Chapter Summaries

After sixty years of preparation, Wang Yu drew the Life Demon out of his body and escaped its pursuit using spatial techniques. A True Immortal intervened, permitted Wang Yu to attain the Dao, and ordered him to join the Tai Xuan Heaven lineage after ascension.

• Wang Yu advanced his Blood Lotus Furnace and Myriad Transformations True Artifact, then used the Profound Void Micro Formation and life-extending treasures to draw out the Life Demon.
• Wang Yu expelled the Life Demon from his body with Return and Concealment Transformation Yuan and countered its attack by transforming into an ice phoenix.
• Wang Yu fled, but the Life Demon sealed the Grand Yin Star with a net of flesh and blood and pursued him.
• Wang Yu broke the spatial seal with the World-Breaking Divine Ark and entered a passage toward another world's Grand Yin Star projection.
• A True Immortal froze the passage, permitted Wang Yu to attain the Dao, and instructed him to join the Tai Xuan Heaven lineage after ascension.
• The True Immortal sent the Life Demon back into the seal beneath the Sword Sect's Floating Immortal Mountain, while Wang Yu departed through the Grand Yin Passage.

Wang Yu arrived in the Mountain Sea Realm and discovered a scorched wasteland shaped by a sentient Hanba with Flame Dao Principles. After meeting Situ Qiutian, he learned about the realm’s ascension arrangements and sought a way to approach the Hanba, Empress Qingqing.

• Wang Yu recovered from cross-realm teleportation, found that his Placement Slot now showed progress in the Grand Yin Dao Principles, and sensed Corpse Qi beneath the scorched earth.
• Wei Clan’s young mistress led Elder Fu and their guards into the Hanba Red Domain to search for Senior Situ and save the Five Elements Corpse Workshop from Fang Long.
• Fang Long followed the party into the scorched lands, determined to kill the young mistress and seize the workshop.
• Wang Yu found Situ Qiutian cultivating with Hanba power in an underground cavern and interrupted his transformation to question him.
• Situ Qiutian told Wang Yu that Empress Qingqing ruled Crimson Blood Manor and had come from another realm to borrow the Mountain Sea Realm’s ascension channel.
• Situ Qiutian explained Lesser Extreme Palace’s ascension business, then admitted that he had entered the scorched lands without Empress Qingqing’s permission.

Wang Yu met Empress Qingqing after Situ Qiutian stole a Flame Calamity Ginseng, and learned that Xia Zun had manipulated events to threaten Qingqing’s ascension quota. Qingqing explained the Mountain Sea Realm’s crowded Ascension Channel, leaving Wang Yu considering how to bypass its queue.

• Empress Qingqing emerged from the flames and revealed that Situ Qiutian had absorbed her Flame Calamity Ginseng to seek a Drought Demon Physique.
• Situ Qiutian blamed Xia Zun for using him to provoke Qingqing and interfere with her ascension quota, so Qingqing knocked him unconscious.
• Wang Yu claimed to be a native of Yun Province and learned that Xia Zun had opposed Qingqing’s ascension by forming a bond with Ruthless Old Ancestor Li Chunyi.
• Qingqing explained that eight people ranked ahead of her in the Ascension Channel, which opened every hundred years and sent up only one person at a time.
• Wang Yu suggested finding a way to cut the ascension line, and Qingqing asked how.

Wang Yu proposed using the World-Breaking Divine Ark to carry prodigies across the Cosmic Sea, and Qing Qing agreed to help gather passengers in exchange for free passage. After learning about the Mountain Sea Realm from a Wei Clan elder, Wang Yu posed as the Wei Clan Progenitor and approached the clan’s crisis as a way to establish himself.

