Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Spectacular visions appear across the Shrouding the Heavens Universe: Immortal Realm Across the Sky, followed by the Great Dao Gate and Purple Qi Comes from the East, then Stars Shining Like a Sea and Two Lives Standing Side by Side.
• A mysterious passerby names and explains each vision, claiming their rarity and meaning come from the Heavenly Emperor’s writings. His excited commentary draws crowds and fuels speculation that the Heavenly Emperor caused them.
• After the visions fade, the passerby slips away and returns to the deepest part of the Dao Realm—revealed to be Meng Chuan in disguise.
• Meng Chuan admits he created the visions himself to make people believe a great breakthrough had taken place. He has finally met the requirements to become a Legend, after ten thousand years spent creating 999 Other Selves across different worlds.
• His transformation elevates his True Spirit and Emperor Body, merges his Emperor Body with his Dharmakaya, and gives him an immeasurable perspective in which all worlds seem close and accessible. His Other Selves and projection imprints also become much easier to develop.
• The chapter ends as Meng Chuan’s transformation continues, hinting that he intends to combine the Shrouding Method and Lifetime Method rather than simply practice them in parallel.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan completes his breakthrough to Legend and gains vastly expanded perception and influence across worlds. He also reveals a playful, theatrical side: he manufactures the visions and personally stages the public explanation.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body recognizes the recurring passerby and reacts with exasperation.
• Ji Lianxing and the other emperors recognize the passerby’s antics, while Ruthless watches with fond amusement, noting that he has not changed.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through perseverance: Meng Chuan’s ten-thousand-year effort and 999 Other Selves make his breakthrough possible.
• Appearance and reality: The awe-inspiring visions are not natural signs but effects Meng Chuan deliberately created.
• Reputation and spectacle: A sensational display, amplified by public discussion, quickly shapes belief across the universe.
• Continual ambition: Even after reaching Legend, Meng Chuan seeks a more powerful synthesis of his two cultivation methods.

Character interactions

• The emperors and ordinary people eagerly question the passerby, whose confident explanations turn their uncertainty into admiration and speculation.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and Ji Lianxing respond with familiarity and exasperation; Ruthless reacts with quiet affection.
• Meng Chuan manipulates the crowd’s curiosity to direct suspicion toward the secluded Heavenly Emperor—himself—then reflects with satisfaction on how quickly the story spreads.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan completes an extraordinary transformation during his long seclusion. His inner worlds and Dao structures reach their current limit, while his collapsed Immortal Platform is remade into a genuine inner world—the Sole True Realm.
• He combines the Shrouding Method and the Lifetime Method, drawing on other cultivation systems to begin forging a new path. His power has increased dramatically, though the worlds within him remain largely illusory.
• Meng Chuan returns to the Dao Realm’s meeting and reveals that he has reached the Legendary Realm and completed his eighth transformation. He is now only one step from becoming an Immortal.
• He explains that the Desolate Heaven Emperor helped him overcome the bottleneck in developing his Other Selves by enabling him to travel between worlds of the Boundary Sea.
• Asked to demonstrate his current strength, Meng Chuan jokingly offers to kill an Immortal King.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan emerges far stronger and more self-assured, but remains humorous and modest in his exchanges with the other emperors. His ambition is not merely to master existing systems but to unite their strengths into a path of his own.
• Gu Cang and Ji Lianxing tease Meng Chuan about his earlier grand explanation of a phenomenon. Gu Cang is also astonished by the vastness of Meng Chuan’s new realm.
• Wushi focuses on what Meng Chuan’s achievement means for the Immortal Path, while Suiren feels pride and gratitude that the Human Race’s Heavenly Emperor is nearing Immortality.
• Ruthless wonders whether the Desolate Heaven Emperor could bring back her deceased brother. Meng Chuan gently explains that even such a powerful figure cannot readily retrieve someone dead from the River of Time; Ruthless accepts this calmly.

Significant themes

• Creating a new path: Meng Chuan builds on inherited cultivation methods without being bound by them, valuing both tradition and innovation.
• The cost and limits of transcendence: His transformation is immense, yet most of his inner worlds remain just short of becoming real, and Immortality still requires one final step.
• Legacy and hope: Meng Chuan’s progress represents a historic achievement for the Human Race, while Ruthless’s exchange with him underscores the limits of power in the face of loss.
• Humor amid cosmic grandeur: The emperors’ teasing and Meng Chuan’s jokes lighten a chapter centered on world-shaping cultivation and legendary power.

Key events

• Meng Chuan announces that he intends to kill an Immortal King, astonishing the assembled emperors. He explains that the target is a Dark Immortal King whose lair he stumbled upon while creating Other Selves. The King pursued him for ten thousand years but failed to catch him.
• Wushi fiercely rebukes Great Accomplishment Sacred Body for joking that he should take Meng Chuan’s throne. Beneath his stern defense of Meng Chuan, Wushi privately fears that the remark may bring him another “calamity”—being pushed toward the throne before he is ready.
• Meng Chuan silences the argument and, after Great Accomplishment Sacred Body makes another provocative comment, tosses him out of the meeting again.
• Meng Chuan says he is 98 percent confident of defeating the Immortal King and invites the others to watch. He places them inside the Sole True Realm within his body, where they will remain safe unless he dies.
• After the meeting, Meng Chuan checks in with his Chat Group and begins a livestream of the coming battle. His level has risen to 160 after reaching the Legendary Realm. Chat members react with surprise, while The Ancient One notes that advancing from Heavenly Emperor to True Immortal requires insight, not merely time spent cultivating.
• Meng Qi, watching the announcement, suppresses a personal concern and decides to wait until Meng Chuan has dealt with his enemy.

