Chapter Summaries

Ye Chenfeng entered his Human Immortal Tribulation as his younger self and resolved to keep his distance from Ji Wan despite their painful past. Ji Wan tried to make peace with him by bringing him two eggs, but he knocked them to the ground, leaving her desperate to find a way to cheer him up.

• Ye Chenfeng woke in his childhood village and recognized that he was undergoing the Human Immortal Tribulation.
• He ignored Ji Wan's pleas and left her alone on the grassy slope, where she cried until sunset.
• Ji Wan promised her father she would give Ye Chenfeng an egg the next day so they could play together again.
• Ji Wan brought Ye Chenfeng two boiled eggs, but he knocked the bowl from her hands with his hoe.
• After Father Ye scolded Ye Chenfeng and picked up the broken eggs, Ji Wan decided to search for immortals to help cheer him up.

Ye Chenfeng endured the Human Immortal Tribulation while believing its rural life was an illusion, but after eight years he chose to immerse himself in it and married a woman from a neighboring village. His wedding was interrupted by a shocked female voice confronting him for marrying someone else.

• Lu Li sensed Ye Chenfeng's presence surge during the tribulation and feared his perceptions had become lost, but he dared not intervene.
• Ye Chenfeng worked in the fields with his father and dismissed Ji Wan's disappearance as part of the illusion.
• Ye Chenfeng lived through eight years of rural life without finding a way to break through the tribulation, then agreed to marry.
• At Ye Chenfeng's wedding, a female voice cried out in shock that he had married someone else.

After returning to Ye Household Village as a Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivator, Ji Wan found Ye Chenfeng marrying someone else and accused him of being an impostor who had possessed her childhood friend. She abducted him and demanded to know where her real Brother Ye was.

• After eight years away, Ji Wan returned to Ye Household Village on a flying sword and saw Ye Chenfeng's wedding.
• Ji Wan confronted Ye Chenfeng about why he had treated her coldly, and he replied that he had no reason beyond wanting to.
• Ji Wan realized Ye Chenfeng had seemed strangely calm about cultivators and concluded that he was not her Brother Ye.
• Ji Wan bound Ye Chenfeng, sealed his five senses, and carried him away from the village.
• Outside the village, Ji Wan threatened Ye Chenfeng and demanded to know where her Brother Ye was.

Ye Chenfeng told Ji Wan that his Human Immortal Tribulation recreated his previous life and revealed how she had betrayed and killed him after they ascended. Ji Wan released him, then died by her own hand, breaking the illusion and allowing Ye Chenfeng to overcome the tribulation.

• Ji Wan threatened to search Ye Chenfeng’s soul until he revealed that he was Ye Chenfeng from a distant future.
• Ye Chenfeng explained that Ji Wan and the surrounding world were part of his tribulation, then recounted their past life together.
• Ye Chenfeng told Ji Wan that after they ascended, she had killed him to seize an emperor’s inheritance, leaving Ji Wan horrified and denying the story.
• Ji Wan released Ye Chenfeng, who turned to leave without learning why she had betrayed him.
• Ji Wan fatally cut her own throat, and Ye Chenfeng realized her death had broken his Human Immortal Tribulation.

Ye Chenfeng overcame his Human Immortal Tribulation but grieved over the illusory Ji Wan, so Lu Li helped steady his Dao heart and demonstrated his newly advanced concealment art. Months later, Lu Li reached Great Desolation Heaven and looked forward to returning to Great Xia.

• Ye Chenfeng emerged from his tribulation in grief and told Lu Li how the illusory Ji Wan helped him overcome it by confronting his hatred and taking her own life.
• Lu Li reminded Ye Chenfeng that the illusion’s events stemmed from Emperor Lord Ji Wan’s betrayal and used True Solar Fire to burn away his distracting thoughts.
• Lu Li revealed that he had advanced the Nine Feathers Ten Thousand Shadows Spirit-Concealing Art and displayed how its hundred thousand shadows could vanish without detection.
• Ye Chenfeng and Elder Jian praised the art’s concealment, and Lu Li practiced it for several months while helping Ye Chenfeng study its earlier form.
• Lu Li reached the border of Imprisoned Dragon Heaven and Great Desolation Heaven and anticipated returning to Great Xia.

Lu Li used No Distance to reach Great Xia, where the story shifted to Lin Yuan, an eighteen-year-old Kepler-22b student preparing for the Dragon Abyss University Grand Examination. With the exam seven days away, Lin Yuan joined the final-prep crowd at school and heard rumors about a chief examiner from Blue Star headquarters before an Interstellar Sea Demon appeared.

