Chapter Summaries

Badan challenged the Demon Race chieftain, but the Barbarian Race chieftain abandoned him and revealed Sankui as the new Immortal King. After Chen Qiu lent Badan a strand of Yin Emperor Fortune, Badan recovered and reclaimed the Barbarian Race Supreme Treasure, the Scarlet Giant Hammer, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Powerhouses gathered at the Demon Race Forest as Badan confronted Zhao Yishi and explained that he intended to break Zhao Yishi’s shackles by dying in battle.
• The Demon Race chieftain used the Demon Race’s supreme treasure to defeat Badan’s strongest strike and leave him gravely wounded.
• The Barbarian Race chieftain refused to lend Badan the Barbarian Race Supreme Treasure, announced a thousand-year peace with the Demon Race, and introduced Sankui as the new Immortal King.
• After the Barbarian Race chieftain and the Demon Race chieftain humiliated him, Badan decided he no longer wanted to die and knelt to ask Master Chen for Yin Emperor Fortune.
• A seven-colored streak from the eastern horizon entered Badan and healed him, after which Badan thanked Chen Qiu and called the Scarlet Giant Hammer back from Sankui.

Badan fought the Demon Race patriarch, then killed the current Barbarian Race Immortal King with his ninth form after the latter attacked Zhao Yishi. As Badan prepared to die surrounded by the Barbarian and Demon forces, old allies arrived to stand with him.

• Badan used the Scarlet Giant Hammer’s first five forms to batter the Demon Race patriarch, who revealed his true form and fought him for about an hour.
• Badan and the Demon Race patriarch were both left gravely wounded, but Badan had protected Zhao Yishi throughout the battle.
• The Barbarian Race Chief and the current Barbarian Race Immortal King moved to seize the hammer, and the Immortal King struck Zhao Yishi down when he defended it.
• Badan rose again and used his ninth form to kill the current Barbarian Race Immortal King, then collapsed from exhaustion as the Barbarian Race Chief threatened him and Zhao Yishi.
• As Badan prepared to sacrifice himself to save Zhao Yishi, the Northwestern Kang Clan, tens of thousands of rebellious Barbarian giants, and the Wei Prince’s Residence arrived to aid him.

Badan’s friends and allies rallied against the Demon Race, and he killed its patriarch, turning the battle into a larger war. As the Barbarian Race pushed to make him chieftain, Badan promised to end slavery and went after the Demon Race’s treasures to recover the Yin Emperor Fortune he owed Master Chen.

• Wei Prince's Residence, Badan’s old friends, and the Kang Family head brought reinforcements, while Ba Xi and Qi City led Barbarian Race members in defying their patriarch.
• Badan ordered the counterattack, and his allies and other factions joined the fighting as the Demon Race’s forces tried to protect their patriarch.
• Badan stopped the Demon Race patriarch from killing himself and crushed him with the Scarlet Giant Hammer, prompting a Heavenly Dao Edict that confirmed his death.
• A Barbarian Race slave draped the chieftain’s cloak over Badan, who promised to free the slaves and declared that the Barbarian Race would never make peace with the Demon Race.
• Badan argued that resources should be shared equally and that Barbarians should win more through battle, then hurried toward the Demon Race’s central region to find Yin Emperor Fortune for Master Chen.

After Badan defeated the Demon Race, Chen Qiu learned that Badan had borrowed his Yin Emperor Fortune and now needed to obtain another strand for the Bai Family head. He traveled to the polluted Peihong Continent, where its inhabitants’ shared traits let even a Qi Refinement farmer deliver a blow powerful enough to numb Chen Qiu’s arm, and heard about the even more violent Seven Madam Continent, where everyone was born with three rainbow traits.

