Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing strengthened Taiyin Star Lord’s seal, moved the Heavenly Court dreamscape into the stomach world, and watched Buddhist forces gather around Dinguang Buddha in the Beast Pen. He also claimed Lord of Fire Virtue’s Immortal position for the Heavenly Court, while Manjushri Bodhisattva’s arrival left the Beast Pen surrounded by Buddhas.

• Ren Qing organized the production of Buddha bones and gathered Dinguang Buddha energy to reinforce Taiyin Star Lord’s seal, then transferred the Heavenly Court dreamscape into the stomach world.
• Bowl-Raising Arhat, Hand-Reaching Arhat, and other Buddhist figures gathered outside the Beast Pen, where Dinguang Buddha was transforming; Ren Qing released Lesser Thunderclap Monastery and sent its Arhats and Wujinyi Bodhisattva toward the Buddhist realm.
• Ren Qing tried to use a third Immortal Body, Nurgle Plague Dream, but found it too incomplete to control, then continued strengthening Taiyin Star Lord’s seal with Buddha energy and bone powder.
• Ren Qing appeared before Fendigang as Zhenyuanzi and took Lord of Fire Virtue’s Immortal position from the volcano, where Fendigang cultivators had preserved it in a womb-shaped mass of flesh.
• Ren Qing brought a Fendigang cultivator into Dream City, restored Lord of Fire Virtue’s statue in the Heavenly Court, and followed it with the statue of the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived outside the Beast Pen and chanted scriptures as the Buddhas surrounded it.

Ren Qing thickened Taiyin Star Lord’s seal and sent Lord of Fire Virtue into the growing Immortal position forbidden zone, while the Buddhist sect gathered forces around the Beast Pen. After advancing the Zhi Li Technique, Ren Qing stripped Old Man Under the Moon’s Immortal position from the Matchmaker Immortal and saved the Jailer Hall cultivators from the Soul Snatching Ghost Immortal, leaving Nameless enraged and promising the Immortal position.

• Ren Qing left Xiao Yan in charge at Fendigang, stored Lord of Fire Virtue in a three-legged cauldron, and spent more than two years strengthening Taiyin Star Lord’s Buddha layer seal.
• Ren Qing used Dreamscape Shuttle to send Lord of Fire Virtue into the Immortal position forbidden zone, where the new Immortal Seat Rules nearly shattered the seal before Dinguang Buddha energy repaired it.
• After Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva arrived at the Beast Pen, Ren Qing returned to the subterranean river, advanced the Zhi Li Technique to Yi Sheng Er, and began extracting Old Man Under the Moon’s Immortal position from the Matchmaker Immortal.
• Ren Qing removed Old Man Under the Moon’s Immortal position and sealed it in a container as the Soul Snatching Ghost Immortal emerged and destroyed the underground river.
• Ren Qing used Endless Fungal Soul to move Li Tiangang and the Jailer Hall cultivators to safety and destroy the Yang God Realm forbidden zone, then escaped the Soul Snatching Ghost Immortal’s chains.
• Nameless seized control of the Corpse Immortal and accused the Heavenly Court of stealing his opportunity, so Ren Qing promised him Old Man Under the Moon’s Immortal position before withdrawing his fungal-soul clone.

Ren Qing strengthened the Immortal position forbidden zone as the Buddhist sect and the Supreme Heavenly Demon escalated their conflict around the Beast Pen. With two years remaining before the danger he foresaw, he began the second step of sealing Immortals by combining his Immortal Bodies and restarting the Investiture of Gods.

• Ren Qing received the Giant Strength Ghost King Immortal position from the Elephant Master and gave it to Lady White Bone along with the Divine Incarnation Technique.
• Ren Qing added the Jinghai Sea God Immortal position to the forbidden zone, and Auran Hermit's transformed body demonstrated the power of the Divine Incarnation Technique.
• After the forbidden zone reached ten Immortal positions, its Buddha layer seal grew stronger and began expanding on its own, so Ren Qing withdrew the Jailer Hall cultivators.
• Ren Qing advanced the Zhi Li Technique to Heavenly Eerie Realm Grand Completion as more Immortal positions and Bodhisattvas appeared and the threat from the Beast Pen intensified.
• Ren Qing buried the twelve-position forbidden zone beneath soil and Profound Iron, then combined two Immortal Bodies and declared that he would restart the Investiture of Gods.

