Chapter Summaries

Wang Chao and the newly admitted disciples entered Kunlun Sect and attended a meeting hosted by Sect Master Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi answered their questions about his cultivation and Spiritual Energy Revival, then showed them his verified account on the Shan Hai app.

• Wang Chao led more than five hundred new disciples up Kunlun Mountain and through the sect-protecting formation, where Chiling and Wu Hao welcomed them.
• Chi Sui brought the new disciples to a plaza, where Zhou Yi personally hosted a gathering and invited them to ask questions.
• Zheng Daqian asked how long Zhou Yi had cultivated, and Zhou Yi said he had lived for over two thousand years but had cultivated for only several years since Spiritual Energy Revival.
• Zhou Yi encouraged the disciples by saying their aptitude surpassed his and that they might one day surpass him.
• A disciple asked Zhou Yi about the cause of Spiritual Energy Revival, and Zhou Yi showed the group his verified Kunlun Sect Master account on Shan Hai.

Zhou Yi welcomed Kunlun’s disciples, answered their questions about the Spirit Realm and underworld, and prepared to return to Great Zhou. After fifty years away, he found the Immortal Court greatly expanded and planned to explore it using an External Incarnation.

• Zhou Yi introduced the disciples to Shanhai and urged them to seize the cultivation opportunities posted there.
• Zhou Yi explained that the Heavenly Court, Spirit Realm, and underworld existed, and encouraged Xiao Yan to make surpassing the underworld his goal.
• The Five Peaks’ chief seats arrived, and Zhou Yi assigned the disciples to leave with them while newly promoted elders and protectors chose Cave Mansions.
• Zhou Yi entrusted Kunlun’s affairs to Zhou Fangfei and used the Gateway to Myriad Wonders to return to Great Zhou after fifty years.
• Zhou Yi inspected the Immortal Court’s five domains and its expanded territory, then decided to refine the recovered Malevolent Qi Origin into an External Incarnation and continue his seclusion.

Zhou Yi sent his External Incarnation to Han City under an imperial plaque and learned that Dao Alliance remnants were active there. After Chen Jinyu escaped an arrest attempt, Zhou Yi decided to handle the investigation himself.

• Zhou Yi's External Incarnation entered Han City with an imperial golden plaque and received an escort from the city guards.
• Zhou Yi exposed a stall owner's fake treasures and heard that Dao Alliance remnants had infiltrated the city.
• Chen Jinyu evaded the Immortal Constables by changing her appearance, but a bolt of golden lightning revealed her location.
• Qin Zhengde identified Chen Jinyu as a Dao Alliance member seeking Spiritual Objects to cure the poisoned Dao Alliance leader.
• Zhou Yi revealed his imperial-censor identity to Qin Zhengde and took personal charge of the case.

Zhou Yi rescued Chen Jinyu from the Han River Divine Monarch’s water soldiers and brought her to a hidden refuge at Mysterious Machine Mountain. There, she reunited with her poisoned senior brother Zhang Xiaofan, who welcomed Zhou Yi as a fellow practitioner of the old arts.

• Chen Jinyu was trapped by General Turtle and hundreds of water soldiers while trying to escape across the Han River.
• Zhou Yi’s External Incarnation broke through the formation, seized Chen Jinyu, and carried her to safety despite General Turtle’s Demon Core attack.
• Chen Jinyu directed Zhou Yi to Mysterious Machine Mountain, where she led him through a newly excavated tunnel to a hidden underground hall.
• Chen Jinyu reunited with her poisoned senior brother Zhang Xiaofan and told him that the Ten Thousand Year Profound Spirit Fruit rumor had been a trap.
• Zhang Xiaofan thanked Zhou Yi for saving Chen Jinyu and offered him help as a fellow practitioner of the old arts.

Zhou Yi weighed how to deal with the Dao Alliance after learning that Chen Jinyu was a ninth-grade Immortal Seedling, and secretly arranged an amnesty to divide its followers. The chapter ended with the Immortal Court proclaiming that old-method cultivators could join its registry, prompting a Dao Alliance disciple to consider defecting.

