Chapter Summaries

Liu Chuanxi and his Warriors searched the Underground World for an ancient cave abode despite doubts that the legend was genuine. They found a stone gate inscribed “Past King Immortal Abode,” which Liu Chuanxi believed might mark the intact dwelling of an ancient immortal who had attained longevity.

• A Warrior questioned whether the legend was merely a rural tale, but Liu Chuanxi argued that the old map and reports of discoveries gave them reason to keep searching.
• Liu Chuanxi led the group to a newly discovered canyon after a Warrior reported finding a stone gate at its bottom.
• The Warriors uncovered an ancient inscription above the gate, and Liu Chuanxi read it as “Past King Immortal Abode.”
• Liu Chuanxi explained that the abode might have belonged to a powerful figure of the ancient Immortal Alliance who had attained longevity.

Liu Chuanxi and his companions entered the cave abode, only to find its courtyard in ruins and evidence that Earth Demons had explored it before them. A bloody, invisible force led them to a living mummy in a pavilion, which welcomed them as new flesh vessels.

• Liu Chuanxi opened the stone door, and the group followed the passage into a vast forecourt filled with ruined buildings and craters.
• The group found Earth Demon skeletons and broken Divine Weapon Puppets, and concluded that Earth Demons had visited the abode decades earlier.
• An invisible attacker drained a companion's blood and vitality despite Liu Chuanxi freezing him with his Frost Wraith.
• Liu Chuanxi led the others after the bloody light to a pavilion, where it entered the nostrils of a seated mummy.
• The mummy's eyes lit up, and it declared that many flesh vessels had arrived as Liu Chuanxi ordered the group to smash it.

The Past King possessed Liu Chuanxi and used the expedition into his residence to return to the outside world. After learning that the Immortality Elixir and a new age had arrived, he celebrated the end of his hundred-thousand-year wait.

• The mummy overwhelmed Liu Chuanxi's party with spiritual pressure and frost, then withered and shattered as Liu Chuanxi walked away under another presence's control.
• The Past King, inhabiting Liu Chuanxi's body, emerged from the hidden realm and killed the two lookouts who realized he was not Elder Liu.
• The Past King absorbed their blood and memories, learning about the Pengyuan Great Star Realm, the age of declining dharma, spirit qi revival, and the Immortality Elixir.
• The Past King revealed that he had survived for over a hundred thousand years through repeated possessions, spreading the immortality legend and guiding the Earth Demons.
• The Past King rejoiced that human cultivators from another star realm had arrived just as Dao Realm cultivation was emerging among the Earth Demons.

The Past King infiltrated the Allied Army by possessing Liu Chuanxi and posing as the wounded elder who returned alone. After nearly half a month of absorbing Liu Chuanxi’s memories, he had mastered the disguise but still lacked the full truth about the Heavenly Realms Alliance’s mission.

• The Past King approached the main camp disguised as a badly wounded Liu Chuanxi and was recognized by a Mystic Sun Sect disciple.
• Xiao Yuheng and the Allied Army’s senior officers discussed Liu Chuanxi’s report of an Earth Demon attack and ordered the camp to increase its vigilance.
• Xiao Yuheng visited Liu Chuanxi, urged him to recover, and left without suspecting the Past King’s disguise.
• The Past King spent nearly half a month assimilating Liu Chuanxi’s memories, speech, and behavior while recuperating in camp.
• The Past King learned that the Heavenly Realms Alliance came from the Pengyuan Great Star Realm and was searching for lost immortal essence, but Liu Chuanxi’s memories did not reveal the full plan.

The Past King, disguised as Liu Chuanxi, planned to exploit the Heavenly Realms Alliance’s Heaven-Tier Powerhouses and accepted the Mystic Sun Sect’s decision to recall him. As he reached the surface, he discovered that Liu Chuanxi’s memories of who led the Alliance had been mysteriously erased.

• The Past King learned that several Heaven-Tier Powerhouses were in the Heavenly Realms Alliance and considered secretly controlling them or traveling to the Spirit-Taming World.
• Xiao Yuheng told the Past King that the Mystic Sun Sect wanted to recall Liu Chuanxi for treatment, and the Past King gladly agreed to leave the front line.
• The Past King received his discharge documents and traveled with his escort through the underground tunnels toward the surface.
• Near the tunnel exit, the Past King sensed something was wrong and searched Liu Chuanxi’s memories.
• The Past King found that Liu Chuanxi had no memory of who was in charge of the Heavenly Realms Alliance, as if a mysterious force had erased it.

