Chapter Summaries

Chen Qiu learned that the host had embezzled Spirit Stones to fund a plan to free conscious artifact spirits, but the plan collapsed when its leader was deceived. Chen Qiu revealed he possessed Race Fortune and persuaded the host to keep going, only for the corridor to start cracking again after running out of Spirit Stones.

• Chen Qiu interrogated the host and learned that awakened artifact spirits were secretly funding the Divine Awakening Plan to establish their own race and escape the Heavenly Dao Secret Realms.
• The host explained that his lover, A-Mei, had been erased by the Heavenly Dao after trying to break free, and that he hoped to leave the secret realm to build her a grave.
• The host learned that the artifact spirit leading the plan had been deceived and fatally wounded, so he tried to crash the corridor into the Void and die with A-Mei.
• Chen Qiu revealed his strand of Race Fortune and promised to give it to the host, stopping the corridor just before it struck the Void.
• Chen Qiu persuaded the host to take responsibility for the artifact spirits and learned that the corridor would be destroyed if it entered the Void at the wrong speed.
• After the corridor turned back toward the radiance, it began cracking again because the host had run out of Spirit Stones, and Chen Qiu offered to provide more.

Chen Qiu survived the secret realm host’s erratic behavior and learned that the Artifact Spirit Clan could offer him access and privileged information about powerful Heavenly Dao Secret Realms. After Little Handsome pledged loyalty and offered the clan’s service, Chen Qiu welcomed him into the Mocking Heaven Sect and promised the clan a place to develop.

• Chen Qiu gave the host more Spirit Stones to keep the corridor stable, then threatened him when he approached, until the host apologized and asked for a strip of Chen Qiu’s clothing.
• The host offered to share detailed knowledge and special access to high-level Heavenly Dao Secret Realms, prompting Chen Qiu to forgive him and ask about the artifact spirit elder’s purchase of Race Fortune.
• The host revealed that the elder had paid 1.7 billion Spirit Stones to the lame master of the Wei Prince’s Residence on Jiang Taiping Continent, who then killed him and took the money.
• Chen Qiu promised to avenge the elder, and Little Handsome formed a Blood Curse Seal to acknowledge Chen Qiu as his master once he left the secret realm.
• Chen Qiu accepted Little Handsome into the Mocking Heaven Sect and offered the Artifact Spirit Clan a place in his Hundred-City Land, while Fat Dragon welcomed him as the sect’s Grand Elder.

Chen Qiu and the secret realm host arranged for challengers to clear the fifth trial, allowing them to earn Earth Prodigy Fortune without fighting. As Fat Dragon remained inside his trial, Bai Family prodigy Pingling resolved to seek a place at Chen Qiu’s side, while another clansman chose a quieter life.

• The corridor entered a fleshy chamber, where the fifth trial required challengers who had cleared the first trial to defeat the secret realm host and others to fight copies of themselves.
• Fat Dragon entered the trial to face his fallen self, while a burly challenger attacked the host and was killed despite his resistance to lightning.
• Chen Qiu accepted the host’s staged defeat, and the Bai Family prodigies and other challengers cleared the trial through the host’s cooperation, paying Chen Qiu a share of their rewards.
• The Bai Family female cultivator kept her ten strands of Earth Prodigy Fortune, while Pingling and a spell cultivator debated whether to seek Chen Qiu’s favor or rely on themselves.
• Pingling decided he wanted to leave the Bai Family and follow Chen Qiu, but admitted he had not yet found a reason Chen Qiu would take him in; the spell cultivator said he wanted to go home and fish.

Fat Dragon emerged from the fifth trial badly wounded after defeating a stronger version of himself, while Chen Qiu learned that a mysterious challenger named Jiang Buping had reached the eighth trial and turned back at the character “Mock.” Suspecting the Mocking Heaven Sect’s hidden history might be tied to the secret realm, Chen Qiu chose to investigate the ninth trial despite fearing the old grudges could involve him.

• Fat Dragon returned from the wooden door bloodied but alive, and told Chen Qiu that his illusion had been stronger and able to transform into a dragon.
• Fat Dragon privately recalled that he had distracted his illusion with a Ma Yinxue puppet before ambushing it, then concealed the humiliating tactic from the juniors.
• The secret realm host revealed that Jiang Buping had cleared the first eight trials but abandoned the ninth after seeing the character “Mock” at its entrance.
• Chen Qiu connected the character to the Mocking Heaven Sect and reconsidered its history, including the possibility that its former Sect Master had survived and continued working in secret.
• Chen Qiu wondered whether he might be the Mocking Heaven Sect’s Sect Master from thirty thousand years ago, but Fat Dragon urged him to learn the truth; Chen Qiu agreed to enter the ninth trial and investigate.

