Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi escaped Guangren Dao and endured the Beast Soul Refining Spirit Formation, gaining the Radiant Soul Candle Dragon mark and Late Origin Stage divine sense. As he began repairing the Primordial Great Formation, Mu Qing Ming was nearly overwhelmed, Sixteen intervened, and the Blood Colored Buddha swallowed Guangren Dao.

• Chen Sanshi, Mu Qing Ming, and Moo Chutai escaped through the Teleportation Array while Shentu Hai ordered the Heavenly Sword Sect to pursue them without leaving Zhang Huaiqing unattended.
• Chen Sanshi entered the hidden cave in Cloud Hidden Valley and activated the Beast Soul Refining Spirit Formation as Mu Qing Ming went out to hold off five Early Origin Stage cultivators.
• Chen Sanshi endured the formation’s agonizing trial, gained the Radiant Soul Candle Dragon mark, and raised his divine sense to the Late Origin Stage.
• Mu Qing Ming fought off the five attackers and then Wang Shouzhi, but his Nascent Soul was badly wounded while Chen Sanshi began repairing the formation disk.
• Sixteen emerged from Chen Sanshi’s talisman and blocked Wang Shouzhi’s attack, urging Chen Sanshi to hurry as the Blood Colored Buddha swallowed Guangren Dao.

Chen Sanshi repaired the Primordial Great Formation while Wang Shouzhi overwhelmed the defenders outside and the people of Guangren Dao faced the formation’s deadly refinement. Chen Sanshi completed the final formation core, and the formation began absorbing spiritual energy and even Wang Shouzhi’s attacks, leaving its full effect unknown.

• Chen Sanshi discovered that the formation could bargain with the Heavenly Dao to dissolve a tribulation and realized that three people might be breaking through together.
• Wang Shouzhi manifested his Late Nascent Soul Stage Dharma form, shattered Young Taoist Sixteen’s sword, and gravely wounded Mu Qing Ming.
• Mu Qing Ming activated his Reincarnation Dao Fruit and fought Wang Shouzhi, while the defenders of Guangren Dao struggled against the Inverted Great Formation and its blood-red scripture illusion.
• Chen Sanshi repaired the Eternal Brightness and Profound Nether formation positions as Wang Shouzhi’s sword attack threatened the cave.
• Chen Sanshi completed the final stroke, causing the three formation cores to rotate and devour spiritual energy, including Wang Shouzhi’s sword qi and spells.

Chen Sanshi completed the Primordial Great Formation, which revealed Zhang Huaiqing’s plan to merge his three bodies and break through to Deity Transformation while dissolving his Human Race Destiny. Wang Jun tried to attract that destiny with Dantai Duanhong’s secret art, but nearly all of it chose Zhang Huaiqing, leaving Wang Jun with only a tiny wisp.

• Shentu Hai sensed two surges of pure qi, and they destroyed Juqiao City’s Inverted Great Formation, saving the trapped cultivators and soldiers.
• Zhao withdrew with Feilian and the other demonic cultivators after deciding that Nascent Soul Cultivators could no longer affect the battle.
• Chen Sanshi completed the formation as Zhang Huaiqing’s three bodies merged through One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, revealing that Xu Taisu and Young Taoist Sixteen were also his forms.
• Zhang Huaiqing’s golden lotus dispersed the Deity Transformation lightning tribulation, and he returned his Human Race Destiny to heaven and earth.
• Dantai Duanhong taught Wang Jun a secret art to draw destiny, but most of it went to Zhang Huaiqing and only a tiny wisp settled on Wang Jun.

Wang Jun chose to cultivate at Yunlan Marketplace rather than risk dying while trying to save his besieged sect. Zhang Huaiqing reached Mid-Stage Deity Transformation, defeated Wang Shouzhi and Shentu Hai, while Chen Sanshi and Mu Qing Ming killed the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators; Shentu Hai then asked whether he and his disciples could choose how they died.

• Wang Jun rejected an immediate return to save his master and decided to cultivate at Yunlan Marketplace until he was strong enough to take revenge.
• Zhang Huaiqing emerged from the formation in Mid-Stage Deity Transformation and crushed Wang Shouzhi’s Dharma Form.
• Zhang Huaiqing confronted Shentu Hai over the Qingxu Sect’s Dao fortune, and the two vanished to fight elsewhere.
• Chen Sanshi and Mu Qing Ming intercepted the Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators; Chen Sanshi killed Daoist Master Dongwei, Rong Roujun, and Wang Shouzhi, while Mu Qing Ming killed the remaining opponents.
• After their battle, Shentu Hai admitted he could no longer hold on to the Dao fortune and asked Zhang Huaiqing whether he and his disciples could choose how they died.