Character developments and interactions

• Wushi reveals deep loyalty to Meng Chuan, forcefully defending his authority even as he privately dreads being made his successor. His resentment toward Great Accomplishment Sacred Body is comic but intense.
• Great Accomplishment Sacred Body remains blunt and irreverent, repeatedly provoking both Wushi and Meng Chuan; Meng Chuan responds by ejecting him from the meeting while keeping him connected to the conversation.
• Meng Chuan appears calm and confident about facing an Immortal King, while his account of the ten-thousand-year pursuit shows the danger he has faced.
• Ruthless and Suiren take the threat seriously; Suiren asks whether Meng Chuan is confident, while Ruthless trusts his judgment.
• The Ancient One reflects on the limits of cultivation without insight, and Meng Qi quietly postpones his own urgent matter out of concern for Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• The vastness of the cosmos: Even the greatest figures in one world are small beside the hierarchy of realms and the power of Immortal Kings.
• Loyalty and succession: Wushi’s devotion to Meng Chuan clashes with his fear of inheriting the throne.
• Power and uncertainty: Meng Chuan’s confidence is high, but the battle’s stakes are clear—his death would destroy the refuge protecting his companions.
• Growth through insight: Advancement depends not only on time or strength, but on understanding and finding a path forward.

Plot points and events

• Dark Immortal King Mingzhou reflects on an encounter from ten thousand years earlier with Meng Chuan. The unfamiliar cultivation system behind Meng Chuan’s power stirred the Dark Origin within Mingzhou, reminding him of the Heavenly Court cultivators he fought long ago.
• Mingzhou searches the Boundary Sea for Meng Chuan but repeatedly fails to find him. He does not realize Meng Chuan’s Other Self is watching him from a world he has searched.
• Using the traces he has left across worlds, Meng Chuan’s true body appears ahead of Mingzhou in a ruined, lifeless world and confronts him.
• Mingzhou demands that Meng Chuan kneel, surrender his soul and memories, and accept possible mercy. Meng Chuan refuses and taunts him.
• Mingzhou attacks with two words, unleashing the laws and Dao of an Immortal King to crush Meng Chuan. Meng Chuan casually disperses the assault, revealing that Mingzhou has badly underestimated him.
• Surprised but intrigued, Mingzhou calls Meng Chuan a “slightly bigger ant” and asks what gives him the confidence to face an Immortal King. Meng Chuan invites him to find out by coming over to meet his death.

Character developments

• Mingzhou is arrogant and accustomed to overwhelming weaker opponents, but his curiosity about Meng Chuan’s unusual power persists. His confidence falters when his attack has no effect.
• Meng Chuan remains composed and defiant despite Mingzhou’s pursuit and threats. His ability to cross worlds and effortlessly repel an Immortal King’s laws shows that his strength has grown substantially.
• Meng Chuan’s Other Self plays a quiet but crucial role by tracking Mingzhou and enabling the confrontation.

Character interactions

• Mingzhou treats Meng Chuan as an insignificant captive, demanding submission; Meng Chuan answers with insults and a counter-threat.
• Inside Meng Chuan, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and Meng Qi share the same impulse to beat Mingzhou, adding comic commentary to the standoff. Ji Lianxing reprimands the Sacred Body for his crude remarks and warns Jiang Daoran not to imitate him.

Significant themes

• Arrogance versus underestimated strength: Mingzhou’s Immortal King status leads him to dismiss Meng Chuan, but his attack exposes the limits of that assumption.
• Power and dignity: Meng Chuan resents being treated as beneath respect simply because he has not become an Immortal.
• Persistence and pursuit: Mingzhou’s ten-thousand-year hunt finally brings him face-to-face with Meng Chuan, setting up a direct clash.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan confronts Mingzhou, the Immortal King who pursued him for ten thousand years, and vows to settle their grudge.
• Meng Chuan reveals his extraordinary cultivation: two paths combined into a power of his own, embodied by his World Sea and Dao Fruit. Mingzhou recognizes his potential but believes Meng Chuan still falls short of an Immortal King.
• The two unleash their power across the great world. Mingzhou first tries to seize and refine Meng Chuan, but Meng Chuan’s sword energy cuts off and pulverizes his hand—an astonishing injury for an Immortal King.
• Enraged by the humiliation, Mingzhou attacks with his full strength and Immortal King Dharma Appearance. Meng Chuan answers by merging with the phantom of the Beginning of the Dao.
• Their collision tears apart the world and disrupts time, space, Karma, Fate, and the Dao. The battle’s shock waves threaten even nearby supreme experts and True Immortals.
• Meng Chuan declares that if Mingzhou has shown his full power, he will die there. The chapter ends as their decisive battle continues.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan reveals the scale of his growth and no longer treats Mingzhou as an overwhelming superior. His calm, confident advance contrasts with the danger of the fight.
• Mingzhou shifts from contemptuous certainty to wary recognition, then to fury when Meng Chuan wounds him. His pride as a king makes the injury intolerable.

