Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua examined the Meteor belt with his Eye of Delusion Breaking and confirmed that its currents were slowing, but no clear passage existed. He tried to open a teleportation passage with the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique, triggering a devastating golden-rune backlash that he and Xu Zhi survived together.

• Xiao Hua used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to study the Meteor belt and saw that its currents were slowing and showing signs of order.
• Xiao Hua learned from Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue that the nearby currents were the only relatively calm route across the otherwise impassable belt.
• Xiao Hua asked Xu Zhi to protect him while he tried using the Nan Yuan Bei Zhe technique to create a passage.
• Golden runes destroyed Xiao Hua's teleportation passage and formed a spear that rushed toward him.
• Xiao Hua and Xu Zhi combined their lightning to weaken the spear, and Xiao Hua dodged it as it shattered the starry sky behind him.
• After the black hole created by the attack disappeared, Xiao Hua gave up on using the technique, and Xu Zhi acknowledged that he understood Xiao Hua's intentions.

Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue assessed the changing Meteor Belt and chose a spatial fragment to approach. Xu Zhi warned Xiao Hua to conceal his Forbidden Power, then explained that souls and soul power underlay some of the greatest powers in the world.

• Xu Zhi reprimanded Xiao Hua for revealing Forbidden Power and warned that the Heavenly Venerates would relentlessly pursue anyone who used it.
• Star Moon Palace vanished into the void, collapsing its starlight passage and unleashing violent storms around the Chidi River.
• Xiao Hua identified stable realm auras, and Fairy Xingyue selected six spatial fragments as possible entrances.
• Xiao Hua judged the distant hexagram-shaped fragment safer because it divided incoming realm auras into six balancing streams.
• Fairy Xingyue used a star-compass-like artifact to find a way through the starry sky, while Xiao Hua noticed traces of Forbidden Power in her eye.
• Xiao Hua asked Xu Zhi about the purpose of gathering souls, and Xu Zhi explained that Buddhist reincarnation and faith relied on soul power.

Xu Zhi explained that primordial power might come from the soul and warned Xiao Hua that gods could no longer be cultivated in the present age. Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue then guided Xiao Hua through the Meteor belt toward a six-pointed spatial fragment, while Ancestor Hongmeng watched them enter.

• Xiao Hua answered that flesh was the world's earliest power, and Xu Zhi explained that soul power might be even more primordial and could lead to godhood.
• Xu Zhi warned Xiao Hua not to ask immortals about Forbidden Power or gods again, then took the star compass because Fairy Xingyue could not activate her immortal mark.
• Xu Zhi used his immortal spiritual qi to send hundreds of star-marked birds into the Meteor belt, aging rapidly as the compass opened their route.
• Xu Zhi explained that realms had edges and that the spatial fragments were separate realms, while Fairy Xingyue guided the group through the dangerous belt.
• Fairy Xingyue sent a pillar of starlight ahead to reveal a safe path, and Xu Zhi, Xiao Hua, and Fairy Xingyue entered the six-pointed spatial fragment.
• Ancestor Hongmeng watched the three disappear into the spatial fragment with a grave expression.

Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue entered a spatial fragment resembling the Immortal Realm, where overwhelming Immortal Spirit Qi and spiritual pressure threatened them. Xu Zhi warned Xiao Hua against using his usual spells and helped him withstand the realm’s pressure, while he and Fairy Xingyue began stabilizing their own Immortal Spirit Qi.

• Ancestor Hongmeng recognized Xu Zhi’s star-compass technique, used the Yin Yang Illustrated Manual to chart paths through the Meteor belt, and headed into the spatial currents.
• Xiao Hua followed Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue along a twisted star pillar until it pierced a vast spatial fragment filled with doorway-like phantoms.
• Xu Zhi, Fairy Xingyue, and Xiao Hua charged into the gateway and discovered a fragment resembling the Immortal Realm, where intense pressure and Immortal Spirit Qi overwhelmed Xiao Hua.
• Xu Zhi warned Xiao Hua not to use spells based on Primordial Qi, and Fairy Xingyue lent him star armor that Xu Zhi activated to protect his body.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue began circulating lightning and starlight to stabilize their Immortal Spirit Qi as their enormous silver forms shrank.

Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue emerged with their immortal bodies restored and led Xiao Hua through a fragment of a realm parallel to the Immortal Realm. As they traveled, Xiao Hua questioned how the fragments worked and why the Primordial Realm fragments had not affected their bodies, leaving him more puzzled by the contrast with the corrosive immortal spiritual qi.

• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue regained their immortal bodies, and Fairy Xingyue prepared to search for a passage back to the Immortal Realm.
• Fairy Xingyue's Star Shuttle sent out streams of starlight that quickly withered and vanished, so the pair continued flying with Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua wondered how the Spirit Cleansing Pool made bodies able to withstand immortal spiritual qi and asked Xu Zhi how they could leave the fragment.
• Xu Zhi explained that the fragments had incomplete boundaries leading to the Meteor belt and that he had protected earlier companions in his Qiankun Ring when necessary.
• Xu Zhi said he and Fairy Xingyue had only guessed that some unusual fragments might belong to the ancient Primordial Realm, since neither they nor their disciples had experienced bodily changes there.
• Xiao Hua recalled that his own Demigod Physique was being corroded in the Immortal Realm fragment, unlike the bodies of his Creation Sect disciples in the Primordial Realm, and could not explain the difference.

Xiao Hua and Xu Zhi reached the ruins of Yeqiong Tianfu, where Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue recognized the site and hurried ahead. Left behind, Xiao Hua secretly looted the battlefield and discovered two immense remains in an abyss, taking several treasures from them.

• Fairy Xingyue spotted rosy clouds, and Xu Zhi warned her that an immortal beast might guard any abode.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue found ruined palaces surrounded by battle damage and giant armored remains marked with Yeqiong Tianfu.
• Xu Zhi ordered Xiao Hua to stay put, then rushed toward the palaces with Fairy Xingyue.
• Xiao Hua realized the ruins belonged to an ancient secret site and secretly stored armor, immortal artifacts, and other items in his space.
• Xiao Hua followed the battlefield remains to a deep abyss and sensed two immense radiances around the remains of fallen immortals.
• Xiao Hua used his mind to take a jade seal, a jade pillar, a black box, and other treasures from the remains.

Xiao Hua found a strange polyhedral treasure while searching the ruined halls, while Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue discovered that the ruins were Yeqiong Tianfu and debated the danger of seeking the legendary Cultivating God Mirror. They remained together and faced a choice between searching for the mirror and risking their lives or leaving without looking.

• Xiao Hua noticed a dead immortal had been protecting something beneath his arm and collected a nine-colored polyhedron that entered his unfinished space.
• As Xiao Hua continued searching the halls, Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue hurried through the ruins together, using their altered eyes to search for something.
• Fairy Xingyue recognized a plaque as belonging to Yeqiong Tianfu, and she and Xu Zhi wondered how the legendary immortal residence had ended up inside the Star Moon Palace.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue agreed not to separate as they searched the halls, then returned to the great hall and discussed whether the Star Moon Palace could have contained Yeqiong Tianfu only recently.
• Fairy Xingyue insisted they had to search for the Cultivating God Mirror, while Xu Zhi urged her to leave because finding or failing to find it could bring deadly consequences.

Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue fled toward Tianfu with Xiao Hua after sensing a Yuanji Immortal Beast, but Xiao Hua refused to leave behind a huge immortal artifact. As three Yuanji Immortal Beasts appeared in the sky, the group neared Tianfu’s gate with the beasts closing in.

• Fairy Xingyue collected artifacts from the corpses while Xu Zhi noticed the bodies had already been searched and found a soft black item suited to Xiao Hua.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue sensed bloodthirsty resonant intent and hurried toward Tianfu, realizing Xiao Hua was still outside.
• Xu Zhi found Xiao Hua trying to climb a corpse-strewn slope with a massive rod-shaped immortal artifact, but Xiao Hua refused to abandon it.
• Fairy Xingyue activated her star shuttle while Xu Zhi carried Xiao Hua and the heavy artifact toward Tianfu’s gate.
• A Yuanji Immortal Beast’s roar injured Xu Zhi and disoriented Xiao Hua, and Xu Zhi urged them to seek shelter inside Tianfu.
• Three enormous crane-like Yuanji Immortal Beasts emerged from the clouds as the group approached the palace gate.

Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue were ambushed by the Yuanji Immortal Beasts as they tried to reach Yeqiong Tianfu. Xu Zhi’s Punishment Immortal Artifact failed to kill its target, and Xiao Hua faced a third beast while his own body could not withstand the immortal spirit qi needed to fight.

• The Yuanji Immortal Beasts attacked, and Fairy Xingyue used her exploding star shuttle to shield the group from crimson flames.
• Fairy Xingyue struck at a beast’s claws, but its beak shattered her starlight defense and sent her flying.
• Xu Zhi wielded a Punishment Immortal Artifact against another beast, but his body began to break apart and the weapon lost its power.
• Xu Zhi wounded the beast with a spear, but its tail shattered his lightning defenses and knocked him down.
• A third Yuanji Immortal Beast attacked Xiao Hua, scattering his Three Corpse Yin Thunder and green seal-script runes.
• Xiao Hua tried to activate his Dharma Body Golden Body, but the influx of immortal spirit qi made his physical body swell and destabilize.

Xiao Hua, Fairy Xingyue, and Xu Zhi struggled against the Yuanji Immortal Beasts, whose powers overwhelmed them. Two larger beasts arrived and attacked the original pair, giving Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi a chance to move toward Xiao Hua, who remained trapped by another beast’s devouring attack.

• Xiao Hua’s soul techniques failed against the Yuanji Immortal Beast, but his staff strike halted its charge and knocked both him and the beast back.
• Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi tried to escape the beasts’ devouring mouths and fire pillars, but the flames invaded their bodies and left them in danger.
• Two larger Yuanji Immortal Beasts descended and attacked the two beasts pursuing Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi, allowing the pair to flee toward Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua fought one Yuanji Immortal Beast with his staff, suffered wounds, and tried to escape its devouring force by sweeping nearby armor and artifacts into its mouths.
• The artifacts and Xiao Hua’s Three Corpse Yin Thunder barely slowed the beast, which tore his armor and robe and knocked him to the ground.

Xiao Hua, Xu Zhi, and Fairy Xingyue fought to escape the Yuanji Immortal Beasts and reach the Heavenly Mansion Palace Gate. They made it inside, though Xiao Hua was wounded again and both immortals were exhausted.

• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue arrived to rescue Xiao Hua, and the Yuanji Immortal Beasts briefly turned away to rejoin their battle.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue carried Xiao Hua toward the palace gate, but one beast caught up and forced them to change course.
• Xiao Hua told Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue to throw him toward the gate while they drew the beasts away.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue used the beasts’ attacks to propel themselves back toward the gate as Xiao Hua pushed himself forward with his immortal artifact.
• The Yuanji Immortal Beasts tore open Xiao Hua’s back, but Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue pulled him through the palace gate and followed him inside.

After the corpses of two Celestial Venerables were removed, Yuanji Immortal Beasts invaded Yeqiong Tianfu, forcing Xu Zhi, Fairy Xingyue, and Xiao Hua to flee deeper inside. Xiao Hua escaped by hiding beneath rubble and continued through the halls alone, shaken by how helpless he was against the beasts.

• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue realized the Yuanji Immortal Beasts had entered Yeqiong Tianfu because the corpses’ intimidating aura was gone.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue split up to draw the beasts away while Xiao Hua fled toward the deeper halls.
• Xiao Hua concealed himself beside a pillar using a Qingqiu Mountain transformation technique as a Yuanji Immortal Beast searched for him.
• The beast probed Xiao Hua with its beak, then destroyed the pillar and brought down the hall roof without discovering him.
• After waiting for the beast to leave, Xiao Hua escaped through several halls and resolved to strengthen himself before entering the Immortal Realm again.

