Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion, Shi Yi learned that Shi Hao had reached the Heavenly Deity Academy and brought him to meet Meng Tianzheng. Shi Hao became an official disciple and began considering the First Elder’s dangerous path to forge a new Dao.

• Shi Yi emerged from seclusion, heard White Qilin’s account of the academy, and learned that Shi Hao had become Wang Xi’s fellow Daoist.
• Shi Yi confronted Shi Hao outside Wang Xi’s cave abode, revealed that they were brothers, and took him away after Shi Hao shattered the Wang Family’s Vajra Bracelet.
• Shi Yi brought Shi Hao to Meng Tianzheng and recommended him as a potential successor to the First Elder’s path.
• Meng Tianzheng explained the danger of the path, invited Shi Hao to decide for himself, and made him an official disciple of the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Shi Hao left to choose a cave abode while Shi Yi watched, having strengthened his connection with Meng Tianzheng.

Solar Essence Shi Yi arrived just as cultivators from other realms threatened the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and demanded their phoenix blood. He forced the intruders to surrender it, stripped Li Bo of his two Dao Flowers, and left the remaining cultivators to flee with the defeated man.

• Two two-strand Immortal Qi cultivators confronted the Three Thousand Dao Provinces' cultivators and demanded their phoenix blood, while their leader Li Bo insulted Demoness and ignored Cao Yusheng's warning.
• Solar Essence Shi Yi arrived with the white qilin and stood with the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, causing the intruders to halt their attack.
• Shi Yi compelled the opposing cultivators to leave their phoenix blood behind and punished those who tried to hide extra bottles by forcing them to their knees.
• Shi Yi singled out Li Bo and ordered him to kneel, while the other two-strand Immortal Qi cultivator declined Li Bo's request to join forces.
• Li Bo attacked Shi Yi, but Shi Yi seized him effortlessly and shattered the two Dao Flowers above his head, stripping away his cultivation.
• Shi Yi let Li Bo's companion carry him away and gathered the surrendered phoenix blood.

Heavenly Deity Academy’s disciples set out for the Immortal Battlefield, where Shi Yi exposed Feng Zhao’s attempt to infiltrate the expedition. After the elders activated an ancient altar, the warship began its journey through space toward the battlefield.

• Shi Yi shared phoenix blood with Demoness and Cao Yusheng, then urged the group to prepare to enter the Immortal Battlefield together.
• Heavenly Deity Academy’s disciples boarded the golden warship, where Shi Hao kept his distance from his old acquaintances because he planned to kill Yuan Feng and possibly Feng Xingtian.
• Shi Yi detected Feng Zhao hiding among the disciples and alerted the Second Elder, who exposed him and ordered him to leave the expedition.
• Feng Zhao warned Shi Yi and Shi Hao with a pointed greeting before departing, and the Second Elder searched the remaining disciples for other infiltrators.
• The warship reached an ancient altar, and the elders activated it with their magical power and precious blood.
• The altar enveloped the warship in a beam of light, sending it through space toward the Immortal Battlefield.

Shi Yi and the academy cultivators entered the Immortal Battlefield, where red-haired beasts killed several disciples. After Shi Yi’s two bodies left the group, five Young Supremes ambushed him, but Lunar Essence Shi Yi overwhelmed them and left Wang Xi fleeing.

• The Golden Warship landed on the Immortal Battlefield, and the elders warned the disciples about its dangers and gave them Bone Talismans.
• Red-haired beasts ambushed the cultivators, killing several before the survivors fought through the horde with help from Shi Yi and the Nine-Life Heavenly Lord.
• Shi Yi followed a direction revealed by the Heavenly Mandate Turtle Shell, then confronted Wang Xi, Princess Yaoyue, Xuan Kun, Green Tuo, and Feng Xingtian, who had joined forces against him.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi attacked Feng Xingtian with the Kunpeng Method and nearly cut him in half, then struck Wang Xi with Five-Colored Divine Light and wounded her severely.
• Shi Yi’s Grass Character Sword Art wounded Princess Yaoyue, Xuan Kun, and Green Tuo, while his Heaven-Opening Double Pupils tore Feng Xingtian apart as he tried to flee.
• Wang Xi crawled through cracks in the ground to escape Shi Yi while Solar Essence Shi Yi remained nearby guarding his other body.

Solar Shi Yi subdued Wang Xi after breaking her Calming Chaos Art, while Lunar Essence Shi Yi and his spirit bodies hunted the other prodigies and their followers. With the six-hour deadline approaching, Wang Xi chose to reveal the art, though Shi Yi warned that he would detect any omissions or alterations.

