Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After rescuing several hundred Transcendent Immortals from the Mountain-Pulling Hermit and the Zheyou Immortal Matron, Chen Jichuan—traveling under the name Qizhenzi—sets them free and jokingly asks them to repay him with Origin Jade if they ever attain True Immortality.
• Meng Qing is among those rescued. He reflects on his long absence: after leaving the sect to seek the Dao, he was bewitched by the Zheyou Immortal Matron and spent nearly a thousand years under her control, suffering both humiliation and serious injury. Exhausted, he returns to the Dao Sect.
• At the sect, Meng Qing learns that his junior brother Zhou Yan—now known as the Dongqi Palace Lord—attained True Immortality ten years earlier. The news overwhelms him with astonishment and happiness, and he hurries to congratulate Zhou Yan.
• Chen Jichuan warmly receives Meng Qing at Dongqi Palace. He gives him healing pills, Dao-comprehension treasures, and twenty jin of Origin Jade, explaining that Meng Qing’s past guidance helped him enter the immortal path and become the East River Palace Lord’s disciple.
• Moved by the generosity, Meng Qing accepts the gifts and vows to repay him if he, too, attains True Immortality. They discuss the Dao for several days.
• Chen Jichuan also distributes Origin Jade and other gifts to fellow disciples, varying their size according to closeness and cultivation. He gives the most help to Meng Qing and Shi Ze, substantial gifts to Snow Valley and Bu Yin, and smaller amounts to Wu Qi, Liu Hechuan, and Jiang Qingxing.

Character developments

• Meng Qing returns chastened and emotionally worn by captivity, but retains his warmth, loyalty, and gratitude. Learning of Zhou Yan’s success restores his spirits and gives him renewed hope of attaining the Dao.
• Chen Jichuan/Zhou Yan is revealed as a generous and thoughtful True Immortal. He remembers old kindnesses, supports his fellow disciples, and hopes they may follow him to the Dao.
• The rescued Transcendent Immortals are freed from enslavement and enchantment, with Meng Qing especially conscious of the debt they owe their rescuer.

Themes

• Kindness repaid: Meng Qing’s modest past support for Zhou Yan returns to him in the form of life-changing assistance.
• Freedom and recovery: Meng Qing’s return marks the end of a long period of coercion and humiliation, though his injuries and painful memories remain.
• Hope and perseverance: Despite his age, injuries, and uncertain prospects, Meng Qing may still attain True Immortality with time and support.
• Fellowship and unequal generosity: Chen Jichuan helps broadly, but gives more to those with deeper bonds or greater need, balancing affection with limited resources.

Character interactions

• Meng Qing sincerely thanks Qizhenzi for freeing him and the others.
• A young Dao Sect disciple enthusiastically recounts Zhou Yan’s rise, inadvertently giving Meng Qing the joyful news.
• Chen Jichuan and Meng Qing reunite as senior and junior brothers. Their conversation combines affection, gratitude, practical aid, and discussion of the Dao.
• Chen Jichuan’s gifts reinforce the bonds among the sect’s disciples while making clear that their histories and closeness shape how much support each receives.

Key plot points and events

• After ascending to True Immortal, Chen Jichuan receives abundant Origin Jade through the One Origin Dao Gate and his own East Sea sanctuary. He focuses on adapting to his new cultivation, developing his Dharma Domain, refining a Domain Clone, and advancing his divine abilities.
• Crimson Blood Palace’s Red Flower Ancestor orders the Two Elders of Withered Glory, Shitong and Dongjun, to assassinate Zhou Yan, Chen Jichuan’s Dao Sect identity. The elders explain that their earlier efforts failed because Zhou Yan rarely left the sect.
• The Red Flower Ancestor gives them a Metropolis Heaven Witch-Curse Puppet. Shitong is to capture Zhou Yan’s true form, while Dongjun uses the puppet to curse him. The elders wait offshore, expecting Zhou Yan to leave once he has refined a Domain Clone.
• Zhou Yan remains inside the Dao Sect for five thousand years. The prolonged vigil frustrates both elders, who eventually become resigned to waiting.
• Meanwhile, Chen Jichuan summons his disciples Shen Qingyi and Meng Yan. He tells Shen that her mother, Daoist nun Chen Yu, has little time left and sends both disciples to visit her at the Cloudlit Dao Gate. He also gives Shen the Qian-Heaven Flame Spirit Lamp, an artifact her father had left in his care.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan is cautious and patient, using the safety of the Dao Sect to strengthen himself before entering wider factional conflicts.
• Shitong grows increasingly restless as the mission stalls; Dongjun is initially more patient, studying the curse puppet, but eventually shares his eagerness for Zhou Yan to appear.
• Shen Qingyi has advanced to Third-Realm High Immortal and is considered to have the potential to attain the Dao. News of her mother’s condition shocks her, but she quickly resolves to go.
• Meng Yan, Chen Jichuan’s second personal disciple, has reached Fourth Rank, Third Realm. His calm temperament and promise have earned his teacher’s confidence.

Character interactions

• The Red Flower Ancestor rebukes neither elder for past failures but gives them a new, more direct plan and a powerful weapon.
• Shitong and Dongjun explain their earlier inability to reach Zhou Yan, then endure years of fruitless surveillance together.
• Chen Jichuan speaks with care and authority to his disciples: he sends them to support Shen’s mother, encourages them to travel and cultivate beyond the sect, and returns Shen’s family heirloom.

Significant themes

• Patience and preparation: Chen Jichuan prioritizes cultivation and security, while the elders’ long wait shows the cost of targeting a careful opponent.
• Sect privilege and obligation: The Dao Sect’s wealth supports its True Immortals, but Chen recognizes that future generations must also be defended.
• Mentorship and family: Chen Jichuan guides his disciples’ growth and honors Shen’s family ties by returning her father’s artifact.
• Factional conflict: The planned assassination and curse reveal the danger surrounding newly ascended True Immortals and the ongoing rivalry between Daoist and demonic powers.

