Chapter Summaries

Mo Mingsheng sought a way to survive his trial by pursuing martial arts, while Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat entered a vision of the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s past. They learned the sect had once attempted to transcend cultivation and set out to investigate a rumored ancient immortal’s dao field.

• Mo Mingsheng learned that the Azure Snake Gang planned to fight the White Tiger Gang over medicinal fields and decided he needed martial arts to survive.
• Wang Chunrong entered his own trial amid a fight and followed the identity he had been given.
• A cultivator probing the blue-robed guide was killed, and the other cultivators concluded that the guide’s strange eyes held an unknown power.
• Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat arrived in a bright world resembling the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s past.
• Black Cat told Zhou Shenlong that the ancient sect had once sought to transcend cultivation, though its mountain gate had later been left empty.
• Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat followed voices about a newly discovered ancient immortal’s dao field.

Wen Fang found himself trapped on Golden Turtle Island and assigned the identity of a medicine garden apprentice, where he suspected the tasks and the apparently weak steward concealed a restriction. When an outsider cultivator openly defied the steward, the man was slaughtered and his remains were absorbed by the soil.

• Wen Fang realized the mist had sealed off every way out of Golden Turtle Island, despite his ability to see through falsehood.
• A jade slip assigned Wen Fang the identity of a medicine garden apprentice and tasks to draw water three times and provide shade once for a patch of Great Dream Immortal Medicine.
• Wen Fang sensed that the apprentices were weak but that the steward carried a contradictory aura, so he held back from acting.
• A tribulation cultivator near the front told the steward to stop talking.
• The cultivator was torn into pieces, and the soil swallowed his flesh and blood.

Wen Fang sensed a strange, potentially Dao Lord-level aura in the Great Dream Immortal Sect and suspected the island concealed a connection to ancient times. Zhou Shenlong and the Black Cat received identities directing them to an ancient immortal's abode, while Lu Qing's incarnation observed the spreading influence of Reincarnation from Heavenly Secret Lake.

• Wen Fang noticed twisted Great Dao aura around the steward and suspected that an ancient immortal's power lingered in the herb garden.
• Wen Fang recognized that resisting the aura would be futile and decided to complete his task cautiously.
• Zhou Shenlong received the identity of an Immortal Sect Enforcement Disciple, with a task to proceed to the ancient immortal's abode.
• Zhou Shenlong and the Black Cat resolved to visit the abode, suspecting it held something left behind by the Great Dream Immortal Sect.
• Lu Qing's worldly incarnation watched the silver fish at Heavenly Secret Lake as Reincarnation's aura drew ancient immortal souls toward their next lives.

Lu Qing observed the city’s shifting fortunes and learned that special true spirits had begun reincarnating, though their former identities remained hidden. In the Immortal City, Yu Dong emerged from seclusion to prepare for an alchemist assessment and heard that returning ancient cultivators were suffering collapsed Dao hearts.

• Lu Qing used Heavenly Secret Lake to glimpse ominous scenes tied to ancient twists of fate and concluded that immortals would be crucial to their emergence.
• Lu Qing saw special true spirits reincarnate and noted that their identities, including the Devil Master's, had become impossible to discern amid chaos.
• Yu Dong emerged from seclusion pleased with his progress in alchemy and aimed to earn an intermediate rank in the upcoming assessment.
• Yu Dong heard cultivators discuss the return of the Profound Yellow Dao and the growing number of missions issued by the Profound Heaven Dao Sect.
• Yu Dong learned that some ancient cultivators had suffered Dao heart collapses after speaking with people in the present era.

Yu Dong learned that ancient sects were appearing in the Northern Heaven Continent to choose inheritors, while Lu Qing observed the turmoil through his avatars. Bifang boarded a sightseeing ship crowded with unusually fortunate cultivators, where he expected an accident to happen.

• Yu Dong discussed with an old friend the ancient sects appearing in the Northern Heaven Continent and decided to consider traveling north for the opportunity.
• Lu Qing sensed the northern turmoil from his worldly avatar and saw that ancient sects had descended beneath a haze that obscured their true nature.
• Bifang remained in the Northern Heaven Continent and entered the territory of the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate.
• Bifang boarded a sightseeing treasure ship and noticed that it carried an unusually large gathering of cultivators blessed by fortune.
• Bifang expected the concentration of fortunate cultivators to bring an accident, while choosing to observe the unfolding events rather than intervene.

