Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao reunited with Fu Xuan, took over as Hall Master of the War Artifact Hall, and moved with Chen Yao to Jade Star Island in the Nascent Soul Sea Area. On the day of his Deputy Hall Master ceremony, he finished comprehending the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Capital Spirit Preserving Method and began cultivating it at Nascent Soul Level 1.

• Wu Tao tested Fu Xuan's artifact-refining skills, praised his progress, and urged him to set a new, realistic goal.
• Xiong Zhentian appointed Wu Tao to succeed him as Hall Master of the War Artifact Hall, and Wu Tao began learning the hall's affairs.
• Wu Tao ordered Gu Xingchen to return from the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect and take over the head position of the Warship Department.
• Wu Tao moved with Chen Yao, Wang Sheng, and Chen Juan to Jade Star Island in the Nascent Soul Sea Area, where friends came to congratulate him.
• Wu Tao finished comprehending the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Capital Spirit Preserving Method, recorded it in his Personal Status, and prepared to cultivate it.

Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation plans before attending his ceremony as a Deputy Hall Master of Star Immortal Palace’s Artifact Refining Hall alongside Su Sanxian. After the ceremony, he returned to Jade Star Island with Chen Yao, aware that Shi Yuanxin valued his potential especially highly.

• Wu Tao assessed his Nascent Soul cultivation, planned to master more spells, and noted that Star Flowing Light had rapidly advanced his Yuan Body Realm progress.
• Chen Yao helped Wu Tao put on his Deputy Hall Master robe, and they flew to the Artifact Refining Hall aboard his Mystic Light Boat.
• Wu Tao reunited with Gu Xingyuan, who had learned he would succeed the head of the Warship Department, and greeted visiting cultivators from other sects before the ceremony.
• Vice Hall Master Luo announced that Wu Tao and Su Sanxian had advanced to Tier 4 Low-Level Artifact Refiner and would become Deputy Hall Masters; Shi Yuanxin congratulated them and urged the hall’s cultivators to advance in artifact refining.
• Wu Tao and Su Sanxian toasted the guests at the banquet, then Wu Tao left with Chen Yao for Jade Star Island and acknowledged that Shi Yuanxin favored his greater potential.

Wu Tao agreed to have a child with Chen Yao, then attended a Tier 4 Artifact Refining Dao Discussion Conference where Vice Hall Master Qi offered to guide his studies. After returning to Jade Star Island, Wu Tao and Chen Yao tried to conceive, and he resumed his cultivation before preparing to see off the visiting artifact refiners.

• Wu Tao and Chen Yao paid respects to Chen Shan and Chen Shun, and Chen Yao reminded Wu Tao of their promise to have a child after she reached Golden Core; Wu Tao agreed.
• Wu Tao joined Su Sanxian and Duanmu Lei at the Tier 4 Artifact Refining Dao Discussion Conference, where the visiting refiners shared their insights and advanced their understanding.
• Vice Hall Master Qi praised Wu Tao’s talent and offered to guide his Artifact Refining Dao, asking him to visit his island three times a month.
• Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island, and he and Chen Yao tried to conceive before Wu Tao went to cultivate.
• Wu Tao cultivated the Nascent Body Chapter and sent his Nascent Soul into the Celestial Heavens Layer, but he found no Star Flowing Light and planned to use Star Stones instead.
• Wu Tao prepared to see off the visiting artifact refiners from Bright Moon Immortal Palace, Sun Immortal Palace, and the Nine Great Immortal Sects.

Wu Tao took over the War Artifact Hall, assigned work to its department heads, and began cultivating in his new quarters. Meanwhile, Tianheng Chamber of Commerce’s Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun sought help over Nine Billion Chamber of Commerce’s attempt to dominate Star Immortal Palace’s trade, then recognized that Deputy Hall Master Li Mo was the cultivator they knew.

• Wu Tao welcomed visiting cultivators and artifact refiners, then went to the War Artifact Hall after Xiong Zhentian handed it over to him.
• Wu Tao instructed Lin Qijun, Geng Xiangshu, and Gu Xingyuan to coordinate on the Sect’s vessel-replacement assignments and ordered Gu Xingyuan to recruit eleven Tier 3 Mid-Grade Artifact Refiners.
• Wu Tao entered the Hall Master’s Cultivation Room and began cultivating the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Capital Spirit Preserving Method.
• A Tianheng Chamber of Commerce cultivator reported that Chen Wanshan demanded Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun invite him in person, prompting the two elders to suspect he had made a deal with Resource Hall Deacon Liu.
• Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun visited Chen Wanshan, who confirmed that Deputy Hall Master Li Mo was among Star Immortal Palace’s newly promoted Tier 4 Low-Level Artifact Refiners.
• Chen Cunli recognized Li Mo’s name, ended the meeting, and left with Wu Hongjun, leaving Chen Wanshan bewildered.

Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun confirmed that Li Mo was a newly promoted deputy hall master and used his connection to secure a meeting with Deacon Liu for the Tianheng Chamber of Commerce. The chapter left Wu Tao reading a letter from Deacon Liu Xiangming after reviewing his slow cultivation progress.

• Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun learned from a portrait that the Li Mo they knew was the new deputy hall master of Star Immortal Palace's Artifact Refining Hall.
• Chen Cunli proposed first requesting an audience with Deacon Liu and turning to Li Mo only if that failed.
• Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun met Deacon Liu, showed him Li Mo's Identity Magic Talisman, and received his promise to take them to visit Li Mo after they strengthened their chamber of commerce.
• Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation progress, noting that the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Capital Spirit Preserving Method had advanced less than one percent in a month.
• Chen Juan delivered Wu Tao a letter from Deacon Liu Xiangming of the Resource Hall.

Wu Tao handled his new duties as War Artifact Hall Master, arranged to buy a Tier 4 low-level Island Protection Array, and discussed the changing situation with Hall Master Li. He then visited Vice Hall Master Qi to advance his Treasure-Dropping Coin deduction and received guidance to put cultivation before artifact refining.

• Wu Tao replied to Liu Xiangming’s letter, confirmed he knew Chen Cunli and Wu Hongjun, and asked Liu not to give them special treatment.
• Wu Tao went to the Formation Hall with Lin Qijun, Gu Xingyuan, and Geng Xiangshu to hand over their departments’ tasks, and asked Li Tongxing to refine a Tier 4 low-level Island Protection Array for his island.
• Wu Tao and Li Tongxing discussed the Devil Race’s renewed ambitions, the Three Realms’ uncertain future, and the importance of reaching Deity Transformation.
• Wu Tao returned to the War Artifact Hall, completed his daily duties, and spent two shichen deducing the fourth-tier Treasure-Dropping Coin before cultivating the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Capital Spirit Preserving Method.
• Wu Tao traveled to Three Star Island to seek Vice Hall Master Qi’s guidance, and Qi praised his artifact-refining talent while advising him that cultivation mattered more than the Dao of artifact refining.

Wu Tao received guidance from Vice Hall Master Qi, continued his cultivation and duties, and learned that the True Disciple Competition would begin in ten years. Pi Baibai and Tang Jingquan returned from the Lost Sea Area and discovered that Wu Tao had moved to the Nascent Soul Sea Area, leaving Jade Star Island assigned to Gao Hongyu.

• Vice Hall Master Qi answered Wu Tao's artifact-refining questions and encouraged him to pursue the Tier 5 Artifact Refiner realm, while Wu Tao chose to focus on strengthening his foundation and cultivation.
• Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island, reassured Chen Yao that he would help her advance to the Nascent Soul Realm, and then studied Dao Language and cultivated.
• Wu Tao worked at the War Artifact Hall and learned that the True Disciple Competition would begin in ten years and that Cui Qing might become Star Immortal Palace's Palace Master afterward.
• Pi Baibai and Tang Jingquan returned from the Lost Sea Area and flew to Jade Star Island to visit Wu Tao.
• Gao Hongyu told Pi Baibai and Tang Jingquan that Jade Star Island had been assigned to him and that Wu Tao had moved to the Nascent Soul Sea Area.

Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai visited Wu Tao after learning he had become a Nascent Soul True Lord and Tier 4 Low-Level Artifact Refiner, then planned to return to the Lost Sea Area. Wu Tao completed his deduction of the fourth-tier Treasure-Dropping Coin and refined two of them, one of which he intended to send to Wen Xingrui.

• Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai learned from Gao Hongyu that Wu Tao had advanced to Nascent Soul and become a Tier 4 Low-Level Artifact Refiner, then obtained permission to enter the Nascent Soul Sea Area and visit him.
• Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai congratulated Wu Tao on Jade Star Island and told him they planned to rest briefly before returning to the Lost Sea Area to pursue cultivation and prepare for the True Disciple Competition.
• Tang Jingquan told Wu Tao that the Golden Core Rogue Cultivator Wu Tao had sent to the Lost Sea Area was still alive and had advanced a cultivation level.
• Wu Tao finished deducing the fourth-tier low-level Treasure-Dropping Coin and decided to refine two, with one intended for his master, Wen Xingrui.
• Wu Tao considered the danger surrounding body cultivators who sought to break through to the Divine Body Realm, then set aside the concern and continued his cultivation and work.
• Wu Tao spent three days refining two Tier 4 Low-Grade Treasure-Dropping Coins and held the finished coins in his palm.

Wu Tao completed and prepared a fourth-tier Treasure-Dropping Coin and recordings for Wen Xingrui, then learned that the Devil World was preparing a major attack on the Immortal Origin Realm. The chapter ended with news that Sovereign Di had left the Three Realms and Ning Qiudao had been badly injured in the Forbidden Sea Area.

• Wu Tao refined a Treasure-Dropping Coin for himself, handled the War Artifact Hall's accumulated affairs, and returned to Jade Star Island.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao discussed their hope of having a child, then each recorded a message for Wen Xingrui and sealed the recordings.
• Wu Tao prepared the Treasure-Dropping Coin and both recordings to send to Wen Xingrui through Star Immortal Palace's channels.
• Vice Hall Master Qi summoned Wu Tao and Li Tongxing and revealed that the devils planned to break through a weakened Boundary Wall and attack the Immortal Origin Realm.
• Vice Hall Master Qi disclosed that the Three Great Immortal Palaces could transform humans into devils to gather intelligence among the Devil Race.
• Vice Hall Master Qi said Sovereign Di was no longer in the Three Realms and Ning Qiudao had been severely injured by an existence in the Forbidden Sea Area.

Wu Tao learned that the Devil Race was preparing to invade the Immortal Origin Realm and was ordered to lead Star Immortal Palace reinforcements there. While gathering Star Flowing Light in the Celestial Heavens Layer before the mission, he encountered Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch.

• Deputy Hall Master Qi told Wu Tao and Li Tongxing that Divine Monarch Ning was injured, the Devil Race had found a weakness in the Boundary Wall, and they must help the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect prepare defenses.
• Wu Tao ordered Gu Xingyuan, Lin Qijun, and Geng Xiangshu to select Artifact Refiners, then concluded that the Devil World's Demon Venerables were pursuing Sovereign Di's path out of the Three Realms.
• Wu Tao exchanged for three Nascent Soul-level spell Jade Slips and prepared to leave for the Immortal Origin Realm the next morning.
• Chen Yao asked to accompany Wu Tao, and he agreed on the condition that she return to Star Immortal Palace if danger arose.
• Wu Tao went to the Celestial Heavens Layer to collect Star Flowing Light and encountered Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch.

Wu Tao met Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch in the Celestial Heavens Layer and received two strands of Star Flowing Light, then set off with Chen Yao for the Immortal Origin Realm. During the journey, the full moon stirred memories of his past life, and he and Chen Yao reaffirmed their closeness.

• Wu Tao encountered Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch, who recognized his Hidden Spirit Method and warned him to remain on the lowest level of the Celestial Heavens Layer.
• After seeing that Wu Tao had gathered only one hair-thin strand of Star Flowing Light, Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch gave him two larger strands before leaving.
• Wu Tao returned to his body, cultivated through the night, and prepared to depart for the Immortal Origin Realm with Chen Yao.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao boarded a Tier 4 High-Grade Flying Boat with the Artifact Refining Hall and Battle Formation Hall groups, bound for the Boundary Wall Battlefield portal.
• While the flying boat traveled, Wu Tao saw the full moon and remembered Mid-Autumn Festival in his previous life, and Chen Yao joined him on deck.
• Wu Tao told Chen Yao that having her by his side was wonderful, and they promised to stay together forever.

The Three Great Immortal Palaces sent cultivators to support Ethereal Void Immortal Sect as the Devil Race prepared to invade, while Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui discussed their fears about the conflict and how to survive it. Wu Tao gave Wen Xingrui a Treasure-Dropping Coin and introduced him to Dao Language before returning to study the Nascent Soul-level Magneto-Polar Aurora Evasion technique.

