Chapter Summaries

The Five Spirits Lord revealed that Immortal Realm venerables had destroyed the Dao Realm in the vision to frighten lower realms away from ascension, and explained how the Five Aggregates Cauldron could conceal a return to the source. The Primordial Origin Spirit agreed to join the ascension, and all ten great Ancestral Veins united at Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain.

• The vision showed three Immortal Realm figures destroying the Dao Realm after its people attempted to pry into the immortal Dao.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that immortal venerables had fabricated the calamity story to prevent lower realms from ascending and competing for the Sea of Origin.
• The Five Spirits Lord said the Five Aggregates Cauldron could conceal their return to the source, allowing a new Immortal Realm to ascend without alerting the Immortal Realm.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit overcame his doubts, apologized to the Five Spirits Lord, and agreed to support the ascension with the Central Thick Earth lineage.
• The remaining great true spirits pledged their support, and the ten Ancestral Veins joined their power above Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Mountain as Li Yunjing watched.

Li Yunjing secured the agreement of all ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits to join the Return to the Origin Ceremony, then returned to the High Antiquity Burial Ground to prepare. The ten spirits arrived, leaving Yan Tianjin to confront the reality that the ceremony might succeed and frustrate his ambitions.

• The Five Spirits Lord ordered the ten True Spirits to gather at the High Antiquity Burial Ground in three days and begin the Return to the Origin Ceremony with Li Yunjing and the Five Aggregates Cauldron.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit thanked Li Yunjing, and he returned with the Five Spirits Lord to the Myriad Beasts Forbidden Domain.
• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen, Xuanjizi, and Yunyouzi that all ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits had agreed to help, prompting celebration among the righteous faction.
• Yan Tianjin considered how the ceremony could benefit the devil path but ruin his plans to claim the Dao Fruit and take revenge on Li Yunjing.
• The ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits arrived in pillars of colored light, and Yan Tianjin realized Li Yunjing had truly persuaded them all.

Li Yunjing explained the four steps and benefits of the Return to the Origin Ceremony, gaining the righteous sects’ support. The Devil Emperor remained wary and demanded a reason to trust that the devil path would benefit too.

• The ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits arrived and agreed to help the Dao Guardians stabilize the Dao Fruit’s will during the Return to the Origin.
• Li Yunjing described the four steps: anchoring the earth veins, communicating with the Dao Fruit, concealing the ceremony with the Five Aggregates Cauldron, and returning the origin to the world.
• Li Yunjing said the ceremony would increase Spiritual Qi, strengthen the earth veins, ease cultivation bottlenecks, and end the hundred-thousand-year cycle of purges.
• Zhou Ziyang and the righteous sects pledged their support for the ceremony.
• The Devil Emperor questioned whether the devil path would truly benefit, and Li Yunjing argued that richer Spiritual Qi and purer Devil Qi would help devil cultivators too.

Yan Tianjin weighed whether to risk his life for the Dao Fruit or let the Return to the Origin proceed, while his followers argued over the choice. A Dao Guardian secretly offered him a way to absorb the Dao Fruit without being assimilated, leaving Yan Tianjin tempted by the deal.

• Li Yunjing warned Yan Tianjin that the Dao Fruit could assimilate him, and Yan Tianjin left to consider the choice.
• Zhang Jianchen ordered preparations for the Return to the Origin Ceremony as the righteous path worried Yan Tianjin might interfere.
• Yan Tianjin's followers debated whether the Return to the Origin was real and whether the devil path should seize the Dao Fruit by force.
• A Dao Guardian appeared secretly in Yan Tianjin's tent and offered him a way to gain the Dao Fruit's power without losing his life.

Yan Tianjin agreed to a secret Dao Guardian’s plan to seize the Dao Fruit during the Return to the Origin Ceremony, while the righteous cultivators began the ceremony under heavy protection. The Ten Directions Realm-Suppressing Grand Formation and Li Yunjing’s concealment formation were completed, and the ceremony proceeded toward its critical stage.

