Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu watched the Chen Family heir competition and discussed the family's future plans with the Second Elder, while privately considering the nature of the cultivation universe and the possible Immortal Realm. Chen Xiaojun won the fourth heir-candidate position and was secretly thrilled when Chen Mu praised him.

• Chen Mu began the competition, assessed the young cultivators, and told the Second Elder to integrate the area's Secret Realms and send less talented youths elsewhere to cultivate.
• The Second Elder described the Chen Family's plans and voiced concern that its younger generation had grown up with abundant resources.
• Chen Mu reflected on leaving the Ten Thousand Lake Island Sea Area in twenty years and wondered whether the cultivation worlds in the eighth universal layer led to an Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xiaojun defeated his opponent with the Four Flames Technique and secured the fourth heir-candidate position.
• Chen Xiaojun heard Chen Mu quietly praise him, and his excitement surged even as the spectators celebrated the match.

After building the Chen Family into the dominant power of the Ten Thousand Lake Island Sea Area, Chen Mu left to seek greater opportunities and joined Purple Cloud True Sect. One hundred and twenty years later, he reached Golden Core Completion and was asked to represent the sect at the upcoming Ascension Convention of the four nations' great sects.

• Chen Mu left the Chen Family with only a portion of its resources, leaving four low-grade third-rank inner cores for the family to create False Core True Persons and warning its leaders against arrogance and troublemaking.
• Chen Mu departed Sky Lake Island after instructing the gray-haired man to let the Council of Elders allocate the inner cores and maintain discipline through the Dark Guard.
• Chen Mu joined Purple Cloud True Sect and, after a century there, became one of its twelve Peak Masters.
• After one hundred and twenty years, Chen Mu reached Golden Core Completion, becoming the strongest cultivator beneath the sect's two Supreme Elders.
• Jin Yuan Zhenren told Chen Mu that Purple Cloud True Sect would host the Ascension Convention of the four nations' great sects and asked him to attend.

Chen Mu accepted Jin Yuan Zhenren’s request to lead the Purple Cloud True Sect’s delegation at the Ascension Convention and traveled to White Jade Immortal Mountain. As the Four Pillars Secret Realm’s participants appeared on a light screen, Chen Mu spotted an unusual talent and claimed them for his sect.

• Jin Yuan Zhenren persuaded Chen Mu to preside over the Ascension Convention, and Chen Mu agreed despite his concerns about the risks.
• Chen Mu traveled to White Jade Immortal Mountain and joined Golden Core representatives from the four kingdoms to activate the pillars that revealed the Four Pillars Secret Realm’s participants.
• The cultivators examined the participants’ points of light, and the Azure Origin True Sect leader noticed someone with a Thunder Spirit Root.
• Chen Mu declared that the Purple Cloud True Sect wanted the Thunder Spirit Root participant.

After the Ascension Convention trial, Chen Mu reserved Ye Zhen, a Thunder Spirit Root cultivator whose spiritual power had changed after he obtained an Immortal Method. Chen Mu brought him to Purple Cloud True Sect and asked directly about the method, leaving Ye Zhen fearful of what would happen next.

• Chen Mu stopped the other sects from discussing candidates and later let them recruit disciples by the usual rules.
• The trial ended, and Chen Mu observed that about one-tenth of the participants had died while the survivors were tested at the Ascension Pillars.
• Chen Mu revealed that Purple Cloud True Sect had reserved Ye Zhen, who had been ignored by the other True Persons.
• Chen Mu noticed that Ye Zhen's spiritual power had nearly been replaced and suspected he had obtained a powerful cultivation method, possibly from the White Jade Immortal Sect.
• After bringing Ye Zhen to the Purple Cloud True Sect mountain gate, Chen Mu asked whether he had obtained a Cultivating Immortality method during the trial, and Ye Zhen panicked.

Chen Mu exchanged a vast trove of cultivation resources for Ye Zhen’s White Jade Ascension Immortal Scripture instead of seizing it by force. He left Ye Zhen with the method, resources, and advice to keep a low profile, while gaining a complete Dao Integration Immortal Technique himself.

