Chapter Summaries

After fifty years of cultivation in the Red Sun Immortal Realm, Chen Du used the Foundation Establishment Pill and two rare treasures to achieve Foundation Establishment and create his own Divine Foundation. Worried about changes on Blue Star, he activated Myriad Worlds Traversal and returned to Mount Tai.

• Chen Du spent fifty years cultivating the Taiyuan Cangming True Art until he restored his Qi Refining Great Perfection and Martial Dao cultivation.
• Chen Du swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill, Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass, and Taiyi Golden Flower Jade Nectar, then endured the trials of Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Du formed a Dao foundation from his true Qi, reincarnation insights, Taixu Fist, and memories of nine lifetimes, establishing a Divine Status beyond the Spirit Martial Realm.
• Chen Du realized more than two days had passed on Blue Star and feared an Eighth Stage alien might have arrived, so he gathered his belongings and activated Myriad Worlds Traversal.
• Chen Du stepped through the gate and returned to the mountain forest on Mount Tai.

Chen Du returned from Mount Tai after reaching early Foundation Establishment, while an Eighth Stage alien named Yinshi arrived on Blue Star and destroyed a city in the Xia Kingdom. The chapter left humanity reeling as the Kema People demanded submission and the Administration struggled to find a response.

• Chen Du stabilized his new Foundation Establishment realm and returned to find the black cat beneath a cliff on Mount Tai.
• The Kema People summoned Yinshi through an altar, and Yinshi demanded Blue Star's humans submit or be exterminated.
• Yinshi attacked a major riverside city in the Xia Kingdom, destroying much of it and killing many people.
• The Kema People's projection threatened to destroy another city the next day unless humanity submitted and helped secure Blue Star's entrance.
• Blue Star's people despaired as their weapons failed to harm Yinshi, while officials in the Administration found no way to stop him.

Chen Du returned to the ruined city and killed the Eighth-Stage alien Yinshi with a single overwhelming attack, shocking humanity and the extraterrestrial races. The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration and the Magic City Branch realized Chen Du had surpassed the initial Eighth Stage as he left the city.

• The Administration's researchers concluded that Yinshi had reached the Eighth Stage and that humanity's weapons could not defeat it.
• Yinshi taunted the city and killed the evolvers who charged at him until Chen Du arrived.
• Chen Du unleashed the power of his Divine Foundation and destroyed Yinshi with one attack.
• Extraterrestrial races panicked at Chen Du's strength, while people watching the livestream celebrated humanity's renewed hope.
• Researchers assessed Chen Du as stronger than the initial Eighth Stage, and Meng Mingyuan told Qin Wanghai to keep recording him meticulously.

Chen Du exterminated the extraterrestrials who had attacked him, killed a Kema man despite threats of an approaching starship, and declared war on the races threatening Blue Star. He then flew from city to city, hunting down the extraterrestrials who had pursued him.

• Chen Du used his Divine Sense to kill the extraterrestrials hiding in the ruins and stopped the fleeing Kema man.
• The Kema man begged for his life and warned that the Kema Clan's starship would reach Blue Star in less than ten days.
• Chen Du killed the Kema man and shattered the projection of another Kema man who threatened him.
• Chen Du declared war on every extraterrestrial race seeking to enslave or exterminate Blue Star's humans, inspiring people across the planet.
• Chen Du flew to nearly every major city in the country and killed the extraterrestrials who had hunted him.

Chen Du hunted down the extraterrestrial races that had attacked Blue Star, inspiring humanity while the Kema Clan decided to invade and claim the planet. The chapter ended with the Kema elders preparing to kill Chen Du and exterminate Blue Star’s humans without damaging the planet.

