Chapter Summaries

Ning Wangshu reflected on the Primal Purple Qi his main body had obtained and continued refining an Ancient Wizard Clan powerhouse’s Essence Blood. Meanwhile, leaders of the Secret Realm Immortal Gates gathered to plan a united attack on the secular Authorities and Xuan Yuan Mang.

• Ning Wangshu recognized that the Primal Purple Qi could help his main body forge a Xiantian Dao Foundation, then withdrew his consciousness to focus on refining the Essence Blood.
• In December, leaders and elders of dozens of Secret Realm Immortal Gates gathered at a mist-covered mountain for a secret meeting.
• The Myriad Laws Sect, Star Sea Pavilion, and Yellow Springs Sect leaders urged the gathered sects to unite against the secular Authorities’ control of treasures and Immortal Mansion ruins.
• Lord Tianji and the Shangqing Palace leader raised concerns about Xuan Yuan Mang’s strength and asked whether the alliance intended to negotiate or declare war.
• The Myriad Laws Sect’s sect master said the alliance could muster Immortal Artifacts and twenty or thirty Tribulation Stage powerhouses, then called for an overwhelming assault to destroy Xuan Yuan Mang and the Authorities’ hidden forces.

The Three Immortals Sect privately decided to stay out of the alliance against the secular Authorities and hoped the conflict would weaken their rivals. The Myriad Laws Sect Sect Master demanded that the gathered sects join the alliance, warning that nonparticipants would be barred from claiming treasures and destroyed if they tried.

• The Three Immortals Sect Sect Master and two Grand Elders judged the proposed attack foolish because it could provoke That Immortal and the secular Authorities.
• The Three Immortals Sect Sect Master chose not to warn the authorities, hoping the other sects would exhaust their forces and weaken their control over treasures.
• The Myriad Laws Sect Sect Master called on the assembled sects to declare whether they would join the alliance.
• The Myriad Laws Sect Sect Master promised participating sects could compete for treasures, but threatened to destroy any nonparticipant that tried to claim them.

Wan Fa Zhenjun secured support from many Secret Realm Immortal Gates for an alliance against the secular authorities, while warning that nonparticipants would be excluded from future treasures. Three Immortals Sect, Tianxin Sect, Xianxia Sect, and Shangqing Palace withdrew, leaving the remaining sects to join the alliance.

• Wan Fa Zhenjun called on the sects to declare whether they would join the alliance and said that only participants could share future treasures.
• Three Immortals Sect leader Ziyang Zhenren refused to join and departed with his elders; Wan Fa Zhenjun decided against killing them to silence them.
• Tianxin Sect leader Wang Xuanyang withdrew because he knew of Ning Wangshu's ties to the authorities.
• Xianxia Sect and some other hesitant sects chose to withdraw, while others joined the alliance.
• Shangqing Palace's leader also withdrew after wishing the alliance success.

The Secret Realm Immortal Gates that stayed behind agreed to plan an attack on the secular Authorities, confident they could claim the treasures that followed. The Three Immortals Sect and Tianxin Sect stayed out, expecting the Authorities to call on Ning Wangshu and hoping to benefit from the conflict.

• The remaining Secret Realm Immortal Gates dismissed the sects that had left and began discussing their joint plan and how to divide future treasures.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun declared that their combined forces could easily wipe out the secular Authorities’ foundation.
• Ziyang Zhenren and two Three Immortals Sect Grand Elders predicted that the Authorities would soon call on Ning Wangshu to intervene.
• Wang Xuanyang considered how the other sects’ losses might let Tianxin Sect rise in the Outside World and give him chances to find more hidden treasures.
• The chapter explained that Xianxia Sect, Shangqing Palace, and other gates stayed out because they wanted to avoid the dispute or feared losing their independence to Myriad Laws Sect.