• Chen Mu explained that he would not forcibly take Ye Zhen’s opportunity and offered him a Space Ring filled with cultivation resources in exchange for the method.
• Ye Zhen accepted the offer after Chen Mu promised he could continue cultivating the method and could claim Chen Mu had taught it to him if questioned.
• Ye Zhen inscribed the White Jade Ascension Immortal Scripture onto a jade slip and handed it to Chen Mu, who learned it could support cultivation to the Dao Integration realm.
• Chen Mu reassured Ye Zhen that he would honor their agreement and advised him to conceal his strength and avoid showing off.
• Chen Mu vanished, leaving Ye Zhen relieved and grateful that he had kept his method and received enough resources to advance toward the Golden Core realm.

After eighty years of cultivation, Chen Mu passed the Nascent Soul Tribulation and became a Nascent Soul True Monarch, greatly strengthening Purple Cloud True Sect. He agreed to hold a Nascent Soul Ceremony in one year and planned to visit his family afterward.

• Chen Mu faced the Nascent Soul Tribulation at Thousand Swords Peak while disciples and sect leaders watched.
• Nine bolts of lightning struck Chen Mu, and his Golden Core shattered into a Nascent Soul.
• Chen Mu discovered that his Divine Sense now covered nearly fifty thousand meters and that his spiritual power had surged.
• Purple Cloud True Sect's two supreme elders congratulated Chen Mu, who agreed to hold his Nascent Soul Ceremony one year later.
• Chen Mu told the two True Monarchs that he would return to his family after the ceremony and discussed his cultivation plans with them.

After more than a century of slow Nascent Soul cultivation, Chen Mu began using pills to accelerate his progress while carefully avoiding excessive impurities. Five hundred years later, he forced a breakthrough at the Purple Cloud Secret Realm’s spirit eye and reached the middle Nascent Soul stage.

• Chen Mu reflected on the slow pace of Nascent Soul cultivation and decided to supplement his practice with pills.
• Chen Mu swallowed three Infant Essence Pills and found that their medicinal power rapidly boosted his cultivation.
• Five hundred years passed as Chen Mu continued cultivating in the Purple Cloud Secret Realm.
• Chen Mu went to the Fourth-Order Spirit Vein’s spirit eye and used its chaotic spiritual power to force a breakthrough.
• Chen Mu endured the painful influx of berserk spiritual power and successfully reached the middle Nascent Soul stage.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Chen Mu shared his breakthrough experience with the Purple Cloud True Sect’s other Supreme Elders and decided to leave in search of cultivation resources. Five years later, he arrived in the Liang Province Domain and entered the Jade Cauldron Pavilion in Vast Sea Immortal City.

• Chen Mu revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage breakthrough to Blazing Sun True Monarch and Purple Wood True Monarch, then explained how he used the spirit vein’s eye to break through his bottleneck.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch told Chen Mu that Wild Radiance True Monarch had taken fifteen hundred years to advance from the Nascent Soul Early Stage to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Chen Mu returned to his Cave Residence, concluded he needed resources beyond the Four Kingdoms Domain, and planned to visit the Ten Thousand Lake Island Sea Area and the Northern Thirteen Regions.
• Chen Mu bid farewell to the two Supreme Elders and left the Purple Cloud True Sect.
• Five years later, Chen Mu arrived in Vast Sea Immortal City in the Liang Province Domain and entered the Jade Cauldron Pavilion.

Chen Mu discovered that an immortal source contained a Hundred Thousand Year Blazing Flame Crystal, drew the attention of the crowd, and escaped Jade Cauldron Pavilion with the treasure and its stall owner, Old Li. After searching Old Li’s memories and killing him, Chen Mu learned that he had been Old Li’s Immortal Source Tribulation, leaving him wondering how Immortal Source Masters could survive such trials.

