Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan explained that Earth’s limited energy meant Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing would make only slow progress with their Breathing Methods until the Spiritual Energy Revival began in twenty-one years. He described the Awakening and Shackle realms, leaving Chu Zhiyuan convinced that Meng Chuan was a Shackle Realm expert.

• Chu Zhiyuan tried the Taiyin and Taiyang Breathing Method but felt only a faint cool breath and wondered if he was unsuited to it.
• Meng Chuan explained that Earth’s current conditions allowed only slow cultivation and that a worldwide Spiritual Energy Revival would begin in twenty-one years.
• Chu Zhiyuan declared that he and Wang Jing would cultivate in seclusion and asked Meng Chuan about the realms beyond Awakening.
• Meng Chuan described the nine stages of Awakening and explained that breaking shackles could unlock greater potential.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked how many shackles Meng Chuan had broken, and Meng Chuan said he was facing one he had not yet broken through.

Meng Chuan took Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing into the Taihang Mountains, where they found exotic fruit and pollen that helped the couple evolve. As they left, the White Snake, Beast King of the Taihang Mountains, sensed Meng Chuan’s overwhelming power and feared he was an ancient godlike Evolutionary.

• Meng Chuan led Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing through the Taihang Mountains, where Chu Zhiyuan found and collected three exotic fruits.
• Meng Chuan noticed low-grade Exotic Soil beneath the fruit tree and wondered about the high-grade Seed he knew he had once carried but could no longer find.
• Meng Chuan led the group to an exotic flower and used his power to make it bloom so Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing could absorb its pollen.
• Chu Zhiyuan reached the Third Awakening Segment and Wang Jing reached the Fourth Awakening Segment after absorbing the pollen.
• Meng Chuan found another exotic tree and left the mountains with Chu Zhiyuan, Wang Jing, and Chu Feng after collecting roughly half of the rare sources of evolution there.
• The White Snake watched Meng Chuan leave and suspected he was an ancient Evolutionary as powerful as a god or Buddha.

After Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing evolved, Meng Chuan gave them Dawn Rice and explained how it nourished their bodies. He then implanted tools in them to refine Mutant Fruit and pollen, leaving them ready to pursue evolution without harming their foundations.

• Chu Zhiyuan tested his new strength and grew hungry, so Meng Chuan conjured Dawn Rice for him and Wang Jing.
• Little Chu Feng played in the rice and smelled the cooked meal while Meng Chuan entertained him, then fell asleep.
• Meng Chuan told Chu Zhiyuan to wait several days before evolving again after absorbing pollen.
• Meng Chuan implanted a Chaos Grand Millstone in Chu Zhiyuan and a Heaven and Earth Myriad Transformations Divine Furnace in Wang Jing to remove harmful substances from Mutant Fruit and pollen.

Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing reached the ninth stage of Awakening with Meng Chuan’s help, then refused his offer of more resources. Meng Chuan explained the path through the Shackle Realm, while Chu Zhiyuan vowed to grow strong enough to help him rebuild his sect.

• After a month of practicing four Ultimate Breathing Methods and using Dawn Rice, Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing reached the ninth stage of Awakening.
• Chu Zhiyuan bragged about his strength, and Wang Jing teased him while Meng Chuan explained that Earth’s current conditions kept most people from advancing quickly.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing declined Meng Chuan’s offer of more supplementary resources, saying they did not want to become greedy or accept help they could not repay.
• Meng Chuan reflected that nurturing people and encountering familiar things helped clear the fog over his future, and he noted that he had been in Qingyang Town for one year and four months.
• When Chu Zhiyuan asked about Meng Chuan’s sect, Meng Chuan said he could not return because he was its only survivor; Chu Zhiyuan vowed to reach the Shackle Realm and help rebuild it.
• Meng Chuan described how to enter the Shackle Realm by tearing apart bodily shackles, and Chu Zhiyuan asked whether the realm beyond it meant becoming invincible beyond the Starry Sky.

Three-year-old Chu Feng insisted on going to school, so Meng Chuan arranged for a kindergarten to open in Qingyang Town. Chu Feng became a mischievous kindergarten bully, though his excellent schoolwork eased his parents’ worries.

• Chu Feng begged Meng Chuan to let him attend school, saying he wanted to learn and make friends beyond Qingyang Town.
• Meng Chuan decided to establish a kindergarten in Qingyang Town and sent Chu Zhiyuan and his wife to Shuntian to arrange it.
• Chu Zhiyuan and his wife secured teachers and a school, and Meng Chuan named the new kindergarten One Chu Kindergarten.
• On his first day, Chu Feng told the other children their parents had abandoned them to travel and find new siblings, making the whole kindergarten cry.
• Chu Zhiyuan and his wife took Chu Feng home and scolded him, but he remained mischievous while performing exceptionally well in class.