Key plot points and events

• After Shen Qingyi and Meng Yan depart, Chen Jichuan uses the Great Expansion Divination Method to assess their futures. He sees that danger will ultimately become good fortune, and sends hidden clones to protect them while they seek opportunities and grow.
• Chen reflects on how he trains disciples: reaching Fourth Rank can be achieved through guidance and resources, but becoming a True Immortal requires personal experience, Dao comprehension, and the right affinity. He hopes his newer, more hands-off approach will help his disciples advance further.
• Five thousand years after attaining the Dao, Chen reviews his progress. He now has 22 divine abilities, all cultivated to the third realm. He added the Transformation Technique, Origin Unity Beginning and End, and Ice-Soul Divine Needles; the last is a subtle, dangerous ability that inflicts nearly incurable cold poison.
• His Cloning Technique lets him maintain three perfect combat-strength clones in addition to his original body and Domain Clone—effectively giving him five True Immortal-level combatants. He distinguishes these perfect copies, which replicate his abilities, from his Domain Clone, which must cultivate its own abilities and would be costly to rebuild if destroyed.
• Chen reveals that his Domain Clone has three third-realm abilities and numerous lesser arts. He has exhausted roughly 1,500 jin of origin jade over five millennia, but his Dao comprehension has advanced only slightly: he can sense the River of Time, yet cannot draw upon its power. With his current progress stalled, he decides it is time to leave Dongqi Palace.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen becomes more cautious and deliberate as a teacher, balancing his disciples’ need for independent experience with his own concern for their safety. His secret supervision shows that he is not ready to trust divination alone.
• His extraordinary cultivation has greatly increased his combat flexibility, but he recognizes that resources and Dao insight—not merely effort—now limit his advancement.
• Chen’s disciples, Shen Qingyi and Meng Yan, are not present for most of the chapter, but their departure and Chen’s concern for their fortunes frame his reflections on mentorship.

Significant themes

• Growth through experience: Advanced cultivation cannot be bestowed by resources or instruction alone; personal trials and insight into the Dao are essential.
• The limits of foresight: Divination can reveal broad outcomes, but the future remains uncertain and full of variables.
• Power and its costs: Chen’s many abilities and clones make him formidable, yet their development consumes immense resources and creates risks.
• Long-term cultivation: Progress at the True Immortal level is slow and demanding, requiring comprehension, resources, mental strength, and opportunity—not simply time or talent.

Key plot points and events

• After five thousand years of seclusion, Chen Jichuan meets Sect Leader Fudan Zi, who assigns him to replace the badly injured Luoshan Palace Master as guardian of the One Origin Dao Gate’s Ancient Immortal Battlefield in the Goujiao Star System.
• The post offers freedom to explore the battlefield and study its ancient traces, plus a share of the Origin Jade paid by visiting True Immortals. In return, Chen must secure its entrances and help explore and map the surrounding star system.
• Fudan Zi advises Chen to visit Heaven-Piercing Mountain before taking up the post. There, True Immortals can test themselves against others and earn rewards; gambling duels offer potential riches but are dangerous.
• Meanwhile, the Two Elders of Withered Glory have spent five thousand years watching for Zhou Yan near the East Sea. They have gradually turned to other cultivation projects while maintaining their watch.
• Chen detects that someone is monitoring the route but uses his concealment abilities and clones to evade notice. His true body remains safely within the sect, while a Domain Clone travels toward Thousand-Treasure River.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Jichuan emerges as cautious, patient, and increasingly capable. His five millennia of cultivation have strengthened his divination and concealment abilities, allowing him to avoid the watchers without confronting them. He prefers to keep his true body safe and use clones to explore.
• Fudan Zi warmly teases Chen about his exceptionally long seclusion, then gives him a major assignment and detailed advice about the battlefield and Heaven-Piercing Mountain.
• The Two Elders of Withered Glory remain committed to watching for Zhou Yan, but their long wait has made them more resigned. They use the time to develop new combat methods and powers.

Significant themes

• Patience and preparation: True Immortals pursue incremental gains and prepare for future dangers; Chen’s long seclusion and careful planning reflect this.
• Exploration and the vastness of the cosmos: The chapter emphasizes how little of the enormous Outer Starry Expanse has been charted, and how the Dao sects rely on generations of True Immortals to explore it.
• Risk versus reward: Ancient battlefields and Heaven-Piercing Mountain offer opportunities, but both demand caution—especially gambling duels, where even powerful immortals may be outmatched.
• Security and strategic caution: Chen’s use of clones and concealment lets him pursue opportunities without exposing his true body to unknown threats.

Plot points and events

• East River Palace Lord welcomes Chen Jichuan to the Thousand-Treasure River, a sanctuary where spiritual energies can produce treasures of many kinds. He gives Chen five-element crafting materials and advises him to have Luoshan Palace Master make an Immortal Artifact Embryo, which Chen can then refine over time.
• The master warns Chen that starry beasts are a major danger beyond Divine Land. Luoshan Palace Master has recently been gravely wounded by a Golden-Winged Flowing-Light Beast.
• East River Palace Lord reports that seven True Immortals have appeared in the past seven thousand years, a sign of both a flourishing era and coming conflict between the Dao Gate and demonic powers.
• Chen privately reveals that five of the seven celebrated True Immortals are actually his own identities: Zhou Yan, Qizhenzi, Dai Zong, Xu Ning, and Wang Shan. His clones occupy different factions, and Wang Shan is preparing to enter Demon God Mountain as an inside presence.
• After spending over ten days discussing the Dao with his master, Chen resumes his assignment. On the way to the Ancient Immortal Battlefield, he enters the Goujiao Star System and visits Heaven-Piercing Mountain, an elusive ancient treasure site.
• By silently invoking its name, Chen is transported into the mountain’s thatched cottage. He is surprised that even his true body cannot sense where his Domain Clone has gone, while the mountain itself can locate and transport him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen accepts his master’s gifts without hesitation, showing trust and familiarity in their relationship. He also sees Luoshan Palace Master as a potential mentor and future ally, since he has studied the latter’s Five-Element Mountain technique.
• East River Palace Lord shifts from generosity to solemn counsel, urging Chen to grow stronger and remain wary of the dangers and political turmoil ahead.
• Chen’s multiple identities demonstrate his growing power and strategic reach: while his true self serves the Dao Gate, his clones gather information and influence across both righteous and demonic circles.
• Chen remains cautious about the starry expanse, recognizing that the wounded beast is only one of many possible threats.

