Chapter Summaries

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi discussed the pressure spreading from the Lühuang Sect and their plans for Taiyi Sect, while Tu Shan Jun ordered holdouts to leave the Qianyuan lands. Three years later, after a devastating battle in the Eastern Sea, True Lord Taiyi received a decree from a Spirit Transformation Venerable and urgently summoned Tu Shan Jun.

• Tu Shan Jun learned that the Lühuang Sect's territorial expansion was pushing neighboring powers, including the Thousand Plains Region, toward Xingluo, and he and True Lord Taiyi discussed how Taiyi Sect should respond.
• True Lord Taiyi ordered Tu Shan Jun to clear the Qianyuan lands and cultivate an alliance with Fellow Daoist Golden Turtle, while Tu Shan Jun sent the devil to warn remaining forces to leave within half a year.
• Three years later, the Thousand Plains Region withdrew after a bloody battle against the dragon clan and the Yuan Dao Alliance, and Ao Zhan concluded that Xingluo's cultivators would have to share the burden of future wars.
• True Lord Golden Feather delivered a golden decree from his sect's Patriarch to True Lord Taiyi, who learned that a Spirit Transformation Venerable had become involved and summoned Tu Shan Jun.

Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi sealed the remaining Baleful Intent vortexes, and Taiyi forged a powerful puppet body for Tu Shan Jun’s demon. At the Taiyi Sect, Qiu Wandao lectured the disciples about his difficult path to cultivation, while Xu Zhao learned that the Wu family wanted to take Wu Daoxian away.

• Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi sealed six hidden vortex gates in the Sea of Wandering Souls, cutting off the surge of Baleful Intent.
• Taiyi showed Tu Shan Jun a vicious ghost puppet, and the demon entered it and discovered it could move the body with spiritual power or Spirit Stones.
• Tu Shan Jun promised to forge the demon a body and help it pursue Nascent Soul cultivation if it served him well.
• At the Hall of Instruction, Qiu Wandao shared his struggles and urged the disciples to value perseverance and a heart that sought the Dao over spirit-root aptitude.
• Meng Gu told Xu Zhao that the Wu family wanted to remove Wu Daoxian from the sect because his cultivation had advanced only to the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Xu Zhao angrily objected, pointing out that the Taiyi Sect had already worked to suppress Wu Daoxian’s Absolute Yin Body and support his cultivation.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi agreed to answer a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s call for aid in the Eastern Sea, while planning for the devil to guard their sect. Meanwhile, the Wu Lineage tried to take Wu Daoxian to another sect for treatment, and Xu Zhao confronted their visitor from the Myriad Dharma Sect.

• Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi decided to travel together when the Taiyi Sect had to send aid, and Tu Shan Jun planned for the devil to guard the sect after advancing to Nascent Soul.
• Wu Yunyan and Wu Yunxu discussed changing Wu Daoxian’s cultivation method and seeking help from the Myriad Dharma Sect, despite Wu Yunxu’s concerns about offending Taiyi Sect.
• Xu Zhao received the Wu brothers and learned they wanted Wu Daoxian to leave Taiyi Sect for treatment by an Eastern Wastelands cultivator.
• Ouyan Yan of the Myriad Dharma Sect entered Jade Common Palace, insulted Taiyi Sect by proposing to take over its mountain gate, and stunned Xu Zhao by claiming he did not know the Myriad Dharma Sect.

Xu Zhao confronted Ou Yanyan and the Wu brothers over the Myriad Dharma Sect’s attempt to recruit Wu Daoxian and purchase Taiyi Sect’s mountain gate. He detained them while insisting that Wu Daoxian’s own wishes mattered, then learned that the Myriad Dharma Sect was planning to establish a branch in Xingluo.

• Ou Yanyan presented a token proving he belonged to the Myriad Dharma Sect after Xu Zhao challenged his identity and arrogance.
• Xu Zhao refused to discuss selling Taiyi Sect’s mountain gate and told the Wu brothers that Wu Daoxian had to decide for himself whether to leave the sect.
• Xu Zhao ordered the Wu brothers and Ou Yanyan to stay at the outer sect inn until the matter was resolved and the Myriad Dharma Sect’s elders arrived.
• Wu Yunyuan gave Meng Gu a Storage Talisman and asked him to deliver a letter to Wu Daoxian.
• True Lord Golden Ao warned True Lord Taiyi that the Myriad Dharma Sect planned to establish a branch sect in Xingluo and described Gu Yu, a powerful but arrogant Golden Core cultivator.
• Xu Zhao reported the dispute to True Lord Taiyi, who was surprised that the Wu brothers wanted Wu Daoxian to join the Myriad Dharma Sect.

