Chapter Summaries

Lu Li tested the Virtual Universe’s three spatial layers, which grew powerful enough to make him defend himself and threaten a Ninth-Turn Human Immortal. He declared the research project a success and recognized that future layers and illusion-reality technology could make it even more formidable.

• The Virtual Universe’s first layer broke under Jian Canglan’s strike, and Lu Li found Elder Jian unconscious in the second layer and moved him to his Blessed Land foundation.
• Lu Li took over testing as Shen Zhu deployed the second layer at full power, blocking Yinyang Qingfan’s True Immortal sense and revealing how the overlapping layers multiplied their strength.
• Lu Li asked Shen Zhu to activate the third layer, combining real-space power with the first two layers and destabilizing space around him.
• The third layer forced Lu Li to protect himself with Immortal Power, though he judged it insufficient to threaten an Earth Immortal.
• Lu Li returned to the control room after the technicians shut down the Virtual Universe and declared the research project a success.

Lu Li and Great Xia’s scholars planned a second-generation Virtual Universe with a fourth, mind-accessible spatial layer, and Lu Li proposed using a high-quality spatial realm as its foundation. After realizing that the Imperial Discourse might threaten Great Xia within a few hundred years, he considered whether his own Blessed Land could serve as that foundation.

• At the Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration, Shen Zhu and the scholars discussed ways to create a fourth-layer virtual reality space for the second-generation Virtual Universe.
• Lu Li recalled the Jade Capital Immortal Palace and suggested that a naturally excellent spatial secret realm could make a stronger foundation for the virtual layer.
• Lu Li agreed to provide a spatial foundation and urged the scholars to continue their research because Great Xia had little time to prepare.
• Lu Li returned to his Bureau 749 cultivation chamber and calculated that the Imperial Discourse might begin in just over two hundred years, possibly targeting him and Great Xia.
• Lu Li examined his Blessed Land, saw True Immortal Qi emerging within it, and wondered whether it could become the Virtual Universe’s fourth spatial layer.

Lu Li realized that his powerful blessed land could anchor the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe, then watched Luo Wuchen ascend as the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land’s first human True Immortal. Luo Wuchen’s breakthrough completed Lu Li’s World-Nurturing Method and triggered his First-Turn Earth Immortal Vein-Bearing Tribulation, which ended with the formation of the Dragon-Taming Vein.

• Lu Li decided to use his blessed land as the foundation of the Virtual Universe and sensed that its inhabitants needed only one human True Immortal to complete the World-Nurturing Method.
• Luo Wuchen prepared to ascend at the Immortal Spirit Sect after reaching Mahayana faster and with greater potential than in his previous life.
• Great Chen Star’s cultivators gathered to witness Luo Wuchen’s ascension, and their hopes formed powerful Wishes of the People that strengthened his reception light.
• Lu Li summoned Immortal Power from the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land, allowing Luo Wuchen to become its first human True Immortal.
• Luo Wuchen’s breakthrough triggered Lu Li’s Vein-Bearing Tribulation, and Lu Li connected a Dao Root to the blessed land without difficulty.
• Lu Li’s Earth Immortal Dao Vein manifested in the blessed land as the Dragon-Taming Vein.

Lu Li broke through to First-Turn Earth Immortal, forming the Dragon-Taming Vein in his Blessed Land and allowing Falling Firmament to absorb Immortal Venerable Qingming’s remains more freely. He then went to the Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration to discuss making his Blessed Land the Virtual Universe’s fourth layer, while Lu Yao proposed a Puppet Dao research plan.

• Lu Li attained Earth Immortal and formed the Dragon-Taming Vein, linking the fortunes and cultivation of his Blessed Land’s living beings to his Imperial Dao.
• Lu Li let Falling Firmament devour Immortal Venerable Qingming’s demon core, which strengthened the treasure and returned pure cultivation to him.
• Lu Li wondered why Falling Firmament had gained no new function after his breakthrough and speculated it might be preparing something significant.
• Lu Li headed to the Great Xia Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration to discuss using his Blessed Land as the Virtual Universe’s fourth layer.
• Ye Chenfeng, Yinyang Qingfan, and Elder Jian helped Great Xia conduct Immortal Dao experiments, while Lu Yao proposed the Puppet Dao True Immortal Countryside Outreach Plan.