Chen Qiu and the other challengers reached the Palace of Immortal Silence, where the sixth trial made them climb eighteen dangerous, luck-based steps. After two challengers died from a roll of one, Fat Dragon calculated the odds of surviving by luck alone, while Chen Qiu hinted he had found a possible method to clear the trial.

• The secret realm host revealed that anyone who had delayed leaving must clear the sixth trial, then led the challengers to the Palace of Immortal Silence.
• Chen Qiu inspected the palace’s Heaven-Splitting Colossal Stone, while a challenger died after testing the destructive void surrounding the stairs.
• The secret realm host explained that challengers had to step on one tile on each of eighteen levels, with each tile triggering a random reward or disaster within a strict time limit.
• An old man used Prodigy Fortune to attempt the stairs, but a roll of one killed him with heavenly lightning; a second challenger died after stepping on the same tile and receiving the same deadly roll.
• Fat Dragon calculated that surviving all eighteen rolls by luck alone was extraordinarily unlikely, and Chen Qiu said he had a tentative method that still needed testing.

Chen Qiu and his companions survived the sixth stage by climbing its lethal stairs, though the proper route was an elevator hidden behind a line maze. After the secret realm host explained the trick, Chen Qiu prepared to enter the seventh stage.

• Chen Qiu guessed that the secret realm was a Mocking Heaven Sect selection trial and used the Sect Master Token to lead Fat Dragon and three Bai Family Sky Prodigies up the steps.
• Chen Qiu's group advanced to the eighteenth step, but two Bai Family Sky Prodigies died along the way and the remaining climbers faced a die that showed only one.
• Chen Qiu held the Sect Master Token as the die unexpectedly rolled a six, clearing the stage and leaving Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, Bai Pingling, and the secret realm host alive.
• The secret realm host revealed that the proper way through the sixth stage was to follow a hidden line to a wooden door and ride an elevator powered by a Spirit Stone.
• Chen Qiu recognized the plaza's patterns as a line maze and prepared to enter the seventh stage.

Chen Qiu cleared the seventh trial by leaping up the sect gate, then entered the eighth trial and discovered a vast plaza filled with nearly one hundred thousand Heavenly Immortal Peak Sword Cultivator Puppets. The puppets resembled those he had seen before, and a wall inscription revealed the sect master's secret decree to forge one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals.

• Chen Qiu used his body cultivation to climb the thousand-zhang sect gate and touch the luminous pearl, clearing the seventh trial.
• Chen Qiu threw Fat Dragon and Bai Pingling up the gate so they could clear the trial too, then learned the intended solution was to touch the pearl's reflection in a basin of water.
• The secret realm host led Chen Qiu's group to the dried-up well, where Chen Qiu entered to face the eighth trial's Sword Cultivator Puppet.
• Chen Qiu found an enormous plaza containing nearly one hundred thousand inactive Sword Cultivator Puppets, most marked Heavenly Immortal Peak.
• Chen Qiu saw that the puppets resembled the Sword Cultivator Puppet from the Great Xia Kingdom and read the wall inscription ordering the secret forging of one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals.

Chen Qiu entered the secret realm’s ninth stage, where he discovered a corpse identical to Jiang Buping’s and unlocked the pillar binding it with the Mocking Heaven Sect Master Token. The palace recognized him as its Sect Master and granted him control over its treasures, while revealing that the long-dead Mocking Heaven Sect Master had prepared a resurrection plan whose opportunities Chen Qiu had already taken.

• Chen Qiu attacked and destroyed the Mid-Tribulation Realm Sword Cultivator Puppet, but a force pulled him out of the underground plaza before he could investigate its hundred thousand puppets.
• The secret realm host explained that Jiang Buping had rushed through the earlier stages, lingered at the eighth and ninth stages, and left without entering the ninth.
• Chen Qiu entered the ninth stage and found millions of blood-drawn talismans surrounding a bound corpse; the host recognized the corpse as identical to Jiang Buping, including its plum blossom mole.
• Chen Qiu inferred that Jiang Buping had abandoned the ninth stage because he lacked the Mocking Heaven Sect Master Token, then used his own token to open the lock on the Copper Pillar.
• The talismans crumbled, the chains broke, and Chen Qiu stored the corpse; the palace then proclaimed the Sect Master’s return and granted him control over the palace and its hundred thousand Heavenly Immortal Peak puppets.
• Chen Qiu learned that he was not the Mocking Heaven Sect Master, but that the ancient Sect Master had prepared resurrection opportunities in Great Xia Kingdom that Chen Qiu had reached first.

