Chapter Summaries

Jiang Man advanced to the Primordial Spirit realm and learned that the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey planned to break a seal holding the Immeasurable Kalpa inside the Immortal Gate Grand Competition. After returning, he headed for the boundary while Shen Yao and Zhou Qing searched for the seal and waited for a young genius to arrive.

• Jiang Man entered a halo of divine sense, used a Primordial Spirit Pill to plant a seed in his spiritual platform, and learned the Demon Fox's faction wanted to force open the Immortal Gate Grand Competition and destabilize seals restraining Evil Gods.
• Jiang Man read a report identifying Zhou Qing and Shangguan Yang as the people tasked with undoing the seal containing the Immeasurable Kalpa, then the Token sent him back to his original world.
• Jiang Man fed the seed the power of his three gourds over seven days, formed a complete primordial spirit, and reached the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Jiang Man reunited with Monk Zhenkong and Bell and set off for the boundary, while Monk Zhenkong warned that Qin Wen might have crossed it already.
• Two cultivators confronted Qin Wen and his companions, confirmed his identity, and attacked them, leaving Qin Wen pinned down.
• Shen Yao and Zhou Qing searched for the supposed treasure near the boundary, concluded it might be inside the Immortal Gate Grand Competition, and waited when the gate for those under thirty began to glow.

Jiang Man reached the hidden palace, found Shangguan Yang, and followed him to a chamber with three paths after learning Shangguan Yang was at Primordial Spirit Early Stage. The group split up, with Shangguan Yang choosing to accompany Jiang Man along the middle path.

• Jiang Man passed through the under-thirty gate, startling Shen Yao and Zhou Qing, then accepted Spirit Sources from them to erase their marks in his notebook.
• Jiang Man searched the mountain with Shen Yao, Zhou Qing, Monk Zhenkong, and Bell, found the rock that opened a gate with blood, and led the group into a hidden palace.
• Jiang Man met Zhuo Qingcheng and Shangguan Yang inside the palace and learned they had found a formation while searching for treasure.
• Shangguan Yang said he was at Primordial Spirit Early Stage and led the group to a formation that Zhou Qing unraveled, revealing three paths.
• Shen Yao and Zhou Qing chose one path, while Shangguan Yang chose the middle path and took Jiang Man with him.

Jiang Man followed Shangguan Yang to an altar and discovered that its treasure was the Ten-Life Immeasurable Kalpa, which Shangguan Yang intended to make him refine. When Shangguan Yang tried to force him, Jiang Man revealed his strength and defeated him, declaring that the Evil God worked for him.

• Shen Yao chose the left path with Zhou Qing, while Zhuo Qingcheng, Monk Zhenkong, and Bell went right with Jiang Man and Shangguan Yang taking the middle path.
• Shangguan Yang told Jiang Man he knew where the treasure was and claimed he wanted Jiang Man to have it in exchange for help attaining immortality.
• Jiang Man used the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books to identify the altar’s treasure as the Ten-Life Immeasurable Kalpa, a calamity that could turn its refiner into an Immeasurable Kalpa.
• Shangguan Yang urged Jiang Man to refine the treasure on the altar, then revealed his intent to knock Jiang Man unconscious when he refused.
• Jiang Man confronted Shangguan Yang about the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey and fought him, revealing that he had reached the Primordial Spirit stage.
• Jiang Man overwhelmed Shangguan Yang with a powerful force, knocked him to the ground, and told him that the Evil God worked for him.

Jiang Man killed Shangguan Yang, escaped with the Immeasurable Kalpa, and later found the Innate Dao Enlightenment Tree, but left when he discovered its three opportunities were already occupied. Meanwhile, Ji Meng agreed to the Grand Elder’s proposal, prompting Ji Hao to head for Heavenly Origin Peak with a legitimate reason to act.

• Jiang Man rejected Shangguan Yang’s attempt to persuade him to refine the Immeasurable Kalpa, then crushed Shangguan Yang’s mind and spirit and left with the object.
• Jiang Man rejoined Shen Yao, Zhou Qing, Zhuo Qingcheng, Monk Zhenkong, and Bell, who remained unsure what had happened to Shangguan Yang.
• Jiang Man led Monk Zhenkong and Bell to the Innate Dao Enlightenment Tree, but left after learning that its three opportunities were already being used.
• The woman at the tree identified Jiang Man as the Golden Core Late Stage cultivator she was meant to test and decided to assess his character while suppressing her cultivation.
• Ji Meng sensed that an opening had been made in the Immortal Gate Grand Competition and agreed to the Grand Elder’s proposal despite the danger from the Bai Family Ancestor.
• Ji Hao learned of Ji Meng’s agreement, went to Heavenly Origin Peak, and unleashed his spiritual pressure as the sky darkened.

