Chapter Summaries

Lianshan and Guizang awakened ancient cultivators from the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms sects to confront the crisis surrounding Fang Qianyuan and the collapsing Demon Alliance. After the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy challenged the joint leadership, Yellow Venerable yielded command to him so they could address the threat.

• Lianshan explained that the ancient sects had awakened their elders because Fang Qianyuan might be the prophesied wielder of a grand divine ability and the signs of the coming tribulation were unclear.
• Yellow Venerable divined that the signs seemed both right and wrong, while Black Venerable suggested the outcome rested in human hands.
• The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy rejected unity with the Supreme Heaven Sect, accusing Lianshan and the others of breaking their pact and wasting the sects’ foundations.
• Lianshan revealed that Venerable Scarlet, Venerable Azure, and Venerable White had been captured and that the Successors had suffered heavy losses.
• Lianshan described Fang Qianyuan’s strength and the Demon Alliance’s imminent collapse, persuading the awakened cultivators that the crisis was grave.
• Yellow Venerable proposed that the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy take command, and Black Venerable agreed.

The Yellow Venerable and the other revived members of the Sacred Sect retreated to the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven to rebuild their strength and prepare to seize resources. Fang Qianyuan sensed their movements, ordered surveillance of the Demon Alliance and Elders Lianshan and Guizang, and continued establishing a hidden domain in the Jianmu World while planning a more proactive expedition.

• The Yellow Venerable advised the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy to lie low, rebuild their divine abilities, retrieve the Hidden Treasury's reserves, and take control of the Demon Alliance.
• The Yellow Venerable, Lianshan, and their remaining forces returned to the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven with dozens of unopened Black Coffins.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed a connection to the Supreme Heaven Sect's Supreme Token and ordered Warriors to watch the Demon Alliance and search for Elders Lianshan and Guizang.
• Fang Qianyuan expanded his domain in the Jianmu World by using the Star Map and Law Shackles to draw on the native Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized that the Jianmu World might eventually reject and expose him, but relied on local laws and his expeditionary forces as camouflage.
• Fang Qianyuan decided that the Expeditionary Corps should attack more proactively and seek a foothold in the Jianmu World.

Fang Qianyuan announced that the Cloud Summit Alliance would attack Jianmu, saying he had found a way to deploy forces of Earth Rank or above. He summoned the Star Map for the alliance leaders and ordered the Expeditionary Corps to prepare for war, leaving its members awaiting a chance to march against the Ancestor of the Demon Tree.

• Fang Qianyuan asked Bai Aoxue about Cloud Summit Peak and learned that King Mu had been meeting with various parties while the others made no unusual moves.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned the Cloud Summit Alliance leaders and proposed an offensive against Jianmu, claiming he had made progress on deploying higher-ranked forces.
• The alliance representatives approved the attack, and Fang Qianyuan summoned the Star Map so they could jointly command the war.
• Li Yong received Fang Qianyuan's order through his shoulder mark and directed the Expeditionary Corps to assemble in the city square.
• Li Yong announced that the corps would prepare to cut down the Ancestor of the Demon Tree and conquer the world, and the soldiers joined his battle cry.

The Expeditionary Corps launched an offensive into the Jianmu World, using its intelligence, unity, and mobility to attack isolated Tree Demon territories. The army burned a broad route through the forest, and three Earth Rank demons began moving toward the human forces.

• The commanders explained the Corps’ advantages and warned that areas beyond the Dao Markers’ range remained blind spots.
• Flying squadrons dropped heavenfire stones while ground battalions used fire oil, Lightning Talismans, and Thunderclap Bombs to burn a path through the forest.
• The allied clan envoys welcomed the demand for heavenfire stone and other supplies, which gave their factions a share in the expedition’s gains.
• After a day, three Earth Rank demons and the spirit plants in their domains sensed the threat and began moving toward the army.

An elite battle group fought and killed the Earth Rank demon Wood Octopus after Han Xian grievously wounded it. An elder of the Mystic Sun Sect praised Han Xian’s battlefield merit and called for his promotion and reward.

• Disciplinary officers spotted the Wood Octopus and warned that an elite battle group was needed to face it.
• The elite battle group set the forest ablaze and attacked the Wood Octopus with flame and metal spirit creatures.
• Han Xian dodged the demon’s vines, transformed with the Flame Tiger, and fought alongside the other Spirit Tamers.
• After heavy casualties, Han Xian struck a wound in the Wood Octopus’s stump, and the formation soldiers restrained it while the group killed it.
• A Mystic Sun Sect elder praised Han Xian’s achievements and said he deserved a generous reward and promotion.

