Chapter Summaries

Su Ming took Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji from the Qingxuan Immortal Domain to the Taixuan Immortal Domain, where he joined the Great Dream Immortal Sect. After realizing the Abnormal Clan might have sent Bizarre Creatures to attack the sleeping Great Dream Immortal Emperor, Su Ming grew concerned about the dynasty’s defenses.

• Su Ming agreed to take Chen Shu with him, and Chen Tian gave him resources that Su Ming split between Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji.
• Su Ming went to the Fallen Immortal Abyss with the two women and obtained a Mysterious Yellow Shield for Zi You, Zhuge Qing, and the others.
• A year later, Su Ming brought Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji to the Taixuan Immortal Domain and set out for the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty.
• Su Ming joined the Great Dream Immortal Sect directly, hoping to join Dreamless Immortal King’s team and watch an elder from the Abnormal Sect.
• Su Ming realized the Abnormal Clan might have sent its other Bizarre Creatures to attack the sleeping Great Dream Immortal Emperor, then headed to the resource hall to collect his supplies.

Su Ming used a simulation to explore how the Extreme Self-Interest talent would affect him while he competed in the Great Dream Immortal Sect. The simulation left him undefeated for years, but rumors about his stagnant cultivation led him to beat anyone who criticized him.

• Su Ming decided to use two simulation attempts to cultivate in the Taixuan Immortal Domain and save the third for his return to the Canglan Realm.
• Su Ming spent a month convincing himself to prioritize becoming stronger, then began a simulation and drew the blue talent Extreme Self-Interest.
• Su Ming repeatedly won first place in the martial competition, and later crushed Murong Kong when he challenged him.
• Su Ming held first place for six years without advancing his cultivation, prompting sect members to accuse him of wasting resources and demand that he stop competing.
• Su Ming began beating anyone who criticized him, taking care to avoid their vital points and leaving them bedridden for months.

You used Heavenly Mandate Protection to escape the battlefield after faking your death, then recovered and went into seclusion in Dream One City. While you cultivated, Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji died in the war, and the Abnormal Clan forced the Great Dream Immortal Emperor to fight again by attacking the capital.

• You deliberately let a Bizarre Creature grievously wound you, then used Heavenly Mandate Protection to disappear from the battlefield and return to the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty's territory.
• Chen Shu charged into battle to avenge your apparent death, while Xuanyuan Tian Ji realized you had survived but could not leave the troops.
• After recovering in Dream One City, you bought a residence and began cultivating in seclusion to reach the mid-stage of the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji died fighting the Bizarre Creatures, with Xuanyuan Tian Ji killed by a Heavenly Immortal Realm creature.
• Ten squads of Immortal King-level Bizarre Creatures attacked the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty's capital, prompting the Great Dream Immortal Emperor to awaken and kill three of them.
• The remaining Bizarre Creatures fled after forcing the wounded Great Dream Immortal Emperor to act again, hoping his injuries would become incurable.

After twelve years in seclusion, the protagonist learned that the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty had been devastated by the war and returned to the Great Dream Immortal Sect to collect resources. He passed off his survival as a narrow escape, then entered the sect’s martial arts competition as the dynasty prepared for another fight.

• The protagonist emerged from seclusion at the mid-stage of the Immortal Realm and learned that the Great Dream Immortal Dynasty had lost most of its territory and that the Great Dream Immortal Emperor was beyond saving.
• The protagonist decided to leave the Taixuan Immortal Domain eventually, but first returned to the Great Dream Immortal Sect to obtain its increased cultivation resources.
• The protagonist showed his Inner Sect Disciple identity token, returned to his empty Cave Mansion, and told an elder that he had survived the war after killing a Bizarre Creature and recovering from severe injuries.
• The elder accepted the protagonist’s explanation and directed him to collect his cultivation resources, unaware that he might have deserted the battlefield.
• The protagonist collected his resources and registered for the martial arts competition, where the rewards had also doubled.
• The martial arts competition began, and the protagonist noticed that none of the surviving Immortal Realm disciples were familiar to him.

Su Ming watched his simulated self hoard resources and struggle to advance, then saw him try to flee the Taixuan Immortal Domain just before another war with the Abnormal Clan. The Great Dream Immortal Emperor stopped him, revealed his impending sacrifice to return to his peak, and asked Su Ming to attack.

