Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren expounded the Dao De Jing at the Hundred Schools Academy, producing the Hundred Schools Diagram and manifestations that drew Immortals across the Qinglan Immortal Realm to listen. Afterward, the listeners retained their insights but could not remember or record his words, while the Demon Lord continued to admire Chu Kuangren even as he resolved to kill him.

• Chu Kuangren began expounding the Dao De Jing, and words of ultimate truth summoned auspicious manifestations and the Hundred Schools Diagram around him.
• The Academy Dean and students recognized the extraordinary opportunity and listened as Chu Kuangren’s sage light spread throughout the Academy and across the Qinglan Immortal Realm.
• Immortals and the Demon Lord listened to Chu Kuangren; the Demon Lord gained insight, praised him, then reaffirmed his intent to kill him.
• Chu Kuangren finished his lecture, and the manifestations lingered as the listeners reflected on the fundamental Dao.
• The listeners discovered that the Dao De Jing had vanished from their memories and could not be preserved by a Recording Stone; First Sir explained that the Dao could not be lightly transmitted.

Chu Kuangren studied and mastered the Hundred Schools Diagram after his first discourse, then gave a second lecture that drew another crowd. As Jin Di Yi prepared to challenge him and Chu Kuangren guided his companions’ cultivation, he gave Yin Honghua the Nine Heavens Divine Baleful Scripture.

• After his first lecture, Chu Kuangren discovered that he could summon the Hundred Schools Diagram as a source of power, and the Academy Dean predicted that the Academy might produce another Most Sage Teacher.
• Chu Kuangren spent three months studying the manifestation until he could control it freely, then delivered a second discourse to a packed audience and distant Immortals.
• Jin Di Yi broke through to Earth Immortal Fifth Grade, mastered the Golden Crow Divine Flame, and decided he was strong enough to challenge Chu Kuangren, though he still planned carefully.
• Several months later, Lan Yu and Yin Honghua sparred as Earth Immortals, while Chu Kuangren guided his companions and studied auxiliary arts.
• Chu Kuangren gave Yin Honghua a jade slip containing the Nine Heavens Divine Baleful Scripture.

Chu Kuangren gave Yin Honghua a powerful Immortal Scripture and investigated the strange behavior of the Immortal Realm Will within her. After obtaining and exchanging texts for the three Three Purities scriptures, he discovered they were once a single cultivation technique, but could not fully combine them without the Jade Purity scripture’s final three levels.

• Chu Kuangren gave Yin Honghua the Nine Heavens Divine Baleful Scripture, and she told him the Immortal Realm Will inside her seemed to be responding to a summons.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Taiqing Dao De Jing, which resonated with his Shangqing Lingbao Scripture and raised his cultivation to great perfection of the fifth-grade Earth Immortal realm.
• Chu Kuangren visited the Jade Purity Immortal Sect and exchanged part of the Taiqing Dao De Jing with Gong Yue for the first six levels of the Jade Purity Primordial Beginning Scripture.
• Chu Kuangren studied the three scriptures and confirmed they had originally been one, but their incomplete resonance revealed that the missing Jade Purity levels prevented them from merging fully.

Chu Kuangren advanced to Earth Immortal Sixth Grade and drew the Golden Immortal Sword Dao art Heaven's Will Like a Sword. After he subdued a Golden Crow Guard who came to the Academy, he accepted the Crown Prince Jin Di Yi's challenge to fight at Void Valley in ten days and settle Heaven's Will Strife.

• Chu Kuangren reflected on creating his own cultivation law and Immortal Scripture, then broke through to Earth Immortal Sixth Grade.
• Chu Kuangren drew the Golden Immortal art Heaven's Will Like a Sword and welcomed its boost to his swordsmanship.
• A Golden Crow Guard from the Supreme Demon Court arrived at the Academy and pressured the students while summoning Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren forced the Golden Crow Guard to the ground with his spacetime power and demanded that he explain his visit.
• The Golden Crow Guard delivered Jin Di Yi's challenge to fight at Void Valley in ten days, and Chu Kuangren accepted.
• News of Jin Di Yi's challenge spread through the Qinglan Immortal Realm and stirred excitement at the Academy.

