Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan learned that the Myriad Insect Palace’s time acceleration would let him complete the survival trial while only a short time passed outside, and he began his thousand-year journey through the Treasure World. Meanwhile, Ji Ning arrived at Green Lotus Peak with Yu Wei and their daughter Mingyue to visit Xia Manggan before his Heavenly God Tribulation.

• The White-haired Elder urged Xia Manggan to remain for the Lord of Nine Directions’ legacy, but Xia Manggan chose to return to his homeland after the trial because it faced a catastrophe.
• The White-haired Elder revealed that time in the Myriad Insect Palace had been accelerated one hundredfold, giving Xia Manggan enough outside time to complete the trial.
• Xia Manggan decided to spend the minimum thousand years on the survival trial and flew down into the Treasure World to begin exploring.
• Ji Ning and Yu Wei arrived at Green Lotus Peak with their young daughter Mingyue, and Dongyan Yun welcomed them.
• Ji Ning told Dongyan Yun that he had returned to prepare for the Heavenly God Tribulation and asked whether Xia Manggan was there.

Ji Ning met Xia Manggan to discuss Ji Ning’s coming Heavenly God Tribulation, the use of Chaos Spirit Liquid, and a request to borrow Star Gold Beads. As Ji Ning prepared to undergo the tribulation in three days, Yu Wei secretly reported to an azure-robed messenger that she had been assigned to observe Green Lotus Peak for the God King.

• Xia Manggan explained how Chaos Spirit Liquid could improve the grade of Ji Ning’s Heavenly Immortal Golden Core and asked to study the Star Gold Beads after Ji Ning obtained them.
• Ji Ning agreed to lend Xia Manggan the Star Gold Beads, and Xia Manggan said their Nine-Layer Chaos Restriction would matter to Ji Ning in the future.
• Xia Manggan and Ji Ning’s families shared a meal on Green Lotus Peak, while Dongyan Yun told Xia Manggan she wanted a child.
• Ji Ning planned to undergo the Heavenly God Tribulation in three days and reassured himself that he would succeed for Yu Wei and Mingyue.
• Yu Wei met an azure-robed messenger in a dream and reported that she had entered Green Lotus Peak; the messenger ordered her to record everything there for the God King and report every three days.

Ji Ning began his Heavenly God Tribulation as Xia Manggan revealed to Patriarch Bodhi that he had reached the fourth level of the Space-Time Path and described a mysterious Floating Island in the Void Sea. As Ji Ning’s tribulation reached its Thunder Tribulation, Xia Manggan doubted he would face the Heavenly Punishment Lightning Tribulation he had endured.

• Ji Ning began his Heavenly God Tribulation in a wilderness near Green Lotus Peak as friends, disciples, and members of the Ji Clan gathered to watch.
• Xia Manggan secretly watched from afar, and Patriarch Bodhi discovered that he had advanced to the fourth level of the Space-Time Path.
• Xia Manggan told Patriarch Bodhi that his Void Sea avatars had encountered a Floating Island with Puppet lifeforms before losing contact with his true body.
• Patriarch Bodhi asked whether Xia Manggan could locate the Floating Island again, but Xia Manggan said he did not know where it was in the vast Void Sea.
• Ji Ning passed through the Wind and Fire Tribulations as dark clouds gathered for the Thunder Tribulation, and Xia Manggan said he probably would not face a Heavenly Punishment Lightning Tribulation.

Ji Ning endured the Heavenly God Tribulation, overcame its Heart Demon stage, and emerged as a Celestial God with a second-grade Golden Core. After Ji Ning reunited with his family, Xia Manggan and Patriarch Bodhi discussed his plans to build a stronger divine body and investigated unusual spatial forces in the Void Sea.

• Ji Ning endured the lightning tribulation, shattered its final Pure Yang Golden Light Lightning with six swords, and entered the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Patriarch Bodhi and Xia Manggan discussed Xia Manggan’s plan to delay becoming a True God until he could create a more powerful divine body, and Patriarch Bodhi took him away to expound the Dao.
• Ji Ning spent thirty-six days in the Heart Demon World before awakening and completing his breakthroughs in Body Refining and Qi Refining.
• Ji Ning became a Celestial God with a second-grade Golden Core, then embraced little Mingyue and reunited with Yu Wei.
• Xia Manggan and Patriarch Bodhi studied simulated Void Fragment collisions and speculated that an unknown arrangement caused the unusual forces near a Floating Island.

