Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi fought three Nascent Soul Cultivators, using the Thousand Illusion Spell and Tianyan Tulu to weaken and adapt to their techniques. After defeating two of them, he faced the last cultivator as his defenses collapsed, but the Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao Cultivator fled when he recognized the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword.

• Wang Qi exchanged attacks with the Unrivaled Sword Sect Cultivator, while the Tianshu Tower Cultivator arrived and used Vast Mountains and Seas, which Wang Qi countered with his Dao Heart Pure Yang Mirrors.
• Wang Qi absorbed the Unrivaled Sword Sect Cultivator's Sword Qi and evolved a resistance to it, weakening the cultivator through repeated clashes while using mirrors and artifacts to hold back the Tianshu Tower Cultivator.
• The Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao Cultivator attacked Wang Qi with Chasing Deer and Supporting Tripod Hands, eventually shattering his Dao Heart Pure Yang Mirrors.
• As the mirrors collapsed, the Unrivaled Sword Sect Cultivator lay defeated and the Tianshu Tower Cultivator was wounded by the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword.
• The Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao Cultivator recognized the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword and fled from Wang Qi.

Wang Qi defeated the Tianshu Tower cultivator and infected him with the Devil's Great Curse, then learned that the man had seen countless swords and infinite causes converging on one result. Wang Qi planned to exploit the surviving Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao cultivator as a guide and a carrier for curses while pursuing Ai Changyuan and Wu Shiqin.

• Wang Qi used the Devil's Great Curse and the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword to overwhelm the Unrivaled Sword Sect and Tianshu Tower cultivators, while the Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao cultivator failed to see his attacks clearly.
• Wang Qi infected the fallen Tianshu Tower cultivator with the Five Pestilence Total Curse and questioned him about the sword strike; the man babbled about many swords and infinite causes producing a stable result.
• Wang Qi explained that his altered Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword remained incomplete and that its perfected form could mark his advancement to the Golden Core Realm.
• Wang Qi told Zhen Chanzi that he would avoid confronting Spirit Transformation cultivators head-on and instead use the surviving cultivator to lead them along a safe route before the curse erupted among his companions.
• Wang Qi revealed that he had also planted a God Plague Curse on the Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao cultivator, who believed he had already left the battlefield.

Wang Qi explained his forbidden curse technique to Mao Zimiao while Han Tao returned to the ruins and suffered its effects. The curse made Han Tao crave things he found disgusting, and Wang Qi revealed the thought he had implanted: “Eat shit, Leung Fanfan!”

• Han Tao fled after Wang Qi shattered his confidence, then secretly returned to the concealed ruins entrance without realizing Wang Qi had implanted a thought in his mind.
• Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao discussed his use of the Devil's Great Curse, and Mao Zimiao reassured him that she understood why he had used it to save their captured companions.
• Wang Qi explained that the curse could carry powerful suggestions he called the “Thought Steel Stamp,” including thoughts that Han Tao would lose and feel hungry.
• Han Tao entered the corridor, began licking dust and craving dirt, and saw the Five Pestilence Total Curse glowing from his body.
• Wang Qi revealed that he had implanted the suggestion “Eat shit, Leung Fanfan!” in Han Tao.

Wang Qi waited outside the underground ruins as his curse spread panic and an overwhelming urge to eat excrement among the Ancient Method Cultivators inside. Han Tao’s desire finally overwhelmed him, leaving him eating dirt as the curse continued to take hold.

• Wang Qi reflected guiltily on his past teasing of Mao Zimiao while Zhen Chanzi explained the purpose of Mundane World Refining Heart and then mocked Wang Qi’s choice of curse.
• Wang Qi explained that his curse targeted the enemies’ dignity while sparing the hostages Ai Changyuan and Wu Shiqin from the God Plague Curse’s destructive effects.
• Han Tao’s strange fixation on Golden Core Cultivators’ buttocks spread the Five Pestilence Total Curse and its nausea through the underground ruins.
• Han Tao lost control of his thoughts and, unable to resist the urge to eat shit, knelt down and began eating dirt instead.

