Chapter Summaries

Jiang Man received a new destiny condition: reach Return to the Void and establish an Immortal Ascension Daoist Site within nine hundred days, a task Old Yellow Ox warned would expose him to danger. Meanwhile, Fang Yong took charge of recruitment expansion in Falling Cloud City and prepared to return there with Cheng Yu and others.

• Jiang Man received Innate Spiritual Qi and learned that his new destiny condition required establishing an Immortal Ascension Daoist Site within nine hundred days, or suffer Primordial Spirit damage.
• Jiang Man transferred his sect recruitment expansion slot to Fang Yong for thirty thousand, and warned him that the Demon Race and Evil Gods might approach him.
• Fang Yong was assigned recruitment expansion and support in Falling Cloud City's villages, while Wang Yan was assigned to assist him; Jiang Man was tasked with recruiting the Azure City Sect, the Three Rivers Sect, and the Moonlit Sect.
• Old Yellow Ox explained that Jiang Man needed to reach Return to the Void and choose an ancient, extraordinary place whose location would become public; Jiang Man considered using the name Drunken Floating Life and asked whether Old Yellow Ox could accompany him.
• Fang Yong considered contacting the Bai Family and selling information about Jiang Man, then agreed that Cheng Yu could return with him and invited Little Fatty and the others to join them.

Jiang Man gained the Close at Hand, Yet Worlds Apart divine ability and prepared to lead an assignment to expand the Immortal Gate Great Governance Area. Meanwhile, Ji Meng and Qing Dai lured the Bai Family Ancestor into a formation, where he confronted Ji Meng.

• Gao Cunfeng warned Luo Huaili that the sect’s recruitment expansion could upset Falling Cloud City’s balance of power, and they discussed seeking information through their younger connections.
• Jiang Man merged with innate spiritual qi and gained Close at Hand, Yet Worlds Apart, which kept Heavenly Dog from reaching him when he activated it.
• Jiang Man practiced Teacher Ji’s power-circulation method, easing the strain on his body, then told Luo Xuan about the recruitment and her Second Uncle.
• Jiang Man left on his assignment with Zhuo Qingcheng, Han Meixue, and supervisor He Que, using his high-authority token to maintain control of the mission.
• Ji Meng and Qing Dai waited for a Bai Family member to enter their formation, and the Bai Family Ancestor was transported into it.
• The Bai Family Ancestor met Ji Meng in the formation and mocked her for acting like a coy young maiden.

Mr. Bai survived Ji Meng and Qing Dai’s attempt to kill him and continued plotting against Meng Qiewei, while Fang Yong returned to Falling Cloud City as the chief officer for the Sect’s recruitment expansion. Jiang Man’s group stopped to rest during their mission, where an injured man in white approached their fire.

• Mr. Bai escaped with severe injuries, concluded that someone other than Ji Meng and Qing Dai had killed him, and planned to kill Meng Qiewei.
• Ji Meng and Qing Dai acknowledged that they had failed to keep Mr. Bai there and resolved to grow stronger before confronting him again.
• Luo Xuan told Luo Lu that a major change might be coming for the Luo Lineage, then left with Fang Yong and the others.
• Fang Yong arrived in Falling Cloud City as the chief officer responsible for the recruitment expansion, and the leaders of the city’s lineages gathered to welcome him.
• Jiang Man’s group paused on a mountain to rest, and an injured man dressed in white approached and asked to warm himself by their fire.

Jiang Man met the Bai Family Ancestor, who warned him about the Ji Family and gave him information about the three sects on the recruitment route. Jiang Man’s group headed for the Three Rivers Sect, while Ji Meng finally decided to write to Jiang Man after waiting eight days for news.

• The Bai Family Ancestor approached Jiang Man’s group, discussed his grievances against the Ji Family, and tested whether Jiang Man might be the person destined to kill him.
• The Bai Family Ancestor left Jiang Man a letter revealing dangers at the Three Rivers Sect, Moonlit Sect, and Azure City Sect.
• Jiang Man’s group chose to visit the Three Rivers Sect first to confront its collusion with the Evil God.
• Jiang Man reflected on the Ji Family’s past and considered asking Evil Gods or members of the Demon Race what had happened.
• The Bai Family Ancestor watched Jiang Man leave and wondered whether he could still be the one destined to kill him.
• After eight days without hearing from Jiang Man, Ji Meng asked Qing Dai whether he had written and decided to send him a letter herself.

