Chapter Summaries

Lingyun made Shi Lan a first-generation True Disciple of the Spirit Martial Hall and assigned Taya to accompany her until she attained the Dao. Shi Lan learned she would enter the dangerous Divine Martial Foreign Domain in a little over ten years, while Qing Lan and Ying Qianqiu began discussing how the domain might strengthen him.

• Lingyun gave Shi Lan a True Disciple token, introduced Taya as her companion, and told her that her place in the Divine Martial Foreign Domain had been reserved.
• Shi Lan learned that the Foreign Domain would open in a little over ten years and that she would not be able to access her personal pocket realm there.
• Lingyun departed, and the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven transformed Shi Lan's floating island into a spiritual sanctuary.
• Shi Lan requested cultivation resources from Taya, including Supreme flesh and blood and two ninth-rank immortal herbs, then placed the flesh and blood with the Burial Realm to repair it.
• Shi Lan tasted the Supreme flesh and blood and struggled to withstand its powerful nourishment, while Lingyun privately reflected on Shi Lan's unusual nature.
• At the Heavenfire Immortal Dynasty, Qing Lan questioned Ying Qianqiu about a way to increase his strength in the Divine Martial Foreign Domain.

Ying Qianqiu told Qing Lan that he wanted to enter the Divine Martial Otherworld’s Fate Palace to rewrite his fate, and she decided to seek her own place in the competition. At the Lingwu Grotto-Heaven, Shi Lan continued studying ancient cultivation methods until an unfamiliar young man approached her.

• Ying Qianqiu recalled the Linglong Emperor’s warning and told Qing Lan he sought the Fate Palace’s chance to attain the Dao.
• Qing Lan agreed to enter the Divine Martial Otherworld, planning to earn a place through the Myriad Dynasties Prodigy Competition rather than rely on Ying Qianqiu.
• Qing Lan left the hall to arrange matters with her court officials, as the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty needed to pass a neighboring upper dynasty’s selection.
• Shi Lan spent nearly two years studying cultivation methods and records at the Myriad Scriptures Continent and selected Supreme Arts for Tian Bai and Bian Qin.
• An unfamiliar young man approached Shi Lan after she finished reading, and she asked who he was.

Shi Lan met Mo Lingshu at the Lingwu Hall and heard his lecture before asking him for information about the Divine Martial Otherworld. Meanwhile, in the Lingyang Realm, Taishi prepared to send Lingchu into the Imperial Dao Domain as the upheaval of heaven and earth drew near.

• Mo Lingshu introduced himself to Shi Lan and offered to answer her cultivation questions, but a crowd of female disciples gathered around him.
• Mo Lingshu lectured on the Dao for nearly four days and nights, purifying the disciples’ essence, energy, and spirit and improving Shi Lan’s domain.
• Zhao Xueci dispersed the lingering disciples, warned Shi Lan to keep her distance from Mo Lingshu, and then left.
• Shi Lan called Mo Lingshu back and said she wanted to ask him something.
• Liu Yunzheng reported that a Devil Emperor’s mausoleum had emerged from the Boundless Sea, while Taishi warned him to preserve the human race if the coming upheaval could not be stopped.
• Taishi said he would send Lingchu into the Imperial Dao Domain the next day, then regained the youthful appearance and strength of his prime.

Shi Lan learned about the dangers of the Divine Martial Great World's Otherworld and remained determined to enter it soon. In the Lingyang Realm, Taishi sacrificed himself to divert the Heavenly Dao's punishment from Ling Chu, who survived, while Liu Yunzheng recorded the Emperor's death.

• Mo Lingshu explained the Otherworld's trials, its Fate Palace and portals, and warned Shi Lan about its unpredictable inhabitants.
• Shi Lan rejected Mo Lingshu's suggestion to wait three hundred years and resolved to enter the Otherworld soon to gain strength and protect her family and friends.
• Taishi arranged for Ling Chu to undergo his tribulation in the Illusory Star Domain, but the awakened Heavenly Dao struck Ling Chu down despite the heretical cultivators meant to distract it.
• Taishi drew the Heavenly Dao's punishment onto himself and used his Dao Fruit to shield Ling Chu, dying as blood rain announced the Emperor's fall.
• Ling Chu emerged alive from the cocoon formed by Taishi's Dao Fruit fragments, and Liu Yunzheng recorded Taishi's death in the Imperial Palace.

