Chapter Summaries

Chen Mingxue was identified as the person destined to enter the Burial Immortal Ruins, but his poor comprehension disappointed the Chen Family’s ancestors. Zhao Sheng later trained with Chen Fu, whose powerful saber attacks failed to damage him.

• Chen Mingxue heard rumors of a strange treasure and was summoned to the Hall of Affairs, where he recognized spirals on a jade panel and was declared the person the family had been seeking.
• Zhao Sheng brought Chen Mingxue to the Burial Immortal Ruins; after returning, Chen Mingxue’s cultivation surged to Qi Refining Level Nine.
• The ancestors tasked Zhao Sheng with teaching Chen Mingxue the summoning ritual, but after half a year Chen Mingxue still could not remember the incantation, and Flying Swan Ancestor summoned him to Flying Swan Cave.
• Chen Fu attacked Zhao Sheng with a Top-Grade Spirit Tool during training, but Zhao Sheng’s invisible lightning force shattered the saber lights without leaving a mark.

Zhao Sheng tempered his body on Moonlight Star, prepared his spirit tools, and accompanied Chen Mingxue into the Burial Immortal Ruins at the Flying Swan Ancestor’s request. There, he encountered Daoist Feng Fengzi, who recruited him to explore the Immortal Palace Ruins on Grey Mountain, leaving Zhao Sheng committed to an expedition he suspected concealed a larger plot.

• Zhao Sheng tested Chen Fu’s Top-Grade Spirit Tool against his defenses, then gave him a high-grade Core Condensation Pill and entrusted him with caring for the household.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to Moonlight Star and used its harsh environment to temper his body and weaken the overactive Cell Willpower that had stalled his progress as a Martial Saint.
• Zhao Sheng rewarded Chen Shou for tending the six Immortal Devouring Silkworm cocoons and continued cultivating his lightning essence, gourd, and wooden swords.
• The Flying Swan Ancestor summoned Zhao Sheng and Chen Mingxue to enter the Burial Immortal Ruins, where Chen Mingxue regained his liveliness after crossing over to the long street.
• Daoist Feng Fengzi preached the Great Dao of Wind and recruited helpers to explore the Immortal Palace Ruins atop Grey Mountain, offering participants a token redeemable for a wish from the Formless Immortal Sect.
• Feng Fengzi personally invited Zhao Sheng to join the expedition, and Zhao Sheng accepted because he felt bound by Feng Fengzi’s earlier kindness and was curious about the ruins.

Zhao Sheng learned that Feng Fengzi had recruited a vast company for an expedition, then joined the group as they left the long street and traveled toward Grey Mountain. As the ruins swallowed the street behind them, an oppressive silence settled over the procession.

• Zhao Sheng traded for Deep Space Lightning Iron, learned from Sha Jiutong that Feng Fengzi had invited many cultivators with generous rewards, and agreed to travel with him and three companions.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Flying Swan Cave, where Flying Swan Ancestor warned him to guard against greed and anger and to return alive.
• Three months later, Zhao Sheng returned to the long street and reunited with Sha Jiutong, Black Monk, Gong Sanchang, and BluePrint Hermit; he silently severed BluePrint Hermit's weapon cord and declined Black Monk's invitation to convert.
• Feng Fengzi and two other old Daoists distributed Righteous Heart Talismans and led several hundred people out of the long street toward Grey Mountain.
• After traveling dozens of li through the ruins, Zhao Sheng watched the long street disappear behind them and felt his Will dim beneath the oppressive silence.

Zhao Sheng and his companions entered the Inner Immortal Palace through Grey Mountain, where Feng Fengzi warned them of its deadly restrictions and endless corridors. After running more than two thousand miles through an unchanged passage, the five stopped to rest, troubled by their rapidly draining stamina and the absence of marks left by those ahead.

