Chapter Summaries

Tong Moli survived the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and refused Li Xi’s plan to exploit the news of her supposed failure. A mysterious summons from “Jiang Shi” then appeared before her and the combatants at Yunhuang Ancient Road, calling them to the Blissful Immortal Palace.

• Tong Moli emerged from the destroyed blessed land after surviving the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Li Xi congratulated her.
• Li Xi urged Tong Moli to conceal her survival and use the opportunity to expose traitors, but Tong Moli insisted she would announce her success and judge people by their actions.
• Tong Moli and the Fire Worship Cult True Persons received a summons from “Jiang Shi” to subjugate the four-revolution Extreme Secret Realm Blissful Immortal Palace, and the summons completed before they could respond.
• At Yunhuang Ancient Road, Cheng Ying confronted Baichuan Liu as Dragon Sparrow Summer Palace and Qingyun Mansion forces prepared to fight over scarce resources.
• The Foundation Establishment cultivators on both sides received the same summons to the Blissful Immortal Palace, with their strength set to the four-revolution level.

Jiang Shi’s recruitment invitation halted the battle on Yunhuang Ancient Road and drew thousands to Blissful Island, where Blissful Immortal Lord discovered that Blissful Immortal Palace had become ownerless. Desperate, he trapped Hua Yue and the others in his blessed land, while Jiang Shi met the three new recruits inside the palace.

• Baichuan Liu stopped Dragon Sparrow Summer Palace’s advance after the recruitment invitation appeared and ordered his forces back to Loulan City, suspecting Golden Crow Immortal Lord was gone.
• Blissful Immortal Lord found the secret realm full and learned that Jiang Shi’s recruitment had appeared, while Hua Yue denied responsibility for the upheaval.
• Tiger Vanguard urged the children to flee, but Blissful Immortal Lord enclosed half of Blissful Island in his blessed land and rolled a [two], trapping Hua Yue, Tao Bei Bei, and thousands of mortals.
• Yan Qing reunited with Yaoshi Yuan, Shang Xin Lei, Ying Ru Shi, and Jiang Shi inside Blissful Immortal Palace, where Jiang Shi met Deng Jin, Wei Bai, and Ning Xiao Xiao.

Yan Qing explained that the eight summoned teammates were protected by the [Unbreakable Alliance], which prevented friendly fire and kept them from dying while any teammate survived. Jiang Shi revealed that her masked followers would lead the secret realm assault and used her status as the Treasure Gathering Fairy to secure the outsiders’ cooperation.

• Deng Jin tested his fourth-rank [Sun Control Chariot], while Wei Bai demonstrated his ability to freeze space and Ning Xiao Xiao admitted she had no special skills.
• Yan Qing had Ying Ru Shi strike Deng Jin to show that the alliance blocked friendly fire without harming anyone.
• Yan Qing explained that the [Unbreakable Alliance] also protected near-death teammates as long as one member remained alive.
• Deng Jin recognized Jiang Shi as the Treasure Gathering Fairy, and Wei Bai said he had never heard of an ability like [Unbreakable].
• Jiang Shi named Hound, Fox, Wolf, and Snake as her followers and told the outsiders to follow their orders or risk offending her.
• Yan Qing relied on Jiang Shi’s influence to prevent the summoned outsiders from sabotaging the secret realm assault.

Yan Qing organized the team and carefully briefed them on how to fight the Weeping Daoist in the Blissful Immortal Palace. As he prepared to bless the group before the battle, Wei Bai realized that Yan Qing and Jiang Shi intended to destroy the palace with Calamity Karma.

• Deng Jin, Wei Bai, and Ning Xiao Xiao joined Yan Qing’s expedition and agreed to Jiang Shi’s rules for distributing the spoils.
• Yan Qing assigned the team’s combat roles, with Wei Bai as the main Shield Front and Ning Xiao Xiao and Yan Qing as healers.
• Yan Qing marked positions in Unbroken Feast and spent half an hour teaching the group how to evade the Weeping Daoist’s attacks.
• Deng Jin, Ning Xiao Xiao, and Wei Bai thanked Yan Qing for his dungeon-clearing knowledge, then agreed to begin the fight.
• Jiang Shi distributed Great Bright Tathagata Talismans and ordered everyone to keep their attacks infused with Light Flame.
• Yan Qing began casting protective blessings, and Wei Bai recognized the Calamity Karma that would destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace.

