Recaps

Shi Lan and Bai Yu escaped the pursuing Main God only after Chu Hanzhou and other human experts arrived to protect them. The Main God tried to retreat, but Chu Hanzhou declared that it would pay with its life for wounding a human prodigy.

• Bai Yu used the Prison Dragon Cauldron to capture four incense deities, and Shi Lan forced Sog to surrender his divine-soul source in exchange for the prayer power inside them.
• Shi Lan burned the four High Gods and fed their Incense and Fire Prayer Power to Sog, who grew into a powerful deity and promised to investigate the god who had branded her.
• A Main God tracked the lingering scent of Shi Lan's Godslayer's brand and attacked her ship, forcing Shi Lan to flee toward the extraterritorial battlefield through a disrupted spacetime passage.
• Shi Lan fired the World-Burying Bow at the Main God, wounding it but failing to kill it, while Bai Yu struggled to defend her from its attacks.
• Chu Hanzhou received Shi Lan's shattered jade talismans and summoned reinforcements; he and more than a dozen human experts arrived, shielded the Prison Dragon Cauldron, and confronted the retreating Main God.

Chu Hanzhou and thirteen Human Emperors rescued Shi Lan from the chief god, sealing the deity inside the silver sword box after its true body was struck. Shi Lan learned she could no longer return to the Lingyang Realm, received the title of Peerless King and Chengtian Domain as her fief, and set out to continue cultivating in the greater universe.

• The chief god attacked a Human Emperor, but the Human Emperors shattered His manifested body and Chu Hanzhou used the sword box to expose and strike His true body.
• The sword box drew in the deranged chief god and the scattered Incense and Fire Prayer Power, ending the battle.
• Shi Lan thanked the Human Emperors, and You Nuo recognized that Shi Lan had reached the peak of the Sun-Moon Realm.
• Shi Lan told Chu Hanzhou that she could not return to the Lingyang Realm, and he promised to protect her family and prepare an incarnation for her to visit them.
• Chu Hanzhou advised Shi Lan on cultivating in the greater universe, gave her an imperial edict naming her Peerless King and granting her Chengtian Domain, and urged her to stay alive.
• Liu Yunzhen confirmed that Shi Lan was safe, while Grand Beginning left without explaining why he had used the Human Race's historical records to save her.

Taishi offered the black-robed young man another path and planned to send him to the Shenwu Great World. Meanwhile, Shi Lan arranged for her wounded companions to recover and later received word from Chu Hanzhou, who brought Shi Qinghu an opportunity to study under his protection.

• Taishi told the young man that martial cultivation might not suit him and offered to send him to the Shenwu Great World, where a senior could help him.
• Bai Yu awoke in the Tianyan Sect's secret realm, and Shi Lan discovered that Burial World absorbed Supreme blood essence to begin repairing its wounds.
• Shi Lan stopped the exhausted Karin from rushing the spaceship repairs while they planned a route that avoided the incense-rich star system.
• Chu Hanzhou visited Shi Tianlu in Tenglong City, reassured him that Shi Lan was safe, and assigned two Fierce Rain Tower protectors to guard the Shi Mansion.
• Chu Hanzhou recognized Shi Qinghu's exceptional Dao foundations and offered to take him for training, and Shi Qinghu agreed to go.

Di Luosha began her World-Destroying Calamity in the Illusory Star Domain, but the Heavenly Dao unleashed a punishment far beyond anything she had expected. As the Heaven-Devil Mirror shielded her and the Human Race's Historical Records arrived, Di Beichen emerged from the mirror to face the figure before it.

• Qing Lan refused Wei Pengju's invitation to meet, while Zhao Xuanyi warned that Cangyang Hall might oppose the Redfire Sword Sect's planned dynasty.
• Di Luosha began weathering her tribulation in the Illusory Star Domain, and the first lightning strike tore through her defenses and gravely wounded her.
• A colossal figure appeared in the tribulation clouds, and Di Luosha realized the Heavenly Dao had transformed the calamity into something unprecedented.
• The Heaven-Devil Mirror shielded Di Luosha from the next lightning strike, but the calamity escalated into heavenly punishment across much of the Illusory Star Domain.
• The Human Race's Historical Records arrived and suppressed the Devil Lords, while Di Luosha urged the Heaven-Devil Mirror to leave to prevent its destruction.
• Di Beichen stepped out of the Heaven-Devil Mirror, and the figure before the Human Race's Historical Records addressed him by name.

