Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing learned that Yinling had left the World-Deriving Instrument to pursue Yuan, then erased the traces she and Yuan had left behind. He opened Yuan’s Notes on Realm Exploration and read about Yuan’s early searches for a way home, including an expedition that harmed a populated world.

• Yinling’s former spirit appeared and gave Xu Xing the World-Deriving Instrument, the worlds Yuan had explored recorded in Notes on Realm Exploration, and Yuan’s Spacetime Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation.
• Xu Xing stopped Yinling’s data stream and learned that Yuan had freed her before leaving Qingxu, after which she waited thirty years before breaking through the realm barrier to follow him.
• Xu Xing crushed the data stream, wished Yinling well, and erased the traces left by her and Yuan.
• Xu Xing retrieved Notes on Realm Exploration from Storage Space G-1 and began reading Yuan’s journal.
• Yuan’s journal described his first two explorations and his discovery of a living but primitive world, whose coordinates he recorded on a crystal chip.
• Yuan’s journal recounted how his third exploration led him to send Divine Sense into a populated world, nearly causing it to collapse and leaving it with an indelible wound; he then left the laboratory to seek a way to make amends.

Xu Xing studied Yuan’s notes and crystal cards, learning that Yuan had repaired a fragile minor world and recorded more than 117,000 worlds. He discovered a dangerous world that had wounded Yuan and decided it was worth exploring, while sending Yuan’s coordinate-deduction equation to Ning Ruo and Senior Sister.

• Xu Xing read Yuan’s account of repairing a minor world, which gained a supernatural system and crossed the baseline.
• Xu Xing activated the World-Deriving Instrument and reviewed the coordinates of 117,473 worlds, including 63,214 above the baseline.
• Xu Xing found seven Void Return-level worlds and a sealed coordinate for a world whose terror had injured Yuan.
• Xu Xing judged the dangerous world worth exploring but decided to first send the Spacetime Realm Coordinate Deduction Equation to Ning Ruo and Senior Sister.

Xu Xing began exploring worlds beyond his realm, sending out Ascension Platforms and a strand of Moon Shadow’s Sword Intent while his true self remained at the Homecoming Laboratory to search for more worlds. As the Red Radiance crossed the Chaos Sea, the gazes of several powerful world-consciousnesses revealed new coordinates for Xu Xing to investigate.

• Xu Xing exchanged messages with Ning Ruo and Home-Guarding Sword Venerable, who arranged for Yueling to take Moon Shadow’s place on the Sword Sect Battle Net.
• Xu Xing summoned Moon Shadow and outlined a three-pronged plan: send the Sword Intent Spirit Body to two worlds, probe a dangerous world with Divine Sense and Moon Shadow’s Sword Intent, and keep searching from the Homecoming Laboratory.
• Xu Xing launched seven Ascension Platforms and departed with Moon Shadow, while his true self stayed behind.
• Two streaks of light entered powerful worlds, and a blazing Red Radiance crossed the Chaos Sea, drawing the attention of several world-consciousnesses.
• The watching consciousnesses unknowingly exposed their worlds’ coordinates, which Xu Xing captured for future exploration.

Xu Xing cut his way into a world guarded by an Immortal and found two humans being hunted by red-scaled pursuers. He appeared before the exhausted pair and reassured them as the pursuers noticed him.

• Xu Xing reached a vast, tightly defended world that might harbor an Immortal and cut a crack in its outer layer with his crimson sword.
• An enraged purple claw attacked Xu Xing, but he slipped through the crack before it could catch him.
• In a forest, several red-scaled figures on flying devices hunted a fleeing human man and woman, and their captain ordered the group to finish them off.
• One pursuer spotted Xu Xing and reported that an armed human who might be a Rebel had appeared.
• The fleeing pair warned Xu Xing to run, but he approached them and told them not to be afraid.

Xu Xing rescued two members of the Human Race from a Beast God Clan squad and destroyed the squad with a single sword strike. After the pair recovered from the shock, they warned him that a nearby Mecha Legion and its commander could soon pursue them.

• Xu Xing restored the exhausted pair and stopped an enormous fireball before making it vanish with a tap.
• The squad captain ordered Xu Xing to kill the two humans and surrender, hoping to capture him as a Rebel.
• Xu Xing's energy reading overwhelmed the mech's detection system, and his sword strike made the mech and pursuing squad crumble into fading specks.
• Xu Xing said the sword had been more unforgiving than expected and waited while the two recovered.
• The pair urged Xu Xing to hurry because a nearby Mecha Legion, commanded by a notorious Inheritor-killer, could soon arrive.

