Chapter Summaries

After a century of cultivation and travels with Ji Wuqing, Chen Yi decided to use the Blood Replacement Secret Technique to break through into the Desolate Realm. While preparing, he gained immunity to Divine Patterns and followed news of old acquaintances, including a mass killing on Tailan Star that might have been the work of Great Demon.

• Over a hundred years, Chen Yi reached the peak of the ninth transformation of Core Formation, mastered three more Divine Abilities, and learned about the Blood Replacement Secret Technique from Ji Wuqing.
• Chen Yi decided to undergo the technique despite losing the benefits of his Mortal Bone trait, and he gathered the required materials and prepared in seclusion.
• At age 190, Chen Yi gained the trait "What is a Divine Pattern?", which made him immune to Divine Patterns and caused users to suffer backlash.
• Chen Yi refined the formation tools, secret treasures, and pills for the Blood Replacement Secret Technique using his Samadhi True Fire.
• Chen Yi read the Heavenly River Monthly Gazette and learned that a great demon had drained the blood of everyone on Tailan Star; he wondered whether the culprit was Great Demon.

Chen Yi learned that reports suggested his old friends were in the Tianhe Star System, then asked Ji Wuqing to help him use the Blood Replacement Secret Technique to break through to the Desolate Realm. After enduring the dangerous process, he succeeded and gained the ability to equip thirty-three traits.

• Chen Yi read reports about Li Wentian's regime on Tiandou Star, Shen Yang's competition, and a swordsman on Opera Star, and suspected his old friends were all in the Tianhe Star System.
• Chen Yi told Ji Wuqing he was only in the Core Formation Realm and asked her to help him use the Blood Replacement Secret Technique.
• Ji Wuqing prepared a guarded underground chamber beneath Wanan City, where Chen Yi began the secret technique with pills and blood replacement needles.
• As the technique repeatedly drained and restored his blood, Chen Yi endured severe pain and explained that he wanted strength so the powerless would not be abused.
• Ji Wuqing poured out her Divine Power to help Chen Yi break through, and he eventually awoke in the Desolate Realm with Divine Power Sources around his Origin Core.
• Chen Yi discovered he could equip thirty-three traits and thanked Ji Wuqing with an excited embrace.

Ji Wuqing explained why she wanted to marry Chen Yi and become Ji Family head, hoping to use the family’s resources to support the Kindling Society. After she left on urgent business and stayed away for nearly a year, Chen Yi continued cultivating on Guxiao Mountain with Ji Xiaosong, who doubted that Ji Wuqing could inherit the family leadership.

• Ji Wuqing told Chen Yi that the Ji Family required its heir to be married and said she liked him, while Chen Yi hesitated because he kept thinking of Li Lingyue.
• Ji Wuqing revealed that she wanted to become family head to make it easier to supply resources and training to the Kindling Society, and Chen Yi considered helping her.
• Ji Wuqing abruptly left to respond to urgent Kindling Society intelligence and was gone for nearly a year.
• Chen Yi equipped twenty Golden Legend and Prismatic Myth traits, restored his youthful appearance, and continued cultivating after breaking through his bottleneck.
• While Chen Yi cultivated on Guxiao Mountain, Ji Xiaosong complained that Ji Wuqing made him serve her and suggested Ji Xiaori was more likely to become family head.

Ji Wuqing reported that the Peace Army had destroyed the Kindling Society base on Vermilion Purple Star and that Adou had vanished, possibly captured. After recovering at the Ji Family, she and Chen Yi prepared to leave and rescue him, but the Peace Army surrounded the Ji Family Ancestral Land.

• Ji Wuqing arrived gravely wounded and told Chen Yi that the Peace Army had razed the Kindling Society base, while Adou was missing and might have been captured alive.
• Ji Wuqing gave Chen Yi her identity-recognition Spirit Treasure, intending to make him the First Hall Master of the Kindling Society's Vermilion Purple Star main altar.
• Chen Yi and Ji Xiaosong helped Ji Wuqing recover over the next half month.
• Ji Wuqing decided to leave the Ji Family to avoid endangering it, and Chen Yi said he would go with her to rescue Adou.
• War drums sounded as the Peace Army surrounded the Ji Family Ancestral Land with a vast barrier and troops on all sides.

