Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The Chat Group gains three features: Group Livestream, Group Gathering, and Group Task. Its members use the gathering feature to meet as projections for the first time, and complete the introductory task of showing newcomers their fates.
• Meng Chuan studies Lu Mingfei’s unusual blood, removes its harmful influences, unseals its dormant powers, restores the channel for his Word Spirits, and adds an energy source to help those abilities grow. He sends the altered blood back to Lu Mingfei.
• The members agree to pool their resources to help Meng Chuan, whose world faces serious challenges. Yao Chen gives Meng Chuan the “Burning Art.”
• After merging with the blood, Lu Mingfei reports that he has “turned gold.” His new dark-gold eyes give him an imposing, monarch-like presence.

Character developments and interactions

• The group’s first in-person-style meeting builds a stronger sense of fellowship. Bibi Dong amusingly pesters Daigu about how he became so large.
• Meng Chuan shows both scientific curiosity and generosity in improving Lu Mingfei’s blood. The members’ offer to support him moves him, strengthening his attachment to the group.
• Lu Mingfei goes from calling himself a “poor loser” to displaying a striking change in appearance. Fei Peng hopes he will now live up to his responsibilities.
• Yao Chen, after years confined to a ring, looks forward to being free again and shares his treasured technique with Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Community and mutual support: The Chat Group becomes a source of warmth because its members choose to help one another.
• Transformation and potential: Lu Mingfei’s altered blood unlocks powers that were suppressed, suggesting he can grow beyond his former limitations.
• Power put to constructive use: Meng Chuan applies his immense abilities not only to protect his world but also to help fellow members.

Key plot points and events

• After absorbing the Great Emperor Meng Chuan’s blood, Lu Mingfei discovers his irises have become gold. He can switch his Golden Eyes on and off simply by thinking.
• Wondering whether the change has awakened a Word Spirit, he suddenly learns he can use 101 Word Spirits, including all ordinary ones and the personal Spirits Don’t Die, Oracle, and Emperor.
• He cannot safely use Oracle or Emperor yet: both seem tied to power sealed deep in his bloodline, and his current hybrid-level strength limits him. Meng Chuan explains that he widened the connection between Lu Mingfei’s Word Spirits and the world’s energy; if Lu Mingfei regained his full power, using them would come naturally.
• Lu Mingfei realizes he should conceal most of his abilities, since no ordinary hybrid could plausibly use so many Word Spirits. Daigu Madoka offers to share advice on keeping his powers secret.
• His physical strength has also increased dramatically. Fei Peng recommends that he learn martial arts, but Lu Mingfei discovers he has no points to spend in the Group Store.

Character developments

• Lu Mingfei shifts from self-mocking loser to an exuberant, newly empowered figure. He delights in his Golden Eyes and enormous range of abilities, though he still jokes and boasts impulsively.
• Meng Chuan clarifies what he changed and reassures Lu Mingfei that he is no longer the same powerless person.
• Daigu Madoka positions herself as a practical guide to hiding unusual abilities.
• Zhang Sanfeng is exasperated by the group’s teasing and antics, while Meng Qi gleefully redirects blame toward Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• Transformation and empowerment: Lu Mingfei’s new bloodline, powers, and strength mark a major break from his former identity.
• Power versus concealment: His abilities are extraordinary, but using them openly could expose him as abnormal.
• Comedy and camaraderie: The group’s banter undercuts the dramatic power-up with jokes, mock threats, and friendly teasing.

Character interactions

• Lu Mingfei shares his transformation with the group and asks Meng Chuan for an explanation. The others advise him to limit what he displays, suggest training, and tease him about his newfound strength.
• When Lu Mingfei jokes that he could knock Meng Chuan flying, he quickly retracts the message—only to replace it with a jab at Meng Qi. Both notice, prompting further group banter.
• Daigu calls Lu Mingfei the group’s poorest member after he admits he cannot afford anything in the store, drawing Zhang Sanfeng into another round of complaints about the group.

Key events

• While studying the Burning Art, Meng Chuan draws on its ability to evolve by consuming flames and incorporates its principles into his Dao Beginning Scripture. The insight brings him close to completing a supreme art that may lead him to his next lifetime.
• After a century of cultivation, a Chat Group alert reports a time-space anomaly in his world. Meng Chuan traces it to the Cosmic Frontier, where time and space are tangled and an unknown substance is spreading.
• Inside the anomaly, he finds a Saint Spirit being born within a stone. The distortion is accelerating its growth hundreds or thousands of times beyond normal.
• A second alert issues a mission: destroy the Space-Time Passage. Meng Chuan confirms the passage is connected to the Chat Group, and waits for it to take shape.
• Quasi-Emperors gather to observe. Meng Chuan explains that the passage will connect two worlds, prompting speculation that it might lead to the Immortal Domain. He rejects that assumption.
• Cang Kong, a ninth-heaven Quasi-Emperor and Fire Saint Spirit, accuses Meng Chuan of hiding the passage’s true destination. Meng Chuan realizes the emerging Saint Spirit may be emboldening him.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains curious and composed, turning a foreign cultivation art into inspiration for his own advancement. Though wary of the anomaly, he trusts the Chat Group’s mission to indicate that he can handle the danger.
• The Ancient One suggests the anomaly may involve beings from another world and advises caution; Meng Chuan investigates and later confirms the Chat Group’s connection.
• Fei Peng and Bibi Dong report no similar alert in their worlds.
• The gathered Quasi-Emperors, including Ji Lianxing, Jiang Daoran, and Qingyue, defer to Meng Chuan but are excited by the prospect of another world. Their hopes briefly turn toward attaining immortality.
• Cang Kong openly challenges Meng Chuan, creating a tense confrontation just as the passage is nearing formation.

