Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan and the Heavenly Realms Alliance seized the Two Sects' headquarters and discovered that the sects' legacy and reserves remained a threat through the Reincarnation World. The Alliance celebrated its victory while preparing to search for that hidden stronghold and manage the surrendered Ancient Cultivators.

• Fang Qianyuan ordered the Alliance to search the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven and recover the Two Sects' scriptures, secret arts, and ancient records.
• King Mu and the Night King found the ancients' insights into the Demon God Nine Transformations, while Luo Muyun and Ao Qingxiao warned that the Two Sects might have preserved their legacies elsewhere.
• Fang Qianyuan revealed that the Two Sects secretly controlled the Reincarnation World, which had supplied their mighty Ancient Cultivators and kept their revival possible.
• Fang Qianyuan declared the victory crucial and ordered the confiscated records copied and the grotto-heaven's resources distributed under Alliance procedures.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to confine the surrendered Ancient Cultivators near Cloud Summit Peak and disperse them among battlefields to test their loyalty and abilities.

Fang Qianyuan arranged for ancient cultivators to conquer newly discovered worlds and help guard Jianmu, then investigated why the Spirit of Nature had vanished from the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven. He concluded that Yellow Venerable and the others could use the Demon God Nine Transformations to alter the future, and that someone controlling the Heavenly Dao’s will could pose a grave threat.

• Fang Qianyuan proposed sending ancient cultivators to conquer more than ten smaller worlds and stationing some in Jianmu to resist the Spirit of Nature’s final counterattack.
• The alliance learned that Li and Duanmu had won their campaign against Jianmu and would soon bring back six Life Essence Fruits.
• Fang Qianyuan and the Azure Cloud Sect jointly purchased the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, where he searched for the cause of the Spirit of Nature’s disappearance.
• Fang Qianyuan realized that his future vision had failed because Yellow Venerable and the others had used past bodies to see the future and change their actions.
• Fang Qianyuan judged that someone who could control the Heavenly Dao’s will would become a greater threat than the hidden remnants of the Demon Alliance, and resolved to hasten his exploration of “that step.”

Fang Qianyuan realized that breaking through the Age of Dharma Decline required raising the cultivation strength of his entire race by conquering other worlds while keeping control of the resulting power. After uncovering the Two Sects’ plan to transform the Spirit-Taming World into an Immortal Realm, he used his authority in the Jianmu World to alter its laws.

• Fang Qianyuan concluded that the Age of Dharma Decline could be transcended by expanding cultivation across his race and plundering the spirit essence of other worlds.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized that the rise of ancient cultivators like the Yellow Venerable marked a new tide that strengthened the era’s greatest powerhouses.
• Fang Qianyuan sent his will into the Jianmu World, where Li Dan and Duanmutian had weakened the Jianmu Divine Tree and the Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao was devouring the local world’s origin.
• Fang Qianyuan realized the Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao followed its living beings into other worlds and that the Two Sects planned to transform it into an Immortal Realm.
• Fang Qianyuan proclaimed that the Black Moon would endure forever and that winter, wind, and snow would fill the Jianmu World, causing its Heavenly Dao and laws to begin changing.

Fang Qianyuan used Words Become Law to alter the Jianmu World’s environment and absorb its scattered origin power while its Heavenly Dao fought the Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao. The clash sent chaos crystals falling into his domain, revealing treasures formed from the world’s origin.

• Fang Qianyuan vowed that a black moon would endure, winter would descend, and wind and snow would fill the heavens, transforming a vast region of the Jianmu World.
• His laws merged more deeply with the world and began devouring its scattered laws, spiritual qi, and origin power, strengthening his connection to the Jianmu World.
• The Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao and the Jianmu World’s Heavenly Dao attacked each other in the outer void, unleashing destructive storms and scattering origin-rich fragments.
• A meteor-like fragment fell near a Sacred Dragon Sect disciple, split open, and revealed a chaos crystal that Fang Qianyuan recognized as a treasure containing the world’s laws and origin.

