Chapter Summaries

Chen Qiu won the Rainbow Trait Jade Slip for 618 million Spirit Stones, then returned to Mocking Heaven Hall and planted its World Tree in the Void. The chapter ended with the tree connected to the Hall and under Chen Qiu’s control, while the young master who had offended him realized his mistake and chose to retreat home.

• Jiang Buping considered the World Tree’s potential in the Void and thought Chen Qiu might be the only person in the Lower-Grade Immortal Realm able to reach it.
• Chen Qiu kept bidding as the price rose, and Private Room No. 18 won the Rainbow Trait Jade Slip for 618 million Spirit Stones.
• The Heaven and Earth Auction’s president celebrated the sale as a historic success and learned that Private Room No. 18’s guests were connected to Badan.
• Chen Qiu left the private room, and Fat Dragon told the young master that Chen Qiu’s earlier fruit platter had been a mocking reward and thanked him for the three Trait Jade Slips.
• The young master learned that his attendant had changed the wording of the summons and decided not to tell his father, while he and his companion returned home.
• Chen Qiu activated Mocking Heaven Hall’s teleportation array, planted the World Tree sapling in the Void, and discovered that he could control it and harvest its fruit through the Hall.

Chen Qiu returned to Central Province City, completed the Thousand-Hand Guanyin trait set, and learned more about the Immortal Realm’s cultivation techniques. He stayed at the Barbarian Race’s courtyard and ended the night looking forward to reaching the Human Immortal realm.

• Chen Qiu returned to Central Province City with Fat Dragon and the others, ate rice noodle rolls, and heard a storyteller recount Badan’s reputation in the Tidal Immortal Realm.
• Chen Qiu found Sevenfold Casting and Eightfold Casting at a stall, bought both, and completed the Thousand-Hand Guanyin Heavenly Dao Trait Set.
• A neighboring stall owner told the scar-faced seller that the traits had fetched a far higher price at auction, but the seller defended his quick sale.
• Badan invited Chen Qiu’s group to stay at the Barbarian Race’s courtyard, which the race had seized from the Demon Race.
• Chen Qiu studied a jade slip about Human Immortal Abodes and Earth Immortal Mounts, then considered the unusual role of these cultivation techniques.

Chen Qiu used Little Handsome’s connection to the Ascension Gathering’s self-aware artifact spirit to give the Mocking Heaven Sect special identities, then led the Giant Team through the first Masked Banquet stage. The Giant Team won its idiom-guessing match by correctly answering every round, leaving the opposing captain convinced that Chen Qiu’s side had cheated.

• Chen Qiu learned from Little Handsome that the Ascension Gathering’s artifact spirit wanted to join the Artifact Spirit Clan, and he agreed in exchange for the chance to choose special identities for his people.
• Chen Qiu arranged for the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples to receive the special identities, then entered the first Masked Banquet stage with Badan’s Giant Team.
• Chen Qiu represented the Giant Team in the first half and correctly guessed all ten idioms acted out by the Charge-Ahead Team’s performer.
• Fat Dragon represented the Giant Team in the second half, repeatedly using the same seated pose and nod while Chen Qiu supplied the correct idiom answers.
• The Giant Team won the match, and the Charge-Ahead Team’s captain angrily accused them of cheating before receiving the defeat notification.

Chen Qiu’s Giant Team won the second and third Ascension Gathering rounds by fielding all five Immortal in the Furnace identities and all five Peach Immortal identities, while their opponents accused them of cheating. As the fourth round began elsewhere, Jiang Buping was shocked to find Chen Qiu facing his team.

• Chen Qiu’s Giant Team defeated the Gu Sect in the second round after five team members revealed Immortal in the Furnace identities and crossed the Samadhi True Flame corridors quickly.
• The team won the third round against the Myriad Puppet Sect when five Peach Immortals destroyed their puppets, and Chen Qiu again received the outstanding performer reward.
• Badan wondered whether the Heavenly Dao would punish Chen Qiu for cheating, but Chen Qiu denied cheating because the secret realm’s artifact spirit had pledged itself to him.
• The Press On Team captain and the Gu Sect master watched from the stands, while the captain suspected Chen Qiu’s team might possess all forty-five special identities.
• Jiang Buping wondered why his Identity Card had failed to grant him a special identity, then saw Chen Qiu arrive as his team’s opponent for the fourth round.

Chen Qiu’s team dominated the Ascension Gathering trials, while Jiang Buping revealed that Calamity Day was a thousand years away and hinted he might stand with Chen Qiu. As the Masked Banquet began and the plaza entered the Void, the chapter ended with the wounded Seventh Prince hiding from pursuers in Mystic Heaven Province.

