Chapter Summaries

After completing his task in Tianluo World, Su Yuan discovered that the Primordial Dao Branch was located in Ten Immortal City on Blue Star. He decided to return home despite the dangers there, leaving the remaining Abyssal Shadows sealed away while he sought a breakthrough.

• Su Yuan claimed the Primordial Dao Branch coordinates and discovered they led to Ten Immortal City on Blue Star, where he suspected someone had deliberately left the branch.
• Su Yuan used his reward to raise Demonic Art: Finger Technique to level four after Abyssal Shadow and Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning were unavailable as upgrade options.
• Su Yuan spent a month clearing Abyssal Shadows from Tianluo World and its subordinate worlds, destroying 979,521 of them before the rest went into hiding.
• Guiyuan advised Su Yuan that reaching the Nascent Soul Realm would let him use Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning to find the remaining shadows.
• Su Yuan admitted he had been avoiding the dangers on Blue Star, then asked Guiyuan to seal Tianluo World while he returned home to seek a breakthrough.

Su Yuan returned to Blue Star and learned that Star River Dao Master would meet him in three days, leaving him dreading the encounter with Hanya’s mother and Nuoyi’s ancestor. He spent his remaining time flaunting his reimbursed thirty billion Federation Coins and headed to Taihua City with Chen Nuoyi to settle a score with the Chen Family.

• An Xingran stayed in Tianluo World with Guiyuan to guard against Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable while Su Yuan and the others returned to Blue Star with Motis.
• True Lord Wuluo asked Su Yuan about the breakthrough opportunity in Ten Immortal City and promised to help him find a trustworthy Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lord.
• True Lord Wuluo revealed that Star River Dao Master was coming to meet Su Yuan, and that she was both Hanya’s paternal mother and Nuoyi’s ancestor.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi he might have only three days left to live, then decided to enjoy the thirty billion Federation Coins reimbursed through the Mai Gou Plan.
• Su Yuan arrived at Evil Slaying University in a lavish Flying Boat, and Chen Nuoyi came down to leave for Taihua City with him.

Su Yuan brought Chen Nuoyi back to the Chen Family estate in his Laosilai Temple and confronted Chen Yifeng about how the family had treated her. Chen Nuoyi sided with Su Yuan, leaving Chen Yifeng to face their demands.

• Su Yuan showed off his new Flying Boat to Chen Nuoyi before they set off for Taihua City and discussed reclaiming her family estate.
• Su Yuan flew the Laosilai Temple directly onto the Chen Family lawn, where Butler Zheng recognized him and greeted Chen Nuoyi.
• Su Yuan entered the mansion and asked Chen Yifeng whether his Flying Boat was safely parked beneath the building.
• Su Yuan ordered Chen Yifeng to make tea and demanded that he wash away all the tea flavor from the leaves.
• Chen Nuoyi told Chen Yifeng that he had treated Su Yuan too harshly.

Chen Nuoyi confronted Chen Yifeng over his past treatment of her, while Su Yuan demanded an apology and the Chen family fortune for her. Chen Yifeng apologized and agreed to transfer the assets to Nuoyi, then accepted their relationship and invited them to stay for dinner.

• Chen Nuoyi reminded Chen Yifeng and Steward Zheng of their past attempts to separate her from Su Yuan and suppress her family bloodline.
• Su Yuan listed his many titles and powers as he demanded that Chen Yifeng apologize to Nuoyi and transfer the Chen family's assets to her.
• Chen Yifeng apologized to Su Yuan and acknowledged his help in completing Nuoyi's bloodline and ending the family's curse.
• Chen Yifeng agreed to put the family assets in Nuoyi's name but said she would receive the fortune after marriage and should not manage it before then.
• Chen Yifeng invited Su Yuan and Nuoyi to stay and have dinner, then told Steward Zheng that he accepted their relationship because he could not stop them.

Su Yuan received a lewd system mission requiring negative-distance contact with three women, then tested its definition with Chen Nuoyi. He and Chen Nuoyi agreed to visit her mother's grave the next morning, and his experiment advanced the mission to 1/3.

