Chapter Summaries

Yan Qing watched Anlan Hao exploit a flaw in the Mortal World Barrier to enter the Central Plains, then saw Tiger Vanguard confront Bai Zhou after she stole his food. Bai Zhou’s bizarre response to losing the fight left the other children shaken as they prepared for the next day’s meal challenge.

• Yan Qing realized the Outer Domain’s forces struggled to enter the Central Plains because the Mortal World Barrier intensified the Three Disasters for local cultivators.
• The steward used a Shock Authority gauntlet to vibrate Anlan Hao until it bugged through the Air Wall and shot across the sea.
• Yan Qing worked out that the ship had exploited the Barrier’s collision checks, while a girl beside Tiger Vanguard excitedly praised the maneuver.
• Bai Zhou stole Tiger Vanguard’s steamed bun and attacked him, but Tiger Vanguard dodged and punched her in the abdomen.
• Bai Zhou ate her vomit from the deck, and Mi Mian warned Tiger Vanguard to avoid her and challenge Shen Qiuqiu for a full meal instead.

Yan Qing and the children aboard the Anlan Hao endured a brutal food contest as they traveled toward Golden Eagle Island. Before they could arrive, Sky-Beast True Person seized the ship and its passengers to deliver them as tribute to the Immortal Lord.

• Mi Mian explained the backgrounds of the Four Heavenly Kings and warned Tiger Vanguard about their powerful connections.
• After the Anlan Hao left Liang, its steward limited the children to twenty meals a day and let them fight over the food.
• Yan Qing considered using Golden Eagle Island as a route through the Eastern Sea while keeping Tiger Vanguard’s strength hidden.
• Sky-Beast True Person arrived on a level-sixty Mysterious Yin Black Iron Bird and demanded the children as interest on Golden Eagle Island’s unpaid Blissful Tribute.
• Sky-Beast True Person lifted the Anlan Hao in the black eagle’s claws and flew toward Blissful Island with the children aboard.

Tiger Vanguard and the other children arrived on Blissful Island after Sky-Beast True Person ordered them into the Blissful Immortal Palace’s Ascension Road. At the palace, Tiger Vanguard saw that their challenge had changed into an Annihilation Battle against the Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord.

• Sky-Beast True Person ordered the harbor supervisor to send the children into the secret realm and have Lin Wujie arrange their entry into the Ascension Road.
• The steward told the children they had been abandoned, warned them to participate separately and leave at the first chance, and sent them ashore behind Tiger Vanguard.
• The harbor supervisor’s messengers took the children by dragon carriage across prosperous Blissful Island to the palace entrance.
• Flower Butterfly True Person ordered the adults to take the children through the Teleportation Gate, while Mi Mian and Shen Qiuqiu argued over who would stay with Tiger Vanguard.
• Tiger Vanguard read the secret-realm display, which changed from the Extreme Weeping Daoist challenge to an unlimited-player battle to kill the Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord.

Tiger Vanguard and the other children were brought to the Blissful Immortal Palace’s Ascension Road, where Wei Qiu explained that its dangers and rewards were real. The chapter ended as Chen Shiqi and Yao Xuan entered the game, leaving the children to realize that participants became the figures on the Sand Table.

• The adults brought Tiger Vanguard and the children into the palace and showed them the Ascension Road Sand Table, where three players gained a lucky reward before being devoured by monsters.
• Thousand Mechanisms True Person used his divine power to compel the children to follow him to a lounge, where they regained control and ate while Wei Qiu explained the game.
• Wei Qiu told the children that Ascension Road’s rewards were real and that anyone who reached its end could win a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Chen Shiqi and Yao Xuan entered Ascension Road, appearing as two figures in the Sand Table, and Wei Qiu confirmed their destination to the startled children.

Wei Qiu explained the Ascension Road’s routes, dangers, rewards, and the Blissful Immortal Palace’s role in resetting it as Yan Qing considered how its mechanics worked. After one team withdrew with rewards, Gu Zheng and nine other battle-hardened participants entered the road, while Wei Qiu warned that repeated attempts could not guarantee victory.