Elephant Master, Auran Hermit, Xiao Yan, and many other cultivators accepted Ren Qing’s call to join the Investiture of the Gods as the Beast Pen calamity worsened. As Ren Qing entered the Immortal position forbidden zone, the Supreme Heavenly Demon revealed that it had fully taken Dinguang Buddha’s body, and devastating storms began to ravage the world.

• The Buddha of Light’s radiance devastated the land around Elephant Master, but a summons from the Heavenly Court transported him to Ren Qing’s diseased tree to recover.
• Auran Hermit accepted the Investiture of the Gods and escaped the faction that had imprisoned him.
• Xiao Yan joined the Investiture after promising Fendigang’s people he would return within one hundred years as the new Lord of Fire Virtue.
• Ren Qing gathered cultivators in his Niwan Palace, spread Aberration disease seeds, and entered the Immortal position forbidden zone as the Buddhas attacked the Beast Pen.
• The Corpse Immortal reached the blood pool in the Buddhist realm, while the Black Crow Matriarch let Heavenly Demon aura flood the pool.
• The Supreme Heavenly Demon emerged through Dinguang Buddha’s body and fought the Buddhas as the Buddha of Light compressed the Beast Pen; torrential rain then began killing living beings across the world.

Ren Qing and more than a thousand cultivators entered the isolated Immortal position forbidden zone, where immense gravity and suffocation threatened them before they discovered the vast Immortal God corpses drifting through the void. As Ren Qing cultivated and investigated the zone, other cultivators began racing toward the corpses to claim Immortal positions, while he suspected Nameless had found a different path to becoming an Immortal.

• Ren Qing and the cultivators were trapped by the forbidden zone’s rules, and Ren Qing modified his lungs and used the deformity disease strain to help the others survive the lack of oxygen.
• Ren Qing awoke in the void among enormous Immortal God corpses, chose to investigate rather than pursue an Immortal position, and let the Jailer Hall decide whether to compete for them.
• Han Li and the Insect lineage began preparing to claim Blessed Earth Immortal, while Ren Qing advanced Heavenly Demon Tribulation and his body grew beyond five thousand meters.
• The Elephant Master awoke, saw Ren Qing, and fled toward Giant Strength Ghost King as other cultivators set out for the corpses.
• Ren Qing considered why Nameless had abandoned the Old Man Under the Moon and wondered whether the blood pool or another Immortal position explained Nameless’s plans.
• Cultivators gathered at Blessed Earth Immortal and attacked its Heavenly Dao Worms, but the worms began burrowing into them and using them as breeding beds.

Ren Qing sent the Jailer Hall into the Blessed Earth Immortal’s Fude Cave Dwelling, where its pioneers clashed with cultivators and explored the parasite-infested realm. Han Li uncovered the danger of Heavenly Dao Worms and reunited with Son of Heavenly Dao and Chen Changsheng, who warned that worm-afflicted cultivators had already reached the cave dwelling’s mouth and nose.

• Ren Qing deployed one thousand Dao soldiers, and Shasheng fought You Quanzi before driving dozens of cultivators away.
• Han Li entered the Fude Cave Dwelling with Great Cold True Person and Jade Splendor True Person to seek an Immortal position.
• Hermit Lingyin replaced his flesh with Heavenly Dao Worms, mistook his declining cultivation for a breakthrough, and was killed by Son of Heavenly Dao.
• Han Li met Son of Heavenly Dao and Chen Changsheng, who revealed they had come to stop the worm lineage from reaching the Blessed Earth Immortal.
• Son of Heavenly Dao warned Han Li that worm-afflicted cultivators had reached the cave dwelling’s mouth and nose as Ren Qing’s giant form grew to thirteen thousand meters.

Ren Qing advanced Heavenly Demon Tribulation and Corpse Fengdu while cultivators explored the Immortal God cave dwellings. He discovered that Wuming was still inside the Corpse Immortal and willingly absorbing Heavenly Demon aura, leaving Ren Qing uncertain about the Buddhist sect’s struggle against the Supreme Heavenly Demon.

