Chapter Summaries

Plot and events

• Meng Chuan battles Emperor Zun, whose power is formidable but ultimately no match for the Heavenly Emperor. Their clash destroys Emperor Zun’s small hidden world and sends shockwaves across the universe.
• Observers—including the Forbidden Zone supremes and Longevity Heavenly Venerable—recognize Emperor Zun and conclude that Meng Chuan will defeat him.
• After conceding defeat, Emperor Zun is angered when Meng Chuan loudly praises him as “the greatest of all time.” The praise is a familiar, mocking tactic: Meng Chuan has used similar flattery for other defeated rivals.
• Emperor Zun unleashes his final plan to refine the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and a neighboring Strange World into the World Cauldron, threatening both worlds. Meng Chuan counters by manifesting his Divine Kingdom, whose gods and overwhelming power suppress and erase Emperor Zun’s runes—even in the Strange World.
• Emperor Zun makes one last charge and is killed. Meng Chuan conceals the battle’s heavenly secrets during the final blow, leaving Ruthless puzzled. With his hidden dangers removed, he turns his thoughts to bringing his own world into view.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains calm and confident throughout. He defeats Emperor Zun, protects both worlds, and uses exaggerated praise to provoke and humiliate him.
• Emperor Zun accepts that he cannot win but refuses to submit or ask for mercy. His response is to risk destroying worlds, revealing his ruthless ambition and willingness to sacrifice everything for his goal.
• Ruthless watches the battle and recognizes Meng Chuan’s mock-praise routine, but is baffled by his decision to conceal the final moments.
• The onlookers show growing faith in Meng Chuan: many trust him to save the universe, while the Forbidden Zone supremes and Longevity Heavenly Venerable regard his strength as overwhelming. The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body mocks Meng Chuan’s shameless boasting.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and a changing age: Meng Chuan’s rise unsettles a world where emperors were once thought to have no worthy opponents.
• Ambition versus responsibility: Emperor Zun pursues his grand design without regard for the lives or worlds at stake; Meng Chuan uses his power to stop him.
• Humility, pride, and humiliation: Meng Chuan’s ironic praise turns a defeat into a final insult, while Emperor Zun’s pride drives his desperate last stand.
• The transition to a new order: Meng Chuan’s closing resolve suggests that defeating old threats clears the way for his world to emerge.

Key plot points

• Meng Chuan gathers the Female Emperor and the Eight Gods in his Divine Kingdom. He gives the Eight Gods refined “points” of rules and the world, ordering them to place them at important nodes throughout the universe.
• He begins forging a new foundation for his Divine Kingdom using the Dao Fire Furnace. He melts down the Dao and principles contained in various kinds of Immortal Gold, then adds the Void God Realm Fragment.
• Meng Chuan reshapes the fragment’s rules to fit the current Heavenly Dao, stamps them with his own imprint, and adds new rules linking the realm to living beings.
• Once the Divine Kingdom appears within the furnace as an embryo of a world, Meng Chuan asks Ruthless and the Eight Gods to help refine it. Their combined power completes a major stage of the process.
• A primordial, flawless Divine Kingdom emerges, suspended between illusion and reality. Meng Chuan declares that his world is nearly complete.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates growing mastery and confidence. His preparations are meticulous, and he expects the world-forging process to succeed. He also shows his playful vanity when he mistakes Ruthless’s scrutiny for admiration of his looks.
• Ruthless remains reserved but watches the forging closely, deducing that Meng Chuan’s unnamed teacher might be the legendary Desolate Heaven Emperor. Her curiosity gives way to active participation when Meng Chuan asks for help.
• The Eight Gods readily obey Meng Chuan, first carrying out his universe-wide errands and later assisting in the refinement. Their presence also gives other observers a sense of how powerful Meng Chuan’s Divine Kingdom has become.
• Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran observe the process with awe. Jiang reflects that the beings gathered in Meng Chuan’s Divine Kingdom make the outside universe seem like a lower realm.

Significant themes

• Creation through mastery of the Dao: Meng Chuan builds a world by extracting, adapting, and combining rules and principles rather than simply shaping physical matter.
• Preparation and control: The process reflects Meng Chuan’s careful planning and conviction that he can prevent mishaps.
• Power and perspective: The Divine Kingdom’s gathering of supreme beings emphasizes the vast scale of Meng Chuan’s growing realm—and how small the wider universe seems beside it.

Key plot points

• After killing Emperor Zun, Meng Chuan announces that he will create a Spiritual World open to all beings, where space-time and scriptures will no longer limit their chance to cultivate.
• He uses the Great Dao Jade Disc to split primordial chaos and establish the new world. Ruthless and the Eight Gods help shape it, while Meng Chuan’s Dao and the accumulated faith of the universe give it structure and life.
• Meng Chuan captures the Forbidden Zone Supremes who had preyed on living beings for ages. He sacrifices nine of them, using their bodies, souls, and imperial Dao Fruits to nourish the world. He also extracts Immortal Dao Laws from an Immortal’s corpse.
• The Spiritual World stabilizes, connects to the real universe through prepared nodes, and becomes a second heaven above it.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan’s power and role expand from victorious emperor to world-maker and champion of universal cultivation. His resolve to punish the Supremes is absolute, and he rejects their claims of imperial status or appeals to heavenly retribution.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes, once tyrants, are reduced to desperate captives. Their attempt to flee—and their protests that Meng Chuan is cruel—underscores their loss of power and moral authority.
• Ruthless and the Eight Gods contribute to creating the world, gaining an opportunity to deepen their own Daos.
• Ji Lianxing watches the Stone Emperor die with tears in her eyes and remembers the Void Emperor. Takong and two former Forbidden Zone figures reflect that their past decision to side with Meng Chuan spared them, though they do not know he would have spared them regardless.

