Chapter Summaries

After recovering, you traveled to Barren Prefecture and reunited with Chen Shu, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and the awakened Ye Chuxue. Ye Chuxue explained that Origin Power could kill the Sinister Worms under specific conditions, leaving you with a possible way to fight the Cunning Insect Progenitor.

• You arrived at North Nether Palace, where Black King brought you to the secret realm to see Chen Shu, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, and Ye Chuxue.
• You learned that Ye Chuxue had awakened after the Taiyin Lord used the Taiyin Origin to suppress the Sinister Worm inside her.
• You told Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tian Ji what you knew about the Cunning Insect Progenitor and the Sinister Worms.
• Ye Chuxue explained that Taiyin Origin could kill a Sinister Worm, but she lacked enough Origin Power and would fall into a deep slumber if she used it.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji told you that you could condense Chaos Origin after your Chaos Body reached Lesser Accomplishment.
• Ye Chuxue warned that Origin Power had to be concentrated in the divine soul when facing the Cunning Insect Progenitor, whose mental attack activated the Sinister Worms.

After learning that the laws had changed, you broke through to the mid-stage of the Immortal Realm and resumed cultivation. When Zi You and the other Sinister Worms attacked North Nether Palace, you fought them alone and forced Zi You to summon the Cunning Insect Progenitor.

• Xuanyuan Tian Ji told you the power of the laws had changed, and you advanced to the mid-stage of the Immortal Realm without being rejected.
• You returned to secluded cultivation in Canglan Realm using resources from the Great Dream Immortal Emperor.
• Black King warned you that the Sinister Worm Race was approaching the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, led by Zi You and your other former companions.
• Zi You and the others reached North Nether Palace, where Black King had gathered the Demon Race forces; Chen Shu noticed the attackers had all advanced to the Immortal Realm.
• You fought Zi You and nine other Immortal Realm Sinister Worms, gained the upper hand, and drove Zi You to call for the Cunning Insect Progenitor.

After fleeing the Canglan Realm, you reached the Canglan Immortal Domain’s Southern Divine Continent and suspected it concealed an Immortal Emperor-level Guixian. You decided to travel to the Taixuan Immortal Domain through the Myriad Demon Secret Realm, using the Great Dream Immortal Emperor’s resources to activate its formation.

• You opened your Void Realm and sent Chen Shu, Xuanyuan Tian Ji, Ye Chuxue, and Black King inside as the Cunning Insect Progenitor emerged, then escaped into the Chaos Void with Primordial Dragon Travel.
• One month later, you arrived in the Southern Divine Continent of the Canglan Immortal Domain and released everyone from your Void Realm.
• You told the group about the Black Abyss and your suspicions that the Canglan Immortal Domain might harbor an Immortal Emperor-level Guixian.
• You proposed going to the Taixuan Immortal Domain because staying in Canglan was too dangerous.
• You named the Myriad Demon Secret Realm as the route out, and showed the group the Great Dream Immortal Emperor’s ring of resources to power its formation to the Qingxuan Realm.

After fleeing the Cunning Insect Progenitor, the group used a repaired teleportation array to leave the Canglan Realm, but arrived in the Vast Immortal Domain instead of the Qingxuan Realm. Xuanyuan Tian Ji led them to the Vast Dao Palace, where they sought refuge by asking to join.

• The group returned to the Canglan Realm, and the protagonist sensed the Cunning Insect Progenitor watching them.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji repaired the teleportation array in the Myriad Demon Secret Realm, and the five escaped just as the Sinister Worm army approached.
• The group arrived in an unfamiliar immortal domain, which Xuanyuan Tian Ji recognized as the Vast Immortal Domain.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji led the protagonist to the Vast Dao Palace, where they observed for a month and found no sign of Bizarre Creatures.
• The protagonist and Xuanyuan Tian Ji approached the Vast Dao Palace’s entrance and told its guards they hoped to join as Rogue Cultivators.

