Chapter Summaries

Little Golden Dragon agreed to work for Chen Yi after securing the right to resign, and Chen Yi tasked him with expanding the chat group's access to Ziwei natives. Chen Yi sent him to the Ziwei Immortal Court to plan the changes carefully before implementation.

• Little Golden Dragon agreed to work for Chen Yi after Chen Yi promised he could resign whenever he wanted.
• Chen Yi asked Little Golden Dragon to change the chat group's rule so Ziwei natives could use it, but Little Golden Dragon warned that this would weaken its confidentiality.
• Chen Yi explained that opening the chat group could improve Ziwei Immortal Court operations and support the Ziwei Immortal Realm's development.
• Little Golden Dragon boasted that he could modify the chat group's rules within two and a half days.
• Chen Yi told Little Golden Dragon to familiarize himself with the Ziwei Immortal Court, establish a project, and gather input before making the changes.

Twenty-nine powerful Loose Immortals joined the Ziwei Immortal Court under the Tribulation Master Venerable’s orders, with Little Golden Dragon appointed chief god of the Ascension Department. As Heavenly Officials questioned the newcomers’ privileged ranks, Fu Li hinted that their duties would be exceptionally demanding, while a high-level meeting gathered to support Little Golden Dragon’s arrival.

• Twenty-nine Loose Immortals arrived at the Ziwei Immortal Court, and Little Golden Dragon was appointed second-rank chief god of the Ascension Department.
• Heavenly Officials asked Xie Jingjing and Hu Yi about the newcomers’ origins and assignments, but neither could access their secret files.
• The Heavenly Officials complained that the newcomers had skipped the hard work and would enjoy the benefits of everyone else’s efforts.
• Fu Li said the newcomers’ work required exceptional technical skill and frequent travel, and told the others to wait for the official notice.
• At a meeting in the Ziwei Treasure Hall, the Tribulation Master Venerable supported Little Golden Dragon, whose accumulated powers made him so dangerous that he needed seals to restrain him.

Zhao Huazhen attended a grand meeting as the new Chief Deity of the Ascension Department and delivered a muddled speech about the Ziwei Immortal Realm’s advancement, Tongyou Pavilion, and departmental reorganization. As the officials discussed his odd nature and past, they concluded that Xu Jinghong’s nonstop chatter needed to be dealt with.

• Xuanyu Zi opened the meeting and introduced Zhao Huazhen as the speaker on three major proposals.
• Zhao Huazhen gave a disorganized speech, while Zhou Zheng explained that he had refused help writing it.
• Fang Zheng, Gu Yuan, Xiao Chunnan, and Zhou Zheng speculated that Zhao Huazhen was an unusual transmigrator.
• Xu Jinghong recounted how Zhao Huazhen had survived a disastrous start as a mentally disabled little fish and risen to become a Golden Scale Dragon.
• The officials realized that Xu Jinghong’s endless talking was the real reason for their silence and agreed he needed something to keep him busy.

Zhao Huazhen presented the chat group project and, with prompts from Fang Zheng and other seasoned officials, explained its benefits and the controls Tongyou Pavilion would need. Ziwei’s officials approved the project, and Chen Yi then summoned the Ziwei Heavenly Dao to Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven for a private discussion.

• Zhao Huazhen announced that he would lead Tongyou Pavilion and oversee the chat group project, but Fang Zheng prompted him to clarify its benefits.
• Zhao Huazhen explained how chat groups would improve communication, security, logistics, and trade, and realized Fang Zheng had been guiding him rather than embarrassing him.
• Gu Yuan and Chunan asked about Tongyou Pavilion’s authority and disciplinary oversight, helping Zhao Huazhen explain the project’s safeguards.
• Ziwei’s native heavenly officials voted in favor and praised Zhao Huazhen, while Chen Yi expected him to follow through on the promises he had made.
• Chen Yi called the Ziwei Heavenly Dao to Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven to speak privately.

