Chapter Summaries

Chen Xia refused to compromise with an overseas Qi practitioner who threatened to kill thousands of civilians in the capital, insisting that he would avenge them rather than yield. The old man’s threat had not yet been carried out when Chen Xia turned the accusation back on him.

• Chen Xia rejected Nine Thousand Years’s suggestion to ambush the immortal in seclusion and went out into the capital, watched over by Constabulary experts.
• Chen Xia chatted with a candied-fruit vendor and watched a young woman buy a candied snow pear.
• An overseas Qi practitioner shot an arrow at Chen Xia, who caught it, and the old man revealed that he had come with another practitioner to settle accounts.
• The old man threatened to kill thousands of civilians and singled out the young woman, demanding that Chen Xia agree to his terms.
• Chen Xia refused to compromise, saying he would avenge the people if they died, and challenged the old man for risking every Qi practitioner’s life through his actions.

Chen Xia killed the Qi refiner who threatened Great Song and later spent the night playing chess with Huang Qingyue. In the Upper Realm, Xu Zhen continued to miss Chen Xia while remaining secluded at the Fuyao Immortal Sect.

• Chen Xia killed the old Qi refiner and used Flood Dragon Qi to restrain another attacker, then dismissed the Constabulary experts who apologized for failing to protect him.
• Huang Qingyue visited Chen Xia, ate a roast suckling pig in two bites, and explained that her father had sent her to attend to him.
• Chen Xia played Chinese chess with Huang Qingyue, jokingly inventing a crown prince to avoid being put in check.
• Elder Wang Wu told the Holy Maiden's cave door that the Sacred Assembly of Ten Thousand Sects would take place in one thousand years, but the door did not relay his message to Xu Zhen.
• Xu Zhen asked Little Wu when she could leave freely and thought about how much she missed Weixi Town and Chen Xia.
• After losing at chess all night, Huang Qingyue pleaded with Chen Xia to spare her life when she overheard him joke that she might cry if he punched her.

Chen Xia left the imperial city during a winter storm, leaving Huang Qingyue a farewell letter and the Mystic Primordial Dao Chapters. Years later, Great Song’s martial world held a major tournament to select its ten greatest experts, while Chen Xia remained missing.

• Song Wei arranged for statues of Chen Xia to be worshipped across Great Song, and annual kowtowing filled Chen Xia’s Flood Dragon Qi until it evolved into Spirit Dragon Qi.
• Chen Xia and Huang Qingyue played chess and flew a kite together, and Chen Xia agreed to fly one with her again without naming a time.
• In the third year, Chen Xia quietly left the imperial city in the wind and snow, leaving Huang Qingyue a farewell letter and the Mystic Primordial Dao Chapters hidden in a snowman.
• Huang Qingyue found Chen Xia gone and waved goodbye to the snowman, which collapsed to reveal the book.
• By the eighth year, Great Song’s martial world and imperial authorities were jointly hosting the Number One Under Heaven Martial Dao Tournament at the Water of the Heavenly Altar.

Chen Xia spent his days idling at the Altar of Heavenly Water, where ferry passengers speculated about the martial arts tournament and the immortal’s fate. Their rumors claimed Chen Xia had died, while he remained hidden in his cabin and heard them.

• An old man crossed the river atop a bamboo pole, astonishing the people waiting at the ferry landing.
• Chen Xia joked with a neighboring boatman about finding a wife, then retreated to his cabin and checked his cultivation and growing luck.
• When an aristocratic scion offered to pay for a crossing, Chen Xia tossed him the oars and told him to row the boat himself.
• Passengers aboard Chen Xia’s boat debated who would win the martial arts tournament and spread conflicting rumors about Chen Xia’s disappearance and supposed death.
• Chen Xia listened from his cabin and thought the rumors were growing absurd, then heard someone ask whether the others had heard of the Little Immortal.

Chen Xia attended Great Song’s martial arts tournament, where Nine Thousand Years defeated the injured Zuo Feiyang before an overseas Qi refiner tried to drain his power with a pagoda. Chen Xia confronted the attacker, declaring that he would kill every overseas Qi refiner he saw.

• Chen Xia listened to spectators discuss the Little Immortal and the tournament, then made his way to the crowded Heavenly Altar.
• Song Wei and Nine Thousand Years discussed their plan to bring the martial world under Great Song’s control and their suspicions about the Little Immortal.
• Chen Xia watched the tournament from the crowd, while Nine Thousand Years defeated Zuo Feiyang in their headline match.
• A young man in white revealed that his red brow mark had absorbed the flesh, blood, and power of more than a dozen martial artists, then used an exquisite pagoda to drain Nine Thousand Years.
• Chen Xia appeared on the platform and confronted the overseas Qi refiner, vowing to kill every one he saw.