• Chen Mu explored Jade Cauldron Pavilion and learned that a girl had recently found Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow in one of Old Li’s immortal sources.
• After sensing heat from an immortal source, Chen Mu bought it and told Old Li to stop cutting when he detected a treasure inside, but Old Li ignored him and opened it.
• The source revealed a Hundred Thousand Year Blazing Flame Crystal, and Old Li announced its value to the crowd in an attempt to expose Chen Mu to danger.
• Chen Mu displayed his Nascent Soul power, took the crystal, and escaped the pavilion with Old Li and several thousand immortal sources.
• Chen Mu questioned Old Li, searched his memories, and learned that Old Li had inherited the Grand Art Immortal Source Master lineage and had been fated to face Chen Mu as his Immortal Source Tribulation.
• Chen Mu killed Old Li, then wondered how Immortal Source Masters could exist if their tribulations were so difficult.

Chen Mu evaded the Jade Cauldron Immortal Sect cultivators searching for the Hundred Thousand Year Blazing Flame Crystal, then discovered that killing Old Li had earned him an immense amount of Merit Power. He realized the merit had boosted his cultivation speed more than tenfold and could even be used to influence fate.

• Chen Mu left after Old Li's corpse exploded, and Liang Yuan and Wu Zhen failed to trace him with the Retrospection Mirror.
• Liang Yuan gave up searching, while Wu Zhen concealed that the mirror had shown him golden light resembling the Merit Power tied to his own rise.
• News of Chen Mu's Blazing Flame Crystal spread, but the people searching for him eventually gave up; three years later, Chen Mu was cultivating in a Cave Residence in the Hidden Lake Immortal Sect's domain.
• Chen Mu recalled that his cultivation speed had surged more than tenfold after he began secluded cultivation, leading him to discover three hundred and sixty wisps of Merit Power in his sea of consciousness.
• Chen Mu concluded that killing Old Li had likely granted him the Merit Power because Old Li might otherwise have become a major figure, and he recognized that merit could enhance cultivation and alter fate.

After returning to the Purple Cloud True Sect, Chen Mu spent more than two hundred years cultivating until he was ready to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. When he sensed the Heavenly Dao watching him during the breakthrough, he swallowed the Five Viscera Spirit Fire to prevent any accidents.

• Chen Mu left his Cave Residence in the Northern Thirteen Regions and returned to the Purple Cloud True Sect after eighty years of cultivation.
• Chen Mu continued cultivating in the Secret Realm, conserving his Merit Power and strengthening his foundation rather than using it to bypass the Nascent Soul Late Stage bottleneck.
• After more than two hundred years, Chen Mu compressed his spiritual energy to its limit and began breaking through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Two Nascent Soul True Monarchs in the Secret Realm sensed Chen Mu's breakthrough and arrived to protect him.
• During the final stage of his transformation, Chen Mu felt the Heavenly Dao watch him and swallowed the Five Viscera Spirit Fire he had prepared for Nascent Soul perfection.

Chen Mu merged with the Five Viscera Spirit Fire and successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, becoming the strongest Immortal Cultivator in the Four Kingdoms Domain. After the Purple Cloud True Sect’s two other Supreme Elders asked him to protect the sect while they attempted breakthroughs, another three hundred and fifty years passed and the Purple Cloud Secret Realm erupted into turmoil.

• Chen Mu merged with the Five Viscera Spirit Fire to steady his breakthrough after sensing the Heavenly Dao’s attention.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch recognized the spirit fire and watched Chen Mu complete his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Chen Mu told Blazing Sun True Monarch and the other Supreme Elder that he had merged with the Five Viscera Spirit Fire.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch and his Second Brother asked Chen Mu to protect the Purple Cloud True Sect while they entered seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Chen Mu agreed.
• Three hundred and fifty years passed, then dazzling flames blotted out the sky as the Purple Cloud Secret Realm fell into turmoil.

Chen Mu broke through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection after cultivating for centuries with Merit Power and the Hundred Thousand Year Blazing Flame Crystal. After eight hundred more years of cultivation and discussions with Blazing Sun True Monarch, he prepared to force his way toward Transformation God, with Blazing Sun True Monarch agreeing to guard him.

