Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing advanced Heaven and Earth Growth to the Heavenly Eerie Realm, transforming his stomach world and awakening the Heavenly Dao as a giant tree that could grant immortal official positions. After secretly placing one of those positions within Wind God Boqiang’s immortal position, he decided to fan the coming struggle for immortality and named his plan the War of Sealing Immortals.

• Ren Qing spent twenty thousand years of lifespan to advance Heaven and Earth Growth, causing the Heavenly Palace and underworld to expand and transform.
• Ren Qing explored the stomach world and saw its cities, peoples, and inhabitants thriving under the Jailer Hall’s rule.
• The Heavenly Dao of the stomach world took the form of a giant tree, and Ren Qing learned it could grant and control limited Ghost, Human, and Earth Immortal official positions.
• Ren Qing fused a Human Immortal official position into Wind God Boqiang’s immortal position, planting a hidden scheme for the future.
• Ren Qing concluded that he needed other cultivators to join the coming rush toward immortality and began setting the War of Sealing Immortals in motion.

Ren Qing developed the Stomach World's Immortal official positions, discovering that they could strengthen his control over Immortal Seats and free them from outside Heavenly Dao influence. He summoned the Yin Messenger Realm cultivators to explain the positions and their benefits, leaving them eager for the chance to become Immortals.

• Ren Qing altered Wind God Boqiang's corpse to reduce its compatibility with the Immortal Seat and slow its Heavenly Dao Transformation.
• Ren Qing created physical Immortal official position seals with advancement conditions and assigned a Ghost Immortal position to Corpse Fengdu, strengthening his control over the Fengdu Corpse Emperor.
• Ren Qing summoned cultivators of Yin Messenger Realm and above to Dream City, where they learned that the Stomach World could grant Immortal official positions.
• The cultivators learned that Ghost Immortal positions offered Heavenly Dao protection, Human Immortal positions allowed private cave dwellings, and an Earth Immortal position granted reincarnation and re-cultivation.
• Song Zongwu, Li Tiangang, Han Li, and other cultivators considered the opportunities Ren Qing's system offered, while Yang God Realm cultivators eagerly eyed the Earth Immortal position.

Ren Qing held an Immortal Conferment Ceremony, granting official positions to cultivators and helping Hu Wen and Sen Sheng advance. While investigating Buddhist Fruit Status, he discovered that animating the Tathagata True Self Scripture with an Earth Immortal official position created a Tathagata Buddha Position, leaving him to wonder whether Ancient Tathagata Buddha's position was vacant.

• Ren Qing summoned cultivators to the Dreamscape Platform and granted Human Immortal official positions to Song Zongwu, Li Tiangang, and Great Dream True Person.
• The branches selected representatives for Ghost Immortal official positions, and Ren Qing guided the Heavenly Dao's favor so Hu Wen and Sen Sheng advanced to the Yin Messenger Realm.
• Ren Qing granted Ghost Immortal official positions to Mu Yi, Xiao San'er, and Danchengzi, then sealed the Heavenly Palace and Underworld against unauthorized descents to the mortal realm.
• Song Zongwu left the Ci Clan people in Heavenly Heaven and traveled to the Heavenly Palace to establish a cave dwelling and Daoist field.
• Ren Qing animated Buddhist scriptures and found that the Tathagata True Self Scripture produced an infant Tathagata Buddha Position when he bestowed the Earth Immortal official position upon it.
• Ren Qing removed the official position and canceled the animation, then wondered whether Ancient Tathagata Buddha's position had been vacant.

Ren Qing searched for a safe way to use the Buddha Position and began preparing the Shadowless Ghost for advancement. His attempt to create a substitute Buddha failed, while his contact with Great Dream True Person revealed a vast collection of Immortal Positions hidden in a dangerous place.

• Ren Qing created the Chanting Arhat and spread its scripture and statues through Tang Sheng, but it failed to produce a Buddha Position.
• Ren Qing sealed the Three Realms, monitored the Immortal official positions, and found that the Jailer Hall continued developing without his interference.
• Ren Qing contacted Great Dream True Person through a dream and saw countless Immortal Positions among the stars, apparently hidden within the Endless Forest.
• Ren Qing sent pseudo-dragonized limbs toward Great Dream True Person and began preparing for a future expedition while avoiding a reckless approach.
• Ren Qing abandoned the Chanting Arhat as a Buddha Position substitute and focused on advancing the Shadowless Ghost as the Heavenly Dao rift healed.