• Wei Qiu explained that participants could withdraw from the Ascension Road at crossroads, and Gu Zheng urged him to provide the children with weapons.
• Wei Qiu described the four starting routes and their risks as a team navigated the Sand Table, fought bandits, collected rewards, and continued beyond its first crossroads.
• Tiger Vanguard asked where the Ascension Road’s rewards came from, and Wei Qiu explained that wagers funded them while Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord could reset the realm and replenish its products.
• The team reached its fifth crossroads, withdrew with abundant spoils, and received the dealer’s congratulations after avoiding battles on its final stretch.
• Gu Zheng and nine other participants entered the Ascension Road, and Wei Qiu told Shen Qiuqiu that teams could challenge repeatedly but had no guaranteed victory.

Tiger Vanguard challenged the fairness of the Ascension Road after a powerful team was wiped out, then volunteered with Bai Zhou to enter the next round. As Wei Qiu prepared the children for their turn, Tiger Vanguard asked to pose a question first.

• A Thunder Wolf Beast killed all ten Seekers of the Dao on the sixth grid, horrifying the children and adults watching in the lounge.
• Tiger Vanguard suggested the Immortal Palace could manipulate the Ascension Road, and he argued that its random events could be used to conceal rigging.
• Wei Qiu threatened the uncle who defended the game into entering the single-person route, where a Fourth Rank Demon killed him at the eighteenth step.
• A servant announced that Sky-Beast True Person was ready, and Wei Qiu asked which children would enter the next round.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou volunteered, while Mi Mian and Shen Qiuqiu clung to Tiger Vanguard; he then asked Wei Qiu a question before challenging the road.

At Unbroken Feast, Blissful Immortal Lord tested Tiger Vanguard’s resolve and offered him a chance to become a disciple if he rescued enough children on Ascension Road. Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou fought their way through the early spaces and entered a challenge guarded by a Third Rank Demon King, where their unexpected strength stunned the spectators.

• Sky-Beast True Person reported that his group had failed to reach Old Immortal of the Air Disaster, and Blissful Immortal Lord advised him to pursue Shield Front with his [Life String] ability.
• Sky-Beast True Person presented talented children for selection as a Son of Destiny, and Tiger Vanguard asked to continue on Ascension Road with his friends after leaving it.
• Blissful Immortal Lord agreed to an exception if Tiger Vanguard’s group reached the crossroads at the thirtieth step and surpassed at least two people in every game, offering him the outer sect or True Disciple status depending on how many he rescued.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou battled bandits and other enemies, repeatedly breaking through and impressing the guests with their combat skill.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou reached the twenty-seventh space, where the Third Rank Demon King Ice Fang Beast guarded the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and the spectators cried out when they saw a Bloodline Supernatural Ability.

Bai Zhou’s hunger drove her to fight for food and then volunteer for the Ascension Road alongside Tiger Vanguard. After Tiger Vanguard saved her from the Ice Fang Beast, the pair passed the crossroads without withdrawing and continued onward.

• Bai Zhou accepted food from an old man aboard the Anlan Hao and left the old man behind when the ship sailed.
• Bai Zhou beat Wang Jin to claim the largest meal, then snatched a steamed bun and was beaten for it.
• Bai Zhou volunteered for the Ascension Road and fought the Ice Fang Beast, whose freezing storm nearly immobilized her.
• Tiger Vanguard killed the Ice Fang Beast with one strike, rescued Bai Zhou, and promised to protect her.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou passed the crossroads when the Immortal Path Dice landed on [Five] and continued along the Ascension Road.

Yan Qing used the Brush of Wonders to uncover Weeping Daoist’s first-phase attacks, realizing that clearing the Ascension Road could provide crucial information for the Extreme Dungeon. He decided to withdraw Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou, but Bai Zhou refused.

• Spectators watched Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou reach the fiftieth step of the Ascension Road, where the croupier warned them that the challenges ahead would be at least Fourth Rank Demon level.
• Yan Qing considered the danger of continuing after Tiger Vanguard had used his once-daily [Swallow Yin Yang] ability, but recognized that the Ascension Road was revealing information about Weeping Daoist.
• The Brush of Wonders disclosed Weeping Daoist’s first-phase attack patterns and the signs that showed which supernatural ability masters he was resonating with.
• Yan Qing concluded that clearing the Ascension Road could provide a valuable guide to the Extreme Dungeon and decided Tiger Vanguard should withdraw.
• Tiger Vanguard announced that he wanted to withdraw, but Bai Zhou said she wanted to continue.

