Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian transformed into a towering figure of light and fought the three Mahayana Patriarchs in a battle that shook heaven and earth. After both sides were injured and exhausted, the confrontation reached a stalemate, with neither side willing to risk a fight to the death.

• Ye Tian transformed into a fifty-meter-tall figure radiating immense power, leaving the three Mahayana Patriarchs unsure what ability he had used.
• Ye Tian resumed the battle and unleashed beams of light as the three Patriarchs attacked him with wind and snow, lightning and fire, and the sands of time.
• Ye Tian and the three Patriarchs traded increasingly powerful attacks, with Ye Tian using light to shield himself and counterattack while the Patriarchs sought a weakness.
• After a devastating collision, Ye Tian and the three Patriarchs paused to catch their breath and tend to their injuries.
• Ye Tian and the Patriarchs recognized that neither side could defeat the other alone and held back rather than risk mutual destruction.

Ye Tian forced Zhang Ming to reveal himself during a standoff with three Mahayana patriarchs, and Zhang Ming used his influence to end the fighting. He proposed that the patriarchs adopt [Fusion Divine Art] and build [Plasma Spark Towers] to solve their prefectures’ Spiritual Energy crisis, explaining how the combination would help cultivators thrive with less Spiritual Energy.

• Ye Tian called Zhang Ming into the open, drawing the three Mahayana patriarchs’ attention to him.
• Zhang Ming asked everyone to stop fighting, and the three patriarchs and Ye Tian agreed.
• Zhang Ming gathered the four men in a pavilion in Qingping Prefecture and offered a plan to address the Spiritual Energy crisis.
• Zhang Ming said the patriarchs could adopt [Fusion Divine Art] and build [Plasma Spark Towers], prompting them to ask whether he would teach them the method.
• Zhang Ming explained that [Fusion Divine Art] required little Spiritual Energy and that [Plasma Spark Towers] made it easier to cultivate, reducing dependence on dense Spiritual Energy environments.

Zhang Ming convinced the three Mahayana ancestors to accept the Fusion Divine Art and Plasma Spark Tower, then showed Ye Tian the Great Ruin threatening the Southern Wilderness World. Ye Tian agreed to help Zhang Ming save the world, and Zhang Ming began considering how they could move it out of the Great Ruin’s path.

• Zhang Ming warned the three Mahayana ancestors that Heaven and Earth were abnormal, then used the Face Fruit to persuade them to accept the gifts and withdraw.
• After the ancestors left, Ye Tian questioned Zhang Ming’s claim that the world was nearing destruction.
• Zhang Ming showed Ye Tian a memory of the Great Ruin beyond the world and explained the Southern Wilderness World’s remaining lifespan.
• Ye Tian agreed to join Zhang Ming in saving the Southern Wilderness World.
• Zhang Ming reasoned that they might escape the approaching Great Ruin by moving the world away from it.

Zhang Ming spread the [Fusion Divine Art] and [Plasma Spark Tower] across the Southern Wilderness while preparing to save the world from the Great Ruin. As the Immortal Kingdom rapidly grew under Wang Shao, host of the Red Alert System, Zhang Ming considered it a potential ruler for the doomed world.

• Zhang Ming established the Southern Wilderness New Calendar after the Mahayana ancestors of the Taiyuan Sect, Longyin Sect, and Fanjing Temple returned with the [Fusion Divine Art] and [Plasma Spark Tower].
• Zhang Ming announced that the Great Ruin would devour the Southern Wilderness in eighty-eight years, and cultivators across Zhong Province and the lower prefectures widely adopted the [Fusion Divine Art].
• Over three years, talented test subjects in the upper prefectures excelled with the [Fusion Divine Art], prompting many disciples to switch secretly while powerful forces began building [Plasma Spark Towers].
• The Immortal Kingdom in Wutai Prefecture used its puppet inheritance and Wang Shao's leadership to spread cultivation and build [Plasma Spark Towers] on a large scale.
• Zhang Ming reviewed reports about the Immortal Kingdom and wondered whether Wang Shao's growing power could make it a better ruler for the world than the old overlords.

By Southern Wilderness New Calendar, Year 10, the Immortal Kingdom had spread across most of the lower provinces while conflict brewed between rival cultivation factions in the upper provinces. Zhang Ming and Ye Tian continued building a World Array to defend the Southern Wilderness from the Great Ruin, and Zhang Ming summoned the Mahayana-level cultivators to witness its power.

