Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan retrieves a crystal container holding a mysterious entity, which teleports away using spatial teleportation.
• Five years pass, and the human realm recovers from the demon disaster. Li Gan lives in seclusion at the Divine Sword Sect.
• Li Gan enters the return to void state, ending up in a harsh, high-dimensional world with extreme temperatures and a powerful hurricane.
• Li Gan returns to his realm, finding his fifth disciple, Yang Fan, troubled about his dreams and the potential last meeting with Lian'er's mother, Wen Wan, from the Everlasting Realm.

Character Developments

• Li Gan: Continues to cultivate and progress in his abilities, including the Qianyuan Array Canon and the fourth sword of divine firmament. He also becomes more accepting of his peaceful life in the human realm.
• Yang Fan: Struggles with his dreams of the Everlasting Realm and Wen Wan's warning, seeking Li Gan's advice on how to reach the Everlasting Realm.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation and progression: Li Gan's continuous efforts to improve his skills and understanding of his abilities.
• The Everlasting Realm: The mysterious realm that Wen Wan and the mysterious entity belong to, representing a higher level of existence.
• Dreams and reality: Yang Fan's dreams of the Everlasting Realm and his struggle to distinguish them from reality.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan and Yang Fan: Li Gan provides guidance and support to Yang Fan, helping him understand the path to the Everlasting Realm and offering him hope.
• Li Gan and the mysterious entity: Li Gan speculates about the entity's origin and restrictions, planning to find it if it's still on his land.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan masters the fourth sword of divine firmament.
• He enters the yellow sand world and struggles to find food.
• He discovers an oasis with intelligent beings and is attacked by a beast.
• He is rescued by a group of return to void practitioners and joins their oasis settlement.
• Tuoba, the temporary leader, explains the rules and dangers of the oasis, including the threat of night demons.

Character Developments

• Li Gan demonstrates resilience and adaptability in the harsh yellow sand world.
• He shows courage and determination in facing the beast and the unknown.
• Tuoba, the burly man with horns and a tail, is revealed as a fellow return to void practitioner and the temporary leader of the oasis settlement. He shows wisdom and experience in guiding Li Gan.

Significant Themes

• Survival and adaptation in harsh environments.
• The importance of community and cooperation among return to void practitioners.
• The dangers and limitations of the return to void state.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan interacts with Tuoba, who provides him with valuable information and guidance.
• Li Gan joins a group of return to void practitioners in the oasis settlement, forming a temporary community.
• Li Gan encounters a beast and is attacked, leading to his rescue by Tuoba and the group.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan enters the oasis and meets Xu Ao from the everlasting realm.
• Li Gan learns about the yellow sand world's creatures and the oasis's layout.
• Li Gan's cultivation progresses, and he reaches the peak of the martial saint realm.
• After a decade, Li Gan's myriad phenomena sword intent reaches perfection, and his dimension ascension progress reaches ten, allowing him to sense another world.
• Li Gan discovers he can travel between two worlds, one with a town of martial arts practitioners and the other with the Divine Sword Sect, using the Chen Bell Domain.

Character Developments

• Li Gan's cultivation improves, and he gains a better understanding of the yellow sand world and the everlasting realm.
• Xu Ao reveals hostility towards the eternal dynasty, hinting at potential conflict.
• Li Gan meets a young couple, Yuan'er and her brother Jing, who plan to elope due to an arranged marriage.

Significant Themes

• The contrast between the two worlds: one with scarce resources and the other with abundant origin qi.
• The struggle between freedom and responsibility, as seen in Yuan'er and Jing's decision to elope.
• The power of the Chen Bell Domain, which allows Li Gan to travel between worlds and remain undetected.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan interacts with Xu Ao, learning about the everlasting realm and the yellow sand world.
• Li Gan observes Yuan'er and Jing, witnessing their love and determination to be together.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan arrives in Yiling Town, Everlasting Realm, and learns about its lawless nature and the disparity in cultivation laws between this realm and his original world.
• He finds abandoned baby girls at the Taoist temple and sends them to the Divine Sword Sect.
• Wen Wan, Yang Lian's mother, appears injured in Yiling Town. She reveals that she and Yang Fan met in the Dream Realm, a place where time flows differently.
• Wen Wan is being hunted due to losing a competition for the throne in the Eternal Dynasty's Spirit King Mansion.

Character Developments

• Li Gan: He quietly learns about the Everlasting Realm, prepares to break through to the Longevity Realm, and decides to help Wen Wan.
• Wen Wan: She reveals her past as a princess, her relationship with Yang Fan, and her current predicament.

Significant Themes

• The disparity between the Everlasting Realm and Li Gan's original world, particularly in cultivation laws and the difficulty of drawing upon heaven and earth origin qi.
• The struggle for power and the cruelty of throne competitions, as seen in Wen Wan's story.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan and Wen Wan: They meet again after fifty years, and Li Gan offers to help Wen Wan by sending her to the Human Realm. However, she declines due to fear of bringing trouble to Yang Fan and the Divine Sword Sect.
• Wen Wan and her family: Wen Wan's family abandoned their disabled daughter, Ling'er, but Wen Wan insists on finding and keeping her.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan successfully breaks through to the Longevity Realm and survives the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• A group of strangers, led by a woman with a furry tail, arrives in Yiling Town, tracking someone and causing a massacre.
• Li Gan senses the massacre outside the temple's grand formation and decides to intervene.