Significant themes

• A coming age of upheaval: The rise of seven True Immortals signals renewed prosperity, but also foreshadows war between righteous and demonic factions.
• Preparation and long-term cultivation: Immortal artifacts require patient refinement, and Chen’s plans—including placing a clone inside Demon God Mountain—reflect the need to prepare well before conflict begins.
• Knowledge, connection, and alliance: Chen’s prospective relationship with Luoshan Palace Master illustrates how mutual assistance can build lasting ties.
• Mysteries of the universe: The Thousand-Treasure River and Heaven-Piercing Mountain reveal a world shaped by powers and spaces that even the greatest cultivators cannot fully understand.

Plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan learns that Heaven-Piercing Mountain can summon anyone in the cosmos simply by thinking of Immortal Fuliu or the mountain. He pays ten jin of origin jade to enter.
• Inside, he discovers the mountain’s challenges, Dao Debates, battle recordings, and rankings. The rankings preserve the names and achievements of True Immortals from across vast stretches of history.
• Chen realizes many famous testing grounds—including Sword-Testing Peak and Changshan Tower—were inspired by Heaven-Piercing Mountain. He decides Changshan Tower is not worth pursuing, given its risks and the Changshan Great Emperor’s schemes.
• To protect his identity, Chen uses one of five recognized True Immortal personas, choosing his main identity, Zhou Yan.
• He challenges the mountain and studies the historical True Immortal images. He easily clears the first mountain and two mountains of the second tier, then stops to avoid revealing his full strength. He neither enters a Dao Debate nor a Gambling Duel before leaving.

Character development

• Chen is impressed by Immortal Fuliu’s power and generosity, but keeps his ambitions grounded: he focuses on what he can learn now rather than dreaming of the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• His caution and strategic thinking show in his decision to avoid Changshan Tower, limit how far he climbs, and conceal his abilities.
• His mastery of the Cloning Technique gives him several usable identities, though he recognizes that multiplying them unnecessarily would create risks without meaningful rewards.

Character interactions

• Chen has no direct personal encounters with other living cultivators. His main opponents are recorded images of ancient True Immortals, who greet him formally and then fight.
• The first opponent, Lan Chen of Icepeak World, once cleared thirty-two mountains; Chen infers from his ranking that Lan Chen likely died long ago.
• Chen tests himself against nine images on each mountain, using the encounters to gauge the strength and techniques of True Immortals at different stages.

Significant themes

• Immortal power and humility: Heaven-Piercing Mountain reveals the immense reach of an Ancient Immortal, while Chen reminds himself not to overreach.
• Legacy and mortality: The rankings preserve millions of names, but their records also suggest how many True Immortals have vanished over the ages.
• Learning through challenge: The mountain offers a way to study past fighters and measure one’s own abilities.
• Prudence and concealment: Chen values restraint, protects his identity, and avoids pursuits whose risks outweigh their benefits.

Plot and key events

• After clearing eleven mountains at Heaven-Piercing Mountain, Chen Jichuan earns 660 points. The points can be exchanged for origin jade or a vast range of treasures, but cannot be transferred.
• He weighs spending points for immediate improvements against saving for exceptionally valuable rewards. Since he expects to advance quickly, he decides to hold onto them.
• Chen leaves a clone at Heaven-Piercing Mountain while his true self travels to the Ancient Immortal Battlefield in the Goujiao Star System to take up his new guarding post.
• He meets Luoshan Palace Master, the previous guardian, who explains that a Golden-Winged Flowing-Light Beast and its kin recently attacked. Of the battlefield’s 48,000 Fourth-Rank formations, only 8,000 remain intact, leaving the realm poorly protected and difficult to monitor.
• Chen accepts responsibility for guarding the battlefield and protecting the formation masters while they repair the defenses. He also learns that he may explore the realm and study the traces of ancient battles.
• Luoshan warns that mining origin jade deep within the battlefield’s world origin is extremely dangerous. In 140,000 years, he sent in 446 Magic-Power Avatars; only 19 found jade, and just three returned with it. Chen should never risk his true self.
• After completing the handover and discussing the Dao for twelve days, Luoshan departs to recover from his injuries, leaving Chen as the only Dao Gate True Immortal stationed there.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shows patience and long-term thinking by saving his points rather than pursuing short-term rewards. He is also eager to use the damaged formations as an opportunity to deepen his knowledge of Fourth-Rank formations.
• Luoshan Palace Master is frank and experienced, giving Chen a detailed briefing and emphasizing the dangers of both the weakened defenses and the battlefield’s lingering energies. He trusts Chen’s steady, cautious reputation.
• The two address each other as senior and junior brothers, exchange knowledge, and agree to forge an Immortal Artifact Embryo together later.

Significant themes

• Short-term advantage versus long-term ambition: Spending points now could help someone grow stronger sooner, while saving may unlock far greater treasures later.
• Caution and risk management: The chapter repeatedly contrasts potential gains with the serious danger of reckless action.
• Opportunity within responsibility: Guarding a hazardous, damaged site is demanding, but it gives Chen access to valuable formations and ancient battle traces that may advance his cultivation and understanding.

Chapter summary

Plot and events

• After Luoshan Palace Master leaves, Chen Jichuan considers his need for more origin jade. His existing holdings yield about 300 catties every 10,000 years, enough for steady income but far too little for rapid cultivation or collecting materials for divine abilities.
• The Ancient Immortal Battlefield offers a chance at greater returns, but its World Origin is dangerously difficult to reach. Over 140,000 years, Luoshan Palace Master’s Magic-Power Avatars gathered only 3,400 catties.
• Chen realizes his Cloning Technique gives him an advantage: his perfect clones match his own True Immortal strength and can be recreated cheaply if destroyed. He sends one into the battlefield to search for origin jade.
• The battlefield is full of ancient battle scars—vast footprints, shattered landscapes, and lingering Sword Qi—that offer valuable insights into the Ancient Immortals’ techniques. Chen postpones studying them to prioritize mining.
• While searching near the World Origin, his first clone is instantly destroyed by a sudden storm of Sword Qi. A second clone also dies after two years, but Chen persists, knowing losses are replaceable.
• In his sixtieth year exploring the battlefield, after 54 clone deaths, Chen finds his first origin-jade vein. Two more clones are lost during extraction, but he secures his first haul.