The Peace Bureau surrounded the Ji Family Ancestral Land and demanded Ji Wuqing surrender, threatening to wipe out the Ji Clan if she refused. After the Ji elders distanced themselves from her, Ji Wuqing decided to face the Peace Bureau herself rather than let her family suffer for her actions.

• The Peace Bureau accused Ji Wuqing of joining the Kindling Society, colluding with rebels, and killing Peace Army soldiers while its forces surrounded the ancestral land.
• Ji Baiming ordered the Ji Clan not to fight and met Immortal Lord Jinhai, who threatened to destroy everyone bearing the Ji surname unless the family handed over Ji Wuqing.
• Ji Baiming and the elders claimed they had not known about Ji Wuqing's activities and offered to arrest anyone who had helped her.
• Ji Wuqing and Ji Xiaosong listened from Guxiao Mountain as Ji Wuqing explained that the Ji Clan could not oppose the Holy Dragon Society and its Peace Bureau.
• The narrator offered to take Ji Wuqing away, but she refused to flee the sealed ancestral land and insisted on going to the Peace Bureau herself.

Ji Wuqing left the Ji Family Ancestral Land to surrender to the Peace Army and protect her family, after secretly immobilizing Chen Yi. As Chen Yi struggled to break free, the Ji Family faced Immortal Lord Jinhai’s demand to hand her over or be destroyed.

• Ji Wuqing prepared to surrender, but Chen Yi offered to accompany her and fight the encircling Peace Army.
• Ji Wuqing asked why Chen Yi was helping her; he recalled how he had once served a man who helped him, then began telling her about his past.
• Ji Wuqing used Fire Zen Immobilization to paralyze Chen Yi, asked him to help the Kindling Society if it faced trouble, and left.
• Ji Xiaosong explained that only someone with greater cultivation or a countering Divine Ability could easily break Ji Wuqing’s immobilization, while Chen Yi began forcing his way through it.
• The Peace Army threatened to raze the Ji Family Ancestral Land unless Ji Wuqing was handed over, and Immortal Lord Jinhai refused to wait for the family’s decision.
• The Ji Family elders split over whether to protect Ji Wuqing or sacrifice her to save the clan, with the latter faction outnumbering the former ten to one.

Ji Baiming refused to surrender Ji Wuqing, though the Ji Family’s leaders urged him to save the clan by handing her over. Ji Wuqing arrived and challenged Immortal Lord Jinhai, who ordered the Moke Three Brothers to capture her.

• Ji Baiming offered himself to Immortal Lord Jinhai and declared that the Ji Family had nothing to do with Ji Wuqing’s actions.
• The Ji Family’s leaders and outside onlookers condemned Ji Baiming and anticipated the clan’s downfall.
• Immortal Lord Jinhai revealed that he wanted Ji Wuqing alive to search her soul for information about the Kindling Society.
• Immortal Lord Jinhai used the Interpersonal Index to trace Ji Wuqing through her relationship thread to Ji Baiming.
• Ji Wuqing arrived, told her father not to make things difficult for the Ji Family, and challenged Immortal Lord Jinhai to capture her himself.
• Immortal Lord Jinhai ordered the Moke Three Brothers to seize Ji Wuqing.

Ji Wuqing revealed that she had become an Immortal Lord, but Immortal Lord Jinhai subdued her and she tried to take her own life. Ji Baiming stopped her, revealed his true strength, and left the Ji Family under Ji Xiaori’s protection as father and daughter prepared to face the Peace Army.

