Chapter Summaries

Wang Pan manipulated Xiao Fan into accepting a dangerous mission to gather Immortal Souls by convincing him he was a Son of Fortune and promising him the Netherworld Sect leadership. After sending Xiao Fan to the Endless Sea Domain, Wang Pan revealed that he intended to kill him and turned to take care of Wen Hua himself.

• Xiao Fan offered Wang Pan a sealed crystal containing an Immortal Soul, but Wang Pan said the half-finished Immortal Artifact needed eighteen Immortal Souls and sent him to find more in the Endless Sea Domain.
• Xiao Fan doubted the mission until Wang Pan claimed his fortune would protect him, then explained that Wen Hua’s affection for Xiao Fan was why he had chosen him as the next Sect Master.
• Xiao Fan pledged never to betray Wen Hua, and Wang Pan forced him to his knees with a display of overwhelming power before accepting him as family.
• Wang Pan bestowed his Heavenly Dao Authority on Xiao Fan and promised to protect Wen Hua while Xiao Fan was away.
• Wang Pan opened a Spatial Channel and sent Xiao Fan to the Endless Sea Domain, then admitted he planned to kill him and went to take care of Wen Hua.

Wang Yue faced her first lightning tribulation while Wang Pan guarded Netherworld Peak and crushed a rebellion by Yu Province factions. She overcame the lightning and Inner Demon Tribulations, then returned to Wang Pan after growing stronger.

• Wang Pan and Wang Yue discussed Xiao Fan and her preparations for the Millennial Tribulation Period.
• As Wang Yue began her tribulation above Netherworld Peak, Wang Pan ordered the area cleared and secretly moved against factions plotting to rebel.
• Wang Yue summoned the Moon Wheel and shattered the lightning tribulation while Wang Pan's forces purged the disloyal and suppressed Yu Province's Ascended Being's Remains.
• Wang Yue confronted her inner demon, rejected its offer to take control, and crushed it, absorbing its Soul Power.
• Wang Yue emerged from the tribulation stronger and went to Wang Pan, who embraced her.

Xiao Fan collected the final two Immortal Souls in the Endless Sea Domain and returned to the Netherworld Sect, while Wen Hua pleaded with Wang Pan to spare him. Xiao Fan arrived believing Wang Pan welcomed him as a loving adoptive father, unaware that Wen Hua feared Wang Pan intended to kill him.

• The Netherworld Sect expanded across dozens of Great Provinces as the Holy Land Alliance contained its advance around Qin Province.
• Xiao Fan survived thirty-eight thousand years in the Endless Sea Domain, passed thirty-eight Thunder Tribulations, and gathered the Immortal Souls he needed to return.
• Wen Hua continued visiting Wang Pan and begged him to spare Xiao Fan, but Wang Pan refused to change his mind.
• Xiao Fan used Heavenly Dao Authority to kill two Immortal Realm Sea Beasts and seize their Immortal Souls.
• Wang Pan told Wen Hua that Xiao Fan was coming back, and Wen Hua broke down when she realized she could not protect him.
• A year later, Xiao Fan returned to the Netherworld Sect with Eighteen Immortal Souls, while Wen Hua silently watched him with worry.

Xiao Fan returned to the Netherworld Sect after thirty-eight thousand years, gave Wang Pan the Eighteen Immortal Souls, and misunderstood Wang Pan’s promise about the Immortal Artifact. Wang Pan began forging Boundless Purgatory, whose awakening trapped the Immortal Souls in the Eighteen Layers of Hell and left them battling the Eighteen Prison Lords.

• Xiao Fan apologized to Wang Pan for being away and praised him for caring for Wen Hua, while Wen Hua privately reacted with embarrassment and resentment.
• Wang Pan asked Xiao Fan for the Eighteen Immortal Souls, and Xiao Fan handed them over while expecting to receive the Immortal Artifact once it was forged.
• Wang Pan promised Xiao Fan he would be the first to witness the Immortal Artifact’s power, then reclaimed the Heavenly Dao Authority he had lent him.
• After Wang Pan left, Wen Hua stepped back when Xiao Fan tried to embrace her, and Xiao Fan convinced himself she was merely unaccustomed to him after their long separation.
• Wang Pan entered the Netherworld Realm’s furnace and began forging Boundless Purgatory with the Eighteen Immortal Souls.
• Boundless Purgatory unleashed the Eighteen Layers of Hell, where the Eighteen Immortal Souls fought the Eighteen Prison Lords as the sword’s blade repeatedly cracked and repaired itself.

