Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan underwent sudden enlightenment, advanced to the Golden Core Realm, and formed a spirit infant during a lightning tribulation. After swallowing the tribulation clouds with her black domain, she left the gathered experts stunned.

• Shi Lan grasped the immortal scripture’s mysteries, rapidly cultivated through Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, and condensed a golden core.
• Li Canglan faced the experts who gathered around the barren mountain and warned them to withdraw while Shi Lan remained in closed-door cultivation.
• Shi Lan awakened and discovered cracks in her golden core as a spirit embryo began to gestate within it.
• Lightning struck Shi Lan, shattered her golden core, and gave birth to a spirit infant that entered her mind and took the place of her soul.
• Shi Lan rose into the sky and swallowed the tribulation clouds with her black domain, leaving the gathered experts motionless with shock.

Shi Lan absorbed the Immortal Path’s transformation, learned more about its advantages and costs, and refined the nine-story pagoda taken from Zheng Tianlun. She announced that the Heavenly Derivation Sect would open in a month, then decided to use her small world’s faster time to train its first core disciples.

• Shi Lan examined the Immortal Path’s cultivation stages, reflecting on its powerful souls and long lifespans as well as its weaker focus on the body.
• Shi Lan refined Zheng Tianlun’s nine-story pagoda in less than half an hour.
• While Shi Lan secluded herself, Li Canglan drew attention from people seeking information about her and her lineage.
• Shi Lan told Li Canglan to announce that the Heavenly Derivation Sect would accept anyone without cultivation, regardless of origin or background.
• The announcement spread across Yunyan Star, drawing powerful Lineages and ordinary people to the barren mountain.
• Shi Lan decided to use her small world’s time difference to quickly strengthen Li Canglan and the other prospective disciples.

Emperor Taishi opened the road to Yellow Springs so stranded ghosts could enter Samsara, then descended into the underworld to bring Lingchu back. Meanwhile, Shi Lan brought Li Canglan and the others to a modern world with declining cultivation and helped them prepare to explore it.

• Taishi and the Human Emperors sacrificed imperial blood to open the road to Yellow Springs, and Taishi allowed ghosts and spirits to pass through.
• Taishi told Liu Yunzheng he would bring Lingchu back and entrusted him with what came next if Taishi ran out of time.
• Taishi plunged beneath Yellow Springs as Liu Yunzheng waited for his return.
• Shi Lan and Li Canglan's group emerged in a barren wasteland in a world where spiritual energy had declined.
• Shi Lan promised to take the group to a secret realm with spirit crystals, then agreed to let Li Canglan look around first.
• Shi Lan gave the group modern clothes and began teaching the young women how to wear them.

Shi Lan brought Li Canglan and the others into a much-changed modern world, where she discovered that the Limitless Sect had spread her legend as the Limitless Sword Immortal. She visited an old cemetery and reflected on how much time had passed, while Li Canglan began to understand how the Zheng Family viewed Yao Yun Star.

• Shi Lan led the group into a city, where modern technology and the bold attention of passersby startled the newcomers.
• A boy pointed out a statue of Shi Lan honored as the Limitless Sword Immortal, and Shi Lan learned that the Limitless Sect had become the world's greatest power.
• Shi Lan visited the Limitless Sect headquarters, saw memorial tablets dedicated to her, and then went to find Ning An.
• Shi Lan watched Ning An visit the shared grave of Qin Yinhua and Ning Kangping, then left lilies there herself.
• Li Canglan told Shi Lan that he was beginning to understand how the Zheng Family viewed Yao Yun Star.

Shi Lan cultivated in seclusion, discovered a mysterious phoenix jade pendant, and returned to the small world after fifteen years had passed there. She found that Li Canglan had built the Tianyan Sect into a large force and asked him about the spiritual roots he used to select disciples.

