Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi sought the Shen Family’s help to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm, but the elders refused to spend vast resources before he became Mirror Holder. After the Third Round began, Shen Yi quickly mastered its Heart Method and demanded another test so he could pursue his breakthrough.

• Shen Linfeng explained that Shen Yi’s poor Root Bone made a breakthrough possible only through the costly Three-Day Method, and Shen Yi agreed to defer his competition resources while Shen Linfeng asked the Moon Vein Elder for help.
• Shen Yi reached Entry Level in Internal Cultivation overnight, astonishing Shen Linfeng, who then brought Shen Wanquan to consider the request.
• Shen Wanquan refused to fund Shen Yi’s breakthrough before he became Mirror Holder, so Shen Yi demanded the Third Stage Heart Method and collected combat-focused resources instead.
• The Second Round ended, the Third Round began, and Shen Yi received the Heaven Grade Star River Divine Skill and learned its powerful abilities.
• On the second day of the Third Round, Shen Yi told Shen Yufeng he had reached Entry Level in the Star Refining Heart Profound Skill and demanded that an Elder test him.

Chen Yi impressed the Shen Family by mastering three cultivation methods, then endured the Three-Day Method to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm. The breakthrough raised his entry-drawing odds and increased his equipment limit, while the Shen Family prepared to take him to the Star Power Mysterious Realm.

• The Shen Family higher-ups praised Chen Yi’s rapid progress, and Shen Yue ordered Shen Wanquan to arrange for Chen Yi to take control of the Qiankun Mirror after his breakthrough.
• Chen Yi reminded Shen Wanquan of the agreement to help him reach the Spirit Sea Realm, and Shen Linfeng asked whether he would still break through if cultivation were unnecessary for his role as Mirror Holder.
• The Shen Family’s grandmasters used the Three-Day Method and Heaven Grade resources to force Chen Yi’s Low-Grade Bone Structure past its cultivation limits, while the Nine Provinces Cauldron stabilized and strengthened him.
• After ten days of agony, Chen Yi formed a Spiritual Qi vortex and reached Spirit Sea First Layer, increasing his entry odds and adding two slots for equipped entries.

Chen Yi learned that the Shen Family had deceived him about its disciples and sent him into the Star Power Mysterious Realm with the Qiankun Mirror. Inside, he met an old man who invited him to play chess and claimed victory despite Chen Yi's calculated strategy.

• Chen Yi was surrounded by Shen Yue and the Shen Family's Martial King experts, who escorted him away from his home in the Star Domain.
• Chen Yi discovered that the Shen Family's supposedly lazy disciples had been secretly training, and that their behavior had been staged to manipulate Earth Vein candidates.
• Shen Yue handed Chen Yi the Qiankun Mirror and pushed him into the Star Power Mysterious Realm, where he was to remain for ten years.
• Chen Yi arrived in a meadow and met an old man beneath a willow tree, who dismissed the title of Mirror Holder and invited him to play chess.
• Chen Yi explained that he had studied the old man's moves and laid traps, but the old man declared that he had won.

Chen Yi’s simulated self learned that Shen Yang, the 30,000-year-old Shen Family Ancestor, planned to take his body through a compatibility ritual. After discovering that Shen Yang could only use a descendant, Chen Yi’s simulated self resumed their chess game, having found a weakness to exploit.

• Chen Yi’s simulated self played chess with Shen Yang, who revealed that he had memorized every possible board arrangement.
• Shen Yang told Chen Yi’s simulated self that he needed his body, and Chen Yi’s simulated self stayed calm to gather information and look for a chance to fight back.
• Shen Yang explained that his secret techniques prolonged his life by selecting descendants whose bloodlines and bodies were compatible with him.
• Shen Yang revealed that the Shen Family’s pills and medicinal baths had altered Chen Yi’s simulated self’s constitution, making him the next intended body.
• Chen Yi’s simulated self asked why Shen Yang could not use an outsider, and Shen Yang admitted that taking an outsider’s body would cause his soul to suffer backlash.
• Chen Yi’s simulated self sat back down to continue playing chess, while Chen Yi celebrated outside the simulation.