Mr. Bai warned Song Qing about the dangers of being seen as a good person, while Tantai Xue investigated the white fox and pursued the Immortal Dao Coordinates. Eight days later, Jiang Man and his companions arrived in Shuihe City to investigate the Three Rivers Sect’s abuses and its dealings with the Evil God; the sect’s leaders prepared to deceive the arriving Wuyun Sect representatives.

• Mr. Bai told Song Qing that he had revealed the truth about Jiang Man’s dao companion to help them understand each other, then warned him to treat the white fox well and asked what he would do if forced to betray his boss.
• Tantai Xue left the Shaobing Shop, and Tantai Xiaotian warned her that the white fox was likely a great demon and told her to investigate it.
• Eight days later, Jiang Man, Han Meixue, Zhuo Qingcheng, and He Que reached Shuihe City and learned from a guard that the Three Rivers Sect had abused the ordinary people there.
• He Que urged Jiang Man to punish the sect, but Jiang Man said they should first assess the people’s conditions, offer them amnesty, and recruit them before confronting the person in charge.
• The Three Rivers Sect’s old Sect Master and four subordinates discussed covering up past abuses and staging prosperity to deceive the Wuyun Sect representatives and secure a place in the Sect.

Jiang Man investigated the Three Rivers Sect’s rule over the surrounding people, learned of the Sanhe Immortal Spirit, and brought the sect under Wuyun Sect’s jurisdiction. After Guo He and the others signed the contract, Jiang Man exposed the sect’s collusion with an Evil God and trapped the area in formations.

• Jiang Man found Cui Xiangyang hiding with Chen Wu and Chen Yan, and heard Chen Wu describe the Three Rivers Sect’s brutal treatment of ordinary people.
• Jiang Man questioned villagers, learned they believed the Three Rivers Sect protected them, and discovered that the village scene had been staged; Cui Xiangyang identified the Sanhe Immortal Spirit.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit told Jiang Man that Sanhe was a former lower-ranking Immortal Spirit who liked eating people and had a powerful physical body.
• Jiang Man arrived at the Three Rivers Sect and persuaded Sect Master Guo He and his companions to sign the Immortal Gate Contract, placing the sect under Wuyun Sect’s jurisdiction.
• Jiang Man announced that the Three Rivers Sect colluded with an Evil God, summoned reinforcements, and activated formations that surrounded the sect and trapped its inhabitants.

Jiang Man’s report led Wuyun Sect to capture the Three Rivers Sect’s leaders and investigate the territory, while he earned rewards and learned more about the Sanhe Immortal Spirit. As the sect imposed Immortal Gate Great Governance, Zhuo Qingcheng announced universal cultivation and education, leaving the newly governed city facing a sweeping new decree.

• Wuyun Sect forces overwhelmed the Three Rivers Sect after Jiang Man reported its collusion with an Evil God, and they arrested those implicated while assigning Cui Xiangyang to help govern the territory.
• Ren Qian told Jiang Man his capture of the Evil God had earned him an 800,000-Spirit-Source reward, which Jiang Man used to order pills and formation materials.
• Jiang Man exchanged letters with Miss Ji Meng, asked Mu Kong about the Sanhe Immortal Spirit, and learned that the Immortal Spirit belonged to the Immortal Court and stood with the Great Evil God.
• Wuyun Sect sealed the Three Rivers Sect territory and conducted successive screenings before reopening the city gates.
• Zhuo Qingcheng announced that the city would come under Wuyun Sect jurisdiction and established free cultivation and study for residents aged sixteen to twenty-five, with cultivation and education mandated for everyone else as well.

Jiang Man learned that the sect had changed its reward rules and that the imprisoned Three Rivers Evil God wanted to meet him. Concealing his face, Jiang Man went to see the Sanhe Immortal Spirit, who was startled by the masked visitor.

• Cui Xiangyang became Sect Master of the Three Rivers Sect as the sect's new decrees and guidance programs began taking effect.
• Ren Qian told Jiang Man that the sect had amended its rules so subduing and reporting an outside Evil God would no longer earn the undercover-agent reward.
• Ren Qian revealed that the Three Rivers Evil God wanted to see the person who had trapped him, and Jiang Man agreed to meet him under a concealment talisman.
• On the way, Jiang Man heard the Sanhe Immortal Spirit curse his supposed betrayer and agreed to continue after Ren Qian offered him two thousand Spirit Sources.
• Ren Qian brought Jiang Man into the chamber, where the Sanhe Immortal Spirit saw his concealed face and asked whether everyone from their Immortal Gate was so overbearing.

