Chapter Summaries

Zheng Qian and Little Black struggled against a massive sea vortex as sea beasts attacked them. Zheng Qian discovered that the Giant Whales were sustaining the vortex, killed the strongest one, and escaped while the remaining whales rushed to its corpse.

• Zheng Qian stowed his warship and rode Little Black, but the moving vortex’s suction kept them from escaping.
• Swordfish-like beasts attacked, and Zheng Qian cut them down before piranha-like fish emerged and devoured them.
• Twelve Giant Whales appeared and strengthened the vortex while firing columns of water at Zheng Qian and Little Black.
• Zheng Qian used the ninth form of the Gang Wind Lightning Flame Sword to cleave the strongest Giant Whale in two.
• The remaining whales abandoned the vortex to protect their companion, weakening its suction, and Zheng Qian urged Little Black to fly away.

Zheng Qian sailed farther from the Fallen Dragon Continent, hoping to escape its suppressive influence, while losing ships and struggling to control powerful sea beasts. He realized he had entered the Ghost Shadow Mist and planned to use the sun and a compass to find his way out.

• Zheng Qian continued across the sea after escaping a whale-made vortex, then rested when Little Black grew too exhausted to fly.
• Zheng Qian wondered why his conceptions remained suppressed despite traveling thousands of li from the Fallen Dragon Continent.
• Zheng Qian lost more warships and failed to control Emperor-level Sea Beasts, so he used King-level Sea Beasts to pull his ship.
• Zheng Qian noticed that his ship, the sea beasts, and his own perceptions had repeatedly veered from what he expected.
• Zheng Qian corrected his distorted memories, recognized that he was inside the Ghost Shadow Mist, and decided to navigate by the sun and compass.

Zheng Qian discovered that the Ghost Shadow Mist distorted both his compass and the sun, leaving him without a reliable reference. He realized compasses protected in his Storage Space could correct his course, then sailed east until he felt himself pass beyond the mist’s influence.

• Zheng Qian compared his compass with the sun, Little Black, and the King-level Sea Beasts, discovering that the mist periodically shifted their directions together.
• After two days, Zheng Qian realized the Ghost Shadow Mist had also distorted the sun, so it could no longer guide him out.
• Zheng Qian remembered that his Storage Space was protected from the mist and that he had stored more than a hundred unaffected compasses inside it.
• Zheng Qian tested the compasses and confirmed he could correct his heading whenever the mist shifted his direction.
• Zheng Qian directed the Sea Beasts to sail east without stopping, enduring attacks from Emperor-level Sea Beasts and a storm that destroyed one warship.
• Late on the fifth night, Zheng Qian felt an invisible barrier give way and the pressure of the Ghost Shadow Mist disappear.

Zheng Qian escaped the Ghost Shadow Mist and broke through to the Treading Air Realm by comprehending Water Intent. He began his first High Martial simulation in Buddha's Palm World, where he was born as Liu Yuxuan.

• Zheng Qian traveled beyond the Ghost Shadow Mist and stopped to improve his strength before venturing farther into the Endless Sea Domain.
• Zheng Qian comprehended his tenth strand of Water Intent, fused the strands, and broke through to the Treading Air Realm First Heaven.
• Zheng Qian checked his Attribute Panel and found that his Water Intent had reached 1% and his Simulation Point recovery rate had doubled.
• Zheng Qian spent 1000 Simulation Points to begin a High Martial simulation and selected the Purple Talent Dao Heart Clarity.
• Zheng Qian's simulation began in Buddha's Palm World, where he was born in West Ridge City to Liu Wenshan and Sun Liyan and was named Liu Yuxuan.

After becoming a peak Grandmaster before the age of seven, you spent years trying to break through to the Great Grandmaster Realm but could not gather enough Heaven and Earth Origin Qi. You left home to investigate how martial artists advanced and joined the Diancang Sect as Daoist Cangsong’s direct disciple.