Ren Qing followed a skull-shaped artifact south aboard his ghost ship and advanced the Shadowless Ghost to the Ascension Ladder. While escaping a gourd held by the Moral Heavenly Venerate, he discovered an unexpected Taotie immortal position and evidence that the Supreme Heavenly Demon might once have been sealed inside the gourd.

• Ren Qing followed the skull artifact toward the south on his ghost ship, observing the corpse-filled Endless Forest along the way.
• Ren Qing added the Human Skin Book to the ghost ship and prepared fungus people to maintain it.
• Ren Qing advanced the Shadowless Ghost and entered a gourd-shaped space while comprehending its Ascension Method.
• Ren Qing escaped through a crack in the gourd and comprehended the Dragon Devouring Art, whose immortal position was Taotie Ferocious Beast.
• Ren Qing saw Heavenly Demon aura emerge from cracks in the Moral Heavenly Venerate statue and suspected the Supreme Heavenly Demon had once been sealed in its gourd.

Ren Qing created the Ancestral Vein Ascension Method and became the pseudo-Immortal Position Primordial Chaos Ancestral Dragon, then began cultivating it and shaping dragon transformation in the world inside his stomach. As he advanced, a gathering of Bone Cultivators near the ghost ship stirred.

• Ren Qing devised the Yinglong Technique, erased his memories of it, and quickly comprehended a fourth Ascension Method: Ancestral Vein.
• Ren Qing became the Primordial Chaos Ancestral Dragon, gaining the power to grant dragon veins and influence beings with dragon blood.
• Ren Qing flooded the world inside his stomach with dragon-blood rain, then restricted dragon transformation to certain kinds of creatures and established the Dragon Transformation Palace.
• Ren Qing noticed a remora nearing transformation into the world's first viperous worm and prepared the Dragon Transformation Palace to receive future flood dragons.
• Ren Qing began cultivating Ancestral Vein, while a skeleton among tens of thousands of Bone Cultivators opened his eyes inside an artifact near the ghost ship.

Ren Qing advanced the Ancestral Vein while following a skeleton artifact through the Endless Forest, then fashioned a grotesque Flesh Body Tathagata Buddha from a Compassionate Monk Fungal Soul and the Tathagata True Self Scripture. The new creature began consuming Deer-Riding Arhat Buddha energy, though it had only reached Martial Human Realm strength.

• Ren Qing stabilized the Ancestral Vein aboard the ghost ship, then advanced it to Horned Dragon and noticed a Flood Dragon bone inside the skeleton artifact ahead.
• Ren Qing cultivated a Compassionate Monk Fungal Soul to Yang God Realm Perfection, erased its memories, and implanted the Tathagata True Self Scripture.
• Ren Qing used Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard, Corpse Fengdu, and the Earth Immortal official position to transform the Fungal Soul into a Buddhist scripture and form the Flesh Body Tathagata Buddha.
• Ren Qing fed the Flesh Body Tathagata Buddha Deer-Riding Arhat Buddha energy, and it consumed the energy while growing to Martial Human Realm strength.

Ren Qing followed Daoist Mu She’s skeletal artifact across the Endless Forest to a sea where numerous factions had gathered over Great Dream True Person’s immortal position. After discovering that the cultivators shared strikingly similar faces and origins, Ren Qing joined them in disguise and left the gathering’s next move unresolved.

• Ren Qing’s ghost ship followed Daoist Mu She’s skeletal artifact to the sea, where he sensed that the factions had come for Great Dream True Person’s immortal position on the seabed.
• Ren Qing saw the factions’ cultivators gather after they slaughtered a coastal tribe, and noticed that they all looked remarkably alike.
• Ren Qing removed the ghost ship’s concealment and appeared among the gathering in disguise; the cultivators accepted him without suspicion.
• Ren Qing used the Information Flow to learn that Daoist Mu She was a White Bone Immortal and that Tian Zong was Joyful Arhat’s Buddhist Son, then noticed most of the cultivators shared the same age and birth year.
• Daoist Mu She watched Ren Qing greedily, while Tian Zong welcomed him as someone fated with Buddhism; Ren Qing entered the cabin without responding.

Ren Qing waited aboard the ghost ship as the factions gathered at sea, then watched a strange force drag their Artifacts underwater and inflict horrifying effects on the cultivators. As Daoist Mu She and Tian Zong eyed Ren Qing’s transformed ship, Ren Qing remained confident and wondered whether the auspicious divination pointed to an opportunity for him.

