Chapter Summaries

Shen Yun used the Ghost Fetus Stone to locate the hidden Three Immortals Cave and entered with Shen Qingruo and the Evil Dragon King. Inside, they met the cave’s Daluo master and unexpectedly reunited with Mu Hanyu.

• Shen Yun studied the Ghost Fetus Stone and refined the Eternal Night Devil Venerable’s vital blood into spiritual essence.
• Shen Yun led Shen Qingruo and the Evil Dragon King to a waterfall and announced that the Old Turtle of Fusheng Ferry had guided him to the Three Immortals Cave.
• The cave master opened a hidden entrance in the pool and invited the three visitors inside.
• The group crossed a corridor filled with rare spiritual plants and entered the cave master’s courtyard.
• Shen Qingruo recognized Mu Hanyu, who had once pointed out her special constitution.

Shen Yun traded a restored Life Ancient Seed to the Master of the Three Immortals Cave for access to the Yellow Court Immortal Fruit. Just as the Master prepared to take Shen Yun and the others to Wanhua Garden, Jun Ling Yuan arrived seeking an audience.

• Shen Qingruo reunited with Mu Hanyu at the Three Immortals Cave, and Mu Hanyu discovered that the aura of Shen Qingruo's Taiyin Sacred Body had vanished.
• The Master of the Three Immortals Cave recognized that Shen Yun had come for the Yellow Court Immortal Fruit, and Shen Yun offered him a Life Ancient Seed.
• The Master accepted the seed enthusiastically and agreed to take Shen Yun to Wanhua Garden, where the Yellow Court Jade Marrow Tree grew.
• Mu Hanyu told Shen Qingruo that Shen Yun's current, Dao-focused nature was genuine and would not change, then recalled her determination to kill a heartless man from her past.
• Jun Ling Yuan called from outside the cave and asked to meet the Master of the Three Immortals Cave about an important matter.

Jun Ling Yuan visited the Master of the Three Immortals Cave to seek medicine for Ling Jiuxiao’s injured spirit soul, only to encounter Shen Yun and Mu Hanyu. After Jun offered a damaged Nine-Orifice Spirit Mushroom, the cave master accepted it and prepared to lead everyone into Wanhua Garden.

• Jun Ling Yuan entered the Three Immortals Cave through a seven-colored Xuanmen and was surprised to find Shen Yun there.
• Jun Ling Yuan asked the cave master for a sacred medicine to heal Ling Jiuxiao’s spirit soul, while Mu Hanyu questioned how the Dao of Transcendence had been injured.
• The cave master recognized Ling Jiuxiao’s ambition and recalled how he had once killed Yuhua Immortal Venerable and absorbed his cultivation.
• Jun Ling Yuan offered a Nine-Orifice Spirit Mushroom, but the cave master discovered it was nearly dead and accepted it as a favor to Ling Jiuxiao.
• The cave master warned everyone not to use divine sense on the faintly living medicines in Wanhua Garden, then opened the way forward.

Shen Yun recognized the formation behind the Wanhua Garden and explained how its talismans and formations created its wondrous environment. He then added Great Dao runes to the garden, leaving Master of the Three Immortals Cave astonished by his command of Time Sequence.

• Shen Yun followed Master of the Three Immortals Cave across a Divine Bridge into the Wanhua Garden, where the group saw its extraordinary spirit plants and divided climates.
• Shen Yun identified the Dao of Talismans as the means by which the garden’s Yin-Yang balance and Five Elements circulation were sustained.
• At Master of the Three Immortals Cave’s request, Shen Yun explained how the garden’s spatial foundation, terrain, trigrams, and origin spirit talismans worked together.
• Jun Ling Yuan tried to redirect the conversation by praising the garden and grew wary of Shen Yun’s growing favor with powerful figures.
• Shen Yun offered to improve the Wanhua Garden and flicked Great Dao runes into its medicinal fields despite the warning not to use Magic Power.
• Master of the Three Immortals Cave watched the runes and praised Shen Yun’s extraordinary Power of Time Sequence.