Ji Ning asked Patriarch Bodhi for the rare materials needed to cultivate the fifth turn of the Star-Plucking Hand, then planned to study the Wubao Sword Technique while keeping Yu Wei and Mingyue safe from the Wujian Sect. Yu Wei chose to move near Jiu Lian at Green Lotus Peak, where Xia Manggan learned that his Dao companion was pregnant.

• Xia Manggan discussed the Space-Time Path with Patriarch Bodhi, who urged him to keep advancing his Qi Refining cultivation and prepare for threats from the Wujian Sect and foreign races.
• Ji Ning visited Patriarch Bodhi and received the rare materials for the fifth turn of the Star-Plucking Hand as a gift.
• Ji Ning told Patriarch Bodhi he intended to study the Wubao Sword Technique in the Twenty-Seven Worlds of Fuji before joining the realm war in the Jiuyang Realm.
• Ji Ning decided Yu Wei and Mingyue should stay out of danger, but Yu Wei asked to live near Jiu Lian, so they planned to settle beside Green Lotus Peak.
• Xia Manggan stared in astonishment when his Dao companion told him she was pregnant.

Xia Manggan arranged for his pregnant Dao companion Dongyan Yun to be cared for at Green Lotus Peak while Ji Ning lent him the Star Gold Beads to study their Chaos Restrictions. Yu Wei reported the pregnancy and other details to the Wujian Sect in a dream, and the Black-Robed God King brought the intelligence to the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons to propose a plan.

• Shenrong Qianxue fussed over Dongyan Yun's pregnancy, and Xia Manggan had the Xia Emperor send thousands of servants and medicines to Green Lotus Peak.
• Ji Ning congratulated Xia Manggan on the pregnancy and gave him the Star Gold Beads, which Xia Manggan refined and stored for his avatar to study.
• Xia Manggan promised Ji Ning a set of Chaos Exotic Treasure-level immortal swords within a hundred years, though Ji Ning said he did not need them.
• Yu Wei reported Dongyan Yun's pregnancy and the arrival of the maidservants to the green-robed Messenger in her dream, who said she would inform the God King.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons inspected six nearly completed Messengers of All Things, and the Black-Robed God King told him that Xia Manggan's Dao companion was pregnant and proposed a plan.

The Black-Robed God King arranged to use Yu Wei to bring Dongyan Yun and Ji Ning to the Fifth World, where the Wujian Sect could seize leverage over the Nuwa Faction and recruit Ji Ning. After the God King gave Yu Wei a secret teleportation art and tried to tempt her with promises of safety and training for her family, she questioned whether bringing Ji Ning would truly protect him.

• The Black-Robed God King persuaded the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons to support a plan to bring Dongyan Yun and Ji Ning to the Fifth World, and the Lord agreed to send Demon Hand Dao Ancestor there.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons promised to create a Universe Path escape art for Yu Wei, and three days later the Black-Robed God King gave her the technique in a dream.
• The Black-Robed God King ordered Yu Wei to bring Dongyan Yun and Ji Ning to the Fifth World, and Yu Wei said she would not harm Ji Ning.
• The Black-Robed God King promised to make Ji Ning his disciple and give Yu Wei's daughter Mingyue the finest training, persuading Yu Wei to consider bringing them back.
• Yu Wei awoke beside her daughter and wondered whether Ji Ning would submit to the God King and whether joining the Wujian Sect would truly be good for them.

Xia Manggan refined Ji Ning’s Star Gold Beads into the Thirty-Six Heavens and quickly mastered two layers of their Nine-Layer Chaos Restriction. The bronze mirrors revealed the River of Destiny and their defensive powers, while Xia Manggan sensed they might hold deeper secrets related to True Spirits.

• Xia Manggan fused the 3,600 Star Gold Beads into the Thirty-Six Heavens, astonishing the Delicate Child and the Little Fatty Spirit.
• Xia Manggan studied the beads’ Great Dao of Void and considered using created void worlds to develop stronger secret arts.
• Xia Manggan transformed the Thirty-Six Heavens into bronze mirrors by refining the second layer of the Nine-Layer Chaos Restriction.
• The Delicate Child accepted Xia Manggan as its master after learning how quickly he had refined the restriction.
• Xia Manggan used the mirrors to sense the River of Destiny and discovered their powers to observe destinies, defend him, and reflect attacks.

