Chapter Summaries

Daoist Miaoging received True Monarch Changqing’s orders to gather Taiyan Sect’s disciples for the campaign beyond the domain, while cultivators across Central Province prepared to travel to Venus. Old Daoist Wu and his followers arrived at Linshui Prefecture, where the immense scale of the gathering left him and Wen Hai reflecting on their age and uncertain usefulness.

• Li Miaolin continued meditating through his stalled breakthrough as Daoist Miaoging left to meet Yulian.
• Yulian ordered Daoist Miaoging to gather Taiyan Sect’s disciples at Linshui Prefecture and warned her to protect them rather than seek merit.
• Daoist Miaoging ordered her disciples to summon Taiyan Sect’s core Third Realm cultivators and visit the True Lord’s disciples.
• The True Lords’ decrees sent cultivators across Central Province toward their sect garrisons, while Old Daoist Wu and Chi Yun discussed the dangers of the journey.
• Old Daoist Wu arrived at Central Island with his followers and saw hundreds of Ascension Platforms and more than two hundred flying vessels.
• Yang Rong welcomed Old Daoist Wu and explained that Earth Cave Sect and Taiyan Sect would act together at the front lines, while Wen Hai told him that outer space held thousands of Third Realm cultivators and hundreds of thousands of Qi practitioners.

Wang Ping returned to Central Continent Star, ended Cheng Xi’s life, and preserved his damaged Sky-Veiling Talisman for Que Cai’s advancement. As cultivators assembled near Venus for the campaign, Yang Rong organized the supply effort and ordered preparations on the Demon Star ahead of Wang Ping’s arrival.

• Wang Ping found Cheng Xi in the southern sea’s poisonous miasma, severed his connection to Yuanwu, and took the Sky-Veiling Talisman as Cheng Xi’s Primordial Spirit collapsed.
• Wang Ping dispersed the poisonous miasma across the Southern Islands, then sent Yulian to deliver the sealed talisman to Que Cai so she could prepare to advance to the Fourth Realm.
• After Master Tiangong told him that the cultivators had assembled near Venus, Wang Ping said he would arrive within two days after finishing an array he was refining.
• Zang Yi, Zhu Wu, and the other Fifth Realm cultivators returned to organize the divisions, while Yang Rong coordinated supplies and preparations for the army’s arrival.
• Yang Rong ordered two Taiyan cultivators to conscript fifty thousand Lesser Demons to build facilities on the Demon Star and directed the others to prepare a settlement for three hundred thousand cultivators.

Wang Ping arrived at Venus to lead the gathered cultivators into battle against the Outer Realm Rebels. After he ordered the army forward, thousands of flying boats entered the spatial passages, and Yulian wondered how many would return.

• Wang Ping studied a flying boat design and sent Yulian to Thousand Wood Temple with the Five Elements Condensation Technique and his model for Shen Xiaozhu.
• Wang Ping traveled to Venus with Yulian and joined Master Tiangong at the golden Ascension Platform, where cultivators from across the factions had gathered.
• Wang Ping denounced the Outer Realm Rebels and declared that the battle would restore order to yin and yang, prompting the assembled cultivators to pledge their obedience.
• Wang Ping ordered the Fifth Realm cultivators to arrange the army and advance, and Zhu Wu and the others relayed commands through the ranks.
• Thousands of flying boats launched through two spatial passages toward the front, while Yulian wondered how many would return.

Wang Ping took command of a powerful flying vessel and established himself near Demon Star, where he secretly mapped transfer routes and monitored the Rebels. As Yulian worked to refine Outer Realm spirituality to advance her cultivation, an unauthorized attack at the front sparked a large-scale battle.

• Master Tiangong showed Wang Ping the colossal flying vessel, equipped to transport many cultivators and return to a transmission area near Venus, and warned him to prepare for danger.
• Wang Ping took control of the vessel and traveled to Demon Star, where Zhu Wu, Zang Yi, and the others debated whether to attack the Rebels directly or advance cautiously.
• Wang Ping secretly created a transfer space near the Outer Realm and placed concealed talismans while studying the Rebels' transfer network.
• Yulian constructed a small Water Spirit Formation and began refining Outer Realm spirituality, but estimated that another evolution would take over ten thousand years at that rate.
• Several Third Realm cultivators forcibly refined an Ecological Zone without orders, triggering a large-scale battle and resolving the commanders' debate.

The Dao Palace allied forces fought Outer Realm Rebels near Outer Realm Star as they sought to destroy Rebel Ecological Zones and establish a forward base. The battle escalated when Star Gods joined the fighting and reinforcements rushed in from both sides.

