Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan rescued Su Xia and took her on the road, where she endured hardship, discovered cultivation, and gained a powerful foundation from the essence blood of Zhuque and Phoenix. After years of traveling and training, she left the remote mountains with the aging Xiao Xuan and arrived at Lingbo City.

• Xiao Xuan saved the bullied Su Xia, fed her, and persuaded her to follow him despite his unscrupulous ways.
• Su Xia traveled with Xiao Xuan, survived dangerous tombs, found cultivation manuals, and grew strong through physical training.
• Xiao Xuan staged a battle between Zhuque and Phoenix to test Su Xia, then left her to train under the pressure of their corpses.
• Su Xia reached the divine beasts, bathed in their essence blood, and studied their booklets to begin cultivating.
• Su Xia advanced to condensing Innate True Qi into liquid, and she and Xiao Xuan left the mountains for Lingbo City.
• Su Xia worried about Xiao Xuan's age, but he insisted on seeing the world while he was alive.

Xiao Xuan and Huang reunited while traveling with their disciples, exchanged gifts, and fled together after a dispute with cultivators seeking Huang. Later, Su Xia found the Emperor Xuan Pagoda in a secret realm and gained access to its bound beasts and techniques.

• Xiao Xuan and Huang introduced Su Xia and Nangong Xin, then prompted the girls to exchange phoenix blood and a sacred herb as gifts.
• Cultivators searching for Huang arrived, and Xiao Xuan exposed Huang and Nangong Xin as the people hiding under the table.
• Xiao Xuan scattered hallucinogenic powder and escaped with Su Xia while Huang fled with Nangong Xin.
• Afterward, Su Xia faced dangers in the cultivation world and found the Emperor Xuan Pagoda in a secret realm.
• The pagoda contained ten floors of bound ferocious beasts and divine beasts, and its spirit cultivated on the ninth floor while pursuing half-step Transcendence.

Xiao Xuan reached the Other Shore, a realm far sturdier than the worlds below, and witnessed two Sacrificial Dao-level beings locked in battle. The chapter ended as their evenly matched fight continued with a storm of saber light.

• Huang gave Nangong Xin a secret realm containing the ten-story Huang Tower and its powerful beasts.
• After centuries of cultivation, Xiao Xuan and Huang faked their deaths and left the mortal world, and Xiao Xuan returned to the Profound Dao Palace ten thousand years later.
• Xiao Xuan followed unseen guidance to reach the Other Shore, leaving behind a clone as a marker.
• Xiao Xuan saw a black bull demon and a silver-winged middle-aged man fighting with matched Sacrificial Dao-level strength.
• The black bull demon shattered the man's saber strike with its roar and attacked with beams from its horns, while the man countered and sent a storm of saber light toward it.

Xiao Xuan subdued a Swift Wind Sky Bull and questioned Lin Ji to learn about the Other Shore. Lin Ji explained its cultivation realms, resources, and powerful factions, leaving Xiao Xuan with an initial picture of the world and its immense strength.

• A man and a demon beast fought fiercely until Xiao Xuan froze them and flung the man away.
• Xiao Xuan demanded answers from the bull, which eagerly agreed to become his mount and was renamed Little Ox.
• Xiao Xuan questioned the surviving man, who identified himself as Lin Ji and bargained for his life.
• Lin Ji explained that he had come from the Central Heaven Great World and described the Other Shore's cultivation realms and its history of conflict.
• Lin Ji outlined the powerful leaders and forces of the Other Shore, and Xiao Xuan learned how numerous its high-level experts were.

Xiao Xuan investigated the powers of the Other Shore and traveled to Central Imperial City, drawing the attention of Hong Yuan Heavenly Venerable. The two Dao Masters met in the void and exchanged introductions.

• Lin Ji told Xiao Xuan about the legendary overlord forces of the Other Shore and suggested he seek information in Tyrant Blade Holy City.
• Xiao Xuan entered Tyrant Blade City and captured its city lord, Tyrant Blade Sacred Venerable, to ask about the world's powerful forces.
• After questioning Tyrant Blade Sacred Venerable and obtaining a map, Xiao Xuan left for Central Imperial City.
• Tyrant Blade Sacred Venerable reported Xiao Xuan to his superior, Hong Yuan Heavenly Venerable, who went to meet him.
• Hong Yuan asked Xiao Xuan who he was, and Xiao Xuan gave his Daoist title as Xuan.

Hong Yuan and the Central Emperor explained the power structure of the Other Shore and its two rankings to Xiao Xuan. Xiao Xuan joined the Central Imperial Dynasty as a Heavenly Venerable and settled into solitary cultivation while his reputation spread.

