Chapter Summaries

Yun Cangwu arrived at Return to Void after Wang Teng reported Qin Yu’s death and the theft of his Spirit God Seal. Qing Xu overpowered Yun Cangwu and the Xuan Yuan Sect cultivators, while Yun Cangwu offered to spare Wang Teng if the group took what they wanted from his sect; the Moxiang Gate then warned them not to trust him.

• Wang Teng told Yun Cangwu that Qin Yu was dead, his body had been crushed, and his Spirit God Seal had been stolen.
• Qing Xu unleashed his aura, crushed Yun Cangwu’s manifested form onto the Daoist Temple plaza, and suppressed the Xuan Yuan Sect cultivators.
• Qing Xu seized Wang Teng’s divine sense and said Wang Teng had provoked them a thousand years earlier.
• Yun Cangwu offered to let Qin and Qing Xu take whatever they wanted from the Xuan Yuan Sect in exchange for Wang Teng’s life.
• Mo Yun and the Moxiang Gate cultivators arrived and warned Qin and Qing Xu that Yun Cangwu might trap them if they went to the Xuan Yuan Sect.

Qin and Qing Xu rejected Yun Cangwu’s attempts to recruit them, destroyed his clone, and let Zhi Xia kill Wang Teng in the Spirit Ruins. Yun Cangwu vowed revenge, while Yu Qingxue sensed Wang Teng’s death and rushed toward the Yaoguang Immortal Realm.

• Mo Yun tried to turn Qin and Qing Xu against the Xuan Yuan Sect, but Qing Xu dismissed the Demonic Realm cultivators and questioned Yun Cangwu about the Emperor Venerables.
• Qin ordered Qing Xu to destroy Yun Cangwu’s clone after Yun Cangwu refused to answer his questions.
• Qing Xu handed Wang Teng’s Divine Sense to Zhi Xia, who killed him with a dagger formed from the power of Return to Void.
• Yun Cangwu learned that Wang Teng and Qin Yu had died, then vowed to avenge Wang Teng and unleashed his aura across the Xuan Yuan Sect.
• Yu Qingxue’s jade pendant shattered, and she rushed from the Guangyin Sect toward the Yaoguang Immortal Realm.

Yu Qingxue confronted Yun Cangwu over Wang Teng’s death and learned that he had died in the Spirit Ruins after secretly cultivating a Forbidden Technique. She left to seek revenge, while Yun Cangwu stayed behind, and the chapter shifted to the Tianyin Sect’s sacred mountain.

• Yu Qingxue arrived at the Xuan Yuan Sect and demanded that Yun Cangwu explain what happened to Wang Teng.
• Yu Qingxue learned that Wang Teng had died in the Spirit Ruins after secretly cultivating a Forbidden Technique and sending a Divine Sense Clone there.
• Yu Qingxue blamed Yun Cangwu for failing to watch Wang Teng, then resolved to avenge her son.
• Yun Cangwu warned Yu Qingxue that entering the Spirit Ruins would leave them at a disadvantage against Immortal Kings, but she left the Xuan Yuan Sect in anger.
• The narrative shifted to the Tianyin Sect’s Sumeru Sacred Mountain, where a voice broke the calm of the Lotus Zen Realm.

Xuan Miao left the Tianyin Sect with Yu Qingxue to avenge her dead child, agreeing to take the Ancient Buddha Sarira into the Spirit Ruins. The sect elders let him go, while Yu Qingxue concealed her contempt for him.

• The old sect master warned that Xuan Miao’s attachment to Yu Qingxue threatened his Buddhist path, but decided not to stop him from leaving.
• Yu Qingxue told Xuan Miao that her child had died in the Spirit Ruins and promised to be his if he helped her take revenge.
• Xuan Miao agreed to help, and Yu Qingxue persuaded him to use the Tianyin Sect’s Ancient Buddha Sarira to overcome the Spirit Ruins’ rules.
• The old sect master allowed the sect master to hand Xuan Miao the sarira, despite the danger it posed to Immortal Emperors who used it.
• Xuan Miao left with Yu Qingxue and promised to avenge Wang Teng, unaware that she secretly despised him.

