Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping received Daoist Cang Yue’s warning that he could use the operation against Wei Kong to eliminate a Second Seat, and that danger involving three sects awaited after Wang Ping left for outer space. After consulting Ao Hong and Lord Rongyang, Wang Ping arranged defenses on the Central Continent and joined the expedition to the Moon Outpost, where the group prepared to close in on Wei Kong’s forces.

• A Third Realm Artifact Cultivator delivered Cang Yue’s message, warning Wang Ping that Cang Yue could secretly eliminate a Second Seat and urging him to bring Liuyun into outer space because Vajra Temple, Taiyin Sect, and Earth Cave Sect planned something after his departure.
• Wang Ping consulted Ao Hong and Lord Rongyang, and they agreed he would take Liuyun into outer space while they guarded the Central Continent and acted against possible threats from the three sects.
• Mansu sent a message about the Rebels, and Wang Ping convened a Second Seat meeting that assigned Wang Ping, Liuyun, Yuxing, and Bu Qiong to join Mansu in the operation against Wei Kong.
• Wang Ping made arrangements for Dong Can and Liu Shuang, then traveled with Yulian to the Moon Outpost and met Bu Qiong, Yuxing, and Liuyun.
• Bu Qiong led the group through a temporary outpost toward the asteroid belt where Mansu had trapped Wei Kong, urging them to surround the Rebels before they could counterattack.

Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang confirmed Rebel activity in the asteroid belt and joined Wang Ping as he prepared to lead an assault on Wei Kong’s forces. Wang Ping waited at Pang Xu’s concealed outpost for Daoist Cang Yue, whose arrival left him poised to begin the operation.

• Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang infiltrated a Rebel surveillance zone, confirmed the intelligence, and returned to Pang Xu’s outpost.
• Pang Xu told Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang that more than a hundred Third Realm cultivators and five Second Seats were assembling to encircle the Rebels.
• Wang Ping met Pang Xu, Leng Kezhen, and Qingjiang, ordered the outpost’s array dismantled, and prepared to attack the Rebel region within five hours.
• Qingjiang told Wang Ping that scout reports had become accurate and timely only in the past three months, though Leng Kezhen had never seen a Rebel firsthand.
• Yulian explained that spirit creatures and living things on the Central Continent polluted one another, and Daoist Cang Yue arrived to meet Wang Ping.

Wang Ping weighed Cang Yue’s proposal to oppose the Second Seat meeting while learning about Jiutian Pavilion and the divide between Human Way cultivators and others. He led an assault on a rebel outpost, captured a Star God, and left the prisoner’s interrogation to Pang Xu.

• Cang Yue thanked Wang Ping for bringing him to outer space and urged him to join a plan against the Second Seat meeting, but Wang Ping refused to commit without knowing more.
• Cang Yue explained that Jiutian Pavilion studied the Sacrificial Art and had been founded by Zi Xuan and Cang Ji, who were not Human Way cultivators and looked down on them.
• Wang Ping ordered Pang Xu and twelve Third Realm cultivators to advance on the rebel outpost while he and Cang Yue covered them.
• Wang Ping used the Gold Probing Ball to map the surrounding starry void, then followed Pang Xu’s group and prepared transfer routes.
• Pang Xu attacked the outpost with the Sun Flower as Wang Ping’s Golden Armored Puppets captured a fleeing Second Realm Star God using Wood Spirit poison.
• Cang Yue hinted that he knew Wang Ping had taken his Master’s Netherworld Body, and Pang Xu volunteered to search the captured rebel’s memories.

Wang Ping’s forces pursued the Rebels and discovered a fortified gathering point where a Star God cultivator had absorbed Outer Realm energy. As Pang Xu’s attack was effortlessly neutralized by the cultivator’s corrupted power, Wang Ping recognized the emergence of something resembling a demon.

