Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping studied a Star God core and learned how time formations worked, then coordinated plans to preserve forests and expand coal use so he could gather enough Wood Spirit aura to advance. After arranging for the Yang Family of Beiyuan Road to inherit the next divine artifact, he received a request from the Star God Alliance to spare Daoist Lin Shuang.

• Ao Hong told Ao Jiang that the Outer Realm Border had grown powerful and chaotic, and Ao Jiang considered visiting it.
• Wang Ping examined two Star God cores, and his Light Screen Panel recorded detailed instructions for constructing time and confinement formations.
• Wang Ping arranged with Daoist Zhi Gong and Rongyang to develop coal resources, make stove-bound Fire Spirit Formations, and plant forests to conserve timber and produce Wood Spirit Qi.
• Rongyang warned Wang Ping not to reveal his plans or appear different from the True Lords, and Wang Ping considered the warning.
• Zi Luan and the Earth Cave Sect selected the Yang Family of Beiyuan Road to oversee Central Province's next divine artifact, and Wang Ping confirmed the family descended from his own lineage.
• You Han visited Wang Ping with Quan Wen and asked him to spare Daoist Lin Shuang, who had joined the Star God Alliance and gone to the Outer Realm Border.

Wang Ping rebuffed You Han’s attempt to secure help for Lin Shuang, then prepared to retrieve Daoist Chongxing’s Sky-Veiling Talisman and continue his plans. At the Second Seat meeting, the Dao Palace approved Wang Ping’s proposals, including moving the temple-state divine artifact to Central Province, while Wang Ping began preparing a secluded Ecological Zone for his eventual Fifth Realm advancement.

• Wang Ping refused to help You Han beyond remaining silent at the gathering, and You Han later explained to Quan Wen that he hoped to earn an audience with Wang Ping in the future.
• Wang Ping located Daoist Chongxing’s starry sky, established a monitoring formation to find the wandering true spirit, and assigned Puppets to maintain it.
• Zi Luan attended the Second Seat meeting as Wang Ping’s representative, where the attendees approved revised funding, accepted the transfer of the temple-state divine artifact to Central Province, and agreed to target Evil Cultivators.
• Lingzong accepted Wang Ping’s terms for Vajra Temple and said West Continent would register its own divine artifact after he consulted Master Kaiyun.
• Wang Ping sent more Puppets to monitor Vajra Temple, then took Yulian to outer space to begin establishing a temporary Ecological Zone for secluded cultivation.

Sixty years after Wang Ping went into hiding in outer space, the Wang Family and people across Central Province held grand ceremonies honoring him, while he worked toward forming a divine kingdom. The chapter ended as Wang Ping’s monitoring formation detected movement from Daoist Chongxing’s True Spirit, exactly sixty years after his agreement with Li Miaolin.

• The Wang Family, led by Wang Shan, offered sacrifices to Wang Ping and carried his divine statue through Zhonghui City as people across Central Province joined the worship.
• Liu Shuang watched the ceremony from Thousand Wood Temple with Wang Yuqin and Zhao Lei, and wondered where Wang Ping had gone.
• Wang Ping assessed the growing faith and his progress toward forming a divine kingdom, noting that sincere believers and the coming prosperous age were still needed.
• Wang Ping transferred Shen Xiaozhu, Xuan Ling, and Xia Weny out of their cultivation cave and retrieved the combined formation.
• Wang Ping received word that the formation monitoring Daoist Chongxing’s True Spirit had detected fluctuations, sixty years after his agreement with Li Miaolin.

Wang Ping captured a True Spirit bearing the 'Sky-Veiling Talisman' and helped Li Miaolin attempt to fuse with it. Li Miaolin succeeded immediately, gaining the talisman's memories and beginning to nurture Wood Spirits.

