Chapter Summaries

Great Xia’s envoys sought Ye Qin’s help in preparing for the Heaven and Earth Calamity, and Ye Qin agreed to arrange for great demons to teach and provide resources. After waiting four days for an answer, the envoys were about to enter the mountain when the Hunting Falcon finally returned.

• The Hunting Falcon confronted Wang Xuehao and the other envoys, then flew to report their request to Ye Qin.
• Ye Qin learned that Great Xia had tested his cultivation method through college entrance exams, and the great demons agreed that humanity and demons should cooperate against the coming calamity.
• Ye Qin summoned the great demons, selected suitable teachers, and discussed what resources they would provide while keeping some in reserve.
• Wang Xuehao and the envoys waited for four days, growing exhausted and anxious as no reply came.
• Elder Chen urged the envoys to enter Longyuan Mountain, but the Hunting Falcon returned before they could leave.

The falcon delivered cultivation materials to Great Xia’s delegation and warned that their plans could not withstand the coming calamity. It revealed Ye Qin’s plan for Great Xia to build nine Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons, leaving the delegation with a possible means of survival but a difficult task ahead.

• The falcon gave Great Xia basic cultivation techniques, pills, talismans, and other supplies, restored the delegation’s energy, and promised demons would teach at their academies.
• Elder Chen asked about Great Xia’s disaster preparations, and the falcon said they would fail to prevent devastating casualties.
• The falcon presented Ye Qin’s blueprints and bronze model for the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron formation, which would use national fortune and the Blessed Grotto-Heavens to protect Great Xia.
• The falcon said the nine cauldrons could preserve humanity from annihilation, but warned that building them would be extremely difficult.

Daxia's delegation returned from Longyuan Mountain with basic cultivation methods and plans for the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, prompting the government to launch its calamity-preparation program. The chapter ended with Wu ZhengHao working at a construction site after telling his mother what happened during the gaokao, burdened by her sacrifices.

• Hunting Falcon gave Daxia's delegation the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron blueprints, and Elder Chen pledged Daxia's help to Longyuan Mountain in the future.
• Hua Tiancheng and other Cultivation Bureau officials worried about the delegation until Elder Chen called to report that the mission had succeeded and Longyuan Mountain had offered cultivation methods and calamity plans without asking for anything.
• Elder Chen and the returned delegation presented the cultivation methods and Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron plan to Daxia's leaders, who ordered the national rollout to begin.
• Daxia's officials distributed cultivation materials and pushed ahead with training centers and construction projects as they prepared for the Heaven and Earth Calamity.
• Wu ZhengHao worked at a construction site in Su Province, where he reassured his mother by phone and remembered how she had comforted him after he told her about the gaokao.

Wu ZhengHao learned that he had scored 600 points and been admitted to Chuan Nan University despite believing he had left two exam subjects blank. As many candidates who had comprehended cultivation questions received the same university’s notices, Daxia imposed sweeping college entrance exam rules to prioritize them before the approaching Heaven and Earth Calamity.

• Wu ZhengHao worked at a construction site to support his mother and save money to repeat his final year, while hiding his unexplained increase in strength and stamina.
• Zheng An brought Wu ZhengHao an admission notice from Chuan Nan University and showed him his official score of 600 points.
• Wu ZhengHao confirmed his admission with the university and concluded that he had likely answered the exam’s cultivation bonus questions correctly before celebrating and rushing home to tell his mother.
• Nearly a hundred candidates who had comprehended the cultivation questions received Chuan Nan University admissions, including high-scoring students whose preferences were for other universities.
• Daxia announced that universities would prioritize current-year examinees and that top universities would no longer admit repeat examinees, provoking widespread public opposition.
• Hua Tiancheng defended the extraordinary policy, saying Daxia needed to rapidly train those who had comprehended the Dragon Origin Mountain Range cultivation method before the Heaven and Earth Calamity.

Great Xia moved the cultivation method’s trial into the military and rushed university enrollment so more than one hundred students who had comprehended it could begin cultivating. The students were secretly gathered and taken to a remote forest, where the police left them to walk toward a mountain said to hold their new campus.

• Hua Tiancheng ordered the military to replace much of its physical training with study of the new cultivation method, while the authorities moved up the start of the university term.
• Freshmen complained about the shortened holiday and unusual registration procedures as universities opened early.
• At Chuan Nan University, police redirected Wu ZhengHao to a new campus and escorted him away; soldiers and police collected the other students who had comprehended the method during the exam.
• Great Xia secretly brought the students, including some taken from their homes, to a remote area and confiscated their communication devices during the journey.
• The convoy stopped in a vast forest, where officers returned the students’ devices, pointed them toward a mountain, and drove away, leaving them to continue on foot.

