Chapter Summaries

After a battle of providence killed Li Jiuyang, Chang Yuexian, and another Son of the Human Emperor, the surviving cultivators discovered that the clash had brought a great tribulation upon the Nine Heavens. Fuyao Mountain recognized it could not escape the coming disaster because it had gathered powerful geniuses and their fate allotments.

• The single-horned beast of providence devoured the manifestations of Great Sun, Lunar, and Saturn after their cultivators died.
• The watching cultivators noticed dense tribulation qi spreading after the battle and hurried away to prepare for a great tribulation.
• Cultivators debated the tribulation's cause, noting that its arrival lacked the usual omens and might be connected to the Heavenly Prodigies.
• An elder at Fuyao Mountain discussed how providence had determined the battle's outcome and warned that the sect would face the tribulation alongside its talented disciples.

Elder Red Brow and figures from ancient sects discussed how the sudden great tribulation centered on the Providence of living beings and geniuses. As reports of the tribulation spread, the Profound Heaven Dao Sect received news that gaining the lead in Dao contention would be exceedingly difficult.

• Elder Red Brow advised the elders to keep their disciples’ hearts clear, exercise restraint, and avoid unnecessary conflict during the tribulation.
• Ancient sects within the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower concluded that contending for Providence could let them manifest in the present age and revive.
• The figures in the Golden Jade Ruyi Tower debated sending disciples into the tribulation, agreeing that many could enter so long as one succeeded.
• A figure outside the tower suspected that the Providence at stake was really an unseen prevailing tide.
• Messages about the new tribulation spread across distant places, and a black-robed figure at the Profound Heaven Dao Sect read a Spirit Script warning that gaining the lead in Dao contention would be difficult.

As a great tribulation gathered around the Human Emperor’s path to the Dao, Ling Congzi was drawn into Dreamland, a mysterious realm recruiting guides to undertake missions for rewards. He returned to his body with the memory obscured and realized Dreamland prevented its guides from speaking about it.

• Black Cat and Zhou Shenlong concluded that the new tribulation would center on the Human Emperor attaining the Dao and recalled the West Sea rogue cultivator Ling Congzi.
• Ling Congzi felt his cultivation advancing faster amid the great era but grew troubled by recurring dreams and a sense that his memory was failing.
• Ling Congzi was drawn into Dreamland, where an insolent newcomer was erased after challenging the host.
• Xiang Qingshan learned that Dreamland guides could earn Dao merit by completing missions and exchange it for treasures, and Dreamland said newcomers could refuse and return with their memories erased.
• Dreamland told the newcomers to complete a one-month mission before becoming official guides, then sent them back to their bodies.
• Xiang Qingshan discovered that the returned guides could not describe Dreamland because of a restriction.

Xiang Qingshan and other cultivators weighed the mysterious Dreamland opportunity, with Xiang deciding to become a guide to gain resources and extend his life. Twelve days later, Huang Wuxuan reached a mountain graveyard seeking a method to suppress fate and learned the price was three taels of lifespan.

• Xiang Qingshan decided to become a Dreamland guide so he could access cultivation resources and seek a Peach Dragon Fruit to extend his life.
• Ling Congzi and cultivators in distant regions awoke to Dreamland and considered its opportunities and origins.
• A young cultivator of the Cui Family told his ancestors about Dreamland without naming it, and they judged it to be an opportunity.
• Twelve days passed, and Huang Wuxuan arrived at a mountain graveyard after the Stone Tablet directed him there.
• A stone lion asked Huang Wuxuan what he sought, and the Stone Tablet told him to request a method to suppress fate in exchange for three taels of lifespan.

Huang Wuxuan traded away part of his lifespan to obtain the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Obscuring divine ability, which could counter the suppression of the Human Emperor’s fortune. The Mysterious Stone Tablet then identified Li Beiyun as a possible Human Emperor’s Dao enemy, leaving Huang Wuxuan wondering why he could not become the Human Emperor himself.

• Huang Wuxuan signed the stone lion’s contract, surrendering part of his lifespan in exchange for the Heaven-Shrouding Sun-Obscuring divine ability.
• The stone lion warned Huang Wuxuan not to teach the divine ability to anyone else because of the karmic consequences.
• After leaving the mountain, Huang Wuxuan learned that Li Beiyun had taken the destiny fortune of at least four Sons of the Human Emperor.
• The Mysterious Stone Tablet explained that the mountain was a graveyard for past contenders who had died on the Path of the Human Emperor.
• Huang Wuxuan asked about the man who had triggered the great calamity, and the tablet said he was from another era and might become the Human Emperor’s Dao enemy.
• Huang Wuxuan asked why that man could not become the Human Emperor.