• Zhao Sheng resisted the giant beast skeleton’s soul-bewitching effect and saw others consumed by Pale Flames, while Black Monk warned him not to look too closely.
• Feng Fengzi handed out recruitment tokens, and the surviving party reached Grey Mountain before descending into a cavern and gathering outside the Inner Immortal Palace.
• Feng Fengzi distributed warning pills and explained that entrants could choose among hundreds of fissures and corridors, while he and his two junior brothers waited outside.
• Zhao Sheng, Sha Jiutong, Black Monk, Gong Sanchang, and BluePrint Hermit agreed to travel together and entered a corridor already explored by three people.
• The five ran for more than two thousand miles without seeing anyone or finding marks from the travelers ahead, and they stopped when BluePrint Hermit noticed their stamina was draining unusually fast.

Zhao Sheng and the others were trapped in a passageway that forced them onward while steadily draining their vital essence. As more ancient bones and ruined treasures appeared, Sha Jiutong restrained BluePrint Hermit and treated him as food; the chapter ended with Sha Jiutong spotting fresh bones ahead.

• BluePrint Hermit, Gong Sanchang, Sha Jiutong, Black Monk, and Zhao Sheng continued running through the passageway, where Sha Jiutong listed signs that its dimensions and vital-essence drain were changing.
• Gong Sanchang turned back, but later reappeared from behind the group despite never having reversed direction, proving that the passageway forced travelers onward.
• The group found increasing numbers of gnawed human bones and broken weapons as the passageway grew larger, while BluePrint Hermit repeatedly begged for food and Zhao Sheng offered Black Monk Bigu Pills.
• Sha Jiutong struck BluePrint Hermit, restrained him, and carried him forward as the others followed, while Gong Sanchang urged Zhao Sheng and Black Monk to resist Sha Jiutong.
• The passageway drained the group's vital essence ever faster, and two days later Sha Jiutong stopped and exclaimed that he had found fresh bones.

Zhao Sheng and his companions pursued the people ahead through a passage where time flowed differently and their desires grew dangerously intense. As the passage filled with unseen ash and fungal horrors, they encountered a surviving Great Ability whose jade bones remained even as hunger and madness consumed him.

• Sha Jiutong fed on BluePrint Hermit before Zhao Sheng, Gong Sanchang, and Black Monk followed the trail of bones through a passage that steadily expanded.
• Zhao Sheng found a crystallized bone, and the group discovered from a starving survivor that time inside the passage passed far faster than time outside; Sha Jiutong killed the survivor and carried the bodies onward as food.
• After months of travel, Sha Jiutong devoured the corpses and ambushed Gong Sanchang, while Zhao Sheng realized the passage magnified hunger and other desires.
• Zhao Sheng saw ash and monstrous fungal growths by focusing his will, then shielded himself from the ash with its radiance while Black Monk remained unaware of the danger.
• Sha Jiutong attacked a living creature that burst from a bone pile, and Zhao Sheng recognized his opponent as a deranged, emaciated Great Ability with a jade-like skeleton.

Zhao Sheng and his companions encountered the starving Body Integration cultivator Jin Heng, who explained the dangers of the Endless Corridor and the rare ways to escape. Guided by Jin Heng, they reached a dying living grotto-heaven and began harvesting its treasures.

• Sha Jiutong attacked the weakened Jin Heng, but Zhao Sheng and Black Monk intervened before Jin Heng warned them that he knew a way out.
• Jin Heng introduced himself, explained that the Endless Corridor trapped cultivators for thousands or millions of years, and described the Six Desires Heavenly Demon and the Space-Time Barrier.
• Zhao Sheng, Black Monk, and Sha Jiutong followed Jin Heng deeper into Skeleton Land, where Jin Heng gave Zhao Sheng a crimson True Form Spirit Treasure as repayment for food.
• Jin Heng led the group to a living grotto-heaven whose plants were withering, and Zhao Sheng and the others rushed in to collect its spirit medicines and heavenly fruits.

Zhao Sheng and his companions fled an overwhelming Ant Demon Tide that erased the Spirit Plant Grotto-Heaven and everything inside it, while he used Space-Time Grand Shift to get them beyond the demons’ hunting range. Elsewhere, Paper Doll Child and Jade Skeleton killed two fleeing survivors, and Zhao Sheng then appeared in a strange vision as parts of his body became monstrous and animated.