• The Immortal Kingdom expanded across more than eighty percent of the lower provinces, and Wang Shao prepared to attack Zhong Province and unify the Southern Wilderness.
• In the upper provinces, [Fusion Divine Art] cultivators clashed with ancient-method Spirit Transformation cultivators over whether to build [Plasma Spark Tower]s on a large scale.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect remained Qingping Prefecture’s dominant force and produced more than ten Mahayana-level combatants in ten years, who joined Zhang Ming’s effort to save the world.
• Outside the Southern Wilderness World, Zhang Ming and Ye Tian continued installing the World Array, which was 5.12% complete after ten years.
• Zhang Ming summoned the Mahayana cultivators and other fighters with Mahayana-level power to gather and witness the World Array’s power.

Zhang Ming activated the World Array at 5.12% completion, giving the cultivators hope that the Southern Wilderness World could survive. He then planned to secretly adjust the array to encourage [Fusion Divine Art] cultivation and turned to building World Engines as a backup for moving the world.

• Zhang Ming gathered Mahayana cultivators and Flowing Light Sword Sect disciples to witness the World Array’s first activation.
• The array’s nodes connected and formed a vast barrier around the Southern Wilderness World, astonishing the gathered cultivators with its power.
• Zhang Ming urged everyone to keep working, and the cultivators renewed their determination to save the Southern Wilderness.
• Zhang Ming considered mixing something into the array to make the world more suitable for [Fusion Divine Art] cultivation and for Ultramen.
• Zhang Ming set out to build World Engines as a backup plan for moving the Southern Wilderness World beyond the Great Ruin.

By Southern Wilderness New Calendar Year 20, Fusion Divine Art and the Giants of Light had transformed the Southern Wilderness, while humanity faced extinction as births became rare and often produced Giants of Light instead. Wang Shao met Zhang Ming in Qingping Prefecture to seek permission to bring the last ten prefectures under the Immortal Kingdom’s rule, and Zhang Ming finally gave his verdict.

• Fusion Divine Art spread across the Southern Wilderness, and the old cultivation methods and prefectural hierarchy fell into decline.
• More than a hundred New Method cultivators gained Mahayana-level combat power, accelerating construction of the World Array and the Heavenly Dao’s changes to the world.
• Human reproduction became extraordinarily difficult, and the few successful births produced Giants of Light, leaving humanity on the path to extinction.
• The Immortal Kingdom expanded to control eighty-nine of the Southern Wilderness’s ninety-nine prefectures, avoiding the nine upper prefectures and Qingping Prefecture out of fear of Zhang Ming.
• Wang Shao met Zhang Ming in Qingping Prefecture and respectfully sought a verdict on the remaining ten prefectures.
• Zhang Ming gave his verdict, and Wang Shao was overjoyed.

Zhang Ming helped the Southern Wilderness unify and build inner and outer World Arrays, allowing the world to escape the Great Ruin and travel toward the Immortal Realm. A century later, Ye Tian discovered Zhang Ming had vanished and the arrays could no longer stop the world from crashing into the Immortal Realm.

• Zhang Ming permitted the Southern Wilderness to unify and ordered the Immortal Kingdom to help construct an Inner World Array alongside the Outer World Array.
• Over the following decades, the Immortal Kingdom unified the continent, the Fusion Divine Art transformed its people into Giants of Light, and both World Arrays were completed.
• In Southern Wilderness New Calendar Year 40, Zhang Ming activated the arrays, sending the Southern Wilderness World through the void and reversing its destruction countdown.
• The Southern Wilderness leaders chose to travel to the Immortal Realm, expecting the journey to take roughly three hundred years.
• In Year 200, Ye Tian discovered that Zhang Ming had disappeared and the arrays had malfunctioned, leaving the Southern Wilderness World unable to stop before it crashed into the Immortal Realm.

Zhang Ming seized Yu Yuanliang’s body after a Demoness extracted his essence, leaving him depleted and furious. As he checks his belongings and memories, he discovers the Demoness may have been cultivating a bloodline hidden within him.

• Zhang Ming learned from Yu Yuanliang’s memories that Yu Yuanliang, the City Lord of Fish Dragon City’s son, had been kidnapped and subjected to essence extraction by a Demoness.
• Zhang Ming realized the Demoness had left him with only Foundation Establishment Early Stage strength and five spirit stones, and he cursed her for the humiliation.
• Zhang Ming found his untouched Storage Bag, which held spirit stones, immortal stones, pills, and two low-grade Immortal Artifacts.
• Zhang Ming recalled the Demoness saying she had extracted his essence to cultivate using his bloodline, though Yu Yuanliang’s memories revealed no known bloodline.

After restoring Yu Yuanliang’s depleted body and cultivation, Zhang Ming formed a First-grade Golden Core in Qiyao Moyi Heaven. He then used a rescue Jade Talisman to summon Yu Yuanliang’s father, claiming he had been disgraced.

