Chapter Summaries

Sugimoto Ichirō’s forces broke through the Allied Army’s southern encirclement while Long Zongyuan’s deception weakened the defenders on the other walls. The western wall fell, and Gouyao Tianhuang waited anxiously in the city as fleeing defenders gathered around him.

• Lei Zhenxiao and Long Zongyuan reinforced the southern position and ordered attacks on Chichang City’s eastern, northern, and western walls.
• Sugimoto Ichirō used suicidal charges to open a breach in the encirclement, widened it, and signaled Goushi Tianhuang and Gouyao Tianhuang to escape.
• Long Zongyuan’s troops spread word that the Divine Cult’s leaders had abandoned the defenders, prompting disciples to flee the walls.
• Lei Zhenxiao’s forces captured the western wall as its defenders retreated into the city.
• Gouyao Tianhuang detained messengers seeking orders and watched increasing numbers of fleeing defenders arrive while he awaited Goushi Tianhuang’s signal.

Gouyao Tianhuang and Goushi Tianhuang struggled to break through the Allied Army’s encirclement as the fighting at the escape gap consumed thousands of Cult Disciples. Gouyao Tianhuang finally escaped with his younger brother, while Inuyou Tingtao’s rear guard was ambushed outside the city.

• Gouyao Tianhuang ordered Inuyou Tingtao to hold a defensive line for four hours while he led his loyal troops toward the southern gate.
• Goushi Tianhuang fought to keep the escape gap open as Allied Army reinforcements narrowed it to fifty meters, costing his forces tens of thousands of men.
• Goushi Tianhuang left his remaining troops to defend the gap and urged Gouyao Tianhuang to withdraw faster.
• Gouyao Tianhuang arrived with reinforcements, stabilized the battle lines, and led Goushi Tianhuang out through the gap.
• Inuyou Tingtao and his troops were ambushed by Allied Army forces outside the city and fled in panic.

Inuyou Tingtao’s battered force fled toward Main Island while Gouyao Tianhuang gathered the remaining cult disciples and led them into Ding Li’s Allied Army blockade. The battle became a desperate clash between the cult’s elites and the Allied Army, with both sides suffering heavy losses.

• Inuyou Tingtao gathered only twenty thousand survivors, warned Gouyao Tianhuang about the ambush ahead, and fled toward Main Island as the Allied Army pursued and killed the retreating cult disciples.
• Gouyao Tianhuang assembled fifty thousand disciples, divided them into three echelons, and advanced toward Main Island despite knowing an ambush awaited them.
• Ding Li learned the enemy was approaching in formation, sent Zhan Qingchun and Gu Tianyu to attack from the flanks, and led the main force into a frontal assault.
• Liang Ting led the Allied Army’s front line against Goushi Tianhuang’s vanguard, and the cult disciples broke through three sections of the formation before she cleared the largest breach.
• Gouyao Tianhuang arrived with twenty thousand reinforcements and ordered the commanders and elite disciples into a desperate charge as the Allied Army’s flanking forces closed in.

The Allied Army surrounded Gouyao Tianhuang’s forces, and Liang Ting killed Goushi Tianhuang in a duel. Gouyao Tianhuang used waves of suicidal self-detonation attacks to break through the encirclement, killing Liang Ting and leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ding Li sent reinforcements to Liang Ting and ordered Zhan Qingchun and Gu Tianyu to attack the Divine Cult forces from both flanks.
• Liang Ting fought Goushi Tianhuang, wore down his defenses, and killed him with a Purple Flame Blazing Talisman.
• Gouyao Tianhuang ordered Divine Cult disciples to detonate themselves and blast a gap through Ding Li’s defensive line.
• Liang Ting was killed when two Assistant Envoys detonated themselves beside her.
• Ding Li joined the fighting as Gouyao Tianhuang redirected his forces toward the section Liang Ting had defended and finally opened a gap with more self-detonation attacks.

The Allied Army retook Chichang City and Outland Sea Island, but new intelligence revealed a coordinated Divine Cult uprising across the continent. Li Dalong learned that the Cloud Glow Sect was under attack by Kameda Yuzo’s forces, and Ke Meili prepared to defend the sect behind its formation.

• Gouyao Tianhuang escaped Chichang City while Ding Li and the Allied Army wiped out the remaining Divine Cult forces there.
• After two more days of fighting, the Allied Army reclaimed Outland Sea Island, then Long Zongyuan and Lei Zhenxiao sent troops to reinforce the Lingxi Mountain base.
• Ye Xingchen received news that Divine Cult operatives had sparked fighting in five places across the continent.
• Ke Meili received an urgent warning about a rogue cultivator force gathering near the Cloud Glow Sect and activated its Defensive Array.
• Kameda Yuzo led more than ten thousand Divine Cult descendants in an attack on the Cloud Glow Sect, but its formation held as both sides struggled to gain the advantage.