• Jiang Buping told Chen Qiu that Calamity Day would arrive in a thousand years, then lost their dice game and suggested they might stand together if Chen Qiu grew strong enough.
• Chen Qiu’s team won the fifth through ninth trials with help from disciples whose special identities suited each challenge, becoming the only team to clear the ninth trial.
• Chen Qiu used two Supreme Cultivation Cards and raised his cultivation to the Seventh Layer of Tribulation Transcendence at 80.5%.
• The secret realm’s artifact spirit praised the exhausted little girl for arranging the trials, and the Masked Banquet began as the Azure Stone Plaza entered the Void.
• The Seventh Prince hid wounded in Mystic Heaven Province after a companion betrayed him over a supreme treasure, unable to contact his master for help.

The Buddhist Sect and Azure Mountain Palace ancestors rescued the Seventh Prince of Great Xia, Chen Qiu’s lone disciple, and planned to seek a reward from the Mocking Heaven Sect. Meanwhile, Chen Qiu’s team won the Masked Banquet’s first-place reward, and Chen Qiu began devouring spirit fruits to rapidly increase his cultivation.

• The Seventh Prince of Great Xia hid his storage ring before enemies cornered him, but the Buddhist Sect and Azure Mountain Palace ancestors intervened after recognizing the character “Mock” on his clothes.
• The Seventh Prince confirmed that Chen Qiu was his master, and the two ancestors took him to recover while discussing asking to join the Mocking Heaven Sect as their reward.
• Chen Qiu and the others arrived at the Masked Banquet, where masks concealed participants and teams had to reunite before accessing the banquet’s immortal opportunities.
• Chen Qiu used the secret realm’s bias in his favor to secure the Giant Team’s first-place reward, raising his cultivation to the eighth layer of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Chen Qiu chose cultivation progress from a spirit fruit’s reward and raced through the banquet, eating fruit after fruit as other teams began claiming opportunities.

Chen Qiu devoured the spirit fruits at the banquet, boosting his cultivation progress to 820.5% of Tribulation Transcendence Peak, while the gathering paused before its second-day Peach Banquet. In the Great Xia Kingdom, Liu Changqing entered the Nine Great Lands of Inheritance and recalled how he had secretly guided Chen Qiu, his chosen successor, whose unexpected choices had carried him out of the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment.

• Chen Qiu ate nearly all the spirit fruits, while Jiang Buping and the Bai Family’s young lady discussed love, suffering, and the Heavenly Dao’s possible weaknesses.
• Chen Qiu’s cultivation panel showed 820.5% progress at Tribulation Transcendence Peak, and Fat Dragon explained that the grilled meat enhanced cultivation gained through special methods.
• The banquet ended, and the participants waited ten hours in Azure Stone Plaza before the Peach Banquet while Chen Qiu rested and watched two groups argue over their cave-abode grades.
• A silver-haired old man entered the Nine Great Lands of Inheritance in the Boundless Ice Wastes and revealed himself as Liu Changqing, the former Mocking Heaven Sect master who had lived in the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment for thirty thousand years.
• Liu Changqing recalled observing Chen Qiu through several lives, secretly helping him, and choosing him as the successor who could carry out the Mocking Heaven Sect’s purpose.
• Liu Changqing recounted that Chen Qiu abandoned sword cultivation, reincarnated, and ultimately escaped the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment as a powerful spell cultivator.

More than a decade after Chen Qiu left, Great Xia Kingdom had adapted to the advancing cold, and the Ascension Gathering began its Peach Banquet. Chen Qiu discovered he could read the peaches’ predetermined outcomes and quietly guided his companions to opportunities, while the three Black Peaches remained out of reach for everyone else.

• The old Liu Changqing watched Old Cao and Xian Yi on the beach as Great Xia Kingdom developed the Boundless Desert into an oasis and redirected its underground fire to help resist the cold.
• The Ascension Gathering’s Azure Stone Plazas reached a forest of peach trees, where the rules gave each cultivator three chances to pluck peaches that could grant opportunities or misfortune.
• A young man plucked a Rainbow Peach and received Immortal Cancer, prompting Badan and many others to avoid risking even Green Peaches.
• Chen Qiu used a peach leaf to see the peaches’ cycling outcomes and instructed Badan, Fat Dragon, and their companions when to pluck Rainbow Peaches for opportunities.
• An old man tried twice to reach a Black Peach, but its tree grew into the Void both times and kept him away.
• Other cultivators noticed Chen Qiu’s group repeatedly plucking Rainbow Peaches, and their discreet attempt to conceal their success drew attention.

