Chapter Summaries

Ning Wangshu learned that the woman in the coffin had manifested the incarnation that killed the Extraterrestrial Demon, then revealed her identity to Lin Qingzhu and the others. She identified her as the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool, the master of Kunlun Xu, and the creator of the Western Emperor Scripture.

• Ning Wangshu told Shen Chuxia and the others that the Extraterrestrial Demon had been killed, explaining how dangerous it had been despite its weakened state.
• Ning Ruoxuan and Zhu Xiyan told Ning Wangshu that the woman in the coffin had manifested an incarnation and spoken about the awakened Human Emperor Sword and Kunlun Xu.
• Ning Wangshu realized that the incarnation was the woman in the coffin and connected her to the Jade Pool Western Emperor and the ancient events in Kunlun Xu.
• Ning Wangshu explained that the woman had likely abandoned her original body after it was damaged by the Blood God’s power and sealed her new body in the coffin.
• Ning Wangshu revealed that the woman was the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool, ruler of Kunlun Xu, creator of the Western Emperor Scripture, and owner of the Immortal-Gathering Banner.

Ning Wangshu explained the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool’s survival and warned that an Extraterrestrial Demon catastrophe was likely coming. He decided to focus on cultivating alone, reassured Shen Chuxia about the Qinglan Sect, and had Little Dot restore two travel tokens.

• Ning Wangshu told Lin Qingzhu and the others that the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool had used a secret technique to escape the Blood God Power’s erosion and survive in another body.
• Shen Chuxia and Lin Qingzhu wondered whether the immortals and gods of myth had truly existed, and Ning Wangshu urged everyone to prepare for the coming catastrophe by strengthening themselves.
• Ning Wangshu explained that the travel token and the Shanhe Sheji Diagram could not safely take anyone else to the Cangyuan Realm, so he planned to cultivate there alone.
• Lin Qingzhu, Ning Ruoxuan, and Zhu Xiyan supported Ning Wangshu’s decision and cited his need to face Gu Cang and rescue Anran.
• Ning Wangshu told Shen Chuxia that he had resolved the Qinglan Sect’s troubles and installed a protective formation that should guard it for several thousand years.
• Ning Wangshu asked Little Dot to restore two travel tokens, and Little Dot’s Immortal Light made mysterious marks appear on them.

After recovering from his battle with Xue Qingluo, Ning Wangshu decided to return to Linchuan with Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan to tell Shen Anran’s parents he had found a route to Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven. The chapter ends as Ning Ruoxuan tells Xu Muqing that Ning Wangshu may bring Anran home in a few years.

• Ning Wangshu recovered from his injuries while his Wizard Clan Avatar continued refining its essence blood, and he chose to save the Nine Wondrous Ascension Immortal Medicine for a future attempt at the Immortal King realm.
• Wuxiang Zhenren and Li Fei visited Ning Wangshu, and he spent several days at home with Lin Qingzhu and the others.
• Ning Wangshu told Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan he planned to return to Linchuan and reassure Shen Anran’s parents that he had found a way to reach her.
• Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan agreed to accompany Ning Wangshu, while Shen Chuxia and Zhu Xiyan stayed behind.
• Ning Wangshu brought Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan to Shen Anran’s home, where Ning Ruoxuan told Xu Muqing they might bring Anran back in a few years.

Ning Wangshu told Xu Muqing and Shen Tuohai that he had found a way to reach Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven and hoped to bring Shen Anran back in a few years. After leaving their home, he reunited with Xu Yingying at her company and explained that he had returned from the Cangyuan Realm.

• Ning Wangshu confirmed to Xu Muqing that he had found a way to reach Taihuang Huangzeng Heaven and might bring Shen Anran back in a few years.
• Xu Muqing called Shen Tuohai, who returned home and heard Ning Wangshu confirm the plan to rescue their daughter.
• Ning Wangshu left the Shen Family home with Lin Qingzhu and Ning Ruoxuan, then went with them to see Xu Yingying.
• Xu Yingying welcomed Lin Qingzhu and recognized the disguised Ning Wangshu, who revealed that he was his main body.
• Ning Wangshu told Xu Yingying that unexpected events in the Cangyuan Realm had delayed his return by several years.

