Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• After absorbing the orb of light, Zhang Hongxing learns that it was Earth’s planetary will. He has become Earth’s master: unlike Hongjun, who sacrificed his identity to merge with the Heavenly Dao, Zhang remains himself and can control Earth as his body.
• He discovers that Earth and the Classic of Mountains and Seas World were once one, separated by a group of Western Demon Gods. The conflict between them and the Eastern Gods and Demons began in the Divine Realm. The rift on Mars leads instead to a second-tier universe.
• The moon is already hurtling toward Earth when Zhang regains consciousness. His family fears he is dead and prepares to seek shelter behind the Kunlun Mountains, while the government evacuates civilians and deploys mechs and fighter jets.
• Zhang secretly stops the moon by manipulating Earth’s magnetic field and gravity, masking his intervention with clouds. He warns himself that the prolonged loss of sunlight could damage the land below, though human technology may mitigate the harm.
• Two Western demons, a minotaur and a one-horned demon, prepare to attack. The minotaur hesitates; the one-horned demon tries to seize the human forces but encounters an unseen barrier and realizes Earth may be protected by a Divine Domain.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang’s transformation gives him immense power without erasing his personality. He uses it to protect Earth and its people while remaining unseen.
• Li Xiuying is devastated by Zhang’s apparent death but holds on to hope, trusting his past miracles and the Black Tortoise’s lack of alarm.
• Zhang’s sons, Zhang Jun and Zhang Bing, step up to protect their mother and direct the family to safety. The family supports one another through the crisis.
• The minotaur and one-horned demon taunt each other over who should attack. The minotaur avoids the task, prompting the one-horned demon to act—and then retreat when his power fails.

Significant themes

• Identity and power: Zhang’s union with Earth differs from self-sacrificing fusion; he retains his selfhood while gaining planetary control.
• Hidden truth and incomplete knowledge: Earlier accounts were not deliberate lies, but partial truths shaped by limited memory.
• Family, courage, and hope: Zhang’s family faces apparent loss and danger by relying on one another and continuing to believe in him.
• Resistance and protection: Humanity’s refusal to submit contrasts with the demons’ contempt, while Zhang’s unseen intervention turns Earth itself into a defense.

Key plot points and events

• The One-Horned Demon invades Earth but finds his Divine Domain ineffective and cannot use the power of rules there.
• Zhang Hongxing, Earth’s planetary will, manipulates basic rules—boosting the missiles’ speed while slowing and disorienting the demon—to help Earth’s forces attack.
• Thousands of missiles injure the demon, and a second salvo drives him into the path of more than five hundred Combat Mechas.
• The demon destroys several mechas and kills their pilots. Lin Mo orders a retreat, while ten warriors volunteer to delay the demon and protect the others.
• The missile barrage resumes despite the danger to the remaining mecha warriors, further injuring the demon. He eventually escapes beyond Earth’s atmosphere and destroys the missiles pursuing him.
• Lin Mo orders Earth’s forces not to follow. The demon, unable to explain Earth’s power, retreats toward the Fire-Type Rift and decides not to attack again for now.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing demonstrates how Earth’s planetary will can influence basic rules, turning Earth’s environment into a major defensive advantage.
• The One-Horned Demon shifts from contemptuous confidence to injury, fury, and bewilderment. His retreat shows that Earth’s defenses have made him cautious.
• Lin Mo, again serving as acting commander, initially misjudges the demon’s weakness but quickly adapts, prioritizing the surviving troops.
• The mecha warriors display resolve and self-sacrifice, with ten choosing to face the demon so their comrades can withdraw.
• The Minotaur watches the battle, relieved he did not intervene, and approaches the injured demon afterward. The demon ignores him and leaves.

Significant themes

• Collective strength: Coordinated missiles and mechas can wound a vastly stronger enemy.
• Sacrifice and duty: The warriors willingly risk their lives for their comrades, homeland, and planet.
• Strategy under pressure: Lin Mo’s decisions reflect the need to adapt quickly and accept painful trade-offs in battle.
• The limits of power: The demon’s strength depends on where he fights; Earth’s rules weaken his usual advantages.

Key plot points and events

• The One-Horned Demons retreat, prompting the Minotaurs to withdraw as well. Humanity celebrates the Xia Kingdom’s victory and reflects on the need to grow stronger for future threats.
• Zhang Jun’s family learns that Zhang Hongxing’s body was destroyed, but the Netherfire Black Tortoise assures them he is alive and vastly more powerful. Li Xiuying trusts her intuition that he will return, and the family prepares to go home.
• Zhang Hongxing cannot yet appear before them: he believes he must reach Earth’s next evolutionary level to manifest himself. To advance from level 1 to level 2, Earth must grow tenfold and nurture at least ten Great Golden Immortals.
• Seeking to enlarge Earth, Zhang Hongxing targets the Moon. He splits it into fragments, gives the lunar researchers time to evacuate, then draws the pieces into Earth’s core to absorb them. Though the full process is expected to take three months, he swallows the Moon in less than a day.
• As people watch the Moon’s transformation, online discussion turns to the prominent cultivation factions Emei and Shushan, led by Old Buddha Mo Qianchou and the One Sword Immortal. After absorbing the Moon, Zhang Hongxing turns his attention to Mount Emei.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing has become effectively one with Earth, able to reshape celestial bodies within his sphere of influence. Despite his power, he remains unable to communicate with his family and is impatient with the long process of planetary evolution.
• Zhang Jun and his family cling to hope that Zhang Hongxing is alive. The Black Tortoise reassures them, while Li Xiuying’s enduring intuition reinforces her belief.
• Humanity moves from relief and celebration toward awareness that survival depends on becoming stronger.
• Online commenters reveal how society is adapting to the new order, debating science, cultivation schools, and the appeal of Emei and Shushan.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and survival: Victory is temporary; humanity must strengthen itself to face future dangers.
• Transformation and scale: Earth’s evolution turns planetary growth into a deliberate process, blurring the boundary between a person and a world.
• Family bonds and faith: Zhang Hongxing’s family continues to trust in his survival despite lacking direct proof.
• The changing limits of knowledge: Humanity’s old ideas of science and reality are challenged by supernatural events and immense cosmic forces.

