Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan visited his old friend Shen Yuyu on Earth and told her about his life in another world. His friends then arrived unexpectedly, leaving Shen Yuyu startled and Ruthless wondering whether she had interrupted them.

• Meng Chuan visited Shen Yuyu and recalled their university friendship and her abandoned dream of scientific research.
• Shen Yuyu asked Meng Chuan about crossing worlds, and he told her he had cultivated for a long time before returning home.
• Meng Chuan and Meng Qi exchanged messages in the Chat Group, and Meng Qi hinted at a surprise.
• Meng Chuan opened the door to find Ruthless with Nannan and Ling'er, who had come to see his old home.
• Ruthless noticed Shen Yuyu staring at them and asked whether she had come at the wrong time.

Ye Fan arranged for Ruthless and the children to visit Meng Chuan in his old hometown, where they met Shen Yuyu. Before leaving, Meng Chuan gave Shen Yuyu a Black-and-White Little Fish to help her pursue her dreams, and she was left to process their brief reunion.

• Ye Fan learned from Lu Mingfei that Meng Chuan had returned to another hometown and sent Ruthless, Xiao Nannan, and Ling'er to find him.
• Meng Chuan introduced Ruthless and the children to Shen Yuyu, his old school friend, and encouraged her to pursue her ambitions.
• Meng Chuan gave Shen Yuyu a Black-and-White Little Fish that would help her fulfill her dreams and ensure his visit would not disrupt her life.
• Meng Chuan left with Ruthless and the children, while Shen Yuyu watched them go and wondered about his life before realizing they would never meet again.

Meng Chuan walked through a city on Earth with Ruthless, Xiao Nannan, and Ling'er, explaining that his lives in two worlds had always been one. He trusted the Chat Group for now, and the group continued its nighttime stroll as passersby stared at their extraordinary beauty.

• Meng Chuan explained to Ruthless that he had always been one person, even though he had lived in both worlds, and said he suspected the Chat Group had caused his transmigration.
• Meng Chuan told Ruthless that he trusted the Chat Group because it had helped the group, while remaining prepared to respond when its true purpose became clear.
• Ruthless observed that Earth seemed to lack the Dao and might not exist beyond the planet, and Meng Chuan confirmed that it was an illusory world whose location he did not know.
• Meng Chuan bought food from roadside stalls for Xiao Nannan and Ling'er as the four walked through the city, while passersby stared and some asked for photographs.
• Meng Chuan refused requests for pictures and made sure no photographs remained with the strangers, while the group continued its walk beneath the city lights.

Humanity failed to make contact with Meng Chuan and his companions as foreign nations mobilized over the aliens’ arrival. Meng Chuan brought Ruthless, Xiao Nannan, and Ling'er to his grave, marking the end of his former life as the morning sun rose.

• Humanity’s leaders realized they could not catch up with Meng Chuan and his companions, who appeared to be avoiding contact.
• Foreign countries demanded that the aliens be handed over and sent military forces toward the country where they had appeared.
• Meng Chuan recalled showing Ruthless the Shrouding the Heavens trilogy on his computer the previous night, while hiding the ending of Sacred Ruins.
• Meng Chuan brought Ruthless and the two children to his grave, explaining to Xiao Nannan that it marked the end of his life there.
• Xiao Nannan grew solemn among the graves, so Meng Chuan took the group to another hill as the morning light fell over them.

Meng Chuan explained to Ruthless why stories of future events appeared on Earths throughout the Chaos Sea, proposing that this Earth was their original source. He left Ruthless considering his theory and clarified that the stories showed only possible futures, many of which his arrival had already changed.

• Meng Chuan told Ruthless that people on Earths in the Chaos Sea had recorded stories after glimpsing fragments of possible futures.
• Meng Chuan proposed that this Earth was the Origin from which the other Earths were projected, and that its unusual connection to the Chaos Sea let it capture future fragments.
• Ruthless listened to Meng Chuan's explanation and said he was probably right.
• Meng Chuan explained that the stories described only possible futures, and Ruthless recognized that his arrival had transformed the eras of Shrouding the Heavens and Chaotic Antiquity.

Meng Chuan acknowledged that his contradictory feelings about Earth had led him to let the world discover him, though he refused to transform the planet or change its course. After sending Ruthless to explore with Nannan and Ling'er, he walked down the mountain to meet the people gathered for him.

