Chapter Summaries

Xu Xing investigated the Heavenly Palace’s efforts to prolong the Divine Path, then met Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, and Hong Sovereign to discuss Xuan’s plans and their return to the Great Profound Realm. Unable to find his home through the realm’s pull, Xu Xing decided to sever his past and all three connections, relying on Yuan to help them find his home afterward.

• Xu Xing watched the Spirit-Splitting Officials carve divine-path seals into the world’s qi and left without intervening.
• Xu Xing joined Bie Xuening, Yuanjun, and Hong Sovereign, and told them he could not sense where his home was.
• Yuanjun asked what Xuan might do with the Heavenly Will she had taken, and Xu Xing ruled out restoring Heaven or advancing beyond the Dao Holding Realm.
• Xu Xing proposed severing their connections to the Great Profound Realm, but explained that he would cut away his past and all three bonds to return.
• Bie Xuening and Yuanjun objected, but Xu Xing said they could follow Yuan’s connection to find his home and told them to rest in this world.

Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun traveled through a world where the Divine Path still ruled as the Immortal Path began to rise. A youth inherited Tianjue’s legacy and was charged with overturning the Divine Path, while a dying wolf awoke with the memories of a powerful being.

• Hong Sovereign separated from Xu Xing and the others to check on a junior, then left spiritual fruits on the mountaintop for a Thunder Department deity to find.
• A golden-armored divine general searching for the god-blasphemer found the fruits but could not move them after a warning against greed appeared in his mind.
• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun discussed the fruits and the coming clash between the Immortal and Divine Paths as they walked toward a town.
• A youth fell from a cliff into Tianjue’s cave, recovered in a pool, and received Tianjue’s legacy and a charge to overturn the Divine Path.
• A dying gray wolf regained awareness and realized it possessed the memories of a powerful being, despite being unable to speak or move normally.

Old Daoist Jiang Lin struggled with the powerful methods Hong Sovereign had given him, choosing to protect Cloud Sea Temple and his disciples rather than pursue them. Meanwhile, Hong Sovereign showed Xu Xing the embryonic world created by a divination wonder, and the chapter ended as Jiang Lin began a ritual to settle his affairs.

• Old Daoist Jiang Lin sealed away the Bear God's divine office and emerged from meditation, resolved not to endanger his disciples with the four methods.
• Hong Sovereign watched Jiang Lin prepare to sacrifice himself for Cloud Sea Temple and told Xu Xing that he had chosen Jiang Lin because of his devotion to his disciples.
• Xu Xing explained that Yuanjun had gone with Senior Sister to recover before their connection was severed, then asked Hong Sovereign about the divination-type wonder.
• Hong Sovereign revealed that the Record of Dao-Deriving Great Thousand had created an embryonic replica of the world after his existence turned a false possibility into reality.
• Hong Sovereign said he would restrain the embryonic world and return it when they left, while Jiang Lin began a ritual with his disciples.

After discovering that his Fourfold Method let him control Divine Lord Tongli, Jiang Lin learned that Tongli had condoned Bear God’s crimes and planned to kill Cloud Sea Temple’s disciples. Jiang Lin rejected the deity and drew in a vast torrent of spiritual energy, summoning Tongwei as well.

• Jiang Lin received permission for two portions of spiritual energy and saw a jade-book interface identify the Celestial Venerable as summonable.
• Jiang Lin summoned Divine Lord Tongli, and his God Controlling Method made Tongli reveal his wish that Jiang Lin were dead.
• Tongli admitted he had tolerated Bear God devouring mortals and threatened to destroy Cloud Sea Temple’s disciples, claiming he had bribed the supervising divine official.
• Jiang Lin abandoned his remaining hope in Tongli and absorbed spiritual energy beyond his allotted share, restoring his mana and refining the Divine Path imprint.
• Jiang Lin called for Tongwei, denouncing him as a god without virtue.

Jiang Lin devoured Tongwei’s divine essence and subdued Tongli and Qing Mian, while Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign discussed the limits of cultivation in the realm. Pill Ancestor recovered the Three Heavens Realm and returned the surviving trial-goers to the Sword Sect and Supreme Dao Sect, leaving Chi Jiuyu bewildered.

