Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi ascended the path by using the Five Great City Lords as tools to build Heartsteel stacks, then began traveling through a strange realm of endless walls. Back in White Cloud County, he prepared to become stronger, but his next trait draw failed and offered an adjustment.

• Chen Yi released the Five Great City Lords from the Myriad Souls Banner and punched them repeatedly to gain Heartsteel stacks, using the ten thousand stacks to cross the Human World section of the Ascension Path.
• Chen Yi crossed into a realm of endless golden Great Walls, failed to fly, and began questioning whether he had truly reached the Ascension Path.
• Chen Yi chose to trust the system and the Demon Refining Pot’s claim that he had ascended to the Immortal World, then consumed the Five Domains Sacred Pill to gain forty years of theoretical lifespan.
• In White Cloud County, Chen Yi greeted Xiao Wu and said he would become much stronger after the night passed.
• At age twenty-seven in Year Three, Chen Yi’s trait draw failed and the simulation asked whether he wanted to adjust the trait.

Chen Yi ran for years along the Ascension Path, repeatedly choosing the Dead Path at each fork until he reached the 999th one and entered the Real Realm. He arrived atop the Wang Family’s drained crystals, with his Spiritual Sense and ability to fly gone.

• Chen Yi replaced two Terms, equipped Running Playlist, and ran for a year along the Great Wall while the Myriad Souls Banner tried to sing for him.
• Chen Yi reached a fork marked Life and Death, chose the Dead Path, and continued choosing it at every identical intersection.
• Chen Yi arrived at the 999th Life and Death fork, where the Myriad Souls Banner urged him to choose Life, but he stepped onto the Dead Path.
• Chen Yi abruptly vanished from the Ascension Path and awoke in a landscape he suspected was the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi discovered that he could neither use Spiritual Sense nor fly, and realized he was standing on the Wang Family’s crystals after their Heaven and Earth Essence had disappeared.

After ascending to the Real Realm, you discovered that its stronger rules had weakened your artifacts and changed how cultivation worked. You set out to learn about the new world, but ended the chapter unable to cultivate and suspecting that no Immortal Qi was nearby.

• You found that the Artifact Spirits of your Immortal Artifacts were gone, but the Myriad Souls Banner's spirit, Old Wan, remained.
• You questioned Yi Chengsheng and learned that the Real Realm's stronger rules restricted Spiritual Sense, flight, and the power of artifacts, while lifespan still increased with cultivation.
• You checked your system and found that it had adapted its realm and entry terminology to the Real Realm, while your Storage Ring had become an ordinary Dharma Artifact without a separate space.
• You buried the supplies you could not carry, equipped yourself with selected artifacts, and took your first steps into the Real Realm.
• You discovered that the Real Realm had two moons and could not cultivate with the Burning Heart Undying Art, so you suspected the area lacked Immortal Qi.

At age thirty, Chen Yi entered the Real Realm, where he encountered hostile treatment of the Human Race and was attacked by an Old Demon Hag seeking his artifacts. After she struck him down and tried to take the Myriad Souls Banner, Chen Yi entered Extreme Rage and launched a counterattack with the banner’s Artifact Spirit.

• Chen Yi equipped the Knight Safety Zone trait and passed mines where nonhuman overseers forced Human Race workers to labor.
• Chen Yi approached a Human Race village but was ambushed by a fast-flying Old Demon Hag who recognized his artifacts and tried to rob him.
• Chen Yi fled with his Thunder-Chasing Lightning-Catching Boots, but the hag used Divine Patterns to redirect him and struck him with her staff.
• Chen Yi summoned Chen Five to absorb much of the blow, while Phantom of Civil War revealed that the hag’s Noble Divine Pattern could be countered by an Imperial Divine Pattern.
• The Old Demon Hag knocked Chen Yi’s artifacts away and reached for the Myriad Souls Banner, triggering his Extreme Rage and Super Saiyan 1 transformation.
• Chen Yi attacked the hag, and the Myriad Souls Banner’s Artifact Spirit, Old Wan, struck with Soul-Piercing Thorn.

Chen Yi’s first Real Realm simulation ended with the Old Demon Hag defeating him and taking the Myriad Souls Banner. After waking in a poor family’s hut, he recovered quickly and began to repay the father and daughter who rescued him.

• The Old Demon Hag trapped Chen Yi with Divine Patterns, detonated them, and sent him into a river while taking the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi woke from the failed simulation, reflected on its dangers, and decided to travel lighter and avoid choosing the death route next time.
• After an unknown time, Chen Yi woke injured in a thatched hut where an old man and his daughter had rescued him and offered him rice porridge.
• Chen Yi fell asleep again, and his Demon Race Body Refining Technique rapidly healed his injuries.
• When Chen Yi got out of bed, the old man warned him to rest and brought him another bowl of porridge.

