Chapter Summaries

He Mu steadied the Netherworld Venerable’s Dao Heart, then demanded compensation for his intrusion and assigned him work. Later, the chapter introduced Master Wenxin, a rising cultivator who became Heavenly Passage Ancient Star’s strongest publicly known figure before setting out into the starry sky.

• He Mu’s words calmed the Netherworld Venerable and kept him from falling into a tribulation of the heart.
• He Mu demanded compensation for the Netherworld Venerable’s unauthorized intrusion and said he could repay the debt by working for him.
• The Netherworld Venerable accepted He Mu’s instructions after realizing he had little room to refuse.
• He Mu told the Netherworld Venerable that the assigned work might also help him advance, then resumed cultivating after he left.
• Master Wenxin rose to become a Dao-Slaying King and the strongest publicly known cultivator on Heavenly Passage Ancient Star.
• Master Wenxin followed an ancient road into the starry sky to continue pursuing the Dao.

After centuries of travel and cultivation, Wenxin tracked a strange Immortal Flower to an ancient star and uncovered it inside a hidden cave. When the flower bloomed, its power broke through his remaining shackles, and the Dao Attainment Tribulation descended.

• Wenxin traveled the universe for centuries, advancing until he touched the edge of Alternative Dao Attainment.
• Wenxin investigated the Immortal Flower after his spiritual perception stirred, spending five hundred years tracing it to a desolate ancient star.
• Wenxin broke through the innate formation and entered a concealed cave filled with mist and shifting visions.
• Wenxin used the Lingbao Mystical Art and his divine eyes to reveal the Immortal Flower, which appeared to contain the myriad Daos.
• The Immortal Flower bloomed and poured its power into Wenxin, causing his cultivation to surge and the Dao Attainment Tribulation to descend.

Wenxin unexpectedly underwent the Path-Proving Tribulation and became a Supreme, ending the age of Dao Hardship and beginning a new era. Troubled by how easily he attained this power and uncertain about the Immortal Flower, he set out to seek answers from Immeasurable Heaven Venerable at the Wuliang Dao.

• Wenxin faced the heavenly tribulations and Taowu Supreme's great dao while the forbidden zones and cultivators watched without interfering.
• He Mu awoke from his contemplation, recognized Wenxin in the tribulation, and recalled guiding him to the Lingbao Lineage years earlier.
• Wenxin endured the lightning tribulation and formed a perfected Extreme Dao Supreme Dao Fruit, forcibly restoring the Heavenly Heart Imprint and ending the age of Dao Hardship.
• Wenxin examined his Dao foundation but remained uneasy about his attainment and the Immortal Flower's power.
• Wenxin remembered Golden Spirit Holy Mother's advice and traveled into the chaos to seek help from Immeasurable Heaven Venerable.

After attaining the Dao with the Dao Integration Flower, Wenxin visited Undying Mountain to pay his respects to He Mu and ask whether his flower-derived Dao Fruit concealed any danger. He Mu explained that Wenxin’s foundations needed several thousand years of tempering and invited him to remain in the mountain for a thousand years of cultivation and instruction.

• Wenxin entered Undying Mountain after its formation opened a passage to welcome him.
• Wenxin greeted He Mu and thanked him for supporting Wenxin and the Lingbao Lineage in the past.
• Wenxin showed He Mu the Immortal Flower that had granted him the Dao and asked whether it posed a hidden danger.
• He Mu identified the flower as the Dao Integration Flower and warned Wenxin to temper his foundations and remedy his deficiencies.
• He Mu invited Wenxin to stay in the mountain for a thousand years to cultivate and listen to his discourses on the Great Dao, and Wenxin accepted.

After Wenxin spent a thousand years learning from He Mu, his rise helped usher in a renewed age of cultivation across the universe. Heavenly Venerable Lingbao returned in his fourth life and traveled to Undying Mountain to reunite with He Mu.

• Wenxin told He Mu how he had emerged from Divine Source and resolved to pursue transcendence over the myriad Daos, though he would likely need to live a third life to achieve it.
• Wenxin's successful Dao attainment transformed the universe, bringing revived earth veins, returning ancient lineages, and a new generation of young cultivators who reached the Quasi-Venerable Realm.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao appeared in the starry sky with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, and the Forbidden Zones recognized that he had returned in his fourth life.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao sensed Immeasurable Heaven Venerable's gaze, crossed the void to Undying Mountain, and asked He Mu for a cup of tea.

