss Master.
• Taiyuan, Qin Yujing, Jiang Yinlong, and the others sensed the leader’s aura and realized he was a True Immortal.

Jin Haoran and Lin Yuan arrived with the Three Pure Ones Hall, and the factions gathered in Qiantian bowed to the True Immortal while Gu Jinlai and Jiang Chongshan stood firm. When Lin Yuan demanded an explanation over the Soaring Firmament Palace’s alleged ties to Profound Heavenly Venerable, Gu Jinlai revealed his overwhelming power and challenged the newcomers, leaving Lin Yuan trapped in a vortex of lightning.

• Jin Haoran’s True Immortal presence awed the gathered factions, and nearly everyone bowed while Gu Jinlai’s people and Jiang Chongshan remained standing.
• True Person Wunian accused the Soaring Firmament Palace of colluding with Profound Heavenly Venerable, and Lin Yuan demanded that Gu Jinlai answer for the accusations.
• Gu Jinlai said the accusations required proof, revealed an aura stronger than the White Goat Star Palace’s peak False Immortal Heavenly Dragon, and challenged Lin Yuan, Jin Haoran, and Liu Yuxi to attack together.
• Jin Haoran and Lin Yuan recognized signs of the Martial Immortal path and an Ancient Divine Beast, and Lin Yuan rushed at Gu Jinlai with the speed granted by his Qilin divine weapon.
• Gu Jinlai unleashed lightning that Lin Yuan dodged, then formed a spinning lightning ring that bound him.

Jin Haoran revealed his True Immortal body and attacked Gu Jinlai while Lin Yuan remained trapped, but Gu Jinlai overwhelmed both with his lightning abilities and the Celestial and Human Dao Wheel. As Jin Haoran began to collapse, Gu Jinlai turned to Liu Yuxi and challenged her to join the fight.

• Jin Haoran stepped into the battle in his hundred-meter True Immortal body and struck at Gu Jinlai with Heaven Sword Descends to the Mortal Realm.
• Gu Jinlai stitched the clouds together with lightning, trapped Jin Haoran’s sword in a thunderous halo, and continued holding Lin Yuan.
• Jin Haoran unleashed his golden sword techniques and battered the halo, while onlookers recognized Gu Jinlai as a match for a True Immortal.
• Gu Jinlai drew in lightning from across more than a hundred kilometers and used the Celestial and Human Dao Wheel to trap both Jin Haoran and Lin Yuan.
• The lightning destroyed Jin Haoran’s War God phantom and sword, then began collapsing his True Immortal body as Lin Yuan failed to escape.
• Gu Jinlai told Jin Haoran not to concede yet and challenged Liu Yuxi to prove her strength.

Gu Jinlai defeated Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran, forcing them to admit that he was superior and leaving Qian Tian’s powers in awe of his strength. He learned that the Immortal Kingdom’s visitors had come to establish a paradise, and his revelation that he had slain the Profound Yang Demon God made them wary of provoking him.

• Liu Yuxi and Jin Haoran claimed that Lin Yuan had only meant to spar, and Lin Yuan admitted defeat as Gu Jinlai ended the fight.
• The gathered powers reacted in astonishment as Gu Jinlai’s victory shattered Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran’s reputations and made him Qian Tian’s foremost protector in their eyes.
• Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran discussed their mission to establish a paradise and the ten thousand quotas, with Lin Yuan agreeing to explain the plan to Gu Jinlai.
• Gu Jinlai told the visitors that he had slain the Profound Yang Demon God, alarming Jin Haoran, Lin Yuan, and Liu Yuxi.
• Gu Jinlai asked the visitors to explain the real reason they had traveled to Qian Tian.

Lin Yuan explained that the Immortal Kingdom was gathering Qiantian’s spiritual impetus to nurture a Heavenly Dao and fight the Demonic Beasts, revealing the origins of its paradise-based cultivation system. He then admitted that the Immortal Kingdom’s crucial experiment had succeeded shortly before the Demonic Beast upheaval, leaving Gu Jinlai to confront the connection between the experiment and the disaster.

