Chapter Summaries

Zhang Ming studied the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Spirit Gathering Array while the Flowing Light Sword Sect, led by Ye Tian, pushed back the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country. His analysis revealed that the array would undergo a massive adjustment in about five years, affecting countless lives across the Southern Wilderness Continent.

• Azure Cloud Fortress joined the Flowing Light Sword Sect as Ye Tian led the sect's counterattack against the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country.
• Ye Tian and the two middle-stage Spirit Transformation Ancestors reached a stalemate, leaving the war to their followers.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect stabilized its lines and pushed them back despite its enemies' greater numbers and resources.
• Zhang Ming observed that the Flowing Light Sword Sect's cultivators were rapidly advancing in cultivation during the war.
• Zhang Ming deduced that the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array would undergo a vast adjustment roughly five years later.

Zhang Ming deduced that a shift in the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Spirit Gathering Array would lower the Spiritual Energy of three upper prefectures and raise Qingping Prefecture to an upper prefecture, drawing powerful rivals toward it. Meanwhile, Ye Tian’s forces remained locked in a costly war against the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country, whose leaders distrusted each other too much to join forces against him.

• Zhang Ming deduced that the array’s shift would weaken three upper prefectures and elevate Qingping Prefecture, making it a target for the displaced powers.
• Zhang Ming considered whether the upheaval was connected to Ye Tian, then decided to investigate the array’s influence.
• Ye Tian and the Flowing Light Sword Sect had fought the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country for half a year, with Ye Tian facing two mid-stage Spirit Transformation Ancestors in a stalemate.
• The Ten Thousand Buddha Temple’s Ancestor urged the Demon King to summon more Spirit Transformation Demon Kings to kill Ye Tian.
• The Demon King refused to act, fearing that the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple would exploit the assault to betray him.

Ye Tian asked Zhang Ming to develop a technique that could help him face Spirit Transformation cultivators, offering the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s resources in return. Zhang Ming accepted and began experiments, which had advanced to testing a captive inside a specially built laboratory.

• Ye Tian realized he could not break the deadlock against the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country alone, so he sent Zhang Ming a request for a powerful technique.
• Zhang Ming agreed to help Ye Tian, intending to create a technique whose power Ye Tian’s Golden Finger could amplify.
• With Ye Tian’s authorization, Zhang Ming used the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s people and resources to accelerate his research.
• More than half a year later, Zhang Ming observed a captive test subject inside a reinforced crystal laboratory.
• Zhang Ming told the frightened captive that he would be released after helping complete an experiment, and the man begged for his life.

Zhang Ming tested the Level Skip plan by transforming a man through soul evolution, law comprehension, and energy fusion. The man successfully reformed after becoming energy, but Zhang Ming killed him, confirming the experiment had worked.

• Zhang Ming linked formations to the man's body, beginning the soul evolution and law comprehension programs.
• Zhang Ming activated the Spirit Particle Fission Reactor, fusing energy with the man's soul and law authority as the man grew stronger and sensed the Law of Blazing Flames.
• Zhang Ming initiated the final step, transforming the man's body into energy and causing him to disappear.
• The scattered blue energy gathered and rebuilt the man, who briefly recovered his self-awareness.
• Zhang Ming used a controlling rune to make the man explode, then declared the experiment successful.

A year after their arrangement, Zhang Ming visited Ye Tian at the frontline fortress and gave him the Nine Heavens Light Speed Cloud Piercing Strike, which Ye Tian amplified into a formidable instant, light-speed attack. Zhang Ming hinted that he would need Ye Tian’s help after the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and Demon Country were destroyed, leaving Ye Tian wary but determined to grow stronger.

• Ye Tian reached the peak of the Golden Core realm and reflected on the resources he would need to advance to Nascent Soul.
• Zhang Ming arrived at Ye Tian’s camp, and the two exchanged congratulations and discussed their improved cultivation.
• Zhang Ming gave Ye Tian a Jade Slip containing the Nine Heavens Light Speed Cloud Piercing Strike, which Ye Tian’s Golden Finger amplified into an instant-casting, light-speed spell.
• Ye Tian praised the spell and offered to help Zhang Ming, who asked him to wait until he had destroyed the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country.
• Zhang Ming vanished from the camp, leaving Ye Tian wondering about his identity and intentions before resolving to grow stronger and confront the two powers.

Zhang Ming revealed that his appearances across the Southern Wilderness were satellite projections and unveiled the Plasma Spark Tower, which would nurture new special energy lifeforms. He reshaped his true energy form into Ultraman: Tiga and planned to transform the cultivation world's people into Ultraman beneath the tower's light.