Significant themes

• A path for all beings: The Spiritual World promises opportunity beyond the limits of birth, place, or access to scriptures.
• Retribution and moral responsibility: Those who made the universe a hunting ground are made to pay for their actions.
• Sacrifice and creation: The Supremes’ deaths become the foundation for a new world and its future paths of cultivation.
• Faith and leadership: The universe’s conviction in Meng Chuan becomes a tangible force that helps bring his vision into being.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan’s newly created spiritual world becomes accessible in principle, though the public must wait while he finishes preparing it. Those already inside discover that it feels remarkably real.
• Meng Chuan names the world the Dao Realm. It will let the universe’s peoples communicate, trade, learn, fight, and exchange insights across vast distances. Knowledge and cultivation insights gained there can be brought back to the physical world.
• The Dao Realm can support power and laws at the Great Emperor level. Meng Chuan plans a specially reinforced arena for those above the Quasi-Emperor level to spar safely.
• The realm runs on spiritual energy contributed by its visitors, some of which Meng Chuan retains to power it. Ruthless recognizes this practical—and self-serving—aspect of his design, but no one challenges him.
• As Meng Chuan adjusts the realm, the others consider how it may disrupt the influence of sacred lands and Emperor Lineages. Yuanhua argues that established powers can thrive if they adapt.
• When the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body laments the lack of worthy opponents, Meng Chuan hints that he may bring back the Ancient Great Emperors.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan presents the Dao Realm as a transformative public resource, while openly acknowledging that it needs energy. His confidence and reputation ensure that others trust his creation.
• Ruthless probes the realm’s rules and quickly sees both its potential and Meng Chuan’s plan to collect spiritual power. She remains observant and reserved.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body tests the realm physically, accidentally damages it, and discovers that insights gained there can be carried outside. His playful impatience contrasts with Meng Chuan’s irritation.
• Jiang Daoran raises concerns about the Dao Realm’s effect on traditional ruling powers. Yuanhua counters that those powers can benefit if they adapt.
• Tiger Girl asks whether people can enter physically, prompting Meng Chuan to explain the limits of the spiritual world.

Significant themes

• Innovation and social change: The Dao Realm promises universal connection but threatens to reshape existing hierarchies.
• Trust and authority: People accept Meng Chuan’s creation largely because of his hard-won reputation.
• Knowledge as power: Shared ideas, combat, and cultivation insights can strengthen individuals and civilizations.
• Practical idealism: The Dao Realm serves the universe while also relying on—and benefiting from—the energy of its users.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan explains that he cannot resurrect the Ancient Great Emperors, but can reproduce their Dao laws from traces preserved in heaven and earth—creating powerful opponents for future cultivators.
• Using the six gems and his knowledge of the Dao Realm, he builds a vast training space where challengers can fight these figures at their own level. Defeat is expected; a challenger’s mental energy may be lost, while the Dao Realm absorbs aspects of their techniques and path.
• He gives the space an elaborate, immortal-looking entrance and fills it with palaces, each housing a Dao-law figure. Ruthless and the three emperors test their own copies and destroy them easily, since the originals far surpass their imitations.
• Meng Chuan clarifies that the figures have virtual souls and fighting instincts, not his Primordial Spirit. He adds a points system: victories earn currency that can be exchanged for scriptures, arts, and treasures.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body asks whether a figure of him exists. Meng Chuan creates one, along with figures of his attendants, and lets the present cultivators control their own copies with wisps of Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Chuan declares the space a sacred land of the Dao Realm, hinting at another sacred land associated with spending money.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan displays confidence and creativity, turning the Dao Realm into a training ground and future center of cultivation. He also teases the Sacred Body about wanting a copy of himself.
• Ruthless is intrigued by the Dao-law figures and suspicious of how lifelike they are. She tests her copy, then takes control of it herself.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body reveals a touch of vanity by hoping for a figure modeled on him; Meng Chuan recognizes this and obliges.
• Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran initially misunderstand “recreating” the Great Emperors as resurrection, showing how strongly Meng Chuan’s reputation fuels their hopes.
• The assembled emperors and powerful figures recognize the scale of Meng Chuan’s undertaking and imagine how it could benefit future generations.

Significant themes

• Legacy and cultivation: The great figures of the past can continue shaping future generations through their preserved Dao laws.
• Growth through hardship: Facing formidable opponents, even in defeat, can strengthen a cultivator’s foundations and techniques.
• The boundary between illusion and reality: The Dao Realm blurs mind, soul, and reality, making its simulations more than ordinary illusions.
• Ambition and humor: Meng Chuan’s grand vision is balanced by playful banter and the introduction of a points-based marketplace.

