Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan secured the Past King's admission to the Heavenly Realms Alliance by revealing the Immortal Alliance legacies he had offered in exchange for a grotto heaven in Zhilin World. The alliance accepted the deal and turned its attention to the legacies as a possible path to greater power.

• Fang Qianyuan announced that the Past King had pledged allegiance and would join the Heavenly Realms Alliance, while Luo Muyun and others questioned granting him Zhilin World.
• Fang Qianyuan said the Past King had provided secret manuals that helped advance the Teleportation Grand Formation and had offered three supreme arts: External Manifestation, Black Tortoise True Formula, and Primordial Astral Transformation into the Profound.
• Fang Qianyuan revealed that the Past King's inheritance also included classics of the Artifact Way, Talisman Way, and Pill Way, persuading the alliance members to accept his admission.
• Tian Heng, Li Dan, Xue Shaohua, and other Righteous Path leaders discussed Fang Qianyuan's dealings and agreed to focus on the value of the Immortal Alliance inheritance.
• Tian Heng and others let word spread that the legacies could be a ladder to Heaven Tier, prompting Earth Rank Spirit Tamers to grow eager to obtain them.

At the Past King’s welcoming ceremony, he offered the Heavenly Realms Alliance three ancient supreme arts and explained their origins and uses. The External Body Incarnation drew the greatest interest, while Origin Gang Transmutation offered Fang Qianyuan and other leaders a possible path for exploring the Dharma Dao.

• The Past King entered the Heavenly Realms Alliance amid a grand ceremony as its members studied him for clues to immortality.
• The Past King donated the External Body Incarnation, the Black Tortoise True Formula, Origin Gang Transmutation, and other preserved legacies to the Alliance.
• The Past King explained that the External Body Incarnation could let Spirit Tamers create and control additional bodies while dividing and preserving their souls.
• The Past King described the Black Tortoise True Formula as a method for tempering the body and soul, and Origin Gang Transmutation as a potentially uncertain route to understanding the Dharma Dao.

At the ceremony welcoming the Past King into the Heavenly Realms Alliance, he donated ancient scriptures and explained the origins and uses of three supreme arts. The Alliance gained a potential path to cultivate external avatars and new avenues for studying other Dao paths.

• The Past King arrived at Cloud Summit Peak and was formally welcomed into the Heavenly Realms Alliance.
• After the ceremony, the Past King offered the Alliance his scriptures and legacies, including three secret arts and teachings in the Formation Dao, Pill Way, Artifact Way, and Talisman Way.
• The Past King explained that the dharma body dao shared roots with the spirit command dao and could lead to the External Avatar Technique.
• The Past King described the Black Tortoise True Formula as a martial path for refining essence into qi and tempering the body and divine soul.
• The Past King explained that Origin Gang Transmutation concerned cultivating dharma gang, though its path might be cut off because dharma power no longer existed.
• The Past King said Heaven-Tier Spirit Tamers who had mastered human-spirit unity and condensing physical form could readily begin cultivating external avatars.

The Past King presented an Enlightenment Art legacy that Ou Lin recognized as a crucial lost inheritance of the Artifact Sect. Fang Qianyuan required the sect to share it through the Alliance’s public treasury, and Ou Lin agreed.

• Ou Lin became excited when he learned the Past King had brought the Treasure Sovereign path’s Enlightenment Art and explained its connection to artifact spirits and the Spirit Venerable.
• The Past King handed Ou Yezi a Divine Sense Jade Slip containing the legacy, and Ou Yezi confirmed that it held the Artifact Sect’s Enlightenment Art.
• Ou Yezi thanked the Past King and asked Fang Qianyuan to grant the legacy to the Artifact Sect in exchange for a fitting price.
• Fang Qianyuan said the legacy should be made available through the Alliance’s public treasury and urged the Artifact Sect to share its methods with the world.
• Ou Lin accepted Fang Qianyuan’s demand and agreed to share the Enlightenment Art.

