Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan and Yan Chixia enter the High Heaven Palace, where the assembled gods demand that they bow to the Heavenly Emperor.
• Meng Chuan refuses. With a casual display of power, he forces the gods to kneel and kowtow before him.
• The calm, seemingly emotionless Heavenly Emperor calls Meng Chuan courageous and offers both visitors positions among the Four Imperial Ministers—the highest offices beneath his own.
• Meng Chuan needles the emperor by asking what will become of the current Four Imperial Ministers, who are already kneeling. The emperor says they will simply make way for more worthy candidates.
• Meng Chuan recognizes the implication behind the emperor’s answer and concludes that the ruler is somehow identical to, or inseparable from, the gods serving him: “How could you feel betrayed by yourself?”

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains confident and irreverent, dismissing the gods’ threats and probing the Heavenly Emperor’s motives. His private “Top-Secret Notes” reveal a petty, comic grudge against Yan Chixia for repeatedly frustrating his chances to show off.
• Yan Chixia is wary of the Heavenly Court despite its orderly appearance. He refuses the offer of high office, sensing something is wrong, and quietly tells Meng Chuan he sounds like a villain. Meng Chuan resents the comment but continues to involve Yan in the exchange.
• The Heavenly Emperor appears detached and impartial, offering prestigious appointments without regard for the existing ministers. His composure and peculiar relationship with his subordinates make him seem increasingly suspicious.
• The gods initially act as a united, intimidating court, but Meng Chuan’s power reduces them to kneeling witnesses. Their submission contrasts with the emperor’s untroubled demeanor.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: The Heavenly Court’s hierarchy proves fragile when Meng Chuan can override it effortlessly.
• Appearance versus reality: The court looks like the righteous realm of legend, but Yan Chixia’s suspicion and Meng Chuan’s final deduction suggest a hidden corruption or unsettling unity behind its order.
• Bureaucracy and disposability: The emperor treats even the highest ministers as replaceable in the name of institutional prosperity.
• Comedy amid confrontation: Meng Chuan’s grandstanding and vindictive private notes undercut the solemnity of the celestial court.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan and Yan Chixia enter the Heavenly Court, where the Heavenly Emperor and the kneeling gods regard them with open hostility.
• Meng Chuan recognizes that the Heavenly Court is being held together almost entirely by its ruler, and jokes that this must make the Heavenly Emperor’s job exhausting.
• When asked his identity, Meng Chuan jokingly calls himself “Nobi Nobita,” then refuses the Heavenly Emperor’s offer to join him or disappear.
• The Heavenly Emperor laments that no humans have lived in the Heavenly Realm for two thousand years and accuses Yan Chixia of leading the Mortal Realm astray.
• The ruler declares himself Heaven’s incarnation and master of the Three Realms. Meng Chuan dismisses the claim and reveals that, despite his title, the Heavenly Emperor is actually the world’s greatest demon.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains confident and irreverent, using jokes to needle the Heavenly Emperor while demonstrating that he has already seen through the Heavenly Court’s nature. He reflects on how his power makes uncovering mysteries too easy.
• Yan Chixia becomes increasingly confused and alarmed by Meng Chuan’s provocative behavior. He also challenges the Heavenly Emperor directly, questioning who he really is.
• The Heavenly Emperor presents himself as the legitimate ruler of all creation, but his hostility and Meng Chuan’s revelation cast that authority in doubt.
• The Heavenly gods remain silent and kneeling, their coordinated reaction suggesting that the court is deeply compromised or controlled.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The Heavenly Emperor’s grand title conceals his true nature as a demon.
• Power and isolation: The court appears to lack capable subordinates, leaving its ruler to shoulder everything himself.
• Authority and moral legitimacy: The chapter questions whether a ruler who claims to embody Heaven deserves to govern.
• Humor amid danger: Meng Chuan’s teasing contrasts with the ominous atmosphere and unsettles both Yan Chixia and the Heavenly Emperor.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan reveals that the Heavenly Emperor of Yan Chixia’s world, Haotian Shangdi, is not merely a ruler but the embodiment of Heaven—and is now the world’s greatest Demon.
• He explains that the Three Realms’ accumulated resentment and negative emotions corrupted Heaven. Haotian then tried to absorb all divine authority by devouring the celestial and Underworld Gods.
• The Gods fought back, gravely wounded and bound him, but the battle destroyed the Underworld’s reincarnation system and killed the Gods who upheld order. With no divine powers left to govern the realms, disorder and Demons spread, further worsening Heaven’s corruption.
• Meng Chuan says the Three Realms must be repaired by the same forces that helped ruin them: their inhabitants and surviving powers.
• Haotian rejects Meng Chuan’s account. He insists he was not corrupted, but simply returned to his true nature.

Character developments

• Yan Chixia is shaken by the revelation that Heaven itself—and the being he might have regarded as its supreme authority—lies behind the world’s catastrophe. He gradually accepts the explanation, which clarifies why the Gods never intervened, why Demons keep appearing, and why Heaven offers no aid or merit to demon slayers.
• Meng Chuan acts as a candid guide, explaining the history and causes of the world’s collapse while using a deliberately ominous performance that makes him appear aligned with Haotian.
• Haotian Shangdi presents himself as the true nature of Heaven rather than a victim of corruption, revealing the fundamental divide between his view of reality and Meng Chuan’s.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and the manifested Heavenly Court address Yan Chixia in unison, startling him and making the livestream viewers joke that he has walked into a trap. Their apparent solidarity also leaves Haotian wondering whether Meng Chuan is one of his own.
• Yan Chixia questions Meng Chuan and listens to his account, then recognizes how it explains the collapse he has witnessed.
• Haotian acknowledges parts of Meng Chuan’s explanation but disputes its central claim. Meng Chuan responds with dry humor, noting that Haotian likely considers him the madman.

