Chapter Summaries

Gu Jinlai helped Liu Feiyun head toward the Yinglong Sacred Land, then projected his consciousness to Blue Star after sensing Xie Yusheng call for him. At the True Immortal Research Institute, he learned that the being contacting Blue Star called himself Sui Mu and that the Starlight Federation was preparing to use a formation he had sent, leaving Gu Jinlai alarmed that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had designs on Blue Star.

• Liu Feiyun spotted the Yinglong Sacred Land fighting a wounded Demon Emperor, and Gu Jinlai sent her to help its people.
• Gu Jinlai sensed Xie Yusheng calling from Blue Star and used the perfected Void Projection Technique to reach him at the True Immortal Research Institute.
• Xie Yusheng spoke with Qiao Ningyun, who explained that he had been brought to the institute so officials could test whether the Qianxing person was connected to the being he had first contacted.
• Gu Jinlai recognized the name Sui Mu as a True Immortal of the Myriad Stars Sword Sect and suspected the sect had set its sights on Blue Star.
• Qiao Ningyun revealed that Sui Mu had sent a formation for refining spiritual energy and that the Starlight Federation was preparing closer contact with the Longevity Realm.

Xie Yusheng accompanied the Nantian Gate team as they contacted the Immortal of Ancient Wood, while Gu Jinlai observed through him. As the exchange began, Gu Jinlai located the Immortal’s hidden trace in the true spirit world.

• Xie Yusheng worried that the Immortal of Ancient Wood might threaten ordinary people, and Gu Jinlai reassured him.
• Qiao Ningyun brought Xie Yusheng to the secure exchange site, where Lan Yuntian gave him response instructions and Zhao Qilin prepared the team’s objectives.
• The Great Jin Kingdom’s team activated the traction instrument, drawing the Immortal of Ancient Wood’s powerful divine sense into the hall.
• Zhao Qilin offered records of 326 divine beasts, and the Immortal of Ancient Wood showed interest while discussing innate divinities and cultivation.
• Gu Jinlai told Xie Yusheng to record the conversation without revealing anything unusual, then withdrew and searched the true spirit world until he found the Immortal’s trace.

Gu Jinlai invaded Immortal Sui Mu’s spiritual world to learn why the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had come to the Immortal Kingdom and to obtain the complete Spirit Resonance Art, but Immortal Sui Mu destroyed his True Spirit. The Myriad Stars Sword Sect’s leaders decided to delay their attack until the Heavenly Dao was fully formed, while preparing to bring in reinforcements and seize the Immortal Kingdom.

• Gu Jinlai used Eternal Radiance of the Great Sun to attack Immortal Sui Mu while Sui Mu’s Primordial Spirit was exploring Blue Star, then searched his memories for the sect’s mission and the Spirit Resonance Art.
• Immortal Sui Mu recalled his Primordial Spirit, crushed Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, and told Immortal Zhen Tu that a Grand Heavenly Lord had attacked him.
• Immortal Sui Mu reported the incident to Immortal Tai Bai, who suspected that a Grand Heavenly Lord had discovered the Myriad Stars Sword Sect’s plans.
• Immortal Tai Bai rejected an early attack and ordered the sect to wait until the Heavenly Dao was complete.
• Immortal Tai Bai planned to use an incursion by Demon Gods as a pretext to bring ten more True Immortals into the Immortal Kingdom, joining the sect’s five immortals to conquer it.

Gu Jinlai uncovered that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect planned to use its subsidiary Heavenly Dao to bring down Heavenly Immortals, leaving the Immortal Kingdom and Blue Star in grave danger. After learning that Di Luo had joined Yinglong Sacred Land and tried to influence its plans for Qiantian, Gu Jinlai accepted an invitation to enter the sacred land.