Significant themes

• Learning across systems: Meng Chuan adapts the Burning Art’s principles to his own cultivation rather than relying on its original context.
• The unknown and cosmic connection: The anomaly suggests a link between worlds, raising questions about what lies beyond the known universe.
• Power, authority, and ambition: The Quasi-Emperors respect Meng Chuan, yet the possibility of the Immortal Domain reveals their intense desire for immortality—and Cang Kong’s willingness to defy authority.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan confronts Cang Kong, a Saint Spirit who boasts that his race’s soon-to-emerge supreme being will prove their superiority. Meng Chuan kills him instantly despite Cang Kong’s borrowed Emperor Weapon, the Light Clan’s God-Refining Pot, and takes the weapon.
• A Great Accomplished Saint Spirit arrives and objects to Meng Chuan’s actions. Meng Chuan dismisses the protest, warns the newly emerged Stone Fetus Saint Spirit not to provoke him, and says he has killed many Saint Spirits on his path to becoming a Great Emperor.
• The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit attacks. Their battle races across the cosmos, destroying vast regions of space. Though the Saint Spirit’s body and weapons are formidable, Meng Chuan catches his near-Emperor-level sword barehanded and repeatedly overpowers him.
• The Saint Spirit unleashes his innate divine art by combining his primordial spirit and physical body. Meng Chuan counters with the Nine Secrets’ Dou technique. Their clash is so powerful that distant Quasi-Emperors watching suffer injuries from the backlash.
• During the fight, Meng Chuan quietly livestreams the spectacle to his Chat Group, whose members react with surprise and humor.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is shown as overwhelmingly powerful, fearless, and contemptuous of threats or status. He treats both Cang Kong and the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit as opponents beneath him, even while praising the latter to provoke or amuse the audience. His livestreaming adds a playful, irreverent side to his otherwise severe display.
• Cang Kong proves overconfident and reckless: he relies on his race’s future supreme being and a borrowed Emperor Weapon, but is killed before either can help him.
• The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit is proud of his innate strength and initially believes he can rival Meng Chuan. Despite his powerful techniques and resilience, he is repeatedly driven back.
• The Light Clan’s Quasi-Emperor is embarrassed and distressed that Cang Kong’s actions have brought the clan’s Emperor Weapon into the conflict, but promises the clan will explain the situation.
• The watching Quasi-Emperors are awed and confused by Meng Chuan fighting with one hand while still dominating an opponent he has called one of the greatest Saint Spirits in history. The Chat Group members provide amused commentary.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The chapter contrasts the Saint Spirits’ pride with the overwhelming authority of a living Great Emperor.
• Arrogance and consequences: Cang Kong’s confidence in his race’s status and borrowed weapon cannot protect him from provoking someone vastly stronger.
• Strength tested through combat: The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit’s celebrated body and innate art are impressive, but Meng Chuan’s mastery still surpasses them.
• Humor amid cosmic conflict: Meng Chuan’s exaggerated praise and casual livestreaming undercut the battle’s immense scale with comedy.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan utterly dominates the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit, barely moving and fighting with one hand. The Saint Spirit unleashes his forbidden art, “All Ages Turn to Nothing,” but Meng Chuan destroys it effortlessly, leaving the Saint Spirit weakened and his Immortal Sword cracked.
• Before Meng Chuan can finish him, a Space-Time Passage opens. Recognizing it as the anomaly he was tasked by the Chat Group to destroy, Meng Chuan turns his attention to it and warns nearby Quasi-Emperors to retreat.
• Longevity Substance drifts from the passage, leading the Quasi-Emperors to believe it is a Road to Immortality. One rushes inside, asks whether the beings there are immortals, then screams. Four gaunt men emerge.
• The newcomers introduce themselves as Kungu, An Xuan, Yu Qiong, and Wu Yu. Kungu explains that they are homeless travelers who suffered a disaster in the Boundary Sea and ask to rest in Meng Chuan’s universe.
• Meng Chuan welcomes them, then reveals his intent: he wants them to leave their lives behind.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains composed and overwhelmingly confident, treating the Saint Spirit’s strongest attack as unimpressive. He shifts from combat to investigate the passage, then uses the newcomers’ request for hospitality to set up a confrontation.
• The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit moves from fury and pride to disbelief and madness as his attacks fail. His defeat is interrupted by the passage opening.
• The Quasi-Emperors first admire Meng Chuan’s power, then become hopeful and competitive when they mistake the passage for a path to immortality. The first entrant’s scream frightens the rest into retreat.
• The four visitors appear frail and courteous, presenting themselves as displaced survivors. Their arrival changes the scene from a duel into a tense encounter with Meng Chuan.

Significant themes

• The gulf between power and reputation: The Saint Spirit’s supposed greatness cannot match Meng Chuan’s real strength.
• False hopes and danger: The promise of immortality draws the Quasi-Emperors into reckless action.
• Hospitality versus suspicion: Meng Chuan’s polite welcome sharply contrasts with his threat, leaving the newcomers’ intentions—and the outcome—uncertain.