• Su Ming realized that the Blue Talent Extreme Self-Interest had drastically altered his simulated personality.
• After years of winning the sect tournament and stockpiling resources, Su Ming failed to advance to the late stage of the Immortal Realm, and the Great Dream Immortal Sect barred him from competing until he did.
• Su Ming learned that the Great Dream Immortal Emperor would lead a new war against the Abnormal Clan in three months and decided to leave the Taixuan Immortal Domain.
• When Su Ming used Primordial Dragon Travel, the spatial crack healed, and a white-haired youth appeared in his Cave Mansion.
• The youth identified himself as the Great Dream Immortal Emperor and explained that he had traded his life force for a brief return to peak strength before the coming war.
• The Great Dream Immortal Emperor ordered Su Ming to attack, and Su Ming used Slayer of Heaven.

The Great Dream Immortal Emperor saw through Su Ming’s Chaos Body, gave him a Storage Ring full of resources, and urged him to leave the Taixuan Immortal Domain before the coming war. After choosing the ring as his simulation reward, Su Ming used its resources to reach the middle stage of the Immortal Realm, but discovered that his breakthrough had greatly increased the Simulator’s cooldown.

• The Great Dream Immortal Emperor recognized Su Ming’s Chaos Body and revealed that the Human Emperor had once possessed the same constitution.
• The Great Dream Immortal Emperor warned Su Ming that the Human Race would lose the coming war against the Abnormal Clan and urged him to survive and grow stronger.
• The Great Dream Immortal Emperor left Su Ming a Storage Ring and told him to leave the Taixuan Immortal Domain, but Su Ming was seized and killed after entering a sinister immortal domain.
• Su Ming chose the Great Dream Immortal Emperor’s Storage Ring as his simulation reward instead of his cultivation, then began secluded cultivation with its resources.
• Two and a half years later, Su Ming reached the middle stage of the Immortal Realm and discovered that his breakthrough had increased the Simulator’s cooldown by three years.

Su Ming used his final simulation before the coming war to test a plan to return to the Canglan Realm, and discovered a talent that traded talent draws for extra simulations. After infiltrating the Abnormal Sect and escaping through the Realm Array, he and his companions reached the Dead Land, where the chapter left them back in the Canglan Realm.

• Su Ming learned that reaching the Immortal Realm had sharply lengthened his simulation cooldown, then spent years cultivating with Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu while preparing to return to the Canglan Realm.
• Su Ming began a simulation and drew the Purple Talent Metamorphosis, which let him exchange a talent draw for an additional weakened simulation.
• Su Ming told Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu his return plan, and they agreed to join him.
• Su Ming, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and Chen Shu infiltrated the Abnormal Sect with Dreamless Immortal King, and Su Ming entered the Realm Array while the Bizarre Creatures were distracted.
• Su Ming returned to the Canglan Immortal Domain, fled for a month, suppressed his and his companions' realms to the Heavenly Venerate Realm, and used Primordial Dragon Travel to reach the Dead Land in the Canglan Realm.

You returned to the Canglan Realm with Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu, then reunited with Sword Pavilion and the others at North Nether Palace. With five years remaining before the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, you distributed cultivation resources and urged everyone to prepare to overthrow the Sinister Worm Race.

• Chen Shu discovered that polluted spiritual energy repelled her, while you realized you could absorb it because the Sinister Worm inside you might still be alive.
• You flew with Xuanyuan Tian Ji and Chen Shu to North Nether Palace, where Black King welcomed you and told you Zi You and the others were cultivating in a secret realm.
• Black King brought Zi You and the Sword Pavilion members to meet you, and you reunited with them and spent three days catching up with everyone.
• You learned that five years remained until the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, then distributed cultivation resources and gave the two Mysterious Yellow Shields to Zhuge Qing and Zi You.
• You encouraged everyone to grow stronger and overthrow the Sinister Worm Race, gave Black King resources to help him reach the Tribulation Crossing Realm, and everyone began cultivating.

The protagonist prepared for the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth by hiding everyone in the Void Realm and escaping to the Heavenly Dao Space. After waiting out the danger, the group returned to a calm Canglan Realm, where the protagonist ordered the operation to begin.