• Zhang Ming learned about the Yu family’s Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art and began cultivating it to restore his strength.
• Over the next month, Zhang Ming advanced Yu Yuanliang’s cultivation from Foundation Establishment Early Stage to peak perfection.
• Zhang Ming decided to form a Golden Core before returning home, partly because he feared Yu Yuanliang’s strict father.
• Zhang Ming used immortal stones to draw in immortal energy and successfully formed a First-grade Golden Core.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Zhang Ming activated a rescue Jade Talisman and called for Yu Yuanliang’s father to save him.

After recovering in Fish Dragon City, Zhang Ming told his True Immortal father how a Demoness had captured him and drained his essence, including what happened to his bloodline. His father explained the Yu family's inherited True Dragon bloodline and ordered Zhang Ming to stay inside the City Lord's Manor until his cultivation recovered.

• Zhang Ming soothed his worried maidservants with a fabricated story about surviving dangerous illusion trials in an ancient restriction.
• Several days later, Zhang Ming confessed everything to his True Immortal father, including the Demoness's Essence Extraction and the matter of his bloodline.
• Zhang Ming's father promised to handle the Demoness and scolded Zhang Ming for neglecting his cultivation.
• Zhang Ming's father revealed that the Yu family's ancestors had inherited a wisp of True Dragon Essence Blood, likely from a water-element True Dragon.
• Zhang Ming's father warned him to keep the bloodline secret and forbade him from leaving the City Lord's Manor until his cultivation recovered.

Zhang Ming chose to cultivate with the ordinary [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art] rather than reveal the vastly more powerful [Fusion Divine Art], hoping to explore the Immortal Realm while avoiding its Heavenly Dao's notice. A month later, he studied the City Lord's Manor library for knowledge that could help him improve his cultivation method and investigate his Dragon Bloodline.

• Zhang Ming considered switching to the [Fusion Divine Art] to regain power more quickly, but decided to keep using the [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art] so he could explore the Immortal Realm's cultivation path.
• Zhang Ming resolved to act like a normal cultivator because he feared drawing the Immortal Realm's Heavenly Dao's attention with abilities unknown in that realm.
• Zhang Ming considered adding an automatic-operation feature to the [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art], but decided to first build up knowledge and introduce any changes gradually.
• Zhang Ming planned to research cultivation books and investigate whether restoring his Dragon Bloodline could reveal ancient inherited memories and help complete his mission.
• A month later, Zhang Ming studied Jade Slips in the City Lord's Manor library and gained knowledge from Qiyao Moyi Heaven's extensive cultivation records.

Zhang Ming found the Immortal Realm’s cultivation ranks fundamentally no different from those of the Southern Wilderness and concluded that its ancient power structure had caused stagnation. After a year of work, he implanted an automatic cultivation program into the [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art] and turned his attention to his Dragon Bloodline, then received a visit from Yu Yuanlin.

• Zhang Ming decided that the Immortal Realm’s ranks were merely successive power upgrades and that its long-lived elites had entrenched its society and stalled progress.
• Zhang Ming anticipated a future clash between the strengthened Southern Wilderness Cultivation World and the Immortal Realm’s Thirty-Three Heavens.
• After a year of work, Zhang Ming implanted an Automatic Cultivation Mini-Program into the [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art], which began restoring his cultivation automatically.
• Zhang Ming suspected that the [Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Art] had a higher-level form and decided to investigate the Dragon Bloodline he believed the Demoness had not fully removed.
• Zhang Ming agreed to receive Yu Yuanlin, a relative with whom Yu Yuanliang had a history of conflict.

Zhang Ming confronted Yu Yuanlin over his attempt to undermine him and declared that Fish Dragon City belonged to his father. He returned to researching the Yu family’s weakened Dragon Bloodline and identified three ways to strengthen it, including testing a cultivation method he had created.

• Zhang Ming accused Yu Yuanlin of trying to provoke him and warned him not to bring troublemakers into the City Lord’s Manor.
• Zhang Ming’s True Immortal father watched the confrontation and praised Yu Yuanliang for becoming more mature.
• Yu Yuanlin reported Zhang Ming’s words to the Grand Elder, who slapped him and dismissed his plan to impeach the clan head.
• Zhang Ming examined his faint Dragon Bloodline and identified pills, high-quality immortal qi, and his Dragon Blood Purification Technique as ways to strengthen it.

Zhang Ming spent three years cultivating the Dragon Blood Purification Technique while recovering to Spirit Transformation, then persuaded his True Immortal father to release him from house arrest. After exploring Fish Dragon City and buying materials to purify his bloodline, he returned to the manor to wait for a chance to evade his father's surveillance.

• Zhang Ming cultivated the Dragon Blood Purification Technique and raised his Dragon Bloodline from one-three-millionth to one-millionth over three years.
• Zhang Ming's automatic cultivation restored him to Spirit Transformation, and he asked his True Immortal father to lift the restriction.
• Zhang Ming's father allowed him to leave the manor but ordered him to stay in Fish Dragon City until he reached Mahayana.
• Zhang Ming disguised himself, explored Fish Dragon City, and bought demon beasts with Dragon Bloodline and other bloodline-purification materials.
• Zhang Ming returned to the manor and planned to wait until his father reduced his surveillance before using the materials.

