Chapter Summaries

Shi Lan left the Yunlai Immortal Realm after strengthening her cultivation and prepared to travel to the Demon Domain to create a demonic incarnation. Meanwhile, Venerable Song ordered Yunlai Immortal Palace to seal its mountain gates for thirty years, and the sect recalled its disciples as the news spread across Shenzhou.

• Shi Lan spent more than twenty days cultivating in the Yunlai Immortal Realm, advancing her martial cultivation and reaching the middle stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Shi Lan left the Yunlai Immortal Realm, and Venerable Song summoned Su Tuan and ordered Yunlai Immortal Palace to recall its disciples and seal its gates for thirty years.
• Shi Lan ignored the challenges and invitations waiting at her palace, then told Tian Bai to accompany her to the Demon Domain so she could refine a demonic incarnation.
• Shi Lan left Silverfrost City in her carriage and headed west, intending to use a spatial formation to travel toward the Lan Clan.
• Yunlai Immortal Palace sent out orders for its people to return to Silverfrost City within three months, while news of the mountain-gate closure spread across Shenzhou.

Shi Lan returned to the Demon Domain and found the Lan Clan greatly strengthened under Cang Yue’s leadership. After asking for the bones of a powerful demon to refine an external incarnation, she saw the azure lotus in the ancestral blood pool showing signs of awakening.

• Shi Lan and Tian Bai traveled by teleportation array to the Ximu Mountain Range in the Demon Domain.
• Shi Lan released the Lan Clan’s ancestral mark, and Cang Yue and the Demon Kings welcomed her back.
• Cang Yue reported that the Lan Clan’s population and influence had grown, then presented Shi Lan with a pouch of treasures.
• Shi Lan asked Cang Yue to find the bones of a powerful demon, and Chi Xun mentioned that the Demon Emperor Palace might hold many such remains.
• Shi Lan noticed the azure lotus in the expanded ancestral blood pool swaying with apparent intelligence.

Shi Lan began refining a Green Lotus into an external incarnation, using Demon Emperor blood and spiritual treasures to form its body. She transferred her immortal Dao Primordial Spirit and ninefold Dao Foundation into it, and the completed incarnation opened its eyes.

• Shi Lan ordered Cang Yue and Chi Xun to clear the area around the ancestral grounds while Tian Bai remained to protect her.
• Shi Lan fed her blood essence to the Green Lotus, refined Demon Emperor blood, and shaped the incarnation's body from the lotus and spirit materials.
• Shi Lan placed some Demon Emperor essence blood inside Tian Bai and sealed it for her to use once her cultivation improved.
• Shi Lan moved her immortal Dao Primordial Spirit and Heavenly Azure Spirit Mystery Scripture into the incarnation, then painfully severed and transferred her ninefold Dao Foundation.
• The incarnation's skin and body finished forming, and it opened its eyes with an indifferent expression.

Shi Lan separated her Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit into an incarnation named Qing Lan and left her to lead the Lan Clan in the Demon Domain. Shi Lan returned to the Illusory Star Domain and headed for Yunyan Star, but sect members stopped her carriage and barred her from crossing Heart-Locking Pavilion territory.

• Shi Lan named her incarnation Qing Lan, gave her robes and a Qiankun Bracelet, and examined her cultivation and divine abilities through the system panel.
• Shi Lan left Qing Lan in the Demon Domain to preside over the Lan Clan, then returned with Tian Bai and destroyed the teleportation array.
• Shi Lan considered the growing danger among the three races and decided to travel to Yunyan Star to cultivate in seclusion and work on the system's main quest.
• On the way through the chaotic Illusory Star Domain, sect members identified Tian Bai as a demon and attacked, but Shi Lan's domain shattered their attacks.
• Shi Lan showed the middle-aged man her Demon Suppression Order and explained Tian Bai was her personal attendant, but he still refused to let her pass through Heart-Locking Pavilion territory without an invitation.

Shi Lan struggled through the dangerous Illusion Star Domain and reached Cloudmist Star, where a two-tribulation golden-winged roc ambushed her. Elsewhere, Di Luosha vowed revenge on humans and demons as the Ancient Spiritflame Devils debated their next move.

• Shi Lan killed a powerful ambusher with a Heavenly Extreme Seal, but the clash injured her heavenly horses and slowed her journey.
• Ancient Spiritflame Devils discussed exploiting conflict in the Illusion Star Domain, and Di Luosha said she wanted humans and demons to fear her name.
• Shi Lan finally reached the space outside Cloudmist Star and contacted Li Canglan through the jade statue of the Heavenly Evolution Sect.
• A concealed golden-winged roc attacked Shi Lan as she approached Cloudmist Star, and Samsara warned her that it was a two-tribulation Heavenly Demon.
• Shi Lan blocked the roc’s first strike with her blood-red battle halberd, and the roc launched another attack.