Wu ZhengHao led the stranded students through a dark mountain forest until they reached the radiant Great Xia Cultivator Academy, where Hua Tiancheng welcomed them and explained that they would train to face the coming Heaven and Earth Calamity. Their bewilderment deepened when an enormous talking tiger appeared and announced that it would be their teacher.

• Wu ZhengHao urged the students to keep moving, and he led them through the mountain forest as night fell and their phones found no signal.
• The students followed a distant light to a radiant gate and discovered the Great Xia Cultivator Academy deep in the mountains.
• Hua Tiancheng welcomed the students and said the academy had been established to prepare them to oppose the coming Heaven and Earth Calamity.
• The students recognized Hua Tiancheng as a senior official, but they struggled to understand his claims about cultivation and the academy.
• A huge upright tiger approached Hua Tiancheng, introduced itself as Tiger King, and declared that it would teach the students.

Hua Tiancheng left the new Great Xia cultivators in the Siberian Tiger’s care, where its dangerous training forced them to begin cultivating. Long Ling’s clone then told Hua Tiancheng to build temples to help awaken ancient figures, and he returned to the Cultivation Bureau to begin the work.

• Hua Tiancheng entrusted the students to the Siberian Tiger, which placed them on pillars above a deadly-looking abyss and ordered them to learn the cultivation manuals before the pillars collapsed.
• The students overcame their panic and began cultivating, while Hua Tiancheng watched and then received word from the Siberian Tiger that Ye Qin wanted to see him.
• Long Ling's clone told Hua Tiancheng to build temples in Famous Mountains and Rivers so incense offerings could help revive ancient people and prepare them to resist the Heaven and Earth Calamity.
• Long Ling's clone named Qin Shi Huang, Zuo Ci, Zhi Dun, Zhang Zeduan, Li Bai, Guan Zhong, Guiguzi, Ji Kang, and others as figures being revived.
• Hua Tiancheng returned to the Cultivation Bureau and issued orders to build temples throughout the Famous Mountains and Rivers.

Ye Qin traveled through the universe as Long Ling and reunited with Qing Huan, using their conversation to learn about the Heavenly Sect’s Signal Tower near the Savage Wasteland. After seeing the construction site and leaving without interfering, he returned toward Earth, while Qing Huan began to suspect Long Ling.

• Ye Qin contacted Qing Huan with the jade tablet and arranged to meet her using its coordinate guidance.
• Ye Qin met Qing Huan on a damp, short-lived planet and steered their conversation toward the Heavenly Sect’s Signal Tower.
• Ye Qin and Qing Huan watched Heavenly Sect disciples build the Signal Tower near the Savage Wasteland, and Ye Qin realized its effects on Earth could worsen as construction advanced.
• Several Heavenly Sect disciples discovered Ye Qin and Qing Huan and ordered them away from the site, so the two left without trying to interfere.
• Ye Qin said goodbye to Qing Huan and headed back toward Earth, while Qing Huan watched him leave and wondered whether Long Ling was suspicious.

Great Xia launched a nationwide Health Preservation Method campaign to secretly strengthen the population ahead of the Heaven and Earth Calamity. Hua Tiancheng learned that the campaign had taken hold and that Great Xia had secured nearly two billion tons of grain, while the United States demanded an explanation for its food trades.

• Hua Tiancheng and the Great Xia authorities promoted a basic cultivation method as a Health Preservation Method, adding it to school exams and tying public employees’ assessments to practicing it.
• Celebrities, influencers, officials, and citizens spread the exercises across Great Xia, while foreign media mocked the campaign and Great Xia netizens fought back online.
• Hua Tiancheng’s secretary-general reported that more than seventy percent of Great Xia’s population had begun exercising and that officials would continue leading the campaign.
• The secretary-general reported that Great Xia had nearly two billion tons of grain stored across nearly six thousand facilities, representing about sixty-five percent of global grain production and reserves.
• The secretary-general said the United States had halted food trades and demanded an explanation, but Hua Tiancheng ordered him to ignore them.

Great Xia rushed to gather materials and construct the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons as the Heaven and Earth Calamity approached. The chapter ended with the Holy Prince warning Hua Tiancheng that the calamity would most likely begin in half a year.

• Hua Tiancheng mobilized Great Xia’s departments and banks to gather materials, and authorities confiscated goods from hoarders who refused to sell.
• Zhao Hai directed experts at nine sites to build the cauldrons, while monsters from the Dragon Origin Mountain Range revealed the calamity and helped with construction.
• The experts struggled with the complex formation patterns, even as Great Xia completed training halls and expanded physical training across the country.
• The Holy Prince arrived at the Great Xia Cultivation Bureau and told Hua Tiancheng that Ye Qin predicted the Heaven and Earth Calamity would begin in half a year.

