Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing met Feng Wu, the leader of the Green Parasol Society, and learned why he had gathered so many Peak Twelfth Tier cultivators. Feng Wu invited Lin Qing to join them in a dangerous secret realm where they would compete for an opportunity to become immortals.

• Lin Qing traveled to meet Feng Wu without bringing Yuan Shuo or Chen Xi, while crowds followed the Green Parasol Society's group to watch.
• Feng Wu greeted Lin Qing at a packed restaurant and apologized for his members' earlier attempt to cause trouble.
• Feng Wu asked whether Lin Qing was an Immortal Reincarnation, and Lin Qing denied it, saying he had gained opportunities and a deeper comprehension of will in a small world.
• Feng Wu invited Lin Qing to join the Green Parasol Society, explaining that a secret realm in the neighboring Detached Pearl Nebula would soon open with an opportunity to become an immortal.
• Lin Qing pointed out that he had not reached Peak Twelfth Tier, and Feng Wu said his strength was sufficient to face the secret realm's competition.

Lin Qing agreed to join Feng Wu’s expedition to the Secret Realm and prepared to leave the academy, arranging for others to believe he had perished there. He and Yue Shu departed a month later and gathered with the other cultivators, where Immortal Realm instructors led the group to set out.

• Lin Qing told Feng Wu he would consider the Secret Realm expedition, then discussed it with Yuan Shuo and the others, who urged him to go.
• Lin Qing agreed to leave with Feng Wu’s group and asked whether Chen Xi could join, but Chen Xi said she and Yuan Shuo had a Secret Art to become immortals together.
• Lin Qing and his companions decided the academy should believe he had perished in the Secret Realm so his departure would not cause trouble.
• A month later, Lin Qing and Yue Shu entered the Teleportation Array and departed for the expedition as Yuan Shuo and the others saw them off.
• Lin Qing met Feng Wu and the other cultivators at the academy gates, observed the Immortal Realm instructors with Primordial Insight, and greeted the participants.
• After more cultivators arrived, an Immortal Realm instructor ordered the group to set out.

Lin Qing traveled with Feng Wu and the academy’s students toward a secret realm that opened only once every tens of thousands of years. He learned that ancient prodigies could use time-compressing Immortal Artifacts to compete at their peak age, and his hopes of using time-stretching cultivation to find Blue Star remained uncertain.

• Lin Qing boarded the academy’s Immortal Artifact-grade Flying Vessel with Feng Wu and traveled through Teleportation Arrays toward the Detached Pearl Nebula.
• After waiting several days to use the array, Yue Shu remarked on the crowds, and Feng Wu explained that the secret realm drew cultivators from nearby nebulae and ancient prodigies from higher star domains.
• Feng Wu told Lin Qing that prodigies could use time-compressing artifacts or formations to enter the secret realm at their optimal age.
• Lin Qing worried about facing powerful ancient prodigies while only at Eleventh Tier and asked whether time could be stretched for faster cultivation.
• Feng Wu said time-stretching methods existed but were extremely rare because they required increasing the universe’s fixed speed of light.

Lin Qing and the Azure Cosmos Academy group traveled toward the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm while Feng Wu explained that altered time could not help Lin Qing cultivate faster. Their journey ended in terror when a colossal creature appeared ahead of the crowded route and devoured flying vessels.

• Lin Qing learned that regions with altered time had imbalanced Great Daos that made cultivation impossible, so he continued traveling and gathering information about the senior at Hangu Pass.
• Lin Qing and the academy group crossed a chaotic region by Flying Vessel and saw countless factions, including the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, converging on the secret realm.
• The instructors warned the students and swiftly steered their Flying Vessel away from the route as other vessels veered aside or crashed.
• Lin Qing and the students saw an enormous maw swallow countless Flying Vessels, and Feng Wu identified the creature as a Starry Sky Behemoth.

After escaping the Starry Sky Behemoth, Lin Qing learned from Feng Wu how the creatures arose and why they were feared. The fleet reached the outskirts of the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm, where the students were told to wait until its gray celestial body turned white before entering.

