Chapter Summaries

Cultivators across the fantasy worlds reacted with disbelief as the video showed a cultivator gaining immense strength by absorbing spiritual power from corpses. The ninth-ranked method had not yet been revealed, but its apparent practicality fascinated some viewers and outraged orthodox cultivators.

• Viewers debated how consuming spiritual power from corpses could create such tremendous pressure, while many dismissed the practice as a risky, inefficient unorthodox art.
• The Jade Water Pavilion patriarch realized the scenes were only building up to the ninth-ranked method and considered whether it might be useful to him.
• A cultivator in the Wilderness Immortal Realm welcomed the method’s apparent reliance on corpses, which were plentiful in his world.
• Members of a prominent orthodox sect condemned the list for including an unorthodox art and questioned how it could rank above orthodox methods.

A video ranked the Devouring Method ninth among the fantasy world’s greatest cultivation techniques, revealing that its creator was a woman called the Devouring Great Emperor. The technique’s ability to devour spiritual power, physiques, and bloodlines left cultivators wondering whether the figure was connected to someone in the ancient forbidden ground.

• The ancient supreme being and other powerhouses recognized a familiar presence in the video and worried that the website was exposing their past.
• Cultivators outside the forbidden ground speculated that the figure might be one of its inhabitants in a previous life and wondered whether more techniques from their world would rank.
• The video revealed the cultivator as a woman with the face of a former unparalleled beauty, then named the technique the Devouring Method and ranked it ninth.
• The video explained that the Devouring Great Emperor had been a mortal who created the technique to grow stronger by devouring others’ spiritual power, physiques, and bloodlines.
• Cultivators with ordinary bloodlines realized the technique might let them acquire new bloodline powers and increase their strength.

Cultivators reacting to the Devouring Method on the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website realized it could be practiced by anyone and absorb power from corpses. A righteous sect’s patriarch worried that its allure would tempt young cultivators, while the elders warned that their bodies might not withstand its power and noted it could only devour corpses without life force.

• Cultivators marveled that the Devouring Method required no cultivation and could absorb power, bloodlines, and cultivation methods from corpses.
• Viewers concluded the ranking video described real cultivation methods because it lacked the label used for fictional videos.
• A white-haired patriarch and the elders of a renowned, upright sect worried that their young disciples would be tempted by the Devouring Method.
• The elders warned that a cultivator’s body had limits and that practitioners might become tools of the method.
• The elders noted that the Devouring Method could only absorb power from corpses that no longer contained life force.

Cultivators in several realms considered the Devouring Method’s immense power and the danger of needing corpses to cultivate it. The chapter left the senior brother wondering whether the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website might one day connect or merge the separate fantasy worlds.

• Several old men concluded that the Devouring Method could drive cultivators to kill for corpses and eventually consume its practitioners, and they were relieved that the video did not reveal how to use it.
• The Jade Water Pavilion's ancestor compared the Devouring Method with his pavilion’s secret technique and admitted he would be tempted to learn it despite its dangers.
• In the Ancient Immortal Realm, the junior brother fantasized about using corpses to grow powerful, while the senior brother recognized that the method could lead to widespread slaughter.
• The senior brother warned that cultivators should not assume their world was strongest and speculated that the video website might connect the separate fantasy worlds or even cause them to merge.

After discussing the possibility that fantasy worlds might fuse, two cultivators became eager to meet and compete with experts from other worlds. The Yao Clan empress and the demon beast king then considered how the Devouring Method could help their corpse-rich races grow stronger.

• The senior brother argued that the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website's knowledge of multiple worlds meant they might fuse, and his junior brother grew alarmed before becoming excited about facing other worlds' experts.
• The Yao Clan empress realized that the Devouring Method could make use of the many corpses her warlike people produced, but lamented that she did not know how to practice it.
• The demon beast king, inspired by the Devouring Method, ordered a subordinate to pursue it or develop a similar cultivation method.
• The subordinate agreed, recognizing that the method suited the Demon Beast Race and could help it grow stronger.