• Lu Li sent Ye Chenfeng and Elder Jian into his Blessed Land, then used No Distance to travel through Great Desolation Heaven to the Milky Way Galaxy.
• The chapter described Great Xia's expansion across the Milky Way and Kepler-22b's transformation into a major habitable world.
• Lin Yuan woke, ate breakfast, and left home to attend the seven-day intensive training for the Dragon Abyss University Grand Examination.
• On the rail shuttle, Lin Yuan saw that 470 million people had applied for 1.2 million places at top-tier institutions.
• At Source Continent No. 3 Middle School, Lin Yuan overheard rumors that a powerful figure from Blue Star headquarters would serve as a chief examiner.
• A cry of alarm announced that an Interstellar Sea Demon had appeared nearby.

Lin Yuan witnessed a Star-Devouring Jellyfish swarm attack Kepler-22b, led by an immortal Emperor that survived the planet’s full-power Star-Annihilating Cannon. As the city faced destruction and awaited distant reinforcements, an unfamiliar voice asked whether Great Desolation’s ecosystem had become this good.

• A Star-Defense-Class Star-Annihilating Cannon killed a Nascent Soul Star-Devouring Jellyfish as residents watched calmly.
• Lin Yuan and the city saw the Star-Devouring Jellyfish Emperor arrive with a swarm, and its immortal pressure forced even Cultivation Administration cultivators to the ground.
• Kepler-22b’s Star-Annihilating Cannon fired at full capacity, but the Emperor emerged completely unharmed.
• Residents realized only a True Immortal could stop the Emperor, while reinforcements from 600 light-years away would take about a month to arrive.
• Lin Yuan closed his eyes, expecting the planet’s destruction, until a voice rang across the city and asked whether Great Desolation’s ecosystem had gotten this good.

Lu Li returned to Great Xia after years of travel and stopped a Star-Devouring Jellyfish Demon Immortal from threatening Kepler-22b. He reunited with his father and Great Xia’s leaders on Blue Star, then prepared to introduce them to the members of his Dao Court.

• Lu Li confronted a native True Immortal Star-Devouring Jellyfish on Kepler-22b and ordered its offspring and descendants to disperse.
• Lu Li took the Demon Immortal into his Blessed Land, confirmed that Kepler-22b held no other hidden fiends, and departed as its people recognized and cheered for him.
• Lu Li reflected on Great Xia’s growth into a galactic civilization and planned to use the resources he had gathered to strengthen its Immortal Dao combat power.
• Lu Li arrived at Blue Star, where Lu Dahai welcomed him and Li Qingshan and other familiar figures soon joined them.
• Lu Li greeted the group and announced that he would introduce them to those under the Dao Court he had founded in Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.

Lu Li returned to Great Xia with more than a hundred thousand Dao Court cultivators, prompting a massive reception at East Sea Immortal-Welcoming Port. The exchange meeting began as Great Xia welcomed its visitors from the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao Court.

• Li Qingshan learned that Lu Li had brought a little over a hundred thousand cultivators and ordered a special-grade foreign affairs reception.
• Xia Cheng and the Cultivation Administration staff rushed to prepare East Sea Immortal-Welcoming Port for the visitors.
• Great Xia representatives and media gathered at the venue as Lu Li arrived with Lu Dahai, Li Qingshan, Xu Mu, and Zhang Xuanqing.
• Li Qingshan opened the first exchange and guidance meeting and welcomed the Imprisoned Dragon Heavenly Dao Court comrades.

Lu Li welcomed the Dao Court cultivators to Great Xia, where Li Qingshan addressed them as comrades and Lu Li began introducing the delegations. The ceremony was interrupted when Nether Toad, Heavenly Wolf, and Golden Ape stood to report that they had completed their mission, leaving the Dao Court leaders confused and Yuanhao with a dawning realization.

• Lu Li summoned the Dao Court cultivators, who appeared above the venue and greeted him and Great Xia's representatives.
• Li Qingshan welcomed the Dao Court as comrades, stirring excitement and a sense of belonging among its cultivators.
• Great Xia staff seated the Dao Court delegation, and Lu Li rose to introduce its leaders and members.
• Lu Li reflected on his long life and the friends and disciples he had lost before continuing the introductions.
• Nether Toad, Heavenly Wolf, and Golden Ape saluted and announced that they had returned to Blue Star after completing their mission.
• The Dao Court leaders were bewildered by the demons' report, while Yuanhao seemed to understand what it meant.

Lu Li introduced Great Xia’s leaders to the Dao Court, prompting astonishment over his father Lu Dahai’s True Immortal cultivation and speculation from Elder Jian and Yinyang Qingfan. As the reception ended, Li Qingshan presented the Great Xia-Litian Collaborative Development and Virgo Supercluster Strategic Plan.