Fang Qianyuan watched origin crystals from the clash between two Heavenly Daos grant extraordinary potential to people in the Jianmu World, and ordered the Expeditionary Corps to gather them. Other factions of the Heaven-Slaying Alliance also noticed the leaking world origin and prepared to enter the world to claim their share.

• A Sacred Dragon Sect disciple absorbed a crystal that gave him a trace of law essence, and Fang Qianyuan memorized his appearance and aura so he could recruit him later.
• A grassroots rogue cultivator absorbed a high-grade divine crystal that rooted powerful Wood Dao laws in her true spirit, and Fang Qianyuan resolved to bring her under his command.
• Fang Qianyuan contacted a warrior battlegroup stationed in the Jianmu World, and over a hundred warriors split into groups to search for crystals.
• Observers from the Heaven-Slaying Alliance discovered the Heavenly Dao clash and the leaking world origin in the Jianmu World.
• The major powers ordered their Teleportation Arrays activated so they could compete with Fang Qianyuan for the origin crystals.

Fang Qianyuan persuaded the Heavenly Realms Alliance to open the Jianmu World’s harvest to rogue cultivators under rules that kept their expeditions under faction control. As new cultivators arrived, his divine sense fused with the world, revealing the Tribulation Dao and the Way of Fortune.

• Fang Qianyuan explained that the Heavenly Realms Alliance could exploit the injured Otherworld’s origin power and chaos crystals, and its leaders agreed to prepare for further expeditions.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed recruiting more rogue cultivators to harvest the Jianmu World, arguing that elite troops were no longer needed and that many other worlds awaited conquest.
• The Heavenly Realms Alliance recruited rogue cultivators across the regions and established rules requiring them to join Expeditionary Corps, pay taxes, and fulfill military obligations in exchange for permission to explore and hunt.
• Nearly half a month later, new rogue cultivators arrived in the Jianmu World as Fang Qianyuan’s divine sense nearly completed its fusion with it.
• Fang Qianyuan perceived the Tribulation Dao and the Way of Fortune, along with spiritual radiances above living beings that resonated with those powers.

Fang Qianyuan gained an initial understanding of the Tribulation and Fortune Dao Paths and saw how taking over worlds bound him to their cause and effect. He tested his new authority by sending fortune to Azure Cloud Sect disciple Han Wo, whose fortunes had risen after joining an Otherworld expedition.

• Fang Qianyuan realized that feedback from refining foreign world origin had helped him grasp the Tribulation and Fortune Dao Paths, likely through the Spirit-Taming World's Heavenly Dao Will.
• Fang Qianyuan saw the cause-and-effect ties linking him to many beings and worlds and understood that taking their place brought both restraints and authority.
• Fang Qianyuan compared the lasting gains and burdens of managing a world with the smaller rewards and lighter ties of destroying one for its origin.
• Fang Qianyuan directed a strand of fortune toward Han Wo, an Azure Cloud Sect disciple who had become a frontline camp steward after joining an Otherworld expedition.
• Han Wo led his guards on patrol through the trading market where he carried out his steward duties.

Han Wo patrolled the frontline market, where the Black Moon and Fang Qianyuan’s power had transformed the Jianmu World into a bitter, snowy territory. He bought a strange glowing clod from the struggling Master Bao, leaving the old man able to go home.

• Han Wo monitored the market’s trades and newcomers while noting that Leaf Spirit prices had fallen and troublemakers Hu Lin and his brothers had settled down.
• Han Wo felt the sudden cold and admired Fang Qianyuan, unaware that Fang had permanently changed the world’s attributes and made the region his territory.
• As snow returned and traders packed up, Han Wo learned that Master Bao had lost his sons and wife and was struggling to support his poisoned, injured granddaughter.
• Han Wo approached Master Bao’s stall and asked the price of a strange glowing clod the old man had found in the forest.
• Master Bao asked ten spirit jade for the clod, and Han Wo agreed to buy it despite Master Bao’s protests.

