Chapter Summaries

Mooncake entrusted her true spirit to Zhang Guangmu, sharing her ability and letting her accompany him, while the Script Hint tried to make him suspicious of her. Zhang Guangmu confronted Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua and forced Yang Chi to choose between death and submission.

• Mooncake explained that True Spirit Entrustment shared her Talent Divine Ability with Zhang Guangmu and would make her die if he died, then demonstrated how she could hide inside the cat design on his hand.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized the Script Hint trying to sow distrust, dismissed its influence, and threatened the Outer-Realm Demons.
• Zhang Guangmu used Horizons End, Proximity's Start to travel from the Taiqing Sect to the pavilion where Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua were discussing their completed mission.
• Zhang Guangmu's new ability effortlessly broke the formations around Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua, and he offered them death or submission.
• Yang Chi realized he could not escape or win and submitted to Zhang Guangmu.

Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua submitted to Zhang Guangmu and revealed the Divine Emperor Team’s plans and intelligence. Zhu Nanhua then claimed his Universe Ring held a complete manga series of The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods, a story Zhang Guangmu thought he had invented.

• Yang Chi agreed to work for Zhang Guangmu after securing reassurance that he would not be ordered to defy the All Heavens Transfer Station’s station master.
• Zhu Nanhua denounced Yang Chi as a traitor, but Zhang Guangmu broke his leg and forced him to disclose the Divine Emperor Team’s plans.
• Zhu Nanhua revealed that Jacob had resurrected eight team members and sent them out in four pairs, with Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua assigned to recruit Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan.
• Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua shared intelligence about the other three groups and their members.
• Zhu Nanhua offered Zhang Guangmu the manga series The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods, which he said contained secrets of the Xuan Yan Realm.

Zhang Guangmu read the Divine Emperor Team’s comics and learned that Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan had agreed to join their plan against him. As the two prepared to kill Zhang Guangmu, a radiant female cultivator appeared before them.

• Jacob ordered Zhu Nanhua to exchange for the full The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods series so the Divine Emperor Team could study Zhang Guangmu.
• Zhang Guangmu read the comics and considered the identities and histories of their first two protagonists, Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan.
• Zhu Nanhua said Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan had agreed to help the Divine Emperor Team attack Taiqing Sect, and Zhang Guangmu praised Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua before vanishing.
• In the Seven Fiends Ice Domain, Ye Yun told Gu Zhongyan that he would join the visitors from beyond the heavens to kill Zhang Guangmu, drawn by a promise of a Tribulation Cultivator’s hand.
• Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan began discussing their plan, but the ice and snow vanished as a radiant female cultivator appeared before them.

Zhang Guangmu confronted Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan in the Seven Fiends Ice Domain and overwhelmed them with her Immortal Sword Battle Array. The two struggled to withstand the sword tide as Gu Zhongyan admired her strength and imagined winning her over.

• Zhang Guangmu arrived in the Seven Fiends Ice Domain, melting its ice and snow with her blazing presence.
• Ye Yun recognized Zhang Guangmu, questioned her arrival, and prepared his treasures while trying to gauge her intentions.
• Zhang Guangmu criticized Ye Yun for failing to unravel the mystery of the Tribulation and summoned countless powerful Immortal Swords.
• Zhang Guangmu named her technique the Immortal Sword Battle Array and sent ten thousand swords against Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan.
• Ye Yun urged Gu Zhongyan to help break the attack, while Gu Zhongyan fought back and fantasized about making Zhang Guangmu his Dao companion.

Zhang Guangmu tested Gu Zhongyan and Ye Yun with overwhelming power, while Gu Zhongyan realized that the Xuan Yan Realm's Ninth Order Tribulation slots were already occupied and accepted his impending death. Ye Yun refused to die and begged Zhang Guangmu for mercy by claiming a connection to the Taiqing Sect.