• Shi Lan absorbed fire-law fragments from the giant cocoon, while Tian Bai digested the demon king’s blood essence.
• When the cocoon crumbled, Shi Lan found a phoenix jade pendant that reminded her of the clasp on Feng Yichuan’s fan and put it away.
• Shi Lan spent nearly a month cultivating as powerful lineages gathered around the barren mountain, and she crippled an attacker to deter further schemes.
• After returning to the small world, Shi Lan found that Li Canglan had gathered more than a thousand disciples and that two members had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Canglan explained that he had invented the idea of spiritual roots to describe the people he chose for the Tianyan Sect.

Shi Lan learned that Li Canglan and Lin Lang had reached the Nascent Soul Realm without tribulations, then prepared the Heavenly Derivation Sect for its mountain-gate opening ceremony. She used her reputation to draw magic treasures for the sect and began a thousand beginner lottery draws.

• Shi Lan examined Li Canglan and Lin Lang, finding that Li Canglan had a seven-tier Dao Foundation and seven Golden Core spirit patterns while Lin Lang had eight of each.
• Li Canglan told Shi Lan that the Heavenly Derivation Sect had two Nascent Soul cultivators, twenty-four Golden Core cultivators, over a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, and more than eight hundred Qi Refining cultivators, but fewer than thirty thousand spirit crystals.
• Shi Lan ordered the sect to select its three hundred strongest cultivators for the mountain-gate opening ceremony.
• Shi Lan checked her system panel, saw that her reputation had reached 5,868,723, and spent two million reputation on twenty intermediate draws.
• Shi Lan obtained several magic treasures from the draws, heard thunder in the spacetime beyond, and then started one thousand beginner draws.

Shi Lan brought the Tianyan Sect back to Yunyan Star and announced that she would establish a sect there, warning prospective disciples that joining meant accepting her heavenly mandate. Li Canglan read out the sect’s seven prohibitions, leaving some people hesitant and others eager to join.

• Shi Lan distributed magic treasures to Li Canglan, Lin Lang, and the disciples, then led three hundred Tianyan Sect disciples through a spacetime passage to Yunyan Star.
• The returning disciples were heavily suppressed by Yunyan Star’s laws, while Shi Lan announced her intent to establish a sect and spread the Dao.
• Shi Lan warned that those who joined would take up her heavenly mandate, then sent the disciples to recruit members and told Li Canglan to charge wealthy families an appropriate entrance fee.
• Li Canglan read the seven prohibitions aloud, listing severe punishments for violence, bullying, abuse of power, discord, and other misconduct.
• Some people hesitated to join after hearing the rules, while others saw an opportunity in the absence of a ban on teaching the sect’s arts to outsiders.

Shi Lan and Li Canglan built the Tianyan Sect into a major force on Yunyan Star, attracting ordinary disciples and powerful clans seeking its immortal arts. The chapter ended with Shi Lan seated in the restored sect residence amid the wealth supplied by the Qin Household.

• Ordinary applicants flooded the Tianyan Sect, so Shi Lan recruited two hundred more people from the minor world, and just over ten thousand disciples entered after a month of strict screening.
• Shi Lan divided the immortal scripture into four chapters with different access restrictions, while Li Canglan organized the sect’s ranks, resources, facilities, and administration.
• The Qi Guidance Chapter and a few Soul-Nourishing Chapter incantations leaked to powerful families, prompting the great clans to compete for sect membership and provide resources.
• The Four Great Royal Clans supplied the Tianyan Sect with spirit mountains, ore veins, and prominent weapon-refining and alchemy masters as guest elders.
• The Qin Household traded a core disciple position for one of its youths and restored the Tianyan Sect’s residence in the former Whitefeather Clan territory.
• Shi Lan reclined on a warm-jade throne in the restored main hall, pleased with the results of using the immortal arts to draw resources from the clans.

Shi Lan stayed on Cloudmist Star while Tian Bai refined the Demon King's blood essence and prepared to transform, helping the Heavenly Evolution Sect expand its halls and reputation. After Tian Bai became a shapeshifting Demon King, Shi Lan told him to adjust to his new body and prepared to take him back to the Lingyang Realm.

