Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren watched China grow stronger while Yang Jian, Nezha, Chen Hao, and Shu Laibao settled into new lives. He then observed the Heavenly Palace and Spirit Mountain build the Ascension Platform, where his presence made both groups prepare for a confrontation.

• Lu Ren reflected on friends who had died of old age or in battle and continued to let China face hardships without intervening.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, and Sun Wukong adapted to modern life, while Lu Ren told Chen Hao that his great-grandson was a Human Immortal serving in the military.
• Chen Hao decided not to meet his descendant and returned to virtual games while continuing his cultivation.
• Lu Ren released Shu Laibao from China's inhabited zone, and Shu Laibao set out to explore Hantu using his innate divine abilities.
• Lu Ren watched the Heavenly Palace and Spirit Mountain construct the Ascension Platform, and both groups formed defenses when they noticed him nearby.

Lu Ren visited the Ascension Platform built by the Jade Emperor and Tathagata, challenged their motives, and learned that Old Gods’ contamination threatened the True Realm. He left the conversation unconvinced by their explanations and planned to stay out of their pursuit of a chance to attain the Dao.

• Lu Ren teased Tathagata by asking for Joyous Bodhisattva and offering to pair her with his Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The Jade Emperor and Tathagata questioned why Lu Ren had come to the Ascension Platform, and Lu Ren said he wanted to inspect their attempt to attract an opportunity to attain the Dao.
• Lu Ren observed that Tathagata could reach the Celestial Immortal Realm within a few years and asked what he was waiting for.
• The Jade Emperor said Old Gods’ contamination was worsening throughout the True Realm, while Tathagata began to explain the dangers of becoming a Celestial Immortal before the Jade Emperor stopped him.
• Lu Ren dismissed the Ascension Platform as a desperate waste of resources and decided he could watch the two rivals from the sidelines.

Lu Ren left the Ascension Platform after warning the Jade Emperor and Tathagata that they could discuss matters again once they entered the Celestial Immortal Realm. As the two prepared to pursue ascension, Tongtian appeared and suspected the platform held an opportunity to break through the Shackles of the Heavenly Venerable Realm.

• Lu Ren recognized that the Jade Emperor and Tathagata would not abandon their paths to cultivate the World Honored One Heart Sutra, and he understood that they were desperate to reach the Ascension Platform before their lifespans ran out.
• The Jade Emperor and Tathagata warned Lu Ren not to interfere with their final chance, and Lu Ren left after saying they could talk again in the Celestial Immortal Realm.
• Tathagata vowed to kill Lu Ren after reaching the Celestial Immortal Realm, while the Jade Emperor warned that Lu Ren's rapid growth and long lifespan made this their final opportunity.
• The Jade Emperor concealed his true thoughts and vanished after Tathagata departed.
• Tongtian appeared above the Ascension Platform, investigated it, and wondered whether it held the opportunity he sought.

The Jade Emperor revealed that he, like Tongtian, had come from another world and challenged him over the chance to break through. Their clash shook the land around the Ascension Platform, and Lu Ren watched from China as Tongtian’s Four Swords of Execution resisted the Jade Emperor’s attack.

• The Jade Emperor confronted Tongtian and recognized him as an outsider seeking a breakthrough.
• The Jade Emperor revealed that he had also come from another world and challenged Tongtian for a place in the land of enlightenment.
• The Jade Emperor invoked his Dao Fruit to raise his power to Tongtian’s level and unleashed a massive palm strike.
• Tongtian’s Four Swords of Execution broke through the Jade Emperor’s divine abilities as the Ascension Platform’s formation contained the devastation.
• Lu Ren sensed the battle from China, saw Tongtian’s sword energy holding firm, and laughed aloud.

Lu Ren watched Tongtian and the Jade Emperor clash, then returned to Lingming Mountain to pursue the Witch Path’s Celestial Immortal Great Dao. The two opponents withdrew without a decisive winner, and China’s human race turned its attention toward exploring the stars.

• Lu Ren told Sun Wukong that Tongtian’s arrival eased the pressure on him, while Sun Wukong questioned Lu Ren’s hopes that they could become Celestial Immortals within a century.
• Lu Ren judged that Tongtian and the Jade Emperor were unlikely to kill each other, and told Sun Wukong he could now challenge a Celestial Venerable if necessary.
• Lu Ren reinforced the defensive formations along China’s borders, returned to Lingming Mountain, and began using Destiny Points to break through the Witch Path’s limits.
• Tongtian and the Jade Emperor ended their battle by withdrawing, leaving the Ascension Platform’s construction to continue.
• China’s human race began sending official and civilian spaceships into the starry sky, and Lu Ren supported plans to explore and colonize nearby galaxies.

