Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan secured agreement to assemble the Star Map, then set out rules for alliance membership and benefit-sharing. He announced that Yin Zheluo’s former seat would be reassigned, leaving the assembled factions stunned.

• Fang Qianyuan proposed assembling the Star Map during the gathering, and the envoys agreed.
• King Mu asked whether the existing pact should be changed and how future alliance disputes would be handled.
• Fang Qianyuan said the old pact could be abolished and proposed Permanent Seat Elders, with decision-making rights tied to Star Maps.
• Fang Qianyuan said benefits could be shared with other powerful factions through exchanges of equal value.
• Fang Qianyuan announced that Yin Zheluo’s former Star Map seat would be allocated to someone else, shocking King Mu and the others.

Fang Qianyuan won support for uniting the nine Flying Immortal Records by proposing fair competition and practical protections for current holders. After everyone surrendered their star maps, the nine records merged and revealed a three-dimensional starfield centered on the Spirit-Taming World.

• Fang Qianyuan proposed distributing opportunities to compete for the star maps, and King Mu questioned what would happen if the records changed hands in the future.
• Fang Qianyuan argued that only the virtuous should hold Heaven’s mandate, while the Night King and Yin Yuanzheng realized they needed his support to protect their maps and status.
• Fang Qianyuan outlined rules balancing competition with the interests of existing holders, and the gathered factions agreed to assemble the nine records.
• The Night King and the others handed over their star maps, and Fang Qianyuan gathered all nine in his hands.
• Fang Qianyuan circulated his spirit essence, causing the nine records to merge and project a three-dimensional starfield.
• The assembled onlookers recognized the central star in the projection as the Spirit-Taming World.

The Star Map showed that the Spirit-Taming World was an isolated star realm surrounded by an immense, apparently impassable void. Tian Heng discovered that it reflected the universe in real time, leading the group to conclude it was a Dao Artifact, but they could not determine what guidance its creator intended to provide.

• The Star Map revealed the Spirit-Taming World as a tiny azure island in a vast gray universe, leaving the experts shocked and despairing over their apparent inability to escape.
• The experts recalled rumors that the Star Map was a Mystic Treasure meant to guide them away and searched its seemingly infinite projection with their Divine Sense.
• Tian Heng spotted a miniature Spellbreak City in the projection and struck the nearby Side Peak, whose newly flattened summit appeared in the Star Map.
• Tian Heng concluded that the Star Map reflected the actual universe in real time and identified it as a Dao Artifact.
• The group speculated that the artifact came from the Spirit Venerable and that their realm was the Pengyuan Great Star Realm in the Yangtian Starfield, but they could not understand its intended message.

Fang Qianyuan and the other powers discovered that the united Flying Immortal Records had fused into an indivisible star map, sparking a dispute over who would guard it. They agreed to store it under joint protection in the Bright Hall of the Assembly, while Fang Qianyuan left with Wang Ran and said he had his own plans.

• Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng agreed to put the assembled star map away and return it to its owners, but Fang Qianyuan discovered that the nine records had fused into one indivisible treasure.
• King Mu accused Fang Qianyuan of trying to monopolize the star map and proposed locking it in a chest that required nine keys to open.
• The Night King proposed that the factions jointly guard the star map with elite forces and protective measures, and Fang Qianyuan agreed.
• The assembled powers stored the star map in the Bright Hall of the Assembly under their joint protection.
• Wang Ran questioned Fang Qianyuan's agreement, and Fang Qianyuan explained that seizing the star map by force would plunge the world into war and said he had his own plans.

After the nine records united and formed the Star Map, Fang Qianyuan questioned Venerable Azure about its purpose while the Cloud Summit Gathering’s powerhouses explored the vast Pengyuan Great Star Realm. Their investigations suggested the map revealed the cosmos through the power of the great dao origin, until one explorer made a startling discovery.

• Fang Qianyuan returned to his residence, where Bai Aoxue learned that the nine records had been united but regretted that self-interest had hindered cooperation.
• Fang Qianyuan checked on Venerable Azure and Venerable White, then asked Venerable Azure what the Star Map was used for.
• Venerable Azure said the Supreme Heaven Sect had not learned the map’s purpose and suggested it might reveal star gates or passages beyond the realm.
• The Cloud Summit Gathering’s powerhouses explored the Star Map and estimated that the Pengyuan Great Star Realm spanned a million jing in every direction.
• Fang Qianyuan and the others concluded that the Star Map operated through the great dao origin and found no azure spiritual radiance beyond their realm.
• One person exploring the Star Map suddenly cried out after discovering something astonishing.

