Chapter Summaries

Ghost Fearer revealed that the Earth Palace belonged to the Red Heart Sect and opened its entrance, allowing the gathered cultivators to enter. Inside, Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan found six golden doors labeled with Wealth, Companions, Law, Land, Dao, and Fortune, and waited to see which one the others chose.

• After the gathered cultivators swore Great Dao Oaths, Ghost Fearer explained that the Red Heart Sect had hidden its palace beneath the land and left it to the Spirit Realm if the Immortal Realm path remained closed for ten thousand years.
• Wang Jian confirmed that ancient texts also described the Red Heart Sect leaving its possessions to the Spirit Realm, and Ye Anyuan urged Ghost Fearer to open the palace.
• Ghost Fearer recited the opening incantation, and a golden archway rose from the ground before expanding to reveal the colossal palace within it.
• Ghost Fearer led the Central Heaven Domain cultivators inside, while Ye Anyuan brought Ye Wudao through the entrance into the palace’s vast hall.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan inspected the six golden doors marked Wealth, Companions, Law, Land, Dao, and Fortune, then waited to see what the others would choose.

The people in the Earth Palace discovered that the golden doors led to mustard-seed spaces protected by deadly arrays. Ye Wudao refused to break the array for the others, and after Ye Anyuan backed him against Ghost Fearer, Ghost Fearer entered the Wealth room himself.

• Ghost Fearer ordered the Central Heaven Domain cultivators to enter the Wealth and Earth rooms, and the first man who touched the Wealth door disappeared.
• Ye Anyuan explained that the golden doors were teleportation arrays that might lead to separate Sumeru spaces.
• The first man returned badly burned and said a powerful array attacked him when he tried to take Spirit Stones, though he escaped with a handful.
• Ye Wudao refused to break the array for everyone, saying he would keep anything he obtained and that the array was a genuine Immortal Array.
• Ghost Fearer threatened Ye Wudao, but Ye Anyuan defended him, and the Wine Sword Immortal urged Ghost Fearer to avoid a fight.
• Ghost Fearer touched the Wealth door and vanished.

Ghost Fearer returned from the Wealth door battered by lightning, prompting Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan to enter and investigate the hidden danger. Inside, Ye Wudao found no trace of an array and prepared to touch the Spirit Stones to reveal what had attacked Ghost Fearer.

• Ghost Fearer emerged from the Wealth door scorched and reported that lightning had struck him while he tried to take spirit herbs, though he escaped with just over a hundred stalks.
• Wine Sword Immortal explained that a grand Immortal Array likely covered the rooms, while Ghost Fearer hoped Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan would fail or die inside.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan entered the Wealth door together as the Azure Sect worried for their safety and the other domains watched for the outcome.
• Ye Anyuan opened a wooden door inside and found a room containing hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones.
• Ye Wudao found no trace of an array in the room and decided to touch the Spirit Stones with his spiritual power to provoke the hidden attack, while Ye Anyuan stood ready to pull him out.

Ye Wudao realized that the Earth Palace’s rooms were protected by restrictions belonging to the palace itself, a Dao Artifact, and that the only way to safely take its treasures was to refine it. He suspected the Dao Artifact core lay behind the door marked “Fate,” where Ghost Fearer was badly injured after rushing inside.

• Ye Wudao triggered a flame attack while probing a room, and Ye Anyuan pulled him to safety.
• Ghost Fearer proposed dividing the ninety-nine rooms, but Ye Wudao concluded the attacks came from the Earth Palace’s own restrictions rather than ordinary formations.
• Ye Wudao told Ye Anyuan that the palace was likely a Sumeru Dao Artifact and that its core was probably behind the door marked “Fate.”
• Ghost Fearer rushed through the door marked “Fate” and was thrown back, grievously injured.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan watched the door warily as everyone else avoided entering it.

Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan entered the Companion room to investigate whether people from the Red Heart Sect remained inside, but found an empty place for discussing the Dao. The golden figures there answered questions about cultivation but refused to reveal the palace’s core or other unrelated matters.

