Chapter Summaries

The Seven Stars Domain and the Demonic Sect turned the Immortal Alliance against Ning Xuantian, who was killed while trying to flee. Xie Feng and his senior brother appeared after the battle, while Sushang watched Xie Feng and Madam Wenqu and Ming Cangyan traded questions about the Demonic Sect’s retreat and Xie Feng’s connection to the Seven Stars Domain.

• Madam Wenqu exposed Ning Xuantian’s plan to sacrifice the Second Sequence and Upper Realm, and Xuanyuan Zhige offered the other sects safety if they left the Immortal Alliance.
• The Immortal Alliance’s army and elders refused Ning Xuantian’s order to attack, and Xiao Jin turned his sword against him.
• Ning Xuantian used clones to distract his pursuers and flee, but a wooden sword carved with “Jade Pivot” killed him and destroyed his soul.
• A man in black retrieved the sword and bragged about killing Ning Xuantian, while Xie Feng reacted and Sushang watched him with longing.
• Jun Ran and Xuanyuan Zhige credited Green Duckweed Manor’s sacrifice for the victory, and Madam Wenqu told Ming Cangyan that Xie Feng was the Seven Stars Domain’s benefactor.

Ge Ya publicly declared Xie Feng his junior brother and ended the battlefield’s uncertainty, after which the Immortal Alliance fell and a new order formed. Xie Feng later heard how Zhu Mingming saved Jun Ran and died destroying the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron, then agreed to let Cang Shanhu study at Green Duckweed Manor if she chose; Jun Ran learned that Xie Feng shared a master with Ge Ya.

• Ge Ya introduced Xie Feng as his junior brother and warned the assembled factions not to harm or insult him.
• Xie Feng declared the war over, and the battlefield erupted in cheers as the survivors prepared to go home.
• The Immortal Alliance disintegrated after its defeat, while the Seven Stars Domain, Demonic Sect, and Xuanji Sect emerged as the First Heavens’ great powers.
• Jun Ran told Xie Feng that Zhu Mingming had rescued and resurrected her before sacrificing himself to destroy the Nine Dragons Facing the Cauldron.
• Jun Ran gave Xie Feng the unfinished storybook Thunderclap: That Heaven-Reaching Cultivation, and he promised to continue it.
• Jun Ran asked to train Cang Shanhu at Green Duckweed Manor, and Xie Feng agreed if Cang Shanhu consented; he then revealed that he and Ge Ya shared a master.

Ge Ya returned to the Demonic Sect, kept Yan Xu from being sent to face the wall, and then went with Xie Feng to visit the Xuanji Sect. His arrival stirred up the mountain creatures’ memories of his destructive antics, while he greeted the familiar place as home.

• Ming Cangyan told Yan Xu that Qian Xiao was dead and Bai Lan and Meiying were confined in Desolate Life Valley.
• Ge Ya arrived and ordered Yan Xu demoted and sent to face the wall, but Yan Xu persuaded him to let him stay by praising his usefulness and companionship.
• Ge Ya left for the Xuanji Sect after rebuking Ming Cangyan for asking where he was going.
• Ge Ya met Xie Feng, and the two set off together to see the Xuanji Sect and its mountain range.
• The creatures of Xuanji Mountain panicked at Ge Ya’s arrival, recalling his old destructive behavior, while he declared that the place made him feel at home.
• Ge Ya covered his face with a ghost mask whenever he saw a female disciple, as Xie Feng noted that his fear of women had worsened over the years.

Ge Ya told Xie Feng how Master had gathered his disciples from different universes and explained the power and instability of his Great Cosmos Devil-Devouring Physique. After Xie Feng revealed that Master had been injured in a spacetime projection, Ge Ya resolved to begin another journey, while Eldest Senior Brother remained missing.

• Ge Ya explained that Master had founded the Xuanji Sect after taking in him, Eldest Senior Brother, and Xie Feng as orphans from different universes.
• Ge Ya described how his Great Cosmos Devil-Devouring Physique drained his cultivation until Master found a mysterious pill that let him control it.
• Ge Ya provoked the Extreme Dao Sword, which flared with Dao laws before Xie Feng calmed it and it went off to sulk.
• Xie Feng told Ge Ya that he had seen Master wounded while fighting a mysterious person in disordered spacetime, and Ge Ya decided to begin another journey.
• Ge Ya said Eldest Senior Brother had left the sect when Xie Feng was five and had stopped sending messages.

Ge Ya told Xie Feng how he had entered the Upper Realm and taken over the Demonic Sect, then revisited old companions who fled or hid from him. Over plain noodles, Ge Ya revealed that the First Sequence was a graveyard protecting the First Heavens, while Jiang Fei arrived at the stall and watched Xie Feng and Ge Ya.