Fang Qianyuan used the Star Map to find a spirit essence-bearing world and projected his laws into it, opening a passage between distant realms. He withdrew when both worlds’ Heavenly Dao wills resisted him, leaving everyone astonished by the Star Map’s potential.

• Fang Qianyuan magnified the Star Map and revealed a tiny spirit essence-bearing celestial body within a distant Star Realm.
• The group realized that spirit essence-bearing stars existed across the sea of stars but were too distant for them to affect or reach.
• Fang Qianyuan cast Heavenly Will Manifestation through the Star Map, sending chains of law into an unnamed world hundreds of Star Realms away.
• The chains opened a passage that merged energies between the worlds, while snow, black winds, and rich Wood Dao origin energy spread through the distant world’s wildwood.
• The Heavenly Dao wills of both worlds resisted Fang Qianyuan, and he withdrew his chains and ended the connection as the others watched in amazement.

Fang Qianyuan explained how he could use the Star Map to send people to the Outer Domains and proposed keeping it in his custody to prepare expeditions. King Mu disputed his claim, but Tian Heng and others supported Fang, leaving the gathering tense.

• Tian Heng asked Fang Qianyuan whether he could transport Spirit Tamers and Spirit Creatures to other realms, and Fang said he could establish a Star Realm Gate by working from both ends.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed sending people by reconstituting their souls and essence in another world, where they could help build a Grand Formation.
• Fang Qianyuan insisted the Star Map remain in his custody, while King Mu accused him of keeping it permanently.
• Tian Heng, Yin Yuanzheng, and Luo Muyun supported Fang Qianyuan, and the group agreed to let him hold the Star Map and summon them to prepare expeditions.
• King Mu accused Fang Qianyuan of breaking their agreement, and Tian Heng rebuked King Mu as the gathering turned tense.

Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng persuaded the factions to join an expedition to the Otherworld and negotiated how to divide its gains. Fang Qianyuan then began scouting the Otherworld by sending four chosen warriors through the Star Map.

• King Mu tried to oppose Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng, but held back when the other experts refused to support him.
• Tian Heng urged the factions to explore the Nameless World, and they agreed to share the gains between the Star Map contributors and the expeditionary force.
• Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng privately agreed to send a small scouting party to the Otherworld to prove the expedition's value.
• Fang Qianyuan chose Lin Lai and Lin Mu, while Tian Heng chose Xiao Shijin and Li Yong, to serve as Dao Markers.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Star Map and Law Chains to send the four warriors' reconstituted bodies and divine souls toward the Otherworld.

Fang Qianyuan sent Lin Lai, Lin Mu, Xiao Shijin, and Li Yong into an unknown Wood Dao world as bait to explore it. After hostile tree spirits captured them, Fang Qianyuan intervened again, freezing their captor and reaching through the world barriers to seize it.

• Fang Qianyuan transformed Lin Lai, Lin Mu, Xiao Shijin, and Li Yong into manifested spirit-like beings and sent them to explore the distant world.
• Tian Heng watched Fang Qianyuan’s experiment and waited as the four followed his guidance through the forest, collecting unfamiliar plants.
• A dark-red tree attacked the four with its branches and vines, then uprooted itself and pursued them.
• More tree spirits surrounded the four, impaled them, and bound them inside toothed growths to be devoured.
• Fang Qianyuan’s power descended, froze the largest tree and its captives, and sent an enormous hand through the world barriers to seize them.

Fang Qianyuan revealed a Red Demon Tree brought from another world, and Tian Heng identified its possible connection to jianmu and the Life Essence Fruit used to make the Millennium Longevity Pill. The Cloud Summit Gathering learned that Fang Qianyuan had successfully connected to the world, while the four men's haul of rare spirit materials suggested it was rich in treasures.

• Fang Qianyuan released the Red Demon Tree from an ice crystal, and Tian Heng identified it as a likely Wood Dao spirit monster with the origin of jianmu.
• Tian Heng explained that Life Essence Fruit from a Life Divine Tree could extend life and serve as the main ingredient of the Millennium Longevity Pill.
• Fang Qianyuan realized the otherworld might contain intact jianmu and the ingredients needed for the lost longevity pill.
• The gathered experts subdued the Red Demon Tree and recognized it as proof that Fang Qianyuan had connected to another world.
• Wang Ran presented the four men's inventory, and the experts were astonished by the many rare spirit materials they had gathered.

