Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After the events in Zhang Sanfeng’s world, Meng Chuan begins studying the Dao Source granted by the Chat Group. He suspects the reward was tailored to his cultivation and privileges, and recognizes it as uniquely suited to his Dao.
• The Dao Source lets him perceive a world’s Great Dao taking shape. It deepens his Dao Shi Dao, which seeks to make him the origin of the Great Dao—first of the Shrouding the Heavens world, and eventually of all worlds.
• Meng Chuan recommits to this daunting ambition, while joking that even a “salted fish” needs power to avoid becoming a fish on a chopping board.
• As Meng Chuan comprehends the Dao Source, the Heavenly Sword and Dragon-Slaying Saber world changes. On Mount Tai, a consciousness awakens, becomes a man, and establishes a vast divine realm. He is the world’s first god and claims authority over his territory.
• Zhang Sanfeng senses the unexpected birth of the Mount Tai God but chooses not to intervene, confident he can later bring the world’s human, martial, and divine paths into order.
• The new god feels that “Mount Tai God” may not be his real identity. Seeing his reflection, he is astonished by his own handsome appearance—and puzzled by the phrase “holy shit” that comes out of his mouth.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan gains a powerful resource that strengthens his understanding of the Great Dao and clarifies the scale of his ambition. He accepts that achieving it will bring conflict with other powerful beings, but refuses to abandon his chosen path.
• The Mount Tai God emerges as a powerful but confused figure. Though he immediately commands a divine realm, he lacks a clear sense of his own identity and carries unexplained traces of another persona.
• Zhang Sanfeng remains observant and self-assured, choosing patience rather than reacting to the new god’s sudden appearance.

Significant themes

• Ambition and perseverance: Meng Chuan’s goal is nearly impossible, but he sees it as inseparable from his identity.
• Power and conflict: The Great Dao is something beings must compete for; Meng Chuan’s ambition is bound to create rivals.
• Worlds changing through cultivation: Meng Chuan’s comprehension of the Dao Source transforms the world from which it came.
• Identity and mystery: The Mount Tai God’s divine status contrasts with his uncertainty about who he truly is.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan’s direct influence on the world is indirect: his study of its Dao Source coincides with—and appears to trigger—the birth of its first god.
• Zhang Sanfeng senses the new god’s arrival but deliberately leaves him undisturbed for now.
• The Mount Tai God interacts with his own inherited powers and reflected image, revealing both his new authority and his disorientation.

Plot points and events

• The universe enters an unprecedented golden age under Meng Chuan’s rule. Unlike earlier eras, the Great Dao no longer suppresses cultivation, and vital essence is abundant, so countless prodigies compete for the chance to attain the Dao.
• The Ancient One quickly establishes herself as the leading Saint, claiming first place on the Dao Rankings and defeating Taiyin Fairy. Yet she then remains at the same cultivation level for ten years.
• Wushi rises steadily from Dao-Slaying King to Saint. With Meng Chuan’s guidance and the Dao Realm to train in, he becomes a famous contender.
• After reaching the Saint realm, Wushi challenges The Ancient One. She had deliberately held back her advancement while waiting for him. Their battle is so powerful that ordinary Saints could not safely intervene; Wushi loses.
• Wushi then defeats Taiyin Fairy despite being a Saint facing a Saint King. This leads the universe to recognize him as a second Heavenly Emperor Successor.
• The Taiyin Divine Sect fears the repeated defeats of its divine maiden may signal the Heavenly Emperor’s displeasure. The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body reassures the sect and has Wushi explain himself.
• It is revealed that Wushi is the Western Empress’s Son. His defeat of Taiyin Fairy is understood as retaliation for her having cited her victory over his mother as an achievement. People promptly remove references to that old contest from the Dao Rankings.

Character developments

• Wushi grows into a formidable, self-assured rival, advancing without being distracted by The Ancient One’s reputation. His defeat does not diminish his standing; his later victory over Taiyin Fairy establishes his power and identity.
• The Ancient One remains Wushi’s peer and ideal rival. Her long pause in cultivation is revealed to be deliberate: she was waiting for him to reach her level.
• Taiyin Fairy struggles to recover from earlier defeats, only to lose again to Wushi. The repeated humiliation makes her a source of both sympathy and comic gossip.
• Meng Chuan remains in seclusion, but continues to shape events through his guidance of Wushi and The Ancient One. He intends to help cultivate an enhanced version of Wushi.
• The Taiyin Divine Sect shifts from pride in its divine maiden to anxious concern over the political meaning of her defeats.

Significant themes

• A golden age of competition: A flourishing universe gives many prodigies the chance to pursue the Emperor’s Position.
• Rivalry as mutual advancement: The Ancient One and Wushi compete intensely without becoming enemies; their contest is framed as a way to improve together.
• Mentorship and unequal advantages: Wushi’s talent is strengthened by Meng Chuan’s guidance, while The Ancient One also benefits from her close ties to him.
• Legacy and reputation: Wushi’s identity as the Western Empress’s Son gives personal meaning to his challenge, while the title of Heavenly Emperor Successor reshapes how the universe judges him.
• Power and political fear: The sect’s alarm shows how the Heavenly Emperor’s influence reaches beyond direct action, as others interpret his successors’ behavior as possible messages.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan patiently advises Wushi and The Ancient One in the Dao Realm, maintaining a friendly relationship with both.
• Wushi and The Ancient One meet as rivals and battle fiercely, but their contest reflects respect and a shared desire to test themselves.
• Wushi challenges Taiyin Fairy, turning her earlier public boasting about defeating his mother into the personal motive behind his attack.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body mediates between Wushi and the Taiyin Divine Sect, preserving respect for the Human Emperor’s lineage while clarifying the situation.

