Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen urged Xiao Yan to return to Great Sheng, while Xiao Yan insisted he needed time to prove his cultivation and hoped to meet Han Xuanji. After Han Xuanji exposed Wu Congshan as the one behind Baili Qianchi’s attack, Qin Xin asked him to stay for a private performance.

• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan that Great Sheng’s Emperor wanted him to return, but Xiao Yan said he needed time to prove he could reach the pinnacle and surpass their ancestor.
• Xiao Yan said he wanted to exchange moves with Han Xuanji and perhaps bring him to Great Sheng, while Xiao Chen expressed interest in seeing his elder brother’s progress.
• Baili Qianchi admitted that Wu Congshan had told him to deal with Han Xuanji, and Hun Qianling promised to inform his elder brother and protect Han Xuanji.
• As Han Xuanji prepared to leave with Hun Qianling, Qin Xin asked him to stay so she could play a piece for him in private.

Han Xuanji rejected Qin Xin’s invitation to hear her play in private and left the Shallow Dream Pavilion with Hun Qianling. He had discovered that Qin Xin was an avatar of the Eternal Deity Jue, and he resolved to avoid drawing further attention.

• Qin Xin invited Han Xuanji to stay and hear her play alone, surprising the crowd.
• Han Xuanji declined Qin Xin’s invitation, took Hun Qianling’s hand, and left the pavilion.
• Qin Xin watched Han Xuanji go and decided he was an interesting person.
• Outside, Hun Qianling asked Han Xuanji why he had hurried away, but he did not explain.
• Han Xuanji recalled that the system had identified Qin Xin as an avatar of the Eternal Deity Jue and worried about becoming involved with her.
• Qin Xin continued watching Han Xuanji from the pavilion, though her interest was not enough to alert her true body.

Han Xuanji set aside his concerns about Qin Xin and decided to expose the plot against him by turning his attention to Hun Qianchen and Hun Zangfeng. In a secret meeting, Hun Zangfeng proposed killing Hun Qianxue to seize power, leaving Hun Qianchen shocked and Wu Tianqiong weighing the opportunity.

• Han Xuanji decided to act against Hun Qianchen and Hun Zangfeng before they could send stronger threats after him.
• Hun Qianchen complained that Hun Qianxue's growing influence was steadily weakening his position in the Lineage.
• Hun Zangfeng questioned why Hun Qianchen had ordered Wu Congshan to target Han Xuanji and explained that killing Han Xuanji would bring great risks for little gain.
• Hun Zangfeng drew a line of blood on the table and proposed a decapitation plan to kill Hun Qianxue.
• Hun Qianchen warned that murdering the household head violated ancestral precepts and could cost them the Lineage's support.
• Hun Zangfeng dismissed the force of ancestral precepts in the Soul Household's power struggles, while Wu Tianqiong considered what he might gain.

Han Xuanji uncovered a plot by Hun Qianchen and Hun Zangfeng that threatened the Soul Household and himself. He brought the warning to Hun Qianxue and first made sure their meeting was secure.

• Hun Zangfeng urged Hun Qianchen to seize power, warning him that the winner would decide how the ancestral precepts were applied, while Wu Tianqiong agreed to hear him out.
• Han Xuanji reviewed messages from Thousand Souls City and learned that Hun Qianchen and Hun Zangfeng had ambitions beyond using Wu Congshan and Baili Qianchi to suppress him.
• Han Xuanji asked Hun Qianling to take him to Hun Qianxue, warning her that the plot went beyond Baili Qianchi and could not wait.
• Hun Qianxue said he had already acted against the Heavenly Martial Sect, but Han Xuanji insisted that the matter was more serious and asked whether everyone present could be trusted.
• Hun Qianxue revealed four hidden guards at Han Xuanji's request, and Han Xuanji examined them before concluding that they were trustworthy.