• After Nether Toad gave an impassioned speech, Lu Qingshan arranged for Nether Toad, Heavenly Wolf, and Golden Ape to leave the stage.
• Lu Li introduced Great Xia’s senior leaders, including Li Qingshan, Xu Mu, Zhang Xuanqing, Qi Hao, and his father, Lu Dahai.
• The Dao Court members were astonished that Lu Dahai was a True Immortal, and Elder Jian privately speculated to Yinyang Qingfan that he might be an ancient immortal of Great Desolation.
• Great Xia and the Dao Court introduced themselves and exchanged words as the reception continued in a harmonious atmosphere.
• As the reception drew to a close, Li Qingshan handed Lu Li the proposal titled “Great Xia-Litian Collaborative Development and Virgo Supercluster Strategic Plan.”

Lu Li assigned the hundred thousand Dao Court cultivators to Great Xia’s cultivation departments to help develop the Milky Way, then attended to further planning with Li Qingshan. Nether Toad, Golden Ape, and Heavenly Wolf received commendations for their mission, and a short figure appeared as the ceremony ended.

• Li Qingshan explained that Great Xia needed the Dao Court cultivators to accelerate the exploration and development of the Milky Way.
• Lu Li assigned the cultivators to Great Xia’s departments according to their specialties and ordered them to complete scientific training before joining their posts.
• The meeting concluded, and Lu Li prepared to brief Li Qingshan and other officials on his Immortal Realm travels and the resources he had brought back.
• Great Xia’s Cultivator Administration awarded Nether Toad, Golden Ape, and Heavenly Wolf medals, merit citations, Spirit Currency, and Spirit Machinery Law Artifacts.
• The three demons celebrated their return to Great Xia and accepted their medals, then a short figure walked out from the back of the auditorium.

Old Five recruited Nether Toad and two other Dao Integration demons into the General Department of Demon Affairs and sent them to work on Kepler-22b. After teleporting them away, he planned to spend his newly freed time in Vast Cold City.

• Old Five introduced himself as a Tribulation Transcendence tortoise demon and ordered Nether Toad, Golden Ape, and Heavenly Wolf to serve under him as department directors.
• Old Five escorted the three demons to a ninth-tier interstellar shuttle and took them to Vast Cold City on the Moon.
• Old Five explained that the three demons would serve a thirty-year term on Kepler-22b, Great Xia's second-largest interstellar city.
• The teleportation center sent Nether Toad and the other two demons to Kepler-22b, and Old Five decided to visit Maozi and play a few rounds.

Old Five visited Maozi on the Moon and wagered against him over their expected personal shares of the returning Immortal Dao resources. At a high-level Great Xia meeting, Qi Hao learned that remnants of the Gray Tide had appeared on Kepler-452b.

• Old Five arrived at the Cultivation Administration in Vast Cold City to visit Maozi, who accused him of seeking another wager.
• Old Five told Maozi that Lu Li had returned with Immortal Dao resources and proposed betting for their expected personal shares.
• Maozi accepted Old Five's wager, and after half an hour Old Five left smiling while Maozi's office calligraphy had changed to warn that heavy gambling harmed the body.
• Great Xia convened an exceptionally high-level meeting attended by Qi Hao and other powerful cultivators.
• A subordinate reported to Qi Hao that Gray Tide remnants had appeared on Kepler-452b.

Qi Hao learned that the Gray Tide Remnants had resurfaced on Kepler-452b and ordered the Dragon Group to prepare a response rather than rely on Lu Li to hunt them across the galaxy. He then received an invitation to a meeting on recreating the Heavenly Court, and the chapter ended as the long-awaited meeting day arrived.

• Qi Hao heard that the Gray Tide Remnants, descendants of factions that had fled Blue Star a thousand years earlier, had appeared on Kepler-452b.
• Qi Hao rejected a subordinate’s suggestion to have Lu Li eliminate them, saying the Dragon Group had to search for and root out the scattered remnants itself.
• Qi Hao ordered members on Kepler-22b to prepare to strike the Gray Tide Remnants if conditions allowed.
• Qi Hao opened an invitation to the highest command’s preparatory meeting on recreating the Heavenly Court, also known as the Litian Dao Court.
• Senior officials across Great Xia’s departments grew excited as news of the meeting spread, and the meeting day arrived.

Great Xia’s leaders agreed to remake the Heavenly Court with the Litian Dao Court and establish the Great Xia Dao Court to govern Great Desolation Heaven and Imprisoned Dragon Heaven. After an eight-hour meeting finalized its structure and name, they turned to a plan for security and deep-space deployment.

