Chapter Summaries

The Immortal Army fought the Beast God and its hundreds of thousands of Beast Demons with formations powered by divine beast Dharma Aspects. After the Beast God damaged the Teng She Dharma Aspect, it escaped north with the surviving Beast Demons, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The ten thousand Golden Armored Immortal Army soldiers held their ground against the Beast Demon tide and killed many with synchronized spear attacks and their Kui Niu Dharma Aspect.
• The Beast God empowered the Beast Demons with Malevolent Qi, turning them into stronger giant monsters that began to overwhelm the soldiers.
• A crimson-armored Golden Crow Immortal Army arrived, followed by eight more army formations whose divine beast Dharma Aspects joined the battle.
• The eight Dharma Aspects trapped the Beast God in an Eight Gates Golden Lock Confinement Formation and attacked it with waves of spells.
• The Beast God struck the Teng She Dharma Aspect, severing half its serpent body, then seized the opening to flee north.
• The Beast Demons lost their will to fight and fled after the Beast God, with just over three hundred thousand surviving.

Tianyin Temple considered exploiting the Beast Demons’ invasion to reclaim believers, but the court’s troops surrounded Mount Sumeru and forced its leaders to stay put. On Qingyun Mountain, Dao Xuan gave the sect’s inheritance to his disciples as the Beast Demons breached Tongtian Peak, where he recognized the Beast God watching from the clouds.

• Puhong, Pukong, and Pude debated seizing provinces and restoring Tianyin Temple’s influence while the court was occupied by the Beast Demons.
• Faxiang delivered Dao Xuan’s plea for aid, but tens of thousands of government soldiers surrounded Mount Sumeru before Puhong could send reinforcements.
• Shi Qingfeng invited Puhong to a spiritual feast, and Puhong abandoned plans to help Azure Cloud Sect.
• The Ghost King refused the White Tiger Holy Envoy’s proposal to attack Azure Cloud Sect, saying the court would deal with the sect regardless.
• Dao Xuan told the surviving Azure Cloud disciples to prepare for the sect’s fall and gave each of them a Jade Slip containing Qingyun’s inheritance.
• As the Beast Demons attacked Tongtian Peak’s failing formation, Dao Xuan led his disciples outside and recognized the red-clothed youth in the clouds as the Beast God.

Dao Xuan and the Beast God fought over Qingyun Mountain, and the Beast God defeated Dao Xuan after the Immortal Slaying Sword failed to kill him. The sword flew to Illusory Moon Cave Mansion, where Zhou Yi took it and suppressed its Malevolent Qi.

• Dao Xuan proposed joining forces with the Beast God against the immortal army, but the Beast God refused and shattered the formation protecting Qingyun Mountain.
• Dao Xuan awakened the Immortal Slaying Sword and fought the Beast God, then sacrificed his left arm to unleash the Heavenly Mystery Seal and pierce the Beast God's chest.
• The Beast God pulled the Immortal Slaying Sword from his body, threw it away, and struck Dao Xuan from the sky as the Beast Demons charged the Azure Cloud disciples.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword flew into Illusory Moon Cave Mansion, where Lin Jingyu, Lu Xueqi, Mr. Ghost, and Gui Li watched it and eyed one another warily.
• Zhou Yi appeared, pulled out the Immortal Slaying Sword, and used Myriad Law Divine Light to suppress its bloodthirst and Malevolent Qi.

Zhou Yi destroyed the Beast God, brought Qingyun Mountain under the Immortal Court’s rule, and discovered that the Immortal Slaying Sword unlocked a new way to derive incomplete cultivation techniques. He ended by looking beyond the Central Plains for more resources to fund the costly process.

• Mr. Ghost surrendered his Ghost Dao inheritance to Zhou Yi, who let him flee, while Lu Xueqi and Lin Jingyu left for Tongtian Peak and Gui Li tried to destroy the Immortal Slaying Sword before Zhou Yi drove him off.
• Zhou Yi entered Jade Purity Hall and destroyed the Beast God’s body and soul, then collected the Origin of Malevolent Qi after the beast demons surged toward it.
• Zhou Yi slaughtered the beast demons on Tongtian Peak, and the Immortal Court’s army occupied Qingyun Mountain and confiscated its resources.
• In Luojing, Zhou Yi absorbed the Immortal Slaying Sword into the Gateway to Myriad Wonders and found that some completed cultivation techniques could now be further derived by spending Origin.
• Zhou Yi learned that deriving the fourth-tier Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art would cost one hundred thousand Origin and turned his attention toward lands beyond the Central Plains.