• Wunian True Person realized that Gu Jinlai’s defeat of Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran had ruined the Three Pure Ones Hall’s plans to dominate Qiantian.
• Lin Yuan told Gu Jinlai that the Immortal Kingdom was fighting the Demonic Beasts in the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss and planned to gather Qiantian’s spiritual impetus to nurture a Heavenly Dao.
• Gu Jinlai challenged the plan to concentrate spiritual impetus in ten thousand cultivators, and Lin Yuan argued that the Immortal Kingdom needed to strengthen its people to survive the crisis.
• Lin Yuan explained that Immortal Lord Zhao Xi had founded the Immortal Kingdom using an ancient text about the Spiritual Impetus Art, which Shu Yueming had brought from another world.
• Lin Yuan revealed that the Immortal Kingdom’s long-running experiment had succeeded a little over a hundred years earlier, shortly before the Demonic Beast upheaval.

Gu Jinlai challenged the Immortal Kingdom’s justification for its experiment and demanded to inspect the techniques needed to build a grotto-heaven in Qian Heaven. He discovered that the Spiritual Energy Technique was incomplete, suspected the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had withheld the full version, and prepared to address Qian Heaven’s fractured rule.

• Liu Yuxi defended the Immortal Kingdom’s experiment, but Gu Jinlai argued that the Demon Realm’s strength would not have threatened their world if the two realms had remained unconnected.
• Lin Yuan admitted that he worked for the Immortal Kingdom because it was the only force capable of resisting the Demonic Beasts, while Gu Jinlai remarked that rule was never sacred.
• Jin Haoran gave Gu Jinlai the grotto-heaven construction technique and Spiritual Energy Technique, in exchange for the Immortal Kingdom receiving some of the spiritual energy produced in Qian Heaven.
• Gu Jinlai examined the Spiritual Energy Technique and declared it incomplete; he concluded that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had supplied the Immortal Kingdom with a flawed version.
• Gu Jinlai decided that he would need to visit the Immortal Kingdom to investigate the technique, then announced that Qian Heaven’s warring factions must be unified.

After defeating two powerful opponents, Gu Jinlai moved to consolidate Great Qian under Lingxiao Palace while preserving the dynasty as a governing and logistical base. He restored Xuanyue’s claim to the Three Pure Ones Hall and set plans to establish a grotto-heaven in Star Province, while withholding its spiritual energy from the immortal kingdom until he learned more about it.

• Gu Jinlai announced that he intended to unify Great Qian’s thirty-nine provinces and purge local forces to prepare against demonic beasts.
• Gu Jinlai recognized Xuanyue as the rightful heir of the Three Pure Ones Hall and accused True Person Wuzhong and True Person Wunian of usurping its inheritance.
• Xuanyue claimed the right to settle matters with True Person Wuzhong and True Person Wunian, while Gu Jinlai stripped them of their artifacts and allowed Xuanyue to fight them one by one.
• The remaining forces agreed to follow Lingxiao Palace, and Jiang Chongshan offered to abdicate before Gu Jinlai explained that the Great Qian Dynasty would remain as Lingxiao Palace’s rear base.
• Gu Jinlai proposed establishing a grotto-heaven in Star Province, but told Jin Haoran and Lin Yuan he would not let them take its gathered spiritual energy to the immortal kingdom until he understood its circumstances.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the group to go to Star Province to establish the grotto-heaven and work out how to consolidate Great Qian.

Gu Jinlai used his victory over Lin Yuan and the Earthly Immortal to secure Qiantian’s surrender and began building a grotto-heaven at Canglang Mountain. As the Firmament Palace consolidated its rule, the Hall of True Immortals surrendered, and Gu Jinlai’s people from the Sacred Dynasty arrived to join his forces.

• Gu Jinlai returned to Star Province while Lin Yuan departed to deal with True Person Wuzhong and True Person Wunian, leaving their fate unknown.
• After news of Gu Jinlai’s victory spread across Qiantian, Red Leaf and Imperial Preceptor Taiyuan secured the support of Island Province and North Guardian City, while other factions surrendered to the Firmament Palace.
• Profound Heavenly Venerable ordered the Hall of True Immortals to surrender to Gu Jinlai, then left to pursue his own clash with the Heavenly Extremity Sword and Star Lord Heavenly Balance.
• Gu Jinlai chose Canglang Mountain as the site for a grotto-heaven, and Jin Haoran, Liu Yuxi, Lin Yuan, and others helped with its construction.
• Gu Jinlai publicly judged and executed notorious criminals from newly surrendered factions, demonstrating the Firmament Palace’s strict rules.
• Gu Jinlai welcomed a Blue Sky warship carrying Zhao Jiuyin, Xia Zhongzheng, Jinhui, Yan Xingchen, and other Sacred Dynasty figures, along with more than six thousand newly advanced Heavenly Masters.

