Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu learned that a Golden Core Ancestor would lead the mission, then met Golden Cauldron Ancestor as he took command of the gathered cultivators. The chapter ended with the news that Zhu Wuyan’s forces had killed all three Setting Sun Sect cultivators before they could arrive.

• Princess Tianhe told Wang Yu that her master, Zi Guang, had said a Golden Core Ancestor would lead the mission, and she explained that cultivators hoped to earn treasures supplied by the Haoran and Xuanzhen Sects.
• Wang Yu returned to his cavern, encountered Yun Caishang outside, and spent the next two days studying the Beast Claw.
• Golden Cauldron Ancestor crashed into the valley and announced that he would take charge of the mission.
• Yun Caishang verified Golden Cauldron Ancestor’s silver token, and the gathered cultivators agreed to follow his orders.
• Luo Yiming asked whether they would wait for the Setting Sun Sect, and Golden Cauldron Ancestor revealed that Zhu Wuyan’s forces had killed its three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After learning that Zhu Wuyan had wiped out the Setting Sun Sect’s cultivators, Wang Yu and the others traveled under concealment in the Golden Cauldron Patriarch’s treasure artifact toward their mission site. Meanwhile, a Black Soul Sect cultivator met Martial Uncle Wu in Fengyuan City, where a Sandless Valley cultivator exposed their presence and summoned help.

• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch said Sandless Valley’s Daoist Kun was pursuing Zhu Wuyan and took the remaining cultivators to the mission site in his Golden Giant Cauldron.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch concealed the cauldron’s route and blocked the passengers’ divine sense, prompting Zhuo Fan to defend his caution against Luo Yiming’s complaint.
• Wang Yu examined the cauldron’s inner wall and recognized it as being made from the rare third-tier spiritual material seal gold.
• In Fengyuan City, a young Black Soul Sect cultivator removed his bamboo hat and told Martial Uncle Wu that he had come because he was in danger.
• A middle-aged scholar from Sandless Valley confronted Martial Uncle Wu and sent communication talismans in several directions.

The Demonic Path launched a two-front invasion of the Wu Kingdom, defeating or besieging several sects as the cultivation world mobilized to resist. More than a month later, Wang Yu and eight other Foundation Establishment disciples remained trapped inside Patriarch Golden Cauldron’s flying treasure artifact, where Wang Yu had mastered the Flame Blade spell.

• Old Devil Wu fled Fengyuan City with Zhu Wuyan, but Windless Daoist died in the pursuit and Kun Fangzi escaped gravely injured.
• Mara Sect and Joyful Bliss Palace seized Sandless Valley, then held off the Celestial River Three Sects as they waited for reinforcements.
• Myriad Beast Mountain defeated the forces of Four Symbols Sect and Thousand Bamboo Sect, establishing the Demonic Path’s simultaneous offensives in Fengyuan Province and Jing Province.
• Wang Yu completed the Flame Blade spell after spending a month comprehending and stabilizing its ninety-eight symbols.
• Wang Yu surveyed the other eight disciples inside the giant cauldron and wondered why Patriarch Golden Cauldron had kept them confined and flying for more than a month.

Wang Yu and the other disciples debated where Patriarch Golden Cauldron was taking them before learning they had crossed a vast desert. They arrived at an oasis and encountered Chen Tianxing and Senior Sister Qin, leaving Wang Yu and the others astonished.

• Xuan Tianwu asked where they were, and Luo Yiming argued that they were deep in Demonic Path territory on a dangerous mission.
• Luo Yiming taunted Xuan Tianwu, but the young married woman in the red dress mocked Luo Yiming for boasting without proof of his achievements.
• Zhuo Fan revealed that they had been flying over a vast desert for half a month, though he did not know their destination.
• Patriarch Golden Cauldron stopped the cauldron and told everyone to come out, revealing a small oasis surrounded by desert.
• Chen Tianxing and Senior Sister Qin flew over from the stone huts, and Yun Caishang recognized them.

The Golden Cauldron Patriarch gathered cultivators from the Three Sects and revealed that their mission required them to travel through a damaged Teleportation Formation to the Eastern Wasteland. He left them with orders to help a newly established sect there gain a foothold, with no return to the Wu Kingdom for the time being.