• Zhao Sheng harvested spirit plants until a starving Giant wearing a bull-skull helmet rushed into the grotto-heaven and devoured the plants.
• Zhao Sheng sensed an anomaly in his will as Jin Heng arrived with a Jadeite Wood Crystal and warned everyone to flee the approaching Ant Demon Tide.
• Jin Heng, Black Monk, and Zhao Sheng fled as the Human-Headed Ants devoured the grotto-heaven and erased the bull-headed Giant.
• Jin Heng warned that the group remained within the demons’ hunting range, so Zhao Sheng used Space-Time Grand Shift to carry Jin Heng and Sha Jiutong beyond it.
• Jin Heng identified the Human-Headed Ants as powerful Lust Heavenly Demons and marveled at Zhao Sheng’s space-time talent, while Sha Jiutong mourned his lost master.
• Paper Doll Child and Jade Skeleton killed two survivors who fled their battle, and Zhao Sheng later appeared in a dark vision as his eyes, tongue, teeth, and hand transformed into living creatures.

Zhao Sheng strengthened his willpower while traveling through the Endless Corridor with Jin Heng and Sha Jiutong, until Grand Venerate Mo Xian carried them to a gathering of ancient Tribulation Transcenders. Their reunion turned hostile when Paper Child attacked Zhao Sheng and his companions, prompting Mo Xian to intervene.

• Jin Heng awakened Zhao Sheng from a Sloth Heavenly Devil's dream and taught him the Yellow Millet Strange Technique in exchange for Zhao Sheng's promise to take him along if escape became possible.
• Zhao Sheng spent two years tempering his Cell Willpower, subduing it throughout his body and gaining the ability to fly through the air by willpower alone.
• Grand Venerate Mo Xian approached Zhao Sheng, Jin Heng, and Sha Jiutong atop a gigantic skeletal monster and forced them to accept a ride toward an approaching escape opportunity.
• Stone Grandfather, Paper Child, and Jade Skeleton gathered as their strength waned, and Mo Xian arrived with Zhao Sheng and his companions.
• Paper Child attacked Zhao Sheng, Jin Heng, and Sha Jiutong with paper figures, but Mo Xian destroyed them and declared that they were his possessions.

Zhao Sheng survived the arrival of five Tribulation Transcendence powers, earned the trapped cultivators’ gratitude by sharing food, and killed Burning Wolf when he tried to seize it. Outside the corridor, Feng Fengzi entered with his two junior brothers after the jade tablet revealed a route to the black spot, while Zhao Sheng discovered that awakened Source Spirit Sense unlocked rapid progress in the Size Altering Immortal Art.

• Grand Sun Grand Lord arrived at Feng Qiu, and the five great powers joined their wills to activate a black beam from the Crystal Pillar.
• Sha Jiutong pointed out nearby Spirit Treasures, but Zhao Sheng refused to risk taking them while the Old Monsters were occupied.
• Zhao Sheng shared ancient trees with nearly a hundred starving arrivals, earning their gratitude and receiving jade bones and magical treasures in return.
• Feng Fengzi saw red lines converge on a black spot on his jade tablet and led his two junior brothers into the corridor.
• Zhao Sheng activated the Size Altering Immortal Art and tenfold Thunder Battle Body, then killed Burning Wolf with one punch after Burning Wolf tried to take his food.
• Zhao Sheng learned that the Size Altering Immortal Art required awakened Source Spirit Sense and reached its Entry Level after more than half a month of cultivation.

After the black pillar vanished, Stone Grandfather revealed the Ten Thousand Treasures Ship and the six Grand Venerates forced most of the gathered cultivators to awaken their Source Spirit Sense. Hao Yang then forcibly made Zhao Sheng the master of the Grand Sun Shield, explaining that he wanted Zhao Sheng’s Space-Time Grand Shift talent as a backup escape plan.

