Chapter Summaries

Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect leaders met with Truman’s Supreme Mage Group to discuss their origins and the Transcendent Fortress. The meeting remained cordial, though the Sword Daoist threatened to capture and search the visitors, and Truman’s knowledge of The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods embarrassed him.

• The Sect Leader explained that the visitors belonged to the Transcendent Fortress, whose teams traveled between worlds on missions, and said they knew the Xuan Yan Realm through The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods.
• Zhang Guangmu proposed meeting the Supreme Mage Group face-to-face, arguing that strength would determine whether reason prevailed, and the Taiqing leaders agreed.
• The Sect Leader prepared contingencies and began a meeting with the visitors, whose captain, Truman, introduced himself and his team before a teammate stopped him from revealing more information.
• Yuanyangzi and Temple Granny chatted warmly with Truman while probing him, and Truman shared accounts of other worlds and missions without exposing apparent flaws.
• The Sword Daoist condemned the visitors and suggested capturing and searching them, but Truman said The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods had shown him the Sword Daoist was warm-hearted, leaving the Sword Daoist embarrassed as Zhang Guangmu watched.

Zhang Guangmu discussed magic with the Supreme Mage Group, convinced the Taiqing elders of the visitors’ identities, and gained new insights into his cultivation. The Taiqing Sect Leader made him the acting leader and entrusted him with the Sect Leader Token.

• Truman presented otherworldly items and warned the Taiqing elders about four rival teams in the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu asked Truman about magic and used his split-personality mode to debate the Supreme Mage Group’s members.
• Henry ended the discussion, and the Sword Daoist accepted that magic was a genuine extraordinary system and that the visitors were who they claimed to be.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader arranged lodging for the Supreme Mage Group and considered cooperating with them.
• Zhang Guangmu tried to return to seclusion, but the Sect Leader gave him the Sect Leader Token and authority over Taiqing’s affairs.

Zhang Guangmu accepted the Taiqing Sect Leader Token and began coordinating the sect while advancing his cultivation. As tensions across the Xuan Yan Realm grew, White Moon and Golden Neck arrived with stolen intelligence and revealed that something more important than the coming cultivator war concerned Zhang Guangmu.

• Zhang Guangmu accepted the Sect Leader Token and promised to help the Taiqing Sect develop, while the sect leader and elders approved his new authority.
• Zhang Guangmu delegated the sect’s affairs to specialists, and Taiqing continued growing stronger under his hands-off management.
• Zhang Guangmu’s Imperial Body Forging Technique reached level 27 as his qi and blood, magical power, divine power, and bones grew stronger.
• White Moon and Golden Neck reported that the immortal sects were preparing for a cultivator war, then said they had uncovered something more important that concerned Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu watched a recording of the Divine Alliance discussing the altered events in the Xuan Yan Realm and the mysterious Big Villain Tian Guang. Qin Zhe and Ye Tan recognized the codename as Zhang Guangmu’s own, realizing that their junior sister was the villain the team feared.

• Qin Zhe showed Zhang Guangmu, Mooncake, and Ye Tan a recording of the Divine Alliance team discussing how Long Hong had died before becoming the Immortal Alliance leader.
• The Divine Alliance members speculated that Tian Guang, an elusive mastermind, might be secretly plotting against them.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that his planted storylines had misled the other teams and revealed more about the All Heavens Transfer Station’s limits.
• Qin Zhe and Ye Tan connected Tian Guang’s codename to Zhang Guangmu and realized she was the mysterious Big Villain.

Zhang Guangmu reassured Qin Zhe and Ye Tan that their altered bloodlines would not change their ties to the Xuan Yan Realm or the Taiqing Sect. After seven days of preparation, Duo Civilization began striking powerful figures on Earth through the Infiltration Pods.

• Zhang Guangmu accepted the possibility that he was the villain Tian Guang but said he would remain Zhang Guangmu of the Taiqing Sect.
• Ye Tan explained that the Divine Alliance relied on bloodlines, while he and Qin Zhe also possessed nonhuman traits through the Gaia Alien bloodline and Qin Zhe’s silver moon power.
• Zhang Guangmu told Qin Zhe and Ye Tan that they would remain his fellow disciples even if their bodies changed completely, easing their worries.
• Zhang Guangmu and his fellow disciples discussed the Transcendent Fortress squads and compared the Fortress with the All Heavens Transfer Station.
• After seven days, Zhang Guangmu learned that Duo Civilization had begun targeting powerful figures on Earth, causing many to die and be expelled from the Infiltration Pods.

Zhang Guangmu used the Descenders from the Transcendent Fortress and their valuable inventions to bind Xuan Yan Realm factions together and inflame their rivalries. As conflicts spread among the Ten Great Immortal Sects and other races, Duo Civilization declared the Zhang Guangmu Corruption Plan a failure and shifted to openly targeting him.