Emperor Beichen confronted the Heavenly Dao in the Illusory Star Domain while his return gave powerful beings across the Lingyang Realm a chance to attempt their World-Destroying Calamities. Di Luosha ascended to the Imperial Realm, and the chapter ended with Shi Lan struggling to engrave her own image into her domain.

• Emperor Beichen emerged from the Heavenly Demon Mirror, and Di Luosha revealed that he was her father.
• Emperor Beichen attacked the Heavenly Dao with the awakened Heavenly Demon Mirror as Gu Ye shielded the Illusory Star Domain and issued an imperial decree allowing people to test their swords in the Imperial Realm.
• Powerful beings across Shenzhou, the Demon Domain, and the Devil Lands triggered their World-Destroying Calamities.
• Di Luosha absorbed vitality from the Heavenly Demon Mirror and ascended to the Imperial Realm, but a fracture appeared in the mirror.
• Shi Lan decided to engrave her Primordial Spirit's golden body into her Imperial Realm, but she could not reproduce her face.

Shi Lan stabilized her cultivation and continued toward the world where a former host of the Samsara lived. As the World-Destroying Calamity struck Lingyang Realm, Liu Yunzheng, the Demon Emperor, and a red-robed man acted to support tribulation candidates and record their strength.

• Shi Lan asked Karin about their journey and learned they were fifteen million light-years from their destination, with about six years left.
• Liu Yunzheng ordered the Human Race Annals' secret realm opened so Emperors could use three worlds' life springs to help people undergoing tribulations, prioritizing the young.
• More than thirty Human Race Emperors took life springs and hurried out to aid tribulation candidates across Shenzhou Vast Land.
• The Demon Emperor watched the Demon Race face the calamity while Huang Ze remained weakened after Chenxin drained her minor world's vitality to support other Heavenly Demons.
• A middle-aged man in red recorded the combat strength and names of tribulation candidates from the Human, Demon, and Devil Races for the Firmament Rankings.

After the World-Destroying Calamity, Wang Gu drove off Di Beichen, who later died after entrusting Di Luosha with warnings and guidance. Qing Lan founded the Heavenfire Dynasty, while Shi Lan’s search for Samsara’s lost world failed and she set course for the Morbleu Star Sector, intending to visit the Divine Martial Great World afterward.

• Wang Gu shattered the Heavenly Punishment lightning sword and allowed Di Beichen to escape with Di Luosha, while the surge of calamity killed many trapped Heavenly Demons.
• Liu Yunzheng counted 592 new Human Emperors among 764 tribulation survivors, and the red-robed man recorded more than 1,700 new Emperor Grade powerhouses across the three races.
• Di Beichen told Di Luosha that Mingzhou held a Divine Emperor and a gate to the Underworld, then died; Di Luosha buried him and returned the damaged Heavenly Demon Mirror to the Devil Venerable.
• Qing Lan killed Wei Pengju and tens of thousands of Cangyang Hall disciples as offerings, then established the Heavenfire Dynasty.
• Shi Lan spent 200 million reputation points on advanced draws, gained seven eight-star cultivation techniques, and later reached the middle stage of the Sky Gazing Realm.
• Shi Lan found no trace of Samsara’s former world, then set course for the Morbleu Star Sector and planned to prioritize a journey to the Divine Martial Great World.

Shi Lan sought safer sources of cultivation resources by using Samsara to access systems and their rewards, then continued her journey toward the Divine Martial Great World. After returning to the Morbray Starfield, she learned how the Interstellar Federation exploited cultivation civilizations and left Reza with the prospect of discussing whether the Morbray family could control the Federation when she returned.

• Shi Lan stopped using the Asura Clan's battle blood for her own cultivation, and Samsara proposed obtaining resources by accessing an advanced system's backend and requesting a false mission allocation.
• Shi Lan found systems in the Tongxuan Continent, gained small amounts of energy from their missions, and watched a killing-system host die without intervening.
• Shi Lan spent decades traveling through many worlds, collected 0.37 units of nine-star energy from systems, and killed three Samsara travelers who attacked her.
• Shi Lan returned to the Morbray Starfield and sent Shentu Jinglong and the Tianyan Sect disciples back to the Qiong Luo Realm while asking Li Canglan to establish a branch sect there.
• Reza showed Shi Lan records of the Federation's brutal experiments and exploitation of cultivation civilizations, prompting her to delay establishing a branch sect until she could control the Federation.
• Shi Lan kept her spaceship and told Reza they would discuss the Morbray family's ability to control the Interstellar Federation after she returned.