• Jiang Lin swallowed Tongwei’s divine essence, stored his weakened ghost in a jade bottle, and began absorbing the deity’s power and divine abilities.
• Jiang Lin questioned Tongli over the villagers harmed for incense offerings, then ordered Qing Mian summoned and used the God Enslaving Method to control both deities before releasing them to the Heavenly Palace.
• Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign watched Jiang Lin’s actions and discussed Jiu Yu’s cultivation and the obstacles to advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• Pill Ancestor announced that he had recovered the Three Heavens Realm and that all the trial-goers had survived, then sent messages to the Sword Sect and Supreme Dao Sect.
• Pill Ancestor released the trial-goers from the Three Heavens Realm pill, and the sect patriarchs took their disciples away, including Li Ke and Chi Jiuyu.

After Xuan’s attack left four Human Race True Immortals stranded beyond the realm, the Sword Sect and Central Continent concealed the truth from their disciples. Chi Jiuyu learned that her Master was away and, after being allowed to see the empty Sword Venerable Hall, began focusing on cultivation while the sect struggled to manage the aftermath.

• Meng Xuan used Pill Ancestor’s token to visit Mo Buyu and Liu Yingying at the Convalescent Residence.
• Li Ke ended the Sword Sect trial and refused to explain the accident, then sent Zhang Yunlu to visit Ji Yue.
• Ji Yue told Zhang Yunlu that the Sword Ancestor, Sword Venerable, Yuanjun, and Hong Sovereign had been cast beyond the realm, and Lin Ji returned to the Sword Sect that night.
• Chi Jiuyu investigated the disappearances, sneaked toward the Sword Venerable Hall, and learned from Li Ke that her Master was away because the truth was beyond her current cultivation.
• Jing Hai allowed Chi Jiuyu to see the empty hall, and she accepted punishment for breaking martial law before devoting herself to Spirit Transformation training.
• Du Ruoheng struggled to manage the Sword Sect’s weakened Battle Net and the many emergencies caused by the True Immortals’ absence.

Du Ruoheng managed the Sword Sect’s affairs while Chi Jiuyu studied for Spirit Transformation and struggled with her worry over her absent Master. Several months later, Chi Jiuyu reached Spirit Transformation at age twenty-two, becoming the youngest cultivator in the Great Profound Realm to do so.

• Du Ruoheng handled Starry Sky Warp Array maintenance and hoped the two Founder Ancestors would return.
• Chi Jiuyu studied the Heavenly Origin Soul-Refining Secret Record while Zhang Yunlu applied ointment to her whip scars.
• Chi Jiuyu left abruptly after Zhang Yunlu remarked that she might break the record for the youngest Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Jing Hai brought Min a puppy and two chickens, then taught him to use a mobile phone.
• Chi Jiuyu’s name replaced the former leader atop the Divine Glow Ranking List after she advanced to Spirit Transformation.
• Li Ke and Ji Yue praised Chi Jiuyu’s achievement, while Min recognized her as Sword Venerable’s disciple.

The Azure Cloud Demon Lord built a demon kingdom with the Mountains and Rivers Pearl, but secretly planned to flee while plotting revenge against the Thousand Derivations Dao Lord. In the Heavenly Palace, Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign discussed the limits of the Immortal Path seeds and the extreme caution of Jiang Lin and He Yunqi.

• The Azure Cloud Demon Lord used the Mountains and Rivers Pearl to dominate the Azure Cloud Mountain Range and repel the Great Unity Dynasty army, establishing a demon kingdom.
• The Azure Cloud Demon Lord decided he could not challenge the Heavenly Palace and left the mountains under the pretense of gathering materials for Spirit Awakening Pills.
• As he flew away, the Azure Cloud Demon Lord recalled his rebirth, the seizure of the Mountains and Rivers Pearl, and his hatred of the Thousand Derivations Dao Lord.
• Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign discussed why the Divine Path Heavenly Venerables would not directly stop the Immortal Path seeds from rising.
• Xu Xing noted that Jiang Lin had enslaved dozens of gods and reached perfected Golden Core while proceeding cautiously.
• Hong Sovereign observed that He Yunqi, still frightened by the Fayan incident, was the most cautious Immortal Path seed and had revealed nothing unusual.