Chen Qiu cleared the secret realm and inherited Mocking Heaven Hall, but the realm’s destruction stranded him and his companions in the Void. While exploring the palace and its army of puppets, he learned about the Mocking Heaven Sect’s vast resources and began considering how to escape.

• Chen Qiu learned that destroying the talismans had shut down the secret realm and its corridor, leaving him and the secret realm's host unable to return.
• Chen Qiu told Bai Pingling and Fat Dragon that they had cleared the secret realm but would have to cultivate in seclusion in the Void until they found a way back.
• Chen Qiu studied the structure of the Three Thousand Continents and learned that crossing the Void required finding a continent and entering its barrier at the correct speed.
• Chen Qiu used Mocking Heaven Hall’s transport system to reach Azure Stone Plaza and inspected one hundred thousand Sword Cultivator Puppets, discovering that activating them required enormous quantities of Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Qiu explored Mocking Heaven Hall’s automated systems and learned that the Mocking Heaven Sect had built the palace as a refuge but abandoned it before ever using it.

Seven years after entering the palace, Chen Qiu had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Sixth Layer and planned to save twelve Supreme Grade trait choices for a chance to find a way home. Outside, his allies and acquaintances believed he was dead or trapped, while the Mocking Heaven Sect stayed loyal and events continued across several continents.

• Chen Qiu cultivated in the palace for seven years, reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Sixth Layer and accumulating eleven Supreme Grade trait choices as he prepared to save one more.
• The Bai Family patriarch concluded that Chen Qiu and the three Bai Family Sky Prodigies had died in the secret realm and abandoned his former ambitions.
• Weird Buddha continued supplying the Mocking Heaven Sect under his agreement with Chen Qiu, while Scholar and his nameless younger brother maintained their work and insisted Chen Qiu was not dead.
• Badan learned that Zhao Yishi had reached the Void Refinement Realm but still could not determine Chen Qiu's fate.
• The Wei Prince investigated the Qi Sect's sudden wealth and suspected that its leader had gained it through dishonest means.

The Seventh Prince and Peaceful Prefecture Patriarch reached higher-grade continents while Chen Qiu remained trapped in Mocking Heaven Hall. Jiang Buping abducted the Bai Family Head’s daughter to lure Chen Qiu to the Tidal Immortal Realm, while Chen Qiu found another continent’s Heavenly Dao Shackles but lacked its password.

• The Seventh Prince arrived on Vast Continent, while the Qi Clan's Third Young Master and White Crane Daoist remained imprisoned in separate pocket spaces and suffered from isolation.
• The Peaceful Prefecture Patriarch reached Qi Tian Continent and agreed to accompany the Wei Prince's Residence Lord to an important gathering in the Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Buping seized the Bai Family Head’s daughter and told the Bai Family Head to direct Chen Qiu to the Tidal Immortal Realm if he wanted to save her.
• Jiang Buping explained that he hoped Chen Qiu would return from Mocking Heaven Hall so he could recover his corpse and restore much of his strength.
• Chen Qiu reached the Seventh Layer of Tribulation Transcendence, discovered Mocking Heaven Hall could travel through the Void, and found a continent’s Heavenly Dao Shackles.
• The secret realm host told Chen Qiu that they could not cross the Shackles without the correct password, which might be obtained from an awakened secret-realm artifact spirit.

Chen Qiu discovered a hidden jade slip that revealed the Mocking Heaven Sect’s history and the teleportation array concealed in Mocking Heaven Hall. He and the others gathered at the array, ready to return home, while Chen Qiu faced the looming threat of the Heavenly Dao’s awakening.

• Chen Qiu failed to find a way out through the Void and realized his cultivation draws and secret-realm rewards could not help him while he remained in Mocking Heaven Hall.
• Chen Qiu broke through his stone bed in frustration and found a jade slip hidden inside it.
• Chen Qiu learned from Zhang Qingtian’s record that the Mocking Heaven Sect had devised seven plans to survive the Heavenly Dao, and that a teleportation array lay at the heart of Mocking Heaven Hall.
• Chen Qiu concluded that the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment and the Great Xia Kingdom were linked to the Mocking Heaven Sect’s Returning Womb Plan, and recognized that the Heavenly Dao might awaken soon.
• Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, and the others gathered at the sixth trial’s Azure Stone Plaza as its markings revealed a teleportation array capable of transporting up to a million people.

Chen Qiu escaped the secret realm after seven years, returned to the Qi Tian Continent, and faced a massive accumulated Thunder Tribulation on the Jiang Taiping Continent. As his allies gathered for a reunion, he prepared for the tribulation and remembered an old subordinate still trapped among the Hundred Cities.