Plot points

• Mount Emei has transformed into a powerful cultivation center: it is taller, rich in spiritual energy, and home to thirteen Daoist temples on separate peaks. Mo Qianchou established a grand defensive array and reshaped her Twelve Transformations of Heaven and Earth into a more powerful cultivation method.
• Mo Qianchou rules from the central peak at the pinnacle of the true immortal realm. The twelve other peak masters—her favored disciples—have reached the pinnacle of the earth immortal realm despite cultivating for less than three years.
• Zhang Hongxing notices Mo Bufan, a returning young disciple whose immense providence intrigues even him. Mo Bufan’s saber is broken, and he tells fellow disciples that a fierce beast destroyed it.
• In truth, Mo Bufan barely survived an encounter with the Blackwater Demon Zheng, which dismissed him as insignificant. The beast’s devastating claw strike nevertheless inspired him to attempt a blow using Blade Force.
• Training alone, Mo Bufan first produces an unsatisfactory slash. Zhang Hongxing quietly presses him with a trace of his power, and Mo Bufan uses the pressure to refine his technique. His next cut splits a massive rock cleanly in two. He thanks the unseen “senior,” while Zhang Hongxing turns his attention toward Mount Shu.

Character developments and interactions

• Mo Qianchou has become a formidable leader and innovator, developing a cultivation system that can be practiced in separate paths, though mastering all twelve offers the greatest potential.
• Mo Bufan has matured and become more composed. Though he is celebrated by many disciples, he keeps the truth of his near-fatal encounter to himself and focuses on improving his swordsmanship. Some disciples flatter him; others pay little attention.
• Zhang Hongxing takes a quiet interest in Mo Bufan, recognizing his unusual providence and subtly helping him without revealing himself.
• The Emei disciples welcome Mo Bufan warmly and admire what they assume was a hard-won escape from a fierce beast.

Significant themes

• Transformation and growth: Emei’s rise and Mo Bufan’s improved technique reflect the rapid change sweeping the world.
• Providence and potential: Mo Bufan’s unexplained fortune marks him as someone with extraordinary prospects.
• Learning through adversity: A crushing defeat becomes the inspiration for Mo Bufan’s new Blade Force technique.
• Quiet guidance: Zhang Hongxing helps without seeking recognition, leaving Mo Bufan to make the breakthrough himself.

Plot points and events

• Zhang Hongxing observes the Shushan Sect, whose sword-like mountain contrasts with Emei’s surrounding peaks. He notes that Chu Yunxuan and six other disciples in the front row have extraordinary potential.
• A furious Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python arrives at Shushan, pursuing the blood-red egg Chu Yunxuan took from a rodent-like beast. Chu Yunxuan admits he took it but does not explain why he had inscribed a Symbiotic Spirit Array on it.
• One Sword Immortal orders the sect to activate its Mountain-Guarding Sword Array and fight rather than return the egg.
• The Netherfire Black Tortoise arrives and argues with the Python. He warns that Zhang Hongxing is alive and stronger than ever, and reminds the Python of the agreement with humanity. The Python dismisses both warnings and attacks.
• Shushan’s sword techniques and defensive array injure the Python, surprising him with how quickly the humans have grown stronger. He retaliates by spraying corrosive green liquid at the sect.
• As the array’s spiritual shield begins to fail, One Sword Immortal prepares to use a lethal technique that could kill both him and the Python. He names Chu Yunxuan acting sect leader if he dies. The chapter ends with disciples pleading for another option—and one asking Chu Yunxuan to surrender the egg.

Character developments and interactions

• Chu Yunxuan is revealed as Shushan’s second-strongest figure and a focus of his fellow disciples’ admiration. His connection to the egg—and the unexplained array he placed on it—puts the sect in danger.
• One Sword Immortal shifts from teaching to decisive leadership, prepared to sacrifice himself to protect his disciples.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python is enraged and openly hostile to humanity. His surprise at Shushan’s strength only deepens his resolve to prevent human advancement.
• The Netherfire Black Tortoise tries to deter the attack by invoking Zhang Hongxing and the humans’ agreement, but ultimately watches rather than intervening.
• Shushan’s disciples are divided between defending Chu Yunxuan and blaming him for provoking the Python, though they unite in battle.

Significant themes

• Humanity’s growing power: Shushan’s unexpectedly strong defenses challenge the beasts’ assumption that humans are weak.
• Loyalty, responsibility, and sacrifice: One Sword Immortal risks his life for the sect, while Chu Yunxuan’s choice to keep the egg creates a crisis for everyone.
• Broken agreements and escalating conflict: The Python rejects the pact with humanity, raising the prospect of renewed war.
• Unresolved consequences: The Symbiotic Spirit Array and Chu Yunxuan’s motives remain mysterious as the chapter ends on a cliffhanger.

