Chapter Summaries

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji investigated clues about the Heavenly Emperor and the Four Sacred Beasts, then questioned Yan Qianlie about the Vermilion Bird Firefeather. The chapter ended with Yan Qianlie suggesting that the firefeather’s hatred of the Heavenly Dao had shaped his path.

• Chu Ge concluded that the Heavenly Emperor had awakened his will in primordial Chaos and that the Sacred Beasts’ lingering traces could aid a future counterattack.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed why Qiu Wuji’s future self had kept silent, and Chu Ge planned to use the vague account of Ao’s legs to mislead the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chu Ge summoned Qingyan and Little Flame, then restored Yan Qianlie’s destroyed Dharma Body and explained that it had never been damaged in the corrected worldline.
• Yan Qianlie told Chu Ge that the Vermilion Bird Firefeather had once passed a Heavenly Dao legacy to the Flame Prison Sect’s founder, but its insight had faded by the time Yan Qianlie possessed it.
• Yan Qianlie said the Vermilion Bird’s scattered firefeathers carried hatred and suspected that its hatred of the Heavenly Dao had led him toward the Demonic Path.

Chu Ge entrusted Yan Qianlie with watching over Shenzhou and helped Qingyan break through to Deification, while reflecting with Qiu Wuji on how to rule without losing his humanity. He and Qiu Wuji then set out to see Xie Jiuxiao.

• Chu Ge asked Yan Qianlie to investigate the Vermilion Bird records and keep watch over Shenzhou while he and Qiu Wuji went to sea.
• Chu Ge warned Yan Qianlie that he needed to maintain respect for the Heavenly Dao, and Yan Qianlie accepted his more authoritative approach.
• Yan Qianlie asked Chu Ge to help Qingyan, and Chu Ge removed the barrier holding back her cultivation, allowing her to reach Deification.
• Qingyan thanked Chu Ge and promised that she and Yan Qianlie would help guard Shenzhou.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji discussed how he could rule without becoming controlling, then left to visit Xie Jiuxiao.

Skyreach City descended into a succession struggle after Xie Jiuxiao was confined and Xie Yuner was named acting city lord. When the Grand Elder moved to seize power, the Heavenly Dao intervened, punished him, and affirmed Xie Yuner’s authority.

• Skyreach City’s elders argued over seeking outside help and whether Xie Yuner could remain acting city lord while Xie Jiuxiao was under house arrest.
• The Grand Elder claimed Xie Jiuxiao had become city lord through strength rather than inheritance, then used the elders’ agreement to undermine Xie Yuner.
• The Grand Elder demanded Xie Yuner hand over the City Lord’s Seal as he and his supporters called for a new ruler.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared, forced the hall to kneel, and declared that Xie Yuner should stand as the highest authority in Skyreach City.
• The Heavenly Dao turned the Grand Elder into a bronze statue and left the remaining matters to Xie Yuner.
• Xie Yuner renewed her devotion and vowed that Skyreach City and its descendants would serve the Heavenly Dao.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji checked on Xie Jiuxiao after the Heavenly Emperor’s control over him ended. Chu Ge restored him, ordered him to step down as city lord in favor of Xie Yuner, and obtained his cultivation method to study. The pair then headed to check on Dabei, while Qiu Wuji realized Chu Ge had been monitoring important events even during their private time.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji found Xie Jiuxiao unconscious in the secret chamber and discussed whether he should be held responsible for being controlled by the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chu Ge revived Xie Jiuxiao and explained that the Heavenly Emperor had exploited his desire for power to control him.
• Chu Ge ordered Xie Jiuxiao to resign as city lord, let Xie Yuner take over, and stay away from power while cultivating in seclusion.
• Xie Jiuxiao gave Chu Ge a jade slip containing the cultivation method, and Chu Ge began considering how to extrapolate its principles.
• As Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji flew to check on Dabei, Chu Ge admitted he had been tracking important characters and events, prompting Qiu Wuji to realize he had monitored them while they were making love.

Qiu Wuji led Cloudreach Sect’s forces across the East Sea to attack the King of Chasing the Sun’s territory, while Dabei remained under house arrest in the King’s Court. The chapter ended with Dabei arguing that accepting the Heavenly Dao’s arrangements was no different from accepting abstract fate.

• Qiu Wuji arrived at the East Sea sword formation with Chu Ge and took command of Cloudreach Sect’s expeditionary force.
• Qiu Wuji rallied the sect’s disciples and led ten thousand streaks of sword light east toward the King’s Court.
• Dozens of sword cultivators attacked Transfer Island as the main force continued across the sea, drawing an unusual affinity from the sea creatures.
• The King of Chasing the Sun kept Dabei under house arrest after his return wounded and the Eastern Continent’s alliance weakened.
• Dabei told the King of Chasing the Sun that the Heavenly Dao was now his real enemy and argued that concrete fate was no different from abstract fate.