• Ren Qing secretly observed the factions, prepared escape routes, and waited for months while cultivating and monitoring the Flesh Body Buddha.
• The full moon triggered a force that sank the Artifacts, and a white-haired Yang God Realm leader’s abdomen swelled until it burst, revealing infants formed from his dead disciples.
• Tian Zong and Daoist Mu She attempted to escape, but the force attacked them too; Daoist Mu She’s cultivation began to drain as he sought refuge aboard the ghost ship.
• Daoist Mu She pursued Ren Qing underwater and discovered that the ghost ship had transformed with scales, fins, and a huge mouth, while Tian Zong’s artifact also circled it.
• Ren Qing casually caught seafood aboard the ghost ship and concluded that the pregnancy effect came from the immortal position beneath the sea; he wondered if his auspicious divination signaled an opportunity.

Ren Qing modified the ghost ship to spread dragon blood through the deep-sea food chain and brought dragonized merfolk from his inner world aboard to cultivate the Flood Dragon Law. Their progress strengthened his Ancestral Vein, leaving him considering how to spread dragon blood farther, perhaps as a virus.

• Ren Qing noticed whales swimming unusually close to the surface and cloaked the ghost ship while reshaping it with dragon traits.
• Fish ate scales shed by the ghost ship, prompting Ren Qing to plan experiments that would spread dragon blood through ocean life.
• Ren Qing discovered that dragonized merfolk had nearly wiped out the remaining merfolk in the Sea of Wine, then moved several thousand of them onto the ghost ship.
• Ren Qing created the Flood Dragon Law and forced the flood dragon people to cultivate it, helping them begin to condense Dragon Pearls.
• Ren Qing realized that their cultivation advanced his Ancestral Vein because their dragon blood still belonged to him, and he considered creating a dragon blood virus.

Ren Qing cultivated Min Shrimp into Viperous Worm dragons while the factions descended into the deep sea, where Tian Zong and Daoist Mu She turned against the ghost ship. Ren Qing revealed his yinglong form and swallowed the skeleton artifact, then sealed it away and hid the unconscious Tian Zong inside Ghost Shadow.

• Ren Qing gathered Min Shrimp and other seafood, discovered that only fish organs were developing strange eyes, and began cultivating the shrimp with dragon blood.
• Ren Qing transformed ten thousand Min Shrimp into Viperous Worm dragons and stored them in a lake to accelerate their reproduction.
• At extreme depths, the giant jellyfish’s light drove the factions toward madness, and Tian Zong sacrificed monks to empower the Joyful Buddha energy.
• Tian Zong seized the ghost ship as Daoist Mu She moved the skeleton artifact to surround Ren Qing, but Ren Qing revealed his yinglong form and swallowed the artifact.
• Ren Qing sealed Daoist Mu She’s skeleton artifact in the stomach world and hid the unconscious Tian Zong inside Ghost Shadow.

Ren Qing used the ghost ship to explore the deep seabed and spread dragon blood through Min Shrimp and Dragon Blood Coral, while investigating the strange effects of an immortal position. He left the trench’s ecosystem rapidly expanding and continued cultivating there, with Daoist Chang Qing trapped aboard the Thorn magical artifact.

• Ren Qing seized the Thorn magical artifact and shielded it from the seabed’s water pressure with Ghost Shadow, keeping Daoist Chang Qing and the vegetation cultivators alive.
• Ren Qing modified hundreds of thousands of Min Shrimp to survive the deep sea, then released them after spreading the Blood Poison disease seed through their colony.
• Ren Qing found that deep-sea Gill Fish contained smaller, living fish within their organs and suspected the immortal position had altered the seabed’s rules.
• Ren Qing created Dragon Blood Coral whose fruit increased dragon blood concentration, and spread it across the trench’s rock walls alongside the dragon-blooded creatures.
• Ren Qing brought Dragon Blood Coral into the world within his stomach and had Ghost Shadow pull the Thorn magical artifact upstream while he continued occupying the trench with dragon blood.

Ren Qing discovered that the deep-sea world was inside the Matchmaker Immortal, whose Old Man Under the Moon immortal position linked countless people through red threads. He found Great Dream True Person living as a mortal with a wife and child, and sent him the Dream Butterfly Method to help him escape on his own.