Significant themes

• Collective responsibility: The Three Realms’ inhabitants helped poison Heaven through generations of resentment and destructive emotions.
• The collapse of cosmic order: Once Heaven’s embodiment and the Gods are compromised or destroyed, the realms lose their protections and descend into chaos.
• Cycles of damage and repair: The forces that contributed to the Three Realms’ ruin must also take part in restoring them.
• Competing understandings of corruption and nature: Meng Chuan sees Haotian as corrupted; Haotian sees his monstrous state as Heaven’s authentic form.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Haotian, a corrupted incarnation of Heaven, demands Meng Chuan surrender his cultivation knowledge and world-crossing method. He sees Meng as a heretic who must submit.
• The Chat Group watches and heckles the confrontation, joking about Meng Chuan and urging him to “cross swords” with Haotian. Meng Chuan is irritated but stays focused.
• Meng Chuan reveals a vision of countless worlds and identical, distant eyes—an overwhelming display that only Haotian, as Heaven, can fully grasp. Haotian is shaken and loses his composure.
• Meng Chuan claims to know Heaven better than Haotian, then introduces himself as merely a “Mortal World Battle Immortal passing through.”
• Haotian tries to avoid a fight by saying the conflict is an internal matter and agrees to yield. Meng Chuan appears to accept, then claims Yan Chixia has sworn to kill Haotian to restore peace, effectively pushing the decision—and danger—onto his companion.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan remains calm and confident, using his vast power to intimidate Haotian. He also shows a mischievous, theatrical streak by inventing a heroic vow for Yan Chixia.
• Demon Haotian shifts from arrogant and coercive to frightened and deferential. His corruption has made him more independent and erratic, but fear still drives him to back down.
• Yan Chixia has accepted the grim truth about his world and is committed to setting things right, yet he is bewildered when Meng Chuan falsely attributes a death-defying vow to him.
• The Chat Group provides comic commentary, teasing Meng Chuan and Haotian while criticizing the drawn-out posturing.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Haotian may embody Heaven in his own world, but Meng Chuan’s broader vantage makes Haotian’s authority seem limited.
• Corruption and moral inversion: Haotian sees himself as righteous while treating ordinary people as heretics, reflecting how negative emotions have twisted his judgment.
• Humor amid cosmic stakes: Grandiose threats and world-spanning power are undercut by banter, parody, and Meng Chuan’s shameless theatrics.

Character interactions

• Haotian attempts to dominate Meng Chuan; Meng answers with a display that terrifies him into submission.
• The Chat Group jokes at Meng Chuan’s expense and urges him to stop showing off, while Meng Qi tries to rein in the banter.
• Meng Chuan abruptly casts Yan Chixia as the would-be slayer of Heaven, leaving Yan Chixia stunned and placing him at the center of the looming confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Demon Haotian reveals that he deliberately lured Yan Chixia to the Heavenly Realm, viewing him as a threat to the Mortal Realm’s future.
• Meng Chuan offers to kill Haotian and repair the corrupted Three Realms himself, but makes clear that this is Yan Chixia’s world and the choice should be his.
• Yan chooses to face the crisis himself, despite knowing he is outmatched. Meng Chuan gives him a plain-looking Emperor Weapon, sealing most of its power so Yan can fight Haotian without Meng Chuan simply solving the problem for him.
• Energized by the sword, Yan charges at Haotian—only for Haotian to stand up and send him flying back.

Character developments

• Yan Chixia shows his persistent sense of duty: even though he could accept Meng Chuan’s help, he wants to take responsibility for his own world. He remains wary of Meng Chuan’s “training” methods, remembering how another group member was once pushed into danger.
• Meng Chuan balances support with restraint. He wants Yan to confront the threat himself, but equips him to survive and win. His outward encouragement also hides his mischievous humor.
• Demon Haotian is revealed as the mastermind behind Yan’s arrival. His confidence in his own strength remains evident when he rises to meet Yan’s attack.
• The Chat Group members provide comic commentary, teasing Yan and recalling Lu Mingfei’s past humiliating charge.

Themes

• Personal responsibility and agency: A hero must decide whether to rely on outside power or act for his own world.
• Power and restraint: Meng Chuan’s intervention could end the conflict instantly, but he limits his aid so Yan can still shape the outcome.
• Perspective and moral complexity: Yan rejects the idea of condemning all living beings for Heaven’s corruption; where one stands shapes how one understands right and wrong.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan challenges Yan to choose his own course, then reassures him with the Emperor Weapon.
• Yan’s resolve reassures Meng Chuan, while his suspicions about the sword add humor to their friendship.
• Haotian’s contempt provokes the confrontation, and the group’s joking commentary lightens the tension before Yan’s abrupt defeat.

