Chapter Summaries

After confirming that Spirit Body Hibernation safely hid him from other spirits and steadily strengthened him, Chen Mu spent successive spans of one hundred thousand years hibernating until he completed the Fourth Spirit Body Transformation. New Inheritance Memories revealed the True Spirit Bridge, leaving him one step away from becoming a True Spirit Body.

• Chen Mu awoke from his first ten-thousand-year Spirit Body Hibernation and found that his spirit body had gained strength equivalent to devouring dozens of Young Spirit Bodies.
• After three thousand years of searching, Chen Mu concluded that hibernating spirit bodies could not be detected and began a hundred-thousand-year hibernation to test his theory.
• Chen Mu completed the hundred-thousand-year hibernation without being discovered, confirmed that hibernation reliably strengthened him, and immediately began another.
• After a third hundred-thousand-year hibernation, Chen Mu sensed he was one hibernation away from the Fourth Spirit Body Transformation and began a fourth.
• Chen Mu awoke after another hundred thousand years and completed the Fourth Spirit Body Transformation, then absorbed new Inheritance Memories about the True Spirit Bridge.

After completing his Fourth Spirit Body Transformation, Chen Mu traveled for three thousand years to the True Spirit Bridge and entered its inner space to await a chance to become a True Spirit. He immediately faced his first attempt, came closer to the bridge than any of the other Young Spirit Bodies but still failed, and entered Spirit Body Hibernation to wait for another opportunity.

• Chen Mu learned that fourth-stage Young Spirit Bodies could attempt the True Spirit Bridge and set out for it, determined to become a True Spirit.
• After traveling nonstop for three thousand years, Chen Mu reached the edge of the True Spirit Sea and let the bridge draw him into its isolated inner space.
• Chen Mu received an opportunity to attempt the bridge soon after arriving and was drawn into a trial with more than one hundred thousand fourth-stage Young Spirit Bodies.
• Chen Mu suppressed his instincts and leaped toward the colossal bridge, becoming the closest contender but remaining only halfway to it as every Young Spirit Body failed.
• Chen Mu returned to the bridge's inner space and entered Spirit Body Hibernation while waiting for his next attempt.

After failing his second attempt at crossing the Leaping Spirit Bridge, Chen Mu concluded there was no time limit and spent 100,000 years hibernating until his next opportunity. He began a final attempt by moving at an instinctively slow pace to preserve his energy, and after 120,000 years he reached the True Spirit Bridge with nearly all his energy intact and leapt toward it.

• After waiting in Spirit Body Hibernation for tens of thousands of years, Chen Mu entered his second crossing of the Leaping Spirit Bridge and deliberately trailed the other Young Spirit Bodies.
• Chen Mu conserved his energy over thousands of years, eventually reaching the True Spirit Bridge after the other Young Spirit Bodies had disappeared from his perception.
• Chen Mu made a final leap with his energy nearly exhausted, failed to reach the True Spirit Bridge, and concluded that the crossing had no time limit.
• Chen Mu returned to Spirit Body Hibernation and waited 100,000 years for his third opportunity to cross the Leaping Spirit Bridge.
• Chen Mu remained still after the crossing began, then moved at an extremely slow, instinct-driven pace to preserve his energy.
• After 120,000 years, Chen Mu reached the True Spirit Bridge with almost all his energy remaining and made his final leap.

Chen Mu completed the long transformation from a Young Spirit Body into a True Spirit Body and finally crossed the True Spirit Bridge. He awakened in the True Spirit World, where a young man watched him as he began absorbing an immense Inheritance Memory.

• Chen Mu unleashed all his spirit body's energy and approached the True Spirit Bridge as a new consciousness formed within him.
• Chen Mu's new consciousness merged with his original consciousness, and his spirit body continued transforming and condensing.
• Over tens of thousands of years, Chen Mu's spirit body developed a human form as he learned that becoming a True Spirit Body had to come before crossing the bridge.
• Chen Mu's spirit body finished transforming, and he leaped toward the brightly glowing True Spirit Bridge.
• Chen Mu awoke in the True Spirit World before a young man and began absorbing an Inheritance Memory greater than all the ones he had received before.

Chen Mu completed the Spirit Cleansing Pool’s transformation and later learned that the Wizard World had been destroyed twelve million years earlier after the Azure Wave World attacked it. The chapter left him wondering how the Wizard World’s World Consciousness had nearly succeeded in its plan.