• Chen Qiu learned that he had skipped the Mahayana Stage and reached the Seventh Layer of Tribulation Transcendence, then activated the Azure Stone Plaza’s teleportation array to leave the secret realm.
• Chen Qiu returned to the Qi Tian Continent with Fat Dragon and the others, traveled to the Jiang Taiping Continent, and triggered a huge Thunder Tribulation that had accumulated while he was trapped.
• Chen Qiu sent Bai Pingling to report to the Bai Family and allowed the secret realm’s host to establish the Artifact Spirit Clan after the tribulation.
• Weird Buddha told Scholar that Chen Qiu had escaped his predicament, and Chen Qiu confirmed that Weird Buddha was alive and asked the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples to gather on the Jiang Taiping Continent.
• Chen Qiu released Xiong Gao and the Brown Bear Clan from his Minor World and learned that the shopkeeper assigned to break the Hundred Cities’ restrictions had remained there for seven years.

Chen Qiu attended a bonfire gathering while the Thunder Tribulation continued to build overhead, then learned that Jiang Buping had kidnapped the Bai Family's young lady and was waiting for him in the Tidal Immortal Realm. Chen Qiu planned to visit the Wei Prince's Residence and attend the Ascension Gathering, while the Wei Prince realized she might be a contingency meant to oppose the force that erased the Mocking Heaven Sect from history.

• Chen Qiu held a bonfire gathering with Mocking Heaven Sect disciples and old allies while an immense Thunder Tribulation continued to gather above Jiang Taiping Continent.
• The head of the Bai Family told Chen Qiu that Jiang Buping had taken his daughter to the Tidal Immortal Realm and challenged Chen Qiu to find him there.
• Badan explained the Ascension Gathering and offered to bring Chen Qiu, who decided to seek the Wei Prince's Residence first to collect its 1.7 billion Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Buping kept the Bai Family's young lady captive, speculated that the Heavenly Dao feared her, and recalled the people who had called him the Heavenly Dao's lackey.
• Badan told the Wei Prince that Chen Qiu planned to visit her, and she concluded that the Mocking Heaven Sect had left her as a contingency against the power that erased it from memory.

Chen Qiu endured and overcame a Second-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, earning a Heavenly Dao Edict and a hundred million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. As the gathering resumed, Badan told him about Seven Madam Continent, where the Rainbow Trait Void Targeting had turned daily life into a deadly struggle.

• Chen Qiu sent the gathering’s guests away and stood alone beneath the tribulation clouds as their bolts struck him without causing serious harm.
• After the ninth bolt, the Heavenly Dao Edict declared that Chen Qiu had overcome the Second-Grade God-Slaying Tribulation at the Seventh Layer of Tribulation Transcendence and awarded him a hundred million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Badan and the others returned, and Chen Qiu released the Mocking Heaven Sect members so the gathering could continue.
• Weird Buddha asked Badan to help conceal his identity at the upcoming Ascension Gathering, and Badan agreed.
• Badan told Chen Qiu that people born on Seven Madam Continent possessed the Rainbow Trait Void Targeting, which let them attack anyone whose appearance and true name they knew across any distance.
• Badan explained that residents hid their names and appearances, but often died when relatives used Void Targeting against them during disputes.

After reviewing his secret-realm rewards, Chen Qiu obtained a Gold Trait that could let him sleep for thirty thousand years and considered what it might reveal about the Heavenly Dao. He slept on an old stone from the Great Xia Kingdom, then woke wondering whether it had moved; meanwhile, Weird Buddha prepared to attend the Ascension Gathering, and Jiang Buping plotted to reclaim his body from Chen Qiu.

• Chen Qiu reviewed his secret-realm gains, gave Weird Buddha a Random Red Trait Jade Slip as compensation, and extended their cooperation after Weird Buddha calculated its value.
• Chen Qiu drew the Purple Trait Elixir Celestial Venerable and the Gold Trait Ten-Thousand-Year Slumber, then speculated that the Heavenly Dao might possess a similar ability.
• Chen Qiu used eleven One-Day Rainbow Trait Jade Slips and saw Heaven Rewards Diligence, Brawler's Origins, and Absolute Invisibility among the revealed Traits.
• Chen Qiu fell asleep on the stone he had brought from the Great Xia Kingdom, while Weird Buddha decided to attend the Ascension Gathering without revealing his identity.
• Jiang Buping learned that Chen Qiu had escaped and planned to make Chen Qiu come to him by using the Bai Family's young lady as leverage.
• After waking, Chen Qiu examined the stone, found it solid, and wondered whether he should cut it open to see what was inside.

