Chapter Summaries

Ke Jie and Huang Wei fought the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan elders, who had come searching for Nine Fold. Huang Wei’s tortoise shell reflected their attacks and instantly destroyed their bodies, leaving their souls weakened as he moved to seal them.

• Ke Jie told Nine Chapters that he had killed Nine Fold after the bird caused trouble in his Dao field.
• Nine Chapters, Nine Five, and Nine Six attacked Ke Jie and Huang Wei with their Great Dao Rule Chains.
• Huang Wei blocked Nine Five and Nine Six’s attacks with his tortoise shell and activated damage reflection and critical strikes.
• The reflected damage made Nine Chapters, Nine Five, and Nine Six explode into blood mist.
• Huang Wei sent the Heaven Earth Man Three Seal Marks toward their weakened souls, while Ke Jie recognized that Huang Wei had three Great Dao Spiritual Treasures.

Huang Wei and Ke Jie left Holy Spirit Village after Huang Wei killed three Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird elders, and Huang Wei refined their souls on the journey to the Great Dao Soul Ancestor. Meanwhile, the bird clan mourned its dead and decided to seek its ancestor before pursuing revenge.

• Huang Wei collected the three elders’ souls, and Ke Jie agreed that they should leave Holy Spirit Village and seek refuge with the Great Dao Soul Ancestor.
• Huang Wei and Ke Jie traveled for an epoch, during which Huang Wei refined the three souls and reached the Great Dao Soul Ancestor’s territory.
• The Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan’s Patriarch found that the life Jade Pendants of Nine Chapters, Nine Five, and Nine Six had shattered.
• The Patriarch said the clan would seek its ancestor, the Nine Demon Profound Fiend Bird, before attempting to avenge the three elders.
• The Fourth Elder urged the clan to protect itself and grow stronger, and the Great Elder prompted another elder to speak after the Patriarch cut him off.

Patriarch Jiu Xuan revealed an incomplete clue to the Nine Demon Profound Fiend Bird, while Huang Wei and his companions reached a city near the Great Dao Soul Ancestor and reunited with Sheng Ye’s group. Huang Wei settled nearby and offered to discuss the void with a Holy Spirit Village hunter who had created their passage through the tunnel.

• The Seventh Elder challenged Patriarch Jiu Xuan over the clan’s fruitless search, so Jiu Xuan revealed a damaged Parchment Scroll carrying the ancestor’s bloodline resonance.
• Huang Wei, Ke Jie, and the old village chief entered the Great Dao Soul Ancestor’s territory after paying the city’s entrance fee.
• Huang Wei and his companions reunited with Sheng Ye and learned that the hunting party had reached the city sooner using a Void Formation and a member skilled in void traversal.
• Sheng Ye told Huang Wei that the Great Dao Soul Ancestor was not recruiting disciples, so the villagers had settled in the city and were waiting for an opportunity.
• Huang Wei rented a nearby place, then offered to discuss the void with the Holy Spirit Village hunter who had created the group’s passage through the tunnel.

Huang Wei and Sheng Xu discussed the Void Rule, while the Great Dao Soul Ancestor mourned losses from the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land and planned to recruit disciples. After their fruitful conversation, Huang Wei left the room and found the villagers excitedly discussing a newspaper.

• Huang Wei and Sheng Xu compared their understanding of the Dao, and Huang Wei's three rule chains overcame Sheng Xu's one.
• The Great Dao Soul Ancestor's surviving Elders returned severely injured, and the Sect Master led them to heal in the Great Dao Pool Water.
• The Sect Master held a memorial for those killed in the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land and scheduled disciple recruitment for one epoch later.
• Sheng Xu said his chance of reaching Great Dao Second Heaven exceeded ninety percent and departed to reflect on his insights.
• Huang Wei noticed Ke Jie, the old village chief, Sheng Ye, and the villagers of Holy Spirit Village excitedly discussing something resembling a newspaper.

After three eras of secluded cultivation, Sheng Xu broke through to Great Dao Second Heaven and set out to meet Huang Wei before traveling to the Great Dao Soul Ancestor recruitment site. He found Huang Wei emerging from his cave abode, and the two met face-to-face.

• Sheng Xu reflected on how much stronger Great Dao Second Heaven was than Great Dao First Heaven and vowed to pursue Great Dao Third Heaven.
• Sheng Xu left his room after three eras of seclusion and decided to check whether Huang Wei was ready to leave.
• Sheng Xu flew to Huang Wei's cave abode, feeling the immense pressure emanating from the valley.
• Huang Wei opened the cave abode door and emerged just as Sheng Xu arrived, and they exchanged a look.