• A Dao Guardian opposed the Return to the Origin and offered to help Yan Tianjin seize the Dao Fruit in exchange for ending plans for ascension and protecting its cycle.
• Yan Tianjin accepted the offer and ordered Old Devil Bone Spirit to prepare the demonic forces to strike during the ceremony.
• The Return to the Origin Ceremony began at the High Antiquity Burial Ground, where the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits formed the Ten Directions Realm-Suppressing Grand Formation.
• Li Yunjing used the Five Aggregates Cauldron and the Five Spirits Lord to complete the Innate Concealment Grand Formation, hiding the ceremony across the Great Wilderness.

Yuanchu persuaded the Primordial Dao Fruit to cooperate, and Li Yunjing and the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits began dispersing its origin across Tianyuan. As the ceremony neared the end of its second hour, Li Yunjing learned that one of the seven Dao Guardians might be tied to the Immortal Realm and warned his allies to watch for trouble.

• Yuanchu reassured the Primordial Dao Fruit until it descended to him and agreed to cooperate.
• Li Yunjing and the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits began dispersing the Dao Fruit's origin through the earth-vein array, enriching Tianyuan and bringing benefits to people across the Five Provinces.
• Yan Tianjin acknowledged that the Return to the Origin benefited the devil path but waited for the moment to attack, following the Dao Guardian's instructions.
• As the Dao Fruit dispersed nearly half its origin, the Five Spirits Lord warned Li Yunjing that one of the seven Dao Guardians carried a hidden trace of the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yunjing discreetly warned Zhang Jianchen and the two nearby Loose Immortals to watch the devil path and remain alert for a traitor among the Dao Guardians.

Yan Tianjin attacked Yuanchu and the Dao Fruit to seize it, but the ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits stopped him and exposed that the Dao Guardians had never agreed to help. Li Yunjing revealed that a traitorous Dao Guardian had manipulated Yan Tianjin, and the group chose to continue the Return to the Origin while strengthening their defenses.

• Yan Tianjin launched the Xuanchen World-Destruction Pearl at Yuanchu and the Dao Fruit as devil cultivators attacked the righteous faction.
• The ten Ancestral Vein True Spirits formed a shield that repelled the pearl, injuring Yan Tianjin and cracking his treasure.
• Yan Tianjin called on the Dao Guardians, but their white-haired elder denied any alliance and condemned him for acting alone.
• Li Yunjing revealed that an Immortal Realm inspector had tampered with one of the seven Dao Guardians, who had fled during the chaos.
• The white-haired elder ordered a search for the traitor, but Li Yunjing urged him to protect the ongoing Return to the Origin Ceremony.
• Li Yunjing proposed using the Five Aggregates Cauldron, the ten Ancestral Veins, and two Loose Immortals to guard the ceremony, and the elder considered continuing it.

After Yan Tianjin agreed to help the righteous cultivators, the Return to the Origin ceremony resumed under tighter security. As the Dao Fruit released its origin throughout the realm, cultivators began making breakthroughs, while the hidden traitor remained at large.

• Li Yunjing persuaded Yan Tianjin to set aside their feud and join forces against the traitor until the ceremony was complete.
• The white-haired elder ordered everyone back to their posts, and Yuanchu resumed the Return to the Origin.
• Li Yunjing, Five Spirits Lord, the Dao Guardians, and the Ancestral Veins set overlapping defenses to detect the traitor and prevent information from escaping.
• As the ceremony continued until sunset, the Dao Fruit shrank and its origin enriched the realm's Spiritual Qi, prompting cultivators from both paths to break through.
• Zhang Jianchen and Zhenyangzi marveled at the ceremony's effects, while Old Devil Bone Spirit sensed the threshold of Tribulation Transcendence and Yan Tianjin's presence rose.

