Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping questioned Yuxiao about the future, Earth, and the origins of his Eye of Delusion as Yuxiao recounted his history with Yaoxi and the Misty Sea. Yuxiao suggested Yaoxi may have brought Wang Ping to this world, then asked who had brought Yaoxi and himself there.

• Yuxiao explained that seeing the future could alter a person's consciousness, and revealed that he had used Yaoxi's eye to seek a path through the starry sky's polluted future.
• Wang Ping asked whether Daoist Yucheng had been Yuxiao's Puppet, whether Yaoxi had possessed an eye like his, and whether their world was Earth; Yuxiao denied controlling Yucheng, named the Eye of Delusion, and said the universe was connected to Earth.
• Yuxiao recounted how he and Yaoxi, both peacocks, came to the world, explored the Misty Sea, and discovered the Five Sects of Mystic Gate within it.
• Yuxiao described meeting Star Sea, learning of a destroyed universe, and discovering that Yaoxi's consciousness had deteriorated from observing too much and trying to erase his memories.
• Yuxiao revealed that Yaoxi had given him one eye after using the other to investigate their past, and said Yaoxi may have linked his existence to the world to bring Wang Ping there.
• Wang Ping asked why he had come to the world, and Yuxiao suggested Yaoxi might have brought him before asking who had brought Yaoxi and Yuxiao there.

Yuxiao recounted how he manipulated the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect, failed to advance through the Heavenly Palace, and fused with Azure Hall. He gave Wang Ping a Wood Spirit Origin and a token to the Heavenly Palace, but warned him not to enter yet.

• Yuxiao explained how he used Yaoxi's eye and staged conflicts to gather spirituality, culminating in a battle that nearly destroyed the planet before True Monarch Diwen restored its ecology.
• Yuxiao described how Yuanwu united the Fifth Realm cultivators as True Lords, while he used fortune-telling and political maneuvering to influence True Yang, Xuanqing, and others.
• Yuxiao revealed that his attempt to advance through the Heavenly Palace failed, so he fused with Azure Hall and left a lingering thought in the Huai Tree.
• Yuxiao told Wang Ping that the Sixth Realm might involve turning the Physical Body into energy and allowing consciousness to exist everywhere, and warned him not to use Yaoxi's eye too often.
• Yuxiao gave Wang Ping a Wood Spirit Origin and asked him to rescue him, then presented a token to the Heavenly Palace and told him not to enter it yet.

After True Monarch Huishan attacked Wang Ping through a sea of consciousness, Yulian was injured, and Wang Ping secured pills to heal her. The chapter ended with Guan Xi warning Wang Ping not to trust claims about the future and declaring that the Jimin Association would not support his advance to the Fifth Realm.

• Wang Ping left Yuxiao with the Puppet materials and Corpse Soldiers, then returned to Thousand Wood Temple with Yulian.
• True Monarch Huishan drew Wang Ping into a sea of consciousness to ask what Yuxiao had seen, but True Monarch Xiaoshan intervened and Yulian helped Wang Ping escape; Wang Ping destroyed the altar, and Yulian suffered damage to her Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Ping obtained Nine Revolutions Pills from Daoist Yuanzheng and the Taiyan Sect, while Yulian took a pill and rested around the Old Huai Tree.
• Wang Ping concealed Thousand Wood Temple and arranged for Puppets to destroy altars worshipping True Monarch Huishan without exposing his own involvement.
• Guan Xi visited Wang Ping, warned him not to believe in futures, and said the Jimin Association would not support his attempt to reach the Fifth Realm.

Wang Ping responded to True Monarch Huishan’s followers destabilizing the Wood Spirit by strengthening the Taiyan Sect and stabilizing the Wood Spirit across Central Province. Years later, Ao Yi began collecting the planet’s spirituality as a warning against Wang Ping’s interference, just as Daoist Huai Mo advanced to the Fourth Realm.