Summary

Key plot points

• Kungu’s group offers to join Dao Shi (Meng Chuan) in searching for the Reception Hall, but Meng Chuan dismisses the proposal and challenges all four visitors to fight.
• Meng Chuan seals the Space-Time Passage, and the battle moves into the starry sky. Its immense force destroys stars and devastates entire regions.
• The universe recognizes the clash as an unprecedented emperor battle: one complete Great Emperor facing four Supremes from beyond the domain.
• The Life Forbidden Zone Supremes observe, suspect the newcomers may have come from the Immortal Domain, and largely choose not to interfere. Meanwhile, news spreads that Meng Chuan is defending the universe from invaders.
• Though outnumbered, Meng Chuan gains the advantage. His opponents are weakened by their long ordeal in the Boundary Sea, while he is at the peak of his power and strengthened by his connection to the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan reveals the formidable, combative side he had kept restrained since becoming emperor. Rather than negotiate, he acts decisively to protect his domain and fights all four enemies alone.
• Kungu first tries persuasion, then joins the attack when Meng Chuan refuses. He recognizes Meng Chuan’s exceptional strength and renews his offer mid-battle, but Meng Chuan answers with continued attacks.
• Yu Qiong, An Xuan, and Wu Yu begin the fight confident that four against one will ensure victory. Their confidence falters as they realize Meng Chuan is stronger than expected and they themselves are depleted.
• Jiang Daoran remembers Meng Chuan’s former brilliance and recognizes the return of his old edge. Qingyue watches anxiously, while the Quasi-Emperors react with fear and disbelief. The Life Forbidden Zone Supremes observe with wary self-interest rather than offering help.

Significant themes

• Power and conviction: Meng Chuan’s strength and unshakable confidence let him overcome overwhelming odds.
• Protection and sacrifice: He stands alone against outsiders portrayed as threats to the universe.
• Isolation of the emperor: The battle gives Meng Chuan a chance to act after a long period of loneliness and restraint.
• Self-interest versus solidarity: The Forbidden Zone Supremes consider profiting from Meng Chuan’s possible death, contrasting with his defense of others.
• Reputation transformed: The universe comes to see the battle as a heroic defense, while its scale turns myth into immediate reality.

Key plot points and events

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes recognize Meng Chuan’s extraordinary strength and fear that, as a human Great Emperor, he may eventually threaten them. They decide not to intervene while he fights the four visitors, hoping he will be badly weakened or killed.
• Meng Chuan battles the four Supremes from beyond the domain. Though wounded, he holds the advantage because his opponents are severely depleted from their journey through the Boundary Sea.
• Kungu asks to withdraw, but Meng Chuan refuses to let the invaders leave after their attack. Kungu responds by revealing an Immortal Cauldron, an artifact once infused with power beyond that of immortals.
• Meng Chuan uses his Great Dao Jade Disc to attack the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit, keeping him occupied even as the main battle continues. The cauldron then strikes Meng Chuan and sends him flying, alarming his allies.
• The four attackers combine the cauldron with a Peerless Grand Formation, trapping Meng Chuan and greatly amplifying their power. Both sides commit to a decisive fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains defiant despite his injuries and the odds. He rejects Kungu’s offer to leave and declares that battle against worthy opponents will help him advance.
• Kungu shifts from seeking an escape to choosing a desperate all-or-nothing attack, using the cauldron and formation.
• An Xuan and Yu Qiong recognize Meng Chuan as a near-unprecedented threat, but remain determined to kill him.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes act as wary observers, calculating that Meng Chuan’s possible defeat could benefit them.
• Meng Chuan and the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit clash through the Great Dao Jade Disc, which proves powerful enough to engage a Great Emperor-level opponent.

