Chapter Summaries

After surviving a deadly illusion in the Ruins of Illusory Realm, the protagonist began cultivating the Immortal Undying Scripture but failed for five years to sense Soul Origin Qi. He used Dao Heart Illumination to force a breakthrough, only to discover it had cost him three thousand years of lifespan as he entered Great Dao Enlightenment.

• The protagonist recalled that the monster in the illusion was a Guixian from the Canglan Realm and escaped by realizing the scene was his inner world.
• He woke from the Ruins of Illusory Realm, shaken but having passed the Immortal Undying Scripture's trial.
• After one year and then five years of cultivation, he still could not capture any Soul Origin Qi, even with Great Dao Illumination.
• He decided to use Dao Heart Illumination, despite its cost of one thousand years of lifespan and its limit of three uses.
• Dao Heart Illumination drained three thousand years of his lifespan, and he entered a state of Great Dao Enlightenment.

Su Ming used Great Dao Epiphany to capture Soul Origin Qi and eventually condensed Undying Soul Fire, but the technique consumed his lifespan. After three uses left him with less than three years to live, Wuji Heavenly Venerate abruptly vanished from Su Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Su Ming captured a wisp of Soul Origin Qi during Great Dao Epiphany and brought it into his Sea of Consciousness, then passed out and woke a week later.
• Su Ming discovered that Great Dao Epiphany had consumed one-third of his lifespan and turned the front third of his hair white.
• Su Ming refined the Soul Origin Qi and condensed his first wisp of Undying Soul Fire after more than a year of seclusion.
• Su Ming used Great Dao Epiphany twice more, leaving himself with less than three years to live as his hair turned completely white.
• Wuji Heavenly Venerate began warning Su Ming, abruptly fell silent, and disappeared from the statue in Su Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.

After the Abnormal Clan attacked Hope Zone, the protagonist escaped into the Ancient Emperor Ruins with Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji, then learned the clan planned to build another Heavenly Emperor City through the Wang Family. Six months later, he and Xuanyuan Tian Ji left to forge a Mysterious Yellow Shield, which she completed in Year Eleven as he prepared to face his remaining years and attempt a tribulation.

• The Abnormal Clan attacked Hope Zone, and an Immortal Realm expert struck the protagonist out of the Great Void Technique, but he used the blow to enter the Ancient Emperor Ruins with Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji discovered that the protagonist had less than three years to live; he explained that he had traded lifespan to condense three Undying Soul Fires and claimed an eighty percent chance of success.
• Chen Shu revealed that the Abnormal Clan had turned to the Wang Family, a branch of Dawnbreaker, to build another Heavenly Emperor City and take control of the Qingxuan Realm.
• The three stayed in the Ancient Emperor Ruins for six months, then returned to find Hope Zone deserted before the protagonist and Xuanyuan Tian Ji left for the Fallen Immortal Abyss.
• In Year Eleven, Xuanyuan Tian Ji finished forging the Mysterious Yellow Shield on the Ten Thousand Tribulation Staircase and wished the protagonist good luck.

You endured the ninth bolt of the Chaos Divine Thunder as the tribulation clouds shattered the Ancient Emperor Ruins' barrier and drew an Immortal Lord of the Abnormal Clan to the site. The Mysterious Yellow Shield began to crack under the final strike, and you brought out a fragment.

• You broke through to the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Venerate Realm and survived six bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder before the seventh destroyed your body; you used an Undying Soul Fire to restore it.
• You survived the eighth bolt and prepared to face the final bolt with the Mysterious Yellow Shield and one Undying Soul Fire remaining.
• The tribulation clouds expanded until they shattered the barrier around the Ancient Emperor Ruins, exposing the Qingxuan Realm.
• You urged Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu to flee, then told Xuanyuan Tian Ji to take Chen Shu to the old Bai Family site in Heavenly Emperor City.
• The bewitching Immortal Lord arrived as the clouds gathered power for three days, and you summoned the Mysterious Yellow Shield when the final Chaos Divine Thunder struck.
• The Mysterious Yellow Shield cracked under the final bolt, and you took out a fragment.

