Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan tricked Lu Danyan into letting him enter the hall, stole the alchemy furnace, and fled after their treasures clashed. Lu Danyan tracked him briefly before joining the First God Cult Master and Wenren Shangzhi on their way to the Immortal Ascension Terrace.

• Zhang Yuan claimed to be a disciple of the Blood Miasma Celestial, and Lu Danyan offered him a gourd-shaped Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasure furnace.
• Zhang Yuan and Wangyou True Person entered the hall, escaping Spirit-True Mountain's suppression, and Zhang Yuan reached for the furnace.
• Lu Danyan's whisk clashed with Zhang Yuan's Nine-Turn Form-Destroying Whisk, and Lu Danyan recognized it as Lu Qingwu's Supreme Treasure.
• Zhang Yuan stored the furnace in his Dao Domain and fled using Golden Carriage Luan Chariot, while Wangyou True Person followed as black mist.
• Lu Danyan used Silver Thread Linking the Present to track Zhang Yuan, but the strand was severed before he left with the First God Cult Master and Wenren Shangzhi for the Immortal Ascension Terrace.

Zhang Yuan and Wangyou True Person fled to a jade tower on Spirit-True Mountain, where Zhang Yuan found a xin metal mystic pearl and discovered the statue concealed a primordial spirit. The spirit tried to possess them but was trapped by Zhang Yuan, Chi Guanguan, and Wangyou True Person.

• Wangyou True Person followed Zhang Yuan into a remote jade tower to escape Spirit-True Mountain's oppressive might.
• Zhang Yuan severed a concealed silver thread left by Lu Danyan, while Chi Guanguan confirmed that Wangyou True Person had no such divine ability on her.
• Zhang Yuan took a xin metal mystic pearl from the old man's statue and stored it in his dao domain.
• The statue grabbed Zhang Yuan's sleeve, so his Primordial Form-Converging Sword destroyed it and exposed a primordial spirit Daoist.
• Chi Guanguan's pressure and Wangyou True Person's aura stopped the primordial spirit from possessing either of them.
• Zhang Yuan, Chi Guanguan, and Wangyou True Person joined forces to trap the spirit, and Zhang Yuan identified it as Fellow Daoist Jade Spirit.

Zhang Yuan captured Jade Spirit, learned that the God-Calming Jade Seal had been taken to the Immortal Ascension Terrace, and plundered Spirit-True Mountain with Wangyou True Person. After Jade Spirit died, his primordial spirit appeared before a young cultivator and declared him his True Disciple.

• Zhang Yuan threatened Jade Spirit until he revealed that Wonderous Dharma Adept's disciples and grand-disciples had taken the God-Calming Jade Seal near the Immortal Ascension Terrace.
• Jade Spirit explained that Wonderous Dharma Adept had destroyed his grotto-heaven and described the Immortal Ascension Terrace's power to grant mystic wonders.
• Jade Spirit tried to break free and attack Zhang Yuan, but Chi Guanguan suppressed him and Zhang Yuan destroyed his primordial spirit.
• Zhang Yuan and Wangyou True Person agreed to a seventy-thirty split and plundered the remaining treasures on Spirit-True Mountain before escaping.
• A young World-Raising Realm cultivator entered the empty jade tower, where Jade Spirit appeared and entered his Sea of Consciousness, declaring him his True Disciple.

Xiao Yuanjun emerged after refining the Primordial Era solar true qi and claimed a nearby strand of gui water for Zhang Yuan. She left the gathered cultivators with a calm threat against anyone who challenged her.

• Deng Qiuzhi declared that the Wen River Deng Clan would take the solar true qi, but Cui Wenshan and Wenren Shangzhi insisted it should be won through a contest.
• Deng Fuchuan asked Cui Wenshan to yield the solar true qi for Deng Yici, but Cui refused, citing his own clan’s need for it.
• Lu Danyan and the First God Cult Master said they had no interest in the solar true qi, while the other cultivators prepared to fight over it.
• Xiao Yuanjun and Tan Chengcheng emerged after Xiao Yuanjun had refined the solar true qi, and Cui Wenshan recognized her as [Perfect Self] and withdrew his claim.
• Xiao Yuanjun claimed the nearby gui water for Zhang Yuan, threatened to kill anyone who fought her for it, and refined its blessed-land fragment into her sleeve.

