Chapter Summaries

True Immortal Taibai learned that Gu Jinlai was likely infiltrating the Myriad Stars Sword Sect and ordered close monitoring of new recruits. Gu Jinlai entered the Mysterious Immortal Realm, assessed its depleted spiritual power and struggling Heavenly Daos, and prepared to take Jiang Yufeng’s place in Cliffedge City.

• True Immortal Taibai told True Immortal Suimu he would return to the Myriad Stars Sword Sect rather than heed a delayed call to battle, and they discussed Zhao Xi’s suspected infiltration plan.
• True Immortal Suimu identified Gu Jinlai as the likely spy, and True Immortal Taibai ordered the sect to monitor every new member at the Primordial Spirit level or above.
• Gu Jinlai arrived in the Mysterious Immortal Realm and used the Child of the Stars trait to assess its heavier gravity, scarce spiritual power, and constrained Heavenly Daos.
• Gu Jinlai maintained the hidden Star Gate’s formations with spirit crystals and emerged into a primeval mountain forest.
• Gu Jinlai planned to replace Jiang Yufeng and travel to Cliffedge City as a Household clan member returning after twenty years of seeking immortality.

Gu Jinlai arrived at Cliffcorner City disguised as Jiang Yufeng and reunited with the Jiang Household, where he learned that his elder brother Jiang Yuji had become master of the Creation Gate. The Creation Gate’s powerful Grotto-Heaven gave Gu Jinlai a possible way to carry out his plan against the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.

• Gu Jinlai reached Cliffcorner City and found the Jiang Residence in the eastern district.
• Gu Jinlai introduced himself as Jiang Yufeng, and guard captain recognized him as the Jiang Household’s Third Young Master.
• Fang Anping welcomed Gu Jinlai and told him that Jiang Yuji had become an Enlightened Void Immortal and master of the Creation Gate.
• Fang Anping explained that Jiang Yuxue had married into the Cloud Firmament Sect while Jiang Yuji and Jiang Yukong were at the Creation Gate.
• Gu Jinlai considered using the Creation Gate’s Grotto-Heaven and influence to gradually absorb the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.

Gu Jinlai studied the Profound Immortal Realm’s spiritual-vein hierarchy while posing as Jiang Yufeng, then traveled with Jiang Yukong to the Creation Sect. He passed the sect’s soul scan and reunited with Jiang Yujian, leaving his plans to gain influence there still ahead.

• Gu Jinlai read about the Profound Immortal Realm’s history, its spiritual veins, and the forces that controlled them.
• Jiang Bieshan introduced two young women and tried to reconnect with Gu Jinlai, but Jiang Yukong arrived and urged him to visit Jiang Yujian.
• Gu Jinlai and Jiang Yukong flew toward the Creation Sect, and Gu Jinlai told him about a powerful primordial divine beast he had encountered.
• Jiang Yukong described the Creation Sect’s territory and disciples as they arrived at its mountain complex.
• Gu Jinlai suppressed his own soul fluctuations and imitated Jiang Yufeng’s residual aura to pass the Creation Sect’s identity scan.
• Jiang Yujian welcomed Gu Jinlai with a tight embrace.

Gu Jinlai reunited with Jiang Yujian, who welcomed him into the Creation Sect and explained the power of its founder’s Creation heavenly law. Gu Jinlai left the conversation impressed by its ability to transform materials and considering how the sect could aid his plans against the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.

• Jiang Yujian introduced Gu Jinlai to his wife, Ye Bingyu, and their children, Jiang Chengyun and Jiang Caige, then hosted a family banquet.
• Jiang Yujian gave Gu Jinlai materials for condensing a Sacred Body and two Dao Artifacts, but Gu Jinlai tried to refuse the valuable gifts.
• Jiang Yujian explained that the Creation Sect’s founder had birthed the Creation heavenly law, which could convert supplied materials into Dao Artifacts and spirit pills.
• Jiang Yujian promised to help Gu Jinlai and Jiang Yukong build grotto-heavens and said he would let Jiang Yufeng inherit the sect if he proved more talented.
• Gu Jinlai decided that the Creation heavenly law’s material-conversion power could vastly increase the sect’s productivity and considered the benefits of drawing the Creation Sect into his struggle against the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.

Gu Jinlai told Jiang Yujian that the path of the Innate Divine was his true foundation, and Jiang Yujian offered to gather materials to support it. Meanwhile, Ye Qingzhu persuaded Ye Bingyu to curb Jiang Yujian’s support for his relatives by arranging for Jiang Yufeng to oversee the Creation Sect’s new territory in White River City.