• Zhang Guangmu watched Gu Zhongyan grow stronger as he fought and urged him to see whether he could break through to the Ninth Order Tribulation Stage.
• Gu Zhongyan concluded that the realm's Tribulation slots were full and that he and Ye Yun could not overcome Zhang Guangmu, then sat down and reflected on the lives he had taken.
• Ye Yun resisted with his defensive magic treasure and accused Zhang Guangmu of using her wealth to crush him.
• Zhang Guangmu considered her use of the Taiqing Sect's treasury justified because it followed the sect's rules and put its wealth to use.
• Ye Yun claimed that his descendant Ye Tan was a Taiqing Sect disciple and offered an Inner Demon Oath in exchange for Zhang Guangmu sparing his life.

Ye Yun revealed that the Azure Nether Diagram protected him from the Inner Demon Oath, while Jacob arrived with the Divine Emperor Team and sprang his trap against Zhang Guangmu. Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan joined Jacob’s assault, leaving Zhang Guangmu facing their combined attack.

• Ye Yun planned to feign surrender to Zhang Guangmu and wait until he could take revenge, relying on the Azure Nether Diagram to shield him from the Inner Demon Oath.
• The Little White Balls warned that Ye Yun was secretly plotting against Zhang Guangmu, and their comments reinforced Zhang Guangmu’s resolve to kill him and Gu Zhongyan.
• Jacob and six revived members of the Divine Emperor Team arrived, and Jacob revealed that he had used Yang Chi, Zhu Nanhua, Ye Yun, and Gu Zhongyan as bait to draw Zhang Guangmu into his trap.
• Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan realized Jacob had used them as pawns but chose to join his assault against Zhang Guangmu.
• Jacob’s team attacked with Buddha Light and varied Supernatural Powers as Ye Yun unleashed the Azure Nether Diagram and Gu Zhongyan charged with his Companion Blood Saber.
• Zhang Guangmu calmly acknowledged their schemes and summoned an object.

Zhang Guangmu used the Taiqing Sect Leader Token to kill Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan, then crushed several members of the Divine Emperor Team with World Power. Jacob broke through to eighth rank as a Bodhisattva, but after Zhang Guangmu overwhelmed him, he detonated his Natal Zen Artifact to try to escape.

• Zhang Guangmu unleashed the Sect Leader Token, annihilating Gu Zhongyan and Ye Yun along with the Seven Fiends Ice Domain.
• After the Divine Emperor Team was dragged into the Xuan Yan Realm, Zhang Guangmu killed five members and annihilated Isaiah Franchi.
• Jacob broke through to eighth rank, condensed a Bodhisattva fruit status, and formed a Natal Zen Artifact from a Lotus Platform.
• Jacob mistook Zhang Guangmu's power for a spent trump card, but she used World Power to slap him into the earth.
• Jacob realized Zhang Guangmu could draw on the Apocalyptic Wasteland World's World Power and hurled his Lotus Platform at her, detonating his Natal Zen Artifact to seek a chance to survive.

Zhang Guangmu suppressed Jacob’s Natal Zen Artifact and defeated his final counterattack, revealing that he had engineered the conflict to acquire treasures and explore the path to the ninth rank. He left the battle in control of the white lotus and intent on using his reputation as a trickster to help Earth Civilization.

• Zhang Guangmu seized Jacob’s white lotus and used the Immortal Sword Battle Array to trap him while suppressing the artifact.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized the lotus’s destructive power, then persuaded it to transform into a meditation cushion and submit to him.
• Zhang Guangmu told Jacob that he had already outlived his usefulness as a stepping stone and mocked his weak Buddhist teachings and abilities.
• Jacob realized Zhang Guangmu had guided him into allying with Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan so Zhang Guangmu could claim the Azure Nether Diagram and Companion Blood Saber.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected that he needed data from more Immortal Artifacts and supreme treasures to reach the God Dao Ninth Rank and challenge Tribulation Cultivators.
• Zhang Guangmu accepted the trickster label as part of his effort to break Duo Civilization’s cage and secure an advantage for Earth Civilization.

