Chapter Summaries

Four Ghost Face Honored Ones and five Great Vehicle Honored Ones repeatedly tracked one another near Profound Cave Immortal Island before both groups withdrew. At year’s end, the Dao Academy welcomed visitors from across the region, and Mu Jin arrived to reunite with Mu Qingyao and ask after He Ling.

• Yu Fangshuo and the other Ghost Face Honored Ones used the Ghost Nether Art to investigate the five Great Vehicle Honored Ones following them beneath the sea.
• Both groups repeatedly found one another around the island, then Yu Fangshuo decided the Ghost Face group should leave and focus on infiltrating the Wood Clan ancestral land.
• The five Great Vehicle Honored Ones stayed hidden beneath the sea, and the groups’ standoff continued until the year’s end.
• Profound Cave Dao Academy welcomed visiting cultivators as enormous ships and spirit beasts gathered around the island.
• Mu Jin arrived aboard a grand Wood Clan treasure ship, reunited with Mu Qingyao, and asked where He Ling was.
• Mu Qingyao told Mu Jin that He Ling’s whole family had come and was waiting for her.

Mu Jin approached Chen Xun to invite NanGong HeLing to the Wood Clan, citing threats to her safety and the absence of her usual protectors. Chen Xun rejected the invitation and warned Mu Jin not to target his Third Sister, while Mu Jin remained intent on what He Ling possessed.

• Mu Qingyao told Mu Jin that NanGong HeLing likely possessed the Wood Essence Origin and was not human, and Mu Jin went to meet her and Chen Xun.
• On the hillside, Chen Xun spoke of an ominous celestial sign as Mu Jin arrived with Mu Qingyao and assessed his unusual lack of magical aura.
• Mu Jin invited NanGong HeLing to the Wood Clan and said the Chi Clan posed a danger, while Hall Master Yin and Mo Yehan could not protect her soon.
• Chen Xun rejected Mu Jin's invitation, dismissed her claims about his allies, and warned that he would not tolerate anyone setting their sights on his Third Sister.
• Mu Jin denied that she intended harm but confirmed to herself that NanGong HeLing possessed something the Wood Clan deeply desired.

Feng Jinyu exposed Zhang Qingyun as a spy and had him seized by powerful guards, then contacted his family about an unknown figure from the Immortal Prison. In the desert, Yu Xuan confronted two disguised Great Vehicle Honored Ones, and their battle erupted.

• Feng Jinyu revealed that he had suspected Zhang Qingyun and accused him of serving the Xu Family and helping arrange a scheme involving Mu Qingyao.
• Zhang Qingyun tried to attack Feng Jinyu, but Void Refinement cultivators appeared, subdued him, and took him away for questioning.
• Feng Jinyu thanked the guards, contacted his mother, and urged the Feng Family to weigh their options and prepare to meet an unknown person from the Immortal Prison.
• In the Taiyi Great World’s Boundless Heaven desert, two disguised Great Vehicle Honored Ones stopped Yu Xuan and politely requested to meet and discuss the Dao.
• Yu Xuan summoned her Dharma manifestation, and the two sides clashed as sand and the Power of Rules engulfed the battlefield.

Yin Tianshou and Cui Ying were summoned to the Southern Yu Continent as the Five Sects launched a coordinated assault across the Mengmu Great Sea Region. As the Eight Meridians Jiaolong prepared to disrupt the Profound Cave Dao Academy, the Profound Azure Sea Dragons suddenly arrived and confronted them.

• Yin Tianshou and Cui Ying left the teleportation hall with a waiting group and set out for the Immortal Hall.
• The Five Sects honored their patriarchs, then mobilized their forces and opened Space Teleportation Channels.
• The Azure Dragon Sect learned that its fleets had disappeared, its teleportation arrays were destroyed, and the Five Sects were approaching; Sea Heart Gate and Mystic Peak Sect then confronted it.
• The Eight Meridians Jiaolong ordered more than ten thousand Jiaolong to disrupt the Profound Cave Dao Academy without attacking the Immortal Island.
• Profound Azure Sea Dragons crossed through Space Channels into the Mengmu Great Sea Region, and their leader challenged the Eight Meridians Jiaolong.

While the Chi Clan’s plan to seize NanGong HeLing unfolded at the grand gathering, the clan’s allies and other forces were intercepted across the Mengmu Great Sea Region. The Chi woman learned that multiple operations had been stopped and, facing a long-browed Honored One, reconsidered how much influence NanGong HeLing possessed.