Past King sensed danger in the moonlit world but ignored his instincts and walked out of the cavern, where Fang Qianyuan recognized him as an impostor possessing Liu Chuanxi. After uncovering the cause-and-effect trail leading Past King to him, Fang Qianyuan reached into the void to act.

• Past King sensed a web of dangerous laws in the moonlight, but he dismissed his alarm and led the others out of the cavern.
• Fang Qianyuan watched King Xi and the others from the Central Preservation Palace and recognized that the man using Liu Chuanxi's identity was an impostor.
• Fang Qianyuan traced how cause and effect had distorted Past King's memories and guided him toward the Black Moon's reach.
• Fang Qianyuan assessed Past King's origins and extended his arm into the void.

The Past King traveled toward the frontline camp in Liu Chuanxi’s body, but a mighty cultivator attacked and seized him. He regained his senses in an unfamiliar place and asked the man seated before him where he was.

• The Past King rode with elite Warrior Guards toward the frontline camp, planning to return to the Spirit-Taming World once he arrived.
• A blinding light revealed an enormous black cavern in the sky, and a colossal hand descended toward the travelers.
• The Past King abandoned his mount and used the Void-Cutting Immortal Art, but the hand broke through his defenses and injured him.
• The giant hand seized the Past King and carried him through layers of space and time, showing him a snowfield grotto heaven and an Immortal Palace.
• The Past King recovered in an unfamiliar place, saw a man seated more than a hundred feet away, and asked where he was.

Fang Qianyuan confronted the Past King in the Central Preservation Palace and questioned him about his origins and the Immortal Alliance legacy. The Past King attacked with ancient Dharma Power, but Fang Qianyuan effortlessly froze and captured his soul technique, leaving the Past King terrified.

• Fang Qianyuan revealed the Central Preservation Palace and the Past King recognized him, realizing he had ignored the memories that identified him.
• Fang Qianyuan questioned the Past King about his era, the Immortal Alliance, and his presence in the Zhilin World.
• The Past King refused to answer and used Heavenly Soul Transmutation, Essence Blood Manifestation to attack Fang Qianyuan with blood-colored dragons and serpents.
• Fang Qianyuan froze the Past King's soul power and examined the captured manifestations in his palm.
• The Past King broke into a cold sweat as Fang Qianyuan praised the technique and demonstrated his overwhelming control.

Fang Qianyuan endured the Past King's Yang Spirit attack and used it to seize and refine his Dharma Gang. By the end, he had created his own thunderous Dharma Gang, filling the hall with countless blazing dragon serpents.

• The Past King unleashed his Dharma Gang and enveloped Fang Qianyuan in blood mist that attacked his divine soul with Yang Spirit power.
• Fang Qianyuan's Immortal Nature protected his will as he recognized the principles behind the Past King's thunder and Dharma Gang.
• Fang Qianyuan let the attack merge with him, then severed the Past King's control and began devouring his divine soul and Dharma Gang.
• Fang Qianyuan refined the stolen Dharma Gang with his Essence-Blood Vital Energy and divine soul thoughts, creating his own power through yin-yang transformations.
• Countless blazing white dragon serpents emerged around Fang Qianyuan and filled the hall with lightning.

Fang Qianyuan subdued the Past King after demonstrating his body-Dao unity, while the Past King warned that humans could never master the Great Dao beyond their world. During interrogation, the Past King revealed that the declining Immortal Alliance had migrated toward the Spirit-Taming World.

• Fang Qianyuan refined pure thunder Dharma Gang from his spirit essence and melted the Past King's Dharma Gang.
• The Past King recognized Fang Qianyuan's body-Dao unity, surrendered, and warned that humans were merely heaven's worms who could not master the higher Great Dao.
• Fang Qianyuan had the Snow Wolf Guards restrain the Past King and ordered the Heavenly Observation Court to notify the Mystic Sun Sect and investigate his identity.
• The Past King revealed that he came from an ancient age after the eight hundred thousandth year of the Xuanhuang Calendar, when the Immortal Alliance was weakening and Dharma Power was vanishing.
• Bai Aoxue told Fang Qianyuan that the Immortal Alliance's people had migrated through the Zhilin World toward the Spirit-Taming World.

Fang Lian used the Dream-Eating Heavenly Demon to enter the Past King's memories, where she witnessed the Cloudrise Sect's collapse as the Dharma Dao declined. The memory ended with Celestial Immortals from the Upper Realm descending into the world.

