Chapter Summaries

Yan Jiujie took Huang Yugong’s advice and prepared to leave Sword Mountain to pursue the Sword Dao of the world. Huang Yugong reflected on signs that a Human Emperor’s ascension fate might be returning, leaving him wary of the coming struggle among the era’s many geniuses and powers.

• Huang Yugong asked Yan Jiujie whether his Sword Dao was flawless and how long he would wait before leaving the mountain.
• Yan Jiujie said he was ready to leave Li Mountain and wanted to witness the Sword Dao of the world, and Huang Yugong urged him to follow that wish.
• Yan Jiujie left for the central peak, while Huang Yugong considered whether the Heavenly Secrets foretold an emerging Human Emperor’s ascension fate.
• Huang Yugong connected the possible Human Emperor’s fate and the Son of the Human Emperor’s birth to the returning fortune of the Human Path and the age’s growing turmoil.
• Huang Yugong and other attentive cultivators sensed unease as they contemplated the fierce competition among geniuses and the fragile prosperity of the great sects.

Fuyao Mountain’s leaders discussed the tangled fortunes of their newly admitted geniuses and decided to nurture them and prepare for the upheavals of the flourishing age. Across the world, ancient sects and reincarnated immortals emerged, while an enormous golden turtle remained asleep as streams of fortune-light wandered around it.

• Fuyao Mountain’s elders divined that this generation’s disciples had tangled fortunes and saw a decaying pond in their calculation.
• The elder responsible for admitting disciples urged the Mountain Lord to investigate the dangers surrounding the newcomers.
• The Mountain Lord and Fuyao Mountain’s leaders chose to keep the disciples, nurture them, and prepare for the coming calamities rather than send them away.
• Fuyao Mountain’s leaders discussed ancient sects emerging across the world, including the Great Dream Immortal Sect and the strange activity in the West Sea.
• Ancient cultivators and immortals reincarnated with powerful foundations, and geniuses appeared across the world and entered sects.
• An enormous golden turtle remained asleep while streams of golden fortune-light drifted around it.

Cultivators gathered outside Golden Turtle Island watched its fortune stop flowing and then transform as the golden turtle opened its eyes. The island’s restrictions kept the onlookers safe, but the turtle’s bloodlit, mist-filled pupils left them shaken and repulsed.

• Cultivators debated why no one who entered Golden Turtle Island had returned and whether the island held an inheritance or a trap.
• The island’s fortune stopped drifting, drawing the attention of cultivators around Kunpeng Sea.
• Golden light surged as the fortune condensed into a giant turtle that lifted its head and opened its eyes.
• The turtle’s thunderous roar injured or stunned some onlookers, while a Dharma-Free Immortal Gate cultivator reassured them that the island’s restrictions protected the area.
• The cultivators saw bloody light and eerie black mist in the turtle’s empty pupils and felt instinctive revulsion.

Cultivators saw blood-red eyes and black mist staining the golden fortune turtle, and an old cultivator identified it as fortune backlash from calculating grave heavenly secrets. The ominous image spread through Floating Light, leaving cultivators wondering what the fortune’s owners had dared to calculate.

• Cultivators noticed that the golden fortune turtle’s eyes showed blood-red filth and black mist, and they could not enter its fortune.
• An old cultivator suggested that the sight was fortune backlash caused by calculations with severe karmic consequences.
• Cultivators recalled the Lou Clan’s past backlash and wondered what the fortune’s owners had calculated.
• Cultivators shared reports of the eyes across Floating Light, where others reacted with shock and recognized the signs of backlash.
• A cultivator listed the five poisons gathered in the golden fortune and questioned what could have caused such an ominous stain.

Cultivators across the Nine Heavens discussed the ominous luck change on an island in the Kunpeng Sea, debating its ancient origins and the cause of its strange backlash. They remained baffled by how the island’s golden luck had turned sinister despite its apparent lack of ties to the Demonic Path.

• Little Cultivator shared the projection on Floating Light, and the strange sight quickly became a trending discussion.
• Cultivators beyond the heavens and in the Demon Domain watched the Kunpeng Sea closely as changes from antiquity reshaped the Nine Heavens.
• Demon Domain cultivators observed events from the sidelines while guarding their own territories and interests in the returning tide of luck.
• Floating Light users compared the island’s ominous change to the Ancient Demon Land and questioned why its golden luck had become sinister.
• Commenters speculated that the island’s people had cursed someone or provoked a great power, while others argued the Lou Clan’s continued existence made that explanation unlikely.

