Chapter Summaries

The Ten Thousand Immortals Association tried to fracture Jiang Hanzhou’s alliance by demanding that Han Xuanji and Li Fu stay behind, while the crowd weighed whether to abandon them. Li Fu and Han Xuanji stood their ground, leaving the black-robed cultivator unable to finish offering a compromise.

• Cultivators in the crowd argued that Han Xuanji and Li Fu should be sacrificed so the rest could enter the immortal palace, and many edged away from them.
• Chen Luo and Chen Fei prepared to fight for Han Xuanji, but Han Xuanji told them not to rush.
• Jiang Hanzhou rejected the demand and declared that he would not abandon his allies.
• Li Fu confronted the black-robed cultivator, challenged the crowd to try to make him stay, and warned that he would fight back.
• Han Xuanji stepped forward and quietly said that killing the Ten Thousand Immortals Association cultivators would resolve the problem.
• The black-robed cultivator tried to offer a compromise, but Li Fu shouted for him to shut up before he could finish.

Han Xuanji killed a Ten Thousand Immortals Association cultivator who tried to sow discord, then joined Jiang Hanzhou and the others in breaking the Association’s blockade. The Association’s forces scattered, leaving the passage to the Ten Directions Immortal Hall open and its former territory up for grabs.

• Han Xuanji killed the black-robed cultivator with Starfall Nine Swords before he could drive a wedge between the group.
• Jiang Hanzhou rallied the gathered cultivators against the Ten Thousand Immortals Association and promised them a share of its territory and opportunities.
• Li Fu, Han Xuanji, Jiang Hanzhou, Chen Bei, and the others attacked and shattered the restriction, then routed the Association’s remaining cultivators.
• Jiang Hanzhou announced that cultivators could enter the immortal hall if they had enough Holy Light or claim the Association’s abandoned holdings.
• Li Fu praised Han Xuanji’s decisive sword strike, and Jiang Hanzhou reflected that the scattered Association would never reunite.

Han Xuanji discovered an eleven-star sign-in location in the divine tree cave and obtained the Shengxin Dao Body trait before entering the Divine Tree Trial. He sent Zhou Yuan and Lan Miao ahead, then began merging with the trait alone.

• Lan Miao told Han Xuanji that he had gathered a hundred strands of Holy Light by buying the remaining strands from other cultivators.
• Han Xuanji, Zhou Yuan, and Lan Miao entered the divine tree cave and saw the stone platform used to begin the Divine Tree Trial.
• Han Xuanji received a system prompt identifying the Tower of the Divine Tree as an eleven-star sign-in location and signed in.
• Han Xuanji obtained the Shengxin Dao Body trait, which greatly enhanced his comprehension and mental will.
• Han Xuanji told Zhou Yuan and Lan Miao to proceed without him, and they entered the trial.
• Han Xuanji chose to claim the Shengxin Dao Body trait and began merging with it.

Han Xuanji fused with the Shengxin Dao Body and entered the Divine Tree Trial, where his flawless mind let him pass the first stage without noticing its test. The Spirit of the Sacred Domain recognized his physique and warned him that the second stage would be different.

• Han Xuanji completed the Shengxin Dao Body fusion in one day and gained the innate Divine Ability Shengxin Tribulation.
• Han Xuanji entered the trial space and heard that the first stage would question his Dao heart.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain declared Han Xuanji had passed because it could find no flaws in his mind.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain recognized Han Xuanji's Shengxin Dao Body and considered him worthy of nurturing, though he was not the Holy Lord's descendant.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain announced that the second stage would require Han Xuanji to cut down the self.

Han Xuanji passed the second stage of the Divine Tree trial by destroying his overwhelmingly powerful projection with Shengxin Tribulation. Chi Yuan also defeated his projection, then asked whether he had passed faster than the other trial takers, leaving the Spirit of the Sacred Domain’s brief silence to unsettle him.

• Han Xuanji faced a projection with far greater physical and spiritual strength than his own.
• Han Xuanji used Shengxin Tribulation to pierce the projection’s defenses and destroy it within a few breaths.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain announced that Han Xuanji had passed the second stage, making him the first to pass it using mind power.
• Chi Yuan defeated his projection after a grueling battle and received praise from the Spirit of the Sacred Domain.
• Chi Yuan asked whether he had passed faster than the other trial takers, and the Spirit of the Sacred Domain’s pause filled him with unease.

Chi Yuan learned that someone had passed the second stage before him but refused to believe anyone could be faster. The Spirit of the Sacred Domain explained Han Xuanji’s mind-based Divine Ability and began the third stage, leaving Han Xuanji without his cultivation in a familiar servant disciple courtyard.

• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain told Chi Yuan that another trial-taker had passed the second stage before him, but Chi Yuan dismissed the news and assumed the spirit was trying to humble him.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain asked Han Xuanji how he had passed the second stage, and Han Xuanji explained that he had used an innate Divine Ability related to the path of the mind.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain revealed that the Ten Directions Holy Lord’s Shengxin Dao Body had produced the defensive Divine Ability Ten Directions Heart Domain, which had helped him withstand a Saint King.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain introduced the third stage, breaking the illusion, and warned Han Xuanji that he would have to rely on himself.
• Han Xuanji lost access to his cultivation and found himself in the Divine Profound Sect’s servant disciple courtyard.

Han Xuanji passed the Divine Tree Trial after realizing that the system’s absence made the illusion meaningless to him. The Spirit of the Sacred Domain explained the Ten Directions Immortal Hall’s trials and inheritance, and told Han Xuanji that both of his friends were still progressing through the third trial.

• Han Xuanji used his retained talents to dominate the systemless illusion, ascend through the realms, and defeat the Devil Ancestor again.
• Han Xuanji realized that finding the system’s source might reveal the illusion’s nature, and the illusion shattered.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain congratulated Han Xuanji for passing the third trial in ten days and said he could enter the immortal hall.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain described the Ten Directions Immortal Hall’s ten heavens, their guardians, and the requirements for obtaining the Ten Directions Holy Lord’s complete inheritance.
• Han Xuanji asked when trial-takers would meet, and the Spirit of the Sacred Domain explained that they could interact throughout the hall and that only one person could claim the inheritance.
• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain told Han Xuanji that Zhou Yuan and his other friend were both in the third trial and seemed likely to pass.

Han Xuanji reached the Thunder World and waited for Zhou Yuan while cultivating. Chi Yuan passed the third trial stage, learned he was second again, and suspected Liu Wanxu might be the person who had taken first place twice.

• The Spirit of the Sacred Domain sent Han Xuanji from the Divine Tree Trial space to the Thunder World after tiring of his questions.
• Han Xuanji recognized the Thunder World’s enormous thunder dragon as its likely guardian and decided to wait for Zhou Yuan to learn more about the trial.
• Han Xuanji secluded himself in a cliff hollow and refined a Profound Origin Fruit while waiting for a month.
• Chi Yuan emerged from the Breaking Illusion stage after spending nearly five thousand years in its illusion.
• Chi Yuan asked whether he was the first to pass three stages, but the Spirit of the Sacred Domain told him he was second and that the same person had placed first twice.
• Chi Yuan apologized for offending the Spirit of the Sacred Domain and considered whether Liu Wanxu was the person ahead of him.

Chi Yuan entered the thunder world of the first heaven, confident that his mastery of the Thunder Principle would help him find the token needed to advance. After Chi Yuan planted a tracking mark for the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, Han Xuanji noticed it and secretly altered it to hinder the association’s members from gathering.

• Chi Yuan arrived in the thunder world and resolved to find its Principle token without challenging the guardian spirit.
• Chi Yuan found no nearby cultivators and planted a tracking mark for members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association before heading into the mountains.
• Han Xuanji refined his fifth Profound Origin Fruit and advanced to the ninth layer of the Eternal True Lord realm.
• Han Xuanji sensed Chi Yuan nearby but chose not to pursue him alone.
• Han Xuanji discovered Chi Yuan’s tracking mark and reversed its effect so it would make the association’s members drift farther apart.

Han Xuanji waited for Zhou Yuan in the lightning world while the other trial-takers arrived, but Zhou Yuan remained missing. Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Immortals Association’s members failed to find Chi Yuan and began suspecting Liu Wanxu of tampering with his marks, leaving the association divided.

• Li Fu entered the lightning world, explored alone, and was followed by Fang Han, Jiang Hanzhou, and other cultivators.
• Lan Miao arrived and chose to explore alone, while Han Xuanji continued cultivating and waited for Zhou Yuan, who did not appear.
• Nearly thirty trial-takers entered the first heaven, including eight members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, but Zhou Yuan was still absent.
• The association’s members searched the southern mountains for Chi Yuan’s marks for more than ten days without finding them.
• Liu Wanxu suspected someone had altered Chi Yuan’s marks, and Wan Kun suggested that Liu himself might be responsible.
• Liu Wanxu angrily denied Wan Kun’s accusation, as tensions rose among the association members.