Nearly thirty Tribulation Stage experts from the Secret Realm Immortal Gates traveled to Jiangnan Province to kill Xuanyuan Mang and claim the treasures appearing near Ning Wangshu’s secluded Wizard Clan Avatar. Xuanyuan Mang confronted them alone and prepared to fight as they surrounded him.

• Wan Fa Zhenjun and the Secret Realm Immortal Gates agreed to meet again in three days, then kill Xuanyuan Mang and attack the secular Authorities in Kyoto.
• Nearly thirty Tribulation Stage experts set out from the Myriad Laws Sect for Jiangnan Province while Xuanyuan Mang guarded the mountain cave.
• Xuanyuan Mang sensed the experts approaching and flew out to block their way, warning them that the area was restricted.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun announced that the group had come to kill Xuanyuan Mang, and the experts surrounded him.
• Yellow Springs Old Man and Tianji Zhenjun explained their grievances and defiance of the secular Authorities, and Xuanyuan Mang accepted the fight.

Xuan Yuan Mang fought nearly thirty Secret Realm Immortal Gate powerhouses to keep them away from the Underground Cave and its sealed fiend. He transformed into a True Dragon and held them off despite his injuries, while hoping for help from Ning Wangshu or Xuan Yuan Lie.

• Xuan Yuan Mang refused to let Wan Fa Zhenjun and the others pass, fearing they would reach the Five-colored Lotus and feed the fiend in the Underground Cave.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun ordered the surrounding powerhouses to attack, and Xuan Yuan Mang used the Dragon Transformation Technique to become a ten-thousand-meter True Dragon.
• Xuan Yuan Mang unleashed Myriad Dragons Return to the Nest, repelling the group’s combined attacks and suffering only minor injuries.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun urged the powerhouses to attack again, while Xuan Yuan Mang lamented that the All Heavens Seal suppressed his strength and Xuan Yuan Lie had not returned from Xuanyuan Cave.
• Xuan Yuan Mang continued defending himself with the True Dragon Treasure Technique, accumulating wounds as he barely held off the nearly thirty Tribulation Stage cultivators.

Xuan Yuan Mang fought off a group of Tribulation Stage cultivators until Wan Fa Zhenjun summoned the Immortal Artifact Lie Kong Suo and gravely wounded him. As the group continued their assault, Xuan Yuan Mang believed he was about to die, still hoping Ning Wangshu would wake and prevent a catastrophe in the Underground Cave.

• Wan Fa Zhenjun summoned the Immortal Artifact Lie Kong Suo and used its Immortal Might to weaken Xuan Yuan Mang.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun launched Lie Kong Suo at Xuan Yuan Mang, who tried to block it with his True Dragon Treasure Technique but was blasted backward and badly wounded.
• The other cultivators attacked Xuan Yuan Mang while he was injured, shattering his scales and leaving gaping wounds in his body.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun ordered the group to keep attacking, and Xuan Yuan Mang struggled to defend himself as their blows landed.
• Xuan Yuan Mang despaired of surviving and felt resentment and humiliation as the attacks continued.

Ning Wangshu's Wizard Clan Avatar woke when the battle between Xuan Yuan Mang and the Secret Realm Immortal Sects disturbed his seclusion, and he intervened to protect Xuan Yuan Mang and preserve the Authorities' order. His lightning-wreathed palm descended on the attackers, who responded by activating their immortal artifacts.

• Ning Wangshu sensed Xuan Yuan Mang gravely wounded and surrounded by nearly thirty Tribulation Stage experts from the Secret Realm Immortal Sects.
• Ning Wangshu decided to intervene because the attackers threatened the nearby evil fiend and could destabilize the order that protected his friends and ordinary people.
• Ning Wangshu formed a giant palm above the attackers and sent it crashing down amid roaring lightning.
• Xuan Yuan Mang recognized Ning Wangshu's intervention and felt relieved, while Wan Fa Zhenjun urged the other attackers to resist.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun activated Lie Kong Suo, and seven or eight experts forcibly activated their immortal artifacts to meet the descending palm with Immortal Might.