Key plot points

• Demon Haotian’s seal suddenly breaks, and his injuries heal. He infers that Nobi Nobita—Meng Chuan—made this happen so Haotian could fight Yan Chixia.
• Yan Chixia attacks with the Emperor Sword, but Haotian’s power is vastly greater. Yan is badly wounded and nearly out of strength.
• Meng Chuan explains to the Chat Group that he intended the fight to test Yan’s resolve and make him understand that he must grow stronger rather than rely on others.
• When Haotian is about to kill Yan, Meng Chuan freezes time and space with a sigh. Yan says he has learned the lesson, though he remains focused on killing Haotian himself.
• Meng Chuan weakens Haotian, severing his connection to the world and shattering his Heavenly Heart, then leaves the final strike to Yan.
• As he dies, Haotian’s extreme negative emotions disappear. He regains his original identity and serenity as the Supreme Sovereign, then falls into eternal sleep.

Character developments and interactions

• Yan Chixia endures a brutal defeat but takes the lesson to heart: he must cultivate and face future dangers himself. He also insists on delivering the final blow.
• Meng Chuan reveals a protective but unsettling approach to mentorship: he deliberately lets Yan suffer for the sake of growth, yet intervenes before Haotian can kill him. His “soft heart” is undercut by his willingness to orchestrate the battle.
• Demon Haotian misreads Meng Chuan’s intentions and cooperates out of fear. In his final moments, he becomes calm and recognizes himself as Haotian again.
• Meng Qi understands Meng Chuan’s motives and quietly hopes Yan will survive. Chat Group members question whether Meng Chuan meant to release Haotian and worry about Yan’s safety.

Significant themes

• Growth through hardship: Strength and resilience must be developed personally, even when powerful allies are available.
• Protection versus independence: Meng Chuan tries to teach Yan through danger, but ultimately refuses to let the lesson become fatal.
• Identity and emotional corruption: Haotian’s death brings relief from the negative emotions that had distorted him, restoring his original self at the end.

Key plot points and events

• Blood-red rain spreads across the Three Realms, filling mortals, cultivators, demons, and ghosts with grief. Everyone learns that Heaven has died.
• Yan Chixia announces across the Three Realms that he killed Heaven. The Kunlun Leader initially mistakes this for Yan having killed Heaven’s murderer, then collapses in despair when he realizes what Yan means.
• In the Heavenly Realm, Yan has slain Demon Haotian with the Emperor Sword. Meng Chuan explains that Yan’s coming work—unifying the Mortal Realm, rebuilding the Underworld, and restoring the Heavenly Court—will inevitably provoke conflict.
• Meng Chuan encourages Yan’s fearsome reputation to deter resistance, then helps purify the damaged world and passes Yan teachings gathered from the River of Time.
• Meng Chuan studies the world’s Dao, laws, and former institutions, but cannot discover why its Heaven was so easily corrupted. He leaves after Yan invites him to drink again, and returns to Shrouding the Heavens—where a dark figure suddenly lunges at him.

Character developments and interactions

• Yan Chixia is shaken by killing the Heaven of his own world, but accepts the responsibility of rebuilding it. He trusts Meng Chuan’s counsel, even when he finds the plan to publicize his deed somewhat strange.
• Meng Chuan acts as Yan’s mentor and quiet supporter rather than taking over his task. He helps prepare the world’s recovery while pursuing his own study of its history and Dao. His irritation at Yan’s repeated invitations to drink gives the chapter a comic finish.
• The Kunlun Leader goes from grief and hope to utter shock and despair, having believed Yan could provide a way forward—only to learn that Yan himself killed Heaven.

Significant themes

• The collapse of faith and order: Heaven’s death leaves cultivators questioning what it means to seek the Dao.
• Rebuilding through struggle: Restoring the Three Realms will involve power, competing interests, and likely bloodshed.
• Mentorship and responsibility: Meng Chuan guides Yan but leaves the work—and its potential rewards—to him.
• History and uncertainty: Meng Chuan learns from the world’s past, yet cannot explain the key mystery of Heaven’s corruption.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan encounters a little black dog in the Dao Realm. Thinking it is attacking him, he punches it apart—only for it to reappear shortly afterward, unharmed.
• Wushi identifies the dog as Little Black, whom he recently adopted. Worried Meng Chuan will suspect him of plotting against the Heavenly Emperor, Wushi insists the dog was only excited and wanted to approach him.
• Meng Chuan playfully questions Wushi’s motives and hints that he will eventually pass on the Heavenly Emperor’s position to him. Wushi dreads the implications, though he has no desire to claim the role.
• After questioning the dog, Meng Chuan accepts that it meant no harm and jokingly concludes that Wushi is safe from punishment.
• Meng Chuan recognizes Little Black as the newly reborn Black Emperor. Wushi’s decision to care for it begins the long bond between them.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is powerful and perceptive, but also teasing: he uses the dog’s behavior to unsettle Wushi and probe his reaction. He sees Wushi as his successor, despite Wushi’s reluctance.
• Wushi is deferential and anxious around Meng Chuan, carefully choosing his words to avoid provoking him. He admits that Meng Chuan’s guidance shaped him profoundly, and he has adopted Little Black partly for companionship.
• Little Black is newly reborn, innocent of its past, and eager to approach Meng Chuan—though intimidated once confronted. Its relationship with Wushi is affectionate, and it is unusually obedient around Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and legacy: Wushi has grown under Meng Chuan’s long guidance, while the Heavenly Emperor’s eventual succession remains a recurring, uncomfortable expectation.
• Destiny and enduring bonds: Little Black’s arrival foreshadows its epoch-spanning relationship with Wushi.
• Power and comic tension: Meng Chuan’s overwhelming authority turns a harmless misunderstanding into a source of Wushi’s nervousness, while the dog’s quick return keeps the scene lighthearted.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan asks Wushi about the Dao Realm’s residents. The Female Emperor is nearing her seventh life; Yuanhua and other cultivators are recovering from the lasting damage of their Forbidden Zone ordeal.
• Wushi explains that Ji, Jiang, and two attendants are trying to overcome the suppression imposed by his and Gu Cang’s powerful imperial Daos. Below the level of attaining the Dao, however, cultivation remains unaffected, and the richer energy and clearer Great Dao have preserved a flourishing age.
• Suiren is progressing unusually quickly toward regaining the Emperor’s Position. Wushi believes the Human Race’s shared reverence for Suiren’s deeds is somehow helping him cultivate through the power of Kindling. Meng Chuan accepts that Suiren is still himself and leaves the decision to him.
• Wushi leaves, dragging the little black dog with him. Afterward, Meng Chuan considers the world’s mysterious “Similar Flower” phenomenon and notes that several imperial corpses are accumulating enough spirituality to perhaps awaken.
• Just as Meng Chuan anticipates the benefits of expanding his Dao Realm’s roster, a long-absent system notification orders him to watch a video.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains a powerful but playful observer: he respects Suiren’s autonomy, while privately enjoying the prospect of teasing Wushi and adding awakened emperors to his Dao Realm.
• Wushi acknowledges the Female Emperor’s exceptional talent and describes how difficult attaining the Dao has become under competing imperial Daos. Little Black triggers a vague sense of familiarity in him, along with a memory connected to a great bell and Meng Chuan’s remarks about “Other Selves,” but he hides his suspicions.
• Suiren is emerging as a potential future emperor, supported in some mysterious way by the Human Race’s collective spirit.
• Little Black acts ingratiatingly around Meng Chuan and is hauled away by Wushi, whose guarded reaction hints at an unexplained connection.