• Ren Qing completed the advancement of Heavenly Demon Tribulation, terrifying observers with his transformation before he returned to normal and resumed secluded cultivation.
• Son of Heavenly Dao, Chen Changsheng, and Han Li headed toward the Blessed Earth Immortal while cultivators explored Giant Strength Cave Dwelling and Medicine Grinding Cave Dwelling.
• Lady White Bone carried the injured Elephant Master deeper into Giant Strength Cave Dwelling, while Mu Yi established a pill market and led alchemists in Medicine Grinding Cave Dwelling.
• As the Heavenly Dao rift nearly healed, Ren Qing advanced Corpse Fengdu, gaining greater control over yin qi and discovering that his five Immortal Bodies could work together.
• Ren Qing sensed that the Corpse Immortal had swallowed the Fengdu Corpse Emperor’s blood and found Wuming inside it, willingly absorbing Heavenly Demon aura as the Corpse Immortal transformed.

Cultivators explored the Giant Strength Cave Dwelling as Lady White Bone encountered the expanding Corpse Vein and its powerful forces. Meanwhile, Ren Qing advanced his Arts inside the Immortal position Forbidden Zone, where his influence transformed the cave dwellings and revealed mortal projections living on his body.

• Mu Yi’s Medicine Grinding Cave Dwelling market sold life-extending pills at exorbitant prices, drawing cultivators who had fled the lifespan-draining Giant Strength Cave Dwelling.
• Lady White Bone used Elephant Master’s flesh to distract Tooth Ghosts, then encountered Corpse Ghost riding a restored Corpse Elephant and realized Heavenly Court’s Corpse Vein had entered the contest.
• Lady White Bone reached Zombie Town, where she saw the Corpse Vein’s vast army, its corpse-pile artifact, and the zombified Wine and Meat Daoist being used to haul ore.
• Ren Qing advanced the Heavenly Demon Tribulation and Corpse Fengdu to Heavenly Eerie Realm Grand Completion, and their effects brought black snow, cold, and deathly changes to the surrounding cave dwellings.
• Ren Qing discovered that the human-shaped shadow creatures on his body were likely projections of outside mortals, and he watched more than a thousand refugees gather in a camp on his shoulder.

During a century-long northward migration, refugees faced a Buddha’s attack in their cave, until the North Star Lord statue revealed Ren Qing’s intervention and destroyed the monster. Ren Qing then concluded that the Supreme Heavenly Demon had survived the Buddhist sect’s assault and that Wuming had willingly undergone Heavenly Demon transformation.

• Old scholar Zhang taught refugee children survival rules, including how to avoid Buddhas and purify wild water with their altered organs.
• Zhang diagnosed Chen Ji’s son with incurable Buddha poison, but the crazy crone performed a North Star Lord ritual that ended with the boy’s death.
• Chen Ji discovered the boy’s corpse had transformed into a goat-like creature, and a Buddha with a black-goat lower body broke into the cave and slaughtered refugees, including militia leader Wu Chu.
• The madwoman’s blood-stained statue revealed the North Star Lord, and Ren Qing’s descending fungal soul killed the Buddha, sealed the cave, and removed the dangerous goat hoof.
• Ren Qing investigated the calamity and realized the Supreme Heavenly Demon had survived the Buddhist sect’s attack; he also suspected Wuming had learned its secret before choosing Heavenly Demon transformation.

Ren Qing monitored the refugee migrations and discovered that the Corpse Immortal had fully transformed into a Heavenly Demon Puppet, while he continued cultivating and preparing to leave the Buddha Realm. In the stomach world, Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu broke through to the Heavenly Eerie Realm, then chose Immortal positions to pursue.