Lu Ren spent years integrating cultivation techniques while his Inner World developed into a living planet, and he prepared to break through the Ancestral Witch realm toward the Celestial Immortal Realm. He then learned that the Main God Space framework was ready and asked whether its candidates and first foreign-dimensional space had been selected.

• An exploration team received a signal from the first-generation Homeworld Mothership, prompting celebration and a new colonial fleet to pursue it.
• Ao Li urged Lu Ren to travel and learn from Celestial Immortal experts, while Lu Ren insisted his path required accumulating strength across countless universes.
• Lu Ren spent nearly five years integrating hundreds of millions of cultivation techniques and confirmed their fusion through the system.
• Lu Ren concluded that his World Honored One Heart Sutra had reached perfection and that he needed a further cultivation upgrade to break the Celestial Immortal Shackles.
• Lu Ren learned from his clay statue that the Main God Space framework and dimensional anchor apex were ready, then asked about the candidates and first foreign-dimensional space.

Lu Ren and Yang Jian watched the first test of a portal to a projected Naruto world, while Yang Jian explained the immense effort required to cross between universes. Their conversation turned to the danger posed by the Jade Emperor and Tathagata, who might destroy humanity whether or not they regained the Celestial Immortal Realm.

• Lu Ren learned that the Main God Space had chosen a captured dimensional anchor to a projected Naruto world and assigned a Clairvoyant Martial Daoist to explore it.
• Lu Ren arrived at the transmission test site with Nezha, Yang Jian, and others as researchers prepared the Power Armor-clad pioneer.
• Yang Jian explained that interdimensional travel required immense energy, advanced technology, and a disguised passport to avoid alerting the greater universe's will.
• Lu Ren reflected on Yang Jian's success as an aerospace scientist and asked whether he had found his own path; Yang Jian said he was exploring science as another method of cultivation.
• Yang Jian warned Lu Ren that the Jade Emperor and Tathagata might attack humanity if they failed to regain their former realms or if they succeeded, so Lu Ren intended to obstruct the Ascension Platform.

Lu Ren oversaw the first successful test of the Main God Space device, then encountered Queen Mother of the West in a flower shop. After discussing China’s cultivators and its rising fortune, he asked whether she had truly given up fighting for it.

• Lu Ren ordered the Main God Space device activated, and it transported a Martial Daoist in the Clairvoyant Realm away successfully.
• Yang Jian studied the traversal data while Lu Ren left the experimental base and returned to Shu Capital.
• Lu Ren followed Queen Mother of the West’s subtle guidance to a flower shop and asked why she had summoned him.
• Queen Mother of the West said she wanted to meet the leader guarding the human race and discussed the strength and cultivation of modern Earth Immortals.
• Queen Mother of the West served a couple buying roses for Qixi Festival, and Lu Ren asked whether she had truly stopped fighting for China’s fortune.

Queen Mother of the West gave Lu Ren a jade slip said to record Supreme One's grotto-heaven, prompting him and Ao Li to consider its significance and her motives. Ao Li recognized Supreme One as the one who had ambushed and killed her, and urged Lu Ren to pursue the grotto-heaven despite suspecting the gift was a trap.

• Queen Mother of the West told Lu Ren that she had only three hundred years left to live and wanted peace, then gave him a jade slip as he was leaving her flower shop.
• Lu Ren examined the jade slip at his manor and found that it recorded Supreme One's grotto-heaven, a retreat from his time as a Golden Immortal.
• Lu Ren suspected Queen Mother of the West had deliberately led him to the jade slip to use him as a weapon, then brought it into his Inner World for Ao Li to inspect.
• Ao Li recognized Supreme One and revealed that he had ambushed and killed her, leaving her trapped in the True Dragon Secret Realm as a skeleton.
• Ao Li urged Lu Ren to seek the grotto-heaven for clues to the Golden Immortal realm, but agreed that Queen Mother of the West had set an obvious trap.

Lu Ren rejected Ao Li’s insistence that he pursue the Supreme Ascendant’s Grotto-heaven, confident he could reach the Golden Immortal Realm by his own path. He left the jade slip’s secrets unused and considered giving it to the Jade Emperor and Tathagata instead, while Ao Li voiced her hatred of Supreme One.

• Lu Ren and Ao Li argued over whether he should fight for the Supreme Ascendant’s Grotto-heaven, then made a bet about his reaching the Celestial Immortal Realm within thirty years.
• Lu Ren rested, guided Li Qingling, contacted Guo Muyang, and briefly tried the virtual reality equipment before finding it too easy to enjoy.
• Ao Li urged Lu Ren to explore the grotto-heaven for secrets that could lead to the Golden Immortal Realm, but Lu Ren dismissed the opportunity.
• Lu Ren said Queen Mother of the West was trying to use him and proposed giving the jade slip to the Jade Emperor and Tathagata so they would fight over it.
• Ao Li recalled Supreme One’s past treatment of her and vowed to flay him and tear out his tendons if she ever got the chance.