After Taishi's death, the Demon Race and Devil Race mobilized for war while Liu Yunzheng rallied the Human Race to defend the frontier. As the fighting began, Chenxin learned that Di Luosha had entered the Heaven Gazing Realm and that the Firmament Ranking declared Taishi Lingchu alive in the Imperial Dao Domain.

• Chenxin summoned the Demon Emperors and ordered preparations to seize Chengtian Domain, while Purple Cloud Devil Venerable sent Di Luosha to lead the Devil Race's counterattack.
• Liu Yunzheng took charge of the Human Race Annals, reinforced the Demon Suppression Army, and ordered the frontier held until the great changes in heaven and earth arrived.
• Shi Tianlu and Shi Qinghu joined the Demon Suppression Army and marched from the Shi Mansion under Centurion Wang Ning's command.
• The Demon Race launched an all-out assault on the Human Race frontier, where the Human Race Annals' Demon-Slaying Painting spread its killing intent across the battlefield.
• A report told Chenxin that Di Luosha had slain four Demon Emperors and reached the Heaven Gazing Realm, then revealed that the Firmament Ranking listed Taishi Lingchu as alive in the Imperial Dao Domain.

Chenxin recalled most of the Demon Emperors from the outer battlefield as the human race struggled to hold the Chengtian Domain without Taishi. As reinforcements arrived, Ling Chu secretly recovered in the Imperial Palace, drawing on Taishi’s sacrifice and underworld soil to advance his cultivation.

• Chenxin ordered the Demon Race to recall its forces from the battlefield beyond the domain, leaving two Observer Realm Demon Emperors behind and summoning Feng Yichuan.
• Shi Qinghu’s battered Demon-Suppression Army returned from the front after losing a third of its strength, while the beast tide continued to press into the Chengtian Domain.
• Liu Yunzheng used the human race’s historical records to shield a resting area and prepared the imperial clans for a decisive battle deeper in the domain.
• Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian forces arrived to reinforce the human race, bringing many powerful young cultivators from the Prodigy Rankings.
• Ling Chu lay buried in underworld soil as Taishi’s sacrificed world and the soil’s yin force nourished his Yin-Yang Sacred Body.

Qing Lan registered for the Myriad Dynasties' Heavenly Prodigy Grand Competition and agreed to look after Mu Zhaoxi in the Divine Martial Otherworld in exchange for defensive treasures. Meanwhile, Shi Lan entered the Spirit Martial Hall's training secret realm to build reputation before the expedition.

• Qing Lan registered in Reversefeather City, and the bone-age formation revealed she was a ninety-seven-year-old Demon Race cultivator who had formed a domain.
• The Silverfeather Dynasty granted Qing Lan a direct place in the competition, and Mu Yunji asked her to protect his younger sister, Mu Zhaoxi, in the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• Qing Lan agreed to do her best to protect Mu Zhaoxi and requested defensive treasures from the Silverfeather Dynasty.
• Mu Qing ordered Mu Yunji to give Qing Lan the Nine-Dragon Jade Wall, the Spirit-Repelling Ring, and the Thunderfire Immortal Garment after the Reversefeather Heavenly Wheel detected a Supreme near her guest palace.
• Shi Lan entered the Spirit Martial Hall's Martial Training Secret Realm to earn reputation points and strengthen her preparations for the Divine Martial Otherworld.

Shi Lan entered the Martial Arts Trial Secret Realm and challenged the Mortal Rank stele, defeating Lingyun despite nearly dying in the duel. After claiming fifth place, she chose to challenge the legendary Rong Xuanqing, whose phantom appeared as the chapter ended.