After Jin Di Yi declared war on Chu Kuangren, he demonstrated his overwhelming strength by killing several Earth Immortals who came to test him. With preparations at Void Valley complete, Jin Di Yi awaited his chance to defeat Chu Kuangren and claim the Heaven's Will Realm Child position.

• The Demon Lord claimed Jin Di Yi stood above him, prompting widespread disbelief and speculation that he was building momentum for the Crown Prince.
• Jin Di Yi detected a group of concealed Earth Immortals near a lake and revealed that he had reached Earth Immortal Fifth Grade.
• Jin Di Yi used Golden Crow Fire and Golden Crow Claw Probe to kill the attackers, leaving one Earth Immortal alive to spread news of his strength.
• The Demon Lord praised Jin Di Yi for mastering Golden Crow Fire, while Jin Di Yi acknowledged that the flame alone could not defeat Chu Kuangren.
• The Demon Lord told Jin Di Yi that preparations at Void Valley were complete, and Jin Di Yi vowed to defeat Chu Kuangren and become the Heaven's Will Realm Child.

News of Jin Di Yi instantly killing a fifth-grade Earth Immortal shifted opinion in his favor, but Chu Kuangren remained unconcerned and claimed he could kill many Earth Immortals with one hand. As the ten-day deadline neared, crowds and Immortals gathered at Void Valley, where the assembled factions suspected the chosen battlefield was designed to hinder Chu Kuangren.

• News spread that Jin Di Yi had instantly killed a fifth-grade Earth Immortal and several other Earth Immortals, leading many to predict he would defeat Chu Kuangren.
• Little Fox told Chu Kuangren about Jin Di Yi's feat, but Chu Kuangren calmly said he could slap a whole bunch of Earth Immortals to death with one hand.
• A huge crowd gathered outside Void Valley to watch the approaching battle, while a young senior brother told his junior sister about the reputations of Jin Di Yi and Chu Kuangren.
• Senior figures from several Daoist Traditions assembled deep inside Void Valley, where Yin Honghua said the Supreme Demon Court had chosen the unstable battlefield to obstruct the King's Spatial Techniques.
• The dean told the assembled group to examine the earth veins in Void Valley to understand the battlefield's other danger.

Jin Di Yi arrived at Void Valley with the Demon Court’s forces, where the destroyed earth veins prevented Chu Kuangren from using his Earth Qi Great Formation. After Jin Di Yi waited through the night and threatened the Academy, Chu Kuangren arrived at dawn riding a Divine Phoenix, just as the duel was about to begin.

• The Immortals discovered that the Demon Court had destroyed the earth veins across the region, preventing Earth Immortals from drawing on earth qi.
• Jin Di Yi arrived aboard a Golden Warship with Golden Crow Guards and Earth Immortal demons, then descended into Void Valley to await Chu Kuangren.
• Yin Honghua sensed that the Immortal Realm Will within her was drawn toward Jin Di Yi, while Qingfeng recognized how much stronger he had become.
• Jin Di Yi waited through the night amid his blazing Golden Crow Fire and threatened to attack the Academy when Chu Kuangren had not appeared by dawn.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at sunrise, riding a Divine Phoenix through the clouds toward Void Valley.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Void Valley to face Jin Di Yi in a duel, dismissing Jin Di Yi’s claim that they were destined archenemies. Jin Di Yi began the fight with a barrage of Golden Crow Fire, but Chu Kuangren’s Phoenix Fire withstood it, and Jin Di Yi drew a powerful Immortal Artifact to continue the battle.

