Chapter Summaries

The Devil World army attacked the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect after Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di failed to appear, and the sect’s protection array collapsed. As the battle began, Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di finally descended onto the battlefield.

• Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi ordered the Devil World army and sixteen Demon Venerables to attack the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect after Ning Qiudao remained absent.
• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and the Star Sea Cultivation World’s Sovereigns fought the Demon Venerables while four others battered the sect’s Tier 5 protection array until it collapsed.
• Lao Lu rallied the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect’s cultivators as the Devil World army charged into the sect and battle erupted.
• Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui cooperated to kill a Level 6 Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator, then argued over Wen Xingrui’s refusal to retreat.
• Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di appeared above the battlefield after sword light killed Devil World fighters and brought the fighting to a halt.

Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di returned to Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, forcing the Devil Race to negotiate compensation for its invasion. When Sovereign Di confirmed he knew the way out of the Three Realms but refused to reveal it, the Devil World Demon Venerables and the Star Sea Cultivation World Sovereigns united against him, leaving war on the brink.

• Ning Qiudao and Sovereign Di arrived at Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, and the Devil Race withdrew from the shattered sect array as cultivators tended to the wounded.
• Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi admitted the Devil Race had broken the peace agreement and offered compensation, while Ning Qiudao thanked Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch for buying time for Sovereign Di to return.
• Ning Qiudao chose negotiations over renewed fighting, and the Devil Race agreed to compensate the Immortal Origin Realm and withdraw while terms were settled.
• Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi asked whether Sovereign Di had left the Three Realms and where the path out lay; Sovereign Di confirmed he knew the way but refused to disclose it.
• Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi warned that the Demon Venerables would not retreat without the answer, and Sovereign Di unleashed his aura in defiance.
• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and the twelve Star Sea Cultivation World Sovereigns stepped forward beside the Devil World Demon Venerables and urged Sovereign Di to reveal the path.

Sovereign Di agreed to show the peak cultivators of the Devil World and Star Sea Cultivation World the path out of the Three Realms, avoiding a battle. He led them to the Spiritless Land, revealed a mysterious road in the void, and urged everyone to leave the Three Realms.

• Origin Cauldron Divine Monarch and the Star Sea Cultivation World Sovereigns joined Heavenly Devil Xuan Yi and the Demon Venerables in demanding that Sovereign Di reveal the way out of the Three Realms.
• Sovereign Di agreed to disclose the path and led Ning Qiudao, the Demon Venerables, and the Deity Transformation Sovereigns away from the battlefield.
• Li Jingxing led curious cultivators after them, while Lao Lu, Wen Xingrui, and Wu Tao also joined the journey.
• Ten days later, Sovereign Di stopped at the vanished Spiritless Land and revealed a deep, flickering road in the void.
• Sovereign Di explained that he had used the road to leave the Three Realms and urged everyone to step onto it and escape their cage.

Sovereign Di warned that the road out of the Three Realms would collapse soon, prompting Ning Qiudao, Wen Xingrui, and many other cultivators to leave for a higher cultivation world. Wu Tao chose to stay for Chen Yao and Li Yi, but the Coffin Nail took control of him and forced him onto the road just before it collapsed.

• Sovereign Di revealed that the road led to a higher cultivation world but would collapse within six years, and he urged everyone to leave before it vanished.
• Ning Qiudao invited the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect to travel with him, while Wu Tao decided to stay in the Three Realms and Wen Xingrui chose to leave.
• The cultivators from the Three Realms and the Devil World prepared to enter the road, with Wu Tao and many Golden Core cultivators remaining behind.
• The Coffin Nail told Wu Tao that entering the other world would bring him a great fortune and help him reach Deity Transformation quickly, then took control of his body.
• Wu Tao asked Gu Xingyuan to tell Chen Yao to wait for him, stepped onto the road against his will, and the road collapsed into light.

After the road out of the Three Realms collapsed, Gu Xingyuan and the surviving cultivators returned to the Star Sea Cultivation World, where the Star Immortal Palace awakened Divine Monarch Tianxing to take charge. Gu Xingyuan then visited Chen Yao and Li Yi on Jade Star Island to deliver the message Wu Tao had left before departing.

