Chapter Summaries

After the calamity ended, Great Xia began rebuilding and planned to integrate cultivation into every part of society, while other countries struggled with devastation and shortages. One month later, Great Xia declared the start of the High Martial Era and introduced the High Martial Calendar.

• The Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron absorbed the remaining radiation, and the calamity subsided as survivors emerged into sunlight.
• Great Xia announced that the calamity had ended because of the demon master of the Dragon Origin Mountain Range, prompting other countries to verify the news and begin reconstruction.
• Leaders in Great Xia met to plan post-disaster recovery, and Hua Tiancheng proposed making cultivation central to education, government, construction, military affairs, and research.
• The old leader assigned Hua Tiancheng responsibility for reconstruction, and Great Xia's people rapidly rebuilt their homeland with the help of cultivation.
• One month later, the Great Xia Official announced that the High Martial Era had begun and changed the calendar to Year 1 of the High Martial Calendar.

A year after the Heaven and Earth Calamity, Great Xia had rebuilt with cultivation and technology while Ye Qin connected Earth to the cosmic signal network. Song Shu led a Great Xia aid mission to Europe, where London residents spotted cultivators approaching.

• Ye Qin determined that the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron had linked Earth to the Signal Tower, and he warned the Siberian Tiger to cultivate and remain cautious about the cosmos.
• Great Xia spent a year rebuilding with rune-enhanced buildings, vehicles, factories, and growing numbers of cultivators.
• Hua Tiancheng assigned Song Shu to lead the Cultivation Bureau's European humanitarian aid team, joined by people from the Cultivation Academy and Longyuan Celestial Sect.
• In London, workers discussed Great Xia's promised aid and marveled at its cultivators as several figures riding streaks of light flew toward them.

Great Xia cultivators amazed people abroad by rebuilding disaster-stricken communities with flight, spiritual power, and formations. Meanwhile, Ye Qin asked the Star Beast to spread restricted-zone power over Great Xia, leaving cultivators across the country panicked as their spiritual energy faltered and their cultivation began to decline.

• Song Shu and the Great Xia cultivators arrived in England by flying on swords and began rebuilding homes with their abilities.
• Song Shu set up a formation that strengthened the new buildings against future disasters, astonishing the people of England.
• Ye Qin told the great demons that humanity needed stronger cultivation to support their future plans in the cosmos.
• Ye Qin visited the Star Beast and asked it to spread a small amount of restricted-zone power over Great Xia.
• The Star Beast’s power disrupted spiritual energy across Great Xia, causing accidents and cultivation losses that left citizens and officials scrambling for answers.

Hua Tiancheng learned that Ye Qin had created a special training phenomenon to strengthen Great Xia’s cultivation, while Ye Qin connected the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons to the Signal Towers and discovered that a mysterious cosmic world would soon open. As he prepared to revive ancient allies to explore it, Demon Kings invited human cultivators to temple fairs on their mountains, and the Cultivation Bureau began arranging a public gathering.

• The Monkey King told Hua Tiancheng that Ye Qin had created the cultivation pressure as training for Great Xia and as preparation for future campaigns across the cosmos.
• The Cultivation Bureau reassured the public that the strange phenomena were a controlled training method, and people gradually accepted it and increased their efforts.
• Ye Qin used the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldrons to connect with the cosmic Signal Towers and learned that cultivators could soon enter a mysterious world through them as souls.
• Ye Qin decided to revive the ancients he had brought back from the river of time so they could help explore the new world.
• Hua Tiancheng received invitations from the Mount Song Demon King and two other Demon Kings to bring human cultivators to their mountains for lectures, exchanges, and temple fairs.
• Hua Tiancheng ordered the government to announce the gathering and send personnel to help the Demon Kings prepare.

The Great Xia Cultivation Bureau announced a gathering hosted by several Demon Kings, sparking nationwide excitement and a scramble to reach the venues. At Mount Song, visitors entered a transformed, Spirit-rich landscape and explored a lively fair, unaware that its true purpose was to gather incense offerings for the descent of the Ancient Sage.

• The Cultivation Bureau announced that Demon Kings had invited cultivators to gatherings at Mount Song, Mount Heng, and Mount Heng, and state media answered public questions about the Demon Race.
• Cultivators rushed to buy tickets and travel toward the venues, prompting officials to add transportation and organize dedicated routes.
• Hua Tiancheng reviewed preparations as visitors gathered outside Mount Song, where an array kept the mountain hidden until the event began.
• Cultivation Bureau staff removed the array, revealing Mount Song's misty scenery, and the arriving cultivators felt the strength of its Spiritual Energy.
• Visitors explored the temple fair, watched performances, and bought rare items, including purported Demon King signatures.
• The chapter revealed that the fair was intended to collect incense offerings from the people of Great Xia to aid the Ancient Sage's descent.

