Chapter Summaries

Long Ling and the cultivators destroyed the Blood-colored Flower and its smoke source, then prepared for the ancient tower’s next upheaval. The Sky Tomb emerged and unleashed new dangers, leaving Long Ling leading the cultivators underground to find and destroy its core.

• Long Ling and Master Huiguang led the cultivators in destroying the Blood-colored Flower’s center, but the flower’s black smoke trapped many in hallucinations.
• Long Ling led a squad into the underground maze, where they destroyed a rune controlling a blood pool and stopped the smoke.
• The cultivators regrouped under Long Ling and Master Huiguang, while the Sky Tomb emerged with violent tremors, deadly mist, and widening cracks.
• Master Huiguang and the monks of Qiguang Temple used Buddhist light to disperse the mist as Long Ling rallied the cultivators against enormous arms reaching from the cracks.
• The cultivators broke the runes at the arms’ joints and used a Crystals Stone to solidify the spreading blood-colored liquid.
• Long Ling ordered the cultivators to descend underground and find the Sky Tomb’s core so they could destroy it.

Long Ling led the cultivators through the Sky Tomb, where they broke a deadly formation and a spatial vortex before discovering an abyss filled with the souls of countless beings. They gathered the five elemental powers and sealed the abyss, but Long Ling said they still had to explore the Sky Tomb’s remaining secrets.

• Long Ling and the cultivators entered the Sky Tomb and destroyed the rune at the center of its killing formation.
• The cultivators followed Long Ling and broke a spatial vortex by destroying the symbol at its center.
• At the abyss, Long Ling urged the cultivators to stay and seek a way to seal the Sky Tomb as the souls’ wails and ancient power emerged.
• Long Ling deciphered an inscription describing a sealing ritual that required the five elemental powers, and the cultivators split into groups to gather them.
• The cultivators combined the five powers into a halo and sealed the abyss, quieting the wails and ending the immediate disaster.
• Long Ling said the cultivators still needed to explore the Sky Tomb and uncover its remaining secrets.

Long Ling and the cultivators reinforced the Sky Tomb’s seal, then fought off lightning-powered ancient corpses as new dangers emerged. When a mysterious bridge appeared over the Yellow Springs Water, they followed Long Ling onto it to explore the unknown realm beyond.

• Long Ling led the cultivators through a teleportation array into the Sky Tomb’s core region, where they learned an ancient deity had created the tomb to seal a catastrophic power.
• The cultivators used starlight and a hidden beam’s astral power to reinforce the seal in the crystal at the center of a massive altar.
• A thunderous sky filled with black coffins and revived ancient corpses; Long Ling directed the cultivators to destroy the corpses by targeting their hearts.
• After the corpses fell, the ground split and Yellow Springs Water flooded the Sky Tomb as a mysterious ancient bridge appeared.
• Long Ling warned the cultivators that the bridge could be dangerous, then led them onto it toward the mist-shrouded realm beyond.

Long Ling led the cultivators through the Netherworld illusion, where they faced their regrets, survived attacks on the Yellow Springs, and uncovered a route through the Sky Tomb. They escaped through an ancient stone gate and returned to the familiar world, where the ancient tower had changed and grown leaf-like forms.

• Long Ling used the Golden Wheel of Karma to shield the cultivators from the Netherworld gatekeeper's soul-shadows, and they weakened the attackers by letting go of their obsessions.
• The cultivators faced memories of their past regrets on the ancient bridge and continued forward after turning their grief into resolve.
• Long Ling led the cultivators aboard a decaying boat, but a violent surge in the Yellow Springs threw several companions overboard and dragged them into the depths.
• The surviving cultivators reached the far shore, explored ancient ruins, deciphered a stone stele's code, and opened a passage underground.
• Long Ling recited an incantation to open the passage's final stone gate, and the cultivators escaped the Sky Tomb into the familiar world.
• Long Ling looked toward the ancient tower, whose restored power had caused strange leaf-like growths to appear.

Long Ling and the cultivators awakened the ancient pagoda’s power, but a demonic sea, a giant coffin, and corrosive ashes emerged as a hidden force corrupted it. While fighting Netherworld Fiends and searching for a way to survive, they reached an ancient altar that Long Ling recognized as extraordinary.