Xu Xing rescued Xi Yun and Xi Li, fed them, and taught them the Body Nourishing Art, which could make them cultivators. He revealed that the Beast God Clan’s Dao Net marked Human Race cultivators and targeted those who grew too powerful, leaving the siblings’ path to cultivation fraught with danger.

• Xu Xing brought Xi Yun and Xi Li to a safe cave, gave them food, and taught them movements to practice.
• Xu Xing explored the Beast God Realm’s past, learning that the Beast God Clan had nearly wiped out the Human Race and that its remaining cultivators were called Inheritors.
• A purple claw disrupted Xu Xing’s attempt to probe the realm’s history and tried to locate him, so he stopped investigating.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li practiced the Body Nourishing Art, felt energy circulate through their bodies, and learned that the method could make them cultivators.
• Xu Xing explained that the Beast God’s Dao Net marked Human Race cultivators, triggered deadly tribulations beyond the Nascent Soul level, and alerted the Beast God Clan when they reached Golden Core.

Xu Xing saved Xi Yun and Xi Li, supplied them with food and clothes, and taught them how to begin becoming Inheritors. He then investigated the Beast God Realm’s ruler and its formidable Beast God Clan, leaving the city as a mech army vanished around him.

• Xu Xing reassured Xi Yun and Xi Li that he would not be punished for making them Inheritors, then gave them supplies, glowing objects for practice, and directions to a river.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li decided to follow Xu Xing’s instructions, ate some meat, hid the extra supplies, and went to wash up.
• Xu Xing reflected on the Beast God’s power and sensed the ruler’s vast malice briefly descend over the city.
• Dozens of Beast God Clan mechs charged into the city, led by a towering mech operated by a golden-scaled clan member.
• Xu Xing vanished as the mech army dissolved into specks of light, planning to investigate the Beast God before confronting it.

Xu Xing entered Fang Tribe in the Cangmang Federation and saw how the Beast God Race lived off human flesh. After he erased the city’s inhabitants, an ancient presence restored them, but Xu Xing repeatedly returned to kill them again.

• Xu Xing walked through the prosperous Fang Tribe, where Beast God Race members treated humans as inferior beings.
• Xu Xing found a food street where Beast God Race members ate human remains and killed everyone there with a flash of scarlet sword light.
• A torrent of malice destroyed the city, but an indifferent presence rebuilt it and restored the slain Beast God Race members through the River of Time and Space.
• Xu Xing returned as Red Radiance and erased the restored inhabitants, prompting the presence to rebuild the city and lay down a defense.
• Xu Xing erased the Beast God Race again and left, while the distant presence watched in silence.

Xu Xing uncovered how the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had merged with the resisting Beast God to become a half-mad Heavenly Will Immortal, and he rescued the Human Race members held captive in the city. Back in the Great Profound Realm, he decided that other fellow Daoists could also pursue a path beyond True Immortal and prepared to tell Ning Ruo about the discovery.

• Xu Xing realized the Beast God Realm’s Heavenly Will had engineered the ancient conflict to force the victor into the True Immortal Realm and seize their essence.
• Xu Xing concluded that the Beast God resisted the Heavenly Will’s attempt to absorb him, leaving them merged in a half-mad being that protected the Beast God Clan while struggling against itself.
• Xu Xing rescued the Flesh Humans from the city and planned to visit the remaining Human Race members before involving his fellow Daoists.
• Back in Qingxu, Xu Xing studied Yuan’s Notes on Realm Exploration and recognized the half-mad Heavenly Will Immortal as evidence that others could take a path beyond True Immortal.
• Xu Xing reviewed his work in two other Void Return worlds and took out his phone to tell Ning Ruo about the Beast God Realm.

Xu Xing informed Ning Ruo, his senior sister, and Yuanjun about the Beast God Realm before summoning the fellow Daoists to Qingxu. His call drew their attention to the exposed Homecoming laboratory, where the immortals began gathering as Xu Xing prepared to explain.

• Xu Xing told Ning Ruo about the Beast God Realm, the Heavenly Will Immortal, and the Human Race's plight, and she told him to proceed as he thought best.
• Xu Xing informed his senior sister and Yuanjun about the Beast God Realm.
• Xu Xing summoned the fellow Daoists through the World-Deriving Instrument, and his voice reached beyond Qingxu.
• A Charm Cultivator livestreaming outside Qingxu watched as the sea of mist parted, exposing the Homecoming laboratory and causing strange beasts to burst apart.
• Confusion condemned the beasts and asked Xu Xing why he had summoned them, and Xu Xing said he would explain once everyone arrived.