• A young admirer praised Chu Kuangren to his junior sister, who became captivated after seeing him fly past on a Divine Phoenix.
• Chu Kuangren landed at Void Valley, where Jin Di Yi and the Immortals awaited him.
• Chu Kuangren mocked Jin Di Yi for calling them archenemies and said Jin Di Yi was inflating his own worth.
• Enraged, Jin Di Yi declared he would defeat Chu Kuangren and attacked with a barrage of Golden Crow Fire.
• Chu Kuangren emerged unharmed within a Golden-Red Fire Lotus and countered with Phoenix Fire.
• Jin Di Yi blocked the counterattack and drew a high-grade Immortal Artifact, a dark-gold Long Halberd.

Jin Di Yi used the Heaven-Dominating Halberd, powerful armor, and the Demon Court’s prepared Red Crow Formation to attack Chu Kuangren. As the formation’s fiery mass descended, Chu Kuangren summoned his Chaos Gods and Devils, Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Jin Di Yi revealed the Heaven-Dominating Halberd, and Chu Kuangren met his attacks with Kunwu, which withstood the top-tier weapon despite appearing to be an Earth Immortal Artifact.
• Chu Kuangren counterattacked and blasted Jin Di Yi away, but Jin Di Yi’s defensive Heavenly Immortal Artifact armor blocked the Sword Qi.
• Jin Di Yi summoned a Golden Crow Aspect, while Chu Kuangren manifested his Bodhisattva Mara Aspect, and the two aspects collided and shattered.
• Jin Di Yi activated the Red Crow Formation that the Demon Court had prepared in Void Valley, trapping Chu Kuangren beneath a star-like fireball.
• Chu Kuangren invoked the Chaos Gods and Devils, Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram as Jin Di Yi sent the Red Crow crashing down.

Chu Kuangren destroyed Jin Di Yi’s Red Crow Formation and defeated the avatars of four dead Heaven’s Will Children with his Heaven’s Will Like a Sword technique. Jin Di Yi’s final attack failed, and Chu Kuangren sent him flying, though his Heavenly Immortal Artifact protected him from serious injury.

• Chu Kuangren broke the Red Crow Formation by disrupting its underground formation nodes.
• Jin Di Yi revealed four Immortal Realm Will fragments and used Golden Crow Fire to create avatars of Lin Yan, Yuan Xu, Blood Buddha Son, and Mingzi.
• The four avatars attacked Chu Kuangren together, but his Heaven’s Will Like a Sword strike overwhelmed them and split the space of Void Valley.
• Chu Kuangren struck again, shattering the remaining avatars and forcing their golden light back into Jin Di Yi.
• Jin Di Yi attacked with Golden Crow Claw Probe, but Chu Kuangren’s sword tore through the Flaming Giant Claw and sent him flying dozens of kilometers.

Chu Kuangren survived Jin Di Yi’s exploding Immortal Artifacts and continued to overpower him. After all seven Immortal Realm Wills gathered around Jin Di Yi and empowered his Golden Crow Third Leg, Chu Kuangren shattered the manifestation with the Hundred Schools Diagram and knocked the Heaven-Dominating Halberd from Jin Di Yi’s grasp.

• Jin Di Yi detonated numerous Immortal Artifacts against Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren emerged unharmed and struck him with Heaven’s Will Like a Sword.
• The seven Immortal Realm Wills gathered around Jin Di Yi, making him Heaven’s Will’s Realm Child and enabling him to summon the Golden Crow Third Leg.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his Chaos Gods and Devils Physique, Unique Origin Body, and Hundred Schools Diagram to break Jin Di Yi’s Golden Crow Third Leg.
• Jin Di Yi attacked with the Heaven-Dominating Halberd, but Chu Kuangren met it with the Nine Provinces Cauldrons and knocked the halberd from his grasp.

Chu Kuangren killed Jin Di Yi and turned against the Demon Court, slaughtering its forces while the Academy Dean, Gong Yue, and Huang Mountain Lord attacked the Demon Lord. After the Demon Lord escaped and Chu Kuangren collected the seven masses of Immortal Realm Will, he and his companions set out to destroy the Demon Court.