• After the danger had passed, Feng Wu explained that Starry Sky Behemoths could arise naturally or evolve from artificially scattered Seeds of Life, which were cyanobacteria.
• Feng Wu said the Behemoth they had encountered was likely in the Heavenly Immortal realm, and a mentor confirmed that an Immortal King had engaged it.
• The Flying Vessel detoured around the Behemoth, joined a fleet of other escaping vessels, and continued toward the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm.
• After several days, the fleet reached a ruined stone city near a gray celestial body, which the mentor identified as the secret realm.
• The mentor told the students to rest and regroup in the city, and to enter the secret realm only after the celestial body turned white.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu arrived in the city near the secret realm, where Lin Qing explored the stalls and bought a saber using Anhuang Coins. He then arranged to obtain a clean identity and a new wristband from a black-market dealer, preparing for his planned death in the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm.

• Lin Qing entered the city with the other cultivators, and Yue Shu chose to stay with him while they waited for the secret realm to open.
• Lin Qing stopped at a weapon stall, misunderstood the price quote, then clarified the currency and bought an Embroidered Spring Saber for three thousand Anhuang Coins.
• Lin Qing continued exploring the stalls and spotted a shrewd vendor whose ordinary wares suggested he dealt in black-market goods.
• Lin Qing asked the vendor for a clean identity and brand-new wristband, giving his age as around one thousand years and his cultivation as Eleventh Tier.
• Lin Qing paid one hundred billion Spirit Stones and received a different Storage Ring from the vendor.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu waited for the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm to open after a tense encounter with Feng Wu and the Myriad Stars Immortal Court. They entered the realm together, while the spatial passage separated them from the other cultivators.

• Lin Qing bought two Twelfth Tier cultivation techniques and gathered various formulas and blueprints before deciding he had no money left to keep shopping.
• Feng Wu introduced Lin Qing and Yue Shu to three cultivators from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, but their haughty leader insulted Lin Qing for concealing his cultivation.
• Lin Qing left with Yue Shu, and they agreed that their cooperation with Feng Wu could be reconsidered later.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu waited as the celestial body turned white, then entered the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm through it.
• Inside the spatial passage, Lin Qing saw Feng Wu enter with over a hundred academy members and the three Immortal Court cultivators, but he and Yue Shu continued alone as the others drifted away.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu emerged from the wormhole into a vast primeval forest, where they avoided a grass attack and surveyed the enormous secret realm. Elsewhere, Feng Wu arrived with a group of cultivators, then revealed a sinister change as he drained two students of their life force and spiritual power.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu landed in the forest, spread their Divine Sense, and found no cultivators within its immense range.
• Lin Qing pulled Yue Shu out of danger when the blade of grass beneath them curled up, and the two flew above the forest to survey the valley.
• Feng Wu and about a hundred others emerged into a similar jungle, where several cultivators were attacked by the grass.
• Feng Wu rescued two students, then held them as a sucking force drained their Qi and Blood, spiritual energy, and Divine Sense.

Feng Wu revealed his plan to absorb cultivators in the Return-to-Truth Secret Realm and slaughtered those who tried to stop him. Elsewhere, Lin Qing and Yue Shu fled creatures that could evade Divine Sense and encountered the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivators.

• Feng Wu absorbed the essence, qi, and spirit of two unconscious cultivators as dozens of others attacked him.
• Feng Wu repelled their spells, used the two men to deflect weapons, and drained the attackers who could not escape his suction.
• Feng Wu’s past as a Grand Luo and his Divine Ability’s power to absorb cultivators’ talent and Root Bone were revealed.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu fled through the forest after creatures that could block Divine Sense began pursuing them.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu encountered the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court cultivators speeding through the forest.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu were surrounded by insect swarms in the forest, where fungal powder weakened Yue Shu and made the fight increasingly dangerous. Lin Qing unleashed his Destruction Will to destroy the insects and a vast swath of forest, drawing the attention of powerful beings nearby.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu stopped in the air and prepared to fight the insect swarms closing in from every direction.
• Lin Qing attacked the Fungus-Wing Insects with wind-and-fire saber strikes, but a tougher locust swarm joined the battle.
• Fungus-Wing Insects scattered fungal powder over the pair, and Lin Qing realized it had weakened Yue Shu's reactions.
• Lin Qing released his Destruction Will, turning the insects and the surrounding forest into dust across hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
• Enormous eyes surfaced from a river, and black rocks trembled atop a mountain range as powerful existences noticed the destruction.