• Meng Chuan told Ruthless that the planet was nearing chaos and said he would step in if necessary.
• Meng Chuan asked Ruthless to handle what came next on her own and take Nannan and Ling'er to explore.
• Ruthless left with the two little ones while Meng Chuan faced the people gathered below the mountain and the forces watching from across the world.
• Meng Chuan reflected that he felt both unwilling to disturb Earth and deeply connected to it, but he would not bring about changes like Spiritual Energy Revival.
• Meng Chuan formed a purple Great Dao beneath his feet and walked down the mountain toward the Human World.

Meng Chuan returned to Earth in a display of purple qi, prompting people to wonder whether he was an Immortal. At the mountain’s foot, he confirmed his identity and began speaking directly with the government liaison.

• Purple qi spread across the sky as Meng Chuan walked down from the mountain along a Heavenly Bridge, astonishing witnesses and monitoring teams.
• Officials considered whether Meng Chuan’s abilities came from mysticism rather than advanced technology, and some began thinking of the eternal life associated with Immortals.
• Meng Chuan reached the mountain’s foot, where the purple qi vanished and a government spokesperson asked whether she could address him by name.
• Meng Chuan confirmed he was the same person who had lived on Earth for more than twenty years and revealed that he had heard the monitoring teams’ private discussions.
• The liaison welcomed Meng Chuan home and offered the government’s help during his visit.

Meng Chuan told the liaison he had left the world five years earlier and had returned only to visit his homeland, then offered to resolve the trouble caused by his presence. He refused a longer conversation, explaining that Earth could not support supernatural powers or technology beyond its inherent limits.

• Meng Chuan explained that he had not died five years earlier but had left the world, and he thanked the authorities for handling his apparent death and burial.
• Meng Chuan said he had returned to see his homeland and would leave after his visit, assuring the liaison that he would not let unknown lifeforms disturb Earth.
• The liaison asked Meng Chuan to stay and talk, citing his friends and the threats from other countries, while officials debated whether his abilities could protect them.
• Meng Chuan said he would resolve the trouble himself but refused to provide what humanity wanted, explaining that Earth could not support supernatural forces or advanced technology beyond its limits.

Meng Chuan refused to grant Earth extraordinary powers, then went to the Ocean's edge to deal with the looming trouble. As Earth’s powers argued over how to respond, they watched him wait above the sea, anticipating what he would do next.

• Meng Chuan told Earth’s leaders that the planet could not grow extraordinary power and urged them to make the most of what they had.
• Meng Chuan said he would handle the trouble at the Ocean and vanished, leaving Earth’s leaders with no means to bargain with or stop him.
• Meng Chuan arrived above the sea and studied it while considering how Source Earth might have acquired its myths and mysterious connection to the Chaos Sea.
• Other powers demanded that the ancient nation hand over Meng Chuan, but the nation refused and directed them to confront him at the Ocean’s edge.
• Earth’s leaders watched Meng Chuan wait above the sea and anticipated seeing the powers of an immortal.

Meng Chuan stopped foreign military forces from advancing by freezing their machines in place with a word. The factions watching were left scrambling to explain his power, with the people on land comparing it to an immortal’s Divine Ability.

• Human-made war machines and fighter jets approached the coast as their crews spotted Meng Chuan hovering in the air and argued over whether he was an alien or a kung fu master.
• Senior officers debated whether to speak with Meng Chuan or seize him, while people on land watched the forces draw closer with concern.
• Meng Chuan warned the approaching forces to stop, and every steel construct froze in place despite its systems continuing to run.
• The crews panicked as their controls failed, and the watching factions could not identify a scientific cause for the immobilization.
• People on land compared Meng Chuan’s feat to a Divine Ability from Journey to the West and speculated that his power surpassed Sun Wukong’s.

Meng Chuan rejected the coalition’s invitation and killed the leader who threatened him, then used his power to transport the coalition’s advancing Steel Constructs and War Machines across the sea. The people watching were left stunned by his immense abilities.

