Chapter Summaries

The Xia Emperor killed Heavenly God Hu Qu and helped Great Xia defeat the Wujian Sect’s forces, then celebrated his new status as a Dao Ancestor. At the victory banquet, Fuxi Clan questioned Xia Manggan about his Heavenly Immortal tribulation, making Xia Manggan suspect that Elder Yuan was investigating him.

• The Xia Emperor killed Heavenly God Hu Qu, while Xia Manggan killed True Immortal Quyun and five of the Six Demon Gods of Tonglian Mountain as the Wujian Sect forces fled.
• Great Xia’s forces pursued the retreating enemies, and Xia Manggan warned the Wujian Sect leaders to leave Great Xia or face death in a future battle.
• The Great Xia side celebrated its near-lossless victory, and powerful figures—including the Three Human Sovereigns, Sanqing, and Tathagata—sent congratulations to the Xia Emperor.
• Fuxi Clan asked Xia Manggan whether anything unusual had happened when he formed his Heavenly Immortal Golden Core, and Xia Manggan suspected that Elder Yuan was behind the inquiry.

After Great Xia’s victory over the Wujian Sect, Suiren Clan arranged a powerful formation as a reward for Xia Manggan, while Xia Emperor explained how he had broken through to become a Dao Ancestor. Xia Manggan gained Hu Qu’s bow and began considering a journey into the mortal world to advance his Heart Force.

• Suiren Clan proposed that Fuxi Clan create a stronger battle formation for Xia Manggan, and Fuxi Clan agreed after learning Xia Manggan’s Heart Force and divine soul capabilities.
• Suiren Clan promised to supply the Heavenly Immortals and Loose Immortals for the formation and said Xia Manggan’s Prince Gan Army would be upgraded.
• Xia Emperor told Xia Manggan that Flash Heaven Star, Great Xia’s growing fortune, and accelerated cultivation in the Peering Heaven Taihao Pagoda had helped him break through to Dao Ancestor.
• Xia Manggan predicted that the Wujian Sect would send reinforcements or begin a domain decisive battle, giving Xia Emperor a chance to fight another Dao Ancestor.
• Xia Emperor lent Xia Manggan Hu Qu’s bow and arrows, and Xia Manggan refined the bow and became its master.
• After hearing Xia Emperor praise Hu Qu’s former life as a mortal hunter, Xia Manggan considered visiting the mortal world to seek insight into fourth-level Heart Force.

Xia Manggan sought Patriarch Bodhi’s help to conceal himself while visiting mortal worlds to improve his Heart Force, and received a concealment incantation along with warnings to keep strengthening his Space-Time arts. Meanwhile, the Wujian Sect’s Black-Robed God King condemned its commanders for their defeat and ordered a temporary truce before Dao Ancestor Mozhu took charge of the next attack.

• After hearing the Hu Qu Bow’s account of Heavenly God Hu Qu’s life, Xia Manggan decided more strongly to experience mortal life and secretly contacted Patriarch Bodhi.
• Xia Manggan told Patriarch Bodhi about his plans, and Bodhi gave him a bamboo slip containing the Seventy-Two Transformations and an incantation to conceal his aura.
• Patriarch Bodhi urged Xia Manggan to keep cultivating his Space-Time supreme art so he could better escape danger and eventually find Fangcun Mountain himself.
• In Wujian City, the Black-Robed God King rebuked True Immortal Baiji and Sect Master Green Fox for the disastrous defeat and heavy losses.
• The Black-Robed God King ordered a temporary truce until the Wujian Sect’s mobilized armies gathered, then warned Baiji and Green Fox that they would die on the battlefield if they feared death again.

The Black-Robed God King arranged for Nine-Headed Lion to gain power against Xia Manggan and sought a Purple Light Puppet from the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons to prepare another assault. As Great Xia’s forces grew during a lull in the fighting, Ji Ning returned and offered Xia Manggan the aid of seven hidden Celestial Gods.