Key plot points and events

• The Heaven-Devouring Blood Python egg hatches against Chu Yunxuan’s chest. Its newborn offspring eats the fragments of its shell, then devours the corrosive venom its mother had spat out, growing rapidly to nearly ten meters long.
• The adult python calls to its offspring, but the young creature rejects her and returns to Chu Yunxuan, whom it recognizes as familiar. Chu explains that he rescued it and formed a Symbiotic Spirit Array with it.
• The offspring confronts the adult python, declaring its loyalty to Chu and refusing to leave. It says its mother abandoned it and that its inherited intelligence lets it judge her actions for itself.
• Enraged, the adult python attempts to swallow Shushan’s defensive array and main hall. One Sword Immortal prepares a suicidal technique, Man and Sword as One, to stop it.
• Zhang Hongxing intervenes, suppressing One Sword Immortal’s power and then immobilizing the python with the force of heaven and earth. The python explodes and dies without a chance to roar.
• The Netherfire Black Tortoise panics and tries to reassure Zhang, while the Shushan cultivators are left stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Chu Yunxuan is criticized by fellow disciples for bringing the dangerous creature back, but the newborn clearly bonds with him and calls him “Big Brother Yunxuan.”
• The young blood python chooses Chu over its biological mother, showing loyalty and independent judgment despite its newborn status.
• The adult blood python shifts from surprise at its offspring’s growth to pleading, anger, and an attack when rejected.
• One Sword Immortal is willing to sacrifice himself, but Zhang Hongxing stops him effortlessly, revealing a vast and previously unseen power imbalance.
• Zhang Hongxing acts decisively from behind the scenes, ending the threat before anyone can respond.
• The Netherfire Black Tortoise is terrified of Zhang’s presumed displeasure and repeatedly tries to excuse itself.

Significant themes

• Chosen bonds versus blood ties: The young python values Chu’s rescue and care over its biological connection to the adult python.
• Choice and inherited wisdom: The offspring claims it can understand and judge its mother’s behavior from the moment it is born.
• Power and protection: Zhang Hongxing’s intervention demonstrates that extraordinary power can override even a heroic sacrifice and decide life or death instantly.
• Loyalty and blame: The disciples blame Chu, while the young python defends him and the tortoise scrambles to avoid responsibility.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• In the aftermath of the Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python’s victory, the tiny python devours the defeated creature and rapidly grows. The Netherfire Black Tortoise flees to reunite with the Bloodsea Mad Lion and Nethersea Mad Ox, intending to warn the seven fierce beasts not to provoke Zhang Hongxing again.
• The Shushan disciples regain their composure. They recognize that Zhang Hongxing is currently protecting them, while those who had resented Chu Yunxuan regret their earlier words after witnessing the python’s terrifying transformation.
• The story shifts to Zhang Hongxing’s family, now living in a secluded valley he shaped for their safety. Each family member has found a purpose: Zhang Jun works at the rebuilt Shimen Technology City; Zhang Ying paints at the Yingzi Gallery and is beginning to enter the Dao through art; Zhang Bing and his wife run a Super Farmstay; and Li Xiuying devotes herself to cultivation, becoming the family’s strongest cultivator.
• Earth’s population and civilization are flourishing. With long lifespans, abundant resources, automated production, and state support, people are freed from mere survival and encouraged to pursue creative and intellectual work.
• As Earth’s master, Zhang Hongxing notices problems caused by the planet’s enormous expansion, especially regions that receive no sunlight. He considers reviving the dead Sun-Bearing Firebird’s body by giving it a new soul capable of bearing the Golden Crow’s divine essence.
• To prepare for this difficult undertaking, Zhang Hongxing begins steering Earth toward Mars, aiming to reach Mars’s orbital path during a period when the planets will be relatively close.

Character developments and interactions

• The Netherfire Black Tortoise shifts from fear to urgent caution, seeking his fellow beasts so they can avoid repeating the python’s fate.
• The Shushan disciples’ earlier jealousy gives way to shame and regret.
• Zhang Hongxing finds peace of mind in his family’s safety and purposeful lives, then turns his attention to the larger responsibilities of managing Earth.
• Zhang Ying’s artistic practice becomes a path toward cultivation, prompting Zhou Tong to train harder so he will not fall behind her.
• The Zhang family’s settled, cooperative life contrasts with Zhang Hongxing’s increasingly ambitious planetary-scale plans.

Significant themes

• Consequences of arrogance: The fierce beasts and jealous disciples learn that provoking a vastly stronger power can bring irreversible consequences.
• Purpose and self-development: With survival needs largely met, people can devote long lives to creativity, science, and cultivation.
• Responsibility and stewardship: Zhang Hongxing’s power brings practical duties, from protecting his family to addressing the ecological effects of Earth’s growth.
• Creation and risk: Attempting to bring a Golden Crow into existence may solve Earth’s sunlight problem, but the undertaking is dangerous and far from assured.