Chen Xia defeated an overseas Qi Refiner who had entered Great Song and left him alive for questioning, then disappeared after warning the martial heroes that their paths would not cross again. Fifteen years later, Huang Qingyue remained in the imperial city, missing Chen Xia as heavy snow fell.

• Chen Xia revealed his power over a lightning dragon, overcame the young man in white, and shattered the Exquisite Pagoda with a flick, leaving the Qi Refiner alive to be questioned.
• Chen Xia told Song Wei to interrogate the captive, urged the martial heroes to keep fighting, and vanished after saying they should never meet again.
• By the thirtieth year of the Wei calendar, Great Song had recruited nearly eighty percent of martial heroes into the Constabulary, tying the martial world to the court.
• In the fortieth year of the Wei calendar, Huang Qingyue watched heavy snow fall and remembered Chen Xia's departure fifteen years earlier.
• Huang Qingyue missed Chen Xia and wondered whether he could return before the flowers bloomed.

After decades of farming and cultivation, Chen Xia comprehended elementary time manipulation by watching a tree’s life cycle. He returned to Huang Qingyue, whose peach tree blossomed as he arrived, and they reunited after a long separation.

• Chen Xia devoted decades to farming, cultivating, and raising his luck until he unlocked the Lucky One achievement and began studying the Mystic Primordial Dao Chapters.
• Chen Xia watched a tree grow, flower, and age over fifty-one years, then gained elementary time comprehension and used it to accelerate a flower’s entire life cycle.
• Chen Xia descended the mountain, increased his strength from 35 to 85, and adjusted to his power after accidentally collapsing three mountains.
• Huang Qingyue tended a miniature peach tree in the imperial city and wondered how much time had passed while she remained young through cultivating Mystic Primordial Qi.
• Chen Xia appeared at Huang Qingyue’s wall as her peach tree blossomed, and Huang Qingyue tearfully asked why he had not taken her with him.
• Chen Xia told Huang Qingyue that he had promised they would meet again, and she smiled through her tears as the peach blossoms bloomed.

Chen Xia returned to the imperial city to cultivate, reunited with Huang Qingyue and Song Wei, and began forming his Golden Core. After half a month in seclusion, he discovered that his core was a seven-colored bead, beyond the rankings he knew.

• Chen Xia told Huang Qingyue he planned to stay in the imperial city, and learned she had condensed fifty wisps of Mystic Primordial Qi.
• Song Nan recognized Chen Xia as the Imperial Preceptor and brought Song Wei to meet him; Song Wei welcomed him back after fifty years apart.
• Chen Xia spent two months in the imperial city with Huang Qingyue before preparing to form his Golden Core on March second.
• Chen Xia completed his Golden Core after half a month of cultivation and found a seven-colored bead spinning above his Qi sea.

Chen Xia formed a seven-colored Golden Core, shared a romantic moment with Huang Qingyue, and later entered seclusion to understand his core. Forty years into his seclusion, an old immortal emerged from the immortal gate, declaring that he had formed a Golden Core.

• Chen Xia formed a seven-colored Golden Core and considered creating a time-stopping Divine Ability.
• Huang Qingyue welcomed Chen Xia after guarding his home, and the two shared a kiss after she claimed her saliva was fragrant.
• Huang Qingyue began practicing swordsmanship, while Chen Xia watched and told her that pale yellow dresses suited her.
• Song Wei died, and Crown Prince Song Nan succeeded him after Chen Xia agreed to intervene only in natural disasters and certain extraordinary calamities.
• In the tenth year of Song Nan's reign, Chen Xia entered a secret chamber beneath the imperial city to cultivate in seclusion, and Huang Qingyue vowed to guard him.
• Forty years into the Nan calendar, an old immortal emerged from the immortal gate and announced that he had formed a Golden Core.

The old immortal emerged from seclusion and forced Song Nan to agree that Great Song would worship his statue, then attacked Chen Xia while he was still secluded. Chen Xia emerged to protect Huang Qingyue and struck the old immortal with overwhelming force, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The old immortal demanded that every citizen of Great Song worship his statue, and Song Nan agreed after the old immortal forced him to kneel and threatened to replace him.
• The old immortal defeated Nine Thousand Years with a finger and went to Chen Xia’s secret chamber to demand a life for the disciple Chen Xia had killed.
• Huang Qingyue tried to stop the old immortal, but he broke her sword and wounded her; a gaunt old man proposed using her as a vessel for possession.
• Chen Xia emerged from beneath a hundred meters of earth, hurled an iron pillar through the gaunt old man, and confronted the old immortal.
• Chen Xia stopped time, struck the old immortal with a punch, and walked toward him again as blood poured from his body.