Lin Yu’s video introducing the Devouring Method became an instant hit, drawing cultivators eager to learn how to practice it. As the discussion continued, Taishang Laojun considered whether the technique’s harm to a fantasy world could leave lasting consequences.

• Cultivators across the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website praised the Devouring Method and demanded its cultivation method.
• Lin Yu kept his private messages disabled and was pleased that his ranking video had become popular within hours.
• Taishang Laojun’s attendants questioned whether practicing the Devouring Method could harm a cultivator’s spirit.
• Taishang Laojun said the technique’s effects might relate to the Great Dao within Tianjie and noted that fantasy worlds were vast and numerous.

Taishang Laojun warned that the Devouring Method harmed the world’s natural essence, while cultivators across several realms reacted to its ranking. In the Big Dipper Immortal Realm, viewers recognized its creator as the Ruthless Great Emperor and began arguing that their own techniques deserved a place on the list.

• Taishang Laojun told his gate attendants that the Devouring Method could cause unexpected harm to the world.
• A young-looking cultivator at Ancient Moon Mountain Manor watched Lin Yu’s ranking video and hoped the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website could help him reach other fantasy worlds.
• Ancient cultivators in the Big Dipper Immortal Realm recognized the figure in the video as the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Big Dipper cultivators praised the Ruthless Great Emperor and argued that techniques such as the Solitary Great Method and the Nine-Meter Sky-Overwhelming Method could also make the rankings.

After the Ruthless Great Emperor was identified, cultivators discussed the Devouring Method’s power and dangers. On Mount Kunlun, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi cautioned True Immortal Tianyu that they could not obtain or safely cultivate the technique, but said it had inspired him to develop a comparable method of their own.

• Cultivators envied the Devouring Method and argued over whether their own techniques could match it, while acknowledging that its consumption of an immortal realm’s power could trigger a Great Dark Brawl.
• True Immortal Tianyu urged Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi to obtain the Devouring Method and use it to strengthen their sect’s disciples.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi warned that they could not access the technique and might not be able to cultivate a method from another world safely.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi said the technique had inspired him to develop a similar peerless method in their own world.

Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi and True Immortal Tianyu discussed creating an Immortal Realm technique modeled on the Devouring Method, while Empyrean Immortal Venerable and other experts examined the technique and debated Great Emperor Ruthless's strength. The chapter left the experts comparing the power rankings of their different worlds.

• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi proposed creating a technique like the Devouring Method for the Immortal Realm despite not having the original method.
• True Immortal Tianyu suggested testing the new technique on lesser cultivators, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi agreed.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi decided to keep watching the rankings, noting that stronger techniques would follow the Devouring Method.
• Empyrean Immortal Venerable obtained fragments of the Devouring Method and concluded that Great Emperor Ruthless's strength did not come from the technique alone.
• Other experts discussed Great Emperor Ruthless's title and debated how the Great Emperor Realm compared with the ranks in their own worlds.

The Jade Water Pavilion’s disciples debated whether Great Emperor Realm or Saint Realm experts were stronger while watching the discussion of the Devouring Method. Their ancestor reflected on Ruthless/Great Emperor’s accomplishments as a mortal and anticipated a future when the Immortal Realms could connect.

• The Jade Water Pavilion’s disciples argued over whether Great Emperor Realm or Saint Realm experts were stronger and wondered if the Devouring Method could help them reach the Great Emperor Realm.
• The Jade Water Pavilion’s ancestor admired Ruthless/Great Emperor for creating the Devouring Method while mortal and considered how others might underestimate her.
• The Jade Water Pavilion’s ancestor reflected on how many ordinary beings could never begin cultivating, while Ruthless/Great Emperor’s method offered another path to strength.
• The Jade Water Pavilion’s ancestor hoped to meet Ruthless/Great Emperor and anticipated that travel between the Immortal Realms would someday become possible.

The Jade Water Pavilion patriarch speculated that the connected fantasy worlds shared a hidden origin as the ranking video prepared to reveal its eighth cultivation method. The video showed a male cultivator amid a starry sky and grassy field, but left his identity and method unrevealed.

