Chapter Summaries

Hu Yang obtained the Origin Essence of Life Grievance from Ming Palace Prefecture, then returned to find the Yu Ling Empire under attack by Black Scale Dragons. After saving Lingxu City and reaching level two hundred million, he prepared to leave with Nangong Hongyao, but Nangong Qingtian and the city lord begged him to save the empire.

• Hu Yang took the Origin Essence of Life Grievance from the Heavenly Dipper Seal despite Yu Yazi’s attempts to stop him, and learned to seek Soul Grievance in Azure Soul Prefecture.
• Hu Yang returned to Ta City and discovered that Nangong Hongyao had gone to Lingxu City to fight the Black Scale Dragons attacking the Yu Ling Empire.
• Hu Yang rescued Nangong Hongyao and killed the two Black Scale Dragons threatening Lingxu City, resolving the city’s crisis and reaching level two hundred million.
• Hu Yang tried to leave with Nangong Hongyao, but Nangong Qingtian and the city lord begged him to save the Yu Ling Empire’s billions of inhabitants.

Hu Yang took Nangong Hongyao to the Nether Soul Domain and seized the Soul Grievance Origin Essence, while the Yu Ling Empire fell and Nangong Hongyao broke through to the Supreme Realm. After escaping the Nether Soul Emperor’s notice, Hu Yang brought her to the Thoroughfare Sea to pursue the next Origin Essence.

• Hu Yang refused the city lord’s plea to save the Yu Ling Empire, and Nangong Qingtian led Lingxu City’s experts to support other cities, where the Black Scale Dragons killed them.
• When the Yu Ling Empire was destroyed, Chi Yu stopped Empress Zi Wan from returning and persuaded her to sever her ties to her fallen nation.
• Nangong Hongyao felt Nangong Qingtian’s death, but Hu Yang comforted her, and she broke through from the peak of the Sect Realm into the Supreme Realm.
• Hu Yang entered the Nether Soul Domain with Nangong Hongyao, overcame its restrictions, and took the Azure Soul Prefecture’s Soul Grievance Origin Essence.
• The Nether Soul Emperor failed to identify Hu Yang and ordered the investigation abandoned, while Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao reached the Thoroughfare Sea and descended beneath its surface.

Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao descended through the Thoroughfare Sea, where sea beast pills helped Nangong Hongyao reach the Saint Realm and begin comprehending Water Law. They reached the Dragon Palace, defeated its defenders, and Hu Yang went to the Sea Eye to condense the Origin Essence of Drowned Grievance.

• Hu Yang discovered that sea beast pills granted him levels and talents, while Nangong Hongyao consumed them and advanced to the Saint Realm Early Stage.
• Nangong Hongyao killed a Saint Realm sea beast from inside its mouth, then began comprehending Law Power after Hu Yang explained that pills could no longer advance her cultivation.
• Hu Yang and Nangong Hongyao reached the Dragon Palace, where Hu Yang defeated White Dragon and killed the patrol guards who attacked him.
• Ao Ding, the Dragon King of the Thoroughfare Sea, asked Hu Yang to spare White Dragon, and Hu Yang said he had come for Drowned Grievance.
• Hu Yang arrived at the Sea Eye of the Thoroughfare Sea and began condensing the Origin Essence of Drowned Grievance as Ao Ding followed.

After obtaining the Drowned Grievance Origin Essence and Sea Grievance Source, Hu Yang refused a mission to kill Nangong Hongyao and left her behind. In the White Mist Depths, Feng Wu revealed his identity as an Intent Embryo and explained that the universe was on the verge of collapse.

• Hu Yang condensed the Drowned Grievance Origin Essence, then killed Ao Ding and refined his body into the Sea Grievance Source as the Thoroughfare Sea began to collapse.
• Three days later, Hu Yang received a mission to kill Nangong Hongyao for the Love Grievance Source, but he could not bring himself to do it.
• Hu Yang abandoned Nangong Hongyao and fled to the White Mist Depths, where he decided he would rather remain in the tower than sacrifice her.
• Feng Wu, the Five-Colored Holy Ancestor and creator of the Desert Tower, revealed Hu Yang's restored memories and identified him as the Intent Embryo.
• Feng Wu told Hu Yang that the universe was nearing collapse because a supreme being had seized the Origin Essences of every realm.