You survived the nine bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder and forged an Immortal-Demon Unity, but an Immortal Lord–realm aberration attacked you as your body was reforged. Heavenly Mandate Protection teleported you to Heavenly Emperor City’s lower city, and after recovering, you traveled to the Bai Family ruins to find Xuanyuan Tian Ji and another person.

• You fused a Mysterious Yellow Shield fragment into the damaged shield, which held out through the ninth bolt before shattering; you then endured the tribulation and died, leaving a faint wisp of your soul.
• You used your last Undying Soul Fire to reforge your body, but a sinister man grabbed you and recognized your True Dragon Treasure Body.
• You escaped the sinister man’s grasp with Myriad Swords Returning to Origin: Sword Domain Descent, but he shattered your bones and left you unable to move.
• Heavenly Mandate Protection activated and teleported you away, leaving the furious sinister man unable to find you.
• You spent seven days recovering in an abandoned courtyard, discovered you were in Heavenly Emperor City’s lower city, and healed fully by year twelve.
• You used the Great Void Technique to leave the city and reached the Bai Family ruins a month later.

After breaking through to the Immortal Realm, you escaped the Qingxuan Realm with Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji, only to arrive in the middle of an Immortal King battle. Chen Shu died in the clash, and you were killed by another shockwave.

• You told Chen Shu to leave the Qingxuan Realm and revealed that you had an Immortal Crystal to break through to the Immortal Realm.
• You broke through at the ruins of the Bai Family in Heaven's Emperor City, attracting the Immortal Lord Abnormal, then escaped with Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji using Primordial Dragon Travel.
• You emerged from the Chaos Void in an unknown plane, where an Immortal King shockwave blasted you away and killed Chen Shu.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji warned you that Immortal Kings were fighting, and you tried to escape with the Great Void Technique.
• A second shockwave struck before your spatial portal opened fully and killed you, ending the simulation.

After claiming the simulation rewards and reaching the Immortal Realm, Su Ming realized the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul had devoured Wuji Heavenly Venerate inside his Sea of Consciousness. Unable to find a way to remove the threat, Su Ming returned to the Ancient Emperor Ruins and placed his hopes in future simulations.

• Su Ming activated I Want It All, gained early-stage Immortal Realm cultivation, and learned the Simulator's cooldown had increased to three years.
• Su Ming heard Wuji Heavenly Venerate warn him before the voice vanished, and realized the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul had devoured him.
• Su Ming shouted at the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul, then told Chen Shu they would leave the next day.
• Su Ming and Chen Shu returned to the Ancient Emperor Ruins, where Chen Tian was waiting, and Su Ming went to speak with Xuanyuan Tian Ji.
• Su Ming told Xuanyuan Tian Ji about the Sword Emperor inheritance and the remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness, but she could offer no solution.
• Su Ming decided to rely on further simulations to find a way to deal with the Sword Emperor Remnant Soul.

Su Ming revealed his Immortal Realm breakthrough to Xuanyuan Tian Ji and convinced her to leave Qingxuan Realm with him in search of a usable Realm Array. Before departing, they planned to visit Fallen Immortal Abyss, and Su Ming began his final simulation, which opened with Chen Shu trying to persuade him to stay.

• Su Ming decided to return to Canglan Realm and told Xuanyuan Tian Ji he would seek a Realm Array in another plane.
• Su Ming revealed his Immortal Realm aura, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji realized he had mastered Immortal-Demon Unity.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji agreed to leave Qingxuan Realm with Su Ming, and he proposed visiting Fallen Immortal Abyss to retrieve the Mysterious Yellow Stone Marrow first.
• Su Ming began his final simulation to check for dangers before leaving Qingxuan Realm.
• The next morning, Su Ming and Xuanyuan Tian Ji prepared to leave Hope Zone, and Chen Shu tried to persuade Su Ming to stay.