Wang Qi’s God Plague Curses spread through the Ancient Method Cultivators, driving them to eat dirt and stone while Nie Tianren struggled to identify and contain the curse. Wang Qi summoned the strengthened King in Yellow underground, where it revealed its cosmic origin and claimed to be the unnamable.

• Nie Tianren examined Han Tao and found no ordinary curse or illusion, while Wang Qi realized the Emperor’s Qi had taken the bait.
• Wang Qi activated the Famine and Eat Shit curses, spreading them through Han Tao’s contacts and causing Ancient Method Cultivators to crave dirt and stone.
• Nie Tianren killed a Golden Core Cultivator who kept eating and tried to suppress the others’ cravings, but the curses intensified their fear and obsession.
• Nie Tianren focused his consciousness on his mana to search for the curse’s source, but Wang Qi manifested the King in Yellow before he could escape its grip.
• The King in Yellow introduced itself to Nie Tianren, said Wang Qi had summoned it with the Yellow Scripture, and declared that it was the unnamable.

Wang Qi remotely controlled The King in Yellow to battle Nie Tianren, using the fight to test his countermeasures against a Dividing the Spirit cultivator. As the curses weakened Nie Tianren, Wang Qi prepared to unleash a powerful Deep Space Path technique.

• Nie Tianren repeatedly attacked The King in Yellow, but its projection reformed and sent tentacles after the Ancient Method Cultivators.
• Wang Qi used Jarvis and talismans to remotely control The King in Yellow, treating the fight as a game with unlimited lives.
• Nie Tianren used the Shen Tian Chuanshi Seal, and The King in Yellow broke it with a flute strike as Wang Qi's simulated health bars emptied and refreshed.
• Wang Qi's counterattacks increasingly targeted the Emperor-Grade Heaven-Splitting Dao, while the Devil's Great Curse took deeper hold of Nie Tianren.
• The King in Yellow used the Thousand Illusion Spell to make wine and filth appear, distracting and enraging Nie Tianren.
• Wang Qi traced a starry dragon's path with his arms, and The King in Yellow transformed into a tentacled dragon as he launched Deep Space Path: Universal Disaster.

Wang Qi waited for the Devil's Great Curse to spread to Dragon Six while investigating the ruins and the island's strange vegetation. Nie Tianren arrived at Dragon Six infected and asked for Wang Qi's help, while Ai Changyuan reacted to him by warning Wu Shiqin that being caught would be worse than death.

• Wang Qi explained that the Dragon Five cultivators had fled through a teleportation formation and that he could not yet fight a Dividing the Spirit cultivator without the system's main body.
• Mao Zimiao noticed that the island's plants differed so drastically they seemed to include two new genera, and Wang Qi suspected Eternal True Color had distorted their genes.
• Nie Tianren arrived at the Dragon Six ruins with several Nascent Souls, warned the local cultivators not to approach, and demanded Wang Qi's help with the Devil's Great Curse infecting him.
• Ai Changyuan taught a Tianshu Tower Nascent Soul Cultivator a new spell while considering whether to use the man's gravitational mana as a way to escape.
• When Nie Tianren approached Ai Changyuan, Ai screamed, armed himself with stone shards, and told Wu Shiqin to kill herself if Nie Tianren touched her.

Ai Changyuan manipulated Nie Tianren’s hope and fear by revealing that the curse afflicting him was tied to the destruction of Shenjing, while Nie Tianren’s symptoms worsened. As Celestial Master Wang sought a way to cure him through the buried World Cleansing Envoy, Ai Changyuan offered a new spiritual method to speed the excavation, leaving Nie Tianren desperate as his urge to eat people’s backsides intensified.

• Ai Changyuan told Nie Tianren that a Heavenly Sword had destroyed Shenjing to eradicate the Devil’s Great Curse, and claimed the curse could not be removed by ordinary means.
• Ai Changyuan raised Nie Tianren’s hopes by saying Shenjing had been researching a cure, causing the curse and Nie Tianren’s inner devil to intensify.
• Wang Tugen arrived to press Nie Tianren to help liberate the World Cleansing Envoy, and Nie Tianren described his worsening hunger and urge to eat feces.
• A messenger reported that Dragon Five Island’s Nascent Soul patriarchs had gone mad and were biting people’s backsides.
• Wang Tugen offered to ask his god to purify Nie Tianren once the World Cleansing Envoy was excavated, but said the process would take seven or eight days per layer.
• A Tianshu Tower cultivator proposed using the new gravity-based spiritual method developed with Ai Changyuan to accelerate the excavation, while Nie Tianren admitted that the others’ backsides were becoming increasingly palatable.