• The ancient pagoda absorbed the Sky Zenith Domain’s laws, and Long Ling merged with their power as the desolate land revived.
• A cold, violent force awakened inside the pagoda, turning its leaves red and transforming the ground into a demonic sea where a huge coffin released corrosive ashes.
• Long Ling led the cultivators toward the pagoda, but the coffin’s power influenced it, while ghostly shadows and ashes threatened the group.
• Long Ling rallied the despairing cultivators, who joined their strength to form a protective shield against the phantoms.
• Netherworld Fiends attacked the cultivators, and Long Ling led them through the battle toward a faint light in the sea.
• The cultivators reached an ancient altar carved with glowing runes, and Long Ling realized it was extraordinary.

Long Ling and the cultivators defeated the Three-Essence Divine Water’s guardian beast, but its death unleashed a curse that filled the Ancient Desert with Purple Demon Serpents. Trapped at the Five-Colored Altar, they faced the Serpent King as Long Ling battled it, and the fight continued without a victor.

• Long Ling led the cultivators to investigate the Three-Essence Divine Water, where its guardian beast emerged and attacked them.
• Long Ling noticed altar-like runes on the beast and directed the cultivators to destroy them, weakening the guardian until they defeated it.
• After the cultivators began collecting the water, the Nine Black Suns converged and Purple Demon Serpents erupted from the desert, forcing everyone to retreat to the Five-Colored Altar.
• The cultivators joined their power to repair the altar’s barrier, but the serpents formed a vortex and summoned the Serpent King.
• Long Ling formed a Bone Avatar and fought the Serpent King, trading powerful attacks with it as the battle continued.

Long Ling and the cultivators defeated the Serpent King by using the demon serpents’ essence to activate the Precious Lotus Lantern, then followed a celestial road out of the Ancient Desert. Their return seemed to bring them back to their world, but once they left the road’s protection, the scene changed and despair struck again.

• The Serpent King summoned a horde of phantom serpents, and Long Ling rallied the cultivators to form a defensive shield and fight together.
• Long Ling noticed that fallen demon serpents’ essence flowed into the altar and ordered the cultivators to keep killing them.
• The altar summoned the Precious Lotus Lantern, whose radiant clouds bound the Serpent King and weakened it until it shattered into purple smoke.
• After the phantom serpents vanished, a celestial road formed from the stars, and Long Ling led the cultivators along it out of the Ancient Desert.
• The cultivators passed through a field of light and found themselves on familiar ground, but the scene changed as they stepped beyond the celestial road, filling them with despair.

Long Ling and the cultivators failed to break the Nine Wheels Karmic Force Array, then retreated as the Lord of the Nine Wheels declared the area around the ancient tower forbidden and sealed it. Back in Lihu City, Long Ling and the Earth cultivators resolved to use the conflict among greater powers as an opportunity to strengthen their community.

• Long Ling warned that the Nine Wheels Karmic Force Array was harming the land and minds of the cultivators, but their attacks and her attempt to communicate with it failed.
• Long Ling ordered the cultivators to retreat from the array, and the Lord of the Nine Wheels declared a three-hundred-thousand-mile region the Nine Wheels Ancient Wasteland.
• The ancient tower produced four tower shadows and sealing arrays that trapped the Cosmos cultivators outside, so Long Ling led the Earth cultivators back to Lihu City.
• Long Ling, Tiger King, Peng King, Perfected Person Ziyang, the monks, and Daoist Qingxu discussed the defeat and agreed to study their enemies, improve their strength, and cooperate.
• Long Ling urged the Earth cultivators to take advantage of the conflict between the Nine Wheels and Eight Great Sects and the Cosmos Grand Sects, and the leaders planned shared cultivation resources, mentoring, and stronger communication.

Long Ling used the Myriad Souls Banner’s transformation and her reputation after the Ancient Pagoda crisis to recruit cultivators to Lihu City. With Perfected Person Tian Shu’s support, she established Beyond the Heavens, Longyuan Celestial Sect, leaving the Earth cultivators with a growing foothold in the Sky Zenith Domain.

• Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng reported that the Myriad Souls Banner had absorbed and transformed souls from the great battle, greatly increasing its power.
• Long Ling and the other leaders decided to issue a recruitment decree promising recruits the Banner’s soul strengthening, cultivation resources, and guidance.
• Cultivators and groups across the Sky Zenith Domain answered Long Ling’s decree and traveled to Lihu City, making it more prosperous and powerful.
• Perfected Person Tian Shu proposed establishing Beyond the Heavens, Longyuan Celestial Sect in Lihu City, and Long Ling agreed.
• Long Ling and Perfected Person Tian Shu organized the sect’s facilities, recruited honorary elders and disciples, and expanded its influence across the Sky Zenith Domain.

The Celestial Dragon Source Sect beyond the heavens expanded its influence in the Sky Zenith Domain, formed the Celestial Alliance, and built strongholds as new leaders joined its ranks. After unknown cultivators ambushed its disciples, an investigation uncovered a scheme to distract the sect while rival powers entered a newly emerged sacred ground, and Perfected Person Tian Shu declared that the sect would claim its share.

• Long Ling proposed an alliance among the Sky Zenith Domain's sects, and the resulting Celestial Alliance elected her as its leader.
• Zhi Dun and Li Bai arrived in Lihu City after reaching the Primal God Realm, then joined Qin Shi Huang and other leaders in planning the sect's expansion.
• The sect improved its disciples' conditions, hosted exchanges and competitions, and established strongholds across the Sky Zenith Domain.
• Unknown cultivators ambushed the sect's disciples in the Nether Forest, leaving several seriously injured, so Perfected Person Ziyang led an investigation.
• Perfected Person Ziyang's team discovered that rival powers planned to distract the Dragon Source Celestial Sect and the Dragon Source Alliance while exploring a newly emerged Heaven and Earth Sacred Ground.
• After hearing the report, Perfected Person Tian Shu said the sect was entitled to a share of the sacred ground's treasures.

Long Ling, Tiger King, and the cultivators reached the ruins of the Sky Zenith Holy Land, where they battled rival Cosmos cultivators, waves of fire beasts, and the Fire Beast King. They identified the King’s four eyes as the source of its powers and began cracking them, but the fight remained underway.

• Tiger King persuaded the cultivators to disguise themselves among the major powers’ disciples and explore the Sky Zenith Mountains together.
• The group reached the Holy Land’s ruined core and discovered a fiery waterfall leading to the ancient sect ruins.
• Cosmos cultivators attacked Long Ling’s group as they approached the waterfall, but both sides soon joined forces against fire beasts pouring from it.
• Long Ling and Perfected Person Tian Shu broke the formation creating the fire beasts, which brought forth the colossal Fire Beast King.
• Long Ling, Tiger King, Golden Peng King, and the other cultivators fought the Fire Beast King, and Long Ling discovered that its four glowing eyes powered its elemental attacks.
• The cultivators focused their attacks on the Fire Beast King’s four eyes, cracking them and weakening it as it retaliated with increasingly violent elemental powers.

After defeating the Fire Beast King, Long Ling and the cultivators uncovered four divine swords tied to the secrets of the Sky Zenith Holy Land, lifted their restrictions, and mastered a powerful sword formation. They used it to defeat a half-step Myriad Laws Realm cultivator and resolved to continue growing stronger.

• The cultivators defeated the Fire Beast King, and a stone stele bearing four divine swords emerged where it had vanished.
• Long Ling led the cultivators in studying the stele, and they discovered an inscription describing a ritual that could lift its restrictions.
• The cultivators performed the ritual, freed the Four Divine Swords, and chose Great Immortal Weasel, Tiger King, Golden Peng King, and Perfected Person Ziyang to wield them.
• The four wielders mastered the sword formation, which Long Ling said could contend with a half-step Myriad Laws Realm cultivator.
• The cultivators found ancient texts explaining that the swords contained laws of heaven and earth, then studied them to deepen their cultivation.
• Long Ling and the others used the sword formation to defeat a half-step Myriad Laws Realm cultivator, and Long Ling vowed to keep pursuing greater mastery.

Long Ling and her companions defeated cultivators seeking the Four Divine Swords, entered an unfamiliar secret realm, passed the Four Symbols Gate, and returned to the Sky Zenith Domain. Back at the Longyuan Celestial Sect beyond the heavens, they became elders, trained disciples, and prepared to protect the domain while continuing their explorations.