• The coalition leader tried to persuade and threaten Meng Chuan into joining the leading power, while other generals argued among themselves.
• Meng Chuan killed the leader by turning him to dust, and the people beside him feared him while others accused rival factions of conspiring with the Alien.
• Meng Chuan shifted Heaven and Earth, bringing the Steel Constructs and War Machines advancing inland to the sea.
• The people watching, including the Old Daoists in the Central Monitoring Room, marveled at Meng Chuan’s Great Divine Ability and realized he could strike distant places.

Meng Chuan stopped the world’s weapons from triggering a global war, then destroyed them effortlessly and ordered the factions to leave. He vanished after sinking the steel creations, leaving the world stunned by his power.

• As leaders on the land of freedom argued over whether to destroy or capture Meng Chuan, he spoke through an unfamiliar voice and launched all their weapons.
• The world’s alarms sounded, and the land of freedom’s administrators claimed that Meng Chuan had seized control of their weapons.
• Meng Chuan reached through space with a giant hand, stopped every weapon above the land of freedom, and crushed them in his palm without being harmed.
• Meng Chuan told everyone not to provoke a conflict and ordered them to leave.
• Meng Chuan summoned towering waves that sank the steel creations, then vanished.

After Meng Chuan’s display of power, he and Ruthless took Xiao Nannan and Ling'er sightseeing around Earth while the world’s powers struggled to contact him. His homeland used the lingering fear of his return to gain advantages, and the story ended with Meng Chuan’s identity sealed away as top secret.

• Meng Chuan invited Xiao Nannan and the others to stay on Earth, then took them sightseeing with Ruthless; Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang joined when Ling'er missed her parents.
• World powers searched for Meng Chuan and sent representatives to his homeland, hoping to learn his intentions and meet him.
• Meng Chuan’s homeland told the representatives it could not control or locate him, while accepting their offers in exchange for help making contact.
• The alien’s continued absence left the world uncertain, while his homeland benefited from his deterrent and made major technological advances.
• Shen Yuyu rose to prominence by leading her homeland’s technological development, and Meng Chuan’s story was sealed in a top-secret file.

After the Ten Weird Emperors and Ten Ancestors were defeated, the Myriad Worlds entered a period of relative peace, though ordinary conflicts and surviving Weird Clan members remained. Tales of the final battle spread while the Immortal Emperors continued cultivating, and the chapter ended with the acknowledgment that those who could not yet break through would have to endure and wait.

• Meng Chuan’s victory left the Weird Clan without its Plateau, Calamity Land, Ancestors, or corrupting Weird Substance, reducing it to an ordinary hostile race.
• The Myriad Worlds spread tales of the final battle, praising the Immortal Emperors and Ancestors who had saved them without revealing the realm of Sacrificial Dao.
• Wushi, Azure Emperor, Willow God, and the other Immortal Emperors continued cultivating despite the new peace, wary of threats beyond their world.
• The beings who had not become Immortal Emperors remained unable to break through, though surviving Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors still offered opponents for them to face.
• The chapter concluded that those capable of breaking through had already done so, while the rest would have to endure and let time temper them.

After returning from the Shrouding the Heavens World, Meng Chuan learned that Dugu Baitian and The Ancient One had attained Great Luo and congratulated them in the Chat Group. The chapter explained how Meng Chuan’s Great Luo Dao had influenced their paths and left him considering whether it might eventually spread throughout the Chaos Sea.

• Meng Chuan returned to the Shrouding the Heavens World, teased Ye Fan by changing his childhood memories, and sent Xiao Nannan, Ruthless, and Ling'er back to their own pursuits.
• Meng Chuan checked the Chat Group and discovered that Dugu Baitian and The Ancient One had attained the Dao while he was away.
• Meng Chuan congratulated Dugu Baitian and The Ancient One, then muted Meng Qi after Meng Qi complained that he had not sent a Red Envelope.
• Meng Qi muted Lu Mingfei after Lu Mingfei mocked the group’s administrators, and The Ancient One declined to help because Lu Mingfei had insulted him and Zhang Sanfeng.
• Meng Chuan reflected that his broad Great Luo Dao had helped Dugu Baitian and The Ancient One attain their own Great Luo paths, and considered whether it could spread across the Chaos Sea.

Meng Chuan’s group celebrated the progress of its members, all of whom had reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor range, then discussed Yang Jian’s chance to become independent of his Chaos Sea counterpart. The chapter also explained the ties binding Zhang Sanfeng and Zixia to their own projection sources, leaving their freedom dependent on future breakthroughs or negotiations.