• Wu Tao left the Three Realms with the other Deity Transformation Sovereigns, and Gu Xingyuan led the remaining Star Sea cultivators back to their sects.
• The Palace Master of the Star Immortal Palace awakened Divine Monarch Tianxing after learning that all the Star Immortal Palace's Deity Transformation Sovereigns had left the Three Realms.
• Divine Monarch Tianxing learned that the road had collapsed, heard Gu Xingyuan recount what happened in the Immortal Origin Realm, and agreed to hold down the Star Immortal Palace.
• Gu Xingyuan went to Jade Star Island to tell Chen Yao the words Wu Tao had left before departing, and Li Yi asked whether his father was coming back.

After Wu Tao was forced to leave the Three Realms, Chen Yao resolved to wait for him and cultivate while the Three Great Immortal Palaces awakened sleeping Deity Transformation Sovereigns to guard their territories. Wu Tao reunited with Wen Xingrui on the road to another world, where Sovereign Di and Ning Qiudao began a plan that made the road collapse.

• Gu Xingyuan told Chen Yao that Wu Tao had left the Three Realms, and Chen Yao comforted Li Yi, prayed for Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui, and began cultivating.
• The Three Great Immortal Palaces awakened sleeping Deity Transformation Sovereigns to hold the fort, and the newly awakened Bright Moon Immortal Palace Sovereign discovered that its Palace Master had reached the third level of Deity Transformation.
• Coffin Nail told Wu Tao that the world beyond the Three Realms held great fortune and urged him to change his cautious approach; Wu Tao caught up with Wen Xingrui and warned him that the natives might treat them as invaders.
• Sovereign Di and Ning Qiudao discussed how Coffin Nail had forced Wu Tao onto the road and agreed to proceed with their plan.
• Sovereign Di activated the Two Realms Talisman, shaking the road and terrifying the Demon Venerables and Deity Transformation Sovereigns as the road began to collapse.

Wu Tao survived the collapse of the road between worlds because Coffin Nail protected him, but Wen Xingrui vanished in the disaster. After arriving in the Ancient Spirit Immortal World, Wu Tao was branded an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil and killed several cultivators before fleeing into hiding.

• Sovereign Di warned that the road was collapsing, and cultivators from both worlds tried to reach safety before it gave way.
• Coffin Nail protected Wu Tao from the collapse but refused to protect Wen Xingrui, who disappeared as the road broke apart.
• Wu Tao drifted through the dark void, resolved to become an immortal, and eventually fell into the Ancient Spirit Immortal World.
• Wu Tao killed a late third-rank Demonic Beast to help four Golden Core cultivators, but they called him an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil and attacked him.
• Wu Tao killed the four Golden Core cultivators and a Nascent Soul third-layer cultivator from the Guyang Sect, then fled and concealed his aura.
• Wu Tao sensed something unusual on his wrist while hiding in an uninhabited mountain forest.

Wu Tao discovered that the Blue Brand on his wrist marked him as an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil and increased its number when he killed cultivators, while he investigated the world he had entered. In the Immortal Origin Realm, Ning Qiudao revealed that he had used the Immortal Tool Merit Hall as part of his scheme and had kept a promise to someone within his divine soul.

• Wu Tao failed to remove the Blue Brand, and the Coffin Nail refused to explain it, telling him to investigate for himself.
• Wu Tao examined the Guyang Sect cultivators’ belongings and learned that he was in East Divine Continent, where Spirit God Immortal Palace was led by an existence beyond Deity Transformation.
• Wu Tao approached three Foundation Establishment Cultivators, who recognized him as an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil and attacked him after he released them; he killed them and watched the brand’s number rise from 49 to 52.
• Wu Tao suspected the brand rewarded killing and wondered whether his Master and the other cultivators who entered the world were still alive.
• Ning Qiudao showed Sovereign Di the Immortal Tool Merit Hall and said he had used the scheme to refine it and restore his strength.
• After Sovereign Di departed, Ning Qiudao said he had fulfilled his promise, and a weak voice from within his divine soul thanked him.