Shen Yang tried to seize Yi’s exceptionally compatible body, but the Qiankun Mirror failed to trap Yi’s consciousness in an illusion, and the body seizure began with Yi waiting for Shen Yang to enter and suffer a backlash. The chapter ended with Shen Yang detecting the Myriad Souls Banner and Nine Provinces Cauldron, while Yi taunted him.

• Shen Yang tried to persuade Yi to accept the body seizure, then used the Qiankun Mirror to force Yi’s consciousness into an illusion.
• Ding and the Myriad Souls Banner persuaded Kun Ge to stop the illusion, allowing Yi to regain clarity.
• Shen Yang took control of Yi’s Three Energies and began the body seizure, praising Yi as the most compatible descendant in history.
• Yi endured the pain and watched Shen Yang’s soul separate from his body, waiting for him to enter and face the backlash.
• Shen Yang detected the Myriad Souls Banner and Nine Provinces Cauldron as Yi cursed and taunted him.

Shen Yang tried to possess Shen Yi, but Materialist Warrior repelled his soul and let Shen Yi fight back with his fists and artifacts. Shen Yang remained powerful enough to resist capture, and Dachun called the Qiankun Mirror for help.

• Shen Yang’s soul struck Shen Yi’s body, rebounded in flames, and weakened from the backlash.
• Shen Yi revealed that he could see Shen Yang and punched him into the Willow Tree with a Sublime Realm Crimson Heart Fist.
• Shen Yi summoned the Nine Provinces Cauldron and Myriad Souls Banner to suppress and capture Shen Yang, but Shen Yang broke free and charged at him.
• Shen Yi ignored Shen Yang’s Star Cloud Split and battered him with rocks and soil using the Star River Divine Skill.
• Shen Yi fired the Spicy Girl Entry at Shen Yang, setting his soul ablaze while the Nine Provinces Cauldron and Myriad Souls Banner pulled him toward the banner.
• Shen Yang began to resist again, so Dachun called to the escaping Qiankun Mirror for help.

You and the Three Illusory Gods defeated the Shen Family Ancestor and trapped his soul inside Myriad Souls Banner. The Ancestor warned that the Human World faced a calamity, while you learned you might be trapped in the Star Power Mysterious Realm for ten years before he could recover enough to escape.

• Qiankun Mirror abandoned the Shen Family Ancestor and attacked him with Divine Mirror Soldiers after you promised him peaches.
• You, Qiankun Mirror, Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Myriad Souls Banner overwhelmed the weakened Ancestor, who activated the realm's guardian formation before Qiankun Mirror helped you break it.
• The Shen Family Ancestor warned that he was the First Protector of the Dao After Ancient Times and that the Human World would face a catastrophe, but you allowed Myriad Souls Banner to capture him.
• Myriad Souls Banner considered helping the Ancestor escape in exchange for power, but you pulled out its Artifact Spirit until it called you Godfather and promised loyalty.
• You asked the trapped Ancestor about the coming calamity and learned that Shen Yue would not open the realm for ten years because the Ancestor needed that long to adapt to his seized body.
• The Ancestor warned that after ten years he could break out of the Heaven Grade Myriad Souls Banner and kill you.

Chen Yi trapped the Shen Family Ancestor in the Myriad Souls Banner but feared the powerful elder would recover and defeat him. While searching the Small World for a way to survive, Chen Yi found the ancestor’s stores and eighteen Dao collections, then received an Artifact Refining trait and equipped it alongside Pill Dao Saint Hand.

• Chen Yi learned from the Qiankun Mirror that the Heaven and Earth Sword had split it apart, and that five Great Dao Immortal Artifacts corresponded to the Five Elements.
• Chen Yi explored the Small World and discovered its dense Heaven and Earth Essence could speed his cultivation, though he still doubted he could defeat a Martial King Realm expert in ten years.
• Chen Yi found a storehouse of materials and took everything into his Storage Ring.
• Chen Yi discovered the Shen Family Ancestor’s library of eighteen Dao paths, then took the books and planned to memorize them with Eidetic Memory.
• At age forty-eight, Chen Yi gained Artifact Refining Saint Hand and equipped it with Pill Dao Saint Hand.

