Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yuan told Zhong Shan that Sima Ce, a Heavenly Immortal and Disciple of the Son of Heaven from the Supreme Beginning Sacred Court, had invaded Shenzhou with ten Earth Immortals. Sima Ce began a ritual at Willow City to stir up the world’s qi of fortune, and the chapter ended with Great Zheng’s Qi Luck Golden Dragon sensing the disturbance.

• Xuan Yuan told Zhong Shan that eleven invaders had crossed the world barrier, including ten powerful Earth Immortals and their Heavenly Immortal leader, Sima Ce.
• Zhong Shan reassured Xuan Yuan that the mortal world held powers capable of resisting the invaders and invited him to recuperate in the High Heaven Court.
• Sima Ce learned that Great Zheng controlled nearly two parts of Shenzhou and dismissed it and the three Heavenly Dynasties as weak.
• Sima Ce prepared a huge altar in Willow City, where Taotie devoured spirit stones and treasures while enslaved cultivators completed the construction.
• Sima Ce ordered the ten Earth Immortals to activate the altar and stir up the qi of fortune beneath the heavens.
• Zhong Shan and his ministers watched Great Zheng’s qi of fortune churn, while the Nineteen-Clawed Qi Luck Golden Dragon roared and turned its gaze toward Willow City.

Sima Ce announced the Heavenly Discussion Assembly in Willow City and invited the rulers of the major fortune dynasties. Zhong Shan and Ying decided to attend, and Zhong Shan arrived early to investigate the area around Willow City.

• The upheaval in the fortunes of the world revealed Sima Ce's arrival, and he ordered invitations sent to the rulers of the three Heavenly Dynasties and Great Zheng.
• Zhong Shan accepted the invitation and chose Emperor Xuan Sha to accompany him, while Ying also decided to attend with Lu Buwei.
• Kong Lietian and Gu Zheng Yi received invitations to the assembly as well.
• Zhong Shan left High Heaven Court two months early and reached a small city near Willow City with Emperor Xuan Sha.
• Zhong Shan learned that Willow City's residents had been evacuated and ordered the local Great Rong Merchant Guild branch to keep gathering intelligence.

Zhong Shan investigated how Lu's Merchant Guild had driven Sumeru Stone prices sharply upward and recognized the merchant behind its success as Lu Buwei. The chapter ended with Zhong Shan and Lu Buwei meeting at the auction and cautiously testing each other over wine.

• Zhao Hai told Zhong Shan that Lu's Merchant Guild had bought a mountain of Sumeru Stone for ten times its former price, prompting shops across the city to raise prices.
• Zhao Hai explained that Lu's Merchant Guild had attracted customers by offering a million spirit stones to anyone who found a defective item, then publicly paying the reward when someone did.
• Zhong Shan decided to attend the next Sumeru Stone auction with Zhao Hai as customers crowded the Great Rong Sumeri Shop to buy at its still-low price.
• At the auction, Zhong Shan spotted the man Zhao Hai called Master Lu and recognized him as Lu Buwei, though neither man revealed the other's identity.
• Lu Buwei invited Zhong Shan to sit and taste his wine, and Zhong Shan praised it while Lu Buwei watched him closely.

Zhong Shan and Lu Buwei began a contest over the Sumeru Stone trade after the Mighty Trade Association announced it was withdrawing its supply from the region. Lu Buwei drove prices skyward, while Zhong Shan kept the Great Rong Merchant Guild’s prices unchanged, leaving Zhao Hai worried that its stock would run out within a month.

• Zhong Shan and Lu Buwei discussed the Great Rong Merchant Guild’s promise not to raise prices, and Zhong Shan accepted Lu Buwei’s challenge to compete in commerce.
• The Red-Clothed Man announced that the Mighty Trade Association would withdraw and auction its last Sumeru Stone mountain; merchants bid up to thirty million high-grade spirit stones.
• Lu Buwei outbid everyone with fifty million high-grade spirit stones and said he would raise his retail prices fiftyfold, while Zhong Shan refused to raise Great Rong’s prices.
• News of the supply cutoff and Lu Buwei’s bid spread, prompting customers to crowd Sumeru Stone shops and leaving the Great Rong shop with long queues.
• Zhao Hai warned Zhong Shan that Great Rong’s stock would last only one month at the current rate of sales, while replacement supplies from headquarters would take five years to arrive.