Bai Zhou refused to leave the Ascension Road, and Tiger Vanguard continued with her, protecting her as they advanced. After Tiger Vanguard defeated a fourth-turn Lightning Eagle and rolled a Golden Dice multiplier that carried them to the end, he opened the jade box containing the Foundation Establishment Pill, which Bai Zhou dismissed as less appealing than roasted chicken.

• Bai Zhou insisted on continuing the Ascension Road after Tiger Vanguard offered to withdraw, and he promised to protect her.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou crossed more grids, drawing a crowd as they survived dangerous encounters and reached the eighty-eighth step.
• The Fortune and Misfortune Grid sent them to fight a fourth-turn Lightning Eagle, and the Blissful Immortal Lord judged Tiger Vanguard to have no connection with him.
• Tiger Vanguard lured the Lightning Eagle into wasting its lightning attacks and defeated it after a prolonged battle.
• Tiger Vanguard rolled a Golden Dice showing [times three], combined it with the Immortal Path Dice’s [four] to get [twelve], and reached the end with Bai Zhou.
• Tiger Vanguard opened the jade box and found a Foundation Establishment Pill, but Bai Zhou said it was not as good as roasted chicken.

Blissful Immortal Lord suspected Tiger Vanguard was an extraordinary pawn sent by another Immortal Lord to undermine Blissful Immortal Palace. He ordered Sky-Beast True Person to announce Tiger Vanguard as a Blissful True Disciple, intending to use the appointment against the looming scheme.

• Blissful Immortal Lord’s displeasure triggered the Three Disasters to erode Sky-Beast True Person’s Dao foundation until the Immortal Lord spoke again.
• Blissful Immortal Lord questioned why Tiger Vanguard could use a Bloodline Supernatural Ability without weakening and fight the thunder eagle with inhuman skill.
• Sky-Beast True Person realized he might have been caught in an enemy Destiny Supernatural Ability, and Blissful Immortal Lord suspected an Immortal Lord was behind the plot.
• Blissful Immortal Lord struck Sky-Beast True Person with a spoon, then explained that rivals were testing Blissful Immortal Palace ahead of his birthday feast.
• Blissful Immortal Lord ordered Sky-Beast True Person to tell Tiger Vanguard that he had the honor of becoming a Blissful True Disciple.

Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou returned from clearing the Ascension Road, and Sky-Beast True Person offered them places in Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s sect. Tiger Vanguard asked whether becoming a True Disciple would still let him challenge the Ascension Road.

• Tiger Vanguard invited Mi Mian to join him in the next section, but she refused and rebuked the other children for relying on him after withholding food and help from her.
• Crows transported Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou to the Ascension Road viewing platform, where spectators celebrated their clear.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou gave their names to Sky-Beast True Person, who said they would be recorded as the youngest clearers.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered Bai Zhou a place in the outer sect and Tiger Vanguard the position of Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s fifth True Disciple.
• Bai Zhou stayed behind Tiger Vanguard without accepting, and Tiger Vanguard asked whether he could still challenge the Ascension Road as a True Disciple.

Tiger Vanguard refused Blissful Immortal Lord’s offer of becoming a True Disciple unless his companions were released and allowed to challenge the Ascension Road. Sky-Beast True Person offered to free them if Tiger Vanguard took a dangerous, staged challenge at the Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet, and Tiger Vanguard asked what would happen if he refused.

• Tiger Vanguard said he would reject the True Disciple position and accompany his companions on the Ascension Road if they were allowed to challenge it.
• Sky-Beast True Person struck Tiger Vanguard, but Tiger Vanguard stood back up and challenged him to kill him rather than let him continue.
• Tiger Vanguard explained that he had challenged the Ascension Road to save the people Sky-Beast True Person had seized, and he gave Bai Zhou his Foundation Establishment Pill to qualify as a mortal challenger.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered to release Tiger Vanguard’s companions and send them back to Golden Eagle Island if Tiger Vanguard took at least fifty steps on the Ascension Road at Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet.
• Tiger Vanguard asked Sky-Beast True Person what would happen if he refused.