True Lord Taiyi recognized the Ten Thousand Dharma Sect’s plan to use Gu Yu as a political weapon and focused on keeping Wu Daoxian from leaving the Taiyi Sect. He persuaded Tu Shan Jun to accept Wu Daoxian as a disciple, while news that Ou Yanyan had been detained reached a young man from the Ten Thousand Dharma Sect.

• True Lord Taiyi concluded that the Ten Thousand Dharma Sect had sent Gu Yu to stir up trouble before its branch ancestor arrived to settle matters and claim credit.
• True Lord Taiyi considered the Wu Lineage’s demand to take Wu Daoxian and decided the sect should retain him as a true inheritance disciple.
• True Lord Taiyi persuaded Tu Shan Jun to take Wu Daoxian as a disciple, and Tu Shan Jun agreed despite his reluctance.
• Xu Zhao told Meng Gu that Tu Shan Jun would take Wu Daoxian as his disciple and warned him to relay the news to the Wu brothers.
• A young man in a golden robe learned that Ou Yanyan had been detained and demanded to know who had dared detain someone from the Ten Thousand Dharma Sect.

Wu Daoxian chose to remain in Taiyi Sect rather than leave for the Eastern Wasteland, and Tu Shan Jun accepted him as his personal disciple and promoted him to true inheritance. The Wu brothers learned of the decision and discussed how it might benefit their family.

• Tu Shan Jun told Wu Daoxian that his family wanted him to leave Taiyi Sect for the Eastern Wasteland, where he might advance faster, and asked him to choose for himself.
• Wu Daoxian declared that he would stay in Taiyi Sect, and Tu Shan Jun asked him to become his disciple.
• Tu Shan Jun accepted Wu Daoxian as his personal disciple, promoted him to true inheritance, and gave him a talisman-treasure ring before the sect formally recorded the apprenticeship.
• The Wu brothers learned that Wu Daoxian had become Tu Shan Jun's disciple and discussed how his new connection could help their family.
• Wu Yunxu and Wu Yunyan wondered whether their actions might offend the Myriad Dharma Sect and considered asking Taiyi Sect's stewards and elders about Tu Shan Jun.

Tu Shan Jun refined a Nascent Soul Condensation Pill and gave it to the demon, which began its tribulation in Taiyi Sect’s rear mountains. Meanwhile, Gu Yu of the Myriad Laws Sect arrived at Taiyi Sect and accused it of detaining one of his sect’s cultivators, prompting Xu Zhao to summon the sect master.

• A Myriad Laws Sect warship destroyed a phantom anomaly in Domain Barrier Space, and its elder learned it would take half a year to reach the Star Luo Sea Region.
• Tu Shan Jun gathered substitute ingredients and refined one Nascent Soul Condensation Pill, though the other pill produced was malformed.
• The demon sensed the pill’s arrival, begged Tu Shan Jun for it, swallowed it, and went to the rear mountains to undergo its Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Gu Yu arrived outside Taiyi Sect with fellow Myriad Laws Sect cultivators and demanded that the sect master answer for allegedly detaining a cultivator.
• Xu Zhao challenged Gu Yu’s accusations and threatened him with Taiyi Sect’s formation disk until an old man persuaded Xu Zhao to summon the sect master.

Gu Yu and his Myriad Dharma Sect entourage entered the Taiyi Sect to pressure it over a disciple, but True Lord Taiyi rejected their demands. Gu Yu then used the sect’s authority to accuse Xu Zhao of causing mortal casualties, until an unknown figure intervened.

• True Lord Taiyi opened the formation and welcomed Gu Yu and his companions into the Taiyi Sect, where they were impressed by its strength and prosperity.
• Tu Shan Jun watched the demonic fiend prepare for its coming lightning tribulation and resolved to save it if necessary rather than lose his investment.
• Gu Yu demanded that True Lord Taiyi release Ou Yanyan and argued that the Taiyi Sect could not teach him, while True Lord Taiyi defended the sect’s right to keep its internal affairs private.
• Ou Yanyan knelt and took responsibility for his earlier conduct, and Gu Yu shifted his accusation to Xu Zhao, using a black-and-white token to expose deaths among mortals during the campaign against the Fireblaze Sect.
• A tall figure entered the Jade Official Hall and challenged Gu Yu’s interpretation of the Myriad Dharma Sect’s regulations, saying the ignorant should receive a warning and lose their Spirit Stones.

