Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen warned Xie Lingyun that the Spiritual World stripped entrants of their powers and housed beings far beyond Yang Spirit cultivators, while resolving to enter alone and leave Little Bean behind. At the Pacifying Border Prince's Mansion, the king discovered blood-red lotus patterns on his ancestral carp and crimson soil across the ancestral vein, then summoned Gu Mingyue, who sensed a terrifying evil but could not explain it.

• Zhang Chen refused to travel with Xie Lingyun because his Great Black Dog enemy made the Spiritual World too dangerous, and he explained that entrants became ordinary mortals there.
• Xie Lingyun hurried away to revise her plans, while Zhang Chen told Little Bean he would enter the Spiritual World alone and promised to return with its fortunes.
• The Pacifying Border King found blood-red lotus patterns on his ancestral carp and discovered that the mansion's ancestral-vein soil had turned crimson.
• The Pacifying Border King summoned Gu Mingyue to inspect the carp, and Gu Mingyue sensed a dreadful evil in its markings but could not identify or explain it.

Zhang Chen spent twenty-five days accumulating points for the Hercules Moving Mountain Method, then declined Xie Lingyun’s invitation to enter the Spiritual World and advanced his Qi Refining Technique through its second realm. After perfecting the Mysterious Pass Acupoint, he witnessed a ray of light emerge within the chaos of his body.

• Gu Mingyue concealed his alarm over the blood-red lotuses from the Pacifying Border King and falsely assured him that Zhang Shicheng’s transformation was progressing smoothly.
• Zhang Chen unlocked the Hercules Moving Mountain Method on his Golden Finger Interface, saw that its first upgrade required fifty million points, and decided to invest in it.
• Zhang Chen dug a new passage with a pangolin and resumed absorbing Incense Power from the divine-power-covered wall while Gu Mingyue focused on the Two Realms Passage.
• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen the passage had stabilized and invited him to explore the Spiritual World for purple fruits that could grant fire and Thunder Power; Zhang Chen refused and continued cultivating.
• Zhang Chen spent points to reach Qi Circulation of the Heavenly Circuit, then accumulated another million points and perfected the Mysterious Pass Acupoint.
• As Zhang Chen perfected the Mysterious Pass Acupoint, thunder sounded within his body, chaos split into clear and turbid, and a ray of light appeared.

After reaching the second realm of Qi Refining, Zhang Chen entered the Spiritual World to seek a powerful offensive method and investigate the fighting around a miraculous apricot tree. He discovered that the apparent tree was actually a Ba Serpent manipulating people into killing one another, and that its red fruits were living snake eggs.

• Zhang Chen opened the Mysterious Pass Acupoint, advanced to the second realm of Qi Refining, and decided to enter the Spiritual World in search of Buzhou Mountain's foundation.
• Zhang Chen disguised himself and joined the crowds gathered at the Space Channel, where Huang Chao explained that rival factions were recruiting people to explore the realm and fight over its fruits.
• Zhang Chen entered the Spiritual World, transformed into a Vampire Bat, and flew toward thousands of people slaughtering one another around a glowing apricot tree.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King warned Zhang Chen that the strange site was dangerous and showed him that corpses and blood were vanishing into the supposed tree.
• Zhang Chen used his Devouring Eye and saw that the apricot tree was a camouflaged dead Ba Serpent whose black air drove people to kill; the Great Sovereign Demon King revealed that the red apricots were living Snake Eggs.

Zhang Chen discovered that the Ba Snake’s eggs could parasitize their hosts and that its remnant thought might revive, but his Soul Hooking Plunder mark could preserve and restrain it. He rescued Xie Lingyun from the frenzied fighters and began draining an egg’s essence, prompting the Ba Snake Remnant Soul to devise a countermeasure.

• Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the Ba Snake’s eggs could transform and possess their hosts, and warned that the Ba Snake might revive by consuming the dead.
• Zhang Chen marked the Ba Snake Remnant Soul with Soul Hooking Plunder, and Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the mark could preserve incomplete spirits and help them revive.
• Zhang Chen saw Xie Lingyun fighting her corrupted protector and charged through the battlefield despite Great Sovereign Demon King's warning.
• Zhang Chen pulled the Ba Snake Remnant Soul from its body, then immobilized and concealed Xie Lingyun before shielding her from its attacks.
• Zhang Chen carried Xie Lingyun to the Ba Snake’s corpse and used the Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts to drain an egg’s essence, while the Ba Snake Remnant Soul devised a countermeasure.