Shi Lan reached the Divine Martial Great World and confronted Qing Lan, her independent incarnation, after learning how the Lan Clan and Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty had changed. Shi Lan freed Qing Lan from her system binding and let her live, then set out to explore the world while Qing Lan began planning a new sect residence.

• Shi Lan used nine-star energy to create a space-time passage to the Divine Martial Great World, where Bai Yu refused the Heavenly Dao’s invitation to attain the Dao and Li Guannan accelerated their journey.
• Shi Lan found the ancestral blood pool and traveled with Bai Yu to the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, where Qing Lan summoned her forces after sensing Shi Lan’s arrival.
• The Lan Clan demon kings welcomed Shi Lan, while Qing Lan’s fortune dragon collapsed and she made no move to fight her.
• Shi Lan brought Qing Lan to the Qiong Luo Realm, spoke with her, and caught Qing Lan’s sword before removing the system binding and returning her life to her.
• Shi Lan departed to explore the Divine Martial Great World and search for an old space-time passage, while Qing Lan ordered Zhao Xuanyi to build a sect residence from her blueprint without its central statue.

Shi Lan traveled through the Divine Martial Great World and entered the Purple Extremity Imperial Dynasty to find powerful flesh and blood for her cultivation. After reaching Taiyuan City, she found a seller with a stock of suitable vicious-beast flesh and decided to buy it all.

• Zhao Xuanyi reported that the Cloud Dragon Dynasty and the Moon-Slaying Dynasty had submitted allegiance invitations, and Qing Lan sent him to collect their dynastic fortune after learning Cang Yue had left for the Ancestral Blood Pool.
• Shi Lan concealed her appearance and martial aura, traveled across the Divine Martial Great World, and learned how dynasties and greater powers competed for fortune.
• Shi Lan entered the Purple Extremity Imperial Dynasty, passed its border checkpoints, and paid to enter Taiyuan City.
• Shi Lan hired Mu Yunhu as a guide and asked him to take her to a seller of flesh from vicious beasts above the sixth layer of the eighth rank.
• After reviewing the seller's available stock and prices, Shi Lan said she would take it all.

Shi Lan bought a vast quantity of ferocious beast flesh and used it to stabilize her Blood Cloud Realm cultivation, but the effort left her needing even more flesh. Meanwhile, the Lingyang Realm faced rising waters and shifting powers, Taishi restricted three traditions, and Bai Weiyang traveled with Seven, whom he had brought out of the Guiyun Realm.

• Shi Lan bought roughly two hundred thousand jin of ferocious beast flesh from Liyue Tower, paid Lin Weiyuan, and learned about Taiyuan City from the Twilight Cloud Tiger.
• Shi Lan rented a cultivation chamber and absorbed the beast flesh in the Firmament Luo Realm, stabilizing her cultivation in the early stage of the Blood Cloud Realm while the mysterious figure in her domain grew more distinct.
• Ten years after the heavenly tribulation, rising waters and shifting powers reshaped Lingyang, while experts explored the Boundless Sea and the demon race expanded into demon territory.
• Taishi ordered the Chan sect to stop preaching and return to the Haotian Domain, and forbade Daoism and the Confucian school from recruiting disciples.
• Bai Weiyang left Yunshan Gorge on leave with Seven, the powerful man he had brought out of the Guiyun Realm, but Seven continued to follow him.

A-Qi learned that Wuxu had been the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s sword spirit and left Bai Weiyang after seeing Shi Lan’s statue. Shi Qinghu successfully absorbed a human Emperor Monarch’s blood essence, while Shi Lan returned to the Moonlit Tower to buy flesh and blood and found Lin Weiyuan with a group of beast slaves.

• Bai Weiyang brought A-Qi to Cloudmist Star, where A-Qi recognized Shi Lan’s statue and asked whether she had visited the Cloudreturn Realm.
• A-Qi asked Bai Weiyang about Wuxu, learned that Wuxu had been the Cloudreturn Sword Emperor’s sword spirit, and chose to wait by Shi Lan’s statue.
• Bai Weiyang visited Zhu Xiyang, took away the questionable book she was reading, and left after checking on her.
• A-Qi left through a spatial passage without saying goodbye, and Bai Weiyang followed after glancing back at Cloudmist Star.
• Shi Qinghu perfectly absorbed human Emperor Monarch blood essence to forge his fourth Dao foundation, and Chu Hanzhou marveled at his potential.
• Shi Lan left the Qiong Luo Realm, hired Mu Yunhu’s carriage to the Moonlit Tower, and saw Lin Weiyuan with a group of collared beast slaves.