Ning Wangshu’s projected power repelled the Secret Realm Immortal Gate cultivators and their immortal artifacts, but failed to kill them. After Xuan Yuan Mang thanked him for saving his life, Ning Wangshu asked for the Xuanuan Lineage’s True Dragon Treasure Technique, then settled for a favor before Xuan Yuan Mang departed to heal.

• Ning Wangshu’s giant palm drove back seven or eight immortal artifacts and severely injured the Secret Realm Immortal Gate cultivators before dissipating.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun and the other cultivators fled, taking back their immortal artifacts, while Ning Wangshu chose not to pursue them until his main body awakened.
• Xuan Yuan Mang returned to human form, thanked Ning Wangshu for saving his life, and admitted he was badly wounded.
• Ning Wangshu asked Xuan Yuan Mang to give him the True Dragon Treasure Technique, but Xuan Yuan Mang refused because it was a secret technique of his lineage.
• Ning Wangshu accepted that Xuan Yuan Mang owed him a favor and told him to heal, and Xuan Yuan Mang took his leave.

After fleeing from the attack on Xuan Yuan Mang, Wan Fa Zhenjun and the other sect leaders debated the identity of the overwhelming assailant and whether to proceed with their plan to strike the secular authorities. They ended with a tentative hope that the powerful figure was an unrelated nearby expert, though their involvement against Xuan Yuan Mang had already left them fearing retaliation.

• The Yellow Springs Old Man asked Wan Fa Zhenjun who had attacked them, and the group concluded the figure had power comparable to a true immortal but had shown no Immortal Might.
• Xuantian Daoist Friend and Wan Fa Zhenjun reasoned that the attacker may have cultivated a different path rather than the Immortal Dao, and the others realized there could be several beings of such power.
• A sect master urged the group to abandon its plan to attack the authorities in Kyoto, suspecting they were backed by the attacker and that the group had walked into a deadly trap.
• The sect leaders regretted helping Wan Fa Zhenjun attack Xuan Yuan Mang and feared that the authorities would send the powerful figure to punish them.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun and the Yellow Springs Old Man argued that the attacker might have been angered by the disturbance rather than allied with Xuan Yuan Mang, and the others found hope in that possibility.
• The group noted that Xuan Yuan Mang had not summoned the figure before being grievously wounded and had shown no sign of carrying the figure's power, leading them to suspect the attacker was unrelated to him and the authorities.

After Ning Wangshu intervened to save Xuan Yuan Mang, the Secret Realm Immortal Gates withdrew and waited cautiously, while Xuan Yuan Mang put off revenge until his allies returned. Less than a week later, Ning Wangshu awakened from his profound state and discovered that the Hedao Flower had raised his realm to the Early Profound Immortal Realm.

• Wan Fa Zhenjun agreed with the other Tribulation Stage experts to postpone their plans and keep each other informed.
• The nearly thirty experts dispersed, and the Secret Realm Immortal Gates monitored the secular authorities while recovering from their injuries.
• Xuan Yuan Mang told Xuan Yuan Jingxiu not to act against the Secret Realm Immortal Gates until Xuan Yuan Lie and the others returned.
• Ning Wangshu awoke in his Jiangnan City villa after nearly a week in a state like Entering the Dao.
• Ning Wangshu realized the Hedao Flower had advanced his realm to the Early Profound Immortal Realm, and that raising his Immortal Force would let him become a Mysterious Immortal without bottlenecks.

After the Hedao Flower raised his realm to the Mysterious Immortal level, Ning Wangshu planned to use Immortal artifacts to gather enough Immortal Qi to fill his cultivation. He prepared to test the method, but learned that recent events had given him a legitimate pretext to take artifacts from the Secret Realm Immortal Gates.

