Chapter Summaries

Wuxu explained the value of the Qiong Luo Realm’s source force and offered to help Shi Lan refine the realm to enter the Heavenly Human Realm. Meanwhile, the Samsara Hall’s four Supremes contacted their Sacred Lord, leaving their purpose to be revealed.

• Chijun Yu returned after taking the White Tiger somewhere safe and saw that Shi Lan was unharmed.
• Shi Lan asked Wuxu to send her out of the starfield, but he refused and offered her another opportunity.
• Wuxu explained that sacrificing the Qiong Luo Realm could earn Lingyang's protection or increase humankind's fortune, which could weaken future heavenly tribulations.
• Wuxu offered to help Shi Lan use Guiyun’s World Fusion art to refine the Qiong Luo Realm and bear her Dao.
• The four Samsara Hall Supremes greeted their Sacred Lord through a water mirror, and the Sacred Lord asked Yun Kai why he had come.

After Wuxu killed the Giant Spirit King, Sage Yun sought help while the gathered Supremes hesitated to confront the sword spirit. Wuxu guarded Shi Lan as she cultivated, and the Dao Alliance began plotting to capture and refine him while Qiong Luo Realm’s survivors remained trapped in a devastated world.

• Sage Yun asked a powerful ally for help, and the ally promised to arrive in Qiong Luo in three hours if they were still alive.
• The thirteen Supremes in the starry sky recognized that the Giant Spirit King had died and waited rather than risk fighting Wuxu.
• Wuxu told Shi Lan to cultivate using the energy left by the dead Supreme, then confronted the Supremes with his sword intent.
• Chijun Yu watched Wuxu and Shi Lan before flying westward.
• The Dao Venerable ordered the Dao Alliance to summon its Armament Warden and prepare to capture Wuxu and refine his body.
• At the Divine Hall of Runes, the surviving rune masters and Hundred Clans people faced a devastated Qiong Luo Realm as the Samsara Hall army halted its advance.

The Flowing Cloud Saint Lord arrived to help the Samsara Hall but declined to fight Wuxu, who was protecting Shi Lan as she cultivated. The Saint Lord instead battled the Heavenly Dao Alliance while Shi Lan continued absorbing the Giant Spirit King’s blood energy.

• The Flowing Cloud Saint Lord emerged from the realm gate and met the four Supremes of the Samsara Hall as the Heavenly Dao Alliance prepared to attack.
• After Wuxu warned him to leave or die, the Flowing Cloud Saint Lord recognized that Wuxu was protecting Shi Lan and withdrew from confronting him.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance attacked the Flowing Cloud Saint Lord and the Samsara Hall, and the middle-aged Daoist used six Daoist banners to shift the battle away from the Qiong Luo Realm.
• The Yang Venerable fled to the edge of Wuxu’s sword domain while Wuxu remained focused on Shi Lan.
• The Flowing Cloud Saint Lord stopped the Supremes’ attacks with a yin-yang totem and gravely wounded one with a finger strike.
• Shi Lan continued cultivating with the Jade Clarity Creation Art, absorbing the Giant Spirit King’s blood energy as her Primordial Spirit approached nine hundred zhang.

Flowing Cloud Saint Lord’s forces retreated when the Wielder of the Divine Armament arrived, and the Heavenly Dao Alliance regrouped to pursue the Supreme artifact in Qiong Luo. As the Wielder confronted Wu Xu and drew his divine mace, Flowing Cloud Saint Lord offered an alliance, but Wu Xu returned to Shi Lan without answering.

• Flowing Cloud Saint Lord killed another Heavenly Dao Alliance Supreme, then withdrew when the Wielder of the Divine Armament descended with two women in green dresses.
• The Wielder of the Divine Armament learned that his target was within Qiong Luo and had the injured Heavenly Dao Alliance Supremes restore their vitality from the women’s essence.
• Wu Xu continued using the Giant Spirit King’s corpse to supply blood mist for Shi Lan’s cultivation while Yang Venerable remained hidden.
• The Wielder of the Divine Armament arrived outside Qiong Luo, assessed Wu Xu, and drew a pale golden mace.
• Flowing Cloud Saint Lord proposed that she and Wu Xu join forces, but Wu Xu descended into Qiong Luo and stood before Shi Lan without replying.