Zhang Guangmu killed Jacob with the Immortal Sword Battle Array, then uncovered Jacob’s hidden army of Good Demon Believing Demons. He forcibly converted all 9,999 demons, turning Jacob’s final contingency into an advantage for the Taiqing Sect.

• Zhang Guangmu intensified the Immortal Sword Battle Array, and its immortal swords killed Jacob despite his desperate efforts to survive.
• As Jacob died, he praised Zhang Guangmu with the words “One flower, one world; one Buddha, one Tian Guang.”
• Zhang Guangmu sensed a hidden trick and revealed 9,999 microscopic Good Demon Believing Demons left behind to infiltrate the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu brought the demons into visible form and realized Jacob had intended them to multiply and wreak havoc after his death.
• Zhang Guangmu commanded the demons to convert, shattered their resistance, and made all 9,999 pledge allegiance to him.

Zhang Guangmu worked to secure the Xuan Yan Realm for Earth Civilization, but the occupied Ninth Order Statuses blocked his advancement. After forty days of growth and consolidation, he began the Tian Guang Lecture Hall as Acting Sect Leader of Taiqing.

• Duo Civilization viewers blamed the Good Demon Believing Demons for becoming Zhang Guangmu's lackeys, while Earth viewers gloated over their defeat.
• Zhang Guangmu aimed to become King of Xuan Yan by reaching the Ninth Order, but the Azure Nether Diagram and Companion Blood Saber resisted him.
• Forty days after the extermination of Gu, Ye, and the Divine Emperor Team, Zhu Nanhua and Yang Chi committed themselves to Taiqing and formed a strategic cooperation alliance with Bai Yue Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan over the relay station.
• Zhang Guangmu advanced to Buddhism (Qie), the seventh order, and reached the peak of the Eighth Order on his divine path, but the Xuan Yan Realm Heavenly Dao informed him that every Ninth Order Status was occupied.
• Zhang Guangmu began the Tian Guang Lecture Hall, teaching the Taiqing Sect's disciples while analyzing the three Immortal Artifacts.

Zhang Guangmu’s Tian Guang Lecture Hall drew a huge audience as his sermons impressed the Taiqing Sect’s disciples. While teaching them, he discovered that they lacked combat experience and had outdated ideas about fighting, a weakness common across the Xuan Yan Realm.

• Zhang Guangmu named his sermon series the Tian Guang Lecture Hall, sparking debate over whether he was the mysterious Tian Guang from The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods.
• Zhang Guangmu’s clear, wide-ranging lectures won over the Taiqing disciples, and the audience beneath Floating Mountain grew rapidly over thirteen days.
• Zhang Guangmu borrowed a drop of heart blood from Ye Tan, code-named Golden Neck, to help him study the Azure Nether Diagram.
• Zhang Guangmu explained how understanding gravity could help disciples cultivate the Dragon-Whorl Alchemical Canon and the Taiqing Sect’s supreme killing techniques.
• Zhang Guangmu realized that Taiqing disciples lacked combat experience and held outdated ideas about fighting, a common problem among Xuan Yan Realm Transcendents.

Zhang Guangmu lectured the Taiqing disciples on entropy and the limits of relying on perception, using an illusion to demonstrate how easily they could be deceived. She revealed that she had secretly moved them to the Rotten Silence Swamp and began teaching them the Tian Guang Entropy Canon.

• Zhang Guangmu explained that knowledge kept growing and introduced entropy as a concept affecting everything in the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Qin Zhe and Ye Tan praised Zhang Guangmu's ability to make difficult Taiqing teachings understandable and discussed her unusually long lecture.
• Zhang Guangmu illuminated a sleeping spirit chicken, causing it to crow at night, and asked the disciples why it had done so.
• The disciples correctly identified the effect as an illusion but wrongly assumed the spirit chicken had been deceived.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed that she had deceived the disciples and transformed the night into day, showing that they were actually in the Rotten Silence Swamp.
• Zhang Guangmu announced that she would teach them the Tian Guang Entropy Canon.