• Wang Yu met Senior Sister Qin, the Heaven Toad Ancestor's other personal disciple, and the gathered cultivators greeted her and Chen Tianxing.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch led everyone into a stone house and told them to listen while he explained their mission.
• Chen Tianxing reported that Liu Zhen and Jiang Feng had nearly repaired the Teleportation Formation, which could transport at most ten Foundation Establishment cultivators once before being ruined.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch explained that he and Old Ghost Silver Cloud had discovered the formation, which led to the Eastern Wasteland.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch ordered the cultivators to help a newly established sect in the Eastern Wasteland gain a firm foothold and said they could not return to the Wu Kingdom for now.

Wang Yu and the others learned they had been sent to reinforce the Stone Fish Gate in the distant Eastern Wasteland, with their return uncertain and potentially years away. As the group prepared to teleport, the Golden Cauldron Patriarch sensed a powerful enemy attacking and ordered them to begin immediately.

• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch explained that the Stone Fish Gate had requested help three months earlier and that the group must protect its territory and resolve its troubles.
• Wang Yu worried that the mission could keep him away for years and leave Yin Linglong and the Yin Household without his protection during the coming war.
• Chen Tianxing led the group down hidden stairs beneath the lake to the Five-Axis Teleportation Array, where two Formation Masters performed their final checks.
• Chen Tianxing explained that Junior Sister Qin would stay behind because she had another mission and would not use the array.
• The Golden Cauldron Patriarch burst through the chamber ceiling and warned that a powerful enemy was attacking, ordering the group to teleport at once.

Wang Yu and the others tried to escape through a Teleportation Array as a demonic attack overwhelmed the oasis, but You Sanniang destroyed the array and announced the Heaven-Connecting Demon Cult’s campaign against the cultivation world. Half a month later, two fishers found a charred body in their net and carried it toward their village.

• Chen Tianxing ordered the Teleportation Array activated and sent Junior Sister Qin to scout the battle above.
• Junior Sister Qin reported that a Golden Core Ancestor from the Black Soul Sect had arrived, so Chen Tianxing ordered everyone to evacuate in sequence.
• Princess Tianhe and Yuantong teleported away before Wang Yu stepped onto the array.
• A bolt of black lightning struck the array as Wang Yu tried to escape, destroying the platform and making him disappear.
• You Sanniang appeared atop a giant peach tree and told the Golden Cauldron Patriarch that her Devil Master had ordered the destruction of the Seven Sects of Tianhe and Daming and the Wu Kingdom’s Cultivation World.
• Half a month later, two young fishers found a charred human body in their net and carried it to their boat.

After more than a year unconscious in a Medical Pod, Wang Yu woke at a Huaguo military base and realized he had returned from the Otherworld to Blue Star. As medical staff examined him, General Wei arrived to greet him.

• Wang Yu woke inside a glass Medical Pod and was helped to a bed by Du Xiaohong.
• Du Xiaohong told Wang Yu he had been unconscious for over a year and was now at a new base under General Wei.
• Wang Yu recognized Huaguo’s military insignia and realized he had returned from the Otherworld to Blue Star.
• Medical staff injected Wang Yu with concentrated nutrient solution and began examining him.
• General Wei entered the room and told Wang Yu the entire base had been waiting for him to wake up.

Wang Yu woke at a medical base and was questioned by General Wei about his injuries and encounter with Helena, while hiding that he had returned to the Cultivation World. Du Xiaohong tried to hypnotize him for information, and a mysterious woman watching through the cameras demanded answers about Helena’s death.

• General Wei told Wang Yu that his body had been badly damaged and that he had survived an attack by Helena, a British Commonwealth Class A Superpower user.
• Wang Yu said Helena had taken Zhao Jun’s appearance and tried to read his memories, but he concealed his return to the Cultivation World and Helena’s continued existence.
• Medical staff reported normal preliminary test results, and General Wei postponed using the Human Vortex Measuring Device.
• General Wei ordered Du Xiaohong to record a secret questioning session and asked Wang Yu to recount his experiences in the Otherworld.
• Du Xiaohong used a flashing silver pen and a gold pocket watch to hypnotize Wang Yu, while General Wei revealed that he was Iron Man and she was Sea Demon.
• A woman speaking through a camera told Iron Man to let Sea Demon continue and said she most wanted to learn how Helena had failed and died at the Huaguo base.

Wang Yu turned Du Xiaohong’s hypnosis against her and fought off General Wei before escaping amid the chaos. Golden Sail raised a level-one alert and ordered the facility sealed as its guards searched for him.