Zhong Shan kept the Great Rong Sumeru Stone shop selling at its original price while Lu Buwei drove prices higher, then announced a new shipment would arrive in twenty days. When thirty Sumeru Stone mountains appeared south of the city, with five more batches reportedly on the way, Lu Buwei realized Zhong Shan had outmaneuvered him.

• Zhao Hai warned Zhong Shan that the Great Rong shop would run out of Sumeru Stones within a month, but Zhong Shan ordered him to keep selling at the original price.
• Zhong Shan counseled Zhao Hai to stay composed as the shop’s stock dwindled and Lu Buwei’s guild kept raising prices.
• On the twenty-fifth day, Zhao Hai announced that the shop was sold out and promised new stock in twenty days, though Zhong Shan had deliberately held back five days’ worth.
• Lu Buwei raised Sumeru Stone prices to sixty times the original price and bought up supplies from shops that would not match him.
• After twenty days of waiting, the crowd abandoned Lu Buwei’s shop when news spread that the Great Rong shipment had arrived.
• A servant told Lu Buwei that thirty Sumeru Stone mountains had arrived south of the city and five more batches were coming, leaving Lu Buwei astonished.

Zhong Shan used a staged delivery of fake Sumeru Stone mountains to restore public confidence in Great Rong Merchant Guild and force rival shops to cut prices. As the Heavenly Discussion Assembly approached, Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha sensed primordial qi gathering and flew toward Willow City.

• Zhao Hai led thirty covered Sumeru Stone mountains into the city, and one collapsed to reveal real stones that the crowd helped protect.
• Zhao Hai brought the remaining twenty-nine mountains to Zhong Shan, who revealed they were ordinary rocks and explained that the stones scattered in the city came from their last five days of stock.
• After the staged delivery eased public panic, rival shops lowered their prices, while Lu Buwei recognized Zhong Shan's ploy and admitted he lacked time to counter it before receiving The Emperor.
• Emperor Xuan Sha told Zhong Shan that primordial qi was spilling out ahead of the Heavenly Discussion Assembly.
• Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha flew toward Willow City to see what kind of immortals had summoned the world's imperial lords.

Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha reached Willow City and found it replaced by Sima Ce’s world, sustained by his Eternal Evergreen Root Divine Sense. When Kong Lietian challenged Zhong Shan by pitting their dynasties’ Imperial Jade Seals against each other, Zhong Shan’s Square Heaven Jade Seal cracked the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty’s seal, leaving Kong Lietian stunned.

• Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha found Willow City swallowed by Sima Ce’s world and learned that his Eternal Evergreen Root Divine Sense let him bring out the power of that world.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord and Kong Lietian arrived, and Kong Lietian mocked Zhong Shan for representing an Emperor Dynasty at the Heavenly Discussion Assembly.
• Zhong Shan taunted Kong Lietian, who challenged him to test the strength of their dynasties through their Imperial Jade Seals.
• Kong Lietian sent the Grand Sui Heavenly Dynasty’s Five-Colored Imperial Jade Seal crashing down on Zhong Shan, who met it with the Square Heaven Jade Seal.
• The seals collided and recoiled, but a corner of Kong Lietian’s Five-Colored Imperial Jade Seal cracked, astonishing him.

Zhong Shan and the other leaders gathered for the Heavenly Discussion Assembly, where Sima Ce sealed the meeting place and assigned them seats. The chapter ended with Zhong Shan singled out for a small stool while the Heavenly Dynasty rulers received thrones.

• Zhong Shan taunted Kong Lietian after cracking his Five-Colored Imperial Jade Seal, and Divine Crow Dao Lord stopped Kong Lietian from losing control of his emotions.
• Gu Zheng Yi and Shen Qitian arrived, and Shen Qitian revealed his restored composure from his previous life before greeting the assembled leaders.
• Gu Zheng Yi, Kong Lietian, and Zhong Shan entered the meeting place in formal robes, followed by Ying, who left his army outside.
• The group found Sima Ce waiting beneath the Eternal Evergreen while Taotie devoured spirit stones nearby; Sima Ce reacted with surprise at Shen Qitian before sealing the world.
• Sima Ce summoned thrones for Ying, Gu Zheng Yi, and Kong Lietian, but placed only a small stool behind Zhong Shan.

At Sima Ce’s Heavenly Discussion Assembly, Zhong Shan and the other Emperors rejected his attempt to assert dominance, and the Taotie’s attack on Zhong Shan was stopped by a cry from the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail. Sima Ce then argued that the Small Chiliocosm World was destined to shatter and declared that they should open Heaven and Earth again.