Shi Lan fought and killed the Golden-Winged Peng, and its Primordial Spirit awakened Golden Rainbow. Tian Bai arrived after the battle and reunited with Shi Lan and Golden Rainbow.

• Shi Lan refused the Golden-Winged Peng’s offer to become its battle slave and fought it with the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• Shi Lan wounded the Golden-Winged Peng with the Three Heaven-Burning Halberd Strikes, while the Crimson Crow War Halberd absorbed its blood and stirred to life.
• The Golden-Winged Peng transformed into human form and attacked Shi Lan with a golden bone whip, but she snapped it and pierced its chest.
• The Golden-Winged Peng healed itself with power from a minor world, but Shi Lan trapped it in her black domain and used her golden sword to kill it and devour its Primordial Spirit.
• Golden Rainbow’s spirit reawakened after absorbing the Golden-Winged Peng’s Primordial Spirit, and Tian Bai arrived after the fight and greeted it.

Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect after killing a Heavenly Demon and recovered from her injuries while reviewing the sect’s progress. Li Canglan proposed expanding recruitment beyond Yunyan Star, and the chapter ended with him asking whether another way to travel between worlds existed.

• Shi Lan returned to the Tianyan Sect with the Golden-Winged Peng’s corpse, which Li Canglan arranged to be handled for the sect.
• Li Canglan showed Shi Lan her newly built palace, where she rested and replenished her blood essence.
• Li Canglan reported that the sect had become self-sufficient and presented Shi Lan with its latest treasury inventory.
• Li Canglan proposed strengthening the sect’s cohesion and gradually drawing disciple families into its outer forces.
• Shi Lan questioned the risks of family factions, and Li Canglan asked whether the sect could travel to other stars or worlds to recruit disciples and spread the Dao.

Shi Lan answered a desperate call from the Yuanji Realm, saved Liang Yunnan, Xiao Jingchen, and Xue Qiong, and killed Bai Ji’s murderer. She then learned that the world forced teams into deadly battles arranged by the Rubik's Cube Space, with four teams remaining.

• Shi Lan used the Empress System to locate the Yuanji Realm and opened a space-time passage after sensing a call for help.
• As the white-robed man cornered Liang Yunnan, Xiao Jingchen, and Xue Qiong at Spiritway Gorge, Shi Lan arrived through the passage.
• Xiao Jingchen told Shi Lan that the white-robed man had killed Bai Ji, so Shi Lan crushed him with a surge of energy.
• Shi Lan took the three survivors to a city and asked Liang Yunnan about the world’s compulsory team dungeons.
• Liang Yunnan explained that ten teams fought to the death for points and rewards, and said four teams remained, with no fighter stronger than the fourth tier.

Shi Lan decided to establish a Heaven's Derivation Sect branch in the Yuanji Realm, and Li Canglan volunteered to lead it. As rival teams and powerful natives converged on Shi Lan's group, a space-time passage was expected to bring Li Canglan's people, but the chapter ended with an old man demanding their surrender.

• Shi Lan learned that the competition rewarded points for survival and that contestants could use natives to eliminate rival teams.
• Shi Lan contacted Li Canglan through the sect's incense statue, and he volunteered to establish a branch in the Yuanji Realm.
• The Moonshadow Dynasty's emperor promised a woman that two Attendants would avenge her, while a burly man emerged from the air and spoke with her.
• Shi Lan led Liang Yunnan, Xue Qiong, and another companion to a desolate region as the Rubik's Cube marked their location and seven people approached.
• Three contestants arrived first, followed by another contestant and two powerful old men, one of whom ordered Shi Lan's group to surrender.

Shi Lan brought the Tianyan Sect into the Yuanji Realm and killed two Moonshadow Dynasty Attendants after they challenged the sect. She confronted Emperor Wu Tan at the imperial palace and seized the dynasty’s golden dragon of fortune, leaving him stunned.

• Li Canglan arrived with more than three hundred Tianyan Sect disciples aboard a colossal warship and had them pledge themselves to Shi Lan.
• After a Moonshadow Dynasty Attendant threatened the sect, Shi Lan ordered the disciples to kill, and Li Canglan emerged from the Four Symbols Sword Formation carrying both Attendants’ heads.
• Shi Lan decided to head for the Moonshadow Dynasty’s imperial capital, where Emperor Wu Tan was already discussing the deaths of his Attendants.
• Shi Lan demanded that the dynasty leave the Tianyan Sect alone, but Wu Tan refused and declared that Heaven’s mandate belonged to him.
• Shi Lan opened her Heavenly Eye, seized the golden dragon of fortune above the palace, and asked Wu Tan whether that was his Heaven’s mandate.