Su Ming learned from the simulation that the Vast Dao Palace was controlled by Bizarre Creatures and that the Cunning Insect Progenitor could activate the Sinister Worms inside everyone. He canceled the group’s plans and revealed that Ye Chuxue’s Taiyin Origin Power and his Chaos Origin Power could kill the worms.

• In the simulation, Su Ming and Xuanyuan Tian Ji discovered that the Vast Dao Palace was a den of Bizarre Creatures, but an Immortal King killed Su Ming.
• Su Ming activated the reward that gave him the simulation’s experiences and learned that the Cunning Insect Progenitor could use the Sinister Worms inside him to possess him.
• Su Ming joined Zi You and the others and told them to cancel their plans for after the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Su Ming explained that they would die fighting the Cunning Insect Progenitor because it could activate the Sinister Worms inside their bodies.
• Su Ming told the group that Ye Chuxue’s Taiyin Origin Power and his Chaos Origin Power could kill the Sinister Worms.

Su Ming began a simulation in which Zhuge Qing proposed helping the Heavenly Dao defeat the Cunning Insect Progenitor. Their assault damaged its avatar, but the battle remained unresolved as the creature’s body shifted to an even split of black and white.

• Su Ming agreed with Zhuge Qing’s plan to attack the Cunning Insect Progenitor through the Heavenly Dao, while warning the group to keep Ye Chuxue, Chen Shu, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji at the front and retreat if necessary.
• Su Ming led everyone through the black vines toward the Cunning Insect Progenitor, whose darkness had consumed two-thirds of the Heavenly Dao’s body.
• Su Ming’s initial strike vanished against the Progenitor, so he summoned Sword Domain Descent and attacked it with a barrage of sword abilities.
• When the Progenitor exposed its giant eye and formed an avatar, Su Ming called for Ye Chuxue and the other two to attack; together they severed all ten of its tentacles and blinded one eye.
• After Su Ming’s sword domain ended and Zi You restored him with pills, he noticed that the Progenitor’s body and the Heavenly Dao were now divided equally between black and white.

The protagonist negotiated with the fallen Heavenly Dao for ten strands of Heavenly Dao Origin Qi in exchange for fighting the Cunning Insect Progenitor, but Heavenly Mandate Protection detected a fatal crisis and teleported the protagonist away. The protagonist returned to the Great Zhou Dynasty and realized the closing Space Rift meant the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth had ended.

• The protagonist and the others called for the Heavenly Dao, then pretended to retreat so he would reveal himself.
• The protagonist accused the Heavenly Dao of having fallen and demanded ten strands of Heavenly Dao Origin Qi to help fight the Cunning Insect Progenitor.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that attacking the Progenitor's incarnations would let him devour its power, and offered Origin Qi to suppress the Sinister Worms and restore spiritual energy.
• As the protagonist reached for the Origin Qi, Heavenly Mandate Protection detected a fatal crisis and teleported the protagonist from the Heavenly Dao Space.
• The protagonist reappeared in the Great Zhou Dynasty and realized that the Space Rift closing overhead signaled the end of the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

After escaping Heavenly Dao Space, you suspected the Heavenly Dao had tried to seize your body and decided to leave the Canglan Realm. In the Vast Immortal Domain, your divination warned everyone that the Vast Dao Palace had become a lair of Bizarre Creatures, leaving Xuanyuan Tian Ji fearing for her old acquaintances.

• You told everyone at North Nether Palace that the Heavenly Dao might have tried to take over your body, and Xuanyuan Tian Ji warned that its newfound selfishness made the danger plausible.
• You left the Black King in the Canglan Realm to strengthen the Demon Race and watch the Sinister Worm Race, giving him three Immortal Crystals before departing with everyone.
• You used the teleportation array in the Myriad Demon Secret Realm and arrived with everyone in the Vast Immortal Domain instead of the Qingxuan Realm.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji suggested visiting the Vast Dao Palace, but you pretended to divine its condition and declared that it was a lair of Bizarre Creatures where none of you would survive.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji feared that the people she had known at the Vast Dao Palace were already dead.