Key plot points and events

• The universe’s leading factions discuss the looming contest for the Emperor’s Position. The Ancient One and Wushi, both successors of the Heavenly Emperor, have eclipsed every other contender.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord resents the apparent advantage of the Heavenly Emperor’s circle but admits his faction cannot defeat either successor. He hopes a Chaos Body might still claim a special Emperor’s Position.
• The Ancient One and Wushi advance together through the cultivation stages, ultimately reaching Alternative Dao Attainment. Their rivalry drives them to become far stronger than they otherwise might have.
• Wushi demonstrates his overwhelming power by destroying a prodigy who wielded an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and taking the weapon as a trophy. He ranks second on the Supreme Rankings, behind The Ancient One.
• After years of clashes across the universe, a tremendous pressure signals that one of the two is undergoing an Emperor-Ascension Tribulation. The chapter ends before revealing who.

Character developments and interactions

• The Ancient One is portrayed as exceptionally prepared and powerful, having studied countless Emperor Scriptures and techniques. She deliberately holds back so she can advance alongside Wushi rather than leave him behind.
• Wushi grows much stronger through having a worthy rival. His feat against the Emperor Weapon establishes him as a genuine contender for the throne.
• The Yaoguang Holy Lord shifts from political frustration to seeking an alternate path through the possibility of a Chaos Body.
• Ji Chengkong recognizes that his own chance to become emperor is effectively gone and warns others against challenging the Heavenly Emperor’s influence.
• The faction leaders trade guarded remarks and privately resent the advantages enjoyed by the Jiang, Ji, and Jade Lake families, whose ties to the Heavenly Emperor give them confidence.

Significant themes

• Rivalry as a source of growth: The Ancient One and Wushi sharpen each other through constant competition.
• Power and political influence: The Heavenly Emperor’s legacy shapes both the struggle for supremacy and the factions’ calculations.
• The burden of extraordinary eras: Other prodigies feel overshadowed, first by the Heavenly Emperor and then by his successors.
• Uncertainty at the threshold of greatness: The chapter builds suspense around which rival will attempt to become emperor.

Key plot points and events

• The universe feels the upheaval of a Great Emperor tribulation, and the Dao Realm Gods identify the Ancient One as the one attaining the Dao—not Wushi.
• The Ancient One faces the legendary Myriad Daos Annihilation Tribulation and succeeds. The Heavenly Dao takes her form, making her the first Great Emperor to rise during the Heavenly Emperor’s reign and beginning an era with two emperors.
• A mysterious “Passerby” arrives and explains the tribulation to the gathered cultivators, repeatedly getting Wushi to confirm his claims. He is actually a strand of Meng Chuan’s divine sense, promoting his own book, Cosmic Miscellany. Wushi’s aura erupts when the Passerby praises Meng Chuan, though he claims he merely agrees.
• After the Ancient One returns to the Dao Realm, Wushi declares that he will pursue the Great Emperor’s Dao rather than seal himself away. Meng Chuan says Wushi’s Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo constitution can overcome the Ancient One’s suppression.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, who had been close to breaking through himself, asks whether he still has a chance. Meng Chuan privately worries that an unsatisfactory answer could provoke him.

Character developments and interactions

• The Ancient One fulfills Meng Chuan’s advice to attain the Dao before Wushi and the Sacred Body. She shows respect to Wushi and gratitude to the Great Emperors who guided her.
• Wushi accepts the Ancient One’s achievement without hostility and remains determined to attain the Dao in turn. His reactions reveal both his loyalty to Meng Chuan and his discomfort with the Passerby’s shameless praise.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body shifts from frustration at losing his chance to renewed hope after hearing that Wushi may succeed.
• Meng Chuan continues guiding events while disguising himself as the Passerby, using humor and self-promotion amid the solemn tribulation.

Significant themes

• Rivalry and perseverance: The Ancient One’s success does not end Wushi’s or the Sacred Body’s ambitions.
• Mentorship and competition: Meng Chuan deliberately lets others face the pressure of being “protagonists,” believing they can rise to the challenge.
• Knowledge and reputation: The Dao Realm and the Passerby’s explanations broaden the universe’s understanding, while Meng Chuan’s self-promotion adds comedy.
• Destiny versus possibility: Though history seems to forbid a second person from attaining the Dao under an existing emperor’s rule, Wushi—and perhaps the Sacred Body—may defy that precedent.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan tells the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body that the only barrier to achieving something is insufficient strength. The Sacred Body realizes he must become strong enough to overcome the limits of his body and challenge the reigning order, though he quickly stops himself from voicing that last thought in front of Meng Chuan.
• The group chat celebrates The Ancient One’s rise to level 130. Meng Chuan explains that her long cultivation in the Time Ring and subsequent years in the Shrouding the Heavens world account for her progress. He encourages Lu Mingfei to come to his world to cultivate, while joking with other group members.
• After the gathering disperses, The Ancient One enters seclusion to understand her new attainment. Wushi and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body prepare to challenge the Myriad Daos and become Emperors. The Sacred Body’s chance comes from the flourishing Mortal World, whose many lives and competing insights have stirred the Great Dao.
• By the year 3500 of the newly adopted Dao Calendar, the Dao Realm has become prosperous, and the calendar honors the day it appeared—and Meng Chuan, whose rise brought peace and hope to the universe.
• Wushi unexpectedly breaks through while cultivating at Jade Lake. Despite The Ancient One already being a Great Emperor, he succeeds in challenging the heavens and heads to the Cosmic Frontier to undergo his unprecedented tribulation.
• Wushi’s tribulation includes not only the phantoms of past Emperors and Immortal Beasts, but also Immortal Divine Medicines. At the end, a mysterious figure called Fat Tiger watches the spectacle and hints that the medicines’ appearance will not go unchallenged.

