Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren claimed the Nine Heavens Ringed Pendant, transformed Gods and Devils Eight Tones into an Immortal Art, and drove the blond Dragon Immortal away. After discovering the zither was a fragment of an Origin Treasure, he saw the Zither Crown reorganize the manor’s leadership.

• Chu Kuangren became the master of the Nine Heavens Ringed Pendant, prompting the blond Dragon Immortal to attack him over Jin Yi’s death.
• Chu Kuangren used the zither to elevate Gods and Devils Eight Tones into an Immortal Art and defeat the blond Dragon Immortal, who fled after being wounded.
• Chu Kuangren discovered that the Nine Heavens Ringed Pendant was a fragment of an Origin Treasure.
• The Zither Crown removed Qin Feng as eldest senior brother and invited Shang Chanjuan to return and help manage Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Manor.

Chu Kuangren traveled with Xue Qinxin toward the Hundred Schools Academy, where she had to take an assessment and he hoped to learn from its vast collection of knowledge. During the journey, he upgraded thirteen Dao Bodies and mastered thirteen kinds of origin power, leaving him confident he could fight an Immortal without Immortal Artifacts.

• The Zither Crown explained that Divine Dragon Island wanted the Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Pendant as a betrothal gift for a proposed marriage alliance with Wutong Mountain.
• Xue Qinxin received notice that she had to take an assessment at the Hundred Schools Academy in six months, and Chu Kuangren decided to visit the academy with her.
• Chu Kuangren, Xue Qinxin, and their companions left the Nine Heavens Ringing Jade Manor for the academy while Xue Qinxin described its Twelve Gentlemen and powerful dean.
• Chu Kuangren advanced his Chaos Body into an Immortal Physique and mastered chaos origin power.
• Over the next three months, Chu Kuangren upgraded thirteen Dao Bodies and mastered thirteen corresponding kinds of origin power.

The Golden Crow Guards tried to force Chu Kuangren to the Supreme Demon Court, but the Sword Crown confronted the Blade Crown instead. As the two Seven Crowns began their rematch, Chu Kuangren emerged and killed several attackers.

• The Golden Crow Guards stopped the warship and demanded that Chu Kuangren go to the Demon Court, but he refused and told the Sword Crown to drive them away.
• The Blade Crown appeared, challenged the Sword Crown, and criticized him for following Chu Kuangren; the Sword Crown defended his choice.
• The Sword Crown asked whether the woman who became Mistress of the Burial Sword Sea was well, then challenged the Blade Crown to settle their old defeat.
• The Sword Crown and Blade Crown fought with the Azure Lotus Immortal Sword and the Azure Python saber, splitting the sky with their clashing power.
• The Golden Crow Guards attacked the warship and broke its defensive shield, but Chu Kuangren struck back with Emperor Qi and killed several of them.

Chu Kuangren refused to use the Azure Luan Mirror and fought a middle third grade Demon Immortal with his own strength. After the Demon Immortal fled, Chu Kuangren killed him, while Lan Yu slew the remaining Golden Crow Guards, and the Blade Crown withdrew.

• Chu Kuangren annihilated the Golden Crow Guards who had attacked him and called out the hidden Demon Immortal.
• Chu Kuangren put away the Azure Luan Mirror and challenged the golden-haired Demon Immortal to fight him without it.
• Chu Kuangren met the Demon Immortal's attack head-on and then bombarded him with successive Immortal Arts.
• The golden-haired Demon Immortal revealed his golden roc form and tried to escape, but Chu Kuangren shot him down and cleaved him in two with Kunwu.
• Lan Yu killed the remaining Golden Crow Guards, while the Blade Crown forced back the Sword Crown and withdrew.

Chu Kuangren and the Sword Crown reached the Hundred Schools Academy, where the academy’s leaders agreed to let Chu Kuangren enter the Book Sea in exchange for both men teaching. The two joined the academy, stirring excitement among its disciples.