Chu Zhiyiyuan and Wang Jing asked Meng Chuan whether they could advance after tearing apart fifty shackles, and he confirmed they had reached the Shackle Realm’s limit. He explained that entering the Xiaoyao Realm required erasing ordinary Mutant Arts and Divine Abilities to begin anew, while leaving the future open for their own gifts.

• Chu Feng graduated from Kindergarten and entered Yichu Elementary School, where his mischief kept bringing Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing to meetings with the school.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing told Meng Chuan that they had torn apart fifty shackles and asked whether they could break through.
• Meng Chuan assessed their progress, said fifty shackles had brought them to the limit of the Universe, and told them they could advance to the Xiaoyao Realm.
• Meng Chuan explained that entering the Xiaoyao Realm required erasing most extraordinary arts and Divine Abilities, retaining pure energy, and painting a new scroll from a blank page.
• Meng Chuan said exceptional Divine Abilities such as Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze could be kept because they would benefit rather than hinder that new beginning.

Meng Chuan explained Ink-Wash Painting to Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing, who had become powerful Evolutionaries with several new Divine Abilities. He let them develop their own cultivation paths, and two years later Chu Feng graduated from kindergarten and became a primary-school powerhouse.

• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing awakened Divine Abilities, including Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze, the Great Five Elements Heaven-Refining Sacred Realm, and the Great Freedom Wisdom Pure Wheel.
• Meng Chuan explained that Ink-Wash Painting depended on an Evolutionary's choices, talent, and accumulated reserves, and that a painted scroll could develop as its creator advanced.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing went to study how to perform Ink-Wash Painting, while Meng Chuan chose not to interfere beyond providing resources and protecting them from Earth Will.
• Meng Chuan reflected that he seemed to be raising the Protagonist's parents instead of focusing on their son.
• Two years passed, and Chu Feng graduated from kindergarten and entered primary school as a powerful student.

Six years later, Chu Feng graduated from primary school and was sent to middle school in Shuntian while Meng Chuan prepared to travel across Earth. Meng Chuan warned Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing that Heaven and Earth would change in nine years, then went to Kunlun Mountain to explore Earth’s mysteries.

• Chu Feng celebrated being sent to middle school in Shuntian, while Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing explained that they planned to train and Meng Chuan planned to travel.
• Chu Feng asked Meng Chuan to take him along, but Meng Chuan told him to focus on his studies and promised he could travel after university.
• Chu Feng arrived in Shuntian, and Meng Chuan assured Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing that their Cultivation would continue and that he would sense them if they called his name.
• Meng Chuan told Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing that Earth would change dramatically in nine years and that alien races would descend upon it.
• Meng Chuan left to explore Earth in person and arrived at Kunlun Mountain.

Meng Chuan entered the Purgatory beneath Kunlun Mountain and uncovered the workings of its Path of Reincarnation. He found Meng Tianzheng dormant in a shrine beyond the abyss and learned that a privileged Soul Body could use a separate Reincarnation Cave to be reborn with an Immortal Body.

• Meng Chuan discovered that Kunlun Mountain hid an extraordinary Different Dimension and stepped into the Purgatory beneath it.
• Meng Chuan crossed the dark wasteland and examined a vast city where corpses were ground into energy and Soul Bodies set out along the Path of Reincarnation.
• Meng Chuan reached the Dark Abyss, crossed beyond it, and found Meng Tianzheng dormant as a Clay Idol in a shrine atop nine steps.
• A Soul Body protected by a golden talisman reached the shrine, and Meng Chuan sent the golden mist back toward Meng Tianzheng.
• The Soul Body entered a separate Reincarnation Cave and departed to be reborn with an Immortal Body, while Meng Chuan recognized how the two caves worked.

Meng Chuan studied the Path of Reincarnation, eased Meng Tianzheng’s injuries, and returned to Earth. At Mount Tai, a Mercedes-Benz stirred his spirituality and he entered the mountain’s deepest folded space, where he found an altar beneath aligned stars.