• Shi Lan stocked the Scripture Pavilion with manuals and secret techniques, while the Artifact Refining Hall and Alchemy Hall began operating under Lu Hanchen and Mo Lin.
• Shi Lan entrusted Golden Rainbow to Lu Hanchen for repairs, and Li Canglan's efforts to elevate her reputation made the sect's disciples believe she was an overwhelming powerhouse.
• After half a month, Tian Bai's aura destabilized as he began transforming, so Shi Lan ordered Li Canglan to keep everyone away from the great hall.
• Several days later, Tian Bai emerged as a white-haired shapeshifting Demon King, but stumbled when he tried to walk on two legs.
• Tian Bai crawled to Shi Lan and clung to her, so she explained that he needed to change his habits and gave him a robe.
• Shi Lan told Tian Bai to come with her back to the Lingyang Realm.

Shi Lan returned Golden Rainbow to its restored state and traveled with Tian Bai to the Linglong Abode, a mysterious small-world gateway in Chengtian Domain that even a Human Emperor could not break open. As powerful forces and famous prodigies gathered around the sealed palace, Shi Lan recognized the surrounding valleys from her past.

• Li Canglan created a towering spirit form for Shi Lan at the Tianyan Sect, while Lu Hanchen repaired Golden Rainbow, upgraded it to a six-star magical treasure, and warned that its sleeping sword spirit needed the blood of a powerful being to awaken.
• Shi Lan put away Golden Rainbow and left with Tian Bai as Chengtian Domain continued to recover from the demon calamity.
• A Human Emperor failed to break the barrier around Linglong Abode, drawing powerful forces from across the Central Heaven Domain to the palace in search of its rumored Dao Repository.
• Shi Lan and Tian Bai joined the crowds gathering at Linglong Abode, where she recognized the valleys from an earlier journey near Tenglong City.
• Ling Yu'an of the Ling Household and a young man from Purple Lightning Manor arrived, followed by other famous prodigies, as onlookers suspected the gathering would reshape the Prodigy Register.

As factions gathered to explore the Yellow Springs Road, Shi Lan watched the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s Cloud Shun confront the Purple Lightning Manor. Cloud Shun decisively subdued their attack, and the Manor’s elder admitted he could not withstand Cloud Shun in the Lingyang Realm.

• Rumors that the Great Beginning was preparing to choose a successor spread after he opened the Yellow Springs Road and went to war beyond the stars.
• Shi Lan recognized Cloud Shun and a familiar figure among the Shengwu Immortal Sect’s party as powerful factions gathered above the firmament.
• Sacred Spirit Academy proposed that the factions join forces, while the Purple Lightning Manor demanded first entry and Cloud Shun suggested sending disciples to scout.
• The Purple Lightning Manor attacked Cloud Shun with a sea of chaotic lightning, but Cloud Shun’s solar true fire swallowed it and forced the Manor to back down.
• The Purple Lightning Manor’s middle-aged elder told the purple-haired youth that Cloud Shun could kill him within ten moves in the Lingyang Realm.

Human Emperors tried to break through a mysterious barrier surrounding a palace, but the Heavenly Extremity Blade only opened an entrance that still rejected them. As Shi Lan witnessed a strange vision through the Three Lives Stone, Shi Feng entered a state of blade-path enlightenment and Yun Shun challenged Luo Xiuhan’s beliefs.

• Nearly ten Human Emperors attacked the barrier together, but it remained unharmed, prompting them to send distress signals for reinforcements.
• Shi Lan considered retreating but found herself trapped with Tian Bai amid the chaos currents and the protective barrier.
• The Heavenly Extremity Blade of the Tianwu Imperial Clan struck the barrier, opening a fissure as the Three Lives Stone in Shi Lan’s hand grew hot.
• Shi Lan saw a vision of figures battling at the end of a phantom river of time, while the Heavenly Extremity Blade’s light faded and the barrier opened.
• A Human Emperor tried to enter the palace but was stopped by a hazy glow, leaving the Emperors at a stalemate.
• Shi Feng entered a state of enlightenment after witnessing the blade’s strike, and Yun Shun told Luo Xiuhan that transcending emotion—not rejecting it—was the true blade path.

