Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan cultivated Myriad Evolution Star River, discovered that establishing its Great Sun Fundamental Image reduced the time needed to reach Myriad Manifestations, and led the Epoch Prodigies into the Canglan Realm. After the rankings were announced, he awoke aboard a modern train, confused by his surroundings.

• Li Qingshan studied Yang Zhixuan’s Myriad Evolution Star River art, recognized that his vision of the Star River Universe might contain its future path, and began cultivating the Great Sun in the Sky Fundamental Image.
• Tai Shang gave Yue Zhen a jade pendant to guide him toward something he needed to find in the Canglan Realm, while Feng Boyong set out with his still-sheathed saber and Tu Xie prepared to pursue an Earth Immortal.
• Li Qingshan established his Great Sun Fundamental Image and saw that the realm’s upper limit had decreased by one hundred, confirming that Myriad Evolution Star River could shorten the path to Ninth Order.
• Shi Feng briefed the 101 Epoch Prodigies on the dangers and rules of entering the Canglan Realm, and Li Qingshan led them through the Nebula Vortex.
• The Epoch Prodigy Ranking named Li Qingshan first and Tu Xie second, while Li Qingshan awoke aboard a Spirit Energy train in unfamiliar surroundings.

Li Qingshan arrived in the modernized Canglan Realm, where he learned that it was one of many worlds and that the Tianji Sect had become the Tianji Group. As his train reached Tianji City, Hao Peiyun told him about a coming Ascension Ceremony and revealed that an ascended True Person was a Golden Core cultivator.

• Li Qingshan saw modern cities, flying delivery workers, and Tianji advertisements from a train, while confirming his Status Panel and cultivation remained unchanged.
• Hao Peiyun introduced herself to Li Qingshan and explained that their world was World 9527 among the Myriad Canglan Worlds, where the Tianji Group operated and sects had disappeared.
• Li Qingshan asked Hao Peiyun about the Tianji Sect, and she clarified that the modern world had no sects.
• As the train neared Tianji City, Hao Peiyun guessed Li Qingshan came from World No. 8999 and told him True Person Lingwei of the Qinghui Sect would hold an Ascension Ceremony there in three months.
• Li Qingshan asked what realm an ascended True Person reached, and Hao Peiyun answered that an ascended True Person was a Golden Core True Person.

Li Qingshan learned that Hao Peiyun’s idea of ascension referred to reaching the Immortal Realm, while his questions about the Ancient Era and the fate of Old Daoist Tianji and Suixin remained unanswered. After arriving in Tianji City, he entered Tianji Academy seeking information but was met with students offering loans.

• Hao Peiyun explained that Golden Core True Persons ascended to the Immortal Realm and described how little was known about the Ancient Era.
• Li Qingshan connected Hao Peiyun’s account to what Old Daoist Tianji and Mo Yuan had told him, but could not resolve how the realms had changed or where Old Daoist Tianji and Suixin had gone.
• Hao Peiyun offered Li Qingshan business cards and a Sound Transmission Jade Talisman, then admitted she had borrowed money to buy cultivation pills and a newer device.
• Li Qingshan left Hao Peiyun some Ultimate Spirit Stones and headed to Tianji Academy to look for information.
• Li Qingshan entered Tianji Academy and found banners advertising Tianji Finance loans as students called out to offer him one.

Li Qingshan explored Tianji Academy and found a cultivation world dominated by Tianji Group, then tested refining Myriad Phenomena Star Sand. He discovered his Great Sun in the Sky Fundamental Image could refine one grain in a day of real time.

• Li Qingshan declined to take out loans and wandered unseen through Tianji Academy, where students focused on careers, Tianji Group, and debt rather than cultivation.
• Li Qingshan questioned Tianji Group’s unchecked influence and wondered whether Earth Immortals still existed in the Myriad Canglan Worlds.
• Li Qingshan sat beneath a tree and decided to wait while investigating the world, then brought out Myriad Phenomena Star Sand to test his cultivation.
• Li Qingshan activated tenfold Reality Acceleration and began refining a grain of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand into his Great Sun in the Sky Fundamental Image.
• Li Qingshan completed refining the grain in ten Martial Arts Space days, which amounted to one day in reality.