The Past King presented ancient legacies for several Dao paths and explained the origin of the Zhilin World’s treasure lingzhi, which the Alliance placed under public distribution. The Alliance then granted grotto-heaven worlds to the Heavenly Origin Association and Mian Mountain Sacred Palace while delaying grants for the Luo Clan and Fang Qianyuan.

• The Past King revealed the Great Medicine Immortal Formula and the Teleportation Grand Formation, and the Alliance decided to copy and share the recovered Dao legacies.
• The Past King explained that he had helped the Medicine Sect transfer the roots and spirit veins that produced treasure lingzhi to the Zhilin World.
• Fang Qianyuan assigned the Pill Sect to handle the transfer and decreed that Zhilin World’s regular treasure lingzhi harvest would enter the public treasury for Alliance distribution.
• The Alliance granted the Gray Mist World to the Night King and the Azure Dragon World to Yin Yuanzheng, who chose them to suit their respective powers.
• The Alliance withheld a grant from Luo Muyun’s Luo Clan and appointed Grand Elder Tian Heng as World Lord of the Jianmu World without granting Fang Qianyuan a domain.

Fang Qianyuan studied the External Avatar Technique and decided the Heavencrystal Snowfield’s spirit of nature could serve as a vessel for his attempt to merge with the Heavenly Dao. He told Wen Qingfei that he intended to pursue this dangerous path, leaving her to prepare to support the Fang Household and the Great Snow Mountain if he could not return.

• Fang Qianyuan focused on the External Avatar Technique and learned that an avatar needed a powerful, compatible vessel whose consciousness would be erased.
• Fang Qianyuan realized the Heavencrystal Snowfield’s spirit of nature could bear his understanding of the Great Dao and serve as his avatar.
• Fang Qianyuan considered whether past cultivators who unified with the Dao had been erased by the Heavenly Dao or had reached a realm beyond mortal understanding.
• Fang Qianyuan told Wen Qingfei he planned to incorporate the technique into his path toward Dao unification and warned her that the step might leave no way back.
• Wen Qingfei agreed not to hold Fang Qianyuan back and accepted that the Fang Household and Great Snow Mountain might rely on her.

Fang Qianyuan prepared the Heavencrystal Snowfield and its spirit of nature for his attempt at Dao unification, using faith, world origin, and the External Body Incarnation method. As he began merging his laws with the newborn Heavenly Dao, he concealed his preparations behind seclusion while outsiders debated dividing the Heavenly Realms into fiefs.

• Fang Qianyuan increased offerings to the Snow Mountain Sacred Land and strengthened the faith system he had built among the mortals of the Heavencrystal Snowfield.
• Fang Qianyuan used the world origin taken from several grotto-heaven worlds to help the Snowfield’s spirit of nature grow and spread its laws throughout the domain.
• Fang Qianyuan guided the spirit of nature into merging with his own laws, then began preparing to make the world’s Heavenly Dao his manifestation and sever his self.
• Fang Qianyuan planned to use the External Body Incarnation method to unite a vessel with the Heavenly Dao and increase his chances of achieving Dao unification.
• Fang Qianyuan sealed off the Heavencrystal Snowfield under the pretext of seclusion while outside parties continued discussing the division of the Heavenly Realms into fiefs.

Fang Qianyuan risked losing his mind and Dao while dividing his soul and entrusting himself to the void, then took a major step toward becoming a Heavenly Dao-level existence. At Great Snow Mountain, his followers watched the ice encasing Central Preservation Palace, unable to determine his condition or safely reach him.

• Fang Qianyuan divided his divine soul and infused it with his true spirit, will, laws, power, and essence as he entered a state of joining the Dao and leaving humanity behind.
• Fang Qianyuan nearly lost his sense of self as his thoughts and consciousness shattered, but the Three Times Transformation sustained his power across the past, present, and future.
• Fang Qianyuan completed the severing of his self and became a chaos Dao seed spanning time and space, but still needed the severed self to absorb the origin and restore its will.
• Wen Qingfei, Bai Aoxue, and Fang Qianyuan's followers watched ice spread over Central Preservation Palace as his advancement began.
• Wen Qingfei stopped attempts to break through the ice after the Spell-Breaking Blade barely chipped it and approaching it endangered even powerful cultivators.