• Ge Ya admitted that he had punched through the boundary wall to enter the Upper Realm and claimed the Demonic Sect master's bed and position had been given to him.
• Ge Ya and Xie Feng visited the mountain behind the sect, where Primordial Bamboo fled and the Chaos Ao Dragon hid from Ge Ya.
• Ge Ya took Xie Feng to a noodle stall in Holy Demon Heaven to eat the plain noodles he remembered from his first night in the Upper Realm.
• Ge Ya revealed that the First Sequence had no living residents and was a graveyard where the kings of the First Heavens rested, their wills protecting the realm.
• Jiang Fei arrived at the noodle stall, discreetly looked toward Xie Feng and Ge Ya, and ordered plain noodles.

Jiang Fei confronted Ge Ya, revealing she had searched for him for more than two hundred years, but he fled after declaring he was afraid of women. She left his Fleeting Life Umbrella with Xie Feng to return to Ge Ya herself and paid the noodle stall owner with an immortal pill before departing.

• Ge Ya attacked Jiang Fei with a sword strike that split the ground, then threatened her when she approached him.
• Jiang Fei caught Ge Ya's wooden sword and told him she had searched for him for more than two hundred years, but he pushed Xie Feng in front of himself and vanished.
• Jiang Fei told Xie Feng that she had inherited a powerful senior's cultivation after enduring a painful ordeal, and offered him Ge Ya's Fleeting Life Umbrella.
• Xie Feng urged Jiang Fei to return the umbrella to Ge Ya herself, and she agreed before he went to find his senior brother.
• Jiang Fei paid the noodle stall owner with an immortal pill for her noodles and those of Ge Ya and Xie Feng, then departed.

The Heavenly Ranking announced the Upper Realm’s Factions Ranking, revealing Lin Xuan’s Heavenly Profound Sect in seventh place and drawing widespread attention to the young sect master. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan and the assembled Heavenly Profound Sect standing at the border of Wuji Heaven.

• Xie Feng told Ge Ya that the Lower Realm’s empress had been searching for him, but Ge Ya could not remember saving her and boasted about his looks.
• The Heavenly Ranking descended and began announcing the hundred strongest sects in the Upper Realm.
• As the ranking approached its top ten, people discussed Lin Xuan, who had founded the Mystic Sect in the Eighth Sequence and planned to conquer Wuji Heaven.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Lin Xuan’s Heavenly Profound Sect seventh, startling the Upper Realm and bringing Lin Xuan into the public eye.
• Lin Xuan stood at the border of Wuji Heaven with the assembled members of the Heavenly Profound Sect behind him.

Lin Xuan prepared the Heavenly Profound Sect to challenge the higher sequences, while the Heavenly Ranking placed Xuanji Sect first and granted its members a massive cultivation boost. Xie Feng and Ge Ya reached Impermanence Valley, where Ge Ya opened a rift in the sky.

• Lin Xuan ordered the Heavenly Profound Sect members to eliminate people he considered potential threats before their departure for Wuji Heaven.
• Jun Ran and Ming Cangyan discussed Lin Xuan, Xie Feng, and the factions as the Heavenly Ranking placed Green Duckweed Manor fourth and the Demonic Sect second.
• The Heavenly Ranking placed Xuanji Sect first, and its Sainthood for the Entire Sect reward raised the cultivation of its members, including Xie Feng, to the fifth stage of Saint Emperor.
• Lin Xuan vowed that the Heavenly Profound Sect would eventually replace Xuanji Sect and that his name would be remembered.
• Xie Feng and Ge Ya arrived at Impermanence Valley, where Ge Ya punched open a rift in the sky.

Ge Ya and Xie Feng entered the First Sequence, where Ge Ya defeated its kingly guardians and persuaded the surviving kings to lead them onward. Xie Feng became absorbed in the sight of a distant golden planet, while Ge Ya reserved himself a plot among the kings’ tombs.

• Ge Ya and Xie Feng crossed into the First Sequence, and its guardians warned unauthorized intruders to leave.
• Xie Feng struck down a black scroll that revealed ten Saint Emperor king-wills, but Ge Ya told him to stand aside.
• Ge Ya overwhelmed the ten kings with a black dragon, leaving only the Azure King and the White King alive.
• The Azure King and the White King recognized Ge Ya and guided him and Xie Feng to a land filled with the tombs of kings.
• Xie Feng gazed across the stars at a distant golden planet and became absorbed in the sight.
• Ge Ya reserved a grassy patch among the tombs as his burial plot, then asked Xie Feng what he was thinking about.

Xie Feng prepared to leave the Upper Realm for the Dao Realm and entrusted Cang Shanhu to Jun Ran’s care at Green Duckweed Manor. He said goodbye to Jing Yuan, who reacted angrily to his destination but told him to go.