Lu Ren gathered Yang Jian, Nezha, Su Zhi, and both Sun Wukongs to discuss the jade slip Queen Mother of the West had given him, which pointed to Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven. The revelation stirred everyone except Nezha and Su Zhi, and the meeting ended with Nezha preparing to fight the present-day Sun Wukong.

• Lu Ren rejected Ao Li's push to investigate Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven and arranged a meeting with Yang Jian, Nezha, Su Zhi, and the two Sun Wukongs.
• The two Sun Wukongs bickered over their shared name while Nezha played a game and Yang Jian urged him to cultivate.
• Lu Ren showed the group the jade slip Queen Mother of the West had given him, and the present-day Sun Wukong warned him that Queen Mother of the West could not be trusted.
• The present-day Sun Wukong confirmed that the jade slip concerned Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven, leaving Yang Jian and the others excited by its significance.
• Nezha mocked the present-day Sun Wukong for his closeness with the other Sun Wukong, and the present-day Sun Wukong challenged him; Nezha activated his Three Heads Six Arms form and prepared to fight.

Lu Ren decided to spread the Queen Mother of the West’s jade slip revealing the Supreme Ascendant’s Grotto-heaven, drawing the Jade Emperor, Tathagata, and Hantu’s many powerful beings toward it. He leaves the story with the coordinates circulated across Hantu and cultivators beginning to react.

• Yang Jian warned Lu Ren that the Queen Mother of the West was using him and urged him to discard the jade slip.
• Lu Ren proposed giving the jade slip to the Jade Emperor and Tathagata so they would investigate the grotto-heaven themselves.
• Lu Ren declined to involve Zhang Tongxuan and Ji Quanzhen, while the modern-day Sun Wukong revealed Zhang Tongxuan had recently advanced to the late Earth Immortal Realm.
• Su Zhi explained that grotto-heavens could contain things left behind by their former masters, which might be useful or unpleasant.
• Lu Ren made copies of the jade slip and sent tens of thousands of them raining down across Hantu.
• Zhang Tongxuan said too many copies would arouse suspicion, and Lu Ren noted the coordinates were genuine and bore the Supreme One’s Mark.

Lu Ren spread news of the Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven across Hantu to draw other powerful figures into the competition, enraging the Queen Mother of the West. She agreed not to attack the human race and chose to stay, while Lu Ren noticed she had taken on a young disciple.

• Lu Ren told Zhang Tongxuan that the Queen Mother of the West was nearing the Celestial Immortal Realm and explained that the jade slips were meant to lure hidden Celestial Immortals into the open.
• Zhang Tongxuan agreed to destroy the experimental records, and Lu Ren observed the Jade Emperor and Tathagata secretly collecting jade slips about the Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven.
• The Queen Mother of the West confronted Lu Ren over his decision to spread the grotto-heaven's location throughout Hantu, but he refused to pursue its opportunity for Golden Immortality.
• Lu Ren warned the Queen Mother of the West against using him as a weapon, and she promised not to attack the human race or leave Hantu.
• Lu Ren accepted that the Queen Mother of the West could stay if she obeyed the law and paid taxes, then asked whether she had taken a disciple as a flower-selling girl rushed into the shop.

Lu Ren met the Queen Mother of the West’s human disciple and discovered that she possessed the rare Myriad Qi Convergence constitution. He gave the girl a bracelet before leaving, and she found she could not remove it.

• Lu Ren used his Heavenly Eye to inspect the girl and recognized her extraordinary constitution, prompting the Queen Mother of the West to rebuke him.
• Lu Ren explained that he had acted out of concern for humanity, while the Queen Mother of the West clarified that her lifespan problem lay in her primordial spirit.
• Lu Ren offered the hostile girl a silver-white bracelet as a gift, and she accepted it after the Queen Mother of the West reassured her.
• The girl put on the bracelet, and Lu Ren left after inviting her and the Queen Mother of the West to eat Sichuan cuisine.
• After Lu Ren departed, the girl tried to remove the bracelet but discovered it would not come off.

Lu Ren’s Shamanic Path finally finished its system deduction, and he named it before undergoing a silent transformation into the Celestial Immortal Realm. The chapter left him with a newly formed miniature universe within his sea of consciousness.

• The girl learned that the bracelet Lu Ren had given her was a magical artifact with the potential to become a Dao artifact, and she eagerly hid it beneath her sleeve.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Lu Ren had given the bracelet to protect the girl, while Lu Ren left the flower shop feeling uneasy about his past.
• Lu Ren reflected on how everyone from his former life had died, then spent four peaceful years waiting for his cultivation deduction to finish.
• While watching the 198th National Martial Dao Tournament, Lu Ren received confirmation that the Shamanic Path capable of reaching the Celestial Immortal Realm was complete and named it.
• Lu Ren gained memories of millions of years of cultivation and advanced silently to the Celestial Immortal Realm as his body and spirit transformed.
• Lu Ren’s shattered spirit formed a rotating galaxy in his sea of consciousness, giving his Inner World Universe the framework of a miniature universe.