• The protagonist asked Xuanyuan Tian Ji about Ye Chuxue's changing nature, but Xuanyuan Tian Ji said her condition was irreversible and depended on herself.
• During five years of cultivation, Zhuge Qing, Zi You, and Ye Chuxue reached the Heavenly Venerate Realm as the group prepared for the Great Tribulation.
• When a crack opened in the sky, the protagonist sent everyone into the Void Realm and used Primordial Dragon Travel to reach the Heavenly Dao Space.
• The protagonist released the group to explore the Heavenly Dao Space, warned them about the Cunning Insect Progenitor, and kept watch for three days without being attacked.
• The protagonist led everyone back to the Canglan Realm, found the great tribulation had passed, and ordered the operation to begin.

You attacked Purple Heaven Sacred Land and revealed power beyond the Heavenly Venerate Realm while destroying its final defenders. As the sacred land fell, the laws of the Canglan Realm began to reject you.

• You split the group into four teams, sending Zi You, Jiang Yang, and Zhuge Qing to other prefectures with Black King while you led the rest to Central Prefecture.
• You entered Purple Heaven Sacred Land, where the Purple Heaven Holy Lord awakened five Cunning Insect Ancestors, and you killed them all with one strike.
• You provoked the Purple Heaven Holy Lord, who sacrificed himself to awaken five more Ancestors at the Heavenly Venerate Realm.
• You learned that the Cunning Insect Progenitor had altered the power of the lightning tribulations, then unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin: Sword Domain Descent.
• The Sword Emperor Phantom appeared behind you as your attacks razed Purple Heaven Sacred Land, and you felt the power of the laws rejecting you.

After being expelled from the Canglan Realm for using power it could not bear, you returned three months later and learned that Hao Tian Holy Land had prepared for your attack. You fought twenty Cunning Insect Ancestors alone for seven days, leaving only three alive, and the Hao Tian Ancestor hinted that the battle might not be over.

• You destroyed Purple Heaven Sacred Land and killed its five newly awakened Cunning Insect Ancestors before the law expelled you from the Canglan Realm.
• You recovered in the Canglan Immortal Domain, returned three months later, and learned that Hao Tian Holy Land had survived and that all ten of its Ancestors had awakened as Heavenly Venerates.
• You told the Sword Pavilion's people to deal with Central Prefecture's dynasties, sects, and Aristocratic Clans while you went to attack Hao Tian Holy Land.
• You broke Hao Tian Holy Land's killing array with one slash and discovered twenty Cunning Insect Ancestors waiting for you.
• You fought the twenty Heavenly Venerates alone for seven days, destroying Hao Tian Holy Land and killing all but three Ancestors.
• The Hao Tian Ancestor hinted that the three survivors had not yet been defeated, and you wondered whether you had imagined his faint smile.

The protagonist fought the Cunning Insect Progenitor after the creature emerged through a Space Rift into the Canglan Realm. Though the protagonist wounded it with the Sword Emperor Finger, the Progenitor’s clone proved powerful, and the protagonist had to stall while recovering spiritual energy as the realm’s laws continued to strengthen.

• Hao Tian the Ancestor called for the Progenitor, and the Cunning Insect Progenitor reached through a Rift and took away the three Cunning Insect Ancestors.
• The protagonist used Dragon Blood Boiling, Heaven-Slaying, and Sword Emperor Phantom to drive back the Progenitor’s tentacles and confine them to the Rift.
• The protagonist struck through the Rift with Sword Emperor Finger, wounding the Cunning Insect Progenitor and provoking it to widen the opening.
• The Cunning Insect Progenitor pulled its three-eyed, tentacled form through the Rift and knocked aside the protagonist’s Heaven-Slaying strike.
• The protagonist took pills to restore spiritual energy and used hit-and-run tactics to keep the Progenitor at bay, noticing that the Canglan Realm’s laws were recovering.

Su Ming’s simulation ended when the Cunning Insect Progenitor mysteriously killed him before he could unleash his sword domain, leaving Heaven’s Mandate Protection unused. After activating I Want It All and returning to the Canglan Immortal Domain, Su Ming settled in and planned to wait out the simulation cooldown, but the Guixian Clan came for him three months later.