• Ji Wuqing used her law, Ten Thousand Miles of Flying Sand, to overwhelm three Dragon Person Race war generals before Immortal Lord Jinhai trapped her with a cloth sack.
• Exhausted and unable to keep fighting, Ji Wuqing tried to cut her own throat, but Ji Baiming caught her wrist and repelled Immortal Lord Jinhai’s attack.
• Ji Baiming revealed that his cultivation exceeded the low-rank Immortal Lord level others had assumed and asked for Ji Xiaori.
• Ji Baiming handed Ji Xiaori the Family Head Golden Token, and Ji Xiaori expelled him and Ji Wuqing from the Ji Family to protect the clan.
• Ji Baiming recovered his belongings and stood beside Ji Wuqing, declaring that father and daughter would fight the Peace Army.

Ji Baiming revealed his eighth-rank Immortal Lord cultivation to protect Ji Wuqing, but Immortal Lord Jinhai defeated him and ordered her capture. Just as Ji Wuqing prepared to die rather than be taken, a young man arrived, destroyed the sealing net, and declared he would take her away.

• Ji Baiming broke the war-drum barrier and fought Immortal Lord Jinhai, but Jinhai overwhelmed him with the Interpersonal Index and bound him in silk threads.
• Ji Wuqing pleaded with Jinhai to spare her father, while Ji Xiaori ordered the Ji Family not to intervene.
• Jinhai sent the Moke Three Brothers to capture Ji Wuqing, who chose death rather than fall into the Peace Bureau's hands.
• A streak of white light destroyed the bronze net just as the three generals closed in on Ji Wuqing.
• A young man appeared beside Ji Wuqing and challenged the Dragon Person Race generals, declaring that he would take her away.

Chen Yi arrived in time to rescue Ji Wuqing and defended her against the Peace Army. After killing Duo Erpa and charging into a force of tens of thousands, he left the soldiers collapsing from the backlash of their Divine Patterns.

• Chen Yi broke through Ji Wuqing's Immobilization, freed her, and refused to leave her behind as the Peace Army demanded her arrest.
• Chen Yi instantly killed Duo Erpa with a single physical attack, then promised to fight alongside Ji Wuqing despite her injuries.
• Immortal Lord Jinhai ordered the Moke Three Brothers to test Chen Yi, and tens of thousands of Peace Army soldiers charged at him using Divine Patterns.
• Chen Yi rushed into the army while building Heartsteel, and the soldiers' Divine Patterns backfired, causing them to writhe, scream, or fall from the sky.

You defeated the Moke Three Brothers by countering their Divine Patterns, ripping out their hearts, and capturing their souls in the Human Emperor Banner. As Immortal Lord Jinhai sent hundreds of thousands of troops after you, Ji Baiming agreed to hold him off while you and Ji Wuqing prepared to fight the army.

• You caused the Moke Three Brothers' Divine Patterns to backfire, dropping their soldiers and revealing that Divine Patterns were ineffective against you.
• The Moke Three Brothers charged you in close combat, and you used Dragon Race Bane to remove their hearts.
• The brothers released their souls to attack you, but you trapped them in the Myriad Souls Banner, which Ji Baiming empowered to suppress them.
• Ji Baiming asked you to kill Immortal Lord Jinhai, but you explained that Jinhai's force field made approaching him too dangerous.
• Immortal Lord Jinhai ordered the army to attack and demanded that Ji Wuqing be captured alive; Ji Baiming agreed to hold him back while Ji Wuqing faced the troops.
• You took out a black stone from the Pot Heaven space as the battle began.

Chen Yi unsealed the black stone and released the Black Monkey King as Jin Hai attacked the Ji Family Ancestral Land. The Black Monkey King refused to help at once, claiming Chen Yi had only opened the door after his sentence ended.

• Chen Yi transformed into a crimson Holy Dragon to stop Jin Hai and keep the Peace Army from attacking him.
• Ji Baiming held Jin Hai back while Ji Wuqing fought the Peace Army, giving Chen Yi time to finish the unsealing spell.
• The black stone shattered and released a shockwave that devastated the Ji Family Ancestral Land and scattered the forces gathered there.
• The Black Monkey King emerged from the stone with a black iron staff as Jin Hai charged at Chen Yi again.
• Chen Yi asked the Black Monkey King to help defeat Jin Hai, but the Black Monkey King dismissed his rescue as merely opening the door after his sentence ended.

