Chapter Summaries

Tian Feixue weighed Gui Ying’s proposed alliance against the threat posed by Dao Venerable Xuan Qing and decided the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion should seek a place under Xuan Qing’s power. She sent Xiang Ling to secretly test Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s willingness to accept them as a subordinate force.

• Xiang Ling reported Gui Ying’s invitation to unite the Sin Domain’s local powers against an invasion from beyond the domain.
• Tian Feixue argued that the old powers’ alliance would be insincere and that the conflict was a struggle for territory between the greatest powers.
• Xiang Ling warned that the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion could not escape the conflict even if it stayed neutral.
• Tian Feixue concluded that Heavenly Prison City and the old local powers could not withstand Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.
• Tian Feixue ordered Xiang Ling to secretly visit Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and determine whether Xuan Qing’s side would accept the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion as a subordinate power.

Xiang Ling accepted Tian Feixue’s order to investigate Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, troubled by the sacrifice her Pavilion Master was prepared to make to protect Drunken Fragrance Pavilion. When Xiang Ling entered the pavilion under concealment, the man inside immediately saw through her and her hidden purpose.

• Xiang Ling heard Tian Feixue’s plan to submit to the Dao Venerable to protect Drunken Fragrance Pavilion and felt anguish at the cost to her Pavilion Master.
• Xiang Ling reflected on Tian Feixue’s Great Dao Injury and the painful histories of the women who had found refuge in Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• Xiang Ling promised Tian Feixue she would investigate Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and set out using a Chaos Spiritual Treasure to conceal herself.
• Xiang Ling entered Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and saw a formidable man accompanied by a chubby, smiling figure in the main hall.
• The man and his companion detected Xiang Ling, and the man’s Dao gaze broke through her concealment and exposed her secrets and purpose.

Qin revealed that he had seen through Xiang Ling’s concealment and received her at the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion. Xiang Ling then presented the Sin Fragrance Pavilion master’s token and formally offered the pavilion’s submission to him.

• Qin saw through Xiang Ling’s Chaos Spiritual Treasure concealment and sent Jin Shui to invite her upstairs.
• Jin Shui escorted Xiang Ling to Qin, and she realized that Qin was Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.
• Xiang Ling revealed her Primordial Taiji Perfection cultivation, stunning Jin Shui.
• Jin Shui hinted that another force had already chosen to join Qin, and Xiang Ling inferred that Qin’s plans for the Sin Domain had begun earlier than outsiders knew.
• Xiang Ling presented the Sin Fragrance Pavilion master’s life-bound token and asked Qin to accept the submission of every member of the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.

Sin Fragrance Pavilion offered submission to Qin, and Xiang Ling secretly proposed that its Pavilion Master, Tian Feixue, become Qin’s Dao Companion. Qin saw that the proposal was Xiang Ling’s own desperate attempt to find her wounded, lonely master someone she could trust.

• Qin considered why Sin Fragrance Pavilion had chosen submission over alliance, and admired the faction’s decisiveness.
• Xiang Ling presented the pavilion’s rose-token handkerchief to Qin and proposed that Tian Feixue become his Dao Companion so the faction could submit completely.
• Qin questioned whether the proposal came from Tian Feixue or from Xiang Ling, and Xiang Ling’s composure broke when he exposed her secret choice.
• Xiang Ling explained that Tian Feixue had endured a Great Dao Injury and loneliness for countless ages, and said she believed Qin alone could protect and heal her master.
• Qin quietly listened as Xiang Ling risked her future to seek a peaceful refuge for Tian Feixue.

Xiang Ling revealed that Sin Fragrance Pavilion wanted to offer Qin a marriage alliance, but Qin firmly rejected the romantic proposal while agreeing to protect the pavilion if it submitted. After Xiang Ling left, Jin Shui laughed at Qin until Qin kicked him into a wall and threatened to hand him over to Yue Ying.

• Xiang Ling explained that Sin Fragrance Pavilion admired Qin and hoped to arrange a marriage, prompting Jin Shui to struggle to contain his laughter.
• Qin rejected the proposal, saying he was devoted to the Great Dao, but promised to protect Sin Fragrance Pavilion if it sincerely submitted.
• Xiang Ling accepted Qin's response and left with Ziyi, though she suggested the Pavilion Master might also come to admire him.
• Jin Shui burst out laughing after Xiang Ling departed, and Qin kicked him into the jade wall.
• Qin threatened to hand Jin Shui over to Yue Ying if he kept laughing, and Jin Shui quickly apologized while privately plotting to tell Jian Chen and the others.

