Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan’s Cosmic Serpent clashed with Yellow Venerable, who used the Mud Aspect Transformation to recover from devastating attacks. Their exchange left a wide area in ruins, and Fang Qianyuan continued to wait patiently for an opening.

• Fang Qianyuan manifested the Cosmic Serpent through his divine sense, and Yellow Venerable recognized its power.
• The Cosmic Serpent used Time Dao techniques to stab Yellow Venerable with ice-law icicles, but Yellow Venerable expelled them and healed by turning soil into flesh with the Mud Aspect Transformation.
• Yellow Venerable struck the Cosmic Serpent, which used Reverse Time Transformation to restore itself, while Yellow Venerable survived further attacks by turning into soil and reforming.
• Fang Qianyuan and Yellow Venerable traded attacks that devastated the surrounding area, with both showing formidable defenses and cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan kept changing the Cosmic Serpent’s form and waited for an opportunity to defeat Yellow Venerable.

Fang Qianyuan’s Star Map-backed Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art made him nearly impossible to stop, and the observers expected his battle with Yellow Venerable to become a war of attrition. After a full day, Yellow Venerable revealed that the fight had strengthened him and unleashed his true attack.

• Lianshan and the others recognized that the Star Map had overcome the key weaknesses of Fang Qianyuan’s Heavenly Will Form-Manifestation Art, making it possible for him to descend anywhere and fight indefinitely.
• The observers discussed how difficult it would be to inflict lasting harm on Fang Qianyuan and recalled that Venerable Scarlet had once defeated the Shadow King after three days by catching him with her Law Shackles.
• Yellow Venerable continued fighting Fang Qianyuan for a full day with the Mud Aspect Transformation without weakening.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that Yellow Venerable had maintained an endless cycle of power and had grown stronger during their battle.
• Yellow Venerable declared that he had been waiting for Fang Qianyuan to exhaust his methods, gathered his power into his palm, and unleashed Heaven and Earth Reversal.

Yellow Venerable sealed a strand of Fang Qianyuan’s divine sense, but Fang’s Black Moon continued invading the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven’s Heavenly Dao. Fang planned his next move after noticing unfamiliar experts within the stronghold.

• Yellow Venerable used the Kun Quiescence Seal to imprison Fang Qianyuan’s Cosmic Serpent manifestation in an earthen sphere.
• Yellow Venerable and Lianshan realized Fang’s Black Moon remained overhead and that the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven had been exposed to further attacks.
• Lianshan ordered sect members to affix talisman seals around the sphere and prepare for another assault while Yellow Venerable recovered.
• Fang Qianyuan confirmed to Bai Aoxue that only a strand of his divine sense had been sealed and said the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven concealed important secrets.
• Fang Qianyuan told Bai Aoxue that unfamiliar experts had appeared in the stronghold and that he needed to plan how to deal with them.

Yellow Venerable and the ancient cultivators confronted the threat of Fang Qianyuan’s Black Moon projection, which was steadily eroding the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven. Yellow Venerable organized defenses and revealed a last-resort plan to merge the realm back into the Spirit-Taming World.

• Yellow Venerable called the hidden sacred envoys back, explaining that Fang Qianyuan could already sense them and that an ordinary ambush would not stop him.
• Celestial Pivot and the others returned and saw the Black Moon projection, while Yellow Venerable warned that its presence was changing the grotto heaven and could eventually give Fang Qianyuan control of it.
• Yellow Venerable ordered the sect to strengthen its formations, protect its hidden treasuries, prepare a refuge, and maintain a watch and rescue forces.
• Yellow Venerable secretly told Lianshan that they could merge the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven back into the Spirit-Taming World and distract Fang Qianyuan by encouraging the Demon Alliance and other powers.
• Yellow Venerable took responsibility for standing watch, while Black Venerable and the other ancient cultivators prepared to rotate between seclusion and readiness, and Lianshan and Guizang sought solutions outside.