Huang Wei and Sheng Xu traveled toward the Great Dao Soul Ancestor's main city to seek entry into the sect. After their rare talents and cultivation drew attention, they boarded a Great Dao Void Boat with three other Great Dao Third Heaven cultivators and passed the journey exchanging Dao insights.

• Huang Wei and Sheng Xu reached the Void Transmission Boat Formation Merchant Association in Nuoding City and found a huge crowd headed for the main city.
• Huang Wei encouraged Sheng Xu to rely on his pure Void Rule cultivation, and the two revealed their auras, prompting the crowd to make way for them.
• Three other Great Dao Third Heaven cultivators, Hong Quan, Ning Gang, and Tian Hong, joined Huang Wei and Sheng Xu at the front of the queue.
• The Merchant Association president arranged for all five to board the same Great Dao Void Boat bound for the main city.
• Huang Wei exchanged Dao insights with Hong Quan, Ning Gang, and Tian Hong while Sheng Xu shared his knowledge of Void Rule during the journey.

Huang Wei and his companions arrived at the Great Dao Soul Ancestor for the final recruitment assessment. Nine cultivators, including Huang Wei, qualified for an exemption, Sheng Xu was admitted as a special talent, and the first test eliminated most of the million applicants.

• Huang Wei and his companions reached the Great Dao Soul Ancestor with one epoch remaining before registration closed.
• Salas announced that his batch was the final recruitment group and that applicants had to endure his pressure for one incense stick of time.
• Nine applicants, including Huang Wei, revealed Great Dao Third Heaven cultivation and received exemptions from the test.
• Huang Wei asked Salas to consider Sheng Xu, who demonstrated his pure Void Rule power and was exempted as a special talent.
• Salas released his Great Dao Third Heaven pressure, and applicants who collapsed were teleported away until only two hundred thousand remained.

The second round of the Great Dao Soul Ancestor entrance assessment eliminated nearly everyone, leaving twenty thousand candidates for a grand melee. During the candidates’ rest, Huang Wei explored his Mixed Realm and considered how it might advance to the Great Dao level.

• Salas began the second round, where candidates had to withstand a simulated Great Dao Blood Rhino for one incense stick.
• The Great Dao Blood Rhino overwhelmed the candidates, and only twenty thousand of the original two hundred thousand remained.
• Salas announced that the twenty thousand survivors would rest before a grand melee, with the first ten thousand becoming outer disciples and the rest receiving permanent residency rights.
• Huang Wei explored his Mixed Realm and learned that completing three thousand Great Dao Rules could let it advance to the Great Dao level, though he possessed only three rules.

Gu Aotian and the other finalists passed the Great Dao Soul Ancestor’s trial and entered its outer sect, while Salas agreed to recommend the most impressive candidates. As Salas led Huang Wei and ten Great Dao Third Heaven cultivators toward the main hall, a rare Golden Dragon Qilin appeared above the sect’s mountain range.

• The melee ended when the contestants were reduced to ten thousand, and Salas judged Gu Aotian the strongest among them.
• Gu Aotian asked about the requirements for joining the inner sect, and Salas explained the cultivation, service, and contribution conditions before agreeing to recommend him and several others.
• Salas brought the ten thousand successful candidates to the outer sect, where Hong Hu took them to complete their entry procedures.
• Salas led Huang Wei and ten Great Dao Third Heaven cultivators toward the main hall for direct interviews.
• A colossal Golden Dragon Qilin appeared above the mountains, and Huang Wei recognized it as an exceedingly rare sacred beast.

Salas led Huang Wei, Sheng Xu, and the other newcomers into the Great Dao Soul Ancestor, where the Sect Master made Sheng Xu his final disciple and granted the others Apprentice Elder status. Sheng Xu then learned that Ke Jie had joined the sect and Sheng Ye was in the outer sect, and asked where Ke Jie was.

• Golden Qilin Daoist opened the inner sect gate for Salas and the ten newcomers, and they entered the Great Dao Soul Ancestor.
• Salas brought the group before the Sect Master, who recognized Sheng Xu’s pure Void Rule and accepted him as his final disciple.
• The Sect Master granted Huang Wei and the other nine newcomers Apprentice Elder status and sent Salas to take them to Elder Peak.
• Sheng Xu asked the Sect Master to locate Ke Jie, Old Village Chief, Sheng Ye, and the other villagers.
• The Sect Master said Ke Jie had become an Apprentice Elder four eras earlier and Sheng Ye was in the outer sect, then advised Sheng Xu to ask Elder Ke Jie for details.
• Sheng Xu asked where Elder Ke Jie was.

