Chapter Summaries

Li Qing stabilized his cultivation under Xu Changxing’s guidance and received the improved Cloudglow Reflecting Immortal Art and resources to rebuild the Setting Sun Sect. Xu Changxing set rebuilding the sect and ascending to the Immortal Realm as a test for Li Qing, but as he prepared to leave, the Immortal-Dropping Banner broke free of its suppression and shattered its Storage Ring.

• Li Qing steadied his mind, completed his cultivation, and formed a single enormous cloud pattern from the nine cloud dragons in his dantian.
• Li Qing and Li Yuanlin knelt before Xu Changxing, who praised Li Yuanlin for guarding the Setting Sun Sect and gave him a bottle of immortal pills.
• Xu Changxing told Li Qing he had improved the Cloudglow Reflecting Immortal Art and asked whether Li Qing could rebuild the Setting Sun Sect with it.
• Xu Changxing made rebuilding the Setting Sun Sect and ascending to the Immortal Realm a test, promising Li Qing a place as his inner disciple at the Tianyan Sect if he succeeded.
• Xu Changxing gave Li Qing a Storage Ring with spirit plants, spirit pills, and pill recipes to support the sect’s revival.
• As Xu Changxing turned to leave, the Immortal-Dropping Banner’s true spirit broke free and shattered the Storage Ring holding it.

Xu Changxing recaptured the Immortal-Dropping Banner after its escape attempt injured Li Qing and knocked out Li Yuanlin. He ordered the banner’s true spirit to guard Li Qing and began using reverse space-time to try to extract it from its shell, leaving the true spirit alarmed by his persistence.

• The Immortal-Dropping Banner broke free, but Xu Changxing caught and suppressed it again; its escaped light nearly shattered Li Qing’s divine soul and knocked Li Yuanlin unconscious.
• Xu Changxing told the banner’s true spirit, which appeared as an old man, to serve as Li Qing’s guardian as punishment for injuring him.
• Xu Changxing offered to free the true spirit if it nurtured Li Qing to the Golden Immortal realm, but the old man rejected the offer and accused him of scheming.
• Xu Changxing summoned a laws storm inside the banner to pull the old man from its shell, but the true spirit resisted by dissolving into sand.
• Xu Changxing repeatedly reversed space-time to return the old man to the banner’s edge after each failed attempt, and the true spirit realized he was trying different methods until one worked.

Xu Changxing subdued the Immortal-Dropping Banner’s True Spirit and secured his oath to teach Li Qing until he became a Golden Immortal. He restored Li Qing’s damaged Sea of Consciousness and created a separate space within it for the True Spirit, who began cultivating there.

• Xu Changxing used his fused space-time and life-and-death Laws to pull the Immortal-Dropping Banner’s True Spirit from the banner.
• The True Spirit agreed to teach Xu Changxing’s nominal disciple, Li Qing, until he attained the Golden Immortal realm, and swore an oath witnessed by the Heavenly Dao Painting.
• Xu Changxing promised to free the True Spirit once Li Qing reached the Golden Immortal realm, then used an Immortal Pill to restore Li Qing’s Divine Soul.
• Xu Changxing opened a separate space inside Li Qing’s Sea of Consciousness with his four Daoist Arts, and the True Spirit entered it.
• The True Spirit found the space stable enough to absorb Spiritual Qi and began cultivating, drawing energy around Li Qing into a spiritual storm.

Li Qing awoke to find his cultivation greatly improved and learned that the Immortal-Dropping Banner’s True Spirit would guard him until he reached the Golden Immortal realm. Xu Changxing revealed his power to alter the world he had created and considered using it to survive the Final Tribulation.

• After Xu Changxing left, Li Qing woke, discovered the treasures in his Storage Ring, and sensed that his cultivation and Dantian had improved.
• The Immortal-Dropping Banner’s True Spirit told Li Qing that Xu Changxing had left it in his Sea of Consciousness to protect him until he reached the Golden Immortal realm.
• Li Qing asked what to call the True Spirit; Xu Changxing suggested Patriarch Dawn, but the True Spirit named itself Immortal-Dropping before Xu Changxing altered its words, leading Li Qing to call it Patriarch Dawn.
• The True Spirit realized Xu Changxing could manipulate the Laws within the world he had created and concluded that Xu Changxing held it entirely at his mercy.
• Xu Changxing explained that he had inherited the world at the Bottom of the Abyss and said he might use it to weather the Final Tribulation.