The Yellow Venerable and the others faced Fang Qianyuan’s use of the Black Moon to unleash the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven’s own power against them. In the Spirit-Taming World, Fang Qianyuan strengthened his alliance, introduced the Azure and White Venerables, and proposed renaming it the Heavenly Realms Alliance.

• The Yellow Venerable explained that the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven’s weak Heavenly Dao could not prevent the realm’s climate from turning colder or stop its Origin Energy from spawning relentless spirit creatures.
• Lin Qi alerted the Venerables as black smoke, blizzards, and raging winds pressed against their formation arrays.
• The Yellow Venerable and Lianshan concluded that Fang Qianyuan was using the Black Moon to manipulate the grotto heaven’s own Laws without directly provoking its Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Qianyuan told the Spirit-Taming World alliance that the awakened Ancient Cultivators threatened its members’ access to spirit medicines and opportunities, and urged them to unite against the Two Sects.
• Fang Qianyuan introduced the Azure and White Venerables as Azure Cloud Sect attendants and honorary Grand Elders who would oversee the alliance’s affairs.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed renaming the Cloud Summit Alliance the Heavenly Realms Alliance and preparing for an all-out campaign in a future otherworld that might contain an Immortality Elixir.

Fang Qianyuan moved to transform the Cloud Summit Alliance into the Heavenly Realms Alliance, uniting the Spirit-Taming World’s factions for campaigns across other worlds. Venerable Azure and Venerable White recognized that his ambition encompassed both consolidating the Dao lineages and using awakened powers, and they accepted his leadership.

• Fang Qianyuan announced new Alliance rules, disciplinary appointments, and the renaming of the Cloud Summit Alliance to the Heavenly Realms Alliance.
• The factions considered how a unified Alliance could prepare invasions of spirit-rich worlds and secure more opportunities for immortality.
• Venerable Azure and Venerable White realized Fang Qianyuan sought to break the old Dao institutions’ control and rally their followers behind his own Dao.
• Venerable Azure and Venerable White accepted that Fang Qianyuan could unite the factions and lead them in pursuit of immortality and imperishability.

Fang Qianyuan persuaded the gathered powers to rename the Cloud Summit Alliance the Heavenly Realms Alliance and invade the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven. As sect officers fought ice-and-snow spirits in that world, an enormous White Wolf descended from the black moon.

• Fang Qianyuan's proposal won approval, and the alliance chose the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven as its next target.
• The gathered powers renamed the Cloud Summit Alliance the Heavenly Realms Alliance and prepared to send troops through a passage opened with the Star Map.
• Demon Alliance officers hunted ice-and-snow spirits spreading through the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and privately complained about the ancient mighty figures' failed campaign.
• One officer noticed that the black moon was growing larger and closer, and the squad saw an enormous White Wolf plunge from it toward the wasteland.

Bai Aoxue, Little White, Yin Yuanzheng, and other Heavenly Realms Alliance experts arrived in the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven to clear obstacles for Fang Qianyuan’s campaign. Yin Yuanzheng killed the fleeing Warrior disciplinary officers, prompting Yellow Venerable and his companions to confront him.

• Bai Aoxue and Little White appeared in the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, where Little White had reached Heaven Tier peak and Bai Aoxue wielded her power as a Spirit Herder.
• Yin Yuanzheng, Luo Muyun, and several other Heaven Tier experts arrived to join the Alliance’s campaign under Fang Qianyuan.
• Yin Yuanzheng urged the group to eliminate threats to the Alliance and attacked the fleeing Warrior disciplinary officers with his Paper Demon.
• Yin Yuanzheng’s paper weapons killed several Warriors, and his Paper Demon’s strange power split the last fugitive in two.
• Yellow Venerable arrived, witnessed the attack, and challenged Yin Yuanzheng for targeting ordinary followers.