Huang Wuxuan learned that Li Beiyun was a fate thief whose prospects of attaining the Dao were bleak, while Li Beiyun sought a Heaven-Nurtured Nine Extremes Pill-Fruit in the Eight Wastelands to repair his Dao foundation. The chapter ended with sect disciples waiting by a lake for a hidden divine treasure to appear.

• The Mysterious Stone Tablet told Huang Wuxuan that Li Beiyun was a fate thief and compared him with a Primordial Era rival who had created Huang Wuxuan's Divine Ability.
• Li Beiyun asked the Humanity-Dao White Marsh what it had seen while he recovered from the grave injuries he suffered fighting Great Sun, Lunar, and Chen Zhen.
• The Humanity-Dao White Marsh identified the Heaven-Nurtured Nine Extremes Pill-Fruit as the Treasure Herb Li Beiyun needed and said it could be found in the Eight Wastelands.
• The chapter described how cultivators were reconsidering the Human Path Inheritance Grounds and turning toward the Eight Wastelands to seek opportunities.
• Several sect disciples gathered beside a lake, where Senior Brother Zhu assured them that Senior Brother Fu had sent them to find a divine object concealing its brilliance.

Li Beiyun and White Marsh arrived at a site in the Eight Wastelands, while powerful Human Path figures discussed Li Beiyun and Zhao An. Zhao An began his first Dreamland mission and found himself in a body identical to his real one.

• Li Beiyun and White Marsh arrived, and the nearby disciples recognized Li Beiyun as the Human Path’s monstrous genius.
• White Marsh told Li Beiyun it sensed people nearby, and Li Beiyun ordered it to keep watch and show no mercy if they approached.
• Bodhi and Cosmos’s figures discussed Li Beiyun’s killings, Qin Yu’s defeat, and Zhao An’s unexplained travels.
• The figures concluded that Zhao An had found an opportunity in a strange region.
• Zhao An entered Dreamland as a guide and began his preliminary mission.
• Zhao An examined his body after arriving and found its Dharma power and other qualities matched his real body.

Zhao An and the other Dreamland guides arrived in the Qianyuan Limitless Grotto-Heaven and learned that their mission was to enter the Qianyuan Treasury and eliminate six bearers of heavenly mandate. As Great Qi neared collapse, Lu Yun reported six descending demon stars to the emperor and secretly resolved to use the coming treasury opening to become immortal.

• Zhao An examined Dreamland's mission, recognized the danger of opposing heavenly mandate, and decided to follow the dynasty's dragon qi to gather information.
• Zhao An and Xiang Qingshan assessed Great Qi's decline and prioritized finding the Qianyuan Treasury over confronting the bearers of heavenly mandate.
• Xiang Qingshan chose to focus on earning dao merit points and wait for the six bearers to reveal themselves rather than compete for the throne.
• Ling Congzi learned that the mission pitted the guides against the local heavenly mandate and regarded the six as demon stars.
• Lu Yun told Great Qi's emperor that six demon stars had descended, received orders to use the Skystalking Guard, and resolved to seek immortality when the Qianyuan Treasury opened.

The Six Paths Demon Star appeared to signal the coming collapse of Great Qi, while factions across the realm prepared for upheaval. Xiang Qingshan suspected the Qianyuan Treasury held the key to the heavenly mandate, and Lu Yun discovered a clue to its location.

• The Chu Clan Grand Elder divined that the Six Paths Demon Star would bring calamity to Great Qi and urged Chu Da to remember that the clan would rise afterward before dying.
• Advisers across the realm predicted that Great Qi would fracture within one to three years as its emperor weakened and rebellions spread.
• After several months in the grotto-heaven, an outside figure reflected that the Qianyuan Treasury's opening would trigger the appearance of the heavenly mandate.
• Xiang Qingshan suspected that Dreamland was directing the entrants toward the Qianyuan Treasury and noticed that Lu Yun's fortune made him a likely key to finding it.
• Lu Yun studied a silk map by candlelight, identified the location of the Qianyuan Treasury, and resolved to act quickly.

Lu Yun led Xiang Qingshan and a group of disguised cultivators to the Qianyuan Treasury in the Dragon Awakening Mountain Range. The cultivators agreed not to kill the Heavenly Mandates before opening it, fearing an Immortal's contingency and the Grotto-Heaven's Heaven's Way, and reached the ordinary treasury.

• Xiang Qingshan silently appeared beside Lu Yun, recognized the map's marked Qianyuan Treasury, and confirmed that it pointed to a hidden treasure site.
• Xiang Qingshan and the others traveled to the Dragon Awakening Mountain Range with Lu Yun as their guide.
• A cultivator proposed killing the Heavenly Mandates before they escaped, but Zhao An warned that they might be part of an Immortal's contingency.
• The disguised cultivators agreed to open the treasury first and remain wary of the Heavenly Mandates and the Grotto-Heaven's Heaven's Way.
• The group entered the Qianyuan Treasury and found an ordinary storehouse filled with gold, silver, jewels, and other valuables.