• Daoist Miaoging oversaw the new Ecological Zone Outer Realm 135, where allied forces gathered to sweep away the Rebels.
• Hong Ze, Liu Shuibin, and their fellow Third Realm cultivators attacked a Rebel formation led by demonic soldier cultivators and Star Gods.
• Liu Shuibin disrupted the Rebels with his Life and Death Light Screen, but Star God Tremor and an Enhancement ability shattered his formation and forced the allies to retreat.
• Hong Ze trapped the demonic soldier cultivators in a cosmic flood while Liu Shuibin and the True Sun Sect cultivator blocked Rebel reinforcements.
• Two Star Gods used Alteration and a consciousness attack against the allied encirclement, and the True Sun Sect cultivator burned through the Rebel formation with his Sun Flower beam.
• Allied reinforcements rushed to save the endangered Artifact Cultivator as the Rebels sent Star Gods into battle and command formations spread through the allied army.

The Dao Palace allied forces and the Rebels fought a bloody first battle, and Daoist Miaoging chose to reinforce the front rather than retreat. Watching the conflict, Wang Ping concluded that the Rebels needed to expand their Ecological Zones because they lacked enough Third Realm heterodox cultivators to sustain a long war.

• More than a hundred Third Realm cultivators fought amid the wreckage of an Ecological Zone, while both sides held larger forces in reserve.
• Daoist Miaoging rejected Baiqi's suggestion to withdraw and revealed that she had brought in more Fourth Realm cultivators to target Daoist Hui.
• A Pig Yao detonated his Yao Core, killing himself and nearby Rebels and prompting the Demon Race to counterattack fiercely.
• Baiqi led ten elite Demon Race combat squads into the battle, while Daoist Miaoging ordered Prefect Zixuan to sweep nearby Rebel Ecological Zones with Initiation Realm and Second Realm cultivators.
• Wang Ping observed the battle and judged that the Rebels had too few Third Realm heterodox cultivators to sustain a thousand-year war, making expansion of their Ecological Zones essential.

Wang Ping considered how the Dao Palace could develop outer-space Ecological Zones while the war against the Rebels intensified. After days of bloody battles and a return to standoff, Daoist Miaoging launched coordinated surprise attacks that drew Wang Ping’s attention to Ecological Zone No. 42.

• Wang Ping outlined a plan to grant Third Realm and Fourth Realm cultivators resources to establish hereditary Ecological Zones, with the Dao Palace retaining nominal authority and collecting taxes.
• Yulian speculated that the Saints might have destroyed the universe after being disturbed from their slumber, and Star Sea disputed her idea by citing buried memories.
• Demon Race reinforcements overwhelmed the Rebels’ lines, and Daoist Miaoging predicted Daoist Hui would retreat before ordering a cautious advance that restricted pursuit.
• Prefect Zixuan and Daoist Cang Yue observed brutal fighting as Dao Palace forces swept the Rebels’ Ecological Zones, where cultivators fought over Star God cores and faced Power Pills and energy-impact formations.
• After six Central Province days of reduced fighting, fifteen Mystic Gate combat squads attacked Ecological Zone No. 51, while Daoist Miaoging led a Fourth Realm squad against Daoist Hui at Ecological Zone No. 42.
• The attack on Ecological Zone No. 42 attracted the Rebels’ Fifth Realm cultivators, and Wang Ping turned his attention toward the battle.

The Dao Palace Coalition attacked Ecological Zone No. 42, forcing Wei Ling and Gan Xi to decide whether to defend it or withdraw. Fifth Realm cultivators intervened on both sides, and the battle ended in a tense standoff after Gan Xi appeared.

• Daoist Miaoging and four other Coalition cultivators battered Ecological Zone No. 42's defenses while its defenders waited behind the barriers.
• Wei Ling and Gan Xi chose to let the Ecological Zone be lost but ordered their forces to make the Coalition pay before withdrawing.
• Zi Bo and Huai Feng attacked Daoist Miaoging's group, but Zang Yi, Zhu Wu, Yue Xi, and a Fifth Realm Star God intervened.
• Zhu Wu fought Zi Bo's allies while Zang Yi battled Zi Bo, until a powerful aura halted both fights.
• A deep-green halo drained Daoist Hui and nearby Star Gods, prompting Zi Bo and Huai Feng to resume their attack.
• Gan Xi appeared as a powerful Primordial Spirit Consciousness descended, and both sides stopped fighting before Zhu Wu led his group away.