• Wang Ping transferred to the distant starry sky, sealed the True Spirit bearing the intact 'Sky-Veiling Talisman,' and brought it back.
• Wang Ping visited Li Miaolin, confirmed his stable cultivation, and told him Daoist Chongxing had left a 'Sky-Veiling Talisman' for him to fuse with.
• Li Miaolin agreed to try, and Wang Ping took him to his secluded cultivation site to prepare while he settled his state of mind.
• After a little over three years, Li Miaolin had calmed himself, and Wang Ping released the True Spirit and suppressed its consciousness.
• The 'Sky-Veiling Talisman' detached from the True Spirit and fused with Li Miaolin's Primordial Spirit, revealing Daoist Chongxing's hidden arrangement.
• Li Miaolin absorbed the talisman's memories, and his Wood Spirit Spiritual Meridian began nurturing Wood Spirits as Wang Ping destroyed the True Spirit.

The chapter presented the upper and lower halves of Taiyan Talisman, Volume Four, detailing methods for cultivating the Primordial Spirit, Wood Spirit Qi, and spirit veins to advance through the Fourth Realm. It outlined warnings, risks, and alternate ways to draw the Heaven Connecting Talisman and Sky-Veiling Talisman.

• Taiyan Talisman, Volume Four (Upper) prescribed fusing the Primordial Spirit with the Heaven Connecting Talisman and cultivating it while preserving humanity.
• The upper volume described forming a Qi Sea within the Primordial Spirit, concealing oneself from Heaven and Earth, and merging with Wood Spirit Qi.
• The upper-volume notes warned that uncontrolled contact with psionic energy could twist or influence the Primordial Spirit, and recommended a fixed formation and a spirit serpent for protection.
• Taiyan Talisman, Volume Four (Lower) set out methods for cultivating the Primordial Spirit to great completion and using Wood Spirit to refine the Physical Body and grow its spirit veins.
• The lower volume gave three possible routes to drawing the Sky-Veiling Talisman, including enslaving a Third Realm Primordial Spirit, calculating a fleeting opportunity, or using a True Lord's consciousness.
• The lower-volume notes warned that drawing the Sky-Veiling Talisman required a vacant Fourth Realm, stable Wood Spirit, proper timing, and recognition, or the attempt could fail or consume the cultivator.

After Li Miaolin’s Wood Spirit matured and brought him to the Fourth Realm, Wang Ping appointed him the Taiyan Sect’s Second Seat and charged him with building temples across Central Continent Star without disrupting its prosperity. Wang Ping then watched faith spread through the world as he prepared to use the Heavenly Eye to calculate the right moment to advance to the Fifth Realm.

• After another twenty-odd years, Li Miaolin’s Wood Spirit aura burst through the Ecological Zone’s barrier, and Yulian devoured the spiritual lifeforms drawn to it.
• Wang Ping brought Li Miaolin back from the starry sky, gave him the first portion of Volume Five of the Taiyan Talisman, and assigned him to build temples and golden statues across Central Continent Star without using force.
• Wang Ping made Li Miaolin the Taiyan Sect’s Second Seat and instructed him to work with Zhi Gong, Huai Mo, Quan Wen, Bu Qiong, and others while maintaining key alliances.
• Li Miaolin returned to the Taiyan Sect, received congratulations from Zi Luan, Que Cai, and Xuan Ling, and arranged a Dharma assembly to celebrate his advancement and discuss Wang Ping’s instructions.
• Wang Ping observed forests and temples inspiring growing worship across the continents, then resolved to use the Heavenly Eye to calculate when the world’s faith and fortune would best support his Fifth Realm advancement.

Wang Ping found a way to pursue ascension by aligning his will with the hopes of the people and the Heavenly Way, then chose Longwind Temple as the site of his attempt. After years of preparation and the completion of the sacrificial platforms, he set his ascension for the eighth day of the second month and waited for the ceremony to begin.