• Gu Jinlai recovered from the backlash of projecting his True Spirit into the Immortal of Sui Wood and learned that the Myriad Stars Sword Sect had six Heavenly Immortals, including Taibai as an incarnation.
• Gu Jinlai concluded that he needed to perfect the Three Realms with enough pure light to counter the threat to the Immortal Kingdom and Blue Star.
• Fang Tianhua told Gu Jinlai that Yinglong Sacred Land had twelve Supreme Elders and had recently eased its siege by more than forty Demon Emperors.
• Fang Tianhua revealed that Di Luo had claimed Gu Jinlai was dead and had offered to help Yinglong Sacred Land take charge of Qiantian; Gu Jinlai asked the sacred land to hand Di Luo over.
• Elders Ying Hualong and Pang Feiyu arrived, heard that Gu Jinlai and Liu Feiyun had helped defeat a Demon Emperor, and invited Gu Jinlai into Yinglong Sacred Land.
• Gu Jinlai accepted Ying Hualong and Pang Feiyu's invitation.

Mu Changsheng and Di Luo planned to enter Qiantian by taking control of the Skypiercing Palace, believing Wushi True Person was dead and Gu Jinlai could be overcome by their powerful Void Immortals. When Gu Jinlai visited, Mu Changsheng bluntly asked him to lead the Yinglong Sacred Land into Qiantian to protect its people, leaving Gu Jinlai to consider the unexpected proposal.

• Mu Changsheng questioned Di Luo about Qiantian's strength and confirmed that Wushi True Person had fallen.
• Mu Changsheng decided the Yinglong Sacred Land would enter Qiantian under the Skypiercing Palace's identity, while Di Luo hoped to defeat Xuan Tianzun and claim the Heavenly Extremity Sword.
• Mu Changsheng gathered Ying Wuxia, Yun Yin, and four other Void Immortals to confront Gu Jinlai when he arrived at the sacred land.
• Mu Changsheng showed Gu Jinlai the Yinglong Sacred Land's strength and asked him to let its forces enter Qiantian to protect the billion people there.
• Gu Jinlai recognized that Mu Changsheng's invitation concealed an agenda but found the Sacred Lord's direct request awkward to answer.

Gu Jinlai challenged Mu Changsheng and Dragon Responding Sacred Land, arguing that the stronger party should guard Qiantian and claiming he could defeat Lin Yuan and the Immortal State’s Jin Haoran. The chapter ended with Gu Jinlai disrupting the seven True Immortals’ wind-and-thunder attack and gathering their thunder into a halo.

• Mu Changsheng proposed that Dragon Responding Sacred Land replace Qiantian’s forces, and Gu Jinlai countered that Qiantian still had formidable fighters, including Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran.
• Gu Jinlai told Mu Changsheng that Dragon Responding Sacred Land could guard Qiantian only if it proved stronger than him, then claimed he had defeated Lin Yuan and Jin Haoran together.
• Mu Changsheng accepted Gu Jinlai’s challenge, and Gu Jinlai demanded that the seven True Immortals fight him together and bring out the sacred land’s Yinglong.
• Mu Changsheng, Ying Wuxia, and Yun Yin summoned wind and thunder in the sky, but Gu Jinlai seized control of their gathering thunder with his Chaos Astral Body and electromagnetic power.
• Gu Jinlai formed the thunder into a powerful halo and declared his mastery of thunder was more than ten times greater than theirs.

Gu Jinlai crushed the Yinglong Sacred Land’s resistance, killed Di Luo, and asked to meet its ancient divine beast. Yinglong revealed that a monster was weaving a web to consume the world, and that its awakening would destroy the world’s spirituality.

• Gu Jinlai subdued Mu Changsheng, Ying Wuxia, and Yun Yin with his lightning domain, then dispersed it after the Yinglong Sacred Land admitted defeat.
• Mu Changsheng blamed Di Luo for inciting the sacred land against Qiantian, and Gu Jinlai killed Di Luo with a bolt of lightning.
• Gu Jinlai asked to meet Yinglong, and Mu Changsheng led him to the aged divine beast in a mountain stream.
• Yinglong recognized an unpleasant aura on Gu Jinlai and said it had at most a hundred years left to live.
• Yinglong told Gu Jinlai that a terrifying monster was weaving a web to swallow the world and would end its spirituality when it awakened.