• Sima Ce tried to make Zhong Shan sit on a small stool, but Zhong Shan kicked it away and summoned the Nine Dragon Heavenly Throne; Ying, Gu Zheng Yi, and Kong Lietian also produced their own thrones.
• Sima Ce let the Taotie charge at Zhong Shan, but the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail cried out, frightening the beast into retreating.
• Shen Qitian asked about the person Sima Ce had said resembled him, and Sima Ce identified him as Sun Shen, the Monkey Devil who had been slain at Six Zhang Cliff.
• Sima Ce began the assembly by explaining that he wanted to discuss ownership of the Small Chiliocosm World.
• Sima Ce claimed that the Will of Heaven foretold the realm’s collapse and declared that they should open Heaven and Earth again.

Sima Ce tried to persuade the four emperors to unite their dynasties and open Heaven and Earth, but his arrogance and demand that they place the Supreme Beginning Sacred Court’s name on the new dynasty alienated them. When they rejected his plan, he threatened to keep them trapped in his world, leaving Zhong Shan pitying him for bringing all the emperors together.

• Sima Ce urged the emperors to open Heaven and Earth, but they responded with silence and skepticism.
• Sima Ce claimed Gu Shentong had failed because his dynasty controlled too little territory and proposed merging the four dynasties.
• Sima Ce named Gu Zheng Yi as the one to open Heaven and demanded that the dynasty temporarily adopt the Supreme Beginning name.
• Gu Zheng Yi agreed conditionally, while Kong Lietian and Ying showed no interest in accepting Sima Ce’s plan.
• Kong Lietian prepared to leave, and Zhong Shan told Sima Ce to open his world; Sima Ce threatened not to let them leave.

Sima Ce’s attempt to trap and kill the visiting rulers failed when Lu Buwei’s golden flame ignited the Eternal Evergreen and Divine Crow Dao Lord opened a way out. After Sima Ce sent Earth Immortals to pursue them, Ying revealed his Universe in Palm divine power and crushed the two who intercepted the Great Qin procession.

• Ying inferred that the Supreme Beginning Sacred Court had sent Sima Ce without substantial reinforcements, and Lu Buwei challenged Sima Ce’s claim that no one could escape his world.
• Divine Crow Dao Lord used the Slaying Immortal Flying Knife to break open Sima Ce’s world, allowing Kong Lietian and Divine Crow Dao Lord to leave.
• Lu Buwei’s golden flame set the Eternal Evergreen ablaze, collapsing Sima Ce’s world and forcing him to stay behind to suppress the fire.
• Sima Ce ordered seven Earth Immortals to pursue Ying’s Great Qin procession and Zhong Shan’s group, sending Taotie with two pursuers after Zhong Shan.
• Two Earth Immortals intercepted Ying’s procession, but Ying used Universe in Palm to crush them before the Great Qin army continued toward Xianyang Saintly Capital.

Lu Buwei withdrew his merchant guild toward Great Qin while Earth Immortals pursued him and other targets. Zhong Shan’s Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed Taotie and bit through an Earth Immortal’s sword, leaving Sima Ce to learn that his forces had suffered devastating losses.

• Lu Buwei ordered his merchant guild to withdraw to Great Qin and confronted an Earth Immortal sent to execute him.
• Earth Immortals intercepted Zhong Shan and Emperor Xuan Sha, while Taotie charged at them after Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail provoked it.
• Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail swallowed Taotie and then bit through an Earth Immortal’s sword when he attacked.
• At the former site of Willow City, Sima Ce expelled Lu Buwei’s flame, damaging Eternal Evergreen, and waited for his subordinates to return.
• A wounded Earth Immortal told Sima Ce that Taotie had been eaten and showed him his bitten sword; five days later, none of the other six Earth Immortals returned.
• Sima Ce realized that the Small Chiliocosm World was far more dangerous and powerful than he had expected.

Sima Ce urged Gu Zheng Yi to attack Great Zheng, and the Great Yong Heavenly Dynasty eventually began a war that spread across Divine Land. As Great Qin unexpectedly attacked Great Yong and the front shifted toward Under Heaven Peak, Heavenly Old asked the Great Yong commander to keep the battlefield away from his ancestor’s tomb.