During the Peach Banquet, Chen Qiu gained a massive cultivation boost from three Black Peaches, while Fat Dragon’s advice encouraged many cultivators to risk Rainbow Peaches and contract Immortal Cancer. As the banquet ended, Chen Qiu agreed to help Badan seize the chance to become a True Immortal, and Badan explained how difficult that breakthrough normally was.

• Fat Dragon picked a Rainbow Peach despite having Immortal Cancer, inspiring a despairing young man to pick more peaches and eventually win six strands of Fortune of the Yin Soul.
• Chen Qiu picked all three Black Peaches and chose cultivation progress each time, raising his cultivation progress to 1720.5%.
• Badan gathered his clansmen’s Grade-Raising Stones and raised his Heavenly Realm grade to thirty-eight, while other cultivators discovered that only Chen Qiu could pick the Black Peaches.
• More than a thousand cultivators had contracted Immortal Cancer by the end of the Peach Banquet, and some began selling their Fortune of the Yin Soul to buyers.
• Badan asked Chen Qiu for a wisp of Yin Emperor Fortune so he could pursue the True Immortal breakthrough, and Chen Qiu agreed to give it to him.
• Badan explained that becoming a True Immortal required a permanent Rainbow Trait and a True Immortal corpse as a catalyst.

Chen Qiu and the others began the Ascension Path, where challengers faced step-specific obstacles for rewards and a chance at True Immortal. Chen Qiu surged to step 2 with ease, while Badan and the others continued climbing and reacted to his lead.

• The Ascension Path began with 1,024 enormous steps, and the rules promised the first climber to reach the summit a True Immortal breakthrough opportunity.
• Chen Qiu discovered that his first obstacle let him choose how many same-level puppets to fight, then destroyed 1,022 puppets and skipped directly to step 2.
• Badan cleared his obstacle and reached step 1010, but found Chen Qiu far ahead at first place and resolved to keep climbing.
• Jiang Buping and the Gu Sect Master saw Chen Qiu's ranking and abandoned their hopes of competing with him.
• Fat Dragon reached step 1021, encouraged the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples, and began competing with them for rank.

Chen Qiu arranged for Badan to reach the summit of the Ascension Path and claimed the Supreme-Grade Fairy's First Night trait before the secret realm closed. Outside Central Province City, an immense Heavenly Tribulation formed around Chen Qiu, who revealed it was his own Ascension Tribulation and prepared to face it.

• Chen Qiu used the Level 999 trial to send the Giant Team members to their planned levels, then sent Badan to the second level so Badan could reach the summit.
• Badan reached the summit, ending the challenge and triggering the secret realm's closure; Chen Qiu selected the Supreme-Grade Fairy's First Night trait as his reward.
• A tremendous Heavenly Tribulation gathered over Central Province City, and Badan mistakenly believed it was his True Immortal Tribulation.
• Chen Qiu explained that the tribulation was his own, moved Badan and the others into his Minor World, and rose into the sky to face it.
• Chen Qiu prepared his tribulation-defying items as the gathered cultivators watched, doubting he could survive the overwhelming lightning.

Chen Qiu endured a Third-Grade Heavenly Tribulation over Central Province City, surviving the first eight strikes with his defenses and artifacts exhausted. He met the ninth strike with his strongest Thunder technique, and the collision dispersed the tribulation clouds as strange cracks appeared in the sky.

• Moon revealed her name and showed her affection for Little Handsome, while Fat Dragon reacted to their relationship.
• Chen Qiu endured the first six Thunder Tribulations using his body, Golden Light Protections, the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella, and other defenses, but suffered severe injuries.
• The seventh and eighth Thunder Tribulations struck nearly together, leaving Chen Qiu barely alive in a crater while the ninth gathered overhead.
• Chen Qiu rose from the crater, gathered his strength, and charged the ninth Thunder Tribulation with a Thunderball formed by Three Thousand Thunder Motions.
• Chen Qiu's attack collided with the ninth strike, dispersing the tribulation clouds and leaving him upright amid the storm as cracks appeared in the sky.

Chen Qiu survived the World-Extinguishing Thunder Tribulation and received immense rewards, including a cultivation-speed increase from the Heavenly Dao Edict. After recovering, he learned from Jiang Buping about the Mocking Heaven Sect’s sixth plan, a scheme to slaughter realms across the continent hierarchy and leave the Heavenly Dao unable to heal.