• Su Ming used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin: Sword Domain Descent against the Cunning Insect Progenitor, but the Progenitor’s three eyes plunged his consciousness into chaos and killed him.
• Su Ming learned that he had died without triggering Heaven’s Mandate Protection and suspected the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s stolen Heavenly Dao power had prevented it.
• Su Ming activated I Want It All, received the simulation rewards, and spent the next year cultivating in seclusion.
• Su Ming, Chen Shu, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji served under the Dreamless Immortal King, then Su Ming followed his simulated memories into the Guixian Clan’s Realm Array.
• Su Ming returned to the Canglan Immortal Domain, settled in, and considered waiting a year for the simulation cooldown before returning to the Canglan Realm.
• Three months later, the Guixian Clan came knocking, and Su Ming urged the others to leave immediately.

Su Ming returned from the Canglan Immortal Domain after narrowly escaping two Sinister Immortal Lords, and discovered that his simulation cooldown had increased to four years. With the Great Tribulation approaching, he began a simulation that followed his group’s campaign against the Sinister Worm Race and ended as they faced ten Cunning Insect Ancestors in Purple Heaven Sacred Land.

• Su Ming sensed danger, pulled Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji into his Void Realm, and escaped the Canglan Immortal Domain before two Sinister Immortal Lords appeared.
• Su Ming returned to the Canglan Realm, found his simulation cooldown had risen to four years, and brought his companions back to Barren Prefecture to reunite with Sword Pavilion.
• Su Ming shared cultivation resources, gave Zi You and Zhuge Qing the Mysterious Yellow Shields, and spent four years cultivating with the group.
• With less than six months until the Great Tribulation, Su Ming took everyone to a deserted island and exchanged his talent draw for a weakened simulation.
• In the simulation, Su Ming’s group waited for the tribulation, then purged the Sinister Worms from every continent outside Central Prefecture over a year and a half.
• Su Ming led the group into Purple Heaven Sacred Land, where ten Cunning Insect Ancestors appeared, and reassured Zi You that he could handle them.

You led the Sword Pavilion to destroy the Purple Heaven Sacred Land and then killed twenty Cunning Insect Ancestors in the Hao Tian Holy Land. The Cunning Insect Progenitor emerged through one of their corpses, and you warned Zi You that it was only an incarnation while you recovered your spiritual energy.

• You destroyed the Purple Heaven Sacred Land and slew all ten Cunning Insect Ancestors over seven days, shocking the Sword Pavilion.
• You led the group to the Hao Tian Holy Land, where you worried that the Cunning Insect Progenitor had once killed you.
• You blocked a surprise attack, then used your Sword Domain to destroy the Holy Land and kill twenty Cunning Insect Ancestors in less than ten seconds.
• You discovered that the Cunning Insect Progenitor had entered through a corpse and was emerging from a black hole as the space around it shattered.
• You told Zi You and the others that you had little spiritual energy left and that the monster was only an incarnation of the Cunning Insect Progenitor.

You, Zi You, and the others drove back the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s tentacles, but black fog engulfed Hao Tian Holy Land and the enemy struck Fang Jingchun down. Zi You burned her blood essence to unleash Half-step Immortal-level power as the black palm retreated into the tentacles.

• You joined Zi You, Zhuge Qing, and Ye Chuxue in fighting the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s tentacles, helping force them back toward the Space Rift.
• The Cunning Insect Progenitor released black fog that shrouded Hao Tian Holy Land and sent its tentacles attacking again.
• A black palm hidden among the tentacles pierced Fang Jingchun’s chest and devoured him, leaving no soul behind.
• Zi You attacked the palm in fury, but it brushed aside her sword technique, so she burned her blood essence and turned her hair white.
• Zi You gathered power at the Half-step Immortal level, and the black palm retreated into the tentacles as you urged everyone to stop it from hiding.

Zi You’s Startling Swan destroyed one of the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s black hands, but nine stronger hands emerged and forced the group into a new fight. The hands then opened the Space Rift and summoned the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s clone, leaving you and the others charging toward it as its terrifying aura struck.