• Ye Wudao suspected that the Companion room might contain living people from the Red Heart Sect and persuaded Ye Anyuan to enter with him.
• Ye Wudao and Ye Anyuan found an empty room filled with meditation cushions, which Ye Anyuan guessed was a place for discussing the Dao.
• Ye Anyuan sat on a cushion, causing golden figures to appear around him and greet him as a fellow Dao friend.
• Ye Anyuan asked a golden figure about the palace’s core and how to remove its contents, but it repeatedly replied that the matters could not be spoken of.
• Ye Wudao concluded that the figures were creations of the Dao Artifact, designed to answer cultivation questions, and Ye Anyuan realized they were artificial companions meant to ease loneliness.

Wang Jian and Zhang Sanfeng entered the 'Fate' Gate and found themselves in different spaces, each facing a different experience. As Ye Wudao considered entering next, Central Heaven Domain forces attacked the Earth Palace, prompting both sides to mobilize.

• Ye Anyuan and Ye Wudao concluded that the Source Artifact Core might be inside the 'Fate' Gate and asked Wang Jian to investigate.
• Wang Jian and Zhang Sanfeng entered the 'Fate' room, where Wang Jian was struck by lightning and saw a chained golden door while Zhang Sanfeng found an empty room.
• Wang Jian and Zhang Sanfeng realized that the 'Fate' Gate sent each entrant into a different space, and Ye Anyuan connected this to the idea of letting fate take its course.
• Ye Wudao decided he should enter the gate alone, but someone announced that Central Heaven Domain forces were attacking.
• Ye Anyuan flew toward the Golden Barrier as Wang Jian and Ghost Fearer called their people to confront the attackers.

The North, South, and West Heavenly Domains attacked the East and Central Heavenly Domains with the Thousand Illusion Array to seize the Earth Palace. As Ye Wudao began crafting Formation Disks to break the array, the enemy sent fighters to target him.

• Ye Anyuan and Ghost Fearer refused to let the three other Heavenly Domains enter the Earth Palace, and Wine Sword Immortal summoned the Sword Graveyard as tensions rose.
• The three Heavenly Domains set up the Thousand Illusion Array, enclosing the battlefield behind a barrier that resisted a combined attack.
• Ye Wudao explained that he could use Heaven Stealing and Sun Changing to replace the array's Formation Disks, but first he needed to craft more disks.
• Ye Anyuan led the East Heavenly Domain in attacking one point on the barrier, and the Central Heaven Domain joined in, forcing the array controller to repair the cracks instead of releasing the Thousand Illusion Energy.
• The array controller spotted Ye Wudao crafting Formation Disks and ordered several fighters to kill him while the rest engaged Ye Anyuan, Ghost Fearer, and the others.

Ye Wudao entered the Fate door to refine Formation Disks while Wang Jian, Hua Tuo, Situ Xuankong, and Bodhidharma held off the attackers. When he emerged, the Thousand Illusion Array had vanished, and Wang Jian’s message revealed that the Demon Race had invaded; Ye Wudao was left weighing whether to bring the Red Heart Sect’s palace to the Demon Domain or wait for it to disappear.

• Wang Jian ordered Situ Xuankong and Bodhidharma to hold off the attackers while he and Hua Tuo sent Ye Wudao through the Fate door with all their Formation Disk materials.
• Ye Wudao entered the Fate space without being struck by lightning and spent five minutes refining more than three hundred Formation Disks.
• Two attackers entered the Golden Archway and headed for the Wealth door as Ye Wudao finished refining and left the Fate space.
• Ye Wudao returned to find the Thousand Illusion Array gone and the surrounding grassland empty, then discovered Wang Jian’s Jade Slip message about the Demon Race’s invasion.
• Ye Wudao considered taking the palace to the Demon Domain to help with his Formation Disks, but worried that the palace would disappear before he could return.

Ye Wudao explored the palace’s “Dao” room and discovered the Myriad Dao Bell, which could reveal Great Dao Powers but rejected him because he had not comprehended enough of them. Since the bell was not the palace core, he left the room to continue his search.

