Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen revealed two additional Dragon and Phoenix clones, each carrying a Primordial Celestial Body, but his first attempt to write his name on the Firmament List failed. He merged the clones’ power into himself, successfully inscribed his complete name, and declared himself the Great Ruler.

• Mu Chen manifested two clones born from the Dragon-Phoenix True Scripture, bringing his total to five bodies.
• The Dragon and Phoenix clones revealed the Night God Ancient Body and Desolate Ancestor Body, giving Mu Chen all five Primordial Celestial Bodies.
• Mu Chen, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong tried to inscribe Mu Chen’s name on the Firmament List, but their attempt failed as the Heavenly Evil God watched.
• Mu Chen used Return to One Realm to merge the power of his four clones and their Celestial Bodies into his true body.
• Mu Chen wrote his complete name on the Firmament List before the Heavenly Evil God could stop him.
• Mu Chen declared that the Master Realm stood above Saint Grade and proclaimed himself the Great Ruler.

After Mu Chen fully ascended the Firmament List, he recognized One Qi Transforms into Three Purities as the key to his achievement. He then thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong before rising to confront the wary Heavenly Evil God.

• The worlds condemned the Heavenly Evil God for watching Mu Chen ascend the Firmament List instead of stopping him.
• Mu Chen realized One Qi Transforms into Three Purities had been his greatest opportunity and the decisive reason he became the first to fully ascend the list.
• Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s students regarded Mu Chen with awe, while he stayed humble and remembered those who had treated him well.
• Mu Chen thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong for their support, and they accepted that it was his turn to carry the Great Thousand World’s burden.
• Mu Chen flew up to face the Heavenly Evil God, who admitted he had expected Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to be his final opponents and recognized Mu Chen’s new strength.

Mu Chen defeated the Heavenly Evil God by combining his own power with the battle will of the Great Thousand World, ending the calamity that had lasted for tens of thousands of years. Twenty-eight years later, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong also reached the Firmament List, leaving the three of them to guard the myriad realms.

• Mu Chen used the Heavenly Mi Sacred Pillar to clash with the Heavenly Evil God while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong contained the destructive aftershock.
• As Mu Chen gained the advantage, the Heavenly Evil God sacrificed the Ten-Eyed Demon Statue and unleashed demonic qi to destroy the Great Thousand World.
• Mu Chen gathered the battle will of the living beings across the Great Thousand World and drove back the demonic current.
• The Heavenly Evil God tried to flee, but Mu Chen pierced him with the Taichu World Bead and sealed his remains in the Saint Pagoda.
• Twenty-eight years later, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong became complete ones listed on the Firmament List, joining Mu Chen as guardians of the Great Thousand World.

The exposure reward raised Mu Chen to the peak of the late Saint Heavenly Sovereign stage and Nine Nethers to the early Immortal Heavenly Sovereign stage, granting Mu Chen the five Primordial Celestial Bodies and four powerful clones. The projection then announced that Bai Xiaochun of the Eternal World would be exposed next, prompting disbelief from those who knew him.

• Mu Chen and Nine Nethers received a surge in strength, with Mu Chen reaching the peak of the late Saint Heavenly Sovereign stage and Nine Nethers reaching the early Immortal Heavenly Sovereign stage.
• Mu Chen gained all five Primordial Celestial Bodies, mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and formed four late Saint Heavenly Sovereign clones.
• Mu Chen marveled at the projection's reward, while Nine Nethers abandoned her complaints about being called the most useless master.
• The projection announced that Bai Xiaochun and Li Qinghou of the Eternal World would be exposed in thirty minutes.
• People in the Eternal World reacted with disbelief that Bai Xiaochun could be a Child of Destiny.

Bai Xiaochun celebrated being named the Child of Destiny, especially the promise of endless longevity, before the Exposure Projection showed his farewell from the village. The villagers had celebrated his departure because he had terrorized their chickens, and Bai Xiaochun’s fearful flight from a rustle in the grass revealed that his cowardice had followed him beyond the village.