The Black Monkey King crippled Jin Hai with one strike, then abandoned the fight, leaving the protagonist, Ji Baiming, and Ji Wuqing to battle the Peace Army. Black Wind arrived as their final escape route and carried all three out of the encirclement.

• The Black Monkey King struck Jin Hai out of his dragon form, severely injuring him, before flying away into the universe.
• Jin Hai ordered the Peace Army to capture Ji Wuqing and kill the others, but the protagonist and the two Ji family members fought their way through the troops.
• When Jin Hai sealed his injuries and prepared to rejoin the battle, the protagonist called for Black Wind.
• Black Wind charged through the enemy formation, and the protagonist mounted him before pulling Ji Wuqing and Ji Baiming aboard with the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Black Wind carried the group away at high speed while Jin Hai ordered the Peace Army to pursue them.

Chen Yi and Ji Wuqing escaped the Peace Army by entering an Imperial Divine Pattern, where they reunited with Chen Yi’s long-lost sister, Chen Yue. Chen Yue explained how she recognized him and began asking about their family in the Human World, while Ji Baiming wondered who her powerful master could be.

• With the Peace Army pursuing them, Ji Wuqing urged Chen Yi and Ji Baiming to flee while he held off their enemies.
• A mysterious woman directed them to an Imperial Divine Pattern, which transported them into an underground cavern.
• The veiled woman asked Chen Yi where he had come from, then revealed that she was his sister, Chen Yue.
• Chen Yue explained that Jin Hai’s Interpersonal Index Law had shown her their family connection during the battle.
• Chen Yi told Chen Yue about their family, while Ji Wuqing and Ji Baiming watched and wondered about her master and her mission.

You and Chen Yue reunited and caught up before she revealed her role as a Ghost Cultivator serving the Red River Underworld King. Ji Baiming explained how the Underworld collects souls across star systems, and the chapter ended with you learning that Chen Yue was already dead and used a physical body to interact with the living.

• You told Chen Yue about your hardships and joked about Eldest Brother, while hiding what had happened to your family in the Human World.
• Chen Yue told Ji Baiming that she belonged to the Underworld’s Pioneer Department and served the Red River Underworld King.
• Ji Baiming explained the Underworld’s origins, its Soul Sea, and how Underworld Domains collected souls after death across many star systems.
• Chen Yue revealed that the Red River Underworld King had spent one-tenth of the Soul Sea’s souls to bring her up from the Real Realm because her soul suited Ghost Cultivation.
• Chen Yue explained that Ghost Cultivators faced Ghost Tribulations and that their physical bodies were replaceable vessels for dealing with the living.

Chen Yue reunited with Ji Baiming and Ji Wuqing, explained her Underworld mission, and gave Ji Baiming a Ghost Talisman before leaving to deliver a message. Ji Baiming kept his destination secret and told the others to wait in the cave for someone to retrieve them.

• Ji Wuqing asked Chen Yue to use her influence to stop the Peace Bureau from pursuing them, but Chen Yue said the Holy Dragon Society and Kindling Society were mortal enemies.
• Chen Yue explained that she and a large Ghost Cultivator team had come to repair damaged Underworld Domains across the Tianhe Star System.
• Chen Yue gave Ji Baiming a Ghost Talisman bearing her master's soul imprint, though she warned that its usefulness depended on her connections.
• Ji Baiming asked Chen Yue to deliver a message to a location he named through a sound-transmission Dharma Spell, and Chen Yue agreed to go at once.
• Before leaving, Chen Yue told Ji Baiming she would wait for him in the Soul Sea after his death, while he said he was not ready to stop being human.
• Ji Baiming told Ji Wuqing and Ji Baiming to stay in the underground cave until someone came to fetch them, but refused to reveal who was coming or what he had told Chen Yue.

