Chapter Summaries

Jinling let Shiji keep Nezha’s two spirit treasures as compensation and realized Celestial Venerable Yuanshi might be working with other Sages. Yuanshi had been watching Jinling and abruptly left the Jade Void Palace, his attention fixed on her and True Person Taiyi.

• Jinling reassured Shiji that she did not blame her for the failed attempt to capture True Person Taiyi, and Shiji thanked Jinling for saving her.
• Shiji offered Jinling Nezha’s Universe Ring and Heaven-Chaos Sash, but Jinling erased True Person Taiyi’s marks and told Shiji to keep both treasures until she reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Jinling suspected Celestial Venerable Yuanshi had dared to scheme against both the Jie Sect and Nüwa because he had support from other Sages, and she repeatedly sealed the thought in her sea of consciousness.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi revealed that he had been watching True Person Taiyi’s scheme and had noticed Jinling’s cleverness.
• Yuanshi praised Jinling as a formidable disciple of Tongtian, then vanished from the Jade Void Palace with a terrifying gleam in his eyes.

Jinling and Shiji encountered Celestial Venerable Yuanshi, who revealed that Jinling had uncovered a secret in his plans and refused to spare Shiji. Jinling awakened the ancient stars and attacked him with a power Yuanshi recognized as resembling, but surpassing, the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation; he blocked her strike and judged the technique incomplete.

• Shiji told Jinling she planned to return to Skull Mountain for Caiyun Tongzi, while Jinling warned that the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation might come soon.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi appeared before Jinling and Shiji and said Jinling had discovered a secret he wanted kept hidden.
• Jinling knocked Shiji unconscious and pleaded with Yuanshi to spare her, but Yuanshi said Shiji's knowledge could lead her to the same conclusion.
• Jinling brought out the Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi and called upon the ancient stars, causing 365 stars to appear in daylight and empower her.
• Jinling attacked Yuanshi with her star-powered strike, but he blocked it and said her technique was more profound than the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation, though incomplete.

Jinling tried to delay Celestial Venerable Yuanshi so her incarnation could carry Shiji to a Domain Gate, but Yuanshi saw through the escape plan and stopped them. Jinling’s desperate last gambit failed when Shiji was barred from entering the gate, leaving Jinling at Yuanshi’s mercy.

• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi recognized Jinling’s star-based technique as a threat and silently formed the intent to kill her after the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation.
• Jinling attacked and retreated while drawing on the Great Dao of the Stars, trying to keep Yuanshi occupied as her incarnation fled with Shiji.
• Yuanshi seized Jinling and vanished, while her incarnation raced toward a Human Race Domain Gate with the unconscious Shiji.
• As the incarnation neared the Domain Gate, Yuanshi froze everything, but Jinling’s incarnation burned itself up to break his restraint and throw Shiji toward the entrance.
• Shiji was rejected by the Domain Gate, and Yuanshi mocked Jinling for believing her schemes could escape his notice.

Guiling arrived and used the Turtle Roar Cannon to send Shiji through the Domain Gate, then rescued Jinling from Celestial Venerable Yuanshi’s control. Yuanshi uncovered Jinling’s cautious plan and moved to capture Guiling, who transformed into her Black Tortoise form and prepared another Turtle Roar Cannon.

• Guiling appeared before Celestial Venerable Yuanshi and fired the Turtle Roar Cannon, breaking his measures and blasting Shiji into the Domain Gate.
• Jinling’s sealed memory returned when she saw Guiling, and she angrily questioned why Guiling had come instead of finding Cult Master Tongtian.
• Guiling enveloped Jinling in a Middle Thousand World and pulled her beyond Yuanshi’s control, then retreated with her.
• Yuanshi learned that Jinling had discovered True Person Taiyi’s scheme early, secretly alerted Guiling, and sealed her memories to stall for time.
• Guiling claimed she had made arrangements, while Yuanshi decided to capture her but not kill her because of her master, Ao Changsheng.
• Guiling transformed into her colossal Heaven-Supporting Black Tortoise form, activated her seven Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures, and opened her mouth to fire the Turtle Roar Cannon at Yuanshi.