• Shi Lan entered the secret realm and learned that Rong Xuanqing held the top spot on seven crystal steles, while Lingyun ranked fifth on the Mortal Rank stele.
• Shi Lan challenged Lingyun at the perfected ninth level of the Body Tempering Realm, and the two exchanged lethal spear and barehanded techniques.
• Shi Lan crushed Lingyun's heart with a shoulder strike, but Lingyun's final spear attack badly wounded her neck and nearly killed her.
• Shi Lan's name rose to fifth place as Lingyun fell to sixth, and the stele healed her injuries.
• Shi Lan selected Rong Xuanqing's name, and his phantom appeared on the arena.

Shi Lan defeated Lingyun’s phantom and challenged Rong Xuanqing for the top position on the crystal stele, but initially placed second after they killed each other. After more than half a month of simulations, she defeated Rong Xuanqing and claimed the stele’s top spot.

• Shi Lan defeated Lingyun’s youthful phantom and rose to fifth place on the crystal stele.
• Shi Lan fought Rong Xuanqing, but both were killed, leaving her ranked second beneath him.
• Shi Lan used the system’s virtual space to simulate fighting Rong Xuanqing and refined her approach over more than half a month.
• Shi Lan challenged Rong Xuanqing again and crushed his neck bones with a kick, taking the top spot on the crystal stele.
• The crystal stele blazed with divine light, and its bells and divine sounds echoed throughout the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven.

Shi Lan defeated Rong Xuanqing on the first crystal stele, then spent months training to claim the top spot on the second. As Mo Lingshu vowed to keep her out of the Divine Martial Otherworld, Lingyun and a hidden voice discussed her fate and the conflict with the Heavenly Dao.

• Shi Lan’s name rose to the top of the first crystal stele after she defeated Rong Xuanqing, astonishing the gathered disciples.
• Shi Lan challenged the second crystal stele, lost to Rong Xuanqing in three breaths, and returned to the virtual space to train.
• After nearly three months, Shi Lan challenged the second stele again and killed Rong Xuanqing, taking the top spot.
• Mo Lingshu resolved to prevent Shi Lan from entering the Divine Martial Otherworld so she would not suffer Rong Xuanqing’s fate.
• Lingyun reflected on Rong Xuanqing’s death as a hidden voice blamed the Heavenly Dao for monopolizing the Heavenly Seat, and Lingyun condemned the people of Lingyang for refusing to fight back.

Ling Yun and another figure discussed the futility of resisting what had already been decided, while Shi Lan continued challenging Rong Xuanqing in the Martial Practice Secret Realm. After breaking through to the Starfall realm, she defeated him at the third stele but was repeatedly killed at the fourth, where she spent over a year learning his life-burning combat art.

• Ling Yun heard that even powerful resistance had failed to alter the fate of the cosmos, and the voice in the hall fell silent.
• Shi Lan continued studying the crystal stele rankings, purified her Imperial Dao Domain, and refused Mo Lingshu's request to abandon the Divine Martial Otherworld trial.
• Shi Lan broke through to the Starfall realm and defeated Rong Xuanqing at the third crystal stele after a fierce battle.
• Shi Lan challenged the fourth crystal stele, where Rong Xuanqing overwhelmed and killed her with a jade mace.
• Shi Lan spent a year and three months mastering Rong Xuanqing's blood-energy technique and incorporated it into her Martial Canon.

Mo Lingshu sought Lingyun’s help to keep Shi Lan from entering the Divine Martial Otherworld, but Lingyun told him not to interfere with her fate. After Shi Lan passed the fifth crystal stele and spent one billion reputation on the ultimate gacha, a mysterious force seized the Silver Feather Dynasty’s Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel.

• Mo Lingshu asked Lingyun to stop Shi Lan from risking the Divine Martial Otherworld, but Lingyun warned him that everyone had to face their own tribulations.
• Shi Lan passed the fifth crystal stele after nearly three years and reached the mid-stage of the Starfall Realm.
• Shi Lan saw that her reputation had exceeded one billion and used the ultimate gacha, sending a beam of light through the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven’s barrier.
• Qing Lan and the Silver Feather Dynasty’s selected prodigies prepared to depart for the Myriad Dynasties' Heavenly Prodigy Tournament aboard a warship carrying the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel.
• A beam of divine light formed a giant hand and dragged the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel into the void.

