Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiu freed the Wind Crow Roster Joel and learned how it could travel between worlds, then prepared to enter another world to investigate it. He left with the Wind Crow through a portal after it secured a landing point.

• Fang Xiu promised to remove the Wind Crow's seal if it behaved, and Roster Joel swore it would not run away.
• Fang Xiu removed the seal, and the Wind Crow briefly escaped through a spatial vortex before returning and settling on its swing.
• Fang Xiu questioned Roster Joel about travel between worlds and learned that it could carry him to a world using its Space Anchor Point coordinates.
• Fang Xiu returned Roster Joel's mailbag, then outlined goals for studying the other world's condition, supernatural systems, and gods.
• Several days later, Roster Joel reported that it had anchored coordinates and found a stable landing place, and Fang Xiu entered the gray vortex with it.

Fang Xiu and Wind Crow Roster Joel entered a dying world and explored a deserted city filled with corpses and abandoned treasures. Their search was interrupted when a gigantic flaming object crashed into the earth, and Wind Crow Roster Joel identified it as a Floating Island rather than a Floating City.

• Fang Xiu traveled with Wind Crow Roster Joel through the Shadow Realm and emerged in a lifeless, decaying world.
• Fang Xiu explored a ruined city and found thousands of dried corpses, including several different races.
• Fang Xiu and Wind Crow Roster Joel searched the city, collecting books, sealed items, and alchemical objects to take with them.
• Wind Crow Roster Joel warned Fang Xiu when a huge fireball fell through the clouds toward the city.
• The fireball struck the earth in a massive impact, shaking the city and collapsing buildings.
• Fang Xiu wondered if the falling object was a Floating City, but Wind Crow Roster Joel said it was a Floating Island.

Fang Xiu explored the ruins of a fallen Floating Island and recovered its gravity-controlling Floating Ring. He learned about the Giant Plane’s apocalypse and left a Coordinate Eye with the alchemist Ding Ding, planning to use it to contact the plane’s civilization later.

• Fang Xiu followed Wind Crow’s explanation of the Floating Ring to the fallen Floating Island and searched its ruins for the central Magic Crystal Tower.
• Fang Xiu found the Floating Ring inside the ruined tower and tested its ability to control gravity before placing it in Wind Crow’s postal bag.
• Fang Xiu boarded Ding Ding’s Universal Grocery Store, read the Sayo Person’s surface memories, and learned that the Giant Plane was facing an apocalypse and its people were fleeing east.
• Fang Xiu placed three Coordinate Eye components on Ding Ding’s shop shelves and departed with Wind Crow through a vortex into the Shadow Realm.
• Ding Ding awoke among the ruins and became excited at the prospect of salvaging alchemical components, while Fang Xiu planned to use the Coordinate Eye to contact the plane’s civilization.

Fang Xiu organized the treasures and knowledge he had brought back from another world, using his spatially anchored home to travel around the world. He studied the Floating Ring’s potential and delivered alchemical spoils to Chen Jin’s pavilion as a major supernatural incident began in Wei Port City.

• Fang Xiu had Chen Jin sort the library’s books while she studied a volume about Magic Crystal Towers and Networks.
• Fang Xiu’s spatially anchored home shifted to a nighttime harbor, and Black Fiend returned after joyfully visiting London, New York, and Wei Port City.
• Fang Xiu asked Roster Joel about using the seventh-tier Floating Ring to build a Floating City, and Roster explained that such a city required an eighth-tier ring.
• Fang Xiu refined the Floating Ring into a silver ring and considered its uses for floating structures and the Mountain Sea World.
• Fang Xiu brought the alchemical workshop’s platforms and creations to Chen Jin’s Alchemy Pavilion for her to study.
• Wei Port City was swept into a large-scale supernatural incident.

A coordinated supernatural assault struck Lord Finger Mountain and the Energy Towers across Wei Port City, drawing Lin Shu away from the city-center tower. Wraith Eddie Stamp revealed himself inside the Energy Tower and launched his attack on the underground base, where Lu Wu prepared to confront him.