• The Eight Meridians Jiaolong Clan confronted the Profound Azure Sea Dragon Race and secretly waited for reinforcements, while the Abbot of Limitless Daoist Temple was ambushed by four Honored Ones.
• A middle-aged man hired by the Chi Clan searched for NanGong HeLing, but two Honored Ones stopped him and invited him away to talk.
• A Chi woman waiting to receive NanGong HeLing offered a long-browed Honored One twice the payment to stay out of the matter.
• The Chi woman received word that the Azure Dragon Sect, Feng Family, Xu Family, and Eight Vein Flood Dragon Clan had all been intercepted.
• The Chi woman wondered who had discovered the Chi Clan’s plans and accepted the long-browed Honored One’s assurance that he would not interfere in other matters.

On Profound Cave Immortal Island, Chen Xun’s hidden forces reveal that the factions threatening NanGong HeLing have been suppressed, and he confronts Mu Jin as she tries to leave. Ji Yan continues maneuvering against the Chi Clan while Yun Xihan returns to Boundless Heaven.

• Ji Yan told Tian Li that Du Shi was still buying time, then promised Yun Xihan that they would bring him back from Boundless Heaven.
• Ji Yan revealed that he had arranged for the Cloud Race’s Honored Ones to pose as Chi Clan members and provoke Yu Xuan into blaming the Chi Clan.
• An old woman warned Mu Qingyao to stay away from NanGong HeLing and suggested she might have been possessed and reborn by another.
• Mu Jin learned that the factions that had acted against NanGong HeLing, including the Chi Clan, had been suppressed as Mist Nether’s warship approached Profound Cave Immortal Island.
• Chen Xun told Mu Jin to respect NanGong HeLing’s fate, and several thousand Immortal Prison Sinful Spirits appeared to greet him as the World Crossing Great One.
• Mu Jin left with Mu Qingyao after Chen Xun hinted that he would visit the Mu Family to see their Meng Wood, while his deathly aura began to surface.

After the conflict in the Mengmu Great Sea Region, Chen Xun warned his followers not to pursue the Wood Clan and sent them ahead to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital. As night fell, he remained on the Small Hillside with Big Black Ox, Little Crane, and Little Crimson, while Little Crane reflected on the dangers of the cultivation world.

• Chen Xun stopped Shi Yi from intercepting the Wood Clan, reminding him that they lacked the strength and should honor the Old Seniors’ protection.
• Yun Ying praised Chen Xun’s early comprehension of Great Dao Power, but Chen Xun said his group had exhausted its strength just surviving and could no longer contend in the Immortal Dao Competition.
• Chen Xun instructed several thousand followers to travel to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital, discussed their travel costs and safety, and told them to contact him through Star Pavilion.
• The followers departed for the Immortal Island’s Teleportation Array, while Desolate Gold and four others took hidden guard positions.
• Little Crane sat beside Chen Xun and questioned whether the cultivation world was truly filled with deception, scheming, and killing intent.

Chen Xun comforted Little Crane about the trouble she had faced, reminding her that her family would stand by her. As the four of them laughed together on the Small Hillside, they suddenly noticed something in the distant sky.

• Chen Xun encouraged Little Crane to look past the dark days and trust that her family could face any schemes together.
• Little Crane told Chen Xun that she had asked people to investigate the Wood Clan, and he agreed as long as no one was killed.
• Little Crane praised Chen Xun's wealth and ability, making him laugh as Big Black Ox and Little Crimson joined in.
• Little Crane worried that she had caused Chen Xun trouble, but he and Big Black Ox reassured her that they would always be her family and protect her.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane played and laughed together until they froze at the sight of something in the distant sky.

Mist Nether, the Profound Cave Dao Academy, and Mo Yehan publicly defended NanGong HeLing, forcing the Chi Clan to abandon its plans. Mu Jin withdrew Mu Qingyao from the island after suspecting a Honored One had secretly attacked her, while an eerie eyeball remained attached beneath the departing treasure ship.

• Mist Nether—Qingchen arrived with five warships and warned anyone targeting NanGong HeLing to answer to Mystic Micro Immortal Hall.
• An elder of the Profound Cave Dao Academy declared that the academy would protect its disciples and threatened anyone who harmed them.
• Mo Yehan drove Chi Yifeng back with his Dharma manifestation and vowed that the Mo Clan would oppose anyone who touched NanGong HeLing.
• Chi Yifeng admitted that the Chi Clan's plan had failed and withdrew, saving his hidden cards for the Sea Region Dao Academy Competition a thousand years later.
• Mu Jin ordered the Mu Family to take Mu Qingyao back to their ancestral land because a Honored One had attacked her in secret.
• The Mu Clan's treasure ship departed the sea region with an eerie eyeball parasitizing its hull.

The Dao Academy elder restored order after NanGong HeLing’s crisis, while Ling YunShen and Jiang Liu prepared to leave for Mystic Micro Heaven Capital and the Boundless Great World. Before departing, Ling YunShen met Chen Xun and bid NanGong HeLing farewell with an exchange of books.