Xu Changxing tried to merge the Great Dao of life, death, time, and space, then followed a divination clue back to Wuyou Immortal Venerable. He asked Wuyou whether he knew about Xu Changxing's missing memories, and Wuyou fell silent.

• Xu Changxing left Ancestor Liming to communicate with Li Qing and cultivated in the void, repeatedly attempting to merge the four Great Dao.
• After tens of thousands of failures, Xu Changxing formed a tiny, stable heaven and earth and sensed that it seemed familiar.
• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl to divine the source of the familiarity, and it showed Wuyou Immortal Venerable's residence in the Eye of the Great Dao.
• Li Qing broke through to the Void Refinement Realm and ascended after helping establish the Setting Sun Sect in the lower realm.
• Xu Changxing traveled through the Eye of the Great Dao and asked Wuyou Immortal Venerable whether he knew that Xu Changxing had a missing stretch of memory; Wuyou fell silent.

Xu Changxing learned from Wuyou Immortal Venerable that he may once have been the true spirit born within the Heavenly Dao Painting and fought the Final Tribulation in a past life. He chose not to revisit the Gate of Samsara yet, then withdrew to study the revelations and consider how his past self had shaped his current path.

• Xu Changxing pressed Wuyou Immortal Venerable about his lost memories, and Wuyou suggested they belonged to Xu Changxing's past life.
• Wuyou explained that Taiyi Dao Lord had created the Heavenly Dao Painting and that Xu Changxing had been born as its true spirit, destined to guide others through the Final Tribulation.
• Wuyou said his own memories might be scrambled and suggested that Xu Changxing could seek missing fragments at the Gate of Samsara.
• Xu Changxing declined to revisit the Gate of Samsara, citing its chaotic laws and the risk of affecting the Final Tribulation.
• Xu Changxing left Wuyou, explored the Endless Void, and created a small world where he considered how his past self may have worked with Tianyuan and planned the merging of four Great Dao.

Xu Changxing uncovered how the Heavenly Dao Painting and his possible past life might connect to Taiyi Dao Lord’s plan to reshape the Immortal Realm, then returned to the Bottom of the Abyss. There, Li Changge told him that a powerful Abyss Great Overlord was blocking the Grotto-Heaven’s expansion.

• Xu Changxing discovered that the Heavenly Dao Painting could analyze the void storm’s chaotic laws and might overwrite the Immortal Realm’s Great Dao if it had a True Spirit.
• Xu Changxing conjectured that Taiyi Dao Lord had once placed him in the Heavenly Dao Painting to help overcome the Final Tribulation, but he had escaped that fate through the Gate of Samsara with Tianyuan Immortal Venerable’s help.
• Xu Changxing suspected that Wuyou Immortal Venerable had been left to oversee Taiyi Dao Lord’s plan and that his own past memories had been erased to keep him from following that plan.
• Xu Changxing decided to proceed cautiously, then left the Eye of the Great Dao and returned to the Bottom of the Abyss.
• Li Changge told Xu Changxing that an Abyss Great Overlord had repeatedly attacked their forces and was preventing the Grotto-Heaven from expanding in that direction.

Xu Changxing tracked down Bosen, an Abyss Great Overlord who had waited for the Heavenly Dao Painting to arrive so he could deliver a message from Tianyuan. The message warned Xu Changxing not to rely on external things, while Bosen’s revelations about the Abyss Lord Clan left Xu Changxing suspecting the Final Tribulation was near.

• After Li Changge explained that the Abyss Great Overlord had escaped High Person Sanshou, Xu Changxing took a jade pendant and went to investigate.
• Xu Changxing used the Great Dao Painting Scroll to locate a humanoid Abyss Great Overlord in a blood-colored valley.
• The Abyss Great Overlord told Xu Changxing that Tianyuan had entrusted him with a warning against relying on the Heavenly Dao Painting or the Grotto-Heaven as a crutch.
• The Abyss Great Overlord revealed that he was Bosen, chief of the Earth Ghost Clan, and that Tianyuan had promised his clan hope of survival in exchange for delivering the message.
• Xu Changxing questioned whether Tianyuan or the Myriad Immortals Alliance had orchestrated Bosen’s actions, then concluded that the Final Tribulation was probably about to descend.