• Long Ling and her companions used their sword formation to defeat and kill the black-robed cultivators who tried to seize the Four Divine Swords.
• Long Ling and her companions activated an ancient teleportation formation and arrived in a strange secret realm, where local cultivators challenged them to prove their strength.
• Long Ling and her companions passed the wind, fire, thunder, and lightning trials of the Four Symbols Gate, earning the secret realm cultivators' help to return home.
• Long Ling and her companions returned to the Sky Zenith Domain, where Qin Shi Huang praised them and appointed them elders of the Longyuan Celestial Sect beyond the heavens.
• Long Ling and her companions trained disciples, mastered the Four Symbols Unification secret art, and discovered a prophecy identifying them as guardians of the Sky Zenith Domain.
• Perfected Person Ziyang studied ancient formations and restrictions while Golden Peng King led disciples to explore unknown regions of the Sky Zenith Domain.

The Great Sage Monkey King rallied the Sky Zenith Mountains’ ferocious beasts to support Earth’s cultivators and helped establish a protected training base. The Nine-Tailed Fox King then brought the Cultivation Clone Life Chamber, which expanded the Longyuan Celestial Sect beyond the heavens’ influence and drew the attention of powerful recluses.

• The Great Sage Monkey King persuaded the Flame Lion King and other ferocious beasts to follow him, then worked with Earth’s cultivators to train them and fight their enemies.
• Qin Shi Huang, Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple arranged for the beasts to guard a secret base in the Sky Zenith Mountains for Earth’s cultivators.
• The sect’s leaders gathered resources and trained newcomers at the base while Long Ling and the others secured resources in Lihu City under assumed identities.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox King arrived with the Cultivation Clone Life Chamber, and the leaders decided to secure it at the base and offer its benefits to cultivators who joined the sect.
• Battle-wounded cultivators used the chamber to gain new bodies, strengthening their loyalty and helping the sect prevail in later battles.
• The Longyuan Celestial Sect beyond the heavens expanded around Lihu City, recruited Rogue Cultivators, and spread news of the secret of immortality, prompting secluded old monsters to send disciples to investigate.

The outer-world Longyuan Celestial Sect demonstrated its Cultivation Cloning Technology at a grand assembly, attracting powerful cultivators and expanding its influence in the Sky Zenith Domain. As the sect grew stronger through the reborn experts who joined it, it continued training disciples and strengthening its defenses against future threats.

• Qin Shi Huang, Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple planned a cultivation assembly to display the Cultivation Cloning Technology and expand the Dragon Source Alliance.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox King demonstrated the technology in Lihu City, convincing cultivators that it could restore a dying person to a new body and draw many sects and rogue cultivators to the Longyuan Celestial Sect.
• Long Ling discovered an incomplete ancient cultivation manual, Perfected Person Ziyang built ties with other factions, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple and Great Sage Monkey King strengthened the sect's cultivation and defenses.
• A hostile sect's assassin attempted to kill the Longyuan Celestial Sect's leaders, but Long Ling and the others foiled the attack and began countering the enemy's plans.
• Qin Shi Huang and the sect's leaders agreed to help cultivators nearing the end of their lifespans obtain cloned bodies in exchange for their soul imprints and allegiance.
• The reborn cultivators shared their techniques and experience, helped guide the sect's development, and joined its growing ranks as it became leader of the Dragon Source Alliance and trained its disciples.

Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples defended the Lihu City frontier, then repelled a coalition assault with help from the Dragon Source Alliance. After the costly victory, Qin Shi Huang and Long Ling planned stronger defenses and combat training while the defeated forces reconsidered their strategy.

• Long Ling sent elite Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples to guard the frontier near Lihu City, where they used an ancient formation to defeat invading Blackwind Sect cultivators.
• Myriad Poisons Sect and Nether Sect joined other forces to attack Lihu City and seize the Cultivation Cloning Technology.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered Lihu City to prepare for battle as the allied forces attacked its defenses, and Long Ling and Perfected Person Ziyang fought enemy experts.
• Reinforcements from the Dragon Source Alliance joined the battle, helping the Longyuan Celestial Sect repel the attackers and force the Myriad Poisons Sect elder to order a retreat.
• Qin Shi Huang, Long Ling, and Perfected Person Ziyang called for stronger defenses, an early-warning system, closer alliances, and more practical combat training.
• The defeated sect leaders gathered to reassess their strategy while Longyuan Celestial Sect leaders reviewed the losses and shortcomings revealed by the battle.

