Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi and the other sect leaders spent their Spirit Stones to drive the Mysterious Jade Wheel through the crowds and the Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms toward the Yuan Shu Stele. The wheel stopped a thousand zhang from the stele, where a gigantic golden worm blocked their way.

• Xu Yi recognized the Auspicious Duck's arrival and concluded that the Ancient Stele held an immortal opportunity.
• As the Mysterious Jade Wheel plowed through the crowd, the sects pooled Spirit Stones to keep it moving.
• The Mysterious Jade Wheel encountered an insect tide, and the Holy Lord ordered the Clear Light Formation activated despite the risk to the ancestral treasure.
• The Clear Light Formation blasted a path through the Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms, bringing the wheel within a thousand li of the Yuan Shu Stele.
• The Mysterious Jade Wheel stopped before a pure-gold Absolute Ridge Desolate Worm standing atop a mountain-sized pile of its kind.

The Golden Insect King’s swarm overwhelmed the Mysterious Jade Wheel, forcing the Holy Lord to spend the Holy Clan’s resources to buy time for a strategy meeting. The Spirit Cannons fell silent as a vast army of Holy Clan death warriors assembled to face the insects.

• The Absolute Ridge Desolate Worms coated the Mysterious Jade Wheel with mucus, and the Golden Armored General warned that the wheel was losing control.
• The Spirit Cannons blasted away the mucus, but the Golden Armored General reported that the remaining spirit stones could sustain only one more barrage.
• The Holy Lord guaranteed the wheel would remain safe for a quarter of an hour and ordered everyone to find a way through the crisis, despite Elder Kong warning him against using the Holy Clan’s last treasure.
• Yuan Xingdu concluded that they had to kill the Golden Insect King to stop the endless insect tide, and Sect Leader Qin said they would need to attack it at close range.
• The Spirit Cannons fell silent, and Xu Yi saw at least thirty thousand Holy Clan death warriors gather in the space cleared around the wheel.

As the Golden Insect King remained out of reach, the Third Holy Son proposed using a Spirit Cannon to launch Xu Yi into close range. Xu Yi agreed to risk the flight but redirected the final attack to the Third Holy Son, leaving the Holy Lord and the gathered factions unable to reject his plan.

• Thirty thousand Saint Clan soldiers formed a spiritual-energy wall around the Mysterious Jade Wheel, holding back the insect swarm.
• The Holy Lord called for a way to reach the Golden Insect King, and the Third Holy Son proposed using a Spirit Cannon to launch Xu Yi toward it.
• The Third Holy Son urged Xu Yi to make the final strike, citing Xu Yi's body-tempering art and Hun Tian Sword Formation.
• Xu Yi agreed to be launched but proposed that the Third Holy Son join him and use the Saint Clan's Supreme Treasure Golden Gourd for the final attack.
• The Third Holy Son regretted his proposal, but the factions could not reject Xu Yi's plan without admitting the Golden Gourd was more powerful.

Xu Yi volunteered to use the Divine Martial Cannon to break through the insect tide, while the factions swore not to turn their Supreme Treasure Gourds against anyone within the Mysterious Xuan Wheel. He launched himself from the cannon as the puppet soldiers collapsed and the insect tide surged in.

• Elder Kong argued that the Sacred Clan had sacrificed enough and refused to spend its Supreme Treasure Golden Gourd, leaving the other factions under pressure to use their own gourds.
• Xu Yi offered to attack the insect tide and demanded spiritual power from every True Core Late Stage expert and Heart Oaths restricting the gourds' use inside the Mysterious Xuan Wheel.
• The Holy Lord and the leaders of the Imperial Martial Hall, Gui Xu Sect, and Taiqing Upper Sect swore their gourds would not be used against anyone inside the realm.
• Xu Yi returned Qiu Wa to the mustard seed, reassured Yan Zi, and told the Four Old Demons to protect her instead of joining the attack.
• The Holy Lord loaded a Heaven Grade Spirit Stone into the Divine Martial Cannon, and Xu Yi curled into a sphere and entered its barrel as the thirty thousand puppet soldiers fell.
• The Holy Lord moved the cannon through the Celestial Pivot Window, and its blast tore a gap through the approaching insect tide and spun the Mysterious Xuan Wheel around.