• Chen Du pursued and killed the extraterrestrials who had joined the campaign against him or attacked Blue Star’s humans.
• People across Blue Star celebrated Chen Du’s victories, and officials at the Spiritual Qi Revival Administration took hope from the aliens’ retreat.
• Aboard a Kema starship, the Kema People watched footage of Chen Du and discussed Blue Star’s revival and resources.
• Kema elders ordered Chen Du killed and Blue Star’s native population exterminated so the Kema Clan could take the planet intact.
• A Kema elder rose as the chamber filled with killing intent, signaling that the invasion plans were moving forward.

Chen Du and Xiaokui encountered five Eighth Stage members of the Qinglan Clan, who ambushed them to kill Chen Du before he could grow stronger. Chen Du survived their combined attack with [Cangming Abyss] and dragged all five into its abyss.

• Xiaokui warned Chen Du that his victory over the Kema People had made him a target for more powerful alien races.
• Chen Du said he would still try to protect Blue Star’s people as he flew with Xiaokui toward Mount Tai.
• Five Eighth Stage Qinglan Clan aliens blocked Chen Du’s path, and their leader pretended to offer an alliance before revealing their plan to kill him.
• The five aliens trapped Chen Du and Xiaokui in an array and struck them with a combined attack, but Chen Du emerged without serious injury.
• Chen Du unleashed [Cangming Abyss], which drained the aliens’ power and pulled all five into its depths.

Chen Du killed five Eighth Stage aliens who had attacked Blue Star, while another group of extraterrestrials learned of their deaths and reconsidered the threat he posed. The gathering ended with its elder insisting that Chen Du could not be allowed to live, but warning the others not to underestimate him again.

• Chen Du trapped the five Eighth Stage aliens in Cangming Abyss and ignored their pleas and threats.
• Chen Du combined Taixu World Fist with his divine status and Cangming Abyss, killing all five aliens and preventing their souls from escaping.
• Xiaokui reacted in shock as Chen Du said more enemies were still coming and vowed to protect Blue Star.
• At a gathering in an abandoned megacity, extraterrestrials waited for news of the five Qinglan Clan leaders’ victory.
• A communication device broke and revealed that all five Eighth Stages had died, shocking the gathered aliens.
• The elder ordered the gathering to stop underestimating Chen Du and declared that the native could not be allowed to live.

Chen Du entered the Ninth Tier Celestial Master Realm by taking over the body of Li Mo, a frail young Daoist at the Celestial Master's Mansion of Mount Longhu. He awakened two talents that could reveal the world’s accumulated power, then sensed countless ancient traces beneath the mansion as he helped replace incense banners.

• Chen Du left Xiaokui at Mount Tai and entered a hidden passage into the Celestial Master Realm.
• Chen Du awakened in Li Mo's body and learned that Li Mo had died after encountering an evil spirit.
• Sun Xiaolu told Chen Du that the mansion master had ordered them to replace the incense banners before the Altar-Opening.
• Chen Du decided to act like the unremarkable Li Mo while quietly exploring the Celestial Master's Mansion.
• Chen Du awakened Become a God on the Spot and The World as a Book, talents that could turn accumulated power into Dao resonance and secret manuals.
• While replacing banners at the Three Pure Ones Hall, Chen Du sensed countless ancient traces of power beneath the mansion.

Chen Du reviewed his growing talents and learned the Celestial Master Realm’s cultivation system, then secretly harvested ancient Dao resonance from the Celestial Masters' Mansion’s Ancestral Hall. He obtained a lost core inheritance, but his actions triggered a spectacular display of Heavenly Master power that alerted Longhu Mountain.

• Chen Du assessed his four cultivation paths and eleven talents, noting his growing reserves of rebirths, inherited cultivation, and protection from causal searches.
• Chen Du spent over a month learning the Celestial Master Realm’s nine cultivation realms and realized that the Mansion’s accumulated Dao resonance could advance his own cultivation.
• Chen Du sneaked into the Heavenly Master Ancestral Hall at night and used [Become a God on the Spot] and [The World as a Book] to draw out its ancient Dao resonance.
• Chen Du obtained the lost core inheritance, the Supreme Ten-Direction Five-Thunder Golden-Light Fire-Cloud Orthodox Unity Golden Light Mantra.
• A pillar of golden light erupted from the Ancestral Hall, awakening the Mansion’s elders and perfected beings, while Chen Du slipped back to his room and pretended to sleep.