• Hong Yuan told Xiao Xuan how the Central Imperial Dynasty became a representative of Immortal Village and described the ancient sacred lands' formidable strength.
• The Central Emperor and five Heavenly Venerables arrived, and the Central Emperor invited Xiao Xuan to join the dynasty and pursue the Chaos Ranking.
• Xiao Xuan accepted the invitation and learned that the next Other Shore Ranking competition would begin in a hundred million years, with its top four also listed on the Chaos Ranking.
• The Central Imperial Dynasty announced Xiao Xuan as its new Heavenly Venerable, while Black Wind the Great Sage became chief steward of Xuan Residence.
• Xiao Xuan devoted himself to cultivation, and ambitious people began seeking to serve him.

At the Other Shore Ranking tournament, Xiao Xuan passed all ten floors of the Other Shore Tower and earned the right to challenge the reigning top ten. He chose Jue Kong, who launched a powerful attack as their duel began.

• Xiao Xuan recalled sparring with Aotian and noted that Huang, Chu Feng, Ye Fan, and Fang Han had also arrived in the Other Shore over the years.
• The previous top ten gathered in a hidden space inside the Other Shore Tower and agreed to keep the established challenge rules.
• Huang was eliminated on the sixth floor, Ye Fan and Fang Han on the fifth, and Chu Feng on the fourth, while Xiao Xuan defeated Origin's clone on the tenth floor.
• Xiao Xuan met the top ten and chose Jue Kong as his opponent for a ranking challenge.
• Jue Kong attacked Xiao Xuan with Severing Judgment, summoning a white spear that pierced through space-time as Xiao Xuan was immobilized.

Xiao Xuan fought Jue Kong for the seventh-ranked position, overpowering him with powerful attacks. Jue Kong recovered from the beating long enough to counter, but conceded after Xiao Xuan’s final assault.

• Xiao Xuan broke free of Jue Kong’s restraint and smashed his white spear with a punch.
• Xiao Xuan trapped Jue Kong in Time-Space Restraint and battered him with Myriad Layers Finger, sending him flying and drawing blood.
• Jue Kong evaded Xiao Xuan’s next punch and healed his wounds, though his aura had weakened.
• Jue Kong reappeared beside Xiao Xuan and knocked him back, but Xiao Xuan blocked his follow-up attacks with Protection and Eternal Haste.
• Xiao Xuan struck Jue Kong with Great Destruction Art, and Jue Kong conceded before returning to his seat to recover.

Xiao Xuan defeated Void Heaven with the Time Sword and his immortal body, then challenged Qing Yi. Qing Yi opened their battle with Reincarnation Suppression, shaking the unknown space.

• Jue Kong admitted defeat, giving Xiao Xuan the first victory, and Xiao Xuan challenged Void Heaven.
• Xiao Xuan's Time Sword shattered Void Heaven's shields, and Void Heaven caught it with his bare hands before escaping Xiao Xuan's follow-up attack through Void Transformation.
• Void Heaven used Great Void Binding to collapse the River of Time and Space and strike Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Xuan's immortal body left him unharmed.
• Void Heaven admitted defeat, and Xiao Xuan chose to challenge Qing Yi rather than the Wuji Saint Realm experts.
• Qing Yi confronted Xiao Xuan and used Reincarnation Suppression, shaking the unknown space.

Xiao Xuan and Qing Yi unleashed powerful attacks in their battle, with Qing Yi revealing techniques based on multiple laws. The fight continued as Xiao Xuan realized Qing Yi might also control the Law of Time.

• Xiao Xuan broke free of Qing Yi’s pressure and attacked her with All-Heaven Divine Thunder, landing a punch that Qing Yi blocked.
• Lord Dong and the others watched from afar and praised the fighters’ power, saying either might earn a place on the ranking after entering the Wuji Realm.
• Qing Yi summoned the Six Paths, Treasure Wheel and fired pitch-black beams that erased portions of space, forcing Xiao Xuan to dodge.
• Qing Yi used a hollow void formed from the Rule of Defense to block Xiao Xuan’s punch and divert its force, while he deduced that she had cultivated several laws.
• Xiao Xuan attacked again, but his punch slowed dramatically, leading him to suspect that Qing Yi was using the Law of Time.

Xiao Xuan tested his strength against Qing Yi’s Rules, while she relied on Time, Guard, and Enhancement Rules to defend herself. After Xiao Xuan shattered her enhanced Guard Rule with an eighty-percent-power punch, Qing Yi took the hit head-on.

