Recaps

Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him becoming High Person Sanshou’s disciple and mastering the Immortal Saint Body Pill, but Sanshou turned into an eerie monster after Xu revealed the recipe’s origin. Xu recognized that he had uncovered the Tianyan Sect Illusion’s hidden eeriness again and chose a reward without watching the simulation, leaving his investigation for when he was stronger.

• Xu Changxing spent years recovering before gathering enough upper-grade Immortal Essence Stones to start another simulation.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing impressed High Person Sanshou with his pill refining and became his inner disciple.
• Xu Changxing spent decades refining Ageless Golden Cores and learning to refine the Immortal Saint Body Pill.
• High Person Sanshou demanded to know where Xu Changxing had obtained the recipe, then transformed into a monster and killed him after Xu mentioned his master from another world.
• Xu Changxing concluded that revealing the illusion’s secrets triggered its eeriness again and weighed whether to watch the simulation.
• The system offered Xu Changxing a Heavenly Immortal seventh-layer flesh realm, an Immortal Saint Body Pill, or the chance to watch the scenes, and he decided against watching.

Xu Changxing simulated pill refining and cultivation, raising his Flesh Realm to Heavenly Immortal Ninth Layer Peak. He failed the Abyssal Gate assessment because he could not resist corruption, but gained a fragmentary insight into the Way of the Stars before claiming his simulated physical cultivation.

• Xu Changxing chose the Immortal Saint Body Pill and began a new simulation after condensing Upper-Grade Immortal Essence Stones.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing became High Person Sanshou’s disciple, learned to refine Immortal Saint Body Pills, and raised his Flesh Realm to Heavenly Immortal Ninth Layer Peak.
• Xu Changxing failed the Golden Immortal elder’s Abyssal Gate assessment because he lacked resistance to abyssal corruption.
• Xu Changxing gained fragments of insight into the Way of the Stars at the Star-Viewing Platform, then died when a Heaven-Shrouding Finger descended.
• Xu Changxing chose the simulation reward and received the Flesh Realm at Heavenly Immortal Ninth Layer Peak.

After stabilizing his rapidly advanced cultivation, Xu Changxing traveled the Immortal Realm before receiving word that Li Changge had ascended. The chapter ends with the two reunited, as Li Changge suspects Xu Changxing is once again concealing a startling achievement.

• Xu Changxing spent more than ten years stabilizing his body after reaching the peak of the Heavenly Immortal ninth layer.
• Xu Changxing took a decades-long tour of nearby cities and searched for treasures to strengthen the Greenwood Sword, but found nothing worthwhile.
• Xu Changxing received a message that Li Changge had ascended and flew to meet him.
• Li Changge explained that he had delayed ascending to establish the Sword Dao in his world, and Xu Changxing noticed Great Dao rules faintly surrounding him.
• Xu Changxing and Li Changge discussed their Sword Dao progress, and Li Changge wondered whether Xu Changxing had prepared another surprise.

Xu Changxing reunited with Li Changge and revealed that he had become a Heavenly Immortal and Seven Star Island’s Second-Generation Patriarch. Li Changge agreed to join Seven Star Island, where Bu Yufeng offered to accept him as a disciple on his master’s behalf.

• Xu Changxing told Li Changge that he had become a Heavenly Immortal over a hundred years earlier, leaving Li Changge stunned.
• Xu Changxing invited Li Changge to join Seven Star Island, and Li Changge accepted.
• Xu Changxing brought Li Changge to meet Bu Yufeng in the Forbidden Grounds and introduced him as his eldest senior brother from the Mortal Realm.
• Bu Yufeng recognized Li Changge’s unusual talent and offered to accept him into Seven Star Island as a disciple on his master’s behalf.
• Xu Changxing welcomed the arrangement and told Li Changge he would now call him Second Senior Brother.

Bu Yufeng accepted Li Changge as another patriarch of Seven Star Island, sparking debate over his talent and legitimacy. Xu Changxing ignored the dissent and reforged the Greenwood Sword, though its power still fell short of what he needed to face a Golden Immortal.