As Return to the Origin neared completion, the Devil Emperor began to reconsider his pursuit of the Dao Fruit while the gathered factions cautiously waited for an attack. Hidden in the Burial Ground, Shadow failed to contact the Immortal Realm and prepared to sacrifice himself to break through Li Yunjing’s barrier at the final moment.

• The Devil Emperor dismissed Devil General Blood Baleful Intent’s doubts but let his hostility ease as he watched the Dao Fruit.
• Li Yunjing, the Primordial Origin Spirit, and the white-haired elder stayed alert while the others grew less guarded after the traitor failed to appear.
• Shadow tried to send a message through the barrier with his divine sense and origin blood, but both attempts failed.
• Shadow decided to burn his origin and use his Dao Guardian authority to tear open a spatial rift, planning to act when Return to the Origin was nearly complete.
• The Dao Fruit shrank to the size of a fist as its gentle power continued to transform the Principles of heaven and earth.

As the Tianyuan Dao Realm neared its elevation to the Immortal Tier, a traitorous Dao Guardian detonated himself to send a message through the realm barrier to the Immortal Realm. The Return to the Origin continued despite the attack, and the Primordial Origin Spirit urged everyone to complete it before the Immortal Realm could respond.

• The Primordial Origin Spirit announced that the Principles would be reforged and the Tianyuan Dao Realm would enter the Immortal Tier in one hour, while Zhang Jianchen ordered everyone to strengthen their guard.
• As the Return to the Origin Ceremony neared completion, Li Yunjing watched over Yuanchu and prepared the ten Ancestral Veins to seal the space if danger arose.
• A Dao Guardian detonated himself beneath the hall, broke through the earth vein barrier and the Five Aggregates Cauldron's light, and sent a transmission talisman bearing the Immortal Realm's imprint through a brief crack.
• The Dao Guardian perished, the barrier repaired itself, and Li Yunjing and the others realized the Immortal Realm might send an Immortal Venerable to stop them.
• The Primordial Origin Spirit reminded everyone that the Return to the Origin was still underway and urged them to finish it quickly, saying the completed Dao Realm's recognition by the Sea of Origin would deter an Immortal Venerable.

Zhang Jianchen and Yan Tianjin ordered their followers to protect the Return to the Origin as Yuanchu and Li Yunjing continued the ascension under threat of discovery. In the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm, Ling Xuan learned that his homeland, the Tianyuan Dao Realm, was ascending and realized the Heavenly Rules Hall might send an inspector to destroy it.

• Zhang Jianchen and Yan Tianjin ordered their factions to defend the Return to the Origin, knowing the Immortal Realm would target them all if it learned of the ascension.
• Yuanchu continued guiding the origin while Li Yunjing used the Five Aggregates Cauldron to maintain the concealment formation.
• The Hundred Tribulations Ancestor told his disciple that the Purple Wind Dao Realm had been destroyed by an Immortal Realm inspector after attempting the Return to the Origin, and he feared the Tianyuan Dao Realm would suffer the same fate.
• An immortal official informed Ling Xuan that the Tianyuan Dao Realm was nearing ascension through the Return to the Origin.
• Ling Xuan recognized the Tianyuan Dao Realm as his homeland and feared the Heavenly Rules Hall would send an inspector to stop its ascension.

Ling Xuan stalled the report about the Tianyuan Dao Realm by provoking Immortal Venerable Chiyang into a fight. Meanwhile, the Return to the Origin Ceremony ended, and the Tianyuan Dao Realm completed its ascension as its inhabitants celebrated.

• Ling Xuan realized he had to delay reporting the disturbance until the Tianyuan Dao Realm gained the Sea of Origin's recognition.
• Immortal Venerable Chiyang confronted Ling Xuan and threatened to report him for concealing the message.
• Ling Xuan attacked Chiyang, starting a fight that disrupted the Inspection Department and delayed the report.
• The Return to the Origin Ceremony reached its final stage as the last wisp of seven-colored origin merged into the Tianyuan Dao Realm.
• The Tianyuan Dao Realm's barrier, Principles, Spiritual Qi, and Ancestral Veins transformed as the realm ascended, and its people celebrated their success.