• Xie Feng told Ge Ya he wanted to explore the Dao Realm, while the Azure King and the White King learned that Ge Ya planned to stay in the First Sequence.
• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect and offered Cang Shanhu the choice to cultivate at Green Duckweed Manor while remaining a disciple of the sect.
• Cang Shanhu agreed to go, and Xie Feng brought her to Jun Ran, who welcomed her as a promising future talent.
• Jun Ran realized Xie Feng had come to say goodbye and led him to Jing Yuan’s cottage.
• Jing Yuan emerged when Xie Feng called, struck the ground in anger after he said he was going to the Dao Realm, and waved him off.

Xie Feng and his companions left the Upper Realm for the Dao Realm, traveling aboard Ge Ya’s black dragon. After arriving, they headed toward a nearby city to settle in and explore.

• Xie Feng returned to the Xuanji Sect, left Anping and Qi Wuyan in charge, and took Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin to the kings' graveyard.
• Ge Ya summoned his black dragon to carry the group across the river of stars toward the Dao Realm.
• Ge Ya gave Xie Feng a demonic talisman and a ring of tokens for territories he had conquered, then stayed behind as the others continued onward.
• Xie Feng and the others arrived in the Dao Realm and found its energy and Dao laws far greater than those of the Upper Realm.
• Xie Feng led the group toward a city beyond the forest, while Sushang eagerly looked forward to trying the local food.

Xie Feng and his companions encountered a purple-robed man in the Dao Realm, who attacked Xie Feng and revealed that Wuyou College might be connected to the Extreme Dao Sword. Xie Feng killed him, and the group found a Wuyou College badge, leaving the sword’s forgotten connection to the college unresolved.

• Sushang spotted a purple-robed man approaching in the forest and challenged him when he stared at Xie Feng.
• The purple-robed man attacked Xie Feng, who stopped him and snapped his finger before learning that Wuyou Academy was recruiting students in Mountain City and had ties to the Extreme Dao Sword.
• The purple-robed man admitted he wanted the Extreme Dao Sword and tried to leave, so Xie Feng killed him with a single sword strike.
• Xie Feng asked the Extreme Dao Sword about its connection to Wuyou College, and it recalled that it had left something important in the Dao Realm and suggested visiting the college.
• Zhou Jin searched the purple-robed man and found cultivation methods, a badge, and a booklet; Sushang read the badge and identified it as belonging to Wuyou College.

Xie Feng and his companions learned about the Dao Realm, converted their cultivation into Dao Qi, and headed toward Wuyou College after hearing it was recruiting. Xie Feng disguised himself as the dead elder Qi Yuan so the group could enter the college.

• Sushang identified Qi Yuan’s elder certificate and confirmed his connection to Wuyou College and the Extreme Dao Sword, so the group decided to use his identity.
• In Mountain City, Sushang gathered books and explained the Dao Realm’s language, currency, cultivation system, and the Dust Clan’s influence.
• Xie Feng converted his Spiritual Qi into Dao Qi and reached the tenth stage of Dao Heaven; Changying, Sushang, and Zhou Jin converted their power into Dao Emptiness as well.
• The group studied the Star Language Spell and learned that Wuyou College was recruiting students at the eastern city gate.
• Xie Feng used Dao Qi to transform his face and clothes into Qi Yuan’s appearance, preparing to pass himself off as the elder.

Xie Feng disguised himself as Qi Yuan as he and his companions headed to Wuyou College’s recruitment site, where they learned about Dust Mote Academy’s free education for poor children. Their arrival drew everyone’s attention, and Xie Feng’s group left the crowd buzzing with speculation.

• Xie Feng transformed his appearance to resemble Qi Yuan, and Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin teased him about his unsettling smile.
• Zhou Jin asked a passerby why Dust Mote Academy was popular, and the man explained that its free schools gave poor children access to cultivation and a chance to rise.
• Xie Feng and his companions reached Wuyou College’s recruitment site, where Su Wan and Qin Yi boasted about their talents and inner college connections.
• Someone called out to look at the beautiful newcomers, and the candidates turned to watch Xie Feng’s group arrive at the city gate.

Xie Feng, posing as Qi Yuan, arrived at the admissions office with Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin, attracting attention and choosing to recruit only the three companions. Fang Tianxing confronted him over their rivalry and mocked him for having no disciples, unaware of who the newcomers were.

• Xie Feng and his companions drew attention at the admissions office, while Qin Yi grew jealous of Zhou Jin and angrily shoved a boy who called him handsome.
• Sushang warned Zhou Jin about Qin Yi's glare, and Zhou Jin dismissed Qin Yi as a child while praising Xie Feng as the sect master's most noteworthy figure.
• Li Hao mistook Xie Feng for Qi Yuan and explained that Fang Tianxing had been competing with and provoking Qi Yuan; Xie Feng said he would recruit only Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin.
• Xie Feng checked the admissions handbook and thought about plundering Qi Yuan's money after returning to the college.
• Fang Tianxing mocked Xie Feng for leaving recruitment and threatened him with a complaint, then bragged that he had taken all the talented candidates and ridiculed Xie Feng's three companions.