Sikong Sheng tried to flee as the demonic army besieged Zijun City, but Shentu Hai arrived and fought alongside him to destroy Mo Wuya and reclaim Ningyou Dao. Shentu Hai and the Heavenly Sword Sect then sacrificed themselves against the demonic path; after the war ended, Chen Sanshi ordered Great Han’s army to withdraw and prepared to return home.

• Sikong Sheng abandoned Zijun City to escape, but Mo Wuya intercepted him in a canyon.
• Shentu Hai arrived, revealed that the scheme in Guangren Dao had failed, and led the Heavenly Sword Sect’s disciples into battle to defend Zijun City.
• Shentu Hai and Sikong Sheng fought Mo Wuya for two days and two nights, killed him, and reclaimed Ningyou Dao from the demonic army.
• Shentu Hai led the three thousand Heavenly Sword Sect disciples into Chaos Wasteland Yongzhou, where they died attacking Soul-Seizing Hall; Shentu Hai detonated himself after gravely wounding its Grand Elder.
• After the demonic army withdrew and the war temporarily ended, Chen Sanshi ordered Qi Cheng to prepare Great Han’s troops to return within three months.
• Chen Sanshi considered the threats facing Great Han and Mei Xiyue, then planned to return home before going to the Myriad Monster Kingdom to continue cultivating.

Chen Sanshi returned to Great Han after the battle at Guangren Dao, mourned the old comrades who had died while he was away, and prepared to lead another campaign after accepting Kunxu’s alliance request. Before departing, he stayed with his family for two months, then left to join Jiang Xiyue and deal with the demon seed.

• Zhang Huaiqing thanked Chen Sanshi for repairing the array disk and said Qingxu Sect would rebuild on the former Heavenly Sword Sect site; Mu Qing Ming urged Chen to open the Eastern Continent’s seal and hand over the demon seed, but Chen refused.
• Chen Sanshi returned to Chang'an after twenty years of war and learned that several longtime comrades, including Zhao Kang, Liu Jinkui, Xu Bin, and Zhu Tong, had died; Great Han had grown into one of the Twelve Great Sects.
• Dugu Ao asked Chen Sanshi for troops against the demon race, warned that Purple Sun Palace was searching for Jiang Xiyue, and questioned his plans for Great Han; Chen said he wanted to govern the land well rather than destroy its spiritual veins.
• Kunxu requested an alliance and troops, and Chen Sanshi agreed after Great Han secured control of the Five Regions of Tianshui; Jiang Xiyue’s letter reported her breakthrough to Mid Nascent Soul and urged him to come because the demonic seed had an important purpose.
• Chen Sanshi stayed in the palace for two more months at Chen Yunxi’s urging, then left at full speed while Gu Xinlan and Sun Li watched him depart.

After the Starry Abyss trial, Lin Qingfeng, Su Yao, Xing Hui, and their companion discovered a spreading rift filled with ancient dark power and fought the Shadow Cult at its source. They awakened the Core of Stars’ full power, sealed the darkness, and set out toward the challenges ahead.

• After leaving the Starry Abyss, Lin Qingfeng, Su Yao, and Xing Hui noticed that their powers and divine artifacts had changed.
• The four discovered a rift releasing black mist and raced toward its source, fighting creatures corrupted by the dark power along the way.
• At the rift’s heart, Xing Hui found an ancient stone stele, while Lin Qingfeng spotted approaching Shadow Cult members whose defenses resisted his arrows.
• The four battled the strengthened Shadow Cult but struggled against its powerful leader.
• Xing Hui proposed awakening the Core of Stars, and the four channeled its power through their divine artifacts to dissolve the dark energy and defeat the black-robed figures.
• Exhausted but victorious, the four left the sealed rift and continued their journey.

Chen Sanshi used the Universe Myriad Manifestations Pill to break through to the Heavenly Manifestation of Earth Realm, enduring a deadly tribulation and fighting a three-headed Taotie that interfered with it. After defeating the beast and absorbing its laws, he completed his breakthrough and gained the Three Heads Six Arms ability.

• Chen Sanshi refined the Universe Myriad Manifestations Pill and prepared to break through at Jiangshan.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon brought Chen Sanshi to the Five Elements Pool, where Jiang Xiyue guarded him as he began cultivating in a hidden realm.
• Chen Sanshi resonated with Heaven and Earth Laws, then provoked a heavenly tribulation and endured lightning that forged his Glazed Bones.
• When metal-element lightning struck, Chen Sanshi refined it into Geng Metal Primordial True Fire and discovered a three-headed Taotie was intensifying his tribulation.
• Chen Sanshi fought and killed the Taotie, absorbed its Heaven and Earth Laws, and broke through to the Heavenly Manifestation of Earth Realm with the Three Heads Six Arms ability.

