Chapter Summaries

Earth Dragon used his newly acquired True Dragon spirit creature to fight Yan Heyan and the Yan Lineage, displaying Earth Rank power and terrifying size-changing abilities. As Earth Dragon explained why he had turned against the Yan Lineage, Yan Heyan accused him of trying to seize the Immortal Mountain’s Spirit Vein.

• Earth Dragon’s fire attack engulfed Yan Heyan, who transformed with the Giant Demon Ape’s Dharma Aspect and struck back.
• Earth Dragon vanished, shrank to a tiny silhouette, then returned to full size and tore open Yan Heyan’s chest with a claw.
• Yan Heyan ordered the Yan Lineage’s Guards and Death Warriors to attack Earth Dragon’s real body, but they found only a skeleton at the bottom of the Earth Well.
• Earth Dragon dodged Yan Heyan’s attacks and declared that his True Dragon Dao Body made mortal martial techniques seem like children’s tricks.
• Earth Dragon said his art had resonated with the Immortal Mountain’s Spirit Vein and awakened a supreme-grade True Dragon, while Yan Heyan accused him of planning to seize the vein.

Yan Heyan trapped Earth Dragon’s claw and helped the Yan fighters land a coordinated attack that battered the True Dragon into the ground. Meanwhile, the Past King reacted to the distant battle from his cell, and the guards found him collapsed without an aura.

• Earth Dragon used Size Manipulation to appear beside Yan Heyan and nearly killed him with a claw strike.
• Yan Heyan held Earth Dragon’s claw in place and unleashed his martial conviction, allowing the Yan fighters’ joint attack to strike the dragon.
• Yan Heyan followed up with a punch that drove Earth Dragon’s body into the earth.
• The Past King opened his eyes in his cell as Yan Heyan’s battle appeared reflected in his pupils.
• The Past King’s red radiance spread through the dungeon, prompting the guards to sound the alarm and the General-Rank Warriors to approach.
• The General-Rank Warriors found the Past King collapsed like a corpse, with no trace of an aura.

Fang Qianyuan confirmed that the Past King had died in Liu Chuanxi’s body but suspected they would meet again. In the Underground Cavern, Yan Heyan and the Yan Lineage attacked the True Dragon until Earth Dragon spoke through it again, revealing that he still controlled a True Dragon Flesh Vessel.

• Fang Qianyuan inspected the Past King’s corpse, ordered the Warriors to clean up, and wondered if they would meet again.
• Yan Heyan realized the True Dragon was acting like a wounded beast, while the Yan Guards worked together to wear it down.
• Old Xing harpooned the True Dragon and briefly restrained it before it used Size Manipulation to escape.
• The Yan Guards bombarded the True Dragon with Thunderclap Bombs, and Yan Heyan struck its head with Eighteen Mountain-Crushing Fists.
• Yan Heyan saw blood-red pupils in the True Dragon’s eyes as Earth Dragon spoke and called the dragon his Flesh Vessel.

A transformed true dragon killed Yan Heyan, Yan Song, and the Yan cultivators who had entered the Underground Cavern, then continued deeper underground. At the Forward Camp, Yan Chishan learned that his brother was dead and his son’s fate was unknown, and agreed to seek the Allied Army’s help before descending himself.

• The true dragon overwhelmed Yan Heyan with Size Manipulation and tore through his heart.
• The true dragon killed the Yan guards with an explosion of gang qi and burned Yan Song and his protector to charcoal before slithering deeper into the Underground Cavern.
• At the Forward Camp, the Yan clan’s disciplinary officer discovered that Yan Heyan and Yan Song’s soul lamps had gone out.
• Yan Chishan told the assembled experts that he intended to search for his brother and son, then postponed his departure after they urged him to seek the Allied Army’s help.

Yan Chishan sought help to rescue his trapped son, and the Sacred Dragon Sect elders secured approval to send an elite team to investigate a possible spirit vein. The team was wiped out, leaving Yan Chishan and the elders realizing their decision may have caused a disaster.

• A Sacred Dragon Sect elder persuaded Yan Chishan not to risk the Yan clan’s foundation by entering the underground depths himself.
• The Sacred Dragon Sect elders contacted Cloud Summit Peak and requested an elite mobile force to investigate a possible spirit vein near where Yan Heyan had become trapped.
• An Administrative Affairs Institute officer reviewed the request, saw the Sacred Dragon Sect’s seal, and approved it through the elder on duty.
• Several days later, a Yan clansman reported to Yan Chishan, Elder Huang, and Elder Yan that the dispatched investigation team had been wiped out.
• Elder Yan sprang up and dropped his teacup as the group realized they might have made a disastrous mistake.