Wang Pan completed Boundless Purgatory, whose power destroyed the Netherworld Realm, and went to find Xiao Fan. At Holy Maiden Peak, Wen Hua concealed her betrayal while Xiao Fan returned to her, but Punishment Hall cultivators mistook his advance for an attempt to offend the Sect Master's Wife.

• The Eighteen Prison Lords merged into Boundless Purgatory's heart, forming its Artifact Spirit, which defeated the Eighteen Immortal Souls and consumed their Soul Power.
• Wang Pan tested the completed Boundless Purgatory by cutting a Black Hole in two, then decided to kill Xiao Fan to recover the cost of forging it.
• Wen Hua served Xiao Fan a meal and hid that she had chosen her family over him and was keeping Wang Pan's intentions secret.
• Xiao Fan praised Wang Pan and thanked Wen Hua, then tried to embrace her during their walk around Holy Maiden Peak.
• Punishment Hall cultivators surrounded Xiao Fan and accused him of offending the Sect Master's Wife while Wen Hua stood by.

Xiao Fan returned to the Netherworld Sect and discovered that Wen Hua had become Wang Pan’s concubine, then learned she had poisoned him with their shared Gu Worm. Dying from the poison, Xiao Fan broke through to the Mahayana Stage and attacked the Netherworld Sect, while Wen Hua fled to the safety of Netherworld Peak.

• Xiao Fan confronted the Punishment Hall cultivators, who told him that Wang Pan had taken Wen Hua as a concubine.
• Wen Hua admitted Wang Pan had forced her, then revealed that Xiao Fan had been poisoned by the Gu Worm in his sea of consciousness.
• Xiao Fan realized the Gu Worm had become lethal poison and vowed to destroy the Netherworld Sect before he died.
• Xiao Fan broke through to the Mahayana Stage and unleashed lightning on the Netherworld Sect, whose defenses and experts rose to meet him.
• Xiao Fan clashed with three Mahayana Stage cultivators, while Wen Hua escaped to Netherworld Peak and watched from safety.

Poisoned and pushed to the brink, Xiao Fan seized control of the Heavenly Dao and overwhelmed three Netherworld Sect cultivators, but Wang Pan intervened after provoking him with the truth about Wen Hua. Xiao Fan fell into demonhood and grew stronger, yet Wang Pan killed him and destroyed his body, leaving the Netherworld Sect’s three Mahayana Stage cultivators cowed into obedience.

• Xiao Fan entered the Mahayana Stage while poisoned, then fought and suppressed three Netherworld Sect cultivators who attacked him together.
• As the poison triggered the Five Signs of Heavenly Decay, Xiao Fan’s Way and Law collapsed and he seized control of the Heavenly Dao, while Wang Pan watched from the sidelines.
• Wang Pan stepped in to protect the three cultivators and enraged Xiao Fan by claiming he had been intimate with Wen Hua while Xiao Fan was deceived by illusions.
• Overcome by grief and humiliation, Xiao Fan fell into demonhood as pure Demonic Qi transformed his body and boosted his strength.
• Wang Pan used Boundless Purgatory to decapitate Xiao Fan, then destroyed his corpse with Nine Heavens Thunder and confirmed his death.
• The three Mahayana Stage cultivators feared Wang Pan’s methods and resolved to serve the Netherworld Sect without plotting against him.

Wang Pan killed Xiao Fan, and Wen Hua broke through to the Tribulation Stage after Xiao Fan’s death freed her from her guilt. Over the next fifty-three thousand years, the Netherworld Sect expanded across half the Southern Region, prompting nearly two thousand holy lands to unite against it.