Character development

• Chen’s understanding of origin jade deepens: he sees it as indispensable both for cultivation and for acquiring rare materials.
• He shifts from cautious, long-term accumulation toward an ambitious strategy that uses his unique cloning ability to pursue risky gains.
• His early losses do not discourage him. He becomes more careful after the first death while remaining patient and determined.

Character interactions

• Luoshan Palace Master’s account of the battlefield’s dangers and his limited success provides the model Chen seeks to surpass.
• Chen’s different identities and clones are central to his plan: lesser clones can maintain his affairs in Divine Land while perfect clones explore the battlefield.

Themes

• Risk versus reward: steady income is reliable but slow; destructive or dangerous mining may bring greater returns.
• Patience and persistence: success comes only after decades of repeated failures.
• Resource scarcity: even a powerful True Immortal remains constrained by the cost of cultivation and rare materials.
• Advantage through adaptability: Chen turns the danger of clone loss into a workable strategy because his clones can be replaced.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• After sixty years in the Ancient Immortal Battlefield, Chen Jichuan has mined 2,200 jin of origin jade, nearly matching the yield of the Luoshan Palace Master over 140,000 years. He expects the battlefield’s vast reserves to provide a major long-term source of resources.
• Chen assigns his clones to different tasks: one explores and mines the battlefield, another trains against ancient True Immortal images on Heaven-Piercing Mountain, while his identities in the Divine Land quietly build connections and resources. A Domain Clone also oversees the restoration of the battlefield’s formations.
• Chen’s true body remains in the Golden Wind Mountain Sea, cultivating relationships with Dao Sect True Immortals and helping his East River Palace disciples through guidance, treasures, and instruction.
• Five thousand three hundred years after Chen attained True Immortality, he gathers his fellow disciples. Seeing that Meng Qing is advanced in Dao attainment but has little more than a thousand years left to live, Chen decides not to wait and secretly uses Enlightenment to help him.
• Under Chen’s Dharma Domain, Meng Qing’s water-and-fire magical powers are stirred. Enlightenment ignites his decades of accumulated cultivation, and he experiences a profound breakthrough in understanding the Great Dao.
• The other disciples recognize that Meng Qing has comprehended the Dao. Water and fire manifest around him, suggesting he may be close to proving his Dao and becoming a True Immortal. Chen, however, realizes that Meng Qing has reached only the critical threshold; whether he can cross it is now beyond Chen’s control.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shows patience, strategic discipline, and loyalty to his fellow disciples. He balances resource gathering, combat training, cultivation, and teaching, while using Enlightenment discreetly so Meng Qing’s breakthrough appears to result from his own accumulated effort and Chen’s mentorship.
• Meng Qing has transformed from a dispirited survivor into a focused, resolute cultivator. Facing the end of his lifespan, he has devoted himself completely to attaining True Immortality. Chen supports him with resources and guidance, then gives him the decisive aid of Enlightenment.
• Liu Hechuan reacts with mixed joy, envy, and jealousy. He had once surpassed Meng Qing in status, Dao attainment, and combat ability, but now watches his senior brother reach the threshold of True Immortality first.
• Bu Yin and Snow Valley, themselves advanced in their pursuit of True Immortality, are delighted for Meng Qing but cannot hide their envy. The less advanced Shi Ze and Jiang Qingxing are more distant from the significance of the moment.
• The East River Palace disciples’ close ties with Chen are reinforced by years of support, guidance, and shared trust.

Significant themes

• Seeking the Dao and safeguarding one’s life: spiritual progress matters, but survival and combat ability are essential too. Chen trains both his understanding and his capacity to protect himself.
• Accumulation and decisive opportunity: Meng Qing’s breakthrough depends on a lifetime of effort, but Enlightenment provides the catalyst that lets his accumulated knowledge erupt into sudden comprehension.
• The limits of assistance: Chen can improve Meng Qing’s chances, but the final step toward True Immortality must be taken by Meng Qing himself.
• Loyalty and mentorship: Chen’s generosity toward his fellow disciples contrasts with the rarity of such support among powerful cultivators.
• Ambition and comparison: Liu Hechuan’s conflicted response highlights how another person’s success can inspire admiration while sharpening one’s own longing and insecurity.

Summary

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• Character developments: No meaningful character development occurs. “Demon Monk” is presented humorously as a character or project that would be extremely grateful for readers’ support.
• Themes: The passage emphasizes reader participation, crowdfunding, appreciation, and community support for the ongoing work.
• Character interactions: There is no narrative interaction between characters. Instead, the narrator directly addresses the readers, encouraging them to vote and support Demon Monk.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Qing comprehends the Dao inside the Five-Phase Hall. His water-and-fire power forms a vast Water-Fire Mill, and Chen Jichuan recognizes that he has become a True Immortal.
• The East River Palace Lord and Qianming Palace Lord arrive. They celebrate Meng Qing’s achievement, especially because it gives the East River Palace three True Immortals in one lineage: the master and his two disciples, Chen Jichuan and Meng Qing.
• Dao Gate True Immortals gather to witness the breakthrough. Many had admired Chen Jichuan’s generosity toward his former fellow disciples, but few expected his support to help another attain the Dao.
• Meng Qing emerges, thanks his teacher and Chen Jichuan, and undergoes the Wind-Fire Tribulation. He survives it and officially becomes a True Immortal.
• News of successive attainments by Zhou Yan (Chen Jichuan) and Meng Qing, only about five thousand years apart, energizes the Dao Gate. Fourth-Rank cultivators—including its chief disciples—renew their ambitions to become the next True Immortal.
• At the East Sea, the Two Elders of Withered Glory learn of Meng Qing’s success. They fear Chen Jichuan may remain inside the Dao Gate to help more disciples attain the Dao, frustrating their plans to confront him.
• Venerable Shitong proposes striking at Chen Jichuan’s fellow disciples, including Liu Hechuan and others, to force him out of the heavily defended Golden Wind Mountain Sea.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan is shown as generous and loyal: he has given Meng Qing resources, instruction, and cultivation support over thousands of years. Meng Qing’s success brings him genuine happiness and strengthens his standing in the Dao Gate.
• Meng Qing openly acknowledges how much Chen Jichuan’s help contributed to his breakthrough. His gratitude toward Chen is profound, nearly matching—or exceeding—his respect for their teacher.
• The East River Palace Lord is proud of his disciples and recognizes the prestige and influence their achievements bring his lineage.
• The Qianming Palace Lord congratulates them but also reveals envy at how quickly the East River lineage has produced two disciple True Immortals.
• The Two Elders of Withered Glory shift from surprise to alarm. They recognize that Chen Jichuan’s commitment to his fellow disciples could keep him safely within the Dao Gate, and they consider targeting those disciples to draw him out.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and generosity: Chen Jichuan’s sustained support helps Meng Qing accomplish what his own talent and effort might not have achieved alone.
• Fortune and the unpredictability of cultivation: Meng Qing was not considered a likely candidate, yet he reaches the Other Shore before more favored cultivators.
• Lineage, reputation, and power: Three True Immortals in one lineage bring the East River Palace prestige, influence, and deterrence.
• Hope and ambition: The two attainments inspire other disciples to believe that they, too, can become True Immortals.
• Loyalty exploited as a vulnerability: The Withered Glory elders see Chen Jichuan’s care for his fellow disciples not only as admirable, but as a potential means of coercing him.