• Wang Xi tried to flee Solar Shi Yi, then ambushed him with the Calming Chaos Art, but he caught its Sword Embryo and destroyed the attack.
• Solar Shi Yi captured Wang Xi and gave her six hours to decide whether to write out the Calming Chaos Art, keeping her under his control.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi defeated Feng Xingtian, sent spirit bodies after Princess Yaoyue, Xuan Kun, and Green Tuo, and slaughtered the gathered followers.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi immobilized Feng Xingtian and left him to be devoured by the Red-Haired Creatures, which also consumed his life-saving bone.
• Princess Yaoyue, Xuan Kun, and Green Tuo escaped their pursuers badly injured and resolved to make peace with Shi Yi after returning to the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• As the deadline neared, Wang Xi agreed to reveal the Calming Chaos Art, and Lunar Essence Shi Yi warned her that he would punish any attempt to conceal or alter it.

Lunar Essence Shi Yi used four supreme treasures to conceal Wang Changsheng’s restriction long enough for Wang Xi to inscribe the Calming Chaos Art, then let her leave. Shi Yi’s two bodies explored the Immortal Battlefield, captured a divine medicine, and escaped a Headless Knight as a hazy passage began forming atop a black mountain.

• Wang Xi agreed to give Shi Yi the Calming Chaos Art after he swore not to harm her, and Lunar Essence Shi Yi concealed Wang Changsheng’s restriction while she inscribed it.
• Shi Yi took the inscribed bone, studied the Calming Chaos Art with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and allowed Wang Xi to leave; she abandoned her plan to reclaim the art through her family.
• Shi Yi’s two bodies explored ruined palaces, found a divine medicine, and captured it using Kunpeng Extreme Speed and the Divine Peacock Treasure Technique.
• A Headless Knight attacked, but Shi Yi’s bodies escaped with the divine medicine and concealed their auras.
• A blood-red passage began taking shape on an altar atop a black mountain, causing cultivators throughout the Immortal Battlefield to feel a chill.

Shi Yi and the Heavenly Deity Academy cultivators entered a contest arranged by the Foreign Realm to test the younger generation of both worlds. Lunar Essence Shi Yi reached the battlefield while Solar Essence Shi Yi was barred by the Ten Realms Diagram, and the chapter ended with the opposing prodigies sizing each other up as Shi Yi spotted a hidden Void King Beast.

• Cultivators gathered at the black mountain as the Foreign Realm used the Heaven and Earth Bag to send a skeleton across, and the skeleton challenged their younger generation to spar.
• The Second Elder consulted the Ten Realms Diagram, then joined it with the Heaven and Earth Bag to open a Small World where the contest could take place.
• Dozens of Heavenly Deity Academy disciples entered the Small World, including Lunar Essence Shi Yi and Solar Essence Shi Yi, but the Ten Realms Diagram barred Solar Essence Shi Yi from the battlefield because of his cultivation.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi arrived in a rocky arena and faced the Foreign Realm prodigies, while Solar Essence Shi Yi returned to the elders.
• The Foreign Realm prodigies looked down on their opponents, and Lunar Essence Shi Yi discovered a hidden Void King Beast watching the battlefield.

The Nine Heavens and Foreign Realm began their first battle after the Void King Beast mocked the Nine Heavens and Shi Yi blocked its attack. Shi Yi nearly killed the Void King Beast with his Lunar Essence Sword, but the wounded beast used its Nirvana Method to survive.

• The Void King Beast taunted the Nine Heavens and launched invisible sword qi at a Heavenly Deity Academy disciple, but Shi Yi intercepted it.
• Shi Yi challenged the Void King Beast’s pride and lineage, and the two sides soon charged into battle.
• Green Tuo, Princess Yaoyue, Wang Xi, the Ten-Crown King, the Exiled Immortal, the Nine-Life Heavenly Lord, Xuan Kun, and other cultivators fought Foreign Realm opponents as casualties mounted.
• Shi Yi used the Qilin Step to wound the Void King Beast and then struck with his Lunar Essence Sword.
• The Void King Beast suffered a grievous wound to its brow and divine soul, then used its Nirvana Method to survive.

Shi Yi killed the Void King Beast and several Foreign Realm prodigies, turning the battle decisively in the Nine Heavens' favor. The Foreign Realm forces retreated in panic as Shi Yi pursued and slaughtered them.

