Chapter Summaries

Emperor An and Feng Jun prepared to face each other at Changning, with both rulers choosing to fight personally rather than begin with their armies. Feng Jun armed himself and descended toward Changning, leaving his court confident that he would return victorious.

• At Huayin, Wei Cun urged Du Yuan to send troops and generals ahead to test the enemy, but Du Yuan explained that Emperor An intended to take the field himself.
• Du Yuan revealed that Wei Cun feared a direct clash would damage Wei Mi’s sovereign aura, while his divinations warned that a conventional battle would cause heavy casualties.
• At Weiyang, Feng Jun ordered True Person Bai to garrison Guangyan Commandery and Jiang Jie to hold his troops until the aura over Changning changed.
• Feng Jun put on the Vault-Sealing God-Locking Armor and took up the Evil-Slaying Sword, rejecting Chancellor Wen’s warning that Wei Mi had prepared carefully.
• Feng Jun set aside his supernatural qualities and divine status, then descended toward the open plains of Changning to confront Wei Mi; Chancellor Wen told the court to await his triumphant return.

Wei Mi fought Feng Jun on Changning’s Western Mound, using wu earth arts to suppress the Great Flame Emperor Lord and his bing fire. Feng Jun reversed his flame into ultimate fire and unleashed the people’s wrath, which Wei Mi chose to bear.

• Wei Mi met Feng Jun on Changning’s Western Mound and challenged him despite Feng Jun treating him as an inexperienced opponent.
• Feng Jun unleashed [Immortal in the Flame], while Wei Mi used origin magnetism and the Azure Phoenix’s wind calamity to counter his attacks.
• Feng Jun transformed his Divine Ability to scourge the gods, but Wei Mi used the Primordial Era character for prohibition to bring him down and counterattacked with wu earth powers.
• Wei Mi destroyed his origin magnetism cauldron while catching Feng Jun’s Spirit Sword, then used guardian deities and a Drought Demon to suppress Feng Jun’s bing fire.
• Feng Jun revealed that he had come as the rebel leader who rallied the people, reversed his flame into ultimate fire, and unleashed [Sorrow and Hardship’s Decline].
• As the Human Dao’s wrath overwhelmed the battlefield, Wei Mi declared that he willingly bore it.

Feng Jun and Wei Mi fought over Changning, testing their cultivation and the power of their respective natures. Wei Mi conceded defeat, and Feng Jun reclaimed Changning for Great Flame while opening a heavenly realm to cultivators.

• Feng Jun unleashed ultimate fire against Wei Mi, who endured the attack without drawing on his golden nature and discovered how the gong tone could turn the force of changing territories.
• Wei Mi used the Handle of Compulsory Service and the Primordial Divine Script to summon a Wu Earth Spirit Mountain and suppress Feng Jun with primordial chaos.
• Feng Jun struck Wei Mi with Light-Inheriting Flame, and Wei Mi's golden nature intervened to dispel the attack after his Azure Phoenix was driven back into his Dharma Body.
• Wei Mi admitted defeat, but Feng Jun called their contest a draw and said he would not take advantage of Wei Mi's few years of cultivation.
• Wei Mi yielded Changning to Windflame, and Feng Jun declared that Great Flame had reclaimed its former capital.
• Feng Jun opened a heavenly realm, promising to use incense offerings to support the people and welcome all cultivators.

Li Huanyou entered Immortal Plum Heaven to seek the divine Dao’s incense offerings while searching for a hidden variable that might change his fate. The Gloomy Netherworld pressed him to hurry, and he recognized that someone was warning him with sky-thunder soul-smiting authority.