Xu Yi survived being fired from the Mysterious Jade Wheel’s cannon and completed the Hun Tian Sword Formation amid the insect swarm. The formation swept the insects aside, leaving the Mysterious Jade Wheel’s occupants stunned by Xu Yi’s power.

• The Holy Lord ordered more than thirty True Core Late Stage experts to combine their spirit shoots and hold the insect swarm back while Xu Yi’s cannon-launched body hung motionless near the Golden Insect King.
• Xu Yi began to move, and the Holy Lord broke his position in the formation so the experts could withdraw their spirit shoots and return to the Mysterious Jade Wheel.
• The Golden Insect King sent the collapsing mountain of insects toward Xu Yi as Sword Qi emerged from his body and formed a vast web of swords.
• The Holy Lord warned the Third Holy Son not to make an enemy of Xu Yi if he survived.
• Xu Yi completed the Hun Tian Sword Formation, which erupted in blazing light and swept aside the ocean of insects.
• Sect Leader Du praised the Hun Tian Sword Formation as the strongest strike in the world.

Xu Yi defeated the Golden Insect King and entered the Yuan Shu Stele’s golden-lit opening, where he collapsed. Yan Zi rushed to treat him, but the Third Holy Son objected and attacked her as the Four Old Demons intervened.

• Xu Yi trapped the Golden Insect King with his sword formation and killed him with a massive strike.
• The insect tide lost its commander, allowing the Myriad Races to push through while Xu Yi headed for the opening in the Yuan Shu Stele.
• A mysterious flying boat entered the golden-lit opening before the Mysterious Jade Wheel arrived, followed by the Holy Lord, Yan Zi, and the other cultivators.
• Yan Zi found Xu Yi lying motionless and rushed to give him a pill, while the Four Old Demons surrounded her in protection.
• The Third Holy Son told Yan Zi to mind her manners and fired a streak of dark light at her; the Four Old Demons struck to intercept it.

The Third Holy Son tried to stop Yan Zi from waking Xu Yi, but Xiong Bei Ming and a mysterious group of black-cloaked figures intervened. Xu Yi regained consciousness and rapidly replenished his strength, though he remained far from fully recovered.

• The Third Holy Son blocked Yan Zi from treating Xu Yi, and Hong Jiantong rallied the Donghua Immortal Sect to defend her.
• Xiong Bei Ming challenged the Third Holy Son’s actions and vowed to protect Xu Yi, while Yuan Tiansi condemned those seeking to exploit him.
• A hooded black-cloaked figure mocked the factions, and three of his followers attacked Elder Kong with a three-colored Qi Dragon.
• The black-cloaked leader ordered Yan Zi to wake Xu Yi, and the other factions held back rather than risk fighting them.
• Yan Zi gave Xu Yi two pills, and he woke up, drank three gourds of spiritual liquid, and learned what had happened from her.

Xu Yi defused the Third Holy Son’s attempt to turn the cultivators against him by admitting he had obtained a Primordial Sword Tooth and offering to let everyone decide who should keep it. The Holy Lord backed Xu Yi, and the crowd turned against the Third Holy Son, leaving Xu Yi in an unassailable position.

• The Third Holy Son challenged Xu Yi to reveal what treasure he had found, hoping to stir the crowd’s greed.
• Xu Yi acknowledged obtaining a Primordial Sword Tooth and argued that reaching the Immortal Realm mattered more than keeping a treasure.
• Xu Yi offered to let everyone decide who should receive the sword tooth.
• The Holy Lord silenced the Third Holy Son and ordered him to stand down, saying Xu Yi had saved them all.
• The cultivators supported Xu Yi and criticized the Third Holy Son for trying to turn them against him.

After the gathered cultivators focused on the treasures they might obtain, Elder Kong confronted the black-cloaked group, who revealed themselves as members of the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall led by Auspicious Duck Shaoguang. Shaoguang openly challenged anyone who tried to stop his group from escaping this world, leaving the alliance wary of their strength.