Plot points and events

• As Earth drifts toward Mars, Xia’s Ten Grand Elders repeatedly debate whether humanity is in danger. With Earth’s population nearing four billion and no practical place to evacuate everyone, they eventually decide to let events unfold.
• Earth’s climate and agriculture remain stable, and Zhang Hongxing protects the planet by consuming incoming meteorites. Over the following decade, Earth’s cultivators grow much stronger: it now has six peak Taiyi Golden Immortals, while the Netherfire Black Tortoise reaches the Great Luo Realm.
• Earth approaches Mars. Though the population fears a collision, Zhang Hongxing stops Earth at the point where the planets’ atmospheres meet, then slowly draws Mars in and devours it to protect Earth’s inhabitants and ecosystem.
• While consuming Mars, Zhang Hongxing discovers the scattered remains of two souls and restores them inside the Sun-Bearing Firebird. The Firebird revives, evolves into the Golden Crow, and begins circling Earth as a second, adjustable source of sunlight.
• The other Fierce Beasts approach the revived bird, but it ignores them. The Black Tortoise watches, while Zhang Hongxing remains focused on Mars. Earth grows as Mars is gradually consumed; Xia’s planners had already prepared for the planet’s expanding size.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing demonstrates greater control over Earth’s gravity and continues acting as Earth’s protector. His restoration of the Firebird also reveals his ability to gather and mend shattered souls.
• The Sun-Bearing Firebird returns in a transformed, divine form as the Golden Crow. Rather than rejoining the Fierce Beasts, it independently circles Earth and serves its living inhabitants.
• The Fierce Beasts are surprised by the Firebird’s revival. Their exchange suggests lingering rivalry and uncertainty about their relative strength, especially after the Black Tortoise’s breakthrough.
• Earth’s cultivators advance considerably, with several becoming major powers, though Zhang Hongxing’s abilities remain beyond their comparison.
• The Ten Grand Elders and the public respond differently to Earth’s course: the elders weigh the risks but lack a viable evacuation plan, while ordinary people voice fear and doubt.

Significant themes

• Protection through immense power: Zhang Hongxing’s control over Earth and Mars prevents catastrophe for humanity.
• Transformation and renewal: The Firebird’s revival as the Golden Crow turns a near-forgotten creature into a vital force.
• Collective vulnerability and leadership: Earth’s enormous population leaves humanity dependent on difficult decisions and Zhang Hongxing’s actions.
• Adaptation and preparedness: Cultivators grow stronger, and Xia’s planners prepare for Earth’s changing scale as the crisis unfolds.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• On Mars, the One-Horned Demon, the Minotaur, and a newly arrived Ten-Winged Angel argue over how to respond to Earth’s expansion and the approaching closure of the rift. The demon and Minotaur decide to invade with forces of 5,000 each; the angels bring only twelve elite Eight-Winged Angels.
• The invaders discover that Earth has already consumed most of Mars and that their route back is disappearing. Zhang Hongxing detects them but remains confident in Earth’s strength.
• The Xia Kingdom mobilizes its advanced nuclear-powered fighter jets and combat mechs. Cultivators from Shushan, Emei, and other groups, along with Earth’s Fierce Beasts, also prepare to fight. Earth’s forces unite.
• Zhang Hongxing accelerates Mars’s destruction, pulling the remaining planet into Earth’s atmosphere. Once there, the invaders’ powers are heavily suppressed.
• Fighter jets launch ten successive rounds of missile attacks. The bombardment kills nearly all the invaders; only the three leaders survive, badly injured.
• The Minotaur captain surrenders. The One-Horned Demon is stunned by humanity’s technological power. The Ten-Winged Angel refuses to yield, declares that his side will ultimately win, and drives his Light Sword into his own head.

Character developments and interactions

• One-Horned Demon: Enters confident that his army can conquer Earth, despite his earlier humiliation by the world’s governing will. The bombardment shatters his confidence.
• Minotaur captain: Initially joins the invasion, but surrenders as soon as defeat becomes unavoidable.
• Ten-Winged Angel: Is contemptuous of the demon and remains defiant even after the invasion force is destroyed. His final act leaves his fate unclear.
• Zhang Hongxing: Quietly controls the battlefield by hastening Mars’s absorption and helping strengthen Earth’s defenses.
• Earth’s humans and cultivators: The military, cultivators, and Fierce Beasts act together, surprising the invaders with Earth’s rapid development and coordinated strength.

Significant themes

• Unity against invasion: Earth’s people, cultivators, and Fierce Beasts rally together against a common threat.
• Technology overturning expectations: The invaders underestimate ordinary humans, only to be defeated chiefly by advanced weapons rather than elite combatants.
• Power and adaptation: Earth’s environment suppresses the invaders’ abilities, turning the battlefield against them.
• Pride, fear, and surrender: The demon’s confidence collapses, the Minotaur chooses survival, and the angel clings to defiance.

Key plot points and events

• The Ten-Winged Angel’s soul escapes after its death. The Minotaur offers to surrender and submit to a soul contract, while the One-Horned Demon attacks.
• The demon sacrifices himself to summon a powerful being from the abyss. Its enormous hand breaks through Zhang Hongxing’s defenses and hurls Earth through space, killing many ordinary creatures and humans.
• Zhang Hongxing steers Earth away from major collisions while it continues consuming Mars and passing space debris. The Minotaur eventually becomes Mo Bufan’s servant through a master-servant contract.
• Earth enjoys a year without invaders. Zhang Hongxing consumes the other planets in the Solar System, but cannot yet devour the Sun or intends to leave the system.
• After a Shushan disciple reaches the Great Luo Realm, Earth advances to level two. Zhang Hongxing’s mental domain expands into what resembles a universe, and Earth itself becomes his body, with its inhabitants living inside that inner universe.
• Zhang Hongxing finds himself alone on a vast grassland, without immortal energy or supernatural abilities. As he explores, a one-eyed wolf attacks, and he prepares to face it with only his bare hands.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing survives a threat far beyond anything he has faced, prioritizes steering Earth safely over stopping its uncontrolled flight, and later discovers that his new form leaves him temporarily powerless in an ordinary human body.
• The Minotaur chooses submission and is bound to Mo Bufan, giving the humans a way to control a dangerous former enemy.
• The One-Horned Demon refuses surrender and gives up his life to summon a greater demon power.
• Mo Bufan gains the Minotaur as a servant; a Shushan disciple’s breakthrough also triggers Zhang Hongxing’s evolution.
• The chapter ends with Zhang Hongxing confronting the wolf, setting up a test of his new, powerless existence.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Zhang Hongxing can embody an entire planet, yet is suddenly reduced to ordinary human strength.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: The demon sacrifices himself for his race, while the Minotaur chooses survival through submission.
• Evolution and transformation: Earth’s advancement changes Zhang Hongxing’s nature and relocates humanity into his inner universe.
• The cost of survival: Earth escapes immediate destruction, but the demon’s attack causes massive loss of life.