• Li Huanyou rebuked the Gloomy Netherworld spirits who followed him and promised to reclaim the incense offerings inside Immortal Plum Heaven.
• Celestial Master Ye watched Li Huanyou depart, then entered the grotto-heaven after discussing the mission with a Gloomy Netherworld spirit.
• Li Huanyou entered Immortal Plum Heaven, where his imperial destiny let him pass through its divine arrangements and gather incense offerings.
• Li Huanyou counted the grotto-heaven’s secret realms and suspected Immortal Plum Heaven was a Dao realm built on an older foundation.
• The Gloomy Netherworld’s pressure revealed three altars bearing purple, golden, and crimson incense offerings, which Li Huanyou associated with immortals, gods, and humans.
• As Li Huanyou examined the offerings, he felt increasingly sharp warnings and realized someone was using sky-thunder soul-smiting authority to urge him onward.

Xu Xuan explored Immortal Plum Heaven while watching for the Gloomy Netherworld’s plans involving Li Huanyou and seeking the hidden Northern Thunder Blessed Land. After Celestial Master Ye revealed its location, Xu Xuan crossed the Awakening World Bridge and reached the collapsed Northern Thunder stele.

• Xu Xuan examined Immortal Plum Heaven’s altars and incense offerings, but could not locate the position proofs for Clear and Fortune.
• Xu Xuan sensed Li Huanyou heading toward the altars to take the Divine Dao incense offerings and ordered him to proceed normally while Xu Xuan watched for No Awareness.
• Celestial Master Ye approached Xu Xuan, admitted borrowing power from the Gloomy Netherworld, and told him that Northern Thunder lay within the Five Phases Heaven-Cave.
• Xu Xuan crossed the Awakening World Bridge, examined the Bitter Dream Abyss beneath it, and found accumulated sin and heavenly aversion there.
• Xu Xuan entered the Five Phases Heaven-Cave and reached a collapsed silver Mystic Stele inscribed with Northern Thunder.

Xu Xuan entered the ruined Northern Thunder Blessed Land, examined its divine paintings, and tried to offer incense before being attacked by the returning Deng. Elsewhere, Zhang Yu and Wang He recovered the sealed divine nature of the Youzhen Assistant Deity, then heard thunder and realized Deng Zhuoxin was still present.

• Xu Xuan entered the Supreme Truth Palace and recognized its paintings of the Thunder Ancestor, Northern Dipper Tianpeng, and Northern Dipper Tian Qiong.
• Xu Xuan offered incense to the three figures, but only one stick lit for Tianpeng and none lit for Tian Qiong, whose painted figure seemed to wave him away.
• A silver-thunder skeleton appeared at the palace entrance, and Xu Xuan began to address Deng before the figure attacked him with a black sword.
• Zhang Yu warned Wang He not to delve into the history of Northern Thunder's destruction as they searched the Youzhen Divine Realm.
• Zhang Yu collected the sealed divine nature of the Youzhen Assistant Deity, and Wang He noticed it manifested water, fire, twilight, and dai.
• Zhang Yu and Wang He left the Youzhen Divine Temple and heard the thunder intensify, prompting Zhang Yu to say Deng Zhuoxin was still there.

Xu Xuan defeated Deng Zhuoxin’s Thunder Oath by cutting away the Dai on his face, but Deng vanished before he could reveal what he had discovered. Meanwhile, Li Huanyou stole an incense offering and became caught in a struggle between Altar Thunder and No Awareness over fate, Dai, and the Netherworld.

• Xu Xuan used his Golden Core power to cut away Deng Zhuoxin’s Dai, ending the Thunder Oath’s protection and causing Deng to dissolve into tribulation ash without explaining what had enraged him.
• Xu Xuan recovered Northern Thunder’s Daoist Canon and three Altar Thunder Ancient Treasures before the collapsing blessed land forced him back to Feng Li Heaven.
• Li Huanyou followed Xu Xuan’s instruction, using a corpse-like hand to take the incense offering of prosperity from a Mysterious Altar.
• Altar Thunder spoke through Li Huanyou and accused him of breaking the rules, while Li Huanyou revealed that Ce Ting had hinted he could act this way.
• No Awareness and Yin Chang disputed whether No Awareness could escape and attain the Dao, as No Awareness invoked borrowed fate and challenged Yin Chang to a Dao debate.
• The violet flame dimmed as the crimson incense offering rose, spreading profound sinful karma and staining its surroundings bloody.