Gu Jinlai learned from Yinglong that an ancient horror hidden deep in the spiritual realm had driven the innate divinities to flee and may have caused the Celestial Master civilization’s collapse. As Gu Jinlai considered how the Creators served the horror and how the world might escape its fate, he recalled an ancient account of immortals defeating an evil god ten thousand years earlier.

• Yinglong told Gu Jinlai that the innate divinities left the world because an unkillable horror hidden deep within it threatened all life.
• Gu Jinlai connected the horror to the Creators’ spiritual realm bodies, the destruction of the Celestial Master civilization, and True Person Wushang’s warning not to spiritualize.
• Yinglong urged Gu Jinlai to leave with the fire of civilization and as many spirits of life as possible, warning him not to awaken or provoke the horror.
• Gu Jinlai realized that the Creators’ spiritual realm bodies might form a vast defensive force around the horror, potentially requiring a battle against hundreds of beings as powerful as Devil Masters.
• Gu Jinlai used a clear light to recover a memory from True Immortal Suimu’s reading: an ancient text said immortals of the Profound Immortal Realm had once crushed an invading evil god and returned all spirits to heaven and earth.

Gu Jinlai inferred that the evil god threatening the Longevity Realm might have attacked the Profound Immortal Realm before, and he sought a way to prepare for its return. After purging Yinglong Sacred Land and reaching the Sacred Dynasty’s forces, he contacted its leaders and prepared to advance the Three Realms technique.

• Gu Jinlai inferred from Immortal Venerable Suimu’s memories that the Profound Immortal Realm had survived an evil god’s invasion ten thousand years earlier, and he considered whether it could reveal a way to resist the monster threatening the Longevity Realm.
• Mu Changsheng offered Yinglong Sacred Land’s allegiance to Lingxiao Palace, and Gu Jinlai agreed on the condition that the Sacred Land purge its corrupt members.
• Gu Jinlai judged hundreds of Yinglong Sacred Land members over half a month, leading to thousands more being punished and improving the Sacred Land’s operations and morale.
• Gu Jinlai hurried to the Sacred Dynasty and met its forces, which had driven the Demonic Beast defense line far beyond the Outer Ring’s thirty-six cities.
• Gu Jinlai obtained a Void Palace and contacted Duanmu Chengyun and the other Sacred Dynasty leaders, then used the waiting time to prepare to advance the Three Realms technique with his accumulated clear light.

Gu Jinlai advanced the Three Realms technique, deriving gravity and linking the Eternal Furnace with the Chaotic Starlight Body as he pursued a way to create an inner Spirit Realm without falling under the control of the hidden Spirit Realm entity. He then summoned six Void Immortals to discuss sending a Sacred Dynasty expedition to aid the Immortal Kingdom against the Blood Marsh Demonic Abyss.

• Gu Jinlai considered the dangers of the Nebula Strategy and Spirit Mechanism Art, then planned to build an inner grotto-heaven and simulate the Spirit Realm within it.
• Gu Jinlai invested more than six hundred streams of clear light into the Three Realms, advancing it to Minor Accomplishment and deriving the trait of gravity.
• Gu Jinlai realized the Eternal Furnace could power the Chaotic Starlight Body’s attacks and anticipated that further advancement might reveal the strong force.
• Gu Jinlai compared his plan to Blue Star legends of the Violet Palace and Nascent Soul and decided he would investigate Blue Star’s cultivation system.
• Gu Jinlai summoned Duanmu Chengyun, Si Wuya, Zhao Piaomiao, Suxin, Zhang Yingzhen, and Dongxuanzi to discuss forming a Sacred Dynasty expeditionary army to help the Immortal Kingdom defeat the Demonic Beasts of the Blood Marsh Demonic Abyss.