Chen Yi fed Liu Tian and Liu Ying with porridge created by his Term and learned that the Winged God Sect ruled Fortune Star. At age thirty-one, he drew the Golden Legend Term “Wolverine” and replaced “Serious Punch” with it.

• Chen Yi conjured bowls of porridge for Liu Tian and Liu Ying, whose strength and spirits improved after eating.
• Liu Ying explained that she had rescued Chen Yi from the river, and he told the father and daughter to keep his porridge-creating ability secret.
• Liu Tian told Chen Yi that the Winged God Sect took most of the village’s grain and ruled Fortune Star under its Star Lord.
• Chen Yi learned that Fortune Star’s people knew it was a planet but could not explain what a “Third-Class Star” meant.
• At age thirty-one, Chen Yi drew the Golden Legend Term “Wolverine” and used it to replace “Serious Punch.”

After recovering in Liu Family Village, the protagonist learned how the Winged God Sect exploited the villagers and decided to seek answers about Immortal Qi. When the sect arrived to collect grain and recruit people, he joined Liu Ying to investigate it from within.

• The protagonist recovered, helped Old Liu's family, and learned that the Winged God Sect conscripted villagers, seized their grain, and took women and children.
• The protagonist prepared to leave Liu Family Village to find Immortal Qi and information about the Old Demon Hag and the stolen artifacts.
• The Winged God Sect's Sect Protection Knight Order arrived with a White-Robed Priest, who announced the release of elderly workers, grain collection, and the recruitment of villagers.
• Liu Ying feared being taken to the church hall, so the protagonist offered to accompany her while hiding his cultivation and posing as an injured man.
• The White-Robed Priest recognized the protagonist's cultivation and questioned his origins, but accepted his story and ordered him to come along for work.

You watched the Winged God Sect test the Human Race captives’ aptitude and learned that the sect branded them descendants of sinners sent to atone. The chapter ended with the Red-Robed Cardinal killing a man whose second-grade Immortal Root meant he was deemed unable to atone.

• You and the other captives arrived at a Winged God Sect compound, where Liu Ying explained that the Human Race were considered descendants of imprisoned sinners.
• You observed the Winged God Sect test the captives with the Winged God’s Gaze and assign most of them to mine or serve the compound.
• You asked an older man why he feared having high aptitude, but the test soon revealed that another captive had a second-grade Immortal Root.
• The Red-Robed Cardinal declared the captive unable to atone and ordered Black Eye Legion soldiers to throw him into a Bronze Great Furnace.
• The Red-Robed Cardinal struck the captive inside the furnace with a wooden mallet, and blood flowed across the plaza to your feet.

Chen Yi saw how the Winged God Sect killed gifted Humans and learned that Liu Ying had no cultivation aptitude. The Winged God Stone revealed his immense fortune but no foundational aptitude, and Cardinal Ningma spared him only after Priest Loku proposed sending him to a mine under close watch.

• Chen Yi told Liu Ying that the persecution of gifted Humans showed the other races feared Human cultivation and that Human language hinted at Humanity's former dominance.
• Liu Ying passed the examination with no cultivation aptitude, and Chen Yi registered under the name Chen Dong after the Winged Person rejected his other choices.
• The Winged God Stone blazed with colored light when it examined Chen Dong, and the registrar explained that his fortune obscured his three absent foundational aptitudes.
• Cardinal Ningma considered Chen Dong an irredeemable sinner, but Priest Loku argued that the sect should keep the fortunate man and exploit his opportunities.
• Cardinal Ningma agreed to send Chen Dong to No. 1 Mine, where Loku's trusted men would watch him.

Chen Yi used his new face-copying trait to disguise his clones and kept a low profile while mining Source Stone on Fortune Star. He secretly fed the Human miners with White Porridge and learned from Old Zhang how the Winged God Sect had captured him and his former master.

• Chen Yi replaced his Knight Safety Zone trait with Someone Imitates My Face and made his five clones copy his face.
• Chen Yi worked in No. 1 Mine while secretly gathering information about the Winged God Sect’s forced mining of Source Stone.
• After the Sect’s watchers grew lax, Chen Yi used Infinite White Porridge to feed the starving miners, including the exhausted Old Zhang.
• The miners kept Chen Yi’s ability secret, and no one in No. 1 Mine starved to death after he arrived.
• Old Zhang told Chen Yi that his master had come from another star to repair a damaged Star Boat, but the Winged God Sect captured and killed him before taking Old Zhang prisoner.