After returning to the Cangyuan Realm to pursue greater power, Ning Wangshu discovered that Gong Shiyu was being besieged in the Central Lands. Gong Shiyu surrendered a Half Immortal Artifact to protect her disciples, but her attackers blocked their escape despite swearing a Dao Heart Oath.

• Ning Wangshu returned to the Cangyuan Realm with millions of Immortal Stones and thousands of immortal artifacts, determined to raise his cultivation.
• Ning Wangshu discovered Gong Shiyu being attacked by Fusion Stage cultivators while she protected three Yunqing Sect disciples.
• Gong Shiyu struggled to defend her disciples with twelve dharma beads as her attackers demanded her Half Immortal Artifact.
• Gong Shiyu agreed to hand over the artifact after the attackers swore Dao Heart Oaths not to harm them, then tossed them the Purple-Gold Cloud-Pattern Umbrella.
• Gong Shiyu's attackers refused to let her and her disciples leave, and she accused them of breaking their oaths.

Gong Shiyu and her disciples were trapped by the Myriad Forms Sect after its members revealed their oath had not stopped them from attacking. Ning Wangshu appeared just as Gong Shiyu prepared to flee and erased the sect members with a single finger.

• The Myriad Forms Sect members admitted they had deceived Gong Shiyu and attacked her despite their Dao Heart Oath, seeking the Half Immortal Artifact and to silence witnesses.
• Gong Shiyu's disciples urged her to escape while she struggled to defend them with the twelve Magic Beads.
• As the barrier began to fail, Gong Shiyu resolved to flee and avenge her disciples if she survived.
• Ning Wangshu appeared, and Gong Shiyu recognized him as the senior she had met more than three thousand years earlier.
• The Myriad Forms Sect members threatened Ning Wangshu, who raised a finger and disintegrated them into dust.

Ning Wangshu effortlessly killed the Myriad Forms Sect cultivators who threatened Gong Shiyu and her disciples, then learned about the Dao Discussion Conference they had come to attend. He discovered that roughly a thousand years had passed in the Cangyuan Realm since his last departure despite only a few years passing elsewhere, and he wondered about the realm’s strange time difference before setting the question aside.

• Ning Wangshu killed the Myriad Forms Sect cultivators with a casual flick, saving Gong Shiyu and her disciples.
• Gong Shiyu thanked Ning Wangshu and explained that she had brought her three disciples to the Central Lands for the Dao Discussion Conference.
• Gong Shiyu said Ling Suyuan was a little over eight hundred years old and had reached the early Dividing Soul Stage, making her the disciple most likely to enter the Prodigy Ranking.
• Ning Wangshu asked how long it had been since they last met, and Gong Shiyu estimated a little over three thousand two hundred years.
• Ning Wangshu calculated that nearly a thousand years had passed in the Cangyuan Realm since his last departure, despite only a little over four years passing outside it, and considered possible reasons for the discrepancy.

Ning Wangshu reunited with Gong Shiyu, learned that the Yunqing Sect had flourished, and returned her Half Immortal Artifact before departing. Gong Shiyu revealed his identity as the legendary Extreme Dao Celestial Venerable, while Ning Wangshu continued toward Thousand Absolute Ridge.

• Ning Wangshu asked Gong Shiyu about her master and the Yunqing Sect, and she told him the sect had grown strong again and her master was nearing a breakthrough to the Tribulation Realm.
• Ning Wangshu returned Gong Shiyu the Purple-Gold Cloud-Pattern Umbrella and then left in a streak of golden light.
• Gong Shiyu told Ling Suyuan and her two fellow disciples that Ning Wangshu was a True Immortal and an old friend of their founding ancestor, Yunmiao.
• Gong Shiyu confirmed that Ning Wangshu was the Extreme Dao Celestial Venerable who had slain two Half Immortals from the Ancient Demon Realm, and warned her disciples not to spread the news.
• Gong Shiyu planned to refine the Half Immortal Artifact before continuing to the Dao Discussion Conference, while Ning Wangshu traveled toward Thousand Absolute Ridge using the Ground-Shrinking Golden Light Technique.