The Tianyuan Dao Realm successfully ascended into the Tianyuan Immortal Realm, ending Yuanchu’s hundred-thousand-year reincarnation cycle and giving its people a chance to resist the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm. Ling Xuan’s deliberate fight with Immortal Venerable Chiyang had bought the time needed for the ascension, while Li Yunjing looked ahead to the realm’s future.

• Yan Tianjin and Devil General Blood Baleful Intent realized they could become immortals, while Yuanchu celebrated the end of his reincarnation cycle with Li Yunjing.
• Five Spirits Lord announced that the Tianyuan Dao Realm had become the Tianyuan Immortal Realm and warned Li Yunjing that the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm would soon discover what happened.
• News of the ascension spread through Tianyuan and shocked the myriad realms, which recognized that the balance of power was changing.
• After the fight ended, an immortal official told Immortal Venerable Chiyang that the Sea of Origin had recognized the Tianyuan Immortal Realm, and Chiyang realized Ling Xuan had stalled him on purpose.
• Ling Xuan accepted Chiyang’s threats and privately vowed to wait for the day he could return openly to his homeland.
• Li Yunjing stood on Luozhen Island among his loved ones and resolved to keep advancing toward immortality as the Tianyuan Immortal Realm began its new era.

The Dao Realm’s blessing strengthened the Luozhen Sect and brought breakthroughs among its disciples, while Li Yunjing’s cultivation and understanding of the Principles advanced. Three days later, Wang Heng arrived on behalf of the Immortal Alliance to reward Li Yunjing for his contributions to the Dao Realm’s advancement.

• The Dao Realm’s origin blessed Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect, transforming the sect’s spirit vein and strengthening its fortune.
• Li Yunjing ordered the sect to open its cultivation resources, and Fang Tong broke through to the Nascent Soul stage with help from the mountain-protecting grand formation.
• Fang Tong, two Golden Core elders, seventeen inner disciples, and more than a hundred outer disciples achieved breakthroughs.
• Li Yunjing secluded himself to comprehend the blessings, finding his cultivation near a breakthrough and the Space and Karma Principles clearer.
• Wang Heng arrived at the Luozhen Sect and issued an Immortal Alliance decree awarding Li Yunjing resources for his service in advancing the Dao Realm.

Li Yunjing received rare materials and priority access to Immortal Alliance resources, then used the rewards to upgrade the Sect Grand Hall and Spirit Field. The new effects strengthened the Luozhen Sect and its cultivation resources.

• Wang Heng delivered the Immortal Alliance’s rewards and told Li Yunjing the Luozhen Sect had priority access to resources.
• Li Yunjing shared details of the Dao Realm with Wang Heng, who praised the sect’s flourishing fortune and emerging talent.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Sect Grand Hall to lv8, gaining stronger Dao comprehension, fortune protection, talent attraction, and a golden dragon that could defend against enemies.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Field to lv9 using Xirang and the Myriad Spirits Spring Source, causing its medicines to grow rapidly and gain new properties.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Beast Taming Grounds, Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, and Alchemy Chamber, unlocking stronger spirit effects for each. The chapter ended after the Alchemy Chamber reached level eleven, while Ding Qifeng taught disciples nearby.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Beast Taming Grounds to level nine, and the beasts underwent bloodline atavism, including the elder’s tiger advancing from Demon Core to Spirit Communication.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the Beast Taming Grounds’ new effects, including improved bloodline fusion and twin-bloodline potential, then left the valley.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion to level eight, spreading a fragrance that refreshed hungry disciples and stirred their Spiritual Qi.
• Li Yunjing hurried to the Alchemy Chamber, where Ding Qifeng taught several disciples how to refine pills.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber to level eleven, adding powerful alchemy effects and a chance to produce immortal-grade divine pills.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber, artifact-refining room, and Hall of Rebirth, further strengthening the Luozhen Sect. He then announced the sect’s first grand competition, scheduled for half a month later, and explained its divisions, format, and rules.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber, gaining new pill-refining effects, then left without interrupting Ding Qifeng’s lesson.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the artifact-refining room with the Nine Heavens Meteoric Iron Mother and Artifact Soul Jade, improving its refining effects and tools.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Hall of Rebirth with Yin Nether Jade and a Soul-Ferrying Lotus Platform Fragment, enhancing the sect’s resurrection and soul-protection capabilities.
• Li Yunjing surveyed the strengthened Luozhen Sect and decided to assess its disciples’ abilities.
• At the Sect Grand Hall, Li Yunjing announced a sect-wide grand competition for half a month later, with three cultivation divisions, staged matches, and rules against killing opponents.

