Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian and his companions waited as the spiritual Qi vortex formed a heavenly stairway and gate of light, while Evolvers entered first. Big Black Bull recovered in the cave abode, reached the Visualization Realm, and rejoined Xiao Tian before the group climbed the stairway and gathered at the top.

• Big Black Bull exhausted himself feeding the spiritual Qi vortex and retreated to the cave abode to recover, while Dao Lord Longxin and Daoist Hun watched for an opportunity.
• The vortex contracted into a ball of light, then formed a heavenly stairway leading to a glowing gate that the Evolvers suspected concealed a treasury.
• Dao Lord Longxin, Daoist Hun, and other Carefree Realm Evolvers climbed the stairway and entered the gate of light ahead of Xiao Tian's group.
• The World-Chaos Demon Ape let Big Black Bull eat spirit fruit in the cave abode, where a vivid dream preceded his unexpected breakthrough into the Visualization Realm.
• Big Black Bull found the gate of light and rejoined Xiao Tian, then raced him up the stairway as the rest of their companions arrived at the top.
• Xiao Tian waited until his companions had gathered, and the group prepared to enter the gate together.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered a ruined ancient battlefield, while Wood Dragon Immortal fought off Carefree Realm Evolvers trying to seize her Immortal Heart Lotus. After Xiao Tian’s phantom saved her, his group crossed a dangerous bridge and freed Dao Lord Longxin from a dreamlike trap.

• Xiao Tian and his companions arrived at a ruined ancient battlefield and found the bodies of Carefree Realm powerhouses, then proceeded cautiously toward a mist-shrouded bridge.
• Wood Dragon Immortal trapped her attackers with Wood God Imprisons the Heavens, but White Bird Wanderer and Leitingzi fought free and left her gravely wounded.
• As Wood Dragon Immortal tried to destroy the Immortal Heart Lotus, Xiao Tian’s phantom appeared, killed White Bird Wanderer, Leitingzi, and the other attackers, and restored her to her peak condition.
• Xiao Tian and his companions stepped onto the bridge and found Dao Lord Longxin caught in a dream of his deceased Dao companion; Big Black Bull’s punches helped him regain awareness.
• After Xiao Tian urged Dao Lord Longxin to return to the present and asked him for resources, Dao Lord Longxin clutched his back, coughed up blood, and pretended to faint.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered the Nether Realm, exposed a Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member’s deception, and learned about the realm’s dangers and the Wuchang Staff. They forced him to lead them to the ruins where he found it, arriving just outside the site.

• Xiao Tian and his companions crossed the bridge and reached a boundary stele marking the Nether Realm, where a supposed Black Wuchang warned them to turn back or become creatures of the realm.
• Xiao Tian recognized that the being’s power came from the Wuchang Staff, attacked him, and made him surrender the staff; Big Black Bull then beat the revealed Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member.
• The blue-faced person explained that the Nether Realm was a shattered region and described Youdu Mountain, the Sea of Bitterness, and Yin Mountain as dangerous places.
• Xiao Tian and Dao Lord Longxin learned that people had recently entered the realm through multiple Yin-Yang Bridge entrances, and Xiao Tian ordered the blue-faced person to lead them to the staff’s ruins.
• After traveling for two or three days, Xiao Tian’s group reached the Black Qi-shrouded ruins, and Xiao Tian insisted that the frightened guide lead them inside.

Xiao Tian’s group explored the Nether Realm ruins, killed a Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member, and began robbing local factions under the false name of the Hall of the Gods. They reached Yin Mountain, where its strange sounds left most of the group suffering severe physical discomfort, but Xiao Tian insisted they endure it and continue training.

• A Night Fang tribesman explained that the Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member had lied about unsealing the Wuchang Staff, so Xiao Tian killed him and the group acquired a dead spirit mark.
• Xiao Tian’s group found a plaque identifying the ruins as the Hall of Judges, then decided to wait for pursuing killers and take treasures from others.
• Big Black Bull attacked a battle between the Hawkman Tribe and the Two-Headed Demons, and Xiao Tian demanded their valuables; after defeating both sides, the group introduced themselves as gods from the Hall of the Gods.
• Over the next ten days, Xiao Tian’s group robbed more factions, spreading the name of the Hall of the Gods through the Nether Realm.
• Near Yin Mountain, Kabuta, Immortal in Wine, Biyou, Tianxuzi, and the others developed worsening symptoms from its strange sounds, but Xiao Tian refused to retreat and made them rest until they could endure more.