Shi Lan ordered a hundred times her previous amount of vicious beast flesh and went to an auction house to sell Divine Blood Gold for the spirit crystals she needed. The auction house offered ten thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows, and the middle-aged man realized from Shi Lan’s reaction that he had bid too high.

• Shi Lan declined Lin Weiyuan’s offer to buy more beast slaves and ordered a hundred times her previous quantity of vicious beast flesh.
• Lin Weiyuan said the order would be ready the next morning, and Shi Lan planned to return after gathering at least thirty billion top-grade spirit crystals.
• Shi Lan searched the Qiong Luo Realm for valuables and rediscovered the Three Lives Stone before choosing a piece of Divine Blood Gold to sell.
• Shi Lan visited an auction house and chose to sell the Divine Blood Gold outright rather than consign it.
• The middle-aged man offered ten thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows, and Shi Lan’s brightened expression made him regret naming such a high price.

Shi Lan sold Divine Blood Gold, attended an auction, and bought a clay figurine marked by the aura of the Underworld before collecting a large shipment of beast flesh. After her domain destroyed a restrained mastiff, the Glazed Moon Tower’s Star Envoy suspected that Ling Wushuang was concealing her identity and age.

• Shi Lan negotiated with Cao Tiancheng and sold her Divine Blood Gold to the Heavenly Gift Auction House for twelve thousand Heavenly Spirit Marrows.
• Shi Lan attended the auction, bought a clay figurine carrying yin-death Killing Intent, and noticed Mo Hanyue confront a fortunate young man over Earth-Spirit True Marrow.
• Shi Lan met Lin Weiyuan and a Star Envoy at the Glazed Moon Tower, confirmed her shipment of flesh and blood, and paid thirty billion top-grade spirit crystals.
• A caged mastiff attacked, and Shi Lan’s Imperial Dao Domain formed a whip that shattered the beast’s beam and crushed its cage, killing it.
• The Star Envoy told Lin Weiyuan that Ling Wushuang might be using a false face and name, and wondered whether her aura suggested she was unusually young.

Shi Lan completed her retreat in the Qiong Luo Realm, reached the late stage of the Blood Cloud Realm, and distributed pills made from leftover beast flesh. After leaving Taiyuan City, she intervened in a dispute to secure compensation for the carriage drivers and shop, then departed after warning Mo Hanyue.

• Shi Lan absorbed the flesh and blood of eighth-tier ferocious beasts, advanced to the middle and then late stage of the Blood Cloud Realm, and nourished the avatar in her Imperial Domain until it stopped absorbing qi and blood.
• Shi Lan gave immortal pills to the Asura race, her guards, Chi Junyu, Tian Bai, Bian Qin, and Li Canglan, who used one to create a body-refining spirit pool for Tianyan Sect disciples.
• Shi Lan left Taiyuan City with Mu Yunhu, but leaped from their carriage when a dead Starfire Lion smashed into the road and destroyed nearby carriages and a shop.
• Shi Lan demanded that Qin Feng and Chang Yunsheng cover the losses, but when Mo Hanyue challenged her, Shi Lan forced Mo Hanyue and Qin Feng to their knees and warned Mo Hanyue not to insult her again.
• Chang Yunsheng accepted responsibility for the damage before the city garrison arrived, and Qin Feng paid the requested 123,240,000 supreme-grade spirit crystals; Shi Lan identified herself as Ling Wushuang and warned Mo Hanyue that she would get only one chance to wash away her shame.
• Shi Lan thanked the carriage drivers by securing compensation for them, then left Taiyuan City as Mu Yunhu bowed farewell.

Qing Lan rejected Buddhism’s attempt to spread its faith through the Heavenly Fire Immortal Court, then decided to seek Daoist and Confucian support after Bodhisattva Kongyuan left. Meanwhile, Shi Lan entered the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty under the false identity Ling Wushuang and continued searching for the spatial passage home.

• Qin Feng apologized to Mo Hanyue for her humiliation, and Mo Hanyue vowed to surpass Ling Wushuang while focusing on the upcoming Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament.
• Qing Lan received a message during cultivation and summoned her court, where Bodhisattva Kongyuan asked her to allow Buddhism to spread its teachings.
• Qing Lan refused Kongyuan, asserted her authority, and ordered him to leave after he invoked the True Buddha and challenged her words.
• After her officials warned her about provoking Buddhism, Qing Lan ordered Daoism to be honored and Confucian scholars brought into government.
• Shi Lan traveled toward the northern lands, entered the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, and obtained an identity placard as Ling Wushuang, aged 1,746.