• Wang Ping let Pang Xu take an unconscious Rebel Star God to investigate his memories while ordering the offensive to continue, and he later told Yulian he suspected Pang Xu knew more about the Rebels’ motives.
• Pang Xu’s squads found abandoned sentry towers and captured two Rebels before Wang Ping detected a guarded meteorite base containing over a hundred people and two Third Realm cultivators.
• Cang Yue said the unusually dense Outer Realm energy would reveal a new cultivation method, and Wang Ping sensed an unknown presence hidden in the darkness.
• Pang Xu attacked the newcomer with the True Sun Sect’s Flame Kill Technique, but the man dissolved it with mutated Corrosion power after absorbing Outer Realm energy.
• Yulian described the man’s power as unrestrained human nature devoted to releasing evil, and Wang Ping thought of the word “Demon.”

Wang Ping and Cang Yue defeated and captured a demonic cultivator whose secret art drew on human nature and Outer Realm energy, then examined his path toward the Fourth Realm. After receiving conflictingly routed orders concerning Liuyun, Wang Ping secretly used three talismans and the Fortune Array, increasing his fusion with the Sky-Veiling Talisman to 8/100.

• Leng Kezhen, Qingjiang, and Pang Xu battled the demonic cultivator, whose Corrosion powers nearly killed Pang Xu before his metal sphere abruptly lost its energy.
• Cang Yue confronted the demonic cultivator while Wang Ping asked him to demonstrate his secret art; Cang Yue withstood the resulting attack unharmed.
• Yulian explained that the demonic cultivator’s Primordial Spirit could approach the Fourth Realm but remained bound by Heavenly Way rules, and the cultivator escaped briefly before Wang Ping’s sealed space pulled him back.
• Wang Ping sealed the demonic cultivator’s body and Primordial Spirit after questioning him about desire and his demonic cultivation.
• Wang Ping received Lord Rongyang’s coded order to work with Cang Yue to eliminate Liuyun and a separate message from Ao Hong that could not display properly.
• After Cang Yue left, Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman, Heaven Connecting Talisman, Sky-Veiling Talisman, and Fortune Array, raising his Sky-Veiling Talisman fusion progress to 8/100.

Wang Ping agreed to cooperate with Cang Yue and pursued the Rebels toward the asteroid belt. After learning that Liuyun and Bu Qiong had encountered Wei Kong and the Rebel main force, Wang Ping followed Cang Yue into a catastrophic Fourth Realm battle zone, where he sensed Bu Qiong, Prefect Yuxing, and Mansu nearby.

• Wang Ping deduced that Ao Hong had encountered trouble, then decided to cooperate with Cang Yue after discussing the Central Continent's political situation.
• Cang Yue asked for three days to leave, while Wang Ping remained cautious and led Pang Xu's squads as they destroyed six Rebel strongholds.
• Cang Yue returned and explained that his people had guided the Rebels toward a breakout route, but Wang Ping's squad found their target garrison deserted and followed markers left by spies.
• Mansu reported that the encirclement was complete, then informed Wang Ping that Liuyun and Bu Qiong had encountered Wei Kong and the Rebel main force.
• Wang Ping followed Cang Yue through a region shattered by Fourth Realm combat and sensed the auras of Bu Qiong, Prefect Yuxing, and Mansu.

Wang Ping arrived as Wei Kong fought the righteous sect cultivators and learned that Lord Liuyun had been killed. Prefect Yuxing battled Wei Kong with her rule world and Five Elements power, but Wei Kong absorbed more Outer Realm energy and prepared to continue the fight.

• Wang Ping found Lord Liuyun’s giant Earth Tortoise form dead and saw Wei Kong confronting Bu Qiong and the other cultivators.
• Wei Kong repelled Yuxing’s lightning attack and Mansu’s assault, but Wang Ping used a Transfer Talisman to rescue Mansu and briefly disrupted Wei Kong’s thoughts.
• Mansu warned Yuxing that Wei Kong carried a spatial artifact and over ten thousand Outer Realm Demonic Creatures, while Wei Kong absorbed one creature’s energy to strengthen his Star God core.
• Yuxing unleashed her seven-colored rule world, but Wei Kong used spatial barriers and his artifact to evade its effects and attack her with a black vortex.
• Yuxing countered Wei Kong’s vortex with Five Elements power, then immobilized him long enough for her lightning daggers to strike.
• Wei Kong survived the attack, tore apart his Command Flag, absorbed more Outer Realm energy, and healed as black cracks and tentacles spread across his face.