Significant themes

• Pride and dignity: Mingzhou’s refrain, “A king must not be humiliated,” reflects his belief that status demands submission—and his rage when that belief is challenged.
• Growth and underestimated potential: Meng Chuan’s unconventional cultivation lets him challenge an Immortal King despite not having reached that level by either path.
• Power and its consequences: Their duel is so vast that the world itself, its laws, and nearby beings are endangered.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Mingzhou trade threats, with Mingzhou demanding submission and Meng Chuan refusing to yield.
• Mingzhou initially acknowledges Meng Chuan as a genuine threat but still assumes victory; Meng Chuan’s severing of his hand shatters that confidence and turns the exchange into an all-out battle.
• A passing True Immortal witnesses the Immortal King confrontation and immediately flees, underscoring the gulf between the combatants and ordinary cultivators.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan and the Immortal King Mingzhou fight in a lifeless region of the sea, chosen to keep their battle from harming inhabited worlds. Their clash shatters worlds and sends nearby True Immortals fleeing.
• Observers—including Ruthless, Wushi, and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body—watch from inside Meng Chuan’s One True World, gaining rare insight into an Immortal King’s laws. The battle is also livestreamed to the group chat.
• Mingzhou unleashes a supreme technique that turns a universe into a realm of death and threatens to extinguish nearby worlds. Meng Chuan counters with the life-based “Palm of Life,” inspired by Tathagata’s Palm, and charges into the clash.
• Their forces of life and death ravage both fighters. Meng Chuan is badly wounded, but Mingzhou suffers worse: most of his body rots away beneath his head. The onlookers realize that a non-Immortal has grievously injured an Immortal King.
• As they recover, Mingzhou attacks again, insisting that Immortal Kings cannot die. Meng Chuan rejects the claim and vows to destroy Mingzhou’s Primordial Spirit. They resume fighting, and Meng Chuan ultimately severs Mingzhou’s head.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates that his combined cultivation, inner worlds, and self-created techniques let him challenge an ordinary Immortal King despite not having attained immortality. His humor and confidence persist even while gravely injured.
• Mingzhou moves from contemptuous certainty to shock when Meng Chuan proves capable of threatening him. He remains convinced that his superior realm and durability will secure victory, but Meng Chuan’s final strike overturns that confidence.
• The observers are exhilarated by the battle and recognize its value as a once-in-a-million-years opportunity. Their alarm at Meng Chuan’s injuries gives way to astonishment when they see Mingzhou’s even worse condition.
• Klein is briefly shaken by the scale of the fight and considers abandoning his Seer pathway for body cultivation, but returns to work when Captain Dunn calls him. Meng Qi cheers Meng Chuan on, hoping he will grow even stronger.
• Meng Chuan and Mingzhou’s exchanges are both physical and ideological: Mingzhou asserts that Immortal Kings are undying, while Meng Chuan insists that no one is truly immortal.

Significant themes

• Limits of cultivation rank: A lower-realm fighter can challenge—and potentially defeat—a vastly higher-ranked opponent through exceptional strength and skill.
• Life and death: Meng Chuan’s life-based technique clashes with Mingzhou’s deathly power, showing how opposing forces can interact and transform one another.
• Immortality questioned: The chapter challenges the idea that any being is truly eternal, even an Immortal King.
• Witnessing as opportunity: For the observers, the dangerous battle is also an extraordinary chance to learn from combat far beyond their level.
  Ending: Meng Chuan beheads Mingzhou, leaving the outcome of the fight poised for its next stage.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan and Immortal King Mingzhou continue their fierce duel after Meng Chuan beheads him. Mingzhou survives and restores his head, but the humiliation intensifies their mutual hostility.
• Their battle devastates numerous fragile worlds and attracts Quasi-Immortal Kings, who are stunned that someone apparently younger than a hundred thousand years—and not yet an Immortal King—can contend with Mingzhou.
• Meng Chuan unleashes a powerful attack joining the inner worlds of his Sole True World with the outer world. Mingzhou counters with his Immortal King spear and strongest strike. The collision wounds them both and even disturbs the River of Time.
• Rather than end the fight quickly, Meng Chuan uses Mingzhou as a worthy opponent to refine his understanding of the Immortal King’s body, Primordial Spirit, and realm. They fight for seven days, accumulating severe injuries to their Dao.
• When Meng Chuan decides the battle has served its purpose, Mingzhou assumes he means to stop. Meng Chuan clarifies that he intends to end Mingzhou’s life.
• Meng Chuan summons three powerful incarnations through the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable’s art, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and begins deploying the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against Mingzhou.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates confidence, patience, and strategic restraint. He sees the duel as a chance to grow, then reveals that he had held back significant resources. His calm remarks repeatedly unsettle Mingzhou.
• Mingzhou remains proud and convinced of his own immortality, but the prolonged battle exposes his limits. He reacts angrily to Meng Chuan’s implication that he has exhausted his techniques and refuses to retreat even when outnumbered.
• The spectators are awed by Meng Chuan’s youth and strength. The Chat Group members check in intermittently during the seven-day fight, joking about their own lives, while the emperors watch intently.

Significant themes

• Growth through struggle: Meng Chuan deliberately prolongs a dangerous fight to learn from an opponent near his own level.
• Different forms of power and survival: Mingzhou relies on the resilience of an Immortal King’s body, while Meng Chuan’s confidence also rests on his ability to return even if killed.
• Pride and misjudgment: Mingzhou’s belief that he is invincible blinds him to Meng Chuan’s hidden advantages.
• Power and scale: Their duel’s damage to worlds and disturbance of time emphasize the immense consequences of combat at the highest levels.

Key plot points

• Meng Chuan traps Mingzhou in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, then sends in his three Pure Ones incarnations. Outnumbered and assailed by the formation, Mingzhou is badly beaten and suppressed.
• Mingzhou admits defeat but insists that an Immortal King cannot be killed. Meng Chuan mocks his arrogance and slaps him.
• Meng Chuan discovers that Mingzhou’s dark blood and Dao laws are spreading through his wounds, threatening to create a new, corrupted primordial spirit.
• Rather than risk carrying the darkness back to Shi Hao’s sealed world, Meng Chuan travels to an uninhabited world and contains the substance with miniature Immortal-Slaying Sword Formations.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates how decisively the sword formation and his three incarnations can overwhelm Mingzhou. He remains irreverent even while facing a serious threat, but acts cautiously once he recognizes the danger of the dark corruption.
• Mingzhou shifts from defiant taunts to helpless rage. He hopes the darkness will eventually turn Meng Chuan into one of his kind, but seems unaware that Meng Chuan claims the darkness’s greatest source has already been erased.
• The Ruthless Empress, the Great Accomplished Sacred Body, and Klein Moretti witness the formation’s power. Klein recognizes it from legend and fantasizes about using it against Amon.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: A legendary technique is formidable, but its wielder’s cultivation still matters; Meng Chuan’s advantage comes from combining the formation with his own strength.
• Corruption and identity: Darkness can remake its victims by creating a new primordial spirit, echoing the tragedies of the Ancient Chaos era.
• Arrogance versus reality: Mingzhou’s claims of immortality do not change the fact that he is now a prisoner—and vulnerable to eventual defeat.