The protagonist learned how the Real Realm’s cultivation ranks compared to the Void Realm and secretly trained Divine Weapon Apocalypse, discovering it could enhance even ordinary tools. The chapter ended with Loku threatening the gathered miners after White Porridge was exposed, while the protagonist rushed to intervene.

• Old Zhang explained the Real Realm’s cultivation system, and the protagonist concluded that reaching the Qi Transformation Seventh Turn could lead to the Core Formation Realm.
• The protagonist found an abandoned mine tunnel, had Chen Two take his place at work, and began secretly practicing Divine Weapon Apocalypse.
• The protagonist discovered that Divine Weapon Apocalypse could enchant miners’ pickaxes and potentially transform them into low-grade Dharma Artifacts.
• Chen Two warned the protagonist that White Porridge had been exposed, and the protagonist hurried to the Great Mine Pit.
• Loku gathered the Human Race miners and threatened to kill them one by one unless they revealed who had been secretly giving them food.

The miners of No. 1 Mine rose up after Loku executed Old Zhang and threatened those who had supplied them with food. You revealed yourself, struck Loku, and led the miners into battle against the Sect Protection Knight Order; the mass of workers overwhelmed the knights, leaving you to face Loku and the commander.

• Loku executed a miner and then beheaded Old Zhang when he refused to betray the person who had provided the miners with food.
• Chen Two and Liu Ying claimed responsibility for the food, and more miners stood up to protect them and their benefactor.
• You emerged from the mine tunnel, punched Loku, and urged the miners to rebel.
• The miners armed themselves with pickaxes and overwhelmed the Sect Protection Knight Order with their numbers.
• The miners defeated most of the knights, while you faced Loku and the Scale Race commander in the Qi Transformation Realm.

You defeated Loku and the Sect Protection Knight Order, then led the Human Race miners in a rebellion at No. 1 Mine. After seizing the mine’s supplies, you headed west with the freed miners and the captive Loku.

• You overpowered Loku while the miners fought the Sect Protection Knight Order, then knocked him unconscious and forced the knights to stop fighting.
• You made the knights remove their armor, but they fled when you ordered them into a deep well; you and Chen Five captured them and threw them into it.
• You urged the miners to rebel against the Alien Race, and they rallied behind you in what became known as the White Porridge Uprising.
• You had the miners seize the mine’s supplies and bound Loku with a chain strengthened by Divine Weapon Apocalypse.
• You led the miners west toward the desolate lands, and Loku woke up but stayed quiet when you threatened to punch him again.

Chen Yi interrogated Loku about the Winged God Sect, the Real Realm, and how to travel between planets, then killed him after gaining the information he needed. He acquired Superior Fire Affinity and equipped a selected group of escaped miners with enchanted weapons and armor as they continued their escape.

• Chen Yi beat Loku into answering questions about the Human Race, the Winged God Sect, and the Third-Class Fortune Star and Second-Class Spirit Micro Star.
• Loku explained that space travel required a Star Boat, a Star Harbor, and a Star Lane, and identified Duobao Tonglao as an artifact-refining master living on Blaze Star.
• Chen Yi questioned Loku while repeatedly acquiring Winged Race talents until he obtained Superior Fire Affinity.
• After finishing his interrogation, Chen Yi killed Loku and left his body hanging from a tree.
• Chen Yi enchanted more than one hundred sets of weapons and armor, then armed over one hundred young, capable miners as they fled.

Chen Yi led Fortune Star’s Human Race miners in a growing uprising, hoping to reach a hidden Star Boat and escape the planet. After Kaideli captured and hanged him, Chen Yi appeared again a month later, leaving Kaideli to capture and hang him a second time.

• Chen Yi told the miners that they could not overthrow the Winged God Sect and urged them to flee Fortune Star aboard Old Zhang’s master’s hidden Star Boat.
• Chen Yi led eight hundred miners along remote routes, raiding mines and gathering people, supplies, and weapons as Human Race uprisings joined his cause.
• Chen Yi built a force of more than ten thousand, taught its members, and gave them food, weapons, and Cultivation Methods.
• Kaideli encircled Chen Yi’s Righteous Army with Winged God Sect forces and hired cultivators, killing more than half of Chen Yi’s troops as they fled.
• Chen Yi stayed behind, surrendered to Kaideli, and was hanged; one month later, another Chen Yi appeared, and Kaideli captured and hanged him again.

Chen Yi found and repaired the Star Boat using his new Reverse Engineering trait, then named it Freedom. He promised the Righteous Army that he would enlarge it so they could all escape Fortune Star together, but gathering the required materials meant more battles against the Winged God Sect.