Xu Xuan trapped No Awareness in a false history and watched the three incense offerings in Immortal Plum Heaven be claimed. Changyin failed to attain Violet, and the upheaval revealed that Immortal Plum Heaven concealed the legacy of the Austere Lord, as Emperor Nether emerged.

• Xu Xuan lured No Awareness into a false nature and life, suppressed him as a demonic banner, and hid both him and Li Huanyou inside a false history.
• The Emperor Lord of the Windflame dynasty claimed the preserved human dao incense offerings, while True Person Changyin prepared to claim the violet offerings for Louguan.
• Changyin attempted to attain Violet using four Violet divine abilities and one Clear ability, but failed and transformed into an evil creature.
• Fu Chang entered the violet light to see Changyin off, while Guan Quan retrieved Louguan's canon and seal as the Mystic Canon disintegrated and the violet offerings returned to the Great Void.
• Immortal Plum Heaven shook and revealed the Austere Lord's hidden legacy beneath its Clear concealment, while Emperor Nether emerged into the world.

Xu Xuan entered the ancient Mystery Chamber Divine Domain and uncovered its links to the Austere Lord, the Primordial Era, and the original position proofs of clear and prosperity. After the Azure Bird used reincarnation to unseal and separate those position proofs, Xu Xuan discovered a lightning-wreathed Mystic Canon titled Intercalation.

• A divine presence of Sky Thunder entered the Mystery Chamber ruins, and Xu Xuan realized heaven and earth were accommodating it as the lord of reincarnation.
• Xu Xuan traced the Mystery Chamber Divine Domain's seals to Azure Child, identified as Xu Yao, and found ancient altars established by Taishu Shenming with Yin Hua, Zhang Qingyang, and Nangong Bai.
• Xu Xuan followed the Azure Bird into the divine domain and found the Divine Mandate Palace, where the Northern Dipper remained on the Altar Thunder altar.
• The Azure Bird used reincarnation to reveal the ancient position proofs of prosperity, Mystery Chamber, and clear, Pure Capital, while Feng Li's Mandate Seal merged into the Mystery Chamber.
• The Azure Bird separated clear and prosperity and suppressed the Austere Lord's awakening; Xu Xuan then sensed Altar Thunder True Essence and found a lightning-wreathed Mystic Canon titled Intercalation.

Xu Xuan obtained the original Intercalation scripture from the Primordial Heaven Shrine and used it to claim the shrine and several divine altars. As the Mystery Chamber ascended, Immortal Plum Heaven opened and greater yang light appeared, which Xu Xuan suspected was connected to an ancient Pure Yang figure.

• Xu Xuan concealed himself, discovered the Primordial Heaven Shrine and the Intercalation scripture, and recognized the scripture as an original handwritten by Yin Hua.
• Xu Xuan studied the shrine's murals and inferred that clear and prosperity had exchanged roles to conceal the Dao Venerables' departure and changes to dao virtue.
• Xu Xuan used his connection to the scripture to move the Primordial Heaven Shrine to the domain of primordial heaven.
• Xu Xuan slipped through Yuan Yan's gray-green winds and seized the altar thunder, greater yang, and greater yin Divine Altars from the Divine Mandate Palace.
• The Mystery Chamber's position proofs merged and carried the divine domain upward as Golden Cores pursued it.
• Immortal Plum Heaven opened, and Xu Xuan sensed severance within the rising greater yang light and suspected a connection to an ancient Pure Yang figure.

Xu Xuan explored Immortal Plum Heaven, discovered the Pure Yang Sword Immortal’s sword sheath, and agreed to fight Zhou Shi before either sought the altar. As the Grotto-Heaven collapsed, several fortune treasures escaped or were seized, and Xu Xuan captured the Supreme Evil Furnace, whose dangerous contents he left unopened.