Character developments and interactions

• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body gains a clearer understanding of his potential and resolves to keep striving, though he remains frustrated at being just short of Emperor-level breakthroughs.
• Wushi makes a historic advance, proving that someone can attain the Dao even under an existing Great Emperor’s suppression.
• The Ancient One recognizes that Wushi’s breakthrough fulfills half of the task Meng Chuan brought her to this world for. Her trembling Heavenly Heart Imprint signals the breakthrough’s effect on her own Dao, but she remains composed.
• Meng Chuan acts as mentor and protector, encouraging others’ growth while managing the group’s cultivation opportunities. His teasing rapport with the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and the chat members adds humor.
• The group members exchange congratulations, jokes, and encouragement. Meng Qi calls Meng Chuan’s invitation to cultivate in his world an infringement, while Lu Mingfei underestimates his own prospects.

Significant themes

• Strength and self-overcoming: Limits can be surpassed through sufficient power, effort, and growth.
• Innate talent versus experience: Ye Fan’s example suggests that talent matters, but later opportunities and life experiences can be just as decisive.
• A changing age: The Dao Realm and Dao Calendar symbolize a transformed universe shaped by Meng Chuan’s influence.
• Breaking established limits: Wushi’s success—and the Sacred Body’s new opportunity—shows that even longstanding rules can be challenged.
• Collective advancement: The flourishing world and its many beings generate new insights into the Dao, creating chances for individuals to rise.

Chapter Summary: “The Heavenly Emperor’s Accomplice”

Key plot points

• Wushi begins his Emperor-Ascension Tribulation, whose lightning reveals faces radiating an ancient, immortal aura. Yuanhua and Ruthless recognize the vision as evidence of a profound secret behind the Immortal Divine Medicines.
• Meng Chuan intervenes by striking the tribulation with a vast palm, erasing the mysterious faces and making the already dangerous trial fiercer. He frames the hardship as preparation for Wushi’s future, confident that his protégé will succeed.
• Wushi defies the heavens and becomes an emperor. The news shakes the universe: two emperors now exist in the same age alongside Meng Chuan, and people speculate that the Heavenly Emperor has a way to let his successors overcome the Great Dao’s suppression. Meng Chuan’s attendants dismiss the rumor, saying Wushi simply had the strength to succeed.
• Wushi’s ascension makes things much harder for the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Gu Cang. With two emperors’ Great Daos pressing on the universe, the breakthrough he had nearly achieved now seems far more difficult.
• Wushi recalls that Meng Chuan had anticipated the order of their ascensions. Meng Chuan had explained that becoming emperor after his master would create a valuable challenge—and had insisted Wushi ascend before the red-haired brother.
• The chapter ends with Wushi privately enjoying his role as Meng Chuan’s “accomplice” while Gu Cang suffers. The Ancient One shares a recording of Meng Chuan’s ominous laughter with the Chat Group, and a mysterious gaze from within the Dao Realm watches Wushi depart before surveying the flourishing mortal world.

Character developments and interactions

• Wushi proves his confidence justified by surviving the tribulation and becoming emperor. He also gains a more mischievous side: though he sympathizes with Gu Cang, he secretly enjoys having escaped the consequences himself.
• Meng Chuan is both mentor and schemer. He deliberately intensifies Wushi’s trial, but his earlier plan was meant to give Wushi an opportunity through the order of ascension. His teasing “gift” to Wushi hints at more trouble ahead.
• Gu Cang, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, is devastated when Wushi’s ascension makes his own path to breaking through the Great Dao’s suppression much harder. Wushi tries to encourage him, but can offer little comfort.
• The Ancient One recognizes Meng Chuan’s tendency to lead others into trouble and pokes fun at his poor judgment about appearances by posting his unsettling laugh.
• Ruthless and Yuanhua witness the strange tribulation and ponder the secrets behind the Immortal Divine Medicines.

Significant themes

• Mentorship through hardship: Meng Chuan believes Wushi’s suffering will strengthen him, even when his methods look cruel.
• Power and cosmic consequences: Wushi’s achievement inspires awe across the universe but also increases the burden on other cultivators striving for the Emperor’s Position.
• Trust, schemes, and complicity: Wushi’s success rests partly on Meng Chuan’s guidance, and he comes to see himself as an accomplice in his mentor’s plans.
• The flourishing of an age: The rise of another emperor signals a renewed era of vitality, even as it makes the path forward more difficult for others.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan emerges from 3,500 years of seclusion with a dramatic display of Blood Qi that makes the entire universe witness his return. He greets the other powerful figures, then promptly leaves rather than hear about their progress.
• He visits Ruthless and discusses their advances. Meng Chuan reveals that Dao Source helped him complete his Seventh Transformation, advance his Dao and Lifetime Method, and create an Other Self in Zhang Sanfeng’s world: the Mount Tai God. That Other Self greatly improves his ability to survive, though he is still far from attaining Legend.
• The Ancient One prepares to return to Marvel after achieving her goal of attaining the Dao and completing Meng Chuan’s task of preventing Wushi and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body from doing so. Meng Chuan suspects her return will cause trouble.
• In the Chat Group, Fei Peng announces that he and Chonglou have been “exposed.” The group jokes and speculates about their relationship. Their association has come to light, but the Heavenly Realm has not been invaded, so Fei Peng’s neglect of duty is less serious than in the original story. His comfortable routine of fighting Chonglou and visiting Xi Yao is likely over.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is even stronger and more self-assured, though he remains teasing and self-centered: he makes a grand entrance, sidesteps the Gods’ conversation, and eagerly praises Ruthless while brushing off his own achievements.
• Ruthless responds coolly but recognizes how close Meng Chuan is to immortality. She and Meng Chuan share a calm, respectful discussion of their cultivation.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Ji Lianxing, and the other Gods see through Meng Chuan’s performative reunion and are annoyed when he abruptly leaves. The Ancient One, by contrast, speaks warmly but frankly with him before departing.
• Fei Peng and Chonglou remain close through their regular combat, but being discovered puts their friendship—and Fei Peng’s position in the Heavenly Realm—under scrutiny. The Chat Group members respond with teasing, gossip, and bad advice.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Meng Chuan’s immense strength contrasts with his playful, irreverent behavior toward his peers.
• Cultivation and survival: His progress comes not only from greater power but also from creating an Other Self that makes permanent death harder.
• Friendship, reputation, and duty: Fei Peng’s bond with Chonglou conflicts with expectations of his role as Heaven’s First Divine General.
• Humor and parody: The chapter punctures epic grandeur with casual banter, group-chat jokes, and the characters’ suspicion that Fei Peng and Chonglou’s “friendship” might be something more.