Han Xuanji warned Hun Qianxue that Hun Zangfeng and Hun Qianchen planned to assassinate him at Soul-Severing Ridge with help from the Heavenly Martial Sect and a trusted informant. Hun Qianxue accepted the warning and decided to turn the plot against its conspirators, asking Han Xuanji to help identify the traitors around him.

• Han Xuanji told Hun Qianxue and Hun Qianling that Hun Zangfeng and Hun Qianchen planned to ambush and kill Hun Qianxue at Soul-Severing Ridge.
• Hun Qianxue confirmed he would travel through the ridge and realized that someone close to him had leaked the route and his party’s details.
• Han Xuanji refused to reveal how he had obtained the intelligence, and Hun Qianxue thanked him for saving his life and the lives of his branch.
• Hun Qianxue explained that Hun Zangfeng had likely devised the assassination plot and joined forces with the Heavenly Martial Sect to seize power.
• Hun Qianxue said he could not accuse the conspirators without proof and would instead turn their scheme against them.
• Hun Qianxue asked Han Xuanji to help identify which people around him had sided with Hun Zangfeng.

Han Xuanji used his ability to uncover disloyal members of Hun Qianxue’s inner circle and reported them to Hun Qianxue, who took over the response. Back in the Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven, Han Xuanji considered using his simulation function to predict what might happen next.

• Han Xuanji agreed to help Hun Qianxue identify moles, on condition that Hun Qianxue and Hun Qianling never reveal his ability.
• Hun Qianxue arranged casual meetings between Han Xuanji and the Soul Household’s core figures so Han Xuanji could read their thoughts and loyalties.
• Han Xuanji uncovered a trusted steward secretly informing Hun Zangfeng, a longtime subordinate who resented Hun Qianxue, and several fence-sitters who might switch sides.
• Han Xuanji reported his findings, and Hun Qianxue thanked him before taking responsibility for the next steps.
• Han Xuanji returned to the Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven, considered his ways to stay safe, and decided to consider simulating the future.

Han Xuanji used the system to simulate Hun Qianling’s future and learned how the Soul Household survived an ambush against Hun Qianxue. The simulation revealed Hun Qianling’s growing closeness to Han Xuanji, then continued beyond the household’s victory.

• Han Xuanji invited Hun Qianling to the Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven and secretly began a simulation of her future at the cost of six thousand Eternal Points.
• The simulation showed Hun Qianling improving her Five Elements Dao Principle after speaking with Han Xuanji.
• Hun Qianxue and his allies defeated an ambush by the Heavenly Martial Sect, while Wu Tianqiong escaped badly injured and Hun Zangfeng and Hun Qianchen were captured.
• Hun Qianling visited Han Xuanji to share the news, and their relationship with the Soul Household grew closer.
• Hun Qianling’s eldest brother urged her to win Han Xuanji over, but she accepted that he was devoted to cultivation and did not want to bind him with gratitude.

Han Xuanji’s simulated counterpart rose to prominence in Thousand Souls City, found Tongtian Dao Venerable, and entered the early Principle Conference. There, he and Xiao Yan broke through to the Eternal True Lord Realm, and Han Xuanji won their final battle before receiving an invitation to the Great Sheng Sacred Dynasty.

• The narrator and Han Xuanji entered Life and Death Ravine, where Han Xuanji condensed the Dao Principle of Life and Death after thirty years.
• With Hun Qianxue’s support, the narrator searched Thousand Souls City’s Transcendents and helped Han Xuanji find Tongtian Dao Venerable, who was living as Li Tiantong.
• Han Xuanji became Thousand Souls City’s foremost prodigy and entered a century-long seclusion before the Principle Conference was moved forward.
• The narrator was eliminated in the third round, while Han Xuanji won nineteen consecutive matches and faced Yan Xiao in the final.
• Han Xuanji and Yan Xiao broke through to the Eternal True Lord Realm during their duel, then fought again, with Han Xuanji winning.
• The narrator learned Yan Xiao was Xiao Yan of the Great Sheng Sacred Dynasty, which had advanced the conference; Han Xuanji was invited to the dynasty.