Significant themes

• Power and fear: Meng Chuan’s strength unsettles even ancient Supremes, who see his future potential as a threat.
• Defiance and resolve: Rather than yield to danger, Meng Chuan meets overwhelming odds with confidence and determination.
• The cost of survival: The invaders’ depleted condition and the cauldron’s exhausted power show that survival in the Boundary Sea comes at a steep price.
• Ambition through battle: Meng Chuan views combat with powerful equals as a path to further growth.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan asks the four Forbidden Zone Supremes about their origins, but Kungu cuts him off and the four launch a coordinated assault.
• Using the Immortal Cauldron as the centerpiece of a specially designed formation, the Supremes amplify their combined power and overwhelm Meng Chuan. He suffers severe wounds as their attacks and merged Daos ravage his body.
• Even after his Emperor body is blown apart, Meng Chuan reforms it. Kungu realizes Meng is using the invading Daos to seek insight, though An Xuan dismisses the attempt as impossible.
• Meng Chuan turns his spilled blood, his own techniques, and the Great Dao Jade Disc into components of a transformation. The disc escapes its struggle with the Stone Fetus Saint Spirit and aids him.
• Meng Chuan unveils Dao Fire Furnace, a supreme art derived from the Burning Art and incorporated into his Dao Beginning Scripture. It smelts the Supremes’ Daos and the Immortal Cauldron’s power, transforming his body, primordial spirit, and Great Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shifts from confident combatant to a badly wounded fighter under crushing pressure, but remains determined and uses the danger as an opportunity to advance his cultivation.
• The four Supremes act in unusually close coordination, combining their strength with the Immortal Cauldron. Kungu recognizes Meng’s strategy, while An Xuan responds with scorn and threats.
• The Great Dao Jade Disc proves to be a crucial ally: it frees itself from the Stone Fetus and returns to support Meng Chuan’s transformation.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: Meng Chuan turns a seemingly hopeless battle into a chance for insight.
• Integration and transformation: His Dao develops by taking in and refining other Daos rather than merely copying them.
• Ambition and transcendence: Dao Shi points toward the origin of all Daos; Meng Chuan’s ultimate aim is to absorb the myriad and give rise to them anew, attaining his Dao Fruit.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan’s unfinished supreme art, the Dao Fire Furnace, develops cracks as he faces four Supremes. Just before their attack lands, he vanishes—and time across the universe stops.
• The Chat Group reveals that Meng Chuan has completed his task by extracting the Space-Time Origin, which lets him visit one group member’s world for a year. Because time there passes as an instant in his own world, the battle is effectively paused while he is away.
• Meng Chuan arrives in Yao Chen’s world and discovers Yao Chen watching Ultraman Tiga. The group’s livestream exposes him, prompting a wave of teasing and leaving him mortified.
• Asked about his furnace form, Meng Chuan explains that he is refining himself with an art inspired by Yao Chen’s Burning Art: he turns his Dao into fire and uses the myriad things and Daos of the worlds as fuel.
• Meng Chuan admits the art is incomplete, but declares that he intends not merely to defeat the four Supremes—he will advance further.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan gains a new opportunity and clearer ambition: rather than relying on his flawed art to reverse the fight, he plans to use his time in Yao Chen’s world to progress beyond his current limits.
• Yao Chen shifts from embarrassment and despair over being caught watching television to redirecting the conversation toward Meng Chuan’s sudden arrival and unusual cultivation method.
• The other group members remain lively and teasing, while also showing concern about Meng Chuan’s unresolved battle. Fei Peng, in particular, reflects on the possibility of visiting Meng Chuan for guidance.

Significant themes

• Growth through adaptation: Meng Chuan’s art is powerful but unfinished; the chapter frames his setback as a reason to seek further advancement.
• Cross-world connection: The Chat Group’s task system links separate worlds and creates an opportunity for learning without disrupting events in Meng Chuan’s home world.
• Comic contrast and vulnerability: A cosmic crisis is juxtaposed with Yao Chen’s ordinary, deeply embarrassing pastime, making even powerful figures the subject of friendly ridicule.

Character interactions

• The four Supremes threaten and attempt to recruit Meng Chuan, but he does not answer before being transported away.
• Meng Chuan gently teases Yao Chen about Tiga, then tries—awkwardly—to console him; the group chat’s jokes only worsen Yao Chen’s embarrassment.
• Once Yao Chen changes the subject, he asks about the battle and Meng Chuan’s furnace form. Meng Chuan explains his art to Yao Chen and the group, prompting concern and speculation about how his visit might help him improve.

• Key events: Meng Chuan recovers inside the furnace and reconnects with the Chat Group, which has become a friendly refuge for its members. Yao Chen reports that Nalan Yanran is about to visit the Xiao family to break off her engagement with Xiao Yan. The group watches the encounter through Meng Chuan’s livestream, including the famous three-year agreement and Xiao Yan’s defiant parting line: “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west—never look down on a young man because he’s poor!”
• Character developments: Yao Chen has regained much of his soul power thanks to the Chat Group’s resources. He intends to let Xiao Yan face the trials that will motivate him, while planning to guide him toward the pinnacle himself. Meng Chuan, usually under pressure after his recent battle, relaxes enough to play narrator for the livestream—only for Yao Chen to secretly record and expose him.
• Character interactions: Meng Chuan and Meng Qi trade teasing insults, while Lu Mingfei enthusiastically joins in. The group jokes about Yao Chen being old, prompting his mock complaint about discrimination against veteran cultivators. Members also comment on Xiao Yan’s anger and the risks of provoking the Mist Cloud Sect; Meng Chuan tells them to stop interrupting his “show.”
• Themes: The Chat Group is portrayed as a haven built on friendship, shared concern, and mutual support. The chapter also emphasizes perseverance through hardship: Yao Chen sees Xiao Yan’s humiliation as a necessary spur, and Xiao Yan turns the broken engagement into a public vow to prove himself.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yan formally ends his engagement to Nalan Yanran and bows to his father. Though he has behaved foolishly, Yao Chen recognizes his loyalty and chooses to become his teacher, as in the original course of events.
• Meng Chuan asks whether Yao Chen wants to abandon Dou Qi when rebuilding his body. Yao Chen chooses to remain on his own cultivation path, hoping to take it all the way to becoming a “Great Thousand Dao Ancestor.” Meng Chuan approves of preserving different cultivation systems.
• Meng Chuan explains that he came to study the world’s Heavenly Flames and observe how the Burning Art evolves. Yao Chen offers his Bone-Chilling Flame; they will have to wait for Xiao Yan to reach Dou Zhe before observing the art’s development.
• Yao Chen suddenly leaves to deal with Xiao Yan, who has fallen off a cliff. He rescues the boy and, when Xiao Yan mistakes him for a ghost, identifies himself as a soul.
• Xiao Yan assumes Yao Chen intends to drain his vital essence and tries to flee. Yao Chen pulls him back, and the two argue and trade blows before Xiao Yan realizes the “old ghost” used the same profanity he did.