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Hongxing kills a one-eyed wolf and soon meets a friendly-seeming man and woman who claim to be members of the Human Emperor Sect.
• The man says they are in the Divine Realm, where Sage-level experts gather, and insists Eastern cultivators are powerful and not oppressed by other divine clans. He repeatedly tries to recruit Zhang.
• Pretending to accept, Zhang takes the identity token—then grabs the man by the throat, making him vanish in a puff of smoke. The pair are revealed as bull-horned demons, not humans.
• Realizing he cannot match them, Zhang flees. The elder demon pursues while the sisters argue about how to handle him.
• The younger sister suddenly stabs her elder sister, killing her as part of a bid to become mistress of Bull Demon City. She then catches up with Zhang and prepares to kill him.
• An arrow strikes the younger demon’s shoulder, giving Zhang a chance to escape. Before he gets far, hands emerge from underground and drag him below, with an unknown rescuer urging him to stay quiet and run.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing is wary despite the apparent friendliness of the strangers. He tests their claims, feigns interest in joining them, and acts decisively once he recognizes the danger. His strength and caution are evident, but he is outmatched by the demons and forced to flee.
• The elder bull demon poses as a helpful guide, then pursues Zhang. She treats her younger sister condescendingly, presenting her pursuit as a lesson.
• The younger bull demon resents her sister and uses the elder’s own deceptive methods against her, killing her to seize power. She then turns on Zhang.
• The sisters’ rivalry abruptly overtakes their hunt: their banter becomes a lethal power struggle. An unknown archer intervenes, followed by a mysterious underground rescuer.

Significant themes

• Deception and distrust: The demons disguise themselves as human recruiters, while Zhang survives by questioning appearances.
• Rivalry and ambition: The sisters’ pursuit exposes the danger of their internal struggle for authority.
• Precarious survival: Even a capable newcomer in the Divine Realm can be overwhelmed and must rely on vigilance, timing, and unexpected help.

Plot points and events

• Zhang Hongxing escapes the bull-headed demon by following a short underground guide, Earth Traveler Sun, into a cavern shelter occupied by Eastern cultivators.
• Sun explains that they arrived after reaching perfection in their small worlds. They live in Green Prairie, a dangerous region of the Divine Realm ruled by Western gods and demons; the Eastern cultivators are a tiny, isolated group.
• The group survives in tunnels beneath the grasslands, avoiding powerful beasts and the horned demons of Bull Demon City. Here, beings can use only rule-based power or physical strength. Zhang cannot control the rules, so he focuses on physical training.
• After two months, Zhang’s strength has grown nearly fivefold. While hunting a wild goat, he suddenly senses Earth and sees a golden flash: Mo Bufan appears before him, naked and confused. Zhang gives him a hide shirt and hurries him toward the tunnels in case the demons heard them.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang is cautious and adaptable, accepting Sun’s help despite knowing little about him or the unfamiliar realm. He questions Sun’s account and learns that his grass skirt gave away his status as a newcomer.
• The sheltered cultivators initially crowd Zhang with questions, then apologize when Sun reminds them how overwhelming arrival was for them too. They are impressed by Zhang’s rapid physical growth and begin to see him as a potential savior.
• Zhang discovers that the universe in his mind—and Earth within it—is uniquely protected: no one can reach it unless they kill him.
• Mo Bufan’s unexpected arrival leaves both him and Zhang bewildered. Zhang takes charge, prioritizing their safety over explanations.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and survival: Zhang must adjust to a world with unfamiliar powers, dangerous wildlife, scarce food, and hostile demons.
• Isolation and displacement: The Eastern cultivators are remnants in a realm dominated by Western powers.
• Unusual potential and responsibility: Zhang’s exceptional growth inspires hope among the refugees, while his mysterious connection to Earth sets him apart.
• Uncertainty and disruption: Mo Bufan’s sudden appearance signals that Zhang’s connection to Earth may affect events in Green Prairie.

Plot points and events

• Mo Bufan arrives in the Divine Realm and reunites with Zhang Hongxing. Though fewer than three months have passed for Zhang, nearly ten thousand years have elapsed on Earth.
• Mo assures Zhang that his family is safe and reports that seven descendants have become Quasi-Sages through distinctive paths: his wife through bamboo; his children through nuclear fusion, painting, and military strategy; and later descendants through machinery, dance, and strength. The family also has more than thirty Great Golden Immortals.
• The Xia Kingdom now governs nearly the entire universe, including incorporated alien civilizations. Five of the Ten Grand Elders are still alive as Taiyi Golden Immortals; the others have died.
• Zhang explains that Eastern cultivators in the Divine Realm are oppressed and vastly outnumbered by demons. He introduces Mo to Earth Traveler Sun, who registers him and warns the two to conceal the location of their seemingly unoccupied home plane.
• Zhang tells Mo that he has been gathering intelligence and plans to capture Bull Demon Town once he grows stronger. Mo’s arrival makes him think they can act sooner.
• Mo reveals he has brought a Broken Blade into the Divine Realm, releasing an intimidating aura and suggesting he may be ready to challenge Zhang’s expectations.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing moves from alarm about the passage of time to relief at his family’s survival, then turns his attention to the fate of Earth and the oppressed cultivators. He is cautious and strategic, but determined to change their situation.
• Mo Bufan has become a Sage after nearly ten thousand years of cultivation. He accepts the grim reality of the Divine Realm but rejects the idea of hiding indefinitely, and hints that he intends to surpass Zhang.
• Earth Traveler Sun serves as the community’s administrator and gives the newcomers a serious warning about protecting their plane’s secrecy.
• Zhang and Mo share a trusting reunion, exchange news, and quickly shift from discussing the past to planning action.