Significant themes

• Cultivation, legacy, and collective effort: Suiren’s progress suggests that a people’s shared memory and hope can help sustain an individual.
• Identity and selfhood: Meng Chuan insists Wushi and Suiren remain themselves, even amid mysteries involving other selves, revival, and the Similar Flower.
• The costs of power: Past trials leave lasting spiritual damage, while powerful emperors make advancement harder for everyone else.
• An enduring golden age: Despite these obstacles, the universe’s abundant energy and clearer laws keep opportunities for extraordinary new emperors alive.

Chapter Summary

The Chat Group announces that Zhang Sanfeng is joining while he is in seclusion; the notification is designed not to disturb his cultivation. Members speculate about the newcomer and make wishes for what sort of person might join.

Key events and character developments

• Meng Chuan reflects on how the group’s displayed levels represent cultivation realms, not true combat strength. He also considers The Ancient One’s cultivation: although the Red Dust Immortal path is difficult for her, her Secret Mage foundation and the ordinary True Immortal path still offer ways forward. At higher levels, insight—not simply accelerated time—becomes essential.
• Fei Peng complains that conquering the Six Realms was exhausting and governing them will be worse. He is also burdened by lingering schemes left by the World-Opening Divines. His frustration grows when he thinks of a carefree counterpart who avoids responsibilities, though Meng Chuan privately considers his own counterpart’s situation quite favorable.
• Yan Chixia shares Fei Peng’s dread of governing, saying that ruling the Three Realms is no task for him. Unlike Fei Peng, however, he has no obvious allies willing to help.
• Lu Mingfei fantasizes about becoming an extravagant mix of Ultraman, Gundam pilot, cultivator, and Secret Mage so he can make a dramatic entrance to rescue Eri.
• Yao Chen wishes for a world rich in ingredients and advanced alchemy. He has bought nearly all of Han Li’s Heavenly Creation Dew, though it is still insufficient for his ambitions. In return, he has acquired many exceptionally rare Ninth-Rank Pills.
• Han Li, after learning more about the Heavenmaster Bottle, briefly suspects the group may want it. He decides that its value pales beside the group’s treasures—and would gladly trade it for a Peerless Divine Art leading to the Other Shore.
• Daigu is now balancing research with fighting, reflecting the group’s growing engagement with science, cultivation, and other disciplines.
• Bibi Dong says she would welcome a female newcomer because the group has few women. Jiraiya enthusiastically agrees, but she immediately regrets the suggestion and scolds him, doubting that he has truly changed. Meanwhile, Jiraiya is under strain in Konoha after siding with Minato’s family and blocking the village from pursuing them.

Character interactions

Members tease one another’s ambitions and frustrations. Yao Chen’s extravagant wish prompts silent disbelief from everyone. Fei Peng and Yan Chixia bond over their unwanted governing duties, while Bibi Dong’s exchange with Jiraiya turns into a comic quarrel. The group eventually stops speculating when Meng Chuan tells everyone to watch the newcomer video.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Winning territory is easier than governing it, and both Fei Peng and Yan Chixia dread the burdens ahead.
• Growth and the limits of effort: Advancement eventually depends on insight, not merely time or accumulated resources.
• Ambition and humor: Members’ grand wishes—from advanced alchemy to a fantastical heroic transformation—contrast with the everyday troubles they face.
• Community across worlds: The group shares resources, advice, jokes, and frustrations despite their very different lives.
  The video begins with the words “Thousandfold Tribulation…”, hinting at the newcomer’s identity.