Han Xuanji’s simulation showed that he refused the Great Sheng Sacred Dynasty’s offer, built a life with Hun Qianling, and watched the Soul Household prosper. Their peaceful years ended when an unprecedented beast tide surged from the Desolate Domain into Nine Mysteries Prefecture.

• Han Xuanji declined the Great Sheng Sacred Dynasty’s invitation, and Xiao Yan supported his choice to remain and cultivate in peace.
• After the Principle Conference, Hun Qianxue granted Han Xuanji the status of an Eternal True God-level guest elder, while the Soul Household rose to prominence.
• Over the next millennium, Han Xuanji’s reputation spread and Hun Qianling advanced to Eternal True Lord; the two grew close and married.
• Han Xuanji and Hun Qianling spent their days cultivating and managing the household without rushing to have children.
• Abnormal spiritual fluctuations in the southern Desolate Domain preceded disappearing cultivators, ruined outposts, and an immense, organized beast tide containing Saint Realm beasts.
• The beast tide overwhelmed outlying cities and poured into Nine Mysteries Prefecture’s major cities, leaving Han Xuanji to wonder what had caused the calamity.

Han Xuanji’s simulation showed a beast tide overwhelming Thousand Souls City and ending with Hun Qianling’s death after she diverted a True God-level beast from his escape pod. After the simulation ended, Han Xuanji absorbed Hun Qianling’s cultivation insights and resolved to use the warning to prepare for the coming danger.

• The simulation showed Hun Qianxue sending Han Xuanji and Hun Qianling away from Thousand Souls City aboard a Saint-grade warship while he drew the beasts’ attention.
• A hidden Saint Realm beast attacked the warship, and Han Xuanji used its escape pods to scatter the passengers as the ship fought automatically.
• Hun Qianling spotted Han Xuanji’s pod being pursued, changed her course to distract the True God-level beast, and died when it breached her pod.
• The simulation ended, granting Han Xuanji Hun Qianling’s cultivation insights gained between life and death.
• Han Xuanji set aside his disappointment and concluded that advance knowledge of the beast tide gave him time and options to prepare.

Han Xuanji asked Hun Qianling to search for Li Tiantong, the Tongtian Dao Venerable, while helping her advance her understanding of the Five Elements Dao Principle. Li Tiantong was ordered to oversee a remote mine for a hundred years, but just as he prepared to leave, someone came looking for him.

• Han Xuanji showed Hun Qianling how the Five Elements Dao Principle formed cycles of both generation and overcoming, helping her break through a cultivation bottleneck.
• A month later, Han Xuanji asked Hun Qianling to find Li Tiantong in Thousand Souls City, and she agreed to make arrangements.
• Hun Qianling told Han Xuanji that Life and Death Ravine would open in a few years, and he returned to his cultivation chamber to train while waiting.
• Li Tiantong received an order to oversee the remote Nine Mountains Mining Area for a hundred years, a punishment arranged by Zhang Dayuan.
• Li Tiantong decided to accept the assignment and began packing, but an outer disciple arrived and announced that someone was looking for him.

Hun Jiuge arrived at the Five Elements Pavilion and stopped Zhang Dayuan from forcing Li Tiantong to leave for a hundred-year assignment at the Nine Mountains Mining Area. He canceled Li Tiantong’s mission, while Li Tiantong remained uneasy about why someone from the Soul Household had sought him out.

• Zhang Dayuan and his lackeys pressured Li Tiantong to leave immediately for the Nine Mountains Mining Area, refusing to let him pack first.
• Hun Jiuge arrived with two attendants and introduced himself to Li Tiantong as a member of the Soul Household.
• Li Tiantong worried that Hun Jiuge had discovered his identity as a cultivator who had transcended from Primal Chaos.
• Hun Jiuge confronted Zhang Dayuan over his treatment of Li Tiantong and criticized the hundred-year mining assignment.
• Hun Jiuge took Li Tiantong’s mission Jade Slip and told him he did not need to go.