Deng Jin and Wei Bai accused Yan Qing’s group of being Secret Faction messengers and warned Jiang Shi that destroying secret realms would make her an enemy of the world. Yan Qing admitted their goal was to destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace for Calamity Karma, then asked what they would do if the group proceeded anyway.

• Deng Jin asked whether Treasure Gathering Fairy and her companions were Secret Faction messengers, and Wei Bai condemned the faction for destroying secret realms to harvest Calamity Karma.
• Deng Jin explained that destroying developed secret realms could ruin forces and spark wars, and he argued that doing so was worse than demonic plunder.
• Yan Qing denied that the group belonged to the Secret Faction but admitted they intended to destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace and obtain Calamity Karma.
• Yaoshi Yuan defended Jiang Shi’s pursuit of strength, while Deng Jin warned that destroying secret realms would bring universal condemnation and undermine her future influence.
• Wei Bai warned that accumulating substantial Calamity Karma would require destroying many secret realms and leave the group with nowhere to live.
• Yan Qing acknowledged the warning and asked what would happen if the group insisted on going its own way.

Yan Qing committed to destroying secret realms to pursue the Calamity Karma Dao Path, and Ning Xiao Xiao, Deng Jin, and Wei Bai agreed to join him despite their objections. The group began fighting the Weeping Daoist, with Wei Bai and Yaoshi Yuan taking turns drawing its attacks.

• Yan Qing told Deng Jin and Wei Bai that his group planned to destroy secret realms across the world, making enemies of powerful figures such as the Blissful Immortal Lord.
• Ning Xiao Xiao, Deng Jin, and finally Wei Bai agreed to become teammates, though Wei Bai said he hoped the group would realize its path was foolish.
• Yan Qing started the battle against the Weeping Daoist and assigned Wei Bai to draw its aggro as the group dodged its Joy and Anger attacks.
• The Weeping Daoist unleashed its death-sentence attack, and Yaoshi Yuan and Wei Bai alternated drawing its strikes to protect each other from being brought to the brink of death.

Yan Qing’s team handled Weeping Daoist’s dice attack with a low-risk strategy that relied on their [Unbreakable Alliance], impressing Deng Jin and Wei Bai with the potential of Jiang Shi’s summoning gatherings. The chapter left them envisioning Jiang Shi’s future rise to the Seventh Turn and the transformation it could bring to secret-realm clearing.

• Jiang Shi announced Weeping Daoist’s health and warned the team to prepare for knockback and fixed positioning.
• Yan Qing assigned the close-combat and ranged groups to their positions around Weeping Daoist.
• Weeping Daoist unleashed [Unbroken Feast], and Yan Qing’s team used the knockback to place four members beneath the falling dice and trigger the attack safely.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai recognized that [Unbreakable Alliance] let Jiang Shi’s team use efficient strategies with room for error, making their secret-realm assault unusually safe and fast.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai realized that Jiang Shi’s recruitment method could enable repeated clears of desperate and Seventh Turn secret realms, potentially drawing major factions toward her when she ascended.

Yan Qing led the group through Weeping Daoist’s Sorrow and Joy Separation and Reunion, then used Life and Death Together to kill Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist. The two merged into Sorrowful Joyful Daoist and immediately targeted Yan Qing with an execution attack.

• Weeping Daoist split into Joyful Daoist and assigned the eight Heralds numbers before sweeping the arena with flames and coordinated attacks.
• Yan Qing guided the group through their numbered attack turns, and they survived Sorrow and Joy Separation and Reunion.
• Yan Qing ordered the others away and used Life and Death Together on Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist, killing them both by exploiting their shared health bar.
• Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist merged into Sorrowful Joyful Daoist, who aimed Boundless Light at Yan Qing and engulfed him.