Wang Ping used the Divine Art Array to suppress Wei Kong and help capture him, then accepted Lord Liuyun’s sealed Primordial Spirit. After returning to the Central Continent, Wang Ping learned that Ao Hong had been betrayed and sealed himself away to survive.

• Wei Kong fled from Prefect Yuxing, but Wang Ping used his transfer array and talismans to disrupt the pursuit and draw Wei Kong toward him.
• Wang Ping activated the Divine Art Array, which suppressed Wei Kong’s demonic qi and destroyed the Outer Realm Demonic Creatures within him.
• Bu Qiong imprisoned the battered Wei Kong, while Mansu and Cang Yue left for the starry border and Prefect Yuxing departed alone.
• Bu Qiong gave Wang Ping a crystal containing Lord Liuyun’s Primordial Spirit, and Wang Ping agreed to deliver it to Daoist Wanzhi.
• Wang Ping returned to the Central Continent and found that flooding had disrupted the southeastern coast and that battle traces remained in the Southeast Sea Region.
• Wang Ping read Ao Hong’s messages, learning that Ao Hong’s third brother had joined the Taiyin Sect and Yuqing Sect in a plot against him, forcing Ao Hong to hide in a sealed Dao Palace array.

Wang Ping handed Lord Liuyun’s damaged Primordial Spirit to Daoist Wanzhi, while Earth Cave Sect leaders prepared to exploit Liuyun’s fall. True Lord Yuanwu appointed Wang Ping to oversee the northwest and ordered him to punish three sects for their attack on Ao Hong.

• Wang Ping restored the vegetation around Huixin Island, then left after Yulian froze an Immortal Realm cultivator who tried to destroy it.
• Wang Ping contacted Lord Rongyang, prayed to True Lord Yuanwu, and waited for Daoist Wanzhi’s response while avoiding further entanglement.
• At Crouching Dragon Mountain, Liu Shuibin interrogated a captured Third Realm Earth Vein cultivator, then learned from Daoist Wanzhi that Lord Liuyun’s damaged Primordial Spirit had arrived and that Liuyun’s followers should be told of his vulnerable state.
• True Lord Yuanwu summoned Wang Ping and ordered him to temporarily oversee the northwest, warning him that Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm cultivators might resist.
• True Lord Yuanwu gave Wang Ping orders to exile one Fourth Realm cultivator each from the Taiyin Sect, Yuqing Sect, and Vajra Temple for five hundred years because they had besieged Ao Hong.

Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple after meeting True Lord Yuanwu, who entrusted him with assessing the Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm slot and gave him three jade slips. Back at the temple, Wang Ping handled sect affairs and learned that Prefect Zixuan of the Yuqing Sect wanted to visit him.

• True Lord Yuanwu told Wang Ping that Zhi Gong could be considered for the Dao Palace Second Seat if she reached the Fourth Realm within a hundred years, and entrusted him with assessing the Earth Cave Sect’s remaining Fourth Realm slot.
• Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple with Yulian and saw the refugees gathered outside Zhonghui City after the tsunami caused by Ao Hong’s siege.
• Wang Ping agreed to shelter disciples under the Seventh Prince of Linshui Prefecture and ordered Yue Ziyu released after nearly a hundred and fifty years in prison.
• Wang Ping gave Liu Shuang two jade slips to deliver to the Taiyin Sect and Vajra Temple, and ordered the temple to establish a teaching site in the northwest.
• Liu Shuang reported growing tensions in Linshui Prefecture, including stricter inspections and local officials resigning in large numbers.
• Lord Rongyang invited Wang Ping to meet in Ever-Peace City, and Daoist Yuanzheng told him that Prefect Zixuan of the Yuqing Sect wished to visit.