Great Zhou completed its conquest of the thirty-six provinces and built an Immortal Dao Law Net that drew power from every Earth Vein. Fifty years later, Zhou Yi reviewed ancient techniques and presided over a court staffed by powerful immortal officials.

• Great Zhou's forces defeated the remaining sects, and Tianyin Temple, Burning Incense Valley, the Hehuan Sect, and Longevity Gate fled or went into hiding.
• The Immortal Court rewarded the Five Dragon Mountain God, Nanqiao Mountain God, Shi Qingfeng, Yu Guang, and Gu Heng with high-ranking posts for their deeds and discoveries.
• Over fifty years, Great Zhou brought the thirty-six provinces under its rule, invested local gods, and linked every Earth Vein to the Emperor's Imperial Seal.
• Zhou Yi studied the fragmented Penglai Qi Refining Scripture and hoped to deduce its complete form as a path beyond his current inheritance.
• At court, Jiang Jingtong stood as the highest-cultivated immortal official, while Feng Tian led the immortal army's generals.

Zhou Yi ordered Great Zhou to expand into surrounding lands and returned to Blue Star after eighty-one years in his Other Self. He broke the Arhat curse, advanced to Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and Five Energies Returning to the Origin, then sought out the other true immortals hidden on Blue Star.

• Zhou Yi ordered Jiang Jingtong to claim the Zhaojiang River basin, extract spiritual energy from its foreign veins, and grant immortal registration to those who submitted.
• Zhou Yi appointed Cao Li to campaign against the Ancient Wu Tribe, ordered Shi Qingfeng to prepare an expedition to Liubo Island, and appointed Lu Jing to destroy the northern barbarian temples.
• Zhou Yi entrusted Jiang Jingtong and Feng Tian with managing court affairs and Luojing's defenses before entering seclusion and returning to Blue Star.
• Zhou Yi found that the Prajna Self-Sacrifice Curse had vanished and that the Arhat Golden Body had greatly increased his aptitude and cultivation speed.
• Zhou Yi achieved Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and Five Energies Returning to the Origin, then searched the mountains for the other true immortals.
• Zhou Yi broke a hidden formation with the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, and a middle-aged scholar inside challenged him while holding a bronze Treasure Mirror.

Zhou Yi defeated and killed Li Can after the Reincarnated True Immortal refused to submit, then continued searching for the remaining True Immortals. He found another one refining pills at Heavenly Lake and shattered the formation around the hidden settlement.

• Zhou Yi offered Li Can a place as a Kunlun Sect Transmission Elder and demanded that he place his soul Origin in the Tai Yin Divine Mirror, but Li Can refused.
• Li Can used his Life and Death Mirror to attack and flee, but Zhou Yi stopped him with his primordial spirit and struck him down with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Zhou Yi identified the Life and Death Mirror as an imitation of the Jade Void Spirit Treasure Yin-Yang Mirror, killed Li Can, and absorbed his True Immortal Origin to raise the Tai Yin Divine Mirror to Tier 5.
• Yuhong Daoist learned that Li Can had died and retreated into the deep sea to avoid the Empress of the Immortal Tang.
• Zhou Yi reached the Changbai Mountains, found a True Immortal hiding at Heavenly Lake, and shattered the formation to reveal a community of cultivators refining Qi and making pills.

Zhou Yi killed Xiao Wenyan at Heavenly Lake despite learning that he was Kui Mulang’s disciple, then searched Blue Star for the last two reincarnated true immortals. He found Bibo Mansion in the South Sea and attacked its Dark Iron palace with the Life and Death Mirror.