• Ren Qing observed the refugees worshipping the North Star Lord, sent fungal souls to protect them, and learned that Buddhas hunted them during their migrations.
• Ren Qing sensed the Corpse Immortal across two worlds and saw that it had become a powerful Black Goat-like Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Ren Qing continued cultivating the Ancestral Vein and feeding Buddha energy to the Physical Tathagata while planning to use Eerie Immortals as a distraction when he left the Buddha Realm.
• Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu encountered dangerous breakthrough upheavals in their grotto-heavens, and Ren Qing stabilized them as they advanced to the Heavenly Eerie Realm.
• Ren Qing brought the two newly advanced cultivators before him, and Great Dream True Person chose Old Man Under the Moon's abode while Song Zongwu chose Lord of Fire Virtue.

Ren Qing continued cultivating the Ancestral Vein as cultivators traveled through the Immortal position forbidden zone to seek Immortal positions. Xiao Yan entered the Fire Virtue Cave Dwelling but found Song Zongwu already testing its depths, while Great Dream True Person began competing for Old Man Under the Moon; Ren Qing eventually brought the Ancestral Vein to Heavenly Eerie Realm Grand Completion and prepared to advance further.

• Ren Qing’s Ancestral Vein caused Dust Vipers to spread through the Cave Dwellings, and sandships carried cultivators between them as Jailer Hall’s trade network expanded under Mu Yi.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Fire Virtue Cave Dwelling, used the Divine Incarnation Technique to withstand its heat, and discovered Song Zongwu plunging into the magma with karmic fire.
• Great Dream True Person entered the Moonlit Cave Dwelling and used his dream Art to incapacitate cultivators competing for Old Man Under the Moon’s Immortal position.
• Ren Qing estimated that the Immortal positions would be claimed over the coming centuries and continued cultivating while overseeing events through fungal souls.
• Ren Qing’s Ancestral Vein reached Heavenly Eerie Realm Grand Completion after six or seven years, and he connected his mind to the Immortal positions as his soul shifted among five Immortal Bodies.

Ren Qing discovered that the seemingly safe northern region had been warped by the colossal head of the Moral Heavenly Venerate, while Song Zongwu and Great Dream True Person began refining Immortal positions. The chapter left Ren Qing shaken by the sight and wondering what had happened in the outside world and whether the head was connected to the Supreme Heavenly Demon.

• Ren Qing continued developing his Ascension Methods as Song Zongwu fought Xiao Yan for Lord of Fire Virtue's Immortal position and defeated him.
• Song Zongwu began refining the Immortal position, while Xiao Yan's remnant soul was placed in a Mountain God statue and the stomach world's Incense Immortal system continued to develop.
• Great Dream True Person began refining Old Man Under the Moon's Immortal position, prompting cultivators across the forbidden zone to scramble for the remaining positions.
• Ren Qing briefly manifested Myriad Manifestations Return to One, then used the stomach world's Matchmaker Incense Immortal to connect with the refugees in the north.
• Ren Qing looked beyond the northern clouds and saw the colossal, battered head of the Moral Heavenly Venerate floating in the sky, emitting violet mist that altered the land.

Ren Qing investigated the shocking state of Moral Heavenly Venerate through Li Yaoyang’s Ascension Ladder, then prepared to become an Earth Immortal while sealing his own powers. His transformation overwhelmed the forbidden zone, and the chapter ended as his stomach world began forming its three realms.

• Ren Qing elevated Li Yaoyang’s Immortal official position and altered his memories so he could learn what Moral Heavenly Venerate looked like during the Ascension Ladder.
• Li Yaoyang reached the Ascension Ladder, survived its dangerous effects with help from Mu Yi, Miss Bai, and Ren Qing, and comprehended the Gu Ancestor God method.
• Ren Qing examined Li Yaoyang’s recovered memory and learned that Moral Heavenly Venerate had been beheaded and was now violently searching for its missing head.
• Ren Qing prepared to advance to Earth Immortal, and Jailer Hall built the Eight Directions Immortal Locking Array around him to suppress his powers.
• Ren Qing began the transformation, enduring Zhenyuanzi’s disturbing words as his Immortal Bone spread and his body developed the aura of Zhenyuan Dizhu.
• Ren Qing’s transformation broke the array, altered the forbidden zone’s rules, and caused the Wraiths to imitate human society as his stomach world began creating the three realms.