Plot points

• Fei Peng worries that his friendship with Chonglou, ruler of the Demon Realm, may draw the Heavenly Emperor’s suspicion. He expects the Emperor might banish him, but—now powerful enough to rival the Divine Realm’s strongest—he has no intention of submitting meekly.
• Meng Chuan judges that Fei Peng’s situation could become an opportunity and decides to visit his world. He hopes, in part, that helping raise group members’ worlds might earn him more Dao Source, but checks his ambition when he remembers how formidable some group members are.
• Meng Chuan asks Fei Peng’s permission to visit. Fei Peng eagerly agrees and looks forward to meeting him in person.
• Xi Yao mistakes Fei Peng’s excitement for eagerness to see Chonglou. Meng Chuan then appears beneath the God Tree, and he and Fei Peng greet each other warmly. Their striking good looks astonish Xi Yao and the watching Chat Group members.

Character developments and interactions

• Fei Peng is more confident and independent than before: he recognizes the Heavenly Emperor as a potential threat, but believes his own strength gives him room to resist. He is also openly excited to meet Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan balances grand ambition with self-mockery and caution, while observing the group’s usual courtesy by asking before visiting.
• Xi Yao remains devoted to Fei Peng but is anxious about the consequences of his relationship with Chonglou. Her misunderstanding adds comic tension.
• The Chat Group reacts to the meeting with playful envy and admiration, while Han Li jokingly wonders whether cultivation could improve his own appearance.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Fei Peng’s strength and friendship with a demon ruler put him at odds with the Heavenly Emperor’s expectations.
• Ambition and humility: Meng Chuan dreams of gaining Dao Source by helping other worlds, then reins himself in.
• Friendship and loyalty: Fei Peng values both Chonglou and his new connection with Meng Chuan, despite the political risks.
• Comedy and appearance: The chapter’s tension gives way to lighthearted reactions centered on the two men’s exceptional handsomeness.

Plot points and events

• Fei Peng hosts Meng Chuan and Xi Yao for tea. The group chat teases Meng Chuan for previously avoiding Daigu Madoka’s tea, while Fei Peng smoothly pretends Meng Chuan is drinking to honor him.
• Fei Peng says he will not reincarnate himself, though he may send a fragment of his soul into the mortal world for the sake of his soon-to-be-born younger sister, Long Kui.
• At Cassell College, Lu Mingfei asks Chu Zihang for help if he ever needs to take a bride from Japan’s Sheqi Eight Family. Chu points out that, since she is not actually about to marry, taking her would be kidnapping. Still, he offers to help by disabling the cars pursuing Lu. The two leave together, prompting a student to imagine a scandalous romance and post about it on the Night Watch Forum.
• In the Immortal Sword world, officials sent by the Heavenly Emperor arrive to confront Fei Peng over secretly meeting Chonglou. They also suspect Meng Chuan may be a demon-world spy.

Character developments

• Fei Peng shows greater resolve and maturity than before. He accepts the consequences of his choices and considers sacrificing a soul fragment to protect his future sister.
• Meng Chuan remains composed and amused, though the group chat’s teasing briefly exposes his discomfort about being caught drinking tea.
• Chu Zihang reveals his loyalty to Lu Mingfei: he refuses to assist with kidnapping, but promises practical help if Lu acts.
• Lu Mingfei’s attachment to Eri—and his tendency to make dramatic plans—comes through in his request to Chu.

Themes

• Loyalty and family: Fei Peng’s concern for Long Kui and Chu Zihang’s support for Lu drive their choices.
• Personal change and resolve: Fei Peng has become more steadfast and decisive.
• Comedy and misunderstanding: Group-chat banter, Lu’s “bride-snatching” plan, and the student’s mistaken interpretation of the two friends’ closeness provide much of the humor.
• Authority and judgment: Fei Peng challenges the Heavenly Emperor’s officials to justify their accusations and distinguish lawful conduct from guilt by association.

Character interactions

• Fei Peng and Meng Chuan share easy, teasing companionship, with Xi Yao quietly pleased to see Fei Peng acting like his former self.
• Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang exchange deadpan humor, but their conversation also underscores their trust and affection.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s officials confront Fei Peng and turn their suspicions toward Meng Chuan, setting up a likely clash.