• Wang Yu showed Qing Qing the World-Breaking Divine Ark and proposed collecting fares from prodigies to repair it and take them across the Cosmic Sea.
• Qing Qing agreed to help Wang Yu draw prodigies to Lesser Extreme Palace by exposing her dispute with Honored Xia and challenging Li Chunyi, asking him to waive her fare.
• Wang Yu and Qing Qing noticed a group approaching the Red Land, and Wang Yu went to investigate.
• Wang Yu soul-searched Elder Fu and learned about the Mountain Sea Realm, its many Spirit Transformations, and the Wei Clan’s conflict with Fang Long and the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Wei Shuyue mistook Wang Yu for the Wei Clan Progenitor, and Wang Yu claimed he had returned after years seeking the Dao.

Wang Yu used the identity of Wei Wuxian to rescue the Wei Clan from Fang Long and the Purple Cloud Sect, then planned to challenge Honored Xia to establish his standing. He returned with Wei Shuyue to the Five Elements Corpse Market, where the Purple Cloud Sect had occupied the clan’s stronghold, and prepared to reclaim it.

• Wang Yu altered Wei Shuyue and Elder Fu’s memories so they recognized him as the Wei Clan Progenitor, then promised to avenge the clan against the Purple Cloud Sect and Honored Xia.
• Fang Long and the Purple Cloud Sect’s cultivators arrived, but Wang Yu subdued them, searched their souls, and refined them into a Blood Dao Human Pill that he gave Wei Shuyue.
• Wang Yu let Fang Long escape with a warning for Honored Xia, while he instructed Elder Fu to guard Wei Shuyue and met with Empress Qingqing beneath the Red Land.
• Wang Yu told Empress Qingqing that he would challenge Honored Xia to demonstrate his strength and attract allies for the World-Breaking Divine Ark; she agreed to meet him at Lesser Extreme Palace.
• Wang Yu took Situ Qiutian and Wei Shuyue’s group to the Five Elements Corpse Market, where Wei Shuyue reported that the Purple Cloud Sect had seized the clan’s stronghold.
• Wang Yu revealed that Fang Long was still on his way to Cloud Mist Mountain and declared that he would reclaim the market.

Wang Yu slaughtered the enemies in the Five Elements Corpse Market, put the Wei Clan in charge of rebuilding it, and reshaped its spirit veins into a powerful corpse-refining ground. As Yun Province’s forces complained to Honored Xia about his raids, she suspected the affair concealed something and had to decide how to respond.

• Wang Yu killed the villains in the market with the Yama Son of Heaven Sword, then gave Wei Shuyue a token and control of the Thunder Howler to restore the Wei Clan’s base.
• Wang Yu ordered Fu Qu to gather scattered Wei Clan members and capture escaped retainers, then replaced the ancestral portrait and planned to alter memories to support his claimed identity.
• Wang Yu used the Chaos Star Compass and the Heaven and Earth Alteration Great Art to reverse the Five Elements Corpse Market’s formation, creating five corpse-refining pits and drawing in nearby spirit veins.
• Wang Yu killed Nascent Soul cultivators who challenged his seizure of Yun Province’s spirit veins, while other forces appealed to Honored Xia at Cloud Mist Mountain.
• Honored Xia silenced the complaining sect leaders and concluded that Wang Yu’s actions seemed suspicious.

Wang Yu continued preparing his body for a future breakthrough while consolidating the Wei Clan’s power in Yun Province. When Honored Xia confronted him, he crushed her body with the Ice Hell Demon Seal, leaving only her Primordial Spirit alive.

• Honored Xia ordered her subordinate forces to retreat from the Wei Clan and contacted Li Chunyi, who agreed to investigate the mysterious Spirit Transformation expert.
• Wang Yu explained his Body Refinement training and the three barriers he would need to overcome to reach the Sixth Tier.
• Over the next three months, Wang Yu strengthened the Wei Clan’s position and secretly altered its members’ memories to establish himself as Wei Wuxian, its Progenitor.
• Honored Xia arrived at the Wei Clan assembly and questioned Wang Yu about how he had left and returned to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Wang Yu attacked Honored Xia with the Ice Hell Demon Seal, destroying her body while her Primordial Spirit escaped.