Chen Yi explained why he had rejected the Ziwei Immortal Court’s plans to advance the world, then took Ziwei Heavenly Dao to investigate a hidden variable. Meanwhile, Chen Dalei’s Heavenly Mandate Disaster Mitigation Team encountered a powerful being beneath the Luochuan River and prepared to confront it.

• Ziwei Heavenly Dao urged Chen Yi to approve the Heavenly Officials’ proposals, but Chen Yi said they needed further refinement because hidden variables could endanger the whole world.
• Chen Yi invited Ziwei Heavenly Dao to visit an old acquaintance so it could understand why he had rejected the proposals.
• Sun Kongkong complained that a mysterious force beneath the Luochuan River had stolen his staff, while Jin, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing discussed the danger in the water.
• Ao Bing recognized that a powerful old monster was hiding beneath the river and warned his companions not to provoke it.
• Chen Dalei dismissed Ao Bing’s caution and ordered the Heavenly Mandate Disaster Mitigation Team to investigate the hidden being.

Chen Dalei confronted Bai Yujing, a disgraced Heavenly Dao immortal who claimed he had found a way to resolve the Luochuan River’s dangerous historical problem. Bai Yujing asked Chen Dalei for help, then offered Sun Kongkong three treasures while pretending to ask which one he had dropped.

• Chen Dalei’s authority prompted Bai Yujing to surface from the Luochuan River and stop pretending to be a god.
• Bai Yujing admitted that he had caused the Immortal Court’s earlier miscalculation and had spent years devising a way to break the impasse.
• Bai Yujing warned Chen Dalei that mishandling the unstable variables could force another brute-force suppression and endanger the surrounding region.
• Chen Dalei agreed to help Bai Yujing study a solution if his approach proved useful, and told him to follow procedure.
• Bai Yujing showed Sun Kongkong three dazzling treasures and asked which one he had dropped.

Sun Kongkong and the Heavenly Mandate Disaster Mitigation Team tricked Bai Yujing into handing over magical treasures and learned how to resolve the Love-Flower Gu crisis in Women's Country. Meanwhile, Chen Yi warned the Ziwei Heavenly Dao about the danger of elevating the world's rank while its foundations were being drained.

• Sun Kongkong pretended to drop Bai Yujing's three treasures into the river and claimed them as his own.
• Chen Dalei argued that Bai Yujing owed the team more treasures, and the team members threw their own treasures into the river to secure a larger exchange.
• Bai Yujing gave up more of his hidden treasures, and Chen Dalei agreed to help him settle his historical debt in Women's Country.
• Bai Yujing explained that the Daughter Country's Lord had to willingly offer the essence of Breathing Soil to fill the abyss of resentment, and that the Yin-Yang Rebirth Pearl could help eradicate the Love-Flower Gu.
• Chen Yi told the Ziwei Heavenly Dao that raising the world's rank amid widespread exploitation of lowly beings could bring serious consequences.

The Heavenly Mandate Disaster Mitigation Team entered Women's Country and was mobbed by female cultivators affected by Love Flower Gu. Chen Dalei called for Love Root and prepared to fight, but the force of his Holy Lord Belt drew a hurried apology from the depths of the peach forest.

• The team crossed into Women's Country, where Chen Dalei told Sun Kongkong, Yang Jian, A Jin, and Ao Bing to search for carriers of Love Flower Gu.
• Female cultivators rushed the five men, overwhelming Sun Kongkong and A Jin while Yang Jian and Ao Bing welcomed their advances.
• Chen Dalei used the Yin-Yang Rebirth Pearl to keep the women away and called Love Root out from the peach grove.
• Chen Dalei took out the Holy Lord Belt, shaking the peach forest with its aura, and Love Root hurriedly apologized for failing to welcome the guests.

Chen Dalei identified himself as a Daoist from the Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven and learned that Women's Country was suffering under corrupt local gods and rulers. After Mu Shuihua begged him to save the country, Chen Dalei began using divine powers to investigate.