Plot points and events

• Fei Peng’s conversation with Meng Chuan is interrupted by the Heavenly Emperor’s lackeys, who demand that Fei Peng surrender.
• Fei Peng draws the Demon-Suppressing Sword and defeats them without killing anyone, explaining that he acted because they insulted his friend. He promises to deal with the matter with the Heavenly Emperor himself.
• Fei Peng leaves Xi Yao behind and accompanies Meng Chuan to High Heaven Palace. Along the way, they discuss the limits of Fei Peng’s world and the possibility of raising it to a higher level.
• Meng Chuan offers to help, though he admits success is uncertain and says the attempt will require time and Fei Peng’s strength. Fei Peng agrees.

Character developments and interactions

• Fei Peng demonstrates both his formidable strength and his sense of honor: he protects Meng Chuan but restrains himself from killing his opponents. He also shows affection for Xi Yao and reveals that he values his relaxed life, even though he still wants to keep growing stronger.
• Meng Chuan is impressed by Fei Peng’s swordsmanship and the couple’s closeness, though he comically resents their romance. He reflects on how different worlds’ environments affect cultivation and resolves to preserve intense competition among future prodigies in his own world.
• Xi Yao quietly supports Fei Peng, asking him only to be careful before he leaves.
• The group-chat spectators tease Meng Chuan for being “defeated” by the sight of Fei Peng and Xi Yao together. Meng Chuan silently vows revenge on the commenters.

Significant themes

• Ambition and contentment: Fei Peng enjoys an easy, fulfilling life but remains willing to pursue greater cultivation.
• Cultivation and environment: Meng Chuan reflects that longevity and favorable conditions do not necessarily produce the strongest cultivators; struggle and competition can foster exceptional talent.
• Loyalty and restraint: Fei Peng defends his friend decisively while choosing not to take lives.
• Romance and humor: Fei Peng and Xi Yao’s tenderness contrasts with Meng Chuan’s mock bitterness and the group’s playful commentary.

Key plot points

• Meng Chuan and Fei Peng face the Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Realm, where a Divine Official accuses Fei Peng of colluding with Demon Lord Chonglou and insults Meng Chuan as an unwelcome “stray cat or dog.”
• Meng Chuan retaliates without killing the official: he transforms him into an ugly dog-cat hybrid and banishes him to the mortal world beside a kennel. The gods are frightened by the ease and power of the transformation.
• The Heavenly Emperor ignores the incident and demands an explanation from Fei Peng. He orders Fei Peng to enter the Godwashing Pool and spend the rest of his life in the mortal world.
• Fei Peng understands that this punishment would destroy his divine status, potential, and connection to the Divine Realm. He refuses both the pool and exile.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains playful and confident, but swiftly punishes anyone who insults him. His show of power makes the assembled gods wary, while the Heavenly Emperor decides not to risk confronting him.
• Fei Peng stands by his friendship with Chonglou, arguing that their alliance has harmed no one. He is direct with the Heavenly Emperor and refuses a punishment he considers unjust and ruinous.
• The Divine Official tries to gain favor by berating Fei Peng and Meng Chuan, but his arrogance backfires spectacularly.
• The Heavenly Emperor treats Fei Peng’s friendship with a demon as grounds for punishment, yet avoids escalating matters with Meng Chuan.
• The chat-group members joke about provoking rivalry between Meng Chuan and Fei Peng, adding a comic contrast to the tense court scene.

Significant themes

• Judgment by association: Fei Peng is condemned for befriending Chonglou despite claiming they have harmed no one.
• Power and intimidation: Meng Chuan’s effortless transformation silences the gods and shifts the balance of the audience.
• Loyalty and defiance: Fei Peng refuses to surrender his identity and future to an unjust sentence.
• Humor amid conflict: The banter and absurd dog-cat punishment undercut the solemnity of the Divine Realm’s court.