• Fang Lian arrived at the prison and ordered the guards to open the first layer of restrictions and connect the Evil-Suppressing Formation.
• Fang Lian and the others joined their energies, and she sent the Dream-Eating Heavenly Demon into the Past King's body.
• In the Past King's memory, the Cloudrise Sect patriarch declared the sect finished after its spirit peak withered and its ore mother perished.
• The youth traveled with his master, searching for spirit veins and treasures as the twilight of the Dharma Dao drained cultivators of their power.
• The youth tried to recover lost cultivation methods and advance, and the Celestial Immortals of the Immortal Alliance descended from the Upper Realm.

Fang Lian witnessed the Past King’s memories, from Zhao Xi’s recruitment into the Cloudrise Immortal Sect to his final years stranded in the Zhilin World. The Past King buried his companions, sealed their mausoleum, and entered a bronze coffin, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Zhao Xi joined the Cloudrise Immortal Sect after its envoys found him as the last true disciple of its Lower Realm branch.
• Zhao Xi rose to become the Past King and fought in the sect’s wars before helping the Immortal Alliance find and seize the Great World of Mystic Yellow.
• The Past King became stranded in the Zhilin World with a few companions, and they planted spirit veins and immortal roots before dying of the celestial five declines.
• The Past King made the Earth Demons build a mountain mausoleum, buried his companions inside, and sealed the site.
• The Past King lay in a bronze coffin and lamented the loss of his loved ones before the coffin lid closed and Fang Lian’s dream faded.

Fang Qianyuan studied the Past King's memories and concluded that the Dharma-Ending Age had damaged him despite his attaining an immortal dao fruit. The memories clarified Fang Qianyuan's path to Dao Unification, while the Mystic Sun Sect's visitors sought an audience with him over the imprisoned Past King.

• Fang Qianyuan explained to Fang Lian that the Dharma-Ending Age was the universe's decline and that living beings were like worms within its body.
• Fang Qianyuan connected creation myths and ancient cultivators' grotto heavens to the origins of all things, and glimpsed a clearer path to Dao Unification.
• Fang Qianyuan sent Fang Lian away, then told Bai Aoxue that the Past King had likely revealed his memories deliberately and that he would use them to find a way to reverse the Dharma-Ending Age.
• Bai Aoxue asked about the Mystic Sun Sect's visitors, and Fang Qianyuan told her to handle them as she saw fit.
• Elder Huang and Elder Shang confirmed the imprisoned man was the ancient cultivator who had assumed Liu Chuanxi's identity, then Elder Huang asked the Prison Warden to arrange a meeting with Fang Qianyuan.

Fang Qianyuan told the Heavenly Realms Alliance that the captive Past King was an ancient Dharma Cultivator and shared evidence about the Immortal Alliance’s origins. The jade disc’s memories left the gathered leaders silent and questioning the value of immortality and their expeditions beyond their world.

• Fang Qianyuan refused to meet the Mystic Sun Sect’s envoys, and Bai Aoxue arranged compensation for Liu Chuanxi’s death.
• News spread that Fang Qianyuan had captured the Past King, prompting senior Alliance members and Heaven Tier cultivators to question him.
• Fang Qianyuan said the captive was an ancient Dharma Cultivator and revealed that he had brought the spirit essence and that the Spirit-Taming World was the secluded paradise sought by Immortal Alliance cultivators.
• Fang Qianyuan gave the Alliance leaders a Dreamscape Jade Disc containing the Past King’s memories.
• The leaders examined the jade disc and fell silent, shaken by the Past King’s desolate memories and uncertain about pursuing immortality or expeditions to other worlds.

After learning that the Zhilin World's spirit essence came from an Immortal Mountain spirit vein and that its Heavenly Dao was still incomplete, the Heavenly Realms Alliance began searching underground while attacking the Earth Demon kingdoms. Fang Qianyuan let the factions compete for the treasures, but focused on the Earth Demons' legacies as he hurried toward his own Dao.

• Grand Elder Tian Heng confirmed that the Earth Demons possessed Immortal Alliance treasures intended for the Pengyuan Great Star Realm, and Fang Qianyuan agreed that the Alliance should press ahead.
• Fang Qianyuan and the others learned that an Immortal Mountain spirit vein lay deep in the Zhilin World's core and that the world's Heavenly Dao had not fully formed or recognized the Earth Demons as its foremost people.
• Over the following months, the expeditionary army split into forces to attack separate Earth Demon kingdoms, while elite troops from the factions explored underground for the spirit vein.
• Fang Qianyuan allowed the factions to compete for the spirit vein and sent Azure Cloud Sect forces below, but judged the Earth Demon kingdoms and their inherited legacies more valuable to his own cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan reflected that his Dao was drawing near and resolved to hurry, since he still had matters to settle in his native land.