Li Yunjing announced lavish rewards for the Luozhen Sect’s first competition, spurring disciples and elders to prepare intensely. The competition opened with the Mortal Realm group’s preliminary rounds beginning across ten arenas.

• Li Yunjing announced prizes for the Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, and Dao Realm groups, including chances to contemplate the Dao, pills, artifacts, and treasures.
• Ding Qifeng and Gu Lin pledged to prepare the competition’s pills, Law Artifacts, and Spirit Treasures, while Mo Xuan was assigned to organize the event.
• The competition notices fired up the sect, and disciples trained while the alchemy, artifact-refining, Spirit Field, Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, and Beast Taming Grounds prepared them for battle.
• Li Yunjing observed promising disciples, including Ye Chen, Su Qingyuan, and Chu Han, as the sect prepared for the competition.
• After ten arenas were completed, Li Yunjing opened the competition and reminded disciples to stop when a result was clear and never take a life.
• More than twelve hundred Mortal Realm participants began their preliminary rounds across ten arenas, competing for a hundred places in the next round.

Ye Chen advanced through the Mortal Realm competition with sharp Geng Metal Sword Qi, defeating Wang Hu by wearing down his defenses before landing a decisive strike. He reached the final against Zhao Feng, whose Profound Water Curtain stood between Ye Chen and the championship.

• Ye Chen eliminated four Qi Refining disciples in the preliminaries and advanced at the top of his group.
• Ye Chen defeated Wang Hu by repeatedly striking the same area until his Geng Metal Spirit Slash broke through Wang Hu’s defenses.
• Ye Chen finished the round-robin competition with a perfect record and advanced to the finals alongside Su Qingyuan and Zhao Feng.
• Ye Chen defeated successive opponents to reach the final match against Zhao Feng.
• Zhao Feng opened the final by casting Profound Water Curtain and firing several water arrows at Ye Chen.

The Mortal Realm finals ended with Zhao Feng defeating Ye Chen before Ye Chen could awaken his Geng Metal Sword Bone. The Spirit Realm competition then advanced through its group rounds and semifinals, leaving Lin Yueyao under pressure from Lu Qiuzhan after he swallowed a forbidden pill.

• Ye Chen's awakening threatened Zhao Feng, but Zhao Feng used a water dragon to defeat him and win the Mortal Realm group final.
• Li Yunjing presented awards to the Mortal Realm group’s top contestants before the Spirit Realm competition began.
• Lu Qiuzhan used pills and evasive tactics to challenge Xiao Han, but Xiao Han won their match; both advanced from their group.
• Lin Yueyao defeated Shi Feng by freezing his legs and knocking him from the arena, while Shi Feng advanced as runner-up.
• Xiao Han defeated Shi Feng in the first semifinal, and Lin Yueyao blocked Lu Qiuzhan’s poison and explosive pills in the second.
• Lu Qiuzhan swallowed an Exploding Essence Pill, temporarily raising his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Early Stage and putting Lin Yueyao under pressure.