• Ye Wudao searched the “Law” and “Earth” rooms but found no sign of the palace core.
• Ye Wudao entered the “Dao” room and found a golden bell surrounded by runes representing fundamental Great Dao Powers.
• Ye Wudao approached an unfamiliar rune and comprehended five percent of the Way of Yin.
• Ye Wudao approached the Myriad Dao Bell, but it pushed him back and told him he needed to comprehend more Great Dao Powers to activate it.
• Ye Wudao decided the bell was unrelated to his immediate goal and left the “Dao” room.

Ye Wudao entered the room marked "Yuan" and discovered that its Golden Archway was a painted stone structure that crumbled when he touched it. Realizing the Dao Artifact core might itself be one of the palace doors, he rushed back to the main hall to investigate the six golden doors.

• Ye Wudao entered the room marked "Yuan" and found the same Sumeru Space as before, with no lightning attack.
• Ye Wudao examined the Golden Archway and chains but found no sign of the Dao Artifact core.
• Ye Wudao concluded that the Red Heart Sect had deceived the Spirit Realm and suspected the core lay in a different Sumeru Space reserved for someone destined to find it.
• Ye Wudao punched the Golden Archway, causing its gold paint to flake away and reveal a stone archway beneath it.
• Ye Wudao touched the stone archway, and it crumbled into fragments, leaving the chains on the floor.
• Ye Wudao realized the Dao Artifact core might be one of the six golden doors and rushed back into the main hall.

Ye Wudao discovered that the Golden Archway was the Gate of All Living Beings, a supreme-grade Immortal Artifact containing the Myriad Dao Bell, a Dao Artifact used to activate the Myriad Worlds Academy. He learned the academy’s history and activation requirements, then realized that other activation tools must exist in the Spirit Realm.

• Ye Wudao realized the Golden Archway was the core of the palace and used his Golden Flame to refine it.
• Ye Wudao learned that the Golden Archway was the Gate of All Living Beings and that it contained the Myriad Dao Bell.
• Ye Wudao discovered that the Myriad Dao Bell was an activation tool for the Myriad Worlds Academy and would disappear after ten thousand years.
• Ye Wudao learned that the academy came from an unknown world, had appeared in the Spirit Realm eight hundred years earlier, and required a difficult trial to enter.
• Ye Wudao concluded that several academy activation tools had fallen into the Spirit Realm and that activating the Myriad Dao Bell required comprehending all its Great Dao Powers.

Ye Wudao refined the Gate of All Living Beings and discovered that its contents offered no shortcut to the Immortal Realm. After meeting Ge Nie, he learned that a Loose Immortal had gravely wounded his ancestor and the Demon Race was overwhelming the North Heavenly Domain, so he proposed building an Immortal Array to help turn the battle.

• Ye Wudao refined the Gate of All Living Beings, took control of it, and found its treasures, manuals, and supposed teleportation array were less valuable than rumors claimed.
• Ye Wudao headed toward the North Heavenly Domain, then turned back toward the East Heavenly Domain to teleport there faster.
• Ye Wudao encountered Ge Nie, who said the Sect Master had sent him with reinforcements and ordered Ye Wudao to return to the Azure Sect.
• Ge Nie revealed that a Loose Immortal had gravely wounded Ye Wudao's ancestor and that the Demon Race had pushed back the defensive line.
• Ye Wudao offered to build a top-grade Immortal Array, but said he needed materials and two days to prepare eighteen Array Disks.
• Ge Nie agreed to seek materials from the other Heavenly Domains and teleported with Ye Wudao and hundreds of Integration Realm experts toward the North Heavenly Domain.

Ge Nie explained the Loose Immortal path to Ye Wudao, and they considered the threat posed by the Demon Race's powerful Loose Immortal. They entered the North Heavenly Domain, where cultivators from across the Five Heavenly Domains were gathering before heading to the frontier.