Han Wo bought Master Bao’s strange stone, which triggered an unexplained experience and then cracked open after he left it unattended. Fang Qianyuan revealed that he had altered Han Wo’s fate through the combined power of fortune, tribulation, and cause and effect, and then turned his attention to testing the Tribulation Dao.

• Han Wo insisted that Master Bao close his stall and rest, then took the strange stone home and examined its dark green glow.
• Han Wo cut his finger on a needlelike point inside the stone and fell into a dizzy stupor that lasted until morning.
• Han Wo rushed out for roll call, leaving the stone on his table; it fell to the floor and cracked open, revealing a hollow interior.
• Fang Qianyuan watched Han Wo’s fortune and realized that his power over fortune and cause and effect had redirected Han Wo’s fate.
• Fang Qianyuan reflected on the Heavenly Dao’s authority and decided to test the Tribulation Dao by sending a calamity-bearing power along a thread of cause and effect.

Venerable Scarlet, Yellow Venerable, Lianshan, Jade Balance, and Celestial Mechanism hid in the Demon Realm after fleeing the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven, while Yellow Venerable explained their damaged plans and hopes of reaching Mystic Heaven. After sensing an ominous fluctuation, Yellow Venerable ordered the group to leave, but a sudden blizzard swept over them.

• Venerable Scarlet and the others landed in a Demon Realm forest, where Yellow Venerable urged them to rest quietly and avoid drawing attention.
• Grand Elder Lianshan asked Yellow Venerable about his condition and Venerable Balanced Heaven, whose already flawed Dao Fruit had been further damaged by the recent events.
• Yellow Venerable and Lianshan discussed how the sect's plans, the Age of Great Strife, and the Heavenly Dao could allow them to attain Mystic Heaven and ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Yellow Venerable explained that the sect had devised the secret art of sacrificing the self to become the Heavenly Dao, and believed the Lord of Nether Heaven would shelter them in the Demon Realm.
• Yellow Venerable sensed an ominous fluctuation and ordered the group to leave, but black clouds, bitter winds, and snow suddenly filled the sky.

Yellow Venerable and the others mistook a supernatural blizzard for a natural disaster, only to find their hidden camp threatened by warring demons and nearby demonfolk. Fearing discovery by Nether Heaven, Yellow Venerable ordered the group to kill the witnesses.

• Lianshan, Black Venerable, and Jade Balance discussed the blizzard as they traveled toward their hidden base, and Yellow Venerable warned that the disaster might signal the Heavenly Dao's influence.
• An undercover follower reported that disaster had struck the camp, prompting the group to hurry back.
• They found thousands of wind weasels and Snow Demons fighting near the camp while demonfolk gathered to scavenge from the battle.
• The monsters' rampage damaged the camp's hidden formation foundations, threatening to expose the group to the demonfolk.
• Yellow Venerable ordered the others to kill the demonfolk before they could reveal his presence to Nether Heaven, and Black Venerable volunteered.

Black Venerable wiped out the demonfolk attacking the hidden stronghold, but the battle left the camp and its formations in ruins. With too few resources to rebuild, Yellow Venerable and the others decided to split up and recover in remote secret strongholds.

• Black Venerable used black ice swords to kill the demonfolk forces, including three Earth Rank Experts, while Yellow Venerable, Grand Elder Lianshan, and the others watched without directly intervening.
• Black Venerable and the others drove away the remaining wind weasels and snow demons, then found their hidden stronghold destroyed.
• Guizang warned that they lacked the treasured materials to rebuild the stronghold unless they opened other secret treasure vaults.
• Lianshan offered his sect's remote secret strongholds as places where Heaven Tier cultivators could recuperate, and Yellow Venerable accepted despite the slower recovery it would entail.
• Celestial Pivot and the others returned several days later, and the group agreed to separate and maintain at least one annual delivery of resources.

