Chapter Summaries

Wang Pan and Black Mountain Goat prepared a Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, but the goat stole and ate it, triggering a breakthrough. The chapter left Wang Pan watching as Black Mountain Goat advanced to the Void Refinement Stage, hoping to learn from its breakthrough.

• Wang Pan and Black Mountain Goat worked together to catch Seven-Colored Spirit Fish and cook one at Netherworld Peak.
• Wang Pan carefully removed the fish’s poisonous scales and cooked it with spirit herbs and spices.
• Black Mountain Goat snatched the cooked fish and swallowed it before Wang Pan could taste it.
• Wang Pan caught up to Black Mountain Goat using the Heavenly Dao Authority and the Authority of Humanity's Way, but the goat swallowed the fish anyway.
• Black Mountain Goat transformed, split into numerous copies, and fused them together to break through to the Void Refinement Stage.
• Wang Pan watched Black Mountain Goat’s breakthrough, recognizing it as a chance to improve his understanding of cultivation.

Wang Pan learned how the higher cultivation realms worked as Black Heaven Dao Lord broke through to the Void Refinement Stage and revealed how it had created its many clones. Black Heaven Dao Lord hinted that fragments of the Netherworld Sect’s shattered Ascended Being’s Remains had helped it raise them, leaving Wang Pan suspicious of its hidden secret.

• Wang Pan reviewed the cultivation realms and watched Black Heaven Dao Lord’s breakthrough reveal the nature of its true body.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord declared itself the Black Heaven Dao Lord and jokingly tried to make Wang Pan its Human Pet, while Wang Pan threatened to report it to Wang Yue.
• Wang Pan asked why Black Heaven Dao Lord had so many clones, and it explained that they were descendants whose consciousness it had erased after raising them to the Soul Severing Stage.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord said the Netherworld Sect had suffered a calamity that shattered its first ascended ancestor’s remains and caused its second ancestor’s Immortal Artifact to disappear.
• Wang Pan inferred that fragments of the shattered remains might have supplied Black Heaven Dao Lord’s resources and suspected it was concealing a major secret.

Wang Pan argued with Black Heaven Dao Lord over their share of the Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, then returned to his courtyard and tried to sneak past Wang Yue. Wang Yue confronted him about stripping the spirit herbs from her Medicine Field, leaving Wang Pan facing the consequences.

• Wang Pan accused Black Heaven Dao Lord of keeping the Seven-Colored Spirit Fish for himself, but Black Heaven Dao Lord joked that they should catch another one.
• Wang Pan recalled how difficult it was to catch the fish and how the Netherworld Sect had once driven them away by catching too many.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord claimed that where there was a will, there was a way, then blamed Wang Pan for being the human who had to find it.
• Wang Pan punched Black Heaven Dao Lord and left, then vented his anger by hacking at flowers and spirit herbs along the road.
• Wang Pan found Wang Yue in his courtyard and tried to slip away, but she appeared behind him and confronted him about uprooting every herb in her Medicine Field.

Wang Yue charged Wang Pan for the spirit herbs he had ruined, then added a huge debt for five Seven-Colored Spirit Fish after Black Heaven Dao Lord blamed him. Wang Pan ended the chapter owing ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones with compounding interest, and Wang Yue warned that he would keep working off the debt even after death.

• Wang Yue calculated that Wang Pan owed her 5.5 million High-Grade Spirit Stones for the damaged spirit herbs.
• Wang Pan tried to blame the Black Mountain Goat, but Black Heaven Dao Lord revealed that he had already reported Wang Pan and accused him of catching the Seven-Colored Spirit Fish.
• Wang Yue added five million High-Grade Spirit Stones for the five fish, bringing Wang Pan's debt to ten million after waiving the change.
• Wang Pan learned that the debt's annual interest compounded, then gave up on appealing to the Supreme Elder when Wang Yue warned that the elder would want the money too.
• Wang Yue told Wang Pan that he could repay the debt after death by becoming a Corpse Puppet or Fierce Ghost and continuing to work.