Wuxu used Guiyun’s Dao Fruit to bring the Sword Emperor’s body to life so Shi Lan could continue cultivating while he confronted a threat. The Sword Emperor emerged into the starry battlefield and killed the blood-robed Weapon-Wielding Envoy, while the fates of Emperor Yuan and Sage Yun remained unresolved.

• Wuxu placed Guiyun’s Dao Fruit into the Sword Emperor’s body, then entered the gray longsword and sent the reanimated figure out to fight.
• The blood-robed Weapon-Wielding Envoy killed a Supreme Being from the Samsara Hall with his jade mace.
• Sage Lord Flowing Cloud abandoned Yun Kai, Emperor Yuan, and Sage Yun by escaping through a mysterious passage.
• The Sword Emperor stepped out of the Qiong Luo Realm and rebuked the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s claim to carry out Heaven’s mandate.
• The Sword Emperor’s slash shattered the jade mace and tore the blood-robed Weapon-Wielding Envoy apart.

The Sword Emperor slaughtered the Sovereigns trapped in his Sword Domain, then compressed the Qiong Luo Realm to stop its vital energy from escaping. Shi Lan absorbed the surge of energy and prepared to temper her body with Sovereign blood as her Primordial Spirit rapidly approached its limit.

• The Sword Emperor sealed the Sovereigns inside his Sword Domain and killed them all, while the Sun Venerable hid by merging his aura with a dead star.
• The Sovereigns' deaths threw the Qiong Luo Realm's armies into panic, and reincarnators killed some soldiers who tried to surrender.
• The Sword Emperor spared the Sun Venerable, withdrew his Sword Domain, and sent the Sovereigns' remains and blood into the Qiong Luo Realm.
• The Sword Emperor compressed the Qiong Luo Realm, stopping its vital energy from escaping and increasing its density.
• Shi Lan's cultivation and Primordial Spirit surged as the world's vital energy gathered around her, and she began preparing a Sovereign-blood pool to strengthen her body.

Shi Lan used the Supreme Blood to perfect her Primordial Spirit Realm cultivation, then helped the Sword Emperor merge the Qiong Luo Realm with her Primordial Spirit. The Sword Emperor’s power faded after the feat, and he wished her luck before she bowed to him.

• Shi Lan endured the Supreme Blood’s assault to temper her body, and after several days her Primordial Spirit Golden Body reached nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang, bringing her cultivation to perfection.
• The Sword Emperor asked Shi Lan to open a space, then expanded it with his power and spread it around the Qiong Luo Realm.
• As the space enveloped the realm, Shi Lan glimpsed the Sword Emperor’s memories of seeking a way to resurrect the woman he had loved and of his journeys through the Underworld.
• Shi Lan felt her Primordial Spirit merge with the Qiong Luo Realm, and her cultivation rose as the laws of heaven and earth became clear to her.
• The Sword Emperor aged as his remaining power ran dry, wished Shi Lan luck, and left her to bow in gratitude while Wuxu watched.

Shi Lan returned to Lingyang carrying the relocated Qiong Luo Realm, but the realm’s presence triggered a heavenly tribulation that she suppressed by injuring herself. After reuniting with Tian Bai, she settled back into the Tianyan Sect and began preparing to undergo tribulation elsewhere.

• Shi Lan helped Wuxu wipe out the remaining Samsara Hall army in the Qiong Luo Realm, then accepted the Sword Emperor's dimmed Dao Fruit and prepared to leave with the realm's surviving life-forms.
• Wuxu warned Shi Lan that Lingyang's Heavenly Dao would punish the Qiong Luo Realm's life-forms, then opened a passage and left to handle unfinished matters.
• Yang Zun saw the failed war mission results, and days later a giant hand replayed the destruction of Qiong Luo Realm across the starry sky.
• Shi Lan's return to Lingyang triggered a vast heavenly tribulation, so she shattered her heart meridians to suppress her cultivation and protect the Cloudsmoke Star.
• Tian Bai rushed to Shi Lan, who reassured him before bathing, changing, and messaging Li Canglan about her plans to find a place for tribulation.
• Shi Lan played a zither score in her sleeping palace, admitted she lacked talent for the zither Dao, and Tian Bai praised her playing despite not understanding it.

