Chapter Summaries

Yi Xuan and Liang Shi successfully implanted the brain-control chip in the Demon Scorpion Soldier and confirmed that simple commands could override its attacks without suppressing its instincts. Yi Xuan left Liang Shi to test the chip’s other functions and went to examine his newly strengthened Divine Sense.

• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi completed the brain-control chip’s final tests and confirmed it performed as designed.
• Liang Shi used smoke to subdue the Demon Scorpion Soldier, then placed the chip by its mouth, where miniature robots carried it into the creature’s brain.
• The chip anchored itself to the Demon Scorpion Soldier’s brain, and Liang Shi woke the creature to test its control.
• The Demon Scorpion Soldier attacked the Black Tortoises and stopped immediately when Liang Shi ordered it to stop attacking.
• Yi Xuan asked Liang Shi to send him the final test results, then went to an empty laboratory to examine his Divine Sense.

Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense reached Nascent Soul Late Stage strength, allowing him to abandon No. 01’s simplified Spirit Refining Instruction and begin cultivating its original form by forging parts of his Divine Sense Barrett. After Liang Shi reported that the brain-control chip worked but was difficult to mass-produce, Yi Xuan said he had tasked No. 01 with upgrading the lithography machine and turned to question the Demon Scorpion Soldier.

• Yi Xuan discovered that his sea of consciousness had more than doubled in size and that he had formed his thirty-first Divine Sense Flying Needle.
• No. 01 told Yi Xuan that his Divine Sense was now strong enough to cultivate the original Spirit Refining Instruction, so he no longer needed his old grinding method.
• Yi Xuan dismantled his Divine Sense Barrett and used an iron hammer to forge one of its parts until the strain forced him out of his sea of consciousness.
• Liang Shi showed Yi Xuan the brain-controlled Demon Scorpion Soldier and reported that the chip worked but could not yet be mass-produced.
• Yi Xuan told Liang Shi he had assigned No. 01 to upgrade the lithography machine, then turned his attention to the Demon Scorpion Soldier.

Yi Xuan and Liang Shi worked to make the brain-control chip easier to manufacture while No. 01 upgraded the lithography machine. Yi Xuan then watched Chu Longcheng leave the moon at immense speed and apparently use spatial technology, leaving Yi Xuan questioning how the Cultivation Realm had obtained it.

• Yi Xuan explained that upgrading the lithography machine and removing redundant functions from the brain-control chip would let them meet in the middle on manufacturing requirements.
• No. 01 upgraded the lithography machine while Yi Xuan and Liang Shi simplified the chip design, and Liang Shi remained in the laboratory when Yi Xuan left.
• Yi Xuan used Starlink to watch Chu Longcheng awaken on the moon, search space, and fly away while accelerating to one percent of the speed of light.
• Chu Longcheng's body distorted and vanished from Starlink's surveillance, and No. 01 detected a faint spatial fluctuation suggesting he had used something like a wormhole.
• Yi Xuan reflected that cultivators used spatial formations without understanding them and suspected that space technology had been introduced into the Cultivation Realm.

After Chu Longcheng vanished through a wormhole, Yi Xuan devised a plan to detect the mysterious force in space by creating a semi-mechanical Demon Scorpion Soldier. He finished developing its implantable equipment and left the secret chamber, where he unexpectedly encountered Zhuo Ning.

• Yi Xuan ordered Starlink to scan Chu Longcheng's route and decided that sending a cultivator into space would reveal nothing about the mysterious force.
• Yi Xuan proposed improving the Demon Scorpion Soldier with monitoring equipment, and Liang Shi agreed to help while continuing work on the brain-control chip.
• Yi Xuan gave Liang Shi ten simplified brain-control chips, then went to the imperial palace and expanded his portable research center in the secret chamber.
• Yi Xuan spent more than three months developing equipment that combined integrated circuits with formations to detect and calculate Spiritual Qi.
• Yi Xuan left the secret chamber after packing up his research center and unexpectedly came face-to-face with Zhuo Ning.

Yi Xuan learned that Zhuo Ning’s father, the emperor of the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom, had entered the Five Major Decays and was nearing death. Zhuo Ning revealed that he had been named a contender for the throne and had decided to compete, so Yi Xuan agreed to see him off in three days.

• Yi Xuan encountered Zhuo Ning and his powerful guard, Uncle Lin, who warned Zhuo Ning to leave with him within three days.
• Zhuo Ning told Yi Xuan that his father had entered the Five Decays of a Celestial Person after a past injury damaged his foundation and shortened his lifespan.
• Zhuo Ning explained that his father’s spirit medicines had stopped working and that the emperor’s death was approaching.
• Yi Xuan offered to keep the throne for Zhuo Ning, but Zhuo Ning said he might not return because he had been named a contender for the throne.
• Zhuo Ning said a letter from Uncle Lin had given him a reason to compete, and Yi Xuan accepted his decision and promised to see him off in three days.