Wu Tao disguised himself as an amnesiac mortal and let hunters from Gushan Village take him in, confirming that ordinary people could not detect his identity as an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil. He stayed with the Zhang family and began cultivating in secret, while resolving to avoid killing unless local cultivators threatened him.

• Wu Tao left Guyang Sect’s territory, discovered that killing demonic beasts did not increase the Blue Brand’s number, and disguised himself as a wounded mortal.
• Zhang Qi, Li Feng, and A Yuan rescued Wu Tao from a wild boar and carried him to Gushan Village.
• Wu Tao pretended to have lost his memory, and the hunters took him to the city, where no one recognized him.
• After returning to the village, Zhang Qi decided to let Wu Tao stay with his family and help with household chores.
• Wu Tao secretly went to the back mountain at night to cultivate and considered how to survive without becoming a killer.

Wu Tao lived undercover as Zhang Shan in Gushan Village, helping the Zhang family and quietly cultivating while growing close to them. As he prepared for another night of cultivation, a middle Original Spirit Devil Race member arrived above the village and prepared to slaughter its people.

• Wu Tao accepted Uncle Zhang’s name of Zhang Shan and followed Zhang Xiaohui to work in the fields, where he used stones to catch a large fish for the family.
• Wu Tao repeatedly caught fish with stones, then demonstrated his accuracy to Uncle Zhang and taught Zhang Xi how to throw stones.
• Zhang Xi told Wu Tao he wanted his whole family to cultivate immortality with him, but Wu Tao refused to offer him an immortal opportunity because cultivators in this world treated him as an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil.
• Wu Tao spent a month living with the Zhang family and cultivating at night, while missing A-Yao, Yi'er, and Wen Xingrui and wondering whether they were being hunted.
• Wu Tao sensed a middle Original Spirit Devil Race member above Gushan Village who was about to kill its residents.

Wu Tao protected Gushan Village from Dark Water, a Yin Water Devil who planned to slaughter its mortals, and fought him into the sky. Their battle drew Tianquan Sect’s cultivators, whose deaths raised Wu Tao’s Blue Brand to 100 and revealed that he could enter the War Merit Palace.

• Wu Tao recognized Dark Water as a devil from the Three Realms and intervened to stop him from killing Gushan Village’s mortals.
• Wu Tao claimed that killing mortals would not raise the Blue Brand, but Dark Water intended to test the claim and threatened him when he stood in the way.
• Dark Water admitted he had killed a Winged Devil from the Three Realms, then attacked Wu Tao after Wu Tao accused him of it.
• Wu Tao and Dark Water fought, carrying their battle far from Gushan Village and above Tianquan Sect.
• Tianquan Sect’s Nascent Soul True Lord led its disciples to attack the two devils, but the battle’s shockwaves killed the sect’s Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Wu Tao’s Blue Brand reached 100 and sent him information that he could activate the War Merit Palace brand and enter the War Merit Palace.

Wu Tao discovered that the Blue Brand tracked war merit and entered the War Merit Palace, where its rules stopped him and the Yin Water Devil Race being from fighting. There, Li Jingxing explained the palace and its rankings, and Wu Tao learned that Wen Xingrui was still alive.

• Wu Tao killed a second-level Nascent Soul cultivator of the Tianquan Sect, raising his war merit to 112, while the Yin Water Devil Race being escaped into the War Merit Palace.
• Wu Tao entered the War Merit Palace and tried to attack the Yin Water Devil Race being, but the palace restrained them and warned that spell battles were forbidden.
• Li Jingxing appeared, told Wu Tao that the palace suppressed even Deity Transformation Sovereigns and Demon Venerables, and offered to give him a talisman for use after they left.
• Li Jingxing told Wu Tao that fewer than sixty percent of those who entered the world remained alive and that Junior Brother Li Tongxing had died.
• Li Jingxing showed Wu Tao the War Merit Ranking List, where Wu Tao found Wen Xingrui ranked 139th with 496 war merit.

Wu Tao learned from Li Jingxing how the War Merit Palace could trade war merits for powerful cultivation resources and entered its exchange area. The War Merit Palace Spirit revealed Wu Tao had the highest authority and gave him a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill and a token for a triple-time-acceleration Cultivation Room, leaving him poised to raise his cultivation.