Gu Jinlai persuaded the Sacred Dynasty’s leaders to send forces to aid the Immortal Kingdom against the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss, while arranging another purge of the Sacred Dynasty. He secured a purchase of grotto-heaven stones and continued his journey with Liu Feiyun, anticipating the results of the purge.

• Gu Jinlai proposed sending four leaders, forty Void Immortals, and other forces to reinforce the Immortal Kingdom, and Duanmu Chengyun agreed on behalf of the Sacred Dynasty.
• Duanmu Chengyun and the other leaders revealed that they had already purged the Sacred Dynasty, sending serious offenders to the front lines to atone through merit.
• Gu Jinlai praised their actions and announced that he would personally conduct another purge using his ability to distinguish good from evil.
• Duanmu Chengyun appointed Gu Jinlai Inspector-General of the Forty-Nine Cities and agreed to sell him grotto-heaven stones at market price.
• Duanmu Chengyun offered Gu Jinlai a group of criminals serving on the front lines, and Gu Jinlai continued his journey with Liu Feiyun.

Gu Jinlai punished former enemies among the imperial criminal soldiers and used Void Projection to uncover Wu Tianya’s secret. He learned that the God of the Underworld was being nurtured as an incarnation of the Cangming Devil Master, powerful enough to rival a supreme True Immortal even before its maturation was complete.

• Gu Jinlai arrived in Windstorm City, praised its leaders, and ordered Su Shian and Liu Feiyun to begin another purge across the Sacred Dynasty’s cities.
• Gu Jinlai found Si Xinghui, Lan Yuxian, Wu Tianya, and other criminals assigned as soldiers under his command.
• Gu Jinlai killed Pan Dali with thunder after Pan Dali refused to fight him, then warned Lan Yuxian that she had failed to advance to Sage.
• Lan Yuxue asked Gu Jinlai to let the group atone through service, while Wu Tianya offered secret intelligence in exchange for his life.
• Gu Jinlai struck Wu Tianya unconscious and used Void Projection to search his memories, discovering that the God of the Underworld contained divine thoughts of the Cangming Devil Master meant to merge into a powerful incarnation.

Gu Jinlai purged the remaining cities, gained few clear-light resources, and failed to buy enough grotto-heaven stones from Duanmu Chengyun. Before departing for the Immortal Kingdom, he forcefully advanced the Three Realms cultivation method to great mastery and awakened nuclear force.

• Gu Jinlai erased Wu Tianya, killed Lan Yuxian and other Red Name offenders, and spared Lan Yuxue so she could atone through meritorious deeds.
• Gu Jinlai led Liu Feiyun's forces in purging cities across the Sacred Dynasty, but obtained only slightly more clear light than he had from the Yinglong Sacred Land.
• Duanmu Chengyun sold Gu Jinlai twenty grotto-heaven stones but refused to trade more, and they agreed to depart for the Immortal Kingdom in three days.
• Aboard Liu Feiyun's flying boat, Gu Jinlai refined grotto-heaven stones and used clear light to force the Three Realms cultivation method to great mastery.
• Gu Jinlai opened a miniature void within his eternal core and awakened the derived trait Nuclear Force.

Gu Jinlai tested the nuclear force he gained after completing the Three Realms and discovered that it let him expand into an immense, energy-rich body. After reaching nearly a kilometer in height and demonstrating devastating speed and strength, he returned to a sustainable size with greater confidence for his journey to the Immortal Kingdom in three days.