Liu Wanxu led the Ten Thousand Immortals Association through suspicion and a series of successful ambushes in the Thunder World. After the group’s attacks drew other cultivators into cautious alliances, Zhou Yuan finally emerged from the Divine Tree Trial, exhausted by the unusually difficult test designed for the Holy Lord’s descendants.

• Wan Kun suggested a traitor had tampered with Chi Yuan’s mark, and the group eyed Liu Wanxu with suspicion.
• Liu Wanxu urged the Ten Thousand Immortals Association to set aside their suspicions and hunt the other trial takers together.
• The association ambushed and eliminated five cultivators over ten days, while Jiang Hanzhou held back and saw an opportunity to build opposition against them.
• Other cultivators began traveling in groups and discussing cooperation, prompting the Ten Thousand Immortals Association to lie low and wait for Chi Yuan.
• Zhou Yuan emerged from the Divine Tree Trial exhausted, having faced an especially difficult illusion designed to temper the Holy Lord’s descendants.

Zhou Yuan entered the Thunder World and was ambushed by the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, forcing him to flee toward a thundercloud-covered valley. Han Xuanji sensed Zhou Yuan’s signal and worried that he had run into the group.

• Zhou Yuan recognized the Thunder World’s guardian and used Han Xuanji’s jade talisman to locate him.
• Zhou Yuan sensed an ambush and hid as seven members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association approached.
• Wan Kun identified Zhou Yuan as Han Xuanji’s follower, and Wang Jue volunteered to attack him.
• Liu Wanxu ordered the group to stop Zhou Yuan from escaping while the others watched their surroundings.
• Zhou Yuan fled southeast toward a valley where dense thunder Spiritual Qi could disrupt the pursuers’ perception.
• Han Xuanji sensed Zhou Yuan’s signal and worried that he had encountered the Ten Thousand Immortals Association.

Han Xuanji and Li Fu arrived to protect Zhou Yuan from seven members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association. As the two sides faced off, Wang Jue and Wan Kun pushed the association to fight despite Liu Wanxu’s attempt to keep them cautious.

• Han Xuanji met Li Fu on his way to save Zhou Yuan, and Li Fu agreed to join him in confronting the Ten Thousand Immortals Association.
• Han Xuanji and Li Fu reached Zhou Yuan and blocked the seven pursuers, who stopped and grew wary of the pair.
• Liu Wanxu signaled his people not to act rashly and considered ways to avoid a fight.
• Wang Jue urged Liu Wanxu to attack, demanding a chance to avenge his brother Wang Qing and offering to fight Li Fu.
• Wan Kun backed Wang Jue, arguing that the seven should use their numbers to defeat Han Xuanji and Li Fu before the groups met again.

Liu Wanxu agreed to let the Ten Thousand Immortals Association fight Han Xuanji, Li Fu, and Zhou Yuan, ordering his side to finish quickly. Han Xuanji faced Wan Kun and three elite fighters at once, confident in his strength as their coordinated assault began.

• Wang Jue and Wan Kun urged the others to fight, and Liu Wanxu agreed after realizing he could not stop them.
• Wang Jue charged Li Fu, while Wan Kun and three allies surrounded Han Xuanji; another attacker went after Zhou Yuan as Liu Wanxu covered escape routes.
• Zhou Yuan urged Han Xuanji to leave him behind, but Han Xuanji calmly said he was confident he could handle the fight.
• Wang Jue and Li Fu clashed, with Liu Wanxu supporting Wang Jue as neither could quickly gain the upper hand.
• Wan Kun and three elites attacked Han Xuanji in a coordinated assault, but their usual tactics failed to affect him.

Han Xuanji fought off the Ten Thousand Immortals Association’s experts in the Nine Mysteries Saint Realm, injuring Wan Kun and forcing Liu Wanxu to join the battle. Surrounded by four opponents, Han Xuanji stopped defending and charged at them with his Indestructible Creation Body pushed to its limit.

• Han Xuanji overpowered a burly halberd wielder in a clash of physical strength and mocked the four experts.
• Wan Kun led a coordinated attack, but Han Xuanji anticipated his sneak attack and sent him flying into a rock wall, seriously injured.
• Zhou Yuan held off an expert from the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, while Liu Wanxu and Wang Jue fought Li Fu.
• Liu Wanxu left Wang Jue to assist the four attackers, and their combined assault pressured Han Xuanji in the Nine Mysteries Saint Realm.
• Han Xuanji enveloped himself in golden Qi flames and charged straight at Liu Wanxu and the others.