After the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel vanished, Mu Yunji learned that the Silver Feather Dynasty had lost its Supreme Artifact and was preparing for a possible collapse. Shi Lan discovered that she had obtained the artifact, and promised its true spirit she would consider returning it if it aided her in the Divine Martial Otherworld.

• Mu Yunji sent the young prodigies away with Qing Lan, then rushed to the palace to learn what had happened to the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel.
• Mu Zhenxing confirmed that a peerless giant had stolen the artifact and ordered the Mu family to conceal the loss, withdraw some relatives, and prepare for the dynasty's decline.
• Mu Zhenxing instructed Mu Yunji to participate in the Prodigy Tournament as usual, while hoping Mu Zhaoxi could become a True Disciple of one of the Two Halls or Three Sects.
• Shi Lan received the nine-star Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel and heard its true spirit plead for the Silver Feather Dynasty, which could face calamity within thirty years without it.
• Shi Lan promised to consider returning the artifact after she came back from the Divine Martial Otherworld if its true spirit helped protect her there.

Shi Lan mastered the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel, recorded the martial phantoms of peak experts and Supremes, and entered secluded cultivation to prepare for the Divine Martial Otherworld. Meanwhile, the war in the Lingyang Realm intensified as the Human Race faced pressure to choose a new Emperor.

• Shi Lan mastered the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel and returned to the Secret Realm of Martial Performance.
• Shi Lan recorded the phantoms from the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth crystal steles, including one hundred top Martial Dao Supremes.
• Shi Lan entered the Qiong Luo Realm and cultivated with Supreme Divine Medicines to advance toward the Luotian Realm before the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament.
• The Demon Race pressed its advantage in the Lingyang Realm, while Chen Xin used the Myriad Demon Ruler to drive back the Devil Race and counter the Devil Venerable.
• Liu Yunzheng showed signs of decline against Chen Xin, and Shenzhou Vast Land's calls for a new Emperor grew louder after Taishi's death.

After Taishi's death, Shenzhou faced turmoil as Prince Ling gained support to claim the throne, while the rising Boundless Sea and the war in Chengtian Domain threatened the Lingyang Realm. Liu Yunzheng refused to crown Li Jingzhou, Wu Lingkong's battered forces received reinforcements, and Ling Qing remained troubled by Ling Yu'an's unexplained growth in power as she slept.

• A middle-aged man told Liu Yunzheng that more than a dozen powers had petitioned for Li Jingzhou to become emperor and warned that the Boundless Sea might submerge the Lingyang Realm within fifty years; Liu Yunzheng rejected Li Jingzhou as a candidate.
• Wu Lingkong killed a Primordial Spirit great demon and assessed the severe losses suffered by her Women's Camp after a grim battlefield victory.
• Fairy Lanmeng arrived with more than a dozen warships and ordered her forces to relieve Wu Lingkong's troops.
• Ling Qing visited the sleeping Ling Yu'an and found that her aura had strengthened again, reaching the eighth level of the Heavenly Human Realm without any sign of a tribulation or small world.

Ling Qing discovered that Ling Yuan'an's Primordial Spirit had fallen into an unnatural slumber, while Li Jingzhou weighed his political position and concluded that Shi Lan was no longer a threat. In the Divine Martial Great World, the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament was beginning as a warship arrived at the Azure Flame Imperial Dynasty's venue.

• Ling Qing failed to awaken Ling Yuan'an's Primordial Spirit, then saw it open its eyes with a divided expression after he left the sea of consciousness.
• Li Jingzhou reassured the gathered Human Emperors that he had considered their proposal to approach the Human Race Annals directly, then asked about the Devil Race's movements.
• Li Jingzhou reflected that Shi Lan's rejection by Lingyang's Heavenly Dao had removed his greatest threat, and decided to wait for Liu Yunzheng to weaken.
• The Azure Flame Imperial Dynasty prepared to host the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Tournament, where nearly a thousand victors would qualify to enter the Divine Martial Other Domain.
• A warship bearing a royal banner embroidered with silver heavenly feathers sailed through a realm gate and stopped above a tournament plain.

