Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng broke the Eternal Passage’s illusion array and entered the Immortal Realm, choosing to advance for the sake of Shi Sheng’s future. He followed the Star Essence’s presence to a fortified city and paused outside its palace to learn more about the place.

• Lu Changsheng discovered that the hidden passage contained enormous teleportation arrays and flew toward the light that held the Star Essence’s presence.
• After flying for two hours without nearing the light, Lu Changsheng detected an illusion array and was confronted by a gigantic eye that warned him about entering the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng decided to enter the Immortal Realm so Shi Sheng would not be left behind his fellow disciples, then shattered the illusion array.
• Lu Changsheng passed through the light and arrived among vast floating cities, where he sensed denser Spiritual Qi that seemed to carry immortal essence.
• Lu Changsheng followed the Star Essence’s presence to a fortress-like city and chose to approach its palace properly rather than force his way in.

Lu Changsheng entered the Immortal Realm and learned that a divine object inside Immortal Star City could earn its finder a place as an inner disciple of the Immortal Palace. He watched as three renowned prodigies began the trials, leaving their results unresolved.

• Lu Changsheng asked Fen Yan about the crowd and learned that they were waiting to attempt trials for a divine object guarded inside Immortal Star City.
• Lu Changsheng joined the line and learned that the first trial required contestants to cross a gate under stellar suppressive force; Fen Yan was the only one of twenty-seven contestants to have passed it so far.
• Fen Yan identified Lei Yinshi, Xian Lan, and Xian Huaxuan as powerful new contestants and worried that his eighth-place ranking would fall.
• Xian Huaxuan cautioned Xian Lan to be careful, but she responded coolly before the three entered the city gate together.
• Lei Yinshi and Xian Huaxuan passed through the suppressive curtain, with Xian Huaxuan appearing completely unaffected.

Lu Changsheng stunned the crowd by racing through the first trial, then refused Fen Yan’s suggestion that he join the Immortal Palace. At the Star Immortal Lock Array, he searched for a way to break the formation as Fen Yan pushed forward through the chains.

• Lu Changsheng sensed ominous Demonic Qi within Lei Yinshi and decided to keep his distance during the trial.
• Lu Changsheng shot through the first trial at incredible speed, leaving Fen Yan and the crowd astonished.
• Fen Yan tried to befriend Lu Changsheng and suggested an Immortal Palace immortal might recruit him, but Lu Changsheng said he already had a master.
• Fen Yan explained the Star Immortal Lock Array and entered it, using his Immortal Fire Nine Profound Body to resist the chains as he advanced.
• Lu Changsheng studied the array for its core and foundation, then suddenly moved.

Lu Changsheng broke the Star Immortal Lock Array by locating and destroying all nine array eyes despite its backlash. After Fen Yan explained how rare and revered immortal array masters were, Lu Changsheng regretted drawing attention to his skill.

• Lu Changsheng identified the Star Immortal Lock Array’s nine array eyes and attacked them with Sword Dao Law.
• The array retaliated by sending its chains toward Lu Changsheng, but he formed tens of thousands of blades and shattered all nine array eyes.
• The chains fell, freeing Fen Yan, while Xian Huaxuan, Lei Yinshi, and Xian Lan continued toward the third trial.
• Fen Yan praised Lu Changsheng for breaking an array that had defeated immortal array masters and explained their standing across the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng regretted breaking the array and worried that word of his skill would spread.

Lu Changsheng and Fen Yan passed the Immortal Puppet trial and entered the starry hall, where they faced the ninety-nine-step stairway to heaven. Fen Yan stalled at the ninth step while Lu Changsheng climbed steadily, leaving his eventual limit unknown.

• Fen Yan and Lu Changsheng entered the third trial, where Fen Yan fought an Immortal Puppet while no puppet appeared for Lu Changsheng.
• A voice explained that Lu Changsheng’s strength could not be sealed and told him to proceed directly, so he and Fen Yan passed through to the fourth trial.
• Fen Yan explained that the stairway’s suppressive power increased with each of its ninety-nine steps, while Xian Lan, Lei Yinshi, and Xian Huaxuan climbed ahead of them.
• Fen Yan activated the Immortal Fire Nine Profound Body and reached the eighth step, but the pressure stopped him at the ninth.
• Lu Changsheng climbed the stairway calmly and steadily, passing Fen Yan without showing signs of strain.

Lu Changsheng climbed the Starry Sky Heavenly Ladder as Xian Lan watched, then Lei Yinshi revealed himself as a member of the Evil Devil Domain and attacked the climbers with purgatory fire. Lu Changsheng erased the flames and killed Lei Yinshi, leaving Xian Huaxuan promising the Immortal Palace would reward him and Lu Changsheng regretting the attention he had drawn.

