Chapter Summaries

Xiao Long brought Shi Hao to the Ancient Divine Mountain and captured its divine beasts with his Monster Locking Pagoda. He gave the artifact to Shi Hao and continued subduing the beasts, leaving the mountain’s inhabitants too frightened to resist.

• Xiao Long demanded that the divine beasts inside the Ancient Divine Mountain hand over their treasures.
• A Great Roc attacked Xiao Long and Shi Hao, but Xiao Long sealed it inside the Monster Locking Pagoda and shocked it with lightning whenever it resisted.
• Xiao Long gave the Monster Locking Pagoda to Shi Hao, who asked him to capture some females for it, and Xiao Long agreed.
• More than a dozen Array Formation Realm beasts attacked, but Xiao Long captured them all.
• After Xiao Long effortlessly captured a Venerable-level Great Roc, the beasts fell silent and realized they could not contend with him.

Xiao Long and Shi Hao raided the Eight Great Domains before Xiao Long left the universe. He reached the Underworld Ancient Realm, sold his possessions to obtain Cosmic Crystals, and settled there to find work while seeking a way to support his wives.

• Xiao Long took Shi Hao across the Eight Great Domains, where they looted treasures and later faced retaliation from divine beasts.
• Xiao Long left the universe, deciding its resources were not worth the cost of pursuing them.
• After a hundred years of travel, Xiao Long reached the Underworld Ancient Realm but lacked the Cosmic Crystals needed to activate its teleportation array.
• Xiao Long sold his cosmic flying vessel and traded with Creation Ancient Realm powerhouses to obtain Cosmic Crystals.
• Xiao Long settled in the Underworld Ancient Realm, where powerful experts and the threat of the Giant Strength Demon Lord pressured him to find a profession and earn enough to provide for his wives.

Xiao Long struggled to make money from his pill shop because he could not refine pills for World Realm experts. The God of Life offered to use her power over life to help him refine Origin-grade pills, giving him new hope.

• Xiao Long rented a storefront with the money from selling his spaceship and began refining pills.
• Xiao Long failed to make a name for himself because he could not successfully refine pills for World Realm experts.
• The God of Life visited Xiao Long after reaching the World Realm and sympathized with the burdens he had taken on for them.
• The God of Life offered to extend the time Xiao Long had to condense pills, which could improve his chances of refining Origin-grade pills.
• Xiao Long believed her offer but sternly asked why she had not told him sooner.

After Xiao Long and Yao Xueling refined and sold Origin-grade Pills, they gathered enough Cosmic Crystals to use a teleportation array. Just as they reached that goal, Yao Xueling suddenly aged and collapsed, and Mu Yuwei reacted with shock when she saw her.

• Xiao Long and Yao Xueling refined their first batch of Origin-grade Pills.
• Xiao Long sold the pills and gathered enough Cosmic Crystals for himself and his wives to use the teleportation array.
• Yao Xueling's green hair turned white, wrinkles appeared on her face, and she swayed as if she might collapse.
• Xiao Long caught Yao Xueling and summoned Mu Yuwei to examine her.
• Mu Yuwei's expression changed drastically when she saw Yao Xueling.

Mu Yuwei explained that Yao Xueling’s Life Origin had been depleted, leaving her weakened but not in danger of dying. Xiao Long resolved to restore her and then reconsidered taking his wives to the teleportation array, fearing the dangers of traveling through the Underworld Ancient Realm.

• Mu Yuwei examined Yao Xueling and told Xiao Long that her Life Origin was almost depleted, leaving her to wither until it recovered.
• Xiao Long learned that refining Origin-grade Pills had consumed Life Origin and promised to restore Yao Xueling.
• Xiao Long embraced Yao Xueling and teased her about what he would do once she recovered, while she pleaded with him to stop.
• Xiao Long remembered that he was only at the late World Realm and that many people in the Underworld Ancient Realm were stronger than him.
• Xiao Long worried about escorting his wives to the teleportation array and recalled that the Giant Strength Demon Lord would probably take another five hundred years to arrive.