Zhang Chen ignored the escaped Snake Egg bearers and continued devouring Ba Snake’s body, while Zhou Chuan arrived and swallowed an Embryonic Egg hoping to overcome its will and advance his Martial Dao. After Zhou Chuan’s punch shattered against Ba Snake’s scales, he wondered whether Zhang Chen belonged to the Upper Capital Zhang Family.

• Ba Snake raised an Earth Wall to block Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen began devouring Ba Snake’s body instead of chasing the people who had taken Snake Eggs.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King warned Zhang Chen that draining Ba Snake’s immense body would take too long, but Zhang Chen continued as more people arrived, drawn by the Snake Eggs.
• Zhou Chuan resisted Ba Snake’s mind-bewildering power and approached Zhang Chen, who explained that swallowing a Snake Egg could let Ba Snake possess its bearer.
• Zhou Chuan swallowed a Snake Egg, hoping to defeat the hatchling’s will and use it to break through his Martial Dao bottleneck.
• Zhang Chen introduced himself as Zhou Chuan, and Zhou Chuan tried to strike Ba Snake’s body but shattered his arm against its scales.
• Seeing Zhang Chen calmly devouring Ba Snake’s essence, Zhou Chuan asked whether he was from the Upper Capital Zhang Family.

Zhang Chen left Ba Snake’s territory with the unconscious Xie Lingyun, while the Great Black Dog tracked his scent and captured Zhou Chuan. The chapter ended with Zhang Chen searching for a way to remove Ba Snake’s power from Xie Lingyun’s soul.

• Zhang Chen gave Zhou Chuan Ba Snake’s Essence Blood, and Zhou Chuan left to cultivate after calling Zhang Chen his blood brother.
• The Great Black Dog tracked Zhang Chen’s scent through the Spiritual World, while the Emperor’s Daughter sensed Zhang Chen had arrived and decided to let him face Ba Snake first.
• After three days, Zhang Chen withdrew from Ba Snake’s body and carried Xie Lingyun deeper into the Spiritual World, leaving Ba Snake’s remnant soul alive.
• Zhou Chuan digested the Essence Blood, awakened one thousand two hundred apertures, and gained the Blood of Life martial divine ability.
• The Great Black Dog pinned Zhou Chuan, urinated on him, then carried him away as it continued its pursuit of Zhang Chen.
• Zhang Chen treated Xie Lingyun’s wounds, but she remained unconscious because Ba Snake’s power had invaded her soul, so he considered using Devouring or Yellow Springs Water.

Zhang Chen tried to flee the Great Black Dog, which was pursuing him to learn the origins of his Nine Bends Yellow River Rune Formation. The chase ended when the Emperor's Daughter appeared in his path and was splashed by the dog's urine.

• Zhang Chen sent Xie Lingyun away after cleansing the Ba Serpent aura from her soul, then set off toward the First Heaven's core region.
• The Great Black Dog found Zhang Chen and chased him while riding Zhou Chuan, repeatedly knocking him around for amusement.
• Zhang Chen used the Nine Bends Yellow River Rune Formation to conceal himself and attempt Soul Hooking Plunder, but the skill failed and the Great Black Dog recognized and broke the formation.
• The Great Black Dog demanded to know where Zhang Chen got the formation and chased him in earnest, then urinated at him from above.
• The Emperor's Daughter crossed through space into Zhang Chen's path, collided with him, and got urine splashed on her shoes and skirt hem.

Zhang Chen traveled with the Emperor's Daughter to the Buzhou Mountain Ruins to find stone for cultivating the Mountain Moving Method. After she left him to explore, the Great Sovereign Demon King led him toward the mountain's core, where Buzhou Mountain's divine resonance suppressed his abilities.

• The Emperor's Daughter recognized the Great Black Dog, demanded to know where its master was, and agreed to escort Zhang Chen toward the Buzhou Mountain Ruins.
• Zhang Chen rode the Great Black Dog to Buzhou Mountain with the Emperor's Daughter, then watched her leave him to cultivate on his own.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King told Zhang Chen that ordinary Buzhou Mountain stone would yield an ordinary method and offered to lead him to the mountain's core.
• Buzhou Mountain's divine resonance knocked Zhang Chen out of bat form, and the Great Sovereign Demon King explained that he had to proceed on foot without using techniques.
• Zhang Chen asked about Buzhou Mountain's origin, and the Great Sovereign Demon King recalled that it had formed from the spinal bones of a famous being.
• Zhang Chen wondered whether that being had been the demon god Pangu.