After Fang Qianyuan entered life-or-death seclusion to break through to the Heavenly Dao Realm, his allies and rivals weighed how to respond. The news reached Celestial Pivot and Grand Elder Lianshan, who recognized that Fang had willingly risked his secure position for the future of cultivation.

• Wen Qingfei explained Fang Qianyuan’s resolve and urged his followers to support him, and Wang Ran and the others pledged their loyalty before departing to command their forces.
• Grand Elder Tian Heng decided that the Spirit Taming Sect should stand by Fang Qianyuan, while members of the Demon Alliance chose to seek enfeoffments without provoking wider turmoil.
• Celestial Pivot learned from Grand Elder Lianshan that Fang Qianyuan had entered life-or-death seclusion to pursue full attainment of the Heavenly Dao.
• Celestial Pivot and Lianshan reflected that Fang had given up the stability of his current rule to pursue a breakthrough for cultivators everywhere.

The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy revealed to Lianshan that Venerable Panling had become the Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao, Mystic Heaven, and that the sect’s Profound Realm Ascension plan aimed to help him ascend. The Holy Envoy confirmed that Fang Qianyuan was the prophesied Azure Heaven.

• Lianshan asked whether the Sacred Sect should return to the Spirit-Taming World, and the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy said the opportunity had arrived.
• The Holy Envoy explained that the Sacred Sect had survived and flourished partly because Venerable Panling had been its powerful leader against the Immortal Alliance.
• Lianshan identified Venerable Panling, and the Holy Envoy revealed that Panling had undergone Dao Unification and become Mystic Heaven, the Spirit-Taming World’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Holy Envoy explained that Profound Realm Ascension to Immortality was part of the plan to help Panling ascend, since the path had never been tested during the Dharma-Ending Age.
• Lianshan asked whether Fang Qianyuan was the figure in the prophecy, and the Holy Envoy confirmed that Fang Qianyuan was the Azure Heaven.

Celestial Pivot explained to Lianshan the Sect Order’s plan to awaken the Spirit-Taming Heavenly Dao and use Azure Heaven to restore Mystic Heaven to full power. Ye Tianming and Ning Lin waited aboard a vast flying vessel in a distant Star Realm, preparing to return.

• Celestial Pivot told Lianshan that the Nine Heavens titles were tied to destiny and that Panling’s plan had shifted to Profound Realm Ascension to Immortality.
• Celestial Pivot revealed that Rogue Person Tianji had attempted to usurp the Transformation Heaven position and was now believed to be hiding in the Demon Realm.
• Celestial Pivot said the Sect Order needed to awaken the Spirit-Taming Heavenly Dao so it could devour Azure Heaven and reach perfection.
• Lianshan volunteered to reconnect with their Demon Alliance subordinates and awaken more Venerables and Ancient Cultivators.
• Ye Tianming told Ning Lin that they could return as they stood aboard a flying vessel in a distant Star Realm.

Warrior leaders learned that the Demonic Path and the Two Sects’ survivors were rebuilding influence, while Bai Yijian returned to the Mo Household after more than a decade away. The Mo Household’s leaders prepared to meet him, alarmed that their old ties to those factions might be exposed.

• Wang Zhu and the other Warrior officers discussed the resurgence of Wu Lianyi’s forces and the Two Sects, then sought support from the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Sun Zhuo took the warning seriously and called his officers together to discuss the threat.
• Two cloaked Spirit Tamers entered Inkcloud Ward and rode directly to the Mo residence.
• One traveler revealed himself as Bai Yijian, and the Mo Household’s guards hurriedly escorted him inside.
• The Mo Household’s leaders recalled that Bai Yijian had connected them to the Demon Alliance and the Two Sects before disappearing, and they went to meet him.

Bai Yijian and Yang Guang visited the Mo Household to recruit it into a new Demon Alliance faction, but the household rejected them and dismissed their leverage over its past. Bai Yijian laughed and asked Yang Guang to act, leaving the confrontation poised to turn violent.