Wang Yue prepared to install Wang Pan as the Netherworld Sect’s Holy Son despite the Supreme Elders’ potential opposition, while Black Heaven Dao Lord warned that Wang Pan needed to grow stronger quickly. As the Holy Son Succession Ceremony began, the Jade Pond Sacred Land arrived to judge whether Wang Pan was a threat.

• Wang Yue declared that he would deal with the Supreme Elders if they opposed him, while Black Heaven Dao Lord urged him to make Wang Pan cultivate faster.
• Dragon Tiger Gate and Ten Thousand Buddhas Mountain arrived at the Netherworld Sect’s Holy Son Succession Ceremony, while First-rate Forces brought costly gifts after seeing how seriously the sect prepared.
• The Jade Pond Sacred Land arrived aboard a massive Flying Immortal Boat carrying an Ancient Immortal Tree, and its spies reported that Wang Pan was under three years old and had reached Qi Condensation Stage Great Perfection.
• Duke of the East rejected the spies’ claim that Wang Pan had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator, then concluded that the Jade Pond Sacred Land needed to assess the new Holy Son before he could mature.

Wang Pan was forced to attend the Netherworld Sect’s Holy Son Succession Ceremony, where Wang Yue revealed her Dao Integration Stage breakthrough and opened Boundless Purgatory. Wang Pan descended into the trial and effortlessly defeated its former Sect Master Remnant Souls, while Wang Yue planned to clear them out and keep control of the Immortal Artifact.

• Wang Yue dragged the sleepy Wang Pan to the ceremony and placed him on an altar made from Dao Integration Stage cultivators’ bones.
• Elders from several Sacred Lands mocked Wang Pan’s youth, and Wang Yue silenced three hostile elders by revealing her Dao Integration Stage cultivation.
• Wang Yue activated Boundless Purgatory, unleashing a Burial Mound, rising bloody water, and eerie Demonic Sound before the gathered cultivators.
• Wang Pan entered the altar’s staircase and punched apart a Remnant Soul that tried to stop him.
• Wang Yue realized that Wang Pan’s title reduced the Remnant Souls to powerless mortals and planned to clear them away to secure control of Boundless Purgatory.

Wang Pan continued his Holy Son test in Boundless Purgatory, overwhelming the remnant souls of the Netherworld Sect’s ancestors. After defeating Daoist Heavenly Crow and rejecting his attempt to survive through a gift of cultivation knowledge, Wang Pan went deeper into Boundless Purgatory while the guests outside lost sight of him.

• Wang Pan swept through the remnant souls, whose strength grew as he advanced, and encountered Daoist Heavenly Crow, the Netherworld Sect’s thirty-eighth master.
• Daoist Heavenly Crow tried to seize Wang Pan’s body, but Wang Pan’s King Pan’s Fist nullified his cultivation and left him powerless.
• Daoist Heavenly Crow begged for mercy, then offered Wang Pan half his divine soul containing his cultivation experience and techniques.
• Wang Pan accepted the gift but destroyed Daoist Heavenly Crow’s remnant soul and the remaining half of his divine soul.
• Wang Pan continued deeper into Boundless Purgatory, and the mighty figures watching from the platform could no longer see him.

Wang Pan claimed the core of Boundless Purgatory and created a clone that reached Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation Stage, gaining partial authority over the artifact. He returned to the Holy Son Succession Ceremony, where he received the Netherworld Sect’s treasures and was formally welcomed as its Holy Son.

• Wang Pan found Boundless Purgatory’s core defenseless after destroying the Remnant Souls and decided to inscribe part of his divine soul into it.
• Wang Pan severed one-quarter of his divine soul and established a connection with Boundless Purgatory, forming a clone with flesh and blood at Great Perfection of the Divine Transformation Stage.
• Wang Pan realized his clone could not use the Immortal King title to overcome its restrictions against Wang Yue, then left Boundless Purgatory with partial authority over it.
• While Wang Pan was inside Boundless Purgatory, Wang Yue watched First-rate Forces seek the protection of other sacred lands and considered the Netherworld Sect’s position in Qing Province.
• Wang Pan emerged from Boundless Purgatory amid a surge of power, and White Bone Lotus Seeds transformed into a crown, an Imperial Seal, and a robe for him.
• Wang Yue announced Wang Pan’s return as the Netherworld Sect’s Holy Son, and the gathered guests and sect members offered congratulations and paid their respects.