Tu Shan Jun confronted Gu Yu and the Ten Thousand Laws Sect delegation over Gu Yu’s arrogance, then moved to punish him despite the gray-robed elder’s warnings. The chapter ended with a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s projection blocking Tu Shan Jun’s strike, as Gu Yu and the elder called on the Venerable’s authority.

• Wu Daoxian rejected Wu Yunyan’s plan to rely on the Ten Thousand Laws Sect and insisted on remaining in his master’s school.
• Tu Shan Jun entered Jade Official Hall, forced the gray-robed elder back into his seat, and ordered Gu Yu to recite the Ten Thousand Laws Sect’s regulations.
• After Gu Yu finished reciting, Tu Shan Jun announced that he would sever Gu Yu’s cultivation to uphold the Taiyi Sect’s prestige.
• The gray-robed elder tried to stop Tu Shan Jun, but Tu Shan Jun shattered his protective astral qi and seized his spirit-treasure saber.
• Tu Shan Jun began to strike Gu Yu, but a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s projection appeared and blocked his palm.
• Gu Yu and the gray-robed elder appealed to the Venerable’s power, while Xu Zhao questioned whether the Taiyi Sect should intervene.

Tu Shan Jun suppressed Gu Yu and reduced his cultivation, then faced the Spirit Transformation Venerable’s phantom as it attacked the Taiyi Sect. The chapter ended with Tu Shan Jun preparing to meet the phantom’s Heaven Prison Palm with his own fist.

• Tu Shan Jun pinned the gray-robed old man and stripped Gu Yu’s cultivation down to the middle stage of Golden Core.
• Tu Shan Jun regrew his severed arm and raised the Heavenly One Soul-Splitting Grand Formation to protect the sect as the Spirit Transformation phantom awakened.
• Xu Zhao followed Taiyi True Lord’s orders and directed the sect’s elders and disciples to their duties, while True Lord Golden Ao ordered his forces to muster and wait to see who would win.
• The Spirit Transformation phantom shattered Tu Shan Jun’s arm, destroyed his blood phantom, and launched Heaven Prison Palm at him.
• Tu Shan Jun gathered black blood qi and leveled his fist against the incoming attack.

Tu Shan Jun fought Gu Yu’s Spirit Transformation phantom, using the battle to temper his true intent until he shattered the phantom with his second-layer Devour Heaven, Gnaw Earth technique. Gu Yu was left stunned by his grandfather’s defeat, while True Lord Golden Ao realized someone had begun undergoing tribulation.

• Tu Shan Jun endured the Spirit Transformation phantom’s Yin-Yang True Intent and Heavenly Punishment Finger, then chose to keep fighting without relying on his trump cards.
• The phantom absorbed Gu Yu’s blood, strengthened its divine consciousness, and challenged Tu Shan Jun with Heavenly Punishment Fist.
• Tu Shan Jun unleashed his second-layer true intent, reversed the phantom’s descending galaxy, and shattered its Yang Spirit form.
• Gu Yu collapsed in disbelief after his grandfather’s phantom was defeated.
• True Lord Golden Ao noticed the Taiyi Sect’s jubilant mood, then saw lightning strike as someone began undergoing tribulation.

Tu Shan Jun drove Gu Yu and the Wanfa Sect cultivators from Taiyi Sect, then gained insight into causality and transcendence while the demon head faced the final stages of its lightning tribulation. The chapter ended as the seventh bolt descended.

• Tu Shan Jun stripped away two levels of Gu Yu's cultivation and ordered Xu Zhao to escort the Wanfa Sect guests out.
• Gu Yu accepted responsibility for his recklessness, apologized to his followers, and ordered them to find territory for a branch sect before its warship arrived.
• True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun assessed the demon head's chances as it endured the final three layers of its tribulation.
• Tu Shan Jun reflected that Blood Yuan's past killings had burdened the demon head with karma, and he realized that becoming an immortal meant transcending the cycle of suffering.
• Tu Shan Jun formed the Fist That Strikes the Sea and declared that his cultivation method united knowledge and action.
• The seventh lightning tribulation descended upon the demon head.