• Bai Yijian introduced Yang Guang, the West Ridge Devil Lord, to the Mo Household and Yang Guang revealed that he was an envoy of the Supreme Heaven Sect sent to recruit them.
• Bai Yijian warned the Mo Household Head that a brewing storm could either help the household rise or bring about its downfall.
• A Mo Household Patriarch angrily rebuked Bai Yijian, while other members admitted the household had once benefited from his allies but argued those old affairs were settled.
• Bai Yijian laughed at the household's refusal and told Yang Guang to make his move.

Bai Yijian and Yang Guang confronted the Mo Household, exposing its head’s forbidden ghost and corpse-demon cultivation and forcing him to face the Yellow Springs Sect’s demand that the household serve the Demon Alliance. Bai Yijian ended by declaring that Mystic Heaven had risen and the Righteous Path’s leader could no longer protect himself.

• Yang Guang attacked the Mo Household with skeletal hands, and the Mo Household Head countered with a golden-armored divine general dharma aspect.
• The skeletal hands shattered, then turned on the household elders and revealed the Mo Household Head’s dharma aspect as a Savage Colossus God fueled by forbidden ghost cultivation.
• Yang Guang tore into the Savage Colossus God and struck the Mo Household Head, collapsing the main hall and burying the household elders beneath the rubble.
• The West Ridge Devil Lord revealed his tenth transformation cultivation and ordered the Mo Household to abandon its old allegiance and serve the Demon Alliance through the Yellow Springs Sect.
• Bai Yijian warned that the Heavenly Dao Alliance could no longer protect its leader and declared that Mystic Heaven had risen.

The Mo Household weighed Yang Guang’s demand to submit to Mystic Heaven but feared Fang Qianyuan’s power and chose to seek help from the Righteous Path. Grand Elder Xiao arrived with reinforcements and attacked Bai Yijian and Yang Guang, who fled when they recognized his strength.

• The Mo Household elders doubted Yang Guang’s claims and discussed the threat posed by Fang Qianyuan and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The Mo Household Head secretly ordered his people to contact the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Grand Elder Xiao, and to prepare the city’s clans for battle.
• Yang Guang and Bai Yijian decided to watch the Mo Household and considered forcing it to submit if it hesitated.
• Grand Elder Xiao and experts from the other four great clans joined the Mo Household in a sudden assault on Bai Yijian and Yang Guang’s lodging.
• Bai Yijian warned Yang Guang that the Mo Household must have powerful backing, and Yang Guang decided to retreat.
• Grand Elder Xiao arrived with a powerful aura, and Yang Guang grabbed Bai Yijian and fled after recognizing him as a Tenth Transformation Expert.

The Mo Household’s defeat of Bai Yijian and Yang Guang earned it recognition from the Heavenly Dao Alliance and encouraged clans across Central Province to turn against the Two Sects. In the Demon Realm, Lianshan learned that the Two Sects’ efforts to recruit the clans had failed, while the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy promised reinforcements and threatened Tian Heng.

• Wang Zhu, Shang Jingyun, and other Warrior Administration commanders praised the Mo Household for reporting Bai Yijian and Yang Guang’s scheme and helping defeat them.
• Sun Zhuo accepted Elder Xiao’s appeal, admitted the Mo Household to the Righteous Path, and awarded it treasures to strengthen Mo Yixin and his spirit creature.
• As the news spread, Great Clans rejected the Two Sects’ envoys and began expelling or hunting their members.
• Sun Zhuo, Tian Heng, and other alliance leaders worried about claims concerning Fang Qianyuan’s seclusion but continued working to thwart the Two Sects.
• Lianshan reported that the Great Clans had rejected his efforts to recruit them, and the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy promised to send revived Rogue Persons from the Reincarnation Hall.
• When Lianshan raised the threat of Tian Heng, the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy said he would deal with him personally if necessary.