• Ren Qing examined Daoist Mu She's memories and learned that the living dead were seeking the immortal positions of Black and White Impermanence.
• Ren Qing sent the ghost ship deeper into the sea, but stopped its descent after Daoist Chang Qing's mind collapsed and the surroundings became unnaturally still.
• Ren Qing discovered that the sea fish contained nested underwater worlds connected by red threads to unrelated men and women.
• Ren Qing identified the giant creature as the Matchmaker Immortal, whose Old Man Under the Moon immortal position connected at least a hundred thousand people and had likely trapped Great Dream True Person.
• Ren Qing found Great Dream True Person living as a mortal with his sick wife and young child, then transmitted the Dream Butterfly Method without severing his red thread.

Ren Qing discovered that hundreds of people connected to the Matchmaker Immortal were Great Dream True Person's Split Souls, who were cultivating the Dream Butterfly Method while their Main Soul remained in a deep-layered dreamscape. He began preparing to use the Matchmaker Immortal's network to gather immortal positions, merged the Ghost Immortal official position into it, and turned to advancing the Disaster Aversion Method.

• Ren Qing traced Nightmare Demon aura among the Matchmaker Immortal's connections and found hundreds of men, women, and children whose souls matched Great Dream True Person's.
• Ren Qing concluded that Great Dream True Person's Main Soul was cultivating in a deep-layered dreamscape while using Split Souls to experience mortal lives, so he instilled the Dream Butterfly Method into them.
• Ren Qing began developing the Dragon Blood Ecosystem in the deep-sea ravine, released the merman tribe under Ben Bo'er's leadership, and watched the growing dragonkin help heal the Heavenly Dao rift.
• Ren Qing discovered that the Soul-Lost Disease Strain could coexist with the Matchmaker Immortal, which had no soul in its Niwan Palace.
• Ren Qing merged the Ghost Immortal official position into the Matchmaker Immortal and formed a faint connection with it, then decided to advance the Disaster Aversion Method.

Ren Qing advanced the Disaster Aversion Method and faced Primordial Heavenly Venerate again, using the Information Flow and fungal souls to withstand the encounter. The method took shape as the Kitchen God, whose immortal position was Lord of the Kitchen God's Mansion.

• Ren Qing prepared to advance the Disaster Aversion Method in a hidden karst cave, while Wu Gui grew restless under the Information Flow's suppression.
• Ren Qing experienced Nameless's life, from his birth in prison through his creation of the Mirror Immortal and Disaster Aversion Method, and learned how the storyteller's life later reshaped his obsession.
• Ren Qing recalled the creators of the Disguise Technique and Turtle Longevity, then waited anxiously when the Heavenly Dao did not immediately appear.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate appeared as the sun went dark, while sea creatures chanted and the world broke apart into aberrant forms.
• Ren Qing endured Primordial Heavenly Venerate's pressure, formed the Ascension Method with fungal souls, and identified its resulting art as the Kitchen God, with the immortal position Lord of the Kitchen God's Mansion.

Ren Qing endured Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s influence long enough to complete five Ascension Methods, then recovered and advanced Heavenly Demon Tribulation to the Yang God Realm. He learned that the Free Heavenly Demon could torment and potentially seize targets through his other arts, and he settled down to stabilize the new art.

• Ren Qing created and discarded several Ascension Methods while Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s presence warped his body and senses, eventually settling on Heavenly Demon Tribulation and the Free Heavenly Demon Immortal Position.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate vanished after Ren Qing completed all five Ascension Methods, and Ren Qing lost thousands of fungus souls before retreating to the ghost ship to sleep.
• Ren Qing recovered after more than ten days and learned that the restored Medium Immortal had increased its control over sea life, giving him a possible way to turn high-realm cultivators into pieces in his plans.
• Ren Qing reviewed the Free Heavenly Demon’s information and advanced Heavenly Demon Tribulation to the Yang God Realm without attracting attention.
• Ren Qing learned that Heavenly Demon Tribulation could torment, erase, or replace targets and could complement his other arts, then closed his eyes to stabilize it.

Ren Qing infiltrated a convoy carrying an Insect Nest mother egg, learned that the Insect Nest was targeting Jing Province’s immortal position, and took the egg and the Immortality Forbidden Zone into his stomach world. He kept watch over Jing Province while weighing which cultivation art to advance next, as Jailer Hall’s growth made granting more immortal offices increasingly urgent.

