Chapter Summaries

Shen Xiaozhu survived the lightning tribulation and advanced toward the Third Realm, while Wang Ping sensed a sudden upheaval in Central Continent and investigated a fiery disturbance in the north. The chapter ended with him recognizing the energy as the same kind that had accompanied Xu Chun’s advancement.

• Wang Ping and Yulian supervised Shen Xiaozhu’s advancement as Liu Shuang and the other guards withdrew to avoid disturbing her.
• Shen Xiaozhu formed a Heaven-Connecting Talisman, summoned the Lightning Law Altars and Mingshui’s Purgatory barrier, and endured the lightning tribulation with the Black Cat preserving her last trace of humanity.
• Wang Ping had Mingshui withdraw the barrier, and Shen Xiaozhu used the opening to break free of the talisman’s power and form a Primordial Spirit body.
• After three days, Shen Xiaozhu’s Primordial Spirit continued taking shape, and two months later Wang Ping said her progress depended on cultivating humanity rather than talent.
• Wang Ping detected a moment of chaos in Central Continent’s fortune, learned of political turmoil in the northwest, and then investigated a fiery aura over the northern sky.
• From his Puppet at Mountain-Suppressing Pass, Wang Ping recognized the energy as matching the fluctuation that had accompanied Xu Chun’s advancement.

Qu Xuan underwent a dangerous transformation as Daoist He Feng and Xu Chun used the True Fire Banner and an underground formation to suppress his Fire Spirit and restore his Primordial Spirit. Meanwhile, Vajra Temple and Taiyin Sect attacked across Northern Continent, and the battle escalated as reinforcements from both sides arrived.

• Xu Chun and Daoist He Feng used the True Fire Banner to suppress Qu Xuan's rampaging Fire Spirit, then withdrew its power while Daoist He Feng's formation nourished Qu Xuan's Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Chun sensed that cultivators from Vajra Temple and Taiyin Sect had intensified their assault at Thunderclap Canyon.
• Luo Feng fought two Third Realm Artifact Cultivators, defeated one, and drove the other away before rescuing Ke Yue from three barrier Star Gods.
• Ke Yue and Luo Feng faced five unorthodox-path Gold cultivators, and Luo Feng's demonic sword consumed spirituality from a Gold cultivator's severed arm.
• Monk Ming Hui arrived and urged Luo Feng to withdraw, but five True Sun Sect cultivators and more than a hundred Divine Technique Envoys appeared, prompting Ming Hui and the True Sun Sect leader to summon reinforcements through teleportation formations.

Burning Fire Daoist, Monk Ming Hui, and Liu Shuibin’s forces clashed amid the Northern Kingdom’s escalating spiritual disasters until Daoist Cang Ji intervened with the Rakshasa Ring. As Cang Ji and other powerful cultivators headed into outer space, Wang Ping received a message from Ao Hong and left Thousand Wood Temple to join them.

• Burning Fire Daoist and Monk Ming Hui faced off as Liu Shuibin’s Earth Cave Sect cultivators and the other factions joined the battle.
• Divine Technique Envoys sacrificed themselves to unleash Divine Art spirituality, causing spirit creatures to threaten cultivators and one Star God and one heterodox cultivator to suffer spirituality overflow.
• Daoist Cang Ji arrived with the Rakshasa Ring and extinguished the Divine Art spirituality, prompting the opposing forces to halt their fighting.
• Daoist Xu Chun confronted Cang Ji, and the two flew into outer space with Rongyang, Zhi Gong, and two figures from Zhongshan Kingdom following them.
• Wang Ping received a message from Ao Hong and left Thousand Wood Temple in a state of nothingness to go to outer space.

Wang Ping arrived at the battlefield as Cang Ji and Xu Chun fought, then used his Divine Art Array and Yulian’s support to delay Cang Ji when he tried to return to Central Continent Star. Wang Ping escaped after Xu Chun caught up, leaving Cang Ji to continue fighting rather than risk a battle that could destroy the Northern Continent.