• You grew into a renowned child prodigy, discovered Green Wood Long Fist, and advanced to the peak of the Body Tempering Realm.
• You created a Houtian cultivation method, then used Heaven Swallowing Divine Art to reach the peak Grandmaster Realm at six years old.
• You recognized that you were in the television version of the world of Buddha's Palm and chose to focus on cultivation rather than its martial-world conflict.
• After a year of failed attempts to condense the Heaven and Earth Bridge, you decided to join a faction and investigate the Great Grandmaster breakthrough.
• You left home in secret, joined the Diancang Sect, and became Daoist Cangsong’s direct disciple; Daoist Cangsong was also a peak Grandmaster attempting to break through.

After discovering the Pure Spirit Three Stages Art, you stole the treasures it required and secretly broke through to the Great Grandmaster realm in Three Lives Valley. The next year, you stabilized your new realm, advanced several Intents, and perfected a powerful tenth form of the Immeasurable Divine Palm.

• You learned that the Pure Spirit Three Stages Art required twelve heavenly treasures and a breakthrough in Three Lives Valley, which Daoist Cangsong had entered half a year earlier.
• You waited within the Diancang Sect and learned that Three Lives Valley's Heaven and Earth Origin Qi had reached its maximum before the three-year interval ended.
• You knocked out a treasury guard, took twelve heavenly treasures, entered Three Lives Valley, and broke through to the first layer of the Treading Air Realm by dawn.
• The Diancang Sect investigated the theft, while Daoist Cangsong suspected the truth and searched Three Lives Valley without discovering that you were responsible.
• You stabilized your realm, raised several Intents to the first layer of the Treading Air Realm, and perfected the tenth form of the Immeasurable Divine Palm.

You focused on raising your Destruction Intent and developing techniques, reaching the third heaven of the Treading Air Realm while advancing your sword arts and movement technique. After Daoist Cangsong was badly injured in Three Lives Valley, you secretly healed him, and the chapter ended with your tenth Wind Lightning Void Steps technique still taking shape.

• You raised all nine Intents to the first heaven of the Treading Air Realm, developed True Essence, and chose to focus on Destruction Intent, with Devouring Intent, Lightning Intent, and Wind Intent as alternatives.
• You advanced Destruction Intent to the second heaven, created the tenth Heaven Destroying Finger technique, and developed the Wind Lightning Void Steps and new Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword techniques.
• You visited your parents in West Ridge City, revealed your peak Xiantian strength, accepted gifts from the city’s powerful families, and returned to the Diancang Sect.
• You created the eighth and ninth Wind Lightning Void Steps techniques and further advanced your Heaven Destroying Finger and Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword techniques.
• After Daoist Cangsong was severely injured by a failed breakthrough in Three Lives Valley, you secretly used the Azure Wood True Scripture to heal his injuries and longstanding ailments.
• You raised Destruction Intent to the third heaven and created the seventh Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword technique, while the tenth Wind Lightning Void Steps technique began to take shape.

Over several years, the narrator advanced in Destruction Intent and martial arts, obtained the manual for Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill, and reached the fourth level of the Treading Air Realm. At Three Absolutes Palace’s Golden Basin Hand-Washing Ceremony, Fire Cloud Evil God Gu Jianhun interrupted the proceedings.

• The narrator created new forms of Wind Lightning Void Steps, Heaven Destroying Finger, and Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword while continuing to develop Destruction Intent.
• Daoist Cangsong condensed the Heaven and Earth Bridge and became the Diancang Sect’s second Great Grandmaster.
• The narrator left Diancang Sect, met Duan Fei while working with the Changlong Escort Agency, and obtained the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill manual, whose Slaughter Intent diagrams he could not yet use.
• The narrator comprehended the fourth strand of Destruction Intent, broke through to the fourth level of the Treading Air Realm, and later perfected more forms of Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword and Heaven Destroying Finger.
• At Daoist Cangsong’s request, the narrator accompanied Daoist Ziyang to Feng Dao’s Golden Basin Hand-Washing Ceremony at Three Absolutes Palace.
• Gu Jianhun knocked Feng Dao’s golden basin to the ground, entered the hall, and sat down.