Significant themes

• Time and legacy: A vast disparity in time allows generations to rise and civilizations to transform while Zhang is away.
• Family and enduring influence: Zhang’s descendants have built extraordinary power and security through their varied talents.
• Oppression and resistance: The cultivators’ precarious existence contrasts with Zhang’s growing resolve to organize resistance.
• Adaptation and ambition: Mo’s arrival, Sagehood, and mysterious Broken Blade may accelerate the effort to reclaim the town.

Key plot points and events

• Mo Bufan reveals that he has brought a broken half-blade from Earth into the Divine Realm and has integrated its power with his own understanding of the Blade Rule. He believes he may be close to fully mastering it and says no one nearby can match him.
• Zhang Hongxing asks Mo Bufan to help rally the Eastern Cultivators Alliance to attack Bull Demon City. The alliance members mock the proposal, dismissing Mo as an overconfident newcomer.
• Angered by their insults, Mo displays the blade’s overwhelming Blade Force and challenges the alliance’s leader, the bald Brother Li, to withstand one strike.
• Mo’s strike overwhelms Brother Li, who cannot deflect or evade it. Just before it lands, however, the Blade Force vanishes. Zhang secretly caused its dissipation, apparently testing whether he can control or take power from Mo.
• Brother Li and the onlookers are stunned by the strike’s power and its sudden cancellation. Mo realizes Zhang intervened and questions him; Zhang says his ability is difficult to use against enemies, and Mo reluctantly accepts the explanation.
• The mysterious sensation returns to Zhang, and Chu Yunxuan suddenly appears naked before the crowd. After a flurry of crude jokes and shocked reactions, Chu recognizes Zhang—the legendary figure thought to have disappeared ten thousand years earlier. Zhang awkwardly gives him a tiger-skin skirt.

Character developments and interactions

• Mo Bufan gains confidence as he demonstrates his extraordinary blade mastery, but Zhang’s intervention unsettles him and renews his awe of Zhang.
• Zhang Hongxing remains composed amid the alliance’s mockery and secretly discovers that he may be able to interfere with Mo’s power. He conceals the full implications from Mo.
• Brother Li tries to defend his status as alliance leader by accepting Mo’s challenge, only to recognize the vast gap in their strength.
• The alliance members shift from ridicule to fear and respect after witnessing Mo’s Blade Force.
• Chu Yunxuan arrives unexpectedly, embarrassed by his naked appearance, then reacts with astonishment upon seeing Zhang.

Significant themes

• Power and mastery: Mo’s command of the Blade Rule appears nearly godlike, while Zhang’s hidden ability suggests an even more unusual form of power.
• Pride, reputation, and authority: The alliance initially judges Mo by his newcomer status, and Brother Li accepts the challenge partly to protect his leadership.
• Secrecy and trust: Zhang withholds what he has learned about his influence over Mo, creating an unresolved tension between them.
• The legendary past returning: Chu’s recognition of Zhang connects the present events to Zhang’s vanished, mythic history.

Plot and key events

• Chu Yunxuan’s arrival convinces Zhang Hongxing that more powerful newcomers from his world may follow. Other cultivators are astonished by the appearance of several exceptional newcomers.
• Zhang proposes that the Eastern Cultivators seize Bull Demon City and end their long-standing oppression. Backed by influential cultivators Bald Brother Li and Earth Traveler Sun, the group agrees.
• Zhang divides the assault into three teams, led by Bald Brother Li, Mo Bufan, and Chu Yunxuan. Mo Bufan cuts through defenders with his Broken Blade; Chu’s Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python overwhelms opposition through sheer strength. His team advances fastest without needing to fight.
• The Broken-Horned Bull Demon prepares to defend the city, assembling his guards. As Zhang’s group advances, Zhang discovers human prisoners—some enslaved for labor or sex, others bred and kept as food.
• When fellow cultivators dismiss the captives as “meat humans” and defend their treatment as part of nature’s law, Zhang slaps them and condemns their reasoning. He frees prisoners and continues searching the city.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing shifts from seeking political liberation for the Eastern Cultivators to taking on a moral mission: freeing the enslaved humans. His anger exposes a sharp divide between his values and the other cultivators’ pragmatic indifference.
• Chu Yunxuan demonstrates his strength through his bond with the Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python, which has also reached sage level. His team’s easy advance underscores their formidable partnership.
• Mo Bufan proves himself a powerful fighter, having become a sage by merging with his blade.
• The other cultivators largely follow the group’s momentum, but several reveal that they distinguish themselves from the local humans and accept their enslavement as natural. Zhang confronts them directly.
• The Broken-Horned Bull Demon is shown as a determined defender, though the strength of Mo Bufan and Chu’s beast makes him uneasy.

Significant themes

• Human dignity and solidarity: Zhang insists that shared humanity creates an obligation to oppose cruelty.
• Moral responsibility versus “natural law”: The chapter rejects appeals to the strong devouring the weak when used to excuse oppression.
• Liberation and revenge: The assault begins as a bid to end the Eastern Cultivators’ subjugation, then gains a broader purpose in rescuing prisoners.
• Power and collective action: The cultivators’ willingness to act grows once respected leaders support the campaign.

