Chapter Summaries

The First Tribulation matchups were drawn, pairing Shi Xuan against Shi Jingren as the tournament advanced toward its top six. Shen Yimo, Golden Stream True Lord Li Xinxuan, Two Hearts Buddha, and Yuanjizi lost their matches, leaving Shi Xuan and Shi Jingren to fight for the final place.

• Kong Ran told Shi Xuan that she would explain Taixu Temple’s hidden peculiarity after they left, and Jian Tonghui said he still needed to sever the rest of his heart’s knot.
• The Heavenly Sovereigns debated Shi Xuan’s place among the strongest contenders, while Golden Stream True Lord and Shen Chenxi defended his right to be considered among the top ten.
• The boy drew the matchups: Shen Yimo faced Shao Zhuoran, Golden Stream True Lord Li Xinxuan faced Lian Yu, Mo Jingqiu faced Two Hearts Buddha, Yuanjizi faced An Yile, and Shi Jingren faced Shi Xuan, leaving Yan Sheng with a bye.
• Shao Zhuoran defeated Shen Yimo with a single powerful strike, and Lian Yu, Mo Jingqiu, and An Yile also defeated their opponents.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Jingren rose together to begin their match for the last place in the top six.

Shi Xuan lost his magic combat against Shi Jingren, whose Minor Destiny Art’s strongest incantation overwhelmed Shi Xuan’s sword and left him unable to resist. After Meng Nishang noticed Shi Jingren’s aura weaken when the incantation ended, the remaining Celestial Immortal matches concluded and the next Heavenly Sovereign bouts were drawn.

• Shi Xuan opened with an all-out sword strike, but Shi Jingren used the Minor Destiny Art to bind him and form the Destiny World.
• Shi Xuan repeatedly attacked with his Fate Destruction sword arts, yet Shi Jingren’s control of the Destiny World wounded him, damaged his treasures, and caused him to fall in realm.
• Shi Jingren annihilated Shi Xuan’s Primordial Spirit and won the bout, after which Qianxuzi restored Shi Xuan and his treasures.
• Meng Nishang told Shi Xuan that Shi Jingren’s aura had weakened after the Minor Destiny Art’s strongest incantation ended.
• The ordinary Celestial Immortal matches narrowed to thirteen Mighty Ones, and Qianxuzi drew the next bouts: Shao Zhuoran versus Yan Sheng, Shi Jingren versus Mo Jingqiu, and Lian Yu versus An Yile.

The Tai Xu Dharma Assembly’s final contests ended with An Yile defeating Shao Zhuoran, and the victors selected their prizes. Shi Xuan then tasted the Taixu Dao Fruit and sank into an insight into the Three Thousand Great Daos, while a green-robed woman entered a primordial wilderness in the depths of the cosmos.

• Mo Jingqiu’s Nine Bends Heavenly River Array collapsed under Shi Jingren’s assault, and Shi Jingren won after the nine instants elapsed.
• An Yile trapped Lian Yu’s disaster hurricane with her Buddha Kingdom in Palm and Karma Lotus Embryo, forcing him to concede.
• Shao Zhuoran defeated Shi Jingren, while An Yile later defeated Shao Zhuoran by locking onto his karma and erasing his existence.
• An Yile chose the Thousand-Petal Crimson Jade Lotus, Shao Zhuoran chose the Form and Spirit All-Wonderful Banner, and Shi Jingren chose the Pure Qi Spirit Transformation Gourd among the prize selections.
• Qianxuzi offered the Heavenly Sovereigns Taixu Dao Fruits, and Shi Xuan tasted one, sensing the Three Thousand Great Daos evolve within his Primordial Spirit.
• A green-robed woman entered a vast primordial wilderness beneath an auspicious cloud that contained the myriad phenomena of the universe.

After the Taixu Dao Fruit deepened Shi Xuan’s understanding of Fate Destruction and End Fate, he reflected on guarding his Dao heart and concealed that he had sensed the Yin Yang Great Dao most clearly. As the Heavenly Sovereigns returned from Taixu Temple, an unknown disturbance rippled through the void.