• The group members who had not attained the Dao all reached levels 250–299, aided by the spoils of the Primordial Heaven Minor Tribulation.
• Meng Qi planned to travel to Yuxu Palace after preparing for the journey, and Meng Chuan advised him to call for backup if trouble arose.
• Meng Chuan urged Yang Jian to reach the Supreme Domain before the Chaos Sea’s Yang Jian advanced to the Chaos Domain, and Yang Jian promised to try.
• Meng Chuan explained that Yang Jian was a projection body whose independence depended on surpassing his source or persuading him to sever their connection.
• Meng Chuan identified Zhang Sanfeng as a projection of the True Martial Emperor and Zixia as a projection of the Blue Lamp before the Buddha, noting that both had little chance of freeing themselves through their own strength.

Yang Jian's prospects for reaching the Supreme realm and his reluctance to meet another version of himself were discussed in the group chat. Meng Chuan then returned to the Shrouding the Heavens World, where Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai visited him and reflected on how far he had surpassed them.

• Meng Chuan and the others discussed Yang Jian's chances of reaching the Supreme realm and the danger of the Chaos Sea Yang Jian's next breakthrough attempt.
• Meng Qi invited Yang Jian to meet the Yang Jian in his world, but Yang Jian declined so he would not disturb the other's impending attainment of the Dao.
• Meng Chuan asked Zhong Yue whether Jiang Nan had broken through, and Zhong Yue said he had not.
• Meng Chuan said he would remain in the Shrouding the Heavens World and wait for time to wear down his bottleneck.
• Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai visited Meng Chuan in his Daoist Grounds and recalled how he had risen far beyond their realm.

Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai struggled to comprehend Meng Chuan’s unprecedented cultivation, then visited to congratulate him and thank him for defeating the Weird. Meng Chuan welcomed them and explained that he had been away when they first came to see him.

• Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai reflected on how Meng Chuan and the others had advanced far beyond the cultivation pace of even history’s greatest Immortal Emperors.
• Meng Chuan recognized their disbelief and congratulated them on recovering from their injuries and improving their cultivation.
• Luo Tianxian told Meng Chuan that she and Meng Hai had come to pay their respects and thank him for destroying the Weird Plateau and avenging their realm.
• Meng Chuan said their relationship made formal respects unnecessary and explained that he had left for Primordial Heaven before they arrived.

Meng Chuan repaid Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai’s kindness by restoring the Heavens to its pre-invasion peak and bringing back its five fallen Immortal Emperors. The Seven Heavens Emperors reunited and paid their respects to Meng Chuan.

• Meng Chuan explained the Profound Principles of Sacrificial Dao to Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai, then offered to help them restore the Heavens.
• Meng Chuan used the River of Time to restore the Heavens as it had been before the Weird Race’s invasion, reviving its civilization and inhabitants.
• The return of the Heavens freed the five fallen Immortal Emperors from the Weird Race’s suppression, and their auras shook the Myriad Worlds.
• Luo Tianxian and Meng Hai thanked Meng Chuan and went to see their restored homeland.
• The Seven Heavens Emperors gathered and paid their respects to Meng Chuan as Ye Fan and the others briefly emerged from seclusion.

Meng Chuan explained why he had not resurrected the Pollen Path Ancestor, while Ye Fan and the others discussed the restored Heavens and its impact on the Myriad Worlds. The seven Heavenly Immortal Emperors returned to the Heavens, where they and the Quasi-Immortal Emperors confronted the new order above them, soon known as Above the Heavens.

• Meng Chuan told Shi Hao that the Pollen Path Ancestor had her own path and that he had helped her, while the Five Emperors of the Heavens had little chance of reaching Sacrificial Dao.
• Ye Fan, the Azure Emperor, and Wushi welcomed the Heavens' return, expecting it to bring new opportunities and stronger rivals to the Myriad Worlds.
• Immortal Kings and Quasi-Immortal Emperors from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands traveled to the restored Heavens as its passages reopened.
• The seven Heavenly Immortal Emperors returned to the Heavens and recognized that the Origin Dao Realm stood above their world; one named it Above the Heavens.
• The Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the Heavens paid their respects, and the seven emperors explained that the Heavens' relations with other worlds and its rules would have to change.