Li Dalong took command of the Cloud Glow Sect's defense and used concentrated attacks to thin the attacking cult's ranks. He then led the elders outside the protective barrier and closed in on Kameda Yuzo after his opening sword strike missed.

• Ke Meili summoned Li Dalong from seclusion, and he offered to kill Kameda Yuzo while the elders held off the surrounding enemies.
• Ke Meili reinforced the defensive array with supreme-grade immortal stones and handed command of the disciples to Li Dalong.
• Li Dalong organized the disciples into squads whose concentrated attacks killed increasing numbers of cult disciples, including Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm enemies.
• Kameda Yuzo delayed retreating because he still hoped to break through the defensive array and abduct Ke Meili.
• Li Dalong led a hundred and twenty mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal elders outside the barrier, where they fought the cult disciples in groups of three.
• Kameda Yuzo dodged Li Dalong's opening sword strike, and Li Dalong charged closer while the elders drew away the surrounding cult disciples.

Li Dalong killed Kameda Yuzo and returned to the Cloud Glow Sect’s defensive formation, where he recovered while Ke Meili took command. With the Divine Cult’s forces in disarray and withdrawing, Ke Meili led the sect’s disciples out to pursue them.

• Li Dalong used Void to evade Kameda Yuzo’s saber strike, beheaded him with the Soul Chaser Sword, and flew back inside the defensive formation.
• Li Dalong told Ke Meili to resume command, then took a Spirit-Replenishing Pill and recovered from his weakness period.
• Ke Meili ordered the elders covering Li Dalong to return to the formation, then directed the sect’s disciples to keep targeting powerful Divine Cult fighters.
• After Kameda Yuzo’s death, the Divine Cult’s minor leaders argued over command as their disciples suffered heavy losses and began to retreat.
• Ke Meili led the Cloud Glow Sect disciples out of the formation to attack the retreating Divine Cult forces.

Ke Meili’s forces routed the Divine Cult at Lingxi Mountain, while the Immortal Realm Allied Army gained the advantage on the main battlefield and defeated the Divine Cult’s Quasi-Saints. After learning of the defeat, Niu Langchedan prepared to retreat to Main Island.

• Ke Meili and her elders killed Ikeda Jūichirō, and the leaderless Divine Cult troops fled as the Cloud Glow Sect pursued them before withdrawing to avoid a counterattack.
• Ye Xingchen’s reinforcements joined the Lingxi Mountain Base guards in a costly battle against Niu Langchedan’s forces, but the Allied Army’s new troops grew more effective and began inflicting heavier casualties.
• Long Zongyuan and Lei Zhenxiao returned with reinforcements and blocked the Divine Cult’s retreat south of its temporary camp.
• Ye Xingchen and the deputy commanders planned a three-direction counterattack to encircle the Divine Cult forces the next day.
• The Allied Army subdued and sealed twenty-three of the Divine Cult’s Quasi-Saints, while nine escaped and more than ten Allied Quasi-Saints suffered destroyed bodies.
• Niu Langchedan learned of the Quasi-Saints’ defeat and prepared to withdraw his troops to Main Island.

Niu Langchedan escaped the destruction of the Divine Cult’s invasion force, only to return to Dongdu Island and find Cult Leader Ju Ju’ouyao had seized power and surrounded him. As Mochuan Neiku betrayed him, Niu Langchedan was struck down before he could escape.

• The Allied Army and Ye Xingchen’s reinforcements repeatedly sealed the breakout gap, while Mochuan Neiku sacrificed a hundred Assistant Envoys to help Niu Langchedan escape with a small remnant force.
• The encircled Divine Cult army was wiped out, leaving fewer than thirty thousand of Niu Langchedan’s original five hundred thousand troops alive.
• Ju Ju’ouyao seized control of the Four Main Islands, arrested Niu Langchedan’s loyalists, and surrounded him with two hundred thousand troops when he returned to Dongdu Island.
• Ju Ju’ouyao persuaded Mochuan Neiku to defect by promising him an estate and the position of Left Guardian Envoy, and Mochuan Neiku pledged to attack Niu Langchedan.
• Niu Langchedan realized he was trapped, but before he could act, an unseen strike cut his neck and sent his head spinning away.

Mochuan Neiku killed Niu Langchedan but was betrayed and slain by Ju Ju'ouyao, who secretly evacuated his followers into the Sea of Oblivion. The Immortal Realm Allied Army assembled a much larger force, attacked the Divine Cult's main island, and began massacring its defenders after breaking their formation.