Hong Sovereign and Xu Xing attended the Heavenly Palace Dharma assembly, where they observed the gods and discussed how few would survive the coming transition of ages. In the mortal world, Yuanjun continued recovering while Bie Xuening reported that she had made some cultivation progress but still could not dispel the Great Profound Realm’s rejection.

• Hong Sovereign and Xu Xing arrived unnoticed at the Heavenly Palace Dharma assembly and estimated that only one or two in ten gods would survive the coming age transition.
• The Lunar Star Lord and the Golden Crow arrived, and the Golden Crow openly stared at her while the Celestial Venerable allowed the gathering to proceed.
• The gods listened to blessings, watched the celestial consorts dance, and feasted while Hong Sovereign wondered whether his younger sister and the others might notice the gathering.
• Yuanjun continued recovering in seclusion and found that she had grown larger, while Yueling worried that Yuanjun had surpassed her in height.
• Bie Xuening told Yuanjun that her cultivation had progressed somewhat but that she still had no way to remove the Great Profound Realm’s force of rejection.
• Yueling brought fruit to Yuanjun and Bie Xuening, then left after Bie Xuening threatened to confiscate her game console.

As the Great Unity Dynasty descended into famine and rebellion, old Daoist Jiang Lin abandoned his plan to quietly build strength and began feeding disaster victims. He ordered the Inspector Divine Official, Qing Mian, to seize one hundred thousand shi of rice from grain-hoarding merchants, despite the protection of the Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord.

• Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign left the Heavenly Palace assembly and returned to a mortal world gripped by winter, famine, rebellion, and demonic attacks.
• Old Daoist Jiang Lin and his disciples distributed porridge to starving people while Jiang Cheng reported that their supplies would not suffice for the incoming disaster victims.
• Jiang Lin told his young disciple Xiao Yun that food existed but was being withheld, explaining how he had slain a protected god and seized grain from merchants who hoarded it.
• Jiang Lin summoned Qing Mian and ordered him to take one hundred thousand shi of rice from grain merchants within three days.
• Qing Mian agreed and fled to carry out the order, while Jiang Lin watched him go and turned his attention to the Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord.

Old Daoist Jiang Lin named his effort to feed the starving Taiping Dao, while Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign discussed how to help it endure the winter. Xu Xing created Taiping Pills and passed their refining method to Jiang Lin, leaving the people with a way to survive the snow and hunger.

• Old Daoist Jiang Lin saw a fleeting vision of Grainfoot and learned that one hundred thousand shi of grain could be gathered within three days.
• Jiang Cheng urged Old Daoist Jiang Lin to establish a framework for helping people, and Jiang Lin named the movement Taiping Dao.
• In the Great Unity Dynasty’s capital, Hong Sovereign asked Xu Xing about Taiping Dao, and Xu Xing agreed to help Jiang Lin.
• Xu Xing refined wind and snow into Taiping Pills that could stave off hunger, then passed their refining method to Jiang Lin.
• Xu Xing and Hong Sovereign admired the snowy landscape and traded poems, including verses Xu Xing remembered from his homeland.

Taiping elixir fruits appeared throughout the mortal world, easing the winter famine, while the Lunar Star Lord investigated their origin and encountered Yueling and a mysterious blindfolded woman. He Yunqi escaped the Azure Cloud Demon Lord in the present, then learned that his ninety-ninth Fayan had unlocked the ability to turn an item or personal ability from a possible future into reality.

• Taiping elixir fruits spread across the world, and the emperor accepted his ministers’ praise and ordered a temple built to worship the Taiping God.
• The Lunar Star Lord tasted the unusually pure fruits near Yueling’s house and learned that Sword Ancestor had made them.
• When the blindfolded woman emerged, the Lunar Star Lord saw visions of the gods’ ruin and the heavens being reaped, then recovered and watched the woman approach Yueling.
• He Yunqi fled the Azure Cloud Demon Lord and hid in a prepared cave, where his Cloud Book showed that the demon lord would find and kill him on the third day.
• He Yunqi discovered that his ninety-ninth Fayan had unlocked Turn Illusion into Reality, letting him make a future item or personal ability real.

Azure Cloud Demon Lord tracked down He Yunqi but was stunned when He Yunqi used a Mountains and Rivers Pearl Phantom to summon a fortune true dragon and repel him. Xu Xing then left the fight to visit Bie Xuening and Yuanjun, where Yueling mentioned a newcomer called the Lunar Star Lord before Xu Xing sensed a ripple from the Ascension Platform.