Yin Yuanzheng and the Heavenly Realms Alliance demanded that Yellow Venerable’s faction submit, but negotiations failed as Yellow Venerable warned that the Alliance misunderstood the secrets of the universe. Facing Fang Qianyuan’s overwhelming reach, Yellow Venerable chose to fight and summoned the Sacred Sect’s forces.

• Yin Yuanzheng offered to spare those who submitted to the Alliance, while Yellow Venerable urged him and the others to join the Sacred Sect’s undertaking to ascend the world.
• Yin Yuanzheng rejected Yellow Venerable’s appeal and said the Alliance would uncover the truth through its campaign against the Two Sects.
• Yellow Venerable hinted that the Alliance’s wars would benefit Fang Qianyuan alone, but refused to explain further when Yin Yuanzheng questioned him.
• Bai Aoxue warned that Fang Qianyuan and the Alliance left Yellow Venerable’s faction no chance, while Grand Elder Lianshan identified her and secretly urged the group to rely on powerful Ancient Cultivators.
• Yellow Venerable agreed that they had no peaceful way out, resolved to fight, and led Black Venerable, Celestial Pivot, Jade Balance, and others into the air as enormous spirit beings appeared before them.

Whitebrow Ancestor and his allies overwhelmed Yellow Venerable and his companions in a spirit-creature battle, forcing Lianshan to reveal his trump card, the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. Little White crushed the beast before it could attack, leaving Lianshan badly wounded and Bai Aoxue ready to confront him.

• Whitebrow Ancestor, Venerable Mad Dragon, Pang Qingyun, and Ren Shengming summoned powerful spirit creatures and attacked Yellow Venerable's group.
• Ren Shengming unleashed a barrage of elemental divine abilities, while the allies' stronger spirit-creature manifestations grievously injured their opponents' creatures.
• As Yellow Venerable's companions' spirit creatures neared collapse, Lianshan stepped in and summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Little White pinned down the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and smashed it to pieces before it could unleash its power.
• Lianshan spat blood and nearly fell, while Bai Aoxue declared that she had been waiting for him.

Fang Qianyuan’s spirit creature Little White devastated the enemy forces, but Guizang’s karma flame revealed that she was only a projection. Yellow Venerable recognized that Fang Qianyuan’s power had spread through the Black Moon, leaving the enemy to retreat rather than face his true body.

• Little White used ice spirit essence to evade the Tribulation Beast’s thunder, then unleashed wind, snow, and Bai Aoxue’s Divine Wind Treasure Fan against the enemy forces.
• Little White’s hurricane froze enemy spirit creatures, blew away Yellow Venerable’s stone giant, weakened Black Venerable’s water demon, and scattered the Sacred Sect followers.
• Guizang attacked Little White and Bai Aoxue with the Tribulation Dao Ignorance Karma Flame, causing their enormous Dharma Body to fade into a phantom.
• Yellow Venerable realized Fang Qianyuan had projected power through the Black Moon and that Little White’s true body was elsewhere.
• Yellow Venerable flew back, and Guizang and the others followed.

Yin Yuanzheng’s pursuit of the Two Sects’ forces led into their mountain-guarding formation, where the Yellow Venerable awakened the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven’s Heavenly Dao. Yin Yuanzheng realized the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation was part of the Two Sects’ plan to control the Heavenly Dao and restore the golden age of the Dharma Dao.

• Yin Yuanzheng and his companions pursued the retreating Two Sects’ experts, then discovered their powers weakened inside a hidden mountain-guarding formation.
• Bai Aoxue warned Yin Yuanzheng that they had entered the enemy’s grand formation, and the Yellow Venerable returned with dozens of hidden Sacred Sect Rogue Persons and Ancient Cultivator powerhouses.
• The Yellow Venerable activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation, driving away the snow and transforming the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven as time appeared to accelerate.
• The formation awakened the world’s Heavenly Dao, which enveloped the battlefield and cut Yin Yuanzheng’s group off from Fang Qianyuan’s protection.
• Yin Yuanzheng concluded that the Two Sects aimed to control the Heavenly Dao of the Spirit-Taming World and the wider heavenly realms, restoring the golden age of the Dharma Dao.