• Zhang Ming explained that his satellite projections let him appear across vast distances and in many places at once.
• In Qingping Prefecture, Zhang Ming introduced the Plasma Spark Tower, designed to strengthen reactors, aid cultivators, and nurture special energy lifeforms.
• Zhang Ming revealed his plan to make everyone abandon humanity and become special energy lifeforms, wondering how the Immortal Realm would react.
• Zhang Ming changed his energy body's underlying form into Ultraman: Tiga and demonstrated an Ultra Kick that carved a long scar through the mountains.
• Zhang Ming declared that the Southern Wasteland Cultivation World would one day become the Southern Wasteland Ultraman World.

After mastering [Nine Heavens Light Speed Cloud Piercing Strike], Ye Tian destroyed the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country, then became a Nascent Soul True Lord. Zhang Ming told him that Qingping Prefecture would advance into an upper prefecture in three years, and Ye Tian asked whether he should stay to prepare.

• Ye Tian used [Nine Heavens Light Speed Cloud Piercing Strike] to defeat four Spirit Transformation cultivators who ambushed him.
• Ye Tian led the Flowing Light Sword Sect in a counteroffensive that destroyed the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country, then broke through to Nascent Soul.
• Ye Tian met Zhang Ming at Branch 13 and thanked him for the techniques that had helped him win.
• Zhang Ming told Ye Tian that Qingping Prefecture would gain Spiritual Energy and advance into an upper prefecture in three years.
• Ye Tian questioned whether the change was possible, then asked if Zhang Ming wanted him to stay in Qingping Prefecture and await it.

Ye Tian struggled to choose whether to stay with the Flowing Light Sword Sect as three upper-prefecture overlords threatened Qingping Prefecture. He agreed to stay and accept Zhang Ming’s teachings, while Zhang Ming realized he had persuaded the Heavenly Dao to agree to his plan.

• Zhang Ming told Ye Tian that three upper prefectures would fall into Zhong Prefecture around the time Qingping Prefecture advanced, bringing the threat of a devastating war.
• Ye Tian weighed fleeing with the Flowing Light Sword Sect against staying to defend it, but doubted he could face three upper-prefecture overlords within three years.
• When Zhang Ming said he would stay, Ye Tian decided to remain too and asked Zhang Ming for help protecting the Sword Sect.
• Zhang Ming offered Ye Tian the [Fission Divine Skill] and the [Plasma Spark Tower], claiming they could let the Sword Sect resist the three upper prefectures within three years.
• Ye Tian accepted Zhang Ming’s offer, and Zhang Ming placed a finger against his brow to teach him.
• After Ye Tian left, Zhang Ming wondered whether the Heavenly Dao had warned Ye Tian about the teachings, then concluded that he had persuaded the Heavenly Dao to agree to his plan.

Zhang Ming spoke with the Southern Wilderness World's Heavenly Dao and learned that the Great Ruin would reach the world in a hundred years and tear it apart. After considering the threat and spotting the distant Immortal Realm, he formed a plan and offered to explain it to the Heavenly Dao.

• The Southern Wilderness World's Heavenly Dao descended around Ye Tian after learning about Zhang Ming's Fusion Divine Art and Plasma Spark Tower.
• Zhang Ming offered to help the Heavenly Dao and asked what crisis threatened the world.
• The Heavenly Dao brought Zhang Ming outside the world and showed him the Great Ruin, a dark void drawing the Southern Wilderness World toward it.
• The Heavenly Dao said the Great Ruin would reach the world in a hundred years and swallow it, while Zhang Ming questioned whether Ye Tian could help.
• Zhang Ming surveyed the surrounding worlds, saw the distant Immortal Realm, and decided to present his own plan to the Heavenly Dao.

After Zhang Ming became a half-step Destined Protagonist, he expected his and Ye Tian’s influence to ensure the success of their plans. In Xuanshu Upper Prefecture, Xuanjizi divined a catastrophe so immense that it threatened the nine great sects and all cultivators.

• Zhang Ming learned that the Southern Wilderness Heavenly Dao had made him a legitimate transmigrator and a half-step Destined Protagonist after approving his proposal.
• Zhang Ming anticipated that his and Ye Tian’s combined protagonist status would help their plans and bring misfortune to their enemies.
• Xuanjizi summoned the Lesser Immortal Alliance leaders after detecting a change in the heavenly secrets.
• The Mahayana patriarchs supplied Mana to the Heaven Measuring Ruler while Xuanjizi performed a days-long divination.
• Xuanjizi announced that the heavenly secrets had changed more drastically than when the Immortal Gate closed, predicting that fewer than one in ten members of the nine great sects would remain and that all cultivators would perish.