• Azure Cloud Demon Lord searched Fuming County for He Yunqi, found Thunder Department deities there, and left to search nearby.
• He Yunqi used a Fayan opportunity to manifest a single-use Mountains and Rivers Pearl Phantom, then began another Fayan attempt.
• Azure Cloud Demon Lord found He Yunqi in the snowy forest and attacked, but He Yunqi summoned a fortune true dragon that blocked his strike.
• Xu Xing watched the clash, judged that the phantom protected He Yunqi but would not let him kill Azure Cloud Demon Lord, and went to the cottage where Bie Xuening and Yuanjun stayed.
• Yueling told Xu Xing that Yuanjun was nearly recovered and that the Lunar Star Lord had arrived the day before; Xu Xing then sensed a ripple from the Ascension Platform in his hand.

Xu Xing and Yuanjun examined an Ascension Platform carrying Ning Ruo’s attempt to contact them, and Yuanjun began helping the connection through the Great Profound Realm’s repulsive force. After the Lunar Star Lord warned Yueling that Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord might target the Sword Ancestor over the Taiping Pill Fruit, Yueling set off to confront him with Xu Xing’s permission.

• Xu Xing received a broken message from Ning Ruo through an Ascension Platform, but his replies did not reach her.
• Yuanjun examined the Ascension Platform and confirmed that she could speed up contact, though the Great Profound Realm’s repulsive force would still delay it.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun discussed the Taiping Pill Fruit, their recent travels, and the era of changing immortals and gods.
• The Lunar Star Lord visited Yueling with Moon Laurel Divine Fruits and warned that Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord was investigating the Sword Ancestor’s use of primordial qi.
• Yueling asked Xu Xing for permission to handle the matter, then flew off to confront Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord.

Yueling confronted Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord over his role in the failed harvests and repeatedly struck him down. In the Great Profound Realm, Ning Ruo finally contacted Xu Xing and the others and learned they had stopped in a Divine Path world and found a way to return.

• Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord realized that someone had been using primordial qi to create Taiping Pill fruits and deplete its origin.
• Yueling appeared in Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord's Divine Court, struck him into pieces, and read charges against him under the Sword Sect Agricultural Management Regulations.
• Yueling struck Bountiful Harvest Imperial Lord again after his divine body re-formed.
• Ning Ruo detected a karmic thread through her artifact and received Xu Xing's message about their situation and return plan.
• Ning Ruo decided to tell her fellow Daoists that she had contacted Xu Xing and the others.

Ning Ruo briefed the True Immortals on Xu Xing’s situation and worked to stabilize a communication channel, while Li Ke was summoned away from the cafeteria. The Lunar Star Lord met Xu Xing and Yuanjun, explaining why she had helped them before admitting that she believed her destined future could not be changed.

• Ning Ruo told the True Immortals that Xu Xing intended to sever his past and described the world where the Divine Path and Immortal Path were replacing one another.
• The immortals agreed to send Xu Xing updates about the Great Profound Realm, the Supreme Dao Sect, the Sword Sect, and Hong Sovereign’s family; Confusion unexpectedly asked whether they had a group.
• Ning Ruo tried to strengthen Yuanjun’s karmic threads and received an invitation from Charm Ancestor to join the Exchange Group.
• Chi Jiuyu ate with Zhang Yunlu and Li Ke after returning injured from a mission, but Li Ke abruptly vanished after sensing she had to handle something.
• The Lunar Star Lord visited Xu Xing and Yuanjun with moon cassia fruits, explaining that she had acted to help the living beings she had watched from the moon.
• Xu Xing and Yuanjun asked whether the future she foresaw was certain and whether she could change it, and the Lunar Star Lord said she believed it was real but could not change it.

Yuanjun gave the Lunar Star Lord two True Methods, offering her a path to abandon her divine office or pursue the Solar authority and a higher rank. Meanwhile, Yueling forced Emperor Grainfoot to admit fault and warned him to obey the Sword Sect’s rules, which she never explained.