Wang Ping met Prefect Zixuan and Daoist Yu Heng, who explained that they wanted to serve at the Outer Realm Border after conducting sacrifices to investigate a hazy consciousness. Their differing methods left them on opposing paths, though Zixuan accepted Wang Ping’s order for a Fourth Realm cultivator to serve at the front line.

• Yuan Zheng told Wang Ping that the three Yuqing Sect Prefects were at odds and that the Hushan Kingdom had fallen into chaos.
• Prefect Zixuan and Daoist Yu Heng visited Wang Ping, and the three shared wine while reminiscing about their early cultivation and Wang Ping’s Great-Grandmaster Yuxiao.
• Zixuan admitted that he had dealt with Ao Hong and said he and Yu Heng wanted to leave the Hushan Kingdom for the Outer Realm Border.
• Yu Heng revealed that they planned to use sacrifices there to investigate a hazy consciousness, prompting Wang Ping to say their paths were different.
• Wang Ping gave Zixuan True Lord Yuanwu’s order for a Yuqing Sect Fourth Realm cultivator to serve at the front line for five hundred years, while Yu Heng offered to submit his own application.

Wang Ping planned how to use the Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm slot, deciding to prepare both promising cultivators and Puppets for different possible futures. He then went to Shangning City to meet Lord Rongyang, whom he found waiting at a teahouse.

• Zi Xuan told Yu Heng that he would leave for the Outer Realm Border in three days, while both men lamented the world’s uncertain future and the search for a Saint.
• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed whether he should use a Puppet to claim the Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm slot, and Yulian warned him that the True Lords might oppose it.
• Wang Ping decided to cultivate promising Earth Cave Sect disciples and Puppets in parallel, then created the Puppets Wang Xi and Liu Lan and sent them among the refugees.
• Wang Ping summoned Old Daoist Wu for a discussion and received Lord Rongyang’s message asking to meet at the Third-Rank Teahouse in Shangning City.
• Wang Ping traveled to Shangning City with Yulian and found Lord Rongyang waiting in a private room at the teahouse.

Wang Ping and Lord Rongyang discussed the northwest’s history, the mysteries of the world, and the limits facing Fourth Realm cultivators before agreeing to confront Ao Bing over Ao Hong’s mistreatment and the terms for Linshui Prefecture. Lord Rongyang headed to Ao Bing’s Daoist grounds on East Abundance Island, where flames began raining down over the island.

• Lord Rongyang served Wang Ping and Yulian tea and spoke of his fear of the universe’s mysteries and his inability to advance to the True Lord Realm.
• Lord Rongyang revealed that he wanted Wang Ping to secure the northwest, and Wang Ping asked where he had been when Ao Hong was besieged.
• Lord Rongyang suggested that they confront Ao Bing, claiming the Taiyin Sect and Vajra Temple would not intervene, and Wang Ping agreed to accompany him.
• Wang Ping gave Lord Rongyang a Transfer Talisman for escape, and Lord Rongyang traveled to East Abundance Island to challenge Ao Bing.
• Flames descended over Ao Bing’s Daoist grounds, striking the barrier formation and setting some thickets alight.

Wang Ping intervened in Lord Rongyang and Ao Bing’s prolonged battle, invoking the Dao Palace’s authority to demand that Linshui Prefecture send a Fourth Realm cultivator to serve at the Outer Realm Border for five hundred years. Ao Bing accepted, while Wang Ping sensed that his proposal had unexpectedly altered something and wanted to perform a divination.