Xu Xing gathered the Thirteen True Immortals of Great Profound to plan an expedition to the Beast God Realm and received world coordinates from several immortals. Gu secretly came to spy on Qingxu, where the thirteen True Immortals turned their gazes toward Him.

• The True Immortals’ gazes briefly revealed the Great Dao to the cultivators at Qingxu before withdrawing to protect them from being overwhelmed.
• Xu Xing explained Ning Ruo’s Ascension Plan and what he had witnessed in the Beast God Realm to the gathered True Immortals.
• The Black-Shadow Human Immortal and the White-Haired Human Immortal gave Xu Xing their captured world coordinates.
• Confusion agreed to visit the Beast God Realm, and Remorse volunteered to join the expedition against the Heavenly Will Immortal.
• Xu Xing offered to bear the Heaven’s Will burdening Charm Ancestor so she could join the expedition.
• Gu crossed into the Realm of Reality to spy on Qingxu, where thirteen True Immortals noticed Him and Xu Xing greeted Him.

The Human Race’s True Immortals joined forces to drive Gu out of the River of Time and Space, temporarily preventing it from interfering with reality. Xu Xing returned to the Beast God Realm, taught Xi Yun and Xi Li a stronger cultivation method, and prepared to help the Human Race rise again.

• The thirteen Human Race True Immortals attacked Gu through karmic strands, shattered its divine halo, and forced it to flee into the past.
• Xu Xing and the other immortals discussed how their group had delayed Gu and turned to planning who would go to the Beast God Realm.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li practiced the Body Nourishing Art while waiting for Xu Xing to return.
• Xu Xing praised the siblings’ progress, taught them the Nurture Self Body Forging Art, and allowed them to pass it on to others of decent character.
• Xu Xing considered how his new method and a planned sword strike might protect the Human Race from the Heavenly Will Immortal, then told Xi Yun that the Human Race would soon have a chance to rise again.

Xu Xing prepared to take Xi Yun and Xi Li to Bright Light while restoring the minds of humans rescued from captivity through the Way of Reality and Illusion. At Bright Light, the settlement’s brutal rulers began another coerced offer of food, just as Xu Xing and the siblings arrived.

• Xu Xing told Xi Yun and Xi Li to eat their fill before he took them to Bright Light, and he reassured them that he would handle its leader.
• Xi Yun and Xi Li trusted Xu Xing’s strength, and the siblings finished preparing to leave the cave with him.
• Xu Xing watched captive humans live new lives inside a vast illusion so their damaged minds could develop, while considering what he had learned about the Beast God Realm’s Heaven’s Will and the Beast God.
• Xu Xing took Xi Yun and Xi Li to Bright Light, one of the few remaining Human Race settlements, ruled by a brutal man rumored to cooperate with the Beast God Clan.
• At Bright Light, a young Qi Refining cultivator offered hungry residents a chance to eat if they agreed to offer themselves.

Xu Xing killed the Bright Light platform’s exploitative leaders and ensured that the starving people received food, then entered the settlement’s inner town to confront its leader, Min Feng. After Xu Xing removed the corruption controlling Min Feng, Min Feng repented and killed himself, but Xu Xing revived him and left him a new technique.

• Xu Xing appeared on the platform and killed the young man and the other exploitative figures who had been starving the outer settlement’s people.
• Xu Xing promised the starving crowd food, clothing, and a chance to live, then left Xi Yun and Xi Li to distribute food as the people calmly formed lines.
• Xu Xing killed a third of the people in Bright Light’s inner town and entered Min Feng’s manor.
• Xu Xing removed the foreign influence from Min Feng’s spirit, and Min Feng recovered his memories, confessed his betrayal, and pulled out his Golden Core before killing himself.
• Xu Xing restored Min Feng to life and departed, leaving Min Feng to awaken with the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique in his mind.

Xu Xing prepared the Human Race in the Beast God Realm to resist the Heavenly Will Immortal while the Great Profound Realm selected five True Immortals to travel there. The chapter ended with Remorse, Confusion, Charm Ancestor, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun gathered in the Homecoming Laboratory.

• Xi Yun and Xi Li handed food and water to the starving people at Bright Light Settlement, and the Body Nourishing Art eased their fatigue as they worked.
• Xu Xing returned and watched the people practice a simplified Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique to shield themselves from the Dao Net.
• Xu Xing thought the technique would buy the Human Race time until help arrived from the Great Profound Realm, and that he would need to strike with his sword.
• The immortals of the Great Profound Realm chose who would travel to the Beast God Realm, and Bie Xuening arrived at the Homecoming Laboratory.
• Yuanjun and Charm Ancestor joined Xu Xing, Remorse, Confusion, and Bie Xuening, forming the group of five True Immortals bound for the Beast God Realm.