Plot points and events

• Dark Matter from Mingzhou’s corruption remains inside Meng Chuan, including a denser, more active trace that subtly urges him to absorb it.
• Meng Chuan nearly experiments with refining the substance, then realizes the impulse may be affecting his judgment. He expels the Dark Matter with his Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• With his mind clear again, Meng Chuan brings out the still-trapped Mingzhou and begins suppressing and killing him using the Great Dao Jade Disc and the sword formation.
• Mingzhou’s Primordial Spirit repeatedly breaks apart and reforms, but Meng Chuan patiently continues, studying its structure and comparing it with the Tomb of the Gods Method.
• Meng Chuan releases Ruthless and the others to observe the process. He protects them from the Dark Matter, allowing them to learn from an Immortal King’s Primordial Spirit.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shows caution by rejecting a dangerous experiment, then turns the encounter into both a battle and a research opportunity. Once the Dark Matter is removed, his thoughts and perception clear.
• Mingzhou is shocked that Meng Chuan resisted corruption. Though he insists Immortal Kings cannot die and his Primordial Spirit regenerates, Meng Chuan remains confident that persistence will finish him.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body is comically blamed for “clouding” Meng Chuan’s mind through his supposed oil. He silently objects, while Meng Chuan continues to mock him as hopeless.
• Ruthless and the other emperors watch and learn from Mingzhou’s suffering, gaining insight that may help them overcome future cultivation obstacles.

Significant themes

• Corruption and judgment: Dark Matter can influence even an experienced cultivator’s impulses, making caution and clear-mindedness essential.
• The value of knowledge: Meng Chuan uses a dangerous enemy’s defeat to study the Immortal King Primordial Spirit, turning combat into cultivation.
• The Primordial Spirit’s importance: Reaching the Immortal King realm depends especially on strengthening the Primordial Spirit, a hurdle that has defeated many gifted cultivators.
• Patience and persistence: Mingzhou’s ability to regenerate does not deter Meng Chuan; he intends to keep fighting until the enemy is truly destroyed.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan spends ten thousand years studying Mingzhou’s Immortal King Primordial Spirit and Dao Fruit while gradually wearing him down. Mingzhou curses him throughout, but ultimately dies, triggering bloody rain and other omens across the realm.
• Meng Chuan refuses to bring Mingzhou’s Dark-tainted Primordial Spirit back to the Dao Realm. He fears the Dark Matter could expose their world or endanger its inhabitants. He recognizes that he would need greater cultivation to remove the darkness safely.
• Afterward, Meng Chuan purifies and absorbs the usable laws, divine powers, and immortal power from Mingzhou’s remains through the Great Dao Jade Disc. He also collects Mingzhou’s many treasures, including a powerful Immortal King spear.
• Among the estate’s artifacts, Meng Chuan discovers a damaged Immortal King weapon. Its condition recalls a battle from Mingzhou’s memories—the battle against the Heavenly Court a million years earlier.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan’s ruthless treatment of Mingzhou unsettles Wushi and the others. He explains the horror of darkness through a hypothetical in which Wushi’s parents’ remains are inhabited by hostile spirits. Wushi responds that he would pursue them across time and space.
• Meng Chuan warns everyone to prepare for the darkness in both strength and mindset, while reassuring them that he will hold the line. When the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body questions whether he can, Meng Chuan jokes that he will use the Sacred Body’s life as a shield.
• The others return to the Dao Realm and enter seclusion, wanting to grow strong enough to fight alongside Meng Chuan rather than leave him to face danger alone.

Significant themes

• The cost of confronting darkness: Darkness is presented as more than a powerful enemy; it can corrupt bodies, identities, and the dead, making extreme responses understandable.
• Caution and responsibility: Meng Chuan avoids a potentially valuable but dangerous prize because he must protect an entire world.
• Preparation and solidarity: The others recognize their weakness and choose cultivation so they can eventually share the burden.
• Pragmatism and ruthless resolve: Meng Chuan extracts every safe benefit from Mingzhou, illustrating his uncompromising methods against darkness.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan studies Mingzhou’s memories and concludes that the Heavenly Court that fought the dark faction a million years earlier was likely founded by Shi Hao. Shi Hao’s old allies had eventually left the Boundary Sea for the Heavens.
• He recognizes the Ten-Crown King and likely the Heavenly Horned Ant among the powerful figures in those memories. The Ten-Crown King had become an exceptionally formidable Immortal King.
• The dark faction’s former presence in the Boundary Sea included a supreme giant, but Meng Chuan reasons that no such enemy may remain there now. He feels confident he can eventually surpass such beings after completing his transformations.
• Mingzhou’s Immortal King corpse provides Meng Chuan with nourishment, but not enough for even half of his ninth transformation. He worries about the immense resources his final transformation will require and considers seeking a vast, richly developed world.
• After cleansing the corpse of darkness, Meng Chuan realizes his livestream may have run continuously for ten thousand years. The Ancient One confirms she watched the entire time.
• The Ancient One describes changes in her world: she has become the power source for Kamar-Taj’s Secret Mages and a new patron for other mages seeking protection from darkness.
• Meng Qi enters the livestream and says he needs Meng Chuan’s help, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan reflects on the scale of the power he still needs, balancing anxiety over his transformations with confidence in his future strength. He casually catches up with the Ancient One after his long absence.
• The Ancient One remains committed to watching events unfold rather than intervening, but has expanded her role as a guardian by becoming the source of magical power for her faction.
• Meng Qi arrives with an urgent request, though he initially jokes in a way that annoys Meng Chuan. His real problem is left unexplained.