• Wang Pan ground Xiao Fan to ash and destroyed his soul, then dismissed the three Mahayana Stage cultivators and returned to Wen Hua.
• Wen Hua embraced Wang Pan’s side, overcame her inner turmoil, and broke through to the Tribulation Stage.
• Wang Pan spent three days with Wen Hua, then three more with Wang Yue, before settling into a routine of working three days and resting two.
• Wang Pan delegated the Netherworld Sect’s expanding administration to more than a hundred elders in the Political Affairs Pavilion as the sect conquered territory for fifty-three thousand years.
• The Holy Master of Southern Heavenly Gate summoned nearly two thousand holy lands and urged them to resist the Netherworld Sect, stirring the gathering into vows to overthrow Wang Pan.

The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land Master formed an Offensive and Defensive Alliance of nearly two thousand holy lands and declared war on the Netherworld Sect, intending to use the conflict to absorb the other factions. In Qing Province, Wang Pan passed his ninety-first lightning tribulation and realized the Tribulation Stage limit was ninety-eight.

• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land Master asked the gathered holy land masters to lead an attack, but they hesitated until he revealed his Mahayana power and declared war on the Netherworld Sect ten days later.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate displayed its vast forces, pressuring nearly two thousand holy land masters into joining its Offensive and Defensive Alliance.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land Master planned to weaken and absorb the allied holy lands, using the Netherworld Sect as a common enemy to make their people accept the takeover.
• The alliance mobilized resources and troops across the remaining provinces of the Southern Region to prepare a counterattack.
• In Qing Province, Wang Pan passed his ninety-first lightning tribulation and sensed that his tribulations had stopped growing stronger.
• Wang Pan realized the Tribulation Stage limit was ninety-eight lightning tribulations.

Wang Pan continued to watch the monster beyond the starry sky while the war between the Netherworld Sect and the Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land reshaped the Southern Region. When two Supreme Elders were found dead, the Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land's Holy Lord realized that ascension was a lie and that an unknown enemy had been killing those who became true immortals.

• Wang Pan inspected Wang Yue and Wen Hua, finding that Wang Yue remained at early Mahayana while Wen Hua had reached Mahayana after passing twenty-six lightning tribulations.
• The war between the Netherworld Sect and the Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land spread across dozens of provinces, and the surviving holy lands were eventually absorbed by one side or the other, leaving two factions facing each other.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Lord and his companions found the corpses of two Supreme Elders, each with a hole in the head, in their palaces.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Lord told the Mahayana cultivators that the two Supreme Elders had ascended and ordered the sect to celebrate, then secretly activated his palace's formations.
• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Lord concluded that the Supreme Elders had been killed and that the Ascended Being's Remains proved ascension was a lie, while the sect's disciples celebrated their supposed rise in strength.

The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Lord gave up cultivating and governing after learning that ascension meant certain death, while the Netherworld Sect and Southern Heavenly Gate continued clashing despite the pause in their war. Wang Pan passed his final Tribulation Stage lightning tribulation and emerged with a vastly strengthened body and authority over 476 Heavenly Daos.

• The Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Lord stopped cultivating and managing the Holy Land, leaving its elders to take over while he indulged himself.
• Elder An entered the Holy Lord's hall expecting to challenge him, but joined him in enjoying the music and dancing.
• Members of the Netherworld Sect and Southern Heavenly Gate repeatedly provoked each other until small-scale battles broke out every day.
• Wang Pan faced a three-month lightning tribulation, endured its attacks, and swallowed the Thunder Pool after breaking through.
• Wang Pan absorbed insights from the Heavenly Daos and increased his authority until he could command 476 Heavenly Daos.

Wang Pan completed his breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage as a monstrous being descended toward the Vast Sea Realm. He charged beyond the Starry Sky to confront it, while powerful figures from across the realm mobilized to meet the approaching catastrophe.

• After surviving Ninety-Eight Thunder Tribulations, Wang Pan transformed into a Mahayana Stage cultivator, with his spiritual power beginning to change into Immortal Spiritual Energy.
• The hundred-armed monster descended from beyond the Starry Sky, darkening the Cultivation World and alarming its inhabitants.
• The Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, the Old Monk, Liu Yan, and the Netherworld Sect Patriarch sensed the danger and prepared to fight the monster.
• Wang Pan realized the monster was drawn to him and charged beyond the Starry Sky to keep their battle from endangering Wang Yue and the Vast Sea Realm.
• The Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, Liu Yan, the Old Monk, and the Immortal Sword set out to confront the monster, which rejoiced after sensing them.

