Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi gained the Riding the Wind and Spirit Travel Dao Fruits and considered how they fit into the different paths to immortality, while weighing the dangers of delay and his limited ability to summon his main account. Xu Yi received a clue to Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord’s discarded shell and resolved to pursue the Godhood Path despite its risks.

• Lu Xingshi obtained the Riding the Wind and Spirit Travel Dao Fruits from Earthly Virtue Heavenly God’s Karmic Force.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits supported Heavenly Immortals, Earthly Immortals, and Corpse Dissection Immortals, and considered combining their methods.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the Merit Immortal path because the Five Turbidities Evil World had disrupted its advantages, and he wondered whether he could fake his death during Corpse Dissolution.
• Lu Xingshi estimated that he needed to defeat at least six more Fallen Immortal Evil Gods and noted that Inviting Immortals could only activate his main account briefly, with a long cooldown.
• Xu Yi received a clue to Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord’s discarded shell and suspected it was connected to the Incense Godhood Path and could prevent the Divine Lord’s return.
• Xu Yi chose to keep pursuing the Godhood Path, believing it might offer a way to survive the dangers facing the Immortal Dao.

Lu Xingshi investigated a suspected fiend at the Loyal Prince Manor outside Jiangyin Prefecture and met Gao Zheng, the Loyal Prince's Eighth Son. After learning Gao Zheng could not Enter the Dao, Lu Xingshi discovered that the cultivation lineage Gao Zheng had practiced for years was fake.

• Lu Xingshi arrived at the Loyal Prince Manor, where the steward first denied there was an anomaly, then hurriedly invited him inside after Lu Xingshi began to leave.
• Lu Xingshi inspected the manor for clues about the profound fiend he had sensed while the steward served him wine and food.
• Gao Zheng introduced himself as the Loyal Prince's Eighth Son and asked Lu Xingshi for guidance because he had long wanted to cultivate but could not Enter the Dao.
• Gao Zheng described his lineage and cultivation method, and Lu Xingshi recognized that it was fake and warned him to stop practicing it.
• Gao Zheng revealed that an old man at a street stall had sold him the method for ten thousand taels of silver, leaving him devastated that he had practiced it for more than ten years.

Lu Xingshi refused Gao Zheng’s attempts to obtain a cultivation method and monitored him after sensing something was wrong. That night, the aberration Gao Zheng had bought a fake book from appeared in his room, leaving Gao Zheng terrified as it asked whether it looked more like a god or an immortal.

• Gao Zheng asked Lu Xingshi for a cultivation method, but Lu Xingshi warned that the times were dangerous and declined to provide one.
• Gao Zheng grew suspicious of Lu Xingshi’s abilities and left with a colder attitude, while Lu Xingshi used the Mysterious Light Art to monitor him.
• Gao Zheng returned to the Loyal Prince Manor, resolved to obtain cultivation and pursue the throne, and spent the night unable to sleep.
• The elderly man who had sold Gao Zheng the fake book appeared at his door, and Gao Zheng welcomed him inside, believing he was a Dao cultivator.
• The old man turned corpse-pale and began to melt, revealing himself as the aberration Lu Xingshi had come to hunt, then asked Gao Zheng whether he looked more like a god or an immortal.

Lu Xingshi entered Pillow Immortal’s dream, where the dream spirit had been consuming people’s dreams and expanding toward Jiangyin Prefectural City. He killed Pillow Immortal and gained enough Merit for another Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit, but worried that future Dao Fruits would require vastly more Merit.

• Lu Xingshi rescued Gao Zheng from Pillow Immortal and learned that the old man had recognized him as the killer of the Joyful Great Immortal and Earthly Virtue Heavenly God.
• Lu Xingshi identified Pillow Immortal as a dream cultivator who had swallowed dreams across multiple places, forming a complete dream kingdom.
• Pillow Immortal repeatedly trapped Gao Zheng in dreams and tried to make Lu Xingshi doubt what was real, but Lu Xingshi saw through the deception.
• Lu Xingshi used Inviting Immortals to transform and struck Pillow Immortal twice, destroying him and the dream; Fire Virtue refined the remains into a dreamlike crystal.
• Lu Xingshi received Pillow Immortal’s Merit, enough for the Fusang Tree to bear another Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit, and worried that future Merit requirements would become impossible to meet.