Huang Wei registered as an Apprentice Elder while Sheng Xu learned where Ke Jie lived and completed his own identity verification. The three reunited with the Holy Spirit Village villagers in Northern Min Heaven, then Sheng Xu returned to Sect Master Peak, determined to grow stronger.

• The Sect Master gave Sheng Xu a map and cultivation resources, and Sheng Xu headed to Elder Peak to find Ke Jie.
• Huang Wei chose a cave dwelling and registered at Elder Hall, receiving his Apprentice Elder Token and Gift Packs.
• Sheng Xu revealed his closed-door disciple Token, and an Elder told him Ke Jie was cultivating in seclusion and sent Ke Jie's location to his Token.
• Huang Wei and Sheng Xu found Ke Jie, who told them Sheng Ye had become an outer sect disciple and the other villagers had settled in the main city.
• Ke Jie led Huang Wei and Sheng Xu to reunite with the villagers, and they celebrated together for a day.
• Sheng Xu returned to the Great Dao Soul Ancestor and went to Sect Master Peak, resolved to cultivate until he reached Great Dao Third Heaven before leaving again.

Huang Wei explored the inner sect and spent Great Dao Crystals buying goods throughout its treasure-selling pavilion. After his purchases left the first-floor stalls nearly empty, an angry group confronted him on the second floor and demanded a chance to buy what he had taken; the leader threatened to hit him.

• Huang Wei visited a luxurious bar, heard Great Dao cultivators complain about their hardships, and then left for the treasure-selling pavilion.
• Huang Wei bought many unusual goods from the first-floor stalls, including a Great Dao Second Heaven Swift Thunder Bouncing Sky Rabbit, using Great Dao Crystals produced through the Superpower Laboratory.
• Huang Wei's spending let many stall owners sell out and return to cultivating, while other shoppers were left without goods.
• After learning Huang Wei had gone to the second floor, an angry leader brought at least ten others to confront him.
• The leader demanded that Huang Wei let them choose items from his purchases, but Huang Wei refused and asked if the man wanted to hit him.
• The leader said he would hit Huang Wei if he refused to cooperate.

Huang Wei used his Elder Token to make Hong Lin back down, then returned to his cave residence and attempted to advance from Great Dao Third Heaven to Great Dao Fourth Heaven. The breakthrough failed when an accident disrupted the condensation of the three thousand laws, leaving him to face the Great Dao Realm’s costly setback.

• Huang Wei showed Hong Lin his Elder Token, and Hong Lin apologized and fled with his companions.
• Huang Wei bought items on the second floor, found the auction on the third floor had ended, and returned to his cave residence.
• Huang Wei checked his status and began cultivating while his clones continued their training missions across other worlds.
• Huang Wei condensed the three thousand laws and tried to form Great Dao Rule Chains, but an accident caused his breakthrough to fail.
• Huang Wei realized that a failed Great Dao Realm breakthrough made his condensed energy and the three thousand laws collapse, though the System spared him from gathering experience planets again.

Huang Wei emerged from seclusion after a thousand failed attempts at advancing and discovered that Tian Kun had killed a Great Dao Third Heaven Howling Sky Tiger. The Sect Master appointed Tian Kun Soul Son of the Great Dao Soul Ancestor, leaving Huang Wei among the disciples bowing to the newly elevated heir.

• A thousand epochs after Huang Wei resumed cultivating, a powerful disturbance shook the inner sect world and drew him from seclusion.
• Huang Wei learned that Tian Kun had killed a Great Dao Third Heaven Howling Sky Tiger, and the Sect Master praised him before the gathered disciples and Elders.
• The Sect Master questioned whether Tian Kun had truly killed the beast alone, and Tian Kun insisted that he had done so at great cost.
• The Sect Master declared Tian Kun the Soul Son of the Great Dao Soul Ancestor, ranking him above the Elders and second only to the Sect Master.
• The disciples, including Huang Wei, bowed and greeted Tian Kun as Soul Son, while Huang Wei privately resented living under someone else's roof.

Tian Kun became the Great Dao Soul Ancestor’s first Soul Son and used the ceremony to strengthen his standing, while Huang Wei stayed focused on his own research and cultivation. The chapter ended with Huang Wei enjoying the feast alongside Ke Jie and the old village chief, indifferent to the factions’ schemes.

• Tian Kun distributed pieces of the Howling Sky Tiger to the disciples to win their favor, while Huang Wei collected a piece for his Superpower Laboratory.
• After another epoch passed, Tian Kun was formally invested as Soul Son, and the Great Dao Soul Ancestor announced his new status across Putian.
• Huang Wei considered the hierarchy of the Great Dao Sacred State and the three Holy Lands while Tian Kun basked in his elevated position.
• At the ceremony feast, nearby forces plotted to gain favor with Tian Kun, but Huang Wei ignored their schemes and ate and drank with Ke Jie and the old village chief.