Wang Ping tested the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' by defining the deaths of Fourth Realm cultivators, raising its compatibility while absorbing the resentment their deaths left behind. After meditating for five years, he woke to find the Dao Palace Coalition's campaign progressing and began considering how to use the war against the Rebels without personally killing ordinary beings or provoking an all-out conflict.

• Wang Ping used Daoist Miaoging to test the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman,' and the deaths of Daoist Hui and the others raised its compatibility with his Primordial Spirit to (3/100).
• Wang Ping cleansed the malice left by the dead cultivators and resisted the urge to kill everyone in the Rebels' Ecological Zones, deciding their fates should not end at his hands.
• Wang Ping entered meditation for five Central Province years while the Dao Palace Coalition swept through thirty-two Rebel Ecological Zones, whose occupants had already withdrawn.
• Wang Ping read Zhu Wu and Zang Yi's messages and praised Zhu Wu's ability and humility, while Yulian agreed with his assessment.
• Wang Ping observed the slow preparations of the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect and considered giving unaffiliated Third Realm cultivators a chance to develop outer-space Ecological Zones.
• Wang Ping decided that suppressing Fourth Realm and higher Star Gods could be planned carefully, then arranged a meeting with the other True Lords through Communication Token projections.

Wang Ping presented his plan to develop outer-space Ecological Zones under a feudal system, and the True Lords agreed to try it while setting rules for oversight and unified timekeeping. The meeting ended with Lieyang urging Wang Ping to settle two Fourth Realm advancements as the True Lords discussed the Yuqing Sect’s lack of ambition.

• Tiangong warned Wang Ping that the True Lords’ convictions were difficult to change and that he could not promise to support Wang Ping’s actions indefinitely.
• Wang Ping proposed expanding the Dao Palace system into outer space and developing Ecological Zones through a feudal system.
• Lieyang, Bai Yan, Xuanqing, and Tiangong discussed unified calendars, oversight, mortal self-government, and safeguards against creating another Outer Realm Rebels.
• Tiangong agreed to let the True Lords attempt Wang Ping’s plan but warned them to keep their distance from the Mortal World and not cross the boundary.
• Bai Yan and the other True Lords accepted the proposal, and Lieyang told Wang Ping to settle the Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm and the promised True Yang Fourth Realm.
• Lieyang asked Xuanqing to choose someone to advance to the Fourth Realm, and Xuanqing said the Yuqing Sect’s Disciples lacked ambition.

Li Miaolin emerged from secluded cultivation as a Fourth Realm cultivator and learned that the Taiyan Sect was preparing to expand into outer space. Wang Ping’s decree sent Li Miaolin to the Outer Realm Border, where Shen Xiaozhu asked him to look after her Disciple Yun Liang; meanwhile, Liu Shuang arrived to take Shen Xiaozhu and others to Junior Brother Xia’s dojo on Jupiter.

• Li Miaolin broke through to the Fourth Realm, surveyed the stars and Moon Outpost, and learned from Que Cai and Xuan Ling that the Taiyan Sect was developing ecological zones and preparing for the border war.
• Li Miaolin and Que Cai exchanged barbed remarks before she returned the sect’s affairs to him, and he discussed the sect’s plans with Xuan Ling.
• Shen Xiaozhu delivered Wang Ping’s decree ordering Li Miaolin to travel to Linshui Prefecture within a year and proceed to the Outer Realm Border, where he was to seek an opportunity on the battlefield.
• Shen Xiaozhu asked Li Miaolin to look after her Disciple Yun Liang at the front, and Li Miaolin agreed to meet Yun Liang before they departed.
• Shen Xiaozhu told Yun Liang to contact his Senior Disciple Sister Yang Rong at the Outer Realm Border, then Liu Shuang arrived and said they were to bring Junior Brother Xia to his dojo on Jupiter.

Wang Ping summoned Liu Shuang, Xia Weny, Shen Xiaozhu, Xuan Ling, and Hu Qianqian to the Jupiter Daoist Sanctuary while he directed the war effort and prepared the Dao Palace’s ecological zones. The five disciples arrived at Nine Profound Mountain and reunited with Wang Ping, who welcomed them as their master.