The Two Sects revealed dozens of ancient Heaven-Tier Powerhouses and trapped Yin Yuanzheng and his allies inside the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation. After Fang Qianyuan called for aid, the Alliance agreed to unite against the Two Sects and rescue those caught within.

• Yin Yuanzheng and the others realized the Two Sects had surrounded them with ancient powerhouses and a formation that altered the world around them.
• The Star Map at Cloud Summit Peak lost sight of the battle, and the Alliance’s leaders recognized that the Two Sects had concealed their strength.
• Fang Qianyuan suspected an enemy powerhouse had hidden the Two Sects from his sight and the Star Map, then asked who would help Yin Yuanzheng’s group.
• Yin Shanhe, Ao Qingxiao, Luo Muyun, and representatives of other factions supported Fang Qianyuan’s call to action.
• Bei Yetang pledged the Spirit Taming Sect’s support, and King Mu and Night King agreed that the Alliance should eliminate the Two Sects.

As the Heavenly Realms Alliance prepared to strike the Two Sects, Yin Yuanzheng used his mastery of Transcendent Transformation to trap and slaughter mighty Ancient Cultivators. His counterattack showed that the Alliance faced formidable opponents.

• Fang Qianyuan won the assembled powers’ agreement to prepare for an assault on the Two Sects and offered to transport them with the Star Map.
• Yin Yuanzheng withdrew from the fighting at the Two Sects’ stronghold and unleashed his Paper-Painted Landscape technique.
• Yin Yuanzheng’s dimensional power trapped several Ancient Cultivators, while Yellow Venerable explained how it worked.
• Black Venerable revealed that the Two Sects had scattered the Nine Records to keep the factions divided, but Fang Qianyuan’s alliance had undone their scheme.
• Yin Yuanzheng’s paper landscape shredded the trapped cultivators and scattered their blood and vital essence, alarming the attackers.

Yin Yuanzheng and his allies struggled to withstand Yellow Venerable’s coordinated assault inside the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation. Yin Yuanzheng abandoned defense to attack Yellow Venerable directly, leaving the leader impaled by Paper Swords.

• Yellow Venerable coordinated the Ancient Cultivators’ attacks, weakening Yin Yuanzheng’s paper barrier and injuring Venerable Mad Dragon and Pang Qingyun.
• Yin Yuanzheng decided to kill Yellow Venerable to disrupt the enemy formation, and Whitebrow Ancestor and the others agreed to support him.
• As the paper wall broke apart, Yin Yuanzheng used Origami Technique and Hyperdimensional Transformation to move between scraps of paper and approach Yellow Venerable.
• Yin Yuanzheng fragmented his body across multiple sheets of paper and unleashed a torrent of Paper Weapons.
• Yellow Venerable hid behind the Clay-Aspect Stone Person, but Yin Yuanzheng’s Paper Swords pierced the Stone Person and struck Yellow Venerable.

Yin Yuanzheng’s Paper Demon battered Yellow Venerable, but Yellow Venerable transformed the earth into a weapon and overwhelmed him. As their allies fought, Whitebrow Ancestor’s side was defeated by the vastly larger force assembled against them.

• Yin Yuanzheng attacked Yellow Venerable from every direction with paper forms, shattering his body and tearing open a cavern in space.
• Yellow Venerable merged with the earth and used enormous earthen palms to crush Yin Yuanzheng and the Paper Demon repeatedly.
• Bai Aoxue and Little White held outside the grand formation, surrounding it with blizzards as they waited for the enemy to emerge.
• Lianshan and the others attacked Whitebrow Ancestor’s group, whose members fought back with their spirit creatures and extraordinary abilities.
• Celestial Pivot struck Whitebrow Ancestor, and Yellow Venerable’s earth swallowed him; other Ancient Cultivators overwhelmed Ren Shengming, Venerable Mad Dragon, and Pang Qingyun.
• Yellow Venerable buried Yin Yuanzheng beneath countless giant earthen palms, leaving him the last defender still resisting.

