Chapter Summaries

Mu Zhaoxi won her final battle and earned a place among the standout prodigies, while Yang Xingge invited her to join the Qingyan Imperial Dynasty. As the prodigies gathered for the final battlefield, Qing Lan faced her opponent, Qin Feng, after the Blood God Hall arrived.

• Mu Zhaoxi defeated her opponent with her crescent blades and secured a spot among the tournament's victors.
• Ying Qianqiu received a telepathic summons, left Qing Lan's warship, and joined a Daoist Venerable to prepare for the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• Yang Xingge invited Mu Zhaoxi to join the Qingyan Imperial Dynasty, but told her she could decide after emerging from the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• The dark silver warship carried the victors to a vast floating island in the continent's center, the prodigies' final battlefield.
• The Blood God Hall arrived, and Qing Lan turned her attention to her opponent, Qin Feng.

Qing Lan defeated Qin Feng and received a generous recruitment offer from the Blood God Hall, while Shi Lan prepared for the Divine Martial Secret Realm and experimented with insects that might help refine her domain. More than two years later, Shi Lan joined the Spirit Martial Hall delegation for the Myriad Dynasties Prodigy Grand Competition and met its Hall Master and fellow disciples.

• Qing Lan stopped Qin Feng's challenge with a single sword strike, and the Semi-Saint declared her the winner.
• A Blood God Hall Supreme offered Qing Lan the next Divine Son position, a dynasty's territory, and a Supreme weapon; Qing Lan accepted the sword and said she would visit after returning from the Divine Martial Secret Realm.
• Shi Lan gave Bai Yu her soul lamp and instructed him to lead the others away if it went out, then departed with Taya for the Spirit Martial Grotto-Heaven.
• Shi Lan tested whether an insect could devour impurities in her Imperial Dao domain, but the insect nearly died, so she planned to consider the Candle Spirit Scripture if the secret realm offered no way to sever her Dao.
• After more than two years of secluded cultivation, Shi Lan reached the late stage of the Luotian Realm and went to meet the Spirit Martial Hall delegation for the competition.
• Li Ning'an introduced Shi Lan to the twenty-seven Spirit Martial Hall participants, including another first-generation True Disciple who greeted Shi Lan as her senior sister.

Shi Lan joined the Spirit Martial Hall’s disciples on their journey to the Myriad Courts' Prodigy Grand Competition, while Qing Lan prepared on a floating island in the Azure Flame Imperial Dynasty. Their paths crossed when Shi Lan arrived aboard a dragon whale and the two recognized each other.

• Shi Lan learned that Zhu Jin and many other talented disciples wore protective jade pendants given to them by Mo Lingshu.
• The dragon whale opened a domain gate and carried Shi Lan and the Spirit Martial Hall’s delegation toward the competition.
• Qing Lan continued refining her Supreme Sword, Fallen Rainbow, as the grand competition’s martial contests progressed and Xia Wuheng won a match.
• The Setting Sun Sword Sect arrived, and a blood-clad man aboard the Blood God Hall’s vessel watched Qing Lan with interest.
• The dragon whale arrived above the floating island, and Shi Lan and Qing Lan saw each other and wondered why the other was there.

Shi Lan’s extraordinary cultivation drew the attention of the transcendent factions, and Lingyun secured a place for her in the Divine Martial Otherworld. True Buddha Miaoyan then warned that Shi Lan was bound to a powerful Buddhist karmic secret and demanded that Lingyun hand her over.

• Shi Lan arrived at the tournament as a first-generation True Disciple of the Spirit Martial Palace, astonishing Qing Lan and the other prodigies with her cultivation.
• After the contests ended, Ancient Sage Yunlan and Azure Flame Imperial Dynasty ruler Yang Qingyan appeared, while Lingyun joined the gathering of powerful leaders in the hall above the Ninth Heaven.
• The Daoist Sovereign introduced Ying Qianqiu as a visitor from the future, and the leaders agreed to reserve a place for him in the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• Lingyun asked the leaders to reserve a place for Shi Lan, and they questioned how she could have reached such a level at only sixty-four years old.
• True Buddha Miaoyan recognized Shi Lan’s connection to a true Buddha at the Ruler Realm and demanded that Lingyun hand her over, but Lingyun refused.