• In the Xia Kingdom, Liu Shuang told Xia Weny that Wang Ping had summoned them to Jupiter, and Xia Weny reluctantly agreed to leave his dynasty behind.
• Aboard his star vessel, Wang Ping ordered Zhu Wu, Zang Yi, and the others to reward proven cultivators, develop ecological zones, and standardize their time.
• After the five departed, Yulian teased Wang Ping about being unable to direct his own disciples, and he returned to cultivation.
• Three days later, Wang Ping sent his consciousness to Nine Profound Mountain and transferred Yulian back to Jupiter to receive the disciples.
• Liu Shuang, Shen Xiaozhu, Xia Weny, Xuan Ling, and Hu Qianqian arrived on Jupiter and were struck by its dense spiritual energy and solitude.
• Liu Shuang led the disciples into the courtyard, where they greeted Wang Ping with respect as their master.

Wang Ping reunited with his disciples and discussed their futures, assigning several to help establish Taiyan Sect and settle in outer space. After arranging a hundred Ecological Zone quotas and summoning Daoist Miaoging, he offered her a stretch of starry sky to found a sect and pass down her Dao Lineage.

• Wang Ping discussed relocating Taiyan Sect and developing outer-space Ecological Zones with his disciples; Shen Xiaozhu chose to keep Thousand Wood Temple in Central Province, while Xia Weny affirmed his commitment to his work in East Continent.
• Wang Ping promised Xuan Ling a place in the Fourth Realm if he handled Taiyan Sect's relocation, and sent Hu Qianqian to choose a planet for her clansmen; Liu Shuang chose to remain in Central Province.
• Yulian took Liu Shuang and the others to explore Jupiter for half a month, and Wang Ping later received a hundred Ecological Zone candidates from Zhu Wu, Zang Yi, and their companions.
• Wang Ping summoned Daoist Miaoging and learned that she wished to compile her studies into secret arts and establish a Dao Lineage.
• Wang Ping offered Daoist Miaoging a stretch of starry sky as the site for her sect.

Wang Ping arranged Ke Yue’s transformation into a Puppet after she devoted herself to the ritual, then obtained the final advancement secret art of the True Sun Inheritance’s fourth volume. The chapter left the Fourth Realm method revealed, with its risks and low success rate, while Wang Ping had yet to begin his own advancement.

• Wang Ping assigned Daoist Miaoging an Ecological Zone near Jupiter and observed Ke Yue in seclusion for several years before sending her a communication jade slip.
• Ke Yue accepted Wang Ping’s instructions, steadied her resolve, and spent three days preparing an altar before praying for a month.
• Wang Ping examined Ke Yue’s painful past and used the Heaven Connecting Talisman to replace her lifeline, ending her suffering while leaving her consciousness intact.
• Wang Ping extracted the True Sun Inheritance’s final advancement art, which described refining a Heart Fire Pill or using three willing Third Realm True Yang cultivators, along with serious warnings about failure.

Wang Ping arranged a Fire Spirit World for Ke Yue’s advancement and began planning a secret Fourth Realm breakthrough for the Earth Cave Sect Puppet Wang Qian. After twenty years of cultivation and political maneuvering, the Earth Cave Sect’s contest for its vacant Fourth Realm seats was still underway.

• Wang Ping completed a stable Fire Spirit World near Jupiter, brought Ke Yue there, and prepared to let her advance while monitoring her through Puppets.
• Wang Ping observed turmoil in Central Province and learned that Xuanqing was likely driving Yuqing Sect cultivators into conflict to produce two Fourth Realm candidates.
• Wang Ping examined the Earth Cave Sect’s Earth Veins and advancement method, discovering that its unstable conditions and strict requirements had long blocked Fourth Realm cultivation.
• Wang Ping assigned Yulian to secretly arrange Wang Qian’s advancement, giving her a faith channel to coordinate with Puppets on Central Continent.
• Twenty years later, Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman cultivation had reached (6/100), and the Earth Cave Sect’s internal contest for two Fourth Realm seats had continued for over a decade.

Wang Ping watched Ke Yue refine the Heart Fire Pill and oversaw construction of the Taiyan Sect’s new stronghold near Jupiter while the war effort strained the Dao Palace’s resources. After a century in seclusion, Zi Luan emerged as a Fourth Realm cultivator, learned how much the world had changed, and was appointed Prefect of the Taiyan Sect.

• Wang Qian pursued intelligence about the Earth Cave Sect’s Fourth Realm quota, while Wang Ping judged Wu Quan unlikely to advance successfully.
• Ke Yue began refining the Heart Fire Pill with three rare supplementary materials, and Wang Ping confirmed that her Fire Spirit Formations were stable.
• Wang Ping surveyed the expanding Taiyan Sect stronghold on Taiyan Planet and refused requests to send more cultivators to the Outer Realm Border.
• Ke Yue completed the Heart Fire Pill but postponed advancing, while Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman cultivation stalled.
• Zi Luan emerged from a century of secluded cultivation as a Fourth Realm cultivator and discovered that the starry sky and Taiyan Sect had changed dramatically.
• Shen Xiaozhu delivered Wang Ping’s decree appointing Zi Luan Prefect of the Taiyan Sect, and Zi Luan ordered invitations sent to Mystic Sect cultivators.