Su Ming’s simulation ended after he and his companions entered a Human Race city in the Vast Immortal Domain that was secretly controlled by powerful Bizarre Creatures. He returned from the failed simulation with no clear way to deal with the Cunning Insect Progenitor and a deeper understanding of the danger in the Vast Immortal Domain.

• Su Ming spent years traveling south through the Vast Immortal Domain, encountering many Bizarre Creature sects before finding what appeared to be a Human Race empire.
• Su Ming entered the city with his companions, but the streets were nearly empty and the people emerging from nearby houses were all powerful Bizarre Creatures.
• Su Ming tried to flee using the Great Void Technique and Primordial Dragon Travel, but the distorted Space Law prevented escape.
• Su Ming recognized the city’s layout as resembling Heavenly Emperor City, a place the Bizarre Creatures had designed to imprison humans.
• Su Ming fought the Bizarre Creatures with Myriad Swords Returning to Origin: Sword Domain Descent, but his attack could not kill them, and he died with his companions.
• Su Ming activated I Want It All and reflected that the simulation offered little practical help and that the Vast Immortal Domain was more dangerous than he had expected.

Su Ming destroyed the three Sacred Lands and escaped the Canglan Realm, completing his quest and reaching the Vast Immortal Domain. His first simulation there revealed that the Vast Dao Palace had fallen to the Bizarre Creatures, and he prepared to investigate the region alone.

• Su Ming rejected Zhuge Qing’s plan to attack the Cunning Insect Progenitor during the Great Tribulation and later set out to destroy the three Sacred Lands.
• Su Ming destroyed the Hao Tian Holy Land, then attacked the remaining Sacred Lands as news of their fall spread across the Canglan Realm.
• After the Cunning Insect Progenitor appeared, Su Ming used his Sword Domain to destroy the last Sacred Land, but the Simulator did not mark the quest complete when he first left the realm.
• Su Ming returned to the Canglan Realm and, with Xuanyuan Tian Ji activating the formation, led everyone out through the Myriad Demon Secret Realm; the Simulator then confirmed his quest completion.
• In the Vast Immortal Domain, Su Ming simulated three days ahead and learned that the Vast Dao Palace was a Bizarre Creature lair, so he decided to investigate alone.

After failing to find Human Race forces to the east and west, you returned to your companions and set out again, only to discover that the Black Sea could not be crossed by flight, the Great Void Technique, or Spirit Boats. You turned back after a month of walking along its shore, intending to ask Xuanyuan Tian Ji about the Vast Immortal Domain.

• Zi You warned that the Vast Immortal Domain was in grave danger after the Vast Dao Palace fell, but you insisted on searching for Human Race forces and left your companions to cultivate.
• You traveled east for three months, encountered only Bizarre Creature factions, and found a gigantic Bizarre Immortal Emperor disguised as a Sky City, forcing you to flee and turn back.
• You returned after a year, told everyone about the Bizarre Immortal Emperor, gave Immortal Crystals to Zi You, and set off west.
• After a year of westward travel, you reached the Black Sea and discovered that you could neither fly nor use the Great Void Technique there, while two Spirit Boats sank.
• You walked along the Black Sea for a month without finding its end, abandoned the attempt to go around it, and decided to return to ask Xuanyuan Tian Ji for information.

After learning that the Black Sea might be a corrupted Immortal Spirit Sea, you established a hidden cultivation base with your companions in the Vast Immortal Domain. Zi You then left to explore while you returned to secluded cultivation, determined to break through.

• You told Xuanyuan Tian Ji about the Black Sea, and she identified a clear, sacred Immortal Spirit Sea in that direction as a possible match before you suspected the Bizarre Creatures had changed it.
• You decided to establish a stronghold where the group was, and Zhuge Qing created a Heavenly Mystery Eight Trigrams Array that concealed them and gathered Immortal Qi.
• In the fifth year, Ye Chuxue, Zhuge Qing, and Zi You broke through to the Immortal Realm, and Zi You told you she planned to explore outside the formation.
• Zi You left the next day, and you distributed Immortal Crystals to the others before returning to secluded cultivation to pursue a breakthrough.