Key plot points and events

• The Two Elders of Withered Glory secretly plan to draw Zhou Yan out of One Origin Dao Gate. They reject an obvious attack on Liu Hechuan and the other promising disciples, choosing instead to seek East River Palace Lord Duan Donghe’s Domain Clone and trap it, hoping Zhou Yan will come to its aid.
• They also devise a second lure: arrange for Zhou Yan’s traveling disciples to discover a secret realm rich in Origin Jade. They report their plans to Crimson Blood Palace and begin laying the trap.
• One Origin Dao Gate celebrates Meng Qing’s recent attainment of the Dao. Fifty-four True Immortals attend, including four of the One Origin Five Patriarchs.
• At the gathering, Lifeng Patriarch praises Zhou Yan for helping Meng Qing and commends Duan Donghe for producing two True Immortal disciples. The master and disciple become the focus of the celebration, and other immortals seek Duan Donghe’s advice on teaching disciples.
• After the festivities, Meng Qing joins Duan Donghe and Zhou Yan at East River Palace. He chooses Origin Unity Beginning and End to strengthen his foundation and the Profound-Heaven Water-Control True Method to develop his water arts. Duan Donghe gives him resources to advance both abilities.
• Meng Qing pledges to help Liu Hechuan, Snow Valley, and the other fellow disciples pursue the Dao. Newly inspired by his two successful disciples, Duan Donghe resolves to seek resources to support them too.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yan is recognized for his loyalty and ability to help fellow disciples, but his qualities also make him a target of the secret plot.
• Meng Qing emerges from seclusion with a renewed sense of responsibility. Having experienced how difficult attainment is, he is determined to help his fellow disciples as Zhou Yan helped him.
• Duan Donghe grows proud of his two True Immortal disciples and regains enthusiasm for mentoring his remaining students after earlier efforts had produced no True Immortals.
• The Two Elders of Withered Glory shift from waiting to active deception, planning separate traps designed to exploit Zhou Yan’s loyalty and ambition.
• The scene at the Dao Palace reinforces the close, supportive bond among Zhou Yan, Meng Qing, and their master; Duan Donghe treats his disciples generously, and they share his hopes for the lineage.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and mutual aid: Zhou Yan’s example inspires Meng Qing to help others, while their master supports the whole group.
• Perseverance and opportunity: Meng Qing’s success comes after a lifetime of hardship and long accumulation.
• Mentorship and legacy: The East River lineage’s achievements revive Duan Donghe’s confidence and ambitions as a teacher.
• Hidden danger amid celebration: The Dao Gate honors its new True Immortal while hostile forces quietly prepare to exploit his relationships and resources.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan, the East River Palace Lord, and Meng Qing devote themselves to helping Liu Hechuan, Bu Yin, Wu Qi, and Snow Valley advance toward True Immortality. Their guidance and gifts of enlightenment treasures greatly strengthen the disciples’ foundations. Wu Qi, however, has left to wander the world and has not returned.
• Chen assesses his own path. Reaching the third step of the First Realm seems achievable, but forging an Imperishable Immortal Body—the next major barrier—will require both Immortal Matter from the River of Time and a transformation of his own life essence. He plans to seek the necessary treasures in advance.
• With twenty-two divine abilities, plus the incomplete Tribulation Armor, Chen recognizes that sheer breadth no longer gives him an edge over other True Immortals. He resolves to deepen his abilities, especially concealment, survival, and offense, before venturing out again.
• Chen decides to remain hidden in Golden Wind Mountain Sea for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. His clones can explore and handle risks while his true body cultivates safely.
• His Domain Clone mines the Ancient Immortal Battlefield, yielding far more Origin Jade than expected. Four other clones trade with True Immortals for the resources needed to advance his abilities. His wealth and strength rise rapidly.
• Disciples Shen Qingyi and Meng Yan return with news of a place that can temper their essence, energy, and spirit, as well as a difficult-to-enter secret realm. Chen lets them keep the discovery for themselves rather than intervening, expecting the goal to encourage their cultivation.
• The chapter closes with forty thousand years having passed since Chen attained the Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan grows more cautious and strategic: rather than seek immediate recognition or adventure, he prioritizes preparation, concealment, and steady accumulation of power. He also respects his disciples’ independence and opportunities.
• Liu Hechuan, Bu Yin, and Snow Valley are diligent and increasingly close to attaining the Dao; Shi Ze and Jiang Qingxing remain too young for that stage. Wu Qi appears to be pursuing a wandering path modeled on Meng Qing.
• The East River Palace Lord and Meng Qing set aside resources and status to support the younger cultivators, joining Chen as mentors and benefactors.
• Shen Qingyi and Meng Yan show initiative by pursuing opportunities, then return to consult their teacher. Chen’s decision not to claim their secret realm reflects his confidence in their prospects and his willingness to let them earn their own rewards.
• Chen’s clones function as an organized network: one mines, while others trade and gather cultivation resources, allowing his true body to remain protected.