Shi Lan searched the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty for the place where the Lan Clan had arrived, found the old passage, and returned safely to the Lingyang Realm. Meanwhile, Ying Qianqiu entered the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty, and Shi Lan's return surprised Chu Hanzhou with her completed Blood Cloud Realm.

• Shi Lan searched the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty for the Lan Clan's former arrival site and found it with information from Yan Pan.
• A Daoist gave a future-born boy the Azure Firmament Spirit Profound Scripture, and the boy decided to enter the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty.
• Ying Qianqiu visited Qing Lan and was accepted into the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty.
• Shi Lan rediscovered the space-time passage, sealed its entrance, and traveled back toward the Lingyang Realm.
• Shi Lan showed her Demon-Suppressing Order to the Imperial Blood Army and sent word to Chu Hanzhou.
• Chu Hanzhou and You Nuo met Shi Lan outside the Lingyang Realm, where Chu Hanzhou noticed that her Blood Cloud Realm was complete.

Shi Lan returned to the Lingyang Realm and visited her family in Tenglong City after revealing that she had engraved her own image in her Imperial Domain. After two days at home, she left for the Imperial Palace to meet the Imperial Monarch.

• Chu Hanzhou and You Nuo questioned Shi Lan about engraving herself in her Imperial Domain, and Chu Hanzhou offered to seek the Imperial Monarch's advice.
• You Nuo gave Shi Lan a jade case containing a temporary body, and Shi Lan used it to enter the Lingyang Realm with Chu Hanzhou.
• Shi Lan arrived in Tenglong City with Shi Qinghu and reunited with Shi Tianlu and Su Lanyue at Shi Mansion.
• Shi Lan learned that Shi Yiming had not returned from the Sacred Spirit Academy in several years and spent the evening with her family.
• After staying at home for two days, Shi Lan received Chu Hanzhou's invitation and set out for the Imperial Palace.

Shi Lan met Taishi, who approved her plan to carve her image into her domain and warned that her immense, mixed power would make Slaying the Dao especially difficult. After receiving records and a Sky-Traveling Shuttle, she traveled to the site where Great Emperor Linglong was buried and witnessed dangerous sea creatures near the continent.

• Shi Lan met Taishi in the Imperial Palace, where he approved carving her image into her domain and explained the challenges she would face in Slaying the Dao.
• Taishi advised Shi Lan to purify and shrink her power or riskier alternatives, then gave her records on past Human Emperors and introduced Liu Yunzheng and Ling Chu.
• Taishi gave Shi Lan a Sky-Traveling Shuttle and told her Great Emperor Linglong had been buried in the Extreme South of Divine Continent, now swallowed by the Boundless Sea.
• Shi Lan used the shuttle to reach the Boundless Sea in a single breath and saw a monstrous shadow devour enormous blue fish above the water.

Shi Lan returned from the Boundless Sea, paid respects at the Exquisite Great Emperor’s former location, and reunited with Wu Lingkong before preparing to leave again. Meanwhile, the Ling Family remained unable to wake Ling Yuan, whose cultivation continued to rise mysteriously as she slept.

• Shi Lan traveled across the Boundless Sea and found ancient submerged ruins and terrifying sea creatures before reaching the site Tai Shi had given her.
• Shi Lan performed a memorial rite for the Exquisite Great Emperor, then returned to Shenfeng City and reunited with Wu Lingkong after more than a decade apart.
• Shi Lan told Wu Lingkong that she was only an incarnation and that her return date was unknown, leaving Wu Lingkong afraid their lifespans would pull them apart.
• Wu Lingkong and Shi Lan drank together, and Wu Lingkong spoke of finding Shi Lan in another life, but Shi Lan rejected the idea.
• Ling Qing learned that the physician could not explain Ling Yuan’s six-year sleep, even though her cultivation had advanced to the Heavenly-Man Realm without a tribulation.

Shi Lan visited Lu Yueqing at the Cloud Heaven Pavilion, then met Chu Hanzhou and learned that an unknown Imperial Mausoleum had been discovered in the Boundless Sea. She declined to investigate and planned to spend time with her family before returning to the Divine Martial Great World.