After breaking through to the late Immortal Realm, the narrator learned that Zi You had returned gravely wounded after exploring the Black Sea and escaping Earth Immortal Realm Bizarre Creatures. As Zi You described her journey, the narrator realized the creatures might have followed her to the Heavenly Mystery Eight Trigrams Array, which collapsed moments later.

• Gu Xinyue worried that Zi You had been missing for three years, and the narrator reassured her before returning to seclusion.
• Six years after Zi You left, the narrator broke through to the late Immortal Realm and learned that Zi You had returned gravely wounded and fallen into a deep sleep.
• After half a year, Zi You woke and told the narrator she had followed the Black Sea to a vast canyon before turning back.
• Zi You said Earth Immortal Realm Bizarre Creatures attacked her on the way back, and the narrator suspected they had followed her to the array.
• The Heavenly Mystery Eight Trigrams Array collapsed with a deafening crash.

After the Heaven's Mystery Eight Trigrams Array vanished, you and the others faced five Bizarre Creatures, whose comments about a “backward cultivation path” hinted at their unknown origins. You and Xuanyuan Tian Ji defeated the attackers, then sent everyone but Xuanyuan Tian Ji into the Void Realm.

• The five Bizarre Creatures attacked, and you killed the weakest after driving it back with a single sword strike.
• The remaining Bizarre Creatures recognized your Special Physique, so you told Xuanyuan Tian Ji that you would hold them off and give her a chance to strike.
• You unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin: Sword Domain Descent and overwhelmed the four remaining Bizarre Creatures with your sword arts.
• Xuanyuan Tian Ji entered your Sword Domain and killed the three surviving Bizarre Creatures, repeatedly killing them when they revived.
• You told everyone to leave; Xia Qiange carried Zi You into the Void Realm with the others, while Xuanyuan Tian Ji remained outside.

After years of travel, you and Xuanyuan Tian Ji reached the canyon Zi You had described and found two bronze statues guarded by Heavenly Immortals. They learned that the Vast Immortal Domain’s Human Race was in dire straits, and the statues led them through a barrier into a hidden mountain range.

• You and Xuanyuan Tian Ji traveled west, avoided the Bizarre Creatures, and passed the Black Sea, which Xuanyuan Tian Ji recognized as the former Immortal Spirit Sea.
• You and Xuanyuan Tian Ji reached the great canyon Zi You had mentioned and entered it.
• Two bronze statues attacked you, but Xuanyuan Tian Ji blocked their strike and identified you both as members of the Human Race from another Immortal Domain.
• You claimed to come from the Taixuan Immortal Domain and told the two Heavenly Immortals that the Great Dream Immortal Emperor was gravely wounded and that you sought Immortal Medicine.
• The two Heavenly Immortals said the Vast Immortal Domain was in no better condition and led you through a barrier into a picturesque mountain range.

The narrator and Xuanyuan Tian Ji met Li Changfeng, who questioned their story about searching for Immortal Medicine in the Vast Immortal Domain. Li Changfeng explained how the Bizarre Creatures destroyed the Vast Dao Palace and took over Human territory, before Zhang Jun accused someone of treachery.

• Feng Qi introduced himself and Zhang Jun, then left Zhang Jun to host the narrator and Xuanyuan Tian Ji.
• Zhang Jun brought them to Li Changfeng, and the narrator used True Sight to confirm that Li Changfeng was a Human Race Immortal King.
• The narrator claimed that the Great Dream Immortal Sect had sent their group to the Vast Immortal Domain to find Immortal Medicine for the injured Great Dream Immortal Emperor.
• Li Changfeng said the Vast Immortal Domain's Realm Array had been lost and explained that the Bizarre Creatures had destroyed the Vast Dao Palace after a ten-million-year struggle.
• Zhang Jun angrily mentioned traitors, and the narrator asked him who he meant.