• More than a dozen cloaked attackers shattered Lord Finger Mountain’s barrier, prompting Zhou Yang to lock down the prison and send Lin Shu to reinforce it while Lu Wu remained at the Energy Tower.
• Attackers destroyed Energy Towers around Wei Port City as the city’s forces responded and the central tower’s radiance exposed supernatural intruders.
• Xu Jianxin escorted a team through the Energy Tower while secretly planning to steal the Incense Divine Artifact as Wraith Eddie Stamp.
• Eddie Stamp killed Xu Jianxin’s escort, revealed his identity, and unleashed his wraith army through the underground base.
• Lu Wu sensed the attack, rose with golden light surrounding him, and declared that the attackers had arrived.

Lu Wu and the Investigation Bureau’s trap nearly destroyed Wraith Eddie Stamp after he tried to seize the Suiren Bow, but Eddie escaped overseas as a severely weakened soul remnant. The failed attack ended the major factions’ immediate pursuit of Wei Port City’s Incense Divine Artifact and left Fang Xiu observing the aftermath.

• Lu Wu fought Eddie Stamp through the Underground Base, holding him back as their battle shook the surrounding city and damaged several levels.
• Eddie abandoned his possessed body and rushed into the Maze Lock with an army of wraiths, but the Suiren Bow’s red light revealed the artifact’s false control imprints and burned away most of his forces.
• Eddie’s shattered soul fled in three black streaks; Lu Wu destroyed one, and Lin Shu pursued another and struck it down at daybreak, while the last remnant escaped overseas.
• The transcendent world learned that the Wei Port City incident had been a trap, and hidden forces withdrew as major factions shifted their attention to the Gods and Demons World.
• Fang Xiu watched Eddie’s remnant flee with Black Fiend and Chen Jin, then remarked that Eddie would likely survive only as a weakened monster.

Fang Xiu watched the supernatural world turn its attention toward exploring the Gods and Demons World as White Harbor advanced its plans to become a self-sufficient Extraordinary City. He went to the Grand Library to research how to build the first Grotto-heaven Small World in the Mountain Sea World.

• Fang Xiu watched news report Eddie Stamp’s attack on Wei Port City and the worldwide hunt for the Wraith.
• Fang Xiu learned that major supernatural factions were recruiting explorers for the Gods and Demons World and offering rewards for clues to its ruins.
• Fang Xiu recognized that the factions had shifted away from coveting Wei Port City’s Energy Tower and toward opportunities in the Mountain Sea World.
• Fang Xiu saw White Harbor’s crystal barrier expanding as the city moved toward becoming a sealed, self-sufficient Extraordinary City.
• Fang Xiu went to the White Harbor Grand Library to research Grotto-heaven Small Worlds, Floating Islands, and Witchcraft Gardens.

Fang Xiu and Chen Jin activated the Ghost Dragon Throne to observe the Coordinate Eyes in another world and establish a trading network under the identity of Star Realm Merchant Ram. After assigning Chen Jin and Wind Crow Roster to manage it, Fang Xiu entered the Mountain Sea World.

• Chen Jin refined the Ghost Dragon Throne, and Fang Xiu used it to view three Coordinate Eyes in a polluted world, including one carried by a goblin toward a Floating Island.
• Chen Jin confirmed that she could contact the Coordinate Eye holders, control the Eyes, and select people to become their masters.
• Fang Xiu gave Chen Jin a notebook of missions and prices for collecting goods, materials, and knowledge from other worlds.
• Chen Jin followed Fang Xiu's instructions and prepared to operate as Star Realm Merchant Ram, offering trades to beings who possessed Coordinate Eyes.
• Fang Xiu told Wind Crow Roster Joel to assist Chen Jin, then entered the Mountain Sea World through the Top Floor Library.

Fred severed his connection to the Van der Saar Plane and descended into the Mountain Sea World as the World Tree transformed it into a vast realm of grotto-heavens. Fang Xiu completed his fusion with the Heaven's Dao Main Soul and took control of the expanding three realms, while Fred's fate was left in his hands.