Plot points and events

• After the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body teases Meng Chuan about an embarrassing episode from his youth, Meng Chuan sends him flying across the universe with a slap. Ruthless explains that Meng Chuan once cured and changed the Sacred Body, prompting Meng Chuan to realize his companions have been laughing at his expense.
• Meng Chuan unveils the Myriad Heavens Tower, a vast, space-time-expanded repository filled with cultivation scriptures, techniques, knowledge, treasures, and crafting materials. The contents range from basic training methods to Emperor-level scriptures, immortal arts, divine medicines, and rare metals.
• Visitors can search the tower through its light-sphere hubs and buy items using points, though access to higher floors requires special permissions. Meng Chuan’s own Dao Beginning Scripture is offered at an exceptionally high price and described in extravagantly self-praising terms, amusing the others.
• The group contributes scriptures and techniques to help stock the tower. Ruthless and the Three Yuanhua Emperors share major works; Gu Cang contributes his Sacred Body methods. Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran hold back some family-essential inheritances, which Meng Chuan accepts.
• Meng Chuan explains that points and access can be earned through the Great Emperor Battlefield or by contributing rare scriptures. He then lets the others help shape the Dao Realm, while Ruthless stays behind to question him about its purpose.
• Ruthless asks whether the Dao Realm is truly as beneficial as it appears. Meng Chuan admits he will profit from it and use its inhabitants’ strength to pursue his own Dao, but insists that the Realm must be established and flourish. He tells Ruthless, “I won’t hurt you.”
• Ruthless says she believes him, then raises the question of Emperor Zun’s survival. Meng Chuan answers that the Emperor Zun who lived through the Mythological Era and fought him is dead, and that no one called Emperor Zun remains in this world.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shows both a playful, easily embarrassed side and his confidence as the architect of the Dao Realm. He is candid with Ruthless about his self-interest, while firmly committed to the Realm’s success.
• Ruthless is perceptive and cautious, probing the motives behind Meng Chuan’s seemingly generous system. Their private conversation reveals growing trust and a subtle personal warmth, though she remains reserved.
• Gu Cang is the target of Meng Chuan’s teasing and physical retaliation, but eagerly participates in the Tower’s new system.
• Ji Lianxing, Jiang Daoran, and the others support the project by contributing knowledge, while keeping some family-critical techniques private.

Significant themes

• Mutual benefit and self-interest: The Dao Realm offers opportunities to living beings, but also serves Meng Chuan’s larger ambitions.
• Trust and transparency: Ruthless tests Meng Chuan’s motives; he acknowledges his plans rather than pretending to be entirely selfless.
• Knowledge as power and shared inheritance: The Myriad Heavens Tower gathers and organizes techniques and treasures from many sources.
• Humor and camaraderie: Teasing, exaggerated claims, and Meng Chuan’s mock threats balance the chapter’s grand world-building with lighthearted character dynamics.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan finishes overseeing the Dao Realm, where the spirits of the Undying Heavenly Emperor and Emperor Zun—both men he personally killed—have reappeared as living beings.
• Five hundred years after the Dao Realm opened, it has become a vast, world-sized Divine City connecting beings from across the universe. Its inhabitants trade, cultivate, socialize, and fight regardless of their origins or races.
• The Dao Realm has transformed many lives. Great Sage Changfeng, for example, rose from a spiritually barren planet to become a powerful cultivator. The realm also attracts strange eccentrics, including the notorious “Pants-Off Party,” whose members still cannot remove their trousers after five centuries.
• Meng Chuan has spent those centuries meditating beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, observing the paths of living beings. The realm’s collective spiritual power has gathered into a golden sea, and several Immortal Divine Medicines serve as companions around him.
• After checking that Ruthless and her lieutenants are still cultivating, Meng Chuan prepares to explore the Dao Realm. He senses a familiar, extraordinary aura and realizes that a remarkable figure has emerged.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is gratified by the Dao Realm’s growth but amused and exasperated that its strangest residents persist. He shifts from long meditation toward active exploration.
• Dao Realm residents form an immense, diverse community: they barter across species and worlds, seek teachers and resources, and pursue cultivation in ways unavailable to them before.
• Ruthless and her lieutenants remain focused on cultivation and are left undisturbed by Meng Chuan.
• The crowd reacts with embarrassment and disbelief to the Pants-Off Party and with astonishment at the extravagant Quasi-Emperor seeking an alchemist to make snacks for his child.

Significant themes

• Transformation through opportunity: The Dao Realm can change the fate of people who would otherwise lack the conditions to cultivate.
• Diversity and communal life: Vast differences in race and origin coexist in a shared space, where cooperation, trade, and conflict all flourish.
• The unpredictable nature of society: Even a realm built for cultivation produces absurd, persistent oddballs.
• Creation and collective power: The Dao Realm’s scale and golden sea reflect the accumulated thoughts and spiritual energy of its inhabitants.

Key plot points and events

• Wushi, newly arrived in the Dao Realm and still only at the Great Power realm, explores Divine City for the first time.
• A friendly young man offers to guide him around. He explains that Saints run the city’s shops and reflects on how the Dao Realm has broadened access to cultivation, resources, and opportunity over the past five hundred years.
• The guide praises the Heavenly Emperor with extravagant devotion, then identifies several strange-looking items for sale as relics tied to famous figures and events from history. His claims prove accurate, puzzling Wushi.
• Asked how he knows so much, the guide answers that knowing “a teeny-tiny bit more” is normal for a passerby.
• At the Myriad Heavens Tower, Wushi sees its vast collection of scriptures and techniques. He searches for the Western Empress—his mother—and then the Heavenly Emperor, finding an immense body of material, including techniques associated with Immortals.
• The chapter ends as an announcement draws the crowd to the latest Dao Rankings update, including the Supreme Rankings.

Character developments and interactions

• Wushi is confident in his exceptional potential, but his first visit also leaves him struck by how much the world has changed during his absence. He quietly absorbs information about his parents, the Heavenly Emperor, and the Dao Realm’s history.
• The guide is outgoing, knowledgeable, and openly reverent toward the Heavenly Emperor. His unusual certainty about the relics—and his cryptic “passerby” explanation—make him seem more than an ordinary tour guide.
• The guide leads and explains; Wushi listens, asks questions, and grows increasingly curious and bewildered by his companion.

Significant themes

• The Dao Realm has transformed society by making cultivation knowledge and resources widely accessible, allowing overlooked talent to flourish.
• Great historical legacies persist through scriptures, relics, and rankings, connecting the present to past generations.
• Wushi’s remarkable promise contrasts with the scale of the world he has returned to—and with the powerful figures whose histories he is only beginning to uncover.
• The guide’s playful mystery introduces uncertainty about identity and knowledge beneath the chapter’s lighthearted tone.