Ning Wangshu returned to Thousand Absolute Ridge and found Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying there, along with two young people being sheltered from the Thunder Abyss Holy Land. When the Holy Land’s forces threatened to break in, three women warned them that the ridge belonged to a powerful figure, but the attackers remained defiant.

• Ning Wangshu sensed that Bei Ji Tianzun had reached the Half-Immortal realm and Han Ying had advanced to the Middle Stage of Fusion, while Yaoli was absent.
• Ning Wangshu noticed a young girl and boy with Han Ying as several dozen Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators gathered outside Thousand Absolute Ridge.
• After Han Ying ordered the intruders to leave, a Late Stage Mahayana Earth Immortal ordered his forces to break the seal and seize the two young people.
• Three women arrived and warned the Thunder Abyss Holy Land that Thousand Absolute Ridge was the Daoist temple of a big shot.
• The Thunder Abyss Holy Land’s leaders dismissed the warning, so the leading woman and her companions retreated to watch what happened.

Ning Wangshu observed the Thunder Abyss Holy Land attacking the seal around Thousand Absolute Ridge, confident that it could not be broken. When the attackers prepared to strike again, Bei Ji Tianzun awoke and confronted them.

• Ning Wangshu learned through his immortal sense that the Thunder Abyss Holy Land had come to capture a young man and young girl inside Thousand Absolute Ridge, and he noticed Yao Shengxue warning the attackers to leave.
• Pang Qining ordered the Thunder Abyss Holy Land's experts to attack the seal, dismissing Yao Shengxue's warning.
• Yao Shengxue watched from a distance, knowing Ning Wangshu had returned and expecting the attackers to face his power.
• The combined attacks of dozens of Thunder Abyss Holy Land experts failed to move the seal, so Pang Qining and another Mahayana Earth Immortal prepared to attack it themselves.
• Bei Ji Tianzun awoke, sensed Pang Qining and the other Earth Immortal preparing to strike the seal, and shouted for them to get lost.

Ning Wangshu returned to Thousand Absolute Ridge and effortlessly suppressed the Thunder Abyss Holy Land forces pursuing Jing Xian and Jing Yuan. After learning the siblings’ history and discovering Han Ying had taken them as disciples, he asked them how they wanted to deal with their pursuers.

• Bei Ji Tianzun’s shout blasted Pang Qining and another Mahayana Earth Immortal away and seriously injured them.
• Pang Qining and the Thunder Abyss Holy Land forces tried to flee, but Ning Wangshu immobilized them all.
• Yao Shengxue recognized Ning Wangshu’s voice, and Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying rushed out to welcome his return.
• Ning Wangshu asked Han Ying why Thunder Abyss Holy Land was pursuing the siblings, and Han Ying explained their ancestor had been killed in a rebellion.
• Ning Wangshu summoned Jing Xian and Jing Yuan, learned Han Ying had accepted them as disciples, and asked them how they wanted to deal with their pursuers.

Han Ying let Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan decide the fate of the Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators, and Ning Wangshu learned that Patriarch Xiao had been murdered before annihilating them. After Yao Shengxue paid her respects, Ning Wangshu returned to Thousand Absolute Ridge with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying.

• Han Ying told Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan that they could choose how to deal with the subdued Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators, and the siblings asked for them to be killed.
• Ning Wangshu ignored Pang Qining's demand not to interfere and used the Soul Capture Technique to search his memories.
• Ning Wangshu told the siblings that Pang Qining had treacherously killed Patriarch Xiao, and Wen Jingyuan begged him to avenge them.
• Ning Wangshu annihilated Pang Qining and the other Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators with a single palm.
• Yao Shengxue greeted Ning Wangshu and learned that he would remain in Thousand Absolute Ridge, then departed with her companions.
• Ning Wangshu, Bei Ji Tianzun, and Han Ying returned to Thousand Absolute Ridge.

Ning Wangshu returned to Thousand Absolute Ridge alone and announced that he would cultivate in seclusion, aiming to reach the Immortal King realm before confronting Immortal King Gu Cang and the Imperial Void Sacred Land. He left Bei Ji Tianzun to handle any further trouble from the Thunder Abyss Holy Land and sealed himself inside the main hall.