Li Qingshan discovered that his Great Sun in the Sky aspect required far more Myriad Phenomena Star Sand than Yang Zhixuan had suggested, so he went to investigate the Tianji Jade Slip Chamber. There, he uncovered the Canglan Ten Thousand Worlds and realized the worlds were connected to his own power.

• Li Qingshan found that one image required one hundred grains of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand, leaving him with enough to derive only a thousand images, and wondered how to obtain more.
• Li Qingshan entered the Tianji Jade Slip Chamber and discovered the Canglan Ten Thousand Worlds, then appeared at the edge of the world.
• In World 1573, a white-robed swordsman began climbing the Qingxuan Sword Sect’s Ascension Gate.
• In World 1989, Tu Xie pleased the Blood Lotus Cult’s elder by eliminating the Shadow Kill Hall and was promised a place as his foremost disciple.
• In World 5555, Yue Zhen encountered a Young Monk helping a starving girl, and the jade pendant at his waist began to glow.
• Li Qingshan saw traces of Mystic Yellow through cracks at the world’s edge and realized that each grain of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand contained a world of the Canglan Ten Thousand Worlds.

Li Qingshan discovered that World 9527 was refined from about one hundred grains of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand, but Astral Realm Rules prevented him from refining its Mystic Yellow Mother Qi. The legend of Dao Ancestor Cangyan suggested the worlds were protected by someone powerful enough to challenge Ninth Order cultivators, leaving Li Qingshan questioning the ancient history and the identity of the Outer Realm Sky Demons.

• Li Qingshan connected Mystic Yellow with Myriad Phenomena Star Sand and reread a legend claiming Dao Ancestor Cangyan used Profound Yellow Mother Qi to refine the Myriad Canglan Worlds.
• Li Qingshan surveyed World 9527, concluded it was a small world, and planned to save it by evacuating its native humans.
• Li Qingshan traced the Mystic Yellow aura and estimated that about one hundred grains of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand had been used to refine World 9527.
• Li Qingshan tried to refine the Mystic Yellow aura with Great Sun Flame, but Astral Realm Rules blocked him.
• Li Qingshan concluded that Dao Ancestor Cangyan must have power comparable to a Ninth Order cultivator and wondered whether the legend's Outer Realm Sky Demons referred to Suixin or Old Daoist Tianji.
• Li Qingshan questioned where the Ancient Era described in the legend had come from.

Li Qingshan investigated the false history of the Ancient Era, while Yue Zhen recognized that the lucky young monk Suixin was Tai Shang’s target for a fortune-seizing scheme but chose to delay it. Meanwhile, Tai Shang vanished into the Star Realm during an astral storm.

• Li Qingshan concluded that the Heavenly Dao could alter cognition but could not erase historical traces, then descended into the world to investigate.
• Yue Zhen caught the Young Monk following him and realized the glowing pendant had drawn him because of his extraordinary luck.
• Yue Zhen could not bring himself to crush the pendant and instead named the Young Monk Suixin, planning to wait until the monk reached the end of his life before using it.
• An astral storm erupted in unknown deep space, and the assembled figures realized Tai Shang had been swept into the Star Realm.

Li Qingshan discovered that World 9527’s supposed Ancient Era existed only in altered memories, while the Tianji Group had spread throughout society. He returned to Tianji City and witnessed a tour guide defend the Group against a young critic.

• Li Qingshan noticed that the Chen family’s ancestral hall showed no traces older than a thousand years, despite Old Chen’s insistence that his family had lived there since the Ancient Era.
• Li Qingshan saw a Tianji Delivery rider bring food to the remote ancestral hall and recognized the Group’s reach.
• Li Qingshan traveled across World 9527 and concluded that people’s cognition had been altered, while physical historical traces went back no more than a thousand years.
• Li Qingshan observed Tianji Group employees serving even a poor old woman and wondered whether the Group was a conscientious enterprise or a cultivation cancer.
• Li Qingshan returned to Tianji City and heard a museum tour guide praise the Old Director and the Tianji Group’s development policies.
• A young man accused the Group of turning people into beasts of burden, and the tour guide rebuked him by arguing that the Group had spared World 9527 the wars and hardship suffered by other worlds.