Han Xuanji and Li Fu overwhelmed the Ten Thousand Immortals Association fighters, forcing Liu Wanxu and the others to flee while Wang Jue was left behind to face them. Han Xuanji and Li Fu struck Wang Jue down, and Wang Jue died hoping Chi Yuan would avenge him.

• Han Xuanji killed the sword cultivator with a single strike, shocking Liu Wanxu and the remaining fighters.
• Wan Kun urged Liu Wanxu to retreat, while Li Fu pressed Wang Jue hard and Han Xuanji moved to assist him.
• Liu Wanxu ordered the fighters to split up and flee, and Wan Kun and the other two escaped in separate directions.
• Wang Jue cursed his fleeing allies as Li Fu overpowered him and Han Xuanji struck from the side.
• Wang Jue said Chi Yuan would avenge him before Li Fu declared he would eventually kill Chi Yuan too.

Han Xuanji and his allies defeated the Ten Thousand Immortals Association’s attackers, though Liu Wanxu escaped. After Li Fu departed to search for thunder tokens, Zhou Yuan explained why he had arrived late and revealed that his ancestor had put him through a difficult illusion trial.

• Li Fu killed Wang Jue, and Han Xuanji helped Zhou Yuan defeat another Ten Thousand Immortals Association cultivator as the remaining attackers fled.
• Han Xuanji regretted that Liu Wanxu escaped but decided they could deal with him another time.
• Zhou Yuan thanked Han Xuanji and Li Fu for saving him, while Li Fu remarked on Han Xuanji’s rapid increase in strength.
• Han Xuanji said the Profound Origin Fruit had brought him a little improvement, leaving Li Fu surprised.
• Li Fu explained that they needed to collect thunder tokens to reach the next level of heaven, then left to search for them.
• Zhou Yuan told Han Xuanji that the Ten Directions Holy Lord had made him complete a separate, difficult illusion realm, which had strengthened him.

Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan headed north toward Thunder Dragon Mountain while Jiang Hanzhou learned of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association’s losses and planned to use the news against Han Xuanji. Liu Wanxu found Chi Yuan and told him that Wang Jue and two others had been eliminated.

• Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan left the site of the battle and discussed how Zhou Yuan would unlock his household’s inheritance memories at Thunder Dragon Mountain.
• A green-robed cultivator reported the battle to Jiang Hanzhou, who learned that Han Xuanji had proved stronger than expected and decided to spread the news to provoke Chi Yuan.
• Liu Wanxu found Chi Yuan’s fresh mark near a thunder pool and led Wan Kun and two others to Chi Yuan’s cave.
• Chi Yuan noticed that only four of his men had arrived and demanded to know where the other three were.
• Liu Wanxu admitted that Wang Jue and two others had been eliminated, then began explaining what had happened.

After Liu Wanxu and Wan Kun took responsibility for the Ten Thousand Immortals Association’s defeat, Chi Yuan set aside punishment and led the group toward the Thunder God Hall ruins to find a Thunder Token and prepare to face Han Xuanji. Meanwhile, news of Han Xuanji’s victory spread through the Thunder World, though Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan remained unaware as they reached Thunder Dragon Mountain.

• Liu Wanxu confessed the events of the battle and accepted most of the blame, while Wan Kun admitted that he had underestimated Han Xuanji.
• Chi Yuan suppressed his anger, set the matter aside, and ordered the group to help him seek a Thunder Token in the ruins of the Thunder God Hall.
• Jiang Hanzhou’s informants spread news of Han Xuanji’s victory, and the tale grew as it passed among the Thunder World’s trial participants.
• Lan Miao heard the news, felt proud of Han Xuanji, and resolved to defeat at least one member of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association himself.
• Chi Yuan heard the reports on the way to the ruins and quickened his pace after realizing Han Xuanji’s victory had become public knowledge.
• Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan reached Thunder Dragon Mountain without knowing the story had spread across the mountain range.

Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan reached Thunder God Village, where trial-takers had gathered to seek the Lineage inheritance. Lan Miao told Han Xuanji that news of his battle with the Ten Thousand Immortals Association had spread widely, then asked what had really happened.

• Zhou Yuan explained that the Thunder Clan lived in the Thunder World and that the Lineage inheritance was likely near their village.
• Han Xuanji and Zhou Yuan reached Thunder God Village and saw natives and trial-takers gathered there.
• Lan Miao recognized Han Xuanji and said his reputation had spread among the trial-takers.
• Lan Miao recounted conflicting rumors about the fight, including one that credited Li Fu with defeating Liu Wanxu and Wang Jue.
• Han Xuanji explained that he had joined Li Fu and Zhou Yuan to fight seven members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association.