Plot and events

Meng Chuan accompanies the young Wushi to the Dao Realm’s Dao Rankings. The rankings list the universe’s strongest cultivators at each level and have become a major source of prestige, competition, and opportunity. A Great Sage explains how powerful the ranked prodigies are: many can defeat the Supreme Hall’s formidable phantoms, though no one has yet reached the third-floor challenge against the Heavenly Emperor.
Wushi asks whether anyone has defeated the Heavenly Emperor’s phantom. The Great Sage says the Emperor is invincible, unaware that Meng Chuan—the Heavenly Emperor himself—is standing beside them in disguise. Wushi also resolves to visit the Heavenly Emperor, having heard that he once spoke about Wushi before his birth.
The group then learns the Dao Rankings have changed. The Taiyin Fairy remains first on the Saint list, reportedly having defeated the phantoms of every historical empress and Female Emperor. Wushi wonders whether this includes his mother’s phantom, the Western Empress.

Character developments

• Wushi displays striking confidence in his future, calmly assuming he can reach the top ranks. His interest in the Taiyin Fairy’s achievement reveals a personal concern for his mother’s legacy.
• Meng Chuan enjoys observing the Dao Realm and keeps his identity hidden, amused by the reverence others show the Heavenly Emperor. He also recognizes Wushi’s thoughts about the Western Empress.
• The Great Sage offers sincere, humble advice despite his own past as a celebrated genius. Meng Chuan privately judges him to have the potential to advance much further.

Themes

• Fame, fortune, and competition: The Dao Realm turns reputation into a force that can attract opportunities and spur cultivation.
• Talent and humility: Even exceptional geniuses must recognize how crowded and demanding the wider universe is.
• Legacy and achievement: Defeating a legendary figure’s phantom is impressive, but it does not necessarily mean surpassing that figure at their true peak.
• Public image versus reality: The universe imagines the Heavenly Emperor as remote and majestic, while he is nearby acting like an ordinary passerby.

Character interactions

Meng Chuan and Wushi discuss their prospects before the Dao Rankings, and a Great Sage joins them with friendly counsel. The Great Sage explains the Supreme Hall’s challenges and praises the Heavenly Emperor’s unmatched record. Meng Chuan silently enjoys the mistaken praise, while Wushi listens and later connects the Taiyin Fairy’s feat to his mother.

Plot points and events

• The Saint King, Great Sage, and Supreme rankings are revealed. The Supreme list is open to every Quasi-Emperor; Ji Family Quasi-Emperor Chengkong remains at the top. Sacred Body Su Ning and Tyrant Body Xuan Luo appear near the bottom despite being only Great Sages, having challenged the imperial path.
• Meng Chuan recognizes Chengkong from an old Ji Family gathering and reflects on Ji Lianxing’s determination to make him witness the rise of another Heavenly Emperor.
• Meng Chuan encourages Wushi, who calmly says he will advance in his own way. Wushi enters the Supreme Hall to seek battle, intending to challenge powerful figures in the Dao Realm.
• Meng Chuan reconnects with the group chat after five hundred years of seclusion. The members greet him, joke about his absence, and report what others have been doing.
• Yan Chixia is investigating a powerful demon responsible for deaths across several cities. Daigu is occupied with research in the Land of Light. Jiraiya, after all this time, has only just reached his village entrance.

Character developments and interactions

• Wushi shows quiet confidence and a strong appetite for combat. Meng Chuan recognizes that the Dao Realm may be especially valuable to his growth.
• Meng Chuan remains proud and playful, teasing the group and privately imagining the powerful allies Wushi may become. He also takes the reports of the demon seriously.
• The group members welcome Meng Chuan back and trade updates. Meng Qi particularly enjoys provoking him, while Bibi Dong’s awkward phrasing about the General and Chonglou prompts jokes.
• Jiraiya’s slow progress becomes the chapter’s punchline: despite five hundred years passing for Meng Chuan, Jiraiya has only reached the village entrance.

Significant themes

• Talent needs opportunity: Meng Chuan notes that the universe is full of geniuses who mainly need a chance to rise.
• Growth through challenge: Wushi seeks battle rather than more scriptures, treating the Dao Realm as a place to test and strengthen himself.
• Long timescales and contrasting progress: Meng Chuan’s centuries of seclusion sharply contrast with the group’s ongoing lives—and especially Jiraiya’s painfully slow journey.
• Mentorship and legacy: Meng Chuan’s support for Wushi hints at the future influence he may have on powerful figures.

Key plot points and events

• Jiraiya returns to Konoha and livestreams his visit for the group. He goes straight to Naruto’s home after seeing the boy’s living conditions.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen confronts Jiraiya and argues that Naruto must remain under his control because he contains the Nine-Tails. Jiraiya insists Naruto needs proper care and training, but initially struggles to oppose his former teacher.
• With Meng Chuan’s encouragement—and the promise that Naruto’s parents will be brought back—Jiraiya stands firm. He agrees not to take Naruto out of the village, but vows to stay and look after him.
• Meng Chuan brings Minato and Kushina back. Kushina is devastated by Naruto’s neglect and embraces him; Minato brings him fresh food.
• Naruto, unused to kindness, offers Kushina his treasured instant noodles and worries that the new food is too expensive. When he realizes his usual milk was spoiled, Minato and Kushina break down and comfort him.
• Jiraiya questions Hiruzen about Naruto’s treatment, but Hiruzen gives no answer. Jiraiya watches the reunited family from a tree, while Meng Chuan quietly disappears.