• Zhang Xiaofan told Zhou Yi that the Dao Alliance's disciples included descendants of its cultivators and recruits from the Outer Human Tribes, and revealed that Chen Jinyu had awakened a ninth-grade Spiritual Root after Purple Mist entered her body.
• Zhou Yi worried that Chen Jinyu might become a threat, then secretly ordered the Han River Divine Monarch to offer amnesty to the Dao Alliance remnants.
• Zhang Xiaofan urged Zhou Yi to join the Dao Alliance, but Zhou Yi claimed he wanted only secluded cultivation and observed which disciples were troubled by his doubts about their cause.
• Chen Jinyu questioned how the Dao Alliance could keep hiding beyond the five regions, and Zhou Yi delayed making a decision while pressing for the amnesty to be announced.
• Several days later, Xiao Jiu brought back the Immortal Court's decree permitting old-method cultivators to enter its registry, and the disciple on watch began considering joining the court.

Zhang Xiaofan accepted that the Dao Alliance would split after the court issued its recruitment edict, while Chen Jinyu and many disciples joined the court. Zhou Yi revealed that he was the ruler of Great Zhou and promised to make Chen Jinyu Empress, leaving Zhang Xiaofan ready to disband the Dao Alliance and rebuild Azure Cloud as an academy.

• Zhang Xiaofan told the Dao Alliance disciples they could submit to the court, and Chen Jinyu agreed to join so she could protect the younger disciples.
• More than half of the young disciples followed Chen Jinyu, while five remained with Zhang Xiaofan and swore to follow him.
• Zhang Xiaofan exposed Zhou Yi as the Beast God’s Origin and learned that Zhou Yi was the ruler of Great Zhou.
• Zhou Yi argued that the court was not responsible for Azure Cloud’s destruction and promised to make Chen Jinyu Empress and her future son Crown Prince.
• Zhang Xiaofan vowed to protect Chen Jinyu, then agreed to disband the Dao Alliance and rebuild Azure Cloud as an academy.

Chen Jinyu traveled to Luojing, where she settled in the Jade Pool and broke through to the Upper Clarity Realm. She discovered that Zhou Yi was the Immortal Emperor, and he proposed that they become Dao companions.

• Qin Zhengde welcomed Chen Jinyu and the junior disciples to Han City, gave them valuable gifts, and sent them through a teleportation array to Luojing.
• After the group left, Han River Divine Monarch Mo Yue told Qin Zhengde that Chen Jinyu’s future would make their gift worthwhile.
• Chen Jinyu arrived at the Immortal Court, where Gu Heng escorted her to the Jade Pool while her junior disciples registered in the immortal records and attended a lecture.
• Chen Jinyu cultivated in the Jade Pool for a month and broke through from the Jade Clarity Realm to the Upper Clarity Realm.
• Chen Jinyu encountered Zhou Yi and learned that he was the Immortal Emperor; he took her hand and proposed becoming Dao companions.
• Zhou Yi showed Chen Jinyu a Jade Talisman containing Zhang Xiaofan’s message asking her to support his plan to establish Qingyun Academy.

After Zhou Yi and Chen Jinyu’s wedding, Chen Jinyu gathered support as the Head of Female Immortals and received the fifth volume of the Heavenly Books. Zhou Yi discovered that the Heavenly Books could only be cultivated by those bearing the mandate of heaven, and his own attempt nearly killed him.

• The Great Zhou Emperor named Chen Jinyu his Dao companion and Empress, and the Han River Divine Monarch protected her parents and improved their home in Qingshan Village.
• More than twelve hundred cultivators attended Chen Jinyu’s investiture and wedding celebrations, after which female cultivators rallied around her leadership.
• Zhou Yi and Chen Jinyu discussed Shi Qingfeng’s pursuit of Lu Jing, and Zhou Yi ordered the two domain rulers locked together in the Heavenly Prison for ten days.
• Zhou Yi gave Chen Jinyu the fifth volume of the Heavenly Books, which stabilized her newly attained Upper Clarity Realm cultivation.
• Zhou Yi learned that the Heavenly Books had been created by an Earth Immortal who seized Human Path Fortune and could be cultivated only by those bearing the mandate of heaven.
• Zhou Yi tried to cultivate the Heavenly Books himself, but his mana ran wild and nearly caused him to die of qi deviation.