Lu Xingshi killed the Pillow Immortal, left Gao Zheng behind, and sensed a Great Being Reincarnation in Jiangyin Prefecture. Meanwhile, Xu Yi pursued the escaped Hanba—the transformed remains of the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord—toward the city.

• Lu Xingshi chose Entrusting Staff, bound it to his refined iron ingots, and confirmed to Gao Zheng that the Pillow Immortal was dead.
• Gao Zheng tried to keep Lu Xingshi in Jiangyin Prefecture, but Lu Xingshi rebuked him and rode away.
• Lu Xingshi sensed a distorted presence connected to his Meng Tou Dao Fruit and Fusang Tree, and turned back to investigate.
• Xu Yi recalled that the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord's Remains had become a powerful Hanba, which had escaped after their fight.
• Xu Yi used his sign-in map to trace the Hanba to Jiangyin Prefecture and continued pursuing it at the Sign-in System's urging.

Lu Xingshi encountered Xu Yi while pursuing a Hanba and offered to help, but Xu Yi refused and lost the Hanba’s trail. Lu Xingshi suspected Xu Yi was a transmigrator and watched him from a distance, while Xu Yi and the Sign-in System began to suspect Lu Xingshi might target him.

• Lu Xingshi sensed a Hanba near Jiangyin Prefecture and reasoned that its drought would intensify if it stayed in one place for too long.
• Lu Xingshi chased a Golden Rainbow, met Xu Yi, and offered to help him hunt the Hanba.
• Xu Yi refused Lu Xingshi’s offer, and Lu Xingshi left after sensing that Xu Yi was connected to the distortion and interference around them.
• Lu Xingshi suspected Xu Yi was a transmigrator and possible protagonist, then secretly observed him while considering whether Xu Yi could help him gain Merit.
• Xu Yi realized he had lost the Hanba’s trail, and the Sign-in System told him the Hanba should remain in Jiangyin Prefecture for three days.
• Xu Yi and the Sign-in System suspected Lu Xingshi might be targeting Xu Yi, and Xu Yi vowed to kill him if he proved hostile.

Xu Yi enlisted Gao Zheng’s help to find the Hanba threatening Jiangyin Prefecture and gave him a method for Entering the Dao in return. He stayed at Loyal Prince Manor for the night, while Gao Zheng began plotting to get more teachings from him.

• Xu Yi accepted Gao Zheng’s invitation and told him that a Hanba would bring drought to Jiangyin Prefecture within two days.
• Gao Zheng promised to mobilize the manor’s men to search for the Hanba, and Xu Yi gave him the Blazing Sun Profound Illumination Scripture.
• Gao Zheng asked Xu Yi to guide him in cultivating, and Xu Yi agreed to help after they found the Hanba.
• Xu Yi initially tried to leave the manor, but Gao Zheng persuaded him to stay and sent Chun Hong and Liu Lu to attend him.
• After Xu Yi left the feast, Gao Zheng planned to obtain more cultivation methods from him and turned to organizing the search for the Hanba.

Lu Xingshi confirmed Xu Yi was a transmigrator, then searched Jiangyin Prefecture and found an injured Hanba hiding in a residence. As Lu Xingshi prepared to capture it, Xu Yi sensed the Hanba’s aura but chose to finish his tryst before pursuing it.

• Lu Xingshi concluded Xu Yi was a transmigrator after watching him give Gao Zheng a cultivation method and indulge in wine, food, and beautiful women.
• Lu Xingshi sent Clones and used his Dao Fruits to search Jiangyin Prefecture, eventually locating a Hanba concealed on a beam.
• Lu Xingshi saw that the Hanba had golden Double Pupils, a Great Sun Pure Yang Fire, and injuries he suspected Xu Yi had inflicted.
• The Hanba sensed Moon Fetching’s surveillance, failed to find its observer, and fled; Lu Xingshi decided to capture it and later trade it to Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi sensed the Hanba’s aura while with a woman, but suspected a trap and delayed going after it, promising the Sign-in System he would hurry once he finished.

Lu Xingshi captured Hanba and discovered that he was the remains of the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord, who had devoured the Lord’s reincarnated soul. Hanba revealed how the Divine Lord’s reincarnation had been displaced and hunted by both Lu Xingshi and Xu Yi, while Xu Yi arrived too late to find his trail.