He Mu reunited with Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, who had emerged after tens of thousands of years, and the two discussed their paths to immortality. After revealing their ambitions to become immortals through mortal-world transformations and the Formation Dao, they prepared to battle and discuss the Dao through combat.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao arrived at the Undying Mountain Daoist Grounds, and He Mu welcomed him onto Enlightenment Cliff.
• Wenxin greeted his grandmaster and explained how He Mu had helped him obtain the Dao Integration Flower and attain the Dao.
• He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao shared tea and discussed their cultivation, lifetimes, and respective paths to immortality.
• He Mu confirmed his path of becoming immortal through transformations across several lifetimes, while Heavenly Venerable Lingbao revealed his Formation Dao path.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao challenged He Mu to battle, and He Mu accepted.

Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and He Mu fought a fierce sparring match in the Chaos, matching each other’s attacks as Wenxin watched from Undying Mountain. As the battle reached its climax, Lingbao revealed his true Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and asked He Mu to appraise it.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and He Mu exchanged opening strikes, and their sword light and axe light ended in a draw.
• Lingbao unleashed the full might of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, while He Mu manifested the Divine Form of the Wuliang Dao Wheel to meet them.
• Wenxin watched from Undying Mountain and felt the gulf between himself and the two Heavenly Venerables.
• Lingbao fully manifested the Immortal-Slaying Array Diagram as a Slaughter Dao World, with the four swords forming its gates, and presented the true Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to He Mu.

He Mu defeated Heavenly Venerable Lingbao in their clash of ultimate techniques, then invited him to move to the Undying Mountain. Lingbao accepted, choosing to become He Mu’s neighbor and share the mountain’s tea and Dao.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s strongest strike, and He Mu answered with his World-Opening Dao Axe.
• He Mu’s axe light broke through the sword formation, forcing Lingbao to release the Four Swords and concede the match.
• He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao returned to the Undying Mountain and shared tea at Enlightenment Cliff.
• He Mu invited Lingbao to move to the Undying Mountain, arguing that they were close friends and that the mountain could aid their cultivation.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao accepted He Mu’s invitation and said he would move to the Undying Mountain as his neighbor.

Wenxin established himself as Heart Venerable, revived the Daoist School, and presided over a prosperous era before entering his second and then third lifetimes to pursue the Immortal Dao. After he secluded himself in the Undying Mountain to perfect his Dao Fruit, his era ended and a new one began.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingbao settled in the Undying Mountain, where he and He Mu spent centuries discussing the Dao and instructing Wenxin.
• After Wenxin met their requirements, he left the Undying Mountain, took the title Heart Venerable, and reestablished the Jade Roaming Palace lineage as a branch of the Daoist School.
• Heart Venerable's power and the Daoist School's influence ushered in a long, prosperous era across the universe.
• As his first lifetime neared its end, Wenxin used Immortal Medicine to begin a second lifetime and returned to the Undying Mountain for guidance from He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao.
• Wenxin studied the White Tiger Immortal Medicine and Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, then entered withered stillness and struggled into a third life near the heavenly emperor near-immortal threshold.
• Wenxin secluded himself in the Undying Mountain to perfect his Dao Fruit, and Heart Venerable's era ended as a new era began.

After Heart Venerable’s passing, Wenxin secluded himself in the Undying Mountain while He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao hoped he could advance toward immortality. Three thousand years later, He Mu’s fury erupted at Enlightenment Cliff, and he vanished from the mountain after roaring in anger.

• Heart Venerable’s passing marked the end of the era and the onset of a long age of Dao hardship.
• Wenxin withdrew into seclusion in the Undying Mountain, and He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao resolved to guide him toward living a fourth life.
• He Mu, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and Wenxin cultivated in seclusion for three thousand years.
• A terrifying aura surged from Enlightenment Cliff, and He Mu roared in fury, startling Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and Wenxin.
• He Mu tore through space and vanished from the Undying Mountain.

He Mu found the Dragon Cave Immortal Grotto devastated after an intruder tried to seize the foundation of Pan’s Saint Spirit Immortal Fetus, and he repaired it before failing to divine the attacker’s identity. After learning that the Netherworld Venerable had also been ambushed by the same foe, He Mu resolved to confront them.

