Chapter Summaries

After Li Changge defeated the Profound Demons, Lao Lu chose to leave Xu Changxing and become Li Changge’s mount. Li Changge accepted him, while Xu Changxing kept half of the God-Slaying Whip he had obtained.

• Li Changge seized an opening in the Profound Demons’ defenses, killed one, and drove the other two to flee.
• Lao Lu decided to join Li Changge and knelt before him, offering to walk the Path to Immortality alongside him.
• Xu Changxing explained that he had brought Lao Lu to meet Li Changge and described the deer’s ability to foresee fortune and misfortune.
• Lao Lu bluntly revealed that he was Xu Changxing’s mount and asked Li Changge to take him in.
• Li Changge accepted Lao Lu, who eagerly offered to travel with him and help him sense danger.

Xu Changxing reforged the damaged God-Slaying Whip and began a special simulation to seek a path to Taiyi. After studying the Great Daos of High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou, he sensed an opportunity to break through and entered seclusion.

• Xu Changxing told Li Changge he had eliminated the two fleeing Profound Demons and discussed the incomplete Great Dao of the Immortal Realm and the possibility of opening a path to Taiyi.
• Xu Changxing returned to the Immortal Music Pavilion with the damaged God-Slaying Whip and spent several years reforging it, imprinting it with his divine sense and Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing deposited two hundred and fifty-six origin crystals and began a special simulation at Tianyan Sect Square.
• After more than two hundred years, Xu Changxing won High Person Sanshou's favor and gained insight by contemplating his Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing befriended Immortal Lord Leyou, studied his Great Dao, and sensed an opportunity to break through to Taiyi.
• Xu Changxing entered seclusion intending to use the Way of Life and Death to break his shackles and attain Taiyi.

Xu Changxing broke through to Taiyi in the simulation, awakened all three Immortal Monarchs, and obtained the treasure needed to refine the Tianyan Pearl. When the Tianyan Pearl emerged, he faced its tribulation without interference from the three Immortal Monarchs, but the first bolt of lightning proved far stronger than expected.

• Xu Changxing attained Taiyi and spent centuries stabilizing his realm.
• Xu Changxing used the Immortal Music Flaw-Cleansing Art to clear the Weirdness from Daoist Wuchen, who then sealed himself inside his Daoist Field.
• Xu Changxing found the supreme treasure needed to refine the Tianyan Pearl and handed it to an unfamiliar yet familiar middle-aged man.
• The Tianyan Pearl emerged, and the unnamed Immortal Venerable blocked the initial tribulation lightning before departing with the other Immortal Venerables.
• The Tianyan Sect's formation collapsed and Weirdness flooded the sect, but High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou did not stop Xu Changxing from confronting the thunderclouds.
• Xu Changxing played the Time Zither to withstand the first bolt of tribulation lightning, then realized the remaining bolts might overwhelm him.

Xu Changxing watched a simulation in which he attained the Dao of Taiyi but died to the Tianyan Pearl’s tribulation lightning, then studied the simulated insights for a way to survive it. He concluded he would need the three Immortal Monarchs’ help, but chose to keep simulating while the Immortal Realm’s missing Great Dao blocked his own breakthrough.

• In the simulation, Xu Changxing endured five rounds of the Tianyan Pearl’s tribulation lightning before the sixth killed him.
• The system evaluated the simulation and offered him a choice between viewing its scenes and receiving insights into the Dao of Taiyi; Xu Changxing chose to view the scenes.
• Xu Changxing spent years studying High Person Sanshou’s and Immortal Lord Leyou’s Great Dao, then watched his simulated attainment of Taiyi and the tribulation’s final bolts.
• After failing to find a way to survive the thunder’s aftershocks alone, Xu Changxing decided he would need the three Immortal Monarchs’ strength, but worried that frequent simulations would let the Weirdness seep further into reality.
• Xu Changxing tried and failed to break through the golden immortal bottleneck because the Immortal Realm lacked a Great Dao, then loaded another two hundred and fifty-six origin crystals into the system.

Xu Changxing continued Special Simulations, strengthening his cultivation and helping the Immortal Monarchs awaken as the weird laws spread through the sealed Small World. In the latest simulation, High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou joined him to withstand the seventh round of tribulation lightning, and the bolt dissipated under their combined resistance.

