Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Proud Enough”

Key Plot Points and Events

• On a hidden asteroid beyond Nine Heavens Star, the Ji Family’s Earth Immortal ancestor receives a report about Lin Fei. Although Lin Fei is only in the Void Insight Realm, he recently killed a Human Immortal incarnation of the Feng Family’s ancestor, demonstrating Middle Human Immortal-level combat strength.
• The Ji Family suspects the Five Hidden Families may be testing its concealed strength by requesting that it eliminate Lin Fei. They also discuss the mysterious disappearance of the Zhan Family’s Perfected Earth Immortal ancestor and the Zhan Family’s current resistance.
• The Ji Family ancestor concludes that the Zhan Family’s ancestor has likely truly died. She orders five newly advanced Human Immortals to capture Lin Fei alive so that his soul can be searched for information about the Zhan Family.
• The five Ji Family Human Immortals were elevated through the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art. They boast about its ability to break through cultivation bottlenecks, while casually acknowledging that using the blood essence and souls of mortals makes the technique more effective.
• After searching much of Nine Heavens Star, the five Human Immortals detect magical fluctuations near a mountain and discover Lin Fei hidden within an array.
• They break through the concealment formation and order Lin Fei to surrender. Lin Fei dismisses their threat, identifies them as members of a Hidden Family, and warns that they may regret coming in their true bodies.
• The five Human Immortals surround Lin Fei and activate a combined suppressive array. Despite their confidence, Lin Fei withstands the array using the power of his nine Cave Heavens.
• The chapter ends as the five Human Immortals unleash a massive magical palm against Lin Fei, insisting that he should feel proud to be attacked by five Human Immortals at once.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Displays extreme confidence and composure. Rather than fearing five Human Immortals, he is disappointed that an Earth Immortal incarnation has not appeared. His reaction suggests that his strength has grown substantially and that he sees newly advanced Human Immortals as inadequate opponents.
• Ji Family’s Earth Immortal Ancestor: Revealed as calculating and ruthless. She views Lin Fei primarily as a source of intelligence and orders him captured alive for soul-searching rather than simply killed.
• Five Ji Family Human Immortals: Their sudden advancement has made them arrogant and overconfident. They believe their combined formation can suppress even a Late Human Immortal, causing them to underestimate Lin Fei despite the warning about his previous victory.
• Zhan Family: Though absent from the direct confrontation, the family’s apparent destruction and the possible death of its Earth Immortal ancestor form the political background of the chapter.

Significant Themes

• Arrogance versus true strength: The newly ascended Human Immortals mistake their realm advancement for superiority, while Lin Fei’s calm response suggests that actual combat ability matters more than cultivation level alone.
• The consequences of forbidden power: The Heaven-Mending Immortal Art grants rapid advancement but damages the natural order and can be strengthened through the sacrifice of living beings, highlighting the moral corruption behind the Hidden Families’ power.
• Political exploitation and hidden agendas: The Five Hidden Families use the Zhan Family’s apparent fall to seize Nine Heavens Star, while the Ji Family suspects that requests for Lin Fei’s elimination may conceal a test of its strength.
• Confidence and provocation: Lin Fei deliberately insults the five Human Immortals, provoking them into attacking while revealing his unwillingness to be intimidated.

Character Interactions

• The Ji Family subordinate reports the situation to the white-haired ancestor, who dismisses the Zhan Family’s possible schemes and commands the capture of Lin Fei.
• The five newly advanced Human Immortals discuss their newfound power, with one urging caution and the others mocking his concern.
• When they confront Lin Fei, they demand his surrender and ridicule him for believing he can challenge Human Immortals.
• Lin Fei counters their intimidation by questioning their courage and expressing disappointment that they are not an Earth Immortal-level threat.
• Enraged by his contempt, the five combine their powers and attack him with a suppressive formation and enormous magical palm.

Summary: “Reaping What They Sowed”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ji Family’s five Human Immortals combine their power through a suppressive array, producing a strike equivalent to the Late Human Immortal Realm.
• Lin Fei counters by releasing a Human Immortal Puppet forged from Seven-Colored Immortal Gold. The puppet blocks the giant palm and survives the attack unharmed.
• Believing Lin Fei is trapped and can be worn down, the five Human Immortals repeatedly attack while attempting to exhaust his magical power.
• Lin Fei remains calm, recognizing that none of the five can truly threaten him outside the array. He deliberately avoids revealing his strongest trump cards, including the Gold-Devouring Insect King and Gold-Eating Beetle Mother.
• Using his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, Lin Fei sees the Primordial Spirit Avatars of the five enemies and discovers that they are saturated with blood resentment.
• He deduces that they cultivated the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art, which requires the essence and souls of hundreds of millions of mortals. Their immense karmic guilt becomes the weakness Lin Fei exploits.
• Lin Fei combines the Self-Manifesting Heavenly Demon Curse with the Thunder-Sound Demon-Subduing Divine Power. The attack awakens the five cultivators’ inner demons and throws their minds into chaos.
• The five Human Immortals lose control, revealing their greed, ambition, and murderous desires through their delusions. Their array collapses.
• Determining that they cannot be allowed to survive, Lin Fei attacks directly. He kills two of the Human Immortals with his Mighty God-Demon Body and absorbs their bodies, blood, essence, and Primordial Spirit Avatars through the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.
• The absorbed Human Immortal origin power greatly strengthens Lin Fei’s body and condenses his Imprint of Strength. His body grows to three zhang in height, and he begins considering the power he could gain by devouring all five enemies.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Demonstrates strategic patience, confidence, and moral fury. Rather than overpowering the array immediately or exposing all his abilities, he studies its weaknesses and exploits the enemies’ karmic corruption. His successful absorption of two Human Immortals significantly advances his physical strength.
• The five Ji Family Human Immortals: Their arrogance and greed are exposed. They initially believe Lin Fei can be defeated through attrition, but their reliance on the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art leaves them vulnerable to inner demons and blood resentment. Their minds collapse under the curse, turning their own sins against them.
• Human Immortal Puppet: Acts as Lin Fei’s steadfast defensive guardian, repeatedly blocking the array’s attacks without suffering damage.

Significant Themes

• Karmic retribution: The Ji Family’s mass slaughter and use of mortal souls ultimately become the cause of their downfall.
• Exploitation of inner weakness: Lin Fei wins not through raw force alone, but by identifying the psychological and spiritual flaw hidden within his enemies.
• Greed and corruption: The Ji Family’s ambitions for immortality, power, and domination reveal how thoroughly their cultivation methods have corrupted them.
• Strength through strategy: Lin Fei emphasizes concealment, analysis, and efficient use of abilities instead of revealing every trump card.
• Power gained through devouring: The chapter reinforces the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art as both a deadly weapon and a means for Lin Fei to rapidly increase his cultivation and physical strength.

Character Interactions

• The Ji Family cultivators initially mock and underestimate Lin Fei, assuming the array and attrition will guarantee victory.
• Lin Fei responds indirectly through the Human Immortal Puppet, allowing the enemies to grow overconfident while he searches for their weakness.
• His curse forces the five enemies to confront distorted manifestations of their own ambitions and sins, effectively turning their minds against one another and themselves.
• After the array collapses, Lin Fei personally executes two of them and absorbs their power, shifting the confrontation decisively in his favor.

Plot points and events

• Lin Fei continues using the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art to devour Human Immortals, killing three more after already absorbing two. Even one possessed by an inner demon is no match for him.
• The accumulated power pushes his Mighty God-Demon Body to its limit, where an invisible Great Dao Barrier blocks further growth.
• A Ji Family Earth Immortal incarnation appears and attacks with the Death God’s Finger. Lin Fei shatters it with more than a hundred punches.
• At the height of his fist intent, Lin Fei punches through the Great Dao Barrier. Great Dao Origin descends, transforming his body and the mark within it.
• The Ji Family incarnation recognizes that Lin Fei has achieved Body-Unified Dao: his physical body, rather than his Primordial Spirit Avatar, has united with the Dao of Strength.
• Lin Fei’s body reaches thirty-three zhang before he withdraws the divine ability. His nine Cave Heavens expand to five hundred kilometers, indicating he has reached the Perfect Void Insight Realm.
• Believing his new strength may let him challenge even an Earth Immortal incarnation with a top-grade immortal artifact, Lin Fei confronts the Ji Family woman. She warns him that he still owes reverence to an Earth Immortal.

Character development

• Lin Fei advances dramatically through his audacious, direct fighting style. He turns immense devoured power into a breakthrough, gaining a body comparable to the Perfected Human Immortal Realm and a deeper connection to the Great Dao of Strength.
• The Ji Family Earth Immortal incarnation shifts from anger and contempt to astonishment at Lin Fei’s rare achievement, though she remains hostile and asserts her superiority.

Character interactions

• Lin Fei ignores the Earth Immortal’s command to spare the Human Immortals and kills them, provoking her intervention.
• He withstands her attack and answers her threats with confidence, while she recognizes his breakthrough but insists that it does not make him her equal.

Significant themes

• Strength through absorption and refinement: Lin Fei converts enemies’ power into personal advancement.
• Breaking limits through will: He overcomes the Great Dao Barrier with relentless physical force and conviction.
• Different paths to the Dao: Lin Fei’s body unites with the Dao, a rare route compared with the more common union of spirit and Dao.
• Defiance and hierarchy: Lin Fei’s growing power challenges the authority of the Ji Family and the assumed supremacy of Earth Immortals.