• Shi Yi shattered the Void King Beast's nirvana and killed it with the Heaven-Opening Double Pupils.
• Shi Yi unleashed the Grass Character Sword Art across the battlefield, killing many Foreign Realm cultivators and easing the pressure on the Nine Heavens.
• Shi Yi helped Nine-Life Heavenly Lord kill his opponent, then killed a bronze-colored woman who had been fighting Green Tuo.
• Shi Yi distracted the man in Scarlet-Gold Armor, allowing Princess Yaoyue to wound him, then caught and killed him as he tried to flee.
• The Foreign Realm forces retreated, while the Nine Heavens charged after them and Shi Yi continued slaughtering their prodigies.

Lunar Essence Shi Yi slaughtered the Foreign Realm forces, killing the Three-Headed King and forcing the survivors to retreat. The Nine Heavens prodigies then reached the ruins at the heart of the Immortal Battlefield and headed toward the broken Immortal Ascension Platform, where ancient opportunities awaited.

• Lunar Essence Shi Yi killed the Three-Headed King with a destructive lightning spear after Shi Hao stepped aside, then pursued the fleeing Foreign Realm cultivators and killed another three-strand immortal qi bearer.
• Fewer than one in ten Foreign Realm cultivators survived, and their escape triggered the Heaven and Earth Bag to split the mysterious world and return both sides to their realms.
• A skeleton learned of the Foreign Realm's losses and blamed Lunar Essence Shi Yi, while a voice from the passage threatened the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with future destruction.
• The Heavenly Deity Academy elders learned that Shi Yi's half-origin avatar had crushed the Foreign Realm forces and classified him as a potential Gu King, then sent the prodigies straight to the Immortal Battlefield's final destination.
• Shi Yi, Shi Hao, the Ten-Crown King, Wang Xi, and the other prodigies arrived among the ruins and advanced toward the broken Immortal Ascension Platform.

Solar Essence Shi Yi was transported to an ancient Immortal Dao Battlefield, where he obtained the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art and helped the nine-leaf sword grass become an Immortal Dao Being. The being sent him back to the Immortal Ascension Platform, where he reunited with Lunar Essence Shi Yi and found that many disciples had returned with gains while others were missing.

• Lunar Essence Shi Yi found that he could not receive another opportunity from the Immortal Ascension Platform, but Solar Essence Shi Yi vanished when he stepped onto it.
• The two supreme sword arts within Solar Essence Shi Yi broke him free from the River of Time and carried him to a battlefield strewn with True Immortal corpses.
• Following a powerful killing intent, Solar Essence Shi Yi found a blood drop containing the Three Supreme Sword Arts and agreed to help the nine-leaved grass refine it.
• Solar Essence Shi Yi took the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art as the nine-leaved grass transformed into nine-leaf sword grass and attained the immortal dao.
• The Humanoid Being formed from the nine-leaf sword grass shattered spacetime with a sword strike, sending Solar Essence Shi Yi back to the Immortal Ascension Platform.
• Solar Essence Shi Yi reunited with Lunar Essence Shi Yi as the surviving disciples gathered and shared news of their gains and the classmates who had not returned.

After returning to the Heavenly Deity Academy, Shi Yi gave resources to the Demoness and considered whether to cultivate the two remaining Supreme Sword Arts. The elders then announced that disciples must choose between the Immortal Ancient Method and the Present Age Method, and revealed that Shi Yi’s Solar Essence Clone had reached the Void Dao domain through the Present Age Method alone.

• Academy disciples argued over sharing their gains, while the elders tolerated the conflict and took two Immortal Dao Scriptures to study.
• Shi Yi’s Lunar Essence Body gave the Demoness resources and urged her to grow stronger as turmoil approached.
• Shi Yi’s two bodies examined the Three Supreme Sword Arts and decided to postpone cultivating the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art and the Calming Chaos Art.
• The academy elders summoned the disciples and announced that they must choose between the Immortal Ancient Method and the Present Age Method.
• The Third Elder revealed Cao Yusheng’s exceptional strength, and the elders praised Shi Hao’s Unique Cave Heaven as a path that could rival a Three-Immortal-Qi Bearer.
• The Second Elder declared that Solar Essence Shi Yi had reached the Void Dao domain through the pure Present Age Method, astonishing the assembled Young Supremes.

The cultivators at the Heavenly Deity Academy chose between the Immortal Ancient Method and the Present Age Method, then began studying the ancient script and learning about dao seeds. The Fourth Elder announced that they would seek seeds in the World Grave and warned them that cultivators from the Sacred Academy and the Immortal Academy would be their rivals.