Lingyun attacked Miaoyan after the True Buddha demanded Shi Lan, but the Dao Venerable stopped their battle before it devastated the Divine Martial Great World. Miaoyan claimed Shi Lan carried merit from True Buddhas of another era, and Lingyun ended the chapter refusing to surrender her.

• Lingyun attacked Miaoyan without hesitation, knocking him from his lotus platform and pursuing him through a separate layer of space.
• The clash between the tenth-tier powerhouses sent a phantom river of time and space across the sky, slowing Shi Lan and leaving nearby disciples dazed.
• The Dao Venerable and Yang Qingyan intervened, ordering Lingyun and Miaoyan to stop fighting and demanding a convincing reason for taking Shi Lan.
• Miaoyan said Shi Lan's soul bore merit from True Buddhas who did not belong to this era and suggested it might have come from the future.
• The Dao Venerable failed to uncover Shi Lan's past or future and said someone had erased her name from the Three Lives Stone.
• Lingyun refused to hand Shi Lan over and warned that anyone who touched her would die.

Ling Yun defended Shi Lan from the powerhouses who questioned her importance, then warned her that Buddhism might target her and that returning to Lingyang could be dangerous. As the competition resumed, Qing Lan discovered that Ying Qianqiu had reached the Tribulation Crossing Realm, while worrying that Shi Lan’s entry into the Divine Martial Otherworld could cost her two lives and ruin her plans.

• Ling Yun refused to let the powerhouses treat Shi Lan as expendable, and the Dao Venerable postponed the dispute until after the Divine Martial Otherworld.
• Ling Yun warned Shi Lan to beware of Buddhism and to return to the Lingwu Hall quickly after leaving the Otherworld.
• Ling Yun told Shi Lan to stay away from Lingyang for a hundred years because a dangerous upheaval was approaching there.
• Ying Qianqiu returned to Qing Lan, who sensed that he had entered the Tribulation Crossing Realm but had an unstable foundation.
• A summons called Qing Lan of the Silverfeather Dynasty and Zhu Jin of the Lingwu Hall to continue the competition.

Shi Lan watched Qing Lan defeat Zhu Jin without striking back, then reflected on their connection and the paths of immortal and martial cultivation. Months later, as the tournament neared its end, a young man challenged Shi Lan to spar, and Lingyun reacted with dark displeasure.

• Shi Lan sent Bai Yu instructions to seek King Xuan’s help if she failed to return from the Divine Martial Otherworld within fifty years.
• Zhu Jin attacked Qing Lan in the tournament’s opening match, but Qing Lan absorbed the blow and Zhu Jin eventually conceded.
• Shi Lan comforted Zhu Jin and realized that Qing Lan’s tribulation aura clarified how the immortal path could merge with the martial path.
• Mo Hanyue lost to a True Disciple of the Falling Sun Sword Sect, and the first round of selection ended with the places in the Divine Martial Otherworld mostly settled.
• Several months later, a young man who had reached the fourth level of the eighth rank challenged Shi Lan, and Lingyun tightened her palm inside the great hall.

Shi Lan accepted Lin Tingyu’s challenge as a life-and-death match and killed him after his Supreme armor attacked her, but True Buddha Miaoyan intervened to preserve part of Lin Tingyu’s soul. Ling Yun took Shi Lan away, while Miaoyan and the Buddhist Supremes planned to pursue her in the Divine Martial Otherworld and uncover her secrets.

• Ling Yun warned Shi Lan that challengers meant to kindle her fortune and increase her danger, and told her to demand life-and-death pacts.
• Shi Lan challenged Lin Tingyu to sign a life-and-death pact, and he agreed after receiving a secret message and securing permission to use Supreme artifacts bearing one Dao mark.
• Lin Tingyu’s armor’s true spirit took control of him and attacked Shi Lan, who destroyed the armor and vaporized his body with Burial World.
• Miaoyan intervened, restored the arena’s barriers, rescued a remnant of Lin Tingyu’s soul, and gave Shi Lan a nine-colored golden lotus as compensation.
• Ling Yun took Shi Lan away, while Miaoyan told the Buddhist Supremes to stop provoking him and arrange to capture Shi Lan’s soul in the Divine Martial Otherworld.