Li Changfeng explained that most Bizarre Creatures had originated from humans and members of the Ten Thousand Races who fell into corruption, while the rest came from unknown origins tied to the Black Sea. Su Ming learned that corruption offered rapid cultivation but eventually transformed its practitioners into monsters, and the Vast Immortal Domain’s surviving humans were trapped and hiding.

• Li Changfeng told the protagonist that nearly half of the Bizarre Creatures came from humans who had fallen into corruption, while most of the others came from the Ten Thousand Races and a few had unknown origins.
• Li Changfeng explained that the Immortal Spirit Sea had become the Black Sea overnight, after which Bizarre Creatures spread and people believed the sea could corrupt them.
• Su Ming connected the Bizarre Creatures’ description of immortal cultivation as an inferior path to their belief that corruption was the strongest cultivation path.
• Li Changfeng said Bizarre Creatures could grow stronger by eating without needing Immortal Qi or facing bottlenecks, but eventually transformed into monsters, with the timing depending on their talent.
• Zhang Jun warned the protagonist that corruption would eventually destroy a person’s identity, and the protagonist promised not to take that path.
• Li Changfeng said the Vast Immortal Domain’s human factions were hiding after losing their ability to resist, and could not escape because the Realm Array was gone; Su Ming realized the domain was a dead end.

Su Ming joined the Immortal Spirit Sect with Xuanyuan Tian Ji and his other companions after learning that Li Changfeng and Zhang Jun had given up on resisting the Bizarre Creatures. As Su Ming grew suspicious of Li Changfeng’s hidden status and the sect’s apparent calm, Zi You revealed that the Immortal Spirit Sect had an unusual branch called Vanguard Hall.

• Su Ming asked Li Changfeng and Zhang Jun whether they planned to overthrow the Bizarre Creatures, but Zhang Jun explained that the Human Race had been defeated and no longer dared to hope for victory.
• Li Changfeng allowed Su Ming to remain and cultivate, and Zhang Jun registered Su Ming and Xuanyuan Tian Ji as disciples of the Immortal Spirit Sect.
• Su Ming left the sect and returned a month later with Zi You and their other companions, who were assigned to the quiet Mountain Peak Number Twelve.
• Su Ming observed that Li Changfeng was treated like an ordinary elder despite being an Immortal King and Pill Dao Supreme Being, and he suspected the sect was hiding secrets.
• Zi You told Su Ming and the others that the Immortal Spirit Sect had an unusual branch called Vanguard Hall, reminding Su Ming of the grand hall on Mountain Range Number One.

The narrator learned that Vanguard Hall’s resource expeditions kept most of what they gathered, so he planned to search for resources alone once he was stronger. Elder Li Changfeng began sending him cultivation pills every month, and after a year of seclusion, the narrator realized the deliveries had continued regularly.

• Zi You explained that Vanguard Hall recruited cultivators for resource expeditions and kept seventy percent of what they found, leaving thirty percent to be shared among the recruits.
• The narrator rejected joining a Vanguard Hall team and said he would consider searching for resources alone only after he had grown stronger.
• A messenger delivered cultivation pills from Elder Li Changfeng, leaving the narrator unsure why the elder had sent them.
• The group began cultivating in seclusion, and a year later the narrator learned that Li Changfeng had sent more pills at the end of every month.

After five years in secluded cultivation, the protagonist emerged at a bottleneck and visited Li Changfeng to ask about the pills he had kept sending. Back at Peak Twelve, Zi You revealed that an Immortal Lord had died during Vanguard Hall’s search for cultivation resources.

• The protagonist reached a cultivation bottleneck after five years and came out of seclusion.
• Lin Tian said Li Changfeng had continued delivering pills every month throughout the protagonist’s seclusion.
• The protagonist visited Li Changfeng, thanked him for the pills, and learned why his peak had few disciples.
• Li Changfeng watched the protagonist leave and said he hoped the young man’s talent matched his expectations, since he was the only one who had seen through Li Changfeng’s cultivation.
• The protagonist returned to Peak Twelve, where Zi You gathered everyone and revealed that an Immortal Lord had died while Vanguard Hall searched for cultivation resources.