• Yulian warned Wang Ping that his decades of deductions could consume his consciousness, prompting him to reconsider how his alignment with Heaven and Earth could aid his ascension.
• Wang Ping chose Longwind Temple, the former site of Sanhe Temple, as his ascension site and ordered Li Miaolin to prepare sacrificial platforms across the land.
• Wang Ping settled at Longwind Temple to calculate his chances while authorities moved nearby residents and believers built the platforms.
• By the 182nd year of the An Dynasty, the final platform was complete, and Wang Ping announced that he would ascend on the eighth day of the second month.
• Wang Ping surveyed the world through the Cave Heaven Mirror and called his believers to worship at nearby altars on the appointed day.
• Rongyang, Gong Wu, and He Feng prepared to prevent disturbances, while Prefect Yuxing told Daoist Huai Mo to protect Wang Ping's ascension.

As Wang Ping completed his Divine Kingdom through the worship and faith of hundreds of millions, Quan Wen and other cultivators drove off Jimin Association and Star God Alliance saboteurs. With his harmony with Heaven and Earth's fortune reaching 100/100, Wang Ping began drawing the Heaven Stealing Talisman, leaving his advancement poised to continue.

• Kai Yun warned Lingzong, Lingxi, and Lingyuan not to interfere with Prefect Changqing's advancement, and they chose to wait.
• Quan Wen rallied Wang Yan and Zhu Qing to support Changqing, and they joined Zhi Gong, Yun Song, Bu Qiong, and Mansu near Ningzhou Road.
• Li Miaolin led Taiyan Sect disciples and a vast gathering of Qi practitioners in rites that spread golden faith-light across the continents.
• Wang Ping bestowed blessings on believers, completed his Divine Kingdom, and reached 99/100 harmony with Heaven and Earth's fortune.
• Quan Wen, other Demon cultivators, Yun Song, Zhi Gong, Ao Hong, and Ao Jiang pursued the fleeing Jimin Association and Star God Alliance saboteurs.
• Wang Ping reached 100/100 harmony, separated his Primordial Spirit from his body, and imprinted the Heaven Stealing Talisman's form onto a blank talisman.

Wang Ping mastered the Heaven Stealing Talisman and advanced to the Fifth Realm, then spent nearly seventy years cultivating his Primordial Spirit in outer space. After uncovering memories of a universe-ending catastrophe and learning he had become an anchor for the rules of Heaven and Earth, he emerged with a new Imprisonment Talisman and greater command of the Five Elements.

• Wang Ping synchronized with the Heaven Stealing Talisman while Yuanwu and the Star Demoness confronted Yuxiao at Azure Hall and kept watch over him.
• Wang Ping completed the talisman formation, used it to seize pure Wood Spirit and Five Elements Yin-Yang energy, and advanced to the Fifth Realm.
• Wang Ping concealed himself in the Ecological Zone, where Star Sea supplied Wood Spirit energy for his cultivation.
• Wang Ping saw ancient memories of a sleeping being, a war across the universe, and a Saint whose arrival preceded the universe’s collapse.
• After nearly seventy years, Wang Ping fused his Primordial Spirit with his Huai Tree body, gained the Imprisonment Talisman, and learned that his body had become an anchor for the rules of Heaven and Earth.

Wang Ping tested his new Fifth Realm powers, met with True Lord Yuanwu, the Star Demoness, and Lieyang, and learned that the True Lords would formally recognize him and discuss his next responsibilities in ten days. He returned to Thousand Wood Temple to settle his affairs, while Lieyang ordered the Human Way sects to prepare to honor him as True Lord Changqing.

• Wang Ping tested his speed and Heaven Stealing Talisman, then learned that wars had erupted among his believers during the seventy-three years since his advancement.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to find True Lord Yuanwu and visited his courtyard with Yulian, where he thanked Yuanwu and the Star Demoness for their past help.
• Lieyang explained the plan that had led to Wang Ping's advancement and gave him a Communication Token, promising that the True Lords would meet with him in ten days and help clear the rumors surrounding his disappearance.
• Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple with Yulian and summoned Li Miaolin, his disciples, and other allies to gather.
• Rongyang sensed Wang Ping's aura at True Sun Mountain, and Lieyang ordered the Human Way sects to prepare altars and recognize him as True Lord Changqing.