Yi Anping joined the Flowing Light Sword Sect and received the [Fusion Divine Art] and an Immortal Seed from the Plasma Spark Tower. In half a year, he reached the Golden Core realm and fought a Nascent Soul True Lord to a draw, helping persuade the sect’s elders to adopt the new cultivation method, though Yi Anping now faced troubles of his own.

• Yi Anping joined the Flowing Light Sword Sect as one of its hundred thousand new disciples, distinguished by his Grade 9 supreme spiritual root.
• The Sect Master bestowed the [Fusion Divine Art] and an Immortal Seed upon the new disciples through the Plasma Spark Tower.
• Yi Anping cultivated with the Plasma Spark Tower’s aid and received guidance from Ye Tian, advancing faster than the other disciples.
• Yi Anping reached the Golden Core realm in half a year, and his Immortal Seed became a Fusion Golden Core.
• Yi Anping fought an ancient-method Nascent Soul True Lord to a draw, prompting reluctant sect elders to embrace the [Fusion Divine Art].
• Yi Anping, unaware of how he had influenced the sect’s transformation, faced troubles of his own.

Yi Anping discovered that activating the [Fusion Divine Art] caused his body to transform in ways that enhanced his abilities, then accepted a mission to exterminate Demon Country rebels in Blackwater Prefecture. After he entered the Graysand River, the Gray Sand Great Demon rallied a vast army to attack him.

• Yi Anping noticed his hands became mottled and energy-like while using [Fusion Divine Art], strengthening his senses, Mana, and spells.
• Yi Anping decided not to tell his Master about the changes and accepted a Golden Core-level mission to hunt rebels in Blackwater Prefecture.
• Yi Anping flew to the Graysand River, used protective barriers, and plunged underwater to investigate the gathered Demon Beasts.
• The Gray Sand Great Demon sensed Yi Anping's arrival and dismissed him as a lone Golden Core intruder.
• The Gray Sand Great Demon led a million Demon Beasts, including Golden Core and Nascent Soul fighters, to attack Yi Anping and advance his plans to rebuild the Demon Country.

Yi Anping faced Gray Sand Great Demon and his Demon Beast army, killed the Great Demon with a single spell, then slaughtered the million-strong army. After the battle, he remained almost completely unexhausted.

• Gray Sand Great Demon led his Demon Beast army to confront Yi Anping and mocked him as a Flowing Light Sword Sect expert.
• Yi Anping dodged Gray Sand Great Demon's attacks and fought back with his amplified Mana and swift movement technique.
• Yi Anping unleashed a massive pillar of energy that destroyed Gray Sand Great Demon and his Primordial Spirit.
• Yi Anping attacked the remaining Demon Beasts as they panicked, resisted, or tried to flee.
• Yi Anping exterminated the million Demon Beasts within a few hours and surveyed the devastated battlefield without showing signs of exhaustion.

Yi Anping returned from Blackwater Prefecture with his body beginning to transform into energy, and Ye Tian explained that this was a normal stage of the [Fusion Divine Art]. Half a year later, Ye Tian received a startling report showing a newborn infant transformed into energy.

• Yi Anping noticed that his energy transformation had spread from his hands to his arms, then left the battlefield after cleaning it up.
• Elderly monks emerged from their formation after Yi Anping departed and feared that their resistance was futile against the Flowing Light Sword Sect.
• Ye Tian transformed to reveal his own altered form and reassured Yi Anping that the changes caused by the [Fusion Divine Art] were beneficial.
• Ye Tian explained that complete energy transformation would open the gates to the Nascent Soul realm, and Yi Anping accepted his explanation.
• Half a year later, Ye Tian examined a transmission Jade Talisman and its recorded images, then reacted in shock to a newborn infant transformed into energy.

Zhang Ming told Ye Tian that the Southern Wasteland Cultivation World faced destruction within a hundred years and explained why he had promoted [Fusion Divine Art] and [Plasma Spark Tower]. After Ye Tian left, Zhang Ming sensed he had found the final piece of the puzzle and transferred much of his soul will into another body.

• Ye Tian accused Zhang Ming of using [Fusion Divine Art] and [Plasma Spark Tower] to replace humanity with foreign races, and Zhang Ming saw Ye Tian's fortune dissipate as he questioned the plan.
• Zhang Ming reminded Ye Tian that he had agreed to the plan to prepare for upheaval in the Southern Wilderness, which would cause three upper prefectures to fall and Qingping Prefecture to rise.
• Zhang Ming revealed that something had gone wrong with heaven and earth and that the Southern Wasteland Cultivation World had less than a hundred years left unless it was saved.
• Zhang Ming suggested that Ye Tian hold a Heaven Worship Ceremony to ask the heavens, then urged him to follow the choice in his heart.
• After Ye Tian left, Zhang Ming sensed that he had found the final piece of the puzzle and transferred much of his soul will through a distant satellite into another body.