• Old Tang led a group of insect-men toward the desert with a mother egg, and He Si’s guide insect showed him a vision of a Moon Disc falling from the sky.
• Ren Qing emerged from underground in human form, subdued Old Tang, and learned from his memories that the Insect Nest was sending teams to Jing Province to establish a mother nest.
• Ren Qing put the convoy into a deep dream, took its mother egg into the stomach world for Li Yaoyang to study, and erased Old Tang’s memory of him.
• Ren Qing transferred the Immortality Forbidden Zone’s dried well into the stomach world and returned to the sea, suspecting that a hidden figure had intervened in Jing Province.
• Li Yaoyang reported that mother eggs could parasitize living beings and grow into insect-nurturing ecosystems, while Ren Qing reviewed Jailer Hall’s cultivation progress and considered advancing Heaven and Earth Growth before the Zhi Li Technique.

Ren Qing built a ruined Lesser Heavenly Court inside Matchmaker Immortal’s Niwan Palace, manipulated the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery to transfer the Joyful Fruit Status to Huimin, and derived four Ascension Methods from Wind God Boqiang’s immortal position. He turned his attention to Jing Province, where Blessed Earth Immortal’s and Taiyin Star Lord’s powers were reinforcing each other and transforming the region into a small world.

• Ren Qing struggled to create a dreamscape in Matchmaker Immortal’s Niwan Palace until Great Dream True Person’s red threads helped him establish one, which he developed into a ruined Lesser Heavenly Court.
• Ren Qing placed Tian Zong beneath Jia Rulai’s seat, and the Joyful Fruit Status consumed Tian Zong before choosing monk Huimin as its new host.
• Ren Qing decided to focus on gathering Joyful Buddha energy for the Flesh Body Buddha and kept the Deer-Riding Fruit Status as a potential chess piece.
• Ren Qing endured Heavenly Dao Transformation while studying Wind God Boqiang’s immortal position, then spent half a year creating four Ascension Methods of varying strength.
• Ren Qing considered using the Ascension Methods and immortal positions to stir up Jing Province, where Blessed Earth Immortal’s and Taiyin Star Lord’s powers were turning the region into a small world.

Ren Qing used the Matchmaker Immortal’s dream realm to draw Feng Ye and the Wind-Void People into worshipping the Lesser Heavenly Court, sending them toward Jing Province with the Heavenly Dao Method. As the Insect Nest rapidly expanded there, Ren Qing spread the Heavenly Court’s influence among other factions and watched Jing Province, where the Blood Moon and mountains appeared changed by catastrophe.

• Ren Qing found Feng Ye, a frail Heavenly Eerie Realm Wind-Void Person, and used the Zhi Li Technique to bring him into the Lesser Heavenly Court.
• Ren Qing altered the Wind-Void People’s history in Feng Ye’s subconscious, and Feng Ye began restoring the Karst Cave’s historical patterns.
• Feng Ye discovered the Wind Controlling Art on a statue of Wind God Boqiang, spread the story of Boqiang as the Wind-Void People’s ancestor, and led them to worship him.
• The Wind-Void People found the Earth Department’s Heavenly Dao Method and set out for Jing Province, while Ren Qing prepared the Dragon Blood Ecosystem there.
• Ren Qing sensed the Insect Nest’s population multiplying rapidly in Jing Province and began sending Heavenly Court information to other factions with Heavenly Eerie Realm cultivators.
• Ren Qing used Heavenly Demon Possession to reach Desert Water Marsh and saw that the Blood Moon seemed rigid and the mountains appeared to have suffered a catastrophe.

Ren Qing entered Jing Province to investigate its Immortal Seat-formed Forbidden Zone and discovered that its rules transformed Eerie Objects into Gu Insects. He concluded that a third, insect-related Immortal Seat had been released there, and continued exploring while keeping his Arts under control.

• Ren Qing halted the Dragon Blood Ecosystem's expansion and sent fungal souls to restrain and feed the Matchmaker Immortal.
• Feng Ye led the Wind-Void People into Jing Province, where they learned Wind God Boqiang's Ascension Method and developed scales and wings.
• Ren Qing crossed into Jing Province and found a rainy rainforest where the seasons and local rules behaved strangely.
• Ren Qing discovered that a Qiuchong Gu was a fragment of an Eerie Object and that Jing Province caused his Eerie Objects to transform into Gu Insects.
• Ren Qing identified Gu transformations for Ghost Shadow, the Plague Dream Tree, and the Supreme Heavenly Demon, then suspected that a third, insect-related Immortal Seat was involved.