• The Three Great Immortal Palaces arrived at Ethereal Void Immortal Sect with more than a hundred cultivators to provide support against the Devil Race.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao visited Wen Xingrui, who confirmed that Ning Qiudao was seriously injured and that the sect did not know where he was recuperating.
• Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui agreed that Sovereign Di might be the Devil Race's real target and discussed retreating to the Star Sea Cultivation World if the sect's leaders did not return.
• Wu Tao gave Wen Xingrui a low-grade fourth-rank Treasure-Dropping Coin and demonstrated Dao Language, which Wen Xingrui believed could speed up his research into Nascent Soul-level artifact-refining combat methods.
• Chen Yao told Wen Xingrui that she and Wu Tao planned to have a child, and Wu Tao later returned to his residence and took out the Magneto-Polar Aurora Evasion spell jade slip.

Wu Tao struggled to balance urgent cultivation and artifact-refining work as he learned to copy Dao Language phonetic symbols and gave Wen Xingrui the first 1,100 symbols to study. He began teaching Chen Yao the language while continuing to prepare for the Devil Race’s expected invasion.

• Wu Tao discovered that Dao Language symbols scattered when engraved directly, then successfully copied them by speaking each syllable into a Jade Slip and branding its sound with Magic Power and divine sense.
• The Ethereal Void Immortal Sect and the Three Great Immortal Palaces organized teams to refine fourth-tier Warships and Flying Boats, assigning Wu Tao four hours of daily work.
• Wu Tao realized he could only copy symbols he had already learned, so he gave Wen Xingrui a Jade Slip containing 1,100 symbols and promised to add more later.
• Wu Tao stopped cultivating a fourth Crimson Flame Divine Fire Cover to make time for his other cultivation, Dao Language study, and refining duties.
• Wu Tao began teaching Chen Yao Dao Language for half an hour each day, and she struggled to understand even the first phonetic symbol.

Wu Tao continued preparing for the Devil Race’s attack while teaching Dao Language to Wen Xingrui and Chen Yao. Meanwhile, the Star Sea Cultivation World’s Deity Transformation Sovereigns agreed to delay stopping the Devil Race, hoping to force Sovereign Di to reveal how he had escaped the Three Realms.

• Wu Tao completed his Warship-refining work and taught Wen Xingrui and Chen Yao how to pronounce Dao Language symbols; Wen Xingrui learned the first symbol while Chen Yao continued practicing.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao cultivated separately, then met for their private weight-loss exchange.
• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch told the Divine Monarch Conference that three hidden agents had died obtaining the location of the Devil Race’s weak point in the realm wall.
• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch proposed waiting until the Devil Race was close to breaking through before attempting to stop them, hoping the resulting crisis would draw Sovereign Di back.
• The Deity Transformation Sovereigns accepted the plan and agreed to conceal that they already knew the weak point’s location.

Chen Yao learned her first Dao Language and received Wen Xingrui’s secret soul technique, while Wu Tao gathered Star Flowing Light and continued advancing his cultivation. As the Immortal Origin Realm prepared for war against the Devil World, Wu Tao broke through to Nascent Body Layer 2.

• Chen Yao learned her first Dao Language, and Wen Xingrui gave her the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture to support her cultivation toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Wu Tao entered the Celestial Heavens Layer, collected three streaks of Star Flowing Light, and practiced Magneto-Polar Aurora Evasion.
• Chen Yao broke through to Golden Core Layer 2, and Pei Qing later reached the Nascent Soul Realm, prompting the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect to hold his True Lord Ceremony.
• The Three Great Immortal Palaces still had not found the weak point in the realm wall as the Devil World’s planned invasion drew closer.
• Wu Tao refined Star Flowing Light and broke through to Nascent Body Layer 2.

Wu Tao learned that Chen Yao was pregnant just as the Nascent Soul Assembly revealed the Devil Race could invade the Immortal Origin Realm within half a year. He arranged for Chen Yao to return safely to Star Immortal Palace while he remained at the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect to prepare for the coming battle.

• Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation progress and worried that the Devil Race could breach the realm wall in as little as half a year.
• Chen Yao told Wu Tao she had learned the sixty-eighth Dao Language Phonetic Symbol and revealed that she was pregnant.
• At the Nascent Soul Assembly, Li Jingxing announced that the weakened realm-wall point had been found and that the Three Great Immortal Palaces' Deity Transformation Sovereigns had gone to delay the Devil Race.
• Wu Tao asked Li Jingxing to take Chen Yao back to Star Immortal Palace, and Li Jingxing agreed.
• Wu Tao told Chen Yao about the impending invasion, and she agreed to leave after asking him to survive for her and their child.
• Chen Yao departed with Li Jingxing, while Wu Tao returned to the Artifact Refining Hall to begin his artifact-refining work.

Li Jingxing returned to the Star Immortal Palace with news that Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di would appear within two years, prompting the Star Sea Cultivation World's Deity Transformation Sovereigns to confront the Devil World Demon Venerables at the boundary wall. While Wu Tao stayed behind to prepare for the invasion and hoped to return for his child’s birth, the Coffin Nail flew to the Celestial Heavens Layer and met Sovereign Di and Ning Qiudao.

• Chen Yao worried about Wu Tao and the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect as Li Jingxing escorted her back to the Star Immortal Palace.
• Li Jingxing told Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch that Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di would appear within two years, and Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch convened the Star Sea Sovereigns to act according to plan.
• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and eleven other Sovereigns confronted sixteen Devil World Demon Venerables at the boundary wall, where four demons continued attacking the weak point.
• Wu Tao told Wen Xingrui that Chen Yao had returned to the Star Immortal Palace, then continued studying Dao Language and cultivating while hoping to attend his child's birth.
• After the Coffin Nail flew away from Wu Tao's Nascent Soul in the Celestial Heavens Layer, it reached the highest reaches and met Sovereign Di and Ning Qiudao, who invited them to sit.

Sovereign Di and Ning Qiudao arranged access to a God and Devil world, while the Coffin Nail obtained Star Flowing Light to help Wu Tao cultivate. Wu Tao returned to Star Immortal Palace in time to see Chen Yao give birth to their son, whom they named Easy.

• Sovereign Di gave Ning Qiudao the Two Realms Talisman and discussed the ancient betrayal and downfall of the gods and devils.
• Ning Qiudao agreed to let the Coffin Nail enter the God and Devil world with Wu Tao, and gave it ten streams of Star Flowing Light for him.
• The Coffin Nail brought the Star Flowing Light to Wu Tao, who stored it and resumed cultivating before returning to Star Immortal Palace.
• Wu Tao arrived at Jade Star Island just after Chen Yao gave birth to their son and checked that she was recovering safely.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao named their newborn son Easy.

Wu Tao celebrated his son Li Yi’s birth before returning to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect as the Devil World invasion drew near. The realm wall finally shattered, and the Devil Race began pouring into the Immortal Origin Realm.

• Wu Tao hosted a birth ceremony for Li Yi on Jade Star Island and thanked the cultivators who came to congratulate him.
• Wu Tao returned to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, where Wen Xingrui celebrated the birth and discussed the looming invasion with him.
• As the fifth year since the Devil Race found the realm wall’s weak point began, Li Jingxing told the gathered Nascent Soul True Lords that the wall would break within half a month.
• Lao Lu assured Li Jingxing that Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di would return, then ordered the sects to prepare for all-out war.
• The Devil Race shattered the world barrier, and its Demon Venerables sent their waiting warships into the Immortal Origin Realm.

The Devil World's army broke through the boundary wall and drove the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect and its Star Sea allies back to the sect, while Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui prepared for the worst. Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi demanded that Ning Qiudao appear as the fifth-rank Sect Protection Array faced sixteen Demon Venerables and their army.

• Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi and the other Demon Venerables entered the shattered Boundary Wall Passage, followed by Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and the Star Sea Cultivation World's Deity Transformation Sovereigns.
• Chen Yao let Li Yi ride the Blood-Piercing White-Haired Tiger while worrying about Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui in the threatened Immortal Origin Realm.
• After learning that the Devil Race had appeared in the Extreme West Land, Lao Lu ordered the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect's forces to converge there, and Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui continued refining warships and flying boats.
• The Devil World's forces overwhelmed the allied defenders and pushed them back toward the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, while Wu Tao urged Wen Xingrui to retreat if the sect fell.
• Wen Xingrui refused to abandon the sect, but Wu Tao resolved to make him retreat when the danger became critical.
• The Devil World's army surrounded the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect's fifth-rank Sect Protection Array, and Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi called for Ning Qiudao to appear.