Wang Yu defeated Honored Xia and exposed that Li Chunyi’s love for her had been fabricated to help him cross a tribulation. Li Chunyi accepted Wang Yu’s Mortal World Heart Refining art and emerged with genuine emotions but weaker cultivation, while Wang Yu also invited Empress Qingqing to dual cultivate.

• Wang Yu seized Honored Xia’s Primordial Spirit and shattered Li Chunyi’s sword attack, absorbing its Ruthless Artistic Conception.
• Wang Yu revealed that Li Chunyi had created false memories of loving Honored Xia to use her as a tribulation target, and Li Chunyi asked how to resolve his cultivation problem.
• Wang Yu sent Li Chunyi into the Mortal World Reincarnation using the Mortal World Boat, and Li Chunyi accepted the trial.
• Wang Yu invited Empress Qingqing to refine her heart in the mortal world, then proposed dual cultivation based on their complementary Dao energies.
• After ten days, Li Chunyi emerged with genuine emotions, his cultivation reduced from Spirit Transformation Peak to the sixth layer, and gaps in his Ruthless Artistic Conception.

Wang Yu exploited Li Chunyi’s unstable foundation, discovered Honored Xia’s method for refining an Emotion Devouring Beast, and spent a year expanding the Wei Clan’s power and advancing his cultivation. He arrived at Lesser Extreme Palace for Li Chunyi’s gathering, where he planned to trade for rare resources and raise the World-Breaking Divine Ark with the assembled cultivators.

• Li Chunyi asked Wang Yu to use the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation again, then promised to host a Spirit Transformation Conference at Lesser Extreme Palace one year later.
• Wang Yu searched Honored Xia’s memories, learned how to refine an Emotion Devouring Beast, and realized it might help him pursue the Demonic Realm.
• Wang Yu developed the Five Elements Corpse Market, gathered Myriad Snake Refined Blood, and refined Honored Xia’s Primordial Spirit into Blood God Pills that increased his Magic Power.
• After a year of cultivation and preparation, Wang Yu traveled to Great Snow Mountain and met Lan Feng, who explained the gathering’s treasure exchange and Ascension Channel discussions.
• A Lesser Extreme Palace Nascent Soul Steward arrived and invited Wang Yu to meet Ruthless Old Ancestor Li Chunyi.

Wang Yu met with Li Chunyi and traded help with his Mortal World Secret Art for access to Lesser Extreme Palace’s resources and a palace at the Treasure Exchange Meeting. At the gathering, he bought several rare treasures and demonic corpses, while Li Chunyi covered the cost of three especially valuable items.

• Wang Yu learned how the Mountain Sea Realm’s Ascension Channel had developed and considered using the World-Breaking Divine Ark to ferry cultivators across realms.
• Li Chunyi told Wang Yu he was ready for a second Mortal World Reincarnation and offered three treasures from the exchange meeting in return for Wang Yu’s help.
• Wang Yu agreed to help Li Chunyi and secured permission to use a palace to meet fellow cultivators at the Treasure Exchange Meeting.
• Zhao Mo presented a reusable Wood Spirit Essence Pearl, which a Spirit Transformation cultivator bought despite its undisclosed limitations.
• Wang Yu exchanged a water-attribute Treasure Gourd and three hundred Top Grade Spirit Stones for a fierce beast demonic corpse.
• Wang Yu obtained Blood Yin Jade, a Seven-Ringed Divine Silkworm, and an Ancient Yin Nether Seal at Lesser Extreme Palace’s expense, then bought several other spiritual items himself.

Wang Yu recruited thirteen powerful cultivators to travel with him across the Cosmic Sea aboard his World-Breaking Divine Ark, collecting rare materials and treasures as their fares. After leaving Lesser Extreme Palace, he was ambushed by six cultivators and unleashed overwhelming power, leaving the battle still underway as he struck at the remaining attackers.