As the Expeditionary Corps advanced toward Jianmu, Fang Qianyuan unleashed the Black Wind Calamity and other laws through his domain, violently reshaping the world’s environment. He used the upheaval to spread his refined wood dao laws beyond the domain, while the native forests reacted to the change as a disaster.

• The Expeditionary Corps suffered casualties against powerful demons, then coordinated its forces and defeated them as its advance toward Jianmu continued.
• Fang Qianyuan’s domain drew in heaven and earth essence, awakening a metallic grove and driving nearby plants and spirit monsters into flight.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed the Black Wind Calamity, whose storms tore apart forests and overwhelmed the wood dao’s dominance.
• Fang Qianyuan brought snow and other laws from the Outer-Domain Void into his domain, freezing the surrounding landscape and changing the local web of laws.
• Fang Qianyuan sent his refined wood dao laws beyond the domain as the native forests trembled at the upheaval.

Fang Qianyuan spread his laws and will across the Jianmu World, turning vast forests into a winter wasteland and establishing a foothold against its native Heavenly Dao. When he sensed the Spirit of Nature, it roared in fury, and primordial power swept over the world.

• Fang Qianyuan used clashes of origin energy and laws to conceal and scatter his will through the Jianmu World as part of Stealing Heaven and Replacing the Sun.
• His influence brought unnatural winter across tens of thousands of miles, freezing and killing native vegetation and creating the Winter Snow Forest.
• After more than a month of the Expeditionary Corps’ advance, Fang Qianyuan had exterminated over a hundred Earth Rank demons and their lesser followers along the route.
• Fang Qianyuan’s power grew through the clash between Heavenly Daos, letting him strengthen his Domain and contend with the Jianmu World’s Spirit of Nature.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed the Spirit of Nature, which answered with an enraged roar as origin energy surged and Primordial Antiquity’s aura enveloped the world.

The Heavenly Dao’s will stirred in response to the Expeditionary Corps’ changes to the Jianmu World, suppressing the invaders until Fang Qianyuan shielded them with his power. The elders then tested whether an Earth Rank expert could descend, and Wang Ran began emerging into the world.

• The Heavenly Dao’s will made the world’s essence violent and filled the Expeditionary Corps with dread.
• Fang Qianyuan spread snow across the battlefield, easing the soldiers’ fear and restoring their morale.
• Tian Heng asked Fang Qianyuan to try sending an Earth Rank Spirit Tamer into the Jianmu World, and Wang Ran volunteered.
• Fang Qianyuan sent a strand of divine sense and chains of law to bring Wang Ran down.
• A vortex opened in the Jianmu World’s sky, and chains of law lowered a hazy human figure into it.

Fang Qianyuan enabled Wang Ran, an Earth Rank cultivator, to descend into the Jianmu World, then endured the world’s Heavenly Dao backlash and protected his consciousness with his immortal nature and Time Reversal. Wang Ran emerged unharmed, and the Expeditionary Corps celebrated as the Alliance’s leaders recognized the descent as a step toward conquering the world.

• Fang Qianyuan used greater power to let Wang Ran descend, exposing his aura and provoking the Jianmu World’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao’s Law Shackles and vast collective will threatened to overwhelm Fang Qianyuan’s consciousness and unleash his power destructively.
• Fang Qianyuan’s golden immortal nature protected his self-awareness, and he used Time Reversal to withstand the backlash at the cost of weakening his aura.
• Tian Heng, King Mu, and the Night King realized that Earth Rank cultivators could now descend and saw the Jianmu World as within reach of conquest.
• Wang Ran recovered after a brief daze, rose into the air, and displayed his aura to the cheering Expeditionary Corps.

Fang Qianyuan used Wang Ran as a mobile projection node to extend his influence into the Jianmu World and support the Expeditionary Corps’ advance. Three days after Wang Ran descended, the Corps reached the colossal Jianmu, whose nine Life Essence Fruits were drawing the attention of powerful beings.

• Fang Qianyuan sensed the laws around Wang Ran and used the Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art to summon Snow Wolves in the Jianmu World.
• Fang Qianyuan sent thousands of Snow Wolves ahead to clear the way while Wang Ran served as a mobile projection node.
• With Fang Qianyuan’s assistance, the Expeditionary Corps advanced a thousand li and killed countless native Tree Demons and Spirit Plants.
• Three days after Wang Ran’s descent, the Expeditionary Corps reached the immense Jianmu, whose image appeared on the Star Map’s screen.
• Tian Heng explained that the Jianmu bore nine Life Essence Fruits and that its fruit could give rise to intelligent divine beings.

The Expeditionary Corps began its assault on Jianmu, whose domain protected its Life Essence Fruits with translucent spirit monsters and powerful vine dragons. Fang Qianyuan’s ice dragon broke through the defenders but was stopped before reaching the fruits, as more of Jianmu’s favored race emerged.