Wang Pan fought the enormous monster in the Starry Sky, using his sword, fists, and spatial abilities while discovering that the faces covering its body healed its wounds. He attacked with real suns to test that weakness, and the monster’s aura surged as the faces vanished.

• Wang Pan flew into the Starry Sky and severed the monster’s claw with Boundless Purgatory.
• Wang Pan struck the monster with King Pan’s Heaven-Splitting Seal and trapped it in a net woven from Spatial Power, but the monster tore free.
• Wang Pan and the monster battled among the stars, and the monster sent Wang Pan crashing through a massive star before Wang Pan unleashed Ten Directions Invincible.
• Wang Pan blasted the monster with countless attacks and realized that the faces covering its body disappeared as its injuries healed.
• Wang Pan dragged real suns from the Starry Sky and hurled them at the monster, observing that the disappearing faces restored its strength.

Wang Pan fought the monster in the starry sky and used the Sword of Humanity’s Way to destroy her stored immortal souls and kill her. The monster’s death triggered a supernova-like explosion and a terrifying gravitational pull that threatened Wang Pan and hurled the arriving Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, Netherworld Sect Patriarch, Old Monk of the Western Regions, and Liu Yan back toward the Vast Sea Realm.

• Wang Pan sealed the monster’s escape route and fought her, while her battle instincts and control of her strength continued to improve.
• Wang Pan summoned the Red Dragon formed from Humanity’s Way and gathered its power into the Crimson Sword.
• Wang Pan’s sword revealed the rise and fall of human civilization, overwhelming the monster with Humanity’s Way’s Great Momentum.
• The monster used her Flying Star divine ability and consumed the immortal souls stored in her faces to resist, but Wang Pan’s sword shattered every face and extinguished her life.
• The monster’s body exploded, scorching Wang Pan and unleashing a gravitational force that pulled in light, heat, shockwaves, and nearby stars.
• The Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, Netherworld Sect Patriarch, Old Monk of the Western Regions, and Liu Yan were struck by the energy tide and fell back toward the Vast Sea Realm, badly wounded.

Wang Pan killed the Hundred Arms monster, but Life Simulation forcibly returned him just as the monster’s parents revealed themselves and began destroying their hunting grounds. The Vast Sea Realm suffered catastrophic damage from the fallout, yet the death of the infant ended its exploitation of the realm and gave its Heavenly Dao hope of recovery.

• A black hole formed where the Hundred Arms monster died, and Wang Pan spotted a multifaceted crystal inside before Life Simulation ordered his immediate return.
• Wang Pan saw the starry sky reveal itself as a tentacle covered in eyes, but a black light from his soul’s knuckle restored him before he returned to the Main World.
• The monster’s two parents tried to pull Wang Pan back into the starry sky, but the Main World’s Heavenly Dao shattered their golden space; enraged, they destroyed many hunting grounds before leaving.
• The Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, the Netherworld Sect Patriarch, the Old Monk, and Liu Yan fled back to the Vast Sea Realm badly injured.
• Shockwaves from the destroyed worlds battered the Vast Sea Realm, killing countless beings and causing widespread disasters.
• The Vast Sea Realm’s Heavenly Dao celebrated the infant’s death, which freed the realm from being used as its food and reserves and opened the way for its World Energy Level to rise.

Wang Yue absorbed the Celestial God Race youngling’s crystal, reached the True Immortal Realm, and learned that Wang Pan had killed the youngling before disappearing. After searching for him for 180,000 years, she returned to the Vast Sea Realm and became an Evil Dragon in pursuit of power to reverse time, while the Netherworld Sect expanded under Wen Hua’s rule.

• A crystal containing the Celestial God Race inheritance entered Wang Yue’s body, transforming her and raising her cultivation to the True Immortal Realm.
• Wang Yue learned from the crystal’s memories that the Celestial God Race youngling had hunted True Immortals and that Wang Pan had defeated it, then she left to search for him.
• Wen Hua took charge of the Netherworld Sect, which grew powerful and conquered the Southern Heavenly Gate Holy Land; she later purged a faction that accused her of killing Wang Pan and Wang Yue.
• After searching the Starry Sky for 180,000 years without finding Wang Pan, Wang Yue returned to the Vast Sea Realm and studied the crystal’s inheritance.
• Wang Yue began hunting True Immortals for their immortal souls and became an Evil Dragon to gain the power to reverse the River of Time.