Wang Ping appointed Zi Luan as Taiyan Prefect and sent Yulian to deliver the decree and a secret art at his investiture ceremony. The ceremony left Zi Luan with new authority and instructions to establish a successor sect leader on Central Continent Star before moving to Taiyan Star.

• Wang Ping gave Yulian jade slips containing Zi Luan’s appointment decree and the first portion of Volume Five’s secret art.
• Yulian visited Hu Qianqian’s newly built Daoist grounds on Jupiter’s smallest asteroid, where they discussed the grounds and Zi Luan’s upcoming investiture.
• Zi Luan’s advancement to the Fourth Realm drew cultivators from across the Mystic Sect to Taiyan Mountains for his ceremony.
• During the investiture, Wang Ping’s consciousness briefly descended through the golden statue as Zi Luan bowed before it.
• Yulian announced Zi Luan’s appointment as Taiyan Prefect and gave him the secret art, ordering him to select a sect leader on Central Continent Star and then move to Taiyan Star.
• Zi Luan accepted the decree, while Yulian departed for Thousand Wood Temple with Hu Qianqian following her.

Wang Ping continued advancing the Heaven-Stealing Talisman by studying the Wood Spirit while the True Lords’ Fourth Realm openings stirred hopes among cultivators. Forty years later, Ke Yue prepared to consume the Heart Fire Pill, and Que Cai sensed her chance to advance.

• After the Dharma assembly, Wu Quan asked Zi Luan for a Fourth Realm slot, but Zi Luan refused and warned him not to raise the matter again.
• Wang Ping’s clone studying the Wood Spirit increased his Heaven-Stealing Talisman progress to (7/100), and Wang Ping told Xuan Ling to protect Que Cai during her advancement in exchange for a future Fourth Realm slot.
• Wang Ping captured a wandering Fourth Realm Taiyan true spirit and sealed it inside a white crystal.
• Wang Ping spent another forty years raising his Heaven-Stealing Talisman progress to (8/100) as the Ecological Zones developed.
• In the ninety-sixth year of the Dao Palace Calendar, Ke Yue decided to consume the Heart Fire Pill, and Que Cai sensed an opportunity to advance to the Fourth Realm.

Wang Ping oversaw Ke Yue and Que Cai’s advances and discovered that Luo Feng had reached the Fourth Realm by using a Star God core to advance his Gentleman's Sword. After a century of secluded cultivation and changes across the Dao Palace, Wang Ping received an urgent request from Daoist Cang Yue and wondered what news he would bring.

• Wang Ping concealed his consciousness when True Monarch Lieyang probed Ke Yue, and Ke Yue formed a Fire Spirit embryo that would need up to a century to complete her advancement.
• Que Cai continued nurturing a Wood Spirit, while Luo Feng unexpectedly reached the Fourth Realm by combining his Star God core, his body, and the Gentleman's Sword.
• Wang Ping met Luo Feng at the Return to Truth Hall, learned how he had advanced, and directed him to register at the new Taiyan Sect headquarters.
• Wang Ping and Yulian resumed secluded cultivation while his Puppets researched combat-ready flying vessels, and the Dao Palace designated space near Saturn for a new headquarters.
• Daoist Cang Yue urgently asked to meet Wang Ping, who wondered what the aging Taiyin Sect cultivator had to report.

Wang Ping met with Cang Yue, who relayed a proposal from Fifth Realm Star Gods seeking peaceful relations with the True Lords while planning an internal purge. The True Lords agreed to try negotiations, and after a long delay, Cang Yue finally contacted Wang Ping from the Moon Outpost on Demon Star.

• Cang Yue met Wang Ping aboard his flagship and offered to arrange talks with Fifth Realm Star Gods who wanted to avoid conflict with the True Lords.
• Cang Yue asked Wang Ping to restore his status so he could investigate his Master's unclear death, and Wang Ping gave him a Communication Token.
• Wang Ping consulted the other True Lords, who agreed to attempt negotiations and authorized him to handle the matter.
• Wang Ping told Cang Yue to prepare for negotiations, then returned to secluded cultivation.
• In January of New Calendar Year 131, Cang Yue sent Wang Ping a message from the Moon Outpost on Demon Star.