Shen Yun accelerated time in Wanhua Garden by seamlessly incorporating the Time Law into its grand array, earning Master of the Three Immortals Cave’s admiration. When the group retrieved rare immortal fruits, Jun Ling Yuan repeatedly hoped to receive a treasure but watched them go to Shen Yun and Mu Hanyu, then received a damaged lotus instead.

• Shen Yun infused the Daluo Immortal Array with the Time Law, accelerating Wanhua Garden’s flow of time threefold and astonishing the crowd.
• Master of the Three Immortals Cave praised Shen Yun’s mastery and led the group through the Star Sea to the Yellow Court Jade Marrow Tree.
• Master of the Three Immortals Cave plucked both Yellow Court Immortal Fruits and gifted them to Shen Yun, leaving Jun Ling Yuan disappointed.
• Master of the Three Immortals Cave gave the Firmiana Immortal Fruit to Mu Hanyu as Jun Ling Yuan reached out to accept it.
• Jun Ling Yuan’s Dao wounds flared as his emotions overwhelmed him, and Master of the Three Immortals Cave gave him a damaged Oblivion River Lotus.

Jun Ling Yuan failed to obtain medicine for his injured master and left the Three Immortals Cave after Master of the Three Immortals Cave rebuked him. After a banquet and Shen Yun’s farewell, Shen Yun warned Mu Hanyu about Jun Ling Yuan and gave her a mysterious stone that she recognized as a Ghost Fetus Stone.

• Jun Ling Yuan pleaded with Master of the Three Immortals Cave for more help, but the elder’s Daluo pressure forced him to apologize and accept the Oblivion River Lotus as insufficient.
• Jun Ling Yuan left the Three Immortals Cave, and Master of the Three Immortals Cave invited Shen Yun and the others to a banquet.
• Shen Yun and Master of the Three Immortals Cave discussed the world’s fate, and the elder expressed his belief that Shen Yun could change things.
• Shen Yun departed with his companions and warned Mu Hanyu to watch out for Jun Ling Yuan on her journey back.
• Shen Yun gave Mu Hanyu a black Mystic Stone, which she identified as the legendary Ghost Fetus Stone.

Shen Yun gave Mu Hanyu the repaired Ghost Fetus Stone, and she used it to defeat Jun Ling Yuan, who returned to Ling Jiuxiao gravely injured. Ling Jiuxiao revealed he had gained further insight, while Jun Ling Yuan began to see Wan Jinsheng as an important factor in their plans.

• Shen Yun gave Mu Hanyu the repaired Ghost Fetus Stone, whose runes combined Space Law and Time Law, and she left after promising to return it.
• Shen Yun and Shen Qingruo rode the Evil Dragon King back toward Tide Sound Valley.
• Jun Ling Yuan reported to Ling Jiuxiao that Mu Hanyu had trapped and defeated him with the Ghost Fetus Stone, forcing him to burn his origin and escape with severe Time Law injuries.
• Jun Ling Yuan blamed Shen Yun for helping Mu Hanyu and presented Ling Jiuxiao with the damaged Oblivion River Lotus.
• Ling Jiuxiao dismissed the loss of the medicine and revealed that he had gained a transcendent insight, while warning Jun Ling Yuan against creating complications.
• Ling Jiuxiao identified Wan Jinsheng's Spirit-Soul Return to Origin as a sign he might soon advance, and Jun Ling Yuan understood the implication.

Lu Chen and Dugu Jue discussed the Azure Dragon’s growing threat and the coming contest among the Heavenly Realm’s strongest young figures. Dugu Jue told Lu Chen that Wan Jinsheng would soon discuss the Dao with the Burial Ground Young Master again at Myriad Phenomena Heaven.

• Cultivators at Drunken Immortal Tower discussed rumors that Tianwu Hall Master Li had died after an explosion on Kunwu Continent.
• Lu Chen revealed that the Sky Devil Saint Son had vanished after a battle near Sinking Yin Lake and that the Nine Heavens Sect Master confirmed the Azure Dragon killed him.
• Dugu Jue said the Azure Dragon was even more terrifying than Lu Chen imagined and warned him that Shen Yun and Mu Hanyu were stronger rivals than the Jade Void Saint Son.
• Lu Chen asked whether Dugu Jue thought little of Wan Jinsheng, and Dugu Jue replied that the Jade Void Saint Son would need another hundred thousand years to contend with him.
• Dugu Jue told Lu Chen that Wan Jinsheng would discuss the Dao with the Burial Ground Young Master again at Myriad Phenomena Heaven in the coming days.