Significant themes

• Legacy and continuity: Shi Hao’s Heavenly Court and its allies carry his influence into later ages.
• Ambition and sacrifice: Meng Chuan’s unprecedented growth demands increasingly vast resources.
• Guardianship versus intervention: The Ancient One prefers to observe, yet protects others by offering them power.
• Long time and enduring relationships: Even after ten thousand years, the group remains connected through the livestream.

Plot points and events

• Meng Qi has deliberately remained at peak Outer Scenery, refusing to advance to Half-Step Dharma Body. He suspects that breaking through will trigger a mission to kill his wife, Gu Xiaosang.
• The Demon Buddha grows suspicious and increases pressure through increasingly dangerous missions, putting Meng Qi’s friends and allies at risk. Meng Qi foresees that people such as Chonghe, Zhang Yuanshan, Jiang Zhiwei, and others may be sacrificed if he keeps resisting.
• The Demon Buddha issues two missions: Meng Qi must kill Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and expose his identity, while Chonghe must kill Meng Qi. Both missions offer a way out of the Six Paths’ control, but Chonghe’s reluctance to attack tells Meng Qi that he expects to die.
• Unable to save Chonghe himself, Meng Qi asks Meng Chuan for help. Meng Chuan agrees to intervene in the Lifetime World, where he believes his strength makes him capable of overcoming the active threats.
• Meng Chuan cautions Meng Qi that the deeper dilemma—what to do when he faces Gu Xiaosang’s death mission—still awaits. He encourages Meng Qi to act, promising his support.
• The chapter ends with Yao Chen hinting that something major is about to happen in his world. Meng Chuan suspects it may be the Three-Year Agreement.

Character development and interactions

• Meng Qi is trapped between protecting his companions and protecting Gu Xiaosang. His request for help shows both his desperation and his willingness to rely on others, while Meng Chuan’s encouragement pushes him to confront choices he has been avoiding.
• Chonghe appears resigned to his fate and unwilling to kill Meng Qi, reinforcing their bond and making his likely sacrifice especially painful.
• Meng Chuan treats Meng Qi with teasing familiarity but responds seriously when asked for help. His confidence in his power offers Meng Qi a possible way to resist the Demon Buddha’s coercion.
• Yao Chen provides comic relief by misunderstanding Meng Chuan’s remark, then redirects attention to an impending crisis in his own world.

Significant themes

• Coercion and impossible choices: The Demon Buddha uses threats against loved ones to force Meng Qi toward a decision.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Meng Qi wants to save both Chonghe and Gu Xiaosang, while Chonghe’s refusal to attack suggests he is prepared to die for Meng Qi.
• Agency against overwhelming power: Meng Qi’s careful resistance has limits, but seeking help creates a chance to challenge the system controlling him.
• Humor amid tension: Meng Chuan’s banter and Yao Chen’s misunderstanding briefly lighten the chapter’s grim stakes.

Key events

• Xiao Yan arrives in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital for the approaching Three-Year Agreement. After three years of brutal, unconventional training under Yao Chen, he has become an even greater talent than in the original story. His alchemist identity, Yan Xiao, is drawing attention from Nalan Yanran, the Mist Cloud Sect, and Pill King Gu He.
• Meng Chuan checks in with the others, then returns to the Shrouding the Heavens universe. He surveys the Dao Realm and notes that Ruthless Emperor is advancing toward her seventh life, far sooner than she did in the original timeline.
• Thinking Wushi’s path has been too comfortable, Meng Chuan arranges for the Undying Heavenly Emperor to challenge him in the future, insisting this “tempering” is for Wushi’s benefit.
• Meng Chuan places an Immortal King corpse in the Dao Realm so it can yield its Dao principles without being absorbed as material. The Realm grows more eternal and its laws clearer, improving cultivation for its inhabitants. They credit Meng Chuan and loudly praise him.
• On Earth, five long-dead emperors begin to resurrect: Amitabha, Void, Jiuli, Hengyu, and Xi. Meng Chuan arrives to see what form their resurrection has taken.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yan has grown into a formidable alchemist and cultivator, thanks to Yao Chen’s unusual, demanding instruction. His rising fame complicates the situation around Nalan Yanran and attracts powerful patrons.
• Ruthless Emperor is progressing much faster than in the original history, while Wushi is about to face a challenge intended to spur his growth.
• Meng Chuan continues to guide events with confidence and humor. He supports the Dao Realm’s inhabitants, but also manipulates future trials—including Wushi’s—while pretending not to be petty.
• The Dao Realm’s inhabitants respond to their improved surroundings by celebrating Meng Chuan, reinforcing his status as their benefactor.