• The Jade Water Pavilion patriarch considered how the fantasy worlds shared similar histories and wondered whether his Green Water Immortal Realm might be a lower world.
• Cultivators watching the ranking video recognized the transition and anticipated the eighth-ranked cultivation method.
• Lin Yu's decision not to reveal the Devouring Method's cultivation details was explained as a way to prevent it from causing harm across the fantasy worlds.
• The ranking video revealed a male cultivator, then shifted to a starry sky and grassy field filled with terrifying power.
• The cultivators watching fell silent, convinced the eighth-ranked method was extraordinary, while its name and owner remained unknown.

The eighth-ranked cultivation technique’s video showed a seated figure untouched as worlds and space collapsed into chaos and nothingness. The Jade Water Pavilion’s ancestor and other powerful cultivators struggled to comprehend the destruction, while the Purple Empyrean Immortal Venerable watched with grave concern.

• The ranking video revealed a motionless figure sitting beneath a starry sky as heaven and earth began to collapse around him.
• Worlds and starry skies repeatedly shattered, turning into chaos and nothingness while the figure remained unharmed.
• The cultivators watching felt overwhelmed by the pressure, and the Jade Water Pavilion’s ancestor explained that the space was destroyed beyond its ability to heal.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Venerable saw the unprecedented destruction and grew incomparably grave.

The destruction shown in the compilation video overwhelmed weaker cultivators across the fantasy worlds, while the Empyrean Immortal Venerable gained insight from watching it. The Jade Water Pavilion Ancestor rescued the disciples still conscious and promoted several Outer Sect Disciples to the Inner Sect.

• The scene of heaven collapsing and earth shattering caused countless weaker cultivators to faint from the mental strain.
• The Jade Water Pavilion Ancestor checked his disciples, found that the unconscious ones were unharmed, and decided to restrict who could watch future videos.
• The Jade Water Pavilion Ancestor restored the remaining disciples with spiritual power, promoted several Outer Sect Disciples, and told them to watch future projections.
• The Empyrean Immortal Venerable watched the destruction continue and sensed that it surpassed any battle he had faced.
• The Empyrean Immortal Venerable gained insight into the Great Dao as the space around him shattered, increasing his strength.

Empyrean Immortal Venerable gained insight into his cultivation technique while watching a figure withstand the collapse of heaven and earth in a ranking video. He became determined to learn more about the mysterious technique and continued watching, hoping to gain something from it.

• Empyrean Immortal Venerable sensed the spatial destruction in the video and felt his cultivation technique improve.
• He saw that the figure remained steady as heaven and earth shattered, while he believed he would have had to flee and would likely have died.
• Empyrean Immortal Venerable concluded that the figure’s cultivation technique could stabilize space and became eager to obtain it.
• He compared the technique with his dangerous Dao Integration Method and judged the video’s technique far more powerful.
• Empyrean Immortal Venerable reasoned that the technique came from heaven and earth rather than being created by a person, wished he could visit that Immortal Realm, and kept watching.

Viewers watched a technique demonstration that shattered the Road to Becoming Immortal, leaving powerful cultivators amazed and wondering whether it could help them reach the Land of Becoming Immortal.

• Empyrean Immortal Venerable hoped the technique would appear later so he could keep watching its display.
• Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi focused on comprehending the scene of heaven and earth collapsing, which he found beneficial to his cultivation.
• Taishang Laojun and his two attendants watched space repeatedly break apart, though Laojun kept his astonishment to himself.
• An ancient Supreme and several experts in the Big Dipper Immortal Realm recognized the collapsing world as the Road to Becoming Immortal and speculated that the technique could help travelers withstand its dangers.
• The ancient Supreme restrained his desire for the technique, and the experts lamented that their age and dwindling vitality left them waiting for the Road to Becoming Immortal.

The Jade Water Pavilion Ancestor woke his disciples after the eighth technique’s vision of heaven and earth collapsing left them trapped in fear. The ranking video then revealed the eighth-ranked technique as the Indestructible True Scripture.