Xiao Long realized his World Realm clones could be sold as puppets to earn Cosmic Crystals, giving him a way to fund his group and help Yao Xueling. He regretted not thinking of it sooner, but planned to use the method in the future as he prepared to break through to the Dao Lord Realm.

• Xiao Long considered how few people had reason to help him deal with Giant Strength Demon Lord and decided to wait until his cultivation improved.
• Thirteen of Xiao Long's clones reached the World Realm, letting him consider attempting a breakthrough to the Dao Lord Realm.
• Before making the breakthrough, Xiao Long realized he could sell his clones as World Realm puppets for at least a thousand Cosmic Crystals each.
• Xiao Long regretted not using the scheme earlier, since the Cosmic Crystals could have helped Yao Xueling, and decided he could use it from then on.

After reaching the early Dao Lord Realm, Xiao Long worked on refining pills and raising his clones while searching unsuccessfully for a life-related treasure to help Yao Xueling recover. He left Black Rock City after his clones secretly reached the World Realm and prepared to pursue his people-trafficking scheme.

• Xiao Long reached the early Dao Lord Realm by devouring his clones, then spent his Cosmic Crystals on clone materials and healing pills for Yao Xueling.
• The healing pills had little effect, and Xiao Long concluded that Yao Xueling needed a rare life-related primordial heavenly treasure.
• Xiao Long stayed in Black Rock City, where his Dao Lord Realm strength and pill-making ability attracted several major factions seeking to recruit him.
• After his clones secretly broke through to the World Realm, Xiao Long left Black Rock City to avoid conflict over its limited resources.
• Xiao Long prepared to start trafficking people, using his connections in Black Rock City to make it easier to buy goods.

Xiao Long left Black Rock City to avoid trouble from swindling wealthy heirs and continued selling his services as a bodyguard while traveling toward the Underworld Ancient Realm’s main cities. He reached Tianming City, where he paid to settle in Tianming Emperor Lord’s protected safe zone.

• Xiao Long decided to leave Black Rock City because his scams might expose him to danger and cause trouble for himself.
• As he traveled toward the main cities, Xiao Long changed his appearance in each city and sold himself as a World Realm bodyguard to wealthy spoiled heirs.
• Xiao Long arrived in Tianming City, where he felt uneasy at the many gazes fixed on him and his wives during the entry inspection.
• Xiao Long paid for a place in Tianming Emperor Lord’s safe zone, where residents were protected from attacks as long as they paid one Cosmic Crystal per person each day.

Xiao Long settled in Tianming City and opened a pharmacy while improving his cultivation. When Ximen Xi, a powerful heir of the Ximen Family, sought to become his sworn brother, Xiao Long learned of his scandalous reputation and suspected he was after Xiao Long’s wives.

• Xiao Long decided he could support himself in Tianming City by refining pills and selling puppets made from the World Realm beasts and villains he had killed.
• Xiao Long rented a shop in the safe zone and opened a pharmacy, reflecting briefly on why he had left the Great Thousand World.
• Ximen Xi, a peak Dao Lord Realm cultivator, visited Xiao Long and asked to become his sworn brother, with Xiao Long as the elder brother.
• Xiao Long investigated Ximen Xi and learned that he was the favored son of one of Tianming City’s ten great Quasi-Emperor families and had pursued his clan brothers’ wives and girlfriends.
• Xiao Long rejected the idea of trusting Ximen Xi, suspecting he had set his sights on Xiao Long’s wives, but Ximen Xi returned to discuss becoming sworn brothers again.

Xiao Long rejected Ximen Xi’s attempt to become sworn brothers and confronted him over his designs on Xiao Long’s family. Ximen Xi left, and after a hundred years of waiting outside the safe zone, he still had not seen Xiao Long.