• Su Yuan's system assigned him a mission to make three former Righteous Path Saintesses his cauldrons and offered Demonic Art: Finger Fusion as a reward.
• Chen Nuoyi called Su Yuan and asked him to use Night Raid Must Succeed to come to her room.
• Chen Nuoyi asked Su Yuan to accompany her to visit her mother's grave the next morning, and he agreed.
• Su Yuan asked Chen Nuoyi to help him test what the system counted as negative-distance contact.
• Chen Nuoyi opened her mouth, and Su Yuan put his finger inside, advancing the mission progress to 1/3.

Su Yuan accompanied Chen Nuoyi to visit her mother’s grave, where her words stirred his desire to find a way to resurrect the dead. He resolved to kill Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable and seek allies, looking ahead to his meeting with two Spirit Transmutation Heavenly Lords.

• Su Yuan discovered that his mission progress increased after Chen Nuoyi let him put a finger in her mouth, then returned to his room.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi left the Chen Family residence before dawn and visited Chen Yalin’s grave.
• Chen Nuoyi introduced Su Yuan to her mother as the most important person in her life and thanked her for his care.
• Su Yuan wondered whether anyone could truly resurrect the dead and decided to kill Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable to gain that power.
• Su Yuan resolved to recruit allies at his upcoming meeting with two Spirit Transmutation Heavenly Lords, and promised to visit Chen Yalin’s grave with Chen Nuoyi again.

After returning to Evil Slaying University, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi found Qi Hanyua and Motis gaming, and Su Yuan began punishing Qi Hanyua to advance his task. The punishment left him in an awkward position when a red-haired older sister appeared and caught him in the act.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi returned to Evil Slaying University after transferring the Chen Family business and traveling back to Ten Immortal City.
• At Chen Nuoyi's dorm, they found Qi Hanyua and Motis playing a game in the dark, despite Qi Hanyua claiming they had only just started.
• Su Yuan restrained Qi Hanyua with scarlet tentacles and began cleaning her ears while Chen Nuoyi watched; Motis glimpsed the scene and fled in fright.
• Su Yuan's close-contact task progress increased to two of three as he used the Dao of Flesh and Blood to turn his fingers into tentacles and reach Qi Hanyua's ear canals.
• A tall red-haired older sister arrived, saw Su Yuan with his fingers in Qi Hanyua's ears, and stared at him coldly as he tried to call it a misunderstanding.

Su Yuan used dormitory footage to prove that Qi Hanyua had only been teaching Motis to play games, then learned the meeting arrangements for the next morning. After completing a System task, he claimed Demonic Art: Finger Fusion and considered how it could help against powerful enemies, before receiving a message from Chu Lanxi.

• Su Yuan showed True Lord Wuluo footage of Qi Hanyua teaching Motis to play games, and True Lord Wuluo turned her anger toward her daughter.
• True Lord Wuluo told Su Yuan to meet her the next morning a hundred kilometers above Evil Slaying University and said Star River Heavenly Lord would arrive first.
• Su Yuan reassured Motis, completed his System task, lowered Qi Hanyua, and left the girls' dormitory.
• Su Yuan claimed Demonic Art: Finger Fusion and learned that it could combine two cultivators into one body.
• Su Yuan considered the demonic art's potential for combining powerful cultivators, then noticed a message from Chu Lanxi.

Su Yuan met Chu Lanxi, who revealed that his master was the Taixu Heavenly Lord and planned to meet Su Yuan the next morning. Su Yuan brought Chu Lanxi in the Jieyue Pearl to meet True Lord Wuluo in space, where a mysterious figure arrived across a bridge of stars and called her “You Li.”

• Su Yuan checked that Chu Lanxi had not been replaced, then met him at a café near Tai Xu University.
• Chu Lanxi told Su Yuan that his master, Chu Jiang, was the Taixu Heavenly Lord and would meet him the next morning.
• Su Yuan arranged for Chu Lanxi to meet him at Evil Slaying University and concealed him inside the Jieyue Pearl.
• Su Yuan flew into space with the Crimson Origin Sword and met True Lord Wuluo, who nervously asked if her outfit looked good.
• A galaxy formed a bridge through space, and a peerless figure crossed it, calling out to True Lord Wuluo as “You Li.”