• Mu Shuihua, King Zhenbei of Women's Country, welcomed Chen Dalei and his companions and invited them into the city.
• Chen Dalei rejected Mu Shuihua's pleasantries, announced his identity and mission, and demanded that she speak plainly.
• Mu Shuihua recognized that Chen Dalei was likely genuine and fell to her knees, asking him to save Women's Country from its muddleheaded ruler, inactive City God, harmful Earth God, and sealed borders.
• Chen Dalei questioned Mu Shuihua's accusations against the young deities but decided to see the situation himself.
• Chen Dalei activated the Sheep Talisman's Soul Projection and the Tiger Talisman's Separation of Good and Evil.

Chen Dalei exposed the Love-Flower Gu crisis in Women's Country and split King Zhenbei Mu Shuihua's Primordial Spirit into good and evil halves. He dispatched his bodyguards to find the other carriers while he began studying how to remove the Gu root.

• Chen Dalei explained how Love-Flower Gu had spread through Women's Country after the Innate Yang Essence Sacred Spring was contaminated, and how Bai Yujing's failed plan led to the territory being sealed.
• Chen Dalei revealed that King Zhenbei Mu Shuihua carried the Love-Flower Gu root and had tried to seduce the Chosen Ones to stop their investigation.
• Chen Dalei used the Sheep and Tiger Talismans to split Mu Shuihua's Primordial Spirit into a good female half and an evil male half.
• Chen Dalei gave his four bodyguards talismans and ordered them to search Women's Country, capture every Love-Flower Gu root carrier, and gather at the central imperial palace.
• Chen Dalei stayed behind to study how to uproot the Love-Flower Gu root himself.

Chen Yi explained how Women's Country’s decade of stagnation had left its fortune declining despite growth elsewhere, then used an ordinary exchange between a weaver and a grain seller to teach Ziwei cat about value creation. Ziwei cat finally began to understand, but Chen Yi’s lesson was left unfinished.

• Ziwei cat asked Chen Yi how fictitious value creation related to Chen Dalei’s research on the Love Flower Gu root.
• Chen Yi explained that Women's Country’s isolation had stalled its development and weakened its fortune, which depended on support from outside.
• Chen Yi projected Sun Kongkong being mistaken for a man by women in the city before his disguise was exposed and he challenged them.
• At Chen Yi’s prompting, Ziwei cat watched a weaver buy grain, make a gauze dress, and sell it back to the grain shop owner.
• Ziwei cat recognized the exchange as an example of value creation, and Chen Yi asked it to explain its understanding.

Chen Yi explained value appreciation and fictitious value appreciation to Ziwei Heavenly Dao, which realized the risks of blindly pursuing prosperity. At Thunder Accumulation Mountain, a young man’s check-in system gave him an Eternal Life Coffin and then unbound, while golden eyes opened somewhere in the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Yi explained how extra labor and circulation could increase an item’s value, and warned Ziwei Heavenly Dao that fictitious appreciation could outpace real production.
• Ziwei Heavenly Dao understood the concept but lowered its head when Chen Yi pressed it to explain fictitious value appreciation.
• An arrogant young man arrived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, mocked the historical records about the Fang Family, and kicked the commemorative stele.
• The young man’s system rewarded him with an Eternal Life Coffin, then unbound before he could claim further rewards.
• Golden eyes slowly opened somewhere in the Immortal Realm.

Ling Xiao used the Primal Creation Plate to bait Wuji with a trace of the Primal Chaos Pattern Bell in the Tianshu Star Domain, drawing attention toward Fang Fan and Xiao Huanhuan. Xiao Huanhuan alerted Chen Yi, who told her to keep teaching Fang Fan while he handled the threat.