• The forbidden land cultivators lost interest when the eighth technique showed no connection to extending lifespans.
• The Jade Water Pavilion Ancestor called his disciples out of their daze, and they thanked him for saving them from the vision’s mental pressure.
• The Jade Water Pavilion disciples discussed whether the technique caused the destruction or let its practitioner withstand it unharmed.
• The ranking video announced the eighth place and revealed the name The Indestructible True Scripture.

The ranking video revealed that the Indestructible True Scripture was a heaven-born body-cultivation technique that could make the body endure forever at its highest realm. The Empyrean Immortal Venerable and the Witch Clan became eager to obtain it, but the Witch Clan could only watch the video and had no way to reach its creator.

• The video ranked the Indestructible True Scripture eighth overall and explained that its strange symbols conveyed principles beyond any era.
• Cultivators across the fantasy world were shocked that mastering the scripture could make the physical body never perish.
• The Empyrean Immortal Venerable called it the world's strongest body-cultivation technique and considered pursuing it instead of merging with the Great Dao.
• The Witch Clan's grand elder hoped the scripture could overcome the clan's short lifespans and give it an advantage over the Demon Beast Race.
• The Witch Clan lamented that it could not enter the world shown in the video, and its members said the creator had not replied to their messages.

The Witch Clan and the Big Dipper Immortal Realm’s Supreme Realm experts became desperate to obtain the Indestructible True Scripture after seeing its power. The Witch Clan grand elder planned to enter seclusion with insights from the video, while the experts discussed using the Great Dark Brawl to reach another world, and a peerless expert began awakening.

• The Witch Clan elders longed to learn the Indestructible True Scripture, but Lin Yu ignored their messages and had no interest in trading for their treasures.
• The Witch Clan grand elder told his people he had gained insight from the ranking video and would enter seclusion after it finished playing.
• The Witch Clan cultivators pledged to protect their clan and regained hope that the grand elder might make a breakthrough.
• Supreme Realm experts in the Big Dipper Immortal Realm grew eager to seize the Indestructible True Scripture and discussed crossing worlds through the Great Dark Brawl.
• A peerless expert in a forbidden land of life began awakening as Chaos Qi surrounded him and heaven and earth trembled.

A peerless expert in the forbidden zone of life revived after seeing the Indestructible True Scripture, unleashing pressure that threatened cultivators across the world. The Jade Pool Immortal Realm used its divine-grade artifact to suppress him, but the Holy Lord of Jade Pool worried that a Great Dark Brawl could still erupt.

• A peerless expert in the forbidden zone of life awakened, and the Dark Living Beings knelt as his pressure spread.
• Cultivators across the immortal realms panicked at the disturbance and feared another Great Dark Brawl.
• The Jade Pool Immortal Realm activated its divine-grade artifact, overpowering the expert's pressure and allowing nearby cultivators to flee.
• The Holy Lord of Jade Pool recognized the expert's excitement over the Indestructible True Scripture and warned that he might still provoke a Great Dark Brawl.
• The chapter explained that Great Dark Brawls let forbidden-zone cultivators extend their lives by feeding on others, but only for a limited time.

The Jade Pool Holy Lord and Eastern Radiance’s strongest expert worried that the forbidden zones of life would seize the Indestructible True Scripture and worsen the Human Race’s crisis. Meanwhile, immortals in the Land of Becoming Immortal debated how the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website could connect fantasy worlds beyond their own realm.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord feared the Great Dark Brawl was imminent and hoped the Hongmeng Great Emperor would help, though her private messages had gone unanswered.
• Eastern Radiance’s strongest expert warned that the Indestructible True Scripture must not fall into the hands of the forbidden zones of life.
• Immortals in the Land of Becoming Immortal wondered how the Great Thousand Myriad Daos Video Website bypassed their realm to link fantasy worlds.
• The immortals concluded that the website’s creator had to be a peerless expert, possibly beyond the Immortal Realm.