Character developments

• Jiraiya moves from grief and hesitation to a firm commitment to protect and care for Naruto, even without openly turning against Hiruzen.
• Naruto reveals how deeply neglect has shaped him: he has little food, no companionship, and assumes kindness and decent meals are beyond his reach. Yet he remains generous, offering his favorite food to Kushina.
• Kushina reacts as a mother above all else, overcome by guilt and fury at what Naruto has endured.
• Minato silently recognizes the gravity of Naruto’s situation and responds by caring for him directly.
• Hiruzen appears focused on keeping Naruto—and the Nine-Tails—under his control, and refuses to explain or defend Naruto’s treatment.
• Meng Chuan intervenes discreetly, using his power to reunite Naruto with his parents and help Jiraiya find resolve.

Significant themes

• Neglect and the cost of treating a child as a weapon: Naruto’s deprivation exposes the human consequences of Konoha’s fear and political control.
• Family and belonging: Naruto’s first experience of parental affection offers the possibility of healing and connection.
• Moral courage and divided loyalties: Jiraiya must balance loyalty to his teacher against responsibility to his student’s child.
• Compassion expressed through action: Minato and Kushina’s food, embrace, and attention provide a sharp contrast to the village’s indifference.

Character interactions

• Jiraiya challenges Hiruzen over Naruto’s welfare, while Hiruzen insists Naruto cannot leave his supervision.
• Kushina’s embrace confuses Naruto but also gives him hope that he might finally have a friend.
• Naruto’s offer of instant noodles moves Kushina to tears; Minato then brings fresh food and comforts him alongside her.
• Jiraiya confronts Hiruzen once more after witnessing the family reunion, but Hiruzen remains silent.

Plot points

• Meng Chuan checks on his two Immortal Gold attendants, whose cultivation has advanced dramatically in the Dao Realm. He sends them to handle errands and learns that the Female Emperor is still cultivating—and growing even stronger.
• He watches Wushi train in the Supreme Hall, where he can repeatedly battle Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors. Wushi’s Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and talent impress Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan privately contacts The Ancient One, prompting her to summon Mordo and prepare for an approaching opportunity.
• Meng Chuan invites Wushi to meet him. Wushi, who has been reflecting on his dead parents and preparing to begin Severing the Dao, accepts the invitation.
• In Meng Chuan’s hall, Wushi witnesses the Heavenly Emperor refine a pill using the power of the Great Dao. The demonstration gives Wushi the insight he needs to Sever the Dao.
• The Heavenly Emperor praises Wushi and turns to face him. Wushi recognizes him and reacts in shock: “You?!”

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan acts as mentor and organizer, supporting his attendants’ growth and deliberately arranging Wushi’s visit. He remains interested in Wushi’s unusual constitution, but sees personal achievement—not innate traits—as what makes someone truly exceptional.
• Wushi benefits from the Dao Realm’s battles, but remains lonely and deeply misses his parents. His encounter with the pill-making demonstration gives him a breakthrough; his final recognition of the Heavenly Emperor sets up a mystery.
• The attendants admire the Female Emperor’s strength and serve Meng Chuan, while privately wondering how he already knows about the other cultivators’ progress.
• The Ancient One responds eagerly to Meng Chuan’s message and begins preparing Mordo for what may be coming.

Significant themes

• Talent versus cultivation: Innate constitutions offer advantages, but discipline, experience, and personal achievement ultimately matter more.
• Mentorship and opportunity: The Dao Realm gives exceptional cultivators challenges and insights that could reshape their futures.
• Loneliness and remembrance: Wushi’s power and ambition coexist with grief for the parents he lost.
• A changing age: Meng Chuan anticipates an era greater than any before it, with new possibilities—and new variables—emerging.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan reveals to Wushi that he was the “passerby” who previously advised him. He offers to guide Wushi in the future through the Dao Realm, and Wushi eagerly accepts.
• Wushi asks whether even an immortal can resurrect the dead, hoping to bring back his parents. Meng Chuan says no, then explains that True Immortal is only the beginning of the Immortal Dao. When Wushi asks whether higher realms can restore the dead, Meng Chuan still answers no.
• Meng Chuan urges Wushi not to settle for becoming a Great Emperor and sets him an enormous “small goal”: become an immortal in the Mortal World. Wushi is startled but accepts the challenge.
• After Wushi leaves, the group chat turns Meng Chuan’s mentorship into absurd rumors about a marriage. Meng Chuan shuts down the livestream and leaves, while the others keep joking.
• Han Li silently listens to the group’s chaotic conversation and decides to remain a quiet buyer rather than get involved.
• Meng Chuan finishes making a pill. When the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body arrives, he claims to be in seclusion to avoid seeing him. Divine Mark delivers the excuse, and Meng Chuan privately worries that the attendant may soon be out of a job.

Character developments and interactions

• Wushi shows humility and ambition: despite his exceptional talent, he welcomes Meng Chuan’s guidance. His longing to recover his parents reveals a personal grief beneath his promise as a future powerhouse.
• Meng Chuan acts as a mentor, encouraging Wushi to aim beyond conventional limits. His teasing, self-satisfied humor contrasts with his genuine investment in Wushi’s growth. He also avoids the Sacred Body, whose behavior has become a source of frustration.
• The group members build on one another’s jokes, exaggerating Meng Chuan’s relationship with Wushi and provoking his irritation.
• Han Li stays cautious and detached, preferring to avoid the group’s trouble.
• Divine Mark follows Meng Chuan’s instructions, though doing so may endanger his position.

