Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuanjun attained the Great Beginning String golden position and immediately displayed its profound mystery against the True Lords who moved to challenge her. Her opponents realized she had already become the position’s master and could no longer be killed.

• Xiao Yuanjun ascended to the Great Beginning String, while the other True Lords debated whether to join forces against her.
• True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong withdrew the Aohai Cui Clan from the conflict, while Chen Xinqiao and the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess supported Xiao Yuanjun.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns attacked Xiao Yuanjun with the Windy Reed Fruit’s enormous hand of profound mystery.
• Xiao Yuanjun stripped away nearly all the attack’s power with the Great Beginning String’s primordial one qi and dispersed what remained with Miasma Wind.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns, True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light, and True Lord Qingji Huiyu recognized that Xiao Yuanjun had mastered her golden position and could no longer be killed.

After becoming a True Lord, Xiao Yuanjun sentenced three hostile True Lords to die, and each chose to return home through death and rebirth. She declined to hold a Dharma Assembly and turned her attention to the Great Luo around Zhang Yuan, but Ye Xiangning vanished before Xiao Yuanjun could confront her.

• Xiao Yuanjun declared that True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns, True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light, and True Lord Qingji Huiyu must atone with their deaths, and her words caused them to begin dying.
• True Lord Qingji Huiyu resisted death, while True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light and True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns accepted it and were reborn at their respective clans.
• True Lord Qingji Huiyu gave up resisting and returned to life outside the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm, leaving all three True Lords back home.
• True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong invited Xiao Yuanjun to hold a Dharma Assembly, but she declined and said she had other matters to handle first.
• Xiao Yuanjun looked toward Ye Xiangning and Chi Guanguan beside Zhang Yuan, and Chi Guanguan insisted on staying.
• Ye Xiangning vanished in motes of firelight, avoiding Xiao Yuanjun’s expected retaliation.

After Xiao Yuanjun attained the Dao, she prepared to leave for Sun-Moon Cliff, but first secretly kissed Zhang Yuan and departed. Zhang Yuan was then approached by True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong of the Aohai Cui Clan, who tried to present himself as an acquaintance.

• Xiao Yuanjun failed to track down Ye Xiangning and congratulated Zhang Yuan after attaining the Dao.
• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan she owed Li Huixi a visit at Sun-Moon Cliff, and a ray of Sun-Moon Mystic Light urged her to go at once.
• Before leaving, Xiao Yuanjun concealed herself and Zhang Yuan, kissed him on the cheek, and told him to cultivate diligently.
• Chi Guanguan blushed after witnessing the kiss, while the other powerful cultivators watched Zhang Yuan with curiosity.
• True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong introduced himself to Zhang Yuan as a member of the Aohai Cui Clan and claimed Yuanxi had mentioned him.

After the powerful visitors left Heaven-Reaching City, Zhang Yuan reunited with Chen Xinqiao and the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess, who gave him a protective bracelet but could not take him home. The Empress of Great Heng left him the Immortal Ascension Terrace, and Tan Chengcheng asked him to call her Chengcheng.

• True Lord Qionghuan Yuanzong and the other visitors departed, leaving Zhang Yuan in Heaven-Reaching City.
• Chen Xinqiao noticed the missing Mystic Pearls and gave Zhang Yuan a new protective Beaded Bracelet, but he insisted he would deliver Ao Xiu to the East Sea Dragon Lord.
• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess took Chen Xinqiao away, and the Empress of Great Heng tossed Zhang Yuan the Immortal Ascension Terrace before vanishing.
• Tan Chengcheng explained her mother's departure and asked Zhang Yuan to call her Chengcheng instead of using royal titles.

Zhang Yuan considered the dangers ahead, then entered his inner great void to inspect the gift Xiao Yuanjun had left him. There, he reassured Ao Xiu that he would not abandon her and told Chi Guanguan that Xiao Yuanjun had gone to meet his fiancée, Li Huixi; Chi Guanguan concluded she had gone to pick a fight.