• Chu Kuangren defeated Jin Di Yi and killed him despite the Demon Lord's attempt to intervene.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his Earth Immortal Sixth Grade cultivation and fought the Demon Lord as the Academy Dean, Gong Yue, and Huang Mountain Lord joined the battle.
• Chu Kuangren appeared aboard the Demon Court's Golden Warship and slaughtered its greater demons and other cultivators.
• The Demon Lord broke through the three Heavenly Immortals' encirclement with a lifespan-consuming secret technique and fled.
• Chu Kuangren collected the seven masses of Immortal Realm Will and set off for the Demon Court with his companions.

Chu Kuangren attacked and destroyed the Supreme Demon Court after defeating its forces at Void Valley, killing its Heavenly Immortal Qiongqi guardian in two strikes. While plundering the fallen court, he discovered a divine Fusang tree.

• Chu Kuangren’s purple sword strike split the Demon Court’s gates and carved a massive scar through its territory.
• Chu Kuangren arrived with Gong Yue, the Dean, the Phoenix Mountain Lord, the Sword Crown, and First Sir, and declared that the Demon Court would cease to exist.
• A Heavenly Immortal Qiongqi charged from the Demon Court’s depths, but Chu Kuangren killed him with two sword strikes.
• The remaining great demons fled or were intercepted as Chu Kuangren’s allies overwhelmed the Demon Court’s forces.
• Chu Kuangren plundered the Demon Court’s treasures and discovered a towering tree he recognized as Fusang.

Chu Kuangren discovered that the towering Fusang tree was a living branch of the divine tree and decided to take the entire Demon Court to preserve it. He carried the court back to the Hundred Schools Academy and left it in a nearby mountain range.

• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the Fusang tree was a living yang branch and decided to move the Demon Court rather than uproot it alone.
• Chu Kuangren analyzed the Demon Court’s formation, struck its weak point, and broke the array keeping it suspended.
• Chu Kuangren caught the falling Demon Court with one hand and carried it toward the Academy, stunning the watching cultivators.
• The Academy’s students recognized Chu Kuangren beneath the approaching Demon Court and marveled at his return with it and the corpses of Demon Court fighters.
• Chu Kuangren threw the Demon Court onto a nearby mountain range, shaking the surrounding land, while students gathered to inspect it.

After recovering, Chu Kuangren drew the Super God-Level Portable World and used it to split chaos into a galaxy, gaining new insights into the Dao. He began shaping a planet with earth, wind, water, and fire, leaving it prepared for life.

• Chu Kuangren recovered from his exertions, drew the Super God-Level Portable World, and entered the world within it.
• Chu Kuangren split the primordial chaos with one stroke, creating a river of stars he named the Milky Way Galaxy, but nearly exhausted his soul power.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Portable World and realized he could not create life directly, so he set out to form the conditions for it.
• Chu Kuangren created a sun, made rain form oceans, and accelerated time on a barren planet.
• Chu Kuangren sent Fire Meteors crashing into the planet to reshape its surface, then summoned wind to disperse steam and form an atmosphere.

Chu Kuangren explored the Chaos within his Portable World and encouraged the gestating Chaos Demon Gods before turning his attention to the Qinglan Immortal Realm Will. She asked him to compete in the World Child Contest and help her become the will of the Complete Immortal Realm, but he rejected her offer and declared his own inevitable supremacy.

• Chu Kuangren found giant chaos eggs gestating with life in his Portable World and used his will to speed one egg's growth.
• Back in his physical body, Chu Kuangren resolved to become powerful in the real universe rather than retreat into his role as creator of the Portable World.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Qinglan Will, absorbed some of her power when she took Lan Yu's form, and forced her to appear as a little girl.
• The Qinglan Will revealed that she had chosen Chu Kuangren as her Heaven's Will Realm Child and asked him to compete in the World Child Contest on her behalf.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the promised position of Immortal Realm Lord and proclaimed that he would stand above all rivals in the past, present, and future.