• Li Changge accepted his place as second senior brother under Bu Yufeng, with Xu Changxing remaining the youngest junior brother.
• The Seven Star Bell announced that Bu Yufeng had accepted Li Changge, a newly ascended Origin Immortal, as a disciple on their master's behalf, stirring an uproar across Seven Star Island.
• Immortals argued over Li Changge's talent and whether Xu Changxing was using him to challenge Bu Yufeng's authority, while Xu Changxing dismissed their complaints as irrelevant because the decision was settled.
• Xu Changxing took treasures from Seven Star Island's storehouse and spent two years reforging the Greenwood Sword at the Earthfire Furnace.
• Xu Changxing unleashed the reforged sword in a strike that startled the island's Heavenly Immortals, but he judged it too weak to contend with a Golden Immortal.

Xu Changxing watched a simulation in which he became Daoist Wuchen’s disciple and received a jade pendant bearing Daoist Wuchen’s insights into the Way of Destiny to protect him from the abyss’s erosion. His simulated self chose to study the Way of the Stars first, and the simulation left him refining pills after assimilating star laws into his body.

• Xu Changxing left seclusion for Li Changge’s Apprenticeship Ceremony, which proceeded without disturbance, then began another simulation.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self became Daoist Wuchen’s disciple and asked how to resist the abyss’s erosion.
• Daoist Wuchen gave Xu Changxing’s simulated self a jade pendant imbued with his comprehension of the Way of Destiny and advised him to seek insight into the Way of the Stars.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self refined pills for points, earning High Person Sanshou’s appreciation and permission to use a pill furnace.
• After resting, Xu Changxing’s simulated self spent ten years at the Star-Viewing Platform and later assimilated the star laws into his body.
• Xu Changxing’s simulated self returned to the Immortal Marketplace and resumed refining Ageless Golden Cores.

Xu Changxing reviewed a simulation in which he entered the Abyssal Gate and fought abyssal beasts to seek insight into the Way of Slaughter, but died before making much progress. By watching the simulation, he learned a star-reflecting flesh cultivation technique, then began another simulation with plans to return to the abyss.

• In the simulation, Xu Changxing entered the Abyssal Gate and discovered that insight into the Way of Slaughter required killing powerful abyssal demonic beasts.
• Xu Changxing slew a powerful beast and later killed thousands more, gaining only faint insight before his body shattered and he died.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes and improved his understanding of the Way of the Stars.
• Xu Changxing learned the self-created technique that reflected star circulation within his flesh, and faint astral force appeared in his bloodline.
• Xu Changxing watched the abyss scenes and gained faint insight into the Way of Slaughter.
• Xu Changxing spent over six months condensing upper-grade immortal essence stones, then began another simulation that ended before he explored the abyss deeply.

Xu Changxing used a simulation to explore the Abyssal Gate and comprehend the Way of Slaughter, but the abyss eroded him before he eventually escaped with help from a Golden Immortal. After watching the simulated scenes, he began carefully savoring the insights he had gained.

• Xu Changxing entered the Abyssal Gate and hunted demonic beasts to contemplate the slaughter rules.
• Xu Changxing’s Fate Jade Pendant ran out of power, and the abyssal rules eroded him as he continued exploring.
• Xu Changxing found a route back and a Golden Immortal brought him to the Tianyan Sect, where he spent over a century clearing the erosion.
• A Heaven-Shrouding Finger killed Xu Changxing in the simulation after he resumed contemplating the slaughter rules.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulated scenes and carefully studied the rules revealed as he slew demonic beasts.

Xu Changxing repeatedly simulated exploring the Abyss, first refining his understanding of the Way of Slaughter and then venturing deeper to seek the Way of Destruction. He gained a little insight before a terrifying speaking demonic beast killed him, and he continued contemplating the Way of Destruction after watching the simulation.