Xie Feng made Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin inner court disciples, openly invoking his connection to the vice dean and provoking Fang Tianxing. Su Wan challenged Sushang to impress Fang Tianxing, but Sushang defeated her with a slap and a punch that left her gravely injured and unconscious.

• Xie Feng told Fang Tianxing that Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin were inner court disciples under his supervision, citing his uncle, the vice dean, as his authority.
• Fang Tianxing retaliated by taking Su Wan and Qin Yi as disciples, and Su Wan challenged Sushang to prove herself.
• Sushang warned Su Wan that she might not be able to take a beating, then struck her after Su Wan mocked her background.
• Su Wan lunged at Sushang, who sent her flying with a physical-strength punch that severed her meridians and left her unconscious.
• Qin Yi cried out in terror, asking whether Sushang had crippled Su Wan.

Sushang crippled Su Wan with one punch, and Xie Feng brought her and the others to Wuyou College in Xuan City. After finding little wealth in Qi Yuan’s residence, Xie Feng went to Treasure Mirror Workshop to pawn two Heavenly mortal jade ginseng, whose cold Qi froze and shattered the hall’s displayed treasures.

• Sushang crippled Su Wan’s meridians, while Qin Yi fell to his knees and Fang Tianxing threatened to report Xie Feng to the dean.
• Zhou Jin tripped Fang Tianxing, mocked him, and watched him storm away before Li Hao resumed the recruitment.
• The college took the recruited youths to Wuyou College in Xuan City, where Sushang and the other two were guided around the inner court.
• Xie Feng explored Qi Yuan’s residence, found only a few Dao crystals, and put on Qi Yuan’s golden cloak to preserve his disguise.
• Xie Feng brought two Heavenly mortal jade ginseng to Treasure Mirror Workshop, and their cold Qi froze the hall’s treasures until they shattered.

Xie Feng took two roots of Heavenly Mortal Jade Ginseng to Treasure Mirror Workshop to pawn them, where mistress Luo Ling tried to buy them for far less than their value. After Xie Feng rejected her rising offers, he left with the ginseng, leaving Luo Ling unsure whether to let the rare treasure go.

• The Heavenly Mortal Jade Ginseng overwhelmed weaker treasures at the counter, prompting the purple-dressed woman to summon Luo Ling.
• Luo Ling welcomed Xie Feng, but he avoided her attempt to lift his hood and insisted he had come to pawn the ginseng.
• In a secluded room, Luo Ling confirmed the ginseng’s identity and offered five million Dao Crystals per root.
• Xie Feng used his Void Heaven Spirit Eyes to learn that Luo Ling valued each root at thirty million Dao Crystals, then challenged her low offer.
• Luo Ling raised her offer to twenty million, but Xie Feng shut the box and left while Luo Ling hesitated over whether to let the treasure go.

Xie Feng sold two jade ginsengs to Luo Ling, rejected her offer to spend a night with him, and rebuked her for using her looks to make money before leaving her shaken. At Wuyou College, Sushang and her companions encountered Liu Yi, who demanded an explanation because Sushang had injured his cousin Su Wan.

• Luo Ling raised her offer to ninety million Dao Crystals for each jade ginseng, and Xie Feng agreed to sell them for a total of one hundred and eighty million.
• Luo Ling offered Xie Feng a night at the Treasure Mirror Workshop for sixty million Dao Crystals, but he refused and condemned her conduct before leaving.
• Luo Ling sank to the floor and silently reflected on Xie Feng's words.
• Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin collected their supplies at Wuyou College and set off to find their sect master.
• Liu Yi and his two lackeys stopped the three disciples, and Liu Yi demanded an explanation from Sushang for injuring Su Wan.

Sushang and Zhou Jin crippled Liu Yi after he threatened them, and Liu Yi summoned Elder Fang to punish them for fighting. Fang threatened to expel the three new students, but Zhou Jin challenged his one-sided judgment as the crowd watched.

• Liu Yi demanded that Zhou Jin fight in Sushang's place, but Zhou Jin and Changying refused and warned him they might kill him.
• Sushang severed both of Liu Yi's legs with a single strike after he chose to have them broken.
• When Liu Yi ordered his lackeys to attack, Zhou Jin crippled his right arm, and the lackeys fled to fetch reinforcements.
• Liu Yi claimed that Wuyou College forbade student fighting and accused Sushang, Changying, and Zhou Jin of attacking him first.
• Fang Tianxing arrived and threatened to report the trio and expel them, while Zhou Jin and Changying argued that Liu Yi had provoked them.
• Changying stared down Liu Yi, who felt a sudden trace of fear.