After Qin killed Wang Teng and learned that Xuan Yuan Sect had used the Li Family as pawns, he and his companions cultivated in seclusion for ten thousand years. Xuan Miao then arrived on Water Blue Star, entered Guangyin Sect, and began imposing himself on its female cultivators.

• Li Tianfeng learned from Qin Yu's memories that Xuan Yuan Sect had treated the Li Family as disposable pawns, and Qin urged him to cultivate for revenge.
• Qin, Li Wanxing, and other companions made major cultivation gains during ten thousand years of seclusion, while Chen Hai advanced only to the Great Ascension stage.
• Xuan Miao crossed the sea of star beasts and discovered that Water Blue Star had become a prosperous Divine Land.
• Xuan Miao searched Water Blue Star for Qin and the others, then entered Guangyin Sect and declared he would stay to look after it.
• Xuan Miao carried the sect's Immortal Lord into the Sect Master's residence, leaving the female cultivators alarmed and divided in their reactions.

After nearly a million years, Qin broke through from the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm by comprehending the Law of World Destruction. He stabilized his cultivation without facing a Great Dao trial, while Yu Qingxue and the armies of the Immortal and Demonic Realms prepared for Spirit Ruins to open.

• Nine hundred eighty thousand years after the earlier events, Yu Qingxue served Demon Emperor Wuyue while the Immortal and Demonic Realm armies gathered outside Spirit Ruins.
• Wuyue asked Yu Qingxue about Xuan Miao, and she dismissed him as useless and promised to keep serving Wuyue.
• Yun Cangwu learned from the Guangyin Sect Immortal Venerables that Yu Qingxue had disappeared and focused on forcing Qin and Qing Xu out of Spirit Ruins.
• On Water Blue Star, Qin comprehended the Law of World Destruction through the World-Destroying Black Lotus and shattered the final shackle of the Daluo realm.
• Qin formed a Twelve-grade Earth Flower and reached the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, but no Great Dao Divine Lightning descended.
• Qing Xu questioned Qin's rapid breakthrough, and Qin replied that Great Dao Rules were meant to be broken.

As Water Blue Star transformed into an immense cultivation holy land, Guangyin Sect and Wuxiang Sect failed to capture its newly innate humans and turned to cooperation. Xuan Miao planned to wait for the Immortal Domain’s arrival before claiming the Divine Land, while Qin and Qing Xu watched his behavior from afar.

• Water Blue Star’s Innate Spiritual Qi nurtured a vast population and many powerful cultivators, causing Guangyin Sect and Wuxiang Sect’s raid to be repelled by Mahayana cultivators and Immortal Scholars.
• Xuan Miao learned that immortals had appeared on Water Blue Star and used his divine sense to survey its strength and growth.
• Xuan Miao agreed to cooperate with Wuxiang Sect and planned to capture Spirit Race bloodlines beyond Water Blue Star to obtain keys to the Spirit Ruins Battlefield.
• Xuan Miao decided to wait for the Immortal Domain’s arrival before acting, hoping to display his strength and seize Water Blue Star.
• Qin and Qing Xu sensed Xuan Miao’s conduct with Guangyin Sect’s female cultivators, and Qing Xu questioned whether the sect’s behavior counted as Buddhism.

Qin and Qing Xu planned to protect Water Blue Star from the Immortal and Demonic Realms by preparing Li Wanxing to rule it. When the Spirit Ruins opened, Yun Cangwu saw Yu Qingxue arrive intimately with Demon Emperor Wuyue, and the rival forces entered the ruins amid scandal.

• Qin decided Water Blue Star should become his territory and anchor, while Qing Xu proposed that Li Qiudao or Li Wanxing become its realm lord.
• Li Qiudao declined, so Li Wanxing accepted the role after Li Zhixia and Li Tianfeng urged him to unite Water Blue Star's cultivators against outsiders.
• The million-year deadline arrived, and two Immortal Emperors and one Demon Emperor entered the Spirit Ruins with their followers.
• Yun Cangwu saw Yu Qingxue arrive arm in arm with Demon Emperor Wuyue and cursed her in anger.
• Wuyue mocked Yun Cangwu, then led Yu Qingxue and the Demonic Realm cultivators into the Spirit Ruins after Yun Cangwu led the Immortal Domain army inside.