Gu Jinlai welcomed Chao Jiuyin and thousands of Celestial Masters to Lingxiao Palace, then established the Hall of Creation and its institutes to advance research and production of the Chengying mecha. The researchers began work at the Aries Star Palace, with Gu Jinlai setting ambitious deadlines for finalizing and manufacturing the mecha.

• Xin Tianqi, Lu Zhanxian, and the other Lingxiao Palace leaders were stunned by the thousands of Celestial Masters arriving aboard the Blue Star warship.
• Gu Jinlai introduced Chao Jiuyin and Xia Zhongzheng to Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi, gave Chao Jiuyin Heavenly Spirit Pearls, and arranged posts for the newcomers.
• Gu Jinlai brought the researchers to the Aries Star Palace, where they praised its advanced facilities and he gave Chao Jiuyin an improved Starlight Nine Refinements Visualization Method.
• Gu Jinlai assigned Chao Jiuyin to lead the Celestial Master Institute, Zhou Yi to lead the Research Institute, and Zhang Lihuo to lead the Creation Institute under the new Hall of Creation.
• Gu Jinlai appointed Liu Feiyun as Hall Master of the Central Hall and Zhao Yushu as head of its Audit Institute.
• Gu Jinlai ordered the Chengying mecha finalized within three months and set production targets of six units within one year, more than twenty within two years, and more than fifty within three years.

Devil Master Cangming learned that monsters had returned and ordered Redfire to investigate while the Demon Realm prepared to intensify its war. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai reorganized the Soaring Firmament Palace and, after failing to improve his Chaotic Starlight Body, decided to cultivate the Three Realms.

• At the Tower of Eternal Life, Devil Master Cangming discussed the deaths of Startrace and Longxiao and concluded that the returned monsters threatened the Demon Realm’s plans.
• Cangming told Redfire that Blackflame Devil Master’s passage led to a dying world, then ordered him to track the monster that had devoured Startrace and Longxiao.
• Gu Jinlai and Xin Tianqi established the Soaring Firmament Palace’s Nine Halls system, assigning Liu Feiyun, Gu Xiangyang, Gu Chifeng, Lu Zhanxian, Xuanyue, and others to leadership roles.
• Gu Luocheng brought the Heavenly Dragon Wood to Suppression North City, helping the Soaring Firmament Palace purge Qiantian and hunt Demonic Beasts in the Endless Mountains.
• After three months, Gu Jinlai found that spending over a hundred strands of Clear Light had barely improved his Chaotic Starlight Body, so he decided to begin cultivating the Three Realms.

Gu Jinlai perfected the Spirit Art and realized that spiritual essence represented creation and might determine the fate of worlds, then perfected the Void Projection Art and discovered its projections could assimilate weaker spirits. The chapter left him with a way to investigate Blue Star, while revealing that his projections could transform those they reached.

• Gu Jinlai decided to seek the complete Spirit Art from the Myriad Stars Sword Sect before advancing the Three Realms cultivation art.
• Gu Jinlai weighed spending his remaining clear light on the Eternal Furnace but chose to perfect the incomplete Spirit Art instead.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that spiritual essence was tied to creation and that its depletion could lead a world from the loss of primordial divine beasts to the collapse of civilization and eventual death.
• Gu Jinlai wondered whether Blue Star had reached the stage after cultivation civilization's extinction and wanted to investigate its ancient myths.
• Gu Jinlai perfected the Void Projection Art and discovered that it assimilated the spirits of weaker beings into forms resembling weak Spirit Realm life-forms.

Gu Jinlai projected himself onto Blue Star through Xie Yusheng and set him on a cultivation path, directing him to buy a plot of land and sending him a new method. The chapter ended with Xie Yusheng recognizing its resemblance to Foundation Establishment techniques recently obtained from an immortal-xia world.

• Gu Jinlai used the Void Projection Technique to descend onto Xie Yusheng on Blue Star, though he still could not see the spirit world there.
• Xie Yusheng told Gu Jinlai that he had spent his savings and taken out a large loan to buy Jinpeng Precision Machinery Factory.
• Gu Jinlai directed Xie Yusheng to buy a nearby plot of land as a cultivation site, and Xie Yusheng set off to contact its owner.
• Gu Jinlai devised the Chaos Demon God Proving Eternity Method to help Xie Yusheng absorb enough energy to cultivate and transmitted its first level to him.
• Xie Yusheng said that Great Jin, Huanglong, and the Middle Kingdom had established a research institute and that two or three people had already reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Gu Jinlai learned that Blue Star’s Immortal Research Institute had contacted a cultivation world and questioned Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran about the Myriad Stars Sword Sect and the Xuānxiān Realm. He left the discussion intent on meeting the person who had given the Immortal Realm its name.