• Ling Xiao explained that he had chosen a secluded system host as a scapegoat and used the Primal Creation Plate to manipulate events despite being trapped in the River of Time.
• Wuji detected the Eternal Life Coffin and its Primal Chaos Pattern Bell fragments at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, then recognized Ling Xiao's bait and considered targeting the Wang Family, the Fang Family, Fang Zheng, and Fang Fan.
• The Myriad Xuanji Ring detected the threat, and Xiao Huanhuan traced the power to the Primal Creation Plate and concluded that Ling Xiao was trying to draw Wuji toward Fang Fan and her.
• Xiao Huanhuan quietly alerted Chen Yi while Fang Fan continued receiving Hu Fangyuan's instruction in the Immeasurable Realm.
• Chen Yi told Xiao Huanhuan to leave the matter to him and continue listening to Black Soil's lesson with Fang Fan.

Chen Yi explained how he had baited Ling Xiao with Fang Fan’s origins in the Tianshu Star Domain to pursue Ling Xiao’s Creation Disk fragment and Epoch Treasury. After discussing plans for the Ziwei Immortal Court’s economy with the Ziwei cat, Chen Yi returned to the Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven, while the cat worried that he had been working too hard.

• Chen Yi revealed that he had deliberately left the Tianshu Star Domain loophole open to lure Ling Xiao into a trap and hoped to seize the Creation Disk fragment and Epoch Treasury.
• Chen Yi said he had prepared for Ling Xiao to evade his scrutiny and would accept even Wuji’s involvement in the confrontation.
• The Ziwei cat asked Chen Yi about his proposed economic plan, and he explained that the Heavenly Officials would develop its details after recognizing the danger of fictitious value inflation.
• The Ziwei cat told Chen Yi that Qin Sheng had first identified the problem, and Chen Yi explained that Qin Sheng’s former experience with capital made him sensitive to it.
• Chen Yi told the Ziwei cat to return to the Ziwei Immortal Court and went back to the Phantom Star Grotto-Heaven, while the cat worried that he had not rested enough.

After eight hundred years of seeking excitement, Chen Yi found a new game in the chat group and began maneuvering against Ling Xiao and Wuji. As Chen Yi sent three five-star avatars toward Tianshu, Wuji dispatched a supreme dharma body to the Tianshu Star Domain to search for Ling Xiao’s Epoch Treasure Vault and confront the danger Chen Yi posed.

• Chen Yi grew bored with repeatedly facing the Tribulation Transcendence until the chat group appeared and introduced him to Ling Xiao.
• Chen Yi played against Ling Xiao and Wuji through avatars, while Wuji shut away the Tribulation Transcendence and left Chen Yi unable to reach it.
• Chen Yi sent three five-star avatars toward Tianshu and declared that he and Wuji would soon come for Ling Xiao.
• Wuji reasoned that Chen Yi had deliberately left the Tianshu Star Domain undefended to lure Ling Xiao, and resolved to expose Chen Yi’s Chaos Supreme Treasure if possible.
• Wuji severed a trace of his origin Dao mark, refined it into a supreme dharma body, and sent it to the Tianshu Star Domain.

Ling Xiao deliberately pushed the Tianshu Star Domain toward a crisis to force Wuji to act against Chen Yi, while keeping himself safe. As the domain faced a catastrophic storm, an unknown voice intervened and cleared the skies.

• Ling Xiao recognized that Chen Yi had left a loophole as bait but decided to exploit it before Chen Yi grew too powerful.
• Ling Xiao threatened to drag Wuji into chaos if he tried to pursue him and vowed to make Wuji go after Chen Yi instead.
• The field around the Tianshu Star Domain distorted, unleashing a terrifying aura and torrential storms that the Tianshu Heavenly Dao struggled to withstand.
• The Tianshu Heavenly Dao failed to contact Fang Zheng, Fang Fan, Zeng Niu, or Jin Shu and feared the domain would be destroyed.
• An unknown voice called the Tianshu Heavenly Dao a useless little bastard, and the skies cleared immediately.