• Ge Nie explained how Loose Immortals avoided reincarnation, why they could not ascend at first, and how repeated tribulations could eventually make them Nine-Turn Loose Immortals.
• Ye Wudao and Ge Nie discussed whether the Demon Race's Loose Immortal planned to conquer the Spirit Realm or ascend, and estimated that he had reached the fifth or sixth turn.
• Ye Wudao reasoned that the Demon Race's expert might have advanced along the Loose Immortal path before the invasion or waited to strike until the Spirit Realm could no longer counter him.
• Ge Nie and Ye Wudao entered the North Heavenly Domain and saw cultivators teleporting toward its edge to gather before going to the front.

Ye Wudao reached the North Heavenly Domain’s battle line and found the Human Race badly outnumbered, its greatest fighters injured, and the Demon Race’s Loose Immortal still able to fight. He urged Wang Jian to provide materials so he could build an Immortal Array, claiming it could defeat even a True Immortal.

• Ge Nie explained that the Demon Race had pushed the defensive line back to the border cliff, threatening the North Heavenly Domain.
• Ye Wudao arrived at the battlefield and saw the Demon Race outnumbering the Human Race as their fighters battled across the front.
• Ye Wudao recognized Ye Anyuan, Wine Sword Immortal, and Ghost Fearer among the injured Ten Great Experts, while the Demon Race’s Loose Immortal recovered from fighting them.
• Wang Jian ordered Ye Wudao to retreat and prepare to evacuate the Azure Sect if the Human Race lost, then warned that the Loose Immortal was at least Sixth-Turn.
• Ye Wudao asked Wang Jian for materials to make an Immortal Artifact Array Disk and said he could build an array that would kill even a True Immortal.

Ye Wudao convinced Wang Jian to let him forge Immortal Artifact Array Disks as the Human Race faced overwhelming Demon Race forces. After the sects supplied materials, Ye Wudao began forging in secret, leaving the battle with one day to hold out and eight more disks to make.

• Wang Jian doubted that an Immortal Array could overcome the Demon Race's far larger army and urged Ye Wudao to escape, but Ye Wudao asked to try forging a top-grade Immortal Array.
• Ye Anyuan told Wang Jian to let Ye Wudao forge in a North Heavenly Domain city, and Wang Jian arranged for Hua Tuo to take him there unseen.
• Ye Wudao asked the major sects for materials, and more than sixty sects supplied Storage Rings, including over a thousand Treasure Artifact Formation Disks from the Thousand Illusion Array.
• Ye Wudao told Wang Jian he needed one day to forge the disks, and Hua Tuo teleported him to an empty thatched hut and stood guard.
• Ye Wudao used the Golden Flame of the Way of Refining to turn the thousand Treasure Artifact Formation Disks into ten Immortal Artifact Array Disks, then continued forging toward a total of eighteen.

Ye Wudao began refining the Immortal Artifact Formation Disks while the Human Race was forced back to the cliff at the border. Old Deer revealed that the Demon Race wanted the Heavenly Domain and Azure Sect’s artifact refiner, whom Ye Anyuan suspected they needed to create a soul-protecting treasure and advance to higher Loose Immortal ranks; the chapter ended as Ye Anyuan and Old Deer charged at each other.

• Ye Wudao began refining eighteen Formation Disks, a task expected to take about a day and a half even with the Treasure Artifact Formation Disks’ help.
• The Demon Race drove the Human Race back to the cliff, while Ghost Fearer remained injured and Ye Anyuan’s Divine Dragon Bloodline remained dormant.
• Ye Anyuan and the other experts debated whether to fight Old Deer immediately, then Ye Anyuan took to the air and Old Deer followed.
• Old Deer offered to spare the Human Race if it surrendered the Heavenly Domain, then asked for Azure Sect’s artifact refiner in exchange for a promise not to invade Azure Sect for a hundred years.
• Ye Anyuan rejected Old Deer’s offers and accused the Demon Race of seeking the refiner to make a soul-protecting secret treasure and pursue higher Loose Immortal ranks.
• Old Deer charged at Ye Anyuan, who met him with the Spear of Slaughter as the eight others followed.