• Wang Ping brought Yulian into outer space and found Cang Ji and Xu Chun preparing to fight while Rongyang, Zhi Gong, Kai Yun, and Lingzong watched.
• Cang Ji unleashed the Life and Death Banner, but Xu Chun countered with the True Fire Banner and their clash filled the surrounding starry sky with destructive forces.
• Cang Ji suddenly raced toward Central Continent Star, and Wang Ping intercepted him with the Immortal Suppressing Art, Golden Armored Soldiers, Water Spirit Formations, and transfer arrays.
• Cang Ji broke Wang Ping’s transfer array and fought off his Seven Star Swords, then charged toward Wang Ping’s divine kingdom until Xu Chun caught up.
• Wang Ping withdrew and escaped through Transfer Space, while Cang Ji decided to face Xu Chun rather than risk a battle that might destroy the Northern Continent.

Wang Ping’s Sky-Veiling Talisman advanced as Qu Xuan successfully reached a new cultivation threshold, while Kai Yun and Cang Ji discussed their plans for the Central Province Divine Artifact and a new artifact in West Continent. After his own future timelines collapsed, Wang Ping followed Rongyang through a teleportation array to meet True Monarch Lieyang, arriving on a scorching world beyond Central Continent Star.

• Rongyang called Wang Ping over for Wood Spirit blessings, then arranged a renewed conflict in Northern Continent that ended with Taiyin Sect and Vajra Temple retreating.
• Wang Ping’s prediction that Qu Xuan would advance raised the Sky-Veiling Talisman’s fusion progress to 80/100 and let Wang Ping perceive and block timelines.
• Kai Yun met with Cang Ji and Ao Bing, and they agreed to stop trying to restrict Wang Ping and focus on the Central Province Divine Artifact and a new artifact in West Continent.
• Wang Ping’s deductions of his future timelines collapsed, and True Lord Yuanwu instructed him to go to True Sun Sect to meet True Monarch Lieyang.
• Rongyang took Wang Ping to a teleportation array, while Yulian stayed behind, and the array transported Wang Ping beyond Central Continent Star.
• A young voice told Wang Ping to look over, as he stood in the intense heat of the unfamiliar world.

Wang Ping met True Monarch Lieyang, who revealed his fusion with the Golden Crow and recruited Wang Ping to help reclaim the last portion of his power. Lieyang ordered Wang Ping to use the Sky-Veiling Talisman to foretell Ao Bing’s death and offered him rewards and further guidance before sending him away.

• Wang Ping entered Lieyang’s domain, met True Monarch Lieyang, and witnessed the colossal Golden Crow that was his physical body.
• True Monarch Lieyang explained his fusion with True Yang, warned Wang Ping against becoming entangled with Yuanwu, and asked him to suppress living beings’ spirituality while he reclaimed power sealed in the True Fire Banner.
• Lieyang told Wang Ping to use the Sky-Veiling Talisman to foretell that Ao Hong would kill Ao Bing, and Wang Ping inscribed the prediction.
• Lieyang promised Wang Ping a magic treasure and a Sun Sect quota for the True Yang Fourth Realm, then advised him about the underground cavern beneath Thousand Wood Temple, Wood Spirit Origins, and replacing Hui Shan’s faith with Xiao Shan’s.
• True Monarch Lieyang sent Wang Ping away and said Rongyang would deliver the artifact for dealing with Ao Bing.

Wang Ping returned from meeting True Monarch Lieyang and learned that True Lord Yuanwu would support his advancement to the True Lord realm for one thousand years after the True Sun Sect matter ended. Back at Thousand Wood Mountain, Wang Ping considered the preparations needed to rebuild the Taiyan Sect and watched for changes among his allies.