After breaking through to the Fourth Realm, Chen Sanshi learned that a dangerous secret realm would open within ten years and began preparing for it. Nine years later, just as he mastered a new archery technique, he learned that Empress Gu Xinlan was gravely weakened and rushed back to Great Han, where he summoned physicians to save her.

• Chen Sanshi left the Blessed Land after his breakthrough, and Bai Suyin and Old Green Wood Demon told him about the ancient secret realm and their plan to enter it.
• The Witch said she wanted to search the secret realm for something before her time ran out and promised she might help Chen Sanshi make a cross-realm breakthrough.
• Chen Sanshi spent nine years cultivating, then developed the Fourth-Tier Arrow Way by drawing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into his arrows.
• Nianxia told Chen Sanshi that Gu Xinlan had collapsed after years of declining health, so he left the Blessed Land and hurried back to Great Han.
• Chen Sanshi returned two months later with renowned mortal physicians and precious medicines, then ordered the physicians to examine the pale and bedridden Gu Xinlan.

Chen Sanshi tried desperately to save Gu Xinlan, but she accepted that her mortal life was ending and died after spending her final years with him in Poyang; Sun Li also later passed away. Alone and still bound to a long road of cultivation, Chen Sanshi set out to meet the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and rejected Shen Guihuang’s warning to avoid conflict with the Tianshui Immortal Sect.

• Chen Sanshi summoned Shen Guihuang and Chen Duhe, but rejected Chen Duhe’s proposal to have Gu Xinlan cultivate corpse-refining or ghost arts, and Miaotan confirmed that Gu Xinlan’s mortal lifespan was ending.
• Gu Xinlan asked Chen Sanshi not to grieve or damage his cultivation over her, and they returned to Poyang with Sun Li to live quietly together.
• Gu Xinlan died in the fifty-ninth year of Tianwu, leaving Chen Sanshi a white robe and a short farewell letter.
• Sun Li told Chen Sanshi she could no longer keep practicing martial arts, asked him to teach her Spiritual Plant Cultivation, and died in the sixtieth year of Tianwu.
• After Sun Buqi urged him to honor the women’s wishes, Chen Sanshi left Chang'an to meet the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and pursue the matter of Mei Xiyue.
• Shen Guihuang warned Chen Sanshi that Purple Sun Palace was searching for Jiang Xiyue and that he should avoid opposing the Tianshui Immortal Sect, but Chen Sanshi vowed its elders would pay for underestimating him and sped away.

Chen Sanshi met Bai Suyin and the demon cultivators at Wisteria Ridge, where Geng Chenfeng attacked him over the deaths of his clansmen. Chen Sanshi defeated Geng Chenfeng after the tiger demon transformed into his true form, leaving him pinned to the earth.

• Geng Chenfeng ambushed Chen Sanshi with blood mist and servant ghosts, but Old Green Wood Demon, Bai Suyin, You Xun, and Zhe Yin arrived and stopped the fight to pursue a secret realm treasure.
• Chen Sanshi refused to spare Geng Chenfeng, who attacked again while the other demon cultivators watched.
• Chen Sanshi overwhelmed Geng Chenfeng in battle, shattering his Golden Saber and driving him into a valley.
• Geng Chenfeng transformed into a gigantic three-headed Heavenly Gang Tiger and charged Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi revealed his Three Heads Six Arms manifestation, severed the tiger demon's three heads, and pinned him to the earth with his spear.

Chen Sanshi killed a tiger demon and traveled with the demons toward the Xuanjing Mountain secret realm, where Baili Xuange ambushed You Xun. Huang Jiuyue and Tang Yingjue joined the fight against the late-stage martial cultivator, but Baili Xuange remained standing as he tore apart Huang Jiuyue’s phoenix attack.

• Chen Sanshi seized the tiger demon’s escaping essence soul and fed it to his Cracked Core Cicada Gu Worms, bringing them close to transformation.
• You Xun struck Bai Suyin for invoking Ancestor Bai Ze, then permitted her to continue to the secret realm with the group.
• Bai Suyin explained that Xuanjing Mountain was an ancient fortress lost in the void, and the group traveled toward the mist-covered eastern border of the Myriad Monster Kingdom.
• Baili Xuange attacked the group and fought You Xun, driving the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon into a severe disadvantage.
• Huang Jiuyue and Tang Yingjue joined You Xun against Baili Xuange, who withstood their combined assault and tore Huang Jiuyue’s jade phoenix in half.