The Human Emperor tested the palace’s light curtain and found that cultivators above the Primordial Spirit Realm could not enter, while a dark vortex inside killed one entrant. After Tianwu Yangyu entered safely and others followed, an aged Human Emperor forced Shi Lan and hundreds of cultivators to enter, leaving Shi Lan wary and prepared to adapt.

• The Human Emperor tested the light curtain by throwing people at it, and one entrant was killed by the dark vortex inside the palace.
• The Human Emperor concluded that only cultivators at or below the Primordial Spirit Realm could enter, while a hidden speaker challenged Purple Lightning Manor to go first.
• Tianwu Yangyu introduced himself, passed through the light curtain, and entered the vortex without incident.
• Hundreds of cultivators entered, including the Purple Lightning Manor youth and the Ling family’s imperial daughter, before the Human Emperors sent protected prodigies in as well.
• The aged Human Emperor selected Shi Lan and hundreds of others, promised rewards for entering, and compelled them to approach the light curtain.
• Shi Lan told Tian Bai to stay close and prepare to adapt as they entered.

Shi Lan and Tian Bai were separated from the other cultivators by spatial turbulence and arrived in a sinister realm, where they found a pool of fresh blood and corpses before a strange woman appeared behind them. Elsewhere, a boy emerged from a grave, regained strength by devouring hyenas, and realized that he had become the variable disrupting the course of ancient history.

• Shi Lan and Tian Bai entered the Myriad Forms Realm with several hundred cultivators, but spatial turbulence swept many of them away and separated the pair from the others.
• Shi Lan arrived with Tian Bai in a desolate realm beneath a blood-red moon and found that the Three Lives Stone fragment showed no unusual signs.
• Tian Bai sensed a human scent, and Shi Lan followed him to a depression filled with nearly congealed blood and corpses.
• A bluish-white woman appeared behind Shi Lan as she was about to speak.
• In Chengtian Domain, a corpse-like boy climbed out of a mass grave and devoured hyenas to restore his strength.
• The boy examined a piece of Exquisite Ancient Jade and concluded that he was now the variable in history.

Shi Lan and Tian Bai crossed a deadly wilderness, where Shi Lan absorbed several Yin Gods through the Heavens Reincarnation System. They reached a black forest pursued by Yin Gods, and Samsara awakened to explain the system’s purpose and recent actions, while Shi Lan still needed to find a way out.

• Shi Lan buried a hollow filled with corpses, suppressed its baleful aura, and continued across the wilderness with Tian Bai.
• Shi Lan and Tian Bai survived encounters with several Yin Gods, including a little girl whose ghostly domain drained much of Tian Bai’s vital essence.
• Shi Lan found that space travel was impossible near a black forest as cultivators from Violet Lightning Manor fled a vast horde of Yin Gods and drew some of them toward her and Tian Bai.
• Shi Lan protected Tian Bai and swallowed several hundred pursuing Yin Gods, triggering the system’s capture alerts.
• Samsara awakened and explained that the system devoured spiritual entities to gather soul force and protect its host, and that it had consumed Shi Lan’s resource points to restore its energy.

Shi Lan and Tian Bai crossed a forest of Yin Spirits, where Samsara helped her absorb them into a powerful soul-power crystal and she recited a Rebirth Mantra that restored life to the forest. After traveling ten thousand li, Shi Lan found Shen Tianlan fighting the Violet Lightning Manor group alongside a woman.

• Samsara gave Shi Lan a soul-power crystal, which rapidly expanded her sea of consciousness and raised her immortal cultivation to the late Nascent Soul Realm.
• Shi Lan entered the dense forest with Tian Bai and let Samsara devour the Yin Spirits that blocked their way.
• Shi Lan collected the soul-power crystal formed from the Yin Spirits, then recited the Rebirth Mantra for several days and dispelled the forest’s accumulated Killing Intent.
• Shi Lan and Tian Bai crossed the forest and, after traveling ten thousand li, found Shen Tianlan and a woman fighting the Violet Lightning Manor group.