Fang Qianyuan continued using the Tribulation Dao to weaken the scattered members of the Two Sects while the Heavenly Realms Alliance prepared a new expedition to twelve otherworldly worlds. When Yin Xiong and Yin Fan visited, they chose to keep campaigning in the Jianmu World for origin treasures rather than join the new conquests.

• Fang Qianyuan sensed that the Yellow Venerable and the others had been driven into hiding and kept the Alliance focused on hunting the weakened Two Sects.
• The Heavenly Realms Alliance selected twelve lightly defended otherworldly worlds for its next expedition.
• Yin Xiong and Yin Fan visited Fang Qianyuan, who discussed compensation for the Heavenly Origin Association’s former leader and his service in the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven.
• Yin Xiong and Yin Fan said the Heavenly Origin Association would remain in the Jianmu World to seek origin treasures and a chance to nurture a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse.

Fang Qianyuan offered the successors of fallen Heaven-Tier Powerhouses generous Alliance benefits and proposed a support plan to help them cultivate new leaders. The factions began preparing for advancement as a battle erupted in the Flame Prison World, where the defector Ji Yan summoned a storm of meteorites.

• Fang Qianyuan received representatives from factions whose Heaven-Tier Powerhouses had died and asked whether they had further requests.
• Zhu Hong and the other representatives thanked Fang Qianyuan and accepted the Alliance's century-long exemptions and protections.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed a support plan to help the factions cultivate emperor-rank warriors or Heaven-Tier Spirit Tamers, while keeping the ban formally in place.
• Zhu Hong and the other Earth Rank experts recognized the opportunity and returned to their factions to prepare for advancement and future expeditions.
• In the Flame Prison World, the defector Ji Yan summoned a vast tornado and sent enormous meteorites raining down from the sky.

Ji Yan and Fang Qianyuan opened an invasion of the Flame Prison World, using fire and ice to establish a foothold for the Spirit-Taming World. Fang Qianyuan then turned to the Gray Mist World and other targets, beginning a new era of simultaneous expansion.

• Ji Yan attacked the Flame Prison World with meteors, igniting a vast area and disrupting its Heavenly Dao Will.
• Fang Qianyuan struck the weakened region with a colossal palm, creating an icy foothold and connecting himself to the world.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned snow wolves and transported hundreds of Spirit Tamers, who secured the landing site and began spreading out.
• Fang Qianyuan deployed more than three thousand Spirit Tamers in the Flame Prison World before turning his attention to the Gray Mist World.
• The Heavenly Realms Alliance began opening simultaneous campaigns in the Gray Mist, Azure Dragon, Thunder Mist, and Ten Thousand Gold Worlds.

The Heavenly Realms Alliance discussed the value of conquering twelve otherworlds, whose unique creatures and laws could broaden the Spirit-Taming World's paths toward immortality. Wen Wei and other former powerhouses pledged allegiance and sought opportunities to earn merit, while Venerable Azure stayed behind to answer Fang Qianyuan's questions about the Two Sects.

• The Alliance's leaders agreed that the conquered worlds mattered for their rare creatures, materials, origins, and laws, even if they lacked Life Essence Fruits.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted Venerable Azure, Venerable White, Zhong Qishan, and other ancient cultivators as Attendant Elders and promised to help restore their strength for meritorious service.
• Wen Wei and the other members of the Eight Qiyun Families returned to pledge allegiance after recognizing that the Two Sects and other factions could no longer offer them a secure position.
• Wen Wei resolved to use the Alliance's widespread campaigns to earn merit and establish himself.
• After the meeting, Venerable Azure remained behind and met Fang Qianyuan, who asked him to clarify several matters concerning the Two Sects.

Fang Qianyuan questioned Venerable Azure about the Two Sects and learned that the Nine Heavens were ancient Heavenly Venerables whose true spirits might exist outside the Reincarnation World. As the Spirit-Taming World continued plundering the weakened Jianmu World, a vast torrent of spirit qi surged back through the passage between the worlds.