The three mountain Demon Kings appeared before crowds of cultivators at Mount Song, Mount Heng, and Mount Heng, drawing worldwide attention through official livestreams. The Mount Song Demon King led visitors to an ancient temple, where animals began emerging from the bushes.

• Crowds gathered at the three mountains as authorities livestreamed the celebrations to viewers in Great Xia and abroad.
• The Mount Song Demon King arrived as a towering brown bear, while the Mount Heng Demon King appeared as a lion and the Mount Heng Demon King descended across a rainbow bridge as a peacock; all three welcomed Great Xia’s cultivators.
• The golden eagle watched the livestream from Changbai Mountain and lamented that its mountain had not yet been opened.
• The Mount Song Demon King told visitors it had studied under the Demon Master of the Dragon Origin Mountain Range and said someone else would give the promised lecture on the Dao.
• The Mount Song Demon King led the crowd to an ancient temple that had survived the Heaven and Earth Calamity intact, and animals began emerging from the surrounding bushes.

The Mount Song Demon King led a grand incense ceremony that revived Li Bai, whose poetry manifested as a scene of the Yellow River. Meanwhile, Zuo Ci appeared on Mount Heng and displayed extraordinary alchemy, leaving the cultivators and viewers stunned.

• Animals awakened by the Demon King's protection distributed incense to the gathered cultivators, and the Demon King ordered them to light it and pay respects to the temple.
• The incense smoke gathered into a staircase toward the temple, where the clay statue shattered and Li Bai took shape amid golden light.
• Li Bai wrote poetry that manifested the Yellow River and a sailboat, then the Mount Song Demon King confirmed his identity and Li Bai thanked the Demon Immortal for reviving him.
• Li Bai poured wine from his gourd, while the livestream audience and Hua Tiancheng reacted with shock to the ancient poet's return.
• Hua Tiancheng switched to the Mount Heng livestream and watched Zuo Ci refine pills in a vast alchemy furnace before distributing them to the crowd.

Zhi Dun descended into the present after receiving the Demon Master's teachings, while Long Ling preached the Primordial Spirit method and Great Xia honored Ye Qin with a sacrificial ceremony. Ye Qin then summoned Zuo Ci, Li Bai, and Zhi Dun, explained the Outer-Realm Heavenly Sect's Signal Tower and its threat to the Solar System, and asked them to help address the crisis.

• Zhi Dun manifested on Mount Heng, declared that he had joined Buddhism with the Dao under the Demon Master's guidance, and was welcomed by Buddhist temples across the land.
• Long Ling's avatar preached the Primordial Spirit cultivation method for forty-nine days, after which cultivators thanked her and she continued teaching at the three mountains.
• Tian Shu Perfected Person Hu Xiaocao and Hua Tiancheng called for a sacrificial ceremony on Mount Song, where Great Xia's people honored Ye Qin and the ancient sages observed the offerings.
• Long Ling brought Li Bai, Zuo Ci, and Zhi Dun to Longyuan Mountain, where Ye Qin welcomed the three sages and showed them the Signal Tower built by the Outer-Realm Heavenly Sect.
• Ye Qin explained that the Signal Tower had altered Earth's orbit and caused deadly cold, but could also connect Earth to another cultivation world, then asked the three sages whether they would go.

Ye Qin sent Zuo Ci, Li Bai, and Zhi Dun into the Giant Spirit Realm using the Nine Provinces Primordial Cauldron to investigate its dangers and factions. The Three Sages entered the Primal Spirit Domain, where they learned that souls could be killed permanently, and began gathering information about the realm and its currency.

• Ye Qin instructed the Three Sages to prioritize survival and record the Cosmos cultivators’ races, factions, and cultivation systems before sending their souls through the Nine Provinces Primordial Cauldron.
• Bear King informed Hua Tiancheng that the cauldron’s disturbance was part of the Three Sages’ trial, and Great Xia issued a public notice; Bear King also tried a cigarette and demanded more.
• Zuo Ci, Li Bai, and Zhi Dun arrived at the Giant Spirit Realm’s Primal Spirit Domain and learned that only cultivators at the Earth Origin Realm or below could enter it.
• Cosmos cultivators warned the Three Sages that powerful sects controlled the domain and that the Soul Curse Palace’s Five Venom Nails could destroy souls and kill their original bodies.
• Granny Lu recruited cultivators for Reed Flame Valley while the Three Sages grew wary, and they learned from a scholar that Celestial Essence was the realm’s currency and a source of power for souls.

