Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi escaped the Star Harbor battlefield after Shen Yifeng sacrificed himself to destroy nine Alien Race commanders, then reunited with Black Wind on Blaze Star. The chapter ended with Black Wind explaining how he had traveled there while searching for Chen Yi.

• Chen Yi used Quantum Ghost Steps to escape as Shen Yifeng detonated his Origin Core, killing the nine commanders and many allied fighters.
• Watching Shen Yifeng’s sacrifice, Chen Yi questioned the Human Race’s desperate situation across the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi climbed the lone mountain and found Black Wind waiting at its summit.
• Black Wind told Chen Yi that a merchant caravan had found him on Water Grass Star and carried him across many planets.
• Black Wind had stayed on Blaze Star after hearing rumors about a Human Race cultivator whose feats reminded him of Chen Yi.

Chen learned that Shen Yifeng had left materials for an Ascension Array, but it could only carry one person into space, putting Adou’s safety at risk. After eating Dragon Pearls, Black Wind purified his Bloodline, evolved into a powerful form, and gained the ability to fly through space with Chen and Adou.

• Black Wind joined Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang’s search operation after learning from Shen Yifeng that Chen existed.
• Black Wind told Chen that Shen Yifeng had left materials for an Ascension Array, which could send only one person into space.
• Chen worried that Adou could not survive the journey, while Adou urged Chen to leave and the Myriad Souls Banner promised to stay with him.
• Black Wind revealed that he could survive in space after evolving by consuming Dragon Person Race members, and Chen gave him a sack of Dragon Pearls.
• Black Wind ate the Dragon Pearls, purified his Bloodline, and transformed into a towering, dark-golden-scaled form.
• Black Wind carried Chen and Adou into the sky inside a protective barrier, offering to fly them through space without a Star Boat or Star Lane.

Chen Yi escaped Blaze Star with Adou and Black Wind, then traveled toward Vermilion Purple Star to leave Adou with the Kindling Society. After five years aboard the Star Boat, Adou had grown older and asked Chen Yi if he could begin cultivating.

• Black Wind carried Chen Yi and Adou through space to a Star Lane, where Chen Yi boarded the Star Boat Shen Yifeng had left him.
• Chen Yi decided to travel to Vermilion Purple Star and find the Kindling Society's contact, while he struggled to decode Mr. Xun's poem.
• During the five-year voyage, Chen Yi fed Adou White Porridge, and Adou chose the name Chen Yixun.
• At age 89, Chen Yi drew the trait "Hate Apologies After the Fact" and replaced "Zilong! Zilong!" with "The Older the More Fortunate".
• Chen Yixun asked Chen Yi if he could begin cultivating, but Chen Yi had not yet taught him a Cultivation Method because his Immortal Root had not manifested.

Chen brought Adou to Vermilion Purple Star, where Human Race residents faced fewer restrictions if they had strong backing but still needed permits to settle. Chen discovered that cultivating required paid Immortal Qi quotas, then suspected the Human Race inspector might be connected to the Kindling Society.

• Chen gave Adou the Light Speed Fist and Quantum Ghost Steps cultivation methods and urged him to comprehend their Divine Abilities after reaching the Desolate Realm.
• Chen and Adou arrived at Vermilion Purple Star and used a public Star Harbor to enter openly.
• A Human Race inspector explained that Chen needed a faction's guarantee or marriage to obtain permanent residency, then issued him a one-year temporary residence permit.
• Chen learned that his permit was a Dharma Artifact that routed Immortal Qi into his body and that he had to buy additional cultivation quotas at an Immortal Qi Station.
• Chen suspected the inspector belonged to the Kindling Society and told Adou not to approach him so they would not endanger his cover.

Chen and Adou traveled toward the autumn rendezvous point on Vermilion Purple Star while learning how the planet was governed and how the Holy Dragon Society controlled access to Immortal Qi. At an Immortal Qi Station, Chen copied the Holy Dragon Race’s powerful Dragon Transformation talent, leaving him with a new ability and a clearer sense of the Society’s reach.

• Chen deduced that the rendezvous was at the ferry between Dongming Mountain and Tingxuan Mountain, where he had to wait through autumn nights for someone named Xiao Yue, and urged Adou not to trust others lightly.
• Chen and Adou stopped in a city, where Chen learned that local governments operated under the control of Cultivator factions rather than an imperial court.
• At an Immortal Qi Station, Chen discovered that the Holy Dragon Society controlled every station on Vermilion Purple Star and had also designated Human Race cultural books as banned.
• Chen paid one thousand Source Stones to replenish his Immortal Qi quota, and a Holy Dragon Person inscribed Divine Patterns on his temporary residence permit.
• After touching the Holy Dragon Person’s hand, Chen copied the racial talent Dragon Transformation, which let him become a divine dragon and use the Heavenly Constellation Divine Ability Ride Mist and Soar Clouds.