• Mochuan Neiku ambushed and beheaded Niu Langchedan, then Ju Ju'ouyao ordered the remaining cult disciples to destroy Mochuan Neiku and his loyal followers.
• Ju Ju'ouyao secretly searched for distant sea islands and began relocating his loyal disciples and their families while misleading the Divine Cult's other factions.
• Ye Xingchen and the Allied Army commanders decided to attack the Divine Cult's main island and expanded their force to three million troops.
• Ju Ju'ouyao's scouts found two habitable islands, and he evacuated with his loyal troops half a month before the Allied Army departed.
• The Allied Army arrived at the Divine Cult's main island, breached its defensive formation, and began killing the cult disciples, including those who surrendered.

After the Allied Army destroyed the Chrysanthemum God Cult’s strongholds, Li Dalong used the Purple Firmament Ganoderma to heal his comatose junior brother Zhou Yong. Zhou Yong’s injuries healed, though he remained asleep until his divine sense recovered, and Li Dalong emerged to share the news with Yun Yao and Zhou Tianlong.

• Ye Xingchen led the Allied Army in clearing the cult’s four main islands, taking their immortal veins before returning to Lingxi Mountain Base to distribute rewards.
• Ye Xingchen returned to the weakened Limitless Immortal Sect and considered asking Li Dalong to establish Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Formations to rebuild its strength.
• Li Dalong entered the Creation Cultivation Tower and carefully refined the Purple Firmament Ganoderma into Zhou Yong, strengthening his vitality and healing his injuries.
• After more than six years inside the tower, Zhou Yong’s body and spiritual power had recovered, but he remained unconscious while his divine sense slowly healed.
• Li Dalong sensed that Yun Yao and Zhou Tianlong had emerged from seclusion, checked Zhou Yong’s condition, and left the tower to tell them the good news.

Li Dalong told Yun Yao and Zhou Tianlong that he had found the Divine Medicine and saved Zhou Yong, who was recovering his divine sense and would soon awaken. Zhou Xue reunited with her mother and brother at Li Dalong’s courtyard, where they waited together as Zhou Yong began to stir inside the Creation Cultivation Tower.

• Li Dalong told Yun Yao and Zhou Tianlong that Zhou Yong was out of danger and would awaken once his divine sense recovered.
• Zhou Tianlong contacted Zhou Xue, who received permission from Ouyang Lan to leave and see her father.
• Zhou Xue traveled to Li Dalong’s courtyard and reunited with Yun Yao and Zhou Tianlong.
• Li Dalong hosted Zhou Xue, Yun Yao, and Zhou Tianlong with Enlightenment Tea while monitoring Zhou Yong’s recovery.
• Zhou Yong’s eyelids fluttered and his fingers moved as he neared awakening.

Zhou Yong awakened after centuries, reunited with Yun Yao and their children, and learned that they were living in the Immortal Realm. Li Dalong provided him with cultivation resources and Enlightenment Tea, and Zhou Yong began settling into life with his family again.

• Li Dalong brought Zhou Yong out of the Creation Cultivation Tower as he began to awaken, and Yun Yao's voice helped rouse him.
• Zhou Yong recognized Yun Yao and his children, then embraced Yun Yao as they wept over their long separation.
• Zhou Yong thanked Li Dalong for saving and caring for his family, and Li Dalong gave him a Storage Ring of cultivation resources and Enlightenment Tea.
• Zhou Yong returned to the Small Courtyard with Yun Yao and their children, and the reunited family spent time together.
• Yun Yao took Zhou Yong around the Cloud Glow Sect and planned to show him the Immortal Realm, while Li Dalong sent Enlightenment Tea to Ke Meili.

Li Dalong agreed to help Ye Xingchen rebuild the weakened Limitless Immortal Sect by secretly installing Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Formations in its secret realm. He arranged training places for the Cloud Glow Sect as well and began surveying sites for the formations.

• Li Dalong visited Ye Xingchen and Madam Yuehua, and Ye Xingchen asked him to help train disciples after the Limitless Immortal Sect suffered severe losses in the war against the Divine Cult.
• Li Dalong agreed to provide the formations, and he and Ye Xingchen decided to conceal them in the sect's secret realm and restrict who could enter and leave.
• Ye Xingchen expanded the training plan to twenty thousand disciples and assigned two Quasi-Saint grand supreme elders to guard the secret realm's entrance.
• Li Dalong secured five hundred training places for the Cloud Glow Sect, and Ke Meili began selecting loyal, talented young disciples to send.
• Li Dalong entered the secret realm with Ye Xingchen, surveyed it for a day, and chose fifteen sites for ten formations accommodating two thousand people each and five accommodating one thousand each.