• The Sword Crown told Chu Kuangren how his duel with the Blade Crown had ended in defeat after he fell in love with the Blade Crown’s fiancée.
• Chu Kuangren healed the Sword Crown, then spent two months cultivating as they traveled to the Hundred Schools Academy.
• The academy’s First Gentleman invited Chu Kuangren and the Sword Crown to the Heavenly One Pavilion and asked why Chu Kuangren had come.
• Chu Kuangren asked to read the Book Sea, and the First Gentleman offered access if he and the Sword Crown taught at the academy.
• Chu Kuangren agreed to teach on his own terms, and news of the two new teachers spread through the academy.

Chu Kuangren visited the Hundred Schools Academy’s Book Sea to seek knowledge that might help him create his own source, but found no records of the unheard-of feat. After a month of reading, he gained a scholarly manifestation that astonished the academy’s masters and planned to return to study further.

• Chu Kuangren visited the Book Sea, where the Fourth Master greeted him and asked to learn from his ability to heal the Sword Crown.
• Chu Kuangren searched the library for knowledge about creating his own source but found none, so he began studying its books for useful theory.
• Chu Kuangren read more than a thousand books in ten days, and the Fourth Master noticed the radiance of a mind rich in poetry and books forming around him.
• The First Master, Second Master, and other academy masters gathered to witness Chu Kuangren’s manifestation and chose not to disturb him.
• After reading for a month, Chu Kuangren left the Book Sea pleased with his gains and resolved to return to continue studying.

Chu Kuangren refined Nurturing Spirit Jade Marrow in seclusion and unexpectedly released Immortal Consciousness powerful enough to shake Hundred Schools Academy. Xue Qinxin and a companion waited at his residence for help with their assessments, while the academy’s masters sealed the new power and wondered who had become an Immortal.

• Chu Kuangren drew Nurturing Spirit Jade Marrow and refined it with his Nine-Turn Three-Origin Soul Refining Art.
• Xue Qinxin and a gentle woman struggled with their assessments and went to Chu Kuangren’s residence seeking his help, but Lan Yu told them he was in closed-door cultivation.
• Xue Qinxin and the woman stayed at the residence, where Gu Liufang and Gu Wuqing later arrived to visit Chu Kuangren and received guidance from the Sword Crown.
• Chu Kuangren released Immortal Consciousness from his room, shocking the Sword Crown, Gu Liufang, Gu Wuqing, and the others with its immense power.
• The academy’s masters established restrictions around Chu Kuangren’s residence to contain the Immortal Consciousness, while students speculated that a peak Half-Immortal had become an Immortal.

After mastering Immortal Consciousness before becoming an Immortal, Chu Kuangren demonstrated an extraordinary talent for teaching and quickly earned the Hundred Schools Academy’s admiration. The chapter ended with the academy recognizing him as an all-round genius skilled in numerous disciplines.

• The First Master and the Sword Crown learned that Chu Kuangren had mastered Immortal Consciousness, while a white-haired elder wondered how he might affect the approaching Heaven’s Will Strife.
• Chu Kuangren explained that the Nurturing Spirit Jade Liquid had advanced his Nine-Turn Three-Origin Soul Refining Art to the seventh turn, allowing him to form an Immortal Soul and master Immortal Consciousness.
• Chu Kuangren used the Omniscient Spirit to correct Xue Qinxin’s Sword Art and guide a gentle woman to neutralize the poison in her rabbit.
• Chu Kuangren helped Gu Liufang improve his Immortal Art, convincing him that Chu was an exceptional master teacher.
• The academy’s masters sent students to test Chu, but he resolved dozens of students’ problems across disciplines including runes, formations, alchemy, Sword Dao, and medical arts.
• The academy’s students and teachers spread word of Chu’s abilities and hailed him as an all-round genius.