• Zhang Yuan weighed the Great Heng Founder's threat, the coming Central Heaven conceptual image, and his plan to take Ao Xiu home, noting that Xiao Yuanjun's support offered him some protection.
• Chi Guanguan spotted Xiao Yuanjun's gift in the Dao Domain and called Zhang Yuan into his inner great void to inspect it.
• Ao Xiu asked Zhang Yuan not to release her, and he teased her before promising to keep her because she was useful.
• Chi Guanguan asked about Sun-Moon Cliff and the woman Xiao Yuanjun had mentioned, and Zhang Yuan explained that Sun-Moon Cliff was a True Lord's cultivation grounds and the woman was his fiancée, Li Huixi.
• Chi Guanguan decided Xiao Yuanjun had gone to Sun-Moon Cliff to pick a fight with Li Huixi, then urged Zhang Yuan to examine his Master's gift.

Zhang Yuan received Xiao Yuanjun’s Primordial One Qi, which protected Ao Xiu from the South Sea Dragon Clan’s divinations and guided him into creating his third Mystic Wonder. After forty-nine days of enlightenment, he awakened and tested whether he could borrow Li Huixi’s power through karma.

• Chi Guanguan shared her vision with Zhang Yuan, allowing him to see the Primordial One Qi above Xiao Yuanjun’s statue.
• The Primordial One Qi gave Ao Xiu the Divine Ability [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying], concealing her karmic connection and whereabouts from the South Sea Dragon Clan.
• The Primordial One Qi entered Zhang Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness and guided him into forty-nine days of Dao comprehension.
• Zhang Yuan awakened and explained that his third Mystic Wonder, [Penetrating Heaven’s Subtleties], let him borrow power through [Myriad Coexistence] or a strong karmic connection.
• Zhang Yuan tried to borrow a Divine Ability from Li Huixi through karma, and a voice suddenly asked what he was doing.

After forty-nine days of Dao enlightenment, Zhang Yuan prepared to leave his Dao Domain while Chi Guanguan reassured him that the danger she sensed was likely imagined. Xiao Yuanjun flew to Sun-Moon Cliff in the Luoyuan Mountains, where Li Huixi challenged her and said she had taken the wrong path.

• Li Huixi contacted Zhang Yuan through Karma, and he concealed the exchange from Chi Guanguan, who sensed an ominous presence in his Dao Domain.
• Chi Guanguan inspected Zhang Yuan and his Dao Domain, then concluded the danger was probably only her imagination and offered to lend him her divine might if needed.
• After forty-nine days of Dao enlightenment, Zhang Yuan decided to leave his Dao Domain and see what had happened outside.
• Xiao Yuanjun flew across the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm and the South Sea of the Dust-Dyed Realm toward Sun-Moon Cliff in the Luoyuan Mountains.
• Li Huixi sent Sun-Moon Mystic Light at Xiao Yuanjun, who weakened it with [Substance Like the Primordial Beginning] and scattered it.
• Li Huixi assessed Xiao Yuanjun's [Great Beginning String] as merely not bad and told her she had taken the wrong path.

Li Huixi and Xiao Yuanjun fought across the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, destroying half of it as they argued over Zhang Yuan and fate. Li Huixi paused to speak with Zhang Yuan through their karmic link, giving Xiao Yuanjun an opening to attack as the chapter ended.

• Li Huixi struck Xiao Yuanjun with a strengthened beam of Sun-Moon Mystic Light, and Xiao Yuanjun redirected it, erasing half the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• Nearby True Lords fled the devastation and watched from the remaining territory while beings across the Five Realms turned their attention to the duel.
• Li Huixi told Xiao Yuanjun she was fated to meet Zhang Yuan, not be with him, and Xiao Yuanjun rejected the claim as they clashed with Sun-Moon Mystic Light and Primordial One Qi.
• Li Huixi tried to use [Sky-Leaping] to bypass Xiao Yuanjun's defenses, but a stir in their karmic threads interrupted her.
• Xiao Yuanjun seized the opening to launch [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] and [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance] at Li Huixi.
• After speaking with Zhang Yuan through their karmic link, Li Huixi countered by imbuing her hairpin with [World Annihilation], [Sky-Leaping], and [Limitless].