• Shi Xuan considered how his insights from the Taixu Dao Fruit could strengthen his foundations and reaffirmed his commitment to the Yin Yang Great Dao.
• Meng Nishang, Jian Tonghui, and Kong Ran described the Great Daos they had sensed, and Shi Xuan claimed his clearest insights had been Fate Destruction and End Fate.
• Qianxuzi offered tea to the guests, who thanked him for the Taixu Dao Fruit and the Dharma Assembly.
• An azure-robed female daoist traveled through the Chaotic Primordial Era and reached a forest where a hidden vine lay among dead powerful creatures.
• The Heavenly Sovereigns departed Taixu Temple together, and Shi Jingren calmly waited for an opportunity to pursue revenge after advancing his cultivation.
• The Purple Star Emperor’s procession appeared beside the returning group, and the void suddenly rippled and surged.

Qianxuzi’s universe collapsed under Ao Liu’s assault, and Kong Ran unexpectedly swept up the contending universes and their attackers with her Five-Colored Radiance, allowing Qianxuzi to flee. Shi Xuan and Shi Jingren were stranded together in the Chaotic Primordial Era, where Shi Jingren pursued him with the Fuxi Xiantian Disk while Meng Nishang and the Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign tried to find him.

• Ao Liu attacked Qianxuzi’s evolving universe, solidifying it and trapping Shi Xuan and the others in the clash.
• Shi Jingren struck Shi Xuan as he recovered, sending him into the Purple Star Emperor’s procession and its imperial carriage.
• Kong Ran’s Five-Colored Radiance swept up Ao Liu, her universe, and the solidified universe, giving Qianxuzi time to escape as the others vanished.
• Meng Nishang and the Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign realized Shi Xuan’s safeguarded thought had merged back into him and deduced that they were in the Chaotic Primordial Era.
• Shi Xuan fled an ordinary inn in the Chaotic Primordial Era, with Shi Jingren following close behind.
• Shi Jingren revealed that he had refined the Fuxi Xiantian Disk into his Primordial Spirit and prepared to use it against Shi Xuan.

Shi Jingren attacked Shi Xuan with the Fuxi Xiantian Disk and prepared his Minor Destiny Art, but Shi Xuan used the Five Virtues Fortune Claw and a purple light to escape. Shi Xuan emerged in a dangerous void beyond the Earth Membrane, where even Granny Yu’s spacetime beacon could not pass.

• Shi Jingren used the Fuxi Xiantian Disk’s Wind-Following Xun to attack Shi Xuan while preparing the Minor Destiny Art.
• Shi Xuan summoned the Five Virtues Fortune Claw, weakening the cyan gale but allowing a spatial storm to form around them.
• Shi Jingren began casting his strongest Minor Destiny Art as the weakened gale struck Qing Suo’s sword formation and injured Shi Xuan.
• A speck of purple light carried Shi Xuan and Qing Suo through the Destiny World and away from the incoming gale.
• Shi Jingren watched Shi Xuan escape and cursed him through gritted teeth.
• Shi Xuan found himself trapped in a perilous void beyond the Earth Membrane, unable to reach the Seven Immortals Great World.

Shi Xuan escaped Shi Jingren into the dangerous Chaotic Primordial Era, where fortune helped him survive Dao-Lost Chaos and defeat a chaos aberration. After the Five Elements Attendant rescued him from a Black Robed Heavenly Sovereign, Shi Xuan learned that Kong Ran had arranged his escape and chose to search for Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign before leaving.

• Shi Xuan recognized the surrounding Dao-Lost Chaos as part of the Chaotic Primordial Era and began searching for a way out and for his scattered companions.
• Shi Xuan narrowly avoided a hidden region of Dao-Lost Chaos, then encountered and killed an immature Ying Zhao, collecting its valuable remains.
• A Black Robed Heavenly Sovereign attacked Shi Xuan, but the Five Elements Attendant arrived, swept the attacker away, and rescued him as Ying Zhao's powerful parents approached.
• The Five Elements Attendant told Shi Xuan that Kong Ran had asked the Five Elements Dao Ancestor to send help, and offered to guide him out of the Chaotic Primordial Era.
• Shi Xuan asked to search for Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign before leaving, and the Five Elements Attendant agreed and offered him temporary control of his core to experience the Five-Colored Divine Light.

Shi Xuan took control of the Five Elements Attendant, captured Long Xiangdong, and learned of a strange region in the Chaotic Primordial Era containing three sects. When Long Xiangdong led him to the Youyu Sect, Peng Ziqian recognized Shi Xuan and welcomed the chance to confront him again.