Chu Kuangren’s guidance helped Xue Qinxin excel in her assessment and enabled the Seventh Teacher to repair a flaw in his Immortal scripture and become an Immortal. As students and teachers flocked to seek his advice, the dean appointed Chu Kuangren the academy’s thirteenth Gold Medal Lecturer, and he accepted.

• Students spread word that Chu Kuangren had guided Xue Qinxin to earn an A-plus in her assessment, drawing a crowd to his residence.
• The Seventh Teacher became an Immortal after Chu Kuangren repaired a flaw in his Immortal scripture, and he thanked Chu Kuangren as his teacher.
• The Seventh Teacher told the other teachers how Chu Kuangren had helped him, prompting several teachers to ask for guidance in their own fields.
• The teachers and students at Hundred Schools Academy held Chu Kuangren in high esteem, while the Sword Crown marveled at his ability.
• The dean’s Immortal crane offered Chu Kuangren the position of the academy’s thirteenth Gold Medal Lecturer, and Chu Kuangren accepted.

Chu Kuangren became the Hundred Schools Academy’s Thirteenth Sir and spent six months mastering its Book Sea, where he comprehended the Teaching Origin. Though the dean saw the potential for Chu Kuangren to teach all living beings, Chu Kuangren rejected that path as too tiring.

• Chu Kuangren accepted the title of Thirteenth Sir, gaining the academy’s backing and alarming Daoist Traditions hostile to him.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Book Sea and spent six months absorbing nearly all its texts with the help of his three Immortal Souls and Bookish Elegance.
• The Bookish Elegance manifestation erupted into a golden pillar, and the academy’s Sirs gathered as a mysterious Origin Power gave them new insights.
• The dean identified the power as the Teaching Origin, explaining that it could let Chu Kuangren nurture Immortal Seeds and perhaps teach all living beings.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the Teaching Origin’s benefits but decided that teaching all living beings was too tiring and refused to pursue that path.

After the Immortal Realm Will split into seven lights and announced a struggle to become the Heaven's Will Realm Child, cultivators across the Qinglan Immortal Realm rushed to claim them. The dean confirmed Chu Kuangren was not a Heaven's Will Child and revealed that the Immortal Realm Will could not manipulate him because he was an anomaly.

• Chu Kuangren continued teaching at the Hundred Schools Academy and guiding Little Fox and Lan Yu after absorbing the Book Sea's knowledge.
• A golden orb containing the Immortal Realm Will appeared above the Qinglan Immortal Realm, split into seven lights, and vanished in different directions.
• The Immortal Realm Will announced that the Seven Lights would unite to form the Heaven's Will Realm Child, triggering a frenzy among cultivators and orthodoxies.
• The dean visited Chu Kuangren with Gu Liufang to ask whether he had received one of the lights; Chu Kuangren and Gu Liufang both said they had not.
• The dean told Gu Liufang that Chu Kuangren was not a Heaven's Will Child because he was an anomaly the Immortal Realm Will could not manipulate.

The Immortal Realm Will chose several new children of Heaven's Will, including Yin Honghua, who accepted an offer of support from the Jade Purity Immortal Sect. At the Hundred Schools Academy, Chu Kuangren continued teaching the Medicine Dao while the Sword Crown sensed that he had become increasingly unfathomable.

• The Golden Dragon Young Master obtained a portion of the Immortal Realm Will and planned to fuse it with ancient Dragon Clan blood and marry a pure-blooded Divine Phoenix from Wutong Mountain.
• The Immortal Realm Will chose the bullied menial servant Lin Yan, granting him the Divine Flame Great Dao and rapidly raising his cultivation to the ranks of the top Dao Lords.
• Yuan Xu received a portion of the Immortal Realm Will and hoped that studying it would help him contend with Chu Kuangren.
• Yin Honghua accepted the Immortal Realm Will, reached the peak of the Heavenly Dao Lord realm, and agreed to become a disciple of a Jade Purity Immortal Sect elder in the contest for Heaven's Will.
• At the Hundred Schools Academy, Chu Kuangren taught students from the Green Pouch Heavenly Scripture and dismissed them after his lesson.
• The Sword Crown reflected that Chu Kuangren's cultivation had not risen in two years, but his aura had become increasingly difficult to fathom.