The Political Affairs Hall debated Falcon Hall’s annihilation, with Feng Youzhi demanding punishment and Xie Yishan redirecting attention toward dangers in the world’s core. After reading the brief, Fang Qianyuan condemned the Alliance’s bureaucratic conduct and ordered the Yan clan’s Head of the Household and two Sacred Dragon Sect elders to join the expedition.

• Feng Youzhi accused those responsible for mobilizing Falcon Hall without authorization and demanded that everyone involved be punished.
• Xie Yishan defended the Sacred Dragon Sect’s interests, urged the Alliance to protect forces searching for the Immortal Mountain’s spirit vein, and proposed suspending the Administrative Affairs Institute’s disciplinary officers pending investigation.
• An elder proposed reporting the matter while suspending the disciplinary officers, and the Political Affairs Hall accepted that course of action.
• Bai Aoxue brought Fang Qianyuan the Political Affairs Hall’s brief about Falcon Hall’s annihilation.
• Fang Qianyuan criticized the Alliance’s bureaucratic conduct and ordered the Yan clan’s Head of the Household and two Sacred Dragon Sect elders to lead the team down together.

Yan Chishan, Elder Yan, and Elder Huang waited for the Political Affairs Hall’s decision about Falcon Hall’s losses, trusting that Venerable Fang would protect them. The order approved further exploration of the planet’s core but required the three of them to lead the expedition.

• Yan Chishan worried that the Heavenly Realms Alliance would hold his lineage responsible for Falcon Hall’s destruction, while Elder Yan and Elder Huang reassured him that they would share the blame.
• Elder Yan explained that Venerable Fang’s approval would determine how the incident was handled and argued that the Alliance’s powerful sects and clans had reason to shield them.
• A Yan lineage junior brought the Political Affairs Hall’s latest orders to the camp.
• Elder Yan celebrated when he learned that Venerable Fang had approved further investigation and exploration of the planet’s core.
• Elder Yan froze upon reading that he, Yan Chishan, and Elder Huang had to lead the expedition, and the others turned deathly pale.

Yan Chishan realized Fang Qianyuan had ordered him and other elders on a perilous expedition as punishment, while Li Dan failed to persuade Fang to change his decision. Afterward, Fang reflected with Bai Aoxue on his pursuit of the Heavenly Dao and the limits of wielding power as a human.

• Yan Chishan recognized that the expedition Fang Qianyuan had ordered was likely a death sentence, and Elder Yan lamented that Honored Elders were being sent as cannon fodder.
• Li Dan privately asked Fang Qianyuan to reconsider sending Sacred Dragon Sect elders into danger, but Fang justified the order as punishment for their unauthorized mobilization of the Allied Army.
• Li Dan accepted that he could not change Fang's decision and left without challenging Fang's authority.
• Bai Aoxue brought Fang Qianyuan tea and discussed the entanglement of powerful sects and clans with him.
• Fang Qianyuan reflected that worldly authority could not free him from time, cause and effect, or fate, and said he could only respond through karmic retribution until he achieved true transcendence.

Fang Qianyuan sent elite Warrior Administration experts to secretly follow the Yan people into the Underground Cavern and capture any hidden enemy. The Yan expedition was ambushed underground, and Yan Chishan suffered a grievous wound that left the battle on the brink of defeat.

• Fang Qianyuan ordered Wang Ran and the Warrior Administration experts to follow the Yan people and capture the hidden enemy if possible.
• Elder Yan and Yan Chishan led more than a hundred fighters and several Earth Rank reinforcements into the Underground Cavern after spending five days preparing.
• A hidden creature discovered the expedition, while figures following several li behind them stopped and warned that the group had been discovered.
• A gigantic python-like creature appeared and engulfed the expedition in blazing white flame.
• Yan Chishan summoned the supreme-grade Earth Rank desolate beast Zhu Yan, but the creature vanished and pierced him from behind, leaving him gravely wounded.

Feng Ma, Yan Chishan, and the other fighters attacked the true dragon, but it endured their assault and used a thunderous divine ability to devastate their forces. As the survivors reeled, the Warrior Administration launched a lethal ambush.

• Feng Ma and the summoned Spirit Tamers charged the true dragon, but it threw them back and broke Feng Ma’s blade arm.
• Elder Huang and Elder Yan bound the dragon with Dragon-Binding Ropes, allowing the fighters to unleash a volley of attacks.
• The dragon survived the barrage, revealed its golden scales, and spoke before roaring with a power tied to the Sound Dao and Thunder Dao.
• The dragon’s roar shattered many souls and left Yan Chishan and the surviving fighters unable to fight.
• The Warrior Administration’s experts ambushed the dragon while it recovered from its divine ability.