Wang Pan entered the Netherworld Sect’s Land of Inheritance to receive the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra, resisting a heart demon along the way. He reached the White Bone Soul Searching Palace, where Wang Yue met him among a vast pond of Nine Netherworld Lotus, and the two argued over who could claim a share.

• Wang Pan received the Innocent Heart title and ten million Simulation Points after becoming Holy Son, then entered the inheritance space to seek the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra.
• Wang Yue worried that Wang Pan might fail to comprehend the complete sutra, whose inheritance had become exceptionally difficult after the sect lost its inheritance Immortal Artifact.
• Wang Pan followed the call through the Land of Inheritance, where Fierce Ghosts and Corpse Puppets bowed to him and the skeleton guards knelt as he climbed toward the White Bone Heavenly Palace.
• Wang Pan recognized and overcame a heart demon that had taken advantage of his damaged divine soul, then passed through the White Bone Soul Searching Palace gate.
• Wang Pan discovered a valuable pond of Nine Netherworld Lotus and wondered how much he could earn from it, but Wang Yue told him the lotuses belonged to the Supreme Elders.
• Wang Yue declared that she would claim a share of the lotuses now that she had reached the Dao Integration Stage, and Wang Pan insisted that the Holy Son deserved a share too.

Wang Yue discussed the Netherworld Sect’s five Supreme Elders and the Nine Netherworld Lotus with Wang Pan, then sent him away to study the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra. Wang Pan reached the palace’s inner hall after neutralizing its killing formations, where a powerful pressure greeted him.

• Wang Yue explained that she could kill one Supreme Elder in a one-on-one fight but would die against three, while Wang Pan promised he could help eliminate them.
• Wang Yue kicked Wang Pan away and said she intended to claim the entire pool of Nine Netherworld Lotus for herself.
• As he flew off, Wang Pan reflected on how Equality of All Beings and his Immortal King title could let him defeat a Mahayana Stage cultivator.
• Wang Pan used his Imperial Seal to make the palace’s ancient killing formations recognize him and let him pass unharmed.
• Wang Pan entered the palace hall, where Bone Dragons emerged from his robes to shield him from a sudden, overwhelming pressure.

Wang Pan entered the Ascended Being’s Remains to comprehend the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra, advanced beyond Qi Condensation Level 13, and climbed toward the remains’ head. Eight years later, Wang Yue searched the hall for him and found her Medicine Fields untouched, while Wang Pan emerged from a crater in the remains’ head.

• Wang Pan matched his spiritual power to the Ascended Being’s Remains and broke through to what he suspected was Qi Condensation Level 14, but his distraction caused his spiritual power to run wild.
• Wang Pan climbed onto the remains’ shoulder, discovered Wang Yue’s vast Medicine Fields of sixth-grade spirit herbs, and left them untouched as he continued toward the head.
• Eight years passed without Wang Pan appearing outside, and rumors spread that Wang Yue was secretly using sect resources to nurture him or that he was dead.
• Wang Yue entered the hall to check on Wang Pan and found every spirit herb in her Medicine Fields still present, but she could not locate him.
• Wang Yue searched the hall for Wang Pan while he climbed out of a massive crater in the head of the Ascended Being’s Remains.

Wang Pan completed his comprehension of the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra in the Ascended Being's Remains and grew suspicious that ascension involved a hidden threat. He stole four spirit medicines before leaving, while Wang Yue discovered their loss and revealed her ambition to reach the Mahayana Stage and attain eternal life.

• Wang Pan reasoned that cultivators who had united Essence, Qi, and Spirit had no clear need to abandon their bodies and ascend, then felt a deadly warning when he nearly voiced a dangerous conjecture.
• Wang Pan confirmed that he had comprehended the complete Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra and decided that uncovering the truth about ascension could wait.
• Wang Pan secretly took four spirit medicines from the Medicine Field, concealed their absence, and left the Inheritance Hall.
• Wang Yue searched for Wang Pan, then noticed that four plants were missing from her Medicine Field.
• Wang Yue dismissed the loss of the Ascended Being's Remains' power and focused on her goal of reaching the Mahayana Stage and attaining eternal life.