Hu Yang learned that Chi Yu had issued the tower tasks and revealed his plan to restore the Cosmic Origin. As Hu Yang was told to continue the stages and seek the World Source, Nangong Hongyao prepared to end her life but was whisked away by a streak of Golden Light.

• Chi Yu and Zi Wan appeared before Hu Yang and Feng Wu, identified himself as the Lord of the Myriad Realms, and said Hu Yang was the universe’s Cosmic Origin incarnation.
• Chi Yu summoned Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man, and Xing Tu revealed that he had secretly protected and guided Hu Yang for years.
• Chi Yu brought Yuan Feng to Feng Wu, revealed that Feng Wu had originated from Yuan Feng’s shed feather, and then took the women away with Zi Wan.
• Chi Yu ordered Xing Tu to guide Hu Yang through the stages, obtain the World Orb, and help restore the Cosmic Origin, while saying he would handle the hidden supreme being.
• Chi Yu told Hu Yang that the Eighteen Grievances were optional, and the task changed to obtaining the sixth level’s World Source at Gong Xu.
• Nangong Hongyao prepared to undergo Self-Disintegration, but a streak of Golden Light wrapped around her and carried her away.

Nangong Hongyao was abducted by a masked figure, gave birth to a Black-Veined Infant, and later reunited with Hu Yang. She told the child that Hu Yang was his father, while Chi Yu observed the reunion during his battle in the Void.

• A black-robed figure abducted Nangong Hongyao into a Dark Space, where she fainted after he attacked her.
• Nangong Hongyao woke in a place filled with Rule Wheels and gave birth to a Black-Veined Infant.
• The infant drained Nangong Hongyao's cultivation and Origin Essence, then restored her Origin Essence and called her Mother.
• The child touched a Rule Wheel, transporting himself and Nangong Hongyao back to the Dark Space, where a stream of light sent them to her former world.
• Hu Yang found Nangong Hongyao and embraced her, and she told the child that Hu Yang was his father.
• Chi Yu watched from the Void and sneered that Nangong Hongyao's plan amounted to patricide.

Hu Yang obtained the World Sources of the Nine Realms Journeying Pagoda and survived Hu Yuan’s betrayal before reaching the Cosmic Supreme Realm. After Nangong Hongyao confessed how the Future Self had deceived her, Hu Yang killed her for lying to him.

• Hu Yang reunited with Nangong Hongyao and obtained the World Sources of the first eight realms with Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man.
• Hu Yuan attacked Hu Yang with Annihilation Rule Origin Essence in the pagoda’s core and revealed he was not Hu Yang’s son.
• An entity within Hu Yang’s mind restored him, and Hu Yang killed Hu Yuan before claiming the pagoda’s final World Source.
• Hu Yang reached the Cosmic Supreme Realm, became master of the Nine Realms Journeying Pagoda, and set off toward the Cosmic Origin Space with Xing Tu and the Azure Lotus Old Man.
• Nangong Hongyao explained how the Future Self had deceived her, but Hu Yang killed her for concealing the truth.

Hu Yang revived the fifteen Controllers, then dissipated into the rebuilt Heng Yuan Universe, which vanished from the Future Self’s reach. Chi Yu countered the Future Self’s attempt to devour the Beginning of Myriad Sources and moved to the Vast Universe, where an Azure Palace True Disciple assessment began.

• Hu Yang condensed Origin Essence to revive the fifteen Controllers, but the effort reduced his level to zero and left him unconscious.
• The Controllers reclaimed their Authority and began rebuilding Heng Yuan, while Xing Tu turned Hu Yang into Star Points that merged with the universe.
• The rebuilt Heng Yuan Universe vanished behind an Origin Realm Wall, and the Future Self gave up searching for it.
• Chi Yu reversed the dark vortices at the Beginning of Myriad Sources so they devoured the Future Self’s Origin Essence, then hid the true location and created a false one.
• The Future Self sent his Mandates of Heaven into the Vast Universe’s major worlds to seize their Origin Essence, while Chi Yu entered a Great World.
• An eight-tentacled beast in the Azure Sea transformed into a white-bearded Old Man as palaces appeared overhead and the Azure Palace True Disciple assessment was announced.