Chen Du secretly cultivated the Supreme Ten Directions Five Thunder Golden Light Fire Cloud Orthodox Unity Golden Light Mantra and reached Union with the True in one night, alarming the Celestial Master's Manor's perfected masters. A month later, he secretly drew on the Thunder Altar to comprehend another lost divine mantra and returned to the menial quarters unnoticed.

• Chen Du kept a low profile while secretly cultivating the Golden Light Mantra, breaking through seven realms in one night and reaching Union with the True.
• Zhou Xuanzhen and the other perfected masters sensed the breakthrough, searched Longhu Mountain, and wondered who had produced the mysterious aura.
• Chen Du continued his menial duties for a month while the manor's masters failed to discover him.
• Chen Du sneaked onto the Thunder Altar at night and used its accumulated Dao resonance to comprehend the Supreme Purple Palace Divine Firmament Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Orthodox Method Divine Mantra.
• Chen Du returned to the little house while Sun Xiaolu slept, concealing that he had obtained another lost divine mantra.

Chen Du perfected the Supreme Purple Palace Divine Sky Five Thunders Evil-Slaying Orthodox Method and used Dao resonance in the Cinnabar Glow Separate Courtyard to obtain and refine a powerful pill. Over the next ten years, he secretly gathered lost manuals and pill formulas throughout the Celestial Masters' Mansion, reaching the peak of the Seventh Realm and half a step toward the Eighth while remaining unnoticed as Li Mo.

• Chen Du cultivated the Supreme Purple Palace Divine Sky Five Thunders Evil-Slaying Orthodox Method to perfection in one night, combining its offensive power with the Golden Light Mantra.
• At the Cinnabar Glow Separate Courtyard, Chen Du used his talents to uncover the Dragon-Tiger True-Congealing Pill formula and advanced his abilities to manifest Dao resonance as power and materials.
• Chen Du secretly refined two Dragon-Tiger True-Congealing Pills and swallowed one, surging through the Seventh Realm to near its peak.
• For ten years, Chen Du lived inconspicuously as Li Mo by day and explored the Celestial Masters' Mansion's forbidden places at night, recovering five lost secret manuals and five pill formulas.
• Chen Du refined pills and cultivated the recovered arts until he reached the peak of the Seventh Realm, Union with the True, and took half a step toward the Eighth Realm, but remained in no hurry.

After ten years of preparation, Chen Du broke through from Union with the True to the Heavenly Master Realm by integrating his cultivation and comprehending the Spirit Martial Status and Cangming Abyss. His fleeting aura startled the Celestial Masters' Mansion elders, who realized an unfathomable master had emerged among them.

• Chen Du took a Dragon-Tiger True-Congealing Pill and fused his accumulated methods into a single cultivation path.
• Chen Du comprehended the separate roles of the Spirit Martial Status and Cangming Abyss, clearing his path to the Heavenly Master Realm.
• Chen Du opened the heavenly gate and advanced to the Eighth Realm overnight.
• Zhou Xuanzhen sensed Chen Du's fleeting aura during morning practice, and several elders gathered to investigate.
• Zhou Xuanzhen, Zhang Shouyi, Zhao Qingxuan, and Sun Xuanzhao failed to locate the source and connected it to the golden light and thunder intent from ten years earlier.

Over ten years, Chen Du quietly gathered ancient cultivation arts and pill formulas across Longhu Mountain, advancing to the Middle Stage of the Heavenly Master Realm as Zhang Yanzhen's Blood Motian Sect grew in power. When Zhou Xuanzhen led Chen Du and others to investigate demonic attacks near the mountain, they found a silent village and figures waiting at its entrance.