Wang Qi discovered that Ai Changyuan had given the Ancient Method Cultivators a gravitational technique that let others control their mana, and he considered it far more insidious than his own methods. He reflected on mana as private property and the limits of willpower against the Devil's Great Curse, while Mao Zimiao remained unaware of the danger surrounding Ai Changyuan and Wu Shiqin.

• Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao discussed the enormous ruin passageways and the differences between land and marine Demon Race civilization.
• Wang Qi spotted Ai Changyuan and Wu Shiqin and avoided telling Mao Zimiao that the Golden Core cultivators around them had fallen.
• Wang Qi examined the cultivation method Ai Changyuan had given the Ancient Method Cultivators and realized it let others manipulate their gravitational mana.
• Wang Qi explained to Zhen Chanzi that mana functioned as cultivators' private property, while Zhen Chanzi questioned what a person truly possessed.
• Wang Qi concluded that his earlier mental suggestions were weak compared with the God Plague Curse, which could invade the subconscious without being stopped by willpower.

Ai Changyuan pieced together clues about the ruins, the Dragon Race, and Hongyuan while the cultivators opened the seventh level. Celestial Master Wang found the route to the eighth and final level, leaving the group poised to uncover what lay below.

• Ai Changyuan questioned his Golden Core guard and inferred that the ruins had no internal guardians because the Dragon Race protected them from outside.
• Ai Changyuan learned that the Hongyuan Divine Sect had allied with the orthodox cultivators and great sea demons, and that dragons had dealt with the ruins' guardian.
• Wang Qi suspected Hongyuan might be a banished immortal seeking Holy Emperor, while wondering whether Hongyuan and the Dragon King aimed to unleash the True Color Sin.
• Ai Changyuan sensed the ruins' gravitational nodes and determined that 243 cultivators had to act together to halt the seventh level's restrictions.
• The cultivators collapsed the seventh level's spiritual-energy circulation and revealed an immortal-artifact-grade instrument that could restart the ruins' suppressive laws.
• Celestial Master Wang took the instrument and opened the stone platform, revealing the way to the eighth level as Nie Tianren announced it was the last level.

Ai Changyuan used gravity to steal spiritual power from Huang Liyu and activate the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler, placing himself in a separate frame of reference. With only three seconds of safety, he watched Celestial Master Wang’s attack creep toward him.

• Ai Changyuan monitored the scattered searchers and waited for an isolated cultivator while the Golden Core Cultivator watching him struck him twice.
• Ai Changyuan attacked Huang Liyu through a divine ability sigil, making Huang Liyu collapse and secretly transmitting his spiritual power to Ai Changyuan.
• The other cultivators noticed Huang Liyu had fallen and began investigating, while Ai Changyuan accumulated enough power to prepare his spell.
• A Nascent Soul Cultivator realized the Ai Family’s method was suspicious and shouted a warning, but Ai Changyuan activated the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler before anyone could react.
• Ai Changyuan entered a personal spacetime lasting three seconds and watched Celestial Master Wang’s attack approach to within two chi.

Ai Changyuan used the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler and an artificial Golden Core to escape with Wu Shiqin while Celestial Master Wang pursued them and Nie Tianren's followers lost control of their spiritual power. After reaching the surface, Ai Changyuan prepared to confront the pursuer and told Wu Shiqin to flee to Dragon Five Island.

• Ai Changyuan used the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler to carry Wu Shiqin from the eighth level to the sixth level while Celestial Master Wang attacked them.
• Ai Changyuan joined the longevity lock to his belt buckle, unsealed his power, and used Myriad Image Celestial Pull to receive spiritual power stolen from the Ancient Method Cultivators.
• The Ancient Method Cultivators' spiritual power drained away, and Nie Tianren realized that Ai Changyuan had tampered with the cultivation method he gave them.
• As Celestial Master Wang approached, Wu Shiqin stood in front of Ai Changyuan, who activated the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler again and carried her upward.
• Ai Changyuan unsealed more of his power, helped break Wu Shiqin's seals, and told her to run to Dragon Five Island when he released the ruler.
• Ai Changyuan and Wu Shiqin reached the surface.