Longyuan Celestial Sect launched a resource rental business, then conquered and developed strongholds across the Sky Zenith Domain, expanding its influence and strengthening its disciples. The ancient powers dismissed the sect as a minor newcomer, unaware of the formidable reborn experts it could call upon to defend itself.

• Qin Shi Huang, Long Ling, and the sect's senior leaders established Longyuan Rental Hall to rent out sect resources and increase the sect's income.
• After renters damaged or withheld resources, Longyuan Celestial Sect tightened its screening, monitoring, and penalties, bringing the rental business under control.
• Longyuan Celestial Sect sent elite teams to subdue strongholds, where Shadowless Mark secured Netherworld Valley through alliances and Blazing Fire defeated Flamefire Island's master.
• The sect stationed powerful cultivators who had lived another life in the strongholds and established cultivation towers, trade routes, and transmission pavilions.
• Exploring disciples discovered an ancient manual that taught cultivators to draw closer to the elements and increase their cultivation speed.
• Great forces across the universe dismissed reports of Longyuan Celestial Sect's expansion, unaware that powerful reborn cultivators stood ready to attack at the sect's command.

The Longyuan Celestial Sect investigated Unfallen City, where a hidden ancient sealing formation and the Nether Envoy had caused disappearances and baleful disturbances. During an attempt to restore the seal, the city erupted into a larger crisis involving ancient souls and a Bone Dragon, and the sect’s cultivators faced an enemy beyond their previous strength.

• Qin Shi Huang sent the abbot of Qiguang Temple and his disciples to investigate Unfallen City, where they found a blood-soaked city and suppressed its baleful formation.
• Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples uncovered an ancient sealing formation beneath the city and learned it held the Nether Envoy, so the sect sent elites to perform a sealing ritual.
• The ritual brought crimson rain and shadowy figures, and Perfected Person Ziyang directed the cultivators to destroy the figures’ ghost flames and drive them away.
• A Bone Dragon and blood-colored ancient souls appeared, and the cultivators discovered that destroying the spirit tablets weakened the ancient souls.
• Perfected Person Ziyang led an effort to destroy the tablets as the Bone Dragon’s attacks intensified, leaving the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s cultivators under overwhelming pressure.

Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu fought the Bone Dragon above Unfallen City and destroyed its body. Its fragments transformed into Dragon Scales and then into spiritual lights that converged into a mysterious diagram, leaving the dragon’s power and the city’s ancient secrets unresolved.

• The cultivators of Unfallen City faced devastation as Bone Dragon projections and ancient souls attacked, and their spirit tablets appeared tied to the souls’ power.
• Perfected Person Ziyang, Long Ling, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple speculated about the origins of the Bone Dragon and spirit tablets, but none of the cultivators knew the truth.
• Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu joined forces against the Bone Dragon, striking it with sword qi, Great Sun Purple Qi, and talismans that restrained it.
• The Bone Dragon unleashed its death breath, but the three experts continued their attacks until its body collapsed into bone fragments.
• The falling fragments transformed into Dragon Scales and then streams of spiritual light that joined to form a vast, mysterious diagram in the sky.

Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu ended the disaster in Unfallen City, rebuilt the city, and uncovered a cultivation method that amplified desire. The chapter ended after a mysterious fortune-teller was struck dead by heavenly lightning while divining the words “Supreme Clarity Spirit Treasure.”

• Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu entered a hidden world, learned the origin of Unfallen City’s disaster, and activated the Myriad Souls Source to restore balance.
• Long Ling oversaw Unfallen City’s recovery, Perfected Person Ziyang cultivated in seclusion, and Daoist Qingxu studied ancient texts as the sect developed a combined cultivation system.
• Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu found an ancient stele underground, and Longyuan Celestial Sect discovered that its cultivation method magnified practitioners’ desires.
• Long Ling, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Daoist Qingxu curbed the ambition spreading among cultivators by strengthening sect guidance and urging them to cultivate their hearts.
• Daoist Qingxu challenged a fortune-teller to divine the meaning of “Supreme Clarity Spirit Treasure,” and heavenly lightning killed the fortune-teller before he could finish.
• Daoist Qingxu shielded the panicked civilians, and Long Ling and Perfected Person Ziyang realized the fortune-teller’s death was connected to a forbidden power.