Chen Xia defeated and killed the old immortal who attacked the imperial capital, earning one wisp of Invincible Intent and cementing his reputation as invincible in this world. After tending to Huang Qingyue and considering their future in the immortal realm, he decided to begin forging his invincibility.

• Chen Xia overwhelmed the old immortal, crushed his flying sword, and killed him with a pebble after learning that he sought to ascend by killing Chen Xia.
• The old immortal warned Chen Xia that ascension would make him an insignificant ant in the Upper Realm, but Chen Xia said he would rather remain alive than fight for power there.
• Chen Xia gained one wisp of Invincible Intent, checked on Huang Qingyue, and ordered the old immortal's corpse cremated and his ashes scattered into the sea.
• Chen Xia and Huang Qingyue spent the night discussing medicine, and Chen Xia later reflected that he would eventually need to ascend to protect her and visit Xu Zhen.
• Chen Xia resolved to prepare for the Upper Realm by becoming stronger and declared that he would forge invincibility starting that day.

Chen Xia confronted the overseas Qi refiners, who offered him the chance to become the god of his world through their Attendant Grand Formation. Their account of a city-destroying visitor from another realm led Chen Xia to reveal that he had seen the same kind of power a hundred years earlier.

• In December, Chen Xia and Huang Qingyue built two snowmen together, and Chen Xia said little remained for him to miss about his distant hometown.
• In early spring, Chen Xia found the overseas Qi refiners hiding in an underground chamber on a deserted island and confronted them.
• The Qi refiners offered Chen Xia their Attendant Grand Formation and explained that becoming a world's heart could make him its god, though ascending afterward might bring a hundred thousand lightning tribulations.
• Chen Xia asked about city-destroying immortals, and a Qi refiner recounted a similar event from six hundred years earlier that the Fuyao Immortal Sect had attributed to a Saint from another realm.
• Chen Xia revealed that he had witnessed such an event a hundred years ago, leaving the Qi refiners shaken by the five-hundred-year gap between the incidents.

Chen Xia established a nationwide offering system and cultivated for decades while worrying about a mysterious city-destroying hand and the possibility of parting from Huang Qingyue. When a Ninth Mountain sect master arrived to recruit Huang Qingyue and threatened to take her away, Chen Xia stepped forward and declared that Nascent Soul was not enough to stop him.

• Chen Xia persuaded the Qi refiners to help him become a god, and golden statues of him were built throughout Great Song so commoners could offer prayers.
• Chen Xia cultivated in seclusion while Huang Qingyue tended the peach blossoms, and they promised to reunite if they ever had to part.
• Over eighty years, Song Nan died and the crown prince succeeded him; Chen Xia neared Nascent Soul and gained control over time, while Huang Qingyue formed a Golden Core.
• A woman from the Ninth Mountain arrived by golden palanquin and announced that she had come to recruit Huang Qingyue as a disciple.
• The sect master refused to let Chen Xia accompany Huang Qingyue and warned that she might lose her chance to ascend if she stayed behind.
• Huang Qingyue refused to leave, and Chen Xia stepped forward after the woman claimed her Nascent Soul cultivation made her impossible to resist.

Chen Xia challenged the Ninth Mountain woman to prove she would treat Huang Qingyue well, while learning why the sect wanted Qingyue and what it meant that he was without fortune. The woman proposed a Golden Core-strength spar, and Chen Xia revealed that he had a Multicolored Core as they prepared to fight.

• Chen Xia used the Great Dao of Time to break free of the woman's control and demanded to know how she would treat Huang Qingyue.
• The woman explained that the Ninth Mountain wanted Qingyue because her Mystic Primordial Qi and aptitude made her a Quasi-Saint-level prodigy, and warned that she and Chen Xia might ascend centuries apart.
• The woman told Chen Xia that being without fortune limited his cultivation and negatively affected those around him, then said Qingyue could become the mountain lord's final disciple.
• The woman revealed she was at the peak of the Heaven-Mending Realm and challenged Chen Xia to exchange moves while she suppressed herself to Golden Core strength.
• Chen Xia warned her to use Nascent Soul strength, then raised his fists and revealed that he had a Multicolored Core.

Chen Xia defeated Shen Ying in their spar and learned that she was the sect master of the Ninth Mountain, offering Huang Qingyue a path to the Immortal Realm with a way to stay in contact. Huang Qingyue chose to go, and after their tearful parting, Chen Xia entered long seclusion.