Ai Changyuan freed Wu Shiqin and sent her fleeing while he drained the cultivators on the eighth level and faced Celestial Master Hongyuan. After evading Hongyuan’s attacks with gravitational lenses, Ai Changyuan gathered the power of celestial bodies and prepared a light-speed strike.

• Wu Shiqin absorbed the Lesser Thunder Tribulation and directed its lightning toward her remaining seals while Ai Changyuan broke them with his mana.
• Ai Changyuan sent Wu Shiqin toward Dragon Five Island, then drained the mana of the cultivators on the eighth level, intensifying the Five Pestilence Total Curse.
• The King in Yellow appeared over Nie Tianren, who realized he had become part of its inner demon and raised his sword to kill himself.
• Celestial Master Hongyuan attacked Ai Changyuan with Hongyuan Pure World Heart-Severing Sword Qi, but Ai Changyuan’s gravitational lenses and spatial distortions made every strike miss.
• Ai Changyuan gathered gravitational power from celestial bodies, bent time and space around himself, and linked several gravity currents to Celestial Master Hongyuan’s heart.

Ai Changyuan used the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler to exploit the difference between their reference frames and evade Celestial Master Wang’s attacks, then injured him with gravity and compressed air. Celestial Master Wang survived, recognized Ai as a serious opponent, and unleashed a vast divine dharma form that covered the island.

• Celestial Master Wang lunged at Ai Changyuan, but Ai shifted between reference frames and dodged his blows.
• Ai Changyuan struck Celestial Master Wang with thousandfold gravity, causing pain and brief internal damage without seriously harming him.
• Ai compressed air and launched it into Celestial Master Wang’s heart and cranial cavity, but Celestial Master Wang expelled it and recovered.
• Ai returned to the ordinary reference frame and began replenishing his mana while Celestial Master Wang prepared his strongest technique.
• Celestial Master Wang invoked the End of Fortune and Hong Yuan Homeland, expanding his black-robed divine dharma form across the island.

Ai Changyuan and Wang Qi joined forces against Celestial Master Wang, using the King in Yellow and the Dao Heart Pure Yang Mirror to withstand his divine power. Ai Changyuan trapped the Dividing the Spirit cultivator within an Event Horizon long enough for Wang Qi to fire the Heaven-Ending Dragon-Slaying Sword Qi at the marked location.

• Celestial Master Wang covered the island in Hongyuan divine power and attacked Ai Changyuan with overwhelming force.
• The King in Yellow emerged to shield Ai Changyuan and revealed that Wang Qi had brought surviving Ancient Method Cultivators toward Dragon Six Island.
• The King in Yellow transformed into a coat while the Dao Heart Pure Yang Mirror blocked Celestial Master Wang's chains and probing attacks.
• Ai Changyuan used a time distortion to plant talismans in Celestial Master Wang and trap him in an Event Horizon.
• Wang Qi fired the Heaven-Ending Dragon-Slaying Sword Qi at the coordinates marked by Ai Changyuan.

Wang Qi used Nie Tianren’s mutated Nascent Soul to unleash the Netherworld Fire Curse and defeat Celestial Master Wang. After reuniting with his companions, Wang Qi defended his questionable methods while Ai Changyuan hinted that his actions had drawn scrutiny from Sky Spirit Ridge.

• Celestial Master Wang survived Wang Qi’s sword attack but sensed a curse emerging from beneath the golden-lit ground.
• Nie Tianren’s mutated Nascent Soul surfaced as a green monster, fought Celestial Master Wang, and self-destructed in a burst of green fire.
• Wang Qi intercepted the green sparks and revealed the Netherworld Fire Curse as his companions watched.
• Wang Qi explained that he had used the curse to capture Celestial Master Wang and eliminate nearby enemies, while Ai Changyuan suspected his main aim had been to detonate the mutated Nascent Soul.
• Ai Changyuan called Wang Qi the “shame of the Dao Seed” and warned him to cover his tracks, while Wu Shiqin demanded to know what he had done.