Chapter Summary: “Mountain-and-River Diagram”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter establishes the rarity and overwhelming status of the Celestial and Earth Immortal realms. Fewer than fifty Celestial Immortals exist across the entire cultivation world, while Earth Immortals are powerful enough to dominate ordinary regions and command the respect of Human Immortal experts.
• Ji Tong, an exceptionally talented Earth Immortal from the Ji Family, confronts Lin Fei. She has cultivated for just over twenty thousand years and is regarded as the Ji Family’s most remarkable female genius.
• Ji Tong demands that Lin Fei kneel, apologize, and beg for mercy. Lin Fei refuses and openly dismisses her threats.
• Lin Fei recalls his past achievements, including helping eliminate multiple Earth Immortal Patriarchs and Demon Ancestors and personally killing the Celestial Immortal Dongfang Tianming. Because of this experience, he does not fear Ji Tong’s Earth Immortal Avatar.
• Lin Fei quickly deduces that Ji Tong is connected to the Five Hidden Families invading Nine Heavens Star, most likely an avatar of another hidden Earth Immortal Patriarch. Ji Tong confirms the Ji Family’s involvement and offers to spare him if he submits.
• When Lin Fei continues to insult and challenge her, Ji Tong decides to kill him and unveils the Ji Family’s inherited immortal art.
• Ji Tong summons the Mountain-and-River Diagram, an imitation of an Ancient Immortal Artifact. The diagram expands into a world of rivers and mountains, exerting immense pressure, restricting Lin Fei’s movement, and sealing the surrounding space.
• Lin Fei counters by summoning the Primal Chaos Pearl for defense and draws the Azure Evil-Warding Sword and Heaven-Splitting Sword, revealing that he possesses three High-Grade Immortal Artifacts.
• Ji Tong is shocked by Lin Fei’s wealth of treasures, since even she only acquired her High-Grade Immortal Artifacts after reaching the Human Immortal and Earth Immortal realms.
• Ji Tong activates the diagram’s deeper power, manifesting countless Mountain-and-River Orthodox Gods. These beings, nourished by earth and water veins, incense, and faith, range from the Spirit Transformation Realm to the Void Insight Realm.
• She boasts that the Mountain-and-River Diagram, empowered by these gods and the Heavenly Dao, can rival a Supreme-Grade Immortal Artifact and might even contend with an Earth Immortal from the Zhan Family. The confrontation remains unresolved at the chapter’s end.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Demonstrates exceptional confidence and battle experience. His past victories over powerful Earth and Celestial Immortals have made him disregard Ji Tong’s intimidation. He also reveals tremendous resources and combat potential, wielding multiple High-Grade Immortal Artifacts despite being only in the Void Insight Realm.
• Ji Tong: Initially appears condescending but also willing to spare Lin Fei because she recognizes his talent. His repeated disrespect enrages her, causing her to abandon mercy and display the Ji Family’s most powerful techniques.
• The Ji Family: Is shown to possess hidden Earth Immortal-level strength and sophisticated inheritance involving ancient immortal artifacts, divine manifestations, faith, and control over natural forces.

Significant Themes

• Power versus cultivation realm: Lin Fei’s lower cultivation does not fully define his strength. His experience, magical power, treasures, and strategic achievements allow him to challenge an Earth Immortal Avatar.
• Pride and underestimation: Ji Tong assumes Lin Fei should submit because of the difference in realms, while Lin Fei refuses to acknowledge her superiority. Their mutual arrogance drives the conflict.
• Hidden forces and political intrigue: The Five Hidden Families are revealed as major powers attempting to control Nine Heavens Star, with Earth Immortal Patriarchs acting through avatars.
• Artifacts and external power: The Mountain-and-River Diagram demonstrates how powerful immortal artifacts, faith, natural energy, and summoned entities can compensate for or amplify a cultivator’s personal strength.
• Defiance against established hierarchy: Lin Fei challenges the traditional reverence owed to Earth Immortals, relying on his accomplishments rather than status.

Character Interactions

• Ji Tong repeatedly commands Lin Fei to kneel and submit, but Lin Fei responds with mockery and blunt rejection.
• Lin Fei exposes his knowledge of the Hidden Families and infers Ji Tong’s identity, surprising her.
• Ji Tong offers Lin Fei a chance to surrender, but his continued refusal convinces her that he must be killed.
• Their verbal confrontation escalates into a battle: Ji Tong uses the Mountain-and-River Diagram and its Orthodox Gods, while Lin Fei relies on the Primal Chaos Pearl and multiple powerful swords to resist her suppression.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei recognizes that Ji Tong’s Mountain-and-River Diagram contains thousands of refined Mountain-and-River Orthodox Gods, including the souls of powerful Void Insight Realm cultivators. Its nature resembles the Human Emperor Banner but is more sophisticated and closer to an immortal technique.
• Ji Tong activates the diagram’s power, combining countless mountains, rivers, and lakes into a massive divine mountain wrapped by a water dragon. She uses it to crush Lin Fei’s defense.
• Lin Fei channels the power of his nine Cave Heavens into the Primal Chaos Pearl, strengthening its defensive barrier. However, the divine mountain eventually shatters the pearl’s azure-yellow protective form.
• Realizing that offense is more effective than defense against a stronger opponent, Lin Fei attacks with the Azure Evil-Warding Sword and Heaven-Splitting Sword. Their combined sword rays destroy the divine mountain and sever the water dragon.
• Lin Fei charges into the Mountain-and-River Diagram, cutting through the Orthodox Gods’ defenses. Ji Tong transforms the diagram’s natural beauty into a hellish landscape of barren mountains and filthy waters, then forms an enormous tombstone to suppress him.
• Lin Fei destroys the tombstone with hundreds of sword rays, but the attack consumes a third of his mana. He realizes that his limited recovery as a cultivator below the Human Immortal Realm will eventually put him at a disadvantage against Ji Tong’s Earth Immortal incarnation.
• Ji Tong launches another attack, forming a poisonous black python and corrosive water pillar. Lin Fei abandons sword techniques and shifts to his Mighty God-Demon Body, using the Overlord Armor to multiply his physical strength.
• Drawing continuously on the Great Dao Origin of Strength, Lin Fei delivers a devastating punch. It destroys the water pillar and black python, annihilates countless Orthodox Gods, tears open the Mountain-and-River Diagram, and causes severe backlash to Ji Tong’s incarnation.
• Ji Tong escapes into the starry sky with the divine ability Heaven-and-Earth Transposition, while Lin Fei declares that strength can overcome realm differences, techniques, and divine abilities.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei demonstrates tactical adaptability. He first relies on defense, then recognizes that his swords are more effective against Ji Tong’s superior realm.
• He becomes increasingly confident and aggressive, directly entering the Mountain-and-River Diagram instead of merely defending against it.
• Lin Fei also identifies his major weakness: his mana recovery is too slow compared with an Earth Immortal’s ability to replenish power through Great Dao Origin.
• By combining the Mighty God-Demon Body, the Overlord Armor, and the Great Dao of Strength, he discovers a fighting method that allows him to overcome the limitations of his cultivation realm.
• Ji Tong initially acts with overwhelming confidence, believing the difference between their realms makes victory certain. Her confidence turns to fear after Lin Fei’s final punch destroys her diagram and injures her incarnation.

Significant Themes

• Strength overcoming realm disparity: The chapter emphasizes Lin Fei’s belief that overwhelming physical power can break through differences in cultivation, techniques, and divine abilities.
• Offense versus defense: Lin Fei learns that defensive resistance cannot indefinitely withstand a stronger opponent, while decisive attacks can disrupt even superior techniques.
• Adaptation and resource management: Lin Fei must constantly change strategies while monitoring his limited mana and choosing when to rely on sword techniques versus bodily strength.
• Destruction of order and corruption: Ji Tong’s beautiful Mountain-and-River Diagram becomes a landscape of dead forests, filthy waters, and malevolent spirits, symbolizing the corruption hidden within her divine technique.
• Human effort against overwhelming power: Despite lacking Ji Tong’s realm and refined artifact, Lin Fei’s will, combat experience, and mastery of strength allow him to challenge an apparently insurmountable enemy.

Character Interactions

• Ji Tong repeatedly taunts Lin Fei, insisting that their realm difference cannot be overcome.
• Lin Fei answers her threats through increasingly powerful attacks rather than argument, cutting apart her divine mountain, tombstone, and poisonous constructs.
• Their exchange culminates in Ji Tong’s retreat after Lin Fei’s punch destroys the Mountain-and-River Diagram. Lin Fei’s final declaration serves as both a response to Ji Tong and a statement of his personal path: he will break every obstacle through strength.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei catches the damaged Mountain-and-River Diagram after defeating Ji Tong’s forces. Most of the Orthodox Gods within it have been destroyed, severely weakening the treasure, but Lin Fei takes it as spoils and sends it back to Earth for later refinement.
• Ji Tong’s Earth Immortal avatar returns to Nine Heavens Star and demands the diagram, explaining that it is her life-bound treasure and still bears her soul imprint.
• Lin Fei refuses to return it, joking that Ji Tong would need to offer a Supreme-Grade Immortal Artifact in exchange. Ji Tong warns that he cannot erase her imprint without Celestial Immortal assistance, but Lin Fei remains unconcerned.
• Ji Tong claims that Lin Fei cannot repeatedly use attacks of such overwhelming power and that, because of the gap in their cultivation realms, he cannot kill her. Lin Fei secretly knows that his Heavenly Demon Umbrella could seal space and prevent her escape, but he chooses not to reveal this trump card.
• Using the Devil Master’s memories, Lin Fei accurately analyzes the possible trump cards Ji Tong might possess, including a Celestial Immortal Avatar, Celestial Immortal Talisman, or Celestial Immortal Edict. Ji Tong’s reaction confirms that she secretly carries a Celestial Immortal Edict.
• Two Earth Immortal avatars from the Five Hidden Families—the Wu and Zang Families—arrive after sensing the battle. Ji Tong identifies herself and persuades them to join forces against Lin Fei.
• The three Earth Immortal-level figures seal the surrounding space to prevent Lin Fei’s escape. After learning that Lin Fei’s physical strength rivals an Earth Immortal’s, they conclude that he must be killed immediately.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei demonstrates increasing confidence, strategic intelligence, and familiarity with Celestial Immortal methods. He not only defeats powerful opponents but also recognizes the value of the Mountain-and-River Diagram despite its damage.
• He remains cautious and calculating, deliberately concealing the Heavenly Demon Umbrella so that his strongest weapon remains a surprise.
• Ji Tong suffers the loss and damage of her life-bound treasure, causing severe backlash to her true body. Though furious, she attempts to maintain control through negotiation and intimidation.
• Ji Tong’s confidence is shaken when Lin Fei correctly identifies her hidden Celestial Immortal Edict.
• The Wu and Zang Family avatars initially underestimate Lin Fei based on incomplete intelligence, but become alarmed after learning that he possesses Earth Immortal-level physical power.