• Gu Jinlai left the flying vessel and used gravity and electromagnetic force to sense the surrounding terrain.
• Gu Jinlai expanded to 490 meters, using nuclear force to stabilize his body and gravity to resist the pressure of Heaven and Earth.
• Gu Jinlai launched himself into the sky and accelerated beyond twenty times the speed of sound, unleashing immense shock waves and demonstrating that only great divine abilities could injure him.
• Gu Jinlai expanded to 990 meters, but the strain on his Eternal Core made the form difficult to control and sustain.
• Gu Jinlai returned to a 260-meter form that balanced energy use and replenishment, and gained confidence for his trip to the Immortal Kingdom in three days.

Gu Jinlai and the Sacred Dynasty’s reinforcements traveled to the Immortal Kingdom, where Zhang Tianye welcomed them and explained the crisis at the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss. After learning that the Immortal Kingdom’s Immortal Lords had relocated their Grotto-Heavens to hold the line while Zhao Xi’s Grotto-Heaven gestated a Heavenly Dao, Gu Jinlai asked to meet Zhao Xi, and Zhang Tianye led the way.

• Gu Jinlai joined Duanmu Chengyun, Dong Xuanzi, Zhang Yingzhen, Suxin, and their forces aboard a warship bound for the Immortal Kingdom.
• Duanmu Chengyun warned Gu Jinlai about the Myriad Star Sword Sect’s motives and sought autonomy for the Sacred Dynasty’s forces; Gu Jinlai agreed they should retain the right to judge orders and battlefield conditions.
• Zhang Tianye, one of the Immortal Kingdom’s nine Supreme Immortals, arrived to welcome the Sacred Dynasty’s delegation and exchanged greetings with Gu Jinlai and the others.
• Zhang Tianye described how the Immortal Lords’ relocated Grotto-Heavens had stabilized the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss battlefield and helped buy time for a Heavenly Dao to gestate in Zhao Xi’s Grotto-Heaven.
• Gu Jinlai asked to meet Immortal Lord Zhao Xi, and Zhang Tianye agreed to take him there.

Gu Jinlai and his companions met Zhao Xi, founder of the Immortal Kingdom, and challenged his decision to involve the Myriad Stars Sword Sect. Zhao Xi urged them to witness the battle at the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss, leaving Gu Jinlai to reconsider his judgment of the Immortal Kingdom’s choices.

• Zhang Tianye explained the Immortal Kingdom’s grotto-heavens and led Gu Jinlai’s group to Zhao Xi’s thousand-li super grotto-heaven.
• Zhao Xi welcomed Gu Jinlai and his companions into his Dao Artifact palace, where Gu Jinlai raised his fears about the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.
• Zhao Xi admitted that he had not believed choosing the Myriad Stars Sword Sect was the right decision.
• Zhao Xi recalled the Battle of White Dragon Gorge and urged Gu Jinlai to see the defenders fighting at the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss.
• Gu Jinlai recognized the burden Zhao Xi carried and reconsidered condemning the Immortal Kingdom without understanding its circumstances.

Gu Jinlai met Zhao Xi, who revealed that he had nurtured a Heaven's Law and wanted Gu Jinlai to infiltrate the Mysterious Immortal Realm. After explaining the realm's suppression of outsiders, Zhao Xi left Gu Jinlai with the danger and importance of the mission.

• Zhao Xi explained that the Blood Marsh Demon Abyss remained the immediate threat, but endless wars would eventually exhaust the Longevity Realm.
• Zhao Xi recognized Gu Jinlai as someone following the path of the Innate Divine and gave him ancient research to aid his cultivation.
• Zhao Xi revealed that his Heaven's Law had nearly finished gestating, but he could not merge it with his grotto-heaven while the Myriad Stars Sword Sect watched.
• Zhao Xi asked Gu Jinlai to infiltrate the Mysterious Immortal Realm, where he could disrupt the Myriad Stars Sword Sect's Heaven's Law and help Zhao Xi complete the fusion.
• Zhao Xi brought Gu Jinlai into his grotto-heaven and explained that his Heaven's Law, Transference of Spirits, came from the Great Dao of Reincarnation.
• Zhao Xi warned that Heaven's Laws suppressed outsiders in the Mysterious Immortal Realm while empowering its inhabitants, explaining why his previous infiltration teams had failed.