• The Black-Robed God King reprimanded True Immortal Baiji and Sect Master Green Fox, then told Heavenly God Cangying to join forces with the Swallowing Dragon Mountain brothers as a Three-Eyed Demon God.
• The Black-Robed God King promised Nine-Headed Lion greater power to suppress Xia Manggan’s strongest Xingtian God in the next war.
• The Black-Robed God King asked the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons for the next Purple Light Puppet to be forged, and the Lord directed him to Wuxiao to arrange it.
• Over the following months, Dao Ancestor Xia Mang’s sermons drew more Celestial Gods and True Immortals to Eight-Dragon Cloud City, raising Great Xia’s count from eleven to twenty-three.
• Ji Ning told Xia Manggan that his Human True Self had completed training and offered the help of seven Celestial Gods from the Water Mansion when the next battle required it.

Ji Ning told Xia Manggan about the Seven Luminaries Celestial Gods, and Xia Manggan decided to let Ji Ning and Yu Wei’s relationship develop without interference. In World Prison, Xia Manggan arranged for Ah Huang to meet the imprisoned Wild Dog Ancestor God, while outside, the newly advanced Xia Emperor confronted Wujian Sect’s Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo.

• Xia Manggan agreed to bring Hongxue and the other Star-Plucking Mansion Celestial Gods to meet Xia Emperor, but chose not to manipulate Ji Ning and Yu Wei’s relationship.
• Xia Manggan took Ah Huang into World Prison and left him outside the Wild Dog Ancestor God’s formation while he went to battle imprisoned Celestial Gods.
• Ah Huang ate fresh food near the Wild Dog Ancestor God, who offered him a Heavenly Immortal-level beast corpse in exchange for some.
• Ink Bamboo tore open the Universe-sealing formation around Wujian City and entered Great Xia World.
• Xia Emperor faced Ink Bamboo above Eight-Dragon Cloud City, and their opposing powers formed a stalemate.

Dao Ancestor Mozhu led a massive Wujian Sect army into Wujian City, prompting Xia Emperor to take personal command of the coming war. As both sides gathered reinforcements, Xia Manggan kept his Human True Self out of the fighting and anticipated that the battle might raise his Fortune Value enough to advance his Chaos Universe.

• Dao Ancestor Mozhu entered Wujian City while an enormous army of Immortals and Fiends poured through the passage he had opened.
• Xia Manggan reassured Great Xia’s defenders that the Crimson Bright Domain and its allies would provide forces to match the Wujian Sect.
• Xia Emperor announced that he would personally command the war, estimated the Wujian Sect’s forces at over three hundred thousand Heavenly Immortals and tens of millions of Loose Immortals, and warned that its Puppets made it dangerous despite Great Xia’s reinforcements.
• Xia Emperor told the assembled commanders that the armies were still mobilizing and the main war would likely begin in at least a year, urging them to prepare and cultivate.
• Xia Manggan decided that only his Second Primordial Spirit would fight while his Human True Self followed its original plan, and he hoped the battle would raise his Fortune Value past ten million.

As Great Xia gathered reinforcements for the war against the Wujian Sect, Heavenly God Golden Crow joined Xia Manggan and the Xia Emperor. After months of preparation, the Wujian Sect accepted the challenge, and both armies marched out to begin the battle.

• Xia Manggan’s Second Primordial Spirit finished refining the second layer of restrictions in the Dark Wind Space-Rending Staffs.
• Heavenly God Golden Crow came to join Xia Manggan and explained that he no longer wanted to build his own faction during the great tribulation.
• The Xia Emperor and Xia Manggan welcomed Heavenly God Golden Crow, whose arrival strengthened the morale of Great Xia’s forces.
• After several months, the Wujian Sect accepted the challenge, and the Xia Emperor ordered Great Xia’s legions to march out.
• Xia Manggan stood among the Xingtian Gods as Great Xia’s enormous army formed battle formations opposite the Wujian Sect’s forces.

Great Xia and the Wujian Sect clashed, and Heavenly God Golden Crow disrupted the enemy formation with powerful Dao talismans. Xia Manggan’s supreme Xingtian God tore through the Wujian forces until Nine-Headed Lion joined the fight in a Purple Light Puppet, whose strength Xia Manggan’s refined staff techniques managed to withstand.