• The Star God Nation collapsed as Fred's divine origin began transferring, and the gods of the Van der Saar Plane suppressed the world's backlash.
• Fang Xiu fused with the Heaven's Dao Main Soul, completed his Three Souls Seven Spirits, and seized control of the Mountain Sea World's time, space, and matter.
• Fang Xiu opened the Grotto-heaven Star Palace, and spatial power created countless grotto-heaven worlds among the World Tree's branches.
• The Mountain Sea World expanded, revealing countless grotto-heaven small worlds as stars to its inhabitants, who marveled at the transformed heavens.
• Fred appeared before the silver-haired Taoist, severed his connection to the Van der Saar Plane, and merged into the World Tree.

Fang Xiu transformed a Grotto-heaven Star Palace into a living world and created Qinghua Palace within it. In the present world, Zhou Yang’s team investigated the newly revealed Small Worlds and considered whether Qinghua Palace might be among them, potentially allowing Lin Shu to claim it.

• Fang Xiu created light, land, seas, life, and Sword Peak within the Grotto-heaven Star Palace, making it capable of containing living beings.
• Fang Xiu built Qinghua Palace atop Sword Peak and created its Immortal Palace, Sword Pavilion, Treasure Pagoda, and Spirit Tree.
• In Wei Port City, Zhou Yang convened an emergency meeting after reports revealed that the stars of the Mountain Sea World had become Small Worlds.
• Zhou Yang asked Lin Shu about her past visit to Qinghua Palace, and she recalled its ethereal, Immortal Realm-like atmosphere.
• Lin Shu suggested Qinghua Palace might lie among the Small Worlds, and Zhou Yang proposed that she could claim its grotto-heaven if she found it.

Leaders of the extraordinary forces gathered in Gilgud’s tower and agreed to destroy the Undying Heavenly Palace’s Divine Domain in hopes of claiming its divine artifact. As they prepared a massive formation to strike the ruins, a figure appeared inside the palace.

• Alchemist John Fogel reported that the ruins held hundreds of thousands of Citizens of the Undying Kingdom, including dozens of powerful fourth-order beings.
• Druid Malin urged the leaders to abandon the ruins, but Astrologer Darryl proposed destroying the Divine Domain while its master remained asleep.
• Darryl and John Fogel argued that shifting the Undying Heavenly Palace could collapse the Divine Domain, while Jia Yi warned that its hidden presence might awaken.
• The gathered extraordinary beings signed a Netherworld Contract and began engraving a vast formation to blast the ruins’ core and shift the palace.
• A figure suddenly appeared inside the Undying Heavenly Palace.

Fang Xiu awakened the Female Immortal inside the Undying Heavenly Palace, gave her a new spirit and an immortal-path legacy, then departed as the earth vein’s destruction caused the palace’s divine realm to collapse. The gathered cultivators celebrated the collapse and argued over its cost, unaware that the Female Immortal was beginning to awaken beneath the ruins.

• Fang Xiu entered the Undying Heavenly Palace and found a Female Immortal sealed in a jade coffin with the Celestial God Artifact longsword piercing her chest.
• Fang Xiu nurtured a new true spirit within the Female Immortal, gave her an immortal-path legacy, and left through a water-mirror portal.
• The Earth Dragon upheaved and the Undying Heavenly Palace’s cavern collapsed after the earth vein was destroyed.
• The divine realm fell, and the Citizens of the Undying Kingdom lost their power and turned to ashes as the curse of immortality ended.
• Gilgud, Jia Yi, Tai Liang, and the other cultivators reacted to the destruction while debating its consequences and eyeing the palace’s treasures.
• Beneath the rubble, the Female Immortal slowly opened her eyes inside the jade coffin.

Tens of thousands of superhumans and cultivators invaded the Undying Kingdom to plunder its treasures, only to awaken the Female Immortal within the Undying Heavenly Palace. She restored the ruins, unleashed the Citizens of the Undying Kingdom against the intruders, and transformed the palace into a forbidden realm as the survivors fled with news of a God or Devil’s awakening.