As Xiao Tian's party approached Yin Mountain, the Hall of Judges plaque helped Xuanlong and Biyou reach the Visualization Realm, and Tianxuzi and Kabuta also broke through. The group continued toward Yin Mountain despite a warning about its gathering dead spirits, while Kabuta credited his breakthrough to vows made in desperation over his diarrhea.

• Xiao Tian used the Hall of Judges plaque to reveal ancient battle scenes, helping Xuanlong break through to the Visualization Realm and Biyou awaken Tongtian's inheritance and advance as well.
• Half a day later, Tianxuzi broke through while Kabuta continued suffering from diarrhea.
• Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull encountered Heihai, who warned them that Yin Mountain's dead spirits' resentment would soon erupt and trap anyone who remained.
• Kabuta unexpectedly reached the Visualization Realm after praying to Brahma God Palace and vowing to perform good deeds if his diarrhea ended.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered Mount Y, where Mohai warned them that the Nether Queen’s growing strangeness could kill them. The Nether Queen revived and defeated Mohai, but when she mistook Xiao Tian for the Nether King, he appeared with a Judge’s Pen stuck in his head.

• Xiao Tian and his companions entered Mount Y and saw Mohai defeat a skeleton warrior after it appeared before him.
• Mohai warned Xiao Tian that Mount Y’s strangeness came from the Nether Queen’s lingering resentment, but Xiao Tian continued deeper to look for ingredients and treasures.
• Black mist and terrifying screams swept over Mount Y as the Nether Queen’s phantom began to take shape in the depths.
• Mohai confronted the revived Nether Queen with the Judge’s Pen, but she broke his attack, absorbed its power, and overpowered the black dragon phantom.
• Mohai sacrificed his power, flesh, blood, and Soul Power to empower the Judge’s Pen, but the Nether Queen survived and discarded it.
• Xiao Tian appeared and chided the Nether Queen for littering; she mistook him for the Nether King and attacked him.

Xiao Tian defeated the Nether Queen You Lian, learned that the Nether Realm was shattered by outsiders, and forced her to help his companions cultivate. With You Lian guiding them, Xiao Tian and his group found numerous treasure hoards in Yin Mountain and left laden with riches.

• The Nether Queen attacked Xiao Tian, but he froze time, rewound her condition, and denied that he was the Nether King.
• Xiao Tian threatened You Lian, then demanded to know why the Nether Realm had fallen into ruin.
• You Lian explained that outsiders from the universe’s first ten ancient worlds had shattered her world and that she had drifted with a fragment through a spacetime fault.
• Xiao Tian offered to spare You Lian if she helped his companions cultivate and subtly led them to treasure sites.
• Xiao Tian returned to Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and the others, and they continued through Yin Mountain.
• Guided by You Lian, the group found one treasure hoard after another, collected the riches, and left satisfied.

Xiao Tian used his group’s apparent immunity to the strange pressure to intimidate the Night Fang Tribe into surrendering their treasures. After a supernatural wind revealed the group’s protection, Tianming led his people away, and the others decided to exploit their advantage nearby.

• Tianming’s Night Fang Tribe confronted Xiao Tian’s group and demanded their treasures and women, but Xiao Tian turned the threats back on them.
• Tianming misread the group’s upright posture as proof that they were vastly powerful and offered a third of the tribe’s haul to appease them.
• Xiao Tian demanded all the tribe’s treasures and threatened to slaughter them if they refused.
• A strange howl and raging wind struck, but Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and the others remained unaffected while Tianming’s group needed protection from an ancestral green lamp.
• Tianming surrendered the tribe’s treasures, and Xiao Tian let the Night Fang Tribe leave without handing over its women.
• Kabuta wondered why their group was unaffected, and Tianxuzi urged them to explore nearby and use their advantage.

Xiao Tian and his companions left Yin Mountain after a week of gathering treasures, but the Blue-Faced Nether Tribe intercepted them over the death of Ye Fei’s son. Xiao Tian used Yin Mountain’s suppressive power to frighten the tribe into surrendering its treasures, then Nether Queen You Lian attacked the beings left in her territory after the group departed.