• Chen Mu waited several centuries for the Spirit Cleansing Pool to open, watching hundreds of newly transformed True Spirit Bodies gather around him.
• The Spirit Cleansing Pool enveloped Chen Mu and the other True Spirit Bodies, releasing the energy in his spirit body and strengthening his consciousness.
• Chen Mu reappeared in a new place with additional memories, then spent two thousand years before transferring memories with another True Spirit in the Sage Ring of the Eighth Ring.
• Chen Mu learned that the Wizard World had entered the center of the World Sea twelve million years earlier and was destroyed after the Azure Wave World launched an Interworld War against it.
• Chen Mu realized the Wizard World had completed its world transition but was destroyed before it could establish itself among the Great Worlds.

After a fifteen-thousand-year reincarnation in the True Spirit World, Chen Mu returned to the Wizard World with the ability to manifest a complete True Spirit Body. He used a Text Simulation to test the consequences and discovered that the Wizard World's world consciousness had developed an independent consciousness.

• Chen Mu realized that his consciousness had already reached its final stage and was beginning to decline, so he decided to end the simulation rather than remain in the True Spirit World.
• After another six thousand years, Chen Mu's spirit body dissipated, and his consciousness returned to the Reincarnation Space.
• Chen Mu retained and modified his True Spirit Body, learning that he could manifest it in reality, but chose not to test it outside a simulation.
• Chen Mu began a Text Simulation to investigate whether his reincarnation had affected the Wizard World, then retained his realm and memories from ages 432, 433, and 434.
• Chen Mu learned that the Wizard World's world consciousness had formed an independent consciousness and had locked onto him when he revealed his True Spirit Body.

After a long Reincarnation Simulation, Chen Mu realized that each simulation strengthened his Main Consciousness, and he considered how to avoid letting it outpace his realm. A year after the simulation ended, he began a new Text Simulation.

• Chen Mu returned to the Wizard Tower and learned from Bain that the struggle over Rules in the Blood Sea World had erupted.
• Chen Mu told Bain he had already fused with an Unowned Rule, but Bain initially did not believe him.
• Chen Mu reasoned that consciousness from completed Reincarnation Simulations returned to strengthen his Main Consciousness, and decided future simulations should avoid excessive lifespans.
• Chen Mu cultivated for half a year, then used one of his two accumulated Text Simulation Times to begin a new Text Simulation.

After the Text Simulations, Chen Mu retained his realm and memories, then reconsidered why Sea of Vigil and Man Su Er held such central roles in the Wizard World's coming destruction. He suspected the Wizard World's World Consciousness Incarnation, rather than its world consciousness, was secretly directing events, leaving open the possibility that the future could still be changed.

• Chen Mu chose to retain his realm and three memories from the two Text Simulations.
• Chen Mu observed that his growing Spiritual Power let him complete Sea of Vigil missions much faster in simulations.
• Chen Mu speculated that the Wizard World's world consciousness was helping Sea of Vigil and treating Man Su Er as its Child of Destiny.
• Chen Mu questioned how world consciousness could have developed an independent will and why it would support Man Su Er, an Extraterrestrial Demon.
• Chen Mu suspected the Wizard World's World Consciousness Incarnation had become an independent will and was planning events behind the scenes.
• Chen Mu concluded that this theory left room to change the future, though he acknowledged the possibility that the world consciousness had truly developed an independent will.

Chen Mu visited Bain on the Blood Sea World’s Void Battlefield and convinced his teacher not to compete for a supposedly emerging Unowned Rule, which Chen Mu knew was a false alarm. He returned to the Sea of Vigil and resumed meditation, ending the session after a year.

• Chen Mu traveled to the Blood Sea World’s Void Battlefield, where Bain confirmed that Chen Mu had fused with an Unowned Rule.
• Bain told Chen Mu that a Level 5 Wizard from Dandelion Tavern had joined the struggle, making him believe a Rule’s birth was nearly certain.
• Chen Mu insisted that the Level 5 Wizard could be mistaken and urged Bain to avoid the struggle; Bain agreed that he would not compete.
• Chen Mu and Bain discussed the many Advanced Wizards gathering for the Rule and the danger facing the Wizard World.
• Chen Mu left Bain, returned to the Sea of Vigil, and meditated in his Wizard Tower for a year.

After completing a Text Simulation and retaining his realm and memories, Chen Mu began a True Body Simulation that lasted thousands of years. He witnessed the Wizard World’s collapse and returned to reality with the simulation ended, facing a choice of what to retain.

• Chen Mu used a Text Simulation, retained his realm, and assimilated memories from its final three years.
• Chen Mu began a True Body Simulation and, after five hundred years, investigated surviving Blood Descendants before returning to the Sea of Vigil.
• Chen Mu trained his Meditation Method for two thousand years as the Wizard World approached collapse.
• The Wizard World’s sky turned black, and the World Consciousness briefly illuminated it before darkness consumed the world.
• The True Body Simulation ended, and Chen Mu awoke in his Wizard Tower with the option to retain his realm, spells, and memories.