Five black-robed Warriors trapped the True Dragon in their Five Elements Battle Formation and battered him with coordinated elemental attacks. Though Yan Chishan and the others thought the dragon was beaten, he rose from the flames in fury.

• The True Dragon evaded most of the black-robed Warriors’ Spell-Breaking Blades but was wounded by a hidden attacker.
• Yan Chishan and the others gathered to defend themselves while the five Warriors encircled the True Dragon.
• The five Warriors formed the Five Elements Battle Formation, freeing their companion from the dragon’s attack and freezing the True Dragon in a block of ice.
• The Warriors pierced the True Dragon with metal rays, bound him with vines, and burned him with heavenly fire.
• The True Dragon reared up amid the flames and roared that the Warriors had angered him.

The True Dragon battled five Warriors whose Five Elements Battle Formation linked their vitality and spread damage among them, allowing them to withstand his attacks while injuring and weakening him. The True Dragon then used Thunder Gang to sever the formation’s links and kill one Warrior, forcing the remaining Warriors to scatter.

• The Warriors recovered from the True Dragon’s attacks and continued fighting through their Five Elements Battle Formation, which divided injuries among all five.
• Yan Chishan, Elder Huang, and Elder Yan watched from the sidelines as the Warriors appeared to gain the upper hand and the True Dragon’s aura weakened.
• The True Dragon enveloped himself in Thunder Gang, pierced a Warrior protected by earth, and tore through him with a dragon claw.
• Thunder Gang severed the formation’s damage-sharing link, and the Warrior died from his injuries.
• The surviving Warriors scattered and withdrew, losing the combined strength that had let them fight the True Dragon to a standstill.

The True Dragon defeated Fang Qianyuan's Warrior experts but suffered serious wounds, and the last survivor identified him as the Past King. After killing the man, the Past King discovered that Yan Chishan and the others had escaped.

• The True Dragon used Spirit Essence Clones and successive Dao martial arts to kill three Warriors and capture the last one.
• The wounded True Dragon demanded to know who had sent the Warriors, while their blades and Soul Dao poisons continued to drain his vitality and erode his primordial spirit.
• The Warrior identified the True Dragon as the Past King, whose soul had possessed the earth-vein manifestation and whose main soul remained hidden in the Immortal Mountain spirit vein.
• The Warrior threatened that stronger experts would come, then tried to stab the Past King's wrist before the Past King crushed him.
• Yan Chishan and the others fled while the Past King was occupied, and the Warrior's blade struck his wrist as he died.

The Past King killed Yan Chishan's group and cornered Feng Ma and the surviving fugitives in the cavern. Just as he was about to kill Feng Ma, Chan Erqi appeared, announcing that he had come to capture the Past King by the Exalted One's decree.

• The Past King caught Yan Chishan, Elder Huang, and Elder Yan as they fled, killing them before returning to pursue Feng Ma's group.
• Feng Ma and the surviving fugitives raced through the caverns, realizing that Yan Chishan's group had likely perished and that they had been left behind as bait.
• The Past King used the network of tunnels to intercept Feng Ma and the others, then killed the fugitives who fought back.
• The Past King prepared to crush the wounded Feng Ma, but stopped when Chan Erqi appeared.
• Chan Erqi told the wary Past King that the Exalted One had sent him to capture him.

Chan Erqi revealed himself as an Emperor-Rank Warrior and fought the Past King, a True Dragon, in the underground depths. He defeated and captured the battered dragon, then ordered it to come with him to meet the Exalted One.

• Feng Ma saw Chan Erqi emerge from the mushroom forest and recognized him as a Bloodline Warrior unlike any he had encountered.
• The Past King turned his attention from Feng Ma to Chan Erqi and warned that heaven could not tolerate his existence.
• Feng Ma realized Chan Erqi had hidden from even the True Dragon and concluded that he was an Emperor-Rank Warrior.
• Chan Erqi vanished and fought the Past King, while their battle shook the underground and sent terrifying waves of heat, cold, and murderous intent across the area.
• Less than an hour later, the battered Past King crashed to the ground, and Chan Erqi approached him with injuries of his own.
• Chan Erqi pressed a black-mist-covered hand against the Past King, shrank the dragon into a three-foot python, and lifted it by the neck.

Wang Ran and his companions reported that they had captured the Past King’s True Dragon form and brought him before Fang Qianyuan. The Past King offered to join the Heavenly Realms Alliance in exchange for elder status, a share in the future Dao fruit of immortality, and preservation of Zhilin World as the foundation of his Dao.