Zhou Yi oversaw the Immortal Court’s conquest of the world while Chen Jinyu advanced through the Heavenly Books and became pregnant with their heir. Suspecting that her destiny was tied to him, Zhou Yi tried to delay its course by giving her pills that would disrupt her cultivation until their son was born.

• Zhou Yi explained the Heavenly Books to Chen Jinyu, whose cultivation advanced alongside the Immortal Court’s expansion until she reached the Grand Clarity Realm and slew the Ice Dragon Demon King.
• Zhou Yi studied the dangerous boundary of the Arctic starry sky, returned to Luojing, and continued refining his body with the jade seal until he reached the God-Demon Fourth Turn.
• The Immortal Court expanded to all four extremes of heaven and earth, making Zhou Yi lord of a realm, and Chen Jinyu conceived the Crown Prince.
• Zhou Yi suspected Chen Jinyu’s destiny was directed at him and decided to resist the Heavenly Dao through indirect means.
• Zhou Yi gave Chen Jinyu Nine Revolutions Golden Dragon Pills to pass True Dragon blood to their unborn son and disrupt her cultivation, delaying her progress through the fifth Heavenly Book.

Zhou Yixian found Ancestor Longevity beneath the Savage Temple ruins and asked him to oppose a threat identified by Heaven. Ancestor Longevity rejected Heaven’s will, but became interested when Zhou Yixian hinted he could offer a path to immortality.

• Zhou Yixian searched the Savage Temple ruins and awakened Ancestor Longevity, who had been hidden in a spatial rift underground.
• Zhou Yixian told Ancestor Longevity that the Dao Alliance had fallen and the Longevity Gate had been wiped out, but Ancestor Longevity dismissed the loss of his disciples.
• Zhou Yixian warned that Ancestor Longevity’s flawed cultivation art required him to reincarnate every five hundred years, provoking Ancestor Longevity’s fury at Thieving Heaven.
• Ancestor Longevity revealed that Thieving Heaven had once offered him the Mandate of Heaven in exchange for eternal life, and mocked Zhou Yixian for receiving it instead.
• Zhou Yixian asked Ancestor Longevity to eliminate someone defying the heavenly Dao, but Ancestor Longevity seized him and declared he would oppose anything Thieving Heaven wanted.
• When Zhou Yixian asked whether Ancestor Longevity wanted immortality, the old man demanded to know if he had a way to achieve it.

Zhou Yixian used heavenly secrets to persuade Ancestor Longevity to act against the Great Zhou Empress when she was weakest, one year later as the Crown Prince gathered his Destiny Soul. During that year, Chen Jinyu’s pregnancy became increasingly visible, while Zhou Yi completed the fourth turn of God-Demon Body Refining and approached the Return to Void bottleneck.

• Ancestor Longevity rejected the idea of reincarnating as the Great Zhou Empress’s unborn son and said he would rather wait for his Yin Spirit to become pure yang.
• Zhou Yixian learned from Heaven that Ancestor Longevity’s remaining Innate qi would be exhausted in a hundred years, and told him that it could delay the Yin Spirit’s decline.
• Ancestor Longevity asked when to attack, and Zhou Yixian named the time one year later, when the Crown Prince gathered his Destiny Soul and the Empress was weakest.
• Ancestor Longevity dissolved into black mist and ordered Zhou Yixian to stand guard outside while he slept.
• A year passed, Chen Jinyu’s pregnancy grew more visible, and Zhou Yi completed the fourth turn of God-Demon Body Refining and neared bodily Return to Void.

On the Immortal Court’s 150th anniversary, Ancestor Longevity attacked Luojing and overwhelmed its defenders with illusion arts and ghost armies. Zhou Yi shattered his Mountain River Map and learned that the Yin Spirit sought to be reborn as Chen Jinyu’s unborn child, leaving the two sides on the brink of battle.