• Lu Changsheng steadily climbed past Xian Lan while remaining alert to dangers on the ladder.
• Lei Yinshi released Evil Devil Qi and sent purgatory fire at Xian Huaxuan, Xian Lan, Fen Yan, and Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng pointed at the purgatory fire, dissolving it before it could harm anyone.
• Lu Changsheng crossed six steps and killed Lei Yinshi with Sword Qi through his brow.
• Xian Huaxuan thanked Lu Changsheng and promised an Immortal Palace reward, while Lu Changsheng worried that other factions would notice him.

Lu Changsheng reached the top of the heavenly ladder and was revealed as the unfamiliar first-place challenger, prompting the Immortal Palace to seek him out. Beyond the ladder, an illusory man explained the war among the six realms and the prophecy that a savior would come from the Mortal Realm.

• Lu Changsheng dismissed Xian Huaxuan’s offer of a reward, then appeared on the ninety-ninth step in an instant.
• The stone tablet ranked Lu Changsheng first, and onlookers identified him as the man who had broken the Star Immortal Lock Array.
• The Immortal Palace learned that Lu Changsheng had reached the top and sent Xian Rusheng to meet him.
• An illusory man told Lu Changsheng that he had passed the trials and was expected to save the world.
• The illusory man explained that the Evil Realm and Demon Realm had been sealed in the Evil Devil Domain, and that prophecy named a savior from the Mortal Realm.

Lu Changsheng learned that obtaining the Star Essence had tied him to the fate of the six realms and that the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda’s seal on the Evil Devil Domain was weakening. After claiming the Star Essence, he left the city with Xian Rusheng and Xian Huaxuan to discuss the divine object at the Immortal Palace.

• The phantom told Lu Changsheng that opening the passage had weakened the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda’s seal and linked his fate to the six realms.
• The phantom urged Lu Changsheng to take the Star Essence and the pagoda if the seal broke, then vanished.
• Lu Changsheng drew the Star Essence into his dantian and returned to the great hall, where he told Xian Lan that she was not strong enough to know its secrets.
• Lu Changsheng sensed that someone from the Immortal Palace was approaching and left the city, whose trials had lost their Power of the Stars.
• Xian Rusheng invited Lu Changsheng to the Immortal Palace to discuss the divine object, while Fen Yan reunited with his father and was told to maintain a good relationship with Lu Changsheng.

Lu Changsheng met the Immortal Emperor, learned that the Star Essence marked him as someone who could influence the second great calamity of the six realms, and returned to the Changsheng Realm. He gave the Star Essence to Shi Sheng to absorb and ordered him to cultivate.

• Xian Rusheng brought Lu Changsheng to the Immortal Palace and explained that the Immortal Emperor wanted to discuss the secrets of the six realms.
• The Immortal Emperor told Lu Changsheng that a prophecy linked the person who obtained the Star Essence to the coming second great calamity, and offered the Immortal Palace's help.
• Lu Changsheng declined the offer to stay and cultivate in the Immortal Palace, then returned through the Immortal Realm passage to the Changsheng Realm.
• Lu Changsheng withheld details from Liu Ziru and asked the Willow Tree about the six realms; she confirmed that he had been chosen and could not escape the resulting karma.
• Lu Changsheng summoned Shi Sheng and revealed the Star Essence, whose power transformed the Changsheng Realm's sky.
• Lu Changsheng gave Shi Sheng the Star Essence to absorb, and Shi Sheng vowed to cultivate diligently.

Shi Sheng absorbed the Star Essence and gained immense stellar power, transforming his bloodline and reaching the Peak Turbid Immortal Realm. As he struggled to control the remaining energy, the Willow Tree urged him to condense his Star Cores into a ninth core.

• Shi Sheng absorbed the Star Essence beside the Willow Tree, releasing a pillar of stellar power that caused many beasts in the Changsheng Realm to awaken their dantians.
• The presence of Shi Sheng’s Power of the Stars drew attention across the Wilderness Realm, while the dean asked Qin Tiannan to take over as dean of the main academy.
• Jian Chaomian and another man discussed Shi Sheng’s growth as Hao Tian responded by training even harder.
• Shi Sheng’s bloodline transformed, and his cultivation rose through the Blood Transformation Realm to the Peak Turbid Immortal Realm as he purged the turbid Qi from his body.
• When Shi Sheng could no longer suppress the Star Essence’s remaining power, the Willow Tree told him to condense his remaining Star Cores into a ninth core.

Shi Sheng used the Star Essence to condense his ninth Star Core, reaching the peak of the Turbid Immortal Realm and gaining strength enough to challenge Earth Immortal Realm experts. Lu Changsheng received powerful system rewards, then faced the huge eye that had appeared in the passage to the Immortal Realm, which asked whether he had given the Star Essence to his disciple.