• Badan ordered his forces to dig up the Immortal Water Well, reunited with his old friends, and named Zhao Yishi as his successor to lead the Barbarian Race.
• Chen Qiu’s companions assumed Badan had died after three days without news, but Chen Qiu revealed that he had lent Badan his Yin Emperor Fortune and needed to find a replacement for the Bai Family head.
• The Bai Family head reported a Netherworld Collapse on Peihong Continent, and Chen Qiu traveled there with his companions to obtain Yin Emperor Fortune.
• The Bai Family head explained that everyone on Peihong Continent shared three traits, including one that greatly strengthened people below Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Qiu tested the traits by letting a Qi Refinement farmer strike him, and the farmer’s attack made Chen Qiu’s arm go numb.
• The Bai Family head described the Seven Madam Continent, where everyone had three rainbow traits and rampant violence had left no cities or ordinary mortals.

Chen Qiu learned from the Weird Buddha that Seven Madam Continent had recently suffered a Netherworld Collapse, and the Bai Family head offered to send him there. After the immortals left, the Li Family head realized his resurrected wife might not truly be herself and rushed after them for help.

• Chen Qiu pressured Hong City to find the Li Family head, who revealed that the Weird Buddha had revived his dead relatives in exchange for his flesh and blood.
• The Bai Family head explained that Weird Buddha beneficiaries eventually vanished, while Fat Dragon questioned whether the revived people were truly alive.
• At Chen Qiu's request, the Li Family head sacrificed flesh to ask the Weird Buddha where a Netherworld Collapse had occurred, and it named Seven Madam Continent.
• The Bai Family head found that Seven Madam Continent was a Fourth-Grade Continent outside Chen Qiu's permitted reach, then offered to pay the price to send him there.
• After Chen Qiu's group departed, the Li Family head tested his resurrected wife Fei'er and realized her perfect answers concealed a change in temperament, so he ran after the immortals shouting for help.

Chen Qiu destroyed the Li Family courtyard and confronted the Weird Buddha, suspecting it had manipulated him by directing him to the Seven Madam Continent. After the Weird Buddha explained the Li Family’s ghostly history and its own rules, Chen Qiu agreed to talk, leaving its identity and ambitions exposed but their conflict unresolved.

• The Li Family patriarch fled as Chen Qiu revealed that the Li Family estate had been lifted into the sky, then the patriarch’s possessed wife threatened the family members to force the immortals to leave.
• Chen Qiu struck the courtyard with heavenly lightning, destroying it and revealing the Weird Buddha, which denied plotting against him and agreed to talk.
• The Weird Buddha explained that ghosts had possessed the Li Family years earlier, while the patriarch had knowingly recreated his family through trades and sealed away his memories to preserve his happiness.
• The Weird Buddha identified itself as an Evil Demon bound by Equivalent Exchange and said it might someday be called an Evil God, because its rule was the path it intended to follow toward ascension.

Chen Qiu and the others learned how rules governed advancement toward the Supreme Position and discovered that people who escaped the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment could enter the Contest Hall without following a rule. Chen Qiu began planning to protect his group’s secret, while Weird Buddha revealed more about his race and introduced himself as Mopan.

• Weird Buddha explained that people seeking the Supreme Position had to follow a self-chosen rule, with Devotion to One Love ranked first, Fairness second, and Equivalent Exchange seventy-eighth.
• Weird Buddha described a catastrophe thirty thousand years earlier that had apparently cut off the lives of everyone from that era, and Chen Qiu connected it to the mysteries surrounding the Mocking Heaven Sect and the Great Xia Kingdom.
• Weird Buddha said that eating the flesh and blood of someone who had escaped the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment could grant access to the Contest Hall without following a rule, prompting Chen Qiu to decide that his group should conceal their origins and stay hidden.
• Chen Qiu challenged Weird Buddha for knowing his name, and Weird Buddha admitted that he had recognized Chen Qiu from his reputation and wanted to avoid becoming his enemy.
• Weird Buddha explained that his Evil Demon race used its thirty-one-bead rosaries to fulfill wishes through equivalent exchange, but warned that a host had little chance of survival after the twentieth bead lit.
• Chen Qiu asked whether Weird Buddhas could transmit information and items across continents, and Weird Buddha disclosed that the race could not contact one missing member before telling the group his name was Mopan.