Jiang Man helped Ren Qian release an altar that an evil god was using to recover, earning Spirit Sources and learning that its runes might identify the evil god Ji Meng was searching for. After Jiang Man sent Ji Meng the runes, she read his letter and began writing a reply.

• Jiang Man angered the Sanhe Immortal Spirit by demanding Spirit Sources to meet him, and Ren Qian used the demand to push the captive toward offering information.
• Jiang Man examined the altar and learned from the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books that an ancient being had bound it to accumulate power; the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit recognized its runes as Immortal Gate methods combined with evil god theories.
• Ren Qian offered Jiang Man two hundred thousand Spirit Sources per chain, and Jiang Man shattered all four Mind and Spirit Chains, allowing the altar to shoot away as an Evil God aura emerged and was suppressed by the Sect Law Treasure.
• Jiang Man earned eight hundred thousand Spirit Sources, exchanged them for pills, and hurried away after the Mountain-Suppressing Office warned him that an Evil God had intended to use the altar to recover.
• Jiang Man sent Ji Meng a letter with a portion of the altar’s formation runes, and Ji Meng read it before beginning a reply.

Jiang Man and his companions tried to recruit the Azure City Sect while the Evergreen Sect outbid them, and Jiang Man focused on cultivating instead of directing the negotiations. After advancing his physical body and learning Great Sun Shining Heaven, he ordered Zhuo Qingcheng to place his Formation Furnace where the Evergreen Sect’s people were staying; the Azure City Sect chose the Evergreen Sect, but its representatives failed to appear.

• Jiang Man arrived at the Azure City Sect with Zhuo Qingcheng, Han Meixue, and He Que, where he learned that the Evergreen Sect was also competing to recruit the sect.
• Jiang Man left Zhuo Qingcheng and the others to investigate and negotiate while he cultivated, advancing his physical body to the late stage and opening his Third Gourd.
• Jiang Man cultivated Great Sun Shining Heaven to the twelfth layer, while Zhuo Qingcheng reported that the Evergreen Sect’s stronger delegation was winning the Azure City Sect’s favor.
• Jiang Man told Zhuo Qingcheng to offer the Azure City Sect the original terms and place his Formation Furnace where the Evergreen Sect was staying.
• The Azure City Sect rejected Jiang Man’s offer and chose the Evergreen Sect, but the Evergreen Sect’s representatives did not appear that day as Jiang Man continued cultivating.

Jiang Man’s offer cuts forced the Azure City Sect to accept ninety percent of its original resources, while Zhuo Qingcheng and the others mistook his unplanned tactics for a deliberate strategy. After completing his spell arts, Jiang Man set out to confront the Evergreen Sect’s disciples at Moonwatch Peak.

• The Azure City Sect realized the Evergreen Sect was using its sealed formation to wait for Wuyun’s offer to fall, and Sect Master Luo agreed to the reduced ninety-percent deal.
• Zhuo Qingcheng arranged for the Azure City Sect to sign the contract the next afternoon, while its elders asked in vain to restore the original resources.
• Zhuo Qingcheng and Han Meixue concluded that Jiang Man had trapped the Evergreen Sect and planned to face them directly, though Jiang Man had not intended such a strategy.
• The formation around Moonwatch Peak dissipated, and Sima Xuan led three Evergreen Sect disciples out to meet Jiang Man.
• Jiang Man completed his spell arts, concealed his power, and led Zhuo Qingcheng and the others toward Moonwatch Peak to subdue the Evergreen Sect disciples.

Jiang Man defeated Sima Xuan in a contest of Great Spell Arts, secured the Azure City Sect’s agreement to join Immortal Gate Great Governance, and discovered an ancient formation in its Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Ji Meng investigated the Altar and ordered Qing Dai to look into the woman connected to it, even if the Immortal Gate noticed.

• Sima Xuan offered the Azure City Sect its original resource allocation, but Jiang Man arrived with nine suns and shattered Sima Xuan’s Mountains and Rivers in the Palm spell art.
• After Sima Xuan conceded and gave Jiang Man fifty thousand Spirit Sources, Jiang Man offered the Azure City Sect its original allocation if it replaced its Sect Master, or ninety percent of the resources otherwise.
• The Azure City Sect chose a new Sect Master, and Jiang Man examined a stable formation in the Mountain Range that gathered spiritual qi around a sealed box.
• Ji Meng read Jiang Man’s letter, and Qing Dai told her that similar Altars had appeared across different eras and locations.
• Ji Meng told Qing Dai to investigate the woman connected to the Altar, and said they should send the woman on her way if they found her.