• Wang Yu invited wealthy cultivators ranked second through twentieth to discuss crossing the Cosmic Sea aboard his World-Breaking Divine Ark, and thirteen gathered with him in Ruthless Hall.
• Wang Yu accepted rare spatial treasures from the thirteen as payment for repairing the ark and gave them Mystic Spirit Son Jades so he could notify them when it was ready.
• Wang Yu collected his promised treasures from Li Chunyi, secretly altered the Illusionary Cycle Realm to torment him, and then left Lesser Extreme Palace.
• At Deer Call Plain, six concealed cultivators trapped Wang Yu, but he struck first and quickly defeated two Spirit Transformation Mid Stage attackers.
• Wang Yu summoned his Grand Yin Demon Dragon Dharma Idol and overwhelmed the four remaining Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivators while the watching passengers marveled at his strength.
• Wang Yu launched his strengthened Myriad Souls Slash at the remaining attackers, and the battle continued.

Wang Yu annihilated four Spirit Transformation cultivators who tried to rob him, then unleashed a devastating arrow that left a black ice mountain sealing the void rift and terrified the Mountain Sea Realm’s strongest cultivators. Back at the Five Elements Corpse Market, Qing Qing invited him to explore Withered Prosperity Mountain in exchange for Flame Calamity Ginseng, and Wang Yu asked her to reconsider after learning what happened at the Lesser Extreme Palace gathering.

• Wang Yu used Yellow Springs: Myriad Ghosts Devouring Body Realm and his body-refinement strength to kill two Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivators and seize their treasures and Cosmos Rings.
• Wang Yu fired the Sun Piercing Demon Bow, creating Dead Silence Black Mountain and frightening the hidden passengers into abandoning their plans against him.
• Li Chunyi, Zhao Mo, Lan Feng, and Bai Chengfeng inspected the black ice mountain, judged Wang Yu’s power, and resolved to befriend him rather than become his enemies.
• Qing Qing visited Wang Yu at the Five Elements Corpse Market and explained that Withered Prosperity Mountain held Venerable Withered Glory’s Kui Rong Cycle Secret Art, which might help her escape her zombie body.
• Wang Yu declined Qing Qing’s initial offers, but became interested when she proposed Flame Calamity Ginseng containing a trace of Flame Dao Principles; he asked her to learn about the recent battle before deciding whether to invite him.

Wang Yu prepared to advance his body refinement and agreed to accompany Qing Qing into Kui Rong Cave Mansion after she learned of his strength and accepted their dual-cultivation arrangement. At Withered Prosperity Mountain, Wang Yu identified the cave’s seasonal life-and-death trial and prepared to enter the autumn cicada carving, where he might inherit Venerable Withered Glory’s legacy and its accompanying karma.

• Wang Yu refined Spirit Transformation Demonic Corpses into Great Supplement Pills to support his Nine Condensations Nine Dispersals cultivation and planned to complete the Swallowing Heaven stage before ascending.
• After learning of Wang Yu’s battle at Dead Silence Black Mountain, Qingqing renewed her invitation and agreed to dual cultivate with him after their trip to Withered Prosperity Mountain.
• Wang Yu and Qing Qing reached the ancient forest and he used his Qi Gazing Golden Eyes to identify Withered Prosperity Mountain’s seasonal Earth Vein cycle.
• The pair passed through a hidden wondrous formation and found that Withered Prosperity Mountain was the stone-like remains of an enormous dead tree.
• At the autumn cicada carving, Qing Qing explained that the trial reenacted the cycle of life, old age, sickness, and death, and asked Wang Yu to help overcome it.
• Wang Yu warned Qing Qing that Venerable Withered Glory’s enemies might still live, then agreed to enter the trial and pursue the cave mansion’s legacy.