Chen Qiu learned that Weird Buddha had Immortal Cancer and arranged for his people to travel between First-Grade Continents in exchange for the Fortune of the Yin Soul needed to save him. As six teams departed to spread Chen Qiu’s name, the Bai Family patriarch revealed that his daughter’s mother was an actual immortal maiden.

• Weird Buddha explained that he had contracted Immortal Cancer, had only three years left to live, and needed three more strands of Fortune of the Yin Soul to obtain Yin Emperor Fortune.
• Chen Qiu realized he could acquire Fortune of the Yin Soul more freely than others and worried that his ability to evade the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions might be exposed.
• Chen Qiu offered to provide Weird Buddha with the remaining three strands of Fortune of the Yin Soul if Weird Buddha transported his people among First-Grade Continents for three hundred years.
• Liu Zide proposed six teams to travel and spread Chen Qiu’s name, and Chen Qiu approved the plan; the teams departed with Weird Buddha the next morning.
• After Weird Buddha left, Chen Qiu told the Bai Family patriarch that his daughter might be an immortal’s reincarnated body, and the patriarch revealed that her mother was an actual immortal maiden.

Chen Qiu went to the Wang Family to investigate a Netherworld Collapse and discovered that a group of cultivators had destroyed Pingxi Continent and planned to destroy the other Lower-Rank Continents, including his homeland, Mystic Heaven Continent. He captured them and brought the Wang Family into his Minor World, but the Wang Family head he hoped to question was already dead, while Xiong Gao began interrogating the captives.

• The Bai Family head told Chen Qiu about the fairy who had once appeared in his life, and Chen Qiu set off with his group for another continent undergoing Netherworld Collapse.
• Qu Gui and the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples arrived on a First-Grade Continent, while Scholar led his own squad to another new continent.
• Chen Qiu reached the Wang Family on Endless Continent and found a group of hidden cultivators arguing with a young woman about their plan to destroy continents.
• Chen Qiu learned that the group had destroyed Pingxi Continent and planned to destroy all twelve Lower-Rank Continents of Vast Continent within five years, including Mystic Heaven Continent.
• Chen Qiu captured the group and the Wang Family, then discovered that the Wang Family head, Wang Yi, had been murdered before he could question him.
• Xiong Gao began preparing to interrogate the captives using torture devices he had made.

Xiong Gao tortured a captured Body Integration Realm elder until he revealed that Drunken Flower Manor was accelerating the collapse of Vast Continent’s twelve Lower-Rank Continents to gather Fortune of the Yin Soul. The Bai Family Patriarch offered Chen Qiu the family’s Spirit Stones in exchange for his protection, and Chen Qiu agreed while seeking a way to keep Drunken Flower Manor at bay for five years.

• Xiong Gao intensified the captive elder’s pain with torture devices until the elder confessed that Drunken Flower Manor was behind the continent destructions and that its Manor Lord might be suffering from Immortal Cancer.
• The elder explained that Drunken Flower Manor used native sword bearers and Soul-Sealing Pearls to collapse continents and harvest their Fortune of the Yin Soul.
• Chen Qiu weighed the danger of opposing Drunken Flower Manor, while the Bai Family Patriarch proposed buying five years to cultivate by handing over Fortune of the Yin Soul and reporting false progress.
• The Bai Family Patriarch revealed a vast reserve of Spirit Stones and offered to fund Chen Qiu’s cultivation in exchange for a thousand years of protection and three requests for his aid.
• Chen Qiu accepted the Bai Family’s offer but rejected the plan to supply Fortune of the Yin Soul, proposing instead to fabricate a powerful figure to deter Drunken Flower Manor.
• Chen Qiu asked Fat Dragon to devise a believable way to keep Drunken Flower Manor away from Mystic Heaven Continent for five years.