• Gu Jinlai explained that he cultivated both immortal cultivation and the path of the Innate Divine, and Jiang Yujian said the two paths would not necessarily conflict.
• Ye Bingyu returned to her residence with Jiang Chengyun and Jiang Caige, where Ye Qingzhu criticized Jiang Yujian for diverting Creation Sect resources to the Jiang family.
• Ye Qingzhu revealed that Jiang Yujian had taken five thousand portions of rare materials and two Dao Artifacts from the sect treasury for Jiang Yufeng, alarming Ye Bingyu.
• Ye Qingzhu proposed sending Jiang Yufeng to oversee White River City after the Skyfire Sect-led campaign against the Red Cloud Sect, and using the elders’ displeasure to pressure Jiang Yujian.
• Ye Bingyu agreed to the plan but said they would wait until Jiang Yufeng condensed his Saintly Body.

After Gu Jinlai reached the Mahayana Realm, Jiang Yujian celebrated his advancement, but elders challenged the resources given to him and arranged for him to lead an expedition against the Redcloud Sect. As the banquet ended, Gu Jinlai decided to help Jiang Yujian become a True Immortal and revealed that he had other treasures to offer.

• Gu Jinlai reached the Mahayana Realm, and Jiang Yujian held a banquet attended by elders and disciples of the Creation Sect.
• Ye Qingzhu questioned whether Jiang Yufeng deserved five thousand portions of top-grade materials and two Dao Artifacts, while Ye Bingyu defended him and announced that he would lead an expedition against the Redcloud Sect.
• Ye Bingyu explained that taking White River City could give Jiang Yufeng a spiritual vein for a future grotto-heaven, and Jiang Yujian accepted the plan despite his concerns.
• After the banquet, Jiang Yujian selected six elders to accompany Jiang Yufeng to White River City and advised him on how to handle the mission.
• Gu Jinlai asked whether Jiang Yujian would take charge of the Creation Heavenly Dao after becoming a True Immortal, then offered treasures that could help him forge his immortal body.

Gu Jinlai gave Jiang Yujian the materials and spiritual resources needed to pursue True Immortality, and Jiang Yujian prepared to take charge of the Creation Heavenly Dao. Gu Jinlai planned to travel to White River City while Jiang Yujian entered seclusion to strengthen the Creation Sect.

• Jiang Yujian explained the effort and rare materials required to perfect the Great Dao and forge an immortal body.
• Gu Jinlai gave Jiang Yujian more than three thousand copies of each of the five elemental materials and fifty spirit crystals.
• Jiang Yujian agreed the resources would let him pursue True Immortality and thanked Gu Jinlai for his support.
• Gu Jinlai asked Jiang Yujian to help refine ancient war puppets with the Creation Heavenly Dao and said he would travel to White River City.
• Jiang Yujian resolved to find Master Ye and enter seclusion to take charge of the Creation Heavenly Dao and pursue the True Immortal realm.

Gu Jinlai traveled with the Creation Sect to Golden River Town, where allied powers gathered to plan the campaign against the Redcloud Sect. He learned more about the Northern Region’s balance of power and began considering how the Creation Sect could build strength, while the war council prepared for its next attack on White River City.

• Gu Jinlai reviewed the Northern Region’s major powers and considered a long-term plan to unite the Creation Sect, overcome the Skyfire Sect, and eventually challenge the Myriad Stars Sword Sect.
• Gu Jinlai planned to use the Creation Heavenly Dao to mass-produce soldiers and Chengying mechs, and to train pilots through Void Projection.
• Yu Xu told Gu Jinlai that the Creation Sect had come to answer the Skyfire Sect’s call and should avoid seeking credit or taking unnecessary risks.
• Gu Jinlai and the Creation Sect arrived at Golden River Town, where True Immortal Flameflow welcomed them and escorted them to the war council.
• Zi Ruyan asked the gathered powers to discuss how to attack White River City, where the Redcloud Sect had taken refuge behind its grotto-heaven.
• Yu Xu introduced Vice Sect Master Yun Zhen of the Cloudsoar Sect as a trusted ally connected to the Creation Sect through the sect master’s sister.

The Skyfire Sect and fifteen other great forces prepared to besiege White River City, while Xu Yu explained why the Creation Sect and Dragon Sword Sect avoided wars that consumed spiritual energy. As the assault began, Gu Jinlai saw the attackers rely on efficient, low-cost weapons and concluded that the Eternal Furnace was especially valuable in a spiritually barren realm.