Su Yuan met the Star River Heavenly Lord, who reunited with True Lord Wuluo and revealed a playful, easily distracted side. After True Lord Wuluo explained the threat of the Primordial Dao and the Abyssal Shadow, the Star River Heavenly Lord promised to protect everyone, and Su Yuan summoned Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua.

• The Star River Heavenly Lord arrived and affectionately teased True Lord Wuluo, who scolded her for constantly messaging and distracting her.
• The Star River Heavenly Lord accused Su Yuan of mistreating Qi Hanyua and Chen Nuoyi, but Su Yuan defended his strict management of Hanyua’s work and gaming.
• True Lord Wuluo stopped the Star River Heavenly Lord from asking about games and told her to focus on cultivation and studies.
• True Lord Wuluo asked Su Yuan how his task had gone, and he confirmed that there was no problem before preparing the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array.
• True Lord Wuluo explained the Primordial Dao and Abyssal Shadow to the Star River Heavenly Lord, who promised to protect them when Chu Jiang arrived.
• Su Yuan activated the array, bringing Chen Nuoyi and Qi Hanyua into space.

Star River Heavenly Lord reunited with Qi Hanyua and offered Chen Nuoyi a lead on Purple Gold Dragon Venerable. When Taixu Heavenly Lord Chu Jiang arrived, Su Yuan realized Chu Jiang controlled a branch of the Primordial Dao and was Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable’s hidden piece in the Blue Star Federation.

• Star River Heavenly Lord reunited with Qi Hanyua, who secretly invited her to play games and warned her to avoid Su Yuan.
• Star River Heavenly Lord welcomed Chen Nuoyi as family and offered to help find Purple Gold Dragon Venerable’s true body.
• Star River Heavenly Lord announced they should visit another old friend, and Taixu Heavenly Lord Chu Jiang appeared, shifting between male and female forms.
• Star River Heavenly Lord explained that Chu Jiang had been captured and experimented on by ancient demonic cultivators, leaving him with problems in his personality and Dao Path.
• Su Yuan told True Lord Wuluo that Chu Jiang controlled a branch of the Primordial Dao and was Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable’s piece in the Blue Star Federation.

Su Yuan’s identity as a cultivator of the Primordial Dao was exposed to Chu Jiang, who threatened the Federation with the lives of Tai Xu Illusion Realm users. Just as the group faced an impossible choice, Chu Lanxi appeared and revealed how he had survived being devoured.

• Chu Jiang recognized that Su Yuan had mastered the Primordial Dao and threatened to eliminate him before Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable learned of the danger.
• Star River Heavenly Lord vowed to kill Chu Jiang, but he revealed that he held the Tai Xu Illusion Realm and millions of Federation citizens inside it.
• Chu Jiang offered to leave with the Illusion Realm, trade its control for Su Yuan, or force the group to risk killing millions of civilians.
• A voice from the Jieyue Pearl proposed a fourth option, and Chu Lanxi emerged before the assembled group.
• Chu Lanxi explained that he had used the Illusion Dao to fake his True Spirit’s death, escape after being devoured, and rebuild his strength until he became Holy Son of the Tai Xu Illusion Sect.

Chu Lanxi revealed that he had survived by preserving his True Spirit, but admitted he could only delay Fake Chu Jiang rather than defeat him. After Star River Heavenly Lord badly wounded Fake Chu Jiang, he sacrificed himself to the Primordial Dao, triggering a catastrophe that threatened to turn the Tai Xu Illusion Realm into a real world and erase the Blue Star Federation.