Character development

• Yao Chen shows affection and a growing sense of connection to Xiao Yan, deciding to teach him despite knowing how their relationship may unfold. He also confidently embraces Dou Qi rather than switching to a stronger system.
• Xiao Yan is shaken by his broken engagement but remains impulsive, comically mistaking a harmless fall and Yao Chen’s appearance for threats. His quick, irreverent responses hint at the familiarity he may develop with his future master.
• Meng Chuan acts as a supportive observer and encourages variety among the group’s cultivation paths instead of insisting that everyone adopt the strongest known method.

Significant themes

• Respect for different paths: A powerful cultivation system does not make every other path worthless; individual traditions may still have room to grow.
• Fate and chosen bonds: Yao Chen knows their future history yet chooses to follow it because he feels an affinity with Xiao Yan.
• Comedy amid serious events: The dramatic breakup and the prospect of rebuilding Yao Chen’s body are undercut by slapstick and misunderstandings.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Yao Chen discuss cultivation, Yao Chen’s future body, and the Bone-Chilling Flame; Meng Chuan welcomes Yao Chen’s ambition.
• The group chat jokes about Yao Chen’s choice and Xiao Yan’s cliff fall.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan’s first encounter is an escalating comic misunderstanding: fear, attempted escape, a reprimand, and a sudden moment of recognition over their shared manner of speaking.

Key events

• After falling from a cliff, Xiao Yan learns that the mysterious figure in his ring is Yao Chen, a surviving soul—not a ghost—and that Yao Chen saved him.
• Yao Chen admits he drained Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi for three years, causing his cultivation to stagnate. Xiao Yan erupts in anger, blaming Yao Chen for his humiliation and strained family reputation.
• Xiao Yan eventually calms down and refuses compensation at first, but Yao Chen points out the danger ahead: Xiao Yan must reach the seventh stage of Dou Zhi Qi by his Coming-of-Age Ceremony next year or face being sent away, and he still has his three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran to consider.
• Yao Chen offers to help Xiao Yan grow stronger. Xiao Yan agrees to forgive the past if Yao Chen can help him reach the seventh stage; Yao Chen promises to take him at least to Dou Zhe and claims to have “Three Paths to Heaven.”
• Meanwhile, Meng Chuan secretly studies the Ancient Spirit Cold Flame and briefly takes a trace of Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi. He warns the group that Yao Chen may be up to something.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yan shifts from confusion and anger to cautious hope. Learning that his talent was not the cause of his stalled cultivation restores some confidence, but he remains wary of Yao Chen and insists on keeping his mother’s ring.
• Yao Chen acknowledges his wrongdoing and promises to stop draining Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi. He tries to make amends by offering training, though his ominous enthusiasm leaves Xiao Yan—and Meng Chuan—suspicious.
• Meng Chuan remains a hidden observer, studying the flame and lightly interfering without revealing himself to Xiao Yan or Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen begin a wary partnership: Xiao Yan needs help, while Yao Chen seeks to repay him and regain his trust.

Significant themes

• Harm, responsibility, and forgiveness: Yao Chen’s rescue does not erase the damage he caused, and Xiao Yan’s forgiveness is conditional on meaningful help.
• Hidden potential and second chances: Xiao Yan’s apparent lack of talent is revealed to be the result of Yao Chen’s actions, reopening the possibility of advancement.
• Trust mixed with suspicion: Xiao Yan is tempted by Yao Chen’s promise but remains doubtful of his claims, while Meng Chuan’s warning adds a comic note of foreboding.

Plot points and events

• Yao Chen offers Xiao Yan three techniques: the Golden Bell Shield, an immortal cultivation scripture, and the low-grade Dou Qi technique Burning Art. Xiao Yan tries to choose the immortal scripture, but Yao Chen tricks him into taking the Burning Art instead.
• Xiao Yan protests that he would rather cultivate immortality. Yao Chen explains that the other techniques are real, but he wants Xiao Yan to focus on Dou Qi—and argues that the Burning Art can evolve without limit.
• Yao Chen offers to explain the technique’s evolution and teach Xiao Yan immortal arts and alchemy if Xiao Yan becomes his disciple. Xiao Yan immediately performs an improvised bowing ceremony and accepts.
• Yao Chen says those lessons are irrelevant while Xiao Yan is only at the third stage of Dou Zhi Qi.
• Asked where the techniques came from, Yao Chen claims his “friends” gave them to him, then reveals that he knows Xiao Yan is a transmigrator—and teases him about his past.
• In the group chat, Meng Chuan mocks the members’ influence on one another, mutes Meng Qi and Lu Mingfei, and refuses to let Meng Qi undo the mute. The chat’s banter continues alongside the events in Xiao Yan’s world.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yan is stubborn about pursuing immortality, but his priorities quickly shift when Yao Chen promises useful training and alchemy. He is opportunistic, accepting the apprenticeship while trying to avoid a formal kowtow.
• Yao Chen enjoys teasing and manipulating Xiao Yan, but also takes on a mentor’s role. He steers Xiao Yan toward Dou Qi and uses future rewards to secure his discipleship.
• Their relationship begins differently from the original story: it is marked by playful deception, negotiation, and mutual exasperation.
• The group-chat members tease one another, while Meng Chuan’s higher-level permissions turn the banter into a comic display of authority.