After the True Body Simulation, Chen Mu realized that advancing as a Wizard deepened his Fate Entanglement with the Wizard World, potentially endangering him if it was destroyed. He began a Reincarnation Simulation, hoping to find another world's way to escape that bond.

• Chen Mu retained his True Body Simulation memories and gained a deeper comprehension of rules, saving himself more than a thousand years of study.
• Chen Mu realized that his Fate Entanglement with the Wizard World would deepen as his realm rose, making the world's destruction a threat to his life.
• Chen Mu considered changing the Wizard World's future or stopping his cultivation, but rejected both options and sought a way to advance without becoming bound to the world.
• Chen Mu recalled that only relatively weak Blood Descendants had survived the Blood Sea World's destruction and suspected that Fate Entanglement existed in other worlds too.
• Chen Mu used his remaining Reincarnation Simulation attempt, intending to enter a world that might offer a way to break free from Fate Entanglement.

Chen Mu reincarnated into what he believed was the Azure Wave World, but found himself in a small, apparently non-transcendent world and spent decades searching for a way to understand it. After a century, still unable to confirm whether it was the true Azure Wave World or a subordinate realm, he ended the simulation.

• Chen Mu chose the Azure Wave World for his reincarnation, seeking a Great World that might help resolve Fate Entanglement.
• After ten years, Chen Mu found that he could not practice any transcendent cultivation method in the world where he had been born.
• Chen Mu became the Great Qian Kingdom's National Teacher and used its royal library to confirm that the world was small, flat, and apparently without transcendent power.
• Chen Mu suspected he had reincarnated into a subordinate small world and reasoned that he might need to reincarnate again to reach the Azure Wave World's true main world.
• A century after reincarnating, Chen Mu spoke with his student about other worlds, then dissipated and sent his consciousness back across time and space.

After a Reincarnation Simulation in a small, isolated world within the Azure Wave World, Chen Mu used his last Text Simulation and retained his realm. The slight strengthening of his consciousness helped transform his understanding of rules, so he set out to construct a Rule Space in the Outer Void.

• Chen Mu's Reincarnation Simulation ended after he lived out his lifespan in an isolated small world, leaving him with little new knowledge about the Azure Wave World.
• Chen Mu activated his final Text Simulation, retained his realm, and kept memories from ages one thousand six hundred and fifty-five through one thousand six hundred and fifty-seven.
• Chen Mu sensed a trace of Rule Power, and combined with his prior experience in River Cave, it transformed his understanding of rules.
• The Book of Truth revealed the Rule Space Construction Method, which Chen Mu realized he could now use and could later test in Text Simulations.
• Chen Mu left the Wizard Tower and went to the Outer Void beyond the Wizard World to construct a Rule Space.

Chen Mu completed the initial construction of his Rule Space after two years and four months in the Void, then returned to the Wizard Tower and used his accumulated simulations. After retaining his realm and three memories in a Text Simulation, he began another Reincarnation Simulation and headed back to the Azure Wave World.

• Chen Mu spent two years and four months constructing a Rule Space, completing its initial form and learning that it would need extensive nurturing before it could accommodate his body or others.
• Chen Mu returned to the Wizard Tower, where he found that he had accumulated four Text Simulation attempts and one Reincarnation Simulation attempt.
• Chen Mu used a Text Simulation, chose to retain his realm, and kept memories from ages fifty-six, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.
• Chen Mu began a Reincarnation Simulation and sent his consciousness into the Azure Wave World again.

After twenty-two years in Azure Wave World, Chen Mu learned that supernatural power came from faith in the Twilight World Master, who ruled the world. His father explained that World Lords monopolized Cross-World Stones, the means of traveling between worlds, leaving Chen Mu wondering how he could reach them.

• Chen Mu spent his first twelve years in a new small world and concluded it differed greatly from his previous Azure Wave World reincarnation.
• Over the next ten years, Chen Mu trained away from the Central Region and became a bishop, preparing to return and encounter the world's supernatural power.
• After returning to the Central Region, Chen Mu questioned his father about faith and learned their family had once ruled the world before losing its faith four thousand years earlier.
• Chen Mu's father told him that everyone must believe in the Twilight World Master to gain power beyond ordinary people.
• Chen Mu asked whether other worlds existed, and his father explained that Cross-World Stones enabled travel between them and were monopolized by World Lords.