• Qing Yi slowed Xiao Xuan with the Time Rule, attacked him with the Annihilation Rule, and blocked his sixty-percent-strength strike with the Guard Rule.
• Xiao Xuan increased his strength to seventy percent and shattered Qing Yi’s Guard Rule, forcing her to dodge.
• Qing Yi used the Enhancement Rule to strengthen the Guard Rule’s void by more than tenfold and added Time Rules to her defenses.
• Xiao Xuan appeared before Qing Yi and struck with eighty percent of his strength, piercing through and destroying the enhanced Guard Rule.
• Qing Yi failed to dodge and took Xiao Xuan’s punch head-on.

Xiao Xuan and Qing Yi traded devastating attacks, revealing their growing strength and the powers of Qing Yi’s Rules of Revival and injury transfer. Qing Yi prepared to unleash her seventh and final Rule, Samsara, and said she would admit defeat if it failed to overcome Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan’s punch broke through Qing Yi’s Rule of Defense and sent her crashing into the void.
• Qing Yi used Revival to restore her body and clothing, then attacked Xiao Xuan with Lights of Annihilation.
• Xiao Xuan struck Qing Yi with a world-destroying punch, but she transferred the force of the injury and counterattacked while he endured her bombardment.
• Xiao Xuan asked how Qing Yi had avoided his punch, and she explained that she had transferred its force.
• Qing Yi summoned the six voids formed by her Rules and invoked her seventh Rule, Samsara, promising to admit defeat if she could not beat Xiao Xuan.

Qing Yi revealed her Six Paths of Reincarnation and drew Xiao Xuan into its Heavenly Dao, where countless small worlds floated inside a space too strong to escape by force. She admitted she had brought him there to trap him and proposed a wager, then explained that the worlds were incomplete despite her efforts to create a supreme greater universe.

• Qing Yi showed Xiao Xuan the Six Paths of Reincarnation and said she had created it after reaching the Taiji Saint Realm hundreds of trillions of years earlier.
• Qing Yi sent Xiao Xuan into the Heavenly Dao, the strongest path, where he saw countless bubbles containing small worlds.
• Xiao Xuan failed to break the Heavenly Dao space even after using eighty percent of his strength.
• Xiao Xuan realized Qing Yi had drawn him into the space to avoid fighting and asked whether she meant to trap him.
• Qing Yi proposed a wager and revealed that the small worlds were incomplete, though she did not know why her attempt to create a supreme greater universe had produced them.

Xiao Xuan entered Qing Yi’s small worlds, gathered seven keys, and won their wager, securing fifth place on the Other Shore Ranking. After declining further challenges, he appeared outside the tower and reunited with Shi Hao, Fang Han, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, and the others.

• Qing Yi explained that her small worlds lacked proper rules and laws, warned Xiao Xuan that their inhabitants were strange, and told him to gather seven keys to leave.
• Xiao Xuan sent hundreds of millions of avatars into the small worlds, and after their long search, they gathered all seven keys.
• Xiao Xuan returned the fused purple sphere to Qing Yi, who acknowledged that he had won the wager and become fifth place.
• Xiao Xuan declined to challenge anyone else, while Long You lost his ranking match against Ming Yuan.
• Xiao Xuan appeared outside the tower, where experts greeted him as the Fifth Dao Master and Shi Hao, Fang Han, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng welcomed him familiarly.

Shi Hao and his friends reunited in Nine Heavens Sacred City, where they spent years together discussing the Dao. The Yin-Yang Dao Lord arrived with invitations to an epochal gathering hosted by the major holy lands, leaving the group to decide whether to attend and which powers to join.

• Shi Hao welcomed Xiao Xuan and the others to Nine Heavens Sacred City, where his relatives and friends had gathered in the City Lord Mansion.
• Xiao Xuan congratulated the Willow Deity on reaching the half-step Transcendence realm, and Shi Hao gave her a memory crystal of his battles in the Other Shore Tower.
• Shi Hao, Xiao Xuan, and their companions drank tea, discussed the Dao, and sparred for more than ten years.
• The Yin-Yang Dao Lord arrived from the Dao Palace and distributed invitations to the major holy lands' gathering once every epoch.
• The Yin-Yang Dao Lord explained that the invitations went to top-ranked Dao Lords and promising geniuses, and the Willow Deity learned that Immortal Village had specifically invited her.

A mysterious figure completed a breakthrough into the Da Luo Heavenly Realm while reflecting on the Other Shore and the choices his avatar might make. A hundred years later, Shi Hao and the gathered experts entered the Chaos ancient road leading toward the Ancient Sacred Land, where they struggled under its pressure.