• Six of Sima Ce’s subordinates’ life tablets shattered, confirming their souls had scattered.
• Heavenly Old worshipped Under Heaven Peak for three days, then Tian Ji Zi appeared and identified it as the Living Dead Tomb.
• Zhong Shan absorbed the Taotie’s energy, advanced two cultivation layers, and returned to court with Emperor Xuan Sha.
• Sima Ce persuaded Gu Zheng Yi that Great Yong should invade Great Zheng, and Zhong Shan chose to fight when Great Yong declared war.
• After more than thirty years of peace, Great Qin attacked Great Yong under Bai Qi, while Zhong Shan sent Mud Bodhisattva to reinforce Zhao Suo Xiang.
• At the frontline near Under Heaven Peak, Heavenly Old asked Huan Tu Long to move the battlefield away from his ancestor’s tomb, but one of Sima Ce’s Earth Immortals objected.

Great Yong and Great Zheng fought for Under Heaven Peak as Zhao Suo Xiang and Huan Tu Long dueled above the battlefield. The battle turned against Great Yong when Yin Luo Ri’s roar stopped its tigers, while an Earth Immortal’s strike failed to damage the peak, revealing that it was protected by a powerful formation.

• Heavenly Old asked Huan Tu Long to move the battlefield away from the Tian family's ancestral tomb, but Huan Tu Long refused because Under Heaven Peak was strategically vital.
• Mud Bodhisattva told Zhao Suo Xiang that His Majesty wanted him to build his killing nature through battle, and Zhao Suo Xiang assigned Mud Bodhisattva to watch Great Yong's feng shui Master.
• Tian Ji Zi concealed himself near Under Heaven Peak and hoped the battle would force the Tian family's descendants to react to their ancestral tomb being endangered.
• Zhao Suo Xiang and Huan Tu Long dueled for two hours before their armies charged into battle.
• Yin Luo Ri roared from within Great Zheng's army, stopping Great Yong's ten thousand tigers and letting Great Zheng's forces disrupt and overwhelm the opposing ranks.
• An Earth Immortal struck Under Heaven Peak with his full power, but the mountain remained unharmed, leaving Tian Ji Zi stunned.

Heavenly Old protested Gu Zheng Yi’s campaign against Under Heaven Peak but returned to the battlefield when his ancestral tomb was defiled. He helped Great Zhen defeat Great Yong, and the bloodied mountain opened to reveal a golden palace and a terrifying black-robed man.

• Heavenly Old begged Gu Zheng Yi to spare Under Heaven Peak, but Gu Zheng Yi refused and promised to grant it to him after the conquest.
• Heavenly Old reached the battlefield and, after seeing Yin Luo Ri and Zhao Suo Xiang, chose to attack Huan Tu Long instead.
• Heavenly Old stabbed Huan Tu Long from behind, and Zhao Suo Xiang killed him and called on the Great Yong soldiers to surrender.
• Blood seeped into Under Heaven Peak as two Earth Immortals attacked it, but the mountain endured and turned scarlet.
• A palace emerged from Under Heaven Peak, and a gaunt black-robed man carrying a purple scepter stepped out.

Heavenly God Son emerged at Under Heaven Peak, revealed himself as the Tian Family’s ancient ancestor, and searched the entire Small Chiliocosm World for the Sky Decree. The Sky Decree seized Zhong Shan and Tian Ling'er and carried them toward Under Heaven Peak, where Tian Ji Zi arrived to pay his respects.

• Heavenly God Son petrified two Earth Immortals who attacked him, and their life tablets shattered in Sima Ce’s palace.
• Heavenly Old recognized Heavenly God Son as the Tian Family’s ancestor and told him that the family head’s branch and the Sky Decree had disappeared.
• Heavenly God Son used the Great Divine Sense Heaven-Penetrating Search Great Art to scan the entire Small Chiliocosm World for the Sky Decree.
• The Sky Decree enveloped Zhong Shan and Tian Ling'er in golden light and carried them toward Under Heaven Peak, prompting Bao Er to summon Emperor Xuan Sha.
• Ying Zheng left court after sensing the search art, while Li Si identified it to Lu Buwei.
• Tian Ji Zi introduced himself as the former head of the Netherworld Tian Family and bowed to Heavenly God Son.

The Heavenly God Son rejected Tian Ji Zi’s claim to the Tian Family and killed him, then passed the family’s feng shui arts to Heavenly Old. Zhong Shan and Tian Ling’er arrived at Under Heaven Peak with the Sky Decree, where the Heavenly God Son recognized Zhong Shan’s unusual cultivation and Zhong Shan asked him for guidance.