Ai Changguang recovered enough to emerge from hiding and found Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan victorious over the Ancient Method cultivators. Wang Qi explained how he used the Devil's Great Curse and his cultivation system, then revealed that he was trying to make mana carry his thoughts.

• Ai Changguang absorbed spiritual energy to heal himself and restored Lu Qianqian before leaving their underwater cave to check the island.
• Ai Changguang discovered Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan arguing beneath a spirit tower that suppressed a wounded Dividing the Spirit Realm cultivator.
• Wang Qi defended his actions against Wu Shiqin's accusations, while Ai Changyuan reunited with Lu Qianqian and explained that he had broken through and killed his captors.
• Wang Qi told Ai Changguang and Lu Qianqian that he and Ai Changyuan had defeated the Ancient Method cultivators and asked them to keep the Devil's Great Curse project confidential.
• Wang Qi described his cultivation system as hardware, software, and external objects, and proposed making mana carry his thoughts.

Wang Qi explained how he used the Devil's Great Curse to alter Nie Tianren's consciousness and described his goal of letting people govern their own minds through technology. The others reacted with concern and curiosity, while Wang Qi's idea suggested that future cultivators might overcome material limits on their way to immortality.

• Wang Qi explained that he had copied an operating program into Nie Tianren's curse system, merging half of Nie Tianren's consciousness into it before destroying his body and nascent soul.
• Mao Zimiao asked why Wang Qi was experimenting with the dangerous Devil's Great Curse, and Wang Qi said his cultivation method aimed to integrate consciousness with spiritual power.
• Ai Changguang warned that cultivators normally adapted to changes in their life systems gradually, while Wang Qi argued that technology could replace methods like Mundane World Refining Heart.
• Wang Qi said his research aimed to let people freely reshape their personalities and resist unwanted impulses, which he defined as freedom of the mind.
• Ai Changyuan applauded and asked to try Wang Qi's method if it succeeded, while Ai Changguang imagined it might let even young cultivators approach immortality.

Li Xiaomeng experienced the new opportunities available to mortals in the Divine Capital and studied under Chen Feng, who returned home to find Ai Qinglan completing a groundbreaking biological experiment. Ai Qinglan learned her sample could be crucial to an Immortal Alliance project aimed at controlling the oceans.

• Li Xiaomeng rode a public beast-drawn carriage to charity school, where Chen Feng reminded her not to use the Mind Network during class.
• Chen Feng taught the children before flying home to continue his research on a mouse contaminated by the Devil's Great Curse.
• Ai Qinglan showed her completed experiment to Mr. Wo Shen, who identified its material as Sample Yu-Class Sky Armor 991871.
• Mr. Wo Shen told Ai Qinglan that Sky Spirit Ridge planned an emergency project around the sample to help the Immortal Alliance control the oceans and defeat sea demons.
• Mr. Wo Shen said that if Ai Qinglan's report was accurate, the organism in her culture dish was even more special than the sample itself.

Ai Qinglan showed Zhan Wo Shen a living culture dish that functioned as a biological calculator, prompting him to reveal that her research could connect her to the Immortal Alliance’s deepest secrets. He offered her a chance to obtain a rare living specimen and ordered her to prepare a report within three days.

• Chen Feng secretly painted Ai Qinglan’s face with difficult-to-wash dye, then welcomed Zhan Wo Shen to her laboratory.
• Zhan Wo Shen examined Ai Qinglan’s culture dish and questioned how she had used retroviral plagues to alter a spirit plant.
• Ai Qinglan explained that she had evolved differentiated cell colonies into a symbiotic system whose lingxi clusters stored data and whose lingxi streams transmitted it.
• Ai Qinglan revealed that the culture dish worked as a biological calculator fueled by sugar, carbon dioxide, and sunlight, though it used a quaternary system.
• Zhan Wo Shen told Ai Qinglan that living specimens of the remnant species existed and offered her three days to prepare a report before the specimen’s allocation meeting.
• Zhan Wo Shen said he would send a Cargo Flying Sword to collect a sample and told Ai Qinglan to wipe the dye from her face.