Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Derivation Sect master accepted Jing Xuan, a young cultivator with the Grand Void Time Physique, as someone who would cultivate by his side and arranged a teleportation array to bring him to the Eighteenth Heaven. He also ordered Ouyang Xiao to prepare materials and said the sect would help the owner of the Immortal Palace and its ascenders within its means.

• Ouyang Xiao introduced Jing Xuan to the Heavenly Derivation Sect master, who confirmed Jing Xuan had the Grand Void Time Physique and said he might surpass the Immortal King realm.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect master asked Jing Xuan to cultivate with him, and Jing Xuan agreed and vowed to protect ascenders from the Mortal Realm.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect master told Ouyang Xiao to gather materials for a long-distance teleportation array that would send Jing Xuan to the Eighteenth Heaven.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect master said he would summon Ji Changyan and have Ouyang Xiao explain the situation involving the Rock Peak Imperial Clan.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect master clarified that the sect would form a favorable connection with the owner of the Immortal Palace and help the ascenders on their side as much as it could.

The Heavenly Derivation Sect’s master decided to act on the matter in Rock Peak and summoned Ji Changyan, while Ouyang Xiao began arranging a one-use teleportation array to the Eighteenth Heaven. The divine masters also discovered that Feng Chiyu’s footage of the attack on the Immortal Palace had leaked, but they did not know who was responsible.

• The Heavenly Derivation Sect’s master summoned Ji Changyan to Rock Peak and told Ouyang Xiao that Ji Changyan would handle the matter there.
• Ouyang Xiao told Jing Xuan to wait for the teleportation array and assured him that the sect’s investment in his cultivation was meant for the future.
• Ouyang Xiao met the other divine masters and gave them the materials list for the temporary array, saying they would retrieve the remaining supplies from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Yuan Shaoqing revealed that Feng Chiyu’s footage of the Five Dragons Mountain master and the Three Immortals Pavilion commander attacking the Immortal Palace had leaked.
• Ouyang Xiao proposed having Situ Jiansheng tell Feng Chiyu to warn the Immortal Palace, while the divine masters focused on gathering the array materials.

Moonlight Immortal Lord returned to the ruins of Three Immortals Island with Immortal King Kui, who searched for traces of the attacker but found none. Two surviving Moonlight Pavilion aides revealed that they might know who destroyed the island, leaving Moonlight Immortal Lord eager to hear the culprit’s identity.

• Immortal King Kui brought Moonlight Immortal Lord back to the site of Three Immortals Island and found only a vast pit and a trace of the Immortal King who had destroyed it.
• Moonlight Immortal Lord worried that the unknown attacker might be too powerful, but Immortal King Kui rebuked her and explained why an Immortal King could not easily be killed.
• Immortal King Kui found Chunhua and Qiushi hiding nearby and brought them before Moonlight Immortal Lord.
• Chunhua and Qiushi told Moonlight Immortal Lord that they had waited near the ruins and might know who had destroyed Three Immortals Island.

Moonlight Immortal Lord watched a recording of the destruction of the Three Immortals Pavilion and learned that Kun Ling’s actions had reignited the grudge against the Immortal King in azure. Immortal King Kui then revealed that the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s master was an Immortal King who had fought Prince Yuan to a draw, leaving Moonlight Immortal Lord stunned.

• Chunhua showed Moonlight Immortal Lord and Immortal King Kui a recording of the battle at Ten Thousand Mirrors Mountain.
• Moonlight Immortal Lord recognized the Immortal King in azure as the killer of Carefree Immortal Lord and realized Kun Ling had provoked him into destroying the Three Immortals Pavilion.
• Chunhua explained that the recording had spread widely and recounted how Five Dragons Mountain’s attempt to capture ascenders led to the conflict involving the Heavenly Derivation Sect.
• Moonlight Immortal Lord wondered about the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s role and said she should have destroyed it, prompting Immortal King Kui to scoff.
• Immortal King Kui revealed that the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s master was an Immortal King who had fought Prince Yuan evenly, shocking Moonlight Immortal Lord.

Immortal King Kui learned that the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s master was powerful enough to deter even Prince Yuan, then led Chunhua and Qiushi toward the Immortal Palace at Ten Thousand Mirrors Mountain. At the Heavenly Derivation Sect, Ji Changyan arrived to handle the matter alone, leaving Ouyang Xiao and the others behind to avoid putting them at risk.

• Immortal King Kui questioned Chunhua and Qiushi about the Immortal Palace and ordered them to lead him to it.
• Ouyang Xiao and the other divine masters reflected on Jing Xuan’s departure with the sect master before an Immortal King’s presence briefly pressed down on the Heavenly Derivation Sect.
• Ouyang Xiao explained that the arriving Immortal King was from the Heavenly Derivation Sect in the Sea of Forgetfulness and had come to connect with the Immortal Palace’s owner.
• Ouyang Xiao gave Ji Changyan the Immortal Palace’s coordinates and pointed him toward it.
• Ji Changyan told Yuan Shaoqing and the others to stay behind because they were weak and might be targeted by the imperial clan, then departed alone.