Guiling unleashed her Heaven-Supporting Black Tortoise form against Celestial Venerable Yuanshi, but he overwhelmed her with the Auspicious Cloud of the Heavens and tried to seal her. Just as he prepared to imprison her, Guiling launched another Turtle Roar Cannon and left him stunned.

• Guiling fired a full-powered Turtle Roar Cannon at Celestial Venerable Yuanshi, but his Auspicious Cloud of the Heavens absorbed the attack.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi filled the Middle Thousand World with treasures that battered Guiling and drained her Law Power, then offered to keep her as a guest at Jade Void Palace.
• Guiling accepted while demanding lavish accommodations, Daluo-level servants, and cultivation resources made from Chaos Qi, angering and embarrassing Celestial Venerable Yuanshi.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi seized Guiling and the Auspicious Cloud of the Heavens in a vast hand, then prepared to seal them inside the Middle Thousand World.
• Guiling roared, “Reincarnation! Turtle Roar Cannon-,” and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi reacted with disbelief.

Guiling used the Authority of Reincarnation and a Great Thousand World to become a False Sage and fight Celestial Venerable Yuanshi. As their battle threatened to shatter the Middle Thousand World and endanger the Nine Provinces, Fuxi appeared and contained the world.

• Guiling connected a Great Thousand World to her inner world and used the power of reincarnation to pierce Celestial Venerable Yuanshi’s Auspicious Cloud, injuring him with her Turtle Roar Cannon.
• Guiling rose to the False Sub-Sage realm and borrowed the Great Thousand World’s power, becoming a False Sage capable of fighting Celestial Venerable Yuanshi.
• Guiling kicked Celestial Venerable Yuanshi through the Middle Thousand World, shocking him with the strength of her attack.
• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi and Guiling unleashed their full power as the Middle Thousand World began to fracture and threaten the Nine Provinces.
• Fuxi appeared, used his power to keep the Middle Thousand World from breaking apart, and remarked on Guiling’s growth.

Guiling fought Celestial Venerable Yuanshi to exhaustion, forcing him to win only after using the Pangu Banner and the Heavenly Dao’s power, while Fuxi revealed how Jinling and Guiling had outmaneuvered him. Ao Changsheng restored Guiling and realized Jinling’s actions had derailed the Chan Sect’s plans, leaving the future course of the Investiture of the Gods uncertain.

• Celestial Venerable Yuanshi defeated Guiling in their battle, and Fuxi appeared to take his unconscious junior sister away.
• Fuxi and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi exchanged words before leaving the shattered world, which then quietly collapsed.
• Ao Changsheng received Guiling, broke Fuxi’s restriction on her, and let her replenish her depleted inner world with spiritual energy.
• Ao Changsheng investigated the events and abandoned any plan to avenge Guiling after realizing Jinling and Guiling had already disrupted Yuanshi’s schemes.
• Ao Changsheng recognized that Jinling’s actions had changed True Person Taiyi’s future and weakened the Chan Sect’s influence in the Heavenly Court.

Nüwa reflected on Nezha’s altered fate and hoped he would endure trials before reclaiming his true body, while Supreme Laozi decided to help Tongtian pursue Sagehood. Ao Changsheng remained unaware of their plans and turned his attention back to a discovery his Dao body had made in Chaos.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun dismissed the recent clashes as minor events and expected the Investiture of the Gods to drive Yuanshi and Tongtian into conflict.
• Nüwa traced the change in Nezha’s fate to Jinling and Guiling, and she accepted that Nezha’s hardships could strengthen his spirit.
• Nüwa looked forward to Lingzhuzi returning to Nüwa Palace to reclaim his true body and surpass the realms his aptitude could easily attain.
• Supreme Laozi concluded that only one of his junior brothers could become a true Sage during the Immortal Slaughter Tribulation, and he chose to help Tongtian rather than Yuanshi.
• Ao Changsheng left Guiling to recover her magic power and focused on his Dao body in Chaos after it discovered something extraordinary.