Significant Themes

• Power versus cultivation realm: Lin Fei’s Body-Unified Dao allows him to challenge opponents far above his apparent realm.
• Hidden trump cards and strategic deception: Both sides conceal their strongest weapons, making information and timing as important as raw strength.
• Treasure and ownership: The Mountain-and-River Diagram’s value is tied to its spiritual imprint, refinement potential, and connection to Ji Tong’s future advancement.
• Fear of emerging talent: The Five Hidden Families recognize that Lin Fei’s continued growth could threaten their survival, motivating them to eliminate him before he matures.
• Political alliances and factional conflict: The Ji Family cooperates with the Five Hidden Families to seize Nine Heavens Star and destroy the Zhan Family.

Character Interactions

• Lin Fei and Ji Tong exchange threats and negotiate over the Mountain-and-River Diagram, with Lin Fei mocking her demands and exposing the limits of her supposed advantages.
• Ji Tong attempts to recruit the Wu and Zang Family avatars, framing Lin Fei as a dangerous enemy who must be eliminated.
• The three enemy avatars coordinate to seal space around Lin Fei, transforming the confrontation from a one-on-one battle into a joint effort to destroy him.
• Their final agreement—“This man absolutely must not be spared”—establishes Lin Fei as the primary threat and sets up the next stage of the conflict.

Chapter Summary: “Breaking Them One by One”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei’s Mighty God-Demon Body, combined with the borrowed Overlord Armor, allows him to approach the power of a Perfected Human Immortal and rival an Earth Immortal.
• After devouring the origins of five Human Immortals, Lin Fei unexpectedly achieves unity between his body and the Dao, greatly increasing the power of his physical body.
• His body-refining technique specializes in strength and survival. His Imprints of Strength preserve his body from destruction, while his bloodline has become comparable to that of a divine beast, carrying powerful inherited traits and memories.
• Lin Fei attacks the arriving incarnations of the Wu Family and Zang Family’s Earth Immortal ancestors. Although his punch is blocked by their combined divine abilities, the two ancestors realize that he is powerful enough to threaten either of them individually.
• Ji Tong identifies Lin Fei’s weakness: his cultivation realm is only Void Insight, leaving his soul vulnerable to soul-based attacks. Recognizing that three Earth Immortal incarnations could overwhelm him this way, Lin Fei retreats through a Space Gate.
• He escapes to a separate world near Earth and uses the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs Diagram to erase Ji Tong’s soul imprint from the Mountain-and-River Diagram, effectively refining the artifact for himself.
• Returning to Nine Heavens Star, Lin Fei learns from Zhan Qing that the Five Hidden Families and the Ji Family have massacred many members of the Zhan Family and now control the entire star.
• The enemy has constructed a powerful defensive formation that even Earth Immortals cannot easily break. Their cultivation of new Human Immortals also requires the slaughter of enormous numbers of mortals.
• Lin Fei abandons his plan to remain hidden until Zhan Honglei becomes a Celestial Immortal. He decides to intervene immediately and eliminate the enemy’s Earth Immortal incarnations one by one.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Demonstrates both overwhelming physical power and tactical restraint. He recognizes his soul weakness, retreats rather than fight recklessly, and begins planning a coordinated counterattack. His body and bloodline have evolved into something akin to a humanoid divine beast.
• Ji Tong: Reveals herself as a sharp and ruthless strategist by exposing Lin Fei’s vulnerability to soul attacks. She also loses control of her natal artifact after Lin Fei removes her soul imprint.
• Zhan Qing: Remains loyal to Lin Fei and is eager to retaliate against the families responsible for the Zhan Family’s destruction. He agrees to act as bait and attack enemy Void Insight Realm spirit bodies.
• Golden Treasure: Wants to participate in battle and offers himself as bait because the enemy would be tempted to capture a Pureblood Golden Crow. Lin Fei refuses to expose him prematurely, emphasizing that he is a hidden trump card.
• Zhan Honglei: Continues secluded cultivation and has not yet reached the Celestial Immortal Realm, forcing Lin Fei to act before their original plan is complete.

Significant Themes

• Power versus strategy: Raw strength allows Lin Fei to challenge Earth Immortals, but his soul weakness means that careful planning is essential.
• Sacrifice and moral responsibility: Lin Fei can no longer wait for the ideal moment because countless mortals are being slaughtered to fuel the enemy’s cultivation.
• Bloodline and inheritance: Lin Fei’s transformed blood carries divine-beast qualities and can pass talents and memories to future generations.
• Vengeance and resistance: The massacre of the Zhan Family intensifies the conflict and motivates a direct counterattack.
• Concealed strength and trump cards: Lin Fei, Zhan Qing, and Golden Treasure each conceal portions of their power, intending to exploit the enemy’s assumptions.

Character Interactions

• Lin Fei clashes with Ji Tong and the two family ancestors, learning that their combined strength and soul attacks make prolonged combat dangerous.
• Ji Tong’s identification of Lin Fei’s weakness prompts his retreat, while his later refinement of her artifact becomes a direct act of retaliation.
• Lin Fei gives Zhan Qing orders to lure out and kill weaker enemy spirit bodies, assigning Golden Treasure to trap isolated Earth Immortal incarnations.
• Golden Treasure argues for a more aggressive role, but Lin Fei insists on protecting him and preserving his identity as a surprise weapon.
• The chapter ends with Lin Fei and his allies preparing a plan to isolate and destroy the three Earth Immortal incarnations individually.

Chapter Summary: “How Can They Be Stopped?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body and Zhan Qing’s Human Immortal Incarnation enter Nine Heavens Star to oppose the hidden families occupying it.
• Lin Fei secretly locates and kills a Wu Family Void Insight Realm Spirit Body that is slaughtering civilians to collect souls and blood essence.
• He continues hunting Spirit Bodies belonging to the Ji, Wu, Zang, and other hidden families. Because these Spirit Bodies are connected to their true bodies, destroying them can potentially injure or kill the original cultivators.
• Lin Fei deliberately uses only his Spirit Body, prepared to self-destruct if attacked by a soul-based secret art from powerful enemies such as Ji Tong or the Wu and Zang ancestors.
• The hidden families realize that the killer is likely Lin Fei, whose combat strength is comparable to the Earth Immortal Realm. They gather to discuss how to counter him.
• The families criticize Ji Tong for failing to bring the Ji Family’s Celestial Immortal ancestor. Ji Tong explains that the Ji Family intends for the other families to bear most of the fighting while preserving its own strength.
• Ji Tong, along with the Wu and Zang Family Earth Immortal Avatars, personally hunts Lin Fei and Zhan Qing. They kill both of their incarnations, but this does not stop Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei sends out another Spirit Body, and the conflict becomes a prolonged battle of mutual assassination. The hidden families lose more than two hundred Spirit Bodies, while Lin Fei’s Spirit Body is killed seventy-six times without any obvious depletion of his origin.
• Because Lin Fei’s interference prevents them from freely harvesting mortal souls and blood essence, the hidden families’ plans are seriously obstructed.
• Ji Tong concludes that Lin Fei is primarily protecting the civilians of Nine Heavens Star. She proposes sending many Void Insight Realm Spirit Bodies out at once while she and the Wu and Zang ancestors secretly follow, hoping to force Lin Fei into a disadvantageous confrontation.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Demonstrates exceptional strategic caution and growing mastery of his abilities. He uses his Spirit Body for reconnaissance and assassination while avoiding unnecessary direct confrontation with Earth Immortal-level enemies. His repeated return after the destruction of his Spirit Bodies suggests that his true origin remains largely unharmed.
• Zhan Qing: Supports Lin Fei through his Human Immortal Incarnation, but this incarnation is repeatedly killed and eventually stops appearing, leaving Lin Fei as the main active defender.
• Ji Tong: Becomes increasingly hostile toward Lin Fei because of the Ji Family’s losses. She also reveals herself as politically calculating, willing to use the other hidden families as expendable forces while reserving the Ji Family’s strongest ancestor for emergencies.
• Wu and Zang Family Ancestors: Recognize Lin Fei as a threat comparable to an Earth Immortal but grow frustrated and exhausted by the endless cycle of Spirit Body losses. Their dependence on Ji Tong’s strategy also exposes their unwillingness to abandon Nine Heavens Star’s immense value.
• Other Hidden Families: The Bao Family and Shangguan Clan remain mostly silent but share the concerns of the larger alliance and expect the Ji Family to provide greater protection.

Significant Themes

• Asymmetrical warfare and strategy: Lin Fei avoids direct battles and uses stealth, repeated Spirit Body deployment, and targeted attacks to weaken a much larger coalition.
• Mortal lives as resources: The hidden families treat civilians as sources of souls and blood essence, while Lin Fei’s resistance turns the protection of mortals into the central conflict.
• Political opportunism and distrust: The allied families are united by profit and necessity rather than loyalty. They recognize that the Ji Family is exploiting them but continue because Nine Heavens Star is too valuable to relinquish.
• Persistence versus attrition: Although both sides suffer repeated losses, Lin Fei’s ability to replace his Spirit Bodies prevents the hidden families from achieving a decisive victory.
• Limits of power and knowledge: Lin Fei’s combat ability rivals the Earth Immortal Realm, but his weaker understanding of Great Dao and Spatial True Intents remains a potential vulnerability.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body silently kills the Wu Family cultivator before the man can detect his attacker.
• The hidden-family ancestors debate Lin Fei’s identity and the scale of his strength, concluding that only their strongest figures can confront him.
• The Wu and Zang ancestors openly challenge Ji Tong over the absence of her family’s Celestial Immortal Avatar.
• Ji Tong defends the Ji Family’s decision and admits that its strongest ancestor will intervene only if the Zhan Family produces an overwhelming threat.
• Ji Tong, Wu, and Zang join forces to hunt Lin Fei and Zhan Qing, killing their incarnations.
• After realizing that Lin Fei is protecting the civilians, Ji Tong devises a trap designed to force him to reveal himself while the three powerful ancestors remain concealed nearby.