• Bei Ji Tianzun asked why Ning Wangshu had returned alone, and Ning Wangshu explained that his possible guest would not be coming and that he had come to cultivate.
• Ning Wangshu praised Bei Ji Tianzun's progress to the Half-Immortal realm and promised him more Immortal Stones after he completed his transformation.
• Ning Wangshu urged Han Ying to keep cultivating toward the Mahayana Stage, then entrusted her with deciding how to handle Wen Jing Xian and Wen Jing Yuan's feud with the Thunder Abyss Holy Land.
• Wen Jing Xian and Wen Jing Yuan vowed to grow strong enough to return and avenge their family themselves, and Ning Wangshu accepted their resolve.
• Ning Wangshu told Bei Ji Tianzun to handle any future visitors from the Thunder Abyss Holy Land, then entered the main hall and began closed-door cultivation.

Ning Wangshu began cultivating in seclusion at Thousand Absolute Ridge and, after decades of contemplation, broke through into the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. Meanwhile, Bei Ji Tianzun’s defense against the Thunder Abyss Holy Land made Thousand Absolute Ridge a feared forbidden land, and Ning Wangshu’s immense breakthrough pressure left Bei Ji wondering what realm his master had reached.

• Han Ying told Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan that Ning Wangshu was the True Immortal who had slain two Ancient Demon Clan Half-Immortals and explained that Bei Ji Tianzun had once acknowledged him as master.
• Ning Wangshu arranged tens of thousands of Immortal Stones around himself and entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• When Thunder Abyss Holy Land cultivators came to Thousand Absolute Ridge to investigate Pang Qining’s death, Bei Ji Tianzun killed their peak Mahayana cultivator and more than a dozen others with one sword strike, then let the survivors flee at the siblings’ request.
• Word of Bei Ji Tianzun’s strike spread across Cloud Province and the Eastern Wasteland, and people began avoiding Thousand Absolute Ridge as a forbidden land.
• After decades of contemplation and several months of absorbing immortal energy, Ning Wangshu broke through into the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying sensed the pressure leaking from Ning Wangshu’s breakthrough, and Bei Ji wondered what realm his master had reached.

Ning Wangshu advanced from the early-stage to the peak of the mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, consuming nearly nine million immortal stones as he cultivated. During his progress, he mastered the Xing Technique and Heavenly Walker Sword Canon, and the chapter left him at the mid-stage realm’s peak.

• Ning Wangshu consolidated his breakthrough to the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm and cultivated until he reached the peak of the early stage, spending more than two million immortal stones.
• Ning Wangshu paused his cultivation, comprehended the Xing Technique, and mastered it in just over a year.
• Ning Wangshu studied and mastered the Heavenly Walker Sword Canon over several decades.
• Ning Wangshu broke through to the mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm in less than a hundred years and spent several more decades consolidating his cultivation.
• Ning Wangshu resumed cultivating and reached the peak of the mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm after consuming nearly nine million immortal stones.

After more than thirteen hundred years of closed-door cultivation, Ning Wangshu reached the peak of the mid-Taiyi Golden Immortal stage and decided to visit Water Yuanzi and Luo Han in the Central Lands before cultivating again. He gave Bei Ji Tianzun more Immortal Stones and set off with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying, leaving Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan protected at Thousand Absolute Ridge.

• Ning Wangshu emerged from seclusion and discovered that Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan had reached the mid-Dividing Soul Stage, Han Ying had reached the peak of the Fusion Stage, and Bei Ji Tianzun had become an early-stage Heavenly Immortal.
• Ning Wangshu agreed to let Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying accompany him to the Central Lands to visit Water Yuanzi and Luo Han.
• Bei Ji Tianzun told Ning Wangshu that he had used up his Immortal Stones, so Ning Wangshu gave him five thousand more and instructed him to guard Thousand Absolute Ridge for his relatives.
• Ning Wangshu told Han Ying that she might become a Heavenly Immortal before he left the Cangyuan Realm, and she said she expected it would take several thousand years.
• After relaxing at Thousand Absolute Ridge for more than a month, Ning Wangshu departed for the Central Lands with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying, leaving Wen Jingxian and Wen Jingyuan behind.

