Chapter Summaries

Xu Changxing explained that Immortal Monarchs’ memory fragments could restore the Tianyan Pearl’s powers and announced he would enter seclusion to nurture it. After the elders left, he learned that the pearl’s stored Heaven and Earth Origin and records of the Underlying Great Dao had powered his earlier breakthroughs, and that he needed to improve the pearl to regain his former pace of cultivation.

• Wuchen explained that he had extracted memory fragments from the Immortal Monarchs’ Great Daos while suppressing them.
• Xu Changxing said the fragments could help complete the Tianyan Pearl’s powers and possibly reveal the Immortal Monarchs’ Great Daos and Spell Arts.
• Xu Changxing announced that he would nurture the Tianyan Pearl in seclusion for several thousand years, while the elders guarded against the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• High Person Sanshou reassured Feng Yuan that the Tianyan Sect could withstand the Alliance and even fight the great war of Ancient Times again.
• After the elders departed, Xu Changxing learned that the Tianyan Pearl’s Heaven and Earth Origin and million-year record of the Underlying Great Dao had supported his past cultivation.
• Xu Changxing recognized that he needed to improve the Tianyan Pearl with the Immortal Monarchs’ memory copies to sustain his cultivation speed.

Xu Changxing absorbed Immortal Monarch memory fragments into the Tianyan Pearl, which began evolving an illusory world with traces of life, but its improvement to his cultivation was less than he had hoped. He began an ordinary simulation to test whether absorbing Abyss Overlords' Great Dao could strengthen the treasure, and the simulation left him fighting his way into the Abyss's eighty-third layer.

• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl to absorb the Immortal Monarchs' memories and more than a thousand Origin Crystals, causing the treasure to form scattered clusters of memory light.
• Xu Changxing found that the Tianyan Pearl let him study the Immortal Realm's underlying Great Dao using his own magical power, but the progress was too slow to reach Daluo before the coming great tribulation.
• Xu Changxing decided to test whether Abyss Overlords' Great Dao could further improve the Tianyan Pearl and started an ordinary simulation.
• Xu Changxing left the Tianyan Sect after Immortal Lord Leyou gave him a rescue jade talisman and he left a Divine Sense imprint in Soul Jade.
• Xu Changxing fought through the Abyss's first thirty-nine layers, fusing the defeated pseudo-overlords' Great Dao into the Tianyan Pearl, while the thirty-second-layer overlord initially escaped.
• Xu Changxing killed the escaped thirty-second-layer overlord and reached the eighty-third layer, where Abyss Overlords began offering head-on resistance.

Xu Changxing improved the Tianyan Pearl by extracting the Great Daos of nearly twenty small worlds, though the accumulated backlash steadily weakened his fortune. When Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and other Immortal Monarchs ambushed him, Xu Changxing’s attempt to escape failed, and he called for help while raising a Law Barrier.

• Xu Changxing failed to find a way beyond the Abyss’s ninety-ninth layer and returned to the Immortal Realm to seek Great Daos in small worlds.
• Xu Changxing extracted the Great Dao of an uninhabited small world, improving the Tianyan Pearl while suffering a manageable backlash of fortune.
• Over the following centuries, Xu Changxing extracted the Great Daos of more small worlds, repeatedly improved the Tianyan Pearl, and advanced his cultivation.
• After extracting nearly twenty small worlds, Xu Changxing decided to stop and cultivate, but Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and other Immortal Monarchs sealed the surrounding space and appeared before him.
• Xu Changxing reversed time and tried to escape through a prepared grand formation, but the ambush still prevented him from tearing open space.
• Xu Changxing crushed the Jade Pendant Immortal Lord Leyou had left him and raised a top-tier Law Barrier with his Life and Death Great Dao.

Xu Changxing watched a simulation in which he escaped an ambush by Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and advanced while strengthening the Tianyan Pearl. As the Final Tribulation approached and the Myriad Immortals Alliance tracked his efforts to absorb Small Worlds, he emerged from seclusion to set out again.