• Bai Xiaochun and the sects reacted to the news that he was the Child of Destiny, with the Blood Stream Sect dreading his future power.
• Bai Xiaochun welcomed the promise of longevity and imagined using his future strength to forbid fighting.
• The Exposure Projection showed Bai Xiaochun tearfully saying goodbye as he left his village to cultivate immortality.
• After Bai Xiaochun departed, the villagers celebrated, admitting they were glad he had gone because he had stolen their chickens.
• Bai Xiaochun heard a rustle in the grass, pulled out eighteen kinds of weapons, and fled in fear, though the sound had only been the wind.

Bai Xiaochun repeatedly lit and extinguished an incense stick for three years because he feared both heavenly lightning and dying of old age. After learning the truth, Li Qinghou brought him back to the sect, unknowingly taking home a future scourge.

• Bai Xiaochun lit the incense for the thirteenth time while worrying that heavenly lightning would kill him.
• Li Qinghou followed the incense’s intermittent signal for three years before finally finding Bai Xiaochun.
• Bai Xiaochun claimed he kept relighting the incense because he could not bear to leave his village, but Li Qinghou discovered the villagers were celebrating his departure.
• Li Qinghou pressured Bai Xiaochun into admitting that he feared death, yet feared dying of old age even more.
• Li Qinghou picked Bai Xiaochun up and brought him back to the sect, unaware of the calamity he had taken in.

Bai Xiaochun thrived in the Fire Kitchen, sold outer-sect disciple spots, and was eventually sent to the outer sect, where he began pursuing cultivation and medicine refinement. He took first place in the Vegetation Trial with a portrait of three turtles, then secretly slipped away while pretending to be an aloof master.

• Li Qinghou placed Bai Xiaochun in the Fire Kitchen, where he reached the third level of Qi Condensation and acquired the Turtle Pattern Pot.
• Bai Xiaochun beat Xu Baocai with a spirit-enhanced wooden sword and sold spots for outer-sect disciples until Li Qinghou sent him, Zhang Dapan, and another Fire Kitchen disciple to the outer sect.
• Bai Xiaochun chose the Undying Longevity Technique and memorized the Vegetation Chapter before entering the Vegetation Trial.
• Bai Xiaochun painted three turtles for his portrait and took first place, pushing Zhou Xinqi down the rankings.
• Bai Xiaochun pretended to be a passerby and mocked Zhou Xinqi’s ranking, then secretly left the crowd while boasting that he had reduced her to ashes.

Bai Xiaochun stole Spirit Tail Chickens to feed his cultivation, then volunteered to lead a squad to catch the thief and won Zhou Xinqi’s reward for guarding the flock. Zhou Xinqi and the disciples realized his shameless deception, while observers from other worlds found his antics both hilarious and suited to survival.

• Bai Xiaochun stole Spirit Tail Chickens to sustain his Undying Longevity Technique cultivation, and the thefts continued until the flock had dwindled.
• After placing first in the second Vegetation Trial rankings, Bai Xiaochun volunteered to catch the chicken thief and proposed a thief-catching squad to Zhou Xinqi.
• Bai Xiaochun led the squad while secretly continuing to steal chickens, and the disappearances stopped only when Zhou Xinqi took charge herself.
• Zhou Xinqi awarded Bai Xiaochun the jade pendant for guarding the flock, unaware that he was the thief, and praised his dedication.
• Zhou Xinqi and the disciples who had served on the squad realized Bai Xiaochun had deceived them and angrily condemned his shamelessness.
• Xiao Yan and the others laughed at Bai Xiaochun’s antics, while Ma Dong observed that his adaptability and acting skills could help him survive a dangerous world.

Bai Xiaochun prepared obsessively for the Qi Condensation tournament, won the championship behind layers of protective talismans, and later faced a deadly ambush during a mission. Though he had a clear chance to escape, he turned back to save Hou Yunfei and Du Lingfei, revealing the line he would not cross.