• True Monarch Lieyang sent Wang Ping back to Rongyang’s cave dwelling, and Yulian cleansed the lingering Fire Spirit aura from him.
• Yulian urged Wang Ping to visit True Lord Yuanwu, who promised to watch over the Taiyan Sect for one thousand years and support Wang Ping’s bid for the True Lord realm during that period.
• True Lord Yuanwu told Wang Ping that cultivating a Wood Spirit required five portions of Wood Spirit Origin and suggested awakening Xiao Shan to obtain another portion.
• Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Mountain, where the Sanhua cat asked whether Zuo Liang could inherit Winter Water Mountain’s dojo if Dong Can failed to advance; Wang Ping confirmed she could inherit it either way.
• Wang Ping used the Cave Heaven Mirror to observe the world and began preparing for the True Sun Sect matter and the reestablishment of the Taiyan Sect.

Wang Ping surveyed the world, restrained his Disciples from interfering in the coming upheaval, and began preparing to establish True Monarch Xiaoshan’s faith through his core Disciples. He summoned them to Thousand Wood Temple, where Zi Luan, Que Cai, and Li Miaolin gathered as Xuan Ling and Xia Weny arrived.

• Wang Ping used the Divine Art Array, Cave Heaven Mirror, and Gold Probing Ball to examine faith and turmoil across the world, then suppressed his unsettling thought that he could erase its inhabitants.
• Wang Ping told Liu Shuang and Hu Qianqian to restrain their Disciples, avoid stirring trouble for the next Hundred Years, and leave the southern regime’s fate to others; he also ordered Liu Shuang to visit the Wang Family estate.
• Wang Ping summoned Zi Luan, Que Cai, Li Miaolin, Xuan Ling, and Xia Weny, and shut down most Power Pill production to let the south recover its resources.
• Zi Luan left Six Hearts Temple without taking Shenhe fishing and met Que Cai on the way to Thousand Wood Temple, where they saw Xuan Ling and Xia Weny returning.
• Zi Luan and Que Cai arrived at Thousand Wood Temple, where Li Miaolin greeted them and suggested they go together.

Wang Ping assigned his followers tasks to protect the Southern Dao Lineage, establish new dojos, and avoid the Central Province upheaval. He left Zi Luan with secret instructions and arranged for him to spread the Thousand Wood Temple’s teachings in East Continent.

• Wang Ping told Li Miaolin to contact Daoist Chongxing and advised Que Cai to communicate with Cheng Xi.
• Wang Ping ordered everyone to halt their hidden moves in Central Province while defending the Southern Dao Lineage’s inheritance and territories.
• Wang Ping assigned Que Cai Qianjiang Road and told Zi Luan to promote True Monarch Xiaoshan’s name, gather intelligence on the Shangqing Sect, and secretly help eliminate True Monarch Huishan’s name.
• Wang Ping introduced Zi Luan to Yan Mo and arranged for Zi Luan to establish a Thousand Wood Temple dojo in East Continent with the First Sect’s cooperation.
• Wang Ping warned Zi Luan to focus on East Continent and stay out of Central Province’s affairs.

Wang Ping arranged work for Dong Can and other trusted allies before meeting Rongyang and Ao Hong in West Continent. Rongyang revealed a way to sabotage Ao Bing’s attempt to use the Central Province Divine Artifact, leaving Ao Hong to question whether the weapon was genuine.

• Wang Ping postponed Dong Can’s advancement, gave him assignments to support Zi Luan’s Taiyan Sect dojo in East Continent, and supplied Puppet birds for sending intelligence.
• Wang Ping arranged for Zuo Liang to assist Xiao Zhu and ordered Liu Shuang to bring Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang back from outer space.
• Wang Ping met Rongyang and Ao Hong at Vajra Temple in South Peace City, where they discussed West Continent and the possibility of Vajra Temple returning to conflict.
• Ao Hong explained that Ao Bing planned to use the Central Province Divine Artifact’s spirituality to bypass a stage of Divine Art cultivation and form a nascent divine kingdom.
• Rongyang showed Ao Hong a Wooden Box containing frenzied Demonic Sword consciousness and proposed placing it in the core of Ao Bing’s Divine Art Array.
• Ao Hong asked whether the consciousness in the box truly came from Jia Shang Ling Er.