Baili Xuange fought You Xun, Tang Yingjue, and Huang Jiuyue until human cultivators arrived and the fighting shifted toward the secret realm’s opening. After sparring with Chen Sanshi and giving him body-tempering pills, Baili Xuange departed, while Chen Sanshi and his companions reached the island where Geng Jingcheng was opening the gate.

• Baili Xuange was overwhelmed by the combined attacks of You Xun, Tang Yingjue, and Huang Jiuyue, but Shen Junzhuo and True Person Chongyuan arrived and agreed to cooperate with him.
• Cultivators from many factions gathered as a pillar of light revealed that someone was opening the secret realm, and the great cultivators rushed toward it.
• Baili Xuange questioned Chen Sanshi, tested his martial ability in a spar, and gave him Tianyuan Body Tempering Pills before leaving with a promise to fight him again.
• Chen Sanshi traveled with Old Green Wood Demon and Bai Suyin to the island at the eastern edge of the Myriad Monster Kingdom, where Geng Jingcheng controlled the formation opening the Teleportation Gate.

Chen Sanshi watched the great cultivators battle over the secret-realm formation, which collapsed after the key dagger shattered. The resulting Void Rifts offered a new way inside, and Chen Sanshi followed Mu Qing Ming through one, intending to grow stronger and deal with those watching him.

• True Person Chongyuan, Geng Jingcheng, Shen Junzhuo, and others fought to stop Baili Xuange from destroying the formation, while Master Nituan and Le Wen intervened to preserve the secret-realm entrance.
• The shockwave from Baili Xuange and Le Wen's clash shattered the dagger, causing the nearly opened entrance to collapse.
• The dagger's fragments tore hundreds and thousands of Void Rifts into the sky, and Huang Jiuyue led the cultivators into them before they closed.
• Baili Xuange, True Person Chongyuan, Shen Junzhuo, and other great cultivators followed into the rifts.
• Mu Qing Ming urged Chen Sanshi to enter, and Chen Sanshi flew into a rift, resolving to eliminate the people watching him once inside.

Chen Sanshi entered the secret realm, learned that the demon race’s saint ancestor was imprisoned in the Demon Suppressing Tower, and crossed the Black Fiend Nether Sea on a bamboo raft. He confronted three Evil God Path cultivators over a rare fruit and revealed that his strength had grown enough to overwhelm them.

• Geng Jingcheng learned that Geng Chenfeng had killed three of his clansmen and rushed off to seek revenge despite You Xun’s warning that they needed Chenfeng’s Guardian Envoy token.
• Chen Sanshi reunited with Wang Jun, who explained the Demon Suppressing Tower’s history and offered a Spirit Transformation Tribulation treasure in exchange for help retrieving the Taiyi Demon Suppressing Sword; Chen Sanshi declined to travel with him.
• Chen Sanshi discovered that bamboo on the deserted island could disperse the Black Mist and fashioned it into a raft to cross the Black Fiend Nether Sea.
• Cihang, Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord, and Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official fought over a four-thousand-year-old Dragon Phoenix Condensing Profound Fruit, which Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official seized.
• Chen Sanshi appeared and challenged the three cultivators over what happened in Guangren Dao, then broke free of their attacks and countered them with overwhelming strength.
• Cihang, Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord, and Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official realized they were no match for Chen Sanshi and decided to flee.

Chen Sanshi killed two Evil God Path Cultivators and helped Elder Miaotan subdue Master Cihang, then fled from Geng Jingcheng. He encountered Dugu Ao, who ordered him to help release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor and attacked when Chen Sanshi questioned him.

• Chen Sanshi killed Multi-Eyed Daoist Lord and the Mysterious Fiend Spirit Official, collecting their treasures and the Dragon Phoenix Condensing Profound Fruit.
• Elder Miaotan intercepted Master Cihang, defeated him with Buddhist Dharma, and sealed away his cultivation after he agreed to repent.
• Chen Sanshi discussed compassion with Miaotan, then detected Geng Jingcheng approaching and split up with her to escape.
• Chen Sanshi fled using the Blood Burning Method and Void Shifting Ruler, leaving talismans behind to delay Geng Jingcheng.
• Dugu Ao told Chen Sanshi to help release the Demon Race Saint Ancestor, then attacked him with a golden cauldron when Chen Sanshi questioned his motives.