Lu Yao pushed Great Xia to develop True Immortal puppets so its first generation of Puppet Dao veterans could survive their approaching lifespans, and Yinyang Qingfan explained that ascension depended more on the puppet cultivators’ souls than on immortal materials. The researchers proposed an Immortal Puppet Soul Simulator, and Lu Yao set the project in motion while deciding to seek Lu Li’s help with autonomous puppets.

• Lu Yao asked Yinyang Qingfan and Elder Jian whether Great Xia could refine True Immortal-level puppets in batches, and they said the country lacked the necessary resources and foundations.
• Lu Yao explained that the first generation of Great Xia’s Puppet Dao veterans, including Li Yuanchao, Wang Zhiwen, and Yuan Yi, faced their soul lifespan limits after a thousand years.
• Yinyang Qingfan said puppet cultivators could ascend using ninth-tier spirit materials, making the cultivator’s soul and talent more important than the puppet’s materials.
• A researcher proposed an Immortal Puppet Soul Simulator to strengthen puppet cultivators’ souls and improve their chances of ascending to True Immortals.
• Lu Yao approved the research and said she would go find Lu Li while continuing to pursue fully autonomous True Immortal puppets.

After breaking through to Earth Immortal, Lu Li refined a True Immortal puppet for Lu Yao and named it Xian Yi. He then went to the Great Xia Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration to begin researching the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe, anchored by his Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.

• Lu Yao asked Lu Li for a True Immortal puppet, and he agreed to refine one using his Solar Divine Fire.
• Lu Li melted immortal materials, shaped them with Immortal Inscriptions, and awakened a true spirit within the puppet.
• The puppet gained form as a True Immortal and greeted Lu Li and Lu Yao; Lu Li named him Xian Yi and assigned him to Lu Yao.
• Lu Li sent Lu Yao away and turned his attention to perfecting the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe.
• Lu Li traveled to the Great Xia Spirit Machinery Industry General Administration and told Shen Zhu that his Earth Immortal breakthrough meant they could begin researching the fourth layer.

Great Xia advanced its research and cultivation while the great Immortal Courts gathered for the Nine Heavens Imperial Discourse without their Emperor Lords. Furious that she could not use their karmic power to investigate Lu Li, Ji Wan decided to stake their blood descendants and direct disciples in a new scheme.

• Lu Li and Great Xia's researchers made slow progress on the Virtual Universe's fourth layer as Lu Yao worked to develop a simulator for True Immortal puppets.
• The six great Immortal Courts arrived at Jade Capital Heaven, and Lord Wandi Zhaoming Zhenhuan welcomed them on Ji Wan's behalf.
• Ji Wan learned that no other Emperor Lords had attended and lamented that she could not borrow their karma to investigate Lu Li's origins.
• Ji Wan resolved to continue pursuing Lu Li's fortuitous opportunity, believing he might attain Emperor Venerable and help her take that step herself.
• Ji Wan swept her immortal sense across the visiting courts' residences, then decided to stake the Emperor Lords' blood descendants and direct disciples.

Ji Wan summoned representatives of the six great Immortal Courts to discuss the Imperial Discourse and revealed that it would be held in Great Desolation Heaven. After easing their concerns about Heavenly Dao punishment, she prepared to explain the rules.

• Ji Wan received Di Tianshu, Xuanyin Wanshuang, Chen Yuan, Chi Changsheng, Shen Wuya, and Lu Guiyuan at the Hall of Law.
• Ji Wan and Wanshuang greeted each other as old acquaintances, surprising the other representatives.
• Ji Wan explained that the nine realms had merged into the Boundless Realm and announced that the Imperial Discourse would take place in Great Desolation Heaven.
• The representatives questioned the venue, and Ji Wan said she would use a supreme treasure to stabilize a stretch of the River of Time so they could fight without drawing the Heavenly Dao's attention.
• Ji Wan settled the venue as Great Desolation Heaven and began to explain the Imperial Discourse's rules.