Zuo Ci, Zhi Dun, and Li Bai entered the Giant Spirit Realm, earned Celestial Essence by defeating bandits, and established Great Magnetic Stronghold as a base for Earth’s cultivators. After Li Bai reported back to Ye Qin, Long Ling and the Great Xia Cultivation Bureau invited the people of Great Xia to propose ways humanity could gain a foothold in the new world.

• Liu Ruoyang explained how cultivators could obtain Celestial Essence, and the Three Sages chose to seek missions at Sky-Turning Tower.
• The Path-Seeking Stone identified Zuo Ci as an Earth Origin Realm cultivator, and he accepted a nine-star mission to suppress Li Wang’s bandits at Great Magnetic Mountain.
• Zhi Dun and Li Bai defeated Li Wang, cleared out the bandits, and Zuo Ci claimed the mission reward and selected the stronghold as a base for Earth’s cultivators.
• Li Bai returned to Earth and reported the Giant Spirit Realm’s conditions and their new base to Ye Qin.
• Long Ling, Hua Tiancheng, Hu Xiaocao, and the demon kings agreed to gather ideas from Great Xia’s people, and the Great Xia Cultivation Bureau published an announcement inviting proposals.

Great Xia’s officials and Longyuan Mountain’s cultivators devised plans for humans to establish a foothold in the Giant Spirit Realm, including recruiting Rogue Cultivators and hiding the demon kings’ identities. Long Ling’s clone sent the Tiger King, Golden Peng King, Great Sage Monkey King, and Li Bai to join Zuo Ci and Zhi Dun and expand the base.

• Lily and people across Great Xia discussed the Demon Master’s call for opinions and proposed strategies for entering hostile foreign lands.
• Hua Tiancheng convened an emergency meeting, where officials discussed the dangers and opportunities of the Giant Spirit Realm and learned that the Demon Master’s cultivation method surpassed those of Cosmos cultivators.
• Hua Tiancheng and Wu ZhengHao brought the officials’ proposals to Longyuan Mountain, where Long Ling’s clone and the demon kings discussed recruiting Rogue Cultivators, offering alchemy and artifact refinement, intermarrying, and concealing the base.
• Long Ling’s clone ordered the demon kings to enter the Giant Spirit Realm with Li Bai first, while human cultivators trained and prepared to follow.
• Long Ling’s clone used the Nine Provinces Immortal Cauldron to send the Tiger King, Golden Peng King, Great Sage Monkey King, and Li Bai to the Giant Spirit Realm, where Zuo Ci and Zhi Dun welcomed them.

Zhi Dun, Li Bai, and the three demon kings entered Abyssal Heaven to capture human cultivators, using the Demon Master's Pet Pouches to seize Old Beggar, Scarface, and their companions. After Tiger King extracted Old Beggar’s Soul of Life, he forced him to lead them through Abyssal Heaven in search of more human pets.

• Zhi Dun and Li Bai left Zuo Ci to guard Da Ci Stronghold while they and the three demon kings traveled to Abyssal Heaven.
• The group encountered corpse creatures and poisonous corpse worms, and Zhi Dun warned Monkey King to be cautious.
• Old Beggar fled into the group’s path while Scarface and six companions pursued him, then tried to use the newcomers as a diversion.
• Tiger King captured Old Beggar, Monkey King captured Scarface, and Li Bai used his poetry and Pet Pouch to capture the remaining cultivators.
• Tiger King released Old Beggar, extracted his Soul of Life, and ordered him to lead the group to more human pets.

Li Bai's group encountered Shattered Ghost Sect cultivators, and Li Bai, Zhi Dun, Tiger King, and Monkey King fought back against their ambush. The Shattered Ghost Sect survivors gathered around their Sacred Infant Banners, while Tiger King eyed the ghost infants and considered obtaining the banner-making method.