• Astrologer Darryl and other leaders concluded that the divine realm had collapsed and the being within was likely dead, prompting the gathered forces to rush underground in search of the Incense Divine Artifact and other treasures.
• The invading superhumans and cultivators plundered the ruins and fought over its treasures, while several powerful groups charged toward the Undying Heavenly Palace.
• A divine sword flew from the palace, and the Female Immortal rose from her jade coffin as her radiance restored the collapsing ruins and revealed her control over the realm.
• Divine Lord Jia Yi and the other intruders tried to flee, but two hundred thousand Citizens of the Undying Kingdom rose from their coffins and attacked them.
• The Female Immortal reached Tier-5 and made escape nearly impossible; fewer than one in ten intruders survived, and the Undying Heavenly Palace became a forbidden realm that later vanished from the Mountain Sea World.

Jonah Vogel and another alchemist searched the desert ruins of the Undying Kingdom, where Jonah found an unrecognized longsword that was actually a divine artifact. In the Netherworld, Chang De and Celestial Master Zhang Heming arrived at Xun Capital Academy for the Temple of Culture sacrifice and learned that Sage Feng was waiting inside.

• Jonah Vogel and another alchemist crossed the desert to map the Undying Kingdom's ruins and locate its entrances.
• Jonah uncovered an ornate longsword whose material and power he could not identify, then took it for later examination.
• Jonah unknowingly carried away the divine artifact that had once drawn powerful beings into a battle in the desert.
• Chang De and Celestial Master Zhang Heming arrived separately at Xun Capital Academy with their ghostly escorts.
• Wu Du welcomed the two Orthodox Gods and told them Sage Feng had descended into the academy for the Temple of Culture sacrifice.

At Xun Capital Academy’s grand banquet, Fang Xiu met Chang De and Zhang Heming beneath the Spring Autumn Tree and discussed Changyue Emperor Lord’s return, the Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God, and mysteries of the ancient celestial court. Fang Xiu then looked toward the living world, where Emperor Chao and Tang Li were nearing the ends of their lives and the Great Pan Dynasty’s founding generation was passing away.

• Chang De and Zhang Heming visited Fang Xiu beneath the Spring Autumn Tree during Xun Capital Academy’s grand banquet.
• Fang Xiu explained that his incense true body could move only within the Dao Transmission Jade Slip, and congratulated Zhang Heming on becoming an Orthodox God.
• Zhang Heming asked about the Si Qiong Mountain Mountain God’s potential schemes, and Fang Xiu assured him that the god could not prevent Changyue Emperor Lord’s return or Tang Li’s return with him.
• Chang De asked whether the Grotto-heaven Star Palaces and the Undying Heavenly Palace were linked to the ancient celestial court and the divine path; Fang Xiu said he knew little beyond reports from the Southern Continent.
• Fang Xiu, Chang De, and Zhang Heming discussed the Dao before parting, and Fang Xiu looked toward the living world as Emperor Chao and Tang Li approached the ends of their lives.

As Pan Emperor Zhao neared death, he warned Crown Prince Pan Xi about the people’s mandate and ordered him to expel the Buddhist Sect from Great Pan. Zhao died and became Changyue Emperor Lord, while Tang Li also passed away and ascended from the mortal world.

• Pan Emperor Zhao taught Crown Prince Pan Xi that the Imperial Seal represented the people’s mandate and warned that Great Pan would fall if it lost their hearts.
• Pan Emperor Zhao ordered Pan Xi to drive Monk Hong Yuan and the Buddhist Sect out of Yangjing and forbid their preaching across Great Pan.
• After Pan Emperor Zhao died, a golden dragon and a bright moon accompanied him as Netherworld officials welcomed him as Changyue Emperor Lord.
• At the Esteemed Sage Academy, Tang Li told Gai Cang that he had finished his work and died, sending a radiant being toward the heavens.
• A Netherworld Son of Heaven’s edict ennobled Zhao as Changyue Emperor Lord as ghosts and officials escorted him away from the mortal world.