• Xu Changxing ran more than ten simulations and improved his understanding of the Way of Slaughter by studying the Abyss.
• Xu Changxing began a new simulation and entered the Abyss's deeper regions to seek the Way of Destruction.
• Xu Changxing killed a powerful demonic beast and meditated, but after a century of dangerous battles he only gained some understanding of the Way of Destruction.
• A powerful demonic beast that spoke like a human attacked Xu Changxing, broke his Greenwood Sword, and killed him.
• Xu Changxing chose to watch the simulation scenes and gained a little understanding of the Way of Destruction before the demonic beast appeared.
• Xu Changxing remained in seclusion to continue contemplating the Way of Destruction.

After recognizing that the finger destroying the Tianyan Sect Illusion wielded the Way of Destruction, Xu Changxing kept his Tianyan Sect inheritance hidden and used simulations to deepen his understanding. When he reached a bottleneck near the Golden Immortal realm, he decided to resume studying the Space Great Dao rather than spend a thousand years in seclusion.

• Xu Changxing realized the finger that shattered the Tianyan Sect Illusion had used the Way of Destruction and recognized the danger posed by the Immortal Venerables.
• Xu Changxing resolved to stay concealed and resumed condensing upper-grade immortal essence stones.
• Over two hundred years and dozens of simulations, Xu Changxing explored the Abyss and rapidly advanced his understanding of the Way of Destruction.
• Xu Changxing reached a bottleneck near the Golden Immortal realm, while further insights from the Tianyan Sect Illusion brought little progress.
• Remembering Daoist Wuchen's advice about studying multiple Great Daos, Xu Changxing chose to pursue the Space Great Dao.

After three hundred years in seclusion, Xu Changxing learned from a premonition that Li Changge was nearing a breakthrough while clearing demon beasts in a small world. He watched Li Changge fight a true-immortal-level Great Demon and discovered that the young Sword Cultivator had begun to grasp the Slaughter Rule.

• Xu Changxing rested after leaving seclusion, then foresaw Li Changge breaking through to true immortal in an unfamiliar small world.
• Xu Changxing checked Seven Star Island’s records and learned that Li Changge was on a mission to clear demon beasts from a recently reclaimed small world.
• Xu Changxing found Li Changge slaughtering demon beasts and noticed faint traces of the Slaughter Rule in his Sword Light.
• After Li Changge finished off the pack, Xu Changxing sensed a powerful Great Demon lurking nearby and decided to watch rather than intervene.
• The Great Demon ambushed Li Changge, but Li Changge evaded it and wounded it with a sword strike whose lingering sword intent consumed its demon blood.

Li Changge killed a Great Demon with a desperate sword strike and broke through to the True Immortal realm. Xu Changxing guarded him for five years as he consolidated his cultivation, and the two reunited afterward.

• Li Changge unleashed a sword strike infused with the Slaughter Rule, killing the Great Demon but exhausting his sword intent and immortal essence.
• Li Changge broke through to the True Immortal realm, and the Slaughter Rule around him grew denser.
• Xu Changxing destroyed nearby Demon Beasts and guarded Li Changge while he consolidated his cultivation for five years.
• Li Changge emerged from seclusion and thanked Xu Changxing for protecting him.
• Xu Changxing told Li Changge he had come after sensing his imminent breakthrough and seeing him slay a True Immortal-level Demon Beast.

Li Changge thanked Xu Changxing for helping him survive and advance, and their conversation gave Xu Changxing a fleeting insight into the Way of Fate. After celebrating and traveling through the Immortal Realm, Xu Changxing began a simulation to comprehend the Way of Space, but had to intervene when it revealed he would otherwise break through using the Way of Destruction.

• Li Changge credited Xu Changxing's repeated help with changing his fate and allowing him to reach the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Changxing briefly gained an insight into the Way of Fate but could not seize the chance to comprehend it.
• Xu Changxing and Li Changge celebrated Li Changge's breakthrough, and Li Changge renewed his promise to spar after reaching Golden Immortal.
• Xu Changxing traveled through dozens of Immortal Realm cities, helped people facing injustice, and then returned to Seven Star Island.
• Xu Changxing spent 256 upper-grade immortal essence stones to begin a simulation focused on comprehending the Way of Space.
• When the simulation showed him choosing the Way of Destruction instead, Xu Changxing paused it and used the Tianyan Pearl projection's authority to direct himself to break through with the Way of Space in the Central Continent.

Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him entering the Endless Planes to comprehend the Way of Space, but worsening void turbulence prevented him from making progress and eventually killed him. The evaluation revealed that survival was possible even without mastering the Way of Space, though Xu Changxing had failed to find that chance.

• Xu Changxing prepared to travel to Central Province and accepted the Moonflower Sect’s mission to enter the Endless Planes.
• Xu Changxing spent centuries navigating void turbulence, which both exposed him to the Way of Space and left him little time to study it.
• The turbulence grew more frequent and violent, and Xu Changxing ventured too deep into the Endless Planes to escape safely.
• Xu Changxing made a final attempt to comprehend the Way of Space but failed and was swallowed by spatial turbulence.
• Xu Changxing learned from the simulation’s evaluation that the Endless Planes held a chance of survival, then considered the available rewards.

Xu Changxing spent a thousand years running simulations and comprehending many Great Daos, deepening his understanding of the Way of Space and bringing several paths to Golden Immortal within reach. As Seven Star Island flourished under Li Changge, Xu Changxing decided it was time to leave.

• Xu Changxing repeatedly simulated the Endless Planes, eventually finding a sanctuary where he advanced to Golden Immortal within the simulation and learned powerful spatial Spell Arts.
• After further simulations confirmed the limits of the Tianyan Pearl Projection, Xu Changxing turned to comprehending the Way of Thunder and many other Great Daos.
• Xu Changxing spent more than eight hundred years gaining initial insight into dozens of Great Daos, including the Way of Time.
• Seven Star Island became the foremost immortal sect within ten thousand li, while Li Changge reached True Immortal Ninth Layer and slew more than a dozen True Demons.
• Xu Changxing realized his understanding of the Way of Space had reached an extreme, felt no burden about leaving Seven Star Island, and prepared to depart.

Xu Changxing prepared to leave Seven Star Island for Central Province to seek answers and verify his Dao before attempting to enter the Golden Immortal realm. He told Bu Yufeng he would remain a Seven Star Island immortal, then learned that his senior brother had grown lax because he saw no hope of breaking through to Golden Immortal.

• Xu Changxing visited Bu Yufeng at the Forbidden Grounds and said he was leaving for Central Province to resolve a bottleneck.
• Bu Yufeng offered to take Xu Changxing's Identity Jade Pendant, but Xu Changxing said he would remain an immortal of Seven Star Island and would not join another sect.
• Bu Yufeng asked about Xu Changxing's cultivation, and Xu Changxing said he intended to verify his Dao and seek the Golden Immortal realm.
• Xu Changxing asked why Bu Yufeng cultivated so slowly, and Bu Yufeng explained that Seven Star Island's technique could not take him beyond Heavenly Immortal and that he had lost motivation.
• Xu Changxing asked whether the prospect of reaching Golden Immortal would make Bu Yufeng cultivate harder, and Bu Yufeng said he would immediately devote himself to seclusion if he had that chance.

Xu Changxing wagered the Creation Golden Lotus Pill on Bu Yufeng reaching the ninth layer of Heavenly Immortal within ten thousand years, then left it secured in an array on Seven Star Island. He visited Li Changge, whose attempt to merge the Way of Slaughter with Sword Dao had delayed his breakthrough, and left him speechless by saying he might become a Golden Immortal within a hundred years.

• Xu Changxing offered Bu Yufeng the Creation Golden Lotus Pill if Bu Yufeng reached the ninth layer of Heavenly Immortal within ten thousand years.
• Xu Changxing moved the seven Killing Intent Eyes, connected them to the earth veins, and formed a Heaven and Earth Astral Array that could trap an ordinary ninth-layer Heavenly Immortal.
• Xu Changxing placed the pill in the array for Bu Yufeng to retrieve upon reaching the ninth-layer peak, then left without explaining his full abilities.
• Xu Changxing found Li Changge cultivating the Way of Slaughter and Sword Dao, which Li Changge was trying to merge before breaking through to Heavenly Immortal.
• Li Changge vowed to reach Heavenly Immortal within a hundred years, but Xu Changxing said he might already have become a Golden Immortal by then.