Significant themes

• Ambition and perspective: A person’s goals can shape how far they progress; Wushi is encouraged to aim beyond becoming a Great Emperor.
• Limits of power and grief: Even extraordinary cultivation cannot simply undo death, leaving Wushi’s hope unresolved.
• Mentorship and legacy: Meng Chuan plans to guide Wushi and leave his influence on the younger generation.
• Comedy and rumor: The group chat’s gossip provides comic relief and shows how quickly playful speculation can spiral.
• Caution and self-preservation: Han Li’s choice to remain uninvolved contrasts with the group’s bold mischief.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Gu Cang, asks Meng Chuan whether his lineage can overcome its curse and produce an emperor. Meng Chuan confirms it is possible: with strength great enough, one can break through any restriction. Encouraged, Gu Cang leaves intent on pursuing the Dao.
• Meng Chuan surveys the golden age taking shape across the universe. The Dao Realm has stirred the universe’s Origin, producing a wealth of powerful physiques and prodigies. He expects Wushi to surpass them all, but thinks that an easy victory might leave Wushi with lessons unlearned.
• To give Wushi and Gu Cang a formidable challenge, Meng Chuan secretly arranges for The Ancient One to attain the Dao before them. She arrives in his world using the Space-Time Origin he gave her.
• Meng Chuan introduces The Ancient One during another livestream, where members of the Chat Group joke and bicker. He then offers her tea.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shifts from teasing Gu Cang to offering genuine encouragement, then reveals his strategic, mischievous side: he intends to make The Ancient One a “roadblock” for future contenders. He has also suppressed his own influence so he will not obstruct others’ advancement.
• Gu Cang has grown greatly over five hundred years and is now nearing the level of a Great Emperor. Learning that his lineage’s curse can be overcome renews his resolve.
• Wushi is portrayed as the standout of the coming generation. Meng Chuan believes he can still grow stronger, especially if he faces meaningful resistance.
• The Ancient One is revealed to have extraordinary potential: deep mastery of time, formidable foundations, and extensive cultivation—much of it hidden behind her friendly manner. Meng Chuan regards her as powerful enough to challenge Wushi.
• The Chat Group’s members react with envy and humor. Meng Qi and Lu Mingfei trade insults, while Fei Peng envies The Ancient One’s chance to meet Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Strength versus limitations: Exceptional power can overcome curses and barriers that seem absolute.
• Growth through challenge: Easy success may offer fewer lessons than overcoming a formidable opponent.
• Hidden depth and preparation: The Ancient One’s friendly exterior conceals vast experience and power.
• A golden age shaped by the Dao Realm: Its influence strengthens rising prodigies, while also widening the gap between the strongest and the rest.

Key events

• After receiving Enlightenment Tea Leaves from Meng Chuan, the Ancient One’s cultivation breaks through, triggering a devastating Saint tribulation that draws attention across the Big Dipper.
• She defeats successive waves of tribulation phantoms, including ancient emperors and great emperors. The final opponent is a phantom of Meng Chuan himself, against whom she fights intensely before being knocked back. The tribulation ends, and she becomes a Saint, advancing several minor stages at once.
• Ruthless senses the unfamiliar techniques The Ancient One uses but refrains from interfering after Meng Chuan explains that she is his friend. Wushi watches the tribulation and recognizes her as a rival worthy of his Emperor Path.
• Soon after her breakthrough, a Quasi-Emperor attempts to assassinate her, fearing her future potential. Supreme Huang Tian intervenes, defeats and captures the attacker, and escorts The Ancient One away. Witnesses conclude she must be the Heavenly Emperor’s successor.

Character developments and interactions

• The Ancient One proves her strength and adaptability, blending methods from different cultivation systems and rapidly learning the world’s fighting style. She remains calm when attacked, despite being unfamiliar with being treated as a vulnerable junior.
• Meng Chuan observes her tribulation without protecting her from its challenges, but ensures the world’s forces do not harm her unfairly. His joking exchanges with the Chat Group members reveal his pride and dry humor.
• Ruthless shows curiosity about The Ancient One’s unfamiliar cultivation system, but respects Meng Chuan’s friendship with her.
• Wushi sees The Ancient One as a genuine competitor, raising expectations for their future rivalry.
• Huang Tian acts decisively as Meng Chuan’s attendant, protecting The Ancient One and taking the would-be assassin into custody.

Significant themes

• Growth through trials: The Ancient One’s tribulation tests her power while helping her adapt and advance.
• Rivalry and recognition: Her achievement earns the attention of major figures and establishes her as a potential Emperor Path contender.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a newly advanced Saint can be threatened by those afraid of what she may become.
• Reputation and association: Her connection to Meng Chuan transforms her apparent vulnerability into protection—and leads others to label her his successor, whether she knows it or not.

Key plot points and events

• Rumors spread that Meng Chuan is the Heavenly Emperor Successor, a title that makes him seem nearly invincible. Wushi welcomes the prospect of facing him, confident in his own strength and destiny.
• In the Dao Realm, Meng Chuan introduces The Ancient One to its powerful residents after she thanks him and Huang Tian for their help. Ruthless is absent, remaining in seclusion to advance toward Immortal Emperorhood.
• Meng Chuan decides The Ancient One should be able to test herself in the wider universe. He instructs his attendants to announce that his faction will not intervene unless someone unfairly overwhelms her or a cultivator above the Great Sage realm attacks her.
• The attendants misunderstand the wording and propose announcing a broader version of the rule, frustrating Meng Chuan.

Character developments

• Wushi sees Meng Chuan as the worthy rival he has been seeking and meets the prospect with fighting spirit rather than fear.
• The Ancient One is eager to progress through combat and accepts the chance to face challenges without constant protection.
• Ruthless remains wholly focused on cultivation, determined to reach ever-higher realms.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body (Gu Cang) imagines himself as the Great Emperor’s loyal defender. He misreads Meng Chuan’s hints about spending time with The Ancient One and a possible future emperor’s position, becoming suspicious rather than understanding the situation.
• The two Attendants believe they are perceptive and loyal, but their imagined readiness to attack Gu Cang—and their muddled interpretation of Meng Chuan’s order—show how badly they misunderstand him.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and ambition: Wushi welcomes a powerful opponent as a way to grow.
• Growth through hardship: The Ancient One must face real dangers to advance, rather than rely on the Heavenly Emperor’s protection.
• Miscommunication and comic misunderstanding: Characters invent elaborate explanations for one another’s behavior, turning an ordinary introduction into imagined intrigue.
• Power and responsibility: Meng Chuan sets limits on when his faction will intervene, balancing protection with his friend’s independence.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Huang Tian receive The Ancient One’s thanks; Meng Chuan then introduces her to the Dao Realm’s powerful figures.
• Gu Cang watches The Ancient One warily, convinced she may threaten the Great Emperor’s standing. Meng Chuan mistakes his intense attention for possible love at first sight and jokingly encourages him to spend time with her.
• The attendants silently coordinate to defend Meng Chuan, while the other Dao Realm visitors avoid commenting on the increasingly strange atmosphere.
• Meng Chuan asks The Ancient One’s consent before announcing the rules for her trials; she agrees.