• Ning Wangshu concluded that the Hedao Flower had raised his realm even though his cultivation had not yet caught up, and he could fill it later if he obtained Immortal Qi.
• Ning Wangshu decided to target Immortal artifacts held by the Secret Realm Immortal Gates and put his backup plan into action if the Immortal Mansion yielded too few.
• Ning Wangshu took out the Immortal Sword he had obtained from Susanoo-no-Mikoto and the mysterious golden page to test whether he could convert the sword's Immortal Dao origins into Immortal Qi.
• Ning Wangshu learned that events had given him a legitimate pretext to seize Immortal artifacts from the Secret Realm Immortal Gates, making his plan feel perfectly timed.

Ning Wangshu planned to seize immortal artifacts from the Secret Realm Immortal Gates and considered how to handle a powerful hidden evil spirit. He began cultivating with an Immortal Sword and the mysterious golden page, rapidly increasing his Immortal Force and resolving to reach the Mysterious Immortal Realm as quickly as possible.

• Ning Wangshu learned that the Secret Realm Immortal Gates had attacked Xuan Yuan Mang and planned to demand their immortal artifacts as compensation.
• Ning Wangshu considered confronting the Supreme Immortal Gate if it had emerged and chose to leave the powerful hidden evil spirit alone until he grew stronger.
• Ning Wangshu planned to collect the Primal Purple Qi nurtured within Tiandao Sect and use it to form an Xiantian Dao Body.
• Ning Wangshu used the Western Emperor Scripture and the mysterious golden page to convert an Immortal Sword's Immortal Dao origin into immortal energy.
• Ning Wangshu refined the energy at extraordinary speed, rapidly increasing his Immortal Force and resolving to obtain enough immortal artifacts to reach the Mysterious Immortal Realm.

Ning Wangshu emerged from seclusion and explained to Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan why the Primal Purple Qi from Tiandao Sect was such a valuable treasure. He left them with the revelation that his Fan Tian Seal was a Postnatal Lingbao and his Shanhe Sheji Diagram was an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

• Ning Wangshu stopped cultivating with his two immortal artifacts, put them away, removed the room’s Seals, and left seclusion.
• Ning Ruoxuan and Lin Qingzhu greeted Ning Wangshu and told him about Ling Daoyi’s visit, but he said his consciousness had already sensed what his avatar experienced.
• Ning Wangshu explained that his Wizard Clan Avatar’s inherited knowledge identified the Tiandao Sect treasure as Primal Purple Qi, which could transform postnatal materials and beings into xiantian forms.
• Ning Wangshu said the Primal Purple Qi could give him a Xiantian Dao Body once it finished forming and he refined it.
• Ning Wangshu described the difference between Innate Spiritual Treasures and Postnatal Lingbao, identifying the Fan Tian Seal as a powerful Postnatal Lingbao and the Shanhe Sheji Diagram as an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Ning Wangshu told Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan that the Hedao Flower had advanced his realm to the Mysterious Immortal Realm, though he still needed immortal energy to raise his cultivation. He also learned that the Supreme Immortal Gate had not appeared among the newly emerged gates and said he would deal with it when it did.

• Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan wondered whether the myth of Pangu creating Heaven and Earth was true, and Ning Wangshu said it was possible based on what his avatar learned.
• Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan said several Secret Realm Immortal Gates had appeared, but the Supreme Immortal Gate was not among them.
• Ning Wangshu said he would wait until the Supreme Immortal Gate showed itself before settling their score.
• Ning Ruoxuan and Lin Qingzhu asked about the Hedao Flower, and Ning Wangshu explained that it had advanced his realm to the Mysterious Immortal Realm.
• Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan celebrated Ning Wangshu's progress, and he joked that he wished there had been more than one Hedao Flower.

Ning Wangshu planned to gather immortal artifacts from the Secret Realm Immortal Gates so he could cultivate, using their attack on Xuan Yuan Mang as his justification. After learning which gates had participated, he prepared to settle accounts with them before returning to seclusion.