Xu Changxing visited the Earth Ghost Clan’s former home to investigate Tianyuan’s past, then used the Tianyan Pearl to glimpse Tianyuan at the site a million years earlier. The vision strengthened Xu Changxing’s suspicion that Tianyuan had warned Bosen about the Grotto-Heaven.

• Xu Changxing learned from Bosen that Tianyuan had once been the Earth Ghost Clan’s Great Shaman and asked to visit the clan’s home.
• Bosen led Xu Changxing to the Blood-Colored Mountains and showed him the abandoned Sacrificial Ground where Tianyuan had rested.
• Xu Changxing asked Bosen to leave him alone, set up an isolating Grand Formation, and used the Daoist Art of Reverse Space-Time to search for Tianyuan’s traces.
• After days of searching, Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl and saw Tianyuan beside an altar, where Tianyuan turned toward him and murmured, “What is real, and what is illusion...”
• Xu Changxing concluded that Tianyuan had appeared there and considered whether Tianyuan had truly sent Bosen a warning about the Grotto-Heaven.

Xu Changxing subdued the Earth Ghost Clan and ordered them to remain hidden while supporting his plans. After returning to the Tianyan Sect and settling its affairs, he visited Daoist Wuchen and showed him a vision of Tianyuan, asking whether he recognized him.

• Xu Changxing asked Bosen why the Earth Ghost Clan accepted the altered laws, then demanded that Bosen submit to him.
• Xu Changxing restrained Bosen and the clan’s other overlords, prompting Bosen to surrender the Earth Ghost Clan.
• Bosen explained that Tianyuan had taught him the words of submission after becoming the clan’s Great Shaman.
• Xu Changxing gave the Earth Ghost Clan resources and tasks, then ordered them to stay hidden before returning to the Tianyan Sect.
• Xu Changxing resolved the sect’s accumulated matters and visited Daoist Wuchen, where he showed him Tianyuan’s image and asked if he recognized the man.

Xu Changxing decided to visit the Myriad Immortals Alliance to investigate Tianyuan Immortal Venerable’s disappearance and discuss the Final Tribulation. He arrived at its gates, where Immortal Lord Jiuxu refused to summon his master, Immortal Venerable Zhili, and Xu Changxing insisted that only Zhili could decide the matter.

• Daoist Wuchen told Xu Changxing that he had no memories of Tianyuan Immortal Venerable and suspected the Myriad Immortals Alliance held answers about his disappearance.
• Daoist Wuchen warned Xu Changxing that Immortal Venerable Zhili might be guarding the Alliance’s forbidden grounds and that the Alliance could use the Great Dao to expose his cultivation realm.
• Xu Changxing traveled to the Myriad Immortals Alliance and announced that he had come to discuss facing the Final Tribulation together.
• Immortal Lord Jiuxu met Xu Changxing at the mountain gate and said he could handle the discussion himself.
• Xu Changxing said Jiuxu could not decide matters concerning the Final Tribulation and demanded that he summon Immortal Venerable Zhili.

Xu Changxing confronted Immortal Venerable Zhili over the erased memories of Tianyuan, then forced Zhili to follow him Beyond the Heavens for a battle. Powerful figures in the Endless Void learned Xu had appeared there and prepared to settle the score for Tiange's death.

• Xu Changxing used the Heavenly Dao Painting to suppress the Myriad Immortals Alliance, then entered at the invitation of someone inside and met Immortal Venerable Zhili.
• Xu Changxing showed Zhili Tianyuan's image, and Zhili discovered that he could no longer recall Tianyuan's appearance or aura.
• Zhili said the Alliance's old erasure of Tianyuan and the Tianyan Sect had made their memories hazy, but something after his slumber had erased Tianyuan's traces again.
• When Xu Changxing asked about the old conflict, Zhili refused to answer and ordered him to leave.
• Xu Changxing opened a rift Beyond the Heavens with the Heavenly Dao Painting and challenged Zhili to come with him; Zhili activated a Jade Talisman and entered the rift.
• Powerful figures in the Endless Void learned Xu Changxing had appeared there and said they would make him pay for killing Tiange.