Key plot points and events

• The Heavenly Emperor questions General Fei Peng about supposedly conspiring with the Demon Lord and declares that Fei Peng will be stripped of his divine power and sent to the mortal world.
• Meng Chuan repeatedly interrupts the conversation, rejects the Heavenly Emperor’s authority to impose the punishment, and challenges him to prove himself in a fight.
• When the Heavenly Emperor threatens to act personally, Meng Chuan slaps him into the palace floor, leaving him unable to move.
• The humiliated Heavenly Emperor invokes the power of heaven and the Six Realms. Meng Chuan remains unconcerned, confident that his strength surpasses the world’s laws.
• Fei Peng, who expected to be the central combatant, repeatedly tries to speak but is interrupted. The Chat Group notices the pattern and teases him about it.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan is confident, irreverent, and protective of Fei Peng. He treats the Heavenly Emperor’s threats as empty posturing and acts decisively rather than debating.
• Fei Peng begins as a dignified general facing punishment, but becomes increasingly bewildered and frustrated as Meng Chuan takes over the confrontation. He wonders why he has been reduced to an onlooker.
• The Heavenly Emperor shifts from calm, self-assured authority to fury and disbelief after discovering that his power cannot protect him from Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Power versus authority: The Heavenly Emperor’s title and command over the Six Realms mean little against someone vastly stronger.
• Intervention and agency: Meng Chuan protects Fei Peng, but his constant interruptions also deprive Fei Peng of a chance to act for himself.
• Comic timing: The repeated failed attempts to speak turn a serious confrontation into a running gag.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan openly challenges and mocks the Heavenly Emperor while defending Fei Peng.
• Fei Peng agrees to Meng Chuan’s proposed challenge, then watches as Meng Chuan immediately defeats the Emperor himself.
• The Chat Group comments on the interruptions, and Fei Peng’s confusion at their teasing adds to the humor.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan confronts the Heavenly Emperor with what he learned by examining the Immortal Sword World’s River of Time. He reveals that the struggle for the Heavenly Emperor’s throne involved betrayals and political maneuvering, and accuses the ruler of using the Godwashing Pool to absorb the power of gods who had supported him.
• Meng Chuan links this scheme to the decline or deaths of powerful figures such as Nuwa and Shennong, and warns that Fei Peng’s recent breakthrough may make him a target too.
• The Heavenly Emperor is stunned that Meng Chuan knows his secrets and realizes Meng Chuan is not from the Six Realms. Meng Chuan brings him out of his pit and leaves Fei Peng to settle the matter himself.
• Meng Chuan transports Fei Peng and the Heavenly Emperor to the New Immortal Realm. Chonglou is already there, expecting his usual sparring match with Fei Peng. When Fei Peng says he must fight the Heavenly Emperor first, Chonglou mistakenly assumes Fei Peng plans to overthrow him and seize the Divine Realm.
• Chonglou enthusiastically proposes that he and Fei Peng rule their respective realms as equals, leaving them free to fight whenever they like. Meng Chuan jokes about Chonglou’s apparent interest in “marrying into the right family,” then notices a possible sign of trouble near Xi Yao.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan displays his confidence and teasing vanity, but uses his knowledge of history to expose the Heavenly Emperor’s hidden methods. He refuses to fight Fei Peng’s battle for him, insisting that Fei Peng face the ruler himself.
• Fei Peng moves from trusting the Heavenly Emperor to recognizing the danger he poses. Though kind, he accepts that the ruler’s attempt to exploit or cripple him warrants a direct confrontation.
• The Heavenly Emperor is shaken when his concealed actions are revealed. His earlier rise to power is portrayed as legitimate in title, but increasingly compromised by his exploitation of the Godwashing Pool.
• Chonglou remains eager for a worthy fight and is thrilled by the prospect of joining forces with Fei Peng—not for political ambition so much as to make their duels easier to arrange. His misunderstanding adds humor to the impending conflict.
• Meng Chuan also trades barbs with Meng Qi in the group chat, while other members watch and comment on his showboating.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: The Heavenly Emperor’s authority enabled him to drain the strength of former allies and rivals.
• Justice and accountability: Fei Peng must decide how to respond to someone who has targeted him, rather than relying on misplaced mercy.
• History and hidden truth: Meng Chuan’s journey through the River of Time exposes the dark origins behind celebrated institutions and figures.
• Friendship expressed through rivalry: Chonglou and Fei Peng’s bond is built around combat, with Chonglou imagining political partnership chiefly as a way to secure more sparring.

Key plot points and events

• Fei Peng and Chonglou’s mutual respect enrages the Immortal Sword Heavenly Emperor, who accuses Fei Peng of conspiring against him and endangering the world.
• Fei Peng refuses to argue and attacks. As they fight, Meng Chuan recognizes the inexplicable music accompanying Fei Peng as his personal battle theme. The music seems to give Fei Peng an overwhelming advantage, and he defeats the Heavenly Emperor—who was already weakened after Meng Chuan struck him.
• On Meng Chuan’s orders, Fei Peng spares the defeated ruler so Meng Chuan can study him and his Heavenly Emperor Divine Position.
• Meng Chuan considers whether becoming a Heavenly Emperor in different worlds might help him reach the Legendary realm, but dismisses the idea as impractical: creating enough Other Selves would require elevating an enormous number of worlds.
• Fei Peng goes to reassure Xi Yao that he is safe, while Chonglou returns to the Demon Realm to celebrate their newfound freedom to meet openly.
• Alone in the High Heaven Palace, Meng Chuan turns to his main goal: elevating the Immortal Sword World. He reasons that an exceptional being surpassing a world’s limits may help trigger its growth, though this will be far harder than elevating a weaker world.
• Meng Chuan reveals his aura and the faith of the people who regard him as Heavenly Emperor. The Immortal Sword World’s Heaven’s Will responds favorably to him.

Character developments and interactions

• Fei Peng openly rejects the Immortal Sword Heavenly Emperor’s accusations and finally gets to reunite with Xi Yao. His victory also lets him and Chonglou meet without hiding.
• The Immortal Sword Heavenly Emperor loses decisively and is spared, leaving Meng Chuan free to investigate his position and its connection to the world.
• Chonglou celebrates Fei Peng’s victory and the prospect of their friendship no longer being constrained.
• Meng Chuan shifts from amusement at Fei Peng’s bizarrely powerful battle music to serious planning about world elevation and his own cultivation. He remains the dominant authority in the Divine Realm, but intends to leave its governance to the existing gods.

Significant themes

• Cheats and unfair advantages: The chapter jokes that cleverness and hard work may lose to someone with a supernatural “cheat”—here, Fei Peng’s battle music.
• Fate and causality: Meng Chuan’s reaction is framed as another ripple in the vast workings of karma and fate.
• Worlds, power, and cultivation: Stronger worlds are harder to elevate; Meng Chuan’s advancement depends on finding a way to raise the Immortal Sword World.
• Friendship and loyalty: Fei Peng and Chonglou’s bond, and Fei Peng’s concern for Xi Yao, contrast with the Heavenly Emperor’s accusations and hostility.
• Ambition tempered by practicality: Meng Chuan considers grand paths to advancement, then recognizes their limits and refocuses on the immediate challenge.