Chen Sanshi was forced to travel with the demon elders toward the Demon Suppressing Tower, but he secretly led human cultivators to them and fled when battle broke out. After refusing to help Bai Suyin release the Demon Ancestor, he escaped the demons only to encounter Le Wen and the Inverse Mage demanding the same unknown item.

• Chen Sanshi fought Geng Jingcheng until Huang Jiuyue intervened with Ancestor Bai Ze's order, and the demon elders insisted he accompany them to the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• The demon group crossed the secret realm, broke through a powerful sword formation, and found ancient spirit plants near the tower.
• Baili Xuange, Shen Junzhuo, True Person Chongyuan, and Ximen Yu confronted the demon elders, while Chen Sanshi used a Gu Worm to guide them there and slipped away.
• Bai Suyin admitted that the demons intended to release the Demon Ancestor at Dugu Ao's request, but Chen Sanshi refused to trust her and escaped the Old Green Wood Demon's vines.
• Le Wen and the Inverse Mage blocked Chen Sanshi's path and demanded the item the demons had sought.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue were overwhelmed by Wen Le and Master Nituan until Wang Jun broke their barrier and helped them escape. The three evaded pursuit and fled deeper into the secret realm, where Wang Jun accepted Chen Sanshi’s thanks as an old friend.

• Chen Sanshi threw a bottle of immortal fire to drive back Wen Le and Master Nituan, but Wen Le attacked with the Soul Severing Plain Fan and an imitation Eternal Book that summoned mirror phantoms of Mu Chutai and three demons.
• Master Nituan used the Blood Lotus Sin Sea Basket to manifest Chen Sanshi’s victims, but he destroyed their phantoms before her Purple Rapier struck him and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Jiang Xiyue arrived and fought Wen Le and Master Nituan, while Chen Sanshi warned her not to awaken the demon seed and urged her to escape.
• Wang Jun broke the barrier with a sword aura of Late Nascent Soul strength and held off the pursuers long enough for Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue to flee.
• Wang Jun joined them in escaping deeper into the secret realm, and the three shook off pursuit after half a day of deploying formations.

Chen Sanshi learned that the Flowing Years Candle Palace could accelerate cultivation by trapping him in a world where time passed faster, but that entering it risked losing his memories and dying there. Determined to reach Deity Transformation before looming troubles arrived, he chose to enter alone.

• Gu Qingya led Chen Sanshi and the others to Lingyuan Mountain, where they found the Luoxiao Sect’s scripture repository mostly burned and discovered a Primordial Five Elements Flower in its Medicine Garden.
• Chen Sanshi asked about a place for a cross-realm breakthrough, and Gu Qingya explained that the Flowing Years Candle Palace on the Demon Suppressing Tower’s Eighth Floor could grant years of cultivation for days outside but erased entrants’ memories and could trap them forever.
• Chen Sanshi decided to risk entering the Flowing Years Candle Palace because he needed to cultivate quickly, while Wang Jun and Jiang Xiyue declined to join him.
• As the group climbed the tower, Wang Jun revealed that Luoxiao Sect had sought to seal the world’s spiritual veins, and Gu Qingya questioned whether Dantai Duanhong was still alive.
• At the Eighth Floor, Gu Qingya showed them the formation, and Chen Sanshi stood as the sole person prepared to enter; Gu Qingya gave him a wooden box and let him choose one item to bring.

Chen Sanshi entered Flowing Years Candle Palace with a white robe to recover his memories, while Gu Qingya’s allies trapped the arriving fiends in the Lightning Pool Bewildering Divine Great Array. Inside the secret realm, Chen Sanshi lived as Chen Xianyü, rose from a martial prince to a powerful cultivator, and continued seeking the truth about his unfamiliar life as he approached the limits of the realm.

• Chen Sanshi chose to bring a white robe into Flowing Years Candle Palace and plunged through its Teleportation Gate.
• Gu Qingya and Wang Jun discussed the fiends arriving for the Demon Suppressing Tower and hoped Chen Sanshi would return in time.
• The Lightning Pool Bewildering Divine Great Array trapped Geng Jingcheng, Wen Le, Master Nituan, and the other arriving cultivators.
• Chen Xianyü was born as the heir of King Yan Chen Zhi, grew into a gifted martial warrior, and learned that the emperor had arranged his father's death.
• After Jia Yu revealed the emperor's plot and died, Chen Xianyü raised an army, overthrew the imperial court, and later entered the Cultivation World.
• Chen Xianyü spent centuries cultivating both Immortal and Martial arts, reaching Late Nascent Soul as he sought to understand the realm's limits and his strange sense of familiarity.