Six Daluo awakened to help Immortal Venerable Zhili confront Xu Changxing, who drew Zhili into a sealed space and revealed his mastery of world-shaping Daoist arts. Zhili struggled against Xu Changxing’s thunder and snow, which drained his power with life and death laws.

• The old man holding the Compass asked for allies to awaken, and Qifu and True Person Huangmei volunteered before four more Daluo emerged.
• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable and the six awakened Daluo set out to aid Immortal Venerable Zhili, while the remaining immortals stayed asleep.
• Immortal Venerable Zhili trapped Xu Changxing within a million-li Immortal-Trapping Formation, expecting the other Daluo to arrive.
• Xu Changxing summoned the Heavenly Dao Painting and formed a small world whose divine thunder struck Zhili through hundreds of his Daoist arts.
• Zhili ignited his magical power to resist the thunder, but Xu Changxing’s snowfall weakened his flames and forced him to spend immense power countering its life and death laws.

Xu Changxing defeated Immortal Venerable Zhili and waited in the Void for the six remaining Daluo of the Myriad Immortals Alliance. He launched an attack as they arrived, leaving their formation under pressure from his snowflake array and the Heavenly Dao Painting.

• Xu Changxing used snowflakes bearing four laws, divine thunder, and the Heavenly Dao Painting to suppress Immortal Venerable Zhili's divine soul.
• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable and five other Daluo learned that Zhili had fallen and continued toward his marked location to avenge him.
• The six reached Xu Changxing's Small World and linked their Great Daos into a formation.
• Xu Changxing activated his snowflake array, suppressing the surrounding Great Daos and weakening the six Daluo's immortal light.
• Xu Changxing cast the Heavenly Dao Painting over the six, and divine thunder rained down on them.

Xu Changxing used the Heavenly Dao Painting to suppress the six Myriad Immortals Alliance Daluo and discovered that it countered their void-tainted Great Daos. He overwhelmed their last-resort defenses with Tribulation Lightning and falling snow, killing the weakest Daluo first.

• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable and the other five Daluo struggled against Xu Changxing’s Divine Thunder as their attacks and Immortal Formation failed.
• Xu Changxing realized the Heavenly Dao Painting amplified the Immortal Realm’s suppression of Daluo who had slumbered Beyond the Heavens, and he concluded they had become discarded pawns.
• Xu Changxing unleashed Tribulation Lightning empowered by the Heavenly Dao Painting, leaving the weakest Daluo’s body withered and his Divine Soul close to destruction.
• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable used a Heaven-Measuring Ruler to weaken the lightning, while True Person Huangmei tried and failed to connect with the absent Immortal-Dropping Banner.
• Xu Changxing covered the Daluo’s hard-won respite with snow formed from his four Great Daos, and the gravely injured Daluo’s Divine Soul was annihilated.

Xu Changxing killed six of the seven Daluo who had tried to ambush him, while Sevenfold Immortal Venerable escaped and warned the slumbering Daluo. Xu Changxing caught up with him as the others began awakening, and the chapter left the entire group surrounded by annihilating snowflakes and gathering thunderclouds.

• Xu Changxing slew the remaining Daluo and pursued Sevenfold Immortal Venerable, who escaped using the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• The old man saw six Daluo lights go dark on the Compass and awakened the other slumbering Daluo to report their deaths.
• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable arrived and warned that Xu Changxing had overwhelmed them and would soon catch up.
• Xu Changxing's Spatial Rifts opened around the group, releasing snowflakes that began eating away at the awakening Daluo.
• Thunderclouds gathered overhead as the old man realized Xu Changxing intended to hunt them all down.

Xu Changxing used the Heavenly Dao Painting to trap and kill the Daluo of the Myriad Immortals Alliance during the final tribulation. He then considered whether to slaughter the Alliance’s hundreds of Taiyi Immortal Lords, knowing that doing so would leave his fortune stained with blood.