Before leaving the Qingxuan Realm, you warned Chen Shu and Chen Tian that the Abnormal Clan planned to ally with the Wang Family and eventually keep the realm captive. Chen Shu joined you, and after gathering resources and cultivating at the Fallen Immortal Abyss, you set out through the Chaos Void with Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu.

• You told Chen Shu that you came from the Canglan Realm and warned her that the Abnormal Clan had approached the Wang Family after destroying the Bai Family.
• Chen Tian overheard the conversation, accepted that the Qingxuan Realm might be raised in captivity, and realized you had reached the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Tian asked you to take Chen Shu away and offered a tenth of the Council of Elders' resources; you agreed after Chen Shu accepted.
• Three days later, Chen Tian gave you a Storage Ring, and a month afterward you took Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji to the Fallen Immortal Abyss to cultivate.
• Two months later, Xuanyuan Tian Ji gave you the Mysterious Yellow Shield, and you led both women into your Void Realm before entering the Chaos Void as Ancient Great Void.

Li Ke traveled through the Taixuan Immortal Domain, discovered an abnormal sect, and escaped before reaching the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty. There, Li Mu Tian learned that Li Ke came from the Qingxuan Immortal Domain and asked about its condition.

• Li Ke took Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji to a remote mountain, where they scouted for a week and found no other humans besides villagers in a small village.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji identified the region as the Taixuan Immortal Domain and suspected that a curse had prevented the villagers and their ancestors from cultivating.
• Li Ke and his companions learned of a sect north of the village and spent three years reaching it, only to find an Abnormal Clan stronghold concealed behind a barrier.
• Li Ke sent Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji into the Void Realm and fled from a many-eyed mass of flesh, escaping after days of flight.
• Li Ke reached the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty and told Li Mu Tian that the Abnormal Clan treated humans in the Qingxuan Immortal Domain as livestock and restricted their cultivation below the Immortal Realm.

Li Mu Tian explained that the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty was struggling against the Abnormal Clan, led by the wounded Thousand-Eyed Emperor. You wanted to return to Canglan Realm to deal with the Sinister Worm inside you, but Li Mu Tian revealed that the guarded Realm Array was inside the Abnormal Sect.

• Li Mu Tian told you that Dream Emperor and Thousand-Eyed Emperor had fought ten years earlier, leaving both Immortal Sovereigns badly injured.
• You and Chen Shu told Li Mu Tian that you had entered the Abnormal Sect, and Li Mu Tian was shocked that you had escaped Thousand-Eyed Emperor.
• Li Mu Tian assigned you to the Abnormality Resistance Corps and offered you a place in his squad, but you said you needed to return to Canglan Realm.
• You explained that you wanted to reach Canglan Realm and eliminate the Sinister Worm inside you.
• Li Mu Tian told you that you could not use the Realm Array because it was inside the Abnormal Sect and guarded by the Abnormal Clan.

After joining the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty, the protagonist entered the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s Inner Sect and cultivated in seclusion. Learning that the dynasty planned to retake the Realm Array, the protagonist saw a chance to return to the Canglan Realm and signed up for a competition to prove their worth.

• The protagonist agreed to join the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty, and Li Mu Tian explained that the Great Dream Immortal Sect fought the Abnormal Clan and that the dynasty controlled roughly a third of the Taixuan Immortal Domain.
• After Li Mu Tian completed his mission, he took the protagonist, Chen Shu, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji to the imperial capital, where the protagonist and Chen Shu entered the Outer Sect while the protagonist entered the Inner Sect.
• The protagonist collected abundant cultivation resources and spent two years cultivating in seclusion, remaining at the early stage of the Immortal Realm.
• The protagonist heard that the Inner Sect disciples would be sent to the front lines in three years as the dynasty tried to retake the Realm Array and obtain a cure for the gravely injured Immortal Sovereign.
• The protagonist decided to use the campaign to reach the Realm Array and return to the Canglan Realm, then registered for the next month’s competition to prove their worth.