Cultivators speculated that the island’s transformed providence came from someone glimpsing the heavenly secret of the Primordial Cataclysm, but they could not get answers from most primordial cultivators. A mountain cultivator then argued that the island was likely a branch of a great primordial sect or another treasured land, not a sect headquarters.

• Cultivators linked the island’s transformation to the Lou Clan’s past backlash from providence and wondered what heavenly secret its former incarnation had glimpsed.
• They suggested the Primordial Cataclysm as the likeliest secret, recalling that Heaven Calculation cultivators had failed to foresee the ancient tribulation.
• Some proposed asking primordial cultivators, but others explained that most could not hear them and that news of their era’s destruction had shattered some Dao Hearts.
• A cultivator wondered which primordial sect the island belonged to, prompting a mountain cultivator to assess its earth veins and providence.
• The mountain cultivator concluded that the island was probably a branch island of a great primordial sect, a treasured land, or a grotto-heaven, and other cultivators agreed.

Cultivators debated the origins of Golden Turtle Island, with one theory linking it to a Primordial Era sect that sought transcendence through an entire sect’s ascension. The discussion left the island’s identity unresolved as talented disciples watched from afar and weighed whether to approach its heavy karma.

• A cultivator argued that Golden Turtle Island’s providence belonged to a powerful Primordial Era Immortal Path sect rather than the All-Immortal Gate or the six current paths.
• A cultivator who planned to visit the Kunpeng Sea grew curious about the island’s origins after emerging from a successful breakthrough in seclusion.
• Cultivators connected a clue about ascending in broad daylight to the Ancient Heavenly Court, but ruled it out because its rise and fall did not coincide with the Primordial Cataclysm.
• A cultivator proposed that a Primordial Era sect had sought transcendence by ascending as a whole, shocking those who followed the discussion.
• Talented disciples at a mountain pavilion chose to stay away from Golden Turtle Island, wary of its heavy karma, while recognizing that true Heavenly Prodigies might still advance when opportunity called.

A gathering of Northern Heaven Continent geniuses turned its attention to Floating Light, where cultivators discussed the little-known Great Dream Immortal Sect and its attempt at collective transcendence. The discussion ended without resolving whether the sect succeeded, though the participants believed no Immortal had yet transcended.

• A cultivator at the gathering remarked that people would learn about the Great Dream Immortal Sect, while others said they were unconcerned about distant changes and karma-laden places such as Golden Turtle Island.
• Several geniuses diverted their attention to Floating Light to follow the discussion and excitement there.
• Cultivators on Floating Light wondered whether the Great Dream Immortal Sect's path had failed and whether its attempt might have brought misfortune upon Golden Turtle Island.
• One cultivator argued that ancient Immortals had explored many paths to transcendence and that the Great Dream Immortal Sect had pursued an especially ambitious one.
• The participants concluded that the sect's fate remained unknown and reflected that, as far as they could tell, no Immortal had successfully transcended.

Bifang followed his fortune to a city marked by traces of Ancient Nine Nether and entered to investigate its reincarnation-like workings. Inside, Mo Mingkong and Wang Chunrong, trapped in repeated cycles of being hunted and killed, despaired over their lives as low-ranking gang members.

• Bifang recognized a remnant of Ancient Nine Nether’s Reincarnation aura in the city and noted his identity as an external cultivator of the Great Dream Immortal Sect.
• Bifang reasoned that his fortune had guided him to an opportunity and compared the city’s apparent reincarnation to the Divine Lord’s Simulation Scrolls.
• Bifang entered the city to discover what its reincarnation and fortune-driven opportunity involved.
• Mo Mingkong and Wang Chunrong hid in an alley as beggars and lamented that a man kept hunting and killing them through repeated reincarnations.
• Mo Mingkong reflected that their lowly gang identities left them trapped in dangerous stakeout work, with no way to escape death.

Wang Chunrong, Mo Mingkong, and another beggar remained trapped in recurring cycles, trying to preserve their identities as anchors against assimilation. They expected the murderous Immortal Cultivator to return in three days, leaving them resigned to another slaughter.