Chen Yi studied alchemy, artifact refining, and swordsmanship in the Star Power Mysterious Realm while using its abundant resources to improve his cultivation. As the ten-year deadline approached, he reached the fourth level of the Spirit Sea Realm and successfully refined an Earth-tier spirit artifact.

• Chen Yi studied the Shen Family Ancestor's Dao books and secret technique, learning that the Stars Holding the Moon Technique could not reliably possess someone whose soul had been strengthened twice.
• Chen Yi discovered that the Small World was rich in spirit plants and Spirit Materials, then refined high-quality cultivation pills with Dachun's help.
• Chen Yi concluded that the Shen Family's resources would only benefit him while he remained in the Spirit Sea Realm, and that he would need to reassess his plans if he reached Spirit Condensation Realm.
• In Year Thirty-One, Chen Yi focused on studying and experimenting under the pressure of the ten-year deadline while the Shen Family Ancestor sealed himself away to repair his soul.
• Chen Yi refined his first high-grade Spiritual Artifact, took cultivation pills, and advanced to the third level of the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Chen Yi failed to refine an Earth-tier spirit artifact in Year Thirty-Four, but reached the fourth level of the Spirit Sea Realm and succeeded in refining one the following year.

A new Mythic Entry, "Enhancement!," improved the grade of everything Shen Yang made, giving him hope of forging an Immortal Artifact before the Shen Family Ancestor recovered. As the Ancestor began breaking free of the Myriad Souls Banner, Shen Yang took Dachun aside to make pills intended to put him to sleep.

• At age fifty-four, Shen Yang extracted the Mythic Entry "Enhancement!," which raised the grade of items he crafted.
• Shen Yang tested the Entry by refining pills, forging Spiritual Artifacts, and building a hut, confirming that it enhanced their effects or grades.
• While studying the Shen Family Ancestor's research, Shen Yang admired his thirty thousand years of work and the devotion he had shown the Shen Family.
• By age fifty-six, Shen Yang had reached Spirit Sea Realm Fifth Level after consuming nearly all the Spiritual Materials in the Star Power Mysterious Realm.
• The Shen Family Ancestor began forcing his way out of the Myriad Souls Banner, and the Three Illusory Gods struggled to hold him back.
• Shen Yang told Little Wan and A'kun to keep suppressing the Ancestor while he took Dachun to make pills that would put the ghost to sleep.

Yi subdued the Shen Family Ancestor and helped the Myriad Souls Banner regain its power, then emerged from the Star Power Mysterious Realm to face the gathered Shen Family. The Shen Family mistook Yi for the Ancestor’s new body and welcomed him.

• Yi fed the Shen Family Ancestor a Sleeping Pill, putting him back to sleep inside the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Yi worked day and night to forge a Heaven Grade Myriad Souls Banner, then enhanced it into a perfect Immortal Artifact.
• The Myriad Souls Banner modified its new body and, with help from Yi, Dachun, and the Qiankun Mirror, refined the Shen Family Ancestor into a Soul Slave.
• Yi emerged from the Star Power Mysterious Realm as the Sun, Moon, and Star Veins of the Shen Family gathered outside.
• The Shen Family welcomed Yi as the Ancestor’s new body and proclaimed that their clan would flourish for ten thousand generations.

The protagonist emerged from the Star Power Mysterious Realm disguised as the Shen Family Ancestor and was escorted toward Anshen Hall for identity verification. He delayed the verification by summoning the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect Master, Wan Sanqian, and the chapter ended as Wan Sanqian greeted him with extravagant praise.

• The protagonist ordered Shen Yue to accompany him to Anshen Hall, and Shen Yue assumed his slow flight came from adjusting to a new body.
• Shen Yufeng wondered whether the apparent Ancestor was still the uncle she knew, and Shen Linfeng warned her to stay quiet.
• As the Shen Family higher-ups escorted the protagonist toward Anshen Hall, he spotted the departing Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect group and asked Shen Yue to summon its leader.
• Shen Yue sent an Elder to bring back the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect Master, Wan Sanqian, who arrived and praised the protagonist.