• Old Beggar explained the Shattered Ghost Sect's ghost-path arts and warned that its cultivators used Ghost Puppets and preyed on other cultivators.
• Li Shixiong demanded the group's Celestial Essence, and Old Beggar and Li Bai mocked the sect, provoking the Shattered Ghost Sect disciples to attack.
• Li Bai defeated Dong Ran's Ghost Puppet with a poem's yin-yang fish, and Dong Ran died when the Baleful Intent inside him consumed him.
• Li Shixiong summoned the Sacred Infant Formation, but Tiger King swallowed one disciple and Monkey King captured four more, leaving the remaining Shattered Ghost Sect cultivators terrified.
• Li Shixiong tried to convince his companions that the talking beasts were illusions, while Tiger King studied the ghost infants and considered taking the Sacred Infant Banner method.

Zhi Dun purified the nether souls and defeated Li Shixiong’s group in Abyssal Heaven, then joined the others on their journey toward Skull Island. The group reached the Blackwater Profound River, where the Tiger King and Monkey King began capturing cultivators with the Human Pet Pouch.

• Li Shixiong summoned the Rakshasa Ghost Infant, but Zhi Dun recited the Ksitigarbha Sutra and purified the nether souls, causing Li Shixiong and his companions to collapse.
• Zhi Dun captured the unconscious Shattered Ghost Sect cultivators in the Human Pet Pouch, and the group learned about Skull Island and the Flame Demon Ape.
• The Old Beggar led Li Bai, Zhi Dun, the Tiger King, and the Monkey King to the Blackwater Profound River and explained how red moonlight formed paths to Skull Island.
• The Tiger King disguised himself as a cat and captured Pang Bo and six cultivators from a stone house with the Pet Pouch.
• The Monkey King disguised himself as a small golden monkey and captured Jin Ling and three other female cultivators with the pouch.

Zhi Dun, Li Bai, Old Beggar, Tiger King, Monkey King, and Golden Peng King captured Cosmos cultivators in the Primal Spirit Domain and brought them to Da Ci Stronghold to expand the base for Earth cultivators. After placing the captives under Soul of Life restrictions and promising rewards for their labor, Golden Peng King took charge of construction as the base prepared for Earth's cultivators to arrive.

• Zhi Dun, Li Bai, and Old Beggar captured cultivators near Skull Island, then joined Tiger King and Monkey King, bringing their haul to more than a hundred prisoners.
• As the red moon spread a chilling influence over the Blackwater Profound River, Zhi Dun sent Monkey King and Old Beggar toward Skull Island while he, Li Bai, and Tiger King returned to the base with the captives.
• Golden Peng King brought the group into Da Ci Stronghold, where captured female cultivators were already cutting trees and digging trenches to expand the settlement.
• Zuo Ci showed the group the Demon Master's construction blueprint, distributed healing pills, and explained that captured cultivation techniques and pill formulas would be stored for Earth cultivators.
• Tiger King revealed that the captives' Souls of Life were controlled, while Zuo Ci offered merit rewards for their labor; the Cosmos cultivators agreed to work, and Zhi Dun assigned Golden Peng King to oversee construction.

Golden Peng King rallied the newly captured Cosmos cultivators to join Da Ci Stronghold, promising fair rewards and protection, then organized them into work teams. After seeing sect disciples abuse Wang Zhuo during construction, he intervened, helped Wang Zhuo break through, and summoned everyone to the central square.

• Golden Peng King used cultivators' grievances with their sects and families to persuade them that Da Ci Stronghold would reward their labor and protect them.
• The Cosmos cultivators formed eleven teams, received construction assignments, and began rebuilding Da Ci Stronghold under Golden Peng King's supervision.
• Li Bai and the others praised Golden Peng King's leadership, while Zuo Ci warned that tensions were growing among the teams.
• Li Shixiong and Shattered Ghost Sect disciples forced Wang Zhuo to shoulder the heavy construction work, then attacked him when he refused to continue alone.
• Golden Peng King rescued Wang Zhuo, urged him to resist rather than submit, and Wang Zhuo broke through to the Earth Origin Realm pinnacle.
• Golden Peng King summoned everyone to the central square, where the golden bell was rung.

The Golden Peng King turned Wang Zhuo’s suffering into a public lesson, punishing the Shattered Ghost Sect disciples and appointing Wang Zhuo as his Left Envoy. After construction resumed, Bai Ming, Zhang Hong, and Sun Nuo discovered their spiritual power was being drained at night, leading the Golden Peng King’s allies to expose Lu Tiexin as the culprit.