You subdued Gu Jianhun after he attacked you, healed him, and made him obey while continuing his plans to disrupt the martial world. You settled in Hell Gate, arranged for Diancang Sect to believe you were dead, and began comprehending a fifth strand of Destruction Intent.

• Gu Jianhun defeated Feng Dao and Tu Jin, then knocked the others unconscious before attacking you.
• You overwhelmed Gu Jianhun, inflicted the Life and Death Talisman on him, and tormented him until he submitted.
• You healed Gu Jianhun, demanded the complete manual for Buddha's Palm, and ordered him to continue his original plans.
• You defeated Gu Jianhun's Buddha's Palm with Crimson Flame Divine Palm and convinced him not to resist you.
• You moved into Hell Gate, arranged for Diancang Sect to believe Gu Jianhun had killed you, and began comprehending a fifth strand of Destruction Intent.
• Gu Jianhun officially began his path of revenge.

Gu Jianhun avenged his family by killing Ou Feng, then reconciled with Duan Fei and reunited with Tu Xuehua while expanding Hell Gate. Over the following years, you advanced your cultivation to the fifth level of the Treading Air Realm and developed powerful new techniques, leaving your Destruction Intent progressing into its sixth strand.

• You revealed that Ou Feng had murdered Gu Jianhun's wife and children, and Gu Jianhun found and killed him, though Ou Jinghao survived with Hidden Dragon Pills.
• Gu Jianhun stopped making things difficult for the major sects, reconciled with Duan Fei, reunited with Tu Xuehua, and continued expanding Hell Gate.
• You created the thirteenth form of Heaven Destroying Finger and later completed the tenth form of Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword, your strongest move.
• You comprehended the fifth strand of Destruction Intent, advanced to the fifth level of the Treading Air Realm, and cultivated the tenth layer of Blood Undying Body, extending your lifespan.
• You comprehended about one-eighth of the sixth strand of Destruction Intent and created a tenth layer of Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art that could be cultivated without absorbing dangerous natural lightning.

You discovered that the manuals for the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill and Buddha's Palm had been stolen, then ordered Gu Jianhun to recover them or face death alongside Duan Fei and Tu Xuehua. Gu Jianhun returned the manuals, though the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill was missing its final form, and reported that he had cornered Ou Jinghao at Three Absolutes Palace.

• You mastered all ten levels of the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art, while your Destruction Intent and two Treading Air Realm techniques continued to advance.
• Gu Jianhun reported that a red-clad young man using the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill had attacked Hell Gate, and you found the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill and Buddha's Palm manuals missing from your secret chamber.
• You suspected Gu Jianhun had helped Duan Fei and Tu Xuehua steal the manuals, then ordered him to retrieve them within a month or die with them.
• Gu Jianhun returned with both manuals, but the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill lacked its ninth form, Three Realms Annihilation, while Buddha's Palm had gained a tenth form, Buddha Nirvana.
• Gu Jianhun said he had identified the red-clad young man as Ou Jinghao and cornered him at Three Absolutes Palace while Ou Jinghao sought revenge for his grandfather, Feng Dao.

After Ou Jinghao’s death, you pardoned Gu Jianhun and Duan Fei and continued cultivating while the martial world settled into peace. By the thirty-seventh year, you had comprehended the sixth strand of Destruction Intent and reached the sixth layer of the Treading Air Realm.

• Gu Jianhun explained how Duan Fei killed Ou Jinghao with the newly comprehended tenth form of the Buddha’s Palm, while Ou Jinghao destroyed the final pages of the Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill.
• You pardoned Gu Jianhun and Duan Fei for stealing the manuals, then resumed comprehending Destruction Intent and perfected the tenth forms of the Divine Wind Blazing Flame Palm and the Lightning Fire Nine Swords.
• Gu Jianhun comprehended Buddha Nirvana, reached the Treading Air Realm, and challenged you, but your tenth-form Lightning Fire Nine Swords defeated his attack and severely injured him.
• Gu Jianhun and Duan Fei continued studying the Buddha’s Palm as the martial world grew peaceful under Hell Gate’s influence.
• In the thirty-seventh year, you comprehended the sixth strand of Destruction Intent, reached the sixth layer of the Treading Air Realm, and perfected numerous martial arts to its first layer.