Hun Jiuge revealed that Han Xuanji had made Li Tiantong an honored guest of the Soul Household and protected him from being sent to the Nine Mountains Mining Area. Li Tiantong accepted Han Xuanji’s invitation and set off to meet him, wondering why the mysterious Heaven’s Chosen considered them old acquaintances.

• Hun Jiuge told Zhang Dayuan that Li Tiantong was an honored guest of the Soul Household, and Zhang withdrew his threat after learning Elder Fang Xuanhe had been informed.
• Hun Jiuge gave Li Tiantong a Soul Household token and explained that Han Xuanji wanted to meet him and offer help.
• Zhang Yi questioned Li Tiantong about knowing Han Xuanji, but Li Tiantong said he did not know why Han was helping him or what Han looked like.
• Li Tiantong declined Hun Jiuge’s offer to deal with Zhang Dayuan and chose to settle his own grudge himself.
• Li Tiantong asked Hun Jiuge to take him to Han Xuanji, and they left the Five Elements Pavilion in a fine beast-drawn carriage.

Li Tiantong met Han Xuanji at the Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven and learned that they both came from the Immortal Realm. Han Xuanji asked about Li Tiantong’s past on the Eternal Continent, and Li began recounting why he and the Dao Ancestor had chosen to transcend Chaos.

• Hun Jiuge praised Han Xuanji’s achievements to Li Tiantong and escorted him through the Soul Household to the Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven.
• Hun Jiuge waited outside while Li Tiantong entered Han Xuanji’s cave abode and greeted him as Senior Tongtian.
• Han Xuanji used his inspection function to identify Li Tiantong as a Chaos Transcendent and Eternal Dao Master Fifth Layer.
• Han Xuanji revealed that he came from the Immortal Realm, explained how he obtained three Dao Venerable inheritances, and put Li Tiantong at ease.
• Li Tiantong began explaining that he and the Dao Ancestor had sensed the Chaos Will and transcended because staying in Chaos left them no hope of breaking through.

Li Tiantong told Han Xuanji how he and Dao Ancestor survived the Primordial Sea, struggled after reaching the Eternal Continent, and were separated when Dao Ancestor sacrificed himself in a secret realm. Han Xuanji learned the secret realm was sealed in Seven Stars Prefecture and resolved to find a way to investigate it.

• Li Tiantong explained that he had reached an agreement with Chaos Will and that he and Dao Ancestor were swept into a Primordial Sea storm after transcending.
• Li Tiantong recounted how they survived on a lone island for thousands of years before joining a fleet and reaching the Eternal Continent under a false identity.
• Li Tiantong said he and Dao Ancestor endured years of hardship before entering a secret realm, where Dao Ancestor lured away a powerful guardian beast so Li Tiantong could escape.
• Li Tiantong revealed that he searched for Dao Ancestor for a hundred years before joining the Five Elements Pavilion as an outer disciple in Thousand Souls City.
• Li Tiantong told Han Xuanji that the secret realm was sealed by the Sacred Court in Seven Stars Prefecture, and Han Xuanji promised to find a way to help him reach it.

Han Xuanji gave Li Tiantong two powerful cultivation manuals and arranged for him to stay at Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven. He asked Hui Feng to investigate the Dao Xuan Secret Realm, then focused on his own cultivation until news interrupted him a year later.

• Han Xuanji offered Li Tiantong the Star Soul Secret Canon and the Five Elements Great Dao Secret Canon, and Li Tiantong accepted after promising to repay his kindness.
• Han Xuanji arranged a quiet courtyard and regular cultivation resources for Li Tiantong through steward Zhao Boyong.
• Han Xuanji contacted Hui Feng and asked him to investigate the Dao Xuan Secret Realm, where the Dao Ancestor had disappeared.
• Han Xuanji returned to secluded cultivation, and a year passed before news interrupted him.