• Wu Tao saw that Li Tongxing had died and found his own name near the bottom of the War Merit Ranking List, just below Yin Shuiqi.
• Li Jingxing told Wu Tao that the War Merit Palace could rapidly raise cultivation and offered him a fourth-tier mid-grade Explosive Fire Talisman to counter Yin Shuiqi.
• Li Jingxing entered an exchange room, and Wu Tao followed into a separate room where the War Merit Palace Spirit appeared.
• Wu Tao learned that the War Merit Palace was an Immortal Tool and that his imprint gave him the highest authority to browse and exchange across all cultivation realms.
• The War Merit Palace Spirit gave Wu Tao a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill and a token for a triple-time-acceleration Cultivation Room as his newbie gift pack.

Wu Tao inspected the War Merit Palace’s exchange catalogs, killed Yin Shuiqi as he tried to leave, and returned to Gushan Village to say goodbye to the Zhang family. He then entered the Triple-Speed Cultivation Room, consumed the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, and advanced to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Wu Tao learned that his newcomer gift pack was unique, reviewed the exchange catalogs, and decided to kill Yin Shuiqi before cultivating.
• Wu Tao pursued Yin Shuiqi out of the War Merit Palace and killed him with Li Jingxing’s Explosive Fire Talisman and his Crimson Flame Divine Fire Covers.
• Wu Tao returned to Gushan Village, revealed that he had recovered his memory, gave Zhang Qi gold, and said farewell to Zhang Xiaohui and Zhang Xi.
• Wu Tao returned to the War Merit Palace, entered the Triple-Speed Cultivation Room, and consumed the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
• Wu Tao broke through to the second layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and his divine sense reached six thousand two hundred li.

Wu Tao consolidated his breakthrough to the second layer of Nascent Soul, then cultivated in the War Merit Palace’s Triple Acceleration Cultivation Room to advance his Nascent Body. He broke through to the third layer of Nascent Body, while Wen Xingrui entered the palace and confirmed that his disciple Li Mo was alive; Wu Tao remained unaware that his master was there.

• Wu Tao absorbed the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill’s remaining medicinal power, stabilized his second-layer Nascent Soul, and found his divine sense had reached 6,200 li.
• Wu Tao decided to remain in the Triple Acceleration Cultivation Room for three months and used Star Flowing Light to cultivate his Nascent Body, Nascent Soul method, and spells.
• Li Jingxing left the War Merit Palace to earn more war merit, while other human cultivators and devils entered to exchange war merit for resources.
• Wen Xingrui entered the War Merit Palace after destroying a Nascent Soul sect with the Treasure-Dropping Coin Wu Tao had given him, then found Li Mo at the bottom of the War Merit Ranking List and learned he was alive.
• After three months of accelerated cultivation, Wu Tao broke through to the third layer of Nascent Body, raised his divine sense to 6,800 li, and prepared to check his Personal Status.

After three months of accelerated cultivation, Wu Tao left the War Merit Palace intending to find his master, Wen Xingrui, and was joyfully reunited with him there. They compared their experiences in the hostile world, resolved to grow stronger together, and learned that Sect Master Ning had also returned to himself.

• Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation gains and decided to leave the War Merit Palace to search for Wen Xingrui and a safe place to cultivate.
• Wu Tao checked the War Merit Ranking List, saw that Wen Xingrui was alive, and then unexpectedly met him in the Main Hall.
• Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao that he had survived a hostile sect’s attack with the help of Wu Tao’s Treasure-Dropping Coin.
• Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui agreed to use the War Merit Palace to advance their combat abilities so they could withstand attacks from this world’s cultivators.
• Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao that Sect Master Ning was in this world and seemed to have returned to himself.

Wen Xingrui and Wu Tao agreed to seek a world map and meet again in the War Merit Palace, while Wu Tao headed for Tianquan Sect to find one. There, he encountered Zhang Xi, who had joined the sect to cultivate, and left the chapter confronting the sect’s defensive array as Zhang Xi recognized him as Uncle Shan.

