Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao reunited with Meng Chuan at Heavenly God Academy and recounted his adventures, while Meng Chuan promised to deal with those who had targeted him. Their reunion ended with Meng Chuan teasing Shi Hao about marriage and children, leaving Huo Ling'er suspicious and Shi Hao alarmed.

• Shi Hao brought Huo Ling'er to Meng Chuan's Cave Abode and excitedly reunited with Meng Chuan.
• Shi Hao bragged about his achievements and recounted his adventures across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Meng Chuan told Shi Hao that Yuan Qing had been imprisoned and Qingjing had cleared his name over the incident at Emperor Pass.
• Shi Hao boasted about taking many women, and Huo Ling'er twisted his ear until he insisted he was devoted.
• Meng Chuan suggested Shi Hao have a child and hinted he might want one with another woman, making Huo Ling'er glare at Shi Hao.

Shi Hao gave Huo Ling'er the Immortal Phoenix egg and explained its tragic origins, while Meng Chuan revealed more about his own awakening to Shi Hao. Meng Chuan reassured Shi Hao that Huo Ling'er and the Phoenix Maiden were separate people, though their bloodlines might explain Huo Ling'er's connection to the egg.

• Shi Hao confronted Meng Chuan about hiding his strength, and Meng Chuan said Willow God had stirred his early awakening and helped him recover parts of himself.
• Shi Hao accepted Meng Chuan's explanation, trusting him as the uncle who had watched him grow up.
• Shi Hao gave Huo Ling'er the Phoenix egg, explaining that the Phoenix Maiden had died at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest and that the egg had no soul left to hatch.
• Shi Hao told Meng Chuan that the egg seemed connected to Huo Ling'er, and Meng Chuan reassured him that they were distinct individuals.
• Meng Chuan explained that Huo Ling'er's Vermilion Bird bloodline might account for her affinity with the Immortal Phoenix egg.

Meng Chuan offered Huo Ling'er a choice between refining the Immortal Phoenix egg and keeping it in hopes of reviving the phoenix maiden. Huo Ling'er chose to protect the egg, and Meng Chuan promised Immortal King-level Immortal Phoenix True Blood to help it recover.

• Meng Chuan explained that Huo Ling'er could either absorb the egg's power or keep it and cultivate alongside it, possibly awakening the phoenix maiden's True Spirit.
• Huo Ling'er teased Shi Hao about his connection to the phoenix maiden, then chose to keep the egg and try to help her return.
• Meng Chuan explained that keeping the egg would gradually improve Huo Ling'er's aptitude and foundations, potentially yielding even greater benefits if the phoenix maiden's Nirvana succeeded.
• Meng Chuan offered to use his Immortal Phoenix friend's True Blood as a catalyst, and revealed that the friend was an Immortal King.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er reacted with surprise to the precious gift, while Shi Hao joked that Huo Ling'er was being treated better than Meng Chuan's own son.

Shi Hao tried to extort Meng Chuan by threatening to tell Willow God that he secretly loved her, but agreed to meet the teacher Meng Chuan had arranged. Meng Chuan introduced him to Meng Tianzheng, and Shi Hao accepted the Grand Elder as his teacher.

• Shi Hao demanded a gift from Meng Chuan and threatened to accuse him of secretly loving Willow God.
• Meng Chuan gave Shi Hao a thump on the head and said he had arranged a teacher to guide him in Body as a Seed.
• Meng Chuan revealed that the teacher was Meng Tianzheng, the Grand Elder of Heavenly God Academy and a True Immortal.
• Meng Chuan summoned Meng Tianzheng, who said he wanted Shi Hao as his disciple.
• Shi Hao bowed to Meng Tianzheng and called him Teacher.

Meng Tianzheng explained the two methods for advancing from Heavenly God to Void Dao, while Meng Chuan clarified that they were different ways to reach the same realm. Shi Hao decided to pursue both, then asked Meng Chuan for rare resources and learned he had none.