Shi Lan recovered from her injuries and received Ling Yun’s advice for surviving the Divine Martial Otherworld, then joined the 1,043 chosen candidates as they prepared to enter. Aboard the battleship bound for the Otherworld, Shi Lan spotted Qing Lan and asked what she was doing there.

• Ling Yun gave Shi Lan the nine-colored lotus and warned her about the Buddhist sect, the world projections, and the strange creatures inside them.
• Shi Lan learned that purple world projections were the only worthwhile choice for her and that escaping a projection depended on waiting for the right moment.
• Several months later, 1,043 candidates had been selected, and no faction challenged Shi Lan after her life-and-death contract had frightened them off.
• Yang Qingyan escorted the candidates aboard a battleship into a desolate region on the reverse side of the Divine Martial Great World.
• Shi Lan saw Qing Lan among the candidates and telepathically asked what she was doing there.

As Qing Lan and Shi Lan entered the Divine Martial Otherworld, Shi Lan gave Qing Lan protective treasures and warned her to avoid the Fate Palace. Yang Qingyan sensed a Lone Star of Baleful Intent hidden within Qing Lan’s good fortune, while a vast sword light tore through the Lingyang Realm’s barrier.

• Qing Lan explained to Shi Lan how Ying Qianqiu had protected her during the conflict between the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty and the Buddhist sect.
• Yang Qingyan opened 1,043 heavenly roads to the Divine Martial Otherworld, and the gathered prodigies departed along them.
• Shi Lan gave Qing Lan two lotus petals and a dragon-carved jade pendant, warned her not to trust anyone or enter the Fate Palace, and left for the Otherworld.
• Qing Lan followed onto a heavenly road, and Yang Qingyan wondered how the aura of a Lone Star of Baleful Intent could exist amid such good fortune.
• In the war-ravaged Chengtian Domain, a sword light broke through the Lingyang Realm’s barrier and plunged inside.

Wuxu attacked the Demon Emperor Palace but was driven back by the Ten Thousand Demons Ruler, then learned that Shi Lan was beyond the domains and had reached the peak of the Luotian Realm. In the Divine Martial Otherworld, Shi Lan met Taiyuantian, who revealed the ancient origin of the myriad worlds and disclosed that a fragment of the shattered Heavenly Dao core lay within the Otherworld.

• Wuxu's sword beam shattered several Ancient Demon Emperor Weapons, while the Human Clan's Chronicle crushed more than fifty Demon Emperors before the Ten Thousand Demons Ruler's chaos breath broke Wuxu's sword beam and sent him flying into Shenzhou Vast Land.
• Wuxu asked Bai Weiyang about Shi Lan and learned she was beyond the domains, had not returned, and had reached the peak of the Luotian Realm.
• Shi Lan killed the seventh projection, then defeated Rong Xuanqing's projection before facing a conscious man in white who introduced himself as Taiyuantian.
• Taiyuantian told Shi Lan that the myriad worlds came from the remains of beings on a source continent, which powerful beings weakened by withholding source energy before destroying it.
• Taiyuantian revealed that one of the four fragments of the shattered Heavenly Dao core was inside the Divine Martial Otherworld and explained that the Fate Palace connected to the Book of Three Lives beneath the Yellow Springs.

Shi Lan fought Taiyuantian, the former Heavenly Dao of the Taiyuan Realm, after learning about the spirits stealing source power within the Divine Martial Foreign Realm. She defeated him by pushing into the Dao-Slaying Realm and unleashing her killing intent, then awoke before a starry river and a magnificent palace.

• Taiyuantian explained that a spirit faction stole source power from the Divine Martial Foreign Realm and sometimes recruited people who failed to leave.
• Taiyuantian said the realm's laws forced them to fight, and Shi Lan prepared to face him despite his overwhelming strength.
• Shi Lan ignited her lifespan, drew power from the Qiong Luo Realm, and forced her cultivation into the Dao-Slaying Realm to survive Taiyuantian's attacks.
• As inner demons clouded Shi Lan's thoughts, Taiyuantian urged her to release her nature and focus on killing him, and her killing intent greatly strengthened her clone.
• Shi Lan's clone overcame Taiyuantian's Heavenly Punishment Sword and struck him down, and a spark from his remains merged with her Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Lan regained consciousness before a river of stars and a magnificent palace.