After offering faith to the Twilight World Master, Chen Mu discovered that the process created a mild Fate Entanglement and revealed how the Azure Wave World's cultivation system worked. He concluded that World Masters were incarnations of the Azure Wave World's consciousness and that this world might hold a way to sever Fate Entanglement.

• Chen Mu asked whether a Cross-World Stone could allow travel between worlds, and his father said only a World Master might know how to use one.
• Chen Mu agreed to offer faith to the Twilight World Master, and his father imposed an unseen force on him.
• Chen Mu sensed Fate Entanglement with the Twilight World Master and absorbed a stream of unfamiliar memories before his father left.
• Chen Mu learned that faith created Fate Entanglement and that World Masters were incarnations of the Azure Wave World's consciousness.
• Chen Mu reasoned that the Azure Wave World was especially likely to possess a way to sever Fate Entanglement.

Chen Mu spent nearly five hundred years in the Twilight World cultivating Faith Power, then discovered that his power connected him to the Azure Wave World rather than the small world where he was born. The Twilight World Master gave him a Cross-World Stone, leaving Chen Mu free to pursue his plans and test whether he could become the World Master of another small world.

• Chen Mu judged that becoming a World Master in the Twilight World was unlikely, but continued cultivating rather than abandoning the simulation.
• After nearly five hundred years, Chen Mu learned from the Twilight World Master that his Faith Power connected directly to the Azure Wave World's consciousness, making him a person of that Great World rather than the Twilight World.
• Chen Mu suspected his unusual connection came from reincarnating into the Azure Wave World itself and considered testing whether cultivating Faith Power in a small world without a World Master would make him its master.
• The Twilight World Master gave Chen Mu the Cross-World Stone he had requested and left him free to go.

Chen Mu spent eight hundred years exploring a vast Azure Wave World minor world before dying and returning to reality, where he discovered that his cultivated Faith Power had not carried over. A Text Simulation then confirmed that the Azure Wave World’s Faith Power method could help him comprehend rules in the Wizard World, giving him a new advantage for future simulations.

• Chen Mu used the Cross-World Stone and Fate Power to enter a new world, where he spent five hundred years exploring and cultivating Faith Power while suspecting it might be the Azure Wave World’s central world.
• Chen Mu continued exploring for three hundred years, then died after reaching the limit of his lifespan and returned from the Reincarnation Simulation without retaining his Faith Power.
• Chen Mu considered why his extraordinary power had not carried over and concluded that his next Azure Wave World reincarnation could benefit from the Faith Power cultivation method he had learned.
• Chen Mu activated a saved Text Simulation, retained his realm and memories from three ages, and confirmed that the Faith Power method could be used to comprehend rules in the Wizard World.
• Chen Mu began cultivating his Meditation Method and decided to save the rule-comprehension method for a True Body Simulation.

Chen Mu used a Text Simulation and began another Reincarnation Simulation in the Azure Wave World to test whether he could become a World Lord in a minor world without supernatural power. After waiting until he was twenty and successfully cultivating Faith Power, he linked with the world consciousness and became its incarnation.

• Chen Mu completed a Text Simulation, retained his realm and memories, and continued practicing the Meditation Method as he neared the eighth Four-Ring Wizardry.
• After another year, Chen Mu used a Text Simulation, then began a Reincarnation Simulation in the Azure Wave World to test his World Lord conjecture.
• Chen Mu spent twelve years in an unfamiliar minor world but could not sense Faith Power, and he suspected he was too young to cultivate it.
• Eight years later, Chen Mu tried the Faith Power Method again on Bright Moon Mountain and sensed the familiar force surrounding him.
• Chen Mu's body appeared in an unfamiliar space as a torrent of memories entered his mind, and he realized he had become the world's consciousness incarnation and a World Lord.

After five thousand years, Chen Mu had transformed the White Crow Small World into a realm overflowing with extraordinary power and grown stronger as its World Master. He joined the gathering of Azure Wave World Masters, where all 13,422 seats filled before a huge diamond-shaped crystal appeared.

• Chen Mu realized that, as the White Crow Small World's World Master, he had an almost endless lifespan but was deeply bound to the world and restricted from leaving.
• Chen Mu chose to develop the White Crow Small World and spread the Faith Power Cultivation Method rather than leave before he had grown stronger.
• Over five thousand years, the Faith Power Cultivation Method became widespread, and the White Crow Small World developed extraordinary power as Chen Mu cultivated.
• Chen Mu used Fate Power to leave the White Crow World space and appeared in a gathering place for World Masters.
• Chen Mu saw that the Azure Wave World had 13,422 World Masters, and a massive diamond-shaped crystal appeared after every seat filled.