• Chen Du ignored young Daoists' alarmed discussion of Zhang Yanzhen's destruction of the Lihuo Sect and continued his quiet duties.
• Over the next ten years, Chen Du obtained powerful cultivation arts and pill formulas from forgotten places throughout Longhu Mountain.
• Chen Du cultivated and refined pills in secret, advancing from the Early Stage to the Middle Stage of the Heavenly Master Realm.
• Zhang Yanzhen established the Blood Motian Sect as demonic cultivators ravaged the land and threatened the Celestial Master's Mansion.
• After demons attacked villages near Longhu Mountain, Zhou Xuanzhen led Chen Du and other disciples down the mountain to investigate, where they found a dark, silent village and several figures waiting.

Chen Du secretly saved the Celestial Masters' Mansion from the Demon Venerable's eldest disciple, then pursued and killed him without revealing himself. By searching the man's soul, Chen Du discovered that Sun Yuanzhao, head of the Punishment Hall, was the demonic path's spy inside the mansion.

• The Demon Venerable's eldest disciple ambushed the Celestial Masters' Mansion and overwhelmed Zhou Xuanzhen and the other elders while seeking revenge for his parents.
• Chen Du secretly struck the demonic blade with golden light, forcing the Demon Venerable's eldest disciple and the remaining demonic cultivators to flee.
• Chen Du pursued the Demon Venerable's eldest disciple and killed him with a pebble after pinning him down with Heavenly Master Realm power.
• Chen Du searched the dead man's soul and uncovered the Blood Motian Sect's ambush plans and the identity of its informant, Sun Yuanzhao.
• Chen Du decided to keep Sun Yuanzhao's betrayal secret for now and stir up the waters of the Celestial Masters' Mansion.

Chen Du exposed and killed Sun Yuanzhao, the traitor planted in the Celestial Masters' Mansion, revealing himself as a Heavenly Master. After learning that Xue Wuya and Sun Yuanzhao had died, Zhang Yanzhen prepared to destroy the mansion once his divine art was complete.

• Sun Yuanzhao met Li Mo, whom the chapter also called Chen Du, and learned that Chen Du had killed Xue Wuya.
• Sun Yuanzhao attacked Chen Du, but Chen Du stopped his palm with one finger and revealed his eighth-realm Heavenly Master cultivation.
• Sun Yuanzhao blamed the mansion for his betrayal, and Chen Du killed him with divine lightning.
• Zhang Yanzhen sensed that Xue Wuya and Sun Yuanzhao had died and realized the Celestial Masters' Mansion had another Heavenly Master.
• Zhang Yanzhen declared that he would destroy the Celestial Masters' Mansion after completing his divine art, as blood clouds covered the sky.

After Sun Yuanzhao vanished, the Celestial Masters' Mansion discovered he had been a demonic spy and suspected a powerful ally had killed him. Ten years later, Chen Du guarded the Magic Treasure Hall in disguise and confronted a Puppet Sect sect master controlling Liu Qingshu, leaving him with the thief's poisoned sword caught between two fingers.

• Zhou Xuanzhen and the perfected masters found evidence that Sun Yuanzhao had colluded with the demonic path and concluded that a mysterious, powerful person had killed him and exposed his treachery.
• Over the next ten years, the demonic path grew stronger while Chen Du disguised himself as an old Daoist and took charge of the Magic Treasure Hall.
• Liu Qingshu, controlled by the Puppet Sect's sect master through a Puppet Seal, sneaked into the hall and stole a bronze mirror and a short sword.
• Chen Du closed the exit and ordered Liu Qingshu to return the treasures, but the Puppet Sect's sect master mocked him and attacked with the poisoned sword.
• Chen Du caught the sword between two fingers and calmly repeated his order.