• Feng Fengzi and his two junior brothers arrived at the black pillar, where Paper Child escorted them to meet the Grand Venerates.
• After half a year, the pillar disappeared, and Stone Grandfather unveiled the Ten Thousand Treasures Ship, also called the Sky Breaking Boat.
• The six Grand Venerates divided more than eighty cultivators among themselves and forced them to awaken their Source Spirit Sense; nine souls collapsed, while seventy-six cultivators survived.
• Mo Xian took the spirit herbs and other plants Zhao Sheng had stored, while Hao Yang isolated Zhao Sheng from the others and announced that he intended to acknowledge him as master.
• Hao Yang forcibly bound the Grand Sun Shield to Zhao Sheng, then revealed that he had chosen Zhao Sheng for his Space-Time Grand Shift talent and that the other Grand Venerates had discovered Zhao Sheng’s secret too.

The Ten Thousand Treasures Ship began its ascent through the trials above the Sky Veil Continent, with its passengers linked through the Myriad Spirits Realm. After crossing the Ash Layer, the ship entered the Whispering Layer, where maddening murmurs began turning passengers into Six Desires Heavenly Demons.

• Stone Grandfather linked the passengers' spirit senses through the Ten Thousand Treasures Ship and launched it skyward, with Zhao Sheng observing from the top deck.
• The passengers used the ship's amplified willpower to fight off swarms of Six Desires Heavenly Demons as it climbed through the Ash Layer.
• Stone Grandfather explained that four major trials lay ahead: the Ash Layer, the Whispering Layer, the Demonic Thought Layer, and the Space-Time Barrier.
• After more than half a day of ascent, the ship entered the dark Whispering Layer, where irresistible murmurs began consuming the passengers' reason.
• Stone Grandfather repeatedly roused those overcome by the whispers, but passengers continued to mutate and become Six Desires Heavenly Demons as the Grand Venerates fought them off.

Zhao Sheng and the Great Venerables crossed the Whispering Layer and entered a True Immortal Demonic Thought, where Zhao Sheng was drawn into a bizarre imitation of Hidden Dragon Pavilion. He recognized the unstable illusion and confronted a monstrous entity that had transformed the other Great Venerables into grotesque objects, while Feng Fengzi's howls echoed nearby.

• The six Great Venerables activated the Six Extremes Star Array and drove the Ten Thousand Treasures Ship through the Whispering Layer into the Demonic Thought Layer.
• Grand Sun Grand Lord told Zhao Sheng that time in the Demonic Thought Layer was distorted by a True Immortal's domain, and the Great Venerables spotted a descending demonic thought.
• A huge white jade pearl pulled Zhao Sheng away from the ship and deposited him in an uncanny version of Hidden Dragon Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng followed eerie signs into the rear hall, where he found a mongrel dog, Grand Venerate Mo Xian's bandages, and what appeared to be Jade Skeleton and Paper Child trapped in the illusion.
• Zhao Sheng realized the scene was an unstable illusion formed by a True Immortal Demonic Thought and challenged the doglike entity about the fate of the Great Venerables.
• The entity said Zhao Sheng was the only living being to enter without being twisted by the rules, while Feng Fengzi's anguished howls began echoing through the room.

Zhao Sheng escaped the ruined realm after agreeing to help the mongrel’s immortal demonic thought reincarnate, but he suspected Feng Fengzi had been left under its influence. Back in the Big Tree Realm, Zhao Sheng’s cultivation rose to the third level of the Golden Core Realm, and he discovered the Great Dao Golden Book had followed him.