Key plot points and events

• A video depicts a cataclysmic battle against a vast sphere of light, revealed to be the world’s corrupted Heavenly Dao. The fighters are trying to save the world by slaying Heaven.
• Dugu Baitian leads the charge alongside fourteen loved ones—family and disciples. They all perish, leaving him alone with his Killing Sword.
• Grieving but undaunted, Dugu fights into and out of the sphere seven times before finally dying within it. His words and the ancient war song frame the battle as a desperate, sacrificial stand against a Heaven that has lost its way.
• Meng Chuan identifies Dugu Baitian, and Meng Qi supplies his name in the chat. Meng Chuan explains that Dugu fought on the side trying to save the world, though he stops short of calling him wholly good.
• Yao Chen quizzes Xiao Yan about Dugu. Xiao Yan recognizes him as a character from Tomb of the Gods and jokes that his teacher must have a “Golden Finger” to know so many extraordinary people. Yao Chen smacks him, and Xiao Yan begins telling him the story.
• Before the group can vote on Dugu, another video arrives. The chapter then ends with an author’s note explaining why Tomb of the Gods is being ranked around Shrouding the Heavens in power, rather than Perfect World.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Baitian is presented as a powerful, resolute leader whose grief for his fallen family and disciples does not weaken his determination to fight.
• Meng Chuan serves as the group’s authority on Dugu’s world and clarifies the nature of its corrupted Heavenly Dao.
• Meng Qi eagerly jumps in to name Dugu before Meng Chuan can.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan share a familiar, teasing rapport: Xiao Yan is both curious about his teacher’s strange connections and frustrated by how unusual their world has become.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and perseverance: Dugu and his companions accept death in their effort to protect the world.
• Resistance to unjust authority: The chapter distinguishes a corrupted Heavenly Dao from a rightful moral order.
• Grief alongside resolve: Dugu’s sorrow over his loved ones fuels rather than ends his fight.
• Cross-world knowledge and humor: The somber battle narrative contrasts with the playful banter between Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.

Plot points and events

• The Chat Group watches a new video featuring the Heavenly Dao from Tomb of the Gods. Its members view the video as another opportunity to side with Dugu Baitian, and joke about the Heavenly Dao’s villainous reputation.
• The Group puts forward two candidates: Dugu Baitian, under the nickname “You Are My Longing Through Every Lifetime,” and the Heavenly Dao, nicknamed “Loves Eating Everything Stew.”
• The eleven existing members unanimously reject the Heavenly Dao. Believing the invitation and rejection are tricks by its enemies, it erupts in anger and orders its subordinates to find the “ants” it thinks are still alive.
• Dugu Baitian, hidden in the Gods and Demons’ Cemetery, is accepted as a full member. He notices the Chat Group’s mysterious interface and begins observing its members.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan finds the video and the candidates’ nicknames ridiculous, especially the romantic-sounding name assigned to Dugu Baitian.
• Dugu Baitian is wary and curious when the Chat Group contacts him. He carefully studies the unfamiliar members and becomes particularly interested in Meng Chuan.
• The Heavenly Dao reveals its self-justifying arrogance: it considers harvesting the world’s inhabitants entirely reasonable, and interprets the Chat Group’s decision as deliberate mockery.

Character interactions

• The established members joke together about the video and agree there is little need to discuss the candidates before voting.
• The Heavenly Dao’s outburst prompts its followers to launch a search, though some secretly dread finding the powerful figures it means to pursue.
• Dugu Baitian joins the group and watches its members greet and tease the newcomer, but does not yet respond.

Significant themes

• Justice and perspective: The Heavenly Dao sees its predation as rightful, while the Chat Group regards it as a threat deserving rejection.
• Power, secrecy, and fear: The Heavenly Dao’s followers obey outwardly but privately fear the people it wants them to find.
• Humor amid danger: The Chat Group’s irreverent nicknames and banter contrast with the Heavenly Dao’s fury and Dugu Baitian’s cautious arrival.

Key plot points and events

• Dugu Baitian joins the Chat Group and asks what it is. Meng Chuan explains that it connects the Myriad Heavens and Worlds; Dugu accepts that explanation after considering the group’s unusual, seemingly genuine nature.
• Dugu notices members’ cultivation levels and learns that the numbers reflect strength. At level 140, he wonders whether Meng Chuan’s level 149 might be enough to defeat Heaven—the goal he pursues in his own world.
• The group greets Dugu and introduces itself. He observes the enormous gap between members, particularly between Meng Chuan and the much weaker Lu Mingfei, and wonders what holds such a group together.
• When Lu Mingfei asks for a chance to earn Points, Meng Chuan instead uploads Undying and Immortal and Tomb of the Gods. The Chat Group combines them into a Fate Instance that only Dugu can view.
• After learning that the instance records his life—including future events—Dugu enters, eager to discover whether he ultimately succeeds in slaying Heaven.

Character developments

• Dugu Baitian moves from cautious curiosity to genuine wonder about the wider worlds beyond his own. His focus quickly turns to whether his destiny includes defeating Heaven.
• Meng Chuan takes charge of welcoming Dugu and setting up the Fate Instance. He also playfully denies Lu Mingfei the opportunity to earn Points.
• Lu Mingfei remains eager to gain Points and theatrically laments the group’s unfairness. His exchange with Chu Zihang shows his familiar mix of melodrama and resignation.
• Chu Zihang responds to Lu’s complaint with dry practicality, warning that Headmaster Angers is about to invite him for tea.
• Meng Qi joins in teasing Lu, briefly prompting a mock argument over who is the group’s biggest “dog.”