Zhang Ming infiltrated Taiyuan Immortal City to obtain the Immortal Realm coordinates stored in its ancient Immortal Gate. After securing them, he realized the thousand-year-old coordinates were insufficient and received a Heavenly Dao-guided intuition about where to find more.

• Zhang Ming identified Taiyuan Upper Prefecture as one of the three upper prefectures destined to fall into Zhong Province.
• Zhang Ming entered the guarded palace in Taiyuan Immortal City and began cracking the Immortal Gate's protections.
• Zhang Ming summoned support from his main body in Qingping Prefecture, shifting most of his soul will to the Taiyuan Immortal City clone and accelerating the process.
• Zhang Ming obtained the Immortal Realm coordinates but judged that more were needed to locate the vast, ever-moving Immortal Realm accurately.
• Zhang Ming thanked the Heavenly Dao after receiving an intuition about where to find additional Immortal Realm coordinates.

Over ten months, energy transformation and the birth of energy-based infants became widely accepted, while the Spiritual Energy in Taiyuan, Longyin, and Fanjing Upper Prefectures began to decline. After Xuanjizi revealed that one Zhong Province would rise, cultivators searched the Southern Wilderness, and Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Bao entered Qingping Prefecture seeking mortals to sacrifice for their evil art.

• Energy-based infants became celebrated, and their growing numbers helped drive population growth as the [Fusion Divine Art] and [Plasma Spark Tower] projects continued.
• The Spiritual Energy across Taiyuan, Longyin, and Fanjing Upper Prefectures declined, spreading panic and causing blood clouds to gather over the regions.
• The Taiyuan patriarch asked Xuanjizi how to stop the decline, and Xuanjizi said it was part of heaven and earth's design and that one Zhong Province would rise in their place.
• The Longyin Sect and Fanjing Temple received the same cryptic message, prompting cultivators to search the Southern Wilderness for the rising Zhong Province.
• Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Bao entered Qingping Prefecture and decided to cultivate the [Blood Demon Undying Divine Art] by harvesting the essence blood of its people.

Ye Tian protected the Plasma Spark Tower from Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Bao, two Longyin Sect cultivators who mistook it for a treasure and attacked. After killing them and reading their memories, he learned more about the Nine Falls Three and worried that he needed more time before the great sects made their move.

• Waterbird City's people became obsessed with seeking immortality after the Plasma Spark Tower appeared and Immortals began recruiting strange infants.
• Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Bao sensed the tower's energy, mistook it for a treasure, and rushed toward it.
• A Flowing Light Sword Sect cultivator blasted the brothers, but their Thousand-Li Teleportation Talismans saved them and sent them away.
• Ye Tian received a report of the intruders and left the tower, hoping to delay revealing himself while his advantage grew.
• Ye Tian found and killed Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Bao, then read their memories and learned of the Longyin Sect, Fanjing Temple, Taiyuan Sect, and the Nine Falls Three.

The Mahayana ancestors of Taiyuan Sect, Longyin Sect, and Fanjing Temple divided Qingping Prefecture and planned to cleanse it, but Ye Tian confronted them. After Longyin Sect’s ancestor attacked, Ye Tian evaded and trapped him in the Flowing Light Sword Domain.

• The three Mahayana ancestors arrived above Qingping Prefecture, recognized its rising Spiritual Energy, and agreed to ally rather than risk fighting while the other six upper prefectures watched.
• The ancestors divided Qingping Prefecture into three portions and agreed to cleanse its inhabitants to conserve Spiritual Energy.
• Ye Tian appeared and challenged the ancestors for planning to divide and cleanse his prefecture.
• Longyin Sect’s ancestor attacked Ye Tian with a cloud dragon claw, but Ye Tian evaded and countered with a sword strike.
• Ye Tian closed in on Longyin Sect’s ancestor and trapped him inside the Flowing Light Sword Domain as the other two ancestors prepared to fight.

After three years of cultivating the Fusion Divine Art, Ye Tian confronted three Mahayana patriarchs and fought them with his sword domain. When their Immortal Artifacts suppressed him, Ye Tian unleashed a blinding power that left the patriarchs stunned.

• Ye Tian used his Flowing Light Sword Domain to withstand the three patriarchs’ combined attacks and strengthened it with the Fusion Divine Art.
• The patriarchs of the Taiyuan Sect, Fanjing Temple, and Longyin Sect brought out their Immortal Artifacts: a Jade Talisman, a Bronze Bell, and a Scroll Painting.
• The three Immortal Artifacts suppressed Ye Tian’s sword domain, neutralized his sword lights, and forced him back until he spat blood.
• Ye Tian challenged the patriarchs’ confidence, then roared as immense light burst from his body and startled them with his overwhelming Mana.