• The mongrel offered Zhao Sheng a Great Dao Golden Book and demanded that he refine its demonic intent, place its immortal thought in a Zhang family’s fetus, and later take that person as a disciple; Zhao Sheng agreed to escape.
• The mongrel entered the Yellow-skinned Gourd, and the room’s horrors awakened, causing Zhao Sheng to lose consciousness.
• Zhao Sheng awoke beside Feng Fengzi, who said the other Great Venerables had fallen and offered to take Zhao Sheng as his personal disciple; Zhao Sheng refused and accepted Feng Fengzi’s jade token instead.
• After Feng Fengzi left, Zhao Sheng suspected the True Immortal Demonic Thought had altered his memories and would eventually corrupt him; Zhao Sheng searched the area, disguised himself as Gong Sanchang, and returned to the Big Tree Realm.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed a vast surge of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy with the Yellow-skinned Gourd’s help, reaching the third level of the Golden Core Realm after seven days and nights.
• Zhao Sheng found the square Golden Plate in his Xumi Space and recognized it as the Great Dao Golden Book.

Zhao Sheng spent three years refining the demonic thoughts in his gourd and helped Chen Shou survive a Golden Core tribulation, then gave Chen Mingzhi a treasured bracelet and cultivation materials. The chapter ended with Zhao Sheng successfully memorizing and speaking the Dao Sound “Kong” for a Great Dao True Script.

• Zhao Sheng used his will flame to refine the demonic thoughts inside the Yellow-skinned Gourd for three hours, but the radiance remained unharmed.
• Three years later, Zhao Sheng watched Chen Shou pass his Golden Core tribulation with the help of treasures and formations, and Chen Shou swore lasting loyalty to him.
• Chen DaCheng arranged for Chen Shou to continue serving Zhao Sheng while ensuring Chen Shou’s direct descendants would be entered into the family genealogy.
• Zhao Sheng gave Chen Mingzhi a Vermilion Bird Bracelet and materials to help her study the Grand Sun Heaven Burning Art, then ordered someone to investigate who had given her a rainbow skirt.
• Zhao Sheng repeatedly studied the Great Dao True Script in the golden plate until he memorized its configuration and spoke its Dao Sound, “Kong.”

A powerful visitor from the Upper Realm arrived on Leaving Dust Island, killed Yu Xuantong, and forced the Big Tree Realm’s cultivators to submit before heavenly tribulation suppressed his strength. Later, Zhao Sheng brought his gains from resolving the Feng Fengzi matter to Flying Swan Ancestor, leaving the ancestor worried about what Zhao Sheng might ask for in return.

• Yu Xuantong arrived at Leaving Dust Island’s forbidden teleportation formation as it activated, and a golden-armored man appeared from the resulting vortex.
• The golden-armored man killed Ancestor Bao Qian and Yu Xuantong, while two other Nascent Soul Ancestors begged for mercy and answered his questions.
• The golden-armored man broke through the Seven Colors Barrier until Mirror Wu True Lord opened it, then suppressed his aura when heavenly tribulation descended.
• Dozens of Nascent Soul Ancestors knelt before the golden-armored man, and Leaving Dust Island gained its first Island Master the following night.
• Zhao Sheng visited Flying Swan Ancestor and presented a mountain of treasures from resolving the Feng Fengzi matter, including many Dharma treasures whose Treasure Seals and spirituality had vanished.
• Flying Swan Ancestor offered Zhao Sheng access to the Chen Family’s treasure vault, then grew worried when Zhao Sheng gave the treasures to the family without asking for anything.

Zhao Sheng traded Great Ability Jade Bones to Righteous Awareness Ancestor for help and the Devour Fiend Refine Demon Art, then advanced his Golden Core cultivation while his family celebrated several Foundation Establishment breakthroughs. The chapter left Zhao Sheng refining Great Sun Purple Qi near the world membrane when an unexpected encounter seemed imminent.