The Heavenly Realms Alliance prepared to launch an all-out assault on the Xilai Kingdom after learning that its peace offer concealed a blood sacrifice to empower its guardian deity. Xiao Yuheng welcomed the Wolf Saint and the Night King, who had arrived to confront the deity, as the Alliance weighed the risks of the Earth Demons’ ancient treasures.

• The allied army advanced through the Earth Demonfolk Kingdoms and learned that the Earth Demons had only a little over a hundred Great Shamans.
• Xiao Yuheng’s officers reported that the army had defeated Duo Huan’s counterattack and that the Xilai Kingdom was secretly conducting a blood sacrifice despite requesting peace.
• Xiao Yuheng explained that Xilai’s guardian deity was the Great Lord of the Black Demon, an ancient demon god sealed inside an Immortal Alliance Demon Sword.
• The commanders discussed the Earth Demons’ powerful treasures and the risks of relying on Divine Weapon Puppets that the Artifact Sect had not yet fully secured.
• A guard announced the arrival of the Wolf Saint and the Night King, and Xiao Yuheng went out to welcome the Heaven-Tier Powerhouses.

The Night King recalled how Fang Qianyuan had pressured him into accepting another assignment in the Zhilin World by holding his past dealings over his head. With the Night King and the Wolf Saint joining Xiao Yuheng’s forces, the army reached and surrounded the Xilai Kingdom’s capital, hoping to force its rulers to unleash the Great Lord of the Black Demon.

• Fang Qianyuan told the Night King that he would wipe the old debt clean if the Night King completed one more task in the Zhilin World, and threatened to keep him on the frontline if he refused.
• The Night King eventually accepted the assignment, recognizing that he could not yet match Fang Qianyuan in their conflict.
• The Wolf Saint and the Night King asked Xiao Yuheng to explain what he knew about the Great Lord of the Black Demon and the Xilai Kingdom’s Great Shamans.
• After briefing the two powerhouses, Xiao Yuheng ordered the army to march on the Xilai Kingdom Frontline and attack within a day.
• The Spirit Tamer army overcame the Earth Demons’ defenses and surrounded the Xilai Kingdom’s capital before midnight.
• The army launched repeated assaults to wear down the defenders and force them to deploy the Great Lord of the Black Demon.

Yan Heyan led Yan Song and the Yan clan team through a dangerous underground mushroom forest in search of the Immortal Alliance ruins. They found a lava cavern rich in flame spirit essence and came under attack from flame spirits.

• Yan Song asked Yan Heyan to let the team rest, but Yan Heyan urged them onward and explained that the clan needed resources to secure its future.
• Yan Heyan told Yan Song how their ancestors had built the clan through hardship and risk.
• The team discovered a glowing lava cavern with a slow underground river and exceptionally dense flame spirit essence.
• Several flame spirits emerged, and Yan Heyan warned the Yan clan members to stand guard.
• The Yan clan formed a battle line, blocked the spirits' fireballs, and counterattacked with spirit techniques.

Yan Heyan led the Yan clan party through a fissure into a spirit-rich underground basin filled with treasure ores and spirit materials. After warning Yan Song that the clan’s gamble put ordinary cultivators at greatest risk, Yan Heyan ordered the party to dig at a shallow depression.

• The Yan Guards defeated the Flame Spirits, and Yan Heyan sent Old Xing and several men below to investigate their appearance.
• Yan Song calculated the clan’s expenses and realized that maintaining its fighters and Earth Rank experts consumed enormous wealth.
• Yan Heyan privately told Yan Song that ordinary Human Rank cultivators would bear most of the danger and urged him to use his Divine Talisman if threatened.
• Old Xing’s scouts reported another path, dense spirit qi, and abundant resources below, so Yan Heyan led the party into the cavern.
• The party crossed a fissure into a Lowland Basin filled with spirit qi, treasure ores, and spirit materials.
• Yan Heyan studied the basin and ordered the men to dig at a shallow depression.

Master Earth Dragon used a secret spirit communion art to manifest a true dragon from the mountain’s earth qi. As he celebrated his success, the dragon’s breath engulfed Yan Heyan.

• Yan Heyan and Master Earth Dragon inspected a deep shaft dug by Earth Aspect Spirit Creatures.
• Master Earth Dragon explained how geomancy could locate spirit veins and revealed his secret art for manifesting Spirit Creatures.
• Master Earth Dragon carved Dao patterns into the shaft walls, embedded five-element and yin-yang treasures, and offered his essence blood and divine sense.
• A pillar of light rose from the shaft, and a colossal gray-green dragon appeared before Yan Song and the others.
• Yan Heyan recognized the dragon as a manifestation of true dragon spirituality, while Master Earth Dragon declared his success and sent the dragon’s breath engulfing Yan Heyan.