• Perfected Immortal Yun Zhen told Xu Yu that he had brought the Cloudsoar Sect's forces to ensure they could retreat safely, and warned that Perfected Immortal Crimson might have another trump card.
• Purple Smoke set rewards for the forces joining the encirclement and announced that they would launch their assault the next morning.
• Long Congyun offered political and material support in exchange for ties to the Creation Sect, but Xu Yu and Gu Jinlai rejected his approach; Gu Jinlai learned that the Dragon Sword Sect wanted to absorb the Creation Sect and its Creation Heavenly Law.
• Xu Yu explained to Gu Jinlai that the threat of spiritual-energy consumption kept the Dragon Sword Sect from attacking the Creation Sect outright.
• The sixteen great forces attacked White River City with the Twelve Heavenly Flame Rings, and Xu Yu explained that the low-cost weapons could strike repeatedly without draining the Perfected Immortals' power.
• Watching the assault, Gu Jinlai recognized the Eternal Furnace's value in the Profound Immortal Realm's spiritual-energy scarcity.

Gu Jinlai watched the allied True Immortals besiege the Redcloud Sect’s damaged grotto-heaven, realizing that the Mysterious Immortal Realm’s many Heavenly Daos constrained the Great Dao and shaped its battles. When the attackers finally committed to an all-out assault, the Crimson True Immortal revealed the Flame Heavenly Dao’s power, leaving the clash poised to escalate.

• Gu Jinlai concluded that the Mysterious Immortal Realm’s numerous Heavenly Daos interfered with immortals’ resonance with the Great Dao and that grotto-heavens made it difficult to defeat opponents directly.
• The Crimson True Immortal repeatedly emerged from White River City to attack, but the allied True Immortals fled and continued wearing down the grotto-heaven over six days.
• The allied True Immortals realized the damaged grotto-heaven had endured too long, while the Crimson True Immortal offered to coexist peacefully in Flame River Dao.
• Long Congyun urged the allied forces to destroy the Redcloud Sect, and Zi Ruyan agreed to an all-out assault after promising compensation to those who gained less.
• Zi Ruyan and the other True Immortals manifested their True Immortal bodies and attacked White River City, prompting the Crimson True Immortal to activate a vast flaming ring.
• The twelve True Immortals recognized the Crimson True Immortal’s power as the Flame Heavenly Dao.

The Crimson True Immortal revealed the Flame Heavenly Dao and unleashed a fiery phoenix that overwhelmed the attackers at White River City. As the survivors scattered, Gu Jinlai disguised himself and secretly raced back toward the battlefield, hoping his grotto-heaven could bear the Heavenly Dao.

• The Crimson True Immortal revealed that he had inherited the Flame Heavenly Dao from the Divine Phoenix Immortal Lord, and Zi Ruyan recognized its origin.
• The Crimson True Immortal summoned a giant Dancing-Flame Phoenix that killed Dongming and split into smaller phoenixes to hunt the fleeing True Immortals, Void Immortals, and Saints.
• Gu Jinlai and Xu Xu tried to escape with the elders, while four True Immortals led by Flameflow True Immortal turned back to destroy the Immortal Lord's corpse; the Crimson True Immortal intercepted them.
• Elder Azure Dragon urged Gu Jinlai and the Void Immortals to scatter, and Gu Jinlai agreed before heading toward the outskirts alone.
• After changing his appearance in a forest, Gu Jinlai concealed his identity no longer and sped back toward White River City to test whether his grotto-heaven could bear the Flame Heavenly Dao.

Crimson True Immortal ordered Baihe City sacrificed to sustain the Flame Heavenly Dao, but Gu Jinlai arrived and tore through the Redcloud Sect’s blazing phoenixes. As Crimson True Immortal detonated the remaining phoenixes to stop him, a towering figure appeared and compressed their flames into a miniature sun.

• Crimson True Immortal killed Yanliu True Immortal and ordered the Redcloud Sect to repair its grotto-heaven and massacre Baihe City for spiritual energy.
• Redcloud Sect elders and disciples agreed to sacrifice Baihe City and charged toward it, but Gu Jinlai rushed in from the horizon.
• Crimson True Immortal strengthened hundreds of blazing phoenixes with the Flame Heavenly Dao, and Gu Jinlai destroyed them one after another with silver lightning.
• Gu Jinlai entered his strongest explosive state, while Crimson True Immortal detonated phoenixes to bombard him with immense heat and light.
• A voice protested Crimson True Immortal’s waste of the Flame Heavenly Dao as a figure over nine hundred meters tall emerged and compressed the flames between its hands.

Gu Jinlai manifested a towering form to kill the Crimson Immortal, seize the Flame Heavenly Dao, and purge White River City of the Red Cloud Sect’s wicked members. He left under a false Immortal Lord identity, returned as Jiang Yufeng, and summoned Yu Xu and the others to claim the abandoned grotto-heaven.

