Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao and Chen Yao visited Ethereal Void Cultivation City before their coming departure for the Star Immortal Palace, where they reunited with old friends and family. As Wu Tao and Chen Yao returned to the sect, they accepted that time might make this their final farewell and promised to continue their path together.

• Wu Tao told Chen Yao they would visit Ethereal Void Cultivation City before she left with Wen Xingrui for the Star Immortal Palace and he returned to the Boundary Wall Battlefield.
• Zhang Shenghong visited Wu Tao, shared news of Chen Xiu's death, and stayed for dinner with Wu Tao and Chen Yao.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao traveled to Ethereal Void Cultivation City, where Yu Hai, Gu Mingsheng, Li Feiyao, and their families welcomed them.
• Wu Tao gave gifts to the gathered family members and reminisced with Yu Hai, Gu Mingsheng, and Li Feiyao while Chen Yao caught up with Li Feiyao.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao said farewell to their friends and left the city as Yu Hai and Gu Mingsheng feared they would never meet again.
• On the Azure Wave Boat, Wu Tao and Chen Yao reflected on time and promised to keep walking their cultivation path together.

Wu Tao prepared to return to the Boundary Wall Battlefield while Chen Yao traveled to the Star Immortal Palace under a disguised identity. In the Myriad Poison Domain, Blood Devil attacked Wu Tao, who activated a magic talisman as the Nascent Soul cultivator tried to flee.

• Wu Tao and Chen Yao joined Wen Xingrui at Lingxu Main Peak, where he explained that the Star Immortal Palace had arranged a marriage alliance meeting and gave Chen Yao a jade pendant that concealed her identity.
• Chen Yao refined the jade pendant, disguised herself, and departed with the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect's flying boat while Wu Tao headed toward the Boundary Wall Portal alone.
• Wu Tao bypassed the Nether Soul Domain and cautiously traveled through the Myriad Poison Domain, where his divine sense detected a powerful blood aura.
• Blood Devil, a Nascent Soul cultivator of the Blood Dao Sect, pursued Wu Tao and blocked his escape.
• Wu Tao activated a magic talisman, and Blood Devil recognized Ning Qiudao's aura and fled.

Wu Tao trapped and killed the Blood Devil with Ning Qiudao’s Sovereign Magic Talisman, then returned from the Immortal Origin Realm to the Star Immortal Palace. At a sect-organized marriage gathering, he reunited with Chen Yao under the name Han Yao and chose to approach her.

• Wu Tao activated his Sovereign Magic Talisman to trap the fleeing Blood Devil, and Ning Qiudao arrived and killed the Nascent Soul devil cultivator.
• Ning Qiudao gave Wu Tao a replacement Sovereign Magic Talisman, and Wu Tao flew to the Extreme North Land and returned through the Boundary Wall Portal to Constellation City.
• Wu Tao reunited with Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha, then boarded a Tier 4 Flying Boat with them to return to the Star Immortal Palace.
• Duanmu Lei welcomed Wu Tao and the other Artifact Refiners back, and Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island hoping to see Wen Xingrui and Chen Yao.
• Yu Zhixin ordered Wu Tao and other Tier 3 Artifact Refiners to attend a marriage gathering on Red Star Island with disciples of the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect.
• Wu Tao approached Chen Yao at the gathering, introduced himself as Li Mo, and heard her introduce herself as Han Yao.

Wu Tao and Chen Yao formalized their relationship with a Dao Companion Formation Ceremony attended by prominent figures from both sects. A year and three months later, Wu Tao broke through to the fifth layer of the Cosmic Star Body Refining Art, raising his Divine Sense to 2,100 li.

• Wu Tao told Yu Zhixin that he and Chen Yao had fallen in love, and Yu Zhixin promised the sects would support their marriage alliance.
• Wu Tao visited Wen Xingrui on his Nascent Soul Island, where Wen praised his artifact-refining work and welcomed him as Chen Yao’s partner.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao held their Dao Companion Formation Ceremony on Jade Star Island, attended by cultivators from both sects and Wu Tao’s friends.
• Wang Sheng began reporting Jade Star Island’s affairs to Chen Yao as the Island Master’s Wife.
• One year and three months later, Wu Tao refined Star Stones overnight and broke through to True Body Layer 5, increasing his Divine Sense by eighty li to 2,100 li.

Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation progress, spent the morning with Chen Yao, and learned that he and three fellow artifact refiners would begin working at the War Artifact Hall. He agreed to visit the Secret Market with Liu Yidao and promised to guard Fu Xuan during his planned Golden Core breakthrough.

• Wu Tao checked his status, noting his progress in cultivation and spells after breaking through to True Body Layer 5.
• Wu Tao shared fish porridge with Chen Yao, then left Jade Star Island for Mystic Yang Hall and promised to spar with her after work.
• Duanmu Lei told Wu Tao, Gu Xingyuan, Jin Cha, and Ye Chaoming that they would leave Mystic Yang Bead production and start at the War Artifact Hall the next day.
• Wu Tao declined Gu Xingyuan's invitation to drink and returned to Jade Star Island, where he accepted Liu Yidao's invitation to visit the Secret Market.
• Fu Xuan asked Wu Tao to stand guard while he refined Water and Fire into a Golden Core, and Wu Tao agreed before resuming cultivation.

Wu Tao visited Wen Xingrui to arrange a safe place and oversight for Fu Xuan’s upcoming Water-and-Fire Golden Core Refinement, then received artifact-refining guidance before returning home. The next day, he and three fellow artifact refiners reported to the War Artifact Hall and began learning its operations under Su Sanxian.

• Wu Tao bought Star Stones in the Secret Market, then traveled to Ethereal Void Island to ask Wen Xingrui to oversee Fu Xuan’s Golden Core refinement and lend him the island’s spirit vein.
• Wen Xingrui agreed to help Fu Xuan and guided Wu Tao through several difficult questions about Tier 3 Advanced artifact refining.
• Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island, celebrated his recent breakthrough with Chen Yao, and cultivated for the night.
• Wu Tao met Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha at Mystic Yang Hall, and Duanmu Lei escorted them to report to the War Artifact Hall.
• Xiong Zhentian welcomed the four refiners and assigned them to work under Su Sanxian, who began showing them around the War Artifact Hall.

Wu Tao began work in the War Artifact Hall, then helped Chen Yao break through to Foundation Establishment Layer 7. He brought Fu Xuan to Ethereal Void Island, where Fu Xuan began preparing to undergo Water-and-Fire Golden Core Refinement.

• Su Sanxian introduced Wu Tao, Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha to the War Artifact Hall, assigned them to the Warship Department, and had them sign a Confidentiality Pact.
• Wu Tao studied a Tier 3 Mid-Grade warship component at the War Artifact Hall and later asked Su Sanxian for leave to attend to Fu Xuan's breakthrough.
• Wu Tao helped Chen Yao overcome her bottleneck by directing spiritual power and Foundation Establishment Pills to her, and she broke through to Foundation Establishment Layer 7.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao celebrated Chen Yao's breakthrough, then prepared to meet Fu Xuan the next morning.
• Wu Tao took Fu Xuan and Chen Yao to Ethereal Void Island, where Wen Xingrui allowed Fu Xuan to use the Fourth-Rank High-Grade Spirit Vein for his breakthrough.
• Wu Tao encouraged Fu Xuan not to dwell on his incomplete Immortal Dao, and Fu Xuan entered the Spirit Gathering Array to prepare for Water-and-Fire Golden Core Refinement.

Fu Xuan endured a prolonged Water-and-Fire Golden Core Refinement and successfully entered the Golden Core Stage, while Wu Tao and Chen Yao supported him and celebrated his breakthrough. Months later, Wu Tao advanced to Golden Core Layer 5 after refining warship components and steadily cultivating.

• Fu Xuan began his Golden Core breakthrough under Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui's guard, and Wen Xingrui supplied him with pure Magic Power when the process continued through the night.
• Fu Xuan's Golden Core Dao Manifestation appeared, and he completed Golden Core Externalization by drawing the Golden Core back into his dantian.
• After Fu Xuan consolidated his cultivation, he thanked Wen Xingrui and Wu Tao and resolved to become a Tier 3 Low-Grade Artifact Refiner and investigate True Person Han's whereabouts.
• Chen Yao told Wu Tao she wanted them to have a child after she reached the Golden Core Stage, and Wu Tao agreed.
• Wu Tao resumed his cultivation and War Artifact Hall work, then broke through from Golden Core Layer 4 to Golden Core Layer 5 after ten months.