• Big Black Bull complained about missing barbecue, so Xiao Tian led the group out of Yin Mountain.
• At Yin Mountain’s northern boundary, Ye Fei and ten elders confronted Xiao Tian’s group over the death of Ye Fei’s son.
• Xiao Tian fled with his companions into Yin Mountain’s central region, where the strange power weakened their pursuers.
• Ye Fei stopped the elders and, believing Xiao Tian’s group were Dao Entry Realm cultivators, agreed to hand over the tribe’s treasures.
• Xiao Tian’s group divided the compensation and left by another route, while Nether Queen You Lian attacked the beings remaining in her territory.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered Sangfire City, where they learned that its residents survived by following strange supernatural rules. After a misleading warning and a night spent in an abandoned mansion, they saw a blood-red sky and a shadow dragging a resident away to devour them.

• Xiao Tian led his companions into eerie Sangfire City despite Yanyan's warning, and the residents fled at the sight of them.
• Big Black Bull seized a horned native, who explained that Sangfire City had been cursed by an eerie fire and described rules involving newcomers, a woman's singing, a full blood moon, and a seven-day stay.
• After the singing forced them into an abandoned house, the group met its occupants; a black-robed old man warned them to hide from the fading stars and ignore voices and knocking at the door.
• Xiao Tian settled the group in an abandoned mansion, produced beds and barbecue ingredients, and the companions waited out the fading stars.
• When the stars disappeared, Xiao Tian and his companions saw the sky turn blood-red and watched a shadow drag a resident from a house and devour them.

After strange beings attacked Sangfire City, Xiao Tian gathered information about the city's deadly phenomena and prepared his group for the coming Heavenly Maiden Roaming. He then left the Nether Realm to meet Chu Feng, who gave him a Primordial Hongmeng Inscription.

• Xiao Tian warned his companions not to meet the strange shadow's gaze, then kept them sheltered until Xuanlong confirmed the streets were safe.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong captured ten locals and questioned them about Sangfire City's celestial phenomena and dangerous beings.
• The locals explained that Remnant Stars Filling the Sky preceded attacks, while Heavenly Maiden Roaming brought back the dead and powerful beings for eight hours; they also warned that Golden Body Realm beings lived in the city.
• Xiao Tian decided to keep the group sheltered and send those below the Visualization Realm into the World-Chaos Demon Ape's cave abode when Heavenly Maiden Roaming began, but refused to let Kabuta join them.
• After sensing an anomaly outside the Nether Realm, Xiao Tian's primordial spirit traveled to Luo Cheng, where Chu Feng gave him the Primordial Hongmeng Inscription.

Chu Feng gave Xiao Tian a Primordial Hongmeng Inscription that strengthened his true body and helped him locate three portions of Primordial Hongmeng power. When a roaming heavenly maiden phenomenon transformed the streets and unleashed hostile beings, Xiao Tian protected his companions and confronted a terrifying presence by displaying his Hall of Judges plaque.

• Chu Feng pressed the Primordial Hongmeng Inscription onto Xiao Tian's clone, and Xiao Tian's true body absorbed its power, advancing the Undying Deva Path and sensing three portions of Primordial Hongmeng power.
• After Xuanlong announced the soaring heavenly maiden phenomenon, Xiao Tian led his companions out of the building and fought the hostile beings that appeared in the streets.
• Xiao Tian and his companions killed several Visualization Realm beings, then watched a Dao Entry Realm bull demon battle a sword immortal.
• A mysterious shadow seized Kabuta and then Tianxuzi, but Biyou, Tianxuzi, and Xuanlong worked together to drive it away.
• An old woman in red asked Xiao Tian to find her grandson as a ghostly patterned piece of wood released terrifying pressure.
• Xiao Tian showed the old woman his Hall of Judges plaque, making her retreat, and the presence in the wood declared that Xiao Tian and his companions were under its protection.

Xiao Tian traded the Hall of Judges plaque for protection from a Golden Body Realm being, then kept his companions inside its protective circle as eerie beings came looking for the block. Meanwhile, the block discovered an incomplete Netherworld Breathing Technique in the plaque, but an unknown speaker interrupted its plans.