Significant themes

• Persistence versus pragmatism: Xiao Yan insists on immortality, yet readily chooses the path that offers concrete advantages.
• Mentorship and motivation: Yao Chen guides Xiao Yan through teasing and incentives rather than straightforward instruction.
• Cross-world connections and altered destinies: The shared techniques and group chat reveal a wider network of worlds, while Yao Chen’s narration notes that this unconventional meeting may change the story’s future.
• Comedy and parody: The chapter repeatedly undercuts epic cultivation ideals with jokes about technique names, status, and Xiao Yan’s improvised disciple ceremony.

Plot and events

• Meng Chuan asks Yao Chen to teach him alchemy. He wants to study the Battle Through the Heavens world’s craft to deepen his understanding of its Heavenly Dao and broaden his Dao Shi Dao—not because he needs alchemy for his current power.
• They joke about future achievements, including refining a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill. Meng Chuan explains that the version from his world is made through immense power and the laws of heaven and earth, rather than ordinary alchemical technique.
• Meng Chuan asks how Yao Chen will train Xiao Yan to become a Dou Zhe within a year. Yao Chen promises to reveal his methods in time.
• As payment for the lessons, Meng Chuan gives Yao Chen a Dou Di skeleton he found while searching the continent. Yao Chen eagerly accepts, since it will help him make a new body. Meng Chuan also promises to provide the other materials Yao Chen needs: a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill and Magical Beast bloodline essence.
• Yao Chen posts a picture of the skeleton in the group chat, prompting teasing remarks. Meng Qi tries to flatter Meng Chuan after being threatened with a joking offer of the “full treatment.”
• The alchemy lesson begins. Yao Chen explains the need for fire-and-wood Dou Qi, strong soul perception, and a powerful flame. Meng Chuan effortlessly demonstrates abilities that far exceed those requirements, leaving Yao Chen speechless.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan is curious and ambitious, treating alchemy as a way to study another world’s Dao. He also shows generosity by rewarding Yao Chen and offering to help restore his body. His overwhelming power repeatedly becomes the joke.
• Yao Chen is enthusiastic about teaching alchemy and delighted by the Dou Di skeleton, which gives him hope of rebuilding his body. His joking, shameless acceptance of the gift contrasts with his sincere gratitude.
• Their relationship is warm and playful: Yao Chen jokes with Meng Chuan, while Meng Chuan teases him about accepting gifts and accidentally wishing him only “ten thousand years” of life.
• The group chat adds comic banter, especially Meng Qi’s mock resentment and sudden flattery.

Significant themes

• Learning across worlds: Meng Chuan values other worlds’ knowledge as a means of expanding his understanding of the Dao.
• Power and perspective: Skills that are difficult in Yao Chen’s world are trivial for Meng Chuan, creating both a contrast in scale and much of the humor.
• Friendship and generosity: Meng Chuan’s lessons are reciprocal, and his gift directly supports Yao Chen’s recovery.
• Humor through character: Their teasing, the group’s reactions, and Yao Chen’s stunned response to Meng Chuan’s displayed power keep the chapter lighthearted.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan spends six months studying alchemy with Yao Chen, while also exploring the Dou Qi Continent’s cultivation methods, Battle Skills, and Heavenly Dao.
• His progress is astonishing: he advances from first-tier pills to eighth-tier in four months, then refines a ninth-tier Treasure Pill by the six-month mark.
• Yao Chen, who once expected to become the group’s foremost alchemist, is comically dispirited by being surpassed. Meng Chuan cheers him up by giving him a large collection of ninth-tier pill formulas he gathered across the continent and its history.
• Meng Chuan concludes that studying alchemy and the world’s techniques has helped him understand its laws. He also compares the Dou Qi Continent with the Great Thousand World and other realms, studies the vanished Origin Emperor Qi, and discovers the sibling world of the future Martial Ancestor.
• The Devouring Ancestral Rune in that world gives Meng Chuan useful inspiration for perfecting his Dao Fire Furnace. He chooses continued cultivation over visiting the Great Thousand World in person.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates extraordinary talent and insight, but remains focused on perfecting his supreme technique rather than pursuing every new opportunity. He treats Yao Chen generously, even while inwardly mocking his dramatic complaints.
• Yao Chen shifts from proud teacher to astonished student and good-naturedly laments being overtaken. His enthusiasm returns as soon as Meng Chuan offers the pill formulas.
• Their mentor-student relationship is affectionate and humorous: Yao Chen teaches Meng Chuan wholeheartedly, while Meng Chuan rewards him with knowledge beyond what the continent possesses.
• In the chat group, Meng Chuan impulsively mutes the absent Meng Qi, prompting confused reactions from the others.

Significant themes

• Innate talent and accelerated growth: Meng Chuan’s gifts let him surpass even a legendary master at an incredible pace.
• Knowledge as a path to mastery: Alchemy, techniques, and comparisons between worlds all deepen his understanding of the Dao.
• Generosity and shared learning: Meng Chuan uses knowledge gathered through his power to support Yao Chen.
• Priorities and discipline: Though curious about the wider cosmos, Meng Chuan stays focused on perfecting the Dao Fire Furnace.