• Wang Chunrong marked the ground and said that three days remained until the Immortal Cultivator's next attack.
• The beggar beside him recalled how the three had endured countless reincarnations while retaining their memories through their original identities.
• Mo Mingkong suspected that identity served as an anchor and that others had been assimilated into the city after losing theirs.
• Mo Mingkong reflected that keeping his Azure Snake Gang assignment preserved his identity, though the city's overwhelming power made their experience useless.
• Wang Chunrong and the other beggar noted that the attack was a day later than before and accepted that they could not escape their deaths.

Bifang entered a city caught in endless reincarnation and discovered that three destitute beggars were fortune-bearers marked by death. As a new cultivator arrived in the sky, Bifang concealed himself to watch the changes unfold.

• Bifang entered the city and sensed that its reincarnation had repeated hundreds of times, with three fortune-bearers hidden beneath the gray clouds.
• Bifang spent three days exploring the city but found no unusual figures until he overheard Mo Mingkong and two companions discussing their expected deaths and hatred for an immortal cultivator.
• Bifang recognized the three beggars as the owners of the fortune strands he had sensed, and he focused particular interest on Mo Mingkong.
• When fortune's guidance indicated that something different would happen, Bifang concealed himself and watched a traveling cultivator appear in the distant sky.

Bifang realized that a cultivator’s arrival would become a deadly tribulation for Wang Chunrong, Xiao Yuan, and Mo Mingkong, then used his fortune-guided power to undo the destruction of the city. The experience transformed his borrowed identity and led him to suspect it could reveal the secret behind Golden Turtle Island’s unforeseen change.

• Bifang recognized the cloudlight as a sign that the person the three men awaited was about to arrive and bring them a killing tribulation.
• Wang Chunrong asked when they could leave, while Xiao Yuan doubted they could escape and Mo Mingkong held on to a faint hope.
• A familiar voice called out “Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source,” and a sword strike split the city in two.
• Bifang sensed the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s Dao opportunity and used his fortune-guided power to restore the city before the sword strike took effect.
• Bifang’s borrowed identity began to transform, and he considered whether changes to identity could reveal the secret behind Golden Turtle Island.

Bifang completed his transformation into an Immortal Sect garrison, with the potential identity of an elder, and saved Mo Mingkong, Wang Chunrong, and Xiao Yuan from their death tribulations. He then noticed a despondent middle-aged swordsman carrying the ancient Broken Sword entering the city, apparently guided toward the three men.

• A blue-robed cultivator arrived, recognized Bifang as an Immortal Sect fellow disciple, and departed after seeing his garrison token.
• Bifang learned that his identity had transformed into an Immortal Sect garrison with the possibility of becoming an elder, and realized he had altered a fixed fate.
• Mo Mingkong, Wang Chunrong, and Xiao Yuan thanked Bifang after their death tribulations ended and their extraordinary fortunes were revealed.
• Bifang sensed a new karmic fortune at the city gate and saw a despondent middle-aged cultivator arrive carrying the ancient Broken Sword.
• Bifang recognized the sword's origins and watched the middle-aged swordsman head toward Mo Mingkong and the others.

Bifang recognized that fate had redirected the destiny figures’ connection to a blue-robed cultivator, then obtained an elder identity within the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s assessment. His name appeared in the long-sealed Immortal Register, signaling that the sect’s inheritance was about to emerge again.

• Bifang discerned that the Broken Sword-bearing middle-aged cultivator had become the destined benefactor of the three figures.
• Bifang considered the Great Dream Immortal Sect and other emerging variables across the cultivation paths while remaining within the city.
• Bifang obtained the identity of an Immortal Sect elder and received the memories of countless former elders.
• The blue-robed cultivators sensed the change in the assessment and brought out the Immortal Register.
• The sealed elder roster reopened, and the name Bifang appeared upon it.

Bifang considered how the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s changing inheritance and karmic rules had advanced his identity, while he approached a breakthrough. After their identities changed, Mo Mingkong and the other two struggled to find their place and felt that something important was about to happen.

• The blue-robed cultivators discussed the Immortal Register, the outsiders, and whether the Great Dream Immortal Sect could begin anew, while recognizing they had to obey Golden Turtle Island’s rules.
• Bifang examined the jade slip and reflected that saving three people from a killing calamity and breaking their cycles of reincarnation might explain his unexpected rise in identity.
• Bifang considered the Great Dream Immortal Sect’s pursuit of transcendence and continued comprehending heaven’s fortune as he neared a breakthrough.
• Mo Mingkong and the other two encountered the middle-aged cultivator, and their identities transformed from beggars into vast rosy clouds that entered their minds.
• Unable to find Bifang or return to the Azure Snake Gang, the three joined a fishermen’s gang and remained troubled by the sense that they might miss something important.