Ao Changsheng spotted Chaos City and sent an incarnation toward it while Yangmei traded Ao Changsheng’s presence to the Hellfire Mountain Master for a Dao-Dispelling Stone. Yangmei used the stone to break his Great Dao Oath and prepared to return to the Primordial World, leaving the Hellfire Mountain Master eager to hunt Ao Changsheng.

• Ao Changsheng saw Chaos City in the distance and sent an incarnation toward it.
• Yangmei told the Hellfire Mountain Master about a Hunyuan Daluo cultivator of the Great Dao of the World and asked for a Dao-Dispelling Stone.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master traded the Dao-Dispelling Stone for Ao Changsheng’s presence, then resolved to capture him.
• Yangmei fled far through Chaos, crushed the Dao-Dispelling Stone, and used its power to break his Great Dao Oath.
• Yangmei planned to return to the Primordial World with a clone and smiled at the trouble he had set in motion for Hongjun.

Ao Changsheng reached Chaos City, which was called Ten Thousand Stars City, and discovered that its powerful defenses and attendants revealed its formidable ruler. After entering, the city transported him directly to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal district, leaving him wary of its domineering rules as he flew onward.

• Ao Changsheng caught up to the drifting Chaos City and passed through its chaotic barrier.
• A spatial fluctuation shifted Chaos City around him, and the gates opened to reveal a Half-Sage-level attendant puppet powered by the city.
• The attendant welcomed Ao Changsheng to Ten Thousand Stars City and gave him a Myriad Stars Token that could guide cultivators to the city.
• Ao Changsheng accepted the token, noted that its symbols differed from Innate Divine Script, and entered the city.
• Ten Thousand Stars City teleported Ao Changsheng directly to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal district, and he interpreted the transfer as a warning that visitors had to obey the city's rules.

Ao Changsheng explored Ten Thousand Stars City, where he found very few Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals and began collecting its strange Legacy Script. Unbeknownst to him, the city’s hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals chose Hellfire to claim him, and Hellfire Mountain Master recognized him as the target of his hunt.

• Ao Changsheng sensed only a handful of Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals in Ten Thousand Stars City and suspected that something was wrong with the city or its inhabitants.
• Ao Changsheng explored the city’s strange buildings, collected Legacy Script, and concluded that the Tongtian Starlight Tower might hold important answers.
• The hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals watched Ao Changsheng and discussed dividing him among themselves.
• Hellfire asked Black Light for the chance to claim Ao Changsheng and agreed to give him fifty in return.
• Hellfire Mountain Master revealed his vast form, recognized Ao Changsheng in the image, and called his name with longing.

Ao Changsheng discovered that Ten Thousand Stars City’s tower named him as a candidate to become its city lord and deduced that the Hellfire Mountain Master and others had suppressed the city’s visiting Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals. The Hellfire Mountain Master seized Ao Changsheng’s avatar and carried it out of the city, where he revealed his immense true form.

• Ao Changsheng recognized his name on the Stars Tongtian Tower’s screen and inferred that a power beyond the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm had built Ten Thousand Stars City.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that the city’s hidden Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals had likely suppressed other visitors to monopolize its cultivation realms.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master appeared behind Ao Changsheng, and Ao Changsheng accused him and the others of hunting down the city’s Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master corrected Ao Changsheng, saying the visitors had been suppressed because Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals were valuable treasures in Chaos.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master’s true body swept Ao Changsheng’s avatar out of Ten Thousand Stars City, while the awakened puppet guards withdrew without attacking.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master transformed into a colossal flame demon god and addressed Ao Changsheng, who identified him by matching his presence to the name on the tower’s ranking.

Ao Changsheng’s avatar revealed that he cultivated the Great Dao of the World, exciting the Hellfire Mountain Master, who believed it could guide his own cultivation. After tracing Ao Changsheng’s presence through a prepared formation, the Hellfire Mountain Master caught up with the Water Dragon Great Thousand World and sealed it inside his domain.