Zheng Qian’s simulated self traveled the world after his progress comprehending Destruction Intent slowed, and witnessing disasters helped him gain sudden insights. He brought two orphaned twin sisters to West Ridge City after rescuing them, and his accumulated killing intent sparked another enlightenment.

• Zheng Qian’s simulated self left Hell Gate to travel after his seventh strand of Destruction Intent and fifteenth Heaven Destroying Finger form made little progress.
• While traveling, he helped people in need, accelerated his comprehension of Destruction Intent, and completed the fifteenth form of the Heaven Destroying Finger.
• A landslide that killed thousands gave him sudden enlightenment, and he decided to consider marriage after completing his seventh strand of Destruction Intent.
• A typhoon and tsunami helped him comprehend more of Destruction Intent and additional Water and Wind Intent, and he rescued twin sisters from rebel soldiers.
• Zheng Qian brought the homeless sisters toward West Ridge City, killed a group of stragglers who attacked them at night, and entered another state of sudden enlightenment.

After reaching the seventh heaven of the Treading Air Realm, Liu returned to West Ridge City with He Xinsi and He Xin Nian, married them, and started a family. He continued developing his combat arts and intents, and by the end of the forty-sixth year, both wives were pregnant again.

• Liu reached the seventh heaven of the Treading Air Realm and returned to West Ridge City with He Xinsi and He Xin Nian.
• After confirming the sisters’ family had been killed by the Black Sky King, Liu had the warlord’s family wiped out and took the sisters to honor their relatives’ graves.
• Liu married He Xinsi and He Xin Nian in July of the forty-fourth year, and both women became pregnant in October.
• Liu comprehended more Fire Intent and Lightning Intent, advanced his techniques, and welcomed Liu Siyu and Liu Nian An in the forty-fifth year.
• Liu comprehended the fourth strand of Lightning Intent and further developed his martial arts in the forty-sixth year.
• He Xinsi and He Xin Nian both became pregnant again near the end of the forty-sixth year.

Over the years, Liu Siyang continued advancing his Lightning Intent and cultivation arts while raising his family and helping defend West Ridge City from a warlord. By the fifty-ninth year, he had reached the seventh heaven of two Treading Air Realms and created the sixteenth stance of the Heaven Destroying Finger.

• He Xinsi gave birth to Liu Siyang, and He Xin Nian gave birth to Liu Nianjiao; Liu Siyang tempered both children’s meridians and marrow.
• Liu Siyang’s subordinates killed the warlord surnamed Wang and his generals, ending their attempt to seize West Ridge City.
• Liu Siyang continued cultivating, comprehending the fifth, sixth, and seventh strands of Lightning Intent and advancing the Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art.
• Liu Siyang submitted to the new ruling powers’ authority after the city lord asked his opinion, and he continued living peacefully with his family.
• Liu Siyang comprehended the fourth strand of Wind Intent and created the sixteenth stance of the Heaven Destroying Finger.

The narrator advanced his Wind, Fire, Lightning, and Destruction Intents while creating powerful sword forms and movement techniques, remaining in West Ridge City to stay with his family. By the end, his wives were nearing the ends of their lives, and he had no plans to leave them yet.

• The narrator reached the seventh heaven in Wind, Lightning, and Destruction, developed new forms of his techniques, and comprehended Wood Intent.
• His father died at ninety-seven, and after mourning him, the narrator continued refining his techniques and Fire Intent.
• His mother died at one hundred and two, and the narrator observed another three-year mourning period while remaining in West Ridge City with his family.
• Fire Cloud Evil God Gu Jianhun sought a martial contest, so the narrator defeated him and demonstrated the eleventh form of Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword to deter him from returning.
• The narrator created the twelfth form of Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword and later reached the seventh heaven in Fire Intent.
• The narrator sensed that his two wives had only a few years left to live and resolved not to leave them, while maintaining that his family should choose their own paths in martial arts.