Chen Qiu learned that Drunken Flower Manor had been wiped out by a mass outbreak of Immortal Cancer, gathered Fortune of the Yin Soul, and prepared to enter a Heavenly Dao Secret Realm before pursuing ascension. While relaxing on Jiang Taiping Continent, he heard the story of Jiang Taiping, a prodigy born with nine Rainbow Traits to an Immortal Emperor.

• Xiong Gao reported that everyone in Drunken Flower Manor had suddenly died from Immortal Cancer, and Chen Qiu ordered his remaining captives killed and the Wang Family group returned home.
• Chen Qiu staged his death on Endless Continent, entered its Yin Realm, and collected Fortune of the Yin Soul there and on three other First-Grade Continents.
• Chen Qiu told the Bai Family head that he would help his daughter remove her Immortal Cancer after entering the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, then failed to break free of Mystic Heaven Continent's shackles.
• Badan visited Chen Qiu, reported his victory as chief of the Fifth-Grade Immortal Realm's Barbarian Race, and returned one strand of Yin Emperor Fortune.
• Badan explained that Drunken Flower Manor's mass deaths had raised fears that Immortal Cancer could be a targeted Heavenly Dao attack, and Chen Qiu suspected the faction's assault on Pingxi Continent was connected.
• Badan recounted that Jiang Taiping was an ancient prodigy born with nine Rainbow Traits to an Immortal Emperor, whose Dao Protectors helped him rise through the Immortal Realms.

Badan told Chen Qiu that the Heavenly Dao’s possible loss of impartiality had alarmed powerful figures, while Chen Qiu suspected Mocking Heaven Sect had imprisoned itself to escape the Heavenly Dao’s control. After Badan revealed that a Fairy had reacted with terror to Mocking Heaven Sect’s name, she sought out her one-night husband on Vast Continent, learned about Chen Qiu and the sect, and realized her ancestor’s connection to Mocking Heaven Sect might explain her family’s debt.

• Badan explained that people feared the Heavenly Dao might act freely, turning cultivators into puppets by stripping away their Traits or imposing Immortal Cancer, and Chen Qiu considered why Mocking Heaven Sect had imprisoned itself.
• Badan told Chen Qiu that his Fairy friend, the Wei Prince, had become terrified after hearing that Chen Qiu led Mocking Heaven Sect, then left Chen Qiu a Voice-Transmission Ring.
• The Wei Prince recalled that Fairies alone still remembered Mocking Heaven Sect because an outer sect junior elder had aided them and created the Repaying-Kindness Blessing, then descended to Vast Continent to find her one-night husband.
• The Fairy learned that the ancestor of Peaceful Prefecture had Mocking Heaven Sect carved beneath his family plaque and asked him to recount everything he knew about Chen Qiu and the sect.
• The Peaceful Prefecture patriarch arranged for a storyteller to recount Chen Qiu’s history, while the Fairy explained that the original Mocking Heaven Sect had vanished from everyone’s memories thirty thousand years earlier.
• The Peaceful Prefecture patriarch reconsidered joining Mocking Heaven Sect, and the Fairy asked how many Fairies had come to repay him.

A woman learned that Chen Qiu’s rise on the Mystic Heaven Continent might connect to a Mocking Heaven Sect erased from most people’s memories, and she decided to investigate. Meanwhile, Chen Qiu brought Yin Emperor Fortune to the Bai Family to save the Bai Family daughter, but the divine physician demanded twenty million Spirit Stones and revealed the Bai Family’s danger from Soaring Pavilion.

• The Buddhist Sect ancestor and Azure Mountain Palace ancestor sold the woman information about Chen Qiu’s early days, including his rescue in Deathbind Town and an old warning about the Mocking Heaven Sect.
• The woman decided to visit the Mystic Heaven Continent and told the Peaceful Prefecture ancestor that Drunken Flower Manor had accelerated Pingxi Continent’s collapse before promising to help protect him if he was threatened.
• Chen Qiu returned to the Celestial Palace, then delivered Badan’s strand of Yin Emperor Fortune to the Bai Family and urged the Bai Family head to contact a divine physician.
• The divine physician confirmed the Yin Emperor Fortune could be used to make a pill for the Bai Family daughter, then demanded twenty million Spirit Stones and warned that Soaring Pavilion might target the Bai Family head.
• Chen Qiu challenged the divine physician’s price and asked whether a physician in the Fifth-Grade Immortal Realm could refine the pill.