• Wang Ping learned that Huishan’s followers had attacked Taiyan Sect outposts in West Continent and nearly driven Shen Xiaozhu’s spiritual veins berserk.
• Wang Ping ordered the Taiyan Sect to advance eligible cultivators, sent Li Miaolin to assist Shen Xiaozhu, and tasked Hu Qianqian with helping Zi Luan stabilize the sect.
• Wang Ping used Central Province’s Wood Spirit Qi and his Divine Kingdom to contain the crisis while True Monarch Xiaoshan resisted Huishan’s madness.
• Over the following years, the crisis eased, the Taiyan Sect gained five Third Realm cultivators, and Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit growth reached 72/100.
• Ao Yi began gathering spirituality from across the planet, and Wang Ping concluded that he was warning him not to interfere with the suppression of Huishan’s followers.
• Daoist Huai Mo advanced to the Fourth Realm, sending multicolored light from Hushan Kingdom into the sky.

Daoist Huai Mo advanced to the Fourth Realm, and Wang Ping prepared Taiyan Sect for Yuqing Sect’s Dharma assembly amid Ao Yi’s efforts to secure support and cut off the Southeast Sea Region’s spiritual supply. As the assembly began, Ao Yi arrived at Yuqing Sect in the form of a white dragon, setting a hostile tone for the gathering.

• Daoist Huai Mo completed his breakthrough to the Fourth Realm, and Prefect Yuxing escorted him to pay respects to the True Lord.
• Zi Luan delivered Ao Yi’s demands to Wang Ping, who chose to cooperate with Vajra Temple against the Jimin Association and West Continent rebels while keeping up appearances of alliance with Linshui Prefecture.
• Wang Ping coordinated with Lingzong and informed True Sun Sect of the coming conflict, while Rongyang and He Feng discussed Ao Yi, Kai Yun, and the True Lords.
• Wang Ping briefly visited the Cloud Sea Grassland, then half a year passed as Yuqing Sect prepared to host the Dharma assembly.
• Prefect Yuxing arrived at the Jade Clarity Main Hall and dispersed the storm over Sea City, after which Ao Yi appeared as a white dragon.

Ao Yi demanded that Central Province and West Continent surrender spirituality to support Jiang Cun’s advancement, but Wang Ping and the other factions refused. Ao Yi withdrew after Ao Hong proposed settling the dispute by strength, then ordered preparations to collect spirituality while dismissing Wang Ping’s moves in West Continent.

• Prefect Yuxing confronted Ao Yi at Sea City, and Huai Mo, Vajra Temple’s Lingzong and Lingyuan, Bu Qiong, Mansu, Zhi Gong, and Ao Hong arrived as tensions rose.
• Ao Yi announced that the Dao Palace’s Chiefs would collect spirituality from Central Province and West Continent for a hundred years, but Lingzong and Prefect Yuxing challenged his authority and Wang Ping refused to yield Central Province.
• Ao Yi threatened Wang Ping and prepared to fight, while Lingzong, Lingyuan, Zhi Gong, Bu Qiong, Mansu, and Prefect Yuxing took their positions; Rongyang arrived and joined Wang Ping’s side.
• Ao Hong proposed that the dispute be settled by the old rule that the capable would possess the spirituality, and Wang Ping accepted; Ao Yi then departed with Ao Hong for the Dragon Palace.
• At the Dragon Palace, Ao Yi ordered Ao Hong to establish spirituality formations along Central Province’s coast, destroy certain golden-body statues, and take over Moon Outpost, while dismissing Wang Ping’s move in West Continent.

Wang Ping let Linshui Prefecture seize Moon Outpost and waited as the conflict in Central Province shifted toward the Vajra Temple. Forty years after the confrontation above the Yuqing Sect, he had absorbed two Wood Spirit Origins and received Kai Yun’s summons to meet at a Vajra Temple stronghold in outer space.