• Xu Changxing's simulation ended when High Person Sanshou succumbed to the weirdness and seized his head during the seventh round of tribulation lightning.
• Xu Changxing chose to view the simulation scenes, absorbed their insights, and checked the spread of the weird laws in the Small World.
• Xu Changxing ran more than twenty simulations over a hundred-odd years, advanced to half-step Taiyi, and saw the Immortal Monarchs gradually regain awareness.
• Immortal Lord Leyou recovered enough by the eighteenth simulation to help Xu Changxing withstand the tribulation lightning, though the ninth round remained too powerful.
• Xu Changxing began another Special Simulation, where High Person Sanshou and Immortal Lord Leyou helped him resist the seventh bolt of heavenly thunder.

Xu Changxing’s successful simulation of preserving the Tianyan Pearl caused its projection to become real and shook the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao. As his Golden Immortal bottleneck cracked and he began to comprehend the realm-wide Way of Life and Death, Feng Yuan realized he might soon be able to attain the Dao of Taiyi.

• Xu Changxing finished reading the simulation and watched the Tianyan Pearl Projection in his sea of consciousness begin to solidify, sending Great Dao fluctuations across the Immortal Music Pavilion.
• Zhike emerged from seclusion and met Feng Yuan, who revealed that the fluctuations had loosened his Golden Immortal bottleneck and could let him attempt to attain the Dao of Taiyi.
• Feng Yuan’s lingering reluctance to submit to Xu Changxing disappeared as he realized Xu Changxing’s actions could alter the Immortal Realm’s underlying Great Dao.
• Xu Changxing discovered that the solidifying Tianyan Pearl was causing the ripples and that its light specks contained lifelike scenes from simulations, each seeming like a compressed world.
• Xu Changxing’s Golden Immortal bottleneck cracked, and his Way of Life and Death reached into the Immortal Realm’s underlying Great Dao as he began to experience the difference between a Golden Immortal and a Taiyi Immortal Lord.

Xu Changxing established his Space-Time Great Dao as the Tianyan Sect’s three Immortal Monarchs returned to life and welcomed him as Sect Master. Their return unsettled the Immortal Music Pavilion, where Immortal Lord Leyou recognized Xu Changxing and invited him back to the mountain.

• Xu Changxing connected his Space-Time Great Dao to the Immortal Realm and used the Tianyan Pearl to restore the Tianyan Sect and its three Immortal Monarchs in a Small World.
• Daoist Wuchen, Immortal Lord Leyou, and High Person Sanshou welcomed Xu Changxing as their new Sect Master and began preparing to rebuild the Tianyan Sect.
• Immortal Lord Leyou called for the Tianyan Sect’s successor, prompting Feng Yuan and Zhike to recognize him as the Immortal Music Pavilion’s founding patriarch and kowtow to him.
• Immortal Lord Leyou froze the immortals in the Immortal Music Pavilion, while Fairy Qiongyin tried to reach the person she sensed was in danger.
• After seeing Xu Changxing in his Daoist Field, Immortal Lord Leyou bowed and requested that the Sect Master return to the mountain.

Xu Changxing questioned Immortal Lord Leyou about his return from the Tianyan Sect Illusion and learned that Immortal Monarch Muling might know how the elders had survived erasure from the Great Dao. He agreed to return to the Tianyan Sect and await Muling’s appearance.

• Xu Changxing confirmed that the Tianyan Pearl concealed his existence even from Immortal Lord Leyou, then asked whether Leyou recognized him.
• Immortal Lord Leyou explained that the Leyou in the illusion had been a projection and that his surviving wisp of true spirit had returned through its memories.
• Immortal Lord Leyou said Immortal Monarch Muling had escaped the elders’ erasure by his own means and might be able to answer Xu Changxing’s questions.
• Immortal Lord Leyou explained that the former sect master had resigned and named whoever wielded the Tianyan Pearl as the next sect master.
• Xu Changxing asked about the former sect master, then agreed to return to the Tianyan Sect with Immortal Lord Leyou.

Xu Changxing left the Immortal Music Pavilion after attaining Taiyi, and the Tianyan Sect returned to the Immortal Realm, summoning its scattered successors. Immortals across the realm began gathering at the sect as Li Changge learned of Xu Changxing’s breakthrough, before a blood-colored pillar of light appeared.

