Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Seeking to accelerate his cultivation, Zhao Hao orders thousands of clones to harvest corpses and souls from battlefields across the Spirit World for the Netherworld Blood Pool.
• The clones use Time and Spatial Laws to appear just after fighters die, taking the fallen from both sides without joining the battles. Their repeated thefts anger the armies and make warfare feel pointless; within a month, fighting declines and the races begin hunting the mysterious “Battlefield Vultures.”
• Zhao Hao realizes this disruption has yielded little. More importantly, reaching Mahayana requires Fortune Power, which his original body must gain by personally defeating powerful enemies; fortune earned by a clone cannot be transferred to him.
• He chooses a battlefield between the Yaksha and Shadow Races, far from Human and Demon territory, reasoning that both races are enemies of humanity and that avoiding human lands will prevent harm to the Spirit World’s humans.
• Disguised as a low-level Yaksha cultivator, Zhao Hao pursues two Shadow Race cultivators and lets one send a distress signal. He then uses the Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm to incapacitate them, absorbs the fortune released as they fall, and takes their bodies away.
• A Shadow Race elder receives another distress signal and orders three squads of Void Refinement cultivators to search the area with a Soul-Locking Mirror and capture the supposed Yaksha alive.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao’s rapid cultivation gains intensify his appetite for progress, but he adapts when his first plan disrupts the wars without producing enough resources.
• He shows strategic caution and concern for the Human Race by choosing a battlefield far from human territory, while also pursuing his own advancement.
• The Shadow Race elder grows alarmed and furious as disappearances mount, escalating the response against the suspected Yaksha intruder.

Significant themes

• Ambition and the cost of power: Zhao Hao’s desire to advance drives him from opportunistic scavenging toward personally hunting enemies for Fortune Power.
• Unintended consequences: The clones’ harvesting unexpectedly reduces warfare by depriving both sides of their spoils.
• Moral pragmatism: Zhao Hao avoids endangering humanity but treats the Yaksha and Shadow Races as acceptable targets.
• Deception and strategy: He disguises himself, uses a distress signal as bait, and conceals his true abilities.

Character interactions

• The clones’ actions affect both sides of many wars equally, provoking shared suspicion and a temporary common goal: finding the Battlefield Vultures.
• Zhao Hao interacts indirectly with the two Shadow Race cultivators, luring them into signaling for help before incapacitating them.
• The Shadow Race elder rallies his subordinates and orders a coordinated hunt, setting up a likely confrontation with Zhao Hao.

Plot points and events

• After three days of covertly provoking the Shadow and Yaksha races, Zhao Hao detects that both sides have sent Void Refinement search teams into the area.
• Using the [Causality Law], [Heart Demon Principle], and [Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm], he manipulates their routes and perceptions until a Shadow team and a Yaksha team meet in a canyon.
• Each side believes the other is responsible for attacks on its people. The illusion sparks the clash, and real injuries and deaths quickly turn the battle into a genuine massacre.
• Zhao waits until nearly everyone is dead, then influences the two survivors to escape with fabricated reports blaming the enemy. He collects the fallen and their belongings with the [Netherworld Blood Pool] and removes evidence of his involvement.
• The false reports enrage both races’ leaders, who send increasingly powerful teams into the region. For seven days, Zhao repeats the scheme, harvesting the aftermath and replenishing the Blood Pool’s depleted energy.
• During a later cleanup, one apparent Shadow Race corpse suddenly awakens and displays power far beyond Void Refinement. Its aura reveals the presence of a Mahayana cultivator—or, as Zhao suspects, a Mahayana Ancestor’s clone.

Character development

• Zhao Hao is shown as a calculating, patient manipulator who treats the two races as pieces on a board. His confidence is shaken when his escalating scheme unexpectedly draws in a Mahayana-level threat.
• The search parties are manipulated into acting on false perceptions, but their initial anger becomes real once the battle turns lethal. The survivors are further used as unwitting messengers to spread Zhao’s fabricated account.
• The awakened “corpse” is revealed to be far more than an ordinary cultivator, abruptly shifting from apparently dead to a formidable Mahayana-level presence.

Character interactions

• Zhao engineers an encounter between the Shadow and Yaksha teams, exploiting their existing hostility and mutual suspicions.
• The teams exchange accusations and attacks, each convinced the other has wronged its people; their leaders later accept the survivors’ false reports as confirmation.
• Zhao’s final encounter is with the supposedly dead Shadow cultivator, whose sudden emergence confronts him with a danger he did not anticipate.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and perception: Illusions and fabricated evidence turn suspicion into violence.
• Escalation and unintended consequences: Zhao’s scheme grows increasingly effective, but its success attracts a threat beyond his control.
• Cycles of hatred: Longstanding hostility makes the two races especially easy to provoke into retaliation.
• Predation and reversal: Zhao has been hunting others like a patient fisherman, but the Mahayana-level figure may make him the prey.

Chapter Summary: “Situation Escalates”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhao Hao reveals that he anticipated the Shadow Race’s trap: a supposed Void Refinement cultivator was actually a disguised Mahayana clone used as bait.
• When the Shadow Race clone attacks, Zhao Hao unveils that he has also been concealing his true strength. He combines his Blood Law with the recently exposed Heart Demon Law, breaking through the clone’s darkness domain.
• The battle intensifies. Although the Shadow Race clone initially gains the advantage through its sinister Darkness Law and shadow blades, Zhao Hao deliberately appears wounded and enraged.
• Using the Unity of Ten Thousand Paths Divine Ability, Zhao Hao fuses the Blood Law and Heart Demon Law to create a terrifying new technique: a strange “heart demon blood river.”
• The blood river overwhelms and suppresses the Shadow Race Mahayana clone, erasing its consciousness. A mysterious white phantom then absorbs the clone’s immense Fortune Power, becoming more substantial.
• Zhao Hao stores the captured clone and other collected materials in the Netherworld Blood Pool, restoring the pool to roughly one-sixth of its capacity.
• Before he can refine the pool’s energy and advance his cultivation, Zhao Hao senses a powerful Mahayana aura attacking a Yaksha border city.
• The Shadow Race retaliates by slaughtering the entire city. When a Yaksha Mahayana cultivator arrives, two Shadow Race Mahayana ancestors ambush him, severely injuring him and forcing him to flee.
• Zhao Hao follows the wounded Yaksha cultivator, disguises himself as one of the Shadow Race attackers, and uses Spatial Law to intercept him. The chapter ends as Zhao Hao prepares to attack while impersonating the cultivator who injured him.