The Sword Crown left for the Burial Sword Sea to settle his old rivalry with the Blade Crown, while Chu Kuangren entered seclusion with his Divine Enlightenment Wine. When a fragment of Penglai Island appeared and drew the Qinglan Immortal Realm’s major Daoist Traditions, the Hundred Schools Academy sent Lan Yu, Little Fox, and students to explore it without Chu Kuangren.

• The Sword Crown departed for the Burial Sword Sea, promising to follow Chu Kuangren if he returned alive.
• Chu Kuangren took ten jars of Divine Enlightenment Wine into closed-door cultivation.
• Cultivators discovered a fragment of Penglai Island at sea, and many entered it to seek Jiejiao’s opportunities despite deadly Restrictions.
• News of Penglai Island’s emergence spread across the Qinglan Immortal Realm, prompting the major Daoist Traditions to mobilize.
• Master Four found Chu Kuangren still in seclusion and agreed that Lan Yu and Little Fox could join the academy’s expedition.
• Master Four, Master One, and Master Seven led Lan Yu, Little Fox, and students toward Penglai Island as cultivators flocked there.

Immortal Seeds gathered at Penglai Immortal Island, where Yuan Xu and Lin Yan recognized each other as rivals and Heaven's Will Children. Yin Honghua challenged them openly and began a fierce battle with Lin Yan, while her powerful master prevented a Divine Flame Illuminati Immortal from intervening.

• Yuan Xu, Blade King, the Little Arhat, and other Immortal Seeds arrived at Penglai Immortal Island as cultivators discussed their strength.
• Lin Yan arrived with five divine flames, and he and Yuan Xu recognized each other as rivals bearing the aura of the Immortal Realm Will.
• Yin Honghua arrived by boat with her master, searched the gathered Immortal Seeds for Chu Kuangren, and identified Yuan Xu and Lin Yan as Heaven's Will Children.
• Yin Honghua challenged the Heaven's Will Children, and Lin Yan attacked her with divine flames before they began trading blows.
• A Divine Flame Illuminati Immortal tried to intervene, but Yin Honghua's master restrained him with her overwhelming pressure.

Yin Honghua reunited with Lan Yu at Penglai Island while the Immortal-level Daoist Traditions barred other cultivators from entering. Far away at the Hundred Schools Academy, Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion after condensing Seals of Dharma Verification.

• Yin Honghua and Lin Yan tested each other in battle, then stopped without revealing their full strength.
• The academy's warship arrived without Chu Kuangren, and the Blade King challenged the academy over his absence before being restrained by his uncle.
• Yin Honghua reunited with Lan Yu, and they joined Gu Liufang, Gu Wuqing, and others in condemning the Blade King's challenge.
• Gong Yue introduced herself to the academy's teachers as Yin Honghua's master, while the Immortal-level Daoist Traditions sealed Penglai Island against outside cultivators.
• Chu Kuangren completed his cultivation at the academy, condensed Seals of Dharma Verification, and emerged from his residence calling for Lan Yu.

After waking from a Divine Enlightenment Wine hangover, Chu Kuangren learned that everyone had gone to Penglai Island and headed there himself. He entered after destroying the Immortal-level Daoist Traditions’ restrictions, while a fight over Immortal Dew inside the island drew the Little Arhat and a Golden Mountain Temple Immortal.

• Chu Kuangren drew a God-Level Epiphany Card and decided to seek opportunities on Penglai Island.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the restrictions sealing Penglai Island, and a cultivator recognized him as the Thirteenth Sir who had defied Heaven to slay an Immortal.
• Cultivators exploring Penglai Island found a drop of Immortal Dew and fought over it.
• A green-robed Half-Immortal drove off the fighters and reached for the Immortal Dew.
• The Little Arhat challenged the Half-Immortal, and an Immortal from the Golden Mountain Temple appeared behind him.