• Xu Changxing freed the immortals in the Immortal Music Pavilion and left, while Fairy Qiongyin, Yaohua, Feng Yuan, and Zhike realized he had attained Taiyi.
• The Tianyan Sect returned to the Immortal Realm, and Immortal Lord Leyou summoned its present-day successors.
• Zhike and Feng Yuan prepared to follow their patriarch, and Fairy Qiongyin, Yaohua, and most of the Immortal Music Pavilion’s immortals boarded Zhike’s lotus platform.
• Other connected sects answered the summons, sending immortals toward the Tianyan Sect from across the Immortal Realm.
• Li Changge saw Xu Changxing’s breakthrough and joked with Lao Lu about becoming a Taiyi cultivator before a blood-colored pillar of light appeared.

The Devil Lord returned to the Immortal Realm, summoning the hidden Demon Fiends, while ancient Immortal Monarchs began emerging from pillars of light. At the Tianyan Sect, Xu Changxing learned that the sect expected to clash with powerful ancient figures and asked how to prepare its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.

• The Devil Lord emerged from a blood-colored pillar and summoned the Demonic Gate’s disciples, drawing countless hidden Demon Fiends toward him.
• The Longevity Immortal Elder reflected on the great tribulation and wondered whether Lao Lu could be reborn through its trials.
• An ancient Immortal Monarch returned and was welcomed by Feihong, the eleventh-generation successor of Exquisite Mountain, as more ancient Immortal Monarchs appeared across the realm.
• Xu Changxing watched the returns with Immortal Lord Leyou and learned that the most powerful Immortal Monarchs had not yet emerged.
• High Person Sanshou told Xu Changxing that the Tianyan Sect would face ancient Immortal Monarchs whose Great Daos differed from theirs, and Xu asked how to establish the sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.

Xu Changxing and the Tianyan Sect's three elders completed the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation and concealed the sect after welcoming their disciples inside. Meanwhile, Green Lotus Immortal Monarch invited the other Immortal Monarchs to join a punitive assault, and Yiyu Immortal Monarch explained to Feihong Immortal Lord that he had forgotten the events behind the conflict.

• High Person Sanshou, Daoist Wuchen, and Immortal Lord Leyou set up the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation using Great Dao Patterns and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• Xu Changxing released the Tianyan Pearl's power, veiling the formation and making the surrounding mountains vanish from the gathered immortals' sight.
• Immortal Lord Leyou and the other elders escorted their disciples into the Tianyan Sect, then the grand array closed and hid the sect in mist.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch sent invitations to nearby Immortal Monarchs to form an alliance against the Tianyan Sect.
• Feihong Immortal Lord asked Yiyu Immortal Monarch why the Tianyan Sect was being targeted, and Yiyu said Feihong had forgotten what happened because he had not sent his True Spirit into Primordial Chaos.

Yiyu Immortal Monarch told Feihong Immortal Lord how the approaching Final Tribulation and the Immortal Realm’s collapsing Great Dao sparked conflict over escaping into the void. He revealed that the Tianyan Sect’s sect master blocked the escape plan, joined forces with defeated Demon Venerables, and left the world; Feihong was left asking why.

• Yiyu Immortal Monarch explained that after the Dao Ancestors fled the Final Tribulation, the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao began collapsing and sects debated repairing it or escaping into the void.
• Yiyu Immortal Monarch said the Immortal Venerables restricted the refining of Small Worlds, while lesser sects could buy places in escape fleets and Daoist Fields from top sects.
• Yiyu Immortal Monarch recounted how the Demonic Gate defied the restrictions, fought the Immortal Venerables, and was largely destroyed before the Final Tribulation arrived.
• Yiyu Immortal Monarch revealed that the Tianyan Sect’s sect master had merged the Way of Destiny into the Great Dao, causing anyone who tore it apart to suffer destiny’s backlash.
• Yiyu Immortal Monarch said the Tianyan Sect’s sect master argued that heaven and earth had to be broken apart and remade, then colluded with defeated Demon Venerables and ambushed the Immortal Venerables.
• Feihong Immortal Lord asked why the Tianyan Sect’s sect master eventually left and whether the other Immortal Venerables had gravely wounded him.