Chapter Summary: Nine Yin White Bone Claw

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ji Family joins forces with the Five Hidden Families, gathering more than eight hundred Void Insight Realm experts on Nine Heavens Star.
• Their goal is to slaughter mortals, collect souls and blood essence, and use them to cultivate more Human Immortals. Ji Tong hopes these new Human Immortals will help establish Secret Realms and secure the Ji Family’s permanent foothold on the planet.
• The Hidden Families’ experts disperse their Spirit Bodies across Nine Heavens Star and begin massacring entire cities. Lin Fei witnesses the slaughter through over ten thousand wisps of divine soul he had secretly lodged in mortals.
• Enraged by the destruction and fearing that much of the planet’s population will soon be killed, Lin Fei decides to stop hiding.
• Lin Fei and Golden Treasure attack the invading Spirit Bodies, destroying them one by one.
• Ji Tong and the patriarchs of the Wu and Zang Families appear in Earth Immortal Incarnations and trap Lin Fei and Golden Treasure inside a formation.
• The three Earth Immortal Incarnations unleash the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, a divine ability designed to seize and destroy divine souls.
• Golden Treasure counters with his Great Sun Dharma Form and Solar Divine Fire. His intensely yang flames suppress and burn away the claw’s yin energy, shocking Ji Tong.
• Lin Fei realizes that Golden Treasure, despite being only a Late Human Immortal, can fight at the level of an Earth Immortal because of his Pureblood Golden Crow lineage.
• Lin Fei instructs Golden Treasure to hold the three enemies back rather than fight them directly. Their engagement draws the Earth Immortal Incarnations away, allowing Lin Fei’s Spirit Body to act elsewhere.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Becomes enraged by the Hidden Families’ mass slaughter and abandons his cautious strategy. He demonstrates strategic leadership by using Golden Treasure as a distraction while preparing to exploit the enemy’s divided attention. He also reassesses the power of divine beast bloodlines.
• Golden Treasure: Shows remarkable combat strength. His Great Sun Undying True Intent and Solar Divine Fire directly counter Ji Tong’s Netherworld-based abilities, revealing that he can challenge Earth Immortal-level opponents despite his lower cultivation realm.
• Ji Tong: Becomes increasingly desperate to create more Human Immortals for the Ji Family. Her confidence turns to shock when her supposedly soul-targeting technique is restrained by Golden Treasure.
• Zhan Qing and Golden Treasure: Both react strongly to the massacres and urge Lin Fei to confront the Hidden Families directly, reflecting their anger and unwillingness to remain passive.
• Wu and Zang Family Patriarchs: Coordinate with Ji Tong and participate in the trap, relying on numbers, formation techniques, and combined divine abilities to eliminate Lin Fei.

Significant Themes

• The brutality of cultivation politics: The Hidden Families treat ordinary mortals as expendable resources for advancing their power.
• Resistance against oppression: Lin Fei’s decision to fight back marks a shift from observation and defense to direct retaliation.
• Strength beyond cultivation realms: Golden Treasure’s performance demonstrates how bloodline inheritances, divine abilities, and special techniques can allow a cultivator to surpass apparent realm limitations.
• Yang versus yin: Golden Treasure’s Solar Divine Fire naturally counters Ji Tong’s deathly, lunar, and destructive Netherworld powers.
• Strategy over brute force: Lin Fei avoids confronting every enemy head-on, instead using Golden Treasure to occupy the strongest opponents while positioning his Spirit Body for further action.

Character Interactions

• Lin Fei commands Golden Treasure and Zhan Qing, assigning them separate roles in the counterattack.
• Golden Treasure reassures Lin Fei after blocking the Nine Yin White Bone Claw and agrees to restrain the three Earth Immortal Incarnations.
• Ji Tong taunts Lin Fei, claiming her technique is his nemesis and that he has no chance against three Earth Immortals.
• Golden Treasure disproves her confidence by neutralizing the attack, forcing Ji Tong to recognize his extraordinary power.
• Lin Fei and Golden Treasure work together tactically: Golden Treasure occupies the enemy leaders while Lin Fei’s Spirit Body gains freedom to operate elsewhere.

Chapter Summary: No One Can Live

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Zhan Family’s ancestral residence has become the headquarters of the Ji Family and the Five Hidden Families. It houses fifteen newly advanced Human Immortals, more than eight hundred Void Insight Realm experts, and tens of thousands of lower-realm cultivators.
• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body and Zhan Qing arrive outside the formation barrier. Zhan Qing uses the Supreme-Grade Immortal Artifact, the Void Mirror, to seal the surrounding hundred miles of space, preventing escape or teleportation.
• Lin Fei reveals the plan: Zhan Qing will pretend to negotiate while secretly casting the Self-Manifesting Heavenly Demon Curse through the Thunder-Sound Demon-Subduing Divine Power.
• The curse targets the inner demons of those who cultivated the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art and those responsible for bloodshed on Nine Heavens Star.
• The hidden families initially underestimate the attackers, believing their powerful formation and numerous Human Immortals make them nearly invincible.
• As Zhan Qing chants the curse, the cultivators’ accumulated guilt, blood grievances, and demonic nature begin to overwhelm their minds. The formation weakens because its defenders can no longer concentrate.
• Lin Fei releases the Gold-Devouring Insect King, the Gold-Eating Beetle Mother, and their swarm from the Seven-Colored Immortal Coffin. Their combined golden attack eventually pierces the formation barrier.
• Once the barrier is breached, the curse’s full power floods the headquarters. Many Human Immortals lose control and begin killing their own clansmen to absorb their blood essence and souls.
• Lin Fei uses the Mountain-and-River Diagram and the Soul-Drawing and Soul-Refining Art to capture the Primordial Spirits and souls of the fallen cultivators.
• The surviving Void Insight Realm experts flee in panic, realizing that the largest golden insect possesses a Celestial Immortal aura. However, the spatial seal prevents escape, forcing them either to fight or die.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei acts with complete confidence and ruthless determination. He sees the attack as justified punishment for the hidden families’ slaughter of innocents and shows no sympathy for their suffering.
• Zhan Qing demonstrates loyalty and obedience to Lin Fei. She successfully carries out the deception and uses the curse as the key weapon in the assault.
• The newly advanced Human Immortals are revealed to be powerful but spiritually unstable. Their strength came from the Heaven-Mending Immortal Art and accumulated bloodshed rather than genuine moral or mental control.
• The lower-level cultivators are shown to be especially vulnerable. Their guilt and fear cause them to collapse first, triggering the breakdown of the entire formation.
• The hidden families’ forces shift rapidly from arrogance to terror once their defenses fail and they recognize the overwhelming power of Lin Fei’s forces.

Significant Themes

• Retribution and karmic justice: The curse forces the cultivators to confront the bloodshed and suffering they caused. Lin Fei frames the massacre as repayment for their crimes.
• The danger of power gained through evil: The Heaven-Mending Immortal Art gives the hidden families immense strength, but their blood sins make them vulnerable to inner demons.
• Inner demons and guilt: The chapter emphasizes that no formation or external power can protect those whose minds are already corrupted by guilt and violence.
• Arrogance before destruction: The hidden families’ confidence in their numerical advantage and defensive formation blinds them to the trap.
• Imprisonment and inevitability: The sealed space prevents escape, reinforcing the chapter’s title and the sense that the hidden families’ destruction is unavoidable.

Character Interactions

• Zhan Qing addresses the hidden families as though seeking a negotiation, allowing her curse to enter the formation unnoticed.
• The hidden families’ Human Immortals exchange confident remarks, dismissing the attackers as incapable of threatening them.
• Lin Fei directs Zhan Qing’s actions and coordinates the attack with the insect swarm.
• The curse turns the hidden families against one another, with possessed Human Immortals slaughtering their own clansmen.
• The fleeing experts cry out in fear and confusion, recognizing too late that Lin Fei’s forces include a being with Celestial Immortal-level power.

Chapter Summary: “Eliminate Future Troubles”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The grand formation protecting Nine Heavens Star is broken, but Zhan Qing uses the Void Mirror to seal the surrounding space, preventing escape.
• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body and the Gold-Devouring Insect King rampage through the enemy forces. The insect king seriously wounds the fifteen newly advanced Human Immortals, while Lin Fei captures and seals them in the Seven-Treasure God-Suppressing Tower.
• Lin Fei preserves the Human Immortals rather than killing them. Their Primordial Spirit Avatars may be purified through his self-created Lightning Alchemy and used in place of rare spirit herbs for refining the Eternal Dao Union Pill.
• The Void Insight Realm cultivators are also captured for future refinement into Void-Breaking Pills, which can help the Great Flame Dynasty produce more Void Insight Realm experts. Weaker cultivators are collected into the Mountain-and-River Diagram.
• The Ji Family and the Five Hidden Families are completely defeated, with their people, treasures, and resources taken by Lin Fei’s side. Zhan Qing gives all confiscated treasures to Lin Fei.
• Zhan Qing thanks Lin Fei for avenging the Zhan Family and the mortals killed on Nine Heavens Star, but Lin Fei reminds him that the three Earth Immortal Incarnations—Ji Tong, the Wu Family Patriarch, and the Zang Family Patriarch—are still alive.
• Lin Fei’s true body and Golden Treasure prepare to counterattack. Golden Treasure has endured the enemy’s attacks with the Immortal-Burning Cauldron and Heavenly Demon Armor, but Lin Fei delays the assault until Zhan Qing seals the battlefield.
• Once the Void Mirror traps the three Earth Immortal Incarnations, Lin Fei reveals the Mountain-and-River Diagram containing the souls of their defeated clansmen. The enemy leaders realize their families have been annihilated.
• Ji Tong, the Wu Patriarch, and the Zang Patriarch argue over how the defeat occurred. Ji Tong is humiliated that her natal magic treasure was seized and refined by Lin Fei.
• Although Lin Fei has the advantage, he proposes peace to avoid provoking Ji Tong into using a potentially devastating weapon. He offers to stop seeking revenge if the three families abandon their claim to Nine Heavens Star.
• The Wu and Zang Patriarchs are willing to consider peace, but Ji Tong rejects the idea. She claims the Ji Family’s Celestial Immortal Patriarch ordered them to eliminate Lin Fei and Golden Treasure before they become even stronger.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei demonstrates overwhelming strategic control and restraint. He defeats the invading forces but preserves powerful captives and resources for future cultivation, while also cautiously avoiding a battle that might trigger Ji Tong’s hidden trump card.
• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body acts decisively and efficiently, using the Gold-Devouring Insect King and the Seven-Treasure God-Suppressing Tower to capture the Human Immortals.
• Golden Treasure is shown to possess considerable defensive and combat strength, enduring the combined attacks of three Earth Immortal Incarnations and eagerly awaiting the chance to counterattack.
• Zhan Qing receives revenge for his family and the dead mortals of Nine Heavens Star. He remains loyal to Lin Fei, surrendering all captured treasures rather than keeping them.
• Ji Tong suffers profound humiliation and fury after losing her family’s forces and natal magic treasure. Her determination to kill Lin Fei intensifies despite the worsening situation.
• The Wu and Zang Family Patriarchs become more cautious after learning their families have been destroyed. Unlike Ji Tong, they recognize that continuing the battle may be pointless.