The King of Chasing the Sun explained that his clan resented being destined to chase a sun they could never reach, while Dabei accepted the Heavenly Dao’s guidance. Chu Ge appeared before them, changed Chong Yu’s form, and argued that the Sunstriders had blocked their own path to their goal by helping sever ascension.

• The King of Chasing the Sun told Dabei that his clan wanted to discover the sun’s nature but refused to accept a fate that made catching it impossible.
• Dabei agreed that Chong Yu was not wrong from his own perspective, and Chong Yu gave him permission to preach among the Sunstriders.
• Chu Ge appeared in the court, and Dabei greeted him as Father God.
• Chu Ge grew to match Chong Yu’s towering height, then made Chong Yu shrink to ordinary human size and described a new rule tying Sunstrider cultivation to their forms.
• Chu Ge told Chong Yu that ascension would have let the Sunstriders reach the sun and that they had blocked their own goal by severing the path.
• Chu Ge challenged Chong Yu to prove he could defy him.

Chu Ge confronted Chong Yu and revealed that the Sunstrider Clan had misunderstood its purpose and been manipulated by the Heavenly Emperor. He punished Chong Yu while lifting the restrictions on the Endless Sea, as Qiu Wuji continued facing the Eastern Continent’s clan leaders.

• Chu Ge shrank Chong Yu to human size and showed him Qiu Wuji challenging the Eastern Continent’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivators alone.
• Chu Ge explained that the Sunstrider Clan had embodied his hope for an unwavering pursuit of knowledge, while Chong Yu realized the Heavenly Emperor had misled them.
• Chong Yu admitted his fault, knelt before Chu Ge, and offered to accept any punishment on behalf of himself alone.
• Chu Ge lifted the restrictions on travel across the Endless Sea and decreed that Chong Yu would guard it for ten thousand years, barred from ascension.
• The Heavenly Dao’s voice rang across the land, and Qiu Wuji saw her opponents recoil as Chu Ge openly intervened in the world.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji turned the continent’s submission into a united realm under the Heavenly Dao, with Qiu Wuji crowned Human Emperor and Dabei appointed to spread its faith. After the hundred peoples pledged allegiance, Qiu Wuji declared war on the Heavenly Realm.

• Qiu Wuji accepted the Tribulation Transcendence experts’ surrender and ordered them to gather at the Sunstriders Court to pay their respects.
• Chu Ge asked Chong Yu to collect every account of the Primordial White Tiger and appointed Dabei to build a temple and spread the Heavenly Dao’s faith.
• Chu Ge told Qiu Wuji that she would serve as Human Emperor while Dabei preached, and summoned the hundred peoples to acknowledge her rule.
• The hundred peoples arrived at the Sunstriders Court, where Qiu Wuji received their submission as Human Emperor.
• Qiu Wuji warned the peoples to obey the Heavenly Dao, then unleashed her sword toward the Heavenly Realm as a declaration of war.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji bathed in the Sunrise Pool in Yanggu, where Chu Ge explained how the world's growing recognition strengthened his power. They rode the sun across the world and returned to the Mortal World, where Qiu Wuji demanded that her True Body come out too.

• The Sunstriders and Cloudreach Sect disciples waited outside Yanggu while Qiu Wuji and Chu Ge bathed together in the Sunrise Pool.
• Chu Ge explained that recognition of the world, including through future adaptations, would increase his power and help him contend with the Heavenly Emperor.
• Qiu Wuji comprehended the pool's solar and lunar essence as the sun rose from its waters.
• Chu Ge carried Qiu Wuji onto the sun, and they watched it travel across the world before it sank into the Sunset Abyss.
• Chu Ge returned to the Mortal World with a strand of Qiu Wuji's Divided Soul, and Qiu Wuji demanded that her True Body come out as well.

After returning to the Mortal World, Chu Ge realized he could now sense his own world clearly and discussed how the Four Symbols might help establish a passage. He and Qiu Wuji reconciled with Wu Xiuyun, then set out for the Arctic to help her and Chu Ge’s father deal with Black Tortoise Revival.

• Chu Ge explained that his True Body’s crossing had made the location of his world clear, and he and Qiu Wuji discussed using the Four Symbols to establish a passage.
• Wu Xiuyun walked in on Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji in bed, then served them chicken soup and teased them about forgetting she was home.
• Qiu Wuji called Wu Xiuyun “Mom” and accepted her jade bracelet, making Wu Xiuyun happy.
• Wu Xiuyun said the worsening snow likely signaled Black Tortoise Revival nearing the surface and that Chu Ge’s father might have found it.
• Wu Xiuyun vanished toward the Arctic, and Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji followed to help confront Black Tortoise.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji reached the Arctic as the Black Tortoise rose beneath the glaciers, while Chu Jiangliu restrained the disaster and agreed to let their forces compete. Chu Ge realized the whole region was the Black Tortoise’s back and headed to find its head, disguising himself and Qiu Wuji with masks stolen from Yan Qianlie and Qingyan.