• Xiao Tian gave the Hall of Judges plaque to the ghost-patterned wooden block, which promised to protect him and his companions until they left the city.
• The block destroyed a blood-colored broken sword, drew a protective circle around Xiao Tian and the others, and vanished with the plaque.
• A white-clad woman and then an eerie black-and-white face questioned the group about the block, while Xiao Tian stopped his companions from being drawn outside the circle.
• An old woman asked Xiao Tian to help find her grandson, but he refused as more eerie beings appeared nearby.
• Xiao Tian followed his connection to the plaque and found that the block had returned to its lair, where it discovered an incomplete Netherworld Breathing Technique on the plaque.
• An unknown voice spoke to the block as it prepared to use the plaque, leaving it startled.

A presence hidden in the Hall of Judges plaque awakened and forced the ghost-patterned wooden block to return to Xiao Tian, while granting it the Ghost Emperor Soul-Annihilating Claw. After the block defeated its attackers, it led Xiao Tian and his companions to shelter beneath the ruins and gave Xiao Tian a ghost talisman for protection.

• The plaque’s presence threatened the ghost-patterned wooden block, identified Xiao Tian as a bearer of unique fate and great fortune, and ordered the block to return to him within a day.
• The presence passed the ghost-patterned wooden block memories of the Ghost Emperor Soul-Annihilating Claw, which strengthened its cultivation and Soul-Binding Claw as it studied the ability.
• Xiao Tian used the old woman’s torment to break through to the peak Visualization Realm, angering her as she tried to make his group leave the circle.
• The old woman warned that Xiao Tian’s backer was surrounded by Golden Body Realm beings, but the ghost-patterned wooden block appeared after the battle and the old woman was gone.
• The ghost-patterned wooden block led Xiao Tian and the others to a cellar, returned the Hall of Judges plaque to him, and gave him a ghost talisman before they began cultivating.

The ghost-patterned wooden block mastered two Primordial Nether Runes while fighting Sangfire City’s Golden Body Realm experts, broke the city’s curse, and killed one pursuer. Xiao Tian and his companions escaped the Nether Realm and returned to Mount Tai, where they began overpowering local Carefree Realm experts.

• The ghost-patterned wooden block fought off the Golden Body Realm experts who tried to seize the Hall of Judges’ plaque and revealed its mastery of a Primordial Nether Rune.
• The ghost-patterned wooden block’s battle shattered Sangfire City’s curse, and it killed the strange head before the remaining experts fled.
• Xiao Tian and his companions learned the curse had lifted, and the ghost-patterned wooden block offered Xiao Tian a cultivation gift before departing.
• Three days after leaving Sangfire City, Xiao Tian and the others were forcibly expelled from the Nether Realm and appeared atop Mount Tai.
• Xiao Tian released Immortal in Wine, Demon Spirit, and Yanyan, and the group defeated Carefree Realm experts while Black Peng King postponed his demonization plan.

Xiao Tian returned from Mount Tai with abundant treasures, strengthened Luo Cheng, and learned that mysterious visitors were gathering in outer space. When the Three Great Sage Lands reported dangerous changes in their forbidden grounds, he agreed to investigate for extra payment.

• Xiao Tian led his group down Mount Tai, parted from Big Black Bull and Overlord, and brought Kabuta back toward Luo Cheng.
• Xiao Tian distributed Mount Tai's treasures to Luo Cheng's core members and learned that the nonhuman races had quieted after eating the Golden-Winged Great Peng King's chicken wings.
• Xiao Tian helped five people, including Nangong Yanrou, Xia Yanrou, and Long Zaitian, reach the Carefree Realm while watching the visitors in outer space.
• Tianxuzi, Biyou Fairy, and the Jade Void Palace's palace master arrived to establish branches in Luo Cheng and told Xiao Tian that strange changes had appeared in all three Sage Lands.
• Tianxuzi explained that a call from a newly appeared stone hall in a forbidden ground was disrupting magical power, and Xiao Tian agreed to investigate if they paid extra.

Xiao Tian investigated the Three Great Sage Lands and settled the disturbance in Jade Void Palace’s forbidden grounds, after which the problems in the other two lands vanished as well. On his way back to Luo Cheng, extraterrestrial forces attacked Aqua Blue Star, and the Sub-Sage Duanmu Qingtian struck its protective formation as the planet’s people feared it would fall.