Li Qingshan investigated the Tianji Group and learned that its founder, Daoist Tianji, was supposedly dead, though he suspected otherwise. Meanwhile, Zhang Tingnan recruited Hao Peiyun into the Immortal Restoration Society, which planned to oppose the Group.

• A powerful young cultivator challenged the tour guide's account of cultivation, criticizing the Tianji Group's assembly-line methods and questioning why no one in World 9527 had ascended in three hundred years.
• Li Qingshan asked about Daoist Tianji and learned that the founder had supposedly died eight hundred years earlier without reaching Core Formation.
• At the museum, Li Qingshan recognized Daoist Tianji as an old acquaintance and declined the chicken leg offering, saying he had treated him to some before.
• Li Qingshan searched the Tianji Group headquarters for Daoist Tianji, found no trace of him, and decided to wait for Chairman Daoist Tianyun to return for the Ascension Ceremony in three months.
• Zhang Tingnan welcomed Hao Peiyun into the Immortal Restoration Society after she declared that she wanted to oppose the Tianji Group.

Tianji Group drew crowds to Tianji City for True Person Lingwei’s public ascension ceremony, while Hao Peiyun and other young cultivators resolved to save World 9527 from the company’s control. At the ceremony, Li Qingshan noticed that Lingwei and the visiting Sect Leaders carried traces of Astral Realm Rules, which seemed to hang from the sky like fishing lines.

• Tianji Group announced Lingwei’s ascension ceremony, and news of it spread throughout the city.
• Over the next three months, crowds and young cultivators gathered in Tianji City as Li Qingshan searched Tianji Tower for his old acquaintance without finding him.
• Li Qingshan joined Hao Peiyun at the ceremony, where she told him she had made saving the world her goal.
• Daoist Tianyun welcomed True Person Lingwei and stepped aside as she arrived at the venue.
• Li Qingshan saw traces of Astral Realm Rules on Lingwei and the visiting Sect Leaders, then traced them upward and perceived fishing lines hanging from the zenith.

Li Qingshan realized that Lingwei’s Heavenly Dao Mark enabled her ascension, while moonlight from Suixin briefly tried to stop her. After Lingwei ascended, the Immortal Restoration Society confronted Daoist Tianyun over Tianji Group’s role in preventing ascensions, and he announced the group would close its businesses and academies.

• Li Qingshan recognized the Heavenly Dao Marks on Lingwei and the sect leaders, and suspected Daoist Tianyun had formed a False Core to avoid receiving one.
• Lin Haofeng warned Lingwei about evil demons and the Waning Moon Illusion as she began ascending.
• Cold Moon moonlight briefly obstructed Lingwei, but she broke through the illusion and ascended from World 9527.
• Hao Peiyun tried to rise, but Li Qingshan restrained her and told her to watch as young protesters gathered.
• Zhang Tingnan accused Tianji Group of suppressing ascension and demanded an explanation from Daoist Tianyun.
• Daoist Tianyun announced that Tianji Group would close its stores and businesses and suspend its academies.

After Daoist Tianyun agreed to shut down the Tianji Group, the public and the Immortal Restoration Society confronted the group’s grip on everyday life, while Lin Haofeng dismissed their concerns as a matter of strength. Li Qingshan encouraged Hao Peiyun to keep trying to save the world, then entered the Tianji Group’s hidden chamber, where its founder recognized him as Li Yanluo.

• Daoist Tianyun announced the Tianji Group’s shutdown, but viewers cursed the Immortal Restoration Society because they depended on the group for jobs and daily necessities.
• Zhang Tingnan warned Lin Haofeng and the other sect leaders that the Tianji Group could infiltrate their worlds, but Lin Haofeng said their strength would let them overcome any threat.
• Daoist Tianyun swept Zhang Tingnan and the other Immortal Restoration Society members out of the venue, while Li Qingshan freed Hao Peiyun from her restraints.
• Li Qingshan told Hao Peiyun that she and the society were not wrong to try to save the world, took one of her business cards, and watched her leave hopeful that he might join them.
• Inside a hidden chamber beneath Tianji Tower, Daoist Tianyun encountered Li Qingshan, and the founder Daoist Tianji bowed to him and introduced himself as Xingyun.