• Zhang Guangmu kept his plans steady as Duo Civilization eliminated Earth Civilization’s Subconscious Actors one after another.
• The Descenders won over eight of the Ten Great Immortal Sects with inventions and schemes, binding the factions through shared interests and grudges.
• Zhang Guangmu used the Descenders to provoke escalating conflicts among righteous, demonic, and Demonic Dao sects, while other races joined in.
• The Xuan Yan Realm’s fragile peace broke down, and a war involving the entire realm appeared imminent.
• The Control Group of Duo Civilization confirmed the Zhang Guangmu Corruption Plan had failed and began openly targeting Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu used the Duo Civilization Control Group’s attempts to undermine him as an opportunity to rally Taiqing Sect against supposed Outer-Realm Demons. He left the sect’s disciples gathered in the Ancestral Hall as he accused the unseen beings of manipulating their thoughts and threatening Xuan Yan Realm.

• Duo Civilization’s Control Group failed to corrupt Zhang Guangmu and began planting suspicions about him in the minds of Xuan Yan Realm’s leaders and Taiqing Sect members.
• Zhang Guangmu noticed that his fellow disciples and elders were acting strangely and realized the Control Group had exposed itself by trying to interfere.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned Ye Tan, Qin Zhe, and the Taiqing disciples to the Ancestral Hall using the Sect Leader Token.
• Zhang Guangmu told the gathering that he had discovered a bodiless race called the Outer-Realm Demons that manipulated cultivators’ thoughts and sought to destroy Xuan Yan Realm.

Zhang Guangmu revealed that an invisible Outer-Realm Demon was corrupting cultivators’ thoughts, and several Taiqing disciples and elders backed her claim. Most of the disciples accepted the explanation after she produced evidence, though the chapter did not specify what the evidence was.

• Zhang Guangmu explained that she had noticed unnatural hostility and murderous thoughts spreading among cultivators across the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Qin Zhe and Ye Tan supported Zhang Guangmu, describing disturbing thoughts they had experienced and insisting they were contrary to their natures.
• Many Taiqing disciples remained skeptical because they doubted that an invisible, pervasive Outer-Realm Demon could exist.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader and Three Elders appeared and affirmed that Outer-Realm Demons were real, urging the disciples to trust Zhang Guangmu and unite.
• Zhang Guangmu produced evidence, dispelling the remaining doubts of most disciples.

Zhang Guangmu used recordings from the Sound-Recording Jade to convince the Taiqing Sect that Outer-Realm Demons had exploited cultivators’ hidden thoughts. She urged the sect to warn the cultivation world, and within a day most cultivators in the Xuan Yan Realm had heard of the demons.

• Zhang Guangmu summoned the Sound-Recording Jade and presented recordings that the Taiqing Four Elders vouched for as genuine.
• The recordings showed Shi Can and Dongguo Ruiyu voicing envy, resentment, and other ugly thoughts about Zhang Guangmu, which the Taiqing disciples blamed on Outer-Realm Demons.
• Further recordings revealed cultivators across the Xuan Yan Realm expressing arrogance, greed, and other vices, convincing the remaining skeptics that the demons existed.
• Zhang Guangmu reassured the Taiqing disciples that the demons had disguised their influence as inner voices and called on the sect to expose them to all living beings.
• The Taiqing Sect spread the warning, and within one day ninety percent of the Xuan Yan Realm’s cultivators learned of the Outer-Realm Demons.

Zhang Guangmu turned the Xuan Yan Realm’s fear of Outer-Realm Demons against the Duo Civilization’s Control Group, while the Duo Civilization sent reinforcements from other worlds. The chapter left Zhang Guangmu facing a growing threat, with Jacob Field identified as a powerful enemy who could kill opponents above his rank.

• Zhang Guangmu used the Taiqing Sect’s credibility and audiovisual evidence to make cultivators suspect that the Duo Civilization’s Control Group were Outer-Realm Demons.
• Earth Civilization’s audience praised Zhang Guangmu’s strategy, while Duo Civilization’s supporters insisted Jacob Field would kill him.
• After three days, Zhang Guangmu sensed a change as the Control Group sent reinforcements into the Xuan Yan Realm through the All Heavens Transfer Station.
• The arriving World Crossers were detected and monitored by the local sects, who judged them less impressive than the Transcendent Fortress’s arrivals.
• The Control Group welcomed the reinforcements and argued that Jacob Field could defeat Zhang Guangmu, whom they recognized as a formidable Dragon General.

Zhang Guangmu advanced to Fourth Order Liquid Condensation and learned that the All Heavens Transfer Station had sent many World Crossers into the Xuan Yan Realm. He chose to support White Moon and Golden Neck from outside the station, but the Divine Emperor Team suddenly infiltrated his cave abode.