• Li Qingshan opened a high-level meeting attended by Great Xia’s department heads and Dao Court representatives, with Lu Li present.
• Li Qingshan announced that the Great Xia Milky Way Federation and the Litian Dao Court would remake the Heavenly Court to oversee Great Desolation Heaven and Imprisoned Dragon Heaven.
• Lu Li assured Zhang Xuanqing that the existing federal system would remain, while Qi Hao learned the Dragon Group’s authority over high-risk internal security would not change.
• Li Qingshan explained the proposed Heavenly Court’s structure, powers, staffing, and operations during an eight-hour meeting.
• Li Qingshan announced the name Great Xia Ancient Desolation Star River Purple Pole High Heaven Dao Court, shortened to the Great Xia Dao Court, and declared this its first calendar year.
• Li Qingshan introduced the next agenda item: the Great Xia Dao Court’s General Outline for Two-Realm Security and Deep-Space Strategic Deployment.

Lu Li presented the Immortal Dao resources he had brought from Mystic Capital Heaven and warned that Ji Wan had already sent an Earth Immortal to probe Great Xia. The Dao Court discussed the danger of Ji Wan uncovering Lu Li’s background, and Shen Zhu revealed that Great Xia had devised plans for “ordinary” Immortal Dao Spirit Machinery experiments.

• Li Qingshan introduced the Great Xia Dao Court’s strategic outline for two-realm security and deep-space deployment.
• Lu Li listed the Immortal Dao resources he had brought back and urged Great Xia to develop defenses against powerful immortals before the nine realms’ Great Daos dissolved.
• Lu Li said he had killed an Earth Immortal sent by Ji Wan, prompting the meeting to assess the likelihood of further probes.
• Li Qingshan argued that Ji Wan would act cautiously because Lu Li’s Emperor Fate suggested a formidable hidden background, while Ye Chenfeng considered the possibility that Lu Li might pursue Emperor Venerablehood.
• Yinyang Qingfan and others contemplated the danger of Ji Wan discovering Lu Li’s true background, while Great Xia’s department heads remained confident.
• Shen Zhu announced that Great Xia had already conceived several “ordinary” Immortal Dao Spirit Machinery experiments.

Shen Zhu introduced the Virtual Universe, an Immortal Dao Spirit Machinery project designed to anchor subdimensional spaces and unleash their combined spatial force against enemies. Lu Li endorsed the project and offered to help, while Shen Zhu revealed a more ambitious idea: making the Virtual Universe real to enable strategic defenses against even higher-ranked immortals.

• Shen Zhu explained Great Xia’s Spirit Machinery research history and asked Lu Li to help overcome technical problems in its newest project.
• Shen Zhu presented the Virtual Universe, a device meant to link anchored subdimensional spaces and use their crushing force to attack enemies.
• Lu Li recognized the design’s potential to rival Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals and promised to help develop it.
• Shen Zhu said his further ideas might allow Great Xia to build strategic defenses against Profound Immortals and Golden Immortals.
• Shen Zhu proposed adding mass to virtual illusion technology and making the Virtual Universe real.

Shen Du described how hit virtual games could feed data back into reality, prompting Lu Li to consider making the virtual universe real and linking it to the strength of its citizens. Ye Sheng then presented a plan for artificial planetary life-forms, while Lu Li judged the project too resource-intensive for now; the meeting continued with further ambitious proposals that left the Imprisoned Dragon Heaven officials stunned.

• Shen Du explained that data from hugely popular virtual games could improve players' real-world abilities and even slightly affect cultivation, surprising Lu Li and the others.
• Lu Li connected the virtual universe's potential strength to its citizens and resolved to focus on developing it in Great Xia.
• Ye Sheng proposed creating self-sustaining artificial planetary life-forms and demonstrated a spherical organism that could evolve under bloodline-based control.
• Lu Li examined the organism and decided Great Xia lacked the time and resources to pursue the project for now.
• The officials discussed more ambitious research proposals, leaving Yinyang Qingfan, Elder Jian, and the other Imprisoned Dragon Heaven officials bewildered by Great Xia's capabilities.

Ten years after the Virtual Universe project began, Great Xia conducted its first physical trial and deployed a spatial layer that stopped Elder Jian. At Lu Li’s request, Elder Jian pushed beyond his initial effort, and the layer began to crack.

• Great Xia activated the Virtual Universe at the Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration after ten years of development.
• Shen Zhu’s team deployed the first spatial layer across the designated area, and the system reported that it had anchored to the shallow void.
• Elder Jian charged the experimental zone and was halted by the dense spatial power, which the technicians measured as capable of resisting a Second-Turn True Immortal.
• Shen Zhu asked Lu Li to have Elder Jian test the layer’s limits, and Lu Li relayed the request.
• Elder Jian gathered his strength and used his Innate Divine Ability, Man and Sword as One, causing the void to tremble and a crack to sound.