• Su Yuan discovered Chu Lanxi’s powerful abilities and learned that Chu Lanxi was still only a second-year college student who had not formed a core.
• Chu Lanxi explained that he could hold Fake Chu Jiang back temporarily while Qi Anon attacked, but had only recently learned that Fake Chu Jiang and Qi Anon were coming to the Blue Star Federation.
• Star River Heavenly Lord attacked Fake Chu Jiang with a black-hole-like singularity and the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, leaving him severely wounded.
• Fake Chu Jiang disintegrated himself and revealed that he had fused a branch of the Primordial Dao with the Tai Xu Illusion Realm.
• Chu Lanxi warned that Fake Chu Jiang’s sacrifice would transform the Tai Xu Illusion Realm into a real world, allowing him to erase the Blue Star Federation and its inhabitants by formatting its data.

As the Tai Xu Illusion Realm detonated, Chu Lanxi delayed its reformatting by a year but trapped Ten Immortal City’s people inside, leaving Su Yuan responsible for entering the illusion and defeating Fake Chu Jiang’s remnant will. Su Yuan accepted the challenge and received quests to conquer the otherworld and master its foundation.

• Star River Heavenly Lord moved Ten Immortal City into space while Chu Lanxi entered the Tai Xu Illusion Realm’s core to stop its detonation.
• The Tai Xu Illusion Realm began swallowing the surrounding world, but Chu Lanxi appeared as an illusion and revealed he had delayed its reformatting for a year.
• Chu Lanxi explained that Ten Immortal City’s people would receive identities in the illusion and that Su Yuan would need to defeat Fake Chu Jiang’s remnant will to free them.
• Su Yuan learned that people trapped in the illusion might lose themselves and that he would need to unite allies to defeat the Demon King.
• Su Yuan received new quests to conquer the otherworld’s sects and master its foundation, then resolved to enter the illusion.

Su Yuan entered the Tai Xu Illusion Realm with Star River Heavenly Lord, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua, then discovered his new identity was a low-ranking gatekeeper in Xuan Yin Sect. He found Guiyuan standing guard beside him, leaving him startled by her presence.

• Su Yuan learned that he had only one life in the Illusionary World, while the civilians who died there could be awakened if he took control of the world's authority.
• Star River Heavenly Lord, Chen Nuoyi, and Qi Hanyua chose to enter the Illusionary World with Su Yuan, while True Lord Wuluo stayed behind to protect the Blue Star Federation.
• The bubble swallowed Su Yuan and his companions, and Su Yuan awoke at the mountain gate of Xuan Yin Sect after Chu Lanxi explained that memory fragments revealed his new identity.
• Su Yuan discovered that he was a Fifth Layer of Qi Cultivation outer disciple assigned to guard the gate, and he complained that he had become a security guard again.
• Su Yuan turned to speak to the other gatekeeper and recognized the golden-haired female disciple as Guiyuan.

Su Yuan gave young Guiyuan a cultivation method and made her his personal maid in the Illusionary World, then discovered Zhu Qingqing leading an attack on Xuan Yin Sect. As the sect prepared to face the attackers, Su Yuan recognized the voice of its sect master as Yin Qiyue.

• Su Yuan recognized Guiyuan as the future Saintly Law Heavenly Monarch and gave her the Saintly Law Fairness Sutra, which he forced into her Sea of Consciousness.
• Guiyuan agreed to serve as Su Yuan's personal maid for a year after he promised not to harm or exploit her.
• An army of puppets approached Xuan Yin Sect, and Guiyuan identified the attackers as Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.
• Su Yuan recognized the puppet army's leader as the young Zhu Qingqing and confirmed with the Myriad Soul Banner's Spirit of the Artifact that she was its past self.
• Su Yuan concluded that the Illusionary World's timeline was disordered, then heard Yin Qiyue declare that Xuan Yin Sect would not fall.

Su Yuan intervened in the battle between Zhu Qingqing and Yin Qiyue, subdued them, and gave Yin Qiyue memories of Ten Immortal City’s situation. He left Yin Qiyue ready to help him and asked her to find Nuoyi.