Ji Meng explained how Jiang Man could reach the box hidden in the Ji Family formation, where he found a letter describing an impending war and a request to find a woman connected to the Ji Family. After completing the handover at the Azure City Sect, Jiang Man arrived at the Moonlit Sect and began bringing it under Wuyun Sect governance despite powerful outsiders lurking nearby.

• Ji Meng told Jiang Man how to bypass the formation and touch the box, and he found a letter warning that a great war was coming and asking him to find a woman named Meng.
• Jiang Man learned from Ji Meng that the bead in the box came from the old Immortal Court and could be valuable, then decided to give it to Meng Qiewei.
• Jiang Man cultivated while the Azure City Sect completed its handover and established the Cloudfront Office, then departed for the Moonlit Sect with his companions.
• The Moonlit Sect’s Young Sect Master told Jiang Man that seven powerful cultivators from a nearby sect were trying to take control of the Moonlit Sect.
• Jiang Man sealed the Moonlit Sect’s main hall with the Formation Furnace and presented the governance contract, and the Sect Master and Grand Elder signed it.

Luo Jian gained official status in the Moonlit Sect, while Jiang Man accepted an assignment to investigate the Sword Mound and the people watching it. After seven days of probing, Jiang Man revealed himself among the watchers and killed one of them.

• Luo Jian celebrated becoming an official member of the Moonlit Sect, and Jiang Man told the Sect Master to request aid against the hidden threat.
• Three days later, Zhuo Qingcheng told Jiang Man that his request broke a rule, but the matter could still count as two assignments without extra rewards.
• Jiang Man examined the Sword Mound, found no hidden source, and sealed it off to probe it with the Evil God Method.
• Seven people concealed themselves outside the Moonlit Sect and waited for Jiang Man to uncover the object they sought within the Sword Mound.
• After sensing strong fluctuations seven days later, the watchers prepared to enter the Sword Mound, but their disguised companion revealed himself as Jiang Man and shattered a swordsman's blade before killing him.

Jiang Man fought a group of powerful intruders at the Sword Mound, but a mysterious force interrupted the battle and drove the survivors away. He returned to find something missing, then claimed the credit for killing the intruders after learning they were wanted criminals, while Ren Qian received the report in disbelief.

• Jiang Man confronted six intruders, defeated several with his abilities, and nearly finished them before a burst of power from the Sword Mound struck the group.
• The short woman gave Jiang Man a book and the white-haired man handed him a Storage Law Treasure before both escaped, while the other intruders were killed by the mysterious attacks.
• Jiang Man returned to the Sword Mound, found the strange power had vanished and unfamiliar formations had appeared, then recorded the formations and told Zhuo Qingcheng that someone had stolen something.
• After the Young Sect Master found the bodies, Zhuo Qingcheng identified the dead as wanted sect traitors, and Jiang Man claimed he had killed them all for the sect.
• Ren Qian received word that Jiang Man had supposedly slain four wanted criminals, including two at the early stage and two at the middle stage of Return to the Void, and doubted the report.

Jiang Man uncovered a Supreme Law in the Sword Mound while an unknown formation spread across it, then sent a piece of the carved wall to Miss Ji Meng as an Evil God prepared to arrive in person. As the battle shook the shelter in early July, Jiang Man prepared to escape, while Old Yellow Ox sensed his crisis from afar.

• Jiang Man recovered from his fight, explored the hidden cavern, and learned that its damaged carvings contained a ruined Supreme Law.
• Ren Qian arrived with the Enforcement Hall, investigated the cavern, and warned Jiang Man that the surviving wanted criminals might seek revenge.
• Jiang Man discovered that a secret formation was sealing the cavern and deliberately pried a piece of the Supreme Law’s stone wall loose.
• Ren Qian announced that an Evil God would come in person, so Jiang Man secretly sent the stone to Miss Ji Meng and then took shelter with Zhuo Qingcheng and the others.
• In early July, immense power struck the shelter, and Jiang Man opened a route to the Wuyun Sect while preparing to flee if the defenses failed.
• Old Yellow Ox sensed that Jiang Man was in grave danger and waited in his bedroom.

As Wuyun Sect battled an Evil God, Jiang Man endured the sealed shelter’s oppressive aura, subdued five infiltrators, and learned the enemy wanted a stone he had found. After the battle, the Mountain-Suppressing Office confirmed the stone’s importance and promised compensation, while Jiang Man remained stranded as the Magpie Bridge opened and Ting Fengyin arrived too late.