Shi Lan forced Wutan to accept Tianyan’s founding, chose a site for the Tianyan Sect, and returned to the Phantom Star Domain. There, the hunt for Di Luosha spread as Zhu Xiyang fled two Heavenly Demons alongside a confused man.

• Shi Lan seized the Moonshadow Dynasty’s golden dragon of fortune, and Wutan agreed to recognize Tianyan as the state religion and let it be founded.
• Wutan consulted the imperial clan’s elders, who said they could not defeat Shi Lan and urged him to maintain good relations with her.
• Shi Lan selected a high peak in the southwest Yuanji Realm for Tianyan Sect, prepared its summit, and left Li Canglan to protect Liang Yunnan and the others.
• Shi Lan returned to the Phantom Star Domain as Di Luosha’s killings and her Heavenly Devil Mirror replica prompted the Human Emperors to join the hunt.
• Zhu Xiyang fled two pursuing Heavenly Demons with a man who questioned why the Demon Race was hunting her.

Bai Weiyang pulled Zhu Xiyang away from two Heavenly Demons pursuing her and led them into a Demon-Suppression Army formation, where they became trapped in a barren world. Meanwhile, Shi Lan returned to Cloudmist Star and began cultivating, determined to grow strong enough to face an Emperor without fear.

• Two Heavenly Demons chased Zhu Xiyang and Bai Weiyang, accusing Zhu Xiyang of betraying the demons and demanding she return to the Heavenly Severance Hall.
• Bai Weiyang urged Zhu Xiyang to keep fleeing, then grabbed her and led her toward a life-bearing star despite her insistence that she would stay behind to fight.
• Bai Weiyang and Zhu Xiyang entered a formation marked by the Demon-Suppression Army flag, causing their pursuers to retreat and report their supposed collusion with the human race.
• Bai Weiyang told Zhu Xiyang the formation had been set up by Senior General Yun Chen, but three months later they were still lost in its barren desert.
• Shi Lan returned to Cloudmist Star, entered seclusion to nourish her Primordial Spirit and cultivate the second layer of the True Martial Indestructible Body, and resolved to become strong enough to stand before an Emperor.

Shi Lan ended her seclusion after half a year of rapid cultivation and rescued Bai Weiyang and Zhu Xiyang from the Cloudmist Star Formation. She learned that the Tianyan Sect had grown substantially, but a disciple had died attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving the sect to consider how to face tribulations.

• Shi Lan exhausted hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit crystals as her Primordial Spirit grew, advanced her True Martial Indestructible Body to its second stage, and Tian Bai neared the late stage of the Myriad Forms Realm.
• Shi Lan sensed that someone had entered the Cloudmist Star Formation and found Bai Weiyang and Zhu Xiyang trapped in its scorching desert after their spirit crystals ran out.
• Shi Lan pulled Bai Weiyang and Zhu Xiyang out of the formation and sent them to rest on a nearby spirit mountain.
• Li Canglan reported that the Tianyan Sect had recruited more than ten thousand inner disciples, with nearly a hundred reaching the Golden Core Realm.
• Li Canglan told Shi Lan that a disciple had died under a lightning tribulation while attempting to reach the Nascent Soul Realm, and suggested bringing disciples to the Qinghong Realm to break through.
• Shi Lan rejected avoiding the tribulation, warning that it could accumulate and become more dangerous at the next breakthrough.

Shi Lan discussed the risks of Nascent Soul tribulations with Li Canglan and dismissed concerns about the royal lineages questioning her strength. She then reunited with Bai Weiyang, whose complicated bond with Zhu Xiyang remained unresolved as she offered him a way home.

• Shi Lan told Li Canglan that cultivators had to face tribulations themselves, and he accepted that he had been too focused on protecting the sect’s disciples.
• Li Canglan warned Shi Lan that rumors about her tribulation had made the royal lineages suspicious, but she said they would have no chance to act later.
• Bai Weiyang awoke at the Heavenly Evolution Sect and was shocked to learn that Shi Lan had reached the Primordial Spirit Realm and become a third-rank superior Demon-Suppressing General.
• Shi Lan offered to send Bai Weiyang back to the Central Heaven Domain, but he chose to rest before leaving.
• Bai Weiyang told Zhu Xiyang their soul-binding contract had been severed, and she realized she had nowhere safe to return.
• Bai Weiyang reflected that his feelings for Zhu Xiyang remained difficult to cut away despite their opposing roles.