• Dao Ancestor Mozhu ordered the Wujian Sect army to attack as Great Xia’s forces advanced toward Eight-Dragon Cloud City.
• Heavenly God Golden Crow flew ahead and struck the Wujian formation with Dao talismans, destroying or damaging numerous beast formations.
• Xia Manggan led twelve powerful Xingtian Gods through the gaps, destroying ferocious beasts and Celestial God Puppets while defeating attempts to restrain him.
• Five Three-Eyed Demon Gods, led by Nine-Headed Lion, charged Xia Manggan, and a Purple Light Puppet appeared beside them.
• Xia Manggan blocked the Purple Light Puppet’s hammer strike with his twin staffs and Taiji techniques, then fought it while giving ground against its superior raw strength.

Xia Manggan held off Nine-Headed Lion and the Purple Light Puppet, disrupting the Wujian Sect’s forces while Great Xia revealed the Seven Luminaries Heavenly God. As reinforcements converged on the battlefield, Xia Manggan noticed Sword Immortal Changqing among them and continued to keep his composure.

• Xia Manggan used his Taiji, Wuji, and Space-Time techniques to defend against Nine-Headed Lion’s attacks with the Purple Light Puppet.
• Dao Ancestor Chiming praised Xia Manggan’s defense, and the Xia Emperor ordered Ji Ning to deploy the Seven Luminaries Heavenly God.
• The Seven Luminaries Heavenly God joined the fighting and began sweeping through the Wujian Sect’s forces.
• Dao Ancestor Mozhu rebuked Nine-Headed Lion for failing to coordinate with the other Three-Eyed Demon Gods, who then prepared to attack Xia Manggan together.
• Six Xingtian Gods, a Pangu Battle Formation, and Great Xia’s Pure Yang True Immortals arrived as reinforcements, and Xia Manggan spotted Sword Immortal Changqing among them.

Sword Immortal Changqing and Mi Feng betrayed Great Xia during the battle, helping the Purple Light Puppet destroy Xia Manggan’s strongest Xingtian God. Xia Manggan saved his army with his avatars and unleashed a Topaz Sword Light that wounded the puppet, leaving the battlefield stunned and the Nine-Headed Lion facing Dao Ancestor Mozhu’s command to flee.

• Sword Immortal Changqing stabbed Fairy Xuewu and attacked Xia Manggan, but Xia Manggan blocked his swords with nine immortal swords.
• Mi Feng struck Xia Manggan from behind, dissolved his formation, and self-destructed, allowing the Purple Light Puppet to smash the strongest Xingtian God apart.
• Xia Manggan’s twelve avatars appeared and took the scattered Prince Gan Army into his Portable Immortal Mansion.
• Xia Manggan formed a Topaz Sword Light from thousands of flying swords and slashed a deep wound into the Purple Light Puppet.
• Dao Ancestor Mozhu warned the stunned Nine-Headed Lion to flee, saying Xia Manggan surpassed Houyi.

Xia Manggan defeated the Wujian Sect forces with his avatars and sword formations, slaughtering nearly ten million Immortals and Fiends after rejecting Dao Ancestor Mozhu’s offer to retreat. He confronted Mozhu as the battlefield fell under Great Xia’s control.

• The powerful observers praised Xia Manggan as a heaven-defying Celestial God and True Immortal comparable to Houyi.
• Nine-Headed Lion used the Purple Light Puppet’s shields to escape Xia Manggan’s attack and flee into Wujian City.
• Xia Manggan killed Sword Immortal Changqing with six Nine Palaces Immortal Swords.
• As the Wujian Sect army broke and fled, Xia Manggan unleashed the Great Sumeru Positive-Negative Nine Palaces Sword Formation, slaughtering nearly ten million Immortals and Fiends and destroying more than a hundred Celestial God Puppets.
• Dao Ancestor Mozhu charged into the battlefield and accused Xia Manggan of violating the prohibition against True God Dao Ancestors slaughtering others, but Xia Manggan denied being a True God Dao Ancestor and threatened to kill him.

After Xia Manggan’s strength forced the Wujian Sect to abandon an attack, the major powers of both factions gathered and agreed to discuss rules for the Realm War. The first battle ended in victory for the Nuwa Faction, while Xia Manggan turned his attention to the transformation of his Human True Self’s Primordial Chaos Universe.