• Wang Zhuo urged the cultivators to resist oppression, and his breakthrough to peak Earth Origin Realm convinced them to support the Golden Peng King.
• The cultivators voted to make Li Shixiong and the other Shattered Ghost Sect disciples kneel at the Coiled Dragon Gate and endure slaps, while Wang Zhuo proposed that teams punish anyone who harmed a teammate.
• The Golden Peng King appointed Wang Zhuo as his Left Envoy and discussed rewarding cultivators who brought back human pets with pills.
• Bai Ming, Zhang Hong, and Sun Nuo realized that an unknown force was draining their spiritual power each night, and Lu Tiexin gave them healing pills while pretending to help.
• Bai Ming, Liu Hong, and Sun Nuo went outside at midnight to discuss reporting their condition, but Lu Tiexin knocked them unconscious and revealed he planned to turn them into spirit slaves.
• Li Bai, Zuo Ci, Tiger King, and the others confronted Lu Tiexin, whose rapidly growing strength and concealed soul of life had made them suspect him.

Lu Tiexin revealed Reed Flame Valley’s soul-splitting and spirit-devouring arts, while Da Ci Stronghold finished preparing for Earth’s arrival. Long Ling’s clone sent the first wave of human and Demon Race cultivators into the Primal Spirit Domain to seek resources for Earth.

• Lu Tiexin explained that the Grand Yin-Yang Twin Birth Method let him survive through a shadow double, and confessed that Reed Flame Valley’s inner disciples devoured other cultivators’ spiritual power.
• Golden Peng King restored Lu Tiexin’s complete Soul of Life and kept him alive to serve Da Ci Stronghold; the stronghold then completed its buildings and prepared supplies for Earth’s cultivators.
• Li Bai returned to Earth and reported the stronghold’s completion, prompting Long Ling’s clone to summon Hu Xiaocao and Hua Tiancheng and announce that cultivators would enter the Primal Spirit Domain.
• Hua Tiancheng received two Sacred Infant Banners, and the Great Xia Cultivation Bureau developed stronger Myriad Souls Banners before Earth’s cultivators assembled for the expedition.
• Long Ling’s clone opened a passage above Longyuan Mountain, and the first wave of human and Demon Race cultivators sent their souls through it into a land of jade towers and celestial palaces.

The cultivators at Da Ci Stronghold planned to seize resources from nearby forces by using Cosmos cultivators and human pets. Bear King captured Yuan Kui City's leaders and ordered them to submit, then destroyed them and the city when they refused, before preparing to hide from the incoming Yin Yang Pavilion disciples.

• Li Bai sent cultivators below the Golden Core Realm to train in the True Martial Hall while the Golden Core Realm cultivators joined Zuo Ci and the others in council.
• Tiger King, Wu ZhengHao, Bear King, and Yellow Weasel King agreed to target nearby forces and use human pets to steal their resources.
• Zhang JuJi and the leaders of the Fierce Tiger Gate, Earth Wolf Gang, Jade Pill Pavilion, and Great Violet Cave discussed the disappearances and thefts plaguing Yuan Kui City.
• Bear King captured Zhang JuJi and the four leaders, showed them the souls on the Myriad Souls Banner, and ordered them to bring their sects to Great Magnetic Mountain in three days.
• After the leaders refused to submit and returned to find Yuan Kui City empty, Bear King used the Myriad Souls Banner to kill them and ordered his followers to hide from the arriving Yin Yang Pavilion disciples.

Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao launched Dragon Source Power Leveling in the Abyssal Heaven Forest and won their first customers by rescuing Ji Yun and Ji Yu from Tang Jue and his men. After collecting their loot, they accepted Duan WuLiang’s order to help him seek revenge on the Feilian Gang in Boundless City.

• Zhao Jianhua, Wu ZhengHao, and the Weasel Demon King discussed attracting customers with free Penguin Messaging Jade Slips and membership points.
• Ji Yun and Ji Yu were cornered by Tang Jue, Tang Fei, and Tang Sha, who demanded their Celestial Essence and threatened them.
• Ji Yun and Ji Yu ordered Dragon Source Power Leveling, and Wu ZhengHao swiftly defeated the Tang Sect cultivators with the power of his Myriad Souls Banner.
• Zhao Jianhua collected the three Tang Jue's storage bags and captured their bodies, while the Weasel Demon King discovered over six hundred Celestial Essences and a compendium of Tang Sect hidden weapons.
• Duan WuLiang ordered two companions to help him seek revenge on the Feilian Gang in Boundless City, and Zhao Jianhua accepted the job.