Xue Lingshan, Fei Ji, and another group of young cultivators clashed over a treasure aboard the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate’s treasure ship, but Xue Lingshan left without a fight. As the ship continued toward the Kunpeng Sea, Fei Ji’s followers watched a jade-bright object among them.

• Bystanders recognized Xue Lingshan and watched him argue with Fei Ji and a rival group over a treasure opportunity.
• Xue Lingshan mocked Fei Ji, then left the dispute without fighting.
• The onlookers discussed why the groups had avoided a fight and speculated about the hidden treasure.
• Travelers described the treasure ship’s fixed route through special spaces and spatial rifts, and noted that its next destination was the Kunpeng Sea.
• Fei Ji’s followers looked eagerly at a hard, jade-bright object in their midst.

Bifang observed the prodigies gathering aboard the Immortal Wanderer tower ship and learned that their destination was Kunpeng Sea, a renowned cultivation ground where he sensed a hidden opportunity. He used a star compass to divine that conflict awaited there, then decided to go.

• Fei Ji explained that the jade-like object was a key to a twist of fate connected to a great immortal, and the group discussed whether others had found keys.
• Bifang watched the many fate-blessed cultivators aboard the ship and considered the dangers and ancient powers tied to the coming Ancient Era.
• Bifang examined a jade slip and learned that the tower ship would next dock at Kunpeng Sea, a famous cultivation site of the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate.
• Bifang sensed that the gathering prodigies and their fortunes pointed to an unexpected opportunity within Kunpeng Sea.
• Bifang consulted his star compass, read signs of conflict in its alignment, and decided to go as denser fortune descended.

Bifang discovered that his exceptional fortune had placed him last on the Hidden Dragon Ranking and sensed a connection to its Heavenly Secret Treasure. He decided to visit the Kunpeng Sea as upheaval gathered, while Lu Qing’s reflections on his incarnation gave way to a disturbance in the mist of time.

• Bifang checked the Hidden Dragon Ranking and found that his fortune had carried him onto it at the very bottom.
• Bifang realized the ranking compared fortune and sensed a faint connection to a supreme treasure.
• Bifang considered the Human Emperor Path and the many variables surrounding it, then decided to go to the Kunpeng Sea.
• Lu Qing reflected on why he had given his traveling incarnation freedom and a mortal heart amid the era’s growing variables.
• A cold flash of flying light emerged from the distant past and sought to spy across time.

Lu Qing allowed a past Dao Master to send his disciple Shenxiu into Reincarnation, while he observed the changes gathering across the eras. Meanwhile, Bifang’s tower ship entered a restricted sea realm.

• Fellow Daoist Pu lost a strand of Dao opportunity after trying to interfere with the future, then summoned Shenxiu.
• Fellow Daoist Pu asked Shenxiu whether he would enter Reincarnation, and Shenxiu agreed.
• Lu Qing allowed Shenxiu to enter Reincarnation and considered how the Ancient Era’s changes were affecting the Long River of Time.
• Lu Qing observed that new geniuses seemed especially favored by Heaven’s will and continued monitoring ancient variables, including Ancient Nine Nether.
• Bifang’s tower ship passed into a realm filled with restrictions and plunged from the sky into the sea.

Bifang and the cultivators arrived at Kunpeng Sea, where they explored its misty islands and cultivation grounds. They spotted a vast island identical to Golden Turtle Island in the south and wondered how it had appeared there.

• Bifang observed the Kunpeng lineage’s vigorous Dao intent as he headed from the tower ship toward the shallow waters of Kunpeng Sea.
• Cultivators explored the scenic islands and grotto-heavens, noting the sea’s beauty and its many public cultivation grounds.
• A cultivator noticed a huge island that had not appeared in the travel guide, and others recognized it as strangely familiar.
• The cultivators compared the island with an image on Floating Light and found it identical to Golden Turtle Island in the south.
• The cultivators wondered whether a great power had moved Golden Turtle Island across the sea.

Cultivators gathered before the strange Golden Turtle Island in the Kunpeng Sea, but those who entered found only open water. Xue Lingshan and Fei Ji led their groups toward the island with keys in hand, yet they returned almost immediately, leaving the island’s nature and the keys’ purpose unresolved.