The six Heavenly Mandates vanished from the underground treasury, triggering a storm and upheaval across Great Qi as reports of rebellion spread. A figure studying the dynasty’s providence saw Great Qi surrounded by rival powers but remained confident that the Heavenly Mandate could still ascend the throne.

• The six Heavenly Mandates tore through the void and vanished as the group entered the underground treasury.
• Dark clouds, fierce winds, and torrential rain swept across the city, while Great Qi’s imperial family sensed that the Demon Star had descended.
• Officials of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau saw the celestial upheaval and panicked over reports that Prince Bai had rebelled and Prince Wu was plotting treason.
• News that the six Demon Stars had descended spread through Great Qi, prompting some regions to claim them as heavenly star gods and gather rebel forces.
• A figure examined a mirror showing Great Qi’s tangled providence and concluded that the dynasty could endure if the Heavenly Mandate ascended the throne.

Chu Chengqing and another cultivator set out to investigate the forces manipulating Heavenly Mandates as the Great Tribulation unsettled Providence across the Nine Heavens. In the Cloud-Dream Great Marsh, Venerable Cloud Dragon succumbed to demonic corruption, killed a Divine Court envoy, and left the surrounding region facing disaster.

• Chu Chengqing recognized that cultivators were manipulating the Heavenly Mandates and invited others to visit their Grotto-Heaven.
• Cultivators across the Nine Heavens entered Dreamland as the Great Tribulation caused Heart Demons to appear more often and heavenly secrets to shift.
• A Divine Court envoy investigated the drought around the Cloud-Dream Great Marsh and found that Venerable Cloud Dragon had fallen to demonic corruption.
• Venerable Cloud Dragon attacked the envoy with rising waves and killed him as he tried to escape.
• Blood rained outside the prefectural city, and its cultivators learned that Cloud Dragon had fallen to demonic corruption and threatened the southern waterways.

As the Great Tribulation spread, reincarnated true spirits awakened to opportunities to enter the Dao, drawing the attention of powerful figures. Lu Qing continued alone along his Great Dao, which erased the paths of other Daos, and rejected the growing detachment he felt within himself.

• Cultivators in Dreamland discussed demonic corruption, upheaval across the Earth Continents, and strange fortunes arising during the Great Tribulation.
• Reincarnated true spirits sensed the workings of the Dao and awakened opportunities to enter it as they came of age.
• A purple-robed young man observed the newly awakened cultivators and warned that their paths would no longer be theirs to choose freely.
• Lu Qing continued through the boundless world of his Great Dao, where other Daos faded into emptiness behind him.
• Lu Qing felt the Great Dao's cold, detached influence and declared that neither supreme emotional detachment nor heaven's mercilessness was what he sought.

Lu Qing reflected on the tribulations required to pursue transcendence as he continued walking, while Xin Ren weighed the risks and rewards of taking missions in Dreamland. In the Qianyuan Limitless Grotto-Heaven, Great Qi’s decline left rival dynasties vying for power, and the Crimson King’s advisers discussed an attack on the Imperial Capital.

• Lu Qing considered how ancient immortals perfected themselves through countless tribulations and continued his journey, treating every step as a trial.
• Xin Ren worried that Dreamland’s mission time could cost him a chance to explore newly emerged ancient ruins, but the reborn Xin Ren urged him to strengthen his foundations and buy protective treasures.
• Xin Ren and the reborn Xin Ren discussed Dreamland’s treasures and the resources needed to condense a world.
• The Dynasty’s providence weakened in the Qianyuan Limitless Grotto-Heaven as rival manifestations of future dynasties grew stronger.
• Adviser Li warned the Crimson King that Great Qi could no longer recover and that attacking the Imperial Capital would require experts to hold off its Grandmasters.
• The Crimson King and his commanders discussed committing their generals to the fight while preparing to guard against rival forces.

As the Qi court faltered before the rebel kings, hidden powers in a Grotto-Heaven began stirring Providence to prepare for the emergence of the Heavenly Mandate. Chu Chengqing and his allies struggled to uncover their plans, while Tribulation Qi continued spreading across the worlds.

• A court official urged the Qi Emperor to have Grandmasters kill the six strongest rebel kings, but the ministers avoided taking responsibility.
• The Qi Emperor assigned an official to draft an edict of amnesty and surrender, leaving him to delay the task while hoping the rebel kings arrived first.
• A man in a hidden Grotto-Heaven declared that its people should enter the world and assist the Heavenly Mandate.
• Faint streams of Providence appeared across villages, cities, strongholds, and armies, igniting ambition and stirring the realm's Providence.
• Chu Chengqing failed to pierce the Grotto-Heaven's defenses and judged that its hidden planners would soon have to act.
• Tribulation Qi spread through the Galaxy Boundary Sea, pushing worlds on its edges into a Dharma-Ending tribulation age.