• Lord Rongyang fought Ao Bing over his conflict with Ao Hong, using Wang Ping’s transfer network and a secret fire technique to break one of Ao Bing’s defensive pearls.
• Master Kaiyun and Cang Ji watched the battle and protected the surrounding islands, while Wang Ping marked the aura of a Linshui Prefecture Fourth Realm cultivator in his transfer network.
• After an hour of fighting without a victor, Ao Bing and Lord Rongyang stopped, but neither would yield or apologize.
• Wang Ping appeared beside Lord Rongyang, declared that Ao Bing had besieged a Dao Palace Second Seat, and proposed that Linshui Prefecture send one Fourth Realm cultivator to the Outer Realm Border for five hundred years.
• Master Kaiyun and Cang Ji supported Wang Ping’s ruling, and Ao Bing accepted the penalty; Wang Ping then sensed an ominous change and resolved to conduct a divination.

Ao Bing gathered Linshui Prefecture’s cultivators to pay respects to the Second Seats, using their devotion to cultivate his Divine Art, while Wang Ping and Prefect Rongyang discussed the political consequences. Back at the Mountain Top Dojo, Wang Ping recruited Old Daoist Wu to pursue the vacant Earth Cave Sect inheritance and assigned Liu Shuang further responsibilities.

• Ao Bing and the other Second Seats received the respects of Linshui Prefecture’s cultivators, whose faith Yulian said strengthened their Divine Kingdom.
• Prefect Rongyang told Wang Ping that Ao Bing’s maneuver could bring chaos to Linshui Prefecture, then asked Wang Ping to speak for the True Sun Sect at the Second Seat meeting.
• Wang Ping instructed Liu Shuang to have Thousand Wood Temple disciples heed the True Sun Sect’s opinions when spreading the Dao in the northwest.
• Wang Ping offered Old Daoist Wu support to advance to the Third Realm and sent him to seek the Earth Cave Sect inheritance in Xishi Road.
• Wang Ping told Liu Shuang to arrange for Wen Hai to inherit the Earth Cave Sect position on Nanlin Road if he advanced to the Third Realm.

Wang Ping’s attempt to use the Fortune Array nearly unleashed the Wood Spirit within him, prompting him to reflect on the danger of probing unknown powers. After reconnecting with old memories and meeting Su Hai, he learned about the Cloud Sea Grassland and heard that Su Hai wanted to travel rather than pursue advancement.

• Wang Ping’s second attempt to deduce the Southeast Sea Region palpitation caused his magical power to vanish and the Wood Spirit within him to surge, but he calmed himself with his Divine Art before disaster struck.
• Wang Ping gave the Sanhua cat a Blessing Talisman and promised to help Zuo Liang, who was leaving to establish her own Daoist grounds and plan for the Third Realm.
• Wang Ping revisited the old courtyard and reflected on the passage of time before welcoming his Disciple Su Hai, whom he found stable in the Second Realm but unlikely to advance easily because of his demonic weapon.
• Su Hai told Wang Ping and Yulian about the Cloud Sea Grassland, the True Sun Sect’s role in its wars and sacrifices, and his wish to travel instead of planning for the Third Realm.
• The next morning, Wang Ping suggested Su Hai might join the Star God Alliance if he chose, while Yulian cautioned that he was unsuited to it and Wang Ping stressed the difficulty of reaching the Third Realm.

Wang Ping learned that Lord Liuyun had been set up and abandoned by some of the True Lords, prompting him to order the investigation stopped and resolve to keep a lower profile. At the Second Seat meeting, Mansu warned that the Dao Palace would target anyone who researched demonic qi, while Wang Ping watched his allies with growing suspicion.

• Liu Shuibin reported that Lord Liuyun had used secrets about the Star God Alliance to threaten it, and that Lord Liuyun’s hidden Chess Piece was fused with the earth veins on an island between East Continent and West Continent.
• Wang Ping told Liu Shuibin to end the investigation into Lord Liuyun’s secrets but continue monitoring the Chess Piece and report any developments to Thousand Wood Temple.
• Wang Ping and Yulian agreed to keep a lower profile and consider praying to the True Lords if they uncovered anything; Wang Ping then spent several days practicing relaxing in the sunlight.
• Wang Ping hosted the Second Seat meeting, where Mansu reported that the True Lords had classified cultivators researching demonic qi as demonic cultivators and made them targets for suppression.
• Mansu described Wei Kong’s destructive abilities and warned that demonic cultivation could spread widely, while Prefect Rongyang dismissed the danger and Wang Ping urged the attendees to follow the True Lords’ rule.