After returning from the Great Void, Zhang Yuan found the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm shaken by a battle in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm. Tan Chengcheng reminded him that he was Great Heng’s emperor, and he introduced Ao Xiu as a trusted companion while reflecting on the strange company gathered on his shoulders.

• The Three-Colored Qi Light cleared to reveal that the damaged Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm had been restored, while Li Huixi and Xiao Yuanjun had vanished; the True Lords chose not to investigate.
• Zhang Yuan returned to his bedroom and sensed tremors across the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm, which he suspected came from a True Lord battle in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• Tan Chengcheng asked Zhang Yuan to call her Chengcheng and reminded him that he was Great Heng’s emperor, not an unregistered resident.
• When Zhang Yuan asked whether her mother had caused trouble, Tan Chengcheng wondered if he wanted to be her Imperial Father, so he rapped her on the head.
• Tan Chengcheng noticed Ao Xiu on Zhang Yuan’s shoulder, and Zhang Yuan introduced the true dragon as a trustworthy spirit pet.
• Zhang Yuan realized that Chi Guanguan and Ao Xiu now sat on opposite shoulders and accepted that their company would make his life livelier.

After Zhang Yuan returned from disappearing for forty-nine days, Tan Chengcheng explained that rumors of the Great Heng Emperor’s death had plunged the court into turmoil. Unable to pass the emperor’s divine power to Tan Chengcheng without risking the Great Heng Founder’s revival, Zhang Yuan agreed to impersonate the emperor at an immediate court assembly.

• Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan that the Great Heng Empress had stabilized the realm after the Grotto-Heaven fell, but the court remained chaotic because rumors claimed the emperor was dead.
• Zhang Yuan blamed Ji Guang for spreading the rumors, and Tan Chengcheng asked him to impersonate her Imperial Father at a court assembly.
• Zhang Yuan offered to give Tan Chengcheng the Great Heng Emperor’s divine power, but she warned that gathering too much power could revive the Great Heng Founder.
• Zhang Yuan proposed using the [God-Calming Jade Seal] to suppress the Founder’s consciousness, but Chi Guanguan and Tan Chengcheng doubted it would work.
• Tan Chengcheng dressed Zhang Yuan in imperial robes and declared that the court assembly would begin immediately, so Zhang Yuan set out with her for the Golden Throne Hall.

Zhang Yuan presided over Great Heng’s court in disguise, using his Celestial Person power to make the officials accept him as emperor. Minister Pei then abruptly denounced him as a false emperor and summoned three Dust-Dyed Realm Celestial Persons, leaving Zhang Yuan ready to test his abilities against them.

• Tan Chengcheng told Zhang Yuan that the Great Heng Empress would not attend, so he had to preside over court himself.
• Zhang Yuan demanded that the officials kneel, and his pressure forced Minister Pei to bow and the assembled officials to recognize him as their emperor.
• After briefly submitting, Minister Pei denounced Zhang Yuan as a false emperor and called on Senior Wenren, Senior Deng, and Senior Lu to subdue him.
• Deng Qiuzhi, Wenren Shangzhi, and Lu Danyan entered the Golden Throne Hall, and Zhang Yuan prepared to test [Penetrating Heaven's Subtleties] against them.

Zhang Yuan faced three Celestial Persons who came to kill the Great Heng False Emperor, but the First God Cult Master intervened to protect him. As Wenren Shangzhi pursued them, Zhang Yuan revealed his identity, leaving Wenren shocked to learn that the False Emperor was Zhang Yuan.

• Wenren Shangzhi, Deng Qiuzhi, and Lu Danyan demanded that the False Emperor surrender, and Zhang Yuan refused to be intimidated.
• The First God Cult Master appeared and declared that Zhang Yuan was under his protection; Lu Danyan withdrew, but Wenren Shangzhi and Deng Qiuzhi stood their ground.
• The First God Cult Master carried Zhang Yuan away in black mist, and Wenren Shangzhi pursued them through the Great Void.
• Wenren Shangzhi destroyed the black mist and confronted Zhang Yuan, who stood suspended in the air using Miasma Wind and Clear Qi.
• Zhang Yuan removed his concealment, and Wenren Shangzhi realized the Great Heng False Emperor was Zhang Yuan before demanding that he hand over Ao Xiu.