Significant Themes

• Eliminating future threats: The chapter centers on the belief that powerful enemies must be destroyed before they can grow stronger and seek revenge.
• Strategic restraint versus vengeance: Lin Fei seeks a negotiated end despite having the upper hand, while Ji Tong prioritizes permanent elimination over peace.
• Resourcefulness and long-term planning: Lin Fei views defeated enemies not merely as casualties but as valuable cultivation resources for strengthening the Great Flame Dynasty.
• Humiliation and pride: Ji Tong’s loss of her natal treasure and family forces fuels her refusal to compromise.
• Justice and retribution: Zhan Qing’s gratitude reflects the chapter’s emotional foundation—Lin Fei’s victory avenges both the Zhan Family and innocent mortals.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body and Zhan Qing coordinate the cleanup of the battlefield and the sealing of the surviving enemy leaders.
• Lin Fei and Golden Treasure discuss the timing of their counterattack, highlighting their partnership and Lin Fei’s cautious command.
• Ji Tong clashes verbally with the Wu and Zang Patriarchs, who suspect her of betraying them after seeing the Mountain-and-River Diagram in Lin Fei’s possession.
• Lin Fei offers peace to the three Earth Immortal Incarnations, but Ji Tong invokes her Celestial Immortal Patriarch’s order to reject reconciliation and continue the struggle.

Chapter Summary: “Keep Going Mad?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Wu and Zang Family Patriarchs acknowledge that Lin Fei and Golden Treasure are extraordinarily talented and may become even greater threats in the future. Because they have killed many members of the Zhan Family and more than two billion mortals during the invasion of Nine Heavens Star, the Zhan Family is expected to seek revenge.
• The Wu and Zang Patriarchs pressure Ji Tong to reveal any remaining trump cards, claiming they have exhausted their own methods. Ji Tong distrusts them, knowing their ancient clans likely possess powerful treasures but are unwilling to use them casually.
• Ji Tong unveils a Celestial Immortal Edict, containing a portion of her family’s Heavenly Immortal Patriarch’s origin. It can unleash more than half of the patriarch’s true combat strength and attack repeatedly until its stored origin is exhausted.
• The summoned Heavenly Immortal figure suppresses the battlefield so completely that Lin Fei, Golden Treasure, Zhan Qing, and even the two opposing Earth Immortal incarnations struggle to move. The attack also damages Zhan Qing through backlash from the Void Mirror.
• Ji Tong attempts to prevent Lin Fei’s escape by sealing space, believing the edict can block the Space Gate he previously used. Lin Fei warns her that even a true Heavenly Immortal would have difficulty stopping him, but Ji Tong arrogantly insists on testing him.
• When the Heavenly Immortal launches its attack, Lin Fei and Golden Treasure use the Primal Chaos Pearl and Immortal-Burning Cauldron as a decoy. Lin Fei then opens a Space Gate and escapes with Golden Treasure before the attack destroys their defenses.
• Lin Fei’s Spirit Body, the Seven-Colored Immortal Coffin, and the Gold-Devouring Insect King remain behind. The insect king, possessing an Early Heavenly Immortal aura, attacks the enemy formation alongside Zhan Qing’s Void Mirror, breaking the array barrier.
• Although the Heavenly Immortal Edict easily blocks the insect king’s attacks, its stored origin is steadily depleted. Zhan Qing eventually withdraws with the insect king and Lin Fei’s Spirit Body through a spatial passage.
• Ji Tong tries to pursue them, but Lin Fei reappears through another Space Gate and taunts her. He challenges her to bring the Celestial Immortal Edict into the gate if she truly believes she can kill him.
• Ji Tong sends a strand of divine soul into the gate to investigate, but a scorching pure-yang force destroys it. She suspects that the gate leads to a Zhan Family secret realm.
• Lin Fei threatens that, if pushed further, he and his allies may retaliate by slaughtering Azure Jade Star. He then mocks the Wu and Zang Patriarchs for continuing to follow Ji Tong’s reckless pursuit.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei demonstrates strategic intelligence and composure under extreme pressure. Rather than directly resisting the Heavenly Immortal attack, he uses a feint, escapes through the Space Gate, and leaves behind his Spirit Body and allies to disrupt the enemy.
• Golden Treasure continues to serve as Lin Fei’s strongest combat partner, escaping with him and helping maintain the defensive ruse.
• Ji Tong becomes increasingly arrogant and reckless after revealing the Celestial Immortal Edict. Her confidence turns into frustration when Lin Fei escapes despite her strongest weapon and later openly humiliates her.
• The Wu and Zang Patriarchs reveal their cautious and self-serving nature. They attempt to make Ji Tong bear the burden of using her clan’s ultimate treasure while concealing their own trump cards.
• Zhan Qing proves willing to fight alongside Lin Fei and Golden Treasure despite the overwhelming danger. His use of the Void Mirror is vital in breaking the array and enabling their retreat.
• The Gold-Devouring Insect King is revealed to possess Heavenly Immortal-level power. Though unable to injure the summoned Heavenly Immortal, it plays a crucial role by forcing the edict to expend its origin and helping destroy the restraining formation.

Significant Themes

• Overconfidence versus adaptability: Ji Tong relies on overwhelming power, while Lin Fei survives through deception, mobility, and preparation.
• Hidden trump cards and clan foundations: The ancient families conceal powerful relics and abilities, revealing the political mistrust and competitive nature of the Hidden Clans.
• The limits of absolute power: Even a Celestial Immortal Edict cannot guarantee victory when faced with unusual escape techniques, secret spaces, and layered preparations.
• Retaliation and deterrence: Lin Fei’s threat against Azure Jade Star shows that the conflict is no longer a simple pursuit; attacking him could provoke devastating consequences for entire clans and worlds.
• Survival through strategy: The battle emphasizes that intelligence, timing, and deception can overcome an opponent with vastly greater direct strength.

Character Interactions

• The Wu and Zang Patriarchs manipulate the situation by urging Ji Tong to reveal her hidden weapon, while Ji Tong distrusts their claims of having no remaining methods.
• Ji Tong repeatedly taunts Lin Fei as an inferior junior, but Lin Fei responds with warnings and mockery, challenging her to follow him into the Space Gate.
• Lin Fei, Golden Treasure, Zhan Qing, and the Gold-Devouring Insect King coordinate their defenses and escape, combining spatial techniques, treasures, and spirit-insect power.
• Lin Fei’s final confrontation with Ji Tong shifts the psychological balance: although she possesses the stronger visible force, she is unable to locate or harm his true body and is left uncertain about the nature of his escape route.

Chapter Summary: “Could You Dare Leave Your Name?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Wu and Zang Family ancestors realize that the appearance of the Early Heavenly Immortal Realm Gold-Devouring Insect King has made the situation untenable. Their forces cannot defeat it or eradicate the Zhan Family.
• Blaming Ji Tong for misjudging the situation and dragging their families into danger, both ancestors withdraw from Nine Heavens Star. They warn that occupying the planet is meaningless unless the Ji Family’s Heavenly Immortal personally remains to defend it.
• Ji Tong is left alone with the Celestial Immortal Edict. Although the Edict is powerful, it cannot adapt to changing battlefield conditions like a Celestial Immortal Avatar can.
• Ji Tong challenges Lin Fei to reveal his name, but he refuses, cryptically saying that they will meet again and she will know him then. He and Golden Treasure escape through a Space Gate.
• Two days later, Lin Fei and Golden Treasure return to the devastated Nine Heavens Star and enter the Zhan Family Secret Realm.
• The Zhan Family reports enormous casualties: more than 2.3 billion mortals killed or wounded, fifty-eight Void Insight Realm experts dead, and 2,389 Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators lost.
• Zhan Qing orders the reconstruction of destroyed cities, the relocation of survivors, and the cultivation of talented younger members to rebuild the family.
• Golden Treasure proposes using the Great Flame Dynasty’s agricultural and technological advances—including Spirit Immortal Rice and mass-produced spiritual resources—to rapidly restore Nine Heavens Star’s population and economy.
• Lin Fei agrees to turn the Zhan Family’s numerous Secret Realms into a logistics and cultivation base, ordering Dongfang Qingcang to send support.
• The chapter ends when a powerful Heavenly Immortal aura erupts from within the Secret Realm, revealing that the Zhan Family’s ancestor is breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei remains cautious and strategically minded. He refuses to give Ji Tong his name, preventing the Ji Family from easily identifying or targeting him, while confidently implying that he will eventually confront her again.
• Ji Tong shifts from confidence to fury and frustration. Her plan to destroy the Zhan Family collapses, her allies abandon her, and she recognizes the limitations of relying on the Celestial Immortal Edict.
• The Wu and Zang Family ancestors become openly resentful toward Ji Tong and prioritize protecting their own families over continuing the assault.
• Golden Treasure demonstrates his administrative experience as the former Golden Emperor. He focuses on civilian recovery, economic development, agriculture, and practical governance rather than merely military victory.
• Zhan Qing remains composed and pragmatic despite the catastrophe. She prioritizes rebuilding the family and sees the deaths as losses that can eventually be recovered from.
• The Zhan Family ancestor appears poised to achieve a major breakthrough, potentially changing the balance of power.

Significant Themes

• The consequences of reckless ambition: Ji Tong and her allies suffer heavy losses because they underestimated the Zhan Family and the Gold-Devouring Insect King.
• The limits of power: The Celestial Immortal Edict is formidable but inflexible, illustrating the difference between a powerful weapon and a living, adaptable expert.
• Strategic retreat and survival: The Wu and Zang Families recognize that continuing the battle would endanger their entire clans, emphasizing survival over pride.
• Rebuilding after catastrophe: The chapter turns from warfare to reconstruction, population recovery, agriculture, and institutional development.
• The value of governance and technology: Golden Treasure’s proposals show that prosperity depends not only on cultivation strength but also on food production, infrastructure, and efficient administration.
• Changing family identity: Zhan Qing worries that outside resources and institutions may gradually transform the Zhan Family until it no longer resembles its original self.