With the Heaven and Earth Calamity a month away, Great Xia announced its cultivation ranks and complete cultivation methods to the public, then ordered a month-long lockdown and the return of citizens abroad. The chapter left the nation reeling as people began discovering the methods worked and preparations for the calamity intensified.

• The Monkey King told Hua Tiancheng that the Heaven and Earth Calamity would begin in six months, and Hua Tiancheng informed Great Xia's leaders.
• Great Xia's officials reviewed their preparations, including food, energy, medicine, and the unfinished Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron, and continued the work as the deadline approached.
• With one month remaining, Great Xia's leaders voted to disclose the Soldier Path Levels and the remaining cultivation methods, and Hua Tiancheng released the announcement.
• People across Great Xia initially mocked the announcement, but some tried the newly released methods and reported stronger bodies, improved eyesight, and healed ailments.
• Great Xia announced a one-month lockdown, suspended foreign trade and incoming travel, and ordered citizens abroad to return within a week.

Great Xia closed its borders and recalled citizens from abroad, preparing for the Heaven and Earth Calamity. Foreign governments investigated and confirmed that Great Xia’s leaders genuinely believed a global disaster was imminent, but they remained uncertain whether to trust the warning.

• Great Xia halted trains, turned back ships and aircraft, and began organizing defense and disaster-response forces as it sealed its borders.
• The United States representative dismissed the closure and Great Xia’s warnings as foolish, while Tsarist State officials struggled to understand the move.
• Foreign governments discovered that Great Xia attributed its preparations to the coming Heaven and Earth Calamity and shared the same intelligence at a secret meeting.
• The participating countries confirmed that Great Xia’s high-ranking officials believed the calamity would threaten every living creature, leaving foreign leaders shocked and skeptical.

Great Xia’s border closure and cultivation campaign drew worldwide ridicule, while subsidies sent its citizens rushing to cultivate. At the Longyuan Celestial Sect, the Fifth Elder advertised for disciples with extravagant slogans, and a new message arrived just as Xie Yixuan questioned whether anyone would respond.

• Foreign governments, scientists, and netizens mocked Great Xia’s claim that a Heaven and Earth Calamity was coming, though some scientists noticed that Earth’s temperature and orbit were returning to normal.
• Great Xia offered daily cultivation subsidies and escalating rewards for reaching Soldier Path Levels, prompting citizens to abandon work and focus on cultivation.
• Workers refused to return to jobs, authorities investigated bosses who withheld wages, and property developers were pressured to let people use subsidies to buy homes.
• The Longyuan Celestial Sect posted exaggerated recruitment advertisements online, attracting attention and skeptical comments from netizens.
• Xie Yixuan asked the Fifth Elder how disciple recruitment was going, and the Fifth Elder received a message moments after insisting his advertisements would bring applicants.

Xie Yixuan led prospective disciples to the hidden Longyuan Celestial Sect, which officially began accepting students as Great Xia entered a nationwide cultivation campaign. As the government prepared the Nine Provinces Ascension Cauldron for the approaching Heaven and Earth Calamity, citizens began sensing the coming disaster and learning that officials were building something enormous.

• Xie Yixuan appeared before several young people searching for the Longyuan Celestial Sect and led them through the mountains to its mountaintop complex.
• The young people reached the Longyuan Celestial Sect after an exhausting journey and marveled at its grand, celestial-looking buildings.
• Great Xia officials redirected their efforts toward constructing the Nine Provinces Ascension Cauldron after launching nationwide cultivation, while Mu Tianli advised delaying promised subsidies until after the calamity arrived.
• People across Great Xia speculated about the authorities' unusual measures and reported an unexplained sense of pressure and impending danger.
• Great Xia secretly released footage of the Nine Provinces Ascension Cauldron's construction, prompting citizens to cultivate more diligently as their physical abilities improved.

Great Xia completed the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons, and Ye Qin determined that the Heaven and Earth Calamity would begin at dawn in three days. The government announced the danger and prepared the country as its people sheltered indoors, waiting for the disaster to arrive.

• Great Xia's craftsmen completed the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons across the country, and the nine cauldrons resonated when the final one was finished on Kunlun Mountain.
• Ye Qin sensed the cauldrons' completion and told the demons that the Heaven and Earth Calamity would begin at dawn three days later.
• Great Xia's officials made the prediction public, ordered citizens to stay indoors, and circulated emergency guidance while foreign countries mocked the warning.
• Animals migrated toward the Longyuan Mountain Range and other gathering places as Great Xia deployed its military forces.
• Great Xia's citizens stayed inside dark, silent cities, praying, reading official notices, or cultivating as they waited for the calamity.

Great Xia prepared for the Heaven and Earth Calamity while other countries dismissed its warnings, until scientists worldwide discovered Earth’s orbit was deviating again. As the countdown reached midnight, snow began falling across the world, and Ye Qin confirmed the calamity had arrived.