• Gu Jinlai learned from Xie Yusheng about the Foundation Establishment Realm and suspected that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had contacted Blue Star.
• Gu Jinlai told Xie Yusheng to cultivate the Chaos Fiendgod's Dao-Proving Eternality Method, compensate the family whose land he planned to buy, and invite them to dinner.
• Gu Jinlai summoned Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran, who explained that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect came from the Xuānxiān Realm and that its three Heavenly Immortal Lords could not cross the spatial rift with their grotto-heavens.
• Jin Haoran said the Myriad Stars Sword Sect sought the Immortal Realm’s Spiritual Energy because the Xuānxiān Realm was resource-poor, while the Immortal Kingdom cooperated with the sect to gain help against Demonic Beasts.
• Gu Jinlai learned the Xuānxiān Realm’s cultivation ranks and asked who had named their world the Immortal Realm, saying he wanted to meet that person.

Gu Jinlai weighed the danger of meeting Tai Bai True Immortal and arranged to visit the Immortal Kingdom after Jin Haoran’s grotto-heaven stabilized, while preparing the Sacred Dynasty and new mechas for the conflict ahead. He then projected himself to Blue Star and watched his family receive demolition compensation, finding the moment worth the cost.

• Jin Haoran and Lin Yuan explained that Tai Bai True Immortal was a Supreme True Immortal, and agreed to take Gu Jinlai to the Immortal Kingdom once the grotto-heaven construction reached a stable phase.
• Gu Jinlai found that his Three Realms cultivation method still lacked a complete Spiritual Energy Art and decided to have the Sacred Dynasty send envoys to the Immortal Kingdom.
• Chao Jiuyin showed Gu Jinlai the finalized Shadowless Mecha, and Gu Jinlai ordered the Celestial Masters to produce twenty within two years.
• Gu Jinlai projected himself to Blue Star and watched Xie Yusheng offer his parents two million for their house and land, leaving him glad to see his family happy.

Gu Jinlai found renewed purpose in protecting Blue Star and tasked Xie Yusheng with investigating the True Immortal Research Institute. Back in Qiantian, he prepared to return to the Sacred Dynasty and left Zhou Yi a trump card against True Immortals.

• Gu Jinlai watched his family on Blue Star and resolved to treat it as his back garden, punishing anyone who meddled with it.
• Gu Jinlai ordered Xie Yusheng to investigate the True Immortal Research Institute, and Xie agreed to seek a way inside.
• Gu Jinlai discovered that Gu Kaiyuan, Gu Jinzhao, and Gu Kaishan had stronger spiritual lights than Xie Yusheng, but decided not to project himself onto his family without need.
• Gu Jinlai summoned Liu Feiyun, Xin Tianqi, and Zhou Yi, then said Liu Feiyun would accompany him back to the Sacred Dynasty while Xin Tianqi managed Qiantian.
• Gu Jinlai led Zhou Yi into a restricted space and revealed that he had left him a trump card capable of dealing with True Immortals.

Gu Jinlai entrusted Zhou Yi with control of the Void Beast and set cultivation plans for the Gu Household’s younger generation before heading to Chen Domain and the Sacred Dynasty. In Mulong Kingdom, Blue Star forces led by Edlen and Zhang Yun defeated the kingdom and began planning a Rift Generator, despite Dr. Fermi’s doubts about the technology.

• Gu Jinlai gave Zhou Yi authority to direct the Void Beast in an emergency and warned him to keep it hidden unless absolutely necessary.
• Gu Jinlai assigned the younger generation cultivation paths and a year to prove their talent, then departed with Liu Feiyun for Chen Domain and the Sacred Dynasty.
• Edlen, Zhang Yun, and their Blue Star forces finished conquering Mulong Kingdom after killing a Saint with heavy artillery.
• Zhang Yun proposed coordinating with Congress and their allies to prepare against powerful beings from this world.
• Edlen told Dr. Fermi to start building a Rift Generator, but Fermi questioned how easily they had obtained the technology and warned of its uncertain origins.