Xuan Miao led the Guangyin Sect and Moxiang Gate toward the Star Sea with captives from Water Blue Star, but an innate barrier stopped them and reflected his Immortal King strike, severely injuring him. Qin and Qing Xu confronted the trapped invaders, and Li Wanxing secured the captives’ release.

• Xuan Miao and the two sects found their path blocked by a barrier after leaving Water Blue Star, and Mo Yun’s attack on it exploded.
• Xuan Miao struck the barrier with the Ancient Buddha Sarira, but its Innate Dao Patterns reflected his power and severely injured him.
• Xuan Miao threatened to slaughter Water Blue Star’s cultivators, and Qing Xu challenged him before Qin and his group appeared.
• Xuan Miao attacked Qin’s group with a giant Buddhist palm, but Qing Xu swallowed it and revealed his Immortal Emperor strength.
• Li Wanxing demanded the release of Water Blue Star’s captives, and Mo Yun and the Guangyin Sect freed them.
• The rescued cultivators thanked Li Wanxing, who identified himself and told them to return home.

The Immortal and Demonic Realm armies fought through the Star Beast Tide and reached Water Blue Star, where they discovered a Divine Land and turned against one another. Xuan Miao's group appeared before the armies, exposing Yu Qingxue's behavior and setting off a confrontation among her former and current companions.

• Yun Cangwu used the Star Splitting Sword to destroy nearly half the Star Beast Tide, then the remaining beasts gathered again.
• Demon Emperor Wuyue used a Demon Bone to blast a passage through the Star Beasts and led the Demonic Realm army onward with Yu Qingxue.
• The Immortal and Demonic Realm armies arrived at Water Blue Star, recognized it as a Divine Land, and split into rival sect groups.
• Yu Qingxue accused Yun Cangwu of prioritizing the Divine Land over avenging her son and asked Wuyue to help her seize it.
• Qing Xu undid the formation hiding Xuan Miao's group, and Xuan Miao confronted Yu Qingxue after witnessing her in Wuyue's arms.
• Wuyue defended Yu Qingxue, while Yun Cangwu and Xuan Miao both cursed her and Qing Xu watched the confrontation with amusement.

Qin and Li Zhixia watched as Xuan Miao accused Yu Qingxue of using him, while she revealed she had only wanted access to the Spirit Ruins. Yun Cangwu and Wuyue fought in space after Yu Qingxue accused Yun Cangwu of abandoning her and their son, leaving Yu Qingxue vulnerable to Xuan Miao's attack.

• Li Wanxing offered Qin spirit nut treats, and Li Zhixia was surprised by his enthusiasm for watching the confrontation.
• Xuan Miao accused Yu Qingxue of deceiving him, and she admitted she had only become involved with him to enter the Spirit Ruins and still favored Wuyue.
• Yu Qingxue accused Yun Cangwu of abandoning her and their son, prompting him to attack her with the Star Splitting Sword.
• Wuyue blocked Yun Cangwu's attack, and Qing Xu expelled the two Immortal Emperors from Water Blue Star so they could fight in space.
• Yun Cangwu and Wuyue exchanged devastating attacks across the Star Sea, while Xuan Miao turned on the defenseless Yu Qingxue and struck at her with the Ancient Buddha Sarira.

Yu Qingxue defeated Xuan Miao and revealed that she had poisoned Wuyue to sabotage her rivals’ bid for the Divine Land. Yun Cangwu and Wuyue joined forces against her, but she survived their combined attack after using her last protective jade pendant.