Chen Qiu used an Immortal Light to turn Lone Invisibility into the Supreme Rainbow Trait A Leaf Blinds the Eye, then infiltrated the Tidal Immortal Realm to track down the person who had stolen 1.7 billion Spirit Stones. After learning the Qi Sect’s crippled master was responsible, Chen Qiu captured him and handed him to Little Handsome to decide his fate.

• Chen Qiu drew two Immortal Lights and chose Lone Invisibility, which became the Rainbow Trait A Leaf Blinds the Eye when he used one.
• Chen Qiu traveled invisibly to the Tidal Immortal Realm and learned from the Wei Prince that the Qi Sect’s crippled master might have stolen his 1.7 billion Spirit Stones.
• The Wei Prince ordered her forces to prepare to attack the Qi Sect while Chen Qiu followed the coordinates she gave him.
• Chen Qiu captured the Qi Sect master and had Xiong Gao question him until he confessed to taking the Spirit Stones and revealed that most remained in storage rings.
• Chen Qiu offered the captive Qi Sect master to Little Handsome and let him decide whether to kill him or spare him.

Chen Qiu arrived in Central Province City for the Ascension Gathering with the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples and prepared to explore its markets and auction. After a local young master mocked the group, Chen Qiu sent him a fruit platter anonymously, leaving the young master convinced that a powerful stranger had taken an interest in him.

• Chen Qiu planned to establish the artifact spirit clan after Little Handsome killed the Qi Sect Master, and he prepared for the Ascension Gathering with four Heavenly Immortal Peak Sword Cultivator Puppets.
• Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, Xiong Gao, and the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples arrived in Central Province City, where Badan explained the three days of markets and auctions before the gathering began.
• A young master from the Chao Sect and his companion mocked Chen Qiu's group, and the young master ordered his servants to investigate them and kill them if they had no powerful backing.
• Chen Qiu rented a private room at an auction venue by showing the attendant a storage ring containing more than enough Spirit Stones.
• After Scholar spotted the Chao Sect young master sitting in the main hall, Chen Qiu sent him a fruit platter as a reward and told the attendant to describe him as an unnamed outsider.
• The Chao Sect young master heard that the anonymous figure was immensely wealthy and began imagining that the man had recognized something special in him.

Chen Qiu won three Multifold Casting traits after the young master of Chao Sect drove their price to 15 million Spirit Stones and then gifted them to him. As the auction continued, a group bought a trait that matched their young master's seemingly useless Eternal Qi Refinement, while Jiang Buping recalled a once-invincible cultivator whose traits had been stripped away.

• Chen Qiu bid on Fourfold Casting, Fivefold Casting, and Sixfold Casting, but the Chao Sect young master raised the price to 15 million Spirit Stones to present them as a gift to Chen Qiu.
• The young master sent the three Trait Jade Slips to Chen Qiu, who accepted them and absorbed their traits.
• Chen Qiu bid on Edict Regular to save it from going unsold, and other bidders drove its final price to 1.8 million Spirit Stones.
• A group bought Spirit Stone Supply for 9 million Spirit Stones and hurried out of the city, hoping to pair it with their young master's Eternal Qi Refinement trait.
• Jiang Buping recognized the buyers' likely trait combination and recalled a cultivator who had reached Qi Refinement Layer 90,000 before his traits were stripped away amid chaos.

Jiang Buping remembered his past as Jiang Taiping and wrestled with whether reclaiming his old body would force him to face the Heavenly Dao again. Meanwhile, Chen Qiu decided to pursue the auction’s Rainbow Trait Jade Slip, World Tree, which could rapidly increase cultivation by producing fruits.

• Jiang Buping recalled how Qidan died after refusing to serve the Heavenly Dao, how he himself became its lackey, and how the Mocking Heaven Sect later captured and killed him before he escaped with his divine soul.
• Jiang Buping told the Bai Family's young lady that he had no relationship with Jiang Taiping, though he privately admitted he was the same person and feared reclaiming his former body would bring the Heavenly Dao's attention.
• The Bai Family's young lady said Chen Qiu had more bearing than Jiang Buping, while Jiang Buping warned her that she would die if Chen Qiu did not rescue her.
• The mistress of the Wei Prince's Residence recalled how her forces annexed the Qi Sect after its sect master's death and then attended the auction in Central Province City.
• The auction presented a permanent Rainbow Trait Jade Slip called World Tree, whose fruits could each increase cultivation progress by ten percent, and Chen Qiu resolved to obtain it.
• Jiang Buping recognized World Tree as a powerful early-stage cultivation trait and considered bidding on it.