• Shi Hao accepted Meng Tianzheng as a teacher, and Meng Tianzheng asked how he planned to advance beyond the Heavenly God Realm.
• Meng Tianzheng described the Immortal Ancient Method of fusing with an Immortal Seed and the Current Era Method of refining treasures and Divine Beast Essence Blood.
• Meng Tianzheng explained that students usually continued their training at the Immortal Academy or Sacred Academy, but his rise to True Immortal had changed the Heavenly God Academy's standing.
• Meng Chuan explained that either method could lead to the Void Dao Realm without forcing Shi Hao to abandon his existing cultivation.
• Shi Hao decided to pursue both methods and asked Meng Chuan for a World Tree Sapling and Immortal Phoenix Essence Blood, but Meng Chuan said he had neither.

Shi Hao learned that Perfect Immortal Seeds and equivalent treasures were unavailable, so Meng Chuan and Meng Tianzheng urged him to pursue the dangerous Body as a Seed path. The chapter ended with Meng Chuan insisting Shi Hao could succeed, despite nobody ever having completed it and Meng Tianzheng nearly dying from the attempt.

• Meng Chuan told Huo Ling'er to keep Shi Hao in check as Meng Tianzheng explained that Perfect Immortal Seeds were scarce, guarded by powerful people, and tied to the Immortal Domain’s kings.
• Meng Tianzheng described the rare Divine Beast Essence Blood that could rival a Perfect Immortal Seed and said no such treasures were available in the present age.
• Meng Chuan proposed Body as a Seed as an alternative route to the Void Dao Realm, and Shi Hao recognized the idea from their earlier conversation.
• Meng Chuan praised Body as a Seed, while explaining that he himself had fused with the Heavens Dao Seed instead.
• Meng Tianzheng revealed that no one had succeeded at Body as a Seed, that most practitioners died or were crippled, and that he had nearly died before abandoning the path.
• Shi Hao doubted Meng Chuan’s assurances, but Meng Chuan insisted that the path suited him and that he could succeed.

Meng Chuan guided Shi Hao to choose the dangerous Body-as-Seed Method and sent him with Meng Tianzheng to learn its intricacies. He reassured Huo Ling'er that Shi Hao would succeed, then encouraged her to cultivate with the Immortal Phoenix Egg so she could keep pace with him.

• Meng Chuan offered Shi Hao a choice between the Body-as-Seed Method and fusing with an Immortal Seed, but Shi Hao chose the Body-as-Seed Method.
• Meng Chuan promised Huo Ling'er perfect Immortal Seeds and Immortal Beast True Blood when she reached the peak of the Heavenly God realm, prompting Shi Hao to accuse him of favoritism.
• Meng Tianzheng took Shi Hao away to teach him the Body-as-Seed Method using his own near-complete experience and guidance.
• Huo Ling'er worried that Shi Hao might fail, but Meng Chuan assured her he would succeed and said the method would lay the foundation for his future supremacy.
• Meng Chuan showed Huo Ling'er a miniature Immortal Phoenix and urged her to cultivate with its egg, and she resolved to work hard.

Meng Chuan expanded the Enchanted Cottage into the Nine Heavens, drawing powerful cultivators with its trials and treasures. The Cottage’s stele revealed that Desolate and Loves Beast Milk Most were the same person, making Shi Hao Number One Under Heaven in six realms and prompting challengers to test his recorded past selves.

• Meng Chuan gave Huo Ling'er pure Immortal Phoenix True Blood to nourish the phoenix egg, and she left feeling as if she were hatching it herself.
• Shi Hao trained under Meng Tianzheng and was repeatedly ambushed by Hongri and Hongyue, leading him to suspect that his teacher was revealing his whereabouts.
• Meng Chuan and Meng Tianzheng brought the Enchanted Cottage to the Nine Heavens, where its trials and newly offered Immortal Artifacts attracted cultivators including Wang Changsheng.
• The people of the Nine Heavens learned the Cottage had helped Desolate grow stronger and discovered that Desolate and Loves Beast Milk Most were the same person.
• Cultivators began challenging Shi Hao’s recorded past selves to claim the Number One Under Heaven titles, without requiring Shi Hao to fight each challenger in person.