Yan Qing and his team discovered that the Sorrowful Joyful Daoist was ascending toward a new calamity rank and learned that Infatuation was his weakness. They used Shang Xin Lei’s Infatuation-infused rings to kill him, perfectly cleared the secret realm, and leveled up before Yan Qing concealed his Dao Foundation’s usurpation trait.

• The Sorrowful Joyful Daoist shed his body and began creating a new calamity rank, while his transformation made him difficult to interrupt.
• Yan Qing endured the Daoist’s Boundless Light, asked Wonderful Brush for the Daoist’s weakness, and learned it was Infatuation.
• Yan Qing called on Shang Xin Lei to add Infatuation poison to her flying rings while the team waited for his spiritual essence to recover.
• Yan Qing used [Life and Death Together] to send a yellow paper through Shang Xin Lei’s rings, which struck the Sorrowful Joyful Daoist and killed him.
• The team perfectly cleared the extreme-difficulty secret realm and gained at least three levels, then Yan Qing canceled Calamity Four Phases sharing and kept its usurpation trait hidden.

Yan Qing’s team cleared the Fourth-Turn Extreme Realm, divided the spoils, and parted from their temporary teammates before returning to the Thieves’ Den. Yan Qing then checked Jiang Shi’s messages and discovered that Seventh-Turn Mortal World Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian had answered her summons.

• Deng Jin and Wei Bai praised Yan Qing’s [Life and Death Together] after the team cleared the Extreme Realm, and the group collected its rewards.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai competed for the Pill Recipe: Sorrow, Joy, Separation, Reunion, but Ning Xiao Xiao chose it for herself.
• Yan Qing invited the other heralds to form a permanent team; Wei Bai and Ning Xiao Xiao declined, while Deng Jin offered to help when available.
• The group returned to the Thieves’ Den, where Shang Xin Lei celebrated with Yan Qing and Ying Ru Shi teased him about his growing relationship with her.
• Yan Qing opened Jiang Shi’s message panel and saw that Seventh-Turn Mortal World Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian had responded to her summons.

At Great Snow Mountain, the Mountain Lord learned that Jiang Shi’s Summoning had let Immortal Lord Wang Bai and Immortal Lord Golden Crow safely clear an Extreme Realm, and he grasped how much power the ability could give her. He was left to decide whether Chang Sheng Tian should kill Jiang Shi or court her, and began a report to the Emperor Lord.

• Immortal Lord Shen Lan stole the Mountain Lord’s wine and tea, then fled Great Snow Mountain.
• Immortal Lord Wang Bai told the Mountain Lord that Jiang Shi’s Summoning had brought him and Immortal Lord Golden Crow into the same secret realm, protected them with the [Unbreakable Alliance], and helped them clear the Extreme Realm Blissful Immortal Palace.
• The Mountain Lord realized that Jiang Shi’s Summoning could let her gather powerful allies, making her valuable enough to attract the support of forces across the world.
• Immortal Lord Wang Bai warned that Chang Sheng Tian must either kill Jiang Shi quickly or treat her with respect, and urged the Mountain Lord to decide within three days.
• The Mountain Lord resolved to report the matter to the Emperor Lord and began his letter by writing, “Treasure Gathering Fairy Jiang Shi is no human.”

Deng Guanjian warned Baichuan Liu that Jiang Shi’s [Recruitment] might be a transferable trick capable of producing Eighth-Turn True Lords, forcing the Heavenly Court to intervene and threatening the balance of the world. He suspected Jiang Shi was heading to Western Xia, where her arrival could soon turn the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ future into a struggle over a historic opportunity.

• Deng Guanjian told Baichuan Liu that Jiang Shi was not human and announced he would undergo the Fifth-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation before the Grand Ceremony of Proving the Dao.
• Deng Guanjian predicted an Inter-Realm War within ten years that could halve the world’s Immortal Lords, and he questioned whether the Heavenly Court would remain uninvolved.
• Deng Guanjian explained that if Jiang Shi’s use of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and [Recruitment] was a transferable trick, her successors could become Eighth-Turn True Lords and the Heavenly Court would have to respond.
• Baichuan Liu agreed that Jiang Shi’s power likely came from a trick involving the Treasure Hunting Tokens, and he realized the discovery could determine the future of the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes.
• Deng Guanjian suspected Jiang Shi was traveling to Western Xia and could arrive in Loulan City within ten days, then called her their calamity.