Significant themes

• Altered fate and accelerated growth: Meng Chuan’s interventions reshape established timelines and help key figures advance sooner.
• Hardship as cultivation: Xiao Yan’s and Wushi’s progress is tied to difficult training or future trials.
• Power used for collective benefit: The Immortal King’s remains strengthen the Dao Realm without changing the universe into an age of easy longevity.
• The value of struggle: Meng Chuan believes overcoming harsh conditions produces greater figures than simply extending life.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan leaves the emperors to adapt the Demon-Summoning Scripture for reviving ancient Human Race Great Emperors.
• The chapter explains the Human Race’s history: it dominated the Mythological Era, was later suppressed by the myriad races, and regained prominence only when powerful figures such as the Sui Emperor, Xi Emperor, and Wa Empress rose in the Early Desolate Antiquity.
• Five Great Emperors are successfully revived. They retain their bodies, memories, and nearly all their former cultivation, though their Primordial Spirits are not perfectly restored and they lack the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Their Emperor Weapons sense their masters’ return and travel to Earth, where they joyfully reunite.
• The revived figures learn about Meng Chuan, whom they address as the Heavenly Emperor. Rather than reclaiming their old names, they choose new ones: Xuanyuan, Shennong, Fuxi, Chiyou, and Amitabha Buddha.
• Just as Meng Chuan welcomes them to their new lives, a destructive sound erupts from the Cosmic Frontier, ending the chapter on a cliffhanger.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan reflects on his Human Race heritage and the long history of human oppression. He treats the revived emperors as peers, explaining that their imperfect return is still a remarkable success.
• The five revived emperors accept that they are not exactly their former selves, but embrace both their new identities and the memories and responsibilities they inherited. Xuanyuan explicitly says the Void Emperor belongs to the past.
• The Emperor Weapons show joy and devotion at seeing their masters again, though they are saddened that the revival is not perfect.
• Meng Chuan’s lighthearted inner joke about Amitabha’s name briefly contrasts with the solemnity of the reunion.

Significant themes

• Identity and rebirth: The revived emperors are continuations of their former selves, yet also new people; they accept both sides of that truth.
• Memory and legacy: The emperors inherit their predecessors’ memories, power, and karmic responsibilities.
• Human history and resilience: The Human Race’s fall and eventual resurgence frame the revival as part of a longer struggle to restore its place.
• The limits of resurrection: The ritual comes close to restoring the emperors completely, but cannot erase the distinction between past lives and new ones.

Key plot points and events

• Five ancient emperors—Fuxi, Amitabha, Xuanyuan, Shennong, and Chiyou—are revived. They learn that emperors now coexist in an unprecedented era.
• At the Cosmic Frontier, Jiang Daoran and Ji Lianxing undergo a joint tribulation as Dao companions. Meng Chuan is irritated by their hand-holding and sends the Dao-rule phantoms of the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Zun, and Wushi to attack Jiang Daoran.
• The revived emperors discover the scale of Meng Chuan’s achievements: he defeated powerful enemies, pacified the Forbidden Zones, created the Dao Realm, and is close to immortality. They are astonished by his strength.
• Meng Chuan credits the ancient emperors and their sacrifices with preserving humanity, though Chiyou bluntly points out that Meng Chuan made defeating Supreme Beings look easy.
• Meng Chuan takes the emperors on a tour of the Dao Realm. Xuanyuan reflects that it could have helped him destroy the Forbidden Zones in his own era; Chiyou adds that it might have let Meng Chuan attain the Dao before them.
• A loud complaint leads the group to a long-standing Dao Realm “loophole”: one family has spent generations trying—and failing—to take off their pants there. Meng Chuan admits this is the group he had hoped to avoid, jokes that the Dao Realm belongs to them, and retreats into the Shrouding the Heavens Notre-Dame.

Character developments and interactions

• The ancient emperors move from shock at the modern era and Meng Chuan’s accomplishments to admiration and humility. Meng Chuan, in turn, shows respect for their sacrifices rather than claiming sole credit for humanity’s survival.
• Chiyou remains blunt and irreverent, repeatedly puncturing solemn moments with uncomfortable truths. His manner reminds Meng Chuan of the bizarre Red-Haired Monster he encountered on Earth.
• Wushi is embarrassed when his fierce Dao-rule phantom attacks Jiang Daoran again, prompting others to look at him as though he is responsible.
• Meng Chuan’s irritation at the affectionate tribulation pair contrasts with his formal welcome to the emperors; his later wariness about entering the Divine City reveals that even his own Dao Realm has inhabitants he would rather avoid.

Significant themes

• Legacy and gratitude: The present age rests on the sacrifices of earlier generations, even as their successors surpass them.
• Changing eras: The coexistence of emperors and the Dao Realm mark a dramatic shift from the harsher conditions faced by the ancient rulers.
• Power and humility: Meng Chuan’s extraordinary accomplishments inspire awe, but he insists that history’s victories were collective.
• Comic contrast: Epic tribulations, ancient heroes, and cosmic achievements are undercut by petty jealousy, blunt jokes, and the absurd Pants-Off Party tradition.

Plot points and events

• The revived Five Emperors follow Meng Chuan into the Dao Realm and meet its Emperors.
• Amitabha Buddha’s Self-Self merges with his true body. The resulting transformation, powered in part by centuries of accumulated faith, moves him closer to the Immortal Path. He suppresses the Universe-wide Buddhist visions and chants to affirm that he remains part of Meng Chuan’s Dao Realm.
• After two more Emperors pass their tribulations, Meng Chuan brings them into the Dao Realm. The Five Emperors choose to pursue the Red Dust Immortal Path rather than immediately become Dao Realm Deities, with True Immortality as a fallback.
• Xuanyuan returns to the Ji Family and brings Ji Zi into the world early, so he can experience the era’s prosperity.
• Later, Klein contacts Meng Chuan about Ince Zangwill. Meng Chuan advises him to advance quickly using his knowledge of the Seer pathway’s Acting Rules and offers to strike Ince across worlds if needed.

Character developments and interactions

• Amitabha Buddha advances through the merging of his two selves, while showing political awareness by publicly reaffirming his allegiance to Meng Chuan. He also recognizes the danger of misstepping around a powerful ruler.
• Meng Chuan accepts Amitabha’s loyalty without demanding worship, supports the Five Emperors’ ambitions, and offers Klein help while encouraging him to grow stronger.
• The Five Emperors demonstrate renewed ambition by choosing the Red Dust Immortal Path first, rather than taking the safer Dao Realm position.
• Xuanyuan and Ji Zi reunite; Ji Zi is overwhelmed by Xuanyuan’s return and the changed world.
• Klein applies the Seer rules by giving paid divinations at a club, but remains concerned that even rapid advancement may not let him defeat Ince. He intends to keep Meng Chuan’s offer as a last resort.