• Bu Qiong and You Han told Wang Ping that Linshui Prefecture disciples and Taiyin Sect Artifact Cultivators were trying to seize Moon Outpost, and Wang Ping chose not to intervene.
• Linshui Prefecture took Moon Outpost, prompting the Vajra Temple to send disciples to support the resistance in Central Province.
• Linshui Prefecture attacked West Continent and later sent daoist priest Ru Hui to the front, while Wang Ping and other powers waited rather than act.
• Forty years passed, during which Wang Ping fully absorbed two Wood Spirit Origins and reached (90/100) growth progress for the Wood Spirit.
• Kai Yun told Wang Ping that the Vajra Temple had purified the final Wood Spirit Origin and summoned him to an outer-space stronghold.

Wang Ping received the purified Wood Spirit Origin from Kai Yun and agreed to help Vajra Temple capture a true spirit. After Kai Yun proposed facilitating the Shangqing Sect’s return to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage, he brought Wang Ping to a distant star system to prepare for the hunt.

• Wang Ping traveled to Kai Yun’s hidden Ecological Zone and accepted the purified Wood Spirit Origin, which he swallowed after checking it for danger.
• Kai Yun complained that the Taiyan Sect was not supporting the conflict with Linshui Prefecture, but Wang Ping argued that preserving the sect’s strength and helping Kai Yun reach Fourth Realm completion mattered more than holding territory.
• Kai Yun offered to facilitate the Shangqing Sect’s return to the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage, and Wang Ping agreed to convey the proposal through the Taiyan Sect’s leader.
• Kai Yun took Wang Ping and Yulian through a teleportation array to the starry sky near Mercury, where Vajra Temple had prepared to capture a true spirit.
• Kai Yun showed Wang Ping a detection array and said the true spirit should appear within sixty years, while Wang Ping expected to reach Fourth Realm completion in thirty.

Wang Ping reached Fourth Realm completion and chose to pursue advancement by aligning the wills of living beings and refining vegetation across Central Continent Star. Ten years later, Kai Yun came to report that Vajra Temple would withdraw from the southern plains under Ao Yi’s pressure, leaving the story with Wang Ping poised to cooperate while keeping his strength concealed.

• Wang Ping completed his Wood Spirit cultivation, gained the ability to perceive the Five Elements’ rules, and demonstrated how he could disrupt Yulian’s spells.
• Wang Ping rejected ambushing Ao Yi and resolved to use his remaining Chess Pieces, Kai Yun and Rongyang, while planning to advance through the fortune of Heaven and Earth.
• Wang Ping sent Puppets across Central Continent Star to cultivate and refine forests, beginning a long effort to synchronize living beings’ wills with his own.
• After ten peaceful years, Kai Yun reported that Vajra Temple would relinquish the southern plains of West Continent and operate only near the northern mountain ranges, a decision Yuqing Sect had accepted.

Wang Ping used clones to maintain his presence while investigating Ao Yi’s plans and later resumed traveling. At a temporary gathering, he heard that the Earth Cave Sect was organizing to awaken True Monarch Diwen and learned of a suppressed conflict within the Star God Alliance.

• Wang Ping left a clone in meditation to stand in for him, then inspected Linshui Prefecture’s formations and the Southeast Sea Region before returning to the Mountain Top Dojo.
• Wang Ping spent ten years refining forests, then traveled with Yulian while a clone arranged an outer-space Ecological Zone for Zhi Gong and the Earth Cave Sect.
• Quan Wen told the gathering that a secret organization on the Far East Continent aimed to awaken True Monarch Diwen and that Daoist Yunsong had returned to Central Continent Star to meet with its leaders.
• Cang Lan said True Monarch Diwen would not awaken soon, while Quan Wen urged the group to monitor the organization.
• You Han reported that Fifth Realm cultivators had suppressed a near-war within the Star God Alliance, and Wang Ping suggested they were bound by an agreement that set a time limit on disorder.

Wang Ping learned that Zhi Gong and Yun Song were considering awakening True Monarch Diwen, then received Daoist Chongxing’s final message about preserving a Sky-Veiling Talisman for Li Miaolin. Wang Ping found Chongxing’s Wood Spirit true spirit but left it untouched, and news arrived that Vajra Temple’s formation had detected another true spirit.