• He Mu returned to the Dragon Cave Immortal Grotto and found its Dragon Veins, Immortal Spring Eye, and defenses severely damaged by an intruder.
• He Mu learned that the Wuliang Dao Wheel had driven off the attacker, whose strength appeared comparable to his own and Lingbao’s.
• He Mu restored the grotto’s laws and Dragon Veins, then used the Five-Colored Immortal Formation to stabilize Pan’s gestation.
• He Mu tried to divine the intruder’s whereabouts but found their karma concealed from his investigation.
• The Netherworld Venerable reported that he had been ambushed, and He Mu recognized the attacker’s aura as belonging to the same intruder.
• He Mu unleashed his killing intent and vowed to discover who had repeatedly opposed him.

He Mu joined forces with Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Netherworld Venerable to divine the identity of the hidden attacker using the Wuliang Dao Wheel. Their vision revealed that the attacker possessed the Bronze Immortal Palace and the Immortal Sword, and they recognized him as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi.

• He Mu concluded that the hidden attacker likely possessed a prehistoric Immortal Artifact and invited the Netherworld Venerable to the Undying Mountain.
• At Enlightenment Cliff, He Mu explained the threat to Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, who agreed to help uncover the attacker.
• He Mu, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and the Netherworld Venerable used the Wuliang Dao Wheel to trace the attacker through a fragment of his aura.
• Their divination revealed the Bronze Immortal Palace and the Immortal Sword, both in the attacker's possession.
• The vision revealed a Daoist figure, whom Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Netherworld Venerable identified as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi.

He Mu, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and Netherworld Venerable discovered that Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi had been behind the attacks on them and traced him to the Bronze Immortal Palace. When Yuanshi refused to justify his actions, He Mu attacked, beginning a battle between the three venerables and Yuanshi.

• He Mu and the two venerables identified their enemy as Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and decided to confront him together over his schemes and the Evil Immortal’s legacy.
• The three venerables divined Yuanshi’s location, traveled into chaos, and launched a surprise attack on the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Yuanshi raised the palace’s defenses, but the four Blood-Red Killing Swords surrounded it while He Mu, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and Netherworld Venerable encircled him.
• He Mu and Netherworld Venerable demanded answers, but Yuanshi defended his actions by claiming his virtue entitled him to whatever he sought.
• He Mu attacked Yuanshi with a Dao Seal, and Yuanshi countered with his Immortal Sword, beginning their battle in chaos.

He Mu, Heavenly Venerable Lingbao, and the Netherworld Venerable nearly defeated Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, but he escaped by detonating his Immortal Sword and badly injuring his pursuers. As Yuanshi began recovering in hiding, He Mu studied the broken sword at Undying Mountain and planned to obtain Nine Secrets: Bing from him at their next meeting.

• He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao joined the Netherworld Venerable in attacking Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, leaving him unable to counterattack.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi detonated the Immortal Sword, blasting open the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and injuring He Mu and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao as he escaped.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi collapsed on a depleted ancient star, swallowed a Blood Pill, and began repairing his grievous injuries.
• He Mu remained at Undying Mountain to suppress his injuries and study the broken Immortal Sword while Heavenly Venerable Lingbao and the Netherworld Venerable went into seclusion.
• He Mu concluded that Yuanshi had used a blood-sacrifice method to control his Immortal Artifacts and looked forward to obtaining Nine Secrets: Bing from him.

He Mu arranged to repair the broken Immortal Sword at Big Dipper’s Central Province, moving Wuliang Dao there to guard the hidden site and forging a new divine weapon for the sect. After a thousand years, the age of cultivation hardship began to fade, ushering in a new era of great contention.

• He Mu studied the broken Immortal Sword for ten thousand years, and Heavenly Venerable Lingbao joined him before returning to seclusion to pursue his fifth life.
• He Mu hid the sword at a protected node in Big Dipper’s Central Province and ordered Wuliang Dao to migrate there under Great Abyss’s leadership.
• Great Abyss moved most of Wuliang Dao to Big Dipper, where the sect became the Wuliang Holy Land and settled in the Central Province.
• He Mu forged the World-Opening Divine Axe, sent it and a fruit of the White Tiger Immortal Medicine to Big Dipper, and entrusted them to protect the sword’s hiding place and aid Great Abyss.
• After He Mu stopped monitoring the universe, a thousand years passed and the age of cultivation hardship gave way to a new era of great contention.