• Shi Lan left Divine Wind City and traveled to the Cloud Heaven Pavilion to thank You Nuo and visit Lu Yueqing.
• Lu Yueqing offered to dissolve her pact with Shi Lan, but Shi Lan refused and kept their agreement.
• After Shi Lan left, Lu Yueqing told Luo Tianshu that her deceased fiancé had been the Peerless Queen's blood brother, discouraging him from pursuing her.
• Shi Lan went to the Profound King Palace, where Chu Hanzhou told her an unknown Imperial Mausoleum had appeared in the Boundless Sea.
• Shi Lan shared what she knew about ancient beings in the sea, declined Chu Hanzhou's offer to investigate, and chose to return to her family.

Taishi explained to Liu Yunzheng why the Lingyang Realm’s ancient rulers had accepted that the heavens would eventually fall, and said he would protect its people so his name would endure. Shi Lan visited Bai Weiyang, then traveled to Yunyan Star to bring some Tianyan Sect disciples away, while Zhu Xiyang chose to remain behind.

• Taishi told Liu Yunzheng that ancient rulers had not expanded Lingyang because they knew the heavens’ collapse could not be prevented, and said he would protect its people.
• Shi Lan visited Bai Weiyang at the Bai family home, declined to search for A-Qi, and left Bai Weiyang’s Yunyan Star pass behind.
• Shi Lan arrived at Yunyan Star and offered Zhu Xiyang the chance to leave with her, but Zhu Xiyang chose to stay and care for the Tianyan Sect.
• Shi Lan selected willing Tianyan Sect disciples above the Nascent Soul Realm and led them through the sect’s teleportation formation to the Qiong Luo Realm.

Shi Lan broke through to the Creation Realm and began refining her martial arts, while her rise in the rankings unsettled powerful figures across the Lingyang Realm. Di Luosha gained power from a spirit egg in a Demon Emperor’s tomb, triggering a crisis between the Demon and Demon Races, while Qing Lan noticed Daoist and Confucian cultivators arriving in the Heavenly Flame Immortal Dynasty.

• Shi Lan reached the Creation Realm, then entered the system’s virtual space to consider cutting away and refining her many martial arts.
• Yun Shun and Shi Feng reviewed Shi Lan’s leap to 173rd on the Sky Ranking, a rise that shook emperors throughout the Lingyang Realm.
• Di Luosha and five Devil Lords investigated a Demon Emperor’s tomb and found a spirit egg hidden inside the imperial corpse.
• Di Luosha crushed and devoured the spirit egg during the struggle over the tomb, advancing two stages to the late Sun and Moon Realm.
• Enraged by the spirit egg’s destruction, the Demon Emperor attacked the demonic lands until Purple Cloud Demon Venerable stopped him, worsening tensions between the Demon and Demon Races.
• Qing Lan saw Daoist cultivators and Confucian scholars arrive in the Heavenly Flame Immortal Dynasty while the Buddhist sect remained absent.

Shi Lan spent three hundred years in the system's virtual space refining her martial arts and studying divine abilities, then used Inviting an Immortal to borrow power from a mysterious true immortal. The power faded without harming her, leaving her wondering why the immortal had helped her.

• Shi Lan mastered nearly a hundred techniques, merged more than forty into a combat art called the Martial Scripture, and cut several old techniques and divine abilities from her body.
• Shi Lan studied ancient divine ability imprints and comprehended the nine-star techniques Inviting an Immortal and Demon-Slaying Edict.
• Shi Lan set up an altar in the Qiong Luo Realm and recited the Immortal-Inviting Incantation.
• Shi Lan saw a mysterious figure seated in a heavenly palace through a passage in time, then received immense power infused with immortal energy.
• After the power faded and cleansed her internal organs, Shi Lan wondered why the true immortal had helped her without causing any side effects.

After three hundred years of secluded cultivation, Shi Lan left the Qiong Luo Realm to seek a place for a Heavenly Evolution Sect branch and witnessed the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty’s prodigy selection. As she left the city, two Bodhisattvas stopped her over the great merit they sensed on her and asked her to visit their temple for an examination.

• Shi Lan emerged from seclusion with a more refined Primordial Spirit and cultivation in the middle stage of the Creation Realm, then decided to establish a Heavenly Evolution Sect branch outside Qiong Luo.
• Shi Lan traveled through the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, reflecting on how the long seclusion had made time pass too quickly and stopping in a city to watch its prodigy selection.
• Shi Lan watched ten young prodigies compete for places in the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Grand Tournament and was struck by the Divine Martial Great World's vast talent and supportive attitude toward gifted cultivators.
• After Shi Lan left the city, two Bodhisattvas called her back, saying her great merit seemed not to be her own and asking her to visit their temple so an Arhat could investigate.