• Bai Xiaochun advanced his cultivation, spirit-refined three weapons, bought defensive talismans, and strengthened his combat techniques before the tournament.
• Bai Xiaochun covered himself in layers of protective barriers, wore down his opponent, and won the Qi Condensation tournament despite the crowd's boos.
• Bai Xiaochun impressed others with his Vegetation Chapter mastery, passed the pill-concocting assessment, and became known as "the little turtle."
• Qian Dajin arranged a mission to endanger Bai Xiaochun, but the Luochen Clan rebelled, leaving Bai Xiaochun, Hou Yunfei, and Du Lingfei under attack.
• Bai Xiaochun realized he could escape while Hou Yunfei and Du Lingfei faced the enemy, but he turned back to save them.

After surviving the battle with the Luochen Clan, Bai Xiaochun became the Spirit Stream Sect’s first living glory disciple and delighted in his new status as Martial Uncle. His accidental evil pill caused havoc across Fragrant Cloud Mountain, and while fleeing Elder Zhou during the sect competition, he unexpectedly took first place.

• Bai Xiaochun turned back to fight the Luochen Clan’s pursuers, then disappeared after Du Lingfei summoned reinforcements and the sect presumed him dead.
• Zheng Yuandong posthumously named Bai Xiaochun a glory disciple and made him the disciple of his late master, giving Bai Xiaochun seniority over the sect’s disciples.
• Bai Xiaochun survived, flaunted his Martial Uncle status, and was ordered to stay put, so he devoted himself to pill concocting.
• Bai Xiaochun accidentally refined a crimson pill that made Elder Zhou’s phoenix bird go berserk and attack birds across Fragrant Cloud Mountain.
• Elder Zhou traced the bird chaos to Bai Xiaochun’s cave and chased him across the mountain.
• Bai Xiaochun entered the sect grand competition, and while fleeing Elder Zhou, sprinted across the finish line and took first place.

Bai Xiaochun won the south and north bank competition by turning Bei Hanlie’s Night-Walking Beast against him, then intimidated Xu Song and defeated Shangguan Tianyou before claiming the championship. He later used pills to lure beasts in the Desolate Mountain Range, causing chaos among the sect disciples until the sect leader gave him one million contribution points to stop him.

• Bai Xiaochun used two pills to make Bei Hanlie’s Night-Walking Beast attack its own master, winning their arena match.
• Bai Xiaochun frightened Xu Song into recalling his three fierce beasts, then forced him off the arena with a protective barrier.
• After Shangguan Tianyou insulted Bai Xiaochun’s parents, Bai Xiaochun revealed his strength and crushed him.
• Bai Xiaochun used a spirit-refined treasure to win the final and become champion.
• Bai Xiaochun scattered pills across the Desolate Mountain Range to lure and hunt fierce beasts, sweeping sect disciples into a beast tide.
• The sect leader assigned Bai Xiaochun one million contribution points and asked him to stop taking missions.

The projection recounted Bai Xiaochun’s disastrous pill-refining mishaps, which wreaked havoc across the Spirit Stream Sect and got him sent to the north bank. After Bai Xiaochun refused Bei Hanlie’s public challenge, the Heavens and Myriad Worlds branded him shameless, and he indignantly denied it.

• Bai Xiaochun’s pill experiments caused explosions, strange animals, black rain, and a poisonous-snake riot that devastated the Spirit Stream Sect.
• Li Qinghou saw the chaos on Fragrant Cloud Mountain and realized why Bai Xiaochun’s village had celebrated sending him away.
• Bai Xiaochun hid in his late sect leader master’s residence, but a talking rabbit revealed his whereabouts and he was sent to the north bank.
• Bai Xiaochun kept a low profile for half a year until Bei Hanlie challenged him, and he plainly refused to accept.
• The Heavens and Myriad Worlds called Bai Xiaochun shameless, and he protested that the projection was slandering him.

Bai Xiaochun turned a wave of challenges into a public display of his overwhelming strength, then cultivated the Water Marsh Kingdom and raised his beast seed into a king among beasts. He entered the Abyss of Fallen Swords and concocted a pill that could draw in baleful beasts and souls from a hundred li, setting up a dangerous confrontation.