The narrator realized Chen Yue’s Nine Heavens Soul Spirit might be one of the Female Heavenly Emperor’s reincarnated souls, like Ji Wuqing, though the third soul remained missing. Zhang Beihai offered the narrator, Chen Yue, and Ji Wuqing refuge in the Out-of-World Village, sealing their cultivation before showing them the way there.

• The narrator used the Human Body Detector to identify Chen Yue’s Nine Heavens Soul Spirit and connected it to Ji Wuqing and the Female Heavenly Emperor’s three reincarnated souls.
• The narrator resolved to keep the detector equipped and search for the missing soul, while Ji Wuqing questioned the narrator’s strange grin.
• Zhang Beihai appeared and revealed that the Out-of-World Village could shelter them from the Peace Bureau and the alien races.
• Zhang Beihai explained that residents had to seal their cultivation and never use immortal path power inside the village, and all three agreed.
• Zhang Beihai sealed their cultivation and created a road of light leading to the Out-of-World Village.

Chen Yi spent thirty years hiding in Out-of-World Village, learning about the outside world and discussing cultivation with Ji Baiming and Zhang Beihai. At age 224, he drew the Myth trait "Eavesdrop on Inner Thoughts" and replaced "Ageless Male God" with it.

• Chen Yi, Ji Wuqing, and Ji Baiming settled in Out-of-World Village, where Human Race Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings lived in disguise.
• Ji Baiming explained that the village hid powerful cultivators from hostile factions, and Zhang Beihai said he served as village chief because he had no family.
• Chen Yi stayed hidden because wanted notices made it dangerous to leave, and the village’s rules prevented him from cultivating outside and returning without erasing his memories.
• During thirty years in the village, Chen Yi followed outside events through the Heavenly River Monthly Gazette, researched memory erasure, and exchanged cultivation insights with Ji Baiming and Zhang Beihai.
• At age 224, Chen Yi drew the Prismatic Myth trait "Eavesdrop on Inner Thoughts" and replaced "Ageless Male God" with it.

Contamination spread across Out-of-World Village and much of the Southern Star Realm, weakening Cultivators and forcing the village to disband. Unable to return to the Ji Family, Chen Yi, Ji Wuqing, and Ji Baiming set out as wanted fugitives while the source of the black mist remained unknown.

• Black mist swallowed Out-of-World Village, and an elder identified it as Contamination that neutralized Cultivators’ power and could drive mortals mad.
• Out-of-World Village’s leaders decided to disband and send protected mortals back to their factions, ending the village rules and the need to erase memories.
• Ji Wuqing, Ji Baiming, and Chen Yi could not return to the Ji Family because the Peace Army was watching it, so they traveled together as wanted criminals.
• Chen Yi learned from the Heavenly River Monthly Gazette that Contamination had affected more than half of the Southern Star Realm and that sealing methods only worked temporarily.
• As the trio walked through the black mist, Old Wan turned the Myriad Souls Banner’s golden glow into black smoke, and Ji Wuqing tugged at the banner and startled him.

During the Contamination, you, Ji Baiming, and Ji Wuqing investigated Longevity Wood Village, where ordinary people remained unaffected and the fog was weaker. They learned of a nearby Emperor Tomb and a woman who could cleanse ordinary people of Contamination, then discovered the village’s strange Ancestor Soup was made from leftovers.

• As the Contamination spread across Vermilion Purple Star, you heard Cultivators complain about declining cultivation, shortages, and the damaged Star Harbor blocking escape.
• You, Ji Baiming, and Ji Wuqing reached Longevity Wood Village, where the Human Race residents remained normal despite the ongoing Contamination.
• At a village restaurant, the three of you listened as Cultivators discussed the weaker Contamination, the nearby Emperor Tomb, and a woman near Haosong City who could cleanse ordinary people if they believed in her.
• Ji Wuqing ordered Ancestor Soup, and you both tasted it before asking the old woman how it was made.
• The old woman explained that Ancestor Soup was made by stewing leftover food in a large earthen jar and claimed it could cure illness.