Zhang Yuan used [Penetrating Heaven's Subtleties] to borrow Xiao Yuanjun's mystic wonders and challenge Wenren Shangzhi. He wounded the Celestial Person Perfection True Dragon with a sword strike, but Wenren Shangzhi remained alive.

• Zhang Yuan summoned Xiao Yuanjun's Dharma Form through [Penetrating Heaven's Subtleties], while Wenren Shangzhi assessed the borrowed power and chose to fight.
• Wenren Shangzhi rushed Zhang Yuan with a punch, but Zhang Yuan used [Dusk Veil] to meet it head-on and cracked a bone in his own fist.
• Zhang Yuan drew the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword] and used [Dusk Veil] and [Myriad Forms Transformation] to strengthen a strike against Wenren Shangzhi.
• Zhang Yuan followed his sword attack with [Yellow Springs Arrival], breaking Wenren Shangzhi's scales and badly wounding his arms.
• Wenren Shangzhi was hurled into a mountain in Great Heng and realized Zhang Yuan had another mystic wonder.

Zhang Yuan failed to kill Wenren Shangzhi, whose body kept fighting even after Zhang severed his head. Qin Tianyi seized the head and fled, with Wenren Shangzhi in pursuit and Zhang Yuan following to see what Qin was after.

• Wenren Shangzhi regenerated from Zhang Yuan's attacks and struck back with a spear, but Zhang used the Northern Profound-Devouring Nether Capital Banner to weaken it.
• Zhang Yuan severed Wenren Shangzhi's head with the Primordial Form-Converging Sword, but Wenren Shangzhi kept fighting and pinned the blade in his hand.
• Wenren Shangzhi punched at Zhang Yuan, whose Sun-Moon Seven-Hue Robe blocked the blow with its divine radiance.
• Qin Tianyi arrived, grabbed Wenren Shangzhi's severed head, and fled while Wenren Shangzhi pursued him through the Great Void.
• Qin Tianyi demanded Wenren Shangzhi's frozen spear in exchange for his head, and Zhang Yuan followed them in his Golden Carriage.

Zhang Yuan pursued Qin Tianyi with Wenren Shangzhi after revealing [Penetrating Heaven's Subtleties] to reassure the watching [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts]. The chase ended at an ancient True Dragon Palace, where Qin Tianyi proposed that they explore its great opportunities together.

• [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] watched Zhang Yuan depart and concluded that [Penetrating Heaven's Subtleties] could not threaten a True Lord.
• Zhang Yuan kept his distance behind Wenren Shangzhi and explained to Chi Guanguan that he was dueling with Ji Guang across the void.
• After two days and a night, Qin Tianyi, Wenren Shangzhi, and Zhang Yuan landed together at an ancient palace.
• Qin Tianyi returned Wenren Shangzhi's head, which Wenren Shangzhi reattached before looking at the palace.
• Qin Tianyi identified the palace as a South Sea True Dragon Palace from the Elder Era and said that great opportunities lay within.

Wenren Shangzhi, Qin Tianyi, and Zhang Yuan gathered at an immense Elder Era True Dragon Palace, where three layers of restrictions blocked the way to its treasures. Zhang Yuan began removing the sword-qi restriction with Chi Guanguan’s help, leaving the palace’s secrets still unknown.

• Wenren Shangzhi recognized the mountain-sized palace as an Elder Era South Sea Dragon Clan site and suspected a Great Yi Immortal had left it.
• Qin Tianyi proposed that the three share the palace’s fortune and explained that he had suppressed its thunder restriction, leaving a sword-qi barrier and Dragon Clan formation.
• Chi Guanguan told Zhang Yuan that the palace likely held a great treasure, and Zhang Yuan set aside his grudges to pursue it.
• Wenren Shangzhi stepped aside for Zhang Yuan to handle the sword-qi restriction.
• Zhang Yuan drew the sword qi from the palace’s mark into his [Lamp-Lighting Oil-Adding Pill] while Chi Guanguan prepared to help suppress it.