• Zhao Sheng showed Flying Swan Ancestor the Great Ability Jade Bones, prompting him to summon Righteous Awareness Ancestor from seclusion.
• Righteous Awareness Ancestor accepted a jade-bone skull from Zhao Sheng, promised to discipline Green Fiend True Person's grandson, and gave Zhao Sheng the Devour Fiend Refine Demon Art.
• Chen Shou fed the Immortal Devouring Silkworms Golden Core demonic beasts as they grew and devoured the carcass of an Ink Cloud Flying Tiger.
• Zhao Sheng broke through to the sixth level of Golden Core, while First Madam, Second Madam, Third Madam, Seventh Madam, and Chen Mingzhi successively established their foundations.
• Chen Mingren resented his father's favor toward Chen Mingzhi and set out to visit Chen DaCheng and his wife to find a husband for his eldest sister.
• Zhao Sheng repeatedly teleported near the world membrane to gather and refine Great Sun Purple Qi, unaware that an unexpected encounter might await him.

Zhao Sheng encountered Yu Chan and the fleeing remnants of Pacifying Sea Palace as Mirror Wu True Lord’s forces pursued them. Pacifying Sea True Lord Yu Wu confronted the Leaving Dust Island Master and begged him to spare Yu Chan and the sect’s survivors, but the Island Master rejected his plea.

• Yu Chan led Pacifying Sea Palace’s treasures and elite disciples beyond the realm while Yu Sheng and other disciples stayed behind to submit.
• Zhao Sheng appeared in the Disc Boat’s path, escaped Yu Chan’s attack, and warned her that pursuers were approaching.
• Yu Chan met the fleeing Pacifying Sea Palace elders, but Mirror Wu True Lord arrived, captured her with the Profound Manifestation Mirror, and attacked the remaining survivors.
• Yu Wu called for the Leaving Dust Island Master and offered himself in exchange for Yu Chan and the survivors’ escape.
• The Leaving Dust Island Master refused to accept Yu Wu’s offer, questioning whether he had any right to negotiate.

The Leaving Dust Island Master crushed the Pacifying Sea Palace’s resistance and tried to seize Zhao Sheng after sensing his Half-Immortal Spirit Body, but Zhao Sheng escaped to his cultivation chamber. As Zhao Sheng worked to refine demonic thought and restore his Spirit Treasures, news of the overseas upheaval spread through the Divine Continent and a wanted notice reached its powerful families.

• Mirror Wu True Lord urged Yu Wu to submit, while Ancestor Chang Geng surrendered and was devoured by the Leaving Dust Island Master.
• The Leaving Dust Island Master struck Yu Wu down, demanded surrender from the survivors, and sensed Zhao Sheng hiding a hundred li above them.
• The Leaving Dust Island Master tried to capture Zhao Sheng and, after Zhao Sheng vanished, threatened the crowd and questioned Yu Chan about him.
• Zhao Sheng returned to his cultivation chamber, suspected the Leaving Dust Island Master was a Void Return Half Immortal, and decided to change his appearance by growing a beard.
• During secluded cultivation, Zhao Sheng refined demonic thought and nurtured the Spirit Treasures Fire Dragon and Black Abyss as reports of the overseas upheaval spread across the mainland.

After learning that his adoptive father, Chen DaCheng, planned to enter the dangerous Moon Essence Dongtian, Zhao Sheng studied the assembly and decided to seek a way in himself. Meanwhile, Chen Zhi asked Shi Fei to deal with Luo Xingcheng, and Zhao Sheng met a mysterious golden-robed man to pursue information.

• Chen Daqian showed Zhao Sheng a wanted notice depicting someone who looked exactly like him, and Zhao Sheng convinced him the man could not be him.
• Zhao Sheng kept a low profile for twenty years, advanced to Golden Core Great Perfection, and watched his children and grandchildren grow and cultivate.
• Chen DaCheng told Zhao Sheng he had obtained a spot in the Moon Essence Assembly and intended to risk entering Moon Essence Dongtian to seek a chance at Nascent Soul.
• Zhao Sheng researched the assembly, learned that the Chen Family had only one entry spot, and decided to find another way inside using his five-colored Black Alliance membership.
• Chen Zhi asked Shi Fei to warn Luo Xingcheng to stop pestering her, offering her Heavenly Heart Meteorite Jade in return.
• Zhao Sheng, disguised as a whiskered old man, sat down with a golden-robed man at a lakeside pavilion, with Jade Slips laid out between them.