• Ancestor Longevity appeared in a vast Black Cloud and trapped Luojing’s gate commanders and other Immortal Officials with his Mountain River Map and ghost army.
• Zhou Yi ordered the Immortal Court’s defenders to stand down, then shattered the Mountain River Map with a punch and freed the trapped officials.
• Ancestor Longevity introduced himself and revealed that he had come seeking something from Zhou Yi and Chen Jinyu.
• Ancestor Longevity demanded to be reborn as the child in Chen Jinyu’s womb and offered an immortal Dao method in exchange.
• Zhou Yi refused to surrender the child and prepared to fight Ancestor Longevity.

Zhou Yi fought Ancestor Longevity, using his released Earth Vein Forbidden Seals to suppress the River-Mountain Scroll and its Yin Spirit power. He crushed Ancestor Longevity’s true body, but the cultivator’s pure Divine Sense escaped into Chen Jinyu’s womb to be reborn.

• Zhou Yi sent the Immortal Officials to protect Luojing and released the Earth Vein Forbidden Seals, transforming into a colossal demon-like body.
• Ancestor Longevity attacked Zhou Yi with Soul Crossing Divine Light and Yin lightning, but Zhou Yi’s Three Flowers protected him and his body endured the assault.
• Ancestor Longevity used the River-Mountain Scroll to attack Zhou Yi through an illusion, but Zhou Yi sealed the scroll inside the jade imperial seal.
• Ancestor Longevity revealed that his reincarnation technique was complete and offered to return in a year, but Zhou Yi crushed his true body.
• Ancestor Longevity’s pure Divine Sense escaped the flames and entered Chen Jinyu’s womb.

Zhou Yi sealed Ancestor Longevity after the newborn Destiny Soul in Chen Jinyu’s womb repelled his attempt to reincarnate, but the struggle left Yu’er’s soul badly weakened. Zhou Yixian revealed that the five volumes of the Heavenly Books could save the child before he died, and Zhou Yi turned to completing them.

• Yu’er’s Destiny Soul struck Ancestor Longevity’s Yin Spirit from Chen Jinyu, and Zhou Yi trapped and sealed the Yin Spirit inside the jade seal.
• Zhou Yi took Chen Jinyu back to the Jade Pool and tried to stabilize Yu’er’s badly injured Destiny Soul with pills, treasures, and a formation.
• Zhou Yi tortured Ancestor Longevity with spiritual flames and lightning, learned that Zhou Yixian had guided the attack, and then received Zhou Yixian in Lingxiao Palace.
• Zhou Yixian explained that completing the five volumes of the Heavenly Books would bring fortune’s protection, then died in nameless flames.
• Zhou Yi ordered Zhou Yixian’s relatives within three generations executed and told Chen Jinyu that completing the Heavenly Books would save Yu’er.

Zhou Yi burned away in front of Chen Jinyu, leaving her his purple rib as she vowed to find him beyond the realm. Their son Zhou Yu later became ruler of the Great Zhou Immortal Court and revealed himself as heaven’s incarnation, then persuaded Ancestor Longevity to teach him Jie Sect cultivation.

• Zhou Yi told Chen Jinyu he possessed a secret art of reincarnation, urged her not to fear destiny, and burned away, leaving her a purple rib.
• Chen Jinyu cultivated the fifth volume of the Heavenly Books, surpassed the Grand Clarity Realm, and stabilized her unborn child’s Destiny Soul.
• Chen Jinyu gave birth to Zhou Yu, who rapidly grew into a youth and took charge of the Great Zhou Immortal Court.
• Zhou Yu seized the inheritance jade seal beneath Luojing and revealed to Ancestor Longevity that he was heaven’s incarnation.
• Zhou Yu asked Ancestor Longevity to accept him as a Jie Sect disciple, and Ancestor Longevity agreed to teach him the Penglai Qi Refining Scripture.

After reflecting on his Heart Movement Stage and his doubts about Chen Jinyu, Zhou Yi sent Duan Houdao into the mortal world to find her. Duan Houdao reached the Investigation Bureau branch in Lin'an, where he encountered a young girl trying to freeze water.