Shen Yi launched a chaotic escape from the Shen Family by tricking Wan Sanqian and drawing the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect into the fight. He slipped away in the Nine Provinces Cauldron after using the Shen Family Ancestor’s soul to hold off the Elders, while Shen Yue raised an alarm across the Star Domain.

• Shen Yi struck Shen Yue with the Nine Provinces Cauldron, unleashed Demon Souls, and fled into the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect’s group to confuse the Shen Family experts.
• Shen Yi claimed to be the Shen Family Ancestor and promised Wan Sanqian a share of the Star Domain, prompting Wan Sanqian and the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect to attack the Shen Family.
• Shen Yi entered the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s Small World and had Dachun steer it away, but the Shen Family Elders soon surrounded the cauldron.
• Shen Yi released Shen Yang’s soul, and the ancestor’s Star Cloud Shatter attack forced the Elders to defend themselves while Shen Yi escaped and reclaimed the soul.
• Shen Yue crushed a red Talisman, causing a faint red glow to spread across the Star Domain.

Shen Yue and the Shen Clan pursued Yi as he tried to escape the Star Domain in the Nine Provinces Cauldron, but the Empty Land Barrier and a freezing formation blocked his way. After the Qiankun Mirror offered a way out that required returning to the Star Power Mysterious Realm, Yi used a strange control technique to escape the surrounding pursuers and turn back.

• Shen Yue mobilized the Shen Clan to pursue Yi and seize the Shen Family Ancestor, while Dachun drove the Nine Provinces Cauldron toward the Empty Land Barrier.
• The barrier repelled the cauldron, and Shen Yue activated the Great Ice Sealing Formation to prevent anyone from breaking through.
• Yi and his companions debated their options until the Qiankun Mirror woke and proposed a way to leave the Star Domain if they returned to the Star Power Mysterious Realm.
• Yi used the Entry Slingshot to fire The Beauty of Ji Ni, making nearby Shen Clan members dance and briefly controlling the weaker pursuers.
• Dachun launched the cauldron back toward the Star Power Mysterious Realm as Shen Yue dodged and ordered the clan to stop them.

You and the three artifacts escaped the Star Domain by using Qiankun Mirror’s time-travel ability, but the mirror brought them to the Demon World instead of the Human World. Qiankun Mirror was left smoking and unresponsive as Demon Souls gathered around them.

• You fought back into the Star Power Mysterious Realm while Wan Sanqian held off the Shen Family’s pursuers.
• You learned through Demon Souls that the Shen Family was preparing the Star Traceless Great Killing Formation to kill you.
• Qiankun Mirror absorbed the realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence and used its time-travel ability to escape the Star Domain, narrowly avoiding the Shen Family’s attack.
• You and the artifacts arrived in a desolate land where Demon Souls gathered and identified it as the Demon World.
• You discovered that Qiankun Mirror was smoking and unresponsive after transporting you there.

After the Qiankun Mirror stranded the group in the Demon World, the narrator collected its restless Demon Souls in the Myriad Souls Banner to refine them and gain cultivation power. The souls eagerly sought refinement, and their Tiger Demon representative explained that they had endured thirty thousand years of torment, then challenged the narrator’s understanding of what happened to souls after death.

• The narrator, the Myriad Souls Banner, and Artifact Spirit Dachun realized they were trapped in the Demon World, where no Heaven and Earth Essence could be found nearby.
• The narrator proposed refining Demon Souls for cultivation and used the Myriad Souls Banner to gather the souls surrounding them.
• The Myriad Souls Banner refined the souls, but the Tiger Demon’s enthusiasm for being refined prompted the narrator to question the demons.
• The Demon Souls chose the Tiger Demon as their representative, and he explained that they had drifted in torment for thirty thousand years.
• The Tiger Demon asked whether the narrator believed souls naturally dispersed by vanishing, dissolving, or returning to heaven and earth.