Significant themes

• A wider cosmos: The Chat Group reveals that many worlds—and paths of cultivation beyond Dugu’s understanding—exist.
• Power and perspective: Dugu instinctively measures the group by strength, yet is puzzled that members of vastly different levels interact so casually.
• Destiny and knowledge: The Fate Instance offers Dugu a chance to see his future, bringing his central ambition—slaying Heaven—into sharp focus.
• Camaraderie through humor: Teasing, mock complaints, and everyday banter make the group feel less like a gathering of ranked cultivators and more like an unusual community.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan patiently explains the Chat Group and welcomes Dugu as a companion.
• Dugu silently studies the other members, especially Meng Chuan, while trying to understand the group’s social dynamics.
• Lu Mingfei pleads for a chance to earn Points; Meng Chuan refuses, and Meng Qi teases him, drawing a brief protest from Lu.
• Lu turns to Chu Zihang for sympathy, but Chu instead points out Angers’s impending invitation.
• The group explains the Fate Instance to Dugu, whose curiosity leads him to enter it.

Key plot points and events

• In the Fate Instance, Dugu Baitian watches Chen Nan—reincarnation of his son Dugu Xiaobai—rise from the Gods and Demons’ Cemetery and eventually join the war that creates the New Heavenly Dao. Dugu Baitian celebrates the apparent victory.
• He asks whether Fate Instances are reliable. Meng Chuan explains that joining the Chat Group has changed everyone’s fate, so the instance shows only Dugu Baitian’s former future. Dugu makes his own instance available after removing private details.
• Meng Chuan watches Dugu’s bleak, demonic world, where the Heavenly Dao destroys life and desperate gods and demons embrace extreme paths to keep fighting.
• Dugu watches the other members’ Fate Instances and recognizes Meng Chuan as a fellow hero for resisting the Supremes who prey on the universe. He learns Chen Nan has not yet revived.
• The group introduces Dugu to its features and members. His interest turns to the Group Store, which he suspects may help him grow stronger.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu shifts from cautious uncertainty about his future to hope that fate can change—and curiosity about the opportunities the group offers. He is perceptive and thoughtful, quickly assessing both the group’s members and its resources.
• He feels kinship with Meng Chuan, though Meng Chuan’s playful banter leaves him puzzled. The two trade compliments about each other’s “bold spirit,” then Dugu wisely ends the exchange.
• The group warmly welcomes Dugu, explaining its tools and teasing Meng Chuan about his privileges. Dugu is especially wary when he learns Meng Chuan can travel between worlds.

Significant themes

• Fate and change: The Fate Instances reveal former destinies, but joining the group creates new possibilities.
• Resistance against oppressive powers: Dugu’s world and Meng Chuan’s both feature heroes confronting forces that treat lives as expendable.
• Despair and extremity: Dugu’s world drives its strongest figures toward madness and extreme methods as their only hope.
• Comradeship across worlds: Shared struggles help Dugu recognize a kindred spirit in Meng Chuan, while the group offers him connection and new opportunities.

Plot points and events

• Dugu Baitian uploads several powerful cultivation arts to the group shop, including the Eight Styles of Chaos and Nine Revolutions Against Heaven. Group members quickly buy them, earning him a surge of Points.
• Learning more about Meng Qi’s world and the beings of the Other Shore changes Dugu Baitian’s perspective: by comparison, the Heavenly Dao no longer seems like the ultimate enemy. He is also relieved that it was rejected from joining the group.
• Dugu Baitian begins shopping for cultivation methods of his own, while Meng Chuan sets aside the group to study the newly available arts.
• Meng Chuan recognizes that Nine Revolutions Against Heaven has striking parallels to the Divine Silkworm Clan’s transformations and Ruthless’s path of shedding bodies across lifetimes. He considers sharing it with both Ruthless and the God Emperor, though the latter’s dangerous, unknown condition in his coffin makes him hesitate.
• Meng Chuan studies Dugu Baitian’s other arts, especially the Nine Divine Arts, the Undying Demonic Art, and the unfinished Eight Styles of Chaos. He manages to reproduce the latter’s chaotic movements and destructive power—but realizes its motions look rather like someone flailing wildly.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Baitian grows more aware of how vast the wider multiverse is, which softens his view of the Heavenly Dao and makes him eager to learn from other worlds.
• Meng Chuan acts as a thoughtful student of Dugu Baitian’s techniques, recognizing connections to familiar cultivation paths. His usual confidence also fuels comic speculation that he could win over the God Emperor if they met.
• The group’s members, including Meng Chuan and the Ancient One, quickly purchase Dugu Baitian’s uploads, while those short on Points are left hoping he will eventually share the methods freely.
• Meng Chuan’s consideration of Ruthless and the God Emperor highlights his willingness to help others, balanced by caution about interfering with the God Emperor’s transformation.

Significant themes

• The vastness of the multiverse: Powerful enemies and achievements can seem smaller when measured against higher realms of existence.
• Shared truths across worlds: Different cultivation systems can echo one another, allowing techniques from one world to benefit practitioners in another.
• Transformation through extreme cultivation: Nine Revolutions Against Heaven connects several characters’ approaches to renewal and self-reinvention.
• Humor amid epic power: Meng Chuan’s awe at the Eight Styles of Chaos ends in the irreverent possibility that its legendary movements amount to “flailing around like a maniac.”