Zhang Yuan, Qin Tianyi, and Wenren Shangzhi removed the Traveling Palace’s restrictions but could not break into it. Tan Yaozheng, the Great Heng Dynasty’s Fifth Princess, appeared and offered a way inside, leaving the three to ask what she had in mind.

• Zhang Yuan subdued the Sword Qi at a cost, and Qin Tianyi promised him first choice of a treasure or opportunity they found.
• Wenren Shangzhi used a drop of South Sea True Dragon blood to remove one corner of the Traveling Palace’s formation.
• Qin Tianyi’s thunderbolt and Wenren Shangzhi’s full-strength punch failed to breach the palace, while Zhang Yuan said his remaining Sword Qi was too weak.
• Tan Yaozheng emerged from a thicket and claimed national fortune would protect her within Great Heng’s borders.
• Zhang Yuan, Qin Tianyi, and Wenren Shangzhi attacked Tan Yaozheng, but her national-fortune barrier blocked their strikes, and they asked her to explain her method.

Zhang Yuan and his companions entered the True Dragon Palace after Tan Yaozheng’s divine shovel carved a tunnel through its walls. Inside, they found mountains of treasure and an ancient fire dragon corpse, which demanded Wenren Shangzhi’s body to revive itself; Wenren Shangzhi defied it and vowed to kill it.

• Tan Yaozheng revealed that her shovel was a Divine Artifact of the Great Heng Founder and used it to dig a tunnel into the Traveling Palace.
• Wenren Shangzhi entered the tunnel first, followed by Qin Tianyi, Zhang Yuan, and Tan Yaozheng.
• As they walked, Zhang Yuan asked Chi Guanguan whether Tan Yaozheng was real, and Chi Guanguan confirmed that she was.
• The group entered a vast, lamp-lit hall filled with treasures and found the corpse of an enormous crimson True Dragon.
• The dragon corpse opened one eye, demanded Wenren Shangzhi’s body to revive itself, and prompted Wenren Shangzhi to vow to cut off its head.

Wenren Changguang awakened in the Traveling Palace and tried to possess Wenren Shangzhi, but Wenren Shangzhi defeated him in a clash. After claiming the fight was only a test and offering a Jade Slip, Wenren Changguang fled, leaving Zhang Yuan, Qin Tianyi, and Wenren Shangzhi in pursuit.

• Wenren Changguang unleashed his draconic might and attacked Wenren Shangzhi with [Dragonflame Sky-Splitting Claw].
• Wenren Shangzhi answered with a vastly larger dragon claw and sent Wenren Changguang crashing into the palace wall.
• Wenren Changguang realized Wenren Shangzhi was a fellow South Sea True Dragon and claimed his attack had been a test before offering him a Jade Slip.
• Wenren Changguang put away the Jade Slip, smashed through the Traveling Palace, and fled from the mountain.
• Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi chased Wenren Changguang, and Wenren Shangzhi followed them.

Zhang Yuan pursued Wenren Changguang and learned that True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts wanted to ambush the True Dragon for his treasures. As Nether Bureau Ghost Deities closed in, a streak of tricolor light raced toward Wenren Changguang.

• Zhang Yuan mistook Tan Yaozheng for Ji Guang and grabbed her, but True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts manifested in a flame and proved Tan Yaozheng was not him.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts asked Zhang Yuan to lure Wenren Changguang to Heaven-Reaching City for an ambush, and Zhang Yuan agreed in exchange for the jade slip.
• Chi Guanguan explained that Ji Guang could manifest through fiery emotions because of his golden position, and Zhang Yuan rejected cultivating the heartless dao to stop him.
• Zhang Yuan increased the Golden Carriage's speed, overtook Qin Tianyi, and continued pursuing Wenren Changguang as Nether Bureau Ghost Deities approached.
• Wenren Changguang spotted a streak of tricolor light hurtling toward him at extraordinary speed.