Zhang Yuan and Wangyou True Person located the God-Calming Jade Seal in a nearby garden while the Celestial Person Perfection cultivators battled for the Immortal Ascension Terrace. At the garden, Deng Huachen ordered Qin Tianyi to prove his worth, just as Zhang Yuan and Wangyou approached.

• Xiao Yuanjun appeared at the eastern blessed land, and Deng Qiuzhi and Wenren Shangzhi searched for Zhang Yuan without finding him.
• The Immortal Ascension Terrace rose and suppressed the cultivators' realms, revealing Qin Tianyi, who had been hiding beneath it.
• Deng Fuchuan proposed that whichever clan's cultivator reached the terrace first would claim it, and the True Lords approved the contest.
• Zhang Yuan sensed Xiao Yuanjun nearby, calculated the God-Calming Jade Seal's location, and flew toward its garden with Wangyou True Person.
• Deng Huachen threatened Qin Tianyi, a Celestial Mid-Stage rogue cultivator, and demanded that he prove his worth by entering the garden.

Zhang Yuan and Zheng Shutong posed as Deputy Cult Masters of the First God Cult, forced Deng Huachen and the Wen River Deng Clan to scout a garden, and entered with them. As they went deeper, the group discovered that the garden was making them shrink, leaving them facing an unknown danger.

• Zhang Yuan, disguised in a First God Cult robe, ordered Zheng Shutong to slap Deng Huachen after the Wen River Deng Clan leader challenged them.
• Zhang Yuan claimed that he and Zheng Shutong were Deputy Cult Masters, then had Zheng strike Deng Huachen again when he called them Cult Masters.
• Zhang Yuan ordered Deng Huachen to scout the garden, and Deng led the Wen River Deng Clan disciples inside while Qin Tianyi and the two disguised cultivators followed.
• The garden’s plants appeared to grow enormous as the group advanced, and they realized that they themselves were shrinking.
• Deng Huachen tried a spell to restore his size, failed, and warned the Wen River Deng Clan disciples to stay alert.

Zhang Yuan discovered that a Primordial Era formation was shrinking the group and destroyed its chessboard formation eye instead of solving the endgame. The formation ended, and he realized the skeletal remains had been concealing something connected to the [God-Calming Jade Seal].

• Chi Guanguan identified the [Three-Turn Size-Adjusting Wishful Formation] and explained that someone was controlling it from the garden’s center.
• Zhang Yuan used the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner] and the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner] to destroy the garden’s vegetation, then led the others toward the pavilion.
• Zhang Yuan, Wangyou True Person, Deng Huachen, and Qin Tianyi found the [God-Calming Jade Seal] beside a cultivator’s skeletal remains and read the invitation to solve the chess endgame.
• Deng Huachen planned to solve the endgame first, but Zhang Yuan entered the pavilion and claimed he could solve it.
• Zhang Yuan burned the chessboard and stone table, blasted apart the skeletal remains, and dispelled the formation.
• Zhang Yuan noticed something as the [God-Calming Jade Seal] rolled across the ground and said, “Oh, so it was you.”

Zhang Yuan learned that the sentient [God-Calming Jade Seal] had revealed Wonderous Dharma Adept was hiding on the [Immortal Ascension Terrace], waiting to revive by devouring those who stepped onto it. When Deng Qiuzhi and the others mounted the terrace, it cracked open and an Immortal’s figure announced his revival from the Elder Era.

• Zhang Yuan captured the [God-Calming Jade Seal] and discovered that it was a sentient Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure.
• The [God-Calming Jade Seal] told Zhang Yuan that Wonderous Dharma Adept had not become a Great Luo but had become the Divine Master of the Qi Sea Uniting Spirit Dao.
• The [God-Calming Jade Seal] revealed that Wonderous Dharma Adept was hiding on the [Immortal Ascension Terrace] and planned to devour those who entered it to restore his strength.
• Deng Qiuzhi stepped onto the [Immortal Ascension Terrace], followed by Deng Fuchuan, Wenren Shangzhi, Lu Danyan, the First God Cult Master, and others.
• The [Immortal Ascension Terrace] cracked apart, and an illusory Immortal appeared and proclaimed his revival from the Elder Era.