Fang Qianyuan and the factions prepared a second expedition into the Otherworld, selecting elite Dao Markers and agreeing to launch in one month. The explorers were left to train together and coordinate their plans before entering the dangerous Nameless World.

• The factions agreed to begin preparations after realizing the Otherworld held valuable opportunities and serious dangers.
• Several days later, leaders from every faction gathered on Cloud Summit Peak with roughly a hundred elite fighters chosen as Dao Markers.
• Fang Qianyuan inscribed the new Dao Markers on the fighters, creating links that would let him transport them between their native land and the Otherworld.
• Fang Qianyuan said he needed a month to master the Star Map and told the expeditionary force to conduct joint drills and coordinate its exploration plans.

Fang Qianyuan used the Star Map to transport a second wave of cultivators from the Spirit-Taming World to the Nameless World, where they began exploring and assessing its resources. As he surveyed the world from afar, his Wood Dao laws resonated with a power at its center, and his Law Chains entered without resistance.

• Fang Qianyuan used the Star Map to send the marked expedition elites from Cloud Summit Peak into the Nameless World.
• The cultivators arrived in the Nameless World, regrouped, and split into small teams to explore and evaluate the world.
• The expedition sought signs of intelligent inhabitants, cultivation, spirit essence, and valuable materials that could justify a larger campaign.
• Fang Qianyuan surveyed the Nameless World through the Star Map and found that clouds, mist, and hidden traces limited his ability to inspect it clearly.
• A strange power stirred at the world's center, resonating with Fang Qianyuan's Wood Dao laws, and his Law Chains descended without being rejected.

Fang Qianyuan discovered that the world’s incomplete Heavenly Dao did not resist Wood Dao Law Chains, allowing him to quietly draw on the forest’s spirit essence. The expedition returned with evidence of a mature Jianmu tree, but its fruit was guarded by deadly creatures and plants.

• Fang Qianyuan realized that Wood Dao Law Chains could evade the Heavenly Dao’s resistance and let them take root in the forest.
• Tian Heng and the other mighty figures waited at Cloud Summit Peak for the expedition to return.
• Li Yong and the wounded expedition members emerged through the spatial vortex, and Li Yong reported that they had found an enormous tree of the Jianmu lineage.
• Li Yong explained that the expedition had lost more than ten people when they approached the tree and were attacked by Red Demon Trees and poisonous plants.
• Tian Heng examined the expedition’s evidence and confirmed that the tree was Jianmu, over a hundred thousand years old and nearing the ripening of its fruit.

The Alliance recruited rogue cultivators and assembled an expedition to conquer the Nameless World, though Fang Qianyuan’s limits on transporting people and powerful Spirit Tamers slowed its progress. In the Nameless World, Commander Li Yong oversaw construction of a fortified camp and planned to expand it into an Iron Fortress.

• The great sects and aristocratic clans recruited skilled cultivators, prioritizing aerial forces, laboring spirit creatures, scouts, and Spirit Tamers versed in the Wood Dao.
• The Alliance determined that Fang Qianyuan could transport only a little over a hundred people a day, and that powerful Spirit Tamers and spirit creatures were especially difficult to bring through.
• The Alliance planned to build an outpost and transportation formation before launching a larger campaign into the apparently uncivilized Nameless World.
• Commander Li Yong woke the camp and organized the cultivators into patrols, construction crews, scouts, and foragers.
• The expedition used spirit creatures and Earth Escape techniques to build houses and walls in a wildfire-cleared camp.
• Li Yong surveyed the camp and declared that growing manpower and supplies would let them establish an Iron Fortress that forest demons could not breach.

Li Yong and Xiao Shijin explained why the Cloud Summit Alliance planned to avoid the divine Jianmu and build a forward camp before launching a larger assault. Meanwhile, Demon Alliance elders decided they needed to join the expedition, but an intruder interrupted their discussion.

• Li Yong told the Warriors that the divine Jianmu was too powerful to confront for now, and Xiao Shijin explained the plan to build a distant camp and expand gradually.
• Xiao Shijin urged the expedition members to secure their foundation instead of recklessly charging into the forest to fight demons and spirit monsters.
• Demon Alliance elders confirmed that the otherworldly world and its legendary divine tree were real after sending spies among the recruited rogue cultivators.
• The elders debated how to join the Cloud Summit Alliance without settling for a subordinate role, considering whether to approach Night King or Grand Elder Luo.
• A disturbance outside the grotto interrupted them as someone broke in.