Li Qingshan reunited with Xingyun, who revealed that Old Daoist Tianji had created the Myriad Canglan Worlds and left behind the Tianji Tablet and a formation tied to the Astral Realm Rules. Li Qingshan saw the formation as a way to break his cultivation deadlock, but rejected Xingyun’s plan to flee the worlds and escape the Heavenly Dao.

• Li Qingshan discovered that Xingyun had survived for over a thousand years without being marked by the Heavenly Dao, and Xingyun explained that Old Daoist Tianji, not Dao Ancestor Cangyan, had created the Myriad Canglan Worlds.
• Xingyun brought Li Qingshan to the Tianji Tablet, whose warning read “Do Not Ascend,” and recounted that Old Daoist Tianji had merged with the Dao to separate mortals from immortals and prevent living beings from becoming resources.
• Li Qingshan recognized that the formation connected to the Astral Realm Rules and could offer a way to break the deadlock preventing him from saving the world.
• Xingyun revealed that his Li Tian Great Array was intended to propel World 9527 out of the Myriad Canglan Worlds, but Li Qingshan challenged him to face the Heavenly Dao instead of fleeing.

Li Qingshan learned that Dao Ancestor Cangyan was the ancient Ancestor of Earth Immortals and realized Cangyan could not enter the Myriad Canglan Worlds. He ordered Xingyun to transform the Li Tian Great Array into a Sky-Breaking Great Array spanning all the worlds.

• Li Qingshan asked Xingyun whether he wanted to save Old Daoist Tianji, and promised to rescue him if he was alive or avenge him if he was dead.
• Xingyun explained that Cangyan originated in the Ancient Era and had created the Method of Earth Immortals to slow the loss of lifespan.
• Xingyun said Cangyan had likely submitted to the Evil God and evaded the Five Decays of Heaven and Man before uniting with the Dao.
• Li Qingshan reasoned that Cangyan could not enter the Myriad Canglan Worlds because he had already united with the Dao outside them.
• Li Qingshan told Xingyun to change the Li Tian Great Array into a Sky-Breaking Great Array covering the Myriad Canglan Worlds.

Li Qingshan ordered the Tianji Group to expand across the Myriad Canglan Worlds and prepare the Sky-Breaking Great Array, then began refining the final grain needed to form One Form. The Immortal Restoration Society learned that he had become chairman of the Tianji Group, just as Daoist Tianyun arrived to take its members away.

• Li Qingshan told Xingyun to proceed with the Sky-Breaking Great Array and revealed that one hundred of his companions were scattered across the Myriad Canglan Worlds.
• Li Qingshan gave Daoist Tianyun Hao Peiyun's business card and instructed him to recruit every Immortal Restoration Society member into the Tianji Group's factories.
• Li Qingshan withdrew to cultivate, refined the final grain of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand, and watched the phantom of his Fundamental Image of Great Sun in the Sky grow closer to completion.
• Hao Peiyun encouraged the Immortal Restoration Society after its failure, and Zhang Tingnan praised her words.
• A Tianji Newsflash announced that Li Qingshan had replaced Daoist Tianyun as chairman of the Tianji Group, stunning Zhang Tingnan and the others.
• Daoist Tianyun entered the Immortal Restoration Society's rented room and told its members to come with him.

Tianji Group announced that Li Qingshan had replaced Daoist Tianyun as Chairman and shifted production toward Tianji No. 2 talisman arrays, while boosting factory workers’ pay and benefits. Immortal Restoration Society members working in a factory realized the arrays nested at least a hundred Cross-Boundary Teleportation Arrays, leaving them to wonder where Tianji Group intended to send people.

• Tianji Group announced Li Qingshan as its new Chairman, prompting widespread confusion and speculation among the public.
• A factory Supervisor announced that Tianji factories would increase wages and performance bonuses while switching from rotating double shifts to triple shifts to expand Tianji No. 2 production.
• Hao Peiyun and the other Immortal Restoration Society members recognized Li Qingshan as the man they had planned to join, and Hao accused him of betraying her and dismantling their society.
• Zhang Tingnan examined the array patterns on the workers’ Jade Slips and deduced that Tianji No. 2 nested teleportation arrays, with his pattern alone reserving more than a hundred interfaces.
• Zhang Tingnan and the others realized Tianji Group was preparing a vast stockpile of arrays whose teleportation range could extend beyond the Myriad Canglan Worlds.