Shi Lan arrived as Shen Tianlan sparred with a young Purple Lightning Manor prodigy, and Shen Tianlan awakened his lightning spirit body during the fight. After Shi Lan stopped a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator from attacking Shen Tianlan, the prodigy introduced himself as Yan Ren and departed; Shen Tianlan then recognized Shi Lan when she removed her disguise.

• Shi Lan recognized Gu Rongyue while watching Shen Tianlan spar with the purple-haired youth from Purple Lightning Manor.
• The youth urged Shen Tianlan to join the manor, but Shen Tianlan refused because he already had a master.
• Shen Tianlan's lightning spirit body fully awakened, advancing his cultivation to the late stage of the Heavenly Dipper Realm and turning the fight in his favor.
• A Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator attacked Shen Tianlan, but Shi Lan shattered the crimson lightning and rebuked him.
• The purple-haired youth slapped the attacker, introduced himself as Yan Ren, invited Shen Tianlan to spar again, and led the Purple Lightning Manor group away.
• Shen Tianlan thanked Shi Lan, and she removed her disguise, surprising him and Gu Rongyue.

Shi Lan traveled with Shen Tianlan, Gu Rongyue, and Tian Bai through the dangerous ancient land, where she advanced her cultivation and fought ancient demons. The group reached an ancient altar marked “Langya,” which the martial artists identified as Langya Grotto-Heaven and connected to Emperor Linglong.

• Shi Lan reunited with Shen Tianlan and Gu Rongyue, and Tian Bai introduced herself as Shi Lan’s battle servant.
• Shi Lan’s group set out together to find an exit, and Shi Lan nourished her Nascent Soul with a soul-force crystal until it neared Spirit Transformation.
• After several days, the group crossed a blood-scented grassland, where Shi Lan killed a crocodile-like ancient demon with Golden Rainbow.
• Shi Lan and her companions encountered more dangerous demons concealed in lakes as they traveled through the land.
• The group arrived near a towering ancient altar and saw the words “Langya” on a stone stele, prompting martial artists to call it Langya Grotto-Heaven and name Emperor Linglong.

Shi Lan recognized the altar as the Linglong Emperor’s burial ground, where an ancient Divine King might still be sealed, and Tianwu Yangyu tried to stop a man from disturbing it. When the crowd dismissed his warning, Shi Lan drew Golden Rainbow and threatened anyone who disturbed the Great Emperor’s rest.

• Shi Lan recalled that the Linglong Emperor had blood-sacrificed the Langya Grotto-Heaven and sealed a Divine King, realizing the altar was likely her burial ground rather than a source of treasures.
• A sixty-year-old man sent his blood-red banner toward one of the heavenly pillars, stirring the Yin Gods across the wasteland.
• Tianwu Yangyu attacked the man and warned the crowd that the site was where the Linglong Emperor had suppressed an immemorial Divine King.
• The man and others rejected Tianwu Yangyu’s warning, believing he was trying to claim the Emperor’s treasures for himself.
• Shi Lan drew Golden Rainbow and declared that anyone who disturbed the Great Emperor’s rest would be killed without mercy.

Shi Lan revealed herself as a Demon Suppression General while the factions in Langya Grotto-Heaven erupted into a deadly battle. As Shi Lan faced a noble young man who tried to claim her, her Nascent Soul transformed and she unleashed her Divine Phoenix True Fire.

• A young man from the Delusion-Breaking Heavenly Lord's Manor saw through Shi Lan's disguise, and she revealed her appearance and identity as a third-grade Demon Suppression General under Yun Chen.
• After learning that Shi Lan came from Chengtian Domain, several Human Emperor factions tacitly agreed to kill her, but Shi Feng stepped forward to defend her.
• A middle-aged man attacked the surrounding factions with a Dao weapon, triggering a bloody battle in which a scholar-robed man revealed his sword power and Shi Feng returned to fight for the Shengwu Immortal Sect.
• A noble young man in a gold dragon-embroidered robe ordered Shi Lan to follow him, but she refused and warned him and his attendants to leave.
• Shi Lan ignited her natal true fire and unleashed ten thousand sword shadows as her Nascent Soul transformed within her sea of consciousness.