Xia Manggan sent Ji Ning’s disguised clone to the Sword Immortal World so it could pursue the Wubao Sword Technique in secret, while Yu Wei delayed carrying out the God King’s orders. More than nine years later, the Main World in the Myriad Insect Palace shook as the thousand-year survival period for the third trial ended.

• Xia Manggan comprehended the Great Dao of Wither and Flourish while tending his garden, then welcomed Ji Ning to his courtyard.
• Ji Ning asked Xia Manggan to send his disguised Earth Immortal clone to the Sword Immortal World so it could study the Wubao Sword Technique without alerting the Wujian Sect.
• Xia Manggan opened a spatial vortex for Ji Ning’s clone, and Ji Ning resolved to risk forgetting other Daos to strengthen his Sword Dao.
• Yu Wei chose to delay learning the secret movement technique that would force her to carry out the God King’s orders and separate from Ji Ning and Mingyue.
• More than nine years passed peacefully at Green Lotus Peak and Mingyue Peak, until the Main World in the Myriad Insect Palace shook as the third trial’s thousand-year survival period arrived.

After a thousand years in the Treasure World, Xia Manggan fought through the scorpion Insect Beasts guarding Poison Scorpion Valley and uncovered the structure hidden within. He prepared to enter the valley and claim its treasures.

• Xia Manggan saw the Heaven-Reaching Ladder appear and glimpsed the black structure at the site of the fourth trial.
• A swarm of black and purple scorpion Insect Beasts attacked Xia Manggan, who escaped into deep space and used the Void Dragon Evasion Technique to evade them.
• Xia Manggan slaughtered the ordinary black scorpions with the Tuhe War Blade and then killed the purple scorpions by avoiding their poisonous tails.
• With the scorpion Insect Beasts dead, the formations covering Poison Scorpion Valley dispersed and revealed a massive black structure shaped like a battle blade.

Xia Manggan overcame the guardians of Poison Scorpion Valley and entered the black war blade structure, where he discovered the Azure Vine leaves he needed to advance his avatar divine ability. He harvested the leaves from outside the hall, but when he tried to approach the floating war blade, it destroyed his spirit treasure rope and the Blood-Robed Girl revealed her murderous intent.

• Xia Manggan sent eighteen avatars to draw away the Six-Winged Scorpions while his strongest avatar traversed the void toward the black war blade structure.
• Xia Manggan killed the two Purple-Red Scorpions guarding the entrance and entered the structure after his avatars escaped the canyon.
• Xia Manggan found a hall containing a black war blade and an Azure Vine whose leaves completed the exotic-material requirements for the third level of his avatar divine ability.
• Xia Manggan used a spirit treasure rope to pull every Azure Vine leaf from the hall without entering it, despite the Blood-Robed Girl urging him to come inside.
• The war blade cut the rope when Xia Manggan tried to approach it, and the Blood-Robed Girl turned vicious as Xia Manggan said he did not trust her.

Xia Manggan claimed the murderous battle blade, named it Tu Ye, and refined three of its restrictions before setting out for the Heaven-Reaching Ladder. He rejected the White-haired Elder’s offer to search for more treasures and chose to enter the fourth trial.

• Xia Manggan reached through the barrier, overcame the Blood-Robed Girl, claimed the battle blade, and erased her spirit.
• Xia Manggan named the blade Tu Ye and refined its first three restrictions, gaining the Splitting Light and Shadow effect.
• Xia Manggan collected the withering Azure Vine and left the hall with Tu Ye.
• Xia Manggan cut through the Six-Winged Scorpions in Poison Scorpion Valley and flew for nearly ten days toward the Heaven-Reaching Ladder.
• The White-haired Elder offered Xia Manggan more time to seek treasures, but Xia Manggan declined because the third trial held no World Heart.
• Xia Manggan followed the White-haired Elder upward toward the fourth trial.

Xia Manggan began the fourth trial on the Blood Blade Platform, where he faced a first wave of Blood-Blade Puppets in a life-or-death battle. He revealed his hidden avatars and overwhelmed four opponents, leaving the Three-Eyed Enchanting Woman as the sole survivor as the drums continued.