• The Heavenly God Son exposed Tian Ji Zi’s plot to seize the Sky Decree and killed him as he fled.
• At Mud Bodhisattva’s request, the Great Zheng army stayed while the Great Yong forces retreated, and the Heavenly God Son transmitted the Tian Family’s feng shui arts to Heavenly Old.
• Zhong Shan and Tian Ling’er traveled to Under Heaven Peak with the Sky Decree as Emperor Xuan Sha, Xuan Yuan, Ying, and Sima Ce pursued their own routes.
• Sima Ce’s final two Earth Immortal life tablets shattered, and he chose to continue toward Under Heaven Peak.
• Zhong Shan arrived at Under Heaven Peak, where the Heavenly God Son took the Sky Decree from Tian Ling’er and learned she was the current Tian Family Head.
• The Heavenly God Son identified Zhong Shan’s destiny, merit, and cultivation of three bodies, and Zhong Shan respectfully asked him for guidance.

Heavenly God Son explained to Zhong Shan how fortune and merit combined into qi-count and urged him to make his qi-count tangible. Ying arrived, recognized Heavenly God Son as a fellow former Number One Under Heaven, and challenged him with their ancient treasures; Emperor Xuan Sha appeared as the treasures collided.

• Heavenly God Son returned the Sky Decree to Tian Ling'er and told Zhong Shan that fortune and merit were too meager, then explained how the four veins combined into destiny and qi-count.
• Heavenly God Son told Zhong Shan to first condense tangible qi-count and summoned Tian Ling'er to receive the Family Head Guidance.
• Ying arrived and recognized Heavenly God Son, who identified Ying as the wielder of a mortal Jiang Chen Body containing the qi-count of One Yuan.
• Ying and Heavenly God Son confirmed each other's identities as former Number One Under Heaven figures and agreed to test their treasures.
• Ying summoned the World Suppressing Bronze Coffin, and Heavenly God Son sent the Mount Buzhou Scepter crashing into it, deafening everyone and producing a tiny ripple in space.
• Emperor Xuan Sha arrived while the two treasures were still clashing.

Ying and Heavenly God Son fought to a draw, then discussed their unfinished transformations and promised to battle again in the Great Chiliocosm World. Heavenly God Son settled the Creation God Palace's century-old pact, invited Tian Ling'er and Zhong Shan into the palace, and the chapter ended with Sima Ce arriving at Under Heaven Peak, furious that his subordinates were gone.

• Emperor Xuan Sha evacuated Zhong Shan, Tian Ling'er, Mud Bodhisattva, and Yin Luo Ri as Ying and Heavenly God Son's clash solidified the surrounding space.
• Emperor Xuan Sha explained the histories and destructive power of the Mount Buzhou Scepter and the World Suppressing Bronze Coffin while Ying and Heavenly God Son continued their battle.
• The ninth collision created a ten-thousand-li Black Hole that devastated the surrounding land, but Ying and Heavenly God Son parted without a victor and agreed to fight again in the Great Chiliocosm World.
• Xuan Yuan returned the Creation God Palace's accumulated merit to Heavenly God Son, who refused it and declared the palace's mission complete.
• Heavenly God Son invited Tian Ling'er to receive the Family Head Guidance and also invited Zhong Shan into the palace.
• Sima Ce arrived at Under Heaven Peak, saw the ruined landscape, and glared at the group after discovering his two subordinates were missing.

Zhong Shan and the others confronted Sima Ce, whose arrogance ended when the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail devoured his Eternal Evergreen and Zhong Shan stole his Root Divine Sense. Emperor Xuan Sha attacked Sima Ce as Zhong Shan, Tian Ling'er, and Heavenly God Son entered the palace, while the Great Chiliocosm World learned of Sima Ce's death.

• Sima Ce used Kui Bull's Tears to inspect the group, then opened his Eternal Evergreen and boasted that he could defeat them all.
• Heavenly God Son ignored Sima Ce and headed into the palace, while Emperor Xuan Sha blocked Sima Ce and challenged him to fight barehanded.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail devoured Sima Ce's Eternal Evergreen, and Zhong Shan used the confusion to steal his Root Divine Sense.
• Zhong Shan and Tian Ling'er followed Heavenly God Son into the palace as Emperor Xuan Sha charged at Sima Ce.
• A day later, Sima Ce's jade tablet exploded in the Great Chiliocosm World, and the people there learned he had died.