Character Developments

• Zhao Hao demonstrates exceptional foresight, deception, and combat control. He successfully counters the Shadow Race’s hidden Mahayana clone while maintaining the appearance of a savage, impulsive Yaksha warrior.
• He unveils a major new ability by merging the Blood Law and Heart Demon Law, greatly expanding his combat power.
• Zhao Hao grows increasingly bold and opportunistic, exploiting the conflict between the Shadow and Yaksha Races for his own benefit.
• The Shadow Race’s Mahayana clone is shown to be highly experienced and initially dominant, but it is ultimately caught off guard by Zhao Hao’s unprecedented Divine Ability.
• The wounded Yaksha Mahayana cultivator becomes a victim of the escalating retaliation and is now targeted by Zhao Hao.

Significant Themes

• Deception and counter-deception: Both races hide their true strength and use disguises, bait, and ambushes, but Zhao Hao proves better at turning these tactics against his enemies.
• Escalation and retaliation: The conflict shifts from covert traps to open massacres and direct Mahayana-level revenge.
• Power through synthesis: Zhao Hao’s fusion of different Laws demonstrates the extraordinary potential of combining abilities rather than relying on a single path.
• Exploitation of chaos: Zhao Hao remains focused on personal advancement, using the war between the two races to collect resources, absorb Fortune Power, and eliminate powerful opponents.
• Moral ambiguity: The chapter emphasizes that all sides employ ruthless tactics, while Zhao Hao deliberately imitates the brutality associated with the Yaksha Race.

Important Character Interactions

• Zhao Hao and the Shadow Race Mahayana clone engage in a battle of concealed strength, with each initially believing it has caught the other off guard.
• The Shadow Race ancestor learns of the clone’s defeat and responds by summoning another Mahayana cultivator, choosing collective retaliation rather than risking a solo confrontation.
• Two Shadow Race Mahayana cultivators overpower a Yaksha Mahayana cultivator, destroying his treasure and forcing him to burn his origin to escape.
• Zhao Hao then disguises himself as one of the Shadow Race attackers and confronts the wounded Yaksha cultivator, setting up another deception-driven confrontation.

Plot and key events

• Zhao Hao, having disguised himself with the Shadow Race aura used in an earlier ambush, confronts the badly wounded Yaksha Mahayana cultivator Ye You deep in Yaksha territory.
• Ye You tries to escape by burning his Origin Essence Blood, but Zhao Hao uses the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl, powered by the combined force of five laws, to freeze Ye You’s body, thoughts, time, space, and causal connections. He captures the Yaksha alive in moments.
• Zhao Hao removes and scatters a trace of Shadow Race aura to conceal his involvement, then escapes into a remote mountain range and hides in a sealed cave.
• There, he draws Ye You’s Fortune Power into his Fortune Dharma Avatar. The immense influx makes the avatar rapidly take shape, its face becoming strikingly similar to Zhao Hao’s.
• Meanwhile, the Yaksha Wheel-Turning King arrives with two other Mahayana cultivators to investigate Ye You’s disappearance. Using the Profound Heaven Reincarnation Wheel, he attempts to trace Ye You through reincarnation, but an unknown treasure or force blocks the search.
• Concluding that the Shadow Race is responsible, the Wheel-Turning King vows retaliation: for the Yaksha city the Shadow Race destroyed, he will destroy ten Shadow Race cities.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Hao demonstrates overwhelming power and careful deception, capturing a Mahayana opponent while taking steps to hide his identity. The Fortune Power he harvests also appears to be transforming his avatar toward a more tangible, self-like form.
• Ye You shifts from disbelief to helpless terror, unable to resist Zhao Hao’s bowl before being sealed inside it.
• The Wheel-Turning King emerges as a formidable, vengeful leader. His failed attempt to trace Ye You heightens his suspicion and anger, and he turns to collective retaliation.
• Zhao Hao and Ye You’s brief confrontation contrasts with the Wheel-Turning King’s discussion with his companions, who can offer no explanation for the vanished cultivator.

Significant themes

• Concealment and misdirection: Zhao Hao exploits the Shadow Race aura to frame them for his actions.
• Power and escalation: A single capture triggers the threat of a much broader inter-racial conflict.
• Limits of detection: The Reincarnation Wheel’s failure suggests that Zhao Hao’s treasure can defeat even powerful forms of supernatural tracking.
• Transformation through power: The Fortune Dharma Avatar’s growing resemblance to Zhao Hao hints at a major change in its nature—and possibly in Zhao himself.

Chapter Summary: Reincarnation Inquiry Beyond Causality

Key Plot Points and Events

• While Zhao Hao refines the fortune obtained from Ye You, the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl suddenly reacts to a powerful probing force.
• The force follows the threads of Causality Law across the void and attempts to locate Ye You, who is imprisoned inside the bowl.
• Zhao Hao counters by combining his mastered laws—Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood—through the Ninth-grade Divine Ability Unity of Ten Thousand Paths, forming chaotic law power that blocks the probe.
• After less than ten breaths, the probing force withdraws. Zhao Hao deduces that it likely originated from the Reincarnation Law, one of the three supreme laws alongside Time and Space.
• By searching the memories of his Yaksha clone, Zhao Hao learns that the Yaksha Race is naturally gifted in Blood Law and that rare prodigies may comprehend Reincarnation Law through their bloodline. He concludes that a powerful Yaksha Mahayana cultivator, possibly wielding a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure, is responsible for the probe.
• Zhao Hao considers turning Ye You into a Mahayana clone but rejects the idea because erasing a Mahayana cultivator’s life imprint would take too long and be extremely difficult.
• He instead decides to refine Ye You entirely into the Netherworld Blood Pool to rapidly strengthen his main body.
• Zhao Hao leaves a clone behind to monitor the Yaksha–Shadow Race conflict, then uses Other-Transformation Calamity Thought to return to the Heavenly Cauldron Palace.
• Working with his Heaven Wolf Clone, he combines the Netherworld Blood Pool and Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl to steadily extract Ye You’s essence, energy, and spirit.
• After nearly half a month, Ye You’s body has visibly weakened, while the Blood Pool reaches roughly eighty percent capacity.
• Zhao Hao enters the pool and begins absorbing its concentrated origin energy. His cultivation rises at an unprecedented speed as the external war escalates.