• The Five Ghosts tripped Hanba and carried him to Lu Xingshi, who restrained him in a laboratory and began examining him.
• Lu Xingshi’s Soul Grabbing failed, and he found that Hanba’s body was an ancient corpse far older than he had expected.
• Hanba identified himself as the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord, but Lu Xingshi realized he was the Divine Lord’s remains rather than the true reincarnation.
• Hanba revealed that he had devoured the Divine Lord’s reincarnated soul after Xu Yi’s transmigrator system displaced it from the reincarnated body.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Hanba had tried to kill both him and Xu Yi, but had failed before being captured.
• Xu Yi arrived after Hanba had been taken and resolved to search Jiangyin Prefecture City for him.

Xu Yi’s search for the Hanba ended when Lu Xingshi delivered the creature and demanded the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord’s orthodox inheritance in exchange for the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Union Joy Scripture. Xu Yi made the trade and let Lu Xingshi depart, while Lu Xingshi discovered that he had gained a large amount of Merit.

• After days of fruitless searching, Xu Yi decided to investigate once more and leave Jiangyin Prefecture if he found nothing.
• Lu Xingshi arrived and revealed that he had captured the Hanba, delivering it to Xu Yi through the Five Ghosts.
• Lu Xingshi demanded the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord’s orthodox inheritance and offered the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Union Joy Scripture in exchange.
• Xu Yi’s Sign-in System warned that Lu Xingshi might be an immortal god, so Xu Yi abandoned his plan to tamper with the inheritance and handed over the complete version.
• Lu Xingshi departed with the inheritance and discovered that he had received a large sum of Merit.

Lu Xingshi used his Merit to unlock the Staff Release Dao Fruit and planned to cultivate in Cloud Marsh while developing his own path to immortality. Xu Yi left Gao Zheng and began converting to the Godhood Path, unaware that Gao Zheng might become trouble.

• Lu Xingshi realized that handing Hanba to Xu Yi had earned him Merit because Xu Yi could use it to affect the world's course, and he decided not to interfere with the project.
• Lu Xingshi unlocked the Staff Release Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit but avoided Corpse Dissolution, intending to combine Dao Fruit paths into his own route to immortality.
• Lu Xingshi studied the Pure Yang Golden Crow True Form, considered the disappearance of rare spirit beasts and dragons, and chose Cloud Marsh for a secluded stay after divining that no Fallen Immortal Evil Gods were there.
• Xu Yi rejected Gao Zheng's offer of a gift and departed after Hanba's defeat and Gao Zheng's entry into the Dao; Gao Zheng concealed his anger and vowed to deal with Xu Yi after becoming emperor.
• Xu Yi continued cultivating the Immortal Dao while converting to the Godhood Path, planning to choose divine subordinates and establish a Dao Field, while the Sign-in System warned that Gao Zheng could be trouble.

Lu Xingshi seized the Cloud Marsh Water Mansion, built a hidden Cave Heaven, and began Corpse Dissolution using every available method and the Golden Crow phantom. As golden feathers appeared on his body, Xu Yi sensed a new presence but stayed within his Dao Field, continuing to develop his Godhood Path.

• Lu Xingshi killed Azure Water Great King and the demons at the Cloud Marsh Water Mansion, then carved out and fortified a Cave Heaven there.
• Lu Xingshi chose every available Corpse Dissolution method after completing the Pure Yang Golden Crow True Form and upgrading his treasure record during his journey.
• The Demon Saint Mystical Power summoned a Golden Crow phantom that covered Lu Xingshi with golden feathers as Corpse Dissolution began.
• Xu Yi sensed that something was being born but stayed in his Dao Field because leaving would weaken him.
• The Sign-in System questioned Xu Yi's preference for recruiting beautiful women as Retinue Gods, and Xu Yi defended his choices while continuing his cultivation.

Nine years into the Five Turbidities Evil World’s chaos, Xu Yi obtained the Investiture of the Gods and decided to use its God Path Tribulation to break the stalemate with the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods. He planned to strike personally, though Gao Zheng and the risks of the war remained major concerns.