Zhuo Ning left the Xia Kingdom for the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom to compete for its throne, while Pangu took his place as emperor. Yi Xuan and Liang Shi completed a modified Demon Scorpion Soldier and sent it to the Seeking Immortality Space Station for future experiments.

• Zhuo Ning prepared to leave the Xia Kingdom, and Yi Xuan arranged for Pangu to impersonate him as emperor.
• Liang Shi gave Zhuo Ning a Storage Bag of supplies before a Greater Teleportation Talisman carried him and Uncle Lin to the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom.
• Yi Xuan lifted his Soul Control over Zhuo Ning as he arrived, restoring Zhuo Ning's freedom.
• After half a month, Yi Xuan confirmed that Pangu could govern the Xia Kingdom under its existing political system.
• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi completed the modified Demon Scorpion Soldier, while No. 01 finished the lithography machine and produced a simplified brain-control chip.
• Yi Xuan launched the Demon Scorpion Soldier to the Seeking Immortality Space Station, where it docked and went dormant as robots began preparing for experiments.

Yi Xuan tested what happened when Cultivation Realm air exposed the Demon Scorpion Soldier to Immortal Qi. The Soldier was consumed, confirming Yi Xuan’s theory about Immortal Qi and explaining why newly ascended immortals had to leave the Cultivation Realm.

• Yi Xuan had No. 01 prepare a laboratory module and pump Cultivation Realm air rich in Spiritual Qi into its chambers.
• Yi Xuan opened the chambers to the laboratory, and after ten minutes the Demon Scorpion Soldier began showing signs of pain as Immortal Qi appeared around him.
• Yi Xuan’s instruments revealed that the Immortal Qi first devoured the Spiritual Qi in the Demon Scorpion Soldier’s meridians and Dantian, then destroyed his body.
• The Demon Scorpion Soldier vanished, while devices powered by Spiritual Power were ruined and the other equipment remained intact.
• Yi Xuan concluded that Immortal Qi instinctively consumed Spiritual Qi and that an Immortal Body became a target of the Cultivation Realm, forcing newly ascended immortals to leave.

Yi Xuan discovered that Immortal Qi was dark matter, which reacted with Spiritual Qi and could threaten the Cultivation Realm. He decided to postpone studying it until the undersea base was finished and set off for the Eternal Sea.

• Yi Xuan used his improvised observation device to reveal black points of light in the experimental chamber, and No. 01 identified them as dark matter.
• Yi Xuan concluded that Immortal Qi was dark matter and that Spiritual Qi acted as a catalyst for its energy reaction.
• No. 01 suggested that each wisp of Immortal Qi could absorb only a limited amount of Spiritual Qi, while Yi Xuan speculated that dark matter might have destroyed Earth's ancient cultivation civilization.
• Yi Xuan decided to conduct dark matter research at the unfinished undersea base, where he could also seek news of Junior Sister Mu.
• Yi Xuan arranged work at No. 2 Base, messaged Liang Shi, and boarded the Firmament for the Eternal Sea.

Yi Xuan returned to the Eternal Sea and completed a fortified research base beneath the transformed trench. As the Good Corpse led Lü Huang’s merchant caravan into the depths to seek news of Junior Sister Mu and trade for materials, Yi Xuan brought Dark Matter to the base for research.

• Yi Xuan returned to the transformed trench and rejected Xing Qi’s suggestion to establish another city there.
• Yi Xuan inspected the undersea base as construction continued, then entered it in person after it was completed and ordered No. 01 to install defenses comparable to the aerospace carrier’s.
• Yi Xuan sent the Good Corpse to North Wave City to seek news of Junior Sister Mu, and Xing Qi reported that Hai Qing Song had left Sea Emperor City and Hai Yue’s Tribulation Transcendence master remained in seclusion.
• The Good Corpse reassured Xing Qi about the lack of an imminent threat, then led Lü Huang’s merchant caravan into the depths of the Eternal Sea.
• Yi Xuan brought Dark Matter from space to the undersea base and placed it in a Spiritual Qi shielding chamber.

Emperor Lin emerged from a year of seclusion and learned that his disciple Qing Song had been killed. He summoned his personal disciples, condemned them for failing to seek revenge, and left them awaiting his judgment.

• Emperor Lin emerged from his palace to the welcome of the Sea Clan and asked what had happened during his seclusion.
• A disciple told Emperor Lin that Qing Song had died, and explained that Qing Song had gone home after completing his assigned task.
• Emperor Lin hurled the eldest disciple aside, then threatened to kill him if he failed again to protect a junior disciple.
• Emperor Lin summoned the personal disciples in Sea Emperor City and demanded an account of Qing Song's death.
• Emperor Lin reprimanded the gathered disciples for waiting for him to avenge Qing Song, and they accepted blame.