• In a chaotic space, an unseen figure merged the Time Dao Fruit into the lotus dais and broke through into the Da Luo Heavenly Realm.
• The figure observed that several beings had reached Chaos and discovered that his avatar had arrived at the Other Shore and attained the Taiji Sacred Realm.
• A hundred years later, Long You and many Dao Lords and other experts gathered outside the Other Shore Tower.
• The Other Shore Tower opened a vast Chaos gate, revealing a suspended road made of Chaos stubborn stone.
• Shi Hao and the others stepped onto the ancient road and struggled against its crushing pressure as they made their way toward the Ancient Sacred Land.

Xiao Xuan and the others endured the Chaos Ancient Road and reached the Chaos Altar, where cultivation was suppressed to the Da Luo level. They met Xiao Ruohan, the Dao Palace’s formidable Dao Maiden, and Xiao Xuan sent a clone to test her strength.

• Dozens of challengers tried the narrow road, but its no-flight domain and crushing pressure forced most to fall back.
• After ten years of running across the mountain, Xiao Xuan and the others reached the Chaos Altar, a vast platform made from Chaos Divine Iron.
• Long You explained that representatives of the sacred land could use their invitation letters to enter without taking the trial.
• Xiao Xuan and the others found Xiao Ruohan on the altar and realized that the place had suppressed everyone’s cultivation to the Da Luo level.
• Xiao Ruohan boasted of her undefeated record, and Xiao Xuan sent a clone to fight her.
• Xiao Ruohan used Shrinking the Earth into an Inch to strike at Xiao Xuan’s face, and he dodged with a burst of afterimages.

Xiao Xuan defeated Xiao Ruohan after a fierce fight, then Shi Hao challenged her and revealed abilities that shocked her. Xiao Ruohan called their battle a draw after her Fate, Absolute Kill technique knocked Shi Hao out of the River of Time.

• Xiao Ruohan fought Xiao Xuan at the same realm, and Xiao Xuan defeated her using ninety percent of his strength.
• Xiao Ruohan introduced herself as the Dao Maiden of the Dao Palace and challenged the other Dao Lords, prompting Shi Hao to step forward.
• Shi Hao used Samsara runes to shrink Xiao Ruohan into a one-year-old girl before she could unleash her innate Divine Technique.
• Xiao Ruohan used One Qi, Three Purities, and Shi Hao countered with He Transforms into Xiao Ruohan, startling her because she recognized Immortal Village's forbidden Divine Ability.
• Xiao Ruohan launched Fate, Absolute Kill, and Shi Hao answered with He Transforms into Time; she knocked him out of the River of Time and called the fight a draw.

Xiao Ruohan remained undefeated through nearly a hundred battles, then challenged Willow Deity and other powerful cultivators on the Chaos Altar. After the old man urged her to return to the Dao Palace, her mother appeared and greeted him.

• Xiao Ruohan fought nearly a hundred challengers over almost a thousand years while staying undefeated, and around ten thousand people reached the Chaos Altar.
• The old man emerged from the altar, restored the challengers to their peak, and spoke privately with Xiao Ruohan about the coming age and the people’s extraordinary origins.
• Xiao Ruohan asked Willow Deity to spar, and Willow Deity eventually used early Quasi-Saint strength before Xiao Ruohan’s Saint Level sword brought their fight to a standstill.
• Xiao Ruohan fought the other Quasi-Saints and could defeat them at the same realm, but not while fighting above her realm.
• The old man told Xiao Ruohan to return to the Dao Palace, and she vowed to absorb her battle insights before challenging its elders again.
• Xiao Ruohan’s mother appeared, greeted the old man, and was recognized as the previous generation’s Heavenly Emperor’s Daoist Ground Imperial Daughter.

Ye Xin brought Xiao Ruohan and the visiting Dao Lords to the Dao Palace, where they learned about its powerful elders and ancient foundation. As the group prepared for the upcoming gathering, Xiao Chu and Myriad Books discussed the Dao Palace’s hopes for the rankings.

• Ye Xin reunited with Xiao Ruohan, then apologized to the visiting Dao Lords for her daughter’s behavior.
• Ye Xin took Xiao Ruohan and the others through a gateway into the Dao Palace’s world and had Xiao Chu arrange their accommodations.
• Xiao Chu explained the Dao Palace’s elder grades and described the formidable strength of the ancient sacred lands.
• Myriad Books arrived and greeted the visitors, while Xiao Chu praised his standing among the Dao Palace’s geniuses.
• Xiao Chu said Xiao Ruohan was expected to rank highly in the Holy Land Ranking and that Wu Dao aimed for the top three in the Chaos Ranking.