Sou Shou failed to reach the summit of Azure Palace’s Illusory Ladder before the assessment ended, then returned to the Catfish Clan and continued training. After a mysterious voice awakened his devouring talent and powerful abilities, he tested his new Water Element Power and suspected it was divine power.

• Sou Shou endured countless falls and climbed to the two-hundredth level, but the Illusory Ladder vanished before he could become a True Disciple.
• Sou Shou turned into a catfish and returned to his home beneath the northern Azure Sea, where the Catfish Clan mocked his ambition to change their fate.
• Sou Shou trained with heavy stones, then ate small fish in his cave as a mysterious voice announced that his devouring talent had awakened.
• The voice credited Sou Shou with increased attributes and awakened his Adamantine Body and Water Element Power, transforming his skin gold.
• Sou Shou tested his improved abilities in the water and discovered that his Water Element Power seemed like divine power.

Sou Shou returned to find the Catfish Clan slaughtered by sea eels, killed the attackers, and rescued the wounded fish-tailed woman hiding in his cave. After the clan leader returned and learned what happened, he prepared the clan to flee, unaware that the Black Eel Clan’s army was already approaching.

• A wounded fish-tailed woman fled into the Catfish Clan’s territory, where pursuing sea eels devoured the old and infirm catfish left behind.
• Sou Shou returned, found the clan grounds soaked in blood, and killed the Long-Whiskered Sea Eel General and his thirty guards, gaining attributes and new skills.
• Sou Shou found the unconscious woman in his cave and cared for her until she woke, then continued Devouring outside.
• The clan leader returned with the young catfish, heard Sou Shou’s account, and ordered the survivors to pack and flee after learning Sou Shou had killed the eels.
• The Black Eel Clan Leader sensed the general’s death and sent an army that was already nearing the Catfish Clan’s territory.

Sou Shou rescued the Catfish Clan from the Black Eel Clan, transformed after defeating its army, and learned that Yu Yao had been captured and tortured over her Inner Pearl. Yu Yao revealed how she had fled to the Catfish Clan’s territory, leaving Sou Shou wondering why the black eels wanted her Inner Pearl.

• The Black Eel Clan Leader led his army against the Catfish Clan, whose members fought back but were quickly overwhelmed.
• Sou Shou appeared, defeated the black eels, transformed after eliminating their soldiers, and devoured the Black Eel Clan Leader.
• Sou Shou changed into his Dao Body Form, and the Catfish Clan recognized him as the powerhouse they had once looked down upon.
• Yu Yao healed the Catfish Clan Leader and introduced herself to Sou Shou as a member of the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion.
• Yu Yao told Sou Shou that the Black Eel Clan Leader had imprisoned and tortured her to obtain her Inner Pearl, and that she had escaped into Catfish Clan territory.

Yu Yao left the Catfish Clan to report her grandfather’s disappearance, and Sou Shou departed for the Great Trench to seek resources. Below ten thousand meters, he devoured a horde of sea beasts and defeated the Black Emperor Sea Whale, awakening new abilities.

• Yu Yao thanked Sou Shou, gave him a Feather Pearl, and left for the Five-Colored Feathered Fish Mansion to report her grandfather’s disappearance.
• The Catfish Clan chief offered Sou Shou the clan chief position, but Sou Shou refused and later decided to leave for the Great Trench.
• Sou Shou reached the Great Trench, rejected Chi Lie’s offer to guide him for forty percent of his resources, and sped away.
• Sou Shou ventured below ten thousand meters, devoured dozens of Deep Sea Giant Toothed Sea Salamanders, and grew more than three times larger.
• The Black Emperor Sea Whale attacked Sou Shou to avenge his subordinates, but Sou Shou defeated and devoured him.
• Sou Shou awakened the Dark Element, Roar, and Stormy Waves after digesting the Black Emperor Sea Whale.