Tantai Xue learned that turmoil at the Immortal Gate Grand Competition might let suppressed Evil Gods reclaim power, while Jiang Man studied the Heavenly Origin Method and investigated the search for Shangguan Yang, Zhou Qing, and Big Rock. He discovered that the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone was merging with him and used a formation to delay the process, leaving him desperate for Ting Fengyin to arrive before the merger finished.

• Tantai Xue heard from the Spirit Tablet that a rift and spatial turmoil had appeared at the Immortal Gate Grand Competition, potentially allowing Evil Gods to reclaim their power.
• Jiang Man arranged for a woman to explain the Heavenly Origin Method, then cultivated it to great accomplishment and studied formations intended to suppress the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit.
• Monk Zhenkong reported that people had found Big Rock but not the divine object inside, and that Shangguan Yang and Zhou Qing remained missing.
• Jiang Man used the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books and discovered that the Ten-Life Immeasurable Kalpa was merging with him, with completion due in two months.
• Jiang Man built a formation to suppress and isolate the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone, extending the estimated merger time by a month, and hoped Ting Fengyin would arrive before August.

The Fox Demon revealed that the sealed Ten-Life Immeasurable Kalpa had begun resonating with its surroundings, prompting Qi Li and True Person Taihua to prepare for a cautious intervention. As the resonance intensified around Jiang Man, True Person Taihua left the Immortal Gate participants to decide whether to enter the danger zone.

• The Fox Demon told Qi Li that the sealed immeasurable kalpa could choose people from a wide area and that lightning would signal a deepening fusion.
• Qi Li reported the threat to True Person Taihua, who ordered the Immortal Gate to watch for lightning and prepare its doors before sending people inside.
• Jiang Man remained trapped atop the formation, studied formation books, and tried to delay the fusion while waiting for July.
• In late June, Jiang Man felt the kalpa affecting his mind, and thunder signaled that it was resonating with the outside world.
• Thunder boomed again and something seemed to crack open as True Person Taihua told the participants it was their turn to choose whether to enter.

Jiang Man waited in hiding as the Immortal Gate and Evil Gods entered the Grand Competition, then Ting Fengyin arrived and removed the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone’s erosion from him. Ting Fengyin urged Jiang Man to keep the dangerous stone, concealed a way for him to retrieve it, and told him to kill Meng Qiewei and the Bai Family Ancestor.

• The Immortal Gate issued a Supreme Order for Ji Meng to guard the rift, so she sent Qing Dai with her Law Treasure in her place.
• Jiang Man stayed concealed with Monk Zhenkong and Bell as Evil God power appeared in the sky, followed by Immortal Gate forces searching the area.
• Ting Fengyin arrived through a river-road, and Jiang Man gave him the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone to remove its hidden erosion.
• Ting Fengyin explained that the stone had begun merging with Jiang Man and urged him to keep it, warning that merging with it would destroy his body and soul.
• Ting Fengyin marked the stone and Jiang Man’s hand with matching runes, letting Jiang Man retrieve it secretly, then instructed him to kill Meng Qiewei and the Bai Family Ancestor.

Jiang Man emerged from the mist, defeated two Primordial Spirit cultivators who tried to detain him, and waited for Ting Fengyin to act. At dawn, Ting Fengyin’s appearance halted the powers over the Immortal Gate Grand Competition and forced the Immortal Gate forces to withdraw.

• Ting Fengyin told Jiang Man to plan carefully for the two targets and revealed that he had interrupted the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone’s fusion.
• Jiang Man left the mist with Monk Zhenkong and Bell, but two Primordial Spirit women stopped them and said they would not let them leave.
• After midnight passed without any change in Jiang Man, the women attacked, and Jiang Man killed both of them by overpowering their swords and disabling their formation.
• Jiang Man and his companions searched the women, took their useful belongings, and continued toward the others on foot.
• At dawn, a figure resembling Ting Fengyin appeared in the clouds, and his quiet laugh stopped the powers in the sky before the Immortal Gate forces withdrew and the rift closed.