Baichuan Liu and Deng Guanjian weighed how the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes should respond to Jiang Shi’s arrival in Loulan City, while Empress Hong Bing received the Heavenly Court Director’s order to recruit Jiang Shi as its future ruler. The Director revealed Jiang Shi did not age and was destined to become an eighth-turn True Lord, leaving Hong Bing to consider whether others like her might exist.

• Baichuan Liu considered whether the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes should support Jiang Shi, fearing the consequences of opposing or disappointing her.
• Empress Hong Bing visited the Eternal Fame Palace, where the Director ordered her to invite Jiang Shi to lead the Heavenly Court once she became an immortal.
• The Director told Hong Bing that Jiang Shi was only at the fourth turn but did not experience the passage of lifespan, and was destined to become an eighth-turn True Lord unless she was a demon heralding the great calamity.
• Hong Bing agreed to welcome Jiang Shi and was told to invite the four-earring masked man too, without harming him.
• Hong Bing questioned whether the Heavenly Court was committing too early, and the Director warned that if others like Jiang Shi existed, everyone else would be merely a supporting character.

As Hua Yue defeated Zhou Wuchou, he persuaded the Blissful Immortal Lord to join the Imperial Stream Court in exchange for help crossing a tribulation. The destruction of Blissful Immortal Palace ended that bargain, while Yan Qing discovered the new Leakless milestone after liberating an Avici Sinner.

• A colossal wolf broke through the barrier over Blissful Island, ending Hua Yue and Zhou Wuchou's battle and allowing the trapped figures to escape.
• Hua Yue subdued Zhou Wuchou with [Snow on Head] and offered him a place in the Imperial Stream Court, promising help crossing a tribulation within a year.
• Zhou Wuchou accepted Hua Yue's offer, but Blissful Immortal Palace collapsed inside the secret realm and its vortex gate disappeared.
• Zhou Wuchou roared Jiang Shi's name in fury, and Hua Yue hurried away with four children, including Tiger Vanguard.
• Yan Qing checked Jiang Shi's battle record and learned that liberating an Avici Sinner had unlocked the [Leakless] milestone.

Yan Qing celebrated gaining the [Leakless] milestone and reassured the Thieves about the Immortal Lords they had encountered. After waking from a drunken night with his companions, he checked Jiang Shi’s account and found it aboard a sandship with two Immortal Lords.

• Yan Qing assessed how [Leakless] and [Boundless Purple] strengthened his resources and team support.
• Shang Xin Lei, Yaoshi Yuan, and Ying Ru Shi discussed hiding in a secret realm to avoid the Immortal Lords, while Yan Qing reassured them that the Central Plains remained safe.
• Yan Qing and the others celebrated clearing their first extreme secret realm with fine wine and fell asleep together in Shang Xin Lei’s room.
• Yan Qing left the crowded room to check his alts and discovered a special situation on Jiang Shi’s account.
• Yan Qing logged into Jiang Shi’s account and saw him aboard a sandship with Golden Crow Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian and Azure Cloud Immortal Lord Gai Qingyun.

Jiang Shi arrived in Loulan with Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun, who explained the city’s history and the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ bitter rivalry. They brought her to Loulan’s treasury and gave her a collection of objects she could use to summon Heralds.

• Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun brought Jiang Shi to Loulan, where Deng described the oasis city’s history and its repeated destruction during wars among the Dragon Poem blood descendants.
• Jiang Shi asked Deng about his concealed identity, Wei Bai, and Ning Xiao Xiao, and Deng identified Ning Xiao Xiao as the Heavenly Court’s Time-Dependent Si Jun, a calamity lord of [Eternal Flow].
• Deng and Gai explained that they remained rivals despite arriving together, because the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ limited resources kept them in conflict.
• Deng and Gai escorted Jiang Shi into Loulan’s treasury, where Gai tested her confidence by unleashing his malice, but Jiang Shi calmly said she was not afraid.
• Deng showed Jiang Shi a table of curiosities and confirmed that the items she needed to summon Heralds were among them, then gave them all to her.