• Zhou Yi shattered the formation at Heavenly Lake and learned that Xiao Wenyan was a registered disciple of Kui Mulang, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
• Xiao Wenyan used his pill cauldron to rescue the cultivators and spirit monsters, while Zhou Yi destroyed Heavenly Lake and refined Xiao Wenyan’s true immortal Origin into the Tai Yin Divine Mirror.
• Zhou Yi searched the Great Dynasty and found no trace of the last two reincarnated true immortals, then traveled south toward the sea.
• Zhou Yi discovered Bibo Mansion, a demon island in the South Sea, and struck its Dark Iron palace with the Life and Death Mirror.

Zhou Yi hunted down and killed Chong Cang, absorbing his True Immortal Origin before searching for the final reincarnated True Immortal, Yuhong Daoist. Chihong found Yuhong at an East Sea Sea Eye, and Zhou Yi arrived with his Puppet Clones as Yuhong asked him to show mercy.

• Zhou Yi killed Chong Cang with the Life and Death Mirror after surviving the demon’s multiple insect heads, then refined his body and absorbed his True Immortal Origin.
• Zhou Yi learned that Yuhong Daoist was the last reincarnated True Immortal and sent his Puppet Clones to search for him.
• Chihong found Yuhong Daoist’s water manor above an East Sea Sea Eye and informed Zhou Yi.
• Yuhong Daoist divined that he faced a hopeless situation, then prepared his mana for the coming battle.
• Zhou Yi arrived with the remaining thirty-five Puppet Clones, and Yuhong Daoist identified himself as a Sweeping Boy of Wuzhuang Temple and asked Zhou Yi to leave room for mercy.

Zhou Yi defeated Yuhong Daoist, who used ancestral possession to fight at a far higher level before choosing reincarnation and leaving Zhou Yi with a karmic mark. In the Underworld, the mark disrupted the judgment process, and King Qin Guang arranged for Yuhong to reincarnate with an Innate Five Elements Spirit Physique.

• Yuhong Daoist summoned his ancestor’s power and temporarily surged to the peak of Qi Induction into Body.
• Zhou Yi defended against Yuhong’s attacks and used the Life and Death Mirror while waiting for the borrowed mana to weaken.
• Yuhong chose reincarnation, placed a Reincarnation Immortal Seal on Zhou Yi, and left behind the Heavenly Revelation tortoiseshell.
• Meng Po noticed a golden mark on Yuhong’s soul and concealed it before sending him onward to the Sin Mirror Platform.
• The Sin Mirror Platform failed to judge Yuhong’s karma and flew to King Qin Guang, who consulted the other Kings of Hell.
• King Qin Guang arranged for Yuhong to reincarnate with an Innate Five Elements Spirit Physique and used the Three Lives Stone to guide his rebirth.

Zhou Yi reorganized Kunlun Sect and moved several cultivation resources into its territory as the sect prepared to open its gates. His announcement stirred the world, where undercurrents began to surge.

• Zhou Yi ordered Zhou Fangfei to announce that Kunlun Sect would open its gates in a month and arranged the Five Peaks into five lineages with puppet peak masters.
• Zhou Yi assigned Duan Houdao to map the sect’s Earth Veins and build Cave Mansions, reserving prime sites for medicine gardens.
• Zhou Yi met Xu Miao in the Enlightenment Tea Garden, gave him insight into the Heavenly One Yin-Yang Treasure Scroll, and invited him to join his lineage if he mastered yin-yang’s mutual generation.
• Zhou Yi uprooted the Enlightenment Tea Garden and moved it to Wood Peak, then relocated the Mystic Yellow White Bone Gangsha region to Earth Peak.
• Zhou Fangfei announced the sect’s coming opening to its disciples, causing the world to tremble as undercurrents surged.

Zheng Daqian followed a copper coin’s guidance into the mountains near Kunlun, where a powerful stranger rescued him from a Demon Beast. He recognized the man as Kunlun’s Protector Chi Huan and greeted him.

• Zheng Daqian dismissed Liu Li and the bodyguards, then scaled a cliff alone toward Peak D-27.
• Zheng Daqian killed a Snow Harrier with his copper coin and continued toward the peak.
• A one-horned Snow Leopard froze Zheng Daqian’s lower body with an innate spell and lunged at him.
• A towering man killed the Snow Leopard by stomping and smashing it against the ground.
• Zheng Daqian greeted the rescuer as Protector Chi Huan.