• The sect leaders refused Xu Yi's wish to display the Primordial Sword Tooth, deciding that everyone would keep their treasures hidden.
• Elder Kong called out the black-cloaked figures to settle their earlier accounts, and their leader claimed the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall acted as it pleased.
• Shaoguang threw back his hood and ordered the others to remove their cloaks, revealing Sword Maniac Hu Xinguang, Liu Fanghe, Ancestor Miao, Huang Xuanji, old ghost, and powerful demons among the group.
• Xu Yi recognized Huang Xuanji, who had joined Auspicious Duck and reached the True Core Late Stage, and wondered how the Divine Hall had gathered so many powerful followers.
• The Holy Lord greeted Shaoguang cautiously, and Shaoguang said he would show no mercy to anyone who stood in his way.
• Sect Leader Du and the others realized the Divine Hall's united experts could overpower the scattered Mysterious Jade Wheel alliance.

Yan Zi urged the gathered cultivators to retreat and form a shared defense as armies flooded into the hall. Xu Yi and the Donghua Immortal Sect secured control of the Immovable Array of the Heavens, while the Four Seas Demon Race and Green Demon Race established their own formations amid the slaughter.

• The Holy Lord asked Great Virtue Mighty Young Master for insights as the insect swarm and armies battled around the Yuan Shu Stele.
• Yan Zi argued that the cultivators should retreat rather than try to hold the entrance, and Xu Yi called on everyone to form a defense.
• Xu Yi led the Donghua Immortal Sect in forming the Immovable Array of the Heavens, which the Great Might Great Virtue Divine Hall and other cultivators joined before the Holy Race entered.
• The Demon Race charged into the hall, where its forces suffered heavy losses before the Four Seas Demon Race established a protective formation.
• The Green Demon Race entered in disciplined ranks and raised a second formation, leaving the Immovable Array of the Heavens, the Four Seas Demon Race, and the Green Demon Race holding most of the hall.

Xu Yi discovered that the hall’s Floating Light formed a star chart before the Yuan Shu Stele vanished and carried everyone inside into an unknown drifting state. As the travelers adjusted to their strange journey, Sect Leader Du and the Green Demon King exchanged threats, leaving the group’s uneasy peace in question.

• Xu Yi noticed that Floating Light multiplied with the deaths in the hall, then formed a star chart across the walls and ceiling.
• The hall shook and sealed its entrance as the Yuan Shu Stele vanished from outside, leaving the stele-less living beings devastated.
• The cultivators and demons inside the stele felt themselves drifting through an unfamiliar journey and gradually realized they were not making an ordinary spatial crossing.
• A green-robed young man asked the group not to resume fighting, and Sect Leader Du warned the Green Demon King that his forces would prevail if they fought.

The Green Demon King offered mustard-seed spaces to ease the crowding, and Xu Yi sent most of the Donghua Immortal Sect inside before the factions chose who would remain. As the crowd thinned, the human forces discovered the Sacred Clan’s hidden strength, while the Four Seas Demon Race’s forces appeared even more imposing.

• The Green Demon King insulted Sect Leader Du over his earlier use of the precious gourd, and the Holy Lord prevented a quarrel.
• The Green Demon King distributed mustard-seed spaces and proposed that weaker cultivators enter them for safety.
• Xu Yi dissolved the All-Heavens Immovable Formation and transferred Donghua disciples, Hong Jiantong, Yan Zi, and the elders into his mustard-seed space.
• Xu Yi remained with the Four Old Demons and the Three Dragon Guests as the factions decided which cultivators would stay behind.
• The remaining Eight Great Immortal Sects discovered that the Sacred Clan had fourteen True Core Late Stage experts, including nine absent from intelligence reports.
• The Yuan Household, Zuo Household, and other human forces remained in substantial numbers, but the Four Seas Demon Race’s forces appeared even more imposing.