Xiang Ling returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion with news that Qin had agreed to protect the Sin Fragrance Pavilion, but her effusive praise of him unsettled Tian Feixue. The chapter left Tian Feixue alone, wondering whether Qin might be the dependable partner she had long desired.

• Qin angrily forced Jin Shui out of the private room.
• Xiang Ling returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion and told Tian Feixue that Qin had agreed to protect the Sin Fragrance Pavilion and accept its allegiance.
• Xiang Ling praised Qin’s appearance and bearing, calling him Tian Feixue’s dream husband.
• Tian Feixue grew cold, dismissed Xiang Ling, and privately found her Dao Heart disturbed as she wondered about Qin.

Tian Feixue overcame the Obsession that had kept her distrustful of love and began to hope the Dao Venerable could be a worthy partner. Meanwhile, Gui Ying persuaded the Dao Alchemy Alliance to join forces against the invading outsiders with surprising ease.

• Tian Feixue's scarlet Obsession urged her to reject love, while a snow-white will argued that the Dao Venerable might be trustworthy and help her resolve her inner knot.
• The snow-white will defeated the scarlet phantom, and Tian Feixue's Dao Heart opened to warmth and hope as a sealed spiritual plant bloomed in her chamber.
• Gui Ying revealed to the Dao Alchemy Alliance that powerful outsiders were invading the Chaos heavens.
• The Dao Alchemy Alliance's leaders quickly agreed to form an alliance and help restrain the invading outsiders.

Gui Ying easily secured the Dao Alchemy Alliance’s support against the outer-realm invasion, then traveled to the Formation Masters Association expecting another simple agreement. President Huo Rong had already prepared the alliance contract and accepted the proposal before Gui Ying could explain.

• The Dao Alchemy Alliance readily believed Gui Ying’s warning and agreed to join forces against the invaders, confident its influence could rally Chaos’s major powers.
• Gui Ying left the alliance baffled by how easily he had persuaded its elders, then became delighted and headed for the Formation Masters Association.
• Gui Ying entered the association’s Great Hall, where Huo Rong immediately handed him a prepared alliance agreement.
• Huo Rong explained that the Dao Alchemy Alliance had already informed him about the invasion, and the Formation Masters Association agreed to the alliance.

Gui Ying secured the Formation Masters Association’s alliance against the invaders and then set out to recruit the mysterious Great Dao Unification Sect. At the foot of Wuji Divine Mountain, he ordered his attendants to wait while he began the dangerous climb alone.

• Huo Rong agreed that the Formation Masters Association would join the war against the invaders and raise an ancient killing array.
• Gui Ying left the association, reflecting that both it and the Alchemy Alliance had joined with little effort.
• Gui Ying headed for Wuji Divine Mountain, the hidden headquarters of Great Dao Unification Sect, uncertain whether the sect would join the fight.
• Gui Ying and his attendants reached the mountain’s foot and felt the deadly force of Chaos storms and Space Rifts.
• Gui Ying ordered his attendants to stay behind and announced that he would climb the mountain alone.

Gui Ying reached the Great Dao Unification Sect to seek an alliance on the City Lord’s orders, and the City Lord’s token suppressed the chaos guarding the mountain. A mysterious sect figure accepted his request and led him inside.

• Gui Ying dismissed his attendants and approached the Great Dao Unification Sect’s divine mountain alone.
• The mountain’s chaos storms attacked Gui Ying, but the City Lord’s token released golden light that quelled them and revealed a bluestone path.
• A mysterious figure appeared and demanded to know why Gui Ying had entered the sect’s forbidden grounds.
• Gui Ying presented the token and explained that Heavenly Prison City sought an alliance against invaders from beyond their domain.
• The figure returned the token, agreed to receive Gui Ying, and led him into the immortal mist.

Gui Ying entered the Great Dao Unification Sect and learned that its supreme elder was Yu Cangxuan’s father. The elder agreed to commit the sect’s full strength against the Dao Venerable, leaving Gui Ying relieved and newly confident.