Character Interactions

• Ji Tong confronts Lin Fei and demands his name, but he deliberately withholds it and leaves her with an ominous promise of a future encounter.
• The Wu and Zang ancestors criticize Ji Tong before abandoning the battlefield, making clear that they hold her responsible for their losses.
• Golden Treasure advises Zhan Qing and Lin Fei on rebuilding Nine Heavens Star, drawing on his experience as an emperor.
• Lin Fei accepts Golden Treasure’s plan and authorizes cooperation between the Great Flame Dynasty and the Zhan Family.
• Zhan Qing and the family’s reporting cultivator discuss casualty figures and recovery measures, revealing the family’s practical but emotionally detached attitude toward its losses.

Chapter Summary: “Like Awakening from a Dream”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhan Honglei successfully breaks through from the Human Immortal realm into the early Heavenly Immortal realm, triggering a powerful pressure throughout the Zhan Family Secret Realm. The family’s cultivators and mortals kneel in celebration and reverence.
• Zhan Honglei credits his breakthrough to Lin Fei, who had arranged for him to absorb the power of the Heavenly Baleful Protector. The Python-Sparrow Heavenly Demon sarcastically points out that Zhan Honglei merely benefited from an opportunity it originally created.
• Lin Fei checks the Soul Restriction placed in Zhan Honglei’s mind and confirms that it remains intact, ensuring Zhan Honglei cannot betray or escape his control.
• Zhan Qing reports that the invading cultivators from the aristocratic families have been killed or driven away, and that the Earth Immortal incarnations of the Ji, Wu, and Zang Families have withdrawn. Nine Heavens Star has returned to Zhan Family control.
• Zhan Honglei learns that Lin Fei was responsible for resolving the crisis. Lin Fei also warns him that the Ji Family had prepared a Celestial Immortal Edict specifically to kill him. Had Zhan Honglei appeared earlier, he would likely have been trapped and destroyed.
• Enraged by the Zhan Family’s casualties, Zhan Honglei asks Lin Fei to help him destroy the five aristocratic families allied against them. Lin Fei refuses, explaining that their hidden foundations and Secret Realms make total destruction unrealistic and that revenge would provoke a larger conflict.
• Lin Fei emphasizes that Zhan Honglei must conceal his breakthrough and remain a hidden trump card. He warns that if the Five Hidden Families unite under the Ji Family’s Celestial Immortal ancestor, the Zhan Family could face overwhelming danger.
• Zhan Honglei accepts Lin Fei’s judgment and agrees to follow his plans. Lin Fei promises that, once they are strong enough, they will attack Azure Jade Star and avenge the Zhan Family.
• Lin Fei begins secluded cultivation on Nine Heavens Star to study the Way of the Nine Tribulations Calamity, which he started comprehending after witnessing the massacre of countless mortals.
• Five years later, Golden Treasure reports that White Moonlight’s reincarnation has been found. Her memories have awakened, and she is cultivating under Huanhuan’s care in Ten Thousand Flowers Valley.
• Lin Fei visits White Moonlight’s reincarnation and returns her former treasures, the Lunar Divine Needle and Qiankun Bag. Although she is only six years old physically, she retains the insights of her previous life and is considered a future Celestial Immortal.
• White Moonlight describes her reincarnation as feeling like awakening from a long dream, introducing the chapter’s central image.

Character Developments

• Zhan Honglei: Gains immense power but initially becomes reckless and revenge-driven. Lin Fei’s warnings restore his composure, and he accepts the need for patience, secrecy, and long-term planning.
• Lin Fei: Demonstrates strategic restraint and authority. Rather than pursuing immediate revenge, he prioritizes the Zhan Family’s survival and future strength. His response to the slaughtered mortals also deepens his cultivation of the Way of the Nine Tribulations Calamity.
• Python-Sparrow Heavenly Demon: Remains jealous and sarcastic toward Zhan Honglei, resenting that Zhan Honglei gained the benefits of a captive it helped secure. Nevertheless, it continues to support Lin Fei’s side.
• White Moonlight: Returns in a child’s body but retains her former-life memories and cultivation insights. Her identity is presented as transformed yet continuous, like someone awakening from a dream.

Significant Themes

• Patience versus revenge: The chapter stresses that immediate retaliation can endanger a greater objective. Long-term survival and inheritance matter more than temporary emotional satisfaction.
• Hidden strength and strategic concealment: Zhan Honglei’s breakthrough must remain secret so enemies cannot prepare stronger counters or recruit additional Celestial Immortals.
• Mastery and loyalty: Zhan Honglei’s Soul Restriction and submission to Lin Fei reinforce the unequal master-disciple relationship, while his final acceptance shows growing discipline.
• Cycles of death and rebirth: White Moonlight’s reincarnation explores how identity, memory, and cultivation persist across lives.
• The cost of conflict: The massacre of mortals affects Lin Fei deeply, linking human suffering to his comprehension of the Nine Tribulations Calamity.
• Long-term inheritance: Cultivators are portrayed as fighting not merely for personal victories but to preserve their lineage and power across countless years.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Fei and Zhan Honglei: Their master-disciple relationship dominates the chapter. Zhan Honglei reports to Lin Fei, seeks his approval, proposes revenge, and ultimately submits to his strategic guidance.
• Zhan Honglei and Python-Sparrow: Python-Sparrow mocks Zhan Honglei’s breakthrough, while Zhan Honglei responds diplomatically by thanking it for protecting him during his cultivation.
• Lin Fei and Zhan Qing: Zhan Qing delivers the battlefield report, allowing Lin Fei and Zhan Honglei to understand the outcome of the conflict.
• Lin Fei and White Moonlight: Lin Fei restores her former treasures and asks about her experience of reincarnation. Her answer provides the chapter’s closing reflection on rebirth and recovered identity.

Chapter Summary: “Tyrannical Claiming of the Grounds”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei’s true body spends 386 years cultivating on Nine Heavens Star with the Zhan Family’s lightning manuals and Zhan Honglei’s guidance.
• Building on his mastery of the Nine Great Dao True Intents, Five Elements, Light-Dark, Wind-Thunder, and Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, he advances his Nine Tribulations Calamity True Intent to major accomplishment, nearing perfection.
• His Demonic Womb Clone progresses even further, perfecting the Merciless Heavenly Demon True Intent, though it has not yet reached the Perfect Void Insight Realm needed to attempt a Human Immortal breakthrough.
• Lin Fei struggles with how to merge with the Demonic Womb Clone. He considers retrieving and merging their origins, but is reluctant to abandon his own path. Combining the two ninth-grade True Intents may be extremely difficult.
• Golden Treasure informs him that violent spatial fluctuations have appeared in the Myriad Demon Sea, signaling the imminent reappearance of the Immortal Island.
• Concerned that Celestial Immortals may seize the island’s hidden opportunities or break through the Ancient Immortal’s restrictions, Lin Fei ends his seclusion and travels there.
• He leaves Golden Treasure on Nine Heavens Star and takes Zhan Honglei and Python Sparrow with him, using the Immortal Defying Token and Ninefold Celestial Tower to return to the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• When the Immortal Island emerges, the Mountain Sea Alliance’s Eternal Giants gather, but numerous Celestial Immortals arrive first and declare that only Celestial Immortals may enter.
• The Celestial Immortals of the Heavenly Origin Continent reveal an agreement between the Five Great Sects and Five Great Celestial Immortal Families: they will jointly block all non-Celestial Immortals from entering, then compete among themselves for treasures on the island.
• Tensions rise as members of the Celestial Immortal factions insult one another and argue over past conflicts involving the Mountain Sea Alliance and the deaths of members of the Thunder and Yuan Families.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei demonstrates enormous advancement, bringing his Nine Tribulations Calamity True Intent close to perfection and thus closer to the Human Immortal Realm.
• He becomes increasingly troubled by the philosophical and practical problem of merging with his Demonic Womb Clone, especially because the clone’s perfected True Intent may differ from his own path.
• The Demonic Womb Clone proves to be progressing faster than Lin Fei in True Intent comprehension, having perfected the Merciless Heavenly Demon True Intent, but remains unable to break through due to his incomplete realm.
• Zhan Honglei continues to support Lin Fei’s cultivation and accompanies him to the Immortal Island.
• Golden Treasure acts as Lin Fei’s informant, monitoring developments and alerting him to the island’s emergence.
• The various Celestial Immortals reveal themselves as powerful but politically divided, united mainly by their desire to monopolize the island’s opportunities.

Significant Themes

• Diverging paths and unity: Lin Fei and his clone represent two powerful but potentially incompatible Dao paths, raising questions about whether different forms of cultivation can be fused.
• The importance of opportunity: Breakthroughs in True Intent may require sudden enlightenment or rare opportunities that cannot be forced through cultivation alone.
• Power and exclusion: The Celestial Immortals use their superior strength to prevent lower-level cultivators from accessing the Immortal Island, exposing the ruthless hierarchy of the cultivation world.
• Political alliances and rivalry: Even powerful factions cooperate when it benefits them, while old grudges and competing interests threaten to undermine their alliance.
• Preparation for conflict: The Immortal Island’s emergence draws every major power into confrontation, setting the stage for competition, betrayal, and possible battles.

Character Interactions

• Lin Fei and the Demonic Womb Clone are connected by their shared origins but divided over how their cultivation paths should ultimately merge.
• Lin Fei gives Golden Treasure instructions to remain behind while ordering Zhan Honglei and Python Sparrow to accompany him.
• The Mountain Sea Alliance’s Eternal Giants debate whether they should claim the Immortal Island, but acknowledge that they cannot openly challenge the Celestial Immortals.
• The Celestial Immortals collectively threaten any non-Celestial Immortal who attempts to enter.
• Members of the Five Great Sects and Five Great Celestial Immortal Families negotiate their agreement, while simultaneously trading insults over past deaths and hostility toward the Mountain Sea Alliance.
• Ning Caidie and an elderly ape-like Celestial Immortal engage in a particularly hostile verbal exchange before another Celestial Immortal urges everyone to stop arguing and focus on the opportunities ahead.