The protagonist followed a rendezvous clue to Herding Horse Ferry and discovered that Ji Wuqing, who also went by Ji Xiaoyue, was the person he had been seeking. After confirming her identity and meeting her again, he admitted he was not a member of the Kindling Society, prompting Ji Wuqing to demand how he had learned the rendezvous information.

• The protagonist waited at Herding Horse Ferry for more than two months before Ji Wuqing appeared and spoke of wanting to travel to the Void Realm.
• Ji Wuqing caught the protagonist watching her and teased him before revealing that her birth name was Ji Xiaoyue.
• The protagonist left to verify her former name and learned that Ji Xiaoyue had become known as Ji Wuqing after reaching the Heaven-Reaching Realm.
• Three days later, Ji Wuqing gave the rendezvous code at Ancient Ferry, identified herself as the Kindling Society's First Hall Master on Vermilion Purple Star, and asked the protagonist to identify himself.
• The protagonist said he was not a Kindling Society member, and Ji Wuqing responded with killing intent and demanded to know how he had learned the rendezvous information.

Chen recounted his journey to Ji Wuqing and brought Adou to the Kindling Society, where Ji discovered that Adou was favored by destiny and promised to protect his cultivation. Adou departed by ship, leaving Chen behind on the shore.

• Chen told Ji Wuqing a partly fabricated account of his origins and described how the Righteous Army and the Kindling Society's members on Blaze Star sacrificed themselves.
• Ji Wuqing saluted the Kindling Society members and accepted Chen's identity, after which Chen brought Adou to meet her.
• Ji Wuqing examined Adou, discovered the golden characters on his palms, and declared him one favored by destiny.
• Ji Wuqing promised the Kindling Society would provide Adou with the best cultivation conditions, though she did not reveal where he would be taken.
• Adou boarded Ji Wuqing's ship as Chen's Spirit Treasures tearfully said goodbye, and Chen watched the ship disappear into the rain.

Ji Wuqing brought you to the Ji Family Ancestral Land and secured you a place in the family, explaining the power of the Holy Dragon Society and the Ji Family’s position in the Heaven River Galaxy. The chapter left you settled in Wanan City as a Patrol Battalion squad leader, while Ji Wuqing teased you about marrying her.

• Ji Wuqing gave you a Bronze World Token and invited you to join the Ji Family, then flew with you and Black Wind to the ancestral land in a Cloud-Soaring Carriage drawn by Cloud-Chasing Colts.
• Ji Wuqing explained that the Holy Dragon Society controlled the galaxy’s Immortal Qi distribution and set the planet classifications, backed by its Immortal Emperor.
• Ji Wuqing brought you to Wanan City, where the Ji Family’s main line lived, and bought you a residence.
• Ji Wuqing introduced you to the city’s Patrol Battalion as a squad leader and said she would seek a promotion for you later.
• Ji Wuqing joked that marrying her would make you a live-in son-in-law with a Crystal World Token, and you told her not to treat marriage as a joke.

Ji Wuqing explained that the Star Apes were seeking a Human Race projection to rescue their missing princes from the Void Realm, and that the factions on Vermilion Purple Star were competing for the chance. Realizing he knew where the princes were, you asked Ji Wuqing to help you pursue the slot.

• Ji Wuqing offered you a place in the Patrol Battalion or a chance to visit her manor, and said she had arranged your residence permit.
• Two red-furred Star Apes mocked Black Wind for recognizing you as his master before returning to the Ji Clan Ancestral Temple.
• Ji Wuqing told you that the Star Ape princes had fallen into the Void Realm and that Human Race factions were competing to send a projection to retrieve them.
• You realized the missing princes were the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey and the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey, and that you knew more about their whereabouts than anyone else.
• You asked Ji Wuqing to take you to the gathering, claiming you could obtain the slot, and offered to settle the favor you owed her.

The narrator told Ji Wuqing that he came from the Void Realm, and she brought him to the Ji Family’s meeting with the Star Ape envoys. He claimed he could find the missing princes, but the assembled factions mocked him.

• The narrator revealed his Void Realm origins to Ji Wuqing, who joked that she came from the Underground World before agreeing to take him to meet the Star Apes.
• At the Ji Family’s Hongyin Great Hall, the Human Race factions argued over who would enter the Void Realm to search for the missing Star Ape princes.
• Ji Baiming proposed an arena contest to choose a candidate, and Sun Xiaosheng enthusiastically supported the idea.
• The narrator entered the hall and declared that he alone was suited to go to the Void Realm and could find the princes.
• Ji Wuqing defended the narrator as her friend, while Ji Baiming and the other attendees questioned him and mocked his claim.