Wang Yu endured the Life, Old Age, Sickness, Death illusion, gained the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel, and discovered evidence that Venerable Withered Glory had been killed by a terrifying axe strike. After leaving Withered Prosperity Mountain with Qing Qing, he returned to the Wei Clan while wary of the force behind the attack.

• Wang Yu embraced the memories of his parents and experienced birth, old age, sickness, and death, forming a Death Sword and comprehending the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel.
• Wang Yu broke the illusion and refined the Four Seasons Heavenly Wheel, while Qing Qing said they had spent three months inside it.
• Wang Yu and Qing Qing approached Venerable Withered Glory's remains, and Qing Qing retrieved his Storage Ring and shared the Kui Rong Cycle Secret Art and other inheritance materials.
• Wang Yu saw the fatal axe wound on Venerable Withered Glory's spine and witnessed a vision of an axe-light killing him, then used Jade Void Glazed Wall to shield his heavenly secrets and karma.
• Wang Yu and Qing Qing left Withered Prosperity Mountain, discussed the limits of the secret art for Qing Qing, and postponed their promised dual cultivation.
• Wang Yu and Qing Qing separated at the Thousand Mile Red Land, and Wang Yu returned to the loyal Wei Clan.

Wang Yu spent five years in seclusion pursuing four projects: refining an Emotion Devouring Beast, advancing his cultivation, repairing the World-Breaking Divine Ark, and improving his weapons and robes. The beast and ark progressed well, his breakthrough plans remained uncertain, and he continued preparing equipment as he approached the end of his seclusion.

• Wang Yu arranged for the Wei Clan to gather Demon Beast Corpses and form marriage alliances across several provinces to expand his resource network.
• Wang Yu began refining an Emotion Devouring Beast with snake-beast essence blood and the Six Desires Heavenly Demons, setting it on course to hatch within half a year.
• Wang Yu made Blood God Pills from sealed Primordial Spirits and considered using his Grand Yin Star Soul and body refinement to overcome obstacles to Void Refinement.
• Wang Yu repaired the World-Breaking Divine Ark with spatial materials gathered by his passengers and planned to replenish its chaotic energy for future voyages.
• Wang Yu refined the Yama Son of Heaven Sword, collected materials for a new Dharma Robe, and used his knowledge of Feng Shui and the Grand Yin Dao Principles to guide his work as five years passed.

Wang Yu emerged from five years of seclusion with a powerful new defensive Spirit Treasure and prepared to ferry passengers across the Cosmic Sea. Qing Qing agreed to accompany him, though she and Wang Yu differed over whether to seek their future in the True Spirit Realm or the Demonic Cultivation World; a month later, the passengers gathered at Lesser Extreme Palace.

• Wang Yu completed the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Profound Crown, refined it into his Primordial Spirit, and discovered that it sharply reduced incoming attacks and restored his Magic Power.
• Wang Yu told his passengers to gather at Lesser Extreme Palace in one month so he could copy their Ascension Channel coordinates before crossing the Cosmic Sea.
• Qing Qing visited Wang Yu, and he asked her to postpone dual cultivation until they could ascend together; she proposed traveling onward to the Demonic Cultivation World, but Wang Yu chose the True Spirit Realm because of his ties and obligations there.
• Qing Qing accepted Wang Yu's decision and asked to accompany him across the Cosmic Sea, and he agreed.
• A month later, the passengers gathered at Lesser Extreme Palace as Wang Yu prepared to take them across the Cosmic Sea.

Wang Yu prepared to ferry the first group of passengers to the True Spirit Realm and learned from Lan Feng how the Vast Immortal Palace assigned Ascended Ones. After Li Chunyi supplied the realm coordinates, Wang Yu launched the World-Breaking Divine Ark into the Cosmic Sea.