• Key events: Meng Chuan is unable to get useful answers from the Immortal Sword world’s consciousness, so he discusses the situation with Fei Peng. Fei Peng sends a fragment of his soul to be reborn as Crown Prince Long Yang, taking the place of Long Kui’s brother. Xi Yao sends a fruit down after him; it will take her form and become Long Yang’s queen, staying with him through future lives. Meng Chuan and Fei Peng then settle the matter of the Six Realms’ leadership: Fei Peng reluctantly agrees to serve as Heavenly Emperor for now, intending to hand the role to a future, world-born “Other Self” of Meng Chuan’s when that destined ruler appears.
• World ascension: Meng Chuan and Fei Peng identify three likely requirements: native powerhouses must surpass their world’s limits, the world should be unified, and its world consciousness must actively participate. Their discussion prompts an enthusiastic Chat Group debate—until Meng Qi points out they could simply ask the Chat Group for the answer. He also boasts that his own world is already so powerful it may not need to ascend, irritating Meng Chuan.
• Character developments and relationships: Fei Peng’s decision to reincarnate reveals his affection for Long Kui and his willingness to become her brother. Xi Yao’s gesture shows that her devotion to Fei Peng will endure across lifetimes; Fei Peng welcomes this, while Meng Chuan jokes that the general’s mortal life will be no more carefree than his life in the Divine Realm. Fei Peng’s reluctance to rule reflects his preference for guarding the Divine Realm over taking on a burdensome throne. Meng Chuan, in turn, refuses the throne because he is an outsider and wants the world to have its own legitimate ruler.
• Themes: The chapter explores reincarnation and enduring love, the burden and legitimacy of power, and the importance of a world’s own people and consciousness in its advancement. It also humorously undercuts lofty political and cosmic questions with the Chat Group’s banter—and the recurring idea that many “impossible” tasks are simply beyond the strength of those attempting them.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan consults the Chat Group about how the Immortal Sword World can ascend. It confirms their three conditions and adds that the world needs sufficient foundations.
• The most reliable approach is for powerful inhabitants to drive the ascent: someone must surpass the world’s limits, while more top-tier experts and collective momentum can help. Fei Peng is the likeliest candidate to break through.
• Unifying the Six Realms and gathering its Fated Fortune can supply the world with the momentum it needs. Meng Chuan suggests Fei Peng take up the task of ruling the realms.
• Meng Chuan describes the disorder and suffering in the Demon, Ghost, and other realms, urging Fei Peng to bring them under Heavenly Realm authority.
• Fei Peng agrees to act, but when he asks Meng Chuan to join him, Meng Chuan insists he will support him “from behind.” He then promptly disappears, leaving Fei Peng to do the work.

Character developments and interactions

• Fei Peng moves from discussing world ascension to accepting a broader mission as acting Heavenly Emperor. He remains modest and wary of power, admitting he only wants the acting role.
• Meng Chuan is knowledgeable and encouraging, but also playful and transparently eager to avoid the hard work. He frames Fei Peng’s conquest as both a duty and a way to strengthen him, while even proposing that Fei Peng later strip Meng Chuan’s future Other Self of authority.
• Their friendly banter contrasts Fei Peng’s earnest sense of responsibility with Meng Chuan’s scheming humor. Fei Peng sees through the latter, accusing him of arranging for both himself and his future Other Self to slack off.

Significant themes

• World ascension and collective effort: A world can rise through slow self-accumulation or through its inhabitants’ strength and will.
• Power and responsibility: Fei Peng is urged to use authority to restore order and protect those suffering across the Six Realms.
• Mentorship and personal growth: The challenges of unification may help Fei Peng reach the level needed to surpass his world’s limits.
• Duty versus avoidance: The chapter treats a serious mission with comedy, as Meng Chuan promotes responsibility while carefully avoiding it himself.

• Key events: Meng Chuan wanders the human world, content to leave the work of raising the Immortal Sword world’s level to Fei Peng. Sensing someone destined to meet him, he visits the Jiang Kingdom’s palace and asks King Jiang to make three-day-old Crown Prince Long Yang his disciple. When King Jiang questions his abilities, Meng Chuan reveals his power by forging a divine sword in the palace.
• Character developments: Meng Chuan embraces the role of a carefree “backer,” reasoning that Fei Peng’s growth through battle matters more than his own direct intervention. King Jiang begins wary of the strange request but becomes astonished by Meng Chuan’s supernatural display. The young eunuch is cautious, relying on his judgment to avoid offending either man.
• Interactions: Meng Chuan claims he and Long Yang are fated to meet and promises the child can learn his Great Dao without being taken from his family. King Jiang asks what Meng Chuan can teach and prompts him to prove himself. Meng Chuan responds by creating an extraordinary sword as a gift for the prince.
• Themes: The chapter mixes destiny and mentorship with comic self-interest: Meng Chuan presents his laid-back approach as a way to help Fei Peng and the group, while clearly enjoying his freedom. It also explores the awe inspired by immense power, as King Jiang’s skepticism gives way to wonder.

Key plot points

• Meng Chuan confirms that Fei Peng has fully reincarnated as the newborn Prince Long Yang, without retaining his memories. He gives Long Yang a powerful, custom-made Indestructible Diamond Divine Art and explains its benefits to the excited King of Jiang.
• Fei Peng senses that Meng Chuan has become Long Yang’s master and resents the reversal of their relationship, but cannot intervene. He is also unsettled by a song Meng Chuan sang that feels familiar.
• Meng Chuan accidentally sends Han Li a private message. Han Li replies despite supposedly lacking permission, then recalls his message—but the chat interface reveals that it was recalled.
• Han Li explains that he can secretly access the group’s conversations, though he remains a provisional member. Meng Chuan reassures him and sends him useful techniques, including the Nine Secrets, in red packets.
• Meng Chuan keeps Han Li’s expanded access private, then explores the Immortal Sword world while waiting for Fei Peng’s plans to progress. The chapter closes by hinting at new developments in Shrouding the Heavens.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan acts as Long Yang’s mentor and shows generosity toward Han Li, while privately worrying that Han Li’s secret listening has exposed the group’s less dignified side.
• Han Li remains cautious and guarded, but admits the truth once discovered. He treats the Chat Group chiefly as a cross-world marketplace rather than a social circle, though he trusts Meng Chuan enough to accept his gifts.
• Fei Peng is frustrated by becoming Long Yang’s would-be master’s former friend, and his unexplained familiarity with Meng Chuan’s song hints at a lingering connection to his past.
• The King of Jiang eagerly accepts Meng Chuan as Long Yang’s teacher after seeing his power.