• Gui Ying followed his guide to the Great Dao Unification Sect’s main peak and felt its Dao Resonance suppress his cultivation.
• The guide brought Gui Ying into the Great Hall, where its confinement sealed away all his cultivation and abilities.
• Gui Ying met the white-haired elder and explained the invasion, Yu Cangxuan’s request for an alliance, and the state of the Sin Domain.
• The elder revealed that Yu Cangxuan was his son, explaining the hidden support behind Heavenly Prison City.
• The elder declined to discuss an alliance but promised that the Great Dao Unification Sect would commit its full strength to dealing with the Dao Venerable.

Gui Ying received a sacred decree from the Great Dao Unification Sect to bind the allied factions and returned to arrange their final negotiations. Hellwind and Myriad Forms then reported to Dao One that the Supreme Great Dao had appeared in the Sin Domain and its Primordial Spirit planned to act.

• The elder approved Gui Ying's alliance-building efforts and forged a sacred decree of Unification to command the allied factions.
• Gui Ying accepted the decree, returned to the sect's sacred mountain, and summoned the participating factions to settle their alliance leadership and rules.
• Hellwind met Myriad Forms atop the sect's highest peak, and they went together to see Dao One.
• Hellwind told Dao One that the Supreme Great Dao had appeared in the Sin Domain and its Primordial Spirit intended to make its move.

Dao One learned that a Primordial Taiji cultivator possessed the Supreme Great Daos of Infinite and Destiny and was moving against Heavenly Prison City. Hellwind urged the Unification Sect to capture him for study, while Myriad Forms warned of catastrophic risks, so Dao One deferred the decision to the sect's ancestors.

• Hellwind told Dao One that one person wielded the Supreme Great Daos of Infinite and Destiny and intended to overthrow Heavenly Prison City.
• Hellwind proposed capturing the cultivator to study his two Supreme Great Daos, but Myriad Forms warned that the act could bring disaster upon the Unification Sect.
• Myriad Forms recalled how the sect had lost two Wuji-realm ancestors in the Chaos Origin Secret Realm and cautioned against repeating that tragedy.
• Hellwind argued that an ancestor could easily suppress the still-immature cultivator and suggested letting the allied forces fight first while the Unification Sect waited to claim the gains.
• Dao One stopped their argument and said he would seek the ancestors' instructions before making a final decision.

Dao Sheng forced a message about the upheaval in the Sin Domain and the two Supreme Great Daos into the Dao Prison, suffering a grievous injury from its backlash. After the seven imprisoned cultivators learned that one person wielded both Daos, Dao Sheng urged them to seize the chance to escape their confinement, while their leader remained wary.

• Dao One sent a report about the Sin Domain upheaval and the young man wielding the Supreme Great Daos of Destiny and Infinite toward the Dao Prison.
• Dao Sheng unleashed his Wuji power against the Dao Prison's sealing barrier, creating a crack that let the message rune pass through.
• The Dao Prison's backlash struck Dao Sheng, grievously injuring his body and Dao Heart.
• Dao Sheng revealed the message to the six other awakened cultivators, and all seven reacted with shock to the news of the two Supreme Great Daos.
• The leader questioned whether the Daos were a trap, but Dao Sheng declared he would risk his life and Dao to break free of the prison.

Sky Shadow persuaded the six Hunyuan Wuji mighty beings to help him escape the Dao Prison so he could pursue the two Supreme Great Daos in the Sin Domain. He escaped through a narrow opening, leaving the exhausted six behind as they entrusted the outside world's opportunities to him.

• Sky Shadow argued that his lighter restraints made him the best choice to leave the Dao Prison and capture the Primordial Taiji realm cultivator.
• The six Hunyuan Wuji mighty beings agreed to help Sky Shadow and formed a Supreme Dao-Breaking Formation.
• The six poured out their power and forced open a fleeting crack in the Dao Prison's chains.
• Sky Shadow passed through the crack and escaped the Dao Prison's restraints.
• Sky Shadow bowed three times in gratitude as the six, weakened by their effort, told him to go and entrusted the outside world's opportunities to him.

After escaping the Dao Prison, Sky Shadow discovered that the Dao Domain's Law Chains still restricted him and that using Wuji power would provoke a dangerous backlash. He suppressed his cultivation to Primordial Taiji and entered the Great Dao Unification Sect, while Dao One remained unable to contact the six ancestors.