Ren Qing reached Earth Immortal, reshaped the Stomach World's Divine Path, and demonstrated his new power to the cultivators in the Immortal position forbidden zone. As the remaining cave dwellings were refined, Ren Qing awakened holding the Heavenly Immortal official position.

• Ren Qing discovered that the Stomach World had expanded and that the Kitchen God was exploiting mortals, so he established rules for the Divine Path and destroyed the seventy-two Innate Incense Immortals, leaving their Law Seals behind.
• Ren Qing's Earth Immortal breakthrough ended, and his emergence shattered the restraints of the Immortal position forbidden zone enough to frighten the cultivators, who realized the Immortal Path remained open.
• Daoist Zhensi explored the Silkworm Mother Cave Dwelling and found Li Yaoyang alive after he had fought off the Gu Insects and defeated the Gu True Person's assassination attempt.
• Li Yaoyang refined the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal's position, closing the eighth cave dwelling as the cultivators moved on to the remaining cave dwellings.
• Ren Qing awoke after the twelve cave dwellings had entered refinement, holding the Heavenly Immortal official position.

Ren Qing established the immortal and divine advancement systems in his stomach world while nurturing Heavenly Immortal official positions and investigating the nature of the Immortal positions. After Physical Tathagata became an Earth Immortal and Pig Daoist escaped, Ren Qing’s probe of Moral Heavenly Venerate revealed the name Mother of All Things.

• Ren Qing distinguished Earth, Divine, and Heavenly Immortal official positions, assigned Heavenly Immortal official positions to allies and Physical Tathagata, and used Divine Immortal official positions to complete the Divine Law Seals.
• Ren Qing discovered that Immortal positions had human-brain cores and learned that advancing to Corpse Immortal would require replacing part of the Heavenly Dao and consuming a million years of lifespan.
• Ren Qing established lightning-tribulation requirements for Immortal official positions, and over two hundred years the stomach world’s cultivators began attempting tribulations as its sects fragmented into factions.
• Physical Tathagata advanced to Earth Immortal, while Pig Daoist survived a tribulation and fled the Western Buddha Realm through a Ghost Immortal official position.
• Ren Qing sent a fungal soul to investigate Moral Heavenly Venerate, but Information Flow identified the entity as Mother of All Things before the fungal soul collapsed.

Ren Qing oversaw the growth of Jailer Hall as the Immortal position cave dwellings opened and their cultivators advanced, while he continued preparing to become an Immortal himself. Han Li broke through to the Heavenly Eerie Realm with Ren Qing’s help, the Fude Cave Dwelling was sealed, and Ren Qing turned his attention to Corpse Fengdu’s ascension.

• Ren Qing examined the Heavenly Dao Tree branches and learned that his four Heavenly Immortal official positions had taken root in the stomach world under new Immortal names.
• Song Zongwu refined the Fire Virtue Immortal position, emerged from the sealed cave dwelling, and agreed to let Jailer Hall cultivate resources on his body.
• Over the following century, cave dwellings were unsealed and refined; Lady White Bone claimed the Giant Strength Immortal position, while Mu Yi advanced to the Heavenly Eerie Realm and Han Li neared the end of his cultivation.
• Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to stimulate Han Li’s body, helping him break through to the Heavenly Eerie Realm with the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method.
• Han Li became the new Blessed Earth Immortal as the Fude Cave Dwelling was sealed, and Ren Qing began preparing Corpse Fengdu’s advancement while suspecting Nameless had foreseen the Moral Heavenly Venerate’s death.

Ren Qing advanced Corpse Fengdu to Earth Immortal, gaining control over the undead and the Five Fengdu Emperors. While searching the outside world for Nameless, he found that Nameless had become a gigantic Black Goat and attained Immortality through a fourth, unknown method.