Xiao Yuan, Mo Mingkong, and their companion met a middle-aged cultivator who claimed a master-disciple bond with them and threatened to sever it if they refused. Sensing his killing intent, all three accepted him as their master.

• The middle-aged cultivator followed the Thunderclap Sword's summons and discovered that his predicted master-disciple bond involved three people.
• Xiao Yuan asked whether the middle-aged cultivator was a cultivator, while the three considered the danger of dying for good now that Reincarnation had changed.
• The middle-aged cultivator said he had descended the mountain because of their affinity and would sever the bond if they did not accept him.
• Mo Mingkong sensed the cultivator's killing intent and immediately bowed to accept him as master.
• Xiao Yuan and the third companion also kowtowed and agreed to become the cultivator's disciples.

Mo Mingkong, Xiao Yuan, and Wang Chunrong became disciples of a middle-aged swordsman and entered the Great Dream Immortal Sect, where their lost identities reappeared. Mo Mingkong concluded that their killing tribulation might not be over and resolved to cultivate so they could survive what came next.

• The middle-aged swordsman led the three men out of the city, while the Broken Sword anticipated gaining power from their future carnage.
• After several days of travel, the swordsman brought them to Cloud Abbey, explained the sect, and formally accepted them into his lineage.
• Mo Mingkong realized that their identities had returned, and Wang Chunrong discovered they were disciples of the Great Dream Immortal Sect.
• Xiao Yuan speculated that their identities were tied to their experiences and warned that another death might leave them without a chance to return.
• Mo Mingkong urged the others to cultivate and resolved to push into the cultivation world rather than give in to despair.

Wen Fang became a medicinal garden manager and prepared to head to the Ancient Immortal Ruins in hopes of escaping the island. As he set out, cultivators gathered around the towering Ancient Immortal Altar.

• Wen Fang received the manager identity and memories, gaining access to information and places unavailable to apprentices.
• Wen Fang concluded that completing and exceeding identity tasks could advance a person to a higher role.
• Wen Fang decided to enter the Ancient Immortal Ruins, wary of the island’s sinister identity rules and eager to leave.
• Other fortunate cultivators, including formal disciples and Zhou Shenlong with a law enforcement identity, had access to more sect information than Wen Fang.
• Cultivators arrived around the Ancient Immortal Altar as it continued to grow taller, its black radiance still visible above the crowd.

Zhou Shenlong and Black Cat investigated the black-light altar on Golden Turtle Island while Xue Lingshan uncovered the island’s deadly identity rules. They waited for a Great Dream Immortal Sect cultivator to arrive, wary of the altar and the unexplained changes to the island.

• Zhou Shenlong observed that the altar’s radiance had extracted the cultivation of a cultivator who tried to climb onto it.
• Black Cat and Zhou Shenlong suspected the altar was a passage into an ancient immortal’s ruin and questioned why no elders from Great Dream Immortal Sect had appeared.
• Black Cat recognized Grand Heaven’s true disciple Fei Ji and Xue Lingshan from Spirit Heaven Buddhist Land among the prodigies gathered at the altar.
• Xue Lingshan recalled that people who acted beyond the duties of their identities had died, and he resolved to avoid unnecessary actions until a Great Dream cultivator arrived.

Huang Wuxuan learned from the Mysterious Stone Tablet that a destined Human Emperor had appeared, making his own path to becoming a Human Emperor nearly impossible. He followed the tablet’s guidance toward an ancient immortal relic, while Lu Qing sensed movements through several incarnations and glimpsed the immense destiny ahead.

• Huang Wuxuan explored the cultivation island and concluded that it was a reflection of an ancient moment, with the ancient immortal altar as its only unusual feature.
• The Mysterious Stone Tablet told Huang Wuxuan that a destiny fated to attain the Dao had appeared and urged him to seek an item within the ancient immortal relic.
• Huang Wuxuan recalled that even peak Great Immortals had failed to oppose the first Human Emperor, Ming Zun, and understood why the tablet advised him to pursue another path.
• Lu Qing sensed movements from several incarnations and saw that the destiny ahead was vast and deeply rooted.