• Fang Qianyuan asked Venerable Azure about the Two Sects’ lineages, hierarchy, and Nine Heavens, and Azure described the Nine Heavens as ancient sages who followed a separate succession.
• Venerable Azure warned Fang Qianyuan that some Nine Heavens’ true spirits did not rest in the Hall of Life and Death, then left after declining to explain further.
• Fang Qianyuan and Bai Aoxue suspected that Azure’s memories were restricted and decided to investigate the Two Sects’ plans by questioning the Ancient Cultivators they controlled.
• The Spirit-Taming World’s forces harvested the Jianmu World’s resources while Fang Qianyuan and his world’s Heavenly Dao Will drained its origin, weakening its Heavenly Dao and damaging its landscapes.
• A year after the campaigns began, Heaven-Tier Powerhouses sensed a tremendous torrent of spirit qi rushing through the passage between the worlds, and unprecedented spirit-qi rain fell across the Spirit-Taming World.

A vast rain of spirit qi spread across the Spirit-Taming World, and Grand Elder Tian Heng identified it as heaven-bestowed merit and a sign of Spirit Qi Revival. The alliance celebrated the phenomenon as proof of its cause, while Fang Qianyuan quietly sensed that something unusual lay behind it.

• Spirit qi rain appeared across the world, first concentrating over the Southern Wilds and Northern Desert before spreading to other regions.
• Grand Elder Tian Heng traveled to Cloud Summit Peak and told the Heavenly Realms Alliance that ancient texts called the phenomenon heaven-bestowed merit.
• Tian Heng linked the spirit qi rain and the alliance’s achievements to the prophecy of Spirit Qi Revival, stirring excitement among the gathered factions.
• Zhong Qishan, Wen Wei, Venerable Azure, and Venerable White connected the phenomenon to Fang Qianyuan’s influence and the Spirit-Taming World’s seizure of the Jianmu World’s origin.
• Fang Qianyuan remained calm as he sensed that the event held something unusual.

Fang Qianyuan learned that the Spirit-Taming Heavenly Dao was strengthening itself by returning merit to living beings, and realized it was outpacing his harvest of the Jianmu World’s origin. He proposed destroying the Jianmu tree and refining it into a Heaven-Tier Spirit Creature, with Venerable Azure as its intended master.

• Envoys from the factions found that Heaven-Bestowed Merit had transformed regions across the Spirit-Taming World with new forests, plants, and oases.
• Ancient Cultivators explained the changes as a return to the primordial state, and Fang Qianyuan recognized that the Heavenly Dao was stimulating living beings to strengthen itself.
• Fang Qianyuan intensified his harvesting of the Jianmu World’s origin but discovered that the Spirit-Taming Heavenly Dao was gaining more through its vastly greater power.
• Fang Qianyuan called an assembly and proposed destroying the Jianmu tree to seize more origin and refine it into a Heaven-Tier Spirit Creature.
• Fang Qianyuan named Venerable Azure as the intended master of the Jianmu tree, and the assembly ultimately agreed.

Fang Qianyuan arranged simultaneous decisive battles in several worlds to draw on the Heavenly Dao and expose more world origin. His allies began their assigned assaults, each hoping to gain treasures and strengthen themselves.

• Fang Qianyuan outlined plans for decisive battles across twelve war zones, and the others agreed after learning that world origin could produce chaos crystals and opportunities to advance.
• Li Dan and Duanmutian returned to the Jianmu World to confront the wounded Jianmu Divine Tree.
• Ji Yan flew to a massive volcano in the Flame Prison World and attacked it with his giant dharma aspect.
• Zhong Qishan prepared to destroy the weakened Wu Ju mother body and claim its bloodline power and offspring.
• Venerable White faced a White-Faced Refined Gold Beast, hoping to gain it as a spirit creature and recover her strength.