After Life Simulation forcibly returned Wang Pan from danger, it charged him a Seventh-Tier World's Favor Mark, but his settlement awarded him Sixteenth-Order World's Favor, powerful new rewards, and a major realm increase. The chapter ends with Wang Pan agreeing to spend five hundred million Simulation Points and his new World's Favor to fuse his title talents.

• Life Simulation warned Wang Pan that it might not rescue him from unknown danger again and deducted a Seventh-Tier World's Favor Mark as the cost of his return.
• The settlement awarded Wang Pan Sixteenth-Order World's Favor from the Vast Sea Realm, despite the realm requesting its return.
• Wang Pan received an X+++++ evaluation, six Simulation Authorities, the Demonic Path Ancestor title, and the Fortune's Favor talent.
• Wang Pan's strength rose from Heavenly Soldier Realm Sixth Stage to Late Township Marquis stage in the Marquis Conferment Realm.
• The Simulation Mark offered to fuse Wang Pan's title talents for five hundred million Simulation Points and one portion of Sixteenth-Order World's Favor, and Wang Pan agreed.

Wang Pan fused nearly all his talents and titles into the Mythical Talent Overlord Creature, which transformed his body and raised his Life Level by three leaps. After learning that Life Simulation could not grant talents beyond its own Energy Level, he realized his ability to create Mythical Talents likely came from his Golden Finger.

• Wang Pan agreed to spend Five Hundred Million Simulation Points and Sixteenth-Order World's Favor to fuse his talents.
• Wang Pan gained the Mythical Talent Overlord Creature, with abilities that strengthened his body, weakened lower-Life-Level opponents, protected him from their mental attacks, and empowered his subordinates.
• Wang Pan underwent a profound bodily transformation and realized his strength had increased more than a hundredfold as his Life Level leaped three times.
• Wang Pan concluded that Overlord Creature's Overlord Soul had removed his weakness to mental attacks from lower-Life-Level enemies.
• Life Simulation told Wang Pan that it could only grant talents up to its own Energy Level and denied granting him a Mythical Talent.
• Wang Pan found that the talent-fusion prompt had vanished and suspected his Golden Finger had enabled him to create a talent that surpassed the Main World's Energy Level restrictions.

After returning from a Simulation World with the Mythical Talent: Overlord Creature, Wang Pan intimidated Chu State University's Black Tortoise and went looking for Wang Xiangxiang. He found her training at the university arena, where she was called to fight Pan Jun.

• Wang Pan returned to Chu State University with Boundless Purgatory and reflected on how his immense strength let him ignore the Main World's energy-level cap.
• Wang Pan threatened Black Tortoise's Remnant Soul when it watched him, and Black Tortoise warned Principal Jiang Tao that Wang Pan could kill it.
• Jiang Tao left the Star Chain in a Vice Principal's care and went to investigate the dangerous newcomer.
• Wang Pan entered the university arena without identity verification because he sensed Wang Xiangxiang there.
• Li Wan'er called Wang Xiangxiang and Pan Jun to fight, and Pan Jun hid his anger after Li Wan'er rebuked his slow entrance.

Wang Xiangxiang confronted Pan Jun at Chu State University and used the Heavenly Net Finger Wang Pan had taught her. Meanwhile, Jiang Tao challenged Wang Pan over his presence at the university, but the chapter left their conversation overshadowed by Pan Jun’s severe injuries.

• Pan Jun stepped into the arena and taunted Wang Xiangxiang while his followers cheered from the stands.
• Wang Xiangxiang decided to punish Pan Jun for pestering her, as Wang Pan watched from the audience.
• Jiang Tao confronted Wang Pan and demanded to know why he had come to Chu State University, warning that he would defend the university at any cost.
• Wang Pan asked Jiang Tao to watch his sister, and Jiang Tao saw Wang Xiangxiang begin using the Heavenly Net Finger.
• Wang Xiangxiang’s attack tore deep wounds into Pan Jun, while Li Wan'er tried to stop her.