Wonderous Dharma Adept awakened as a Divine Master and tried to seize the God-Calming Jade Seal and Wangyou True Person, but Zhang Yuan remained calm as help arrived from the Great Void. True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong appeared to confront the awakened Divine Master.

• Wonderous Dharma Adept manifested on the Immortal Ascension Terrace and demanded that the cultivators kneel, but Deng Qiuzhi, Wenren Shangzhi, Cui Wenshan, and the others refused.
• Wonderous Dharma Adept realized the grotto-heaven held many Celestial Person cultivators and decided to attack Zhang Yuan’s blessed-land fragment for the God-Calming Jade Seal and Wangyou True Person.
• Zhang Yuan erased the God-Calming Jade Seal’s artifact spirit and told Wangyou True Person that help was about to arrive.
• A fissure opened above the grotto-heaven, and True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns’s deep cyan hand crushed Wonderous Dharma Adept’s jade-green hand.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong emerged from the Great Void and prepared to kill Wonderous Dharma Adept.

Several powerful clans and True Lords encircled Wonderous Dharma Adept after he emerged, while Zhang Yuan recognized scales on Dragon Lord Vast Sun Against the Light as ones he had found earlier. Wonderous Dharma Adept was bound and then cut in half by the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess, leaving the others to follow her command and attack.

• Dragon Lord Vast Sun Against the Light emerged beside True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong, and Zhang Yuan recognized his missing scales as the ones he had found.
• Wonderous Dharma Adept tried to flee, but True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light bound his manifestation with a Cloud-Colored Iron Chain from afar.
• Wonderous Dharma Adept identified himself as a native of the Primordial Era, but Qionghuan Yuanzong urged Yuheng to attack while the gathered powers hesitated.
• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess struck Wonderous Dharma Adept with Sword Qi and sliced his manifestation in half.
• Qionghuan Yuanzong addressed the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess as Ancestor and promised to attack at once.

Wonderous Dharma Adept gathered power for a desperate fight against the Lords of Heaven and Earth while Zhang Yuan attacked the Wen River Deng Clan disciples in the Garden Blessed Land. After Deng Qiuzhi failed to save Deng Huachen, he confronted Zhang Yuan, and the story left their clash poised to begin.

• Wonderous Dharma Adept healed his severed Dharma manifestation and absorbed the vitality and primordial spirit power of cultivators in the two crumbling Grotto-Heavens.
• Zhang Yuan revealed himself to Deng Huachen and killed several Wen River Deng Clan disciples with his sword.
• Deng Huachen fled toward the Immortal Ascension Terrace, but Qin Tianyi struck him down and Zhang Yuan pursued him.
• Deng Qiuzhi rushed to rescue Deng Huachen, but Zhang Yuan slowed him with Spring Harmony Scenery and killed Deng Huachen.
• Deng Qiuzhi arrived before Zhang Yuan and saw that Deng Huachen had been erased.

Zhang Yuan faced Deng Qiuzhi and the other cultivators after his identity was exposed, while Wangyou True Person drew off the First God Cult Master. Zhang Yuan’s powerful sword strike wounded Deng Qiuzhi but could not overcome his regenerative body, until [Dusk Veil] transformed Zhang Yuan’s attack.

• Zhang Yuan revealed himself to Deng Qiuzhi, who used [Calamity Mountain Root] to disrupt Zhang Yuan’s conceptual image and collapse the pavilion around him.
• Zhang Yuan urged Wangyou True Person to leave, but she stayed to hold off the First God Cult Master.
• Deng Qiuzhi attacked Zhang Yuan while [Calamity Mountain Root] was active, but Zhang Yuan stabilized his conceptual image and unleashed a Three-Colored Qi Light sword strike.
• Deng Qiuzhi endured Zhang Yuan’s [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] and [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance], then regenerated his wounded fist with his Dao Domain’s vitality.
• As Wenren Shangzhi and the others approached, [Dusk Veil] weakened Zhang Yuan’s [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] but gave it the ability to cut through Deng Qiuzhi’s flesh and physique.

Zhang Yuan rejected Wenren Shangzhi’s offer to surrender Ao Xiu and fought back when the South Sea Dragon Clan attacked. After Lu Danyan left to delay Cui Wenshan, Zhang Yuan prepared to face Wenren Shangzhi and Deng Qiuzhi with a sword strike he had honed for years.