Wu Tao consolidated his breakthrough to Golden Core Layer 5, reviewed his cultivation and trump cards, and guided Fu Xuan in True Fire cultivation and artifact refining. Meanwhile, Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di began merging the Three Realms, prompting the Deity Transformation Sovereigns and Devil World Demon Venerables to investigate a sudden change in the heavenly and earthly opportunity.

• Wu Tao stabilized his Golden Core Layer 5 cultivation, reviewed his progress, and resolved to seek more guidance on advancing as an artifact refiner.
• Fu Xuan visited Wu Tao, who assessed his Golden Core True Fire and taught him the True Fire Technique and Tier 3 Low-Grade Artifact Refining Dao.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao went to the Outer Island Sea Region marketplace after discussing Fu Xuan's progress.
• Ning Qiudao asked Sovereign Di to assist him in merging the Three Realms, warning that a crisis could arrive within a thousand years.
• Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di joined their power against the world barrier as Sovereigns and Demon Venerables sensed a change and set out to investigate.

The weakening World Barriers made the Three Realms’ merger and an eventual war seem inevitable, prompting the Immortal, Star Sea, and Devil powers to prepare for conflict. Ning Qiudao revealed that the merger was part of his plan to face a coming calamity, while Wu Tao learned that the War Artifact Hall would enter a heightened state of readiness.

• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi inspected the weakening barrier between the Immortal Origin Realm and the Devil World and warned that the worlds might merge.
• The Sun Sovereign and the Star Sea Cultivation World’s other Spirit Transformation Sovereigns confirmed that barriers throughout the Three Realms were fading and ordered preparations for war.
• The Devil World’s Demon Venerables held a conference and began preparing to seize the opportunity to unify the Three Realms.
• Ning Qiudao told Sovereign Di that the barriers were weakening as he intended, that the Three Realms would likely merge within a hundred years, and that the merger was needed to face a calamity a thousand years away.
• Wu Tao checked his cultivation progress, then learned from Su Sanxian that the World Barriers were weakening and the War Artifact Hall’s duties would grow heavier as it prepared for war.

Su Sanxian told Wu Tao and the other refiners that the Three Realms’ World Barrier was weakening and that they should prepare for the Devil World’s invasion, while continuing their cultivation. At Ethereal Void Island, Wu Tao reunited with Ji Lingxu, who did not recognize him as Han Fan, and learned that the barrier could disappear within a century.

• Su Sanxian explained that the Three Realms would merge and that the Devil Race might invade, then assigned Wu Tao and the other refiners one additional hour of work each day.
• Wu Tao, Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha discussed the weakening World Barrier while refining warship components, and Wu Tao later headed to Ethereal Void Island.
• Wu Tao arrived at Ethereal Void Island and found Ji Lingxu visiting Wen Xingrui, while Ji Lingxu failed to recognize Wu Tao or Chen Yao beneath their assumed identities.
• Wen Xingrui explained that Ji Lingxu had come on Ning Qiudao’s orders to report the World Barrier’s weakening, which could lead to the Three Realms merging within a hundred years or less.
• Wen Xingrui encouraged Ji Lingxu and Wu Tao to reach the Nascent Soul Realm before the Three Realms merged, and both expressed confidence that they would.

Ji Lingxu and Wu Tao discussed their cultivation goals with Wen Xingrui, who was working toward becoming a fourth-tier Artifact Refiner. Ji Lingxu then guided Chen Yao in her sword scripture before challenging Wu Tao to spar, leaving Wu Tao reluctantly agreeing.

• Ji Lingxu said he was confident he could reach the Nascent Soul Realm within fifty years, while Wu Tao claimed he could do so within a hundred years as he balanced cultivation with artifact refining.
• Ji Lingxu relayed Ning Qiudao’s request for Wen Xingrui to master the fourth-tier Artifact Refining Dao and bring its inheritance back to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect; Wen Xingrui estimated he would need three to five years.
• Ji Lingxu offered to teach Chen Yao the Ethereal Void Transformation Derivation Light-Splitting Sword Scripture, and Wen Xingrui agreed to let him guide her.
• After Chen Yao demonstrated the sword scripture, Ji Lingxu explained that its principles also depended on understanding “Ethereal Void,” helping her recognize what she had been missing.
• Wu Tao praised Ji Lingxu as the sect’s number one Foundation Establishment cultivator, then realized the title now belonged to Pei Qing.
• Ji Lingxu asked Wu Tao to spar, saying he wanted to compare artifact refiners from their respective worlds, and Wu Tao reluctantly agreed.