Shi Hao’s past selves defeated every challenger in the Enchanted Cottage, cementing his fame as the foremost Heavenly Prodigy of the age. As Meng Chuan expanded the Cottage’s functions across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, rumors about Qing Yi’s Immortal Flame stirred powerful families—and Shi Hao grew angry at their attempts to claim her.

• Countless challengers fought Shi Hao’s past selves at matching cultivation realms, but every one of them lost.
• Shi Hao’s victories and achievements spread his fame throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, bringing him invisible Fortune and speeding his cultivation.
• Meng Chuan added a Time Chamber and other functions to the Enchanted Cottage, while Meng Tianzheng and the Lord of the Future guarded it from spies and hostile forces.
• The Enchanted Cottage gave people across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands new chances to improve as their own lives continued.
• Qing Yi’s Blue Moon Flame, connected to the True Immortal Qingyue, drew the attention of Longevity Aristocratic Families seeking to win her over through marriage.
• Shi Hao heard that families wanted Qing Yi as an ally and clenched his fists in anger.

Shi Hao protected Qing Yi from suitors and worried that the Blue Moon Flame might let Fairy Qingyue return through her. He brought Qing Yi to Meng Chuan, who promised she would not become Fairy Qingyue’s vessel, though her possible return remained uncertain.

• Shi Hao beat up Heavenly Prodigies who pursued Qing Yi, then asked whether she had feelings for him.
• Shi Hao asked Qing Yi about rumors linking the Blue Moon Flame to Fairy Qingyue’s legendary method of returning from death; Qing Yi said the flame had not harmed her, though it grew more wondrous.
• Shi Hao took Qing Yi to Meng Chuan and loudly asked him to save her from being used as a vessel for Fairy Qingyue.
• Meng Chuan said he had known about Qing Yi’s connection to the Blue Moon Flame since she arrived at the Heavenly God Academy and promised she would not become Fairy Qingyue’s vessel.

Shi Hao brought Qing Yi to meet Meng Chuan, who gave her a gift and encouraged her to use the Enchanted Cottage’s Trials through her family connections. After the couple left, Meng Chuan and the Forbidden Zone Lord discussed Fairy Qingyue’s possible return and the hope that she would not harm Qing Yi.

• Shi Hao asked Meng Chuan whether Fairy Qingyue could return to life, and Meng Chuan said the chance was slim but not impossible.
• Shi Hao introduced Qing Yi as his future Dao Companion, and Meng Chuan gave her a Brocade Pouch as a first-meeting gift.
• Shi Hao told Qing Yi that Meng Chuan was family and urged her to use the Enchanted Cottage for Trials at the highest difficulty because it belonged to their family.
• The Forbidden Zone Lord told Meng Chuan that the child was not Qingyue and that her return depended on a mass of Dao Fire.
• The Forbidden Zone Lord recalled that Qingyue was his most talented disciple, while Meng Chuan promised that she would return and would not harm Qing Yi.

Meng Chuan reopened the Number One Under Heaven selections for four cultivation realms, offering powerful rewards that drew eager challengers across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Shi Hao dreaded entering because he expected to win without receiving any reward.

• Meng Chuan noticed requests for selections in higher realms and decided to hold contests for the Divine Flame, True God, Sacrificial, and Heavenly God realms.
• Meng Chuan announced enhanced prizes, including Ten Fiend Treasure Techniques, Immortal Seeds, Dao Fire, and Heavenly Treasures, causing excitement across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Heavenly prodigies largely abandoned hopes of winning the Heavenly God Realm title because Shi Hao, Hongri, Hongyue, and the Forbidden Zone Lord stood in their way.
• The Taiyin Jade Rabbit and Cao Yusheng discussed the upcoming selections with Shi Hao and expected him to become Number One Under Heaven.
• Shi Hao said he did not want to compete because he was certain he would win but believed the Enchanted Cottage would withhold his reward.