• Ximen Xi pressured Xiao Long to become sworn brothers, but Xiao Long refused and accused him of plotting against his family.
• Xiao Long declared he would remain in Tianming City’s safe zone, where Ximen Xi could not defy the Tianming Family’s rules.
• Ximen Xi left, expecting Xiao Long to eventually run out of Cosmic Crystals and be forced outside.
• Ximen Xi waited for a hundred years, but Xiao Long never appeared.

After a century of cultivating and refining pills in seclusion, Xiao Long prepared to leave Tianming City for the Nine Heavens Realm, confident that his strengthened forces could face Ximen Xi. When he and his women finally stepped outside, they found the people on the streets looking despondent.

• Xiao Long advanced to the middle Dao Lord Realm, while Medusa and Xiao Xun'er reached the late World Realm and prepared to break through.
• Xiao Long formed two more Dao Lord Realm clones and counted on them and the middle Dao Lord Realm puppet Seven Luminaries Demon Lord to protect him.
• With more than one million Cosmic Crystals, Xiao Long took his women out of the shop and prepared to depart for the Nine Heavens Realm.
• Xiao Xun'er asked why the pedestrians were sighing and looking so despondent, and Xiao Long also wondered what had happened.

Xiao Long learned that Bi Xiao of the Jie Sect had come to Tianming City to recruit disciples, and that its Cult Master was Grand Master Tongtian. Recognizing the Jie Sect and its connection to Investiture of the Gods, Xiao Long saw a chance to pursue a major opportunity.

• Xiao Long asked a passerby what had happened in Tianming City and heard explosive news.
• The passerby told Xiao Long that Jie Sect disciples had come to the Underworld Ancient Realm to recruit disciples.
• Xiao Long learned that Grand Master Tongtian led the Jie Sect and that Bi Xiao had come to Tianming City.
• Xiao Long recognized the Jie Sect from his memories and realized Investiture of the Gods might offer him a chance to claim opportunities or join the sect.
• Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others asked Xiao Long what was wrong, but he laughed excitedly about his good fortune.

Xiao Long decided that joining the Jie Sect was his best path to safety and a bright future, and he brought his wives to the City Lord's Manor to pursue the opportunity. Along the way, he flaunted Bi Xiao's protection and ran into Ximen Xi.

• Xiao Long reasoned that the Jie Sect could survive the Investiture of the Gods War if its leaders were protected from betrayal, and he resolved to join it.
• Xiao Long learned that Bi Xiao had come to Tianming City because its Emperor Lord was her grand-disciple, and that the Jie Sect required applicants to reach the Dao Lord Realm within ten thousand years.
• Xiao Long brought his wives to the City Lord's Manor, where onlookers glared at them but did not dare act because Bi Xiao was present.
• Xiao Long taunted the onlookers and enjoyed relying on Bi Xiao's authority as he made his way to the manor.
• Xiao Long encountered Ximen Xi and mocked him about guarding his big brother's home.

Xiao Long entered the City Lord's Manor to take the Jie Sect's entrance test, while Ximen Xi restrained himself from attacking him because he feared the powerful figure inside. Xiao Long saw Bi Xiao and the Tianming Family's experts, then faced a couplet test whose result had not yet been revealed.

• Ximen Xi nearly attacked Xiao Long but held back after remembering the peerless woman at the City Lord's Manor.
• Xiao Long taunted Ximen Xi and left, while Ximen Xi vowed to take revenge and looked toward Xiao Long's wives.
• Xiao Long passed the bone-age check and entered the City Lord's Manor.
• Xiao Long met Bi Xiao, who explained that he had to answer a couplet and produce a resonance to be accepted.
• A black scroll flew toward Xiao Long and unfurled above his head.

Xiao Long completed the Jie Sect’s test by writing the famous response to the scroll, which made him Tong Tian Cult Master’s fifth Direct Disciple. Bi Xiao and the Tianming Emperor Lord acknowledged his new rank, and Bi Xiao prepared to take him to meet the Cult Master.