Ji Yi persuaded Sun Xiaosheng and the Star Ape envoys to choose him to project into the Void Realm, then learned the Ji Family expected him to investigate it. The chapter ended with Ji Yi facing a huge stack of research books before the operation began.

• Ji Yi explained that the Void Realm contained countless small planes and asked to discuss projection privately with Sun Xiaosheng.
• Ji Wuqing presented Ji Yi as a newly appointed Ji Family general, and Ji Baiming backed his candidacy.
• Sun Xiaosheng confirmed Ji Yi as the projection candidate after hearing that he had seen the two missing princes.
• Ji Baiming gave Ji Yi a Gold World Token and a research assignment about the Void Realm.
• Ji Baiming revealed that the assignment’s table of contents came with a towering stack of books, while Ji Wuqing joked that she was glad she had not been selected.

At age 90, Chen Yi drew the powerful but dangerous Venom trait and decided to save it for a future simulation. He then joined the Ji Family’s costly effort to project him into the Void Realm, and entered a scene connected to the Human World.

• Chen Yi drew Venom, judged its loss of control too risky to use in reality, and planned to keep it unused for now.
• Chen Yi replaced The Older the More Fortunate with Phantom of Civil War before departing for the Void Realm.
• The Ji Family sent Chen Yi into space aboard the Mystic Heaven Disk and gave him a Universe-Shield to reach the Projection Altar.
• The Star Ape gathered energy from ten shattered stars and used it to open a fissure into the Void Realm.
• Sun Xiaosheng asked Chen Yi to look after his two princes, and Chen Yi entered a shifting spatial torrent before choosing a scene from the Human World.

After returning to the Human World, Chen Yi found it devastated by a catastrophe that seemed to come from the collapse of the Five Elements Root Artifacts. He rescued survivors from a tornado and began investigating what had happened.

• Chen Yi returned to the ruined Human World and used his Spiritual Sense to confirm that the Five Elements appeared to have fallen into disorder.
• Chen Yi realized the disaster might be connected to the Great Demon, the Sword Master, Shen Yang, Li Wentian, and himself entering the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi failed to retrieve his sealed clone Chen Four and went to Shenbing Commandery to search for survivors.
• Zhuge Zhujin and the surviving villagers faced a tornado after the Divine Weapon Pavilion's protective array failed.
• Chen Yi arrived as a gigantic golden figure and destroyed the tornado with a punch that sent it into Spatial Turbulence.

Chen projected himself into the Human World, saved a village from a tornado, and learned from Zhuge Zhujin that the world had been devastated after the Five Elements Root Artifacts were destroyed. The Black Hand remained unidentified, Hua Wuyan was presumed dead, and Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey had disappeared after stopping falling stars.

• Chen repaired the space he had shattered, then revealed to Zhuge Zhujin that he had returned only as a projection from the Real Realm.
• Zhuge Zhujin told Chen that ten years of disasters had ruined the Human World and that he had witnessed the Nine Provinces Cauldron battle the Heaven and Earth Sword.
• Chen reasoned that the Black Hand had destroyed all five Great Dao Immortal Artifacts and may have exploited the Desolate Ancient Remnant People while pursuing the Root Vessels.
• Chen said Hua Wuyan had likely perished after finding no trace of her across the continent.
• Zhuge Zhujin explained that Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey had vanished after using his Heavenly Gold Meteorite Staff to shatter falling stars and protect the continent.

Martial God Chen searched the ruined Human World for the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey and found Dagan’s capital destroyed by disasters. After learning that Li Lingyue had ascended to the Real Realm to avenge Hua Wuyan, he continued his search overseas, where he saw Black Tortoise sheltering surviving demons.

• Martial God Chen told Pavilion Master Zhuge that the world was nearing primordial chaos and began searching the Human World for the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey.
• He found Li Chengqian alone in Dagan’s ruined capital, preparing to die with his fallen nation, and persuaded him to live and save survivors.
• Li Chengqian told Martial God Chen that Hua Wuyan had died twenty years earlier, Li Lingyue had ascended ten years earlier to seek her master’s killer, and the capital’s other survivors included none of Martial God Chen’s siblings.
• Martial God Chen left Li Chengqian and traveled east through the Great Wilderness in search of the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey.
• He saw Black Tortoise, the only surviving Great Demon Ancestor, sheltering a group of weak demons from the catastrophe.

Chen Yi’s projection crossed the devastated Human World, finding survivors and asking about the destroyed Five Great Root Vessels. Wang Mingbai’s account of a mountain carrying a monkey gave Chen Yi a lead as he prepared to leave.