Key plot points and events

• During the Xiao Family coming-of-age ceremony, the Chat Group watches and jokes about the proceedings. Xun’er’s test draws attention, while Xiao Yan is called up and publicly registers as having reached the third stage of Dou Zhi Qi—a result that prompts a dramatic, familiar narration and amused reactions.
• The narration reveals that Xiao Yan has actually regained Dou Zhe cultivation faster than in the original story, thanks to his strengthened Golden Finger. His success leaves the onlookers impressed.
• That night, Yao Chen gives Xiao Yan the Burning Art and a new Heavenly Flame, the Mysterious Yellow Flame, provided by his friend Meng Chuan. Xiao Yan begins cultivating and absorbing it.
• Watching the Burning Art evolve gives Meng Chuan a breakthrough: he understands the Dao behind it and completes his own supreme art.
• Before departing, Meng Chuan draws Dou Di-level blood marrow from the river of time and combines it with an Emperor-grade pill and Dou Di Bone Remains to create a new body for Yao Chen. The act triggers enormous backlash across the world, so Meng Chuan quickly returns to his own world.
• Yao Chen tells Xiao Yan that Meng Chuan was also a transmigrator, explaining his unusual knowledge and departure.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yan is shown as talented and hardworking, despite the comic presentation of his test. He is eager to gain and evolve the Burning Art, and respectfully greets Meng Chuan as his teacher’s senior.
• Yao Chen is proud of Xiao Yan’s progress and grateful for Meng Chuan’s friendship and generosity. He gives Xiao Yan the tools to advance while reflecting warmly on Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan moves from playful observer to active benefactor. The Burning Art’s evolution deepens his understanding, and he repays Yao Chen’s friendship with a powerful new body before leaving.
• The Chat Group members tease the ceremony and Xiao Yan’s dramatic inner narration, adding a humorous, meta-commentary tone.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and friendship: Yao Chen’s guidance and Meng Chuan’s support help both Xiao Yan and Yao Chen advance.
• Talent, effort, and opportunity: Xiao Yan’s progress comes from both his own hard work and the advantages of his Golden Finger and teachers.
• Discovery through observation: Seeing the Burning Art evolve allows Meng Chuan to achieve a major spiritual breakthrough.
• Sacrifice and consequence: Meng Chuan’s gift to Yao Chen requires meddling with time and incurring immense backlash.
• Comedy and self-awareness: The chapter repeatedly pokes fun at familiar cultivation-story tropes, dramatic narration, and transmigrator assumptions.

Plot points and events

• The Four Supreme Beings attack Meng Chuan (Dao Shi) with a supreme array and the Immortal Cauldron. His Dao Fire Furnace absorbs their attacks and uses their Dao laws to strengthen his body, soul, and understanding of the Great Dao.
• Realizing that Meng Chuan is attempting a dangerous transformation that could bring him close to the Immortal Gate, the four intensify their assault. They repeatedly shatter his body, but his Dao Fire keeps reviving him, though each reconstruction becomes more difficult.
• The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit, previously pinned by Meng Chuan’s Emperor Weapon, suddenly withers as his body and soul are drained. He curses Meng Chuan before turning to ash.
• A white light emerges from the Saint Spirit’s remains, evades Kungu’s attempt to destroy it, and merges with Meng Chuan’s furnace. The nearly extinguished Dao Fire surges back to life.
• The Four Supreme Beings recognize that Meng Chuan had kept the Saint Spirit alive for this moment. Fearing his renewed strength, Kungu orders them to unleash the Immortal Cauldron’s ultimate power and prepare to flee if they still cannot kill him.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shows extraordinary resilience and daring: even under sustained attack, he continues refining his technique and turning his enemies’ power into fuel.
• Kungu shifts from assessing Meng Chuan’s talent to acting urgently, recognizing the danger of the furnace’s growth and the Saint Spirit’s contribution.
• An Xuan, Wu Yu, and Yu Qiong move from disbelief and confidence to alarm as Meng Chuan’s technique absorbs their attacks and his fire flares again.
• The Stone Fetus Saint Spirit dies cursing Meng Chuan, but his death serves the purpose Meng Chuan intended, restoring the furnace’s power.
• Qingyue watches the battle anxiously, fearing for Meng Chuan as the struggle repeatedly turns against him.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: Meng Chuan converts even devastating attacks into means of advancement.
• Sacrifice and strategy: The Saint Spirit’s death becomes a deliberate resource in Meng Chuan’s plan.
• Overconfidence versus adaptability: The Four Supreme Beings’ belief that victory is assured falters as Meng Chuan repeatedly survives and counters them.
• Ambition at the edge of possibility: Meng Chuan risks everything to complete a transformation that may let him approach immortality.

Key plot points and events

• The four weakened supreme beings combine their bodies, souls, and Daos into the Immortal Cauldron, briefly gaining enough power to shatter Meng Chuan’s Emperor Body.
• Meng Chuan reforms himself, and the four flee through the Space-Time Passage. They soon discover it is one-way, leaving them stranded in the universe they hoped to escape.
• An Xuan suggests taking Qingyue and the others hostage, but Meng Chuan appears and crushes him with a casual blow. He pins An Xuan in place and sends the Great Dao Jade Butterfly after Yu Qiong and Wu Yu, while pursuing Kungu himself.
• Though Kungu makes one last attack with the Immortal Cauldron, his injuries and depleted life force leave him no chance. Meng Chuan defeats him, collects a fragment of his soul, and then kills the remaining three. Dao Shi has slain all four supreme beings.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains calm and decisive. He sees no point in negotiating with enemies who tried to devour his universe and pursues them to ensure they cannot return.
• Kungu accepts that defeat is inevitable, yet dies admiring Meng Chuan’s strength and Dao Fire Furnace.
• An Xuan is reckless and overconfident: his hostage plan ignores how easily Meng Chuan can overpower the group. His companions silently resent him and flee without him.
• The onlookers, including Quasi-Emperors and Forbidden Zone Supremes, are stunned by the four’s failed escape and Meng Chuan’s overwhelming strength.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: The Immortal Cauldron’s supreme force damages its users’ origins, while the four’s depleted life essence makes their final resistance futile.
• The consequences of predation: Their attempt to restore themselves by consuming the universe leads to their deaths.
• Fate and irony: The four threaten to return, only to learn they cannot leave; An Xuan’s attempted leverage instead exposes his vulnerability.
• Respect amid conflict: Kungu recognizes Meng Chuan’s greatness even as they fight to the death.