Zhang Chen and the Great Sovereign Demon King climbed Buzhou Mountain to search for the Pangu Jade Bone, while Zhang Chen questioned whether their world was truly the Primordial World. Zhang Chen discovered he could devour the mountain’s remaining Divine Might, strengthened his innate foundation, and then descended underground toward the Jade Bone.

• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that Pangu was a supreme demon god whose remains formed Buzhou Mountain, and Zhang Chen remained unsure whether this was the Primordial World.
• Zhang Chen and the Great Sovereign Demon King climbed Buzhou Mountain for three days and reached a basin where the Pangu Jade Bone lay a thousand zhang underground.
• Zhang Chen discovered that his Devour skill could absorb the golden Divine Might preventing him from using his other abilities.
• Zhang Chen devoured the Divine Might around the basin for two days, clearing the air within a hundred li and strengthening his innate foundation.
• Zhang Chen used the Infiltration Technique to seep into the earth, while the Great Sovereign Demon King explained that the Divine Might in the air leaked from Buzhou Mountain’s framework.

Zhang Chen refined the core of Buzhou Mountain into a sealed Pangu Stone, freeing the Great Sovereign Demon King. The Demon King warned that removing the core would cause the Spiritual World's First Heaven to collapse within a year, while Zhang Chen noticed a mysterious purple sphere of light.

• Zhang Chen learned that the Great Sovereign Demon King had been trapped beneath Buzhou Mountain after an enemy used its power to suppress him.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King drew the Divine Might away from the jade, allowing Zhang Chen to refine it with his Golden Finger into the Hercules Moving Mountain Method and a sealed Pangu Stone.
• The jade vanished into Zhang Chen's Spiritual World, and the Great Sovereign Demon King regained a more solid form from fragments of his true spirit.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King revealed that removing the Spiritual World's First Heaven core would make the world collapse within a year, leaving Zhang Chen worried about the consequences and karma.
• Zhang Chen spotted a basketball-sized purple sphere of light where the Jade Brick had been stored.

Zhang Chen collected a Divine Might fragment and fused it into the Jade Brick, naming the treasure the Buzhou Seal, then refined Buzhou Mountain sand into his Sand Uniting Mystic Art. He planned to harvest a Spiritual Storm when the First Heaven collapsed, but the collapse closed the gateway to the Second Heaven and trapped the Emperor's Daughter and Great Black Dog.

• Zhang Chen collected an incomplete Divine Might fragment, which fused into the Jade Brick, and named the treasure the Buzhou Seal.
• Zhang Chen tested the Buzhou Seal, then refined Buzhou Mountain sand into his Sand Uniting Mystic Art over the course of a month.
• Zhang Chen agreed to absorb a Spiritual Storm when the First Heaven collapsed, then headed back to reunite with the Emperor's Daughter and Great Black Dog.
• The Emperor's Daughter found the gateway to the Second Heaven hidden at Two Worlds Mountain, but the Great Black Dog stayed behind to wait for his master.
• The First Heaven shook and closed the gateway before the Emperor's Daughter could enter, and her attempt to force it open failed.
• Zhang Chen returned and learned that the First Heaven was collapsing; he realized his actions had caused the upheaval.

Emperor's Daughter took the Steel Fork from Thatched Cottage to force open the Heavenly Gate, while giving Zhang Chen the slingshot and dragon pearls in the Jade Box. She warned him to leave the First Heaven before it collapsed, and Zhang Chen suspected Great Sovereign Demon King was one of the powerful beings who had perished there.

• Emperor's Daughter said she needed a divine weapon to blast open the Heavenly Gate, and Zhang Chen told her about the Steel Fork in Thatched Cottage.
• Emperor's Daughter forced Great Black Dog to lead her and Zhang Chen to Thatched Cottage, where she recognized the Steel Fork as a divine weapon and suppressed it into her hand.
• Great Black Dog asked Emperor's Daughter to find his missing master, and she promised to search Two Worlds Mountain when its path opened again.
• Emperor's Daughter explained the origins of Zhang Chen's slingshot and dragon pearls, then gave them to him in the Jade Box and said he would need the Mountain Moving Method to wield the weapon.
• Emperor's Daughter warned Zhang Chen that the First Heaven was about to collapse and that its strongest hidden beings were beyond his power; Zhang Chen wondered whether Great Sovereign Demon King was one of them.

Zhang Chen escaped the First Heaven of the Spiritual World with a bundle of Golden Wind Flowers, aided by the Great Sovereign Demon King and Xie Lingyun. He returned safely to the Inspection Directorate’s camp, where Xie Lingyun asked about his haul.