Key plot points and events

• After a twenty-thousand-year seclusion studying and adapting Dugu Baitian’s techniques, Meng Chuan emerges. The Dao Realm has flourished during his absence, and the calendar now marks its thirtieth year.
• Meng Chuan calls the Dao Realm’s powerful figures to a meeting. The attendees include Wushi, Ruthless, Suiren, and Meng Chuan’s two attendants, Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran.
• He observes that the group has advanced considerably: Wushi has entered his second lifetime, while Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran are nearing Dao attainment.
• Ruthless notices a trace of “Demonic Nature” in Meng Chuan’s bearing. He explains that it is a result of his studies and says he intends to share a previously unknown cultivation system with the group.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body repeatedly makes blunt remarks, prompting Meng Chuan to eject him from the meeting—though he gives him a special channel to keep listening.
• Meng Chuan begins to introduce his new system, but the excerpt ends before he explains it.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan returns more powerful and reflective after his long seclusion. His study has left him with a trace of Demonic Nature, and he is eager to share what he learned.
• Wushi has reached his second lifetime, aided in part by accelerated time, and continues to show tact and social intelligence.
• Ruthless demonstrates sharp perception by identifying the change in Meng Chuan.
• Ji Lianxing and Jiang Daoran are close to attaining the Dao after prolonged preparation under Meng Chuan’s guidance.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body remains irreverent and socially tactless, becoming the target of Meng Chuan’s teasing “punishment.”

Significant themes

• Time and longevity: Thousands of years pass, but powerful cultivators experience time and aging very differently from ordinary beings.
• Cultivation and transformation: Long study reshapes both a cultivator’s abilities and their inner nature.
• Mentorship and shared knowledge: Meng Chuan’s guidance helps prepare others for Dao attainment, and he chooses to share his new system.
• Humor and hierarchy: The meeting’s grand setting contrasts with playful banter, teasing, and Meng Chuan’s casual authority.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Wushi greet each other as if they have been apart for ages, despite having met more recently; Wushi smoothly follows Meng Chuan’s lead.
• Wushi thoughtfully leaves his dog, Little Black, out of the meeting.
• Ruthless directly identifies Meng Chuan’s Demonic Nature, prompting surprise from the others.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body interrupts and mocks Meng Chuan, who repeatedly responds by ejecting him while still letting him listen.
• Meng Chuan invites the attendees to receive his new cultivation system, but warns the Sacred Body not to interrupt.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan reveals that he has obtained and further developed a complete cultivation method called the Tomb of the Gods Method. It offers a path from mortal beginnings to the Human Dao Pinnacle.
• His companions are eager to learn it. Meng Chuan says it is safe to teach, but warns that introducing a wholly new cultivation system to their world will trigger a Law-Creation Tribulation against him.
• He explains that surviving the tribulation will let the method spread; failing will destroy him and the Dao he created. Earlier foreign methods did not trigger one because their practitioners were considered part of the same greater world.
• Meng Chuan proposes that they travel to the Cosmic Frontier before he teaches the method, since the tribulation could be immense and prolonged.
• He hopes the tribulation will help complete his eighth Mortal World Battle Immortal transformation, which is already within reach. His eager wish for the tribulation to strike hard makes the others suspect his “friend” is actually himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is confident in his ability to survive the tribulation and treats it as a possible opportunity for rapid cultivation. He insists, humorously and defensively, that the method came from a real friend.
• Ruthless asks perceptive questions about the method and the danger of the tribulation, watching Meng Chuan closely.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark, his Attendants, enthusiastically praise him with “long live,” prompting Meng Chuan to joke about his age. Embarrassed, they try to placate him by massaging his shoulders.
• Ji Lianxing laughs at the exchange. The group’s final bemusement grows when Meng Chuan openly welcomes a punishing tribulation; even the floating Great Accomplishment Sacred Body comments on his unusual enthusiasm.

Significant themes

• Creation carries risk: establishing a new path requires its creator to endure a potentially deadly trial.
• Cultivation through adversity: Meng Chuan views the coming tribulation not only as a danger but as a chance to strengthen himself.
• Trust and credibility: his companions’ suspicion that he is his own “friend” adds playful humor to the group’s otherwise momentous discussion.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan explains the complete Tomb of the Gods Method to the emperors, from its earliest ranks through the Heaven-Defying King level. The method’s most extraordinary promise is that a remnant battle soul can defy death and gather itself into a living form again.
• Heaven and earth respond to the creation of this unprecedented cultivation path with a catastrophic lightning tribulation. Meng Chuan goes alone into Chaos to face it.
• The tribulation lasts a hundred years and sends waves of terror throughout the Universe. Powerful cultivators, including Wushi and Ruthless, recognize that it is directed at Meng Chuan and reflects both his cultivation and the method’s hints of Immortal King– and Immortal Emperor–like persistence.
• Meng Chuan survives. He returns blackened by lightning, trades insults with the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, and then absorbs the essence of heaven and earth to recover and grow stronger.
• The tribulation’s Fortune brings Meng Chuan close to his eighth transformation, one step nearer to becoming an Immortal. He reflects that, despite its rewards, the Red Dust Battle Immortal path is extraordinarily difficult: even a gifted cultivator could despair before its immense demands.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan proves again that he is willing to challenge the limits of cultivation. Though battered, he remains confident and irreverent, and the tribulation further advances his understanding of the body’s Gates of Potential.
• Wushi witnesses the scale of Meng Chuan’s power and is astonished by his vast blood energy.
• Yuanhua is shocked that Meng Chuan can be made to bleed, especially since he had dominated a Battle Immortal.
• Ruthless explains that the tribulation is tied to the method’s implications for immortality and its defiance of the natural order.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body jokes about Meng Chuan’s charred appearance. Meng Chuan answers with curses and threatens to curse the Sacred Body Lineage; the exchange shows their familiar, comic antagonism.