Key plot points and events

• Mo Bufan, Chu Yunxuan, and Bald Brother Li confront the Broken-Horned Bull Demon in Bull Demon City. The demon mocks Bald Brother Li, but Mo Bufan quickly overwhelms him, shattering his axe with a single strike.
• As the demon powers himself up for a desperate counterattack, the Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python swallows him. The remaining bull-horned demons are defeated, ending their rule over the city.
• The enslaved human natives are freed, and Bull Demon City is renamed Huaxia City. Zhang Hongxing becomes its first City Lord, Mo Bufan its cultivation Instructor, and Chu Yunxuan its Civilization Mentor. Bald Brother Li and Earth Traveler Sun’s group are assigned as Patrol Guards.
• Over the following month, Chu Yunxuan teaches the natives Huaxia language and writing. Zhang promotes Huaxia customs, including giving the natives surnames and replacing signs throughout the city with Huaxia characters.
• While walking through the city, Zhang visits Old Wang’s shop. Old Wang refuses payment for a jar of Bull Demon Wine, grateful for his people’s liberation.
• The chapter ends abruptly as Zhang hears a plea for help. A small, gravely ill native child is thrown to his feet after trying to protect—or seek help for—his dying sister.

Character developments and interactions

• Mo Bufan establishes his dominance and takes on the role of teaching cultivation; his decisive attack breaks the Bull Demon’s weapon and resolve.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Blood Python proves itself a major threat by finishing the battle in a single move.
• Zhang Hongxing shifts from liberator to civic leader, organizing the city and building gratitude and loyalty among the freed natives. His exchange with Old Wang shows his considerate, measured leadership.
• Chu Yunxuan helps integrate the natives through language, culture, and writing.
• Bald Brother Li and his followers are subordinated despite their role in the campaign, and must accept patrol duties because of Mo Bufan’s and the python’s strength.
• Old Wang expresses sincere gratitude to Zhang, while Zhang respects his generosity and plans to repay him later.
• The final encounter introduces a new crisis involving a desperate child and the child’s dying sister.

Significant themes

• Liberation and cultural rebuilding: Defeating the bull-horned demons is followed by the deliberate creation of a new civic and cultural identity.
• Power and hierarchy: The strongest fighters determine both the battle’s outcome and the new city’s leadership structure.
• Gratitude and responsibility: The freed natives’ gratitude contrasts with Zhang’s sense that their welfare remains his responsibility.
• Assimilation and identity: Huaxia names, language, signs, and customs are used to foster shared identity among people from different backgrounds.

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Hongxing rescues a boy, then interrupts Xiao Jiu, an Eastern Cultivator attempting to assault a local woman.
• Xiao Jiu dismisses the city’s rules and the woman’s dignity. Zhang knocks him unconscious and binds him to a platform in the central square.
• One Sword Immortal and Mo Qianchou arrive from another world. Zhang gives them clothes and asks them to stand with him; both retain formidable powers and serve as his guards.
• Bald Brother Li tries to secure a private settlement for Xiao Jiu, but Zhang refuses to let him interfere with the law.
• Before residents, students, workers, and locals, Zhang explains Huaxia City’s rules and promises equal treatment for everyone. He publicly announces Xiao Jiu’s crimes and executes him.
• Word of the trial spreads, strengthening the city’s reputation and the natives’ admiration for its leaders.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing shows compassion by helping the injured boy and protecting the woman, while acting decisively against abuse. He shifts from enforcing rules personally to presenting them as a shared civic responsibility.
• Xiao Jiu is exposed as arrogant and unwilling to restrain himself; his claim that he might marry his victim does not lessen his crime.
• Bald Brother Li attempts to protect Xiao Jiu and preserve group loyalty, but backs down when Zhang asserts his authority.
• One Sword Immortal and Mo Qianchou quickly adapt to their arrival and stand beside Zhang, signaling their support and bringing their powers into the city.
• The gathered residents respond with a mix of hope and skepticism, while several prominent newcomers—along with Chu Yunxuan and Mo Bufan—come to be admired.

Significant themes

• Equality before the law: Zhang rejects the hierarchy of “superior” and “lowly” imposed by the demons and promises equal status for all.
• Justice versus favoritism: The attempted private settlement fails; serious wrongdoing is treated as a public matter, not a personal grievance to be negotiated away.
• Power and responsibility: Cultivation and strength do not excuse abuse, and people are urged to intervene against injustice or report it.
• Building a new society: The public trial is both punishment and a declaration of the values on which Huaxia City intends to grow.

Key plot points and events

• After the public trial, Xiao Jiu is executed. The spectacle makes clear that Zhang Hongxing’s rules apply to cultivators as well as natives, and begins to make people take his authority seriously.
• Mo Bufan and Chu Yunxuan pay respects to their Ancestors. Mo Bufan explains that the Divine Realm’s ambient energy is the power of rules, not spiritual qi or immortal energy; cultivation here depends on bodily tempering and comprehending those rules.
• Mo Qianchou demonstrates her powerful body and may already have begun to grasp the strength rule. She and One Sword Immortal pledge to follow Zhang Hongxing’s orders.
• Zhang suggests they contribute to Huaxia City by teaching cultivation or Xia Kingdom culture. Mo is willing to teach; One Sword Immortal would rather serve as Zhang’s guard and accompany him.
• Huaxia City’s development improves, and the formerly enslaved natives’ lives become better. But anxiety rises as Market Opening Month approaches: Bull Demon City must send representatives to nearby Wild Wolf City or other Demon City Lords may discover that Bull Demon City has fallen.
• Zhang has prepared watchtowers but does not plan to attack neighboring settlements yet. Huaxia City lacks the people and strength to conquer and hold them.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing asserts his authority through Xiao Jiu’s execution, while also considering whether his connection to Earth might let him influence or summon people from there.
• Mo Qianchou recognizes Zhang’s achievements, shows signs of rule comprehension, and appears suited to teaching martial cultivation.
• One Sword Immortal openly admires and pledges loyalty to Zhang, though he jokes and resists returning to teaching; he settles on acting as Zhang’s guard.
• Mo Bufan and Chu Yunxuan maintain respect for their Ancestors despite surpassing them in strength.
• The former slaves benefit from the new order but remain fearful, their confidence diminished by years of oppression.