• Chen Yi found Dongfang Shuo stranded near the ruins of Xiaoyao Holy Land and learned that the Three Great Sacred Lands had been destroyed by the falling Star Domain.
• Chen Yi asked Dongfang Shuo about Xiaoyao God and his Time Chamber, but Dongfang Shuo did not know where either was.
• Chen Yi reached Luanjing Sea, where he gave Sea Demon meat to Wang Mingbai and found Wang Yanbing injured in a cave.
• Chen Yi asked Wang Yanbing about the Five Great Root Vessels, and Wang Yanbing recalled that the Wang Family’s crystal warehouse had been emptied without a trace thirty years earlier.
• Wang Mingbai told Chen Yi he had seen a mountain carrying a monkey and possibly a person, and Chen Yi learned which direction it had gone.
• Chen Yi said the next life might offer salvation and prepared to leave.

Chen Yi found the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey and Chen Four trapped inside a Chuangyang Stone and prepared to send them to the Real Realm. Before he could act, he confronted the hidden Black Hand, who revealed that he intended to become the era’s only immortal and saw Chen Yi as a stepping stone.

• Chen Yi found the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey pinned beneath the Chuangyang Stone and Chen Four sealed inside it.
• Chen Yi told the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey that a Star Ape-created gap could carry him, Chen Four, and the stone to the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi realized the Chuangyang Stone came from the Real Realm and prepared to signal the Star Ape.
• Signal Light warned Chen Yi of danger, and the unseen Black Hand spoke to him about the Real Realm and the Human World.
• Chen Yi learned that the Black Hand had sealed Chen Four inside the stone to keep him from dying, though he did not learn the Black Hand’s purpose.
• The Black Hand declared that he alone could become immortal and that Chen Yi was one of his stepping stones, then left.

Chen Yi watched his simulated return to the Human World and realized hiding the Five Great Root Vessels could prevent its destruction. After returning to the Void-Piercing Divine Altar, he saw Sun Xiaosheng identify the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey as the Star Ape clan’s First Prince and received a powerful token as thanks.

• Chen Yi reasoned that concealing the intact Five Great Root Vessels would keep the Black Hand from destroying the Human World.
• Chen Yi used a Divine Art to summon a false rift, and the Real Realm pulled him back to the Void-Piercing Divine Altar.
• Sun Xiaosheng tested the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey with a Royal Jade Bracelet, confirming him as the Star Ape clan’s First Prince.
• Sun Xiaosheng explained that the First Prince and the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey had lost their memories after surviving a black-hole plot and becoming stones.
• Sun Xiaosheng gave Chen Yi a black stone containing a sleeping Immortal King, and the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey promised to remember him if he became Star Ape King.

Chen Yi helped the Ji Family secure cooperation with the Star Apes and gained permission to cultivate on Guxiao Mountain, while Ji Baiming tried to tie him to the family by arranging a marriage with Xiao Yue. Chen Yi began cultivating on the mountain and found its Immortal Qi greatly accelerated his progress.

• Sun Xiaosheng shattered the Chuangyang Stone with a metal glove, freeing the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey, while Chen Four crumbled to ash after his long-preserved life ended.
• Ji Baiming praised Chen Yi for helping the Ji Family secure strategic cooperation agreements with the Star Apes and accepted Chen Yi’s Void Realm research materials.
• Ji Baiming offered to betroth Xiao Yue to Chen Yi, but Chen Yi declined and asked for access to Guxiao Mountain instead.
• Ji Baiming granted Chen Yi one hundred years to cultivate on Guxiao Mountain, hoping he would later agree to marry Xiao Yue.
• Chen Yi summoned Chen Four, learned that he knew little about events in the Human World, and concluded that he needed to leave someone with a longer lifespan there in a future simulation.
• Ji Wuqing showed Chen Yi around Guxiao Mountain, scolded Ji Xiaosong for building a house, and Chen Yi began meditating amid the mountain’s dense Immortal Qi.

Ji Wuqing mistook your Immortal Root for fifth-grade and arranged for Ji Xiaosong to fetch a third-grade fire-element Qi Refining Technique. She gave you the Samadhi Body-Forging Profound Technique and a paid subscription to the Heavenly River Monthly Gazette before leaving Guxiao Mountain.

• Ji Wuqing recognized your fifth-grade Qi Refining Technique and sent Ji Xiaosong to the Myriad Library for a better one, believing your Immortal Root was fifth-grade.
• While Ji Xiaosong ran the errand, Ji Wuqing asked about the girl you loved and discussed her own hopes of becoming an Immortal Lord.
• Ji Xiaosong returned with the Jade Slip for the Samadhi Body-Forging Profound Technique, which Ji Wuqing said you could cultivate because you had mastered a Divine Ability.
• You found the technique could build Samadhi True Fire, strengthen your body, and aid Artifact Refining, while also increasing your cultivation speed.
• Before leaving to seek a breakthrough, Ji Wuqing gave you a silver Heavenly River Monthly Gazette scroll with three hundred years of access paid for.