Ao Hong, Rongyang, and Wang Ping settled their cooperation against Ao Bing, while Shen Xiaozhu emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Third Realm. The Third Prince’s army captured Capital City, and Wang Ping later summoned Shen Xiaozhu and Zuo Liang to the Mountain Top Dojo.

• Rongyang gave Ao Hong a sealed Wooden Box and instructions for undoing its seal, warning him that its power carried dangerous effects.
• Rongyang offered Ao Hong the Capital City region to help him deal with Ao Bing within sixty years, and the group celebrated their agreement with a meal.
• Wang Ping and Rongyang watched Nan'an City at sunset before Rongyang departed and Wang Ping returned home.
• Shen Xiaozhu emerged from her ruined dojo with her Primordial Spirit and spiritual veins stabilized, and Wang Ping arranged a dharma assembly to celebrate her advancement to the Third Realm.
• The Third Prince’s army defeated the New Dynasty’s defenders at Gorge Pass and captured Capital City, while Wang Ping treated the news without concern.
• After Thousand Wood Temple settled down, Wang Ping summoned Shen Xiaozhu and had Mimi call Zuo Liang to the Mountain Top Dojo.

Zuo Liang returned to Thousand Wood Temple and was sent with Shen Xiaozhu to oversee Houjiang Road as the Central Continent faced a spreading calamity. Wang Ping then appointed Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to reform the temple’s internal affairs, while the Great River Dynasty expanded its war before being halted by an alliance.

• Zuo Liang met Wang Ping, Shen Xiaozhu, and Yulian, accepted Wang Ping as her Martial Uncle, and played chess with Shen Xiaozhu.
• Wang Ping and Yulian warned Shen Xiaozhu and Zuo Liang about a coming calamity and assigned them to preserve Houjiang Road’s people and cultivation lineage.
• Shen Xiaozhu was appointed Chief Host of the Houjiang Road Dao Palace, and she and Zuo Liang departed as the army that had seized Capital City founded the River regime.
• Wang Ping welcomed Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang, acknowledged Leng Kezhen as a Mystic Sect disciple, and ordered them to jointly manage internal affairs and the Discipline Hall.
• Wang Ping gave Leng Kezhen pills and an Artifact Cultivator secret method, assigned Qingjiang the Water Institute, and instructed them to secretly replace True Monarch Huishan with True Monarch Xiaoshan in name while enforcing sect rules.
• Ao Bing’s Great River Dynasty launched armies west and south, but after half a year the New Dynasty and local strongmen stopped its forces at Jianglin Road and Beiyuan Road, and Thousand Wood Temple quietly closed its gates.

After twenty years of war and reform, Leng Kezhen’s efforts to promote True Monarch Xiaoshan began succeeding, but Qingjiang warned him that hidden forces might be behind the unusually smooth progress. When failed Yuqing Sect ascensions caused a vast spiritual disturbance in Hushan Kingdom, Wang Ping observed the crisis through his puppet and sought a chance to obtain a Third Realm position.

• The northern war settled into a twenty-year standoff while the south prospered, and Leng Kezhen secretly worked to replace the worship of True Monarch Huishan with True Monarch Xiaoshan.
• Leng Kezhen reported that the promotion was succeeding unusually well, and Qingjiang cautioned him that others might be plotting behind the scenes.
• Leng Kezhen received news that failed Fourth Realm ascension attempts in Hushan Kingdom had caused a dangerous spiritual disturbance, and Liu Shuang sent him to represent Thousand Wood Temple at an emergency Third Seat conference.
• Wang Ping viewed the energy storm near Huai Mo’s dojo through his puppet, and Huai Mo explained that three Yuqing cultivators’ failed joint ascension had unleashed the chaos.
• Wang Ping asked Huai Mo to secure one of the resulting Third Realm positions and said he would let his puppet try the Yuqing Sect’s secret method, despite Yulian’s objections to ending their rest.