Wu Tao deliberately lost a spar with Ji Lingxu to preserve his artifact-refiner cover, while Ji Lingxu guided Chen Yao and challenged Star Immortal Palace cultivators. After Pei Qing joined Ji Lingxu in testing cultivators across the realm, Wu Tao disguised himself and intercepted them to spar.

• Wu Tao held back in his spar with Ji Lingxu, then accepted his apology and invited him to challenge Star Immortal Palace Core Disciples.
• Ji Lingxu guided Chen Yao in the Ethereal Void Transformation Derivation Light-Splitting Sword Scripture, and Wu Tao returned with her to Jade Star Island and increased his War Artifact Hall work.
• Over the following months, Wu Tao cultivated and refined warship components while Ji Lingxu challenged Star Immortal Palace cultivators and continued guiding Chen Yao.
• Pei Qing arrived at the Star Immortal Palace, where Wu Tao learned that his Golden Core cultivation had reached Layer 7 and watched him fight.
• After two months of sparring, Pei Qing and Ji Lingxu departed for the Bright Moon Immortal Palace, but Wu Tao disguised himself and blocked their path to challenge them.

Wu Tao met Pei Qing and Ji Lingxu outside the Star Immortal Palace, survived their mistaken attempt to kill him with a Sovereign Magic Talisman, and defeated them in spell battles. He returned to the palace as Li Mo, reflecting that he had surpassed those he once admired and needed to keep cultivating.

• Pei Qing and Ji Lingxu mistook the masked Wu Tao for a threat and secretly planned to kill him with Ning Qiudao's Sovereign Magic Talisman if he sparred with them.
• Ji Lingxu activated the talisman against Wu Tao, but Wu Tao blocked its strike with a defensive talisman bestowed by the Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch, revealing he was a Star Immortal Palace disciple.
• Wu Tao fought Pei Qing and overcame his stronger Golden Core cultivation and nineteen-hundred-li Divine Sense, prompting Pei Qing to concede.
• Wu Tao defeated Ji Lingxu in a brief spell battle, then left for the Star Immortal Palace as Pei Qing and Ji Lingxu prepared to visit the Bright Moon Immortal Palace.
• Wu Tao returned to the palace and resumed his identity as Li Mo, resolving to cultivate diligently so those who came after him would not surpass him.

Wu Tao advanced to the fifth layer of the Golden Core Nine Refinements and resolved to strengthen himself before the Three Realms merged. Meanwhile, Sovereign Di tested Wang Jing in the Devil World and offered him a chance to forge a karma, leaving Wang Jing to consider the offer.

• Wu Tao broke through to the fifth layer of the Golden Core Nine Refinements and reflected on his goal of reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage before the Three Realms merged.
• Wu Tao met Chen Yao, who thanked him for seeing Ji Lingxu off, then she left to inspect Jade Star Island's operations.
• Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di emerged from the Boundary Wall Portal, and Ning Qiudao returned to the Immortal Origin Realm.
• Sovereign Di agreed to travel through the Devil World with Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan accompanying him.
• In White Bone Devil Race territory, Sovereign Di sealed Tianmo Guquan's senses and told Wang Jing that his journey had been a test, then offered to forge karma with him.

Sovereign Di accepted Wang Jing as a candidate for his test and warned him of a coming Three Realms Calamity without explaining its nature. Three years later, Wu Tao had nearly become a Tier 3 Advanced Artifact Refiner, while his master Wen Xingrui was preparing to attempt his first Tier 4 magic treasure.

• Wang Jing accepted Sovereign Di's offer and agreed to seek the truth of the Three Realms as his test, hoping to avoid the coming calamity.
• Sovereign Di restored Tianmo Guquan's senses and cultivation, then left with Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan.
• Wen Xingrui explained that Tier 4 artifact refining required Nascent Soul cultivation and the dangerous ignition of the Fire of the Primordial Spirit, promising to protect Wu Tao when he attempted it.
• Over the next three years, Wu Tao steadily cultivated and sought Wen Xingrui's guidance, while Fu Xuan visited Wu Tao for instruction.
• Wu Tao reviewed his progress and found that he was close to becoming a Tier 3 Advanced Artifact Refiner; he planned to witness Wen Xingrui's first Tier 4 Low-Level Magic Treasure refinement the next day.