Xu Xing took on the wills of three sects as the others prepared for the expedition to the Beast God Realm. After the Heavenly Will Immortal manipulated time there, Xu Xing realized he needed to speed up his plans to prepare the Human Race for an approaching attack.

• The assembled immortals agreed that they would oversee the Ascension Plan at first and let their disciples participate once it proved viable.
• Bie Xuening and Charm Ancestor prepared to travel to the Beast God Realm, while Tyrant Sovereign stayed behind to watch over the Central Continent.
• Xu Xing confirmed he could bear the wills of the Sword Sect, the Joyous Union Sect, and the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect while remaining able to act.
• Xu Xing sensed that the Heavenly Will Immortal had accelerated time in the Beast God Realm, where Heaven's Will and the Beast God resumed fighting.
• At the Bright Light Settlement, Xu Xing decided to accelerate his preparations for the Human Race before Heaven's Will and the Beast God joined forces against them.

Xu Xing left Xi Yun and Xi Li in charge of Bright Light Settlement after giving them cultivation techniques, then traveled with Min Feng toward the Inheritor Holy Land. At Cangya Laboratory, Liao and Ming discovered the destruction of the Cangmang Federation and discussed the Dao Net’s response.

• Min Feng arrived at Bright Light Settlement, and Xu Xing calmed the settlement’s people before asking about the Law-Intercepting Heaven-Veiling Technique.
• Xu Xing ordered Min Feng to accompany him to the Inheritor Holy Land and explained to Xi Yun and Xi Li that Min Feng’s soul had been altered by the Beast God Clan.
• Xu Xing gave Xi Yun and Xi Li cultivation knowledge and techniques, left food and water in Bright Light Settlement, and warned two survivors that the Beast God Race would find the settlement in a month.
• Xu Xing and Min Feng vanished from the settlement, leaving Xi Yun and Xi Li in charge.
• Liao and Ming found Cangya Laboratory empty and learned that the Cangmang Federation’s more than two hundred million Beast God Race members had died.
• Ming told Liao that the Dao Net had not responded and that the remaining Human Race rebels were still within acceptable limits.

Liao and Ming discussed the outsider who had entered the Beast God Realm and considered seeking the Beast God’s intervention. Xu Xing accompanied Min Feng to the Human Race’s Inheritor Holy Land, where he reached the artifact’s innermost Secret Realm and found Xi’s Dao.

• Liao concluded that the outsider who had destroyed the Cangmang Federation was beyond Void Return and proposed asking the Council of Elders and the Beast God for help.
• Ming warned that the Beast God might be dangerous in his abnormal state, while Liao said the Beast God would act if the outsider belonged to the Human Race.
• Xu Xing and Min Feng traveled to the hidden Inheritor Holy Land, which Min Feng described as the Human Race’s refuge and repository of cultivation methods.
• Min Feng bowed before the Holy Land and asked Xu Xing to proceed alone, and Xu Xing entered without being noticed by its guards.
• Xu Xing crossed the Holy Land’s Secret Realm and reached the brilliant core, where he recognized Xi’s name and Dao.

Xu Xing entered Xi’s hidden Dao essence and subdued the four Human Race cultivators sheltered within it. He revealed that he came from the Immortal Realm, leaving the four stunned.

• Xu Xing recognized that Xi had used the Heavenly Will’s anchor to preserve a hidden wisp of her Dao essence for the Human Race.
• Xu Xing entered the fireball and found four peak Void Return cultivators sheltered within Xi’s Dao essence.
• Fumu attacked Xu Xing, but he stopped her strike and restrained her and the other three cultivators.
• Xu Xing explained that he was Human Race but came from another world, then told the four he came from the Immortal Realm.

Xu Xing showed the four Void Return cultivators the Sword Ancestor’s overwhelming power and revealed that the Human Race’s predicament might have been secretly caused by the Heavenly Will. The four left Xi’s protected fireball with him, unsettled by his accusation.

• Xu Xing revealed a vision of the Sword Ancestor wielding a sword formed from the river of all sword paths, leaving the four Void Return cultivators unable to resist.
• Xu Xing identified himself as the Sword Ancestor and showed the four Xi’s remaining Dao aura, then returned it to its place.
• Xu Xing led the four out of Xi’s fireball and reassured them that the Dao Net would not detect them.
• Xu Xing asked whether the four still believed in observing Heaven’s Dao and following its will, then claimed the Heavenly Will had secretly caused the Human Race’s plight.
• The woman of the Fumu lineage defended the Heavenly Will’s fairness, but her confidence faltered as she considered the Human Race’s near-extinction.