Chen Yi stopped the Tianshu Heavenly Dao from punishing Lu Guan and resolved the crisis, then criticized Tianshu’s ascension record and imposed higher quotas and a ten-year deadline to reach the Pseudo-Immortal Realm. After Chen Yi left with Lu Guan and the distorted field, the Heavenly Dao reluctantly prepared to push the star domain harder.

• The Tianshu Heavenly Dao traced the calamity to Lu Guan and wanted to strike him down, but Chen Yi stopped it and called Lu Guan an innocent pawn.
• The Tianshu Heavenly Dao listed Lu Guan’s crimes and said he deserved the netherworld’s deepest punishments, while agreeing to postpone judgment until after Chen Yi dealt with the mastermind.
• Chen Yi scolded the Tianshu Heavenly Dao for sending only nine beings to ascend in three years despite receiving support from the Immortal Court.
• Chen Yi raised the quota to five ascensions per year and ordered Tianshu to reach the Pseudo-Immortal Realm within ten years or lose its resource support.
• Chen Yi vanished along with the distorted field and Lu Guan, leaving the Tianshu Heavenly Dao to accept the demands and plan how to force the star domain to develop.

Wuji fled from Chen Yi after investigating Ling Xiao, convinced he had understood Chen Yi’s nature and could escape by entering the River of Time. Chen Yi revealed that Wuji had finally taken the bait and led him toward Ling Xiao.

• Wuji’s origin Dao mark Dharma Body fled through space as Chen Yi pursued him with the Eternal Life Coffin and a pitch-black halberd.
• Wuji recalled how he had investigated Lu Guan’s traces of Ling Xiao while believing Chen Yi was hidden in the Tianshu Star Domain.
• Wuji analyzed Chen Yi as an Acquired Variant Species called Yi and decided that, despite his strength, Chen Yi could not threaten Wuji’s path to becoming the Chaos Overlord.
• Wuji dismissed Chen Yi and plunged into the River of Time, setting a Spacetime Trap to stop the pursuit.
• Chen Yi smiled and revealed that he had wanted Wuji to lead him to Ling Xiao.

Chen Yi realized that Ling Xiao’s accumulated influence across the lower realms let him contend with Wuji, and pretended to be a harmless rogue so Wuji would underestimate him. Chen Yi then disrupted Wuji’s Spacetime Trap and forced his way into the River of Time to pursue Ling Xiao.

• Chen Yi recalled Wuji using Ling Xiao’s Dharma Form in the Karma Mist Space, where Little Golden Dragon helped save Chen Yi’s avatar from danger.
• After refining an origin Dao mark, Chen Yi understood how Dao marks, Dao lineage, and Ling Xiao’s influence across nine epochs gave Ling Xiao an advantage in the lower realms.
• Chen Yi decided to conceal his connection to Ling Xiao and make Wuji believe he was only a minor Evil Cultivator who posed no threat.
• Chen Yi chased and attacked Wuji until Wuji concluded that Chen Yi was fierce but not much of a danger.
• Chen Yi poked apart Wuji’s Spacetime Trap, tore open a spacetime rift, and forced his way into the River of Time to keep Wuji from taking Ling Xiao.

Wuji inspected the Temporal Investigators guarding the River of Time and reflected on the Heavenly Court’s financial troubles and his pursuit of Ling Xiao’s Epoch Treasury. After Wuji picked up Ling Xiao’s trail and left the River of Time, Chen Yi cautiously followed him through a crack in spacetime.

• Wuji visited tributary points in the River of Time and praised the Temporal Investigators for remaining at their posts.
• Wuji considered the Heavenly Court’s dwindling resources and decided that obtaining Ling Xiao’s Epoch Treasury would restore the Immortal Realm’s wealth.
• Chen Yi secretly followed Wuji and worried that the Immortal Emperor had discovered him.
• Wuji found Ling Xiao’s lingering scent, left the River of Time, and began pursuing him.
• Chen Yi gripped his halberd and silently followed Wuji into an unknown stretch of void.