• Zi You unleashed Startling Swan and blasted through the black tentacles, seemingly destroying one black hand.
• Nine stronger black hands emerged from the mist, and you joined Zi You to defend the group.
• You realized the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s strength depended on how fully developed the laws were and warned that it was coming out.
• The nine hands widened the Space Rift, and the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s clone emerged as the rift began to close.
• You, Zi You, Ye Chuxue, and the others charged the clone, which opened its jaws and released a terrifying aura.

Ye Chuxue revealed the Taiyin Annihilation Wheel and nearly pulled the Cunning Insect Progenitor’s soul from its body, but the Progenitor shattered the technique and wounded her. You defended her with the Sword Emperor Phantom, and as Zi You tried to take her to safety, Ye Chuxue insisted on staying to fulfill her promise to save the Canglan Realm.

• The Cunning Insect Progenitor shattered everyone’s divine abilities, leaving you, Ye Chuxue, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji able to withstand its roar without retreating.
• Ye Chuxue charged the Cunning Insect Progenitor and summoned the Taiyin Annihilation Wheel, which Xuanyuan Tian Ji identified as a signature technique of the Taiyin Lord and an Origin Divine Ability of the Taiyin Body.
• The Taiyin Annihilation Wheel froze the Progenitor’s tentacles and the Hao Tian Holy Land, then began pulling the Progenitor’s soul from its body.
• The Progenitor’s soul returned to its body and its cry destroyed the wheel, leaving Ye Chuxue gravely wounded as its tentacles closed around her.
• You appeared beside Ye Chuxue, summoned the Sword Emperor Phantom, and wounded all nine tentacles with a barrage of sword techniques.
• The Progenitor stopped your attempt to open a void gate, and when Zi You tried to take Ye Chuxue away, Ye Chuxue refused and vowed to solve the Cunning Insect problem and restore the Canglan Realm.

Ye Chuxue used the Taiyin Returning Void Tribulation against the Cunning Insect Progenitor, but its red-eyed attack knocked her unconscious and incapacitated the Sword Pavilion members. The Cunning Insect Progenitor then toyed with the exhausted narrator, impaling them in the chest.

• Ye Chuxue rejected the narrator's warning and unleashed burning Taiyin Power, blasting the narrator and Zi You out of danger.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji identified Ye Chuxue's technique as the Taiyin Returning Void Tribulation and explained that it consumed most of her origin power and risked a long, deadly slumber.
• As Ye Chuxue began forming a black vortex, the Cunning Insect Progenitor flashed its three red eyes, causing the vortex to collapse and Ye Chuxue to fall unconscious.
• Zi You rescued Ye Chuxue, while Xuanyuan Tian Ji could not explain why the technique had failed before it was complete.
• The Sword Pavilion members fell unconscious, leaving the narrator unharmed; the Cunning Insect Progenitor attacked as the narrator blocked its tentacles with the Immortal Sword of Great Void.
• The Cunning Insect Progenitor toyed with the narrator until a tentacle pierced their chest.

Su Ming realized the Cunning Insect Progenitor could use the Sinister Worms to seize control of infected bodies, then escaped Hao Tian Holy Land and was teleported to Qin Kingdom in Green Prefecture. After recovering in seclusion, he learned Jiang Yang had returned with the Sinister Worms and rebuilt Azure Cloud Sect, but held back from confronting him because the Cunning Insect Progenitor might have left a trap.

• Zi You seized Su Ming’s heart, but he blasted her away and Heavenly Mandate Protection teleported him from Hao Tian Holy Land.
• Su Ming told Chen Shu to take Ye Chuxue with Xuanyuan Tian Ji to Barren Prefecture and find Black King.
• Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji escaped with the unconscious Ye Chuxue while the Cunning Insect Progenitor destroyed Hao Tian Holy Land.
• Su Ming realized the Cunning Insect Progenitor had used Sinister Worms to carry out Body Seizure, and suspected Chen Shu, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and Ye Chuxue had remained unaffected.
• Heavenly Mandate Protection brought Su Ming to Qin Kingdom, where he recovered in seclusion in the courtyard he had once shared with Ye Chuxue.
• Su Ming learned Jiang Yang had returned to Green Prefecture with the Sinister Worms and rebuilt Azure Cloud Sect, but chose not to attack him because he feared a hidden contingency.