Wang Ping watched Yuanzhi advance through The Great Earth Scripture and received a vision of an ancient civilization destroyed by cosmic forces. Decades later, while living near White Stone Temple in East Continent, he foresaw the rise of Zheng State in West Continent and its ambition to unify the continent.

• Wang Ping learned that Yuanzhi had cultivated the Eye of Insight, then experienced the Puppet's vision of a prosperous ancient city and civilization destroyed by a star and Rending energies.
• Wen Hai bestowed the Daoist Name Yuanzhi on the advancing Puppet and taught it the second volume of The Great Earth Scripture, whose cultivation required raising and merging with a Mystic Tortoise.
• Yulian told Wang Ping that faith had nearly disappeared in the north, while Ao Bing was likely to move against the south; Wang Ping reassured her that the struggle was part of a broader trend.
• After another twenty years, Wang Ping settled near Zi Luan's growing White Stone Temple in East Continent, where the surrounding towns and farms prospered under its influence.
• Wang Ping's Light Screen Panel showed the Sky-Veiling Talisman's fusion progress at 85/100, and he told Yulian that Zheng State had emerged in West Continent and intended to unify it.

Wang Ping learned that Vajra Temple’s formation had destroyed most of his Puppets and prepared for a long absence in outer space after the Second Seat meeting assigned him to oversee repairs to the Moon Outpost transfer formation. The meeting approved spreading the True Lords’ faith in West Continent, and Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple to arrange its affairs before departure.

• Wang Ping told Yulian that Vajra Temple’s formation had wiped out most of his Puppets, then received Ao Bing’s agenda for the Second Seat meeting.
• Wang Ping reassured Rongyang that he could still obscure Central Province’s Heavenly Secrets if he left, and he prayed to True Lord Yuanwu about the West Continent divine artifact without receiving a reply.
• At the Second Seat meeting, Ao Bing’s proposal to spread the True Lords’ names in West Continent passed despite Wang Ping, Rongyang, and Yuxing opposing it.
• Ao Bing raised damage to the Moon Outpost transfer formation, and the meeting assigned Wang Ping to oversee its repair with materials and Third Realm cultivators supplied by the sects.
• Wang Ping told Liu Shuang to keep Thousand Wood Temple’s Disciples out of disturbances in the Great River Kingdom and said he would hide Central Province’s Heavenly Secrets before leaving.

Wang Ping used a clone and arrays to veil Heavenly Secrets across the Central Continent, then prepared for his trip to the Moon Outpost. Ao Bing grew impatient with his delay, while Kai Yun arrived at the outpost and found Wang Ping inspecting the transfer array.

• Wang Ping activated the Clone Talisman and used the Heaven Connecting Talisman and Sky-Veiling Talisman to conceal Heavenly Secrets across the Central Continent.
• Wang Ping created and named the Puppet Wang Chen, then sent it to Daoist Huai Mo to cultivate the Yuqing Secret Method.
• Ao Bing summoned Cang Ji and Kai Yun, complained about Wang Ping’s delay, and dismissed Kai Yun’s warnings about the struggle for the Central Province Divine Artifact.
• Kai Yun learned that Wang Ping had reached the Moon Outpost, abandoned his plan to visit Thousand Wood Temple, and hurried there.
• Wang Ping inspected the transfer array with ten Third Realm cultivators, and Yulian alerted him to Kai Yun’s arrival.

Wang Ping began repairing the transfer network and inspected the dangerous Frontier 1 outpost, where he encountered the cosmic fringe barrier and an unsettling garrison commander. After returning to the Moon Outpost, he assigned repairs and asked Kai Yun whether Ao Bing would succeed in sending him away.