After devouring the Black Emperor Sea Whale, Sou Shou followed a red light into an abandoned palace and passed through a portal into Azure Palace, where its disciples mistook him for a High God. As Qing Chi showed him around, Sou Shou’s aptitude test showed no reaction, and an unseen observer identified him as a Heaven-Abandoned who had been born without roots or aptitude.

• Sou Shou followed the red light into a ruined palace, took the pearl from its throne, and entered the portal it formed.
• Sou Shou appeared in Azure Palace, where two white robe disciples attacked him and then bowed after their swords failed to harm him.
• Qing Chi welcomed Sou Shou as a High God, hosted him in Qing Chi Hall, and accompanied him on a tour of Azure Palace.
• At the Aptitude Testing Hall, Sou Shou insisted on testing himself, but the platforms showed no reaction.
• Qing Chi explained that the result indicated no roots or aptitude, while an unseen figure called Sou Shou a promising Heaven-Abandoned who could Change Fate.

Chu Yunxu revealed himself to Sou Shou, explained how he had escaped his Heaven-Abandoned fate, and offered to guide him. Sou Shou declined to become his disciple but received a token that could open a path to the Upper Realm; days later, Chu Yunxu appeared before Azure Palace’s disciples to appoint a new Palace Master.

• Chu Yunxu visited Sou Shou and revealed that he was the Azure Palace Master who had been secretly observing him since the Illusory Ladder.
• Chu Yunxu explained that he was Heaven-Abandoned too and had changed his fate by cultivating the Reverse Divinity Art.
• Chu Yunxu offered to guide Sou Shou and asked him to lend a hand when he roamed the universe, but Sou Shou declined because their cultivation methods were incompatible.
• Chu Yunxu gave Sou Shou a Jade Token that could open a path to the Upper Realm and told him to find him at Liaoyuan Palace if he reached it.
• Several days later, the Hall Masters and disciples gathered at the plaza, where Chu Yunxu descended and announced that he had come to appoint a new Palace Master.

Chu Yunxu appointed Ling Chenzi as Azure Palace's new Palace Master before returning to the Upper Realm, and Sou Shou went back to the Great Trench to slaughter and grow stronger. After Chi Lie led him into a hidden Treasure Land, Sou Shou killed a tiger and rescued a woman from a giant python, then told her she was safe.

• Chu Yunxu appointed Ling Chenzi to control Azure Palace and departed for the Upper Realm as a Five-Colored Koi Carp.
• Sou Shou returned to the Great Trench to slaughter sea creatures and increase his attributes.
• Chi Lie offered to lead Sou Shou to a hidden Treasure Land that a Five-Colored Feather Fish had entered.
• Sou Shou and Chi Lie entered the land, where Sou Shou killed a Giant-Toothed Mottled Tiger and gained an attribute point.
• Sou Shou followed a woman's cries for help and killed the python that had coiled around her.
• Sou Shou approached the frightened woman and told her the beast had been killed.

Sou Shou accompanied Gu Qing Ling back to the Heavenly Pool Tribe and discovered that her grandmother’s supposed incurable disease was poison. He cured her by devouring the poison, awakened several new powers, and left Gu Qing Ling grateful and flustered.

• Sou Shou rescued Gu Qing Ling from a giant python, then brought Chi Lie along as they traveled with her to the Heavenly Pool Tribe.
• Gu Qing Ling explained that her bedridden grandmother was believed to have Heavenly Chief Calamity Disease, while Sou Shou sensed that she had actually been poisoned.
• Sou Shou brought wild ox meat for the household and reassured Gu Qing Ling that he could save her grandmother.
• Sou Shou used Devouring Power to remove the poison, causing his grandmother to spit black blood and faint before he absorbed the poison himself.
• Sou Shou devoured the Nine Hells Soul-Seizing Poison, gained increased attributes, and awakened the Law of Poison, Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity, Nine Hells Power, and Nether Darkness Power.
• After a day, Gu Qing Ling’s grandmother recovered and awoke, and Gu Qing Ling knelt to thank Sou Shou before blushing when their hands touched.