Significant themes

• Patience and long-term planning: Chen believes a True Immortal’s longevity makes caution more valuable than rushing into danger.
• Preparation and self-reliance: Advancement depends on both external resources and inner transformation; Chen plans for future obstacles well before reaching them.
• Mentorship and opportunity: The senior immortals support their disciples, while Chen deliberately leaves some opportunities for his students to pursue themselves.
• Power through resources and specialization: Origin Jade, clones, and refined divine abilities turn sustained effort into rapid growth.
• Survival as strategy: Concealment and safety are treated not as cowardice, but as essential foundations for eventual supremacy.

Plot and events

• Forty thousand years after Zhou Yan attained the Dao, the One Origin Dao Gate has produced eight new True Immortals in quick succession, bringing its total to eighty-five. Outsiders speculate that the Gate or its palaces possess a secret method or treasure, but the true reason remains unknown.
• When the Wind-Fire Tribulation appears again, most assume Shi Ze will be the one to attain the Dao. Instead, Liu Jue of Heaven-Plate Palace succeeds first—the first recent ascension outside Dong Qi and East River Palaces.
• In the Hall of True Knowledge, Chen Jichuan and seven other True Immortals are guiding Shi Ze. As they celebrate Liu Jue’s achievement and send avatars to congratulate him, Chen continues teaching rather than interrupting. Shi Ze suddenly enters his own tribulation and attains the Dao as well.
• On the same day, Liu Jue and Shi Ze become True Immortals. The chapter closes by revealing that Venerables Dongjun and Shitong have spent forty thousand futile years waiting on the East Sea for a chance to assassinate Zhou Yan. Unable to lure him out or target his increasingly powerful associates, they have nearly given up.

Character developments and interactions

• Shi Ze finally succeeds after a long struggle under intense expectations. Though eight True Immortals have helped guide him, the Dao remained beyond his grasp until this moment.
• Liu Jue proves himself worthy of his reputation as a promising candidate, attaining the Dao at age 47,000 despite nearing the end of his lifespan. His success also moves Snow Valley, who remembers his late father, Liu Xing.
• Chen Jichuan remains focused on teaching Shi Ze, showing his composure and commitment even amid the celebration around him.
• The palace disciples and True Immortals share in Liu Jue’s triumph, glad that the Dao Gate’s good fortune is no longer associated only with Dong Qi and East River Palaces.
• Dongjun and Shitong are reduced to frustrated, resigned observers after decades of failed schemes against Zhou Yan.

Significant themes

• Persistence and patience: Liu Jue endures age and pressure; Shi Ze persists through a long, difficult path to realization.
• Fortune, merit, and recognition: Liu Jue’s success challenges the perception that only two palaces benefit from the Dao Gate’s flourishing.
• Mentorship and community: Shi Ze’s attainment follows sustained guidance from Chen Jichuan and the other True Immortals.
• Caution versus ambition: Zhou Yan’s reclusive habits frustrate his enemies, while their schemes expose the limits of force and manipulation.

Key plot points and events

• News arrives that Shi Ze and Liu Jue have attained True Immortality, bringing the One Origin Dao Gate’s total to ten new True Immortals in forty thousand years.
• The Two Elders of Withered Glory debate whether the Dao Gate has a way to produce True Immortals. Though one doubts that the pattern is deliberate, many across the Divine Land suspect a hidden plan.
• The recent surge extends beyond the Dao Gate: eighteen newly ascended True Immortals are publicly known, including all four champions of a past Great Expansion Tournament. A flourishing age is plainly underway—and many expect it to bring major conflict.
• At the Supreme Good Dao Palace, Sect Master Fudan Zi praises Chen Jichuan and the East River Palace Lord for helping nurture eight True Immortals. He urges them to take more disciples, but the East River Palace Lord refuses, eager to avoid further responsibility.
• Fudan Zi reveals a new Dao Sect policy: teachers will receive 10,000 jin of origin jade for each disciple who attains True Immortality. The East River Palace Lord receives 70,000 jin for seven disciples, and Chen Jichuan 20,000 for two.
• The enormous reward persuades both men that the sect is preparing for impending upheaval. They recognize the policy will encourage other True Immortals to recruit and teach more disciples, potentially strengthening the Dao Sect.

Character developments and interactions

• The Two Elders of Withered Glory have grown accustomed to the Dao Gate’s repeated breakthroughs, but Liu Jue’s ascent outside the familiar lineages catches their attention. Venerable Shitong interprets the pattern as a deliberate scheme; Venerable Dongjun remains cautious.
• The East River Palace Lord is proud but privately uneasy about his disciples’ unexplained success. Now that they have all attained the Dao, he intends not to accept more students lightly.
• Chen Jichuan jokes that his teacher is broke from rewarding successful disciples. The humor gives way to genuine excitement when he learns how lucrative the new policy could be.
• Fudan Zi balances warmth and urgency: he credits the two mentors, then uses the reward to encourage the cultivation of more True Immortals. The master and disciple leave with 90,000 jin of origin jade.