Ten years after the Great Tribulation began, the Nine Heavens changed as providence shifted and Dreamland guides grew stronger. In a rainy town, Bifang discovered a hidden fissure near an unusual courtyard and sent his Divine Sense inside, where an unfamiliar force seemed to guide it.

• Demonic Cultivators watched a token tremble as they searched for the Devil Master's Reincarnation, while two All-Living Alliance brothers arrived in the same region seeking a providence-blessed target.
• Dreamland's mission in the Qianyuan Grand Grotto-Heaven ended in a swift victory, and the cultivators returned to claim their rewards.
• Over the next ten years, the Great Tribulation transformed the world, Dreamland guides multiplied, and rankings shifted as powerful cultivators emerged.
• Bifang traveled through a rainy town, where his formidable providence caused challengers to avoid him.
• Bifang noticed an unusual courtyard and reasoned that the Nine Heavens and the Ancient Nine Heavens were merging as ancient variable fates descended.
• Bifang opened a hidden fissure near the courtyard and sent his Divine Sense through it, sensing an unfamiliar force that seemed to guide him.

Bifang sensed an unfamiliar power that he suspected came from Beyond the Heavens, rather than Golden Core Heaven. He followed its pull into a misty space, where several obscured figures sat around a long table.

• Bifang examined the strange energy flow and recalled what his original self had said about Variable Fate from Beyond the Heavens.
• Bifang compared the rift's pulling force with Golden Core Heaven's limits and concluded it could not have originated there.
• Bifang considered how his Providence and his original self's actions helped him notice anomalies in the Nine Heavens.
• Bifang connected to the pulling force with only part of his consciousness and entered a misty space containing a long table and several obscured figures.

Bifang entered Dreamland, a mission platform that exchanged resources for dangerous assignments, and investigated its organization and possible origins. He entered a mission world while Xiang Qingshan departed for a mission, and the chapter left both cultivators considering what they would pursue afterward.

• Bifang recognized Dreamland as a hidden power where cultivators completed missions to obtain resources, while a veteran warned that mission worlds could be fatal.
• Xiang Qingshan reflected on his ten years in Dreamland, its Human, Earth, and Heaven ranks, and the dangers that had killed many participants.
• Bifang sensed that Dreamland carried an aura from Beyond the Heavens and considered whether it was connected to the Great Dream Immortal Sect and the Ancient Immortal Ruins.
• Bifang contacted his other incarnations, concealed the signs of his destiny, and entered a Dreamland mission world.
• Xiang Qingshan entered a streak of white light and planned to travel west toward the Ancient Demon Domain behind the Strange Gate Temple.

Bifang entered the Small Void Realm through a Dreamland mission to investigate the person stealing Destiny Patterns and the force behind Dreamland. He found a world where Buddhist Light was entangled with Buddhist Sin, while the New Buddha’s followers spread chaos and the remote temple’s monks feared what was happening beyond their mountain.

• Bifang considered whether Dreamland’s mission to kill the Destiny Patterns thief was a way for heaven and earth to clear away a threat, and whether Dreamland itself might become a Variable Fate.
• Bifang read the Small Void Realm’s background and noted that its Buddhist Dao differed strangely from the Buddhism of the Western Heaven Continent.
• Bifang saw black qi entwined with Buddhist Light above the Heavenly Thoroughfare and recognized that both came from the providence of the same source.
• At a remote temple, a Monk and another person discussed the New Buddha’s growing following, Miluo Buddha’s turn toward the evil Buddhist Outer Dao, and the major sects’ plans to seal their mountains.

Bifang investigated a Buddhist conflict in the Small Void Realm and suspected the world belonged to the past, with its troubles tied to stolen destiny patterns and forces connected to Beyond the Heavens. As he considered Dreamland’s possible links to the Primordial Immortals, Zhao An continued gathering humanity providence and sensed he was destined to face the Human Path Variable Fate.

• Bifang visited a mountain temple, where the monks told him about the conflict between New Buddhas and Old Buddhas and named Miluo Buddha as a possible source of trouble.
• Bifang concluded that the Small Void Realm might reflect an earlier era and that its Buddhist sin and stolen destiny patterns deserved investigation.
• Bifang considered whether Dreamland was connected to Beyond the Heavens and the Primordial Immortals, and speculated that traces of those immortals could reshape the Ancient Era.
• Zhao An used his growing humanity providence to restrain his own providence and sensed he was destined to confront the Human Path Variable Fate.
• Zhao An continued entering Dreamland to experience its mission worlds and learn more about their hidden histories.