• Deng Fuchuan, Wenren Shangzhi, and Lu Danyan surrounded Zhang Yuan, and Wenren Shangzhi offered to forgive him if he handed over Ao Xiu.
• Wenren Shangzhi attacked Zhang Yuan with a dragon claw, but Zhang Yuan wounded him with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword].
• Lu Danyan recognized Zhang Yuan as the cultivator who had ambushed him at Spirit-True Mountain and left to intercept Cui Wenshan rather than fight.
• Zhang Yuan faced Wenren Shangzhi and Deng Qiuzhi, saying his sword strike would leave them gravely wounded.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed the Three-Colored Qi Light at Deng Qiuzhi and Wenren Shangzhi.

Zhang Yuan split the Grotto-Heaven, secured the God-Calming Jade Seal, and pressured the Great Heng Empress to help Xiao Yuanjun seize the Immortal Ascension Terrace. Ye Xiangning warned him that Xiao Yuanjun was about to enter the Seeking Truth realm.

• Zhang Yuan's Three-Colored Qi Light split the Grotto-Heaven and nearly struck Heaven-Reaching City, but the Great Heng Empress blocked it as the two halves began falling toward Great Heng.
• The Great Heng Empress saw powerful beings emerge from the Grotto-Heaven, while Wenren Shangzhi and Deng Qiuzhi fell grievously wounded and Zhang Yuan landed in the Imperial City with the God-Calming Jade Seal.
• Zhang Yuan refused to hand over the jade seal unless the Great Heng Empress helped Xiao Yuanjun seize the Immortal Ascension Terrace, and he threatened to sell it to Ye Xiangning.
• The Great Heng Empress agreed and rushed to help Xiao Yuanjun and Tan Chengcheng beneath the terrace.
• Ye Xiangning confronted Zhang Yuan, and he asked when she would support Tan Chengcheng's rise to Divine Master.
• Ye Xiangning said the Great Heng Founder could wait and warned Zhang Yuan that Xiao Yuanjun would soon be Seeking Truth.

Zhang Yuan wanted to help Xiao Yuanjun seek truth and attain the Dao, but Ye Xiangning and Chi Guanguan stopped him, warning that he could only make things worse. Xiao Yuanjun secured the great yin spirit qi from the [Immortal Ascension Terrace] and sent Tan Chengcheng away with the Great Heng Empress, leaving her next step ahead.

• Zhang Yuan sensed that Xiao Yuanjun had obtained solar true qi and was about to pursue Dao attainment, but Ye Xiangning held him back.
• Chi Guanguan told Zhang Yuan that Xiao Yuanjun had to seek truth alone and offered to help rescue her if she failed.
• Zhang Yuan asked about Xiao Yuanjun’s chances and whether he could snatch her away from the Lords of Heaven and Earth if she failed.
• Xiao Yuanjun used [Ninefold Harmonizing Qi] and [Myriad Forms Transformation] to extract the great yin spirit qi from the [Immortal Ascension Terrace].
• The Great Heng Empress arrived, and Xiao Yuanjun told Tan Chengcheng to leave with her and instructed the empress to give the [Immortal Ascension Terrace] to Zhang Yuan.

Xiao Yuanjun persuaded the Great Heng Empress to drag away the Immortal Ascension Terrace while she stayed behind, and Wonderous Dharma Adept fought the Lords of Heaven and Earth above. After they disabled his manifestation, the gathered powers prepared to let Second Deng deliver the finishing blow.

• Xiao Yuanjun told the Great Heng Empress that she and Tan Chengcheng would be safe if they dragged away the Immortal Ascension Terrace, and the Great Heng Empress began moving it.
• Wonderous Dharma Adept merged with his manifestation using the Self-Aspect Unity Method and struck True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns called for help, and True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light stunned Wonderous Dharma Adept's manifestation with a jade bamboo treasure.
• True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong suppressed the manifestation while Dragon Lord Vast Sun Against the Light tore off one of its arms.
• Wonderous Dharma Adept regained his senses, but the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess severed the manifestation's other arm, and the Lords of Heaven and Earth called on Second Deng to finish him.