• Meng Chuan recognized that the Reincarnation Cave offered both a universal route and a powerful back-door route, and wondered whether the Path of Reincarnation could also serve as a coordinate for Shi Hao’s return.
• Meng Chuan used divine treasures and cosmic power to ease Meng Tianzheng’s injuries, but left him a clay statue who could not safely awaken.
• Meng Chuan returned to Kunlun Mountain, reflected on the traces of Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao, and flew to Mount Tai.
• At the foot of Mount Tai, Meng Chuan saw a Mercedes-Benz and recalled a legendary scene, stirring his spirituality.
• Meng Chuan entered Mount Tai’s deepest folded space and found a ritual altar beneath a line of powerful stars.

At Mount Tai, Meng Chuan examined the Top Hundred Stars and their universe-wide ritual offerings, learning how Heaven-Reflecting Ones used the ceremony to gather treasures and Fortune. He then discovered a stone stele recording that Earth had once ranked eleventh among the stars.

• The Heaven-Reflecting Ones projected the Top Hundred Stars above the Mount Tai altar as planets across the universe offered them treasures.
• Meng Chuan judged the Heaven-Reflecting Ones’ display unimpressive, and his gaze inadvertently made them feel a great terror.
• Meng Chuan withdrew his gaze before it harmed the Heaven-Reflecting Ones and turned to the altar’s offering table.
• Meng Chuan read the stone stele and learned that Earth had once ranked eleventh among the universe’s stars.

Meng Chuan explored Longhu Mountain and discovered the Demon Refining Grounds beneath it, where a woman’s lingering consciousness remained imprisoned in a gourd. After she awoke and challenged him, he examined her Bloodline and looked back into the Primordial Era, learning her past.

• Meng Chuan reflected on Earth’s fall from eleventh place in the cosmic Star Sea and left Mount Tai, resolving to rise from ruin.
• Meng Chuan wandered through several places before arriving at Longhu Mountain.
• Meng Chuan discovered a sealed Different Dimension beneath Longhu Mountain, once known as the Demon Refining Grounds.
• Meng Chuan entered the grounds and found a woman’s lingering consciousness chained inside a green-skinned gourd, while her corpse lay beneath the mountain.
• The woman awoke, asked who was there, and heard Meng Chuan call himself a traveler passing through.
• Meng Chuan examined the woman’s Bloodline and used his eyes to look back toward the Primordial Era.

Meng Chuan freed Yaoyao from her seal and offered to revive her, revealing that he knew her lineage and admired her extraordinary talent. Yaoyao agreed to leave with him.

• Meng Chuan freed Yaoyao from the gourd beneath Longhu Mountain and restored her strength with energy drawn from other dimensions.
• Meng Chuan told Yaoyao that she had once been first under the starry sky and recognized the trace of Ye Fan's bloodline in her.
• Meng Chuan invited Yaoyao to go with him and promised to bring her back to life, even though he lacked the rare medicines she named.
• After Meng Chuan assured her that reviving her would be easy, Yaoyao agreed to leave with him.

Meng Chuan and Yaoyao traveled across famous places, became famous through photos of their journey, and continued overseas. After finding the sealed immortal islands and learning how their inhabitants had betrayed Earth, Yaoyao accepted that her old world and the people she remembered were gone.

• Meng Chuan took Yaoyao on his planned journey across renowned mountains and scenic spots, where photographs of them spread around the world.
• Meng Chuan declined entertainment offers and dealt with wealthy men who tried to exploit their beauty, while Yaoyao enjoyed the amusing encounters.
• Meng Chuan and Yaoyao traveled out to sea and found the sealed islands of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou without entering them.
• Yaoyao condemned the island inhabitants for claiming to be Earth's rightful heirs despite betraying their own people and aiding outsiders.
• Yaoyao told Meng Chuan that the places and people she remembered belonged to a vanished past.

Meng Chuan brought Yaoyao to Qingyang Town and resurrected her, letting her choose to begin cultivation anew with a Supreme Foundation. Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing watched in disbelief as Yaoyao returned to life.

• Meng Chuan introduced Yaoyao to Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing as the descendant of an old friend and explained that she had lived on ancient Earth.
• Meng Chuan told Yaoyao he would resurrect her, and she chose to start her cultivation over rather than regain her former level.
• Monster brought out Yaoyao’s body, and Meng Chuan used the power of Fortune, the Heavenly Laws, and the Great Dao to restore her life and forge her a Supreme Foundation.
• Yaoyao opened her eyes in her living body, while Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing watched in astonishment.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked Meng Chuan how he had resurrected Yaoyao so easily, and Meng Chuan pointed out that Chu Zhiyuan had never resurrected anyone.