Zhang Guangmu taught the Taiqing disciples the Tian Guang Entropy Canon, boosting their comprehension and helping them overwhelm the Xuan Yan Realm. Their victories awakened a long-hidden Ninth Order Tribulation Cultivator, who entered Taiqing territory to kill Zhang Guangmu.

• Zhang Guangmu patiently taught the Taiqing disciples how to cultivate the Tian Guang Entropy Canon, and Qin Zhe and Ye Tan quickly grasped its principles.
• Taiqing disciples began arguing over who had won Zhang Guangmu’s favor, while Yuhua Zi allowed them to continue calling Zhang Guangmu the sect leader without the word “acting.”
• After the Divine Emperor Team dwindled to Yang Chi and Zhu Nanhua, the other All Heavens Transfer Station teams withdrew rather than challenge Zhang Guangmu.
• With the Tian Guang Entropy Canon and Zhang Guangmu’s substitute-death arrangements, Taiqing disciples crushed the Seven Demonic Sects and conquered half of the Xuan Yan Realm in three months.
• A Ninth Order Tribulation Cultivator awoke in a spatial rift, entered Taiqing territory, and declared that he had come to kill Zhang Guangmu.

Empty Cicada attacked the Taiqing Sect and demanded Zhang Guangmu’s death, but Zhang Guangmu claimed he could defeat him. Just as the elders stepped aside for Zhang Guangmu to fight, Maha appeared and said he had come to send Zhang Guangmu away, reserving the final strike for himself.

• Empty Cicada arrived at the Taiqing Sect and demanded that Zhang Guangmu be executed to restore peace to the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Yuhua Zi refused Empty Cicada’s demand, and Empty Cicada attacked the Taiqing Four Elders, badly injuring them.
• Yuhua Zi urged Zhang Guangmu to flee, but Zhang Guangmu said his cultivation had advanced and he could defeat Empty Cicada.
• The Taiqing Four Elders withdrew from the fight after Zhang Guangmu assured them he could handle Empty Cicada.
• Maha appeared between Empty Cicada and Zhang Guangmu, declared that he had come to send Zhang Guangmu away, and claimed the final strike for himself.

Zhang Guangmu used the Immortal Artifacts to fight Empty Cicada, then burned them as firewood to unleash a powerful attack. With Maha watching, Zhang Guangmu committed to killing Empty Cicada before the battle turned against him.

• Maha told Empty Cicada he could deliver the final blow, and Empty Cicada challenged Zhang Guangmu to meet his death.
• Zhang Guangmu rushed Empty Cicada and cut his body and soul into thousands of pieces, using the power he had unlocked from the Immortal Artifacts.
• Empty Cicada recovered and offered to apologize and talk, but Zhang Guangmu refused to spare him.
• Zhang Guangmu burned the Azure Nether Diagram, Companion Blood Saber, and Taiqing Sect Leader Token in icy blue flames and struck Empty Cicada with a three-colored, tribulation-level attack.

Zhang Guangmu killed Kong Chan and immediately began advancing to Ninth Order, claiming the vacant godhood before anyone else could take it. As the Heaven and Earth Tribulation descended, Mohe held back and the Taiqing Four Elders watched with unease.

• Zhang Guangmu struck Kong Chan with a three-colored immortal fist, destroying his body, soul, and true spirit along with the three Immortal Treasures.
• Kong Chan’s death alerted beings across the Xuan Yan Realm, and 523 Eighth Order Limit cultivators turned their attention toward the Taiqing Sect.
• Zhang Guangmu sensed the gathered cultivators and began breaking through to Ninth Order, determined to claim the only vacant godhood.
• The Heaven and Earth Tribulation descended as the sky turned black, prompting Mohe to withdraw his hand while the Taiqing Four Elders watched Zhang Guangmu anxiously.