Wang Chao defeated a Snow Leopard Demon Beast and met Zheng Daqian, who sought to join the Kunlun Sect as his disciple. After testing Zheng Daqian’s fortune-predicting copper coin, Wang Chao accepted him as his chief direct disciple, and the two began a mutually beneficial relationship.

• Wang Chao killed the Snow Leopard Demon Beast, took its Demon Core and valuable materials, and asked Zheng Daqian whether he knew who he was.
• Zheng Daqian explained that he had obtained a qi-refining method after defeating a fleeing Daoist and asked Wang Chao to take him as a disciple.
• Zheng Daqian showed Wang Chao his Spiritually Connected Treasure Coin, which predicted Wang Chao intended to kill him, and Wang Chao accepted him as his chief direct disciple after the prediction proved accurate.
• Zheng Daqian offered Wang Chao three Golden Scale Fruits, and Wang Chao gave him a scroll of cultivation insights and basic methods.
• Zheng Daqian kept his Money Can Move Spirits ability secret, and Wang Chao and Zheng Daqian shared the roasted Snow Leopard Demon Beast in a harmonious meal.

The Investigation Bureau debated how to respond to the Kunlun Sect opening its gates and decided to launch an information-sharing app called Mountain and Sea. The chapter ended with officials assigning departments to build the app and publish declassified information.

• Zhou Mingrui learned that the Investigation Bureau had failed to suppress news of Kunlun opening its gates, and that thousands of Strange Persons were unaccounted for or unregistered.
• A strategic expert proposed an app to share information about cultivation, Kunlun, Demon Beasts, Strange Persons, and the Investigation Bureau while giving the government a way to monitor users.
• Zhou Mingrui argued that the Great Dynasty could use its infrastructure and control over the mortal population to gain leverage against Kunlun.
• Zhou Mingrui ordered government departments to design the app, prepare declassified files, and organize information on anomalous objects.
• The officials named the app Mountain and Sea, after the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Zhou Yi ordered a competition to choose chief disciples for Kunlun’s Five Peaks and to reward recently advanced elders and protectors. As the disciples gathered, Wang Chao arrived with his new personal disciple Zheng Daqian, and Zhou Fangfei announced the contest, which would include Chixiao and Junior Brother.

• Zhou Yi instructed Zhou Fangfei to hold competitions for the Five Peaks’ chief disciples and for elders and protectors who had advanced within the past ten years.
• Several hundred Kunlun disciples gathered at the mountain’s stone steps, clustering around their mentors and factions.
• Wang Chao arrived with his new personal disciple Zheng Daqian and urged the other disciples to give his student a welcoming gift.
• Zhou Fangfei descended from the clouds and announced the contests and their rewards on the Sect Master’s orders.
• Zhou Fangfei said fifteen recently advanced elders and protectors would compete, including Junior Brother and Elder Chixiao, prompting the others to think they had a chance at first place.

Zhou Fangfei organized a five-day round-robin tournament to choose chiefs for the five spiritual-root lineages, testing the disciples’ strength and endurance. Shi Lei, Yang Hanyan, Zheng Daqian, Jiang Xiaojin, and Mu Chun won their respective positions, with Mu Chun narrowly defeating a newcomer with the Water Spirit Dharma Body.

• Zhou Fangfei announced that the disciples would compete in pairs across five arenas, earning points for victories while elders ensured their safety.
• Gu Yu and Xiao Yan discussed their prized opportunities as the fire-lineage disciples fought, while Zheng Daqian used his Spiritually Connected Treasure Coin to win his first metal-lineage match.
• Zheng Daqian voluntarily conceded to preserve his stamina, prompting other disciples to follow his example, and he later finished the first day ranked sixth with ten wins and three losses.
• After five days and nights, Shi Lei won the earth lineage, Yang Hanyan won the wood lineage, Zheng Daqian won the metal lineage, and Jiang Xiaojin won the fire lineage.
• Mu Chun narrowly defeated a newcomer with the Water Spirit Dharma Body to become the water-lineage chief.