• Du Xiaohong intensified her hypnosis, but Wang Yu revealed that he had been observing her mental power and immobilized her.
• General Wei attacked Wang Yu, who blocked him with a Bone Banner and released black miasma to vanish from sight.
• Golden Sail arrived and used lightning to disperse the miasma, finding Du Xiaohong and General Wei unconscious but Wang Yu gone.
• Golden Sail ordered a level-one alert, sealing the facility and directing armed guards to search the exits and ventilation openings.

After escaping a foreign castle base with the Yin Soul Banner and his mysterious storage talisman, Wang Yu realized he was on Blue Star and needed to evade his pursuers and find a way back to Huaguo. When drones launched from the castle began searching for him, he used Earth Escape to flee underground again.

• Wang Yu emerged from the ground in the wilderness near a dilapidated-looking castle that he recognized as a heavily guarded modern base.
• Wang Yu discovered that his Silver Talisman and the items stored inside it, including the Yin Soul Banner and thirteen White Bone Fiends, had come back to Blue Star with him.
• Wang Yu reasoned that he could use the banner’s stored yin energy to cast a limited number of spells, and resolved to conserve it while escaping and finding a way back to Huaguo.
• An alarm sounded at the castle, and more than a hundred drones launched from its tallest building to search the area.
• Wang Yu spotted the drones, wrapped himself in black mist from the Bone Banner, and used Earth Escape to flee deeper underground.

Wang Yu escaped underground surveillance and emerged in a small town, using borrowed clothes and the Illusory Transformation Technique to disguise himself. He discovered he was in Linbin Town, South La Province, and the chapter ended with him realizing where he had arrived.

• Wang Yu judged that drones could not detect him a hundred meters underground, then traveled more than thirty li before surfacing near a crowd.
• Wang Yu emerged in a deserted alley and used Divine Thought to find a nearby laundry room, where he took clothes and changed.
• Wang Yu disguised his face as a Western man with the Illusory Transformation Technique and hid the Bone Banner inside the Silver Talisman.
• Wang Yu walked through the town, avoided shop cameras, and read a sign identifying the place as Linbin Town, South La Province.

Wang Yu planned to escape into chaotic Xierde and bought a phone, map, and supplies from a shopkeeper using magically created gold. After the shopkeeper tested the gold and fell, Wang Yu attacked him with a mass of shadow.

• Wang Yu decided to cross the border into Xierde to evade the armed personnel pursuing him.
• Wang Yu entered a general store and asked the fat shopkeeper for a phone, map, and prepaid SIM card.
• Wang Yu used Dharma Power to create two gold nuggets and negotiated to buy flour and honey as well.
• The shopkeeper bit one nugget, nearly breaking his teeth, and Wang Yu sent a fist-sized mass of shadow into the man's brow.
• The shopkeeper collapsed to the floor.

Wang Yu escaped the town in a stolen jeep after using Yin Spirits to incapacitate Jack and the man called Paul. Meanwhile, the blonde major general organized a search for No. 1 and prepared to use the tailcoated man's divination to track him.

• Wang Yu possessed Jack with a Yin Spirit, found a text to Paul, and sent another spirit into Jack that would detonate.
• Wang Yu took Jack's cash and jeep, gathered supplies, and drove toward the outskirts of town.
• Paul arrived at the shop, touched Jack, and was knocked unconscious by a Yin Spirit; a woman later found them and screamed.
• The blonde major general ordered teams, drones, and a satellite search for No. 1 while Du Xiaohong and the tailcoated man stood nearby.
• The blonde major general explained that No. 1 had returned from Saitan World with important knowledge and insisted he must not escape.
• The tailcoated man said his divination could locate No. 1 with at most eighty percent accuracy and would cost him blood and shorten his life, so the major general gave him twenty minutes before using it.

Wang Yu used a face-changing spell while driving toward the Hankora Desert to evade the people pursuing him from the castle. After he detected a tracking mark on his body and destroyed it, the castle’s divination attempt shattered its Crystal Orbs and injured the man performing it.

• Wang Yu molded a new face from flour and honey as he drove toward the Hankora Desert, hoping the desert would help him escape pursuit.
• Wang Yu sensed an unseen presence looking at him and used Yin Spirits from the Yin Soul Banner to search his body.
• Wang Yu found a green scale-shaped mark on his calf, captured its foul energy, and crushed it with yin energy.
• The Crystal Orbs arranged around a statue in the castle shattered, and a middle-aged man in a tailcoat screamed as blood poured from his injured eye.
• The blonde woman asked whether the divination had failed.