Changyue Emperor Lord returned to his throne in the Netherworld as Tang Li was welcomed into Former Sage Palace and recognized as the fifth sage of the Literary Path. With Tang Li restored to his place beside the four sages, Sage Feng declared that the current era had ended and a new one was about to begin.

• Changyue Emperor Lord returned to his city beneath Changyue Mountain, where a million-strong army and the city's officials welcomed him back to his throne.
• The sages gathered at Former Sage Palace as Tang Li descended into Xun Capital Academy and students, teachers, and former companions welcomed him.
• Sage Feng named Tang Li the fifth sage of the Literary Path, and the Dao Transmission Jade Slip joined with Tang Li and became the emblem of his status.
• Tang Li remembered Sage Feng's question from his youth and told him he had not failed his trust.
• Tang Li took his place beside the four sages as the academy's students celebrated, and Sage Feng declared that the era had ended and another was beginning.

The 72nd Generation Xu Xiake crossed the Forbidden Sea and discovered a vast Western Continent, where he witnessed a golden Buddha rising above the desert. After hearing Xu Xiake’s account, Master Hong Yuan resolved to seek the Buddhist Sect’s ancient pure land there while leaving monks behind to protect their foundation in the north; a White-Robed Taoist entered the Heavenly Realm.

• The 72nd Generation Xu Xiake’s ship survived the Forbidden Sea, and his crew discovered that the land beyond it was a new continent.
• Xu Xiake and his crew explored the desolate Western Continent and saw a golden Buddha towering over a desert.
• Master Hong Yuan told the Buddhist monks that Xu Xiake had reported seeing the Buddha and a vanished temple filled with chanting monks.
• Master Hong Yuan assigned monks to guard the Buddhist Sect’s northern foundation and planned to travel to the Western Continent to find its ancient pure land.
• A White-Robed Taoist passed through the Heavenly Realm Gate and began ascending toward the Heavenly Palace.

Fang Xiu completed the Jun Heaven Pot, a grotto-heaven treasure containing a miniature world with a sun and moon, and absorbed the God of Storage’s divine-world holy city into it. He returned to the Heavenly Palace after hearing that Chen Jin was about to reach the fifth rank, and gave the Heavenly Dao Main Soul plans for the celestial realm’s next stage of evolution.

• Fang Xiu surveyed the increasingly lifelike celestial realm and considered how to refine its gravity, seasons, and environment further.
• Fang Xiu collected the Jun Heaven Pot from the Purple-Gold Bagua Furnace and saw the miniature world, sun, and moon inside it.
• Fang Xiu drew the God of Storage’s divine-world holy city and mountain into the Jun Heaven Pot.
• Fang Xiu heard that Chen Jin was about to break through to the fifth rank and hurried to the Immortal Palace Divine Hall.
• Fang Xiu transmitted his next construction plan to the Heavenly Dao Main Soul before leaving the celestial realm.

Chen Jin completed her Tier-5 breakthrough and took control of the Grotto-Heaven Magic Treasure, then used it to trade across the Shadow Realm as Star Realm Merchant Ram. She returned to White Harbor with rare materials and goods, leaving Fang Xiu impressed by the haul.

• Chen Jin dispersed her magical power and refined the Grotto-Heaven Magic Treasure, while Fang Xiu removed the Incense Divine Artifact so her Deathless Dharmic Form could replace it as the core.
• Chen Jin completed her breakthrough, expanded the treasure's rooms, created Sword Servants, and fused her soul with its great door before Fang Xiu restored the Incense Divine Artifact.
• Chen Jin asked Wind Crow Roster Joel to open a gate to the Shadow Realm and guided the Grotto-Heaven Magic Treasure through it to a distant location.
• Chen Jin used water mirrors and a golden balance to fulfill trades for three people seeking supplies and rare materials from Star Realm Merchant Ram.
• Chen Jin returned the treasure to White Harbor, where Fang Xiu examined the traded goods, including Giant Blood, a Lich Heart, and a seed of the Youth Tree.