• A Daluo accused Sevenfold Immortal Venerable of leading Xu Changxing to them, then perished in the tribulation lightning.
• Sevenfold Immortal Venerable sacrificed himself to hold Xu Changxing off while the old man with the Compass tried to escape.
• Xu Changxing trapped the old man in a laws storm and killed Sevenfold Immortal Venerable in three breaths.
• Xu Changxing explained that the final tribulation had come because heaven and earth could no longer bear so many powerful beings, then killed the old man and the Daluo souls released from the Compass.
• Xu Changxing destroyed the remaining Daluo and realized the next step might be killing the Myriad Immortals Alliance’s Taiyi Immortal Lords.

Xu Changxing killed the Myriad Immortals Alliance Daluo, then destroyed Immortal Venerable Zhili’s divine soul after Zhili refused to reveal anything about Tianyuan. He used the Tianyan Pearl to prepare for what lay ahead and flew toward the Immortal Realm, where Zhili’s death began to stir the Alliance.

• Xu Changxing realized Taiyi Dao Lord had anticipated the slaughter, but believed the Final Tribulation’s upheavals could weaken the Dao Ancestors’ arrangements.
• Xu Changxing drew Immortal Venerable Zhili’s divine soul from the Heavenly Dao Painting and confronted him about Tianyuan.
• Immortal Venerable Zhili refused to share information, so Xu Changxing destroyed his remnant soul with a laws storm.
• Xu Changxing used the Tianyan Pearl to deduce what he might encounter, then flew toward the Immortal Realm.
• Immortal Lord Jiuxu sensed that Immortal Venerable Zhili had fallen when Zhili’s Soul Jade shattered and his occupied Great Dao became vacant.
• Immortal Lord Lanyu’s surging aura made Immortal Lord Jiuxu realize something that left him astonished.

Immortal Lord Jiuxu began proving the Dao as the Final Tribulation approached, while Wuyou Immortal Venerable explained to Xu Changxing that Taiyi Dao Lord and other Dao Ancestors had placed pieces among the Daluo. The chapter ended with Wuyou revealing that Taiyi intended to use a Great Dao Core to reshape Heaven and Earth and control its Great Dao.

• Immortal Lord Lanyu said his Great Dao had opened and suspected that something had happened to the seniors sleeping Beyond the Heavens.
• Immortal Lord Jiuxu revealed his aura had strengthened and declared that he would prove the Dao before he lost his chance.
• Immortal Lord Jiuxu stirred the Great Dao, drawing thunderclouds and terrifying pressure that forced nearby immortals to flee as word of his tribulation spread.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable emerged from the Eye of the Great Dao and met Xu Changxing as the Final Tribulation neared.
• Wuyou told Xu Changxing that Dao Ancestors had placed pieces among the Daluo to condense a Great Dao Core during the Final Tribulation.
• Wuyou explained that Taiyi Dao Lord planned to use the Great Dao Core to reshape Heaven and Earth and control its Great Dao.

Xu Changxing confronted Wuyou Immortal Venerable about opposing Taiyi Dao Lord and offered him a deal, then killed him and headed for the Bottom of the Abyss. There, Daoist Wuchen announced that the Final Tribulation had arrived ahead of time.

• Xu Changxing and Wuyou Immortal Venerable discussed Taiyi Dao Lord's plans to reshape Heaven and Earth as Immortal Lord Jiuxu's world-destroying tribulation lightning spread across the land.
• Xu Changxing explained that he would rebel against Taiyi Dao Lord rather than risk being sealed away, and asked Wuyou Immortal Venerable to make a deal with him.
• Wuyou Immortal Venerable refused to betray Taiyi Dao Lord, but Xu Changxing promised to resurrect him if he won and then killed him with a Space-Time Great Dao flying sword.
• Xu Changxing annihilated Wuyou Immortal Venerable's corpse with divine thunder and opened a passage to the Bottom of the Abyss instead of taking shelter in the Eye of the Great Dao.
• At the Seclusion Grotto-Heaven, Daoist Wuchen finished his divination and told the Tianyan Sect's Grand Elders that the Final Tribulation had arrived ahead of time.