• Gu Jinlai used the Divine Light of Separation from Fire to destroy the Crimson Immortal and subdue the weakened Flame Heavenly Dao, then began refining it with spirit crystals and his True Spirit.
• Gu Jinlai reduced his gigantic form to a sustainable size and used the Lightning Radiance Domain to kill over ten thousand people in White River City whose Karma had reached the red level.
• Gu Jinlai took the Divine Phoenix Immortal Lord’s corpse, staged his departure as a mysterious Immortal Lord heading south, and left the Red Cloud Sect’s grotto-heaven apparently ownerless.
• Gu Jinlai returned as Jiang Yufeng, secretly reorganized the grotto-heaven, and messaged Yu Xu and the others to come back and claim it.

Gu Jinlai took control of Baihe City and the Hongyun Sect’s grotto-heaven, then rallied the Creation Gate and Cloudsoar Sect to stabilize it. As the two sects argued over who should own the valuable grotto-heaven, Gu Jinlai said it would be more suitable for the Cloudsoar Sect to take it over.

• Yu Xu returned to Baihe City expecting to rescue Gu Jinlai, but found him directing the city’s cultivators and the Hongyun Sect’s former forces.
• Gu Jinlai asked Yu Xu to help stabilize the grotto-heaven and summon Creation Gate elders and protectors, while Yu Xu arranged to notify Grand Supreme Elder Ye and contact the Cloudsoar Sect and Nine Refinement Pavilion.
• Creation Gate members and Cloudsoar Sect’s Cloudshock True Immortal arrived and helped maintain Baihe City and its grotto-heaven.
• Cloudshock True Immortal offered the Creation Gate a hundred Dao artifacts or equivalent materials for the grotto-heaven, but Ye Yunguang rejected the proposal and the elders argued over whether the Creation Gate could defend it.
• Yu Xu asked Gu Jinlai to give his opinion, and Gu Jinlai said the grotto-heaven would be more suitable for the Cloudsoar Sect.

Gu Jinlai challenged the Ye Household’s attempt to claim the Red Cloud Sect’s grotto-heaven, exposing its political motives and proposing that the Creation Sect prove it could defend the territory. The rival sects arrived, but Zi Ruyan ordered them to search White River City for Red Cloud Sect remnants before Ye Yunguang could finish speaking.

• Ye Yunguang opposed handing over the grotto-heaven, while True Immortal Yun Zhen insisted Jiang Yufeng had the right to decide what happened to territory he had conquered.
• Ye Yunguang revealed a refined Grotto-Heaven Divine Crystal and threatened to use its power against the Cloudsoar Sect, escalating the dispute into a threat of war.
• Yu Xu stopped Ye Yunguang from striking Gu Jinlai and defended the Daoist’s right to decide how the grotto-heaven would be handled.
• Gu Jinlai proposed that the Creation Sect and Cloudsoar Sect settle ownership by seeing who could drive off the Skyfire Sect, Dragon Sword Sect, and Wind and Rain Pavilion, and Ye Yunguang agreed.
• Zi Ruyan, Long Congyun, and the other rival forces arrived; Zi Ruyan ordered them to seal off White River City and search for the Red Cloud Sect’s remnants.

Gu Jinlai used his control of the Red Cloud Sect’s grotto-heaven to empower Immortal Yun Zhen and stop rival factions from seizing White River City. The Skyfire Sect, Dragon Sword Sect, and other forces withdrew, leaving the Firmament Cloud Sect in control.

• Long Congyun attacked as a disguised Skyfire Sect expert shattered Ye Yunguang’s grotto-heaven divine crystal and fled toward the grotto-heaven.
• Yu Xu urged Ye Yunguang to escape White River City and summon the Supreme Elders, but an emergency formation and three Void Immortals blocked him.
• Gu Jinlai told Immortal Yun Zhen that he could mobilize the grotto-heaven’s power, then used his Child of the Stars state to channel its spiritual inspiration into him.
• Gu Jinlai added a spirit crystal to the grotto-heaven, boosting Immortal Yun Zhen to the Supreme True Immortal realm and near the level of an Unparalleled True Immortal.
• Purple Smoke and Long Congyun conceded the grotto-heaven to the Firmament Cloud Sect, and the rival factions withdrew and ended their blockade of White River City.

True Immortal Yun Zhen drove Ye Yunguang’s faction from White River City, then negotiated with Gu Jinlai over the grotto-heaven and its resources. Gu Jinlai planned to strengthen the Creation Sect, confront the Ye Household, and use the Immortal Lords as cover for his plans.