• The White-haired Elder explained the Blood Blade Platform’s three escalating waves of opponents and warned Xia Manggan that the Blood-Blade Puppets were powerful, experienced cultivators.
• Xia Manggan stepped onto the platform, where a spatial barrier sealed the arena and five Blood-Blade Puppets appeared for the first wave.
• The Three-Eyed Enchanting Woman used Space Eye to expose Xia Manggan, while the Thin Tall Elder and Double-Pupil Man attacked him with powerful techniques.
• Xia Manggan evaded the Puppets’ attacks and drew them into underestimating him before summoning two Rahula Fiendgods and striking with his avatar.
• Xia Manggan’s combined attacks destroyed four Blood-Blade Puppets, leaving the Three-Eyed Enchanting Woman alone as the war drums began their third round.

Xia Manggan defeated the first group of Blood Blade Puppets, then faced eighteen Silver-haired Men in the second group and realized they could trap him with a formation. The chapter left him trying to break free from their chain meteor hammers, whose strength he could not overcome.

• Xia Manggan revealed his hidden avatars, killed four of the first group’s True God Puppets, and fought the Three-Eyed Enchanting Woman.
• Xia Manggan’s three Rahula Fiendgods and Golden Crow Avatar overwhelmed the woman’s Fifth-Level Blade Force and killed her.
• Xia Manggan reviewed the battle and considered how to defend his Rahula Fiendgod bodies against stronger opponents.
• A Silver-haired Man appeared as the second group’s opponent and split into eighteen figures using the Taowu Eighteen Fiendgods.
• The eighteen Silver-haired Men used the Universe Reversal One-Heart Formation to force Xia Manggan out of deeper space and envelop the arena in a vast world.
• Xia Manggan grabbed the incoming chain meteor hammers, but his strength could not pull them free from the world.

Xia Manggan fought the Silver-haired Man inside an illusion layered over the Universe Reversal One-Heart Formation, enduring concealed blade attacks while searching for the formation’s core. He forced a flaw in the formation and exposed the Silver-haired Man’s avatars, then sent the Rahula Fiendgod charging in to finish the fight.

• The Silver-haired Man trapped Xia Manggan in an ocean world and attacked him with icy vortices, water chains, and Willow-Leaf Blades concealing fifth-level Blade Dao power.
• Xia Manggan defended himself with his Thunder Marsh Armor and six arms, but the attacks and approaching war-drum deadline put him under pressure.
• Unable to locate the Silver-haired Man through the illusion, Xia Manggan summoned the Rahula Fiendgod and used enormous palms and multiple blades to destabilize one point in the formation.
• Xia Manggan and the Rahula Fiendgod tore open a crack in the void, provoking the Silver-haired Man to launch a stronger silver torrent and reveal the formation’s power source.
• Xia Manggan blocked the torrent while the Rahula Fiendgod pierced the formation’s core, exposing the Silver-haired Man’s eighteen avatars.
• The Rahula Fiendgod charged the exposed Silver-haired Man with a blade.

Xia Manggan faced Ancestor God Hunyu and Old Demon Duanmie in the Blood Blade Platform’s final trial, enduring their combined assault until pressure drove him to break through to fifth-level Taiji Force. He then sent nearly all his clones into battle to seize an opening against the two Ancestor Gods.

• Xia Manggan recognized Ancestor God Hunyu and Old Demon Duanmie as his final opponents and realized their strength made the fight a desperate gamble.
• Ancestor God Hunyu and Old Demon Duanmie attacked Xia Manggan, who held them off with his Short Staffs, Thunder Marsh Armor, and Space-Time arts.
• Old Demon Duanmie intensified his assault, tearing openings in Xia Manggan’s defense as Xia endured the pain and waited for a chance to counterattack.
• Under the pressure of the battle, Xia Manggan broke through to fifth-level Taiji Force.
• As Old Demon Duanmie unleashed the Duanmie Demon Claws, Xia Manggan teleported out his two Rahula Fiendgods and nearly all his remaining clones.

Xia Manggan defeated Old Demon Juemie and Ancestor God Hunyu in the fourth trial, then entered the fifth trial and discovered that his opponent was an exact copy of himself. The trial began with the copy warning that Xia Manggan would die if he lost and could neither retreat nor give up.