Sou Shou, Gu Qing Ling, and Chi Lie attended the Guang Xing Hall auction, where Sou Shou offered a glowing Treasure Herb for the Big Fish and Five-Colored Divine Fish. The mysterious Hall Master accepted his offer and invited him upstairs after killing a Witch’s envoy, leaving Sou Shou and his companions to follow Hong Lian.

• Grandma Gu teased Gu Qing Ling about her feelings for Sou Shou, then spoke with him privately before Gu Qing Ling led him and Chi Lie around the tribe.
• Sou Shou heard an announcement about the Five-Colored Divine Fish and went with Gu Qing Ling and Chi Lie to the Guang Xing Hall auction.
• The auction sold a spiritual weapon, armor, cultivation techniques, and pills before presenting the Big Fish and Five-Colored Divine Fish.
• After a black-robed Mysterious Person bid five hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones, Sou Shou offered a red-glowing Treasure Herb in exchange for the fish.
• The Hall Master accepted Sou Shou’s offer, killed a Witch’s envoy who challenged the decision, and had Hong Lian escort Sou Shou and his companions upstairs.

Sou Shou traded the Hongru Lingzhi with Zheng Guangxing, an old acquaintance from Azure Palace, to obtain two captive fish, including Yu Yao’s grandfather. After defeating Witch Palace attackers and rescuing the captives, Sou Shou learned they did not know how they had entered the mysterious space and planned to question Zheng Guangxing.

• Zheng Guangxing revealed that he had once served as Azure Palace’s Pills Hall Master and had been trapped in the space for ten thousand years.
• Sou Shou traded the Hongru Lingzhi for a chest containing Yu Cangmang, Yu Yao’s grandfather, and Qing Ji of the Green Pig Clan.
• Masked Witch Palace guards ambushed Sou Shou, Gu Qing Ling, and Chi Lie, but Sou Shou killed them and learned that the Witch Palace served the Great Witcher.
• Sou Shou secretly released Yu Cangmang and Qing Ji, who explained they had been drawn into the space without knowing how.
• Sou Shou returned the two men to his spatial cloth bag and said he would ask Zheng Guangxing about their arrival the next day.

Sou Shou defeated the Witch Palace Twelve Scribes of Fate and blasted the Great Witcher’s substitute body, then learned that a mysterious expert who had sold Guang Xing Hall two Five-Colored Feather Fish might be in Northern Meng Land. After settling at Guang Xing Hall, Sou Shou set out alone to attack the Witch Palace before pursuing the mysterious figure.

• Hong Lian warned Sou Shou that the Great Witcher and the Twelve Scribes of Fate were coming to capture him, but Sou Shou refused to flee.
• The Great Witcher destroyed Sou Shou’s house with witchcraft, but Sou Shou had rescued Gu Qing Ling and the others with water elementals.
• Sou Shou killed the Twelve Scribes of Fate and struck the Great Witcher, who escaped as Black Mist and reappeared in a secluded Witch Palace hall.
• Hong Lian brought Sou Shou and the others to Guang Xing Hall, where Zheng Guangxing arranged lodging for them.
• Zheng Guangxing told Sou Shou that a mysterious expert above the Emperor Realm had sold Guang Xing Hall two Five-Colored Feather Fish and might be found in Northern Meng Land.
• Sou Shou decided to deal with the Witch Palace first and left Guang Xing Hall alone to attack it.

Sou Shou destroyed the Witch Palace but found the Great Witcher missing, then learned Gu Qing Ling and Grandma Gu had been abducted. After absorbing a trace of the Great Witcher's Qi, he discovered their location and set off in pursuit.

• Chi Yu watched Northern Meng's residents gain enlightenment from the elders' battle, then returned to Creation Space and left the next steps to Sou Shou.
• Sou Shou slaughtered everyone in the Witch Palace, reached five million All Attributes, and devoured its buildings, but could not find the Great Witcher.
• A black-robed figure abducted Gu Qing Ling and Grandma Gu from Guang Xing Hall.
• Zheng Guangxing told Sou Shou that Gu Qing Ling and Grandma Gu had been captured by the Witch Palace.
• Sou Shou found a trace of Black Qi in Gu Qing Ling's lodgings, learned that the Great Witcher was taking the captives toward the border mountains, and went after him.