• Chu Jiangliu contained the Arctic upheaval and agreed with the opposing man to let their people compete below while they held each other in check.
• Chu Jiangliu learned that Chu Ge had arrived with Qiu Wuji and decided to leave the opponents to him.
• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji reached the Arctic and sensed the danger posed by the rising Black Tortoise.
• Chu Ge realized that the glaciers and the surrounding region were all on the Black Tortoise’s back, and that the searchers were trying to locate its head.
• Chu Ge received his mother’s warning to hide their identities and used Little Flame masks stolen from Yan Qianlie and Qingyan.

Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji encountered Gu Ruoyan, Moon Shadow, and Qin Feier while searching the Arctic for the Black Tortoise’s Resentment. They agreed to work together, but Qin Feier insisted she would only take orders from her father or Chu Ge, leaving Qiu Wuji defeated in a roleplaying contest with her own face.

• Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji spotted Gu Ruoyan and Moon Shadow confronting a masked woman near an iceberg.
• Chu Ge showed his credentials, and Gu Ruoyan recognized him and explained that Qin Feier had a Special Action Order but was an Auxiliary Member whose powerful family made the team wary of her safety.
• Gu Ruoyan revealed that Qin Feier had S-rank purification and conversion abilities that could help counter the Black Tortoise’s Resentment.
• Chu Ge received a message from Wu Xiuyun confirming that she and his father had sent Qin Feier, and he agreed to work with her under his leadership.
• Qin Feier said she would only take orders from her father or Chu Ge, while Qiu Wuji covered her face in embarrassment at losing the Qiu Wuji roleplaying contest.

Chu Ge, Qiu Wuji, and their companions searched the collapsing glacier for the Black Tortoise’s soul. Qin Feier used her esper ability to locate the cave where its resentment was strongest, and Qiu Wuji confirmed the cave held powerful vengeful spirits and demonized Ice Layer Lifeforms.

• Qin Feier agreed to join the operation but refused to take orders from Chu Ge until he showed her his Yan Qianlie mask and appealed to her as a fellow Boundless Chu Tian fan.
• Chu Ge asked Qiu Wuji to carry Qin Feier, Gu Ruoyan, and Moon Shadow through the air as he flew toward the Black Tortoise’s strongest presence.
• Chu Ge’s group reached a vast glacier filled with caves, where strong resentment obstructed their divine senses.
• Qin Feier sensed the resentment’s source and led the group to the cave with the most direct path to it.
• Qiu Wuji scouted the cave and confirmed that its resentment had formed vengeful spirits and the Ice Layer Lifeforms had developed demon bodies.

Chu Ge led the team into a cave near the Black Tortoise’s Divine Soul, where vengeful spirits and supernatural cold threatened them. After protecting everyone with his Golden Bell Shield, the team learned that a group including Chinese and Japanese members had entered the cave ahead of them.

• Qiu Wuji asked Qin Feier to stay close, but Qin Feier insisted she did not need protection as the group entered the cave.
• The worsening cold and resentment slowed the team, and vengeful spirits attacked; Qin Feier purified them while Moon Shadow found her physical attacks ineffective.
• Moon Shadow called for help, and Chu Ge expanded his Golden Bell Shield to protect the group from the spirits and cold.
• Chu Ge gave Moon Shadow a luminous pearl so she could create shadows and use her Esper Ability.
• Gu Ruoyan sensed that earlier intruders had passed through the cave and identified both Eastern and Western faces among them; Chu Ge suspected they were linked to the Heavenly Emperor’s plans.

Chu Ge’s group reached the Black Tortoise spirit and discovered Zhang Qiren among the guards, while Gu Ruoyan’s mind reading revealed the enemy’s formation nullified personal powers. The chapter left Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji weighing how to act when the formation could disable their Immortal Dao.

• Chu Ge concealed the group with spatial distortion and led them through the freezing passage inside his Golden Light Shield.
• The group found six Westerners using a formation to restrain the Black Tortoise, with Zhang Qiren standing among the guards.
• Chu Ge asked Gu Ruoyan to read Zhang Qiren’s mind, revealing his concern for Moon Shadow and his warning that the formation was a trap.
• Gu Ruoyan uncovered that the formation nullified its targets’ personal powers while leaving esper abilities and technology effective.
• Chu Ge realized the formation could disable his and Qiu Wuji’s Immortal Dao, leaving the group unsure how to proceed.