Annihilation rose from obscurity to defeat his rivals, attain the Dao, and establish the Annihilation Dao Palace. After reaching a second lifetime, he prepared to assault the Road to Immortality and lead his sect there; the author then explained a temporary chapter-posting schedule change.

• Annihilation defeated the era’s contenders, survived his Dao attainment tribulation, and became the new Heavenly Venerable.
• Annihilation established the Annihilation Dao Palace on Big Dipper, where he presided over a peaceful and prosperous age.
• After more than ten thousand years, Annihilation achieved a Second Lifetime through Primordial Spirit transformation and grew more powerful.
• Annihilation studied the Road to Immortality, sought clues in the Life Forbidden Zones, and prepared the Annihilation Dao Palace for an ascent to immortality.
• The author announced that the extra 4,000 Chinese characters would be split into two shorter chapters posted across two days, without changing the scheduled updates.

The Annihilation Heavenly Venerable led his army onto a newly opened Road to Immortality, but a solid world barrier, Chaos Divine Thunder, and a severed path blocked their advance. He redirected the army toward another route, and He Mu realized the road led to the longevity-giving world he and the Netherworld Venerable had sought.

• The Annihilation Heavenly Venerable summoned his followers and led the Annihilation army onto a Road to Immortality he had opened above the Northern Plains.
• The Annihilation Heavenly Venerable struggled against a solid world barrier, Chaos Divine Thunder, and chaos mist while protecting his army, then found the road severed ahead.
• The Annihilation Heavenly Venerable used the Big Dipper Road to Immortality Great Array to open a narrow path connecting to another stretch of the Road to Immortality.
• He Mu sensed the Five-Colored Immortal Formation activate and recognized that the severed road led to a world of longevity that he and the Netherworld Venerable had long sought.

Annihilation Heavenly Venerable negotiated with Big Dipper’s Forbidden Zones for support as he pushed into another Road to Immortality, but he could not overcome its mighty pass and fortified city. The Forbidden Zones withdrew their aid, trapping him on the collapsing road and ending his hope of attaining immortality.

• Annihilation Heavenly Venerable agreed to hand over his insights into the Road to Immortality in exchange for the Forbidden Zones stabilizing the Five-Colored Immortal Formation.
• With the formation’s support, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable and his army reached a mighty pass and fortified city deep on another Road to Immortality.
• Countless phantoms of Black-Armored Gods and Demons and Immortal Spirits overwhelmed Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s forces, wounded him, and blocked his advance.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes judged that Annihilation Heavenly Venerable would fall and withdrew their power from the Five-Colored Immortal Formation.
• The Immortal Road passages collapsed, leaving Annihilation Heavenly Venerable trapped and ending his attempt to attain immortality.

After Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s failure reshaped the balance of power, He Mu found the Strange World and sent his Fire Dao Body inside to investigate it. The chapter left He Mu waiting outside while his Heavenly Emperor-level incarnation began the reconnaissance.

• Annihilation Heavenly Venerable’s fall caused the Annihilation Dao Palace to collapse, and Big Dipper’s powers prepared to divide its remaining interests.
• He Mu arrived at the abandoned Road to Immortality in the Northern Plains and located the Strange World beyond its broken stretch.
• He Mu recalled that the Strange World offered longevity substance but was difficult to leave, and decided to investigate without risking his true self.
• He Mu manifested his Fire Dao Body and endowed it with nearly all the power of his Heart Dao Palace.
• He Mu’s Fire Dao Body entered the Strange World as the pathfinding vanguard.

He Mu explored the Strange World, learned about its longevity substance, heavenly heart imprint, and origins, and found that its Dao Attainers posed little threat to him. He then arrived openly in Eastern City, where the old Mansion Lord of the Eastern Immortal Mansion called out to meet him.

• He Mu sensed the Strange World's longevity substance and discovered that it benefited the inhabitants while remaining too thin to extend life without cultivation.
• He Mu contacted the world's heavenly heart imprint and learned that the vast land had nearly a hundred Dao Attainers, practiced the Secret Realm Method, and had been artificially evolved to help repair the Immortal Domain.
• He Mu concealed himself from the Supremes who sensed his contact with the heavenly heart and decided to approach one of them directly.
• He Mu stepped into Eastern City, and the old Mansion Lord sensed his arrival and invited him to meet.