Wang Yue caught Wang Pan stealing Spirit Herbs from her secret Medicine Field, but their confrontation was interrupted when his Great Perfection Deity Transformation clone emerged from Boundless Purgatory. After learning she could not use his situation to advance, Wang Yue still punished him for stealing, and Wang Pan ended the chapter protesting that he could not talk back because he could not beat her.

• Wang Yue tracked Wang Pan to the Medicine Field and confronted him about taking her Spirit Herbs.
• Wang Pan contacted his clone in Boundless Purgatory, and the clone arrived in the Inheritance Hall as the Ascended Being's Remains and an Underworld Emperor's shadow clashed.
• Wang Yue discovered Wang Pan's clone had reached Great Perfection Deity Transformation and asked whether his unusual situation could help her, but he said it could not.
• Wang Yue grabbed Wang Pan and spanked him for stealing four of her Spirit Herbs, while he protested that betrayal, murder, and arson were natural for members of the Netherworld Sect.
• Wang Pan said he wanted to talk back but could not beat Wang Yue.

Wang Yue discovered that beating Wang Pan triggered breakthroughs and decided to keep him as a source of cultivation progress, then brought him back toward Netherworld Peak. Meanwhile, Zhang Yang waited to be tested for Spiritual Roots at the Ascension Gathering, but the Supreme Profound Sacred Land disciples ended the first day before his turn and spent the night feasting at the imperial palace.

• Wang Yue broke through to Dao Integration Middle Stage after beating Wang Pan, and Wang Pan feared she would keep using him to advance her cultivation.
• Wang Yue concealed her plan to beat Wang Pan again, while he vowed to repay her once he grew stronger, and she carried him toward Netherworld Peak when he proved too slow.
• Zhang Yang recalled killing his parents, selling his younger sister, and robbing others to pay the fee to enter the capital for the Spiritual Root test.
• Supreme Profound Sacred Land disciples began testing youths with the Spiritual Root Testing Mirror, and Zhao Tie Zhu passed with five Spiritual Roots.
• The disciples stopped testing just before Zhang Yang's turn, left the youths waiting in the cold, and accepted a lavish feast from the Da Li emperor and ministers.

Zhang Yang and Duan Qing, two simulators in the Cultivation World, died after their hopes for cultivation collided with its dangers. Meanwhile, Wang Pan recovered from a beating, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and prepared to advance further.

• Zhang Yang failed the Spiritual Root test, smashed the testing mirror, and was killed and incinerated by a Supreme Profound Sacred Land disciple.
• Duan Qing, a Five Spiritual Root handyman disciple of the Ming King Sect, was beaten to death by stronger miners who looted his belongings.
• Wang Pan endured Qianhua’s concern over his beating and considered how his long lifespan made relationships with ordinary women difficult.
• Wang Pan began cultivating and broke through to Foundation Establishment, completing a transformation that doubled his cultivation aptitude.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Wang Pan fused the Golden Core method of the Sky River Record with the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra, then sought supplies from Wang Yue and got beaten again. He stole her Spatial Ring, found her intimate clothing inside, and fled the Netherworld Sect for Yang Province before she could catch him.

• Wang Pan reflected on the differences between the cultivation worlds and resolved to pursue a First-Grade Golden Core through repeated core shattering.
• Wang Pan exhausted himself fusing the Sky River Record’s Golden Core method with the Divine King Nether Reflection Sutra, then called Qianhua but changed his mind about asking the kitchen for food.
• Wang Pan went to Wang Yue’s residence seeking help, but Wang Yue beat him until she was satisfied and sent him back through a Spatial Channel.
• Wang Pan opened Wang Yue’s Spatial Ring and found intimate clothing instead of treasures, then feared she would silence him and decided to flee.
• Wang Pan reached the Netherworld Sect’s teleportation plaza and told the Outer Elders to prepare the Teleportation Array for Yang Province.