• Great Xia’s leaders, military, cultivation students, and mountain formations prepared for the predicted calamity while officials vowed to protect the country’s 1.4 billion people.
• Foreign governments mocked Great Xia’s evacuations, and Tom and James dismissed its warnings while monitoring satellite data in the United States.
• James and Tom discovered that Earth’s orbit had begun deviating drastically again, and scientists around the world confirmed the change.
• Great Xia’s officials and people watched a nationwide countdown as dark clouds, unnatural cold, and a growing pressure enveloped the land.
• When the countdown reached zero, snow began drifting down, and Ye Qin declared that the Heaven and Earth Calamity had arrived.

An unprecedented global snowfall marked the arrival of the Heaven and Earth Calamity, while Great Xia recognized the danger and activated its defenses. In the United States, Tom and James convinced Director David that Earth’s orbit had shifted and a vast cold wave was spreading, as officials worldwide discovered blizzard clouds covering nearly every country.

• Snow began falling across the world, including tropical countries, while Great Xia’s residents recognized the Heaven and Earth Calamity and its officials ordered preparations to begin.
• Tom and James examined aerospace data and found that a massive cold current covered most of the United States and dark clouds had appeared across Earth.
• Tom and James rushed to Director David’s banquet and reported that Earth’s orbit had shifted away from the Sun, disturbing the magnetic field and causing the snowfall.
• David called Olf at the meteorological department, and Olf confirmed that satellite images showed vast areas across Earth covered by blizzards.
• Meteorological officials in tropical countries found strange black clouds expanding across nearly every country and realized the snowfall was abnormal.

A sudden global snowfall was traced to an unknown force disrupting Earth’s magnetic field and pushing the planet into a rapidly changing orbit, threatening temperatures near minus one hundred degrees. World leaders realized Earth would reach the farthest point from the Sun in about five months and that Great Xia had prepared for the disaster while other nations had traded away food and fuel.

• Meteorological authorities discovered that snow and powerful cold currents were spreading across nearly the entire globe, then alerted their governments.
• United Secretary-General Alex told representatives at the United Nations that an unknown force had disrupted Earth’s magnetic field and shifted its orbit.
• Alex presented United States space-station data showing Earth’s orbit stretching into a narrow ellipse and warned that temperatures could approach minus one hundred degrees.
• David reported that the global average temperature had fallen six degrees Celsius in half a day and that Earth would reach the farthest part of its orbit in about five months.
• Representatives realized Great Xia had exchanged rare materials for food and fuel, closed its borders, and recalled its citizens before the disaster.
• Officials from the United States and other nations rushed to report the crisis, regretting that they had traded away food and fuel.

A global blizzard intensified into a catastrophic cold wave, burying cities, killing wildlife, and halting transportation as governments struggled to respond. With supplies running out, widespread looting and unrest erupted, leaving cities and national leaders increasingly helpless.

• People worldwide noticed the unusual snowfall, and government representatives tried to reassure them that it was a manageable natural phenomenon.
• The blizzard worsened across every country, temperatures plunged, and tropical regions suffered especially severe damage to people, plants, and animals.
• After the snowfall persisted for a week, people rushed to stockpile supplies, but many found store shelves empty as news reported extreme snow depths and stranded travelers.
• Within ten days, transportation had stopped and food shortages drove people to loot stores, fight one another, and attack others, while authorities struggled to contain the chaos.
• More than ninety percent of cities faced food crises, and citizens demanded aid from municipal governments that lacked reserves; leaders regretted having traded food to China for rare resources.

As the global blizzard plunged countries into famine and chaos, Great Xia stayed warm and well supplied thanks to its preparations, while Ye Qin warned that a second wave of the Heaven and Earth Calamity might come soon. When foreign governments demanded Great Xia share its food, Hua Tiancheng answered with records proving the reserves had been acquired through legitimate trade, provoking outrage among foreign civilians over their leaders’ past exchanges.

• The blizzard caused food shortages and social collapse worldwide, while Great Xia relied on its grain reserves and fuel to keep its people fed and warm.
• Ye Qin sensed chaotic forces affecting Earth’s magnetic fields and sent the Siberian Tiger and the weasel to warn Great Xia and the other great demons that a second calamity wave might be approaching.
• Great Xia’s people noticed their cultivation progressing faster as the Signal Tower’s influence spread and Spiritual Energy diffused through the changing magnetic field.
• The United States, Cherry Blossom Country, England, Korea, and Tsarist State demanded Great Xia share or surrender its food reserves, accusing it of withholding warnings and resources.
• Hua Tiancheng released records showing Great Xia had obtained its food and fuel through legitimate transactions, and foreign civilians erupted in anger over how much their governments had traded away.