Shi Lan investigated reports that children born to Tianyan Sect disciples in the Yuanji Realm were developing innate Dao Foundations linked to their parents’ cultivation arts. After deciding the foundations could not safely be removed, she ordered the Lineages across Yunyan Star to submit to the Tianyan Sect.

• Li Canglan reported that twenty-three disciples had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm after surviving tribulations, while some Lineages had grown suspicious of Shi Lan’s strength.
• Li Canglan told Shi Lan that some children born in the Yuanji Realm had innate Dao Foundations whose attributes reflected their parents’ cultivation arts.
• Shi Lan examined Lin Lang’s son, Lin Mo, and found that he possessed tiny gold and earth Dao Foundations connected to his life force.
• Shi Lan regulated Lin Mo’s meridians, told Li Canglan to treat the Dao Foundations as spiritual roots, and decided they could not be forcibly removed.
• Shi Lan ordered every Lineage to establish a Tianyan Sect branch within three days and commanded all people across Yunyan Star to bow to the sect.

Shi Lan ordered the Tianyan Sect to establish branch stations across Cloudmist Star, prompting the powerful clans to gather and discuss resisting her. After learning they planned to test her strength, Shi Lan left the response to Li Canglan and entered the Qiong Luo Realm.

• Li Canglan spread Shi Lan's decree, and common folk welcomed plans for Tianyan Sect branch stations while powerful clans worried about losing territory and resources.
• Qin Guang assembled the Four Great Royal Clans and fifteen powerful aristocratic clans to discuss whether they should resist the decree.
• The gathering ended without agreement, and the Hou Clan and Li Clan stated their cautious positions to Qin Guang.
• Li Canglan received a confidential letter about the clans' plans, and Shi Lan promoted Hao Yangsa to True Disciple after asking about him.
• Shi Lan told Li Canglan to handle any invitations and said she would sweep away everyone who refused to submit in three days.
• Shi Lan entered the Qiong Luo Realm to pursue its treasures and the remains of the Samsara Hall's army.

After the Qiong Luo Realm was transformed by the collapse of its Heavenly Dao, Shi Lan collected the Supremes’ remains and surveyed her spoils. She claimed the reward for her mission to kill Samsara Hall members, and the system began calculating it.

• The Qiong Luo Realm’s laws changed, its land was reshaped, and its surviving inhabitants sheltered on a desolate plain.
• Shi Lan absorbed some Supreme remains, gaining less than four units of nine-star energy and collecting several bloodlines and rare materials.
• Shi Lan stored six Supremes’ remains and left the rest of the battlefield’s spoils for Li Canglan to sort later.
• Shi Lan reviewed her completed quest for killing Samsara Hall members and decided to claim its reward.
• The system began calculating Shi Lan’s quest reward.

After completing her mission, Shi Lan received the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation diagram and restored the Qiong Luo Realm for its surviving inhabitants. Returning to Lingyang, she drew Heavenly Punishment because of the Supremes’ remains in her storage bracelet, then learned the four royal clans had gathered at Mount Jinding to confront her.

• Shi Lan received two advanced lottery draws and the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation diagram, which included instructions for refining formation flags.
• Shi Lan promised the surviving Hundred Clans of the Qiong Luo Realm a place to recover, then reshaped the world’s terrain and set aside a continent for them.
• Shi Lan hid tens of thousands of treasures from the Samsara Hall’s army throughout the Qiong Luo Realm, and the rune masters and white tiger bowed to her as Heaven.
• When Shi Lan returned to Lingyang, Heavenly Punishment targeted the Supremes’ bloodlines and remains in her storage bracelet, so she threw it into the Qiong Luo Realm until the tribulation subsided.
• Li Canglan told Shi Lan that the four great royal clans had gathered more than twenty powerful experts at Mount Jinding and invited her to discuss establishing their branch headquarters.
• Shi Lan dismissed the royal clans’ display as a sign that they were bringing about their own destruction, while the Qin family’s Ancestor watched the darkened sky from Mount Jinding.

Shi Lan arrived at Golden Summit Mountain for a gathering with Yunyan Star’s royal clans and revealed a strength that overturned their expectations. After killing a King-realm expert who harbored murderous intent, she declared her intention to make the Heaven-Severing Sect Yunyan’s sole ruler and sweep away every aristocratic clan.