Significant themes

• Prosperity foreshadows turmoil: the rapid rise in True Immortals signals a golden age, but also intensifying rivalries and resource competition.
• Power and preparation: the Dao Sect treats new True Immortals as essential protection against a coming conflict.
• Reward-driven ambition: origin jade can motivate wider recruitment and better teaching, turning disciples’ advancement into both an opportunity and an institutional strategy.
• Uncertainty beneath success: even those closest to the newly ascended immortals do not fully understand why their breakthroughs are happening.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan accepts seventy thousand jin of Origin Jade from the Dao Sect but declines to share it with his teacher, the East River Palace Lord, who insists Chen needs the resources more.
• The East River Palace Lord encourages Chen to keep helping disciples attain the Dao, warning that a calamity is approaching. The sect wants more True Immortals to prepare for it.
• After Shi Ze’s success, Chen recognizes that the sect leader, Fudan Zi, may suspect his role in the extraordinary string of ascensions. Still, the Dao Sect respects his privacy and rewards his contribution rather than demanding an explanation.
• Chen interprets Fudan Zi’s stance as a willingness to provoke the demons into attacking before they are ready. But after helping eight disciples become True Immortals—and seeing that ten immortals have now emerged in succession—Chen decides to pause. He fears pushing the demons into an early war and wants at least 200,000 years, preferably a million, to strengthen himself.
• Chen concludes that the coming catastrophe is rooted in Divine Land’s crowded balance of power and the desperation of ancient Peak True Immortals, who face increasingly frequent and deadly tribulations.
• In a separate meeting, the Scarlet Blood Patriarch, Golden Silkworm Ancestor, and Heavenly Remnant Lord discuss the demons’ dwindling prospects. The Scarlet Blood Patriarch argues that invading Divine Land could provide resources and delay their next tribulations; the Golden Silkworm Ancestor doubts they can overcome the Dao Sect.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan feels both proud and burdened by his ability to guide others to the Dao. He accepts that he has helped create an unprecedented succession of True Immortals, but decides to restrain himself and focus on his own strength.
• The East River Palace Lord remains principled and protective of Chen, refusing a share of the reward while urging him to serve the sect’s larger interests.
• Fudan Zi is portrayed as patient and pragmatic: he appears to suspect Chen’s secret but honors the Dao Sect’s respect for individual opportunity and privacy.
• The Scarlet Blood Patriarch reveals deep anxiety about the tribulations threatening his survival and sees Divine Land as a possible means of buying time.
• The Golden Silkworm Ancestor is cautious and doubts the demons can defeat the Dao Sect.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Chen’s gift can transform lives, but using it may upset the political balance and hasten catastrophe.
• Privacy and institutional trust: The Dao Sect chooses incentives and restraint over coercing Chen to reveal his secret.
• The cost of immortality: True Immortals’ long lives conceal relentless tribulations, especially for those at the highest realms.
• Inevitable conflict and strategic timing: The Dao Sect and demons maneuver around a coming calamity, each weighing whether to prepare, provoke, or delay it.

Character interactions

• Chen and the East River Palace Lord share a respectful teacher-student relationship: the teacher refuses the jade and gives Chen latitude to continue his work.
• Chen’s reflections on Fudan Zi show cautious trust in the sect leader, whose restraint reduces Chen’s fear of being exposed or attacked by his own allies.
• The demonic leaders’ discussion exposes their differing strategies: the Scarlet Blood Patriarch favors a risky invasion, while the Golden Silkworm Ancestor emphasizes the Dao Sect’s overwhelming advantage.

Key plot points

• Scarlet Blood Patriarch again urges Golden Silkworm Ancestor and Heavenly Remnant Lord to help destroy Divine Land and seize its World Origin. He fears One Origin Dao Gate’s rapid rise—ten new True Immortals in forty thousand years—and believes delay will only make the Dao Sect harder to oppose.
• Heavenly Remnant Lord and Golden Silkworm Ancestor reject his proposal. They suspect the Dao Sect’s breakthroughs may be a bluff or a limited achievement, and argue that destroying Divine Land would ruin their own prospects.
• The three focus on Zhou Yan, whose lineage is associated with nine of the ten new True Immortals. Heavenly Remnant Lord cannot divine Zhou Yan’s fate, suggesting that he is protected or has encountered an extraordinary opportunity. Golden Silkworm Ancestor concludes that Zhou Yan may be the key to the Dao Sect’s growth.
• Rather than risk an attack on the Dao Sect itself, Golden Silkworm Ancestor decides to ask Daoist Qiu Sha of the Jade Toad Great World to forge a curse treasure to kill Zhou Yan. The plan will take time, but the elders expect Zhou Yan to remain inside Golden Wind Mountain Sea.
• Meanwhile, Zhou Yan—actually Chen Jichuan—is unaware of the immediate conspiracy. He checks his cultivation progress and celebrates reaching the fourth level of the Great Expansion Divination Method. He has also advanced his concealment, defensive, and cloning abilities through decades of steady cultivation and resource gathering.

Character developments and interactions

• Scarlet Blood Patriarch is increasingly desperate and willing to sacrifice his homeland for power. He refuses to kill Zhou Yan himself, preferring to let the Dao Sect’s continued growth push the other two elders toward supporting his plan.
• Heavenly Remnant Lord remains cautious and protective of Divine Land, but recognizes Zhou Yan’s unusual importance. He supports using a curse to eliminate him.
• Golden Silkworm Ancestor shifts from skepticism about attacking Divine Land to advocating a targeted assassination of Zhou Yan. He arranges to consult Daoist Qiu Sha.
• Chen Jichuan/Zhou Yan continues strengthening himself in seclusion. His Origin-Returning Heaven-Hiding Method makes him exceptionally difficult to divine, while his Cloning Technique and new armor ability improve his survival and combat potential.

Significant themes

• Fear of rising power: The Dao Sect’s rapid accumulation of True Immortals unsettles rival factions and threatens the balance of the world.
• Pragmatism versus desperation: The elders reject Scarlet Blood’s apocalyptic plan but still consider assassination a viable way to contain the threat.
• Secrecy and fate: Zhou Yan’s obscured destiny makes him both difficult to understand and a likely target.
• Preparation as survival: While enemies plot, Chen Jichuan quietly builds defenses, clones, and resources, relying on patience and concealment rather than confrontation.