Character Developments

• Zhao Hao demonstrates calmness and strategic judgment when faced with an unfamiliar supreme-level probing force.
• His mastery of multiple laws allows him to fuse them into chaotic law power, revealing the growing strength of Unity of Ten Thousand Paths.
• He becomes intensely determined to obtain the Reincarnation Law, hoping to combine all three supreme laws.
• Zhao Hao prioritizes strengthening his main body over creating a powerful clone, showing a practical and long-term approach to cultivation.
• His confidence and ambition increase as he recognizes that mastering Time, Space, and Reincarnation could lead to an extraordinary transformation.

Significant Themes

• Power through synthesis: Zhao Hao’s strength comes not only from individual laws but from combining them into a greater chaotic force.
• The pursuit of ultimate cultivation: The chapter emphasizes Zhao Hao’s ambition to master all three supreme laws.
• Pragmatism versus temptation: Although a Mahayana clone is attractive, Zhao Hao chooses the more reliable benefit of directly raising his main body’s cultivation.
• Causality, reincarnation, and hidden threats: The mysterious probe introduces a force beyond Zhao Hao’s current understanding and suggests a deeper conflict involving reincarnation and bloodline abilities.
• Preparation and risk management: Zhao Hao avoids confronting the unknown enemy directly, relocates to a safer base, and uses clones and treasures to minimize danger.

Character Interactions

• Zhao Hao and the unknown Yaksha Mahayana cultivator: They never meet directly, but their powers clash through the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl. The Yaksha’s Reincarnation-based probe tests Zhao Hao’s defenses, while Zhao Hao successfully repels it.
• Zhao Hao and Ye You: Ye You is completely suppressed and exploited as a source of cultivation resources. Zhao Hao rejects the possibility of preserving him as a clone and instead begins refining his entire existence.
• Zhao Hao and the Heaven Wolf Clone: The two cooperate closely, jointly controlling the Blood Pool and Void-Nether Bowl to refine Ye You efficiently.
• Zhao Hao and his monitoring clone: Zhao Hao delegates surveillance of the Yaksha–Shadow Race war to a clone while focusing on cultivation, demonstrating his ability to divide responsibilities strategically.

Chapter Summary: The Battle to Destroy a City and the Dusklight King

Key Plot Points and Events

• At Giant Gate Immortal City, Shadow Race Mahayana cultivators Ying Feng and Ying Chen sense an ominous disturbance, suggesting that a major event is imminent.
• They suspect the Yaksha Race’s Wheel-Turning King is retaliating for Ying Feng’s earlier destruction of a Yaksha immortal city. Ying Feng sends an urgent report to the Dusklight King.
• Their fears are immediately confirmed when the Wheel-Turning King appears outside the city with two other Yaksha Mahayana cultivators.
• Using the [Profound Heaven Reincarnation Wheel] and the [Reincarnation Law], the Wheel-Turning King unleashes Annihilation Light, a devastating black beam aimed at destroying the city.
• Ying Feng attempts to defend Giant Gate Immortal City with his [Darkness Law] and a Supreme-Grade Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure whip. However, Ying Chen abandons him and flees.
• Ying Feng’s attack is instantly destroyed. The black light breaks through the city’s Ninth-Rank formation and annihilates the city and hundreds of thousands of Shadow Race inhabitants without an explosion or struggle.
• Ying Feng is also struck by the beam, causing his life force to drain rapidly. He ages from a powerful middle-aged cultivator into a dying old man.
• Ying Chen escapes roughly a thousand li away, relieved to have survived, but his path is blocked by a mysterious figure surrounded by a divine ring of interwoven light and darkness.
• The figure is revealed to be the terrifying Dusklight King, whose arrival fills Ying Chen with both fear and hope.

Character Developments

• Ying Feng displays courage and responsibility by choosing to remain and defend the city, despite recognizing that the Wheel-Turning King’s attack may be impossible to stop.
• His trust in Ying Chen is shattered when Ying Chen abandons him at the critical moment. Ying Feng’s shock and fury reveal how deeply he regarded Ying Chen as a comrade.
• Ying Chen is shown to be pragmatic and self-preserving. Rather than risk death, he immediately flees, leaving Ying Feng and the city to their fate. His relief quickly turns to terror when confronted by the Dusklight King.
• The Wheel-Turning King is portrayed as overwhelmingly powerful, ruthless, and intent on absolute revenge. His attack demonstrates the terrifying destructive potential of the [Reincarnation Law].
• The Dusklight King makes a dramatic entrance as an immensely powerful and mysterious figure, apparently capable of controlling the situation after the city’s destruction.

Significant Themes

• Retribution and escalation: The Shadow Race’s destruction of a Yaksha city provokes devastating retaliation, showing how violence between the races rapidly escalates.
• Betrayal and self-preservation: Ying Chen’s abandonment of Ying Feng contrasts with Ying Feng’s willingness to sacrifice himself, highlighting the conflict between loyalty and survival.
• The insignificance of life before absolute power: The Wheel-Turning King’s attack erases an entire city and its inhabitants with effortless silence, emphasizing how vulnerable ordinary cultivators are before supreme beings.
• Fear and inevitability: Both Mahayana cultivators sense the coming disaster before it arrives, suggesting that beings at their level can recognize the approach of overwhelming fate but may still be powerless to resist it.
• Aging, death, and reincarnation: The [Reincarnation Law] does not merely destroy bodies; it drains life origins and accelerates decay, reinforcing the chapter’s focus on mortality and the cycle of existence.