• The Fallen Immortal Evil Gods supported Great Zhao and attacked Xu Yi’s incense faith, while Xu Yi backed the Rebel Army despite its infighting and reliance on beautiful women.
• Xu Yi received the Investiture of the Gods, which could create a God Path Tribulation and bind the dead—including Fallen Immortal Evil Gods—onto its list.
• Xu Yi resolved to launch a swift divine war and kill Fallen Immortal Evil Gods himself so his harem would not have to fight, hoping to gain enough incense faith and Merit to reach the Supreme God Path.
• Xu Yi blamed Gao Zheng, the current Zhao Emperor, for worsening the dynasty’s cruelty and obstructing his incense faith, and regretted having once given him a cultivation method.
• Xu Yi asked the Sign-in System about other complementary God Path Treasures, but it told him to sign in himself and responded with conspicuous distance.

Gao Zheng faced pressure from the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods to attack the Yin Yang Emperor Lord after Immortal God offerings went missing. He stalled Spirit Butterfly Fairy with threats borrowed from other powerful Immortal Gods, then resolved to seek strength from the very enemy Great Zhao might have to fight.

• Gao Zheng learned that several Immortal God offerings had vanished and vented his fury before Spirit Butterfly Fairy arrived on behalf of the Nine Heavens Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord.
• Spirit Butterfly Fairy said the Yin Yang Emperor Lord was suspected and demanded that Gao Zheng raise an army to attack within one month.
• Gao Zheng recognized that the Immortal Gods wanted Great Zhao and the Yin Yang Emperor Lord to weaken each other, then used the names of other great Immortal Gods to resist the demand.
• Spirit Butterfly Fairy left to report Gao Zheng's reply, and Gao Zheng admitted to himself that his bluff had only bought him time.
• Gao Zheng concluded that Great Zhao could not withstand either the Immortal Gods or the Godhood Path alone, so he considered borrowing strength from the hostile Yin Yang Emperor Lord.

Xu Yi rejected Gao Zheng’s offer and sent his letter to the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods, exposing Gao Zheng’s attempted betrayal. After sensing a renewed connection to the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord in Cloud Marsh, Xu Yi concluded that the ancient enemy had revived, while Gao Zheng was captured and had his soul taken away.

• Xu Yi dismissed Gao Zheng’s proposal, turned the letter into a paper crane, and sent it to the leaders of the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods.
• Xu Yi sensed an omen in Cloud Marsh and suspected it was connected to the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord.
• The omen’s connection abruptly vanished, leading Xu Yi to conclude that the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord had revived and become a great enemy.
• The Golden Armor Battle General God confronted Gao Zheng in the palace and showed him the letter he had sent to Xu Yi.
• Gao Zheng tried to kill himself, but the Golden Armor Battle General God seized and sealed his soul before returning to the Heavenly Court.

After completing his nine-year ascension, Lu Xingshi discovered that he had become an unusual Dao Fruit Immortal and considered how to obtain enough Merit to unlock the Heavenly Dipper Dao Fruits. He emerged into a demon-infested Cloud Marsh, where he began devouring demons to strengthen his Demon Saint Mystical Power.

• Lu Xingshi completed his ascension and learned that his Spirit Body and mystical power had become half-Dao Fruits on the Fusang Tree.
• He found that the first Heavenly Dipper Dao Fruit required one hundred million Merit, making its Gold Coin cost prohibitively high.
• Lu Xingshi sensed a golden tribulation fighting the Five Turbidities Evil World and considered whether he could help it using Fire Virtue, but decided against involving the Yan Kingdom because its people would be outmatched by immortals and gods.
• Lu Xingshi left the Gourd Heaven Cave Abode and encountered demons feasting in the ruined Cloud Marsh Water Mansion.
• After a fish demon tried to eat him, Lu Xingshi killed it and used his Demon Saint Mystical Power to devour the other demons and add their silhouettes.
• Lu Xingshi decided to remain in Cloud Marsh and hunt more demons to strengthen his Demon Saint Mystical Power.

Xu Yi fled the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord by taking refuge in a Dao Field, while the other immortals and gods abandoned their attempt to attack him. Lu Xingshi then appeared at the Cloud Marsh Water Mansion, recognized Xu Yi as the Yin Yang Emperor Lord, and prepared to question the captured Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord.