• Shi Sheng gathered the Star Essence’s excess Power of the Stars to condense his ninth Star Core, aided by Willow Tree’s Intent of Unending Life.
• After a month, Shi Sheng completed the ninth Star Core, and its power spread through the Changsheng Realm, affecting its creatures and landscape.
• Lu Changsheng received Nine Mysteries Holy Qi and an upgraded Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array, which could slay anyone below Saint Level at the cost of one million years of cultivation.
• Shi Sheng thanked Lu Changsheng for his progress, and Lu Changsheng told him to keep cultivating before sending him back to his room.
• Lu Changsheng looked toward Liu Ziru, who headed to the kitchen, as the huge eye appeared in Lu Changsheng’s sea of consciousness and asked whether he had given the Star Essence to Shi Sheng.

After giving the Star Essence to Shi Sheng, Lu Changsheng learned that his disciple had become a protagonist of the Great Tribulation of the Six Realms. He began planning to strengthen the seal on the Evil Devil Domain and prepare his disciples for the coming crisis.

• A giant eye warned Lu Changsheng that giving Shi Sheng the Star Essence had made him a protagonist of the great tribulation, but Lu Changsheng refused to reconsider his choice.
• Lu Changsheng decided to improve his disciples' strength, reinforce the Evil Devil Domain's seal through the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, and summon Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin to plan their cultivation paths.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin returned to the Changsheng Realm, where Lu Changsheng told them their cultivation was progressing too slowly and called them to discuss a plan.
• Lu Changsheng told Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Shitou about the Immortal Realm and the Great Tribulation of the Six Realms, then urged them to prioritize growing stronger and staying alive.

Lu Changsheng assigned cultivation paths to his disciples, proposing that Hong Ying unify the Low-Latitude Realm and Ning Chenxin spread the Confucian Dao throughout it. He then took Ning Chenxin to observe conflicts among beasts and asked what he had noticed.

• Lu Changsheng told Hong Ying that advancing the Cloud Phoenix Empire across the Low-Latitude Realm could restore her stagnant Imperial Qi, and promised to build teleportation arrays linking the realms through the Changsheng Realm.
• Lu Changsheng instructed Ning Chenxin to establish the Confucian Dao as the orthodoxy in the realms Hong Ying occupied, leaving him to decide how to spread it.
• Lu Changsheng told Shi Sheng to seek places rich in the Power of the Stars while helping his senior siblings, and ordered Xiao Shitou to stay and cultivate with him.
• Lu Changsheng dismissed the disciples to prepare for their plans and asked Ning Chenxin to accompany him.
• Lu Changsheng flew with Ning Chenxin for half a day, pausing to watch groups of beasts fight, then asked Ning Chenxin what he had noticed.

Lu Changsheng helped Ning Chenxin reconsider the need to grow stronger ahead of the coming calamity, then went to find Mu Wan'er in the Purple Extremity Domain. Mu Wan'er agreed to accompany three Purple Extremity Sect cultivators to treat their sect master, leaving Grandpa Yao worried that they would not let her go.

• Lu Changsheng told Ning Chenxin that survival and protecting those around him were necessary to face the coming six-realm calamity, then left him to reflect behind a defensive barrier.
• Hong Ying told Lu Changsheng that Mu Wan'er was traveling between realms to study alchemy, and he set out to find her.
• In the Purple Extremity Domain, Mu Wan'er gathered medicinal herbs with Grandpa Yao, who praised her skill and diligence.
• An Emperor Realm cultivator and two Void God Realm disciples demanded that Grandpa Yao treat their sect master, and the leader pressured him with his cultivation aura.
• Mu Wan'er shielded Grandpa Yao and chose to go with the three cultivators to prevent their sect from targeting him after she left.
• Grandpa Yao worried that the Purple Extremity Sect would not let Mu Wan'er leave once it discovered her talent.

Mu Wan'er treated the Purple Extremity Sect master's poisoning with a pill she had created, despite the first elder's hidden motive to let him die. After she reminded the sect to leave Elder Yao alone, Zi Yi tried to recruit her into the Purple Extremity Sect.

• The first elder questioned whether Mu Wan'er could save the sect master, and she agreed on the condition that the sect stop troubling Elder Yao.
• Zi Yi tried to learn Mu Wan'er's name and later silently resented her dismissive response.
• At the Purple Extremity Sect, several elders doubted Mu Wan'er's ability to treat their master, while she realized the first elder did not want him to recover.
• Mu Wan'er contained the sect master's Poison Qi with green light and gave him her antidote pill, restoring his breathing.
• The first elder thanked Mu Wan'er, and she reminded him of his promise before setting out to leave.
• Zi Yi stopped Mu Wan'er and invited her to join the Purple Extremity Sect.