Chen Qiu learned that the Evergreen Continent was nearing collapse after its inhabitants received a button that traded a random death for one Spirit Stone, and agreed to enter it with Badan to gather the resulting fortune. As Chen Qiu prepared to go, Mopan revealed that the Evil Demon Race had already mobilized on the continent to collect Spirit Stones.

• Chen Qiu summoned Lin Xiaobei, who refined two pills to cure the Bai Family head's daughter, while the miracle physician recognized Lin Xiaobei and reconsidered how pill refiners should pursue strength and opportunities.
• Badan warned Chen Qiu that the Heavenly Dao's disorder had caused the Bai Family head's daughter to contract Immortal Cancer, and the Bai Family head later reported that she had been cured.
• Lin Xiaobei told Chen Qiu that the Heavenly Dao had given every living being on the Evergreen Continent a button that could earn one Spirit Stone by killing someone at random, leading to mass deaths and the continent's imminent collapse.
• Badan asked Chen Qiu to help gather Spirit Stones from the doomed Evergreen Continent, offered him seventy percent of what he collected, and explained the limited time, dangers, and escape tools.
• Chen Qiu agreed to go to the Evergreen Continent, discussed the deadly button with Fat Dragon, and contacted Mopan, who said the Evil Demon Race was already collecting Spirit Stones there.

Chen Qiu led the Barbarian Race and his companions into the collapsing Evergreen Continent to collect Spirit Stones before it became inaccessible. After seeing the continent’s slaughtered cities, he began sweeping up its wealth and discovered he could spend Spirit Stones to expand his Minor World, leaving the shopkeeper with a mountain of restrictions to crack.

• Chen Qiu asked Weird Buddha to guide him and the Barbarian Race into Evergreen Continent, and Badan brought tens of thousands of Sky-Piercing Giants to join him.
• Weird Buddha guided the group to the blood-soaked continent, divided the cities between the Evil Demon Race and Chen Qiu’s party, and warned them to leave before the continent collapsed.
• Chen Qiu sent the Barbarian Race and his six Mocking Heaven Sect teams to search separate routes while he led Fat Dragon and the others toward distant cities.
• Chen Qiu used Badan’s Guiding Stone to gather millions of Spirit Stones, then uprooted looted cities and discovered he could expand the Minor World for one million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Qiu expanded the Minor World and stored the cities inside it, while Fat Dragon told the shopkeeper that greater ability meant greater responsibility as he faced cracking countless restrictions.

Chen Qiu and the Barbarian Race returned to Jiang Taiping Continent after plundering 108 cities and their Spirit Stones from Evergreen Continent. After a night of sleeping through a snowfall, Chen Qiu woke and found that Xiong Gao still would not stir.

• Chen Qiu gathered the Spirit Stones and cities from his assigned region, expanding his Minor World and amassing more than one hundred million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Qiu met the Barbarian Race and Mopan's tens of thousands of Weird Buddhas, then gave Mopan the second strand of Fortune of the Yin Soul in exchange for arranging care for his disciples.
• Chen Qiu and the Barbarian Race returned to Jiang Taiping Continent, where the Barbarian Race members vomited from the guidance journey before Badan took them away.
• Chen Qiu rested at his secluded cultivation site and discussed the Immortal Realm with Fat Dragon and Xiong Gao before falling asleep by the bonfire.
• Snow fell through the night as Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, and Xiong Gao slept; at dawn, Chen Qiu woke and Fat Dragon concluded that Xiong Gao had gone into hibernation.

Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon surveyed the enormous Spirit Stone haul, then joined the Bai Family’s Sky Prodigies in a Heavenly Dao Secret Realm on Qi Tian Continent. The realm’s waiting room proved deadly for anyone who tried to leave without Chen Qiu’s strength, as the Huang Family’s young master was killed by heavenly lightning.