Zhu Xiyang secured a place to recover in the Tianyan Sect while Bai Weiyang departed alone for the Central Heaven Domain. Elsewhere, Taishi trained Ling Chu, promising to take him to the outer realms once he reached the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

• Bai Weiyang decided to return to the Shenzhou Vast Land, while Zhu Xiyang said she had her own plans and left him behind.
• Zhu Xiyang asked Shi Lan to let her stay in the Tianyan Sect and offered the benefits of her Purpleheart Treasure Bamboo spirit liquid.
• Shi Lan assigned Zhu Xiyang a spirit peak where she could recover without disturbance.
• Bai Weiyang bid farewell to Shi Lan and used a teleportation array to leave for the Central Heaven Domain alone.
• Taishi trained Ling Chu, who had advanced into the Heavenly Dipper Realm after returning from the underworld.
• Taishi told Ling Chu he would take him to the outer realms when he reached the Myriad Manifestations Realm.

Shi Lan decided to enter a higher-level world to find rune stones that could strengthen her Primordial Spirit, despite the risk and cost of opening a passage. She arrived there in her true body and felt the world’s laws repelling her.

• Shi Lan considered reorganizing Cloudmist Star’s families but concluded that she needed to improve her cultivation and find more resources first.
• Samsara told Shi Lan about a world that focused on spiritual runes and contained rune stones useful for strengthening her divine soul.
• Shi Lan used the Empress System to open a passage to the world, spending nine-star energy to do so.
• In the Fierce Nether King Realm, Shi Lan guided Bian Qin and the displaced Green Ghost Rakshasa Clan to a valley with a hidden dragon vein.
• Shi Lan emerged in a forest on the new world’s continent and sensed that its laws made her uncomfortable.
• Samsara explained that higher-level worlds repelled outsiders more strongly, so visitors usually inhabited bodies there instead of entering with their true bodies.

Shi Lan entered the Qiong Luo Realm, learned about its rune-focused society, and sought a way into the city’s Rune Tower. After trading refined cold iron for rune coins, she acquired two rune stones and prepared to test one.

• Samsara told Shi Lan that the Qiong Luo Realm’s power had weakened and recalled how its former host had died after angering a Supreme.
• Shi Lan entered a city, gathered information, and headed for its Rune Tower, where guards barred her because she was not a rune war master.
• Shi Lan visited a rune stone shop, but the shopkeeper refused her refined cold iron and directed her to a blacksmith.
• The blacksmith traded Shi Lan ten rune coins for the refined iron, and she used them to buy two rune stones.
• Shi Lan went to a quiet corner and cautiously tried absorbing one rune stone into her body.

Shi Lan studied the rune path in the Rune Tower and accidentally shattered its Black Stone while testing her mental strength. Lord Moren singled her out and escorted her to the forbidden third floor.

• Shi Lan absorbed a Rune Stone's lightning rune and concealed rune-light across her skin before returning to the Rune Tower with a new face.
• Shi Lan absorbed the books on the first floor and learned that the Qiong Luo Realm's last Supreme had died in a battle nearly forty thousand years earlier.
• Shi Lan moved to the second floor, where a silver-haired girl celebrated raising her mental energy reading above twenty.
• Shi Lan released a fraction of her Primordial Spirit power into the Black Stone, causing it to crack apart and burst into pieces.
• Lord Moren questioned those present, then escorted Shi Lan to the third floor after suspecting her involvement.

Shi Lan traded several treasures and a formation text for nearly a thousand rune stones from Moren, then agreed to inspect a ferocious beast’s lair before deciding whether to destroy it. Meanwhile, Qing Lan continued expanding the Lan Clan and received a summons from the Feather Emperor Palace.

• Moren recognized Shi Lan as someone who had crossed realms in her true body and asked her not to harm his people.
• Shi Lan traded Moren two magical treasures and a low-level formation text for nearly a thousand rune stones.
• Moren asked Shi Lan to wipe out a ferocious beast’s lair, and she agreed to inspect it before deciding.
• Qing Lan learned that the Purple Lightning Leopard clan had agreed to submit to the Lan Clan.
• Cang Yue told Qing Lan that the Feather Emperor Palace had summoned her.

Qing Lan learned that Feng Yichuan was offering her a place in the expedition to Demon Emperor Huang Ze’s mausoleum, where the Divine Phoenix Clan hoped to recover its lost scripture. As Shi Lan traveled through the Qiong Luo Realm, she considered the coming contest and the need to strengthen herself.

• Qing Lan met Feng Yichuan at the Feather Emperor’s Palace, where he offered her an opportunity.
• Feng Yichuan explained that his yang Divine Phoenix Heavenly Secret Jade was needed to open Huang Ze’s mausoleum, while the matching yin jade had been lost.
• Feng Yichuan said the mausoleum held rare immortal roots and the complete Immortal Phoenix Scripture, and warned Qing Lan that she would face other demons inside.
• Feng Yichuan promised to send twelve Heavenly Demons to protect Qing Lan during the expedition.
• Shi Lan traveled through the Qiong Luo Realm with Mo Lun and several runesmiths, reflecting on the mausoleum and the need to improve her Primordial Spirit and golden body.