• Chen Yi replaced his Disguise as a Pig to Eat the Tiger trait with Reverse Engineering and decided to use it to repair Old Zhang's Star Boat.
• Chen Yi led the Righteous Army to Fortune Star's North Pole, where his soldiers found the Star Boat frozen beneath the ice.
• Chen Yi hauled the Star Boat out and used Reverse Engineering to recover its blueprints and manufacturing formula.
• Chen Yi promised Liu Ying and the other generals that he would enlarge the Star Boat so every Righteous Army soldier could leave Third-Class Star with him.
• Chen Yi learned that Fortune Star had the materials needed to repair and enlarge the Star Boat, and named the vessel Freedom.

You repaired and expanded the Freedom to carry up to one hundred thousand people, then organized the Righteous Army’s escape from Fortune Star by seizing the Star Harbor. The selected forces gathered at Wolf Smoke Mountain with only seventy thousand survivors, leaving them to face the Winged God Sect’s elite defenders.

• The Righteous Army raided Winged God Sect resource stores to gather materials for the Star Boat, suffering heavy casualties despite your leadership and support from Infinite White Porridge and Divine Weapon Apocalypse.
• You completed the Freedom’s expansion and told Liu Ying it could carry one hundred thousand people, then began planning how to board while escaping the Winged God Sect.
• You organized the Righteous Army into your Direct Cavalry and four route armies, assigning your forces and ninety thousand lottery-selected troops to seize the heavily guarded Star Harbor.
• The selected troops secretly converged at Wolf Smoke Mountain, but thirty thousand were killed or went missing, leaving only sixty thousand from the route armies to join your ten thousand Direct Cavalry.
• Cheng Guang apologized for bringing only a fraction of his Eastern Route force, and you urged the gathered soldiers to escape as seeds for their descendants and future generations.

Chen Yi coordinated the Righteous Army’s four-pronged plan to draw away the Winged God Sect’s forces and seize Star Harbor. After the western army lured off the Eagle Legion, Chen Yi led the main assault and began breaking through Star Harbor’s defenses.

• Liu Ying reported that Blue Iron Bull had lured the Eagle Legion away by capturing its commander’s wife and preparing tunnel ambushes at Wolf Hair Mountain.
• Chen Yi gathered the Righteous Army, shared White Porridge with the soldiers, and had them smash their bowls and keep the shards as weapons.
• Chen Yi led ten thousand cavalry and sixty thousand infantry in an attack on Star Harbor from the west.
• Chen Yi charged through the defenders and used his formation knowledge and supplies to break through Star Harbor’s defensive formations.

Chen Yi fought to activate the Star Harbor and escape aboard the Star Boat while the Righteous Army protected the Formation Masters. White-Robed Priest Kaideli arrived with captured family members, forcing the army to choose between loyalty and filial piety as Chen Yi stood ready to depart.

• Chen Yi compelled the Alien Race Formation Masters to activate the Star Harbor's Departure Ceremony while he and the Righteous Army fought off the stationed soldiers.
• The stationed soldiers tried to kill the Formation Masters, but the Righteous Army split up to protect them across the Star Harbor.
• White-Robed Priest Kaideli arrived with captured Human Race families and displayed their faces in the sky to break the Righteous Army's resolve.
• Liu Ying saw her injured father Liu Tian in the image, while the Righteous Army's officers and soldiers struggled between loyalty and filial piety.
• Kaideli demanded that the Righteous Army dismantle the Star Boat, surrender, and put on shackles, and Chen Yi stood atop the vessel as everyone watched the army.

At Star Harbor, Liu Tian killed himself rather than let Kaideli use him as a hostage, and Liu Ying and the Righteous Army faced an overwhelming assault as the Star Boat’s Departure Ceremony began. When the soldiers refused to leave without their comrades, they used their bodies to shield the vessel and insisted that Chen Yi escape.

• Liu Tian told Liu Ying to keep fighting, then smashed himself against his cage’s bars and died; Kaideli’s soldiers tried to stop the other hostages from killing themselves.
• The Star Harbor Departure Ceremony activated, but the Eagle Legion and White-Robed Priests returned, and Kaideli ordered an attack on the Star Boat.
• Chen Yi urged the Righteous Army to board the Star Boat, but Liu Ying and the soldiers refused to leave their comrades behind.
• Eagle Legion warriors hurled javelins that pierced the Star Boat, while Chen Yi intercepted them with his abilities and weapons.
• Liu Ying, Cheng Guang, and the Righteous Army’s generals directed the soldiers to cover the Star Boat with their bodies, revealing that they had planned to sacrifice themselves to get Chen Yi out.