Lin Qi led demonized warriors in an assault on the Demon Alliance branch headquarters to stop its elders from joining the Cloud Summit Alliance, backed by Grand Elder Lianshan of the Sacred Sect. When the defenders fought back, a mysterious black pupil appeared and killed Elder Lai with a bolt of thunder.

• Lin Qi confronted Elder Lai and accused him of planning to abandon the Demon Alliance for the Cloud Summit Alliance.
• Lin Qi revealed that Grand Elder Lianshan and elite demonized warriors had surrounded the headquarters and demanded the elders surrender.
• Elder Lai sent a warning to the other elders, who summoned spirit creatures and attacked Lin Qi.
• A black sphere with a dark-gold pupil destroyed Elder Lai's leopard-shaped spirit creature with lightning.
• The black pupil fired another thunderbolt and tore Elder Lai apart.

Tian Heng and Fang Qianyuan received news that Lin Qi had killed five Earth Rank Elders and was linked to the master of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. While Tian Heng ordered the search to continue, Fang Qianyuan focused on gently integrating his Wood Dao laws into the Jianmu World, where he discovered its Heavenly Dao did not resist them.

• A messenger told Tian Heng that Lin Qi had killed five Earth Rank Elders at the Demon Alliance's Ji Mountain Branch Headquarters and absorbed their territories and protected lineages.
• Tian Heng learned that Lin Qi might be backed by the master of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and ordered his subordinates to investigate without targeting Lin Qi unless they could gain a lead.
• Fang Qianyuan received the report at the Heavencrystal Snowfield and dismissed it, leaving the matter to the Heavenly Dao Alliance or the sect.
• Fang Qianyuan directed his divine sense to the Jianmu World and discovered that its Heavenly Dao did not resist Wood Dao laws.
• Fang Qianyuan abandoned his plan to forcibly seize the world's origin and began exploring a gradual approach that could let him merge his laws with the world.

As the Otherworld expeditions brought fame and opportunity to some Spirit Tamers while costing many others their lives, the Demon Alliance weakened and factions debated joining the Cloud Summit Alliance. Elders Lianshan and Guizang gathered at the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and resolved to use a secret method to restore the Sacred Sect.

• Wang Daolin, Lin Jiaona, and Li Zong gained fame through their discoveries and breakthroughs in the Jianmu World, though their gains also benefited the Cloud Summit Alliance.
• Many expedition members died in the wild forests, while internal conflict and defections weakened the Demon Alliance.
• Sun Zhuo, Wu Longjie, and the younger power holders sent elites to find Elders Lianshan and Guizang and eliminate them.
• Elders Lianshan and Guizang met at the desolate Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and discussed the Sacred Sect’s remaining plan.
• Elder Guizang convinced Elder Lianshan to proceed with their secret method to reclaim the Sacred Sect’s foundations.

Elder Lianshan and Guizang opened a gate to the Reincarnation World, where the Supreme Heaven Sect had preserved its members in sleep to survive across ages. With the Heavenly Dao Alliance blocking their usual awakening methods, they planned to awaken the sleepers directly in this hidden world.

• Lin Qi watched Elder Lianshan and Guizang join their black-and-white Hooked Jade pieces, opening a gate to another world.
• Guizang identified the hidden realm as the Reincarnation World, created by Venerable Pan to preserve the Sacred Sect's lineage.
• Elder Lianshan and Guizang explained how the Reincarnation World and the sect's Black Coffin ritual had allowed members to sleep through the Dharma-Ending Age.
• The elders revealed that the Heavenly Dao Alliance had made the sect's usual methods of awakening sleepers too dangerous to use.
• Elder Lianshan and Guizang opened the Reincarnation World to awaken its sleepers directly, intending to rouse more than one or two members.

Fang Qianyuan expanded his Law Chains into Jianmu World, transforming a forest into the foundation of his own Domain. He planned to gradually take the place of the world’s Heavenly Dao while the Expeditionary Corps prepared to challenge Jianmu.

• The alliance leaders renewed their effort to build a grand teleportation formation, and Tian Heng recruited more powers to support the campaign against Jianmu.
• Fang Qianyuan continued researching the Wood Dao in the Heavencrystal Snowfield and extended his Law Chains into Jianmu World.
• Fang Qianyuan’s Law Chains transformed a forest into a Domain shaped by the powers he commanded.
• Bai Aoxue recognized Fang Qianyuan’s Law Chains as a Light Net capable of forming a miniature Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Qianyuan told Bai Aoxue that he intended to infiltrate Jianmu World gradually and replace its Heavenly Dao, using the Expeditionary Corps’ activity to his advantage.