Wang Ping discovered that a Sun Sect cultivator was advancing to the Fourth Realm and went to Qingning City, where the Sun Disc’s power endangered the city. As Xu Yang offered the True Fire Banner to Master Kaiyun for protection, Lord Rongyang threatened the Vajra Temple and the Sun Sect’s lineage, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Wang Ping stayed silent as Lord Rongyang’s proposal against First Day failed, and the other sects’ proposals were settled without major change.
• Wang Ping visited Bright Moon Pool with Yulian, played Go with Xin Shi, and heard how Yuxiao had once overcome his boredom by studying puppets and spells.
• Wang Ping sensed a Fourth Realm Fire Spirit aura in the north and hurried to Qingning City with Lord Rongyang after realizing a Sun Sect cultivator was advancing.
• Xu Chun’s advancement caused the Sun Disc to unleash dangerous heat, forcing Xu Yang and the Sun Sect disciples to evacuate residents while Master Kaiyun watched.
• Ao Bing urged Lord Rongyang to seize the True Fire Banner, but Wang Ping reminded him that the Sun Sect’s Fire Spirit would take over a hundred years to mature.
• Xu Yang offered the True Fire Banner to Master Kaiyun for the Sun Sect’s protection, while Lord Rongyang and Daoist Gong Wu challenged his authority and threatened the Temple and the Sun Sect’s standing.

Wang Ping helped prevent the True Fire Banner from being seized as rival powers clashed above Qingning City. After the confrontation ended, he and Prefect Rongyang agreed to prioritize Zhi Gong’s advancement and watch Ao Bing’s schemes.

• Prefect Rongyang and Daoist Gong Wu prepared to fight when Xu Yang considered handing the True Fire Banner to Master Kaiyun, but Daoist Ku Yang appeared and stopped Xu Yang.
• Ku Yang threw the True Fire Banner toward Kaiyun, and Wang Ping used the Sky-Veiling Talisman to daze him as Prefect Rongyang attacked; Cang Ji tried to seize the banner while Daoist Gong Wu intercepted him.
• Ao Bing protected Qingning City from the battle’s destruction, and Bu Qiong’s arrival helped persuade the others to abandon their attempts to take the banner from Ku Yang.
• Master Kaiyun, Cang Ji, Daoist Gong Wu, and Ao Bing departed, while Bu Qiong stayed behind to protect Ku Yang as he cultivated.
• Wang Ping left with Yulian, and he later convinced Prefect Rongyang to focus on securing Zhi Gong’s advancement and to find a way to restrain Ao Bing.

Five years after the New Emperor’s ascension, Wang Ping continued studying spells and hurried to Yushan when he learned Xuan Ling was attempting to advance. Xuan Ling overcame the Lightning Tribulation and completed his advancement to the Third Realm, then remained in secluded cultivation to stabilize himself.

• The New Emperor granted a general amnesty and added “Supreme” to Wang Ping’s title, drawing worshippers to Thousand Wood Temple’s shrines.
• Wang Ping tested the Giant Object Technique with Yulian, combining it with her Ice Spike Technique before restoring the damaged land.
• Wang Ping and Yulian traveled to Yushan after Xuan Ling’s puppet bird reported that he was preparing to advance.
• Wang Ping gave Xuan Ling the Primordial Spirit of a Third Realm Taiyan cultivator, which Xuan Ling destroyed before inscribing and fusing the Heaven Connecting Talisman.
• Xuan Ling endured lightning aimed at his soul and the Heaven Connecting Talisman, while Wang Ping used a deduction and a Blessing Talisman to help him withstand the tribulation.
• Xuan Ling transformed his soul into a Primordial Spirit, merged it with his spirit body, and spent several more months stabilizing his advancement.