• The Hellfire Mountain Master recognized Ao Changsheng’s Great Dao of the World and explained that Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals were valuable guides for Chaos cultivators.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master revealed that he believed Ao Changsheng’s true body was nearby, but Ao Changsheng smiled and dispersed his avatar.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used the presence Yangmei had traded him and a prepared formation to locate Ao Changsheng.
• Ao Changsheng traveled away from Ten Thousand Stars City inside the Water Dragon Great Thousand World, then sensed the Hellfire Mountain Master approaching.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master overtook the Water Dragon Great Thousand World, sealed it and the surrounding Chaos in a scarlet domain, and shouted that he had found the Great Dao of the World.

Ao Changsheng used the Water Dragon Great Thousand World to suppress Hellfire Mountain Master, who had intended to seize the Great Dao of the World for himself. Hellfire Mountain Master destroyed the world and pursued Ao Changsheng, who recognized his overwhelming strength and realized he could not defeat him alone.

• Ao Changsheng gathered the Water Dragon Great Thousand World's power and sent its divine dragon against Hellfire Mountain Master, who held back to study the Great Dao of the World.
• Ao Changsheng revealed that his Great Dao of the World had fused with the five elemental Great Daos, then trapped Hellfire Mountain Master inside the five-colored dragon and suppressed him.
• Enraged that Ao Changsheng had fused five Great Daos into the Great Dao of the World, Hellfire Mountain Master unleashed his full power and burned away the Water Dragon Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng fled the spreading hellfire with a Divine Ability as Hellfire Mountain Master pursued him, revealing nine Great Daos, including eight powerful Great Daos fused into his innate Great Dao.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that he could not handle Hellfire Mountain Master alone, while several Chaos currents transformed into human figures and watched the distant sea of flames.

Ao Changsheng’s five Dao bodies joined forces against the Hellfire Mountain Master, who tried to trick him into revealing his secret method and then prepared to fight. The chapter ended as the Hellfire Mountain Master realized the five Ao Changshengs could challenge him, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ao Changsheng’s Fire Dao body admired the Hellfire Mountain Master’s black flames while his Metal, Wood, and Earth Dao bodies charged into battle.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master saw five Ao Changshengs and demanded the secret method behind their true-body-like Dao bodies, offering an oath and protection in exchange.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used a sincerity-based Divine Ability and planned to ambush Ao Changsheng, but it failed because the Dao bodies were not Ao Changsheng’s true body.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master chose to fight rather than let Ao Changsheng escape, but stopped taunting him when each Dao body produced a Great Thousand World.
• The five Ao Changshengs transformed into five powerful Great Thousand Divine Dragons, and the Hellfire Mountain Master realized they could contend with him for a time.

Ao Changsheng sent his Fire Dao body into the Hellfire Mountain Master's sea of black fire to locate his hidden true body, using Five-Colored World Fire to make worlds perish alongside wisps of Hellfire. The Hellfire Mountain Master adapted to the technique as Ao Changsheng's other four Dao bodies advanced, and two concealed figures watched the escalating clash from afar.

• Ao Changsheng sent his Fire Dao body into the Hellfire Mountain Master's sea of black fire, despite knowing Hellfire had destroyed his Water Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng's Five-Colored World Fire created and destroyed countless Great Thousand Worlds, drawing wisps of Hellfire into their destruction and startling the Hellfire Mountain Master.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master used his crimson eyes to discern Ao Changsheng's technique and concentrated his Hellfire to hinder the worlds.
• Ao Changsheng's Metal, Water, Wood, and Earth Dao bodies charged toward the sea of fire, swallowing the incoming Hellfire in larger worlds before those worlds collapsed.
• Ao Changsheng's Dao bodies struggled to withstand the Hellfire Mountain Master's attacks as they crossed the short distance to the sea, while two concealed figures watched from afar.