• Chen Qiu countered the ninth Thunder Tribulation with his strongest strike, survived, and was honored by a Heavenly Dao Edict that granted him treasures, Spirit Stones, and other rewards.
• The Edict spread Chen Qiu’s name across Tidal Immortal Realm and its Lower-Rank Continents, raising his permanent cultivation speed to 3,120 times.
• Jiang Buping approached Chen Qiu while he was still paralyzed by the lightning and praised his strength, then explained the Mocking Heaven Sect’s seven plans.
• Jiang Buping revealed that the Promised Land Plan called for wiping out the Twelfth-Rank through Sixth-Grade Immortal Realms so the Heavenly Dao could not heal by devouring a Twelfth-Rank realm.
• Chen Qiu said he would not carry out the plan because he would not wait hundreds of thousands or millions of years for its results, and he resolved to find another way to defeat the Heavenly Dao.

After surviving the Third-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, Chen Qiu returned to his Minor World and slept off his exhaustion while Central Province City began turning the destruction into a business opportunity. Meanwhile, July Cat revealed that her immortality was a curse that killed anyone who stayed close to her, leaving her isolated and unsure how to escape the Heavenly Dao’s control.

• Chen Qiu returned to his Minor World, collapsed from his injuries, and Fat Dragon had Star Dipper check on him.
• Jiang Buping left to return the “Bai Family’s young lady” to the Bai Family, while reflecting on how revised history concealed the Mocking Heaven Sect’s threat to other Immortal Realms.
• The Central Province City Lord promised compensation for buildings destroyed by Chen Qiu’s Heavenly Tribulation and planned to turn the ruins into a scenic attraction and a new annual Ascension Gathering venue.
• Three days later, Chen Qiu’s feat spread throughout the Tidal Immortal Realm, while July Cat watched from a rooftop and recalled that her immortality forced her to reincarnate and brought death to those who stayed with her too long.
• Chen Qiu woke after three days of rest, reviewed his gains, and found Jiang Buping’s corpse in his storage ring.

After surviving the Third-Grade Heavenly Tribulation, Chen Qiu prepared to return to the Great Xia Kingdom with the Mocking Heaven Sect and discovered that his accumulated Trait Draw chances had combined into a rare Earth Fortune Draw. The draw revealed several powerful rewards, and Chen Qiu chose the three unique-tier rewards before weighing which three others to select.

• Chen Qiu found that the Green Trait Edict Regular had doubled his tribulation rewards, including his Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and Purple Immortal Set.
• After a celebration feast, Chen Qiu announced that the Mocking Heaven Sect would return to the Great Xia Kingdom in three days, and the disciples excitedly prepared to visit their families and buy gifts in Central Province City.
• Once the others left the Minor World, Chen Qiu discovered that nine Human Fortune Draw chances had combined into an Earth Fortune Draw, and he used Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen to improve his luck.
• The draw offered Chen Qiu ten rewards, including three unique-tier rewards, a White Trait Bundle, and several Black Traits.
• Chen Qiu selected Absolute Attribute Defense Negation, the Heavenly Dao Architecture Treasure-Eating Spirit Tree, and the Heavenly Dao supreme treasure Soul-Devouring Thunder Garment as mandatory picks, then began considering the remaining rewards.

After choosing his Ascension Gathering rewards, Chen Qiu cleared nearly a hundred thousand White Traits and discovered that his attacks could kill Heavenly Immortal Peak cultivators with ease. He abducted Ji Ruyue after learning she had set him up to face her suitor, while in the Sixth-Grade Immortal Realm her mother tried to placate the suitor’s furious father.

• Chen Qiu chose the three unique-grade rewards, the White Trait Bundle, Voidwalking, and the Human Sovereign Banner, then began destroying White Traits that impaired him.
• Chen Qiu spent more than two hours self-destructing the troublesome traits, causing thousands of Heavenly Immortal-level blasts and frightening the gathered spectators before he vanished.
• Chen Qiu followed the group tracking Fat Dragon and discovered that Ji Ruyue had named him as a suitor to provoke her husband into challenging him.
• Chen Qiu abducted Ji Ruyue and killed her three Heavenly Immortal Peak guards with ordinary Lightning-Channeling Arts, then imprisoned her in his Minor World.
• In the Tranquil Immortal Realm, Wei Family patriarch confronted Ji Xiaohua over Ji Ruyue’s repeated mistreatment of his son, but Ji Xiaohua promised to summon Ji Ruyue for a meal.

The Wei Family Patriarch learned that Chen Qiu was a rapidly rising prodigy and rushed to stop Wei Ergong from confronting him, but arrived after Chen Qiu defeated Wei Ergong. Chen Qiu spared Wei Ergong and brought him to Ji Ruyue, while the Wei Family Patriarch celebrated his son’s newfound confidence and Chen Qiu denied teaching him to force himself on women.