• Xu Xuan examined the Pure Yang Sword Immortal’s sword sheath and sensed mysteries of the Severance path before the sheath flew into the Great Void.
• Xu Xuan met Zhou Shi, who had cultivated in a pool of Greater Yang light with the totem of the Divine Thunder Great Sage, and they agreed to fight when Xu Xuan prepared to seek the altar.
• Xu Xuan searched Immortal Plum Heaven for Feng Li’s Dharma treasures as the Grotto-Heaven collapsed and found several treasures fleeing or being claimed by other powers.
• Jiang Dian and hidden metal light seized the Imperial Sword forged from Mandate Return’s remains, while other fortune treasures were carried away into the White Paper Blessed Land and Gloomy Netherworld.
• Xu Xuan sent a Gray Wolf after a Black Toad that had broken free, captured it, and discovered it was the Supreme Evil Furnace containing something dangerous.
• Xu Xuan suppressed the unopened furnace within the Great Scarlet Heaven and prepared to establish the Dai Fruit again.

Yuan Yan questioned the Light of Truth about Altar Thunder and the dangers of supreme truth before leaving the Mystery Chamber with the Heavenly Inquiry altar. In the Netherworld, Ce Ting found Li Huanyou, while Yin Chang revealed that he had gained fated destiny and intended to resolve the calamity Without Absolution.

• Yuan Yan accused the Light of Truth of withholding what it knew about Altar Thunder, but it said it could not fathom supreme truth and vanished as the Divine Domain ascended.
• Yuan Yan contained the mysterious divine status within the Heavenly Inquiry altar and had the Origin Wood True Lord refine it.
• Yuan Yan reflected on how the Thunder Palace's rule had strengthened the demonic path and concluded that truth and falsehood had to be distinguished.
• Ce Ting found Li Huanyou in the Netherworld and sent him away to cultivate after his divine status and wu earth essence returned.
• Yin Chang told Ce Ting that his former incarnation had slain No Awareness and that he had gained the withering proof foundation and fated destiny.
• Yin Chang left the Netherworld, claiming that he alone could resolve the calamity Without Absolution.

Xu Xuan watched Immortal Plum Heaven collapse as its treasures and prosperity flowed into new hands, while the Flame Crown Prince Feng Tingliao assessed the Windflame dynasty’s gains and planned its next moves. The chapter left Feng Tingliao preparing to establish bing fire’s zhengyin, recruit a promising blood cultivator cautiously, and send Great Flame against the Mystic Secrets bandits.

• Xu Xuan suppressed the [Supreme Evil Furnace], watched a gray void treasure vanish, and sent Cangguang back to Great Scarlet Heaven as Immortal Plum Heaven fell apart.
• True Lord Changji drove back the Dragon Lord and transformed half the imperial sword into dragon veins, helping prosperity qi and bing fire flourish across Guanzhong.
• Feng Tingliao and Jiang Jie discussed the scattered treasures, the Mystery Chamber divine domain, and Mount Tai’s refusal to fulfill its old duties.
• Feng Tingliao ordered caution toward Wu Ma Min, a promising descendant of the Wu Ma clan, and planned to consult his imperial father about the cultivator’s future.
• Feng Tingliao decided to ask True Person Bai to attack the Mystic Secrets bandits in the West Kang Plains and force them to submit to Great Flame.
• Jiang Jie judged True Person Bai’s chance of attaining the golden position to be slim, and Feng Tingliao reflected that borrowed golden nature could not replace one’s own Dao.

Xu Xuan selected the Clear Subtlety Five Phases Dharma Body for himself and sent Liu Xingfang the Northern Thunder teachings, then prepared to investigate the origins of Devil Ancestor Taojue by entering the history of Great Zhou. He traced the Celestial Stars Way back to the era just after Yin fell, where King Heng held the orthodox Fruit Position of Supreme Rites.