• The cultivators chose their cultivation paths, and Shi Yi sent his Lunar Essence Body to the Immortal Ancient Method and his Solar Essence Body to the Present Age Method.
• The Third Elder led the Present Age Method cultivators into the Ancient Hall and explained the two epochs of sacrifice behind the method's development.
• The Fourth Elder taught the Immortal Ancient Method cultivators the Immortal Ancient Script and showed them the million characters carved on the White Jade Mountain.
• Shi Hao, the Ten-Crown King, Lunar Essence Shi Yi, Qingyi, and other prodigies displayed their abilities as they comprehended the script.
• The Fourth Elder explained that Immortal Ancient Method cultivators needed dao seeds and said the group would search for them in the World Grave.
• The Fourth Elder warned the cultivators to compete with those from the Sacred Academy and the Immortal Academy for the best seeds.

The Fourth Elder explained the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy and their coming exchange with the Heavenly Deity Academy, while Shi Yi studied ancient cultivation records and began envisioning a path of holistic evolution. The chapter ended as the Fourth Elder revealed divine medicine preserved in an ancient pill furnace.

• The Fourth Elder described the Immortal Academy and Sacred Academy, revealing that their disciples might soon exchange pointers with the Heavenly Deity Academy and select promising cultivators.
• The Fourth Elder explained that Yuan Qing had been rejected by the two academies, prompting Shi Hao and Lunar Essence Shi Yi to consider the threat he might pose.
• For a month, Shi Yi comprehended the Immortal Ancient Script while Solar Essence Shi Yi studied records of past cultivators' attempts to break through their limits.
• Solar Essence Shi Yi conceived a new path of holistic evolution, in which the body and primordial spirit advanced together, but concluded that its requirements were too difficult to meet alone.
• The Fourth Elder activated an ancient pill furnace recovered from the Immortal Abodes and revealed that divine medicine had condensed beneath its ashes.

Shi Yi entered the stone furnace, defeated Shi Hao and the Ten-Crown King, and used the Meridian-Clearing Pill fragments to refine his body and reach the peak of the Heavenly God Realm. After Shi Hao also advanced to the Heavenly God Realm, the Fourth Elder prepared the cultivators to study the Immortal Ancient Script and travel to the World Grave in search of Dao Seeds.

• The Fourth Elder announced that the stone furnace held limited Meridian-Clearing Pill fragments, prompting the Young Supremes to fight for them.
• Shi Yi entered the furnace ahead of the others, surveyed its hidden treasures, and collected potent medicines before approaching the pill fragments.
• Shi Yi repelled Shi Hao and the Ten-Crown King, then took four Meridian-Clearing Pill fragments and left the furnace.
• Shi Yi used the pill fragments and other medicines to expel impurities, transform his body and Divine Soul, and reach the Heavenly God Peak.
• Shi Hao bloomed his third Dao Flower and advanced to the Heavenly God Realm, though he remained weaker than Shi Yi.
• The Fourth Elder told the cultivators to comprehend the Immortal Ancient Script and prepare for a journey to the World Grave to seek Dao Seeds.

Solar Essence Shi Yi gave Meng Tianzheng the Calming Chaos Art and asked him for brutal tempering to break through his cultivation bottleneck, while revealing his plan to test the weakened Immortal-Breaking Curse. After arranging a journey to hell in three days, Shi Yi reunited with his Lunar Essence Body, and they discussed their cultivation insights and future paths.

• Yuan Teng asked Solar Essence Shi Yi to let him follow, but Shi Yi refused because Yuan Teng would not survive the dangers awaiting him.
• Solar Essence Shi Yi gave Meng Tianzheng the Calming Chaos Art and asked him to help with the cruelest possible tempering.
• Shi Yi showed Meng Tianzheng the weakened Immortal-Breaking Curse that had killed Kunpeng, and Meng Tianzheng agreed to let him test it only after the tempering was complete.
• Meng Tianzheng said he would take Shi Yi on a journey to hell in three days, and Shi Yi returned to his Cave Abode to prepare.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi returned after mastering the Immortal Ancient Script and reaching the peak of the heavenly god realm, then discussed cultivation methods with Solar Essence Shi Yi.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi decided to keep studying the immortal ancient method before merging with a dao seed, while both bodies agreed not to attempt crossing the Forbidden Sea of Bitterness before they merged.