Wang Ping gathered his disciples and senior cultivators after his advancement to the Fifth Realm, offering guidance and resolving obligations. He granted Zi Luan the chance to advance to the Fourth Realm and promised Que Cai a future cultivation quota, leaving her to assist Daoist Li while Zi Luan prepared.

• Kai Yun received Master Tiangong’s decree that the True Lords’ consciousnesses would descend in three days, told Vajra Temple to prepare, and withdrew from its affairs.
• Wang Ping examined his disciples’ cultivation and gave Yang Rong a Blessing Talisman to cleanse impurities from her spirit veins.
• Wang Ping summoned Zi Luan, Que Cai, Leng Kezhen, Qingjiang, Ke Yue, and Luo Feng, then granted Zi Luan the quota he had used to advance to the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping promised Que Cai the cultivation quota Cheng Xi held after Zi Luan advanced and gave her a Blessing Talisman that removed her Pill Toxin.
• Wang Ping instructed Que Cai to assist Daoist Li while Zi Luan prepared for his advancement.

After reaching the True Lord realm, Wang Ping settled rewards and future plans with those who had served the Taiyan Sect, then received Rongyang and several other visitors. He acknowledged Rongyang’s favor with a public farewell and turned a cold gaze toward the arriving Zhi Gong and his companions.

• Wang Ping gave Leng Kezhen the secret art of the Fourth Realm of Artifact Cultivation and agreed to have Que Cai and Daoist Priest Li help Qingjiang establish her sect.
• Wang Ping gave Luo Feng a Fourth Realm Star God core with the barrier ability, and promised Ke Yue first consideration for a True Sun Sect Fourth Realm slot if she became his Puppet.
• Wang Ping discussed his disciples’ plans, telling Hu Qianqian to invite Zhi Gong, Daoist Priest Li, Bu Qiong, and Quan Wen, while Liu Shuang and Shen Xiaozhu brought Rongyang to him.
• Hu Qianqian dismissed the other waiting Fourth Realm cultivators, and Ao Hong, Huai Mo, Cang Lan, Mansu, You Han, and Yun Song departed.
• Rongyang congratulated Wang Ping with a jar of wine and left for the True Sun Sect; Wang Ping then received the four invited cultivators, who saluted him as True Monarch Changqing.

After reaching the Fifth Realm, Wang Ping set boundaries for the Earth Cave Sect, the Demon Race, and Bu Qiong, then turned his attention to maintaining the world’s spirituality and advancing his plans. Three days after cultivators across the starry sky worshipped him, he was formally proclaimed the Benevolent, Cultured, Martial, Virtuous Changqing Wood Spirit True Lord, and he began considering how to appoint Divine Generals.

• Wang Ping told Zhi Gong to keep control of the Earth Cave Sect without disrupting the world’s spirituality, rebuked Li Miaolin, and empowered the Old Huai Tree with a Heaven Stealing Talisman.
• Wang Ping advised Quan Wen and Bu Qiong to pursue opportunities beyond their factions, granted Liu Shuang permission to found her own sect, and assigned Shen Xiaozhu responsibility for Thousand Wood Temple.
• Wang Ping reflected on his Fifth Realm plans and his memories of cultivation, then learned through deduction that his master had fallen and offered Yuan Zheng help advancing to the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping’s proclamation resounded across the starry sky as cultivators worshipped him, and he sensed a brief connection to the Wood Spirit particles throughout the region.
• Wang Ping asked Yulian and the Sanhua cat about potential Divine Generals, and Yulian suggested creating Divine Kingdom rules that believers could resonate with.

Wang Ping entrusted Thousand Wood Temple’s inheritance and treasures to Shen Xiaozhu before leaving Central Continent Star to avoid disrupting its spiritual energy. In space, he considered where to settle and discovered a mysterious connection between the moon and Central Continent Star, sending his Primordial Spirit into both worlds to investigate.