• The Dao Academy elder promised to punish the Elders involved in the wrongdoing, and the Dao Academy began its rectification.
• Ling YunShen told Jiang Liu they would leave for Mystic Micro Heaven Capital and eventually travel to the Boundless Great World.
• Ling YunShen met Chen Xun and NanGong HeLing, while NanGong HeLing cut short Chen Xun’s enthusiastic account of his painting and singing.
• Ling YunShen and NanGong HeLing exchanged books and offered each other parting blessings.
• Ling YunShen and Jiang Liu departed, and Chen Xun remarked that Ling YunShen had some of his own bearing from the past.

Ling YunShen and Jiang Liu left the Mengmu Great Sea Region after discussing their ambitions and a powerful senior. Meanwhile, the Chi Clan’s plan collapsed, and its female Honored One brought Chi Ye to apologize to NanGong HeLing at the Small Hillside.

• Ling YunShen told Jiang Liu that he hoped to reach the Boundless Great World and meet someone, then departed for the Dao Academy before vanishing from the Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• The Chi Clan’s female Honored One halted its failed plan and decided the clan must apologize to NanGong HeLing and avoid the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• The female Honored One confronted the long-browed cultivator in a teahouse and warned him not to follow her further.
• The female Honored One arrived at the Small Hillside with Chi Ye, where Chen Xun and the others greeted her as two Honored Ones secretly watched.
• The female Honored One told NanGong HeLing that Chi Ye had come to apologize and admitted the Chi Clan had acted presumptuously.

Chi Qinghong apologized to NanGong HeLing and agreed that the Chi Clan would make peace with her and Chen Xun. After sending the Chi Clan away, Chen Xun planned a future journey to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital and returned with his family to the Dao Academy, where He Ling went to meet Feng Jinyu.

• Chi Ye apologized to NanGong HeLing, and Chi Qinghong offered her one favor from the Chi Clan to settle their dispute.
• Chi Qinghong asked Chen Xun for peaceful relations between their families, and he agreed before she left with Chi Ye.
• Chen Xun played a cheerful suona tune to see the Chi Clan off, then told Little Crane that they planned to travel to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital after Ji Yan made arrangements.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and Little Crane flew toward the Dao Academy, excitedly discussing the journey and promising to bring back image records for Little Crane.
• Feng Jinyu called out to NanGong HeLing, and she went to meet him while Chen Xun worried that men might take advantage of her.

Little Crane reassured Feng Jinyu that she would remain at the Dao Academy, while he resolved to grow strong enough to protect her. Three days later, Yu Xuan retaliated against the Chi Clan, and the Ghost Face Race began planning how to investigate the Mu Family’s ancestral land.

• Little Crane told Feng Jinyu she would stay at the Dao Academy, and he let go of his improper feelings while resolving to become a Great Vehicle Honored One.
• Yu Xuan brought allies to the Chi Clan’s ancestral land and demanded answers for the attempts to intercept her and target NanGong HeLing.
• A Jade Terrace Immortal Palace Junior Sister taunted the Chi Clan, while Yu Xuan’s confrontation drew onlookers and left the clan shaken and subdued.
• The four Ghost Face Race members discussed the eerie tree and the barrier surrounding the Mu Family True Ancestral Land.
• Yu Fangshuo and the others agreed to continue investigating the Wood Clan and began drafting a plan, frequently changing locations to hide their tracks.

Chen Xun lectured the Soul Nurturing Spirit Weeping Race on exploiting the Great World Rules to protect themselves and gain advantages. After Yin Tianshou returned, Chen Xun learned why he had stayed in the region and asked him about the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower before their trip to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital.

• Chen Xun taught thirty thousand Soul Nurturing Spirit Weeping Race members how to use the rules to report attackers and claim control over immortal tombs by buying nearby property.
• Chen Xun continued his month-long lecture on the rules, and the listeners recorded his advice on surviving as Immortal Slaves.
• Yin Tianshou and Cui Ying returned, and Yin Tianshou praised Chen Xun's Third Sister for securing his position in the Mengmu Great Sea Region.
• Yin Tianshou told Chen Xun that he had chosen Leaving Dust Immortal Island to watch for juniors emerging from Small Realms and that only a Celestial Venerable might be able to resolve his past crime.
• Chen Xun told Yin Tianshou that he and Big Black Ox had bought tickets to the Mystic Micro Heaven Capital and asked about the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower.
• Yin Tianshou began explaining the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower to Chen Xun.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned about the dangers and rewards of the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower, then left the Mengmu Great Sea Region for Mystic Micro Heaven Capital. They set sail with Ji Yan as their friends and family saw them off, while Yin Tianshou wished them well.