• Xu Xuan chose the Clear Subtlety Five Phases Dharma Body and sent Liu Xingfang the Northern Thunder canons and his insights, judging that his disciple had gained the foundation to cultivate the Tianpeng Northern Pole Dharma Body.
• Xu Xuan discussed the dangers of Clear Qi with Tiantuo, appointed Shi Xian to oversee Great Scarlet Heaven during his seclusion, and learned that the Sky Thunder Divine Being had recovered and departed.
• Xu Xuan opened the Supreme Evil Furnace in Great Scarlet Heaven, found Xianxiong’s black demonic heart sealed inside, and suppressed it again with harmonious union mysterious radiance.
• Xu Xuan entered false history to uncover Taojue’s origins and chose to trace the Celestial Stars Way using the Upper Luminary Mystic Void Book.
• Xu Xuan reached the era after Yin’s fall, when King Heng ruled from Haojing with the orthodox Fruit Position of Supreme Rites and the Retainer Position of Constant Light.

Tang Yi and his disciples left Lord White Mound’s residence after Jiang Jie rejected Tang Yi’s prediction about the Ji River, then encountered a Nine-Headed Great Serpent while traveling beside it. After escaping the monster and losing their carriage, they set out on foot to reclaim Mount Taiwei, Tang Yi’s former home.

• Tang Yi told Jiang Jie that the Ji River would endure, but Jiang Jie called him a swindler and drove him from the residence.
• Tang Yi and his disciples debated where to travel before deciding to return to Mount Taiwei, which the White Qiang had seized.
• A Nine-Headed Great Serpent emerged from the Ji River, swallowed their horse and carriage, and fought Jiang Jie and his retainers.
• Tang Yi’s group escaped the hidden water, and Xu Fan used his withering qi to cleanse them of it.
• Dantai Heng returned Yao Jun’s missing Daoist token, then was frightened by a surviving water spirit monster.
• Xu Fan carried Dantai Heng as the group began walking north toward Mount Taiwei.

Tang Yi guided his disciples through the moral dangers of a Golden Core’s power over cause and effect, then revealed he had already attained the Fruit Position of “Void.” As demonic chaos rose around Mount Taiwei, the mysterious man demanded an answer, and Tang Yi declared that someone must complete the convergence.

• Xu Fan, Tang Yi, Dantai Heng, and Yao Jun returned to Mount Taiwei and found the Celestial Stars Way’s mountain reclaimed after Gong Jilie’s breakthrough had frightened away the Qiang People.
• A stern, dark-robed stranger recognized Tang Yi, asked whether their agreement still stood, and left saying he would return when Tang Yi was ready.
• Yao Jun broke through to Spirit Refining, and Tang Yi emerged from seclusion to discuss his own attempt to attain the Dao through calculation.
• Tang Yi showed Yao Jun how changing a family’s fate could entangle their cause and effect, then asked his disciples how they would use a lord’s power.
• Xu Fan rejected the role of a distant first cause, cut away his divine status, and saved the family as a mortal; Tang Yi then revealed he had attained the Fruit Position of “Void” long ago.
• The stranger returned amid rising demonic chaos and demanded an answer, while Tang Yi raised the River of Time and said someone must complete the convergence.

Tang Yi asked his three disciples to choose their Dao paths before entering seclusion to perfect his own Dao, warning that a great killing calamity would follow. Xu Fan rejected the established outcomes of the seven sages and seven mysteries and sought a fifth possibility, so Tang Yi sent him into the world to decide what position to attain.

• Yao Jun confronted Dantai Heng over the Celestial Stars Way’s plans and their interest in the coming fall of Zongzhou, while Xu Fan arrived on the verge of attaining the Dao.
• Tang Yi told Xu Fan, Yao Jun, and Dantai Heng that he would build Dao markers for past, present, and future, and that the resulting calamity would come from all eras and kill him through his own Dao.
• Dantai Heng chose the seven sages and their purposeful action, so Tang Yi sent him into the Cosmos to complete his Dao; Yao Jun chose freedom and ease, and Tang Yi sent him to the Land of Nonbeing to attain his position.
• Xu Fan explained the dangers he saw in both the seven sages and seven mysteries and declared that there should be a fifth outcome, prompting Tang Yi to name Qiyong and Ancient Void as earlier figures who shared that ambition.
• Tang Yi acknowledged Xu Fan’s resolve, showed him the origins of fated destiny and the Thunder Palace’s Dao, and told him to walk the world before returning to attain withering and choose his own position.