• True Immortal Yun Zhen blasted Ye Yunguang away and warned the Ye Household not to return to White River City.
• Yun Zhen reassured Xu Yu that the Cloudsky Sect remained allied with the Creation Sect and invited the group to help manage White River City’s territory.
• Yun Zhen recognized Gu Jinlai as Jiang Yuxue’s younger brother and praised his cultivation of the path of innate divinity.
• Gu Jinlai traded the grotto-heaven to the Cloudsky Sect in exchange for several resource sites and their stored supplies.
• Gu Jinlai planned to discuss the Ye Household with Jiang Yujian, but resolved to act himself if Jiang Yujian could not make the decision.
• Gu Jinlai decided to present himself as backed by seven Immortal Lords, including the Supreme Taiyi Immortal Lord.

The Nantian Gate team received new communications from the Qianxing person, who warned them against the Longevity Realm civilization, but the leaders suspected he belonged to a rival faction and planned to exploit the rivalry. Meanwhile, Gu Jinlai refined his grasp of the Flame Heavenly Dao before answering Gu Junxiu’s urgent summons, where she said she might have caused a problem.

• Xie Yusheng received the Qianxing person’s Chengying Mecha designs and learned that he had repaired his spaceship and returned home.
• Lan Yuntian had Xie Yusheng send the Qianxing person a Foundation Establishment technique, and the Qianxing person warned that the civilization behind Sui Mu could destroy Blue Star.
• Lan Yuntian and Zhao Shanhe concluded that the Qianxing person and Sui Mu belonged to rival factions, and they discussed using the conflict to gain benefits.
• Lan Yuntian told Xie Yusheng that the Longevity Realm civilization was not as powerful as the Qianxing person claimed, while Bai Xiangyang noted missing parts in the mecha materials.
• Gu Jinlai sensed the Flame Heavenly Dao and considered improving his internal cave abode.
• Gu Jinlai projected his True Spirit to Gu Junxiu at Qiantian Qiushan, where she told him she thought she had messed things up.

Gu Jinlai delayed Blue Star’s efforts to contact the Lifewood True Immortal while planning to build his grotto-heaven around the Five-Element Great Dao. When Ye Qingzhu summoned him to the Creation Sect, Gu Jinlai fought the Ye faction’s elders and confronted Ye Yan, who recognized the Heavenly Dao power hidden within Gu Jinlai.

• Gu Jinlai told Gu Junxiu to prolong exchanges with Blue Star for two or three years, then planned to perfect his grotto-heaven by gathering the five elemental Heavenly Daos.
• Gu Jinlai spent three months in White River City studying the Mysterious Immortal Realm, preparing to manufacture Shadowbearing mechs, and briefing Zhao Xi about the realm’s strength.
• Ye Qingzhu ordered Gu Jinlai and Yu Xu to return to the Creation Sect for questioning, and Gu Jinlai agreed after she threatened Jiang Yujian’s position as sect master.
• At the Creation Sect, Ye Yunguang accused Gu Jinlai of betraying the sect and attacked him, so Gu Jinlai crushed Ye Yunguang and four other Ye faction elders with gravity.
• Ye Yan arrived and tried to rescue the elders, but he sensed the Flame Heavenly Dao within Gu Jinlai and treated him as a possible Immortal Lord.
• Ye Yan rebuked Ye Yunguang, called the conflict a misunderstanding, and invited Gu Jinlai into the Creation Sect’s pocket dimension to discuss matters with Jiang Yujian.

Gu Jinlai entered the Creation Sect’s grotto-heaven with Ye Yan and confronted him over the Ye Household’s abuse of power. When Jiang Yujian threatened to leave the sect over his family being targeted, Gu Jinlai promised to reorganize the Creation Sect and purge its corruption.

• Ye Yunguang and Ye Qingzhu realized Jiang Yufeng’s strength far exceeded his apparent Mahayana Realm cultivation and feared Ye Yan’s wary, respectful attitude toward him.
• Ye Yan led Gu Jinlai into the Creation Sect’s grotto-heaven, where Gu Jinlai examined the Creation Heavenly Dao and spoke with Jiang Yujian’s divine sense.
• Gu Jinlai explained that Ye Qingzhu, Ye Yunguang, and others had tried to oppress him, prompting Jiang Yujian to become furious and threaten to resign as sect master and leave the Creation Sect.
• Gu Jinlai criticized Ye Yan for indulging the Ye Household and warned that his plans to have Jiang Yujian handle them would put Jiang Yujian in an impossible position.
• Gu Jinlai declared that he would reorganize the Creation Sect and purge the corruption within it.