Xiao Hua plundered the ruined Heavenly Mansion and prepared an ice-attributed Immortal Artifact to use against the Yuanji Immortal Beasts. While gathering immortal herbs with Xiao Guo, he was ambushed by a hidden beast and was badly injured as their fight continued.

• Xiao Hua swept the great hall and other palaces clean, then collapsed them as he advanced through the Heavenly Mansion.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua discussed how to face the Yuanji Immortal Beasts with his incarnations, who advised him to hide his abilities and seek a way out while avoiding Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua prepared a huge ice-attributed flying fork with Innate True Water, intending for Xu Zhi to use it against the beasts.
• Xiao Hua brought Xiao Guo out to gather unprotected immortal herbs, but Xiao Guo sensed danger and pointed out a hidden threat.
• Three crimson Yuanji Immortal Beasts ambushed Xiao Hua; one tore open his back, and another blasted him through stone walls before striking him again with its claw.

Xiao Hua discovered that Innate True Water on an icy immortal artifact could destroy a Yuanji Immortal Beast, but the group remained trapped in the Star Moon Palace spatial fragment with no clear way out. After the remaining beasts suddenly fled, Xu Zhi went to investigate while Fairy Xingyue and Xiao Hua stayed to recover.

• Xiao Hua evaded the Yuanji Immortal Beast’s attacks, was smashed into a stone wall, and drove a flying fork refined with Innate True Water into its mouth, causing the beast to explode from within.
• Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue fought the other four Yuanji Immortal Beasts until they suddenly abandoned the battle and flew through the palace roof.
• Xiao Hua pretended to be gravely injured while explaining that he had found the beast’s weakness by refining Innate True Water onto icy immortal artifacts.
• Xiao Hua urged the others to leave the spatial fragment, but Fairy Xingyue explained that she could not use the Star Shuttle to search for an exit until she recovered her strength.
• Xu Zhi told Xiao Hua and Fairy Xingyue to hide and rest while he investigated why the Yuanji Immortal Beasts had left.

Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue left Yeqiong Tianfu to investigate the surroundings, giving Xiao Hua and Xiao Guo the chance to ransack the estate. After clearing the halls, Xiao Hua opened the Eye of Delusion Breaking to examine the mysterious plaque and reacted with shock.

• Fairy Xingyue insisted on accompanying Xu Zhi, and Xiao Hua explained that he had killed the Yuanji Immortal Beast by throwing an ice-attributed flying fork into its mouth.
• Xu Zhi carried the injured Xiao Hua to a small hall while Fairy Xingyue collected immortal artifacts and briefly suspected someone else was in Tianfu.
• After Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue departed, Xiao Hua summoned Xiao Guo, who began collecting the immortal herbs and trees.
• Xiao Hua and Xiao Guo emptied Yeqiong Tianfu of its intact treasures, artifacts, decorations, and plants.
• Xiao Hua entered the main hall, examined the imposing throne and unreadable plaque, then opened the Eye of Delusion Breaking and gasped.

Xiao Hua used the Heavenly Venerable’s jade seal to open a hidden space beneath the throne in Yeqiong Tianfu, then seized its countless treasures as the space collapsed. The collapse revealed the Meteor belt exit but spread beyond the heavenly residence, leaving Xiao Hua watching it devour the spatial fragment.

• Xiao Hua placed the jade seal beneath the throne, causing Yeqiong Tianfu’s restrictions to activate, then used the seal to absorb the throne and open a hidden doorway.
• Xiao Hua entered the hidden space and found it filled with armor, immortal artifacts, war chariots, and other objects.
• As the hidden space collapsed, Xiao Hua used the jade seal to collect everything inside it.
• The collapse exposed the Meteor belt and revealed that the spatial fragment’s exit had been hidden beneath the throne.
• Xiao Hua left the collapsing Yeqiong Tianfu and swept objects from its great hall into his space.
• Xiao Hua watched from a high slope as the collapse spread from Yeqiong Tianfu and began swallowing the entire spatial fragment.