Significant themes

• Innovation challenges the cosmic order: Creating a new Dao can provoke the world itself to try to destroy its creator.
• The nature of immortality: The Tomb of the Gods Method explores survival beyond death, while hinting at the persistence associated with higher Immortal realms.
• Power and sacrifice: Meng Chuan’s breakthrough comes only after a century-long ordeal and immense prior accumulation.
• The cost of ambition: The Red Dust Battle Immortal path offers extraordinary strength but is portrayed as a brutal, potentially despair-inducing road.

Key plot points and events

• After the Tomb of the Gods gathering, Meng Chuan checks what everyone learned. Ruthless says Dugu Baitian’s method has given her a new insight into her path toward immortality. The others have also advanced, and several are closer to attaining the Dao.
• Meng Chuan reflects that the Red Dust Immortal path is exceptionally difficult; reaching True Immortality by the more conventional route is still a worthy path to power.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark joke about future titles, while Gu Cang tries to stir trouble by suggesting grandiose names. Their banter ends with the attendants chasing Gu Cang.
• Alone, Meng Chuan considers the immense forces involved in his Law-Creation Tribulation. He suspects its laws reached beyond the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands—and may have drawn the attention of Immortal Emperors. He sets aside his worries, believing Shi Hao’s lingering sword strike still protects their homeland.
• Meng Chuan prepares to return to the Dao Realm for his eighth transformation, but spots the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin passing nearby. He boards it and enters the smaller coffin within.
• The coffin’s ancient Emperor Dao Runes reveal teachings about repairing the Immortal Domain, left by Shi Hao. Inside is a vast world of Immortal Light. Meng Chuan enters and sees someone seated at its center, facing away from him.

Character developments

• Ruthless gains a significant new direction for her cultivation, potentially bringing her closer to her next breakthrough.
• Suiren shows an unusual change connected to the Tomb of the Gods Method, suggesting a deeper link to the Myriad Heavens, Kindling, and his role as Human Ancestor.
• Meng Chuan remains confident but becomes more alert to the risks surrounding his tribulation and the possibility that powerful beings have noticed him. His curiosity leads him to investigate the coffin once again.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan praises the group’s gains and gives special attention to Ruthless, whose insight he is pleased to see.
• The group thanks Meng Chuan for showing them a new direction.
• Huang Tian and Divine Mark joke with Gu Cang, who denies their teasing and flees; they chase him while the others laugh.
• Meng Chuan briefly considers Shi Hao’s protective influence, then encounters the coffin alone.

Significant themes

• Different roads to immortality: The Red Dust Immortal path is rare and grueling, while conventional cultivation can also lead to immense power.
• Mentorship and opportunity: A teaching’s value depends on how well it suits the recipient; the right insight can transform someone’s prospects.
• Cosmic scale and hidden observers: Meng Chuan’s tribulation may have involved forces beyond his world and attracted the attention of Immortal Emperors.
• Mystery and legacy: Shi Hao’s writings and the coffin’s hidden world preserve a plan to repair the Immortal Domain—and the figure inside introduces a new mystery.

Key plot points and events

• Inside the Three-Life Bronze Coffin, Meng Chuan encounters a manifestation of Shi Hao, the Desolate Heaven Emperor. Shi Hao’s presence evokes visions of countless worlds, the River of Time, and his vast struggles against darkness and the uncanny.
• Meng Chuan recognizes Shi Hao and realizes the disturbance caused by his Law-Creation Tribulation may have drawn the attention of this powerful figure.
• Shi Hao identifies Meng Chuan as someone from beyond their world. Meng Chuan admits it, and Shi Hao reflects that their world is not the only one in existence.
• Their conversation suggests that Immortal Emperors have tried—and largely failed—to explore beyond their own world. Meng Chuan suspects some force may be restricting them.
• Shi Hao says he once searched beyond the world but returned because his homeland still needs him. He intends to settle its troubles before seeking a path through chaos.
• Meng Chuan asserts his identity as Heavenly Emperor of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Shi Hao accepts him as an ally, saying Meng Chuan’s past no longer matters in light of his long service to their people.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan is awed by Shi Hao but remains composed and self-assured, meeting him as a fellow Heavenly Emperor rather than placing himself beneath him. He becomes more suspicious of hidden limits on travel between worlds.
• Shi Hao appears calm and committed to defending his homeland. He recognizes Meng Chuan’s origins and deeds, and accepts him without prejudice.

Character interactions

• Their exchange is respectful and direct: Meng Chuan openly acknowledges his foreign origins, while Shi Hao confirms he has observed Meng Chuan’s actions.
• Meng Chuan asserts his standing; Shi Hao responds with acceptance, establishing their shared allegiance to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Significant themes

• Immense power and perspective: Shi Hao’s presence links individual lives to vast cycles of worlds and time.
• Belonging through action: Meng Chuan’s service matters more to Shi Hao than where he came from.
• Duty versus exploration: Shi Hao chooses to remain and protect his homeland before seeking what lies beyond.
• Mystery and confinement: The apparent inability of powerful beings to explore beyond their world hints at a larger hidden force or design.