Tiger Vanguard accepted the Blissful Dao Beacon and agreed to offer a gift at the birthday banquet in exchange for the children’s freedom. After the children reached their luxurious lodgings, Shen Qiuqiu feared they would die, but Tiger Vanguard promised to save them by completing the Ascension Road.

• Tiger Vanguard challenged Sky-Beast True Person’s attempt to steer him toward the prison route, and Lin Qiuxiao intervened to suggest letting him continue the Ascension Road.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered a Foundation Establishment Pill and the Blissful Dao Beacon as prizes for the Ascension Road and the birthday banquet.
• Tiger Vanguard instantly chose the Mysterious Blissful Bliss Incense Faith after playing rock-paper-scissors with Bai Zhou, then agreed to present a gift at the banquet in two days.
• At their lodgings, the children argued over the Foundation Establishment Pill that Tiger Vanguard had given to Bai Zhou, but he insisted she keep it.
• Shen Qiuqiu pleaded for Tiger Vanguard’s family to rescue them, and Tiger Vanguard promised to complete the Ascension Road and save everyone, saying Partner of Justice would come if necessary.

Hua Yue Dean and Tao Bei Bei discussed the Imperial Stream Court’s resource shortage and the growing race among factions to cultivate Calamity Lords as the Wave-Stopping Flying Boat approached Blissful Island. Hua Yue arrived to offer birthday congratulations and ordered his entourage to guard the ship while he entered the palace alone.

• Tao Bei Bei urged Hua Yue Dean to return to the secret realm before his Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, but he stayed outside fishing and drinking.
• Hua Yue tried to persuade Tao Bei Bei to remain his apostle after she considered joining the Captain of the Second Squad.
• Hua Yue explained that the Treasure Gathering Fairy’s trade had rapidly increased the Imperial Stream Court’s resources, while its alchemy furnaces could not process them quickly enough.
• Hua Yue told Tao Bei Bei that rival factions were racing to cultivate Golden Core Calamity Lords and that the Treasure Gathering Fairy’s actions had accelerated the coming conflict.
• As the Wave-Stopping Flying Boat reached Blissful Island, Hua Yue said he would enter the palace alone to offer birthday congratulations and told the others to guard the ship.

At Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet, Hua Yue urged the Eastern Sea’s major factions to form an alliance and cooperate with the Imperial Stream Court. As negotiations with Zhou Wuchou grew tense, Blissful Immortal Lord proposed a wager about how far a remarkable child could travel along the Ascension Road.

• Hua Yue arrived at the longevity banquet with gifts from the Imperial Stream Court, and the guests recognized that four Immortal Lords had gathered with hostile intentions.
• Hua Yue and Zhou Wuchou shared wine, then Hua Yue invited the Lin, Li, and Qin Families to unite with the Imperial Stream Court and help attack secret realms.
• The Lin, Li, and Qin Family elders expressed willingness to cooperate, while Zhou Wuchou said he could not leave his blessed land to join their expeditions.
• Hua Yue asked Zhou Wuchou to use his alchemy skills and Luck Boiling Furnace for the Imperial Stream Court, but Zhou Wuchou hesitated as the other Immortal Lords spread their auras through the lotus heart.
• Zhou Wuchou proposed a wager about how far Sky-Beast True Person’s unusually powerful child could travel along the Ascension Road, revealing the child’s image on a real-time Sand Table.

At Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday feast, the Immortal Lords wagered on Tiger Vanguard’s fate as he began the dangerous Prison Route of the Ascension Road. Tiger Vanguard survived the prison and rapidly grew stronger, leaving the onlookers stunned as he continued his relentless advance.