• Wen Xingrui and Wu Tao learned they were in East Cloud Continent and East Divine Continent and agreed to return to the War Merit Palace together in a month.
• Wu Tao set out for Tianquan Sect to obtain a map, deciding he would spare its remaining Qi Refining cultivators.
• Tianquan Sect recruited youths from Gushan Village, and Zhang Xi joined despite Zhang Xiaohui lacking cultivation aptitude.
• After three months, Zhang Xi still could not cultivate, while Tianquan Sect gathered more than a hundred youths to learn its Qi Refining technique.
• Wu Tao struck Tianquan Sect’s Sect Protection Array, and Zhang Xi recognized him as Uncle Shan.

Wu Tao broke into Tianquan Sect to find a map and resources, while the sect’s Qi Refining cultivators were driven into a sudden frenzy against him. He left for an arranged meeting with Zhang Xi, and Tianquan Sect’s new sect master planned to seek help from neighboring sects.

• Wu Tao shattered Tianquan Sect’s protective array but told its cultivators he had come only to visit the Library, after the sect master and disciples briefly feared he would slaughter them.
• The Qi Refining cultivators suddenly charged Wu Tao in a seemingly unnatural rage, so he immobilized them; Zhang Xi heard Wu Tao tell him to meet at the mountain’s foot at dusk.
• Wu Tao broke into the Library and found a partial map showing East Divine Continent, East Yue Continent, and East Cloud Continent, where his master Wen Xingrui was located.
• Wu Tao took a small amount of resources from Tianquan Sect’s Resource Hall, then left as his restraints on the Qi Refining cultivators disappeared.
• After the cultivators recovered and wondered why they had attacked, Tianquan Sect’s new sect master resolved to ask Tianyi Sect, Tianxing Sect, and other sects for help against Wu Tao.

Wu Tao rescued Zhang Xi from a tiger and returned him to the Tianquan Sect, warning him that cultivators would become enemies because Wu Tao was an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil. As Wu Tao headed toward East Yue Continent to meet Wen Xingrui, thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators surrounded him, and he prepared to face them.

• Wu Tao cultivated in a cave beneath the Tianquan Sect while Zhang Xi set out alone to meet him.
• A tiger attacked Zhang Xi on the mountainside, but Wu Tao froze it with his power and brought Zhang Xi safely to the foot of the mountain.
• Wu Tao explained to Zhang Xi that he was an Outer Realm Heavenly Devil and urged him to flee if he ever encountered one; he then secretly returned Zhang Xi to the Tianquan Sect.
• Wu Tao left for East Yue Continent to meet Wen Xingrui while the Tianquan Sect's new sect master sought help from Tianyi Sect.
• Nearby Nascent Soul sects assembled thirteen cultivators and tracked Wu Tao to the border of East Divine Continent.
• Wu Tao let one pursuer summon the others, then faced the thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators surrounding him without fear.

Wu Tao was surrounded by Nascent Soul cultivators who underestimated his second-level cultivation, but he killed twelve of them and escaped toward East Yue Continent. The surviving fifth-level cultivator Yuan warned others of Wu Tao’s strength, and they set out to seek help from Guyang Sect.

• Lin Qi challenged Wu Tao to a solo fight, but Wu Tao used his Crimson Flame Divine Fire Cover, Treasure-Dropping Coin, and Flying Sword to kill him almost instantly.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators attacked Wu Tao together, but he trapped and refined three second-level cultivators, then killed three more as his Treasure-Dropping Coin disrupted their weapons.
• Wu Tao pursued the fleeing cultivators and killed several more, while the fifth-level Nascent Soul cultivator Yuan escaped; Wu Tao’s war merits rose from 112 to 336.
• Wu Tao collected twelve Storage Bags and flew toward East Yue Continent, intending to meet his master Wen Xingrui.
• Yuan told the arriving cultivators that Wu Tao had killed twelve companions despite having only second-level Nascent Soul cultivation, then flew to seek aid from Guyang Sect.
• The other cultivators agreed to seek help from Guyang Sect as well, fearing Wu Tao might threaten their sects.