Yiyu Immortal Monarch explained that the ancient catastrophe had only been postponed and resumed when the ancient Immortal Monarchs returned, leading more than ten of them to declare war on the Tianyan Sect. After hearing the news, Li Changge told Lao Lu he would seek Xu Changxing once he grew stronger, and Lao Lu chose to follow him.

• Yiyu Immortal Monarch told Feihong Immortal Lord that Tian Ge Patriarch had saved him during the ancient Great Dao upheaval and that the catastrophe had resumed in the present.
• Yiyu Immortal Monarch and Feihong Immortal Lord went to meet Green Lotus Immortal Monarch as other Immortal Monarchs gathered.
• More than ten Immortal Monarchs jointly declared a campaign against the Tianyan Sect, and the Immortal Realm began speculating about Xu Changxing and the sect’s origins.
• Li Changge listened to the rumors with Lao Lu and said he would find Xu Changxing after making another breakthrough.
• Lao Lu refused to leave Li Changge and promised to follow him, even if he could only watch from a safe distance.

Xu Changxing sealed the Tianyan Sect away while its elders recovered from the Weirdness Laws, as the Immortals' Alliance failed to find the sect. A thousand years of improved cultivation followed the ancient Immortal Monarchs’ return, and Bu Yufeng reached Golden Immortal Second Layer.

• Xu Changxing and Immortal Lord Leyou agreed to hide the Tianyan Sect behind its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation while the Immortal Monarchs recovered from Sevenfold Immortal Venerable's Weirdness Laws.
• Immortal Lord Leyou entered seclusion to purge the curse, and Xu Changxing secluded himself to stabilize his cultivation.
• Hundreds of immortals and Green Lotus Immortal Monarch searched for the Tianyan Sect, but the Immortals' Alliance found no trace of it.
• The ancient Immortal Monarchs’ return improved the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao, and many immortals advanced their cultivation during the ensuing thousand years.
• Bu Yufeng emerged from seclusion after nearly a thousand years and reached Golden Immortal Second Layer.

Bu Yufeng watched Feng Yuan undergo Taiyi tribulation lightning and discovered that Immortal Monarchs from the Myriad Immortals Alliance and Tianyan Sect were concealed nearby. When the thunderclouds dispersed, Xu Changxing and the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch were revealed leading the opposing sides.

• Bu Yufeng sensed a Taiyi tribulation and approached the distant thunderclouds.
• Bu Yufeng saw a sword cultivator withstand the first lightning strike and noticed more than a dozen Immortal Monarchs hidden around the tribulation.
• Bu Yufeng recognized the cultivator as Feng Yuan of the Immortal Music Pavilion and suspected the hidden groups were from the Tianyan Sect and Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• Bu Yufeng retreated, deciding he was too weak to join the impending battle, while other immortals gathered to watch.
• Feng Yuan cut through the thunderclouds, revealing Xu Changxing leading the Tianyan Sect's Immortal Monarchs opposite the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and the other ancient Immortal Monarchs attacked Xu Changxing and the Tianyan Sect as Feng Yuan completed his tribulation. Daoist Wuchen and the sect’s elders countered their techniques, but the enemy regrouped after High Person Sanshou destroyed a powerful pagoda.

• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch spread his Green Lotus Dao Art, destabilizing the Tianyan Sect Immortal Monarchs’ Great Daos and Feng Yuan’s newly attained power.
• Xu Changxing lent Immortal Lord Leyou the Time Zither, and Leyou used its music to disrupt and dissipate much of Green Lotus Immortal Monarch’s formation.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch called on his allies to attack, but Daoist Wuchen erased their Dao arts while High Person Sanshou unleashed the Skylord Art.
• An opposing Immortal Monarch summoned the Sky-Pillar Treasure Pagoda, which pierced High Person Sanshou’s foot before Sanshou stomped it to pieces.
• The opposing Immortal Monarchs renewed their attacks, and High Person Sanshou called for Daoist Wuchen to erase their Great Daos again.