Deng Guanjian offered Jiang Shi the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ resources and support in exchange for six points of Golden Nature within ten years. Jiang Shi accepted the proposed cooperation in principle but paused before agreeing, asking which calamity position Deng Guanjian sought to prove.

• Deng Guanjian gave Jiang Shi a collection of rare items and offered him secret realms, teammates, and resources worth up to forty percent of the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ assets.
• Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun explained that becoming a Golden Core Calamity Immortal required at least six points of Golden Nature, which was extremely difficult to obtain.
• Deng Guanjian asked Jiang Shi to provide six points of Golden Nature within ten years in return for the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes serving him.
• Jiang Shi assured Deng Guanjian that he would keep his promise, and Deng Guanjian proposed a toast to their cooperation.
• Jiang Shi said he would not cooperate until they discussed one more matter, then asked which calamity position Deng Guanjian wanted to prove.

Jiang Shi negotiated with Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun over Calamity Positions, demanding two positions for herself and offering several inheritances in exchange. The Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes agreed to follow her for three thousand years, while Yan Qing prepared his companions to focus on clearing secret realms.

• Deng Guanjian explained the sixteen Calamity Positions, how Golden Core Calamity Lords could influence Mortal World Immortals' heavenly tribulations, and which positions various forces occupied or might occupy.
• Jiang Shi claimed [Mount Buzhou] and [End of Qingping], then offered other Calamity Position inheritances as terms for cooperation.
• Jiang Shi revealed that she knew every Calamity Position inheritance and intended to send people to claim every position if she had enough resources.
• Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun agreed that the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes would follow Jiang Shi for the next three thousand years.
• Yan Qing told Shang Xin Lei, Yaoshi Yuan, and Ying Ru Shi to devote themselves to clearing secret realms because time needed to accelerate.

Dragon Locking True Person attended Daoist Duobao’s invitation to witness the birth of the Golden Dao Calamity Position at Treasure Gathering Cave Mansion. The world’s messengers and powerful Immortals gathered there, with Golden Core Calamity Lords taking the highest place.

• Dragon Locking True Person accepted Daoist Duobao’s invitation and was transported to Treasure Gathering Cave Mansion.
• Thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered in the hall, followed by Immortal Lords from across the world, including the eleven deans of Imperial Stream Court.
• Qionghua Jade Mansion Lord arrived, and Xuanhuang Houde Emperor Lord revealed himself among the crowd.
• Time-Dependent Si Jun and Lantern God Lord Shanhai arrived, prompting the Mortal World Immortals to yield the upper levels to the Golden Core Calamity Lords.

At the Grand Ceremony of Proving the Dao, Daoist Duobao revealed the conditions for attaining Empty Attainment and began forming the [Remaining Lives of All Beings] tribulation position. After Daoist Duobao was killed, three cultivators vied to claim the position as seven beams of Golden Core Seeking Light rose, while four more appeared outside the Treasure Gathering Cave Mansion.

• Tong Moli realized Candle Lord was likely gone and feared the Fire Worship Cult would lose its standing among Golden Core sects; she also suspected Deng Guanjian and Gai Qingyun were using the gathering to undergo tribulation.
• Daoist Duobao emerged at the Treasure Gathering Cave Mansion and explained the three conditions for attaining Empty Attainment of a tribulation position.
• Daoist Duobao seized strands of origin from the existing tribulation positions and fused them with a World Beyond Worlds Dao Fruit to form the [Remaining Lives of All Beings] tribulation position.
• Lantern God Lord Shanhai killed Daoist Duobao, and Pang Qingyuan, Ming Suzhan, and Ye Caibing simultaneously began proving Golden Cores through [Remaining Lives of All Beings].
• As the Golden Cores and Immortal Lords moved to claim the tribulation position, seven beams of Golden Core Seeking Light appeared inside the cave mansion and four more rose outside it.