Xu Changxing visited friends and traveled to the Moonflower Sect before entering the Endless Planes to study the Great Dao in person. At the planes’ core, his understanding of the Way of Space clicked into place, triggering an uncontrollable breakthrough.

• Xu Changxing reassured Li Changge that he would keep advancing and then briefly visited Ke Xingrong before returning to his Daoist Field.
• Xu Changxing traveled through Central Province, visiting places where he could sense the Great Dao and deepening his understanding of more than a dozen Great Daos.
• Xu Changxing arrived at the Moonflower Sect, received a Travel Permit and Jade Pendant from a Heavenly Immortal steward, and entered the Endless Planes.
• Xu Changxing spent decades studying spatial fluctuations throughout the Endless Planes and struggled to suppress his cultivation as it neared a breakthrough.
• Xu Changxing reached the core of the Endless Planes, comprehended the remaining details of the Way of Space in an epiphany, and began transforming his Immortal Essence.

Xu Changxing broke through to Golden Immortal and faced a formidable tribulation infused with the Space Great Dao and other rules. As the ninth bolt gathered, Yan Guyin sensed the tribulation from afar and realized its fluctuations could help him comprehend the Way of Space.

• Xu Changxing emerged from comprehending the Dao, discovered his Immortal Essence had transformed into Origin Immortal Power, and began facing his Golden Immortal Tribulation.
• Xu Changxing easily dispersed the first six bolts and studied the Great Dao Rules within them.
• Xu Changxing survived the stronger seventh and eighth bolts with layered Restrictions, while the ninth bolt began brewing with power that affected countless planes.
• Yan Guyin sensed the tribulation from hundreds of Small Worlds away and wondered whether it was a Golden Immortal Tribulation or Heavenly Punishment.
• Yan Guyin concluded the person undergoing the tribulation could not survive, then recognized its Great Dao fluctuations as an opportunity to comprehend the Way of Space.

Xu Changxing survived his ninefold Golden Immortal tribulation and chose to keep his physical cultivation separate from his primordial spirit, then secluded himself to stabilize at Golden Immortal Third Layer. Elsewhere, Yan Guyin failed to grasp the Space Great Dao and began to suspect the supposedly fallen prodigy might not be gone.

• Yan Guyin chose to remain in the Endless Planes and comprehend the Space Great Dao, promising to search for the unknown benefactor’s shattered primordial spirit if he succeeded.
• Xu Changxing used an illusory world domain and Great Dao runes to weaken the ninth tribulation bolt, then blocked its remaining power with a law shield.
• Xu Changxing rejected heaven and earth’s gift to his physical body so he could pursue the Way of Destruction, accepting only a slight improvement to his primordial spirit.
• Xu Changxing entered seclusion to stabilize his new Golden Immortal Third Layer realm.
• Yan Guyin emerged without gaining an initial grasp of the Space Great Dao and lamented that the unknown prodigy’s remnant soul would likely vanish.
• Yan Guyin suddenly sensed that something was wrong as he lamented the prodigy’s fall.

After sensing that someone had survived a terrifying Golden Immortal Tribulation, Yan Guyin set out through the disordered Small Worlds to find them. Xu Changxing stabilized his breakthrough to the Golden Immortal Fourth Layer, mastered his simulated spell arts, and disguised his Space Great Dao foundation as Thunder Law before leaving seclusion.

• Yan Guyin sensed lingering Great Dao fluctuations and realized they were Heaven and Earth's gift to someone who had survived a Golden Immortal Tribulation.
• Yan Guyin overcame his fear of getting lost in disordered space and flew away to find the survivor.
• Xu Changxing spent more than six hundred years untangling the Great Dao laws affected by his breakthrough to the Golden Immortal Third Layer, then naturally advanced to the Golden Immortal Fourth Layer.
• Xu Changxing practiced the spell arts he had created in his simulations for a hundred years and mastered most of them.
• Xu Changxing concealed his Space Great Dao beneath Thunder Law so others would mistake him for an ordinary Golden Immortal, though his Thunder cultivation could only appear to be at the First Layer.