• Blissful Immortal Lord explained that Tiger Vanguard had refused a True Disciple seat to help his companions, so he had offered him a challenge and a chance to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Huayue bet on [Foundation Establishment], while Zhou Wuchou bet on [Death], and Blissful Immortal Lord locked in the wagers.
• Tiger Vanguard escaped his cell, acquired Mysterious Mechanism Armor, and used fire and the prison corridor’s narrow entrance to defeat the guards.
• Tiger Vanguard crossed the Sealed Mountain Village, Ancient Battlefield, and Beast Cavern, exploiting terrain to defeat groups of enemies alone.
• Tiger Vanguard received guidance from a Wine Sword Immortal, perfected Advanced Swordsmanship, learned Art of Sword Control, and reached the third rank.
• Tiger Vanguard slaughtered more than a hundred third-rank enemies in a series of battles, while the banquet guests watched in silence.

Tiger Vanguard defeated Taotie and endured the maximum-difficulty Fortune and Misfortune Grid to clear the Ascension Road and claim the rare Foundation Establishment Pill. As Hua Yue declared that she had won her bet with Zhou Wuchou, the Blissful Immortal Lord transformed Unbroken Feast and unleashed the Mysterious Dragon Locking Array against the four Immortal Lords.

• Tiger Vanguard devoured Taotie with Swallow Yin Yang, astonishing the spectators and drawing the attention of the Immortal Lords.
• Tiger Vanguard continued past the fiftieth step, and the Grand Elders tried to claim him for their families while the Blissful Immortal Lord chose to raise the challenge to its maximum difficulty.
• Tiger Vanguard survived three Fortune and Misfortune Grid triggers, two battles against Fourth Rank Demon Kings, the destruction of two Defensive Tokens, and a near-death experience before reaching the hundredth grid.
• Tiger Vanguard took the rare Foundation Establishment Pill and announced that he had won, prompting Unbroken Feast to erupt in cheers.
• Hua Yue told Zhou Wuchou that she had won their bet, and Zhou Wuchou calmly acknowledged his loss.
• Zhou Wuchou snapped his fingers, transformed Unbroken Feast into a vast well-like space, and sent thousands of Golden Locks after the four Immortal Lords with the Mysterious Dragon Locking Array.

Blissful Immortal Lord confronted Huayue and the three family elders after his Mysterious Golden Lock Array failed to restrain them. He accused the Imperial Stream Court of plotting to seize his palace and revealed that the gambling match and Tiger Vanguard had been part of a scheme to destroy him, then hinted that his true killing move was already in motion.

• The Lin, Li, and Qin Family Grand Elders each used powerful abilities to break or repel the Mysterious Golden Lock Array, while Huayue's Imperial Edict Token turned its chains against it.
• Huayue urged Blissful Immortal Lord to admit defeat and join the Imperial Stream Court, while the elders threatened to destroy his blessed land and Golden Nature.
• Blissful Immortal Lord argued that the Imperial Stream Court intended to gather East Sea resources ahead of an Inter-Realm War and would use the family elders as vanguards.
• Blissful Immortal Lord accused the Imperial Stream Court of using Tiger Vanguard and the gambling match to trap him into surrendering the Blissful Immortal Palace.
• Blissful Immortal Lord declared that he would choose mutual destruction rather than let his enemies take everything, and asked whether they could still withdraw their divine abilities.

Blissful Immortal Lord trapped the three Immortal Lords with Weeping Daoist’s ultimate technique, but Huayue revealed the Imperial Stream Court’s overwhelming power and challenged him alone. As the Blissful Immortal Palace collapsed, a countdown announced that everyone would leave the secret realm, while the chapter revealed that Yan Qing had triggered its forced clearing and summoned a team to conquer it.

• Blissful Immortal Lord used [Heaven and Earth Intersecting, Yin and Yang's Great Sorrow Rhapsody] to restrain the three Immortal Lords and explained how he had prepared the trap.
• Huayue used a blank coin to show that the Imperial Stream Court had no need for schemes, then rose and declared that he alone could suppress Blissful Immortal Lord.
• The Unbroken Feast descended into chaos as the Blissful Immortal Palace shook, and Mi Mian, Bai Zhou, Shen Qiuqiu, and the other children struggled to find a way to escape.
• A bell rang, the palace’s blessed land began to be torn away, and a voice announced that everyone would exit the secret realm in ten seconds.
• Ten minutes earlier, Yan Qing used Jiang Shi’s account to begin forcibly clearing Blissful Immortal Palace and summoned Yaoshi Yuan, Shang Xin Lei, and Ying Ru Shi to join the raid.