• Zhang Guangmu reached Fourth Order Liquid Condensation in the immortal path.
• Qin Zhe warned Zhang Guangmu that World Crossers had been given a free mission route into the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu explained that the newcomers could be used to eliminate rivals and decided to help White Moon and Golden Neck while avoiding the All Heavens Transfer Station.
• Zhang Guangmu shielded Qin Zhe and Ye Tan as more than a dozen World Crossers appeared in his cave abode and rummaged through his belongings.
• Qin Zhe identified the intruders as the Divine Emperor Team, and Ye Tan recognized that Martial Ancestor Uncle Yuanyangzi was under their control.

The Divine Emperor Team visited Zhang Guangmu, whose fluctuating luck astonished Zhu Nanhua and drew Jacob Field’s interest. Jacob’s hidden past revealed the brutal training and exceptional abilities that made him one of the Duo Civilization’s foremost warriors, and he grew suspicious that Zhang Guangmu had fooled him.

• Isaiah Franchi introduced Jacob Field and the Divine Emperor Team to Zhang Guangmu with open condescension, while Qin Zhe and Ye Tan quietly observed them.
• Jacob explained that the team had temporarily used a Buddhist chanting technique to make Yuanyangzi regard them as friends, then ordered his team to return what they had taken from Zhang Guangmu’s abode.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua, and Zhu Nanhua praised his luck and suggested recruiting him.
• Zhang Guangmu compared luck to the stock market, and Zhu Nanhua saw his fortune plunge to zero before surging to far greater heights.
• Jacob agreed that luck favored powerful people, while his past revealed that he had been selected as the sole survivor among ten billion and trained into a first-echelon warrior of the Duo Civilization.
• Jacob reconsidered Zhang Guangmu’s remarks and said he had nearly been fooled.

Jacob contained Zhang Guangmu’s fortune-based distress signal inside a time-distorting Buddha Kingdom and proposed an alliance with the Taiqing Sect. Zhang Guangmu rejected him and revealed that he had secretly prepared a lethal counterattack.

• Jacob explained that his Buddha Kingdom had isolated the cave from the Xuan Yan Realm, preventing Zhang Guangmu’s hidden message from getting out.
• Jacob offered to make the Divine Emperor Team a strategic partner and asked Zhang Guangmu to help them infiltrate the Transcendent Fortress or gather intelligence on rival groups.
• Jacob privately revealed his ambition to overthrow the All Heavens Transfer Station and establish his own Transmigration Agency.
• Zhang Guangmu refused Jacob’s offer, saying he wanted their corpses to use as Space-Time Beacons.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed that the fortune-based distress signal had been a decoy and that his real killing move was already prepared.

Zhang Guangmu tore apart Jacob’s Buddha’s Domain with a technique that trapped the Divine Emperor Team in a chaotic torrent, then fought through Jacob’s countermeasure. Isaiah Franchi recognized Zhang Guangmu as Tian Guang, leaving his identity exposed to the team.

• Zhang Guangmu used his understanding of Buddha Realm Descent to tear open Jacob’s domain and flood the abode with a chaotic torrent, while safety bubbles protected Qin Zhe and Ye Tan, White Moon, and Golden Neck.
• The torrent restrained the Divine Emperor Team’s supernatural powers and left its members drowning as Zhang Guangmu showed them no mercy.
• Jacob struck a wooden fish and recited a Buddhist verse, solidifying the torrent so his team could escape and regroup around him.
• Jacob realized Zhang Guangmu had mastered and innovated upon Buddha Realm Descent, then concluded he had reached the level of an eighth-rank True God.
• Isaiah Franchi connected the available information and identified Zhang Guangmu as Tian Guang.

Zhang Guangmu fought Jacob and the Divine Emperor Team after they recognized him as the feared Tian Guang from The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods. As the battle continued, Zhang Guangmu’s Buddhist understanding advanced at an astonishing rate, and a ring of wisdom and power formed behind his head.

• Butler Isaiah recognized Zhang Guangmu as Tian Guang, causing the Divine Emperor Team to lose its arrogance and consider retreating.
• Zhang Guangmu chanted a Buddhist verse and empowered Bai Yue Qin Zhe, Golden Neck Ye Tan, and Mooncake with formidable strength.
• Jacob ordered the Divine Emperor Team to attack, and the empowered trio fought its members while Zhang Guangmu battled Jacob and Yuanyangzi.
• Zhang Guangmu discovered that Jacob concealed the Key to the Buddhist Esoteric Treasure Vault and failed to find an opening in his defenses.
• Zhang Guangmu’s Buddhist attainments surged during the rapid exchanges, and golden Buddha Light and a ring of wisdom and power appeared around him.