Lin Qing confronted the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court members and effortlessly mocked and overpowered them while fighting off the pursuing insect swarm. As their furious leader summoned a massive Dharma Image, a blood-filled maw lunged at it from the forest.

• Lin Qing detected the three Myriad Stars Immortal Court members approaching and flew to intercept them with Yue Shu.
• The three tried to use concealment arts and draw the insects toward Lin Qing and Yue Shu, but Lin Qing anticipated their plan and cut them off.
• Lin Qing casually killed approaching insects, caught the lead man's blade between his fingers, and threw him back while taunting him.
• Lin Qing dodged another man's sword thrust and mocked his accuracy.
• The humiliated leader roared and summoned a Dharma Image, but a huge blood-filled maw suddenly shot toward it from the forest.

Lin Qing defeated the remaining members of the group that had confronted him, then traveled with Yue Shu out of the fissure. From the mountaintop, they saw the forest, distant water, and a vast city spread across the earth.

• A giant serpentine Divine Lord ambushed the arrogant man, badly injuring him before retreating, and Lin Qing mocked the man as he gave up fighting.
• The remaining man charged Lin Qing and was killed, and Lin Qing killed the woman after she begged to serve him.
• Yue Shu gathered the spoils, and Lin Qing and Yue Shu concealed themselves before carefully crossing the forest and killing beasts that detected them.
• After reaching the mountaintop, Lin Qing and Yue Shu realized their former valley was a fissure in the earth and saw a mountain range, a vast forest, distant water, and a sprawling city.

Lin Qing and Yue Shu traveled toward a colossal city through a secret realm filled with Half-Immortal demon beasts and other cultivators. Their journey left them facing a five-man team from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court, who demanded to inspect their Storage Rings.

• Lin Qing and Yue Shu spotted the distant city and learned from Yue Shu that the enormous demon beasts were suppressed Half-Immortals who could become True Immortals outside the secret realm.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu proceeded cautiously through the jungle, killing the Twelfth Tier demon beasts that discovered them.
• Lin Qing and Yue Shu encountered increasing numbers of cultivators heading toward the city, including some who had been killed along the way.
• A five-man team from the Myriad Stars Immortal Court stopped Lin Qing and Yue Shu and demanded to inspect their Storage Rings.
• Lin Qing tossed identity tokens taken from three people he had killed at the team's feet and told them to take a look.

Lin Qing confronted a five-person team that insulted Yue Shu and attacked them with his saber. He severed the bald man's fingers and struck him with a Willpower-infused slash before blocking a surprise dagger attack.

• The bald man recognized Lin Qing's identity tokens but dismissed them and leered at Yue Shu, prompting Lin Qing to attack.
• Lin Qing's Drawn-Blade Slash forced all five opponents to evade or defend, and they drew their Life-Bound Treasures.
• The long-haired man turned invisible while the bald man challenged Lin Qing to fight alone, and Lin Qing warned Yue Shu to stay back.
• Lin Qing dodged the bald man's twin hammers and severed the fingers gripping one of them.
• Lin Qing struck the bald man across the crotch with a Willpower-infused slash, then blocked a dagger that appeared beside him.

Lin Qing fought off five members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court while avoiding drawing Yue Shu into the battle. A Half-Immortal giant eagle seized the bald man, and Lin Qing then attacked the long-haired man, who claimed an Ancient Prodigy would protect him.

• Lin Qing wounded the bald man and forced the Myriad Stars Immortal Court group to attack him together.
• Lin Qing fought all five opponents as their injuries mounted and they began using spells.
• The bald man revealed a twelve-hundred-kilometer Dharma Image, attracting a giant eagle that seized him and flew away.
• Lin Qing retreated to Yue Shu, then used a slight amount of Burning the Boats and charged the long-haired man.
• The long-haired man pleaded for his life, saying he had an Ancient Prodigy behind him.