Xu Changxing tried to trace the true Tianyan Pearl through its projection but found it beyond his understanding, then considered how to obtain Origin Crystals for more simulations. He planned to seek Yan Guyin’s help and began sensing the Small Worlds.

• Xu Changxing analyzed the Tianyan Pearl Projection with the Great Dao Laws but could not locate the true Tianyan Pearl.
• Xu Changxing concluded that the Tianyan Pearl’s projection seemed to exist beyond the world’s laws he could comprehend.
• Xu Changxing considered obtaining Origin Crystals, while avoiding forcibly extracting world origin because it could bring backlash from Fortune.
• Xu Changxing recalled that Hundred Calamities Valley had been driven from its territory after another sect took an interest in the area, possibly because Origin Crystals had appeared there.
• Xu Changxing decided that finding Yan Guyin could help him gain access to trading markets for Origin Crystals.
• Xu Changxing spread his Divine Sense and began sensing the Small Worlds one by one.

Xu Changxing found Yan Guyin deep in the Endless Planes and delivered the Moonflower Sect’s Travel Permit, disguising his own identity as the cultivator who survived the Golden Immortal tribulation. Yan Guyin revealed he had spent hundreds of years searching for that cultivator, leaving Xu Changxing worried that his efforts to keep a low profile were in jeopardy.

• Xu Changxing sensed Yan Guyin’s location, traveled through nearby Small Worlds while studying their spatial rules, and gathered treasures along the way.
• After two hundred years, Xu Changxing reached Yan Guyin, who was wounded and struggling to comprehend the Space Great Dao amid Spatial Turbulence.
• Xu Changxing introduced himself as a rogue cultivator and gave Yan Guyin the Jade Pendant and Travel Permit from the Moonflower Sect.
• Xu Changxing claimed he had gained insight from the terrifying Tribulation Lightning that had helped him break through to Golden Immortal.
• Yan Guyin said he believed the person who endured the Tribulation Lightning had survived and had spent hundreds of years searching for the place where the tribulation occurred.
• Xu Changxing realized Yan Guyin had been searching for him and nearly told the battered Yan Guyin that he deserved his misfortune.

Xu Changxing grew closer to Yan Guyin while learning about the gulf between ordinary Golden Immortals and sect prodigies. As they traveled through the Endless Planes, Xu Changxing finally refined an Ageless Golden Core, astonishing Yan Guyin with his alchemy skill.

• Yan Guyin told Xu Changxing that the prodigy who survived the Tribulation Lightning could rise to Taiyi or Daluo and become difficult for ordinary Golden Immortals to meet.
• Yan Guyin offered to introduce Xu Changxing to friends who could teach him Golden Immortal knowledge and trade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• Yan Guyin explained that he had used his Travel Permit to pursue an insight into the Way of Space, but promised to save Xu Changxing's permit for their escape.
• Xu Changxing and Yan Guyin traveled together for decades while Yan Guyin contemplated the Space Great Dao and Xu Changxing repeatedly tried to refine an Ageless Golden Core.
• On his thirty-third attempt, Xu Changxing refined an Ageless Golden Core, and Yan Guyin praised his alchemy talent and predicted a smooth path to Taiyi.

Xu Changxing accepted Yan Guyin's invitation to work with the Moonflower Sect in exchange for access to its alchemical materials and a Golden Immortal-grade furnace. After the two escaped the Endless Planes, Yan Guyin brought Xu Changxing to the Moonflower Sect and honored him at a lavish banquet.

• Xu Changxing agreed to cooperate with the Moonflower Sect if he could borrow a Golden Immortal-grade alchemy furnace.
• Yan Guyin used the Travel Permit to lead Xu Changxing through the Endless Planes, but after it went out, he spent decades finding a route out through the spatial rifts.
• Yan Guyin and Xu Changxing escaped into the Immortal Realm and thanked each other for helping them survive the journey.
• Yan Guyin invited Xu Changxing to the Moonflower Sect, where Xu learned that it had three Golden Immortal patriarchs, including Lei Yanbo, who was one step from Taiyi.
• Yan Guyin hosted a lavish banquet and placed Xu Changxing in the seat of honor.