The Lord of the Future began choosing Number One Under Heaven in the Divine Flame Realm after cultivators across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands gathered in the Enchanted Cottage and argued over their favorites. He selected Hao-zai, who returned to the martial world as Number One Under Heaven.

• Cultivators from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands gathered in the Enchanted Cottage to await the selection.
• Supporters argued over whether the Little Heavenly King, a Great Red Heaven prodigy, Daoist Taiyang, Desolate, or others would win.
• The Lord of the Future woke to the crowd's noise and decided to begin the selection.
• The Lord of the Future displayed a map of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and examined everyone with his power.
• The Lord of the Future chose Hao-zai, who rose into the Void as Number One Under Heaven.

Shi Hao was named Number One Under Heaven in the Divine Flame Realm, then defeated every challenger as protests arose over the absence of the Forbidden Zone Lord and his companions. After learning the three had left the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Shi Hao went on to claim the title in the True God, Sacrificial, and Heavenly God Realms, becoming Number One Under Heaven in ten realms overall.

• Shi Hao accepted the Divine Flame Realm title and defeated every challenger, while Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng chose not to fight him.
• Cultivators protested that the selection was unfair because Daoist Taiyang, Daoist Taiyin, and their companion were absent.
• The Lord of the Future and Meng Tianzheng explained that the three had left Heavenly God Academy and traveled beyond the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao remained undefeated as he claimed Number One Under Heaven in the True God Realm.
• Shi Hao claimed the title in the Sacrificial and Heavenly God Realms, bringing his total to ten realms including the six Mortal World realms.

Shi Hao became the Number One Under Heaven across ten realms and received the full set of rewards before three years of upheaval passed. Wang Changsheng then asked Meng Chuan to help him face the Unknown so he could attempt to become an immortal, giving Meng Chuan a chance to steer him away from darkness.

• Shi Hao was named the Number One Under Heaven across ten realms, gathered all ten forms of the Ten Fiend Treasure Technique, and received his rewards.
• Shi Hao returned to Heavenly God Academy as celebrations spread, and three years passed amid a surge in cultivation across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Wang Changsheng visited Meng Chuan with Meng Tianzheng and asked for a chance to become an immortal after earning enough merit by killing Foreign Realm Supremes.
• Meng Chuan explained that he could shield Wang Changsheng from the Unknown during his attempt, but could not directly make him immortal.
• Meng Chuan resolved to purify Wang Changsheng and turn him against the darkness in his blood before it awakened.

Heavenly Prodigies across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands emerged from seclusion with astonishing breakthroughs, while rumors and challenges centered on Shi Hao spread through the Enchanted Cottage. Meng Chuan watched the commotion, confirmed Shi Hao was thriving and Wang Changsheng’s purification was progressing, and left the story with both developments moving in a good direction.

• Heavenly Lord Purple Sun fused with the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi Seed, and a vision announced his breakthrough at the Immortal Academy.
• The Ten-Crown King, Heavenly Son, fused with a World Sapling and established himself in the Void Dao Realm at the Sacred Academy.
• Lan Xian joined Heavenly God Academy and entered Dao Union with the Firmament Seed, while the Little Saint and Jin Zhan also gained fame through the Current Era Method.
• Heavenly Prodigies and their supporters spread boasts, challenges, and rumors that Shi Hao had failed his breakthrough or died, and Meng Chuan watched without intervening.
• Meng Chuan checked on Shi Hao and found him in high spirits, then saw that Wang Changsheng’s purification was progressing well.

Wang Changsheng ascended to immortality as Meng Chuan secretly severed his connection to darkness, while Shi Hao returned to Heavenly God Academy as an Immortal Dao Cave Abode was about to open. Shi Hao confronted Heavenly Lord Purple Sun after he insulted the academy’s disciples, and the chapter ended with Shi Hao smiling at the challenge.