• Families across Yunyan Star gathered at Golden Summit Mountain as rumors about Shi Lan’s power and the royal clans’ challenge spread.
• Shi Lan arrived above the summit, identified Qin Liang, and faced the King-realm experts.
• Qin Liang sensed Shi Lan’s near-perfect unity with the laws of heaven and earth and cautiously raised the matter of building a Heaven-Severing Sect branch.
• A King-realm expert developed killing intent toward Shi Lan, and she killed him with red lotus karmic fire before collecting his origin crystal.
• Shi Lan condemned Yunyan Star’s human clans for prejudice and hoarding, then announced that she would make the Heaven-Severing Sect the sole ruler and sweep away every aristocratic clan.

Shi Lan forced Yunyan Star’s lineages to surrender resources or become subordinate schools of the Tianyan Sect, while the Zhao family chose to withdraw. After the system awarded her an Immortal Mountain Cave Abode and set a new, more difficult quest, she summoned the reward in the Qiong Luo Realm.

• Shi Lan demanded that Yunyan Star’s lineages hand over their territories, mines, and spirit-herb gardens to the Tianyan Sect.
• Shi Lan offered the lineages a chance to retain some resources if they became subordinate schools and opened their mountain gates, while Tianyan Sect inspectors would ensure they taught outsiders.
• Qin Liang and three of the Four Great Royal Clans accepted Shi Lan’s decree, while the Zhao family gave up most of its resources and retreated to a remote corner.
• News of Shi Lan’s actions spread across Yunyan Star, and common people celebrated her for giving them a chance to rise.
• Shi Lan collected the main quest reward, received an Immortal Mountain Cave Abode, and saw that the next quest required the Tianyan Sect to reach the peak of second grade in the Lingyang Realm.
• Shi Lan summoned the Immortal Mountain Cave Abode, and a vast shadow descended from the clouds.

Shi Lan explored the immortal mountain and its grotto-heaven, then helped organize the Tianyan Sect and prepared to leave Yunyan Star for her tribulation. On the way, she encountered the demon prodigy Di Luosha, who escaped the Human Emperors and left Shi Lan measuring her own strength against her rival.

• Shi Lan discovered a hidden grotto-heaven within the immortal mountain, filled with rich spiritual qi, precious herbs, and a jade pool beside a defaced stone stele.
• Li Canglan reorganized the former clan armies and helped establish the Tianyan Sect’s rule over Yunyan Star, while Shi Lan opened a boundary gate to the Qiong Luo Realm and moved disciples there.
• Shi Lan brought artifact-forging masters into the Qiong Luo Realm to gather materials for her Zhou Tian Star Formation, and Zhu Xiyang gave her Violet Spirit Liquid to help her prepare for tribulation.
• Shi Lan left Yunyan Star with Tian Bai to find a secluded place for her tribulation and encountered Di Luosha near the edge of the Illusion Star Domain.
• Several Human Emperors attacked Di Luosha, but she used her mirror to hold them off and escaped into the black mist beyond the star domain’s array patterns.
• Shi Lan recognized Di Luosha as Lingyang’s top-ranked young prodigy and realized she would need to survive her tribulation to have a chance of matching her.

Shi Lan prepared her True Martial Indestructible Body for the Heavenly Human Realm tribulation and faced a devastating storm of heavenly lightning over the sea. After enduring twenty-four bolts without finding the vitality needed to open a world, she realized the tribulation was not behaving as expected.

• Di Luosha left the Illusory Star Domain with several Devil Lords and said she had noticed an interesting human.
• Shi Lan used the origin crystal from the King Realm expert she killed on Yunyan Star to advance her True Martial Indestructible Body to its third stage.
• Shi Lan chose a remote stretch of sea and began her tribulation while Tian Bai watched from beyond the tribulation clouds.
• The heavenly lightning repeatedly destroyed Shi Lan's body and damaged her Primordial Spirit, forcing her to use spiritual resources and immortal plants to recover.
• After enduring twenty-four lightning bolts, Shi Lan saw that the tribulation clouds remained and found no sign of the vitality needed to open a world.