Over centuries, Liu continued cultivating after his family no longer needed his protection, advancing his intents and martial arts while living in solitude. By year 322, he had mastered all nine of his great intents to the seventh layer of the Treading Air Realm, though his newly created fourteenth form of the Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword drained nearly all his True Essence before he could complete it.

• Liu's wives, He Xinsi and He Xin Nian, died, and he left his established family to travel and cultivate; his eldest son Liu Nian An had reached the second layer of the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Liu comprehended successive strands of Devouring Intent and created more layers of the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art, greatly improving his True Essence recovery.
• Liu reached the seventh layer of the Treading Air Realm in Wind, Fire, Lightning, Destruction, and Devouring intents, then began cultivating Blood Intent and advanced his Blood Undying Body.
• Liu's eldest daughter, Liu Siyu, died, and he watched her funeral from afar without revealing himself.
• Over the following centuries, Liu wandered and cultivated, eventually reaching the seventh layer of the Treading Air Realm in all nine of his great intents and perfecting several cultivation arts.
• Liu created the fourteenth form of the Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword, but when he tried to perform it, half the move nearly exhausted his True Essence.

Zheng Qian’s simulation continued for centuries as he advanced his Intents and martial arts, eventually reaching the ninth heaven of the Treading Air Realm. He died at age 499, and the simulation ended with a perfect score and a choice of five rewards.

• Zheng Qian gradually advanced his Intents, comprehending the eighth strand of Fire Intent, Destruction Intent, Wind Intent, Lightning Intent, Blood Intent, Devour Intent, Wood Intent, Earth Intent, and Water Intent.
• Zheng Qian created new stances for several martial arts and cultivated the seventeenth layer of Blood Undying Body, though he sensed his lifespan had reached its limit.
• Zheng Qian comprehended the ninth strand of Destruction Intent, reached the ninth heaven of the Treading Air Realm, and became able to unleash the fourteenth stance of Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword.
• Zheng Qian felt the World Will suppressing him and began comprehending the ninth strand of Lightning Intent, reaching roughly one-third before his death at age 499.
• Zheng Qian watched the simulation end, received a perfect score of 96, and was offered a choice of five rewards.

Zheng Qian received the gains he had selected from the Buddha's Palm simulation and reached Treading Air Realm Nine Heavens. He then began a new simulation in The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang.

• Zheng Qian chose cultivation, talent, the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, Buddha's Palm, and Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill as his simulation rewards.
• The Simulator infused Zheng Qian with enhanced power and insights into multiple intents, raising him to Treading Air Realm Nine Heavens.
• Zheng Qian inherited the martial arts and cultivation methods in the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, but he still could not practice Buddha's Palm or Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill.
• Zheng Qian checked his attributes, decided his new realm was still not enough, and started another simulation.
• The Simulator sent Zheng Qian into The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang, whose legendary martial arts excited him.

Zheng Qian drew the Purple Talent [Sword Dao Prodigy] and simulated a life as Song Shidao, Song Que’s son, in the World of Twin Dragons. By age eight, he had secretly reached peak-perfection Grandmaster and was trying to find the nine heavenly treasures needed to break through to Great Grandmaster.

• Zheng Qian spent 1,000 Simulation Points to draw and choose the Purple Talent [Sword Dao Prodigy].
• The simulation made him Song Shidao, the protected male heir of the Lingnan Song Family and son of Song Que.
• Song Shidao excelled in his studies, and Song Que began teaching him martial arts when he was six.
• After awakening his past-life memories, Song Shidao cultivated the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art and secretly advanced to peak-perfection Grandmaster by age six.
• Song Shidao concealed his strength because powerful figures such as his father and Shi Zhixuan could threaten him.
• At age eight, Song Shidao sought to break through to Great Grandmaster but lacked the opportunity to gather the nine required heavenly treasures.