Zhang Ming took advantage of weakened surveillance to refine Dragon Blood Pills and used them to slightly increase the purity of his Dragon Bloodline. After considering the limits of his current methods, he decided to draw higher-quality immortal qi from the Three Pure Heavens by opening a gap in the barrier between the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Zhang Ming used his brief freedom from his father's surveillance to refine twelve Dragon Blood Pills, despite five failures.
• Zhang Ming swallowed the pills and raised his Dragon Bloodline purity to thirteen-millionths.
• Zhang Ming noted that Dragon Blood Pills and the Dragon Blood Purification Technique had limited effects, while suitable Dragon Blood Demon Beasts were scarce.
• Zhang Ming recalled his knowledge of the Immortal Realm's Thirty-Three Heavens and identified the Three Pure Heavens as rich in immortal qi.
• Zhang Ming decided to open a gap in the world barrier so immortal qi from the Three Pure Heavens would flow into Qiyao Moyi Heaven.

Zhang Ming harvested Immortal Qi leaking through a spatial rift and used 100,000 Mid-grade Immortal Stones to synthesize a wisp of Origin Immortal Qi. He greatly strengthened his Dragon Bloodline and planned to keep gathering Origin Immortal Qi to uncover the inheritance’s secrets.

• Zhang Ming discovered that his formation condensed high-quality Immortal Qi from the rift into Mid-grade Immortal Stones at a rate of 8,640 per day.
• Zhang Ming determined that synthesizing one wisp of Origin Immortal Qi required 100,000 Mid-grade Immortal Stones.
• After accumulating more than 100,000 Mid-grade Immortal Stones, Zhang Ming used a formation and incantation runes to synthesize a wisp of Origin Immortal Qi.
• Zhang Ming absorbed the Origin Immortal Qi, raising his Dragon Bloodline from 0.000013% to 1.00013%.
• Zhang Ming calculated that he could produce 100 wisps of Origin Immortal Qi in roughly three years and looked forward to learning the Dragon Bloodline’s hidden secrets.

After fifteen years of seclusion, Zhang Ming’s Dragon Bloodline had stalled at forty-nine percent, but it had made him vastly stronger and brought his cultivation to the peak of Mahayana. He left Fish Dragon City to prepare for his Immortal Tribulation, sensed someone plotting against him, and decided to kill the culprit with curses.

• Zhang Ming found that his purified Dragon Bloodline had undergone ancestral reversion and that its forty-nine-percent progress had increased his raw attributes tenfold.
• Zhang Ming failed to break through the bloodline bottleneck and turned his attention to surviving the Immortal Tribulation.
• Zhang Ming concealed his peak Mahayana cultivation and asked his nominal True Immortal father for permission to leave Fish Dragon City.
• Zhang Ming left under restrictions and protections, then sensed that someone was plotting against him.
• Zhang Ming identified the plotter and used his knowledge of curses and sorcery to resolve to kill them from afar.

Zhang Ming used a curse to kill Yu Yuanlin, then began his Immortal Tribulation on a remote island. He recognized the eighty-one-strike Chaos Immortal Tribulation and stood firm as the first bolts struck.

• Zhang Ming performed the Nail-Head Seven Arrows curse using energy to accelerate the ritual.
• Yu Yuanlin died in Fish Dragon City, believing poisoned wine had killed him.
• Zhang Ming prepared for ascension on a remote island within a formation.
• Zhang Ming triggered the Immortal Tribulation and identified its eighty-one strikes as the legendary Chaos Immortal Tribulation.
• Zhang Ming endured the opening bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder without using Mana or wavering.

Zhang Ming endured all eighty-one bolts of the Chaos Immortal Tribulation and became a powerful True Immortal. After leaving to cultivate in seclusion, he reflected on the unusual Daoist who had witnessed his ascension and revealed that he had marked him.

• A wandering Daoist approached Zhang Ming’s tribulation but was blocked by Zhang Ming’s powerful array, so he watched from a hundred li away.
• The Daoist witnessed Zhang Ming withstand all eighty-one bolts of the Chaos Immortal Tribulation, largely with his physical body.
• Zhang Ming passed the tribulation, became a True Immortal, and sensed that his strength had increased more than a hundredfold.
• The Daoist congratulated Zhang Ming, who replied that they should encourage one another before flying away.
• At a secluded cultivation site, Zhang Ming wondered how the ordinary Mahayana Daoist had sensed the tribulation and concluded that the Daoist was unusual.
• Zhang Ming revealed that he had marked the Daoist and believed he could track him as long as he remained in Qiyao Moyi Heaven.