Emperor Lin sought answers about Hai Yue and his sons from Xing Qi, the new lord of North Wave City. After Xing Qi concealed what he knew, Emperor Lin destroyed North Wave City and East Yan City, leaving Xing Qi desperate to warn Yi Xuan as Emperor Lin sensed a colossal object above him.

• Emperor Lin learned that North Wave City had changed hands and decided to investigate in person.
• Emperor Lin pulled Xing Qi from North Wave City and questioned him about Hai Yue, his sons, and the human who killed Hai Qing Song.
• Xing Qi denied knowing about the human and claimed responsibility for Hai Yue's death, so Emperor Lin let him go.
• Emperor Lin pressed North Wave City beneath the seabed and then destroyed East Yan City with a distant strike.
• Xing Qi frantically warned Yi Xuan through their Soul Control connection, while Emperor Lin sensed a colossal object hovering overhead.

Yi Xuan confronted Emperor Lin, a Tribulation Transcendence expert who had come to avenge Hai Qing Song, and tried to save Xing Qi from him. After Emperor Lin survived the aerospace carrier’s intense beam, Yi Xuan brought Xing Qi to a strange hidden space, where Yi Xuan watched the still-blazing attack with a grave expression.

• Yi Xuan detected Emperor Lin’s arrival in North Wave City and learned from Xing Qi that he had come because of Hai Qing Song.
• Yi Xuan sent the aerospace carrier to attack Emperor Lin while Xing Qi kept him talking, and Emperor Lin destroyed two Sea Clan cities.
• A beam from the aerospace carrier enveloped Emperor Lin, and Yi Xuan ordered Xing Qi to flee.
• Emperor Lin examined the beam and accused Yi Xuan of killing Hai Qing Song, so Yi Xuan unleashed an even more powerful pillar of light.
• A huge black shadow swallowed Xing Qi, and Yi Xuan brought him to a strange space where they watched the attack continue to blaze around Emperor Lin.

Yi Xuan’s laser and the helicarrier’s shield failed to stop Emperor Lin, so he armed a mushroom bomb and waited for the attacker to enter the vessel. As Emperor Lin broke into the helicarrier, Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to detonate the bomb.

• Yi Xuan learned that the laser had not harmed Emperor Lin, and Emperor Lin’s first strike disabled the helicarrier’s optical stealth.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to connect the backup Arc Reactors and prepare the mushroom bomb with its safety mechanisms disabled.
• Emperor Lin repeatedly attacked the helicarrier until its reactors failed and its energy shield shut down.
• Emperor Lin destroyed the helicarrier’s four rotors and then charged inside, believing Yi Xuan was aboard.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to detonate the mushroom bomb as Emperor Lin approached it.

Yi Xuan and Xing Qi fled the underwater nuclear explosion aboard the mechanical whale, while its effects stirred the Eternal Sea and drew attention from across the Cultivation Realm. Yi Xuan detected Emperor Lin approaching through the radiation, and the chapter ended with Xing Qi stunned that he had survived.

• Yi Xuan and Xing Qi rode the mechanical whale away as the nuclear blast rocked the sea and raised a vast mushroom cloud.
• Sea Clan cities and human sects across the Southern Frontier and Central Continent learned of the explosion and sent people to investigate.
• Xing Qi asked whether Emperor Lin could have survived, and Yi Xuan switched the detection equipment to energy mode.
• Yi Xuan spotted a fast-moving red dot approaching and ordered the mechanical whale to accelerate and release its marine machines.
• Yi Xuan identified the approaching figure as a badly burned Emperor Lin, who regenerated repeatedly as the marine machines exploded around him.
• Xing Qi watched Emperor Lin approach and wondered aloud whether he had survived even the nuclear explosion.

After Emperor Lin survived Yi Xuan’s nuclear attack, he pursued Yi Xuan and Xing Qi as they escaped aboard the Firmament. Yi Xuan’s contingency missile forced Emperor Lin back into the Eternal Sea, leaving the two temporarily safe in the sky.

• Emperor Lin survived the nuclear blast and used his Divine Sense to track Yi Xuan aboard the mechanical whale.
• Yi Xuan ordered the mechanical whale to surface and had himself and Xing Qi buckle into the Firmament inside it.
• When Emperor Lin attacked the whale, Yi Xuan ejected the Firmament, which shot into the sky as the whale exploded.
• Emperor Lin followed them despite the rapid loss of True Essence at high altitude, defying No. 01’s one-in-ten-thousand prediction.
• Yi Xuan activated a missile that pursued Emperor Lin, forcing him to dive into the Eternal Sea; Yi Xuan then saw a smaller mushroom cloud rise below.