• The Emperor's Daughter left Zhang Chen with instructions to recover Ten Directions Defense, and the Great Black Dog attacked him by urinating on him.
• Zhang Chen struck the Great Black Dog with his Jade Brick and fled, while the Great Sovereign Demon King later revealed it had suppressed the dog’s soul and planted a Demonic Seed in it.
• Zhang Chen gathered Golden Wind Flowers and spent nearly half a year traveling toward the Two Realms Passage, avoiding danger along the way.
• Zhang Chen reached the passage and worried about leaving unnoticed, but Xie Lingyun arrived and covered him with a Secret Treasure bamboo hat.
• Xie Lingyun escorted Zhang Chen past the watching lineages and back to the Inspection Directorate’s camp, then asked about his harvest.

Zhang Chen warned Xie Lingyun about the Golden Wind Flowers and told her the First Heaven of the Spiritual World would soon shatter. After returning to Yellow Dawn Temple, he discovered that his Six-Word Mantra Calligraphy had freed Little Bean’s soul from the palace’s suppression, then reconciled with Wu Changming over the lost Star God Position and learned of Wu Changming’s growing conflict with Gu Mingyue.

• Zhang Chen gave Xie Lingyun ten Golden Wind Flowers, explained their weakening effect, and warned her that the First Heaven of the Spiritual World would shatter soon.
• Zhang Chen froze and buried the remaining Golden Wind Flowers deep underground after finding a way to preserve their medicinal power with Old Osmanthus’s power.
• Little Bean told Zhang Chen that golden calligraphy had sealed the palace’s power and let her project her soul; Zhang Chen examined her and found that his Six-Word Mantra Calligraphy had absorbed the palace’s fortune and weakened it.
• Zhang Chen told Little Bean to keep her soul from projecting again without his permission, then shared stewed beef with her.
• Wu Changming visited Zhang Chen, explained that Gu Mingyue’s scheme had kept him from intervening in the Grand Competition, and described how Gu Mingyue and the Pacifying Border Prince’s Mansion were taking control of the northern lands.

Zhang Chen pressed Wu Changming for cultivation methods and learned about Yellow Heaven Dao’s rise through the incense-based divine path. Wu Changming lent him Yellow Heaven Dao’s Contemplation Method and copied the first three stages of Qi Refining incantations, which revealed Zhang Chen’s next realm.

• Zhang Chen asked Wu Changming for immortal cultivation methods, while Wu Changming boasted that his Mind Realm had neared the First Heaven of the Spiritual World and promised to reclaim his lost power.
• Wu Changming explained that attempts to cultivate mana in the Immortal Realm had failed, then lent Zhang Chen Yellow Heaven Dao’s Contemplation Method for three days.
• Wu Changming told Zhang Chen that nobles and even members of the Great Victory Dynasty’s imperial house were embracing the incense-based divine path, while the Yin Spirit Method was falling into disuse.
• Zhang Chen examined the Contemplation Method’s Visualization Diagram, and the Pangu Stone dispelled the vision of its monster image coming alive.
• Wu Changming copied the first three stages of Qi Refining incantations for Zhang Chen and said the Grand Worthy Teacher held the rest.
• Zhang Chen recognized Jade Liquid Returning Pill as the realm after One Acupoint of the Heavenly Circuit and saw that it had Jade Liquid and Returning Pill stages.

Zhang Chen advanced his Qi Refining Technique to Nine Revolutions Returning Pill, greatly increasing his power and his ability to devour Incense Power. After Yellow Dawn Temple’s incense could no longer keep pace, he considered draining incense from other temples, while Wu Changming returned after entering the Spiritual World with his mind.

• Zhang Chen saw that advancing the Qi Refining Technique required ten million points, then used advice about strengthening his foundation to persuade Wu Changming to leave the temple.
• Zhang Chen spent his accumulated points to advance through Jade Liquid and the Returning Pill revolutions, reaching Nine Revolutions Returning Pill and nearly doubling his Incense Power absorption speed.
• Zhang Chen found that his faster devouring was dimming Yellow Dawn Temple’s incense faster than it could recover, so he planned to draw from other Yellow Heaven Dao temples.
• Wu Changming returned and told Zhang Chen that he had entered the Spiritual World with his mind after absorbing power from the Immortal Realm beyond the Space Channel.
• Wu Changming celebrated with Zhang Chen, boasting that Spiritual World medicines could help him cultivate a Yang Spirit and disparaging godhood as a constrained path.