Daoist Wuchen and the Tianyan Sect fought to escape the Myriad Immortals Alliance, while Devil Lord Lieyu and Daoist Qisha watched from afar. Xu Changxing activated a grand formation, and the chapter ended as the Alliance’s Great Dao chains slowed around it, revealing the Space-Time Great Dao.

• Daoist Wuchen suppressed the Immortal Monarchs’ Great Daos while High Person Sanshou crushed a middle-aged Daoist’s jade bracelet.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance split up to block the Tianyan Sect’s escape, while Immortal Lord Leyou trapped Green Lotus Immortal Monarch in an illusory world.
• Devil Lord Lieyu considered intervening, but Daoist Qisha said Wuchen’s Divination Method likely relied on Xu Changxing as a contingency.
• Xu Changxing formed a grand formation, and the Tianyan Sect’s elders converged on him as the Alliance recognized it as a space-translocation formation.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and the distant Immortal Monarchs sent Great Dao chains to seal the formation, but the chains slowed as it disappeared.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch suspected that Xu Changxing had used the Space-Time Great Dao.

Xu Changxing revealed that he had fused the Time and Space Great Daos, prompting Green Lotus Immortal Monarch to commit the Myriad Immortals Alliance to stopping his escape. The alliance’s chains caught only the formation’s past, and Green Lotus realized Xu Changxing’s group had severed space-time and left; he then hinted that Xu Changxing might have mastered another supreme Great Dao as well.

• Devil Lord Lieyu and Daoist Qisha realized Xu Changxing had fused the Time and Space Great Daos and discussed how dangerous he could become.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch unleashed his Lifebound Pearl and called on the Myriad Immortals Alliance to attack together.
• The alliance’s Immortal Monarchs used their treasured Magic Treasures to halt the formation, but Immortal Lord Leyou revealed it had already shifted elsewhere through the Time Great Dao.
• Green Lotus explained that Xu Changxing’s group had severed space-time and escaped, despite the injuries such a move could cause.
• An Immortal Monarch inferred that Xu Changxing might have mastered other supreme Great Daos, and Green Lotus’s words suggested a connection to the world that nurtured True Spirits.

After witnessing Xu Changxing wield the Space-Time and Life and Death Great Daos, the Myriad Immortals Alliance resolved to hasten the great tribulation and bring back the Daluo Immortal Venerables. The Demonic Gate refused to join them, while Bu Yufeng and other distant immortals reflected on the gulf between Golden Immortals and Immortal Monarchs.

• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch concluded that Xu Changxing had fused the supreme Great Daos of time and space and of life and destruction, alarming the Immortal Monarchs with his potential.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance decided that it could only hasten the great tribulation and await the return of the Daluo Immortal Venerables, since killing Xu Changxing seemed nearly impossible.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch invited Devil Lord Lieyu and Daoist Qisha to join the plan, but Lieyu rejected the alliance and left with Qisha.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch reassured the remaining Immortal Monarchs that Xu Changxing had only just attained the Taiyi Dao and that they had time to prepare.
• Bu Yufeng and the distant immortals discussed the battle's force and marveled at the power of Immortal Monarchs and the Immortal Music Pavilion Master.

Fu Yuanju recruited Bu Yufeng to visit Tianyuan Mountain after learning of his connection to the Immortal Music Pavilion Master. Back at the Tianyan Sect, Daoist Wuchen revealed that he had imprinted fragments of the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and others’ memories into a formation for Xu Changxing to collect with the Tianyan Pearl.

• Fu Yuanju told Bu Yufeng he had overheard the Ancient Immortal Monarchs discussing an alliance with the Demonic Gate and offered to take him to Tianyuan Mountain.
• Bu Yufeng accepted Fu Yuanju’s invitation to visit Tianyuan Mountain, where Fu Yuanju offered him a place among its Golden Immortal Peak Masters.
• The Green Lotus Immortal Monarch noticed the two streaks of escape light but decided not to pursue them.
• High Person Sanshou celebrated the Tianyan Sect’s confrontation with the Immortal Monarchs, while Immortal Lord Leyou explained that their trip had also served a larger purpose.
• Daoist Wuchen told Xu Changxing that he had imprinted fragments of the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch’s memories and those of the others into the grand formation.
• Xu Changxing brought out the Tianyan Pearl, which illuminated the memory fragments for collection.