Character Interactions

• Ying Feng and Ying Chen initially share mutual concern over the ominous warning they sense, but their alliance collapses when Ying Chen flees during the attack.
• Ying Feng tries to protect both Ying Chen and the Shadow Race citizens, while Ying Chen chooses escape over cooperation.
• The Wheel-Turning King confronts the Shadow Race with contempt, treating the city and its inhabitants as insignificant obstacles.
• Ying Chen’s encounter with the Dusklight King ends the chapter on a tense cliffhanger, as his fear suggests that the Dusklight King may be even more formidable—or more dangerous—than the disaster he has just escaped.

The Dusklight King and Wheel-Turning King led their races into an all-out war while Zhao Hao refined Ye You’s essence and harvested fortune from cities behind the front lines. After building enough fortune to approach a Mahayana breakthrough, Zhao Hao began draining Spirit Pivot Immortal City, but the weakened Ying Feng emerged to stop him.

• The Dusklight King rescued Ying Feng from the Wheel-Turning King’s attack, and the two Yaksha cultivators forced Ying Chen and Ying Feng to flee before the kings resumed their battle.
• Zhao Hao consumed Ye You’s essence in the Netherworld Blood Pool, reaching integrated body perfection and deciding that he still needed fortune power to advance to Mahayana.
• Zhao Hao infiltrated Yaksha Race cities and siphoned their inhabitants’ fortune while the races’ Mahayana cultivators fought along the border.
• Zhao Hao crossed into Shadow Race territory and harvested fortune from its cities until his fortune turned golden.
• Zhao Hao began casting Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm over Spirit Pivot Immortal City, but Ying Feng rose from the city’s central mountain and challenged him.

Plot points and events

• Zhao Hao encounters Ying Feng, a badly injured Shadow Race Mahayana cultivator, as he flees Immortal Mountain. Using the Profound Heaven Void-Nether Bowl infused with Chaos Law, Zhao Hao suppresses and captures him before the Shadow Race can respond.
• Zhao Hao abandons his attempt to harvest more fortune from Immortal City and returns to Heavenly Cauldron Palace through Other-Transformation Calamity Thought.
• With his laws, fortune, and cultivation all ready, Zhao Hao begins the difficult process of breaking through to Mahayana, tempering his essence, qi, and spirit with Chaos Dharma Power.
• Ying Feng’s disappearance throws the Shadow Race into turmoil. Meanwhile, the war between the Shadow and Yaksha races continues to escalate, despite both sides sensing that something is amiss.
• In the Mysterious Yellow Realm, the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower is revealed to be holding numerous weakened Mahayana cultivators captive and draining their law power to repair the realm. More than a hundred laws, including Spatial and Reincarnation Laws, have been restored, but Time Law remains broken.
• The chapter ends with a mysterious figure appearing before a young Umbral Shadow Cat who is refining a Dao-Comprehension Pill.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Hao acts decisively and opportunistically, capturing Ying Feng before he can alert the Shadow Race. He also recognizes that his illusion has limits: Ying Feng nearly escaped it, aided by a secret treasure protecting his consciousness.
• Ying Feng’s weakened state makes him vulnerable, but his brief resistance reveals that even a depleted Mahayana cultivator can challenge Zhao Hao’s abilities.
• Zhao Hao commits to advancing to Mahayana, convinced that meeting the breakthrough requirements will let him travel freely across the worlds.
• The Shadow and Yaksha leaders remain locked in conflict, unable to trust or reconcile after the losses and blood debts between their peoples.
• The tower’s unseen controller oversees the captives and the restoration of the Mysterious Yellow Realm. The identity and purpose of the visitor to the young cat remain unknown.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: Zhao Hao’s accumulated laws, fortune, and cultivation finally converge, enabling his attempted breakthrough.
• Escalating conflict: Once violence and losses accumulate, even parties who recognize something is wrong may be unable to stop a war.
• Power’s limits: Zhao Hao’s illusion can be resisted, while the Time Law’s unrepaired state marks a profound limit on the tower’s restoration efforts.
• Captivity and sacrifice: The tower’s recovery depends on forcibly extracting law power from imprisoned Mahayana cultivators.

Key plot points

• Zhao Hao’s Umbral Shadow Cat avatar receives a mysterious, overwhelmingly powerful visitor who has slipped through the clan’s defenses.
• The two share wine. When the visitor asks for peanuts—a food Zhao recognizes from his former life on Earth—Zhao conjures and roasts some using his mastery of the Five Elements Laws.
• The visitor reveals he is the legendary traveler from another world who arrived in the Mysterious Yellow Realm ten thousand years ago. He confirms that he and Zhao both came from Earth.
• The visitor sees through Zhao’s avatar and knows that Zhao’s true body is attempting to break through to Mahayana. He warns that Zhao may soon need to choose whether to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• He then makes a startling claim: the Immortal Realm is a prison designed to siphon spiritual essence from the myriad worlds.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Hao remains outwardly relaxed and hospitable, even facing a being far beyond his strength. But the visitor’s knowledge of his origin and cultivation makes him intensely wary; he briefly considers destroying the avatar and severing their causal connection.
• The visitor is nostalgic about Earth and its food, yet speaks with deep bitterness about the Immortal Realm. His effortless insight and power establish him as a formidable, potentially important source of knowledge.
• Their exchange shifts from casual conversation and shared homesickness to a tense revelation about Zhao’s future and the nature of ascension.

Significant themes

• Homesickness and shared origin: Earthly details such as peanuts create an unexpected bond between two people separated by worlds and millennia.
• Power and knowledge: Zhao’s ability to reshape matter demonstrates his growing mastery, but the visitor’s ability to read him reveals a much greater level of power.
• Distrust of promised salvation: The warning reframes ascension—not as a reward, but as entry into a system that exploits other worlds.