• Elder Lin identified the translucent winged spirits as a divine-favored race still being nurtured by Jianmu and considered their connection to flower demons and Diamond Blossom Fairies.
• Tian Heng urged Fang Qianyuan to begin the attack, and Fang sent Wang Ran to lead the army’s ground assault.
• Fang Qianyuan formed an ice dragon and used Wind Blade Frost Sword to freeze and shred the translucent spirit monsters.
• The ice dragon broke through the spirits’ barrier and snapped Jianmu’s branches as it charged toward the nine Life Essence Fruits.
• A massive vine dragon struck the ice dragon aside, and the observers recognized it as one of Jianmu’s favored race.
• More vine dragons emerged from the canopy, including several powerful earth-rank spirit monsters.

Fang Qianyuan’s expedition encountered spirit beings born from the divine Jianmu tree’s flowers and leaves, revealing that the tree created a race with true spirits and cultivation potential. Tian Heng recognized the discovery’s value to the Human Race and declared that Jianmu could not withstand their assault.

• The divine Jianmu tree released Cicada-Wing Flower Fairies from its petals to defend the fruit from Fang Qianyuan’s army.
• Tian Heng explained that the tree’s flowers concentrated their essence into nine fruits while some petals awakened into powerful spirit monsters.
• Green leaves transformed into Flower Fairy Leaf Spirits, armed with weapons made from leaves and born with cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that Jianmu cultivated the Creation Dao and created species rather than specializing in direct combat.
• Tian Heng told the other leaders that Jianmu’s vassal species possessed true spirits and could offer major opportunities for Human Race research.

Fang Qianyuan used successive spirit creature manifestations to distract Jianmu’s defenders and steal three Life Essence Fruits. The experts on Cloud Summit Peak celebrated as the fruits vanished through a breach into their world.

• Tian Heng advised Fang Qianyuan to preserve the Flower Fairy Leaf Spirits’ spiritual essence but kill individuals who stood in his way.
• Fang Qianyuan sent an Ice-Crystal Heavenly Wolf to draw the Flower Fairies and Vine Dragons away from the nine fruits.
• The wolf changed forms and fought through the defenders, giving Fang Qianyuan’s manifestations an opening to seize one fruit and then three more.
• A giant hand reached through a black hole, grabbed the three stolen fruits, and vanished with them as Jianmu trembled.
• The experts on Cloud Summit Peak praised Fang Qianyuan for securing three Life Essence Fruits with Earth Rank power.

Tian Heng and the Cloud Summit Alliance leaders discussed how to divide the three Life Essence Fruits already obtained from the Jianmu World. They agreed to entrust the fruits to the Pill Sect to refine into Millennium Longevity Pills, and the Pill Sect accepted the task.

• Tian Heng and the other leaders celebrated the discovery of the Life Essence Fruits and went to a side hall to discuss dividing the spoils.
• Tian Heng explained the alliance's agreed shares for Star Map holders and expedition contributors, while noting that the fruits needed to be distributed separately from other spoils.
• King Mu objected that dividing only three fruits directly would be cumbersome and difficult.
• Tian Heng proposed having the Pill Sect refine the fruits into more than a hundred Millennium Longevity Pills, and the leaders supported the plan.
• Fang Qianyuan approved the decision, and the Pill Sect envoy accepted responsibility for refining the pills.

Wang Ran led the assault against Jianmu World's Spirit Monsters when the Heavenly Dao of Spirit-Taming World broke through the void and connected itself to the battlefield. Fang Qianyuan welcomed the connection as a way to build a teleportation route, but suspected the Two Sects had planned for the Heavenly Dao to plunder other worlds.

• Wang Ran used his Qilin Arm and Myriad Transformations Curse Seal to smash through the enemy ranks and hold several Earth Rank Spirit Monsters at bay.
• A vast fissure opened above Jianmu, and chains of the Heavenly Dao descended into the world.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that the Heavenly Dao had traced unfamiliar Laws and Spirit Essence back to their source after the Life Essence Fruit was seized.
• Tian Heng confirmed that exchanges between worlds could restore their incomplete Heavenly Daos and that a deeper connection might help form a Teleportation Grand Formation.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed that the connection would make a passage between the worlds easier to establish, while privately suspecting the Two Sects had anticipated the Heavenly Dao's response.

After the Spirit-Taming World's Heavenly Dao began transforming the Jianmu World, Fang Qianyuan's forces withdrew from the forest and planned to secure the remaining Life Essence Fruits later. Fang proposed sending more cultivators to occupy the world and opening new expeditions, leaving Li Dan and Duanmutian selected to represent their sects in the next deployment.