Ji Wan announced the Imperial Discourse in Great Desolation and revealed that its top victor would receive Emperor Lord Origin. After the gathering, Xuanyin Wanshuang stayed behind to speak with Ji Wan about her stalled reincarnation cultivation and asked whether Ji Wan’s ninth lifetime had gone poorly and Li Taixuan belonged to another lifetime.

• Ji Wan explained that the Imperial Discourse would take place across all of Great Desolation, with a supreme treasure manifesting its River of Time and sealing off the Heavenly Dao.
• Ji Wan announced that the highest-merit participants would receive a wisp of Emperor Lord Origin, astonishing the six attendees and stirring their determination to win.
• Ji Wan introduced her personal disciple, Li Taixuan, and told the gathered representatives they would depart for Great Desolation in three years.
• Ji Wan asked Xuanyin Wanshuang to remain after the others left, and Xuanyin Wanshuang admitted she had been unable to cultivate her fourth reincarnation.
• Xuanyin Wanshuang asked Ji Wan whether her ninth lifetime had gone poorly and whether Li Taixuan came from another lifetime.

Ji Wan explained Li Taixuan’s reincarnation to Xuanyin Wanshuang, then recalled how they had met and endured hardship together in her seventh lifetime. Their shared Human Immortal Tribulation awakened Ji Wan’s sealed memories, and the chapter ended as she began to reveal the terrible truth of the Human Immortal Tribulation in her ninth lifetime.

• Ji Wan told Xuanyin Wanshuang that Li Taixuan had been a ruler in his previous life, died, and reincarnated under her protection.
• Ji Wan promised that Li Taixuan and Xuanyin Wanshuang could travel together during the Great Desolation Imperial Discourse, while their merits would depend on their own opportunities.
• Ji Wan and Xuanyin Wanshuang reminisced about meeting as poor outer disciples in the Great Cloud Sect and helping each other survive its dangers.
• Ji Wan recalled how Xuanyin Wanshuang took a bite from a Crypt Spider to protect her, and how Ji Wan carried her through a marsh to safety.
• Their shared Human Immortal Tribulation awakened Ji Wan’s sealed past-life memories and revealed her identity as a seventh-reincarnation Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• Ji Wan said the Human Immortal Tribulation of her ninth lifetime had been her greatest tribulation and began to explain what she had witnessed.

Ji Wan relived her ninth-life Human Immortal Tribulation, which began with her and Ye Chenfeng ascending to the Immortal Realm and being assigned sect missions. After Ye Chenfeng spent nine years completing his mission, Ji Wan realized the illusion was reproducing events exactly as they had happened and wondered whether it could reveal the future.

• Ji Wan cut short her reminiscence with Xuanyin Wanshuang after her memories turned to her ninth-life Human Immortal Tribulation.
• Within the tribulation, Ji Wan and Ye Chenfeng ascended together and registered as subjects of the Four Extremes Immortal Sect.
• The sect assigned them missions to complete every ten years, and Ye Chenfeng promised to handle both while Ji Wan cultivated.
• Ji Wan chose to accompany Ye Chenfeng, and they set out to complete their missions together.
• In the ninth year after ascending, Ye Chenfeng finally killed an Evil Dao True Immortal but had no time left to complete Ji Wan's mission.
• Ji Wan recognized that the illusion matched their past exactly and wondered if its events could help her predict the future.

Ji Wan treated the illusion as real, cultivated alongside Ye Chenfeng, and advanced with him through the immortal ranks while they endured centuries of punishing sect missions. After they both became heavenly immortals, the sect ordered them to explore a ruins secret realm.