Gu Jinlai agreed to infiltrate the Myriad Stars Sword Sect in the Profound Immortal Realm, hoping to take control of it and turn its strength against the Demonic Beasts. Zhao Xi supplied him with resources and a disguise artifact, then warned him about the dangers of entering a Heavenly Immortal's grotto-heaven and discussed a Nethergod near the Celestial Dynasty.

• Zhao Xi explained that Gu Jinlai could help him awaken the Spirit-Transference Heavenly Dao by disrupting the Myriad Stars Sword Sect's Heavenly Dao in the Profound Immortal Realm.
• Gu Jinlai agreed to infiltrate the sect and asked Zhao Xi for grotto-heaven stones, then chose to take top-grade materials to exchange for them in the Profound Immortal Realm.
• Zhao Xi promised him eighty thousand portions of top-grade materials, gave him a Mirage Dragon Pearl, and said the passage would next open in three months.
• Gu Jinlai asked why Zhao Xi trusted him with so much, and Zhao Xi said he believed Gu Jinlai cared about the human race and had few other choices.
• Zhao Xi warned Gu Jinlai that Heavenly Immortals could sense secrets within their grotto-heavens, then confirmed that a Nethergod was near the Celestial Dynasty and explained how the Spirit-Transference Heavenly Dao might help attack Devil Master Cangming.

Gu Jinlai agreed to use the Spirit-Transferring Heavenly Dao’s power against the Nether God and returned toward the Sacred Dynasty with Zhang Tianye. Meanwhile, the demons learned that a powerful Void Beast threatened them and decided to withdraw to the Chen Domain, leaving the Nether God’s destination uncertain.

• Zhao Xi explained that the Spirit-Transferring Heavenly Dao could be channeled through the Nether God to injure Devil Master Cangming, and Gu Jinlai volunteered to deal with it.
• Gu Jinlai and Zhang Tianye traveled back toward the Sacred Dynasty while Gu Jinlai studied ancient records about the Profound Immortal Realm and its hundreds of Heavenly Daos.
• The demons completed a giant demonic god body, summoned Spirit Venerable Xuanyang into it, and heard Devil Emperor Qian Yan describe a world he hoped to invade.
• Hong Ying revealed that a monster had destroyed the Aries Star Lord and been refined into a Void Beast, which the demons feared they could not oppose.
• Hong Ying ordered the demons to evacuate the Sacred Dynasty with the Nether God body and withdraw to the Chen Domain.

Gu Jinlai prepared Qiantian and the Sacred Dynasty for his absence, studied the paths of the Innate Divine Saints and Creators, and traveled with Zhao Xi to a concealed star gate. The gate opened onto the Profound Immortal Realm, where Gu Jinlai began his infiltration mission under a prepared identity.

• Gu Jinlai learned the demons had withdrawn toward the Chen Domain and tasked Zhao Piaomiao with finding the Nethergod while Zhang Tianye promised the Immortal Kingdom would destroy it.
• Gu Jinlai instructed Su Shian, Ji Lie, and others to manage the Sacred Dynasty, support Qiantian’s development, and prepare Chengying mechs for future expansion.
• Gu Jinlai sent finalized Chengying mech specifications to Blue Star’s South Heaven Gate Project Team through Gu Junxiu and studied Zhao Xi’s materials on Innate Divine Saints, realizing his cultivation combined their path with that of the Creators.
• Three months later, Zhao Xi guided Gu Jinlai to a hidden star gate guarded by Jumang and other Void Immortals, where the gate was prepared to open.
• Gu Jinlai accepted his prepared identity and mission to infiltrate the Myriad Star Sword Sect, then entered the star gate as Zhao Xi wished him good luck.