The protagonist entered the Great Dream Immortal Sect tournament and challenged Shi Hao, a peak Immortal Realm contestant who had held the tenth arena for years. Their first clash shocked the spectators when the protagonist’s Chaos Qi-empowered sword strike dispelled Shi Hao’s powerful punch.

• The protagonist qualified among the top hundred Immortal Realm contestants in the tournament.
• The protagonist learned that ten arena champions had stayed in the Immortal Realm to keep claiming tournament resources, and decided to challenge the tenth-ranked champion, Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao and the other arena champions mocked the protagonist for being only at the early stage of the Immortal Realm, while spectators and contestants bet on his defeat.
• The protagonist called Shi Hao a parasite of the Human Race, provoking Shi Hao to attack with a punch imbued with fist intent.
• The protagonist drew the Immortal Sword of Great Void and countered with Chaos Qi-empowered Great Void Sword Qi, dispelling Shi Hao’s strike and stunning the crowd.

The protagonist defeated the champions of all nine arenas, then overcame Murong Kong and claimed first place in the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s martial competition. After collecting the modest rewards, the protagonist regretted not receiving any essence blood.

• The protagonist defeated Shi Hao with Great Void Sword Intent, then injured the champions of the other eight arenas without killing them.
• The protagonist invited the crowd to compete for the vacated ranks and faced Murong Kong on the first-place arena.
• Murong Kong unleashed Startling Swan, but the protagonist’s Heaven-Slaying overwhelmed it and nearly struck him before the protagonist recalled the attack.
• The protagonist warned Murong Kong against becoming a traitor to the Abnormal Clan, and Murong Kong left the competition grounds in defeat.
• The protagonist claimed first place, and the contest for the top ten ended without anyone else challenging them.
• The next day, the protagonist collected the competition rewards and found they were only several times greater than the basic allotment, with no essence blood.

After two years of cultivation, the protagonist learned that his Chaos Body consumed enormous resources and had left his cultivation stalled, while the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty's coming war against the Abnormal Clan drew closer. He told Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji about his plan to escape to the Canglan Realm, then asked Xuanyuan Tian Ji whether she would return to the Weiyang Immortal Domain.

• The protagonist realized that despite exhausting his resources and repeatedly winning martial competitions, he had remained at the early stage of the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji entered the inner sect after breaking through to the Immortal Realm, and Chen Shu explained that Li Mu Tian had supplied them with cultivation resources.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji explained that the Chaos Body gradually converted spiritual power into Chaos Qi and required at least ten times the resources of an ordinary cultivator to advance in the Immortal Realm.
• The protagonist realized his stalled cultivation had cost him the higher-ups' attention, with less than a year remaining before the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty attacked the Abnormal Clan.
• The protagonist told Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji that he planned to leave for the Canglan Realm, and they agreed to join him.
• The protagonist asked Xuanyuan Tian Ji whether she would return to the Weiyang Immortal Domain.

Xuanyuan Tian Ji decided not to return to the Weiyang Immortal Domain, and you prepared with her and Chen Shu for a war against the Abnormal Clan. The Great Dream Immortal Sect began its campaign, and after the Abnormal Clan attacked, you followed Li Mu Tian into the first battle.

• Xuanyuan Tian Ji decided to stay rather than return to the Weiyang Immortal Domain, and you told her and Chen Shu to focus on surviving the coming war.
• You, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and Chen Shu cultivated in the Great Dream Immortal Sect and took part in its monthly martial tournaments.
• Dreamless Immortal King rallied the assembled inner sect and assigned you, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and Chen Shu to follow Li Mu Tian's orders.
• A month later, the Great Dream Immortal Sect's forces departed for the Abnormal Sect, and Li Mu Tian explained the wartime hierarchy to you aboard his immortal ship.
• After the force reached the frontier, the Abnormal Clan attacked; Li Mu Tian led the first battle, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji began explaining why the sect had arranged the campaign that way.