Chen Du survived the Puppet Sect master's poisonous attack without moving, forcing the intruder to flee and reconsider abandoning his puppet. When Liu Qingshu's puppet charged back to self-destruct, Chen Du restrained it with heavenly lightning and his divine powers.

• The Puppet Sect master used Liu Qingshu's puppet to unleash Withered Bone Demon Essence at Chen Du, then turned to leave, certain the old Daoist would die.
• Chen Du remained unharmed and declared that the intruder could not live, prompting the Puppet Sect master to flee and wonder at the Celestial Masters' Mansion's hidden strength.
• The Puppet Sect master regained confidence in the Puppet Great Method and believed he could sever his connection to Liu Qingshu and escape at will.
• A faint deep-blue light appeared in the Puppet Sect master's soul as he fled, silently watching him from afar.
• The Puppet Sect master sent Liu Qingshu's puppet back to self-destruct, but Chen Du struck it with heavenly lightning and restrained it with the [Heavenly Master] Divine Status and [Cangming Abyss].

Chen Du killed the Puppet Sect's sect master from thousands of li away after the intruder escaped the Celestial Masters' Mansion. The Puppet Sect learned of the death and resolved to avoid provoking the mansion, unaware that Chen Du had acted as its hidden protector.

• The Puppet Sect's sect master severed his connection to Liu Qingshu and fled after Chen Du's power trapped him.
• The sect master ran more than five thousand li, but Chen Du revealed that his [Cangming Abyss] Divine Status had marked the man's soul and crushed him to dust.
• Chen Du remained at the Celestial Masters' Mansion while its master and Perfected Ones discussed matters, unaware that he had stopped an intruder from stealing a magic treasure.
• The Puppet Sect's elders discovered that the sect master's life tablet had shattered and learned he had gone to the Celestial Masters' Mansion.
• The white-bearded elder ordered the Puppet Sect to avoid anyone from the Celestial Masters' Mansion and accept the sect master's death.

Chen Du studied the Grand Pure Heavenly Master Dao-Subduing True Scripture at Celestial Master Cliff, deepening his understanding of the Heavenly Master Realm and strengthening his talents. He reviewed the seven techniques he had gathered and resolved to cultivate them further, aiming to raise his Eighth Realm cultivation.

• Chen Du used his talents at Celestial Master Cliff to draw out the ancient Dao traces and form the Grand Pure Heavenly Master Dao-Subduing True Scripture.
• Chen Du comprehended the scripture’s three levels, learning to use Heavenly Master Dao intent to subdue his body, govern his techniques, and suppress an opponent’s Dao.
• Chen Du cultivated the scripture to minor accomplishment, stabilizing his Heavenly Master Divine Status and advancing his talent skills.
• Chen Du reviewed the many secret manuals he had recovered across Longhu Mountain and identified seven techniques that had reached the Eighth Realm.
• Chen Du arranged the seven techniques as a foundation for future cultivation, believing their perfection could bring his Heavenly Master Realm cultivation higher.

Xie Changming, the surviving heir of the Celestial Masters' Mansion's suppressed Fourth Lineage, returned to Longhu Mountain as an eighth-realm Heavenly Master to demand justice. He confronted Zhou Xuanzhen during the ancestral worship ceremony, and his authentic lineage relics left the mansion's leaders unable to deny who he was.

• Xie Changming left a ruined temple after declaring that he would seek justice for his lineage, then set out for Longhu Mountain.
• The Celestial Masters' Mansion held its thirty-year ancestral worship ceremony, with Chen Du working among the servants outside the hall.
• Xie Changming interrupted the ceremony and claimed his place as an heir of the Fourth Lineage.
• Xie Changming presented a lineage token, a secret sacrificial prayer, and a Celestial Master sword as proof of his identity.
• Zhou Xuanzhen and the elders recognized the evidence as genuine but hesitated to acknowledge Xie Changming, while Chen Du quietly watched.