• Yu Dan and Zhao Lei helped preach stories about Wang Ping, and Yu Dan gave most of his earnings to his Master, Yun Liang.
• Wang Ping summoned Shen Xiaozhu and Liu Shuang, entrusted Shen Xiaozhu with the Daoist Grounds’ arrays, Cave Heaven Mirror, and Seven Star Sword, and gave Liu Shuang protective artifacts.
• Wang Ping departed Central Continent Star with Yulian and created a vortex to draw off excess Wood Spirit Qi that had been harming cultivators.
• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed finding an uninhabited place to settle and considered Jupiter, where True Monarch Huishan and True Monarch Xiaoshan’s aura could be sensed.
• Wang Ping detected a special connection between the moon and Central Continent Star, examined its spiritual-energy patterns, and sent his Primordial Spirit into both.

Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to examine Central Continent Star’s past and discovered that it had once been hollowed out and turned into a prison for the Demon Race by the Immortal Race and Asuras. After the vision was cut off by a Fifth Realm cultivator, Wang Ping and Yulian considered the ancient conflict and the cosmos’s decline before he began building a small Ecological Zone.

• Wang Ping and Yulian examined the moon and Central Continent Star, finding linked arrays, iridescent metal plates, and True Monarch Diwen sleeping beneath the planet.
• After safely preparing himself, Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to witness Central Continent Star’s formation and the arrival of the Immortal Race, Asuras, and Demon Race.
• Wang Ping saw the Immortal Race and Asuras hollow out Central Continent Star and the moon to build a prison for the Demon Race, then watched a cosmic disaster strike and a powerful energy shield save the Star Sea.
• A Fifth Realm Immortal Race cultivator obscured Central Continent Star’s past, and Wang Ping realized the cultivator was not True Monarch Lingshan of the Yuqing Sect.
• Wang Ping shared the memories with Yulian, discussed the ancient conflict and the cosmos’s fractured Five Elements power, then brought her to an uninhabited Star Sea to build an Ecological Zone with his Puppets.

Wang Ping attended his first True Lords conference, where the gathering assigned him major duties amid threats from the Star God Alliance and instability at the Outer Realm Border. The meeting ended with plans to address Hui Shan, purify Xuanqing’s consciousness, awaken Di Wen, and replace Yuanwu and Xing Meng after they leave.

• Lieyang introduced Wang Ping to the True Lords and showed him his seat, which ranked above Yuanwu’s.
• Lieyang, Master Tiangong, and Yuanwu proposed gathering near Hui Shan’s sanctuary to clear Hui Shan’s frenzied consciousness, while preparing for possible attacks by the Star God Alliance.
• Master Tiangong proposed letting Central Province cultivators face the danger while the True Lords watched, and the others accepted the plan.
• Lieyang asked Wang Ping to help purify Xuanqing’s consciousness and guide the Taiyan Sect in awakening Di Wen, and Wang Ping agreed to both tasks.
• Wang Ping proposed controlling the Jimin Association by working with its Moderate Faction, and Master Tiangong took responsibility for that effort.
• Yuanwu announced that he would leave after Hui Shan’s crisis was handled and recommended Zang Yi and Yue Xi as replacements for himself and Xing Meng.

Wang Ping joined the True Lords after the meeting to hear their plans for confronting the Star God Alliance and clearing Hui Shan's consciousness. Lieyang explained the uneasy trust binding the factions and warned Wang Ping about Yuanwu, while Wang Ping asked whether conscious life existed in the Outer Realm.