Zhang Guangmu endured a series of extraordinary Heavenly Tribulations, reaching the Ninth Order and earning the achievement “Divine Path (End).” Mohe then revealed that he was the first-generation World Crosser of the All Heavens Transfer Station.

• Zhang Guangmu absorbed the Lightning Tribulation and shattered the Five Elements Great Tribulation with a slap.
• Zhang Guangmu overcame the Light-Dark, Chaos, and Space-Time Tribulations, using them as nourishment.
• The tribulation clouds collapsed, and Zhang Guangmu advanced to the Ninth Order as his achievement changed to “Divine Path (End).”
• Mohe praised Zhang Guangmu for gambling three Immortal Treasures and winning, then revealed that Kong Chan had been a Clumsy Imitator and Mohe was only a codename.
• Mohe introduced himself as the first-generation World Crosser of the All Heavens Transfer Station.

Maha revealed that he had been ordered to capture Zhang Guangmu and trade him for a Traversal Key, then fought him and was defeated. As Maha warned that the other sects would target Zhang Guangmu, Zhang Guangmu declared that Maha’s death would open a Ninth-Order position for his Taiqing lineage.

• Maha told Zhang Guangmu that the stationmaster had offered him a deal to capture him alive and trade him for a Traversal Key to a fixed small world.
• Maha decided to demand a Traversal Key to the Main World in exchange for Zhang Guangmu and attacked him.
• Zhang Guangmu fought Maha for thousands of moves before defeating him with his fists.
• Maha explained that the seven righteous and demonic sects maintained the Ninth-Order seats and warned that the other sects would not spare Zhang Guangmu.
• Zhang Guangmu called Maha foolish and said his death would let a direct descendant of the Taiqing lineage inherit his Ninth-Order position.

After killing Mohe, Zhang Guangmu let Yuhua Zi seize the vacant Ninth Order Status and become the Taiqing Sect’s new master. The awakened Taiqing Patriarch immediately agreed to support Zhang Guangmu’s plan to unify the Xuan Yan Realm and integrate its Supernatural Power.

• Zhang Guangmu destroyed Mohe, then urged the Taiqing Four Elders to break through and claim the vacant Status.
• Yuhua Zi reached the Ninth Order Tribulation realm, while the Three Elders of Taiqing returned to their cave abodes disappointed.
• Yuhua Zi handed the Taiqing Sect master position to Zhang Guangmu and revealed how to awaken the Taiqing Patriarch, pledging to side with Zhang Guangmu if needed.
• The Taiqing Daoist awoke and learned that Zhang Guangmu had killed Mohe and become the Taiqing Sect Master.
• Zhang Guangmu asked whether the Taiqing Daoist supported his plan to unify the Xuan Yan Realm, and the Patriarch agreed without hesitation.

Zhang Guangmu led Taiqing Daoist and Yuhua Zi to confront Xuan Yan Realm’s other four Ninth Order cultivators, killing three and forcing Purple Sky to submit. Taiqing Sect emerged with six Tribulation Transcendents, while Purple Sky pledged himself to Zhang Guangmu and hailed him as Immortal Emperor Guangmu.

• Zhang Guangmu told Taiqing Daoist they would seek out the other four Ninth Order cultivators after he recovered, and Yuhua Zi realized Zhang Guangmu was poised to dominate Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu tracked down Canyang, Duohun, Sword Control, and Purple Sky, learning that Gu Zhongyan and Ye Yun had inherited treasures from Canyang and Duohun, while Sword Control and Purple Sky had created Long Hong through a costly transmigration experiment.
• Zhang Guangmu killed Canyang, Duohun, and Sword Control, while Yuanyangzi, Temple Granny, and Sword Daoist used the vacancies to break through to the Ninth Order.
• Purple Sky submitted to Zhang Guangmu after being beaten and praised him as Tian Guang Immortal Emperor, leaving Taiqing Sect with six Tribulation Transcendents.