Tantai Xue and True Person Taihua assessed the aftermath of the Immortal Gate Grand Competition and investigated Jiang Man’s connection to Shangguan Yang and the Evil Gods. Jiang Man’s team was eliminated after repeatedly losing to stronger cultivators, then the Enforcement Hall brought them in, and True Person Taihua arranged to meet them.

• Tantai Xue discussed the Immortal Gate’s intervention and planned to awaken the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit to recover and seek the Immortal Dao Coordinates.
• Qi Li told True Person Taihua that Jiang Man had last seen Shangguan Yang and that Sun-Moon Immortal Journey wanted to kill him; True Person Taihua ordered him to leave the Wuyun Sect alone for now.
• Jiang Man and his companions entered the competition’s under-forty bracket, lost to several stronger opponents, and were eliminated in dead last.
• Ren Qian took Jiang Man, Monk Zhenkong, and Bell to the Enforcement Hall for questioning, while Ye Jingtian accompanied them as far as the hall.
• Chongguang informed True Person Taihua that Jiang Man and the others had been eliminated, and True Person Taihua ordered them brought to meet him.

Jiang Man was questioned by True Person Taihua, handed over the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone, and received a Mountain-Suppressing Office appointment and rewards. Back in the Prison Cell, he learned that his marriage to Meng Qiewei had been exposed, while Ji Meng heard the Ji Family planned to fake the completion of her trial.

• True Person Taihua questioned Monk Zhenkong and Bell, then let them leave the Wuyun Sect and tell the Heavenly Water Sect what they knew.
• True Person Taihua questioned Jiang Man about Shangguan Yang and the divine object, and Jiang Man gave him the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone.
• True Person Taihua offered Jiang Man three hundred thousand Spirit Sources, cultivation manuals and equipment, a Spirit Pet Egg, and a Mountain-Suppressing Office Identity Token; Jiang Man accepted.
• True Person Taihua received instructions to place the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone in the great hall and wait for someone to collect it.
• Jiang Man returned to the Prison Cell, told Old Yellow Ox about the stone, and learned that his marriage to Meng Qiewei had been exposed; Ji Hao then took him away to explain what had happened.
• Qing Dai told Ji Meng that the Ji Family had not completed her trial and planned to pretend it was complete.

Jiang Man learned that the Ji Family had declared him an ancestor and offered him cultivation resources and a protective treasure, while danger from the Bai Family Ancestor remained a concern. After visiting Ji Meng and giving her a Heavenly Immortal Pill, he agreed to go shopping with her, then learned the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit was ready to awaken.

• Ji Meng and Qing Dai discussed the Ji Family’s missed test, the rumors about Jiang Man, and the possibility that the Bai Family Ancestor would target them.
• Ji Hao told Jiang Man that the Ji Family had named him an ancestor and promised him cultivation methods, insights, Spirit Sources, and a protective Law Treasure.
• Ji Hao advised Jiang Man to keep cultivating and report strangers asking about Ji Meng; Jiang Man then visited her and gave her a Heavenly Immortal Pill.
• Ji Meng accepted Jiang Man’s invitation to go shopping the next afternoon and told him Ji Hao had fought Peak Master Bai, who had since gone into seclusion.
• Jiang Man received word that the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit was ready to awaken, while Tantai Xue prepared to replace its current Envoy and the Spirit Tablet warned her to keep safeguards in place.

Jiang Man prepared to restrain the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, then visited Cloud Glow Peak’s Second Institute and taught his fellow cultivators before taking Ji Meng out to eat. The chapter ended with True Person Taihua still waiting for someone to collect the box at the Mountain-Suppressing Office.

• Jiang Man consulted Old Yellow Ox about the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s escape routes and adjusted a formation to contain her, while recognizing that outside forces could still interfere.
• Jiang Man left the prison and discovered that many Second Institute cultivators had become poor after their lineages and investors abandoned them over their planned Inner Sect courtyard.
• Jiang Man taught the Second Institute cultivators about Foundation Establishment, the Advancement Method, and comprehending the Third Method, leaving Yan Yiqiu curious about his cultivation.
• Jiang Man visited Ji Meng, complimented her appearance, and took her along on his flying sword to get something to eat.
• True Person Taihua continued watching the box at the Mountain-Suppressing Office, waiting for someone to collect it.

Jiang Man retrieved the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone and waited in vain for True Person Taihua to contact him, while Ji Hao delivered cultivation materials and a protective bracelet. On July 20, Jiang Man’s Peerless Heaven’s Chosen Destiny granted him a mass of qi and ordered him to solidify his Primordial Spirit within nine hundred days.

