Chapter Summaries

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.

Xu Changxing secured a profitable pill-refining arrangement with the Moonflower Sect and acquired ten Origin Crystals. He spent eight to begin a special simulation, which brought him back to the Tianyan Sect Illusion as a Golden Immortal.

• Xu Changxing attended Yan Guyin's month of banquets and collected a Golden Immortal Robe as his mission reward.
• Yan Guyin and Xu Changxing agreed that Xu Changxing would refine pills using the Moonflower Sect's resources and hand them over for sale.
• Over fifteen years, Xu Changxing refined twelve Ageless Golden Cores, then exchanged most of his contribution points for ten Origin Crystals.
• Xu Changxing deposited eight Origin Crystals and chose a special simulation to investigate the Tianyan Sect Illusion.
• In the simulation, Xu Changxing found no abnormality in the Great Dao Rules and went to Daoist Wuchen's Daoist Field to seek a suitable identity.

After becoming a core disciple of the Tianyan Sect and failing to find flaws in its illusion, Xu Changxing entered the Abyssal Gate and advanced his Flesh Realm through the Way of Destruction. He barely escaped the Abyssal Demonic Beast and spent nearly a thousand years recovering, leaving him wary of confronting the creature again.

• Xu Changxing found that Daoist Wuchen and High Person Sanshou would not take him as a disciple, so he pursued core disciple status by earning sect points through pill refining.
• Xu Changxing accumulated enough points to become a core disciple, then explored the sect, met its Golden Immortals, guarded the Scripture Repository, and lectured on the Dao without finding flaws in the illusion.
• Xu Changxing concluded that he might have to pierce the Tianyan Sect Illusion by force, but first prepared by seeking enlightenment in the Abyssal Gate.
• Xu Changxing advanced his Flesh Realm to Golden Immortal through the Way of Destruction, but the Abyssal Demonic Beast attacked him as he tried to leave.
• Xu Changxing could not defeat the beast even after unsealing his Primordial Spirit Realm, and barely escaped the Abyss with his Great Dao badly shaken.
• Xu Changxing spent nearly a thousand years recovering at the Tianyan Sect and remained fearful of the battle.

Xu Changxing uncovered part of the Tianyan Sect Illusion and learned that Daoist Wuchen’s crimson Great Dao could overwhelm his defenses. After Wuchen warned that he needed mastery over life, death, time, and space to see the truth, Xu Changxing died and questioned whether the warning was meant to stop him.

• Xu Changxing advanced his Way of Destruction and Primordial Spirit Realm before returning to confront Daoist Wuchen.
• Xu Changxing told Daoist Wuchen that the Tianyan Sect was an illusion and had been erased by the Great Dao.
• Daoist Wuchen’s crimson light pierced Xu Changxing’s spatial barriers, and Xu Changxing briefly used the Way of Destruction to resist it.
• Daoist Wuchen said Xu Changxing needed a body that commanded life and death and a Primordial Spirit spanning time and space, then his crimson light killed Xu Changxing.
• Xu Changxing considered the impossible conditions and received the simulation rewards, including the coordinates of the Abyssal Gate.

Xu Changxing deciphered the Spatial Law coordinates of the Abyssal Gate but postponed seeking it out while he prepared for the Golden Immortal Market. Yan Guyin escorted him to the gathering, where Xu Changxing arrived at the host’s grand venue.

• Xu Changxing chose the Abyssal Gate coordinates as his reward and deciphered the Spatial Law pattern, allowing him to locate the gate whenever he wished.
• Xu Changxing delayed entering the Abyss because he had just partnered with the Moonflower Sect and had not planned how to handle the Abyssal Demonic Beast.
• Yan Guyin invited Xu Changxing to travel with him to the Golden Immortal Market, explaining that its host, Daoist Tianlu, had reached Golden Immortal Eighth Layer through the Way of Slaughter.
• Yan Guyin arrived at Xu Changxing’s Daoist Field in auspicious clouds, and Xu Changxing boarded the flying Magic Treasure for the journey.
• Xu Changxing and Yan Guyin reached the gathering venue, where immortal mountains floated among auspicious clouds guarded by immortal soldiers and generals.

Xu Changxing joined a circle of Golden Immortals and found potential buyers for his Ageless Golden Cores. A conversation about the vanished Yuanming Sect and an ancient great tribulation stirred his suspicions about the Tianyan Sect Illusion, but the chapter left him turning toward the immortal music that began as his discussion with Daoist Pingyang ended.

• Yan Guyin introduced Xu Changxing to Daoist Pingyang and other Golden Immortals, who welcomed him because of his alchemy skills.
• Daoist Pingyang offered to buy Xu Changxing’s Longevity Pills with Origin Crystals, and several Golden Immortals expressed interest in buying Ageless Golden Cores.
• Xu Changxing befriended more Golden Immortals and learned about the immortal sects of Central Province.
• Xu Changxing heard Daoist Pingyang describe the Yuanming Sect’s destruction after its Golden Immortals mysteriously perished amid a contest between Immortal Venerables.
• Daoist Pingyang recounted that the ancient great tribulation nearly shattered heaven and earth and severed the Great Dao of Space-Time, prompting Xu Changxing to connect it to the Tianyan Sect Illusion.
• Melodious immortal music drew Xu Changxing and Daoist Pingyang’s attention as their conversation ended.