Plot points

• At the Cosmic Frontier, Meng Chuan (Dao Shi) kills four Extraterrestrial Supremes, saving the universe and earning widespread recognition as a Heavenly Emperor.
• His strength terrifies the Supremes of the Life Forbidden Zones, who fear he may turn against them.
• Meng Chuan goes to the Big Dipper Ancient Star and declares that he will finish what humanity’s forebears began: ending the forbidden zones and their cycle of Dark Turmoil.
• He attacks the Divine Ruins, hurling it into space to protect Beidou’s inhabitants. Four Supremes emerge to fight him.
• When the other five forbidden zones prepare to intervene, Meng Chuan uses the Immortal Cauldron to threaten them. He offers to lift his Dao blockade and let them flee, forcing them to choose between abandoning the Divine Ruins or risking their lives through Ultimate Sublimation.
• The five zones retreat. Meng Chuan turns back to face the isolated four Supremes.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan’s victory confirms that he has reached the level of a legendary Heavenly Emperor. He abandons his gradual long-term plan after the extraterrestrial battle exposes his true power, choosing instead to strike directly.
• His commitment to humanity is unwavering: he condemns the Supremes for the suffering caused by Dark Turmoil and accepts that future generations may have to continue his work.
• Qingyue remembers Meng Chuan’s invitation to pursue the Immortal Path and wonders whether he can truly become immortal. Ji Lianxing reacts with her usual blunt disbelief at his strength.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes acknowledge Meng Chuan’s stature but remain self-preserving. Despite their threats and resentment, they refuse to sacrifice themselves to aid the Divine Ruins.
• Meng Chuan’s taunting, calculated offer exposes their selfishness and divides them from their allies.

Significant themes

• Duty across generations: Meng Chuan frames his campaign as the continuation of a struggle begun by humanity’s ancestors.
• Power and responsibility: He uses overwhelming strength to protect ordinary beings, even moving the battlefield away from Beidou.
• Self-interest versus solidarity: The forbidden zones’ Supremes abandon one another rather than risk their chances at immortality.
• Legacy and impermanence: Meng Chuan knows he will not live forever, but trusts that later generations can carry on the fight.

Key plot points

• Meng Chuan charges into the Divine Ruins and defeats its four Supreme rulers, despite their entering Ultimate Sublimation. He kills the Beast God, Spirit Emperor, Lord of the Divine Ruins, and the last Supreme, ending the forbidden zone and its threat of Dark Turmoil.
• He declares, “From this day on, the Divine Ruins are no more.” His victory is celebrated by people across the universe, who regard him as a Heavenly Emperor.
• Meng Chuan notices Five-Colored Immortal Light in the distance and realizes someone had been waiting to exploit the battle. The unknown observer disappears before he can act.
• After the fight, Meng Chuan jokes with Ji Lianxing, then invites her and the others to visit Beidou.
• In the group chat, his companions tease him about his new power and old quotations. Meng Chuan explains that his recent transformation may have revealed an unconventional route to immortality.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates a vast increase in power: ordinary Imperial Dao Supremes cannot harm him, and his combat ability now exceeds normal Heavenly Emperor levels. Despite his intimidating strength, he remains playful and self-deprecating around his friends.
• Ji Lianxing thanks Meng Chuan solemnly for destroying the Divine Ruins, showing how much the victory matters to her. Their familiar banter quickly returns when Meng Chuan pats her head, provoking her to attack him.
• Jiang Daoran is unsettled by his sudden impression that Ji Lianxing looks pretty, repeatedly insisting it must be an illusion.
• Qingyue emphasizes the scale of Meng Chuan’s achievement: eight Supremes and a Saint Spirit have been killed, in an era when even one Supreme could cause catastrophe.
• The group-chat members react with a mix of mockery, admiration, and curiosity. Zhang Sanfeng and The Ancient One help compare Meng Chuan’s path with established routes to immortality; Fei Peng asks whether his transformations extend his lifespan.

Significant themes

• Power and protection: Meng Chuan’s overwhelming strength ends a long-standing source of terror and safeguards the universe from another Dark Turmoil.
• Friendship beneath grandeur: Even after becoming a figure of cosmic significance, Meng Chuan keeps his informal, teasing relationships with Ji Lianxing and his chat companions.
• Alternative paths to immortality: Meng Chuan proposes that repeated transformations can lead to immortality without the orthodox Red Dust Immortal practice of living successive lives or researching a Longevity Method each time.
• Strength and longevity intertwined: His method reverses the usual sequence: rather than first finding a way to survive another life and then growing stronger, he uses the Dao Fire Furnace to build power and force a transformation. He calls the furnace his Longevity Method.