• Xu Changxing used a Law Sword to sever the Great Dao Laws of Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and four other Immortal Monarchs, then escaped to the Tianyan Sect and told Immortal Lord Leyou what had happened.
• Xu Changxing spent over two thousand years in seclusion and advanced a minor realm, then advanced another minor realm by Year 7,700 and reached the middle stage of Taiyi.
• Immortal Lord Leyou told Xu Changxing that Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and the others were hastening the Daluo Immortal Venerables' return, and the Final Tribulation could fully descend within ten thousand years.
• Xu Changxing extracted the Great Dao from nine Small Worlds before fleeing Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and the others, then extracted the Great Dao from eight more while evading them and advanced another minor realm.
• After returning to the Tianyan Sect to digest his gains, Xu Changxing emerged from seclusion in Year 9,999, preparing to head out again.

Xu Changxing stopped the simulation and discovered that the Tianyan Pearl offered a new reward to extract Great Dao Fragments remotely. He chose it, causing Great Dao Ripples to reach connected Small Worlds, where strange phenomena brought the inhabitants to the brink of catastrophe before suddenly stopping.

• Xu Changxing stopped the simulation when its images and text became too blurry to trust.
• The Tianyan Pearl presented Xu Changxing with the choice to deduce the simulation anew or extract Great Dao Fragments remotely.
• Xu Changxing chose the second reward and realized the Tianyan Pearl had traced the Origin Crystals back to their Small Worlds.
• Xu Changxing intensified the Tianyan Pearl's laws, sending Great Dao Ripples across space and time into the connected Small Worlds.
• In one Small World, strange phenomena filled the sky, disrupted Dao arts, and caused the earth to collapse as its inhabitants panicked.
• The phenomena abruptly halted after enveloping the Small World.

After the Tianyan Pearl drew Great Dao fragments from dozens of small worlds, Xu Changxing contained the resulting fluctuations and used the insights to break through a minor realm in three hundred years. Once he stabilized his cultivation, he began another simulation, which sent him back to the Abyss.

• Immortals across dozens of small worlds sensed inexplicable Great Dao tremors, though they could not tell what their worlds had lost.
• Xu Changxing used temporary formation foundations to contain the Great Dao fragments flowing into the Tianyan Pearl and prevent the Myriad Immortals Alliance from locating the Tianyan Sect.
• Xu Changxing confirmed that the Tianyan Pearl could dispel the fortune backlash, then used it to remove the backlash lingering around himself.
• After three hundred years of seclusion, Xu Changxing incorporated his insights into his Great Dao and broke through a minor realm.
• Xu Changxing stabilized his cultivation, spent more than a thousand origin crystals, and began another simulation, which had him return to the Abyss and reach its Forty-Second Layer in the second year and Ninety-Ninth Layer in the seventh.

Xu Changxing discovered that he had supplied too few origin crystals to the Tianyan Pearl, then reran the simulation with clearer, more realistic images. The simulation showed him extracting Great Dao laws from small worlds while protecting their inhabitants, and ended with him reaching Middle Taiyi and preparing to watch the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

• Xu Changxing added about a thousand origin crystals to the Tianyan Pearl and realized that two thousand crystals brought it near the limit he could control.
• Xu Changxing ordered the Tianyan Pearl to extrapolate again after noticing that its account of a small world omitted its inhabitants.
• Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him investigating a small world, building protective formations, and extracting its Great Dao laws while changing its rules so cultivators could ascend at the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him clearing the reduced fortune backlash and repeating the process in other small worlds, taking greater care to preserve their inhabitants.
• Xu Changxing’s simulation showed him extracting the Great Dao laws of more than twenty small worlds, reaching Middle Taiyi, and deciding to monitor the Myriad Immortals Alliance to avoid another ambush.

Xu Changxing’s plan led the Tianyan Sect to ambush and kill Green Lotus Immortal Monarch, then establish its Mountain Gate in the Immortal Realm. The Myriad Immortals Alliance later failed to break the sect’s defenses and demanded negotiations over the Tianyan Sect’s refining of Small Worlds.

• Xu Changxing consulted the Tianyan Sect’s Immortal Monarchs, and Daoist Wuchen agreed to devise a plan to counter the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• After monitoring his surroundings while extracting Great Dao Laws, Xu Changxing detected the Alliance’s hidden immortals and continued as though unaware.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch and three Taiyi Immortal Lords ambushed Xu Changxing, but the Tianyan Sect’s prepared formation let Xu Changxing and his allies kill Green Lotus and extinguish his True Spirit.
• The Tianyan Sect established its Mountain Gate in the Immortal Realm, and the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s Immortal Monarchs besieged it for months without breaking its defenses.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance proposed negotiations and demanded that the Tianyan Sect stop refining Small Worlds, citing the sect’s past opposition to that practice.