• Zhu Qingqing’s puppet army attacked Xuan Yin Sect, and she fought Yin Qiyue while Su Yuan kept Guiyuan from joining the battle.
• Su Yuan had Guiyuan cultivate the Saintly Law Fairness Sutra as he protected her, and her cultivation rapidly advanced to the late Qi Cultivation Stage.
• Su Yuan appeared beside Zhu Qingqing and Yin Qiyue, defeated Zhu Qingqing, and used Black Mud to corrupt Yin Qiyue.
• Su Yuan transmitted his memories about Ten Immortal City and the Tai Xu Illusion Realm to Yin Qiyue, who offered to help him.
• Su Yuan told Yin Qiyue to find Nuoyi.

Su Yuan learned that the Illusionary World was the Tai Xu World, divided among three Spirit Transmutation powers, and began identifying nearby factions he could recruit. He also discovered that True Lord Zhan Yuan, the Tai Bai Sword Demon, was being hunted by a righteous female Sword Immortal.

• Su Yuan and Yin Qiyue cleaned up the Xuan Yin Sect after the battle, imprisoning Zhu Qingqing and tending to the wounded.
• Su Yuan brought Guiyuan to the Sect Master Mansion, where Yin Qiyue marveled at her rapid cultivation and learned she was the younger version of Saintly Law Heavenly Monarch.
• Yin Qiyue shared the Xuan Yin Sect Master's memories, revealing that the Illusionary World was the Tai Xu World, ruled by Star River Heavenly Lord, Reincarnation Heavenly Monarch, and Purple Gold Dragon Venerable.
• Su Yuan realized that domain borders would make it difficult to reach the other powers or retrieve a branch of the Primordial Dao in the Star River Dao Domain.
• Yin Qiyue told Su Yuan about the nearby Demon Refining Sect and its young mistress Zhu Tianqing, prompting him to decide to win the sect over.
• Su Yuan learned that the notorious True Lord Zhan Yuan, also called Tai Bai Sword Demon, was being pursued by a righteous female Sword Immortal.

Su Yuan used the Myriad Soul Banner to place the Artifact Spirit Zhu Qingqing in Zhu Qingqing’s body, then took her to infiltrate Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan. The chapter ended as Su Yuan began a Sacrifice Ritual against the sect’s cultivators.

• Su Yuan told Yin Qiyue he planned to use Zhu Qingqing to gain control of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan and draw forces across the Reincarnation Underworld Domain to Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan extracted Zhu Qingqing’s soul into the Myriad Soul Banner and placed the Artifact Spirit Zhu Qingqing in her body, explaining that the body and some cultivation might later be made real.
• Yin Qiyue agreed to Su Yuan’s arrangements, and she helped return Zhu Qingqing’s puppets from Xuan Yin Sect’s storehouse.
• After Guiyuan reached Foundation Establishment, Su Yuan, Zhu Qingqing, and his maid secretly left Xuan Yin Sect and arrived at Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.
• Zhu Qingqing released her puppets at the sect’s Mountain Gate, then killed a Golden Core elder who challenged her about the failed attack on Xuan Yin Sect.
• Su Yuan revealed his Corrupt Golden Core and began a Sacrifice Ritual that targeted every cultivator inside Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.

Su Yuan drained the cultivators of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan to empower Zhu Qingqing, who broke through to Nascent Soul and took control of her Grandmaster puppet. The Old Sect Master fell, and Zhu Qingqing regained nearly all her former strength after the sect was sacrificed.

• Su Yuan used the Corrupt Golden Core to drain Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan’s cultivators and funnel their power into Zhu Qingqing.
• The Old Sect Master confronted Su Yuan and sent over a hundred puppets to attack Zhu Qingqing, but Su Yuan destroyed them with Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning.
• The Old Sect Master summoned the Former Sect Master puppet to charm Su Yuan, but Zhu Qingqing broke through to Nascent Soul and resisted the attack.
• Zhu Qingqing revealed that she had taken control of her Grandmaster puppet and had personally made the Old Sect Master into a puppet.
• The Former Sect Master puppet trapped the Old Sect Master, while the Corrupt Golden Core drained him and the other disciples to raise Zhu Qingqing to Nascent Soul Third Layer.
• Zhu Qingqing reclaimed nearly all her former strength and kept her Grandmaster puppet, while Su Yuan acknowledged her criticism of his own sacrifice of the sect.