• Yin Tianshou explained that the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower offered Heaven and Earth Gifts but was filled with chaotic Great Dao suppression and deadly natural disasters.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox prepared to leave for Mystic Micro Heaven Capital in two years and promised to bring Yin Tianshou Image Recording Stones.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived at the space platform with several thousand people and said goodbye to Little Crane, Little Crimson, and their companions.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox boarded the Space Ship with Ji Yan as their friends watched it pass through the spatial ring.
• Yin Tianshou watched from a distant mountaintop and hoped Chen Xun and Big Black Ox would walk the path to heaven.

Aboard the Space Ship, Chen Xun and Big Black Ox mourned the wasted ticket and learned that Ji Yan had spent heavily on expanding their business. As they began cultivating for the long journey to the Heavenly Capital, Chen Xun collapsed in anguish over his lost spirit stones, fearing an inner demon was at work.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox asked Ji Yan to refund Little Crimson's unused ticket, but Ji Yan told them it could not be refunded.
• Ji Yan showed Chen Xun the account books and explained that he had bought islands, warships, and resources while the Garbage Recycling Plant continued operating at a loss.
• Chen Xun protested that he had been promised twenty percent of the spirit stones, and Ji Yan warned that he might need to contribute another twenty percent to fund the expansion.
• Chen Xun asked why the journey to the Heavenly Capital took three years, and Ji Yan explained that the Immortal Prison was outside the Great World and had no fixed location.
• Ji Yan considered making arrangements in the Mystic Micro Heavenly Capital, while Chen Xun and Big Black Ox entered meditation to pass the voyage.
• Chen Xun slipped down beside a stone wall, clutching his chest and lamenting his lost spirit stones as he feared an inner demon was at work.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox boarded the Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship in Southern Yu Continent for a three-year journey to Mystic Micro Heaven Capital. The ship entered a large Space Channel safely as their group prepared to reach the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower and break through to Dao Integration.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox marveled at the immense Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship and recorded it with an Image Recording Stone.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox boarded the vessel, found their Small Cave Abode, and learned the voyage to Mystic Micro Heaven Capital would take three years.
• The Heavenly Travel Treasure Ship entered the large Space Channel, carrying Chen Xun and Big Black Ox through dazzling formations and Space Turbulence.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox's companions remained in seclusion while Ji Yan made acquaintances among the cultivators aboard.
• Big Black Ox set up Image Recording Stones in their abode, and the journey continued safely without incident.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox arrived at Azure Dragon Platform in Mystic Micro Heaven Capital and were overwhelmed by its vast, fantastical scenery. After setting off to explore on a flying sword, they were stopped by Overseers and fined for breaking the city’s flight rules.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox saw Mystic Micro Heaven Capital’s enormous star, cloud passages, and crowds of cultivators, and struggled to believe the sights were real.
• Ji Yan told Chen Xun where the group had arranged to meet and said they could record the Vital Qi Coordinates with a Coordinate Box.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox excitedly flew off on an immortal sword to explore the capital, wearing old goggles as they plunged through the clouds.
• A squad of seven Dao Integration True Lord Overseers stopped Chen Xun and Big Black Ox for flying through an area with cloudtop buildings.
• The Overseers explained the flight rules and fined Chen Xun and Big Black Ox ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox learned why their flying sword was restricted in the Heavenly Capital and explored the city before discussing how to enter the Heavenly Passage Tower. They planned to enter the tower together the next day, with Ji Yan and the others already waiting there.

• The Overseer explained that Chen Xun could fly in the Heavenly Capital if he purchased an aerial route, and Chen Xun and Big Black Ox met Qionghua Shuiyu before returning to Azure Dragon Platform.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox spent several days riding public shuttle artifacts and taking in the Heavenly Capital’s bustling streets, markets, and auctions.
• At a cloudside teahouse, Chen Xun discussed the Heavenly Passage Tower’s rules with Big Black Ox, including the pressure caused by entering together during the first hundred floors.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox decided to enter the tower together the next day and planned to warn Ji Yan and the others that an Immortal Realm’s recorded aura prevented entry into another one.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traveled to the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower, marveling at its scale and the bustling gathering of cultivators around it. They arrived at the grounds and encountered a Harmony Dao cultivator selling Heaven Concealing Stones.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox set out for the Mystic Heavenly Passage Tower and bought tickets for the journey.
• They arrived at the tower and were awed by its immense height, strange stones, and glowing formation patterns.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox descended to the tower grounds, where inspectors enforced rules among the gathered prodigies.
• They noticed a Harmony Dao cultivator selling Heaven Concealing Stones and heard him advertise the chance to cut open rare treasures.