• Wang Ping met Zhi Gong and Yun Song, warned them to consult the True Lords before attempting to awaken True Monarch Diwen, and learned Yun Song believed Wang Ping had reached the peak of the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping continued monitoring the Earth Cave Sect, then traveled with Yulian toward West Continent as Linshui Prefecture expanded its control.
• Daoist Chongxing sent Wang Ping a jade slip explaining that he would end his life and preserve the Sky-Veiling Talisman for more than five hundred years to give Li Miaolin a chance to advance.
• Wang Ping traveled to the marked location and found Chongxing’s Wood Spirit true spirit surrounded by spirit-body creatures, but he withdrew rather than risk losing the Sky-Veiling Talisman.
• Vajra Temple’s formation detected traces of a true spirit shortly after Wang Ping returned his avatar to the Ecological Zone.

Wang Ping helped Kai Yun capture a powerful Gold Spirit true spirit, then spent twenty years traveling with Yulian while the balance of power among Taiyan cultivators shifted. When Kai Yun reached Fourth Realm perfection and invited him to the Vajra Temple, Wang Ping declined and ordered the Taiyan Sect to cooperate with the temple against Linshui Prefecture.

• Wang Ping lured the Ju Niu-shaped true spirit into his Wood Spirit boundary, where Kai Yun sealed it inside metal boxes.
• Wang Ping told Kai Yun that the Dao Palace was failing and urged him to cultivate in seclusion, then returned to traveling with Yulian.
• Wang Ping considered the limited Taiyan Fourth Realm advancement slots and continued traveling with Yulian for twenty years, while his cultivation metrics changed.
• Wang Ping divined that Kai Yun had reached Fourth Realm perfection, declined his invitation, and sent Zi Luan to represent the Taiyan Sect.
• Zi Luan and the other Taiyan Sect leaders planned to cooperate with the Vajra Temple against Linshui Prefecture while continuing to harvest spirituality.
• Hu Qianqian reported the meeting to Wang Ping, who laughed but did not oppose the sect's plan.

Vajra Temple and the Taiyan Sect’s conflict spread across Central Continent, West Continent, and beyond before Ao Yi and Kai Yun’s forces finally clashed in outer space. While that battle unfolded, Wang Ping purified Rongyang’s Fire Spirit and arranged for him to maintain an understanding with Kai Yun so they could stop Ao Yi from advancing to the Fifth Realm.

• Vajra Temple’s campaigns against Linshui Prefecture and its allies prolonged the conflict for decades, while the Taiyan Sect gained resources and cultivated stronger disciples.
• Ao Yi ordered Ao Hong and Ao Jiang to attack Zhongshan Kingdom while he watched over Central Province, then used Central Island’s divination formation to probe the future.
• More than a century after Wang Ping began traveling, auras from both sides shot into outer space, and Wang Ping sent an incarnation to watch the confrontation.
• Wang Ping visited Rongyang beneath True Sun Sect, warned that purifying his Fire Spirit could end his chance to reach the Fifth Realm, and then removed its impurities with a Blessing Talisman.
• Wang Ping and Rongyang tested Rongyang’s control over Fire Spirit in Mountain Top Dojo, where Wang Ping overcame him using his formation and talisman.
• Rongyang agreed to appear and preserve a tacit understanding with Kai Yun so they could prevent Ao Yi from advancing to the Fifth Realm.

Wang Ping prepared for Ao Yi’s ascension by gathering allies, sealing the Taiyan Sect away from the coming conflict, and crafting a formation to trap the dragon. When Ao Yi began his ascension in New Calendar Year 384, Kai Yun and Rongyang launched their attack, but Ao Yi’s counterattack showed that the decisive battle had begun.