Shi Lan emerged from the first checkpoint with her inner demon stirring, but discovered that Taiyuan Tian’s gift had greatly accelerated the purification of her domain. When more than thirty prodigies surrounded her, she unleashed the Reverse Feather Heavenly Wheel, while Qing Lan and Mu Zhaoxi faced an attack of their own.

• Shi Lan sensed that the Qiong Luo Realm was no longer burdening her domain and that she might reach the Imperial Extremity Realm within three hundred years.
• Shi Lan found Qing Lan and warned her to stay away from the Fate Palace, then told the Lingwu Hall disciples to leave as unfamiliar prodigies began to encircle them.
• Zhu Jin recorded the encircling prodigies’ auras with a secret treasure before leaving, while Shi Lan stayed behind to face them.
• Shi Lan attacked first with the Reverse Feather Heavenly Wheel and killed nearly half of the encircling prodigies in an instant.
• Qing Lan prepared to help Shi Lan, but several domain powers swept toward Mu Zhaoxi.

Shi Lan fought off the ambush of more than thirty prodigies, destroying Supreme Artifacts with her weapons while Qing Lan drove away a group threatening Mu Zhaoxi. The remaining attackers summoned an ancient Buddha whose power exceeded the Divine Martial Otherworld’s limits, leaving Shi Lan facing a formidable new threat.

• Qing Lan intervened when an indigo-gowned woman and her two companions tried to take Mu Zhaoxi, and the woman withdrew after Shi Lan warned her off.
• Shi Lan battled the attackers and used Ling Yun’s azure spear, the Inverse Feather Heavenly Wheel, and Burial Realm to resist their seven awakened Supreme Artifacts.
• A golden drum nearly shattered Shi Lan’s Primordial Spirit, but the seven-petaled golden lotus restored her clarity, and her black arrow shattered the drum.
• A man wielding Heavenly Yin Water and an immortal branch battered the Prison Dragon Cauldron, while Shi Lan resumed firing arrows and reduced the attackers to fewer than ten.
• One of the remaining prodigies offered a golden sarira, summoning an ancient Buddha phantom whose aura rose beyond the Origin Realm Supreme level and into the Void Realm.

Shi Lan and her allies escaped the ancient Buddha, and Ying Qianqiu entered the Life Palace and turned the Wheel of Fate. He awoke in the Qinghong Realm as a second-step True Immortal with his memories intact, facing the Water Cloud Palace Mistress.

• Shi Lan attacked the ancient Buddha with the Burial Realm, then told Qing Lan to flee while she prepared to risk devouring the God King's blood essence.
• Ying Qianqiu used a Dao diagram to trap the ancient Buddha and several supreme artifacts, giving Qing Lan and Shi Lan time to escape through world portals.
• The ancient Buddha broke free of Ying Qianqiu's Dao diagram after Shi Lan vanished and murmured, "Dao Venerable..."
• Ying Qianqiu entered the Life Palace, found the Wheel of Fate, and turned it, whereupon it swallowed him.
• Ying Qianqiu awoke at the Water Cloud Palace with his memories and appearance intact but the power of a second-step True Immortal.
• After Ying Qianqiu's divine sense disrupted the world, the Water Cloud Palace Mistress appeared, and he recognized the Qinghong Realm.

Ying Qianqiu arrived in the Azure Rainbow Realm and used a discussion of the Dao with Shui Linghua to learn about its era and powers while advancing his understanding of cultivation. As their thousand-year game ended, Shui Linghua asked whether he had sensed the great calamity she believed was approaching.

• The women greeted Ying Qianqiu as Immortal Venerable Shuiyun, and he struggled to understand the unfamiliar yet strangely familiar Azure Rainbow Realm.
• Ying Qianqiu asked whether the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty ruled the world, prompting Shui Linghua to suspect he had come to threaten Shuiyun Palace before he apologized and proposed discussing the Dao.
• Shui Linghua invited Ying Qianqiu into her grotto-heaven, where they played Go and cultivated through a discussion of the Dao that lasted more than a thousand years.
• Ying Qianqiu learned that the Heavenly Fire Immortal Dynasty had rivals, that the immortal path extended beyond the Azure Rainbow Realm, and that Shui Linghua was a powerful second-step cultivator.
• After their game ended evenly, Shui Linghua revealed that she had felt restless for nearly ten thousand years and asked Ying Qianqiu whether he sensed an immense calamity approaching.