• The Wei Family Patriarch ordered Wei Ergong to return after learning about Chen Qiu’s rapid rise, but discovered that Wei Ergong had blocked all communication and set out to confront him.
• Chen Qiu bought the White Human Emperor Banner and then accepted Wei Ergong’s challenge outside Central Province City.
• Wei Ergong broke his promise to suppress his cultivation and attacked Chen Qiu at his True Immortal Peak strength, but Chen Qiu defeated him with the Body Integration Killing Art.
• After learning that Wei Ergong’s desire for Ji Ruyue was purely physical, Chen Qiu spared him and brought him into his Minor World to meet her.
• The Wei Family Patriarch found Wei Ergong alive and praised his newfound resolve, while Chen Qiu insisted he had not taught Wei Ergong to take women by force.

Chen Qiu dealt with the aftermath of Wei Ergong’s defeat and prepared to return to the Great Xia Kingdom, while the Tidal Immortal Realm’s powers debated how to respond to his strength. On the way, he rescued the Seventh Prince’s situation, gained an extraordinarily powerful trait, and recruited two patriarchs into the Mocking Heaven Sect before setting out.

• The Wei Family head thanked Chen Qiu with a night pearl, then agreed to Wei Ergong’s increasingly outrageous demands involving the Ji Family.
• Chen Qiu announced that the Mocking Heaven Sect would leave at dawn, while leaders across the Tidal Immortal Realm considered whether to resist his growing dominance.
• Badan and Jiang Buping learned that Chen Qiu had defeated Wei Ergong head-on, and Jiang Buping recognized that Chen Qiu’s attack ignored defenses.
• After the Seventh Prince reported that the Qi Clan had hunted him for a treasure, Chen Qiu sent the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples to destroy the clan and accepted the Seventh Prince’s Pink Trait Jade Slip.
• Chen Qiu discovered the trait More Is Better, promised to reward the Seventh Prince, and gave the Buddhist Sect Patriarch and Azure Mountain Palace Patriarch Outer Disciple Tokens so they could protect him.
• Fat Dragon reported that the Qi Clan had been eliminated, and Chen Qiu ordered everyone to regroup before departing for the Great Xia Kingdom.

Chen Qiu returned to the Great Xia Kingdom, reunited with old acquaintances, and revisited the places from his past. While Liu Zide examined the Wang Family’s Weird Buddha, he realized that the Wang Family’s master had accidentally tortured it with millions of branches of Fierce Baleful Wood, and the Buddha finally died.

• Chen Qiu returned to the Great Xia Kingdom with the Mocking Heaven Sect, and the Great Xia Emperor welcomed him at a palace banquet where Fat Dragon recounted his exploits.
• Chen Qiu slipped away from the banquet to look toward the Boundless Ice Wastes and planned to explore them and search for the former Mocking Heaven Sect Master's treasure.
• Old Cao invited Xian Yi to meet Chen Qiu, while the former Mocking Heaven Sect Master considered telling Chen Qiu that he was his biological father.
• Chen Qiu visited places from his past with Fat Dragon and his companions as the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples reunited with their families.
• The Wang Family's master showed Liu Zide the dying Weird Buddha and explained that he had buried millions of branches of Fierce Baleful Wood beneath the estate and burned more in the ancestral hall.
• Liu Zide told the Wang Family's master that even an Immortality Herb could not save the Weird Buddha, which shed tears and died.

Chen Qiu reunited with old friends in the Great Xia Kingdom, then investigated the worsening cold and a vast resurgence of Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture. At the Tomb of All Beings, he learned that the Celestial Palace Plan aimed to gather Fierce Baleful Wood and use it to migrate to and repair the Primordial Continent, leaving him to consider the plan and the apparently failed Voyage Plan.

• The Wang Family patriarch refused Liu Zide’s offer to take him to the First-Grade Continent, choosing to remain with his family fortune for now.
• Chen Qiu learned from Old Cao that the Hundred Kingdoms had been unified by the Great Xia Kingdom, and Old Cao declined reincarnation so he could watch Chen Qiu’s journey continue.
• Chen Qiu visited old friends and former subordinates, gave them gifts and Spirit Stones, and collected Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Ice and Heavenly Frost Tea from the Boundless Snow Mountains.
• Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon found countless Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture, and Chen Qiu purified them, but the severe cold did not ease.
• Chen Qiu traveled deeper into the Boundless Ice Wastes and found the Tomb of All Beings, where he read the Celestial Palace Plan and learned that the Voyage Plan sought the Primordial Continent’s coordinates.