Qing Lan entered the Ten Thousand Dynasties' Young Elites Tournament and quickly dominated her first battlefield, while Shi Lan continued cultivating in the Qiong Luo Realm and grew more powerful but remained wary of the gap between herself and Dao-Slaying Supremes.

• The Silver Feather Dynasty's delegation arrived at the tournament grounds, where a great Confucian directed them to wait among the gathered dynasties.
• Yang Xingge, son of the Azure Flame Emperor, activated the tournament arrays and oversaw the verification of the young elites' ages and cultivation levels.
• Qing Lan received her first match details, and her opponent surrendered before she acted.
• Qing Lan won more than twenty matches in a row and took first place on her battlefield, though further rounds remained before she could qualify for the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• Shi Lan broke through into the Luotian Realm in the Qiong Luo Realm, but her expanding Imperial Domain increased her concerns about the power of Dao-Slaying Supremes.

Shi Lan sought Ling Yun’s guidance on purifying her domain before Slaying the Dao and received three possible methods. She left with the Candle Spirit Scripture and twenty domain-devouring insects, still undecided, as Ling Yun warned that the system within her might affect her origin after she attained the Dao.

• After studying the dangers of severing emotions and desires, Shi Lan left the virtual space and went to find Ling Yun.
• Taya waited outside Shi Lan’s pavilion, then accompanied her to meet Ling Yun.
• Ling Yun offered Shi Lan three methods for purifying her domain: abandon two-thirds of the Qiong Luo Realm, burn impurities with the Candle Spirit Scripture, or use insects that devoured domains.
• Shi Lan rejected abandoning the Qiong Luo Realm because it would harm the Dao Paths of those living within it, but took the scripture and twenty strange insects while postponing her choice.
• As Shi Lan prepared to leave, Ling Yun offered to remove the system within her, warning that it could affect her origin after she attained the Dao.

Shi Lan refused Ling Yun’s offer to remove the system from her soul and learned more about the dangers of the Divine Martial Otherworld before returning to her floating island. There, she discussed helping Samsara form a body, then sensed Bian Qin’s breakthrough to the seventh tier in the Qiong Luo Realm.

• Shi Lan refused Ling Yun’s offer to remove the system and was told she would be sent to the Divine Martial Otherworld in three years.
• Mo Lingshu gave Shi Lan a Panlong Jade for protection and explained how Ling Yun had failed to find Rong Xuanqing’s soul in Yellow Springs or uncover the Otherworld’s secrets.
• Shi Lan asked Samsara whether she had decided to let Shi Lan help her form a body, and Samsara said they should discuss it after Shi Lan attained the Dao.
• Shi Lan sensed a disturbance in the Qiong Luo Realm’s laws and entered the realm to investigate.
• Bian Qin completed decades of secluded cultivation and began her seventh-tier tribulation beneath the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s residence.

Shi Lan watched Bian Qin advance to the seventh rank after intensifying her tribulation, then decided to find a safe place for the Qiong Luo Realm’s inhabitants before traveling alone to the Divine Martial Otherworld. Meanwhile, the Myriad Dynasties' Prodigy Grand Tournament reached its final stage, with Mu Zhaoxi still competing for the Silver Feather Dynasty.

• Shi Lan raised the power of Bian Qin’s tribulation, and Bian Qin endured nine lightning strikes before reaching the seventh rank.
• Tian Bai arrived and felt disappointed that Bian Qin had advanced ahead of him.
• Shi Lan decided not to bring anyone from the Qiong Luo Realm to the Divine Martial Otherworld and planned to find them a safe place to settle.
• At the tournament in the Azure Flame Empire, Mu Yunji and the other Silver Feather Dynasty prodigies were eliminated, leaving Qing Lan and Mu Zhaoxi as its remaining contestants.
• Mu Zhaoxi continued battling in the tournament’s final stage after reaching the sixth rank at seventeen.