• Cultivators debated whether Golden Turtle Island was an unforeseen variable or a Mirage Tower illusion, while Xue Lingshan and Fei Ji wondered why their keys did not react.
• A cultivator flew into the island and returned, reporting that he had seen only a stretch of sea and no danger or sign of the island.
• Another cultivator sent a flying sword into the island and concluded it was an illusion, but Xue Lingshan sensed the island was real and suspected the key or a special opportunity was required to enter.
• Xue Lingshan, Fei Ji, and other favored heirs set out toward the island as onlookers speculated that their earlier conflict had been connected to it.
• The heirs entered the mist-shrouded island and quickly came back out, prompting onlookers to question whether it was merely a projection.

Bifang arrived at Azure Cloud Island and sensed that it held a powerful variable, though he believed the time had not yet come. While other cultivators failed to find the island and began considering divination, he rested in a teahouse and followed news from Floating Light.

• Cultivators debated whether to search elsewhere after their attempts to enter the island failed, and the Aura-Gazing Technique revealed many fortune-blessed cultivators nearby.
• Bifang arrived at Azure Cloud Island, recognized it as the variable, and decided to wait rather than join the search.
• Bifang passed the island's marketplace and entered a teahouse, where other cultivators noticed his extraordinary fortune and speculated about his identity.
• Bifang read news about ancient sects and variables on Floating Light while the cultivators outside decided to divine the secrets of Heaven.

Cultivators gathered around Golden Turtle Island waited for an opportunity after divination revealed an omen of tribulation. As the island’s mist thinned, a Kunpeng Sea resident learned of the upheaval and decided to avoid it for now.

• A divination prodigy suffered backlash that cracked his inherited spiritual treasure, then read the hexagram as an omen of tribulation involving a mountain dragon and rolling thunderclouds.
• Xue Lingshan and the other cultivators agreed to wait for the opportunity to arrive, believing it might trigger a lightning tribulation.
• Immortal Master Qiu learned that an immortal roaming tower ship had brought many geniuses to the Kunpeng Sea to seek the island’s opportunity.
• After checking Floating Light for recent news, Immortal Master Qiu recognized the island as the ancient island from the south and decided to leave temporarily to avoid the coming conflict.
• Seven days after Golden Turtle Island appeared, the mist surrounding it had grown thinner.

Bifang examined Golden Turtle Island and divined that its mysteries depended on each cultivator’s Dao Heart, while the arrival of frost birds marked a low point in the Kunpeng Sea’s Dao opportunities. Elsewhere, a terrified group realized they were trapped in a deathly cycle with no way out.

• Bifang considered Golden Turtle Island’s connection to the vanished Great Dream Immortal Sect and wondered whether it concealed a path to transcendence.
• Bifang cast a divination and concluded that the island’s hidden meaning depended on each cultivator’s Dao Heart.
• Frost birds arrived at the Kunpeng Sea, signaling that its Dao opportunities had reached their lowest point.
• Cultivators gathered before the island, suspecting that this celestial timing might be their long-awaited opportunity.
• A distressed group argued over what to do, then acknowledged that they were caught in an impossible cycle and asked whether anyone had come there before.

Trapped in a repeating death tribulation, Mo Mingsheng realized that fleeing the city and relying on martial arts could not save them from an immortal cultivator’s sword. He and the others returned toward the city to search for clues about immortal cultivation, while Mo Mingsheng suspected his identity might change as his experiences did.

• Mo Mingsheng and the others discussed how repeated cycles had shown that the immortal cultivator’s sword destroyed the city and killed anyone who fled beyond its walls.
• Mo Mingsheng reasoned that surviving might require finding another immortal cultivator rather than trying to evade the sword or rely on martial arts.
• Mo Mingsheng noticed that his identity information’s experience line seemed to be changing and suspected that contact with immortal cultivation had triggered it.
• The group concluded that returning to the city was their best chance to find information and left the area beyond the mountain.
• After they departed, gray mist rose from the pool and swallowed the spring.

Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat examined the strange altar that had appeared as the Ancient Immortal Ruins, while Wen Fang realized his mission in the medicinal garden was tied to entering the ruins. The chapter left Wen Fang questioning why everyone on the island seemed bound to an assigned identity and role.

• Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat observed that the altar appeared as a deathly, withered structure to them, unlike the radiant altar and visions of dragons and phoenixes described by other cultivators.
• Zhou Shenlong concluded that his law enforcement mission required him to maintain order and that he could not enter the altar before it opened.
• Black Cat suspected that other people who had entered the area would also have identity missions connected to the altar.
• Wen Fang learned that his unfinished mission had changed to “Enter the Ancient Immortal Ruins (Incomplete)” and realized the ruins might hold his inheritance.
• Wen Fang recalled that people without identities were sent to abyssal peaks and wondered whether the island’s residents were all following assigned roles.

Wen Fang and another cultivator weighed the dangers and mysteries surrounding the Ancient Immortal Ruins, while Bifang observed the newly appeared island path in Kunpeng Sea. The cultivators discovered that a token was needed to enter and began fighting, as the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate enforcement forces stayed out of the conflict.

• Wen Fang feared that the island’s Great Dream disciples might be trapping the foreign cultivators or seeking to seize their bodies, but decided he still had to enter the Ancient Immortal Ruins.
• An ordinary-faced cultivator concluded that the ancient immortal’s appearance was likely tied to a past event involving the Great Dream Immortal Sect and recognized the danger of the ruins.
• A path appeared across Kunpeng Sea, but cultivators who tried to enter were stopped by an invisible barrier, leading others to suspect they needed tokens.
• Cultivators launched a fierce clash over the entrance while Dharma-Free Immortal Gate enforcers guarded nearby Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands without intervening in the distant battle.
• Bifang watched the conflict and considered how Providence might guide him into the Variable Fate, noting that some cultivators seemed to be seeking an alternative way onto the island.

A group of prodigies who had stayed out of the battle prepared to enter Golden Turtle Island, relying on an ancient Yellow Springs Lantern to guide them along the path. The island’s arrival stirred fortune and concern across the cultivation world as ancient variables appeared.

• The group dismissed the ongoing battle, believing its outcome was already decided and its scale limited.
• Their leader revealed a Yellow Springs Lantern and explained that it could protect them and guide them into the right path.
• The group recognized the lantern as a relic from the Ancient Nine Nether and grew confident about entering Golden Turtle Island.
• Golden Turtle Island’s arrival stirred joy, greed, and worry among cultivators, while the world’s greatest ancient sects and Dao lineages remained its best-known powers.

Cultivators discussed the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower and the strict, often invisible requirements for receiving an ancient sect’s inheritance. At the tower, a visitor urged a long-imprisoned senior brother to act if another Great Tribulation threatened the sect, but the senior brother replied that he had already experienced one.

• Cultivators in teahouses and pleasure boats debated the ancient sects’ inheritance thresholds, including the requirement that prospective disciples have no existing master or Dao inheritance.
• Cultivators from great sects discussed the ancient sects’ recruitment practices and speculated that they would seek geniuses from the Hidden Dragon Ranking without lowering their standards.
• The chapter described the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower’s mist-shrouded mountain halls, suspended towers, and chain passages between cliffs.
• A visitor crossed a chain to meet his gaunt senior brother, who had been trapped there for ten thousand years.
• The visitor asked whether his senior brother would remain inactive if a Great Tribulation destroyed their Daoist Lineage, and the senior brother said the Great Tribulation had arrived long ago.

A newcomer persuaded his senior brother to emerge and lead their mountain gate, while ancient sects faced the danger of fading away because their cultivation could no longer advance. The chapter ended with Huang Yugong watching the sea of swords at Azure Sea Sword Mountain beside a young man.

• The newcomer urged his senior brother to protect their mountain gate and give its juniors a chance to survive, and his senior brother agreed to come forward.
• Streams of fate split from the Six Paths and scattered across unknown heavens and eras, drawing brief notice from a few observers.
• The newcomer reflected that the ancient sects’ people had no future and risked turning back into ashes if they could not advance.
• Capable figures in ancient sects such as All-Immortal Gate, Heavenly Brow Mountain, and Ageless Mountain recognized the same danger and resisted accepting their ordained fate.
• Huang Yugong watched the sea of swords at Azure Sea Sword Mountain as a young man with restrained Sword Qi stood beside him.