Significant themes

• Faith and transformation: accumulated devotion can fuel profound advancement.
• Ambition and risk: the Five Emperors choose a difficult path with a safer alternative available.
• Loyalty and power: Amitabha carefully signals allegiance, while Meng Chuan shows he does not need public glorification.
• Guidance versus self-reliance: Meng Chuan can intervene, but Klein wants to become capable enough to face danger himself.

Key plot points and events

• After logging off, Klein feels unusually relieved and confident. He gains a reputation at his club by offering a divination service that is really just Meng Chuan’s handsome face appearing in his room.
• The idea inspires Meng Chuan to offer a cross-world service: group members can ask him to “chop” something, and he can slash across worlds.
• Yao Chen returns to the group chat to announce that the Three-Year Agreement has arrived. The members welcome him, while Fei Peng and Yan Chixia complain about how their responsibilities have made their lives exhausting.
• Meng Chuan dismisses their complaints and sends a strand of Divine Sense into the Battle Through the Heavens World. He intends to create Other Selves across its many realms, expanding his ability to communicate through the group chat.
• His arrival triggers an enormous, unnatural tribulation across the Jia Ma Empire and nearby lands. Local experts mistake it for a pill-related tribulation, but recognize that its scale suggests a world-ending disaster.
• Xiao Yan asks Yao Chen what is happening. Yao Chen recognizes Meng Chuan’s presence and fears not for his friend, but for the safety of their world.

Character developments

• Klein has grown more confident and successful, using his foreknowledge to avoid risks and build a popular service.
• Meng Chuan is increasingly ambitious and resourceful: he plans to spread Other Selves across worlds while keeping his cultivation methods balanced rather than rushing toward a higher realm.
• Fei Peng and Yan Chixia are portrayed as overworked leaders who regret taking on their current duties, though Meng Chuan sees their burdens as useful labor.
• Yao Chen remains a supportive mentor to Xiao Yan, but Meng Chuan’s arrival visibly unsettles him.
• Xiao Yan continues his familiar activities—helping Nalan Jie and entering the Pill Assembly—while remaining unaware of the larger forces surrounding him.

Significant themes

• Power and unintended consequences: Meng Chuan’s casual arrival creates a catastrophe-scale disturbance for an entire world.
• Ambition and restraint: He expands his reach through other worlds but delays further breakthroughs to preserve the stability of his cultivation.
• Duty versus freedom: Fei Peng and Yan Chixia’s complaints contrast their former easygoing lives with their current responsibilities.
• Humor and parody: The chapter uses jokes about Klein’s “service,” the group members’ workloads, and Yao Chen’s fear that Meng Chuan may destroy their world.

Character interactions

• Klein entertains a customer with his new, misleadingly named “package.”
• Group members tease and welcome Yao Chen, while Fei Peng and Yan Chixia share their frustrations with their duties.
• Meng Chuan ignores their complaints and proceeds with his cross-world plan.
• Xiao Yan seeks an explanation from Yao Chen, who reveals that the terrifying phenomenon is linked to his friend—and that the real danger may be the world itself.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan returns to the Dou Qi Continent and triggers the River of Time’s lingering backlash. The resulting tribulation clouds target him, so he carries them to an uninhabited area to protect the Jia Ma Empire and nearby spectators.
• Witnesses mistake Meng Chuan’s effortless space-tearing for the work of a Dou Zun. Yao Chen, intent on filming the event for his livestream, opens a Space Passage and follows him.
• Xiao Yan, already bewildered by his teacher’s behavior, wonders whether Yao Chen is secretly a Dou Zun too. Yao Chen tells him to cultivate patiently and “believe in Dou Qi,” then leaves. Xiao Yan is so frustrated by the advice that he breaks down.
• In the Great Thousand World, a mysterious disturbance draws the attention of a powerful blond man and other supreme experts. The River of Time manifests, apparently brought forth by the backlash against Meng Chuan.
• The blond man alone sees visions within the river: a future scene on the Dou Qi Continent, where he encounters a younger man and then faces Meng Chuan. Feeling himself displaced by Meng Chuan’s presence, he vows that the stranger is unqualified to protect anyone before him.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is annoyed that the Dou Qi Continent’s backlash has followed him across worlds, but acts responsibly by moving the danger away from populated areas.
• Yao Chen is opportunistic and fascinated by the spectacle, prioritizing his livestream over Xiao Yan’s questions.
• Xiao Yan is confused by the adults’ extraordinary abilities and frustrated by Yao Chen’s dismissive, impractical-sounding encouragement.
• The blond man becomes intensely curious about the River of Time and its visions. He interprets the scene as a future challenge and reacts with pride and hostility toward Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• The consequences of tampering with time: Meng Chuan’s earlier interference continues to provoke a powerful response from the world.
• Unequal knowledge and power: Ordinary observers, cultivators, and supreme experts perceive the same events very differently.
• Ambition and pride: The blond man sees a glimpse of an unknown future and immediately frames it as a contest he must win.
• Comic contrast: Xiao Yan’s ordinary worries and Yao Chen’s eccentric livestreaming sit alongside world-shaking supernatural events.