• Wuyun Sect mobilized its experts as an urgent crisis erupted, while Jiang Man and the others sheltered from the battle’s overwhelming force.
• Jiang Man had Zhuo Qingcheng knock the shelter’s occupants unconscious, then stayed awake as the pressure intensified and five people rose to open the cavern for an Immortal Spirit.
• Jiang Man suppressed the five infiltrators, questioned them about the Immortal Spirit, and knocked them out before the shelter’s Law Treasures began to shatter.
• A voice threatened Wuyun Sect over a stolen object, and the next day Ren Qian opened the shelter and brought Jiang Man to meet the injured Mountain-Suppressing Office officials.
• Xiang Tianlin and the other officials asked about the stone Jiang Man had found; Jiang Man said he had sent it to the Sect and agreed to hand it over in exchange for compensation.
• Jiang Man built a place to stay amid the ruined battlefield, the Magpie Bridge opened, and Ting Fengyin arrived after the fighting had ended.

Jiang Man learned from Ting Fengyin about the Ji Family’s special surnames, the Supreme Heart Hall, and a formation that could disrupt the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s defenses. After returning to the Moonlit Sect, he investigated the enemy’s formations and chose a place for Ting Fengyin’s formation, but He Que arrived just as he was about to act.

• Jiang Man told Ting Fengyin about his recent encounters, and Ting Fengyin agreed to support him if the Four Seas Evil God or other enemies came after him.
• Ting Fengyin advised Jiang Man to establish his Immortal Ascension Daoist Site at the Supreme Heart Hall, explained that the Evil God cultivated the Supreme Upper Chapter, Forgetting Emotion, and said the Ji Family had only one person with each special surname.
• Ting Fengyin taught Jiang Man a formation that could disrupt the Evil God’s formations, then instructed him to find the Supreme Heart Hall and establish his Daoist Site there.
• After three days, Jiang Man returned to the courtyard with fruit and resumed cultivation; the Moonlit Sect continued recovering while hostile formations spread toward its territory.
• Ren Qian told Jiang Man that the Sect’s leaders were badly injured and that the enemy’s formations were extending outward, so Jiang Man agreed to seek information from the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit.
• In early August, Jiang Man selected a place to inscribe Ting Fengyin’s formation, but He Que arrived to resume his supervisory duties before Jiang Man could act.

Jiang Man secretly used a formation to suppress the spreading Evil God formation, then returned safely to the Wuyun Sect and visited Ji Meng, who teased him about exchanging her gift for Spirit Sources. Meanwhile, Luo Jian returned to the Luo Lineage and found it in better condition than he expected.

• He Que's notebook described the days Jiang Man spent cultivating while He Que was unconscious, leaving the period he could not remember blank.
• Jiang Man used the Evil God Method to reach the spreading formation, where he posed as Drunken Floating Life and drew a formation that repeatedly dismantled the Evil God formation.
• The Immortal Gate arrived, swept the area for Evil God forces, and began investigating the Formation Arts Evil God; the Three Rivers Evil God reported her gathering places.
• Jiang Man completed his assignment, returned to the Wuyun Sect, and visited Ji Meng, who asked whether he had come to exchange her gift for Spirit Sources.
• Luo Jian returned to Falling Cloud City, found the Luo Lineage well maintained, and told its guards he wanted to see the lineage head.

Luo Jian returned to the Luo Lineage as a Primordial Spirit cultivator and offered Luo Xuan a chance to pursue further cultivation at the Moonlit Sect, leaving her torn between that future and her ties to Gao Yao. Meanwhile, Jiang Man took Ji Meng shopping and brought her to his Shaobing Shop, where they unexpectedly came face-to-face with a Man in White.

• Luo Jian reunited with Luo Huaili, revealed his Primordial Spirit cultivation, and offered to take Luo Xuan to the Moonlit Sect for training.
• Jiang Man traded the Supreme Law stone to Ji Meng in exchange for an enormous surprise and took her to shop for food in the Outer Sect.
• Luo Xuan received news of Luo Jian's return and promotion, and Luo Lu urged her to leave Gao Yao's shop and seize the chance to cultivate.
• Luo Xuan asked Cheng Yu for advice, explaining that she was unsure whether she liked Gao Yao or should pursue her new opportunity.
• Jiang Man and Ji Meng reached the Shaobing Shop and found a Man in White eating there; both he and Jiang Man froze when they saw each other.