• Chen Mu steadily broke through the bottleneck and reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection after consuming the Blazing Flame Crystal.
• Chen Mu judged that reaching Transformation God on his own might give him less than a fifty percent chance of success, but continued cultivating with the Five Viscera Spirit Fire and Merit Power.
• Over the next eight hundred years, Chen Mu cultivated and discussed the Dao with Blazing Sun True Monarch, who advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Chen Mu told Blazing Sun True Monarch that he intended to force open the gates of Transformation God.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch agreed to guard Chen Mu's breakthrough, hoping his success would raise the Purple Cloud True Sect into a Purple Cloud Immortal Sect.

Chen Mu left the Purple Cloud Secret Realm to undergo his Transformation God tribulation safely, then used Merit Power to complete the breakthrough. His success made him the first Transformation God cultivator in the Four Kingdoms Domain, while the gathered sects watched and considered what his rise would mean for them.

• Chen Mu sensed that breaking through inside the Purple Cloud Secret Realm would make the tribulation more difficult and could destroy the realm, so he left for the Four Kingdoms Domain.
• Chen Mu began his breakthrough atop a barren mountain at Ripple Mountain, relying on Merit Power to ensure his success.
• Cultivators from across the Four Kingdoms Domain gathered as heavenly might brewed for months, and Purple Cloud True Sect disciples hoped Chen Mu would succeed while rival sects feared the consequences.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch guarded Chen Mu in person as the other three sects' Supreme Elders arrived as avatars and privately discussed whether to submit if Chen Mu became a God Lord.
• A violet lightning pillar struck Chen Mu, who consumed Merit Power and immediately transformed into a Transformation God cultivator.

Chen Mu successfully broke through to the Transformation God realm, and his overwhelming power reshaped the balance among the Four Kingdoms Domain’s sects. Three thousand years later, he visited Earth Nether Divine Lord at the God Realm Immortal Sect, where Earth Nether asked why he had come.

• Chen Mu emerged from the vanished lightning tribulation surrounded by crimson light, and his Transformation God Dharma manifestation sent the gathered cultivators fleeing.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch and the Azure Origin True Sect’s Supreme Elder recognized Chen Mu’s breakthrough, and the Supreme Elder proposed merging their sect into the Purple Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Blazing Sun True Monarch refused to decide on the merger himself and deferred the choice to Chen Mu.
• Three thousand years later, Chen Mu appeared at God Realm Mountain to meet Earth Nether Divine Lord, who joked that Chen Mu only visited to exchange resources.
• Chen Mu asked Earth Nether whether he could have another reason for visiting, and Earth Nether invited him to explain.

Chen Mu enlisted Earth Nether Divine Lord to break the ancient restrictions sealing the White Jade Immortal Sect’s treasure repository. After harvesting its opportunities with Merit Power, Chen Mu returned to Flame Fire Immortal Sect with treasures he hoped would help him reach Transformation God Late Stage.

• Chen Mu asked Earth Nether Divine Lord to help open the White Jade Immortal Sect ruins, and Earth Nether agreed despite warning that the restrictions might take centuries to break.
• Earth Nether Divine Lord spent four hundred and fifty years deciphering the restrictions and opened the Secret Realm, which he identified as a possible treasure repository.
• Chen Mu entered the Ascension Hall and spent three strands of Merit Power to reveal a map of more than a hundred opportunities.
• Chen Mu collected the Secret Realm’s major treasures, including cultivation resources, an Avatar Crystal, and more than ten Transformation God Crystals, while Earth Nether Divine Lord gained comparatively little.
• Chen Mu gave Earth Nether Divine Lord an earth-element Transformation God Crystal, then returned to Flame Fire Immortal Sect to cultivate and pursue a breakthrough to Transformation God Late Stage.

Chen Mu broke through to Transformation God Late Stage by burning forty strands of Merit Power, which also pushed his foundation to its limit. Fifty thousand years later, he had reached Transformation God Completion and the Flame Fire Immortal Sect had united the Northern Thirteen Regions and the Four Kingdoms Domain as the Dao Fire Domain.