As Fang Qianyuan remained sealed away, Tian Heng faced pressure from alliance leaders who wanted to resume expeditions and gain access to the Star Map. He revealed that Fang had already arranged another way to explore new worlds, leaving the assembly stunned.

• Tian Heng inspected the ice-covered Central Preservation Palace and heard Yu Shixian and Deng Xiong urge him to accept responsibility for the alliance if Fang Qianyuan failed.
• At the alliance assembly, Huang Yuan called for a new otherworld expedition, and King Mu, Yin Shanhe, and other elders supported him.
• Tian Heng recognized that the push for exploration was a pretext to reclaim the Star Map from Fang Qianyuan.
• Tian Heng announced that Fang had sent scouts to Grotto Heavens in unfamiliar domains and that mature Teleportation Array techniques could let the alliance reach those worlds.
• The assembly fell silent after Tian Heng revealed Fang’s contingency plan.

Grand Elder Tian Heng revealed that Fang Qianyuan had predicted Lei Zhengming’s success in mastering the Teleportation Array, securing the Alliance’s support for further expeditions. After Lei Zhengming presented three teleportation techniques, Tian Heng ordered them put into use, then chose the Twin Suns World as the next expedition target.

• Grand Elder Tian Heng explained that Fang Qianyuan had foreseen Lei Zhengming mastering the Teleportation Array and had sent over a hundred advance parties to scout other worlds.
• Tian Heng persuaded the assembly to begin contacting those worlds and establish teleportation arrays.
• Lei Zhengming presented the Small Teleportation Array, Great Teleportation Array, and Traveling Talisman to Tian Heng and the Alliance elders.
• Tian Heng ordered the techniques’ basic information shared and allowed their creators to keep profits from future improvements and new developments.
• The Alliance distributed the materials to its registered Array Masters and talisman masters, who learned the techniques.
• After the expedition requirements were met, Tian Heng chose the Twin Suns World for exploration.

Grand Elder Lianshan reported the Heavenly Realms Alliance’s growing strength to the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy and learned that their plans depended on Venerable Panling awakening as heaven’s will. The Holy Envoy questioned Rogue Person Tianji’s contradictory prophecy that “Mystic Heaven Shall Die, Azure Heaven Shall Rise,” leaving their fate uncertain.

• Grand Elder Lianshan learned that Fang Qianyuan’s contingency had prevented resentment from spreading through the Heavenly Realms Alliance and arranged for Rogue Person White Crane to obtain a Vine Dragon.
• Grand Elder Lianshan contacted the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy and described the alliance’s shared techniques and planned expedition to the Twin Suns World.
• The Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy told Grand Elder Lianshan that Venerable Panling would awaken as heaven’s will and bless their efforts to rebuild the sect.
• Grand Elder Lianshan concluded that otherworld expeditions would help Venerable Panling gain the power to reach perfection and enable the world’s ascension.
• After ending the communication, the Heavenly Pivot Holy Envoy wondered why Rogue Person Tianji had prophesied that Mystic Heaven would die and Azure Heaven would rise, and considered capturing Fang Qianyuan.

The Heavenly Realms Alliance completed Myriad Worlds City’s Great Teleportation Formation to the Twin Suns World and began its campaign there. As the vanguard established a foothold in the other world, unfamiliar Heaven-Tier experts gathered near Grand Elder Lianshan and Rogue Person White Crane.

• Grand Elder Tian Heng and the alliance elders inspected the rapidly expanding Myriad Worlds City and planned more Teleportation Grand Formations.
• Lei Zhengming completed and activated the Great Teleportation Formation to the Twin Suns World, and travelers arrived through it successfully.
• The alliance ordered elite troops and rotating Heaven-Tier guards to defend Myriad Worlds City and its formation.
• On the twenty-eighth day of the eighth month, a vanguard of roughly a thousand people began expanding into the Twin Suns World.
• In early September, the vanguard occupied a spirit valley and began building a city around its Great Teleportation Formation.
• Several unfamiliar Heaven-Tier experts gathered near Grand Elder Lianshan and Rogue Person White Crane.