• Ning Wangshu told Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan that he would visit the Secret Realm Immortal Gates to demand immortal artifacts before resuming seclusion.
• Ning Wangshu gave Lin Qingzhu a jade talisman containing his Dharma Body to pass to Zhu Xiyan.
• Ning Wangshu contacted Xuan Yuan Jingxiu to ask which Secret Realm Immortal Gates had attacked Xuan Yuan Mang.
• Xuan Yuan Jingxiu named the leading gates and provided Ning Wangshu with the complete list of participants.
• Ning Wangshu declared that he would punish every gate involved in the attack and ended the call after receiving the list.

Ning Wangshu attacked the Myriad Laws Sect, smashing its Mountain Protecting Formation and overwhelming the elders who confronted him. He demanded that sect master Wan Fa Zhenjun appear or he would level the sect.

• Ning Wangshu searched for the mountain gates of the Myriad Laws Sect, Yellow Springs Sect, and Star Sea Pavilion, then went to the Myriad Laws Sect first.
• Ning Wangshu struck the sect's Mountain Protecting Formation with a Giant Sky-Propping Palm and destroyed it, causing the mountain gate and buildings to shake and collapse.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun woke from treating his injuries and feared that an immortal backed by the Authorities had come to settle the score for the attempt to kill Xuan Yuan Mang.
• The Myriad Laws Sect's elders appeared, but its Tribulation Stage Grand Elders stayed away in fear.
• Ning Wangshu knocked two elders from the sky and demanded that Wan Fa Zhenjun come out or he would level the Myriad Laws Sect.

Ning Wangshu confronted the Myriad Laws Sect, demanding that its Sect Master answer for interrupting his cultivation during a battle near his secluded retreat. Myriad Laws Zhenjun recognized him as a true immortal, apologized, and begged for mercy, while the sect feared Ning Wangshu might destroy them.

• The Myriad Laws Sect disciples and elders panicked when they realized Ning Wangshu was an immortal.
• Myriad Laws Zhenjun recognized Ning Wangshu and emerged with the sect's Grand Elders to face him.
• Ning Wangshu accused Myriad Laws Zhenjun and the others of disturbing his seclusion and ruining his attempted breakthrough.
• Myriad Laws Zhenjun apologized, prostrated himself in midair, and pleaded for forgiveness.
• The Myriad Laws Sect disciples and elders realized why Ning Wangshu had come and feared he would wipe out the sect.

Ning Wangshu offered to spare the Myriad Laws Sect in exchange for every immortal artifact it possessed. Wan Fa Zhenjun and the sect’s elders faced surrendering their treasured artifacts or risking the sect’s destruction.

• Wan Fa Zhenjun pleaded with Ning Wangshu to spare him and the Myriad Laws Sect, offering to fulfill any demand.
• Ning Wangshu said he would consider sparing the sect if it compensated him for interrupting his seclusion.
• Ning Wangshu demanded the immortal artifacts used against him and every other immortal artifact owned by the Myriad Laws Sect.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun hesitated, while the elders and Grand Elders stayed silent, recognizing that refusing could doom the entire sect.

Ning Wangshu forced Wan Fa Zhenjun to surrender every immortal artifact belonging to the Myriad Laws Sect, threatening to destroy the sect if he resisted or failed to return within an hour. Wan Fa Zhenjun came back from the secret realm with the artifacts, and Ning Wangshu watched as five accumulated before him.

• Ning Wangshu threatened to wipe out the Myriad Laws Sect unless Wan Fa Zhenjun handed over all its immortal artifacts, and Wan Fa Zhenjun gave him Lie Kong Suo.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun explained that the remaining artifacts were sealed in the sect’s secret realm, and Ning Wangshu gave him an hour to retrieve them while keeping watch with his immortal sense.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun flew to the Myriad Laws Secret Realm as the Myriad Laws Sect members feared he might abandon them.
• Wan Fa Zhenjun returned in less than an hour, easing the sect members’ fears, and obediently handed Ning Wangshu the remaining artifacts.
• Five immortal artifacts piled up before Ning Wangshu, whose eyes lit up with delight.