• Chen Mu absorbed the spiritual energy of a Fifth-Order Spirit Vein and nearby spirit fruits, causing an anomaly sensed by cultivators across the Four Kingdoms Domain and reported by visitors from other domains.
• Shadow Divine Lord and other sect leaders attributed the disturbance to Chen Mu’s cultivation and considered the possibility that he could eventually become a Dao Integration Dao Lord.
• Chen Mu used forty strands of Merit Power to break through from Transformation God Middle Stage to Transformation God Late Stage, and the power of heaven and earth raised his foundation to its limit.
• Chen Mu resolved to cultivate further and hoped to reach the Dao Integration realm within his remaining lifespan of more than 80,000 years.
• Over the next fifty thousand years, the Flame Fire Immortal Sect unified the Northern Thirteen Regions and Four Kingdoms Domain into the Dao Fire Domain and gained seven Transformation God cultivators.
• Chen Mu became a Transformation God Completion powerhouse 18,000 years before the end of the chapter and became renowned across the Immortal North Continent.

After weighing the risks of pursuing Dao Integration without enough resources, Chen Mu finally accepted the Azure Lotus Holy Master's conditions. He summoned the Holy Master, who welcomed him as the future second Holy Master of the Azure Lotus Holy Land.

• Chen Mu reflected on his Transformation God Completion foundation, his limited lifespan, and the Cultivation World's reincarnation cycle.
• Chen Mu considered the Azure Lotus Holy Master's offer of resources but feared being trapped at early Dao Integration during the simulation.
• Thirty-two thousand years passed, leaving Chen Mu with too little time and too few resources to reach the limit of Transformation God Completion without Merit Power.
• Chen Mu decided to accept the Azure Lotus Holy Master's conditions and activated the pale green token.
• The White Robed Old Man appeared and declared that Chen Mu would succeed him as the second Holy Master of the Azure Lotus Holy Land.

After nearly a hundred thousand years of cultivation in the Reincarnation Imitation, Chen Mu used an Enlightenment Fruit and his stored Merit Power to condense his Dao Seed. He awoke half a year later as a Dao Sovereign, leaving his future cultivation in this life uncertain.

• Chen Mu told the Azure Lotus Dao Lord he was ready to condense his Dao Fruit, and the Dao Lord agreed to protect him during the attempt.
• The Azure Lotus Dao Lord gave Chen Mu an Enlightenment Fruit, which could increase his chance of success by ten percent.
• Three days later, Chen Mu swallowed the Enlightenment Fruit and began condensing his Dao Fruit in his Cave Residence.
• Chen Mu formed a fragile Dao Seed, then burned all the Merit Power in his sea of consciousness to make it solid and rooted.
• After half a year in seclusion, Chen Mu opened his eyes and declared that he had become a Dao Sovereign.

Chen Mu condensed a Fire Dao Fruit, integrated with the Dao of heaven and earth, and became a Dao Lord. As he prepared to take over the Azure Lotus Holy Land, Azure Lotus Dao Lord told him about hidden Reincarnation Holy Lands and the mysterious Reincarnation Mark.

• Chen Mu integrated his Dao Fruit with the world, gaining extraordinary clarity and comprehension, and began exploring how the Wizard Path and Cultivating Immortality might be combined.
• Azure Lotus Dao Lord congratulated Chen Mu on breaking through and reminded him to take over the Azure Lotus Holy Land as promised.
• Chen Mu agreed to keep the Holy Land's name, then asked Azure Lotus Dao Lord about the ancient Cultivation World and its Holy Lands.
• Azure Lotus Dao Lord explained that Reincarnation Holy Lands nurtured Immortals and were hidden from the world, appearing to guide only those with the potential to become Immortals.
• Azure Lotus Dao Lord revealed that a Reincarnation Mark let a Holy Land find someone through their reincarnations, though he suspected the mark had restrictions.