• Wang Yu welcomed the passengers and asked Lan Feng about life and advancement paths in the True Spirit Realm.
• Lan Feng explained the Immortal Palace's routes for ordinary Ascended Ones, Dharma lineage inheritors, powerful descendants, and accidental arrivals.
• Wang Yu weighed the routes and concluded that neither service in the Merit and Salary Department nor fighting on the front lines suited him.
• Li Chunyi provided coordinates for all Nine Realms and marked their locations in the World-Breaking Divine Ark in exchange for Wang Yu's promise to help him with Mortal World Heart Refining.
• Wang Yu had the passengers board the ark, activated its Chaos Spirit Pearl power core, and sent it into the Cosmic Sea.

Wang Yu took the World-Breaking Divine Ark and its passengers through the Cosmic Sea to the True Spirit Realm, where the others entered while he chose to return to the Mountain Sea Realm. As Wang Yu and Qing Qing departed, Qing Qing considered ways to persuade him to join her in the Demonic Cultivation World.

• Wang Yu piloted the World-Breaking Divine Ark through the Mountain Sea Realm’s world barrier and showed the passengers the Cosmic Sea.
• Lan Feng explained the Thunder Spirit Swaying Banner, dangers in the Cosmic Sea, and the Void Kun as the group traveled for several months.
• The divine ark reached the True Spirit Realm, and Wang Yu declined to enter, saying he still had unfinished matters.
• The passengers, including Heavenly Dragon Buddha Son, entered the True Spirit Realm and left Wang Yu and Qing Qing aboard the ark.
• Wang Yu decided to return to the Mountain Sea Realm, while Qing Qing privately considered using dual cultivation to persuade him to travel to the Demonic Cultivation World.

Wang Yu and Qing Qing’s dual cultivation brought them both to the Spirit Transformation Eighth Layer, and Wang Yu later traded the Boundless Mortal World secret art to Li Chunyi for a True Spirit Fei corpse. He began absorbing the Fei’s bloodline and refining his body, leaving his advancement into the Time Furnace underway.

• Wang Yu and Qing Qing practiced dual cultivation aboard the Divine Ark, and both broke through to the Spirit Transformation Eighth Layer.
• Wang Yu met Li Chunyi at the Ascension Channel, gave him an Image Pearl to manage future passengers, and helped him augment the Boundless Mortal World secret art.
• Li Chunyi offered Wang Yu a True Spirit Fei corpse in exchange for the original secret art, and Wang Yu accepted the trade.
• Wang Yu returned to the Five Elements Corpse Market and entered secluded refinement, absorbing the Fei’s bloodline and completing his seventh Nine Condensations Nine Dispersals.
• Wang Yu began condensing the inner and outer Time Furnace as nine qi-blood nether dragons formed a cauldron around him to refine his undying body.

Wang Yu absorbed the Fei Corpse’s remaining essence, completing the first two steps of his Sixth Tier Body Refinement breakthrough and gaining Fei’s blood-related talents and Slaughter Sword Scripture. He left seclusion with his slaughter Dao Artistic Conception elevated to major accomplishment and a new path toward the Slaughter Dao Fruit.

• Wang Yu reflected on the risks of uniting his Star Soul with his body and set aside the issue until a future breakthrough.
• Wang Yu used the Fei Corpse’s nourishment to complete Nine Condensations Nine Dispersals, form his body furnaces, and perfect the first two steps of Sixth Tier Body Refinement.
• Wang Yu absorbed Fei’s essence through Myriad Transformation, gaining an innate affinity for taking life and elevating his slaughter Artistic Conception to an extreme conception.
• Wang Yu condensed the twin illusory swords Abhi and Yuantu from slaughter and blood intent, bringing his slaughter Dao Artistic Conception to major accomplishment.
• Wang Yu gained the Slaughter Sword Scripture, Fei’s exclusive racial inheritance that could lead to the Slaughter Dao Fruit, and considered using his Placement Slot to cultivate it.
• Wang Yu finished digesting the Fei Corpse’s benefits and decided to leave seclusion.