Li Qingshan completed two Forms of Myriad Evolution Star River, lowering his realm limit and gaining another Stellar Furnace, then prepared Tianji Group to rescue the people of the Myriad Canglan Worlds. Meanwhile, Qiu Zhan tried to ban ascension in World 3511, but Feng Yu ascended and was killed by the Immortal Realm’s blood-red light, leaving only his patterned Golden Core.

• Li Qingshan refined one hundred pieces of Myriad Phenomena Star Sand, formed a second Great Sun, and found that his realm limit had decreased by another 100 points.
• Li Qingshan realized that each additional Form created another Stellar Furnace, increasing how many pieces he could refine at once.
• Li Qingshan reviewed reports on Tianji No. 2, a long-distance teleportation array intended to reach the Immortal Realm, and asked Xingyun to help Tianji Group expand.
• Qiu Zhan learned that Feng Yu of the Hanging Void Pavilion had begun ascending despite his ban, and ordered the sect seized and punished for Feng Yu’s departure.
• Feng Yu arrived in the Immortal Realm, where a ray of clear light erased his body and consciousness, leaving his Golden Core engraved with nine blood-red patterns.

Daoist Tianyun presented the immortal sect leaders with Tianji Group’s terms for taking control of their worlds, provoking their fury. As they tried to force him to kneel, a mysterious plump old man arrived and effortlessly sealed their cultivation, leaving them kneeling before him.

• Lin Haofeng and the other sect leaders welcomed Daoist Tianyun and agreed to review the alliance terms.
• Daoist Tianyun’s contract demanded Tianji Group’s leadership over their worlds, an end to ascension, and service from sect disciples and elders.
• Lin Haofeng and the other leaders rejected the terms and used their Golden Core auras to pressure Tianyun.
• Daoist Tianyun insisted that none of them was qualified to negotiate with Tianji Group.
• A gentle breeze sealed the leaders’ Golden Cores and forced them to their knees.
• A plump old man entered the hall and cheerfully asked the kneeling leaders to get up.

Daoist Tianji forced Lin Haofeng and the other sect leaders to sign Tianji Group’s alliance agreement, then left to find a successor while Tianyun returned to report to Chairman Li Qingshan. In World 1573, Feng Boyong revealed that he had read every text in the Heavenly Book Pavilion and sealed his master’s Golden Core to stop him from ascending.

• Daoist Tianji appeared before Lin Haofeng and the other sect leaders, overwhelmed them, and made them sign the alliance agreement.
• Lin Haofeng asked why Tianji Group intended to cut off ascension, and Xingyun told him to wait for an explanation while admitting he had not claimed he could resist Descended Immortals.
• Tianyun told the sect leaders that Daoist Tianji was looking for the next Executive Director and that he was returning to report to Chairman Li Qingshan.
• In World 1573, Feng Boyong told his master that he had read every book in the Heavenly Book Pavilion.
• Feng Boyong sealed his master’s Golden Core with a Forbidden Rune and told him not to ascend.

Xingyun expanded Tianji Group’s alliance across more than five hundred worlds while searching for Li Yanluo’s other Executive Directors. The chapter then shifted to World 4021, where Fu Shan confronted the Star Martial Alliance, and World 1989, where Zhuo Ziheng tried to escape the Sea of Blood before Tu Xie appeared in his shadow.

• Tianyun reported that Tianji Group had signed more than five hundred alliance pacts and begun recruiting sect leaders and elders into the Myriad Realms Pioneer Legion.
• Xingyun learned that no one had found any of Li Yanluo’s other Executive Directors and urged the group to accelerate its expansion.
• The Star Martial Alliance besieged Huanxin Pavilion, and Fu Shan challenged its claim that martial arts were inferior to immortality.
• Zhuo Ziheng taunted imprisoned sect leaders as they planted lotuses in the Sea of Blood, then walked beyond its boundary to regain his spiritual power.
• Tu Xie appeared in Zhuo Ziheng’s shadow and accused his master of abandoning him to ascend alone.