Ao Changsheng fought the Hellfire Mountain Master with five Great Thousand World dragon bodies, revealing far more strength than his enemy had expected. He destroyed the Hellfire Mountain Master with a collapsing chaotic world and departed, realizing the enemy had carried a fragment of his presence.

• Ao Changsheng searched the sea of Hellfire with his five dragon bodies while the Hellfire Mountain Master abandoned his restraint and charged into battle.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master fought all five bodies to a stalemate, then pierced them with beams that forced Ao Changsheng to spend enormous Law Power healing them.
• The Hellfire Mountain Master sensed that Ao Changsheng had more than five true-body clones and had fused over ten Great Daos, including the Five Elements and Disorder.
• Ao Changsheng’s Five Elements and Disorder Dao bodies collapsed a small chaotic world into an infinitesimal point, crushing the Hellfire Mountain Master and a wisp of Ao Changsheng’s presence.
• Ao Changsheng realized the presence had made the Hellfire Mountain Master a hidden threat, then all seven of his Dao bodies vanished.

After defeating the Hellfire Mountain Master, Ao Changsheng regretted losing the enemy’s eight powerful Great Daos and his token to Ten Thousand Stars City. He watched the Investiture of the Gods conflict stall and considered how the Jie Sect’s doomed fate might affect Guiling, urging her to strive for Sagehood.

• Ao Changsheng mourned destroying the Hellfire Mountain Master’s eight powerful Great Daos, then reviewed the battle and absorbed what he had learned.
• Ao Changsheng realized his incarnation had lost the Ten Thousand Stars City token and failed to find the rapidly traveling city in Chaos.
• Ao Changsheng observed that nearly a thousand years after Chentang Pass, Xiqi had not rebelled and Ji Chang remained imprisoned in Chaoge, while Bo Yikao prepared to rescue him with Guiling and Jinling following.
• Ao Changsheng judged that the Immeasurable Tribulation concealed the Sage behind the conflict, but saw the war’s slow progress as useful for his plans in the three thousand worlds.
• Ao Changsheng concluded that the Jie Sect was doomed despite Jinling saving some disciples, and decided not to intervene because Guiling and Jinling were close.
• Ao Changsheng watched Guiling and urged her to recognize that only becoming a Sage would let her determine her own fate.

Bo Yikao resolved to enter Chaoge and offer ancestral treasures to save his imprisoned father, Ji Chang, while Guiling and Jinling prepared to strip him of his blessings of fortune. Their plans shifted when Jinling spotted Chan Sect immortals approaching Chaoge and decided to target True Person Taiyi.

• Bo Yikao rejected San Yisheng's pleas and set out for Chaoge to atone for Ji Chang, leaving Xiqi's fortune unsettled.
• The Wude Divine Phoenix sensed the change in Xiqi's fortune and informed Guiling, who recorded Bo Yikao's decision and alerted Jinling.
• Jinling and Guiling agreed to withdraw Bo Yikao's blessings of fortune after his convoy entered Chaoge.
• Jinling spotted True Person Taiyi and Yuding True Person approaching Chaoge and changed the plan, vowing to put Taiyi on the Investiture of the Gods.

Cult Master Tongtian approved Holy Mother Jinling’s plan to target the Chan Sect and watched over her as True Person Taiyi plotted to seize another person’s fortune. Jinling recognized his scheme and prepared to turn it against him, leaving Taiyi unaware that she had discovered his intentions.

• Cult Master Tongtian agreed to Jinling’s request, intending to intervene if Celestial Venerable Yuanshi tried to save a Chan Sect disciple from the Investiture of the Gods.
• True Person Taiyi told Yuding True Person he would find a disciple in Chaoge City, while Yuding worried that there was no time left to train one for the coming calamity.
• Yuding reflected on Taiyi’s failed scheme against Lingzhuzi and the two Innate Spirit Treasures Taiyi had lost.
• Taiyi watched a caravan entering Chaoge City and secretly resolved to seize the fortune of someone in it during the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• Jinling noticed Taiyi’s greed, inferred his target and purpose, and declared that he had found his own road to death.