Shi Lan survived the heavenly tribulation with the help of mysterious immortal radiance and entered the Heavenly Human Realm, then recovered on a remote island inhabited by ancient survivors. As she prepared to leave, a gigantic beast appeared outside her hut.

• After more than sixty bolts of tribulation lightning, Shi Lan faced a lethal strike, but rosy immortal radiance shielded her and the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Tian Bai carried the injured Shi Lan away, and a giant hand brought them to a remote island far from the Lingyang Continent.
• Shi Lan recovered from her bodily injuries and learned that she had entered the Heavenly Human Realm, though her Primordial Spirit still needed time to heal.
• At the Phoenix Emperor's Hall, Feng Yichuan set the number of places for the Divine Phoenix Clan and other factions to enter Huang Ze's tomb, while Qing Lan worried about the danger awaiting her true body.
• Shi Lan told Tian Bai they would leave within two days and rejected more spiritual fruit from Rui Tu.
• A mountain-sized beast resembling a Heavenly Wolf appeared outside Shi Lan's hut.

After reaching the Heavenly Human Realm, Shi Lan prepared to return to Lingyang and thanked Ruixuo for rescuing her and Tian Bai. Ruixuo asked Shi Lan to leave behind a bloodline for her daughter Rui Tu, but Shi Lan refused to offer her own offspring and instead proposed giving Rui Tu a drop of blood essence.

• Shi Lan explained that her new strength let her draw on the Qiong Luo Realm and that she could advance without undergoing the Lingyang Realm's Heavenly Tribulations.
• Shi Lan offered Ruixuo an immortal ginseng and said she planned to return to Lingyang within a few days.
• Ruixuo asked Shi Lan to leave behind a bloodline for Rui Tu, who emerged from the forest and nervously greeted Shi Lan.
• Shi Lan offered Rui Tu a peerless drop of blood essence, but Rui Tu said she wanted it only if it came from Shi Lan herself, then fled into the forest.
• Ruixuo stopped pressing Shi Lan and offered to escort her out of the sea when she was ready to leave.
• Shi Lan thought about the approaching opening of the Mausoleum of Huangze and the worlds left behind by fallen Supremes.

Shi Lan studied the ancient records of the Lingyang Realm, then left Ruosuo’s island and headed toward the Central Heaven Domain after Chu Hanzhou urgently summoned her to the opening of the Phoenix Marsh Mausoleum. Meanwhile, Yang Zun heard Dongfang Yunqi’s vision of the heavens collapsing, though a spark of life remained beneath the ruins.

• Yang Zun thanked Dongfang Yunqi for warning him, and Dongfang Yunqi revealed that he had foreseen the heavens and myriad worlds collapsing within a few hundred thousand years or less.
• Shi Lan discovered that the Lingyang Continent had shrunk since the Primordial Era as the Boundless Sea rose and swallowed land.
• Ruosuo carried Shi Lan and Tian Bai away from Bìtiān, and Shi Lan learned about the sea’s powerful races before parting ways with Ruosuo.
• Chu Hanzhou sent Shi Lan urgent messages that the Phoenix Marsh Mausoleum was about to open and ordered her to return to the Central Heaven Domain.
• Shi Lan replied to Chu Hanzhou, suppressed her Primordial Spirit injuries, and hurried southwest toward the fief of King Xuan.

Shi Lan arrived at Xuan King's palace and received a quota to enter the tomb of Demon Emperor Huang Ze, while Qing Lan gathered with Feather Emperor's forces in the Demon Domain. The chapter left the expedition's participants assembled as the search for the tomb's coordinates continued.

• Xue Tian welcomed Shi Lan and Tian Bai in Xuan King's imperial carriage and escorted them to the palace.
• Shi Lan entered the great hall and revealed that she had advanced to the Heavenly Human Realm, startling the assembled powerful figures.
• Chu Hanzhou distributed entry quotas and granted one to Tian Bai after noticing him with Shi Lan.
• A Heavenly Lord from an Imperial Clan objected to Tian Bai receiving a quota, but Chu Hanzhou's rebuke made him apologize.
• At Feather Emperor Hall, the Divine Phoenix Race awaited the phoenix-shaped clasp to find the tomb's coordinates, while Qing Lan stood protected by ten Heavenly Demons.
• An azure-clad woman from another powerful demon race noticed Qing Lan and walked toward her.