• Chen Qiu showed Fat Dragon the Minor World’s mountain of roughly one hundred million Spirit Stones and reflected on the opportunity Weird Buddha had given him.
• Badan delivered the agreed Spirit Stone share from the Barbarian Race, and Chen Qiu gave half of it to Badan for Zhao Yishi.
• After several days of resting, Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon joined the Bai Family Head and three Bai Family Sky Prodigies at the secret realm entrance on Qi Tian Continent.
• Chen Qiu entered the realm’s private-school waiting area with the others, then went outside alone after explaining that staying inside was safer for those who lacked his strength.
• Cultivators from other continents filled the waiting room, and the Huang Family’s young master mocked the Bai Family before trying to leave.
• Heavenly lightning struck and killed the Huang Family’s young master at the doorway, while Chen Qiu returned safely to his seat.

Chen Qiu and the other cultivators began the Drunken Dreams, Deadly Delirium secret realm, where the host laid out lethal rules and a series of trials. Chen Qiu cleared the first trial without being tempted, while Fat Dragon recognized the bride as his former lover Ma Yinxue and chose to approach her.

• Chen Qiu explained that the private school’s heavenly lightning feared his power, while the host arrived and killed the Huang Family protector for interrupting him.
• The host announced that the secret realm had nine trials, warned that fewer than four clears meant death, and led everyone through a corridor to the first trial.
• The first trial required entrants to face beauty’s temptation while staying rational, with a random Purple Trait Jade Slip as the reward.
• Chen Qiu entered a bridal chamber, ignored the veiled bride, and cleared the trial to return to the corridor with a jade slip.
• Fat Dragon heard Ma Yinxue’s voice from the bride, realized the trial had drawn on his memories of his former lover, and walked toward her.

Chen Qiu urged his group to secure their chance to leave the strange secret realm instead of chasing increasingly large reward multipliers. After Fat Dragon cleared the third stage, one of the Bai Family Sky Prodigies chose to forgo its reward and pursue the quintuple payout ahead.

• Fat Dragon revealed that he had failed the first trial because its illusion was Ma Yinxue, while everyone else passed.
• The second trial offered a Red Trait Jade Slip for holding one's breath, but promised triple rewards in the next trial to those who failed; Chen Qiu told his group to pass it, while many others gambled and gave it up.
• Chen Qiu warned his group that the trials might grow harder and urged them to secure the four clears required to leave the secret realm.
• The third trial offered a Gold Trait Jade Slip for killing the bride from the first trial, with quintuple rewards promised in the next stage for those who failed; challengers divided between passing and gambling again.
• Chen Qiu killed the bride and passed the third stage, and Fat Dragon also passed despite the bride resembling Ma Yinxue.
• One of the Bai Family's female Sky Prodigies failed the third stage to pursue quintuple rewards, and Chen Qiu accepted her choice.

Chen Qiu and the other cultivators reached the fourth trial, where he secured a One-Day Rainbow Trait Jade Slip while many others gambled on larger rewards. The secret realm then launched its corridor through the Void, and Chen Qiu discovered that its host was close to falling apart without Spirit Stones; after he supplied six million, the host admitted to skimming the entry fees.

• Chen Qiu and the two obedient Bai Family Sky Prodigies cleared the fourth trial, while many cultivators gave it up to gamble on the next reward multiplier.
• Chen Qiu emerged with a One-Day Rainbow Trait Jade Slip, and Fat Dragon noted that only five people had cleared all four trials.
• The host launched the corridor through the Void, alarming the cultivators as its speed increased and the fifth trial loomed.
• Cracks appeared in the corridor and across the host, so Chen Qiu poured out six million Spirit Stones for the host to absorb and stabilize the realm.
• Chen Qiu demanded an explanation, and the host admitted that after awakening consciousness, they had greedily skimmed the entry-fee Spirit Stones.