Mu Wan'er refused the Purple Extremity Sect's attempt to keep her, but Lu Changsheng arrived and accepted her as his disciple. After she formally paid her respects, he faced the sect elders and Zi Yi for pressuring her.

• Mu Wan'er rejected Zi Yi's offer to stay in the Purple Extremity Sect, and the grand elder and other elders surrounded her with their Emperor Realm pressure.
• Lu Changsheng's voice rang across the Purple Extremity Domain, and he appeared beside Mu Wan'er before the elders could locate him.
• Mu Wan'er embraced Lu Changsheng and told him about her alchemy achievements, including creating many pill formulas.
• Lu Changsheng asked Mu Wan'er to become his disciple, and she tearfully knelt to pay her respects.
• Lu Changsheng stood between Mu Wan'er and the Purple Extremity Sect's elders, saying they had provoked his newly accepted disciple.

Lu Changsheng came to Mu Wan’er's defense after the Purple Extremity Sect mistreated her, then destroyed the sect and everyone in it. He left the realm with Mu Wan’er, while a mysterious old man who had watched the battle vanished from a distant mountain range.

• The Purple Extremity Sect's grand elder and Zi Yi apologized to Mu Wan’er and offered her a reward, but Lu Changsheng praised her for not trusting them.
• The grand elder mistook Lu Changsheng’s words to Mu Wan’er for a threat and activated the Purple Extremity Grand Array, but Lu Changsheng shattered it with a single sword strike.
• Lu Changsheng unleashed Sword Intent across the Purple Extremity Sect, killing its disciples, elders, Zi Yi, and grand elder within moments.
• A hidden figure with greater strength than the grand elder tried to flee, but Lu Changsheng killed him with a pebble; the figure was presumably the sect’s supreme elder.
• A kindly old man watching from a mountain range decided it was time to leave and vanished, leaving his herb basket behind.
• Lu Changsheng crushed the Purple Extremity Sect into dust and departed the realm with Mu Wan’er.

After returning to the Changsheng Realm, Lu Changsheng assigned his disciples new cultivation tasks to prepare for the coming calamity. He began devising a cultivation technique of his own as Hong Ying and the others led the Cloud Phoenix Empire toward the Minghuang Domain.

• Mu Wan'er reunited with Hong Ying and the others, and Xiao Shitou teased her about becoming his junior sister.
• Ning Chenxin returned with greatly improved Confucian Dao cultivation after Lu Changsheng's guidance.
• Lu Changsheng assigned Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, and Shi Sheng their cultivation goals, then gave Mu Wan'er the Nine Dragons God-Refining Cauldron and tasked her with making pills for the Cloud Phoenix Empire.
• After the disciples left, Lu Changsheng told Willow Tree that he hoped to settle matters and live peacefully, while Willow Tree suspected his responsibilities were only beginning.
• Lu Changsheng decided to create a cultivation technique combining the Great Daos he knew, and Hong Ying's group led the Cloud Phoenix Empire toward the Minghuang Domain.

Hong Ying brought the Cloud Phoenix Empire to Minghuang Domain and demanded that its four great sects surrender. When the sects attacked, Hong Ying, Shi Sheng, and Ning Chenxin killed their four grand elders and four sect masters, leaving the rest to face her ultimatum.

• The four Huang sects gathered at a secret-realm rift, arguing over access to its treasures.
• Hong Ying arrived with the Cloud Phoenix Empire’s army and identified her realm and empire to the four sect masters.
• After the sect masters dismissed her and ordered their forces to attack, Hong Ying demanded surrender and led the fight with Shi Sheng and Ning Chenxin.
• Hong Ying, Shi Sheng, and Ning Chenxin killed the four grand elders and four sect masters within three breaths.
• Hong Ying pointed her spear at the remaining forces and repeated, “Those who surrender will be spared!”

Hong Ying secured the Minghuang Domain for the Cloud Phoenix Empire, and Shi Sheng gained Star Intent from a secret realm there. In the Mid-Latitude Realm, Mu Fusheng completed an Array-Breaking Talisman and agreed to enter the Holy Talisman Ancestral Land when it opened the next day.

• Hong Ying offered mercy to the Minghuang Domain, and the Eastern Huang Sect's second elder submitted and was appointed to oversee his sect.
• The four great sects surrendered, and the second elder revealed a secret realm rift that was about to open.
• Shi Sheng used the Minghuang Mystic Axe to open the rift, absorbed its Star Intent, and formed the faint outline of a third star in his Starry Sky Dantian.
• Hong Ying dispatched the Nine Heavens Division and the imperial preceptor to lower-level realms before setting her sights on a higher-level realm.
• Mu Fusheng completed an Array-Breaking Talisman, and the Holy Talisman Sect's supreme elders invited him to try for the Spirit of the Holy Talisman.
• Mu Fusheng accepted and left to prepare for the Holy Talisman Ancestral Land's opening the next day.