Wang Pan fled the Netherworld Sect through a Cross-Province Teleportation Array, choosing Yang Province as his destination. His departure stirred up plots against him, while the Outer Grand Elder profited by selling information about where Wang Pan had gone.

• Wang Pan rejected Bing Province and chose Yang Province as a safer place to hide, then paid the Outer Grand Elder with two sixth-grade spirit herbs to activate the Cross-Province Teleportation Array.
• The Outer Grand Elder activated the array and sent Wang Pan away, then calculated that he had made a large profit by overcharging him.
• After learning Wang Pan had left alone, a True Disciple began arranging an attack, while Qing Yan suspected the Sect Master had set a trap for those who wanted to kill the Holy Son.
• Dozens of Black-Robed Figures entered the Outer Grand Elder's Cave Dwelling and demanded to know Wang Pan's destination, but the Outer Grand Elder refused to reveal it without payment.
• The Outer Grand Elder accepted one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones from a Black-Robed Figure, then demanded separate payments from the others before sharing the information.

The Outer Grand Elder used the black-robed figures’ payment to break through to the Void Refinement Stage, while Wang Yue discovered Wang Pan had gone to Yang Province and sent her hidden forces after him. There, Wang Pan stopped Pan Junjie from escaping a debt to a Pure Joy Sect cultivator and became the subject of her flirtatious questions.

• The Outer Grand Elder sold out Wang Pan’s location for a hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, then used the wealth and spirit herbs to break through to the Void Refinement Stage.
• Wang Yue discovered that Wang Pan had left for Yang Province without a Dao Protector, ordered her twelve Void Refinement Stage guards to kill her negligent Guard Squad, and sent them to retrieve him.
• Wang Yue realized that Wang Pan had seen the intimate garments in her Spatial Ring and suspected he had fled to avoid being silenced.
• Wang Pan used Heavenly Net Finger to catch Pan Junjie, who had fled without paying a female cultivator from the Pure Joy Sect.
• The female cultivator calculated Pan Junjie’s unpaid fees, sealed his cultivation, and told Wang Pan she would waive his fee once before asking his age.

Wang Pan entered an Immortal City with the Pure Joy Sect cultivator who had brought him there, then rented a Cave Dwelling and explored its surroundings. He settled into a neglected courtyard with a Medicine Field, a Spirit Field, and a pond of spirit fish.

• Wang Pan and the female cultivator paid the entry fee for themselves and bound Pan Junjie, then entered the Immortal City.
• The female cultivator offered to repay Wang Pan and invited him to Pure Joy Tower, but he declined and she took Pan Junjie inside.
• Wang Pan found the Rental Office, became a permanent resident, and rented a Cave Dwelling with a spirit vein node and plots of farmland for three years.
• Wang Pan explored the Cave Dwelling’s location near Heavenly Palace Quarter, the Distribution Market, and the Stone Gambling Workshop.
• Wang Pan inspected his courtyard and found its spiritual energy disappointing, its Medicine Field and Spirit Field overgrown, and several spirit fish in its pond.

Wang Pan settled into his new Cave Dwelling in Yang Province, prepared for Netherworld Sect assassins to come after him, and explored the immortal city's Distribution Market. He left amused by the market's scams after watching Gou Fugui try to sell a fake cultivation method to a gullible simulator.

• Wang Pan cooked demon beast meat on Spirit Stone Slabs, ate, and slept soundly in his new Cave Dwelling.
• More than twenty Great Completion Soul Severing Stage cultivators crossed into Yang Province to hunt Wang Pan, while Wang Yue considered letting him deal with them himself.
• Wang Pan cleared the Spirit Field and Medicine Field, fed his spirit fish, and reasoned that his pursuers would likely be Soul Severing Stage cultivators or weaker.
• Wang Pan entered the Distribution Market and listened as Gou Fugui pitched him a fabricated foundational cultivation method.
• Wang Pan joked about paying three million High-Grade Spirit Stones for the fake method, then left after Gou Fugui admitted he had made it up.
• Gou Fugui began pitching the same false method to a young simulator, while Wang Pan continued browsing the market and scoffed at its dishonest sellers.