The demon endured the eighth tribulation bolt and used a hidden Golden Core phantom to divert the final one, successfully reaching the early Nascent Soul realm. Restored by heaven’s blessings, it spotted Tu Shan Jun at what it believed was his weakest and prepared to exploit knowledge of his secret.

• True Lord Golden Ao met Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi, then learned that the demon undergoing tribulation was a Taiyi Sect elder.
• The demon survived the eighth tribulation bolt with its remaining power, but was left too injured to move as the final bolt gathered.
• Tu Shan Jun considered pulling the demon into the soul banner but chose to respect its decision to continue the tribulation.
• The demon released a hidden peak Golden Core phantom, which drew the final bolt before collapsing and buying the demon time to hide inside the charred flesh puppet.
• The demon survived the lightning, attained the early Nascent Soul realm, and recovered as the blessings of heaven and earth descended.
• The demon recognized Tu Shan Jun’s apparent weakness and planned to reveal his artifact-spirit secret to True Lord Golden Ao.

The devil formed a Nascent Soul and tried to use Tu Shan Jun’s weakened state to force him to remove its restraint, but Tu Shan Jun revealed he still controlled the devil’s puppet body. After the devil begged for mercy, Tu Shan Jun urged True Lord Taiyi to discipline the Taiyi Sect and its vassals more firmly, and the group returned to the sect.

• The devil celebrated forming a Nascent Soul and threatened to expose Tu Shan Jun’s secrets unless Tu Shan Jun freed it.
• True Lord Golden Turtle probed for the secret behind the devil’s confidence while True Lord Taiyi worried that their remaining strength and secrets could be exposed.
• The devil demanded freedom, but Tu Shan Jun tightened his control over its puppet body and showed that it could not escape.
• The devil apologized and knelt before True Lord Taiyi, while Tu Shan Jun assigned it a living punishment and told True Lord Taiyi not to spare the Wu family’s leaders.
• True Lord Golden Turtle left, and Tu Shan Jun carried the subdued devil as he and True Lord Taiyi returned.

Wu Yanyun and Wu Yunxu sought to repair their standing with Tu Shan Jun after the Wu family backed the wrong side, but Tu Shan Jun let them kneel while keeping them safe from retaliation. Meanwhile, Gu Yu chose to lead the Myriad Laws Sect into the Kunshi Lands, and its warship arrived half a year later.

• After learning that a Myriad Laws Sect disciple had been defeated and crippled, Wu Yanyun collapsed as Wu Yunxu urged him to seek mercy for the Wu family through Wu Daoxian.
• Wu Yanyun and Wu Yunxu tried to climb Pill Peak, but the mountain guard refused them entry under Elder Xu's orders, and they knelt outside the peak's central hall.
• Zhou Xinglie asked Tu Shan Jun to let the Wu brothers return, and Tu Shan Jun explained that their presence protected them from others who might attack the family.
• Tu Shan Jun questioned Zhou Xinglie about delaying his cultivation; after confirming that the Hehuan Sect cultivator he had met had not cursed him, Tu Shan Jun accepted their relationship.
• Gu Yu chose the Kunshi Lands as the Myriad Laws Sect's destination, and half a year later its enormous warship emerged through a spatial vortex bearing the Myriad Laws banner.

True Lord Taiyi reflected on Taiyi Sect’s growth, his concerns about Tu Shan Jun’s influence, and his own unresolved questions about his junior brother. Tu Shan Jun overcame his hesitation and began using diluted Full Moon Golden Core Liquid to raise the Soul Banner’s yin gods’ cultivation, then answered True Lord Taiyi’s urgent summons.

• True Lord Taiyi assessed Taiyi Sect’s orderly growth and need for more cultivators, and considered its rivals, disciples, and future expansion.
• True Lord Taiyi worried that Tu Shan Jun’s use of evil-path spells could set a harmful example for the sect’s disciples, but decided to discuss the matter with him later.
• Tu Shan Jun tested the diluted Full Moon Golden Core Liquid on a Qi Refinement yin god, raising the young man’s cultivation from the third layer to the fourth layer.
• Tu Shan Jun concealed the Soul Banner’s yin gods after the successful test, his hand trembling as he accepted responsibility for the risks.
• True Lord Taiyi summoned Tu Shan Jun by divine-sense voice transmission, and Tu Shan Jun arrived at the jade palace hall on Taiyi Peak.
• Tu Shan Jun grew angry when he thought of Zhou Xinglie, whose indulgence had left him unable to form a false core.