Crowds gathered at the Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes to witness Wan Jinsheng and the Burial Ground Young Master continue their discussion of the Dao. As the gathering awaited their arrival, rumors suggested Wan Jinsheng had severed his past and begun anew, and the two finally appeared.

• Cultivators from across the Immortal Realm gathered at the Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes, hoping to witness the meeting.
• Shen Qiu complained about coming to watch a discussion, but the Gravekeeper told him that understanding the Dao Path mattered more than accumulating resources.
• Lu Chen asked Dugu Jue about Wan Jinsheng, and Dugu Jue said Wan Jinsheng was rumored to have ties to the Buddhist Sect.
• Dugu Jue suggested Wan Jinsheng had severed his past and started over, prompting Lu Chen to reconsider his strength and Shen Qiu to listen eagerly.
• A commotion swept through the grotto as the crowd spotted the two arrivals.

Wan Jinsheng met the Burial Ground Young Master on the Stone Platform, where their exchange revealed the depth of Wan Jinsheng's Dao cultivation and left the Young Master convinced. Their quiet discussion was interrupted when the Tian Quan Black Tortoise Envoy emerged and condemned the Young Master for showing deference.

• Wan Jinsheng and the Burial Ground Young Master appeared on the Stone Platform, and Shen Qiu mistakenly identified which one was Wan Jinsheng.
• The Gravekeeper said Wan Jinsheng had succeeded in severing his past, while Shen Qiu recounted what he had overheard about him.
• The Burial Ground Young Master recalled how Wan Jinsheng had once helped him break through his delusions with a discussion of the Three Wonders.
• Wan Jinsheng advised the Burial Ground Young Master to see mountains and rivers and his original heart as one, leaving the Young Master convinced and grateful.
• The Tian Quan Black Tortoise Envoy emerged from the mist and accused the Burial Ground Young Master of disgracing the demonic path.

The Black Tortoise Envoy challenged the Burial Ground Young Master at the grand competition, and both revealed formidable Golden Immortal laws. Just as the arena prepared for their fight, Wan Jinsheng ordered them to leave.

• The Black Tortoise Envoy appeared, prompting the crowd and Shen Qiu to anticipate a clash with the Burial Ground Young Master.
• The Burial Ground Young Master accepted the challenge, and the Black Tortoise Envoy revealed sixty-six thousand Golden Immortal Laws of Supreme Yang.
• Eighth Prince Xuantian and the Jade Void Saint Son assessed the Black Tortoise Envoy as a powerful opponent capable of fighting across realms.
• The Burial Ground Young Master entered the arena and summoned sixty-four thousand Immortal Principles of the Devouring Great Dao, which began to suppress the Black Tortoise Envoy's laws.
• Wan Jinsheng interrupted the confrontation and ordered the Black Tortoise Envoy and the Burial Ground Young Master to get out.

Wan Jinsheng revealed himself as the Bodhi Heart Lamp’s Artifact Spirit and defeated the Black Tortoise Envoy with a single strike. The Envoy withdrew after declaring Wan Jinsheng invincible among Golden Immortals, while the Jade Void Saint Son resolved to ally with Shen Yun.

• Wan Jinsheng rebuked the Demonic Sect heavenly talents, and the Black Tortoise Envoy exposed him as the Bodhi Heart Lamp’s Artifact Spirit.
• The Black Tortoise Envoy attacked Wan Jinsheng with Dragon Fights in the Wild, but Wan Jinsheng shattered the strike and defeated him with a single finger.
• The Gravekeeper told Shen Qiu that Wan Jinsheng was a Middle Golden Immortal who had already made small achievements in condensing the Five Qi.
• The Black Tortoise Envoy recovered from his wounds and recognized that Wan Jinsheng’s Heart Divine Treasury had reached perfection.
• The Jade Void Saint Son decided he must join hands with Shen Yun, while the Black Tortoise Envoy withdrew and declared that Wan Jinsheng was already invincible in the Golden Immortal realm.