Plot and key events

• Over another 80,000 years in the Dao Fruit World, Chen Jichuan relentlessly cultivates and develops his divine abilities. He creates the Lunar Yin Divine Mirror for covert observation, the Soul-Swaying Bell for soul attacks, and the Five-Element Mountain, which combines six abilities into a powerful art of suppression and killing.
• His gifts for deduction, enlightenment, and mastering diverse arts let him advance far faster than ordinary True Immortals. Still, fourth-level abilities become increasingly difficult to improve because higher levels demand rare resources and immense effort.
• Chen Jichuan makes the Great Expansion Divination Method his top priority. He hopes to develop it enough in the Dao Fruit World to help him understand the Hanging Mirror Sea’s workings and eventually escape the real-world “cage” in which he is trapped.
• In reality, 308 years have passed. Chen Jichuan brings his younger brother, Chen Shaohe, to the Hanging Mirror Sea. Shaohe has advanced to the Spirit Division Realm, but Chen Jichuan tells him he must now make his own way. In secret, however, Chen Jichuan has carefully arranged opportunities and dangers to guide his progress.
• Before Shaohe sets out, Chen Jichuan takes him to Quliang Ancient City to witness the ascension ceremony of its newly attained True Immortal City Lord. The event draws enormous crowds: ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivators are barred from the domain, while thousands of powerful Fourth-Rank cultivators gather. Chen Jichuan and Shaohe enter by revealing Chen Jichuan’s Fourth-Rank aura.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan grows more formidable and confident, filling out his combat and reconnaissance abilities. Yet his ambitions remain practical: he wants to escape his confinement, learn what lies beyond the Hanging Mirror Sea, and avoid leaving his fate in others’ hands.
• Chen Shaohe has grown substantially in cultivation but remains inexperienced in the wider world. He is excited and uneasy about being left to fend for himself, unaware that Chen Jichuan is secretly protecting and guiding him.
• The brothers’ relationship balances independence with concealed care: Chen Jichuan urges Shaohe to stand on his own, while continuing to arrange a path for him behind the scenes.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and self-improvement: Chen Jichuan continues training even when progress slows and resources become scarce.
• Preparation and self-reliance: He refuses to trust his survival to the Hanging Mirror Sea’s unseen powers and plans far ahead.
• Mentorship and independence: Shaohe must face a larger world himself, even as his brother quietly supports him.
• Scale and hierarchy: The gathering reveals how small a Third-Rank cultivator like Shaohe is beside the Hanging Mirror Sea’s powerful Transcendent Immortals—and how much farther he must rise.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan watches the Quliang City Lord’s public discussion of the Dao, waiting to see what happens when the newly ascended True Immortal is forced to leave the Hanging Mirror Sea.
• When the City Lord ascends, Chen sees the destination: Senluo Hell, where black smoke instantly seals the immortal’s power and drags him into captivity. He discovers 320 other True Immortal prisoners; the City Lord becomes the 321st.
• Chen concludes that the Hanging Mirror Sea is a prison built from two supreme treasures: the Hanging Mirror, which governs its many mirrored worlds, and the Bewildering Spirit Scroll, which captures True Immortals upon ascension.
• Unsure whether a True Immortal or an Ancient Immortal controls the prison, Chen devises an escape strategy. He plans to locate the treasures’ cores, seize them with the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve, and flee using abilities such as Wind-Thunder Walk and concealment, defense, and mind-protection techniques.
• In the Dao Fruit World, Chen resolves to advance both his cultivation and his divine abilities. Since Ancient Immortals are found only in the Twelve Great Heavens, he decides to leave the Divine Land World for a Great Heaven, where he can find greater resources and witness their power.
• He visits Sect Master Fudan Zi and promises to help cultivate more True Immortals for the One Origin Dao Gate, prompting Fudan Zi to recognize the sincerity behind his words.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan shifts from suspicion to certainty that ascension is a trap. Rather than panic, he turns the revelation into a practical plan, becoming more urgent and deliberate about strengthening himself.
• Quliang City Lord, initially joyful and confident about reaching the Upper Realm, is quickly overcome by fear and despair when he realizes he has been deceived and imprisoned.
• Fudan Zi moves from lightly reprimanding Chen for neglecting his disciples to being pleased by Chen’s unexpectedly serious commitment to the sect.

Significant themes

• False promises and entrapment: Ascension, imagined as liberation and a greater life, instead delivers True Immortals into a hidden prison.
• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable immortals can be helpless before superior artifacts and forces.
• Preparation in the face of uncertainty: Chen cannot know who controls the prison, so he prepares for the worst while pursuing every possible avenue of survival.
• Cultivation and responsibility: Chen balances personal advancement with the prospect of strengthening his Dao Sect.

Character interactions

• Chen observes the Quliang City Lord’s gathering from a satellite city, listening to his teachings while secretly assessing him.
• The City Lord bids farewell to the assembled cultivators before ascending, unaware of the trap awaiting him.
• Chen later meets Fudan Zi, accepts his criticism about the sect’s declining number of True Immortals, and offers to help reverse that decline.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan tells Dao Gate leader Fudan Zi that he can help Peak Fourth-Rank disciples attain True Immortality, and asks the Gate for rare cultivation materials in return.
• Fudan Zi agrees to provide the requested treasures, including Indestructible Golden Stone, True Water of Cosmic Light, and Fish-Dragon Cold Iron—resources that will help Chen forge his Imperishable Immortal Body and advance his own cultivation.
• Chen promises to teach suitable disciples, offering private instruction to those the Gate especially wants to support. Fudan Zi is unsure how far to trust the claim, but the Gate’s recent success producing new True Immortals makes it plausible.
• Fudan Zi consults his teacher, the One Origin Patriarch. The Patriarch suspects Chen may possess an Ancient Immortal’s legacy and advises supporting him, reasoning that the Gate can manage any political backlash.
• Back at his palace, Chen resolves to use his ability, Enlightenment, without restraint: he will cultivate True Immortals for the Gate while obtaining the resources needed to strengthen himself.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan abandons his caution. He is candid enough to make a mutually beneficial bargain, though he disguises his personal need for resources behind service to the Gate. He becomes more ambitious and pragmatic, accepting the risks because his gains will remain even if the plan fails.
• Fudan Zi shifts from surprise to cautious support. He recognizes that Chen’s request also serves Chen’s own advancement, but chooses not to challenge the unspoken arrangement.
• The One Origin Patriarch demonstrates confidence and broad perspective. His familiarity with Ancient Immortals leads him to view Chen’s extraordinary claims as credible and the potential benefits as worth the risk.

Significant themes

• Mutual benefit and concealed motives: Chen’s service to the Gate and his pursuit of personal power are intertwined; both sides understand the bargain without stating it openly.
• Ambition and risk: Chen decides that rapid growth is worth the danger, trusting his ability to recover even if events go badly.
• Unequal horizons: The Patriarch’s discussion highlights how Ancient Immortals operate on a scale beyond ordinary cultivators, and how little the lower realms understand their powers.
• Talent as an institutional resource: The Dao Gate’s willingness to invest in Chen reflects the immense value of producing even a small number of True Immortals.

Character interactions

• Chen negotiates directly with Fudan Zi, handing over a detailed list of valuable materials and offering to teach selected disciples in exchange.
• Fudan Zi recognizes that Chen’s requested treasures will also accelerate his personal cultivation, but avoids confronting him and instead asks for a concrete plan.
• Fudan Zi reports the encounter to the One Origin Patriarch, who reassures him that supporting Chen is worthwhile and that the Gate can withstand any opposition.