Ye Anyuan was unable to summon his Divine Dragon Bloodline and was badly outmatched by Old Deer as the Demon Race gained the advantage across the battlefield. After Ghost Fearer shielded him from a devastating blow, Ye Anyuan fled toward the North Heavenly Domain while Old Deer stayed to fight the Human Race.

• Ye Anyuan's spear clashed with Old Deer's hoof, and he was knocked back while his Divine Dragon Bloodline failed to respond.
• Wine Sword Immortal and the other experts attacked Old Deer, while Wang Jian, Ge Nie, and the Immortal Artifact wielders fought the Demon Race's stronger forces.
• Old Deer charged Ye Anyuan again and sent him flying, explaining that his strength approached that of a True Immortal and that Ye Anyuan could not match him without Dragon Transformation.
• Ghost Fearer blocked Old Deer's golden hoof for Ye Anyuan, then collapsed from his injuries.
• Ye Anyuan sent Ghost Fearer back to the Human Race's formation and, realizing Wudao needed half a day to finish the Immortal Artifact Array Disk, fled toward the North Heavenly Domain.
• Old Deer declined to pursue Ye Anyuan and returned to the battlefield, wary of leaving the Demon Race's fighters unsupported.

Ye Anyuan borrowed ten shares of Ye Wudao’s Divine Dragon Bloodline so he could return to the front and challenge the old deer. The Human Race’s defenders held their ground as Ye Anyuan fought the deer at close quarters, while Ye Wudao stayed behind to refine the Formation Disks.

• Ye Anyuan told Hua Tuo that his Divine Dragon Bloodline had fallen dormant and asked to borrow some of Ye Wudao’s bloodline.
• Ye Wudao revealed that five Great Dao Blessings and the Sound of the Great Dao had raised his Divine Dragon Bloodline to twenty-five shares.
• Ye Anyuan transferred ten shares of Ye Wudao’s bloodline into himself, then left Hua Tuo to protect Ye Wudao as he continued refining the Formation Disks.
• Ye Anyuan returned to the border and found the other eight top experts being driven back by the old deer.
• Ye Anyuan fought the old deer at close quarters and held his ground without entering Dragon Transformation State.

Ye Anyuan used borrowed Divine Dragon Bloodline power to fight Old Deer evenly and forced him to retreat toward the Demon Domain. With Old Deer gone from the battlefield, Wang Jian led the Human Race’s counterattack, and the battle line began advancing toward the Demon Race.

• Ye Anyuan fought Old Deer head-on, while Situ Xuankong and Wang Jian realized he had likely borrowed Ye Wudao’s Divine Dragon Bloodline.
• Old Deer’s energy dwindled as Ye Anyuan kept pressing him, and he teleported toward the Demon Race’s formation to recover.
• Ye Anyuan pursued Old Deer instead of returning to the Human Race’s formation, forcing him to continue toward the Demon Domain.
• Wang Jian ordered the Human Race forces to counterattack, and the top fighters from the Five Heavenly Domains charged the Demon Race.
• The fighters on both sides clashed across the battlefield, and the front line gradually moved toward the Demon Race.

Old Deer and Ye Anyuan pursued their own plans deep in the Demon Domain while Wang Jian halted the Human Race’s advance to protect its weaker fighters from devastating losses. The two armies faced each other in an uneasy pause, waiting for their strongest fighters and the Azure Sect’s Immortal Array to decide the war.

• Old Deer kept teleporting ahead of Ye Anyuan, while Ye Anyuan continued pursuing him to buy time for Ye Wudao to refine the Formation Disk.
• Wang Jian saw that the Human Race was losing far more weaker fighters than the Demon Race and ordered his forces to stop advancing and hold the line.
• After Wang Jian explained the human casualties, the major sects ordered fighters below the Void Return Realm to retreat while their strongest fighters held back the Demon Race.
• The Demon Race’s Land Immortals ordered their forces not to pursue, and the top fighters on both sides separated as the battle fell silent.
• At night, the Human Race and Demon Race remained facing each other along the border, each waiting for its strongest fighters and the Human Race also awaiting the Azure Sect’s Immortal Array.