Mu Hanyu sensed the power of Wan Jinsheng and spent nine days cultivating amid Azure Sea lightning. In the Wild Domain, Cang Hao rejected Young Master Duanmu’s plea to become his disciple and declared their connection ended.

• Mu Hanyu recognized the significance of Wan Jinsheng’s Five Qi cultivation, resolved to improve herself, and cultivated for nine days.
• Young Master Duanmu visited Cang Hao and served him for half a month, hoping to earn a chance to cultivate.
• Cang Hao praised Young Master Duanmu’s patience but refused to discuss cultivation, offering to consider another request.
• Young Master Duanmu knelt and begged Cang Hao to teach him a cultivation method, offering to serve as his Attendant Boy.
• Cang Hao froze Young Master Duanmu with his imposing presence and told him that being born ordinary was his fate and their connection ended there.

Cang Hao sent Young Master Duanmu back to the Imperial City after challenging his cultivation ambitions, while the village chief and Ru Yan dismissed him. Old Man Crane then reported on a new Heaven Realm talent from the Yun Cang Realm, prompting Cang Hao to suspect that the person possessed extraordinary origins.

• Cang Hao argued that Young Master Duanmu’s imperial birth had given him the chance to pursue cultivation, and Young Master Duanmu still refused to give up his ideal.
• Young Master Duanmu found himself before the Imperial City, torn between returning to his former life and continuing along the mountain road.
• The village chief and Ru Yan stopped expecting anything from Young Master Duanmu, and Ru Yan said she would meet him in Tianfeng City.
• Old Man Crane reported that Wan Jinsheng had opened the Heart Divine Treasury through Self-Slaying Dao Revelation.
• Old Man Crane told Cang Hao that a young talent called “Azure Dragon” from the Yun Cang Realm had the battle prowess of a Half-Step Daluo and wielded the Dao of Creation.
• Cang Hao wrote that those who overcome Heaven ultimately return to Heaven’s decree, then declared that the person had an Innate Dao Body and extraordinary origins.

Cang Hao revealed that Azure Dragon likely possessed the Innate Creation Body but was still below the Golden Immortal realm, while Cang Hao himself was approaching the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm. As Cang Hao prepared to leave the village, Ling Jiuxiao gave Wan Jinsheng a Sun Key and tasked him with preparing to lure Azure Dragon into a trap.

• Cang Hao told Old Man Crane that Azure Dragon's power came from an Innate Creation Body and that his cultivation was still too low to threaten him for now.
• Cang Hao revealed that he was walking the path toward the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm and ordered Old Man Crane to tell his master that he would seek Immortal King Qiankun's legacy when the Ancient Immortal Realm opened.
• Old Man Crane left, and Cang Hao returned home, saying that he would set off in nine years; at dawn, an unidentified figure left the village while a long-absent Heavenly Pride returned along the Great Wilderness Ancient Road.
• Jun Ling Yuan received word of Wan Jinsheng and went to meet him in Ling Jiuxiao's hall.
• Ling Jiuxiao presented Wan Jinsheng with the Sun Key, explaining that a cultivator of the Destiny Heavenly Book could use it to enter the Three Stars Return to Ruins.
• Wan Jinsheng understood that Ling Jiuxiao wanted him to prepare a trap for Azure Dragon.

Wan Jinsheng overcame his hesitation and advanced his cultivation after Ling Jiuxiao advised him on his Dao Heart, then accepted the Sun Key to pursue Azure Dragon. Meanwhile, Shen Yun refined the power of two Yellow Court Immortal Fruits, advanced the Great Five Elements Dao into the Dao Realm, and formed five great worlds.

• Ling Jiuxiao outlined a plan to trap Azure Dragon in the Sumeru Killing Realm while Wan Jinsheng questioned the need for an ambush.
• Ling Jiuxiao challenged Wan Jinsheng's lingering compassion, prompting him to abandon his hesitation and break through while refining the Second Divine Treasury.
• Wan Jinsheng accepted the Sun Key, and Ling Jiuxiao told Jun Ling Yuan that Wan Jinsheng could rival the Jade Void Palace's First Elder and might contend with the Four Great Immortal Elders using the Bodhi Heart Lamp.
• Ling Jiuxiao entered life-and-death seclusion and declared that he would claim the Power of Creation in nine years.
• Shen Yun absorbed the medicinal power of two Yellow Court Immortal Fruits and advanced the Great Five Elements Dao into the Dao Realm.
• Shen Yun formed five great worlds that spread across the Heavenly Domain.