• Xiao Tian agreed to inspect the Three Great Sage Lands, chose Jade Void Palace first, and suppressed its Fire Qilin before stabilizing the spiritual pearl containing a sealed segment of a finger.
• Xiao Tian found that the disturbances in Biyou Palace and Eight Sceneries Palace had disappeared, and he told Tianxuzi to keep watch while Tianxuzi and Biyou stayed behind.
• Xiao Tian sent the Jade Void Palace Master home and headed toward Luo Cheng as extraterrestrial forces appeared and bombarded Aqua Blue Star’s rune barrier for hours.
• A white-robed young man on Yingzhou, a lama in Dajiang, and figures at Wudang and Mount Longhu recognized that fate had begun to turn.
• The extraterrestrial races summoned the Saber God Clan’s Sub-Sage Duanmu Qingtian, whose strike battered Aqua Blue Star’s barrier and left its inhabitants fearing the planet’s destruction.

Duanmu Qingtian’s attack on Aqua Blue Star’s Domain was repelled by its hidden power, which also wounded a Sage who tried to break through. As alien forces prepared to invade, Xiao Tian set out to consolidate the planet’s providence and reached Mount Longhu, where Chu Feng encountered his former girlfriend Lin Miaoxian.

• Duanmu Qingtian’s strongest strike was erased by the Domain, leaving him crippled and destroying his divine weapon.
• A Sage attacked the Domain, but the Solar System’s planets resonated with Aqua Blue Star and cost him an arm; he vowed to send alien forces through a passage and hunt the planet’s inhabitants.
• Xiao Tian and Chu Feng discussed the alien advance and the need to consolidate providence, then Xiao Tian left Luo Cheng with Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Kabuta.
• Xiao Tian’s group climbed Mount Longhu, passed a heavily guarded camp, and was stopped when Lin Miaoxian recognized Chu Feng.
• Chu Feng greeted Lin Miaoxian, his former college girlfriend, indifferently and walked away while Xiao Tian and Zhou Quan teased him.

Chu Feng, Xiao Tian, Zhou Quan, and Kabuta advanced through Mount Longhu’s dangerous shifting domains and encountered Lin Miaoxian’s group. Unable to proceed alone, Xiao Tian agreed to cooperate with Elder Qin’s team, and the groups paused before tackling the next passage.

• Lin Miaoxian set out for Mount Longhu’s summit with Elder Qin, who warned that outsiders must not claim the mountain’s providence.
• Xiao Tian led Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Kabuta through the summit’s dangerous domains while pretending to study their shifting patterns.
• Lin Miaoxian, Gu Xuanhai, and Elder Qin caught up with the four, and Chu Feng coldly told Lin Miaoxian their past relationship was over.
• Xiao Tian refused Elder Qin’s request to exchange insights, then led his companions through the domains with Zhou Quan and Chu Feng riding on Kabuta.
• Xiao Tian discovered that the next domain required two domain masters to cooperate, so Elder Qin and Gu Xuanhai agreed to work with his group.
• Gu Xuanhai introduced Elder Qin and Commander Ge, and Xiao Tian agreed to rest before the groups continued.

Xiao Tian led Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Kabuta away from the dangerous God Tree and found a Mount Longhu stele surrounded by complex Domains. When Xiao Tian reached for it, the God Tree’s bells rang and the Domains stirred, while a faint sigh sounded inside Great Thunderclap Monastery.

• Elder Qin guessed Xiao Tian’s origins, learned he was from Biyou Palace, and exchanged gifts with him as they discussed the Dao.
• Gu Xuanhai offered his Clear Spirit Immortal Elixir to the group, and Zhou Quan, Xiao Tian, and Elder Qin drank most of his supply.
• Xiao Tian warned that the God Tree was dangerous and left with Chu Feng, Zhou Quan, and Kabuta; Elder Qin, Lin Miaoxian, and Gu Xuanhai stayed behind to study its Domains.
• Xiao Tian found a Mount Longhu stele and analyzed its Domains while a concealed gaze watched him.
• Xiao Tian reached for the stele, causing thunderclouds to gather, the God Tree’s bells to ring, and the summit’s Domains to stir; a faint sigh sounded in Great Thunderclap Monastery.