Ning Wangshu visited Water Yuanzi in Cloud Water Marsh, explained why ordinary ascension from the Cangyuan Realm was blocked, and gave him Immortal Stones while promising to bring him to the Immortal Realm later. After half a month, Ning Wangshu headed to Worry-forgetting Peak, where he found the flourishing sect surrounded by a vast force and sealed in by a grand formation.

• Ning Wangshu reunited with Water Yuanzi, who had become a Heavenly Immortal but had failed to ascend from the Cangyuan Realm.
• Ning Wangshu told Water Yuanzi that a Mysterious Power blocked the Immortal Gate and promised to take him to the Immortal Realm when the time was right.
• Ning Wangshu gave Water Yuanzi five thousand Immortal Stones and stayed at Cloud Water Marsh for half a month.
• Ning Wangshu left for Spirit Prefecture with Bei Ji Tianzun and Han Ying to visit Luo Han and the others.
• Ning Wangshu arrived at Liuyun City and saw more than a dozen Flying Ships and over a thousand cultivators surrounding and sealing off Worry-forgetting Peak.

The Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land surrounded Worry-forgetting Peak and demanded that the Worry-forgetting Sect hand over the disciple who killed its chief disciple. Luo Shuqing resolved to confront the invaders and sent Luo Ying to summon Luo Han from seclusion, leaving the two sides on the brink of battle.

• A thousand cultivators from the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land sealed off Worry-forgetting Peak, and their leader threatened to destroy the Worry-forgetting Sect unless it surrendered the killer.
• Worry-forgetting Sect disciples feared the enemy’s strength but rallied around their sect’s Mahayana elders and Luo Han, their peak-Mahayana ancestral master.
• The Huaiyang King and Lu Yuanguan urged Luo Shuqing to summon the Grand Elder and strike back against the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land.
• Luo Shuqing agreed to summon her Master and declared that the invaders would not be allowed to leave unpunished.
• Luo Shuqing led the Huaiyang King, Lu Yuanguan, and the others toward the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s forces, while Luo Ying went to summon Luo Han from seclusion.

Luo Shuqing confronted the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land over its attempt to punish the Worry-forgetting Sect for a disciple’s death, and both sides threatened to destroy the other. The Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s peak Mahayana expert claimed Ning Wangshu and his personal disciple had left the Cangyuan Realm, leaving the Worry-forgetting Sect without its strongest support.

• Luo Shuqing told the gathered crowd that a Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land disciple had tried to take advantage of a Worry-forgetting Sect disciple and had been killed, and she condemned the sect for surrounding her home.
• The Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s Mahayana Earth Immortals dismissed the Worry-forgetting Sect and threatened to eliminate it, while Luo Shuqing vowed that they would not leave alive and that their sacred land would be erased.
• The Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s peak Mahayana expert acknowledged Celestial Venerable Hanli’s connection to the Extreme Dao Celestial Venerable but claimed Ning Wangshu had left the Cangyuan Realm.
• The peak expert explained that a Mahayana Earth Immortal from the Yaotai Xianmeng had told him Ning Wangshu and his personal disciple departed the realm, and that some Yaotai Xianmeng experts had stayed behind after Ning Wangshu opened a breach in its barrier.

Luo Shuqing defied the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s forces despite their belief that Ning Wangshu and Yao had left the Cangyuan Realm. As they prepared to attack, an Immortal Light erupted from Worry-forgetting Peak, and a powerful figure appeared above the city.

• Luo Shuqing realized the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land had learned Ning Wangshu was absent from information left by a Mahayana Earth Immortal in the Yaotai Xianmeng.
• Ning Wangshu, Bei Ji Tianzun, and Han Ying approached Liuyun City while Ning Wangshu watched the confrontation and decided Luo Han should handle the intruders.
• Bei Ji Tianzun explained the situation to Han Ying, who said the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land was courting death.
• Luo Shuqing warned the Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land that its attack on the Worry-forgetting Sect would cost its members their lives and lead to its destruction.
• The Heaven-Dominating Sacred Land’s peak-Mahayana expert prepared to order an attack, but an icy voice rang out from Worry-forgetting Peak.
• Immortal Light and overwhelming pressure spread across Liuyun City as a graceful figure appeared above Worry-forgetting Peak and fixed its gaze on the peak-Mahayana expert.