Wu Tao joined Wen Xingrui at the Star Immortal Palace Artifact Refining Hall to observe him attempt to advance to Tier 4 Artifact Refiner by forging a Star Sword. As Wen Xingrui began the refinement, Wu Tao recognized the Star Flowing Light he used and suspected it had come from Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch's Magic Treasure.

• Wu Tao answered Fu Xuan's Artifact Refining Dao questions and told him he could become a Tier 3 Low-Grade Artifact Refiner within three years.
• Wu Tao traveled to the Artifact Refining Hall with Wen Xingrui to observe his attempt to advance to Tier 4 Artifact Refiner.
• Vice Hall Master Luo oversaw the preparations, while Duanmu Lei, Su Sanxian, and Yu Zhixin promised Wu Tao he could observe their future advancement attempts.
• Wen Xingrui began forging a Tier 4 Low-Level Star Sword using Fire of the Primordial Spirit and the prepared Spiritual Materials.
• Wu Tao recognized the Star Flowing Light Wen Xingrui used and suspected it had come from Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch's Magic Treasure.

Wen Xingrui successfully refined the Star Sword and advanced to Tier 4 Low-Level Artifact Refiner, then received the fourth-tier artifact-refining inheritance manuals he needed to bring back to the Immortal Origin Realm. Wu Tao received two portions of high-quality Star Flowing Light from Wen Xingrui and learned that Yuan Jun was a descendant of Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch; Wen Xingrui prepared to leave for the Immortal Origin Realm the following day.

• Wen Xingrui refined the Star Sword successfully on his first attempt, earning congratulations from Vice Hall Master Luo, Wu Tao, Duanmu Lei, Su Sanxian, and Yu Zhixin.
• Vice Hall Master Luo inspected the Star Sword, confirmed its exceptional quality, and promised Wen Xingrui the complete fourth-tier artifact-refining inheritance manuals within three days.
• Wen Xingrui gave Wu Tao the two remaining portions of Star Flowing Light, explaining that Sect Master Ning had asked him to give them to Wu Tao and that Yuan Jun was Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch's descendant.
• Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island and told Chen Yao that Wen Xingrui had succeeded; the next day, Chen Yao visited Wen Xingrui while Wu Tao went to the War Artifact Hall.
• Vice Hall Master Luo delivered the complete fourth-tier artifact-refining inheritance manuals to Wen Xingrui, who set his return to the Immortal Origin Realm for the following day.

Wu Tao and Chen Yao joined the Star Immortal Palace cultivators to see Wen Xingrui off as he returned to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, escorted by two Nascent Soul True Lords. After the Flying Boat departed, Wu Tao went back to the War Artifact Hall to resume refining.

• Wu Tao and Chen Yao traveled to the Artifact Refining Hall, where they greeted Wen Xingrui and the cultivators gathered to see him off.
• Yuan Jun arrived and joined the group, followed later by Hong Tianxiang, who was assigned to protect Wen Xingrui on the journey.
• After the Flying Boat was prepared, Wen Xingrui said farewell to Wu Tao, Chen Yao, and the others, then departed with Hong Tianxiang and Yuan Jun.
• Vice Hall Master Luo and Duanmu Lei reassured Wu Tao and Chen Yao that Wen Xingrui would reach the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect safely.
• Chen Yao returned to Jade Star Island, while Wu Tao went with Su Sanxian to the War Artifact Hall and began the day's refining work with Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha.

Wu Tao attended an Artifact Refining symposium with Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, and Jin Cha, helping Jin Cha solve two problems by teaching him to approach difficulties from new angles. After they finished discussing Tier 3 Advanced artifact refining and agreed to observe Wu Tao’s future advancement, he returned to Jade Star Island, where Chen Yao invited him to cultivate with her.

• Wu Tao and the three Artifact Refiners finished inspecting their Warship components and agreed to hold a symposium at a restaurant.
• Jin Cha asked Wu Tao for help with two difficulties in Tier 3 Advanced artifact refining, and Wu Tao offered insights that taught the others to rethink problems from different angles.
• Gu Xingyuan and Jin Cha each found answers to Jin Cha’s first difficulty, and Jin Cha later solved the second by applying Wu Tao’s approach.
• The four Artifact Refiners discussed Tier 3 Advanced knowledge, and Wu Tao agreed to let them observe when he advanced and help protect him.
• Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island, where Chen Yao said her menstruation had passed and invited him to cultivate with her.