Character Developments

• Li Gan: Successfully enters the Longevity Realm, discovers he can't use ordinary primordial energy for cultivation, and finds that the Chen Bell stores spirit energy which aids his cultivation.
• The woman with a furry tail: Leads the group causing the massacre in Yiling Town, showing ruthlessness and determination to complete her task.

Significant Themes

• The cruelty and indifference of powerful figures towards the weak.
• The importance of spirit energy for longevity realm powerhouses.
• The impact of cultivation techniques on one's strength and progress.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan and the woman with a furry tail: Their paths are set to cross, with Li Gan likely to intervene and stop the massacre, potentially leading to a confrontation.
• Li Gan and the residents of Yiling Town: Li Gan's decision to intervene shows his concern for the innocent lives being threatened.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan, a longevity realm powerhouse, intervenes to stop a group of supreme saints from slaughtering the inhabitants of Yiling Town.
• He uses his Chen Bell Domain to suppress and kill the intruders, demonstrating the dominance of a longevity realm powerhouse.
• After the incident, the survivors erect a Longevity Deity Tablet in Li Gan's honor.
• Li Gan returns to the Divine Sword Sect and later to the Yellow Sand World for another return to void session.

Character Developments

• Li Gan: Shows his disdain for the strong bullying the weak, demonstrating his compassion and sense of justice. He also makes progress in his cultivation, adapting better to the Yellow Sand World after entering the longevity realm.
• White Fox Avatar: Advances to the supreme saint level, further solidifying the Divine Sword Sect's security.

Significant Themes

• The power dynamics between the strong and the weak, and Li Gan's stance against the strong bullying the weak.
• The constraints and adaptability of longevity realm powerhouses in different realms, as demonstrated by Li Gan's experiences in the Human Realm and the Everlasting Realm.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan interacts with the survivors of Yiling Town, saving them from the supreme saints and allowing them to express their gratitude.
• Li Gan interacts with his white fox avatar, helping it advance to the supreme saint level.
• Li Gan's disciples and grand-disciples are mentioned, but they do not interact with Li Gan directly in this chapter.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Gan discovers mysterious acupoints in his body while in the return to void state.
• He learns about spirit roots from Tuoba and understands that his cultivation can progress in this realm.
• Upon returning to the everlasting realm, Li Gan finds Yiling Town prosperous and a temple dedicated to him.
• He encounters a boy with an everlasting species bloodline and gives him a secret manual, telling him to find him at the Taoist temple on the mountain.

Character Developments

• Li Gan learns about spirit roots and their significance, opening up new paths for his cultivation.
• The boy with an everlasting species bloodline receives a chance for improvement and a potential mentor in Li Gan.

Significant Themes

• The importance of cultivation and progression in the return to void state and the everlasting realm.
• The significance of background and lineage in the everlasting realm, as seen through the boy's struggle and Li Gan's intervention.

Character Interactions

• Li Gan interacts with Tuoba, learning about spirit roots and cultivation in the return to void state.
• Li Gan encounters the boy with an everlasting species bloodline and offers him guidance, setting up a potential mentor-mentee relationship.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xu, an orphaned youth with aurora-grade talent, receives a fist technique manual from a mysterious powerhouse.
• Over months, Li Gan, a longevity realm expert, observes and selects talented orphans, including Lin Xu, to become his disciples.
• Lin Xu and the other chosen ones cultivate the given fist technique and later ascend the mountain to meet Li Gan, who accepts them as named disciples and teaches them the Heartless Sword Art and Immortal Sword Body Technique.
• Li Gan provides resources for their cultivation and forbids them from revealing information about the Taoist temple.
• During the Suyuan Festival, Li Gan allows his disciples to know about each other and encourages unity.
• Yang Fan and Wen Wan ask Li Gan to send them to the Everlasting Realm to access the Dream Realm and avenge Wen Wan's father.
• Li Gan sends them to the Everlasting Realm and warns them not to leave Yiling Town without reason.
• Li Gan decides to refine another avatar to manage Yiling Town and enters the Void Return state.

Character Developments

• Lin Xu: Shows determination and diligence in cultivating the given fist technique, eventually becoming a named disciple of Li Gan.
• Li Gan: Continues to observe and select talented orphans, accepting them as disciples and providing resources for their cultivation. He also sends Yang Fan and Wen Wan to the Everlasting Realm and decides to create another avatar for managing Yiling Town.
• Yang Fan and Wen Wan: Express their desire to enter the Everlasting Realm and the Dream Realm to avenge Wen Wan's father. Li Gan sends them to the Everlasting Realm.

Significant Themes

• Talent and cultivation: Lin Xu's aurora-grade talent is recognized, and he is selected as a disciple. Li Gan provides resources for his disciples' cultivation.
• Brotherhood and unity: Li Gan encourages his disciples to know each other and unite for better survival in Yiling Town.
• Avenge and redemption: Wen Wan's desire to avenge her father drives her and Yang Fan to seek entry into the Everlasting Realm and the Dream Realm.

Character Interactions

• Lin Xu and Li Gan: Lin Xu demonstrates the Sword Piercing Fist to Li Gan, who accepts him as a named disciple and teaches him the Heartless Sword Art and Immortal Sword Body Technique.
• Yang Fan, Wen Wan, and Li Gan: Yang Fan and Wen Wan ask Li Gan to send them to the Everlasting Realm. Li Gan agrees and sends them, warning them not to leave Yiling Town without reason.
• Li Gan and his disciples: Li Gan provides resources for his disciples' cultivation and encourages unity among them during the Suyuan Festival.