Key plot points

• Zhao Hao’s clone learns that the mysterious man is only a clone; his true body is searching for a way back to Earth.
• The man warns that the Immortal Realm is a “cage,” not a promised paradise. Immortals must either join the Immortal Court and depend on its hierarchy for resources, or live unaffiliated and risk being killed for competing with its overwhelming power.
• Advancement at every cultivation stage requires increasing amounts of Fortune Power. The Immortal Court also drains spiritual essence from lower worlds without returning it, eventually threatening to exhaust them and leave the Immortal Realm sealed off from any source of renewal.
• Before vanishing, the man leaves Zhao Hao a jade slip describing three cultivation paths: the resource-dependent Human Immortal Path, the territory-bound Earth Immortal Path, and the Heaven Immortal Path, which links an immortal’s life to a world and its development.
• Zhao Hao sees a possible way to pursue the Heaven Immortal Path: his golden screen can strengthen things step by step, perhaps allowing him to raise a world’s laws.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao’s understanding of ascension shifts from seeing it as the ultimate reward to recognizing the political and cosmic restrictions awaiting immortals.
• He approaches the revelations analytically, questioning how Fortune Power works and weighing each cultivation path rather than accepting the man’s claims blindly.
• The Heaven Immortal Path gives him a new, ambitious possibility that may suit his unique ability.

Significant themes

• Power and freedom: Ascension may bring immortality without independence; both official service and apparent freedom carry constraints.
• Resource inequality: Entrenched immortals and the Immortal Court control advancement, limiting newcomers’ prospects.
• Exploitation and decline: The Immortal Realm’s extraction of spiritual essence imperils the lower worlds and ultimately its own future.
• Alternative cultivation: Zhao Hao’s special ability may turn an otherwise impossible path—advancing an entire world’s laws—into a viable one.

Character interactions

• The weary, sardonic senior explains the Immortal Realm’s structure over drinks, while Zhao Hao listens and presses him for the underlying rules.
• After the senior disappears, Zhao Hao cautiously examines the jade slip with his clone rather than risking his true body, then connects its teachings to his own abilities.

Key plot points and events

• After seven days of cultivation in Heavenly Cauldron Palace, Zhao Hao completes the leap from Body Integration to Mahayana, passing the Flesh-Origin Trial.
• The Heavenly Dao scrutinizes his origin in the Fortune Trial. Zhao Hao disguises himself with his golden Fortune Dharma Avatar, causing the Heavenly Dao to lose track of him.
• His breakthrough draws the attention of Mahayana ancestors gathered outside the palace. They are alarmed that Blood Spirit Holy Ancestor’s clone seems to be advancing with little preparation.
• The Heavenly Dao sends down its laws. Zhao Hao senses that the Spirit World’s laws are comparatively weak, then uses five laws united into Chaos Law to shatter the Heavenly Dao’s attack.
• The Heavenly Dao responds with a massive ascension tribulation. Zhao Hao manifests his Heavenly Demon True Form and uses Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon to swallow the lightning—and then the entire tribulation cloud—in minutes.
• The clone returns to the cave, leaving a hundred Mahayana cultivators stunned. After three days with no further activity, they grow frustrated and wonder whether he intends to remain inside indefinitely.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao demonstrates confidence, ingenuity, and overwhelming power: he evades the Heavenly Dao’s scrutiny, recognizes the limits of its laws, and turns a deadly tribulation into something he can consume.
• The Mahayana ancestors shift from arrogant confidence to shock and apprehension. Even their large numbers no longer seem reassuring.

Significant themes

• Power defying convention: Zhao Hao’s breakthrough ignores the usual expectations of preparation and danger.
• Heavenly authority can be challenged: The Heavenly Dao’s scrutiny, laws, and tribulation all fail to stop him.
• Arrogance meets reality: The cultivators’ boasts about defeating one clone collapse when it effortlessly devours the tribulation.
• Suspense through uncertainty: The crowd’s fear of two more possible breakthroughs keeps them waiting outside the palace.

Character interactions

• Zhao Hao directly confronts the Heavenly Dao’s scrutiny and laws, first evading its gaze and then breaking its law-net.
• The gathered ancestors debate and speculate about his strength, initially dismissing him before witnessing his feat.
• After the tribulation, the cultivators are left to wait outside, unable to enter and unsure what Zhao Hao will do next.

Chapter summary

• Zhao Hao reaches Mahayana. After ten days of cultivation, he breaks through to the early Mahayana stage. His Dharma power grows enormously in strength and reserves, and he can combine five First-Tier Laws—Time, Space, Causality, Heart Demon, and Blood—with far less strain. He believes he could now fight his way through the hundred Mahayana cultivators surrounding the Main Cauldron Palace, but his upgraded formation makes engaging them unnecessary.
• He chooses a path to immortality. Reviewing a fellow Earth transmigrator’s teachings, Zhao Hao rejects the Earth Immortal path, which depends on territory and incense offerings. He chooses the Heavenly Immortal path instead: merging his Dao with the world’s Heavenly Dao to gain immense power within it, while retaining ordinary cultivator strength when outside it.
• He begins preparing to explore the Immortal Realm. Since his true body cannot leave, Zhao Hao decides to create an avatar to scout ahead. He uses the captured Shadow Race Mahayana ancestor, Ying Feng, as the vessel.
• Ying Feng is transformed into Zhao Hao’s clone. Zhao Hao’s Plant Demon in the Dao Heart ability, reinforced by his Chaos Law, overwhelms Ying Feng’s bodily resistance and assimilates his origin. Finding the body too damaged to serve, Zhao Hao injects it with his Heavenly Demon Essence Blood. This replaces Ying Feng’s Shadow Race bloodline and restores the body as a powerful, stable Mahayana Heavenly Demon True Form. A strange “Eye of Chaos” then opens on the clone’s forehead.