Zhang Chen learned from Wu Changming that Yellow Heaven Dao’s Incense Divine Path was vulnerable to Incense Poison, then used the Golden Finger to cultivate the Mountain Moving Method to its initial stage. After testing his new strength, he checked on the Eight Trigrams Furnace and his animals, finding that the pearl was still unrefined and neither animal had gained intelligence.

• Wu Changming complained that Yellow Heaven Dao had abandoned him in favor of Zhang Shicheng and revealed that Incense Poison could be cleansed only with the vanished Yellow Springs Water.
• Zhang Chen suspected Wu Changming had deliberately passed the revelations to him, then considered the danger and importance of Yellow Springs Water.
• Zhang Chen used the Golden Finger to cultivate twelve thousand seals of the Mountain Moving Method, reaching the mortal realm’s limit of five hundred years of mana.
• Zhang Chen tested his new strength in the mountains, snapped a tree by accident, and lifted a boulder weighing about three thousand jin.
• Zhang Chen inspected the Eight Trigrams Furnace and found the pearl still resisting refinement, then checked his giant hornets and peregrine falcon, which had gained spirituality but not intelligence.

Zhang Chen discovered that Gu Mingyue had seized the northern temples’ incense faith to grant godhood to nobles, leaving Wu Changming disgraced and preparing to enter seclusion. Xie Lingyun then warned Zhang Chen that the Great Victory Dynasty had produced over a hundred powerful new deities, changing the dangers beyond the mountain.

• Zhang Chen found that the Faith Pool at Yellow Dawn Temple had dried up and confirmed the same at Yellow Divination Temple.
• Zhang Chen overheard two Daoists blame Gu Mingyue for taking the incense faith to grant godhood to nobles, and learned that Wu Changming’s followers were abandoning him.
• Zhang Chen returned to his temple and saw that Zhang Xiaohua had already left.
• Wu Changming told Zhang Chen he would enter seclusion, revealed that the immortal cultivation manual was at Qingcheng Mountain, and warned him that the Incense Divine Path was a dead end without Yellow Springs Water.
• Xie Lingyun visited Zhang Chen, offered him support after Wu Changming was sidelined, and warned him that more than a hundred deities comparable to Yang Spirits had arisen in the Great Victory Dynasty.

Xie Lingyun warned Zhang Chen that the Great Victory Dynasty was entering an age of gods as nobles and factions gathered Incense Power, and she urged him to leave Yellow Dawn Temple. After discovering a Goddess inside his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl, Zhang Chen learned that Thousand Knots bound them as spouses and that their ancient karma could affect his path to the Fruit Realm.

• Xie Lingyun told Zhang Chen that gods comparable to Yang Gods were multiplying through Incense Power, warned that the Great Victory Dynasty and Inspection Directorate were divided, and revealed that Zhang Xiaohua had been chosen as a Star God.
• Xie Lingyun advised Zhang Chen to leave Yellow Dawn Temple before conflict between the Yellow Heaven Dao and other factions endangered him, and Zhang Chen agreed to prepare to go.
• Zhang Chen retrieved the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl and discovered that a Goddess inside it was using his magical power to stabilize her form.
• Zhang Chen summoned the Great Sovereign Demon King, who explained that the red Thousand Knots bound Zhang Chen and the Goddess in an unbreakable marriage fate.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King identified the Goddess as Old Osmanthus and said Zhang Chen's ancient karma with her began when he absorbed Taiyin Essence during the Mysterious Age.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King warned Zhang Chen that, despite Old Osmanthus being another's wife by title, borrowing her status could be necessary for him to attain the Fruit Realm.

Zhang Chen entered the First Heaven of the Spiritual World to absorb the Spiritual Storm created by its collapse, using the Wind Immobilization Pill to survive the approaching devastation. As the storm accelerated, he realized the world was disintegrating faster and hurried to keep ahead of it while continuing to cultivate.

• The Great Sovereign Demon King urged Zhang Chen to enter the Spiritual World and absorb the storm power before its destruction, so Zhang Chen traveled through the Space Channel.
• Zhang Chen flew south and saw the Space Storm consuming the Spiritual World, then used the Wind Immobilization Pill to safely draw in and refine Spiritual Storm Power.
• Zhang Chen watched the darkness annihilate mountains and land, fled ahead of it, and continued capturing the storm’s lingering power.
• The Great Sovereign Demon King explained that Spiritual Storms spread faster through chain reactions, and Zhang Chen noticed the next storm advanced ten li faster than before.
• Zhang Chen fled another ten li as the Spiritual Storm approached, aware that the world’s collapse was accelerating.