• Yuanjun passed the Lunar Star Lord the Lunar Spirit Cleansing and Divine Shedding True Method and the Wonderful Dao Unity Enlightenment True Scripture, and the Star Lord left to consider her choices.
• Xu Xing predicted the Lunar Star Lord would first choose to shed her divine office, while Yuanjun revealed she wanted to see how the Star Lord’s progress compared with Jiang Lin’s.
• Bie Xuening returned from seclusion, and Xu Xing offered to cook in celebration after she gained something and Ning Ruo contacted them through the Ascension Platform.
• Yueling repeatedly smashed Emperor Grainfoot apart until he knelt and confessed to manipulating primordial qi, offending the Sword Ancestor, and violating the Sword Sect Agricultural Management Regulations.
• Yueling warned Emperor Grainfoot not to break the Sword Sect’s rules again, then departed before he could ask what those rules were.

The Lunar Star Lord used the true methods to glimpse the Three-Legged Golden Crow and chose to abandon her divine position and lunar authority to avoid calamity. In a reply from the Great Profound Realm, Xu Xing and his companions learned that the realm was stable and heard updates about its sects and disciples.

• The Lunar Star Lord used the Wonderful Dao Unity Enlightenment True Scripture to see the Three-Legged Golden Crow, whose gaze melted part of her jade palace.
• The Lunar Star Lord decided to use Lunar Spirit Cleansing and Divine Shedding to give up her divine position and lunar authority.
• Yuanjun confirmed that the Lunar Star Lord had begun her attempt, while Xu Xing described her expected state as a pseudo Dao Integration.
• Xu Xing, Bie Xuening, and Yuanjun listened to a reply from the Great Profound Realm reporting that Xuan had not reappeared and that the situation there was stable.
• The reply reported that Min had taken the Sword Sect's remaining Heavenly Will and the Charm Ancestor had taken the Supreme Dao Sect's.
• Xu Xing and Bie Xuening heard that Chi Jiuyu had reached Spirit Transformation at age twenty-two, and Xu Xing praised her achievement.

Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Bie Xuening met Hong Sovereign to discuss Xuan's seizure of the Heavenly Will and the Cang Race's disappearance, but they could not determine Xuan's goal. Meanwhile, Jiang Lin chased the Azure Cloud Demon Lord and summoned divine aid just as the demon transformed into a true dragon and struck back.

• Xu Xing said the vanished Cang Race might be hiding in the Past Domain or concealed by Xuan, and Yuanjun contacted her brother, Hong Sovereign.
• Xu Xing, Yuanjun, and Bie Xuening traveled to Moonlit Perilous Peak, where Hong Sovereign reviewed their report and asked what Xuan intended to do with the Heavenly Will.
• Hong Sovereign and the others speculated that Xuan might use the Heavenly Will to help the Cang Race produce more Dao-ascended members, but they had no firm answer.
• The Azure Cloud Demon Lord fled Jiang Lin after failing to kill the Thousand Derivations Dao Lord, and Jiang Lin's Demon Purge Shouts wounded him and broke his protective barrier.
• The Azure Cloud Demon Lord warned Jiang Lin that a True Lord would soon descend and bring chaos, then transformed his azure flood dragon into a true dragon and attacked.
• Jiang Lin invoked the gods, and golden divine chains struck the five-qi giant hand the Azure Cloud Demon Lord had sent to crush him.

Azure Cloud Demon Lord unleashed the Five Spirits Mountains and Rivers Dharma Body against old Daoist Jiang Lin and the three deities, but a mysterious finger intervened and erased the battle. Jiang Lin survived, only to find a young girl watching him, while the observers on the mountain continued their work with the Ascension Platform.

• Azure Cloud Demon Lord broke the deities’ assault by draining the Mountains and Rivers Pearl and transforming into a giant wolf of Five Qi.
• Hong Sovereign explained that the Dharma Body was an immature precursor to a Dharma Manifestation as the group observed the fight and discussed the Divine Path system.
• A mysterious voice noticed the unfamiliar method and sent a finger through the sky toward Azure Cloud Demon Lord.
• Jiang Lin’s divine methods identified the Jade Void Heavenly Lord as a virtuous deity who could not be summoned, and the chapter outlined the ranks of the Divine Path system.
• The descending finger struck Azure Cloud Demon Lord’s five-colored light and made the wolf and the surrounding sea of clouds vanish.
• Jiang Lin survived the attack and saw a young girl in a flowing skirt watching him.