• Shi Xuan imprinted the Five Elements Attendant and sent the captured Long Xiangdong to the ground, while the attendant befriended Purple Ying and Qing Suo.
• Shi Xuan made Long Xiangdong submit and searched his memories, learning that Long Xiangdong had discovered a fast-flowing region and three sects in the Chaotic Primordial Era.
• Shi Xuan decided to prioritize finding Meng Nishang and the others, then made Long Xiangdong swear an oath and lead him to the Youyu Sect.
• At the Youyu Sect, Murong Yingxue urged Ren Lige to consider sheltering under Peng Ziqian, and Peng Ziqian arrived to discuss the proposal.
• Ren Lige noticed Long Xiangdong returning with Shi Xuan, and Peng Ziqian recognized Shi Xuan and looked forward to confronting him.

Shi Xuan confronted Peng Ziqian and used the Five-Colored Divine Light to sweep him down along with Ren Lige, Murong Yingxue, and the Youyu Sect’s continent. After briefly reflecting on the technique’s power, Shi Xuan restored them, leaving Ren Lige and the others stunned by the possibility that he wielded the legendary Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Peng Ziqian launched his Second Tribulation Prayer Power Avatar at Shi Xuan while Ren Lige chose not to intervene and Murong Yingxue followed to prevent Long Xiangdong from interfering.
• Shi Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light swept down Peng Ziqian, his avatars and treasures, and a black vortex sent to rescue him.
• Ren Lige tried to save Peng Ziqian, but Shi Xuan swept down Ren Lige, Murong Yingxue, Long Xiangdong’s continent, and its surrounding celestial bodies as well.
• Long Xiangdong pleaded for Ren Lige, and Shi Xuan explained that he had captured them to avoid harming the Heavenly Sovereign while intervening.
• Shi Xuan reflected on the Five-Colored Divine Light and his own Immortal Technique, then restored the continent and its captives.
• Ren Lige recognized the Five-Colored Divine Light, and Long Xiangdong and Murong Yingxue realized Shi Xuan had wielded the legendary technique.

Shi Xuan searched for Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign, learned that his companions were scattered across the Chaotic Primordial Era, and accepted Murong Yingxue’s offer to guide him. After searching Peng Ziqian’s soul and taking his treasures, Shi Xuan freed the souls trapped as Prayer Power Avatars, who destroyed Peng Ziqian before a surviving Buddha left Shi Xuan a relic.

• Shi Xuan asked Ren Lige, Long Xiangdong, and Murong Yingxue whether they had seen Meng Nishang, Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign, or his other companions, but none had.
• Murong Yingxue offered to guide Shi Xuan through the nearby region, and Shi Xuan agreed before going to settle matters with Peng Ziqian.
• Shi Xuan searched Peng Ziqian’s soul and took his Seventh-grade Calamity-Transforming White Lotus, Three Phases Spirit-Evading Transformation Wheel, and other secret treasures.
• Shi Xuan freed the Prayer Power Avatars from their enslavement, and their resentful souls devoured Peng Ziqian’s Primordial Spirit as he pleaded for death.
• Miao Zun Buddha thanked Shi Xuan for freeing him, condensed his final aura into a relic, and dissipated.
• Shi Xuan sealed Peng Ziqian’s remaining prayer power for Madam Fang and the two young friends, and Purple Ying announced that he intended to cross the First Decay Tribulation.

Shi Xuan helped Purple Ying begin her Artifact-Body Decay, then searched the Chaotic Primordial Era for Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign with Murong Yingxue. He found their trail and parted from Murong Yingxue when they entered territory she had never explored.

• Shi Xuan advised Purple Ying to undergo the Artifact-Body Decay and persuaded Qing Suo to postpone her own tribulation.
• Purple Ying revealed her sword form, and Shi Xuan used their connection to help her withstand the first wave of backlash.
• Shi Xuan and Murong Yingxue entered a Great Thousand World through a gap in its spacetime storm, where Shi Xuan sensed a Netherworld connected to the Nine Nether First Layer.
• Shi Xuan found Meng Nishang and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign's marker on an Earth Membrane and left his own mark beside it.
• After following several markers into unfamiliar territory, Shi Xuan told Murong Yingxue to return, and she left without telling him what she had intended to say.

Shi Xuan searched the Chaotic Primordial Era for Meng Nishang and the Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign, encountering deadly hazards before finding Shen Yimo and Yi Tuan battling a second-tribulation Mighty One. Yi Tuan was swallowed by a Second Tribulation Kun Peng, while Shen Yimo escaped badly wounded.