• Chen Xia struck through Shen Ying’s time-protective formation and sent her flying, then revealed he could trigger his Nascent Soul tribulation with a single thought.
• Shen Ying introduced herself as the sect master of the Ninth Mountain and offered Huang Qingyue a Cross-Realm Beacon so she and Chen Xia could stay in contact.
• Huang Qingyue agreed to go to the Immortal Realm with Shen Ying after Chen Xia urged her to decide freely.
• Chen Xia and Huang Qingyue said goodbye, promising to meet again as she departed for the Immortal Realm.
• After Huang Qingyue left, Chen Xia entered a long seclusion and stopped appearing in the world.

After fifty years in seclusion, Chen Xia continued preparing for eventual ascension while Great Song collapsed under its ninth emperor’s tyranny. A peasant rebellion founded Great Xia, whose emperor honored Chen Xia, while Chen Xia watched without intervening.

• Fifty years after entering seclusion, Chen Xia had accumulated 750 Spirit Dragon Qi, while his Cross-Realm Beacon remained only twenty percent charged.
• Chen Xia decided to delay ascending until he had strengthened his cultivation and gathered more safeguards, then spent decades writing a Dao chapter and refining his Golden Core.
• Great Song’s ninth emperor oppressed officials and commoners, provoking uprisings that spread across the country.
• Rebel forces captured the emperor after his appeal to the silent Chen Xia went unanswered, and Great Song fell.
• Great Xia’s first emperor kowtowed to Chen Xia’s statue, while Chen Xia observed the change of dynasties without getting involved.

Chen Xia prepared to face the returning giant hand, but it descended on the imperial city sooner than expected. He revealed himself to the emperor and summoned a hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation as the hand approached.

• Chen Xia sensed warnings from heaven and earth, cultivated, and worked to finish his Dao Chapter before the giant hand returned.
• A massive finger descended over the imperial city, terrifying its people and prompting them to flee or pray to Chen Xia.
• The emperor of Great Xia pleaded with the supposed immortal to save the world, then cursed him when no one appeared.
• Chen Xia appeared before the emperor, revealed himself as the immortal, and told him to watch.
• Chen Xia rose into the sky and summoned dark clouds and scarlet lightning for a hundred-thousand-year Great Emperor-level tribulation.

Immortal Realm powers discovered that Chen Xia faced a hundred-thousand-year Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation despite having no worldly fortune, and argued over which sect should claim him if he survived. As the giant hand threatened the imperial city, Chen Xia was driven underground but gathered the citizens’ wishes until his Spirit Dragon Qi filled and a thousand-zhang true dragon appeared behind him.

• Immortal Realm divine senses investigated Chen Xia and found no trace of fortune in his past, present, karma, or opportunities.
• The Heaven-Controlling Sect and Emperor Mountain argued over accepting Chen Xia and reconstructing his body, while others urged them to wait and see if he survived the tribulation.
• Chen Xia charged the giant hand and briefly knocked it back, but it struck him into the imperial city and buried him beneath the rubble.
• Chen Xia rose from the ruins and waited for the citizens’ worship to fill his Spirit Dragon Qi.
• Chen Xia asked the people to make offerings and wishes, and their power brought his Spirit Dragon Qi to 1000/1000.
• Golden light flared in Chen Xia’s eyes as a thousand-zhang true dragon appeared behind him.

Chen Xia fought the enormous hand with his true dragon manifestation and destroyed it, but the hundred-thousand-year Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation still threatened to strike. Badly wounded and out of strength, he raised his Fortune to 41 and faced the storm, betting his life on luck.

• Chen Xia summoned a thousand-zhang true dragon manifestation and held the enormous hand at bay while powerful figures watched from the heavens.
• When the hand pressed harder, Chen Xia fought back, wounded it, and charged as it tried to crush him within its palm.
• A distant voice revealed that the attacker was a Quasi-Emperor, while the watching figures chose not to intervene.
• Chen Xia snapped off the hand's little finger and continued fighting until the enormous hand vanished, its bloody rain spreading Spiritual Qi across the world.
• After the battle, Chen Xia faced the gathering lightning tribulation, raised his Fortune to 41, and prepared to gamble with his life.

After surviving his tribulation, Chen Xia was pulled from the river of time into Great All-Heavens and recruited by an old fisherman as a disciple of the Azure Heaven Sword Sea. Two months later, he was catching fish in the shallows and discovered that the minor world he had changed was sending Spiritual Qi back to him.

• The minor world experienced Spiritual Qi revival after Chen Xia's apparent death, and people, plants, and beasts began gaining unusual abilities.
• An old fisherman told Chen Xia he had fished him out of the river of time, called him the minor world's protagonist, and made him his disciple.
• The old fisherman brought Chen Xia to the Azure Heaven Sword Sea, a top-three sect in Great All-Heavens, and revealed its sword-filled sea stretched beneath the pool.
• After two months in the shallows, Chen Xia upgraded his breathing technique and realized Spiritual Qi from the minor world was strengthening him in return.