Xu Changxing rejected the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s demand to stop refining Small Worlds and changed the simulation’s course to test the strength of the Immortal Monarchs still hidden in the void. The Tianyan Sect defeated the Alliance’s first assault, but five returning supreme Immortal Monarchs later forced it to flee into a prepared void interstice.

• Xu Changxing ordered the Tianyan Sect to refuse negotiations and continue refining Small Worlds, and the Sect repelled the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s weakened assault.
• Daoist Wuchen warned Xu Changxing that powerful Immortal Monarchs remained hidden in the void and that more than three returning supreme experts could overwhelm the Tianyan Sect.
• By Year 2,500, Xu Changxing and Daoist Wuchen ambushed and killed a newly returned Immortal Monarch, though High Person Sanshou’s body was nearly destroyed.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance awakened more than twenty supreme Immortal Monarchs, including five whose cultivation surpassed Green Lotus Immortal Monarch’s former level.
• The Alliance’s five leaders broke through the Tianyan Sect’s defenses, so Xu Changxing sent its disciples to a prepared void interstice, and the Alliance began searching for the Sect’s headquarters.

Xu Changxing used the simulation to test guerrilla attacks against the Myriad Immortals Alliance, but its Immortal Monarchs adapted and pursued him after one cursed himself upon death. After a long recovery, Xu Changxing found the Alliance had built nearly ten thousand formations and decided to target the formations instead of its Immortal Monarchs.

• Xu Changxing consulted Daoist Wuchen and the sect's elders before deciding to attack the Myriad Immortals Alliance's Immortal Monarchs from the void.
• Xu Changxing and the Tianyan Sect's Immortal Monarchs ambushed the Alliance, killing two Immortal Monarchs and severely wounding a top-tier Immortal Monarch before withdrawing.
• The Alliance's Immortal Monarchs brought defensive treasures to later encounters, and one Immortal Monarch cursed Xu Changxing's group with his dying soul.
• Xu Changxing led the Tianyan Sect's Immortal Monarchs through the Abyss to remove the curse, then returned to the sect with his companions to recover and cultivate.
• After more than a thousand years in seclusion, Xu Changxing discovered the Alliance had established nearly ten thousand grand formations and resolved to destroy them.

Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl to simulate the approaching Final Tribulation, then extracted Great Dao fragments and advanced his cultivation. Green Lotus Immortal Monarch sensed the Tianyan Sect’s involvement and summoned the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s elders, while Xu Changxing remained unaware.

• The simulation showed Xu Changxing repeatedly sabotaging the Myriad Immortals Alliance before retreating into seclusion, where his cultivation stalled as the Final Tribulation approached.
• Xu Changxing ended the simulation and chose to extract Great Dao fragments from afar, stabilizing them with a temporary formation.
• Green Lotus Immortal Monarch divined that the Tianyan Sect was behind his unease and ordered the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s elders to assemble.
• The fragments gathered inside the Tianyan Pearl, and Xu Changxing entered seclusion to digest the insights he had gained.
• Several hundred years later, Xu Changxing emerged after breaking through from early Taiyi to middle Taiyi.

Xu Changxing used another simulation to test his plan against Green Lotus Immortal Monarch, but discovered that Green Lotus had anticipated the ambush and survived. After nearly two thousand years of seclusion and cultivation, Xu Changxing left the Tianyan Sect to extract more Great Dao Fragments.

• Xu Changxing absorbed over eight thousand origin crystals into the Tianyan Pearl and began a new simulation.
• At year 1,800, Green Lotus Immortal Monarch blocked Xu Changxing's Law Sword with a bell woven from hundreds of Great Dao Laws.
• Xu Changxing killed another Myriad Immortals Alliance Immortal Monarch, then fled with the Tianyan Sect elders when reinforcements arrived.
• Daoist Wuchen divined that Green Lotus Immortal Monarch had sensed danger and prepared protection, though he could not explain the premonition.
• Xu Changxing entered seclusion to avoid Green Lotus Immortal Monarch's likely retaliation.
• At year 3,700, Xu Changxing broke through another minor realm and left the Tianyan Sect to extract Great Dao Fragments from more Small Worlds.