• Fang Qianyuan and the other leaders agreed to sound the gongs and withdraw, since they already had one Life Essence Fruit and could return with reinforcements.
• Wang Ran and the forest spirits sensed the Spirit-Taming World's power flooding into the Jianmu World as the Expeditionary Corps retreated and drove off pursuing plant spirit monsters.
• Fang Qianyuan told the powerhouses that they should complete a teleportation formation and station at least two Heaven-Tier Powerhouses in the Jianmu World.
• Fang urged the leaders to pursue other worlds and seek treasures that could extend lifespans and aid their understanding of laws and the Great Dao.
• Tian Heng proposed sending Li Dan and Duanmutian, and both agreed to travel to the Jianmu World.

Lin Qi and two companions from the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven traveled to Maofeng Market Ward to reconnect with the Earth Baleful Gate on behalf of the Sacred Sect. They met with the branch manager and sought an audience with Branch Chief Feng, whose position had become precarious after Elder Tang’s capture.

• Lin Qi and his companions entered Maofeng Market Ward disguised as rogue cultivators and headed for the Earth Baleful Gate’s branch headquarters.
• Lin Qi warned his companions that the Sacred Sect could not assume the local forces would submit, so they should make contact without provoking conflict.
• The three showed their token to the branch manager and requested a meeting with Branch Chief Feng.
• Lin Qi told the manager that they served Grand Elder Lianshan at the Sacred Sect’s headquarters, then praised Feng Xiaoyun’s former prospects under Elder Tang.
• The chapter described how Elder Tang’s capture left Feng Xiaoyun fearing the Heavenly Dao Alliance and struggling to hold his position.

Lin Qi and his companions failed to meet Branch Leader Feng, who had left on an undisclosed errand, and discussed the Sacred Sect’s plans to outlast and eventually control the Cloud Summit Alliance. Their confidence wavered when they overheard rogue cultivators mention longevity medicine from another world, and Lin Qi stopped them to ask about it.

• The shopkeeper told Lin Qi and his companions that Branch Leader Feng had left in a hurry to attend to an important matter.
• After leaving the branch, Lin Qi and his companions speculated that Feng Xiaoyun might have gone to Cloud Summit Peak or sought help from the Earth Baleful Gate’s elders.
• Lin Qi and his companions discussed the Sacred Sect’s weakened position, King Mu’s defection, and their belief that time and revived experts would eventually let them control the Cloud Summit Alliance.
• Several rogue cultivators passed by and said that Old Shan and his companions had obtained longevity medicine in the Otherworld.
• Lin Qi stopped the rogue cultivators and asked what longevity medicine they meant.

Lin Qi confirmed that the Cloud Summit Alliance had obtained the Immortality Elixir from Jianmu World and brought the news to the Sacred Sect’s leaders. The Yellow Venerable interpreted the achievement as an omen of great change, warning that Fang Qianyuan’s growing power could reshape the alliance and usher in an Age of Great Strife.

• Lin Qi and his companions confirmed that the Cloud Summit Alliance had obtained the Immortality Elixir and used a Traveling Talisman to return to the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven.
• Lianshan and Guizang summoned the venerables and reported that their enemies had secured the life-extending spirit medicine.
• The Yellow Venerable called the news an omen and argued that the alliance’s new resources could strengthen its factions while leaving the Spirit-Taming World exposed.
• Lianshan realized that the Immortality Elixir could let Fang Qianyuan remain influential for centuries and potentially reach the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• The Yellow Venerable predicted an Age of Great Strife in which Fang Qianyuan’s rise and the recovery of the native Heavenly Dao could accelerate the Sacred Sect’s return to power.

The Yellow Venerable decided to recruit the Alliance by revealing the Supreme Heaven Sect’s secrets and strengthening its members against Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng. King Mu received an envoy bearing a secret manual for the Demon God Nine Transformations, leaving him to weigh the gift against the possibility that the sect intended to use him.

• The Yellow Venerable explained that the restored Heavenly Dao would let ancient cultivators regain some of their former power.
• The Yellow Venerable decided to give the Alliance the secret teachings of the Demon God Nine Transformations so its members could challenge Fang Qianyuan and Tian Heng.
• King Mu’s trusted disciples reported that an unknown visitor at Cloud Summit Peak carried the sect’s token, and King Mu ordered them to bring him in.
• Peng Jun introduced himself as an envoy from Grand Elder Lianshan and congratulated King Mu on attaining longevity.
• Peng Jun offered King Mu a silk manuscript containing the secrets of the Demon God Nine Transformations, and King Mu considered whether the sect meant to use him.