• Ren Qing offered Heavenly Court's Immortal Ascension Method to cultivators in the Void Fortress, and he used a lightning tribulation and the Ghost Immortal official position to save the Elephant Master from worsening Aberration.
• Ren Qing advanced Corpse Fengdu to Earth Immortal, transforming his five viscera into the Five Fengdu Emperors and gaining expanded control over the undead.
• Ren Qing found the Corpse Immortal in the Buddhist World, gave it a Heavenly Immortal official position, and buried it to shield it from some of the Heavenly Demon aura.
• Ren Qing arranged to locate Nameless through the Fungal Soul and discovered the Soul Seizing Ghost Immortal attached to stone in the Flesh and Blood Mountain Range.
• The Fungal Soul found Nameless, who had become a ten-thousand-meter wall of flesh and blood on the Beast Pen plains and transformed into a giant Black Goat when he sensed Ren Qing.
• Ren Qing realized Nameless had attained Immortality through a method distinct from Immortal positions, Ren Qing's immortal path, and the divine path.

The Son of Heavenly Dao, Qingsongzi, and Great Dream True Person suppressed the Blessed Earth Immortal’s lingering consciousness, allowing Han Li to refine its Immortal position and return to the stomach world. Ren Qing then investigated changes in the Immortal position forbidden zone and used Heavenly Immortal official positions to transform the Underworld, where Black and White Impermanence emerged.

• The Son of Heavenly Dao gathered over ten thousand Dao of Non-action Monastery disciples to form the Eight Directions Immortal Locking Array around the Fude Cave Dwelling and restrain the Blessed Earth Immortal’s lingering thought.
• Great Dream True Person used Yearly Like a Dream to wear down the lingering thought, and the Son of Heavenly Dao withdrew as Han Li’s Immortal position refinement stabilized.
• Han Li spent five more years refining the Immortal position, then left for the stomach world to cultivate Jailer Methods and advance his Yang God Realm cultivation.
• Ren Qing sensed the Immortal position forbidden zone losing Buddha energy, used the Physical Tathagata to absorb Heavenly Dao Transformation, and sent the Corpse Immortal and Corpse Fish to search the Buddha Realm for the descending forbidden zone.
• Ren Qing merged the Soul Reaper and Soul Snatching Emissary official positions into the Heavenly Dao Tree, causing Black and White Impermanence to emerge in Yin Cao and the fourth Underworld layer, Fengdu, to take shape.

Ren Qing endured a dangerous breakthrough and became an Immortal through the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, controlling its aura by making it part of his skin. His prestige soared, and after preparing to advance the Ancestral Vein, he entered seclusion as a hundred years passed.

• Ren Qing cultivated the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, alarming the cultivators in the Void Fortress as his aura transformed him into the Free Heavenly Demon's Immortal Body, Formless World.
• The Son of Heavenly Dao and Chen Changsheng realized Ren Qing was using the Beast Pen method to become an Immortal, while Li Tiangang feared the dangers of his breakthrough.
• Ren Qing struggled to keep the Heavenly Demon Tribulation from overpowering his other Immortal Bodies, then made its aura gather into his skin.
• Ren Qing completed his breakthrough, and the Son of Heavenly Dao and Chen Changsheng concluded that he had become an Immortal through Heavenly Demon aura.
• Ren Qing began preparing to advance the Ancestral Vein and entered seclusion; his prestige reached its peak, and a hundred years passed.

After five hundred years of cultivation, Ren Qing left the deteriorating Immortal position forbidden zone through the Mirror World and discovered that the Buddha Realm had been lifted into the sky as part of a vast arrangement of Black Goat territories. He took the Corpse Immortal’s Immortal position and fled, leaving the Black Goat skin behind to preserve the Buddha Realm’s Heavenly Demon aura.

• Ren Qing used the Black Goat skin to explore the Buddha Realm and prepare a Mirror Door while Jailer Hall grew and the Immortal position forbidden zone continued to shrink.
• Ren Qing left the forbidden zone after replacing his Buddha energy with a malformed mass of Buddha flesh, and Lady White Bone soon followed him through a gateway.
• Ren Qing found the Corpse Immortal buried beneath a mound, restrained it with Fengdu Yin energy, and discovered that its Heavenly Demon transformation was restoring the Buddha Realm’s aura.
• Ren Qing rose above the black mist and saw the Buddha Realm divided into floating territories occupied by powerful Black Goats, with Nameless holding the highest position.
• Ren Qing stripped the Corpse Immortal of its Immortal position, sent it to the Stomach World, and left the Black Goat skin behind as he escaped the Supreme Heavenly Demon’s domain.