Chu Kuangren seized and swallowed the Immortal Dew on Penglai Immortal Island, then killed the Little Arhat with one punch when he demanded the return of an Immortal Artifact. He confronted Golden Mountain Temple’s furious Arhat, who blamed him for the Little Arhat’s death, and offered to send the monk to meet the Buddha too.

• The Half-Immortal in green retreated from the Little Arhat after sensing the monk’s Arhat-level power.
• Chu Kuangren snatched the Immortal Dew and swallowed it, stunning the gathered cultivators.
• The Little Arhat demanded that Chu Kuangren return the Three-Headed, Six-Armed Resentful Buddha, then attacked him with the Indestructible Golden Body Art and a demon-subduing vajra.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Little Arhat’s golden body with one punch and killed him, leaving the Immortal Seeds in shock.
• The Arhat from Golden Mountain Temple confronted Chu Kuangren and vowed that they could not live beneath the same sky.
• Chu Kuangren questioned whether he had started the murderous conflict and challenged the Arhat to face him as well.

Chu Kuangren defeated and killed a Golden Mountain Temple arhat, then a true immortal artifact appeared on Penglai Island. Cultivators gathered around the artifact, which Gong Yue and the academy's First Sir recognized as an imitation of the legendary Dragon-Binding Rope.

• Chu Kuangren overwhelmed the old monk with his Thousand Lotus Sword Intent and drove him to flee, abandoning the Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Chu Kuangren caught up with the old monk and killed him with a sword strike empowered by origin power and Seals of Dharma Verification.
• Chu Kuangren collected the Demon-Subduing Pestle while witnesses marveled that he had slain a genuine immortal at full strength.
• A cave-abode restriction broke on Penglai Island, releasing powerful artifact fluctuations and a crimson dragon phantom that drew cultivators toward it.
• A crimson-robed young man sensed a summons from his bloodline and set out with an old man to investigate the artifact.
• Gong Yue and the academy's First Sir identified the crimson rope as an imitation of the legendary Dragon-Binding Rope.

The Immortals agreed to let their Immortal Seeds fight for the Dragon-Binding Rope, and Gong Yue created an arena for the contest. As the battle was about to become a melee, a white-clad man arrived and challenged everyone to attack him at once.

• The Red Dragon Young Master and Red-Haired Dragon Immortal arrived and demanded the Dragon-Binding Rope, but the other Immortals refused to yield it.
• Gong Yue proposed that the Immortal Seeds decide ownership through combat and formed a golden arena.
• Yin Honghua entered the arena and defeated Dugu Yu of Spirit Emperor Mountain.
• The Red Dragon Young Master, Lin Yan, Yuan Xu, the Blade King, Gu Wuqing, and Gu Liufang joined the arena as a melee loomed.
• A white-clad man emerged from the void and challenged all the Immortal Seeds to attack him at once.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the arena and effortlessly defeated the Blade King with a single finger, then faced a united assault from the Immortal Seeds. As they prepared to fight him for the Immortal Artifact, he unleashed his full aura and declared himself a man who appeared but once in eternity and defied the ages.

• Chu Kuangren appeared in the arena and exchanged a greeting with Yin Honghua before turning to face the Immortal Seeds.
• The Blade King attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren shattered his saber strikes and blocked his blows with one finger.
• Chu Kuangren struck the Blade King in the chest and blasted him away with a single sword-finger gesture.
• An Immortal Seed proposed that the others join forces against Chu Kuangren, and Yuan Xu, the Red Dragon Young Master, Lin Yan, and the rest prepared to attack.
• Lan Yu stopped Yin Honghua from helping, while Chu Kuangren released his Origin Power and declared, "Appear but once in eternity, one man defying the ages!!"