• Wang Ping judged Rongyang’s motives with Yulian and sent him away with a Transfer Talisman, while Rongyang later joined Wang Ping, Kai Yun, and Daoist Lin Shuang in confronting Ao Yi.
• Ao Yi chose to ally with the Jimin Association, and Wang Ping ordered Taiyan Sect’s core disciples to return to Taiyan Mountain as he prepared for Ao Yi’s ascension.
• Wang Ping sealed the Taiyan Sect and refined a Wood Spirit formation capable of trapping Ao Yi, while he and his disciples stayed at the Mountain Top Dojo and Rongyang cleansed the Fire Spirit impurities from his body.
• Rongyang returned to the True Sun Sect, and on a rainy morning in New Calendar Year 384, Ao Yi began his ascension as Wang Ping watched from near Central Island.
• Kai Yun attacked Ao Yi’s formation with his full strength, Rongyang arrived as a Golden Crow to support him, and Ao Yi unleashed a cosmic flood and freezing winds to repel them.

Ao Yi used the Demonic Sword and the spirituality of the West Continent to defeat Kai Yun, then began his advancement through the cosmic flood. Wang Ping trapped Ao Yi with Thorn Vines but came under heavenly lightning punishment and turned to recovering the Demonic Sword from the sea.

• Kai Yun broke through Ao Yi's barriers and attacked him with golden blades, but Ao Yi drew Yao Emperor Yao Xi's Demonic Sword and trapped Kai Yun in black miasma.
• Ao Yi used spell formations to drain the spirituality of the West Continent, killing nearly seventy percent of its commoners, and the Demonic Sword struck Kai Yun down into the sea.
• Ao Yi swallowed the remaining spirituality in his formation and entered the cosmic flood to advance, while Wang Ping used his Heaven Connecting Talisman to disrupt Ao Yi and entangle him in Thorn Vines.
• Wang Ping escaped a lightning strike and ordered Zhi Gong, Huai Mo, and others to destroy the spell formation in outer space.
• With Star Sea's energy, Wang Ping parted the sea, found Kai Yun struggling in demonic qi, and suppressed the Demonic Sword's baleful aura.

Wang Ping subdued Kai Yun’s Demonic Sword with Star Sea’s help and oversaw the decision to seal Ao Yi. The gathered cultivators chose Prefect Yuxing to imprison Ao Yi in her Nine-Story Golden Pagoda, while Kai Yun began to suspect Wang Ping had used him as a chess piece.

• Wang Ping used the Golden Armored Soldier to pull the Demonic Sword from Kai Yun, then Star Sea entered the sword and suppressed its Outer Realm contamination.
• Master Wangqing gave the Dragon Seal to Ao Hong and declared the matter concluded, while Rongyang cleared the storm clouds.
• Wang Ping contracted the Thorn Vines and explained that the True Lords had ordered Ao Yi sealed in the deep sea.
• Wang Ping asked the gathered Dao Palace members to witness Prefect Yuxing’s proposal, and they agreed that she could take charge of Ao Yi’s sealing.
• Prefect Yuxing captured Ao Yi in her Nine-Story Golden Pagoda, while Kai Yun reflected that Wang Ping might have treated him as a chess piece.

After defeating Ao Yi, Wang Ping organized the sealing, rebuilt the Dao Palace’s leadership, and returned to Mountain Top Dojo to report to True Lord Yuanwu. He considered how to consolidate his influence and advance toward the Fifth Realm, then stored the Demonic Sword in his divine kingdom.

• Wang Ping and Rongyang arranged for Ao Yi to be sealed at his former dojo, with the Dao Palace’s Third Seat overseeing the site and a Dharma assembly scheduled at Taiyan Mountain.
• Wang Ping appointed Zhi Gong, Huai Mo, and Cang Lan as temporary presiding Second Seats and established the Dao Palace’s headquarters in Sea City of Hushan Kingdom.
• Kai Yun left to handle the aftermath in West Continent, while Cang Lan told Cang Hai to guard Taiyin Sect and cut ties with Vajra Temple.
• At Mountain Top Dojo, Wang Ping ordered his disciples to build an altar to worship True Lord Yuanwu and considered his plans for the sect and the wider cultivation world.
• Wang Ping marked the Demonic Sword with his divine kingdom imprint and stored it inside his divine kingdom.