Shen Yun completed the Extremal Realm and sensed that his Heavenly Tribulation would descend in eighteen breaths. As an unfamiliar figure appeared, he prepared to use it to warm up before the tribulation.

• The Five Qi Universe manifested, and cultivators across the Heavenly Domain speculated about which powerful figure had caused the auspicious signs.
• Mu Hanyu and Wan Jinsheng sensed the phenomenon, while Wan Jinsheng set off to find the Fourth Array Emperor.
• Shen Qiu and Azure Venerable escaped an ancient tomb with treasures and zombies, then fled before the old ghost could catch them.
• A Nether Qi figure discovered a spatial node and vanished to report it to the Void Cave Devil Emperor.
• Shen Yun declared that his Extremal Realm was complete and that his Heavenly Tribulation would arrive in eighteen breaths.
• When an unfamiliar figure appeared, Shen Yun locked onto it and said he would warm up before the tribulation.

Shen Yun pursued the Golden Bone Corpse King, an Unchanging Bone who had entered the Immortal Realm through a brief passage from the Underworld. Shen Yun shattered its hardened body, and the injured corpse king fell toward an Immortal City, where its arrival sparked panic and fears of an Underworld invasion.

• Shen Yun used Shifting Stars to catch up with the Golden Bone Corpse King as it fled across the Eastern Divine Continent.
• The Golden Bone Corpse King recalled entering the Immortal Realm through a spatial node and planned to find the legacies and Ancestral Artifact of two Daluo experts from its clan.
• Shen Yun ambushed the Golden Bone Corpse King, who tried to escape before activating Golden Body of Bone Form to fight back.
• Shen Yun struck with the Great Five Elements Dao and broke the Golden Bone Corpse King's bones despite its formidable body.
• The injured Golden Bone Corpse King plunged toward an Immortal City, whose residents panicked as they recognized the aura of the Drought Demon Clan.

Shen Yun used the Time Law to capture the Golden Bone Corpse King before he could attack Immortal City, then carried him toward the Nine Heavens to undergo tribulation. The Golden Bone Corpse King realized Shen Yun was still breaking through when he saw the vast sea of tribulation.

• The Golden Bone Corpse King tried to attack Immortal City and turn its people into zombies, but Shen Yun froze him with the Time Law.
• Shen Yun summoned the Five Qi Great World and suppressed the Golden Bone Corpse King with a giant hand.
• An aged wise man told Immortal City’s people that a Human Race senior had saved them, while Yu'er said he wanted to become a hero like his savior.
• The Golden Bone Corpse King realized Shen Yun had captured him alive and secretly hoped the Void Cave Devil Emperor would come to his aid.
• Shen Yun seized the Golden Bone Corpse King and flew to the Nine Heavens, where the captive saw the sea of tribulation and learned Shen Yun was still breaking through.

Shen Yun crossed a vast sea of Annihilation Divine Lightning, but the Heavenly Tribulation could not descend because his realm exceeded the Heavenly Dao’s laws. Deciding to use a substitute and strike Ling Jiuxiao’s lair while Ling Jiuxiao was injured, he set his sights on the Nine Heavens Limitless Palace.

• The Golden Bone Corpse King recognized the Annihilation Divine Lightning and feared that Shen Yun was a Supreme Immortal King.
• Shen Yun walked unharmed through the lightning and deduced that the tribulation could not lock onto him because it exceeded the Mystic Immortal level.
• Shen Yun considered using someone else to cross the tribulation, then decided to attack Ling Jiuxiao’s lair while Ling Jiuxiao was still injured.
• Shen Yun sealed the Golden Bone Corpse King’s consciousness and stored it in the Du Tian World.
• Shen Yun put on the Azure Dragon Mask and looked toward the Nine Heavens Limitless Palace.