Chapter Summary: Sea Emperor by Self-Proclamation

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yun Qingyang, one of the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s five great elders and the senior-most Celestial Immortal among the Five Great Sects, takes control of the gathering at the mysterious Immortal Island. His authority is reinforced by his possession of an Ancient Immortal Artifact inherited from the Jade Emperor and Feather Emperor Sects.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder arrives as a Celestial Immortal Avatar and joins the group. Although he appears amiable and modest, Yun Qingyang recognizes him as a dangerous and highly capable opponent.
• The gathered Celestial Immortals agree to cooperate in breaking the Immortal Island’s restrictions. The Heavenly Mystic Sect leads the first attempt, combining their strength and using nine Supreme-Grade Immortal Artifacts that merge into a single powerful sword.
• The attack fails completely. The island’s restriction reflects the force of the assault, destroying the sword radiance and injuring the participating avatars. Further attempts also prove useless, forcing the group to abandon efforts to break the formation.
• The Celestial Immortals decide that each faction may send up to ten Void Insight Realm experts onto the island. The Five Great Sects and Five Great Celestial Immortal Families prepare to send one hundred people in total.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder requests permission to select ten entrants from the Mountain Sea Alliance because the Heavenly Evolution Sect has joined it. The other Celestial Immortals reject this, insisting that only factions directly overseen by Celestial Immortals are eligible.
• A powerful new Celestial Immortal Avatar suddenly appears and threatens the assembled factions. This is Zhan Honglei, secretly released by Lin Fei, who intervenes to protect the Mountain Sea Alliance from being bullied.
• Zhan Honglei falsely identifies himself as the Mountain Sea Alliance’s Supreme Alliance Leader, calling himself the “Sea Emperor.” He declares that the Myriad Demon Sea belongs to the Alliance and threatens to seal the island and prevent the other factions from leaving if the Alliance is excluded.

Character Developments

• Yun Qingyang establishes himself as the gathering’s leading authority. Though outwardly cooperative, his concealed hostility toward Heavenly Secrets Elder suggests political tension and possible rivalry.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder demonstrates his usual strategic caution. He avoids claiming credit for solving the restriction and instead maneuvers to secure entry for the Heavenly Evolution Sect through the Mountain Sea Alliance.
• The Heavenly Mystic Sect’s Celestial Immortal suffers a setback after his formation-breaking technique is reflected. His failure reveals the extraordinary strength of the Immortal Island’s defenses.
• Lin Fei shows greater willingness to reveal hidden strength when the Mountain Sea Alliance’s interests are threatened. Rather than tolerate the powerful factions’ domination, he secretly deploys Zhan Honglei’s avatar.
• Zhan Honglei adopts the invented identity of the “Sea Emperor” and boldly presents himself as the Mountain Sea Alliance’s leader. His arrival dramatically changes the balance of power.
• Ning Caidie remains cautious and politically restrained, recognizing that her lower cultivation prevents her from challenging figures such as Yuan Tianba without Yun Qingyang’s support.
• The Mountain Sea Alliance shifts from being marginalized and disregarded to possessing an apparent Celestial Immortal protector capable of confronting the major sects and families.

Significant Themes

• Power and political dominance: The major sects and families attempt to monopolize access to the Immortal Island, treating weaker factions as unworthy of participation.
• Hidden strength and deception: Several characters conceal their true abilities or identities. Heavenly Secrets Elder hides his intentions, Lin Fei conceals Zhan Honglei’s origin, and Zhan Honglei invents the title of Sea Emperor.
• The danger of arrogance: The established powers assume they can dictate the rules, only to be challenged by an unexpected Celestial Immortal.
• Limits of force: The failed assault shows that even the combined power of numerous Celestial Immortal Avatars cannot overcome the island’s ancient restrictions through brute strength.
• Alliance and legitimacy: The chapter questions who has the right to claim territory and opportunity. The Mountain Sea Alliance uses its collective strength and territorial authority to demand recognition.

Character Interactions

• Yun Qingyang and Heavenly Secrets Elder exchange polite but guarded remarks, reflecting their long-standing rivalry and mutual wariness.
• The Heavenly Secrets Elder flatters the Heavenly Mystic Sect’s expertise in formations, subtly encouraging cooperation while maintaining his modest façade.
• The major sects and families unite temporarily to attack the island, but their cooperation breaks down when access is disputed.
• The Celestial Immortal ancestors of the Thunder and Yuan Families openly confront Heavenly Secrets Elder, accusing him of manipulating the agreement.
• Zhan Honglei directly challenges all the established factions, defending the Mountain Sea Alliance and threatening to trap the other Celestial Immortals on the Immortal Island.
• Yuan Tianba demands to know Zhan Honglei’s identity, prompting the latter to declare himself the self-proclaimed “Sea Emperor” and assert the Alliance’s authority.

Chapter Summary: “What Did They Discover?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhan Honglei reveals himself as the Mountain Sea Alliance’s Supreme Alliance Master, the “Sea Emperor,” and publicly supports the alliance’s right to enter the Immortal Island.
• His appearance as a Celestial Immortal dramatically raises the Mountain Sea Alliance’s status. Its Earth Immortal patriarchs and other members, previously looked down upon by the major forces, now command greater respect.
• Zhan Honglei exchanges courteous words with Heavenly Secrets Elder, acknowledging the elder’s past assistance when other Celestial Immortals attacked the alliance.
• The Five Great Sects and Five Great Celestial Immortal Families agree that the Mountain Sea Alliance may enter the island, since it now has Celestial Immortal leadership. However, they insist that the existing rules remain:
  • Only ten juniors may enter from each force.
  • Those chosen must be below the Human Immortal Realm.
• Many Mountain Sea Alliance experts protest, believing the rule unfairly excludes their Human and Earth Immortal cultivators. Zhan Honglei firmly rejects their complaints, insisting that all established rules must be obeyed.
• The ten selected entrants include Lin Fei, two members from the Heavenly Evolution Sect, one from the Red Luan Sect, and six cultivators from forces that have made significant contributions to the alliance.
• Several Earth Immortal experts complain about not receiving a place, but Zhan Honglei declares that opportunities will be distributed according to merit.
• Zhan Honglei and Heavenly Secrets Elder lead the selected cultivators onto the Immortal Island. Upon entry, the island suppresses everyone’s cultivation and prevents them from using dharma power.
• Zhan Honglei explains that the island contains the Fusang Divine Tree, the Immortal Blossom Garden, and an immortal’s residence, but all are protected by Ancient Immortal restrictions. He orders the juniors to explore independently and seek their own opportunities.
• Lin Fei secretly retains the use of his power through the Immortal Defying Token, which prevents the island’s suppression from affecting him.
• Lin Fei notices that the Celestial Immortals from the major sects and families are all moving toward Natural Dwelling, suggesting that they may have discovered something important.

Character Developments

• Zhan Honglei: Establishes himself as a powerful and authoritative leader. He strengthens the Mountain Sea Alliance’s political position, enforces discipline among its members, and emphasizes merit-based rewards rather than equal distribution.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder: Continues to present himself as humble and cooperative, reinforcing the Heavenly Evolution Sect’s alliance with the Mountain Sea Alliance.
• Lin Fei: Gains a major hidden advantage on the island through the Immortal Defying Token, allowing him to retain his cultivation while everyone else is reduced to ordinary mortals. His curiosity and awareness also position him to uncover the major secret surrounding Natural Dwelling.
• Mountain Sea Alliance members: Their confidence and pride increase after gaining Celestial Immortal protection, though some struggle to accept Zhan Honglei’s strict decisions.
• Major Celestial Immortals: Yun Qingyang and the others become more cautious toward the Mountain Sea Alliance, recognizing that its new strength could upset the existing balance of power.

Significant Themes

• Power determines status: The Mountain Sea Alliance is respected only after displaying Celestial Immortal-level strength, showing how influence in the cultivation world depends heavily on power.
• Rules versus fairness: The alliance members view the entry restrictions as discriminatory, while Zhan Honglei insists that established rules must be respected regardless of personal dissatisfaction.
• Merit and hierarchy: Zhan Honglei promotes a system in which rewards and opportunities go to those who have contributed most, reinforcing his authority and organizational control.
• Hidden advantages and concealed strength: Lin Fei’s Immortal Defying Token gives him an advantage unknown to everyone else, continuing the theme of protagonists concealing their true capabilities.
• Unexplored danger and opportunity: The Immortal Island remains mysterious, with powerful restrictions, unknown treasures, and the possibility that the major forces have discovered a deeper secret.

Character Interactions

• Zhan Honglei and Heavenly Secrets Elder exchange mutual respect, confirming their cooperation within the Mountain Sea Alliance.
• Zhan Honglei confronts the Five Great Sects and Celestial Immortal Families diplomatically but forcefully, securing permission for the alliance to enter the island.
• He also suppresses dissatisfaction within his own alliance, refusing to alter the selection rules or distribute the limited slots indiscriminately.
• The selected juniors formally receive permission to explore independently, while Zhan Honglei and Heavenly Secrets Elder remain nearby as the alliance’s protectors.
• Lin Fei separates from the group and observes the movements of the major Celestial Immortals, ending the chapter with suspicion that they have uncovered something significant at Natural Dwelling.

Chapter Summary: “Above the Golden Immortal”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei uses the Divine Soul Detection Art to monitor the entire Immortal Island after the Void Insight Realm experts from the Five Great Sects and Celestial Immortal Families arrive.
• The explorers split up to search for spirit herbs, the Immortal Blossom Garden, the Fusang Divine Tree, and other hidden areas. However, the Celestial Immortals—including Yun Qingyang, Ning Caidie, Yuan Tianba, and Lei Xiao—secretly converge on Natural Dwelling.
• Suspecting that Natural Dwelling is the island’s formation hub or contains the key to controlling the island, Lin Fei returns there using the Immortal Defying Token and searches it again. He finds nothing beyond the Great Treasure Refining Art and ordinary furnishings.
• The Celestial Immortals attempt to enter the dwelling. Xuan Zhenzi of the Heavenly Mystery Sect uses Celestial Immortal Talismans to attack its protective formations.
• His first talisman has no effect, so he sacrifices over a hundred talismans at once. The formation absorbs their power, strengthening its defensive barrier instead of weakening it.
• The Heavenly Secrets Elder and Zhan Honglei arrive. When asked whether he can break the island’s formations, the Elder admits that even True Immortal-level formations would be extremely difficult to overcome under their current limitations.
• Based on the Fusang Divine Tree and the island’s extraordinary design, the Heavenly Secrets Elder concludes that its owner may have been an existence above the Golden Immortal realm, possibly even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei remains cautious and strategically minded. He keeps his discoveries secret, realizes the others are mistaken about Natural Dwelling, and plans to exploit their greed while protecting his own advantage.
• Xuan Zhenzi reveals that the Heavenly Mystery Sect prepared powerful Celestial Immortal Talismans for the expedition. His confidence turns to frustration when his attack not only fails but reinforces the formation.
• The other Celestial Immortals show suspicion toward one another, recognizing that every faction likely possesses hidden trump cards despite their cultivation being suppressed.
• The Heavenly Secrets Elder demonstrates extensive knowledge of Ancient Immortal inheritances and formations, but honestly acknowledges the limits of his abilities.
• Zhan Honglei joins Lin Fei’s side of the investigation and helps observe the developments at Natural Dwelling.