Huang Wei decided to buy a mountain in the Great Dao Soul Ancestor’s main city so the people of Holy Spirit Village could live together again. After learning the cost and giving an Elder ten Great Dao Crystals for advice, he reunited with Ke Jie and revealed his plan.

• Huang Wei reflected on immortal life and decided to seek the pleasures of mortal living by purchasing a mountain for Holy Spirit Village.
• Huang Wei asked the Elder chat group about buying a mountain and learned that Apprentice Elders received a fifty percent discount.
• Huang Wei sent ten Great Dao Crystals to the Elder who answered him, drawing attention from other members of the group.
• Huang Wei visited Ke Jie and the old village chief, who welcomed him with fishing and flower tea.
• Huang Wei told Ke Jie that he planned to buy a mountain so the villagers of Holy Spirit Village could live together permanently, and confirmed that he was the anonymous Elder-group member who gave away ten crystals.

Huang Wei bought Floating Lake Mountain for five hundred Great Dao Third Heaven Great Dao Crystals, intending to make it the Holy Spirit Village’s cultivation home. The purchase reached the Property Hall for review, where the chief reviewer objected to the price and worried about the Sect Master’s reaction.

• Huang Wei asked old village chief Ke Jie to keep his gift of ten Great Dao Third Heaven Great Dao Crystals secret, then took him to meet the Holy Spirit Village villagers in the main city.
• Huang Wei chose Floating Lake Mountain despite its scarcity of precious resources, and the Holy Spirit Village villagers agreed that they liked the place.
• Huang Wei contacted the Land Elder, who explained that the mountain cost fifty thousand Great Dao Crystals after the Apprentice Elder discount.
• Huang Wei paid five hundred Great Dao Third Heaven Great Dao Crystals for Floating Lake Mountain, and the Land Elder began processing the purchase.
• The Property Hall chief reviewer received the transaction and objected that the price was too low, fearing the Sect Master would blame him.

Huang Wei completed the purchase of Floating Lake Mountain and began turning it into a home and development project while recruiting its residents as workers. He left them with construction underway and a job notice that drew strong interest from people seeking Great Dao Crystals.

• Xu Jiang approved Huang Wei’s purchase of Floating Lake Mountain and explained its protection fee and advance-payment discount.
• Huang Wei paid ahead using his stored Great Dao Crystals, and the Great Dao Soul Ancestor announced that Apprentice Elder Xi Jian had bought the mountain.
• Huang Wei summoned Floating Lake Mountain’s residents, chose a lakeside site for his inner dao field, and began transforming the area while preserving its natural beauty.
• Huang Wei let the mountain’s residents stay if they contributed labor, then assigned them to work with the villagers of Holy Spirit Village.
• Huang Wei issued a recruitment notice offering construction workers a base salary of ten Great Dao Crystals per era, prompting interest across the main city.

Huang Wei oversaw recruitment and construction at Floating Lake Mountain while preparing to refine the mountain into his Dao Fruit. City Lord Ouyang Feng, newly emerged from seclusion, visited to congratulate him and met Huang Wei at the mountain’s boundary.

• Huang Wei delegated recruitment to Holy Spirit Village villagers and reviewed applicants for good character and obedience.
• Ouyang Feng learned that Huang Wei had bought Floating Lake Mountain and was hiring, then flew there after checking the elders’ chat group.
• Applicants flocked to the mountain, where selected workers were promised salaries and benefits as construction of high-tech villas progressed.
• Huang Wei considered refining the mountain and taking the Holy Spirit Village villagers with him if the Great Dao Soul Ancestor faced disaster.
• Ouyang Feng stopped outside the mountain and announced his visit, and Huang Wei flew out to greet him respectfully.

Huang Wei and Ouyang Feng discussed the Dao for ten eras while Floating Lake Mountain Peak completed recruitment. After reviewing the recruits, Huang Wei learned that a newborn villager had been named Saint Jack, also called Jack, and reacted with astonishment.

• Huang Wei showed Ouyang Feng the developing peak and agreed to accept assistants from the city under the peak’s rules.
• Ten eras later, recruitment ended, and the selected recruits waited nearby while Huang Wei reviewed their list.
• Ouyang Feng left Floating Lake Residence after the discussion of the Dao, and Huang Wei approved the recruits and ordered them to begin work.
• Ke Jie and Sheng Ye told Huang Wei that a villager’s son had been born and invited him to bless the child.
• Sheng Ye revealed that the boy was named Saint Jack, also called Jack, and Huang Wei wondered if he could be the legendary Old Jack.