Character developments and interactions

Zhao Hao’s breakthrough confirms his rising confidence and independence: he can now contemplate confronting a hundred Mahayana opponents, yet focuses instead on long-term plans and acquiring Immortal Realm resources. His interaction with Ying Feng is entirely controlling—he addresses the imprisoned ancestor as a tool, promising him eventual ascension while forcibly turning him into an avatar. The final Eye of Chaos hints that the new clone may carry unusual power or risks.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes power gained through cultivation and system enhancement, strategic preparation over immediate combat, and the pursuit of immortality through different paths. It also explores Zhao Hao’s increasingly instrumental use of others: Ying Feng’s body and identity are remade to serve Zhao Hao’s ambitions.

Key plot points and events

• After completing his Mahayana Stage avatar, Zhao Hao studies the Heavenly Immortal Path: he must join with a world’s Dao, but only a small, unranked world he can protect and control. A great world could absorb him and erase his cultivation.
• He rules out nurturing a world himself because an undeveloped world would be defenseless. Instead, he decides to seek a remote, uninhabited world and needs a Starfield Map to find one.
• Zhao Hao travels to Spirit Evolution Immortal City and visits the Dinglong Merchant House, hoping to obtain its comprehensive map.
• The Dragon Realm’s Abyss-Probing Bell detects Zhao Hao’s hidden Mahayana cultivation. Steward Ao Run reacts with alarm, but Zhao Hao assures him he is there to shop, not cause trouble.
• Ao Run invites Zhao Hao to the once-a-century Dinglong Auction and mentions an exclusive post-auction exchange for Mahayana cultivators. Zhao Hao accepts the catalog but says his immediate goal is the map.
• Ao Run gives him an old Starfield Map for free as a goodwill gesture. Zhao Hao accepts and leaves.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao has become more confident since reaching the Mahayana Stage. He now shows his true face in public, though he still conceals his cultivation. His ambition shifts toward the long-term project of joining with and developing a suitable world.
• Ao Run is professionally courteous but visibly intimidated by Zhao Hao’s power. He carefully reassures him, promotes the auction, and gives him the map to establish goodwill.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: Choosing the wrong world to join with could destroy Zhao Hao’s cultivation, while an unprotected world could be taken by hostile forces.
• Preparation and ambition: Zhao Hao plans cautiously, seeking a suitable world before beginning his immense undertaking.
• Status and deference: Mahayana power reshapes social interactions; the bell’s warning immediately changes Ao Run’s behavior.
• Trade and relationships: Valuable resources are exchanged through barter and personal connections, not only ordinary purchases.

Character interactions

• Ao Run’s bell reveals Zhao Hao’s hidden rank, prompting the steward to bow and the other customer to leave respectfully.
• Zhao Hao calmly dismisses Ao Run’s fears and makes clear he is only there to buy.
• Ao Run uses the encounter to invite Zhao Hao to the auction, then offers the map as a gift; Zhao Hao accepts while acknowledging the favor.

Key plot points and events

• After leaving Dinglong Merchant House, Zhao Hao returns to his rented cave abode and studies Ao Run’s auction catalog.
• He spots a damaged Profound Heaven battle-axe. Though its remaining power is modest, he recognizes it as valuable for his system: he could restore it or use it to upgrade another treasure.
• The catalog’s three finale lots—a cultivation method leading to the Great Unity Golden Immortal Dao, a secret of the Immortal Court, and a Hundred-Creation Mountain secret art—impress him with the Dragon Race’s immense resources.
• Zhao Hao checks the storage rings taken from Ye You and Ying Feng. They contain wealth and ordinary treasures but nothing exceptional, so he leaves their contents for his avatar to sort.
• He examines Ao Run’s Starfield Map and discovers that the Immortal Realm and 365 surrounding starfields form the vast Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Grand Formation. The Spirit World and familiar realms lie within its reach, making Dao-merging there dangerously visible to the Immortal Court.
• Searching beyond the formation, he finds a remote, neglected region filled with weak, declining small worlds—an ideal place to merge with the Dao without attracting attention.
• His plans hit a practical obstacle: the chosen worlds are separated from him by enormous stretches of empty space, far beyond the reach of his Spatial Traversal ability.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao shows growing strategic caution: rather than risk drawing the Immortal Court’s notice, he abandons the nearby worlds and seeks a place beyond its surveillance.
• His confidence in the system shapes his ambition; worlds others might dismiss as nearly dead seem promising to him as foundations for advancement.
• He remains resourceful but recognizes the limits of his current abilities, ending with a serious transportation problem.

Significant themes

• Power and surveillance: The Immortal Court’s formation makes even distant worlds part of a system of control.
• Safety through obscurity: The forgotten, impoverished worlds may offer freedom precisely because they are overlooked.
• Ambition versus practical limits: Zhao Hao identifies a promising path to advancement, but reaching it may be harder than choosing it.
• Value depends on perspective: A damaged treasure or depleted world may be nearly worthless to others yet exceptionally useful to Zhao Hao.

Character interactions

• Ao Run’s catalog and Starfield Map provide Zhao Hao with access to powerful treasures and crucial cosmic knowledge.
• Zhao Hao disposes of Ye You and Ying Feng’s less valuable belongings by handing them to his avatar for sorting.
• Though absent, the Immortal Court—and a mysterious senior driven into seclusion by an Immortal Realm figure—influence Zhao Hao’s decisions and caution.

Summary

• Zhao Hao investigates interworld travel. Realizing he cannot cross the void in his physical body, he searches the ancient memories of his Mahayana avatar, Ying Feng. He learns that powerful races use Void Shuttles to cross world barriers, make spatial jumps, and even draw minor worlds into the Spirit World.
• He arranges to buy a shuttle discreetly. Void Shuttles use star maps to set destinations and Spirit Crystals as fuel; higher-grade models can travel farther and better withstand dangers such as star beasts and demons. To avoid alerting the merchant house he recently consulted—or revealing his plans—Zhao Hao sends his Yaksha Avatar to the separate Spirit Evolution Merchant House.
• The shuttle is upgraded into an Immortal Artifact. Zhao Hao purchases a spatially attributed, Lesser Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure-grade shuttle for ten thousand high-grade Spirit Crystals. He then strengthens it several times, transforming it into a First-Rank Immortal Artifact with immense power and defenses.
• Ying Feng begins the expedition. Since a Body Integration avatar would be too vulnerable for a long, dangerous journey, Zhao Hao chooses his Mahayana avatar. Ying Feng accepts the shuttle and supplies and leaves the Spirit World without hesitation.