Significant Themes

• Greed and ambition: The experts assume Natural Dwelling contains supreme treasures and a means of escaping their current world, motivating them to take dangerous risks.
• Hidden strength and misjudgment: The Celestial Immortals underestimate the dwelling’s formations, while Lin Fei possesses knowledge they lack.
• Preparation and distrust: Every faction has concealed resources, creating an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and possible betrayal.
• The overwhelming power of ancient inheritances: The island’s formations and the Fusang Divine Tree suggest that beings far beyond the current characters once occupied this place.
• Cleverness versus brute force: Xuan Zhenzi’s repeated attacks fail because the formation converts hostile power into greater defense, proving that force alone cannot overcome it.

Character Interactions

• The Celestial Immortals openly question one another’s motives when Xuan Zhenzi reveals his talismans, suspecting possible cooperation between the Five Great Sects.
• Xuan Zhenzi insists that the talismans are meant for the formation rather than for attacking the others, but the group remains wary.
• After the failed attack, Yun Qingyang and the Jiang Family’s Celestial Immortal mock Xuan Zhenzi for strengthening the barrier.
• Upon arriving, Zhan Honglei asks whether the others have made any discoveries, while Yun Qingyang appeals to the Heavenly Secrets Elder for a solution.
• The Elder’s speculation that the island’s owner surpassed the Golden Immortal realm transforms the group’s frustration into renewed excitement, as they begin imagining treasures capable of helping them ascend and escape their world.

Chapter Summary: Begging for an Immortal’s Favor

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei reflects on the cultivation hierarchy of the Immortal Realm: True Immortal, Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, and Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Golden Immortals are already extraordinarily powerful, while Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals are known as Dao Ancestors or Dao Lords.
• The Heavenly Secrets Elder deduces that the Immortal Island was likely created by an existence above the Golden Immortal realm. This excites the surrounding Celestial Immortals, who begin desperately seeking a way to claim its treasures.
• Xuan Zhenzi attempts to acknowledge ownership of Natural Dwelling by smearing blood on its stone stele, but the method fails. Other Celestial Immortals imitate him by applying blood to the stele, the formations, plants, and trees, yet nothing happens.
• After failing at Natural Dwelling, the Celestial Immortals leave to investigate other important locations, particularly the Immortal Blossom Garden and the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Yun Qingyang, the Heavenly Secrets Elder, and Zhan Honglei remain behind. Yun Qingyang suspects that a guardian or hidden power may exist within Natural Dwelling.
• Instead of leaving, Yun Qingyang kneels before the entrance and respectfully begs the supposed Ancient Immortal to favor him. Lin Fei, who is secretly inside, finds the situation amusing and awkward.
• Lin Fei theorizes that the Great Treasure Refining Art, the only immortal art left in Natural Dwelling, may allow him to control the Immortal Island.
• When he uses the technique to refine the objects inside the dwelling, the entire formation system reacts. Lin Fei discovers that Natural Dwelling itself is not the formation core; the true central nexus is the stone stele outside.
• Lin Fei realizes that refining the stele with the Great Treasure Refining Art will let him control the island’s defensive formations. Meanwhile, Yun Qingyang mistakenly believes his worship has finally moved the Ancient Immortal.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei: Becomes increasingly confident in understanding and exploiting the Immortal Island’s secrets. His knowledge of ancient records helps him assess the island’s origins, and he identifies the stone stele as the key to controlling the formations.
• Xuan Zhenzi: Shows strong ambition and persistence. Though his blood-recognition attempt fails, he remains determined to obtain the Ancient Immortal’s treasures because they might allow him to become a True Immortal.
• Yun Qingyang: Reveals a pragmatic and shamelessly deferential side, willingly kneeling and begging before the presumed Ancient Immortal in hopes of gaining its favor. He also demonstrates perceptiveness by suspecting that Natural Dwelling contains a hidden guardian or central secret.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder: Continues acting as an intelligent observer and diviner, recognizing that the island may undergo a major change but remaining unsure of its cause.
• Zhan Honglei: Takes a more passive, observant role, lightly provoking the others and watching their attempts to claim the island.

Significant Themes

• Greed and ambition: The possibility of Golden Immortal treasures drives the Celestial Immortals to compete, imitate one another, and abandon dignity.
• Strength versus fate: The chapter raises the idea that ancient treasures may belong either to the strongest or to those truly fated to obtain them.
• Appearances and misunderstanding: Yun Qingyang believes his worship has attracted the Ancient Immortal’s attention, while the actual cause of the island’s reaction is Lin Fei’s secret use of the Great Treasure Refining Art.
• Knowledge as power: Lin Fei’s study of ancient texts and understanding of immortal techniques give him an advantage over the more powerful Celestial Immortals.
• Humility and flattery: Yun Qingyang’s kneeling illustrates how even powerful cultivators will humble themselves before a being they believe vastly surpasses them.

Character Interactions

• The Celestial Immortals collectively react to Xuan Zhenzi’s failed blood-recognition attempt, then copy his method in desperation.
• Yuan Tianba exposes the Ji Family Celestial Immortal’s intention to investigate another location, prompting the others to realize that the Immortal Blossom Garden and Fusang Divine Tree may also contain opportunities.
• Zhan Honglei teases Yun Qingyang and the Heavenly Secrets Elder for remaining behind, while Yun Qingyang calmly explains his belief that the island’s treasures require either strength or fate.
• Yun Qingyang publicly worships the unseen Ancient Immortal, unaware that Lin Fei is inside Natural Dwelling and is the one causing the island’s formations to react.
• Lin Fei secretly observes everyone, amused by their mistaken assumptions, while preparing to seize control of the Immortal Island through the stone stele.

Chapter Summary: “What Did You Actually Do?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Fei continues refining the stone tablet engraved with “Natural Dwelling.” Despite mastering the Great Treasure Refining Art, the Ancient Immortal restriction is extremely difficult to overcome because his cultivation realm is still too low.
• Outside the dwelling, Yun Qingyang repeatedly kowtows, believing the tablet or its guardian may be connected to an Ancient Immortal. Heavenly Secrets Elder doubts the existence of an Ancient Immortal guardian but correctly guesses that the hidden presence is concealing itself due to insufficient strength.
• As Lin Fei’s refinement progresses, the entire immortal island begins trembling. The disturbance draws back the Celestial Immortals and attracts numerous Void Insight Realm cultivators.
• Seeing Yun Qingyang worshiping, the others imitate him, hoping to gain access to the Ancient Immortal’s treasures or inheritance. Soon, more than a dozen Celestial Immortals and hundreds of experts are kneeling and kowtowing before the dwelling.
• Lin Fei is amused by their worship but realizes that merely pretending to be an Ancient Immortal will not be enough to control them permanently. The cultivators ultimately seek the means to ascend and attain eternal life, which he cannot yet provide.
• Lin Fei gains increasing control over the immortal island’s formations. His refinement also seems to prevent the island from vanishing into the void, allowing the outsiders to remain there far longer than expected.
• After several hours, the Celestial Immortals become suspicious that their worship is achieving nothing. Yuan Tianba stops kowtowing and notices that the characters on the tablet are gradually turning gold.
• Believing the completed golden inscription may allow him to claim the artifact, Yuan Tianba deliberately blocks the others’ view and waits. When the characters fully turn gold, he secretly smears his blood across them.
• The tablet briefly flashes, then returns to its original state. Immediately afterward, a terrifying force suppresses everyone’s cultivation and expels all of them from the immortal island.
• The island disappears deep into the void, leaving the bewildered cultivators to blame Yuan Tianba for what happened.

Character Developments

• Lin Fei grows closer to controlling the immortal island but remains cautious because his low cultivation makes him vulnerable to the Celestial Immortals. He also recognizes the limits of his current inheritances and his inability to help others achieve true immortality.
• Yun Qingyang appears deeply devoted—or at least extremely hopeful—continuing to worship without hesitation and indirectly persuading the other factions to do the same.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder demonstrates skepticism and caution, though he ultimately joins the worship after deciding there is little harm in honoring an Ancient Immortal.
• Yuan Tianba shifts from passive participant to opportunistic rival. He abandons the ritual, investigates the tablet, and attempts to bind it through his blood without informing the others.
• Lei Xiao becomes the first to challenge Yuan Tianba’s behavior, exposing his suspicious actions to the other Celestial Immortals.
• The other cultivators are shown to be driven by greed, curiosity, and the desire for Ancient Immortal treasures, readily following the crowd despite lacking clear evidence.

Significant Themes

• Greed and opportunism: The cultivators worship not from genuine reverence but from the hope of obtaining treasures, inheritance, or immortality.
• Deception and mistaken identity: Lin Fei benefits from being mistaken for an Ancient Immortal, while the outsiders misinterpret every movement of the island and tablet.
• Power versus cultivation level: Lin Fei may control a powerful immortal island, but his low realm prevents him from fully using its strength or safely revealing himself.
• The pursuit of immortality: The deepest desire of the Celestial Immortals is not merely treasure but ascension and eternal life, a goal Lin Fei currently cannot fulfill.
• Consequences of acting alone: Yuan Tianba’s secret attempt to claim the tablet appears to trigger the island’s defensive response, resulting in everyone’s expulsion.

Character Interactions

• Yun Qingyang’s unexplained worship causes Ning Caidie, Xuan Zhenzi, Yuan Tianba, Lei Xiao, Heavenly Secrets Elder, Zhan Honglei, and numerous other experts to imitate him.
• Heavenly Secrets Elder and Zhan Honglei briefly discuss whether worshiping is worthwhile before joining in.
• Yuan Tianba and Lei Xiao exchange guarded remarks after both stop kowtowing. Lei Xiao notices the golden light behind Yuan Tianba and confronts him.
• Yuan Tianba’s secret blood ritual is discovered by Lei Xiao and witnessed by all the Celestial Immortals, provoking confusion and accusations after the island ejects them.