• Dao Ancestor Wuying advised Dao Ancestor Mozhu and the Wujian Sect’s major powers not to attack Xia Manggan, and the Demon Lord ordered them to stand down.
• The Three Pure Ones, Tathagata, Suiren Clan, and more than a hundred other major powers appeared as Xia Manggan stood between the factions.
• The Xia Emperor transported Ji Ning, Hongxue, and the other surviving Immortals and Fiends to Eight-Dragon Cloud City, where he announced a feast to celebrate their victory.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons proposed a rule barring True Gods and Dao Ancestors from intervening and demanded that Xia Manggan stay out of the struggle for fate.
• The Nuwa Faction’s major powers discussed the proposal and considered Xia Manggan’s extraordinary potential, while Xia Manggan focused on his transformed Primordial Chaos Universe.

After the slaughter of the Wujian Sect transformed Xia Manggan’s Initial Universe into the Taishi Universe, he discovered that its next evolution required new Origin Laws and unlocked True Spirit Traversal to other Source Worlds. The Great Xia war ended in victory, and Xia Manggan planned to enter seclusion and send one of his Second Primordial Spirit’s avatars on a traversal.

• Xia Manggan learned that the Initial Universe had become the Taishi Universe, and his Fortune Value and Merit Points had surged after his Second Primordial Spirit’s slaughter.
• Xia Manggan discovered that advancing the universe required him to create Origin Laws and structure its foundations, and that True Spirit Traversal had unlocked for fifty million Merit Points.
• Sun Wukong and Yang Jian warned Xia Manggan about greedy Dao Ancestors after his battle had revealed his strength and wealth.
• Sanqing, Tathagata, the Suiren Clan, and Bodhi concluded negotiations that counted Xia Manggan as a True God and Dao Ancestor and barred the Wujian Sect from using its strongest Puppets.
• The Nuwa Faction celebrated its victory, and Xia Manggan told the Xia Emperor that he would enter seclusion to prepare for his Human True Self and Golden Crow Avatar to undergo the Heavenly God Tribulation.
• Xia Manggan decided to use one of his Second Primordial Spirit’s avatars to attempt True Spirit Traversal.

After Great Xia celebrated its victory, the Wujian Sect leaders planned their preparations for the final battle and agreed to cultivate promising young immortals. Xia Manggan then used True Spirit Traversal to send one avatar’s True Spirit to another world, where it arrived within a vast sphere of light and lost consciousness.

• The Xia Emperor urged Xia Manggan to cultivate and overcome the Heavenly God Tribulations of his Human True Self and Golden Crow Avatar, while the banquet celebrated Great Xia’s victory over the Wujian Sect.
• Demon Hand Dao Ancestor objected to the Wujian Sect’s agreement to forgo top-tier puppets, but the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons ordered the sect to focus on creating Messengers of All Things and strengthening its formations.
• The Black-Robed God King proposed nurturing prodigies, including Mi Feng, with guidance and ultimate arts from the Wujian Sect leaders, and they approved the plan.
• After the celebration, Xia Manggan returned to Prince Gan Mansion and spent fifty million Merit Points to send one avatar’s True Spirit to another world.
• Xia Manggan’s True Spirit arrived within an enormous sphere of light amid surging strange energy, and he lost consciousness while his true self sensed the arrival.

Xia Manggan’s True Spirit awakened in a special life-form’s body in the world of Swallowed Star and devoured Yi Ke, a Domain Lord who tried to possess him. He began adapting to his new identity and discovered that time flowed nearly 3,487 times faster there than in Desolate Era.

• Xia Manggan’s True Spirit awakened as Yi Ke attacked him with a possession secret technique.
• Xia Manggan overcame Yi Ke’s will, absorbed his consciousness and memories, and took control of the special life-form’s body.
• Xia Manggan recognized Belka as Yi Ke’s Intelligent Life and concealed that his fundamental consciousness had changed.
• Xia Manggan’s memories confirmed that he had arrived in the world of Swallowed Star, where he learned that its time flow differed greatly from Desolate Era.

Xia Manggan examined his newly born special lifeform body in the Swallowed Star world, discovering its high Life Gene Level and two Innate Secret Arts. After comparing the world’s Origin Laws with the Three Realms, he began cultivating with the abundant energy surrounding him.