The protagonist learned from Hu Tiangong how the Demon World was destroyed and why its dead remained stranded, then set out to find the Demon World's Dao Protector for a possible way back to the Human World. The chapter ended with the protagonist gaining a face-blindness trait and noting that the elderly trait pool would soon appear again.

• Hu Tiangong explained that the Demon World had been struck from the rolls of the Void Realm, leaving its dead souls beyond the Underworld's reach, and recounted the Demon Race's defeat by the Dragon Person Race.
• The protagonist recognized the Dragon Person Race from Hu Tiangong's description and worried that they might threaten the Human World next.
• Hu Tiangong explained that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts and an Earth Spirit existed in every Void Realm, and advised the protagonist to seek the Demon World's Dao Protector on Huiyou Continent.
• The protagonist told the Myriad Souls Banner to spare Hu Tiangong for now, then boarded the Nine Provinces Cauldron and flew toward the sea using Divine Power cautiously.
• At age fifty-nine, the protagonist gained the white common trait "Thank You, Taro!" and remarked that the elderly trait pool would soon return.

Chen Yi managed his terms while traveling through the Demon World, collecting Demon Souls and slowly cultivating as he searched for the Demon Race Dao Protector. He learned more about the Demon Emperor’s failed ambition and continued flying through the desolate world, with no sign yet of escape.

• Chen Yi replaced his learning terms with fortune-related terms, used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to gather Demon Souls, and reached the sixth level of the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Chen Yi learned the Demon Race language from Hu Tiangong and farmed with Dachun inside the Cauldron’s Small World while they searched the Demon World for a year.
• At age sixty, Chen Yi drew the Epic term “Signal Light,” equipped it in place of “Spider Senses,” and adjusted his other terms.
• Chen Yi wondered whether the Dragon Person Race had instigated past wars between the Human and Demon worlds, then asked Hu Tiangong about the Demon Emperor’s plans.
• Hu Tiangong said the Demon Emperor had intended to defeat every Void Realm so the Demon Race could ascend, and Chen Yi mocked the ambition after recalling the Demon World’s destruction.

At sea, you used the Signal Light trait to choose a direction toward Huiyou Continent, but Water Demon Spirits attacked the Nine Provinces Cauldron. With Hu Tiangong’s advice, you discovered that Sword Dao could reveal their Spirit Beads and destroyed one, leaving the others still in your path.

• You used Signal Light to spot a red direction over the sea and told Dachun to fly toward it.
• You passed the time playing cards with Dachun and the Myriad Souls Banner until monsters attacked the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• You questioned Hu Tiangong and learned the attackers were Water Demon Spirits that could regenerate unless their Spirit Beads were destroyed.
• You wielded the Soul-Chasing Sword against the Water Demon Spirits, then used Sword Dao to find and pierce one Spirit Bead.

After years at sea, the protagonist reached the Huiyou Continent and found the imprisoned soul of the Demon Race Dao Protector, a Qilin. Before the Qilin could explain how to return to the Human World, a Dragon Person from the Martial Saint-level Dragon Saint Realm attacked, striking the Nine Provinces Cauldron and injuring Dachun.

• The protagonist killed Water Demon Spirits, collected their pale-blue Spirit Beads, and continued flying toward the Huiyou Continent as the Nine Provinces Cauldron's crystal reserves dwindled.
• At age sixty-seven, the protagonist found the Huiyou Continent, gathered Demon Souls, and discovered the ruins of an Ancient Demon City.
• The protagonist encountered a Qilin Soul bound by eighteen black chains and learned it was the Demon Race Dao Protector, while Hu Tiangong recognized it as Lord Dao Protector.
• The Qilin Soul confirmed that a way back to the Human World existed, but a Dragon Person guard appeared before it could explain further.
• The protagonist fled into the Nine Provinces Cauldron's Small World as a ten-meter-tall Red Dragon Person emerged and attacked with a lava-dripping axe.
• The Red Dragon Person struck the Nine Provinces Cauldron, shaking its Small World and causing Dachun to vomit blood; Hu Tiangong identified the attacker as a Dragon Saint, equivalent to a Human Race Martial Saint.