Ying Qianqiu relived the Immortal Dao’s destruction in the ancient era, fled the Sovereigns’ purge, and died after reaching the Lingyang Realm, where the Emperor Lord recovered the broken jade disc. He awoke outside the Wheel of Destiny with most of the experience erased, retaining only an inexplicable sorrow and choosing not to turn the wheel again.

• Ying Qianqiu learned from Ji Li and the Emperor that the Sovereigns had resolved to exterminate the Immortal Dao, then watched the Azure Rainbow Realm shatter under their assault.
• Ying Qianqiu and Shui Linghua escaped the destruction, but Shui Linghua stayed behind to hold off their pursuers while Ying Qianqiu fled alone.
• Ying Qianqiu fought off two powerful pursuers, severed his True Immortal foundation, and returned to the ancient Lingyang Realm, where he died after meeting the Emperor Lord.
• The Emperor Lord took the broken jade disc from Ying Qianqiu and restored it, while the Sovereigns’ agents destroyed nearby worlds before being driven away by a terrifying presence.
• Ying Qianqiu awoke before the Wheel of Destiny with his memories of the ancient era erased and left the Palace of Destiny without turning the wheel again.

Qing Lan advanced through the immortal tribulations in a ruined world, freed a True Immortal’s corpse from its golden arrow, and fled the valley after hearing it gasp. Meanwhile, Shi Lan awakened inside the statue of a Divine Court deity and received offerings before an envoy arrived to collect them.

• Qing Lan cultivated to the middle stage of the Chaos Realm as the strange world’s tribulation lightning strengthened her.
• After spending over a thousand years cultivating near the immortal corpse, Qing Lan survived the Boundless Tribulation and entered the Mahayana Realm.
• Qing Lan pulled the golden arrow from the corpse, heard a gasp, buried the valley, and fled to search for an exit.
• Shi Lan awakened inside the golden statue of the Grand Void Primordial Lady and learned that she was a high-ranking deity with countless believers.
• Shi Lan collected valuable offerings during a worship ceremony and considered how to escape the world and complete her Severing Dao.
• At midnight, a giant figure entered the hall and announced that it had come by the Divine Court’s decree to collect the power of愿 and tribute.

Shi Lan paid the Divine Court’s increased collection of Prayer Power and tribute, then defeated Divine Lord Tianhe when he tried to exploit her weakened state. The chapter ended with a blood-sealed challenge bearing Tianhe’s name arriving in the hall.

• A golden-armored divine general collected six-tenths of Shi Lan’s Prayer Power and gave her ten years to pay eight-tenths of her tribute.
• Shi Lan considered leaving her divine position and escaping the world rather than gathering tribute from thousands of statues.
• Divine Lord Tianhe arrived and demanded a loan of Prayer Power and tribute, threatening Shi Lan with a divine war.
• Shi Lan trapped Tianhe in her Imperial Dao Domain, refined him, and took his six divine weapons and treasures for the Prison Dragon Cauldron.
• A blood-sealed challenge letter bearing Tianhe’s name flew into the hall and embedded itself in a jade pillar.

Shi Lan used the Demon-Slaying Edict to kill the Heavenly Crane High God before his divine war could escalate. The Heavenly Crane’s faith and soul were destroyed, while Shi Lan’s subordinate gods were left to prepare for the aftermath.

• The Heavenly Crane attacked the Lord of the Grand Void’s subordinate gods, destroying their temples and causing some gods to perish.
• Shi Lan chose to avoid a prolonged divine war and extracted divine blood from the Heavenly Crane’s challenge letter as a medium for the Demon-Slaying Edict.
• Shi Lan sent the edict through the void and ordered her subordinate gods to return to their temples and prepare for the Heavenly Crane’s followers.
• The edict struck the Heavenly Crane as he discussed the war with his subordinate gods, crumbling his golden body and extinguishing his flame of faith.
• The Heavenly Crane’s statues collapsed throughout the world, and his soul was utterly destroyed.