The Lords of Heaven and Earth annihilated the Divine Master of the Wonderous Dharma Immortal Terrace, ending every possibility of resurrection. Xiao Yuanjun then stopped the blood rain and prepared to seek truth, while True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns arranged for four cultivators to attack her.

• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns struck the Divine Master of the Wonderous Dharma Immortal Terrace, and the Lords of Heaven and Earth destroyed its remaining fragments and means of revival.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns claimed the Immortal Ascension Terrace, but the Great Heng Empress had already taken it away, revealing Xiao Yuanjun below.
• Xiao Yuanjun halted the blood rain and cleared the skies, prompting the Lords of Heaven and Earth to recognize her Celestial Person Perfection and discuss her attempt to seek truth.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns restored Wenren Shangzhi and Deng Qiuzhi, then ordered them, Lu Danyan, and the First God Cult Master to attack Xiao Yuanjun.
• Xiao Yuanjun faced the four approaching cultivators, refined the Great Yin Spirit Qi with the Three Mystic Wonders, and placed it within her Dao Domain.

Xiao Yuanjun effortlessly suppressed four powerful cultivators with her mystic wonders and revealed that Ancient Bright Yang had gathered within her since birth. She refined its complete conceptual image into her own celestial conceptual image while the Lords of Heaven and Earth watched.

• Xiao Yuanjun declared Wenren Shangzhi and the others gravely wounded and dying, and her mystic wonders caused Wenren Shangzhi, Deng Qiuzhi, Lu Danyan, and the First God Cult Master to suffer those injuries.
• Xiao Yuanjun declared the four would die and be taken to the Nether Bureau, but True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns stopped the Ghost Soldier and cast the injured men aside.
• Xiao Yuanjun gathered the complete conceptual image of Ancient Bright Yang into her palm as the Lords of Heaven and Earth tried to discern her origin.
• Xiao Yuanjun declared that Ancient Bright Yang existed because she had been born, rather than her being a reincarnation of Bright Yang.
• Xiao Yuanjun refined the Bright Yang conceptual image, containing every such image from past to present, into her own celestial conceptual image.

Xiao Yuanjun borrowed Li Zhongshuang’s lesser yin cold qi to attain celestial person perfection, then used her mystic wonders and Zhang Yuan’s cultivation method to pursue the qi refining to immortality path. She became an Immortal Lord with the [Only-I Dao Fruit], having drawn nearly forty percent of the spiritual qi from the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm.

• Xiao Yuanjun asked for a strand of lesser yin cold qi, and Li Zhongshuang sent one across the Great Void.
• Xiao Yuanjun refined the strand and achieved celestial person perfection by cultivating all five skandhas and six qi.
• Xiao Yuanjun decided to prove an Immortal Lord Dao Fruit embryo before seeking truth and used her mystic wonders to summon the treasures needed to create spirit roots.
• Xiao Yuanjun refined treasures into supreme immortal spirit roots of all five elements, then drew on the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm’s spiritual qi to advance to the peak of the tribulation transcendence realm.
• Xiao Yuanjun condensed the [Only-I Dao Fruit] and became an Immortal Lord, while the watching True Lords prepared to intervene if she sought truth.

Xiao Yuanjun used her Immortal Lord realm and Only-I Dao Fruit to draw the upper Golden Position of the Great Beginning String to her and successfully proved the Dao. She announced her new titles as the Great Beginning Heaven-Governing Primordial Lady, the Great Beginning Perfect Self True Lord, and the Great Beginning Only-I Immortal Lord, while powerful figures gathered and prepared for what came next.

• Xiao Yuanjun used her Only-I Dao Fruit as part of her Truth-Seeking Rite to seek the Great Beginning String.
• The lords realized Xiao Yuanjun was pursuing an upper Golden Position and moved to stop her, but the Great Beginning String came to her as she walked through the Great Beginning.
• Xiao Yuanjun proved the Dao, took the Great Beginning String Golden Position, and became a True Lord.
• Xiao Yuanjun announced her new Dao titles across the Five Realms Heavens and the Outer Chaos, prompting living beings to congratulate her.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and other True Lords, Divine Masters, and Great Immortal Lords gathered around Xiao Yuanjun, ready for a confrontation.