• Ji Wan encouraged Ye Chenfeng to keep cultivating, and they advanced together from true immortals to human immortals.
• The Four Extremes Immortal Sect assigned them difficult missions far apart, forcing them to work separately and struggle under heavy taxes.
• Across hundreds and thousands of years, Ji Wan and Ye Chenfeng completed missions and advanced through the human and earth immortal ranks to heavenly immortals.
• When they reunited with years of hardship and distance between them, a sect decree ordered the newly promoted heavenly immortal officials Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan to explore a ruins secret realm in three days.

After breaking through to Heavenly Immortal, Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan were sent by the Four Extremes Sect to investigate an ancient secret realm. Years of fruitless searching deepened Ji Wan’s despair over her lack of freedom, but the two broken statues suddenly stirred, and she sensed a great opportunity within them.

• Ye Chenfeng wanted to challenge the sect’s new mission, but Ji Wan persuaded him that arguing would only bring punishment.
• Ji Wan led Ye Chenfeng to the sect teleportation formation, and they entered an ancient secret realm alongside other Heavenly Immortals.
• Ye Chenfeng and Ji Wan explored the ruined wasteland for several years without finding clues, while Ji Wan grew more resentful of the life imposed on her.
• The two broken statues began to shake, and Ji Wan saw light flicker in their eyes and urged Ye Chenfeng toward the opportunity inside.

Ji Wan recalled how she obtained the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect’s inheritance in her Human Immortal Tribulation and later found the same inheritance in reality. The memory ended with Ye Chenfeng reaching for the spirit fruit first, while Ji Wan watched in alarm.

• In her Human Immortal Tribulation, Ji Wan touched a spirit fruit in a statue and received the Lord Arbiter of Cause and Effect’s inheritance, rapidly advancing to Fourth-Turn Heavenly Immortal.
• Ji Wan hid her chance to overcome the tribulation so she could observe her possible future, then ended the illusion and became a Human Immortal.
• In reality, Ji Wan followed the remembered events and found the Great Emperor of Cause and Effect’s inheritance with Ye Chenfeng in the secret realm.
• Ji Wan recalled that reality differed from the illusion because Ye Chenfeng, not she, reached for the spirit fruit first.

Ji Wan relived the betrayal that had won her the Great Emperor’s inheritance, then ordered the Jade Balance Immortal Court to convene an Imperial Discourse in one hundred years. Nearly three centuries after Lu Li returned, Great Xia had evolved into a vast interstellar civilization, and teenager Zhang Xiaoman began connecting his new Spirit Machinery Bracelet to the Virtual Universe.

• Ji Wan recalled killing Ye Chenfeng to seize the Great Emperor’s inheritance, and Ye Chenfeng’s immortal soul accused her of betrayal.
• Ji Wan ordered the Jade Balance Immortal Court to take control of teleportation arrays along the route and convene the Imperial Discourse in one hundred years.
• Nearly three centuries after Lu Li returned from the Immortal Realm, Great Xia underwent another evolution and spread across the stars.
• Zhang Xiaoman brought home a commemorative holographic login Spirit Machinery Bracelet and learned that his mother was working overtime at a community spirit plant greenhouse.
• Zhang Xiaoman activated the bracelet, which verified his identity and began loading the Virtual Universe’s Great Xia backbone network.

Zhang Xiaoman logged into the Virtual Universe, where killing a demon beast fed pure Spiritual Power back into his real body and helped him cultivate. As billions of users connected across the Great Xia Dao Court, Lu Li realized the Virtual Universe had surpassed ordinary Immortal Treasures and considered expanding it into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.

• Zhang Xiaoman logged into the Virtual Universe and discovered its forty-five-percent Spiritual Qi feedback rate.
• Zhang Xiaoman killed a Bone-Spiked Wild Boar, and the Virtual Universe sent Spiritual Power into his physical body through his bracelet.
• Zhang Xiaoman saw that the cultivation boost could help him reach the Qi Refining Fifth Layer before his next monthly exam and went searching for more prey.
• Billions of users across Great Xia connected to the Virtual Universe, sending data streams and Divine Soul thoughts into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.
• Lu Li concluded that the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe had surpassed ordinary Immortal Treasures and considered installing login devices in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land.