The Three Great Powers and three surviving outsiders avoided further conflict while Elder Kong questioned the newcomers. The red-robed Three-Eyes man revealed the buried history of the Canglan Tribulation, and the Green Demon King hinted at a personal connection to the Three-Eyed Divine Lord.

• Elder Kong asked the three outsiders about their identities, and the green-robed man said he sought only to break through the world's limits.
• Xu Yi identified the green-robed man as a Golden Corpse made through the lost Kuiyin Five Profound Baleful Corpse Refinement, and the man gave his name as Old Cao.
• Elder Kong offered Old Cao a position as a guest elder, but Old Cao refused and went to stand by the wall.
• The Green Demon King identified the red-robed Three-Eyes man as a survivor of the Canglan World, whose destruction in the Canglan Tribulation had been erased from many records.
• The Three-Eyes man accused the human and demon races of concealing their crimes, and the Green Demon King admitted his demon race had been at fault and promised to repay a debt to the Three-Eyed Divine Lord.

The experts encountered Azure Pine Master, whose arrival revealed that their world’s cultivation had fallen far behind. Xu Yi hoped the immortal could help him escape, while the Green Demon King recognized him and recalled their shared past; Azure Pine Master questioned where he had arrived, and the Third Holy Son asked for answers.

• The Green Demon King introduced the shadowy figure as Brother Devil Ancestor, leaving Xu Yi wondering where Purple Shadow had gone.
• A radiant projection of Azure Pine Master appeared, and most of the assembled experts worshipped him as an immortal.
• Xu Yi felt joy at the possibility of escaping the world, while the Green Demon King remembered his past conversations with Azure Pine Master about the Balance of the Universe and a strange source.
• Azure Pine Master declared that the Way had withered and marveled that the highest cultivators present were only at Spirit Nurturing or Demon Palace great perfection.
• The Third Holy Son asked Azure Pine Master who he was, why he had come, and where they were.

Azure Pine Master explained that the Star Shuttle would carry the gathered cultivators from their Turbid World to the realm of the Four Continents, the Main World from which the Small Worlds had broken off. He left them with the mystery of whether true immortal beings existed, urging them to seek the answer after they arrived.

• Azure Pine Master revealed that the Yuan Shu Stele was part of the Star Shuttle and explained how its four steles would reunite and carry the cultivators to the realm of the Four Continents.
• The Holy Lord learned from Azure Pine Master that the cultivators came from a Turbid World, where reaching the Four Continents was nearly impossible without extraordinary fortune.
• Azure Pine Master explained that the Four Continents was the descendant of the primordial world and that the Pure and Turbid Worlds were fragments formed as the Main World shattered.
• The Third Holy Son knelt to thank Azure Pine Master for bringing them the chance to leave their world, and many others followed.
• Xu Yi asked whether a greater world existed, while Xiong Bei Ming asked whether immortal beings lived forever; Azure Pine Master answered that they would have to discover the truth in the Four Continents.

After Azure Pine Master vanished, Xu Yi and the other cultivators began practicing the mysterious technique he had left behind. Green Demon King warned Xu Yi that the technique might be dangerous and revealed that he had fought Azure Pine Master eight hundred years earlier, leaving Xu Yi to question the immortal’s identity and motives.

• Third Holy Son praised Azure Pine Master, who said farewell and left behind a cryptic passage that many cultivators recognized as an incomplete cultivation technique.
• The cultivators sat down to practice the technique, and Xu Yi joined them before Green Demon King warned him not to cultivate it.
• Green Demon King told Xu Yi that a hidden observer might be watching them and that Azure Pine Master had once called the Purple Domain the Tainted Realm.
• Xu Yi suggested the figure they saw could have been a shadow separate from Azure Pine Master’s true body, but Green Demon King questioned how such a vivid shadow could be independent.
• Green Demon King revealed that eight hundred years earlier he had fought a bloodied Azure Pine Master, who killed powerful human and demon elders and nearly killed him before he eventually revived in the Ice Sea.