• Shi Xuan spent a month searching for Meng Nishang and the Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign, avoiding powerful aberrations and a deadly Void Cavern.
• The Five Elements Attendant detected a fierce battle, and Shi Xuan cautiously approached after recognizing the combatants as acquaintances.
• Yi Tuan and Shen Yimo fought a second-tribulation Mighty One and three other Heavenly Sovereigns, then seized an opening to flee in different directions.
• Yi Tuan headed for chaos, but a Second Tribulation Kun Peng emerged and swallowed him.
• Shen Yimo escaped toward a spacetime storm with severe injuries and diminished cultivation, while Shi Xuan witnessed Yi Tuan's death.

After losing a wallet, the narrator spent the morning freezing cards and arranging documents, only to learn that someone had found it. With the wallet recovered but the cards still frozen, the narrator canceled the reports at the bank and returned to work, expecting to update around nine.

• The narrator froze the bank and credit cards, reported the wallet missing to the police, and obtained documents needed to apply for a temporary identity card.
• A kindhearted person at a bus terminal contacted the narrator after finding the wallet through a client's business card.
• The narrator retrieved the wallet and found that the cash was gone but the cards and ID card remained.
• The narrator discovered there was not enough change for lunch and the bank cards were still frozen, so hurried to the bank to cancel the temporary loss reports.
• The narrator finished at the bank, returned to work, and said the update would probably come around nine.

Shi Yimo was rescued from Ruyi Mountain’s Heavenly Sovereigns by Shi Xuan, who used the Five-Colored Divine Light to defeat them. After learning that the area held three powerful sects and a mysterious region with sealed memories, Shi Xuan suspected he had reached the other side of the abnormal-time region Long Xiangdong had described.

• Shen Yimo fought the pursuing Golden Crows but was saved when Shi Xuan’s crimson radiance swept away them and their Sun God Arrows.
• Shi Xuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to defeat the second-tribulation Mighty One as he fled, then reunited with Shen Yimo.
• Shen Yimo told Shi Xuan that she and True Lord Tongwei had encountered the Heavenly Sovereigns near a broken starry sky, and she recalled seeing stars covered in ice.
• Shi Xuan searched a captured Golden Crow’s spirit and learned that Ruyi Mountain, the Xuanming Sect, and the Star God Palace controlled the region and were pursuing two escaped Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Shi Xuan found that the captured Heavenly Sovereigns’ memories of a special region had been sealed by an eighth-tier Immortal Technique, and he linked it to the abnormal-time region Long Xiangdong had mentioned.

Shi Xuan stormed through the Broken Starry Sky to rescue Meng and Cold Mirror, sweeping aside the Star God Palace’s formation and its second-tribulation Patriarch with his Five-Colored Divine Light. As he neared the special region, Grandmother Taiyin and True Lord Six-Eared discussed how Meng and Cold Mirror had escaped deeper into its time-warped light-hole, where Candle Dragon awaited them.

• Shi Xuan brought the injured Shen Yimo into his Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram and flew toward the Broken Starry Sky to rescue Meng and Cold Mirror.
• Wei Linfeng and Xianyun True Person activated the Three Enclosures Twenty-Eight Mansions Great Formation against Shi Xuan, but his Five-Colored Divine Light swept away its attacks and broke the formation.
• Shi Xuan swept down Tianshi True Monarch’s starry world with the Five-Colored Divine Light and continued onward as the Star God Palace disciples withdrew and called for reinforcements.
• Shi Xuan passed the Star God Palace, Ruyi Mountain, and Xuanming Sect without stopping, while their defenders stayed inside their Grotto-Heavens and reported his approach to their Patriarchs.
• Grandmother Taiyin and True Lord Six-Eared said Meng and Cold Mirror had escaped deeper into the time-warped light-hole, where they would face Candle Dragon or be forced back out.

Shi Xuan confronted the three Three Tribulation Mighty Ones guarding the Time Secret Cave and used the Five-Colored Divine Light to overwhelm Star Emperor Taiwei. True Lord Six-Eared and Grandmother Taiyin halted their attacks as Shi Xuan invited them to talk, while Shi Jingren arrived at the Time Grotto Cave.

• Grandmother Taiyin, Star Emperor Taiwei, and True Lord Six-Eared discussed the Time Secret Cave and grew suspicious after several Heavenly Sovereigns appeared nearby.
• True Lord Six-Eared learned that an unknown Mighty One had broken the Star God Palace’s formation, taken Tianshi True Monarch, and headed toward the secret cave; reports also confirmed True Lord Juque was missing.
• Shi Xuan arrived and greeted the three Mighty Ones, but Star Emperor Taiwei and True Lord Six-Eared attacked him while Grandmother Taiyin hesitated over the familiar Five-Colored Radiance.
• Shi Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light swept away the Great Heavenly Stars Diagram and captured or subdued Star Emperor Taiwei, prompting True Lord Six-Eared to defend himself and Grandmother Taiyin to recognize the divine ability.
• Shi Xuan asked True Lord Six-Eared and Grandmother Taiyin to speak with him, while Shi Jingren stared at the rippling entrance to the Time Grotto Cave.

