Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan accepted Daoist Duobao’s invitation despite Liu Yuan’s warnings, intending to let Duobao act and use the opportunity to purge the Interception Sect. At the East Sea restrictions, Qingyuan shattered the final barriers and let the gathered immortals enter, with Daoist Duobao leading the way.

• Liu Yuan warned Qingyuan that Daoist Duobao’s sudden invitation and promised benefits were suspicious, but Qingyuan said he would go and let events unfold.
• Qingyuan and Liu Yuan left Golden Ao Island, and Jie Sect Disciples and affiliated factions respectfully greeted Qingyuan as he arrived at the disturbance.
• Daoist Duobao and the Quasi-Saints reacted uneasily to Qingyuan’s arrival, while Qingyuan greeted them and offered to handle the remaining restrictions.
• Qingyuan shattered the Innate Restrictions with a casual flick of his hand, revealing an ancient Dao Resonance and traces of the Great Dao.
• Qingyuan declared the interior safe and allowed the immortals to seek opportunities without starting a Slaughter; after he pretended to grow angry, Daoist Duobao led people inside, followed by the crowd.

Qingyuan stayed outside the Spacetime Fragment while immortals explored its ancient world and gradually returned with insights and opportunities. After more than seventeen million years had passed inside, Daoist Duobao and the other top Quasi-Saints emerged and urged Qingyuan to enter.

• Qingyuan refused to enter the Spacetime Fragment as immortals poured inside, while Liu Yuan questioned whether the realm was genuine.
• Minor immortals returned first, explaining that time flowed a million years inside for every day outside and that most treasures had weathered away.
• Daluo Golden Immortals emerged with new gains and thanked Qingyuan for granting them access.
• Quasi-Saints revealed that the fragment came from the era between the Fierce Beast Tribulation and the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation, after Shenni's self-destruction tore away part of the world.
• Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiāo, and other top Quasi-Saints returned after more than seventeen million years inside and invited Qingyuan to enter.

Qingyuan accepted Daoist Duobao’s jade slip and entrusted him with the Qingping Sword and leadership of the Interception Sect while he entered the Secret Realm with Liu Yuan. After Qingyuan left, Daoist Duobao revealed his ambition to win power, and the onlookers were left baffled by his sudden change.

• Daoist Duobao presented Qingyuan with a jade slip of his insights, and Qingyuan accepted it while promising to explain the path to sainthood if he attained it.
• Qingyuan asked Daoist Duobao to oversee the Interception Sect during his seclusion and appointed him Acting Deputy Sect Master.
• Qingyuan gave Daoist Duobao the Qingping Sword and told him to protect the sect and manage its affairs.
• Qingyuan and Liu Yuan entered the Secret Realm as the Quasi-Saints watched, while Daoist Duobao held the sword in silence.
• After Qingyuan and Liu Yuan disappeared, Daoist Duobao declared that winning was all that mattered, leaving the other disciples baffled.

After Qingyuan entered the realm, it collapsed and vanished, leaving the Interception Sect’s disciples believing their Senior Disciple Brother was lost. Daoist Duobao took command, claimed Qingyuan had entrusted the sect to him, and threatened those who challenged his authority.

• The realm collapsed as Qingyuan entered, and the Quasi-Saints’ magic treasures could not find or restore it.
• Interception Sect disciples and powers across the Primordial Wilderness feared Qingyuan was missing and suspected a plot, while rival powers considered exploiting his absence.
• Daoist Duobao remained silent as his junior brothers demanded that he use the Qingping Sword to rescue Qingyuan.
• Daoist Duobao told the disciples to stop panicking, insisting Qingyuan was powerful and might have entered secluded cultivation after the realm merged with him.
• When Qingyuan’s followers and the Dragon Clan demanded an investigation, Daoist Duobao raised the Qingping Sword and said Qingyuan had entrusted him with managing the Interception Sect, warning that further opposition could amount to betrayal.

Daoist Duobao used the Qingping Sword to assert control over the Interception Sect, and his growing ambition loosened the bottleneck in fusing his Three Corpses. He ordered all Jie Sect Disciples to assemble at Golden Ao Island, while Zhao Gongming and Bi Xiao challenged his authority and Yun Xiao suspected betrayal.

• Daoist Duobao intimidated the disciples and lineage elders with the Qingping Sword, and the Three Corpses stirred as his cultivation bottleneck loosened.
• Daoist Duobao imagined fusing his Three Corpses and becoming a Hunyuan Saint, then ordered every Jie Sect Disciple to attend a meeting at Golden Ao Island or face expulsion.
• Zhao Gongming addressed Daoist Duobao as Second Senior Brother, and Bi Xiao rejected his claim to be Acting Sect Master.
• Yun Xiao warned Bi Xiao to be quiet and suspected Daoist Duobao was connected to Qingyuan's disappearance.
• Zhao Gongming questioned whether absent disciples, including Qingyuan, would be expelled, and Daoist Duobao said they would not be treated as traitors before cutting off further discussion and leaving for the meeting.