The protagonist fought the Abnormal Clan for two years as the Great Dream Immortal Sect advanced toward the Abnormal Sect, while secretly preparing to escape. When the final battle began and the Immortal Kings charged to seize the Realm Array, the protagonist used the chaos to infiltrate the Abnormal Sect.

• Xuanyuan Tian Ji explained how the Human Race could take turns fighting the Abnormal Clan, and the protagonist joined the battle while keeping their strength hidden.
• After three days, the protagonist's squad won its first battle, but half of its thousand members died, and Li Mu Tian returned grim-faced.
• Over the next year, the squad dwindled and merged with another; the protagonist arranged for Chen Shu to fake her death and hide in the Void Realm, while Xuanyuan Tian Ji chose to keep fighting until she later hid there too.
• In the second year, repeated battles decimated the fighters, and Li Mu Tian lost an arm before the Great Dream Immortal Sect reached the Abnormal Sect.
• As the Thousand-Eyed Emperor watched the assembled disciples, Dreamless Immortal King ordered a full assault to give himself time to take the Realm Array.
• The protagonist used Void Concealment to slip through the melee, avoided the Thousand-Eyed Emperor's gaze, and followed Dreamless Immortal King's route toward the Abnormal Sect.

The narrator followed the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s force into the Abnormal Sect, only to discover they had walked into a trap around the Realm Array. Exposed by the formation, the narrator concealed their true strength while the Immortal Lord elder prepared to lead a breakout.

• Dreamless Immortal King drew several Abnormal Immortal Kings away, leaving the Abnormal Sect’s defenses seemingly weak.
• The narrator followed an Immortal Lord elder and the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s force toward the Realm Array, then suspected the empty sect was a trap.
• A dark red formation appeared near the Realm Array, and countless Bizarre Creatures, including Immortal Lords, surrounded the trapped group.
• The formation forced the narrator out of the void, and a Great Dream Immortal Sect disciple recognized them as the sect’s renowned Immortal Realm fighter.
• The Immortal Lord elder identified the formation as a deadly Immortal King-level formation and ordered the group to break through toward its core.

The protagonist escaped the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s power-draining formation and raced for the Realm Array, while the Immortal Lord elder mistook his escape for an attempt to claim it. He left the Taixuan Immortal Domain, revealing that he had never intended to take the array, and the Great Dream Immortal Sect denounced him as a traitor.

• The protagonist realized the formation absorbed Immortal Power and quietly slipped through it using Void Concealment.
• The Immortal Lord elder spotted the protagonist near the Realm Array and called on him to take it, drawing the Bizarre Creatures’ attention.
• Three Bizarre Immortal Lords attacked the protagonist, but Chaos Qi let him move against their laws as they closed in.
• The Immortal Lord elder broke the formation with a King Soldier bronze bell and held the three attackers back.
• The protagonist entered the Realm Array, thanked the elder, and revealed that he only wanted to leave the Taixuan Immortal Domain.
• The Immortal Lord elder and the Great Dream Immortal Sect disciples realized the protagonist had not come for the Realm Array, and they called him a traitor.

Su Ming’s simulation showed him being hunted after returning to the Canglan Realm: he escaped an Immortal Lord Bizarre Creature through Heavenly Mandate Protection but was captured and killed by a Guixian. After absorbing the simulation’s experiences, Su Ming considered how to prevent the pursuit when he returned for real.

• Su Ming appeared in the Dongdao Divine Continent, but an Immortal Lord Bizarre Creature from the Abnormal Sect caught up with him and gravely wounded him.
• Heavenly Mandate Protection teleported Su Ming to a random safe location, where he released Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji and asked them to help him escape.
• An Immortal Lord Guixian found Su Ming, seized him by the throat, and killed him, ending the simulation.
• Su Ming activated I Want It All, absorbed the simulation’s experiences, and concluded that revealing himself too early had caused the Bizarre Creatures to hunt him.
• Su Ming reflected on his unchanged cultivation, his growing strength, and the resources his Chaos Body required.