Shi Jingren entered the Time Grotto Cave to cultivate and pursue an opportunity, while other cultivators also approached it. Shi Xuan secured a truce with Grandmother Taiyin, True Lord Six-Eared, and their allies, then learned that his two companions had gone deeper into the hidden cave.

• Shi Jingren escaped into the Chaotic Primordial Era, recovered in the Fuxi Xiantian Disk, and entered the Time Grotto Cave to cultivate and seek its opportunity.
• Shao Zhuoran reached the sea of time, while Lian Yu passed through a spacetime storm into the strange region.
• An Yile judged the danger too great and returned to Liuli Heaven using Buddha Ancestor Shiqi’s method.
• Shi Xuan asked Grandmother Taiyin and True Lord Six-Eared to talk, and they held back from attacking after recognizing his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Shi Xuan released True Lord Juque and the other captured Heavenly Sovereigns, then freed Tianshi True Monarch and Star Emperor Taiwei, easing the factions’ hostility.
• Grandmother Taiyin explained that Shi Xuan’s two companions had entered the depths of the spacetime hidden cave, and Shi Xuan agreed to let the dispute pass and search for them himself.

Shi Xuan entered the Time Secret Cave to search for Meng and learned too late that his bluff had fooled the Xuanming Sect’s leaders. As he crossed the cave’s dangerous time currents, a sudden flash and wave of freezing cold struck him.

• Shi Xuan convinced Grandmother Taiyin, True Lord Six-Eared, and Star Emperor Taiwei that his Five-Colored Divine Light could easily suppress them, then asked about the cave’s dangers and entered alone.
• After realizing Shi Xuan’s divine light had not sealed Star Emperor Taiwei’s Primordial Spirit, the leaders recognized his bluff and decided to follow him, hoping he and a powerful Candle Dragon would weaken each other.
• Shi Xuan adapted to the cave’s accelerated flow of time, explored its winding passages, and found his Immortal Awareness could not penetrate regions where time flowed faster.
• After crossing several time boundaries, Shi Xuan reached a turbulent region where time suddenly calmed and the darkness turned bright.
• A wave of freezing cold swept toward Shi Xuan too quickly for him to react.

Shi Xuan and the Five Elements Attendant fought a Candle Dragon that used time to ambush them and evade the Five-Colored Divine Light. They discovered it was guarding a Myriad Ancient Time Tree alongside a second, equally powerful Candle Dragon, and began retreating before the pair could trap them.

• A Candle Dragon caught Shi Xuan in a Time Cage and nearly froze him, but the Five Elements Attendant broke the technique and helped him withstand its attacks.
• Shi Xuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light and the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Magnetic Annihilation Needle against the Candle Dragon, but its Flame of Time and control of time let it evade capture.
• Shi Xuan realized the Candle Dragon was guarding a cave-like side path and advanced toward it while fending off increasingly fierce attacks.
• The Candle Dragon retreated into the side path, revealing a Myriad Ancient Time Tree and a second Candle Dragon coiled atop it.
• Shi Xuan and the Five Elements Attendant withdrew rather than face both Candle Dragons, but the first Candle Dragon attacked Shi Xuan with Flame of Time as he retreated.

Shi Xuan escaped Candle Dragon’s attacks and used the Five Elements Attendant’s time Immortal Technique to track Meng and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign through the Time Secret Cave. He unexpectedly encountered Lian Yu, who attacked him before fleeing and proposing they join forces.

• Shi Xuan and Qing Suo narrowly escaped a time tempest, and Candle Dragon withdrew toward the Myriad Ancient Time Tree.
• The Five Elements Attendant revealed that he could trace residual marks through time and found traces left by Meng and Cold Mirror Heavenly Sovereign.
• Shi Xuan followed the traces deeper into the Time Secret Cave, where time flowed increasingly quickly and dangerous phenomena grew more frequent.
• Lian Yu emerged from another passage and attacked Shi Xuan with the Taiyi Divine Light, but Shi Xuan brushed it aside with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lian Yu escaped through a time tempest and proposed that he and Shi Xuan join forces in the dangerous cave.