After Senior Disciple Brother vanished, Daoist Duobao summoned the Jie Sect Disciples and claimed he had been appointed Acting Sect Master. He silenced objections by invoking his authority over the Law Enforcement Department and having dissenting disciples detained.

• The Yugu Drum summoned Jie Sect Disciples to Golden Ao Island, where the Law Enforcement Department admitted only those with disciple tokens.
• Daoist Duobao announced that Senior Disciple Brother had vanished after entering a Secret Realm and claimed Senior Disciple Brother had appointed him Acting Sect Master, giving him the Qingping Sword as proof.
• Several disciples questioned Duobao's claim and argued that the sect should focus on searching for Senior Disciple Brother.
• Duobao accused the objectors of challenging Senior Disciple Brother's orders and had Daoist Qiwu taken away for investigation.
• Duobao cited case files against other protesting disciples, and the Law Enforcement Department dragged them away as the gathering erupted in confusion.

Daoist Duobao tried to consolidate control of the Interception Sect by arresting dissenting disciples and imposing strict rules, then punished those who resisted. His new authority was thrown into crisis when the network went down and disabled the Law Enforcement Department’s systems.

• Daoist Duobao had the Law Enforcement Department arrest disciples over alleged misconduct and announced a broad set of rules for the Interception Sect.
• Jie Sect Disciples protested Duobao’s harsh demands and compared his management unfavorably with Qingyuan’s.
• Duobao accused the protesters of being rebellious, sealed the Daoxing of several hundred disciples, and had them taken away.
• Duobao declared that his orders would be supreme, then punished a Law Enforcement Department disciple who rushed in with an urgent report.
• Law Enforcement Department disciples reported that the network was down, leaving their systems and procedures paralyzed.
• Jie Sect Disciples confirmed the outage and panicked, with some suspecting that Duobao’s taking office had caused it.

The Internet collapsed after Qingyuan disappeared, disrupting commerce throughout the Primordial Wilderness and turning the Jie Sect against Daoist Duobao. As the sect descended into chaos, Duobao ordered Qingyuan’s Personal Disciples brought back and secretly contacted Guangchengzi.

• Jie Sect Disciples panicked as the vanished Internet cut off their trades, shipments, and communications, and even the Personal Disciples demanded answers from Daoist Duobao.
• A Law Enforcement Department disciple reported that the Internet’s core had disappeared with Qingyuan, prompting the Jie Sect Disciples to suspect Duobao had caused Qingyuan’s disappearance to seize power.
• Duobao ordered Yun Zhongzi, Wuzhiqi, Yuan Hong, and Qingyuan’s other Personal Disciples summoned, threatening to execute them as traitors if they refused to return.
• The Jie Sect assembly broke up as its disciples scattered to handle their affairs, while disorder spread across the East Sea and the Primordial Wilderness.
• Duobao used a secret technique to contact Guangchengzi.

Guangchengzi and Daoist Duobao argued over the Internet’s disappearance, their losses, and the Immortal Dao Alliance, before Guangchengzi urged Duobao to help fill the Investiture of the Gods roster by driving dissatisfied Interception Sect disciples away. Guangchengzi departed, leaving Duobao to consider the plan, then ordered offenders brought before him in West Qi.

• Daoist Duobao blamed Guangchengzi for Qingyuan’s disappearance and the Internet’s collapse, citing losses of two hundred trillion Immortal Crystals.
• Guangchengzi rebuked Duobao, then acknowledged his losses and promised to make him leader of the Immortal Dao Alliance and help him pursue sainthood.
• Guangchengzi asked Duobao to help meet the million-Immortal quota for the Investiture of the Gods.
• Guangchengzi proposed that Duobao suppress dissatisfied Interception Sect disciples and let them be driven from the East Sea, while making it appear he had only enforced the rules.
• Guangchengzi left Duobao to consider the plan and said Qingyuan could not return while the Heavenly Dao Saints were absent.
• In West Qi, Guangchengzi ordered his people to bring the offenders before him.

Yang Jian was brought before Guangchengzi for losing a million loads of provisions while serving as Great Zhou's grain transport officer. After Sanyi Sheng accused him and implicated his siblings, Guangchengzi ordered Yang Jian beheaded once the military pledge was produced.

• Chan Sect disciples escorted the bound Yang Jian into the main camp, where Guangchengzi questioned why he had been brought as a criminal.
• The disciples accused Yang Jian of failing to protect the army's provisions, and Sanyi Sheng demanded his execution under military law.
• Yang Jian denied defecting to the enemy and warned Sanyi Sheng not to involve his family.
• Sanyi Sheng produced Yang Jian's military order pledge, and Guangchengzi ordered him dragged out and beheaded.