Xu Changxing used the simulation rewards to advance his cultivation, then began another simulation in which he killed the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch. The new simulation ended with the Tianyan Sect and the Myriad Immortals Alliance locked in a ten-thousand-year stalemate.

• In the simulation, Xu Changxing reached the Taiyi late stage, fought the Myriad Immortals Alliance's Immortal Monarchs, and left before their reinforcements could change the balance of power.
• Xu Changxing ended the simulation and chose to extract Great Dao fragments remotely as his reward.
• After three hundred years of seclusion, Xu Changxing advanced two minor realms, remained at middle Taiyi, and fused more than thirty thousand Origin Crystals into the Tianyan Pearl.
• Xu Changxing began another simulation, where he reached the Taiyi late stage before the Green Lotus Immortal Monarch arrived and killed him in battle.
• The Immortal Monarchs sleeping in the depths of the void returned, and the Tianyan Sect and the Myriad Immortals Alliance remained in a stalemate for ten thousand years.

Xu Changxing advanced to the taiyi late stage through repeated simulations, then sought more origin crystals to continue his cultivation. Immortal Lord Leyou lent him a Jade Pendant granting access to his inheritors’ storehouses, and Xu Changxing stayed to discuss music with him.

• Xu Changxing emerged from seclusion nearing the taiyi peak and realized he lacked the origin crystals needed to power another simulation.
• After considering extracting origins from Small Worlds, Xu Changxing decided to seek origin crystals from the sects connected to the Tianyan Sect’s elders.
• Xu Changxing visited Immortal Lord Leyou, who was astonished that Xu Changxing had reached the taiyi late stage within a few thousand years.
• Immortal Lord Leyou praised Xu Changxing’s progress and gave him a Jade Pendant allowing him to collect resources from his inheritors’ storehouses.
• Xu Changxing accepted the Jade Pendant, took out the Time Zither, and discussed the Way of Music with Immortal Lord Leyou.

Xu Changxing visited Immortal Lord Leyou and High Person Sanshou before seeking Origin Crystals to support his rapid cultivation. After learning Daoist Wuchen was in seclusion, Xu Changxing used Wuchen’s token to collect Origin Crystals from Tianyan Sect’s branches and successors.

• Xu Changxing and Immortal Lord Leyou exchanged insights on the Way of Music for a hundred days before Xu Changxing left to focus on cultivation.
• Xu Changxing asked High Person Sanshou for Origin Crystals, and Sanshou was shocked to discover that Xu Changxing’s cultivation had caught up with his own.
• High Person Sanshou told Xu Changxing to collect Origin Crystals from the pill-refining successors he had left in the Immortal Realm.
• Daoist Wuchen’s attendant gave Xu Changxing a token that allowed him to take items from the sect’s storehouses while Wuchen remained in seclusion.
• Xu Changxing gathered a few thousand Origin Crystals from small branch halls and more than fifty thousand from Sanshou’s successors.
• Xu Changxing collected sixty thousand Origin Crystals from Daoist Wuchen’s successors.

Xu Changxing used his origin crystals to begin a simulation in which he openly crushed the Myriad Immortals Alliance and drew out its hidden strength. The simulation ended with nearly a hundred Immortal Monarchs returning at once, including at least three half-step Immortal Venerables who threatened to surpass him.

• Xu Changxing merged the plundered origin crystals into the Tianyan Pearl and began a new simulation, concealing his cultivation while extracting the Great Dao from Small Worlds.
• Xu Changxing led the Tianyan Sect against the Myriad Immortals Alliance, killed Green Lotus Immortal Monarch, and annihilated four other Immortal Monarchs before destroying the Alliance’s headquarters and killing five more.
• Xu Changxing killed a returning top-tier Immortal Monarch, then realized supreme beings had stopped others from returning and waited to see the Alliance’s true reserves.
• Nearly a hundred Immortal Monarchs returned together, and Xu Changxing recognized that several were half-step Immortal Venerables who could threaten his comprehension of the Great Dao.

Xu Changxing read a simulation in which the Myriad Immortals Alliance forced the Tianyan Sect to flee into the void, then built a formation to prevent its return. The Tianyan Sect launched repeated counterattacks but suffered injuries and was driven back as the formation neared completion.