Wang Ping began preparing to advance to the Fifth Realm, secured Li Miaolin the Taiyan Sect succession slot, and set plans for unifying Central Continent and restoring the sect. He then placed his three Disciples in a cultivation formation for a sixty-year cycle to strengthen their Primordial Spirits.

• Wang Ping summoned True Lord Yuanwu, confirmed Ao Yi had been captured, and declared that he would begin plotting for the Fifth Realm.
• True Lord Yuanwu promised to honor their agreement if Wang Ping advanced and explained that Human Way cultivators could reach the Fifth Realm, though the path had previously been obstructed by the True Lords’ rules.
• Wang Ping gathered Zi Luan, Xuan Ling, Li Miaolin, Que Cai, Xia Weny, and Shen Xiaozhu, announced his Fifth Realm plans, and named Li Miaolin as the Taiyan Sect successor with a Hundred Years to prepare.
• Wang Ping ordered Zi Luan and Que Cai to begin unifying Central Continent, spread his faith, protect Wood Spirits, and prepare for the October Dharma assembly.
• Zi Luan and Que Cai discussed Zi Luan’s changed outlook and his premonition that Wang Ping would become the first Human Way cultivator to advance to the Fifth Realm.
• Wang Ping moved Shen Xiaozhu, Xia Weny, and Xuan Ling into a cultivation formation and gave them sixty years to strengthen their Primordial Spirits.

Wang Ping assigned his disciples and allies to consolidate his influence, then visited several sects to seek approval for pursuing the Fifth Realm. The True Lords’ responses were largely favorable, and Wang Ping headed toward Taiyin Sect before members of the Jimin Association intercepted him.

• Wang Ping reassured Yulian that Shen Xiaozhu would remain his Personal Disciple and directed Leng Kezhen, Qingjiang, Ke Yue, and Luo Feng to bring unorthodox sects and Rogue Cultivators under his authority.
• Wang Ping told Liu Shuang that her Master was pursuing the Fifth Realm and suggested Hu Qianqian might help safeguard Thousand Wood Temple; Liu Shuang said Shen Xiaozhu should inherit it.
• At True Sun Sect, Rongyang told Wang Ping that Lieyang approved his pursuit of the True Lord's position, and Wang Ping asked Rongyang to meet with him later about replacing timber with other resources.
• Daoist Huai Mo conveyed True Lord Xuanqing's approval, and Lingzong and Lingyuan said Vajra Temple would enshrine Wang Ping's golden divine statue under Master Tiangong's decree.
• After Wang Ping left Vajra Temple, Lingyuan ordered the sect gate closed, and several members of the Jimin Association appeared as Wang Ping approached Taiyin Sect.

Wang Ping swiftly defeated the Jimin Association’s ambush, spared one faction member, and obtained two Star God cores before receiving the Taiyin Sect’s message of neutrality. He then sought the Dragon Lord’s support through Ao Hong, but learned Linshui Prefecture was closing its gates and would not give him a direct answer.

• The Jimin Association attacked Wang Ping with a time-binding formation, but he corroded it, defeated the attackers, and took two Star God cores.
• Wang Ping spared two trapped Jimin Association members; one attacked him and died, while the other escaped with the unconscious Guan Xi.
• Cang Lan and Cang Hai delivered True Monarch Bai Yan’s message that the Taiyin Sect would not interfere if Wang Ping did not provoke it.
• Wang Ping inspected Ao Yi’s sealed dojo on Lingxin Island, then traveled to Huixin Island to ask Ao Hong to introduce him to the Dragon Lord.
• Ao Hong told Wang Ping that Linshui Prefecture was closing its sect gate and that his father would not give him an answer, then congratulated him on his impending rise to True Lord.