Key plot points and events

• The blond War Emperor witnesses a vision in the River of Time of the Flame Emperor breaking his ultimate technique with a single flame. Refusing to believe it, he resolves to find and challenge him. He also senses an unexplained connection to the Flame Emperor and discovers that he is on a lower plane.
• On the Dou Qi Continent, Meng Chuan survives the River of Time’s backlash: lightning, yin fire, corrosive winds, and the crushing force of the Great Thousand World. He eventually bears the backlash on his back and supports the entire Great Thousand World with one hand, taunting the heavens.
• Meng Chuan reflects on the difference between the Great Thousand World and the larger “Universe,” and loosely compares the setting’s cultivation levels with those of Shrouding the Heavens.
• Yao Chen, now a powerful Six-Star Dou Sheng and livestreaming Meng Chuan’s feat, jokes that Meng Chuan sounds like An Lan. He recites a grandiose boast and flees before Meng Chuan can retaliate. Meng Chuan realizes the scene has been broadcast and sends Yao Chen flying through a spatial passage.
• Meng Chuan notices that enduring the backlash has benefited the celestial phenomena within his body, then catches himself before making another boast and disappears.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates overwhelming strength and composure, while remaining self-aware and easily embarrassed by comparisons to theatrical boasts.
• Yao Chen has risen from a captured, dying soul to a major powerhouse and now enjoys teasing Meng Chuan, especially through his livestream.
• The blond War Emperor becomes fixated on finding the Flame Emperor, driven by wounded pride, curiosity, and admiration for the women he senses around him.

Significant themes

• Power and defiance: Meng Chuan withstands forces that threaten an entire world and challenges the heavens directly.
• Fate and connection: The River of Time reveals futures and links between figures, unsettling even powerful beings.
• Comedy amid epic spectacle: Cosmic-scale feats are undercut by livestream commentary, teasing, and Meng Chuan’s embarrassment.
• Worlds within worlds: The chapter emphasizes the vast hierarchy between lower planes, the Great Thousand World, and the Universe.

Character interactions

• The War Emperor mentally fixates on the Flame Emperor, viewing him as a rival and coveting the beauties around him.
• Yao Chen watches and streams Meng Chuan’s ordeal, then provokes him with an An Lan imitation.
• Meng Chuan greets Yao Chen warmly, but reacts with irritation when he realizes Yao Chen has been broadcasting the joke.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan visits Xiao Yan and Yao Chen before the Pill Assembly. He praises Xiao Yan’s remarkable progress—already a Dou Ling and fourth-tier Alchemist—and reveals that he, like Xiao Yan, is a transmigrator from Earth, though from a different version of it.
• Meng Chuan and Yao Chen joke about the “Sunflower Manual,” with Yao Chen threatening Xiao Yan whether he wins or loses. Ling Ying, secretly guarding Xiao Yan, is stunned by Meng Chuan’s strength and realizes the stranger knows he is there.
• Meng Chuan explains that he has sent countless strands of Divine Sense across the Great Thousand World to establish future “Other Selves.” He and Yao Chen trade jokes, while Xiao Yan’s tea-serving task leads to a humorous exchange that helps him feel kinship with Meng Chuan.
• At the Pill Assembly, an opposing Alchemist Association vice president is exposed as a disguised infiltrator but is allowed to compete. Meng Chuan privately questions the Jia Ma Empire leaders’ reasoning, especially given the opponent’s threat to their reputation.
• While Xiao Yan competes, Meng Chuan observes Lin Dong in the Martial Universe world, where he is preparing for a parallel three-year challenge. Meng Chuan gives him a newly invented technique, the Martial Ancestor Seal, and predicts Lin Dong will become the Martial Ancestor. The mark immediately helps Lin Dong break through to the Creation Realm.
• Lin Dong’s Heavenly Demon Marten is shaken by Meng Chuan’s overwhelming presence, but recognizes that Lin Dong has received an extraordinary opportunity.
• Xiao Yan finishes the Pill Assembly and prepares to leave for the Mist Cloud Sect, setting out toward his own Three-Year Agreement.

Character developments

• Xiao Yan is shown as exceptionally powerful for his age, though he remains playful and easily drawn into banter. Discovering Meng Chuan is a fellow transmigrator gives him a sense of connection.
• Yao Chen remains a protective, teasing mentor, but his familiar relationship with Meng Chuan also reveals a more companionable side.
• Meng Chuan continues expanding his influence across worlds, casually shaping future events while disguising his immense power behind jokes and theatrical behavior.
• Lin Dong is cautious around Meng Chuan but ultimately accepts the unexpected gift. His breakthrough and the knowledge in the seal give him a major advantage before his challenge.
• Ling Ying becomes more wary of the powerful figures surrounding Xiao Yan and recognizes that Xiao Yan’s circumstances are far beyond what he had assumed.

Significant themes

• Destiny and intervention: Meng Chuan actively nudges future heroes toward their legendary roles, notably by setting Lin Dong on the path to becoming the Martial Ancestor.
• Parallel lives: Xiao Yan and Lin Dong face strikingly similar three-year challenges, suggesting echoes between their journeys across worlds.
• Power and humility: Meng Chuan’s strength is immense, but he expresses it through casual jokes and absurd claims; those around him struggle to grasp the gap between them.
• Mentorship and opportunity: Both Yao Chen’s support of Xiao Yan and Meng Chuan’s gift to Lin Dong show how powerful mentors can redirect a young hero’s future.
• Comedy amid epic stakes: Tea etiquette, old memes, and the Sunflower Manual undercut the chapter’s grand world-building and power displays.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Yao Chen trade teasing remarks, with Yao Chen enduring Meng Chuan’s theatrical complaints about tea.
• Xiao Yan’s banter with Meng Chuan—especially their shared cultural references—turns a meeting with a formidable stranger into a friendly one.
• Ling Ying watches the exchange from hiding, silently reassessing Xiao Yan’s connections and Meng Chuan’s power.
• Meng Chuan’s encounter with Lin Dong is a mix of solemn prophecy and comedy: Lin Dong doubts the “gift,” accepts the seal, and later argues with the Heavenly Demon Marten about his own importance and Ancestral Rune.