• Jiang Man and Ji Meng went out together, visited Jiang Man’s shaobing shop, and shared a flatbread before strolling around until nightfall.
• Jiang Man retrieved the Immeasurable Kalpa Stone and sent True Person Taihua a brief message saying that Void Spirit Eye could be treated, but received no reply over the following days.
• Ji Hao warned Jiang Man that his stay at the Enforcement Hall was nearing its limit and brought him a Nine-Star Visualization Method, tailored cultivation insights, three hundred thousand Spirit Sources, and a protective bracelet for him and Ji Meng.
• Jiang Man checked the bracelet and confirmed through Old Yellow Ox that it held no hidden monitoring, then gave him the Visualization Method to study and explain.
• On July 20, Jiang Man’s Peerless Heaven’s Chosen Destiny produced a mass of qi and set a new requirement: he had to solidify his Primordial Spirit within nine hundred days or suffer damage from a Fate Pattern backlash.

Jiang Man learned that solidifying his Primordial Spirit within nine hundred days would require rapid cultivation, especially after his new divine ability began draining his Primordial Spirit. He also instructed Chen Shi in the Visualization Method as factions formed around the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, while True Person Taihua investigated a mysterious message promising a cure for his Void Spirit Eye.

• Old Yellow Ox told Jiang Man that Primordial Spirit solidification required the ninth layer of the Visualization Method and support from his physical body and cultivation, making the nine-hundred-day requirement difficult.
• Jiang Man merged with the Innate Spiritual Qi and gained the divine ability Three Mountains Suppressing Peaks, which steadily drained his Primordial Spirit; he decided to reserve it for Drunken Floating Life.
• Jiang Man taught Chen Shi the Visualization Method and answered his cultivation questions, then reacted with a cryptic “Heh heh” when Chen Shi warned that the Immortal Spirit might choose another Envoy.
• Chen Shi reported Jiang Man’s stance to the Rounded Man, who concluded that the three factions among the Immortal Spirit’s followers were about to begin their struggle.
• Tantai Xue and the voice in the Spirit Tablet agreed to treat Jiang Man cautiously while planning to contact Linghua and become the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s Envoy.
• True Person Taihua found a note in the box stating “Void Spirit Eye. Can be cured,” but his attempts to reply through the box brought no response.

Jiang Man moved out of the Enforcement Hall’s prison and received rewards from the Mountain-Suppressing Office before cultivating the Nine-Star Visualization Method to great accomplishment. While he worked to secure the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s realm, Tantai Xue and Sun-Moon Immortal Journey separately plotted to reach it, and Sun-Moon’s agents finally located the Broken Temple.

• Ren Qian told Jiang Man he could no longer stay in the Enforcement Hall’s prison, so Jiang Man moved out but refused to leave Old Yellow Ox locked up.
• Ren Qian delivered Jiang Man four hundred thousand spirit sources, the Nine-Star Primordial Spirit Method, a Primordial Spirit Method Robe, Spirit Beast Eggs, and a Mountain-Suppressing Office Token, and explained the token’s benefits and duties.
• Jiang Man studied the Nine-Star Visualization Method with Old Yellow Ox and reached great accomplishment by August 28.
• Jiang Man discovered and destroyed Tantai Xue’s runes around the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, then established a formation to block further intrusions and began searching for other envoys.
• Tantai Xue realized Jiang Man was trying to keep the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit captive and suspected Sun-Moon Immortal Journey had also infiltrated the realm, so she prepared traps for both sides.
• In mid-Ninth Month, a young man from Sun-Moon Immortal Journey located the Broken Temple, and his companions considered asking their Immortal Spirit to send down a ray of light.

Chen Shi rallied the black-robed followers to answer the Envoy’s call as the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit awakened. Jiang Man’s reports exposed her subordinates, and he entered the Broken Temple, forced her awakening, and confronted her; her summons alerted Chen Shi and the others that the moment had come.

• Chen Shi told the black-robed figures that the Immortal Spirit’s awakening would lead to a conflict with the Envoy and ordered them to respond immediately and crowd out rival intentions.
• Ren Qian received eighteen reports signed Jiang Man identifying subordinates of the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, and the Enforcement Hall arrested several people while Jiang Man remained in seclusion.
• Jiang Man prepared formations, detected four envoys, and obtained Mountain-Suppressing Office approval to subdue the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit.
• Jiang Man entered the Broken Temple and used a cube’s power to hasten the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s awakening.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit recognized Jiang Man, failed to expel him, and watched him destroy her three power avatars with his Primordial Spirit.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit summoned her subordinates, and Chen Shi and the black-robed figures sensed that the time had come.