Significant themes

• Authority and law: Public punishment establishes that Zhang’s rules are meant for everyone, not just the natives.
• Cultivation and adaptation: The Divine Realm demands new paths of growth through physical training and understanding rules.
• Freedom without confidence: Better conditions do not immediately erase the fear left by slavery.
• Practical limits of power: Zhang’s ambitions are constrained by limited manpower and the need to protect Huaxia City from discovery.

Plot and events

• Huaxia City continues preparing for the Market Opening Month, which begins in five days. Under Mo Qianchou and Mo Bufan’s instruction, Primitive Humans train with newly forged weapons and learn Emei and Shushan formations.
• Nearly twenty newcomers arrive from Earth, including Zhang Hongxing’s wife, Li Xiuying, their three children and two daughters-in-law, along with six Shushan members, twelve Emei members, and three powerful Fierce Beasts.
• The arrivals greatly strengthen Huaxia City and reassure its natives. Even former outsiders, led by Bald Brother Li and Earth Traveler Sun, become more diligent and increasingly loyal as they benefit from the city’s protection and cultivation teachers.
• The newcomers explore the city and enjoy its food before settling into training. At the Happy Tavern, Zhang Hongxing’s family reunites over a feast.
• Zhang Jun tells his father about the family’s abilities, beginning with Li Xiuying’s extraordinary physical cultivation. Zhang Hongxing takes her hand, moved by her strength and years of devotion.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Hongxing’s family greets one another with affectionate teasing. His children joke about his early hardships and their own accomplishments, while he says their reunion matters more than anything else.
• Li Xiuying remains quietly attentive during the family gathering, holding back her longing for private time with her husband. Zhang Hongxing recognizes the sacrifices behind her calmness and renews his resolve to cherish her.
• The former resentful cultivators’ attitudes shift from plotting to overturn Zhang Hongxing’s rule toward accepting Huaxia City as their home.
• The newcomers’ presence bolsters the confidence of the city’s natives as well as its defenses.

Significant themes

• Family reunion and devotion: The chapter centers on the warmth of a long-awaited reunion and the enduring bond between Zhang Hongxing and Li Xiuying.
• Unity and belonging: Shared protection, training, and improved prospects gradually bring outsiders and natives together.
• Strength through cooperation: Individual cultivation is limited by time, so formations and the contributions of several sects become essential.
• Perseverance and sacrifice: Li Xiuying’s demanding body-tempering cultivation illustrates the determination beneath her gentle demeanor.

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Ying reveals All Nations Paying Homage, the painting through which she became a Sage: a grand scene of nations and realms traveling toward red flags. Her family praises its power and the patriotism it expresses.
• Zhang Jun introduces his family’s Sage abilities: Zhang Bing’s military formations, Ziyue’s illusions, and Yan Mei’s more conventional path to Sagehood, made possible by the support of her son Zhang Le.
• Pressed by his siblings, Zhang Jun displays his own Sage creation: a black sphere containing three suns, arranged like the Chinese character 品. Their father, Zhang Hongxing, marvels at its destructive potential.
• After a family reunion and private time together, Zhang Hongxing and Li Xiuying turn to strengthening Huaxia City. The city trains native humans and develops cultivation-array technology, which is presented as a tool for improving life rather than making weapons.
• A patrol brings in the first foreign caravan to approach the city: fewer than fifty spiked demons carrying ores, especially divine iron. Their leader demands to see the lord of Bull Demon City, unaware that its former order has changed.
• Zhang Hongxing arrives and dismisses the caravan’s strength. When their leader demands to know what happened to Bull Demon City, Zhang Hongxing answers coolly, provoking the demon into threatening him.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Ying is shown to have a deeply patriotic side that surprises her family; despite her Sage composure, she blushes at her father’s praise.
• Zhang Jun acts as both proud brother and son, introducing the family’s achievements, then reluctantly reveals his own immense power when his siblings urge him on.
• Zhang Le’s sacrifice is noted: he delayed his own group’s progress to help his mother reach Sagehood and remain with his father.
• Zhang Hongxing moves from affectionate family life to decisive leadership, welcoming the chance to engage with outside traders but refusing to be intimidated by their leader.
• The family’s teasing and praise convey closeness, while the confrontation with the spiked demons establishes a sharp contrast between domestic warmth and the city’s tense political reality.

Significant themes

• Family support and sacrifice: relatives celebrate one another’s achievements, and Zhang Le puts his mother’s needs before his own advancement.
• Growth through independence: Zhang Hongxing reflects that children can develop more quickly after leaving parental protection.
• Technology for human welfare: cultivation technology is valued for making life easier, while its use for warfare is condemned.
• Changing power and political order: the demon leader still assumes demons control the city, revealing how dramatically the region’s balance of power has shifted—and setting up a likely clash.