Chu Ge used his World Within the Book ability to remove the array’s six operators and scatter the enemy team into another world, while Qiu Wuji and Moon Shadow went inside to hunt them. Gu Ruoyan and Qin Feier remained outside to help free the Black Tortoise, and Thomson encountered a young couple who planned to turn him into a puppet.

• Qiu Wuji suggested that Chu Ge send people into his World Within the Book, and Chu Ge realized he could move the fight there.
• Chu Ge transported the six people maintaining the array into the book and sent Zhang Qiren and the nearby Japanese group in after them.
• Chu Ge sent Qiu Wuji and Moon Shadow into the book to hunt the enemies, while Gu Ruoyan and Qin Feier stayed to help purify the Black Tortoise.
• The scattered enemies woke in the wilderness, and Thomson followed tracks to a young couple at a cliff.
• The young woman called the stranger ugly, and the young man told her to use a gu king to turn Thomson into a puppet.

Chu Ge’s scattered transmigrators encountered the powerful figures of the world and were captured or killed, while Qiu Wuji ordered the outlanders hunted on sight. Thomson survived under a gu insect, but Sothus and Abic died, leaving the rest of the transmigrators in danger.

• Chu Tiange subdued Thomson, took his nanotech armor, and Ye Xiaozhu implanted a gu insect in him.
• Yan Qianlie mistook Sothus for a threat, killed him with a flaming hammer, and ordered his armor stripped off.
• Elder Zhou found Abic near the Cloudreach Sect and agreed to let him try the sect’s assessments.
• Abic accused Qiu Wuji of hunting him and insulting the sect, so the disciples struck him with swords.
• Qiu Wuji revealed herself as the Cloudreach Sect’s leader and ordered outlanders killed on sight across the continents.

Zhang Qiren and Moon Shadow fought against a group of Japanese men after the outsiders were transported into another world. After Zhang Qiren confessed his love to Moon Shadow, Qiu Wuji watched from overhead as he continued bleeding.

• Chong Yu intercepted an armored outsider who had nearly reached the mainland and declared that he would kill him on the sovereign's orders.
• Zhang Qiren argued with Japanese men who accused him of betraying Sandru, while Moon Shadow attacked one of them with her shadows.
• An enemy darkened the sky and used ninjutsu, but Zhang Qiren restrained him so Moon Shadow's shadow blades could strike them both.
• Zhang Qiren's allies shot the remaining opponents, and he told Moon Shadow they had been helping him seize control of the Black Dragon Society.
• Zhang Qiren asked whether Chu Ge had given Moon Shadow her Night-Shining Pearl, then confessed that she was the only one in his heart.
• Qiu Wuji watched from overhead as Moon Shadow reacted to Zhang Qiren's confession while he was still bleeding.

Zhang Qiren survived his wounds but regretted confessing to Moon Shadow, while Qiu Wuji secured the survivors’ silence and helped him take control of the Black Dragon Society. Chu Ge and Gu Ruoyan continued facing the Black Tortoise Soul, whose shock waves overwhelmed Chu Ge’s defenses.

• Qiu Wuji gave Zhang Qiren an Elixir and questioned why he had risked his life and confessed to Moon Shadow.
• Zhang Qiren admitted he could not restrain his anger when Moon Shadow was insulted, but said he had never dared hope to be with her.
• Qiu Wuji made the Japanese survivors swear not to reveal the World Within the Book, and one man died after breaking his oath.
• Zhang Qiren ordered the survivors to kneel and realized he had taken control of the Black Dragon Society, though Moon Shadow still was not his.
• Qiu Wuji revealed that she had enforced the oaths with Sword Qi rather than the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Ge’s Golden Bell Shield nearly shattered against the Black Tortoise Soul’s shock waves, so he switched defenses and shouted that he was on its side.

Chu Ge and his companions endured Black Tortoise’s assault by using stolen Nanotech Armor, while Qin Feier’s purification calmed its Divine Soul enough for Chu Ge to reach it with the truth about its legacy. Black Tortoise revived at full strength, declared its defiance of the Gu Insect, and sent Sandru fleeing.

• Chu Ge’s cultivation vanished under the formation, so he used his Spatial Ability to shield the group from Black Tortoise’s attack.
• Chu Ge retrieved Nanotech Armor from the book and gave it to Gu Ruoyan and Qin Feier, allowing them to withstand the pressure.
• Qin Feier purified Black Tortoise’s Divine Soul and tried to speak with it, while Gu Ruoyan relayed its thoughts.
• Chu Ge told Black Tortoise it wanted to return home, take revenge on the Heavenly Emperor, and question the Heavenly Dao, then showed it the Black Tortoise Carapace and affirmed that its legacy remained.
• Black Tortoise’s body broke through the glacier as the formation failed, and it revived at full strength.
• Black Tortoise condemned the Gu Insect and ordered it to die, while Sandru spat blood and fled from Chu Jiangliu.