Character development and interactions

Zhao Hao demonstrates caution and strategic thinking: he draws on Ying Feng’s knowledge, avoids a suspicious purchasing pattern, and equips the expedition with the strongest protection he can obtain. His relationship with Ying Feng is practical and trusting—Zhao Hao relies on the avatar’s accumulated experience and entrusts him with the mission. Ying Feng responds with quiet obedience.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes knowledge as power, showing how inherited memories provide access to secrets unavailable through ordinary study. It also explores concealment and ambition: Zhao Hao keeps his plans hidden as he prepares for a major journey. Finally, the Void Shuttle reveals the Spirit World’s vast reach and the way powerful civilizations expand by discovering and absorbing smaller worlds.

Plot points and events

• After his Mahayana clone Ying Feng passes beyond the Spirit World’s barrier, Zhao Hao returns to his cave abode and turns his attention to advancing his own cultivation.
• Inspired by what he has learned about Immortal Realm cultivation, he wonders whether the spirit-eye tree can produce immortal qi. Using his system, he discovers that ancient trees can enhance it.
• Zhao Hao directs thousands of Nascent Soul clones to gather old trees. Their materials raise the tree’s age and greatly increase its spiritual-qi output, but for a long time it produces no immortal qi.
• On a final enhancement, Zhao Hao detects a fleeting golden particle that is more potent than spiritual qi. He identifies it as immortal qi, though it initially decays almost immediately.
• To conceal the tree and its output, he uses his Heavenly Hound Devours the Moon ability to move the space around it into a dimensional space within his body. He then personally raids forests in the territories of several races, gathering enough materials for further enhancements.
• After five more enhancements, the tree produces stable strands of immortal qi. Zhao Hao begins drawing them into his body, where they gradually replace his dharma power. Half a month later, a tenth of his power has become immortal power, greatly increasing his strength and beginning his transformation into a True Immortal body.
• Ao Run of the Dinglong Merchant House invites Zhao Hao to the hundred-year auction in Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal City. With his cultivation progressing and void travel preparations underway, Zhao Hao decides to attend.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao shifts from exploring the void to pursuing his own advancement. His curiosity becomes a bold, resource-intensive experiment, and he grows increasingly confident in using his powers to obtain what he needs.
• His partial conversion to immortal power marks a major step toward becoming a True Immortal, while also demonstrating his willingness to endure the dangerous process.
• Ao Run approaches Zhao Hao with pronounced deference, treating him as a powerful senior and offering him a chance to attend the auction.

Character interactions

• Zhao Hao coordinates remotely with his thousands of Nascent Soul clones, directing them to locate ancient trees.
• His forest harvesting provokes the Woodfolk and other races. Their Mahayana cultivators angrily denounce the destruction, but cannot identify or catch him.
• Ao Run contacts Zhao Hao respectfully by communication token and invites him to the auction; Zhao Hao responds with interest.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through experimentation: Zhao Hao tests an unconventional theory and persists through repeated setbacks until it succeeds.
• Power and consequences: His quest for materials damages ancestral forests and alarms powerful races, showing the costs of his ambition.
• Transformation and transcendence: The conversion of dharma power into immortal power represents a fundamental change in Zhao Hao’s nature and strength.
• Secrecy and calculated risk: Zhao Hao hides the tree’s breakthrough and personally undertakes dangerous raids to keep his discovery out of others’ hands.

Chapter Summary

• Zhao Hao reviews more than a dozen storage rings filled with Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasures. Though valuable to lower-level cultivators, he considers them inadequate for a Mahayana auction, where the best items have innate laws and are usually obtained through barter.
• With his Mahayana clone Ying Feng searching the void for a Dao Integration World, Zhao decides to attend the Dragon Realm auction himself. He has plenty of spirit crystals but few rare resources to trade; jokingly, he considers ambushing someone after the auction if he cannot obtain a treasure through legitimate means.
• Zhao travels through a teleportation formation to the Dragon Realm, where Ao Chun, a Mahayana Early Stage Dragon cultivator, greets him. Ao Chun probes Zhao’s background, but Zhao says he is a wandering Rogue Cultivator and has never visited the Dragon Realm before. Ao Chun becomes more respectful and escorts him to Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal City.
• Zhao senses the city’s enormous concentration of power: more than a hundred Mahayana cultivators are already present, with roughly a thousand expected for the auction. He reflects on the Dragon Race’s vast influence across the myriad worlds.
• Ao Chun brings Zhao to the Drunken Immortal Tower, where cultivators can enjoy spirit dishes and immortal wine that enhance cultivation. As Zhao arrives on the fifth floor, an unidentified voice accuses him of recklessly spreading his divine sense through the city.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Zhao Hao is confident, calculating, and increasingly aware of how his Mahayana status compares with the Dragon Race’s reach. He remains calm when Ao Chun questions him and when his divine sense draws attention.
• Ao Chun initially tests Zhao’s affiliations, then adjusts his manner once he learns Zhao is an unaffiliated Rogue Cultivator—someone he regards as potentially formidable and unpredictable.
• The unidentified cultivator begins a confrontation by challenging Zhao over his use of divine sense, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Significant Themes

• Power and status: A treasure’s value depends on the level of the cultivator, and even Mahayana cultivators are treated differently according to their affiliations.
• Resourcefulness and ambition: Zhao seeks opportunities to strengthen himself despite lacking ideal trade goods.
• The Dragon Race’s influence: The scale of the auction demonstrates its ability to gather powerful cultivators from across the worlds.
• Caution and provocation: Zhao’s broad, unrestrained divine-sense sweep establishes his presence but also risks conflict.