Xu Yi discovered that Azure Pine Master’s cultivation method was a trap after the disguised Purple Shadow revealed himself and exposed the Four Continents Realm’s plan to exploit the Turbid World. Azure Pine Master began explaining the truth as the Yuan Shu Stele approached its destination.

• The Green Demon King warned Xu Yi not to cultivate further, suspecting Azure Pine Master’s promise of the Four Continents Realm concealed a scheme.
• Several cultivators celebrated their apparent progress, prompting the cautious Holy Lord and others to begin cultivating in earnest.
• The black shadow told everyone to stop cultivating, wounded them with a burst of light, and revealed himself as Purple Shadow before transforming into Azure Pine Master.
• An Imperial Martial Hall elder’s Dao heart shattered when he recognized Azure Pine Master, and Azure Pine Master killed a Fifth-order Great Demon who attacked him.
• Azure Pine Master said he did not intend to kill the cultivators and admitted that the Turbid World was a resource the Four Continents Realm sought to plunder.

Azure Pine Master recounted how he stole the Star Shuttle, became stranded in the Violet Domain, and spent centuries recovering while secretly manipulating events. He revealed that he befriended the Green Demon King as the Devil Ancestor to exploit his plans, leaving the captives to understand how they had been drawn into his trap.

• Azure Pine Master explained that he stole his master True Man Qiu Shan's Star Shuttle in hopes of claiming a Turbid World and advancing his cultivation, but the shuttle broke apart and left him gravely injured in the Violet Domain.
• Azure Pine Master described surviving a battle whose rare treasure destroyed the battlefield, then spending nearly six hundred years recovering with Chaos Demons and forging a body from spirit cores.
• Azure Pine Master said he secretly watched Turbid World cultivators hunt Chaos Demons for centuries as the Yuan Shu Stele gradually recovered.
• Azure Pine Master revealed that he met the Green Demon King during the Green Demon uprising, disguised himself as the Devil Ancestor, and befriended him because he sensed danger from him.
• The Green Demon King recalled that the Devil Ancestor offered to help him wipe out human and demon elites, and Azure Pine Master laughed at how the Green Demon King had unknowingly helped his scheme.

Azure Pine Master explained how the Yuan Shu Stele fed on Chaos Demons’ souls and praised Wang Qianqiu for reactivating it. Wang Qianqiu asked whether the stele could return them to the Four Continents and what dangers might await aboard the other steles, leaving the group fearful of the answers.

• Azure Pine Master explained that Chaos Demons’ souls nourished the Yuan Shu Stele and that he had set a trap as promised to the Green Demon King.
• Azure Pine Master praised Wang Qianqiu as someone born to cultivate and revealed that he had nearly been killed when Wang Qianqiu disrupted his plan and reactivated the stele.
• Wang Qianqiu said he had activated the Yuan Shu Stele by accident after noticing a numerological pattern in its lights.
• Wang Qianqiu asked how Azure Pine Master knew the steles were converging on the main cabin and whether the other steles might carry cultivators from stronger worlds.
• The crowd realized that the answers could determine whether they returned home and whether they would face stronger enemies, including cultivators from the Lesser Pure World.

Azure Pine Master explained the Star Shuttle’s self-repair and return route, then demanded that whoever had found the Starry Sky Token surrender it. Xu Yi and the Mysterious Jade Wheel Alliance faced suspicion, while Azure Pine Master revealed that the Slave Scripture let him control them and offered no way to break it except killing or sealing him.

• Azure Pine Master told Wang Qianqiu that the Star Shuttle could repair itself and return to the Four Continents, but he did not know where the other Origin Steles had landed.
• Azure Pine Master said the Starry Sky Token was likely inside the Origin Stele and demanded that its finder step forward for a search.
• The Mysterious Jade Wheel Alliance grew suspicious of Xu Yi, while the Holy Lord sent a message urging the group to stay calm and find a way through the crisis.
• Azure Pine Master revealed that the Slave Scripture let him control their souls and the Demon Race’s Origin Palaces, and warned them not to resist his search.
• When asked how to escape the Slave Scripture, Azure Pine Master said they would have to kill him or seal his soul, then glared at the silent crowd.