• Zhou Yi realized his worries about Chen Jinyu and his rapidly advancing Other Self had unsettled his Dao heart.
• Duan Houdao quoted The Doctrine of the Mean to draw Zhou Yi out of his contemplation, and Zhou Yi ordered him to find a young woman named Chen Jinyu.
• Zhou Yi sent Duan Houdao off Kunlun Mountain and sealed Zhou Fangfei's Mana for teasing her junior brother.
• Duan Houdao called Tian Xingjian, who directed him to the Investigation Bureau branch in Lin'an.
• Duan Houdao arrived at the branch and saw a young girl trying to freeze the water in a cup.

Duan Houdao visited the Investigation Bureau, where Tian Xingjian agreed to use its resources to find Chen Jinyu, the reincarnation of their master’s wife. After the two discussed cultivation, Duan Houdao learned about the Earthworm Spirit threatening Lin'an and offered to help track it down.

• Duan Houdao met a young woman at the Investigation Bureau and advised her to return home rather than pursue demon slaying before she was ready.
• Tian Xingjian met Duan Houdao, who asked the bureau to find Chen Jinyu, and Tian Xingjian promised to notify the Bureau Chief and investigate.
• Duan Houdao and Tian Xingjian discussed their cultivation methods and each gained new insight into refining their bodies and earth-element techniques.
• Duan Houdao asked about the demon in Lin'an, and Tian Xingjian explained that the elusive Earthworm Spirit had recently started attacking people.
• Tian Xingjian said Tianjizi would locate the Earthworm Spirit within three days, and Duan Houdao offered to use his earth-escape skills to help.

Duan Houdao joined the Investigation Bureau’s hunt for a mutated Earthworm Spirit hidden beneath Beitang Village and captured it with his earth techniques. After burning the demon away, he found strange colorless crystal blocks that triggered a vision of an alluring young woman.

• Tian Xingjian showed Zhang Jinyu the demon’s blood and scale, and Zhang located the creature a hundred zhang beneath Beitang Village.
• Duan Houdao volunteered to capture the Earthworm Spirit, while Treasure Seeking Rat hurried underground to find its lair.
• Treasure Seeking Rat located the demon, and Duan Houdao trapped it in hardened earth and cut it apart with his flying sword.
• Duan Houdao burned the still-living Earthworm Spirit with Stone Fire until only several colorless crystal blocks remained.
• Duan Houdao felt an unsettling rejection from a crystal block and saw an alluring young woman flash through his mind.

After investigating the Magic Crystal, Zhou Yi concluded that Blue Star faced growing threats from beyond and summoned Kunlun’s leaders to announce that the sect would open its gates. He established a new disciple hierarchy and rules for Kunlun as it prepared for the coming upheaval.

• Duan Houdao returned to the Investigation Bureau with a Magic Crystal and asked Tian Xingjian to help find Chen Jinyu; Tian Xingjian provided records of more than 9,300 possible candidates.
• Zhou Yi reviewed the candidates, found no one who stirred his Dao heart, and identified the crystal as an item from the Demon Realm that released evil qi.
• Zhou Yi ordered the Dharma Protector Elders to return to Kunlun within ten days for an important announcement.
• During that time, fourteen Dharma Protector Elders expanded Kunlun’s influence across sparsely populated regions, subduing Strange Persons and Demon Beasts while gathering resources.
• Zhou Yi announced that Kunlun would officially open its gates to all with cultivation affinity and established disciple ranks, territorial boundaries, and sect rules.

The Buddha agreed to punish the mortal Zhou Yi for White Bone Madam’s sake, while Zhou Yi prepared Kunlun Sect to recruit Outer Sect Disciples and used the Gateway to Myriad Wonders to travel to another world. He awakened in a dying body at a hospital in Dragon Capital and found that the world produced no Origin.

• White Bone Madam begged the Buddha to avenge Miaoyin, and the Buddha agreed to send the mortal who killed her to a harsh Buddhist world to atone.
• Zhou Yi completed Kunlun Sect’s Outer Sect trials and announced recruitment through Shan Hai APP.
• Zhou Yi activated the Gateway to Myriad Wonders, overcame a failed traversal by spending Origin, and created an Other Self.
• Zhou Yi awakened in First Central Hospital in Dragon Capital, found that his body was near death, and saw that his Origin was 0/0 points per day.