Guangchengzi oversaw Yang Jian’s execution after the bound prisoner’s neck withstood Nangong Shi’s blade and the immortals’ attacks. Yang Jiao stormed in to defend his brother, and Daoist Randeng appeared to shield both brothers as the army prepared to attack.

• Guangchengzi allowed Nangong Shi to begin Yang Jian’s execution, but Nangong Shi’s blade snapped against Yang Jian’s neck.
• A Chan Sect Disciple explained that Yang Jian’s Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique made his body resistant to weapons and spells, and the immortals tortured him to test its limits.
• Nangong Shi and the generals mocked Yang Jian and discussed using Lu Ya’s Immortal-Slaying Gourd to kill him.
• Yang Jiao arrived, drove back the immortals who had harmed Yang Jian, and stood beside his brother as soldiers and Quasi-Saints surrounded them.
• Daoist Randeng appeared and shielded Yang Jiao and Yang Jian, pleading with the gathered immortals not to attack.

Daoist Randeng confronted Guangchengzi over Yang Jian’s imprisonment, but Guangchengzi accused Randeng and his disciples of failing their duties. Guangchengzi offered Randeng a chance to erase their offenses, then threatened to proceed by the rules when Randeng stayed silent.

• Daoist Randeng arrived with Yang Jian and challenged Guangchengzi over his disciple’s imprisonment.
• Guangchengzi accused Randeng of threatening him and reminded him that he was speaking to the Chan Sect’s Acting Sect Master.
• Guangchengzi argued that Yang Jian and his siblings had been given easy rear-line jobs while other disciples faced danger at the front.
• Guangchengzi accused Randeng of abandoning his post on the East Sea coast and dismissed his explanation that the Interception Sect’s forces were too numerous.
• Guangchengzi offered Randeng a chance to wipe away his and Yang Jian’s offenses, but Randeng remained silent, so Guangchengzi said he would handle matters by the rules.

Guangchengzi pressured Daoist Randeng into gathering the Immortal Dao Alliance for the Conquest of Zhou by threatening him and his disciples. Daoist Randeng took the alliance documents and left, deciding to seek help from the Heavenly Court first.

• Guangchengzi accused Daoist Randeng and Yang Jian of serious failures and declared that they deserved execution, while Sanyi Sheng and the onlookers condemned them.
• Guangchengzi threatened to seize Daoist Randeng and his three disciples, prompting Randeng to ask what task would spare them.
• Guangchengzi ordered Daoist Randeng to gather the Immortal Dao Alliance members to discuss joining the Conquest of Zhou.
• Daoist Randeng realized Guangchengzi was using the task to put him in danger, but took the alliance documents after Guangchengzi refused to release his disciples.
• Daoist Randeng left to try his luck at the Heavenly Court.

Daoist Randeng sought Taibai Golden Star’s help to save the Yang siblings from Guangchengzi’s trap, but Taibai warned him that intervening could provoke the Primordial Wilderness’s factions. He finally suggested a possible path involving Lu Ya, leaving Daoist Randeng to decide whether to pursue it.

• Daoist Randeng persuaded Juling Shen to let him enter the Heavenly Court by pretending to injure him, and Juling Shen’s deputies helped create a distraction.
• Taibai Golden Star initially refused to discuss anything beyond his duties, but Daoist Randeng explained that Guangchengzi had trapped him and endangered the Yang siblings.
• Taibai Golden Star warned Daoist Randeng that helping could offend a Saint’s disciples and other factions, especially after Randeng had already antagonized the Jie Sect Disciples.
• Taibai Golden Star offered Daoist Randeng a possible path and asked whether he knew about Lu Ya.

Taibai Golden Star persuaded Daoist Randeng to break with the Chan Sect and seek a new path, and Randeng decided to stand against Guangchengzi. Returning to Great Zhou, Randeng took Yang Chan and tried to leave with Yang Jiao and Yang Jian, but the Chan Sect blocked him, and he killed Sanyi Sheng.

• Taibai Golden Star urged Randeng to stop yielding to the Chan Sect and reminded him that he had a powerful master to rely on.
• Randeng thanked Taibai Golden Star, resolved to sever his ties to the Chan Sect, and left to handle matters.
• Randeng returned to Great Zhou, took Yang Chan, and went to collect Yang Jiao and Yang Jian.
• Chan Sect disciples and Quasi-Saints surrounded Randeng and mocked him for abandoning Guangchengzi’s assignment.
• When Sanyi Sheng tried to stop him, Randeng struck and severed his head.