• Xia Manggan sensed that time flowed 3,487 times faster in the Midie Secret Realm than in the Desolate Era world and inspected his roughly 200-meter-tall body.
• Xia Manggan found that his body had a Life Gene Level about 720 times that of an ordinary human, though he could not cultivate the Nine Calamities Manual.
• Xia Manggan examined his Life Core and learned that his Innate Secret Arts were Law of Heaven and Earth, which increased his strength and Life Gene Level as he enlarged, and Transformation Art, which let him disguise himself as living beings.
• Xia Manggan compared the Swallowed Star world’s ten Origin Laws with the Three Realms’ Heavenly Dao and found that his newly awakened True Spirit could sense Time and Space but had to begin comprehending the laws from scratch.
• Xia Manggan decided to cultivate toward the ninth level of the Domain Lord realm, using the vast cosmic energy surrounding his body.

Xia Manggan completed his possession of a special lifeform with a 720-times life gene level, reaching the first-stage Domain Lord level in just over a year. After assessing his new body's power and claiming Yi Ke's assets, he entered the Virtual Universe and ordered Belka to report his success to the Virtual Universe Company and request a nutrition chamber.

• Belka calculated that Xia Manggan's new body had a life gene level of about 720 times, and Xia Manggan finished cultivating after growing to twenty-one kilometers tall.
• Xia Manggan tested his Domain Lord strength, used his innate secret technique to shrink into Yi Ke's Copper Flame Clan appearance, and boarded the Belka Ship.
• Xia Manggan destroyed Yi Ke's old body and examined his two World Rings, finding substantial wealth and a guard unit of 111 people.
• Xia Manggan ordered Belka to return to the Virtual Universe Company base in the Midie Secret Realm and entered the Virtual Universe.
• Xia Manggan told Belka to report his successful possession of a special lifeform and request a nutrition chamber so he could quickly raise his strength.

Xia Manggan explored Yi Ke’s Virtual Universe treasury, examined his cultivation record, and applied to change his name. He met Luo Feng by call and agreed to attend a public lecture, unaware that his application had sparked debate among the Virtual Universe Company’s upper ranks.

• Xia Manggan opened the treasury and found its most valuable secret techniques required far more points than Yi Ke’s remaining 849.
• Xia Manggan reviewed Yi Ke’s profile and saw that he had passed only the eighth level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Xia Manggan applied to change his name from Yi Ke to Xia Manggan.
• Luo Feng called Xia Manggan, learned that he had possessed another body, and invited him to a public lecture on Metal and Space.
• Xia Manggan agreed to attend the lecture, while his name-change application stirred debate among the company’s upper ranks.

Virtual Universe Company executives debated whether Yi Ke should surrender his special lifeform body, but Chaos City Lord ordered him brought to Chaos City and gave him a chance to prove his potential. After Xia Manggan discussed buying an island on Earth with Luo Feng, Venerable Guiyi brought him to Chaos City, where he learned that Chaos City Lord wanted to see him.

• Bosiwa argued that Yi Ke was unworthy of his special lifeform body, and several executives supported taking it from him.
• Venerable Guiyi announced Chaos City Lord’s order: Yi Ke would keep the body if he met one of two difficult cultivation goals, and anyone who leaked the meeting would be punished.
• Bosiwa offered to fetch Yi Ke, but Venerable Guiyi said he had already arrived and left the meeting to find him.
• Xia Manggan told Luo Feng that he wanted to buy an uninhabited island on Earth and transfer his nationality there.
• Venerable Guiyi stopped time around Xia Manggan, brought him to Chaos City, and said Chaos City Lord wished to see him.

Xia Manggan met the Chaos City Lord, who examined his special life-form body and learned about its innate techniques. He accepted Xia Manggan as a registered disciple, offering two paths to become his personal disciple within up to 110,000 years and arranging support for his cultivation in Chaos City.

• Venerable Guiyi led Xia Manggan into the Chaos Ruins to meet the Chaos City Lord.
• The Chaos City Lord examined Xia Manggan’s Transformation Art and Law of Heaven and Earth, then warned him that his powerful body would make breakthroughs far more difficult.
• The Chaos City Lord accepted Xia Manggan as a registered disciple and set two conditions for becoming his personal disciple: passing the Domain Lord Original Heavenly Mountain within 10,000 years, or meeting later cultivation requirements within 100,000 years as a World Lord.
• The Chaos City Lord promised Xia Manggan regular guidance from Venerable Guiyi, ten million points, and twenty additional opportunities to study the Chaos Stele.