• Yu Qingxue shattered a hidden jade pendant to break Lingxu’s rule shackles, blasted Xuan Miao to Water Blue Star, and left him barely alive beneath her foot.
• Qing Xu activated the Formation as Yun Cangwu crashed down beside Xuan Miao, and Wuyue arrived believing he had won for Wuxiang Sect.
• Wuyue began suffering from Soul-Eroding Poison and accused Yu Qingxue of poisoning him, while she explained she had deceived all three rivals to seize the Divine Land.
• Yun Cangwu and Wuyue attacked Yu Qingxue together, destroying her final jade pendant and its protective light screen.
• Yu Qingxue staggered back wounded but survived the combined assault as the two attackers’ auras withered.

Yu Qingxue attacked Qing Xu with the Ancient Buddha Sarira, but he destroyed her weapon and took the treasure, leaving her powerless. Yun Cangwu and Wu Yue killed Yu Qingxue, and Qin prepared to deal with the remaining cultivators from the Immortal and Demonic Realms.

• Yu Qingxue seized the Ancient Buddha Sarira and attacked Qing Xu, while Qing Xu asked Qin whether he should kill her.
• Qin told Qing Xu to take the sarira and leave Yu Qingxue to her enemies, and Qing Xu dissolved her Buddhist blade with the Return to Void Origin.
• Qing Xu took the Ancient Buddha Sarira from Yu Qingxue, causing her power to fall, then kicked her down beside Yun Cangwu and Wu Yue.
• Yun Cangwu and Wu Yue killed Yu Qingxue, then collapsed alongside the nearly dying Xuan Miao.
• The cultivators of the Immortal and Demonic Realms watched Qing Xu in terror, and Qin said he would handle them.

Qin used the Law of World Destruction to annihilate the cultivators of the Immortal and Demonic Realms in Spirit Ruins, while Qing Xu killed the surviving leaders. The deaths triggered unrest across the realms, and Emperor Venerable Xuan Tian warned that a new great calamity had begun as the sects prepared for it.

• Qin unleashed the Annihilation Sky Curtain and erased the Immortal and Demonic cultivators in Spirit Ruins.
• Qing Xu used Return to Void to kill Xuan Miao, Yun Cangwu, and Demon Emperor Wuyue.
• Sects across the Immortal Domain discovered that their Spirit Ruins expedition members had died, and Xuan Miao's Golden Lotus withered at Tianyin Sect.
• The old sect master of Tianyin Sect warned that a great calamity was approaching and ordered the monks to leave seclusion.
• Emperor Venerable Xuan Tian summoned the Immortal Emperors, declared that a new great calamity had arrived, and the seven great sects opened their resources to prepare.

After the Spirit Ruins disaster, Li Wanxing united Water Blue Star’s cultivation forces and established the Spirit Domain, while the Immortal and Demonic Realms prepared for the next conflict. In hiding, Taixu Temple’s master contacted its Ancestor and reported the events on Water Blue Star.

• Mo Yuan halted plans against the Immortal Domain, ordered the Demonic Realm to prepare for a coming calamity, and set out for the Immortal Domain.
• Cultivators from Water Blue Star and surrounding worlds gathered at the Li Family grounds and asked Li Wanxing to lead and protect them.
• Li Wanxing accepted their request, established the Spirit Domain and its four institutions, and broke through to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Qing Xu and its master watched Li Wanxing’s rise and warned that he would face pressure from the Immortal and Demonic Realms.
• Taixu Temple’s master hid from the Li Family, contacted an Ancestor through the Sky Mirror, and reported what had happened on Water Blue Star.

Qin confronted Xuan Tian through the Sky Mirror and eliminated the Taixu Temple Master, learning more about the conflict between the Spirit Race and the Immortal Domain. Afterward, he returned to find Li Wanxing had established Myriad Spirits Peak as the Spirit Domain’s new stronghold, leaving the group time to grow stronger before the outside world understood the threat.

• Qin appeared behind the Taixu Temple Master, killed him, and spoke with Xuan Tian through the Sky Mirror about the Spirit Race’s return and past defeat.
• Xuan Tian cut off the Sky Mirror signal after warning Qin that the Spirit Race would not leave the Spirit Ruins.
• Qin and Qing Xu left Taixu Temple, and every cultivator there vanished.
• Li Wanxing completed Myriad Spirits Peak and its Returning Spirit Dao Field as the Spirit Domain’s new Holy Land.
• Qin told Li Wanxing that he had bought the Spirit Domain time to develop, then returned to the valley.