Xiao Hua rejoined Senior Xu and Fairy Xingyue as thousands of Yuanji Immortal Beasts pursued their flying boat through a collapsing spatial fragment. Trusting Xiao Hua’s choice of route, Fairy Xingyue steered toward a dangerous triangular fragment, and the boat plunged toward the fragment’s boundary under renewed attack.

• Senior Xu rescued Xiao Hua from the beasts’ fire barrage, suffered severe injuries, and returned with him to the flying boat.
• Xiao Hua ordered the noble-house disciples to defend the stern while he used the Eye of Delusion Breaking to search for an escape route.
• Xiao Hua chose a triangular spatial fragment over Fairy Xingyue’s safer suggestions, and she agreed to follow his judgment.
• As the flying boat neared the spatial boundary, Yuanji Immortal Beasts broke through the defenders and attacked from both sides.
• Fairy Xingyue urged the flying boat forward, and it plunged into the earth toward the boundary.

Xiao Hua took control of the Celestial Imperial Artifact and maneuvered it through the meteor belt, using its interfacial storms to exterminate the pursuing Yuanji Immortal Beasts. With the survivors fleeing or dying, the flying boat neared the triangular spatial fragment, where a strange fragrance appeared.

• Xiao Hua blocked two Yuanji Immortal Beasts with golden fists and used Innate True Water jade talismans to slow the beasts pursuing the flying boat.
• Fairy Xingyue handed control of the damaged flying boat to Xiao Hua while keeping a small amount of immortal spiritual qi in reserve.
• Xiao Hua powered the boat with Five Qi Ascending to the Origin, shielding it in five-colored clouds and dodging the beasts’ attacks.
• Xiao Hua steered the flying boat in spirals through the meteor belt, drawing the Yuanji Immortal Beasts into interfacial storms that tore them apart.
• Fairy Xingyue realized Xiao Hua was using the storms to kill the pursuing beasts before they could reach the triangular spatial fragment.
• As the flying boat neared the triangular spatial fragment, the remaining beasts fled or perished, and a strange fragrance spread around the boat.

Xiao Hua and the others entered a peaceful flower-filled spatial fragment, where Fairy Xingyue guided them along a path toward its exit. As Xiao Hua wandered among the flowers, memories of Xin Xin surfaced, while Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi recalled their own first visit to the realm and shared a tender moment.

• Xiao Hua guided the flying boat into a flower-shaped halo and entered a beautiful realm of flowers, fragrant rain, and flowing water.
• Fairy Xingyue pointed out a winding flower path, and Xiao Hua followed it until they reached another Meteor belt.
• Fairy Xingyue explained that peaceful spatial fragments could be crossed without fighting and invited Dongfang Yushan and the other disciples to enjoy the scenery without damaging the flowers.
• Xiao Hua walked among the flowers and remembered Xin Xin as he took in the familiar beauty.
• Fairy Xingyue recalled discovering the flower realm with Xu Zhi, and Xu Zhi remembered plucking a flower for her and vowed that his heart would never wither.

Fairy Xingyue and Xu Zhi discussed Xiao Hua’s history and suspected ties to Princess Xinxin as Dongfang Yushan approached Xiao Hua to ask about the Five Qi Ascending to the Origin technique. Xiao Hua refused the Dongfang Noble House’s invitation, then continued admiring the flower realm as mist gathered and rain began to pour.

• Fairy Xingyue told Xu Zhi that Xiao Hua had traveled with Li Jing and might be connected to Princess Xinxin, but Xu Zhi doubted her suspicions.
• Fairy Xingyue noticed Dongfang Yushan going to speak with Xiao Hua while Xu Zhi tried to return their conversation to the past.
• Dongfang Yushan asked Xiao Hua about the Five Qi Ascending to the Origin technique, and Xiao Hua said it belonged to his friend Wenchang and could not be shared without permission.
• Dongfang Yushan invited Xiao Hua to visit the Four Great Families and offered him a jade invitation, but Xiao Hua declined and said worldly matters could wait.
• Xiao Hua wandered through the flower realm as the wind returned, mist spread over the flowers, and heavy rain began.