• Wang Ping told Kai Yun that the transfer talismans needed to be reforged with Bright Gold, and Kai Yun agreed to arrange the metal.
• Wang Ping inspected the core formation, directed ten Third Realm cultivators to repair it, and began surveying the transfer network with Star God Alliance escorts.
• Wang Ping traveled to Frontier 1 and saw the cosmic fringe barrier, the lightless darkness beyond it, and a garrison commander whose karma seemed strangely blank to Yulian.
• Wang Ping recorded the badly worn Frontier 1 formation and returned to the Moon Outpost, where Kai Yun promised Bright Gold within ten years.
• Wang Ping gave Jing Lan a repair plan and ordered her to organize repairs, then asked Kai Yun whether Ao Bing could succeed in sending him away.

Wang Ping and Kai Yun made a wager over Ao Bing’s attempt to advance his Divine Art, then spent the Moon Outpost’s quiet years playing chess. When Ao Bing activated his array amid the Great River Dynasty’s mass worship, the gathered faith enveloped his dragon body, and Ao Hong laughed as the outcome began.

• Wang Ping agreed that Kai Yun could spread his teachings in Central Province and learn about the True Sun Sect if Ao Bing succeeded, while Kai Yun would rename True Monarch Huishan to True Monarch Xiaoshan if Ao Bing failed.
• Wang Ping and Kai Yun played chess while waiting at the Moon Outpost, and Wang Ping studied Kai Yun’s style as the transfer points were repaired.
• Kai Yun told Wang Ping that the Dragon Lord’s attitude mattered most to him and predicted True Monarch Lieyang would oppose Ao Bing’s plan.
• On the third day of the second month, people across the Great River Dynasty celebrated Ao Bing’s birthday, and their worship activated his Divine Art Arrays.
• Golden light gathered around Ao Bing and enveloped his dragon body as Ao Hong watched from beside the Nong River and laughed uncontrollably.

Ao Bing’s Divine Art ritual drove the people of northern Central Province into fanatical worship, but spirit creatures seized his Primordial Spirit and his dragon body began to collapse. Ao Hong attacked Cang Ji, then a figure wielding the True Fire Banner arrived and set the faith-filled city ablaze.

• Rongyang and Zen Master Lingyuan faced off while Zhi Gong and Cang Ji watched over the Divine Art ritual, and observers elsewhere debated Ao Bing’s chances of success.
• Ao Bing’s dragon form appeared above Capital City, and the citizens’ faith-born spirituality grew so intense that people began sacrificing themselves and spirit creatures gathered around him.
• Ao Bing’s Primordial Spirit was pulled away by spirit creatures despite his desperate cry to the Dragon Lord, leaving his Physical Body to shed scales and threaten the people below.
• Ao Hong charged Cang Ji, drove him into the ground, and forced him to flee before moving toward Ao Bing’s collapsing body.
• A figure surrounded by flames struck Ao Bing’s body with the True Fire Banner, ignited the golden faith radiance, and set praying citizens alight.

Xu Chun’s attempt to refine the True Fire Banner unleashed a catastrophe that burned all of Central Province and spread beyond it, while True Monarch Lieyang seized the Banner’s energy and fled into space to join a battle. Wang Ping reached Moon Outpost as his Sky-Veiling Talisman completed its fusion.

• Xu Chun used Ao Bing and the True Fire Banner to absorb spirituality from the flames consuming northern Central Province, but the inferno abruptly stopped at the region’s borders.
• Wang Ping established a protected refuge around Thousand Wood Temple and ordered his Disciples to gather there as fiery heat swept across Central Province, reducing its people and land to ashes.
• True Monarch Lieyang appeared in Capital City, destroyed Xu Chun’s Primordial Spirit, and used Ao Bing’s remaining spirituality to free and absorb energy from the True Fire Banner.
• A cosmic flood and other powerful figures converged on the starry battle, while True Monarch Lieyang flew into space and Rongyang collected Fire Spirit with his prepared formations.
• Wang Ping stabilized Moon Outpost and saw his Sky-Veiling Talisman complete its fusion.