Lu Li planned to expand the Virtual Universe into the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land by disguising its terminals as ancient Heavenly Dao fragments, while keeping the two populations separate. As he broke through to Second-Turn Earth Immortal, he used the upheaval in his Blessed Land to stage the Great Void Immortal Realm’s descent and distribute the fragments.

• Lu Li realized the Virtual Universe could grow by connecting the Blessed Land’s trillions of inhabitants, but decided to present it as a primordial secret realm and initially isolate it from Great Xia’s virtual space.
• Falling Firmament absorbed more of Azure Nether Mystic Crow Immortal Venerable’s demon core, flooding Lu Li with immortal essence and raising his cultivation to Second-Turn Earth Immortal.
• Lu Li’s breakthrough transformed the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land, causing mountains to rise, spiritual rain to fall, and its inhabitants to fear an impending catastrophe.
• Lu Li channeled his power into the silver cube and scattered its refined light across the Blessed Land as bronze-and-silver fragments.
• A voice announced that the Great Void Immortal Realm had descended and that anyone who obtained a Heavenly Dao fragment could enter it with a drop of blood.

A starving beggar named A Jiu found a bronze Heavenly Dao Token and used his blood to enter the Great Void Immortal Realm. He awoke at the Great Void Dao Sect, where a deacon welcomed him and prepared to give him a new name.

• A Jiu found a bronze ring that had fallen from the sky and hid it from the people searching for the scattered treasures.
• A Jiu pressed his blood onto the ring, bound his Divine Soul to it, and was transported into the Great Void Immortal Realm.
• A Jiu woke on the jade steps before the Great Void Dao Sect and saw its floating immortal mountains.
• A middle-aged deacon welcomed A Jiu as someone destined for the sect and asked him to help save the lost Great Void Immortal Realm.
• The deacon said A Jiu should take on a new appearance and began to give him a new name.

A Jiu received a name, robes, and a cultivation quest in the Great Void Immortal Realm, while Zhao Qian confirmed that rewards from the realm could strengthen people in the real world. The discovery ignited a scramble across the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land, and True Immortal Luo Wuchen wondered whether an ancient Immortal Realm could let him advance further.

• The middle-aged steward gave A Jiu outer-disciple robes, cultivation slips, and a quest to kill five Spirit-Devouring Rats in the rear mountain.
• A Jiu felt his strength return, thanked the steward, and hurried toward the spiritual fields to begin the quest.
• Zhao Qian tested a bronze ring, entered the Great Void Immortal Realm, and returned with innate Geng Metal Qi that loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Qingxuanzi ordered the Azure Profound Sword Sect to gather every Heavenly Dao Bracelet and kill anyone who concealed one or obstructed the search.
• Demon kings and the merfolk empress mobilized their followers to seek the bracelets as hundreds of millions of thoughts entered the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe.
• Luo Wuchen examined a bronze bracelet and questioned whether the ancient Great Void Immortal Realm could allow True Immortals to advance further.

Lu Li punished the powerful factions in the Dragon-Rising Blessed Land for trying to seize the Heavenly Dao Bracelets and announced that they could help restore the fallen Great Void Immortal Realm. Luo Wuchen recognized the truth behind his blocked path to ascension, put on his bracelet, and entered the Virtual Universe to help reclaim the Great Void.

• Lu Li saw that sects, dynasties, demon kings, and the Sea Race were trying to confiscate the bracelets, and he resolved to intervene.
• Lu Li’s heavenly punishment forced Qingxuanzi, the demon kings, and the merfolk empress to withdraw and leave the bracelets with their recipients.
• Lu Li told the blessed land’s inhabitants that they could appeal to heaven against oppression and revealed that the bracelets would guide them in restoring the fallen Great Void Immortal Realm.
• A Jiu and countless other mortals learned that the bracelets were bound to them and could offer a path to immortality.
• Luo Wuchen realized the Immortal Realm had collapsed rather than the path to immortality being severed, then put on his bracelet and entered the fourth layer of the Virtual Universe.