Lunar Essence Shi Yi comprehended the Immortal Ancient Method, opened the Yin-Yang Limitless Scripture, and absorbed an era’s inheritance to evolve an immortal body. Meanwhile, the First Elder began tempering Solar Essence Shi Yi’s primordial spirit and prepared to test him against Soul-Devouring Scorpions.

• The First Elder took Solar Essence Shi Yi away to begin his journey of lethal tempering, while Lunar Essence Shi Yi gained access to the Heavenly Deity Academy’s Immortal Dao Scriptures.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi studied the scriptures in seclusion, and the Yin-Yang Limitless Scripture opened as the Forbidden Sea of Bitterness released the Immortal Ancient inheritance carried by the wine he had once drunk.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi endured the inheritance’s devastating baptism and evolved an immortal body, reaching the pinnacle of the Heavenly God realm.
• The First Elder hammered Solar Essence Shi Yi’s primordial spirit, breaking it down and rebuilding it through an agonizing initial tempering.
• The First Elder brought Solar Essence Shi Yi to a pool filled with Soul-Devouring Scorpions and warned him that surviving them was essential to his cultivation.

Solar Essence Shi Yi completed the First Elder’s brutal tempering of his Primordial Spirit and body, mastering the Calming Chaos Art and unlocking immense potential. He returned to the Heavenly Deity Academy with the First Elder, where the elders questioned Dugu Yun, an envoy from the Foreign Realm whose golden blood carried memories of his ancestors’ persecution.

• Solar Essence Shi Yi survived successive trials involving venomous creatures and deathtrap terrains, then endured repeated hammering that refined his Primordial Spirit into a Sword Embryo.
• The First Elder replenished Shi Yi’s Primordial Spirit with purple mansion longevity grass before a final tempering in the Lunar Essence Cavern, where Shi Yi broke free after seven days.
• Shi Yi underwent further physical tempering, revealing the power of his bloodline, which he said had undergone ancestral reversion after he used blood left by the Stone King.
• The First Elder judged that Shi Yi was nearing the pinnacle of Void Dao, but suddenly sensed trouble and transported him back to the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• The Second Elder explained that the Golden Three-Headed King had sent Dugu Yun as an envoy demanding surrender, and that Dugu Yun had revealed golden blood compressed into black blood.
• The elders questioned Dugu Yun, who said his ancestors had fought for their world before being killed by its own people, and that their history remained imprinted in his golden blood.

Dugu Yun’s Guardian Lineage ancestry was confirmed, but he rejected the elders’ hopes that he would join their fight against the Foreign Realm. He challenged the Heavenly Deity Academy’s prodigies, crushed many of them, and agreed to face the experts Lunar Essence Shi Yi named before seeking a fight with him.

• The elders tested Dugu Yun’s golden blood, confirmed he was a descendant of the Guardians, and removed his restraints.
• Dugu Yun dismissed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths as too weak to resist the Foreign Realm, while Solar Essence Shi Yi revealed that the clone who killed the Void King Beast and Three-Headed King was not his only self.
• Dugu Yun challenged Solar Essence Shi Yi, who refused to fight him until he caught up, then the elders let Dugu Yun go test the academy’s prodigies.
• Dugu Yun descended from the Bronze Hall and defeated groups of Heavenly Deity Academy cultivators with the force of his golden blood and qi.
• Dugu Yun challenged Lunar Essence Shi Yi, who told him to defeat Green Tuo, Wang Xi, Xuan Kun, and the others before seeking a fight.
• Shi Hao wanted to test Dugu Yun, but Xuan Kun, Wang Xi, Green Tuo, and the others arrived.

Dugu Yun challenged the Heavenly Deity Academy’s prodigies, then fought Shi Hao while Lunar Essence Shi Yi confronted the Sacred Academy’s envoy. After the envoy and Yuan Hong were sent flying, Dugu Yun told the elders about a route to the Immortal Domain, and two elders agreed to inspect it with him.

• Dugu Yun defeated Green Tuo and Xuan Kun, then challenged Lunar Essence Shi Yi, who sent Shi Hao to fight him instead.
• Shi Hao fought Dugu Yun evenly until the Sacred Academy’s envoy arrived and demanded to see the Twin Stones.
• Lunar Essence Shi Yi struck the envoy and Yuan Hong with one palm, sending both of them flying.
• Shi Hao and Dugu Yun paused their battle, acknowledged each other’s strength, and discussed facing the Foreign Realm’s Royal Clan prodigies.
• The elders emerged and dismissed the crowd, and Dugu Yun told them about a route to the Immortal Domain.
• Two elders agreed to escort Dugu Yun to inspect the route he had described.