True Lord Taiyi prepared the Taiyi Sect for a dangerous expedition involving Spirit Transformation Venerables and appointed a black-robed cultivator as Supreme Elder to protect the sect in his absence. After bidding farewell to the sect’s disciples and entrusting them with the Soul Banner’s succession, he joined Tu Shan Jun and followed the jade slip into the sea.

• True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun discussed the Myriad Dharma Sect’s arrival and learned that the jade slip had set the time for their departure at midmonth.
• True Lord Taiyi gathered the Taiyi Sect’s elders and disciples, announced that he would lead the expedition in place of Tu Shan Jun, and assigned them responsibility for the sect and its cities.
• True Lord Taiyi introduced a black-robed Nascent Soul cultivator as the sect’s newly promoted Supreme Elder and told the disciples to recover the Soul Banner if he died.
• True Lord Taiyi met Tu Shan Jun at Pill Peak, and Tu Shan Jun entered the Soul Banner to strengthen him.
• True Lord Taiyi activated the jade slip, followed its map into the sea, and descended beneath the water.

True Lord Taiyi attended a secret gathering in the Crystal Palace, where Venerable Chuoyun called on Xingluo’s leading factions to help kill old monster He of the Qianping Domain. After agreeing to join the campaign in exchange for support for the Taiyi Sect, the cultivators began bargaining over the territories they expected to seize.

• True Lord Taiyi followed a jade slip to an undersea Crystal Palace and recognized it as a powerful spatial treasure, possibly a Dao weapon.
• True Lord Taiyi joined nine other Nascent Soul True Lords representing Xingluo’s top factions, while Tu Shan Jun watched from within the Soul Banner.
• Venerable Chuoyun announced a plan to kill old monster He, with himself and the Flood Dragon Clan ancestor confronting the Venerable while the gathered cultivators blocked reinforcements.
• The Beast Taming Sect, Flood Dragon Clan, Yuandao Alliance, Alchemy Alliance, Artifact Alliance, Hehuan Sect, and other factions pledged support and stated their grievances against Qianping.
• True Lord Taiyi agreed to participate on behalf of the Taiyi Sect and secured a promise that the sect council would relocate one billion war-displaced civilians to its lands.
• Venerable Chuoyun offered the Firecloud Sect and its 120 subordinate domains for the factions to divide, and the cultivators angrily argued over their shares.

The cultivators signed a profit-sharing contract before Venerable Chuiyun transported them to East Sea City. There, Taiyi explained that domain-barrier spaces were called the Netherworld in ancient texts, leaving Tu Shan Jun shaken by the familiar name.

• Venerable Chuiyun presented the Dao Heart Scroll, and the sect leaders and cultivators signed their honorific titles to secure their shares.
• A pale hand emerged from a greasy vortex in a domain-barrier space and took the contract; Venerable Chuiyun then brought the cultivators to East Sea City and told them to wait.
• True Lord Taiyi met Huansi of the Golden Turtle Palace, and they exchanged transmission talismans before entering the city.
• Taiyi accepted the dragonfolk's offer to cover his expenses and chose a superior room at Heaven Above the Clouds inn.
• Tu Shan Jun asked about the entity in the vortex, and Taiyi explained that ancient texts called the domain-barrier space the Netherworld, leaving Tu Shan Jun stunned.

Tu Shan Jun reflected on reincarnation and seemed to let go of an old burden before he and Taiyi went to the Immortal of Wine Pavilion. There, Taiyi obtained information about powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators and the Fire Cloud Sect's Venerable, leaving Tu Shan Jun convinced the costly purchase was worthwhile.

• Tu Shan Jun considered whether he and someone he had lost would meet again, then spoke with Taiyi about getting older and letting go of the past.
• Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi went to the Immortal of Wine Pavilion, where Taiyi met a strange Nascent Soul cultivator who delivered a wooden box of information for three hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones.
• After the seller left, Tu Shan Jun transformed the Soul Banner into a small, mobile body and discussed the limits of its transformation ability with Taiyi.
• Taiyi opened the box and showed Tu Shan Jun reports on the Kun Cloud Sect's Drooping Cloud Venerable, the Sky Roc Sect's Azure Sky Venerable, and the dragon clan's Old Dragon King.
• Taiyi revealed golden images identifying the Fire Cloud Sect's Venerable as the main subject of the information, and Tu Shan Jun agreed the purchase was worth the price.