Plot points and events

• After a Quasi-Emperor attempted to kill the Ancient One, his entire race retreated behind the seals of its homeworld. It still depends on the Dao Realm to obtain supplies, despite having indirectly angered the Heavenly Emperor.
• Over five centuries, Meng Chuan’s Dao Realm has reshaped the universe, making life easier for mortals and cultivators alike. The Heavenly Emperor is now widely worshipped, and the resulting faith and wish power flow to Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan reflects on his difficult path toward becoming a Battle Immortal. He has reached his sixth transformation at age nine thousand, but his progress is slowing. He returns to seclusion, hoping to become an Immortal and relying on the Dao Realm’s resources for his later plans.
• A Chat Group alert interrupts him: Zhang Sanfeng’s world is close to ascending. Meng Chuan realizes his lingering divine sense is in that world and may interfere, so he asks Zhang Sanfeng about the change.
• Zhang Sanfeng initially knows nothing, but senses that his world’s energies and Origin are becoming restless. The group then humorously exaggerates the news, imagining Zhang Sanfeng becoming Immortal or even leading his world beyond all others.
• Meng Chuan brings the conversation back to the real issue and asks what caused the sudden acceleration. Zhang Sanfeng recalls recent events and begins explaining them, framing the story like a tale of his years as an emperor’s teacher.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan recognizes both the growing importance of faith and wish power and the limits of his own cultivation progress. He remains ambitious, but increasingly depends on the Dao Realm and the support of the wider world.
• Zhang Sanfeng is unaware that his world is on the verge of ascension until Meng Chuan alerts him. He then investigates and begins tracing the cause.
• Yao Chen jokes that he has infiltrated the “enemy ranks” alongside Meng Qi and Lu Mingfei, hinting at his allegiance to Meng Chuan while keeping the exchange playful.
• Bibi Dong worries that transmigrators may disrupt the group and wonders how Tang San will fare in a world that has already changed dramatically.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Zhang Sanfeng exchange messages about the ascension; Zhang Sanfeng is surprised that Meng Chuan knows before he does.
• Meng Qi, Lu Mingfei, and Yao Chen turn the news into a chain of increasingly absurd rumors, which Meng Chuan shuts down.
• Yao Chen’s teasing “infiltration” claim prompts jokes from Meng Qi and Lu Mingfei, while Bibi Dong reacts with concern about transmigrators.
• Meng Chuan ultimately redirects the group toward understanding what caused Zhang Sanfeng’s world to ascend so soon.

Significant themes

• Power, faith, and responsibility: The Dao Realm’s success has transformed society and made Meng Chuan a focus of worship, while the nature and limits of faith power remain mysterious.
• The cost of advancement: Meng Chuan’s path offers great strength but demands immense resources and increasingly difficult breakthroughs.
• Worlds changed by outsiders: The group’s humor—and Bibi Dong’s concern—reflects how transmigrators can radically reshape entire worlds.
• Comedy amid cosmic stakes: The Chat Group’s teasing and rumor-spreading contrast with the serious threat and significance of a world’s ascension.

Plot and major events

• After Zhang Sanfeng’s reforms begin changing the Heavenly Sword and Dragon-Slaying Saber world, he shows Zhu Yuanzhang a map of the globe and proposes conquering the lands beyond the known world. Zhu enthusiastically agrees, dreaming of becoming history’s greatest emperor.
• Zhang Sanfeng reveals his solution with the question, “Do you believe in light?” The Seven Wudang Ultras conquer the world, bringing all lands under Great Ming. Zhang then creates teleportation arrays to make the vast empire governable.
• With the world unified, it approaches ascension to a higher level. Meng Chuan visits Zhang Sanfeng to witness the event and study the process.
• In the group chat, Meng Qi warns Zhang that inviting the “protagonist” Meng Chuan might bring trouble. Meng Chuan teases Meng Qi about Gu Xiaosang, who is beside him and promptly flirts with her husband, leaving him flustered.
• Meng Chuan assesses Zhang Sanfeng’s cultivation and the world’s future strength. Zhang has advanced beyond the Martial Dao Primordial Spirit, toward a realm resembling a Martial Dao Golden Body, aided by the world’s coming ascension and the Immortal Blood Meng Chuan provided.
• As they wait on Wudang Mountain, Meng Chuan observes the world’s unusual blend of giant-hero spectacle, imported farming technology, and flourishing prosperity. The chapter ends with the group reflecting that, despite his warmth and interest in others, Meng Chuan has always been alone.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Sanfeng proves both an ambitious reformer and a powerful cultivator: he partners with Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the world, supports the empire with teleportation, and continues developing a martial path that increasingly resembles higher-level cultivation.
• Zhu Yuanzhang eagerly embraces world conquest, imagining the glory and historical stature it will bring him.
• Meng Chuan is impressed by Zhang’s achievements and the impending ascension, and he studies the world with genuine curiosity. His final silence reveals a deeper loneliness beneath his genial manner.
• Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang provide comic relief: Meng Qi’s warning backfires when Gu Xiaosang flirts with him, exposing the contrast between his romantic advice and his awkwardness in his own marriage.
• The group members share in the humor and admiration, but their attention ultimately turns to Meng Chuan’s isolation.