The blonde captain and her team intercepted No. 1 near the Hankora Desert, but he kept running despite severe injuries. They trapped and electrocuted him with a steel-wire net, and Iron Man moved in to capture him.

• The tailcoat man reported that his divination had located No. 1 in a blue jeep, and the blonde captain ordered a search and pursuit toward the northwest.
• The captain, Du Xiaohong, and Iron Man flew by helicopter to intercept No. 1, and Iron Man stopped his jeep on the road.
• No. 1 escaped the jeep and ran into the wasteland, so the captain shot holes through his knees and spine with golden lightning orbs.
• No. 1 continued running without bleeding, startling the captain, Du Xiaohong, and Iron Man.
• A sniper fired a steel-wire net that brought No. 1 down, the captain electrocuted him, and Iron Man lunged to capture him.

No. 1 escaped Iron Man and Du Xiaohong several times before the blonde captain’s Super Electromagnetic Field destroyed his body, leaving only the White Bone Skeleton. Far away, Wang Yu sensed that his divine thought in the White Bone Fiend had been dispersed and fled deeper into the desert, leaving the puppet behind for now.

• No. 1 tore free of Iron Man’s steel-wire net, kicked him away, and sprinted off as Du Xiaohong collapsed the ground beneath him and buried him in a pit.
• No. 1 burst out of the pit and fought Iron Man at close quarters until the blonde captain sensed something was wrong.
• The blonde captain activated her Super Electromagnetic Field, formed a lightning spear, and struck No. 1 down as Iron Man fled and Du Xiaohong ran aside.
• The blonde captain’s lightning barrage turned No. 1 into black miasma, leaving a White Bone Skeleton that astonished Iron Man and Du Xiaohong.
• Wang Yu sensed that his divine thought in the White Bone Fiend had been dispersed, decided to leave the puppet behind, and hurried deeper into the desert with the White Bone Banner.

Wang Yu traveled through the desert with a group of illegal border crossers, aiming to enter Xierde and evade his pursuers. He learned about the country’s three most powerful gangs and left open the possibility of joining the Mao Lineage through the smuggler’s contact.

• Wang Yu threatened the smuggler leading the camel caravan and reminded him that his people’s freedom depended on safely crossing the border.
• The smuggler told Wang Yu that Superpower users were rumored to be recruited by Xierde’s major gangs and that joining one could protect him from the British Commonwealth.
• The smuggler described the Val Gang, the Xide Society, and the Mao Lineage as Xierde’s three most powerful gangs.
• The smuggler revealed that he knew a minor Mao Lineage leader in Xitie and offered to contact him after they left the desert.
• Wang Yu said they would discuss the offer later, and the caravan continued across the desert.

Wang Yu slipped into Xierde and chose Pengjie City as his next destination, seeking to hide from the British Commonwealth. He checked into a hotel in Xitie City using a magically disguised identity document, then destroyed the false document as the elevator doors opened.

• Wang Yu secretly left the caravan crossing the border and headed toward Xitie City on his own.
• Wang Yu researched Xierde's cities and selected Pengjie City because its large, mobile population and divided gang control would help him disappear.
• Wang Yu decided to get cash and convincing identity papers in Xitie City, and to change his appearance before moving on.
• Wang Yu noticed the Yellow Dragon Casino while walking through Xitie City, then checked into a nearby hotel with a magically disguised British Commonwealth identity document.
• Wang Yu crushed the document after it turned into stiff paper and tossed it into a wastebasket.

Wang Yu hid his identity in Xierde and analyzed the conditions surrounding his crossings between Blue Star and the Cultivation World. Unsure whether his body in the Cultivation World had survived, he disguised himself and headed for the Yellow Dragon Casino.

• Wang Yu searched Room 303 for surveillance, covered a hidden camera, removed his disguise, and slept until morning.
• Wang Yu found that the Taiyuan System was resetting and integrating with Blue Star’s main system, with more than twenty-one days remaining.
• Wang Yu analyzed his crossings and concluded that extreme danger and a Saitan phenomenon likely triggered travel between worlds, while returning to Blue Star caused the system to reset.
• Wang Yu worried that his body in the Cultivation World might have been destroyed and thought of his Dao companion, Yin Linglong.
• Wang Yu burned his old clothes, disguised himself twice, and headed for the Yellow Dragon Casino.