Jiang Man defeated the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, but she refused to flee or cooperate with the enemy who had contacted her. As Tantai Xue followed a group seeking to capture the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, Jiang Man confronted them near the Broken Temple and effortlessly crushed their leader's attack.

• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit summoned her black-robed subordinates, but they followed Jiang Man's lead and answered her command to kill only after he prompted them.
• Jiang Man shattered the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit's Heart Lock and beat her until she surrendered, then learned she had rejected an offer to escape because she feared the powerful Immortal Spirit behind it.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit told Jiang Man that others were coming to capture her because she could sense Immortal Dao Coordinates, and warned that the temple's location had been discovered.
• Tantai Xue learned that the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit had received but ignored her message, then followed three people through the Endless Mist toward the Broken Temple.
• The middle-aged man and a young woman approached the temple while a young man drew their pursuer away, but Jiang Man intercepted the pair and asked whether they were from the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey.
• The middle-aged man attacked Jiang Man and denounced Immortal Gate Great Governance, but Jiang Man shattered his arm and crushed his chest with a single counterattack.

Jiang Man erased the terrifying sun-and-moon power threatening the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, then returned to find her hiding in fear. After Tantai Xue learned the Envoy was involved, the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit investigated Jiang Man through Chen Shi and intimidated him into kneeling.

• Jiang Man fought two attackers bearing sun-and-moon power, then used the Evil God Method and the words “Everyone, listen to the wind sing!” to make the wind erase their power.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit waited in the Broken Temple for death, then watched the sun-and-moon pressure vanish and hid when Jiang Man entered.
• Tantai Xue saw the sun-and-moon power disappear, abandoned her attempt to reach the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, and later discussed the mysterious Envoy with the voice from the Spirit Tablet.
• Jiang Man found the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit hiding in the temple, reassured her, and asked whether she knew about the Immortal Dao Coordinates before leaving.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit summoned Chen Shi and revealed that she knew Jiang Man was a Sect Undercover who was poor and did not know Chen Shi’s identity; Chen Shi knelt and begged her to quell her anger.

Jiang Man visited Ji Meng, who used formation arts to prepare Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit to suppress the Immortal Dao Coordinates. After Jiang Man gave the coordinates to Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit, she recognized them and concluded that he was a Great Evil God, while True Person Taihua continued investigating an unanswered note.

• Jiang Man told Old Yellow Ox about his narrow victory over the Sun and Moon Shine Together contingency, and Old Yellow Ox warned him that Ting Fengyin might not always respond.
• Jiang Man visited Ji Meng, who studied the Immortal Dao Coordinates and used the Envoy's Token to devise a method to bind Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit and teach her to suppress them.
• Jiang Man confronted Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit in the Broken Temple and learned that she could identify genuine Immortal Dao Coordinates and locate them for the Great Evil Gods.
• Jiang Man handed Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit the coordinates, and Ji Meng's formation began binding her as she sensed the suppression method.
• Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit hid in the statue and told Chen Shi to call Jiang Man the real Evil God, concluding that he was a Great Evil God because he possessed the coordinates.
• True Person Taihua said the unanswered note likely marked the first test: finding who had left it.

True Person Taihua traced the note about the Void Spirit Eye to Drunken Floating Life, who agreed to help in exchange for information about the Bai Family Ancestor. Meanwhile, Jiang Man studied Ji Hao’s cultivation insights, bought pills to advance his Primordial Spirit, and learned that an Inner Sect elder had been ordered to target him.

• True Person Taihua considered whether That Ji Family One or Drunken Floating Life had left the note, then contacted Drunken Floating Life to ask about the Void Spirit Eye.
• Jiang Man used Ji Hao’s insights to prepare for Primordial Spirit cultivation, bought fifty Spirit-Refining Pills, and calculated that advancing would require far more Spirit Source than he had.
• Jiang Man told True Person Taihua that he could cure the Void Spirit Eye, and Old Yellow Ox taught him the treatment to pass along.
• True Person Taihua asked about the price, and Jiang Man requested information about the Bai Family Ancestor so he could visit him.
• Jiang Man went to the Shaobing Shop and found Song Qing eating with another man, who mentioned that Song Qing’s senior sisters had stopped visiting.
• An elder surnamed Bai received an order to target and suppress Jiang Man, and began planning how to carry it out.