Zhang Guangmu used his Buddhist talent to grow stronger while fighting Jacob and the Divine Emperor Team, turning the battle in his favor. He then triggered the elixir poison in several teammates who had eaten pills from his cave abode, leaving them writhing in pain despite their antidotes.

• Zhang Guangmu realized his understanding of Buddhism was advancing at an extraordinary rate as he fought.
• Jacob taunted Zhang Guangmu and rallied the Divine Emperor Team to attack more fiercely, while Zhang Guangmu concealed how quickly he was growing stronger.
• After millions of exchanges, Zhang Guangmu gained the upper hand over Jacob and Yuanyangzi, while Mooncake, White Moon, and Golden Neck also began winning their fights.
• Zhang Guangmu struck Jacob and Yuanyangzi back, then snapped his fingers to trigger the elixir poison in Jacob Field's teammates who had eaten pills from his cave abode.
• The poisoned teammates collapsed in agony, and their Universal Antidote failed to help them.

Zhang Guangmu broke Jacob’s control over Yuanyangzi, who recovered his true self and helped slaughter the Divine Emperor Team. Jacob escaped with a few survivors, warning Zhang Guangmu that their conflict had only begun.

• Zhang Guangmu’s pill killed several Divine Emperor Team members, making Jacob reconsider whether to revive them.
• Zhang Guangmu reached Yuanyangzi and broke Jacob’s control over him with Incense Divine Strength and Buddhist teachings.
• Yuanyangzi regained his memories and attacked Jacob and the Divine Emperor Team, killing many of its members.
• Jacob reflected that he had been too greedy, then used a life-saving technique to escape with the remaining survivors.
• Jacob warned Zhang Guangmu that three of the Ten Great Immortal Sects were already under the All Heavens Transfer Station’s control and declared them enemies.
• Mooncake, White Moon, and Golden Neck celebrated the victory while Yuanyangzi remained dazed, muttering Tian Guang’s name.

After the Divine Emperor Team’s attack, Zhang Guangmu helped Yuanyangzi expose their death-substitution trick and returned the displaced cave abode to the Xuan Yan Realm. Days later, Zhang Guangmu revived two slain Taiqing disciples with a secret art, shocking the cultivation world.

• Yuanyangzi discovered that several Divine Emperor Team elites had used death substitutes, while Zhang Guangmu said the trick would not work again.
• Zhang Guangmu restored the cave abode to the Xuan Yan Realm, and Taiqing cultivators gathered as Bai Yue Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan explained the attack.
• Yuanyangzi credited Zhang Guangmu with saving him and secretly shared what he knew about the Tian Guang True Body with Taiqing elders.
• Yuanyangzi’s information strengthened the elders’ regard for Zhang Guangmu, whose prestige within the sect rose over the following days.
• Zhang Guangmu revived two dead Taiqing disciples with heavenly dew, sacrificing two Auspicious Cloud Pigs to perform the resurrection art.

After Zhang Guangmu resurrected two Taiqing disciples, he established rules for purchasing resurrection rights and gained the sect’s growing loyalty. He moved into the Floating Immortal Mountain and discovered a new achievement, Buddha Dharma (Uranium), while reading a book.

• Zhang Guangmu resurrected two Taiqing disciples by sacrificing two Auspicious Cloud Pigs, and they pledged their loyalty to him.
• Zhang Guangmu added resurrection rights to the Taiqing Sect’s regulations, requiring contributions and stored flesh and blood, with special exceptions for key figures.
• The Taiqing Sect’s younger disciples increasingly supported Zhang Guangmu, while its elders continued to protect him and regarded him as the sect’s future.
• The elders moved Zhang Guangmu into the sect leader’s residence on Floating Immortal Mountain, and Yuhua Zi approved.
• Zhang Guangmu read The Scum of Medicine of the Winter Fairy and saw the new achievement Buddha Dharma (Uranium).

Mooncake transformed after gaining cultivation benefits from Zhang Guangmu’s Buddha Light, then warned him that the cultivator war was about to escalate. Zhang Guangmu explained why the Taiqing Sect was likely to win and prepared to eliminate outside variables, while Mooncake awakened a blessing ability and marked his hand.

• Zhang Guangmu watched orange light surround Mooncake as she underwent a transformation that lasted an hour.
• Mooncake transformed into a small orange-haired girl and warned Zhang Guangmu that the cultivator war in the Xuan Yan Realm was about to break out in full.
• Zhang Guangmu used a jade chessboard to explain the sects’ positions and predicted that the Taiqing Sect had over a ninety percent chance of winning the war.
• Zhang Guangmu announced that he would eliminate variables and hoped the third-party forces would surprise him.
• Mooncake stopped Zhang Guangmu and used her newly awakened Blessing divine ability, leaving a tiny orange cat imprint on the back of his hand.