Plot points and events

• At an auction in Ten Thousand Dragons Immortal City, a Sea King Race cultivator publicly threatens Zhao Hao, demanding an apology and warning him to stay out of the Spirit World.
• Zhao Hao answers with a slap, then leaves the city to avoid fighting within the Dragon Race’s territory. The Sea King cultivator and his Mahayana Middle Stage companion pursue him, drawing a crowd of onlookers.
• The man reveals his Sea Beast form and attacks with a Supreme-Grade Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure trident. Zhao Hao destroys it with a single punch, then sends a Blood-Law tiger phantom at his opponent.
• The woman intervenes with a Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure, unleashing a wave of water-law power. Zhao Hao calmly reaches out to catch it with his bare hand, leaving the watching cultivators stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Hao is revealed as far more powerful and self-assured than his opponents expect. He refuses to submit to threats and displays extraordinary physical strength and mastery of the Blood Law.
• The Sea King Race man begins as a confident bully but is swiftly humiliated; his anger drives him to pursue Zhao Hao and attack recklessly.
• The Sea King Race woman initially watches without acting, then steps in when Zhao Hao threatens her clansman. Her shock at his response exposes how far he exceeds her expectations.
• Ao Chun, the Dragon Race steward, avoids taking sides while the dispute is in the city. He expects Zhao Hao to be outmatched but privately plans to rescue him if necessary.
• The other Mahayana cultivators gather to watch, shifting the confrontation into a public display of Zhao Hao’s strength.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and power: The Sea King Race’s status-based intimidation fails against Zhao Hao’s confidence and ability.
• Hidden strength and underestimated outsiders: Zhao Hao’s identity as a Rogue Cultivator leads others to misjudge him.
• Escalation and spectacle: A public insult becomes a high-stakes duel watched by the region’s powerful cultivators.
• Strength beyond treasures: Zhao Hao’s body and Blood-Law power prove capable of overpowering even formidable spiritual weapons.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Zhao Hao confronts a Sea King Race woman wielding the Profound Heaven Azure Sea Pearl, a powerful treasure governed by the Law of Water.
• He transforms his right hand into a black dragon claw and combines five laws, hundreds of rules, Chaos Law, and a trace of Immortal Power. His Chaos Law overwhelms the pearl’s Water Law, and he seizes the treasure.
• The woman transforms into her mermaid form and attacks with a Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasure sword. A second Sea King cultivator joins with a trident, hoping to exploit Zhao Hao’s occupied hand.
• Zhao Hao uses Chaos Law to suppress the space and time around his attackers, stopping them in their tracks. He erases the pearl’s imprint and swallows the Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure.
• He then turns both hands into dragon claws, pulls the two Sea King cultivators toward him, and swallows them as well.
• With the surrounding Mahayana cultivators and Ao Chun stunned and frightened, Zhao Hao calmly says they should leave because they have not yet had their drinks.

Character developments

• Zhao Hao reveals the extraordinary power he has gained after reaching the Mahayana stage. His confidence gives way to a display of ruthless, overwhelming force, and he treats both a legendary treasure and powerful opponents as things he can simply consume.
• The Sea King woman and her ally shift from confidence and aggression to helpless terror when their attacks are neutralized and Zhao Hao devours them.
• Ao Chun, who had hoped to mediate, realizes he cannot control the conflict and is left too shocked to speak.

Significant themes

• The scale of power: Zhao Hao’s abilities overturn the spectators’ assumptions about what a Mahayana cultivator can withstand.
• Control through superior force: Chaos Law defeats the pearl’s elemental law and immobilizes the opposing cultivators.
• Fear and awe: The witnesses’ astonishment turns to dread as Zhao Hao’s actions exceed anything they consider possible.

Character interactions

• The Sea King woman attacks Zhao Hao to reclaim her treasure, while her ally backs her up; Zhao Hao answers both attacks with overwhelming force.
• The distant Mahayana cultivators watch and speculate, then fall silent in shock.
• Ao Chun is unable to intervene or mediate, and Zhao Hao addresses him afterward as though nothing extraordinary has happened.

Plot points and events

• After Zhao Hao swallows the two Sea King Race cultivators, he leaves the sky and returns to the Drunken Immortal Tower. Onlookers are stunned, while Ao Chun fears the incident will damage the Dragon Realm’s reputation and sends a message for help.
• Zhao Hao calmly resumes drinking and eating. Ao Chun approaches him with an ingratiating apology, calling him a Dragon Race brother despite having previously watched from the sidelines.
• The late-Mahayana Golden Dragon King arrives and asks Zhao Hao to release the Sea King guests. He acknowledges that they provoked Zhao Hao and offers apologies and compensation, framing the request as both courtesy and negotiation.
• Zhao Hao agrees in exchange for the Dragon Race’s goodwill and brings the two cultivators back from the dimensional space inside him. They are alive, but appear mentally devastated and physically disordered.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Hao reveals that his attack was also a display of strength meant to secure respect at the upcoming auction. He remains relaxed and confident, and chooses diplomacy when it benefits him.
• Ao Chun shifts from passive observer to anxious mediator. Though he fears Zhao Hao, he tries to placate him and later welcomes the Golden Dragon King’s intervention.
• The Golden Dragon King shows authority without immediate hostility. He balances a firm request with acknowledgment of Zhao Hao’s grievance and an offer of compensation.
• The Sea King cultivators, previously arrogant, are returned as helpless husks, underscoring how completely Zhao Hao overpowered them.
• A monk among the observers silently reacts to the spectacle, snapping his prayer-bead cord; his deeper thoughts remain unknown.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Zhao Hao’s overwhelming strength changes how others treat him and establishes his standing before the auction.
• Pragmatism and negotiation: Rather than keeping or killing his captives, Zhao Hao trades their release for goodwill and potential benefit.
• Hierarchy and diplomacy: The Dragon King’s rank gives his request weight, but he still relies on courtesy and compensation.
• Appearance versus loyalty: Ao Chun’s sudden claim that Zhao Hao is “one of their own” exposes how quickly allegiance shifts in response to power.