Yaoyao returned to life, and Meng Chuan prepared her and Chu Zhiyuan’s wife to cultivate through the strongest Pollen Evolution Path. He left Yaoyao with a trove of Ultimate Breathing Methods, while she struggled to comprehend the scale of his powers.

• Yaoyao thanked Meng Chuan for resurrecting her, and he explained that her cultivation had fused into a Golden Body foundation suited to evolving again.
• Meng Chuan offered to help Chu Zhiyuan and his wife start over on the Pollen Evolution Path, and Yaoyao urged them to seize the opportunity.
• Meng Chuan dissolved the couple’s cultivation, tempered their bodies to the Golden Body Realm, and placed them in an Alternate Space-Time with abundant Exotic Flowers.
• Meng Chuan gave Yaoyao many Ultimate Breathing Methods to choose from, leaving her astonished by how casually he handled time and legendary techniques.

Meng Chuan helped Yaoyao, Chu Zhiyuan, and Wang Jing reach the Golden Body Realm, then explained the Pollen Evolution Path and warned them that extraterrestrial factions would target Earth in nine years. He left Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing eager to defend Earth, while Yaoyao looked forward to meeting familiar faces again.

• Yaoyao, Chu Zhiyuan, and Wang Jing emerged from Meng Chuan's pocket of space-time after advancing to the Golden Body Realm.
• Meng Chuan explained the Pollen Evolution Path's realms, describing Visualization, Feasting on Radiance, Body-Shaping, and the challenges beyond Golden Body.
• Meng Chuan told Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing that extraterrestrial factions would emerge in nine years and called on them to defend Earth.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing vowed to advance further and repel invaders, while Yaoyao recognized how difficult the Lesser Saint Realm was.
• Meng Chuan told Yaoyao she might encounter familiar faces in nine years and offered to answer her questions about evolution.

Nine years later, Chu Feng left Qingyang Town for a solo trip to Kunlun Mountain after graduating and breaking up with his girlfriend. Meng Chuan foresaw that the journey would begin Chu Feng’s rise to surpass even Yaoyao, while Yaoyao wondered whether she should make the most of her remaining time bullying him.

• Chu Feng said goodbye to Meng Chuan, Chu Zhiyuan, Wang Jing, and Yaoyao before setting off for Kunlun Mountain.
• Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing discussed moving to Shuntian, while Meng Chuan watched Chu Feng depart and said fate had begun to turn.
• Meng Chuan predicted that Chu Feng would encounter an opportunity on his trip and eventually grow stronger than Yaoyao.
• Yaoyao doubted Meng Chuan’s prediction and considered bullying Chu Feng more while she still could.
• After Chu Zhiyuan and Wang Jing left, Yaoyao asked Meng Chuan whether his prediction was true, and he confirmed it while saying Chu Feng would need time to catch up with her.

While traveling through the desert, Chu Feng witnessed blue mist and a field of strange blue Flowers of the Other Shore before learning that similar phenomena had appeared near Kunlun Mountain. His family and Meng Chuan dismissed his warnings, while Yaoyao said she was running, leaving Chu Feng alone with the mystery.

• Chu Feng reflected on his stamina and the Breathing Method Chu Zhiyuan and his wife had taught him as he traveled across the desert.
• Blue mist spread across the desert, and blue Flowers of the Other Shore sprang up on both sides of the Yellow River's ancient course.
• Chu Feng avoided the flowers and continued onward; the blooms withered away and the mist disappeared.
• Chu Feng reached a settlement and learned blue mist had appeared there too, while near Kunlun Mountain it had formed a radiant mass like a blue sun.
• Chu Feng called Chu Zhiyuan and his wife, Meng Chuan, and Yaoyao to report what he had seen, but they brushed him off or ended their calls.

Chu Feng reached Kunlun Mountain and discovered ancient bronze relics and a strange tree growing atop a bronze mountain. He planned to take the tree back and impress his family, unaware that they were watching his journey and teasing him.

• Chu Feng left the tribe after giving them a thank-you gift and traveled west toward Kunlun Mountain.
• Chu Feng found a bronze stele engraved with the words "Western King" and discovered three bronze houses inside a collapsed mountain peak.
• Chu Feng uncovered a vast bronze mountain and climbed it toward a strange little tree bearing a silver-white flower bud.
• Chu Feng imagined bringing the tree back to impress his family and make them treat him as important.
• Chu Zhiyuan, Wang Jing, Monster Monster, and Meng Chuan watched Chu Feng's discoveries and reacted to his plans.