Daoist Randeng killed Sanyi Sheng, denounced the Chan Sect, and declared that he would establish the Immortal Awakening Sect. Taibai Golden Star realized Randeng had misunderstood his hint to join the Heavenly Court and mobilized its forces to save the Heavenly Emperor’s nephew, while Randeng faced a powerful gathering of enemies outside West Qi City.

• Daoist Randeng cut off Sanyi Sheng’s head, then publicly accused Guangchengzi and left the Chan Sect to establish the Immortal Awakening Sect.
• Taibai Golden Star realized that Randeng had formed his own sect instead of joining the Heavenly Court, so he ordered the Heavenly Court’s forces to mobilize and descend to the lower realm to save His Majesty’s nephew.
• Daoist Randeng unleashed his Primordial Golden Immortal Late Stage power and sent nearby Quasi-Saints and Grand Unity Golden Immortals flying as he tried to leave.
• Chan Sect disciples condemned Daoist Randeng for betraying the sect, while Tianlin and other powerful figures gathered to confront him.
• Thirteen experts empowered by the Human Dao Seal joined the Quasi-Saints and Grand Unity Golden Immortals, preparing to suppress Daoist Randeng.

Guangchengzi offered the Human Dao Saint Position as a reward for killing Daoist Randeng, and more than a hundred Quasi-Saints attacked him. Randeng fought back fiercely but was gradually overwhelmed until Taibai Golden Star arrived and ordered everyone to stop.

• Daoist Randeng accused Guangchengzi of betraying the Chan Sect and imitating the First Disciple of the Intercepting Sect, while Guangchengzi defended his rule through benefits and official positions.
• Guangchengzi promised the remaining Human Dao Saint Position to whoever captured Randeng, prompting the Immortals to attack him.
• Randeng fought off the attackers with Innate Spiritual Treasures and powerful spells, astonishing the Immortals with his strength.
• The attackers coordinated their assault, battered Randeng's treasures, and inflicted severe injuries, though they feared he might take someone down with him.
• Taibai Golden Star arrived from the heavens and demanded that the Immortals stop.

The Heavenly Court intervened in the Chan Sect conflict at West Qi, and Taibai Golden Star refused to back down from Guangchengzi and Phoenix Ancestor. The Heavenly Court revealed the restored Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, leaving Guangchengzi and the other factions facing its temporary Saint-level power.

• The Heavenly Court deployed millions of soldiers and immortals to West Qi, prompting the fighters to pause as Taibai Golden Star ordered the drums and thunder sounded.
• Guangchengzi rejected Taibai Golden Star's attempt to settle the matter and threatened the Heavenly Court, while Taibai demanded the release of those being held.
• Guangchengzi called on Phoenix Ancestor, who appeared before Taibai and ordered him to commit suicide so the rest of the Heavenly Court could surrender.
• Taibai challenged Phoenix Ancestor and commanded the Heavenly Court's troops to activate their killing formation.
• The Heavenly Court formed the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, astonishing the Primordial Wilderness with its power to temporarily rival a Saint.
• Guangchengzi realized that Haotian's backing had enabled the Heavenly Court to restore the array and saw that the conflict would be difficult to resolve.

The Phoenix Ancestor attacked Daoist Randeng while Taibai Golden Star fought her with the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, which Guangchengzi manipulated toward collapse. Just as the Phoenix Ancestor moved to kill Taibai Golden Star, her True Fire failed to harm him.

• Guangchengzi urged the Phoenix Ancestor to kill Daoist Randeng, and she unleashed the Southern Bright Separation Fire to erase him completely.
• Taibai Golden Star attacked the Phoenix Ancestor with the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, blaming himself for Daoist Randeng's predicament and the Heavenly Emperor's relatives' deaths.
• The Phoenix Ancestor wounded Taibai Golden Star as Guangchengzi questioned his loyalty and secretly mocked him, weakening his resolve.
• Taibai Golden Star's distraction let the Phoenix Ancestor collapse the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and move to kill him.
• The Phoenix Ancestor's boundless True Fire could not harm Taibai Golden Star.

Daoist Randeng reappeared as a Hunyuan Saint and stopped the Phoenix Ancestor from killing Taibai Golden Star. The Phoenix Ancestor hesitated to fight him, while Guangchengzi urged her to attack.

• The Phoenix Ancestor's Southern Bright Separation Fire and Void Cone failed to reach Taibai Golden Star because an unseen force intervened.
• Taibai Golden Star blamed himself for Daoist Randeng's apparent death and prepared to fight the Phoenix Ancestor to the death.
• Daoist Randeng emerged and blocked the Void Cone with his Immeasurable Ruler, recovering after much of his body was destroyed.
• Onlookers realized Daoist Randeng had become a Hunyuan Saint and began calling him Randeng Celestial Venerable.
• The Phoenix Ancestor hesitated when Daoist Randeng asked whether she would fight or withdraw, and Guangchengzi ordered her to kill him.