Xuan Tian and Mo Yuan learned that a Divine Land and two Immortal Emperors had appeared in the Spirit Ruins, prompting them to plan a joint blockade. In the Outer Domain Sea, Tai Xu received news of the revival and reacted with alarm while a black-robed Daoist tried to use the trouble to recruit him.

• Xuan Tian smashed the Sky Mirror and told Mo Yuan that a Divine Land and two Immortal Emperors had appeared in the Spirit Ruins.
• Xuan Tian asked Mo Yuan to alert the Demonic Realm so they could join forces to seal off the Spirit Ruins.
• Tai Xu rejected the black-robed Daoist's invitation to enter the Great Dao Forbidden Land and join Heavenly Prison City.
• Tai Xu received a message about the Spirit Ruins reviving and wondered how its three dormant figures had returned so quickly.
• The black-robed Daoist offered to resolve Tai Xu's trouble if Tai Xu agreed to his request.

Tai Xu rejected Heavenly Prison City's offer of help and summoned the Saints to Nameless Immortal Island. After Mei Yao tried to sway Ling Cang, Tai Xu announced that something had happened in the Vast Universe Great World, leaving the Saints gathered in the Void Crystal Hall to hear the news.

• Tai Xu refused the black-robed Daoist's offer, crushed the foul aura in the Great Hall, and warned Jian Chen, Huan Jin, and Cang Xu not to return.
• Tai Xu summoned seven Saints to Nameless Immortal Island, including Du Chen, Ling Cang, Yuan Xu, Yan Tianji, Wu Wang, Yu Ya Mie Shi, and Mei Yao.
• Mei Yao flirted with Ling Cang and tried to draw him into the Dao of passion, but Du Chen's intervention helped Ling Cang steady his Dao Heart.
• Mei Yao rejected Wu Wang's suggestion and argued that Saints could not safely leave their world for Sin Domain City.
• Tai Xu announced that something had happened in the Vast Universe Great World, and the Saints entered the Void Crystal Hall to ask what it was.

After Jian Chen, Huan Jin, and Cang Xu returned, the Saints sealed the Spirit Ruins while Qin cultivated inside. More than a hundred Kalpas later, unrest among the guards forced Xuan Tian and Mo Yuan to go to the entrance, where Xuan Tian entered the Spirit Ruins to investigate.

• Tai Xu urged the others to seal the Spirit Ruins and delay Jian Chen, Huan Jin, and Cang Xu’s return, while Qin used the World-Destroying Black Lotus to cultivate.
• More than a hundred Kalpas passed, and unrest spread among the cultivators ordered to guard the Spirit Ruins.
• At the Xuan Yuan Sect, Xuan Tian defended his warning about the catastrophe and agreed to explore the Spirit Ruins with Mo Yuan.
• Mo Yuan subdued the protesting cultivators with his Emperor Venerable pressure, and Xuan Tian flashed into the Spirit Ruins.

Qin’s World-Destruction Dao Seed entered the River of Great Dao during his breakthrough and reached his true self’s Dao Flower, while its resonance awakened fear of the returning Dao Venerable among the Saints. The chapter ends with Qin encountering Xiao beside the Dao Flower and reconnecting with him.

• Qing Xu shielded Li Wanxing and the others as Qin’s breakthrough sent the World-Destruction Dao Seed into the sky and manifested the River of Great Dao.
• Qin’s Dao Seed crossed the river without encountering another being and reached the radiant place where his true self’s Dao Flower resided.
• The Dao Flower’s resonance spread throughout the Vast Universe Great World, and Tai Xu recognized the Dao Venerable’s aura and collapsed in terror.
• The Saints gathered on the Nameless Immortal Island, where Tai Xu said the Saint Venerable was likely trapped in the Dao Prison.
• Qin spotted an azure lotus and creation Dao Seed beside the Infinite Dao Flower, contacted Xiao, and reunited with him.