Han Xuanji watched as Hun Qianling gathered the Soul Household’s Eternal True Gods to witness an ambush on Hun Qianxue. The chapter ended with six masked Eternal True Gods surrounding Hun Qianxue while he remained calm.

• Han Xuanji received Hun Qianling’s message that the plan was beginning and decided to watch through another means.
• Hun Qianling summoned the Soul Household’s core fighters and projected Hun Qianxue’s journey toward Nine Mysteries City.
• A dark red trapping formation forced Hun Qianxue’s flying boat to land in a canyon.
• Six masked Eternal True Gods appeared on the surrounding cliffs, alarming the elders watching the projection.
• Hun Qianxue stayed composed as the Blood-Burning Ancestor told the elders to keep watching.

Hun Qianxue exposed Hun Zangfeng, Hun Qianchen, and Wu Tianqiong as conspirators who had ambushed him, then revealed that he had brought ten Eternal True Gods, including Hun Pojun. Outnumbered and trapped, Hun Zangfeng faced Hun Pojun’s offer to surrender, though it was a lie intended to make him lower his guard.

• Hun Qianxue identified Hun Zangfeng and Hun Qianchen among the masked attackers, and Hun Zangfeng removed his disguise.
• Wu Tianqiong revealed himself as an ally of Hun Zangfeng, confirming their collusion to attack Hun Qianxue.
• Hun Qianxue summoned ten Eternal True Gods, including Hun Pojun, shocking Hun Zangfeng and the attackers.
• Wu Tianqiong angrily questioned Hun Zangfeng and Hun Qianchen as their ambush collapsed, while Hun Zangfeng considered surrendering.
• Hun Pojun offered Hun Zangfeng a chance to surrender, though he intended to deceive him.

The Soul Household elders watched Hun Qianxue’s trap expose Hun Zangfeng’s rebellion and decided to keep the matter within the clan. At Soul-Severing Ridge, Hun Zangfeng and Wu Tianqiong tried to fight their way out, while Hun Qianchen surrendered and was struck by a sword.

• The Soul Household elders praised Hun Qianxue’s preparations, and the Blood-Burning Ancestor ordered them to keep the rebellion secret until Hun Qianxue returned.
• Hun Qianchen wavered at Hun Pojun’s offer of mercy, while Hun Zangfeng urged him and Wu Tianqiong to fight their way out.
• Wu Tianqiong agreed to flee with Hun Zangfeng, and their forces split up to charge in different directions.
• Hun Pojun blocked Hun Zangfeng and sent him flying with a single palm strike.
• Hun Qianchen threw down his weapon and surrendered, but a flash of sword light answered him.

Han Xuanji watched Hun Qianxue’s forces defeat Hun Zangfeng and Wu Tianqiong’s side, then reassured the Blood-Burning Ancestor that he would keep the Soul Household’s affairs private. He returned to Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven to cultivate, free of the uncertainty Hun Zangfeng’s schemes had caused, as the Life and Death Ravine’s opening approached.

• Hun Qianchen was captured after his legs were severed and his cultivation was sealed, while Wu Tianqiong’s forces were trapped and routed.
• The elders and Blood-Burning Ancestor watched Hun Zangfeng’s defeat, and the Blood-Burning Ancestor warned Han Xuanji not to discuss the Soul Household’s affairs.
• Han Xuanji promised to keep the incident private and declined Hun Qianling’s offer to see him out.
• Hun Zangfeng was subdued by Hun Pojun, Wu Tianqiong was defeated by three True Gods, and the Heavenly Martial Sect’s cultivators were killed or forced to surrender.
• Han Xuanji returned to Purple Soul Grotto-Heaven and began cultivating in preparation for the Life and Death Ravine’s opening.