Significant themes

• Ambition and transformation: A familiar martial-arts world expands into a global empire and approaches a higher stage of existence.
• Power serving ordinary people: The chapter contrasts conquest and spectacle with the tangible benefits of good governance, food security, warm clothing, and improved agriculture.
• Cross-world exchange: Technology, cultivation knowledge, and ideas from other worlds help reshape Zhang Sanfeng’s society.
• Loneliness amid connection: Even surrounded by friends and remarkable worlds, Meng Chuan remains emotionally solitary.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan and Zhang Sanfeng wait on Wudang Mountain for the Heavenly Sword and Dragon-Slaying Saber world to ascend. The expected event is delayed for three days, prompting jokes and complaints from the disciples and the Chat Group.
• At last, the world begins transforming. Dragon Veins emerge beneath the earth, Divine Source Veins become lasting Spirit Veins, and the world draws in Chaos to strengthen its energy, expand its laws, and replenish its Great Dao.
• The changes benefit the world’s inhabitants: a rain of light heals ordinary people, strengthens them, and improves martial artists’ cultivation and understanding.
• Four auspicious beasts appear, symbolizing forces of the newly developing world. The Dragon-Slaying Saber and Heaven-Reliant Sword also absorb fortune and begin transforming into weapons tied to the world’s destiny.
• Zhang Sanfeng, who helped open the path to ascension, advances rapidly. Meng Chuan then receives an unexpected Chat Group notification suggesting he, too, has gained a major benefit.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan remains patient through the long wait, then observes the transformation across the world and recognizes its deeper effects on the world’s Origin and Heavenly Dao.
• Zhang Sanfeng is revealed as the chief beneficiary of the world’s advancement: his role in opening the way causes his strength to rise at an extraordinary pace. Meng Chuan has also shaped the world’s consciousness so it remains impartial and detached.
• Bibi Dong jokingly blames Meng Chuan for making her standards for a future partner impossibly high, though she remains more devoted to cultivation than marriage.
• The Wudang disciples provide comic relief: one mistakes sore eyes and a strained neck from staring at Meng Chuan for martial insight.

Significant themes

• Worlds and living beings grow together: The world nourishes its people, while their existence contributes to its development.
• Fortune and destiny: The two legendary weapons become vessels of world fortune, but Zhang Sanfeng is framed as the true protagonist of this world.
• Responsible cultivation and balance: Zhang Sanfeng is expected to guide the world so its relationship with living beings does not become exploitative or hostile.
• The Heavenly Dao: The world’s consciousness grows stronger while remaining impartial, reflecting Meng Chuan’s deliberate influence.

Character interactions

• Zhang Sanfeng asks Meng Chuan when the ascension will happen, while the disciples below speculate about why the two seniors have been standing so long.
• The Chat Group members tease them and urge them to rest; Bibi Dong’s private musings turn into humorous blame directed at Meng Chuan.
• As the transformation begins, Meng Chuan explains its significance through his observations, while Zhang Sanfeng’s rapid advancement demonstrates his special connection to the world’s new era.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan learns that the ascended world has rewarded him with Dao Source, but the Chat Group has kept 60% as a handling fee. He receives the remaining 40%, which he suspects is linked to his four permission upgrades, and resolves to raise his permissions further.
• He observes the world’s new possibilities after ascension: martial arts can advance, a mortal dynasty is protected by dragon qi, spirits are emerging in temples, and spiritual forces are gathering in mountains and lakes.
• Zhang Sanfeng suddenly coughs blood and appears near death. Chat Group members assume Meng Chuan attacked him, while Meng Chuan denies it and initially thinks Zhang is pretending.
• Zhang explains that the world consciousness tried to advance him, but became confused by Meng Chuan’s presence and aura. Its surging power shattered Zhang’s golden body.
• Meng Chuan awkwardly leaves, claiming urgent duties. Zhang then recovers and rebuilds his golden body, making it stronger than before.
• The truth emerges: Zhang and Meng Qi had staged the apparent crisis. Zhang had deliberately used the world’s power to glimpse the next realm, then rebuilt his body to correct flaws in his cultivation. He privately asks Meng Qi how convincing his performance was.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains confident and perceptive, but is caught off guard by Zhang Sanfeng’s elaborate act. He jokes about the Chat Group’s fee and his own ambitions, then recognizes the value of Zhang’s cultivation breakthrough.
• Zhang Sanfeng demonstrates greater independence and playfulness than Meng Chuan expected. Rather than accept an advancement he had not fully understood, he uses the experience to refine his path and emerges stronger.
• Meng Qi and Zhang Sanfeng reveal themselves as collaborators and fellow schemers, using the group’s tendency to suspect Meng Chuan for comic effect.
• The Chat Group members respond to Zhang’s apparent injury with accusations and teasing, especially blaming Meng Chuan. Their speculation heightens the misunderstanding.
• Meng Chuan and Zhang’s relationship remains affectionate and respectful, though Zhang now enjoys teasing the usually all-knowing Great Emperor.

Significant themes

• Ascension and transformation: A world’s advancement creates new possibilities for martial arts, spirits, and divine or immortal paths.
• Cultivation through understanding: Zhang refuses to rely on a realm he has not fully explored; breaking and rebuilding his golden body lets him strengthen his own path.
• Appearances and performance: The apparent attack is a staged drama, and even experienced observers can be misled.
• Humor and humility: Meng Chuan’s confidence, the group’s wild accusations, and Zhang’s prank turn a major breakthrough into a playful episode.