After Emperor Lin fled the nuclear attack, Yi Xuan and Xing Qi mourned the destruction of North Wave City and East Yan City and regrouped on an island. Once they learned Emperor Lin’s identity and strength, Yi Xuan proposed building Xing Qi a city in the modified trench.

• Emperor Lin escaped into the sea after the missile attack, while Yi Xuan and Xing Qi watched him flee.
• Yi Xuan and Xing Qi grieved the million lives lost and left the irradiated sea, then landed the Firmament on an island.
• Yi Xuan unfolded the Artifact Sect’s great hall to replenish his combat power and assigned his Evil Corpse in the Xia Kingdom to replace the damaged aerospace carrier.
• Xing Qi gathered information from a nearby Sea Clan city and learned that his opponent was Emperor Lin, a late Tribulation Transcendence expert.
• Yi Xuan asked whether Xing Qi still wanted to be a city lord, then offered to help him build a city in the modified trench.

Yi Xuan decided to build a city in the Eternal Sea as a base for acquiring materials, conducting research, and preparing for the Tomb of the Sea God, while Xing Qi searched for a suitable site. As Yi Xuan monitored the nuclear blast zone, a mysterious old man crossed its radiation field and suddenly appeared behind him.

• Yi Xuan concluded that a city for humans and the Sea Clan would support his research and future plans, and Xing Qi continued searching for a location.
• Yi Xuan focused on rebuilding the undersea mechanical army so he and Xing Qi could carry out their city plans.
• No. 01 alerted Yi Xuan that an old man had entered the nuclear blast’s radiation zone, where he moved a kilometer with each step.
• Yi Xuan saw that radiation was absent within ten meters of the old man and wondered whether a force field or an object was shielding him.
• The old man suddenly spoke behind Yi Xuan, and No. 01 warned him as the old man vanished from the surveillance footage.

Yi Xuan met a mysterious old man from the Mystic Gate, who confirmed the man had not come to avenge Hai Qingshi and gave Yi Xuan an inheritance from the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity. The old man left before Yi Xuan learned his name, and No. 01 identified him as likely being a Loose Immortal.

• Yi Xuan offered the old man Pangu robots and admitted he had caused the nuclear explosion in the Eternal Sea.
• The old man revealed he held one of Yi Xuan's miniature robots, and Yi Xuan guessed he had come from the Mystic Gate.
• Yi Xuan told the old man about the warning in the secret chamber: “Don't cultivate immortality!”
• The old man called the warning the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity's final message to the Cultivation Realm, then gave Yi Xuan a Jade Slip inheritance and disappeared.
• No. 01 detected both Spiritual Qi and Immortal Qi in the old man, and Yi Xuan concluded he was likely a Loose Immortal.

Yi Xuan had No. 01 decode the old man's Jade Slip and discovered that it contained the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity's spaceship engine specifications, including technology powered by Immortal Qi that could reach one-tenth the speed of light and jump through space. A diary-like passage also suggested that the Azure Cloud Sect's Puppet Technique inheritance originated with the ancient sect, leaving Yi Xuan to realize how deeply he was connected to it.

• Yi Xuan had No. 01 spend ten hours converting and reading the Jade Slip's contents.
• No. 01 organized the Jade Slip's information and revealed the complete specifications and development process for a spaceship engine.
• Yi Xuan learned that the engine used Immortal Qi and could travel at one-tenth the speed of light and make jumps of about one light-year.
• No. 01 found a passage describing the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity's search for mechanical-puppet technology stolen by a defecting disciple.
• Yi Xuan connected that stolen technology to the Puppet Technique inheritance held by the Azure Cloud Sect and suspected it came from the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity.

Yi Xuan advanced his interstellar technology efforts and began researching Immortal Qi, while Emperor Lin emerged from seclusion still struggling to contain nuclear radiation in his body. The chapter left Emperor Lin concealing his weakened state, able to display only Mahayana Realm Perfection.

• Yi Xuan assigned No. 01 to analyze the Artifact Sect of High Antiquity's engine technology and sent his Good Corpse to oversee interstellar research at No. 2 Base.
• Yi Xuan began researching Immortal Qi and concluded that it could strongly suppress nuclear radiation, then arranged for more than a dozen wisps to be transported down from the space station.
• Yi Xuan watched the undersea army enter the Eternal Sea in batches as he focused on his Immortal Qi research.
• Emperor Lin emerged from a month of seclusion and summoned his disciples, who praised his healthy appearance and dismissed rumors that he had been gravely injured.
• Emperor Lin concealed that nuclear radiation continued damaging his body and that he could now display only Mahayana Realm Perfection.