Li Dalong completed fifteen Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Formations, including two improved formations with elevenfold time acceleration, and helped his family and the Cloud Glow Sect use them for cultivation. After thirty years of secluded cultivation, he underwent tribulation and broke through to the late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

• Li Dalong spent six months setting up and testing fifteen formations, improving two thousand-person formations to provide elevenfold time acceleration.
• Ye Xingchen activated the formations and arranged for selected disciples, including Cloud Glow Sect disciples, to cultivate inside them.
• Li Dalong upgraded the formations used by Ye Xingchen, Madam Yuehua, Ke Meili, and his family, then spent time with his wives before entering seclusion.
• After thirty years of cultivation, Li Dalong went to the Back Mountain to undergo tribulation, and Ke Meili secured the area.
• Li Dalong survived the final tribulation lightning bolt and advanced to the late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Wuxia left seclusion and traveled alone through the Immortal Realm to clear her mind, drawing attention from several groups at a marketplace. At a restaurant, she heard a rogue cultivator adventurer describe the Illusory Grassland and its hidden treasures, sparking her interest.

• Ke Meili congratulated Li Dalong on his successful tribulation, and he returned to cultivation in the Creation Cultivation Tower.
• Ye Xingchen checked on the disciples in the Secret Realm, noted their progress and losses, and asked Ke Meili to send thirty replacements.
• Ye Wuxia ended her long seclusion after reaching the late Golden Immortal stage, visited her parents, and decided to travel alone.
• Ye Wuxia disguised herself with a shapeshifting mask and shopped lavishly at a small marketplace, where several groups began watching her.
• Ye Wuxia ate and listened to gossip at a restaurant, then became interested when an adventuring-team leader described the Illusory Grassland and its opportunities.

Ye Wuxia was ambushed by rogue cultivators after leaving the marketplace and fought back before fleeing into the mountains. Gravely wounded but temporarily free of her pursuers, she entered a strange valley filled with a mysterious aura.

• Ye Wuxia replenished her talismans at Treasured Arrival Studio and left the marketplace for the Illusory Grassland as rogue cultivators followed her.
• A ten-man bandit team surrounded Ye Wuxia, but she activated her talismans and defenses and escaped their initial attack.
• Ye Wuxia fought the bandits, crushed the rescue jade talisman Li Dalong had given her, killed three early-stage Golden Immortals, and wounded two middle-stage Golden Immortals.
• The bandits gravely wounded Ye Wuxia, who fled through the mountains and ravines while her pursuers continued after her.
• Ye Wuxia entered an unfamiliar valley where a mysterious aura filled the surroundings, and the bandits disappeared from her divine sense.

Ye Wuxia took shelter in a quiet valley and began healing after escaping her pursuers, while Li Dalong rushed to answer her plea for help. He killed Lei Lingyun and his immortal beast when they blocked his path, then continued toward Ye Wuxia as Lei Lingyun’s lackeys pursued him.

• Ye Wuxia activated a defensive formation and swallowed a Supreme Healing Pill to treat her wounds and restore her strength.
• Li Dalong sensed Ye Wuxia’s plea for help and flew toward the location at full speed.
• Lei Lingyun and his lackeys blocked Li Dalong, and Lei Lingyun refused to let him pass.
• Li Dalong killed Lei Lingyun and his immortal beast with the Soul Chaser Sword.
• Li Dalong continued toward Ye Wuxia while Lei Lingyun’s lackeys chased after him.

Li Dalong fought off the Wind-Thunder Manor lackeys who had killed their master and hurried toward Ye Wuxia’s distress signal. Ye Wuxia recovered inside a defensive formation while three rogue cultivators attacked it, leaving her protected for the moment as she replenished her immortal power.

• Li Dalong killed three Wind-Thunder Manor lackeys, forcing the remaining attackers to flee, then collected the fallen men’s storage rings.
• Li Dalong flew toward the location where Ye Wuxia had sent her distress signal.
• Ye Wuxia healed her injuries with the Supreme Healing Pill and began restoring her depleted immortal power.
• Three middle-stage Golden Immortal rogue cultivators discovered Ye Wuxia’s defensive formation and attacked it, but the barrier held.
• Ye Wuxia continued absorbing immortal qi from supreme-grade immortal stones while monitoring the formation’s power.

Ye Wuxia fought off the bandits from inside her Defensive Formation, killing two before their leader joined the assault and forced her to focus on holding him back. Li Dalong tracked her to a strange valley but could not see her there.

• Ye Wuxia used talismans and her Flying Sword to kill two bandits and wound another, but the bandit leader arrived with three more subordinates, leaving six attackers alive.
• Ye Wuxia stopped attacking the other bandits and fought the late-stage Golden Immortal leader to keep the Defensive Formation from breaking.
• Li Dalong drove off Wind-Thunder Manor's lackeys, followed the battle trail, and sensed Ye Wuxia's weakened presence in the mountains.
• Li Dalong concealed his aura, strengthened his defenses, and prepared to attack as he approached the valley where Ye Wuxia was hidden from view.