• Xia Manggan used his avatars and Rahula Fiendgods to kill Old Demon Juemie at the cost of eight Golden Crow Avatars.
• Xia Manggan defeated Ancestor God Hunyu after sacrificing three Second Primordial Spirit avatars, won the fourth trial, and broke through to the fifth level of Taiji Force.
• Xia Manggan rested for nine days, then followed the golden passage into the palace for the final trial.
• A Dragon Robe-clad copy of Xia Manggan appeared with twenty-three identical avatars and claimed to possess the same abilities, weapons, treasures, and Dao Comprehension Realm.
• The copy began the trial and warned Xia Manggan that losing would kill him and that he could not retreat or give up.

Xia Manggan passed Lord of Nine Directions’s fifth trial, breaking through to the fourth level of Heart Force and creating a new secret art. He became Lord of Nine Directions’s personal disciple and received a World Prison containing the Nine Directions World-Extinguishing blade art.

• The White-haired Elder and the Green-haired Man watched Xia Manggan take the final step and pass the fifth trial.
• Xia Manggan slept for nearly ten years while time flowed a hundred times faster around him, then awoke with fourth-level Heart Force and an understanding of the Mortal Dust Realm.
• Xia Manggan explained that he defeated his illusory self by creating the Space-Time Phantom Dragon Blade Technique.
• The White-haired Elder took Xia Manggan to Kunyu Palace, where Xia Manggan bowed before Lord of Nine Directions’s portrait and was accepted as his personal disciple.
• Lord of Nine Directions bestowed a World Prison on Xia Manggan and asked him to continue his lineage and avenge him if someone reached beyond the World Realm.
• Xia Manggan examined the World Prison and learned that its two sections contained the Nine Directions World-Extinguishing blade art.

Xia Manggan received Lord of Nine Directions' inheritance, explored the treasures and secrets of the Inheritance World, and learned that he would need greater strength to control the Jiuyao Puppet. He returned to the Three Realms with True Immortal Dongyan as the Wujian Sect's escalating attacks had caused heavy losses, leaving Xia Manggan ready to change the balance of power.

• Xia Manggan memorized the Nine Directions World-Extinguishing blade techniques and the Kunyu body-protection divine ability, then refined the stone stele and entered the Inheritance World.
• Xifu and Dongqu welcomed Xia Manggan, and Xifu gave him nineteen bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid and showed him the Inheritance World's treasures, including Lishin Peak.
• Xia Manggan learned that Lord of Nine Directions had prepared nine portions of inheritance and that Jiuyao would submit only to someone with strength at the threshold of the World Realm.
• The White-haired Elder withheld the identity of Lord of Nine Directions' enemy, warning that knowing it would bring harmful karmic entanglement before Xia Manggan was ready.
• Xia Manggan returned to the Three Realms with True Immortal Dongyan, whose true body had perished, and reflected on the Wujian Sect's recent assassinations, including the death of Heavenly Immortal Kumu.

After learning that the Wujian Sect had targeted the families and disciples of their enemies, Xia Manggan concluded that the final battle was near and prepared to strengthen himself. Memories from his avatars converged, triggering his Golden Crow avatars’ breakthrough into the True God realm, while his Human True Self waited to pursue the Thousand-Body Canon.

• Ancestor Dongyan refused Xia Manggan and Dongyan Yun’s request to rest from the war, but agreed to cultivate at Fangcun Mountain and meet Dongyan Yun’s approaching child before returning to battle.
• Jiang Jun told Xia Manggan and Ancestor Dongyan that the Wujian Sect had assassinated loved ones of Nuwa Faction cultivators, killing True Immortal Xuheng and gravely injuring Celestial God Jifeng.
• Xia Manggan decided that the approaching final battle made it necessary to stop delaying his breakthroughs, though he still wanted to gather the resources needed for his cultivation plans.
• Memories from Xia Manggan’s avatars converged in the Nirvana Void, combining insights from the Myriad Insect Palace, the Three Realms, and the Swallowed Star World.
• Xia Manggan gathered his avatars in the Inheritance World and began reconstructing the cores of his eighteen Golden Crow avatars with the Great Daos of Wuji and Taiji, triggering their transformation into True Gods.
• Xia Manggan’s Human True Self chose to wait before breaking through, planning to obtain a World Heart and cultivate the Thousand-Body Canon after leaving the Three Realms.