Zhou Yi used Chixiao to inspect Zheng Daqian’s mysterious divination coin and discovered it was a fifth-tier treasure tied to Treasure Seeking Heavenly Venerate. After the coin predicted that Chixiao had fewer than ten years to live, Zhou Yi accepted the result calmly, and Zhou Fangfei began the Guardian Elder competition.

• Zhou Yi watched the matches and took Chixiao’s Puppet Clone to Kunlun Mountain, where Chixiao demonstrated his power by merging the five arenas.
• Chixiao gave Gu Yu and Jiang Xiaozhai a Thunder Fire Mirror as a belated wedding gift, then gave Zheng Daqian an Ice Soul Spirit Pearl.
• Zheng Daqian revealed his Spiritually Connected Treasure Coin, and Zhou Yi discovered that it was a fifth-tier treasure that could divine the secrets of heaven.
• At Chixiao’s request, Zheng Daqian spent dozens of Demon Cores to calculate his lifespan and predicted that fewer than ten years remained.
• Zhou Yi told the gathered disciples that cultivators could defy their fate, and Zhou Fangfei started the competition for newly promoted Guardian Elders.

Zhang Miao and Zhao Gang opened the elders-and-protectors contest, and Wang Chao showcased the power of body refinement by defeating Xiao Yan. Jiang Xiaozhai then trapped Xiang Hong with lightning and struck his weak points, leaving Wang Chao worried about facing her.

• Zhang Miao battled the Angel King and nine Awakener Alliance elites above the East Sea, killing the elites and driving the Angel King away.
• Zhang Miao and Zhao Gang fought in the arena, where Zhao Gang outlasted her water domain and won after her Mana ran out.
• Wang Chao defeated Xiao Yan with the Heaven-Supporting Demonic Art, impressing the disciples and drawing attention to his cultivation and wealth.
• Jiang Xiaozhai faced Xiang Hong, bound him with lightning whips, and struck his major acupoints with lightning needles.
• Wang Chao asked Gu Yu whether he could still admit defeat before fighting Jiang Xiaozhai.

The Kunlun Sect’s Magical Combat continued as Chixiao demonstrated his mastery of mana, and Wang Chao defeated Duan Houdao before winning a fierce match against Gu Yu. Having beaten both rivals, Wang Chao challenged Jiang Xiaozhai and Chixiao to face him next.

• Chixiao defeated Jin Ming with a giant Green Wood mana hand and explained that cultivation ultimately depended on refining and controlling qi.
• Duan Houdao used Earth Vein power to withstand attacks, but Wang Chao broke through his defenses and won their match.
• Disciples discussed spreading Kunlun’s influence into Peacock Country, and Chixiao considered the cultivation resources there.
• Gu Yu unleashed his Three-Colored Flame and Zhurong Dharma Body against Wang Chao, but his mana ran low and Wang Chao forced him beyond the arena boundary.
• Wang Chao, having defeated Duan Houdao and Gu Yu, asked Jiang Xiaozhai and Chixiao which would fight him first.

Wang Chao defeated Jiang Xiaozhai by using martial intuition to evade her lightning, but Chixiao easily beat him with the Seven-Colored Divine Light. Chixiao then described Kunlun’s Blessed Lands and its soul-nurturing Kunlun Divine Mirror, while Zhou Yi’s plans for the mirror remained undisclosed to the disciples.

• Jiang Xiaozhai challenged Wang Chao and used a lightning array and the Thunder Fire Mirror to attack him with Profound Fire Divine Lightning.
• Wang Chao evaded the lightning by foreseeing danger through the Path of Utmost Sincerity, and Jiang Xiaozhai conceded defeat.
• Wang Chao challenged Chixiao, but Chixiao’s Seven-Colored Divine Light forced him out of the arena in one move.
• Chixiao explained that Earth Peak and Wood Peak had Blessed Lands and that Kunlun’s Divine Mirror could nurture cultivators’ souls.
• The narration revealed that Zhou Yi would use the Kunlun Mirror to strengthen disciples’ souls rather than control them.