Lin Qing killed three members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court team, learned that the Divine Sense Avatar belonged to Xu Bai, and left the area with Yue Shu. After detouring through forests and mountains, they reached the city gates.

• Lin Qing killed the long-haired man despite the appearance of Xu Bai's Divine Sense Avatar, then slapped the avatar and drove it away.
• The three surviving members of the Myriad Stars Immortal Court team split up, but Lin Qing killed the crew-cut man and captured his Primordial Spirit.
• The crew-cut man identified the avatar as Xu Bai, one of the Immortal Court's top three experts, before Lin Qing crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Qing gathered the spoils and left stealthily with Yue Shu, intending to avoid the dangerous marshes and waterways.
• After five or six days of travel through forests and mountains, Lin Qing and Yue Shu reached the city gates.

Lin Qing and his companion entered a vast city in the secret realm, where native inhabitants openly told outsiders about several supposed paths to immortality. Wary of how freely the opportunities were advertised, Lin Qing waited to see what happened, then went to watch as cultivators prepared to challenge the Trial Tower.

• Lin Qing and his companion reached the enormous city and learned from a gate guard that he could be considered a native inhabitant.
• They explored the city, paid for a meal with Spirit Stones, and overheard cultivators speculate about the city's origins.
• A waiter told Lin Qing that reaching the top of the central Trial Tower, winning one hundred arena matches, and other challenges could lead to immortality.
• Lin Qing doubted the easy availability of these opportunities, so he and his companion stayed at an inn while more outsiders arrived.
• Some cultivators decided to challenge the Trial Tower, and Lin Qing went to watch.

Lin Qing and the other cultivators gathered at the Trial Tower, where a challenger discovered that passing its trials increased his strength. The crowd rushed to enter, and the chapter ended with the tower displaying a different challenger without anyone noticing.

• Cultivators from across the secret realm gathered around the Trial Tower in the center of the city.
• A bare-chested man entered the tower and defeated an Early Twelfth Tier rhinoceros in the first challenge.
• After completing the early challenges, the bare-chested man sensed that his strength had increased.
• Cultivators rushed to enter the tower, and some fought over its entrances until they learned the entrances remained open.
• The tower's outer wall lit up with screens of the many challengers, while the first man's screen quietly switched to someone else.

Lin Qing watched the Trial Tower claim cultivators while those who survived reported brutal, uneven stages that improved their strength but left lasting injuries. Yue Shu entered and returned badly wounded, as the city's cultivators continued risking their lives at the tower and other rumored opportunities; the martial arena remained the main gathering place for powerful outsiders.

• After several days, the first cultivator emerged from the Trial Tower badly injured and reported that its stages grew unpredictably harder, with injuries persisting outside.
• More cultivators returned wounded, while many others died inside chasing stronger opponents and the rumored Immortal Ascension Opportunity; the bare-chested man never came back.
• Yue Shu entered the Trial Tower despite Lin Qing's concerns, failed to clear it, and returned with injuries that would take months to heal.
• Cultivators continued cycling through the Trial Tower and other dangerous opportunity sites, while disciples of great powers and Ancient Prodigies gathered at the western martial arena to fight familiar opponents.

Lin Qing entered the Martial Arena seeking Xu Bai and found a cruel nine-win fighter to challenge. After defeating him and dribbling his severed head around the arena, Lin Qing was seen by Xu Bai as he arrived.

• Lin Qing searched the Martial Arena for Xu Bai but did not find him, then heard rumors of a disguised demonic cultivator killing people near the city gate.
• Lin Qing chose a nine-win fighter who had tortured his previous opponent by playing with the man's severed head.
• Lin Qing blocked the fighter's sword and cut off his head, then sealed it and played with it while the fighter begged for mercy.
• Xu Bai entered the Martial Arena with several people and saw Lin Qing dribbling the severed head.