After comprehending yin and yang, Lu Ren created two witch-path cultivation arts and reached the Celestial Immortal realm. As the Jade Emperor and Tathagata arrived with overwhelming divine and Buddhist radiance, humanity’s defenses held, and they discovered Lu Ren had become a Celestial Immortal.

• Lu Ren uploaded the Taihao Golden Chapter and Taiyin Jade Tablet to the cultivation database, then confirmed to Ji Quanzhen that he had broken through to the Celestial Immortal realm.
• Ji Quanzhen said he planned to step down and named the former Celestial Path Academy student, now at the peak of Enlightened Awareness, as his successor.
• Lu Ren agreed to meet Ji Quanzhen’s successor and noted that the Ascension Platform had been completed and the Jade Emperor and Tathagata might be seeking to ascend again.
• Immortal and Buddhist radiance surged toward China, but the Nine Provinces Grand Formation activated and contained it beyond the human race’s borders.
• Lu Ren appeared before the Jade Emperor and Tathagata in his Witch God Physique, and both recognized his Celestial Immortal-level aura.

Lu Ren faced the Jade Emperor and Tathagata after breaking through to the Celestial Immortal Realm, and all three prepared to test their strength. Lu Ren launched a deadly first strike, and their attacks collided as observers across the world were overwhelmed by terror.

• Lu Ren revealed his Celestial Immortal power and mocked the Jade Emperor and Tathagata for arriving to congratulate him.
• The Jade Emperor said he and Tathagata had come to exchange insights, and Lu Ren agreed to use them to gauge his strength.
• Lu Ren abruptly attacked both men with a greatsword strike powerful enough to distort space.
• The Jade Emperor drew the Son of Heaven Sword and Tathagata met the blow with his Buddha hand.
• The three attacks collided, plunging observers in the human, Heavenly Palace, and Buddha directions into terror.

Lu Ren fought the Jade Emperor and Tathagata at the peak of the Celestial Immortal realm, while Yang Jian and Sun Wukong watched from afar. The Jade Emperor and Tathagata realized that restoring their Dao Fruits to full strength could damage their cultivation, while Lu Ren continued to grow more ferocious.

• The clash between Lu Ren, the Jade Emperor, and Tathagata left everyone watching frozen, and Sun Wukong steadied Yang Jian so he could watch safely.
• Lu Ren threw his greatsword at the Jade Emperor and charged Tathagata with a punch powered by the Zhou Tian Body Spirit Fist.
• Tathagata raised his Buddha Dao Fruit to the peak of the Celestial Immortal realm and met Lu Ren's punch head-on.
• The Jade Emperor attacked Lu Ren from behind with the Son of Heaven Sword, but Lu Ren blocked it with his hand and immediately healed the wound.
• After half an hour of battle, the Jade Emperor and Tathagata realized that regaining their former peak strength could damage their cultivation, while Lu Ren's strength continued to rise.

Lu Ren unleashed a five-hundredfold Zhou Tian Body Spirit Fist, forcing the Jade Emperor and Tathagata to retreat rather than face him directly. After they called off their sparring, Lu Ren revealed that his earlier attack had struck the forces gathered at Hantu.

• Lu Ren pushed his Zhou Tian Body Spirit Fist to five hundredfold, unleashing power that threatened to tear space apart.
• The Jade Emperor and Tathagata realized Lu Ren intended to fight to the death and retreated to avoid his attacks.
• Tathagata proposed ending the sparring, and the Jade Emperor agreed.
• Lu Ren calmed down and apologized for losing control, though he showed no real remorse.
• Lu Ren told the Jade Emperor and Tathagata that his diverted punch had grazed Hantu and struck their gathered troops.

Lu Ren repelled the Jade Emperor’s sword strike and provoked Tathagata after his attack devastated the Heavenly and Buddhist forces. The two leaders withdrew, but Lu Ren expected them to return with the Heavenly Palace and Spirit Mountain as mobile fortresses.

• The Jade Emperor slashed at Lu Ren, who erased the Sword Qi and warned him that destroying China’s space dock would lead to the Ascension Platform being shattered.
• The Jade Emperor abandoned his attack because both sides depended on the Ascension Platform and China’s population, leaving them wary of escalating the conflict.
• Lu Ren taunted Tathagata over the Arhats, Lishi, and Bodhisattvas killed by his punch, but Tathagata recognized the provocation and refused to retaliate.
• The Jade Emperor and Tathagata departed after exchanging hostile remarks with Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren watched them go and considered how difficult a future battle would be if they activated the Heavenly Palace and Spirit Mountain.