Jiang Jie witnessed the Zhou court’s weakening as Chunyu Quan attained the Dao and the Second Greater Yang’s departure was confirmed. Meanwhile, Dantai Heng attained the Dao, and Xu Xuan prepared to pursue Dai amid a coming calamity in the Three Enclosures Heaven.

• Jiang Jie learned that King Heng had died and watched Chunyu Quan attain the Dao, claim authority over Great Qi and neighboring states, and establish the Complete Victory Palace in the Bohai Sea.
• Jiang Jie sensed the Second Greater Yang’s departure and regretted that Great Zhou’s decline would bring upheaval to both the mortal and Immortal realms.
• Dantai Heng returned to Unclarity Mountain after attaining the Dao and questioned Ancient Void about the Mysterious Maiden and whether his senior brother could succeed.
• Xu Xuan considered pursuing Dai through False Withering and Possibility, then told Dantai Heng he would attain Dai within days.
• Xu Xuan announced that he would go to the Three Enclosures Heaven and demonstrate the Dao as a calamity approached.

Great Luminary Tang Yi tried to establish the final Dao marker while Xu Xuan pursued the fruit of Dai, but Truth intervened and Tang Yi fell. Papiyan’s return gave Xu Xuan a chance to challenge Heavenly Feather, though the chapter ended with Xu Xuan slain and Heavenly Feather departing.

• Dantai Heng told Tang Yi that Xu Fan and Yao Jun were ready to attain their Dao, and Tang Yi said he would build the final Dao marker when Xu Fan attained Dai.
• Xu Xuan used the River of Time to forge a false fated destiny as Tang Yi tried to form the future Dao marker, but both efforts stalled when the Fourth Demon appeared.
• Primordial chaos and other beings gathered as Three Enclosures Heaven collapsed, and Heavenly Feather’s Truth killed Tang Yi.
• Xu Xuan attained the fruit of Dai, but Heavenly Feather’s secondary truth kept Dai from advancing toward supreme falsehood.
• Dantai Heng and Buddhist cultivators released Papiyan, allowing Xu Xuan to unite with it, reach the final Dao marker, and confront Heavenly Feather.
• In the three hundred and sixty-first year of Great Zhou, Three Enclosures Heaven fell and Great Luminary died; Without Absolution became a demon, joined with Papiyan, broke through to True Immortal, and was slain by Immortal Lord Heavenly Feather, who departed two years later.

Yao Jun emerged from seclusion after the Three Enclosures were destroyed, gave Dantai Heng the Book of Circulating Six Voids, and left to seek the Dao Beyond the Heavens. Later, Dantai Heng taught the Xia princes Yang Hun and Yang Xiao before discovering that Xuanyang’s supposed body of Severance concealed a deeper truth about the Golden Crows and time.

• Yao Jun returned to the ruined sanctuary and learned from Dantai Heng that his teachers had been dead for a hundred years and Immortal Lord Heavenly Feather had left.
• Dantai Heng recreated young Yao Jun from time so he could grieve for his lost teachers, and Yao Jun then dismissed the boy.
• Yao Jun gave Dantai Heng the incomplete Book of Circulating Six Voids, asked him to finish it, and left to seek the Dao Beyond the Heavens.
• Dantai Heng taught Yang Hun and Yang Xiao about the Circulating Six Voids Method and warned them not to reveal what he had taught, especially to Yang Tun.
• Dantai Heng visited Ancient Void at Unclarity Mountain and deduced that Xuanyang had never cultivated the position of Severance as everyone believed.
• Ancient Void told Dantai Heng that Tang Yi had avoided calculating the truth because it would unleash a calamity, and declared that he would reverse everything if the Golden Crow plan failed.