• Wang Changsheng completed his tribulation and became a True Immortal as Meng Chuan transformed his lingering pull toward darkness into hatred of the Dark Unknown.
• A sealed Cave Abode opened at Heavenly God Academy, and Shi Hao emerged from seclusion as news of his return spread throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Shi Hao learned that young Supremes from the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy had gathered to explore the Immortal Dao Cave Abode.
• Shi Hao ordered Qin Hao to invite Heavenly God Academy’s disciples to enter the Cave Abode, prompting Heavenly Lord Purple Sun to object.
• Heavenly Lord Purple Sun called the academy’s disciples stray Cat and dogs, and Shi Hao interpreted the insult as directed at himself and smiled.

Shi Hao emerged from seclusion, revealed that he had reached the Void Dao Realm two years earlier through Body as a Seed, and defeated Heavenly Lord Purple Sun with a slap. After Shi Hao fought the Forbidden Zone Lord and his two companions, news of his breakthroughs spread, and Qingjing claimed she could enter the Immortal Dao within ten thousand years.

• Shi Hao slapped Heavenly Lord Purple Sun, then revealed he had entered the Void Dao Realm two years earlier and followed the path of Body as a Seed.
• Shi Hao left the Heavenly Prodigies and encountered the Forbidden Zone Lord and his two companions, agreeing to fight them outside.
• Shi Hao returned alone with a bruised eye, and Huo Ling'er teased him about it.
• News of Shi Hao's breakthrough spread across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as Wang Changsheng and Meng Tianzheng praised his potential.
• Meng Chuan, Wang Changsheng, and Meng Tianzheng discussed the Cave Abode beneath Heavenly God Academy and arranged for it to appear.
• Qingjing told Kunpeng's Son that she had some confidence in becoming a True Immortal and could enter the Immortal Dao within ten thousand years.

Meng Chuan reassured Kunpeng's Son about his slower cultivation, then discussed the threat from the Foreign Realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands' need to grow stronger. The Immortal Dao Cave Abode opened beneath Heavenly God Academy, and the rising generation prepared to enter.

• Meng Chuan comforted Kunpeng's Son, then joked that he envied him for getting to cultivate slowly and savor each realm; Kunpeng's Son left to cultivate in secret.
• Meng Chuan asked the Heavenly Desolate Halberd about Saint King, who had repaired the Primordial Imperial City and strengthened its barrier against the Foreign Realm.
• Meng Chuan and the Heavenly Desolate Halberd discussed the approaching war and the need to strengthen the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands while the Heavenly Abyss still stood.
• Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng opened the Immortal Dao Cave Abode beneath Heavenly God Academy and invited prodigies from the three academies and elsewhere to enter.
• Heavenly Lord Purple Sun, still ashamed after healing his injuries, hid in the shadows and waited for a chance to slip into the Cave Abode.

Meng Chuan revealed that the Immortal Dao Cave Abode was connected to the Heavenly Horned Ant as fragments gathered to form his fifth Grotto-Heaven. Inside the Immortal City, the guards admitted heirs of the Ten Fiends and their companions, while Shi Hao and the others encountered the Young Heavenly Horned Ant.

• Meng Chuan told Meng Tianzheng and Wang Changsheng that the Cave Abode was connected to the Heavenly Horned Ant, as its fragments flowed into his Grotto-Heaven.
• The Immortal City guards selected the Qilin Cub, Ge Gu, and Yu Wudi by their bloodlines, then let their companions enter as well.
• The Heavenly Desolate Halberd lamented that the young Ten Fiends lacked time to mature before the coming conflict.
• Meng Chuan said the Cave Abode should contain the Heavenly Horned Ant’s child, and Shi Hao and the others found the finger-sized Young Heavenly Horned Ant inside the city.
• The guards said the greatest inheritance was reserved for those with the purest Immortal Ancient bloodlines, then agreed to give the present-day Heavenly Prodigies a chance.