• Sky Shadow left the Dao Prison and headed through the Chaos Void toward the Great Dao Unification Sect.
• Law Chains pierced Sky Shadow and sealed his Dao Resonance and Origin when he crossed the Dao Domain.
• Sky Shadow activated Wuji power, provoking a surge of Law Chains, then suppressed his aura to Primordial Taiji until most of the chains withdrew.
• Sky Shadow sensed that the Sin Domain's Laws had changed and decided to investigate them at the Great Dao Unification Sect.
• Sky Shadow entered the sect's divine mountain barrier and looked toward its Sect Master's Great Hall.
• Dao One anxiously held a silent transmission talisman, unable to contact the six ancestors in the Dao Prison.

Sky Shadow returned to the Great Dao Unification Sect and learned that his earlier escape from Dao Prison had triggered the shackles that trapped all cultivators in Sin Domain at Primordial Taiji. He worried that his latest return might worsen the lockdown, but resolved to pursue the Supreme Great Dao and shatter Dao Prison.

• Sky Shadow appeared in the Great Hall, and Dao One recognized him, knelt, and paid his respects.
• Sky Shadow examined Dao One and saw that black Law Chains blocked his breakthrough to Wuji.
• Sky Shadow asked what had changed during his imprisonment, and Dao One explained that Sky Shadow’s earlier breach of Dao Prison had awakened its rules and sealed Sin Domain’s Great Dao.
• Sky Shadow realized that his actions had caused the world’s eternal stagnation and felt the weight of the resulting karma.
• Sky Shadow wondered whether his new escape would provoke another lockdown, then resolved to seek the Supreme Great Dao and break Dao Prison’s suppression.

Sky Shadow vowed that he and the six seniors in Dao Prison would seize the Great Dao’s emergence to break their restraints and reopen the path to Wuji. After sensing a Wuji aura, Li Tianba openly committed the Li Family to Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, and Zhang Feng arrived there seeking a meeting with Dao Venerable.

• Sky Shadow promised Dao One that the confinement of Dao Prison was temporary and that they would try to free the Sin Domain from its restraints.
• The Li Family sensed the emergence of a Wuji aura and Li Tianba worried that a newly freed expert could threaten Dao Venerable.
• Li Tianba ordered Zhang Feng to inform Dao Venerable of the upheaval and publicly declare the Li Family’s support for Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion.
• Zhang Feng openly traveled to Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, where Jin Shui recognized his signal and brought him to a private room.
• Zhang Feng told Jin Shui that he had come to request a personal meeting with Dao Venerable.

Jin Shui learned that the Li Family wanted a deep alliance with the Dao Venerable, but Qin demanded to know whether they would submit completely. Zhang Feng could not commit the clan to submission and instead warned that a Hunyuan Wuji Supreme Being had escaped Dao Prison, while Qin remained unshaken.

• Zhang Feng told Jin Shui that the Li Family wanted to share fortune and misfortune with Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion and stand with it completely.
• Jin Shui went to report the Li Family's offer, but Qin said he already knew what had happened and brought him to meet Zhang Feng.
• Qin asked Zhang Feng whether the Li Family sought an equal alliance or complete submission.
• Zhang Feng said he lacked authority to decide whether the Li Family would submit, then relayed Li Tianba's warning that Dao Prison's seals had loosened and a Hunyuan Wuji Supreme Being had escaped.
• Qin calmly acknowledged the escaped Supreme Being, confident that Dao Prison's laws still restricted Wuji experts.

After hearing Qin's confident response to the Supreme Being's emergence, Zhang Feng reported it to Li Tianba, who decided the Li Family needed its ancestors to determine whether to submit to Qin. Li Tianba entered the sealed ancestral grounds and opened the ancient coffins, awakening several of the Li Family's ancestors.

• Qin told Zhang Feng that the Dao Prison's Shackles limited the Supreme Being and that he already had a plan to face the threat.
• Zhang Feng returned to the Li Family and recounted Qin's words and demand for submission to Li Tianba.
• Li Tianba resolved to consult the Li Family's sleeping ancestors and told Zhang Feng to wait for his answer.
• Li Tianba forced open the ancestral grounds' seal and reached the oldest tombs.
• Li Tianba overturned the stone tombs, exposing the coffins and causing their lids to open as several ancestors awoke.