• Xiao Long recognized the line on the scroll and wrote, “Saints are heartless, treating the common people as straw dogs.”
• The scroll burst into golden light, and Bi Xiao realized Xiao Long had provided the true answer.
• Bi Xiao bowed to Xiao Long and explained that the Cult Master had made the solver his Direct Disciple, making him her Martial Uncle.
• Tianming Emperor Lord and the other Tianming Family cultivators reacted to Xiao Long’s sudden elevation in sect seniority.
• Xiao Long asked what came next, and Bi Xiao offered to escort him to meet Tong Tian Cult Master and handle any tasks for him.

Bi Xiao agreed to let Xiao Long bring his companions with him, and he prepared to leave with them. A Quasi-Emperor followed Xiao Long from the City Lord's Manor and tried to curry favor with him.

• Xiao Long asked Bi Xiao if he could bring his people along, and she agreed.
• Xiao Long decided to gather Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and the others before setting off.
• Tianming Emperor Lord signaled a Quasi-Emperor to accompany Xiao Long and help him.
• The lecherous old Quasi-Emperor struck up a conversation with Xiao Long, who politely asked what he wanted.

Xiao Long secured the Tianming Family elder’s support by accepting his gifts and promising to remember him once he rose to prominence. He left the City Lord’s Manor and confronted Ximen Xi, who mocked him and threatened him in front of his wives.

• The little old man offered Xiao Long two hundred thousand Cosmic Crystals and a likely Imperial Weapon to become sworn friends with him.
• Xiao Long accepted the gifts and assured the old man that he would not forget his old friend after becoming prominent.
• Xiao Long left the City Lord’s Manor and saw Ximen Xi staring lustfully at his wives, prompting Xiao Long to decide to kill him.
• Ximen Xi assumed Xiao Long had failed and mocked him as Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others gathered around to comfort him.
• Ximen Xi spoke coldly to Xiao Long with an obvious threat, and Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others glared at him.

Xiao Long revealed that the Jie Sect had chosen him, and the little old man confirmed that he was Grand Master Tongtian’s Direct Disciple. Ximen Xi was left in despair after learning the truth.

• Xiao Long told Ximen Xi that he had never said he failed to be chosen by the Jie Sect.
• Xiao Xun'er and Medusa rejoiced, while Ximen Xi dismissed Xiao Long’s claim as a lie.
• Xiao Xun'er insulted Ximen Xi, who responded by threatening and teasing her.
• The little old man rebuked Ximen Xi and warned him not to bring disaster upon the Ximen Family.
• The little old man announced that Xiao Long was a disciple of the Jie Sect and Grand Master Tongtian’s Direct Disciple, leaving Ximen Xi stunned and disbelieving.

Xiao Long forced Ximen Xi to surrender a large amount of wealth, then led his women to meet Bi Xiao. Bi Xiao was shocked by his many wives and asked who they were, still clinging to a last trace of hope.

• Ximen Xi realized Xiao Long had the backing of a Quasi-Emperor and knelt to beg for mercy.
• Xiao Long extorted a large amount of wealth from Ximen Xi and planned to kill him himself once he reached the peak Dao Lord Realm.
• Xiao Long led his women in a grand procession to meet Bi Xiao.
• Bi Xiao was shocked to see Xiao Long with more than a dozen wives and asked him who they were.

Bi Xiao took Xiao Long and his wives to meet the Tong Tian Cult Master at the Jie Sect. On the journey, Xiao Long refined pills for his companions, and Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Dao Lord Realm.

• Bi Xiao regretted asking about Xiao Long's companions after he told her they were all his wives.
• Bi Xiao agreed to take Xiao Long and his companions to the Jie Sect to see the Tong Tian Cult Master.
• Bi Xiao brought out a powerful spaceship, and Xiao Long marveled at the Jie Sect's wealth.
• Xiao Long refrained from cultivating with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and focused on refining pills for his women.
• Xiao Xun'er, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Dao Lord Realm.