Significant themes

• Reincarnation and identity: Long Yang resembles Fei Peng, yet is a new person without his memories.
• Trust and privacy: Han Li’s hidden access creates awkwardness, but Meng Chuan chooses discretion and reassurance over confrontation.
• Different uses of power: Meng Chuan sees the group as a family and community; Han Li primarily values it as a source of goods and cultivation opportunities.
• Comedy and miscommunication: Han Li’s recalled message, Meng Chuan’s mistaken assumptions, and the “going to take a bath” sign-off provide much of the chapter’s humor.

Summary

Plot and events

• Ten thousand years after Meng Chuan established the Dao Realm, it has become the most prosperous era in history. Great Sages are common, but only late-stage or peak Quasi-Emperors can dominate the Starry Sky; Alternative Dao Attainment is the true threshold of supremacy.
• Meng Chuan remains the unmatched power at the top, though he has not walked among mortals for ten millennia. The Dao Realm Gods, meanwhile, retain extraordinary longevity.
• News that Dao Realm Gods may live indefinitely causes a universal stir. The Attendants explain that earning a position requires defeating an existing God—or Wushi—or receiving Meng Chuan’s personal favor. Becoming a Great Emperor and then requesting appointment is another route.
• These paths prove so difficult that the initial excitement gives way to awe and frustration. Still, the possibility of eternal life inspires cultivators everywhere to pursue strength with renewed determination.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark discover they have misunderstood Meng Chuan’s instruction to refine Pills for three hundred years. Their quarrel ends in a rock-paper-scissors match, after which Huang Tian offers to help Divine Mark finish.
• Soon after the Attendants depart, thunder and heavenly might sweep across the universe. The chapter closes by noting that Sacred Ruins has ended, leaving complicated feelings.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran remain cautious about their clans’ prestige. They discourage relatives from using their ancestors’ status to claim power or presume on their ties to Meng Chuan.
• The Three Forbidden Zone Emperors and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body remain devoted to cultivation rather than public life.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark are shown as capable, trusted servants who also bicker over their work. Their argument turns affectionate once Huang Tian offers to help.
• Meng Chuan’s legacy remains powerful despite his absence: people debate his choices, but the public largely defends him because of what he has done for the universe.

Significant themes

• Time and legacy: Millennia pass, but Meng Chuan’s influence and the Dao Realm endure.
• Immortality and its price: Eternal life is tempting, yet access is deliberately limited and demands extraordinary strength.
• Merit over entitlement: Great ancestry and proximity to power do not justify ruling others; cultivation and achievement remain essential.
• A flourishing age: The prospect of longevity gives the universe a new shared ambition and drives another surge in cultivation.

Plot points and events

• Wushi senses a disturbance in his Dao and realizes that Gu Cang—the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body—is on the verge of attaining the Dao. He recalls helping Gu Cang because of his constitution and wonders where The Ancient One has disappeared to.
• The whole universe recognizes the familiar signs of an Emperor Tribulation. When the challenger is revealed as Gu Cang, people are astonished: tradition says that a Sacred Body cannot attain the Dao.
• Gu Cang powers through the early stages of the tribulation, proving that his perfected Sacred Body can withstand it. Onlookers credit the Heavenly Emperor’s influence, much to Gu Cang’s irritation; he insists his success is his own.
• A mysterious figure in the depths of the Dao Realm observes Gu Cang and notes that Wushi secretly weakened his own Dao to help the Red-Haired Monster. Wushi senses he has been discovered and concludes that Gu Cang may be sacrificed to protect himself.
• Gu Cang defeats waves of emperor phantoms. Ruthless’s phantom briefly shows awareness, then disperses rather than fight him—a gesture Gu Cang believes is repayment for his past service guarding her door.
• Encouraged, Gu Cang expects the other powerful phantoms to go easy on him. Instead, the phantoms of Wushi, Emperor Zun, and the Undying Heavenly Emperor attack together, instantly blowing him apart.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Cang shifts from pride in his achievement to overconfidence after Ruthless’s intervention. He resents others attributing his success to the Heavenly Emperor and believes he can eventually challenge him.
• Wushi initially feels relief and pride at Gu Cang’s progress, but becomes fearful when he realizes the hidden observer has uncovered his secret. He turns against Gu Cang, deciding that the Sacred Body’s death may be necessary to save himself.
• Ruthless silently helps Gu Cang by dismissing her phantom, apparently acknowledging his past loyalty.
• The hidden observer watches events from the Dao Realm’s depths and appears to be the force behind the pressure on Wushi.

Significant themes

• Breaking inherited limits: Gu Cang’s impending attainment challenges the long-held belief that Sacred Bodies cannot become emperors.
• Recognition and credit: Gu Cang’s personal achievement is repeatedly credited to the Heavenly Emperor’s influence, fueling his resentment.
• Pride and miscalculation: Ruthless’s mercy leads Gu Cang to assume the remaining phantoms will also spare him.
• Loyalty and betrayal: Ruthless repays Gu Cang’s service, while Wushi considers betraying him to protect himself.