• The Myriad Immortals Alliance’s Immortal Monarchs trapped Xu Changxing and the Tianyan Sect in a Great Dao Cage, but Immortal Lord Muling and a Half-Step Demon Venerable helped them escape into the void.
• The Myriad Immortals Alliance decided to build a Heaven and Earth Grand Formation around the Immortal Realm to prevent the Tianyan Sect from returning.
• After a thousand years in hiding, Xu Changxing led the Tianyan Sect back into the Immortal Realm, killed two enemy Immortal Monarchs, and damaged the formation before fleeing from pursuing forces.
• Xu Changxing fought a pursuing group of the Alliance’s Immortal Monarchs, severely wounded several, and escaped into the void with his injured allies.
• After recovering and failing to break through the Alliance’s defenses, Xu Changxing led another return from seclusion, but the nearly completed formation suppressed the Tianyan Sect and forced it to flee again.

Xu Changxing ended a simulation that showed him returning to the Immortal Realm as a Heavenly Demon, where he fought the Myriad Immortals Alliance but drew the attention of a Daluo Immortal Venerable. After extracting Great Dao fragments and reaching near the Taiyi peak, he met Daoist Wuchen to discuss the Alliance and asked whether the approaching Final Tribulation was the great tide of heaven and earth.

• Xu Changxing reviewed the simulation and concluded that transforming into a Heavenly Demon to return to the Immortal Realm was a disastrous path that still failed to make him Daluo.
• Xu Changxing chose to extract Great Dao fragments, gathered them into the Tianyan Pearl, and secluded himself for three hundred years.
• Xu Changxing emerged near the Taiyi peak, but found his progress toward Daluo blocked by the ruined world's limited foundations and his lack of origin crystals for full-power simulations.
• Xu Changxing visited Daoist Wuchen to discuss the threat from the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
• Xu Changxing asked Daoist Wuchen whether the great tides of heaven and earth referred to the impending Final Tribulation.

Daoist Wuchen explained that the Final Tribulation worsened after the Dao Ancestors abandoned the world and the surviving sects plundered its foundations. He urged Xu Changxing to try reshaping the Great Dao through the Eye of the Great Dao, but warned that those who attempted it before had failed because the place defied ordinary laws of time, space, life, and death.

• Daoist Wuchen told Xu Changxing that the Dao Ancestors had fled during the Final Tribulation, leaving the world’s illness untreated and its foundations vulnerable to plunder.
• Xu Changxing suspected the Tianyan Sect Immortal Venerable had merged the Way of Destiny into the world to prevent other sects from exploiting it, and Daoist Wuchen confirmed the world could still be healed.
• Daoist Wuchen claimed Xu Changxing was chosen by heaven and earth and suggested he enter the Eye of the Great Dao to reshape the world.
• Daoist Wuchen explained that the Eye of the Great Dao held a projection of the Great Dao that could restore heaven and earth to their ancient flourishing state.
• Daoist Wuchen said past attempts to reshape the Great Dao had failed because the Eye lay between illusion and reality, where time and space were disordered and life and death were uncertain.

Daoist Wuchen explained that surviving the Eye of the Great Dao required fusing the Great Daos of time, space, life, and death, and warned Xu Changxing that the Tianyan Pearl only gave him a chance of surviving. He advised Xu Changxing to ignore the Myriad Immortals Alliance for now and suggested exploring the Abyss, where an unknown opportunity might lie beneath the Ninety-Ninth Abyss Layer.

• Daoist Wuchen told Xu Changxing that a Daluo Immortal Venerable had barely escaped the Eye of the Great Dao, and that fusing the four Great Daos was necessary to withstand its chaotic laws.
• Daoist Wuchen said the Tianyan Pearl might help Xu Changxing survive the Eye, but admitted that ancient rumors offered no certainty.
• Daoist Wuchen advised Xu Changxing to leave the Myriad Immortals Alliance alone and use the time before powerful Immortal Monarchs returned to prepare for the Final Tribulation.
• Daoist Wuchen said he could not help Xu Changxing break through the Taiyi peak, then suggested that Xu Changxing search for an opportunity in the Abyss.
• Daoist Wuchen explained that the Hundredth Abyss Layer contained countless linked Small Worlds and that reaching the Abyss's true bottom required both strength and luck.