• Bai Xiaochun accepted Liu Dabiao's challenge, prompting Liu Dabiao to surrender immediately, then accepted another outer sect disciple's challenge and watched him flee after admitting defeat.
• Bai Xiaochun defeated outer sect challengers for three days, then accepted every inner sect challenge and knocked down nearly everyone with one punch.
• Bai Xiaochun cultivated the Water Marsh Kingdom and gathered spirit beast blood essence to nurture his beast seed into a king among beasts, which he named Tie Dan.
• Bai Xiaochun entered the Abyss of Fallen Swords and concocted a pill that attracted all baleful beasts and baleful souls within a hundred li.

Bai Xiaochun used his Soul-Attracting Pill in the Abyss of Fallen Swords, drove off the Xuan Stream Sect, and achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. After Du Lingfei’s incarnation left him, he returned to the Spirit Stream Sect as a quasi-inheritor and began causing trouble while Li Qinghou was in seclusion.

• The Spirit Stream Sect disciples fled when Bai Xiaochun showed them his Soul-Attracting Pill, so he tossed it toward the Xuan Stream Sect and Evil Souls overwhelmed them.
• Bai Xiaochun escaped an intelligent Evil Soul, killed Ye Zang, took a strange mask, beat Song Que, and used a wisp of Qi of Heavenly Dao to reach Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• The Fallen Sword World collapsed and teleported Bai Xiaochun near a Spirit Stream Sect city, where he spent several days with Du Lingfei before she kissed him and left.
• Bai Xiaochun learned that Du Lingfei was an incarnation and resolved to find her true body and bring her back.
• The Spirit Stream Sect brought Bai Xiaochun back and made him a quasi-inheritor while Li Qinghou secluded himself to attempt a breakthrough to the Gold Core stage.
• Bai Xiaochun let himself loose and stirred up trouble throughout the sect.

Bai Xiaochun decided to enter the Blood Stream Sect undercover as Ye Zang after Spirit Stream Sect confined him and confiscated his strange bead. The sects learned his secret through the images, and Zheng Yuandong eagerly approved his departure and offered him access to the treasury.

• Bai Xiaochun’s pill experiments caused chaos in the north bank, and the sect confined him to reflect while confiscating his bead.
• Feeling wronged, Bai Xiaochun decided to enter the Blood Stream Sect undercover, using the mask that let him impersonate Ye Zang.
• The Spirit Stream Sect and Blood Stream Sect learned that Ye Zang was Bai Xiaochun, and furious Blood Stream Sect disciples gathered outside his immortal’s cave.
• Bai Xiaochun taunted the Blood Stream Sect from inside because everyone’s cultivation was sealed, leaving them unable to punish him.
• Bai Xiaochun told Zheng Yuandong he wanted to leave the sect for experience, and Zheng Yuandong approved enthusiastically and let him choose from the treasury.

Bai Xiaochun left the Spirit Stream Sect for training, only to be welcomed into the Blood Stream Sect as an undercover agent. His chaotic zombie experiments earned him praise and generous rewards, leaving him convinced the sect suited him perfectly.

• Zheng Yuandong and the Spirit Stream Sect’s disciples enthusiastically saw Bai Xiaochun off, then celebrated once he had departed.
• Bai Xiaochun grumbled that the sect had beaten gongs and drums to send him away, while the Blood Stream Sect feared the trouble he might cause there.
• Bai Xiaochun put on a mask and infiltrated the Blood Stream Sect as an undercover agent.
• Bai Xiaochun refined unusual green zombies that could protect their master and seize other people’s zombies, bringing his fellow sect members’ zombies under his control.
• Corpse Peak’s grand elder praised Bai Xiaochun’s invention, rewarded him with spirit stones and contribution points, and protected him from anyone who might take the reward away.

Bai Xiaochun infiltrated the Blood Stream Sect as Ye Zang, causing chaos while cultivating and becoming Song Junwan’s trusted confidant. He accompanied Song Junwan and a grand elder to the Spirit Stream Sect for peace talks, where the delegation proposed that the Spirit Stream Sect seal its gates for a thousand years.