Chu Kuangren made a deal with the Qinglan Will to represent Qinglan in the World Child Contest, then sent Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, and Chu Hong out to train while he cultivated in seclusion. Lan Yu and Yin Honghua gained Earth Immortal breakthroughs and a True Immortal Treasure with remarkable ease, leaving them to wonder whether Chu Kuangren had foreseen their good fortune.

• Chu Kuangren agreed to represent Qinglan in the World Child Contest in exchange for access to the Qinglan Immortal Realm's opportunities, and the Qinglan Will entered his body.
• Chu Kuangren sent Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, and Chu Hong out to train while he entered closed-door cultivation.
• Lan Yu and Yin Honghua found top-grade Earth Immortal Grass and used it to break through to become Earth Immortals.
• The women encountered cultivators attacking an old man over a treasure map, and the cultivators fled after recognizing them as people close to Chu Kuangren.
• The dying old man gave Lan Yu and Yin Honghua the map, which led them without difficulty to a True Immortal Treasure.
• Lan Yu and Yin Honghua wondered whether Chu Kuangren had known their training journey would bring them these opportunities.

Chu Kuangren studied his portable world in seclusion, gained the ability to draw on its power, and learned the Immortal Art Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve. After returning to the Firmament Star with his followers, he found its civilization flourishing and reunited with Linglong.

• Chu Hong raised her Divine Phoenix Bloodline to its fourth awakening after Wutong Mountain discovered Pureblood Divine Phoenix ruins, while Lan Yu and Yin Honghua also received opportunities arranged through Chu Kuangren’s agreement with the Qinglan Immortal Realm’s will.
• Chu Kuangren spent two years studying his portable world, discovered he could draw on a sliver of its power, and named it Small Universe.
• Chu Kuangren received the God-Level Prize Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve and used it to draw a chair into its spatial realm.
• Chu Kuangren met Lan Yu and the others, explained how their opportunities were connected to him, and decided to return to the Firmament Star.
• Chu Kuangren traveled to the Firmament Star with his followers and found that its territory and civilization had expanded under Linglong and the others.
• Linglong sensed someone approaching her in the imperial capital, then recognized Chu Kuangren and welcomed him back.

Chu Kuangren quietly managed the empire’s Heavenly Secret Pavilion and library while investigating the empire’s weak control over some subjugated civilizations. In the library, he noticed a disguised attacker stalking Ren Ying and intervened when the man launched a sneak attack, leaving the attacker trapped in darkness as Chu Kuangren approached.

• Chu Kuangren reviewed cultivation texts from Seven Feathers Star and noted that the civilization had withheld its immortal-crystal extraction method and most knowledge about immortals.
• Chu Kuangren visited the library, where Ren Ying read his compiled book, the Madman's Record, and discussed it with him.
• Chu Kuangren noticed a young man secretly following Ren Ying, concealing both his killing intent and his true peak Heavenly Dao Lord cultivation.
• After Ren Ying left the library, the young man ambushed her with a black dagger, but Chu Kuangren's power trapped him in a dark void before he could strike.
• Ren Ying sensed danger but saw nothing, while Chu Kuangren appeared in the darkness before the trapped attacker.

Chu Kuangren uncovered a plot by the Heavenly Mirror Daoist Tradition and Seven Feathers Star to destabilize the empire. As Seven Feathers Star’s envoys presented tribute to Empress Linglong, they used a Spacetime Crystal to freeze the palace and launched an assassination attempt.

• Chu Kuangren tortured an assassin into revealing that the Heavenly Mirror Daoist Tradition had arranged Ren Ying’s murder and planned to frame the loyal Bai Family.
• Gu Linglong learned that Seven Feathers Star was backing the unrest and decided to meet its envoys before taking action against them.
• The Seven Feathers Star envoys plotted to assassinate Empress Linglong during their audience and seize the empire amid the ensuing chaos.
• The envoys presented spiritual marrow and immortal crystals to Empress Linglong, then revealed a Spacetime Crystal that restrained even the Immortals.
• The woman in black and her companions rushed toward Empress Linglong as the palace remained frozen.