• Yuanwu reaffirmed his resolve to open routes into more starry skies, and Lieyang arranged for him to contact Wang Ping about a handover.
• Lieyang introduced Bai Yan and Xuanqing to Wang Ping and described the plan to draw out the Star God Alliance while Xuanqing and Bai Yan acted at the Outer Realm Border.
• Wang Ping offered to build transfer spaces and sever transfer formations as escape routes, and Bai Yan approved the arrangements.
• Lieyang raised Fourth Realm quotas, prompting disagreement among the True Lords, and Bai Yan and Tiangong ended their projections.
• Lieyang told Wang Ping that the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect cooperated only where their interests aligned, and advised him to handle Yuanwu's request as he saw fit.
• Wang Ping asked Lieyang whether the Outer Realm contained conscious life forms beyond its frenzied energies.

Lieyang explained the starry sky’s rules, the path toward the Sixth Realm, and the Star God Alliance’s conflict to Wang Ping. Wang Ping began deriving a Fifth Realm cultivation art, then met Yuanwu, Zang Yi, and Yue Xi for the First Seat conference handover and learned that the Alliance would soon be controlled by its rising faction.

• Lieyang told Wang Ping that outside life could not enter without assimilating into the starry sky’s rules, and that the Sixth Realm might fuse the Physical Body with Five Elements spiritual energy.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to derive a Fifth Realm cultivation art, but the Heavenly Way repeatedly sent calamities against his attempts to study the Heaven Stealing Talisman.
• Yuanwu contacted Wang Ping and arranged to meet him with Zang Yi and Yue Xi, while Xing Meng warned Wang Ping about Star Gods with Dreamscape abilities.
• Yuanwu handed Wang Ping the First Seat conference tokens, and Wang Ping passed them to Zang Yi and Yue Xi as their replacements.
• Yuanwu told Wang Ping that the Star God Alliance was divided between an old faction and a rising faction, and that his departure would leave the rising faction in control.

Wang Ping learned the Star God Alliance’s Fifth Realm numbers and abilities from Yuanwu, accepted two six-tailed foxes as future Divine Generals, and discussed Yuxiao’s fate. After Yuanwu warned Zang Yi against supporting the new faction, Wang Ping returned to his developing Ecological Zone and manifested his Divine Kingdom for the foxes.

• Yuanwu told Wang Ping that the Star God Alliance had at least nine Fifth Realm cultivators with Secrecy, seven with Spokesperson, and one each with Time and Space, while warning that Outer Realm energy could have increased their numbers.
• Xing Meng entrusted Chimei and Caiyan, two Third Realm six-tailed foxes, to Wang Ping as candidates to serve in his Divine Kingdom.
• Yuanwu explained that Yuxiao could leave the Misty Sea, and Wang Ping gave him a Communication Token so he could consult Lieyang and Tiangong about the matter.
• Yuanwu urged Zang Yi to abandon any connection with the Star God Alliance’s young faction and reflected on the possible cycles of the universe.
• Wang Ping returned to the unfinished Ecological Zone, asked how the foxes could evade the Divine Kingdom’s Lightning Tribulation, and manifested his Divine Kingdom.

Wang Ping appointed Caiyan and Chimei as Divine Kingdom messengers and continued building the starry transfer network while investigating Yuxiao and Hui Shan. After Yuanwu took Yuxiao from the Misty Sea, Wang Ping sensed the four Fourth Realm Taiyan cultivators and discovered that Yuxiao held the final spot.

• Wang Ping used a Divine Art Array and divine thunderbolts to appoint Caiyan and Chimei as Divine Kingdom messengers, then sent them to spread its teachings in the mortal world.
• Wang Ping arranged with Lieyang and Master Tiangong to build interstellar transfer formations and with Yuanwu to take Yuxiao out of the Misty Sea.
• Star Sea explained Yuxiao's indifference, his attachment to Yaoxi, and his interest in life beyond the Outer Realm Border; Yulian defended Wang Ping from Star Sea's comparison.
• Wang Ping used the Gold Probing Ball to locate Hui Shan near Jupiter, felt Hui Shan's hostility, and found the Outer Realm Border blocked by tangled energy.
• After Yuanwu reported that he had taken Yuxiao away, Wang Ping sensed the four Fourth Realm Taiyan cultivators and concluded that the final spot was in Ancestor Master's hands.