• Bai Xiaochun secretly absorbed blood qi from Middle Peak’s disciples, repeatedly injuring Divine Calculator and prompting the disciples to keep watch.
• Caught stealing blood qi in Blood Plum’s territory, Bai Xiaochun fled to Corpse Peak, where he encountered the Mimic Rabbit after breaking through in his cultivation.
• Bai Xiaochun convinced the Mimic Rabbit to repeat only an unfinished phrase, then provoked it into revealing the Blood Stream Sect’s secrets and fought off the disciples who attacked him.
• Bai Xiaochun gained fame as Ye Zang and was rewarded for his strength, then became Song Junwan’s trusted confidant as she developed affection for him.
• Song Junwan and a Blood Stream Sect grand elder led Bai Xiaochun and other disciples to the Spirit Stream Sect to seek peace by asking it to seal its gates for a thousand years.
• Bai Xiaochun entered the Spirit Stream Sect under Ye Zang’s identity, and Song Junwan and the others redirected attention toward the supposed real Bai Xiaochun.

Bai Xiaochun impersonated Ye Zang and used his intimate knowledge of the Spirit Stream Sect to lead the Blood Stream Sect delegation to his old cave, humiliating the Divine Calculator. After the negotiations failed, Bai Xiaochun returned to the Blood Stream Sect, advanced his cultivation, and earned the nickname Plague Demon through a month of explosive pill concocting.

• Xu Meixiang challenged the Divine Calculator to locate Bai Xiaochun's immortal's cave, but his divination failed against the Spirit Stream Sect's protective formation.
• The Divine Calculator pressured Ye Zang to demonstrate his skill, and Bai Xiaochun led the group to his ruined cave and accurately revealed secrets about the Spirit Stream Sect.
• Bai Xiaochun mocked the Divine Calculator from inside the cave and threatened to calculate how long he would live after Bai Xiaochun's cultivation increased, making everyone nearby retreat.
• The negotiations between the Spirit Stream Sect and the Blood Stream Sect broke down, and the Blood Stream Sect delegation returned home as Bai Xiaochun worried about the coming war.
• Bai Xiaochun broke through to mid foundation establishment and spent a month concocting pills, causing dozens of furnace explosions and earning the name Plague Demon.

Bai Xiaochun became a prized fourth-tier pill refiner in the Blood Stream Sect and went to Corpse Peak to concoct pills despite warning everyone about the dangers. His eerie black smoke sent the peak’s cultivators into a frenzy, leaving them terrified of him.

• Bai Xiaochun refined a fourth-tier pill and became a treasured figure whom Blood Stream Sect disciples eagerly courted.
• After trouble involving Song Junwan, Bai Xiaochun went to Corpse Peak to refine pills and warned its people that his concocting often caused strange accidents.
• Corpse Peak disciples argued over whether to fear Bai Xiaochun’s pill refining, while Feng Ya noted that the exposed Ye Zang could synchronize his cultivation and was not someone they could safely provoke.
• Bai Xiaochun started his furnace, and black smoke spread across Corpse Peak, driving its cultivators into bizarre, deranged behavior.
• The Blood Child confronted Bai Xiaochun, then blamed the chaos on nothing to do with Grandmaster Bai after Bai Xiaochun handed him the pill.
• Onlookers from the other three peaks forced smiles when Bai Xiaochun looked their way, terrified of his unpredictable pill concocting.

Bai Xiaochun survived the Blood Child trial, inherited the Blood Ancestor’s legacy, and gained the power to suppress the Blood Stream Sect’s cultivation. After becoming the Song Family patriarch’s adopted son, he searched Song Junwan’s room for the eternal object but found only a turtle shell and a golden leaf.

• Bai Xiaochun nearly destroyed Shaoze Peak while concocting a fifth-tier pill, and its Blood Child rewarded him and recommended him for elder promotion.
• Bai Xiaochun entered Middle Peak’s Blood Child trial after Song Junwan lost to Blood Plum and asked him to fight for the position.
• Bai Xiaochun realized Blood Plum was Du Lingfei and reversed his killing blow, leaving himself gravely wounded.
• The Blood Ancestor’s inheritance saved Bai Xiaochun, gave him the later portions of the Undying Longevity Technique, and let him halve the cultivation of everyone in the Blood Stream Sect.
• Bai Xiaochun became the Song Family patriarch’s adopted son, then searched Song Junwan’s room for the eternal object and found an old turtle shell and a yellowed golden leaf.