• Xu Yi found the Cloud Marsh Water Mansion deserted, failed to track the Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord, and fled when the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord arrived.
• Xu Yi escaped into a nearby Dao Field, where he traded insults with the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord as other immortals and gods gathered but refused to attack.
• After the immortals and gods dispersed, the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord returned to Cloud Marsh and discovered a concealed cave dwelling in the Water Mansion.
• Lu Xingshi appeared beside the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord, restrained him with Body Binding, and asked about the Yin Yang Emperor Lord and the Godhood Path.
• Lu Xingshi realized the Yin Yang Emperor Lord was Xu Yi and understood how the Godhood Path could counter the Five Turbidities Evil World.
• Lu Xingshi told the Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord he wanted his guidance, leaving the captured Heavenly Lord with a sense of foreboding.

Xu Yi suspected that Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord was behind Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord’s disappearance and considered using the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods to deal with him. The Fallen Immortal Evil Gods agreed to cooperate with Xu Yi in eliminating Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord’s forces, while the Sign-in System raised the possibility that a mysterious figure from Xu Yi’s past was responsible for the disappearance.

• Xu Yi concluded that Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord might have completed a hidden scheme and secretly subdued Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord.
• Glazed Immortal Lord and Nether River Yama agreed that Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord had likely been sealed, then discussed taking over his forces and seeking a truce with Xu Yi.
• Glazed Immortal Lord sent Xu Yi a letter proposing cooperation, and Xu Yi agreed to help eliminate Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord’s direct forces.
• Xu Yi planned to kill those who would not join his faction and use the Investiture of the Gods to claim their True Spirits.
• The Sign-in System reminded Xu Yi of a mysterious person who had once given him the mortal remains and suggested that this figure might have subdued Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord.

Lu Xingshi dissected Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord to study Tribulation Immortals and his own Dao Fruit Immortal nature, then decided to explore using Karmic Force as nourishment. After devouring Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord, he captured the True Spirit that fled toward the God Path Tribulation and planned to use it to investigate its source.

• Lu Xingshi concluded that modern immortal gods were Tribulation Immortals, transformed by the Five Turbidities Evil World into beings bearing immense Karmic Force.
• Lu Xingshi examined how his Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, Dao Fruits, and Demon Saint Mystical Power had made his own path increasingly strange, and considered combining his Dao Fruit state with Tribulation Immortal traits.
• Lu Xingshi reasoned that he could use Karmic Force to cultivate Heavenly Dipper Dao Fruits if he could reverse its debt-like effects, and chose to pursue the Five Turbidities Evil World as nourishment.
• Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord woke during Lu Xingshi's examination, but Lu Xingshi injected him with anesthetic and put him back to sleep.
• Lu Xingshi stitched Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord back together, then swallowed him with a demonic shadow and gained twelve million Merit.
• A True Spirit escaped Primordial Thunder Heavenly Lord's body toward the God Path Tribulation, so Lu Xingshi intercepted it and stored it in Gourd Heaven to investigate whether Xu Yi was connected.

After devouring Cloud Marsh, Lu Xingshi traveled to the Heavenly Court to study its Tribulation Immortals and discovered that Yin Yang Emperor Lord carried the source of the God Path Tribulation. When the Heavenly Court’s immortals fled from his monstrous transformation, Lu Xingshi fought Glazed Immortal Lord and Nether River Yama, pinning them down and beating them.

• Lu Xingshi devoured the demons and monsters of Cloud Marsh and its surrounding regions, then decided to go to the Heavenly Court to gather more Tribulation Immortals for his research.
• At the Heavenly Court, Lu Xingshi saw Yin Yang Emperor Lord kill a Tribulation Immortal and noticed that Yin Yang Emperor Lord’s incense body contained a list of names and emitted the God Path Tribulation.
• Xu Yi sensed an intruder, but Lu Xingshi stayed hidden and let him leave without a confrontation.
• Glazed Immortal Lord tried to persuade the gathered immortals to attack Yin Yang Emperor Lord, while Nether River Yama and Lu Xingshi challenged Glazed Immortal Lord to act himself.
• Lu Xingshi transformed into a huge many-headed monster and sent the Tribulation Immortals running, then used pieces of his body to create grotesque clones that blocked their escape.
• Glazed Immortal Lord and Nether River Yama revealed their true forms and attacked, but Lu Xingshi overpowered them with brute force and pinned them down.