• Bai Aoxue read Wang Ran’s mission report, learned that the Five Elements Guard had been wiped out and that reinforcements had completed the mission, then led the group into the Central Preservation Palace.
• Wang Ran presented the captured Past King, who Fang Qianyuan recognized as a True Dragon and questioned about his identity.
• The Past King revealed that he had divided his soul among multiple bodies using the External Avatar Technique and said his true self was cultivating in Zhilin World.
• The Past King claimed he had achieved Dao-Unification Refinement by merging with Zhilin World’s spirit vein, making him impossible to kill without destroying the world.
• The Past King offered Fang Qianyuan secrets about his techniques and the Immortal Alliance in return for alliance elder status, a future share in the Dao fruit of immortality, and preservation of Zhilin World’s immortal spirit root vein and world origin.

Fang Qianyuan weighed the Past King's demands and decided to recruit him in exchange for the Immortal Alliance Legacy, while using the negotiations to advance a broader plan to enfeoff realms. He spread word of the proposal, leaving the Heavenly Realms Alliance abuzz and its titans gathering to deliberate.

• Bai Aoxue asked Fang Qianyuan whether he intended to persuade the Past King to surrender, and Fang judged that the Past King could regain strength comparable to Tian Heng.
• Fang Qianyuan said he would accept the Past King's conditions because he wanted the Immortal Alliance Legacy he possessed.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that granting domains could reward factions, strengthen their foundations, and help manage the growing number of conquered realms.
• Bai Aoxue worried that factions might become complacent or greedy, but Fang Qianyuan said he could replace or control factions that proved useless or disobedient.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to use the negotiations to enfeoff various realms and divide the factions, then had people spread word of the plan.
• Tian Heng, King Mu, and Yin Yuanzheng sensed something unusual and called for a general deliberation.

Yin Yuanzheng and the Night King considered how the planned enfeoffment of the Myriad Realms could secure lasting foundations for their factions. The Night King sent Kong Cheng to Cloud Summit Peak to gather information and carry a gift to Venerable Fang.

• Yin Yuanzheng told Yin Xiong that the Heavenly Origin Association should seek an enduring foundation and support the enfeoffment.
• Yin Yuanzheng resolved to pursue a position as World Lord and seek Venerable Fang’s support.
• The Night King learned that Fang Qianyuan had guaranteed the Mian Mountain Sacred Palace a place in the enfeoffment.
• The Night King ordered Kong Cheng to attend the assembly, investigate possible fiefs, and report back.
• The Night King told Kong Cheng to use his token for expenses and take an unusual treasure to Venerable Fang.

Fang Qianyuan proposed rules for enfeoffing the Myriad Realms after announcing progress toward recreating interworld Teleportation Grand Formations. He outlined four tiers of worlds and three ways to grant or lease them, leaving the alliance leaders to deliberate and decide the rules together.

• Fang Qianyuan told the gathered alliance leaders that Teleportation Grand Formation techniques could be reproduced within three to five months at the earliest or three to five years at the latest.
• The leaders recognized that working interworld teleportation would make enfeoffment practical, though they did not know the Past King’s surrendered techniques had enabled the breakthrough.
• Fang Qianyuan divided the worlds into four tiers: Immortal Spirit Worlds, resource-rich worlds without an immortal root, worlds suitable for Great Clans, and Mortal Lands.
• Fang Qianyuan said only the highest-tier worlds required Heaven-Tier Powerhouses, while the other tiers could be fiefs for Earth Rank Spirit Tamers.
• Fang Qianyuan proposed three methods of enfeoffment: special grants, outright purchase through an auction supervised by the Elders’ Council, and alliance-owned domains leased to appointed world lords who paid taxes.

Fang Qianyuan and the other leaders established rules for granting worlds as fiefs, including a Heaven Tier cultivation requirement and shared infrastructure. Fang Qianyuan gave the Jianmu World to Tian Heng, then refused the valuable Zhilin World and proposed granting it to the Past King, leaving the other leaders stunned.

• Tian Heng proposed deferred payment for aspiring world lords, and the gathered leaders expanded Fang Qianyuan's framework into a fuller set of rules.
• The leaders agreed that world lords must reach Heaven Tier cultivation and required owners to build Teleportation Grand Formations, with Myriad Worlds City serving as a shared transit hub.
• Fang Qianyuan granted the damaged but valuable Jianmu World to Tian Heng, who accepted stewardship of it.
• Yin Yuanzheng and others assumed Fang Qianyuan would claim the Zhilin World, but Fang Qianyuan declined and named the Past King as its intended lord.