The Yellow Venerable and the others believed they had defeated Yin Yuanzheng, but he had survived by hiding his divine soul in the two-dimensional void. He escaped through the shattered realm and reached Little White’s claw, as reinforcements arrived outside the formation.

• Lianshan and the Black Venerable discussed the Yellow Venerable’s injuries after he used the Heavenly Dao’s power to defeat Yin Yuanzheng.
• The Yellow Venerable’s aura stirred, and Yin Yuanzheng rose from the earth, revealing that he had survived by using Hyperdimensional Transformation.
• Yin Yuanzheng unleashed millions of talismans bearing the character “Seal,” briefly restraining the Yellow Venerable and the others before breaking through the realm.
• Little White extended her ice-formed wolf claw through the opening, and Yin Yuanzheng clung to it as she pulled back.
• More than a dozen powerful experts arrived outside the grand formation and saw Little White withdraw her claw with Yin Yuanzheng gravely wounded upon it.

Yin Yuanzheng escaped the enemy formation and warned the gathered cultivators that the others had been defeated and trapped. King Mu and the alliance then attacked the formation, and their combined assault broke its barrier, revealing the ancient cultivators inside.

• Yin Yuanzheng emerged alone and told King Mu and the others that the other cultivators were trapped and defeated.
• A giant chained hand seized Yin Yuanzheng as a voice ordered the gathered cultivators to attack.
• Bai Aoxue sent Little White against the formation, drawing the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven’s wrath and forcing her to withstand heavenly tribulation.
• King Mu, Luo Muyun, Bai Zhan, Yin Shanhe, Night King, and the other alliance cultivators joined the assault with their spirit creatures and techniques.
• The combined attack shattered the formation’s invisible barrier and revealed the ancient cultivators within.

The Heavenly Realms Alliance gained the upper hand against the Two Sects, whose leaders chose to abandon their stronghold and escape. Yellow Venerable’s devastating strike covered their retreat, leaving the battlefield in the Alliance’s hands as Little White brought down his stone form.

• King Mu and the Night King joined the Heavenly Realms Alliance in renewed battle against the Two Sects’ forces and Star Essence Beasts.
• The Alliance’s mighty figures and spirit creatures overwhelmed the opposing forces, while Lianshan watched helplessly as allies fled or fell.
• Lianshan, Guizang, and Black Venerable resolved to abandon the Two Sects’ foundations in the region and secretly coordinated their escape.
• Yellow Venerable unleashed a tremendous strike that buried the battlefield under earth, giving the Two Sects’ leaders time to teleport away with the Seven-Star Holy Envoys and others.
• Little White pierced Yellow Venerable’s stone form with her wolf claw, while Bai Aoxue surveyed the devastated battlefield.

After Yellow Venerable and the other leaders escaped, Fang Qianyuan’s forces took control of the abandoned Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and demanded the remaining Ancient Cultivators surrender. Zhong Qishan and the others joined the Heavenly Realms Alliance, while the Alliance’s victory left it with new territory and recruits for its expedition.

• King Mu and the others explained that Yellow Venerable’s group had escaped through the World Barrier, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Formation collapsed after they left.
• A powerful figure descended in his true body, and wind and snow spread across the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven as it transformed toward the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
• Night King questioned why the grotto heaven’s Heavenly Dao Will had vanished, while Fang Qianyuan suspected that the Two Sects had controlled it as part of their plan for Profound Realm Ascension to Immortality.
• Fang Qianyuan declared that the remaining Ancient Cultivators must submit or perish and offered them a place in the Alliance.
• Zhong Qishan declared his surrender, and the other Ancient Cultivators, including the Two Sects’ Rogue Persons, followed.